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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

TOYO KIBEN

KAISHA.

catter Falmer &

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES:

8.8. "CHIYO MARU,"

FROM SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU

AND JAPAN PORTS.

above.named

Steamer

The Wine Merchany of the lase

Having NATTER JOHNSTONES'

Tarrived, Consiguous of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside.

Cargo remaining undelivered on Friday, the 23rd inst., at 5 PM., will be landed at Con signees rick and spoor and delivery must ther be taken from Company's Godown.

No Fira Imurance whatever will be effooted, No Claims will be recognised after the Goods have left the Steamer or Godown, and all Gooda remaining undelivered on MONDAY, the 26th int charges.

afternoon, will be subject to rent and

All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo to be left on board or Godown, and examination of same to be arranged.

All Claims must be filed on or before Mos. DAY, the 3rd July, otherwise they will not be recognised.

K. MATSDA,

Aguni

Hongkong, 20th June, 1911.

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THE AMERICAN NAIL.

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The P.M. 8.S. Co. str. Mongolia sailed from San Francisco on the 6th inst for Hengkong. vis Honolulu Yokohama, Kobe, Nagrenki and Monilo, and is due to arrive at Hongkong on the 7th prox

The T.K.K. str. America Maru left San Francisco with U.8. mails 14h inst, and is expected to arrive here on about 11sh prox., vin Japan Perte.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

The E. & A. str. Empire left Sydney on the 11th instant for this port, vis Queensland ports, Port Darwin and Manila:

THE CANADIAN MAIL,

The C.P.R. Co.'s str. Monteagle arrived at Shanghai AL 3 p.m. on the 14th inst., nud left again at 2.30 p.m. on 18th inst. for Hongkong, where she is due to arrivo at noon to-day.

The OP.B. Co's ste. Empress of India arrived at Shanghai at 4 am, on the 20th inst.... and left again at noon same day for Hongkong, where she is due to arrive at 6 p.m. to-morrow.

THE ENGLISH MAIL,

The P. & O. 9. N. Cola str. Deita leit Singa. pore for this port on the 17th instant, at noon. with the outward English Mails, and is dus here to-morrow at about 6 a.m.

+ THE GERMAN MAIL...

The IG.M.. str. Prinzess Alice carrying the German Mails with dates from Berlin of the 31st ult., left Colombo on the 17th inst. p., and may be expected here on or about the 28th jpst.

THE INDIAN MAIL

The Indo-China sir. Lalang left Calentts for the Straits and Hongkong on the 7th isst, and is dus hero about the 23rd inst

MERCHANT STEAMERS.

The Mogul Lino str. Sikh from United King- dom loft Singapore on the 15th inst. morning, and is thereforodno hero this afternoon.

The H..A. Linio str. Hellos left Singapore on the 14th instant p.m., and may be expected here to day p.m.

The N.1.K. str. Kilano Mary (European Line) left Singapore for this port on the 15th inst, and is expected here to-day.

The Mogul Line str. Pathan left United Kingdom on the 12th March for Hongkong vis Straits.

The "Ben" Line str. Berlarig from Leith, Antwerp nad London left Singapore on the 16th inst., for this port.

The 0.8.K. str. Chicago Maru left Tacoma for this port via Japan and Manile on the 27th altimo, and

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Tho T.K.K. str. America Mari loft San Francisco on the 14th instant, and is due to arrive at Hongkong on or about 11th pror,

The T.K.K. str. Kiyo Maru left Manzanillo for Hongkong on the 10th instant, and is due to arrive ut Hongkong on or about 1st August

The Barber Line str. Batesma left New York on the 10th instant for Hongkong and Far Eart

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515

LINGGI PLANTATIONS

(LIMITED.)

Ecorporation, bas harvested 1,839,614lb. of

rubber, which if Mr. Camping's estimate for RECORDS WORTH the current your of 1,120,000lb, is realized, will, by Deocneber 31, 1911, bo raised to 2,959,614lb.,

SIR V. HOOD INSCHER ON THE COMPANY'S and further, sabject to your approval of

POSITION AND PROSPECTS.

The unnnal general. noting was held last nonth at Winchester House, Old Bread-atreet, E.C. Sir William Hood Trescher, K.C.M.G. (the chairman), prosiding.

The CHAIRMAN in the course of his address said:-

A

With regard to the investments of £157,554 8s. 7d, you will remember that in the sironlar issued to the shareholders in Marek, 1910, the board intimated that, after consultation with

number of large shareholders, it had been decided to offer to the members of the company at 24. premium 600,000 of the 1,050.000 Es. shares which formed part of the purchase consideration for our sale of the Kamuning Estate, the amount realized to be invested in gilt-edged securities, which would bo uzinflaouood by anything affecting the prospects of rubber. In pursuance of this policy £111,853 16. 7d. had up to December, 1910, beon invested in Consola ung other first cinas scarition yinted

the directors' present recommendations, will have distributed dividends to the amount of 5014 per cent, on its paid-up capital, aggregate in addition to 42 per cent. on 10,000 Preference shares. With two exceptions, one due to death and one to the acceptance of a Government pointment, the composition of the Board remains sa at the company's birth, and your directors are justifiably proud of the success which has sitended their offorts to further the shareholders' Juterests by building up their property from its original small aron of less than 4,000 nares to fta present dimensions of over 9,000 acros

theat quisition af Furious timeson favourable terms of such valac ble producing properties on Kunchong, Major,

Bukit

a, Klang, Haron, Beaumont, Koyser, and Kamaning (the latter since sold at e ultivated area of approximately 5,000 acros, of profit), sad others-with a total which over 2,000 were producing rubber during the year under review, to be increased, par manager estimates, fo neros our boat your. It accomplishing

during the

ing on the average chont 32 por cont. per annum. result the board have had the great lit

undeni. Our other investments are represented by able advantag» of the services and experience of 456,806 fally-paid shares of 2. each in the Messrs. Guthrie & Co, as their agents and Kamuning

(Perak) Rubber mul Tuoretaries both in London and in the East. Company (Limited), which if taken st

stThis Bra's connection with the orginal proper current market valuation, ага worth tios was anterior to the formation of the present well over £100,00% The profit made by company. Mosers. Guthrie & Co, when ouffee this company on the disposal of shares in was a dead horse, financed the old Linggi the Kamuning Company amounted te £60,833 Liberian Coffee Company; they advanced 11s. 1d., and, as you will have seen, it is proposed the capital for the purchase of Kanelong to transfer out of this the round 6gure of estato, and they were part vendors of and £60,000 to of that modere. It should not be lost sight were strumental in obtaining for a the

I have

reserve of nearly 5,000 acres Bakit Nanas and Klang propertios, which of unplanted land, a feature, in my opinion, of sand in our books at a cost of £63,500, considerable potential l value to the future of this company. Perhaps no further comments are required to impress upon you the fact that this company, with an issued capital of only £90,000 in Ordinary shares and £10,000 in Seven per cont. Preference shares, is in a position of financial strength which, I think I am justified in saying, in unique among plantation rubber companies.

THE COST OF PRODUCTION.

produced since July, 1907, when we ne quired them, a profit of £216,00). They also sold to as an easy terms (£105,000) teir valu. alle Kamaning, eatht, und this tansaction, on reyale of the property, in addition to reaping handsome profit for this company, onabled us, in addition to building up our reserve, later on to distribale 60,000 shares among Linggi shrebuidors at a price which subsequently ad- vanced to a figure representing £330,000 ovor the balance of 450.000 shares, which are ex- lasted value, and we are still in possession of pected to bring in a revenus this year of from £3,000 to £10,000.

. TRIBUTE TO THE GENERAL MANAGER,

But the board of directors and the

DEE

When I laat addressed you I quoted Bir. Comming's belief that eventually we shall be able to place plantation rabber en the Loniton market at Is. per lb. without lous. One of the fret questions I pat to him on his recent return to London was whether bo still maintained that belief. His reply was an emphatic affirmative.agents alco conid scarcely have achieved Wo on this aide cannot, of course, claim to be the

HAGOO I have roughly outlined prophetic on

a question involving varying without the invaluable assistance and co- condition in the East, but you will doubles oration of this general manager, And it gratifying to have this expression of Malole Crumming, who is with as

ne to-day, and opinion of our general unger. You will to whom I am sure you will give a hearty observa from the directors' report that the avor welcome. (Cheers,) Mr. Cunning is En old age net price realized for the company's rubber Federated Dialay States friend wine. T was 58. 9.421. par 16, which acapares with 6s. believe he became manngor of the Liuggi 1-8d. for 1909. The reasons for the lower price Liberian Coffee Company in the year 1993, in 1910 were various. In some measure this and be it was who in those early days had the has been due to our rabber not being, on the genius, prescience, sul courage to anticipate the whole, up to the highest standard of quality, but great fulme awaiting the rubber industry, and as to this I would say that it was not an easy to inoculate his then diestors with his on- matter to improve and maintain the standard of thusiasm for that product. He has stuck to it quality when the produce was coming forward deggodly and successfully over since, and has. I in rapidly increasing quantities.

hope, raped no small pecuniary reward as the fruit of his megacity and his labours Ho bas It has further to be noted as having an im. learnt by practical experience all that up to portant bearing on the lower average. price to prosent can be known about the plant- obtained that the produce of the estates haring and coltivation of the trees, the collos vested in the latter months of 1910 senld only market of rubber, and as an unofficial member the ouring, and placing on the be realized on the mackot here in the earlier of the Legislative Council of the Federated part of the present year, when the market Malay States and as president of the Plantors showed a material decline, Forward contrants

Association of Malays he has taken a 1

THE EXPORT DUTY ON RUBBER.

for delivery in 1910 at 69. per lb, of a small

|

tion,

proportion of the company's output were eater part in safeguarding the interests of the

tite

ing community in the East. Mr.

ed foto by us after conference with the general regret to all, har dovided to retire from active

to amply entitles him. But he will ain to the full. his interest in the com- · any and we shell arrange to have the benefit of his advice and experience as a member of our board(chess)—and one of his first duties will bo to advise us ne to the future administration of our estates, which your by year are growing in

ofcultivation with increasing responsibilities of management.

manager. This transnotion, entered into at a work in the East and to enjoy in England the time when the price of rabler had rouched a oars and leisure to which his strenuous life in the lerel Lover before attained, tendel, in view of the later extraordinary advance in quotation, to affect to

some extent the average for the year under review. In the directors' report in explaining the reasons for the increased cost of production, there is one explanation-the increased duty owing to the high level of price: In regard in that I should say that that explanation in a nutshell is this, that the Government of the Malay States impose an export duty, I was going to say au inquitons up my more of your time. I will forally Now, gentlemen, I do not think I will take- export duty, on the raw product, if it would be becoming of me to se suck un expression together with the statement of the company's more: That the report of the directors They fix the rate of duty once or twice a a month at a value for rabber which they ascertain at received, approved, and adopted, and that a final at acounts to December 31, 1910, duly audited, he the time; bnt of course, it takes at least two dividend of 573 per cent. months for the rubber which has paid the duty the zot profits as shown by the accounts for the

โล now declared oat at that particular rate, ar, $12 per ponud, to ba markoted in England, and by the time it year ending December 31, 1910; that a set of arrives in England the price may have drapped balance of profit-

£60,000 be placed to reserse fund, and that the to 6s, per poard; or half the price, to take a carried forward subject to commissions de -manuely, £10.255 128. 94.---bo extreme case. With res

th regard to labour, our labour to the managers under their agreement, com- forco has, as you will see from the directors missions to statt, and to the special remunera boon well maintained, but in order to tion due to the directora under Article 96, report, effort this it has been necessary to increase the

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD FOR IRELAND.

The remarkable feeding experiments conducted In the School of Physiology, Trinity College, Dublin, at the request of the Local Government Board for Ireland, prove that

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Billiard Table and Cushion Expert to

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Kanganica commission. In this counesticu fiue 88,43 specified in the directors' report referred Messrs. JOHN ROBERTS & Co., Ld.,

will ask Mr. Traill to second that resolution, and before patting it to the mosting, After that we shall be pleased to answer any I will call upon Mr. Camming to address you. questions that may be put to the chair. (Cheers)

general maunger reports that the Indian labour to question during the past year has had a great ded of attention and thought bestowed on it, various schemes having been touted to discourage what may be called local recruiting, which includes crimping, and to encourage bona fide recruiters, such as ourselves; and be is of opinion that, and after a apesch by Mr. Malcolm Cumming, Mr. Gilbert F. Traill seconded the motion provided we continue our present system

of encouraging Kang bios, we shall always be able and the mation was, after a few questions, put to obtain a steady supply of labour from India, and carried unanimously.

In this connection I may say that from the must

recent reports of the official in charge of the

immigration department it appears that the LONDON GIRL VICTIM OF LEPROSY, increase of ndian immigration in 1910 was 150

per cent, over tht of 1909, and he expects that TRADIC SEQUEL TO A FANCY DRESS HALL, 1911 will show an increase of 80 per cent, over the immigration of 1910. As regards pests and diseases, the manager reports that they are thoroughly controlled and in hand. With the exception of Klong division, where considerable expenditure has now been incorrod in seeming good water supply and for other sanitary improvements, the health on the estates has boon good.

THE BOARD'S EXTENSION POLICY.

The startling case of a North London girl who has contracted leprosy contains cloments of tragis interest. The dreadful disuse, an Expres representative was informed was probably indreed by the victim wearing, as part of a fancy costume, a wig of Eastern origin. Some time ago the girl, who was young and extremely pretty, went tonfancy dress ball. The costume that of a Chinese laily-was pronounced per- feckin In regard to extensions, our present policy 19

in every detail. Unfortunately the wig the wore was only too real. It came from the East. to bring up the cultivated area to 5,00 seres, About a week ago a strange mark appeared which, taking into consideration the fact that on the girl's forehead. She consulted her doc- 243 neroa wero included in the sale of our Lakat ter, who first treated her for estate to the Port Dickson Company, will ne

for eczema. The mark, however, showed no signs of improve- cessitate our planting up about 500 acres, zeout, and the doctor called in a specialist, who This is in progress, and we look forward to the diagnosed the case na being one of leprosy. total of 5,000 acres being completed during the present season The major part of the exten-fringements were immediately made for the sion will be on the Marjorie division, which con- inquiries base been made by the health authori the girl to a leper colony. Diligent sists of 1,374 acres of old falling land, required ties to discover the antecedants of the wig, as it from the Government without premium, and is believed that it must have been worn as one with qnit rent of le. per sore for six time by a leper. Efforts are being made to Fears, to he raised absequently

to trace all those who came into contact with the $1 per acre. Mr. Cumming reports that this

state is splendid stretch of undulatingirl at or since the ball, with a view to keeping them under strict observation and preventing country, absolutely free from all timber, with the disease from sprouding. the result that there is no fomes, and he considers it to be one of our most promising properties. Many of the trees in the older clearings are ready for tapping, and the estate is very healthy and consequently popular with all classes of labour.

A MAGNIFICENT, RECOED.

Well, ladies and gentleman, this is the sixth annual meeting of Linggi Plantations (Limited), which, during the six years from the date of its

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