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TRADE OF HONGKONG.

GENERALLY QUIET TONE.

The following statistics, and comm nts, have been taken from the fortnightly price current and market report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Com merce.

Stocks-on-April-g2nd were 507 Patna, 236 Benares, 7001 Malwa, and 149 Persian nud Turkish. The exports during the interval to Shanghai, etc., were 37 Patna, Benares and 36 Malwa The stocks of ncertified Bengal opium on April 22nd were 192 Putain and 69 Benares. No opim wns hailed by Government monopoly.

ไท the Bengal orkes extrenie quietness has continued to prevail and quotations are sinchanged. Patnu, New 89,825. Old 89,200, V. OLE 89,100, Benures, New 89,050. Old | $8,535, -X. DIA $8,825. Malwa market.—No Frosh business has transpired and quotations are unaltered as follows:-Now to 3 years drug. 0,300. Okler, $1,400. ..::.

ESPORTA

The prices of Feathers are unchanged. During the last two months tales of about 2.000 ales to na Copenhagen firm have been reported. Ginger is unchanged. Galangal is firmer, but no business deing. The same applies to Star Aniseed Oil and Star Aniseed. Ground. Nuts are quotulint 28.10 perepient-without-shells, and $7.23 with sholls. Nothing is doing in Wood Oil, no good casks being available, Human Hair is quoted at prices per picul f.o.b. Hong- kong. There is nothing doing in Quick- silver, Saigon Cassia or Call Nuts, and no business is reported in Bristles.

IMTOHLTS.

THE JOURNEY TO ENGLAND. VIA NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

Vico Consul for Sweden has favoured us with the following extract from the latest time-table for the journey from Petrograd to England via Sweden and Norway :---

THE TIME TABLE.

Dep. Petrograd, Finland

station

6.00 a.m. Art. Tournca

10.57 am This part of the journey takes 27 hours by through sleeping cars. I and II class. Restaurant car during the day.

Dep. Tornea

4.00 p.m. Arr. Karunki

4.30 p. From Finnish Karunki to Swedish Karunki by sleigh in 15 minutes..

From Karungi to Christiania there are two routes:

4. via Krylbo and Hallsberg.

Dep Karungi Arr. Christiania

9.10 p.m. 10.27 p.m.

50 hours. Changes at Krylbo and Hallsberg.

B. via Stockholm..

Dep Kerungi,

train

through

8.10 p.m. 8:40am-

Arr. Stockholm“

36 hours.

Dep. Stockholm through

train

Arr, Christiania

9.07 p.m.

or 8.38 am.

10.30 a.m.

or 10,27 p.m.

Sleeping and restaurant cars,

Dep. Christiania

- 10.62 p.m. Arr. Bergen

11.00 am. Sleeping cors I, II, and III class. ·

Dop. Bergen

1.00 p.m. Arr. Newenstle after 33 hours steamers 33 hours; daily service.

Passage Bergen-Newcastle by express

SHANGHAI GAS CO., LD..

The report of the directors for 1914 contains the following:

INTIMATIONS

JUST LANDED:

HIRANO MINERAL

WATER”

IN QUARTO, FINES, AND SPLITS.

The profit on working account amounted to Tls. 200,008,01, as compared with Tis. 299,872.50 for 1813, o desrease if Th 33,504.49 The not proft for the ear amounted to Tls 210.608.19, gainst Tin. 254,781,09 for the previous your "dr- crease of Tis. 44,053.80. Of this difference, TI, 8,874.46 is attributable to the Tow dollar exchange which again prevailed. The balanos at credit of profit and loss account, after crediting the account, with Tls. 19,809.00 carried forward after appropriation of the profits of 1913, and debiting it with Tls. 18,000.00 amount of interim dividend at the rate of 4 per IMPERIAL MINERAL WATER CO., cont., paid on August 10 last, amounts to Tls. 182,447.95, of which sun of Directora recommend appropriation 23 follows:- To pay a final dividend

for the year 1914 on 24,000 shares at 3 per cent. (making 7. per cont for the Fear) Ts. 1.50 per share To write off for dep

reciation of land and building...s

To write off for dep- ninnufac- reciation

Curing and distribu Hing plant

To write off for dep

reciation furniture.

To carry forward to

now account.

Bottled by the

LTD., OSAKA.

By appointment to the Imperial Householdi of Japan, Officially Recommended by the 30,000.00 | Medical Colleges of The Reperist Universition

of Tokyo and Kyoto,

Ts.

Tle.

4.076.35

(SAMPLES FREE).

121,708:48

503.38

126,678.11

19,700.74

SOLE AGENTS 1

TIs. 182,477.85

CALDBECK,

being a decrease of 1.6 per ceny. The MACGREGOR&C.

During the year 457,249,500 cubic s of gus were sold to private asumers output of gas for cooking, heating and industrial purpos:s progressie satisfac- torily. The total account of coal car- bonized amount to 32,893.14.5, tons whilst 364.233 gallons of liquid fuel were also nsd in the manifesture of gas. The prices paid for both ecal and oil were considerably higher than those paid last yoor. A. largely increased demand for tar is to be recorded. Owing to the strength of the market higher prices were realized for coke throughout the your The price of sulphate, of ammonia re mained low..

The Cotton Yarn market has responcied somewhat to the rise in Bombay, but we are still below replacing - cont. Qrotitions are: No. 10s-nt. 876-0106. No. 19 nt. 886-8102, No. 10¢-at-$98-$H-No. 23ant 404-8123 Arrivals 4,000 bal Sales 6,00 baless Shipients nil. Unsold stock 44,000 bales, Bargains 12,000 hafes. There is a certain amount of enquiry about Woollen bat prices in many instances have much to he desired from an importer's point of view. As to Metals, there has been further enquiry For Bars, Plate, and Cuttings, but very little business it reported, dealers being slow to fix parcels at the cabanced prices. "Local Yellow Metal is 99 quotations are nominal.

sterly. Prolum Products show no There are no stocks of Pepper,

1 ear, nad 9 to 4. daily. In Coal, no Compho nor Window Glass. sales of importance are

The reported. Sugar market is firm at reduced rates. There have been so sales, and there are no

Saltpetre stocks of

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ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES,

PRICE LISTS.

CIRCULARS.

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change.

PLÓW.

CANTON BİLKİ

BALL AND CONCERT PROGRAMMES.offs $3.50 per Bag, second 23.253.30 per

ling. INVITATION CARDS,

Messrs. Dent & Co.'s report of April 10th VISITING CARDS.

states that the business in raw silk during the past fortnight has been principally en- fired to American huyers. Up to the open ing of this month there was netive having, and prices, for extra A 14-16, S. R. advanced ith crop Caceous existing has no doubt heen alust all earmarked for execution ofrontracts:fut America. Some small con- tracts of New Silk gre reported at cheap prices, but dealers generally refuse to name tricos unless at about $30 to $40 per pil above French buyers' limits Waste is misy very firmly held:

IMPORTS OF PULP INTO JAPAN.

He

NOTICE.

LL Parsons applying to the PROVOST MARSHAL for. Passed are requested in future to apply between the hours of 9 A.. to

Hongkong, 16th February, 1916.

YOKOHAMA,

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BLUFF HOTEL.

No. 2, BLUFF,

HEALTHY LOCATION AND BEAUTIFUL VIEW. EXCELLENT CUISINE AND HOME COMFORE. MODERATE TERMS.

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The fears that the war would seriously interefere with the supply of pulp for paper-making, says a contemporary, have not been realized, the import for the whole year in 1914 being 45,340 tons, a decrease of only 2,120 tons on that of 1913, BULLS AND BLUNDERS.” In January and February of the present year 6,000 tons were imported, which is Mr. J. C. Percy has brought together The Ameriena marker appears steady, but quite equal to the ordinary trade. For-in littin book with this title (Macredy, with signs of strengthening in the futures. merly the pulp, though mainly Swedish, Percy, Dublin) an admirable selection of It is to early at present for defuite crop used to be distributed from Germany bulls and blunders new and old. reports. In the Local market there are still and Austria, but it soon began to arrive points out that it is a fallacy to imagine only small eaquity and stocks are about direct and via London, besides new sup that balls feed on Irish pasture alone, 700.000 sauks. Quotations:-Patents M84-plies from North America. There was and many of his gleanings confirm the $5 per hag, straight 31 83.40 per bag, cut even a certain amount from Germany statement. But most bulls have, we while non-contraband goods were given imagine, a Hibernian origin, and st passage. It is feared that the increased ferocity of the naval war will atop the everyone can understand Irish humour. European supplies reaching Japan, but Mr. Percy tells that someone tried to ex- the deficit can be supplied from Canada Plain a ball" to Dickens by recounting The Japanese paper which supplies this the story of the Irishman who saw a information ways that European shippers Placard placed in a window Music les are refusing long forward contracts and sons 12 for a gaines; the second düzeri that all orders are being delayed a fort- 15s," and who went in and said he would FRENCH LESSONS

Dickens heard night to a manth, but the supply, is plen. take the second dozen. tiful and no market thuctations need be this very patiently, and then said, "But foured.

he could not have taken the second dozen until he had the first." Mr. Percy thinks it possible that Dickens was really pre tending that he could not see the joke.

Many of Mr. Perry's collection are no doubt old, but they are none the worst for that, He shows that even in Parlia- mentary circles the bull continues to flourish. Mr. Banar Law once spoke "of That's what Rheumatism is doing. SHANGHAI TRADE.

At a meeting of the Peking and. Tien- the habit of the Government in letting Stiffening joints, drawing hands out of tsin Branch of the American Assocation things drift until they run against some shape, woakening, muscles making the of North China, a resolution was adepted precipice which brings them to a stand-strong weak, the young old and the old Messrs, Ilbert & Co.'s Pice Goods calling the attention of the Government still." Market Report says:-

Sir Edward Carson declarcel-relpless. of the United States to the grave stato of that "Mr. Asquith was like a drunken There has not been much of intrest in affairs in China in consequance of the man walking along a straight line the stopped BAL

But this terrible trouble may be 18 of LITTLE'S the way of businces during the week, but Japanese demands and asking that steps further he went the sooner he fell." Mr. ORIENTAL BALM. Rub it into the elearnnos continue to be maintained upon a fair scale. One of the main be taken in order to safeguard American Birrell in the House of Commons described aching, muscles, the swollen joints, the markets that shows a paucity of demand interests in China.

a certain report as a wholly garbled inful limbs.

Just rub it in-the BALM will do the for imports is Bacchuen, where a long been cabled to the State Department in version of what never took place. Iv drought throughout the Spring has caused Washington.-Peking Gazette.

rest, And soon you'll have ease and is interesting at the moment to recall that freedom from pain, Stiffness and weak & Boots M. P. said in a speech on theness will disappear. You'll be strong Indian Estimates: Tho pale face of and well.

COMMERCIAL STATIONERY quite 825 per picut. The stock of

EXECUTED

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

WITH NEATNE83,

ACCURACY: AND

DESPATCH

UNDER EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN SUPERVISION, AT REASONABLE PRICES.

BOOK-BINDING

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.—

MACHINE-RULING, GOLD-LETTERING, MARBLING, Ero. EXECUTED ON THE PREMISES AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.

LAW WORK

SPECIALITY.

LEDGERS AND ACCOUNT BOOKS.

likelihood of a partial failure of the Spring cropa. In most other parts of the country the crops are reported to be com

AT PRICES WHICH COMPARE FAVOURABLY WITH THOSE OF ANTing on well, though the son is said to OTHER ESTABLISHMENT IN THE FAR EAST.

ESTIMATES FURNISHED.

be a little later than usual

The fast rising dyeitg costs and dintinishing stocks of aniline dyes in the country are a somewhat evere problem

104, DES VŒUX ROAD. HONGKONG.✨r imported plain staples of which the

WM POWELL

LTD.

(Gentlemen's Department).

We have just received a

[GOOD ASSORTMENT OF

SUMMER UNDERWEAR

IN

“B.V.D.” “AERTEX

AND FLEXINET SPECIALITIES.

ALSO IN

INDIAN GAUZE AND

LIGHT" VIYELLA SUMMER WOOL, LIGHT WEIGHT PYJAMAS.

INSPECTION INVITED :

WM. POWELL, LTD.

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greater part are native dyed prior to

The

going into actual consumption. native is, however, rising to the occasion, and the various vegetabe dyes, and ancient processes of China ipon, which it had to rely previous to the aniline in- vasion, are being rapidly revived. The gall-nut and the indigo plant are coming to their own again, and although in the firer colour the tastes of the Chiness may not be able to roam over so wide a choice as supplied by anilines, this Latter affects silks rather than plain cottons. In indigo, Kwanging province takes the lead in quality, and its produce should be on the market by June; Anbui and Kiangsu follow in August and Chekiang in October, In all of these province the plant is bang largely cultivated, and the country should be saved thereby a considerable amount upon its nainual import bill, which should ultimately reflect beneficially upon other branches of its trade

Home markets are firming up day by day in sympathy with raw cotton, which showing a firmer tone than the holdest of balls could have predicter carlier in the year. The position of tå still some what heavy accumulation of foods at the ports is therefore being well safeguard d by the high roplacing values, and as de liveries under the principal badings are, since the beginning of the ycat more than double the rate of import, 4 steady ro duction of stock figures is beilg elssted.

A GERMAN VINDICATON OF

ENGLAND.

Dr. Lindau, a well-known Geman, has published a pamphlet in Viema, declar- ing that the allegation that England desired & world-war has not ben proved, He cites the series of internatinal crises. that were settled owing to Gret Britain's efforts, and quotes Count von Bethmann- Hollweg's recognition of these facte He adds:Those acquainted with the English people never believe that they became criminal against themselves or against humanity.

THE JAPANESE DEMANDS.

ACTION OF AMERICANS IN NORTH CHINA.

The resolution has

OFFICIAL NIGHTS FOR

MAY.

The following table shows the Standard Time at which officia! night ends and begins during the month of May, 1915:-

Date.

Ends. Begina. May 1st, 5.40 am 7.00 p.m.

2nd, 5.40

7:00 *

ка

3rd, 5.39

7.01

4th. 5.38

7.02

་

ath, ath,

5.38

1.0%

5.37

7.02

プラ

11

7th,

6th,

5.30.

+5,36 — 7.02

7,02

7.03

"

oth 3.36

10th, 5.35 * 7.03

11th,

5.34

.7.04

12th,

5,31

7.04

13th,

5.33

3.08

..

14th

5.33

7.05

15th

5.32

7:00

16th, 5,32

7.06

ร

17th,.

5.31

11

7.07.

18th, 5,31

7.07

19th, 5.30

20th, 5.30

7.c8 7.08

21.

21st, 5.30

22nd,

5.29

7.08 7:00

23rd, 5.29

7.10

24th,

711

25th,

5.29

26th.

5.29

7.11

27th,

6.23"

7.12

25th,

5.28

29th, 5.23

31st

30th, 5.27 5,27

7.12 7.12 7:13 7.13

THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.

ORDRES BY LIZUT-COL. 1. CHAPMAN, 'V.D.

LRAVE.

1.Pte. A. C. Davison is granted leave of absance from 1st May, 1915, to 7th Jun 1915.

PARADES.

"

G. MOUSSION,

1 MORIBON HILL ROAD.

MAKING CRIPPLES.

1428

the British soldier is the backbone of Sold at ts. 4d, per bottle. our Indian Army.”

Agents for Hongkong:- Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co., Lra.

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Mr. Lindley Murray advises speakers or writers to avoid making two incon- sistent metaphors meet in one object," This is an extract but it is often done.

from the report of a Congress dealing ASAHI BEER.

with sweated

terrible pic-

Mr. Thornton Burke gave ture of life in the East End of London, where, he said, there were thousands of people grinding their faces in the dust of

poverty and trying at the same time to. keep their heads above water.” A Tent- perance advocate once exclaimed: "Let us take our guns on our shoulders and plough the waste places till the good ship Temperance sails over the land !,”- „A.

well-known preacher is credited with the declaration that William. Penn,

the founder of Pennsylania, never made a treaty with the Indians, and never broke ORE." ;

But a few more specimens from Mr. Percy's very amusing book must suffice. A native bank clerk in Calcutta had to make a report to some high official, sad as he was returning home from presenting

it an Englishman asked him what the official had said, and he replied: "In the language of your William Shakea. peare be praised me with faint damns.??

A Hindu baker in Bombay, who catered. for the English community, advertised

himself as a first class British loafer": An Irishman's description of a company

promoter as "a gentleman who sells some- thing he hasn't got to people who don't

want it would hardly meet with uni- veraal approval in the city. Perhaps the palm for brevity in speech should

be awarded to a sailor who testified about the explosion of a gun on a warship. "Please give your version of the explo sion," he was asked. “Well,” he aid, I was standing beside the gun; there was an awful racket, and the doctor said, ***Bit up and take this $1

2.--Parades for to-day (Monday):

At Liverpool Captain Kinnear was pre- 5.90 p.m. Officers and N.C.Os. of Nosented, on behalf of the French Govern

1 and 2 Section Artillery Batteryment, with a gold watch for saving the and Left Section M.G. Co.: 10 pdr. Pacife liner Ortega from canture by a instruction at Headquarters.

3.On duty; H.K.V.R..

G. E. Stowany, Capt.j

Adjutant HKYC

German cruiser, and the War Bisks Association presented him with 100 guineas.

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