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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18гm, 1925.
RUBBER IN MALATA.
"ALARMISTS OFFICIALLY
ANSWERED.
The Financièr says considerable "in," terest was recently aroused in rubber cir- cles by the publication of a letter from Mr. A.. B. Mine, the well-known visiting.
in
THE KAILAN MINING STRIKE. A QUAINT EXPRESSION OF
GRATITUDE. "
The following advertisement appears in recent issues of the Tientsin papers: SOURCE OF STRIKE IN KATLAN HINING ADMINISTRATION, For the
of burdenisome purpose subsistence, we, the labourers of ave Mines, were inevitable, to have the establishment of strike; though Mining Company sympathized to have our wages
INTIMATIONS
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Eighty offices are stablished in the principal
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BW South of the Armen to aintain the strike instead of complete International Banking Service.
by
EXAGGERATION.
In his memorandum Mr. South describes Mr. Milne's statement as being of an alarmist nature and expresses the view that the estimate of 500,000 acres is much exaggerated, going on to state that, although it is very dificult to form an astinute, ha duubts, on the whole, if 30,000 acres of rubber are yet destroyed and rendered permanently useless in Malays.. Mr. Bouth also cops tradicts Mr. Milne's statement that disease
of
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meis of As follows...
1st January, 1993.
R. P. BOYCE,
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Manager.
OHINA INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT ** BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, of 5 DUDDELL STREET, gives to all its Depositors A Handsome Rate, of Interest,
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
(NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES FROM NEW YORK AND YOKOHAMA. THE S.3. GOTHIC PRINCE"
having arrived from the abore Ports. Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignees' risk, and
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods aro to be left in the godowns, where they will be, examined on 17th Jan, 1993, at 10 AM.
All claims must be presented within 15 days of the steamer's arrival here, after which Hate they cannot be recognized...
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No claims will be admitted after the goodi have left the Godowns, nud nil Goods remain i ing undelivered after the 18th inst, 1923, 0) be subject to rent.
Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that they must produce an Import permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading Can be countersigned)
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.
St. George's Building. Taeptione: 3155.
Hongkong, ilth January, 1993.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
The Steamship "FIUME L."
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FROM TRIESTE, VANICE, BRINDISI, PORT SUDAN, SPALATO, PORT SAID, ADEN, COLOMBO,
of Penang, to the Rubber Share holders Association, in which the opinion was expressed that 500,000 acres of rubber were permanently down Raboush is Malaya
e chairman of the Rubber Share- holders Assocution has now received a letter from the Chief
to the Government
of the Malay | increisvu onestenth beforehand but there Cities of the World to provide commercial States, "dated October 23rd "Inst,
nas se misapprehension being caused cupy of a memorandum Department, upon 31r. Milne's fester. Thoncepting the increase of wages; and tha Chief Secretary has also, forwarded copies rectiliation of Military und Policu COMMCIERAL LETTERS OF CREDIT. of this memorandum to the Planters' As. Circles took no good consequence for DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE, sociation of Malaya and to the local many days on account of the suspicion branch of the Rubber Growers Association, not yet disengaged, so the procrastination
TRAVELERS CHEQUES. of works was not over until, more tha
LETTERS OF CREDIT. twenty days. We have conscience and are to be sure that Mr. A. Docquer, the CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANCES Engineer in chief of Are Mines, has
PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE maltreated no labourers since he took up his just in Kailan Mining Administra
Every Approved Banking Transaction. tion; not only the labouters received from him the treatment of equality but also the villagers, the gentry circle, and the commercial work, none of them were sard motor over the country as a result not the obtainers of his bounty while aby drainage and preventing a virtuous act occurred; from which his
reputation was before the public akciarge TEHKEY TO GROW RICH. After dealing with this question in con- In course of battle between the Military siderable detail 3e. South concludes bis
Chibli had Moukden, the troops of
and Du communication discontinued, course, desirable that as much money as possible should be available for transportation was able to be had for THE
A. Docquer apprehended general upkeep of estates and attention to coal: Mr.
thoroughly that most of the labourers all measures that will keep disease under
were exceeding poverty; the works control. I do not consider that very much haru has yet been done, though continual should stop and yet continued without financial difficulties must inevitably have any interruption; promoting charity, their effect in reducing the value of rubber devising means to transport grains for
allowing estates, especially through the action of
deficiency, supporting diseases. There is no need for alarm at families of labourers to have entrance AUTHORISED CAPITAL. $1,000,000.00 | may present, but is is certainly wise to craphasise
necessity for spending as much of the into the Mining yards in order to avoid
By this time, we found INTEREST dangerousness. available money as possible on the estates
what we did and
For Fixed Deposits- and as little as possible on charges off the quite uncivilized Lestatus."
affected by shame for being ungrateful
1 year for the above mentioned beneficence; we Mr. 4. B. Milne has by the same mail were now in queasiness of extremity for forwarded to the chairman of the Rubber having no hems io pachy this problem, Shareholders Association, a copy of the Fortunately, Mr. RT. Scherjon tha reply which he has addressed to the Catholic Father at Tongshan, whom we Chief Secretary dealing with the above criticistus. Mr. Milne writes that, in his extremely esteemed for his serious deeds, was willing to have the ruth of media estinate of 000 acres as being down tion, and patiently declared that the and out in Malaya, he referred to a prettable treatment should fixedly be portion of the total area supposed to be allowed without breach of faith provided under rubber in the peninsula and not to any particular type or class thereof. He reiterates his opinion that this area is in creasing very rapidly as a direct result of slamp conditions, and after dealing in detail with Mr. South's observation with regard to the spread of disease Mr. Milne concludes that the only point at real luue is the very great discrepancy between the respective estimates of fr. South and him self in the matter of unremunerative areas which is of sufficient importance to merit close investigation. Alr. Alino suggests that the outcome may possibly be some thing in the nature of a reliable census, of which the industry stands badly in need.
RESULTS OF THE SLUMP.
BOMB OUTRAGE AT MACAO.
Just as the .. Sui Tui drew alongside the wharf at Macas on Tuesday evening a heavy explésion was heard in the neigh bourhood of the Wharf. Enquiries show, ed that it was a bombing outrage which occurred at a Chinese hotel named the Kong Nam. No person was injured, but the hotel was "considerably damaged, most of the windows having, been blown. outi
It is not known what object "the bomb throwers had in view,
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BRANCHES Shanghai-51, Kiangau Road. Hankow-British Concession.
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that the ensemble would previously enter THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL the Mining Company for operations. We wore quite sure that Mr. R. T. Scherjon the Catholic Father was commonly in credit of everything so we followed his proposition and commenced our works on the seventeenth of November, 1922; and was aétually the sympathy for cach happened on last pay day. We took notics of another proclamation being recently published, the article that recorded in it was "notwithstanding the services of Mining Company and contractors. should anyone is wounded, while working, three months' wnges are to be bestowed, and the compensation and other, sympathies are to be given besides, if the wounded man begcmes-invalid after three months. This is the goodness bo- yond cur requisition which causes us exceedingly uncomfortable or accepting it; as we are merely labuorers, having no means to repay such great favour except to advertise in newspapers for indicating our hearts of gratitude.
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Clairman of Board of Directore, MR. WONG SHUI HAM,
Chief Manager..., ...Mr LS HOLUN Aset. Manager......Mr. K. T. WONG Hongkong Manager, Mr. I. P. ALLEY Foreign exchngs and General Banking business transacted.
The following extract from the Elec- frical Review will not be without interest] to Hongkong while the future of the local Current, Savings and Fixed Deposits been telephone service is under consideration: interest at rates of 1er cent., 4 1er cent., and
Following the example set by the Post 6 per cent., 3 er anna, respectively."- and Telegraph Administration of the
18. HOLUM Indian Government in installing Strowger | automatic telephone equipment at Simla, Hongkong. October 2nd, 1920. Lahore, and Amritsar, and the successful results obtained. thereby, the Bombay Telephone Co. has decided to give ita subscribers the benefits of Strowger.ser- vice also, and will shortly proceed with the installation of equipment to serve a
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
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E hereby beg to remind our numerous,
tom of 11,000 meset for this quip W Customers that their Orders for ICE Bombay. The contract lore,ment has been secured by the Automatic CREAM must be placed 24 hours before deli-
Be-hold, my, Child, a learned man Who, doubt-less, since the world begau, Pre-destined was to grace the spot And tell the Chi-nese just what's what: He's really bright as bright can bo; And pulls down a big salary. Bat, should you ask, my Child, what he Has done to earn it,-Dear-y me! je I fear that I must shake my head And say, "tig time you were in bed!" Though versed in old and mod-era Your expert For-eign Ad-vis-or- Did he ad-vent-ure to de-plore What's being done, he would not score But simp-ly make his Bos-ses more! How then, his job does he main-tain Core, hug me close while I ex-plain, Ho utters nothing but what's nice," And never, never gives ad-vice. 'Tis thus he may, ten years OF 80, Di-rect the Land for wool or woel -From the Peking and Tiewtain Timex.
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CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform
ed that all Goods are being landed at their risk inte the Godowns of the Hongkong & owloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, at Kow- whence and/or from the wharves delivery
cbtained,
100k but!
Option Carga will be forwarded unleas antics to the contrary be given before 12th inst
No claim will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown", and all Goods. remaining undelivered after the 19th inst, will be subject to rent,
All Claims
against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 28th inst OF they will not be
recognised.
All broken, chafod, and damagod Goods are tou be left in the Godowa, where they will be. axamined on the 16th inst, at 10 am., by our; Barveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & DOUGLAS.
No Fire Insurancs has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
The Steamship "PATHAN."
Frox LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW AND SINGAPORE
that all Goods are being landed at their YONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed risk into the Godowns of the Hole's Wharf at Kowloon, whence, and/or from the wharton delivery may be obtained.
notice to the contrary be given before 14th Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless info ohims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the Elst inst, will be subject to rent..
be All claims against the steamer must presented to the Cadersigned on or before the 31st inst, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Codewna, where they will be examined on the 20th inst, at 10 am, by our Surveyors Mess. GODDARD & DODGLAS
No Fire Insurance has been affected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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