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Tutimations.

S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

WINE MERCHANTS.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOB

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1903.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE British surveying ship Wale witch arrived from Shantung Promontory this morning.

FOR opening an eating shop at No. 132 Station Street, Mongkok, without a certificate, a native was fined $15 or fourteen days' gaol.

If you want fresh film and good film, you can get them at LeMunyon's; they are guaranteed. -Adus.

If you want first class developing, go to LeMungon, Alsu strictly!! Adut

In Bangkok first » quality

9 ticals 40 alts per picul last second quality at 8 ticals 48 atts,

lingar and

WE are requested to remind members that the half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club takes place on Monday, the and proxy at 4 p.m.

MESSRS. Bailey and Co. have nearly completed the last of the lighters for Bangok, and ex pect io launch it in the courte of a week or ten in hand is an so ft. steam launch for the Naval days. Among other work which the firm have

Yard authorities.

A NOTIFICATION is published in the Govern. ment Gazelle to the effect that His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances. An Ordinance authorits ing the appropriation of a supplementary sum of one million eight hundred thousand two hundred and one dollars and forty 'cefits to defray the charges of the Year 1903 An Ordinance to repeal the New Territories Rent Recovery Ordinance, 1902, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof

THE SUGAR INDUSTRY

FACTS AND FANCIES.

III:

reaking:

mense

Сорта

for cultivation, las barm to agricolture; the c floe industries being also great sufferers Con sidering the splendid results, tin mining, con tinues to furnish in the Malay States it would certainly be a great pily, if the output were to give way in the near future, and the blow to Singap and Penang's trade and shipping would be mense. On the other hand, no planting indu try, howeves lucrative development in the peninsula of Malacca, ns or promising, will come to any considerable

long as themining industry maintains its prosent position. car

It seem to the writer, that the country along the shores of the magnificent Perak river is more fertile than the dried up, ancient mangrove swamps in Krian and Wellesly, but time and experience alune can prove, or refute, his idea. As a rule, unly long and repeated trials of cans on different soils can prove, if a district is suitible for sugar growing. Clay toils are generally far superior to others, and the brown-red alluvial of Java seems to be better fit than any other fur developing the swept juice. Very ugly surprises-are-some- Mines experienced, if insufficent care is bestowed on the choice of the ground In Veti Levse the witter once stopped his Schooner at a decayed wharf, from which tram-line ran to the interior. Following this through a gap between two low hills, he came to a plain surrounded by heights, one of which

The case of the Straits versus Java, in the sugar industry seems hopeless, for both sail A NATIVE was fined $too or three months' and surroundings are largely in favour of the imprisonment for blasting stones on Crown latter colony-In Java, special studies are land at the Peak. Defendant produced a per-directed towards the discovery of the best mit for splitting, but not for blasting stones. methods of cultivating and propagating the sugar-cane; and an interesting account is given by Mr. J. D. Kobus in the Journal of Tropical Agriculture (Paris) of the result of these stud- jes up to the present time.

THE master of the stean launch Chun lit was fined $10 or ten days' imprisonment for blowing his whistle five times without need, All less 10% discount on account.of Cur- while lying alongside Yaumati wharf this

morning. rent Exchange.

and obtained from the LEADING FRENCH GROWERS; they are of exceptional value and in fine condition.

A BOATMAN appeared before Mr. Sercombe Smith at the Magistracy this morning for moor. These CLARETS are specially selected ing his boat within three hundred feet of the U. S. gunboat Pon Juan de Austria withou permission. He was fined $5 or len days. In the following ports and territories it has been decided to maintain sanitary measures against ships coming from Hongkong, Manila, Nether. lands Indin, Rangoon, Shanghai, Siam, Indo China, Labuan, British North Borneo and Newchwang

THE CHATEAU BRANDS. are recommended to the notice of Con- noisseurs as bigh-class after-dinner Wines.

That many valuable results, have been obtained is evident from the article. The various directors of the work in question, with their assistants, bave shown that seed-cane can be raised, that plantations can be established

was pierced by a tunnel leading to a second, smaller plain. The tops of the low hills were crowned with new bungalows, the plain was covered with a cane field of 1609 acres or more, and a large factory, larger and more modern than any one the Straits can boast of, formed a most impressive feature of the estate.

The milland been completed two years before, in1891, and was kept running only two months The contents of the cane was so poor, that the working of the mill would have resulted in kain. The whole estate was left to its fate, for the difficulties of transport would not have paid the removal of the machiney and the materials. The soil in the volcanic regions of Java, especially in the bocrakarta and Djocjkarta districts is almost as good as the clay alluvials en | already referred to

fect, and that a even at an altitude of 2,000 feet, much higher product may be obtained by attention to the chemical action of the soif the eradication of disease, especially of that disease. called "sereh," and by proper selection of the plants. The writer himself states that he has engaged in the sugar cane, while he is also. It is said that the soil round fieli, on the cast studying the values of oils and manures. At coast of Sumatra, is not favourable for the the West Java station the manufacture of sugar, growth of the cane, though the writer has seen small crops, grown by the Chinese coolies for in the avidest sense of the term, and laboratory their own consumption, which look extremely His Excellency the Governor has been work are occupying attention. Large quantities Hourishing; though it is possible the plant, may of seed-cane' are cultivated, and slips or cut contain a sufficient per cent of juice for pleased to app ant the undermentioned to be Members of the Committee for the Wang-neitings obtained and the best distributed among profitable industrial purposes. Were it not that chung and Queen's Recreation Grounds:- the planters. On the experimental plantation

over zoo varieties of cane-seed are dealt with the Dutch Government taxes planters in Java Captain F. J. Radford, rst Sherwood Foresters,

with as much as Sio per acre on their crops, Among these varieties there are some, it is Hough, vice Mr. A. S. Anton.

stated, which are not affected by the "serels" sugar, growers in this part of the world would or the "canker," the two evils that threaten the be all millionaires. It is interesting to note that in the Straits growers pay nuthing besides a nominal rental oko 60 to the authorities. UNDER CANVAS ONE

GESTONECULIERS.

APS. WATSON & Co.,|vice Captain P. F. R. Anley. Mr. T. F.

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

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TEMPORARY STORE:

1ST FLOOR, 12, QUEEN'S ROAD, (above Messrs. H. PRICE & Co.)

FURNITURE

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

FURNITURE.

ELECTRO-PLATED,

GLASS, and

CHINA WARES.

PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

We are still doing business at 31, Des Voeux existence of the plant. Road. LeMunyon-Advt.

A NOTIFICATION appears in the Government Gasette to the effect that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. L. A. M. Johnston, P. M. G., to act as Treasurer and Collector of Stamp Revenue during the absence of the Hon. A M. Thomson. Mr. S. B. C. Koss is appointed to act as Postmaster

General with effect from the 29th inst.

A NOTIFICATION appears in the Government Caseife announcing that His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the following appointments--The Hon. H. E. Pollock, KC, to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council during the absence of Mr. R. G. Shewan. The Hon. J. M. Atkinson to be temporarily an official member of the Legis

lative Council.

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The writer once met a former manager of the Shanghai--Mr. Stewart, who had considerablentɔ m experience in sugar planting in the West Indies before he came to the Straits. This

The sudden change in the temperature dur gentleman had just come back from a touring the past few days is beginning to be felt by round the Java plantations, and was astounded members of the Volunteer Corps encamped on with the results he has reen obtained there, Stonecutters Islands. They all appear to be and was full of admir tion for the way that keeping very fit and the sounding of revelle things were worked on the Dutch estates. early in the moaning, followed by drill before The new fields, which have been started breakfast, soon uts the blood into circulation near Telok Anson, 35 miles up the tidal part and warms themup. At 6 am, to day more than of the Perak river, will probably, in the near a hundred khan-clad men paraded for drill future, give superior results to these obtained under Sergt. Wheler, R.G.A., Sergt. Bartholo. in Krian and Wellesley; because the soil has mew, R.G.A., Sgt. James, S., and Comp every appearance of being richer, especially Smithson, S.F. They were exercised with higher up on the way to Tapah and Bater maxims and 15 ounders, which was enjoyed Gajah. Liere there are many thousands of by the men as a dange from the infantry drill acres fit for cultivation, though it must be of the previous evning stated that a cocoa-nut plantation which was. At the time ourforrespondent left the camp started near Telok Anson, more than twenty this morning no deision had been made known years ago, turned out a miserable failure and regarding the concet, although it is thought it. Civilians are almost all the trees perished in a very short may take place the evening as

not allowed in campin non-guest nights after time.

6.30 p.m.

It is (the Daily Chronicle hears) practically settled that the British official building at the St. Louis Exhibition shall be a reproduction of

in Perak and the Straits, in general, agricul the Kensington Palace. Orangery, which is always regarded as a choice example of Eng-tural enterprise is badly hampered by the lish garden architecture. It opens on to a sort of terrace of Portland stone and its external aole is one of simple elegance. With its lei- sured alcoves, and its genuine air of Old Eng- land it should, if only in duplicate, make a winning picture at St. Louis next summer.

A CELESTIAL was charged at the Magistracy this morning with breaking into a dwelling ROCHESTER LAMPS,

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. house and stealing three bundles of clothing,

blanket, a pair of shoes, and money. He ad mitted the charge and stated that he had three

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

mining industry of the country. The mines work shorter hours than the plantations- and, although the coolies in them lead an unhealthy life, the shorter hours combined with higher pay are causes of numberless deser tions among the sugar-field coolies, especially the Chinese. Some years ago, the daily pay for a Kling coolie in a sugar plantation, for a hours work, was 15 cents, and a task fixed by Government, had to be strictly worked off the mines as much as 60 cents are paid for a

THE MANSOON:::

FISHING BOATSN, DISTRESS.

An extraordinary general ine phreys Estate and Finance was held at the office of

40 Queen's Road: Cenim, Victo to day, for the purpose of submitting resolu dealing with the crease

the general mane

remnerati There

the

MEST

Julian

Slade, be alte lirectors),

submitted by him,

the directors and sito, open-minded in

opid

(Chairman), Henry klumphreys, A. G. Wood and J. H: Van Buren

G. T. Veitci, J. Ross Taylor, S. A. Seth, A. Capt. Unsworth, Capt. Morrison, R. K. Leigh,

Mancell, P. C. Pous, 1.S.Hanson, Ho Fock, Le Cheung Shiu, J. L. Cotter, (secretary), and not f others

ths, resalutions which ha

been

The notice confening the meeting havingThe

seki and car been read,

The Chairman said:Gentlemen, this meet- ing has been called to consider and, if thought fit to pass the in your hands for the last two months An unusually, long notice of the meeting has been given to allow every shareholder on the register to vete either personally or by proxy. Before putting the resolutions to the mee like to make a few remarks The currency changes in the Philippine Bettlements coupled with the rise. has been to make money tight serious disturbance of prices bath Shanghai. A period of depression are now passing through is not

suitabik

required for immediate wants. Your direc tors have decided therefore for the present to considerably curtail the programme outlined in the circular sent to you.Theoutinyon Kili Lots 1,10, and 1,195 will be confined

time to raise more capital than is active

The been (will

Acce

resolutia

the first

Capital

[company

-in excess

the

thel

shareholders

of the arfícies;

(associa?

ying this circular are forms of the

"state" with regard

lutions that the

land Lot: No 550

Deing: boun

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practically to the amount which the company is compelled to spend in rateable improvements under the Government conditions of sale.. This will effect a reduction of about $63, mortgage on K. 1. L. 43 has paid off and that on K. 1. Lots 169 and 1 have to be mer on 31st December next Withluated; regard to the proposed building operations on Kowloon luland Lots 43, 551 and 550 we now propose to carry out the work in two The first section involving au

other section estimated at $80,000 $90,000 to be started as soon as

In abeyance. We consider this property will in the future be the most valu Kowloon properties, and, as there

demand for such houses as we prop

at rentals which will give the return af 14% on the cost of the Son cost of both and think it would be

longer its development. · Buildin on other properties will not Ee

to only call up $2. at present. Your directors therefore

realise $125 uary next. Thi about the amount required-to-carn

nitediale

sbarchaklar has any que

leased to answer them

ability

There being no questions, first tion as follow

of the Company 6o increased from (divided into 100,000

of all our

forith

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for the

course

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used the Capital.

each) to

@cated

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other prop

"company

ranke

Com

$1,500,000 (divided each) by the creation of 50,000 few shares of Sto each to be altere alloted to the preses pany at par in the ratio

and; if acco

7 share for every two old sha

new

of, the amount payable on Bach pany held by the respective shar shares respectively to be paid

times and in such manner að its General Managers may hereal

MrR K&Leigh seconded, and the was carried

*The Chairman then proposed the r fution in the following terms ration of the General Manage per annum (which shall cover of not salaries of secretary and oth and a commission of 5 per

fits of the Company for each year profits amonat to 7 per cent the Company. He expla

for the resolution bad been circular which, haribought| had received, to it was unnec go:into

{Mc:Ho

A heavy monsoon is roned over the China Sea, and the smaller craftre evidently suffer ing in, consequence T German steamer Patchaduri which arrivedam Bangkok this morning reports having xperienced fine weather to Cape Varella why she Zan into a strong north-easterly gale hd heavys sea, Capt G. Hillman says that miles to the south-west of 1 Gap Rocke sighted a ME

previous convictions, Mr. Sercombe Smith 5 or 6 hours' daya rather tempting difference. fishing boat flying signals: Ofistress on her

sentenced him to four month's hard labour, to

be exhibited in the stocks for four hours during the last week of impriscomes, and then to be PHOTOGRAPHIC presented for banishment.

DEPARTMENT.

DEVELOPING and PRINTING

SAUNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURNot Hongkong, 29th August, 1903. CARMICHAEL

CLARKE,

Hon

If you want a first class photo of yourself you men, and this is the main reason why a mined the boat was again lowed and the Company,

can get it at Le Munyon's-Aut

PROGRAMME of music to be performed by the Band of the" foth Mahratia Light Infantry, on the New Parade Ground on Monday next, the and November, from 4.30 to 6 p.m.

`March..." Belphegar"ı .....Bropisati. .Schubert. Overture..." Rosamunde

.....Royle.

...Andren,

...Jones.

[28d

AND

Valse"! Ispaban

Selection." La Cigale" Serenade..." Der Engel Lied "Draga. Selection .."The Model and thé Mald'

God save the King,!!

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS

ATTENDED TO,

TAEL 11ongkong.

3550

The plantation coalies were chiefly Klinge, but a great number of Chinese are now em ESTREDE played, and the Celestial owner works almost exclusively with coolies of bisownrace and, as in the mines, he sees to the feeding of his worl

pays a Chinaman, when a European would loose bis money in it. Big John pays Tittle Johnnie with one bands and robs him with The weight of the sugar cane cut the other. The t

one bomo varied between 350 and 900 piculs and the sugar extracted is 10% of this weight and often more. The latter figures are from Dr. Sollewyn Gelpker: fórmerly Resident of Cheribon in Java, and represent the Frugal average of the agriculture of the natives whic of course, does not reach that of the European managed plantations. -

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The sale of opium to the coolies in bilemanser THE British Admiralty have given out contracts in which big profits are obtained by Chinese to the Fairfield Company, Glasgow, Messulanters, and there are many other. Thus planter can make Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Barrow; and Messrs. It is, that the Chinese plan

compete successfully, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co, Newcastle, for things pay, and first-class cruisers, which will combine the with his miserable buffalo-milis and clay armament of battleship, the armoured protec furnaces, against abe giant crushers Andrejeno tion of a second-class cruiser, and the speed of tific mach

A first-class cruiser. The now cruisers will be fol if at

the most formidable yet, constructed. The in tha dimensions are: Length 480 foot Displace

Ement, 13,520 tons. Speed, 23 DOLE Horse

to drink in the tropica is the Beer

tropica-SAN MIGUEL

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future, awaits

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formas, and, slowing down, had a boar absent from two hours later they came acroanother fish gard lowered and took the crew bard. About on his ing crafe which had lost her and sails, the meeting.

crew taken aboard, Subently, a third boat was seen to be sulling and The steamer then made folii kong, but provisions, and water were menuff to her When jasida of Gap Rock another ing boat. with distress signals flying, was obved, and shall dassed the 'lchabur to slow wa and annum despatch her life boat to the ro The lar Chinese fishermen, with one totleave the craft, and after delay the life boat was hoisted aboaand the sho

steamer came on to Hon

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