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Tim. Powell, Id.
Business Hours 8.30 a.it, to 8 PM.
ALEXANDRA "BUILDINGS,
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XMAS, 1904.
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Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE, ALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY,
mitonto-at Yáa-ma-ti, Kowloon, in Six Lou -TO-MORROW,
?
the 16th day of December, 1904, at 3. P.M.,
atthe premises, upped
Mans, HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctionners
SIAM'S GOLD STANDARD.
HOW IT STANDS.
The report of Mr. Williamson, the Financial Adviser to the Siamese Government, on the laster's Budget for the current year, contains: the following information, regarding the work fog of the Gold Standard, arrangement at Bangicok
RELATION TO THE STRAITS DOLLAR In my report last year, I gave some particu lars of the measures adopted in introducing the change. from a silver to a gold standard of
Intimations.
was affected, the local Banks invariably quoted. their rates for gold bilts in dollars, whereas two ↑ of them had already commenced; quoting In
YOU WILL NOT ticals. Since writing the above, the third and
important Bank has.come lato line with he deceived That there are cheats and frauds the other two in this matter, and from the 1st in-plenty everybody knows; but-it is seldom May 183 (1994) a uniforms method of quotation | or never that any large business house is guilty of exchange has been adopted, whereby the of them, no matter what line oftrade.it follows. value of the tical is cited in terms of the various. There can be no permanent success of any foreign currencies. : This in itself, is evidence kind based on dishonesty or deception. There of the confidence felt by the banking commun. never was, and never will be. The men who ity in the ultimate success of the change of try that are simply fools, and soon come, to standard, and the amplification of the melboterief as they deserve. Now many persons, of quoting local exchange must be no small are, nevertheless, afraid to buy certain
Intimations.
THE HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAM-
WAYS.COMPANY, LIMITED: “ TOTICE is hereby given that the TWEN
TIETH ORDINARY GENERAL
the above Company will be hald at the Regis. MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS. of TERED OFFICE of the Company in Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road, on FRIDAY, the 3rd day of December, 1924, at Noon, for the surpose of receiving the report of the General Manager together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending goth November, 1904.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company both days Inclusive. B
JOHNID. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, tee Hongkong. 14th December, roos
LOST.
LOT 1-All That piece of ground registered in value, and indicated the successive stages by, convenience to the business interests of the advertised articles last they be humbugged will be CLOSED from the 20th to 26th instant
the Land Office as Section M of Kow- loon Inland Lot No: 43 with the messu which the Treasury selling price of the tical: age thereon known as Ne, 49 Tampla was raised from: zo to 184 ticals to the pound,
In the course of year 123 (1904) the procem of: Lor 2.-All That piece of ground registered in gradual appreciation was continued as oppor»- the Land Office 'as Section N of Kow-tunity offered until, on the 6th February 122 loon Inland Lot No: 43 with the messa ago: thereon known as No. 53 Temple Lpr 3All that portion of the piece of ground registered in the Land Office as Section B of Kowloon Inland Lot No. reg with the message thereon known as No: 46 Temple Street, LOT 4All That portion of the piece of ground registered in the Land Office as Section B of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 105 with the messuage thereon known as No. 48 Temple Street, Lot 5-All That portion of the piece of ground registered in the Land Office as Section C of Kowloon Inland Lot No, tos with the messuage theroon known at No. 5 Kennedy Street, LOT &-All That portion of the piece of ground
Kennedy Street).
country...
HOW THE RUSSIANS FIGHT.
ep
and deluded especially are they slow to place confidence in published statements of the merits of medicines. The remedy known as WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
is as safe and genuine an article to purchase
We could not afford to exaggerate its qualities flour; silk or cotton goods from the mills of manufacturers with: n` world-wide reputation..
11342
CRYSTAL NECKLET on SILVER
AN Saturday night (10th), à PEARL AND
or misrepresent it in the least and it is not CHAIN. Finder will be rewarded on return- necessary, It is paintable as honey and coming it to PAGODA BUNGALOW, Kowloon.
(1339 Hongkong, 13th Decembar, 1904)
tains the nutritive and curative: properties: of
STAKBAROU
ASHARPUTTLE SHAVER
WEIGHT EAST WAN
the old fashioned clumsy Razor and by THIS DWARF RAZOR has superseded its use. Shaving becomes a pleasure. It i manufactured in Sheffield, England, from a special amalgam of steel which makes imita the largest sale of any Razor in the_World.” Thousands of Testimonials testify that the little MAB is the finest shaving Implement ever produced."
fa the "Rusk Wjed,” says tha China Review, (104), pound startling. This rate corres. Worosesch regiment depicts the bayonet-af-
the tical was quoted by the Treasury at
nir officer of the 3rd Reg. battalion of the ponds exactly to a 2/ dollar at the old ratio of tack on the 31st of July by Tichelleputse. Ho 53-Tex. 5, and is therefore a convenient one writes:-Threo. volleys are fired: We do not to adopt in view of the probable fixing of the know what it means. On the left wing of our Straits dollar at a value of 3), and having re-position a flagsignal is given The entire Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted hy as from fresh gard to the inmate character of the business battalion is in a state of the highest tension, cod livers, combined with the Compound relations existing between Slam and the Straits Again a signal. No more doubt. "Forward up of Fymphosphites and the Extracts of Settlements. In the absence, therefore, of is the order. The battalion rises and few Malt and Wild. Cherry; and how valuable such unforeseen circumstances necessitating a fur minutes it storms running up a mountain. "Al ther change, it may be held that the Goverready we hear the bullets whissing and this blending of these important medicinal agents. ment have now attained their goal as regards awful murmur, gets stronger every moment. price in Anemia, Insomnia, Weakness and lack must he is plain to everybody. It is beyond the rate at which they propose to fix the future Bilently, stealthily we advance. Suddenly a value of the tical.
cry is heard, an officer of the and Company is of Nervous, Tone, Poor Digestion Wasting It is, of course, to be understood that the wounded, the first victim: Wa ascend higher reasos, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Blood Impurities Science can furnish nothing better —— registered in the Land Office as Section the rate above mentioned is merely, that at and higher, An' Alp-pressure lays itself on
Cof Kowloon Inland Lut No. 105 will which the Treasury is prepared to sell ticale our souls and men and officers crowd together.perhaps nothing so good... Dr: W. H. Dalle, the messunga thereon known 2: No. 7 against gold drafts on London and in view of Shortly before reaching the mountain sum of Canada, says: “Lhave sised it in my practice. líon impossible, and in consequence it enjoye
of the previous inflation of the metallic cur mit e balt some minutes. A command is and take pleasure in recommending it as a rency, it is somewhat early to expect the market, given and forward again at a wild pace. Now valuable tonic and reconstructive. It is a to adhere entirely to the Government rate. At we are on the summit, and ace the enemy, remedy that can afford to appeal to its record times, indeed, it has already done so, when the before us at a distance. of 30 to 40 paces.. A and represents the science and knowledge of demand for money has been brisk and the terrible fire receives us and during s to zo bright and aggressive medical investigation: Banks have apprehended a necessity for re- seconds we answer.. Again a command is Effective from the first dose. "You cannot be plenishing their stock of coin by application to given and the whole battalion rushes forward disappointed in it." Like all good things it is the Treasury, but during periods of slackness as a mad. Some seconds elapse and loud imitated. Sold by chemists throughout the expons, accompanied by a normal flow of Harrahs." are heard mingled with the moans import business, the value of the cal-as of the wounded. It: is: impossible to describe measured sterling must necessarily show a tenthe, horrors of a bayonet-fight. There is a dency to fall away.
surprlied Japanese officer trying to defend him- self with his award, The sharp bayonet pene- trates his chest and -he-falls lifeless. to the ground." All around heartrending lamentations, flows in currents, no one cares for the cries and sight of the dying. A part of the Japanese try to eachps down the mountain. But even
tive terms of 75 years.
The above Properties are respectively held from the Crown for the residues of the respec
For further particulars and conditions of sale, apply to
EWENS & HARSTON, · Bolicitors for the Mortgagee,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, 15th December, 1904.
or to Messis HUGHES & HOUGH, (1300
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
The only remedy for the state of affaire is for the Government to offer gold bills to the Banks, thus relieving them of any, plethora of
world.
-
THE CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE...,
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
URING the temporary absence of the
1904, a3 P.11., at the Offices of the Public ticals in their possession, and there are not are heard; but no.one minda that human doo Undersigned. Mr. A.. E. WHEELEY:
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be. held on MONDAY, the 19th day of December, Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One: Lot of CROWN LAND at Causeway Bay in the Colony, of Hong. Every conceivable kind kong, for & term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the Kiwa, for pre further term of 75 years,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
of
ΤΟΥ
to be had at a
REASONABLE PRICE.
DOLLS!
DOLLS!
DOLLS!
· Finest Assortment of
DOLLS
in the Far Fast.
GAMES!
GAMES!
GAMES!
Do not fail to bring the
Children to spend half an hour in the
Bazaar
at
POWELL'S
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
HONGKONG.
Hongkong, th December, 1904:
No. of Salt.
Inland Lot No. 1,793. Registry No.
LOCALITY,
Boundary Ненастешения.
Causeway Bay.
ཀ།རྣ
W.
11 ft
t
Square feci
*Annual Rent
Upset Price.
178 37,060 391,728
akony, roth December, 1904.
wasting critic who affirm that it is the duty of Government to raise a loan for this purpose some even going so far as to maintain that in the absence of such a loan it will be impossible to obtain the desired fixity of exchange. These critics appear, however, to have overlooked the experience of India where a gold reserve was acquired, not by sudden recourse, to a load, but by the profits arising from the coinage of rupees. In Siam it is intended to adopt a precisely similar plan and, as in India, the acquisition of a sufficient stock of gold for this purpose must necessarily be a matter of time.
COMPARISON WITH INDIA
in. flight there is no salvation: We over- take the enemy and stab and boat him as madinen. A ferocious beastly fury seizes all, deeply, we pierce the bayanets into their bodies, heavily fall the butt ends on their heads. Sometimes the bayonets pierce the entire body, Tha bayonets: bond and with desperate efforts wary to extricate them from the corpses. But there is no time for long reflection;. wo, grasp. the, guns of the dead and storm on. Higher and higher the corpses are towering and we think have won the victory and that we shall be able to rest,
In this connection it may be of interest to recall the fact that, although the India Mints
Batwhat is that: Something new. A hail- were closed to the free coinage, of allver: in June 193, it was not until the beginning of storm of shells and bullets fils whistling, hum- [13281899, or over 5 years afterwards, that the Go- ming and whizzing the air. No one expects to theladin making their rate of beving the next second. The ranks are tuh. 4d to the rupeo effective. Thug Wir beina and the exploding grenades do their seen from the following figures, showing the work. Hare fail an oficer win ---- average rate obtained by the Secretary of State severed from the body; over there horribly
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION..
PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of for his bills on India, during the years 1893 to
Public Auction Sale, to be, | 1899;— held on MONDAY, the 19:h day of December, 1904, at 3. P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Yau-ma-ti in the Colony of Hong kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one. [urther term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
| No. of Sale
1000 106dRegistry No.
LOCALITY.
Yau-ma-l
Boundary Measurements.
N 瀛
W.
ft. ft. ft.
1200
Contents iz
Square feet.
Ankcal Reat
Hongkong, 10th December, 1904.
Upsex Price
Average rate.
................. Ish 3: dễ to the rupee,
tab zid. 11
Yenr
1893.
1894
#1
1895
1896
... Ish I d. 11h 14d. 1897............ reh zid, 1898
IL
19
要是
11
"
#
11
1897......... 1th 4 d.
19
mutilated soldiers are rolling in awful death
struggle,—an officer springs, suddenly. up but collapses with cries of despair!
above Company,
has been appointed ACTING SECRETARY of the
By Order of the Board of Directors,
JAMES WHITTALL,
Secretary. Hongkong, 14th December, 1904.
NAVY LEAGUE:
HONGKONG BRANCH.
To be obtained from THE MUTUal Stores,
WATKINS, LIMITED, and, all first-class stores.
In the Colony.
Sole Agents for Far East, HOWARD & Con
29, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong.
For particulars and terms, apply to— Agents wanted is every port..
HOWARD & Co. -
(1269
Hongkong, 24th November, 1904
ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. Marshall and
Elvy's
Satine
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF
MATURED AGE,
OF THE MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES- of the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League TO BE OBTAINED FROM- will be held in the CITY HALL, on MONDAY, theroth December. 1904, at 3.15 F.M. H. E. POLLOCK, Esq., K.C., in the chairs"
ARTHUR R. LOWE,
Hon: Secretary. Navy League, Hongkong Branch. (1333 Hongkong, 12th December, 1904.
STOCKBROKERS' ASSOCIATION.
NOTICE.
DECEMBER SETTLEMENT:""
But the moans of the dead and wounded are. deafened by the reports of guns and the load commands.Where the eyeglances--streams | "THIS. Month's Settlements will commence.
of blood and death convulsions of the wounded, *The struggle, was unfortunately not evenly matched. The battalion, dwindles away and only a few tired to death,, indifferent to all survivors, beat the retreat across the dead
THIS
on THURSDAY, the 29th instant, By Order of the Committes,
E..S. JOSEPH,
Hon. Becretary.
Hoogkhog, and December, 1904.
(197
THE MUTUAL STORES; Das Vœux Road. Hongkong. Ith May, 1904.
THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co.,
General Agents, Hongkong, -
FORT WINE,
Direct shipment from the.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, COMPANHIA AGRICOLA E COMMERCIAL DOS
'LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
The above graphic description shows, in the opinion of the China Review, how deadly the Russian bayonet attack is, and that, only when outnumbered, do they retire. But the Japanese superiority in men and artillery will not last- for over and the European Russian Army Corps better men, better artillery, better every. In Casks of 375 fbs, net $5.00 per Cask thing, are arriving, and as time rolls on the
ex Factory. real crisis will come.
In India, it will be observed, the rate of ex-badies of friend and enamy. change actually fell for a period of 4 years after the closing of the Minis and reached its lowest point in the second year following that event the subsequent recovery being so gradual that it was another 3 years before the average-level 8618 of 1893 was attained and passed. With this experience before us it is not to be expected that Siam with her smaller resources and her lesa-developed industries, will be able to effec. 1329 tively establish her gold standard without allowing a more or less lengthy period for the contraction of her currency, and the gradual adjustment of wages and prices to the higher: level which it is desired that the tical shali attain. There are evidences that this process is in course of development, and the more gradual it is, the less is it likely to affect trade adversely, more especially the Important rice export business on which the prosperity of the ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS country so largely depends. Any considerable appreciation of the value of the tical, unless
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TO-DAY'S. EXCHANOR;.
Salling
2,41†
VINHOS DO Porto, ;.
(Successor to DONNA ANTONIA A‚FERREIRA),
Monopoly for China of
THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO:
In Bage of 250 thi. net $8.20 per Bag Dry No. 1
ex Factory,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co... General Managers: Hongkong, 2nd September, 1904.
AN APPEAL..
Selected Old Fort:$50003
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H
Quinta do Porto Dry No. 3
Quinta da Granja [783 Tawny, 1887, Vintage
counteracted by an increased demand for rice, | Germany-Bank-NT. annam-e-veien. 7,96 Hongkong and the Coast Forts, for their kind.
Per. Case of 1 Dozen:
00:
10 30.001
35:00
#t
20.003 #++. 15,003
Tawny, (White Labei).......................................... · 14005 Medium Taway, (Brown Label)... 13.001. White Taway, (White Label). 12,002 Full Wine, (Brown Label)........én. `IL00: White Tawny, (Brown Label) .......................... 10.30: Light Tawny, (Brown Label)`
London-Bank.T.T. mar)/11.1/16-
Da. damant ........ France--Bank T.T.,
De 4 months' sight......1/11.5/16 THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs most America-Bank T.T.......
46 respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of
FRENCH CLARETS, patronage and support, and desires to state that: St. George she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinda Cr-Wynbro............................................... 4.fan
Côtes of NEEDLE WORK..
Montferrand...animais" (150 Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Calls Médoc
..................., Ö,00 and Collars renewed on old ones.
India T.T
Da demand grace Shangbai--Bank T.T. Japan-Bank T.T.
1437 .143)
either for home or foreign consumpties, must result in lower tical prices being paid to the producers, and it is of importance that the changa shquid be gradual in order that the general lowering of prices all round may en-Singapore-Bank T.T.........Nominal able the cultivator to receive for bis produce. the same palus as formerly,
RISE IN THE TICAL.
Java-Bank T.T.
Buying,
10.00:
$4.00 $5.00
St. Emilioni. St. Estephs..................... 6.50 St Julien........
St, Estophe Superiori 9.00 Chateau Margaux '***: Chateau Leoville: Chateau Ladte
+
Ladies and Children's Under-clothing, Chn dien's Dresses, and all ́kinds of Embroidery, months' sight L/C...1/11.7/16 Materials can be supplied, if required The average of exchange for the year rat
6 months sight'L/Q..............................................................t/11 9/16
The Superiorens will also be most gratefél (1902-03) 4.4. the year towards the and of which the gold standard was adopted, was ish. 3/326,30 days sight:San Francisco & New-York 47 for any PAPER; or old ENVELOPES to be made Chateau Lamis 10.30
4 months' sight.. ⚫ da,
481nto Books forths Children of the Poor Schools, corresponding to Tck 1984 to the pound ster ling, while for the year 122 (1903-04) it was 18h30 days' aight Sydney and Malboproe1/11.11/16 who are taught by the Sisters.
t, or Tes. 18.28 to the pound. This being the upward movement of the tical bas probably been quite as rapid as is consonant with the general interests of the country, and the public may, I think, feel antinfed with the results so far attained, despite the criticisms to which a measure of so far-reaching a character must expect to be subjected.
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Hongkong, #nd-Abril, sƐuze
28
:4 months' sight FranČE. «opping454
6 months' sight
months sight Germany...................2.00‡ Bar Silver......................... Bank of England rate
OPIUM. QUOTATIONS."
•To-day's gontations are as follows :
When dealing with the subject of the gold standard last year, I observed that Siam had Mulwa Nowon
Old now obtained both the practical and sentimental, |--G advantage of having placed her monstary uult.}}}^
Per chest @1080/1,11
Older
@ 1,200/1,240.
Oldest
«©; 1,380/1,300:
1,119
in a position where it was at last in'a fair way
to being recognised in the exchange marts of Patna New the world as a coin with a valua of its own, and || Benares New. added that, until the change to a gold standard }{Persian (Paper)"
TRADE.
BIG
CURES MEN WOMEN BN44-00-POISONOUS: for apr (sundura).
remedy, discharge and Indammation; frritation at Ripation mucous membraani. Falņide Gnaranteed sol 19 FriFirst Preven{#/conlagiADA
SOLD. BY CHEMISTU...... Cifsular mailed on ESQUARE,
S-- MAXOPEBUTIK BAR MIT*-
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CINCINNATI, OG
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7.50
thm 9:00
900! #4441410.00
10.00 10.00 10.00
11.00
11.50
BURGUNDIES.
| Volnay vin 1893.....
Per Cake: For Case:
Quarts/Finis. $16.09
.17.00 19.00
+$14.00 Moulin a Vent vin 1893ise#4,80,0:16,59
Macon vin 1899
Nuits vin 1893...... Musigny vin 1893 mus Conton win 1895. uruins Chablis vir 1893 Beaune vin 1893 ........ Pommard vin 1899- Red Burgundy..***- Chambertin vin 1899 Romance vin 1893
17.50 19.50.
38.50 10.50
18.50/ 20,50
19.00-- 21.00
19.00 :21,00 SENAL, 29.00 19AST.CO
*****, 30,00.
139,00
37,00
43.00
40.00 -43.00
BARRETTO & Co...
Agents,
Nos. 22 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 19th October, 1904.
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