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Intimation.

WM. POWELL.

LIMITED.

GENTLEMEN'S

DEPARTMENT,

28, Queen's Road,

(OPPOSITE THE CLOCK TOWER.)

NEW SPRING

GOODS.

FINEST

QUALITY

COLOURED

ZEPHYR

SHIRTS.

SILK

AND

CASHMERE

SHIRTS.

CELLULAR

THIN

SHIRTS.

UNDERWEAR

AND

HALF-HOSE.

NECKWEAR

LIGHT

PITH

AND

CORK

HELMETS.

LIGHT-WEIGHT

BUCKSKIN BOOTS.

&c.,

&c., &c.

Auctions.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1905.

PUBLIC AUCTION:::

THE Undersigned have received instructions

་་

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

the 29th April, 1905, at i, at the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Gedowns, Kowloon, CASKS GEMENT, (Red Cross Brand}}{ in good order and condition. TERMS As usual,

933"

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. “ Hongkong, 18th April, 1905.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

MONDAY,

the lat May, 1905, AT LE AM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dos Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street,

350 Kegs WHITE LEAD,

་

300 Kegs ASSORTED PAINT";

5 Bales SCARLET BLANKETS,

5 Cases INDIA-RUBBER SHOES,

&C., &c. 1 ALSO

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF ENAMELLED WARE GOODS. Terme :~As Usunt.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneeri. Hoogkong, 17th April, 1903,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

1516

THE IMPROVEMENT OF INDIAN to careful farmers on easy terms. If thin

·COTTONA

PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of boons and caiton corners.

the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be

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method is steadily applied to successive generation of plants, the effect must be to Improve the coltan, for only the best seed in deal with The British Cotton Growing Association, which is composed of practical. commercial mes, is intimately interested in tha problem, and, as is generally known, a silento has been formed under the auspices of Maars, Shaw, Wallace, and Co. of Cal. culta, for the production of longitapled cotton suitable for Lancashire mills. Burma offers not the least satisfactory field for conducting this important experiment—Rangoon Times.

THE GORDON-BENNET

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Entimations.

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB

NOTICE.

GENERAL THE HALF-YEARLY

MEETING or MEMBERS will be held in the CITY HALL, TO-MORROW, the 29th April, 1905, at 3.30 P.M.

By Order,

T. F. HOUGH,

Clerk of the Coure.

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Hongkong, 18th April, 1905.

THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

FINAL NOTICE.

ALL SHAREHOLDERS who were entitled and who have not applied for such must apply immediately...

to a proportion of the NEW ISSUE

Interest, will be charged at the rate of Twelve per cent. per annum on $10, the amount pay. able in respect of each Share from the grot day' of March, 1905.

No Application will be received after the 31st day of May next.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co„ General Managers Hongkong, 16th April, 1905.

A

THE YANGTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, ́LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

[$14

DIVIDEND at the Rate of Twenty-five par Cent, being Fifteen Dollars per Share, on the Paid-up Capital of the above Association, bas been declared payable in Taels at Exchange 73 at the Chartered Bank of India Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai, on Australia and China the Hongkong and and after this date to Shareholders of record on the tst April, 190§.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

W. S. JACKSON,

Secretary,

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The full text of the speeches delivered to the Viceroy's Council during the discussion of the Financial Statement for 1905-06 is now before us. Sir Densil Ibbetson's remarks on the que tion of improving Indian cotton make very ipë teresting reading. It is the practice to talk and write gilbiy of long and short stapled cotton and to atter that if lodia were to produce cotton of longer and finer staple than the shortel and coarser staple now grown, she could easily compete with the products of America and Egypt, and would probably be able to supply the Lancashire looms with all their require ments. Sir Deuxil Ibbetson pointed out, how.

MOTOR CUP. ever that the problem is more complicated than would appear to be generally belinyed, Representatives of eight European automobila The Lancashire manufacturer demands a long || club and ons Américan discussed preliminaries staple, while the Indian cultivator desires a pay for the races for the Godon-Bennett Cup and ing crop, Indian cultivators, therefore, delibe the Grand Prix of the French Automobile Club, rately substitute shorter and coarser for longer three weeks ago, when they met in Paris to and finer stopled cotton, since the former consider the amalgamation of the International plant is more hardy than the latier, and less Cup race with a new Grand Prix to be founded ́liable to injury from drought or excessivo rain by itself. The French-delegates explained or insects; it can be planted later, so that the seasons which bad caused their, Club to a late monsoon, can be awaited; it ripens decide upon a new race, It was designed, earlier, so that nothing is to be feared from they said, to satisfy the strong current of Trost ; and if the produce fetches a lower price feeling which had manifested itself among por pound, the yield is 19, much larger as, to members of the Club and among French more than make up the difference, while manufacturers. The foreign delegates, at the markets close at hand are ready to absorb the same time, made known their opinions or the whole production. Lancashire manufacturers instructions they had received. This was themselves take large quanthies every year before luncheon. The situation was that the of India's much belied short-stapled and French delegates found themselves presented inferior fibre. They get it cheaper than they with an ultimatum, wherein all the foreign could procure it from any other source, and not Clubs represented decided to abstain from unnaturally they would alup like to get at a rating if the Gordon-Bennet Cup and the cheap rate from India the longer and finer Grand Prix were run upon the same day. The stapled cotton suitable for the finer classes of French representatives pointed out that their manufacture. They want to be independent Club could pot and would not go back on its both of America and Egypt, and of cotton decisions. Other automobilists were as firm Bat the day has and the Frenchmen held a secret meeting and, passed when Lancashire occupied such a after a further representation from the for held on MONDAY, the 1st day of May, 1905, at 3 PAL, at the Offices of the Public powerful political position in the United King-elguera, the French Club gave way. It was Works Department, by Order of His Excellency dom that its manufacturers could manipulate then arranged that the race for the Gordon. the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND industrial and commercial question of Im Bennett Cup and the race for the Grand Prix at Causeway Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong.perial interest to suit their own local ends. should be two separate events. No dates for for a term of 75 years, with the option of re-

The old saying, that what Lancashire thinks the two races were fixed, but it was agreed newal at a CROWN RE*T 10 be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one to-day England will think to-morrow, has that a fortnight's interval should take place be- lost its significance, and it is encouraging twees them, the Gordon Bennett Cup being to see that the lodian Government is pre decided first. It was also agreed that in so pared to act quite independently in the far as the expenses for the Garden-Bennett matter of improving Indian cotton, and Cup race were concerned, they should be that the interests of the Indian cultivator shared by all the foreign clubs with the are not to be subordinated to the needs French Club, Both parties expressed them.. of the Lancashire manufacturer. The pro- selves satisfied, and a general feeling of blem is largely a commercial one. If the magnanimity seems to have prevailed. The TAKE NOTICE that under No. 5 of the Indian husbandman can produce a cotton representatives decided that from next year

DOMESTIC CLEANLINESS and which will pay him better than the one he now the Gordon Bennett Cup race shall be trans VENTILATION BYE-LAWS (as amended), grows, he will adop! it fast enough; and if the formed into on open race, in which the convery Domestic Building or part of such Build- new produce is a the same time better suited testing nations shall be represented in propor- or VICTORIA and the WESTERN DIVISION of ing within the CENTRAL DIVISION of the CITY tindustrial needs than the present one, so tion to the importance of their industry. The KAU-LUNG occupied by members of more much the better for everybody. But the prices method of fixing this representation was, how. than one family must be Cleansed and Lime- upon which the comparison is based must be aver, left in abeyance. It was decided that washed THROUGHOUT by the owner average ones, which can be depended upon the French Automobile Club shall organise

during the mouths of March and April. with some certainty from year to year; and the three races on the Auvergne circuit, namely, overnment would be incurring a grave re the Gordon Bennett eliminating race, the sponsibility if they applied an artificial stimulus Gordon-Bennett race proper and the Grand to the cultivation of long-stapled cotton on the Prix; in the improbable circumstance of the basis of prices which are probably accidental Government refusing to authorise an addi. At any time India may be left with a crop of tical race, the Gordon Bennett Cup race to cotton on her hands, long and fine as the be run in Belgium. Finally, in view of the staple may be, if its price has beer artificially petitions which have been circulated, and par stimula ed, for it is very certain that Lancashireticularly of that one by which certain French will buy no cotton from her which she can get makers declared they would not run their cars cheaper elsewhere. But this does not mean that no attempt ought to be made to improve Cup were separated, as has now been done, If the Grand Prix and the Gordon Bennett Indian cotton, or to grow long-stapled and the French Automobile Club will, it is declared, superior fibre. 10, long as the improve-acting on its own authority and in accordance ments are carried out on strictly com mercial lines. The problem of impro ving Indian cotton is not a new ona India has been exporting cotton for the use of the Lancashire mills for over a hundred years, and during that period the question of improv [55 ing the staple frequently arose. The latest special attempt to solve the problem was made during the cotton famine which followed upon- the American Civil War. But the failure to arrive at any satisfactory results is now believ ed to be due to the problem not having been attacked from the right direction. The experi

further term of 7. years,

NA of Sale.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

LOCALITY,

Registry No.

Causeway Bay

Bosedury Binauraments.

122200

Hongkong, 22nd April, 1905.

Square feet

Annual Rent.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"Upset Price.

105,000

503

THE Undersigned have received instructions THE

.to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

SATURDAY,

the 6th May, 1905, at 2.30 PM, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street,

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF CHINESE CURIOS,

Comprising -

PEKIN CLOISONNE VASES and WALL PLATES, BRONZE and BRASS VASES and INCENSE BURNERS, SILK-EMBROID

·ERED TEMPLE on PALACE HANGINGS, SANG DE BOEUF VASES, SNUFF BOT. TLES, BLACKWOOD SCREENS, &c, &c.

Catalogues will be issued.

· TERMS As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, 27th April, 1903.

Notice of Firm.

NOTICE..

HE Bualness of Dressmaking Millinery Thitherio carried on under and name by FLINT & CO. will, from the 1st proximo, be carried on in the name of, and styled MADAME JAY'S MILLINERY and DRESS MAKING PARLORS, No. 4. Des Vaux Read, under the same proprietorship.

Hongkong, 26th April, 1905.

Intimations.

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THE WISE MAN

BUYS A "SINGER"; IT'S TRUE ECONOMY.

JYEARS' GUARANTEE

FAKE INSTRUCTION}

'Easy Payments.

:

# “It's something you nted.

SHOW-ROOMS:-1, WYNDHAM STREET, „Hongkong, 25th March, 1905,

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EMPLOVE de commerce, Age de 30 ans,

de nationalité Suisse, ayant déja occupé, d'importantes fonctions dans de grosses maisons cognaimant à fond de comptabilité en partie double, parlant couramment la Français, PAI. temand, Je Hollandais, italien et Anglais désirerait une situation dans l'une des villes de la côte de Chica

Shanghai, rath April, 1905.

*

Intimations.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD., PIANO AND ORGAN MANUFACTURERS.

14, QUEEN'S ROAD, FIRST FLOOR.

LTAVE just received a shipment of second

HA

1. hand Planos from $200 upwards, and a written guarantee for a test period of TWO

Years given för each Instrumentos Y A

^^A large consignment of recorde at the low figure at $1.80 each, $"), on wholesale orders.

The largest and most varied Stock of Music in China. Inspection solicited. Our work men are experienced men.

WE DEFY COMPETITION, INSPECTION INVITED. Hongkong, 14th March, 1905,

TSHAR

THE KANGUS MAD

HARP LITTLE SMAVER

WEIGHT LESS than JohnCE

1363

Razor

THIS: DWARF RAZOR Kas superseded THIS

the old fashioned clumsy Razor and by i use Shaving becomes a pleasure. It is manufactured in Shefeld, England, from a spacial amalgam of steal which makes imita« tion impossible, and in consequence it enjoys the largest sale of any Razor in the World. Thousands of Testimonials testify that the little "MAB is the finest shaving Implement ever produced. A

Will be mailed to any address on receipt of the price (88), post free.

WATKINI, LIMITED, and all first-class stora

To be obtained from THE MUTUAL STORES,

in the Colony.

Sole Agents for Far East, HOWARD & Co., 29. Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong. Agents wanted in every port.

For particulars and terms, apply to-

HOWARD & Co.

Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.

ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. Marshall and

Elvy's

Satinette

SANITARY BOARD OFFICE,

Hongkong,

TO THE OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS.

notice means, that the Hauses should be Lime- N.H.-The word "Throughout" used in this washed in respect of all the Walls of each Room and Staircase, all Cubicle Partitions, Stair Undersides of Roofs both in Male Buildings, Casings and Stair Linings, all Ceilings and the Offices and Servants' Quarters and inclusive

of Verandahs.

The Back Yard should have its containing door. Walls Limewashed up to the level of the first

good condition, however, need not be Lime. Carved, Painted or Polished Woodwork in

washed but must be Cleansed.

Gilman Street and Pest Street on the East and The Central Division of the City Res between Tank Lane and Cleverley Street on the West. Kau-lung is divided into the Eastern and the France in the Gordon Bennett Cup race, with the rules, nominate three cars to represent Western Divisions by Robinson Road and a straight line drawn from the north end thereof Whether the French makers will accept and northern boundary of Kau-lung,

through the Yau-ma-ti service reservoir to the comply with their decipions remains to be seen, but there is reason to hope that they will,

G. N. ORME, Secretary. Dated this 31st day of March, rong

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S IXCHANGE

Selling:

London-Bank T.T. Do, Jemand Do. 4 months' right

America-Bank T,T, Germany-Bank T T India T.T...

Do, demand!

ments were directed mainly to the introduction France-Bank

exotic varieties, and were founded on no basis of scientific knowledge,, and-failed to effect any general or lasting improvement. The experiments were useful, however, because Shanghai-Bank 1.7 they proved that for the most part foreiga cot-Japan-Bank T.T.. tons are unsuited to and undergo rapid de lava-Bank T.T... terioration under Indian, conditions, and that

4inonths' sight L

we cannot hope to compete with the pro-months' sight L/C ducts of America and Egypt simply by import

seed from those countries and distributing it broadcast among our cultivators. The best hope of success lies in the Im provement of the indigenous types up on lines indicated by modern science. India the oldest coton-producing country in the world. From time immemorial the cotion | plant has been grown here and its fibre masu- factured by the patives, India was pace famous for the exquisitely fas textures of its cloths, produced from Indigenous cotton and by native-band looms. There ought to be ne difficulty in this scientific age of improving the indigneous types of cotton up to the standard of the best Sea Island cotton for which America is famous. It is in this direction that the Agricultural Departments are chledy work. ing to-day. Experiments in plant-selection and cross-breeding are now being carried on in various parts of India. The work is still in the botanical survey of Indian cottons, which actively in progress and which will serve as the scientific basis on which practical experiment must rest, has not as yet been completed. The establishment of improved varietion of cotton must be a work of time and when they have been established &

Fict

10 5 36 1/10 7/16

1.00 391

391

911

.../10 11/16

jo days' sight San Francken & New York 451 46 1/21 months' sight

dr.

30 days' sight Sydnee and Wellworm..tn 3 16d.

months sight Francs 6 months! sight

ם

months' sight Germany mon Bar Silver Bank of England rate

.76 3/16

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OPIUM QUOTATIONS. To-day's quotationi are as follows

Per plcul Malwa Now

@ 1,150

..........1,300/1,250 1,300/1,350 Pei che t

New

·Plenarms New syndanna

.... 1,170 . 1.140

Pelan Paper 780/10

Trà bonnes iéférences-Appointements: de the region, of investigation' and enquiry, and USSELL'S PURE

$6,000 dollars per an.. Ecrire aux faitiates LiVan journal "1'Opisloa" de Saigon,

Saigon, in a Mars, 1905.

A FOOK & Co

19, Pattinger. Street, Cepital,

GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, SHIP CHANDLERS "AND COMPRADORES, COAL MERCHANTS

FLAND STEVEDORES OF BIKTY.

YZARE STANDING, E

THE REAL THING AT LAST.

RICH THICK J. CREAM- which, by the bye, is always. known by the "GOLDEN BUTTERFLY" on the tin, keeps excellently anywhere and everywhere. When opened, it is as fresh and sweet as though it had just been skimmed from the freshest dairy milk,

those who have had it,

· Nothing but praise has been received from

NO PRESERVATIVE OF ANY KIND is Used.

TRIS-IS ABSOLUTELY QUARANTEED,

be necessary to start seed farms on a con- siderable scale to act as distributing centres, Without waiting for this, however, the Govern Fulier particulars, prices, booklets - and most have endeavoured to affect some im.amples os application,

* SOLE AGENT J

Wm. POWELL, Ld. A Ballast supply from alongside at the provement ap less ideal, but less dilatory

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 37th April, 1908.

LL kinds of Provisions, Coal, Water and

abortest notice and with all possible dispatchi

(Moderate terms,

Orderi solicite. {35 | Hongkong, 53rd February, 190gi

lines. Taking the local cotton crops as they stand, the Local Governments are collecting the produce of selected fields or plants, having

· fós his ginnad separately, and distributing she stad

"H: RUTTONJEE,

· 57 D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong) 37, Elgin Road, Komloon, Hongkong, 19th April, 1905. -

IMPORTERS:

LÜTGKES, EINSTMANN & CO.

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CIGARS.

FINEST HAMBURG MADE

ROLAND VON HAMBURG

AT

$4.00 per hundred.

FLOR DE MONDEGO

AT

$5.50 per hundred.

Sold in

AIR-TIGHT TINS

AT

TUNG CHỐNG WO,

98,. Quenn's Road Central,

Opposite Central Markeļ, *Hongkong, 25th January, 1905.

CAFE WEISMANN,

LŪTGENS,

EINSTMANN & CO., IMPORTERA.

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THE Public are invited to pay a visit to THE

TIFFIN ROOMS,

Our BOW

The only place of its kind in Hongkong,

A VERITABLE FAIRY LAND.

U

REAL GERMAN FASS BEER ON DRAUGHT,

Entrance

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HIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortest

potice, and with all possible despatch. Prices Moderats, Telephone No, jaj.. Hongkong, 1st October, 1904

DOUBLY DISTILLED

AND OF

MATURED AGE.

TO BE GUTAINED FROM-

THE MUTUAL STORES, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 11th May, 1904.

153

THE WINE GROWERS

SUPPLY CO.

MARK

BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkong.

GUINNESS'S STOUT.

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"

is the Finest Bottling of Guinness's Stout,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

STOUT"

is the very Finest Stout brewed by Mesura, A. Guinness, Son & Co., Dublin,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT"

-

is not medicated nor chemicalized.

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT" Consumers wishing to drink perfectly pure Stout of the very finest quality should

drink Pig Brand Stout

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND

* STOUT"

Fig Brand Stout is better bottled, batter packed, and has stranger packages than its rivals,

"THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND STOUT? Pig Brand Stout gently assists digestion. "THE CELEBRATED PIG BRAND 'STOUT."

Pig Brand Stout is a food as well as aŭdrink,

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LA STOUTE Pig Brand Stout has been calebrated for thirty years in the leading Colonial and Foreign-Marketa.

"THE CELEBRATED FIG BRAND

STOUT

Pig Brand Stont is only slightly higher in price than other battlings of Guinness's/

Per cask of 8 dozen 'prints $24,00!.

quarts $19.00

BARRETTO & Co-

Not, 23 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Cantral

-Hang-ong, 16th March, 1941