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Intimation.

WM. POWELL,

LIMITED.

GENTLEMEN'S

DEPARTMENT,

28, Queen's Road.

(OPPOSITE THE CLOCK TOWER.)

NEW SPRING GOODS.

QUALITY

FINEST

COLOURED

ZEPHYR

SILK

SHIRTS.

AND

CASHMERE

SHIRTS.

SHIRTS.

CELLULAR

THIN

UNDERWEAR

AND.

HALF-HOSE.

NECKWEAR

LIGHT

PITH

AND

CORK

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1905.

Intimations.

THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARK.

OTICE is hereby given that BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, LIMITED, No

Registered Office, Cecil Chambers, 86, Strand, London, England; Tobacco Manufer. turers, has on the 9th day of February, 1905, applied for the Registration, in Hongkong, in the REGISTER OF TRADE MARKS, of the following Trade Mark:-

THE

CARRICK

- LASHERWANYILLIK.

in the name of BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, LIMITED, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof,

The Trade Mark has been a ed by the aplicants in respect of the following description of goods in Cinas 451-*

MANUFACTURED TOBACCO.

Dated the 3rd day ‹ f April, 1905, ^..

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N°

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

Solicitors for the Applicants.

THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1898.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRAtion of Trade Mark.

【OTICE is hereby given that the AMSTERDAMSCHE' 'LIKEURSTOKERY T LOOTSJE DERERVEN LUCAS BOLS OF DISTILLERY 'T LOOTSJE, Amsterdam, Holland, Distillers, have on the 17th day of November, 1904, applied for the Registration, in Hongkon,, in the REGISTER OF TRADE MARKS, of the following Tide

Yark -

· Pansion 'y Loerasz.

van de Karku kucus Bois. ZEER OUDE QENSYER.

ROLS ZEER OUDE GENEVER

Our fine adressegrously, Anand all over the weed sines

its fondation A*, 1879, hom had ja vußfar Erans dalgaya

(and imization, sad in arise to prevent the sad ("Alpunnies artin

sis, we huroky give asides that, bendri

•Pakaian 'rkosras", silam, hatties

BOLS

Bols

kontormity with #rinting international iowank

all parsons guilty of farting uz nekeseking

AMSTERDAM 1 16avory 387)

DE ERVEM

LBOLS

ÉRVEN LUCAS BOLS

HET LOOTSJE

AMSTERDAM

in the name of AMSTERDAMSCHE LIKEURSTOKERY 'T LOOTSJE DER ERVEN LUCAS BOLS, who claim to be the sole proprietors thereof.

The Trade Mark has been used by the applicants da respect of GIN and LIQUERS

in Class 43

The word "Geneor" is in use varied by the substitution of the word "Liquers" when applied to Lique.rs.

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Dated the 4th day of April, 1905.

BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN AGENCY,

LIMITED.

BRANCH REGISTER OF MEMBERS

A of this Company on the EASTERN REGISTER has this day heen established under The Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1883 and will be kept at the Office of the Undersigned who are duly authorised to exer cite all the powers of the Directors of the Com pany in relation to transfer of Shares entered In such branch regines.

Duted this First day of May, 1905.

5241

A

BRADLEY & Co.

THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

FINAL NOTICE.

LL SHAREHOLDERS who were entitled

10 a proportion of the NEW ISSUE

and whis have not apßlied for such must apply.

mi.ediately.

In rest will be charged at the rate of Twolve per cent, pernonum on $10, the amount pay. able in respect of each Share from the 31st day af Mirch, 1995.

Ne Application will he received after the

31st day of May next.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Col

Gencial Managers.

Hongkong, 26th April, 1905.-

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SHOW-ROOMS:-1, WYNDHAM STREET. Hongkong, 15th March, 1905,

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Ede nationalité Suisse, nyant déja occupé,

MPLOYE de commerce, igé de 29 ans,

d'impariantes fonctions dansde grosses maisons, connaissant à fond de comptabilité en partie double, parlant couramment le Français, PAI- lemond, le Hollandais, l'italien et l'Anglais. désiserait une situation dans l'àne des villes de la côte de Chine.

Très bonnes références-Appointements: de 5 a 6,000 dollars per an Ecrire aux initiales L.V. au journal "POpinion" de Saigon.

Saigon, le a Mars, 1905..

HELMETS. TUBORG BEER.

LIGHT-WEIGHT

BUCKSKIN BOOTS.

&c., &c., &c.

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... FIRST Claus, PILSENER BEER guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid, and any other Chemicals.

or 6 dos pints.

•

PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 bottles (quants)

Special Prices for Quantities.

Sale Agents

SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, foth January, 1991.

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LEVY HERMANOS. DIAM

JEWEL

IAMOND MERCHANTS,

LERS AND WATCHMAKERS.

BASTMAN'S

Fo

WILKINSON & GRIST,

Solicitors for the Applicants.

WANTED.

COR a GERMAN GENTLEMAN in English Family Board and Residence,

Apply to-

"A: S," Clo Hongkong Telegraph. Hongkong, 29th April, 1905.

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LÜTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., IMPORTERS.

CIGARS.

FINEST HAMBURG MADE

ROLAND VON HAMBURG

AT

$4.00 per hundred.

FLOR DE MONDEGO

AT

$5.50 per hundred. ›.

Sold in

AIR-TIGHT TINE

AT

TÚNG CHONG WO,

98, Queen's Road Central,

Opposite Central Markti.

Hongkong, 25th January, 1905,

CAFE WEISMANN,

LOTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO., IMPORTERS.

- RUSSIA'S DEBT TO FRANCE. The fall in the price of Russiais securities; |

notwithstanding all the olaborare precautions, COLOSSAL LOUBERS OF THE FRENCH INVESTORS. | has been such as to strain severely the edifice of French credit. On the eve of war, on January 29th, 1904, the price of bussian featur per cents, was 47-98, having fallen slow-

The decision of the French financiers to re: fuas Russia à further loan marks the beginning

of the end of the great drama in the Far Eastly to that figure from 103, at which it stood The announcement which the Daily Mail in 1903. It was yesterday 877-88, having de made yesterday follows directly upon the Tsar's clined to points in a year, or 15 points since avowal of his determination to continue the war became inimicant. Thus, banks and in war at all cost, and to despatch a fresh army of vestors who took the bonds at 97 100 have 420,000, men to Manchuria. It in France's find but polite reminder to the Monarch that such 'course, even if it were possible, were simple inadness; that Russia is beaten; and that her Fown truest friends think it to her best interest

that the should acknowledge the fact.

understood that sooner or later France would From the beginning of the war is has been have to call a bait to Russian expenditure, and that when France called that, balt, Russia would have two alternatives-repudiation or peace at any price. Repudiation would mean the collapse of Russia as a Great Power and her fall to a position such as Spain held in the seventeenth century. Peace at any price, therefore, remains the only real alternative, unless the autocracy is seired with madness.. "FULL UT."

The French refusal to take up any mora Russian loans is not dictated by

лny unfriendliness, but by the simple fact that the French public are as "Full up with Russian paper' as our own British 'pub'id' with South African, so that their diges live powers have been impaired. The most trustworthy figures for French investment in

·Ruisia are those published by the official "Bulletin de Statistique du Ministers des Finances" in France in October, 140, which gave the following as the various items:-

French investments in Russia:

Commercial houses £1,960,oco Lands ........... Dup 680,000

Banking and assurance ... 770,000 Mining and industrial...... 31,680,oco State and municipal loans 143,603,000

Total.....278,640,060.

The total Russian debt was at the end of 904 about £750,000,000.

Thus is 1902 French investors had capital to

already sustained a very heavy loss, totalling nothing to what they may suffee if this war sonie £40,000,000 or £50,010,000. But it is

continues.

The most serious malter from the Rusi" sian standpoint is the continued and con- curites, which current rise in the price of Japanese 'se Japanese credit. For with Japan, where means in the value of

bands are mainly held in England, Exec by the opposite has occurred. Japanese four per cents, wore 75 on the eve of war, and fell to 67 in Feb, 1924. Since that date, they have steadily risen till yesterday, when they stood at 86-87, having advanced so points while, kus sians have fallen 10; add all this without any

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Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

“HE Undersigned have received instructions

to call by

PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-MORROW,

the 6th May, 1905, at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, corner of Ice House Street, A LAROE ASSORTMENT, OF CHINESE CURIOS,

· Comprising M PEKIN CLOISONNE VASES and WALL PLATES; BRONZE and BRASS VASES and

INCENSE BURNERS, SILK-EMBROID- TLES, BLACKWOOD SCREENS, &c., &c. REDTEMPLE and PALACE HANGINGS, SANG-DE-BEUF VASES, SNUFF BOT-

Catalogues will be issued.. TERMS:As usual

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers,

Hongkong, jih May, 1995,

Intimations.

FURNITURE WAREHOUSE,

Isrs.

artificial restrictions, on their merits alone. It was the one hope of Russia that shẹ might be able to outlast Japan financially. fit these figures show that the hope is not destined LI KWONG LOONG,

be realised.

Meantime we hy well condole with the French people, who have been led by the ignotante of their Press on the subject of Russin und Japan to bark the loser, while Britain,..bly served by her newspapers, has bicked the winner-Duily' Mail.

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the amount of a little under £300,000,000 sier ling placed in various Russian securities. Sub 'sequent investments up to the eve of war may this is the very outside figure, and in May 1904, have accounted for another £50,000,000, though

during the war, the Russian Goverment float-nths' sight a ed a loan in France for £33,000,coo, bring the total Russian indebtedness to France at the present time up to about £382,000,000. This is an enormous sum, and Frenchmen may well feel aqxious about further increasing their risk and throwing more good money after what may quite conceivably prove to be a bad debt.

THE OTHER FRIEND. The growing uneasiness in France at the financial position of Russia was shown in the late autumn of last year, when, even before the fall of Port Arthur French financiers displayed

dr...

Messrs. A. 5. Watson & Co., Ltd. 'write as follows:

"We have plenaure in stating that Mr. LI RWONG LOONG fornished the Annexe to

our Dispensary and gave us every satisfac- tion."

(Sd) A. S. WATSON & Co., Ld. ORDERS punctually attended 10, and

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cays' sight Sydney and Melbourne....../to 4mouths sight Francs ...............2:371 6 months' sight

months' night Germany....... fur Silver ........anima Bank of England '

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1,380

Per chest

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Intimations.

sum of £15,000,000 was accordingly raised Paina New by Russia in Germany on very onerous terme. Practically the German ring of financièrs which ¦ Pesian ‹ Poperi undertook the business, under pressure from the Kaiser stipulated that every penny of the money-lent was to be spent in Germany on new warships and munitions of war. It has even been suggested by level-headed business men that the loan was it'e more than a "put up job" between the Russian and Griman Governments; enabling the latter to have a large number of warships built rapidly and secretly, so that they could be acquired by Germany in case of any emergency arising or of its being inconvenient for Russis to take delivery,

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the ald fashioned clumsy Razor and by its use Shaving becomes a pleasure. It is manufactured in Sheffield, England, from a Inspired paragraphs reprefented the German special amalgam of steel which makes imila. loan as having been very eagerly covered by ion inpossible, and in consequence it enjoys the public, but there is rea on to doubt whether the largest sale of any Razor in the World. Thousands of Testimonials testify that the these paragraphs had any real foundation. Battle "MAB is the finest shaving implement

་ after the loan had been arranged two events ever produced. happened-Port Arthur fell and serious internal disturbances began in ussia.

The French were alarmed by the disturbance, [176 even more than by the Russian defeats, since they know the history of their own revolution, and it was only due to the extraordinary precautions taken by the French banks to prevent the sale of Russian bond that HE Public are invited to pay a visit to there was not a pacic on THE

the Paris Bourre in January, The precautions are of a remarkable pature. No one may sell a "bear" of Kussian stocks; the seller must

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THE HONGKONG STUDIO

Will be mailed to any address 'on receipt of the price (82), post free.

To be obtained from THE MUTUAL STORES,

WATKINS, LIMITED, and all first-class stores in the Colony,

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

For particulars and terms, apply to➡

HOWARD & Co.

Hongkong, 24th November, 1904.

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give the number of the bonds before his ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. order is executed This prevents all specula Marshall and tive dealing, and it is the great function of apeculation to render the rise or fall in price of a security gradual-to prevent sudden breaks in price or sudden rises. This it does by an ticipating the future. If too many people sall bonds speculatively, what is known as a "bear [46 equeeze" may happen, and the "bears" Le"

forced to "cover"-le, procure the sucurities which they have sold at bigh prices. The re- sult is that the existence of "bears" sleadies the market.

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Now in France not only are there no "beara'

in Russian securities, but also the ordinary seller, who does own the stock, finds it hard to

DOUBLY DISTÍLLED ·

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sell. He or she is warned by his or her book TO BE OBTAINED FROM— through which the business is often done, that it is very unwise to sell; the best thing is to hald, as Russians will come right in tims The great head of the Credit Lyonnais, M. Germain, who died only a few weeks ago, was one of those responsible for these proceedings. When clients insisted on selling, it is believed that in no small number of instances the French banks took up and purchased their stock.

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

The situation, then, before the battle of Mukden was this: That most French inves tors were uneasy, that there was no specula- tive market to keep prices up, and that the banks werd loaded with Russian paper, which had 'depreciated. These are the conditions which are favourable to panic, and if thers hai been no panic it has been due to the immense financial strength of the Bank of France

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Ilongkong, 23rd February, 1905,

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