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Telegrams.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAFH'

SERVICE

MACAO'S DELIMITATION.

CHINESE COMMISSIONER'S:

MEMORIAL.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 10th August. In a memorial to the Central Gov- ernment, E. Kuo Erh Ch'ion, Special Commissioner for the delimi- tation of the boundaries of Macao,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY

YOKOHAMA ENGINEERING “

AND IRON WORKS,

NO DIVIDEND DECLARED,

The 120d avoual general meeting of the Yokohama Engineering and Iron works, Ld,, was held at 4 p.m. oo Thursday at the office of

RADB.

A REALLY GOLD, MINE.

The only lode mins now being worked in

AUGUST 11, 1909.

To-day's Advertisement.

To-day's Advertisements.

the Federated Malay States in that belonging CANTON KOWLOON NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIAN

to the Raub Australian Gold Mining Company. The following shows the figures of the tons crushed and gold obtalued at the Raub Aur

IMPERIAL CHINESE SECTION.

(Florio and Rubattino. United Companies). STEAM FOR BOMBAY VIA SINGAPORE AND PENANG,

the Co. 15, Creekside, Yok ham, when Mr,tralian Gold Mine in Pahang during the year: Lolo (Sam Chun) of 3,200 fongs (100 Having connection with Company's Mail |

B. C. Howard presided. We learn from the Japan Mail that the chairman, in submitting the report and accounts to the meeting: said in part:-Since the reorganisation of the company we have expended tv1. May,

this year on buildings, plaat and machinery a total sum of V140,273-77 and have written off during the same period Y49,495 27 for depreciation. The works are bow

Tone crushed.

Ounces.

1908 77,457 | 1977... 70,521

14.653

12,864 1,789

Increase... 6,436

The past depressing cutlook for the mine has now changed for the better under energe. tic management. The once despised Bakit Komau lede is gradually improving as it is

developed. No sinking was done on this lode

below the 540 feet level, and further explicita-

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TO BALLAST CONTRACTORS. ENDERS are invited for the supply at

English c. ft each fong) of Rubble Stone and of 3,200 longs of Broken Stone under the following conditions and specification.

QUALITY OF STONE—To be hard, and clean. Sample to be submitted with teader. No stone will be paid for not strictly to sample. RUBBLE-No piece.to exceed to in x

10 in.

BROKEN STONE-To pass through; 2) in, ring.

CONTRACT-To be completed within six months of signing..

completed, and as there will be so further outlay for buildings or equipment, we hope we reports that several conferences have may.at our next annual meeting prosent you Stope, once "condemned and closed down, han deposited in cash as security.

'with a more cheerful report than this. We have been held and that it would be difpw an up-to-date engineering and boilerworks plant and can accept work which a couple of ficult to arrive at a settlement of the years ago we could not touch. With reference question.

CHIHLI VICEROYALTY.

TUẤN FANG'S ARRIVAL [By courtesy of the "Sheung Fo.")

ROBBER.

The following interesting article is from `the London & Chiu's Expres of July '16 -

tion in depth will be awalted with interest.

developed well and justifed the sinking of a new shalt to be called Anderson's," and no beller compliment could be paid to that gentle man for the courage and pluck he has displayed _lo_Y75,000.standing-to-the-credit-of-reserve- -in-sticking-to-bis-opinico, against adverse re: Account, I think that it is as well to point out poris, that "The Rauba, it is know-it that this is not a cash reserve, but has been feally a gold mice.—Mr. Dykes' roport. written off from time to time, as a provision for the contingencies arising from the recon. struction of a great portion of the works. We propose to have our properly revalued. shortly, when this reserve will be dealt with as may be found necessary. You will bote from the accounts that our gross earnings H.E. Tuan Fang, Viceroy of Chili-ere about Yoojado less than they were li, arrived at Tientsin on the Och inst.lar year. This, however, is only to be xpect ed, jaking into consideration the depressed and forthwith took over the seals of condition of business generally, and until an improvement is this respect takes place, pro- his new office.

sent appearances indicate the work will Immediately thereafter E. Na continue light for some title time to come. Under, the present conditions the directors do Tung returned to Peking.

not consider it advisable to declare a dividend and I therefore have to recommend that the STUDENTS AND POLITICS,

report and accounts be passed, and the

: Peking, 10th August,

A WISE PROHIBITION.

[By courtesy of the "Shring Plu."]

الم

Peking, 10th August. The Ministry of Education has forbidden students from interfering in politics, and instructions have been despatched to directors of education in all provinces to notify all schools to that effect.

SECRET INQUIRY TO BE

"INSTITUTED, V90,

To those of our readers who have been fol- lowing the subject of rubber the present extra- ordinary phenomens, to be witnessed alike in the rubber market and the rubber share market, will not have come as a surprise. Many fore saw the almost certain recovery in the price of the raw material whed the disturbance caused by the American crisis in the autumn of 1907 had passed away, and were confident of the prospects of companies that ware planting in what is known as the Middle East; but few, we think, thought that it would reach the heights that have been attained, and that do not appear to have as yet reached their zenith. Plantation

DEPOSIT-30% of value of contract to be PLACE-Stops to be stacked within 50: ft. of river bank at Railway crossing, Lofu,

PAYMENT-To be monthly and by men surement.

CONTRACT FORM-To be the Railway himself to accept the lowest or any tender, standard. The undersigned does not bind

which should be delivered before August 31st, 1909.

FRANK GROVE,

Engineer-in-Chief,

Capton,

Hongkong, rith August, 1909.

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THE USAKA DISASTER,

TWENTY, THOUSAND HOUSES DESTROYED... The following details of the great fire 'at Osaka were published as an extra by the Japan Chronicle on August 1.

The fire which broke out early on Friday

morning in Osaka in a small house is the North Ward led to a buge conflagration whick. is appalling in its immensity. The magnitude of the disaster is such that it is impossible to form more than so approximate estimate of the

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Entimations.

THE

DAIRY FARM Co., LIMITED.

Steamers NAPLES, LEOHORN, and: ĠENOA, alto VENICE ADD TRIESTE, all MEDITER RANEAN, ADRIATIC, · LEVANTINE and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS up to CALLAO,

to PORT SAID MESSINA, Choice Australian

(Taking Cargo at through Rates to PERSIAN

and

GÜL and BAGDAD, also BARCELONA, VALENZA, ALICANTE, ALMERIA MALAGA.)

THE Steamship

" ISCHIA,"

Captain Belsito, will be despatched as above TÓ-MORROW, the 12th inst., at Noon.

For further Particulars, regarding Freight and Passage, apply to ".....

CARLOWITZ & Co,,:

Agents. Hongkong, lith August, 1909.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALCUTTA.

king Cargo on through Bills of Lading to

Rangoon, Madras and Mauritius, THE Steamship

"GREGORY APOAR,"

Capt. S. H. Belson, will be despatched for the above Ports of TUESDAY, the 171b instant, at 3 P.M. -

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & Co, LIMITED,

Agents. Rongkong, 11th August, 1909.

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES

MARITIMES.

FOR SHANGHAI, Kobe and УОКОНАМА,

"HK-

balance of Y 19,834 33 b carried forward 10 rubber has had nothing to do with the damage done, but from the following parti. Company's Steamship

next account. (Hear, hear),

The accounts showed that the net profit for the year (including the sum of. Y19 421,19 brought forward from 31st May, 1908), after payment of an interim dividend of Yio,500. In January last and providing for depreciation of buildings and machinery and payment of directors and auditors' fees, amounted to

records that are made almost daily in the price of the prime article; but produce ing companies, have profited by the quota. tions. The high prices are caused almost entirely by the great activity in trade in Amer ica, causing an actual short supply, much ia the same way as the Abnormally, low prices of eighteen months ago were brought about by

y39.814.31. which the directers recommended the then financial crisis. The price is healthy in should-be carried forward. They were unani so far that it has not been the outcome of mani mously adopted, Messrs, C. B. Bernard and C. pulation or corn sing of supplies or over-specu K. Marshall Martin were the two directors lation, it is genusde demand that has furced retiring by rotation but as they were eligible up prices to figures that seem likely to prevail for re-election they were proposed by Mr. for at all events the current year. Manufac Tresize, seconded by Mr. 'caling, and elected.turers, actualusers of the material, would scarce

· TIENTSIN-PUKOU RAILWAY. Mesars. W. D. S: Edwards and M. D. Carrie, ly-venture an contracts far ahead at high who have been acto as auditors almost since prices if they could see any chance of a pro the last meeting of the shareholders (ice F: table fall. Sume users may indeed be con Hall and N. Y. howler resigned), were re gratulating themselves that they were able to elected for the ensuing year on the proposal make contracts a few months ago extending in of the chairpiao, seconded by Mr. N. F. Smith, some cases, we bave been informed, into Prior to the closing at the meeting. Mr. L. the spring of 1911. The statistical position A Healing made a few remarks about the is most favourable to the grower; it mus! conditions. of the company and its future

indeed be so when such words as a "verit- plass. "There is no doubt," he said, "that able rubber famine," and prices much trade has been in a very depressed state and above the present rates are spoken of in that accounts for the fact that we are to have responsible quarters. The fact is that con-- do dividend for this half of the year. My Im sumption of rubber "at the moment is ahead of pression is that the future policy of the Com production, and this condition of things is like paay should be, to establish our work over a

· [By courtesy of the " Sheung Po"]

Peking, 10th August." Upon learning that malpractices obtain in a larger degree in con- nection with the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukou Railway than in the northern section, H.E. Hsu Shih-chang-president of the Ministry of Posts and Communica. tions, deputed an official to institute secret investigations into the matter.

ANTUNG MUKDEN

RAILWAY.

CENSORSHIP EXERCISED.

· [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po.”]

Peking, 10th August.

A decree has been issued prohi biting the newspapers from making references to affairs in the Three Eastern Provinces between Japan and China

It is reported that this action was prompted by a certain country.

A SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.

SHIPPING CLERK'S SUICIDE.

wide field, and I am convinced that we shall

thus be assured of satisfactory resuks." The Chairman responding, said that the directorate

would lose no opportunity in the interests of the Company and the shareholders might feel quite satisfied that they were being well re

presented.

ly to continue for some time, it is by no means unlikely that the sensational prices of The last few weeks may be exceeded, though

of course this sort of thing cannot go on for ever. At such prices, subber will only be used where absolutely nothing else is usable, whilst

in other directions substitutes for the time being, or a lessening manufacture, will be ro- softed to.A prolonged high price-must-check

RUBBER AND, TIN COMPANIES, | demand, though as far as plantation rubber is

MANAGERS' REPORTS ON MONTHLY

OUTPUTS.

*Messrs. F. M. Barker and Co. inform us that the output of dry rubber from the Nordanar Estate of the Singapore and Johore. Rubber Co., Ltd., for the month of July, was 4,900 lbs, making a total for the current year of 16,774

Ibs,

Messrs. F. W. Barker, and Co., the local agents for the Ledbury Rubber Estates, Ltd.,

inform us the manager reports the rubber crop

Messrs. F. W. Barker and Co., the local agents for the Lanadion Rubber Estates, Ltd., write to the effect that the manager reports the jobber crop baivested during the month of July was 30,219 lbs. dry. For the corresponding month of last year-it was 16,576 lbs. dry. The iatal for the first seven monibs of 1909 is 131,472 lbs. dry, and the total for the corresponding period last year was 93,485 ibs, dry.

concerned it is still a payable and paying pro position at less than half current rates,

It is feasible to look, oder existing cir cumstances, whether the high price, will stimu late production. Plantit os rubber takes five to six years to produce, and even some years beoce, say, about 19:3, will probably amount to, roughly, 30,000 tent. This must be taken as: forecast only. Allowing for normal increase in consumption, this would about make up for the required increase in production. Other sources of supply-West Africa,-ete-do not seem to increase, and there remains only Brazil, the home of Path, to consider. In 1908 it pro duced 38,000 tons out of a total production of

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above Ports on or about WEDNESDAY, the 18th Acguit.

RABBITS

75 cents each HARES

$1.50 each.

Hongkong, 17th July, 1909.

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culars it will be possible to form some ides of the immense damage wrought by the flames, Captain will be despatched for the LIGHT AND The fire burnt a path through the city at miles long, aud in places half a mile wide, beginning at the rear of thé Mint, and sading at Faku.

shima, on the south-west border of the city. About 20,000 houses have been destroyed, in cluding many official buildings, and the dam age is estimated to exceed Y20,000,000.

The report that the man in whosahousethe fire started bad committed suicide on sering what aoranful calamity it had led to is pufounded.

The loss of life in the fire was very small, at though no official figures are yet obtainable, A large number of Bremen and soldiers were injured in fighting the flames.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

·P, DE CHAMPMORIN, : Agent. Hongkong, 13th August, 1909.

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

to

CALOUTTA Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to Rangoon, Madras and Mauritius.

THE Steamship

"LIGHTNING," Captain A. E. Gentles, will be despatched for the above Parts on THURSDAY, the 19th

Fox Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVİD SASSOON & O., LIMITED,

Agents. Hongkong, 17th August, 1909.

The distress of the unfortunate people-instant, at 3 P.M. especially the poorer classes-is great, and the Osaka municipal authorities have taken, stops to distribute boiled rice to the refugees. To provide those in need of food with one meal about 15 busbols of rice are boiled,

PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED, Osaka Law Courts. Temria Post-office. Qimalsura Theatre. Oimatsu Shrine. North Ward Office, North Police Station. Ohatsu Tenjin Shrine, Kwaizei Hospital. Dojima Rice Exchange. Osaka Nipposha.

Ķitahama Bank (Dojima branch). Fukuiza Theatre.

...Japan Savings Bank (Dojima branch),

Higher Commercial School... Governor's official residence.

pojima Higher Elementary School for Girls (Rartially destroyed),

Goliyaku-rakan Temple.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

HE P. & O. S..N. Co.'s Steamer

"BORNEO."

THE

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FROM ANTWEPP, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel aim hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed of thair, risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours,

Goods not cleared by the 17th August, at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent í

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,

Damaged Packages--- must-ba- left* in tha Nippon Cotton Spinning Company's opera and the Company's--representative--at--an Godowns for examination by the Consignee's Lives' quarters.

Commercial Museum.

Four elementary schools.

LOSSES OF THE insurance ofFICES. The losses of the fire-insurance offices are öf

appointed hour...

All claims must be presented withlo ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which data they cannot be recognised.

No claims will be admitted after the goods

course not yel accurately ascertained, but the bave left the Godowns. total amount of property insured in the aren destroyed by the fire is roughly as follows:- Nippon Fire.......................................¥2,000,000

Toklo Fire

1,000,000 1,000,000

Melfi Fir................................. Yokohama Fire 700,000 Kyodo Firo.....

900,000 ¡600,000 +300,000

Osaka Fire

Total,

¥7,500,000

The loss of each company in estimated as follows:- Nippon Fits ......................... ¥1,300,000 Tokio Fire

1,000,000 700,000 300,000 400,000

Meiji Firo................. Yokohama Fire strammeskribat Kyodo Fire............ Kobe Marine and Fire ......... Osaka Fire

harvested during the month of July was 6,080 lbs dry. For the corresponding month of last year it was 1,795 lbs. dry. The toint for the 75,000 tons. It is gathered from the wild state. Kobe Marine.and Fire first seven months of 1959 is 30,610 lbs, dry, and, unlike the Middle East, you have not to and the total for the corresponding period last wait whilst the tree grows up from a seedling. Can that supply be increased? There is enough year was 13,110 lbs, dry,

money now in the article to finance it'ifit can be. As was pointed out by the chairman of a well; koowa company a few days ago, some people maintain that the present quotation of fine bald Para must stimulate production, "but those who are calculating on a large crop from Brazil are, think, forgetting the labour difficulties, and if, for instance, only the same amount of labour be obtainable as usual, the high range of prices som ruling may tend towards a small crop rather than a large ore, as the pickets will earn their money in a shorter time, and will probably collect leas rubber, and will remalo in the forests for a shorter time." We may indeed see some thing of the same phenomenon that has been witnessed in regard toția in the Malay Peninsula a few years ago. At a high rate the coolie was content to work shorter hours and consequently produce less tin, though his pay came out equal er better. Labour is Brazil may be similarly constituted, and thus high prices lead to loss, rather than increased, production, Ultimately it is certain that prices must come to a level

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A painful tragedy took place yesterday morn- ing on the south bank of the Soochow Creek -at-Jessfield, reports the N. C. D. Netus of 5th - inst. About 10.30 o'clock some coplies work- ing near the creek close to Ichang Read heard a shot fired and locking up they saw a foreign- er falling down on the bank. Another foreign-

The manager of the Balgownie Rubber er working in a mill some distance away Exteles, Ltd., reports that the rubber crop bar heard the shot and the Chinese draw his atten- vested during the month of June was 5.363 lbs., tion to the spot where they bad seen the man estimated, dry.. I or the corresponding month fall. Thé palice at Bubbling Well Station of last year it was 3,179 lbs., dry. The total for were informed and a doctor was, called but the first four months of the year 1959/10 is 14,691 the man had died from a bullet wound in the lbs,esumated, day, and the total for the cor. head near the right temple. A five-cham responding period last year was 11,136 lbs., dry. bee short revolver, calibre 32, was found Messrs. Guthrie and Co., as agents for the near the body. It was loaded in all five Linggi Plantations, Ltd, inform us that they chambers, but only one cartridge bad have received cable advice from the general been discharged. The Paosban Police kept manager of the plantations, that the total the body until the Water Police under amount of dry rubber barvested on the whole Inspector Mellows brought it into the Mor of the company's estates during the past tuary in Fearon Road Pipers on the demouth was 48,000 lbs, making the total for that will be a question of who can produce censed showed him to be Mr. A. Oppenheim- the seven months of this year 281,000 ibs, most ecocomically. It is generally acknow Gerard, a German subļact and chief shipping||The figures for the corresponding month of | clerk to the Standard Oil Co. Deceased was last year were 26,000 lbs. and for the corres- about thinly five years of age and he had been pending seven months 113,000 Its: The net in the employ of the Standard Oil Co., for revenus derived from tin mining on Kamun about; eight "years. Mr. Oppenheim-Gerarding Estate during last month was Spisco. had been much worried recently concerning The total quantity of tin: one exported by the grounding of the steamer Audion and also the tributors on the land of the Royal Johore About the outbreak of cholera. He was of a | Tin Mining Co. Ltd., dering the month of to satisfy all who have taken an interest in vary Bervous disposition. The German at July, was 133 bags, or 100 picnix-Straits rubber at fair prices in companies that are not thorities kärs besa noɑlfied,

Times

ore:-capitalized,

400,000 150,000- The Hakodate fire raged 21 hours and the houses destroyed numbered 12000. The pre- sent dro in Osaka reged for 25 hours and did considerably more damage, so that the loss of the insurance offices must be much larger.

The whole of the Osaka'Ammy`Division av wall as the reinforcements of Engineering com- panies from other centres, were occupieḍ la combating the flames. They were mostly ac- cupied in breaking down houses in the path of the fire. This was done by hand tooli, the suggestion of the military authorities, to use dynamite not being agreed to by the Governor of Cisks. The opinion was also ex pressed that if the Nishi-Tomma Primary School, an extensive building, in the rear of ledged that wild rubber costs 21 6d. to 38. par which a score of sakć godowns stood, had been to bring to market. At that figure plantation broken down before the flames had reached it, rubber can be sold 10 produce a handsome the further progress of the fire would have bean profit though.it may not then be possible to arrested. The Mayor of Osaka announced his maintain the high dividends declared for 1908; inability to give the desired permission. The or the sensational announcements to be made : fire reached the building, destroyed the sakd next year. But the returns should be sufficient godowns, as already reported, and thus gained an enormous impetas," This was early on Sa turday afternoon. The fire raged for fourteen hours after this and destroyed About six or seven times se much after this time as it had before.

́E, A. HEWETT,

Superintendent Hongkong, 11th August, 1900

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