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Telegrams.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE,

MACAO BOUNDARY QUESTION.

CHINESE COMMISSIONE'S REPORT.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pb."]",

Peking, 19th January, H.E. Kao Erh Chien, the Impe- rial Chinese Delimitation Commia- sioner, allowed several days to elapse after his return to Peking, without presenting his report on the subject of the delimitation of the boundaries of Macao.

The Commissioner was several

times urged by the Waiwupu to do

BO.

HLE. Kao's report was only sub. mitted yesterday.

SALI SUPERVISION.

CONTROL TO BE EXERCISED.

By courtesy of the “ Shyung Po."}

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 20 1910

A SHANGHAI BOOM.

RAPID RISH IN DOCK AND ENGINEERING.CO/S SHARES:"

In local business circles a good deal of com within the past few days by the sudden, hard

sudden, sharp rise that has taken place in the market price of Shangbal Dock and Engineering Co's shards. This development is all the more remarkable by reason of the fact that the stock has been so long quiescent. Only on Saturday last did a slight inquiry become apparent. Yesterday, however, the market price made a sudden leap from Tis, 74 to TIs, 80 and the demard con. tinues fim.

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This phenomenal development has led to interchange of telegraphic messages between certain local brokers and their Bhanghai agents From one authoritative source we learn that with a view to an ascertainment of its cause the reply to inquiries bad elicited no more than that the site was due only to improved business having been dose by the Dock and Engineering Company and that no factor out of the ordinary had influenced the marketi

There is a local tendency, however, to treat

this rise in the Dock shares as something behind which there lies, a significant and #bnormal cause. There was a general sud

UNTRACEABLE RUMOUR that the Chinese Government under their scheme for re-organising the Imperial Navy bas placed an order with Messrs. Armstrong Whitworth and Company for two cruisers, to cost between £300,000 and £350,000 each, with a speed of from 21 to 24 koots, conditional to the constraction of the warships being done in Shanghai where Chinese labour would be employed and in more than one quarter the Peking, 19th January,

opinion seems to have gained ground that the English shipbuilders have come to some arran Duke Tsai proposes, that the Fi-gement with the Shangbai Dock and Engineer nancial Supervisors in the various ing. Company to have the vessels constructed by them, the materials and supervision being Provincesshould also exercise control sur plied from England. Hence, they say, this over the salt revenue in addition to sudden rise in the Dock shares their duties as financial comptrollers.

SHENG KUNG-PO.

EXPECTED IN PEKING.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 19th January, Sheng Kung-po, the Treaty Revi- sion Commissioner, has telegraphed to the Central Government stating that he will arrive in Peking before the China New Year..

THE NAVAL COMMIS SIONERS.-

RETURN TO PEKING.

By courtesy of the "Sheung Po

Peking, 19th January."- Prince Shun Pui-lap has tele- graphed to Peking for an escort to meet him at Harbin,

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His Highness has also asked for a supply of warm clothing to be des- patched to him..

RUBBER RETURNS..

The output of dry rubber for the month of December at the Batu Village Rubber Estate was Baa lbs and for the previous month 60 lbs, and the tojai for six months'2,483 lbs.

Ribu Rubber Co produce for December was 5,760 lbi, against 3,185 December last year, giving a total for the year of 46,720 lbs; as against 17,818 in 1938,

Dec. Jan. KETERTON AVENT 2,000

Allagar Anglo-Malay ................ $3,89 Balgownie... 7.384 Bertam 14,900 Bukit Rajsh................'- Bukit Liotang 2,400) Darapuura'... Glebely

1,039 Golden Hope inom '5,463' High & Lowlandı ... 46,078 Inch Kenneth ***** 11,98 Kamuniog......... 6,061 Kaats-Lumpof...

Lasadronun Ledbury

Linggi ...

24,420

8,170

$9,000

London Asiaticieni 10,076

Labu

............... 13,950.

Malacca Plant...

**** 20,000.

Pataling................. 21,950 Pagob............amaro, 2,336 Park Plant Bendycraf........... 11,053

** Seremban ................................ 21,007. - Barang nam 31550

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Total.

Bay, The Laundry leapt at once into popular favour and after some three and a half years- operation there the premises were found to be Inadequate to keep pace with the business. As sions being made, a fresh fald had to be sought the site then occupied did not permit of exten»-|

Co-day's Advertisement,

NOTICE.

To-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

far and was found in Yaumatis and the Laun. MR. R. LEISSING baving left our employ THE Undersigned ball received instructions dry was thereupon transferred to Kowloon Cliy Road.

The Laundry buildings occupy a favourable situation, with ample drying and bleaching grounds, and are constracted principally of wood and glans with corrugated iron roof lined with matting inside to oproro coolness. All the water used in procured from the Govern ment males and is filtered before entering the Laundry roservoir, whence it 'le pumped by means of a windmill into raised spare tanks which supply the wash-room-

FROM START TO FINISH,-

is very systematic and thorough. As it is the process through which the washlog" goes brought in in Ints, the soiled linen is booked by clerks seated on either side of the door and is then distributed among a series of bios, where each customer's lot in marked with ́a-number-in-cottop:-Next-it-passER¬dìto- a Chinese "checker" who seen that everything:

has been correctly booked and priced, after which it is sorted out, according to its class, into baskets, ready for washing. This done the clothes, etc, aro mađe up into small bundles and, enclosed in mots, are placed in open-air fresh-water tanks to soak overnight and be ready for washing next morning.

In the morning, the water is drawn off the tanks, the clothes are brought into the wash ing machines, is in number. Here they un- zoom and placed in the revolving wooden wash. dergo a washing process lasting to minutes, which may be thus divided into five periods of ten minutes nach:-est, washing in plain water; and, the water is soaped; 31d, soaped and boiled; 4th, first sinse; 5th, second rinse and blucing.

The washing completed, the clothes are

placed in drying hydros, driver at a rate of

2,000, revolutions per minute, and, after-ten minutes of this treatment are takes out practice ally dry.

FROM THE HYDROS,

These two cruisers, by the way, the report says, are intended for the Northern Squadron of the Chiasse Navy. It is quite on the cards that more orders for warships for Chios are in pro- cais of being placed From Canton sources we learn that the big German houses there have been actively pulling the wires to secure some of these embryo contracts for German shipbuilders. Should it prove to be the case boiled with it. When those arg taken out, the that the Shangbai Dock and Engineering Com pany are to get a share in the contracts which the re-organisation of the Chinese Navy entails, It is to be hoped that our two local dockyards at Kowloos and Quarry Bay will not be be bindhand in picking up some of the plums, gram has reached as from our Shanghal cores [Since the above was in type, a special teje pondent and is printed elsewhere. It will be read with interest is the above connection. Our cable despatch dissipates the rumour that formed the subject of discussion la'the local Stock Exchange during the past two or three dayı,-Ed., K.K.T.):

INDUSTRIES OF HONGKONG.

THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. [Specially Written for the "Hongkong Telegraph"]

IV.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY,

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ceases to Sign 'our 'Firm pár Procura-

MJ. HELMERS is authorized to Siga out Firm per Procuration from this date.

SIEMSSEN & CO. Canton, 15th January, 1910.

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CANTON DAY BY DAY,

LIKIN COLLECTIONS.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

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Capton, 18th January," The collection of Likin dues in Canton dur-

ing the last ten days of the oth moca as report- ed by the Likin officials to the Viceroy amount- ed to 17,244.2.9.4 faela, which shows a decrease of over 30,000 taols as compared with the amount collected in the preceding ten days.

CONSULAR-VISITED——

indisposed for the past few days, has now recovered and will receive the Italian consul from Hongkong, and the French Consulat Qaptop to-morrow morning,

HE. Viceroy Yusu Shu-haun, who has been

EDUCATION COMMISSIONER, Chang Sik Fun, the ex-Provincial Educa- tion Commissioner, will leave here for Peking on the 2018 istant by the China Merchants' 5. N. Co.'s steamer Chi Yuen.'

NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

The Viceroy has issued a proclamation to setify the general public that the official seale of all yamens will be closed for the transaction of business from 19th day of the 13th moon till the igib day on the 1st moon next year on

account of the China New Year holiday.

OPIUM

From the 17th instant the price of prepared opium in Canton has been increased by rar mace per isel, making the total of 1.5 taels in

to sell by '". PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

d..

on

· SATURDAY,

the azad January, 1910, at It A.M, at their

.Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road,

‚comar of Ice House Streat,

A QUANTITY OT DAWSON'S BOOTS and SHOES AMERICAN BROWN BOOTS, WHITE SHIRTS, DOHERTY and -RAMSEY'S TENNIS RACQUETS (now), &c, &c. 1°

ALSO

GRAMOPHONE RECORDS,

5 TYPEWRITERS and a number of

TERMS As Usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

~ Hongkong, 20th January, 1010

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, "LIMITED.

fito

FOR SHANGHAI, Nagasaki, kobe AND YOKOHAMA,

THE Steamship

**CARMARTHENSHIRE,"

Captain Daniels, will be despatched as above jos arb inst.

This steamer has superior passenger ac commodation,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, "MATHESON & CO., LTD. Agants. Hongkong, 20th January, roro.

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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.

THE Company's Steamabip

money for oos taol of prepared oplam in weight.

#HITACHI MARU," The price of raw opfum bas advanced to 518 having arrived from the above Ports, Con per catty, being about an increase of $3, assignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their compared with that of last month.

soon as the Goods are landed.

Intimations.

CHEESE

|CHOICE- ́CANADIAN

STILTON,

60 Cents per Ib.

THE

DAIRY FARM Оo.,

LIMITED.

Hongkong, tath January, 1910.

ASAHI BEER SAPPORO BEER

TO BE OBTAINED

FROM ALL WINE DEALERS

"SOLIGNUM.”

PERFECT presējvative stain far. Wood

the linen passes into the starch room, where the boiled starch process is used as being

.Goods are being landed and placed at their preferable to dry starch in this damp

risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and climate. The starch is cooked in a machine,

IN THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST,

Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon, and collars, shirts, etc., are put in and by the local gentry to H.E. Chaog fan Chun, mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as With reference to the suggestioni submitted where each consignment will be sorted ont

starch is rubbed into them by workers by hand, number of students to be educated in foreign goods are to be taken immediate delivery ex

wbon bo' was Viceroy in Canton, to send a Coke, Scrap trop or other similar vatured A Stope, and Brickwork. after which the linen goes over to adjointeg countries at the expense of the Canton Pro-ship; otherwise they will be landed into the tables where girl workers finish off the starch-vincial Government, to open factories so as to same Company's Godowns at owner's risk and Rot, the Ravages of Insects and Vermin It protects against Decay, Fasgus, Dry ing process and wipe off any remaining starch give employment to the poor classes of the experi

(especially the white ant) and the action of the so as to give a perfecily even marfice,

Optional Goods will be carried on unless ember. 7 Leaving the starching room, the linen goes people and to remove the old city wall for the{ instructións are given to the contrary before 35, all of which are in uso when the weather is into the drying rooms of which there are about convenience of the residents, H.E-Yuan Shu Noon, TO-DAY. damp. These rooms are heated by hot air driven by a powerful fan over a system of Guild coils.

Hipo has issued instructions to his subordinates

to carefully consider the advisability of adoptiox these suggestions and to submit to him their" reporis not later than the aznd instant.

'FIRE,

Adjacent to these rooms are oine gas-heated machines for polishing and ironing shirts and

At ten o'clock in the evening of the 16th collars, as well as two machines for doubllegastant a fire occurred in Yaek Lung street, collars when starched and ironed, and four Hopam, where three houses were destroyed large steam-beated calendera for dat work.such and several others seriously damaged. avʼtable-cloths, capkins, etc. For the fallar class of linen, raw starch is used, and the mas chine dries, irons and polishes them all at once.

·In the ironing department everything that can- not be done by mackines is finished off by hand, such as shirt bodies, ladies' garments, sic- LAST OF ALLes

Of all the trials and tribulations that beset the clothes are taken into the sarting and pack. Evropean.residents io, Hongkong and the Faring room where each customer has a book and a East generally nose is so fruitful of worry and vexation of spirit as the vagaries of the Chinese. wisherman. To most of us he always appea somewhat in the light of a sort. of evil geatus to whose fads and whims we bava to pander, The young matron fresh from England fjadi, ta har surprise" that instead of being able to get her domestic linen and fino dross fabrics waibed and dressed at home, she has to entrust them to a Chicess washerman to be taken away goodness knows where and returned at some indefinite period which may range from a week to a fortnight or

even more.

It is no wonder, then, that the housekeeper looks forward with trepidation to the reckoning day when the dh'oby man shall make his re- appearance. And only too frequently is this 46,719 (9) justified. For even if the tally of the pieces should prove to be correct, abe will be extremely lucky if at some time or other she does not find someone else's property returned in place of her own. But this is by no means the worst

5,255 (6) 204,31 (12)

feature of the methods of the

· CHINESE WASHERMAN,

61,319 (7) Some of the fraternity are not at all particular about the nature of the streams or pools in which they carry out their washing operations and it is quite a customary thing for one gang of washermen to be at work in, any, the upper pool of a nullah, with another gang busy in the pool below, and so on right down to the lower levels,

349,347 (12) 65.979 (12) 527,000 (12)

Events Coming,

Thursday, 20th January,

Theatre Royal, A,D,C. "The Torrador " p.m.

Friday, 21st January, Theatre Royal, A.D.O. "The Toreador"

Saturday, 22nd Jannaty. H.K, V. C. Blakė Shield Competition, King's Park Range, 1.15 p.m.

pigeon-hole corresponding with his number. When the sorting is finished, packers come in opm... and the clothes aro takou away in hampers for distribution. :-Thern in a reparkle department. for lisen, eto, required.urgently that is to say in 74 bours or less. It should be mentioned that in the wash-room'there are two méchines specially devised for washing" flannels, - This installation is fitted with a tank in which water is always kept at gò degrees for washing por posBE "Lux" soap only is used. After being washed, flannel clothes go through a series of five different rinses. There is also a special machine for steaming and pressing flinpels.

Gen, P., Lammert, auction sale of furniture,

Caine Road, 2.30 pm. H.K. A. A. A. Marathon race. From Aber- deen to Cricket Grund, 3.30 p.m..

Goods not cleared by the 16th January will be subject to rent.

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**Bollgnum" really does what isjalaimed for it, as may be seco from the tenti- monials of the Governments of · India,' the' Sudan, &c,

In Drums and Barrels of various colours. Prospectos, and all forther information'.

SIEMSSEN & CO.

No Firm lusurance has been effected. Damaged packages must be left in the Godowes for examination by the Consignno's and the Cola representatives at an appointed hour. All claims must be presented within from.. ten days of the steamer's arrival. bere, after which date they cannot be recogulsad. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowan

NIPPON YOSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 19ib Jantiary, 1010.

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(Machinery Dept.) Hongkong,

Sole Agents.

Hongkong. 7th December, 1000,

Tex

SALON-CINEMA THEATRE,

WYNDHAM (FLOWER) STREET, OPPOSITE GENERAL POST OFFICE.

FIRST APPEARANCE IN HONGKONG

CELEBRATED AMERICAN SERIO-BALLADIST,

OF THE

MISS ADA. KING.

Miss DORIS MÕAULEY

-AND

Miss RUBY CHRYSTAL

IN THEIR NEW REPERTOIRE,

Grand Ballona Arcent, and Parachute Dor EXCELLENT FILMS, ORCHESTRA IN ATTENDANCE, DAILY OHANGE

cent, from Tarade Ground 5.00 p.m.

Theatre Rovali A.D.C. "The, Toreador".

9 p.m.

Tuesday, 25th January, '.

OF PROGRAMME, COMPLEte change TWICE A WEEK, MONDAY and FRIDAY, DAILY TWO PERFORMANCES. Firat commences: 6.30 half-price. Second commences 9,15.

*

Fongkong Land Reclamation Company, MATINEES EVERY SATURDAY and SUNDAY 4 p.m. Half-price. Limited. Annual Meeting, at the Company's Offices, Victoria Building; 11.30 am.

West Point Building Co., Ltd. Annual Meet. log, at the Company's Offices, Victoria Build- Jugs, 15.45 am

Recently a dry cleaning `plant has been added to the establishment. It is steam-drivan and includes a brats washing machins into Special soap which the clothes are put. and spirit instead of soap and water are used, but otherwise the system of hydro, rinsing tanks and drying room is just the same. The dirty spirit when drained off is pumped into a tank ibat feeds the stift, where. Hongkong Land fovestment and Agency it is stilled over again, after which, it passes Company, Ltd Annual Meeting, at the Cam- into a clean tank. The machinery is drives | pany's Offices, Victoria Baildings, 12 o'clock by a powerful Atlas engine, fed by two far, naces. Electric light is supplied by 110 16- candle-power lamps.

IN THE HARBOUR,

Geo P. Lemmert, suction rale of furniture,

150 pr

Theatre Royal, Scotch conçent, o p.m.

*Wednesday, 16th January, eating of Justices, Licensing Board, at the Megistrący, 4 paz,

Thursday, 27th January, "Diocesan School, Pries Distribution, by His Excellency the Govarmor.

·Friday, 28th January, Volunteer Ball, 9 p.m. *-

the Company keep five boats constantly attend., ing on the shipping and running across to Hongkong, and they have a staff of coolles also for collecting customers' lead ashore. Nor are their methods of washing beyond They do washing, for all the big steamship reproach. A common practice is to placa the lines, including the P. and O. Pacific Mail, clothes to be washed upon a more or less-gen-German Mail, Canadian Pacific, and the various erally less-smooth stone and beat them with a Japanese Malls, besides the majority of the club or to swing the sodden clothes over their Coasting steamers. They also wash for most 6,516 (11) hands and bring them down swish upon a rock, of the man-of-war-both British; and foreign- These methods may be all very well fom a visiting the Harbour, and guarantee to turn out 20,870 (11) Cleansing point of view, but as the housewife 12,000 ploces of ship's linen la ta bours,

frequently finds out to her sorṛow they aro'

As may be readily understood, argent calls rainous to her table linen and other fise pieces for quick washing for the Navy and the mall 34,835 (8) of domestic napery. For the same reason, too, steamers are frequent, but the management is the indignant bachelor has to complain of frayed always equal to the occasion, though the work shirt-cuffs and collars. ·

has sometimes had to go on for as long as 36 | 1980. Even these do not exhaust the list of the hours at a stretch. There is a large staff of Chipess washerman's delinquencies, for any workers, both male and female, varying in one who visits a dhoby shop must have seen number from aga is wloter to as many 499 much to make him or her assured that there is | in summer time. The laundry is 'under the

Singapore & Johore... 7,100 Singapore Para iso 5,000 Sungai Salak....** Vallambrosk ... 39,000.

280,903 [Figures in brackets indicate the number of months output in the last column,)

A HOMs contemporary says that Vice-Admiral great room for improvement all round. Es management of Mr. B. D. Wood.

Sir Alfred L. Winslos, C. M. G., C. V. 0, the pecially insanitary is the practice followed by Eataly applisted Commander-in-Chief of the roars of spraying lines through the mouth, China Beation, bears the reputation of being a. In the circumstances it was not surprising that Anvicus from Trieste state that the "your_is" smart and capable pificar, and it is confident a genami! dasire arose among the European that the Chies Squadron will not suffer in community for

prisige under bis, command,. This anikority, sup A STRAM LAUNDRY); ^^deren adds that the maw Commander-in-Chief li yery and soms sight years ago the first establish- ksen ön gianuy, and knows his officers and ment of this kind in the Colony was opened

closing with extramaly › satisfactory, financial raulis, for the Austrian-Lloyd, Although wages and some other items of expenditure in- creased, soomomias were affected in the cont

The anticipated dividend is for 6

Saturday, 29th January, Salyingpan School prize distributios H the Governor, 12 o'clock.

VAR. C. scratch fours race, 3.39 p.m. Hoogkong Reserva Association Priza Moet- Boxing at City Hall, Billy Bellow ca. Bili Lewis.

Sunday, 30th January, Lusitano Recreation Club Go as You Picass" Competition.

Sunday, deh February, Lusitano Recreation, Club, Walking Com-

sday" 5th"February

Hongkong, 15th January, 1910. –

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