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Telegrams.

“HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE,

MACAO BOUNDARY" QUESTION.

CHINESE COMMISSIONE'S REPORT.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Pb."]

Paking 19th January. H.E. Kao Erh Chien, the Impo- rial Chinese Delimitation Commis 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 Waiwnpu to do

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

SALI SUPERVISION.

CONTROL TO BE EXERCISED.

By courtesy of the " Sheùng Po!")

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 20 1910

A SHANGHAI BOOM.

RAPID RISE IN DOCK, AND ENGINEERING!CO'S SHARES.

In local business circles a good deal of com- mest, if not of commotion, has been caused withi's the past few days by the sudden, sharp tise that has taken place in the market price of Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co.'s shares.

Bay. The Lanndry leapt at once into popolar 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 field had to be sought the site than occupied did not permit of exten for and was found in Yaumati; and the Laun. dry was thereupon transferred to Kowloon City Road.

·The Laundry buildings occupy a favourablo-

Today's Advertisement.

NOTICE.

Meases to, Sign, our Firm per Procura R. R. LEISSING baring left our employ

don.

Mr. J. HELMERS is authorized to Sign our

SIEMSSEN & CO.

Canton, 15th January, 1910.

This development is all the mate remarkable situation, with ample drying and bleaching Firm per Procuration from this date by reason of the fact that the stock has been sorontida, and are constructed principally of long quiescent. Only on Saturday last did a wood, and glass _with_corrugated...iron-roof slight inquiry become apparent. Yesterday-lined with matting inside to ensure coolness. -however, the market-price made a sudden leap All the water used in procured from the Govern from Tis, 74 to Th. 8 and the demand con tinues firm,

ment mains and is filtered before entering the Laundry reservoir, whence it is pumped by which supply the waib room. means of a windmill into raised spare tanks

This phenomenal development has led to interchange of telegraphic meanages between certain local brokeri and their Shangbai agente a view to an ascertainment of its cause. From one authoritative source we learn that the reply to inquiries had elicited no more than that the rise was due only to improved business having been done by the Dock and Engineering Company and that sofactor out of the ordinary hid influenced the market.

There is a local tendency, however, to treat

this rise in the Dock shares as something

behind which there-lies-a-significant and abnormal cause. There was a general and

UNTRACEABLE RUMOUR

that the Chinese Government under their scheme for re-organising the Imperial Navy has placed an order with Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company for two cruisers, to cost between £300,000 and £350,000 each, with

FROM START TO FINISH,

the process through which the washing" goes is very systematic and thorough. As it is brought in to lots, the soiled linen is booked by clerks seated on either side of the door and is then distributed among a series of bins, where each customer's lot is marked with a number in cotton. Next it passes on to has been correctly-booked-and-priced, after a Chinese "checker* who seen that everything which it is sorted out, according to its class, into baskets, ready for washing. This done, and, enclosed to nete, are placed in open-air the clothes, etc., are made up into small bundles fresh-water tanks to soak overnight and be ready for washing next morning,

In the morning, the water is drawn off the

CANZON DAY BY DAY,

LIKIN COLLECTIONS,

[From Our Oum Correspondent.] '

To-day's Advertisements.

PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED

on

SATURDAY, [118-the-and-January, 1910, ate at their

Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, corner of Ice House Street, A QUANTITY OF DAWSON'S BOOTS and SHOES. AMERICAN BROWN BOOTS, WHITE SHIRTS, DOHERTY, and RAMSEY'S TENNIS RACQUETS (new), &c], &c.;

ALKO 4

Canton, 18th Janoary.

fog iba fast ten days of the 10th moon as report. The collection of Liklo dass in Canton dur- ed by the Likin officials to the Viceroy ampuut ed to 27.244.2.9.4 (aels, which shows a decrease of over 30,000 tants as compared with the amount collected in the preceding ten days.

CONSULAR VISITS,

GRAMOPHONE RECORDS,

S TYPEWRITERS and a number of

TERMS—As Uscal.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers, Hongkong, 20th January, 1010

"SHIRE LINE OF STEAMERS, LIMITED.

FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KÓDE AND YOKOHAMA.

indisposed for the past few days, has now HE. Viceroy-Yuan-Shu-baue; who has beau recovered and will receive the Italian consul from. Hongkong and the French Consul at THE Steamship Canton to-morrow morning,

"EDUCATION COMMISSIONER. Ohang Sik Fan, the ex-Provincial Educa. tion Commissioner, will leave here for Peking!

· "CARMARTHENSHIRE," Captain Daniels, will be despatched as above on 27th inst.

This steamer has superior passenger ac- For Freight or Passago, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, Aganis Hongkong, 20th January, 1910,

a speed of irom 13 to 14 knots; conditionat tacks, the clothes are brought into the wash. On the soth' instant by the China Merchant'commodation,

to the construction 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 Shanghai Dock and Engineer nancial Supervisors in the various Provinces should also exercise control over the salt revenue in addition to

Company to have the vessels constracted

by them, the materials and supervision belog. supplied from England. Hence, they say, this sudden rise in the Dock shares

These two croisers, by the way, the report their duties as financial comptrollers.ays, are intended for the Northern Squadron of the Chinese Navy. It's quite on the cards that SHENG KUNG-PO.

more orders for warships for China are in pro- cess of being placed. From Canton seices EXPECTED IN PEKING,

we learn that the big German houses there have been actively polkng the wires. to secure some of these embryo contracts for German (By courtesy of the "Shtung Po"]

shipbuilders. Should it prove to be the case that the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Com pany are to got a sbare in the contracts which the re-organisation of the Chinese Navy entails, It is to be hoped that our two local dockyards at Kowloon and Quitry Bay will not be be biodhand in picking up some of the plums,

[Since the above, was in type, a special tele gram bas reached as from our Shanghal corres- pondent and in printed elsewhere. It will be road with interest in the above connection. Our cable despatch, dissipates the rumour that formed the subject of discussion in the local Stock Exchange during the past two or three days.-Ed, H.K.T.]

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.

[Dy courtesy of the "Sheung_Ps,"],

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

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

ROBBER ALTURNS._. The output of dry rubber for the mouth of December at the Batu Vitage Rubber Estate was 841 ́lbs and for the previous month 601 lbs, and iệc total for six monibu 2,483 lbs.

+

Ribu Rubber Co.'s produce for December was 5,760 lbs, against 3385 December last year, giving a total for the year of 45,720 lbs; an against 17,518 in 1958.

Dac......jan. Total... Allagar ................ c 2,000 Anglo-Malay 53489 Balgownic ********** 7,384 Bertem 14,900 Bakit Rajab

Bukit Lintang 2,400 Damansara

t

Glenealymas car

1,639

Golden Hope 5,462 High & Lowlands ... 46,078 Inch Kenneth *****. 11,928

Kamuniog

Kuala Lumpor***** Laundres

24,430

Ledbury....... 8,370 Linggi. 59,000

London Asiatic...

Labu

10,076

13,950

LET

1

249,247 (12) 65.979 (12) $27,000 (13)

INDUSTRIES OF HONGKONG,

THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPKINT [Specially Written for the "Bangkong Telegraph"

IV.

THE STEAM LAUNDRY.

room and placed in the revolving wooden wash- ing machines, 15 in number. Here they un- dergo a washing process lasting so minutes, which may be thus divided into five periods of ten minutes each-rst, washing in plain water boiled; 4th, first sinse; Sth, second riose and land, the water is soaped; 31d, soaped and

blueing.

placed in drying bydros, driven, at a rate of 2,000 revolutions per minute, and, after ten minutes of this treatment are taken out practice ally dry.

The washing complated, the clothes aim

FROM THE HYDROS,

the lloen passes into the starch room, where the boiled starch process is used as being preferable to dry starch

in this damp climate. The starch is cooked in a machine, and collars, shirts, etc., are put in and boiled with it. When those are taken out, the starch is rubbed into them by workers by hand, after which the linen goes over to adjoining tables where girl workers finish off the starch. ing process and wipe off any remaining starch

so as to give a perfectly evan surface,

5. N. Co.'s steamer Chi Yaza.

NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.'. The Viceroy has issued a proclamation to notify the general public that the official seale of all yamens will be closed for the transection the 19th day on the 1st moon next year on of business from 19th day of the 12th moon till

account of the China New Year holiday.

OPIUM

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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, · FROM MIDDLESBOKOUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.

THE Company's Steamship

From the 17th instant the price of prepared opium in "Capton has been increased by 1.2 mace per lael, making the total of 1.5 taels in mosey for one last of prepared opium in eight

"HITACHI MARU," per, catty, 'being about an increase of $5, assignees of Carge are hereby informed that their The price of opium bay advanced 10 518 baving 'arrived from the above Parts, Con. compared with that of last month.

a

IN THE TEOPLE'S INTEREST, * With reference to the suggestions submitted by the local gebiry to H.E. Chang Jan Chun, when he was Viceroy in Canton, to send

umber of students to be educated in foreign Countries of the expense of the Cautos Pro- give employment to the poor classes of the vincial Government, to open factorien so as to

Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godown at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted cal mark by mark and delivery cas be obtained as 1005 as the Goods are landed,

Coke, Scrap, Iron or other similar natured goods are to be taken immediate delivery o ships otherwise they will be landed into the expenses same Company's Godowas at 'owner's risk and

-Optional Goods will be carried, on unless Noon, TO DAY.

Entimations.

CHEESE

CHOICE CANADIAN

STILTON.

60 Cents per lb.

THE

DAIRY FARM Co.,

· LIMITED.

Hongkong, tzth January, 1910.

ASAHI BEER SAPPORO BEER

TO BE OBTAINED

FROM ALL WINE DEALERS

“SOLIGNUM.'

And Brickwork

PERFECT preservative stain for Wood

It protects against Decay, Fungus, Dry Rot, the Ravages of insects and Verula (especially the white ant) and the action of the weather.

Leaving the starching room, the linen goes pepple and to remove the old cliy wall for the instructions are given to the contrary before Bolignam" really does what isjolaimed

Into the drying rooms of which there are about as, all of which are in use when the weather is damp. These rooms are heated by hot air driven by a powerful fan over a system of Guild coils.

Hop has issued instructions to his subordinates convenience of the residents, H. E. Yuan Shu

to carefully consider the advisability of adopting than suggestions and to submit to him, their reports not later than the 22nd instant.

TIRE.

Adjacent to theža ropins are nine-gun-bestad machines for polishing and ironing shirts and

At ten o'clock in the, evening of the- 16th, collars, as well as two machines for doubling fantast a fire occurred in Yack Lung street collars when starched and ironed, and four Hopam, where three houses were destroyed |large steam-beated calenders for flat work such | göd several others seriously damaged.

es table-cloths, napkins, etc. For the latter class of licon, raw starch, in- used, and the ma-. chine dries, irons and polishes them all at once, In the ironing department everything that caD. not be done by machloes is finished off by hand, such at skirt bodies, ladies' garments, etc- LAST OF ALL,

Of all the trials and tribulations that basat, the clothes are taken into the sorting and pack- European residents in Hongkong and the Faring room where each customer bas a book and 3 fast generally none is so fruitful of worry and vexation of spirit as the vagaries of the Chiness Wisherman. To most of us he always appears somewhat in the light of a sort of evil genius to whose fads and whims we

Events Coming.

Thursday, zob January

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

9 p.m.

Theatre

pigeon-hole corresponding with his number. When the sorting is finished, packers come in|0p.m.. and the clothes are taken away in hampers for distribution. There is a separate department for linen, etc, required urgently that is to say.

have to pander, The young matron in 24 hours or less. It should be mentioned fresh from England finds to her surprise that that in the wash room there are two machines instead of being able to get her domestic specially devised for washing flannels. This licen and fine dress fabrics washed and dressed installation is fitted with tank in which water' at home, she has to entrust them to a Chinese is always kept at po degrees for washing par washerman to be taken away goodness knows poses. "Lux" soap only is used. After being where and returned at some indefinite period washed, flanse! cloibes go through a series of which may range from a week to a fortnight or five different rinses. There is also a spacial even more.

machine for steaming and pressing flinnals.

| lower-lovela,

JR,

ng across to

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

Saturday, 22nd January. H.K. V. C. Be Shield Competition, King'ı Park Rungë, 1.7%

5 p.m.. Gen. P. Lammert, auction sale of furniture, a Caine Road, 2.30 pm.

H.K. A. A. Marathon race. From Aber doen to Cricket Geroad, 3.30 p.m.

Grand Ballons Arcent,ped Parachute Des: Com Farade Ground 5.00p.m.

T

eatre Roval, A.D.C. "The Toreador" 9...

-Tuesday, 25th January.

Goods not cleared by the 20th January will be subject to rent.

for it, as may be seen from the testi- monials of the Governments of India, the Sudan, &c.

In Drums and Barrels of various colours, Prospectus and all further information

SIEMSSEN & CO. (Machinery Dept.) Hongkong,

Sele Agents.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignoe's and the Co.'s representatives at an appointed hour. All claims must be presented within from which date they cannot be recognised. No ten, days of the steamer's arrival 'here,' after claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, Igth January, roto,

(Hongkong. 7th December, rong.

SALON-CINEMA THEATRE,

WYNDHAM (FLOWER) STREET, OPPOSITE GENERAL POST OFFICE,"

FIRST APPEARANCE IN HONGKONG

OF THE

་* ་

CELEBRATED AMERICAN SERIO-BALLADIST,

MISS ADA KING. Miss DORIS MCAULEY

AND

Miss RUBY OHRYSTAL

IN THEIR NEW REPERTOIRE.

EXCELLENT FILMS. ORCHESTRA IN ATTENDANCE, DAILY OHANGE

OF PROGRAMME, COMPLEte change TWICE A WEEK..

MONDAY and-FRIDAY, DAILY TWO PERFORMANCES. First commences: 6.30 half-price. Second commences 9.15.

Fongkong Land Reclamation Company, MATINEES EVERY SATURDAY and SUNDAY 4 p.m. Half-prics.

Hongkong, 15th January, 1910,

Límited, Annual Meeting, at the Company's Offices, Victoria Building; 18,30 am.

Magistracy, 4 pm.

Thursday, 27th January, Excellency the Governor,

Diocesan School, Prizs, Distribution, by Hla

It is no wonder, then, that the housekeeper

Recently a dry-cleaning plant has been looks forward with trepidation to the reckoning added to the establishment. – It is steam-driven day when the dheby man shall make his re- and includes a brass washing machine isto appearance. And orly too frequently is this which the clothes are put. Special son 46,729 (9) | justified. For even if the tally of the pieces and spirit instead of soup and waler

should prove to be correct, she will be extremely used, but otherwise the system of bedre, West Point Building Co. Ltd. Annual Meet lucky if at some time or other she does not fad rinsing tanks and drying room is jung, at the Company's Offices, Victoria, Build- 2,255 (6) someone else's properly returned in place of same. The dirty spirit when drained

off is Lingų, 11.45 a.m. 204,131 (13) || her own.. Buy this is by no means the worst pumped into a tank that fends the still.

Hongkong Land Investment and Agency feature of the methods of the

it is stilled over again, after which

1, where it passes

Dampaov, Ltd Annual Meeting, ít thủ Gam CHINESE WASSERMAN.

into a clean tank. The machinery

la driven pany's Offices, Victoria Buildings, 12 o'clock 62,319 (7) Some of the fraternity are not at all particular by a powerful Atlas engine, fed

by two far. nODE, about the nature of the streams' or pools in aces. Electric light is supplied

by 120 16.

Ged P. Lammert, auction sale of faraktere, which they carry out thair washing operations | candle-power lamps, and it is quite a customary thing for one gang

IN THE HARBO

Theatre Royal, Scotch concert, ◊ p.m. of wathermen to be at work is, say, the upper the Company keep five boats co pool of a nullah, with another gang busy is ing on the shipping and ruche tactly attend-

Wednesday, 26th January, the pool below, and so on right down to the Hongkong, and they have a star of coolles Meeting of Justices, Licensing Board, at tha

also for collecting customers' M Nor are their methods of washing beyond They do washing for all the big ashore. reproach. A common practice is to place the lines, including the P. and O., Pinkship clothes to be wished upon a more or less-gen. Gorman Mall, Canadian Pacific, and this Mail, erally less-smooth stone and beat them with a | Japanese Malla,' besides the majority Cl club or to swing the sadden clothes over their coasting steamers. They also wash for ost 63,516 (13) | heads and bring them down swish upon a rock. of the man-of-war-both British and foreign.

These methods may be all very well from a | visiting the Harbour, and guarantee to turn out - Siliwang min. 3,560 - 20,870 (11) cleansing point of view, but as the housewife 12,000 pieces of ship's fines in sa hours. *

frequently finds out to her sorrow 'they are

As may be readily understood, argout calli Siakapors & Johore... 7,100-

rnisons to her table fisen and other fine pieces for quick washing for the Navy and the call Singapore Para 5,000 34,835 (8) of domestic sapery. For the same reason, too, steamers are frequent, but the management is Sungai Salak......

the indignast bachelor has to complain of frayed always equal to the occasion, though the work. Vallambrosamine 34,000 180,902

skirt-cuffs and collars. --

has sometimes had to go on for as long as 36 [Figures in brackets indicate the number of Even these do not exhaust the flat of the hours at a stretch. There is a large staff of months output in the last colump,j

Chiposa washerman's delinquencies, for any workers, both male and female, varying in one who visits a dhoby shop must have seen number from age is winter to as many as 400 much to make him or her assured that there is in summer time. The laundry is under the A HOME Contemporary says that Vico-Admiral great room for improvement all round. Es management of Mr. R. Q. Wood. Sir Alfred L Wissles, C/M, 0, 0, V. 0, the pecially insanliary in the practice followed by Lately appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Ironers of spraying linen through the mouth. China Station, bears the reputation of being. In the circumstances it was not surprising that amait and capable officer, and it is confident genaral desire arose among the European that the China Squadron will not suffer in community for

Degas prezige under his command. This authority, SpA SZZAM LAUNDRY, panda

that the new Commander-in-Chief is very, had some eight years age the first establ unsery (and knows his officers iment of this kind in the Colosy was opened

Lazsadry Cou

Malacca Plan?...... 20,000 Pataling.eu, 21:950 Pagoh...ion, #1336 Perak Plant emigre", Skadrerollamamos 11,063 Seremban 21,007

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Anylons from Trieste state that the your closing with extremely satisfactory financia reaslia for the Austrian Lloyd.". Althoug wages and some other items of expenditure

sed, economies wars affected in the bill. The anticipated dividend is

Friday, 28th January, Volunteer Ball, 9`p.m.

Saturday, 29th January, Balyingpas School prize distribution by H. the Governor, 12 o'clock.

Vg, C. scratch four race, 3.37 p.m. Honkong Reserve Association Prize Most

Boxing

Lowis

City Hall, Billy Ballew v. BU

Busy, 30th January, „Lusitano ® Recreation Club”” Goss You

b Fabruary!!.

Club, Walking Com

Macao Steamboat *Hotel Mansion.

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