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INDUSTRIES OF HONGKONG.

·THEIR RIE AND DEVELOPMENT.

[Specially Written for the "Hongkong

Telegraph

V.

GREEN ISLAND Cement Co., LD.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY JANUARY 22 1010

grinding. After, this process has been, gone through, the cement goes to the warehouse where it is stored for about a month before ba. ing picked and shipped,

IN THE NEW FACTORY there are no bricks made. The powder goes direct from the mills to the rotary kilns, a saries of huge revolving cylinder upon anter tag which it meets the coal-blown in asa fine emerges from these kilas in the form of clips powder and burning just like gas—and it kers. These clinkers, in the same way as the clinkers from the bricks in the old factory, are allowed to lie exposed for two weeks or so be fore being passed on to the ball mills for course grinding and to the tube mills for fice grind,

NOTES BY THE WAY.

THEA. D. C.

Our enterprising Amateur Dramatic Club successful production of "The Toreador." No bave again added to their laurala. by their greater tributo could bars bean paid to the excellance of the entertainment provided.and the mambers' high standard of acting than the

'not

To-day's Advertisements.

NOTICE,

beleg emptied, the Supply of Filtered the next few days.

S.tbe ALBANY SERVICE RESERVOIR

The Public are therefore advised to Boil Water may be occasionally interrupted during all Water used for Drinking purposes until further notice.

P. N. H. JONES,

Water Authority. Public Works Department,

Hongkong, 1st January, 1910.

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one dull moment was experienced. It is a aimons opinion of the audience that' remarkable fact that the A. D. G. have a penchant for ambitious pieces, but it is will more remarkable that the talented combi- nation comes out of the ordeal with inch conspicuous success. What I would like to suggest 'is that it would be a happy The new system of rotary kilos has been circumstance if the A.D.C., were to present existence since 1905. At that time only something really slabo.ate; something to the two such kilns were laid down, but in xgoy lines of The Spring. Chicken." The piece THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND two more were added. The latter were ac which had on successive rights delighted"

MORTGAGE COMPANY, LIMITED. quited by the Company locally, being plant London audiencas la abundant with toon. originally intended for Dalny but held up in fat melodies and the setting is on that Hongkong owing to the outbreak of the Rusto-style beloved of Hongkong audiences. The Japanese war. For the working of the addi- piece in such capable hands as the Hengkong tional kilns there was little or no difficulty A.D.C. capont but be a success and is sure to in providing the necessary motive power as attract crowded houses nightly. I hope that the engine laid down in the first place had those at the bead of affairs of the Club will been chosen with a view to entensions and give my suggestion a passing thought. was easily convertible to the required horse- power,

The visitor, to our Colony who includes within bis itinerary.a.rickshe drive to Kowloon City must surely have had his attention arrest. ad by the vast pile of gray coloured buildings at Hok Us, whose clustering kita chimneys seek the sky through a bare of dust and smoke, „whilst an aerial railway extends its length high above' huge heaps of broken limestone rocks.g This is the first aspect that strikes anyone mak- ing initial acquaintance with the famous works of the Green Island Cement Company, Limited. The outside view la anything but loviting, bat the inside has a different story to tell, for there ose is confronted with some of the most la genious and wonderful machinery ever devised by the brain of man and is enabled to catch at least a glimpse into ockeoned realms of indus. trial activity that but few in Hongkong are aware of the existence of, although placed, as might be said, in their very midst.

itongkang does not boast of many industrial pradakis but if there is one of which it may be suld that it has made the Colony famous,

FIRST HONOURS

mait undoubtedly be awarded to Green Island cement. It is a product whose name has be come almost a household word all over the Far East from Penang to far Vladivostock. As builders and constructional engineers will tell

MAKING THE CASKS

The making of the casks in which the cement From the cooperage no less than 1,700 finished is mostly exported is quite an industry in itself. barrels are turned out every day. Needless to say, the machinery employed it of the most modern type. The logs from which the barrels

TU TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED on MONDAY, the 31st January, unul SATURDAY, the 5th February, 1910, both days inclusive.

SHRWẠN, TOMES & CO., > General Managers."" Hongkong, 220d January, 1015

Sias

CANTON DAY BY DAY,

you, Green Island cement is a synonym for are made are specially Imported from China. secret. Happily, the P.M.O.'s sound-minded ·

THE THIRTEENTH ORDINARY AN HOLDERS in the Company will be held at NUAL MEETING OF SHARE. the OFFICES of the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6, Connaught Road, on SATUR DAY, 3th February, 1910, at 11ga AM, for counts and the Report of the General Managers. the purpose of receiving a Statomast.of Ac for the year ending 31st December, 1900, de- A WATERY SUBJECT.claring Dividend and electing a Consulting After the wordy warfare which was occASİR

Committee and Anditora. ed at the meeting of the Sanitary Board some days ago consequent upon the official desire plainly a public question, the revelations pro. to consider is camera a" matter 'which was

misad. by Col Bedford with regard to the Caluny's water supply were anticipated by the general public in the antura of some grim After passing through a frame-saw in the practical suggestions did not create that general strength and durability, standing out pre-eminent In this land of shoddy and make-believe,

saw mill the planks are cut into stave lengthiscare among the Colony's staid population The Green Island Cement Company, Ld. passed on to the drying compartments. Upon in fact, it is somewhat difficult is conceive how and given the proper shape. Then they are which was popularly expected in some quarters, darives its name from an island "Ilha Verde making their re-appearance in the cooperage it could possibly tave been otherwise. The '(or Green*Island), situated in the Harbour of the slaves, go through a series of manipulations parity of a city's water supply ought to have the Portuguese colony of Macao in China-both manual and mechanical-and with every sanitary precaution and. I was glad to The Comprny s'arted the manufacture of amazing rapidity they are transformed into notice that one of the unofficial members of Islands, the local authorities have been anxiou Portland cement in 1889, and at the present

the Board who has the distinction of being time there are five kilas jo operation in Macao and eighteen in the local factory at Hok Us. erected in 1999. The total production of both factories at present amounts to batween 1,700 and 7,000 casks per day of go0,000 casks an nually. Green Island coment has been used

barrels, hooped, lidded and ready to receive their burden of cement.

managerskip of Mr. V. Uldall. Messrs. Shewan, The works ata under the experienced Tomes & Co. are the general managers for the Company.

bard-beaded' matter-of-fact business-MAI

Optimism is doubiless a commandable quality whole-heartedly supported the Colonel's views.

but prevention is better than cure. Onca the filter-beds begin to show signs of contamina tion, It will be a Herculean task to rectify, the

for all descriptions of work,-dams for reser FOR CHINA COAST NAVIGATORS. Til. The report of the committee appointed

voirs, street tramways, barbour works, heavy foundations, fortifications, etc., and it is not too much to way that it has given every sat. isfaction wherever used.

Green Island cement was employed exclu sively to the constructies of the two great graving docks recently completed in Hongkong

RELIABLE INSTRUMENT FOR FINDING

DISTANCES ON STORMY NIGHTS..

We have received from the Hydrographic Department of the United States Coveroment the pilot chart of the North Pacific Oceas for

the world-ons of which was built by the tion which should prove of practical value to

to go into the question, is awaited with con niderable interest.

WINTRY WEATHER,

the effect of providing those with limited: The sudden change in the weather had conversational capacities with food for talk, The cold hip in the air also forcibly reminds

FRATAS ISLAND.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Canton, 20th January, After the payment of a sum of you 130,000 to the Japanese for the recovery of the Prates

to develop the place; but owing to lack of funds, the authorities bare now issued a noti fication to invite merchants in co-operate in

the scheme.

SALT COMMISSIONER.

*

The Salt Commissioner,, Ting Nal Young, and the ex-acting Provincial Education Com- has applied for our month's leave of absence,

missioner, Chang Sik Fut, will probably be appointed to act as Salt Commissioner in the interia.

JUNK FOUNDERS. On the 13th instant a, junk, fully laden with round out off and sundry merchandise, on her trip to Shinhing from Wuchow, foundered,

excessive weight of her lost: The cargo, on

¡ANTI-QFIUM NOVEMENT,

and capable of holding the biggest ships in January, 1910. Among the items of informa ose of the forthcoming races. It is refreshing when passing Tak Hing, as the result of the British Admiralty and the oibar by Messrs marinos sailing on the China coast is a descrip: my acquaintances, who dres pot profess to board to the valus of about $6,000 was lost. Butterfield and Swire. Needless to say, thetion of the new graphical method for Ending most severe tests are required by the Govern distances, which is described as a simple and Island cement has come through all ordeals with flying colours and is to-day more than able to bold its own in competition with imparted

It is learnt from the opium merchants. in

To-day's Advertisements.

..

HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 7.

ties that GUN PRACTICE will be carried TT is hereby notified that information has

been received from the Military Authori out as under ♪---

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On TUESDAY, the 25th January, 1910 ;~

From the East of Hongkong and Devil's Peak in a direction of from South-East to North-East, at ranges up to 6,150. yards, commencing at 10.30 PM. On THURSDAY, the 27th January, 1910;- "From the West of Hongkong and Stone- cutters in a direction of from South- West to North-West, at ranges up to 10,700 yards, commencing at 10 AM. If the weather is unfavourable on either of following day. the above dates, practice will take place on the

All ships, Juoks and other vesuole are to keep clear of the range.

BASIL TAYLOR,

Commander, R.N

Harbour Master, &c. Hongkong, arst Jandáry, 1010/ [114

MOGUL LINE OF STEAMERS,'

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. STEAMSHIP " PATHAN," FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

STRAITS.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being" landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, st Kowloon,' whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods ing undelivered after the 29th instant will be have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. subject to rent.

sented to the Undersigned on or before the All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- zand February, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be 'examined on the 28th instant, at 3 P.M..

'No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents, Boogkoog, 22nd Japurty, 1910,

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Intimations.

CHEESE

CHOICE CANADIAN

STILTON. 60 Cents per lb.

THE

DAIRY FARM Co.,

LIMITED

Hongkong, fath January, 1910:

ASAHI

BEER SAPPORO BEER

TO BE OBTAINED

FROM ALL WINE DEALERS

'SOLIGNUM.”

INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION A Stone, and Brickwork.

PERFECT preservative stain for Wood

COMPANY, LIMITED,

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE

“HE Company's Steamship

TH

"LAISANG,"

having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees

of Cargo by her are hereby informed that

ment officials and dock contractors, but Green easily improvised instrument invented by Mr. about the city ep a certain day during the wack Canton that the importation of opitim for the their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

coments.

THE MACHINERY

employed is all of the most up-to-date type that can be procured from England, America and Denmark, and the kilos are of the ‚Alborg and rotary types, which are found to be best suited to the economic conditions of the place, When finished, the cement is packed in casks and steel drums weighing 375 lbs. net and 400 lbs, gross and also bags of 250 lbs.

nei,

Bennat Lawson, first officer' of the British steamer Alienssoda.' It will be found valuable, we are told, lo consting, particularly at night or during stormy weather. The description of this new method of finding distances is accom- panied by a full-sized sketch showing the idea of the investor, and the American Hydra- graphers proceed to set forth the modus op.randi as follows-

"With the course and distance and two bearing of a point of the land, the distance finder will show at one move of the instrument, The distance of the point at the time of the first bearing; the distance of the point at the In taking a cursory survey of the works, it time of the accoad bearing; the distance to be may be as well to expinin at the outset that all run before the point will be abeam ; the 'dis- the limestone uted in the manufacture of Greentance at which the point will be passed if the Inland.cament is got from Canton whilst the course is maintained; she distance of the point clay that forms the other component of the at any bearing abaft the beam if the course is finished material comes from the Canton River. maintained; and the distance to be run before The limestone is brought down by steamer into the paint comes on any required bearing abaft Kowloon Bay and is la' d'd on the sea wall of the beam, the works by means of junks, from which it is.. koisted to an elevated railway and conveyed in collapsible carriers to whichever part of the store-heaps it may happen to be consigned. The clay is brought down in a dried state from the Macao works by the Company's own steamer, which has a draught enabling her to come alongside the sea-wall, where also her cargo hoisted by steam elevator into a con- veyor that takes it right into the works,

Ta describe the process of making the cement in full, it would be necessary to go into details that might prove anything but interesting read Ing to most people.,. The mud is dried and pulverised; the limestone passes through a crushing machloe and is also pulverised ; sud then the two are mixed together in certain pro portions regulated by automatic weighing machines and the whole material is then born. ed in the kitos and ground first into rough Daŋs in the ball mills and dually into a fine powder in the lake mills, a series of cylinders revolving at a high rate of speed. Such, in short, may be given-ar a rough description of the way in which Green Island cement is made, but it conways no conception of the

VARIOUS STACKS,

•

"Repeated observations will show whether the vessel is actually making her coura or whether she is being sat on or offshore,

"The accompanying illustration consists of a circle representing a compass divided into 360 degrees. Equally spaced concentric cir. comferences are described over the compass, thus converting each of its radii into a lincar scale of thirty equal parts. A parallel rate in constructed to move across the face of this compass diagram and a scale of equal parts, of the same length as those into which, the, radli are divided, is adapted to work upon either bar of the parallel rule. The vessel is supposed to be heading from the centre of the compaes toʻ wards the zero of the compass graduations, and hence all bearings are counted in degrees from this zero."

to breathe the lowigorating air, although one of

having been born in the regions of the North Pole, found it so invigorating that he went with a proboscis and visage very much resemb; ling the neure firmament enveloping him, and, his friends began to form crude conjectus whelber be was about to undergo a freezing process. The last I saw of the worthy in dividual was with his feet to a steaming basic with strong odours of mustard,

AN INFECTIOUS MOVEMENT.

current year has shown only a slight decrease compared with the quantity imported by from the present outlook of affaire, the opium them, daring the past few years. However,

smoking prohibition regulations appear to bare beco enforced with considerable suc cess, as it can be seen from the fact that alace the enforcement of the anti-opizm re-

ously being carried on at home by that vigor failed to obey the regulations, have baco order. 1 cotice that the campaign which is se vigor-gulations, to the district of Nambal alone, two hundred and sixty-five opium divans, which ous body known as the screaming sisterhood with the avowed object of woman's emancipa-ed to be closed and sealed up by the officials. lion has spread to Hongkong. Up to a certain These illegal establishments have all been con day last week, I was firmly convinced that fiscated to the Government, this little Colony was perfectly free from the

21st January. abnormal demands and" still more abnormal

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. acts of misguided members of the fair the zoth instant by the steamer Kinshan were Among the passengers arriving in Canton on sex, but I must confess I received a pretty H.E. Maj.-General Sir John French, who was rude shock to read in the local papers that accompanied by Mr. Henderson and General one of our fair residents was going to lead R. G. Broadwood. Do the same day those a debate having the vexed question of woman visitors returned to Hongkong by the same suffrage an the subject. So far, by a merciful providence, we have had no Christabel Pank burst in our midat and no sensible man wishes io bave one.. Is it possible that the germ bas spread to Hongkong? We have for ever been crying for an increased Police Force but if my fears have oven an atom of foundation, which I sincerely hope they have not, then every peace-loving citizen will wish for a still greater number of bobbies. It is to be hoped that the day is far distant when the ears of mere man will be assailed with the grim beauty of the suffragette's war song.

A SUFFRAGETTE STORY,

story which is worth reproduction. Here it is: The above rumisations remind me of a good

-The wife of a labourer was one day visited by a funny-looking woman with a short skin "To use the distance finder, take a bearing and a long tongue. She had not stayed long of a palat er object and note the number of before the fired ber hostess' spirita ngaizini wa- degrees It bears from the ship's head, and also man's oppression by men in a most marvellons got the reading of the log. Steer the same: coure until the bearing of the point has work that evening, instead of the usual manner. When bubby relarned home from changed sufficiently to make a practicable sweet-tempered Jane of every day, he made angle; then take a second bearing and note (be the painful discovery of floding bis better distance run between the first and second half turned into a veritable virago. The man bearings; then move the parallel rule and its looked in vain for his afternoon tea and kipper, scale of equal parts until a number of gradun-when the following dialogue ensued: tions of the scale equal to the distance rua' is intercepted between the two radii whose gra» daations represent the bearings counted from the zero.*

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through which the raw material passes, of the massive machinery that is employed, the great 1,200 hp, engine that supplies the motive power, or the mighty kiins that help to reduce bard rock down into a powder finer than sand,

Tho works may be divided loto, two sections, Examples ara given to show how the insta--| commonly known as the old and the new facement is operated, and deck officers on the Coast tory, in the old factory, which was the first should find little difficulty in apprehending the part of the works to be constructed, the process value of this simple and handy aid to naviga- of cement-making differs somewhat-but only tion.

In one essential direction-from that which is We understand that these charts may be employed in the new factory. In the former, seen at the shipping office in Hongkong, Cap the fine powder of ground limestone and claytals Milroy being the local representative of after being mixed' with water passer into a the Hydrographic Department of America. machias, where it is made. Inte bricks. These It may be added, incidentally, that the Wash bricks are dried nad sent to the kilos, which ington experts acknowledge their indebtedness are continuous, with a fire kept alwaya in the to the Hongkong Observatory for information middle of the kiln. - The bricks are thrown in which has been used in the preparation of the on top 'and-gradually slide down to the dramateorological feature of the pilot chart. There they are burned, and they come

venkel.

In accordance with instructions from the

OLD CITY WALL,

Viceroy survey work was commenced yester. day for, the removal of the old city wall. It is ascertained that the wall is to,800 feet in length, as feet in height and 15 feet in width. When the wall is removed, a carriage road will be built on the land.

teries will be discontinued in Canton by the

ANTI-GAMBLING MOVEMENT,' By order of the Viceroy, the Chai Puijot-

end of this year as an initial step towards the

farms, ...

posed abolitics of the different gambling

-'); SALT - MONOPOLY:

H.H. chief secretary, Sham Tung Fong, to proceed Shu. Hsun will dopate his to Peking shonly for the purpose of consulting Pwithosd Ministry of Finance on malers in con, section with the concession of Kwangtung Salt Monepoly to merchants,

A DOCKYARD TRAGEDY.

SEAMAN FOUND DYING,

"Where's the kipper, m'dear?").

An extraordinary tragedy occurred this mora- You'wa bad your way too, too long. We're

"Ab, man, you've indeed been fortunateing, 18th olt, on board H.M.S. Hinolour, lying

in Chatham dockyard. going to have the vote, do you 'ear?”

kipper?"

"That's all right, dearie, but where's the

me? I want the voin and I'm going to have "Kipper, indeed! Of what use is kipper to

Mine"

1:1

"Certainly, m'dour, You can have

A seaman namad Charles Frederick Russell was found in the boatswain's storea grossing, and a second man, Thomas Mayo, was soond later to an insensible condition farther in the

atore.

Both ware promptly removed and medically treated, but Honsel) expired shortly afterwards.

. After that, peace was a 150EZAS £The other may was ressucitated,

for a considerable period,

house

CASUAL CRITIC

*Painting work had been in progress and it surmised this the men were overcome by the famasco, Tutt

"ANARCHISTS IN PORTUGAL,

PLOT AGAINST THE KING,

London, Jan, 1

Aw amoring instance of the fertility of mind of the average Obinamen by way of, axcuses was furnished in the Police Court this morning, A Chinaman was brought before Ma, Z. B. Haill- in the old fort near the Hungbom Docks, fax, First Folica Magistrate, for boiling opium

Your Worship, I was preparing ton, "the throw the Government has been discovered!

A plot to amassianta the King and over- man's explanation to the presiding magistrata.

arrests have been made, and and ammunities

out at the bottom of the kiln as clinkers. MR, Thomas J. O'Brian, American Ambassador passed on to the ball to Tokio, emphatically contradicts the report mills Glied with stoof balls that his Government la negotiating for, or even rule the hard material for course grind. Considering the purchase of the Russian pie | His Worship found otherwise and fund sku

mbemtila for Anu ties of the island of

It protects against Decay, Fupgur, Diy Rot, the Ravages of insects and Vermia (especially the whita ant) and the action of the worlber

"Bolignum" really do what is claimed for it, as may be sapa from the lenti» Sudan, &c momals of the Governments of India," the

In Drums and Barrels of various colours.

·Prospectus and all farther information

SIEMSSEN & 00, (Machinery Dept.) Hongkong,

Sole Agents.

Cargo, impeding the discharge or remaining on board alter 2.M., the 25th ins will be from landed at Consignee's rink and expense.

•No Fire Insurance will be effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LD.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd January, reto,

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