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Intimation.

Powell's

Furnishing

Department

FIRST FLOOR

Alexandra

Buildings.

CURTAINS

MADRAS MUSLIN

White and Ecru Frilled 2 Sides 52 in. 60 in, and 70 in.

wide

various patterns.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JUNE 23 1910

ROBBER HISTORY.

INTERESTING NOTES ON THE INDUSTRY.

EARLY EXPERIMENTS IN MALAYA Following is the second portion of an articia on Historical notes on the Rubbar Industry by the editor of the Straiti and F. M. S. Astical foral Bul ́e inʼfor this month. The first fostulos me as of the article was published to buristus of Wednesday N

Practically nothing was done in Ceylon to push the industry or to experiment with the Para rubbor trans from 1888 to 1897. Even the dock of trees at the gardens seems to have šten hardly ingressed. Meanwbie, at Biog- spare as far as was possible, everything had band got ready for the development of the future industry, a large number, about 420 trees, had been planted to supply the stock of Heed, "a good many dispersed to various parts of the Peninsula, to district "offeóra

paperi by Til others and

was a bieful

The follo from S Will?

a small exlaut how far Sie

od la rubber insearch hifa

his paper in 1899 Sir William Thi writes in answer to the December 1, 1896—1 am glad Pars rubber is going she id, I always said the Straits would be the place for it.

mations.

That there

everybody knows but

that any large business hou

dom" "Correctia 262%

BUTCHER MEAT;

Ham Ngan Yak

no matter what noftrade It follows. Orde Cia Thiere can be no permanent success of any kind based on dienacity, or deception. There never was, and never will be. The men who Beef slelolo & prima cut-

that are simply fools and soon come to grief-as they deserve. Now many persons are, nevertheless, afraid to buy certain advertised article lest they bo humbugged and deluded; especially are they slow to place comid merits of medicines The remedy known as in published statements of the

AN

June 19, 1897.--There is a tremendous in India-rubber planting. Mon of the schemes are simply insane. Your seat from amine year-old tron is very good.

Dec. 1, 1893.-Para rubber seems at last fairly enablished in the Native States, Dorry's report ivity promising. Beautifully prepared is only a broker's term It means that the subbarii clean and free from excessive meis tore, i cho't imagine why your, Para rubber ja

in as safe and genuine an article to purchase WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION

as flour, silk or cotton goods from the mills of manufacturers with a world-wide reputation.

and planters. Experiments in tapping in only quoted at 3/31 can only suppose it is We could not afford to exaggeinto its qualities

because it was not smoked. a

various forms had been made, wound-

The raider is also referred to the Juce num response had been re-discovered, block ber of the. Bullatin, 1899, bat probably by the |, and biscuit rabber had bosomade, time he has road this acconer he has, had

specimens exhibited at exhibitions, distriboted

enough evidence laid before him that the art to various persons and institutions interested of making saleable rubber by tapping into in planting, and seat to rubber deaints who tins and preparing the resulting latex in a clean hid valued it at the top price of the market

and para form Para rubber had been invent (1896), while a number of experiments ined in the Singapore gardens some year before growth and flow of latex had been tried. There Ceylon had got beyond the mud and coconut is still in the Botanic Gardeos mesum shall stage and that the discovery by Mr. Parkin |biculi dated 1 92. It was coagulated without in 1899 of the method of making clean robber -xcid÷and-is-now qʻilo-hard-add-atif, though--was anticipated-by-neatly-tee-years, and was still light in colour, a pate yellowish white perfectly well-known, as was wound-sponse, The specimens dated 1893 and 1894 are black to hundreds of people in the Straits Setisments and are low showing signs of deterioration, and other part of the Esat long belore Mr. bal still fairly sound and plastic,

Walis of Mr. Parkin ever came to the East at

It will thus be soon...that us á "matter of | history the Botanic Gardens of Singapore were just about Jo years ahead of Ceylon, when Mr. Parkin first conceived the plan of making respectable looking rubber instead of the messy stuff only knowa thorn, till 1899. There is mething whatever to show however that good |

aleable samples of rubber were made in Ceyler

Lan early ma 1899, zither, published or in the correspondence with Qeylon Bötanic Gardens In our office.

Though Mr. Parkin was goable to visit the Bingapore Gardens, he obtained a good deal of information as to our work by correspond. ence, as he sent a long list of questions in 1899, on the subject and asked me to perform

ali.

As previously remarked history, it worth writing at all, is wasth writing accurately and compistely, and the stories of the origin of the industry as given by Messrs Willis and Parkin are inaccurate and misleading... —

Entimations.

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or misrepresent it in the feast, and it is not necessary, It is palatable as honey and con tains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry; and how valuable such a blending of thess important medicinal agents must be is plain to everybody, it is beyond price in Anemia, Jusimaia, Weakness and lack of Nervous Tone, Poor Digestion, Wasting Diseases, La Grippe, Lung Troubles and Blood Impurities. Science can furdish nothing batter perbafis nothing so good. Dr, W. H. Dalle, of Canada, says: "I have used it in my practice and take pleasure in recommending it as a valuable tonic and reconstructive. It is a remody that can afford to appeal to its record and represents the science and knowledge of bright and aggressive medical investigation. Effective from the fint dose. You cannot be disappointed in it" Like all good things it is imitated. Sold by chemists throughout the world;

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TENDERS FOR REVENUE FARMS.

FLOUNCED MADRAS certain experimens for him. Me, Willis writes TENDER

BRISE BLINDS:

White and Eoru

| in shower, April 15, 1899: —

Mr. Parkin was so busy finishing off" bis experiments that he had no time to answer yout kind letter about rubber in Singapore. be foie leaving fur England and he asked me to don. We are very much. obliged for the in.

24 in, and 36 in. long. tion...... Your trees yield much better

HARNESS MUSLIN

in

White and Ecru Frilled 2 Sides

Spot

in *

than pura, though poorly compared with those at. Para aud I am inclined to think that Para rubber planting will never be a big or lasting industry in the Bast. It must be remembered that rubber was at that date very low in price and that we were all tapping the every lightly and with much caution not being sors that the plant would stand the amount of cat. ting is gets nowadays, va

Since weating the abavo, a copy of the Tropi calAgriculturist bas come to hard giving Mr askin's paper in Seduce Progress is full. He modestly does not meation himself by name as the discoverer al wound response and the art of

and Fancy. De making cload rubber, but giver the credit of the

signs.

HARNESS MUSLIN

in

White and Ecru

“discovery to Mr. Wilis and his scientific ́assint- ant, As in Mr. Wijlus" various works in the bistory of Para rubber industry, no allusion is mads at all to the work of the Singapore Botanic Gudens. In Willis' Agriculturs in the Tropics the only allusion to the work dans in Singapore in: But little interest was taken in the traan for about 20 years (i. e. from about 1884) except

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Tenders will be received at the Office of the Government Secretary, Sandikan, up to iz o'clock noon on the 1st day of Uctober, 1910, for the purchass of the exclusiva privilegai of the Farms enumarated below for period of x, or 3 years commencing on the st January, 1911,

The Farms above referred to are the Opium, Spirit, Gambling, and Fawabreking Fans for the whole or part of the State. Copies of the Form of Contracts fit the Farms and full particular of the conditions 10 ba observad by tenderers may be iten un application at the Office of the Government Secretary, Sandakan, or of Messrs. Guthrie & Co., Singapore and Penang, or of Mosers, The fetal rates for Obando fixid. By Gibb Livingston & Co, at Hongkong. Government for the Opium Farm for 1911, 1912 and 1913 are those specified below

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THE OFFICE OY, TRUSTEE, EXEJUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c., Undertaken and Executed,

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.

Hongkong, rath March, 190817

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JAPANESE MASSAGE

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TRY THE

by the heads. of the Botanical departments Masacur MEIJI SHA,

in Ceylon, Java and Singapore.

Now all

that was done between 1888 and 1899 in Ceylon was to tap'a zinġls tres once a year.

unfrilled, 48 in. wide Jave nothing at all appear to have been

various sizes of Spot and

Fancy Patterns.'

PLAIN BOOK

done as the cross in Bastenang were tod small and wretched to offer any prospect of their being avar likely to be worn cultivating. About 1894 Dr. Tisub and Mr. Wigman, of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, came to visit the Singapore Gardens and wished to ace the rub bar trees. On the first, might of the younger was Dr. Trend wibed to ML. Wigman and säid, Wigmao; did, you evár sem such trees? No, said Wigmas, nothing-like them. I was

Muslin Curtains Frilled suprised but found this the Buitenzorg frees

all round

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in great variety in White, Ivory and Eoru.

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weit, though as old,. quite small and not at all encouraging in appearance. Dr. Treub took. the greatest interest in all economic plants but evidently up to that date had not thought of Fata-rubber as belog is suitabla 'cultivation för Juta, and as far as can gather, no experiments or records of observations were made in javs tillal.er 1899. Mr Willis does not aron men- tion De. Trimen's work, which doservas credit," as he was the first, f`beliovo, 16 tap the rubber tree in the East, and to record his results) Manwhile, the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, war at work" from 1889, and was laying the foundation of the (Adustry and indeed had sub- mitted saleable rubber of first class quality to experts, and had proved that the industry would pay well before Mr. Willis had ever see

rabber tree. Burely in an account of the rise of

the industry purporting to be a history of the

agicahare of the world; this work should not have been entirely ignored. It was known to mest of the planters of the East Indies and to misy, I am sure, in Ceylon,

It would be too long to detail all the disco.. varias and inventions made to the. Straits Set- tlements and F. M. 6, consected with the failure)'s the crope machines, the forms of rubber known as biscuit, block, crepe and

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