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Intimation.

70m. Dowell,

La..

GENTLEMEN'S

OUTFITTERS

NEW GOODS

SOFT DRESS-

SHIRTS

VERY LIGHT WEIGHT

PERFECT FITTING,

NEW

CELLNETT

UNDERWEAR.

COOL

SAFE

DURABLE.

BATH.

ROBES

LARGE ABB JRTMENT.

NECKWEAR

Exclusivo Designs

Specially Felected.

ART SHADES

URRPE DE QUINE

Jublic.

GREEN ISLAND

THE HONGKONG

LIMITE

EN INTERIM DIVIDENDS FIFTEEN

AGENTS Per Share IN MY

tha anding goth of Jone, 1910, will be payable 19th day of September, 1910, on which date, an Dividend Warrants may be obtained an up- plication at the Company's Office. BThe TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company, will be CLOSED. from the rst to the tath day of Septembar, 1018, both days inclusivation

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, Mac General Managers.Myby!

· Hongkong, 26th Augusti 1910. BAGONG 557

THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER

COMPANY, LIMITED. MO

An

THE NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL

MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS.1 the Company will be held at the OFFICE of the Compaer, St George's Buildior, No. 6 Connaught Road, on SATURDAY, the 17th September 1910 at Noop, for the purpose of receiving Statement of Accounts and Report of the Gener I Managers for the year anding

face

BLEGRAPH

MAR

USKRS FÁUJ

disinctly nocumlóriable factor has been the Rubber Musket by the persistent trend in chers valuas sacorded af Aro we, or ata we nɛk, to robber, the very direct effect upon the value of this commodity ex- perienced in 1007? This is n question many of those interested in the raw rubber market have been putting to themselves each morning as they read the paws of sha'n, movamente is New York, and the question is one, frankly, none outside the tomost clicla ja rubber can 'pretend to answer in a fishlën likely to bring immediate comfort to the Plantation Rubber shareholder,

and

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in these: condit however, would business in the United State

dead, the tarif

BUTCHER'MEATZ

Whits

-Mei Lung På h

-Ham Ngan Yak

that the

clog so opink

best

they could

The fact that the United States consumes represent the market for about da p of the world's available supplies of raw 'rubber par cant

EDENT OF CONSUMPTION. reason. - Take a=marked[decline, generally admitted. The farther:fact_thit manufacturers bathay large or small-moted States consumptics

raw rubbe acquira, and that sperdily, substantial addi.

rions" resalt would be the Mums

the

31st July, 19te, and 'alacting a Consulting: ions to their; marrow a'ocks, or, must fil’Thats facreased supplies (sooner or later) at the Committee and Auditors, Avi orectically, empty, athres, are a couple of òb./ tres where the demand, If not axactly growli

· SHEWAN, TOMES & Cữ stous facis which causó escupa the attention, least capilatest, and possibly, improving||

General Managers. Hongkong, and September, agro [570 of the careful student of this panicular would be a prossunced increase in visible upon comparative Sguras.” (The first", remit dastrial position

"stocks at iba mail Impɔring cactres ↑ the second, a perfectly reasonabla ¿disinclination rn the part of contamers to purchase' elthar

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO, LD. THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEET ING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the abore Company will be held at the Company's Ofices, on SATURDAY, the 24th Septembar at Nooo, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Accounts to the goth June, igro.

►

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, grå Septembar, rora."

[58

* If, however, a period of practically universaj depression, due primarily to the loability of the United States to export raw material, or partially manufactured material, in the shape of cotton, com, etc, has to be faced, two very certain prospects are in front of the American manufacturer,« p

wild rubber at the 'raling rates or to bid for cultivated rubber at prices recently easily ob either by private treaty or by purchases at tainable at auctions. Furthermore, when,

of manufacturers in the cruntry and, perhaps, lower prices at auctions, the Invisible supplies

In the first, place, be has to recognise that aubrinkage in the usual fiancial facilities will be CLOSED from the gth to 24th Septem-lated upon. In the second refusst, on the bought their raw material in suficient quantities The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company granted him in boon times has to be calcu-on the Conileant had bas i materially increased —when, indead, these manufacturers | had 'ber, both days inclusive.

part of the banks, to finance his venturer maans, no doubt, decreased output, and at fit to practically guarantee them against the pri- sight Increased selling prices for the articles or open markets fer crude rubber for some which he is converting from raw material into for raw subber would be of necessity lower-

considerable time to come-the ruling values marchandiseable commodities. The question, however, at once arises, cin the potential con- perhaps much lower than the producer has sumers, the proletaria", or, at bea', the lower ressonable grounds to expected middle classes-aran la i Republic grades of society obtain continue to live upon the spending basis which boom limes admit of them doing? Amillionaire, it is triste, my get through In the course of a year two dessa pairs of rub. bert; but, from the producer's standpoint, his

Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION

or

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY THE

"HX Undersigned_will_Sell by PUBLIC

AUOTION,

THURSDAY,

the 8th September, 1910, at ra d'clock (Nooo).orders in point of profis earned from oslas do Bad such anticipations this affect when, as the

at bis Salon Rooms, Deddell Street.

IN ONE LOT.

#

Total Arra 6,738 square feat. Total annual Crown Rent St18.21, For further particulars, Conditions of Sale and inspection of plans, apply to

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, 5th August, 1910

Entimations

PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.

[$58

Vai Livät. Ngio w"Trips (undr Galvos' Hood

Mutton Chop

«Log--Young Pei

Shoulder Young

Pige Calling-Chi chaong

Brains--Uh! Know. Fani-Chi Kuok

Fry-Ubi Chak

* Hand--UKI TES Lest-Chi Sum Kidneys--Uh! Yia

料。

Liver-Oki Kon

`Pork, Chop-Ch) Pal Kwat ... w. Gornad-Han Chu Yak- » Leg-Oka Pal

Tal or Lard-Oke Ya`

It might be at once asserted, of course, that given restoration of donacial equlilbitum, or fresh period of prosperity is the United

that the veritable demand-or even Eksep's Hand and Fort-Young Tan- the expectation of such 'n' demand during the time of depression-would and must have a steadying #fect upon the price of crude rubber, resu ́t of the 1997 Yankes collapte, rubber fell stillings per pound below what hai since bean admitted to be its nattiral commercial lava!) Of course not. This is 191-911, no fax në the Brasilisa supplies are concerned and the tron intervening years have materially altered the situation, so far as raw rubber supplies ga. In goy the Middle East was shipping some thousands of tentative pounds' weight of rub bar per au

shipped its thousands of cule of fine dry rub- In 1913 the Middle East has

berg in 1gh the Middle East, will ship its bonsands of tons of dry rubber, equil in quality, for the most part, to the best that Brazil can, or ever will, produce.

not equal the single pairs, or, perhaps the couple of pairs, per capilom purchased by the All those Pieces or Parcels of Ground situate worker under full time" or the cleak io em at Kowloon Point and registered in the Landployment these latter requirements dguring At Office spectively a THE REMAINING. PORTION OF SECTION "A" OF KOW. thousands of pairs of robbers against the mil LODN INLAND LOT No. 4, and THElionaire's couple of dosen. Givon, thes, short REMAINING FORTION OF SEOTION time in the industrial world, the sacking and "B" KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 441 (if we may judge on an cld-world analogy) the with the Europeas Dailing House thatson known as "GLENTHORNE," Kimberley Road.

subsequent and almost immediate impoverish The Property is hold for the residue of the

ment of the blackcoat brizade through absence term of 75 your from the 24th June, 1888, of employment and inability to obtain fresh created by the Crowo L-ase of Kowloon Inland "cribe" on account of #nancial depression, the Lot No. 441,

ultimate effect upon the prof of any producer who is not directly associated with the vanding (in some form or other) ofab o'utely essentia commodities may be readily gunused.

[If we allow, on the most -Eiberal scale, for We hire lostacced only one source of retocreased European rubber consumption, we venna open, to the United States rubber manu- facturers- source which roughly represents same seven millions sterling per annum to him and to his fellows. Rubbers are hardly look ed upon throughout the Esstern Stalas of America na luxuries, but if a man or a family l forced to consider the question of goloshte and food, we fascy food would hold the win alog card. Incomerable other industrial and domestic economies in cansection with the rubber manufacturing trade would of necessity fallow, especially if the spell of deancial de pression were lo any way profange?.. POSSIBLE EFFECT OF A REDUCED DEMAND. -Accepting 181)," then, as so inevitable 'fact, | und ansutting that the chases of the demand for manufactured rubber goods in the Sistes are, in consequence, reduced to near the mini. mum, the question mot aunstar-lly, arises what is the prospectiva effict upon the prics of the raw material' shou'd 'such · depression prove more than merely temporary? Koowing, af we spw do, that the United States rubber | mannfacturers" hava" "nott's] stocks of : raw material in hän i which they had prior to, due ing and immediately after the 1967 parted of depression; knowing too, that the chances are all galost a prosperous "fall" in the United Sales the inability of this country to export grain, according to present harvest calcula tions, alons is practically a proof in point

NOTICE.

OR the purpose of renewing some parts of FOR the of the Service of Cars will be SUSPENDED from 8.00 P.M. on SATURDAY, 10th lost, till 8.00 AM, an MONDAY, Tath inst

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.. Hongkong, 1st Septembar, 1910- [578

STATE OF NORTH BORNEO.

TENDERS FOR REVENUE FARMS,

T Revenus Forms in the State of North ENDERS are lovited for the lease of the

Borneo from rat January, 1911, as set out bereander-

Tenders will be received, at the Office of the Government Secretary, Bandacan, up to 12 o'clock noon on the 1st day of October, 1910, for the purchase of the exclusiva privileges of the Farms, enumerated below for a period of 1, 1 of 3 year commencing on the 1st January, 1911,

The Farms above referred to are the Opium, Spirit, Gambling, and Pawnbroking, Farms for the whole or part of the State. Copias of the Forms of Contracts for the Farms and fall particolars of the conditions IRISH POPLIN, ETU, to be observed by tenderem may be seen on application at the Office of the Government Secretary, Sandakan, or of Messrs. Guthrie & Co Singapore and Penang, or of Messrs. Gibb Livingston & Co. at Hongkong

EVERYTHING

FOR

GENT'S WEAR.

WM POWELL,

LTD.

28, Queen & Road, Opposite Clock Tower

the raw-rubber consumers remain the anxious borers of the commodity they have been desing recent months, or will thay, Bearing upon the inevitable adfect of their buying is a narrow market, refrain from openly appearing therein, and consequently cause a material carction in the avarage price of the commodity & D

It has been generally admitted that while the smaller rubber manufacturers in the States are living a band-to-month existence in the ski malier of supplies, the farga firm sirapreson,log "the ''! Trust!"—bad suficient saw material is hand to sully dil orders for the autumn and winter, but at the and of July their storen-vla other words, thale Invisibla suppliss-would (sta ||rench vanishing point...

"The "retail" :raids for Chanda, fixed by Goverement for the Opium Farm for 1911, 1015 and 1015 ars, those specified below

"For

Fevary's packet

3 chi receptacle Er tahli· 'stongkang, seth, Juos, 191a,

0.24

BRITISH-FOREIGN IMPORT &

THE POWER OF THE TRUSTS,

Heart-Young Sum............... Kidneys-Yeong Vis

Sucking Pigs, To Ordar--Chu Chai Livar-Yacog Co¤..............................

Sust. Adel-Sang Ngan Yatri B

Veal-Ngay Cha! Vakuum.

Matton-Sang Yeung Yan menu

„Sausages—Ngan Chai Yak Tang.",

POULTRY,

Chicken-Kal Obal Capons, Large, Small-Sle Dacks-Ap Doras-Pan Kan

Haluan Hol Nam Kal

|cannot ignore-evan: if we wished to do, wa| Eggs, Hen—Xa! Tan, do not-the stupendous factor North America Fowls, Cantonus Kal unquestionably in in the matter of consump tion of supplies. It may be said that the United States must have robber:- Trus enough, the r'oited States must have rabber-more Gaste, Wild Shanghai-Shaung Kol Ya rubber (according to the latest available statis-

Ngo tice) by ta per cent than the last of the world Musk Dar-Weng Kong combined. But no power on earth can compel Hare-In Oba!. the United States to buy, rubber un« manufacturers there consider too high for their Phassan-Shan Kal

Partridge--Chi Khoo lador sonumi (prices the requirements; and if, as it might so fall out, Pignoni, Canice-Pak Kep the United States cannot pay for the rabber which its manufacturers require, actual ma factored rubber necessitler can be purchased ́abiond'to be' sold to; internal consumare at more or less reasonable prices market which the tariff regulations would speedily close the moment financial consideratione admitted the advent of the United States consumers of the raw material figuring once more in the market as purchasers,

--||GAN - REGENT VALUES DE MAINTAINED ?...E

Holbow-Hollow Pak Kup.

Quali-Un-Daz

dozas

· each

Rice Birds-Wo Fx Chenk Salpe--Sa Onal ... Corkeys, Cock-Fa Kal Kang........ par

Wild Ducks, Sharghal, Sulappale

The first poist, then, for the average Plane Taal, Shanghal, Szl Ap | talion Rubber : shareholder la consider seems Wild Ducks Canton-Gang (Thing -Sul

to us is-can recent raw rubber values (after making allowance for all obvious, contingas. cia) be maintained! We hardly think so i but away to realles his holdings; for, as far as upon this • qualified opinion he need not rush plantation tabber producers are concarand spy dacline in the selling price of rabber will more than offset by the Increased annual comm, eaten in the improbable ersal of, rubs outferns of these properties for some yours to ber falling to, say, the 6d. per The Kran the eternal Absence of United States from the world's rawaabber markets could not ab ut such a state'di affairsAset

g

expected (and that, le

*Rubber; however, falling some totally und

Kappens) der alopaikat, illegale lower in and future. But plantation rubber--Middla Kem for a long time to come a very profitable Invest- plantaties: rabber, at any ratesswill continue- mest.

GRA

THE BRITISH ORANG, Central Build ingu, Liverpool, England, le prepared to are, admittedly voyɩginal. How great it Frceira Consignments of Local Produce Depot within our knowledge to accuratel best térina,

Ecations of the United Squat Rabbar " Truk -

The and of Jély is here; the flouncini rae ASTATIC

HUNG OF A CO SHOWROOM AND STORE

at the Promslags formerly occupied by

A7A, QURENT KOAD CENTRAL

GENES

1458

"but the polst remains, we the pows associated purchasing and manus cerna suficiently strong to

the price of the raw

fif a periodimo!

their beyarp a

FOR SALE

ĮTAMPO

Limes, (Saigon) Baf

Mango, Manila-Kui Sung Mo Mango, Saigon Sal Kung Moor Mangosteens, San Chak Tır per dos. m|| Omages, Tim Chang Jh3%

Smilli-Tál Kü Mandarin-Tim'Kut Oliver-Pak Lamik aussenpai Passion Fruit

Pears, (American)-Kam Sas Shut Li Kriel (Cantos), Gooking-Sa LI Peanuts-Fa Sang .............................. Persimmons, Laryng--Hung Chie

e-apples, xa quality--Sheung Poon 27 71 Paw-lawaAN

and cooking-Chung-tang.

18. Platulus--Til Chin Me

50

Hoa Ban Her L |Pumelo, Slam-Chim Lo Yas,

Walnuts, Hop To ...

Green---Sang Hop Ton. Shanghai Lo Kwat

VEGETABLES, &c Artichokes, Shanghal-Shenne Hol As

Chi Chank

| Baani, (French) Macas-"Ok: Moon Pis

Beang,(Frubch), Shanghal-Shenng Hol

Pia Taus Beans, Sprost-Ak CholÆRANÍ Brant, Long-Tau Kok !! Best Root-Hang Chol Tan. Ball One. DurInn Kar Brinjala, Rad---Hung Kar uzzvijevo, | Bamboo Khaola-Cheok Shas Blahbags, Chinese, .com. --Kal Gabbage, Rad-Xal Lan Tan Cabbage, (Shanghai)- Yab „h Dana Bapots, banch--Kau :

*3 | Ganfflower, Large size-Tal Yel

Canlidower, Medium else Okanng Yah

Cauliflower, Small size-Sal Yeh Chol Carrota-Kam Shar

Calary: Chinese-Tong Kan Choy Calary, English--Yeung Kan Chat w Cular, Walter Pa Yunr Kit Caul Chillies, Dried Com Lat Chin

* Red-Hang mange Lay

With Green Okeng Lat Chia......... Carry Stuff, English-Ka- Les Choi Liu 25 | Oncumber-Cheng Xwa:

Bittar Squash-F¤ Ke Garlic Saun Tan,

Gloger, young-Sun

old-Lo Kenng

Horse Radish Shanghai- Indian Jord-Sök Ma)

“Matar, Chasauta-Ma

Mush