1911-04-29 — Page 3

OUT LETTER BOX.

THE KOWLOON RAILWAY,

To the Editor of the "Tele graphi,"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL 29 1911

Chamber of Commerce for fullor facilities to meet the growing needs of a still expanding trade.

For the inordinate length of those lucubrations, and for my prosumption in addressing you at all,

I apologiso as an

OUTSIDER Hongkong, April 28..

must be largely conjectural. To an outsider there appears to But oven assuming that n be something potty in the conton hearer approximation to actual tion that the mechanical repairs, cost night, with more oare, lave required on a government mail- been originally presented by the way, should booxecuted in private responsible engineers it would workshops, on the ground, for still have been an unreliable os sooth, that such repairs, if done Sir, It is with that ugreeable timate for purposes of actual con- departmentally, will adversely souse of "dotachment from all struction. The detailed plan affect trade jutorests. Thore can- rosponsibility and risks, at önce and specific work estimates would not surely be any undue com- the comfort and qualification still have been necessary to deter-petition, unless and until the rail-. which enables the onlooker to mine, with any degree of accuracy, way workshops begin to doublic Companies the singunt of capital required to extraneous work for privato par- seo most of the game, that construct the line. And it is only ties. This, of course, is not for vonture again to offer a low such an estimate that lends itralf missible. But that engine and observations on the Council pro- to critical examination and justi-vehicle repairs should be given fiable comment. Furthermore, the out to contract both on the score coadings reported in your- -issue

Hon-member-seems-to-be-un-of-economy-and-also-to-foster-FINAL-DIVIDEND of Twenty of yesterday.

aware that it is the exception, local industries is equivalent to The generous reference to

rather than the rule, for an origi- recommending the British'artisan "Outsidor's' previous latter, mado by the hou. Colonial ostimate of an important to abolish his domestic wash-tub and complex project, liko aby patronising the now Chinoso Sacrotary, maro stimulative, per-railway, involving large outlay laundries, now multiplying at DAY, to 26th instant.

activities; and most of us

The commercial member of your

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED). NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..

that date,

By Order of the Board,

Intimation s

FOUNDED IN HONOUR, - No doubt you have men, in the mich

myers anninunostints as this concerning one medicine or other "If, on trial,

Notices of Firms.

THE CHINA-BORNEO CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE.

DURING my tempomey absenco

you write that this medicine has done you nú good wo will refund your tanney."- Now, we liavo never hand reason to speak || from the Colony Mr. HENRY In that way concerning the reinedy named WILLIAM KENNETT will act s In this articlo. In a trade oxtending Monger at Hongkong of the above

nawed Company. throughout the worki, nobody has over complained that our muclicing has failed, THE OHINA-BORNEO Co., Ld.

Manager, WILLIAM D. Jure...

kod for the return of his money

THE MERCANTILE-BANK-OF- INDIA, LIMITED.

the Branch of this Bank inl

Intimations.

A LING & COM FURNITURE AND PHOTO SUPPLIES.

DEVELOPING, PRINTING AND

ENLARGING.'" '10, Quoon's Road. [863

TSANG KWONG

COMPANY.

ELECTRICAL AND GAS CONTRACTORS-

I HAVE this day assumed charge of 230, Dos Vœux Road Central? Hongkong.

F. O. MACDONALD. Hongkong, 28th April, 2011. [1092

Telephone No. 099, Hongkon2. 2nd Jan., 1911.

SOUTH MANCHURIA

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RAILWAY

The publle nover grumbles at honestly Hongkong, 24th April, 1011, [1070 and skillfulty unde, bread, or at a medi fine which really and actually dong_what_ Dollars per Share for the your was muude toito. Tho Commutations of WAMFOLE'S PREPARÁTION - 1909 and an Interim Dividend of Thirty Dollars per Blare for the year are laid in sincerity mid lonerar, the know- 1910, will be payable on WEDNES-ledge of which on the part of the people explain its popularity and success. There Warrants may be had on Application is nothing to disguise or conccal. It was at the Office of the Society on and after not dronised out, or discoveral hy no

cident; it was studied out, on the solid principles of applied medical science It in palatable as honey and contains all the | nutritive and curative properties of Fue Cod Liver Oil, exirastej by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Ex remedy is praised by all who have en tracts of all and Will Cherry. This

played it in any of the disonses it, in recommended to ruisvo mui cure, and is Serefuta, Nervous, and General Debility effective from the Host doma. In Ancinia Influenza, La trips, and Throat and SHORTEST & QUICKEST precisely what it is said to be, and hing won the confidence of the public on flint basis. You may remet to it with a faith and hope that arise from the history of what it has done for others. Dr. Thos Hun Stucky maya: “The continuel nie.of it in my practice convinces tho that that it is the most palatable, leist nauseating, and best preparation new on the market, Onu bottle proves its intrinsic vaino, (2) That the Liquidator be authorisYou can lo dispainted in it, Seli

ol to pay out of the funds of the Company a aum not uxcoal by chemists throng but the world. ing $100,000 ny componzation to members of the Company's HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB. lat Ulass

Should the above Resolutions be "THE ANNUAL DINNER will ba

C. MONTAGUE LDE,

Secretary. Hongkong, 26th April, 1911. [1084 THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED. possibilities whichlio in your little N EXTRAORDINARY GEN- LOTICE is foreby given that an railway and its future connections,

When in the early sixties the ERAL MEETING of the National writer heard the Father of Bank of China, Lindel, will be hold Equatorial Africa-David Living-at St. George's Building, Chanter Boat, stone-lecture on the great the Twenty-fourth day of June, 1911, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, known land, little did he dream at 12.30 o'clock jum., for the purpose ing as Extraordinary Resolutions, the following Resolutions, that is to say:- (1) That the Company be wound-up voluntarily, and that Arthur Rylands Lawe, Chartered Ac countant, of Thomor's Cham- bers, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C. and St. George's Building, Hongkong, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for tho

of such winding-up. purpose

lips, than morited, may have operated to call forth this ad- and comprising numerous sub-home, and to thus reduce the ditional contribution, to the sidiary works, to provide for weekly cost of living. litorature on the subject. For very unforeseen contingency To suggest that the unofficial fow of us are fully conscions of and to eventually prove to be members should "think imperial- all the determining innoncesxact measure of expendi-ly" istogiven personal illustration which govern life's simplest turo incurred. A slight acquaint- | of what Milton terms "the iurrow anco with the history of our other intellectunts of quotationists,” Inbour undor the pleasing fiction Crown colonies and overes donn-But it may not be out of place inions sufliciently illustrates this. hore and now to picie the sober that we are able, at times, take for instance the ganda add a little to the accumulating tailway. Who has not read the volume of hutant knowledge.

painful record of that noble un Legislativo Council certainly de-dertaking? Ita estimated cost was servos to be congratulatod on hayrginally placed at £1,000,000. Fivo timos that sun was actually ing the courage of his convictions. Such virile opposition is distine-spent before it was finally built, tivoly healthful. One may from Here was room for adverse criti-that within the century the of ounsidering and, if thought fit, paws-Lung Troubles, it is a specifs,

cism, and the pages of Hansard whistle of tho locomotivo experience know the necessity, bear witness how unstintedly it would awaken the echoes of usefulness and resulting advant

was moted out to the construction those přimoval dopths or that

•agos of combatting the proposals,

· plans and policy of Crown Colony Committee responsiblo to the he himself would travel on a Governments. But, on the other Foreign Oflice and to the engineers British railway running from the hand, it must in fairness be nil-in East Africa. Upon completion, const to the shores of the grant mittel, that wisdom does not al- despite the inexactitude of revised Nyanza, immortalised by the ways have its springs in unofficial ostinate after estimate, the ongi- greater name of Victoria. The neor-in-chief was_rowarded with impossible of yesterday has bo- sources. It is not infrequently

K.C.B. and tho then government come the commonplace of to-day. the caso, that the administra- tive-horizon is wider than-the- broathed a sigh of relief, or sung The popular knowledgeof Central commercial view, that the por spective from the official ex- centive standpoint is truer and soon through a more clarified atmosphere, than as discerned from mercantile altitudes, which seldom riso quite above the on- circling mists of legitimata trade and vested interests. Indeed, one of the many functions that the

Looking across the dark con- ollicoradministering such govorn

tinent we see a somewhat similar montis expected to perform, is to foresee possibilities of develop conation or tunge, toga ADE U ment, to lure to brighter prospects smaller sealo. The systematic and to lend the way. In the serene advancement of our West African calm of his study, unaffected Colonies called for the invest by the periodic fluctuationsent of borrowed capital in de-

for

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a pienn of thanksgiving, that Africa geography in those days, they had not to continuo asking to the schoolboys' delight, was for further parliamentary grants. confined to the known mountains Some, uncharitably, thought that of the moon and to the unknown to honour of knighthood confer sources of the Nilo. The map red was an ingenious form of was then a nameless, colourless white-washing the ongincor-in-void, conveniently suggestive of Lassed by the fquisite majority, they hold TO-NIGHT, April 39th, chief and all concerned. I could dosert. The morning tint of will be submited for confinuation as

maltiply instances, but must con- fine myself to one other example,

But on

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staff.

Chairman.

To Zrt.

-TO LET.

LATS in Nathan Road, Kowloon.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES. volour-nerd throughout. Cheap Ront. newly painted aud

NEW and COMMODIOUS SHOPS, athan Road, Kowloon. Immediate possession. Cheap Rental.

Apply to-

:

HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE Co., Ld.

[968 Hongkong, 16th Mar., 1911.

571EET.

Apply to

TO LET.

wiving

(c/o Hongkong Club). Hongkong, 29th April, 1911. [1068 IN THE MATTER OF HER- BERT WILLIAM KENNY, DECEASED. NOTICE is hereby given that authority has been granted by His Britanic Majesty's Supremo Coust for Chins and Corea to JAMES WIL LIAM JAMIESON Esq. C.M.G., H.D.M.'s Consul-Gonoral at Canton to Administer the catate of the above- matad deceased who died at Hongkong on March the 11th, 1911.

All persons having claims against the said ostalo am hereby required to send Particulars of such claims to the Under- DODDELL signed on or before the 10th day of June, 1911, after which date the assets will be distributed having regard only to claims of which notion shall thou | have bengiven and NOTICE is here- by given that all persons indebted to the said estate are required to make Iiomodi. ate payment to the Undersigned.

J. W. JAMIEHON, H.B.M.' Conani-General.

THE HONGKONGLAND:

INVESTMENT & AGENCY

'COMPANY LIMITED.

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TO LET. “REGGAN," 89, The Poak.

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No. 10, MAUDONNELL-ROAD, OFFICES in KING'S BUILDINGS

4th Floor.

1088

Hongkong, 27th April, 1911.

NETHERLANDS LLOYD

at 7:40 p.m., in the HoxOKONG Britain's Empire has, for years Spreial Resolutions to a Second Extm-Horzi. Munbare intending to be past, crimsoned inost of that un-ordinary General Meeting which will present should notify the undersigned, known region, and the dawn of a equently convent

Date Filiconth day of March, 1911. number of guests they intend to its deliverance from savagery is "-"'SOUFT HARSTON,

'[904 railway engineer and his sub- ordinate, the platelager, have! been pioneers in opening up the dark places of the earth and of commerce and equally nain-velopmoutal railways. The recivilising barbarous peoples. The fluenced by even cyclonic distur-cognizanco survey's forecasts of value of their services has but bances in exchange, that mandy requirements were wholly mis partially been recognised. Some of the silver-using East,ho is, lending, and oven the original day, perhaps, we shall attach the manifestly, in a more favourable detailed estimates proved to be sama reward to the scientific position to judge dispassionately greatly inadequate. The usual alignment of a tropical railway all enterprises conceived for the cry of extravagance and endlessly as we do now to the strut and wider welfare of the people, and oxpensive works was hourd. But mimicry of the stage and to the to gange, with greater accuracy, no one today has the temerity to phenomenal success of a grocery the measure of permissible finan- question the wisdom of the store or a sugar refinery,

The development of railway ciul burdons, which the colony Colonial Oleo in making that bught to carry, alike for its own investiment, or w repeat the old onterprise in China in rocont advancement and as a guarantee cry of wasteful expenditure. It is years in introducing a new cle- of imperial stability and progress, now recognised that a prescientment into its trade conditions, a Our merchant princes, like the secretary was then directing our new factor into the problems of GODOWN No. 5, founders of all great business ven- colonial affairs. The larger issues commercial life and into Chinese Hongkong, ns the tures which have achieved colossal of Imperial foderation and British politics. success, have boon trained, per-supremacy under the Southern cross-road of international sail- foree, in the school of commercial Cross would probably have beenings and the world's seaborne expediency,... They cannot, if they more than enough to overtaz the trade must, of necessity, be would, escapo from the influence thought and chorgies of a less greatly affected by those alongkong 1st April, 1911, ..

the tered conditions. To retain for of that spirit. The beneficent astulo mind. low of habit makes it extremely choss-board of Imperial poli- your port the premier position it dithcult, if not impossible, ties the British West African has so long hold, it was absolute-

them to regard,

with pawn was not overlooked by ly necessary to connect it by favour, any investment that does the great master-player, and railway with southern and central not, at least, promise a return in its advancement may some day China. This has been wisely and a mensurable period of time and play an important part in the well done. Within the next de- nt farthest within the natural combined move and the resulting cade trains ought to be ranning term of life. Unlike the builders chockmate to the political aspira between Hongkong and Hankow and Hankow and the borders of of empire they cannot projections of our African neighbours.

In respect of the railway locomo Thibet, while through bookings their intorosta, or their under- takings, into a remoter futuro undtive work shops, the hon. member of goods and passengers will bo be content to lay the unseen and his supporters concede that establislied between London and foundations on which posterity certain machineries are probably Lhussa, Switzerland and Sze- alone will eventually raise the requisito, but contend that all chwan.

When that time arrives, it re- superstructure of an amplo repairs and renowals need not ho return, a fuller dominion. Somo executed by the railway staff. In quires no spirit of divination to Buch reason, surely, must be the the absence of a fuller knowledge foretell that the value of land on true explanation of the attitude of the commercial member's de tlie Kowloon foreshore will havo still maintained by the hon. mem- sires and opinion on this point, more than doubled in value, and to judge your Government been forced, bor, representing the Chamber of it is impossible Commerce, towards the framers whether such an arrangement under pressure of necessity, to or Batis erect railway wharfs and godowns of the original railway estimate, would be feasible and against the provision of funds factory. The general public, to meet the growing deman is of

VEUX ROAD CENTRAL, for fully equipped locomotive however, cannot fail to notice the rail-borne trado. Experience has SECOND FLOOR of No. BA. DES workshops. A wider experience existence of a latent tenderness elsewhere painfully proved the newly comploted with Lift and Lava- would havesaved tholion, member for a certain class of commer unwisdom of planning oily for the tories.

Apply to from his undignified insistence in cial concerns, rather than that day of small things, and the truc treating a preliminary forecast of broad sympathy. with trado in economy of making adequate pro- probable capital cost, with the terests in general which tie vision for magnificent expansion Bengkong, 22nd April, 1911. [1075 CANTONESE SILVER WORK Foriousness which usually attachos | Chamber of Commores, without by timely and largo expenditure. to a proper estimato, propured partiality, must surely entertain I is as safo, as it in easy,

ስኒ prophesy that, after the final location survoy and and be desirous of exhibiting, to ascertained quantities of work, The river ateam-ship companies very distant date, Canton will computed from the data of actual secin to take a more philosophic become the Chicago of Southern measurements and completed view. The railway will assuredly China, from which centre rail- plans. The former is a rough enter into active competition with ways will radiate into the region guess at the cost of a project based the preexisting water-route traffic, beyond. When that day comes, on a more recoguisanco survey, Itail-borne trade will inevitably a visitor to Hongkong will wonder, and at normal rates for which influence steamer freights earn not at the restrictive recommen- similer work has been done else-ings. But this is no reason why dationsof your unofficial members, where under like conditions. It the admitted advantages of rail- but at the hesitancy of your is obvious that suola a forepast way communication should not government to comply with all

new and untried field, bo secured for the general weal, the demanda of

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(150 Hongkong, Bib Apul, 1911.

TO LET.

DAVID SASSUON & Co.

TO LET.

of AMSTERDAM AND BATAVIA.

- The Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at CURRENT RATES.

WENDT & CO., Hongkong, Canton & Swatow,

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THE

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TICKET AGENCIES-The-Company's railway and stasmor tickets ^arg. obtainable at all the Agunnies of the International Sleeping. Car & Expresa Train Co., the Nippon Yuen Kaisha, Shanghai, Messre. Thos, Cook & Son, and Reiseburend der Hamburg-Anorika Ligio.

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