1911-08-08 — Page 3

SOME WONDERS OF SINGAPORE.

THE -HONGKONG

"This is a proof," "your Ex-

'Wa wouldn't commit himself on

TELE

Assets

of Marine Lot No.

5, and remaining por- tion of Marine Lot No.

3, and `romnining por- tion of Matino Lot No. 7, and buildings thero-

on, najor last reconstė1,099,518,2- Marino Last No. 288

It is a land of wonderful fecundity, necording to Mr. Du collency, that the English lungu- Val Bois, who, to prove that his age in the commercial salvation stories are not mero travollera' of your country." A liute more than two years talee, has brought back a photo: ago, when Jumos T. Du Bois, our graph of a bunch of bananas that point, but he urged Mr. Du Consul-General at Singapore, which grew on a little tree at the Bois to slop eating meat and received word that Presidont side of Singapore's principal busi-said that if he would he could Taft had him slated for the job, nes street. The bunch is moro qualify to be a guest at a dinner a lot of Job's comforters tried to than seven feet long, contains be- which Wu said ho mount to give fell him that he was bound for tween 1,500 and 2,000 bananus, in 1959 to President Taft, Col. the jumping off place of the and in order to allow it to attain ite Rosevelt and othersof his friends, world. One kind friend remind maximum growth it was noces providing that they quit moat od Mr. Du Bois that Congresssary to dig a hole two feet deep eating and so lived long enougli had appropriated. $5,000 to bring at the side of the tree, so that the to be prosent. home concular remains, and sug-bunch would not lic upon the

On his way homo Mr. Du Bois gested that Mr. Du Bois was ground. To all of this Mr. Thi right in line to secure a part Roia is willing to tako oath, 11-stopped off in the Philippines ami of the appropriation. Then though an eminent divine his visited the Government stock

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(Fraya Reclamafion). na Baikling ("Hotel Mansionis ") thereon, as jer Inst necount ... 621,892.68 Rebuilding south bluck,

pilin nevount to date | 861,080.01 The Chinse houses on

furins, experimentstations and the ohms B. C. and D. various bureaus. He says that of filant Lot No. 80, not even England has a botter s01.

as per inst an ount ... of officers in charge of colonial Konkin, fann Lot No. work.

"They're all ablo fellows," be said, and they could work won- ders if they had a free hand." He seemed to think that the devel rucnt of the Philippines was being greatly hindered by a ton talkativo nativo legislature which gave much energy to words and littlo to work.--" N. 1. Sun."

COMPANY · REPORT,

Hongkong Hotel.

The following figures represent the liabilities, assots an profit and loss account of the above named hotel for the, six inonthe

Profit and Loss Account

crown rent.......... rate.........

$2,121.01

an insurance agent como along assured him int he will receive an election to certain well known that tho company Any he represented was the only club when this story is printed. The British who rule Sing one that would insure a man bound for Singaporo. Mr. Dapore, koeping perfect order with Bois got linck to New York the handful of whites among forty- other day on his way to his home different races, 200,000 of in Pennslyvanin on a vacation wlion are Chinese, aro spending He woigh two pounds more than $20,000,000 on the port and will when he started for Singapore, construct there the biggest dry and appropriations for the care dock in the world. Mr. Du Bois of consular remains don't interest says that they intend to make it him at all.

the great naval base of the future Mr. Du Bois thinks it's a pity for England of the East. that people hereabout know so Going back to the tin export, little about the seventh port of Mr. Du Bois said that a lot of the world and the gateway to the Malay. tin comes back to Singa- Malay Peninsula, which Mr. Dapore in the shampo of gallon cans Bois says is tho bost rubber fult of oil sent out in the Standard country in the world. All the Oil Company's ships. About sume when he got his orders to go 13,000,000 of these oil ins me there and had dialger the last of dropped in Singapore every year, the friends who wanted to sym-and at one time they went to the pathize with him, he confesses, he waste heap. Now the Chinese wont home and began to search Mr. Du Bois calls them "the the map for Singapore. He found human dynomos of the penin-ending June 30, 1911:~ it all right, but couldn't lourn sula"-gather up the discarded inuch about the country from the cans and turn them into dust To bad and doule: fuldights books. He says that knowing pans, lamps, nutinog graters and where the place was put linn just oven the framework for false one jump ahead of the inan thay teetli.

Mr. Du Bois says that the Chi- tell about in consular circles who was ordered to Zanzibar. That use on the Malay peninsula offer man dropped out of sight, builino oxample of what the race Uncle Sam nover hoard of him for is capable of when they have "a two years. Thon one day he fair and equal chaned with the burst into the foreign office in men of other nations." They Washington and exclaimed: get this chance under the square "Where in hell is Zanzibar dent which Mr. Du Bois suye anyway? I've been clean around the English give their colonier the world and I haven't found it without. talking about it, and they do the business of the yot."

And yet Singapore is very fat peninsula. He eno to know the from the jumping off place," principal Chinese merchants and according to Mr. The Bois. In the found that they had a very sincere first place 28,000 vessols enter the admiration for America and all port every year and the United things American, Mr. Du Bois States along sonds out 6,000 tou- thinks very highly of the Chinese, rists, who have to stop over there and he says that men in the East! a day or two, since Singapore is who know most about Oriental the half way station of the world. affairs think that the most states- Through it passes the Malay Pemanlike work the United States ninsula's export of tiu, amounting has over done was its part in the to 75 per cent. of the world's four Power loan to China, which trade in tin, of which the United ho says has secured the safety States takes from $10,000,000 tond stability of that country. $14,000,000 worth [ your, Nothing daunted by the cloud roturning about $800,000 worthist upon his veracity by the in the shape of tin goods. banana story Mr. Du Buis put But the future of the poninsala, into oro of his consular reports and for that matter of the Philip the tale of the "cuconnut pearl,"

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fito insurance ,,ind crests

8, 1oction A, 0s por best acconst .................................

Furniture & fixture, na poř

ht ... 166,099.98 Lew written of a peri last topart 10,000.00

166,099.98

Since ndled.. 17,557.83

Itallation, of electric light, as per lust - ent.........10,0ùa.on Luss written off, na per

1st report...5,000.00

6,000,00

Add cet of south block instullition 1,278.69.

507.03 3,395.50 - Hotel steam:launch, us per 3,820.25 list necount...4,500.00 21,907.83 Lass written off as per

Just report 1,000.00

, ali10 tots" and au litore”

fees

30.06.

"

repairs and renewals...

13,010 95 Shares in public com-

balance to be appor- tioned my fullaws

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#L dividend of................................$48,000.00 write off fürnismo and fixtures.............. 11,461,60 tran-fer to repairs and renowals nfo. 19,000,00 arry forward to now Besount...21,740.21

balanda from abi

· Pon, 1919 #61,129.83 Lois dividend 48,903.00

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writton off fornitura

& fixtmoted, 10,000,00

Loss write off installe

By

tion of electric light necount.........5,000,000

Faunch account 1,000,00

91.20181

panies, a per last account

Stock of linen, eroçkury."

glassware, &c, as por inventuries.

Stuck of wines, provisions, bourohold sundries and stati ineries, as per in- ventories ................ Licenses Attaching 10

33,000,00

80,020.00

2,146,948.00

-Prepaid. Advertisements.

25 WORUS $1 for & insertions or $1 for one wook..

·BOARD · AND

RESIDENCE *HOMEVILLE," Morriton BI, splendid view of the harbour, D minutes from Post Oflies by, olvatric cars; entrance 163, Wanchai Road. -Apply at the house. [1289

TO LET IMMEDIATELY.—A woll

furnished Bedmom suitable for

bnobelor at vary moderate terms. Apply "ENGLISH," efo." Hong, kong Telegraph."

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tntimations

| STATE OF NORTH BORNEO.

TENDERS FÙR REVENUE FARMS.

Intimations

MANCHURIA

SOUTH

RAILWAY

SHORTEST & QUICKEST ROUTE

BETWEEN

THE FAR EAST & EUROPE. via DAIREN.

SUMMER SCHEDULE.

Effective from May 1, 1011

TORICE WEEKLY EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed ot xcalloutly equipped Slerping, Dining and 1st Class Care, is operated bitwoo Daireo and Changchun in connection with the Trans Siberian Express Trains TENDERS are invited for the land with Daiwa-Shanghai Direct Steiner Service by the 5.8, "K. be Maru

and "Saikin Maru" (osch 2,877 tons) as follows

NORTH BOUND..

of the REVENUE FARMS 1. tho STATE OF NORTH BORNEO]" tom 1st January, 1912, as set on let Ulaxe or aunder :-

FATCH

Tenders will be rocaived at the Office jaf the Government Seemiary, Sanda-

kan up to 12 o'clock Noon on the

day of September, 1911, for the purchase of the oxclusive privileges of the Farm enumerated below for a period of 1, 2 178,767.813 years commencing on the 1st

January, 1912.

9.278.69

The tenderer mual state in his tender the annual sum offered for the Farm rent for the throe years 1912, 1913 and 1914; a disforent zum may be iffered for this first, sound and third years respectively The prices offered for the unpamato years should be framed on a sliding sole according to, tie number of coolien. The tenderer must also clearly state the proportion of | the amount of the Rent to be allotted to

cachi separate Farm.

The Governmont does not bind itself to accept the highester any tender, and reserves to itself the right of mak- ing any amngements. It any deem ndvinable as regards the letting of 3,500.00 tho Fans.

21,787.00

-The Fanny above wferred to are the Orton, Seinar, GAMBLixu and P’awn- andrino Parma for the whole or part 4,971.31 of the State. Copies of the Forns of

Contracts for the Fans and Inl particulars of the conditious to be abserved by tenderers any bu seru on application at tho Office of the GovERN. MERT SECRETARY, Sondakan, or of Mesara. Gurnnig & Co., Singapore and Pennng, or of Messrs. G18, LIVINGSTON & Co. nt Hongkong.

The retail retea for Chandu fixed by Government for the Oplum. Fann for 1,766.GG 1912, 1915 and 1914, are those specified

below, viz..

For overy 3 hun peoket:......$0.144

19,757.04

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Matka

Shanghai (Sloumor).

Thun. Sun:

$40

¥14.90

Dairen ( ). At.

Mukden

Sat. Tcos.

+1

(B.M.II. Train),., L.V.|

6.00 a.m,

Sun. Wel. Fr.

Joose to

YiLd0Changchun

Jolt

1.50 1. 2.00.

เ

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(Russian Train)....vo

8.30. 9.30

... Ar.

9.10 GUL.

RD.60

Connesting at Harbin with -

SOUTH HOUND.

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Mon. Thuw. | Bal. State Wa-tato

Ex- gon Ex- pros Litato press

for Mos- or 64 Moscow cow. J'et'g.

100

Mon, Wed.

Fri,

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State State Wagou

Ex- Ex- Lit

Connecting & Harbin with-

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Mukden(

SAP!

Juclove

8.20p.m. 10.30

B.10a.m. 3.25

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管

Too. Thurs. Sat.

14

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11

Y14.95

Dairen

...A.1.80p.m.

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11

Bleaner ... Lv..

Noon Wed.

Y40.00

Shanghail "

Fri.

Russian Train Time is 28 minutes al end of the S.M.R. Time. For instance,

6 p.. by the former is 0.37 p.m. by the latter. Express EXTRA FEE......18.00,

Supplementary Charges on DAIREN-CHANGCHUN Service.

SLEEPING CAR Surrlexext..............Y5.00 TICKET AGENCIES-The Company's railway and steamer tokels are btainable at all the Agencies of the International Sleeping Car & Express rains Co., the Nippon Yusca Kaisha, Shanghai, Movers. Thos. Cook & Son, and Reisebureau der Hamburg-Amerika Linie.

BAILWAY HOTELS-YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Add. : " Yamato ") st Dairen, Port Arthur, Mokden, Fushin and Changchun, all under the Com. any's management.

SOUTH MANCHURIA BAILWAY COMPANY DAIRIN.

10 Ce Add. ** Mentetau.”, Codes: A.B.C. 5th. Ed. A. I. & Liebar's 0.34 0.28

$141,687.91

Fire insurance account (unexpired premia) ........ Sundry debtors *****

3.828.25 84,017.02

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5

11

Cash in band

256.01

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11

Bthi receptaile 1.459

4.80

$2,418,714.68

35,700.00

84,000.00

$129.83

rents of stupa und * hotel mansions"...... dividends on clares in

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publie compraios

pino Archipelago south of latitude, and recently he was wearing ono Lats written off steam- 10 degrees, Mr. Du Bois believes, in a tie pin. Just what a cocoanut is is a rubber producing country, pearl is Mr. Du Bois doesn't On the peninsula are growing know, but he is certain that 15,000,000 rubber troos that will they come from the cecanut be ready to tap in 1915 and the and that they probably are caused plantor expect to get at least by the introduction of somo $100,000,000 for the product if foreign substance into the milk rubber holds up to $1.50a pound, just as a similar intrusion spurs Only a small part of the peninsula the oyster into producing thỏ is under cultivation and Mr. Du ordinary pour. The one Mr. Bois says there's a fine chance Du Bois wears is possibly a quart- | there for American money ander of an inch in diameter, per- onterprise. Rubber was intro-fectly round and of a colour that! duced into the peninsula in 1882, suggests the white of a hard-boil- but it was much later before the ed egg. There are only eleven of planters took up the work in the pearls known. The Kensing- ton Masoum has five, Mr. Du Dr. Ridley, director of the bota- Bois has three, one of which is nical gardons at Singapore, was going to the National Museum; the man who proved that it was the Sultan of Porak has a couple rubbor country. He urged the and the eleventh decorates the coffea planters to take up rubber scarf of a Captain of Constabulary planting, but they wouldn't liston in the Philippines.

carnesi.

bad dults re overed.... profit an kofel working. necunt for the rix months ending 300 June, 1911 ·..........

1. Rahil Hongkong, 13th Juno, 1911. [1219

The directors' report was pub-THE CANTON TROUBLE. Tished on page 4 of our issue of yesterday.

PIRATICAL OUTRAGE

One Man Killed..

[The "Telmoraph" ConkenpoxDENT

Viceroy's Warning. "TOTELEGRAPH " CoRANSPONDENT }

Canton, August 5,

FUSHUN

COAL.

THE BEST STEAMING LOAL IN THE FAR EAST.

Output 3,500 tons per day.

Fresh stocks always on "hand at Dairon, Newchwang`and Tientsin Depots and aho at Chefoo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore and l'enang.

MINING DEPARTMENT,

SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY,

DAIREN.

el. Add. "Manteau." Cole.: A: B. C. 5th. Rd., A. 1. & Lieber's

The Taotni of the Constabulary Agenta: MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD

has issued a notification for ge- neral information. In the notifica- tion the Taotai says that ever! Canton, August 4. since the outbreak of the Canton On the 3rd inst. i stoam launch revolt, he has repeatedly issued 167. Hamed Tang Wo, towing ton proclamations to pacify the minds of the people. He fails to under- 25.06 junks loaded with fish, loft Kong-stand why the people should have 67.69 moon foi Kameluk. Sho was at been so foolish as to place so much tacked by pirates near the waters erodones in the rumours of unrest of Sam-hop-shia. The pirates circulated by the evil-doorg and approachor her in six boats comove their families out of Can-

Lon. 103,008:39 used for carrying mulberry leaves

The rumours always, said that and robbed the fishmongers to another rising was contemplated $111,937,91|the value of several hundreds of on a curtain date, but on every dollars, besides killing one fish-occasion when the day came, noth-

ing untoward happened.

This was auflicient to clear The civil and military authori-away all fears and anxieties from 10167 tios there have already telegraph the minds of the people. More- ed to the Canton Viceroy regard-over, Canton, with its lend and ing the tragic outrage.

Balance Sheet.

Liabilities.

until the blight hit the coffee. When Mr. Du Bois mentioned Capital: Finally about twelve men put in" cocoanut pearls" in his consu- 12,000 old shares at $59 rubber on a large scalo. They got lar report a Washington, paper cach (fully paid up .... their troes to the producing stage printed an editorial squib, sug- ......$690,000.00

cach paid-up...............an ......... 200,000.00

-$ 800,000.00 |

482,000 60 -C18,975.74

just in time to take advantage of gesting a commission in lunacy 8,000 Les shares at $25 the big jump in prices, and come to examine Consuls in hat couri- of the plantation companies paid trics, and then the matter, was na high as 200 per cent. Of course discussed in the Singapore nows- the get rich quick speculator camo papers. Later a planter told Mr. along and floated bogus companies Du Bois that he had stirred up 15 mortgaga, dobu- which sold worthless stock to the trouble, since all of his employees lures (5%) at $500 widows and clergymen in Eng-woro cracking cocoanuta in soarch gich...... 750,000,00 land. They hurt the legitimate of pearls,

Less 536 hold: by ` the companies a little, but now, Mr. Wu Ting-fang, the former Chi-

e empany... 268,000.00 Du Bois says, the fake rubber mon eso Ambassador to the United liave been smoked out.

States, visited Mr. Du Bois in Mr. Du Bois said that Sing Singapore and was attracted by He erve fundi pore was as healthy a place to the always present smile on a Sundry roller0,271 live as any, if a man was a bit small Chinese boy in the Consul's Unclaimed dividends................. careful what he nto ani drank, service. Wu tried to talk to the Hongkong and Shanghai Ospecially what he drank. The boy, but the servant and Am- Banking Corporation. mercury in Singapore thermome-bassailor came from different pro..." (oumont account) tors, moves between 80 degrees vinces and couldn't undorutand

Profit Lom sezatat, and 84 degrees during the year. each other. They found that

balance as per state- It is on the boundary line of the their only common.speech was

ment ****

· seasons, and for 306 days the English, and an they chatted Mr. rising and the setting of the sun Du Bois seized the opportunity do not noticeably vary,

to remark:

monger.

FLOODS IN KOMING.

(Tun “TILNĪRÁFK ” OoKRESFEDENT;

Canton, Aug. 5. The Magistrate of Koming dis- trict has reported by wire to tho Canton Vicerov the destruction of the Taishan dyke by lool, and

naval forces at hand, makes it! impossible for the anarchists to THE

resume their miseliof. The Tao- tai advises the citizens to remain calm and stick to their homes and warns the evil-doors against any more circulation of unfound- ed reports, under severo penalty.

A FAMOUS BRIGAND,

damuges to the paddy fields. Į Tun “TKlaarsed" (DzRKAPONDENT ; About seventy, por cent, of the

Canton, August 1. The Canton authorities have eropa has boon destroyed, the people are very poor, and it is received from their informers very dificult for them to recover nows of the return of the notorious 2.719.40 from this catastrophio.

brigand chiof, Luk Lán Ching, to The Magistrale asked the Canton. The rubber is alleged Viceroy to relieve the Bufferers. to be in hiding among the #63,516.17 The Viceroy has directed the Pro-villages outside the amuli castorn vincial Treasurer to put aside gate of the City. Mr. Ho Man Piu, Tls. 1,000 for the relief of these a military official, hus received. sufferers, and to hand over the instructions from Ilis Excellency money to Deputy Ching, who will the Canton Viceroy to locate the Boon go to the scene of the di- whereabouts of the hiding bandit saster our inspection.

"and bring him to justice."

01:201 811

$3,418,71

Hongkoær. 29th Apr 1911

A FRESH CONSIGNMENT OF

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WANG

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