1914-06-01 — Page 3

General NEWS.

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Lite Saved by a 'Hook. M. Bucon, a man of seventy, bad an am z ng escape from death ia ibo Avenue Bugeand, when he was leaning out of the window of his house on the sixth

Bloor, as the l'aria correspondent of the Express. Suddenly he lost his balance and fell out, In his fall, balfway down, he came against an iron hook fire into the wall of the bid for. Theie he remaine! ached by his clothes until res ued, with nothing

more then a shook.

RUBBER PLANTATION REFORM.

Polated Comments by the Times.

14

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUN 1, 1914.

CANADA AND PÄNÄMA.

The enormous advantages ac jerning to Canada from the Panama Canal were explained in an interesting paper read by Mr. F. B. Vrooman, the well-known writer and explorer, at a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute, held in the Whiteball Room,

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ONE CENT PER WORD FOR EACH INSERTION,

TOILET

TOʻLET.

ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow-TO LET at TAIPO a four

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No. 7 Mountain View. No. 7.Stewart Terrace, Poak. painted and colourwashed.

No 20 Balilios Terraco, newly

SHEPHERD, 5

Queen's Road Central,

otices

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THE FAMOUS VIRGINIAN CIGARETTE,

WHO AR

TO LET-Four roomed, house in Salisbury Avenue, Kow- Godowell attached. Nathan Ed loon. Cheap rental. Shop with

Kowloon. Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 with Wharfi

Fint in Nathan Rd. Kowloon, Apply to.

*

HUMPHREYS ESTATE &

In view of the position which the company has attained in the plantation industry, Linggi and rubber have come to be regarded Hotel Metropole.

roomed Bungalow from ist, imoet as synonymous terms, and How greatly Great Britain, ia' therefore no apology is needed affected may be seen when it is View from 1st April 1914. Newly rooms, Ideal for week ends or

TO LET No. 5 | Mountain | linen and glass.

June.. Fully furnished, with plate, Mosquito proof in drawing attention to certain realised that nire tenths features in the report of the British possessions are in the

of painted and colourwashed permanent residence. Use of Linggi Company, and to the Imperial Pacific Bri i- domain. 55 ELGIN TERRACE, newly E. BRUCE

TO LET from 1st June 1914, bathing jetty & dinghy Apply questions which they raise in So profound is the el ange' to be painted and colourwashed, In Bathing Costume.. regard to the industry generally wrought in Cinida, that the No. 12 Beaconsfield Arcade, A new phase of militancy was A cursory or mination of the Panama Canal is already throw-Shop. revealed in Hya Park last month. dornment might easily give an ing up sorowa the Duminion A Suffragia but pression had unfavourable impression and lead new economic continental divide. been aivertigo, and during the to erroneous conclusions: there This means that the movements morning a considerable number was a comparatively slight in on the new Pacific will draw two of women wearing the colours of crease in production, the average thirds of the Dominiou's surplus the W.S.P.U., and carrying ad-price realized was about la. 7d.towards it. vertising devios, gathered at the less, the profit per pound decreas Liverpool sets the world's price water's edge. The letting of ed by 18. 2d., the total profit on the world's wheat. In Unnade boats, however, had enased, by declined from £147,814 to for example, the price of wheat, order of the authorities, The £83,746, while the dividend is whether for export or home con- women actually did succeed in reduced from 1431 per cent. to sumption, is the pricest Liverpool boarding one boat, but attendants 70 per cent. Last year's results less the cost of getting it there. pulled them out, and in the look even poorer as compared It must be remembered, there- struggle one of the women fell with those obtained during the fore, that the actual cash value of into the water. One other effo prosperous days of the boom. In the canal to the prairie farmer was also unenccessful, Two 1910 the profits amounted to no accrocs, not only to the export women, discarding their long less than £271.161 sad the divi grain, but to every commed ty, cloaks, appeared in full bathing dead to 237 per cent. It is true export or import, mine, factory, dress. Plunging into the water, that the falling off in profits dar-forest, and farm, whise og of moins with usual servants accom TO LET-from 1st May, 1914 they swam out to the middleaning the past three years is disap freight into or out of the country, modation. For further parad. Apply to S. J. DAVID & Co. No: 1040, The Peak, furnish- tried to cut drift the boat pointing to those who acquired will be reduced by the P. pama ticulas apply Property Office, mooled there, They were then sharon at the absurdly high Highways..

JARDINE · MATHESON

Prince's Buildings: frustrated in this design and premiams reached during the were brough back by attendants. Large-Glasgow Granary Completed.

FOR SALE GLENSHIEL 124 Barker FINANCE CO, LTD.. Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram Station.

1

Apply to

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Srd Floor, Alexandra Building Hongkong, 2nd Oct, 1913 [411

TO LET unfurnished No.

Morrison Hill, containing 8

&

of No. 15, Des Voeux Road Algo 1 Motor Boat for sale. Apply Central. Immediate Possession.

boom period, but shareholders of modity of grain, the new P. co

Illustrating, by the single com-Co, Ltd. longer standing, though they ec nomic drainage system, which my regret the reaction, will not is being created from the continTO LET-Pat of First Floor bo inclined to complain, in view ental divide already mentioned, of the past record of the company, the startling fact at once stands for in less than 20 years it has die out that grain rates from Van- tributed over 900 per cent. in couver to Liverpool, via Panama, dividends-a remarkable result will be less than half the rate: for a company which in its earlier from Albertan points to Van- days bad to resort to the making cover. of Government roade and the

One of the urgent granaries in t'e world has just been completed as Meadowanie on the Clyde. The gany, which has been erected by the Clyde Trust, has a storage cipacity of 31,000 tone, and will be capable of au sunnal turnover of 250,000 ton. Two travelling

This means that the Panama elevators, each of 250) tous cuting of railway sleepers out of Canal will put the Alberta farm capacity, will ke the grain in amber on the property in order er in the summer about 7 cents bulk from the old of meamers provide funds for keeping it and in the winter 15 cents a lying alongside. The gmin wih alive.

bushel nearer Liverpool. Aver-

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Alexandra Buildings,

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TO LET-With immediate

possession. Offe:-2nd Floor of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank's Building No. 7 Queen's Godown in Basement of same Road Central. Also Large

building. Apply to DEUTSCH- ASIATISCHE BANK.

1st for 3 or 4 months. Kenlis

TO LET From 1st July 1914. 55. The premises now in the

In Canton on Shameen Lot TO LET-Furnished from May occupation of the Bank of 76A, Peak. Suitable for two Taiwan Ld. Apply to, DAVID families. SASSOON & Co. Ltd. Hongkong. MASTER

Apply HARBOUR

be passed through an automatio A closer examination of the aging these figures and using 12) MILLION DOLLARS. understood that the Prince of weighing machine and discharged report, however, reveals progress round numbers, it is thus evident on to band conveyes for distri-in important matters affecting the that the canal will add 10 cents bution to any desired part of the plantation enterprise which will a bushel to the value of every. building. Grain can also be interest shareholders in rabber bushel of grain to be grown in ditoharged ia such's at the rate of companies generally. In view of Alberta. 500 sacks per hour.

the great expansion in the past

Spent Yearly. by Americans on Tobacco and Chewing Gum, Had the canal been finished, few years in the production of the and had there been proper and

In a statement made in praise plantation variety experta have ledequate dock and harbour facili- of the American Society for for years past justly felt that it

ties at Vancouver to handle the Thrift, Representative J. Hamp

Moore, of Pennsylvania, in a dispatch to the Montreal in average price higher than 28. grain the Panama highway would ton Daily Mail from Sydney, NSW. 6d. per lb., while in some quarters have meant a clear gain to the said

"Americans

Missionaries, Eaten. *The killing and esting of six ustive missionaries by cannibal in the New Hebrides in recorded

(wonld be unwise to reokon upon

are & thon

In March nine missionaries from there is a diaposition to lock for mere of Alberta alone of

about £4,000,000 ・on the spending mad people. The di-

eaved.

bought for sweethearts, wives and daughters during the last five years would foot up a total that is more than twice the aura spent

Wales and Princess Mary will accompany their parents. During the visit the much-discussed meeting between King George and the Czar will take place

Notices,

NOLAZARUS

by the United States to construct Nothing is more worth of your con the Panama Canal. We are The trouble that today is small and canl spending more than 25,000,000) ty remedied. If neglected may get beyond dollars ($5,000,000) a year for single measures. Be on the safe side and

if your eyes are giving trouble call on t

||sidération than the welfar of your eyes

the Walls Island station went ton appreciably lower level in the 1912 drop. it is easy to see, not amond ringe, gold chains and preach at a native village ou future, when the estates reach fall for hence, for the farmers of Al- other articles which have been Malekula Island, some eight maturity. Daring the hoom berta and Saskatchewan, a free miles distant. The northern period the liberality of expenses portion of this island is inhabited matched that of dividends, bat gift from the new route of some by a tribe known as the "Big the heavy fall in the price of thing in the neighbourhood of Nambus." They are of fine rubber has naturally made the 200,000,000 a year in freight rates physique, but have an unenviable question of lower costs a vital one. réputation for cold-bloodedness A great deal has been effected in and treachery, and previous at this direction, but economy of témpta to convert them to management remains still the Christianity have been fruitless. deminent problem of the industry, top of the thinning out of areas chewing gum alone. Our, na- and have them examined. No charge for When the missionaries arrived at Old methode of topping were which experience has shown to be tional tobacco habit has burned dight testing.

found to be injurious in the long too thickly planted for the best re-approximately 35,000,000 dollar rounded by a crowd of armed ruo, and have been replaced by sults to be obtained. This process (27,000,000) last year..

These

remarkable figures were natives. Six of the salesionaries new systems, and the compara is expected to be completed at the were killed and afterwards eaten. tively small increase recently in end of this year, when practically given by Mr. Moore as a partial Two escaped to the quest. One the production of the L'nggi is to all the old areas will be reduced explanation of the high cost, of

A second village they were sur

N. LAZARUS, w OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. Fol. 1282777-1A, D'Aguilar 8th-

victim was tied to a tree and be attributed to a change of this in an average of 110, trees per living, which, he says, could be Apollinaris

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Royal Visit to Denmark......

the

TABLE WATERS.

Suppiled under t

The King and Queen, will pay ROYAL WARRANT OF APPOINTMENT

to return visit to the Danish

Court later in the year. It is "HIS MAJESTY HING' GEORGE: V

{21,' Queen's)

Road

Central

QUEEN'S DISPENSARY

IS THE DISPENSARY THAT '13"""ALWAYS"

Homber

492.

kept there until the cannibals kind. The tapping system now cre. Tiexperience of the materially reduced if Americans woreeady to devour him. At the employed by the company is company has indicated that the paid some attention to

mallor number of trees will not, ordinary of economy THE QUEEN OF end of January the nutives said liginer, and provides six years ed and burnt the store of Au for the renewal of bark, and it in the end, mean lower yields and reasonable babits of life. English trader named Farrali, bas justified itself streaily, the from 8. given area, the wider Bad he was compelled to leave directors state, for it is, doubtful ce allowed favouring the pro- the island. Thres members of the whether the adoption of any other duction of a richer bark. More- French recruiting keton Guede would bave scoured larger ver, ne neiderable economy in loupe were on another occasion yields than are now obtained. Cost collection is expected Lo enticed aahore, killed and eaten. Very little new rubber will come result from this change of plant-

An "Appalling 'Fact." into basring this year, but the ing practice. The Superintendent of Educa-Retter condition of the bark en- Other plantation companies tion, Mr. C. J. Mudie, in the ables the visiting agent to faced with the same difficulties course of a speech at the annual antipipate a higher rate of field which have confronted the Ling- prize distribution of the Maritz than was obtained last year, gi are profiting by its experience, burg Technical Institute, in which is expected to raise the and are making the conservation South Africa, reports Indian total output by about 100,00016, of bark and the eaving of labour Opinion, shido we, for ex- One of the most encouraging the main objects of their econ ample, realise sufficiently the features of the report is the my. But the secret of the appalling fact that the native reduction which has been effected Linggi's past auccess is to be at population in this Province alone in the average expenses. The vibuted very largely to the fact oninumbers the whie in the ratio" all-in" costs show a reduction that, like other plantation com- of 10 to 1? Are we aware there of no less than 5 80 1. per lb at panies formed before the boom, are 30,000 pupils in our nativo 1s. 4.20d., a noteworthy achieve the company is capitalized on a

conservative basis. The author z pchools, that the number increases ment in view of the comparatively ed capital per acre owned is less in greater proportion yearly, and small increase in output. Costa that they are apt to learn and should show a farther reducion than £10, while the issued capital keen on education? Do wo when the system of clean weeding, plantel aere The corresponding in equal to less than £14 por know that; within the last year or which was only undertaken two figures for 30 Mallyan companies. An infallible remedy for ly A little dusted on the skin and... two, different religious denomine-years ago, has been more formed in the existing days of ritation of the Skin caused by gently massaged Lion in the Province have roughly carried out the boog were £31 and C102 rospect: Heat: Freckles, Sunburn, Tan, sunt massaged in will: speedily Etablished five great schools for company's cainter were more the training of native teachers? productive last year by 21lb per Truly this is a subjent worthy of nor the average vild being

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