Insurandes.
UNION. ASSURANCE SOULETY. (Instituted in the Reign of Queen Anns A.D. 1714).
CAPITAL FULLY SURSUMIDED, £150,000, CAPITAL PAID Ur, £180,000, TOTAL INVESTED FUNDS EXOXED £2,200,000, TOTAL ANNUAL Inox, £850,000,
Intimations.
PEAK HOTEL.
OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
THIS Commodious and, Well-appointed HOTEL, situated at a height of 1,260 feet above sea-level, has just been thorough iy ra-decorated, renovated and re-furnished, HE Undersigned, having been appointed and a NEW WING has been built, which Under of the above Society in Hongpommands magnificent Views of the Har- kong, aro prepared to lase Polis against FIRE on tho asual terms,
1421
HARRY WICKING & Co.,
Praya Ocntrol.
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILË INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL KUNUS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1895, £12,433, 13).
Authorised Capital £3,000,000.0.0 £2,750,000.0.0 Subscribad Capitul.
£687,500,0.0 Paid-up Capital..................................................
£2,001,016.2, Fire Fund....
[AVING been appointed Agents of the
Habove upang we are prepared to Accept EUIOPRAH and CHINESE RISKS at Current Raten.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
Agente
Hongkong, July 23, 1396.
Intimations.
AMERICAN SYSTEM
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AT
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Stocks,
BANKH.
No. of
Shark!
Potd
Falue.
17.
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preference shares)
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fore
Kechidata Mata KAOBU...... Blachow.....uti
Maria Rickmers Menmuir
Namoa An
638 Mar, 28 Douglas Stupmenip Co. 29 Mar, GA. R 73+ Mur.
5 drazor..... {Brit.
Brit. str. 1158 Feb.
To-morrow (27th inst
Kloon Dock
....Rioder 5 Leving. ok Caes....
8 Buler
Smith
6 c Lorsusen
c'Tayler
Jirit. Brit. Bendixen GUT.
bRosch
b Bathurst...
Gerard
alz, dBsanet...|Bri BIT. Brit. HEP. Fch. BLC.
Brit.
B99 Mar.
Brit. str. 2280 Mat. 20hewan, Temen & Co. Brit. str. 2695 Jan. 28. &0. B. Co. Brit. str. 1497 Mar. 23 Dodwell, Carlill & Co. Brit str. 1674 Mar. 25 Jardine. Matheson & Co. Brit, ste. 1118 Mar. 25 Jardine, Matheson & Co. Brit.
4875 Mar. 230. &0. 8. S. Co. Ger. str. 700 Mar. 12 Jebgen & Co.
str. 3000 Mar. 230. P. R. Co.
968 Mar. 25 Shewan, Tomes & Co. str. 22 Jebsen & Co.
Mar. atr. 171 24 Douglas Steamship Co.
13 Mar.
Butterfield & Swice
Shanghai
To-morrow Cos'tan Dock
Vancoruer, B.C.
Tth prox.
rant Porte Shangbai
afr.
P. Marty
Diedrichsen... Ger.
str.
Co
5 Bahüder
forpaki.... Somerville
Brit.
str. 1168
2 srove...
Brit.
str.
8 Berg.......
eMcarthur
Brit
obHall.
5
Christensen
anders
...Ger. .....Ger
Tecque
cutt
......Brit. Gellar... Brit. Ger.
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Money Orders.
(Office Hours (Sundays and holidays ex-
(6) Between Hongkong, Conton, and Macaopted) 10 to 4, Saturday 10 to 1, but the offe
2 conta.
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is open from 10 to 5 on the working day next bofare muy mall for Europe, which leaves at BOVA.]
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Kambiro.....re Tam O'Shantor... Torrisdale in West York,...
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Archer
Naine
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Centurion 123 all 100% prem. - $332,50. West, up to level of Robinson Road) at 8
[cellers 1.1 10 a., woon, 2 p.r. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Chins Forte (Hoinew, Canton, Swatow, Amu Daphite
Facchov, Ningyo, Hankow, and Shanghai. Esk noon, 5 p.m., anlow In the Suburbs, 9 a.m., the delivery should be retarded by the Con Ceytou, tre Maila
China Fire Insurance Co., Ld...20,000 $160$
5 nom.
?
urdinary
193,675
ε £210nem.
deforrad National Bank of China, Limited... Canton Insurance Office Co., Lt...... 10,0008 China Traders Insurance Co., Ld... 94,000 8 North-Chins Insurance Co., Ld..... 6,000 Straits Insurance Cu.. L... Union Insurance Society, L10, decis Yangtaze Insurance Association, La. B. COS
PINE INSURANCES
1,250€
1 £
1;£6, buyers
53
10 £
8825. asilora
2015
6081871, sellora
83.339
20$79, sellors
100
25. 105, sellers
30,000's
100'S
20910
2503
50 $235, nules and sollers
608105, sollers
208109, etters
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld... 8,000
250 $
598360, buyurs
DOUR:
$
120
all 245 % pru.
50
all $71, ex div.
20
10
10 x
10 £
£
all, er div., sollore
15634, als aad-aullers
846, Bates and sellers
£7, buyere 10 106 102 6 £2.10
100 all $142, soltera
STEAMBOATS,
'kong & Whampoa Dock Co., La. 12,500 China and Manila S. S. Co., Ld..... 6,000 $ Douglas Steamship Co., Limited....20, 0039 UK. O. and M. Steamboat Co., Ld. 80,000 $ Indo China S. N, Company, Limited 60,000 £ China Matual S, N, O... 20,000 £
(new imus), 20,000
Do.
REFINERIES.
China Sugar Company, Limited......20,000 $ Lusen Sugar Company, Limited.... 7,000g
WEARTES,
HK. & Kow. Wharf & Godown Co, 20,000$ Waacha! Warehouse and Storage
Company, Limited....}
LAND AND BUILDING,
100 all $40, zollers
Canada.
Hawali (Sandwich Islands).
Grafinat Borbolders who desire to send Diron-British India including Bumab and the Agen-Graftr
pics of the Indian Post Office in the Porsian Handy ing. Dividend Warra's, Invitations, Cards,
Galf), &c., all of the same weight, to addresses in Hongkong, or the Ports of China, mug deirver then to the Post Office unstapped
matage the
being then charged to the
Each batch must con acconut. Annder's aist of at least ten.
3. Boxholdars may also send Patterns
to the same places in the same way. Eu- volopes containing Patterns iray be wholly closed, if the anature of the curata be first 43120, exhibited or stated to the Postmaster [aullera Ganeral, as he may consider nocomary, and approved by him. Printed Circulars may boinzerted in such Tattern Packets.
2,00
100
by all $61, sales and buyers
3718431, culiere
1008
50$
50577, sales and buyere
30816, salos
10 all $81, salon
50$ 40 $10, selfors
Hongkong Land Investment and 150,000
Agency Company, Limited..... Kowloon Land and Railding Com- || 6,030 €
раву, котор
Humphraje Estate & Finance Co.25,400$ West Point Building Co., Limited., 12, 0003
TRAMWAYS.
HK. High-Level Tramwaya Co., Ld. 1,250 $
KINING.
Jeisha Mining & Trading Co., Ld... 40,000 $
Panjom Mining Co., L........
..60,000's
100 a $30, buyers
Société Francaise dos Charbon-12,000 Fon. 500 at 875 !
nages du Toakm, .......................................
Now Balmoral Gold Ming Co., L., 50,000
l'reference shares... 75,000's
China-Borneo Company, Ld.
H. G. Brown & Co., Limited, in liq: 6,000
5 all $2.25; sales
4
all $4k, sales
82.15, buyers.
$2.60, sollers
All
1 18/10 6132, ex dir., sales
13
13
Raub Aust. Gold Mining Co., Ld....200,000 £
Olivers Fronhold Mines, Ltd....
¡A 10,000
58
5 $18, baye
B 20,0018
5-$
287, bales and mellora
PLANTING, EIC.
25,000 $ 7,500 8
5:3
100 $
55 nom.
60 alla lig
13,000 $
60 all $35, salsa and buyors
10 all $12.50, sales and sellers
.5
all in liquidation
10 all $110, bhayera 10$
687), sales and buyers
HOTELS, ETC.
DISPENSARIES.
Hongkong Hotel Company, Lt.
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited...60,000$ Dakin, Cruickshank & Co., Ld. ia Liq. 50,000 $
LIGHTING.
HK and China Gas Co., Limaltad... 7,000 £ Hongkong Electric Co Limited.....20,000 $
·RKICK AND CEMENT.
Green Island Cement Co., I. 23,000 $
MISCELLANEOUX,
La
6,000 8
#009
10,000
Bell's Asbestos. Eastern Agency, 18,000
7,000€ Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited... 1, 200 Geo, Fenwick & Co., Limited. Hongkong Bakery Company, Ld. Hongkong Dairy Farm 0. Hongkong Ise Vompetty, Linaled... 6,000 hong Rope Manuisctory Co., Ed. 6,000
Weat Cotton Spinning and ing Co, Longatasi cha Interuational Cotton Manufactur
Inou-Kung-Mow Cotton Spinning
and Weaving Oo., Tad, stereo Carmichael Uo.
Boy
Chas Cotton Spinning 06, d. Founder's shares
ZOAN. --
Amasini.
10 10$50; ex div., sales & buyers
$, sellers
141
1
16/$8, sellers
10 all 89, ex dir., buyers
256 25 850, ex div., sales EG all 890
635, nom.
-Ball $100, bayam
50 11 8154, nelers
10,000 T. 100 Tis 100 Els, 00 10,000 Tls. 100 TL 100}}%..$2}
8,000 Tia 100 Tiz 100 fla. 92, ellers 253 2018 2,000$- 5,000 FIA. BROTL: 600] Tha, 525
Palus.
Interes.
Quotation.
Chinens Imperial (888 xĪTI, 767,800(Tia, 850 (7 % 3. annum 10 % prein; -
A; §. 81953), Marekroče
Japan Porte (Nagasaki, Osaka, Hiogo, Kobs, Humber
Kioto, Tokuhama and Hakodate). New South Wales,
New Zestaui.
Britlah North Borneo. Queensland.
Siam (Bangkok only). Souta Australia.
Gur
1904 Mar,
str. 3000 Mar. 24 Sie wason & Co,
Japan, str. 2143 Feb. 16 Matevi Baresy Kaienia
20 Batterfield & Swire ¡Mar. Mar.
905 22 Yuen Fat Bong"
air. 3164 Mar. 21 Arnhold, Katberg & Co. atr. 1:87 Mar. 22 Gibb, Livingston & Co.
862 Mar. 16Douglas Steamship Co. str. Brit.
atr. 1109 Mar. 24 Jebsen & Co.
BLE.
Unhold, Karberg & Co.
38 Mar. Japan. sir. 1:60 Mar. 23 Nippon Yusen Kaisba Muller.......... ats. 676 Mar. 24 Febian & Co.
Barstow
vir 1950 Mar. 21 F. & O. 8. N. Co. Ar. 1517 Mar. 20fardine. Matheson & Co. str. 1200 Mar. 21inute, Wegener & Co.
Mangeladora...Gar. bye. 353 Mar. 188ander & Co.
17 Captain
.....
3 Noyesar. be. E14 Jan. Brit. ch.1 1166 Feb. Br. 4m. h. 1846 Feb. Amer. a. 1899 Feb. Rrit eb. 1885 Mar,
SciLock
Sc Brownell,.
Merriman..000
2 kmith
4Captain,
16 Standard Oil Co. 28 Order
Abster
Amer. sh. 1485 Feb. 21Order
8 eBuchanan.......Br.tw. bk. 2184 Fab.
....
Standard Oil Co.
Bri. bqe. 688 Oct. 18Order
dingapure
Foochow
*To-pantrow G lon Trinh. To-morrow
Bangjok
To-day
Saigon
To-day
Sydney, &e.
Tomorrow
SBLOW
Tomorrow
Sydney, &c.
To-morrow
Hoihow
|fo-Burrow
Yokobamn
Tomorrow
Her Britannic Majesty's Ships on the China Station.
Captai
Where at..
Mazda
Hongkong
Hongkong
6 360
3000
Commander F. G. De Lisle Cand. C.J. Kingsmill
H. Lcgli Carotin Spencer H.
Commander MacArthur Lt.Com. 8. P. Barton
Lieut.-Com. Vernon Orptain E. P. Jonca Lisut, A. Gillespie
Lieut
and
H. F. Shakespear
Comazder F. W. Wyley Usptain Edward Chichester- H. T. Dudding i
Capt
Commander B. O raskes
Hongkong Manila
Hongkong
Ich.ag
Amey
Singapore tientha
Okefoa
Rig,
Tuna,
Guns, LA.P.
despotch-vessel
craiser 3rd class
twinscrew battle ship
12 3000 1700 1770 10 2500 41 10,600
είσαι
1140
19,000 18 2000
g-bt. Srd class coast defence.
963
ཟ
200
Firebrand
gunboat 2nd class
355
twin-screw cruiser, 1st class
7360
36 12,060
torpedo buat destroyer
260
Bart
torpedo boat destroyar
260
4000
16.0
Framortalité Iphigenia
cruiser, 1st class 5600
34
$500
vruzze
oruiser.Id class
#Gem
$1
900
Liner
gan-voase! 2nd alsas
670
Narcissus
armoured cruiser, 1st class
600
34. 8500
Caple Wm. O. C. Forsyth
guabeat let olara
10
1900
Lieut. P. E. St. John
Nagasaki
Pigmy Piquo
zunboat Jet class
THO
Lieut.
Dotmer
Beugkok
aruleor 2nd class
$600
9000
Capt.
A. D. Cony
gur host lst elaan
766
1200
Rainbow Baltier
Croiset 2nd class
3600
3600
2000
Lacut. Spencer V. Y. de Horsey
Бідароге
Shanghai,
Singapore
Lt. Com Hon. G. A. Hardinge
Hongkong
Popula
1200
Liest. Cev. H. Grufton
Hankow
870
Capt. B. K
K. McAlpine
Reugkung
Tamar
el-transport
2047
Hongkong
Tweed
ht, úra bisne coset detener | H.LL,
369
200
Hongkong
Undaunted
armoured cruber
1200
8600
Captain John B. B
„Naginskiy-
Victor Emanuel
reediving ship
5157
Commodore 8. Holland
Hongkong
Wivern
coast defenceship,armonice
2750
1%
1000
Hongkong
.
Straits Settlements (Singapors, Penang and Ploves
Malaces). TasmREES, Duited Kingdom. Victoria.
United States of America.
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Gran Empire (including Heligoland and the
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Massewabi,
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Tonis.
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The Postage is 40 cents per tb, and 26
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Ne parcel must be more Nowioundland. or € foot in
Barbadoes. Beranda, British ChinaR.
than 3 fost 6 inches in lang A re. Britin Bechuanaland. British Honduras,
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'is given for each Parcel.
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4000
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2300
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476
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