SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1908,
Banks,
-Banks
BANKING CORPORATION.
Pam-UF CAPITALnessé veronsonan§10,000,000 RESERVE FUNDG----
Starling
£1,600,000 @ 2/--- $15,000,000 Silver *** * 14,000,000
------------$29,000,000 $15,000,000
ABERIZ
EARLIES
PROPRIETORS rate
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COURT OF DIRECTORS
E. SKELBIM Eig.---Chaleman,
*Hon. Mr W.J. Guzasces--Deputy Chairman,
EG. Barrett, best... Fensmann, Eaq.
R. Shawan, Esq. |Hon, Me H, A. W.
Slade,.
G. Friend, Esq. 0.6. Gubbay, Esq.
·W. Hehas, sq.
H. E.Tomkins, Esq.
Oxer BarAGES : Hongkong-J. R. M. SMITH,
-
MANAGER:
Shanghai--W. ADAMS ORAM.
*LONDON BANKess-London aND COUNTY
BANKING Co., L
Horixon-INTKENST ALLOWED, On Current Account at the mode of Two per aant, per annum on the daily balanse,
OX FIXED DEPOSIT
For 3 months 2 per cent per annum.
128
13
J. RM. SMITH,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, August 22, 1903.
B6
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
THE basin of the abova Bank is con
ducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA TION. Rules may be obtained on ap plication
INTEREST on doppelte la allowed st 3 PER CENT. pæ sanam, Depositor may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on WIXED DEPOSIT at PER CHIT. par
annud.
For the Hongkong and Shanghal
Banking Corporation.
J. R. M. KMITH,
Chic Manager. Hongkong; January 12, 1907-
1617
THE CAPRARIA, AND UBINA.
BECHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHALTEZ 1958. HELD OFFICE, LONDON,
PAID-UP CAPITAK RESERVE. FUN
4
BESERVE Exabitaty of Pao-
PRIETORS
£1,200,000 £1,525,000
THE
MERCANTILE
BANK 09
INDIA, LIMITED. AUTHORIZED OPAL£1,500,000 CUMBER £1,125,000 PAR DEVersi£ 569,500 RELEVE FUNDresse
210,000 BANKKSS: LONDON JOINS Brock BATE, EANTEED, INTEREST allowed on Current Accetta the rate of 3% per annum on the Dally Balance.
UN FIXED DETOSIVU (
For 19 Months
B
委
EVAN URMISTON,
Manager,
Hongkong, April 22, 1908.
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
HARAREINTED 1880.
JATIAL PAID-UP 200 RESERVE BABE
Yan 34,000,000 .. 15,100,00
HEAD OFFOR-YOKOHAMA.
BRANCHES AND ÁGENOR!:
KODE NAGARAKI LYONS. NEW YORK.
Toxo. LONDON.
SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU. Bewhat. SHANGHAI BANGKOW, OBEYOO, TENTOON
THE CHINA MAIL.
GEO. P. LAMMERT
AUCTIONEER.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
PUBLIC AUCTION
02
OIL-PAINTINGS.
OPIUM REPORT.
Why It Is Held Up By Colonial Office.
The London Correspondant of the Straits Tixes wiras on Decomber-1" that the Colonial Office assures him that the date it which the report of the Straits Opium Commissioners will be published dependa upon whether the report is still in type in Singapore.
The Colonial Secretary has cabled to
inquire on this point..
...
If the report is in type in Singapore it
will be printed thers, and opios will bo
sant Home, so that publication many tika
placa alultaneously in Singapore and
Londen, about six-wooke-hanga.
If the type is no longer available in Singapore, the report will be printed in
THE Ondersigned, has reconstruc. Loudon and published no sooner than a
tions to Skill by Publia Austion,
你迎
MONDAY,
the 28th December, 1908, commenting at 2.30 r., xt his SALES Room,
DUDDELL STREET,—
A QUANTITY OF
VALUABLE OIL-PAINTINGS,
by
CELEBRATED FRENCH ARTISTS
month hence.
The Secretary of State has beau inform
ed that the type of the evidence has been distributed.
CAMEL AS FOOD.
Camel straks have been served for the first time on Parisian tables. Eight canels, desorbed by butchers as "molaris," cane
FEEING, Nawowane (continuation of sale from Exhibition at froni Casa Blanca the other day, and one
PORT AFTER. DAINY. ANTINO. LLOTANG
TIE-LING QHANG-CHUR,
MUREN,
HONGKONG-Jotereat allowed, On Current Account at the Rate of 21 per s on the dally balance.
.
ON FIXED DEPOSITS :- for 12 month......5% per annum, For 6 months.com/ For 3 months,..
19
3% TAKEO TAKAMICHT; Mana Hongkong, September 18, 1908.
RUSSO CHINESE BANK
ORGANISED UNDER IMPERIAL Drone o 10TH DECEMBER, 1890,
CAPITAL 2,000,000 Sh. Tsel
ƒ16,000,000 Roubles
CAPITAL contriboted by CHINESI GOVERNMENT ...5,000,000 K, Thel
RESET2 Fown... Rorbled 9,240,005.
HEAD OFFICE-ST. PETERSBURG,
Lendon Office: 41, Threadneedle St., EC
BLANCHES AND ÁGYNOTES: Peking Bamarkand
San Frances Shoughal
Andijon Khokan Batoum Klachta
***£1,200,000 Balgoweat Kiris
INTEREST ✩Blowed on Osmont Account the rate of 2% per annum on the Dally balance
On Fixed Deposits for 19 months 4 %
Krasnolarek
chensk Kobe Bodalbe Kouldja Bookbare Bunk Kwaatohondse Tchita Calcutta Lisoyang Tohongoatoh I Chafoo
London Tielin Hailar Margusian Hakbodate Mostow
Monkden
Stratensk
Tashkend
Benteln
T'eltsibar
Varahnoog.
dinak
Yerny
Hankow
Harbia Nagasaki
Hongkong Newchwang
& 3
3+
"
n
JOHN ARMSTRONG,
Manager.
64 Irkutsk
Nicolajovsk
Kolgan
Caliaskal
Khabarovsk Parla
Hongkong, May 13, 1908,
TANDEL
NEDERLANDSCHE HAN
AATSCHAPPIJ
MA
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCITY)
PAID-UP
CAPITAL
RESERVE
FUND
ESTABLISHED 18
Abond
Kashgar Oarga
BANKERS:
Vladivostook Yokohama
Zelakala.
Priaien
LONDON-Glyn, Mük, Dorris & Co. L'ARIE-Comptoir National d'Escompr do Pazia Bangas de Paris et des Paya Bas.
BERLIN-Mendelsohn & Co, HAMBURG-M. M. Warburg Oc
...FL 45,000,000 (28,750,000). | VIENNA-K. K. Priv. Oesterr. Credi
Anstalt fo Handal Goworte, 6,702,384,84 (£474,407). | AMSTERDAM-Lippmann,
& Co.
HEAD OFFICE—AMSTERDAM. READ AGENCY-BATAVIA.
BRANCHES:-ingapora, Panang. Shanghal, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya. Cheribon, Fegal, Pedalongan, Pazoproean, Tilat sp, Padang, Medan (Dell), Paism bang, Kota Radja, (Achoon) Bandjarmasin Correspondent at Macassar, Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry, Jaloutta, Barekah Balcon, Haiphere, Henol, Amper Tokobama, Kobo, Melbourne, Sydney, New York, San Francisco, &, &.
LONDON BANKERS --The Union of London and Staithe Bank, Limited.
The Baue boys and sello and recoiros for collection Bilis of Exchange, Lanes letters. of credit on its Branches and sorrespond- ents in the East, on the Continent in Great Britain, America, and Australis, and tran. sachs banking buituess of every description.
·INTEREST ALLOWED
On Qurrent Accounts 2% per annum on dally balance;
Fixed Deposits 12 months 41% per Annum
Do.
Do..
6 months 4 % Do
3 months 31% Do
·J. L. VAN HOUTEN, Agasi. Hongkong, July 17, 1908,
418
NTERNATIONAE DANKING
IT
NORPORATION B
CAPITAL, PAND-UP GOLD $8,260,000
about $ex, 37 222,222, REVE FUND.Go $3,250,000, about Hex, $1,272, Mken
HEAD OFFION
60 WALL STREET, NEW YORK. LONDON.Ovine-Threadnemze· Houzr
E.Q.
LONDON BANKERS: DA BANK OF EXOLAAN. ational Provincial Bank of England, Etč. The Capital and Counties Bank, Lid,
BRANCHES & AGENTS ALL OVER THE WORLE
THE Comorian Izamanda every dë auription of Banking and Höhangi bastuses, voceives money in Current Douch at the rate of 2% per annum on daty balances and accepts Fixed Depente a the following rates R
For 12 months 44 por deni per auzum. FOR BY pác cont per sann Fat 33 per cent per annum,
AND 2 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGESTO
W. ANDERSON,
Manager Justy 24 1808.
Rosenthal
Interest Allowed' Current Accounts in Dollars 21 por cent per annum on credit balances of (1,00€ And over.
Fixed Deposits. Terma on spplication Local Bills discounted. Spoolai faciliter for Russian exchange, Forain exchang on the principal cities of the world ouaghi and sold.
H. A. STEWART, Manager. HONGKONG BRANCH: PRINCE'S BUILDINGS,
Hong.ong Febrasty 15, 1908,
FAST PRAYA RECLAMATION
ZOHEME,
48 PROPOSED TO THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT AND THE MARINI LOT-HOLDERS BY SIR PAUL
CHATER.
J
↑15 Buil Dubaris Printed in Pamphlet Fosas)
Goples way be bad at *Oniwa Man Uffo,
5. Wyndham Street.
Prios 52 Cants each,
CITY BAL)
of them has already been killed, cut up, sold, and in port eaten. The slaughter-
On Viow From Saturday, the 26th Dec., house officials made sonic dificulties about 1908.
Catalogues will be issued, TERUS-Cash on delivery.
MILNERS'
allowing the camel in at first, having no precedent, to go upon, but their scruples wore overcome, and the unfortunate camel met its fate. The prices quoted for mehari moat aro from 10d. to Is. Ed. a pound for tho inferior pieces, from is, to 8s, a pourut fer the choice morsels such as the undercut and the hump, and 3s. a piece for the kidneys. Those who have eaten of the first camel's meat sold in Paris say that it
PATENTory like tough and gristly beef. This
FIRE -
RESISTING
SAFES
As suppned to the principal
banks and mercantile
houses,
GEO. P. LAMMERT, DUDDELL STREET,
Anctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
Particulars and Conditions of the Letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 28th day of December, 1908, at 3 p.31., at the Olcen of the Public Works Dapartment, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Fo Pang. Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a terai of 75 years, with the option of renewal sta Crown Rant to be fixed by the Survapor of His Majesty the KING, for one further torm of 75 years.
Particulars of the Lot,
Registry No.
Locality
Boundary
Measure.
thepla.
1.28..W. B.
it. ic. 16.
Kannal tect
21304160 16.8 [126.8 26,000) 20
Bangkop
Upset Price.
is good news for the camels, as it socus unlikely there will be auo upon them in the Paris meat market.
L
The following story is told by a teaval- ler about one of our home railways.
We were bounding along, he said, at the rate of about parenty miles an hour, and ho whole train was staking terribly, I expected every moment to see my bones † protrading through my skin. Passengers were rolling from one end of the carriage to the other. I held on firmly to the arms of the soat. At last we settled down a bit quieter at least, I could keep my hat on and my teeth didn't chatter,
There was a quiet-looking mas opposite
3.
I looked up with a ghastly smile, wishing to appear cheerful, and said-
"We are going a little smoother, I see." **Yes," he said; "we're off the line now,"
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1428
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1840 Hongkong, December 4, 1908,
month, inclusive,
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FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILD.
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730
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