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Hongkong. December 12, 1911,
Banks
ONGKONG & SHANGHAI
HBANKING CORPORATION.
PAID-UF CAPITAL..
LESERVE FUNDS —
Starling
1580
Banks
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.
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COURT OF DIRECTO US, H. MRDHURST, Esq.-Chairman.
E. SHELLIM, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. F.H. Armstrong, Esq. W. L. Pattenden, Andrew Forbes, Esq.
G. Friesland, Esq.-F. Lieb, Esq;
C. S. Gubbay, EsHon, Mr C, É, Roas
G. R. Laurenz, EH. A. Siebe, Esq.
CHIET MANAGER!
Hongkong-N. J. STABB.
MANAGER:
Shanghai H. E. R. HUNTER,
LONDON BANKERS-LONDON COUNTY" AND ¡VEITSISTER BANY, LIMITED.
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Un Currant Account at the rate of Two per cent. per xanum on the daily balance.
OX FIXED DEFONICA :-
For 3 months 2 per cent per annum.
+
N. J. STABE,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, October 5, 1911.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK..
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...£1,200,000 ROKAVE FUND ...
......£1,825,000 RESERYE ILITY or Pao
£1,500,000
214
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INTEREST allowed on Current Account ab the rate of 3% per annum on the Daily Balances.
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Xangizsa
torpedo boat destroy
6500
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Waibajwet
Pegasus
Bruiser
Capt. FH. Mitchell
Shanghai....
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11400
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Hongkong
river gunbost
240
E-Com. C. A. O. Dengina
West River
river gunboat
240
Lt. Com. E. J. Southby
Canton
fiver gunboat
240
It Comaraurice B. Leslie
Yangtans
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1-8800
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Hongkong
Commodore Q. J. Eyres
Hongkon
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Yangiszo
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-Condr. M. B. Hamüten Lieut.-Com. H. D. Adair Halı
Shanghai
Wahiwai
450
Lt. Comdr. Hancock
Singapore
5900
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1806
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Targtsze
Com. M. E. Wilding
Upper Yangtane
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Hongkong Hongkong
ECCENTRICITIES.
Mental Specialist's View of Harmless Whims.
HJ
The varieties of eccentricity were die cassel with a member of the "Stoudard, a mental scientist, sita stuf, by sporial reference to the opening of the two sealed ranms of the late Mr G. E. Dering, and the discovery of hunting boots, riding conta, ned cravats laid by from the day of
hia father's last huut.
"Three kinds of eccentricity doght to
sistirs, to keep them hanging in her locked. Rosarie room for privata enjoyment, and sub-Robin sequently to give them away. The game Sandpiper port of eccentricity was, perhaps, bobind Snipe the fact that when George IV. diod Jaka hundreds of the coats, waistcoats, and Tamar broeches or which he was famous were Tual fuit in his wardrobes, and in the Thistle pockets therow re loose bank notes Virago Aunting, out of all the pockets," to Waterwitch £10,000. I do not know, however, whether Whiting that was eccentricity or just a rich man's Widgeon
slackness,
receiving ship river gunboat rivor gunboat
torpedo boat destroyer aurreying ship
torpedo bent destroyes river runboat
Wood.cook
"So you could multiply the oddest. Woodlask wildest whiras, unconnected with normal 38 ometies or connected with normal comotion, 37 but pushed to abnormal limits in action. 18 diversifying our life. One man nay koep. and tand and murturs wasps. When he comes out of his conservatory, where these pesta of ordinary men are fondly fostered, he will entertain you well on literature or art, or some phase of aport. Such man ArD I eccentrics proper, absolute eccentrica, not Bachrapebically, por physically diseased, and
ba distinguished," said this oxport. First, there are whims and actions that are really due to an undeveloped physient maindy of the mind. "Secondly, there are ideas which aise from what I may call a psychicny malady of the mind. This second form of eccentricity-note that I am referring to hinta and indications of a disease that may never reach a ruinous conclusion-is expecially common in Our time. believe that tho mund of
BRANCHES-Singapore, Penang,pationte, if one may so terms them, is they certainly add to the gainty sod Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya, generally under the infuence of some variety of nor private circles," Djember, Charbon, Tegal, ocalongan, occult but quite existent and real forca Pasoerbean, Tjilatjar, Bandoeng, Padang, Bredan, Tebing Tinggi (Don), Palembang, Rots-Radja, (Achoen), Macassar, Bandjor
masin.
&c.
that works, and perhaps intends to work, their ruin. I could take you d'aong people
in London at the present moment who
Dr Belille, a Franch naval doctor, has
puselise witchcraft that is to say, among rocently examined the physical affects
Nank
river, gunboat river gunboat submagias
waboosting
suburarine
Lt. -Comfir, G. §. A. Mulosk
Vice Admiral Alfred L. Winelos, E.0.B., C. V.O., C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.
Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station
Correspondents. at Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry, Calcutta, Bangkok, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy, Toko people who definitely invoke psychic in-produced by the Hartzian wares on the Kaiser Frans Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser 4000 hams, Robe, Melbourne,
Dupleix t TIBE business of the above Bank is conYork, San Frazciaco, eydney, Nesences of au unauthorised kind to aid the operators of wireless telegraphy. He con-
bed by the HONGKONG AND
LONDON BANKERS-The Union of performance of vile, or even regular, actions.cludes that such operators should invariably
Again, I have met persons who bear wear yellow glasses and indiarubber gloves. Kleber SHANGHAI" BANKING CORPORA. London and Smiths Bank, Limited.
The Bank bays and sells and receives for ́voicea' guíding them in their conduct and The yellow glasses are to afford protection. Décidée TION. Bales may be obtained on a collection Bills of Exchange, issues letters plication
of credit' on its Branches and correspond.
INTEREST' on deposits is allowed 3 PER CENT, per annum. Depositor asy transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on
tents in the East, on the Continent in Great acta banking business of every description.
Britain. America, and Australia, and trans-
INTEREST ALLOWED.
going a minutely into it na to drive them to buy pair of shees at this ship and not
at that.
You may think that these persims are
more than eccentric. You would be On Current Accounta 2% per Annum oorong, because although intimately they will explain to you all the magical muddie
balances,
against the flashes in the rotina, Argus the extreme sensitivity of the sight,
Vigilante and the pains behind the eye and in the temples, which he discovers to be com- Peihe mon in wireless operators. Tho in- diarubber gloves and mittens are not for
FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. PST Fixed Deposits 18 months 4% por Annum of superstition by which they live, they adornment, bat for protection against Esturgeon
For the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation,
N. J. STABU,
-Chief Manager.
Hongkong, January 24, 1911,
1517
NTERNATIONAL DANKING
ORPORATION.
C
CAPITAL, PAID-UP REALAVE FUND
Do.
mcnthe 91%
Rear Admiral Colloch de Kerili
Eng and description.” Tone Guns, BP.
Captains
Last report
Capt. Alfred Cicoli
French armoured cruiser French
1st-class cruiser
10,814
Saigon
97 X
Saigon
French gunboat
1900 Lions, de Lânarna
Saigon
French river gunboat
180
Eient d'Estionna
Canton
French gunicat French
500
Lient. Biscall
Canton
+130
Licut, Puech
Tongku
Chief, the French China Station,
མལ་
French sub-marine
Lout. Combot
Esigan
are generally quite piactical in affairs, the eczema which attacks the barg Lynx
of the operators. Dr Bolillo They are literally, eccentric,' off their skin balance, but not utterly unbalanced, and also advises that na. operator should work the incipient malady of their minds is at a station for any long period on account psychic rather than physical, cecuit rather of the nervous disorganisation which st OF than susceptible of scientific analysis. It is tends the work.
the sort of thing that the erorcian of the Church was devised to meet and treat. Now £1,500,000 to these ruinous deformations of the mind 21125,000 the usual sort of "eccentricity" does nati ...£582,500 belong. Indeed; when one considera cer; 325,000 sin eccentric people, one is often puzzled
Freach sub-marine
Floats Hars
Balgon
Porle
Franch sub-marine
3000
Baigon
Protce
French sub-marine
Idout Mortu
Balgon
Styx+
French armoured ganbest
Lieut. Berich
Saigon
Frondo
French destroyer
Saigon
Ther
French destroyer
Takou
Trench destroyer
Pistolet
French destroyer
Balgon (Barva Hangey
Морадной
French destroyer
Vauban
French torpedo-depol
Sigar Hongay
French torpedo-depati
Veteran
Manche
Franch surveying ship
1625
Lieut. Bibel 3000Comdr. Ragut de Touche
Op St. Jsay'
Do. -Do.
A. F. VAN REES, Agen's Hongkong, January 13, 1912.
THE MERCANTILE BANK
INDIA, LIMITED.
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For 6
11
For 3.4
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Hongong, February 20, 1911.-
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
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ESTABLISHED 1890,
AUTHORISED CAPITAL... Yet 42,000,000.00
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Shanghai.
AGENTS IN JAPAN:
to know whether, after all, and in the end of temporal things and temporal standards, they are not the only central and sane people. This type of eccentricity one may define as an action or actions following from motive which does not luipel the ordinary run of men lo such lengths, or fromi a motivo to which an Impulsion felt by the ordinary run of men corresponds. a
THE TOWEL DF8ESTIMENT, The lato Mr During's rooms wore JARDINE, MATHESON &¡Lo., filled, with the dond furniture of sentiment.
IAD.
But the santiment was noble, intelligible, common its fifty.topixty years' endurance, it incarnation, so to peak, in the two sealed rooms alane constituted its eccentri city. Wo ordionry mon-seal and close
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Every description of Banking and Ex-from light our whole houses when shange business transacted, and Stocks a death occurs; the 'Into Mr Dering: and Shares bought and sold an account of simply accentuated that action. But annstituents. Letters of Credit granted on
gents and Correspondente all over, the eccentricities world.
2%
Interest allowed on Current Accounts at per annum on the Daily Balance sad 20 Fixed Deposita as ndar
Vor 3 months 2 per cent per annum.
4
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-F. U. MACDONALD,
Acting Manager. Hongkong, July 18, 1911)
Mra oltan "much more
smusing, and out of the way. For in stance, in Ohio quite sivilised man took op his abode in a tros. No doubt hin neighboursshouted and stared and made him a moment's wonder ; yet that habit might | simply have been the logical development
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HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL
Courdr. Mortenol
7500 Lieu de la Rocha Kerandaos
of Capt. (Dommodore Barcicant, Commanding shakoj debace lado-Obina
1300
Capo, Vauselor 11.000.Capt. Schroeder
1360 Capt Lt Baidemaan 18900
gart (Kari)
Capt.
3
Exoden Gneisensa Dtiv
German gunbost
3600 German cruiser German armoured cruiser. 11,600 756 38,000
900
22. 13.500 Canta 3
Yollerthur
Tringtasi
Captain Fabr
Tingtau
od
Comdr. Maranaan
Shanghai
Jaguar
German gunboat..
Pakbol
Supplies the blood with the wanted parishing and healthy flesh building materials. Very palatable
Leipzig
German cruiser
3250
Taingia
Lachs
German gunboat
Bhanghat
Nürnburg Otter Scharnhorst 8. 00
German oraiaor
* Langtan
German river gunboat. Gerraan Eagabip Gurman torpedo bost
Capt. Clout fantzen
86 2,000
Capt, Kraft
6806
Capt. Liant. Heyden
Taku
German torpedo-boat
6000
Liput Adbe (Hans
Yangtze River
Taingtau
Taixistan
Tiger
900
1350
Comdr, Lappe
Shanghai
1300
Capt. Leat, Graf Dohns-Sch
Canton
Capt Liont. Kauttar
Comdr. Sommi Piconazd!
Capt. Martina
Macso
Captain J. Milheiro
·Ensigo J. M. Murray
Manila
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U.S. orpedo bosh
Ensign E.B. Rott
Manila
U.S.torpedo-boatda
Insign Bobt, W. Unbanisa
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Start WỀ Caico
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8000
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of the simple lif, to which those neighbours its the Hongkong Club. nominally aspired. Or one may noto some 14 of the many animal eccentrics, so to all them. Olu men who was always exothing of a mystery to his landlord was riddenly | distrained upon; history does not say how
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PALUY CARTAL 80,00,000.00 THE CHINA MAIL farge his room was, but the chief effects Hongkong, January 20, 1912.
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were a calf, a sheop. fifty or sixty birds, free to fly about, cats, dogs, and monkeys. Indeed, the amateur menagorie -think of Zossetti is quite a common form of
GUIDEccentricity, and one may, perhape, say
Enabling ano to locate the centre
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that this, too, is amply an exaggeration of no impulse usual in mon. But what do you suppose is the object of filling room with pill-boxes? Tot, that has been a phnomenon noted. Te it the hysterical adoration of hygiene, or is it, the dotted infuçace of advertisement en Awak coll TED ON CARDBOARD, AND the brain, or is it the child's affection for Fundabode or the drunkard's tendency to "TATED FOR HANGING. minthomalim onumerations 7 The questions przezlé, just, as much as it would puzzle one to explain the person who a whole days, le omniben rides, till, shout the avergs nohioved. Again, I have heard of where a rich woman
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