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ONGKONG & SHANGHAI HBANKING CORPORATION.
Banke
1880
LEE MERCANTILE BANK OF
TINDIA, ZIMIERE.
PAID-UP CAFTELL.................$10,000,000, AUTHORIZED. CAPITAL FRAEXTE FUNDE. →→
Sterling
£1,500,000@ 2/- 1 $15,000,000 Silver ...
PROPRIETORS
OF
COTAL OF DILECTORS. "
HEAD OFFICE.
40 THREADNEIDLE STREET,
LONDON, E.C
BRANOFIES:
Galle.
"Singapore.
J
1,500,000
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do. SUBSCRIBED PAID-UTT do.
sus 83,100 RECERTY FUND £ 525,000
•£1,195,000.
16,750,000
BEST LIABILITY
-$31,750,000 $28,000,000
Bombay. Calcutta.
Howrah.
Penang.
Madras.
Kota Bahru, Kelantan.
Kamchi.
Eag
Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S.
G. E. Laurenz, Esq. Eon, Mr. B. Ross.
EL A. Siobe, Eaq.. F. Lieb, Esq.
Rangoon.
Hongkong.
Colombo. Kandy.
Shanghai,
CHEY MANAGE:
E. SHIWAM, Esq.---Chairman, F.H. ARMSTRONG, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. Andrew Forbes, sq. I G. H. Medhurst, Esq. G. Friesland, Eng. W. L. Pattendon, C. B. Gubbey, E.
THE CHINA MAIL
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Na S
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Hongkong-N. J. STABB,
MANAGER:
Shanghai-H. ER. HUNTER.
LONDON BANKIES-LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINSTER BANI, LIMITED.
HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Account at the rate of Two per cent. per annum on the day balance." ON FIXED DIPOSTIA ; ---
For 3 months 2 per cent per annum.
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N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, February 17, 1912.
BONGKONG SAVINGS BANK,
K
TEE business of the above Bank is con. ducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA. TION. Rales may be obtained on ap- plication.
INTEREST on deposits is allowed si PER CENT. per annuin. Depositor may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. per
BOUILLED.
For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
N. J. STABE,
Chief Manager.
1517
Hongkong, January 24, 1911.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
BANK LTD.
ESTANLISTED 1880.
PA-UY CAPITAL ... BENESVE FUND
5
17,150,000.00
AGENTS IN JAPAN:
River
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OUTSTANDING
¿PERIAL
FEATUR
Bramble Britu
Cadmus
Unequalled Strength and Durability:
aloop
Great Power and High Speed.
Chaubrian
cruiser
900
1400
Capt. H. Lynes Capt. J. Drummond
water tank and tag.
seconds.
Visible two onlour w
Clic
sloop
1070
1400)
Master H. Smith Comdr. H. R. Teile
Writing
Now lightly Radial Keyboard...
-Fame
"torpedo boat desta
· 5700:
Lens Comar. HS
AJ
Patent Looking Back-Spacer,
Flota
cruiser, 2nd class:
.7000:
Capt. C. F. Carbett, M,
Clean and Beautiful Work.
30 Languages--alf interchangeable.
Handy
torpedo boat destroyer
Various Type styles, all interchangeable.
Janu
torpedo bost destroyer
4000 3000
La Comdr. R. R. Rossinion
J-Conde, R. B. England
Kent
`cruiser, let 'olary.
9000
1422,000
-THE LOWEST PRICE FOR "A"
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Kinaba
river gunboah
do
1200
Sterlin
alepp
1040
* Minskaar
rruinar, ist clase
14,000
27,000:
cruiser, lat clase
.9800
HARRY WICKING & 06., Sole Agents for Chim,
Moorlan Newstie
river gunbeat
180
800
ordiner, Suid class
4800
Nightingale
river, gunbows.
"BE
240
Cpt. A. T. Huns, C.SIM. 14-Comdr: H. D. Marryeb
Commr. B. M. Davy
· Capt." Caylay, ma
Capt. L. E. Power) M.7.0.
It Comdr. G. P. Deith
Capt. EP. Hm, D.S.
Lieut-Com. Malcolm Murray
Oper Pegasos
torpode boat destroyer
350
6900
Comdr. D. Lambe
4139
Capt. F. H. Mitchell
Prometheus
cruiser
2136-
tarpeda bost destroyer"
880
depot skip, mbmarinen
980
river gunboat.
Sandpiper
river gunbosh
85
Snipe
river gunboat
85
Maku
torpedo boat destroyer
350
Tamar
receiving ship
4550
2.4
Teal
river gunboat
180
Thistle
river gumboat
710
'Urk".
torpedo-boat destroyer
590
Virgo
torpedo boat destroyer
355
Waterwitch
surveying ship
820
torpedo boas destroyer
500
Whiting
korpedo bost destroyer
380
Widgeón
river gunboat
295
Woodcock
"Hvar gunboat
150
9
Woodlark
rivor qubcat
150
9.
36
submarinis
abmarine
161
38
submarine
Comdr. PH. Varleigh
Comdr. E. J. G. Mackinnon
I Com. J. B. Tyndall
Lt. Com. E. J. J. Southby- It Comdr, Maurice B. Loalie
8500L Comdr. C. H. EHead
Commodore, C.. J. Byron-medley
9. 900 7500
6900
I Comdr. Bon. G. Stopford Lt. Coudr. M. B. Hamilton L Comdr. B. W, Bluste Lieut.-Com. HD. Adair Hall Lt-Comdr. R. L. Hanoaks Lt. Quadr. E. T. B. Chambers Lisab.-Comdr. G-B, Hartford Liyut-Coin. B. R. Brocks. L-Com. M. B. R. Blackwood Lt.-Comdr. G. F. A. Mulock Lh 0. Godfrey Herbert Lt-Comdr. A & L Fenner Lt. Comdr. J. R. A. Codrington
Flagship of Vice-Admiral Alfred L. Winelos, E.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.
Hongkong
West River
West River
Hongkong
Shangha
5000
7506
1400
Th Condr. N. Archdale
240
240
240
900
450
7500
5900
800
800
500.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
OPENING CEREMONY.
Ribbl Rosario Robin
THE UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS will be OPENED on MONDAY, MARCH 11TH, 1912, at 230 P., by HIS EXCELLENCY S F. J. D Messas JARDINE, MATHESON &Co, LUGARD, GOMG, CE, D.SO, GOVERNOR OF HONGKOND & CUAN- Walland
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BANK OF ENGLAND » - LONDON JOINT Stock Baxx, LaMITED, Evory description of Banking and Ex- change business transacted, and Stocks and Shares bought and acid en account of constituents Letters of Credit granted on sgente and Correspondents all over the
world.
Interest allowed on Current Accounts at 2% per senam on the Daily Balance and on Fixed Deposits as under:
Vor 3 months 2† per cent per annum,
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F. C. MACDONALD,
Acting Manager.
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(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY).
PAD- CAPITAL REACTI HEND
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HSTABLISHED 1824.
̧...F), 45,000,000 (£3,750,000),
About
...Fi. 7,124,817,---(£595,589).
HEAD OFFICE—AMSTERDAML. HEAD AGENCY-BATAVIA.
CELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY.
TO BE FOLLOWED BY &
UNIVERSITY
BAZAAR.
(SEE SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENT),
Hongkong, February 15, 1912.
TOWN PLANNING IN INDIA.
miles of its municipal area Pankipur, the administrative headquarters of the division.
and district, while the Dinapur cantonment
is close by,
in
Though it has somewhat declined of late years," its commanding position for both rail and river trafic enables it to hold its Fawr as one of the principal commercial. centres of the Bengal provinces, ranking
size. next to Calcutta, indeed, census of ten years ago reported a decline of no less than 18 per cent,; but sa plaguo was then raging a second enumeration was Kaiser Franz Joseph I Austro-Hungarian cruiser effected in July 1901, when more normal conditions provailed. Even then the de Dipleix t crease was 7 per cent, and the decay
not
bas
Name
Not only the public buildings of the also the new capital of India, but Presidences of the higħar officials, will have tabe built so the Plain outside the present city of Delbi for
the ares enclosed between the Jumma and the city walls is already fully occupied, and is not suitable for the residence of the higher classes of public servanta. Though no city in India has sbor streets than the main thoroughfares of Delhi, the smaller streets are narrow and tortuous, and in been arrested in the intervening ten Kleber
years, for the census figura of 153.739 last: many cases end in cul-de-sac.
March is 11.4 per cent, less than, the Decidéo second coumoration of 1903 and 1 par Argus cent less than that taken during the plague epidemic.
THE NEW PROVINCE. It was early in the 13th century that Behar, coming into Moslem handËS, : Was formed into a soparute subuh or governor
and ship. Itsaren is 44,269 square miles, its population is about 14 millions. A Esturgeon. important point in connexion with the rearrangements about to be made is that Lynx when the province of Eastern Bengal and Perto
was constituted in 1906 the com
At the Sanitary Conference held in Bom bay last month the president, Sir Harcourt Butler, who has the Sanitary Department as well as education under his charge, gave some hints of future openings for town- plauning in India. Eu ia undersosed to have expressed the belief that the time is coming in India when sanitation will be attained rather by the extension of towns on new and scientific lines of building than by the enormously costly improvemente in big cities, such as have been carried out, for example, in Bombay.
Vigilante
Peiko
Foreign Men-of-war on the China and Japan Station
Fag and description.
Tons Guni, H.P.
-4000
Captains Capt Alfred Ciroli
Last report
Shanghal
French armoured cruiser 10,014
French lat clase cruise
9730
30:20,000 12.19,600
Saigon
Saigon
French gunboat
RAB
10
1000
Lieut. de Linar
Balgon
French river gunboat
180
B STO
Lieut. d'Estienne
Canton
French gunboat.
500
Lieut. Biscall"
Canton
French gunboat
Lent Purch
Tongku
*190-
+ Flagship of Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French Chins Station.
BRANCHES-Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya, Djember. Cheribon, Tegal, Fecalongan,
plaint that the hill station of Doriealing Protes Tjilatjap, Bandoang, Padang, Madan, Tebing Tinggi (Dell), Palombang, Rots
would cease to be under the Calcutta Government was met by transferring the Styx * Radja, (Lohoen), Massar, Bandjermanin
Correspondente at Bombay, Colombo, The two processes must, of course. Darjeeling district from the Rajshahi Madras, Fondicherry, Calcutta, Bangkok, always supplement each other, but as yet Government, to the Begbalpur division of
division, then brought under the Dacca Fronda.
d'Iberville Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy, Yoko little or nothing bad been done in the way Bear. hama, Robe Melbourne, Sydney, New
"existing boundaries are Taken It, therefore, existing of extension of towns into the opon adhered to it will in fature be within the Pistolet York, San Francisco, &c., des.
LONDON BAXXERS The Union of country. These views of the Education charge of the Lieutenant-Governor of London and Smiths Bank, Licitad
Member are of especial interest now that Bebar,
and Orissa. In one Mousquet Chota Nagpur, and. The Bank buys and sells and receives for the Government of India have the opport- respect at least this arrangement would
station suitable as a sinainer residence
Veteran
French sub-roaring
Lieut. Combot
Saigon
French sub-marine g
Int. Man
French sub-marice
Saigon
French sub-marine
Lieut. Morns
Baigon
French armoured gunboat 1798- French destroyur
10
1700
Lieut. Seriot
Saigun
850
French destroyar
French destroyer
Baigon
French destroyer
300
Comdr. Mortenol.
Hongay
French destroyer
900
Lieut. de In Roche Kerndrson.
Saigon
French torpedo depor
French torpedo-depot
Limit Bibel
Hong
French surveying-shap
1625
·10
9000
Condr, Bagot de Touche
Balgoa
- Flagship of Capt. (Gunmedors) Boudicaut, Commanding sha Inca) defance Indo-Chins
collection Bills of Exchange, issnes letters unity to carry out town-planning on the bestia
etiafactory, for the Lieutenant-Governor Vazbaa ALTRORMED CAPITAL... Fon $8,000,000.00 of credit on its Branches and correspond-Delhi Pisin on the most approved modern will have within his tanto sonid enter
30,000,000.00ents in the East, on the Continent in Great principles. It may be mentioned that, with the very dubious exception of Ranchi, Manche
Britain. Amarica, and Australia,' and banS») acts banking business of every description owing to the necessity of keeping the in- which is of the Chots Nagpur plateau,
tentions of the Govemment secret until the about 2,100ft, above son level. King-Emperor had made his announcement no plans or provisional estimates have a yet been prepared.
HEAD OFFICE YÜKOHAMA.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT ANTUNG-HAIRS" "Nadaberi
BOMBAY
QBANGCHUN
NEWCHWANG
NEW YORK
Daizy (Danny) Osaka FERGTIEN (MUEDEN) PEKIN
HAIOW
HONOLULU Kasz"
LAAO-YANT
LONDON LYOXI
RYOJU (PORT ARTHUE) SAN FRANCISCO SLLINGRAY
TENTAIN Torro
Interest allowed on Current Accounts. Deposita received for fized periods at rates to be obtained on application.
TAKEO TAKAMICHI,
Manager, Jongrong. September 28, 1917.
INTERNATIONAL
JORPORATIO
ORPORATION BANKING
CAPITAL, PAID-UP RESERYE FUND
www.
INTEREST ALLOV ED.
On Current Accounts 2% per Annum
balances.
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THE OHARTERED BANK OF INDIA.
AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.
ÍXQORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTES 1851, HEAD OFFICE, LOL.
PROGRESS OF DELHI
Its
It has already been intimated that the Governor of Bengal will spend part of his Enden time at Dacon; but it in doubtful whether he can confine his residence throughout Gneisenau the year to that city and Calcutta, oren litis Fixed Deposits 12 months % per Annum
with the addition of Chittagong, where the Do.
months 3% Do.
Though it was long recovering from the Lieutenant Governor of stern Bengal Jaguar Dɔ.
3 months 3% Do.
VY REES, Agaboek of the Mutiny, Delhi has made steady bae resided for short period each year. Leipzig
Though nothing has yet bean decided, it Luchs popula progress in the last few decades. Hengkong, January 13, 1919.
tion. 173,309 in 1881, atood at 232,837 at may be that Darjeeling will be re-trans-
Nienburg the last census. Its increase of 11.8 per ferred to the Rajshahi division, and that cent for the past decade was the more the way will thus be opened for the Bengal Otter noteworthy since the city, in common with Governor to divide his line between the Scharnhorst the Punjab generally, suffered severely plains and the hills,
The Chota Nagpur division of the new pingue, and the province actua charge is steadily growing in numbers and Taku
I population during the period.. declined in
followed
by prosperity, its population in the last ten Tiger somewhat closely
Tsingtai Lahore, the capital of the local Government years in British districts having inconsed Delhi is the most populous city in the from 1,300,000 to 5,695,000. There sie alun
Ita Vaterland ...£1,200,000 Punjab. The inareas of recent decades some 160,000 dwellers in native States.
recent development is due to the
growing
Q. Chinbrin the mill industries which the steady
great' of-railway improvement
communication £1,200,000 has helped to
Are within its limits, as are the Macho Taltonganj wille four new works of the Tals Iron and Steel Com- cot on-spinning and wanting mills, sugar-caue pressing factories, and pany. The Orises division of the new Patris
population of five millions many minor industries, including the province has a of three and production of the ancient artistic ware in British distrats and
milion lá the tributary States Delbi is, in fact, the main entrepot for quarter million commerce between Calcutta or Bombay or The division possesses a language of its ovd Karachi on the one fiand and Rajputana those of Bengal and Madras, Both in Chota Barry-
and
id a system of castes differing alike from Bainbridg on the other, and is within easy access of aspar and Orissa there is wide scope for
Nagpar the great industrial oestra of Campore. An incidental effect of the transfer of the railway development, and the formation of capital thither will besto stimdiate the separate Government will, no doubt, non Chaney growing importance of Karachi, since that tribute to their progress in this reapact Chattanoog port is much nearer to Delhi than either pentru Bombay of Calcutta. MORE
***
•£1,625,000 have been largely due to the developed utilization of its mineral wealth: Thứ
PAID-UP CAPITAL ROBERTE FUND...... Reserve LIABILETE or PRO-
FRUITURA" 20+.. 04
INTEREST allowed on Current Account at the rate of 9 % per annum on the Daily
Belanoos
Or Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4
Gozo $3,250,000 ...GOLD $3,250,000)
Gold $8,500,000
WE. DICKSON, Manager. Imerong. May-1, 1010.
HEAD OFIOR: 60 Wall Street, New York.
Loxbox Office: 36' Bishopsgate,
LONDON BANKERS :
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Paton, now raised to the dignity of a provincial capital, hos istanis associations which, from the Hindu point of view, sto; definite and more gratifying than even those of Delhi itself. As Fetalliputra, it was the capital of Northern India under the
prest the Sandrokottos of the Chandragup
the residence of the Greek e envoy Megasthenes (302-297) B) Here, too, the folk reigned for 40 years, and Asoku after his death it disappest record for
Can be obtamed at the following whose reign it
places in Hongkong
The Hongkong
Hotal
The Hongkong, Ferry Wharf
cription of Banking and Exchange Dusinbal, remyon money an Current Ahe Epwloon Fet “count at the mor of 2% per annum on daily.) The
balances and söcepta d'ized Deposita, at the
the
Station
and three- Adder
Albany
Callao
| Claveland
Decatur
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Halana
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German gunbost
German craiser
10 1350
Comdr Bendemana
Capt. Momberger
Capt Lieut, Jantzen
Capt Rosing
Capt. Lieut. Barren berg
Obit z. S. CizzaED
Capt Liput Frhr. Filos
Gerran cruiser.
3800
*#2 · 18,500
Capt' v. Restorf
Taingtag
German armoured cruiser 11,600
30
26,000
Captain y
German gunboat.
900
12
1300
Cmdr. v. Gobre
900
1900
Comdr. Varselo
3250
24 11,000
Capt. Bohncke
German gunboat
900
Geroman cruiser
3400
22* 13,900
German river ganboat
11,800
·36 128,000
400
8 8500
280 200
6000
1950
Comdr. Lapps
2031300)
500
Oble. z. 8. Prin
Conde, Sommi Picenardi
Capt Martins
Macho
Msa
German Aagship, German torpedo-boat. German torpedo-bost German gunboat German river gunboat, Jarman river gunboah:
Captain J. Milheiro
-Italian uztainer-
2245
Portuguese gunboast Portuguese ganboat"
U. 8. submarine
U. B. protoctal cruiser.
7:00
U.Sorpedo-bost des
Ensign 3. M. Murray Com, Clarence S. Williams
•Ensign
1.8.torpedo kost
8000
U. E. gunboat
250
US torpedo
U. B
Comdr, John Comdr
Le Conida
Brotherton
Lent
Jallowing rates
For 19 months
"4" por cen