MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912.
THE CHINA MAIL-
Garner Quelch & Co., 2 Extremes
WINE MERCHANTS.
Des Voeux Road.
TELEPHONE 636
Supply the highest quality Wines, Spirits, Cigars and Cigarettes obtainable, consistent with price All Wines and Spirits bottled in Europe by Shippers of world wide reputation.
Hongkong, Drenches 15, 13.1.
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Banks
Banks
FACE THE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER OF A TI
-Ho-may-buy one of the cheap toys which yield al sem?
of typing for eight months or a year, when he consigns it to the scrap heap-
He may spend £20 £30 for a heavy, highly edmpilestad machine, possessing many "Improvements“, which, ha does not requiro, se elaborated and complex that it is in the repair shop half the time,
THE GOLDEN MEAN
THE IMPERIAL TYPEWRITER
HONGKONG AVERAGE MARKET
PRICES
Corrected to Thursday, May Sul, 181A,
At 100 senti per Dollar Mexicaneren.
Hutcher MexL.“
Beef Sirloin & Prime Cut-Mai Lung F Foreplay
Corned-Ham Ngad Tuk
which provides, AT MODERATE COST, every ESSENTIAL medere, improve-Cullock's 1086 ment, in a SIMPLE, STRONG, LIGHT Machine, which does besatiful work and is
one of the fastest and most durable writing machines in the world.
The Machine that has made the high-priced - Typewriter a fad.
KELLY & WALSH, LTD., and HARRY WICKING & Co., Sule Agents for Chieu,
20
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Shrimps-
肉食
20
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103
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Breast-Nagu *1
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Soupy-Tang Yuk
Steak-Ngau Yuk Pa
Sirloin Cotom-Ngan Lau Sausiges-Ngau Chaung
Kac Brain-
牛奶
24
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per t
9
corned-Bam Bigan L.
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Km 3,-Ngau Tan
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Heart-Ngan Sings.
12
牛心
Hamp, Salt-Ngan Kin
18
牛原
Fest-Ngau Kark
牛嵗
Kidneys,Ngau-Yu-
2
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Tail-Ngau Wei
18
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Liver,-Ngau Ken
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牛肚
牛仔頭
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Soles, Tab Ba Tu
ARM Teno -Wan Yu
牛肉把
羊比
Turbor-Chɔ How Yu
Turtles, sinall, frosh water, #-Kork
White Bait Ngan Ya Chumi..
Fruits
Almonds,-Hung Ye¬
Apples (California)-Kam San Fing
(Chefeo) Tin Chun Plog K50
-:- Email --Hoë Tong
Curlund -Fan Lat (blis.
Bananas, tragrant, Canica,—Jae Jhing
Heung Chiu
Bananas, (brides), Mara-San Heung
Chestnuta, Chinese,-Foong Lut
Carambola-Young Tue
Coccanuts,-Yeh
Toc...
Lemons, China-Ning Moony
The 10
-America, Eura San Ning Moon,
Lichees Dried-Lai Chi, smal Stone
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b 23
Limes, (Saigon)—Sai Kung Ning Moung aach 15
Manga Manila,-Lui Song Mong
Manateens-San Chu Too
Oranges, (Canton} Sao shing Tin Chúng là 10
Changes Sweet..
Pears, (American)-Kam Sin Shoot Lay
11
22
Per set 21
b 12
25
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Kidneys-Chu Yiu
Liver,Chu Con
h 30
猪肝
(Canton), Cooking-Sa Lay
Peanuts, Fa Sang...
Persimmons Large,-Hung Chie
10
1
Pineapples, latquality,-PoonTi Paw Law each 16
And-Chung-tang Paw Law 10
ONGEONG & SHANGHAI THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE H RANKING CORPORATION.
PAID-UP CAPIZAL.....
SZARY FUNDS →→
Starling
£1,500,000@ 2/- 1 $15,000,000 Silver...
+
RIARTY LIABILITY
$15,000,000
BANK, LTD, ....
ESTABLISHED 1880.
DOWN A PIT.
16,750,000
11
$31,750,000 || AUTTIC BISED CAPITALITY at $3,000,000.00- 30,000,000.00 $18,000,000 P-UT CASITAL ...
RESENTE FUND
..... 17,500,000.00.
How It Looks during Times" of Strike.
HEAD OFFICE YOKOHAMA,
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT ANTUNG-HOLLY BOMILAY
PROFEIZTORS suomi-re
COURT OF DIRECTORS, E. SHEALTH, Esq.---Chairman. F.H. ARMSTRONG, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. Andrew Forbes, Esq. G.H. Medhurst, Esq. G. Friesland, Eeg. W. L. Pattonden,
A. Gubbay, Esq.
Baq
G. R. Laurous, E. Hon. Mr C. H. Ross. F. Lieb, Esq. H. A. Siels, Esq.
CHiKY MANADER: Hongkong-N, J. STABB. --
MANADER:
Shanghai-H. E. R. HUNTER.
LONDON BANKERS--LONDON COUNTY
WEATHINGIZE Baxx, Listed."¿t
——
HONOXONG-ESTEREST ALLOWED...
Un Current Account at the rate of Two per cent, per annum on the daily balance. ON FIXED DEPOSITS-
For 3 months 2 per cent per annum.
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N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, February 17, 1912,
HONGKONG SAVINGS PANE
THE
HE business of the above Bank is con ducted by the HONGKONG AND CORPORA SHANGHAI BANKING
TION. Rules may be obtained on ap plication.
CHANGCHUN
NAGASAKI NEWCKWANG
NEW YORK
DAIREN (DANNY) OBLA FREGTIEN (BUKDEN) PEKIN HAYZOW HONCLULU Konz
LRAO-YANY LONDAY +LTOXU
CALCETTA
RYO (PORT ARTEUR) SAN FRANCISCO SHANGHAI
FISHLIVO
TIENTELS
TORTO
-Interest allowed on Current Accounts.
Deposita received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on application.
TAKEO TAKAMICHI,
Manager.
-dony:ong...April 1 1919.
THE MERCANTILE BANK
INDIA, LIMITED.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL
SUBSCILIBID PAID-UP
do. do.
RESERVE FUND
INTEREST on deposits is allowed at Bombay. 8 PER CENT. per annum. Depositors Calcutta may transfer at their option balances of Howrah, $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND Madras. SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT si 4 PER CFINT. per
Down
For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
N. J. STABB,
Chier Manager.
Hongkong, January 24, 1911.
1617.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, THE AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.
INCORPORATED XY ROYAL CHARTER 1853, HELD OFFICE, Loynox.
PAID-EY CAPITAL- RESKATE FUND... KESHEVE LABILITY OF PRO-
£1,200,000 ....£1,650,000
TRUTTONS
......£1,200,000
HEAD CFFICE: -
T
A special correspondent of the Day Telegraph, writing during the coal strike at Home, saye —
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Tripo (undressed) Ngau To
Calva Head & Feet-Ngan-chai-tau-hark, at $1 Mutton Chup.-Yeong Foi Kwat
**
over boulders of con), and heaps of lonse: shack, sliding under pressure, of the fuot, I anter cul-de-sac that turn out to have been.
"dogger. for the engine-man and the "a vistas, and always there is the silence and the black dark. We drive the ore before us with our candles, and dispel the other with nur voices.t-one point the dog- gey." Atting down upon a heap of **slack, gives demonstration on abnormal Pirs places.
Myself and the engine man. crouch 1efore him, it would seem, in. attitudes of aderation, as Paul defora Gamaliel, but really because if we took up any attitude more independent we should strike car beads againt the roof. Where. fore we listen thus bowed. and I convinced once more, like Mr Asquith, that the men's one on this print is a good
The sky was powdered with stars and the plain a field of jewels, yet in the road where wo stepped cautiously there was little light, for the three amps which illumine it are extinguished in this strike time. A patch of light showed from two windows of a dwelling one above the other.one.
acclaimed it when my companion told me that in the upper room lag a woman ill of cancer, and in the lower her daughter in consumption. In a month that is all the doctors give the light will go out in the tupper and the lower room.
We moved onward in silence. Our quest was to find a guide to take us to-night into the vast and untennated underworld, on the surface of which we walked. There was a moment when it seemed that the quest and achieved success. But there was no one in the mine, sad the pit bank was OF the era of our journey. In the wonderful night of stars" we went bome again till
365,000
the day,
£1,600,000
Today, opposite the Grey Gcosa at £1,125,000
600,500 Jawn, I met my very, good friend the engine-man, and we made our way to the pit mouth. The frames and wheels stood out like ghosts in the grey morning, and the half-dozen men who waited till the
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The engine-a explains to me as we go how flie tuts are regulated and driven and the dogges" discourses as an enthusiast upon the ventilatian of a mine. We come last, they both say, to the point where we started from. I look up and see the "Bunb past. It carries a tub of сяде
Up there. sack for the Commissioners. under the sun, is a pony which will draw the tubt the canal sild, and the barge by the side of the tip" will the it to the Pumping station,
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Woud like, my going amione ask, to see the Commissioner's men at work. They Afteen yards lower down, where the
ver the aboe, say the ways are reuething miry. "But it don't "deggey" and the cogireman, So we step into the enge that took the tub up and case wore the darkness awallows
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Pork,
Leg, Teang Pai -Shouider.-Yeung Shau, Chitlings-Chu Chong
Brains-Chu Kuow Fect, Chu Kark Fry.-Chu Chak Head, Cha Tsu Heart, -Chu Sum
Chop,-Chu Päi kwat
Corned,-Ham Cha Yuk Leg-Chu Pei
Fat oz Lard-Chu Yau "Sheep Head and Feet, Fear
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Heart Young Sum Kidneys,-Yeung Yiu Liver,-Yeung Con Sucking Figs, To Order---Chu Chai ... Suct, Beef-Sang Ngau Yau
Matton-Sang-Yeung-Fau- Veal,-gau Chaí Yuk
Sausages,-Ngau Chai Chaung...
Poultry.
It is "sludgy" and it in "qades," like the creek in Blandalay," but it don's go over the show. So we bend low and plough, on, and at a turn we find our candles shining upon other candles, and there, at last, are miners at work.
LOADING KLACK. They are loading slack into tube, and cage should come up were ho ghosts too. they make no- pause in the occupation ex- They stepped in, and laid hold of the cept thint one of them, by the light in his clmin, and-key, presto!--they had sanish-eye, had a notion of tipping his shoveiful Deza-Ap ed. For the space of a second the bowl of of enal over us instead of in o the tab. But Doves,--Pan Kau
a little clay pipe lingered as a white speck he changes the direction wub o grin and
Wo
Chicken,-Kai Chai
Capone, Large, Small,—Sin Kaj
Another corner to came on a.
& collier in my sight after all else had gone, had not without the baptism. We turns, Ben-Kai Tan
"drawing" timber. The beauty of the then that disappeared too.
ME JARDINE, LATHESON & Co., for the engine-man, the "doggey" (or
LAD...
BANKKES:
BANK OF ENGLAND LONDON JOLT Stock Barx, Listed. Every description of Banking and change business transacted, and Stocks and Shares bought and sold on account of constituents. Letters of Credit granted on agents and. Correspondents all over the
world.
INTEREST owed on Current Accounts at 2 per senam on the Daily Balance and on Fixed Deposits at rates which may be ascertained on application.
"F. O," "MACDONALD,”
Manager. Hongkong, March 28, 1918,
1
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羊心
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20
20
Plantain,Tai Cheu
Plans-Swatow, Hung La
Pumelo, Sism, Chim Le Yau
Shanghai-Lo Kwat
Walnuts,Kop Two-
Green, Sang Hep 1ao...
Water Melon,Am.) Kom San Sai Kwa ench --
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Grapes--Sang Po Tai Tse
Vegetables &c.
生羊油 Aruchokes, Shanghai-Sheng telah
牛仔肉 Chi Cheak
#Beans, (French), Macao, Oh Moun Pin Tau,
(French), Shanghai,-Sheung Hai
CIX.
生日
each
per Joe. 2.
Fowls, Canton,-Kai
14.
Hainau,-Hoi Nam Eni
bringing down. He is stripped to the Goes Wild Shai-Shang-he YeaNgoi part waits, and the play of muscle and rhythmic Musk Deer, Wong Kang away of his body add a fiae, subtle music Hare, Shanghai, Tu Chai
to the sound of the blows he rains down upon the traca.
In a little while the cage came up again-apparition fascinates me. The collier, a fine speciman of muscolar manhood, bas his back to us and is dealing blow after Geosa, Ngo underground manager) and myself. rendered my bat and cont. past on a cup that had seen service, and followed, the
"Keep in from the side,' engine-man. he said. "At one strido.comes the dark.” My companions are hid by a veil that my eyes fail to pierce. The cage slips down quickly but smoothly and I experience no disagreeable sensation. Indeed, I would sooner go down this shaft, I feel, than two tube lifte out of three.
DARKNESS VISIDLE,
We are at the bottom now, and I'step out, following the lead of my companions. We aro seronty yards below the green fields, and I sen nothing. I must, as the miners say, "get my eyesight" before the vision of these regions is vouchanfed to me.
FOREIGN EXORAGE and General TNTERNATIONAL RANKING The "doggy" dives into a tub, and an Banking business tranted.
CURRENT ACCO NTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS feived for 1 year or shorter periods at rates hich will be quoted on application.
WM. DICKSON. Monager.
ge, April 12, 1912.
NEDERLAND
ANDEL-
ANDSCHE HAN MAATSCHAPPLY.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY).
ESTABLISHED 1824.
PAID UT ..F1. 45,000,000 (£3,750,000).
CAPITAL
About
REFL. 7,124,317,583,693
HEAD OFFICE~AMSTERDAM, HEAD ACENOY—BATAVIA. BRANCHES-Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya, Dent Handben, gadang Medan, Tebing Tinggi (Deli), Palembang, Kota- Macassar, Bandjarmasin, Radis, (Achsen),
at Bombay, Colombo, Corresponcherry, Calcutta, Bangkok, Madras, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy, Yoko hams, Robe, Melbourne, Sydney, New York, San Francisco, &c. &c.
LONDON, BAYERN-The Union of London and Suits Bank Limited,
The Bank buya and sails and receives for collection Bills of Exchange, issues letters of credit on ita Branchen and correspond- exte in the Past, on the Continient in Great Britain, America, and Australia, and trans mote banking busitions of every description:
INTEREST ALLOY EU,
OneTane Asconate 2% per Annesima e
Deposits 12 inerniki
CORPORATION B
does the engine-man, and I find myself presently with a candle in my hand, stack Depository of the U.S. Gorernment in in a socket of wet clay. "Keep a bit low," the Philippine Islands and the Republic of saya the engine-man, and promptly adopt HEAD OFFICE: 60, Wall Street, New York. all three, an attitude of the Rugby scrum." The candle makes the darkness LONDON OFFICE: 38, Bishopsgate, E.C.
BRANCHES :
visible as a very black darknew.
Panama.
Bumbay: Calcutta.
Capton. Cebu. Colon.
Empire. Bongkong. -Haukow
Kobe, Manila Mexico
Panania, Peking. San Francisco, Shanghai. -Yokohama
Partridge, Che Khoo Pheasant-Shan Kai Pigeons, Canton,-Pak Kup
cach
pair each
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Hoihow, Hoi How Pak Kup,
doten
As we'reach the foot of, the shaft again We have my candle gutters into the clay experienced no discomfort beyond the and the "miry clay." But the stroping mine, as the "doggey (whom we leave,
is one the engineman and I reminds me la of the best ventilated in the Kingdom. Quail,-Um-Chan Up in the engine-house we fine the engine. Rice Birds-Wo Fs Chenk man's son, who has brought his father's breakfast. His years ara pine, and his Snipe,-Sa-Choy especial joy is to ride down to the wine
on the top of the water tank,
As the engine-au cuts his bacon with his clasp-knife he points out to me the water pouring out of the tank of his son's delight.
Turkeys, Cock-Phor Kai Kung
Na
Wild Ducks, Shai,-Shang-bui Sai Ap ̈ leal--Bui Ap Chai,
.
Wild Ducks Canton-Sang.Shing Fai Ap
Fish
Two dozen an hour," he says, "and two ton and a half of water in each. If we stopped for three hours we shouldn't open presently a lever; and the tanks disappear; again." He pits band affectionately on comes up from below & tub of slack
Barbel,-Ka Yu Never off the lever when we're going full, toy band," he says.
Me and my mate. Bream, Bin Yu
A the one or the other, is afvaya bero," white arrow travels up an indicator as the Canton Fresh Water Fish,-Hui Fin Yu winding heels revolva and the tub goes down, marking the progress of the tub. Carp, Li Yu When it is full sped the tab, has resched the bottom.
Catfish,-Chik Tu
To the inner vision of my companions the whole of this underworld appears as panorama, and before their accustomed There's a bit of water been gotten up Codfish,-Mun Yu
eyes the actual way is clear-much clearer than it is to me. I discover this when they stop where the rcóf he got higher,
CARTIAL AND RESERYE ...GOLD $2,800,000 and bid me admire certain pit ponies, About... £1,400,000 towards which they point, but which 1 EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANK fall entirely to distinguish. At last, a ING BUSINESS transacted,
ing my candle across the dark, I have CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the sight of something that moves, and atody usual terms,
DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fixed forona ing it, I discover it is to be a pony's nose. year at 41. per annum or for shorter I move the light upwards, and it meets a periods, at rates which athy be ascertained blinking pro,"", on application,
They make no sound in the dark there, COLLECTED. BILLS NEGOTIATED &
MAILS and TELEGRAPHIC REMITse they more, these ponies, none of the TANCES made
LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS cheerful stir of a borse in the stato of granted on all the principal cities in the upper air, and the noiseleus moring fu that
DIT
ufter dark bar something necarny about
THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS. OF CREDIT are available all over the And not only is it the utter dark, but World.
the utter silence as well. If the wine were COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CRE-working it would be so very different. All TT issued. FURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and round we should hear what the colliers mult thepping of the coal, the green of The Officers of the Bank are bound, not earth under the blows denit her by her to disclose the transactions of any of ita
Donk Tube would be thandering down the customers.
GEO: HOGG Manager. waga, laden or empty; there would be tho No. 2, Queen's Road Jentral.laptap okussen picks, the scund of Hongkong, March 23, 1912,
shots the rending of bruen" shock, Should we come upon went down before us (to pet the Mines Draimge Comm may have oculas and suri tion of some of these things I follow my guldosin ever farther and art
THE
CHINA MAIL
Washing Books.
while I've been. Having that the break-
fast," says engine man. "I must put it Crabs,-Hai into
the aural.
I went on the previous day in search of Cattle Fish,-Mok Yu collieries in Warwickshire, that era. It Dab, Mlang yu ported to be going again. I found pits at work, but I learned that this arose through Dace,Wong Mei Lun
no unwillingness of the men to restart.
A rent collector whom I met by chance Dog Fish-Tit Tu 5
me quite a domestic picture of the Eels, Congor,-Hoi Mann, miners of Warwickshire. Be catue, SCTORS
Fresh water,Tam Sio.. number of cases where the supposed
Este, Yellow,Wong Sin pigeon-tier and whippet-facar was hard at work scrubbing the kitchen floor or scour= ing the grate. There was certainly distress, Frogs-Tien Kai but the people were proud, and did not Group, Sek Pan reveal it.
Gudgeon, Pak Kop Yu
LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND
"Under Weight," a condition of l-bealth, shows your assim llative powers stra, decreasing
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Harrings, Teo Pak Halibut Labrus-Wong Loach Lobste
Mackerel Mont Fiab
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Best Root,-Hung Choi Tan Brinjals, Greco-Ching Yun Red,-Hung Ker
Cabbage Chinese,com-Kai Choy Cabbage Red,-Hung Yes Choy Cabbage, Shanghai,-Yeh Choi
Cine Shoots, Lunch,-Kau Shun
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西瓜
生巷榛子
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Medium size,Cheang Teli ChoFs
i. Small size,-Sai Yen Choi F
Carrots,Kam Shur
Celery, Chineso,-Toug San Choi
English,-Yeong
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营白
Green-Ching Let Chin
Curry Stuff, English,-Kar Lee Chn Cla
Cucumbers,Ching Ewa
Bitter Squash-Fu Kwa
Garlic, Que Tau.
Ginger, young,--Suti Tre Beary old-Lo Keung
Harso Radish, Shoi,- Lik Bas
Indian Com-Sak Mat ...
Lettuce,-Jeang Sang Chri
Water Chesnuts—Dla Tai
Bisuderis,--Kwai Luw Ma Tri
31ushrooms, Fresh, Seng Cho Hoo Musk Bieloo. Amer. Kim-san Hong T'kroes,
Onings. Bombay,Teng Chung Jar Crees-Sang Choris ---
Shanghai, Shang boi Chong The Papar, Ist qual, Tai Man Sau Kas
2nd
Parsley-Kun Cho
Green PeaChing Tau
Potatoe Street-Fan Sho
Shanghai,Shang-hoi Shu sa
Japan, Yat Poon Ehu Ta...
America
Foochow
Fook-cho Shu
Wong
cogkong, January 13,179,