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WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
Applications may be made through the undernoted Banks from whom full information and the necessary forme may be obtained :—
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ÁUSTRALIA" AND CHINA,, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
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War Savings Certificates
Valne 5 year's after purchase
£500.
£1
Purchase Price
£387 10 0 151. 8d.
FREE OF INCOME TAX: For every 156. Bd. lent now £1 will be paid in 5 years' time, equivalent to 5 per cent. com. pound internet. No Income Tax will be payable.
Anyone, whatever his or her Income may be, can buy Wer Saving Certificates ay to # maximum of 500 £1 Oartißostas in all or their equivalent.
Meanwhile the money may” ba withdrawn in fuil any time, with an addition after the first year,
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
(1). A Certificate entitles the purchaser.) to receive £t for each 159, 6. on the fifth anniversary of the date of purchase, free of income tax in respect of the acetumu- lated interst
(2) A Certificate is not transferable except by permission of the Partmaster General fee of 1s, will be charged in
LOAN 1917.
SUBSCRIPTION to the LIBERTY
LOAN is opened at THE RUSSO ASTATIC BANK Hongkong, from dato to 20th June, 1917.
The price of issue is 85%.
The loan is free of Income Tax and sther taxations.
The loan is issued for 15 years and will be redeemable at par by yearly drawings beginning in December, 1992
The Loan may be reimbursed at par Fafter the 29th March, 1927.
Coupons are payable half yearly on che 29th March and the 29th September. Interest on the loan runs from the 29th March 191-interest from that date to be added to the price of issue.
Special favourable raten will be quoted for Russian Exchange.
Applications will be wired to Petro- grad tree of telegraphic charges and Bonds will be forwarded free of postal expenses. The Bank is ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the Bonds.
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JAPANESE FINE ART QUEIOS H. MATSUNAGA,”
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respect of each transfers. In the event A golden opportunity for securing, of death, the same rules will be s
as in the case of Savings Bank Deposiz general bargnine at 'enormous
with
form
On written äpplention. (on a
Port Offery being at any maule to the Controller. Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, or part thereof in multiples of 15s. 6d. will be repaid at any time. sddition, of d. for each 158: 6d on the first anniversary of the date of purchase "and with a further addition of ld. per
15. ed. for each month thereafter.
(4) No person may hold 500 £1 Certificates
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Than
more their equivalent.
The Certifientes Enn relase price 15. 6.) are issued in book form.. The
Certificates for £1 (purchase price £0
reduction in price.
D. CHELLARAM "offers bis eptire ock in trade of oriental Nikes, crepes, talatta, plain fancy Voiles.urgandy ivory wares and gold Jewellery at greatly relaced prices for 15 days only;
India-Persian Tientain and Velvet
Carpets reduced 20%. Received new consignment of silk stockings slu
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69.3 and £25 (purchase price £1978) DAIRY FARM NEWS. are inet without monks. The. £1, 219
and £25 Certificate are on sale at local
Post Offices and at most Banks.
Single Certificates for sums from.
£100
to £500 may be obtained on application to the Comptroller and Accountant. General, General Post Office, London application forms are available at all l'ens Office and at most Banks,
If Curtientes be inst, and the serial numbers can he furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at
charge of is..
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
June, 19:3
(For examples of Investment in
War Sayings
the other side.)
́ertificates, see
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War Savings Certificates
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489
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260
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multiple of 15. Bd. up to £587 10.
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THE VALUE OF CHINESE LACQUER.
INTERESTING CASE IN THE HIGH COURT.
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Foochow lacquer. The secret of it was kept in the oue laudly. When lacquer was damaged it could not be mended
Cross-examined by Mr. Schiller-Ho knew nothing of the value of such expen- sive lacquer. He could not himself affund to buy such lacquer. It was, "* No. 1 (*boya husquer.
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Mr. Edward Wilson, un artist and art critic, who had minks Iscquer himself. TAKASHIMA OUHI MUTAHE KISHIDARE YOSHINOTANI HOJO, NAMAZUTA. SAYO,KANADA, SHIFKEW. KAMTYAMADA, BISAI & CYUBARI COLLIERIES.
said that this lacquer was the most beauti- ful that was known. The value was greatly reduced by the damage that had been done to it. The check of the göddaru Kwon-yin had been fijured and the value was small now.
If the King's Bench Division, on the 20th April, Mr. Jastike Darling and s special pry honed an aetion in which M. William Bence Lockhart, accountant, of Victoris Street, Wistininstar, wited Mr. Raumey Blair, moneylender, of Piccadilly, for the man, or damages for the wrongs,
Defendant stated is evidence that he ful detration of some valimble pieces al
was introduced to M. Hamilton in March, Chinese lacper ware known as Shes rot, and be advanced him 1250 on a Shae Au." There was also a claim for bill of sale on the property in his fat. damage to the things. Defendant derütd|Mr. Hamilton made only one payment, wrongfully detaining the goods and the and when witness found the that had been damage, and said he was entitled to hold raided he tok steps to have the goods removed. The lacquer ware was pat.up them muder a bill of sale. Mr. Haldin, for suction and bought in for £20. After R.C., and Mr. P. J.. Merlin appeared remaining in his flat the goods were stored for the plaintiff: Mr. Schiller, K.Q., Hud | by „Megera. Waring' and Gillow. .. Mr. Barrington-Ward for the defendant. Mr. Haldin, is opening the case, said thur the objects of art which formed the subject-matter of the action were articles of Fenchow gold lacquer of Shen Shao" Aus design. They had been raighly handled and murioully damaged while they were in the defendant's possession under
a bill of sale... The articles were entrusted
of sale.
Cross-examined by Mr. Haldin-How did Hamilton describe himself when be made the billsof sale? He said that he was an independent gentleman and had been. Ennal for Sino. The witness went on to way that, in a different transaction. he advanted. E20 on the security of some Chinese robes which were in a pigskin box. He still had the box.
Mr. Blewitt. a dealer in works of Oriental art la Oxford-street, said that
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musch; £150 was a fantastic price. HeGLASGOW, Messrs A. R. Brown, would divide by 10 the price of the table valued at 120 guiness.
Cross-examited-Te had not a single piece of first-class lacquer in his shop at present.
to the plaintiff Sy Shen Cheng How, she had had dealings in Fochoy lacquer. mundario. A friendship between Shen The lacquer in this, case was of the first- Cheng Flow and Mr. Lockhart grow be prality, but it was 'not of great vilua. cause Mr. Lockhart had resumed the man. There was no market for it, and it did darin's son from a band of hooligans. The not bring in high prices. The bowl which articles included an ** old gold landscape." the plaintiff valued at 160 gninens, was pencek ble emblem." pastel gold worth only or £5. The vast valued butterfies, a carved vase, a lacquered by the plaintiff at £150 was not worth ko. guld #gure of Kwangyin (the Goddess of Mercy), and a Chinese pigskin box. As the mandarin's son had been educated in Europe ha did not wish to return to the making of lacquer, and therefore Shen Cheng How decided to send his stock to England. He gave the things to Mr. Mr. Edward Gwyer, of Mewes, Gley, Lockhart for sale. Some of the articles dining and Co., said that the bowl valued were old and ethers were entrusted by at 1 guiness was bought in at three the plaintiff to G. B. Hamilton, describeduinens. He had been in Foochow op la the defence as an art collector, whomines. The lacquer in this case was had opportunities which the plaintif bad very nice for modern Foochow were, not for displaying thein for sale to private There had been no market for "Foochow customers. Hamilton was arrested for lacquer in this country. certain immoral offences and was sen His Lördship, in giving judgment, id tenced to two years' has labour. After he held that Hamilton why not a mer that Blair removed the goods from Hamil.cantile agent for plaintif, nor su expert or collector. The articles were placed tou's Bat in 4. pantsclinicon without packing them properly and they were with him simply as a ennvenience, in damaged. Blair, who was a money order that plaintiff could bring to the at lender, had seized the good under a bill anybody who was likely to buy the goods. Hamilton had nothing to do with the The plaintif, in giving evidence, said selling of them," and had no right over that he was an accountant. He was in them whatever. It was for plaintiff to Foochow in 1912, and he berature friendly prove the articles were damaged, while in with a Chinaman who had become famous Mr. Blair's possession, and in this respeck as a leggerer. This Chinaman, who had there was only evidence in regard to the regelved mandarin's mank' in reohgnition bowl and the goddess. His Tardship' of his craftsmanship, entrusted him (the sessed the damages at £26. Judgment witness) with his patent of nebility as Proof of bona fides to be shown in Europe, where he wished to dispose of the lacquer. Queen Victoria bought some of the. facquer and presented it to South Ken- sington Museum. Queen Alcrändra also bought seme. The witness went to see Blair at his office, and Blair admitted that, he had the lacquer, but he would not say where it was. Eventually he went to the defendant's fat, and there he saw the lacquer. One of the pieces alone tok four years to make and was worth 100 guineas. He found that plece in the fire- place at the defendant's fat near's gas store, and a porcelain bowl was placed un the top of it. On application to the Court he cbtained in order to have the good stored, and they were sent fint to Meurs. Harrod's and later to Mesr Waring and Gillowdown fa
By consent of both sides, the jury: was withdrawa
The Rev. Llawallys Lloyd, who had been missionary in Fooches for forty year, was called as an expert in lacquer. Ee oid that this requer priceless.
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an entered for this sum, and that pisin- tiff should have possession of the goods.
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