HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI THE BANK OF EAST
BANKING CORPORATION.
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG.
Anthorised Capital ......880,000,000) Issued and Fully Paid up...$30,000,000 Reserve Funda
Sterling...... 500,000 - Bilver$38,500,000 Reserve Linbility of
Proprietors.ozn
· ASIA, LIMITED.
READ OFFICE: HONGKONG. Da Yux Road Central, Hongkong.
Authored Capital....$10,000,000 Paid-up Capital Reserve Fand
5,000,000 1,000,000
DIRECTORS: Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Son-Chairman. Fung Ping Shan Mok Ching Kong
890,000,000
Li Koon Chun
P... Ewok
Wong Yun Tong Heyuh Tat
Ng Ching Lok
Kan Ying Po
COURT OF DIRECTORS: GM. Young Eng-Chairman,
EL. P. Walta, Esq-Deputy Chairman, WH Bell, Kan,
Hou, Mr. A. Q, Long,
D. G. M. Bernadi. Eng↑ W. 1., Patienden,” Bex, AH. Compton, M. A Plummer, Saq HenMr.P.H. Holynak 1. G. Weil, Kan
-CHIEF MANAGER:
A. H. BARLOW, Esq.
Manager: Shanthai-G. H. STITỪ, Esq..
LONDON BANKERS
Westminster Bank, Ltd.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in
Fosg Wal Ting
Chan Ching Shek
Hongkong, 16th February, 1925.
司公理管業實法中
Logna
THE CHINA MAIL.
COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
STRIKE YEAR.
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO.
1925:-
The Profit for 1925.
The gross profit for the
above period is .. . $528,279.87
forward from last
Plus amount brought
EMPIRE WEED.
Tobacco.
To Sir Walter Raleigh we owe In large measure the Imagination and the Initiative which laid the foundations of the British Em pire: we owe more to him, for, unless authority can prove to the
The Question of British Empire contrary-and witnesses do not agree it was Sir Walter who gave us tobacco and the potato." The potato three centuries later was to have a profound influence on the future of Great Britain and the Empire. Its failure in Ireland accelerated the movement towards
Are we on the eve of a boom in The report of the China Light Empire-grown tobacco? Has and Power Co. (1918) Ltd, to be Wembley among its other achieve presented to the shareholders atments succeeded in breaking Every denoription, of
of Banking and the 7th, ordinary yearly meeting down a prejudice against British the fiscal system which has been Bxchange business transacted. granted on approved securities.
on December 21, by the General Empire tobaccos which in the for eighty years a determining SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to let. Managers, Messrs. Shewan, Tomes past. has afforded an unhappy
factor in Empire economic rela- KAN TONG PO & Co., gives the following state-illustration of the axiom that tionships. Tobacco has gone some Chlef Manager. ment of account for the twelve familiarity breeds contempt? If way to make good the fiscal de- months ended September 30, Wembley has induced a desire to little Imperial account. It is stil Hciency, but otherwise has been of smoke Imperially, as well as to derived for the most part from buy Imparially in other dire the land whence Raleigh or Lane | tions, it has accomplished what
every student of the pipe would some other of his contem have deemed the impossible. "For Poraries, derived it. It was then an Empire product; it is; if we 21,421.70 | my part" writes
one whose have the vision, the enterprise, patriotism is impeccable, "I tried and the patriotic inclination, de- $544,701.37 most of the Empire brands years stined again to become essential
ago, and bar Nyasa tobacco, 4,807.67 which was quite good, I found an Empire product. We who 1,766.54 that my patriotism stopped short problems of population, migra- are yet endeavouring, to solve at my pipe.'
Generally the complaint against which were the active concern of tion, economies, and Empire Empire tobaccos has been that Elizabethan statesmen, adven- they are too strong, too pungent, turers, and poets, are only now too shag-like. Are they improve coming to grips with the possibil Ing? Is the smoker a mere ities latent in the plant that bears creature of habit and acquired the name of Jean Nicot
LOCAL CURRENCY and FIXED BANQUE FRANCO CHINOISE.
DEPOSITS received for one your or
shortar periods in Locul Currency and torting on terms which will be quoted In_application.
Hongkong, 20th, May 1025,
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
TVER busique of the above: Bank is. conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR- FORATION. Rules may be obtained Da application,
INTEREST on deposits la calculated on the logart baluoco during each com- plated Calendar Month at 3 por pent per annum. Should there be no balance: on any day in a month no interone wil¦ ¦ De allowed for that month.
Dopositore may brandor at their option Balance of $100 or more to the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT LI DURRENT RATES.
For the HomeKONG ÖFBRANDDREA) 'BANKING COUTORATION,
A. EL BARLOW.
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 7th January 1025.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
VEVENTS
HEAD OFFICE:
98, Boulevard Kansaman, Paris.
Subscribed Capital. Fra: 72,000,000.00 Fald-Up Capital.... Frs. 68,4001000.00
Reserve; Fund Frs: 59,887,283.64
BRANCHES:
Bangkok *Tran Butimbang
Pondicherry sunglass 4 Shigats Meng120
Nonmet
Clapton
jibouti
Fort Bayard
Pageta
Haiphong
Peking
Hankow
lrusra Panh
BANKERS:
Sling hai Singe Tiantain
Tog mone Yanon
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National Escompte das ring, helit Leannais Banque de Parivint Jo Pyn Bra: Credit Industriel of Commercint Becinto Generale.
EN LONDON The Nationak Provine!n & Union Bank of England Ltd: Comptoir
National d'Escompte de Parin; Critt Lyonnais IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Eng Fronch American Banking Corporation; Guaranty Trot Co. of New Yorki
PË
Interest alowed on Ormant Accounts and Fixal Deposits according to arrangement,
Every disaription of Banking and Exokauga Rosiness wanis
A LECOT,
Manager, Hongkong, 11th December, 1925,
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ.
-(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.)
ESTABLISH 1824. Bonesome Branch KStarzzikun 1906.
Anthored Capital3: 187,000,000 £15,800,000 Paid Up Capital... 80,000.000 .6,886,87 Reserve Fund...G. 20,596,861 1,711,408
HEAD OFFICE:-Amsterdam. EASTERN HEAD OFFICE:-Batavia.
pour le
Commerce et L'Tidustrie (Incorporated in France).
5. Chater Rond, Victoria, Hongkong.
HEAD OFFICE;. 74, tue St. Lazare, Paris.
pital
****** Fr* 20:000:00- Buvial Working Capital. Fr 60.000:000,— KANDIYON... F4 11:160 000,-
Parte
Posing. Cu.
DRANCHES
Lynne Matreillee Itiphang Hoved Shinghaf Tionwin
H
BANKERS:
FRANE Sonteis Gonerila, Benique
year
After allowing, for Interest, etc: Exchange:
Writing off deprecia- tion on the Com- pany's lines, build- ings, machinery, etc. Consulting commit- tee's and auditor's fees
The balance, to be
dealt with is
115,054.57
..$416,293,59
Which it is proposed be appro- priated as follows:-
Nationale de Credit, Banque de To put to credit of
Paris et des Pays: Bas.
6.2
3Ft Bunk Bart. NEW YORK Jrving Bank Columbia
Trust Co.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business Transacted Corre- apandenis throughout the world..
A. ROLLIN Manager. Hongking for December, 1924.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1858.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
.£3,000,000 .£4,000,000
.£3,000,000.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE. and General Banking business transacted
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter period at rates which will be quoted on application.
A. H. FERGUSON,
Manager. Hongkong, 15th April, 1926.
repaire and renewals: account. .........$ To pay a bonus to staff of 10 per cent. To pay an extra bonus to staff for overti.ne work during the strike
To write off value of
Crown leases
·
>>
6,800.00
taste? Is a British North Borneo 128,407,78 cigar as deficient under another description as when frankdy label- led? Are Jamaica cigars, duly wrapped in Sumatra leaf) worthy Havana? A cigar smoker, whose to claim first cousinship with
cpinion was tantamount to to- bacco law found Jamaica cigars so good that he bought them by the thousand and nothing else, (but courage failed him when call- ed upon to hand the box to friends. So he transferred his Jamaica cigars to Havana boxes, and he still lives. No doubt he 1,450.00 Jamaica a wrong, but he saved his friends from the dis- 10,000.00 comfort born of too much know-
ledge!
70,000:00
8,866.00
To pay a dividend of 7% per cent., or 87% cents per ahare en 400,000 shares: (old) 150,000.00 To pay a dividend of
7 per cent.
or
11.40 cents per share on 200,000 shares (new)
To carry forward to next year's account
A Blend..
Like New Zealand butter, Em- pire-grown tobacco has been con- sumed in considerable quantities in Great Britain, but mixed with another and put on the market as the Something Blend. Incidental 22:800.00ly, one of the curiosities of the trade is that whilst the Imperial 158.177-69 Tobacco Company is mainly con- cerned with foreign tobacco, $416,293.59 foreign companies are the chief
handers of Empire tobaccos.
Quite obviously, responsibility The Management regret that, owing to the present financial for this rests with the public.. stringency and difficulty in ob- Unless and until there is a de taining funds, it is impossible to mand for Empire tobaccos, they pay a larger dividend at the forth-place in store or shop window. will not occupy a conspicuous coming meeting; but should moneyHere and there one comes upon Letome available later on, it may an Empire label, but complaint is, The possible to declare an interim made that Empire tobaccos are [dividend.
dear. That is perhaps true of a Consulting Committee:-Dur-particular kind, but the price is ing the year Mr. A. H. White wasunerally lower than that of the THE BÁNK OF TAIWAN, LTD.upported in place of Mr. P. familiar foreign brands. As it
(Taiwan Ginko.)
White, who resigned on leaving should be; for whilst Wembley the Colony, in accordance with has been advertising Empire to- the Articles of Association, Honbacco, the Chancellor of the Sir Paul Chater, Messrs. A. HExchequer has given it a sub- White, A. H. Compton, C. A dastantial advantage in the tariff Roza and Lee Hysan retire, but which the trade undertook to being eligible offer themselves for pass or to the public. Foreign re-election,
tobacco pays customs duty of Auditors: The accounts have Bs. 9d. per lb.; Empire tobacco been audited by Messrs. Linstead 68. 14d difference represent- and Davis and Messrs. Lowe,ing a full three-halfpence per Bingham and Matthews who are ourco. recommended for re-election,
Incorporated by Special Imperial
Charter, 1809.
Capital Subscribed
Yen 15,000,000 | Capital (Paid-up) .... Yen 39,375,000
HEAD OFFICE:-Taipeh, Formoni.
Kobe,
BRANCHES: JAPAN:-Tokyo, Yokohamd,
Danka. Special Beverven... 2,800,000 £1,988,180 FORMOSA: Giran, Kag), Karenko, Keelung Bokoto, Nanto, Sain chikui Taichu, Tainan, Takao, Tamsui, Toyen, Haitoh, Taitob.. CHINA S
Shanghai Hankaw, Amey, Swatow, Canton,; i Horgkong, Singapore, OTHERS:
Soerabaya, Semarang, Batavia, Bombay, London, New York, Calcutta.
BRANCHES-
Bandfarmsala Bandoung
Galoutta
Djokjakarta
Luis Badja
Padang
Penang
Chariban.
The Hagas Kobe
Macar
Paimbang
Bombay Djember
Medan Pecalongas Rangoon
Shanghai
Pontianak
Samarang
Rotterdam
Mingapore
Boera bala
Togal
Tilatja
Boerakarta (Bols)
Weltevredes
LONDON BANKERS: National Provincial Bank, Ltd. Correspondents all over the world.. BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION...
M. J. HERBSCHLEB,
Agent. Hongkong, November 4, 1924.
THE
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.
Established 1880.
Capital (full paid-up).. Yen 103,000,000 Reserve Fund... Yon 88,500,000-|
Hand Office: YOKOHAMA -
Branches and Agencies at:
Batavia.
Bombay.
Buenos Ayres.
Calcutta.
Canton.
Obangehun
furan (Dalny)." Tengtian (Muldan),
11mburg.
Jankow
Harbin Honolul
Nowchwang.
New York.
Osaka
Peking,
'Rangoon.
Rio de Janeiro. Saigon San Francisce.. Seattle, Semarang, Shanghai Shimonosel Singapore. Boarabaya.
Kai Yuen
Erschi
Lobo,
Sydne
London.
Los Angeles.* trình
LONDON BANKERS: London County Westminster 'and Farr's Bunk..
$685,000 DEAL.
IMPORTANT PROPERTY
· SALE.
14 Houses Change Hands.
Tastes.
"The Outlook."
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1925.
NOW I WONDER WHO THAT CAN BE!
Very often this is your first thought when you receive a message to call up such and such a telophone number. You can find out easily from the Telephone Handbook which gives the numbers in the numerical' order. You simply turn the pagos, And the number, and see who it is: that has been calling you.
The Telephone Handbook can be obtained from the publishers, No, Wyndham Street, price one dollar.
HONGKONG MARKET PRODUCE. A
Steak Sirloin
Sovaages
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
November 18, June, Juns,.
Capons, Small
Eggs, Hon (cooking)..
Poultry.
November 18, June, June,
lb.
1925, 1918-1914...
Cts. Ct. Cts.
H
* * * * * * * * 8 9 138 1889 18
1926. 1918, 1914.
Cts. Cla. Cts.
Beef Sirloin
牛您靶
Chicken
1b.
82 24 12
30
J
Prime Cut
92
23 22
80 28
77 11
Corned
牛肉
32
K
48 12
Capone, Large
62
28.
Ronst
Duck
A2 24 22:
50
11
23.
37.
Broast
Doves
14.
28, 20 18
Bách LÊ
t
Soup
30
20 18
por oz 30:
18
#
Steak
32:
J
24
2/2
Eers, Een (fresh) ...
F
40
25
48. 30:
95
Fowls, Canton
本地
Ib.
30
40
26 20
Fowls, Hainan
28
习
+
per set 25
10.
12
Geese..
24
Bach 50
60
60
Pigeons, Canton
each ---
80
60
"
Hoshow
23:
n. $1.50
24
·14 20 38
-$2.20 13.
Turkeys, Cock
lb,
65
each, 10
10 12
15 10 12
30
20
Turkeye, Een Snipe Pheasant Quail Partridges
48
Б
cach
pair $1.75
82
22
가
51.70
24
18. 14.
12 $ 7
Bullock's Braina
"
Tonguo, fresh.
Tongue, corned:
Head
'Heart
Hump, Salt
Feet
H
Kidneys
Tail
Liver
Tripe
ཅ ཋདྨེ ནནྟིཾ ར ཏུམྦ བཻམཔེ ཕྱི ང ད
Calros' Head & Foet.. 4 sát $1.20 $1.00 $1.30 Mutton Chop
ים
Pork Chop
#
#+
把 肉肉肉铧柳濶深廚榭頭心府梆透鬼肝肚脚骨膠手肉脚什即心慶肝脾心肝猪油油
牛羊仔仔
40 15 18.
Bananas (bride's)
Carambola
Cocoanuta
Lemons, Chian
白糖機
BERIKKER #EGBAREM
Fruits.
គន់គនន់ធំ ន វ ន | ដ | | | | | គ |
55
28
50
20
53
24
65
Almunde
Ib.
55
門
40
47
Appica California)
金山啤藥
"
24
por set
5
12
藥山香蕉
7 4
+
ib.
22 15
13
tach' 14
10
10
棒
16. 糖
147
金山排 aachi &
30 ... 25
80
廟會撥
14
15.
12
1'5 10
# 14 12
5
each 17
12
1b. 17
Sheen's Head & Fast. per not 85
Heart.......
»
66
Lemong (America)
Lichees, Dried...
Oranges (Canton)
Oranges
Pears (Canton)
Peanuta
Persinimons, Large
Puraelo, Siam
仁桃子没于接 编生柿米油桃子
Vegetables, &c.
鴉芝
cách: 12
21
Leg
Shoulder
Saddle
21
Pig's Chitlings
Brains Feet Fry
#
Read
24 20
Heart
J
each 14 10
10
"
Kidneya
D
71
Liver
ib.
猪: 排骨
12 10 g
52 30 24 42 25 28
Leg
45
-
1
Loin
H
48 28 27
Fat or Lard
融 30 21
40 70
Plantai
anch. 15
8 7
Kidneys.......
15
12 10
Waloute
77
Liver
28
2
H
Graper
Sucking Pigs, to order. Suet, Beef
Mutton Veal
Sausages
25 26 22
+
32 20
18
86
#
26 21
36
20
19
帽
40
20
23
"
No. 1..
32
Artichokes
Fish.
Beanss, Sprout...
30 19
24
Long
24 -20
·16
Best Roat
糖果
18
14
Bitter Squash
Water Fish!
海鮮
Brinjal, Green
Carp
16
27
Hed
14.
Catfish
12 9
Cabbage, Chinese:
Codfish
20
Craba
48. 28
26
Cane Shoots, bạnch .........
Chattin Fish
28. 16
2
con-
Dab Paco Dog Fish Eela, Cunger
80
10
24 10
10 10 8
Carrota
BL 18
H
Fresh Water
10 18
Chillies, Dried...
辣椒
Yallow
Foge Garoupa Gudgeon
06 *2
68 28 20
25
*.*.
白糖
18
15
Herrings
20. 222 18
Halibut
Labrusc
Losch
Lobsters
Mrckiral
Whether preference in tariffs will make much difference to pre- ference in tastes we shall only, be able to tell when the trade returns of 1925 are available. Hitherto the imports of Empire-grown tobacco have reflected as little credit on British readiness to take. advantage of opportunities as the imports of Empire-grown sugar or Empire-grown cotton. If we phurie. Tringan, Japan, Indo-China, Binza, India,
Interact allowed on Current Account, and Fixed Messrs. M. Philippine Islands, Java, Africa,
teen houses belonging
turn to the very useful Agures Depliant at which will be quoted an applica
supplied Y: San, and Co Economic Committee's final re- by the Imperial seven: opposite the Central T. TAKAGI,
Market, three in Cochrane Streat Port, we gather that of tobacco and four in Stanley Street,
valued at £16,371,000 sent into The property was sold for the sum of
Great Britain £861,000 or 5.3 $585,000 to a wealthy Chinese in tribution of the Empire. An-
per cent-represented the Singapore through. Messrs. Ben-other authority tells us that we jarnín and Potts.
The Bank has Correspondents in the Dummernis
"A large deal has just been put Coutes in the Sarapman Continent, Rands, Mag-through, the property being four
Mon.
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HONGKONG BRANCH:
Manager.
8. Das Voux Road Central, Hongkong, 1st November, 1925,
THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中
(Specially Authorised by Presidential Mandate of the Republic of Chine on the 2nd of November, 1917). Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital Eeserve Fund
$60,000,000.00 $18,278,600.00 $ 9,829,495.2
HEAD OFFICE: PEKING.'
HONGKONG BEANOR:
4. Quest's Road Central,
Branches and Sub-branches all aver
RUBBER.
to
Mesars, Carroll Broa, on Dec. 12, received cables reporting the fol- lowing sales to Hongkong:
Connemaras .$8.20 Brogas Malaka Pindas
Kedaha
Bassetts Colinsburgh
2.25
4.05
5.20
2.15
5.90
Mersrs, Carroll Bros. also re-
ceive advices notifying that the Chion and Correspondents in Europe, following forward sales have been America, and other parts of the world. made s London Bankers The National Provin cial and Union Bank of England, Ltd.
The Guaranty Trust Company of New
ork.
New Look Bankica The Leg
National Bank,
The Equitable Trust Company of New
York
get 160,000,000 lbs. per. adnum from America, and only 15,000,- 000 lbs, from British India and Nyasaland combined.
Such figures should give all whose glogan is "Buy Empire Goods" furiously to think. British India and Nyasaland ought to be able to provide us with as much tobacco as America, and they are
Barbel Bream
Canton Frash
SØEN E DANGERMEIS
席肚 水
*
(Shanghai)
竹茶角到瓜 -瓜菜莱牙 花花花安棗于被枚料库或書
BAHEBESKED
Cauliflower (Largo) ..
(Mediumi
(Small).
Celery, Chinese
塘臭
Red
Groon
76 40 30
28 18 23...
Curry Stuff, English..... #) Cucumbers
Garlic..
Ginger, Young
Old
Horseradish, Shanghai. Indian Corn
Lettuce Water Chestnuts
Mandurin: 桂林馬照 Mushrooms, Fresh Okrose"
Bombay Green Shanghai
36 22 18
85 $2 24
82. 21.
80
20 88
42
82 28
Müller
: 82. 18
Oyabera
30 15 22
Parrot Fish Ferch Pike Platoo
Poo
a tithe of the area under the Monk Fish British flag suitable for tobacco growing. Rhodesia, Uganda, Malaya, the West Indies, Aus- the possiblities are illimitable. tralia, South Africa, Canada
Canada's progress in tobacco done with a few years of patient culture is proof of what can be 80 tons Ribbed Smoked Sheet for and soll study In 1924
Limas Rubber Estates, Ltd
1926 að $1.25 per bands
Matidai Takong Rubber Batates, crop, nearly all grown in Ontario the value of Canada's tobacco Lid: One ton monthly for and Quebec, was $1,359,000 bes January/March, 1923, Ribbed fore the war she sent some 8,000 Smoked Sheet at $1.36 per Ib. Opes to England, and it tom monthly Zor Apt!/June, 1928,
Ribbed Smoked Sheet at $1.22 per
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