1926-03-27

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI, THE BANK OF EAST

BANKING CORPORATION..

HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG..

Authorised Capital 950,000,000

Lined and Fully Fald up...$20,000,000! Reservo Fund

Sterling.....2,500,000

Silvor.837,000,000.

Raave Diability of

Proprietor

$20,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS:

Da M. Buriank E-Clualoan Hon. Mr. A. O Bang, — Bajuty. Sbulemans

WA_H. Bell, Big,"

1. H. Corayson, Raqu

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**KM PA.Holwark! H. P. White. Eng... WL Patient Ret. Mi Young, Big,

CHIEF MANAGER:

A. H. BARLOW, Esq. -

Manager: Shanghai-G.. E. STITT, Esq. LONDON BANKERS.

Westminster Bank, Ltd.

ASIA, LIMITED.

11441

HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG. De Tax Road Central. Hongkong. Authorized Capital $10,000,000 Paid-up Capital 1,000,000 Reservo-Fundi" (1,338)................... 1,200,000 DIRECTORS Hon. Sir Show son Chow-Chairman. Fung Ping Shan: Mok Ching Kong. LI Keon Chun- Wong Yan Tong P.-E. Kwok Huyuh Tal Ng Ching Luk Kan. Ying: Fo Pong Way Ting Chan Ching Bbak: Every description of Banking and Exchange business transaoted.. Loans granted on approved securities.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to le KANTONG PO,

Chief; Manage.

Hongkong, 8th February, 1923.

行鍍商工法中

CURRENT ACCOUNTS: opened in

11:

LOCAL CURRENCY and: FIXED BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOISE

DEPOSITS received for one year of shorter perioda in Local Currency and Sterling on torms, which' will be quoted on application.

Hongkong, 27th February, 1026.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK

HE business of the above Bank 1

THE

pour le

Commerce et L'Industrie: (Incorporated in France),"

F, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong..

HEAD OFFICE: 76, Bus 81. Lasáře,

Paria

"conducted by the RONGKONG Capital ...

Frs 20,000,000)---- AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORRETO. Fra 11.160.000- PORATION Rules may be obtained: Speolak Working Ospital...FM 50.000.000,-. on application..

INTEREST An deposits a calanlisted on the lowest, balance during each com plated: Calendar Month at $1 per cent. per annum. Should thora: ha. so balanion: on sny day in a month no internad will be allowed for that month.

Depositor may transfer at their option-Balance of $100 or morn to the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK so be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT st CURRENT RATES.

For the Rokora, &. SHANGHAI

Banking fouTORATION,

A. EL BARLOW,

Chief ManagOZŁ Hongkong, Th January, 1995:

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.

HEAD OFFION:

Hj. Boulevard Haússman, Paris.

Parlu

BRANCHES

**Lyons

Balgon"

Halphong

Paking Canton

Shanghai

Marseilles Hano Tientzia

Hong cong

• BANKERA:

FRANCE- Societe Generale, Bangus

Nationals de Credit, Banque: do:| Paris: et des Pays Bas.. LONDON Midland Bank Ltd. NEW YORK:- Irving Bank Columbia,

Trust Oo..

Every description of Banking and Exchange Business: Transacted. Corre- spondents: throughout the world

A ROLLEN, Manager.

•

Hongkong, 1st December, 1925.

#bscribed Capital.. Pza. 72:000.000.00 Paid-up Capital... Fra: 68,490,000.00 THE CHARTERED BANK OF

Rosaryd Fund's Fr. 59,687,288

Bangkak

BRANCHES%

Fanot

Battambang Hongkong:

Fort Bayard

Canton

Dithout!!

Haiphong Hankow

Mangian

Noum

Papale Peking

From-Panh

BANK FRAŃ

Ron Hcherry Sigm Alian: ball

King phry

Tintain Touring Yunsanfu

INFRANTEE Cowuplole Nationaldiacompte de riu rodit Leonariu: Basque de Pariant Piya-Bang, Credit: Industrialet Commercial Bolle Generala.

IN LONDON: The National Provincial Union Bank of Englandi bidat Comptoir National d'Wacompte da-Paris; Gredit Lyonnkin IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Co. French American Banking Corporations Guaranty Trust. Co. of New York,

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Internet- allowed on Cizrinat. Aaronnie and Fixed Deposit according to anaangarbank..

Every description of Banking and Exphanga Basinise transnoted..

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A. LECOT,

Managin Hongkong, 11th December, 1925..

NEDERLANDsche handeL MAATSCHAPPIJ

İNETHERLANDS' TRADING: BOCIETY.)

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KESTABLISHED, 1894.

Honakomo Examon Belantiexed. 1908,

HEAD OFFICE:—Amsterdam.. BLASTERNİ HEAD OFFICE:--Batavia.. BRANCHES-

Bandarmala Bandoung Bombay. Balentta

Cheribon

INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

o' INCORPORATED ET ROTAL...

CHARTER,, 1858.

BEAD OFFIC: LONDON.

Paid-up Capital

£8,000,000 ....£4,000,000.

Reserve Fund kom Beserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

£9,000,000

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business transa,sed;

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter period at rates which will be quoted on application.

بگرن

AL. FERGUSON;.

Manager: Hongkong, 15th April, 1925.,

THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.

(Taiwan Ginko,) :

Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899;

Yem 48,000,000

Capital Subscribed Capital (Paid-up). Yen 80,375,000 HEAD OFFICE:-Tafpeh, Formosa

BRANCHES:

THE CHINA MAIL.

COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

COMPANY REPORTS"

China Sugar Refining Co, Ltd..

The Accounts of the China Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., for the year end. ed December 31, 1925, have been clored," and show a debit balance | of: $1,508,955,38 which includes: the sum of $32,155.28 brought forward from the previous year.

JIMAH RUBBER

Forward Contract Sales.

Shareholders have been advised that the following forward sales

[have been made :——

22 tons Ribbed Smoked Sheet

for delivery in equal quantities monthly, at the following prices: Apri/June 1926, 108% cents.

per lb.

July/December, 1926, 104 conta

per lb.

RETIREMENT DAYS.

The First Year of Leisure..

"The object of education is not to enable a mon to 'get on but to enable him to use rightly the the when he is not engaged in getting

"Judged by that standard; he was afraid a great many successful men could scarcely be regarded as educated, for I venture to say there are a large number of quite successful men in these and other parts who when their busi- ness is done, spend the rest of the evening in reading the evening: paper from beginning to end, in cluding the advertisements. 14 was not easy to turn in leisure time to exacting, tasks, but one could turn to a new task-some- thing, that one had not been doing ducing the day."

The Archibshop of York.

William D. D. Stokes; a mulionaire New York hotel' man, and his asso- cintes nes asked to pay $8,125,000 in a aute brought by the Ottoman- American Development Co., owner of the concessions obtained in Turkey by Admiral Chester

Sudden Alteration.. This is partially explicable by the fact that a certain number of workers retire through health. But a much more potent reason, MT. Warren believes, is that the effect. of altering the mode of life, aud- denly breaking with the habits of 40 years or more, and having unlimited time with nothing to do, is literally to kill the man.

This conclusion is really a great compliment to the efficiency of the human machine, and there is no doubt that, given healthy cond tions, the human brain and body have been built) for an immense output of energy which few of us ever achieve. If we could all work regularly with the feeling that our energies were being used to the last we should all be much "We want the 'club spirit, the ounce team spirit, and for great com-happier and much healthier.

"Some such idea is frequently bined, purposes mobilised think- Ing. But what this age wants enforced upon us by the doctors,, perhaps more than all is to cap- I who tell us that we habitually ture the spirit of Wordsworth under-work our brains and under- the plain living and high think-exercise our bodies, and M ing the homely beauty, pure Warren's discoveries ane direct religion breathing household evidence that too much leisure is Ins. wisdom which lives with children round her knees, books, Teisure, perfect freedom the nobler loves and nobler cares. As Thomas Gray wrote

at least as fatal as over-strain. But the matter is hardly so simple. for the doctors are also in the habit of warning us against the growing apeed of modern: Hfe, and the

(in. 17600: To find oneself bust-foolishness of business men who ness.is, Lany persuaded, the great kill themselves in the unrelaxed art of life...... some spirit, pursuit of wealth something of genius more than 'common, is required to teach a

man how to employ himself."

Mr. FW. Faffety,

In the "Brotherhood World.""

"Muny men, having eagerly look, ed Forward for years to their retirement and their release at lust from daily routine, have only found their leisure savourless. For a few'

aa n encouragement to the writer: We may be sure that those who appreciated Macaulay went on experiencing other like pleasures and creating the desire for auch experiences In others...... These are the gifts that great literature always brings

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1926,

COTTONË,

Lanchester Market Report,

cause, for satisfaction Suchy Amorten has been offering various classes of goods, but sa a rule the | limite mentioned pre quite outside "bhet" boundu vaft, business... Con¬ February 20inental enquiry and business, hna not, baon of an attractive character. India has provided the bulk of The Colonies have been very much the business this week, a co in evidence, some very nice lines, siderable trade having been done having been booked for Afrien, We make more noise than ever for most of the outlets in all classes Australia dec. There is a moderate we did which drowns the smaller of light goods including dhooties. demand for the Home trade. USA. voices. We travel for greater dia-These latter have tapered off business has been on the small side, tances at greater speed, which de-ttle. The orders on the books are with a fair amount of enquiry for privés us of the harvest of the however, very substantial report the usual fancies, voiles, poplins Nothing is really cut Messrs. J. F Hutton & Co, etc. The yarn trade does not make

What Does It Profit?!

It profit?

quiet eye. aff from us. The errand boy may The Improvement must be taken as much improvement. American and become a Cabinet Minister, and the a sign of a healthier state of factory-hand in a short. Hifetime be-affairs in India A moderate Egyptian sorts complain of quantity of heavy cloths have been quiet trade, the turnover has, backed, shirtings as well as printeen meagre and what busi ing cloths for the last named ness has transpired, has prices are really cheap on account been booked as prices which of the makers having previously pinners; booked little or nothing. The chiefood. The Egyptian side ħna had buying centre has again been whatever'advantage there may have Calcutta with other outlets follow- been. These remarks apply to Coarse

to be man

come a millionaire. But what does We must have leisure for the good things of this world, if we are We must have lolsure for the things that are above it if we are to be more than men. For leisure is, our opportunity for the highest things."

rogard for

from

ing close up It is noted with yarns for home consumption as

well as yarns for export. pleasure that Cawnpore, and In notes on the cultivation of Karachi are again moving. China counts have been neglected the rubber in French Indo-China, the has been on the quiet, side and is latter has fallen off considerably.

asual Continental demand for these Acting" British Consul General at: expected to be so for a week or more Saigon says: the future of the till the auctions commence. Dutch rubber-growing industry in Indo-East Indies have provided enquiries Agent (having brought off China seems to be bright: 6,000 on the usual lines with a moderate sale): "By the way, there are tons is the present annual produc amount of business resulting. some old Roman remains at the bion, and when all the trees,row Singapore has also been in the south end of the estate, planted are tapped it is estimated market. Limita in many cases are New Owner: "Are there? Well, that this figure wil rise to 10,000 much too low. Egypt and the Near you "ave 'em cleared away before.

Fast generally do not give any I take possession " *

itons.

HONGKONG MARKET

Beef Sirloin

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PRODUCE.

APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.

Butcher Meat.

March 25, June; June,

1928, 1915 1914,

Ctr Cteủ Clai

Eggs, Han (cooking).

18.. 87 24 12:

Chicken

Prime Out

87 23 22

Capons, Smail!

Corned

37 23 12:

Capons,, Marra

Roast.

燒牛肉

24 22

Duck

Breast:

20 18

Doves

Soup

80 20 18

夏

Steak

牛肉

,24 22

Eggs, Een (fresh)

Steak Sirloin".

30 85

28 20

Sausages

Fowls, Kainan

Bullock's Brains

per set 15

10 12

Tongue,,fresh..

Tengue, corned

Beart

$1.00

-$1.201

Fowls, Canton

each. 901

50 60

38 20 18

each 15 10 12

15 10 12. 26**** 201

Geare

Pigeons, Canton

Helbow

Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Hen

Snipe

Pheasant.

Quail Partridges

Head...

Hump, Balt

Feat.

Kidneys

Tail Liver Tripe...

Calves' Head &. Fest.. Mutton Chep

务。

Ler

Shoulder

Saddle

Pig's Chitlings:

}

Braica

Feat

Fry

Eaad

Heart

Kidneys

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Solution of the Paradox. "What is the solution of this

[2] The truth apparent paradox? seems to be that the one fatal con- dition for the human organism is monotony either monotony of work or monotony of idleness. We need not fear working too hard, but we may justly fear working too con-Pork Chop tinuously The human body must have output, but, like all living organisms, it works best in a rega-

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each 15 .10. 10:

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Apples California):

Bananas (bride's).

Carambola:

Cocoanute

Lemons, Chins

8024

12: 10 8

Lemons (America).

Ib.

152

Lichees, Dried

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42 20 23

Leg

435

Lois

28 27

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top

Liver

weeks it may be pleasant not to have to get off after breakfast to|lar rhythm of output, and repoše. ' the office; but within a month the

"Two of the most fatal tendencies lefsured man is looking out. for an in modern life are that work. ie too excuse to drop in at the office, just

andi monotonous

leisure. to feel again the familiar flow of laborious. True creative work and setive life around him," says the true recreative leisure are sadly "Yorkshire, Post."

zare, and the result is that a large proportion of our activities are

Sucking Pigs, to order. Sust, Beef

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Authorised Capitală.150,000,000 £23.800,00 Paid Up Capital...G. 80,000,000 £3,666,04 JAPAN:-Tokyo, Yokohama," Kobe, Reserve Fund...G.. 20,588,861 £1,711,49

Quake Beedial Bloweryos...G. 22,850,000 $ 138,FORMOSA: Giran, Kagi, Karenko, Keelung. Borota, Nanto, Shin- chiku, Taichu, Tainan, Takao, What the Actuary Discovered.. Tamsui, Toyen, Heltoh, Taitoli,

[Savanger "And instead of retirement prov-flattened down to a sort of dead CHINA:Shanghai, Hankow, Amoying restful and refreshing, the level, which neither satisfies human

Foochow Swatow, Canton, OTHERS: Hongkong, Singapore, victim of it finds that as soon as energies for restores them.

Soarabaya, Semarang, Batavia, his energies cease to be called upon Bombay, London, New York, they begin to decay. He finds him- Calcutta.

self, dull and listless, more easily tired than ever in his life before. These efforts, partly physical and partly mental, have often been noted but it is novel to find them confirmed by actuarial investiga-

Djakjakarta

Kota Badja

Padang

Pecang

Djember The Hague Kab (1 Macar

Medan Palembang Pacalongan Pontianak Banzoon

Betardas Semarang Bbangasi Megapars Soorabala Somrakarta (Bolu fogal

Tilstjer Walterradan

LONDON BANKEES- National Provincial Bank, Ltd. Correspondents all over the world. BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY

DESCRIPTION.

LONDON BANKERS: London County, Westminster, and.

Parri Bank

The Bank has Correspondents in the Commercial ohvarfa, Zinguo, Japan. Inde dus, a takia,

Centres in the European Continent, Basia, asi

Philippios Islanking Java, Africa,

interest allowed on Current Accounts, and motion. Deposits at rate which will be quoted og applew

T. TAKAGE

Мерарат.

3. C. MAASSEN,

Acting Manager. HONGKONG BRANGE; Hongkong, 19th March, 1926.

3. Des Vaux Road Central, Hongkong, lat November, 1925.

THE

YOKOHAMA SPECIE

BANK LTD,

Established 1380.

Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Reserve Fund

Yen 80,500,000

Head Office:-TOKOHAMA,

Branches and Agences at;

Bombay. Buinox Ayres..

Caloutts.

Canton.

Changchun.

Dairen. (Dalny),

Newchwang.. New York Osaka

Fedug

Teertien (Mukden). San Francisco,

Hamburg,

Hankest.

Barbin.

Honolulu

Kobe.

Low: Angelas

London

Manis

NagussEl

Rangoon Rio de Janeiro. Belgon

Seattle Semarang). Shanghai,

Balmgnosed.

Bingapore Soersbaya Bydney.

Tientaln

Tokyo

Tainamfa.

Vladivostock.

Enkurans allowed on Chur

"Mr. Cyrill Warren, a well-known actuary on the staff of a leading Insurance company, has just. arrived at this confirmation after a close study of mortality among pensioners from the staffs of banks and insurance Arms. He has a vestigated the histories of 18,000 retired black coat workers, and

THE BANK OF CHINA, he has found an exceptionally high

行銀國中

(Specially Authorised by Presidential Mandate of the Espabile ad Chine on the find of November, 1917)... Authorised Capital 150,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital santes:main. $18,278,600.00 Heserve. Fund ka 9,629,426.34

HEAD OFFICE: PEKING.

HONGKONG BRANCHI 4, Queen's Road Central Branches and Sub-branches all over. China and Correspondents in Europe, America, and other parts of the world. London Bankers:The National Provin

cial and Union Bank of England, Ltd.

Trost Company or Guaranty

of New York-andr New York Bankiures i The Irving

National Banking S

The Equitable Trust Company of New

Fork

Internet allowed on. Current Accounta and Fixed Deposita. Turns on applies.

mortality during the first year of retirement higher than in almost any of the succeeding years.

THE MERCANTILE BANK

INDIA, LTD.

FARHAD - OFFIDELI

38, denonchurch #tanit, London, 2. GA

Authorised Capital »...

Bubscribed Carltal: Paid-up Capital wo Reserve Fund.

1000

(0,000

"Modern human beings, in short, are becofas too much

Hko Barbal machines, which ask for nothing

Bream.. better than a perfect-regularity of

Canton Fresh hot-top-rapid revolution. The busi-

Water Fish, nese man who collapses on retire- ment may have needed more leisure Carp all his life. What he does not need Catfish Codfish is a monotonous period of toil sud- denly superseded by a still more

Crabs Cattle Fish

monotonous period of leisure.. Dab

Dach

"The business man faced with compulsory retirement at a certain age would do well to remember Mr. Dog Flah Warren's advice, and look round for Bals, Cenger

hobby in good time..

But it will be far better if, instead of his having to choose a

Fresh Water

·Yellow

Frogs

hobby, the hobby can choose him as Retirement will then mean for him Gudgeon Herrings not freedom from work, but free dom to alternate work and leisure Halibut.. as he pleases. Then he will find Labrus that, even as his body grows old, Loach, his spirit will enjoy such an active Lobster youth iness as he has, perhaps, Mackeral

Monk Fish Mallet Øystarm Parrot Fish Perch

OFever known.

Pike

Plaice

“We have nath more time than ever we bad, but are our libraries more fully utilised? Seventy-five par cent of the publie never use them is our appreciation of great literature more widely diffused Pomfret, Black asks M&F W. Raffety in the Pomfret, White

Prawns "Brotherhood World," who in an

Bay Fable contribution deals with; tan-

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