THE
BANKS
THE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITED (INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL Imperial CHARTKR) CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED...Yen 5,000,000 CAPITAL PAID-UP 2,500,00 HELD OFFICE: TAIPER, FORMOSA BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:
Koba Nagasaki
Amoy Anping Foochow
Owaka
Bhanghai
Tainan Tomsui Tokia Yokohama
HONGKONG OFFICE:
4, QUEEN'S ROAD. Interest allowed on. Corrent Account, Deposite received on terms which may be learnt ou application.
9. SHIGENAGA, Manager: Dongkong. let November, 1904 T1121
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
A CURE FOR STOMACH THOURLE.
WORTH READING IF YOU ARE AFFLICTED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 7TH, 1905.
· PROBLEMS OF CURRENCY REFORM IN CHINA.
TWO CAPE COLONIALS CULER .OF INDGESTION MY MOTHER SHIGE'S SYRUP, AFTER TAREK TEARS OF SUFFERING.
BRITISH TRADE IN THE FAR EAST.
THE CHAOS OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. A man's autosse iv business as well as in Board of Trade Returns for this year, and it is English papers recently received contain the
The Shanghai correspondent of the fines social life depends upes bie stomach.
satisfactory to note that the figures relative to writes: - In former pers I attempted to give If the stomach be right the blood will British exports indicato a very encouraging some slight idea of the chaotic system ofgs, must be the wish of the whole worit Queenstown, Cape Colony, and who is afflicted
expansion, notably in regard to the Far East. The total exports for the United only the insistent need of shine measure of
foods
earrency or sting in China and to show, not Kingdom from January lat to April 30th showed reform, but amething of the nature of the an incresse of no less then 16,750,000). This as incretion, it it plassant trobaerse, in hot opposition which must be ararea in
puro,
the liver active, the brain clear and the holy healthy.
When you have stomach or liver disorders
they leul to other troubles; everything appears to go wrong, you are cross, grumpled and dis atisfied with yo rself and with the world.
J
Bent to
What is the use of being at odds with avery. I accounted for, as has frequently bear the this country instead of tire times as mag not que country, it is a dozen; it is citi.
ara
body, why not see the pleasures of life as well Ba others. Why not be healthy by overcoming that stonuchin or that liver frouble.
There two ways to do a thing: a pleasant and a disagreeable way. The pleasantest way to cars your stomach trouble is by fabiotals in Effervescent Salt, one or two teaspoonfuls is half glass of water before breakfast in the eajoy the invigorating draught, and by the time brinkfast is over, you will feel like another person, the stomach will be working right, the blood will be at the right temperature, the brain clear and all the world seem fall of sun- shine.
a
that the
years;
There's a logical, ronann why Abbey's Baltin general, showed a votatilo udvance. With people? The difficulties of effectiva does not exactly squa? 90 marks, bat in two per writers, bat the complaints gave way before the HE Busines of the above Bank in condo will do this, and do it better than any other gard to cotton yarı 'and, twist, for example it reform cannot be understood unless an attempt dollars, but is throw per cunt. fass-tbis fact other medicinos and eros, tradical attensaco
appears
exports to China during the EB HONGKONG AND SHANE method you could try spaco prevents it being four months referred to totalled 2703,200 lbs. 33 against 628,200 3, in the same period of 1904. Moreover, the oxparts of the same goods to Japan
to £53.100 lbs., while milor
to the exporta
222,203 to
HAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rota may be obtained on application,
INTEREST on deposits is allowed" at 30 PER CENT, per auma,
Depoeltars may transfer at their opti balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAT BANE to be pland or FIXED DEPOSIT 4 PER CONT. per annum.
For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA!
--BANKING CORPORATION. T. I. AL. BAITH,
Hengkong. Ist May, 1908
THE
Chief Manager.
BUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK.
DEUTSCH-ASIA
AUTHORISED CAPITAL.......Sh. Taslu 7,500,00
HEAD OFFICE-SHANGHAI. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Berlin 'Tiontain
BRANOMES:
Caientte Tsingtau
BERLIN
Junkra Tainanfo
LONDON BANKERS: Messrs. N. M. ROTHSCHILD & SONS, THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH BANE, LIMITED, DEUTSCHE BANK (BERLIN), LONDON AGENCI DIRECTION DEL DISCONTO GEBALLSCHAFT.
·INTEREST allowed on Current Accou DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every description m Banking and Exchange business transacted.
M. HOMANN,
Hongkong, 1st April, 1905.
Manager..
82
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDI: T
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTS, 185
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
CAPITAL PAID-UP. RESERVE LIABILITY OF
BHARD-
RESERVE FUNDATION
£800,00
£675,000
·INTEREST „allowed on Current Account a the rate of 2", per annum on the Daily balances On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per out
B
3
19
3
2
T. P. COCHRANË,
Manager.
28
Hongkong, 18th May, 1916. HONGKONG & SHANGRA BANK-
CORPORATION
Paid-up CAPITAL,
RESERVE FUND-
STABLING BBBEEVE... $10,000,000 SILVER RESERVE
8,000,000
..$10,000,000
given. here, but you will find it in the circular round the boltle. Buy a bottle. read and thon prove to your own satisfaction.
Sold in two sizes, by all Cheirists or Stores increaseù From 147,8 o e, in Jan. April, 1964 from a.consideration of the sysien of waigus bund rods of currencies, differing one from the letter, dated December 23, 1914, he says.7
and by WATKINS, Limited, and A. S. WATSON, Limited, of Hongkong.
The ABBEY FRUIT SALINE Company. Limited, 144 Quon Victoria Street, London,
[1243-7 E.C., England.
tod from
BAU
(British Comin roic Treaty, erotiated by Sie James Mackay, and the later treaties following this precedent havo stipulated that China skall establish a uniform currrusy. This in itgolf ta desiraldo, and to the doctrinaire, the “arm.... chair economist," nothing is easier than to
No man or woman living in Stellenbosch or prescribe for others what, in the nature of the attainment of noiformity and simplicity. with indigestion in any ferm, should suffer any The example of other countries is pointed to, longer if they will read the following latters oỀ Mr. Bornard John Bargstatud Mrs. Ann and a notable presedont is found in the case of Germany, which, willin a
Fechter and act upon the inormation and substituted for a sour of sucreusies te ndvice which these leitars contain. That advice If I had spent only six months
uniforms system which now prerails. Chiasis to buy and nes Mother Seigel's
Syrup! Mr. Borgstedt and Mrs. Fetchter are both I'
with sera aliplouat sent out broly by an iareas in the export of cual und
und raw Diateriale. It is attribut-
T tinent, with the population of a contingut, with Jeung people, but each had undured three years le almost entirely to an expansion in
instructions to negotiate a treaty, or if I were
the juborg habit of castaries to stereotype the of wretchedness from the unfortunate condition amorohant unable to see more that one the amount of manufactures sont abroad. The aid of the shield, I could produce a beautifminds of the people, and with the natural of their stomachis before they found the remedy. total imports likewise indica o s prosperous attacheme which would seem to be all that stubbornness of an old civilization to rosiat all that Grilly relieved and cared them. It is an of trade, for, although they show an apparent Chinn could possibly require. But it has change. In Europe a difference of 4 per cent.
old saying, What is one man's meat in another decline to the nzient. of £1,250,000, this is wholly been my busines during many years really to between the value of the penny" of Eugland mans poison, and so ordinarily it is with dus to its fail in the price of raw cotton, which barn something of the country, and to mo the and of the Latin countries in, caffeinut to medicinos
But Mother Saige's Syrup has resulted in a willion were hundredweichis being subjects of currenty reform bristles with prorens the adoption of that desideratan-anacored andreds of thousa is of cured indigea- In the tion in all of the many forms it gaumes sad. imported than was the case last year, while the difficultius on every side. Supposing eran that international stamp for postage. cost of the cotton purchased was lower by no sabeme could be drawn ap to which the Western world the fout that the pound sterling. with all the varieties of symptom. Just look less than £3,000,000. As a consequence of these Chiness Government would seept and support: does not exactly, at the parity of oxchange, over these two letters and you will perceive faromable conditions, the expert of British
different symptoms are mentioned by the colton manufactures to China, and the Far East cold, reform even then lis, imposed on the equal 25 frutes, but it is one per cent, more
auf. more; does not exactly equal five American curative power of this sovereira romady, after is made to get it this mind of the nation and to uniformity and standardization: An object tuus for the great comercial nations Stollonbonuts, and is a Colonial, born in Capa discover their mental attitudo towards lar oven to the discussion of that desider had failed.
Mr. Borgstedt lives at Railway Station, leon in this mental attitude can be obtained the adoption of a
uniform currency for international exchange. And yet China, with Towa. He is to goods foreman in the service of the Cape Government Railway. In and measures in official, or rather recogaizal." Straits Settlements aux
in the Chinga Empire Readers-of-my other by as much as ton per cent, is required.
For
ofer three yours I suff ared all the 477,300lbs. Equally eatie eory are the figureyjoan Paders will remember how intimately to establish a uniform currency with no more torments of acute indigestion. My appetite: Tinting to pinco goods of all kinds, the exports to the
bound with weights.
provision for the steps necessary to carry oat Furrency China having increased daring the four mouths awlerstand. hetfor then any others, the system noble (año. Sd. piece) in order that a coin might sleep at nighis: I would wake up, my feet feel- The English peoples are psition to the stipulation than would be needed if England very poor, and after meals I had serore pains were required to resume the coinage of the a weighty fooling on my elost, I got littlo by no less than 115,704,000 yds., while in the cass of this country there has been an gmoutaining, having themselves a system in which ting of 20,681,116 Worllen oxports likewise the various assures have no comm. inter- be provided with which a solicitor's fae could ing quite clummy, and during the day could. relation, and of which the tables in nga i tho bo pil-and this monet ry reform, which not are proper rest. Ar laterynia I had a feeling as though the blood lead loft avery part showing, make woollen tissues having made good adtuneen United Kingdom and the Americii Rapaldie always coste money, is imposed upon her at a of my body and rushed to my huid. After these
a decidedly encouraging
proceed on no one notation, but skip lightly from tim when her requrens are drained by the Lashes comparison with the first four mouths of 1904 dosans to sores, from saveus to fours from heavy indemnitias she hate-py, and is even in the cass of both China and Japan. Another decimal to a duodecima luotution. In this respect connected with those indemnities. hopeful feature of the British export during the Chines are wiser, and with two exceptions the period referred to in that almost every base their tables on a purely decimal natation, branch of the iron and stoot trade indicated in going so far as to bars a distinct name for the smoaut sunt abroad As far as the East each decimal part down to the million-billionth is concerned, the exports in metals and
(o) part of the tael, or Chinese machinery wore distinctly satisfactory in ragard to Japan, bat showed some diminution in
which in silver is now worth abort the case of China, although not to a serious 28. 6d. to 38, and thus, in the midst of au extout. The quantity of mixed and yellow during both periods, whilst in textile machinery ive similitude of exactness to a unit of vulus
China also show a falling off, but this fares for the ten-millionth part) of a tool are faqetly, Japan au increasing trade. Lead shipments to and English penny. Seven plac-s of decimals Japan are larger for both April and the first even regularly soon in statements of seconut four months. The quantity of old iron and of revenue and expenditure submitted to the steel for re-manufacture exported to China Throne, which are by common repate, far from likewise shows decreases for the two periods. being ni dels of exactuses in the raspets.
Except for the decimal totation China is now Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of the Britisir imports from the Far East during the whers Europe was when she emerged front The Half-yearly moutir of All Com-four months is the further large decrease of Middle Ages. In this country of weak centra. mitteen" will be held at the Library, Soldiers' 3,432,118 lbs. in the quantity of tea purchasedlization of governmental function, and of Club, 11.30 am. on Saturday the 8th instant. from Chiu. Suipments of silk from the latter widely democratic orguization. The trader unes country also displayed considerable decreases as a matter of course the differentiated monsurs which are flerul in modernized countries, doring this period Kobe Herald.
buying with a long or s vy measure, and selling with a-sort ar: light measure; but spart from this we have official, recognized, gommero al centre standa de differing at each and different from every other commercial coate, but all equally legal and, in the absence of any specification of the unit, applied automatically according to the nature of the commodity, or to the guild under whose control the transnotion would fall.”
TY
GENERAL ORDERS.
KAJOR. GENERAL VILLIERS MATTON, 0.3.
Commanding the Troops in South Chius.
HEAD QUARTERS, Hongkong, 6th July, 1905. Arrival-No. 152. Captain (DO) T. H. E. Anderson, Royal Garrison Artillery arrived on the 5th instant per ... Japan from England for duty.
Move-No. 153. One officer, 2 Sargeants, 41 rank and fila E.G,&, will move from Victoria Barracks to Stonesutters to-day in relief of similar number from Stonecutters to Victoria.
ia
**ondo.
In all this wealth of impossibility there are, however, slements of possibility. No indigenous collage exists in China higher in value than copper; one of the numerous silver currondies (by weight) are represented by any coin; and though in Chius atare dannot be said to abhor a Tucum. still a void in the more easily filled. The Roman Empire was always ready to add State; and the Chinese official, banking, and to the currencies already existing. This would that was required; but the suggestion of a plan mest the letter of the stipalation, if that were all for carrying out in its spirit the undertaking given by the Cirinses Government for overcom far the inevitable opposition of all, claim of supremacy for a new coinage, and for instilling in the mind of the people a recognition of the desirableness of uniformity, is beyond the scope
obtained medical advice, but the medicine I took I always for weak and deprose I might as well have on thrown away. Mother Seigel's Syrup. I remembered at once, A friend of mine asked me if I had used seeing on our station platformsa plate randing Mother Soigel's Syrup Cares Indigestion bought a battle of the Syrup at Joering's and I immediately decided to give it a trial. I Chemist Shop and I am pleased to my affor Hofshing the first bottle I fit relieved and correct, and I stand by other Stigol's Syrup
Annual Demands.-No-154, Officers Com metal shipped to Chini show good in enormione mass of inexactitude, attempting to any religion to those alrealy recognized by the decided it would enre ms, and my dovision was requested to forward to the Chief Orinaneo ] and millwork China did a smaller business.. bnt which anunot exceed the part of mercantile world will not refuse to add another for indigestion, as mine was very kovore, und manding Corps and Heads of Depts, are
stationery, Ariny Forms, and books for the Officer, South China, the amual demands for Jeer 190617 44 detailed in para. 576 Allowance Legulations, 1903, by the 1st August, 1905, for transmission to the War Office.
A. A, CHICHESTER, Major,
D.A.A.G.
- HOLDIERS' CLUB.
BANKS
ANKING!
NTERNATIONAL BANKI
ORPORATION
Fiscal Agoats of the United States in Chins the Philippine Islands and 109 Republic of Panama,
SURPLUS
***
CAPITAL AND
Gold $10,000,000 AUTHORISED...... CAFETAL PAID UP... Gold 83,259,000 RESERVE FUND
Gold 89,250,000 HEAD OFFICE: New York. LONDON OFFICE: Threadneedle House, E.C: Branobes and Agents all over the World. LONDON BANKERS. NAZIONA PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND, LIMITED, UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANE, LIMITED,
BRITISH LINER COMPANY BANK The Corporation transacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, receives money in Current Account and accepte Fized Deposits at rates which may be ascertained on spplication.
CHARLES R. SCOTT, Manager.
$18,000,000. RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROP'TORS.$10,000,000, Des Voeux Road,
Hongkong, 28th May, 1905.
COURT OF DIRECTORS.
H. A. W. SLADE, Esq➡Chairman.
A. HAUFT, Esq.Daputy Chairman,
Hon. C, W. Dickson, H. Schubart, Esgr
E. Goets, Esq.
E. Shellim, Esq.
G. H. Medhurst, Esq.
N. A Biebs, Esq.
A. J. Raymond, Esq.
F. Balinger, Esq.
Hen. R. Shewan
CHIEY MANAGER
Hongkong J. R. M. SMITH
MANAGER: Shanghai-H. E, E. Hunter.
LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED, HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED,
On Current Account at the rate of Twe per Cent. per Annum on the daily balance.
ON FIXED DAPOSITS. For 3 month, 21 por ont per Annum. For 6 months, da per cent, per, Annu. Fer 12 month 4 per cent, per Annum.
J. R. M. SMITH,
Chief Manage.
'Hongkong, 17th May, 1905.
THE
08
A BANK CLERK'S DEBTS.
A Shanghai Summary Court Judgs beard recently an interesting claim by Chang Tee-too against Frank Tomaochey, for money loot in December, 1901.
Plaintiff is a No. 1 bay at the Russo-Chinese Bank and the defendant was also at that time in the employ of the same bank. Defendant admitted having had transactions with plaintiff in 1000 when he borrowed $180 and of this he paid back 889 Then ju 1911 to cover this $100 he was called upon to sign a further iou. for $200 to the plaintiff and he did so, foating that if he did not sign, it would get to the manager, and he would lose his position. Of this $200. he only paid $40.
Plaintiff went into the witness box and stated the defendant still owed bim Stou and the interest thoreau Defendant was hard up at the time and be promised to repay, the amount with interest by taostaly instalmoute of 920. He pald 32 on fuel at December, 1901, and $20 on the 3rd February, 1902, after which he left for Japan. He returned last year and since then witness had inads repeated applications to recover the money.
MEASURES OF WEIGHT AND CAPACITY,
fermor In my
parers on ourrency I deslt with the tact (i ang) of silver. Of the taol 16 make one culty (chini, constituting one of the two exceptions to the almost universal decimal notation, and 100 cuties make one pical (tam). The casty on the scales of the Maritime Cus- toms weighs exactly 1. a., and the picul 13311b, av; It this is a purely orbitrary stan- dard impond by, or on, the foreign merchant, and adopted because it was a round-figure up- proximating closely to the merabante standard prevailing at tanter, with which the Pugliel trader first came in touch, and which a hundred years ago ba need in buying his tea and silk und solling his opium. The actual weight of this standard is for the catty 21-2502, 15., and for the picnl 182-8b. av. In the trade area of Shanghai there is a scale for the use of Chinese in foreign dealings on which the catty is 20-40z. while the regular "guild" catty in 18602.
By defendant-The interest be obürged was [1062 at the rate of 1 per cent. He had lant, nonsythe Boochow guild cotty is 19 7oz; the catty
to other clerks in the bank before. To some people he charged no interest and to others 85 THE MERGANTIJ * BANK OF per month. If a party to whom he lent money
INDIA, LIMITED,
was poor witness didn't care about interest but ibe had got money Le claimed the interest.
Defendant said if hie Honour wished he could bring mituras to show that the plaintiff lent money at 310. per $100 & month or 120 per cant. per annum Only three months and give out by measure, or vice versa, sni fix-
AUTHORISED CAPITAL.....£1,500,000 SUBSCRIEND... 1,125,000. PAID-UP ONSTOPTIONS
562,500
BERBEVE FUND 110,000 BANKERS: LONDON JOINT STOOK BANE, Limited.
INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts at the rate of 2o1, per annuin on the Daily balan Os FixAD DEPOSITS S
For 12 monthss........
6
it
3
31
A. R. LINTON,
Asting Manager. "Hongkong, 80th June, 1:05.
INSURANCES
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO. OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL»,”
used for rice paid as Imperial tribute in 206cz, while that for the sale of oil is 23-2oz., and for the sale of sugar is 2720oz. Messures of capa. city exist, but are not much used, sales generally being by weight, whether for rice or for Baids, such as spirits, oil, molass e, &c. The chief us of these measures is where Government offices, as in the case of tribute rire, take in by we ght
LENGTH AND AREL
of this paper.
THE AMERICAN CITIZEN
Strong-limbed and fres
I face the world a man, Not Anglo-Saxon. But American.
My mother's father
Felt hale German blood Pour through his veins
A satisfying food.
My father's Landsira Wore the Irish gr Told tales of bassline
And of y od pothsen.
My mother's mother
Climbed upon the knee Of hor good sira
I ancient Brittany.
My father's mother
Was of English birth. And load old England Best of all the earth.
My father's grandamo
Came from Lombardy, And left unto the line The eyes of Italy. Steung-limbed and free,
I face the world & man, Not Anglo-Saxon,→
But American
Lestic's Weekly.
Supt. Native Lportion, Queenstown, C.G., and will always speak well of it."
Mrs. Fechter lives in Kemani Square, next to her latter is dated January 13th, 1905. She is antive of Alice. U.G., and was born on hor fathor's farm, known as Poppiejan Kloc£
from severe paine under my heart, caused by "For three years," she writes, "I offered the pressure of wind in my stomach and intes. fines; These pains always attacked me after meals, and distressing headaches always came with them My bowels were never in real good order, having at all times to resort to purgatives. I could retain nothing in my stomach, and became worse 6 day after day. My condition became so serious that it was necessary to obtain medical advice, but I derived no actual benefit From the medicines prescribed for me:
I heard of Mother Saigel's Syrap whitst living in Cookhouse, and there commenced using the Byrup with splendid resulta. After taking four dottles and ung two Plasters I regained my old strength and good health, and it was due only to Mother Salgel's Syrup. I have recommended it to several of my friends,
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ROBERT CRAWFORD'S C. C. C. WHISKY, Price...
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$10 Per Dazon.
KWAN TYE. 119, Queen's Boad Contral. Hongkong, 12th April, 1995,
IEN TING.
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sertain gentleman who owed plaintiff $500 was ing themselves the rate of conversion, are there- WILL BUY A CASE OF threatened to be brought into Court but the by enabled to have a margin to cover waste. case que brought before the manager and he Suffice it to say that the official tow or peek for only had
pay $250 His Honour said it appeared to him that if tribute rice is supposed to contain 629 enbie people were such fools as to sign these documents inches, and that I have a note of 24 pecks in common resurized use in the provinos of it was their own fault. He found where the Kiangsu, ranging fram 558 to 767 cubic inches. rate of interest was high the security was usually very bad. Th rate in question did not work out at a very exharkitant rate-for years on $100 it only worked out at 245 per cent Having regard to the fact that defends at had no security to offer he did not think it was exhor bitant,
aud he must give judgment for plaintiff for $150 and 85 costs.
Defendant said he was earning Tis, 90 a month and was a family man. He was ordered to pay $21 inte Court and $20 a month for six months and the last month to pay $25.
TERRIBLE HEAT AT CALCUTTA.
The foreign marchant knows as the unit of length the chih, commonly called “foot,“ accepted by the Maritime Customs, and menser ing 141 English inches; this is the carpenter a foot of Caston, the foreigner's first place of trade, and, while specified in the tarif regula tions as the official foot," in the tariff
itself is not applied to the menst
measurement of timber, but only of woollen cloth; the fallor's foot at Canton is, however, 148 English inches. Conta and the vicinity is divided into two magistracies by line reaping through the middle of the city the foot used for the official measurement of land THE Undersigned, having been appointed OKOHAMA SPECIE BANKT GENTE as the shore Compared
is, on the West, 1480, and, on the East 14t English inches. At Shanghai the the tailor's prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
foot is 13:55 and the carpen'er's fort 11-10in; REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO., The Times of India pablished the following, while that for measuring timber is 13.25; the
Agants.
dated Calcutta.June 13th:-Calcutta in experionofficial foot for massuring land is 123in; but Hongkong, Blat April, 1897
cing a terrible heat wave which has lasted the one in ordinary use for transfares of several weeks. The daily temperature is over 104 and is 132in. The Chiness de cot much
themselves -with
the
accurate TORTH BRITISH AND MERCANdegre A large number of bullocks and horses trouble
TILE INSURANCE, COMPANY.
have dropped dead in the streets, one firm of measuring of distances, and would sympathize livery
stab emen having lost over 40. Very few fully with the Datch measurement of canal-beat TOTAL FUNDS AT 3ler DacMan, 1904, guarries are plying for hire, passengers arriving runs by the number of pipes smoked. A
£17,161 299.
at the statione suffering great inconvenience theoretic unit exists-the &, measuring 1,800 and having to pack their luggage into bellock of the land foot; nt as this letter caries, so carts and walk bebind in perspiring procession would the i vary if any one cared to measure through the streats. Several Europeans it.
day of
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED 1880,
«Capital BubSCRIRED... CAPITAL PAID-UP meinen CAPITAL UNCALLED 411 HESEGY FUND
Yen 24,000,000
18,000,000 6,000,0
п
N
-9,720,000
HEAD OFFICE-YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.
"Tokio
Kobs
Nagnaski
London
Lyons
San Francisco
Shanghai
'Dalny
Port Arthur
New York Honolulu Bombay Tiontain Newakwang
Mukden Peking Chefeo
LONDON BANKERS.
THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANH, LIxITED FAKE'S BANK, LIMITED,
Taw UNION OF LONDON; AND SMITHS" BANK LIMITED.
HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWAY,
Oz Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent per annum on the daily balance.
On fixed deposits for 12 months 6 per a num
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"
TAKEO TAKAMICHÏ,
Manager,
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1905.
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I. AUTHORISED ÜAPİTAL... £8,090,000 BUBSCRIBED CAPITAL........ 2,750,000. PAID-UP CAPITAL............. 637,500 0 II. FIRE FUNDS. 3,001,265 12
The Undersigned AGENTS for the abors Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Ratas.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
A pots,-. Hoogkong, 90th Juna, 1985.
1567
L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED
EUROPSING die from KUNSTROKE.
-is-now
In practice it is one hundredth of the Thres distance laden porter will cover in
firs of the
o have died through heat stroke.
at Kidderpore Docks ten hours marching, and may be pat at the third engin ora working were struck down, and in some cases diver's of a mile or the half of a kilometre, mers or less. apparaty has been used for supplying air to The table of divisions of area is paraly doin
tous of bnt .in the calcolation of area occurs the second men working below decks. Some ice was consnmail in the city on Sunday and of two excles of 240 bows" or "paces," each
to the
Tho decimus! notation. tour is an area there was practically an ice fine in the oven-
bow-length er double-pace ing, 4 annas per pound being given. The sky bfficial land foot of the district, in other words,
being cloudy
and-e-fall of rain is auxiously looked for. Vasto, the winner of the Viceroy's it is a strip 1,200. long and 5tt, wide, and 03. died on Sunday as a result of the varies with the variation of the foot, ranging in different parts of the Empire from 4,167 to afternoon the Advocate-General, on be- 9,210 English square foot. CRITE
balf of the barristers, attorneys and pleaders of the High Court, made an application to the Chief Justice in Chamtefs to closs the Court for a week on account of the intense heat. His lordship, after consulting with his colleagues, intimated that he did not see his way to graut the ragneat at present.
THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to accept Risks against Fire at current
SIEMSSEN 3.00. Hongkong, let January, 1904.
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OBSTACLES TO UNIFORMITY. To give details of all, the vagaries of the measures of the Bapire would take a volume, but enough has been written to indicate in some degree the variability of what are held to be standards and the mental attitude of these on whom it is sought to impose uniformity. The
WHISKY
(RED TRIANGLE).
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& CO.,
3L QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
UNTOUCHED BY HAND.
MELLIN'S
FOOD
For INFANTS and INVALIDS.
*MELLIN'S FOOD is free from Starch-
Wama prepared is similar to Breast Milk,
MELLING FOOD WORD RECKKAN. KANDER MARINATED.