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MENDELSSOHN & Co.
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INTEREST allowed on Current Aucount, DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every deseription of Banking and Exchange business transmetal, HUGO SUTER.
Sub-Manager. Hongkong 9th September, 1905. [52
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STOMACH TROUBLES OF TRANSVAAL WOKEN CURED BY USING MOTHER SKILL'S STRUP.
Seionco knows no nationality, its revelations boueflt all mankind. For instance, the dis- covery and use of obloroform has avorted a world of pain, of physical anguish, among people of all countries. It is not too much to hope that Science, aiding the community of inforest, is destined fually to bring shout univers! brotherhood. When critically exam ined, differences between the races prove far Isse important than is generally supposed. The blot of a Kaffir sad the blood of a white man look just alike under all soiontifie testa. Nearly all of the beat-known diseases find their victime ang all races and Indigestion, in particular, affiots the miner and the mountaineer, the millionaire and the labourer, indifferently. Both s01es, of every age and occupation, are liable to it, and its prevalence is the cause of much pecuniary less and distress.
Eviono has provided an antidote to Indiges tion and the long train of ils that follow it wh unchecked-in, Mather Seigel's Curative Syrup. Among people who have proved the by aalual experience is Mrs. S. Brown, of d Fark Street, Jeppestown, Transvaal, who Proto tras on February 6th, 1005 I first made the acquaintance of Mother Seigel's Symp in the old country, eleven years ago, and I suBored it was a fortunate day for me. intense pain in my hest and stomach, and dreaded to eat, knowing full well the tortare Days of pain were that would soon follow, followed by restless nights, and I seldom ob taired more thao two or three hours of sleep at is time. This continued for about a year. when I began to take Mother Beigel's Syrng I was benefited by the very first dose, Con- tinuing its nee, I was soon completely cared, and from that day to this my health has been good.
The experience of Mrs. Alletts Harth, of 10, Maddison Street, in the Home town, does not differ much from that of Mrs Brown. suffered from a heart tromblo which alarmed ma greatly," said Mrs. Harth on February 6th, 1965. I was always faint, and the least exer- tion was too much for me, various doctors press OKOHAMA SPECIE BANK cribed for une and several patent medicines were tried, but my health got no better. When however, I tried Mother Saigol's Curative Syrup there was at once a charge for the bet ter. Tho faintness and heart-palpitation ceasul. Now, thanks to that grand remedy, my health is all I could wish it to be." The fact is. Mrs. Harth suffered from an offect of neglected indigestion.
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ff. A. W. SLADE, Esq.-Chairman,
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CHINA AND ITS CURRENCY.
THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROBLEM,
A Shangbai correspondent of the Times has contributed another able article to the Fioso- cial and Commercial Extract," from which we take the following
It now becomes necessary to consider, as briefly as possible, the means by which Chipo may be brought into monetary communion with the rest of the world; or, in other words, the problem of stability of exchange between the currency of China and the currencies of the great commercial nations, all of which Jaro the rold standard. Undor present conditions this is a complex problem, involving the mutual relations between the currency of the Chinese people (copper), the currency of international countries. For our passent prepose. roigge (silver), and the gold currencies of however, we need consider only the relatious between gold and silver.
to thirty years Up ngo (1872) the markot price of bar silver per ounce British standard (0.25 had
remained tonilily at about 603., the greatest Buctasticus in the previous forty years baring boon 234, above and 1d. below, while the snual average had ranged within the limits of lgd, above and this standard. From 1873 13/160 below began a decline, the lowest point, reached hoing 21/11/16d. in 1903, silver having in these thirty years lost 65 per cent of its purchasing power a 1872 and previous years. British readers. familiar with the story of the rupos, will require no further statement to emble them to realize the changed relations between gold and silver; but even to them it is necessary to state that, while in those thirty years silter lost 64 per cont. (ov, taking angst average values, to per cent) of its pardasing power express din terms of gold, in that same period it lost only 30 per cont. of its oxchange value in Chinese copper rein.
This, however, is not the worst feature of the ease, and a whore serious disturbing factor it to be found in the ductna. tions in exchange from menth to month, and from day to day.
a cash transaction; ani
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3. Do the assumption that the coin adopted shail not present a tool, hal be of the exchange value of a Singapore dollar, the Philippine peso, and the Japanese yen, he proposes that this standard coin shall weigh 26.8 grammes (+136 graus) of silver (8) fine.
A coin of 416 grains isprobably better.]
Below this is proposed a system of anb sidiary token colange down to the mill.
This the ways) is a bald scary of the pro jeet set forth and illustrated in a report alling, with its appendices, 512 pages.
of
The Chinese Government are concorned in-thell rt to make exchungs stable, and, as Fathers and mothers of the peppig," in the reform of the currerey; the foreign banks and merchants have a clear interest to sa stability of exchange, and must profit by a roform which remous from the Internal trade the incubus the existing confusion. The Chinese urcantil bodies thèngh runny of them not beenlight
net sugh to say it, vill benefit enormously by a change which will allow their unquestioned talents to bo released from the calculations et the money changer and lerated more fully to the major operations of trade, and the people must benetit by a reform which fross the eirenlating mina of the Empire from 10 vicissitudes of exchange operations which they cannot understand and mining pro calams which they cunct control. Against roform is arrayed a mass of interestel oppo- sition which must to mat by argument, whore tant is possibla and by over-riling it where other measures fail. The metas by which reform is to be accomplished are provided for us, but they can only be sexfully carried through by united fort by all who enlightened ouough to appreciate the enormous advantages to be attained by their adoption.
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and all the good you did for her and hers at Naples Pry give my compliments to Lady Hailowell for I love and ontoen her father and hope one day to acquainted with herself, We have got Lord Meath hers. How pretty his expedition to Genou was finished. (The latter worl is underlined in Lady Hamilton's letter. But yon remember our expedition to Naples was prosperme What business had he to come out when our hoblo Nelson was going on so wall. But it seems Ministry will not be well served, We do not lav bi (binnerlined.-Ed.) you may go Gud less you sir. Our Miss Knight the na is somewhat illegible.--Ed) and mother desira to be remembered to you and ladisve ma don | sir, your sincers frioul.
EMMA HAMILTON . Another letter from Lord Nelson is also in the possession of Mr. Shurt. Hunt, of High strest, Exeter, wlan received it with a number of other calle antagraphs and Intlers from bis late grandfather. The latter reads as follows
The best watches that can be con- structed.
All guaranteed. For sale all over the world.
AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY Waltham, Mass., U. S. A.
2085-5
vel in the age when the lot of eating abhorred as it religious crime beef was
sy weil wonder, at the constituents which go to make up the present-day dianer, and Tament over the deeling of the para nativo viands, when the Yaozen was the pride of Yedo. Yarmouth, March 7th, 18. It is, however, winetly the kind of dishes referred My dear sir,Trowbridge tells are you will to above which are gaining in popular favour, have the goodness to give o lend me gift of and the demand has called the cookery schools charts of the Baltic. I only wow long to le into existance. Recently the Akiho Cookery gous. Time is precious and every hour makes School of Kanda, Tokyo, passed SS lady gradu- more resistance. Strike quick and home, andates, and a classification of the blies is given mag we soon return victorious is the fervent in a Tokyo paper. They include 17 wives and
3 daughters of Government
9 wives officials, wish and shall be the bestty exortion of you and 8 danglers of company officials. 7 wives of faithful and obliged
military on, wives of teachers, 16 wives of prists, 2 doctors wives, eng journalist's wife,
Let us now consider the processes to be gone through in an exchange operatim under present conditions, Of course, in Shanghai as in Tondon, the merchant will solitarily draw his cheque, agalast which the bank will give him its bill of exchange; but comwhere. And soino time, there will be thoroughly to understand the citation we must see what, in Shanghai, corresponds to the act of a Louden merchant who takes a thousand sover sigue to the bank and gets a dhuit an Paris for 25.150f, or 25.1751, according to the exchange. Lot us assume the simple case where our So, to, did Mrs. Auno Smith, of 7. McIntyre Shanghai archas wishes to remit the contents Street, Mrs. Harth's neighbouria Jeppastown, of a box full of silver (if he wishes to make up who said (February 6th, 1905): "For a long an exact sum in Shanghai currency, certain while I was troubled with a setore coagh, pains complications are added. First, let no say that the Shanghai toel give by - in a chest and back, want of appetite, and th
Shanghai faol but not sloppless nos. All this implies indigestion, previous paper is " a
theShaughal tool, ing much the more which only Mother Boigel's Syrup will cure. Four bottles of that medicine obtained from simple of the tare. The silver in the box will Masers. A. J. White (Colonial) Ltd., orner of be in the shaps of "shoes foval lumps) of Prinsen and Dinya! Stroots, Port Elizabeth."yees of about 50 taels each, and of varying "touch" (degress of fiueness). If these shoes C.C.disposed of all my trouble, and my health.
are marked, in ink, with the rails of e por quite satisfactory."
a previous assay at the Assay office for the Foreign Settlement, the preliminary stage becomes necessary; but it they bavo come in the course of trade frau azother
if their last previous assay port, or was made by the Assay Office for the Chinese City, on all existing marks are washed off and the silver must be want to the proper office. Here each sbre is weighed and the result written on one side; it is then tourhed" and the difference (uznally ap addition) from a certain standard, as indicated by the colour on the touch stono, is written on the other side. This difference for touch is so much for the show irrespective of its weight, which
is anything between 49 and 52 tals. Lat un take two such shows weighing 50 and 51 tacle
for touch. making for the two 504-280-51+ 240-106.00; this result, divided by 0.99 (the Fiscal Agents of the United States in China Shanghai enroution gives 109163 as the
the Philippine Telunds and the
number of Shanghai tanis in war two shoes
The Indian people, and, indeed, all Oriental Republic of Panema,
the transcetion is ons in Shanghai currency
nations that I know of, have a deep sense of the CAPITAL AND SURPLES
only this ends il, the whole operation corres.
importance of female raulesty. They insist AUTHORISED
Gold $10,000,000ponding to the single action of the London
upon somly attire, and revolt at the fashions of TIP... ...Gold $3,250,000 merchant who takes £108 39. 44. from his cash
London society. Yet I saw in Indian hotels CAPITAL PAID RESELVE FUND
„Gold $3,250,000 to pay a bill, bat we have now-to-conuget this
solledies extrorucly tecolleton. In Une HEAD OFFICE: New York.
with foreign exchange. First it is to be noted
varaudulis, which are as open as the streets at LONDON OFRECE: Threadneedle House, E.C. that at the present day no other earreney is
home, you see ladies parading in the immodest Branches and Agents all over the World.
used at Shanghai, all others being reduced to The latter is in a splendid state of preseratties of London ballrooms, quite do conscious LONDON BANKERS.
Shanghai tacks. The Government, for eximple, ratior, although the ink has in places become a that they are shocking the religious convictions in making payments for indebtedness or in-tris fted, but is with quo excoption, due to of the Indian people. Indeed, this does nos a demaity, does not use the Kuping (Troasury") indistinct writing, perfectly legible. It is little to nentralise the splendid indusues of the tael weights or the pure silver (1,000 Gao), written on the first and sand pages of a bine-missionaries in India, at least, in the great which makes up the Kuping ani curronry, bat tinta sheet of toller paper.
cities. Pays in Shanghai currency at the rate of 109 60. calealated us follows:--
RELIANCE CROWN TARPAULING
CANTAS
ARNHOLD, KARBENG & CO. Sole Agesto.
BANKS
INTERNATIONAL BANKIN and having 260 and 2:40 répactical added
CORPORATION,
NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. LIMITED, UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANE, LIMITED,
BRITISH LINEN COMPANY HANK
The Corporation transects every description of Banking and Exchange business, receiver money in Current Account and accepts Fixed Deposita at the following rates:-
For 12 months 4 per ent. per annua.
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Manager. 9, Queen's Road, Central,
Hongkong, 20th September, 1905.
2401
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trela
...101-800 Add for tonch of pure silver on two
shots ...
5-600
307-400 Divide by the "convention" 0·28. 109 302 Add for nellago feo.......
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INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts at the rate of 2% per anntun on the Dally balance. ON FIXED DEPOS126 -
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A. R. LINTON,
Asting Manager. 26 Hongkong, 30th June, 1:05.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
FINKE Business of the above Bank is oond to ted by the HONGKONG AND SHANG HAI BANKING CORPORATTON. Buis may be obtained on application,
INTEREST on deposita is allowed at 31 PER CENT, per annum.
Depositors may transfer at their optim balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AID
SHANGHAI BANK to be placed or FIXED
DEPOSIT &t & Pex CENT. par suaun.
For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI ¿
BANKING CORPORATION.
J. B. M. SMITE,
Chief Manager.
Hagkong, 1st May, 1902
Shanghai
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A NELSON FIND" AT EXETER.
Ampresentative of the Nural and Wilitery Record has had the opportunity of iospecting what bus cory appearance of being a genniue letter from Lord Nelson which has recently been discovered at Ecter by Mr. L. Brown, of Mary Arches-sirent, Exeter. It is of further intent by reason of the somewhat lengthy was added to the letter by Port which
Built, and is addresad to Admiral Hallowell, whose we figures frequently in the published liters of Lord Nelson to Lady Halton. The letter is written from Loghorn on Jane 27th, 180, and informas Admiral Hallowell that (bo Order of St. Ferdinand had been gonferred uper him by the King of the Sicilies. It emphasises the pleasure of Bagland's baral here at the recognition of the survie of a brave-ollicer, whilst the remarks of Lady" Hamilton erve to throw some light no matters of historical-interest.
NELSON AND FRONTE. Pray give the enclosed to Trowbridge.
I am not going to see Sir Hyde. As yet he chers. 37 students, wives and dancliters has not opened his mouth to me.
Beun Nisbet, Expr.
EUROPEANS, ASIATICS,, AND MISSIONARIES. According to Mr. Suanel Smith, M.P., u grave hindrance to Christian missions in India is the immodest attire of English Dedios in the chief cities of the Indian Empire. As an illustration of this hindrance to the spread of the Gospel, Mr. Smith gives the following:
Its discovery came about in J somewhat But Mr. Samuel Smith is mildrose itself poliar mander, About ten years ago an compared with the Rev. James Lyall, who, emotion sale was held at Heavitree, Exoter, and speaking at a conference at Greenock hel A number of old books fell to the hammer for
under the auspices of the Young Men's the small sum of twoshillings. Some six weeks Christian Association, said that India has afterwards the purenser was looking through three scourges famino, plague, and the the books when the letter fell from botween the European population"! "The European leares of one of them. On reading it the only population," said he, "is rotting with last and importance he attached to it was to have it
with whisky. In Colombo there is a stiuking framed with glass on each side, and it has ever commutery filled with the bodies of young meu since been hanging in his kitchen, apparently who had gone out from England and Scotland When unnoticed, until Mr. Brown's attention as mostly all under 35 years of age." drawn to it, and he recognised its imporineco.
Strou
language is in question, reverends take The letter has ben closely examined by a d deal of beating. But, the Rev. Jumes number of experts in Exoter, who are all of Lyell, rather suggestive name, by the way opinion that it is genuine, and it is this week to
of
109 600 Sa with Customs duties, merchants pay in Shanghai taele at the fixed rate of 11140 and
silver" specified by treaty,
Coming now to the exchange operation, wa
he submitted to Landon experts for further omitted to point out that the European
of India,
rotting with lust und population buves first to find our parity of exchange, and to inspection.
mainly consists stinking with whisky." On the outside fold of the letter are the words of Barlishmen, Scotman, or do this we must get the equivalence in foreign
Irishmen notation. The weight used for Shanghai cur **Mons, Le Chevalier Hallowell" in Lady brought up under religious influences, mou | rency is the Tsaoping tal (thus introducing Hamilton's writing apparently written after she who in the majority of cases have received a another anomaly, and this is 563-2-2 grlus; had penned her postscript. The mention
What they, is the inference if the statements for pure silver the addition for touch is 28 per General Hallowell, Fuglefield, and Generalwigious education on strictly Christian lines? shoc, which the Chinesa trest as if it were 56 O'Hara in Lord Nelson's writing are thogo of made by the Rev. James Lyall are correct? per cent, and the "convention 18 (98. One highly placed personages in those days, whilst le may be asked, moreover, if he includes Paaoping tasl of pure silver is, therefore, both the letter and Lady Hamilton's addition excludes the missionaries from this sweeping and one Shanghai donte the great friendship which existed condemnation of the European population of 107755 Shanghai tuels teel contains 52400 grains of fine silver-between Nelson an: freneral and Larly Hamilton. India, because tao non-missionary part of the I Yokohama
one ounce of silver British Standard The letter is now in the possession of Mr. W. Europe population might have something to (U925) are 444 grains of fine silver, or 34GH. Dalgleisi: (Besly and Dalgleishi, of Exeter, way. Perhaps he is unaware that a few months
cent. of the amount in the Shanghal ta-1; and reads as follows
age the Rev. Dr. Sand Jauds, Principal of the Leghorn, June 27th, 1800, get the parity of oxchange for the latter
United Free Church Mission Orphanage of My dear Hallowell. I have only a moment Bhandara, was sentenced
of the price of bar silver must be divided by 0-816. Incidentally I may note that the taclased at to send you General Acton's notification imprisonment on charges made by fifteen girls When Mr. Shanghai for weighing bar silver is never the of the hotbar conferred upon you by His of the orphanage against him. Shanghai, or even the Tsaoping, but always the Sicilian Majesty. The medal of the Order Smith and Mr. Lyall are so eloquent on the Canton taal The sotual rate of exchange is, of hung found your neck was not finished, misdaads of the Europear population, why are course, affected by the donand and supply of
therefore when you write to Genl. Acton to bills wanted and offered, lut in the great and acknowledge the receipt of his letter sas where they silent as regards such case as this? What is the moral they would draw from it ?-Japan frequent fluctuations in the value of silver you are to be found when he sends the Order Chronicle. bullion we bare an ever present element of and the King's letter. It gires, ma, my dear instability which must be falten into account, friend, plou-urs to communicate this mark of Our Shanghai merchant, who has once gone Royal favour to you, and I was in to have
in hopes through such a series of manipulations and boca able to invest you with it but circumstances calculations, is likely to consider his time of too roader that impossible. Say ororything which much value to repeat the transaction, and, as in is kind for me to inglefield and Genl. O'Hara actually the ease, will leave sneh operations in all wisch Six William and Lady Hamilton fature to his compradore, matil such time as he and believe me ever your obliged and affectionate is put on the same footing as his London friend. brother,
HONGKONG OFFICE:
4, QUEEN'S ROAD, Interest allowed on Current Account. Deponite reci ved on terms which may be learnt on application.
S. SHIGENAGA, Manager.
[2478 Dongkong, 1st November, 1904.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
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INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 185:
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CAPITAL. PAID-UP... RESERVE LIABILITY
HOLDERS LESERVE FUND.
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INTEREST allowed on Current Account at he rate of per annum on the Daily balanoes, On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per cent
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Maonger.
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Hongkong, 18th May, 1905,
The writer thus summarizes Professor Jenks reform scheme.
A standard silver osin to be introduced, to be uniform and legal tender throughout the Empire.
2 This coin to be taaintained from the outset st a fixed parity of exchange with gold by the adoption of methods new, and somewhat start ling, to the Chinese Government, but adopted with success in India, Singapore, Japan and the
--
BRONTE NELSON of the Nilo.
TOKYO TO-DAY.
term
of business mon, and 2 minids. Of the araber 45 are described as married and 18 us amarried, while 71 1w cent, of the fair stulents of the culinary art are under 25 years of age.-Japan. Chrimicle.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
BOOKBINDING.
DAILY FRESS" OFFICE,
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IRON MERCHANTS.
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Coke Importers, Gougral Store
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A TABLE OF THE
OF EXCHANGE AT HONGKONG
The era of the "now woman" bas dawned on Japan, judging from the springing up in the country of many institutions which are con- sidered indispensable to the newer phases of RATES civilisation. Tokyo now boasts, unongst other things, several cookery schools where a large namber of ladies, wives and prospective wives, for Demand Drafts on London on the day of r endeavor to penetrate the mysteries of preceding the Departure of the English Maib Japanese and foreign cookery. Tacidentally, also Table of Yearly Approximate Averages it is interesting to reflect ou the revolution that has taken place in Japanese dietary duringt
The postscript added by Lady Hamilton is immediately under the above, und raus over into the escond page, the wording being as follows:
My dear sir, Sir William would write to congratulate you on your Order of the last ten years. It is not uncommon now. are so busy it is a-days to so a foreign-sometimes Japonised- St. Ferdinand but wa
I hope we shall soon meet in foreign-dish or twe served at a native hotel impossible. England. Her Majesty desires her complier restaurant in the pours of a Japanese ments and thank you for all your assistance dinner. The conservative Japanese who have
FOR 31 YEARS FROM
1874 TO 1904.
Price $2 Cash, On Sale at the DAY
PERES" OFFICE, or Local Booksellers.
Hongkong, 11th May, 1905.