BANKS
THE
YOKO HA LIMITED.
OKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
CAPITAL PAID UP... Ten 24,000,000 Busa FuNDS.......
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16,550,000
BRANCHES AND AGmKerma,
Tokyo
Kobe
Osaka
Nagasaki
Londen
Lyons
New York
San Fransis
Bombay
Shanghai
Chefoo
Tientsin
Honclula Hankow Pazing
Newchwoo
Dalny
Antung
Llorang
Port Arthat Mukden
Chang Chai
Tieling
HEAD OFFICE YOKOHAMA,
HONGRONGINTHEFST ALLOWED.
On Current Account at the rate of 2 per sea! per annura on the daily balazon.
..
On fixed deposita for 12 months 5% per annum
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Manager.
TAKEO TAKAMICHI,
Hongkong. 6 April, 1907
560.
EDERLANDSCHE HANDEL·
MAATSCHAPPIJ.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY). ESTABLISHED 1824
PAID UP CAPITAL PL. 45,000,000 (£1.752005) - RESERVE FUND FL. 5,000,000k?#0;
HEAD-OFFICE IN AMSTERDAM. HEAD AGENCY: BATAVIA Brauches-Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoou, Samarang. Sourabaya, Cheribon. Tegn, Pentagon, Pasoerossa, Tjila jap. Padang Madan Deli), Palembang. Kota- Radja, (Acheen) Telok-Semawe. Anlage} Bandjermasin.
Correspondents at Масачнаг Bombay, Caloutte, Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry, Bangkok, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy, Yokohama, Kobe, Melbourne, Sydusy, New Tork, Sau Francisco, &c., &o.
LONDON BANERS; -~-
BANKS
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
THE
HE Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HANKING CORPOBA- fION. Rules may be obtained on application, INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 31 Per Cent. por annawa.
Depositore mong transfer at their option
holandes $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT of, 4 Par Cent, per aunam.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 2ND, 1907.
£80,000 MAIL ROBBERY,
THEFT BETWEEN HOW. YORK AND PARIS.
FOR RESPECTABLE PEOPLE.
Many a man groane in fashionable attics and goes through a daily treadmill ́of tiresoma, na-
of
The theft of £80,000 worth of securities from hidden mies, who aid at bed the black of hit maile in transit between New York and Paris opinions, would live in comfort, and Wat announced on March 21st.
consiga the silk hat, the high, stiff linan collar, On January 17, 3,300 mail bags were dos-and the frock-cost wherewith he uprisons his patahed from New York by the liner La So beautiful body, to the limbs of pre-historie
abominations. to Havre
He would, and he could; int he Out of these 3,30) bigs, 296 bags 400
dn't Woman, too, how many articles of were addressed to the Central Post Odee at d Parir. All of these arrived. The big were col
clothing more ma mordern-could the recsired and checked in Paris on January 25, dismiss from her wardrobe if Mrs. Grundy And the fonds who tempt with changes of and it was at once discovered that according to the delivery shost made up in New York there fashion would only let her? Think of the folly should have been oven bags of registered of it! Examine an example! Compate the
bolln packages. instead of which only six could figure of, that overad rertised actress, a found, although the whole 220 bags mentioned musical comody, Miss Giddie Feathergirl, with the draped goddossas of old Gesses. The one- on the waybill were thers.
the plague of very West-end photographer's window-is distorted, uncomfortable, a feminine Iguy with a grin, while the sculptaret forms of
Artemis and her wa dena are still-
though ofton fragments, maimed torsos, time-ravaged and weather-worn the highest expression of buman grace. Why do not our women-folk follow the Hellenic model a little more closely; cultivate comfort, and leave corset and whatever o'ge thera be of the kind for that urrant old moral washer- woman, Mrs. Grundy, to wear, if her forty- seven waist would allow it? Cleilisation. Los hust a very great deal to aaswer for! Better
For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI, BANDING CORPORATION, J. R. M. SMITH,
Chief Manager.
The American Post Oftes was immediately 22 Hnaekong, 12th January, 1907.
informed of the eiraumstances by cablegramı, but no reply was recaived until March 16 EDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE was then found that the missing rogistero bag
HANDELS BANK,
contained packages registered to the value of (NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMORCIAL BANK) | £80,000,
Meanwhile the police have by a alrange ESTABLISHED 1663.
rofncidence arrested a man who was concerned in the robbery, though his arrest was not made on that charge.
Authorised Capital F1, 15,000,000 (£1,250,000) Saboriti Capital FT. 16,000,000 (Paid up) Reserve Fand
Fl. 1,638,850.10 (£135,737)
HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM. SUB-OFFICE: THE KAGUE. HEAD AGENCY: BATAVIA, BRANCHES at. Singapore, Sourabaya, "Bauen; tudtamajoo, Basdoung and-
Weltevreden. CORRESPONDENTS : Chorihan, Tagal,
Pacalongan, Macassar, Pontianak, Padang, Medan, Penong. Bangoon, Calcutta. Bombay. Madras, Colombo, Karachi, Djedde, Bangkok, Saigon, Shaughan,
BANKERS:
ÍTUR WILLIA 329 DRACONS BANK, LO London:
8WISS BANKVEREIN. Paris: COMPTOIR NATIONAL D'Escorra
PARIB,
Borlin: DEUTSCHE BANK. Brussels: BANQUE DE PARIS ET DES PATN
BAN
Vienna: UNION BANK.
Romo: BANCA COMMERCIALE ITALIAMA
THE BANK baya and selly and receives for collection Bille of Ezhango, issued Letters Credit payable in all important plaeus of the THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANE, World and transacts every description of
LIMITED.
Banking and Exchange business,
The Bault buys and sells and receives, for collection Bills of Exobange, issuas latters pf credit on its Branches and Correspondents in the Esat, ou the Continent, and in Great Britain, America, and Australia, sed transacts Banking Business of every description.
INTEREST ALLOWED.
Oa Carrent Ascounts 2% per annum on Jaily
nalances.
do. do.
do.
Fixed Deposits 12 months 45% per annum.
6 do: 4% do. 3 do. 34% J. L. VAN HOUFEN. Agent, Hongkong. 5th March 1907.
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHABTE, 1853
HOLD OFFICE-LONDON.
CAPITAL PAID-UP....... RRIVE ·LIASILLEY OF
INTEREST ÁLLOWED.
On Current Account at the Rate of 2% per sunum on the Daily Balances.
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On Fixed Deposits: 13 mouths 1% per sauam
do.
6 do. 34% do. do.
3 do. 3% do, J. BOETJE. Manager. No.16, Dex Von Road Central
Towards the end of January two detectives whose basinees it is in frequent fi ad att public places observed that well dressed and
far, my brothers and sisters, bo untiva in the handsome tea was very frequently to be seen
Pacific islands where flowers and leaves are the in the company of deshiful charestore in well- known cafes.
The detectives discovered that the chief ornaments of modest clothing, and Lis name was Rouano, ned that he lived simplicity iods comforte in plenty, than with his wife in the Rae Creapia. The mostudure the existence of civilised slave to caroful shadowing, however, failed to show how fashion,buend-with the bondaga of Bond- be came by an much money, which he disbursed Street. in a meat lavish winner, biring motor-cars. buying axpoasive dress for his wife, and treating his doubtful companions to champagne suppers, Oa March 16 fas, compraed by e friend, Reunavas came out of his ben, aut having placed a valise in a cit, drove off to the Garo da Nord,
Respectability, which is the creed of Mrs. Grundy compressed into six syllable, is the rat cause of all this infinite dscomfort and wicket waste of happiness. A fear of the im- aginary opinions of the next-door neighbour keeps men and their wives to the treadmill. To be unconventions), aven to the extent of going batless to the pillar-hes under cover of the night, is to horrify Stuccoris, and make ite oracles gossip and gap; while to be flippant even about solema thinge, for example, to joke of about an archdeacon's feet, is to the judgment the suburbs, worse far worse than dropping a bright farthing into the offertory bag with their An exchange of cabigmans with New York of pmpous philanthropist. Respectability. showed beyond doubt the the railway bond that phrase, that fetish, that irksome, noxious found en Raumean wors lah stolen mail vagyranny is in effect, cast iron and triumphant.
number of ch»q1-8 This bag also enulained drawn at thres and six months' sight.
As he alighted from the cabit the station, he was arrested by these actives who had followed him. At headquarters M. Hemard, Chief of the Detective Department, had the mat searched, and food on aim a lather ponkel wallet containing £9,000 worth of American railway shorea.
The New York postal authorities are convine. ed that the sensational thais of £8 000 worth of aecurities from the French mail steamer La Same is the work of someous intimately acquainted with the methods of handling the foreign mail.
ourate
ba
endeavour to weaken its hold on present- day people is as hopeless as enterprise as any -
of the extravagant andurtakings of that true. baro and idealist, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Respectability-ica-blessed fa 1-aast regardal reverently az trested, tenderly. It as precious as the fist smile of the aw or latest baby. You may, if you & Wall street lawyer has informed the New are quite an abandoned parton, enigger occa- York postmaster, Mr. Wilson, that land deedssionally at Mea. Genndy, in a rash moment with of enormous rain sent by La Sausie bave falled impunity point bagers of scorn at her vinegar to reach their destination. Similar complaint upper-lip, ber geny side-curls, her speckless is made by a banking house in regard to seau garing-andle bota; but the man who, in however laid a manner, a nasledged with pride that be was not respectably, is doomed at once, Paris branch
aally, doomed and lost. South Kensington would freese at the saad of bis footsteps. Tooting would cry aloud. He might as well drown and poison himself in the waters of Wap. ping, or proclaim himself a comprehending follower of Bernard Sław-Honthly. Review.
THE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITED rifles of the value of £1500 forwarded to its
(INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL
CHARTEL
Mr. Wilson declares that the steamship com pany is legally responsible for the safety of the mail till it is delivered to ths Freuch Post Olor, and sousequently the company must make resti- CAPITAL SURACAIBRD Ton 5,000,000 talion, if it is proved that the robbery occurrel CAPITAL PAID-UP-
3,750,000
in transit.
HEAD OFFICE: Taira, FoRMOAL
BRANCHES and AdangiSS;
Amoy
Anping
Kobe Nagasaki
£900,00
Foochow
Eaalnag
HOLD ES. £800,000 Swałow
·ROSIRVE FUN £975,000
INTEREST allowed on Current Aconaut ni the rate of 21, per annum on the Daily balenose On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per cent
JOHN ARMSTRONG,
Manigar. 'Engkong, 11th March, 1907.
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THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
*THE
AUTHORISED CAPIWAL...arının ,21,500,000 SUBSCE(BAD................... 1,125,000
522
170,000
PAID-UP ietsen (1911 Rays Fund
BANERES: LONDON JOINT Brook Bank, Limited.
INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts st the rate of 2*, per anuum on the Daily balance
Os Érzen DEPOSITS ——
For 12 month
6
14
tł
3
取
3A% 21% EVAN ORMISTON, Manager.
Hongkong, 30th April, 1907,
DEUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK.
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-CAPITAL FULLY PAID UP...Sh Taels 7,500,000
HBAD OFFICE-ŠĦABRĦAL. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BERLIN,
BRANCHNG:
Hankow, Berlin, Hamburg, Calcutta, Tientsin, Peking, Teinanfa, Trington, Kobe, Yokohama, Singapore. Founded by the following Banks nad
Bankere ;-
KOENIGLICHE SEEHANDLUNG (Parushiscen STAATSBANK) Derlia.
DIRECTION DER DISCONTO-
GESELLSCHAFT
DEUTSCHE BANK
S. BLEгOHROEDER
BARLINEX HANDELA
GESKILSCHAFT
BANK LUER HANDEL UND
INDUSTRIE
ROBERT WARSCHAUER & Co. MENDELSSOHN & Co.
M. A. VON ROTAscain &
SOEH N
Jacon 8. H. STALN
Berlin.
Qenks
Shanghai
HONGKONG OFFICE:
Tainan Tamsi Tokio Yokohama
3. Das Vœux Road. Intereat allowed on Current Account Deposite received on terms which may be learned om application.
D. TONDOW, Manseari Hongkong. 5th April. 1997,
INTERNATIONAL BAY
CORPORATION,
FIL
ARCTIC EXPLORER'S ESCAPE.
COMMANDSE PEARY DESCRIBES A PERILACA
ICE JOURNEY,
A few minutes in time and a few fest of ice spice were the narrow margin by which Commander Robert E. Ponry and some of bis man escaped a wotary grave in the concluding etages of the Psary Artin Club's 1905-6 expedition nearest the North Pole."
ater-
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SAY WE REDBATTLEZDOS MAKI KIZETT.
With Eskimos ani dogs the conunder wis making painful way over ic, and in the face of wind and snow that out like red-hat neading " ANKING After an exhausting maren they came to "the"
big lead bread, black band of water stretca- ing east and west as far as eyo could reach. Ou the distant southern side of it lay the only way to their ship Roosevelt, home, and life itself.
For five days the party travelled east-ward on Boating ice urching for a oroaring. The dogs dwindled away and sledges were broken up for firewood to cook them. On the fifth day two Estimos reported a patch of young ice T SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY.
the
lead. extending clear scross
What followed is described be Commsadar Peary in the March Haper's Monthly:--
Fissal Agents of the United States a Chine the Philippine Islands and the Republic of Panama, CAPITAL AND SUEPLUS
ÁUTHORISED
Gold $10,000,000 Gold 30,050,000 CAPITAL PAID UP... RESERVE FUND
...Gold $3,250,000 HEAD Orvice: 60, Wall Street, New York. LONDON OFFICH: Threadneedle House, E.C. Branches and Agents all over the World
LONDON BANKERS: BANK OF ENGLAND. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANE OF ENGLAND LIMITED, THE CAPITAL & COUNTIES BANK, LIMITED. BRANCHES and ACENTY all over the World.
The Corporation transacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, receiver money in Current Account at the Rate of 2% per annum on Daily balances and accepte Fixed Deposits at the following rates :---
For 19 months 1 per cent. per annara. For 6 11 For 3
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No. 2, Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong. CHAS. R. SCOTT, Maunger.
793
Hongkong, let January, 1997. HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK-
CORPORATION
PAID-UP CAPITAL...$10,000,000 RESERVE FUND-
STEELING RAS... 110,000,000 SILVER RESERVU 11,010,000
-$21,000,000 Resme LIABILITY OF PROPTORS $10,000,000
COTET OF DIRECTORS,
G. H. MEDHURST, Esq.-Chairman Hon. W. J. GRESSON,-Deputy Chairman,
A. J. Raymond, Esq.
G. Balloch, Esq.
A. Fuchs Esq.
E. Costs, Esq.
Frankfurt aM.
A. Haupt, Esq.
NORDDEUTSCHE BANKIN HAMBURG, Hamburg
SAL OPPENHEIM, JR., & Co., Koeln.
• BAYERISCHE HYPOTHEEN UND WONSEL-
Bank, MurnCHEN.
LONDON BANKERS:
Mamre, N. M. ROTHSCHILD & BON, THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANK, LIMITED, *DIOTBORE BANK (Berlin), London AsuraT
DIRECTION DER DISCONTO GESELLSCHAFT.
INTEREST allowed on Current Account. DEPOSITS received on terms which nmy be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
F. JUNG,
Managor.
Hongkong 7th January 1907.
C. R. Lenzmana, Esq.
E. Shellim, Esq
K. Showan, Ewy. H. E. Tomkins, Esq.
Crier ManaGNE Blongkong J. R. M. SKITS
MANAGER! Shanghai-H. E. B. HUNTEL
LONDON BANKBEs-London And Cousy BANKING COMpant, LimitED.
HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED. On Carrent Account at the rate of Two per Cent, per Annum on the daily balance.
ON FIXED DRPOSITS.
For 3 months, 2 per cunt por Annam. For 6 months, 34 per cent, per Annam. For 12 months, á per cent. per Ansam
JR. M. SMITH,
Chist Manager.
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Hongkong, 4th April, 1907.
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Each man tied on his now-shoes with the atmost care, and the in widely extouded skirmish-line and in absolute silence we began the crossing. Each of us was busy with his thoughts and intent upon his snow-show, which could not be lifted from the ios, and the alightest ustadiness or stumble would have meant his dish.
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The thia fi crusing the black water bent and yielded henwith us at evey step, ending wilening eatulations from every I da not care for similar expari. those interminable miles came to an end, and we stopped upon the firm les of the sunthera side,
As we turned our back to the lead a line of kisok water eat the frail bridge upon which we had crossed."
ence.
At last
Their troubles, bowerer, wers not over. From the lead sonth ward, says the explorer, “thara stretched such a hell of shattered ice as I hope We bewed car WAY never to see again. 'through. ica in rise from s paving-stone to the dome of the Capitel,"
On May 12 the party reached the Greenland coast at Capa Noumeyer, and in day course rejoined the Roosevelt.
Another expedition, profiting by his ex perience, says Commander Peary, will basble to reach the Pale. Only 174 miles now remain to by conquered,
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THE U.S. STEEL CORPORATION'S PROFITS.
The United States Steel Corporation, accord- ing to the annual report has passed through the most progressive year in its history. The gross roosipte were 3396,652.926, an increLSE of $11,425,190. After paying ont nearly $150,000,000 in wages to 202157 employees, and dedusting the cost of manufactare, there was profit of 188,332,835 for the year. After total interest charges sud other dedas ions, the net earnings ara reported to be $156,624,273, the largest amount ever reported by the corporation. The amount exceeded the expectations of the management, and they were able as a result to make most liberal deductions for improve. ments, extensions and depreciation, in all, about $80,000,000 was appropriated for these par
at increase of more than $30,900,00 or at HONOR,
Q48 lump sum of as compared with 1905.
off for appropriations $50,000,000 is charge! for
discharge of capital soustraction and
These deductions brought the obligations. "nal Earplus down to $82742,860, which is smaller by nearly $1,500,000 thar. in 1905.
The balance sheet discloses a total surplus of nadivided profits of $97,720,727.
DR. M. H. CHAUN,
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THE latest Method of the AMERICAN
33, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
From the Warfarșity of Pennsyiyani, 0.2, A
505 Hongkong, 17th April, 1907.
LADIES' AND GENTS. BOOTS AND SHOES,
EASTMAN KODAKS, CAMERAS
. AND
PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS
A
&
Prices MODERATE.
TACK 30, Des Veur ROAD CENTRAL. Engkor, 6th January, 1967.
CO.
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DEALERS in Tron, Steel, Motala, Hard.
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FOR
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RATES
FROM 1993 TO 1905;
A 3.30
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