GRAETZIN
metal filament Lamp.
ONE Price for 16, 25, 32 and 50 › c. p. ;
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1918, 1912.
$0.85
REBATES FOR RETAILERS AND HOTELS!
70% Saving in Current 70%
Obtainable from Stock of the General Agent for Hongkong and China:
HUGO C. A. FROMM,
HONGKONG, 4, QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, TEL. No. 960. Hougkang, 16th February, 1912,
Daily production :
26.000 HATS!
Workmen employed:
3,500!
HATS
COMMERCIAL.
WER
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
·ON LONDON 20.
Telegraphic Transfer.
Bank Bills, on demand
February 17th
Bank Billa, at 30 days' bight
Bank Bills, at 4 months' night
Credite, at 4 months' sight.......
Documentary Billa4monthe sight2-
ON PARIS
Bank Bilia, on demand
Credita,
at 4 months' aight
ON GERMANY (
On demand.
On New Yoak
Bank Bills, on demand
2451
251
477
Credite, at 60 days' night 484 ON-BOMBATI
Telegraphie Transfer.145 Bani, on demand...145 ON CALCUTTA 2000 SE
Telegraphic Transfer 145 Back, on demand...145
ON SHANGHAI
Bank, at sight
Private, 30 days sight
ON TOXORAMA-On demand, ON MANILA: demand-Pesos
On SingaForm: On demand.
ON BATAVIA On demand
THE CIGARETTES OF DISTINCTION
FABRIQUE DE CIGARETTES EGYPTIENNES
MASPERO FRERES
Bouton Rouge
and Felucca
تصنير
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THE MAN
OF TASTE
IN 50's & 100's ROUGE HERMETICALLY SEALEDBOXES
AT $4.20 AND $2.80
DEJTON ROUGE
ON HAIPHONG-On demand
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FROM ALL TOBACCONISTS.
MAILS VIA BĪBERIA,
[43-19-
Londen i
Date
January 31st.
of all shapes, sizes and colours have been recently supplied to the local market to a great amount by
BERLIN-GUBENER
Due Sheaghai February 16th.
PER 100
PETER'S
FELUCCA
MASPERO
FABRIQUE PAN. MASPERO FRERESİND
·"DANS LEUR MANUFACTURI U
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SHARE LIST,QUOTATIONS. HONGKONG, FERUARY 16th, 1912.
NO. OF
VALUR. FAID UF. OLORING QUOTA SHARES.
TIONS CASH. ($860
1L'don £86 $10, sellera
$1.40, sellers
THE ORIGINAL
MILK- CHOCOLATE
BANKS,
STOCKS.
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Corporation China Borneo Company, Limited
++i
HUTFABRIK A.-G. China Light and Power Company, Limited. {
GÜBEN III. (Germany).
General Agent for Hongkong and China:
HUGO C. A. FROMM,
HONGKONG, 4, QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, TEL. NO. 980. Hongkong, 16th February, 1912,
POST
OFFICE NOTICE
148-20
The Parcel Post speten to the following places in China is for the pressat Enspended: Hupah, Szechuan, Hunan, Kweichow ant Tengyuch
Macao
Macao
FOR
Sustow, Amoy and Aaping
Bingapore, Penang and Colombo
EUROPE & INDIA VIA TUTICORIN,
(Late Letters 11.00 AM to 11.30 A.M....
Extra Postage 10 cente.)
**
(Letters posted in all the Pillar Boxes)
in time for the first clearance will be included in this contract mail.)
Macro
Hoitow and Haiphong...
Taking Mails for Pakhoi)
Swatow, Anoy and Foochow
Singapore, Penang and Calcutta
NAGASAKI, KOBE, YOKKAICHI, YOKOHAMA
VICTORIA and TACOMA
Masac
PER
Sui Tai Sui Tai Bothu Maru Socotra
Dorflinger
Bai Tai
Sungkiang
Haiyang t
Laisang ... Seattle Maru Sxi Tai
Chenan Kaifong ...
Shanghai...
Maaila, Cebu and Hoito
SHANGHAI, NADASALL, KOBE, YOKKAICHI, YOKOHAMA, HONOLULT and BAN PRANCISCO
Nile
Macas Teintein
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI,- KOBE, YOKOHAMA, VICTORIA and VANCOUVER, BC)...
SIBERIAN MAIL TO EURÓFE,
Manila, Osba, Roilo, Angaur, Yep', Friedrich, Wilhelmshafan, Rabaul, Herbertahohe, Matapi, Samaral, Brisbane, Sydney Hobart, Launceston, New Zeala Dunedin, Melbourne, Adelaide, Parth and Fremantle
Swatow Chefoo and Tientsin
Manila, Coba and Iloilo
Manta, (Gobu and Hoffe)
160
Bui Tai Kueichow...
Empress of Japan
Coblens
Chipshing... Kwongsang Loongsang
Continental
Will be sent for inspection on application.
DATE
Monday, 19th, 9.00AM Tuesday,
20th, 1.15 PM Tuesday, 20th, 5,00 Wednesday, 21st, 9.00 Wednesday, 21st,
Printed Matter and Sam-
plas
10.00 Au
China Provident, Lean & Mortgage Co., Ld... COTTON MILLS
Evo Cotton Spin'g. & Weaving Co., Id. Hongkong Cotton Spineing Co., Lal
Dairy Farm Company, Limited
Dooks AND WHALYAS,-
'kong & Kowicon Wharf & G. Co., Ld. Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Co., Ld. New Amoy Dock Co., Limited Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld Shanghai and Hongkow Whary Co., Ld.. Green Island Cement Co., Limited Hongkong Electric Co. Limited
Canton Insurance Office Co., Limited... China Fire Insurance Co., Limited Uhina Traders Insurance Co., Limited... Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited North-China Insurance Co., Limited Union Insurance Society, Limited Yangtare Insurance Association, Limites UFLAND AND BUILDINGS.-
Registration... 10.15 AM (Registration with late
fee of 10
cents. to 11.00 A B Registration
B.O. at No late fee Letters...
7.
Kowloon
930-A
+
11.00 A M Wednesday, 21st, 1.15 PM
Thursday, 22nd, 9.00 am
Thursday, 22nd, 10.00 a si Thursday, 22nd, 11.00 AM
Land Invest. Agency Humphreys' Estate and Finance Co., Ld, Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ld. Bhanghai Land Investment Co., Limited West Point Building Co., Limited Maatschappij tot Mija, Boschen
Landbouw exploitatie in Langkat ...}
£2,000
8,000 $50
15,000 Ps. 10
Tls. 77
$5, buyers
$61, buyers TI, 58
Tla, 90
$4. Bollers
821
$113 $25871~
P91
***** ** ****1¬¬¬¬-*~ 8808488 118aaa aaa ** *** ***** *3*******
$200, sellers
HE: Well! Have you seen any Peter's Milk Chocolate yet ? SHE: Yes; there's lots of it at WATSON'S and WEISMANN'S.
120,000
$125
60,000
$12
50,000
$5
50,000
31
200,000
$10
20,000 TL. 50
125,000
$10
40,000
$71
$204
00,000
250
-$63.
50,000
10,000
$50 all 86%
$45.
55,700 Tla. 100
***
36,000 Tis. 100 400,000
810
50,000
$2.0
Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited...
Manila Metropole Hotel Lanaited
Hongkong Les Company, Limited Hongkong Bope Manufacturing Co., Limited H'kong&
South China Steam Fisheries Co. Ltd, INSURANCES * :
50,00 $25
60,000 15,000
10,000
$10 $10
$250
2172
$7 $3, sellers
$50 $196, sellers
41
20,000 $100 24,000
883.33
8130
$25 $105,
***
8,000 $250 10,000 12,400
$15
$50 $360
£5 Tls, 150
$250 $10 $850
12,000
$100
$60 $2121, Ex 73
50,000
$100
$98
150,000
6,000
*10 $50
all 161 buyers
78,000. Tis, 50 12,600 $50 all $50, sales 25,000 Gds, 10
830324, buyers
Tla, 90,
THE PERFECT
all
Tls. 753
TOI
Heawood Tin and Rubber Estate, Ld. Beat Australian Gold Mining Co., Li..... Pask Tramways Co., Limited... Philippine Co., Limited BeFINERIES.———
**
1,000,000 160,000 715,280 200,000
37/9
41 2/
77/6, buyers
5/
¥34, Bellers
25,000
810
all 1-8113
60,000
$10
#181.10
75,000
$10
$5, buyers
20,000 8100
8112-
7,000
$100
$37
China and Manila Stearnship Co, Lola Douglas Steamship Co., Limited Hongkong, Canton & Macao S.B. Co., Ga. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co..60,000 def. Shell Transport & Trading Co., Limited. Star Ferry Company, Limited South China Morning Post, Limited Stoos Laundry Company, Limited... STORES AND DISPENBARLES.—
30,000
$25
$101, sellers
20,000
550
$21
80,000
$10
$251, sales
pret.
£5
861 £5 15-
PRODLICE OF SCOTLAND
2,500,000
21
10,000 10,000
$10
87/6, buyers
$10
$5 $174, sales
1427, salos
144
6,000
013
20,000
$20, buyers
$6.
1,200
$10
$22, buyers
15,000
$42, bayers
10,000.
83, sales
90,000
310
3,000
$44buyers,
810
50,000
310
$15, buyers
$12, buyers
13,200
$50
$40
9,900 ordy,
$4810.
100 fders 50,000
$300.
$10
$7
RUDEER
Para Eubbar in London
Loans. Chinees Imperial 1896
Daily Wire
Aucunt. Tls, 767,200
Thursday, 22nd, Noos Thursday, 22nd, 1.15 r M Thursday, 22nd, 3.00 Thursday, 22nd, 3.00 e ar Friday,
23rd, Printed Matter and Sam
ples...
10.00 AM Registration... 10.10AM (Registration with late fee of 10 cents, ap to 11.00 A.3.) Registration Kowloon
B.D.
9.30 AM
No late fee
Lotters...
Friday,
th
-23rd,
Noon
1.15 PM
Friday,
23rd, 3.00 M Friday, 23rd,
Printed Matter and Sam
ples
13
4.00 M ... 3,16 P M with
Inte fea of 10 cents up to 4.00 P.M.) Registration, Kowloon
BO. No late fee Letters
3:00 PM
**** 5:00 PM
MINING.
Chinese Engineering and M. Co., La. Tronoh Mines Limited
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited Luzon Bugar Refining Co., Limited STEAMSHIP COMPANIES.
Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited. Wm. Powall, Limited
Watkins, Limited
**
R
H
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited Weissmann, Limited
Gande Price &Co., Ltd. Societe des Pulpes et Papeteries de Tonkin United Asbestos Oriental Agoney, Limitoi, Baturday, 24th, 9.00 Union Waterboat Co., Limited
Baturday, 24th, 11.00 A Saturday, 24th, 11001 Saturday, 24th, 3.00p
$220.
If you buy a CONTINENTAL"
Your
PRESENT
TYPEWRITER
will be taken as part- Ipayment valued to its
condition.
HUGO C. A. FROMM.
Hongkong, 16th Föbruary, 1912,
4, QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
TO-MORROW
11.30 am.Annual Jockey Club Race,
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Wednesday, Feb. 21st-Second Day of Races Wednesday, 21st Feb.Fifteenth Ordinary Annual Meeting of The Chins Provident Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd., 11.30 AM.
Wednesday, 28th Feb.-Thirty-First Ordinary
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240
Quotations are :-- Malwa Now
**
L'don.
134-1
WHISKY,
Acknowledged by all to
one of the leading Scotch Whiskies on the Market.
For Mildness, Mellowness and Maturity it cannot be equalled.
See that the name of Dr. J. McCallum, is on every bottle, otherwise it is not genuine Perfection.'
Perfection
CDINGAROON BIRMINGHAMEN SANDAN SCOTCH WHISKY
SOLE AGENTS-
GANDE,
PRICE & CO., LTD.,
WINE MERCHANTS,
12, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG,
Telephone No. 135.
Do.
4/64 per 1b., sellars * Quotation. Far.
are Broker
Value,
Interest. Tls. 250; 76 p. annam
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AT
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1,00
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Annual Meeting of Hongkong Ice Co., Ld., ·Benares Old-
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Friday and Saturday, 1st and 2nd March-"FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON
Flower and Vegetable Show of Hongkong Horticultural Society at Vacant Ground opposite Honkong Club
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