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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
The one hundred, and ninth Report of the Court of Directors is na follows:- Gentlemen, The Directors have now to submit to you a generul statement of the affairs of the bank, and balance sheet for the year ending 31st December,
1024.
from
The act pronts for the year, including 83,470,314.45, balanes brought forward last account, after paying all charges, deducting interest paid and due, and making provision for bad and doubtful accounts and contingencies, amount to $16,083,982:01.
The Directory recommend the transfer of 81,000,000 from the profit and loss account to credit of the silver reserve, which will then stand at 826,300,000.
They also recommend writing off baok premises "account the sum of $1,000,000.
After making these transfers, deduct- ing the interim dividend of £3 per share, on 11th August fast, vi :- at 2/84,024,454.18, and rth
Ktion Le Directors there remains
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pay ment of anal dividend of three pounds. sterling per share, riz., £150,000, and
in all Co £800,000 which, as 2/31. the rate of the day, will absorbs 80,018,01302
a bonus of two poing per abare.
Fix, £320,000,
The balance 8,390,508.94 to be carried to new profit and loss account.
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Mr. M. Young has been elected Chairman for the year 1995,
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Bernard, Mr. G. T Edkins, M. N. L. Watson and J. P. Warren resigned their seats on leav ing the Colony and Mr. B. D. F. Beith. Mr. G. M. Young, Mr. W. E. Bell and Mr. T. G. Weall were invited to join the Board. These appointments require confirmation at this meeting. Mr. ጥ. L. Patteoden. Mr. J. A. Plummer and Mr. A. H. Compton retire in rotation, but being eligible for re-election, ofer themselves accordingly.
Anditora. The accounts have been nudited by Mr. C. Bernard. Brown and Mr. John Fleming who offer themselves for re-election.
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1. I order to standardize the national currency, various kinds of foreign currency are not to be used directly on the market, and are only! allowed to be exchanged at a bank or a money-changer's
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AND not forgetting "Hearts of the World”
"My
Four Years in Germany", Intolerance"
"Man-Woman-Marriage", "Orphans of the Storm", "The Four Horsemen ", "The Hunchback", "The Thief of Bagdad” and *The Queen of Sheba", we believe that we have never screened a finer film than
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Rome as she was 2,000 years ago is recreated for our benefit and lives once more, a wayward and wanton Mistress of the world!
We breathe again the fevered atmosphere of those bad old bygone days! We hear the tramp of Roman legions, we tremble as the lictors clear the way for the last and wickedest of the Caesars!
We are hurried along to the amphitheatre, rising tier on tier until there are seated 60,000 spectators. We shudder as the lions enter the arena! We see the crowds of slaves and gladiators waiting to be "butchered to make a Roman holiday" we can smell the blood among the sawdust.
We behold the crnel tyrant at the height of his power-most feared and despised of ment We see Rome burning at his insane command. We Witness his downfall.
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