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RADIO COMPÉTITION.
GREAT NORTHERN SAFE- GUARDING ITS RESERVES.
CABLE. COMPANIES AND THE MARCONI Co,
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PROSPERITY OF WEIHAI- WEL
IN SPITE OF AN UNCERTAIN
FUTL RE
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FEBRUARY 18th, 1928:
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Fabary 17, 1923.
E. Bank ............bi,tó, buy,, 1,200 sa
Do Louden...£131) som, Chartered Bank...........
buy.
Mercantile Bank A. &
Da
P. 30. Bank Past Asia Bank ....
Canton Insurance Union Insurance North Chu Tangtaze
issarence
пом.
U...els nom.
.elv
#78 buy, 5617 bay.
1 bay, 310 Ti. Il nom. „M. $464 buy.
Chins Underwriters..... com. · Chine Fire usarsace....$213 nom. Hong Kong Fire las 3685 bay. Douglases.......443
buy *******3281 bay. K.K. Steamboats
buy., 2.90 sel.
་་*****
The Board of Director's of the Gred Northern Telegraph Co., Ltd., announce that negotiations have taken place with a group of shareholders who have expressed a wish for higher dividends. As a
2 WeinWEL, February 7th. result the Board have decided to submit the below-mentioned phai paper declared,
Over twenty years ago a Shang
Weihaiwei, posals at an extraordinary general with its magnificent climate, equal næeting, to be held at a date to be natural advantages
to that
fixed Inter, riz.:-
to become the sanatorium for the Shell whole China const. That the pro: Waterboats......317 bay. Co.
phecy has been only partly fulfilled Bengueta to issue crew shares - to azkunt of £300,000. These new
is mainly due to the erratic policy Kailan Mining Ad.........66- boy. shares are to be ceded grauitously of the London Government and the Lang kata (combined)......Tia 18 nom.
at trust company, which will consequent chronic uncertainty as to
La (dagie) eins 10 nom. distribute gratutiously to the share our political fee. Without security hat Explorations... C, 2.35 nom. halders of the Great Northerntensive development, have not been Raube
of tenure substantial progress, ex- Shanghai DE
6.10 mm. Telegraph Co, shares of the trust possible, for capital is proverbially Tronoh Mints... compary to the aurant of £150,000. It follows that, if ever the K & K Wharf......8136 sol, 132
17/6 bay
the Riviera, and its other (Prof.).......$35) bay.
Great Northern Telegraph
one 3 share for each £10 share the Great Northern Telegraph Co. As far as circumstances will permit, the Board of Directors will propos that yearly dividends of per cent, be paid on the increased share capital of the Great Northern Telegraph Co., riz., £4,000,000, and, to the extent necessary to make this
possible," the Board of Dieptors will credit the revenue account with
interest which has
bids fair
Da
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.itherto lavor credited to tie suid landon's inexplicable reluctance to Blumphreys Estato...
Best Portland Cement.
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germon that back in the obscuze bycways of the nose, throat and chest, soothing the affected perta. Docióra strongly recommend them.
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·BURROUGHS WELLCONE & CO. {PROPRIETOmni The WaLLEDNE PRvnsárium kino, kanna VILA"
LONDON ann. SHANGHAI
account. As already mentioned it is proposed that the share capital of the new trust company shall $150,000. For payment of dividends on this capitn] will be available the dividends on £500,000 shares of the Great Northern Telegraph Co. after deduction of the expenses of the trust company (ie., mainly taxes), Endeavours will be made to have the shares of the trust company in cluded in the official list of the Stock Exchangy at Copenhagen.
As regards the question as to whether the Great Northern Co. will be able to pay dividends of 23 per cent. on the increased capital, shareholders are referred to the tarks, concerning radio competi- c which have appeared in the Company's annual reports of later years. It is to be expected that such competition will increase, and at the present moment it is possible to foremen to what extent the receipts will be influence thereby.
The above arrangement, accord- ing to which the new shares are to ie ceded to a trust company, is pro- posed in order to tie up a eansider-
ly Hilor at shers y ર make an attempt upon the Com- pany's resorves more difficult. The whole arrangement is fully approv ed by the group of shareholders above referred to.
Step To End Rivalry.
The Eastern, and Associated Tale- graph Companies and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd, authorise the following aunounce- ment-
DOMI.
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buy. 162
Day
5 buy
history of Weihaiwei na a British H.K. & W. Desks....................448] bay. possession comes to be written,
China Providents it will be far as the foreigner is ongewa le concerned-little more than a dismal New Engineringa.. record of things begun and not Shaghat Bake
nished, of plans on paper that
... fis, 97 nom. M.7.40 Two Cottons...
bag, 7.60 sel. Orientala
Tia. I buy.. have not gone further, of "hope deferred that maketh the heart. Shanghai Cotton (old)...The 49 bay.
Do. fucw). The bay. sick,"
H.K. Hetela.....18; buy, 8.30 **. Fortunately, notwithstanding an H.K. Lands uncertain future, in spite, too, of
***40-44 buy, 65 L Shanghai Lands fis, 184 buy,
$141 bay: sanction public expenditure, all Hong Kong Realties. $3.50 buy. enterprise is not dead, stagnation is E. Territorials
..$1, BOM. not complete and absolute. Further, E.K. Tramways...
$261
bay. with the recent resumption of con- Peak Trams (old) trol by the Colonial Office, there has been a refreshing change in the local atmosphere. For some years past the temptation to cry. Let us eat, drink and shoot snipe, for to- morrow cometh rendition," has been irresistible. To-day we seem to have adopted a new, motto, Business
as Esual." The official wet-blanket bai been restored to store and
reasonable encouragement is being Riven to legitimate enterprise..
While conditions and prospects affecting foreign enterprises have been extremely unsatisfactory since the announcement of rendition six years ago, there has been a prom ressive increase in the business done by Chinese firms, with a cor responding increase in the revenue As the following figures returns show, the total collected in 1997 is appreciably higher than in the pre- vious year, itself a record year:
REVESTE
Smilemma $240,782 „Sup...2... 247,061
1928 1027
KİSTİAN DATURE
A
1926 1027
8211,731 223,793
The Territory of Weihaiwei was once officially described as "poverty. stricken and the total of annual subsidies from the British tax- payer in former years approximates Ts. 1,000,000, To-day we are in a highly satisfactory position: not only
has outside assistance become un- necessary, but there is at the Bank 4. credit balance of approximately $175,000 in favour of the Local Gov. ernment, made up of the balances of recent yearY,
Sir William Plender, on behalf of the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies, and Sir Gilbert Garmsey, on behalf of Marcani's Wireless Telegraph Co.,
Pax Britannica with its "brutal have been asked to co-operate with imperialism" has created a senso view to making a joint report for of security, a reasonably honest and submission
thair respective just administration, the principal boards as to a possible arrangement factors and rauses of local prospe in the joint interests of the respegrity, which is in sartling contrast with the conditions on the other tive companies.
It follows side of our boundary. that about the last thing desire by the local population is the retro- ression of the Territory and the advent of their own officials before a stable government is estabished at Peking...
This is thy first step towards effecting a working arrangement between the cable companies and the Marconi Company to secure the uninterrupted development of both Cable methods of communication. companies shares rallied smartly. On the other hand, Marconi sharës dropped.
CAPITAL FOR RUSSIA:
JAPANESE HELP FOR SOVIET INDUSTRIEN.
Primitive Conditions,
Kigwan
$14 nom ..30 nom. Star Ferries $49) x div. nom. Chins Lights (comb.l......$17 sel.
Do. (obit) $15 nom. Do. (DOW)
....394 nom.
bay. HK Electrica Hacao Electrics....91 bay. Telephones
$4.35 nom. China Buto
*******11/9 now, Singapore Tractions................. Malabon bugan China
........27} nom. Cements (combined)....$10.70) 60 sa. Canton Ices...........+ buy.
Do
..... $10 not. Do. (now)......81) nom. HK. Beper (old). 3
(DOW).........$3,000 bay, United Asbestos...tu sal Dairy Farms.....
..$19 bay. Watsons
$12.30 buy. Der A Wings
.83.1v nom. Lane Crawienia Mackintosha.....
$22 mai. Sincere
bay. WI Fowels.. IK. Amusements ...$25 buy, H.Moonstraction .....$11 com. B'que, Indus G.$Bonds...60% nom. Bk. Govt. Losas.........3% prem, bay. buy-buyers; solimisellors; sammukite ; Home ɔminal
Do.
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hy the lady's learned associates, but I have now heard a well-founded rumour that her example has been followed by one and approved by. several others.
Will this lead to a confusion as to the meaning of the old phrase "Wigs on the" green"↑
INDIGESTION STOPS AT
ONCE.
The stranger, accustomed to the conveniences and advantages of life -under more civilized conditions and up-to-date surroundings, who visits Weihaiwel for the first time-and there have been many such during some time paat money has been ac- the past year-cannot fail to be cumulating to meet the cost of con- struck by the primitive conditionsstructing a breakwater at Port Ed- under which we live and move and ward and the total, now stands at have our being, He is the more | about $40,000. It is proposed—and, The prospects for the inventatonished when he is told that the I understand, the local Chamber of your wig the mora
The old idea was that the dirtier ment of Japanese capital in usia Territory has been under British Commerce has consented to aban used it, and, therefore, the bigger you had. are fairly good, particularly in the rule for nearly thirty years. Whedon the breakwater scheme and to your practice. Sir Edward Carson, oilfields.
ther the cause of stagnation and į expend, this money on the scheme was the proud possessor, in his Viscount Goto, who heads a Japanese delegation which has been fact remains that in such important
paralysis is avoidable, or not, the for a proper water supply."
"greatest days as fashionable sük, studying economic conditions in details as
Light
of the dirtiest wig in the Courts. water supply street Russia, made this statement to the lighting and sanitation, Port Ed-For more years than we care to British United Press at Moscow onward, the hub of our small universe, think about, the scheme for electric January 18th.
is to-day practically where it was lighting of the town-irreverently Viscount Goto also confirmed the over a generation ago there is little described as village by some of reports that have been received from Alexandrovsk regarding Bak-
to distinguish the place from a our visitors has been a matter of third-rate Highland village.
public and private discussion. In halim that the Japanese concession-
the beginning, the wayfarer at Whatever strides science may sires are developing the work of
Water.
night either carried his own lantern, have made in combating diseases, building, reservoirs and electric Last summer, in common with the or walked in Cimmerian darkness no better remedy has been discover- plant
rest of North China, we experienced relieved here and there by oil lamps ed for stopping indigestion than The Japanese liesion was to a heat wave and another "record of an almost prehistoric pattern. 'Bisurated' Magnesia, which" towi leave Moscow for home on January was established, the maximum tem Subsequently some improvement day is used by thousands of peratures at Port Edward for July was effected in the more important stomach sufferers with ever-fail- Apparently the hopes of the 26th, 27th and 28th being 101, 100 streets by the introduction of ing success. Bisurated' Magnesin Saviot authorities that the visit and 101, respectively. The excessive patent lamps with high-sounding treats indigestion in the only would produce a political rappro-heat was, no doubt, due in part titles in a chronic condition of dis logical way, by instantly neutrális thement have not yet been realised. to lack of moisture, the rainfall repair. A new scheme for electric ing excess acids, preventing fer- According to the Riga correspon in the summer months-July, August lighting has been submitted to mentation, and soothing, healing dent of The Times, before leaving. and September-being only 6.7 London and approved, the usual re and strengthening the inflamed Viscount Goto referred in comph- inches, whereas the totel for the gulations printed and issued, and it stomach lining, which soon becomes mentary terms to the museums, art same months of the previous year really seems as if this long-standing Memesis is sold by all chernists in healthy and strong 'Bisurated' galleries, and similar institutions of was 24.5 inches. This partial reproach on a community that aloscow, but on the subject of the drought has emphasized the long-like to regard itself as progressive both powder and tablet forms. It relations between the Soviet. And felt need of a proper water supply is about to be removed. If at the is the remedy that is recommend- Japan all he did was to repeat his and a scheme is under discussion eleventh hour another hitch occurs, ed by doctors. It is used in boe own earlier statement that the for sinking an artesian well and the it will probably be due to the action pitala and by thousands of one path is bestrewn with difficulties, construction of a small reservoir in of Chinese officials outside the time sullerers who have proved and to add that, though a mutual such a position as will deliver water. Territory, whe, with an eye on ren- again and again that “Basurated" understanding had not bom reach to the town under pressure through dition, seem to afflicted with an un-Magacsis is an unfailing reliever ed, a trade Agreement was most hydrants on the main strecta. For healthy craving to have a finger_in of all acid caused digestive trou..
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