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A. H. FERGUSON, Manager. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1931. [30
BANQUE FRANCO-CHINGISE POUR LE COMMERCE ET L'INDUSTRIE (Incorporated in France). Prince's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong.
HEAD OFFICE:
74, Ruo St. Lazare, Paris.
Fra."
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Dalentta Jerusale
Capenbauen Liverpoot Paiping
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Personal investment handled.
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Affiliated with
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK Resources Over G.82,500,000,000
C. H. BENSON,
General Manager.
and STEALING on terms which will Special Working Capital. 50,000,000 THE HO HONG BANK, LTD.S
be quoted on application.
Hong Kong, 1st May, 1931.
Reserves
[20
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
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HE Busiacs of tho above Bank KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rulea may be ob tained on application.
For the Hoxo KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, V. M, GRAYBURN,
Chiot Manager. Hong Kong, 10th July, 1930, [2
EQUITABLE EASTERN BANK. ING CORPORATION.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS- U.S. $4,700,000.
HEAD OFFICE;
18, PINE STERKT,
NEW YORK.
Aa American Bank offering complete Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.
This Bank is entirely owned by T
CHIBE NATIONAL BANK, NEW YORK, with Resources over U.S. $2,000,000,000.
D. M. BIGGAR,
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22,319,000
Marseilles
BRANCHES Paris Lyons Saigon Haiphong Hanoi Tourano Quinhon Hue. Peiping, Shanghai Thanh hon Vinh
Hong Kong
Prom Penh Tientsin
BANKERS: France: Société Générale, Banque Nationale de Crédit Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. London: Midland Bank, Ltd. New York: American Exchange Irving Trust Co., Banca Com- merciale Italiana.
San Francisco: Bank of Italy.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted. Correspondents "throughout the
World.
A. ROLLIN,
Manager.
Hong Kong, lat July, 1920.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
HEAD OFFICE: →→→
15, Gracechurch Street, London,
E.C. 3.
Established 1917.)
HEAD OFFICE-SINGAPORE, HONG KONG OFFICE :—13, QUEEN'S RD, C.
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Authorcised Capita)....Straits $20,000,000 Issued
$8,000,000 Paid-up
i $4,000,000 Reserve Liabilities of
Bhareholders.
$4,000,000 $2,620,000
Surplus
Branches, Agencies and Corres pondente in the principal cities of the world.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
TAN ENG HOOI,
Manager.
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE,
Head Office:
96, Boulevard Haussmana, Paris.
Subscribed Capital Frs.72,000,000.00 Paid-up Capital ... Fra.88,400,000.00 | Reserve Fund... Fan. 102,000,000.00
BRANCHES: Bangkok Hong Kong Quinhon Battambang Huo
Saigon Authorized Capital £3,000,000 Manager.
Dantho Mengtez
Shanghai Subscribed Capital ...... £1,800,000
Canton Nam Dinh Singapore Paid-up Capital ....... ...£1,050,000
Noumen Djibouti Reserve Fund and Rest....£1,606,815 Fort Bayard Papoots
NEDERLANDSOHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ, N.V.
(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.)
BANKERS
Established 1824.
Bateria
BANKERS:
and
Tas BANK OF ENGLAND
MIDLAND BANK, LTD.
HONG KONG OFFICE: 11, QUEEN'S ROAD Bangkok
CENTRAL
Authorised Capital
Bombay
Calcutta Colombo
Gidra. 150,000,000- Delhi (212,500,000) Galle
Paid-Up Capital...Gldrs. 90,030,000 Hong Kong
(£0,680,170.) Howrah Reserve Fund... ...Gldra. 40,015,000 Ipoh
(£3,334,533.) Kandy
Head Office:-Amsterdam, Eastern Head Once:--Batavia, BRANOUES-Randjarmasin, Bandong, Borbay,
Calcutta Charbon, Djember, Djakja- karta", The Hague, Jiddah, kabe. Kote Hadja, Makamer, Medan, Fa dang, Palang, Pekalongan, mang. Pontianak, Banguos, Rotter dam', Bamazing, Shanghai, Sibols (Sumatra)
Boersbala
Bingapore
Soerstaris (Solo),. Tegal, Taladap mad Wallarreden**** *Time offeur bass Bafe Deposit Bonus Tu Zak,
London Bankers:- National Provincial Bank, Ltd. Correspondents all over the world. Banking Business of every descrip.
tion transacted
A. STOKKINK,
Manager. Hong Kong, 12th May, 1931. [30
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD.
HEAD Office: HONG KONG,
Hong Kong Currency, AUTHORIZED CAPITAL...$11,000,000 PAID-UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND
Branches:-
8,835,000 1,100,000
CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW,
SWATOW, BANGKOK, NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO.
London Bankers;~~ Tas LLOYDS BANK, LTD. Correspondenta.ne
all Principal Cities of the World, Foreign Exchange and Banking Business of every description transacted.
Safe Deposit Boxes (various eíses) At & Yearly Rental of from 85 to
LOOK FOONG SHAN. Manager.
840,
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BEANCIES:
Karachi Madras Kota Bharu New York Kuala Krai Penang
(Kelantan) Port Louis Kuala Lipis (Mauritius) (Pahang) Rangoon Kuala Shanghai..
Lumpur Simla Kuantan Singapore (Pahang) Sourabaya
Thanhoa
Tientsin
Touranc
Haiphong Peiping Hankow Pnom Penh Vinh Hanoi Pondicherry Yunnanfu
:
BANKERS:
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escompté de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banque de Paris et dea Pays-Bas; Crédit Indus. trial et Commercial; Société Générale.
IN LONDON: The National Provin- cial and Union Bank of Eng- land, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Crédit Lyonnais.
In New Your J. P. Morgan & Co.; French-American Banking Corporation; Guaranty Trusty Co., of New York.
HONG KONG BRANCH; Every description of Banking and
Interest allowed on Current Ao- Exchange Business transacted.
counts and Fixed Deposits accord- Travellers Cheques issued. Trutice and Executorships under.ing to arrangement.
Every description of Banking and taken.
Exchange Business transacted. Safe Deposit Boxes to let.
A. BONNAUD,
Manager. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1931. [32
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INTEREST allowed on Current Ac counts and Fixed Deposits at Rates that may be ascertained on appli- cation.
C.-L. SANDES,
“Manager.
7, Queen's Road Central,
Hong Kong, 20th April, 1931.
(20
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED,
BANK OF CHINA,
Reorganized October 26, 1928, under
special charter of The National Capital (fully paid up)
Government as an
Yan 100,000,000 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE Reserve Fund. Yen 116,000,000
BANK.
Subscribed Capital.....$25,000,000,00 Paid-up Capital... $24,710,200.00
Reserve Funda
Berlin Bombay
HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT:
Rio de Alexandria, Honolulu $3,820,503.82 Batavia
Janeiro Kai Yuan
Karachi Rangoon KobeBoerabaya
San Francisco Scattle Changchon Los Angeles Semarang Dairen
Manila Shanghai Nagaanki
Shimonoseks {Dalny) Fengtion Nagoya Singapore
HEAD OFFICE:-SHANGHAI
HONG KONG BRANCH:
4, Queen's Road Central..
Owing to our numerous branches
Calcutta
London Cauton Lyonn
New York Tientsin Osaka
Tokyo Poiping Tringiss allowed on Current Ac
in China and large connections in (Mukden) Newehwang Sydnor the important commercial centres of Hamburg the world, we are able to extend to Hankow our clients special facilities for Harbin domestic and foreign banking and Honors Interest exchange
Deposits received" for Fixed Periods at Enter to be obtained on application. condong
H. MORI, Mánager. Hong Kong, April 11, 1931, [33]
We also handle the issue of Bonds counts. and other Public Funds of the Chinese Government both at home and abroad.
SHOUJI CHEN, Manager.
10
$10
20
23
34
30
CLUES.
Across, 1-Multiply by seven for recom- mended times of pardon.. 5.-A
wrestler singe overthrew mare than his enemics."
11
..who
D. Rare kin; twice back, 10. Glib one (anag). 11-Royal missile once dodged by
a harper.
12. Clapsed like a missal where
swart paynims --" 13-This may do to get a brand
from tho burning.
14. Thin skinned, but often re- vealing tough customers. 17.-Knots or jackets.
10. This roveller in Matthew Arnold was neither lost. nor the victim of thieves. 21.-After a bargain someone,
must do this to the goods. 24.-Courteously, 27.--Proverbially no euro for an
earthquake
28. To do this to their face some people operate upon their
nose,
29.---Added to 27 down produces a
devastating person. 32-Hardly fair, when the sides
are thus unequal. 33.-This Duncan's life was "in-
deed a Stful fever. 34.-Sen 8 down.
35. A brief scene of young Pyramus and his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth." 30.--Twickenham, as spelt by the
port who had a villa there.
Down.
7.-Invalidate.
39
8-Prodx 34 across and you get most of a Wost Indian island (rev.)
15" They also
who only
V
Atand and wait." 18.-The opposite of acute, 18.-A river; thrics more and it's
a city. 20-May be grabbed for an inch. 21.-This account is not current. 22-Follower of Wycliff: 23--It may be difficult to do this
to a yawn or a smile. 24.-Its end furnishes sauce for a different animal from that which begins it. 25.-Give me help up and for my shoe, and I'm on the Italian coast.
highly
20.-Rosting-place for strung pirates, 30.-Suspected of arson on a huge
scale, he treated it as an affair of fiddlesticks. 31.-What Casar said he did be- tiveo arrival and victory, The solution will be published on Monday.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
BANDITTEN ODES ATM UNREVEREDIT A GPEDESTRIAN V
GALLIA AFLUKE AMUNG UNSHINEBL
1. A hasty reader, but his word' G. A M MNS FEIS CO FARMAMPLE STAY in law.
2. With this in or out it mayĒNENXHINIE
bo the deuce to follow.
3. Bummit of Moses's career.
4.Of these medieval ladies the
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one from Ireland supplanted BLCP G ■ 11 ■ G || 8 the one from Brittany.
TAKEN E IIIDT 0.T
5. These may be governed or ASHADE OOBESE
aimed at.
6. The remainder over
which
Burns would have us whistle. [D V B DU ETIDD J, Y
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