The Hongkong Telegraph.
ESTABLISHED 1881.-
New Series No, 1291. #=+At41+=** THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1899.
Banks
THE
Intimations.
ZOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
ESTADLIANES 1880,
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED AN Yen 12,000,000
PAID UP).
RESERVE FUND
Head Office:-YOKOHAMA,
* Branches and Agencies..
TOKIO.
KOBE.
NAGASAKI
LONDON.
-LYONS.
BOMBAY, AN
NEW YORK.
SHANGHAI..
TIENTSIN,
SAN FRANCISCO. HONOLULU,
- LONDON BANKERS;
"PARKS' BANK, LD.
THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LD. THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, L. INNOKONG AGENCY INTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Account at the rate of 2. per cent. pel Annum on the Daily Balance. On fixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent.
NAVIGATION COMPANY,
~D:)
CAPTAINS
FOR
STEAMERS
Bengal
S. Barcham
SHANGHAL
TO' SAIL
REMARKS
...Daylight, 18th Aug. Freight or Passage.
LONDON, &c. Manila R. L. Haddock, R.N.R...Noon, 18th August. Freight or Passage.
LONDON, &c. Parramatta. A. Symons..........Noon, 19th August, Freight or Pastage.
JAPAN „Rosetta* ......C. C. Talbot, R.'N.R....4 P.M., 19th August. Freight or l'assage. KOBE (Direct)...Nankin......G. W. Benner, R.N.R..Noon, 21st August.. Freight only. LONDON... Bombay G. M. Moniford, R.N.R.About 24th August. Freight or Passage
..... Cantia* ......W. H. Haughton, R.N.R.About 19th Sept. ... Freight unly.
*(Passing through the Inland Sea).
| JAPAN
† (See Special Advenkement).
For Further Particulars apply to
5. CHOH,
Agent
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Hongkong, 17th August, 1899.
HL A. RITCHIE, Superintendent.
I's
Hongkong, 1st August, 1899-
IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.
ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL DECREE.
PAID-UP CAPITAL VA
CHEFOON
CHINKIANG.
FOOCHOW.
CLUB
WHISKY
IS THE BEST.
Shanghai Taels.
2,500,000
$12.00
OF THE 12TH NOVEMBER, 1896-19
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL ་་་་་་་་་་ 5,000,000
Head Office --SHANGHAI,
Branches and Agencies,
CANTON,
HE Bank var
HANKOW.
PEKING:- SWATOW
TIENTSIN
id receives for cul.
-purchases and
Tection Bills or receives the
above places, and Sells Drafts and Telegraphic Transfers Payable at its Branches and Agen cies:
HONGKONG BRANCH
Advances made on approved securities...
Bills discounted,
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS
per Annum Fixed Deposits for 3 months.
12
EW RUTTER,
Acting Manager.
Hongkong, 15th October, 1898,
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THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA;
· LIMITED.
Authorised Capital..
Paid up Capital
HEAD OFFICE
£1,000,000
324,374.
HONGKONG.
Board of Directors
Chan Kit Shan, Esq.
Chow Tung Shang, Esq. Kwan Hoi Chuen, Ex
D. Gillies, Esq. J.TLauts, Esq.
Chief Manager,
GEOLWF PLAYFAIR.
Interest for 12 months Fixed.
Hongkong, 30th May, 1899,
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
AUSTRALIA AND CHINAP!
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER,
HEAD OFFICE LONDON
CAPITAL PAID-UP.
800,000
RESERVE LIABILITY OF SHARE Y
800,000
RESERVE FUND Avant
NTEREST ALLOWED on
I ACCOUNT at the Rate of 1.
annum on the Daily Balances,
URRENT:
cent per
On Fixed Deposits for 12 months, « 4. per cent.
TI WHITEHEAD,
Egalitas Manager, Hongkong.")
Hongkong, 20th May, 1898.
ONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
HBANKING
PAID-UP CAPI) "RESERVE
RESERVE
ORPORATION
R
'NA.SI
Goe
RHEH
A Haupt,
The H
A. McConachie Eagl
Hongkon
Shanghai LONDON
per
31.
0,000
Hongkong, 19th May, 1899
PER DOZEN.
'H. PRICE & C3,,
13, QUEEN'S ROAD.
AQUARIUS.
[20
A PERFECT TABLE WATER."
Telephone
Per Dozen Quarts
1.75
Allowance for the Empties when return to our Godowns,
$1.00
0.75
THIR
四拜禮
號七十月八英港香
Intimations.
Again We Press Forward to Greater Achievements, to Mightier Efforts. We Will Inaugurate the Monumental Master-Stroke of Our Career.
WATKINS, LIMITED,
challenge the world to produce any equal or parallel to the splendid and inspiring values now offered, gathered by master minds through the gigantic power of SPOT CASH-demoralizing and scattering to the four winds the last hope of the so-called cutters, oreating unspeakable agony, the minds of competitors and unspeakable delight to the thousands of our customers who, throu our existence, are saving thousands of dollars each and every year. Figures will not lie and hats are indisputable,
We Have the Power and the Will, the Capital and the Energy, to Offer Goods at Prices Which We Defy and Dare
any Competition to Match.
We fearlessly throw down the gauntlet to any competition to meet this wonderful array of bargains and deflantly raise our flag on high upon which is written in bold and commanding manner. the sentence.
WE CHALLENGE ALL COMPETITION.
UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY. LIMITED.
7
SOLE AGENTS IN
HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, ·
FOR THE
UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD, LONDON,
CONTRACTORS TO H.M. GOVERNMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF THE
Best Qualities of ASBESTOS GOODS and PACKINGS. HYDRAULIC and. SELF, LUURICATING PUMP. PACKINGS, of all kinds.
"VICTOR" METALLIC BOILER JOINTS. ASBESTOS SALAMANDER BOILER COVERING COMPOSITION of the best qualities, ESTIMATES given for every DESCRIPTION of WORK SUPERINTENDENT.
THOS. SKINNER DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General" Agents.
Net Price.
$1.50 3
271
Per Dozen Pints...... "There is no teaching in all the wide world of hygiene so valuable as the “inculcation of the idea that typhoid fever is a water-borne disease. Exclud “ing a not common liability to the air-diffusion of its germs, we acquire this "ailment undoubtedly from water directly, or from milk which has been "fouled by polluted water. Pure water mens practically the abolition of "boil typhoid fever and cholera. Our safety abroad is to drink a pure. "Mineral Water only,”—(Dr. Andrew Wilson in the "Illus. London News.")
PEAK
HOTEL
ANDEN
CRAIGIEBURN.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., THE HOTEL is situated at VICTORIA GAP, adjoining the TRAMWAY TERMINUS,
16, Queen's Bond.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1899.
A
HONGKONG HOTEL.
BOARD
GENERAL MANAGERS..
AND
THE
RESIDENCE.
On Monthly Terms from 1st May, 1899.
CLUB HOTEL,
LIMITED.
£15
No: 5-D, BUND, YOKOHAMA,
FIRST CLASS JIOTEL Centrally situated well furnished and
supplied with excellent Cuisine and Good Wines.
feet above Level CRAIGIEBURN is situated at PLUNKETTS GAP, five minutes walk from the PEAK
HOTEL
Fine Healthy location, variety of beautiful scenery. Cool Southerly breezes in Summer with perfect protection against the North East Winds in Winter.
Well appointed rooms, attentive service and evreilent Cuisine.
CITY OFFICE, 7, Duddell Street:
Hongkong, 4th January, 1899.-*
QEO. J. CASANOVA,
Manager.
PETER SYS' WONDERFUL SPECIFIC.
HE only remedy at present known as an INFALLIBLE and PERMANENT CURE for
THE SPRUE DYSENTRY, DIARRHEA, HEMORRHAGE ADULTERATIUR
of the BOWELS.
Recommended by some of the Chief Specialists of the Medical Profession: Sold retail by all Chemists and Wholesale.
by THE PETER SYS COMPANY,
(Proprietors and Sole Manufacturers),
Old China Street,
Shanghai.
12th October, 1898.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK
ING CORPORATION...
[(343) HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK
COMPANY, LIMITED.. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation willTHE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
•NOTICE HALF YEARLY MEETING DI
(OTICE is hereby given that the ORDIN-
be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on T" MEETING of SHAKEHOLDERS 1.
SATURDAY, the 19th day of August next, at be held in the OFFICES of the Company, NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report Queen's Buildings, Connaught Road, on of the Court of Directors together with a State MONDAY, the 21st August, at 3 o'clock R. ment of Accounts to 30th June, 1899.
for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to. the goth June, 1899.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 29th July, 1899. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the REGIS
TER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 5th to the 19th day of August, (both Days inclusive), during which Period NO TRANSFER of Shares can be Registered......... ́....~~.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from the 7th to 21st August, bath days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS: 1, ROSE,
Secretary: Hongkong, 31st July, 1800,
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
By Order of the Court of Directors,
TA JACKSON,
of the Hongkong, Electric Company, Limited, Chief Manager. will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, Hongkong, 29th July, 1899. [980a Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,
Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 20th day of LIMITED
August, 1899, at 12 o'clock Noon, when the SUBJOINED RESOLUTION will le NOTICE
he passed by the
Should the Resolution
The Company's Stem-launch attends the arrival and departure of nil ORDINARIA BALEVERLY qui ECIAL RESOLUT DO Coto
E MEETING SHAREHOLDERS will firmation as ↑
ention paid to the Comfort of Visitors.
E. V SIOEN, Manag
- LADIES, --
well supply your every need from day to day
you doubt it, como and try at IITELEY'S OF THE TAR CATHAY"
Ex
FORMOSA:""
Millinery &c., Latest Novelties in Ladies Apparel,-
be held at the COMPANY'S® Horet, conja SECOND, EXTRA-ORDINARY. MEET-
Entertainment.
THEATRE
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
"ONDE SATURDAY, the 19th August, 1899,
THE AMERICAN TRAGEDIENNE JANET WALDORF, ASSISTED BY
NORVAL MCGREGOR,
ADA DON CURRIER and
VIRGINIA CHANNA,
2nd, 3rd and th Acts of ROMEO and JULIETS and the
-1st, 2nd and 3rd Acts of -*
INGOMAR
KESERVED SEATS now on Sale. ROBINSON PIANO COʻS."
PRICES
Hongkong, 15th August, 1899.
Auction.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
THE
No. 44
HE following Particulars of Sale of Cro
Land by Public Auction, to be held a the Offices of the Public Works Department,
MONDAY, the" atst day of August, 1899, 1-3 KM published for general information,
By Command,
J.-H. STEWART LOCKJJART, Colonial Secretary Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 5th August, 1899,-.
Particulars of the letting by Public Auctio Sale, to be held on Monday, the all day August, 1899, at 3 PM, at the Offices of Public Works Department, by Order of His Ex- cellency the Governor, of Two Lots of CROWN LAND at Yau Ma Ti, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, för a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be Gixed: by the Surveyor of Her Majesty the QUEEN for one further tenn of 75 yenıf Ne
'PARTICULARS OF LOTS.
Registry No.
!Kow!
LOCALITY:
Logg
10d
No.
Yau Ma T (near Folice
Station,
T
Boullary Measurements:
Notice of Firm.
NOTICE.
MONDAY, the 21st August, 1890, at NOON, ING which will be subsequently convened sourselves at CANTO
for the purpose of receiving a Statement of That this Capital of the Company Accounts of the Company to the 30th June, je 1899, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matters that may be competently brought before the Merling."A
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compan will be CLOSED from the 8th to the 275t August, both Days inclusive.
By Order of the Boards
PSC MOONEY
29th July,
CHOOL
NAGE
ZSUMED
Scholars
MONDAY
W POWELL & Co., Apply
floor
IEAD MASTE
bei increased to the Sum of $600,000 by - the issue of 30,000 New Shares of BIO cach which shall be considered part of the Onginal Capital, and be subject to the provisions in the Artices of Association contained widireference to CALLS; trans- fer, transmission, lieu,strender, cooling. power and otherwise and that the Directors
E have This 1hy EST
PORT is. GENERAL MERCHAN MISSION AGENTS under the Nam of B. BHESANIA & Co
FB DHESANLA Hongkong, 7th Augus, 1899..
be authorised to issue such New Shares Insurance
at part
That the said New Shares be offered to the persons who on the 16th day of September 1899, shall be the Registered, Members of the Existing Shares in the proportion of New Share for cach Ex ting Share held by them: By Order of the Board,
GIBBAI
Tong kongs th
NORTH GERMAN
COMPAN