The Hongkong Telegraph.
ESTABLISHED 1881
NEW SERIES No. 1293, +£$£t=** SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1899.
Banks.
THE
Entimations,
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
ESTABLISHED 1880.
CAPITAL(SUBSCRIBEDAND} Ven: 13,000,000
PAID-UP).
RESERVE FUND
7,300,000
Head Offices-YOKOHAMA,"
Branches and elgencies.
KOBE.
LONDON. NEW YORK. SAN FRANCISCO. HONOLULU,
TOKIO.
NAGASAKI
LYONS:
BOMBAY,
TIENTSIN.
SHANGHAL
LONDON BANKERS:
મ
THE LONDON JOINT STOCK-BANK, LD,
PARRS BANK, Lo.” THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, 10.
HONGKONG AGENCY -ÎNTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. per Annum on the Daily Balnice, On fixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent.
FOR
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAMERS
CAPTAINS
..TO SAIL
REMARKS
KOBE (Direct)...Nasikia .....C, W. Bennett, R.N.R... Daylight, 22nd Aug. Freight only, LONDON..... „Gombay ......Ġ. M. Montford, R.N.R.About 24th August. Freight or Pasunge: SHANGHAI ...Valetta.........J. F. Jephson.......... About ist Sept....... Freight or Passige.
LONDON, &c... Chusan ......E. Street...........Noon, 2nd Sept....Freight or Passage.
JAPAN Rohilla“ ................S.de B. Lockyer, R.N.R..4 P.M,, 2nd Sept. ... Freight or Passage. LONDON..
„Formasa. ....A. G. Cubitt, R.N.R..............About 7th Sept. ... Freight or Passage.
JAPAN
.... CandiaTM .W. H. Haughton, R‚N.R.About 13th Sept....Freight only,
(Passing through the Inland Sea).
† (See Special Advertisement).
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For Further Particulars apply to
4
S. CHOH,
H. A. RITCHIE, Superintendent.
Agent
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Hongkong, 19th August, 1899.
I's
Hongkong, 1st August, 1899,
HONGANKING CORPORATION.
AND SHANGHAI
PAID-UP CAPITALamangki
RESERVE FUND
RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPTORS,$10,000,000
COURT OF DIRECTORS
.$10,000,000
$10,000,000
Telephono 75.
A. J. Raymond, Es
P. Sachse, Esq.
R. M. GRAY, Esq., Chainman.
N. A. Steps, Esq., Deputy Chairman
A. Haupt, Esq.
R. H. Hill, Esq.
L. Goetz, Esq.
The Hon. J.J.Keswick. E. Shellim, Esq.
A.-McConachie, Esq. R. Shewan, Esq.
CHIEF MANAGER:
Hongkong-Sir THOMAS JACKSON.
MANAGER:
Shanghai-J.P. WADE GARD'SER, Esq LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED. HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED: On Current Account at the rate of 2 per Cent.
per Annum on the daily balance. :
ON FIXED DEPOSITS!
For 3 months, 2
For 6 months, 31 For 12 months, 4
per Cent, per Annum.
per Cent, per Annuin,
per Cent, per Annum.
THOMAS JACKSON,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 6th June, 1899.
́HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. THE Businessofthe above Bankis conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on application.
INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 33 PER CENT. per annum
'Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $1ooormore to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT, per annum.
For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager.
Hongkong, 1st August, 1395.
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IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA. ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL DECREE
OP THE 14TH NOVEMBER, 1896.**.
SUBSCRIBED Capital
Shanghai Taels:
Hamm 5,000,000.
PAID-UP CAPITAL 2,500,000
Head Office-SHANGHAI.
Branches and Agencies,
CANTON,
CHEFOO.
CHINKIANG, FOOCHOW
MANKOW.
PEKING.
SWATOW.
TIENTSIN.
THE Bank purchases and receives for cul-
lection Bills of Exchange drawn on the above places, and Sells Drafts and Tolegraphic Transfers Payable at its Branches and Agen:
cies.
HONGKONG BRANCH: » Advanemade on approved securities.
Bills discounted...
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.. per Annum. Fixed Deposits for 3 months.
EW RUTTER,"
Acting Manager.
Hongkông, 15th October, 1898
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THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,
EIMITED
Authorised Capital.
Paid up Capital
"HEAD OFFICE
£1,000,000
4-324,374
HONGKONG..
Board of Directors:
Chas Kit Shan, Esq
Chow Tung Shang, Esq. KwanHoiChen, Esq.
D. Gillies, Esq.2 JT Lauls, Esq.
Chlef Manager,
GEO W PLAYFAIR
Interest for 12 months. Fixed 5% Hongkong, 30th May, 1899.
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINATA
TED HEAD OTEICE:
INCO
CAPITAL
RESERVE
HLITY
HOLDER TLSERVE
AQUARIUS.
A PERFECT TABLE WATER."
..$2.50
Pert Dozen Quarts Per Dozen Pints...... 1.75
Allowaste, fur the Empties whan return to ous Godowns.
$1.00
075
Net Pric
$1.50
1.00
"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 wülk which has been "fouled by polluted water. Pure water means practically the abolition of "both typhoid fever and cholera. Our safety abroad. is to drink a pure "Mineral Water culy.”—(Dr. Andrew Wilson in the "Illus. London News"}
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,
15, Queen's Road.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1899.
CLUB
$12.00
Hongkong, 19th May, 1899.
HONGKONG HOTEL.
GENERAL MANAGERS.
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WHISKY
IS THE BEST.
BOARD
AND
PER DOZEN.
六拜禮
號九十月八英港香
Entimations.
Sol
for the UNITED ASBESTOS COM
·PANY LTD LONDON" DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.
Guisvil¿dgrents?
THIRTY DOLLARS PER ANNUM:
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, creating unspeakable agony in the minds of competitors and unspeakable delight to the thousands of our customers who, through our existence, are saving thousands of dollars each and every year. Figures will not lie and facts 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 defiantly 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.
SOLE AGENTS IN.
HONGKONG, CHIMA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,
FOR THE
UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD., LONDON,
CONTRACTORS TO HL.M. GOVERNMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF THE
Best Qualities of ASBESTOS GOODS and PACKINGS. HYDRAULIC and SELF LUBRICATING 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.
PEAK HOTEL
AND
CRAIGIEBURN.
HE PEAK HOTEL is situated at VICTORIA GAP, adjoining the TRAMWAY TERMINUS,
1,350 feet above sea Level.
H. PRICE & Co.,
THE
12, QUEEN'S ROAD.
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THE
RESIDENCE.
On Monthly Terms from 1st May, 1899..
CLUB HOTEL,
LIMITED.
No. 5-8, BUND, VOKOHAMA.
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL Centrally situated, well furnished und
A supplied with excellent Cuisine and Good Wines.
The Company's Steam-launch attends the arrival and departure of all Mail Steamers.
Special attention paid to the Comfort of Visitors.
E. V. SIOEN, Mainger.
1853 NDONJEC
Yokohama, 1st October, 1897.
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LADIES,
We can always well supply your every need from day to day. If you doubt it, come and try at.
WHITELEY'S OF THE FAR CATHAY."
Ex. FORMOSA."
Millinery, &c., Latest Novelties in Ladies Apparel
W POWELL & Co.,
Immed. Opposite P:0 lt foord
127
CRAIGIEBURN is situated at PLUNKETT's Gar, five minutes walk from the PEAK
HOTEL
7,5
Fine Healthy location, variety of beautiful scenery. Cool Southerly breezez in Summer with perfect protection against the North East Winds in Winter,
Well appointed rooms, attentive service and excellent Cuisine.
CITY OFFICE, 7, Duddell Street.
Hongkong, 4th January, 1899.
GEQ. J' CASANOVA,
Manager.
PETER SYS' WONDERFUL SPECIFIC. THE only remedy at present known as an INFALLIBLE and PERMANENT CURE for
SPRUE, DYSENTRY, DIARRHEA, HEMORRHAGE and ULCERATION
of the BOWELS
Recommended by some of the Chief Specialists of the Medical Profession: Sold retail by all Chemists and Wholesale by
12th October, 1898. -
THE PETER SYS-COMPANY,
(Proprietors and Sole Manufacturers), 9. Old China Street,
Shanghai..
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPÁNY, LIMITED.
Accordance with Anicles No. 26 and 27 of the Articles of Association of the Com
is given that the
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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, HE ORDINARY
FOLLOWING SHARES Wilf be liable to be T MEETING SHAREHOLDERLY FORFEITED, unless the CALL due on the be held in the Orricks of the Company, 17th day of April inst, be PAID, together Queen's Buildings, Connaught Road, on with INTEREST at 10 per Cent per Annum, MONDAY, the 21st August, at 3 o'clock P.M. at the OFFICE of the Company, No. 9, Praya for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Central, on or before the 1st day of September,; Directors and the Stateinent of Accounts to 1899.
the 30th June, 1899.
The following are the distinguishing Numi hers of the ORDINARY SHARES :---"
57477/5750rwa
*$5891/$5940
1161/11985
34369/34391
19166/59190
36213/36224
16245/16269
23011/23035
58143/58153
42141/43165
28162/28573
45528
29167/29681
56139/56188
-29682/29688
46070/46119
29782/29791
-45611/45035
32044/32045
47301/47319
25644/25668
47840/47889
59405/59515
47890/47939 49705/49729 W. H. GASKELL,
The TRANSFËR BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to arst August, both days inclusive.
By Oider of the Board of Directors,i
THOS L. ROSE, Secretary.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICES
THE ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the COMPANY'S HOTEL on: MONDAY, the 21st August, 1899, at Nook, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts of the Company to the 30th June, 1899, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matters that may be competently brought before the Meeting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from the 8th to the zist August, both Days inclusive,)
By Order of the Board,"
Secretary,
C. MOONEY, Hongkong, 19th August, 1899.
WANTED.
[978a
MANAGER for THE INSTITUTION OF
A ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS Must
be well acquainted with BOOK-KEEPING. Apply by Letter stating Terms expected to
the
HON. SECRETARY
At the Institution, No. 2; Frays Cential, Hongkong, 18th August, 1899.
Auction.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
· No. 445
THE following Particulars of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department, on MONDAY,
the 21st day of August, 1899, at 3 P.M., published for general information.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Ilongkong, 5th August, 1899.
Particular of the letthig by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday the 21st day of August, 1899, at 3 PM, at the Offices of the 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, for a term of 75 Years, with the fixed by the Surveyor of Her Majesty the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be QUEEN for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF LOTS
Kow-
[ggoa
land
No.
You Mu Ti
(near Police
Station
Hongkong, 31st July, 1899.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
No
LIMITED.
TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- N. ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Hongkong Electric Company, Limited, will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of
Acting Secretary. Bonglong, on SATURDAY, the 16th day of Hongkong. 17th August, 1899. ! [104sa August, 1899, at 12 o'clock Noos, when the SUBJOINED RESOLUTION will be proposed.
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
N Accordance with the Provisions of No, 121 of the Articles of Association, the General Agents have This Day Declared an INTERIM, DIVIDEND of Per Cant, for the Half-year ending 30th June, 1897, on the Paid-Up Capital of the Company.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS PAYABLE on SATURDAY, the and September, will be issued to SHAREHOLDERS. SY
The TRANSFER BOOKS 6f the Company will be CLOSED from 24th instant to and prox., both day inclusive.
*
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
* General Agents as a Hongkong, 17th Augun, 1899.242. [10474,
NANOTICE.
TIGHT SCHOOL for EUROPEANS, by an
EX-SCHOOLMASTER
Terms noderate, for Particulars apply.
c/o Thir Office Hongkong, 18th August 1899.2
Should the Resolution be passed by the required majority, it will be submitted for con. firmation as a SPECIAL RESOLUTION to a SECOND EXTRA-ORDINARY MEET- ING which will be subsequently convened
That the Capital of the Company be increased to the Sum of $600,000 by the issue of 30,000 New Shares of $10.
to,
Boundary Measureotul.
2. K W,
FL.
500 1100 | 9,000 |224)
1474 47.6) 180 | 180] 8550 ] x28|6,645)
Notice of Firm.
NOTICE
WE have This Day ESTABLISHED
PORT as GENERAL MERCHANTS and COM
"ourselves at CANTON and THIS
MISSION AGENTS under the Name and Style of J. B. BHESANIA & Co
J. B BHESANIA & CO.. Hongkong, 7th August, 1899, 10140
Hotel,
each which shall be considered part of the WINDSOR HOTEL
Original Capital and be subject to the provisions in the Articles of Association contained with reference to CALLS; trang" fer, transmission, licu, surrender, cooling power and otherwise and that the Directors be
authorized to issue such New Shares at par
That the said New Shares be offered to the persons who on the 15th day of September, 1899, shall be the Registered Members of the Existing Shares in the proportion of a New Share for each Exis-
fing Share held by them. By Order of the Board,--
GIBB LIVING Hongkong ph
HONG KONG
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS.
PASSEANCE HALE 10, cadh spor. BOARD and LODGING, L
ELAVATORfrom EN
MONTHLY RATES GIVEN NOW