The Hongkong Telegraph.
ESTABLISHED 1881.
NEW SERIES No. 1296, BA+At#+** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1899. 三拜禮
Banks.
THE
Intimations.
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED, PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
ESTABLISHED 1880. CAPITAL SUBSCRIBEDAND
PAID-UP RESERVE FUND
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
ND Yen 1,2,000,000
:7,300,000
FUR
STEAMERS
LONDON...
Head Office 2-YOKOHAMA.,
Branches and Agencies.
TOKIO.
NAGASAKI.
LYONS,
BOMBAY.
TIENTSIN.
XOBE.
LONDON.
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU,
SHANGHAI
LONDON BANKERS:
THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LD,
PARRS BANK, LD.
CAPTAINS
'TO SAII.
REMARKS
Bombay......G, M. Montford, R.N.R.About 24th August. Freight or Passage SHANGHAI ... Valella.........J. F. Jephson....... LONDON, &c., Chusauf...E. Suret............
About 1st Sept.. Freight or Passage. Noon, and Sept....Freight or Passage. JAPAN..........Rokilla ......S. de B. Lockyer, R.N. R... r. 3., 2nd Sept....Freight or Passage- Formosa.......A. G. Cubitt, R.N.F......About 7th Sept.....Freight or Passage.
LONDON..
THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, LE JAPAN.Candia W. H. Haughton, R.N.R.About 13th Sept....Freight only.
HONGKONG AGENCY INTEREST ALLOWED.
On Current Account at the rate of a percent.
per Annum on the Daily Balance.
On fixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent.
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" S. CHOH,
Hongkong, 1st August, 1899.
Agent.
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HBANKING CORPORATION.
ONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
PAID-UP CAPITAL...
RESERVE FUND
..$10,000,000
$1,000,000
RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPTORS:$10,000,000
COURT OF DIRECTORS:
R. M. GRAY, Esq., Chairman:
N. A. SIEES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
A. Haupt, Esq.
E. Goetz, Esq.
A. J. Raymond, Esq.
R. H. Hill, Esq. P. Sachse, Esq.
The Hon. J.J.Keswick.
A. McConachie, Esq,
E. Shellim, Esq.
R. Shewan, Esq..
CHIL MANAGER:
MANAGER
Hongkong-Sir THOMAS JACKSON,
Shanghai-J. P. WADE GARDNER, Esq. LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY? BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED.
HONGKONG İNTEREST ALLOWED: " On Current Account at the rate of z per Cent
per Annum on the daily balance.
ON FIXED DEPOSITS:
For 3 months, 21 per Cent. per Annun
months, 31 per Cent, per Annum.
For
For 12 months, 4 per Cent. per Annum.
THOMAS JACKSON,
Chief Manager
Hongkong, 19th August, 1899
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK. THE Business ofthe above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONGAND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules marbe obtained on application.
INTERESTon deposits is allowed at 33 TER. CENT, per annum.
Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $1oo or more 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, 1895.
IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.
ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL DECREE
OF THE 12TH NOVEMBER, 1895 A Shanghai Tacs. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL jotkin 5,000,000 PAID-UP CANTAL
• 2,500,000
Head Office-SHANGHAL
-Branches and Agencies.
CANTON,
CHEFOO.
HANKOW."
PEKING.
SWATOW.
TIENTSIN,
THE
CHINKIANG.
FOOCHOW
"HE Bank purchases and receives for cól.. 1lection Bills of Exchange drawn on 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.
E. WARUTTER,
Acting Manager.
•₤1237. THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,
Hongkong, 1th October, 1898.
LIMITED
Authorised Capital;;
Paid up Capital:
Board of Director
£1,000,000 324,374
HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG.
Chan Kit Shan, Esq.
Chow Tung Shang, Esq. KwanHoi Chuen, Esq.
D Gillies, Esq
JT. Lauts, Esq.
Chiel Manager,
GEO WF PLAYFAIR.
·Interest for i'r months Fixed Hongkong, 30th May, 1899
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
CASAUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
CORFORATED-BY VAL CHARTER 1841
HEAD OFFICE LONDON
APITAL
RESERVE
INTERES
FACEC
annum on the
On Fixed Depos
#4 per
*(Passing through the Inland Sea).
- † (See Special Advenisement).
For Further Particulars apply to
H. A. RITCHIE, Superintendent.
Hongkong, 19th August, 1899. -
Telephone
HONGKONG HOTEL.
BOARD
AND
RESIDENCE.
On Monthly Terms from 1st May, 1890.
AQUARIUS
A PERFECT TABLE WATER.”
Allowance for
the Empties when retten to pur Godowns.
$2.50 1.75
$1.00 0.75
Net Price
$1.50
1,00
Per 1 Dozen Quarts Per Dozen Piats... 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. Excled- "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 means practically, the abolition of Both typhoid fever and cholen. Our safety abroad is to drink a pure "Mineral Water only.”—(Dr. Andrew Wilson in the "Illus. London News.")
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,
15, Queen's Road.
Hongkong, 8th July, 1899.
CLUB
$12.00
GENERAL MANAGERS.
WHISKY
IS THE BEST.
PER DOZEN.
H. PRICE & Co.,
12, QUEEN'S ROAD.
Hongkong, 19th May, 1899.
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THE
A
CLUB HOTEL,
LIMITED.
No. 5-B, BUND, YOKOHAMA.
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL Centrally, situated, well furnished and
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.
Yokohama, 1st October, 1897.
E. V. SIOEN, Manager.
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LADIES,
can always well supply your every need from day to day.
If you doubt it, como and try at WITTELEY'S OF THE FAR CATHAY"
Ex. “ FORMOSA.”
New Millinery, &c., Latest Novelties in Ladies Apparal.
W POWELL & Co.,
Immed: Opposite P. 0,1st floor
城三十月八英港香
Intimations.
Sõle Agensi får, the UNITED ASBESTOS COM-
PAN)
LONDON. RGO, LIMITED.
THIRTY DOLLARS
PER ANNUM.S
Again We Press Forward to Greater Achievements, to Mightier Efforts. We Will Inaugurate the Monumental Master-Stroke of Our Career.
WATKINS, LIMITED,
נ'
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 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.
SOLE AGENTS IN
HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,
FOR THE
UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD, LONDON, CONTRACTORS TO HIM. 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.....
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THE
THOS. SKINNER DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General Agents.
PEAK HOTEL
CRAIGIEBURN,
HEPEAK HOTEL is situate at -VICTORIA. GAP, adjoining the TRAMWAY TERMINUS,
5,350 feet above sea Level. CRAIGIEBURN is situated at PLUNKETT'S 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 eurellent Cuisine.
CITY-OFFICE, 7, Duddell Street.
Hongkong, 4th January, 1899.
GEO, J. CASANOVA,
Manager.
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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.
'Sofil 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 COMPANY,
LIMITED.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK-. ING CORPORATION
*HE DIVIDEND declared for the Half. THE
Year ending soth june last, at the Rate of ONE POUND and TEN SHILLINGS STG.: per Share of $125 is PAYABLE on and aßer MONDAY, the 21st, August, CURRENT at. the OFFICES of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for WARRANTS.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 19th August, 1899. [1053a
WANTED.
MANAGER for THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIFBUILDERS must be well acquainted with BOOK-KEEPING. Apply by Letter stating Terins expected to the
HON. SECRETARY, At tlie Institution, No. 2, Praya Central, Hongkong, 18th August, 1399. [10498
:
PUBLIC AUCTION. Undersigned have received instructions.
of Police to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, ON
The End the Captain Superintendent
FRIDAY, the 25th August, 1899, at iz A.!.,
M CENTRAL POLICE STATION." A LARGE QUANTITY OF SURPLUS STORES.
A150
224 MAUSER RIFLES, 14" | MUSSLE LOADING RIFLES, 344 REVOLVERS, RIFLE and REVOLVER AMMUNITION, SWORDS, LEAD, COPPER, IRON, SUGAR, RICE, &C., &c. TERMS-As Usual
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1899 [10673
No. 45
GOVERNMENT. NOTIFICATION,
N Accordance with Anicles: No. 26 and 27 NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA Tand by Public Auction, to be held at
of the Articles of Association of the Como
THE following Particulars of Sale of Crown pany, NOTICE is hereby given that the of the Hongkong Electric Company, Limited,
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING the Offices of the Public Works Department, on FOLLOWING SHARES will be liable to be will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, the 28th day of August, 1899, at 3 PM are pub MONDAY, tomatsk FORFEITED, unless the CALL due on the Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of fished for general information. 17th day of April last, be PAID, together Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 36th day of with INTEREST at 10 per Cent per Annum, August, 1899, at 12 o'clock Noox, when the at the OFFICE of the Company, No. 9, Praya SUBJOINED Central, or or before the 1st day of September, proposed. 1899.
י.
RESOLUTION
will be
The following are the distinguishing Num-required majority, it will be submitted for con- Should the Resolution be passed by the bers of the ORDINARY SHARES:-
57477/57501
55891/55940
11961/1 1985
34369/34391
59160/59190
36213/36214
16249/16269
23012/23038.
42141/42165
29067/29681
29682,20688
29781/29791
32044/32045
25044/25668
59406/59515
45528
46070/46119 4561/45035 47301/47310 47840/47889 47890/47939 49705/49739
56139/56188
W. H. GASKELL,
Acting Secretary. [1045a
CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,
Hongkong, 17th August, 1899: --
IN
LIMITED. NOTICE.
N Accordance with the Provisions of No. Iz of the Articles of Association, the General Agents have This Day Declared an INTERI DIVIDEND of z Per Cent, for the Half-year ending 30th June, 1899, on the Paid-Up Capital of the Company.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS PAYABLE on SATURDAY, the 2nd September, will be issued to SHAREHOLDERS.
Will be CLOSED from 24th-instant to 2nd The TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company prox., both day inclusive....“
·JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, General Agents.
· Hongkong,, 17th. August) 1899.
POTIOEN
Tro472
fination 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 each which shall be considered part of the Original Capital and be subject to the provisions in the Articles of Association contained with reference to CALLS; trans-
fer, transmission, lieu, surrender, cooling power and otherwise and that the Directors
be authorized to issue such New Shares. at par
2-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 a New Share for each Exis- ting Share held by them. By Order of the Board,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents.e Hoogkong, 9th August, 1899. [to18: HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
months ending 30th June, 1899, declared. at THE DIVIDEND of 8 per Share and BONUS of 17% per Share for the six Monday's Ordinary Half Yearly Meeting, will be PAYABLE at the Premises of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING. CORPORATION, on and after TUESDAY; the 22nd August, and SHAREHOLDERS requested to apply for DIVIDEND WAR-
Аге
By Command,
[10574
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary: -Colonial Secretary's Offict,
Hongkong, 12th August, 1890.**- Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1899, at 3 PM, at the Offices of the cellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN Public Works Department by Order of His Ex LAND, at Kowloon Point, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Year with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor to Her Majesty the QUEEN for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT,
No. of Sale.
Kdaloo Inland Registry o
Lat No, gog..
LOCALITY,
N
Boundary
Menu
R.
St. ft.
Kowloon Point
(back of Wharf,
and Godown
SP. 50 130 22015000
Co's Premises.
Notice of trur.
NOTICE
Wig, our FIRST per. Procuration from This Date
TE have authorised Mr. 0. I. ELLIS to
S. DAVID & CO. Hongkong, 22nd August, 1899. MAN [1061)
Insurance.
NORTH GERMAN FIRE IN
COMPANY
NIGHT SCHOOL for EUROPEANS, by any COMPANY'S OFFICE, Queen's Company are
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I ROSE
Terns moderate, for Paniculars apply.
c/o This Office. Hongkong, 18th August, 1899 [1448 Hongkong, 21st August,
THE Undersigned.
Class: FOREIGN: 4 CURRENT RATES?
Hongkong