The Hongkong Telegraph.
ESTABLISHED 1881.
NEW SERIES No. 1307. #-#ƒ^£+=** TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1899.
Banks
THE
Entimations.
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED, PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
ESTABLISHED 1880.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED ANDĮ.
PMD-UP)
RESERVE FUND:
Head Office:→YOKOHAMA.“
Branches and Agencies, - :
KOBE
LONDON
TOKIO.
• FOR
LONDON.
NAGASAKI,
LYONS:
NEW YORK
SAN FRANCISCO,
BOMBAY.
TIENTSIN.
HONOLULU. SHANGHAI
LONDON BANKERS:
THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LD. PARRS' BANK, LD.
THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, LD.
HONGKONG AGENCY INTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Accountai the rate of 2 per cent. per Annum on the Daily Balance.
On fixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent.
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAMERS
..
CAPTAINS
1
TO SAIL
וי
REMARKS
„Formosu...............A. G. Cubitt, R.N.R...... About 7th Sept....Freight or l'assage. SHANGHAI ...Coromandel...F. W. Viber, R.N.K...About 15th Sept.... Freight of Passage. LONDON, &c... Bengal↑ ......S. Barcham ...........Noon, 16th Sept....Freight or Passage |_ JAPAN..
..C. C. Tálbot, R. N‚R. ...4, P.M., 16th Seja....Freight or Passage. JAPAN. „Camtia“ ..... WH. Haughton, R.N.R.About 18th Sept....Freight only, LONDON.. Canton .........C, F. Lockstone, R.N.R.About 21st Sept....Freight or Passage.
• (Passing through the Inland Sea);
See Special Advertisement?
For Further Panticulars apply to
13
S, CHOH,
Agent.
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R. A. RITCHIE, Superintendent.
Hongkong, 4th September, 1899.
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Hongkong, 1st August; 1890.
IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA. -
ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL DECREE
OF THE 12TH NOVEMBER, 1896.
Shanghai Kicks.
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 5,000,000. PAID-UP CAPITAL 2,500,000 Head Office SHANGHAI
...
Branches and Agencies..
CANTON..
CHEFOO.
CHINKIANG
FOOCHOW..
HANKOW..
PEKING..
SWATOW."
TIENTSIN
Teton Bills of Exchange in on the above places, and Sells Drafts and Telegraphic Transfers Payable at its Branches and Agen cies.
"THE Bank purchases and receives for col-
HONGKONG BRANCH. Advances made on approved securitics..
Bills discounted....
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS; per Annum Fixed Deposits for 3 months.
6 12
EV RUTTER,
Acting Manager.
Hongkong, 15th October, 1898.
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THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,
LIMITEDRA
Authorised Capital.
£1,000,000.
"CANADIAN CLUB.”. RYE WHISKY..
Distilled and bottled by:-
Telephone
HIRAM, WALKER & SONS, Limited. Age and Genuineness Guaranteed by the Excise Department of the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT by Certificate over the Capsule of every Boltle,
Has the Largest Sale of any RYE WHISKY in the World.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,
15, Queen's Road,
AFINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS: SOLE AGENTS.
Hongkong, 5th September, 1899.
A
Paid up Capital 324,374 HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG.
Board of Directors:
Chan Kit Shan, Esq.
Chow Tong Shang, Esq. Kwan Hoi Chuen, Esq.
D. Gillies, Esq. ... J. T. Latis, Esq.
Chief Manager,
GEO, W. F. PLAYFAIR..
Interest for 12 months Fixed 5% Hongkong, 30th May, 1899.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA' AND CHINÄ.
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1853 HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
CAPITAL PAID-UP..
RESERVE LIABILITY OF SHARE”?
HOLDERS
RESERVE FUND
$800,000
£800,000
$500,000
NTEREST ALLOWED on CURRENT
ACCOUNT at the Rate of 2 per cent, per
annum of the Daily Balances.
On Fixed Deposits for 12 months.4 per cent.
3
T. H. WHITEHEAD,
Manager, Hongkong.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1898. *---
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ONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
HBANKING CORPORATION.
FAID-UP CAPITAL..
RESERVE FUND
...$10,000,000
...$1,000,000
RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROP FORS$10,000,000
COURT OF DIRECTORS;
R. M. GRAY, Esq., Chairman.
N. A. SIEBS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
A. Haupt, Esq.
RHH,
E. Goetz, Esq.
1.A. J.. Raymond, Esq
Jac1136, Esq.
The Hon. J.J.Keswick, E. Shellim, Esq. A. McConachie, Esq. R. Shewan, Esq...
CHIEF MANAGERIA
Hongkong-Sir THOMAS JACKSON
MANAGERI G
Shanghai-J. P. WADE GARDNER, Esq, LONDON BANKERS LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED,
HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED
On Current Account at the rate of per Cent
per Annum on the daily balance, m
ON FIXED DEPOSITS :
For 3 months 2 per Cent. per Annym. For 6 months 3 per Center Annum For 12 months, 4 per Cent #Annümé
THOMAS JACKSON
Chief Manager,
Hongkong, 19th August, 1899.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK:
THE Businessof
BANKING CORPO
obtained on
INTEREST
Ckier. per annum
Depositore may
balances of $100 or more
SHANGHAI BANK-10FIE
DEPOSIT at 4
ONGKON
KING?
THE
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-lainel; attends the arrival and departure of all
Mail Steamers.
Special attention paid to the Comfort of Visitors.
E. V. SIOEN, Manager
Yokohania, ist October, 1897.
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HONGKONG HOTEL,
BOARD
CLUB
$12.00
AND
RESIDENCE.
On Monthly Terms from 1st May, 1899.
WHISKY
IS THE BEST.
Hongkong, 19th May, 1899.
PER DOZEN.
H. PRICE & Co.,
, QUEEN'S ROAD.
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE UN
{20
MONDAY, 2ND SEPT.
AND THE ENSUING WEEK. STARTLING REDUCTIONS.
FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.
W. POWELL & Co.,
Immed. Opposite P. O., 1st floor.
二拜禮
號五月九英港香
Intimations.”
THE UNITEDSAKA
ORIENTAL AGENCY
Sold Agents for UNITED ASBESTOS COM
·PANY, LTD. LONDON. DODWELL & Co., LIMITED. General Agentii
THIRTY DOLLARS PER ANNUMA
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.
NTAL
UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LIMITED.
SOLE AGENTS IN
HỌNGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,
FOR THE
Ensurances.
COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
FIRE.
Capital..
MARINE.
Total Assets Exceed
TYPHOON.
(825,000,000 845,000,000 Total Annual Income Exceeds...$16,000,000
This Day a of
UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD., LONDON, I HAVE THE DAY OPENED & BRANCHLA
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...
*E
PEAK
THOS. SKINNER
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General, Agents."
HOTEL
AND
CRAIGIEBURN.
THE PEAK HOTEL is situated at VICTORIA GAP, adjoining the FRAMWAY TERMINUS,,
CRAIGIEBURN is situated at Fitsxury's Gap, five minutes walk from the PLAK
HOTEL
1,350 feet above sea level.
MERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. FIRE, MARINE and TYPHOON RISKS accepted at LOWEST CURRENT RATES.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. H. T. DAVIS,
Local Manager. Trizza
2, Daddell Street,
Hongkong, 1st September, :899.
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THE
HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First. Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Hongkong. 28th May, 1899.
THE
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Fine Fealthy location, variety of beautiful scenery. Cool Stathethy lacezes in Summer EQUITABLE
with perfect protection against the North East Winds in Winter.
Well appointed rooms, attentive service and excellent Cuisine.
CITY OFFICE, 7, Duddell Strent.
Hongkong, 4th January, 18.
GEO. 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 Professina. Sold retail by all Chemists and Wholesale by THE PETER SYS COMPANY,
12th October, 1898.
THE HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING,
WEAVING AND DYEING CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE ANNUAL ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the OFFICES of thei General Managers on SATURDAY, the 9th September, at Noon, for the purpose of Re
Teiving the Report of the Consulting Com mittee, and Statement of Accounts to the 31st July, 1899, also for the consideration of the following EXTRAORDINARY RESOLU TION, which will be submitted to the Meeting:
That in Paragraph 2, Clause XVI, "in Articles of Association, the figures
$4,000,doo.be substituted for $500,000
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, 26th Augusi, 1899.
(1085a
HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
ORDINARY MEETING
(Prophetors and Sole Manufacturers), 9, Old China Street, Shangbai.
[1242 HONGKONG CRICKET CLUB.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
will be held in the PAVILION, un TUESDAY, the 19th instant, at 5.15 1.3.
JAMES A. LOWSON, F
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 1st September, 1899
(1162 HONGKONG AND WHAMFOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS."
ONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS of BUSINESS contributed during the Half are requested to send à STATEMENT Year ended 30th June, 1899, on or before the 15th September, on which Bate the ACCOUNTS will be CLOSED.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary. Hongkong, 24th August, 1899. [1077 HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED...
of the Hongkong Electric Company, Limited, NOTICE is hereby given that the REGIS will be held at the COMPANY'S. OFFICES, JER of SHARES of the Company, will Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 16th to Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 16th day of the 3rd day of September, (both days inclusive) September, 1899, at 12 o'clock Noon, when the during which Period NO TRANSFER of SUBJOINED RESOLUTION which was Shares can be Registered. passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting
By Order of the Board, of the Company held on the 26th day of August will be submitted for confirmation as a SPECIAL RESOLUTION./
RESOLUTION.
That the Capital of the Company be increased to, the Sum of $600,poor by the issue of 30,000 New Shares of $10 each, which shall be considered part of simotiguet CxPRETEN be subject to the provisions in the Articles of Association contained with reference to calls transfer transmission, lien, tüzzenderpivoting: power and otherwise and that the Directors bei authorized to issue such New Shares at par
2. That the said New Shares be of red to the persons who on the 16th day of September, 1800, shall be the Registered Members of the Existing Shares in the proportion of a New Share for each Existing Share held by them."
By Order of the Board, "..
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents Hongkong, 28th August, 1899. [1100
WANTED.
PORTUGUESE CLERK proficient in BOOK RIEPINE
Apply
must
c/o This Paper. Hongkong, 1st. September, 1899. [1087a
WANTED,
FOUR LARGE ROOMS on the Ground ROAD CENTRAL..
Floor or First Floor, in or near QUEEN'S Apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents,
Care of Office of this Paper. Hongkong, 28th August, 1899. [1099a Hongkong, 4th September, 1899. Ers
LIFE ASSURANCE. SOCIETY,
"
OF THE
UNITED STATES,
SURPLUS
OVER ALL LIABILITIES AMOUNTS TO
NEARLY
TWELVE MILLIONS STERLING. This
SURPLUS
belongs exclusively to Policyholders Paid to Policyholders during 1898
OVER £4,080,000 STG. WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW about a
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
is just what you want to know about a Bank
any other Institution in which you thought of investing:
What is the company's earning ability as shown by its past history 2.
What is the outlook for future! dividends as indicated by its accu-, mulated Surplus?
These two questions answered, and the rest is of secondary importance.
Apply to the EQUITABLE for full
Particulars.
1063a]
F. KIENE,
Acting Manager, Hongkong.
To be Let.
TO LET..
SEMI-DETACHED VILLA RESIDEN-
CES on Bowen Road (now in course of erection.). PROPERTY lately-occupied by the
Bowrington Saw Mills.
GROUND FLOOR, 52, PEEL STREET. OFFICES:-1st floor, No. 10, PRAYA CENTRAL (Lately occupied by Messrs. MELCHERS & Co.) HARFORD," MAGAZINE GAR No 4 RIPON TEKRACE Apply to
...
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, '28th August, 1899
TO LET.
OFFICE ROOMS On 1st fear of her
Queen's Road, Central, (lately the Th PERIAL BANK OF CHINA) A
Apply to
[3988
"Compradore Office;
E. C. HOCHAPFEL Hongkong, 23rd March, 1899.
TO LET OOMS with or without BOARD CEN
ROOMS or wilmer Rates.
c/o of this Office.
Hongkong, 17th May, 1899.