For Particulars and Terms, apply to--
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
[1398 Hongkong, 30th December, 1904.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
MARINE INSURANCES. Canton Insurance Office, Limited
China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited
North China lasurance Company, Limited
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs. net $5.00 per Cask Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
INC
NCANDESCENT GASOLINE
Mails.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
MM
STEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, ADEN, EGYFT, MARSEILLES, LONDON,
HAVRE, BORDEAUX, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS.
The 8.8. “AUSTRALIEN,"
Captain H. Verron, will be despatched for MARSEILLES on TUESDAY, the 24th January, at 1 P.M.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY JANUARY 20, 1905.
For Sale.
FOR SALE OR TO LET, AT THE PEAK.
Nos. 3 AND 3, GOUGH HILL
N ELEVEN-ROQMED HOUSE with
A Dressing, Drying and Bath-room; partly furnished; distant thirteen minutes by chair from the Tram; fitted with superior baths and with hot and cold water; large Kitchen; Laundry and Servants' Quarters. Can be used as one dwelling or divided into two.
ex Factory.
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly & Ports. Corrected to nodn; later alterations given under “Commercial Intelligence," page 5.
STOCKS,
BANKS.
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation National Bank of China, Linsited..
Passage tickets and through Bills of Lading In Bags of 250 lbs. net $3.20 per Bag Yangtsze Insurance Association,' Limited.
issued for above ports.
Cargo also booked for principal places in Europe.
Next sailings will be as follows :—
J
S.S. ERNEST SIMONS... 7th February,
S.S, POLYNESIEN......21st February.
ex Factory,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1904.
1
(50
FOR SALE.
FIRE INSURANCES. China Fire Insurance Company, Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.......... SHIPPING, TUG AND CARGO BOATS, China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited...... Douglas Steamship Company, Limited..................
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.
دیکھے
GS
LAST DIVIDEND.
(Div. of £1.to/ @exchange 1/9 15/16) $16.41 for first half-year 1904entuin,
QUOTATION,
NO. OF SHAKES.
VALUR. PAID UP
KESERVE.
POSITION AS PER LAST REPORT:
AT WORKING ACCOUNT.
APROXIMATE EXTURN AT PENT
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
£1,000,000
($720 buyers
80,000
5135 $125
$7,000,000
$1,492,554
5 %
$250,000
London £76
99,925
£7
$175.5337
$21,668
S2 (London 3/6) for 1903
57-%
$38 sales
$191,9735
10,000 $150
รา
$1,400,000)
Br,739
$150,494
S17 for 1903
6%
$250
$950,000
:
24,000
583.33
$25
$151,992
Nil.
$4t for year ended 30.4.1904
71%
$58 buyers
$362,366
WW
$371,445)
10,000
£35
Tls. 800,000
Tls. 217,119
Final of 10. making £1 for 19038%
Tla. 96 sellers
$1,850,000
£10,000
10,000
Szza
$100
$322,749
$2,078,997
$35 for 1903 min1308 |
5%
$690 buyers
$893,110
5846,773
8,000 $100
$60
$700,000
$37.7945
$486,384
$12 for 1902-
8% Sigo buyers
$1,000,000
20,000 $100
8,000 ino
$10
$125,675
$329,047
$6 dividend & $1 bonus for 1902
74 %
$91 buyers
$2,561 $1,170,288
$371,110
$22) for 1903.............
61%
$340 buyers
30,000 $25 $25 20,000 $50
поде
Dr.
$50
$185,000)
$63,123 Nil.
$5 for 1900...............
$23
$3 for year ended 30.6.1903.
6%
$33k buyers
$80,9355
$250,000
80,000
$15
$600,000
$16,362
$t for first half-year 1904 ......
100%
$27 buyers
$157,555)
L. BRIDOU,
Acting Agent.
LAMPS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.
Hongkong, toth January, 1905.
[7
INCANDESCENT
ORIENTAL
MANTLES,
STEAM
Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited ...]
200,000 Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, Limited.......
Do.
(Preference) 100,000 "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 2,000,000 10,000 "Star" Ferry Company, Limited...
60,000
£10
£10 |{
£205,000)
£5,853
Tis. 50 Tis. 5o
поле
. £
$10
10,000
$10
$5
£400,000
$60,000) $15,093
$1,357
100,000
Tis. 55,541
£19,555
10/- for 1903 @ 1/10 5/16-$5.378.
Interim of TL 2 for 1904.greeny
Interim of 1 (Coupon No. 5) for 1954 (St.Bo & b. 40 cis for year ending 30.4.03
Saga & b. 20 cts. ***
*** ** *
41%
af aede depere
$124 buyers
Tis, 50 sales
Tis. 48 sellers
CHIMNEYS,
$400,000
GLOBES,
HAYK
SHADES, &c., Straits Steamship Company, Limited,
5,000
$100 $100
$ 21,075
$ 18,000
$33,648
55 for zad -year making $13 for 1903............
9.%
$130,153
for
COMPY
GASOLINE AND GAS
LAMPS
36, Lyndhurst Terrace.
To Let.
·TO LET.
~-
TO LET.
THE
Apply to
TO LET.
Iz
TO LET.
Captains.
Sailing.
#T
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR
STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND
LONDON.
(Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.)
THE Steamship
"COROMANDEL," Captain G. M. Montford, R.N.R., carrying 'His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 28th January, at Noon, taking-Passangers and Cargo for the above Ports in connection with the Company's S.S. India, 7,911 tons, from Colombo, Passengers' accommodation in which vessel is secured before departure from Hong- kong.
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into the Mail steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and
at the most moderate prices,
Lamps fixed up for Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the best kind kept in stock. TAI KHONG GO..
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1904
G
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited. Luzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited.. Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited
MINING.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ld... Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, Limited Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
ODOWN No. 3, New Prayn, Kennedy S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Limited.
Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company ............... Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited
Town.
Apply lo..
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST Yangtsze Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.....
LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD). Hongkong, 21st November, 1901.
0.
Londea; other Cargo for London, &c. will be No.1 STEWART
conveyed from Bombay-by the R.M.S. Cale- donia, due in London on the 11th March, 1905, Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.
For further Particulars, apply to
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintendent.
Hangkong, 16th January, 1905.
NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE.
BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY.
Connecting at Tacoma with NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
COMPANY.
PROPOSED Sailings from Hongkong for VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA,
VIA
MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA,
Steamers. Tons.
Lyra ....... 4,417 |G. V. Williams Ab. Feb. 9 Pleiades 3.753. Purington Mar. 4 Tremont...... 9,606 T. W. Garlick..
TERRACE,
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
O. 1, RIPON TERRACE.
No.
.A HOUSE in WONG NEI CHONG ROAD.
FLATS is MORETON TERRACE, facing
'Pola Ground.
OFFICES in course of erection, CON,
NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIER). GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hoogkong, 2nd December, 1904.
WILD
Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, Ld..... Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing?
Company, Limited. International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld... Laou-kung-mow Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld. Soy Chez Cotton Spinning Company, Limited......... CIGARS AND TOBACCO COS. Alhambra, Limited Philippine Company, Limited
169 Shanghai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited
MISCELLANEOUS.
WILD DELL BUILDINGS, No. 147,
WANCHAI ROAD. Comfortable a Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from Saş inclusive of Taxes.
And others to suit various requirements.
S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited
Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited...... Central Stores, Limited
(Founders") (New Issue)
China-Borneo Company, Limited..
China Flour Mill Co., Limited.
China Light and Power Company, Limited
10,000 Tls. 75 Tls. 75
Taku Tug and Lighter Company, Limited
REFINERIES.
30,000 T.Ts. 50 T.Tls. 50
Tls. '98,000
TIs. 201,614
Tls, 865
Interim of Tis. for 1904 10%
$145 sellers
Tls. 30 sellers
20,000
7,000
7,000
$100 $100 $100 $100 Tls, 50 Tis, 50
nope
Dr.
$147,717
Interim of $5 for 1904
*$310
mone
Dr.
$73,905
53 for 1897......................
Szo buyers
Tis. 100,000
Tis. 1,635
Tis. 21 for year ending 30.9.04....
4%
Tis, 60 sellers
Tis. 2.70 sales
1,000,000
£40,000
£7,820
No 3 of 1/6
50,000
150,000
G SIO G. $10 18/10
Done
G $672,093
go cents making G. 31 for 1904.
6 %
G $181
50,000
Société Francaise des Charbonnages du Tonkin...... DOCKS, WHARVES & GODOWNS. Geu. Fenwick & Co., Limited
£1
16,000 Fcs. 150 Fcs.250
£4.873
Dr.
-£4,029
No, 11 of 1/48 cents
$34 buyers
·
(Fcs. 251,337) {Fcs.1,529,652)
Fcs. 85,706
Final of Fcs. 25 making Fcs. 55 för 1903).
$490
6,000 $25
$25
$70,000
$10,517
$3.75 for 1903
8%
[54
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Co., Ld. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld. Howarth Erskine, Limited.............. New Amoy Dock Company, Limited............. Riley Hargreaves & Co., Limited.......
Do.
30,000?
10,000)
$50 $50{
$50,989)
Interim of $2 for 1004
41 %
$28,015
$250,000
First year
50,000
$50
550
515,500
$505,471
12,000 $100
$100
$60,000
6,000
$61
$61
$55,500
$489
$13 for 1903 **
6,000?
$100
$100
(Preference).
2,750 55.200 Tls. 100 TIs. 100
-$150,000
$40,936
$7 dividend
Tis. 900,000
Tis. 48,153
32,000
37,000
Tis. 100- Tis. 100
$100 $100
2,500
Tls. 100 Tis. 100
Tis. 483,210 $2,100,000 Tis, 6,000
[7
Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai) ... Astor House Hotel, Limited (Tientsin)... China Land and Finance Company, Limited
30,000
$25 $25
none
2,000
TTs. 50 T.Tis. 50
Tls. 41,000
Tls. 655
Tis. 22,895
$43,732
Tla, 1,760
$9.989
Sto div. & $g bonus for year end. 30/6/04 -
($io div, and $z) bonus)
Tls. 5 interim for 1904/5...
Interim of Tis. 4 for 1904
$6 for first half year 1904. .....................
Tis. 18 for 1903........................
Sz for year ended 30.6.1904 kara
Interim of Tls. 4LCESSOIREE
**
($6 dividend and $2 bonus for first half-
year 1904
7%
nus) for 1903.
84%
אא א אאאאא א ** :
$45 sellers. $1041 old buyers 5102 now buyers
5218
yese..
$203 buyers $27 sellers $190 sellers
Tls. 150 buyers
Tls. 129į sales $350 sales
Tis. 187) sales
$27 sales Tis. 148 sellers Tis. 55
6,000
Tls. 5o Tis go
***493
Interim of Tis. 2 ..............................IT
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Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited................................ Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld..... Hotel des Colonies Company, Limited (Shanghai)... Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited...... Shanghai Land Investment Company, Limited
12,000
$50
$50
B
50,000
$100
$100
$100,000
$11,824 $20,000) $500,000
$11,668
$5 for first half-year 1904
7%
$142 sellers
8 2
5746 sellers
$51,966
Interim of $6 for 1904
9,000
Tis. 35 TIs. 25
Tis. 13,986
Tis. 680
4%
Tls. 19 sales
TIs, 087 for the year ending 31.3.1904 ..-|
150,000
$10
$10 {
$200,607)
$50,000
$9,177
7t%
$124 buyers
90 cents for i903
6,000
$50
$30
none
$636
$2,60 for 1903
61%
$381
and
Tis. 800,000
7 %
Tls. 114 buyers
$2,000
Tis. 50 fls. 50
Tls. 150,000
Tis. 37,634
Interim of Tls. 3 for 1904
Tls. 17,144)
Tis. 44 buyers'
Tientsin Hotel des Colonies, Limited............. Tientsio Land Investment Company, Limited Wei-hai-wei Land and Building Company, Limited... West Point Building Company, Limited'
COTTON MILLS.
1,400
Tls. 50 Tls. 50
7.726
Tis. 100 Tla, 100
поде
Tls. 54,626
Dr. Tls, 2,132
Interim of Tls. 34
Tis, 325
3,764
12,500
T5.25 T15. 25
$30
550
none nope
Tis. 5,150 $1,362
loterim of Tls. 3 for 1904. None
7%
Tls. 120 buyers
Tis. 12 buyers
Interim of $1 for 1904 ...................ondipreseli
5 %%
$59 sellers
15,000
Tis. 50
Tis. ço
none
Tis. 11,655
Tls. 4 for year ended 31.10.1903
4+%
Tls. 25 sales
125,000
510
SIC
Done
$22,862
50 cents for the year ending 31.7.04............
31%
Sig sales
8,000 Tls. 100 fls. 100 2,000 Ts. 500 Tls. 500
300 $100
$200
Tis. 50,000 Tis. 35,227-3
Tla 13,629
Interim of 3% a/c 1898
none
Tis. 15,500
Tis. 1,658
$779
Tis. 26,389
pil
Interim of 4% a/c r898 on 6,000 shares 4% for 1897
67,500
$10
SLO
kupusa
irusmas
30,000 TIs. 20
Tis, 20
Tls. 24,830)
90,000
$10
$ro
TIs. 25,000! $250,000? $25,000
Tls. 1,091
$125 for year ending 30.6.1900..................... First year
Interim of Tis. 3
Tis, 25 sales Tls. 25 Gales Tls. 150
$too buyers
Sol
9 %
Tla. 65 buyers
8
$2,883.
Interim of 50 cents for 1904
8,604
13/6
12/6
none
ZIÓI
6d. per share for 1903 ......................
1,200 Sio
$ra
$5,500
$596
$3 for 1903***
6,000 $15
$12
$20,000
Do. Do.
123
24,000 $14
571
First year
60,000
$17
$12
hone
Nil
4,000 Tis. 50
Tls.co
Tls, 25,000
Tls, 1,942
30,000
Sia
none
53.739
None
China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld.
100,000
$10
$8,0000
$1,581
Dairy Farm Company, Limited
25,000
$71
56
MIL
E. L. Mondon, Limited..........
7,000
Tis so
Tls, 50
rione
Dr. Tis. 153,318
Cargo only.
FOR MANILA.
Hongkong, 5th January, rooj,
TO LET.
[72
Fraser and Neave, Limited.....................
4,500
$50
$112,500
$2,706
Green Island Cement Company, Limited
100,000
$10
$350,000
$32,115
Hall & Holtz, Limited
11,000
$20 520
$186,000
$13,104
$1,253
Interim of $1.20 for 1904
(None
{Preferential of 7 per cent for 1904
60 cents for 1903
Tis. 6 for 1903 ...
80 cents for 1904-
$1 for year ending 31.7.1903
Tis, 5 for 1902
$5 div, and $2 bonus for 1903.
$1.50 for 1903
Interim of $1....
spate
Hongkong & China Gas Company, Limited..
7,000
LIG
£23,109
£3,000
£7,625
£1 div. and 2/- bonus for 1903
steamer for Manila.
The largest, steadiest, and most comfortable and to to 15, GAP ROAD, facing Race Hongkong Electric Company, Limited.
UROPEAN HOUSES, Nos. 2 to 4, 6 to 8
30,000
$10 $10
30,000
510
none
5:,747
150 cents
Course, within reach of the Electric Cars, thoroughly cleansed and colour-washed, in flats or whole,
Apply to-
S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker, Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
TO LET.
Apply to-
"VICTORIA BUILDINGS.” · Hongkong, 281b December, 1904.
Queen's Buildings.
TO LET.
[8
CHEAP FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION, ATTENDANCE And Cuisine, ELECTRIC Light, Doctor and StewardeSS, The twin-screw 5.5. Shawmut and Premont have just been fitted with very superior accom- modation for first and second class passengers. The large size of these vessels ensures steadi. ness at sea. Electric fan in each room,
Barber's shop and steam-laundry. Cargo carried in cold storage.
For further Information, apply to
DODWELL, & CO., LIMITED, General Agents.
Hongkuar, 20th January, 1905.
Hongkong, 5th January, 1903,
ODOWNS Nos. 100 and fol, Praya East, Shanghai & Hongkong Dyeing and Cleaning Co., Ltd.
with Water Frontage.
longkong High-Level Tramways Company, Ld..... Hongkong Ice Company, Limited........ Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld....... Hongkong Steam Waterboat Company, Limited...... Katz Brothers, Limited
1,250
$100
5100
$50,030
$2,795
5,000
$25 +$25
$35,000
$5.844
10,000
550 $50
$50,000
$8,395
15 000
Sto
$10
$1,500
$297
10,000
$100
3100
$375,000
(73
Maynard and Company, Limited..
Lane, Crawford & Co., Limited (Shanghai)......... Maatschappij lot Mijn, Bosch- en Landbouwex-
ploitatic in. Langkat......
1,500
$100
$100
none
25,000 Gs, 100 Gs. 100
Tis. 334,669)
3,400
Sto
$ro
5. Moutric & Company, Limited,
4,000
$50
$50
1,200
$50 $50
Shanghai Gas Company, Limited .......... Shanghai Horse Bazaar Company, Limited Shanghai Pulp and Paper Company, Limited Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited.. [1394 Singapore Dispensary, Limited......
South China Morning Post, Limited
16,cos Tis. 50 Tls. 50
Tls. 109,172}
$4,000 None Tis. 100,000)
Tls. 11,1433
book
$11,582
Tls. 27,187.
($1.00 2
} for year ending 30.4.1994-
$15 for year ending 30.11.1904.
Interim of $4 for 1904.jaciónzerusso var
$10 for 1903
(Final of yo cts, and go cts, bonus making?
$1.90 for the year ended 30.9.04...vrin) $13 for 1903
Interim of $5......
(4th quarterly of Tls. 5, paid 15.12.04|
making in all Tis. 35, for 1904 $803 Sa for year ended 31.10.1903
$832
Final of 53 making $5 for the year ending?
Dr,
$5,537
Tis. 7.548
Interim of Tle. 3 for 1904.
5,400 Fis. go Ts. 50
Tis. 45,000
Tls. 10,347
Tis.' 5 for 190j
4,500
Tis: 100Tls, IDO
Tis. 10,000
7,200
£20
£20
Tis. 140,000
Interim of 15/- for 1904
600
350
$50
$6,000
“།
6,000
$25
$25
Bone
None.........
Steam Laundry Company, Limited...................... ..............
5,0:0
$5
$52
DODO
10,000
$ 31
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
S"
A FOOK & Co.,
Ship
bare this day REMOVED
ΤΟ
No. 12, POTTINGER STREET,
(opposite their old establishment), Hongkong, 24th November, 1994,
Apply to-
HOUSES in Observatory Road, Tsim Straits Trading Company, Limited ...... Tsa Tsoi, Kowloon. Each with five spacious well-ventilated living rooms, two bath rooms, Tientsin Native City Waterworks Company, Ld. kitchen, garden, tennis courts, servants' quar. Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limited AND HOUSE COMPRADORES, | ters, water, gas, electric lights and bells, United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited.
Do. Moderate Rental. Possession on or about 1st April, 1905.
Watkins, Limited,..... William Powell, Limited
IX FIRST-CLASS EUROPEAN Straits Ice Company, Limited
2,000
$100
$300
$45,000
250,000
$10
$10
$650,000
2,941
Tis. 100 Tls. 100
поле
(Founders')
7,000 9,900 100
{T,TIL 100|1.TIL ICO
Tis. 15,259
$10
$41
$20,000
$480
510
SIO
Tis. 3,288 Tls. 7,369 $850
Dr. $39,020
$3,644
$83.403
Tls. 413
Tls. 657
$5 for year ended 31.7.1903. mums
(60 cents for year ended 31,5.04
First yearnin
$7 for second half year 1903
($1 div, and 25 cents bonus for half year?
ended 30.3.1904..................................................................4,
Tisa for half year ..................
Final of Tis, à making Tls. 8 for 1903/4 ... (90 cents
for year ended 31.5.1994 1829.70
Interim of Tis. 6 for 1901
vedas
R
Ca dao ni tseace' serere
$5
$30
„ZƏLƏL
13%
71%
dese Heate 2,ase de 2e are
Sizź buyers
$100
$21 sellers
$8 sellers S13 buyers Tis. 75 sales fro
$9
$12 buyers
Tls. 10 cales $100
$29 sellers
$35 sales
$160 bayers $15 buyers
$9, buyers
$261 Bellers
$255
.i
5155 boyers
$20 sales
$135 buyers $140 buyers
Tis 270 sales
$27 buyers
$5$ sales
se sederere
jo
Tis. 105 sales
Tis, go telleri
Tis: 165
Tls:
400 buyers
$80
$25 nominal
$7
54 sales
5160 salas
10,000
STO $10.
54,802
$1,042
$10 12,000
S10
$3,000
5,88
† Firul of 70 cents making $1.30 for the
year ending ja6,19044..
91%
$39 buyers
TTISTIQ
T.Tia. 132
Sgt buyers Sito bayers Sg'sellers Sraj buyers,
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·ARRATOON V, APCAR & Co.,
45, Wyndham Street Hongkong, 6th January, 1905,
Pripted and Published by JOSE PEDRO BRAVA, for the Hongkong Telegraph Company, Limited, at the Printing Office of the Company, No, 1, Ice House Road to the City of Vigthein Hongkong,