Mails,
ORIENTAL
A WAVE
COMPY
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
STEAM FOR STRAITS,CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON.
(Through Bills of Lading lasted for BATAVIA, PERBIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI-
CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.} HB Steamship
TH
" BENGAL,"
Captain W.W.Cook, R.N.R., carrying His Majes ty's Mails will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, TO-MORROW, the 9th September, * Nopo, taking Passengers and Cargo for the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1905.
To Let.
TO LET.
TO. 1, KNUTSFORD
N°.
Apply to-
KOWLOOK,
TERRACE,
. THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, sth September, 1905.
TO LET.
A BUILDING at CAUSEWAY BAY, at
present in occupation of the Steam Laundry Co., Ltd.
No. 1, RIPON TERRACE. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, Lacing
Polo Ground.
OFFICES in course of erection, Con-
HAUGHT ROAD (Dear BLAKE PIER), GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST.
Apply to--
THE HONGKONG LAND, INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., "LD. Hongkong. 19th August, 1905.
TO LET
above Ports in connection with the Company's N 3 MACDONNELL ROAD.
S.S. Victoria,6,512 tons, from Colombo, Passco
gers' accommodation in which vessel is secured before departure from Hongkong...
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombe into the Mail steamor proferding direct to Marseilles and London; other Cargo for London, &c., will be conrayed from Bombay by the R.M.S. Malia, due in London on the 22nd October,
Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 .. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are inquired.
For further Particulars, apply to
L. 5. LEWIS, Acting Superintendent,
Hongkong, 8th September, 1905.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
MM
STEAM FOR SAIGON,
SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MARSEILLES, LONDON, HAVRE, LOR- DEAUX, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS,
The 9.8. "ÉRNEBT SIMONS," Captain Ailland, will be despatched for MARSEILLES on TUESDAY, the 19th: September, at P.M.
This Steamer connects at Colombo with the
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Messrs. BENJAMIN, KELLY & Ports. Corrected to noon; later alterations given under "Commercial Intelligence," page 5.
STOCKS.
MARINE INSURANCES.
Canton Insurance Office, Limited
ODOWN No. 3, NEW PRAYA, Kennedy Douglas Steamship Company, Limited
Apply 10-
WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION,
OREST LODGE," Caine Road.
Apply to-
H.-N. MUDY. Hongkong, 4th May, igos.
NO. OF
VALUE. PAID UP.
SHARES.
כאן?
ایک
POSITION AS PER LAST REPORT.
AT WORKING
ACCOUNT.
LAST DIVIDEND.
{15-exchange 1/10~$18.66.67]
£58,852
Interim of 1/- (Coupon, No. 5) for 1904
1
($1.80] for year ending 30.4.1905
APROXIMATE ACTUAN AT
PRESKET
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
QUOTATION,
RESERVE,
BANKS
£1,000,000)
$88, buyers
[900
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
National Bank of China, Limited....
X0,000
5135
$123
$8,500,000
$1,701,728
fost first half-year 1905
$250,000)
(London 1891
A
99.925
$200,000.
$41,768
Sz (London 3/6) for 1903
$38 buyers
10,000
5250 550
$1,400,000)
$150,494
$17 for 1903
5%
$340 sellers
81,7395
$950,000
$131,991
Nil.
China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited.........
24,000 $83.33 $19
$362,366
$4 for year ended 30.4.1904.
st%
182.
$371,445
North China Insurance Company, Limited
10,000
£15
Tls. 800,000
Tls. 217,119
Interim of 7/6, 1904
8%
Tla. 82
$1,850,000
£20,000
169
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
10,000
$150 $100
$372,749
$2,073,997
$35 for 1903
41%
$770
$893.110
3846.773
$750,000)
5486,284
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 19th July, 1995.
Yangisze Insurance Association, Limited....
FIRE INSURANCES. China Fire Insurance Company, Limited (755 Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited,
8,000
$100
560
$12 and $3 special dividend for 1903
8%
$1711
$5,00
$5,800
$1,000,000
20,000
$100
$20
$218,093 $2,241
$329,047
$6 dividend & $1 bonus for 1903
81%
$85 sales
8,000
$250
$50
$1,200,505
$360,372
$34 for 1903
101 %
$335 sellars
.1
SHIPPING.
TO LET.
China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited...
30,000 $25
$25
$5,000
*$8,832
$1 for 1904...dia punumissa
·5%
Sao
$185,000)
Nil.
20,000
550
$50
Sa for year ended 30.6.1904.
st %
$35
$85,439
$250,000
3rown,
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamxal Co., L.d.....
80,000
515
515
$600,000
$8,0*4
51 for first half-year 1905
71%
$204 sales
5145.376
£170,000
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
[691 Dongkong, 27th June, 1903.
Dr.
TO LET.
f0,000 Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, Limited......... 200,000) (Preference) 100,000) "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited..: 2,000,000 (10,000 "Star" Ferry Company, Limited......
£10
(10
£241,150
£1.999)
L4435
- 12/• @ 1/10]=$6.39,51 for 1904...........
Interim of Tls, 2 for 1905
61%
...........
Tis. 50 Tts, 50
Tls. 25,000
Tls. 43.762
{ Interim of Tis. 1f for.1965 gra
£400,000?
£4,016
Sra
fro
10,000
Sto
15
$65,000) $24,257) $400,000
$919Sago
Straits Steamship Compras Imited,
4,000
$100
$. 21.075
£21,231
$10 for 1904 an
61%
א אא אאאא
$94 sellers Tls. 58
Tis. 481
21/-buyers
$33 sellers 525 sellers
$1421
$130,153,
1 Is. 98,nco
ว. 4,333
Interim of Tls. 2 for 1905
13# %
Tis. 19
$42,812
Intérim of $10 for 1905....
10%
$235
Sa
Dr
$85,987-
$3 for 1897.
Tls. 1,635
Tis. 2 for year ending 30.9.04
·31%
Tis, 68 sellers
MINING.
Tis. 7.80 buyers
H. RUTTONJEE, · No. 5, D'águilar Street,
37 and 38, Elgin Road, Kowloon, Hongkong, 5th June, 1905.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ld....... 2.000.000 Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, Limited Paub-Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
LI
{
£7,820
Interim of 1 (No. 4)
G. Sigh
500,000
G Sto
G. Sra
G $672,093
$31 buyers
150,000
L
18/10
£4.873
Dr.
£8.745
50,000
Z
1627
DOCKS, WHARVES & GODOWNS.
Farnham, (S. C.) Boyd & Co., Limited..... Fenwick (Geo.) & Co., Limited
55.200 Tls. 100 Tis. 100
Tls. 1,000,000
Tis. 34,924
rere.
Tis. 140 sales
$27 buyers
6,000)
12,000)
525
$25
$70,000
$8,577
$15 buyers
$250,000*
$58,473
$19,422
Interim of $2 for 1905....
5 %
$99 buyers
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Codown, Co, Ld.
.40,000
$50
$10,000
$300,000
50.000
$41,500
$50
61,000
$61
· $55,500
$501,332 $489
64 x
5193) buyera
7%
$17
32,000 Ts 100 Tis. 100
{
61%
Tis,
185 buyers
37,000
5100
2,500 Tis. 100 Tis. 100
520 for 2nd half year making 526 for 1904. Th. 18 for 1904.........
$390 buyers
t
$25
$14,516
$9,018
Sag for year ended 30.6.1905
91%
Tis. 1921 buyers
$261 sale3
**
30,000
T.TIs. 50 T.Tis. 50
Tis. 34,000 Tis. 8,000
Tls, 806
2,000
6,000
$12
123
$12
$20,000
$1,502
Final of Tls. 3 making Tis. 9. [Final of 60 cents making $1.80 for 1904 ...
None
.61 %
Tls.135
10
$18 sales $100
Preferential of 7 per cent for 1904...
7 %
$71
74,000
571
5648,9751
$10,136
$5 for first half year 1995.
7.%%
5145 ex div.
11,000
$50
$31,087
50,000
$100
SICO
$250,000
$37,675
Interim of 53 for 1905
5%
$127
9,000
T. 25 TIs. 25
Tls. 20,986
Tis. 7,202
}
Tls, 2 for the year ending 31.3.1905........
131%
Tis. 18 sales
Interim of $4.unda
$105
1,000
Sroo $100
150,000
510
Sto
{
74%
$121
712
$40
64%
Tis. 122 sellers
Tls, 45
TO LET.
[527 Taku Tug and Lighter Company, i imited
Garden Road, near the Ferry, with Fine CEMI-DETACHED VILLAS, Two, in
Bright and Airy Rooms, GAS and ELECTRIC BELLS laid on. Commanding fine view of the Harbour.
Rents very moderate. Apply to-
For Sale.
Australian lines.s. Dunthia bound for Mar- GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
seilles via Bombay and Aden.
Passage tickets add through Bills of Lading
issued for above ports.
Cargo also booked for principal places in Europe.
Next sailings will be as follows:- !
S.S. POLYNÉSIEN.........
3rd October.
S.S. CALEDONIEN.....17th October. S.S. OCEANIEN ...tɛ October.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX, Agent.
Hongkong, 6th September, 1905.
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
$4.50 per Cask 375 bs. net ex Factory. $2.70 per Bag 250 lbs. det ex Factory.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, 7th March, 1905.
[50
[7
TUBORG
BEER.
A
NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE. BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
(ennie.s
BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY.
Connecting at Tacoma with NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
COMPANY.
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM Hongkong POR
VICTORIA, É.C., AND TACOMA,
VIA
MOJI, KOBĖ AND YOKOHAMA
Steamer. Tons.
Captain.
Sailing.
Oct. 14
Nov. 4
17
Lyra ......... 4,417 G. V. Williams At Sept.17 Pleiades 3.753 F.G.Purington, Oct. 7 Shawmut 9,606 E. V. Roberts Tremoni...... 9,606 T. W. Garlick.. Hyades... 3,753 Geo. Wright...[
1 Cargo only. Steamer marked (*) have no second-class passenger accommodation.
CHEAP FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION, ATTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC LIGHT, DOCTOR AND STEWARDESS. The twin-screw,s.s. Shawmut and Tremont are fitted with very superior accommodation for first and second class passengers. The large size of these vessels ensures steadiness at sea. Electric fan in such room.
Barber's shop and stean-laundry, Cargo arried in cold storage.
For further Information, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,
General Agents.
Queen's Buildings. Hongkong, 8th September, 1005.
[8
ACHEE
FURNITURE,
GENERAL HOUSEHOLD
REQUISITES.
&C..
&c.,
SC
Telephone 256,
FIRST Class PILSENER BEER guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid,
and any other Chemicals.
PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 bottles (quarts) or 6 do. pints.
Special Prices for Quantities.
Sole Agents
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Hongkong, toth January, 1003.
FOR SALE.
INCANDESCENT
REFINERIES.
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited................. Luzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited.............. Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited.....
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld. New Amoy Dock Company, Limited Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company Tanjong Pagar Deck Company, Limited............. Yangtsze Wharf and Godown Company, Limited..
LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING.
Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai). Astor House Hotel, Limited (Tientsin) Central Stores, Limited.......
Do. Do.
(Founders'.. (New Issue).......
Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited
Hongkong Land investment and Agency Co., Ld..... Hotel des Colonies Company, Limited (Shanghai) ... Hotel. Metropole Company, Limited
Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited... Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited...... 57 Shanghai Land Investment Company, Limited Tientsin Hotel des Colonies, Limited.............. Tientsin Land Investment Company, Limited Wei-hai-wei Land and Building Company, Limited... West Point Building Company, Limited
GASOLINE
LAMPS
COTTON MILLS.
Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, Ld....
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing?
from the best makers.
INCANDESCENT
MANTLES,
CHIMNEYS,
GLOBES,
་
SHADES, &c.,
for GASOLINE AND GAS LAMPS
at the most moderate prices.
Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the best kind kept in stock. TAI KWONG CÔ.
Hongkong, 2nd May, 1994.
& CO.
ESTABLISHED 1859,
Company, Limited.....
International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld.... Laou-kung-new Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld. Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited.........
MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-German Brewing Company, Limited fell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited.....
30,000 Tls.so".Tls. 5o
20,000
7,000
1100 $100 $100 $100
7,000
116, 56 Tis. 50
8
* eeele Trias c
6,000 $50 $30
52,000 T. 50 Tis, 50 1,400 Tls. 50 Tls, 30 7.726 Ths. 100 Tls. 100 3,764 T5, 25 TIs, 25 12,500 $50 $50
· Tls 196479
Tls. 78,000 Tls. 81,200
*$450,000
Done
Tis. 100,000
£40,000 £12,284
none
Tis, 487,210.
TIs. 59,880 $2,100,000 Tis, 17,500
Tis, 10,711 5206,649
Tis. 2,762
$200,994 $50,000
nonc
Tls. 828,813) Tis, 179,000
none
Tis. 67,300
Done
node
First year.
$11,958
$377
Tis, 40,066
Tls, 670
TIs. 775 Tis: 5,750
Interim of so cents (gold) for 1905 (No. 5) No. 12 of 1/48 cents
Final of Tls. 8 making Tis. 13 for 1994/5...! (53.75 for 1904 on old capital [First year...iers,
$6 for first half-year 1904
Sit for 1903 mari
Interim of Tis. 6 for 1905
go cents for 1904. ..................an
$3 for 1904....
Interim of Tis: 3 for 1905
Interim of Tis. 3 for 1905 loterim of Tis. 3 for 195. None
Interim of $1 for 1905
29 2.4 G
NN 2 2 H
20
Tha 1171 Tis. 12
$1,247
61%
$56 sellers
15,000 Tls. 50 Tis. jo
none
125,000
510
$10
$30,000
Tis. 12,844 523,264
Tla. 4 for year ended 31.10.1993
8 %
Tis. 51 sales
$ for the year ending 31.7.05....
67%
$141 ex div.
10,000 Tls. 75 Tls. 75
8,000 Tls. 100 Tls. 100 2,000 Tis. 500 TIs. 500
Tis. so,nco? Tis. 31,6593
Tia. 13,629
Interims of 3% afc 1898
*
nonc
Tls. 10,000
Interim of 4% afc 1898
Tie. 45 sales
Tis. 573 sales
Tls. 275 sellers
Tls, 5,658
Tis. 22,050
4% for 1897
First year.
1/3 per share for 1904. ..........
53 for 1904..............
$t for 1904..omgaat makat Interim of Tls. ; for 1905
None.......
Jo cants for 199tari
$12 for year ending 31.7.1303
T
1 div. and 2/- bonus for 1904 ....
for year ending 304.1905
$15 for year ending 30.11.1904 ......
laterim of $4 for 1905 ........................martstrecken
Interim of 50 cents 30.9.05......
Final of $g making $14 for 1904
(and 'quarterly of Tis. 5, paid 15.6.05 mak-1
2* jog so far Tis, 123 för 1905. «eremu,
Tis. 5 for 1902
First year
Est sellers
Sy buyers
$36
Sil
Th. 771 sellers
$10
$9 sales
$17 buyers
7%
$28 sellera
·7%
$175 buyers
$15
Sgi
Sars buyers S3371
אאאאא :* *
4,000
$100
$100
none
8,604
12/6
12/6
1,200
$io Sio
£314 $8,000
£770
$1,182
China-Borneo Company, Limited....
60,000 $12
$12
hone
Nil.
China Flour Mill Co., Limited........................
4,000 Tis. ço
Tis. 50
71s, 30,000
Tls. 718
אאאא.
Lamps fixed up for
China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld. Dairy Farm Company, Limited .....
China Light and Power Company, Limited...........
50,000
STO
none
$3.739
100,000
$10
$10
$8,0000
$1,581
25,000
.អ៊
$6
$400,000
Green Island Cement Company, Limited
$10 150,000
$10
$500,000
$95,054
So far 1904
Hall & Holtz, Limited
Hongkong & China Gas Company, Limited...........
21,000
7,000 410.
$10
520
$186,000
$7.551
Final of Siį making Szi
$27 buyers
£25,394
£6,188
£3,000
$81.00)
Hongkong Electric Company, Limited
30,000
$10
none
52,151
30,000
$10
150. cents
16, Lyndhurst Terrace.
[54
Philippine Company, Limited....
Mondon, (E. L.) Limited........
ploitatie in Langkat, Limited..........
Maatschappij tot Mijn, Bosch en Landbouwex-
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld. Hongkong Steam Waterboat Company, Limited...... Lane, Crawford & Co., Limited (Shanghai)..........
llongkong High-Level Tramways Company, Ld....... Hongkong Ice Company, Limited
1,250
$100
$50,000
$2,796
5,000
$25
$60,000
$5,356
$50 10,000
$60,000
S:1,137
Sio for 1904 japan ja.......
$5,000
$10
$1,500
...Sagg
2,500
$100
$100
Bone
$21,582
-25,000 Gs, 100. Gs. too
Tl6, 10,465
Tis. 528,270)
Tis. 35,849
7,000 Tis. 50 Tls.50 67,500
nonc
Dr. Tls 117,638
$151 buyers
15.
$145 buyers
Tis, 17a) sellers
TIL-25
S91
Sto
Sin
MAR
$50.
$50
Nont
Dr. $5,537
550..
16,000
s. 50 Tls. 50 18: 105,079)
Tis.
Tis. 8,011
Interim of Tis. 3) for 1905.
7 %
Tis, 122į buyom
Tis. 80 sellers
5.400 s.50 Tls, co 4,500 Tls. 100 Tls, 100
Tis. 45,000
Tis. 25,000
Tis. 9,751 Tls. 6,968
Tit. 6 for 1904.......... .................
Interim of Tis, 6 for 1905
Tis. 155 sellers
Tls. 21,8201
Tis, 1,297
Final of Tis, 6 making Tis. 9.....
13%
Tls. 674 sales
EASTMAN'S
Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited... South China Moming Post, Limited ................................ Steam Laundry Company, Limited..... Straits Ice Company, Limited......
7,200-
Tls. 170,000
6,000
$25
Sas
none
Tla. 17,220 Dr.
Interim of 15/- for 1905. f.......
4%
Ths. 420 buyers
$20
$5,068
Nonensiesiek
15,000
$5
.none
$3,644
65 cents for year ended 31.5.04.
71%
$8
2,000
$100 5100
$15,000 Tls. 15,293)
$700
$5 for 1905...
$150
KODAKS, FILMS,
Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limited
2,000
TT 100 T.T100
Tis, 4,009)
Tis, 1,012
Final of Tla. of making Tis. 84 for 1994/5 7%.
T.Tis. 120
United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited ..........
Do.
9,900
Sto
$42
$22,000
(Founders')
... 100
$to
$103
..
AND
Watson, (A. S.) & Co., Limited.........
90,000
Sto
$10 {
$300,000
$551
$6,096.
o cents for year ended 31.5.1905 .. $19.80
1
19 %
$9 buyers
Nu%
$180 buyers
Final of 50 cents making St for 1904.
7%
514 buyers
$25,000
interim of go cents for year 1904/1905.
101 %
12,000
ACCESSORIES,
William Powell, Limited
$10
$1,000
$588
Sto
Silf bayers
| Fist year inmidissen a moun
+
3,000
DEPOT
FOR
Shanghai & Hongkong Dyeing and Cleaning Co., Ld. 1,250 Shanghai Gas Company, Limited..................... Shanghai Horse Bazaar Company, Limited Shanghai Pulp and Paper Company, Limited Shanghai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited
30,000 TE, 20 Ils. 2015. 2,000
£10 £20
AMATEUR WORK Receives PROMPT and CAREFUL ATTENTION,
Honglung, 16th May, 1905.
Printași and Published by JOSE PEDRO BRAŬs, for the Hongkong Telegraph Company Limited, at the Printing Office of the Company, Kart, los House Rosé, le the Oliy of Victoria, Hongkong.