153
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
SIGNALS.
A NEW CODE,
We have received from the Hongkong Observatory new code of meteorological signals which comes into force at Hongkong on New Year's Day. They are the sama us 'those at present in use at Shanghal, and will be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball at Kowloon Point for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port, They do not neces sarily imply that bad weather is expected. The signals are as follows:-
A cose point upwards indicates a typhoon to the North of the Colony.
THE
Entimation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
́1, ICE HOUSE ROAD,
HONGKONG.
CABLE ADDRES8,-Telegraph, Hongkong.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1906.
THE leading English Newspaper in China
Also widely circulated in Japan, (Cochin
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Ments. E. S. KADOORiz & Co. Corrected to noon; later alterations given under "Commercial Intelligence," pagė 5.
STOCKS,
BANKS.
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
National Bank of China, Limited.......
MARINE INSURANCES, Canton Insurance Office, Limited
China, Ceylon, India and the Far East North Chipa insurance Company, I imited generally,
+0,000
POSITION AS PER LAST REPORT,
No, or SHARES.
LAST DIVIDEND.
VALUE, PAID UP.)
AT WORKING
APROXIMATE RETURN AT
PELIENT QUOTATION.
CLOSING
QUOTATION
RESERVE,
ACCOUNT.
£1,000,000)
70,000
5125
$125
99,925
47
500,000 $750,000
2,735) $150,000 $
$1,699,97741 £51. div. And 1 bonus ex, 1/09/16) {$26.87 for and half-year 19055 $74,099 Sa (London 3/6) for 1903
($840 sellers
$ X
London 490
538
10,000 face
$10
$1,000,0007 $147,895
£100,000)
$211,540
$10 for 1904
$360
Tls. 100,000
Tla 50,000)
Tis. 301,053
Interim div. of 7/6.an account 1905
51 %
TIL 871
$2,000,000
£40,000
A daily newspaper with weekly edition Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
10,000
fago
$100
$331,131
$2,793,371
Interim div. of 537 for 1905 Homew
.5%
$Boo
$1.753,844
$569,279
$800,000
8,000 $100
$60
561,178
.F508,334
$12 and 53 special dividend for 1904
B%
$173
$15.527
:
$1,000,000
20,000
$20
$229.488
$344,058
#6 for 1504
7%
$2016)
8,000
$50
$1,330,928
$422,678
Bas for 1904
8 %
5305 sales & b.
$6,000
$6,563
$1 for 1905
$12 sales
30,000
$264,638)
Nit.
$3 for year ended 30.6.1905
81 %.
$40 buyer
70,000
$50
$88,941
$250,000
1.
$600,000
$24,080
11 for 2nd half-year making $2 for 1905 ...
B%
Sas
f0,000
515
ST54.33
£120,000
£341,150
24,435
12/1/101-36.29.51 for 1904..............
7 %
$90
£3.999)
7 Is, 40,000
I's. 23,356.
£107,889
(Final Tha. 3 making Tla. 5 for 1905
Final Tis. if making Tis. 31 for 1905... t/- (Coupon No. 6) for 1905
8 %
Tl. 62 buyers
Ti. 53 buyers
261-
£929
($1.80) {Soigo
for year ending 30.4.1905..
reze
533
13.913
Final of Tis: i making Tis. 4 for 1905 ............
Tis. 4 buyers
A cone point upwards and drum below in-published for despatch by the hameward mail
The daily is recommended dicates a typhoon to the North-East of the
Colony,
A drum indicates a typhoon to the East of
the Colony,
A cone point downwards and drum below Indicates a typhoon to the South-East of the
Colony.
A cone point downwards indicates a typhoon the South of the Colony.
A cone point downwards and ball below indicates a typhoon to the South-West of the
Colony...
A ball indicates a typhoon to the West of the Colony.
A cose point upwards and ball below indicates a typhoon to the North-West of the Colony.
Red Signals indicate that the centro is believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony.
Black Signals indicate that, the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.
more generally Vangtaze Insurance Association, Limited
FIRE INSURANCES.
suitable, except for subscribers in Europe or
America.
A special feature is made of full and accur ate reports of local occurrences, and of mat-
ters of general interest.
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
The Hongkong Telegraph is the best
medium for advertising in China. It circulates
largely among all classes of the community,
is the largest daily newspaper and has a wider circulation than any journal in the Far
East.
Special attention given to affectively display.
lng advertisements.
The type used as a standard for setting advertisements is similar to this, unless we are
7
China Fire Insurance Company, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.
SHIPPING. China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited..... Douglas Steamship Company, Limited
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld....
10,000 Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited ..
·Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, Limited......... 200,000?
(Preference) Do.
100,000) "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 2,000,000 "Star Ferry Company, Limited...............................
Taku Tug and Lighter Company, 1mited
REFINERIES.
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited............. Luzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited.... Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited
The above signals will, as heretofore, be any eflective style of type will be adopted, Long and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld......
hoisted only when typhoons exist in such post-This standard runs exactly eight lines to the
tions or are moving in such directions that in.
formation regarding them is considered to be of lach, and abour'eight words to the line. Importanca to the Colony or to shipping leav
ing the harbour.
NIGHT SIGNALS.
Two lanterns hoisted vertically indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is axpected to veer.
Two lanterns hoisted horizontally indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to back.
The signals are repeated on the flagstaff of the Godown Company at Kowloon, and also, by day only, at the Harbour, Office, and on l M's Receiving Ship.
LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS. The Colony itself is warned of approaching typhoons by means of the Typhoon Gen placed
at the food of the mast, which is fired whenever
̧ a strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.
NOTICE BOARDS,
T
DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
Nolices of Hirths, Deaths, and Marriage:
$1 each insertion in the Daily and Weekly.
'CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS.
Special Rates for standing advertisements can be ascertained from the Manager,
Advertisements for the Daily should reach.
New Amoy Dock Company, Limited......... Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld.
hanghai and Hangkew Wharf Company, Limited.... Yangtze Wharf and Godown Company, Limited...... LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING. Anglo-French Land Investment Co, Ld... Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai): Central Stores, Limited 400 te (new issue)......... me............ Do.
(Founders')............................................... ongkong Hotel Company, Limited ............ ongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld.... total dos Colonies Company, Limited....................... Hotel Metropols Company, Limited......
Do..
COTTON MILLS.
wo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, Ld. Hongkong Colton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing?
Company; Limited ........
International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld.....
Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited......... the iongkong Telegraph Office not later ihanaou-kung-mow Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld.
Boon of the day they are intended to appear.
10,000
1.10,000
36,000
32,000
ཚོན་ཚུ་་་སྐབརྒྱ་རྩ་ལྷ་གླ་མོ
£10
2.500s. 100, 100
25,000
£400,000
641443
$65,000 $24,257
Tis. 98,000
TJE. 3505479
Tis. 48,000 Tla. 87,200/
T 4. 1,000,000*
Tis. 487,2107 TIK 57,065
Tls. 30,000
$2,221 Tls. 34,934
$648,9752 $24,071 1 $250,000
Tls, 24.986
nope
$208,386 $50,000
none
Tis. 5,668
Tis. 100,000
Tls, 30,760
1. (No. 6) interim div. for 12 months?
ending 28.200
First year...*****
................
$850,000)
20,000
* 100
$450,000
$86,129)
140,934
7,000
5100
поде
Dr. $133,588
Final of $15 making S15 ' 1905.
$3 for 1897.
15 %
$163
525
7,000
.50
**!..100,000
Tis. 3,723
Tis. 2 for year ending. 30.9.04 2
Ti, to sellers
MINING,
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ld.......t.co0,000
Fit n'al Consolidated Mining Company, Limited aub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
£80,000
La
£26,011
£13,355
7.%
Th. To valiers
500,000
fre
G. STO
none
G $909,050
Final of go cents making G Sr. for 1905
7 %
:G. $14
150,000
17/10
L
£4,873
Dr.
£8,745
No. 12 of 1/48 cents
$3
50,000
DOCKS, WHARVES & GODOWNS.. Fenwick (Geo.) & Co., Limited
18,000
$70,000
$8,915
$1 for.1905
૧.
51*
$550,000
Instructed to display the advertisement, when 1'ongkong & Kowloon Yarl and ( odown Co., Ld..
40.000
$50
to
$65,160
$20,040
Final of $31 making 16 ty Hufempcions a
st %
$103
[20,000)
5.000
150.
$49.500
$367,232
10 000
SAL
'To!
$88,000
$6 for second half-year making $1 for 1905 $1 for 1905............
7%
$161
6%
Sty buyers
$5.200
T: 60, 100
Interim of Tis, 4 for year 1905/0.........................
10%
The 175 sales
The rootle, too
{
Tis. 57,06%
Final of Tls. 8 making Ts. 14 for 1975 Tis. 18 for 1905
Tis. 226 sales
fB %
Tls. 220 buyers
:
Tls. 100
TIK, 100 T. 100
**nono
Bone
'+'r noo
$25
525
$14,516
$9,018
$2 for year ended 30.6.1905
8%
531 buyers
6,200
$15
S15
*$2.40 on $ia for 1905.....
131%
$18 buyers
14,000
$15
поре
$4,719
7 % on 57) for 1995, .................
Srst buyers
123
$15
$17
..
None
***
$2,000
$50
·550
1619
$5 for second half-year making $10 for 1905
71%
3300 buyers F130 sales
30,000
$100
$100
$67,839
Final of $31 making $7 4+1 1905..
0 %
S119
0,000 2,000 $100
Tls. 25 Tir, 20
Tlt. 7,201
·Interim of TI. ↑ au mêm
14. X
Tis, 17
$100
$4,699
Final of 56 making $10
10 %
Sipa
umphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited owloon Land and Building Company, Limited..... angbai Land Investment Company, Limited Nest Point Building Company, Limited.....
10,000
Fro
F10
{
£5,070
80 cents for 1905
7 %
STI
$1,000
550 $30
5574
Ezt for 1905.....
67%
$39
2,000
Tis, so Tis, 50
Tis. 909,593
วะ, 52,294
*2,500
$50
550
none
· 5772
Final of Tin 3 making Tls. 6 for 1905 num Final of St.go making 53.65 for 1905 v...........
5 %
Tis, 119 sellers
7 %
$13
15,000 Tis. 50 175,000
10,000 Tls. 75.75
8,000 Tls, Too Tis, 200 Tls. oo Tls. 500 2,000
Tirso $10 $to
Tla. 45.939 $30,000
Tis. 100,000 523,264
Tii. 8 for year ended 31.10.1905 «***** St for the year ending 31.7.05.
14;
Tis. 74 sales
? X.
Sis sellers
3% a/c 1898
Tix. 61 sellers
nane
Th. 8 for 1905.
13 %
Tis. 72 buyers
Tis. 18,456
Tls. 35.966
74%
Tia, 320 cellera
4,000 3100 $100
GODO
$1,056
8,604
11/6
12/6
£770
1,200
Sio
60,000
$12
511
4,000 Ts. 50
Tls. 50
(0,000
$10
Sto
$9,000 none Tis. 50,000
Done
$1,097
Nil
Tis, 889
51,219
65 cents for year ended 18.2.05
Green Island Cement Company, Limited
Fall & Holts, Limited amoun
Hongkong Electric Company, Limited
Hongkong High-Level Tramways Company, Ld....... Hongkong Ice Company, Limited
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld........ Hongkong Steam Waterboat Company, Limited.... Maatschappij tot Mijn, Botch en Landbouwox.
ploitatie in Langkat, Philippine Company, Linuted
PAMPHLETS.
CARDS.
*: ÇIRGULARF,
IXPRESSES
Shanghai Horse Bazaar Co., Ld..
Harbour Office.
Ferry Company's Pier, Kowloon. WEATHER FORECASTS and STORM - WARNINGS are exhibited on the above boards daily about 11 am, and also at other hours, day or night, whenever necessary. Informa
JOBBING DEPARTMENT.
Job Printing of all descriptions undertaken,
tion of importance is also issued by “Express." | P70GRAMMES,
THE CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER is exhibited at the same places daily about noon. It contains observations made at Hongkong and at a number of stations in the Far East, together with Remarks, Weather. forecasts, and information regarding the exist- ence and movements of typhoons based thereon. ́SPECIAL INQUIRIEL
All job printing is done ander European
Masters of vessels or their agenta may, whenever necessary, call at the Telegraph |upervision, well turned out, free from errors,
Company's Office in Connaught Road and and remarkably cheap 14
sand telegrams to this Observatory asking for
Бисһ
special information without charge. Inquiries may also be sent from the Police Station at Kowloon Point which is connected with the Observatory by talephone.
THE LAW OF STORMS.
Further Information concerning the weather to be expected while siguale are hoisted, and sailing directions, are given in "The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas,"
F. G. FIOG,
Acting Director,
Hongkong, Obs.rystory, and January, 1904.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
OFFICE
'Estimates given for all classes of work on
application to
THE MANAGER, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH CO., LD.
1, Ice Bonae Road, Hongkong.
hanghai Gas Company, Limited ...
15,000
·25,000 GB, 100 Gs, too-
Sto $10 67,500 16,000 Tis, so Tls. 30 5.400 Tle. so Tis, so
hanghai Pulp and Paper Company, Limited t aoghal-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited........ shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited...............---| -3,03 South China Morning Posi, Limited ..................unari
team Laundry Company, Limited.........
entsin Waterworks Company, Limited prop oiled Asbestos Grisatal. Agency, Limited
Do.
(Founders') Watson, (A. 5.) & Co., Limited............ William Powell, Limited senaje agents
Tlx. 547.50>2 {Tls. 27,603
Printed and Published by Jos Tapro BBAGA, for the Hongkong Telegraph Company, Limited, at the Printing Office of the Company;
"Ho. 4 Ice House Road, To the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
100,000
510
$8,0000
$1,581
80 cents for 1905
aasmanı
.......
25,000
571
$6
$25,000
$2,864
$1.20 for year ending 31.7.1905........
150,000
310
sto_ {
11,000
$10
$10
5410,000) $500,000 $186,000
$52,231
Sa dividend and 50 cents bonus for 1905
81 2
$20,893
$aj for year ending 26.3.06
($1.00
60,000
$10
$10
none
12.558
165 conts
for 10 months eading 28.2.c6
71%
1,250
5:00 $100
$50,000
£2,799
$15 for year ending 39.11.1901 mana
61 %
$,000
125
£80,000
53.776
Final of 815 making $19 for 1995 ...............................
"8"
50,000
510
$61,000
$5,813
$g for 1905 on 5 shares.
61
$10
$2,500
$88
(first intermof Tle, 7j païd 1 5.3.06 account)
Final of go cents making 51 for the year...
Dracaeze DE De at seatstat" zezeze
-$100
Sy
57 buyers 53%
buyers
Tis. 80 sellers
Sioł buyers
$9
$16
529
11 % Sast
515 nles
3119
$240 sa. & b.
. Tis. 10,574
Limitad
1905.....
*********
Done
Dr.
F. 34.324
None
Tia, 243) sellors $5 buyers
Tim. 3 dal & Tis. 1} bonus making)
Tls, 165,000
Tis. 11017
61%
Tin. 135 buyérs
Tis. 81905
4,500 Tis. 100 TB, 100
30,000 Tls, 10
Ti. 45,00
Tls. 37,000
Tis. 9,751
Tis. 6 for 1904. » Ména
II %
Tiz. 55 salas
Tis. 8,000
Tie, 2,753
Final of Tii, 8 making Tis. 14 for 1905 - ...
91%
Tis, Igo sellära
ITs, 20
£ror
Tis, 24,820) Thu. 35,còn 9
Tla. 1.45a
Tls. 190,000
+
7,200
6,000 10,000
7,000
09,900
$25
ROBE
None ********
Bons
|Ti4,100 |13%, 100
Tels. 15,201
Tis. 4,000
To 85,394 Or
$44,089 $1,734
Tla, 1,012
so cents for year ended 31.505 unman
Final of Tii. 3 making Tls. 5 for 1905 ....... Final of 37/5 making 52/6 for 1905/6 First your
7 %
Tis. a sales
Tia 410 sellers
Tis, 280 salon
paano man
Sza
81%
36
Interim of Tis, 4 for year 1995/6
29/19814100)
100
90,000
15,000
542 $105
Bo cente
$34,000
5551
$10 {
$300,000
325,000
$7.734
180 for year ended 31.5.1905....... Final of 50 cents making $1, for 1905.
74 % 19%
Ti 110
Sto
$4,100
$676
71 %
Interim div. of 50 cts, for the year 1905/6.. 10 %.
$184 $133 buyers
Stoj
Notice boards are placed at:-
Joint Cable Companies' Office. Ferry Company's Pier, Ice House Street, Blake Pier.
Post Office.
Unless otherwise specified all advertisements
will be repeated and charged for until counter.
manded.
MISCELLANEOUS, - Anglo-German Brewery Company, Limited i cil's Asbestos kastern Agency, Limited... Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited.... China-Borneo Company, Limited... China Flour Mill Co., Limited..> China Light and Power Company, Limited China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld. Dairy Farm Company, Limited
S10
Ths. 35 for 1905
$7 for 1905.gene
1/3 per share for 1904
$3 for 1905...
St for 1904.si mettlin
Final of Tla. 5 making Tis. 10 for 1905