National Bank of China, Limited..
MARINE INSURANCES..
Canton lasurance Office, Limited
Shanghal-Bank T.T. .......dm
Singapore-Bank T.T. par H.K, $100
Japis-Beak T.T.
"A Vladivostock, despatch reports that the Ministers of the Army, Communications and Agricultore Departments will shortly leave St. Petersburg for a tour of Eastern Siberia.
Union Insurance Society of Canton malted
125
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY APRIL 15, 1010
Bukit Kajang-2,603 lbs total for three SMOKING concert and distribution of prizes months 5,686.
· Pegob -3,314 lbs.
Bukit Liviang:-3,850. Ibuj total for corres» ponding period last year 190 lbs total for pise months. 16,105 lbs; total for corresponding period last year, 960, 100
Allagar Estate:March 2,050."
PERAK RUDBER SHARES.
Panang, April 6. The shares of both the Perak River Valley Rubber Company and the Nellmay Rubber Company, which were recently doated, are already quoted at »a substantial premium. 'Several new local flotations are peoding.
'TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
Sikling. London-Bank T.Tonopa
Do
120
demand ............................ 4 months' sight.
1/9 /9 5/16 .1/9 9/16
France-Bank T·Tri............e
Amilca-Bank TT,
Germany-Bgok T.F............................
“India T.T. ...man
Do demands
|
·will tako'pląca xt H.K.V.C. Handgoarten on Saturday, the guth, instant, at 9 pam, er
E
KLEYEN undesirables arrived on board the sa,
Jam from Sing spare last Saturday. The de porters are to be returned to their homes.
MAIL Pficer E, I. Marshall of the China Station will leave for home by the P. & 0, mail steamer on Saturday. He is relieved by Mr. Johnson.
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Mesura, E. S. KADOORI & Co. Corrected to noon; later alterations given under" Commercial Intelligence," page si
STOCKS.
BANKS
M. F. A. Agien and Eir Robert Bradon had Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
interviews with the Shoiwacku on Saturday and Monday last. But nothing has: yot bosa. settled. P
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FOURTEEN days' bord inbour was on Monday morning awarded.n baker in the Commissariat Department for stealing some clothing from an- other baker.
THE P. and O. s.s. Mooltan, which left London 'on irth, ult., took the following specie for Hoogkong:-Barsilver, £10,000 ;and Shanghai, bar silver, 2112,500.
| North Oking Insurance Company,
NO. OF SHARES,
POSITION AS FER" LAST: REPORT
VALUE PAID UP.
· RESERVE.
“AT WORKING ACCOUNT
10,000
£120,000
LAST DIVIDEND,
APPROCIMAT
·BEITEN AT
QUOTATION BASED ON LART
THAT'S DI
(CLOSING
QUOTATIO
£2.5/- for half year ending 11.12.09 G. ex】
1}9)=515.11
| £5985 salları:
London 690. 10.
· Syd buyers -
Finál of 7/6 making 438- kasyod
£1,454,991. | {Final of $17 making 547 for 1907 and istarim of $30 for 1908.....
S175 buyers
Th5
130,000
S115
Sig
'99,935
41,500,000
aço,000 £4,009
$2,001,519
$30,550
: Sz (London.3/6) for 1901
16,000
Sajo
$50
$1,500,000 3254,581
aona
$10 for 1908.
T. 2310 Tis. 375 253 115. 190,180
Th. 20",173
Ž
,000
13,400
$150
$100
$860 ax. div.
2,205,249 $682,609
Java-Bank T.T...
$4,000,000
.107
Buying,
-4 months' sight L/C, Megan dign
119
6 months' sight L/C.................
30 days' sight Sas P'co & New York
4 months' sight
do.
go441
4st
THE total output of the Chinese Engineering Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited and Mining Company's three mines, for the week ending 16th March amounted to 17,157.80 toos and the sales during theperiod to 29,851.37
12,000 S100 $60
S7 F037
Stx and bonus 53 for'tga
7 X
$190
5199,254
FIRS 1
$1,000,000
China Fire Insurance Company;
70,000 $100
$440,000
$138,401)
:
1,000 5250
$50
$149 175
$375,343
1368,711
56 and bonus Sa for 1907.
$17 for 1907
7 XTM
X
Sito buyers
$140 buyers
6 months' sight
4 months' sight Germany.......
Bar Sivar...............
SHIPPING.
30,000
$15 20,000 $50
80,000* $15
Sag
$7,000
$1,0335 for 1908.....................2204440
$81 bayara
$50{
Ecco 5100, 8 Da30,000*
Ni
al for year ending 30.6,1908
$32 buyers
**$15
5617,50
$10,165.
• 5103,345
$19 100
60,000
Da..
២.
218745
Li
2,780,000
1. 00000
10,000? 10,000
Sta
1
$10
8.
10,000 $100
7,000 Sr .7,000, Tis 5
$too
$100 Tix. 50
S450 000 $56,848
DI, ·558
Dr. $t R
+15, 10GLANG
Ti 6 02
Final of Sit for account 1910
$6/- for 1907 on Preference shares only © ́ax 1/9 11/16–53. 154............ROSIN961 3rd in, of af- par sh. (coup. No. 12) making) In all 4/- for3o&& isterim of 1f- for ac. 'ogj (31.00
† for your onding 10,4, 1909.......a 1.50.503
$5 for year ending 3412.08,,
Ss for 1897 mara
› Tis, 10 for year ending 31.6.09
$26 seller
S141 buyers
Syot sellers
$75 84.
95/- buyers
1+68 b.
Sag sellers
Ul. 840 sulera
30 days' night Sydney & Melbourne 1/10 HOMER Moore, of the U.S.S. Charleston, was 'Hongkong Fire Insurance Com.any, Limited...
4 months' sight France ............
Bank of England rate
Sovereign
3.28); charged in the Police Court on Monday morn- 230ing with assaulting an Indian constubin.while in its execution of his dutyia Ship Street. A 24t fine of $15 was imposed. S11.25Ar the Marion Magistrate's Court, on Thursday,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Freach Mail of the 15th March has been delivered in London.
Chao Ngan, raster of seam launch tung On, was fined $20, or six wiek? hard, labour for disregarding the rules of the road on the 9th inst. The fine was paid.
THE general agents of the Shanghai Sumatra "Tobacco Company, Limited, bas received the Six Paul Chater, C. 1.G, is going Home shortly following, telegraphic advice from the Deli for a slay of six months,
Maatschappij, amsterdam:-" Sold 335 baler tobacco at Guilders 1.17."
Ma A. O. Brawn joined the Hongkong Volun- teer Corps on the. 8th April assigned Corps No. 1117 and posted to No. 3 Company..
A NATIVE who was found in unlawful posset- sion of zu taels of opium dross was da Tuesday fined $20 or two months imprisonment. THE Hupeb Representatives returned to Hau- kow on Friday and ware welcomed by a repre-
I over ten thousand people. sentative crowd of
At six o'clock on Monday creuing one of the secret saivice men at Manila surprised Tami Pang Wo, & Chinese labourer, in the act of infecting morphine into his system... The man is now being held awaiting ital,
บ
THE United States Consol-General, Dr. W. A. Rubles, who unfortunately in not been enjoy. ing very good health of late, has just been oper ated upon for appendicitii, and we hear on A BILL has been read in the Philippine legislaThursday with regret that as condition is very
much worse. turo calling for the appropriation of Pon,noo, to be used to diedging the Puranaque river, THE cost of the buildings for the special col- leges in Peking has been reduced more than once and bas now been fixed at 15 3,000,000.
Ir is stated that the Waiwups has appointed three interpreters to serve in the foreigs Lega- tions in Peking, but the reason for such service is not stated.
'His Excellency the Governor has beeo pleased to appoint Mr. A. E. Wood to be ao Official Justice of the Peace for the Colony, with effect
·Îrom the 4th’just,
VICEROY Yi Sha-bin, in Canton, has ap proved the request of the Kwangtung Provincial Assembly strictly to probibit the sale of lottery tickets from other provinces.
,,:
THE Hupeh officials to Peking have consider ed the question of guaranteeing interest on the share capital of the Hopeh radway, so as to CBCourage investment.
SUBADAK Major Ahmed Din, Hongkong and Singapore Battalion, Royal Garrison Arillery, has resigned his appointment as honorary aide-de-camp to the Governor.
A MARRIAGE bas been' arranged, and will shortly take place, betwees Mr. E G. Jamie- Do, of His Britannic Majesty's Consular Ser. vice China, and Mabel, youngest daughter of Mrs. W. H. Armitage, of Lyley House, Wot: top-under-Edge.
A NATIVE was awarded six weeks' hard labour ́and six hoars' stocks at the Magistracy this morning for stealing a buodic from a passenger no board the ss. Charles Hardouin. The bua die wat'takes from under a pillow while the victim was sleeping.
THE secretaries at Shanghai of the Chemiedak Rubber and Gambier Estate, Limited, are in receipt of cable advices to the effect that the first shipment of rubber made to London on the zad of February last, amounting 10° 2,503 Ibs. act, realised an average price of tos par pound bet.
IN the Summary Court on Fiday, the cara was again mentioned in which Ah Men and Hink Cheong, tailers, are suing John Grast to
recover the sum of $91.95 for work done and material supplied. it was stated that the defendant could not be found and the case was adjourned.
THE Yuch'usapu proposes to appoint Kuang, Shih-mont, fumerly, chiel engineer of the Can- ten Rastway, tu take charge of the construction of the Hankow Tungumzogps railway.
A CHINAM N was on Tuesday. fiued Stoo for keeping an opium divas at No. 6, Jubilee Direct Twenty-three others were each fiaed $40 for smoking pou the primisen.)
Six Chinese opium smokers were arraigned on ine 4th iusi, before Judge Jenkids at Manila Four picaded gurity of a violation of the opium law, but asl were found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for three months each. - PRESIDENT Tazy Ching-ch'ung of the Ministry of Education, has suggested that marriages beiwecu parlics of the same surname should be permanently forbidden and this suggestion has been adopted by the Law Revision Uffice.
PRINCE Kung, Aati Opium. Commissio.er propuxes to tour in all the" provinces next moun, in order to investigate the results of the probibution of opium smoking and plantation, Bad ne test aga suspected opium-smoking atficials,
A CHINESE report says that the special Coli Inger (or Classici, Law, Philosophy, Lucra ture, Engineering, Commerce and Medicine in Peking were opened with an attendance of 272, aud that their expenditure would total: about Ti. 1,000,000 a year.
11 is stated that the Micutry of Finance as Poking has propated a financial statement of the country, do the bạis of the returns submit. ted by the differeut provinces, and according to this statement there is likely to be a yearly de- ficit of Tie, 20,000,000 for the Empire.
THE U. S, army transport Warm, will teach Maule about May 1. It will go from Suanghai to phong, lado-China, to load 8,000 barrels al cenient receatly purchased' for general use throughout the division. Part of this cemeat will be used for the construction of the sew hospital at Los Banos,
•
1
T. FOGARTY, a stoker on board H.M.S. Bedford, appeared in the Patice Court an Friday on charges of assaulnog P. C. Atwell and disorderly Bebaviour in Ship Street · Oa the fist charge the delinquent was fiand Sis while on the other charge he was awarded seven days' imprisonment without the option..
Chlon and Manila Steamship Company, Limited.......... Dunglas Steamship Company, Limited?... in sy
11
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld...
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. (Preferred)
Do.
Deferred) 60,000 "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited (2,000,000
"Star" Farry Company, Limited......
REFINERIES.
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited p
Laron Sugar Refining Company, Limited................. Parak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited.............................
MINING.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ld...... 1,000,000 Headwaters Mining Company eas
Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited Docks, WHARVES & GODOWNE
60,000 P1. 10 Ps. to
150,000
50,000
OF
Fenwick (Geo.) & Co., Limited
18,000
·S25.
$55
$5.
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Le... 60,000
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld. Shanghal Dock and Enginnering Od, Ld...........
Shanghal and Hongkew Wharf Company, Limited...
7
1*
LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS.
Anglo-French Land Investment Co, Ldo maana Central Stores, Limited ................. Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited ................matta, sa Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld. Humphreys Estato & Finance Company, Limited... Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited ...... Shanghai Land Investment Company; Limited- West Point Building Company, Limited
COTTON MILLE
Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, Ld... Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing
Company, Limited ..................
International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld.......
time. Customs at Amoy reports that the . Say Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited...ni · THE Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Mari-Lacnikeng-mow Cottes Spinning & Wearing Co., Ld. 7jibodas cast off two steam-launches, which she was towing, near Alligator Rock (probably on the 31st March). These launches are de tefict, and are possibly forming a danger to navigation in the Formosa Channel,
A WHITE Paper just issued shows that in the period ending. March 31 last the amount ex pended upon the naval base at Horgkong was £79.4h, mut of á tɔtal citimate in 1993 of 243,000; at the Straits Settlements 430,505. out of an estimate of £50,000; and at Wei-hat- wei £53,633 out of a total estimate of £53,000; sad L4.982 was spent upon rifle ranges at Singapore,
MISCELLANEOUS
Bell's Asbestor Eastern Agency, Limited China-Borneo Company, Limited Chips Light and Power Company, Limited Do. Do. special shares Chips Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld.
P50TRAPRO 49ERS ADID
Dairy Farm Company, Limited Green Island Cement Company, Limited.............. ..... H. Price & Company, Limited ...,senäblende Hongkong Electric Company, Limited .............. Hongkong Ice Company, Limited Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld..... Maatschappij tot Mijo, Bosch on Landbouwer
ploitatie in Langkat, Limited st Poak Tramways Company, Limited ..................... Peak Tramways Company (new)..................................... Philipplae Company, Limited
MR and Mrs. A. I. de Souza were among the passengers who arrived by ths Tenyo, Maru, They are staying at the Hongkong Hotel and will leave for Manila'by the Yuwita Maru. Mr. de Sones was formerly associated with Mr. "Charlie" Chaytor of the Kowloon Hotel ia the management of the famous Hotel de colleague made hosts of friends in that capacity, l'Europe of Singapore, and along with his
BEFORE Comd. Basil Taylor, 2.M., Marise Magistrate, op Toursday, Leg.Sargt, jackson, prosecuted Kwok Kam Shul, master of the steam launch Sum Saws, for failing to exhibit the regulation lights on the starboard side and light in the forepart of the launch at a height a red light on the port, side also a bright while | United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited above the deck not less than six feet whilst under way in the barbourat 7 p.m. on the roth 53, or ten days' hard labour. Inst. Defendant was found guilty and fined
Shanghal-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited ......
RETURN of visitors to the City Hall Library A PEKING dispatch says that, in spite of the and Museum for the week.euding the athirigent probibition of opium-smoking in April, 1910.
Library Museum
Non-Chinese..ent 488 178 Chinese ......
249 2,330 Total.....737 2,498 Faq & Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son we have received a copy of a new publication issued by them, descriptive of a trip to Poking, Dalny, Seoul and other places. As usual, like all their tourist publications it is a charming work, racy, redolent with the atmosphere of the Far Bast, and it should form an admirable com panion for those who are pleasure bound fa Ubios and Corey
Peking, secret violations have been frequent. In view of this tha Paklog Gendumerie hus drawn up a set of aw regulations for approval by the nti-Opium Commissioners. "Under these regulations any person allowing friends to m.koplum in his house shall be fed $1,000, or in default twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour; nad any one doing so for business shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life with burd labour,
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RETURNS of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of specia in reserve in March, 1910, as certified by the managers of Hongkong,—during-the-month-ended-31st-
the respective Banks :-
Banks
Average Specie In 'Amonal. . 'Reserve. Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and Chios,5 3,817,495 $1,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking: Corporation, 17,457,796. 13,09 National Bank of China,,
Limited,
42,190 nil
Total resting, 116,321,476 17,099,990
THE American fest' at prostat, in part will be staring shortly for the States. They will call on their way At Amoy where they will make a handsome presentation to the Chinese of a gold lined" sliver cup valued at $10,900. gold, in acknowledgment of the reception accorded. The Battleship dest: two yearı ago, The cùp is similar to this presented to the Japanese some time ago,
PAIN'S
H
South China Morning Post, Limited ........... Steam Laundry Company, Limited Union Waterboat Company, Limited ́
Watson (6.5.) & Co., Limited .................. William Powell, Limited
£175,000
4. DODG
43
fits
Final of 1/6 making 3/- for 1909 First year
Done
Dr.
No, 12 of 1/-=45 conte: 12 Men Öner
7 X
Tia. 18 sales
PL. to buyers
381 buyers
5449
Dz. 7,441
$1.75 far year nudity 31.12.06
$150,000
None...
Sto
559 sellers
$26,806
$46,000 588,443
1375
+33,000
laterim of $1† for account 190g dini qa Interim și Tisi z¿ for 1919.meman
0 %
TiL. Bo
140,000
115. by:,#571
Tis. 100
Final of Tis. 5 naking Tis, 10 for 1908
ཚོ་འབོ་ཚོ་སྒ་ ༨ཟླ་
50,000 -55,700 Tis, 100 Tis. 100
36,000 Tis:
f 13,000 8,000 50,000
25,000 Ti z 50,323
Tis. 100
$15
1: $5,000 $1,000
Tl 4,138
$19,373
B
517,9 1
$10.
226,945 .25.853
· [5,471'
Sa'9
umenia
Tis, & for your ending 292.09, savantsinman 51.20 on old and to conte da first now iss00. | Interià of 52:40. on old and 40 cents an
now statos fór account, 1909 Vörumer...) "Interm vi'gi lur account 1y09....... “64 X
45 cents for 1969 mmmmmmmmonARCOT ŞEYİNİ Sat for 1969
·st'%'
Tis, roz salloru: $16 buyers.
Sroy ez div.
$8ją uz div.
$100 3.
6 %
181 buyers
Sað buyers
Interim of Tis, 3 for account ayog
61 X
Floul of £1.85 for account 1999..........
TİK, 103 5. -Sćo sales
11958
Tix. 139) sellers
150,000
6,000 $50, $30
78,000 Tl. 50 Tis. 50 12,500 550 350.
15,000 Tis. 50 Tls. 5 125,000 $10 Sa
10,000 TL. 75-TI 25 8,000 TIL 100/Tis. 1 2,000 Tis. 400 TI, 50
Ľ.
8,604 12/5 12/6
داد
2004,
Its, 1x for year ending 31.10.09 50 cents fur your ending 31.7.08.
+
Clo. 74 far your anding 30.900.minephoek, aktyvi
Tix. 6 tar 1909 viimei
› #buyer
Ti 5 sellers
Fis, 20, Bellero
Tis, 100 ex div
I'
Ti 40,098
-15 991 $9.553
ན་*
T1⁄2 5,379
ria. 4,829
Tix. 50 for syno
Tis. 15,911
La48
561,138
15 % per share for 1993 Sen
110
60 cents for 1969 'winazineyewearkisme
10
50,000
$22 Siz
50,000 1
$10
bune
50 cents for year ended 18.206....
Sixt buyera Sa buyers
*50,000
SI
$35,000
$10
$1
$100, 300
$1,407
80 cents for 199
81%
182 buyers
40,000
571
36
$1,89
$1.10 for year ending 31.7.09 viskammenuiser
3.
Stöf buyers
400 000
510
$10
$15,000
Interim of 35 cents for account 1909
ta 2
53.716
12 000
$10
$10.
· $5,000
$670
8. cents for your ending 36.13,08
8
Szellers $12
60,000
$10
nobe
55195
St and bonus sa cu, for year ending 29.2.09.
6%
Sia bayers
Final of $8 for 1959
*
10 X
$150 m
5,000
Sas
60,000
*750,000 $20,000
57516
$$790
Final of St making în xil $3 for 1909 “anana.
Sza ». & salieri
Tia. 547,500
15,000 Gr. 100 Gt. 100 *5,000
Sto
Tis, 316,683
4th 101ncim of Tim, zaž for 1909
+$20,000
$2,304
docents on fully paid shares and 8 coats on g
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.DODG
PL 18,640
Tha: 1,475
$15.boyalı
$1.59 bayers Sta bayers
4
30,000 TIL 20. Tia. 30
'Tis. 14,810
Ti 75 0001
Til 5,250
Finai Tiu, 5 making Tis. 8 for 1908 ........
4%.
Tis, 285 buyers
6,000 20,000
Sis
Dr. $31,096
$25 buyers
$5 buyers
Sas
nans
50,000
Sto
none
$172
do cents for year ending 31.12,08 ̧é... easitai
· 39 sullars
10,000
53
90,000
Sta
Sta
$46,000 $200,0001
·5,000 $
5342
60 cents per ord, abure for year ending 31,5.09)|68 X
Siz sallers
52,611
Final of so cents for 1998. ..........is my
$61 buyers
15,000
57
$7
$782
BORS
1 year ended soch juna, 19od
(Fins) of so cis making to cts, for the?
30,000 $10 75,000 $10 Sao
Si paid shares for year ending 30409. [
40 cents for year ending 31:5:09 ammianum
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