·
Notices
NOTICE.
UNION WATERBOAT COM-
PANY LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE EIGHT ANNUAL GENE-
THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1913.
Entertainments -
VICTORIA THEATRE.
TO-NIGHT.
AT 9.15 p.m.
FOR A FEW MORE NIGHTS ONLY.
FROM AMERICA, DIRECT
HUGHES
BAL MEETING OF SHARE MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY
HOLDERS will be held in the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd, on THURSDAY, the 90th January, 1918 at noon, for the parpore of noriving the report of the General Managers to- gether with a statement of accounts te Bint December, 1912.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 22nd January to 30th January, "both dates inclusive.
DODWELL & CO., LTD. General Managers.
Hongkong, 20th Jag., 1913,
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BRITISH. NORTH BORNEO GOVERNMENT.
CONTRACT FOR PUBLIC
TB
WORKS.
OF as TALENTED ARTISTS-MOSTLY GIRLS.
AND 4 COMEDIANS-ALL FUNNY
HONGKONG'S OLD FAVORITE.
THE SPECULATORS with new songs, costumes and novelties. Prices, $2 and $1, Soldiers and Sailors 70 Cents.
Plan at MOUTRIE'S. MATINEES
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
Public Companies
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
BE. BRITISH NORTH BOR- HE NOTICE gîvon under date the
T
14th day of Jaanary, 1918 con NEO GOVERNMENT invite tenders for the construction of absui 12 vening an Extraordinary General Meet- Acres of Reclamation, the repairs of ing of the Green Island Cement Com and an exten inn of 800 feet to a Stoepany, Limited for Tuesday, the 21st and Ferry co orete Jetty, the supply and day of Januszy, 1918 at 12 o'clock laying of about 8 miles of 6" diar. nad anon is hereby cancelled.
1913 1 milu of laser Cast Iron Pipes, the Usted this 16th day of January, formation of an Earth Embankment,
SHEWAN TOMEN & CO. Oberal blatagere. the construction of a Waite-weir, Ser-
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT `vice Tanko eto, :' and the au ply and
GO., LTD. nction of Pumps, at Jesselton ; to: guthor with spallor Watery irks al Enedikna.
Cories of the Plans and Specifiction may be inspected at the Engineer's Offie any morning on and after Satu- day Fe ruary 1st 1913.
A 18 of Copies of the Drawings, Codi. one of Ontract, 8,clfies ion,
GREEN 18LAND. (EMENT COMPANY, LTD
Scheiul-s of Quantities, Bils of Frines NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
and Form of Tender may by obtained a
that an Extraordinary Deneral
the Engineer's Ofca on and after Meeting of the Grein Island Cement
Entertainment
BIJOU.
Special Announcement:— Miss CECILE STEPHANO (Classical Contraltı Vocalist.) · Makes hor First Appearance on Sat, 25th inst.
Banks
INTERNATIONAL BAŃKING
ORPORATION.
.com
Head Office:-60, Wall Street, New York. London Oficejő, Hishopsgata, B.CC-
BRANCHES
Bombay Calcutta
Canton
Cebu Colon Empire
Hongkong
hunkow
Capital and Reserv.......
Koba Alumila Maxica
Panama
Peking
San Francisco
Stanghe
Yokohama
.#7,050,000 (Gold)
boutin450,000
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING BUSI. NESS tem zied.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the noun).
Terms
DEPOSITS RECEIVED, deed for one year KL *2 per noom, ar for sboiter penods, at rates, which may be ascertained on applicazon.
HILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. MAIL and TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS" granted
on all the principal cities in the World
THE LANES CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT Aavallah is all over the World,
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT
Issued.
PURCHASE and SALE of 'Stocks and Shares
sected.
TRAVELLERS CHECKS wold and cashed,
GEORGE HOGO,
1
Manager.
9, Queen's Road, Hongkong.
Hongkong, let Noy., 1912
1
THE VOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED.
Yo
9.15
Established 1880. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 30,000,000 Paid-up Capital
17,500,000 Reserve Fund......
17
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TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMME. 9.15
Wigs, Wiffles, and A Widow. Motor Race at Dieppe, The Blind Beggar's Daughter. Oxford and Cambridge Boat race.
Latest War Views
AND
Miss DOLLY SWIFT
Miss ADA ROWLEY
In New Turns,
Saturday 25th inst.
The Mysteries of Paris.
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA.
Branches
Antung-Hsjon
Bombay " Calcutta Changchun Dairen Fengtien Harbin Hankow Honolulu
Koba
Liao-Yang
London
Satu day February 8.h. on presentation Company Limited will be held at the Public Companies Lyons
of One Hundred Dollar, Smits Cares of Messrs. Shewne Tomos & Co.
rency, returnable on receipt of a Dona Fide Tender.
Seals Tenders, accompanied by the above Dcuments, and upon the Form provided, must be deposited with the Engineer on or before Monday the 24th of February, 1913 at 12 noon.
The Government dos not bind itself
to accept the lowest or any tender.
M.B FRIEDBERGER,
Singapore,
"A. M. Inst. C.E.
Engineor.
1 A, Raffles'Quay,
6th Jan., 1018.
SE
1059
NOTICE.
WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS.
EALED TENDERS to re- scired at the Head Quarter Offico Victoria Barracks, Hongkong, until 12| noon on the dates shown against erch item, for the undermentioned supplies
and arvio n, for the period of one year commencing from 1st April, 1913, ex- copt for Barrack Services which is for a parird of three years..
{Transport
Services.
§ Suppites for Hospitals.
Meat. Forage.
Supplies for
Indian Troops. General Supplies
A."
Fuel:
{ Washing
Barrack
Services. General Services
**B,"
Tende sto be de- ́livered on 2 th
Jan.,, 1918, Tend in bade
livered on 3rd Feb., 1913.
Tentory bode livered on 5th Feb., 1918.
Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong on at B. G.orge's Building Chater Road, Saturday the 26th day of January 1918 at "Iz o'clock noon when the subjoined Re-
solutions will be proposed,
Teaders to bodo- livered on 6th Feb, 1918.
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION CO., LTD:
that
BUILDINGS,
(1) That the stem naudum of Agres.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
meat bearing date the minoseouth
the 1WELFTH UR- day of April 1912 and made DINARY MEETING of SHARE- between Joseph Whittlesey No HOLDERS in, the Company will be blu, the Honourable Mr. Edward | held at the Company's" OFFICE, Osborne, and the Honourable" VICTORIA Mr. Henry Edward Pollock Monday the 27th, Jan mary_1018, at (Members of the Committes ap- 11.80 s.m. for the purpose of receiving inted by the Shareholders of the Report of the Directors together the Grem Island Ormant Com-with a Statement of Accounts for the piny Limited at the Annual year ending 81st, Pecember 1912. General Meeting of that Com- pany bold on the twenty fifth day of March 1911) of the one part and Shewan Tomas & Co. in their capacity of General Managers of the Grusa Island Cement Company Limited of the other part ss upplemented by a letter bearing date the eighth day of May. 1912 ap addressed by the said Showan Tomes & Co. as such General Managers as aforesaid to the ab ve named Members of the "above me tioned Committee and
by the letter of such memberi answer thereto bearing date the 14th day of May 1912, be and the esine is Loroby ratified and enfirmed by the Shareholders of the said Company.
(2) That the regulations contained in the copy of the proposed new Articles of Association of the Green Island Cement Company Limited (which for the purpose
of indentification have been
subsoribed by Mossrs. Shewan Tomar & Co.. as General Managers of Fach Company, and which may be inspected by any Shareholder of the said Company at the Offices of the said "General Managers at 8t. George's Building, Chator Road, Victoria in the Colony of Hong- kong, or at the Offices of Messrs. Deacon Looker Descop and Harston at No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria.
aforesaid, on any weekday be tween the hours of 10's.m, and
THE REGISTER of the SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday Monday 27th January, 19 3 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered. By order of the Board of Directors.
E BRUCE SHEPHERD,
Asting Secretary.
Agencies at
Nagasaki Nowchwang New York
Osaka
Banks
́ONGRONG AND SHANGHAI
Ho
BANKING CORPORATION
རྒྱུ་བ་
PAID UP_DAFIZAL.>,000, | T/T.
RESERVE FUNDOS
יי
ENTIRE £1,600,000 84 3£2,000,000 Demand
ENERYS, LIABILITY or PRO
FRISTONS ...
COURT OF DIRECTORS
17,000,000 30 da
· 823,000,000 | 60 d/s
|_ E13,000,000
K. Shellin, Esq.---Chairman.
F. B. Armstrong. En – Deputy Chairman
-
6 H. Dodwell, Esq. W. I. Fattenden
J. A. Plummer, Ex EN
G. bay,
Q. B
G. B. Laurens, Esq.
F. Lieb, Keq.
Hou, Mr.How H. A. Aloha, Esq.
Cher MasARKE: Hongkong-N. J. STACK.
ACTING MANAGER. SHANGHAI-A. O. STEPHEN, London Barkka-Lomos Copaty AND WHIMIDOezes Bawk Lanteed,
HONGKONG-INTEKWT ALLOWED,
On Current Accounts să lâu xulu af ♬ per Cast, an inson khi Aly bulon
Đ. YTED DOEI
- For 1 months, 186 per Cust; per AXION. For : & manths, 176 per Cent, par ANNUM, For 12 months, é per Dani, per AnNUM. ME
N. J. ETARE, Chief Managne,
HỎNGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
THE Budnem of the abere Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAL BANKING CORPORATION. His may be obtained
application.
İNTEREST so deposlis it allowed
on the minimum monthly balances at Sij Pan Cass, per annUAL,
4 m/s
Exchange
Selling.
Buying.
4 m/s. L/C
.2)194
19/1
.2/134
.2/1 9/16
T/T. Shanghai T/T. Singapore:
T.T, Japan....
T.T. India
Demand. India: Demand, Manila
4 m/s. D/P!.
15/16 6 m/e. L/C
2/- 1/16 30d/s.3'ney & Melbourne....2/15%
71 30 dio. San F'co & New York. 51 8864 m/s. Marks
..154 6 m/s.
10116 BarSilver. ready
T/T. San F'co & Now York...5016
T/T. Java
T/T. Marks
217
100
.1532
4 m/s. France
$2.66
dó
.2.68
29
forward
2918
T/T. Francs
.18436 ↑ Gold Leaf per tael...
..211 | Bank of England rate, .2.6136 Sovereign
.$9.65
Subsidiary Coins.
Malwa, Old
2.450
Discount per $100
Chinese...20 ate. pieces...$6 1/16
Patna, Now
2,750 perche.
Chinese...10
...$614
Hongkong.20
...$5
Patna, Old
2,500
Hongkong.10
$69.
Opium Quotation..
Benares, New
2,800
Malwa, New
Jan. 17. $2,200 perpic.
Benares, Old.
2,625
SHARE REPORT.
5-SELLERS
SA-SALE
B-BUYERS
Stocks & PAID or Valur.
Closind
Qona
$835 ea. &s.
285/10
MARINE INSURANCE",
North China
Unions
$50 $26736
£5 T132 B.
$100 $81716
A.
Yangtzos
Depositor may transfer at their opties balances of $100 er mere te the Horaxton AND SHANGHAI Baane to be placed • Hồngkong & 9'hai 9125 FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 Pæn Core, per
For the HowexoM AND SHAMKA BaxKING CopPORATION,
N. J. STARE, Chief Manage
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
Cantons
FIRE INSURANCES. China"Fires
Hongkong Fires
SHIPPING.
£50 $19214 b.
$20 $150
China & Manilas 825 $10
LAST, DIVIDEND AND PATE,
£2.0.0 at ex 2-1/16 equal" to $19.95 for 1 year ending 30'6'12 ****
$18 for 1911 Interim of 10%, før 1911' Final of $20 making $50 for 1909 and Interim of $30 for 19/1
$12 for 1909 an 1 Int. of
$3 on account of 1910f
$7 & b's of $2 for 1910
$27 for 1910
5 p.c. for year end'g 30'6'12
year ending 30°6′12
(6 p.o. for year 1910 on
preferred shares
[1/- per share Coupon No
19
$50 $384
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853.
Pokin
HEAD OFFICE.-LONDON.
Ryolun Port
Paid-up Capital
£1,200,000 Douglas Steamship $50 $34
b.
(Arthur)
Reserve Fund...
£1,650,000 Steamboats.
San Francisco
Reserve Liability
$15 $28
b.
of
Shanghai,
Proprietors. £1,200,000 | Indo-Chinas
Tiehling
Tiontain
(Preferred) £5 680 (Deferred)
Tokyo
112/6
Interest Allowed on Curront Account.
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on application.
EISHI ONO,
Manager.
Hongkong, 11th Jan., 1913.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and
General Banking business trans- Shell" Transporte £1
acted.
"Star Ferry ".
R' FINERIES,
$1 for 1906
Dividend of $1 for hálf)
b.
15 p.o. for year ending
30.4.12
{$10 $36 China Sugara $100 $108 Ba. &c b. 85 for 1911 Luzon SugarS $100 $40 8.
63 for 1897 Chinese Engineeringe £1 35/-
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- ceived for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.
Wm. DICKSON, Manager. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE Raubs
[18 Capital Fully
Public Gompanies
NOTICE.
20th to THE CAINESE ENGINEERING
& MINING CO, LTD. (Incorpora ed 27th June 1911). NOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN
THE HONGKÒNG LAND IN- VESTMENT & AGENCY.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOT
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in this 00 PANY .ill
BANK.
[22
Tronohs
Paid-up...Sh. Taels 7,500,000 Head Office-Shanghai: Board of Directors-Berlin. Branches:
MINING.
£1 82/6 sà, & b
1/6 per shares final 1911)
(Coupon No. 18)
7/5 per share on 150,000 $3 for year end'g $1.12.11 $1 final dividend for}
year 1912
Tls. 3 for 191
Final of Tis. 8, making TIs.:
6 for 1191.
5
TlB. 6 29'2'10
$3 on old shares, $1.50)
on newshares for half
year 30'6'12
f. $115
b.
b.
b.
Int. div. of $314 for 1912
b.
40 cents for 1911
b.
$2.75 for 1911
5. p. o. for half to 30'6'12
b.
15 per cent. for 1910
DOCKS, WHARVES, & G'DOWNS Kowloon Wharfa. $50 $7711⁄2 sa, &b. H.K. &W'poa Docks$50 $56 sa. & b. Shanghai Dooks T. 100 T.64. b. Hongkow Wharfs T. 100 T.107
T い LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS. Berlin Calcutta Canton
Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94 Hamburg Hankow Kobe Poking Singapore Tientsin
Hongkong Hotels $50
$73 Teinanfu Teingtau Yokohama, LONDON BANKERS:
Hongkong Lands $100 $10416 Messrs. N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Humphreys Estates $10 $812 The Union of London and Smith's Kowloon Lands $30 $36.
Bank, Limited.
Shanghai Lands T. 30 T. 88 Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London West Points
$50 $57 Agency
Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8 Direction der Disconto Gesell- achaft.
T. 50 T.140 Ewos** INTEREST allowed on Current The Registered Gentilines will be Account. DEPOSITS received Hongkong Cottons $10 $814 exchanged at toe Transt Ollices of on terms which may be learned
$12 $10 the Company No. 26 Austin Friars, on application. Every description
$2.80 Lundus, EU, and may be lodged at of Banking and Exchange busi-Light and Powers $101
Do. (Spec. shares) $1 the Offices of the Company in eutsia ness transacted. to be forwarded to Le dua for tois
R. TIMMERSCHEIDT, China Providents $10 $934
Dairy Farms $6 $2214 b. ¡Manager. purpose.
12 Green Islands $10 $44
thing the Share Letifica es and the Share arrauts to bearer of the old Loupy can now be excuange 1 for those of the new Chinese Engiuseling and Mining Company, Limited.
.
COTTON MILLS,
MISCELLANEOUS.
China-Borneos
Interim div. of $2 for 1912
T4for year ended 31′1070)
T7 for year ended 20*12*10 f
50 cents 31.7.08
70 cents for 1911
$1.25 for year end'g 31*7′12
b.
b.
$1 for 1911
b.
-0.
40 cents for 1911·
b.
$1:40 per share
b.
Interim of $2 for 1912
$1 Interim account 1912
$19
g. 10 T.75
$25 $22 $10 $1116
b.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF Hongkong Electrics $10 $26
INDIA, LIMITED,"
be held at the COMPANY'S OF-' The Share Warrants to bearer of the Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911.. FIOES, VICTORIA BUILDINGS, old Company can be exchanged at the on Monday the 27 h, Jan, 1913, Offices of the Company in liesisin. noon, for the purpose of receiving the Stars Warrants with Coupons
Hongkong Ices $25 $200 Report of the Director together with Nos. 19 and 20 setached must be left Statement of Acounts for the yeu end-at the Company's Office for examination Authorised Capital ......£1,500,000 Hongkong Ropes $10 ing let; Desumber 1912.
and if 1..und to be in order the Share Subscribed The Register of Shares of the Com-Warrants of the new Company will be Paid Up, pany will be closed from Friday 17th to ready for delivery after 28 days or as Reserved Fund Munday 27th. January 1913 (both days soon thereafter as possible on payment inclusive), during which period no Tesn of the charges indarred by the Com for of Ebates can be regisered.
By Order of the Board of Directors, « MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE,
Ating Secretary.
[any.
By order of the Buard,
W. 8. NATHAN, gent & General Manager.
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PROVIDENT THE WEST POINT BUILDING
THE CHINA
LOAN AND MORTGAGE
CO., L
(CAPITAL PAID ur...$1,250,000.) Loans on Mortgage ut dous Prop rty
4 p.m.) be and the same are Goods received on Storage, lereby adopted as the Articles Advancez mide on Merchandise.
of the said Company to the ex-Loans made on the Provident.Bystem. clusion of and in substitution (Rates and Particulars on application), for all the existing Articles thereof.
Should the above Resolutious, be
Fonns and other particulars can be obtained personally between the hours of 10 am and 1pm., or by latter,' to the Officer Commanding Anny Sorties Corp, Victoria Barracks. The Tandar Forms must be properly filled up, sign- ed and dated, and no Tender wll be conside ed uBless made out of the pro- o Form and delivered at the Head Quarter Office by Noon on the abova dales in a closed cavolope marked Passed by the required majority they will be sumitted for confrmation an "and nocam-Special Resolutions to a sound panied by a deposit of (§) #5) or Extraordinary Meeting which will be (*)310 na guarantee of good faith; subrequently convened.
Dated thir 10th day of January 1913.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
*General Managers. GOLE ISLAND CEMENT CO. LTD.
Tender for
zach som to be forfeited to the State if Ve Tenderer refuses to accept a Con- tract alo ted to kia or If bafails to send in samples or to attend at the Head
Quote Off when called upon.
The right to reject any or all Tenders 4 specially reservei.
..'
Tun UFFICN or
TRUSTEE EXECUTOR. O WILLS, ATTORNEY, &o.,
Undertaken and Executed.
+
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
General Mannan.
COMPANY; LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the TWENTY. FIFTA
ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERBS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Building, on Moody the 27th January 1913 at 11.46 am, for the purpose of receiving the Reput of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending $1st,
Decem er, 19 2.
11
1,125,000 562,000 365,000 Langkats HEAD OFFICE: 40, Threadneedle Street, London, E.C. BRANCHES: Bombay. Kandy. Calcutta. Galle. Howrah. Singapore. Delhi. Penang..
Madras. Kota Bahm, Kelantan.
Karachi. Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S. Rangoon. Hongkong. Colombo. Shanghai.
AGENTS IN JAPAN: Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. BANKERS:.
Bank of England. London Joint Stock Bank, Ltd,
VERY description of Banking and Exchange business The Register of Sbaies of the Com-transacted. Stocks and Shares paay will be closed from Friday 17ib, bought and sold on account of lo Monday 27th, January 1918 (Both Constituents. Letters of Oredit 82 days inclusive), during which perio3 no granted on Agents and Corros-
transfer of Shares can be registered, pondents all over the world.
By Order of the Board of Direcion. Interest allowed on Current Ac- MOWBRAY 8. NOR COTE, counts at 2 per cent per annum Acting Becretary, on Daily Balance and on Fixed be Hongkong Lead Investment & Deposits at rates which may bo
ascertained an application.'"', Agency Co, Ltd.
F. C. MACDONALD,
Madlora and Fruit Cakes 60 and Co conts par lb. Wedding and Birth- day Osken from $1.00 per lb.
ALEXANDRA QAFE 00,
General Agʻatı für ilg West Point Building Company Ltd,
Manager,
Morning Post Peak Tramway
Do. (now) $1 31 Philippines
$10 35 H. Price & Co., Ld, $10 86
850 $80
Pre- Societe des ferrad
Pulpeset Paplerteries paid. du Tonkin up-250
Benefit $150 Shanghai-Sumatras T. 20 T.150" Steam Laundry United Asbestos)
Oriental Agency, $10 8914 Ld....... United Asbestos? Founders Shares Union Waterboat
Weismann, Ltd. Watson William Powell
b,
$10 $300
$10 $14
$10 $15
$10 $6.85 sà, &b)
189
b.
(Interim div. T.1, 15°3′19 Interim div. T.1, 15'6'12 Do. T.1, 159:12
Do. T.1bonus 16*12:12 None
80 conta on fully paid' shares and 8 cents on $1 paid shares foryear ending 30*4*12
None $1.50 for 1910
First year
No dividend this year 50 cts. for year end❜g 80′5′1
20 per cent, per ordinary share for year ended 31'5-1912
75 cents per share for) year ending31:12-1911).
10 per cent. for year?
ending 91*7*10
40 cents for 1911
Conected to 14-30. p. January 25 spy by WRIGHT AND HORNBY, Shery and General Broken De Vort Road Cananal Tal address Rectitude,
** The Telegraph “ doet men kald, italt miegasstate, fac say, of the above quam t'onse