Entertainments
THEATRE
BOYAL
Grand Concert
AND
Variety Entertainment:
nge of His Excellency the Hon.
Under the distinguished patron:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1913..
Entertainments ··
VICTORIA THEATRE
PROGRAMME:
THE BEAUTIFUL DRAMATIC · FILM.
(PATHE
COLOURED PICTURE)
Banks
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
CORPORATION.
Head Omon-6, Wall Street, 2uw York. London Dick 1-96, Bishopsgasa, BC,
BRANCHES
Bombay Calcutta
Cantón
Caba
..:
Coles
Hongkong Hankow
Empire
Banks,
Exchange
Selling, Ammanf
1/11 % 4 m/s. L/O
Buying,
2/9/16
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI T/T.
BANKING CORPORA Demand............................1/11 15/16 4 m/s, D/pts där!
TION,
T/T. Singapore
30 die
Paid-up Capital
$15,000,000 4 m/s
Kade
T/T. Shanghai
Maalia
Marico
RESERVE FUNDS
Priims
T/T. Japan
Peking
Sao Francisco Shanghai Yokel
Sterling
T/T. India ...
157
Demand India
Demand, Manila
£1,500,000 at 2/--
A
T/T. Java ......**ze..
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Silver
$15,000,000
17,450,000
T/T. Marks
T/T. Franos.
Subsidiary Coins.
Discount per $100
Capital and ReNY27,060,000 (Gull}
Mr. Claud Sever, the Officer The Madame Du Barry's FlirtationVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING BUSI
Administering the Government,
In aid of the
Diocesan Girls' School
Building Fund
On SATURDAY 'Evening,
and
Sept. 6th, at '9.15
Assisted by the
Bn. D.C.L.I. Stringed
Orchestra
Late Cars to 'the Peak.
Prices: $3.. $a & $1.
Booking at MOUTRIE'S.
FILLIS'
IN TWO PARTS
AND
A Beast at Bay,
THE COMIC PICTURES
"Why Wouldn't the Piano Play?
Diamond Cut Diamond An Aeroplane Elopement
AND
“STRIPES
PANORAMIC
Porcelain Industry in France.
A GRAND CHANGE OF PROGRAMME ON
CIRCUS. SUNDAY, 7TH SEPTMBER
LAST PERFORMANCE
OF
PRESENT
PROGRAMME
TO-NIGHT
20 STAR TURNS 20
INCLUDING ́ ́A THRILLING & SPLENDID DRAMA
ENTITLED
The Two Ship Owners
IN TWO PARTS.
BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE.
Prices of admissiont
Box 6 persons,
$15.00
Single box seat
$3.00
...
1st Chairs
$2,00 $1,00
50 Cents
The
2nd Chairs
Gallery --
Gallery (Natives only) 30 Cents Performance 9.13 p.m. SHARP. Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform
Half Price.
ist MATINEE, TO-DAY.
4 p.m. MATINEES
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY
AT 4 F.M.
Children half price to Matinees
only.
(
First Class Hotel Bar.
A. MILTHORP;
Agent,
BOXING
THEATRE ROYAL
SATURDAY, September 13, EUGENE COSTELLO (Walter- weight Champion of Honolulu and Vancouver).
V
SKY KERRISON
15 rounds
For Welterweight Championship
of the Orient.
i
Special 10 Rounds Lightweight Contest
Private HUMPHREYS (D.C.L.I.)
V.
Sapper RICHARDS (R. 'E.) ·
Featherweight Contest Private SMITH (D. C. L. I.)
V.
Gunner EDWARDS (R.G.A) 8 Rounds.
6 Round Middleweight Contest DICK BURGH, R.G.A,
V.
Private PILSBURY (D.O.L.L)
V.
6 Round Contest KID MARRIOTT
Gunner WILKS (R.G.A.) Great Weight Lifting Exhibition by
Private MOYH" (D.C.L.L.) Who will endeavour to break the
World's Amateur Record."
Prices: Ringside $5, Other Seats, $3, $2 and $1.
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'Booking at MOUTRIE'S and the GRAND HOTEL Commence at 9 p.m. sharp.
F.E. HALL, Promoter.
MARTIN'S
Martin's
Remedy for all Ermaduturg" }
** 21918 in the hous, so that the Keyh
WARREN BEDCHALmend them, benen Tükenilor, SENZORY COMMEN, Matkalupten, de #MARTIN'S
PROGRAMME FOR
TO-NIGHT
Black Countess.
IN 3 PARTS,
The Human Crocodile.
Jr
Pathe's InternationalTM Gazette.
THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
CONTAINS
ALL THE NEWS.
The most complete Mail Supplement in the Colony,
PHOTOGRAPH
Contains all the news of the week in a most attractive form and is the paper for mailing to friends at Home. The photograph this week is entitled "Typhoon August 17, 1913. "The Star Ferry Wharf."
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the sam
DEPOSITS RECEIVED, ärid, for one your ac
AX ET AUDEM, or for shorter pertoda, at rates, which may be macestalsed on application.
HILIS NEGOTIATED and
COLLECTED.
MAIL 960 TELEORAPHIC REMITTANCES sande.
LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted
on all the principal sities in the World
THE BANK'S CIRCLILAR -LEYTERS OF CREDIT 479 Available all pyre the Work
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT
Laund
* PURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and Sbar Fedacted, an
TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and castid,
ОКОНОЕ НОС, Manager.
--9, Queen's Road, Bongkong, Hongkong, lat Nov., 1912 1912
THE JOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, # LIMITED. ·-
Y
Established 1880.
Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 Paid-up Capital
30,000,000 18,200,000 Reserve Fund......
"
"1
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA
Branches Antung-Hsien Bombay
J.
Agencies at Nagasaki Newchwang New York Osaka Pekin
Ryoiun Port
"
6 m/s. LIC 1/16 2/-18 30 ds. S'ney & Melbourne · 21-36. 34 30 da. San Foo & New York. 4934 85144 m/s. Marks...... .....2.08.18.
14831
4 m/s. Franos.
496 m/s. do:
97 BarSilver, ready
T/T. San F'co & New York 4896
forward.
1203% Gold Leaf per tão!.!.
2,561
..2.5814
....27 7/16
.27%
......................................................202)| Bank of England rate .........434%
»2.51| Sovereign: ....
$10.05
-*• Aug. 15.
.3,500
"Opium, Quotation.
Malwa, New
$3.350 parplo."
Malwa, Qld
Patna, New
4,305 perche.
$8/1
Patna, Old...
4,250
$5-3/4
Benares, Naw
4:200
$7 34
Benares, Old."..
4,000
$32.450,000 Reserve Liability of
Chinese...20 ots,pieces $7 7/8.% -Proprietors..... $15,000,000 Chinese...10 COURT OF DIRECTORS Hongkong.20
S. H. Dodwell, Esq.-Chairman. Hongkong,10 Hon. Mr. D. Landale. Deputy
Chairman.
G. Friesland, Esq...
C. S. Gubbay, Esq.
P. H. Holyoak, Esq.
G. R. Laurent, Esq. F. Lieb, Esq.
W. L Pattenden, Esq.
J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon, Mr. E. Shellim. H. A. Siebs, Esq. CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-N.: J. Stabb. MANAGER. Shanghai-4. G, Stephen. London Bankers-London County and Westminster Limited.
+
SHAKE REPORT-
S-SELLERS
Stocks & PAID OP VILUN BANKS.
Hongkong & B'hai' $125,
BA-SALE
CLOSING Q`TOKI
$790 Ba, & b,
£32
#50 310 b."
MARINK INSURANCE), Cantons North China
T137 b.
Unions
$100 $785
*
Yangtzes
£50 $190
{
FIRE INSURANCES,
820 $148
Hongkong-Interest Allowed.
On Current Account at the rato of 2 per cent. per Annum on the daily balance.
ON FIXED DEPOSITS..
For 3 months. 2 per cent. per
Annum.
China Fires Hongkong Firea
SHIPPING.
250 $360 b. China & Manilas $25 $9 by Douglas Steamebip $50 $38
| Steamboats.
Indo-Chinas
b.
Calcutta Changchun
Dairen
Fengtien
Harbin
(Arthur)
群。
Hankow
San Franciso0|
Honolulu
Shanghai
$15 $281 a.
Kobe
Tiehling
Liac-Yang
Tientsin
London
Tokyo
Lyone
Los Angeles
Interest Allowed on Current Account.
For 6 months, 3 per cent. per
Annum.
(Preferred) (Deferred)
Shell" Transports £1
£5 $75
7|109/- 8~!
£11
b.
{$10 $57
'b.
Deposita received for fixed For 12 months, 4 per cent per "Star Ferry periods at rates to be obtained on: application.
EISHI ONO,.
Manager. Hongkong, 31st Mar., 1913.
Annum,
[18
N. J. STABB, Chief Manager
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
THE CHARTERED BANK OF! INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
i:
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853.
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
Paid-up Capital ........ .£1,200,000
.£1,700,000
Reserve Fund... Reserve Liability of
Proprietors.......£1,200,000
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business trans acted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- ceived for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.
A. S. HEWETT,
Acting Manager. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. 122
CONTENTS....
Pages.
Day by Day gemmmmm,`1 4 Governor General Forbes' Passenger Lists
Pages:
THE
Administration
80-61
Hotel Lists............................... Steamers ....FORE, KRYOMA YAP
.11
.61
.62
5- 6 7 Tooshin not Floated.....61 8-9" Work Too Hard ".
ton
:
.64
64
Commissioner Wong Szo-
Lang....2014) Legislative Council.........84 Reduction of Telegram
....64
Share Report.............. 10 The 8.8. Tai Ming Exchange.....
Motor Boats.................62 Commercial ................ 12-13 Hongkong Jockey Club...82 The Courts
14-22 The Nanking Trouble...... 63-63 Notes and Comments ...... 23-26 The "Min Kwan "in Can- Leading Articles
.........27-33 Telegrams
......84-45 46-52 Sport
.........53-56 Special Artioles Kowloon Railway Station 57 Canton and Macao Railway 57 Male Emigration ............58 Tommy Logan to the Fore 58 Hongkong University......58 Hongkong Government ...59 Qualified Auditors .........50 The Dumping Evil.........50- Hongkong "Joy Rides" 59 » The Court Cards "
.59
F
Bates....
Canton News ...
The Late Clock Tower
65-
Cricket Club Concert
66
60
Colonial Reliefs ............67
Brit Clock Tower
67
Rainfall in August
.67
67
Government Haste.......67
Austion of Vessels
Public Companies Public Companies
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO, LĐ.
THE Ordinary General Meet
ing of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices, on Wed- nesday the 24th of September at noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Man- agers, together with a Statement of Account to June 30th, 1913.
The Transfor Books will be closed from the 10th to the 24th of September, both days in- olusive.
DOUGLAS LA PRAIK & Co.,
Ganemi dansgezi, | Hangkang, Ard Sept, 1018-
HONGKONG & CHINA GAS COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE.
and from October 1st. 1913, the price of Gas to the Public will be reduced to $2.50 per 1,000 Cubic Fost.
By Order of the Directors,
J. MOQUBBIN. Acting Local Secretary and Resident Engineer
Notices
ORINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE
CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...61,250,000.)
REFINERIES. China Bugars $100 $97 Luzon Sugars $100 $35
MINING.
Chinese Engineerings £1'30/6
£1 58/- Tronohs THE
HE Business of the above
Raubs Bank is condicted by the DoCKS, WHARVES, & G'DOWNS. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Kowloon Wharfs $50 $92, BANKING OPORATION.
£1 83 b.
53
Rules may be obtained on ap- H.K. &W'poa Docks $50 $80
Shanghai Dooks T. 100 Plication.
Hongkew Wharfs T. 100 T.105 LANDS. HOTELS & BUILDINGs! Angio French Lands T.100 T.94 $125
INTEREST on deposits is al- lowed on the minimum monthly balances at $3 Per Cent per an-
num.
$90
b.
Depositors may transfer at theit option balances of $100 or more Hongkong Hotels $50 to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank; to be placed on FIXED Hongkong Lands $100 $114 sa. & b. DEPOSIT st 4 Per Cent. per
flumphreye Estates $10 89 b.
$30 $46 For the Hongkong and Shang-Kowloon Lands hai. Banking Corporation,
N.J. STABB, Chief Manager. Shanghai Lands T. 30 T. 90
annum.......
DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE
· BANK:
Capital Fully
Paid-up ...8h. Taols 7,500,000 Head Office-Shanghai. Board of Directors-Berlin. Branches: Caloutta Canton
Berlin.
Peking Singapore Tientsin Telnanfu Tsingtau Yokohama.
LONDON BANKERS:
Loans on Mortgago of House Pro-Hamburg Hankow Kobe perty, &c. Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Marchandise! Loans made on the Provident
System. (Rates and Particulars on ap-
plication).
OF
The Office of TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR
WILLS, ATTORNEY, &
Undertaken and Executed.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
General Managers, ・・ Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
32
Messrs. N. M. Rothschil & Sone. The Union of London and Smith's
Bank, Limited.. Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London Agency. Direction der Disconto Gesell schaft.
Dresdner Bank
$50 $72. 8.
West Points
Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8
COTTON MILLS.
T. 50 T. 124
B-BUYERS
AFT DIVIDEND AND DATA.
£2 at ex 1/1196 equal to'
$20.31 for 1 ending 30/6/13
Your
$18 for 1912 Final of 1" p.c, making
up.c. for 1911
Final of $20 making 850 for 1911 and Interim of $30 for 1912 Final of $12 mak. $15 for) 1911 & Int. of$3 for 1912)
$10 for 1911
$27 for 1911
$1 for 1906
$1,50 for year ond'g30′6′′12 Dividend of $1 for half)" your ending 31°12′12 · ƒ′′ (6 p.ò. for years 1912 and 1912 on preferred shares
(Final of 4/- making 6/
for yearending 31*18*12
Int. of 1/- alo. 913
$2 on 10,000 shares let issue $2 on 1,000 2nd
1
$1 on 1,000
19
3rd
for year ending 30413
$3 for 1912 $3 for 1897
Interim of 9p.o: 8 2/5d per sharo, Couoon No. 1 so-
count year 10.6.1 Int. of 2/8 & 1913 1/2 for 1909
$4.50 for year 1912.
91 final dividend for
year 1911
Tls. 3 for 1912
Interim of T's 3 for 1913
Tis. 6 29'2'10
$3 on old shares, $1.50)
on now sharesforhalf year 31*12*12
$314 for 14 year ending 30 6.13
50 cents for 1912
$2.80 for 1912
5p. o. for half to `30′8′′12) & final of 6 p.o. making
11 p.a. for 1912
making
82 for 4 year ending 30.6.12
15 per cent. for 1910
7 p.o, for year ending)
31°10′12
T,104b. ex div Tls. 10 for half year end-1
ing 30'6'13
Ewos Shanghai Cottons
1:
Laou Kung Mow Kung Yik
190
b.
13
Hongkong Cottons $10 $914
MISCELLANEOUS.
50.ceuta 31.7.08.
85 cents for 1912
b.
70 cents for 1912
b.
b.
China-BorneĆE $12 $10 Light and PowerE $10] Do. (Spec. shares) $1} China. Providents $10 Dairy Farms 36 $2714 Green Islands $10. $6 1/2" Hongkong Electrics $10 839)
825 $175 6. Hongkong Ices.
INTEREST allowed on Current Langkats Account. DEPOSITS received
on terms which may he learned
on application. Every description Morning Post
Hongkong Ropes
$10
€23 b
"
g. 10
T23
$25 $22
$10
$10
Do. (new) $1 92 R. R. TIMMERSCHEIDT, Hongkong Electric Tram-8/4) 6.
Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct. 1911.
18 Philippines
PEAK TRAMWAY CO of Banking and Exchange busi-Peak Tramway
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WREK DAYS.
7.00 A.M..Lo &DO AN. Event #1 M- 8,00 AM to 10.00 4.4.
10
11 30 AM, 10, 11-43 3.81° 2.49 P.M. ta
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7.4: #
11
1,45 7,M,* 4. 10 1.5 7.M. To $.00 7306. 5.00 PM to
NIGHT CARS. /go ami and o ̧nas, pijo FM. În
11.00*FM every half hour,
་
11.00 2M to 11:45 706.
every quarter of an hour.
4.00 M. 14
10:30 AM. ¡IIMS AM to
0 Nook to 1,00 1:1 5.00 7.14 to à00 PM..16 7:00 7.3. to
SUNDAYE.
10:30 am.. Byzay 15 Minu
11.00 A K.
+
10 MIN.
21-DD NOOK
*
jag Min:
200 73..
+1
1
JJ MIN
11
10 MIN.
2.00 V.M.
LI
1 MIN.
1.10 1.2.
11
6.00 $3.
10 Man.
NIGHT CARS 45 on Weak Dayal
BATURDAYS.
Extra" Care"at" in 'midnight. ·
SPECIAL CARE.
› Arrangutsání at'the Cómperiy's Office,
Alexanden Befidings, Dher" "Your" "Boedi
nosa transacted.
$10 $5 H. Prine & Co., Ld. $10
Pro- Bocieta dee ferred:
Pulpeset Peplerterios paid Authorised Tapital.....£1,500,000 du Tonkin Subscribed
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
INDIA, LIMITED.
Paid Up
Reserved Fund
"
静
· BANKERS:
$50120
up/$50 1,125,000
Benefit $200 $62,500 Shanghai-Sumatras T. 20 F.150 415,000 Steam Laundry
Bank of England. London Joint Stook Bank,
ate Limited.
Intereat allowed on Current Ao- counts at 2 per cent per annum on Daily Balance and on Fixed Deposita at rates which may be aspertalhed off Spplication. E
'A. R. LINTON
|
United Asbestos
Oriental Agency, $10 $914 b.
United Asbestos
Founders Shares) Union Waterboat
Welsmann, Ltd. Watson
william Powell
$10 $300,
$10 $17 1/2.
$10 $30
$10 $736
1011
B,
}
$1.25 for year end'g 31'7'12
40 cents for 1911
$1.60 per share for 1918
82 interim for 1913
$1 Interim for '913
Tis. 1 account 1913
None
80 cents on fully paid shares and 8 cents on
$1 paid shares for year ending 30.4.13
Final of $5 p..making
7 p.o. for 1912. : Noned) 20
$1.50 for 1910
None
No dividend this year 50 ots, for year end'g 31.5.1
20 per cent. per ordinary share for year ended 31*5*1912
$1 per share for year]
ending 31*12*1912.
25 per cent for year
ending 817110
60 cents for 1912.
40 cté, yearending 30'5'13 ·
Conected to go a Sept. 6 WRIGHT AND HORNBY, thers and Sandra) Brokeng "1 De Tariz Kald Chonam) Wil
Kadrovi Krgitada, MiaTiwagagli dom net wild fasalt responsibla m. may of Chaheen quotatione