Commercial
Rubber Share Market.
Mesara Zorn & Leigh-Hunt in their Mid-weekly Report on the Rubber Share Market and list of Quotations dated September 3.
state:**
The Rubber Share Market, has developed no decided tendency during the past week, and fluotun- ation have been confined to very narrow limits. The poor result. of the last actions, and a certain amount of nervousness us to the outcome of next week's sales, at
THE HONGKONG TELEGĦAPH, SATURUAI, DCTOBER 4, 1913.
Entimation,
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 sitraotive form and is the paper for mailing to friends at Home. The photograph this week is entitled Shaukiwan
which another large quantity of Day by day. rabber will be offered, have Passenger Lists ............. induced a little bear selling by Hotel Lists......ria
merket operators, but the effect
Steamers Corre-pondeneH
of this has been pretty well Commercial.... counterbalanced by some de
Shore Report The Courts
Leading Articles
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CONTENTS.
Pages.
Pages.
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5
1-3 Alice Memorial Hospital...50 pium Monopolies .........51 Croquet Tournament ... ..51 47 Piracy Erbo
............, 51 89 Godowa Gutted.....52 10-13 Naval Wedding ...... 52 14–15 Daring Burglary .................52 18-19 Ordinances Approved......52 .....20—27 | gival Sorvico Club ......... 53 28-33 Swimming Gala ....................53 34-38 St. Andrewe Society.....54 .......38-44 Death of R. A. M. 0. Man
..54 ......... 45-48.
40-560. S. R. O....................55 The Bay and the Coin. ...55 Canton News
...............55 Now Western Market......55 Absconding Foki.....
.....56
ealtory inverstment buying. There was one Fatialnatory feature at Telegrams last week's auctions, viz., the keen competition which
Notes and Comments.. istod for especially low-priced Special Articles lots, even those of somewhat Sport inferior quality,
Apparently General
a much larger amount of this Kowloon Cricket Club,...40 sort of rubber would have been Appointment........... 50 absorbed if it had been forthcom- Baptism by Immersion...50 ing-in other words, plantation H. F. Visit Convent z.60 rubber has now reached a prico
at which a very large demand,
exists. Taking the far-sighted Public Companies
view, this is a mhat cusouraging fact for the plantation industry. -It shows that we are still a long
THE DAIRY FARM Co.,
G.
way from any real overproduton, se the inferior wild rubbara re now beginning to feel the. in.
Limited,
evitable pinch, and, with planta-
tion ? rubber at its prezent quola- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
tion, they will be steadily push- ed out of the market. Recent "developments in the Congo Rub- ber market in Antwerp, and the THE SEVENTEENTH OR
DINARY
YEARLY
Notices
Sanitary Board Office, Hongkong.
·
ΤΟ THE OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. TAKE NOTICE that under No.
5 of CLEANLINESS and VENTIL-
the
DOMESTIO
Banks
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
CORPORATION.
Head Office-do, Wall Street, New York, - Imouton Offes ; mad, Bishopsgate, B.C.
Cib
BRANCHES-
Bombay
Calcutia
Coo
Colón
Empire
Hangbong
Hankow
Banks
T/T
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Demend..... BANKING CORPORA 30 als
Exchange
| T/T. Marks |
12/1/18 T/T. Francs...
2/8n Haiphong
7/3/18 On Saigon
Selling.
pm.
"。 pin.
.........................................2/+ 1/4 On Bangkok
*.7644
-2)- 5/16 **
Buying.
.7234 / 4 m/s L/O
2/-5/8
85 3/4'4 m/s. D/P
.21-3/4
Private 30 dis sight S'hui
73 6 m/s. L/C
/13/16
97343 d/s. S'ney & Melbourne 2-7/8.
.149430 d/s. San F'co & New York. 494
1494 m/s, Marks
201
149 1/2 4.m/s. Francs.
239
.1494 8 m/s, do
287/16
28 3/8
5.40-
:5%
.$9.90
TION,
160.d/e
14 m/s
| Paid-up Capital
$13,000.00
Kobe
Manila
Mainu
RESERVE FUNDS:
Penana
Paking
San Francisco
Shanghai
Sterling "
Yokohama
£1,500,000 at 2/
$15,000,000
Silver
17,450,000
Capital and RuterTR..................................$7,360,000 (Gold)
about...
OF BANKING BUSI
EVERY DESCRIPTION NESS IESMĖtad.
CUREENT ACCOUNTS opened on the stum DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fasd for ce year t 4X SIE BIKES, ON (or shorter perioada, ut rutus, which may be nacurtained on application
BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. MAIL 14 TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES mada.
LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted on all the principal cities in the World. "THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are sellable all over the Warid
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT
kand.
PURCHASE and KALE of Stocks and Shares affected,
TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and curbed,
GEORGE HOGO, Manager,
9, Queen's Road, Bongsone Hongkong, 1st Nor., 1912
THE
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YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED.
Established 1880. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 Paid-up Capital 30,000,000 Reserve Fund
18;550,000
+1
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA.
Bombay
Agencies at Nagasaki Nowohwang
Branches Antung-Hsien
Calcutta Changchun
New York
Овака
Petla.
Ryoun
Port
(Arthur)
San Francisco
Shanghai
Tishling
Liso-Yang London Lyons
Tientsin
Tokyo
Dairen Fengtier Harbin Hankow Honolulu Kobe
Los Angeles
Interest Allowed on Current, Account.
18
abandonment of rubbar collecting MEETING of Shareholders in
Deposits received for fixed hy the late King Leopold'e famous the above Company will be held ATION BYELAWS (as amended), periods at rates to be obtained on Kasai Company, afford ariking at the Company's Town Office, every domestic building or part application.
such building within the proofs of the way things are 2 Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, of going. When it is remembered on SATURDAY the 11th October EASTERN Division of the City how vast a proportion of the total 1913 at 12.30 p.m. for the purpose rubber output for the world has of presenting the Report of the hitherto been made up of inferior Directors and Statement of Ae: wild grados, it can easily be eren counts to 31st July 1913.
THE TRANSFER BOOKS of that plantation rubber around 20 the Company wil be CLOSED per lb. is bound to ospture this from 1st to 11th October 1913 great section of the market-leay- both days inclusive. ing out of the question altogether
what may be the ultimate outcome
By Order,
M. MANUK,
Secretary.
Notices
NOTICE.
CHINESE TELEGRAPH
ADMINISTRATION.
of competition "with Hard Fine Pera. With the economies which are doubtless being effected by plantation companies as a diret outcome of the recent bevere fall in the price of the raw material, half-a-brown per lb, will be by no means an unprofitable telling price as soon as conditions have adjusted themselves and yet it is a sufficiently low figure to achieve the result, we hire In the just ketched out. meantime, it is interesting to note that the average price to date of all grades of plantation rubber for this year is nearly 3/3 per 15, in spite of the low quotation, the undersigned, bug to in form the public that the which has been ruling of late. Central Government. at Peking! Even with a continuance of the has appointed me Managerofthis present price, fe average for the Administration in Hongkong and whole of 1913 would work out from to-day, all responsibitles in at about 3/0 per lb. Allowing connection with this Administra for the enormously increased tion will devolve upon me.. outputs of individual companies, there is no reason why the results! of the carrent year's operations should not be of a much -ziore, satisfactory nature than is anti- cipated in some quarters.
Anglo-Ceylons offer at 3, and
WONG TING-CHAN, Hongkong, lat October, 1913.
NOTICE.
Anglo-Dutch at 18/41 9/3 in bid E have this day transferred our Piano and Music Dept. for Anglo-Maley. Butang Mola- kas are obtainable at 1 and to Mr. Wm. Anderson, who will Batu Caves as 114 Borneo carry on the business from his date at No. 6. Des Voeux Road, Central
Trusts have been enquired for
up to 13/6. Bukit Kajanga are
LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
wanted at 2, and Bukit Rajabs at Hongkong. Oct. 1st, 1913)* -
7. Castlefielda have been taken.
at 4, and Chersonesa at 210.
EISHI ONO,
Manager. of Victoria, occupied by Members Hongkong, 30th Sept., 1913. of more than one family, except those within the European Re- servation or in Kowloon South of THE CHARTERED BANK OF
· INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND Austin Road or those parte of a
CHINA. domestic building used as a Shop,
must Office or Godown, CLEANSED & LIMEWASHED THROUGHOUT by the owners during the months of October and: November.
be
N.B. The word "throughout" used in this notice means that the houses should be Limewashed in re-pect of all the Walle of each Room, all Cubicles, Partitione, Stair Casings and Stair Lininge, all Ceilings and the Undersides of Ruofs in Main Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters and inclu sive of Verandahs.
The Backyard must have its
T/T Shanghai
T/T Singapore
TT Japan
T/T India .. ....................
T/T Bombay
Demand Bombay,
T/T Caloutta Demand Calcutta Demand India Deroand Manila
,149 1/4 | BarSilver. rendy .149 P
.. forward
....9811⁄2 | Gold Leaf portaok York 48 5/8! Bank of England rats
..12€ 1/2 | Sovereign --
Opium Quotation
Aug 15. ...$3.350 perpio.
3,500.
*hct at,6it,
་་
4.305 perche.
4,250
T/T. San Fou-& Now
T/T. Java
Subsidiary Coins.
$32.450,000
Discount per $100-
Chinese ...20 ota.pieces 18% %% Chinese...10 Hongkong.20 Hongkong.10
$83:8
161⁄44 38
Malwa, Now Malwa, Old Patna, New Patna, Old.... Benares, New
Reserve Liability of
$15,000,000 Proprietors.............
COURT OF DIRECTORS.
S. H. Dodwell, Esq,-Chairman. Hón. Mr. D. Landale.-Deputy
Chairman.
G. Friesland, Esq.
0. 8. Gubbay, Esq.
P. H. Holyoak, Esq.
G. N. Lauronz, Esq. F. Lieb, Esq.
W. L..Pattenden, Esq. J. A Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Sioba, Esq. OHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. Stabb.
MANAGER. Shanghai-A. G. Stephen. London Bankers--London' County and Westminster Limited.
Hongkong Interest "Allowed.
On Lurrent Account at the rate of 2 per cent per Annum on the {daily balance
ON FIXED DEPOSITS.
For 3 months. 2 per cent per
Annum.
For 6 months. 3 per cent. per
Annum.
For 12 months, 4 per cent per
Annum.
'N J. STABB, Chief Manager
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
Bouares, Old...
SHARE REPORT.
JALASK
3-SELLERS
Stock & Paid ur Valge, BANKS.
$788 #.
Hongkong & S'hai $125
£79
9 $50
1335
b
£5
T137) b.
MARINE INSURANCEA, Cantons North China
Unions
Yangtzes.
D-BUYERS
4.200
-4.000
CLOSING
$100 $7,86 b
IONS
AIT DAYIDEND AND TALK.
£2 at ex / 156" oqual to $20.31 for 4 year
ending 30/6/13
$18 for 19:
น
Final of 1p.c..making
20 p.c. for 1911
Final of $20 making $50
for 1911 and Interim. of $30 for 1912. Final of $12 mak. $15 fort 1911 & Int of$3 for 9.21
$10 for 1911
£50 61923
: FIRE INSURANCES.
.820 6149
b.
$27 for 1911
China Firea Hongkong Fires $50 $368 h.
SHIPPING. China & Manilas 825 : 48° Douglas Steamship 850 1633)
Steamboats
.J
Indo-Chinas
(Preferred) (Deferred)
1
$15628/6
}
£5
3180
106/-
Shell" Transports £1
تا
$1 for 1906
$2.50 for year end g 30'6'19 Interim of $1 for half)
year ending 30 613 16 pc. for year 1912 on
preferred shares
(Final of 4 making 6. for yearending 31'12*12. "Int, of 1/- a/c. 1913
$2 on 1, shares let issue $ on 1,00
$1 on 1,000
"Star Ferry
{$10 65714b.
REFINERIES
$100 $95
$3 for 1912
THE Business of the above China Sugars
Bank is conducted by the Luzon Sugare $100 $35
MINING. BONGKONG AND SHANGHAI CORPORATION. BANKING
Rules may be obtained on ap- plication.
Chinese Engineeringa £142/6
2nd " 3rd
for year ending 304′13
$3 for 1897
Interim of 3 pic. 8 2/5 per
ehare. Coupon No. 1 ac count year 10.6.12
£1 151/3
Int of 6 &
£1 $3.10
6.
1/2 for 1909
& b
Tronoba INTEREST on deposits is al-
"Raubs lowed on the minimum monthly back, wHARVIS, & B'DOWNS balances at $3 Per Cent per an-Kowloon Wharfs $50 $90
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853. HEAD OFFICE-LONDON." Depositors may transfer at their H.K. & W'poa Docks $50 $78 h.
option balances of $100 or more. Shanghai Docks T. 100, 54 Paid-up Capital · Reserve Fund.£1,700,000 to the Hongkong and Shanghai Hongkew Wharfe T. 100 r.106-
FIXED Bank to be placed on Reserve Liability of
...£1,200,000
Bnnum
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business trans-hai acted.
For the Hongkong and Shang-
Banking Corporation,
Hongkong Hotels $50||
1913
$4.50 for year 1912
for}
1 final dividend for?
year 1911
b.
TIM. 3 for 1912
Proprietors £1,200,000 DEPOSIT 4 Per Cont. por LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINMANİ
Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94 £125
$90 |Hongkong Lands $100 $113 EUTSCH ASIATISCHE Humphreys Estates $10 694 s. DEUTS BANK.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re-
coived for 1 year or shorter periods
Containing Walls limewashed up at rates which will be quoted on
to the level of the First Floor: application.
Carved, Painted or Polished. Woodwork in good condition,
A. 3. HEWETT,
Acting Manager.
Notices
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD, (Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.) Loans on Mortgage of House Pro- perty, &c.
however, need not be Lime. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. [22 washed, but must be Cleansed.
The EASTERN Division of the City is bounded on the West by Gilman Street and Peel Street. Kowloon is divided into the THE Eastern and Western divisions by Nathan Road and a straight line drawn from the North thereof through the Yaumati service re- servoir to the Northern boundary of Kowloon,
Dated this 1st day of October Goods received on Storage.
Advances made on Merchandise: 1913.
W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS. Loans made on the Provident
Systém. Secretary.
(Rates and Particulars on ap-
plication).
G.
R.
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. Evening Classes in the Fol- lowing Subjects will com- mence on Monday, the 6th of October -
Duokwari are 2/0 bid. The offer have this day taken over the Engineering Section.
Piano and Music Dept. of
of F.M.8 around 17 is still Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., wanted. A bid of 2 7 8 is want-and will carry, on the business ed for a few General Cerlone, from this date at No. 6. Des Vœux There are buyers of Golden Road, Central, tinder the name of Hopes at
Highlands, the Anderson Music Coy.
WM. ANDERSON. after being taken at 21, have,
2.
receded to 2.5.16 sellers. Java Hongkong, Ist Oct., 913,
Rubber Plantations are obtainable at 14, but 11-32 is bid for Java Para, 1.9-10 for Jong Landor, and 330 for Jugca Lands. Kepitigallae have dwindled to 15/0. Baying orders, principally for foreign account, bave taken the price of Kuslan up to 44. 2.1-16 is bid for Langkat Puin trag, but Lankat Rubber offer, at 2.3-16. The quotations for Ling- | gia has see-sawed "between 14/0; and 14/9, and at the lower figure shares are briskly bid for. London Asiatica are wanted at 7/41. Malaccas have risen t
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SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
EAK TRAMWAT ¦) LIMITED.
PEAR
TIME TABLE.
7,00 8.1, 10
Š.00 AM, CO
WEEK DAYS.
5.00 . EVERY 15 MIN. 10:00 AM. 10.00 AM, to 12:00 AM IT30 AM SO mas Falla vo 11.45 PM to Tis Pa
3.5 r.. to LAS 2.M. to <M.ES P.34, to
3.00 7.3. 10
1.45 P.M.
5.00 7.3,
1.10 7.3. NIGHT CARS.
וז
zo Mix.
as man.
1 Man.
TO MIN.
so Max.
25 Ms.
Is. Mor.
Br.se, and M. -30% to
£1.00 "every half hour
11.00 °F.M*10*$1.45 PM.
Every quarter of ambour, SUNDAYS.
8.00 AM to 10.30 AM, Exery is due.
10,30 A.M. to 17.00 AM
11.00 NOON 20: 1,00 T30
50 MW.
$1,45 A.M. TO 210 No
*
IS MIN.
#
10 MIN.
15 MIN.
3.00 3. 20
6.00 PM.
34
10 MIN.
300
M. 10
7.00 P..
15 M32.
1.00 PM. to 5.00 7.1;
1,09 PM, to
3.10 1.3.
NIGHT CARS as on' Week Days.
་་་་་་་
SATURDAYS.
Batra' Cara-Cas 'ism midnight. SPECIAL' CARS.
By Arrangement at the Company 1 Gilson Alexander Buildings,
- Du Væss · Road+
32
N.J. STABB, Chief Manager,
Capital Fully
•
•
Kowloon Lande $30 1845
T91 Shanghai Lands T. 30
West Point
$50 $72
Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8
COTTON MILLS. Ewos
T. 50 T. 143 b Shanghai Cottons
T, 116
a.
8,
Paid-up...Sh. Taola 7,500,00 Head Office-Shanghai. Board of Directors-Berlin. Branches: Berlin Caloutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe" Poking Singapore Tientsin Tsinanfu Teingtau Yokohama. LONDON BANKERS:
10.b. Mesara. N. M. Rothschil & Sons. Laou Kung Mow
1131. D. The Union of London and Smith's Kung Yik
Bank, Limited.
Hongkong Cottons $10 $9 Deutsche Bank (Borlin), London
China-Borneos $12 $9 Kgónov.
4 Direction der Disconto Gesell-Light and Powers $101
Do. (Spec. shares) $1 schaft,
China Providents $10 89
$6 1828 Dairy Farms Green Islanda $10-$6 30 Hongkong Electrice $10 $41
Ioes Hongkong
$25 $160. Hongkong Ropes $10323
Dresdner Bank. INTEREST allowed on Current Account, DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange busi ness transacted.
R. TIMMERSCHEIDT.
Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Langkate
A
12 Morning Post
Poak Tramway
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
"
Interlin of Tla 3 for 19 3
Tla. 6 29'2*10
$3 on old shares, $1.50)
$3
on new shares for half
year 31°12′12...
for year unding
30 6.13
50 cents for 1912”.
$2.80 for 1912
Interim of 5 p.c. for half
year ending 30'6")3
*2 for 14 year ending 30.6.13
15 per cent. for 1910
7.p.6. for year ending)
310 12
ending} end-1
Tia. 10 for year end-1
ing 30'6'13
50 cents 31.7.08
b.
85 cents for 1912
母
B. 10 7 Ba,
$25 $22 $10 $1014 8.
Do. (now) #1 90 ota. Hongkong Electric Tram49/6 s. INDIA, LIMITED. ... Authorised Capital.......£1,500,000 Philippines $10 $5 1,125,000 H. Price & Co., Ld. $10 66 Subscribed
562,500 Paid Up
Pro 415,000 Societe den førred
Pulpeset
$50 $20 Papierterier paid
12
Reserved Fund
BANKERS:
Bank of England, London Joint Stock Bank, Limited.
Interest allowed on Current Alo- counts at 2 per cent per annum
du Tonkin up $50
Benet $200 Shanghai-Sumatras E. 20,T.150 Steam Laundry $5 184 United Asbestos)
Oriental Agency,> $10 8916 b. Ld......
on Daily Balanss and on Fixed United Asbestos $10 $300 Deposite at rates which may be Founders Shares sscertained on application.
i
AR LINTON Union Waterboat $10 817 1/2 b.
Weismann, Ltd. 810 830
THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Watson Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled, William Powell For Broad, Cakes, Confectionery. meals with Wines & Liquers,
8.
810 574an. Bi be
$10
DTM
· Comclid, va 1999 pm. Odl.“
70 cents for 1912
61.25 for year end'g 31'7′12
40 cents for 1911:
$1.60 per share for 1919
$2 interim for 3913 $1 interim for 913
Interim of T. 1 mál ing Tls. 2 a/c 1913 Noue
80 cents on fully paid) shares and 8 cents on $1paidebares for year ending 30.4.13 "Final of $5 p.
making
7 p.a. for 1912. None $1.50 for 1910
Моле
No dividend this year
50'cts. for year and g 31.5.12
(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 81711
60 cents for 1912
40 ets. yearending 80'8'12 WRIGHT AND HORNBY, 400 144
General brokers & Da Yocus Road Carl Wal, address Acestude
Abi Tolegraph dom ant hold, imeif qesponsible or any of the abere sončilicosi