Commercial.
JAPAN S TRADE WITH CHINA.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
gone on until nearly three o'clock bebefore I have taken my first meal in the day. T
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Banks
INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION;
*Hand Office vindos Wall Street, New York,"
London Disc;36, Bishopsgata, K.C
BRANCHES :-)
Bombay Calcats
Callou
Cabe Col
BIT
Horgione
·Hats --
Capitalase Surplus de
Yokabama
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING BUSI "CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the musi
terms.
NOVEMBER
1913.
Banks
TT ONGKONG & SHANGHAI Demand
··· BANKING CORPORA- | 10.d/s
TION.
60'd,s 4 m/s
RESERVE FUNDS;
$15,000,00
Selling
20242
Exchange
F&M T/T. Marks
1/11 9/4 T/T: Francs 1/11, 13/16On Haiphong
1/11 7/8 On Saigon ege .1/11 15/16 On Bangkok)
...................73 4 m/s. L/C 84 9/4 4 m/s, D/P
96 30d/s.8'ney & Melbourne
TTIndia.......1473,330 ds. Ban Feo & New York. 4876
fo pm.
Buyi
21-3/8
::8/~9/16 ···
2-5/8
Paid-up Capital.
T/T Shanghai
Manija
T/T Bingapore
Mendes
Private 30 d/s aight S'haf 73% 6 m/s. L/O
PORAIS
Paking
T/T Japan
San Francisco
Storling
Shanghal
T/T Bombayda
..147]} 4/m/s. Marks
Gold
£1,500,000 at! 2/
$15,000,000
Demand Bombay
-147944 m/e, France
T/T Calcutta
147 6 m/s, do
Demand Calcutta
1471⁄2 Barfilver, ready.
Demand India..
147 forward
Demand Manila. "
97
TT. Java
120 (Sovereign
$32.450,000
Subsidiary Coins. Discount per $100
Oplum Quotation
"DEPOSITE RECEIVED, find-lor one-year at 4X PRE GONBI, or for shorter periode, st rates, walch
NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED.
easereload of applica
LETTERS OF CREDIT 104 DRAFTS-KIRSZÁG
the principal cities in the Worldhe
RCHASE
DOMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT PURCHASE and. SALE of Stocks und Säure TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and exsbad,
SZOROS HOGO,
Bagages.
9, Qacau's Road, Hunghua £
190
Ho gkong, 18 Nov., 1912 -
Eastern Produce Company, A circular has been issued to the shareholders of the Eastern Produce and Estates Company,
As I am what the world calls a Limited, which is as follows: vegetarian-because I don't live Trade with China, which The directors would remind on vegetables-the regulation been gradually recovering of late, the shareholders that the resolu- maintinal bacon finds no place in has now become remarkably brisk, tione proposed to be submitted to my menu, any more than does says the Kobe Herald. The silvor the extraordinary general meet other flesh food. I eat two egge, bullion market is calm, and, using at the close of the twenty between two and three ounces of result, the fluotuation of exchange ith annual general meating, held cheese, a roll, weighing probably rates is now normal, Acoo:dingly, on April 25 fast, wore withirawn three ounces, or a couple of slices even those concerns which had in order to allord some of the of toast, with some butler, little heen hesitating to enter into larger shareholders further time jim, marmalade, or honey, some- transactions with Chinese er for considering their proposals times varied with a macaroon, chants, bave started to export During t at interval, however, and drink & small teacup of coffee, their commodities. Moreover questions were raised regarding from which the caffeine or been the demand for matches and other the power of the company to un-removed. On this I work untilAIL and EELKURAPHIC REMITTANCES mmodities in China has greatly dertake business of an engineer fast bill of fare in moat particulars; JANES CIRCULAR LETTERS OF
dinner, which repeats the breakd increased and orders are pouring ing character beyond that sere in. Match manufacturers are not sary for the goueral upkeep of its except that I do not take coffee, capo sreliable all on the World, able to meet the demand. Men own fantories and estates in Cey-but substitute for it some dried dealing with the Shanghai market lon, and in order to get all doubts milk rubbed into a thick paste are doing a most furishing at rest, a adulition to the com- with a little ordinary milk, and I business. The Shanghai steamers pany'smeraorandum of association generally add some salad or to- are unable to take all the exports was unanimously agreed to by the mitoes and fruit in place of the that are offering The Steamship shareholders at extraordinary preserve or macaroon. Companies bave been forced to general meetings held on June 2 The result of cutting down my put on additional ›hipe.
and June 18, 1013. The accemeals to two, with long intervala sion to the powers of the company before hall-past saven or eight between, for I rarely have diener Messrs. Wheelock and Co., thereby sanctioned Shanghai, in their freight-roport sequently ratified by the High 'clock, has been that I gradally dated October 30, state:Since Court on July 22, 1913. There lost my dyspepsis, and now ent Inst. writing there have been remains the subject of obtaining anything with perfect comfort
umerous enquiries from Hankow additional capital required to meet M-friends constantly ask me for space for seeds to Europe for the outlay on development during a hother I do not find my diet December sailing and prospects the last three years of the on-monotonous. I don't. I have a point to a fairly large export in gineering branch of the company's healthy appetite, and I enjoy this commodity during the com- business in Ceylon under the everything I oat so thoroughly ing season but locally, there is heads of plant and working capi- that I would not now return to Antung-Heien very little export inoviag: protal. As shareholders are aware, three meals a day. As a matter Bombay spects for linseed from the North the existing capital of this com- of fact, being one of the spare Calcutta
pany consists of £375,000, divided ind. I was rather anxious a little Changchun likely that vary litla will be done into 72,000 proference shares of while ago to put on some weight Dairen. in this line during this season. £1 each and 303,000 ordinary My doctor friend suggested that Fengtien Conditions on the coast remain shares of $1 each, all of which I should try doing it by eating aro in pretty much the same efate a bave been issued. The directors breakfast, when we last wroto;-there are a
now propose to increase the pre-demands of digestion interfered few orders for trip-chartets, prin- opally coal, in the market but sent ordinary share capital of unduly with the ease with which Lino-Yang.
£303,000 to £333,000 by the I did my work, so I gave it ap London the same scorcity of tonnage pre-creation of 30,000 new ordinary and went back to my no breakfast Lyons voile and intending charterers shares of-£1 cach, at the price of lau. will not also their rates enough to tempt owners to look at their
· Freight Repört.
are still uncertain and it seems
offers.
Brazilian Rubber:
Wag 11.
$2 for each new ordinary share, payable as follows:-53, upon
I found that the
THE OKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED.
Established 1880.. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 30,000,000 Paid-up Capital ....
18,550,000 Reserve Fund
Branches
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA.
Agencies at Nagasaki Newchwang New York Osaka Pekin Ryolun "Port (Arthur)
Hankow Honolulu Kobo
San Francisco Shanghai Tiebling Tientsin. Tokya
Los Angeles
:
Interest, Allowed on Current Account. Deposite received for fired
application.
Companies periods of rates to be obtained on
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA STEAM FISHERIES Co., Ltd.
application, and the balance, el Public 15., upon allotment. It is pro- posed to offer those now ordinary shares immediately the statutory requirements have been complied with to those sharehol lers then daly registered as holders of or dinary shares, in proportion t teir intereat, but no shareholde THE
A Rio de Janeiro de patch dated September 20, says At a Council of Ministers to-day Mar- sball Hermes do Fonsee confirm ed the measures decided upon recently to reduce immediately the 10 per cent. export duty on rubber from Acre, and to ask Congress for authorisation to carry the reduction to 50 per cent.; and, secondly, to endeavour to obtain from the Amazon u.vig ation companies possible reduc- tion in freights. The President ing the final dividend in respect added that the Government was of the year 1013,. atudying with a favourable eye the question of a reduction in im. port duties, and would give its support to all the measures pro posed by Parliament, so long 58 they did not hinder the vital in- terests of the union Dr Pedro de Toledo, the Minister of Agricul- ture, explained how the bill for
EARLY BREAKFAST.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
..
EISHI ONO,
Manager. Hongkong, 30th Bapt., 1913.
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND -CHINA-
*Silver 17,450,000
Rearove Liability of
Gold Leaf pertaul
T/T. San F'ou & New York. 48 Bank of England rate.
Proprietors..........$15,000,000 Jhinese 20 ats. pieces $8 3/4%
COURT OF DIRECTORS.
S. H. Dodwell, Esq., Chairman. Chinese...10 Hen. Mr. D. Landale. Deputy Hongkong.20
Chairman,
G. Friesland, Esq,
E. Goetz, Esq. 0.8. Gubbay, Esq.
P. H. Holyoak, Esq.
G. R. Laurent, Esq. W. L. Pattenden, Esq. J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Ahellim, B. A. Siebs, Esq. CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong N. J. Stabb. MANAGER. Shanghai-A. G. Stephen. London Bankere-London "County and Westminster
Limited:
Hongkong-Interest Allowed.
On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. per Annum on the daily balance
ON FIXED DEPOSITS
For 3 months, 2 per cent per
Аппит.
For 6 months. 8 per cent por
Ánnum
For 12 months, 4 per cent per
Annum.
NJ STABB. Chief Manager
Hongkong.10
89%
$6.1/4. 88.3/4
Malwa, New
Malwa, Old
..2.08
.2:36.
72.38
.27.11/18
.27/5/B
59.00
.5%
$10.00
Oct. 24.
$4,600 perpic.
4,700
Patna, Now..... 5.825 perche
| Patna, Old up............... 5,700
Bonares, Now 5,595 Benares, Old......... 5,350
SHARE REPORT.
S-SELLERS
Stocks & Patɔ up Value. BARKS.
Hongkong & B'hai $125 <|
MARINE INSURANCE+-- Cantons
North China.
Unions
Yangtzes
SA-SALE:
CLOBANG
ENDED!
$790 b
280
B-BUYERS
LATT Dividend AD PATE.
£2 at ex 1/196 equal to $20.81 for 6 year ending 30/8/13
$18 for 1919
Final of 1 p.o. making
20 pc. for 1911 Final of 620 making 450 for 1911 and Interim of $30 for 1919
$50 945
-£5 T137)
$100 $810
£50 $195
$20 $157 b. $50 $380 6.
$25 $8
$10 for 1911
$27 for 1911
FIKE INSURANCES, China Fires Hongkong Fires
SHIPPING. China & Manilas
Douglas Steamship $50 $30) ea. & 6.
$15 $2814 b.
Steamboats Indo-Chinas
(Preferred) (Deferred)
Shell Transports £1
£5 $87
₤100/- 6.
[211
"Star Ferry". {$10 431
REFINERIES.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK THE Business of the above China Bugars Bank is conducted by the Luzon Sugars HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BAN KING... | CORPORATION.
MINING.
$100 $97
Final of $12 mak. $15 for) 1911 & Int, of 83 for 1912]
$1 for 1006
$2.50 for year ond'g30'615 Interim of 61 for half):
year ending 30°6′13 (6 po. for year 1912 on
preferred shares
Final of 4 making 6/ for yearending 31'12'12
Int, of 1/- a/c. 1918
$2 on 10,000 shares Jet Issue 62 on 10,000 2nd
■+
$1 on 19,000; 3rd
for year ending 80'4'13
$3 for 1912
$100 $34
Rules may be obtained on ap-Chinese Engineerings £130/- plication.
INTEREST on deposits is al-Tronohe lowed on the minimum monthly Raubs
EL- €9.60 balances at $3 Por Cent per an- DUCKS, WHARVES, &G'DOWNL
Kowloon Wharfs $50 $88.
£1 47/3
THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF SHARE will be entitled to a fraction of a HOLDERS will be hold at the
Incorporated by Royal share. It is the in'ontion of the offices of the undersigned, Ne. 4.
Buildings, Victoria
Charter 1853. board that there now shares when Queen's
Depositors may transfer at their H.K. &W'pon Dooks950 {$77) - b. fully paid shall rank with the old Hongkong, on Tuesday, the 18th
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
option balances of $100 or more shares fur all dividends, includ-November, 913, at NOON.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of Paid-up Capital `.... £1,200,000 to the Hongkong and Shanghai Shanghai Dooks T. 10056 the Company will be CLOSED Reserve Fund...£1,700,000 Bank to be placed on FIXED Hongkow Wharfs T. 100. T.112 s. from the 11th to the 18th NovemReserve Liability of DEPOSIT 4: Per Cent, por LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGA
Proprietors
£1,200,000 annum
Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94 ber, 1913, both days inclusivs.
For the Hongkong and Shang-
8125 FOREIGN EXCHANGE and had Banking Corporation,
Hongkong Hotels $50 General Banking business trans- H.J. STABB, Chief Manager.
885 acted.
Hongkong Lands $100 $110 Humphreys Estates $10 89 Kowloon Lands
Shanghai Lands T. 30 T. 98
West Point!
$50 $72 #.
Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8
COTTON MILLE.
T. 50 T. 145 b.
T. 118 b.
Advantages of Doing Without. The Meal:
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open-
BRADLEY & Co., Ltdi General Manogera.. Hongkong, 4th November, 1913.
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA STEAM FISHERIES Co., Ltd. NOTICE TO SHARÉHOLDERS. The Lancet's recent pronounce-NOTI Extraordinary General OTICE is hereby given that the protection of robber was be-ment on the subject of breakfast ing enforced, and suggested co or no breakfast has probably bean Meeting of the Company will be
perative organisation in Am-discussed in every dining room in held on Tuesday the 18th day of Hongkong. 11th April, 1912. [22
zonia.
The Coal Market.
24
'BANK.
ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE ceived for 1 year or shorter perioda at rates which will be quoted on application.
A.S. HEWETT,
Aoting Manager.
Notice:
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN ANU MORTGAGE CO., LTD,
of the Company be reduced (Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.) from $150,000.00 to $90,000:00 by
shares from $10 to $6 each." perty, &co. reducing the par value of the Loans on Mortgage of House Prop
Should the above Resolution Goods received on Storage
December, 1913 at the same time and place for the purpose of con sidering and if thought fit con firming such Resolution ÁÐ Á Special Resolution accordingly.
plication).
Capital Fully
Paid-up...8h. Taels 7,500,00 Head Office.Shanghai, Board of Directors-Berlin. Branoban:
Berlin Calcutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe Peking Singapore Tientsin Talaanfu Tsingtau Yokohama. LONDON BANKERS: Mesara. N. M. Rothschil & Sons. The Union of London and Smith's Bank, Limited. Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London
Ewos
."
RISCELLANEODS.
$30 $45 b,
་
$8 for 1897
料
Interim of 31 p.9.8.2/5d per
share. Coupon No. 1 ac
count year 10.6.12
Int. of 7/6 a
1/2 for 1909.
1913-
$4.50 for year 1912
$1 final dividend for}
yoan 1911
TIs. 3 for 1912
Interim of Tls 3 for 1913
Tlu. '6'29°2′10
$3 on old shares, $1.50)
on new shares for half
year 31 12 12
$314 for
30 6.13
year ending
50 cents for 1912
$2.80 for 1912:
Interim of 5 pio. for year ending 30'6'13 half ) 12 for 14 year endin -30.6.13
15 per cent, for 1910
7 p.o. for year ending?
31°10′12
Tis. 10 for year end-1
ing 30'6'13
b. 11414.8a. & b,
B.
50 cents 31.7.08
85 cents for 1912
Shanghai Cottons Laon Kung Mow 105 Kung Yik Hongkong Cottons $10 $9
-$12 $91" China-Borneos
Do. (Spec. shares) $14 schaft.
Chins Providents $10 $9 Direction der, Disconto Gesell-Light and Powers $101
$6 $27
Agency.
Dreadnor Bank
INTEREST allowed on Current Dairy Farme Account DEPOSITS, received Green Islands
!
$10
Or
The Office of TRUSTEE EXECUTOR
WILLS, ATTORNEY, &, Undertaken and Executed.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers.
November, 1913, at 12.15 o'clo k· The other ministers the kingdom Although the
p.m. at 4, Queen's Buildings, promised their support in pre- Lancet does not think that the Hongkong, Victoria, when the venting any nggregation of the professional and business man following subjoined Resolution crisis.
will be disposed to omit break will be proposed as an Extra- THE Messrs. Wheelock & Co.'s coal fast before entering on the day's ordinary Resolution: market report, dated Shanghai work, there are a good many It is resolved that the Capital people, sayaa writer in "The Even October, 30, statas:-
Japan Negotiations in this ing Standard," who, like myself, market are now in full swing for do earn their breakfast before they eat it, and find themselves next year's contracte but prices all the better for it.
be passed by the requisite ma Advances made on Merchandise: are ruling about two yen higher
One day, over four and a half jority it will be submitted for Loans made on the Provident than this year's rates and the
System. difference betwcen sellers and years ago, I was talking about it confirmation as a Special Resolu- buyers' ideas is to wide that it is to a doctor friend. He asked me tion to a further Extraordinary (Rates and Particulars on ap very difficult to come to terms. that I had for breakfast. I told General Meeting and such Meet It appears from statistics that the him. "Bosh!" he said, with aing will be held on the 4th day of supplies in Jap: a are likely to emile. "Your breakfast isn't fall short of requirements by worth picking up out of the gut about balf a million tons and from the point of view of nourish miue-owners are in the fortunatement. Drop it,
After some discussion I pre- position of being very independ- ent so that prices are correspond-used to do so for a fortnight. ingly firm. Our 1'cal inarket in Next morning I ignored the fas firm but ni ting serious has been oinations of the breakfast-table, of November, 1913, done as set for the above reasons and turned my back to the and our quotations given below allurement of steaming, fragrant must be taken na purely nominal. coffee and crisp French rolle. 1 Cardi Coal-We have to dd-worked until twelve o'clock. I vise the arrival on the 22nd inet. did miss the satisfaction of not hav of the a.s, Buckminster with about,ing an "internal void." There 2,500 tons of cy{Admiralty List) was no doubt about it; but con-
trary to my expectation, I did not M
VA RAYMOND has this day brought in private terms.
Fu-lu Cl-The same might faint by the wayaide. At the end been admitted a partner in our be said of this coal as we have of a fortnight I reported progress. Firm, which will continue to said above and prices are up in By then I was able to work with carry on the business of Share sympathy with the increase in perfect comfort until twelve and General Brokers as hereto prices for all other kinds of coal. o'clock without having broken my fore under the style of Moxon.
Kailan Coal-There is a large fast, even though, contrary to my and Taylor."
MOXON & TAYLOR.
53
BRADLEY & Co., Ltd., General Managora, Dated Hongkong the 4th day
Notices
NOTICE. EDWARD MAURICE
all round enquiry and contractors usual quatom, I was walking to an Hongkong, 1st November, 1913. are coming into the market for office instead of working in my 1914 supplies. No definite rates study.
have yet been fixed and we learn That habit I have continued that little will be done until it is ever since. There is, however,
NOTICE:
-bave This Day established acorinine I wbat quantity can be this difference--that now I do not!
myself in the Colony as a spored in the North for this necessarily stop at twelve o'clock district. In any event a pretty for breakfast as I used to do, Shipping, Estate and Commission
Agents
TOBIAS HUNTER. Bubalantial advanco in prices I am very busy I work on until must be expected.
one, and on some ocessions I bavet Hongkong, 1st November, 1913,
Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
P
EAK TRAM-WAY CO LIMI WA
TIME TABLE
WIN GENEK DAYE.
2.00 to
- Eveur 15 Min. 200 A 2000 A 10:00 tis 11.00 £4.
BTS PUL CO 5.00 FM to
1.8.45 0.1;
IL. MIN,
20 Min.
H MIN, 5.00 2.4.
50 7.14. 14 LATE NIGHTECARS.
LOOK! everyihalf hour?
0.45 mm.
every barter of anthur SUNDAYS.
100 4,1 10.30 ... Every is HIM,
suho A. M. to£4,00
ITS AM, to saka NoON
11.00 Dom to: #00 PM-
5.00 8.16 to.
Hix.
MIN
7:09 2,3; Lo
· NIGHT,- CARS in 20
SATURDAYSA
IAL CARE..
wangement kfzba"Company's 23 JOU
32
$7,60
aa.
on terms which may be leamed Hongkong Electrice $10 $44 on application. Every description Hongkong lees of Banking and Exchange busi-Hongkong Ropes ness transacted.
$25 $150
$10 $23
g. 10 T33
12 Morning Post
Peak Tramway
R. TIMMERSCHEIDT, Langkats
Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct../1911.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
$25822 $10 $104 0.
Do. (now)
190 dté:"/b. Hongkong Electric Tram99/- 2. £1,500,000 Philippines
$10
$5 1,125,000 H. Price & Co., Ld. $10 ||| $6
562,500
Pro
INDIA, LIMITED. Authorised Capital
Subsoribed
Paid Up
Reserved Fund
BANKERS:
415,000 Societe des ferred.
Bank of England London Joint Btook Bank,
Limited."
Interest allowed on Current AC- counts at 2 per cent par annun on Daily Balanes and on Fixed: Deposits at ratas which may be ascertained on application.
WEAR LINTON
Pulpesof $50 320
paid Papterteries
up $50
¿du Tonkin
Benefit)$200 Shanghai Sumatras T. 201T.150 Steam Laundry $5, 331 b. United Asbestos)
Oriental Agency, $10 8914 b. Ld. ......... United
$10.
Asbeston
300 Foundera Shares) benef Union Waterboat $10 $17 1/2 b.
Weismann, Ltd. $10 $30
Watson S
$10 $234 b.
70 cents for 1912.
$1.80 for year end'g 31'7'33;
40 cents for 1011 100000 $1.60 per share for 1912
$2 interim for 1913
$1.interim for 1913:
Interim of Tla. 1 mak ing Tle. 2 a/c 1918 Nons
80 cents on fully paid"
shares and 8 cents on $1paid shares for year ending 30.4.13
Interim of 1d. per share |
for 1913:
None
$1.50 for 1910
None
No dividend this year 50 ots, for year end g 315.32
(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 Trending $1" "LIVE",
60 cents for 1912 A
140 ofa,yearending 30'6'13 WRIGHT AND HORNBY,, there had
THE ALEXANDRA GATE William Powell Cannot be Besten, if Equalled, Costacead in to-pay.m. Nová, xqpg. For:Broad. Cakee, Coafé-tiönory,mitmeteneral brakayp 4 De Vorig Road Central Tel, address Rectitude; th
var Kaleemoh does not hold Utgelf empocsliste fac sure of the shova qamations meal with Winor & Liquers,