Commercial.
THE HONGKONG TELEGR*PH. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1914.
and it would be in the bigbest Public Companies
degree unwise to do so this Indian Wireless Stations."
would give a total output of plantation rubber of 187,500| Nono to roon, the various tone, which falls very consider wireless stations in India are to ably short of some of the be overhauled and where neces-estimites previously indulged in sary a10 to be brought right up and should not be so difficult to date. Port Blair Diamond Island and Rangoon are ench to of absorption with low prices have ten kilowatt plants which tending to stimulate now uses, will command a radius of bot- ween 1,000 and 2,000 miles at night, when de is generally. known, wireless telegraphy is always at its boat. The present "stations in Bombay and Karachi command a radius of a little ovor 800 miles only. Recent: But veging operations on the fron-
Orman Activity,
The present activity in Gorman
UNION' INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD
NOTICE.
FROM this date or until further absence from the Colony, Mr. notice during my temporary C.H.P. HAY will not se Secretary of the Society.
By Order of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1914.
CHINA TRADERS' INSUR- ANOE CO, LTD. NOTICE.
notice during my temporary
By Order of the Board.
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1914.
Banks
INTERNATIONAL, BAWKING
CORPORATION.
Head Ofles todo, Wall Street, New York London Ulice:jó, Bizkopagnie, E.C.
BRANCHES :
Bombay) Calcati
Canto
Cabu -Calon
Hongkong Hankow
Capital and Surplus
Banks
Exchange
Solling.
ITT, Marks qgungman. 197 HONGKONG & SHANGHAI T/T.
....................1/11 1/8 TIT. Franos i.
. .1.49 BANKING CORPORA Demand 1/11 9/18 On Haiphong tumanl pin
TION.
30 dia...............
1/11 1/4. [On Saigon ... suuristan 60 dis'.................................1/11 1/4 On Bangkok: ....................7931⁄2 ..$15,900,000 | 4 mƒe .................................... .1/11 5/16.
T/T Shanghai ...........................................7396 -16 m/s. L/C T/T Singapore
821 4 m/s. D/Basare.
Buylog.
.1/11-1/2 1/11.5/8 ...1/11 5/8.
91 30d/s.S'ney & Melbourne1/11
Labe Manila
Mandes
Paid-up Capital
RESERVE FUNDS:
Редена
Paking
Private 30 d/s sight S'hai ..7dig [6 m/s L/O .............. T/T Japan,.......
San Frenchco
Sterling -
Shanghal..
Yolen
T/T Bombay
£1,500,000 at 2!--
$15,000,000
T/T Calcutta
Demand Caloutta.
Demand India.
Gold $400,000 equal-z1,800,000
11
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HANKINO BUSI- NESS tracted,
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the mum, DEPOSITS RÉCEIVED, fred for cas year at 4Ž paz anni, er for shorter perioda, at ratas,” which may be curtained on application,”
BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. MAIL, And TELRORAPHIC REVITTANCES
Mada.
LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted on wit the principalciilen in the World,
THE JANES CIRCULAR LETTRES OF
ZOOMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT
had
Manager. Queen's Road, Hongk Hanexong, 1st Nov., '1913,
THE
...,『
tier of Bolivia and Brazil have shipbuilding is by no meana con: FROM this date or until further CREDIT N available all over the World, proved the value of wireless asfined to the Hamburg-Amerika absence from the Colony, Mr FURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and Shares an aid to exploration, the Com-Line, for the Norddeut cher Lloyd H.P. HAY will act as Secretary RAVELLERS CHECKORGE HOG mission firing all their longitudes has also an extensive programme of the Company. by time signals sent by wireless, in hand. In addition to the two by authority of the Brazilian Go fast mail liners Columbus and verament every night over a die Columbus (, each of 38,000 tons, tance of 120 miles. The experi- the Norddeutscher Lloyd is bail ence proves that exploratoryding two large passenger and Eut vepora will be able to dispense cargo boats of 18,000 and 15,000 with obronoireters and accurate tons respectively. The larger of THECHINA FIRE INSURANCE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED.. ly fix all longitudes. The latest rhezo is to be called the Monchen development in wireless science and the other the Zoppelia. The
Established 1880. ia a direction finder by means of
Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 HE FORTY-FIFTH MEET-Paid-up Capital which an operator is able 13 steamers for the Australian, and
company is also building 14 cargo THE
80,000,000 ING of SHAREHOLDERS Reserve Fund...._** 18,550,000 locate more certainly the position Far Eastern routes, so that though in the Company will be held at -of the instrument sending the it is Icaing the mail contracts, it the Company's Office, No. 3 seems to be increasing its hold Queen's Road Central, Victoria, on THURSDAY, the 19th March, pa theso trades,
1914, at 12 o,clock NOON, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1913.
message!
Raw Rubber Prospects..
A special correspondent of The Financial Times writes :---
During the long mon the stagna- tion in the Lubber share market, trado apthorities have had more opportunity of considering the
New Career for Women,
women
COMPANY, LIMITED,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 6th March to 19th March, both days inclusive..
Directors.
By Order of the Board of
C. PEMBERTON
Secretary:
Toe aual repat of the In- most recent developments in National Fead Reform Ag the progress of the industrysiation contains a record of and from their
conclusions its activities. The include the as of the probable resulta. It formation of a Joint Matrons and becomes increasingly evident Schools Committes to improve that the estimates of the product the feeding in gobcals, hospitels, Hongkong, 26th February, 1914. tion of plantation rubber in 1914 and other institutions by the pro- 1015 and 1016 indulged in during vision of trained dieticians and the heyday of the boom are little visiting advisors, thus opening likely to be realised.
dp a new career, to Indeed, the much moremcderats Professor F. A. Bainbridge of estimates subsequently ventered Durham University writea: upon were also on the optimistic The need for improved cookery side, for they did not quite tako among the working clares is into account the possibility of a very gent, and I am very glod prolongation of Iw price for the the National Food Reform As commodity and the consequent aociation is working on thst financial stringency to which,
question. plantation companies would ba subjected. One already bears of portions of estates which are 10
Es allowed to revert to jungle
unlo:s an early improvement!
31
Consignee
COMPANY.
tk place in the pries of the PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP commodity. All planting progra mmes have either beon entirely abandoned or estiously curtailed,
While it seems inevitable that the very optimistic unticipa. tiona na to. the output during 1914 are not likely to ba realised
8.6. "CHINA," /
From SAN FRANCISCO, JAPAN PORTS and MANILA,
The above mentioned vesselį having arrived consignees of car- it does not follow that there are hereby notified to send in
will be any real shortage in the
their bills of lading for counter- signature and takd immediate
supplies. Wild rublǝra of delivery of cargo from alongside.
m dium grade may disappear to Cargo impeding discharge will
a large extent, but in all probabe landed immediately at con
HONGKONG FIRE INSUR ANCE CO., LTD. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
Head Office-YOKOHAMA.
Branch
Anten Halen":
No hay
Calcutta
Agencies at Nagasaki
Newchwang New York
Dak
Pekia
thangchun
Dairen
Fangtien
Ryolan (Port
Harbin Bankow
Arbur),
San Francisco
Shanghai
Tiebling
Tient-in,
Tokyo.
Angel
Tsingtat
Henokuu Kobe Hao-Yang
Lond u
. Lyon,
Tsingtau
Bilver ...$17,650,000
$32,650,000
Reserve Liability of
Proprietors............$15,000,000
T/TIrdisy sin.14434 30d/e.San F'ec & New York 4794
.1444 | 4 m/s. Marks
.2.01 1/2 Dema Bombay .............................1443. 4 m/s. Francs .............................248
..14434 6 m/a... / do
1449
BarSilver, ready... .2674
forward
.143
.2,50
.26 13/16 Demand Manila ........ ..95 Gold Leaf per tael ........ :54.10 T/T. San F'ou & New York 4694' | Bank of England rafes ...3% T/T, Java
................................1169% Jovereign
.....10.30 Subsidiary Coins.. Discount per $100 Chinese...20 ots. pieces $121/8
COURT OF DIRECTORS. Hon. Mr. D. Landalo, Chairman Chinese...10 W. L. Pattenden, Esq.- Deputy Hongkong.20
Chairman.
8. H. Dodwell, Esq."
G. Friesland, Esq.
O, S. Gubbay, Esq.
E. Goetz, Esq.
P.H. Holyoak,, Esq.
C. Landgraf, Esq.
J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon, Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Siebs, Esq. CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. Stabb, MANAGER. Shanghai-A, G, Stephen. London Bankers-London County and Westminster Limited.
Hongkong-Interest Allowed.
On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent per Annum on the daily balance:
I
ON FIXED DEPOSITS. . ·
Depos is received for fixed periods at rates to be For 3 months, 2 per cent per
Intercal Alord on Currat Account. obtained on application.
EISHI ONO, Manager, Hongkong, 30th Sept., 1913. [18
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND UHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853,
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
HE "Forty
fifth Ordinary HEAD OFFICE.-LONDON, BANKING Meeting of shareholders Paid-up Capital .......£1,200,000 will be held at the Offices. of the Reserve Fund...£1,700,000 plication. undersigned at 12.30 p.m. on Reserve Liability of THURSDAY, the 19th. instant.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be CLOSED. from he 5th, to the 19th. instant, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON
& Co., Ldi, General Managers. Hongkong, Fire Insurance Co.,
Lt. Hongkong, 2nd Mar., 1914. [1134
Notices
NOTICE.
bility the collection of the better signees' risk and expense. Cargo grades will be fairly wellmain remaining undelivered Monday, THE interest and responsibility of Mr. Frank Barrington tained until more time has been March 9th, 1914 at NOON will Deacon in our firm ceased on the allowed to show that the procent be landed at consignees' risk and 3rd April, 1913. low level of prices is likely to be expense. permanent. There has been a
Cargo remaining undelivered
considerable increase in the stock Friday, March 13th, 1914, at
noon in addition to landing
DEACON, LOOKER,
DEACON & HARSTON.
of medium wild rabt ora and the chargos, storage charges will be Hongyong, 25th Fob., 1914.
outlook for this branch of trade is
collected.
Jar liom encouraging, as eo long.No Fire Insurance whatever
Be the better grades and plants-will be effected.
tion can be oblained at roun-1 (All chafed and otherwise dam-
NOTICE.
present prices that inferior stuff aged cargo will be examined at MR WILLIAM HUTTON
will be cold-shouldered by manu- facturera. It is estimated that the output of dry rubber last year was double that of 1908, which
10 am.
No claim will be entertained
LINSTEAD & DAVIS. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1914,
- THE
LONDON DIRECTORY
(Published Annuslly)
Hongkort,10
. "
$13
**
$3 7.#4 7/8
Opium Quotation.
Feb 27. Malwa, New.................88,200 perthe %Malwa, Old 8,500
Patna, New ......... 9,325... Patna, Old............................. 9,200 Benares, New .... 9,050 8.925 Benares, Old..
TO-DAY'S SHARE REPORT.
S-SELLERS SA-541F5
STOCKS & PAID OF VALDU.
£80/10
325
་
B-BUYERS N-NOMINAL
LIST DIVIDEND AND TATE.
£2 & 5-b. at ex 1/11 3/16
equal to $23.29 for year ending 31/12/13
$18 for 19:2
Firal of 1" p.o, making
2up.c. for 1912 Final of $20 making $50 for 1911 and Interim. of $30 for 1912 : Final of $12 mak.$15 forl 1911 & Int, of83 för 1912)
BANKS.
$815
Hongkong & B'hai $125
MAXINE INSURANCE, Cantons
$50
North China
£5 T139
Unions
$100. $845
Yangtzes
£50 $200
FIRE INSURANCES,
$20
16157.
·850
$395
$27 for 1911
$25 #8
Douglas Steamship $50 Steamboats
$35)
t.
$15
$281
F.
Indo-Chinas
}
£5 $71.
102 b.
£11
China Fires Hongkong Fires
SHIPPING.
China & Manilaa
(Preferred) (Deferred)
"Shell" Transporta £1
Star Ferry" 610 $49
REFINERIES.
$10 for 1911.
$1 for 1906
$2.50 for year end'g 30°6′19′′ "Final of $1 for half
year ending 31°12′13 / (6 p.c. for year 1912 on
preferred shares
(Interim of 1/- making..
2- for 1913 Coupen No. 21.
#2 on 10,000 shares 1st issue #2 on 10000- 2nd
# $1 on 10,000
i, 3rd
for year ending 90'4′13.
$100 196 $100 $81
#9 for 1912
HINING,
HE Business of the above THE
Bank is conducted by the China Sugars HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Luzon Sugare CORPORATION, Rules may be obtained on ap-
INTEREST on deposits is al- Proprietors .£1,200,000|lowed on the minimum monthly balances at $3 Per Cent. per an- FOREIGN EXCHANGE and num. 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. 8. HEWETT,
Acting Manager. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. [22
Notices
THE CHINA
PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.).
#
Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 Per Cent. per annum.
Tronohe Raubs
Chinese Engineerings £1|10)-
£1 36/6 £1 $3 BOCKS, WHAK VET, & GIDOWNS Kowloon Wharfs $50 #85) H.K.&W'poa Doake $50 675 க
P.100 e.
Shanghai Docks T. 10055 b. Hongkow Wherfs T. 100 LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING) For the Hongkong and Shang- Anglo French Lands T,100|T.94 hai Banking Corporation,
N.J. STABB, Chief Manager. | Hongkong Hotels $50 $123 b.
Capital Fully
Paid-up...Sh. Tasle 7,500,00 Hoad Office.Shanghai. Board of Directors-Berlin,
Branches:" Berlia Calcutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe Peking Singapore, Tientsin, Loans on Mortgage of House Pro-Tsinanfu Tsingtau Yokohama.
LONDON BANKERS: party, &c.
Messrs. N. M. Rothschil & Sons The Union of London and Smith's.] Laou Kung Mow
'Bank, Limited, Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London | Kung Yik.
Agency. Direction der Disconto Gesell-
Goods received on Storage.
+#
| Advances made on Merchandise:
Loans made on the Provident
Bystem. (Ratua and Particulars on ap-
plication).
POTTS retired by mutual the above Company's godown Thursday, March 12, 1914, at consent from the firm on the 31st
December, 1913,
We have this day admitted Mr. indicates a rals of consumption livery note or list of exceptions nership.
unless accompanied by short de-Edward John Chapman into part considerally in excess of the 10 taken at the time of delivery to fer cent. per annum bitherto consignees and signed for and on reckoned en There is nothing in behalf of the Pacifio Mail S S. Co. | the known facts to ausport the All clims must be filed on 'er view that such a marked accelera- before April 6, 1914, othe,wiso tion in the demand has taken they will not be recognized. place, so that in the absence of R. O. MORTON, Agent. any great acoumulations of aur-Hongkong, 6th Mar., 1914. plus etcoks it follows that the stooks cf manufcotared rabber goods have been substantially in- oressed. Accordingly distributors would be in a favourable position to keep but of the market for a time in the event of any material advance in the price of the raw material. It is more than likely ture, has been a teacher to with the Gloods they ship and the Colonial also that manufacturers have been European officials and merchants and Foreign Market they supply: laying in stooke of the raw ma-in this Colony for over ten years. STEAMSHIP LINAS terial at or about the lowest points) He has a good-method of train-arranged under the ports to which they Just as a hedge against su honing Europeans to pass in the sail, and indicating the approximate Chinese examination, and is PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES advance su bas been dicoussed.
According to the lateat es, possessed of a first rate certificate of leading Manufacturors, Merchants, timates, there are 1,400,000 acres as a Chinese teacher. He has to, in the principal provincial towns de in the Middle East planted with also a good knowledge of Manda- Industrial centres of the United Kingdom. A copy of the current edition will be rin and Hakka.
forwarded, freight paid, on receipt of
Notice
Enables traders throughout the World to communicate direct with English.
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS LESSONS IN CHINESE. in each class of goods. Besides being a complete commercial galde to London & ... | Its suburbs, the directory contains lists of R. LI HON FAN, a Chinese
EXPORT MERCHANTS graduate versed in litera-
MR.
Ballings.
rubber. Of those 600,000 aoraa Those who intend learning the Postal Orders for 20s, are in Malaya, 270,000 in Ceylon Chinese language are requested Dealers seeking Agonoles can advertise and South India, 240,000 in to write c/o "Hongkong Teles their trade cards for G1, or larger, adver- Java and 280,000 in Sumatra and graph" office or direct to 87 tomonta from £3.
Bornes. Taking the average Hollywood Road, 1st floor, IN THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD. yield in full hearing at 800 lbs Hongkong, 26th Jan, 1912, 25 Abohurch Lane, London E.Q
The Office of
TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &, Undertaken and Executed,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
$3 for 1897
*
Interim of 3 pc, 8 2/5d per
share, Coupon No. 1 so 'count year 30.6,12 Int. of 1/6 mak. 6/6 a/6. 19: 1/2 for 1909
$3.50 for year 1913
$1 final dividend for?.
year-1911
Tls, 3 for 1912
Interim of Tls 3 för 1913
Tis. 6 29*2*10
#7 on old shares, $3.50)
on new shares for year 31 12 19
rear ending
$2.80 for 1933
Interim of 5 p.o. for
year ending 30'6'13 $2.25
15 per cent. for 1910
DEU
BANK.
EUTSCH ASIATISCHE Hongkong Lands $100 Humphreys Estates $10 Kowloon Lands
$112
$314 for
31 12.13
$81
50 cents for 1913,
$30
Shanghai Lands T.30
West Points
E.30
$50
167
b.
for year ending) 31.12.13
Manila M'pole Hotel P.10
P.8
COTRON MILLS.
Ewos Shanghai Cottone
T. 50
T. 131
Tla. 15 for year ending)
31'10'13
T. 126
Tls. 10 for year end-
_ing 30:6:13
195
11214
b.
50 cents 31.7.08
85 cents for 1912
70 cents for 1913,
b.
b.
schaft.
TAS RIEGELLANEOUS,
Hongkong Cottons $10 $8 China-Bornopa $12 $11 88. Dresdner Bank
Light and Power $10 $41 INTEREST allowed on Current Do. (Spec.shares) $1j
$10 $8.30 Account. DEPOSITS received China Providents
$6 $30 on terms which may be learned Dairy Farme
$10 $0
on application. Every description Green Lelanda
3 of Banking and Exchange busi- Hongkong Electrics $10 841
Hongkong Toes $25 $185 B ness transacted.
R. TIMMERSCHEIDT Hongkong Ropes $10 $238.
Manager, Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911..
PEAR
EAK TRAMWAY CO.
LIMITED.
12 Langkats
.g. 10
T63
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF Morning. Post
Peak Tramway
INDIA, LIMITED.
Do... (now)
b. $25 $20 $10 $10 b.
$199 ote. A.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
100 to 10.00 ..
Authorised Capital. ......£1,500,000 Congkong Electric Trama 8/
AERO
1,125,000
562,500 Philippines.
$10 $5 415,000 F. Price & Co., Ld. $10 $6
Pre- Societe des | torred
Pulpeset
$50 $20 Papierteries paid dn Tonkin up $50
Subsoribed
Paid Up
30 MI.
10.00 4,0-$100 2.16 ·
*
15 Hot
Reserved Fund
II 36 A.. to 21.45 PM
125 7.3.
zo Mu.
"
THE VOL. to LIS 7. to 50.2%
1.13 2.
Ja
to MINI
BANKERS;
5.00 P
$1
15 MIN.
To
1.10 M.
H
10 Kon
London Joint Stock Baug,
**Limited.
NIGHT CARS
- 1,50,3.2: And V P.M. 2:30 PM, to
in so ist "every half hourę
22:00 F,MITỢ 2545 TIM... »-avary quarter-of unibour,
SUNDAYS:
640 8.44, to togo am. Krzar 19 Min.
to M
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sayo mm. ka....'11:00:A M,
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5.00.
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SATURDAYS DE
· Extra Cars (at" 167 suidnight. SPECIAL CARE”
By Artsogement at the Company's flics,
Alexandra'. Bul'ðlags, „De Yinnar Road*
Bank of England.
: Benefit $200 Shanghai-Sumatras T. 20 T.150 Interent allowed on Current Ao-Steam Laundry $5 (84) counte at 2 per cent per annum United Asbestos)
on Bally Balance and on Fixed Oriental Agency, $10 $914 Deposits at rates which may be ascertained on application.
A. L. LINTON
Manager.
Ld..
United Asbestos)
$10-$300 Founders Shares Union Waterboat $10 $20
Weismann, Ltd. $10 83013
$10 37.65 b,+
Gederal brokers 8 The Papioid Conical adduces Rarais
THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Watson Cannot be Beaton, if Equalled William Powell
For Bread, Cakes, Confectionery › Corrected - Li za-no pow. blár, 9, 1974. maale with Wines & Liquens
T. 18 for year ond'g 31*1213
Tia. 1 for 70er ending)
33*11*13
$1.30 for year end'g 31′7′′)
40 cents for 1911
$1.60 per she re for 1912.
$2 interim for 1913., 61 interim for 1913
fInterim of Tia. 1 mak 1ing Tis. 2 a/o 1913 None
80 cents on fully paid
shares and 8 cente.oni $1 paid shares for year ending 30.4.13 Interim of itd. per share
for 1913,
None
$1.50 for 1910.
Nono
No dividend this year
50 cts: for year end'g 31.5,12
per cent, per ordinary abare for year ended *31*5*1912
$1.25 per share for year
onding 31*12*1913
25 per cent for year
ending 8111
60 cents for 1918
40 cts: yearending 6'30′12 WRIGHT AND HORNBY SWANG