Commercial.
Outlook In the Corn Market, Ohio go. February 19-There
Notices
NOTICE.
our offices to No. 4 Les Road Central, Ground
VERNON & SMYTH. Shore & General Brokers, Telophone No. 320 Hongkong 1st April, 1914.
are no large individual holdings WE have this day removed of May corn in the market here, on the part of local speculators, Voeux but a number of big lines aro❘ floor. said to be held in the East, which show no profit. Country holders are long millions of bushels, with good margina up, and price changes for to a cont a day are of no importance to them. They are waiting for an advance, which, according to the precedent of a number of years, should come later on.
NOTICE.
THE Office of Reuter's Te- legram Co. Ltd. has this day been removed to No. 4 Des Vaux Road Central, Ground floor,~***
F. SMYTH.
Agent
Ocassionally the corn market takos a "year off,' and disap- points holders by not. advancing Hongkong, 1st April 1914.
to any extent from the low prices
E
our firm.
NOTICE.
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made in January and February. There are some sharp traders who predict that this is to be the off have this day admitted year, despite the shortage of Mr. LENNOX GODFREY nearly 700,000,000 bushele in the BIRD, and Mr. GEORGE LEO- 1013 orop. They base predic- POLD WILSON as partners in tions on the lessened demand for
PALMER & TURNER, Western corn in the East, owing Hongkong, 1st April, 1914. to imports of the Argentine pro- duct," and the possibility of imports of Danubian corn ja figured upon to prevent a scarcity and keep prices fairly low.
Operators do not look for a break in corn futures for the present, but when delivery day tomes and the cash corn has to be paid for, they expect a decline under the pressure of liquidating sales. They are looking for increasing supplies here, from a present, total of 9,000,000 bushels. Two years ago Chicago had a stock of 10,000,000 bushels of corn, which was all dispored of later. This year there enters the calculation the foreign com- petition, which neverexisted prior
NOTICE.
T. G. T. SWASEY announces
to the public that he will be responsible for no bills contracted under any circumstances by Mrs. Swasey.
MAN LOONC.
FIRST-CLASS PRESERVES, GINGER AND SOY MANUFACTURERS. Factory at Yaumati OFFICE; No. 36. Das
W Voit Road. Telephone No. 177 & K. 12. Ware the leading Manufacturers in
this class of Goods. Our Fruit &
Gingers are all fresh and of the first pick. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give our special
to the placing of foreign corn on attention to our business and sanitary the free list in this country. It arrangements. bas upset oldtime calculations
as to corn values, and has acted as a price evener throughout the East.
Seamen's Votes.
EUROPEAN AGENCY. JHOLESALE buying agen- WE
cios undertaken for all British and Continental goods, including-
Books and Stationery, Boots, Shoes and Leather, Chemicals and Druggists Sundries
China Earthenware and Glans- wore,
The Imperial Merchant Service Guild have received a copy of the Parliamentary Bill which bas been presented by Mr. J. G. But- cher, K.O., M.P.; a Member of the Parliamentary Committee of the Guild, having for its purpose cessories,
Cycles, Motor Cars and Ar
Fancy Goods and Perfumery, Hardware, Machinery and Metals,
Jowellery, Plate and Watches, Photographic & Optical Goods, Provisions and Oilmen's Stores,
etc., etc.
the enabling of persons who are Drapery Millinery and Piece unable to attend at the poll ow-Goods, ing to absence from their place of registration to record their votee at a Parliamentary Election.) The Bill proposes to give special voting facilities to sailors, soldiers, "and absent votere. It is "back- ed" by Sir Mark Sykes, M.P., Mr. Worthington-Evana, M.P., Mr. Basil E. Peto, M.P. (Chair- man of the Parliamentary 'Com- mittee of the Guild), and Mr. Douglas Hall, MP.
Commission 2% to 5%; Trade Discounts allowed. Special Quotations ba Demanil. Sample Cases from £10 upwards. Consignments of Produce bold on: Account.
WILLIAM WILSON & SONS
- (Established 1814). 25, ABCHURCH LANE, LONDON, E.c. “Annuaire... · London,
L. C. C.'s Coat Of Arms. It is surprising that a body so sensible on the whole as the Lon-Cable Address; don County Council should have thought it necessary to acquire a
coat-of arms wherewith to deco-OWING to the increase of our
next
business, we have opened rate its notices and its new premises
China Dept., says Truth. For a quarter of a our 'century it has got on very com-door, and keep the best class of fortably without one, and there goods obtainable,
is a simple majesty about the lot- tera L. C. C, which will be want-
ing in the selected design, with
Inspection solicited.
NIKKO & CO., Hongkong Hotel Building.
SINGON & CO.
Established A. D. 1880. TRON. STEEL. METAL and HARD-
its misquoted observation from Tacitus by way of motto. Why did not our Progressive and Mod- erate friends instruct some cap-| able artist to fashion a pleasing cipher out of the initiale L. 0.07 I WARE MERCHANTS. Wholesale The intertwined C's of King and Retail Ironmongers, Plg Iron and Charles II. of happy memory, the Foundry Coke Importers. General Store- D.'s of Diane de Poiotiers, and ke opers and Shipohandlers, Nos. 35 and 37, Hing Loong Street. (2nd Street, west the W. and M. of William and of Central Market) Telephone No. 515, Mary decorating the walls of Hampton Court and Kensington Palace show how much can be done with mere letters by a soul- ful designer.
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914.
Public Companies
THE HONGKONG & WHAM-
· POA DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE DIVIDEND of $3.00 per
Banks
CORPORATION.
Banks
T/T
Selling.
Exchange":
T/T. Marks ALS
.1/11 3/16 Demand GermanÝ
INTERNATIONAL BANKING HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Demand
BANKING CORPORA-30.d/e ..............
..1/11.5/16 TION.
60 d/s ...............ar,
....1/11 5/16 4 m/s....................................1/11 3/8
Head Officeo, Wall Street, New York İrondon Oiles;-36, Bishopagata, EC"
BRANCHES :---
Bombay
Calcutta
Селбод
Caba
Colon
Reply
Hongkong'.
Hankow
Capital and Burplasmemúmuyu Gold 17,#00000
NESS transacted
share declared at To-day's Annual General Meeting will be payable at the Hongkong & | Shanghai Banking Corporation on and after Tuesday, 31st March, 1914, and Shareholders are re-pos quested to apply for warrants at the Town Office of the Company, 2 Queen's Buildings.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
GEO. A. CALDWELL, Secretary. Hongkong, 30th March, 1914,
HONG KONG ICE COMPANY LIMITED,
THE Thirty-Third Ordinary
Annual Meeting of Share- holders will be held at the Offices of the General Managers at 12 noon on Monday, 6th April to receive a Statement of the Com-| pany's Accounts to 31st Decem- ber, 1913, and the Report of the
General Managers.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 26th instant to 6th prox. both days inclusive..
JARDINE, MATHESON
Là con. Lidi, General Managers. Hongkong, 23rd Mar., 1914.
THE CHINA BORNEO CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
THE Eleventh Yearly Meeting
of Shareholders of the above
Company will be held at the Company's Office, St. George's Building at Noon on Wednesday, the 15th April, 1914 to receive a Statement of Accounts to the 91st December, 1913 and the Report of The General Manager and Con- sulting Committee and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditor.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 1st April to 15th April, both days inclusive.
THE CHINA-BORNEO
CO., LTD.
· W, G. DARBY, General Manager.
NOTICE.
1,430,000
T/T. Fránca
On Haiphong. |On Saigon
On Bangkok
Buying
Paid-up Capital $15.000.000 T/T Shanghai
Private 30 d/s sight B’hai ...7436 4. m/s. L/C «........... T/T Singapore 8274 m/s. D/P *****-9494|6 m/s. L/C
RESERVE FUNDS:
Demand India
MANILA
Mexico
Prima
T/T Japan
Faking!
San Francisco
Shanghal
Sterling
TT India
Veloma
T/T Bombay
∙144) .144
£1,500,000 at 2/-**
$15,000,000
Demand Bombay .......
[T/T Calcutta
Demand Caloutta....
Demand Manila... .95 T/T. San F'co & New York 47 Demand, New York .........476 T/T. Java
116%
Subsidiary Coine. Discount por $100.
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING BUSI CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened" on the "szem. DEPOSITS RECEIVED, Ized foe oDE YOKŲ KL
anus, or for shorter perioda, at ratas, which waybarteland en -pplications
BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. MAIL and TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES BETTERE OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted
on all the principal clifes in the World.
THE LANES CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are available all over the world.
COMMERCIAL LETTERS 07 CREDIT
PURCHASE und–BALE -of-Stockrand ShareP factad WRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and crabad,
GEORGE 2005, Manager. Queen's Road, Hongkong Hongkong, lat Nov. 1912
THE
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED.
Established 1880. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 30,000,000 Paid-up Capital .... F
18,550,000. Reserve Fund
+1
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA.
Branches
Antung-Efrien
Bombay
Calcutta
Lhangchun
Dairen
Fengelan
Harbin
Honolum Kobe
Lao-Yang Lond
Lyons Tsinglas
Agencies at Nagasaki
Newchwang
New Yark
Овака Pekla
Kyolun (Port
Sua Francisco"
(Arthur),
Shanghai
Tiching
Tiesio
Tokyo
Los Angeles Tingiau
Interest Allowedl on Currant Account.
Deposits received far fixed periods, at rates to be obtained on application.
EISHI ONO, Manager. Hongkong, 30th Sept., 1913. [18
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND
CHINA.
Silver ...$17,550,000
$92,650,000
Reserve Liability of
Proprietors.............$15,000,000.
1977
pm
799
1/11 9/16. 1/11 11/16 „1/11 11/16 *.
30d/s.S'ney & Melbourne1/1113/16 90d/s.San Fee & New York 471⁄2” 1443⁄44 |4 m/s. Marks 2.020) ......................1441⁄21⁄2 | ♣ m/s, Francs 2,48-
144 6 m/s. do
2.50); · 14434 BarSilver. ready.......26 13/16.
forward
26 13/16 Gold Leaf per tael.....54:10 Bank of England rates...3% Sovereign
Opium Quotation.
"COURT OF DIRECTORS. Chinese...20 cts.pieces $12-3/8 Hon. Mr. D. Landale.--Cha'rian | Chinese ...10 W. L. Pattenden, Eaq
Chairman,
S. H. Dodwell, Esq.
E. Goetz, Esq.
C. S. Gubbay, Esq.
F. H. Holyoak, Esq.
O. Landgraf, Esq.
Deputy Hongkong.20
J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Sieba, Esq. "CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-Ny 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.
ON FIXED DEPOSITS. For 3 months, 2 per cent. per
Annum
Annum.
For 6 months, 34 per cent, per For 12 months, per cent per
Aunum.
N. J. STABB, Chief Manager
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
THE Business of the above
Hongkong.10
$125
$61⁄44 $8 1/8
Malwa, New
% Malwa, Old
Patna, New...
Patna, Old...
Benares, New
Mar 13 .$8,200 per po
8,300,
9,325 per che
9,200
9,050
Benares, Old......................... 8,925-
TO-DAY'S SHARE REPORT.
S-SELLERS SA-SALES B-BUYERS N-NOM NAL
LAIT DEFIDEND AND TATE.”
£2 & 5/- b.atex 1/11 3/16 equal to $23.29 for 14 year ending 31/12/13
$18 for 1912
Final of 10 p.o. making
20 p.e. for 1912
STOCKS & Paid or Vaton.
Classi
BANKS,
Hongkong & S'hai #125
Q'TE ON....
MARINE INSURANCE, Cantons
$50
North China
$810
£81-/-
330 £5 T142 b.
8.
8.
Unions
$100 $845
Yangtzes
£50 $205
ს.
FIRE INSURANCES:
8.
$10 for 1912
$27 for 1912
#
China Fires
$20 $145 Hongkory Fires $50 $368
SLIPPING.
China & Manilas- $25 88) Douglas Steamship 650 833 Steamboats
Indo-Chinas
'(Preferred) (Deferred)
"Shell" Transports £1
$15 828
£5 $71
102/-
£11
Star Forry" 810 849
$100 $84 $100 $28
REFINGMIES.
China Sugars Luzon Sugara
MINING.
N.
S.
Final of $20 making $50.
for 1911. and Interim
of $30 for 1912
Final of $12 mak. $15 for
1911 & Int.of$3 for 1912]'
·
$1 for 1906
$2.50 for year end'g806:18′′ Final of $1 for half
year ending 91′12′′1$ I- (6 p.o. 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 10,000.
$1 on 10,000
2nd
11
3rd
for year ending 30′4′′13 ́
M.
$3 for 1912
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1859.
Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
CORPORATION. Paid-up Capital
...£1,200,000 BANKING Reserve Fund... .........£1,700,000
Rules may be obtained on ap- Chinese Engineerings £137/6 plication. Reserve Liability of
INTEREST on deposits is al- Tronoha £1,200,000
£1 35/6 Proprietors
lowed on the minimum monthly Raubs
£1 63 FOREIGN EXCHANGE and balances at $34 Per Cent. per an- DOCKS, WHARVES, & GĮDOWN;
Kowloon Wharfs $50 $85 General Banking business trans-num.
Depositors may transfer at their H.K.&Wpoa Dooks 850 870 acted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open-option balances of $100 or more ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- to the Hongkong and Shanghai Shanghai Dooks T. 100 57
FIXED Hongkew Wharfe T. 100 T.100 s ceived for 1 year or shorter periods Bank to be placed on have this day been ap-at rates which will be quoted on DEPOSIT t 4 Per Cont. por LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGE pointed Agents for the
Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94 application. Swedish East Asiatic Steam Ship
A. S. HEWETT,
For the Hongkong and Shang- Co., Ltd. of Gothenburg, All
Acting Manager. hai. Banking Corporation,
Hongkong Hotels $50 8125 Bills of Lading, and Shipping Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. – 122
N.J. STABB; Chief Manager. Orders will be countersigned by
Hongkong Lands $100
$112
Humphreys Estates $10 $8 Kowloon Lande
$30 $44
T. 90 Shanghai Lande T. 30.
$50 West Points
#67 b.
Manila M'pole Hotel F.10 P. 8
COTTON MILLS:
WE
us,
A.B.THE SWEDISH TRADING CO. IN CHINA (Ltd.) ARTHUR NILSSON,
Managing Director. Queen'sBuilding. Top floor. Telephone No. 1033. Hongkong, 1st April, 1914.
NOTICE.
have this day authorized Mr. G. W. OLIVEORONA tosign our firm per procuration. A.B. THESWEDISH TRADING
CO. IN CHINA (Ltd') `..
ARTHUR NILSSON
Managing Director. Hongkong, 1st April, 1914.
Notices
CHINESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT 7% Silver Loan of 1886: E. 55th Half Yearly Drawing.
Interest due and drawn bonds of this loan will be payable at the
after the 31st March, 1914. List
Notices
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.) Loans on Mortgage of House Pro- perty, &c.
Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Merchandise: Loans made on the Provident
System.
(Rates and Particulars on ap-
plication).
OF
The Office of TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR
WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c, Undertaken and. Executed.
annum.
DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE
Capital Fully
BANK
T
Paid-up...Sh. Taele 7,500,000 Head Office-Shanghai, Board of Directors-Berlin. Branches:
9.
T. 50T. 134 b. T. 119 h.
90
b.
Berlin Calcutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe Peking Singapore Tientsin EWOB Teinanfu Tsingtau Yokohama.
Shanghai Cottons LONDON BANKERS: Messrs. N. M. Rothschil & Bo Laou Kung Mow The Union of London and Smith's Bank, Limited.
Kung Yik Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London
Hongkong Cottons $10 $81 Agency. Direction der Disconto Gesell- China-Borneos $12811
Light and Powers $101
$4.10 s. Do. (Spec. shares) $13 INTEREST allowed on Current China Providenta $10 $82 Account. DEPOSITS reocived | Dairy Farms
86 $36
+
schaft. Dresdner Bank,
MISCELLANEOUS.
on terms which may be learned Green Islands:
$10 $61
b. 想。
$25 $195 b.
on application: Every description Hongkong Electrics $10 $44 of Banking and Exchange buat Hongkong Ices 9ness transacted.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
DEAK TRAMWAY CO. LIMITED.
offices of the Corporation on and P
MR. LI HON FAN, a Chinese of drawn bonds can be obtained
graduate versed in litera-on application to the undersign ture, has been a teacher to ed
For the HONGKONG and European officials and merchanta
Public Companies in this Colony for over ten years. SHANGHAI BANKING COR-
NOTICE.
R. CHARLES GORDON this day been admitted a partner In our firm in Hongkong and China
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. Hongkong lat, April, 1914.
NOTICE
R. CHARLES CLEMENT ME
FRANCIS CUNNING- HAM and Mr. LAWRENCE NOEL LEEFE have been authorised to siga on behalf of our Company per procuration.
JARDINE, MATHESON Jump & CO LTD. Hongkong, 31st March, 1914.
He has a good method of train- PORATION. ing Europeans to pass in the Agents Issuing the Loan, Chinese examination, and is
N. J. STABB,
Chlef Manager.
as a Chinese teacher. He has Hongkong, 31st March, 1914. also a good knowledge of Manda - rin and Hakka.
Those who intend learning the Chinese language are requested to write c/o "Hongkong Tele- graph" offoe or direct to 37 Hollywood Road, 1st floor. Hongkong, 29th Jan, 1912.
USE. C. N.
AND GUARD AGAINST PLAQUE
CHINA COMMEROIAL Oo, 80uddell
· MARTIN'S
APIOL SSTEEL
A French Rawady for sti ErregiNAÍSES, Thousands of Ladies, siwasi kepp a box of Martin's Pula fet iisa haund, so thak on the Bras wen of may irregularity of the Hystems a Minely done may bandmínkatervá. „The whe But mend khaps, hemen balramog KAONG #KIN. Al Chemists und
mell them. show henkins "World, op poak tree-UN -MARTIN, Chemist, Houtkáälytin, hig
* MARTIN'S
APIOL & TEL
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS. 7:00 AM. 108,00 1.00 AN. LO 10:00 AJM, 10,00; 21.00 £36,
EAC ZAMGA 145 PM) RII FI 5,00 FINA
TI JU AM, to 1945 #M
RAT PAL to 1:45 PM 8.5-74. Lo 500 M to
35 here.
DMAX GUTSCHKE Hongkong Ropes
Manager.
Langkats Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.
$10 $22 x div. s.
g. 10 T48
Morning Post Peak Tramway
$25 $21 b. $10 $10 b.
Do. (new)
$1 93 cts. B,
Authorised Japital......£1,500,000 Hongkong Electric Trams 8/6
·$10 85
...... 1,125,000
562,500 Philippines 465,000 H. Price & Co., Ld, $10
Ever 15 MINI
LO BE.
Subscribed Paid Up Reserve Fund
19
BANKERS:
35. Max.
25 M
NIGHT CARS
Igå i and lỹ Path" quo far, to
11.00 PM every ball köttr
13.00
to 22.45
avery quarter of
SUNDAYS.
8.00 AM, 10, 20-30 AM, EVERY 15
10:30 ? 32,90'A MALL, n 21:41 AM to 28.00 No
02
10.00 Noo
00.
к
1,00 23 to
5.00 7.2)
+
34 50 MIN.
7.00.16+
D
Is Mix.
:20 201
6.00 13, 14
7:00 3.3, ta
130 7.M
NIGHT CARE on Work Deyir
SATURDAYS
Exten Car at, ta midnight.
SPECIAL CARE
By Arrangement at the Company's Qficki "Alessandra"Buildings.:
Bank of England.
London Joint Stock Bäur,
Limited.
$50320
Pre Societe des i forred"
Pulpeset Paplerteries paid du Tonkin up $50
Benefit $200 Shanghai-Sumatras T. 20T.150/
Interest allowed on Current Ac-Steam Laundry » $5 84 b. counts at 2 por cent per annum United Asbestos
ARLINTON
Manager.
$10 $300
on Daily Balance and on Fixed Oriental Agency, 810 $912 b.
Ld...... Deposits at rates" which may be saderiained on application."
United Asbestos Founders Shares Union Waterboat
Wolmann, Ltd" Watson Williard Powell
THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled For Bread, Cakes, Confectionery monia with Wines & Liquens
$10 $20
$10 $50 $107.80
Corrected 20 29/90 p.m. Apr, a su
$3 for 1897
Interim of 8 p.o. 8 2/5d per share. Couton No. 1 ao- count year. 30.6,13, Int. of 1/6 mak. 6/68/0.1913 1/2 for 1909
$3.50 for year 1913
#3 for 1913
Tis. 8 for 1912
Interim of Tis 3 for 1913
Tls. 6 29'2'10
$7 on old shares; $3.50)
new shares for
on
year 31*12*19
$314 for 14 year ending 31-12.13
50 cents for 1913
82.80 for 1913
Interim of 5 p.o. for
year ending 30*6*15 82.25" for year ending 31.12.13
15 per cent. for 1910
Tls. 15 for year ending]
31:1013
Tls. "10 for year end-
ing 30'6'13
T. 12 for year end'g 31'12 Tle.. 11 for year ending}
30*11*13
50 cents 31.7.08
85 cents for 191% ·
70 cents for 1913
$1.30 for year end'g 31'713
40 cents for 1911 **
$1.50 per share for 1912
$2 interim for 1913
#2 for 1915
Interim of Tis. 1 mak- Ling Tia. 2 a/d 1913 None
80 cents on fully paid)
shares and 8 cents on $1 paid shares for year ending 30.4.13
Interim of 1d. per share
for 1913,
None $1.50 for 1910-**
Моде
No dividend this year
50 ots. for year end g31.5.12
20 per cent, per ordinary share for year ended 31'5'1912
:- $1.25 per share for year ending 3112-1913
25 per cent. for year
ending, 3177′11
460 cents for 1912- 650 ots, yearending 680*18. WRIGHT AND HORNBY There and
Gesamt brokers & De Voeux Road Central address Reciliade.