Commercial
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
THE HONGKONG. HOTEL
CO., LTD. NOTICE
NOTICES
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION;
TOTICE OF EXTRAORDI
ARY MEETING.
NOTICE that
ап
“BANKS
INTER_SATIONAL, BANKING CORPORATION.
Hand foods, Wall Street, New Vach Londos Ollos Lugd, Bishopsgate, RC
BRANCHES-
Bombay
Kobe
Canton
Calculia
Cabe
44 Colos
--Empler
Hongkong
Hankow
Captial and Barplan.
Ben Frischce
banghal Yokokawa
Gold $7,800,00
· EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKIKO DUSI NX8S transacted,
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opwaed on the sam
| RECEIVED, Szed for 'me you AI
BANKS
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORA-
**TION,"
Demand
5/16
60 dla chombo.1/9-7/16
Paid-up Captak........$15,000,000- RESERVE FUNDRA småte VTT Shanghai
Storting
- £1,500,000 at 21-
-$15,000,000 Silver ...818,000,000
::$93,000,000
Reserve Liability of
Proprietors...........$15,000,000 COURT OF DIRECTORS, A Hon. Mr. D. Landale, Chairman
Private 30 dia sight.
T/T Singapore ..........7594-
[TT Japán
******* ***
193
133
"T/T India Demand India T/T Bynbay,mene Demand Bombay TIT.Calcutta Wện Demand Calcutta...139 Demand Manila 87
the Corporation will be held at the west, or for short periods, it cats, which W. T. Paitonden, Esq. Deputy T. San F. & N.Y.4996
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 4th to 12th September, 1914, bath days inclusive,
way be sacutained on application. Oly Hail, Hongkong, one atur- BILLE NEGOTIATEO and COLLECTED.
MALL AS TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES day, the 19th day of September
"KEITERS OF CREDIT and DRÄVTS granted 1914, at Noon, when the sub-
of all the principal cities LETTERS OF WAS THE BANK'S CIRCULAR joined resolution, which passed at the Extraoid nary CREDIT liable all over the World
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT Meeting of the Shareholders in India pet kan
PURCHASE 484 SALE (ol Brocks an· Shares this Corporation he don the affected 22nd day of August, 1914, will beRAVELLERE CHECKS id and curbed, submitted for confirmation as a Special slution :-
The Rubber Industry,” Really there is no reason why the rubber industry should not The Ordinary Half Yearly be running on fairly normal lines Meeting of Shareholders (wal before long. There will not be be held at the Company's Hotel, anything in the way of boom on Saturday the 18th September prices, but there is good ground 1914, at Neon, for the purpose f to expect that there will be a receiving a Statement of Ao-
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN regular market again after a counts of the Company to the
EXTRAOR- 30th June, 1914, with the Report beginning has been made
the of the Directors, and to discus DINARY MEETING of the that is as long as British completely control the any matter that may be com- SHAREHOLDERS in patently brought before. sen, as there can be no doubt they testing, do at present. We know that we are supreme at rea, but we do not know how our supremacy bas been established. That is the trouble; if we know that a very large number of German war- ships had been sunk or captured, : and thet the shattered remnants of the German navy were closely beest in their own harbours by largely superior numbers, every. one would know that the British NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. sen control was not only effecOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraorditary Gen- tive bat permanent. Only we do not know anythingofal Meeting of the Bong kong the kind, and it is possibls that Hotel Company, Limited, will ba there has been so big fiset action; held at the Honglong Hotel, that the German navy is very Pedder Street, Victoria in the much what it was before the war; Colony of Hongkong on Saturday but will not face the British. the 12th day of September, 1914 Even so there is reason for taking at 12.15 pm. (modiately after the Ordinary Half-Yearly Moet-
•
By Order of the Bard,
J. H. TAGGAKT
Acting Secretary, Hongko g. 28th August, 1914.
THE
HONGKONG HOTEL
CO., LTD.
"That the regulations contain- od in "the printed document submited to the meeting and for the purpose of ido tification
subser bed by the Chairman.
"thereof, be and the same are
hor. by ap roved, and that such "ra ulations be and they are
an optimistio view; since, if no ing) when the subjoine Rosalu- effort was made to challenge our tion will bo prop sei as "an sen control when the expedition Extraordinary Res bition: ary force loft England, the Ger- mans must feel themselves at so get a disadvantage that their chances of victory are pour. So they are, for even presuming that their ships are unhurt, the Ger mare ere in a serious inferioiite in point of numbers; and their chance of a surprise attack on a big scale has gone-rather never existed, since the events which preceded the outbreak of war were such that the British navy, in a wonderful state of prepared ness, had plenty of warning of the danger which threatened,
CONSIGNEES
"INDO.CHINA STEAM NAVI
GATION CO., LTD. From CALCUTTA, PENANG
2 BINGATORI."
THE Company's Steamship
"KITSANG" baving arrived from the above ports, consignees of cargo by hor are hereby informe that their goods will be delivered from alongaide.
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board aftor no the 7th inat. will be landed at Consigrico's risk and expenso,
No Fire Insurance will be effected..
4
Bills of Lading will be counter- aigued by:~~
JARDINE, MATHESON
& Co., Ltd.
tionera Manager, Hongkong, 5th September, 1914.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
DOUGLA" STEAMSHIP CO.,
"bereby adopted as the articles “of the Company, in ubstitution
r, and to the exclusion of, ali the existing Artich s thereof."
Should the Re-olution be passed by the required majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution 19 a second extrao dinare Mooting which will be subsequently convened
A copy of the proposed new artioles en been at the Office of the Company, on applic tườn to the Mann er, and also at the Office of the Company's Solicitor Messiours Legcuri, Looker, Da eoh nd Hrston, No. 1, Des Vœux Road Central.
Dated this 28th day of August, By order of the Board
1914..
J. H. TAGGART
Acting Secretary
i
AL
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K
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That the Deed of Settlement
Manager.
Queen's Road, Hongkong
of the Company be altered in Hongkong, lat Nov. 1912 manner following -
(u) that the following words
be struck out of lines twol and three of Article 56. amely, the words "for not ex eeding
Chairman.
8. H. Dodwell, Esq. G. T. M. Edkins, Esq. C. 8. Gubbey, Esq.
P. H. Holyoak, Esq. J. A Plummer, Esq Hon: Mr. E. Ahellim. CHIEF 'MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. Stabb ACTING MANAGER. Shanghai-J. D. Smart. London Bankers-London County and Westminster
Limited...
Hongkong Interest Allowed:'
On Current Account at the rate
Demand, New York 43 T/T. Java *10614.
Subsidiary Coins.
?? Discount per $100)
BICHANGE.
Chinese...20 otapiéces $15/3/16. Chinese...100 Hongkong.20
Hongkong.10.
$97/8
T/T, Markusmin Demand Germany, TT. Francs
On Haiphong On Saigon wa On Bangkok......
Best Buying
om.
Ꮞ Ꮧ . @1/1014"" 4im/a D'F........1/10 3/8 :: .6 m/ɛ. L/C ....1 10 5/8
| 30d/o.S'ney.ŒEM; 1:101/2
30 d/Ban Fcc& N.Y.45%
4 m/s. Marks, naagin
& m/s. France******
6 m. dup.
Gold Leaf per taal... $58.00
Sovereign ............................. - 11.20 Num BarSilver, ready ...2414"
forward
|Bank of England rate”!
Opium Quotations
$8.300 per p
July 17h
Malwa, Now
·Malwa, Old
(8,300 1,391
„Maina; Now.
9.325 pair ob
Patna: Old....
9.100,
Benares, Now 109,00€, thi
Benares, Old....................... 8,625 *
» TO-DAY'S SHARE REPORT
-S-SELLERS: USA-VALES, 12B-BUYERS
frocks & Pain Op Valor,
BANKENAA
AMA SPECIE BANK of 2 per cent per annum on the Hongkong & Shai $125 - YOKOHAM fifteen days
before and seven days after every ordinary Meeting" and that the following
words be adopted and
*
THE
LIMITED.
Established 1880.
410
daily balance
ON FIXED DEPOSITS-
MARINE INSURANCES, For 3 months. 21 per cent per Cantons
North Chine
conum.....
For 6 months, 3 per cent per
annum.
(N=3G AT 4AL*
LANT, DIVIDEND AND LATE,
£2 & 5/-b.atex 1/13/16)
equal to 323.29 for year ending 31/12/13")
Final of $3 a/o 1919, Inil terim of $18 a/o 1913 f Final of 1p.c..making
2p.c. for 1912 Final of $20 making $50 for 1912 and Intorim of $30 for 1913 Finalof 8 Z mak. $15 for)
19 2&Int.of $3 for1913)
Closina
$852 Nomina
U£84/-
$50 3171 £5 T142
$100 $255
TONE FIRE INSURANCES)
China Fires
£50 $194
$20 8155
$10 for 1912
$27, for 1912
aubstituted therefor: Authorised Capital Ten 48,000,000
·30,000,000 namely: during buch Paid-up Capital
18,900,000 For 12 months, 4 per cent per Unions time as the Court thinks Reserve Fund ... fi, not excesing in the
Head Ofoe.-YOKOHAMA
A. G. STEPHEN. whole thirty days in each your."
(b) That the following
words be struck out of the last line of Article 56, namely, after the Meeting ad that the fo.lowing words be adopted and substituted therefor, namely. "after the re-opening of the Register."
Branches Ancung-tion
Agongina at Мадинако
la ly
Newchwang
Calcula
· New· Yerk
I banchus
Daire
Fangtien
Itarsia
Kobie
Lond n':
Tinging
Interest
barda
Osaka
Pekin Kyman (Pon
Banbur) · San Fran Sb 1925
Tabling
"Tibial
Tukya
Los Angeles
TARIKIAU
Allowed on Current Account. Deposts oceived for feed pariods at rater to be
(e) That Articles 70, 77aled
and 78 be cancelled.
(d) That the following
EISHIONO, Manager,
Articles be adopted and Hongkong, 6th-April, 1913.
subst tuted for Articles,
76.-77 und 78, namely:
[18
ARTICLE 76. General THE CHARTERED BANK OF
Meetings shall be held onge in
every year, at such, time and
place in the Colony ze may be prescribed by the Company in time or place is prescribed, then eneral Meeting and if no such
at such time and place as may be determined by the Court, and unless and until otherwise p escribod or coter mined as fres-id a Gon, oral Meeting shall be hold in the month of February in every year.
INDIA AUSTRALIA AND
CHINA.
Incorporated by" Royal Charter 1853:
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON, Paid-up Capital .... £1,200,000 Reserve Fund............£1,800,000- Reserve Liability of
Proprietors *** .£1,200,000 FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business. trans- acted.
annum,
Acting Chief Manager, | Yangtszes
$50 #398 HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK Hongkong Fires SHIPPING. China & Manilas. $25 (183) Douglas Steamship $50 $31 Steamboats Indo-Chinas
(Preferred) (Deferred)
TH
'HE Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI CORPORATION BANKING
Rules may be obtained on, sp plication, nat
INTEREST on deposits is al- lowed on the minimum monthly balances at $3 per cent. per an- intmen
Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more
615 12756
Shell" Transports £1
£5 $56
180/-
£11
"Star Forry
$10 146
REFINERIES:
$100 $77 $100 "]+28
to the Hongkong and Shanghai China Sugars. Bank to be placed on FIXED Luzon Sugar DEPOSIT 4 per cent, per
MININO
For the Hongkong and Shang-Chinese Engineeringe £137/6 hai Banking Corporation.
A G. STEPHEN, Acting Chief Manager.
Tronohs
£126/3 £163 Raubá ©* Kowloon Wharfe 15085) H.K. & W poa Docks $30 $63 Shanghal Docks T100 T..55 1.91 Hongkew Wharfe T 100 LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING Anglo French Lands T.10 1.94 £1,500,000 H'kong Central Fies $100 $103
1,125,000
DOCKS, WHARVES, & GODOWNL
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.
ARTICLE 77.—"The Goneral IN THE SUF REME COURT OF Meetin.s mentioned in the insti
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- HONGKONG.
preceding Artic e shall be called ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- Authorised Japital
ceived for 1 year or shorter periods Subscribed ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.Ordinisry Meet ngs."" In the matter of the Companies General
ARTICLE 78.—“: All other at rates which will be quoted on Paid Up
Meetings shall be application
Reserve Fund called Extraordinary Most-1
Ordinanco 19:1 and
In the matter of the Hongkong
Firo lasur.ce Co., Ltd NOTICE is hereby given that
a Petition was on the 20th day of Augus:, 1914, pr, sonted to the Supreme Court of Hongkong by the abov n med Company 10 confirm an alteration of the said Company's objects propo-ed t-te effected by a Special. Res lution of the Company inanimously passed at an Extr-ordinary General Matting of tho Baid Company held on the THE ORDINARY GENERAL 4th day of June 114 and: sub- MEETING OF SHAREHOLD-sequently unanimously confirmed RB in the above Company will at an Extraordinary General be held at the Company's foes Meeting of the aid Compny on Saturday the 26th of Septem- held on the 30th day of June 1914 ber, at Noon, for to purpose of and which Resolution runs as receiving the Report of the follows:- General Managers, together wi h Etatement of Accounts to 30t
Jano, 1914.
LIMIT: D.
The 3RANSFER BOKS will be CLOSED from the 12 h to the 26th f. Beptember, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 5th September, 1914.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING Co., Ltd.
That the provisions of the "Company's Memorandum of| "Association with respect to is oljest be altered o BB "to read as in the front signed' "by the Chalman fle
Meeting for the purposes of "identifiction."
And notice is further given that the said Petition is directed to há heard before His Honour Mr. Henry Hessy Johnston Go-aperts Acting Chief Justion of the said Court on Wedne-day the 1st day AN INTERIM DIVIDEND of of Octol or 1914 at 10:30 o'clock ΑΝ
ONE DOLLAR ($1,00) per|in the forenoon and any person share for six months ending 90th interested in the said Company June, 1914, will be payable on whether as Creditor
Tulity Monday, the 7th September, 1914, holder or o'herwise desirous on which date Dividend Warrants to oppose the making of an may be obtained at the Com- order
the avid alteration under pany's Office, in for the confirmation of
SHEWAN TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 1st September, 1914.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the above Ordinance should the Company will be closed from appear at the time of hearing by Friday the 4th September, to himself or hia Counsel for the Monday, 7th September, 1914, purpose and a copy of the ald both days inclusive..
Petition will be furnished to any such person requiring the same by the undersigned the Company's Solicitors on payment of the re- gulated charge for the lauit,
Dated the 21st day of August, DEACON, LOOKER. DEACON
& HARSTON, WE "I Doi voir Road Central,
Hongkong, Solicitors for the Company.
NOTICE
INOTICED
**The business of the Paris acquired by the Fish Bath and "Limited,
juge.
WM DIOKSON.
Manager. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. [42
(c) That Article 90 be altered by inse ting and adopting after the word- "holding "in line five thereof the words "or representin by proxy" and by striking out at PEAR
the end oft es id Articlo the words "
present in person." (f) That the flowing words beaded to Article 94:-The Court may "from time to time pay 'to the Shareholders uch interim divi, ends 88 *ppear to be just ified by the p sition of the Company
following (g) That the
words be struck out of the first three and a half) lines of Article: 174, namely the words "Half-
M
IT
year ending the 30 L "June and the 31st "December, shall make a general "Half-Yearly." and hat the following words be adopted and Pub tituted therefor
Year onding the 31st #day December shall "make a General", " (b) That the word "Half" be struck out of the 18th line of Article 174 and also out of the 6th line of Arifole 175.
"the
That the word "twice" and the words 30th day of June and " be struck out of lines 4 aad 5 f Article 176 and the the word “once” be adopted and substitute i for the word "twice" in
NOTICES
TRAMWAY CO LIMITED..
TILE TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
20 1,00 Á LOS
B. AM. to 10.00 4.2. 10.00 AM, SO 11.00 4.6 IL80,4% to: 20.45: FM
HERT.'s Az
to Min. Ey Man
to
13 PM
BIS FL to
3,00 730
10 MIN
10
5:00 PM, CO
As
1.20 TAMI
NIGHT CARS
and
FMI, DATA, É
13, DO (3,301 - AVEry half hope:
very quarter of an hour.
SUNDAYS
$0.40 A.M. to T.06 AM. 21-30.‚M... 10 Jason No 11.00 Room 15 120 ZIMA 18:00 100% 10 5.00 M
100.40
Goo
100 run, to -1,00 1,36
2.00.1.M. 10.„, S.XI. SAM..
BANKERS:
562,500 Hongkong Hotels $50 6128 465,000
Bank of England. London Joint Stock Baur,
Limited...
Every description of Exchange business transacted.
Interest, allowed on Current Ao counts at 2 por cant per annum
Hongkong Lands $100 $110.
...
Humphreys Estates 810 $72 Kowloon Lander $30 44 Shanghai Laude T. 30 L. 92
$50 1971
West Points Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8
EWOB Shanghai Cottons
COTTON MİLLS:
on Dally Balance and on Fixed Laou Kung Mow Deposits at rates which may be Kung, Yik
Ascertained on application...
THE
whi
"AR LINTON
Manager.
NOTICE:
CHINA
LOAN AND MORTGAGE
CO. LT
...xg Mut)
#
20 Maxi
(Capital
11
H MEM
M
-35.120.
NIGHT CARS A CO West Days
SATURDAYS
Extra' Car ne', 'ta 'midnight.
BAPFCIAL CARE
Pi Arrangemeniz mu the Company's Dievi
HOA NAD Vet Road
NOTICE.
the fourth lins thereof, i ()hat the words "or the Ordinary Half-Yearly and the words “as the ca's ning he" be struck out of 10 and 11 of the puble that during
"HE Compania dos Metsacor-
- Mar times be to
Among hosu ile. In Europe,
By Order of the Court of Seimers will not evil at Directors,
Loans on Mortgage of House Pro. perty, &c.
Goods received on Atorake, Advances made on Merchandise Loans made on the Provident
By System.g
(Rates and Particulare on ap-
plication). AD? The Office of 9 440 07 TRUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY,' &0; Undertaken and Executed.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co 15 General Managers::
19th March, 1938
T. 60. 137
T. 123
Hongkong Cottons" $10
MISCELLANEOUS.
China-Borneos
$8712
812611
Eight and Powern): ($10) $4.90
$81
Do. (8poo, shores) $13 China Providents $10 Dairy Farms 6:1138 Green Islands $106.60 15433 Hongkong Electrics $10: Hongkong Toes 4:325 1.215 Hongkong Ropes: $10 Langkats
8. 10
T. 18
Morning Fost
$25
$29
Peak Tramway
$10
10
Do, (new) Hongkong Electrio Trams
$1
190 eta
|11/6
Philippines
$10
185
H. Price & Co., Ld. $10
350 $20
Boolete des ferred
Pulpeset Papeteries du Tonkin
pald up $50
$200 Boneft Shanghai-Sumatras T. 20 Steam Laundry Ba United Asbestos
Oriental Agency,› $10,"
T:150
$94 b.
United. AsbestosĮ Founders Sharea
Union Waterbost
$10
$300
$10
THE
TEXANDRA t be Beaten, f
CAFE alled
Weismann, LAL
S Watson William Powell, Ltd
$10
#30
Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama the last poru benić Hkiphong, !: until furter Ros Brand: Gakery Confe- Hottery notica
and steals with Wines &
$1 for 1906 -
$2.50 for yone ond'g30'6:13. Final of $1 for half
year ending 311219 ||; 3% Interim glo-year 1913 on preferred shares
Final of 5 making 7 for 1913 Coupon No. 22.
#170 per share and bonus of 30 cents per share for year ending 30°4'»50.-
$3 for 1912
$3 for 1897
Interim of 5% Coupon. No,
3 account of year end ing 30.6. 4-
Int. of 1/6 mak:6/6a/c. 1/2 for 1909
$3.50 for year 1913)
13 for 1913
Tis. 3 for 1912"
Interim of Tls 3 for 1913
Ta, A 29:2′10
*First year
#7 on old shares, $3.50)
Од
new abares for year 31*12*13
$114 for 14 year ending 30.6349
50 cents for 1913 $2.80 for 1913
B
Interim of 5 p.o. for year ending 30°6′13 $2,00) for year ending. 20.6 14
15 per cent. for 1910
Tis. 15 for year *31*10*13
Tla 10 for ye
**ing 30'6'13'
T-12 for yearend'g 31:12-14 Tla. for your er tingit
(301113: 3o tulete
50 cents 31.7.08/
$120 for 1913-
70 cents for 191372, $1.30 for year end'g 31'7:18 40 cents for 1911 Se :$1.80 per shape for 19:3..
Interim of 12, ale 1914) $2 for 1913 va
Interim of Tls. 1 mak Ling Tis. 2 a/c "1913": None VERS 80 cents on fully paid"
shares and 8 centa on $1 paid shares for year ending 30,4,14MMEN Final of 6d, making 7id. per share for 1913. None
$1,50, for 1910
None
No dividend this year „35 ots, for year ond'g 315.14”
(20 per cent. per ordinary share for year ondad 31*5*1912
$1.25 per share for year)
ending 31121918
25 per cent for year? ending $17115) conts for 1913
6.30.13