THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1918.
BROSSARD, MOPIN & CO.
Telegraphic Address—"BROSSARD"
Telephone-2568.
CIVIL ENGINEERS.
King's Building,
· HONGKONG.
Codes, A.B.C., 5th, A.Z. Francais,
Omnibus
and Private,
Agencies:-SAIGON, SINGAPORE, PEKIN and TIENTSIN.
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REINFORCED CONCRETE WORKS : "Road and Railway Bridges, Bunds. Wharves, Weirs, Retaining Walls. Dams, Industrial Buildings, Towers, Tanks, Godowns. Frameworks, Cul verts, Vaults, Floors, Roofs, Piles hollow and full, all lengths and sizes, Soies and Foundation plat- forms. Chimneys, Poles for support- ing Telegraph and Telephone lines and carrying Electric Light and Power.
· COMMISSION, IMPORT & EXPORT Industrial materials for railways. factories, mines, iron, steel, pipes, steel angle bars,
joists, fron sheets, motors and Fichet's fire. proof safes.
REINFORCED CONCRETE IS ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF AND OFFERS SUBSTANTIAL RESISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.
SAIGON CENTRAL MARKET
MARINE CONSTRUCTION :
Lighters river and sea) up to 1,000 tons. Hulks, Ferry Boats in "steel and reinforced concrete,
Sea going ships in reinforced con- crete. Steamers and Sailing vessels up to any tonnage.
IRON WORK:
Frame work, machine tools, boilers, and industrial installations.) ·
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKS: Private and Public Buildings, Fac- tories, Godowns Tunnels, Found- ations in bad ground, by com- pressed air, Walls, Drains, Sewers, Churches, Hotels and Hospitals.
M. M. Brossard, Mopin and Co., shall be pleased to study all technical and¦îndustrial questions and are prepared to supply specifications and plans on every kind of metallic or reinforced concrete construction which may be required. Address as above or to their agents Wm. C. JACK & Co., Ltd., 14, Des Voeux Road, Central.
Reinforced Concrete SPECIALISTS
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Japanese Coal.
Enemy Companies after the War.
A FAMOUS CONVICT SHIP.
Caught to an Ice Gorge.
EXCHANGE.
BANKS
BANK OF CANTON.
LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG
BANKS
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORA-
TION.
| Paid-up Capital...2........$15,000,000
RESERVE FUNDS.
Sterling
£1,500,000 at. Zim
*$15,000,COM
Silver $19,500,000
$4.500.000
Reserve Liability of Business
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Baneral Banking Fransacted.
INTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS:
4L
Jur 3 Months 3% per annum.
For 6 Months 4% per annum.
4
For 12 Months 4}% per annum
LOOK POON SHANĮ
Chief Manager.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE.
Subscribed Capital... Franca 45,000,000. Paid up
£2,500,000 05 of the Capital, 12" Frar es 15,000,000
bscribed by this Government of the
Chinese Republic)
Chairman of the
Foard of Directors André Perthelot. General Manager A. J. Pelocite.
HEAD OFFICE: 74. Rue Salot Lezare, PARIS.
RRANCHES ; PEKING
SHANGHAI TIENTSIN HONGKONG
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BANKERS:
La FRANCE. Scciété Général pour favoriser le Developpement du Cem- merce et de l'Industlie en France LONDON...London County & West-
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Interest on Current. Accounts and Fixed Deposita in Local Currency and in Gold. Terma on application.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.
Special fac lites for French exchange
V.SOUL DE JOURNEL. Manager.
HONGKONG BRANCH, Queen's Building,
5.1Chater Read
NOTICES.
NOTICE
Tel 2440.
EAK TRAMWAY CO
LIMITED.
SELLING.
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where there was s praponderat- ing enemy ipfidenos, and where In the Chancery Division, Mr. winding up was necessary. Here Justice Younger had before him there was a clean oase of enemy the petition of the Board of Trade from firet to Isst. If the policy Cost amounting to 285 541 tone for the winding-ap under the adopted by his Lordship were valued at G.$1,098,024 wae Trading with the Enemy Act, adopted, and the company wÊN shipped to the Philippines from 1916, of Calmon Asbestos and not wound up. it would bare to The busi-get on the register after the war
The famous old English con- the Nagasaki district in 1917 Rubber Works, Ltd.
Des had already been wound up to claim this money. His Lord- according to returna snbmitted to by order of the Board of Trade, ship said the company was merely vist ehip Success was caught in T/T Shanghai.... the American coneplate and the question now was the shell. Mr. Austen-Certmellan ice gorgs when it broke at T/T Singapore Carrollton, Kentucky. Floating TIT Japan..... The corresponding winding op of the company, Bat the shell may, of course, Nageasti.
Demand, India figures for 1916 were 328.088 which the Board of Trade said become, if I may use the express ice tore a hole in her side, and T/T India
onght to re killed before the end ion, a "dud." It would be there the cask by the head in 50lt. of T/T San Francis-1
the instrumente tone, valued at G.$1.347,140.
co & New York of the war. Mr. Aueten-Cartmell sad slive still. The scouer these water. All (instructed by the Solicitor to the concerns are killed the better. If which were formerly used for TIT Java......... 152 Japanese Raw Silk Market.
Board of Tisde) was for the Board the new legislation pending punishing English convicts were T/T Marks............ Nom. of Trade, and there was no is passed, these petitions will be saved, and it is reported that an T/T Francs............ After continued depression the raw silk market at Yokokama har opposition. Mr. Austen-Cartmell obviated, and the winding-up will attempt is to be made to raise the Demand, Paris .....
esid this was a case of absolute be done by the Board of Trade. vessel. become appreciably sotive, reports!
The Success Was a wooden the Japan Chronicle of Jone 28, energy control, and he asked that Counsel said the subetratam of
the order should be made. His the company had gone, and this barque of 530 tons net, unos used contincing-Is will be remem Lordship said this particular oase had always been considered as a convict hulk in the days of bered that a few months ago the seemed to raise the question good ground for winding-up. Botany Bay and the convict market became depressed owing whether there was not some pro- His Lordship. But I don't think settlements in Australia. Some to rumours that the United States cedare under which without the Board of Trade is a proper years ago she was acquired by would probibit or restrict the
going through the winding-up of petitioner for that purpose Mr.Australian purchasers, who re import of raw silk. The depres this company, the same and may Austen-Cartmell suggested that stored her as nearly as possible sion was so pronounced that the be attained. Bere it appeared this was a very limited construe to her original condition sa s merchants agreed not to make| was the case of a company, where tion of sab-section 7 of the Aotoonvict abip and floated a com any sales at prices less than its business had been wound up. By reason of the Board of Trade pany, the Exhibition Ship “ Sac- 6 m/s. Franos ...... Y.1,300. There were farther ram and the enrplas sesete were a few ordering the winding up of throese Company to exhibit Demand, Germany.. oure that the American authori hundred pounde. There were no company's business the Board of the vessel. A collection of relica Demand, New York. 7934° ties would impose an import duty debts, and there was nothing to Trade became a competent pati of bashranging days in Australia T/T Bombay on raw silk, and as a result there do and it did seem a pity that tioner. It had always been con- was installed, the original prison Demand, Bombay was no improvement on the mar-they should be put to the trouble sidered just and equitable to wind fittings were reinstated, and T/T Calcutts ........ ket, while some merchants were of winding-up merely for the up a company when as substratum prisoners ware represented by Demand, Calcutta... Nom, compelled to undersell their rivals
purpose of enabling somebody to had gone. It was useless to wax models. Competent attend. Demand, Manila owing to financial reasons. The give a receipt to the Controller cumber the register of companie ants were attached to the vessel Demand, Singapore. 14214
On Haiphong 14% prem alarmist rumours, however, have given way to s realisation that for this small sum of money. Mr with the name of such a company, who explained the use of the
On Saigon.....inani apa 14% prem On Bangkok
464 the United States imports about ten Cartmell. We want more is Lordship said he still held instrumenta, the histories of
.han that. We want to kill the the opinion that where they had the prisoners, and gays Sovereign ......... 595 Nom. 70 per cent. of her requiremente of raw silk from Japan, and that company. His Lordship. It is company like this with a small lectures on different phases of Gold Leaf, pero 45.20
Thus equipped Bar Silver, per oz. 48 13/16 as dead as a doormat. Mr. Ausfen-smount of assets, which would be convict life. in view of the greatly impressed Oartmell said if the company swallowed up in the winding-op, the Succem sailed from Australis demand for the fibre it is very were allowed to remain in exist the winding-up was annecessary, and 'arrived in the Thames on SUBSIDIARY COINS. unlikely that the American suence after the business had been and to that extent an injurious September 12, 1895, remaining thorities will take any sach wound up the shareholders after formality. Mr. Austen-Cartmell: on exhibition in London until the measure as will seriously interfere the war may resousitate the com-➡Why should a company whose following Jans, when she left St. with the import of raw silk from pany, His Lordship said he Jaubetratuen has gone be allowed Katharine Dook, and visited Japan. There has been, Boordcould not help feeling that if so cumber the register? All the various places in the United 'kong 50 cta sub, ingly, a noticeable improvement after the war there was legislation shares are enemy held, and they Kingdom. She returned to Lon- on the merket of late, and price for the prevention of such com can be veeted to morrow. His don on April 15, 1902, and after have now advanced to Y. 1.500 panies being formed there would Lordship. What is the use of a few months' stay again went on which is the highest rince Augue also be legislation preventing resting pheres which are worth tour, spending the next 10 years of last year. The market continues each companies being resensitated tees? Mr. Austen Cartmell said, lin passing from port to port în firm, and indications point to ar. Austen Cartmell. There rightly or wrongly, the Board of the British Isles, further advance, provided there onld be no harm in killing the of Trade thought that this basi. It was then decided to proceed 1916: From Panasools she pro Bre no unforseen development company. His Lordebip--Here neas should be got rid of. His to Americs, and the vessel left ceeded to New Orleans for's four An official announcement made for the first time a winding-up Lordship said he had made hie Glasson Dock on April 16, 1912, up the Mississippi and the inland by the Tokyo Department of
suggested for nothing except protest, and inasmuch so there ander her own sail, and eventually rivers of the United States, and it Agriculture and Commerce says to kill a dead thing. Is it act were no debts there was no reason arrived at Boston on July 18, was during this tour that the that what with the favourable possible to treat this company as why the order should not be 1912, the voyage taking over 90 veel was lost, weather and improved method an enemy sufficiens to handmade,
There is no record as to the days. The Success went the round adopted in raising silkworze, an over the fand to the Custodian
of the American ports, including date when the Success was built, increase is expected in this year't on its behalf? Is there no mesne
the Pacific Coast, and was at 810 but at the time of her arrival in output of spring cocons, the whereby we can Avoid the Awarded The Croix de Guerre. Francisco in September, 1916, the United Kingdom in 1895 she estimate being 3,394,848 koko, expenses and trouble of a win Lieut. Masterman, formerly of From San Franciso she returned was advertised as being then 105 which shows an increase of 50 ding-up? Mr. Austen-Cartmell the Siamese Surrey Department to the Atlantic Coast in the years old, so that at the time of 936 koku,
or 15 per cent, over said there were a large number of has been awarded the Croix de Panama Canal, and arrived her low she must have been s float the actual yield of last year. cases which were just on the line Guerre
at Pensacola on December 15, 127 years.
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N. J. STABB,
Chief Manage
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
THE Bestness of the above Bark is ćubducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATIOX Rules may be obtained on appil INTEREST as deposits is allowed on the mİP. Iman mouthly balances at $3 per cent per GHIR.“ Depositors may inafu, Aibeir option, balance of B100 or more to the Songkong and Susaghai Bank 12 be placed on TIED DEPOSIT cat per AGO).
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Incomported by Royal Charter 1885.
PRAD CIVICI —LONDON,
PAID-UP CAPITAL
RESERVE FUND -
RESERVA LIABILITY OF
PROPRIETORS
DAY WHEEL ALSOLOM
£ 1,000,000
1,200,000
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Central. Banking
basics acted. CVEREST ACCOUNTS spaced and Fad2* DEPOSITS received for 1 year or saostar parieda cares which will be quoted on application T. C. DOWNING,
Manager Hongkong, 11th April, 1912,
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.
Head Office 15, Gracechurek Street, London, Authorised Capital ..............£1,500,00€ Subscribed
Paid Up Reserve Fund
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561,584
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Acting Manager.
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
CORPORATION.
FEAD OFFICE:
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CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and PETIÐ DEPOSITE received at rates to be acertad application.
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Hongkong, 26th September, 1916
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LIMITED.
Established 1880.
Authorised Capital Yen 48.000.00G
Paid-up Capital ..... »
Reserve Fund...
42,000,000
23.100.000.
Fead Office—YOKOHAMA
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