THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY SEP BER
BROSSARD, MOPIN & CO.
CIVIL ENGINEERS,
Telegraphic Address-” BROSSARD.” ARCHITECTS and SURVEYORS,
Telephone-2566.
King's Building, HONGKONG.
Codes, A.B.C., 5th, A.Z. Francais, Bentley's, Omnibus and Private.
Agencies: SAIGON, SINGAPORE, HAIPHONG, PEKIN & 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, Soles and Foundation plat forma, Chimneys, Poles for support ing Telegraph and Telephone lines and carrying Electric Light and Power.
COMMISSION, IMPORT & EXPORT:
Industrial materiala for railways, factories, mines, iron, steel, pipes, angle bars, steel joista iroa sheets, motors and Fichet's fire- proof safes
REINFORCED CONCRETE IS ABSOLUTELY
FIRE PROOF AND OFFERS SUBSTANTIARA
RESISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE SHOCK:
RAILWAY," FERRY BOAT-SINGAPORE JOHORE
粉絲
MARINE CONSTRUCTION:" Lighters (river and se) up to 1,000 tous. Hulks, Ferry Boats in steel, wood and reinforced concrete. Sea going ships in reinforced-con- crete, and wood. 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, GodowDS Tunels Found, ations in bad ground, by Com- pressed air, Walls, Drains, Sewers, Churches Hotels and Hospitals,
粉味
M. M. Brossard, Mopin and Qo., shall be pleased to study all technical and industrial 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 Vœux Road, Central.
Reinforced Concrete SPECIALISTS.
EXPLORERS REACH
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BANK OF CANTON,
·LIMITED
HWAD OFFICE, HONGKONG
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Weneral Banking Business Fransacted.
INTEREST ON-FIXED
DEPOSITS:
For 3 Months 3% per annum,
Fer # Mentha 4% per annums.
For 12 Months 41% per annum LOOK POON SHAN;
Chief Manggur.
BANKS
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORA
NATIONALS
Paid-up Capital 635.000.000. RESERVE FUNDS
Sterling
€1,500,000 al 24.
**$15,000,000 Silver $19,300,000
Reserve Liability of
Proprietors
$24.500,000
15,000,000
COURT OF DIRECTORS, Fee: Mr. P. X. Animal, Chair G. T. 1. Ekins, Ex-Depoty Chainsa 8. B. Corvell, Dog, #2, Partrade Ro FOR. Mr. D. Landaly
EV. D. Part, Ad of My E. Shema
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Bongkar. J. Braba, Esq.
MAJASM
Bhanghai, Q. Stephan, Esq. London Banker London Quary - Westack:wer
Bank and Parts Bank, Linked
HoughougInterest Allowed 1.
Os Carreat Accounts at the rate of 1 per tal po
ozana ca-the dally balanen,
ON FIXED DEPORITS, Far 3 months, 1 per cent. DI MERKIKĮ For tnth per cent. For aETU.
or 19 months, i DER ERL SEEKIN
N. J. STARE,
Chief Manager
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
DE CHINE Subscribed Capital – Fradka 45,000,00 Pald up
$2,500,000. (34 of the Capital, is. Frarea 15,000,000 subscribed by the Government of the
Chinens Republic) ✨
Chairman of the
Poard of Directors André Berthelot. General Manager:
ALT. Farnotte.
HEAD OFFICE;
24. Rue Saint-Lazare, PARIS..
BRANCHES; PEKING
SHANGHAI TIENTSIN HONGKONG
BAIGON HAIPHONG YUNNANFOU
BANKERS: FRANCE Seciélé Général pour, favoriser le Developpement du Com- merce et de Todursie en France LONDON... London County & Weat
minatos Bank, Ltd.
NEW YORK... Edmond & Co Correspondents in the chief commercial
n centres of the world
Telegraphic Addren; CHIBANKIND.
Interest on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposita in Local Currency and in Gold. Terms on application.
Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted
Special facilit:se for French exchange.
M. HOUFT DE JOURNEL, Manager.
HONGKONG BRANCE, Queen's Building,
5, Chater Road.
Tel 2440.
THE CHINESE MERCHANTS
BANK LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE
13, Queen's Road, Central
*Hongkong
General Banking Business trar sacted.
Current Deposit and Savings Bank accounts opened."
·· THE Basinsss of the above Bank le condictal
CORPORATION,
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
7 be obtained on applicationprod INTEREST Imam masibly helances hi Byl per cans. pår sommer
Lan ppth Gan T Depositors may transfer, at their cycles, baleness of $100 or LAUTE to the Knacking and franga Bank to be placed as 21D DEPOSIT CASL DAY MORNINA
For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora
N. J. STABB.
Chief Manager
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND
CHINA.
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Incorporated by Moyal Charter 1555
PEAD OFFICE-LOZDON
PAIDUP CAPTUAL
REGESYS FUND
RESERVE LASILITE OF
PHOPRIETORE
10,000
££,000,000
$1,00,00
POELIGN-KICHANGE And Genaral Banking-
business' transacted. CORBENT ACCODES opened and PL DEPOSITS received for year or shorter gariods -rates which will be quoted on application T. C-DOWNING,
Manager. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912
THE MERCANTILE BANK OJ INDIA, LIMITED,
Head Office 15, Gracechurai, Authorised Capital... £1,300,000 Street, London.
Subscribed
Paid Up
Beserve Fund
lanka 1,125,000*
162,50€ 650,000
BANKERS
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Singapoesi
HONGLONG BRANCH. Every description of Banking and Exsangi'
- Fixed Deposits received and interest allowed at rates which may be ascertained on applica-business pr tion.
KWOK MAX FAT, Chit Nunger.
NOTICES
PEAK TRAMWAY "CO. LTD.
TIME TABLE
WEEK DAYS.
to ROO
to 9.30
Every 15 min
I thin
Internic allowed da Cerrent Accounts ata për pose MY BAGH OR Daily Balances, and on Fland Depos at rater bich may be ascertained as application?
C. CHAMPKIN,
Acting Manager
INTERNATIONAL BANKING -
CORPORATION.
HEAD OFFICE NATIONAL CITY. BAND HELLDING.
26, Wall Street, New York. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS U.S. 16,570, OF ONO" UNDIVIDED PROFITE --3,118,000.00 BTB. Green, Pradidaat and General Managar, LOYDOS DIFICE. 26. Phopsgate. E.C. BAS FRANCISCO Orack: Rontgomery Street
FAR EASTERN BRANCHES CHINA: Shanghai, Pelding, Tientsin, Kantow
Herlong, Canton.
informed by one of its neutra! confidential agents that it is now Proposed New Chinese Company, aseleas for German firmato
A wealthy Chires is planning end out is quiries as Americans' Arducus Voyage. Relieving Mas-power of Nation. to establish a company at Harbin siners conditions in enemy coun. Demsad
to bo- T/T News has reached the head. quarters of the National Geogra..
From the simple tasks of the with a capital of $200,000, the trier, ease the Hamburgischer 20 d/s chic Society of the safe arrival at furnitureless Japanese home object being to explore deposits Correspondent Banks furnish 60 dis
in Beilunghieng Province. He co commercial information about the intricate maänissture of war
4 mis Naknek, Alasks, ofita twa niorars, Jasper Sayre and Pulqunitions is a sudden transition recently discovered lead deposite snemy countries; neutrals whc.
T/T Sins apore. E. Hagelberges, who left Seattle for the daughters of Nippon. I applied in the Dere med ba may be in those countries do nol T/T Japan In May for the Valley their competition with, men in to the Department of ses rale venture to make any India of Ten Thunesad Smokes. These this new field, however, the Peking, for the necessary con tions, fearing to be accused of FT San Francis41
Agricoltore and Commerce, inquiries about economic condi Demand, Indis two men, members of the Society's bave proved them selves thorough
exly capable, and it is gradually sesion. A Chinees ore dealer is spionage; the cficial liquidators 1917 highly successful
co & New Yorkĺ businesses do T/T Java ...... pedition to the Valley and to Mt, coming to be understood by those reported to beve discovered a wound-up
superior not reply to queries; nor are F/T Marks Katusi, the world's largest active in charge that should Japan's sphite deposit of volcano, form the advance party man power be mobilised the quality at Chinteaikos in Kuan private firms in enemy cuntries / Franca of another elaborately equipped women workers will be able to ien Prefecture, Fengtien" Pro sny more disposed to enter into Deand, Paris
correspondence. expedition which will be sent hy shoulder much larger respon-
Apart from;
4 m/s. L/C the Society, to the Valley in 1919 sibilities than they at present The war pressure for
this," postal intercouse with bel raw gerent countries is fall of 6 m/s. LIC..
4 m/s. D/P under the direction of Dr. Robert assume, F. Grigge, of the Ohio State While the women receive on materials eeems certain to have obstacles, and the censorship very 30 d/s 8ydoy&Mel-I
good often does not allow letters University:
per cent. lesa payment for their far reaching permanent Bayre and Hagelbarger experi-servicer, they have been found trot. Take far for instance, brough. The writer states that 30 d/s. San Francis
the lack of which is one of Ger is communications to North enced an unusually arduous be 70 to 80 per cent.
887% voyage, owing to the phenomenal efficient. Six thousand women saya moet serious embarrase America, telegrams and letters & m/s. Marke
Nom. ly unfavorable ice conditions in munition workers are employed is mente. Its history in Canada dates alike, have remained nasaswered. 4 mis, Francs
5.0736 the Bering Sea. For two daye the ureeaal se Tokyo, which is abory that the earliest settlers back about 300 years, Recorde
6 m/s. Frazes 5.1216 New U. S. Bank Association.
Demand, Germany. their ship, the Dora, waarionaly situated on one of the city's eleve brought with them the seed of Representatives of State usko, Demand, New York: 8756 hampered by the ice foes which tions: Several years before the the fax plant, and that in 1617 trust companies, and private T/T Bombay made navigation perilous, sa in war some 2,000 women found the first farmer who landed in the beaks from thirty-three States met Demond, Bombay --- Nom. dicated by the following report employment here
Provices of Quebec occupied and in Convention at St. Louis, Mo., TIT Calcutta......... from Sayre ----
separated from the men. Now cleared that piece of land where reports the Guaranty Trust Co. of Demand, Calcutta... Nom. "All abips are about three they are no longer segregated... weeks late on account of the ice
GO stands the court hours of the New York on July 30 and Demand. Manila The trusted,experienced women
Demand, Singapore. 158 Connail of State Banking Accis On Saigon 1 % prem. cabin, and commented farming. and four dead men were taken uniforme worn in of pink cotton. In those early days the settlers tions and arged the formation of On Bangkok off the ice by the cutter Usalga, and a brass dire bears the number heckled and spon su well as wore State organisatione "for the Sovereign 5.40 Nom. Roosevelt, or Saturn (one of them, by which they are known in the their yarns into linen, This fact purpose of concerning and pro Gold leaf per cz 43 they are all in these waters come-munition family. Their payment disposes of double se to climatic secting those local privileger Bar Silver, per oz 4914 where), and 24 men are grill is very small, averaging 12 y. suitability.
and interests which have been SUBSIDIARY COINS mi-zing. Siz ships were aground (dz 243., a month, and in propor
The roo Best Investments. developed "and become inherent at Ugrgik, but most of themtion to the pay the working hours The British Foreign, and in State Gascoial institutions, 'kong 50 cts aah.
DISCOUNT PER $100;; were palled cff, although we are long, from 7 in the morning Colonial Corporation, Ltd. 57 sad for the farther purpose of could see two still there to-day." until 7 at night. Back women Bishopsgate, London, EC. 2, ecuring such legislation as my
This advance party, now carries her cooked rice, with a have just published the 1918 be necessary to perfect the State Canton camped at Naknek, has as its relish to make it more palatables edition of The 100 Best Invest banking system Resolutions mission the preliminary recon-in a little box wrapped up in a mente," prios 18 The work-tated that it is not the purpose naissances for the larger party's piece of coloured cotton-her contains fall details of 100 of this association to oppose or in 1918 being $5.928 000,000, a intensive study of the Valley of midday meal, a
investment securities, specially 203 way antagonise the Federal compared with $6,290,000 000 in Smoker, which is the most To see them pouring out of the selected as being, at their present Reserve System as at present 1917. The excres of exporte gigantic natural phenomenon or big gate in the evening is to quotations, the most attractive constituted, but is cur desire to over imports smounted to i earth. It is highly probable that realise that the women of Asis of their respective pleases, id and sesist the Federal Reserve $2,882,000,000 in 1918, against 11.50 p.m. and 11.45pYOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK theas two mea will
not have completely emerged from ranging from National War Board in every way possible for 83,681,000,000 in 1917, E be able to complete their their former seclusion to take up Bonda to Ordinary shares in the pri motion of sale and ports and imports bolk show a work before winter shuts in upon their part in the world's work industrial companies. The und banking." Offices of the falling off for June, 1918, sa them and in that event they will All sorts of women from 16 to 50. introductory article deals fully Council declare that the organise compared with May and April be imprisoned by blizzards in the Dressed in simple cotton kimonos with the question of investments Sion is not hostile to the long Imports totalled $260 000 000. Awesome vallay for six months, which show a taste for colour under existing conditions, and stablished American Bankers as compared with $323,000,000 Their recompense will be the even in the inexpensive materials the volume also contains yield Association:
in May, while exports knowledge that they are the fire selected, they arrange their beir tables, income-tax hints, a liet of America's Foreign Trade. |smounted" to $485,000,000, an human beings aver to see, the for the most part in the regulation companies paying dividends free American foreign trade fell en sgsinst $551,000,000 grandeur ol.the valley married women's style-the nest, of income-tax, and other features lightly in the fiscal year 1918 Imports of gold when ice and snow come in tiny coiffures displaying, the of valas to every investor. The the total being G 88 874 000 000, fiscalar conteer with the millivas of fanste feminity of Japanese book in arranged in convenient compared with 28 949,000,000 in 8124 000 900, un con
which five from women in oreanmuts of lacquer form, the securities ring get 1917, according to Agarós tert the 1 or of thin vari uziety valve práci, or silver --Dang Mai, alphabetically and
One ship, the Tacoma, was sankare made superintendents. City of Qaebee, built himself organised the United States On Haiphong...... 14 % pre mi.)
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Pedro de Macoris Santiago, Parto Plata In addition to curren Branches, by TELOG of our close antiation with THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK" we are able to offer the facilities of its brandons at Bahia, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Chenon Herina Mouleridya, Moknow, Petrogue lo de Foto San Juan, P. B., Santiago de Cuba, Blastos „Bao-
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Exchange and Cable Transfers bought wad sold. Borghods Branch, 8, Queen's Road Central,
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