THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY OCTOBER 31, 1918.
BROSSARD, MOPIN & CO.
Telegraphic Address——"BROSSARD"
Telephone-2566.
CIVIL ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS and SURVEYORS
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 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, angle bars, steel joists, iron sheets. motors and Fichet's proof anfas
fire.
REINFORCED CONCRETE IS ABSOLUTELY FIRE PROOF AND OFFERS SUBSTANTIAL, RESISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.
RAILWAY, FERRY BOAT-SINGAPORE, JOHORE
MARINE CONSTRUCTION: Lighters (river and sea) up to 1,000 tons. Hulk, Ferry Beats 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. Found- tories, Godowns Tunnels
com- ations in bad ground, by pressed air, Walls, Drains, Sewers, Churches Hotels and Hospitals.
M. M. Brossard, Mopin and Co., 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 Voeux Road, Central.
Reinforced Concrete SPECIALISTS.
NO FRIENDS IN NEED.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Netherlands Government has been trying to eduoste the natives to so
Portuguese Export Surtexes.. reonomic, industrial" existence. A German Lament.
The British Board of Trade areThere are more than 8,000 schools Vorworts Bay!
We often in receipt, through the Foreign in existence to-day, and a greater nowadays read in reports from Offer, of a translation of a Por aheme of ednostion is only the West of the easy's superior gese Decree (No. 4 635), which waiting for sufficient material in force," and then proceeds to sak sathorizes the Government to the form of teachers to put it into the following pointed questions: alter the export surtaxes which operation. In order to exocurage! "Who told us that Francs are to leviable on a large sum capital the Netherlands Govern- Las started rabbar "bled, Italy exhausted, and Great her of articles on exportation from ment
virtue of earlier plantations on the north coast of Britain almost finished by the Portugal in
decreee.
On the south-east) Provision is made amatra. Who greeted C-bost war?
for the publication
corner, the Lampony district, iti of & America's entry into the war with
■ feeling of relief and a cry of complete schedule of the surtaxes bag sided the natives to coltivate *God be praised? Who told to be applied to different classes their own rubber, while in Java that America would be able to of goods on exportation. The native tea caltivation has been bring a single men or ship to rates of the surtax as shown in promoted instead of rice. Mant-
sach schedule are to be revised facturere in the Netherlande no Europe?
"And now, all at once, those from time to time, in accordance refuse to invest their capital in wet people who seem to know me with facinations in the value of leaf, so that the Government had danger except the victory of the goode in the Portuguese markets to etep in and operate s permanent! and the prevailing rates of ex-plant with the sale intention of Reichstag majority speak ol abyEFON and perils.
Ger change. The list of articles keeping the economic life of the many's greatest defect is that she object to expori sortar may sleo inhabitants going. These facte, did not understand how to gain be revised as circumstances may friende for a time of need. The require.
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"A Stiff Upper Lip."
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it is claimed explain why the people sre EO Sozions about the 'Datch ships, which chief reason for this is to be found Netherlands East Indies.
rain that seeded so badly for the purpose ec"nomic in her policy of stifling budding enmilies and by display of force threatens the ratives of the of keeping the people from perieh and-alo by reinforcing growing Netherland Esat Indies bas been ig. It is pet a question of alliance only by displays of force.described a well-known secaring Forinees for the share-i What Germany most needa igricalta relanthority very recent bolders in the plantatione sad trading companies. The prices 10 |ly, asyn by. New York Journal | moral conquests."
| be obtained in the world markets of Commerce. The following|
are evidently too moderate or gures just as band from the most artificially low to appeal favour Tuonday."Now if over," de reliable information are interest ably to the investor, while the clares the Cologne Caselle ising. The exports during the psat. the moment to keep a stiff upper five years were:-1912, 1,433,000 rates of exchange mean a loss of lip. That is no small thing perole. 1913, 1,470,000 doir.: 1914, haps for faint hearts. If we grow,298 OCO dolf.; 1914, 1,397,000 werk and faint of heart then dols.; 1916, 1,895,000 dola. "In Bverything we have done and the production of these exporte suffered will fadeaway and shrivel the expenses amounted to bon up, and one will read that we dreds of millions, which are the were a race which seemed great source of livelihood for the but we in reality Emall
inhabitants of the country, Even the blind must eee, that, The products of the soil consist whatever car rank or prolemios, we should have to dig and slave largely of docospat oil, tapides, NORTH POINT
corn, and seeds of various kinds,
25
per cent.
·NOTICES.
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NOTICE.
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PUBLIC
BATHING BEACH.
for foreign lande if we lose thie The capitalistic estates operating KENNEDY TOWN PUBLIC We must get through, we with paid labour in the raising of BATHING BEACH. must go fighting until the fee, tea, and tobacco, cigars
WEL
others grant us that just and and rubber required 76,000,000 THE facilities provided at the honourable peace which they dole, of working capital lest year. refuse to us. We must go on as the products of the soil cannot purposes will not be available
above beaches for bathing
after the 31st October, 1918.
L. PERKINS,
fighting even if the heavens grow be disposed of for cash, the money still darker."
Ito pay the labour has to come from "Director of Public Works. A Miscalculation.
reserve sam.or by borrowing. In Public Works Offices, Baron von Ardenne, the well-case of stegnation in shipments
Hongkong, 30th October, 1918. known military critic, in the the_lee_in_quality and intarest Berliner Tageblatt, frankly admite is calculated at approximately » E that Germany miscalculated the 110,000,000 dols. a year. If the
force at Marshal estates trength of the Foob's disposal. "The people at labour for a year, of in other home palazsily ask,” he says, qords, cut off their source of how it was possible for Marshal livelihood, they would lose From to pass from an inglorioue, 50,000,000 dola, by deterioration defensive to a sudden, împainous, of the plantations, and the and succeestal tizntire." Thanemployed would offer to the explanation which the write extent of 48,000,000 gailšers. Thie users is that the “Entente's will fors would, of course, fall atmosı 15 destination enabled them by wholly upon the natives, they so s nprecedented efforts to get a role having no resources whatever Tonchas somerical superiority fall back on. For forty years the CURE
should dismiss their paid HMROD'S
Bivas Instant RaHof / Bu matter what your zwWD_"ALOWY.
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ROYAL
"OUR DAY".
PERFORMANCES ·
OF
"THE BARTON MYSTERY"
A spoofic fantasy in 4 parts by Walter Hackett
ON
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Stalls
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T/T Singapore......... 14314 TIT Japan....... 14436 T/T India
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Demand, Calcutta ..... Nom. Demand. Manila... 15914 Demand, Singapore. 14354 On Haiphong........ 14 prem. On Saigon. 1% prean. On Bangkok
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For # Möntha 4% per annum.
For 12 Months 43% 704 251 4
LOOK POON SHANI
Chief Manager,
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE. Subscribed Capital ... France 45,000,000, Pald up
22,500,000. (14 of the Capital, Le. Frones(15,000,000 subscribed by the Government of the
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HONGKONG BRANCE,
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ATION,
Paid-up Capital RESERVE FUNDS:
Sterling
£1.500,000 at 21-
$15,000,000 Silver$19,500,000
Reserve Liabilitymol
$13.000 304
$24.500.000
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Hongkong-mener & Dowid i
On Cari-counts at the cate of 3 pár man. manum on the dally belasČA,
ON FIXED DEPOSITS.
For months, aj per valt. par diningƐ For i months i per cent, par aLOODĮ
or to manche, par vest, per ATRIALAS).
→N. J. STARE
Chief Manag
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANT
THE Business of the shore Bank-28 COMBICON | the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BARKING CORPORATION "Ralas may be obtained an applies.Mom!
INTEREST on deposits wel on the Ewa meethly balanos et diyŽ OBIČÍĄ DIE JON
•Depositace way transfer, át töeir ogding beinca of 2100 de mers to the Benengan MAMETE Bush is be pinced on FIXED DEPOE, M/ Cool per 13TUN
For the Houghong and Shangkal Banking Discu
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Chief Mannger
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
lacorporated by Royal Charter 1936)
BLAD OFFICES-LONDON, PAID UP CAPITALOS 20 RESKATI FOND
$1,000,00
BESKİYE LIABULIST OF
PEOF BIRTIRA
FOLKON EXCHANGI and General Zastana
desforce tratractad CERREST ACCOURS opened asé 1000 DEPOSITS ratelvad for 1 year or acortas jurong cases which will be quoted or application.
T. C. DOWNING,
Hongkong, 11th April, 1912,
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
Head: Office 15, Gracechursi
Street, London. Authorised Capital
Subscribed
Paid Up Reserve Fund
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RANKERS The Bath of England
£1,500,00
1.125,00
650.000
The Loston Tolet Stick Keak, Limit
BRANCH
Bombay
TIME TABLE
WEEK DAYS.
Calcutts
Colembe
Delat
Grils
1.000 1.00 1.20.
Every 15 mín.
Hongkong
10 mla
Kandy
15 min
30 Jula
Faterdays only
15 min
to 400 Saturdays only
16 Pin
to 5:00
15 min
RG 5.00
30 min
NIGHT CARS.
30 p.m.-5.30 p. 10,00 pm. 11.00 pm. 11.30 pm and 11.45 pm. SATURDAYS EXTRA CARS...
1.30 p.m. and 12.00 midnight.
BUNDATE
1.30 ..
to 30.30 1. Every, 18 min to +17.00 to 12.00 noda
FOOD to 15 J
to
9.00
10 6.00
·NIGET CARS..
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INTERNATIONAL BANKINO-
CORPORATION.
HEAD OFFICE NATIONAL CITY BANK BUILDING.
5 Wall Break New York CAPITAL AND SURPLUS U.S. $4,570,000,00 UNDIVIDED PROFITS
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Booghong, Carton. JAPAN: Yokohama, Eoba. PHILIPPINES: Manila Ceb INDIA: Bombay, Calcutta. STBAITS SETTLEMENTS: Singapore: DUTCH EAST INDIES: Bavla Boerstars
WEST INDIAN AND CENTRAL->
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THE
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANY
LIMITED.
stablished 1880.
Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 Paid
Rese
apital Fundado
24:300,000
Head Offes,YOKOHAMA
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