THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDA DECEMBER 5, 1918.
BROSSARD, MOPIN & CO.
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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, Bunde, Wharves, Weirs, Retaining Walls, Dams, Industrial Buildings, Towers, Tanks, Godowns, Frameworks, Cal- verts, Vaults, Floors. Roofs, Piles hollow and full. al lengths and rizes, 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. motora and Fichet's fre proof safes
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REINFORCED CONCRETE 13 ABSOLUTELY
FIRE PROOF AND OFFERS SUBSTANTIAL RESISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.
RAILWAY, FERRY BOAT HINGAPORE, JOHOEL.
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MARINE CONSTRUCTION:: Lighters (river and sea) up to 1,000 toba 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, poilers. and industrial installations,
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKS: Private and Public Buildings, Fac. tories, Godowns Tucnels Found-. ations in bad ground, by Com- pressed air, Walls, Drains Sewera Churches Hotels and Hospitals,
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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 he required. Address as above or to their agents Wm. C. JACK & Co., Ltd., 14, Des Voeux Road, Central.
Reinforced Concrete SPECIALISTS.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
The World's Crope.
suggestion in the trade that A NEW LEPER COLONY, trustees, and has promised a
Datch, and Chinese tin are not covered by the international pool Brrangement.
Harvests of the Beillgereats. London, September 28-In
Wheat, nocording to estimates this country, where the harve
received by the Board of Agriaal.is late, hat the outlook Bati
The Tin Industry.
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Establishment at Sz Yap
special irsin between Jan. 8 and Jan. 13. the fime fixed for a visit to the Dts Region by a party of Chinese and Americana, whe hope at that time to sy the cor ner-alone of the first building.
This work looks to the erection there of homes for the lepers and
WHEN THE EARTH FREEZES.
Looking into The Future.
What will we do when ite of Kwong tang of a hospital, a chapel, and normal temperature of the earth
the Chinese:
BANKS
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HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG,
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and
General Banking Business
Transacted.
INTEREST. ON FIXED
DEPOSITS.
For 3 Months 3% per annum
For 6 Months 4% per annum.
For 12 Months 41% per annum.
LOOK POON SHAN,"
Chief Manager.
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BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE
Enbscribed Capital — Fraons 45,000,000. Paid up
22,500,000, (4 of the Capital, La France 15,000,000 aubscribed by the Goverimant of the
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HEAD OFFICE: -
74. Bus Balst-Lasare, PARIS.
BRANCHES
PERING
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Beserves....
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Paid-up Capital ........$13.000,008 RESERVE FUNDS:
Sterling
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- ➡$15,000,000 $19.500.000
Silver
$24.500.000
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Chief Manage
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANI
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For the Hongkong sad Suughat Banking Corpa zlek
N. J. STABB.
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Chartar 1878,
BEAD OFFICES-LONDON, PAID-UP CAPITATI CAND INS KESERVE FUND EWERYE LLARIARY OF
PROFENTORS
YORLIGN EXCHANGE and Genera) Banten -
business transactać, d CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened" and 123 DEPOSITE received for 'your or mortar pariots. zates which wil be quoted on applicating,
T. C. DOWNING.
Manager) Hongkong, 11th April, 191
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,
Head Office 15, Gracechurei Street, London. Authorised Capitu) — £1,800,094 Subscribed.
Paid Up
Reserve Fund
+3
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650.00
BANIZIA The Eask of England Ft Leadon Talat Suck Back, Limit Let
BRANCHE Bombay Colombe Cath!
Calcatio Frs. 48.000.000
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į"interest allowed on cament Accounts and Fixed Deposits according to arrangement.
Brezy description of, hanking and ex-
A. BIER,
The writer has just returned ture from the International factory, trade authorities estimate from that progressive and popal- Agricultural Institute, has been car wheat production at 92,000,-ons Rection produced this rear to the extent 000 busbele, as against 60-000 Province, south-west of Canton residences for of 982,678,000 pts. in England 000 last year, That yield would City and weet of Bragkong and superintendent and the Chinese falle to gero, even at the equator? BANQUE DE L'INDO-CINE and Wales, Canada, India, the be the largest since 1878. The Macso, known sa the Ss Tap, or physician, who will have fall While it is estimated tha United States, Spain, Japan, potato crop is also nearly Four Districte. It is said that of charge of the institution, under a meteorological condition will not Egypt, and Tanin, or 17 1 per cant. million tons above 1917. fisly's the seventy thousand or more committee of Chinese. more than in 1917 and 75 per wheat crop is promising: Bussis's Chinese in the United States "The lepers who are able to do develop for 2,000,000 of years to cent, above the average for the outlook 18 in reality unknown alone, to say nothing of Canada so will raise pige and chickens, some, still, we, who are thus safe res five years 1912-18. Barley is es- Hangary'e production is diesp and some other countries, fully will plant vegetabler, and will ly distant from that cold storage timated to prove 5.2 per cent. pointing; it is 16,000,000 bushelarinety per cent. have gone from fish, for living; while fuads period, are justified in manifesting Bangkok greater than the yield of 1917, below fast year's harvest, which those foar districte Sex Wooi, monet be raised to feed and clothe some interest in the manner by Batm and 7.2 above the average for was itself unsatisfactory. San Ning, Tan Ping, and Hoi bore anfortunates who are up which such conditions will be Dibouti 1912-16; and cats 34 less than Exchange and Spanish Trade. Ping.
able to care for themselveF. leas year, but 12 8 per cent, shove Commenting_OB
For a good many years, these the average for the five years movements of Spanish exchenze. journeys to that section have been towards these cted people, my affect that life and sotívities
Besides this Obristion Charity possible, and how this change k mentioned. Meir production in emphasis is laid by Londor rows taken regalarly but this one of their segregation on these islende fman on the planet. the United States and Canada is papers on the fact that whereas in four weeks was unique. Its object will stop the spread of the dread 15.4 per cent, less than 1917, and the first half of 1917. Spain's im was to stir up a deeper interest disease among the millions of we have the choice of either fress According to the satronomere the potato yield în
France, porte of merchandise, gold and in the hitherto irregular work prople there, who are in constanting or being routed to death, for England, and Wales, Canada, and silver, exceeded exports by 24, that has been undertaken for th denger. the United States this year is 797,000 pesetas, or $4,950,000, Ispera there, of whom there are An Advisory Board, composed extremes of best and cold, and no
in the universe there are infinit e IN reckoned to be 12.6 per cent. the first half of 1918 ahowed that said to be perhaps two thousand. of prominent Chinese men and man may foretell with anything below that of 1917. *
exporta exceeded importe be 110 In every oily and town visited women from that section, has of certainty how this world of IN NEW YORK, J.-P. Morgan & Co. 486 000 pesatas, or $22,090,000. daring the four weeks, addresses been appointed; and the first coura will reach its end. In merchandise alone, however, were made on the salject by give his consent to serve was Control of domestic pig tin there was an erpart exress" of members of our party and the Dr. Wa Ting fang. Under sucht is the work of s delver for truth industry, says en American ex- 250,800,000 in the six-month enthusizem was intense. Every-leadership, and with the help of camed Stefan that gives a start in change business transacted, change of Oct. 7 bas been period of 1917, but a similar body seamed anxious to help or a great international organisation.sesching the auro point of earth approved by the War Industries ICA of only $25 400,000 in the enterprise.
by the blessing of God, we may the mesa temperature of the earth life. Applying his calculations to Board, which will place the 1818.
Sinos the visit," a few months bops soon to see this all importané industry upon a license system. An Echo of £837, 320, of Mr. W. M. Dinner, Ameri-enterprise successfully launched a given latitude shows that at According to an entɔuncement! An unobtrusive paragraph (No. can Secretary of the International-Rev. John Lake in Canton the latitude of 80 deg, the tem- issued by the Board "all users or 1998) of the Gazette of India for Mission to Lepere, this work hae Times, deslera in pig tió will be licensed Angast, 31, 1918, recalls the time been taking shape and be and and a complete inventory of when British do minion in North General Secretary Mr. W. H. P. stocka on hand and contrecte era "Indis was for some time Anderson have taken up seriously unfilled will be made and, if imperilled. It containg the nemer the raising of the funde.
Indiaas Buy Liberty Bonds, nevemary, supplies will be re of nine Maziny veteran, upor The Honourable Wa Ting-fang Muskogee, Okla., October 2-ago. distributed to equalise same whom the Governor General in is a oative of the Ss Yag-of Bar The five civilised tribes of In- Thus it would appear that life according to essential aes." The Council has been pleased to con- Wooi-and, se everybody knows disan bave jest subscribed $2, commenced on the earth in the War Industries Board has sent for the little of Bahsder and both in Chins and in America 600,000 to the fourth Liberty. vicinity of the poles. The same out questionnaires to two thous assignments of land revenue to deeply interested in every good Loan. Figures given cat at the reasoning leads the men who are! and individuals and plants calling the 'ue of B. 860 per annum. enterprise, and is antiring in his ean e time showed these tribes "held in the bondage of the stare for the informaation under oath More than sixty years have passed fatis to promote the welfare of have up to now invented a total to the conclusion that in less than 10 demanded by the inventory since the terrible year of kill his own stive land. Wa gave of $9,523 000 in Liberty Bonds 2,000,000 years, when the sun's This sotion follows the arrange ing, and of the Indian soldiers, as a letter to the Ban Ning and War Savings Stamps. ment of an international pcolho, in those difficult' days, wore District Magistrate, who in turn for the distribution of the loyal to the Empress whose sali gave on letter to the officials at; world's production of tin, of they had ester, not more than Kwong Hoi, end also gave us the The following astounding piece which thirds has been allott bare handful remain. But the use of a gua boat, with which we of italy German infamy is record. Lo sccepting this prediction as ed to the United 8 stes. All im Saate does not forget the services sisted some of the islands ired in the Bergische Arbeiler. ports of pig ho, in ores, and they rendered long ago, Bizce China Ses of the Ser Ning Coast stemme, of Bolingon foar to be regretted that rare old Dr. cold, faci, ons wag remarks it is concentrates are to be consigned 1913 it has been the practice to We found what seems to be the year cld child was straigned Cook has lived 2.000,003 years to the American Iran and Boel reserve for a Mutiny veteran one ideal location for a leper colons before the Prusian Penal Court before his time, Tomitate and will be distributed of the grants of land or sign for the Delta Region an island at Solingen on charge of violst- to the licensees through the mente of land rever us which pre lentirely uninhabited, with plents ing paragraph 186 of the penal United Sister Steel Products annually distributed to dreeiving of fresh water, fuel, and building code by tearing the Company. Prices will be regulat Indian (fficers. Bat in view of material, and some thirty miles
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ed by the War Industries Board the great age of these, veterans from the cost
and will be uniform and at a level who have deserved so wally of being.
Fancourage production is: des
hự tin ginning countries. N Ga
its been given, na kt
1: Chinese he
and Gropiry the for, Committee
Truly German!
Acting Manager, Hongkong, October 21st, 1918.
peratura was in the neighbourhood
of 90 deg. centigrade when the
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ean's radiae was about one and s
half times ite present dimentions PEAK TRAMWAYS CO. LTD.
that is, sbout, 2,000,000 years
TIME TABLE.
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radina will be reduced by one tenth of its present value, then • to 100 temperature of the earth will
are fallen belon & deg.
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only
Batorlays only
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CORPORATION.
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