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AGENTS.
SIAMESE STEAMSHIP
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Sailings from Hongkong:-
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For further particulars apply to:-
To Sail.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, (JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.) Agents.
Tel. 36
CO., INC.
KERR STEAMSHIP CO.,
Service to New York, via Panama Canal.
FOR MANILA AND NEW YORK.
The Steamship
"BLOSSOM HEATH"
sailing on or about Thursday, 4th May. For freight and further particulars, apply to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
Nations.
Agents.
"POLITICAL PROFILES" and champion of the League of
OF BRITISH STATESMEN. Estimates of Public Leaders.
Mr. Herbert Sidebotham is the parliamentary correspondent of the London Times. In the course
of his day's work he has watched
House of Parliament the men who to-day are walking the decks
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
From HAMBURG via SINGAPORE.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1922.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAMSHIP
PARK UNION BANK.
Losses in the Far East. Heavy losses sustained by the ParksUnion Foreign Banking CON-Corporation through recent fail-
PANY, LTD. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees per Co's Steamers
**HELENUS"
ures of large firms oparating in the Far East wers made public when announcement was made that the institution's business was to be taken over by the Asis |Banking Corporation, states the New York Journal of Commerce.
Gradual liquidation of the busi- ness of the Park-Union Foreign Banking Corporation, organised and in 1919 and owned jointly by the National Park Union of New York and the Union Bank of Canada, was decided upon at a meeting of directors of that in- stitution held recently.
The Company's Steamship
“LONDON MARU,” having arrived from the above porta, together with cargo Ex
Robso Maru" from Calcutta are hereby notified that the Cargo transhipped at Singapore, Con- will be discharged into Holt'e signees of Cargo are hereby notiWharf, Kowloon, where it will
lie at Consignees risk fed that their goods are being handed and placed at their risk subject to terms and conditions in the Hongkong and Kowloon of storage at Holt's wharf, The Wharf and Godown Company's Cargo will be ready for delivery Godowns at Kowloon, where de- from Godown on and after 1st.
May. livery can be obtained as soon as
Officials of the Park-Union the goods are landed.
Options! cargo will be landed, Goods not cleared by the 6th.nless notice has been given prior Foreign Banking Corporation will be taken into the directorate May, 1922, will be subject to rent, to steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafed, and dam-and management of the Asia Damaged packages must be laft in the Godowns for examination aged goods ara to be left in the Baoking Corporation and the by theConsiguses representatives Godowns, where they will be flatter will take over the business and the Company's Surveyors, examined on any Tuesdays and of the Park-Union. The decision Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at Fridays between the hours of was prompted by the present 10 a.m. on Wednesday and Satur 10.45am and noon within the limited condition of the foreign field, an official statement issued day. All claims must be present-free storage period.
No claims will be admitted after after the meeting declared. within Ten days of the ed steamer's arrival here, after which the Goods have left the steamer's date they cannot be recognized. Godown, and all Goods remaining No claim will be admitted after undelivered after the 6th. May. the goods have left the Godowns.will be subject to rent.
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately. OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
Y. YASUDA,
Manager. Hongkong, 30th. April, 1922.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
S.S.KOREA MARU" From SAN FRANCISCO, vis HONOLULU, & JAPAN PORTS & SHANGHAI. The above damed Steamer having arrived on Monday, 1st. May, 1923, consignees of cargo are hereby notified to present their Bills of Lading for counter signature, and take immediate delivery from alongside steamer or the Company's Godown, where all cargo impeding immediate [discharge will be landed At
consignees risk.
Storage will be assessed on cargo remaining undelivered alter Monday, 8th. May. 1922. All broken. chafed and damaged packages will be landed into the Company's Godown where same will be examined on Monday, 8th. Mar, 1922, at 10 a.m.
No claims will be recognised after goods have left the steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented later than three weeks after arrival of
steamer.
No Fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Y. TSUTSUMI.
Manager. Hongkong. May, 1st. 1922.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
From EUROPE & STRAITS.
S.S. TOTTORI MARU" Consignees of Cargo by the above steamer are hereby notified that the whole of the same has been
S.S.AKITA MARU"
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The formal announcement of: the retirement of the Park-Union Foreign Banking Corporation was as follows.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the under- *The Asia Banking Corpora- signed on or before the 20th. tion announces that at a meeting May, or they will not be recof its directors held to-day. ognised.
Charles A. Holdet was elected president, T. Fred Aspden and Irving Scott vice-presidents, and E. B. Mackenzie, Secretary. Charles H. Sabin, formerly pres- ident of the Asia Banking Cor- poration, was elected chairman of the board of directors and Charles A. Holder and T. Fred Aspden, directors.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, ist. May, 1922.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"The Park-Union Foreigo Banking Corporation announces
THE KERR STEAMSHIP CO.that on and after April 1, 1922, its
The Steamship
INC.
S.S. "BLOSSOM HEATH" having arrived from New York via ports on Tuesday, 2nd. May, consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed into the Godowns of Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. and stored at their risk.
business will be conducted at the office of the Asia Banking Cor- poration, 35 Broadway, New York city. Mr. Holder and Mr. Aspden will for the present re- main officers of the Park-Union and direct its affairs. The Park- Union. feeling that the foreign Held is limited under present business conditions decided to withdraw gradually from its Consignees σε cargo
must activities under the above ar produce an Import permit signed rangement. The Asia Banking by the Superintendent of Imports Corporation, with its manage- and Exports, before Bills of ment strengthened by its new Lading will be countersigned. officers, will continue to offer its All broken, chafed and damag-services to the public in the Far and ed cargo is to be left in, the Eastern backing field. Godown whers the examination especially invites the business of will be held on the 9th May, at the customers of the Park-Union." 11 am.
SUFFERED LARGE LOSSES.
All claims must be presented The Park-Union Foreign Bank- within thirty days of the ing Corporation is known to have steamer's arrival here. after suffered considerable losses which they will not be recognised. through recent failures of large No claims will be recognised foreign trade houses operating in after the Goods
left the Far East. For instance, in the Godown and cargo undeliver- the Childs and Joseph failure ed on or after the 9th. May, will there was due the Park-Union be subject to rent.
$571,000, of which $200,000 alone was secured by sufficient collateral.
bave
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Counter-signature immediately
to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. Agents,
INC.
The announcement came as a
surprise generally in the fiaan cial district, although in certain quarters reports have been cur- reat for some time that action in
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Casional dose of Pinkettes is ex- ceedingly beneficial. They aid the appetite, gently cleanse the system,stimulate the liver, banish The last
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this direction was contemplated of June 30, 1921, the capital of one of these institutions. the Park-Union is $14,000,000 by THE KERR STEAMSHIP. CO. Banking interests view the move with a surplus and undivided
more or profits of $625,411. ment as one which is less general on the part of in statement issued showed that is atitutious with foreign trade re- sued loans and bills purchased lationships. The question which amounted to $7,887,800 and cus has been raised bere is as to tomers liability for acceptances $6,372,693; liabilities whether the banks with special reached
He pictures Lloyd George as the paradox that he has become. and Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
£2,000, MINT THEFT3. as the potentate plodding through a changing era of Britain on the
More than £2,000 in gold has back of his Indian elephants.
mysteriously disappeared from
Druggists everywhere sell from the Press Gallery of the He brings into a focus, almost returned from SHANGHAI by the Paris Mint, which is closely organisations will absorb such due to banks and correspondents Pinkettes, or direct and post free, guarded, and where every visitor organisations into their systems $1,939,778 due to individuals. 60 cents the vial, from Dr. too sharp, the profiles of Winston
and acceptances Williams' Medicine Co., 96, Sze Churchill, Bonar Law and the on the 30th. April, and these is shadowed by plain clothes or gradually liquidate the basi- $4,750,000, two Geddes.
Goods will be landed and placed police. Some weeks ago a small ness which was built up on the $6,804,784. The corporation was chuan Road, Shangbai.
organised under the banking law There is an interesting chapter at their risk in the Hongkong and box containing gold dust vanished wave of war-time prosperity.
Kowloon Wharf and Godown from the assayer's office, then The Park Union Foregn Bank of New York State and WLA on that Lady Astor who was once one of Langhorne girls of Company's Godowns at Kowloon. another box; while the third time ing Corporation was organised where each consignment will be it was a well-filled pocket-book with the idea of doing business Virginia.
His last chapter on Parlia-sorted out mark by mark and le- that was betracted from the with the Far East and with this Now in view, branches were started up is in-livery can be obtained as soon as pocket of a high official. mentary Government"
It the Goods are landed.
every boy whose business calls bim jo Seattle, San Francisco, Toko portant and illuminating.
to the Mint not only carefully baina, Tokyo, Shanghai and Paris. shows the drift in England. if
looks after his pockets, but is The Union Bank of Canada took mingled and fighting cross-cur-
himself closely watched.
charge of the London and Cana- rents may be said to have a drift.
of the British ship of State.
His estimates of those men are set down in "Political Profiles." He acquaints you with the met- tal processes of Lord Grey of Fallodon, writes brilliantly of that trio of Cecilians," Lord Robert and Lord Cecil and the gray-white Balfour. Especially interesting is his dissection of the mentality of Lord Robert Cecil, the friend
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
Agents. Hongkong, 1st May, 1927.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
Look fut for the Street Cars!
operated ander the regulations foreign trade situation since the and supervison of the Federal (start of the world-wide depression. Reserve Board.
In many quarters the taking over When the announcement was of the affairs of the Park-Union made bankers stated their belief by the Asia Banking Corporation that the action which had been
was regarded as a tactical move taken furnished further evidence to further strengthen the position of the hazards, involved in the of the latter organisation.
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