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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1912.

Garner Quelch

& Co.,

2 Extremes

THE CHINA MAIL.

His Britanrio Majesty's Ships on the China Station.

FACE THE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER UF

TYPEWRITER

Name

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Hongkong, December 18, 19.1.

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...

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river gunboat doop

Alacrity

dispatch resal

1700

2000

Comdr. C. La Lamba

may hay one of the shaap toys which vield a "samblance of typing for eight months or a year, gyben he consigna It to the worky héapons,

Master W. West

Bamble

river gunboat

19yContas Ba

Britomart

river gunboat.

900

rent. Conde. W. H.

sloop

1070

1400

Commor. ETET

cruser

4380

Capt. J. Drummond

water tank and tug

900

300

Master Smith":

Clio

aloop

1070:

1,400.

Comdr. H. R., Vesla

Hongkong Canton

Deterio

aruiser, 1st clar

34,600

Kangkang

Famo

torpedo bost destroyer

980

3700.

Liens Comdr. H. S. Monroe

Flongkong

Flora

cruiser, 2nd class

4380

10

7000

Capt. . F. Corbett, M.37.0. -)

Hongkong.

Handy

torpedo boat destruyer

973

4000

Janusi

torpedo boat destroyer

930

.3800

It. Comdr. E. Boddam Whelham Jt Comdr. Maxwell.

West River

cruiser, Ist alaya

9000 14 22,000

Capt A. T. Hunt, C.S.I.B.

€18

Merlin

.1347

14-Cemdr. H. D. Margat

Capt. F. 9. C. Panco

Swator

•Amoy Yangtsso

Surreying dutiei,

* Minotaur Modmonth

cruiser, 1st class

•14,900

ST000

Capt. 0, C., Cayley p

Itengkong -

cruiser, is class

9800

90,001

Moorhen Newcastle Nightingale Otter

river runbeat

180

803

cruise, id claes

4900

Liver gunboat

torpedo boat destroyer

-380-

8

$900

84

L-Comdr, G. P. Leith

Capt. G. P. E. Burt, D.&O.

2 940 Lieus Com. Malcolm Murzay

Capt. B. H. F. Barthelot,

Hongkong

West River

Shanghal

Comdr. Seymour

PAID-DE CAPITAL $15,000,000

FUNDS-

17 Peynsur

cruiser

913

Capt. F. H. Mitchell

Hongkong Shanghai

Sterling

ESTABLISHED 1890.

--

£1,500,000/- 1 $25,000,000 Bilyar...

Prometheus Ribble

cruiser

2125

5000

Comdr. P. R. Warleigh

Hongkong

18,730,000

-$31,750,000 &DTHURIBID CAPITAL... Yma 43,000,000.00 90,000,000,00 Rum IITY Or $13,000,000 PAID-UN CAPITAL.ng, she

17,500,000,00 RERTI FUND

POLITICS OF POMPEN SHOWN BY EXCAVATION.

w

HEAD OPTICX-YOKOHAMA.

BRANCHIN AND ÅGENCIES AT ANTENG-Harry BOMBAY

NAGASAKI

F. Lieb, Tay.

Cups of diaphanouï ¿giass "ting clay: NAPLES, March 10.

lamps in the shape of a human fost in a The nat excavations in Pompei harsandal, on the sole of which is the name of now brought to light about eight houses of the maker, one "Spondillius bronzo tho Street of Abundance leading towards lamps like a pair of scales; a small tub the amphitheatre. The first house to the|with two iron hoops, and a copper tap aro left is lofty and forms the angle of the among the more than eight hundred objects newly excavated street, with a narrower found. All the utensils are admirable fox

Aimplicity and elegance....... street still buried.

attached to the neck, which ends in sudia Rosario fine point and narrow hole that the costants Robin could only issue drop by drop.

Sandpiper

torpedo boat destroyer

600

La Coudr. J, G. Mackianoa

Shanghai

depot ship, ubmarines

990

1000

Lt Comdr. N.. E. Archdale!!

Hongkong

river gunboat

85

940

Lt-Com. Allas Dizon ***

West Rivas

"river gunboat

240

Snipe

river gunboat

210

Tak!!

torpedo.boat destroyer.

350

B

6300

Taniar

receiving ship

€850

8

Teal

river gunboat

180

800

Lt. Com. I. A, 8. H. Ilutton LA-Comdr. Maurice B. Leslie

8000 L. Comdr. Briskenden

Cammodore C. J. Byres

Lt.-Comdr. Hon. G. Stopford

West River

Yanglaze

Hongkong

Hongkong

Upper Yang

Thistle

river ganbost

#10

*900

Lt. Com. H. R. N. Cottrell-Doraser Hankow

Exk

torpedo boat destroyer

300

7500

Lt. Comdr. B W. Blunts

Shanghai

Vinge

torpedo boat destroyer

333

8900:

Lient. Com. H. D. Adair Hall

Hongkong

Waterwitch Welland

surveying ship

450

Lt. Comdr. F. A. Royne

Hongkong

torpedo Eont destroyer

690

7500

Lt. Comer. ET. B.. Chambers

Shanghai.

אמפאסט

LTOKS CALCUTTA

i

HANIOW HONOLUL

Koar LAO-YAND

SHANGHAI

TIKELING

TRENTIN

TOKTO

torpedo boat destroyer

360

8. 5900

Comdr. G. B. Hartford

Hongkong

ziver gunboat

195

2

800

Com. M. H. Wilding

Kentong

150

2.

500

Woodlark

river gunboost

36

submarins.

130

2

500

La Com. M. Blackwood Lt.-Comdr. G, M. A Mulock

Yangtane

Yangtz

3

submarine

38 03

submarine

torpedo bo

torpedo hont"

Lt. C. Godfrey Herbert Lt. Comdr: A. A. L. Fenser.

Lt. Comdr. J. R. A. Codrington

Lt. Comdr. Woodward

Hongkong

Hongkong

Hongkong

∙West River

Lt. Comdr. Murphy

ALL Comdr. Nicol

West River"

West River

PROPRIETORS ..any

Count or DICTORS.

K. SHELLY, Esq.-Chairman.

T.H, ARMYTRONU, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. Andrew Forbes, Esq. G. E. Madhurst, Eaq. G. Friesland, Esq. V. L. Pattandes,

8. Jubbay, Esq. Bag G.. R. Laurent, Ed. Hon. Mr C. H. Res.

H. A. Siebe, Esq..

CHIEF MANAGER:

Hongkong N. J. STABB.

MANAGER:

Shangha:-H. E. R. HUNTER.

LONDON BANKARE-LONDON COUNTY AND WASTANITE BAYT, LIMITED.

HONGTONG-LITEREST-ALLOW

Li Current Account at the rate of Two per cent, per annum on the flatly balance

OX FIXED DEPOŘIts :—,

For 3 months 2 per cent per annum. y

*-12

B

"

.*

N. J. STABB,

Chier Manager. Hongkong, February 17, 1912."

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK,

THE business of the above Bank is cor-

ducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA TION. Rulce may be obtained on ap- plication.

INTEREST' on deposits is allowed a S PER CENT. per annum. Depositor may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT. por

anada.

*

For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

N, J. STABE,

Chies Manage Hongkong, January 24, 1911.

1617

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, THE AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1863, HEAD OFFICE, Loxpox.

PAID-UT CAPITAL

Restave FUND... RESERVILABILITY OF PRO-

ТЕСКТОПА

CHANGCHUN

NIWCHWANG

NEW YORK

DARREN (DALNY) ONAKA Fenoties(MedIS) PEKIN

RYOJUN (PORT ÅRTHUR) SAN FRANCISCO.

Interest allowed on Current Accdante. Daposita received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applicatica.

TAKEO TAKAMICHI,

Manager.

Jonzong. April 1, 1919.

"

Bayond the fronta of those houses every thing is still buried, but their size and Whiting": soldity prove that prabably many valuable Widgeon things lie below the pine feet of sand sed Woodcock lapilli,hich have to be rebred.

This house has a wide dobe, above which in a fresco some six feet long, in which are depictëd a rejoicing crowd, playing round a throne on which is seated a divinity. Many of the figures are playing citharacs, ad a woman" stretches out her armis inviting. The stone architrave of another house them to contribute gifts, while two other half excavated "is all broken, but on the female figures hold baskets in which to parapet of the verandah were found wanli. receive them._A_wreath, of dowers and clay vessels for holding water, proibly for the use of the ; &t hirds of the mistrsea of foliage forms a border to the whole,

the house. This rerandak is eighteen feet ou long and five feet wide. Next in a utili fixer verandah with several stone Doris pillars with chanelled stucen up to a certain height.

On the wall above, separated from wich other by large red squares, are the figures, larger than life, of Jupiter, Mercurs, and Apollo, while a fourth figure in not yet identised. The features of Jupiter are rude with a cruel expression. The colouring of the Trusco is very vivid and the pro- portions of the figures are just. £1,500,000 Abore juts out a roof four or five feet 21,128,000 wide, so that it not only protected the

FI-KE... MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.

AUTHORIZED Capital SUBSCRIBED do. PAIDY Rua FUND

do

HEAD OFFICE.

£582,500

40 THRZADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON, E.C. BRANCHES :

Galle.

Bombay.

.

The other side of the street is more in- teresting from the archeological thar from the artistic point of view, but the houses there, thres in number, have each nupper" story and a balcony. Further excavations here are expected to reveal quite a now city beside the one already known, a city brighter and more joyous, and possibly full of beautiful things.

JAPAN'S TRADE IN CHINA.

Economic Conditions In Japan.

0315

Flagship

Nume

river gunboat

itorpedo bost

of Vice Admiral Alfred I. Winsloo, K.C.B., O.V.O., C.M.G., Commander-in-Chief.

Foreign Men-of-war on-the China and Japan Station.

· Fig and description. Kaiser Franz Joseph 1 Austro-Hungarian cruiser

Dupleixit Kieber.

In the annual diaper of the Oaks Decidée" Econ mic

Society, Mr Yamamoto, Argus

Vigilante

£365,000 paintings but also the people walking below of the footway of the street. Ou the portion of the projection which is still intact is a balcony about eighteen feet long, again proill trading for some three feet, with a pařspeź two feet high and sfteen inches wide. The parement is in fragments, which have all Calcutta,

been found. In a still-existing corner of Howrah,

the parapet is a piece of a clay gutter. Minister of Finanes, made the following Madras, Karachi:

The wall of the house towards the side speech: The ecciomic condition of this Rangoon.

street is covered with red stacco, on which Empire is improving though

there! Peibo Colombo.

are scribbled notices of the elections than have been some unfavourable resnits from Dondal, de Lagree Kandy.

Beyond the interruption of the | the situation in Chiss which exercises au going on MES JARDINE, MATHESON & Coile street comes the second house, more important influence upon the economic

LID.

than thirty feet high, with a balcony run- situation in Japan. But it is encouraging ning along two sides Fart has fallen, but to note that, after the revolution is over, the rest in connected with the balcony of new demands will surely arise in China in the third house.

many directions as the social conditions.ef the country changeit:

Sota Bahru, Kelantan. Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S. Hongkong Shanghai

AGENTS IN JAPAN

BANKERS:

BANK OF ENGLAND

•

Below in the side street, is a fountain like all those found in Pompeii, and on the side of the house mentioned is an enormous fresco, divided into an upper and lower

LONDON JOINT STOCK BATE, LIMITED. Every description of Banking and Er. change business transacted, and Stocks and Shares bought and sold on account constituents. Letters of Credit granted on agenta and Correspondents all over the portion. In the upper part are figured ten days of April was about Y67.000,00

world.

INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts * 2% per annum of the Daily Balance and on Fixed Deposits at rates which may be ascertained on application.

||

F. C. MACDONALD,

Manager. Hongkong, March 28, 1912. -

....£1,200,000 ...£1,680,000

...£1,200,000

FOREIOY EXCHANGE and General! Booking businein transacted.

www

>>

CURRENT ACCOUNTS upened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted

----! on application.

WM. DICKSON, Manager. Semprone. April 12, 1912:

"EDERLANDSCHE

ERLAND HANDEL

MA

AATSCHAPPIJ

(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY),

PAIE-UT

CAPITAL

ESTABLISHED 1824.

:

...31, 45,000,000 (23,750,000).

About

ZERTE...81, 7,124,317,-(£683,093).

1

BANKING

NTERNATIONAL CORPORATION Depository of the U.S. Government in the Philippine Islands and the Republic of

Panama.

Bumbay.

HIAN OFFICE: 60, Wall Street, New York LONDON OFFICE: 36, Bishopsgate, E.0..

BRANCHES :..

Kabe. Manila,

Mexico.

PADDI

Peking,

San Francisco.

Calcutta. Canton.

Cebu

Colon

Empire. Hongkong.

Shanghai. Hankow..

Yokohama CAPITAL AND ReserY...GOLD $8,800,000 About... 21,400,000 EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANK. ING BUSINESS transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the usual terms.

DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fixed for one

twalve gods, Jupiter being in the centres with a small inscription below.. Ona, the lower part is a procession of four priests performing a sacrifice at an altar. Opposite the fountain in the street is a small altar about three feet high, belonging evidently to a public shrine represented by the fresco described. In this little sltar there is cut a channel for the blood of the sacrifier to run off into the street.

which means AB

"increase of over

Captains Capt. H. Nauta

Ton, Grns, H.P.

Lust report at

4000 45

8000

Shanghai

French armoured cruiser 10,014

30. 20,000

French armoured cruiser French gunboat

9710

12. 19,800

Capt. Ver Capti Gout

Vergos

Shanghai

545

10

1000

Lieut. Fandier

Saigon

French river gunboat

180

8

570

Lieut. Derdet

Cantor

French gunboat

12

500

Lieut. de Jervillier

Canter

1:30

Lieut. Collin

Lieut. Dupuy Datomps

Tchong. Kin

French gunboat

ader in Chial, the French China Station.

French gunlaat

+Flagship of

Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Cana

Freach sub-marinp

Lács, Boluix

Lux Proteu

*Styx Fronde d'Ibervilla

French sub-marine.

French armoured ganhost 1738

1700

Lieut. Guüindie-Louis

French destroya

$0

303

Lieut." Aurillac

French destroyer

Capt. de Frigate Roaisen.

French destroyer

Comdr. de Marquesase

Saigon

French destroyer

300

9000

Comdr. Voisin

Saigon

Titik

French uzrering stup

∙10

།

* Wingship of Capt. (Commodors Boucicaut, Commanding the Incal defence Indo-China.

"The foreign trade of the Empire still continues to show an excess of imports, and the excess from January up to the first Pistolet

Mousquet Y20,000,000 compared with the corres- Manche ponding period of last year, Among the imports there is a large amount of raw material for manufacture in Japan, so that the situation does not necessarily mean dangar. Nevertheless the point cannot be Emden overlooked in view of the present financial Gneisensu

in importing Much cara sould be taken and economic condition of the Empire. foreign capital because indiscreet, intro- Jaguar duction of foreigs money producer s bad Leipzig effect upon the economic conditions of the

of Lachs country. The recent rise in the price of labour in Japan requires a great deal of Nurburg The walls of the third house are plastered consideration, for this deprives Japanese Oltor

I we Scharnhorst with white stucco, covered with inscrip-manufactures of one of their great advan

tagen over those of other countries. tions in favour of a duumvir. They are import foreign capital, rates must decreases. 90 supposed to have been written by two and the volume of currency must increase, prices of com women whose names are written melant This induces a rise in the beneath angular butʼgrand characters, hemodities. There may naturally follow Tiger

the business world. But we Tingtan activity

in tween Ranic and Latin. The inscription must remember that the price of labor composed by these women tans

must rise also for the same resson and this Vaterland will cause an increase in the cost of

Calabria fustering Thas Gnally comes again a poriod of decressed activity in trado,NE

Baron Shibuswa, gave some very blunt MacaD [Probably this means, roughly.asel-advice to Mr. Yamamot, in connection Patria linas and Smyrine say Vote for Fuseus as with the Government's policy for the

redemption of debte.. your aiderman.""

VOTE FOR FUNCUB.”

Ascllinas son aine Smyrne,

pro. C. Pollia Fusco, D.

trojant.

Taku

German gunboat

German cruiser

German cruiser

3600

German armoured cruiser" 11,800

22. 13,500 36 26,000

Curt v. Restorff

Tängtau

Captain. Csalar

Tsingtan

Gecmar gunbost

900

12, 1300

Comdr. Gohren

Shangha

900

12

1300

Comdr. Vanselow

Talugtan

9250

24 11,000

Capt. Behncke

Tsingtau

German gimbost

900

10.

1860

Coudr. Bondenianin

Tsingtau

German cruiser

3400

22. 13,200.

Capt. Morsberger

Tsingtan

German river gunboat German Hagship German torpedo bost German torpedo-boat

Capt Licat. Jantzen

Yangters

11,600

36 128,000

Capt. Rosing

*Shanghai

"400

8 8500

Capt Liout, Berren herg

Taingian

280

60000; S. Claassen

Gerinsu genbost

P00

10

1350

Comdr. Lappe

Tsingtat

German river gunboat

993

1300

Capt, Lieut. Filu. Fircks

Canton

iezman river gunbost

223

500

Oblt. 2 S. Prinz

Shanghal

Istian cruiser

Comdr. Bomami Pícanardi

Shangha

Portugiese gunboat

Capt. Martins

Captain J. Milheiro

84.30

10

Com. BL. T. Bristol

Olongapo

0.6. torpedo-bost destroyar : 490 CS.torpedo-bostó

9000-

LC. B. Graves

Yangtere

420

2000

Lost, P. Hill

Yangtze

U. S. gunboat

243

950

Liente Stnárt W. Cake

U.B torpedo-beat destroyer

B000

Lisat. F. J.-Fletaber

Cincinnati

U. S. protected cruiser

3183

10,000

Comdr. S. 8. Robinson.

Decatur

U.S.torpedo boat destroyer 420 DS. torpedo-boat destroyer

8000

Ensign J. L. Oswald-

F420

8000

Jient B. H. Green

El Cano

US, ganbost

- BEXH

Lt. Comdr. S. Houston

Helens

U.S. gunboat

1988

Comdr. R. Jackoup

U. S. station ship

2309

Chief Ganner J: Mitchell

LOSING WEIGHT

U. & nunibre..

inder H. A. Wiley

Unless circumstances make inavuid- Albany Some adversary or wag has crossed out! the word "Smyting" by thin line and able," said Baron Shibusawa, the Glovera- Bainbridge

mant should not madily the present policy Barry substituted a nasis scarcely decipherable. of redeeming the national debt. Japaneku

Beyond this wall comes the door of the mayaya change is unavoidable, but foreign Callao,

to harbour doubts as

Chapricey. begin ore will year at 4. per annum or for shorter wine-shop or "bar" similar to all those Japan's finances if her policy is frequently periods, at mites which may be ascertained found in Pompei, but so well preserved changes. It is important to retain the on application. BILL NEGOTIATED & COLLECTED that it soute to have been only quite re faith of foreign countries, in the financial Dale

MAILS and TELEGRAPHIC REMIT-citly buried. There is the usual table or policy of Japo TANCES made

LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS Counter; its surface of glazed white tiles, "Fecalongan,

Medan, granted on all the prinsipal cities in the

HEAD OFFICE—ÄMEIKEDAM. HEAD AGENCY-BATAVIA.

BRANCHES-Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya

Djember, Cheribon, Tilatjap. Bazdeeng Tabing Tinggi (Deli),

Madras,

Tegaly

World. Bote

THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are available all over the

Tadj (kohevo), Macassar, Bandiermassin. Correspondmi at Bombay, Colombo, Pondicherry, Calvatte, Bangkok, Balgon, Haiphung, Hanoi, amay, Yoke hama, Bobe, Melbourne, Sydney, Nes York, San Francisco, &c. &c.

LONDON BINKERS--The Union of London and Smiths Bank, Limited.

The Bank bays and calls and receres for collection Bills of Exchange, isation Lettorn of credit its Branches and cocospondi suis in the Tiast, on the Chuntinent in Greet Britain, Amarics, and Australia, and trans- aute banking binneer of every Asscription

UNTEREST ALLOY ED

Account 2% per Annu

mths 342

World:

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CEE DIT isaned.

PURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and Shares eflected.

The Officers of the Bank are bound not to disclose the transactions of any of its customer

пос

'GED. ROGE,... Manager: -ig. 9, Queen' a Boad Jentral. Hongkong, March 23, 1813.

THE

CHENA MAIL Washing Books

in the round apertures of which are inserted

very large tazza cotta wino-jars. At the back of the shopisa raised piece of masonry, in which is, inserted a large copper boiler conted by time with a plno patina. Ita cover closes heretically and has handle surmounted by a cupid with a bolo Eurongh which to pass a chain. Underneath is the

quare hole for the fire.

In the corner of the shop he a sumber of amphora of various dimensions, leaning against the wall. On the counter is a small square box mods of Lane, in winch wero found and iffyer cons, while others

BY THE POUND

Under Weight," a condition of ill-health, shows your nosimeh lativo powers are decreasing.

WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND

Mohiens Monadnock

Monterey Pampas

Portuguese gunboat

U. S. protected cruiser

U. S. monitor

UB. Hepair ship

U. S. genbost

Piscataque

"U S. ses going tug

Pompey Quirós

Rainbow

U. S, DESE

Samar

US gunb

Baratog

U. B. armored

gimboat

C. A. Woodruf