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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI THE BANK OF EAST ASIA,
BANKING CORPORATION,
HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG. AUTHORISED CAPITAL..... $50,000,000 ISSUED AND FULLY PAID UP 820 000,000 RESERVE FUNDS -
STERLING.......... £ 4,500,000 SILVER......$25,500,000 RESERVE LIABILITY OF
PROPRIETORS...susestede.
LIMITED..
HEAD OFFICE
Na, 10, Des Voeux Road, Detrai. Established 1919 AUTESKIKKO CAFTRAX,..............@10,000,000,00 PART-UP CAPITAL
REVE FUND...
$5,000,000.00 750,000.00
THE CHINA MAIL.
COMMERCE AND FINANCE.
MINERALS IN CHINA. "
PROFESSOR BARBOUR ON GREAT
RESOURCES. 3
A
further contribution
to
Svozy description of Kanking and Barsprinted data concerning China' 820,000,000
COURT OF DIRECTORS.
W. Partendon, Way-Chairma
H. P. White E-Deputy Chairman.
8. D. F. Beith, Esq.
W. H. Bell, Eng.
“A. H. Compton, Esq.
Bus.Mr. P.E. Holyoak
A. LADE, EAQ:
3. A. Plammer, Haq TG. Wall,
. M. Young, Esq.
Chief Manager: FAH. BARLOW, Eaq. Manager: Shanghai-G.H. STITT, Esq.
London Bankers:
Westminster Bank, Ltd.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened in | LOCAL CURRENCY and FIXED DEPOSITS received for one year or aborter periods in Local Currency. and Sterling on terms which will be justed on application,
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Hongkong, 25th November, 1924.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
basins of the above Bank ta conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION. Rulos may boobtained an application.
INTEREST on doposita is allowed on
the minimum monthly balancos, at
Į PER CENT, por annum.
For the HoNazonu & Shanghai
BAN. ING CORPORATION,
1. H. BARLOW,
Chief Manage
Hongkony, May 5, 1924,
THE CHARTERED BANK OF
INDIA, AUSTRALIA &.CHINA
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTEL
1953.
HEAD OFFICE, LONDON,
Fald-up Capital' £3,000,000 Reserve Fund
-*-* £3,900,00
Rovareg Liability of
Proprier £9,000,000
FOREIGN EXCHANGE as General Backing tosiness transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITB reonized for 1 year or shorter periods at rsim which will ba quoted on appllostion.
A. H. FERGUSON, Manager Mongkong, May 2, 1990,
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE
HEAD OFFICE:
93, Foulevard Hammana, Paris. Babsorbed Capital Fr 75,000,000.00 Paid-By Copliai ... Fr. 58,400,000,00
Reserve Funds ' .... ... Fr. 69,667,2.8.54
Bangkok Battambang
Canton Djibouti
BRANCHES
Hongkong
Moort
Noumes
Paposte
Halybong Huikow Rasol
Paking
Pnom-Pent
Pondlakerry BANKERS?"
Balgon Changbai Singapore Tionizin Tod:De
Yunnanfe
IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escomys
bastas tranenstad. Lore-grassed on a
proved meetrista.
Internet Allowed on Corrent Depot
At the rate of Two far east, par sam os av Accounts Four per cent, per anara, kad on Fixed Dapowile at the following ehler |--
For months at the rate of 11 per Angem For months at the rude úl ix per amuzam, For is mouth at the rate of êt per kmaken. KAN, TONG-PO,
Hongkong, March 4th 1921.
Chief Hanger
NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL|
MAATSCHAPPIJ.
(NWEISLANDS Trading BocWYT.).
BANK.
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ESTABLISHED 1824," Homaxdes BRANCH ESTABHIND 1966. Authorized Capital (3. 150,000,000 £12,500,000 Paid-up Capital...G. 80,000,000 2-6,555,870 Roserre Fard G. 20,048,093 2 1878,419 Special Reserves.G. 22,000,000 1,833,590
HEAD OFFICE :-Azadardza, EASTERN HEAD OFFICE:--Batavia, BRANCHES :- Bandarmin Bandoeng
Caloutta
Cheriben
Doljakarta Kota-Radja. Padnog Parang Rotterdam
The Hague Makar
Bombay Databer Kabe Modaci Palembang Prolongan
Pontianak Rangoon
Bingspore Tegal
47
Semarang Bhangha Soerabain
Barakarta (Bolo) Tilaap Walarreden LONDON BANKEN:- Nations' Provincial Bank Lid Corresponde all over the world.
BANKING BUSINESS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
W
J
W. H. GROSKAMP,
Agent
Hongkong, Norenbé? 4; 1924,
司公理管業實法中
SOCIETE FRANCAISE, DE
B GERANCE
DE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
. DE CHINE
ETABLISSEMENT FRANCO
OHINOIS.
(Incorporated in France)
5, Chater Road Victoria, Hongkong
HEAD OFFICE : 74 Rue St. Lazaro, Parlu.
Bubacribed Capital fully
Faldrup Fr. 10,000,000 Reserve Fund ............ Fr. 10,800,000
Working fuad provided by THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE" DE CHINE
Frs. 50,000,000
BANKERS:
ances for outports have brought prices from $10:25 to $10.80, $10.95 and even $10.50. Today,. dealers are asking $10:60 for British manufacture and' $10.90, for American.
Galvanised Wire-Orders have mineral resources has appeared been booked for several hundred the form of a booklet by Pro-colls, No. 9 to No. 15 B:WG, at fessor George B. Barbour, of the $8.76 per picul. Geology
Yon Department of
Bar Ends Sixty tons indent Ching University, on the Iron nt $3.55. Mines of Hauan-hita, Northern Chihli, containing reprints of re- ports and illustrations prepared by Professor Barbour for the "China Journal of Science and Arts."...
LONDON BULLION:
MOCATTA AND GOLDSMID'S REPORT.
5
Reporting on the London bullion marker on November 6, Messrs. Mocatta and Goldsmid state
The writer describes
the Hsüun-hua mines, as being the most important workable, iron
The tendency of the market has deposit in China, although it was unknown to the explorer Baron again been towards a lower level, von Richthofen, who unfortun- the spot price having fallen during ately over-estimated the iron re- the week from 3d 15/16d. to 34 5/16d. On balance, India and sources of North China. Profes-China have both been, sellers sor Barbour continues:-
although there have been some "After tunnelling under the covering orders from both of these Great Wall at the head of the quarters, and the bulk of the sup Nankou Pass, the Poking-Sui port has come from the Continent yuan Railway comes out on the Owing to the rise in dollar-sterling edge of the upper river basin, and exchange, and the absence of de has an almost level run of 801 mand from the East, America has miles to Kalkan, where the been a free seller in this market, Mongolian caravan route strikes and the immediate future depends north towards Erga. Twenty very largely on this exchange. At miles before feaching Kalgan, the lower level, there seems rather however, the train stops, at the less pressure to sell, but it is rather of Hsuan-lun Fu, doubtful whether we have quite walled city which almost hides a narrow gap reached bottom yet. in the long wall of hills, that rise steeply half a mile North of the town,
7
into.
Owing to all the Continental buying being for forward delivery, the premium on spot silver has run off and during the greater part of the week, the two quotations have been identified. To-day there is a discount of 1/16d. on cash.
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong, December 8, 1914. On London-
Bank, Wireset sec
"T
fin demand,... 7/1906
0 days' algbt...
muntha' sights/4-9? "Crodite, 4 months' sight...
Documentary + months' sight 25-J Oo. Parks-
Os demand...
....1038
...100.
Credits, 4 months' sight....1198
On demand.....
Da New York-
On demand
Credits, 60 days nighà AB1%
na Bombay--
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On demand...
Ou Calcutta-
Wire
On douand...
On Bingapore-
On demand.. On Manila-
1574
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Da domand
On Yokohama
On demand...
On Shanghai
2 days' sight (private paper),
110
nood
1481 Gold Leaf, 100 fine (per taal) 46.40 Sovereigns (Bank's buying sto) 84 alver (per oz.).
SUBSIDIARY COINS. Hongkong of conte sub,
1:
5
་
13
4% pm.
Canton cotos
...972 % dio. Hongkong, December, 10, 1924. Bar Silver in Hongkong 11 % pm.
10% pm Chinese Copper Cash...
... 6 pr. Chinese Copper Centa... Rate of Native Interest 7X p.a.
...£7.% dia. Obinses Sub. Coin Hongkong Suh, Wola - par..
The Fujigas Boseki Kaishin have opened a new spinning mail at Tsingtao. Spindles to the number of 31,380 are installed. The factory is one of the largestin Tsingtao.
Thres graduates of the Fangchow Technical College are planning to start a large dyeing and wearing plant" at Churgangchow, near Chengtu, Bzooliwan province.
"This innocent-looking ravine appears to be blocked behind by other hills, but the gorge divides abruptly and the castern
Gold-The arrivals this week opening dives
a were rather larger, amounting to irregularly shaped cup in about £500,000 but it was all ab- the mountains, which has been sorbed by India and the Continent, half-choked, with loess, silt and the price fluctuating between river-gravel. The east rim of 91/9d. per ounce and good. There
It stops oroup. That's why mothers the cup is formed by Yen-tung- have been some orders for direct shan (Chimney Mountain), shipment from Durban but the de-eep Chamberlain's Couch Remedy in the boose. It contains no narcotics and which belongs to what is the mand for this has not been so is best for the children. For sale every. richest sector of the iron-field, keen the past few days,
and the only one so far developed.
"The extensive dissection of. the mountain by stream action has laid bare such a length of outcrop all around the mountain that the deposit has been worked from the surface by the open- pit method. So far, only one tunnel has been driven through other, rock to strike the ore underground.
"The pits being on the hill- side, the ore can be loaded into
Parla Bociete Generale, Baxue Nationale de one-ton trucks, which are hitched
Credit. Banque de Paris et de l'ay- London: Midland Bank, Ind.
New York: Irring Bank Columbla Trust Co Every deseription of Banking & Exchange Basiness transcted. Correspondents through;" out the world.
M, FITZ-HENRY, Manager,
10th November 1924. -
to a cable and run down inclined tracks under gravity. The weight of the loaded trucks serves to haul up the returned 'empties."
whore.
Stops Croap."
LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
sanks.
8.8.B.C. T.T. selling rate
où London
and op Shanghai. Hongkong Banks 1170 b. 1175 93. London-E136 ¤,
Obarter od Bank
***
P. & D. Bank...
East Asia Bank
Mercantile Bank AB £28) b. C £ist b.
Marine Instirances
Canton Insiranos.....
North Chios Insurance
Union InsuraDDO *** Insurance Yangisce China Undirs
"The development of the mine was stimulated by war conditions when the price of steel made it profitable to ship are to blast-Fire furnaces at Harkow. The mine was opened late in 1918, and with
de Paris; Credit Lyonnais, Banque de Paris THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD., 1,000 labourers working in 100
des Para-Es; Credit Industriel et Commercial Bocleta Gecimals.
IN LONDON: The Neilonal Provincial & Union Bank of England, Lich; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonniae IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Dau French American Banking Corpointloni Gowaty Test Co. of New York.
Internet allowed on Currms Accounts and Fixed Depolta socording to serangement.
Every description of Banking and Ebrohings -Baninom tranzacted.
A. LECOT,
Manager
Hongkong, March 20, 1924,
(Taiwan Ginko.)
Incorporated by Special Imperial Cherier, 1999.
Omphis! #abscribed .... 80,000,000 Capital (Paid-up)....Yan. 62,500,000 Kostry Fund 11,900,000
HEAD OFFICE" WAITER, FORMOJA:
"
BRANCHES : JAPAN-Tokyo, Tokohama, Hoon, Osaka,
Mojt
its, the output averaged 300 tons
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF FORMOSA-Giran, Kag, Karanko, E-Peking-Suiyuan
INDIA, LTD.
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Far Easterns... InsurancOS
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Stock Exchange.
OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS."
DECEMBER 10.
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China Fira Insurance ...
Hoogkong Fire Tasarance...ess b. Shipping
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Douglases...
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Indo-Chinas (Pret.
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(H.K. Reg.).
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Shell Transporte ... Star Forries*** "Hongkong Tags and Lighter
Oriental Nav. "Co:- Refineries
"China Sugar sa ne
Maisbon_boKET_ Mining
Kailan Mining Aẩm Lengksta..... Shanghai Loans S'hai Explorations...) 15. 'Alngle Langkata
a day. At one time, with 2,000 men, a maximum of 700 tons a Before the day was reached. suspension of mining operations in August 1919, 100,000 tons of ore had been removed, of which 40,000 tons had been shipped to the Hanyang works." The re mainder still lies on the dump at Shufmo, where the narrow-j gauge railway from the mine con- nects with a branch of the line behind Harung, Hanso, Pinan, Hsuan-hua city,
Räube ***, Bhinchika, Talobs, Tainan, Takow, "The need for a smelting plant Tronoh Mines, Waglami, Tohypa, Ako,
within reach led to the choice of Ural Casp. CHINA-Shanghai, Hankow, Kiukiang,
Amoy, Fooobew, Ewalow, Canto an excellent site near Mer-ou-" Benguet Con...
Docks, Wharves, £3,000,000 OTHERS Bangkok, Hougtong, Bagskou in the Western Hills of Pek-
H, & K. Wharfa 1,800,000
Boarabaya, Samarang, ing. The coal mines here are. 1,050,000
Batavia, Bombay, Lordan, Kew connected by rail with the main 1,250,000
Tork
lines, and the company owns Himestone quarries nearby. It the mines, which will guarantee also started a plantation near" Shangha
Imla Bingapore
The Bank has derrespundents in the Commarest the supply of timber for pit- Por Low Mauritiba)
Centres in the Europerin Conlonnt, Basdi, Man- cherla Tuloptso, Bourabaya
Deten indie, A Phlippine felende, Java, Anna, SIAM, India, props," Falls, Amen, Aliier, de,
Interest allowed on Carmat Account, nad Fixed, Deporita at rains which will be quoted on applica
UZ. TAMAMOTO,.
HEAD OFFICE:
IA, Özacsehurch Bloset, London, E. £13,
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New York
HONGKONG BRANOU, Ecery dewipline of Banking and Exchange bual.
INTELLEST Allowed on Current Account as 3 por vent per kanunion Daily Buance and en fixed be.
N. Q. WILSON, '
por,
LONDON - BANKERS: London Bounty Westrainer and Farr's Bank
Fon.
Japan,
Bolta as rates that may be scariained on application HONGKONG BRANCH,
X, Queen's Road Central,
Hongkong, detobar 1, 1923.
Xanger
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
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THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中
Bpuolally Authorlaed by Presidential
Mandalg of the Republic of China on the Mind of November, 1917). Authorland Capital....$00,000,000.00 Fald-up Capital $18,978,600.00 ........3, 1,129,436,34
HEAD OFFICE, PEKING.
HONGKONG BRANCH: QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Branches and Bab-besoshe, all ove China and Correspondsats in Barop, Amerios, and other park of the world, London Becky? The Estioned Provin stal and Union Bank of England, Lad The Gunewalý Trar) Company of Xgw.
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LOCAL METALS MARKET,
FIRST SIGNS OF "SPRING" APPEARING?
H. & W., Dook... *** Bhal Dock
b. 84/8
b. 118
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M. 119
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T 107 b. 1077 s
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Now Engineering... H, K, Engineerings. Shangbal Hongkows Lands, Hotels & Baildings.
(b. 18/b, New-b. 17] ss. 17.00
b. 21 m. 21,60
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B. 107
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H. E. & 8'bal Hotels $18 b. Naw = 17-1 b.' ELK. Developments China Buses Hongkong Landa ... Humphreys Estates Kowloon Lands..... Land Reclamations Princos Building... H.K. Territoriali... Rural Lands. Cotton Mills
Ewo Cotton Mills, Ltd. Kung Yike
Leon Kung Mows. Oriental Hum Shanghai Cotton... Yangterepoce
Because stock-holders are in- clined to hold on for slightly better prices the word "higher" not entering into the question ab all figures are not abnormally low levels-and following a mild Miscellaneous, succession of transactions in small lots, optimists are predict- ing that the worst' in this year's Hongkong • metala .markąt slump is over and that the first signs of apring are appearing,
Domand is mostly for local necessities and shipment to Swatow, buyers for that port being mostly in the market for waste materials." On the other hand, Shantung houses are not buying partly because of frozen harbours but more because of an ominous political outlook.i
We Bufori - Faking -- Thijs Irving Steel Bars. Since an order for "base size" was accepted for in- The Byulubia: Trust Company al #dent at $4, dealers have lowered
their prices from 20-to 80-cents
senal allowed on Cazin Accomi per picul. A feature of this line That Dapostin Esaw as applies has been the extraordinarily low
level reached by in size, be
of Banking" "Handmade loved to be the lowest for years, Das quotations being about $4.90 and
Comente
- Tis 11,85 b. 11,851.95 me.
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34.35
B. 11.60
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1924.
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BEST PORTLAND
CEMENT
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"HONGKONG.
MOTOR TRUCKING
Our Fleet of Fast, New and Up-to-date Lorries assure you a rapid and efficient service at Minimum Fates.
-
1-ton Speed Wagons @ $4.50 per hour, 8-tom Lorries:
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A Pen that never fails to give perfect writing service.
HABERBAGAMALIKE
Sole Agents:
THE WING ON CO., LTD.,
HONGKONG.
KOWLOONITES
JUST ARRIVED
Large Selection of Xmas Toys,
Sweets, Nuts Etc.
Inspection Cordially invited
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Tel. K. 25.
Phone Gerrard 5476- Tel. “ Jamace” London"
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(Late of Dis BROS, & MACHINE88E, LTD.)
HONGKONG
Co CAMPBELL LATHAM & CO.
TAILORS
59, Conduit Street, LONDON, W.1.
*. 30 Now 13 1.
For over ten years we have been 'engaged in the manufacture of Downnt oil in Singapore. Our branda, the Coconut Tree," "Elephant" and "Star" are renowned for their excellent standard, test results, and clarity, and are free from impurity or adulteration. These products are already knows in China and abroad and it is to facilitate our esteemed patrons that we take pleasure In announcing that Masara. GOH GUAN HIN of No, 64, Bonham Strand West, Hongkong,
have been appointed our sole agents in Hongkong.
THE HỌ HONG DIL HILLS, LTD, SINGAPORE
73.60 b. 16.
T 60 b. New 332.b.
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