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HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

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HEAD OPPIOB: HONG KONG

BOARD OF DIRECTORS :--

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7. A. Flumiser, E46,

Chale ilon. Mr. C.), 8. Mukle,

Depan Casira

.. Hill, Bej

A. 11. Cumpion, Baje

iloa. Me... Pistarmesan,

T. E. Pears, Lag.

T. II. R. Nhaw, Kaj.

H. Lander legis, Baj

Q. Miskin, Kap.

1. P. Warren,

Acilug Chlef Manager, V. M. Grayhan, Kug

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isted on application.

PUL THE HONG KONG BUANOMAI ANKING CORPORATION,

V. M. GRAYBURN,

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"NO LAWSUITS NOorrespondence in 1927 between

MONEY."

ARE LAWYERS NECESSARY' EVILS?

Mr. Mackenzie, of the Hong Kong Hotel, and Mr. Parker, of Menars, Andersen, Meyer and Co. (the predecessors referred to) nad said to Mr. Hacker: "It is quite clear that your predecessor was advised by Mr. Mackenzie that the water | was salt, yet he was prepared to supply the double tube condenser The case before Sir Joseph HI (the closed type) and not the Kemp, K.C., at the Supreme atmospheric one (the open type)? Court, in which Messrs. Andersen-I think Mr. Mackenzie called Meyer & Co., Ltd., are suing the for that type.

MR. POTTER DIFFERS.

-

Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Mr. Pofter then asked if in view Limited, for $25,385.20 in respect of what had passed between to work done and materials sup- Messrs. Mackenzie and Parker, it!

resould be reasonable to suppose Current Accounts opened and Fix-plied in connection with

Foreign Exchange ала General Banking business transacted.

A. H. FERGUSON,

Hong Kong, Bl.. January, 1929.

+

Manager

ed Deposits received for 1 year or frigerating plants installed at the that when two parties like Mr. aborter periods at rates which will Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotels, Hacker and Mr. Brearley came in be quoted on application.

Pas been adjourned until Monday they would presume that their This morning at 19.30 o'clock predecessors were satisfied that his Lordship and Counsels en-the water was all right. raged on the case paid a visit to Mr. Hacker replied: Yes, that's the Peninsula Hotel for the pur-a reasonable supposition.

Mr. Potter: That the chemical ose of inspecting the plant.

Yesterday afternoon, Mr. quality of the water was all right Hacker, refrigeration expert of falso?—Yes, the plaintiff firm, and Mr. E'dor. And the temperature? .Straits $20,000,000 Potter, K.C., Counsel for the de-might be fair.

8,000,000 fence, were again engaged in a 4,000,000 repartee.

THE HO HONG BANK, LTD. (Estabilahed 1917.)

Authorised Issued

Paid-up

Reserve

CAPITAL.

Liabilities

of Shareholders Surplus

world.

4,000,000

Adviser on Condensers.

A Fisherman.

That

Returning to the question of brackish water, Mr. Potter asked 2,526,000 Continuing his cross-examina-f Mr. Hacker was a fisherman

tion of Mr. Hacker, Mr. and received the reply that he

said that the Hotel's } was.. Potter position was that they were Mr. Potter then suggested that dealing with him 28 an Mr. Hacker must have experiene. expert and as such, as an adviser led, like other fishermen, the meet- on condensers, and it was for himing of fresh and salt water, and to say "aye" or "nay" on the suggested that the result question as to whether or not this brackish. particular type of condenser was suitable for work with brackish

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THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.

water. SOCIETY)

Is Long Un -13 Quesa's Bond Central Apskarious Capital

Guilds 150,000,000-

1212,500,000.

- Capital ........... Quer 904200

Homero Fund

120,880,667.) Guilder 40,000,

{£8,139,219.||

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Germplete all over the work

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Mr. Hacker replied that the selection of the condenser was not teft to him. While he would not say that Mr. Brearley said to him That's the type I desire," he certainly did say to this effect: "That's the type you will have to furnish on, and furnish."

Central Bank in Fermoss. Bank Nurse insund Average Amount Yan. 45,000,000

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Mr. Potter: But it was left to JAPAN Tokyo, Yokohama Kobe. Cocks. PORNURA 1-

Kagi, Kaminka. Koofing. Hareng. Nale, Hochiku, Taichu, Faltan, you to say if it would be effec- Takso, Tamui, Town. Haito, Talu, UNINA Shanghai, Hankow. A7Foocha, tive or not? Yes.

The instruction was subject to pore, Boxrabaya, Bombay, Calmatia your deciding whether it was effec Bezbarwng Usa.. London, New York Daire

tive or not? Yes. LONDON BANKEES:

Hestowano

OTIL5B8:-Enna

The London County Westminster and, Parr's "Beak.

was

Mr. Hacker: I do not agree that that is brackish.

Mr. Potter: Perhaps not. No.) two fishermen will agree, even as to the weights of their fishes? (Laughter).

Responsibility.

Mr. Potter: I'm going to put it to his Lordship that knowing that the water is brackish, and in as much as being an expert, your duty was to warn Mr. Brearley of the risk?-No. Under the cir cumstances, it was not my duty to do more than I did.

What circumstances?-As al- ready testified to. The fact that

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13, 1930.

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TOBACCO DUTIES.

New Alterations in Force.

SPECIAL ORDER.

An order was made by the he, is an engineer is a part of it. Governor under section 2 of the He appeared to know more about

STAMP TALK.

Roman Stamp. An interesting stamp is the 10- cent carmine-coloured stamp of Fiume, issued in 1919. The central design

stamp of this

shows Romulus and Remus being fed by a she-wolf. This illustrates the origin of the story of Rome.

The story dates back to 753 B.C.

I HOPE 'SOMEBODY! MICE WHS

P

THEY

BOTS

WHE

I WAS

A BOY:

to do this.

But the system has sub- stantial drawbacks. From time to time, though, it has cropped up in other countries, and a bisected Chi-. nase stamp was made use of during the war...

Some time In 1916 certain dis- trets of Kwangsi Province 'ran short of half-cent stamps; so,' until u supply of these could be obtained from the head office, the one-cent stamp was bisected and sold as two Of course, in the ordinary way mere halves of postage stamps merit no attention from philatelists; only when the bisected stamp has received the official sane- can it be admitted Into a tlon collection.

The Book Correspundeaks in all the price o say if it would affect the con- the water than I did, and further. /l'üblic Revenue Protection Ordin--that is. 2682 years ago. Romulus half-cents.

mpel Commercial Centres

the world.

DURA

Munaqur.

HONG KONG BRANCH:

AMO VON Hood Central

Boog Kong, h January, 1999. Act. Manager.

itung Kang, 13 April, 1900

A. STOKRINK.

BANQUE DE L'INDO - CHINE.

HEAD OFFICE:

86, Boulevard Haussman, Pariz.

Subscribed Capital Fra. 72,000,000.00 Paid-Up Capital...Frz. C,400,000,00 Reserve Funds ....Fra.102,000,000.00

BRANCHES:

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Established 1912.

Head Ofice-liong Kong.

Autaonard Caplisi (£1.3. Curren07"...@15,000,000 Paid Up Capital summouana zmian. 5,185340

Fund

In view of this water being brackish, Mr. Brearley asked you denser or not? No, he did not. he agreed to take care of the ance. 1927. Ordinance No. 9 of

I put it to you that Mr. water.

1927, yesterday giving legal effect Brearley left it to you, as an ex- Returning to the question of pert, to decide whether this type responsibility, Mr. Potter dress the following resolution to be was suitable for brackish water? the following parallel:He wish moved at the next meeting of the THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. No. I said that my preference to build a house on the Peak Legislative Council:--

for use with that or any other on a piece of ground which he

Resolved that the duties on to- kind of water was for the openowned.' He turned the ground

bacco set forth in section .6 of Lype.

over to an architect to build upon. Assurance Accepted, The architect proceeded to build, the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Or- You accepted that the close but afterward the house collapsed, dinance No. 10 of 1915, be alter- type was suitable?-I accepted his and then he turned round with:ed and that, subject to the provi Canson Bright Haukssurance that his predecessor You should have put up a re

slons of sub-section (3) Bangkok, New York n de Prade and my predecessor found that taining wall.” Would that re-

that type worked with brackish move his responsibility?

sald section, the duty payable (1) all tobacco imported into Mr. Hacker would not agree upon water.

You had to decide on both its that that was a parallel with the Colony after the coming into cperation of this resolution, and effectiveness and durability -- their case. Yes.

Mr. Potter: 1 didn't expect (ii) upon all dutiable tobacco al Were you leaving it to Mr.you to agree. If only you would, ready in the Colony at the com- ing into operation of this resolu- Erearley to find out whether the there would be no law suit.

as follows per action of that water on the tubes Mr. Hacker: And that woutation, shall be would be corrosive? Yes. I did be hard on the lawyers! (Laugh- pound weight.

A. On unmanufactured tobacco: not tell it to him in those words, ter).

(1) If unatripped:

B

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In all price Bad Foreign

very description transacked,

bunues of

Safe Deposit Boxes Įvar{012 1586) 14 a yakely read of from #10 $48,

LOOK POONG SHAN,

Chief Manager

Hong Kong, 14tth May, 1930.

THE BANK OF CHINA, 行銀國中

Reorganized October 26, 1928, under special charter of The National Goy-

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

IN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & ernment as an Co.; French American Banking Cor- poration; Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.

BANK

but I did say "You look after the Mr. Potter: I suppose you re- water question," and he said "Algard us as a necessary evil?- right"no, I think "Right-o" was Rather. (Laughter). his expression. (Laughter),

Mr. Potter next inquired how Mr. Hacker would have acted if instead of Mr. Brearley an in. experienced man had approached Subscribed Capital ....$23,000,000.00 him.

In that case I .$24,710,200.00

$3,820,503.82 would have handled his water and got a chemical analysis for him. My firm would not have allowed

· Interest allowed on Current Ac-Pald-Up Capital counts and Fixed Deposits according Reserve Funds

to arrangementa,

Every description of Banking and

Exchange Business transacted,

Safe Deposit Boxes 'to let.

A. LECOT,

HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAL

HONG KONG BRANCH:

Manaraz.

4, Queen's Road Central.

Hong Kong, 1st May, 1929,

Mr. Hacker:

me to handle the water myself.

We would have turned it over to jour pump man.

Mr. Potter: I hope the Press will report that my best advice to my friends is not to go to law! (Laughter).

བྷ་* ་

At this stage the case was ad- journed.

IRON PRICES FALL. Germany's New Policy" of Reduction.

Berlin, Yesterday.

Mr. Potter: So, in the case of FIVE MARKS PER TON DROP Owing to our numerous branches in Mr. Brearley, he being an en- China and large connections in the vineer, you took no steps to warn THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, important commercial centres of the him?-I did not tell him, "Be on In accordance with Herr

world, we are able to extead to our

but having dis- Stegerwald's award steal in- ellents special facilities for domestic Four guard,”.

cussed the water with him Idustrialists to-day and foreign banking and exchange.

We also handle the issue of Bonds should think that he would natur- to reduce their iron prices by four to five marks per ton retrospec- and other Pabllc Funds of the Chinally be on guard. ese Government both at home and If not, that would be his bad rive to June 1. Semi-finished abroad.

LIMITED.

Established 1580.

Reserve Fund

Capital (fully paid-up). Yen 100,000,000 .Yen 111,500,000

Head OfficeYOKOHAMA.

Branchou and Agencies at: Alexandria

Nagoya Batavia

Nowchwang Bombay

New York Osaka

Esezon. Ayrs (Temporarily

Calcutta

Canton

· Changchun

„Dairen (Daly)

Peking....

Hangoon Rio de Janeiro Saigon San Francisco

Tenation (Mukden) Beattie

Hamburg:

Hankow Harbin

Đang Your Honorata

KAI IGEN Karachi

London

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Bingapore Boorabaya Bydney Tientsin

Taipaníe

Kobe

Tokyo

Los Angelas Lyons

Tringtau

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(Temporarily

closed)

Interest allowed or Current Ad KOLLUÉR.

Hong Kong, 6th March, 1930.

had

and Remus were two brothers who were thrown into the River Tiber to drown after

their mother been condemned to were rescued, death; but they and were afterwards found by u wolf, who fed them and made them | strong.

When they grew up they decided to build a city. Each one wanted a different site, and violent quarrels

Finally arose.

Romulus killed Remus. This left him free to of the choose the site, and he built the which was named city of Rome, after him.

Latest New Zealand. The latest New Zealand stamp is as good as, if not better than, the old

one.

.

That Black Canadian. A romantic story is told of the rarest of all Canadian stamps, a 128. black, issued in 1851. It is said that only one specimen is known to exist on the original envelope, and a Canadian who lived on the St. River possessed it. Lawrence Desiring to leave his hut, and know- ing that the stamp was of consider- able value, he placed it in á small iron cash box.

Before he could leave, a stranger

entered, and tried to steal the box. The picture on it is that of a The owner fought hard, but was The lamp nurse, and under the nurse are the wounded, and overcome, words, "Help stamp out Tuber was overturned, setting fire to the culosis." in block letters.

hut: In one

The stranger fled, leaving commer it has, "Postage. One the wounded man to do the best he Penny," and in the other corner it could, Being badly hurt, he could has, "Charity. One Penny," in not move away, but was able to push (a) containing 10 pounds or block letters and figures. Both of the box Into the river.

Next day. more of moisture per 100 these prices are inverted, At the his body was found among the rules pounds weight thereof top it has, in block letters, "New of the hut.

Zealand," and down the side it has some "decorations," as one might call them..

75 cents. (b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100 pounds weight there- of 84 cents.

(2) If stripped:

(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof 90 cents.

(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100 pounds weight there- of-$1.00,

decided-On manufactured tobacco: (1) Cigars-$2.00.

(2) Cigarettes-$1.00.

(3) Other manufactured tobac-:

and including snuff co, cigar cuttings--$1.00.

Re "Heliose's" par, about wanting to know the nationality of the two stamps he has. The first one is

much value either.

The

I

Many years later, during dredging operations, the iron box was found. and its contents recovered, including this valuable stamp.

Oriental Characters. Abyssinia. The first issue. had

with crossed cannons in front.

Afghanistan-Inscribed in Arable charactera; the early issues are circular, and have the overprint "Ethiopie," or inscription "Postes Ethiopiennes," and values Expressed in "guerches."

a stamp of Poland, and is not of inscriptions in Ambark only, and The second one is a bore portrait of Menelik II or a much value. stamp of Ukraine, and is not of lion, with crown, and a banner in the left forepaw. Later issues Thunderbolts.

have a quaint face, representing a

bead small collection of Hon's

in the Among a

centre; stamps is one very interesting early later issues depict a mosque gate, Russian stamp. It has a cream background, with blue-black design. In the centre of the stamp, enclosed by an oval, is the two-headed Russian Eagle, holding the orb in claw and the sceptre in the one other. Underneath this eagle are luck, suppose?-I'll say it's un-goods will be reduced by three SHOU J. CHEN,

two trumpets interlaced.

China. The stamps, although dis- Manager, fortunate, but I don't think an ep-and a half marks, and Siemens

oval around this device is surmount tinctly Oriental in design, always gineer would have been ignorant Martin material by two marks

* Regulations.

ed by a crown.

bear an Inscription In English, e.g., about it.

per tube, and tinplate manufac-

Regulations made by the Gov- Until the year 1889 the two "China," "Chinese Empire," "Im- Bad Luck Again.

turers have agreed to similar re-j

ernor in Council under eaction 3 trumpets stood, alone, but after this perial Chinese," or "Chinese' fm- But you suggested that he was Juctions.. atisfied that his and your pre- The new prices of standard). (b) of the Tobacco Ordin- date a stamp was issued in which perial Post," or "Republic of China."

Dominican Stamp. Ordinance No. 10 of the trumpets were crossed with two ance,, 1916, decessors had gone fully into the products will be: iron bars, 187:

"arrows."

A blue stamp of the Dominican 1916 on June 12, 1990...

These two little "ar-

considerable matter. If in such circumstances shaped Iron. 134; boiler plates, he took it to be all right what 153; medium plates, 160; hoop The rates of drawback set out rows" appear to be straight; but if Republic acquired $10,000,000 would you say, bad luck again? iron, 159; drawn wire. 167; rails, in paragraph 1. of Government viewed under a magnifying glass you notoriety as being "the stamp that

will sea that they bond in the middle, nearly caused a wor." Notification No. 75 of 1929 are 138 marks.--Reuter, ·· 5,000,000 Yes. 1.760,000 Mr. Potter then referred to [The reduction amounts to keroby amended according to the because they are intended to re-

present thunderbolts. seven and eight per cent, and in-scale set forth hereundert dustrialists have undertaken to (a) On cigars at the rate of 97.5 reduce the sale price of their pro-| Jucts by the same percentage, equivalent to a reduction of three (b) On olgarettes at the rate of

75.5 cents per ID. or four marks per ton in the prices of iron.

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Reserve...

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Every description of Banking and Derouite received for fired periods Exchange business transacted Loans st rates to be obtained on application. #ranted on approved securitisa,

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KAN TONG - PO;"

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It is learned that the Ruhr coal industry is contemplating a simi- lar price reduction policy niners wages are simultaneously on condition that the reduced. It is hoped that a gen- eral revival of industry at home and abroad will result from this polley.]

cents. par. I.

(c) On tobacco manufactured in

Chinese fashion:

(1) Without the addition of vil at the rate of $1.05 cents per b...

(II) With the addition of not more than 17 per cent. of ell at the rate of 94 cents

per

If you have one of these stamps, examine it carefully, and see if it is one without "thunderbolta" or with "thunderbolts."

Bisected Stamps.

Although it is a little of an ex- aggeration, there is no doubt that appearance of the stamp the occaaloned much heated argument in the headstrong land of its origin. The large island in the Caribbean Sea which is depicted upon the A, bisect is a stamp that has been stamp is shared by the Republics of The Do- cut in half, and each part used as Llayi! and Dominica.

fraction of the minican stamp showed the faland to representing a original value of the stamp.

be of joint tenure, but the grievance If we were allowed to do so by was that Llayti was squeezed to one our postal authorities, we might, for end of the island, almost into the instance, bisect one of our four cent sea, while the sister Republic was stamps and use it as two cent spread over a far nobler expanse of stamps. Sometimes it might be territory. Honce the local agitation, rather convedient were we permitted with many protests and threats.