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        "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nWe were just able, as we were going to press with our last, to announce the arrival of Sir Harry Parkes and suite in the **Basilisk**. The American and Dutch Ministers having returned before, the corps diplomatique usually resident in Yedo was made once more complete by the arrival of M. Leon Roches from Nagasaki in the **Quarriere** on the 7th inst. It has since received an addition in the person of M. le Comte de la Tour, who arrived in the French mail on the 9th inst. to represent in Japan the Kingdom of Italy; and by the same opportunity M. 'Kint de Roodenbeck, Minister for Belgium, returned from a lengthened tour in China. We hear that Mr. Eugene van Reed, an American gentleman who has resided here since the ports were first opened, is on the point of concluding a treaty with the Shiogoon for the Sandwich Islands, and Sweden will also soon be represented. The advantage accruing to either party to several of these newly formed alliances are not, at present, apparent, but no one can tell what the future may bring forth.\n\n[Aug. 13, 1867.\n\nIt was remarkable as to be an absolute wonder: it would be most beneficial for the trade if it were not, on the return of the ship and cargo to Shanghai, regrettable were its progress now to be checked by a refusal to permit its discharge. \"It was not allowed to import cargoes from the North here; those cargoes could not be sold here, but must be sent away,\" was the reply received at an application on the subject to the Taotai's office; and here the matter rested; for more than eighteen months the northern trade has been closed to foreign shipping, no vessel except the two in question having been chartered since August, 1865. The occasion of Sir Rutherford Alcock's visit has been taken by the Chamber of Commerce to address a letter to him on the subject; but their action had been anticipated by his Excellency, who had addressed the Governor-General of Nanking on the subject a few days previously. Tsen-kwo-fan's reply reiterates the false assertion of the Tsotai, that no prohibition against the employment of foreign vessels in the bean trade exists. He refers to the proclamation issued last year by the Taotai as a proof that no official interference has been exerted, and says H.M.'s Consul acknowledged that the behaviour of Chinese officials in the matter called for general gratitude. And now another proclamation has been issued, which has, we are glad to learn, had the effect of encouraging Chinese merchants to charter a whole fleet of vessels from hence to the northern ports and back. As, judging from previous experience, they have doubtless not done this without ascertaining the Taotai's real intention on the subject, we may hope that the permission now accorded is genuine.\n\n## CHINA. SHANGHAI.\n\nDates from this port are to the 23rd June, two days later. The outward mail of May 10 was delivered on the 22nd June, with London telegrams to May 30. The following few items of news are from the **North China Herald**:\n\nThe body of the second officer of the ship **Lennox Castle**, who had been missing for a fortnight, was found on the 17th June in the river. It is supposed that he was drowned on the 2nd June, as he left the ship about six p.m. on that day and nothing had been heard of him since. A court of inquiry was held to endeavour to ascertain the circumstances under which he met his death, but failed.\n\nFurther correspondence regarding the new rules proposed by the Silk Guild has passed between the Chamber of Commerce, the foreign officials, and the Taotai; also further voluminous correspondence regarding the employment of foreign vessels in the bean trade. The Taotai's late proclamation on the latter subject has, we are glad to learn, encouraged the charter of a number of vessels, and demand still continues. It remains to be seen whether the permission accorded is, this time, **bonâ fide**; or whether, on their return to Shanghai with cargoes, permission to land the cargoes will be again refused.\n\nThe negotiations that have taken place during the last two years regarding the employment of foreign ships in the bean trade disclose an amount of duplicity on the part of the Chinese authorities as disgraceful as it was unwise. So long ago as March, 1862, official intimation was given that the prohibition laid on the export of pulse and bean cake from the ports of Chefoo and Newchwang under the British flag had been rescinded, and a remunerative trade to foreign shipping was opened up. Two years later, when the danger which had induced the concession had passed away, and foreign assistance was no longer needed to prevent the Taiping occupation of Shanghai, the privilege accorded was secretly withdrawn. No open warning was given of the change, but, in June, 1865, vessels arriving here with beancake from the North found themselves prohibited from discharging their cargoes; and shortly afterwards, on the 3rd of August, a formal notice was issued that all shippers in foreign bottoms would subject themselves to this penalty.\n\nA disturbance took place at the Canton Theatre in the Maloo in consequence of three foreigners entering the theatre and some Chinese attendants, but not understanding them they sat still. The audience then commenced leaving the theatre, throwing cups, &c., but there do not appear to have been any severe injuries received by anyone.\n\nAn account is given of the formal opening of the new Racquet Court on the 19th June. The building quite comes up to, if it does not exceed expectation, and comprises every comfort and convenience for players. It has been erected at a total cost, including the purchase of land, of about 13,000 taels.\n\nA meeting for the discussion of missionary topics was to be held at the rooms of the Asiatic Society on the 24th June, which it was hoped would be the first of a series.\n\nTwenty-three mows of land near Messrs. Gibb Livingston's wharf, having 300 feet water frontage, have been sold at auction for 17 taels per mow.\n\nIt has been resolved to erect the following lights at or near the entrance to the mouth of the Yangtze:\n| Light | Type | Elevation | Visibility |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| North Saddle Island | Revolving Light of the first order | 250 feet |  |\n| Gutzlaff Island | Fixed White Light | 210 feet | 15 miles over the Northern half, and 20 miles over the Southern half of the horizon |\n| Tung-sha Bank | Revolving Red Light | 38 feet | 12 miles all round the horizon |\n| Kintoan Beacon | Fixed Light, with short eclipses |  | 12 miles, obscured on the land side |\n\nEventually, at the request of several native consignees, permission was granted for discharge of vessels that had been chartered previous to the date of the prohibition, but an intimation was renewed that none chartered subsequently would be allowed to land their cargo. Shanghai was the only port at which this prohibition was enforced, so it would appear that the local Government and not that at Peking is at fault. Vessels have continued to run from Chefoo and Newchwang to the southern ports without let or hindrance.\n\nThe thanks of firms interested in the shipping trade are due to Messrs. Tilby and Co. for the persistence with which they brought these facts to the notice of H.M. Consul, and urged the address of energetic remonstrance both to the local authority and to Peking, while others abandoned the cause in despair. On the 15th June, 1866, the public notification by the Taotai, for which they pressed—that natives as well as foreigners were at liberty to employ foreign vessels in the trade—was at length obtained. The Taotai denied all interference on the part of himself or his subordinates, and officially proclaimed that \"the conveyance had been authorised of pulse and beancake in foreign vessels from Newchwang and Tongchow.\" \n\nWe are indebted to the **Shanghai Recorder** for the following:\n\"A Chinese official recently arrived from Nanking expresses his doubts as to the possibility of ever terminating the Nienfei troubles. This, he says, is a different affair to the Taiping rebellion, in which the opposition was greater, but it was at least concentrated, and the Government knew where to go and oppose the insurgents. But with the Nienfei it is hopeless. So soon as a force is brought against them, they disperse and are off to the mountains; while no sooner are the Imperial troops removed than they are back again. The same person expresses his doubts as to the reported successes of Li in the North, adding that these victories are always egregiously exaggerated.\"\n\nWe regret to hear that the S.S. **N. Company's** new steamship **Mancha**, which left Shanghai for Tientsin on the 16th June, had the misfortune to strike on a rock off the Shantung promontory, and was compelled to return as fast as steam could bring her.\n\nWe are glad to hear (says the **Friend of China**) that Mr Chaloner Alabaster, whose decoration of the Star of China we noticed before, is likely to receive a more substantial **douceur** in the shape of a thousand dollars from his Excellency the Taotai, this being offered for his services in establishing and carrying out so economically the institution known as the Mixed Court, the sum to be paid from the Court's fee chest, provided his Excellency the British Minister does not say nay. All we say is we most cordially wish he may get it!\n\n## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nIt is stated that the firm of Mackellar and Co., of Hankow, is in difficulties.\n\nThe following little story, given by the **North China Herald**, is curiously illustrative of Chinese social life, and though bearing the appearance of a romance is nevertheless perfectly true:\nAbout thirteen or fourteen months ago, the mother of a young lady residing outside the north gate of Shanghai city discovered that her daughter was enceinte, and that this condition had been brought about by the trusted nurse of the family having been in the habit of trading on the daughter's charms, making some excuse to the mother of a visit to a neighbour to account for the occasional absence of the frail one from the parental cottage. The mother, on making the above-mentioned discovery, was so incensed that she induced some of her male relatives to beat the nurse to death with bamboos. The friends of the nurse thereupon took legal opinion on the case, which resulted in a petition being presented to the Shanghai Hsien, who (with that love of justice, we presume, which so eminently characterises a Chinaman) caused inquiries to be made into the matter, and bringing home the murder to the mother as the instigator of the crime, condemned her to death. But the mother being far gone with child, the sentence was allowed to stand over till the child should have been born and weaned, and this latter circumstance having taken place the other day, the sentence was carried out, the mother being strangled outside the south gate. A cord was placed round the unfortunate woman's neck and gradually tightened till strangulation was nearly effected, when the cord was loosened and breath allowed to re-enter the lungs; this refinement of torture was repeated, and it was only on the cord being tightened the third time that the woman was allowed to die.\n\nOn the 24th June, Cheong-po-sun, convicted of the murder of a clothseller in Tank-lane, and three of the four pirates convicted at the May Sessions for piracy and murder on the high seas, were executed at the usual place in front of the Gaol. The scene was probably the most exciting of the kind ever witnessed in Hong Kong for many years past. Cheong-sin-fook, Lee-koon-hing, and Wong-asing, the three pirates and murderers, were the exact opposites of Po-sang, their violence being as strongly marked as was the coolness of the other. They made no confession, but endeavoured to mystify the story of the piracy as much as possible, each blaming the other, and all lying in the most barefaced manner conceivable. The only statement in which they could be said to agree, was that the fourth prisoner (he of the alleged medical proclivities) was not an active party in the piracy for which they were sentenced; and upon this additional confirmation, coupled with the lesser weight of evidence against this prisoner, he has been temporarily reprieved by the Governor. Perfect indifference and a species of bravado were maintained by these four piratical murderers until the fatal morning of yesterday; when the three doomed men underwent a remarkable change. Duly yesterday morning two of them wished to fight each other; but this morning their pitiable moanings disturbed the quietude of the entire neighbourhood. While they were being pinioned, they sobbed and groaned incessantly, and on being led out to the Gaol office, where they were led by the Sheriff, they had to be supported by stimulants, which the Tank-lane murderer refused with a shake of the head. Before proceeding to the scaffold, a final attempt was made to draw some confession from the pirates and to clear some doubts arising from the former confession of Po-Sang, but without success. Po-Sang maintained that there were five engaged in the murder of the clothseller; lin-fook stoutly refused to make any admission, and influenced the others also to keep their counsel by his determination. As the bell struck six o'clock, the prisoners were led forth to the scaffold, near which were a number of Europeans, one or two companies of police under Mr. Jarman, and fifty penal servitude convicts ranged on one side of the compound. Cheong-fook had to be pushed up the scaffold ladder by main force; and when all the condemned men had reached the platform, there followed a scene which will not be soon forgotten by those who witnessed it. Po-sang was cool as a statue, with his painfully drawn-up features; but the other three swayed about uneasily, looked behind over the wall as if meditating escape, now noisily resisting the executioner and again moaning and groaning as before. Cheong-fook stamped and danced upon the platform, and cursed and swore at the crowd below, until it was feared some accident might happen to the scaffold, and he had at last to be bound round the ankles with a rope. The voice of the Roman Catholic padre was drowned in the torrent of abuse from the scaffold; and it need hardly be said that the exhortations of the ministers of religion seemed to have not the slightest effect upon any one of the doomed men, except perhaps Po-sang, who now and then during the morning had listened to what was said to him. At five minutes past six, at a signal from the Sheriff, the bolt was withdrawn, the fatal jerk given, and the miserable victims were left dangling in the air. Death must have been instantaneous, although the bodies quivered for some minutes afterwards. All three pirates were strong, powerfully built fellows, and would no doubt have given very great trouble had not the necessary precautions been taken in gaol and on the scaffold. With the exception of the objectionable fact that the stone parapet and the lower bar of the scaffold again formed a rest for the feet of two of the prisoners, the arrangements were perfect. The scaffold was removed by eight o'clock—an improvement on former occasions, when it was allowed to stand over Sunday.\n\n## FOOCHOW.\n\nDates hence are to June 23. The **Taewan** sailed on the 20th June. She met with a serious misfortune in her passage down the river Min. From Messrs. Gilman and Co.'s Circular of June 22, we learn that she had on board 789,500 lbs. of tea, and that she is on shore on the north bank \"a total wreck.\" One thousand chests have as yet, it is said, been saved. Messrs. Gilman and Co. are Lloyd's agents.\n\nMr. Watters, late H.M.'s acting Vice-Consul at Tamsay, has been transferred to Foochow as third assistant, in place of Mr. Holt, who has been despatched to the former place to take charge of the vice-consulate.\n\n## HONG KONG.\n\nFrom this port we have intelligence to June 29. No later mails or telegrams had arrived out since the date of our last advices. The **Overland China Mail** supplies the following news:\nCheong-po-sun, convicted of the murder of a clothseller in Tank-lane, and three of the four pirates convicted at the May Sessions for piracy and murder on the high seas, were, on the 24th June, executed at the usual place in front of the Gaol.\n\nMessrs. Margesson and Co.'s Chinese shroff has been taken in custody on a charge of having embezzled monies to the amount of $420 within the last four months. The compradore of that firm appears as complainant in the case.\n\nWe regret to learn that a fatal accident occurred on board the **Princess Charlotte** while the coronation salute was being fired. One of the guns missed fire, and the firing party passed on to the next gun; the sponger who followed, being unaware that the gun had missed, proceeded to sponge out, when the gun exploded, and blew the poor sponger from the deck.",
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        "content_text": "THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nIs not a great deal of the work in Siam caused by the doctrine of extra-territorial jurisdiction applying to the inhabitants of British Burmah? Yes, and to British India; I would not separate British Burmah exclusively.\n\nThere is a difficulty in following criminals from British Burmah, is there not, to Siam; do not cases occasionally occur of the escape of criminals into Siam?--I have not heard of any particular case of that kind.\n\nDo you think that work of that kind could be decreased; it has been stated here that there has been a somewhat extravagant interpretation of this doctrine in the case of the inhabitants of British Burmah?--Well, it would be a very great comfort if the work of looking after these men could be taken away from the consul altogether, because it is a terrible responsibility having to give an opinion about cases which happen hundreds of miles away from you, and of which you cannot get any very satisfactory evidence. I do not see how we are to avoid doing it with our Treaty.\n\nThe officers of the consulate are occasionally sent great distances up country, are they not, in these cases?--No, they were not in my time; I have never known of an officer being sent beyond 60 miles about a case.\n\nBut the labour involved in these cases to the consulate is very considerable?--Very considerable, and the anxiety still greater.\n\nDo you know whether it was the custom of other Powers for their consuls to act as agents there?--In some cases the consuls were merchant consuls, trading consuls, and in that case they might of course be agents for anything; the Lloyd's agent in Siam was a merchant.\n\nViscount ENFIELD: Is the cost of living in Siam very great?--It is great as compared with England, because there are certain luxuries which a man must have in a climate of that sort; I mean to say that whereas a young man in England can live very well for £150, out in Siam it is impossible for a student interpreter to live decently on the pay that is given to him.\n\nMR. HARPER in his evidence before the Committee said that H.M. Consuls often acted as agent for Lloyd's, and that the commissions paid on wrecks were at times valuable, he might instance the case £3,000 paid on one ship at Batavia.\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED).\n\nThe second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders was held on the 13th inst.; Mr. JOHN PENDER, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. T. Fuller) read the notice convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting, which were then confirmed; the report of the directors, given in our last issue, was taken as read.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nThe CHAIRMAN stated that since the opening of the line it had worked in every way satisfactorily; there had been one or two interruptions, but of a slight character. In regard to one which occurred at Saigon in shallow water, they had the satisfaction, in repairing the cable, that it was as perfect as on the day it had been laid down.\n\nIt was also a matter for congratulation to perceive that, even taking into account the low rate of charges that had rated for a considerable period of the company's operations, the result had been about as good as that attained by any submarine line during the first year of its working. It was proposed to pay the shareholders a dividend of 8 per cent. for the whole year.\n\nThe directors entered into arrangements with the Great Northern, by which that company was to receive interest at 5 per cent. on the capital, and the cable to be repaired by them; that all above that sum was to be equally divided; and, although the traffic had been interrupted, the amount received last year from that source was £4,752.\n\nHe thought that at some future time it would be necessary to call upon the shareholders to find the money to lay another cable in conjunction with the Great Northern, as the present cable seemed to be not quite so good as that company had expected it to be. He also believed that an alternate line was necessary to give the public the accommodation they required, and at the same time to secure themselves a fair return.\n\nThis company had put up its tariff to £6, whilst the Great Northern Company were working at £4 10s., but he thought that they were getting as full a share of the traffic as those who went to the expense of telegraphing their messages by both routes.\n\nMr. Forde, a shareholder, said he regretted that the Board had any idea of laying a cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai in conjunction with the Great Northern Company. Such a step would be much in the interests of that company, but against theirs. He must very earnestly urge on the directors the policy of amalgamating with the other companies; a low tariff was only to be obtained by amalgamation. The working expenses of this company—£16,000 on earnings of £85,000—were enormous, and the salaries paid were too high.\n\nMr. HOLMES agreed with Mr. Forde as to the Shanghai line, and he considered the £1,838 for the Agnes repairing ship was excessive, and a contract should be made for the repairs.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN, in reply to these remarks, said that the laying of the cable to Shanghai was merely foreshadowed, but if done, it must be in conjunction with the Great Northern in good faith, according to the bargain made. The policy of amalgamation was quite approved by the Board; but those things required time, and could not be carried out so speedily as Mr. Forde seemed to think.\n\nWith regard to the expenses, he read a statement of salaries, &c., at each port, and explained that the expenses of living were so high at the stations that the salaries of proper officers must be in proportion. The expense for repairs and maintaining cable would be reduced.\n\nThe directors had no objection to half-yearly meetings. The report was then put and carried, as also the re-election of the Baron d'Erlangen as a director, and two auditors. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.\n\nTHE JAPANESE AT MESSRS. ALLAN, RANSOME AND CO.'S.\n\nYesterday the Minister for Agriculture, with members of his suite, together with American and English employers of labour, visited the works of Messrs. Allan, Ransome, and Co., in King's-road, Chelsea, to view some newly-invented labour-saving machinery of remarkable construction and power.\n\nThe strikes of workmen in the building trades, the increased cost of production in the carpentry and joinery branches of those trades, and the difficulties caused to employers by the restrictions of Trades Unions, have each had their share in directing the attention of engineers to find the means of meeting the pressure caused by the contracted amount of available skilled labour; and the machines exhibited yesterday were in every way so perfect that it is not easy to see how hand labour will hold its own.\n\nThe first machine inspected was a portable saw frame. Any one who has seen the old saw-pits, where the \"top sawyer\" and the \"bottom sawyer\" laboured from morning to night and day after day in cutting a log into planks, would be greatly astonished to see this comparatively small machine, attended only by one man, cut up the body of a large oak into fourteen planks at once, it having twelve saws, which cut through the whole bulk of wood in something less than half an hour.\n\nA mortising machine, the invention of Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia, was set to work, and accurately and cleanly cut in a few moments mortises which would have taken a workman hours.\n\nA moulding machine, for cutting mouldings, did in a minute thirty-five feet of work, which would have taken a skilled workman many hours, and this work could apparently be done by a boy.\n\nIn what was called a \"general joining machine\" there was apparently no limit to the work to be done, the one machine cutting mortises, shaping blocks, planking, carving out banisters, and turning in a few minutes a plain block of wood into a perfectly carved piece of work.\n\nAnother machine, exceedingly small and unpretentious, was shown to be capable of planing any sort of work, oval or flat, and at the same time a revolving chisel cut mortises with celerity and accuracy.\n\nA very fine piece of machinery is one which cuts raised or recessed panels, in other words, which can cut the sunk or raised ornamental work in wood now so highly prized and so dearly paid for, as the best and most skilled.\n\nBy another machine, an American invention, but improved by the Messrs. Ransome, a door can be finished—that is, cleanly sand-papered on both sides—in three minutes.\n\nThe planing and trying-up of work, or what would be properly called the trueing \"up, by which is meant the nice work of making blocks of wood exactly like one another, in order to hand labour, is, by one of Ransome's machines, done at once and perfectly in a few minutes, all the blocks, of whatever size, being placed together and turned out as like as peas, and mathematically correct in every respect.\n\nA band saw machine, by which both fine and rough work was cut in all sorts of shapes, and a saw cutting machine, with F. Ransome's patent stone, were among the other works shown.\n\nWith one or two of these machines an employer with a man and a boy as staff, could turn out as much work as twenty or thirty men, and never be troubled about the nine hours, eight hours, or any other movement.\n\nThe remarkable fact about these machines is that they are not limited to the pattern, shape, or character of wood, for the knives are changed in a few minutes, and whatever the class of work required, it can be done at once.\n\nThe inspection lasted for several hours, and all the visitors expressed themselves delighted with these new machines, some of which are to go to the Vienna Exhibition.\n\nNAVAL AND MILITARY.\n\nThe screw steamer Scotland, Captain James, sailed from Queenstown on the 12th inst. for Singapore and Hong Kong, via the Suez Canal.\n\nThe following are the details of the officers and men who proceed in the Scotland to strengthen the garrisons in the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong:-To Singapore, Captain Battye, Lieutenant Armstrong, and 79 men of the 10th regiment and 10 men of the Royal Artillery.\n\nTo Hong Kong, Captain Stone, with 294 men and 19 women and children of the 80th Regiment; an armourer sergeant, a sergeant, and 10 men of the Royal Artillery: and 3 men of the Royal Engineers.\n\nMajor Watson, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Captain Hewson, 73rd Foot, and Lieutenant Chevera, of the 73rd Foot, proceed to Hong Kong on duty with the draft of the 80th Regiment, and will afterwards return to Ceylon.\n\nThe medical officer in charge of the troops is Staff Surgeon O'Halloran, who will, after their arrival at their respective stations, proceed to Penang.\n\nThe Mosquito, composite gunboat, 400 tons, and 360-horse power, which was commissioned at Devonport on the 30th ult., for service on the China station, by Lieutenant-Commander William Henry Bond, was moved into Plymouth Sound on the 9th inst., has made the customary trial of her engines, and has embarked her supply of ammunition preparatory to sailing.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel Joseph H. F. H. Hudson, Grenadier Guards, is to be confirmed in his appointment of military secretary to General Henry Renny, in command of the forces in Ceylon.\n\nMONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.\n\nThe suspension of Messrs. Bowles Bros. and Co., noticed in our last issue, has caused the stoppage of the \"Joint National Agency,\" a company formed for general financial and agency purposes in connection with the Japanese now in Europe, amongst whom we are sorry to say are the agents of the Japanese Government, who have lodged Government funds in the hands of the Company.\n\nJudging from the following circular, it seems that the company is utterly crushed, and will be dissolved.\n\n446, Strand, London, 9th November, 1872.\n\nSIR.—With the greatest regret, and by order of the Board of Directors, I have to inform you that in consequence of the sudden and unexpected suspension of payment of one of the bankers of this company, the firm of Messrs. Bowles Brothers and Co., this company has also found it necessary to suspend payment.\n\nIn order at once to secure the assets of the company its immediate winding up has been determined upon, and with this view an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders will be held here at two o'clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday week, the 19th inst., when a resolution will be submitted to the effect that it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that it cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.\n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nWALTER H. FARRA, Secretary.\n\nFollowing closely on the failure of Joshua, of Singapore, we have telegrams announcing the stoppage of Chang \"Tee, Watseng and Co., and Absoon and Co., both Chinese firms of importance in the Straits and Saigon trade, with heavy liabilities to European firms.\n\nThe mail also brings advices of the failure and arrest for fraud of A. Velge, a commission merchant at Singapore, by which the banks will also lose.\n\nMessrs. Joshua Brothers and Co., of Great Winchester-street, desire it to be stated that their firms, together with the firms of Joshua Brothers, Melbourne, and Joshua Brothers, Mauritius, are in no way related to or connected with the firm of Joshua Brothers, of Singapore, whose suspension has been announced.\n\nCorrespondence from Shanghai by the last two mails has been very gloomy, and failures are expected before the end of the year, notwithstanding the assistance given here to the Silk market by a combination.\n\nBar Silver has again declined, and the nearest quotation we can give is 59d. per oz., at which rate some small parcels have been sold; the market is weak, and a further slight reduction may be looked for.\n\nThe Bank of Holland has decided to buy no more silver at any price. It has hitherto bought silver at 1.104.65 per Dutch pound, and has not varied the price for years.\n\nBANK AND MISCELLANEOUS SHARES.\n\nTELEGRAPH COMPANIES.\n\n£10\n\nChartered Bank Ind., Aust., and China\n\nAll\n\n59 to 54\n\n13 to 15\n\nAll\n\n23 to 25\n\n10\n\n1 to 15\n\n58 to 60\n\nAll\n\nJOINT STOCK BANKS.\n\n£10\n\nAgra Bank\n\n25\n\nBank of Egypt\n\n20\n\n45\n\nChartered Merc. of India and China\n\n20\n\nCity Bank\n\n+14\n\n1.\n\n100\n\nColonial Bank\n\n500fr.\n\nComptoir D'Escompte of Paris...\n\n2291\n\n100\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank\n\n[Imperial Bank\n\n20\n\n28 to 29\n\n50\n\nLondon and County\n\n20\n\n69 to 58\n\n50\n\nLondon Joint Stock\n\n15\n\n48 to 47\n\n100\n\nLondon and Westminster\n\n20\n\n67 to 62\n\nOriental Bank Corporation\n\nAll\n\n$1 to 42\n\n50\n\nUnion of London...\n\n43 to 44\n\n10\n\nBritish Indian Extension\n\nAll\n\n34 to 144\n\n13\n\nBritish Australian...\n\nAn\n\nA to 99\n\n30\n\nChina Submarine.\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nEastern Telegraph Company\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nGreat Northern\n\nAll\n\n10 to 114\n\n25\n\nIndo-European\n\nAll\n\n14 to 30\n\n30\n\nMediterranean Extension\n\nAll\n\n£ to 7\n\n12\n\nTelegraph Construction Company\n\n£24 to 23\n\n60\n\nIndiarubr.,Gutta Percha &Tel. WorksCo.\n\n45\n\n391 to 301\n\nMISCELLANEOUS\n\n20\n\nBritish India Tea Company\n\nAll\n\n4 to 5\n\nBrit. and Foreign Marine Insurance Co.,\n\n1\n\n6 to\n\n6\n\n20\n\nCeylon Company\n\n***\n\n**\n\nAll\n\n15 to 17\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\n10\n\nLo\n\ndis.\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\nར\n\n4 to\n\n3 dis\n\n50\n\n2 to\n\nI dis.\n\n5\n\nAll\n\nto\n\n53\n\n10\n\nGeneral Credit and Discount Companyj\n\n73\n\nTo\n\n15 pm.\n\n10\n\nHong Kong Gas Company\n\n414\n\n10\n\nInternational Finance Society...\n\n5\n\n1 to dis.\n\n98\n\nJapan Loan, 9 per cent...\n\nAll\n\n110 to 112\n\n$4\n\nLondon and Prov. Marine Insurance Co.\n\n2\n\n24 to 21 pa1.\n\n26\n\nNational Discount Company...\n\n5\n\n121\n\n122\n\n25\n\n50nfr.\n\nOcean Marine Insurance Company\n\nMessageries Maritime of France\n\n5\n\n13 to 14 pm.\n\nAli\n\n50\n\n50\n\n100\n\n21)\n\nP. and O. Steaming Company\n\n170.\n\n1867...\n\n20.\n\nRoyal Mail Steam Company\n\nRealia Marine Insorance Company\n\nAll\n\n51 10\n\n68\n\n10\n\ndis. to par\n\n60\n\n93 to B5\n\nJ\n\n1 to I dis.\n\n4021.\n\nSuez Canal Company\n\n*\n\n20\n\n20\n\nThames and Mersey Marine Lasur. Co.\n\nUniversal Marine Insurance Company!\n\n5 to\n\nFLE\n\nColonial Company\n\nCredit Foncier of England\n\nARTICLES OF IMPORT.\n\nTEA.\n\n1,530\n\n1.360\n\n5pm.\n\n4 to jum\n\nMessrs. Shepard, Harrison, and Rehden's Circular says--\n\nDuring the past few days buying, except at auction without reserve (sales of China or Indian growth taking place daily), has been all but suspended, owing to the disturbance in the money market and the advance in the Bank rate, which is now 7 per cent.; arrivals have also been on an exceedingly large scale; buyers therefore act with extreme caution.\n\nAdvices from China, as to ultimate total shipments, state, \"all will depend on prices paid for common Congou;\" as regards this market, there is no encouragement to ship such here; demand has been \"off\" this class for some time, and late imports of what may be fairly classed as \"good common\" are not saleable over 9d.\n\nThe export trade to all quarters has been inactive.\n\nThe public sales of China have comprised 16,117 packages, of which week amount to 8,211,346 lbs., against 3,161,038 lbs. last year.\n\n14,449 packages have been sold without reserve.\n\nThe deliveries for the sales have been...\n\nBlack-Red leaf: No change as to prices for siftings and leafy; good flavoury kinds at 1s. to 1s 1d. have been scarce, but a better selection is offering from ships now discharging; Souchong and Kaisow kinds at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 5d. offer good value; medium to fine at 1s. 6d. to 2s. are hard of sale; finest sells in small lots at 2s. 1d. to 2s. 6d. per lb.\n\nPakling kinds: No demand.\n\nTayshau leaf: Fall supplies are in course of landing; a few sales at 10d. to 1s, for good common and fair.\n\nBlack leaf: In low and ordinary common there have been occasional small sales at 6d. to 7½d.; fair to good common we quote at 8d. to 10d. per lb., and difficult of sale; preferable kinds 1s. 7d, we make rather lower; fine and finest 1s. 8d. to 2s. 2d., limited at 1s. to 1s. 2d. are scarce; medium to good medium at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. are...\n\nSouchong: Few transactions at no alteration in value.\n\nScented Tea, Canton kinds--Caper: There has been fair trade doing, as late good common to fair 10d. to 1s., good to medium 1s. 1d. to 1s. 4d, fine imports are of desirable quality, many parcels being strong scented; 1s. 5d. to 1s. 8d., finest 1s. 9d. to 2s. per lb.\n\nScented Orange Pekoe: Limited supplies, but sufficient for present wants, Foochow growth being in full supply, and selling at a moderate scale of prices.\n\nGreen Large sales by auction without reserve; the imports, ex Glenroy and Ajax, over 800,000 lbs., offering a varied selection, chiefly of Peling Suey leaf, which has sold at an average 1d. per lb. decline, No. 1 Gunpowder selling down to 2s. 11d., other grades in proportion.\n\nSlogane and Fychow leaf, with the comparatively small supply, has been selling at extreme rates.\n\nCanton and Japan kinds: No change.\n\nSILK.\n\nMessrs. Kilburn, Kershaw, and Co. report as follows:--\n\nThe slight improvement in demand which had shown itself recently has been checked by the movements of the money market, and buyers generally seen disposed to wait; there is no change in quotations.",
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        "content_text": "# Petition by Wilson & Selway Architects, Surveyors\n\nWe, the undersigned, beg to bring to your notice the following facts:\n\nThat Mr. A.W. Chice, who has also made alterations to the **Bermilage** and conducted an Arbitration case extending over 14 months in connection with The \"Cosmopolitan Docks\", has been entrusted with significant works.\n\nThat at the present time, the plans for the new **Chartered Bank of India** are being prepared by Mr. Danby Clint, though the work was promised to ourselves before it was found that it could be undertaken by that gentleman.\n\nThat Mr. Harby is building a Bungalow for Mr. Brereton at the Victoria Gap. That Mr. Swan, Inspector of Buildings, is building a Bungalow for Sir Hurns threeps at the Victoria Gap and has just built a school for Mr. Catel at Hanchai.\n\nThat Mr. Andrewstage, Clerk of Works, is building a Bungalow for Mr. Payllar at Victoria Gap.\n\nIt will doubtless be understood that officers of the Survey Department have facilities for obtaining work and passing through the office which outsiders have not, and we have therefore humbly to request that this subject and the injustice which we are labouring under may receive your consideration as we conceive we are.\n\nWe have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient humble Servants,  \nWilson & Selway, Architects, Surveyors\n\n## Minute by Mr. Price\n\n276\n\nThis petition is submitted by M.W. Wilson, formerly Surveyor General of Wongtong, at present the only practising engineer and architect here, and member of the late firm of Wilson & Selway.\n\n2. This firm of Architects became extinct in 1876 by the retirement of Mr. Salway, who is now established in Melbourne and who informed me some time ago that his entire connection with Mr. Wilson had ceased. So that the latter has no right to the weight of Mr. Salway's name for the purpose of the petition.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "was 814. Looking westward from under the arch the avenue extending to Ice House street formed a perfect picture in the day time with its strings of flags spanning the road at short intervals. If the flags could have been replaced by lamps at sundown the night effect would have been much enhanced, as there was a want of over-head light to complete the thing, notwithstanding the brilliancy of the house illuminations.\n\nMessrs. Siemssen and Co., next door to the Bank, had a large display of Japanese lanterns of a unique description in lines and curves. Victoria Building (occupied by Mr. Chater's office, and those of brokers, merchants, &c.) had a brilliant gas illumination over the front of the porch showing the Queen's head in a wreath, with \"1837\" and \"1887\" to the left and right, and a 4ft. star on each side of the porch. The whole portion and the cornices of the building were also completely outlined with gas jets. Underneath the cornices were lines of red, white, and blue cloth inter-woven and looped up with rosettes, and there were masses of green foliage under the windows. On the porch was also a trophy of flags with a shield bearing the British Lion and on two other shields were the Prince of Wales's coat of arms. The street decorations of this section converged at this point, a large lantern hanging from a convenient branch of the tree opposite, and strings of smaller lanterns running from it to the posts from which the flags were stretched across the road. Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co. had their hong illuminated with a large number of white and red lanterns tastefully arranged. Messrs. Pustan and Co., at the corner house, had rows of various coloured lanterns running the whole length of the building and coloured glass lamps along the parapet.\n\nThe New Oriental Bank at the corner of Queen's-road and Duddell-street had a profuse display of coloured lanterns hanging from bamboos at the top. The Chartered Bank, at the opposite corner, was illuminated with lanterns and glass lamps on the first and second floor, and the ground floor had lamps hung round the arches of the building. The Chartered Mercantile Bank, on the opposite side of Queen's-road, had lanterns following the lines of the building, with \"V. R.\" in small glass lamps in the centre. Along the remains of the adjoining house, now in course of demolition, rows of lanterns were hung. The Telegraph Companies' offices had a large display of lanterns. Messrs. Kelly and Walsh had a \"V. R.\" in red lanterns, and a large number of variegated lanterns.\n\nThe Hongkong Hotel made a large use of gas in its illumination. On the Queen's-road side it had 6 ft. Crown, and the letter \"V\" on one side and \"R\" on the other, each 4 feet high. On the Pedder's street frontage there was a 7 ft. star with the \"V\" and \"R\" the same as in Queen's Road. On the Queen's-road side were the words \"God bless our Queen\" in English and Chinese, and \"Victoria's Jubilee,\" and the arches on the ground floor had lanterns running round them. In Pedder's-street the verandah arches were filled up in the same way on the ground and first floors, with a lamp at the entrance bearing the words \"The Jubilee Year, 1887.\" There were also shields and trophies of flags. The hall of the Hotel was brilliantly illuminated with lanterns, some with mottos, one of them very practically conveying the recommendation \"Let us drink to the health, long life, and happiness of our gracious Queen Victoria.\"\n\nThe Victoria Dispensary, on the opposite side of the street was decorated with flags and the chambers above were illuminated with Japanese lanterns. Mr. Piron's, Mr. Kahn's, Mr. Henerfanth's, and Mr. Lang's establishments were also illuminated with lanterns. The large house jointly occupied by Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co., Messrs. W. G. Humphreys and Co., and the Chinese Insurance Co. had an elaborate design carried out in lanterns. On the top floor was the word \"Victoria,\" each letter occupying one arch, with a frame of coloured lanterns. On the second floor was \"Regina,\" with the end arches filled in with a cross, and on the ground floor were the figures \"1837-1887.” Messrs. Heuermann, Herbst and Co. had the British and German flags flying from the top floor with the red and white ensigns and the Union Jack hung together in the centre, and the arches of the building filled in with lanterns. Lock Hing had a fine show of expensive Japanese lanterns on the front of his house, and strings of lanterns from a flagstaff at the top.\n\nMessrs. Kruse and Co. illuminated their building with lanterns of various descriptions, and on the first floor had large ones with \"V. R.\" and ensigns painted on them. The hong of Mr. A. R. Marty, the ground floor of which is occupied by the store of Gaieu Frères, had the arches of the first and second floor outlined with small colored glass lamps, with clusters of the same hanging from the centre of each. There was also a wedge-shaped transparency projecting into the street with \"V. R.\" on each face, and the building had flags running up at each side. Atack's store was illuminated with lanterns with the Union Jack painted on them.\n\nTurning back along Queen's-road to the westward, passing the houses already described, we arrive at the Clock Tower, the central point and most striking feature of the illuminations, being conspicuous at once for the beauty and boldness of the design on which it was treated. The whole of the four sides were covered with small glass lamps, with paper lanterns running down the corners, and a little relief work at the top. Craning the neck upwards for a close view gave little idea of the splendid effect when the Tower was seen from a distance, either from the water or from the higher levels. One is tempted to regret that such a thing of beauty should have to fade so soon into its natural sombreness and resume its position as the antithesis of \"a joy for ever.\" The design for this illumination was by the Surveyor-General, and it was carried out by Mr. Andrew Millar. The Post Office had a gas 4-feet crown with two \"V. Rs.\" in monogram, two Masonic stars, and the building outlined above the first cornice with jets. Both on the front and the Pedder's-street side there were a large number of cylindrical lamps of various colours closely packed along the horizontal lines of the building. The Supreme Court also had gas illuminations-the Scales of Justice as the centre piece with a 24 feet star above and “V. R.\" in monogram on either side, and the side pillars and top cornices outlined with jets. The Hongkong Club, on the opposite side of the road, had a 9 ft. star and two 2 ft. stars in gas, with red and white lanterns outlining the building, and large lanterns hung along the verandah.\n\nMr. Humphreys had devoted great attention to the illumination of the Hongkong Dispensary, which looked remarkably well with its numerous transparencies. In the centre of the first floor verandah was a pagoda, the other openings on each side being filled up with large portraits of Her Majesty in youth and in 1887, painted by a Canton artist from engravings; On the top storey were great masses of ordinary sized Japanese lanterns, and on ground floor were lanterns with transparencies at the doorway. The d'Aguilar-street and Stanley-street frontages were decorated with lanterns in rows. Ching Choong's cigar store, next door to the Dispensary in Queen's-road, had an effective display of transparencies and lanterns, and Tarachand Thawardas & Co.'s Indian store was decorated with small oil lamps. Wassiamull Assumall's curio shop was illuminated with Japanese lanterns and a large number of small coloured lamps. Achoo's cigar store had also a good display of lanterns. Messrs. W. Powell and Co., occupying the Victoria Exchange jointly with Messrs. McEwen, Frickel and Co., had filled in the upper verandah with an elaborate design of which the centre piece was a portrait of Her Majesty. The verandah railing was covered with foliage on which were shields, \"England's Queen\" on one and \"India's Empress\" on the other. There was also a trophy of flags, and a number of lanterns. On the ground floor there were lanterns with the various ensigns painted on them. Messrs. N. Mody and Co.'s illumination attracted general admiration. Along the arches of the verandah in bold letters ran the scroll \"God bless our Empress\" worked in small gold coloured oil lamps on white ground. There was also a small portrait of the Queen and stars. On the floor above was a crown with the letters \"V. R.\", and lanterns hung between the pillars of the verandah. Over the entrance on the ground floor was a star of coloured oil lamps, and the gate was covered with foliage. Messrs. Gaupp & Co.'s store, under Messrs. N. Mody & Co.'s offices, had lanterns hung round the arches of the verandah with the Union Jack painted on them. Yee Chun, Loong Shing, Cheong Wo, and Ahoy, occupying adjoining shops, all contributed to the general display. Messrs. Falconer and Co.'s establishment, part of which is occupied on the upper floors by the China Traders' Insurance Company and the North China Insurance Company, had long rows of lanterns with the Union Jack painted on them, running along the top cornice and the verandahs, and up the sides. Messrs. Fournier and Co. had the arches of their verandah hung with lanterns.\n\nPage 540\nPage 541",
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        "content_text": "on the Assessment of the property in the \n\nrateable property Colony for the \n\nyear 1893-94. \n\nIt is satisfactory that in spite of \n\nfind that in \n\nFalling off \n\nto \n\na \n\nin the rents \n\nin certain portions of the Colony, the total of the assessment slightly exceeds that for the \n\nyear 1892-93. I have the honour to be, My Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nWilliams Robing \n\nEnclosure. \n\nHONGKONG. \n\nTHE ASSESSOR'S REPORT ON THE ASSESSMENT FOR 1893-94. \n\nC. O. \n\n14801 \n\nRECR(26) \n\nREC29U093) \n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 17th July, 1893, \n\n370 \n\nASSESSOR'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 19th June, 1893. \n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit my fourth Annual Report, on the Assessment for the year 1893-94. \n\nnew Valuation of the 2. By order of His Excellency the Governor in Council, I have made whole Colony, which comprises the City of Victoria, the Hill District, the Chinese Villages in Hongkong, Kowloon Point, and the Chinese Villages in British Kowloon. \n\n3. The City of Victoria is divided into ten (10) rating districts, and, counting each village, &c. as an unit, there are eighty (80) rating districts, or areas, in the whole Colony. \n\n4. The number of houses reported to be vacant, and inspected under Section 35 of the Rating Ordinance, has been about the same as in the previous year, when I estimated the number of inspections at 3,500. \n\n5. During the period from 1st July, 1892, to 1st June, 1893, Interim Valuations were made as follows:- \n\nIn the City of Victoria. \n\n155 new tenements with a rateable value of \n\n54 improved tenements with a rateable value of replacing existing assessments amounting to \n\nIn the rest of the Colony. \n\n143 tenements with a rateable value of re-placing then current assessments of.. \n\n$46,630 \n\n$67,740 \n\n$51,775 \n\n$56,962 \n\n$27,112 \n\nThe total Interim Assessments for the whole Colony being 352 tenements with a gross rateable value of $171,332 less $78,887, on account of assessments cancelled, leaving an increase of $92,445. \n\n6. The result of the new General Valuation is that the Rateable Value of the Colony as a whole has increased by $6,247 or 0.17 per cent. \n\n7. There is a decrease in the City of Victoria of $21,761 or 0.68 per cent. accounted for firstly by a continuance of the causes affecting the rental value of property, and secondly by certain tenements having been demolished since the last Valuation, and therefore not being rateable, and by property having gone out of rating in previous years, and not yet having been replaced. These properties include the new building for the Chartered Bank adjoining the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, the Offices at the corner of Ice House Street and Queen's Road, the new store near to Messrs. LANE & CRAWFORD'S, 52 houses in course of construction upon the site of the Godowns, Praya West, near the Sailors' Home, and several other tenements in various localities. Nearly all of the properties referred to above will become rateable during the ensuing year, and I estimate the Rateable Value to be at least $40,000. \n\n8. I estimate the gross loss to Rateable Value in Victoria attributable to depreciation in rentals at $129,340 equal to 4.08 per cent. This shows a slight improvement on last year's return when the reduction from this cause was $145,720 or 4.44 per cent. The gain from new and improved property is $107,579, which, deducted from the above mentioned $129,320, leaves a net decrease of $21,761 on the Valuation of the City of Victoria. \n\ncent. \n\n9. The Rateable Value of the Hill District shews a decrease of $6,030 equivalent to 6.46 per cent. 71.31 per cent. of this arises at the Magazine Gap District, where rents generally have fallen considerably. Since the Valuation was completed, I find that, in two or three instances, houses at the \"Peak\" have been let at improved rents, and there are indications of better figures being obtainable in the future. \n\n10. In Kowloon Point there is an increase of $2,190 or 2.18 per cent. Yau-ma-ti and Hung-Hom shew increases of $1,470 (3.46 per cent.) and $929 (1.22 per cent.) respectively, Kowloon Villages, i.e., the whole of the Peninsula excluding Kowloon Point exhibit an increase in Rateable Value of $4,354 or 2.54 per cent. \n\n11. Hongkong Villages have increased in Rateable Value $27,494 equal to 27.75 per cent. $16,822 of this is owing to the extensions at the Tai Koo Sugar Refinery at Quarry Bay. Increases are also seen at Aberdeen and Shau Ki Wan of $3,752 (19.69 per cent.) and $2,404 (20.61 per cent.) respectively. \n\nOut of a total of 68 Villages in the Colony, only 9 have decreased in Rateable Value, the total reduction being $1,135 against an increase of $32,983 in the other 59 Villages.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nRicreation of salary of Lt.-Col. W. Kins\n\nStormwater Drain –\n\nExcess stores, Secretariat, H.K. & Shanghai Bank\n\nSubject\n\n19 Sep. Legislative Council - Provisional appt of Ave Brewin\n\nVolunteer books\n\nMain records for Police Force. Asst. Engineer, P.W.W.\n\n23rd tradition of Prisoners\n\nDesk ho\n\n28\n\n29\n\n20\n\nDate\n\n23 am bao ung Wossning\n\n24\n\nJain\n\nSuhees\n\nHive Improvement\n\nFalames of Police\n\nLand at Black Rock\n\nDeak\n\net.ho.\n\n62\n\n163\n\n20\n\n165\n\nTelegram\n\n21\n\nDate\n\n31\n\nLetter from 25\n\nMaumati\n\n32\n\n33\n\n26\n\nProtection of women and children Amends. bod\n\n24\n\n24\n\nНеверат\n\n24 Kang Yu-wei\n\n73\n\n35\n\nPublic Works Dept.\n\n74\n\n2\n\nTelegram\n\n2 Sep Salary of Supt.\n\nof\n\nBotanic Gardens.\n\n75\n\n76\n\n3\n\n36\n\nNotification\n\n34\n\n39\n\nExpenditure, 1899\n\nBusion of be saddo-additions for professional & commercial Canadian Preferential Tariff\n\nSalary of Attorney General\n\nItems per the \"Stuttgart\"\n\nFrance & Wear River Shipment of revolvers\n\nI was Resignation of L. Libbe\n\nExcess stores Issue of Chartered Bank\n\nHospital warder in Gaol\n\nPlague - destruction of rats. Reports on officers\n\nTelegram 8. Revolvers per \"Java\"\n\n80\n\nProtection of Mission Station at Lo Long\n\n81\n\nBoufe\n\n41\n\n8 Lung wa Hospital\n\nTelegram\n\n9\n\nMarine Policemen\n\n43\n\nArms, etc.\n\nfor Police\n\n86\n\n45\n\nSalary of P.D. de Rosario\n\nSugar Mills for her feraitons\n\n84\n\n88\n\n44\n\nAppt. of brown solicitor\n\n89\n\n52\n\nDraft Estimates, 1900\n\nTelegrams\n\nAnd ce. 36 of 189 del\n\nGo\n\nGi\n\n93\n\nGames, etc.\n\nMilitary Instructions from War Office\n\n13. Storage Reservoirs in Lytton Valley\n\n14. Salaries of dressers, da Cunha and Lowe: Qu\n\nWardmaster at Kennedy Town Hospital: 96 Payment for use of Government furniture\n\n54 Secret\n\n55\n\n56\n\n57\n\n58\n\n15\n\nHong Kong Return, 1899\n\n59\n\n160\n\n60\n\n14\n\nGeneral\n\n16\n\nwas fund\n\nbi\n\n19\n\nNew Territory\n\n95\n\nJ 5\n\nChinese Emigration & Immigration 1899 Salary of W. Shatham\n\nReport on Victoria Gaol, 1899\n\nStaff of Post Office\n\nBuilding Supervisor\n\nappt. of overseer\n\nTranslator in Land Office\n\nPolice Report, 1899\n\nReport\n\nOn my\n\nQueen's College, 1899\n\nClerical Staff of Colonial Secretary's Office\n\nLand Transfer & Admiralty\n\nCost of Surveys\n\nScholarships\n\nExchange of land at St. Cochrane\n\nLegislative Council - prov. appt. of Hb. Nicolle\n\nA harrow\n\nLand Office",
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        "content_text": "324 \n\nApart from the patent absurdity of such provisions, your petitioners submit that an owner can only under these circumstances be fairly required to alter his property subject to compensation. It may be observed that the section renders illegal the Hongkong Club, the Hongkong Hotel, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the Chartered Bank, and many other of the principal edifices in the colony.\n\nSection 171 of the Bill proposes to double the space between a new building and the hillside. In the case of re-erecting an existing building, or of erecting any building on land already leased from the crown, this condition should only be imposed subject to compensation.\n\nSection 175 of the Bill provides, in the case of new buildings on land already leased from the crown, that part of the land shall be left vacant for a back lane. It may be observed that, where lots do not align in the rear, this space would be discontinuous and not available as a lane. In any case, the requirement should be subject to compensation. Section 177 of the Bill contains further new and drastic provisions as to open spaces on land already leased from the crown. Apart from the question whether this section is not impracticable as rendering many valuable sites useless for building purposes, and the question whether it does not defeat its own object seeing that an owner will not voluntarily rebuild at such a sacrifice as it entails, and the question whether the provision that the required open space may be shared between adjoining owners is not illusory because the owner who happens to be first obliged to rebuild must provide the whole, it is obvious that, if the section is retained, it should be made subject to compensation.\n\nSection 179 of the Bill imposes another new condition on land already leased from the crown, namely that in future all private streets must be laid out under the Government's direction. This should be subject to compensation whenever the Government vetoes a scheme now legal, or enforces a scheme of its own which causes loss to the owner.\n\nSection 180 of the Bill proposes new restrictions upon the width of such private streets; here again compensation should be paid.\n\nSection 182 of the Bill forbids the re-erection of any existing building over a private street. This can only be equitably done subject to compensation; on which basis your petitioners are, as regards the undesirability of houses erected across the entrances to private streets, in such full accord with the Government that they would advocate the compulsory removal of such houses forthwith.\n\nSection 202 of the Bill. Your petitioners also agree with the Government as to the expediency of enabling the building authority to require an owner to shore and protect any building which in the said authority's opinion is dangerous; but your petitioners submit that the owner should have a right of appeal, and if it appears that the building is not in fact dangerous, he should receive compensation.\n\nIn nearly all these instances, the Government's desire is manifest to remedy the parsimony of its own past policy regarding streets and open spaces, which policy indeed is now being repeated in the newly developed districts on the mainland, by virtually confiscating from private owners for the purposes aforesaid land which ought, in the first instance, to have been retained therefor by the Government.\n\n(d). The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.\n\nSection 38 empowers the local authority to compel an owner to remove an obstructive building subject to compensation, and in section 21, the compensation is described as the \"fair market value\" of the property.\n\nYour petitioners beg also to refer Your Excellency upon the same matter to the following Private Municipal Acts -\n\n(a). The Birmingham Corporation Consolidation Act, 1883, and the Building Byelaws, 1887, made thereunder.\n\nThis Act, in section 31, &c., fully recognises the principle contended for, and is the more valuable as a precedent by reason of the prominent part taken by the present Secretary of State for the Colonies in the passing of the Act, and in the improvement scheme which occasioned it.\n\nSection 39 further provides that no new building shall be erected within a certain distance of the centre of any carriage road, subject to compensation where an existing building has, upon re-erection, to be consequently set back.\n\n(b). The London Building Act, 1894.\n\nSection 15 provides for widening streets, subject to compensation.\n\nSection 23 provides for setting back any projecting building which has been taken down or destroyed, subject to compensation. The Bill in section 181 similarly provides for setting back, but without compensation.\n\nSection 93 empowers an owner improving his building to underpin the adjoining owner's premises, subject to compensation to the adjoining owner. This compensation would, of course, be payable by the owner and not by the Government, and the framers of the Bill have in section 239 been curiously tender to preserve the provision, alone of all regarding compensation except that payable in respect of the resumption of land by the crown under Part V.\n\n(c). The Glasgow Building Act, 1900.\n\nSection 60 provides that the height of new buildings shall not exceed one and a half times the width of the street where they stand, but the right of the owner of an existing building to re-erect it to its actual height is reserved. Contrast section 185 of the Bill wherein, if the Legislative Council declines for any reason to insert the same general reservation, the owner's right should be recognised by compensation.\n\n(d). The Liverpool Improvement Act, 1882, and the Building Regulations, 1901, made thereunder.\n\nRegulations 31 and 32 provide that when a projecting building is taken down or destroyed, it shall be set back to the building line, subject to \"full compensation\" to the owner.\n\nRegulation 36 empowers the local authority to adjust the building line, subject to a like compensation.\n\nRegulation 34 empowers the local authority, when any building has been taken down or destroyed, to alter the building line, subject to a like compensation.\n\nAnd so general and municipal Acts might be cited indefinitely, and in all, it would appear that the English Legislature is ever jealous to fully recompense any individual whose interests have suffered for the common good.\n\n7. Your petitioners suggest that, when the Government and the owner disagree as to the amount of compensation, the system of arbitration provided under the Ordinance should be adopted.\n\n332",
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        "content_text": "nature. The latest accounts indicate that the town is once more quiet, although no information has been received to say that foreigners have returned from the vessels to their houses.\n\nFrom the information supplied by the Chinese officials themselves, to which reference is made below, it is evident that an anti-foreign movement was in preparation throughout Hunan. It has partly miscarried, owing to the premature outbreak of riots in Changsha over a grievance between the people and the officials. But directly trouble had arisen the hostility of the populace is turned, as by command, against foreigners.\n\nIt will be found that the following letter from our Changsha correspondent embodies the most authoritative account that has yet been received of the riots in Changsha :-\n\nA Graphic Account.\n\nChangsha, April 19, 1910. Wednesday, the 13th April, to Friday, the 15th April, were days that will long be remembered in Changsha. The riots will be marked from the fact that a governor's yamên has been sacked and burnt, and a very extensive series of looting and burning of foreign property has been carried out as almost a by-play of the main aim of the riot.\n\nThat aim was to cheapen rice. It is the old, old story that our history books show us as occurring in the lands of the Mediterranean, and that Carlyle has so picturesquely taught us to connect with the French Revolution—a hungry mob is dangerous. Rice has been, of course, dearer and dearer on account of the Yang-tsze floods. For the same reason the caters of rice have been more numerous, for the refugees from Hupeh have been numbered by the thousand. The forbidding of export from Changsha had not the desired effect of dropping prices—if that effect was really desired by those who forbade the export. Promises of opening Government granaries were not fulfilled, and as the prices crept up disappointment and anger grew. On Wednesday night a rise from 82 cash a-pint to 84 cash provoked the gathering of an angry mob. Some four or five officials were sent to speak good words. But one of the speakers resorted to that last refuge of a weak man—bluster and bluff: \"Rice is not so dear here as at Hankow or Canton, or in foreign countries.\" A howl of derision greeted the untimely speech. \"Seize!\" shouted the official, and the order was left-handedly obeyed by the seizing of him on the part of the mob, instead of the seizing of the shouters by his runners.\n\nThe official, who was of no less rank than a taotai, was dragged by the mob right through the city to the governor's yamên with a crowd that grew rapidly. Soon after 8 P.M. all the immense space in front of the yamên was packed with people, and the first two series of doors and wooden divisions had been burst in. Messages were handed to and fro, until at last the military were called into action. There was certainly some stabbing with bayonets—that deaths resulted is both asserted and denied. At any rate, messengers and fragments of the crowd broke off and scattered in all directions. Then followed beating of gongs and shouting of orders. Every house door was set open and every lamp lighted. The city gates were all shut.\n\nThe Work of Destruction.\n\nThe crowds that went south divided into two main streams. The western one reached the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, perhaps a little earlier than the eastern one would reach the Norwegian. The Methodist Mission door had not been opened at the first gong beating, so it was hammered at by the crowd. As soon as it was opened attention was concentrated on the buildings rented by the Imperial Post Office and the Imperial Bank a little further on in the same street. The post office door was too substantial for such weapons as the crowd possessed. Not so the bank doors and windows. Showers of shattered glass were followed by showers of broken tiles, as the mob leaders got on to the roof. One huge stroke, followed by a loud yell, announced that the doors were burst in. Then there was comparative stillness on the night air. It was only comparative, and it only lasted while the maddened crowd could retrace the 50 or 100 yards back to the mission. The mission windows and lamps followed after the manner of the bank, and the largest chapel in the city within two minutes was a wreck. The missionaries, who had all got dressed, were able to leave quietly by the back door, while the crowd streamed across the lawn and looted, and made a bonfire of the loot on the lawn. The missionaries—five ladies and four men—walked quite unmolested through the 200 yards of back streets between the compound and the city gate. Then there was a delay of twenty minutes or so while the keys were being fetched. The refugees were taken into the shop that is used by the guard. While they were there a police-box was smashed up; but no attempt was made to molest them. The gates were opened, and the missionaries went at once on to the C. N. steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" News was taken to the British consul (whose temporary consulate has been outside the gates, with telephonic communication to the city).\n\nWith the missionary in the house, telling the tale of the looting and burning, the Customs taotai telephoned out that the premises were adequately guarded!\n\nThe eastern crowd had first reached the Norwegian Mission. There the same story of looting of houses and escape of missionaries was repeated. The Norwegians were in a much less convenient position for reaching safety. They spent some hours on the city wall, and were well cared for by the official in charge at the North Gate. He himself helped in the cooking of some refreshments.\n\nThe nearest foreign neighbours were the doctor of the Yale Mission and his family and one of the professors at the Government College with his family. Their house was rented, and was overlooked by the crowd. The two families were received first into the house of a Chinese gentleman, and after dawn made their way through the Eastern Gate to a camp under the command of a friendly colonel.\n\nNot much farther on was the China Inland Mission compound. There the crowd made rapid destruction, but once more the missionaries escaped.\n\nAs the day wore on refugees came from one place and another, until every European and American had left the city.\n\nAbout 11 A.M. the mob fired the governor's yamên, and for the rest of the day volumes of smoke rose up as building after building caught fire. Rumour was busy; the governor had been murdered, had committed suicide, was in hiding. Assuredly there was but little space for him to hide in his own extensive compound by nightfall. At 2 o'clock a column of smoke rose over the Norwegian Mission, and a little later another marked the site of the China Inland Mission. There was no mistaking that mob rule was the only rule in Changsha.\n\nThat night the river side was attacked; the custom-house not held by the mob to be Chinese property; the wharves and godowns of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine and Matheson were all burned down. So was the Catholic Mission outside the North Gate, the Japanese consulate inside the city, and the Normal College outside the South Gate.\n\nOn the Steamers.\n\nDuring the night the C.N. steam-ships \"Kian\" and \"Siangkiang\" arrived, and early on Friday morning a number of the ladies and others left for Hankow by the I.-C. steam-ship \"Changwo.\" The three British steamers had been chartered by the consul on behalf of the Government. Still, that does not alter the indebtedness of all on board to the great courtesy of the captains, officers, and not least the heavily overworked staff of Chinese servants.\n\nThe boats were first anchored about a mile or two below the city and were able to see and were seen by the looting crowds. Some of the best of the military officials—men who had some claim to be listened to, if only on account of their great help in guiding parties of refugees to safety—hazarded the opinion that the military would more quickly regain control if the boats would drop 10 miles or so further down out of sight. That there was a turn in the tide was shown by the fact that two looters caught in setting fire to a Chinese-owned hotel (which was patronised by foreigners) had been promptly bayonetted and hanged. So the consul gave orders for our boats to get out of sight.\n\nThe Japanese community (with the exception of one or two who could not be reached) had gathered in the compound of the \"Nisshin Kisen Kaisha,\" and with the help of 200 soldiers—who had been drilled by Japanese instructors—held the compound safe and sound. They were now all on board the \"Siangkiang.\"\n\nOn Saturday morning, the \"Siangtan\" and \"Siangkiang,\" both crowded with foreign passengers, left for Hankow, and the \"Kian\" stayed on alone. During the day reassuring reports came from some of the interior cities connected by telegraph with Changsha. But at 10 P.M. the whole missionary community at Siangtan, with the exception of two gentlemen, arrived on board the governor's tender which had\n\n[2751 2-4]\n\nD\n\n218",
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        "content_text": "# O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n## England And Her Part In The Present War\n\nOf making many books upon the present stupendous war in Europe there is no end. Our magazines, periodicals, and daily press teem with news: historical and philosophical articles, relating to the war. The eyes of the world are turned steadfastly on Europe. Neutral as well as belligerent have been drawn to or into the vortex. This writer tells us that the chief cause of the war was the ever-increasing thirst of France to avenge the theft of Alsace and Lorraine in 1871; another sets forth the deep-seated purpose of the Russian Bear to sun himself in peace at Constantinople; again we read that the war blood of Alaric has been boiling for years in the arteries of the kaiser and the German people that they would cross the Alps and annex Italy—would absorb the puny Balkan states and Turkey in their onward march into Asia and a world empire!\n\nAnd the supersensitive Englishman says he could not suffer the brutal betrayal of Belgian neutrality. England has presented her \"white papers\" to the world, wherein she sets forth her diplomatic correspondence just prior to the outbreak of the war, and whereby she would prove how she struggled for peace; Germany offers her \"white papers\" for the same purpose.\n\n### EXCUSES AND APOLOGIES\n\nThese and many similar excuses, apologies, and \"inevitable causes\" flood neutral countries, appealing for their moral support. Every student of history knows that these \"causes\" are for the most part puerile, superficial, temporary expedients. As boys and girls, we were taught in school that slavery was the cause of our Civil War, and it took us many years to learn that aristocracy and democracy, climate and soil, agricultural and manufacturing pursuits, the invention of the cotton-gin, the tariff, the acquisition of new territory, were the real fundamental causes of the war, which the match of slavery ignited.\n\nThe unbiased historian of the future will develop the real causes of the present war in Europe, and when he does, he will lay the burden of blame at the door of England. While England has long since abandoned the doctrine of the divine right of kings, she has never for a moment abandoned the doctrine that \"might makes right,\" and that under \"this buckler of the people's cause,\" she has been divinely appointed to gobble the earth and the fullness thereof. Justifying her greed under this specious plea or that, she has crept into first one nation and then another like a thief in the night, till today she rules one-fifth of the habitable globe—and boasts that the sun never sets upon her domains.\n\nBy what right? By the right of craft, cunning, greed, and violence. England has been the road hog, the commercial pirate, the homestead jumper of the world, for the last 400 years. And now, like every successful burglar, after looting the world and planting her batteries at every strategic point, she holds up her hands, reeking with the blood of every people under the sun, and rolls her hypocritical eyes to heaven and prays, \"Let us have peace!\" With a naval power twice that of Germany, she pleads with the kaiser to limit his armaments! Why? Simply that she may be mistress of the seas, the world's policeman—that she may enjoy her ill-gotten gains without fear of a righteous vengeance. Who says the English have no sense of humor?\n\n## ENGLAND'S POLICY\n\nA running glance at English history proves these statements ad nauseam. She went into India, the garden of the world, by craft, then with the bayonet, and finally with opium in one hand and the Bible in the other. Dreamy India soothed her captivity with the fumes of the drug but repudiated the Bible that came with the sword. From 1774, when Warren Hastings began his nefarious spoliation of India, the natives suffered their subjection to English rule till 1857, when came the Sepoy mutiny, at the close of which these enlightened Christian rulers lashed the leading Sepoys with their backs across the mouths of English cannon and blew them into the orthodox hell of \"Merrie Old England.\" After 140 years of civil and military administration in India, what has England to show the world? The cradle of the human race, the womb of the world's religions, has been given over to spoliation and abortion to fill the coffers of Threadneedle Street.\n\nIn 1704, Sir George Rooke, with \"unscrupulous patriotism,\" stole the rock of Gibraltar, after Charles III had fairly won it. Greedy England, quickly realizing that it was the key to all the Mediterranean states, \"was both unprincipled enough to sanction and ratify the occupation, and ungrateful enough to leave unrewarded the general,\" who by his perfidy and treachery had seized it.\n\nWhen Said Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, had granted a concession to De Lesseps to dig the Suez Canal, and he had begun that great work, who schemed, connived, and plotted to hinder, delay, and block the undertaking? Who brought pressure to bear on the Sublime Porte of Turkey not to give his consent to the construction of the canal? Who inveigled the native labor away from the work and then rejoiced that \"poor De Lesseps must go to the wall?\" Who voted in parliament \"that the power and influence of the country should be employed in obliging the sultan to withhold his consent?\" England, always England! And when, in spite of all obstacles and treachery, the canal was constructed, who gobbled it? England!\n\n### \"CUNNING PHILANTHROPY\"\n\nWho then came forward with cunning philanthropy and loaned money to Egypt? And who then ostensibly sent her troops into Egypt to collect these loans, but in reality to possess and keep this ancient granary of the world, and thus still further strengthen her rights in the Suez Canal? England! England, the buccaneer of the seas, the spoiler of nations.\n\nForeigners, principally British foreigners, between 1880 and 1900, who had come into South Africa, were not satisfied with the rights of burghership, the laws governing the right of franchise. The country of the Dutch republics had been reclaimed from wild beasts and still wilder men. The Boers had fought their way, mile by mile, into the trackless veldt, the rugged mountains, and had carved out homes and a government for a peace-loving, contented people. They justly resented the foreign influx and the demands which would give the absolute control of their national life. Consequently, in 1896, Cecil Rhodes, the English premier of the Cape, sent Dr. Jamieson, with his mounted English police, on that despicable raid into the Transvaal.\n\nIt failed. The civilized world condemned the raid as an outrage, yet England left Cecil Rhodes unpunished, still allowed him his seat in the privy council, and continued his chartered company.\n\nFour years later, without just cause or right, inspired only by greed of gold and lust of empire, she marched an army of her mighty realms against this unoffending, peace-loving, contented, and industrious people, sacked and burned their homes, devastated their fields, and razed their towns, waged a bitter and cruel war against Boer forces, in whose ranks stood grizzled burghers, gray-haired women, and children, fighting for their homes, their liberty, and their native land. When Lord Roberts raised the British flag in Pretoria, he but drove another nail into the coffin of the English empire.\n\nAnd so we might speak of her treatment of Denmark in 1801 and 1807; of the treachery of her much-lauded Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, who was dancing at Brussels while good old Blucher was forming his little army to meet the onslaught of Napoleon; or how, with direct and characteristic brutality, she attacked China in the \"Opium War,\" that she might get plenty of this drug to lull her subjects in India to sleep, and how finally, with her land and naval forces, she wrested Hong Kong from China and forced Canton, Amoy, Shanghai, Fuchow, and Ningpo to do business with the English East India Company, or its successor, the English government.\n\n### \"STIRRING UP OF STRIFE\"\n\nTo whatsoever part of the world we turn, we witness the same measureless treachery and violence, the stirring up of strife, that during the squabble, melee, or war, England may walk in and gobble some coveted prize.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nThe whole civilized world should indict this British imperialism that has stalked rampant through every weak nation of the globe, trampling upon native religions, customs, culture, and patriotism, with an insatiate greed for gold and a lust for empire.\n\nShe has been tried in the balance and found wanting in her colonies and dependencies. For years, there has been evidence of their earnest desire to throw off her galling yoke. The recent troubles in Ireland, the present uprisings of the Boers, are but fitting illustrations that predict the future. Her thick-headed \"governmental classes,\" her arrogant, greedy, unsympathetic ministers, will eventually alienate her dependencies, as her Norths and Granvilles alienated her American colonies and drove them into rebellion.\n\nThe present war in Europe is, in the last analysis, a war between Germany and England. The issues which Russia and France have thrown into the struggle are trivial when compared with the fundamental actuating causes between Germany and England.\n\nCooped up in a territory smaller than the state of Texas are 60,000,000 Germans. Hemmed in by the Baltic and North seas, the plains of Poland, the mountains on her southern and eastern borders, and by Belgium and the Netherlands on the west, this mighty nation, conscious of its power, its wealth, its wonderful strides in the arts and sciences, industrial and agricultural pursuits, yearly pulsating with ever-increasing pressure against its borders, from the teeming, swelling life within, descended from an empire that ruled Western Europe before England and France had put on their national swaddling clothes—this nation can see no just cause why England should possess one-fifth of the habitable globe, while Germany suffers with growing pains within her limited confines.\n\nEngland wrested from Holland, Spain, and France, in turn, the mastery of the seas and commercial supremacy. A new nation now challenges that supremacy, and therein lies the basic cause of the present war, with its roots running far back into European history.\n\nIn this deep-seated and far-reaching antagonism, England comes to the United States begging, pleading for our moral support. She has sent her financier, Sir George Paish, to hobnob with Wall Street. She has deputized some of her most able writers to come to this country and pen columns of fulsome flattery about the American people—their mighty power, inexhaustible wealth, wonderful individuality, high-power progression, and even hinting at our culture and refinement. Shall we yield to Caesar the things that belong to God? If England is entitled to our moral support, then there is a moral obligation on our part to render it.\n\nMorals are traditional, practical, idealistic. \"Blood is thicker than water.\" \"The Anglo-Saxon nations are bound by a common speech, common customs, ethical and political aspirations to stand together,\" says the idealistic moralist. But nations ever have been and ever will be, while human nature remains as it is, actuated rather by traditional and practical morality. Measured by this latter standard, is England entitled to our moral support? Her oppression and tyranny toward our colonies from the founding of Jamestown to the cooping up of Cornwallis at Yorktown by the French and Americans; her impressment of American citizens into her naval service that led to the War of 1812; her evil wishes, treacherous machinations, subscriptions to Confederate loans, hostile speeches in parliament, building of the Alabama and other ironclads which were fitted out in her harbors and sent forth to prey upon and destroy the ships of the loyal citizens of this country, after she had declared her neutrality in our Civil War; her bold attempt to filch from us this very state of Washington; her constant sneers, cynicism, taunts, and insults, not only to our form of government and our laws but to anything and everything American, that have appeared in the books of her authors and in her daily press, ever since our Civil War down to the breaking out of the present European War—these and many similar acts on the part of England toward this country answer the question whether traditional and practical morality calls upon us now to give her our moral support.\n\nIs it for the benefit of humanity, for our own moral and material benefit, that we ethically uphold the hands of this robber of nations, that she may be strengthened in her grasp upon one-fifth of the habitable globe? Her orators, exhorting a decadent nation to arms, have already begun to cast lots over the spoils of war. Alsace and Lorraine are to be given to France; Russia is, perhaps, to be strengthened in the Balkans on her way to Constantinople; the naval forces of the kaiser are to be wiped off the seas; Belgium is to be reimbursed and rehabilitated as an outside guard for England's southern shore; and the German people are to be relegated to a quiet, pastoral life, with the privilege of exporting their few products in British bottoms!\n\nWe have wisely proclaimed our neutrality in the present war. Let us keep it in good faith and not in treachery, as did England her neutrality in our Civil War. Our people are conglomerate, and naturally, some sympathize with one nation, some with another, but we are all Americans, and loyalty to our own country, loyalty to humanity, forbids that we give moral support to that nation which is seeking to crush Germany—to that nation whose whole history in dealing with other nations smells to heaven of craft, greed, and violence—to that nation who fought us with mercenaries and is now summoning her satraps, her heathen hordes, to the slaughter of the German people, one of the foremost products of modern civilization.\n\n## A SAD CASE\n\nSamuel A. Greeley of Chicago has suffered a serious loss. He will not get the job from the Manila city government nor the P350 a week and all his expenses paid for telling the local garbage wagon drivers whether they are doing their work properly.\n\nIt is indeed a sad case, but why in the name of Sam Hill could he not have been made some kind of an assistant director of the bureau of agriculture? Is this bureau really loaded up with junk and unable to take on more? Where will they put Census Expert Col. Johnston if the legislature fails to pass the necessary appropriation for census work? Really, it is very bad.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n| Company/Organization | Advertisement |\n| --- | --- |\n| Philippine Islands Telephone and Telegraph Company | It is impossible to enumerate the great convenience of the telephone in the home. Plaza Lawton, Manila, P.I. |\n| West Coast Life | THE BEST IN LIFE INSURANCE SPELLS WEST COAST LIFE. WHY? BECAUSE we give you a modern American Policy at U.S. RATES. Write for a Sample. J. NORTHCOTT, Oriental General Agent, Manila |\n| Waldorf Stables | GOOD DRIVERS GOOD HORSES PHONE 266 PROMPT SERVICE RIGHT PRICES 243 Dulumbayan, Manila |\n| The Heffting House | EUROPE IS THE PLACE FOR BATTLES AND MANILA IS THE PLACE FOR JOY. Remember that a live policeman is better than a dead soldier any day. Cheer up and be happy. COME OUT TO THE HEFFTING HOUSE, PASAY, and join the crowd of good fellows. The best of everything in the line of food and drinks. CHARLES HEFFTING, Prop. |\n| Columbia Records | The Constabulary Band Has Gone... But you can Still Hear Them Play Your Favorite Selections on Columbia Records. BECK'S, Escolta |",
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        "content_text": "11006 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\n\nArts & Crafts Limited.\n\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\n\nAstor House Hotel Company.\n\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\n\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\n\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\n\nAustralian Produce Company.\n\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai. Azaidian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\n\nBakels & Co.\n\nBaldwin, C. C.\n\nBanbam, F. C.\n\nBanker & Co.\n\nBin Lam Drug Stores.\n\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger. Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\nBanque industrielle de Chine. Bansuiken, Shanghai.\n\nBarkley Company.\n\nBarlow & Co.\n\nBarrett, E. G.\n\nBarry & Co., B. M.\n\nBathgate & Co.\n\nBatu Anam Rubber Company. Beck, I.\n\nBeck, M. G.\n\nBelgian Brick Factory. Tien-tsin.\n\nBelgian Trading Company.\n\nBell, D. W.\n\nBell, H. F. L.\n\nBen Albert & Co.\n\nBenjamin and Potts.\n\nBeque, Henri.\n\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\n\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\n\nBlack, J. F.\n\nBlake & Sons, F. A.\n\nBlancke, Charles.\n\nBo Won, Canton,\n\nBona, F.\n\nBouchard.\n\nBourgery, C.\n\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\n\nBoyd & Co.\n\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\n\nBoyes, Basset, & Co.\n\nBradford Dyers' Association.\n\nBradley & Co. Limited.\n\nBrand Brothers & Co.\n\nBrand, H. S., & Co.\n\nBrandt, A. L.\n\nBrandt & Co.\n\nBrandt & Rogers.\n\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Dre.\n\nBrewer & Co. Limited. Bridges, H.\n\nBritish American Tobacco Company.\n\nBritish and Asiatic Company.\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\n\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\n\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\n\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society,\n\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company. British Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung).\n\nBrockett & Co.\n\nBrockett, E., & Co.\n\nBrook, E., & Co.\n\nBrossay, René,\n\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\n\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company. Bryant & Ryde.\n\nBulin & Co., Hankow.\n\nBurin Yoko.\n\nBurkhardt, L. R.\n\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\n\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co. Burtenshaw & Co.\n\nButler, A.\n\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co. Caissial.\n\nCaldbeck, MacGregor. Calder, Marshall, & Co. Calico Printers' Association. Camera Craft Company. Campbell, Alex., & Co. Canadian Commissioner.\n\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press. Canadian Pacific.\n\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsay, T., & Co. Castellano.\n\nCathay Trust.\n\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils. Catanneo.\n\nCawasjee Palanjee, Shanghai. Cement Tile Works Limited.\n\nCentral Agency Limited.\n\nCentral China Dispensary.\n\nCentral China Import Company. Central China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\n\nCentral Garage Limited.\n\nCentral Stores Limited.\n\nCentral Trading Company.\n\nCercle sportif français.\n\nChang Dah Yuen.\n\nChang, T. S,\n\nChapeaux.\n\nCharrey.\n\nCharrey et Conversy.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\n\nChauvin, Mme.\n\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\n\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited. Chempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\n\nCheng Rubber Estate.\n\nChic Parisien.\n\nChin Ho Hsiang.\n\nChina Agenta Company.\n\nChina American Lumber Company.\n\nChina American Trading Company.\n\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\n\nChina Engineering Company.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\n\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\n\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\n\nChina Inland Mission.\n\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\n\nChina Land & Building Company Limited. China Land & Finance Company Limited. China Merchants Ponges Association. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. China Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\n\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company. China National Life Assurance.\n\nChina Navigation Company.\n\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited. China Strawbraid Export Company,\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915. 11007\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\n\nChina Times Limited.\n\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\n\nChina Trading Company.\n\nChinese American Company,\n\nChiness Electric Light & Power Company.\n\nChinese Optical Company..\n\nChinese Railways (all).\n\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\n\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Shanghai, Chefoo.\n\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\n\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\n\nChing Kee, Amoy.\n\nChinson Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\n\nChuan Chang.\n\nChun Shing.\n\nChun Sing, Shanghai.\n\nChung Fall & Co., Chefoo.\n\nChung Heva Book Company, Shanghai.\n\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\n\nChurch Missionary Mission.\n\nCoghlan, H. H.\n\nCohen, Andre.\n\nCollina & Co.\n\nCombfort.\n\nCommercial Press Limited.\n\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\n\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\n\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\n\nCompagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\n\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes. Comptoir commercial auversois.\n\nConnell Brothers.\n\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited. Cook & Anderson.\n\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\n\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co. Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\nCossanteli & Co.\n\nCox, W. Wakeford.\n\nCozzi, E. Hankow.\n\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\n\nCrofts & Co., George. Cros, Paul.\n\nCrossfeld & Sons Limited. Crystal Limited. Culpeck, E. A.\n\nCurtis Brothers.\n\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\n\nDah Lung & Co..\n\nDah Sung & Co.\n\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai. Dai Nippon Brewery Company. Daishin & Co., Shanghai,\n\nDallas Livery Stable Company, Danese, E., Hankow. D'Arc, G. L.\n\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\n\nDavid & Co.\n\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\n\nDavies & Brooke.\n\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\n\nDavis, W. Trenchard,\n\nDeacon & Co.\n\nDeane, T. P.\n\nDebenham & Co. Denham & Rose.\n\nDenniston & Sullivan. Dent, A., & Co.\n\nDent, Herbert. Dieden & Co.\n\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\n\nDodwell & Co. Limited. Dollar Robert Company. Dombey & Son,\n\nDominion Express Company. Donnelly & Whyte.\n\nDowdall, W. M.\n\nDrakeford & Co.\n\nDuncan & Co.\n\nDunlop Rubber Company.\n\nDunn, Walter.\n\nDuplessis.\n\nDutch Colonial Trading Company,\n\nDutton, W., & Co.\n\nDyce & Co.\n\nDzing Nye Haing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\n\nEast Asiatic Company.\n\nEastern & Australiau Steamship Company.\n\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\n\nEastern Trading Company.\n\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\n\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\n\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\n\nEnergie électrique,\n\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited. Enticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited). Equitable Life Assurance Society. Erasmic Company.\n\nEstablishments de Tongkou.\n\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Construction Mécaniques.\n\nEvans, A. M. A.\n\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\n\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\n\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\n\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\n\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\n\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\n\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\n\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\n\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\n\nEzra, Y., & Co.\n\nFa Hsiang, Tien-tsin.\n\nFairchild, F. A.\n\nFukul & Co., Shanghai.\n\nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment.\n\nFarley, W. A.\n\nFarmer, F. D., & Co.\n\nFearon, Daniel, & Co.\n\nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada.\n\nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue.\n\nFerretti.\n\nFindlay, Richardson, & Co. Firth, W., & Sons. Fobes & Co.\n\nFoo Tai Company, Hankow, Forbes & Co., William. Foster, McClellan, & Co. Frankau & Co. Limited, A. Frazar & Co.\n\nFrench Bakery,\n\nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tsin.\n\nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores).\n\nFujita & Co., Mukden.\n\nFukien Drug Company.\n\nFung Tang, Shanghai.\n\nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai. Futcher, J. W.\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co.\n\nGadai Yoko.\n\n301",
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        "content_text": "## \n17. MR. W. A. DOWLEY, \nGeneral Manager of the Vacuum Oil Co.\n\n18. MR. T. E. PEARCE, \nof Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co., Merchants and Commission Agents—also established at Shanghai.\n\n19. MR. C. S. GUBBAY, \n(i) Representative of the firm of E. D. Sassoon & Co., Merchants.\n(ii) Director of the said Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.\n(iii) Director of the said Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.\n(iv) Director of the said Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.\n(v) Director of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company, capital $5,000,000.\n(vi) Director of the West Point Building Co., Ltd., capital $625,000.\n\n20. MR. N. S. MARSHALL, \nThe British representative of the International Banking Corporation (American), with a capital of $3,250,000 Gold, and a yet larger Reserve Fund.\n\n21. MR. C. CHAMPKIN, \nActing manager of the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., with a paid-up capital of £562,500 and large Reserve Funds.\n\n22. MR. W. DICKSON, \nManager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, with a paid-up capital of £1,200,000 and large Reserve Funds.\n\n23. MR. HENRY HUMPHREYS, \nHead of Messrs. J. D. Humphreys and Son, who are General Managers of (i) The Peak Tramways Co., capital $750,000.\n(ii) The said Humphreys Estate and Finance Co.\n(iii) A. S. Watson & Co., capital $900,000.\n\n24. MR. P. TESTER, \nManager of the Commercial Union Assurance Co.\n\n25. MR. W. M. HUMPHREYS, \nHead of W. G. Humphreys & Co. Merchants.\n\n26. MR. S. J. CHINCHEN, \nAgent of the North China Insurance Co.; authorized capital £150,000, paid-up £50,000, and large Reserve Funds.\n\n27. MR. M. P. BEATTIE, \nHead of Messrs. W. R. Loxley & Co. Merchants and Commission Agents.\n\n28. MR. A. G. COPPIN, \nManager of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.\n\nTo sum up, the above signatories are connected with the following Companies and Corporations, all of which except Numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, and 32, have their Head Office in Hongkong:\n\n1. Asiatic Petroleum Company.\n2. British American Tobacco Company.\n3. Canadian Pacific Company.\n4. Canton Insurance Office, capital $2,500,000; paid-up $500,000, with large Reserve Funds.\n5. Chartered Bank of India Australia & China; paid-up capital £1,200,000, with large Reserve Funds.\n6. China Fire Insurance Company, capital $2,000,000, paid-up $400,000, with large Reserve Funds.\n7. China Light & Power Company, capital $300,000.\n8. China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, capital $2,000,000.\n9. China Sugar Refining Company, capital $2,000,000.\n10. China Traders Insurance Company, capital $2,000,000, paid-up $600,000.\n11. Commercial Union Insurance Company.\n12. Douglas Steamship Company, capital $1,000,000.\n13. Green Island Cement Company, capital $4,000,000.\n14. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, capital $15,000,000, with large reserve funds.\n15. Hongkong Canton & Macao Steamboat Company, capital $1,300,000.\n16. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, capital $2,000,000, paid-up $400,000, with large Reserve Funds.\n17. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company, capital $3,000,000.\n18. Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, capital $3,000,000.\n19. Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Company, capital $5,000,000.\n20. Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, capital $600,000.\n21. Hongkong Tramway Company, capital £81,250.\n22. Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, capital $1,500,000.\n23. International Banking Corporation, an American Concern with paid-up capital of $3,250,000 Gold and a yet larger Reserve Fund.\n24. Luzon Sugar Refining Company, capital $700,000.\n25. Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.\n26. North China Insurance Company, authorized capital £150,000, paid-up £50,000, with large Reserve Funds.\n27. Peak Tramways Company, capital $750,000.\n28. Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.\n29. South British Insurance Company, subscribed capital £1,000,000, paid-up $300,000.\n30. Union Insurance Society of Canton, capital $3,100,000, paid-up $1,240,000 with large Reserve Funds.\n31. Union Waterboat Company, capital $500,000.\n32. Vacuum Oil Company. An important American concern.\n33. A. S. Watson & Co., Ld., capital $900,000.\n34. West Point Building Company, capital $625,000.",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n## 12814\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\nArts & Crafts Limited.\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\nAster House Hotel Company, Shanghai, Tien-tsin.\nAt Chi, Shanghai.\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\nAustralian Produce Company.\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai.\nAzadian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\nBailey, H. G. C.\nBakels & Co.\nBaldwin, C. C.\nBan Lam Drug Stores, Amoy.\nBanham, F. C.\nBanker & Co.\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBanque industrielle de Chine,\nBansuiken, Shanghai.\nBarkley Company.\nBarlow & Co.\nBarrett, E. G.\nBarry & Co., B. M.\nBathgate & Co.\nBatu Anam Rubber Company.\nBeck, I.\nBeck, M. G.\nBelgian Brick Factory, Tien-tsin.\nBelgian Trading Company,\nBell, D. W.\nBell, H. F. L.\nBen & Co.\nBen Albert & Co.\nBenjamin & Potts.\nBeque, Henri.\nBergman, Edward.\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\nBlack, J. F.\nBlake, F. A., & Sons.\nBlanche, Charles.\nBo Won, Canton.\nBona, F.\nBouchard.\nBourgery, C.\nBow On Drug Company, Canton.\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\nBoyd & Co.\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\nBoyes, Bassett, & Co.\nBradford Dyers' Association.\nBradley & Co. Limited.\nBrand Brothers & Co.\nBrand, H. B., & Co.\nBrandt, A. L.\nBrandt & Co.\nBrandt & Rodgers.\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Drs.\nBrent, A. D.\nBrewer & Co. Limited,\nBridges, H.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company, Limited.\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society.\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company Limited.\nBritish Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung),\nBrockett & Co.\nBrockett, E., & Co.\nBrook, E., & Co.\nBrossay, René.\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company.\nBryant & Ryde.\nBalin & Co., Hankow,\nBurin, Yoko.\nBurkhardt, L. R.\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co.\nBurtenshaw & Co.\nButler, A.\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co.\nCaissial,\nCaldbeck, MacGregor.\nCalder, Marshall, & Co.\nCalico Printers' Association.\nCamera Craft Company.\nCampbell, Alex., & Co.\nCanadian Commissioner.\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press.\nCanadian Pacific Railway Company.\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsey, T., & Co.\nCastellano,\nCathay Trust.\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils.\nCattaneo (Catanneo), Peking.\nCattaneo, P., & Co., Peking.\nCawasjee Pallanjee, Shanghai.\nCement Tile Works Limited.\nCentral Agency Limited.\nCentral China Dispensary.\nCentral China Import Company.\nCentral China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\nCentral Garage Limited.\nCentral Stores Limited.\nCentral Trading Company.\nCercle sportif français.\nChang Dah Yuen.\nChang, T. S.\nChapeaux.\nCharrey,\nCharrey et Conversy.\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\nChauvin, Mme.\nChefoo Hairnet Company.\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited.\nChempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\nCheng Rubber Estate.\nChie Parisien.\nChin Ho Hsiang.\nChina Agents Company.\nChina American Lumber Company.\nChina American Trading Company.\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Engineering Company.\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\nChina Inland Mission.\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\nChina Land & Building Company Limited.\nChina Land & Finance Company Limited.\n\n## 12815\n\nChina Merchants Ponges Association.\nChina Merchants Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company.\nChina National Life Assurance.\nChina Navigation Company.\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited,\nChina Strawbraid Export Company.\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\nChina Times Limited.\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\nChina Trading Company.\nChinese American Company.\nChinese Electric Light & Power Company, Peking.\nChinese & Foreign Dispensary, Amoy.\nChinese Optical Company.\nChinese Railways (all).\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\nChing Chong & Co., Shanghai.\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Chefoo.\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\nChing Siu Tong, Foochow.\nChing Tai & Co., Mukden.\nChitsin Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\nChristiakoff, J.\nChuan Chang, Shanghai.\nChuan Kes & Co., Amoy.\nChujudo & Co., Newchang.\nChuma & Co., Newchang,\nChun Shing, Shanghai.\nChua Sing, Shanghai.\nChung Fah & Co., Chefoo.\nChung Hang Company Dispensary, Canton.\nChung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai.\nChung Mei Drug Company, Canton.\nChung On & Co., Canton.\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\nChurch Missionary Mission.\nCoghlan, H. H.\nCohen, Andre.\nCollins & Co.\nComfort.\nCommercial Press Limited.\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\nCompagnie générale de Chemin de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes.\nComptoir commercial anversois.\nConnell Brothers.\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited.\nCook & Anderson.\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co.\nCorsane, Auderson, & Co. (Hankow Tea Works).\nCosmopolitan Dock.\nCossanteli & Co.\nCox, W. Wakeford.\nCozzi, E., Hankow.\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\nCrofts & Co., George.\nCros, Paul.\nCrossfield & Sons Limited.\nCrystal Limited.\nCulpeck, E. A.\nCurtis Brothers.\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\nDah Lung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai.\nDai Nippon Brewery Company.\nDaishin & Co., Shanghai.\nDallas Livery Stable Company.\nDanese, E., Hankow.\nD'Arc, G. L.\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\nDavid & Co.\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\nDavies & Brooke.\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\nDavis, W. Arthur.\nDavis, W. Trenchard.\nDeacon & Co.\nDeane, T. P.\nDebenham & Co.\nDenham & Rose.\nDenniston & Sullivan.\nDent, A., & Co.\nDeut, Herbert.\nDea Remedios, A. G., Shanghai.\nDieden & Co.\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\nDodwell & Co. Limited.\nDollar Robert Company.\nDombey & Son.\nDominion Express Company.\nDong Sing Wo & Co., Shanghai.\nDonnelly & Whyte.\nDowdall, W. M.\nDowler, Forbes & Co.\nDrakeford & Co.\nDreyfus, Edmond, & Bros.\nDuncan & Co.\nDunlop Rubber Company.\nDunn, Walter.\nDunne, T. E.\nDuplessis.\nDutch Colonial Trading Company.\nDutton, W., & Co.\nDyce & Co.\nDzing Nye Hsing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\nEast Asiatic Company.\nEastern & Australian Steamship Company.\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\nEastern Trading Company.\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\nEmens, W. S., & Co., Ltd.\nEn Ching Low (Nun Cheng Lo), Tien-tsin.\nEnergie électrique.\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited.\nEnticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited).\nEquitable Life Assurance Society.\nErasmic Company.\nEtablissements de Tongkou.\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques.\nEvans, A. M. A.\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\nEveleigh & Co.\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\nEzra, Y., & Co.",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915,\n\n## List of Companies and Individuals\n\nSouth China Trading Co., Canton.\nSouth Manchuria Railway Company,\nSowa, Shanghai.\nSoychee Cotton Spinning Company. Sparke, C. E.\nSpeyer, C.\nSpunt and Rosenfeld,\nStandard Bank of South Africa.\nStandard Life Assurance Company.\nStandard Oil Company.\nStearne, J. C.\nSubira, J. M.\nSullivan, J., & Co.\nSulzer, Rudolph, & Co.\nSun Insurance Office.\nSun Life Assurance of Canada.\nSung Chuan Tien and Co., Shantung. Suzuki & Co., Shanghai.\nSwatow Dispensary.\nSyndicat industriel et commercial.\nSze Hing (Hung) & Co., Chefoo.\n\nTabaquería Filipina.\nTackey, W. M., & Co.\nTai Fu Lim, Dr., Newchang.\nTai On & Co. (The Canton Medical Hall), Canton.\nTaiping Rubber Estates.\nTaiseng & Co., Foochow.\nTait & Co.\nTakata & Co., Shanghai.\nTakkee & Co., Foochow.\nTaku Tug and Lighter Company Limited.\nTalati Brothers, Peking and Tien-tsin,\nTalati & Co., Tien-tsin.\nTallieu, L., & Co.\nTalow Dispensary.\nTannerie franco-chinoise.\nTata, Sons, & Co., Shanghai.\nTaylor & Co.\nTeerathdas, N., Shanghai.\nTel Keo Dispensary, Iankow.\nThe Trading Company, the Successors to Alexis Goobkin, A. Koosenetzoff, & Co,\nTheodore & Rawlins.\nThomas, Adams, & Wood.\nThomas, F., & Co.\nThomson, G. Irwin.\nThoresen, O.\nThunder, C.\nThurier & Kohr, Hankow.\nTibbey, H. M.\nTibesart, J. A.\nTien-tein Bicycle Company, Amoy.\nTien-tsin Club.\nTien-tain Dispensary.\nTien-tain Gas and Electric Light Company. Tien-tein Ironworks Limited.\nTien-tsin Native City Waterworks Limited. Tien-tsin Press Limited.\nTien-tain Soap Manufacturing Company, Tien-tsin Tobacco Company.\nTien-tain Waterworks Company, Limited. Tilley & Limby.\nTimes Dharwar & Co.\nTiram Estates Limited.\nToa & Co.\nToa Koshi, Shanghai.\nToa Tobacco Company, Newchang.\nToh Tiong Hok, Amoy.\nTom, S., Chefoo.\nTong Cheong & Co., Amoy.\nToshado Shiten, Shanghai.\nTowa & Co., Newchang,\nTravers Smith.\nTruman, R. N.\nTschurin, I. I., & Co., Harbin. Toui, Y. Y., Dr., Tien-tsin.\nTsung Tsoon Sing, Amoy, Tsurutani,\nTung, Ho, & Co., Newchang.\nT'ung Hsing (Sino-Foreign Coal-mining Company), Tien-tsin.\nTung Shen Te, Tien-tsin.\nTung, Tai, & Co.\nTung Teh Heug, Chefoo.\nTung Yu Brothers, Shanghai.\nTunkadoo Dock.\nTunkadoo Wharves.\nTurner, E. W.\nTwigg, P. O'Brien.\nTwyford, J., & Co.\nTze Hop Shing, G., & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nUllmann & Co.\nUnderwood Typewriter Company. Union Assurance Company, Limited. Union Commercial Company Limited. Union Insurance Society of Canton. Union Marine Insurance Company. Union Medical College. United States Steel Products.\n\nVacuum Oil Company.\nVan Ess, A., & Co.\nVeroudart.\nVicajee, F., & Co.\nViccajee, II., & Co.\nVickers, Limited.\nVikula Morocoy, Newchang. Villa, A. P., & Brothers. Vrard & Co.\n\nWali Mei Dispensary, Canton. Wah Ming Optical Company. Wah On Company, Canton.\nWalker, Livingstone.\nWang, Y. N., Dr., Tien-tsin and Peking. Wannieck Limited.\nWaste Silk Boiling Company.\nWatson, A. S., & Co. Limited. Watt, J. A. D.\nWattie, J. A., & Co. Limited,\nWatts & Co.\nWeeks & Co. Limited.\nWeihaiwei Land and Building Company. Westminster Tobacco Company.\nWestphal, King, & Ramsay Limited.\nWheelock & Co.\nWheen, Edward, & Sons.\nWhitall & Co. Limited.\nWhite, Brothers.\nWhite, David.\nWhiteway, Laidlaw, & Co.\nWhitfield & Co.\nWhitlam, R. P.\nWhitney, J. C., & Co.\nWhitworth, Herbert Limited.\nWijk & Co.\nWilkinson, Heywood, & Clark.\nWilliams, Dr., Medicine Company.\nWilliams, K. J.\nWilson & Co.\nWisner & Co.\nWisner, P. F., & Co.\nWissotsky & Co.\n\nWong Chuen Yang (British Manufacturers' Agency), Shanghai.\nWong Zung Chong, Shanghai.\nWoo Chong.\nWoo, M. L., Tien-tsin.\nWoods, J.\nWoollen, Vosy, & Co.\n\n## Continued\n\nWorthington Pump Company Limited. Wu Lien Teh, Harbin.\nYamamoto & Co., Tien-tsin. Yan Sun & Co., Ltd., Canton. Yau Shau & Co., Limited, Canton. Yang-tsze Engineering Works, Yang-tsze Insurance Company. Yang-taze Land and Finance Company. Yang-taza Poo Cotton Mill. Yap Eck Liok, Amoy.\n\nYates, T. M.\nYau, K. S., Dr., Peking and Tien-tsin. Yeo, Swee, Swan, & Co., Amoy.\nYik Sang Dispensary, Swatow. Yishin & Co., Mukden. Yoan Siu Dispensary, Swatow. Yokohama Specie Bank. Yorkshire Insurance Company. Yoshida & Co., Shanghai.\n\nYoung Brothers Trust Company. Yu Feng Kung Ssu, Chefoo. Yu Tai.\nYuasa, T., Hankow.\nYuen Cheong and Co., Shanghai. Yuen Tai & Co., Shanghai.\nYung Fong Photo Supply Co., Peking.\n\nZa Chong Shun, Shanghai.\nZundel Emile Manufacturing Company,\n\n## Foreign Office, December 20, 1915,\n\n### SIAM\n\nThe following is a complete list, revised up to date, of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned, under the terms of the Proclamation of the 24th September, 1915:-\n\nThis list is to be regarded as superseding all previous lists.\n\nHis Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, Military, and Naval Officers.\nBritish Missionary Bodies and Missionary Bodies of Neutral and Allied Countries.\n\nAdam, A. H. M., & Co.\nAdamsen, Dr. (See Kak Dispensary). Ab Lee Koh (Yah See), Lampong. Alibhai Chinwala, Bangkok. American Presbyterian Mission Press. Angullia, A., & Sons, Bangkok. Apothecaries' Hall.\n\nArracan Company Limited, Bangkok. Asiatic Petroleum Company Limited. Assumption Printing Press, Bangkok.\n\nBabo, D. K., Bangkok.\nB. A., & Co.\nBad Kam ki Printing Works (Luang Bangkok. Banan, Puket.\nBangkok Dock Company Limited.\nBangkok Manufacturing Company Limited. Bangkok Times Press Limited.\nBangkok United Club.\nBangnon Syndicate, Renong.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBarrow, Brown, & Co.\nBéranger, Malcolm (Maison Béranger). Berli, A., & Co., Bangkok.\nBombay-Burma Trading Corporation Limited, Bangkok.\nBoon Long, Bangkok.\nBoon Mee Dispensary, Bangkok. Borgersen, H, B.\nBorneo Company Limited.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company Limited. British Club.\nBritish Dispensary.\nBuan Soon Lee & Co., Bangkok. Budroodin, F. H., Bangkok.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,\nChinese Mercantile Dispensary, Bangkok. Chino-Siam Daily News.\nChino-Siamese Trading Company. Chotirmall, K. A. T., & Co. Chung Chooe Guan Ah Fook, Bangkok. Couper-Johnston, D., & Co.\n\nDastakoor & Co., Bangkok. Deebook Dredging, Renong. Diana, A., & Co., Bangkok. Dickinson, John, & Co. Diethelm & Co.\nDunlop, John M.\n\nEast Asiatic Company Limited. Eastern Smelting Company, Puket. Edgar Brothers,\nEducational Supply Association. Excelsior Ice Factory.\n\nFraser & Neave Limited. French Dispensary.\n\nGilitwalla, E. E., Bangkok. Goh Vong Chua, Bangkok, Goriawalla, A. H. A., Bangkok. Goriawalla, F. A., Bangkok.\n\nGroundwater, C. L., & Co.\nGulambusan Abdoolkader (Gulam Husain Abdul Kader) (Kader, G. A.), Bangkok.\n\nHabibar, Rehman, Bangkok. Halim & Co., B. A.\nHansen, Dr. C. (Lotus Dispensary),\nHarp, Heng, Long & Co.\nHarp Vour, Long, & Co.\nHock Chuan & Co., Bangkok.\nHoh Leng Dispensary, Bangkok.\nHong Ching, Bangkok.\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nHoosain, A. G., Bangkok.\nHoosain, Akbar, & Sons, Bangkok.\nHoosain, E. A., Bangkok..\nHotchand, Vichindas, & Co. Bangkok.\n\nIkezaki, K., & Co., Bangkok.\nInternational Store.\n\nJawarad Dispensary.\n\nJoo Hoa Lee, Bangkok.\n\nKader, G. A. (Gulambusan Abdoolkader).\nKaj Cotermali, & Co., Bangkok. Katib, E. M.\nKatoo Des Book, Renong.\nKatz Brothers Limited.\nKeng Watt, Bangkok. Kerr & Co.\nKho On (Khoon) Seng, Bangkok. Kiam Hoa Heng & Co., Bangkok. Kiam Hoa Seng & Co., Bangkok.",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\nThe Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\nChartered Bank Building, Hongkong, 24th July, 1917.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge with thanks the copy of a memorandum by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs reporting the result of a reference to the District Watchman's Committee, enclosed in your letter of the 4th instant.\n\nMy Committee have read this report and also the copy of a letter from Mr. Chou Shau-son with great interest.\n\nIt may interest you to know that it is not admitted without considerable dissent that the British are not equally ready as their German competitors to endeavour to suit the taste and requirements of the Chinese, but there is practically unanimity in the belief that whatever faults may be found in this direction are the faults of the manufacturer and not the merchant who represents him in China.\n\nThe question of the cheapness of the article is, of course, another matter and one into which the cost of production enters and is again a matter for the manufacturer and not the merchant. Moreover, low prices have been in considerable measure due to State aid and protection of the manufactures in the continental country of production.\n\nThe opinion of the Watch Committee expressed in paragraph 2 of the Honourable Mr. Hallifax's report is difficult to understand both as regards the comparison of the manners of the average British and German merchant and also as to the question of the knowledge of the Chinese language. Mr. Chou Shau-son also makes a great point of the knowledge of Chinese possessed by the Germans.\n\nThe Honourable Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nConstitutional Reform Association of Hongkong.\n\n483\n\nVice-President Hon. Mr. H. B. Pollock, K.C.\n\nCommittee\n\nPresident Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak.\n\nHon. Mr. C. E. Anton.\n\nHon. Mr. R. Shewan.\n\nMr. F. B. L. Bowley.\n\nMr. A. G. Coppin.\n\nMr. A. Forbes.\n\nMr. W. L. Pattenden.\n\nMr. A. S. D. Cousland.\n\nMr. G. Montague Ede.\n\nMr. E. Ormiston.\n\nHon. Treasurer Mr. K.A.M.Williams.\n\nMr. H. Humphreys.\n\nMr. D. Templeton.\n\nMr. C.D. Wilkinson.\n\nMr. J. W. Graham.\n\nMr. C. G. Alabaster.\n\nMr. J. P. Braga.\n\nMr. S. D. Setna.\n\nDr. Forsyth.\n\nMr. A. E. Griffin.\n\nHon. Secretary Mr. J. Bentley.\n\nList of Members,\n\n  \n    A. H. Abbes\n    Hongkong Club.\n  \n  \n    S. T. Aitkins\n    Holt's Wharf, Kowloon.\n  \n  \n    A. A. Alves\n    Union Insurance.\n  \n  \n    G. F. Alves\n    Indo China Bank.\n  \n  \n    H. Alves\n    Indo China Bank.\n  \n  \n    Wm. Anderson\n    6, Des Voeux Road.\n  \n  \n    E. J. Anderson\n    Union Trading Co.\n  \n  \n    Peter Anderson\n    Taikoo Docks.\n  \n  \n    E. Antonio\n    Mercantile Bank.\n  \n  \n    John Arnold\n    Steamboat Co.\n  \n  \n    E. L. Arnold\n    Commercial Union.\n  \n  \n    C. H. Arnot\n    Asiatic Petroleum Co.\n  \n  \n    N. J. Austin\n    Chartered Bank\n  \n  \n    Arthur T. Alves\n    Goddard & Douglas.\n  \n  \n    A. E. S. Anslie\n    Union Insurance.\n  \n  \n    David Austin\n    Lane Crawford & Co.\n  \n  \n    E. F. Aucott\n    Butterfield & Swire\n  \n  \n    E. de W. Abney\n    Jardine Matheson\n  \n  \n    J. Agabeg\n    Lane Crawford & Co.\n  \n  \n    E. Aeger\n    Thomas Cook & Son.\n  \n  \n    A. R. Austin\n    Post Office Building.\n  \n  \n    J. Bentley\n    Taikoo Docks.\n  \n  \n    H. J. Bunje\n    \n  \n  \n    W. L. Barker\n    \n  \n  \n    J. H. Barr\n    Asiatic Petroleum.\n  \n  \n    H. Blason\n    Sai Wan.\n  \n  \n    Wm. Bridge\n    Gas Co.\n  \n  \n    R. L. Bridger\n    Butterfield & Swire.\n  \n  \n    D. K. Blair\n    Butterfield & Swire.\n  \n  \n    A. B. Bryson\n    Lane Crawford & Co.\n  \n  \n    J. W. Backhouse\n    Love, Bingham & Matthews.\n  \n  \n    W. J. Bell\n    Banker & Co.\n  \n  \n    W. S. Bailey\n    Manners & Backhouse.\n  \n  \n    Samuel Baker\n    Asiatic Petroleum Co., Kowloon.\n  \n  \n    J. A. Barradas\n    China Sugar.\n  \n  \n    M.F.D.A. Barradas\n    Union Insurance.\n  \n  \n    F. F. Barretto\n    Dodwell & Co.\n  \n  \n    L. A. Barton\n    Shewan Tomes & Co.\n  \n  \n    J. X. Batalha\n    Butterfield & Swire.\n  \n  \n    \n    W. G. Humphreys & Co.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nCOPY.\n\nSir,\n\nChartered Bank Building,\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHongkong, 28th November, 1917.\n\nI have the honour to enclose for your information copy of a letter which this Chamber is forwarding to the Post Master General, London dealing with the question of British Postal Agencies in China.\n\nMy Committee understand that the Imperial Authorities are considering the withdrawal of these Agencies, and desire to record their emphatic protest against any such action, since not only do the Agencies form a not inconsiderable source of revenue but they are an undoubted protection to British commercial correspondence passing between the Treaty Ports of China and the various parts of the British Empire.\n\nMy Committee hope that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government will support the views set out in this Chamber's letter under cover.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have &c.,\n\nE. A. M. Williams,\n\nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nCOPY.\n\nY900\n\nSir,\n\n383 Chartered Bank Building,\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHongkong, 27th November, 1917.\n\nI have the honour to address you with reference to the British Postal Agencies in China, the consideration of the withdrawal of which this Chamber understands is at present engaging the attention of the Imperial Authorities.\n\nMy Committee desire me most earnestly to urge the importance of the retention of those Agencies until such time as China can undertake an efficient administration of her domestic affairs without the assistance of Foreigners.\n\nMy Committee regard the retention of the Agencies as being vital to British Commerce and equally essential to Imperial interests. The service is regarded as the only inviolate method of communication in, from, or to China.\n\nIn no case, in the opinion of my Committee, should the closing down of the Agencies be considered for one moment, unless all other nations are prepared to make the same concession. In this case, my Committee regard it of the highest importance that if there be Foreign Commissioners at Tientsin, Shanghai and Canton, they should be of either British or French Nationality.\n\nMy Committee have reason to believe that the Japanese will endeavour to force upon China \"Postal Commissioners\" of their own Nationality which, in the opinion of this Chamber, should be resisted at all costs.\n\nThe Post Master General,\n\nLondon.\n\nI am,\n\n(sd.) E. A. W. Williams,\n\nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nand every facility for British goods. In view of the large and growing trade, both outwards and homewards, between the United Kingdom and the Dutch East Indies, there should be sufficient scope for a regular weekly service. Such a facility would have a considerable effect in stimulating British mercantile activity in these islands.\n\nThe operation of the International Shipping Conferences, as they existed prior to the war, should never be resumed. The feeling throughout the islands is that they worked to the detriment of British mercantile interests.\n\nLocal mercantile opinion on the subject is somewhat tersely expressed by the Committee of British Merchants and Bankers in Sourabaya appointed to advise H.M. Consul-General on all questions of enemy trading in Java. They write:--\n\n'The shipping rings should be broken, especially those including enemy and Dutch steamship companies, because they cannot be trusted, and are worked to the detriment of British interests.'\n\nInter-island communications, and connections with Singapore and the Straits, were maintained before the war by the steamers of the Dutch Royal Packet Co. and the N.D.L. Both these lines have rendered valuable services in stimulating the development of minor ports, such as Macassar, Padang, Medan, Palembang, Pontianak, and Bandjermasin. In Section I. of this report, the inauguration of British steamship services to take the place of the suspended German steamers has been strongly advocated. In this connection the partner of a leading British house in Java writes:-\n\n\"The establishment of a British steamship service between Singapore and the Dutch East Indies to take the place of the N.D.L. runs to the remoter and smaller ports in Borneo, Celebes, &c. is worth consideration. It is generally believed that the service did not pay the N.D.L., but as the vessels were small, the loss, if any, was probably not great. A British service would not be likely to be conducted as cheaply as a German one, on account of the higher pay which is given on board British steamers, but the maintenance of such a service would tend to minimise German and raise British commercial prestige in these parts, and on that account the enterprise might be worth subsidising, especially having in view the natural trade development which may reasonably be anticipated. Were such a service established, it would be necessary for British shipping lines in the United Kingdom to grant facilities to shippers by the issue of through bills of lading to the outer ports in the island, say Gorontalo, Ternate, &c., with transhipment at Singapore, care being taken that the rate of freight would be of such a competitive nature as would encourage the British shippers to patronise the British line. At present considerable quantities of European goods find their way to far outports from Sourabaya.\"\n\nCustoms Tariff-The Customs Tariff of the Netherlands Indies is a low tariff imposed for revenue purposes, and all nations, including Holland, the mother country, are subjected to exactly the same treatment. Free trade does not exist between Holland and any of the Dutch Colonies.\n\nArticles of food and raw materials are free, and the duties on manufactured goods average 6 per cent. ad valorem. The following are the rates on a few of the more important classes of articles :-\n\n  \n    Tissues and stuffs of cotton, wool and silk\n    6 per cent.\n  \n  \n    All yarns\n    Free.\n  \n  \n    Small wares\n    6 per cent.\n  \n  \n    Iron, steel, and machinery\n    Free.\n  \n\nFinancial Facilities. Branches of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation are established at Batavia, Sourabaya, and also in Sumatra, whilst numerous strong Dutch banks operate throughout the islands. The principal of these are the Netherlands Trading Society and the Javasche Bank. The facilities received are quite adequate to the requirements of the ordinary trade in imports and exports and the general agency business. Much more liberal facilities, however, are required in the case of large engineering contracts, the payment on which is frequently deferred until the execution of the contract. In most cases, inasmuch as the work is usually supplied to either the Government, the railways, or reliable estate companies, the security is excellent and the risk small. A British engineer in Java writes:-\n\n\"The usual payments here are three instalments, but in many cases we have been asked to deliver part of the work, and wait until the following year\n\n23\n\nfor our first payment. This has occurred here during the last two weeks; the Government requested us to obtain materials, and stipulated that no payment would be made until January 1917. It thus becomes quite impossible for a small firm to enter into such contracts without the steady backing of a bank.'\n\nBritish engineering interests have been seriously handicapped by the fact that the British Eastern banks have strongly opposed the financing of large contracts over terms of one, two, or three years. The reason for this attitude is plain. The banks are primarily interested in exchange, and wish to turn over their funds rapidly in the purchase and sale of comparatively short-term bills of three to six months sight. The fact remains, however, that further facilities are needed, and if the British banks on the spot decline to reconsider their attitude, this would apparently be a case for action on the part of a State Credit Institution such as is outlined in Lord Faringdon's report.\n\nThere is no doubt whatever that young active business men in the Far East, who start in business on their own account with slender resources, do not receive that paternal help and encouragement from the British banks that is accorded by the German banks to their nationals under similar circumstances. The numbers of energetic British assistants who have opened their own houses in the Netherlands Indies and in the Far East generally during the past decade are alarmingly few. The right men are available, possessed of the requisite ability and the enterprise, but no encouragement is given to them either by their Government or by their banks, and I am convinced that this is one of the greatest handicaps under which British trade in these countries is suffering. It is admitted that there were not sufficient active, steady, and enterprising British houses in the East to cope with the rapid advance of trade during the past few years; still less will they be able to carry out to a successful conclusion that policy of British economic expansion which will be urgently required after the war in order to find markets for the increased production in the United Kingdom. In the national interest it is essential that facilities be given to young Britons of good character, energy and experience to launch out on their own account, and follow the example of those pioneers of British trade in the early days of commercial intercourse in the Far East, whose efforts were the foundation of the great trading companies of to-day.\n\nLocal Taxation. British houses in Java with their head offices in Great Britain have always been handicapped through a double incidence of taxation; that is, they were obliged to pay income tax to the Dutch Government on their profits earned in the Dutch East Indies, and to the British Government on both their home and also their foreign profits. The result has been that some originally British houses have registered as Dutch firms, and have relegated their home offices to the position of mere buying agencies. Many public-spirited firms do not care to do this, but at the same time they wish to draw attention to the relative disadvantage in which they are placed vis-à-vis their Dutch competitors.\n\nThe situation has become much more serious since the outbreak of war. High taxation in Great Britain together with the surrender of excess profits to H.M. Government bearing very heavily indeed on those houses with headquarters in the United Kingdom. Whereas the Dutch manufacturers and merchants are making the same profits as their British rivals, the latter are paying out a considerable proportion in taxation, and the Dutch are building up their reserves and consolidating their position. The relative position of British and Dutch merchants in the Netherlands Indies will be appreciably altered after the war to the disadvantage of the former.\n\nBritish Chambers of Commerce.-British Chambers of Commerce do not exist in the Netherlands Indies, but, since the war, committees, representative of the merchants and bankers, have been elected in the ports to advise H.M. Consul-General on all questions regarding business in general and enemy trading in particular. These bodies have been found to be most useful institutions, and the Sourabaya Committee makes the following recommendation :-\n\n\"The Advisory Committees should be permanent institutions, appointed by the British merchants locally, and one member should retire annually in rotation, his place to be filled at the annual meeting.\"\n\n0 1\n\n608",
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        "content_text": "I \n\n116 \n\nI was informed by Mr. Holt (April 10th, 1916) that freight rates for British manufactures on the outward run have been kept at as moderate a figure as possible in order not to strangle our export trade, and that they bear favourable comparison with rates on other shipping routes. As an instance of the advances made, he quoted \n\nSteel to Japan :- Before the war, 32s. 6d. ; rate at 10th April 1916, 47s. 6d. Piece goods to China and Japan :-- Before the war, 45s.; rate at 10th April 1916, 65s. \n\nThe companies point out that there will be a considerable shortage of Allied tonnage at the conclusion of the war owing to the number of vessels sunk by the enemy, and the impossibility of replacing tonnage so lost at the present time. Furthermore, steamers have been worked hard, repairs have been reduced to a minimum, and a great amount of docking and repairing will require to be done, while those vessels which have been chartered by the Admiralty will require to be refitted, and so will not be available for commercial work for some considerable time after the conclusion of hostilities. It is generally supposed, therefore, that the position of British companies as regards tonnage will be weaker at the conclusion of the war than before. \n\nOn the other hand Japanese shipping firms will be in a relatively strong position. Japanese ships have suffered less from submarine warfare than British vessels owing to the fact that they have only one regular line passing through the dangerous zones, and that these steamers have for some time avoided the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and have taken the Cape route. The large profits which are being made by Japanese companies during the war are being set aside for new construction, which is being expedited as much as possible. \n\nSuggested Action after the War.-The opinions expressed differ somewhat. Mr. R. D. Holt, M.P., whose opinion as the head of the most important line of freighters to the Far East deserves some consideration, stated that his firm did not desire a subsidy or assistance of any kind, and had no doubt whatever of their ability to maintain their position after the war. He intimated that he thought that the best policy which H.M. Government could follow would be to leave shipowners alone to fight their own battles. He suggested that if an indemnity were imposed on Germany at the end of the war, it might be exacted by taking over the German ships and selling them by auction. In any case he did not consider that German shipping competition would be serious after the war. On the other hand, the P. & O. S.N. Co., Ltd., and the British India S.N. Co., Ltd., which are amalgamated, and directed by a board common to both, make two definite suggestions. They state :- \n\n(1) \"It would seem a reasonable stipulation to be imposed upon the enemy, said to be building commercial tonnage even now, that his ships should be excluded from trading to Allied ports for a certain period after the conclusion of peace. \n\n(2) \n\n\"British shipowners who have lost vessels as the result of submarine warfare, which it cannot be doubted is part of a plan to cripple the commercial interests of this country, should have delivered to them, as part of the compensation, German ships of equivalent tonnage.\" \n\n(b) The Trans-Pacific Lines, \n\nPosition before the War. The principal British lines interested in the trans-Pacific trade before the war were the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, with its fast mail service between Vancouver, Japan and China; the Blue Funnel Line, operating between the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong and Puget Sound ports; and one or two less regular lines, such as the Dodwell Line and the Bank Line. Exceedingly severe competition was experienced from the Japanese companies. The American Pacific Mail Steamship Company secured a large share of the passenger traffic between the Philippines, China, Japan and San Francisco, \n\nThe principal Japanese lines competing were the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, with its service of new, fast passenger and mail steamers between the Philippines, China, Japan and San Francisco. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha maintained services of cargo steamers between Japan and Seattle. \n\nOn the whole, the trade was fairly equally apportioned between the British, Japanese and American companies, and conditions were quite satisfactory. \n\n117 \n\nPosition during the War.-A combination of circumstances have resulted in the temporary acquirement by Japan of almost a monopoly of the trans-Pacific service. \n\nIn 1915 the U.S. Government passed the La Follette Seamen's Bill, according to the terms of which it was laid down that 75 per cent. of the crews of the vessels entering U.S. ports should speak the language of their officers. Inasmuch as the Pacific Mail Company's steamers were largely manned by Oriental crews this measure dealt a serious blow at their position. White crews were too expensive and were difficult to obtain, and so the net result of this enactment was that the principal American line on the Pacific was forced to sell its steamers and retire from the field, Two or three of the larger vessels were purchased by the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, which company at present has the virtual monopoly of the passenger service between the Philippine Islands and the Mother Country. In the autumn of 1916 the Pacific Mail Company made an attempt to revive their service in a tentative way with three small steamers, but they still find that the obstruction of the American labour unions, supported by the provisions of the Seamen's Bill, interfere with successful operation. \n\nThe Canadian Pacific Railway Co. were not able to take immediate advantage of the position, inasmuch as the large new fast Empress liners were acting as auxiliary cruisers. These vessels, however, have now been restored to their owners, and are once more being run in the service, and it is hoped that some of the more valuable American cargo may be transferred to the Vancouver route. \n\nSince the war, the Dutch-Java-China-Pacific-Lijn have inaugurated a direct service between Java and the Philippines and the United States. As they have been able to secure full cargoes from these markets, very little attention appears to have been paid to the China trade. \n\nThe route to New York via the Panama Canal will also compete seriously in the future with the direct trans-Pacific lines to Vancouver, Seattle and San Francisco. The greater part of this trade is at present in the hands of British shipping, but there is no doubt that the Japanese lines are paying special attention to this route. \n\nI am informed that British interests in the Pacific are now nominally represented \n\nby seven steamers as compared with 27 vessels employed by the Japanese. \n\nThere seems to be little doubt that Japanese mercantile shipping is destined to maintain a predominant position in the Pacific. This appears to be part of the political policy of Japan, and no efforts will be spared by the Japanese Government to consolidate and maintain the position recently acquired. Prior to the war, the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, notwithstanding a subsidy of over 266,000l., was run at a loss, and even in 1915, under favourable circumstances, their net earnings were less than the subsidy received by 86,000l.. All the shipbuilding yards in Japan are now engaged in turning out mercantile vessels, and although they have been somewhat hampered since the war in securing fine steel and other materials from Great Britain the output nevertheless has been considerable. \n\nSuggested Action after the War.-The Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at Yokohama makes the following suggestion, in which I entirely concur :- \n\n\"I would urge that, immediately war conditions permit, British shipbuilding yards should be allowed to give preference to the laying down and completion of steamers required for the established trade routes. I have, of course, more especially in view the strengthening of the service between Vancouver and the Orient, where additional tonnage is urgently needed. As it will, however, take some time to build steamers for this purpose, I would, as a temporary measure, suggest using such captured enemy steamers as can be condemned by the Prize Court and can be utilised on the Pacific.\" \n\n(c) The Coasting Trade in the Far East. \n\nThe Straits Settlements, Borneo and Siam.-The coasting trade between Singapore, Siam, and Borneo was before the war practically monopolised by the local steamers of the N.D.L. Since the war, however, a serious attempt has been made by the Straits Shipping Co., backed by the Blue Funnel Line, to capture this trade. Specially constructed steamers have been laid down, and there appears to be little doubt that the traffic will largely remain in British hands after the war, \n\nThe Dutch Islands. The coasting trade among the Dutch islands is virtually monopolised by the Dutch Royal Packet Co., and is likely to remain so after the war. British firms have little opportunity of securing this trade, and so far have refrained from making the attempt. \n\nPage 655\n\nQ 2\n\nPage 660\n\nPage 661\n\n?",
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        "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\n**CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONG KONG, 16th April, 1918**\n\n162\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th Ultimo asking for the co-operation of this Chamber in a scheme to provide a Scholarship Fund for Yunnanese to study at the Hongkong University, I have the honour to inform you for the information of His Excellency the Governor that this Chamber would be prepared to guarantee a sum of $1,000 a year for three years to such an end if the Hongkong Government are prepared to provide an equal sum.\n\nI have etc.,\n(Sd.) A. R. Lowe,\nActg. Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nLUG7477",
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        "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "# HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\n## CHARTERED BANK BUILDING\n### HONG KONG, 22nd July, 1918.\n\nYour letter of the 26th ultimo relating to certain Hongkong Trade Marks jointly owned by British and German Firms, which the British Government propose to sell to the former, including the Goodwill within Hongkong of the Piece-Goods business carried on by the latter, has been considered by my Committee.\n\nI am to state that, in view of the liquidation of all German Firms during the past four years, the value of the Goodwill and Trade Marks can only represent a nominal sum at the present time, but a different state of affairs would undoubtedly have existed had the decision to sell been arrived at during the first year of the war. There is no one in Hongkong who would be able to give other than a guess at the market value now.\n\nIn the past, my Committee have strongly urged the Hongkong Government to decide on this vexed question of the retention or otherwise of German and partly German-owned Trade Marks, and they deprecate any decision, such as the present one, being arrived at without a pronouncement as to the policy in regard to the rest. They, however, are in favour of the policy initiated in this case of allowing jointly owned Trade Marks to be taken over by the British partner, and they consider the remainder should be cancelled.\n\nA. Nisbet, Esq.,  \nRegistrar of Trade Marks,  \nHongkong.\n\netc.,  \n(84.)  \n**A.R. LOWE**  \nActg. Secretary.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE\nChartered Bank Building, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong.\n9th September, 1919.\n\n444\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by my Committee to approach you with regard to Government Notification Nos. 152 and 278 of the 4th April and 399 of the 20th June, 1919.\n\nIt may be said that practically nothing manufactured in this Colony could claim to owe at least 75% of its total value to the labour expended upon it in the Colony and materials produced by the Colony, therefore this British Colony of Hongkong would find itself in the unfortunate position of not being able to enjoy the privileges of Imperial preference.\n\nIt is known to Government that all the materials which form the basis upon which our principal local industries are developed, come from outside the Colony. I am therefore instructed by my Committee to urge upon the Government that it is of the highest importance, indeed of vital importance to the interests of the Colony, that the qualification should be altered so that it will not exclude anything manufactured within the Colony. This would secure for our industries Imperial preference; and would tend to attract new industries and greatly enhance the future prosperity of the Colony.\n\nThe Honourable  \nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\netc., etc.,  \n(sd.) J.A.M. Williams,  \nSecretary.\n\nPage 450  \nPage 451",
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        "document_key": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\n428\n\nTHE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nChartered Bank Building,\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHongkong,\n\n9th December, 1919.\n\nReverting to my letter of the 11th November and your reply of the 15th November, in which you inform me that the Secretary of State had not made any comment on the views expressed in my letter of the 10th January, 1917,\n\nam directed to suggest that the matter be again brought before the Secretary of State in the hope that he has now had sufficient time to formulate an opinion thereon.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(S.) E. A. M. Williams,\n\nSecretary.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce\n\nChartered Bank Building\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n19th June 1919.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nFurther to this Chamber's letter of the 14th ultimo, I have again the honour to address you with reference to the false declaration on a manifest of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha of 9 cases said to contain gas pipes and shafts, whereas the contents were proved to be Hotchkiss guns and stands.\n\nMy Committee, after further consideration of this serious matter, is of opinion that the circumstances are of sufficient Imperial interest to warrant His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government placing the matter before the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with a view to representations being made in Peking and Tokyo.\n\nMy Committee will be glad to learn that His Excellency views the seriousness of this flagrant case of gun-running in the same light as this Chamber, and that action has been taken in the manner indicated.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(signed) B. D. F. Beith,\n\nActing Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]",
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        "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]",
        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nChartered Bank Building,\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHongkong,\n\n7th August, 1920.\n\nSir,\n\nThis Chamber desires to bring to your notice the continued irregular arrival of mails from England which is proving a most serious handicap to the trade of the Port, and to ask the assistance of the Government in remedying this by again making telegraphic representations to His Majesty's Government upon the subject.\n\nFurther it hopes that the Government will make the strongest possible protest against the withdrawal of the mail from the fastest boats that cross the Pacific (the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd.).\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Sd.) P. H. Holyoak,\n\nChairman.\n\nHon. A. G. M. Fletcher, O.B.E.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]",
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        "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]",
        "content_text": "421\n\nWEB.0.00 10 be\n\nFORMED ON OL INT\n\n>\n\nTHE HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nCOPY.\n\nChartered Bank Building,\n\nQueen's Road Central,\n\nHongkong.\n\n22nd September, 1920.\n\nFurther to this Chamber's letter of 7th ult. on the subject of delay to Inward Mails, I have now the honour to enquire if Government is in possession of, or can procure any information regarding the transhipment of the English Mail from the B.I. Negapatam Strait Steamer to the Ben Line steamer \"Benavon\" at Singapore, while the P. & O. \"Kashgar\" was scheduled to leave Singapore for Hongkong a few hours later.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Parr in his address to the Members of the Chamber of Commerce at the last Annual General Meeting said:-\n\n\"The reason why some mails arrive more quickly than others depends largely upon the wait at Singapore for the first most expeditious steamer leaving for Hongkong: that it will be readily understood that the first steamer leaving may not be the quickest, therefore discrimination on the part of the Post Office at Singapore may sometimes be necessary\".\n\nIt would appear therefore this is a case where the Singapore Postal Authorities have discriminated wrongly, for, they must surely have known that the S.S. \"Kashgar\", a reputed fast P. & O. steamer leaving a few hours later must easily overtake the S.S. \"Benavon\", and did in fact overtake it, arriving in this Port a day earlier.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# 495 \n## 18 \n\nThe work of the mercantile firm will still go on but there is room for the direct representation of British firms in China to do the work which is being done by mercantile firms.\" (Applause.) \n\n\"I am very glad to see you approve of that. There need be no antagonism-- there must be co-operation. I do not suggest for one moment that direct representatives should solicit orders-that is not their work. They are not here to do anything else but to explain directly the British products, their excellence, the quality of the material and the superiority of workmanship. Although I am going to talk quite frankly to-day I am not antagonistic to the great firms in China who have done so much in the past, but I think the time has come when something more has to be done if British trade is to maintain the proud position which it holds in China. I have been for the past year associated with the Commission on Railway Technics which was appointed some two years ago by the Ministry of Communications in Peking, and there, of course, I have come into contact with foreign advisers, American, French, Belgian and Japanese. I myself have been British adviser on technical matters and naturally I have come to certain conclusions, and one of those conclusions which I have come to is that during the current year it has been deplorable that British manufacturing firms have not been directly represented in Peking during the sittings of the various conferences which have taken place in connection with railway standardisation.\" (Applause.) \n\nI am glad you approve of those sentiments because it has been forced upon me over and over again, and I am going to England at the present juncture to a considerable extent because I feel so strongly on that point. \n\n## 55 \n\nThe direct representation of British firms in China is essential. If the position of Great Britain as regards trade, particularly in connection with railway matters, is to be maintained, if your success is to continue, the suggestions I have made will have to be adopted. \n\nIf I have succeeded in persuading you of this, I shall look back to this conference and feel glad that I have had an opportunity of meeting you.” \n\nMr. H. E. Arnhold, of Arnhold Brothers and Co. (Limited), said in part: \n\nMr. Johnson's address to us has been one of the most encouraging things I have heard for the last year or two. The merchant in China who has an engineering organisation has always welcomed co-operation with the manufacturers. He has tried to create an interest in the manufacturers in Great Britain, tried hard to make them realise it is a time for spade work to be done. The most discouraging thing that the merchants out here have had to contend with is that the manufacturers at home have taken no interest in China since the great war. If the merchant is to do any good work for engineering in China he has to build up a technical organisation which cannot work to the best results unless it has the support of manufacturers.\" \n\nMr. H. J. Brett, Acting Commercial Counsellor of Legation, Shanghai, said: There is one point which I should like to emphasise, and that is that this expression of opinion on the part of the association is not a mere empty form of words. As far as the Shanghai Chamber is concerned they have already given practical evidence of their feeling on the point, in electing locally three direct representatives of manufacturers to assist them in the engineering sub-committee of the Chamber, which shows that they are only too anxious to co-operate with British manufacturers. \n\n## THE CROWN LEASE QUESTION \n\nIt was unanimously agreed :- \n\n| Resolution |\n| --- |\n| That this conference deplores the prolonged delay in arriving at a satisfactory decision regarding the extension of Crown leases in the British concessions at Canton, Hankow and Tien-tsin, which is seriously affecting British trade interests, and urges His Majesty's Government to effect an early settlement of this important question.\" |\n\nIn moving this resolution, Mr. Fraser, on behalf of the Hankow Chamber, after dealing with the history of the question, and pointing out how, in the early sixties, the British Government obtained grants in perpetuity of the land which now forms the British concession of Hankow and apportioned it into lots of approximately 232 fang each, which were sold at auction at an upset price of 1,000l. per lot, proceeded to explain the terms on which the Government is prepared to renew leases. He said :- \n\nThe prevalent impression of what this document is intended to convey is that the Government by a zone scheme of valuation places an imaginary value on your land. The sum so ascertained they project to 1961 (i.e., the expiration of the lease), when they discount it backwards to the present day at such a rate of interest as may be obtained in first-class Chinese Government securities. Having arrived at that figure they proceed to charge you the annual rental for all time at this same rate of interest on the figure so ascertained. The iniquity of this proposal is at once apparent. Every year you delay in dealing with them for the next forty years makes a large addition in your rent for all time; in other words, this is a coercive scheme and not a straightforward deal. When the meeting of lotholders was held in Hankow there was some suggestion that it would be advisable to attempt to negotiate terms for the renewal of leases with His Majesty's Government, but a little consideration showed that any attempt to negotiate along the lines of the present Government's proposals would be hopeless, so the community and the Hankow Chamber decided first of all to fight this case on its plain merits, that is to say the plain merit of having the Crown leases put on the same basis as those in the concession extension and other concessions without any payment at all.\" \n\nContinuing, Mr. Fraser said: \n\nThe Hankow Chamber made strong representations on this subject, and the purpose of this resolution is to urge upon His Majesty's Government that these representations shall receive immediate, fair and impartial consideration, but above all, immediate consideration, as the present state of uncertainty is having a very prejudicial and depressing effect upon land values in the British concession. \n\nIn seconding the resolution, Mr. Carter, on behalf of the Tien-tsin Chamber, said in part: \n\nThe question of renewal was first brought up by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China some thirteen years ago. As time went on and the term of the leases got shorter it was necessary to take further action. A lease of ninety-nine years is one thing, one of only forty years is quite another matter. The British Government sent out officials to investigate and report. The British Municipal Council in Tien-tsin, as representing the land-renters, held several meetings with the Government's representatives. The subject was discussed at length and the council brought forward arguments why free renewals should be granted. That the arguments were not altogether unreasonable was proved by the fact that they received the sympathetic consideration of one of the Government's representatives who, it is understood, in a minority report, gave it as his opinion that if payment were demanded for renewal of the Crown leases it should only be a small amount, and furthermore, that the resultant sum should not be paid into the Treasury but used in some public way for the benefit of the British community. Unfortunately, these broad-minded views were not followed by the powers that be, and the majority report was adopted which laid it down as a broad principle that renewal would only be granted on payment of the fixed annual sum. We still had hopes, however, that only the value of the land would be considered and building values ignored, the leases not being building leases. \n\nAt a public meeting which was held on the 4th June, 1918, in Tien-tsin, dealing with the amalgamation of the municipal areas, Mr. Ker, in the course of his remarks, stated as follows: The majority report to which I have referred was not very definite on this point, but the conference is strongly of the opinion that as the leases contain no covenant to build or maintain, and in view of all the circumstances, it is most unlikely that the Crown will try and exact a rental for renewal on a basis of value in which buildings are included. In any case we should not dream of saddling the future ratepayers with such a burden, and in my opinion, it is one of the valuable features of the clause as drafted, that it implicitly puts on record the view of the British community in Tien-tsin, of the British consular authorities at Tien-tsin, and of the British Minister in China as to the maximum terms which can fairly be demanded by the Crown for the renewal of the Crown leases.' \n\n## 19",
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        "content_text": "Taramo:-\"CELESTON, LONDON,CHFLANATE.\" MONGKONG, SHANGHAI OR SINBARONE\n\nBM. EO. WESTERN UNION. TELEPHONE\n\nCOOL\n\nAC.\n\nSHAM & MATTHEWS,\n\nCHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS,\n\nC. \"A.\n\nA. S. A\n\nDEKING ROAD,\n\nBLAW BUILDING, ROOM NO. 4, TEN CHURCH STREET, B.C.,\n\nCHARTERED BANK BUILDING.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,\n\n272\n\nHONGKONG.....\n\nSouth December, 1921.\n\n18320-\n\nJohnsen, Stokes\n\nMaster.\n\nMar Street,\n\nWe have carefully perused the various files in\n\nconnection with the resumption by Government on 1st\n\nDecember, 1918, of the Piers and in the above Service, and\n\nthe history of the forcible taking over of a private enter-\n\nprise and the substitution therefor of a monopoly with the\n\nexpressed object benefiting the public.\n\nAs a result of a petition forwarded by your\n\nclients to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a letter\n\ndated 29th October, 1920, was received by you from the Colo-\n\nnial Secretary stating that the Imperial Authorities had ex-\n\npressed the opinion that your clients \"should be paid compensation\n\n.......... for all loss actually incurred by\n\nthem: (i.e. excluding loss in respect of future profits).\"\n\nWe are asked to prepare a statement of claim.\n\nAt the\n\nstart we are handicapped by a confusing ...",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWANTED. Everyone in Hongkong and vicinity to know that Madame Isis, the celebrated English Palmist and Crystal Gazer, is in Hongkong for a short time only, coming direct from India where she has had large success in reading the hands of thousands and also, by her celebrated method of Crystal Gazing, has helped thousands on life's rough pathway. Madame Isis is making moderate charges for consultations whilst in Hong kong, $7.50 for palm and $10 for Crystal Gazing-Room No. 103, King Edward Hotel from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. daily. Take advantage of this opportunity to consult this talented and famous lady.\n\nWANTED.-Young Man, used to office work who is quick in copying names and addresses, and arranging advertising matter for mailing. Give age, experience and salary expected. Address Box No. 787 c/o Hongkong Telegraph.\n\nTO BE LET.\n\nTO LET.-Immediate occupation. A newly-built house on Bowen Road level. large rooms and spacious out-houses. Tennis court and garden. Suitable for Mess or private Boarding house. Apply to:- J. M. NORONHA, CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT Prince's Buildings.\n\nTO LET-FANLING, A New Bungalow situated on Wo Hop Sek. Apply to Tsang Foo! & Co.\n\nLOST.\n\nFox Terrier Bitch all white, except right eye. Answers to the name of \"Spot.\" Reward offered.--J. Mc-Cubbin, Gas Works.\n\nLOST, Young\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE-Wireless or Radio outfits complete; $75, $125 and $175.00 cash with order. Technical knowledge unnecessary. Apply P. O. Box No. 484, or Telephone Central 4306.\n\nFOR SALE-Steam Launch 1st. Class Condition. For full particulars apply Box No. 778 c/o \"Hongkong Telegraph.\"\n\nFOR SALE-An unfurnished. Apply P. O. Box No. 484, or Telephone Central 4306.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,\n\nParticulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 25th day of Sept., 1922, at 3 p.m., at the offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of one Lot of Crown Land at Victoria Road in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nRural Building Lot No. 215.\n\nBoundary Measurements.\n\n  \n    feet.\n    feet.\n    feet.\n    feet.\n  \n  \n    100\n    100\n    150\n    150\n  \n\nUpset Price\n\nTHE FAVOURITE INVENTION OF THOMAS A. EDISON\n\n\"THE PHONOGRAPH WITH A SOUL IS HERE.\n\nTHE EDISON MUSIC STORE 1ST FLOOR, POWELL'S BUILDING.\n\nTHE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.\n\nTHEATRE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAs from the 1st. of October, the hairdressing saloon of Messrs. Campbell Moore and Co., at present situated in the Hongkong Hotel, will be carried on in the premises of the Hongkong Cigar Store, on the corner of Alexandra Building. Whilst thanking our numerous customers for their past support, we beg to solicit the continuance of their patronage.\n\nHongkong, September 20th., 1922.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nROYAL GRAND VAUDEVILLE ENTERTAINMENT.\n\nSaturday, October 7th, at 9.15 p.m. COMEDY, SENTIMENT, MUSIC & MIMICRY, In aid of the Many Charities for Children assisted by the Ministering Children's League.\n\nBOOKING AT MOUTRIES Prices: $2, $1 and 50 Cents.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1911 & 1921 & IN THE MATTER OF BON TON, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION).\n\nVICTORI DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION. \"NANNING FUND\"\n\nA PIANOFORTE RECITAL will be given by MR. ERIC RICE in the BAL ROOM, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, on THURSDAY, 5th OCTOBER, at 9.15 p.m. VOCALIST:-MRS. GANDY Tickets $3. Obtainable From- MRS. SEVERN, GOVERNMENT HOUSE ANDERSON MUSIC CO.. BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.\n\nTHE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY. LIMITED.\n\nTHE Ordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices 20, Des Voeux Road Cen- on Thursday the 5th. of Oct, 1922, at Noon.\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that creditors of the above named Company who have not yet proved their debts are required to do so on or before the 12th, day of October, 1922, or in default thereof they will be excluded from any distribution which may be made before such debts are proved.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that the Share Register and Transfer Books of the Company, will be closed from the 2nd, to the 9th. October, 1922, both days inclusive.\n\nA. R. LOWE. Liquidator.\n\nWarrant for the Interim Dividend can be obtained at the Chartered Bank Building, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.\n\nOffice of the Company, 2 Queen's Building, Hongkong, on and after the 11th. October, next.\n\nBy order of the Board.\n\nR. M. DYER, Chief Manager,\n\nHongkong, 18th. Sept., 1922.\n\nJ. B. LAL,\n\nand\n\nTHE ARLE INDIAN PHYSICIAN FROM SINGAPORE.\n\nis now ready to receive anyone who wishes to be treated for the following diseases, unlimited, Catarrh, Hay Fever, Hemorrhoids, Ear pain. Neuralgia, etc. Running of the Nose, Honestly worth $5 each. Price $3, $2 and $1, at Moutrie's, 3rd. October. See Page 4.\n\nTHE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.\n\nGUARANTEES TO TREAT\n\nThe above diseases in less than 5 MINUTES\n\n$1,000 REWARD\n\nA Reward of $1,000 (one thousand), will be paid to any Doctor who is able to cure the above mentioned diseases within 2 minutes,\n\nAnyone making use of my medicine either by removing my label or substituting his own (Proprietors: W.W. Greener, Ltd.) will not be entitled to the guarantee.\n\nNEEDHAM GUNS\n\nA Hand Made gun of British Manufacture. (Double Barrel 12 bore) The Challenger Model No. 1 £10.10.0 Model No 2........... 12.12.0 Ejector Model No. 8... 16.16.0 Sportsmen are cordially invited to inspect a Sample Model on show at The Hongkong Sporting Arms and Ammunition Store 5 & 6 Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\nJ. V. Needham, BIRMINGHAM\n\nThe Transfer Books, of the Company will be closed from the 22nd of September to 5th. of October both days inclusive.\n\nDOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, 14th. Sept., 1922.\n\nBRAZILIAN CAFE,\n\nA New Cafe, under the above title, has been opened at No. 37. Peking Road, Kowloon, (near the Star Theatre).\n\nAll kinds of hot and cold drinks, confectionery, ice creams, cigars and cigarettes supplied. A cargo of conserves has just been received from Portugal.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTIONS.\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Saturday, the 23rd. Sept.. 1922, commencing at 11 a.m. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, Sundry Valuable Household Furniture And One Cycle Terms: Cash on delivery.\n\nLAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Monday, the 25th. Sept., 1922. commencing at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, A Fine Collection of Postage Stamps including some rare war stamps (Full particulars from catalogue) On view from Friday the 22nd. inst. Terms: Cash on delivery.\n\nLAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Wednesday,the 27th. Sept., 1922, commencing at 11 am. at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, 57 cases Whisky 19 cases Port Wine 13 cases Sparkling Muscatel Also Dutch Liqueur Gin. Claret, Brandy, Kummel, Vermouth, Liqueur, White Wine, etc., etc. And A few cases of Golden State Champagne Terms: Cash on delivery.\n\nLAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Friday, the 20th. Sept., 1923 commenting at 11 a.m. at No. 1 Godown (lower) of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon, (For account of the concerned) 800 Boxes each 112 sheets Tin Plates, 14 × 20* At No. 23 Godown (lower) 28 drums Silicate of Soda At No. 25 Godown (lower) 5 drums Caustic Soda Terms: Cash on delivery.\n\nLAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers,\n\nThe Management has made arrangements for breakfast to be served in the morning from 10 am at a charge of $12 per month.\n\nS. E. WALDMAN, Proprietor.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nHAVING resigned from my position as Manager of the Export Department of the Union Trading Company Limited, the\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on Friday the 29th. Sept., 1922 at 12 o'clock (noon) At Hon Shan Godown, Shek Tong Tsui (for account of the concerned) 500 Boxes each 112 sheets Pin-plates, 14 20 7 Terms: Cash on delivery\n\nLAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers.\n\nPower of Attorney given me by the firm to sign its name will be invalid as from this date, the same having been returned by me to the Company for revocation.\n\nJ. C. BARRETTO. Hongkong, 21st. Sept., 1922,\n\nThe Kwong Wing Co., Ltd. S. S. Tai Ming, Friday, 22nd inst Regular service to Wnebow splendid 1st Class Passenger Accommodation. 25, Des Voeux Rd. W., 'Phone Central 893\n\nMee Wah Knitting Co. 518, Causeway Bay. Phone Central 1301. Manufacturers of Socks, Singlets, Sweaters and Underwear. YEUNG PO KWAN, President.\n\nTHE SAI HING S. S. Co. 23. Connaught Road, W. CANTON-WUCHOW LINE. S. S. NANNING S. S. \"SAINAN Munday, Wednesday, Friday. HONGKONG-WUCHOW LINE.\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street (For account of the concerned) The Steamship \"CHOYSANG \" (with all gear and equipment, as she now lies on Fort Island (near Swatow) Terms: Cash on fall of hammer when steamer will be at purchaser's risk and account. Buyers will be required to furnish an undertaking that vessel will be broken up. For further particulars apply to LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.\n\nNESTLE'S PURE THICK CREAM IS REAL CREAM Delicious with Stewed, Bottled or Tinned Fruits. NESTLE'S Used for Ices, Meringues, and All Made Creams. PACKED IN THREE SIZES 6 OZS, 35 cents per tin. 12 OZS, 45 cents per tin. 80 OZS, $1.50 per tin. SOLD BY ALL STORES in HONGKONG, CANTON & COAST PORTS. BE SURE YOU GET GENUINE\n\nSERVICE DRY CLEANING requires thousands of dollars worth of Apparatus and power driven machinery. Every step of the cleaning process requires exacting care. The result every particle of dirt is removed from the garments. Our pressing machines sterilize garments with dry hot steam and eliminate all chances of infection from germ laden clothing.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY CO. YAUMATI, Tel. Kowloon 32. 4, Beaconsfield Arcade, Tel. Central 1279; 65, Praya East. 11, Canton Road, Kowloon.\n\nAT THE WORLD TO-NIGHT REALART PICTURES presents The story of two young immigrant lovers who came to America to gain their ideals, and nearly lost them in the maze of bewildering new customs and ideas in which they soon found themselves groping. A FASCINATING STORY \"THE LAND OF HOPE\" with ALICE BRADY. Something new and fascinating in Motion Pictures. JUST ARRIVED IN HONGKONG. For a Short Period Only! MADAME ISIS. Celebrated English Palmist and Crystal Gazer.\n\nMADAME Isis is on a World's Tour, arrived from India, where she was consulted, not only by Europeans, but by\n\nENQUIRIES SOLICITED\n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.\n\nThe Steamship \"HAROLD DOLLAR\" having arrived from San Francisco via Ports, on Sept., 22nd. consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, and stored at consignees' risk.\n\nAll broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns until Wednesday, Sept. 27th. at 2.30 p.m. when they will be examined by Messrs. Carmichael and Clarke.\n\nClaims will not be accepted unless cargo is so examined by said Surveyors prior to the above date. All claims must be presented within a month of the steamer's arrival here, after which they will not be recognized. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns. All goods remaining after 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29th., will be subject to rent. No fire insurance whatever will be effected.\n\nConsignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-signature.\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. Agents. Hongkong, Sept. 22nd. 1922.\n\nS. S. “TUNGSHING.\" STRANDED IN SWATOW HARBOUR.\n\nMESSRS. Jardine Matheson Co. Ltd.-General Managers Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., Hongkong, are prepared to receive Tenders for the temporary repair, floating, and delivery of the above steamer\n\nTHE HIN FAT S. S. Co. Hongkong 'Phone Central 1770. Shipping and Insurance Brokers, 'Phone Central 393 No. 107, Wing Lok Street.\n\nKWOK HIN WANG. Proprietor. On Hing Co. 6-19. Hing Lung Street Metal & Hardware Merchants, Electric & General Engineers & Contractors, & 'Phone No. Central 3864 L. F. LAI, General Manager.\n\nThe Far Eastern representative Messrs. W. W. Greener, Ltd. 29, Pall Mall, London, is at present in Hongkong and cordially invited to inspect a few sample models \"Greener Guns now being shown at our store.\n\nThe Hongkong Sporting Arms and Ammunition Store. 5-6, Beaconsfield Arcade. Agents for W. W. Greener, Ltd. Hongkong. all treated with the strictest confidence.\n\nafloat, in the Harbour of Swatow. Hours of consultation 9.30 to 1 and 3.30 to 6.30.\n\nPrices: Lecture by Lines of the Hand... $7.50 Lecture by Crystal Gazing 10.00 KING EDWARD HOTEL, Room 103.\n\nPermits for inspection of vessel as she now lies, will be issued on application to the above.\n\n(Other Advertisements continued on Page 12.)",
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        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nBANKS.\n\n308\n\n9\n\nTO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.\n\nStock Exchange, Sharebrokers' Association.\n\nBenguet Con\n\nDocks, Wharves, Godowns, &c,\n\nH.K. Wharves\n\nK. Looks\n\nS'hai Docks\n\nSHIPPING NEWS\n\nThe following local shipping and mail intelligence has been corrected to noon to-day :—\n\nIkomasan M.\n\nDodwell & Co.\n\nAPC\n\nChina Mail\n\nWai Hing\n\nMBK\n\nC Canton\n\nShanghai\n\nKobe via Moji\n\nManila\n\nShanghai\n\nChinkiang\n\nS. Frisco via S'hai\n\nFort Bayard\n\nMiike\n\nVessel Kwang Lee Poo Lee\n\nSubning Luchow Hopsang\n\nJapan\n\nYuan Hing\n\nHiyodori M.\n\nAgents CMS N Hung Shan D&3\n\nJ N1 * Co.\n\nM Cie=\n\nClearances.\n\nHavre M.\n\nVessel\n\nYuensang\n\nImpending Departures.\n\nMooring\n\nC 46 C 39\n\nCo's Wht Kow. Whf\n\n(Compiled from our Shipping Advertisements.)\n\nAgents\n\nJ M Co. JOJL\n\nE. of Canada\n\nSoudan\n\nGlenade\n\nB&S\n\nB & S\n\nJCJ L\n\nDestination\n\nManila\n\nNorth Point\n\n4 2\n\nCo's Whf. Hachni\n\nASIA BANKING CORPORATION.\n\n(An American Bank for trade with the Far East.)\n\nOwned by a group of American Banks and under the control of the New York State Banking Department and the Federal Reserve Bank,\n\nComplete banking facilities incident to foreign trade. Travellers Checks of the American Bankers' Association and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, negotiable throughout the world, for Sale and Encashment with us.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\nNew York\n\nBRANCH: San Francisco,\n\nHEAD OFFICE FOR THE ORIENT:\n\nShanghai\n\nBRANCHES\n\nHankow\n\nTHE CHINA SPECIE BANK LTD.\n\nIrd Sept.\n\nHEAD OFFICE\n\nManila Singapore\n\nD. M. BIGGAR,\n\nManager.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nBANKS\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG Paid-up Capital Reserve Funds:\n\nSterling... Silver\n\n$20,000,000\n\n£4,500,000 $23,500,000\n\nBearve Llability of Proprievore $28,506,500. JE\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTOR\n\nG. M. Dodwell, Esq.-Chairman, Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang.-Deputy Cba:.\n\nD G. M. Bernard, Eng. Hon, Mr. J. V.D PATA A. M. Bower Smith, Esq. W. L. Pattonden, E G. T. M. Editing, Eeq, H.. Whit.\n\nP.H. Holyoak g.\n\nChief Manages:\n\n▲, G. STEPHEN, Bagi\n\nManager: Sunagbel\n\no.\n\n9, H. tim. Reg.\n\nLONDON BANKERS: LONDON COUNTY WESTMINSTON\n\nPARR'S BANK, LIMITED.\n\nCurrent Account opened is Local Carina\") asd Fixed Deposits reaeived for one year 1 shorter periods in Local Currency and Sterling on terme which will be quoted on applicati\n\nHongkong, 20th February, 19224\n\n(Specially authorized by Pres- idential Mandate of the Republic HONGKONG SAVINUS BANY!\n\nSt. George's Building, Hongkong. of China on the 22nd of Novem-\n\nber, 1917.)\n\nChairman of Board of Directors Mr. Wong Shiu Ham Sailing Date Chief Manager... Mr. L. S. Holum Asst. Manager... Mr. K. T. Wong Hongkong Manager.\n\n.K. & S. Bank\n\n£35 paid\n\nb.\n\nBanks. 88216\n\nb.\n\n880\n\nVessels Arrived.\n\nH K. of E. Asia\n\nb.\n\n10212\n\nb.\n\n102\n\nMarine Insurances.\n\nVessel\n\nAgents\n\nFrom\n\nCantone\n\nb.\n\n460\n\nb.\n\n460\n\nMohon\n\nYue Woo\n\nNorth Chinas\n\nn.\n\n$138\n\n140\n\nHelios\n\nKung Chung\n\n\"\n\nUnions\n\nb.\n\n203\n\nb.\n\n204\n\nKwang Lee\n\nCMS N\n\nTorilla\n\nM M Cie\n\nYangtszee\n\nb.\n\n24\n\nb.\n\n23\n\nPres McKinley\n\nAd. Line\n\nFire Insurances.\n\nPersia\n\nMyriam\n\nChina Fires\n\nb.\n\n11514\n\nb.\n\n116\n\nNile\n\nH.K. Fires\n\nb.\n\n435\n\nb.\n\n405\n\nAhpittai\n\nShipping.\n\nDouglases\n\nn.\n\n511⁄2\n\nn.\n\n53\n\nH.K. Steamboats\n\nb.\n\n274\n\nb.\n\n274\n\nIndos (Pref.)\n\nb.\n\n3542\n\n3.\n\n35\n\nWhere Bound\n\nIndo Def. Lon/Reg.\n\n9.\n\n260\n\nCanton\n\nIndo Def. H.K. Reg.\n\n8.\n\n260\n\nS.\n\n260\n\nShelle\n\nb.\n\n91/6\n\nb.\n\n92/-\n\nFort Bayarl Canton\n\nDeparture. 21st Sept. End Sept.\n\nCanton\n\nTientsin\n\nPeking\n\nFerries\n\nb. 371é ga. 38\n\nb.\n\n38\n\nTsingtao via Swator\n\nRefineries.\n\nYokohama vir \"Amoy..\n\nSugars\n\nb.\n\n150\n\nn.\n\n154\n\nYuen Song Bat\n\nCanton\n\nOSK\n\nMalabone\n\nb.\n\n4514\n\n8.\n\n47\n\nYKK\n\nCanton\n\nMining.\n\nYuensang\n\nM & Co.\n\nManila\n\nKailans\n\nb.\n\n64'-\n\nb.\n\n60/-\n\nProsper\n\nFook Fa Cheong\n\nSaigon\n\nPres. McKinley\n\nAd. Line\n\nSeattle via S'hai\n\nLangkata\n\nSoshu M.\n\nOS K\n\nTakao via Swatow\n\nShanghai Loans\n\nu.\n\n$8\n\nb\n\n8\n\nEmp. of Canada\n\nCPS Ltd.\n\nVancouver via S'hai\n\nShai Explorations\n\nRaubs\n\nh.\n\n$1\n\nb.\n\n1\n\nTronohs\n\nTti\n\n29/-\n\nUral Caspians\n\nb.\n\n13/-\n\nb.\n\nP. 2 05\n\n23rd Sept.\n\nTjisalak\n\nJava\n\n23rd\n\nb. 148 sa. 14816\n\nb.\n\n148\n\nLuchow\n\nShanghai\n\n23rd\n\nb. 167% sa. 168\n\nb. 168\n\ns. 169 sa. 1681⁄2\n\nTeiresias\n\nAntwerp\n\n23rd\n\nb. 9216 sa. 94\n\nb.\n\n93\n\nTjiaondari\n\nShanghai\n\n23rd\n\nOPS Ld.\n\nVancouver\n\n23rd\n\nN. Engineeringe\n\n1.\n\n$8\n\nn.\n\n7.90\n\nMr. I. P. Allen Foreign exchange and general banking business transacted.\n\nP&O\n\nBombay\n\n24th\n\nJ21 Co\n\nHamburg\n\n24th\n\nCentrals\n\nb.\n\n151\n\nb.\n\n15244\n\nCheribon M.\n\nNanyo Y K\n\nJapan\n\n24th\n\nH.K. Hotels Old\n\n88.\n\n244\n\nOld b.\n\n242\n\nNingpo\n\nB & S\n\nSaigon\n\n24th\n\nSuaning\n\nB & S\n\nTsingtao\n\n24th\n\nNew\n\nsa.\n\n1934\n\nNew b. sa. 19\n\nHaichirg\n\nD L & Co.\n\nFoochow\n\n24th-\n\ndeposits bear interests at rates 2% 4% and 5% per annum spectively.\n\nre-\n\nH.K. Lands\n\nsa.\n\n236\n\nb.\n\n235\n\nTor.lla\n\nP&O\n\nSingapore\n\n24th\n\nH'phreys Est.\n\nb.\n\n151⁄2\n\nb.\n\n1514\n\nSingapore\n\n24th\n\nColombo\n\n25th\n\nb.\n\n53\n\nb.\n\n50\n\nRD Co.\n\nNew York\n\n25th\n\nb.\n\n200\n\nb.\n\n201\n\nAct. Line\n\nManila\n\n25th\n\nS & B\n\nSurabaya\n\n25th\n\nJapan\n\n25th\n\nCotton Mills.\n\nNew York\n\n25th\n\nEwos\n\nb.\n\n12\n\nh.\n\n12\n\nTientsin\n\noth\n\nOrientale\n\nb.\n\n$612\n\nb.\n\nB & S\n\nHaiphong\n\n25th\n\nS'hai Cottons\n\n1.\n\n112\n\nI\n\n115\n\nNanyo Y K\n\nSourabaya\n\n26th\n\nShangbai\n\n20th\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nJ M Co.\n\nSwatow\n\n26th\n\nCemente\n\nb. 2216 s. sa. 23\n\ns. 22.90/23.10\n\nB & 8\n\nTsingtao\n\n26th\n\nChina Light old\n\nb.\n\n154\n\nb.\n\n154\n\nCity of Lincoln\n\nManchuria\n\n26th\n\nChina Light new\n\nKingyuan\n\nB & 8\n\nBangkok\n\n26th\n\nChina Providente.\n\ns. 28 ga. 2916\n\nS.\n\nDairy Farms\n\nOld b. 28 New b. sa. 22\n\nOld b. 2314\n\n26 New b. 2214\n\nHanyang\n\nB&S\n\nSaigon\n\n20th\n\nA. Capital\n\nFooksang\n\nJA Co.\n\nCalcutta\n\n27th\n\nPaid-up Capital\n\nMingsang\n\nJ M Co.\n\nHoihow\n\n/7th\n\nReserve Fuad\n\nOld n. 221⁄2\n\nNew n. 21\n\nFooksang\n\n11 Co.\n\nCalcutta\n\n27th\n\nElectrics Macao\n\n1,\n\n37\n\nYatshing\n\nJM Co.\n\nShanghai\n\n8th\n\nHongkong Ropes\n\nb.\n\n3516\n\nNā.\n\n35\n\nSzechuen\n\nB & S\n\nShanghai\n\nShanai\n\nB & S\n\nHk. Tramways.\n\nb. sa.\n\n16\n\n5. 1612\n\nShanghai\n\nMatsumoto M\n\nLondon\n\nPeak Trams, old\n\nD.\n\n10\n\nfo\n\nITsifoong\n\nMOB\n\nDo.\n\nnew\n\nb.\n\n1\n\nb.\n\n1\n\nDL & Co.\n\nBAS\n\nFoochow\n\nAmy\n\nSteel Foundries\n\n1214\n\n[1.\n\nWater-boat\n\nb.\n\n174\n\n1714\n\nDjember\n\nWatsons\n\nb.\n\n11.15\n\n11\n\nDjokjakarta Robe\n\nWm. Powelle\n\nb.\n\n20\n\nVossel\n\nAgents\n\nFrom\n\nDue Hongkong\n\nKota-Radja\n\nWisemans\n\nCrawfords\n\nb. 2016 sa. 21\n\n2.\n\n21\n\nSoudan\n\nShanghai\n\nMantua\n\nSingapore\n\n23rd\n\nCanton Ices\n\nb.\n\n732\n\nb.\n\n71⁄2\n\nSanuki M,\n\nKobe\n\n24th\n\nNanyang Tob.\n\n214\n\nRinda\n\nT & Co.\n\nScandinavian ports\n\n35th\n\nb.\n\n1134\n\nTenyo M.\n\nYokohama\n\n26th\n\nSingapore\n\n26th\n\nL & Co.\n\nSingapore\n\n27th\n\nKloon Landa\n\nL. Reclamations\n\nWest Points\n\nLands, Hotels & Buildings.\n\nElectrics H.K. Old b. 2314 New n. 2234\n\nSteam Laundries\n\nSinceres\n\n1214\n\nHongkong, September 22, 1922.\n\nFILIPINO DEFEATS U.S. CHAMPION BOXER.\n\nVilla, Having Beaten Buff,\n\nMay Meet Wilde.\n\nA Brooklyn (New York) mes- sage of the 4th. inst states:- Pancho Villa, of Manila, to-night won the flyweight championship\n\nܩܩ\n\nP&U\n\nAd. Line\n\n634\n\nLinto Sanuki M. MS Dollar P. Jackson\n\nEskridge Mantua Stanley Chipshing Kaifong Samarang M.\n\njrufar\n\nLiangchow\n\nB & S\n\nNY K\n\nJ M Co.\n\nCHINESE LABOUR\n\nMOVEMENT.\n\nA Progressive Programme.\n\nThe secretarial office of the Tientsin Labour Union has filed\n\na petition with Parliament pro- posing that careful consideration\n\nWingsang\n\nIlaihong\n\nKiungchow\n\nFushimi M. Benmohr\n\nBank Line\n\nNYK\n\nIL & Co.\n\nImpending Arrivals.\n\n(Supplied by our Advertisers.)\n\nP&O\n\nP&O\n\nNYK\n\nTKK\n\nNYK\n\nConsignees Diary.\n\n(Compiled from our Advertisements.)\n\nhas to be paid to the safety and 21st Sept. and is due at Shanghai on the 22nd Sept.\n\nof the United States, scoring a protection of the labouring class\n\ntechnical knockout over Johnny the Buff of Jersey City in eleventh round of a scheduled twelve round bout. Buff was helpless and groggy and his sec- onds threw the towel into the ring.\n\nBuff weighed 1114 pounds while Villa tipped the scales at 110 pounds. The knockout came after twenty-seven seconds of fighting in the eleventh round. Villa scored two knockdowns in the tenth round and then began pummeling Buff with both hands. He rushed Buff to the ropes and chased him across the ring. Buff was reeling when Villa landed his left on the head and sent the American bumping to the floor.\n\nAt the start of the eleventh round Buff was defenseless with grogginess. Villa led in the first three rounds and draw blood from Buff's mouth, Buff retiring until the third and fighting in the open with Villa landing most of the damaging blows.\n\n23rd Sept.\n\nAuthor zed Capital..$60,000,000.00 Paid up Capital...... 18,278,600.00 Reserve Funds 9,629,425,24\n\nHEAD OFFICE: PEKING Hongkong Branch: 4 Queen's Road, Central.\n\nBranches and Sub-branches all over China\n\nother parts of the world.\n\nCurrent, Savings, and Fixed and Correspondents in Europe, Americs, and\n\nL. S. HOLUM,\n\nChief Manager. Hongkong, 2nd October. 1920\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL\n\nMAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n(NITHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.)\n\nEstablished 1824,\n\nSpecial Resert......\n\n100.000, Pub £8,333,333\n\n0 0 0 £6.666,666 P1 19 415,200 1,620.433 1:22.650,000 £1,886,533\n\nHead Ofee:—Amsterdam, Branches at\n\nThe Hague Mond Agency :-Batavia, BRANCHES:-\n\nBandjermaỆN\n\nBandoens Bombay Calautia Thenbes\n\nLangua\n\nRotterdam\n\nMaastr Bingapore Medan\n\nNoerahal Soerakarta\n\nPadank Palembang\n\nPekalonga Pensag Pontianak Rangoon\n\nBemarang Shanghai\n\n(Snto) Tebing Ting\n\n(Deli)\n\nTegal Telok Betong Tilletjop Weltevreden\n\nCorrespondents at Colombo. Madras Pond! aberry, Bangkok, Baigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amy Yokohama, Melbourne, Bydney, New York, San Francisão, eta,, etc.\n\nLondon Bankers:-The National Provincial, and Union Bank of England, Limited.\n\nThe Bank bayı and sells and receive for collection Bills of Exchange, isques letters of credit on ts Branches and porrespondente the East, the Continent, in Great Britain, America and Australia and transsets banking business of every description,\n\nW, H, GRONKAMP.\n\nAgent.\n\nBANQUE DB L'INDO-CHINE\n\n(FRENCH BANK.)\n\nHead Omos; 96 Boulevard Hausemaon, Paris,\n\nVessel\n\nAgents\n\nGoods Stored\n\n1 McKinley Harold D\n\nA L\n\nRice.\n\nFree Claims Storage to be Expires in by Kowloon Sept. 27 Oct. 2 Holt's\n\nSept. 29\n\nOct. 21\n\nExamina- tion Date\n\nSept 26 Sept. 27\n\nSteamers' Movements,\n\nEmpress of Russia arrived at Nagasaki on the 21st dept, left Nagasaki on the\n\nTayo M arrived at Yokohama on the 19th inst, and sailed 22nd, inst. for Hono especially the boys and girls lalu and San Francis below 18\n\nof age. years\n\nA memoranduni of ninteen articles has been drafted.\n\nCapital... Renerves\n\nFraude 45,000,000\n\nED,000,000\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nTelegraphic Communications with Wagian and Gap Rock Lises are interkatukog Djibouti\n\nINWARD MAILS.\n\n4\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES.\n\nBengkok\n\nHongkong Battambang Mengta Canton\n\nNoume\n\nHaiphong Tankow\n\nHanoi\n\nPapeeta Prking Ruom-Peab Poodioberry\n\nSaigon Shanghai Singapore *Tientsin Tourane Vladivostock Yunokutu\n\nFrom\n\nPer\n\nDue\n\nTottori M... Soudan\n\n22nd Sept.\n\n...Cor.t\n\nMantua\n\n... 23rd\n\nPros. Jackson Chakiang Sanuki M....\n\n4.23rd\n\n24th\n\n4.24th\n\nShansi...\n\n...25th\n\nSushimi M. Morioka M.\n\n..\n\n...26tli\n\n... ---\n\n...28th\n\nOUTWARD MAILS.\n\nPer\n\nDate\n\nActing Manager. Hongkong, October 21st, 1919.\n\n...Sat., 15 inst., 7.30 a m.\n\nGenerally speaking, it proposes rapted. that necessary protection shall be afforded to the rights of the\n\nin labourers calling meeting freely, in labour unions and con- Straits\n\nShanghai.. cluding contracts and agreements.\n\nLondon 24th Aug. & Parcela, London The working bours shall be fixed Europe via Sue Letters & Papers,\n\n16th Aug.) at eight hours a day but six hours\n\nWhen the regular Canada, U.S.A., Japan't Shanghai in the night. working hours are exceeded over- Shanghai.. time wages shall be paid, but strief Japan limitation shall be applied to the Straits boys and girls under 18 years Japan of age who should only work six hours a day. Moreover, an insur- ance law shall be prepared by\n\nGovernment with\n\nlanoi the Fort Bayard, Hoihow & Haiphong...\n\nthe\n\nN China, Japan. Canada, approval of the Union of the Shanghai\n\nU.S.A.. C. South America, & labourers' unions throughout the\n\nEurope via Vancouver BC. country.\n\nShanghai\n\nAmoy\n\n---\n\nPor\n\ncision over Nick Foley of Brook- Philippine Is.\n\nlyn in eight rounds of the semi- Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius, L. Marques, final bout. Flores floored Foley S. Africa, India via Dhanuakkodi,\n\nAden, Egypt & Brindis for the count of nine in the sixth VILLA RUSHES BUFF. Leading an attack Villa rushed round.\n\nShanghai & N. China Even Joe Lynch, the world's Straits Buff to the ropes in the fourth with a shower of blows and cuffed bantamweight champion, was un-Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius, L. Marques, S. Africa, India via Dbanuskhedi In the able to take every round in his him about the ring.\n\n& Bombay next two rounds Villa started to fight with Buff. as Villa did.\n\nBangkok... The winner, who measure Buff for a knockout but\n\nis only Pakhoi & Haiphong Buff kept clear and maintained eighteen, was practically un-Shanghai & Japan....\n\nHe is Swatow, Amoy & Ke known six months ago. a safe blocking defense.\n\nStraits & Egypt ... Buff showed more action in the now entitled to a try at the world's Java & Port Moresby via Bata next three rounds but Villa con- title held by Jimmy Wilde, and Swatow & Bangkok tinued to advance his command-it is very possible that the two Swatow & Bangkok ing lead and met the American's will soon be matched. The pity Saigon\n\nPhilippine Is. attack with aggressiveness and is that, unlike Villa, the little oihow, Pakho: & Haiphong drove him to the ropes in the Britisher, who has been boxing Philippine Is seventh.\n\nHe\n\nBuff for a number of years, must be watow & Bangkok around the ring in the ninth.\n\nnearing the end of his career. Swatow, Amoy & Foochow The programme was a double Still, if Villa can beat Wilde, it Shanghai & N. China... Filipino victory, Elino Flores of will leave no sort of doubt about Hoihow & Haiphong Manila receiving the judge'e de- his being of class A 1.\n\ntrounced\n\nJ\n\nTientsin\n\nor den\n\nEmp, of Canada. Sat.. 23 ipst..\n\nRegistration 9.15 a.m.\n\nLetters\n\n10 a.m (Due Vancouver B.C. Oct 9.)\n\n...Set., 25 inst., 1.30p.m.\n\nYuensang\n\nP'ersis\n\nLuchow... Sunning Lake Gitano\n\n+\n\nSondan Trong Samnd jade... Mantua\n\nAmakusa M. Tjisalak\n\nTeresias Chaksang\n\nKingyuan\n\nVingro...\n\nPres. Jackson\n\nKaifong...\n\nTH\n\nTaming ...\n\nDrafar ...\n\nHaiching\n\nBANKERS,\n\nIN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Escom!\n\nde Paris; Credit Lyonnais; Banju.\n\nde Paris et des Pays-Ba; Credly ladustrial et Commercial Boicate *Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provincia and\n\nUnion Bank of England Ltd., Comp toir National d'Escompte de Paris: Credit Lyonnal.\n\nIN NEW YORK:\n\n. P. Horgan & Co. Interest allowed op. Current Aconunts and Fixed Deposits socording to arrangement.\n\nEvery description of banking and exchange husiness transacted.\n\nV. MARSOT.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\n...Sat., 23 inst., 1.30 p.m. 25, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong. ...Sat.. 23 inst.. 230 pm.\n\n...Sat., 23 inst., 3pm. ...Sat., 25 18st.\n\n4 p.m.\n\nAuthorised Capital ... $5,000,000\n\nModern banking in all its branches.\n\non\n\n.. Sat. 3 inst., pm. ...Sat 23 inst.. 5 p.m\n\nSat, 23 inst., 5.m Current accounts, saving ac- Sun., 24 inst.. 9 a.m counts and fixed deposits Sun., 24 inst. m. solicited.\n\nLoans granted Sun., 24 inst. 9 a.m. ..Moa., 25 inst, 10 30 a.m\n\napproved security. Mon., 25 inst., 10.30 a.m. Overseas banking a specialty. Mon., 25 inst, 10 50 a.m. INTEREST:-Current Ac- ...Mon, 25 inst.. 1 p.m.\n\ncounts 2; Savings 4; Fixed .Mon., 25 inst., 4.30 p.m\n\n...Mon., 25 inst., 5 p.m. Deposits: 3 months 3: 6 months\n\n.. Mon., 25 inst., 5 pm. 4, One year, 5%. ....... 26 inst., 10 a.m.\n\n---\n\n...Tues., 26 inst.. noon.\n\nLangchow ...Tues., 26 inst, 2.30 p.m. Chipshing ...1ues., 26 inst., 3 p.m.\n\n***\n\n351 BHDg ......Tues., 26 inst., 5 p.m.\n\nSafe Deposit Boxes for Rent.\n\nJ. Y. LUM,\n\nChef Manager.\n\nAsst. Chief Manager.\n\nR. WEUSTHOFF,\n\nLondon Bankers:-The National Provincial\n\nUnica Bank of England, Ltd. The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New York Bankers: The Irving National Bank. The Buitable Trust Company of New Tork.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed\n\nDeposita. Terms on application. Every description of Banking Business trans-\n\nnoted.\n\nLoans granted on approved securities. Special facilities for Home Exobange,\n\nTSUYEE PEI\n\nManager.\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:-\n\nNo. 10 Des Voeux Road Central, Established 1919.\n\nAUTHORIZED CAPITAL-10,809,00%\n\nPAID UP CAPITAL, 1,000 909.00 RESERVI PUND $ 200,000,00\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\nMr. Pong Wal Ting, Chairman. Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Bon, Kr. Kan Ying 20,\n\nMr. Mot Ching Kong. Mr. Wong Yun Tong, Mr. Chen Ching ebek,\n\nMr. Li Koon Chun,\n\nMr. Fung Plug Jbsa, Mr. P. K. Kwok,\n\nMr. Ng Chang Luh.\n\nMr. Huyah Ti\n\nMr. Kas Ühis Nam.\n\nChlef Manager. Mr. Kas Tong Pol Avoi. Manager, Mr. Li Tee Four.\n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES:--\n\nLONDON\n\nNEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO YOKOHAMA\n\nPARIS SHANGHAI\n\nKOBE NAGASAKI\n\nSAICON\n\nBOMBAY\n\nCANTON\n\nThe Business of the above Bark is ooaðsawa by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,\n\nRules may be obtained on applicati; m.\" INTEREST on deposits a allowed Minimum monthly balances at $3 per ann\n\nFor the Hongkong and Buangan Banking Corporation.\n\nA. H. BARLOW, Acting Chief Manager,\n\nPENANO\n\nSINGAPORE\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nHANKOW BATAVIA\n\nMANILA\n\nSOURABAYA\n\nSAMARANC\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nMidland Bank, Ltd.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange\n\nTHE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.\n\nIncorporated by Royal Charter 1\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL\n\nRESERVA FUND\n\nRESERVE LIABILITY OF\n\nPROPRIETORS.\n\n£3.000.00\n\n23,700,000\n\n£3,000,000\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANG】 and General E ing busis es transmeted,\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNT opened and FIXE DEPOSITS received for 1 year or aborter period at rater which will be quoted on appliestirs\n\nJ. L. CROCKATT\n\nManager. Hongkong, 1st January, 1914\n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKON{}}\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Busines Transacted.\n\nINTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS.\n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum For 6 Months 4% per sanuma For 3 Months 3% per annu On Demand 2% per annum\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS\n\n2% per annum on the daily credit balances of over $100.00.\n\nLOOK POON SHAN,\n\nChief Manager\n\nLondon Brokers: The London Jolat Eity and\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LTD\n\nbusiness transacted. Loans granted on approved\n\nsecurities.\n\nERTARLINER 1888)\n\nInterest allowed on Current Deposit Account Capital (fully paid up) - L\n\nst the rate of Two per cent. per annum on Bey- Bererve Fund ings Account Four per cent, per annum, and ʊn\n\nFixed Deposits at the following rates:\n\nFor 3 months at the rate of 3% per annum For months at the rate of 4% per annum For 18 months the rats of 6% per unum\n\nKAN TONG PO,\n\nChief Maungar.\n\nHongkong. Mazob 8th. 1891,\n\nTHE FUTIEN BANK,\n\n21. Connaught Road, Central.\n\nBaratio\n\nBombay\n\n1.100.000.0\n\n1.000.0\n\nBIAD OFFIСИ, ТОКОНАМА,\n\nBranabes and Agenalan\n\nBuenos Ayran Caloutta Changchun\n\nDaizen (Dalny)\n\nEni Yuen Kangroh Kobe\n\nLondoa\n\nLYORK\n\nLos Angeles\n\nManila\n\nFengtien Mukden Nagasaki\n\nHauburg\n\nHankow Honolulu\n\nTokya\n\nHarbin\n\nNagoya Newohwang\n\nRio de Janei\n\nBoeraLay\n\nBagon\n\nBan Fra061 Seattle\n\n@bang\n\nOnska\n\nSing\n\nband Sydacy\n\nNew York\n\nTinivir\n\nPeking\n\nVladivostook Teing:\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts, Depoarte received for Axed period\n\non Approvedbe obtained on application,\n\nGeneral Banking and Exchange Business Transacted, Loans Granted Becurities.\n\nInterest of Fixed Deposits :-\n\nFor 12 months.\n\nFor month.\n\nFor 3 months.\n\nOn Demand\n\n5% per akum.\n\n4% per annum.\n\n3% per aoNUD.\n\n2% per konum,\n\nCurrent Accounts:-\n\n2% per annum on the Daily Credit Balances\n\nof over $100.1\n\nLA CHEN YA, Xansget\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nNo, 6. Des Voeux Road, HONGKONG.\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANS, LIMITED.\n\nT. NISHITAM,\n\nManage\n\nBongsong 11th September 1922.\n\nINTERNATIONAL BANKING\n\nCORPORATION\n\n$10,000,0 C. 5,424,0\n\nCAPITAL AND SURPLUS: UNDIVIDED PROFITS: RESERVE FOR DIVIDENDS: U. 8. j GDB,COR(Owned by the National Oity Bank of New York\n\nELD OFFICE: 69\" Wall Bizant NOW YOKS BRANCHE:\n\nLONDON: 36 Bishopsgat, I d LIONS: Place Tolosa SAN FRANCI800; 232 Montgomery BizIRA CHINA: Canton, Hankow, Hardin, Hongkong\n\nPeking Shanghai, Tremain, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Puerto Pin Bus\n\nPedro de Mooris, Bazobes Santiago Santo Domingo, Barahona, Bas Frame sisco de Macoris,\n\nHead Office-York Building, Chater INDIA: Bombay Calcutta, Bangor,\n\nRoad, Hongkong.\n\nBranches :- Shanghai and Hankow. Correspondents in all commercial centres of BPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid,\n\nChina and abroad,\n\nPrompt Service. Attractive rates for mil kinds of Deposits, Inquiries are welcome,\n\nS. Y. HSUEH,\n\nManager,\n\nTHE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK, LTD.,\n\nBEAD OFF109\n\nAlexandra Pu!ldings, Übater Bond. Deners Beau ag” and Trebango kusiness trenrected.\n\nLone ried or any roved securities. Current Acounte opened sad Pized Deposite\n\nJAPAN: Kobe, Yokunama, JAVA Batavia, Bourabaya, PANAMA: Colon, Panama. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Ceoa, Manila,\n\nSTRAITS SETTLEMENTS: Bingapore,\n\nBRANCHES OF THE NATIONAL GIRY BANK OF NEW YORK. ARGENTINA: Baumos Aires, Monaco, BELGIUM: Antwerp, bruania, BRAZIL: Pernambuco, Purto Alegre, Ric\n\nJaneiro, Ban106, San Paulo. CHILE:_Bantingo, ValparaING,\n\nCCBA Bayana and 29 cition in Outa,\n\nadun INGLAND:\n\nITALY:\n\nPKRU: L\n\nPORTO RICO: Pomos, San Juan,\n\nRUSSIA: Moonw, Petrograd, (temporarily\n\nalored),\n\nURUGUAY: Kotvia\n\nVENEZUELA. Carmona\n\nAll description D. undking braimoas true noted\n\ncurrent and saving Interest allowed accounts and fixed depualle in Jues, es torna\n\nדיי\n\nressived at rater which may be ajedriniaed currencies as rates to be sucertained on spot. Ja\n\nale conducte a Baringe Depart.\n\nog applestina\n\nThe Ban ment\n\nK. C. LAU,\n\nief Manager\n\nLion,\n\nBURG BLG..\n\nManagers\n\nBontons 17cb M. 102,",
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        "content_text": "AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.\n\nBANKING DEPARTMENT: Current Savings and Time Deposits in Local Currency, U.S. Dollars and Pounds Sterling; Issuance of Commercial and Travelers Letters of Credit; Collection of Drafts, Bills, Notes or Deposits Sale of Money Orders, Drafts, Cable and Mail Payments; Foreign Money Bought and Sold; Liberty Bonds Cashed; American Express Company Travellers Cheques.\n\nSHIPPING DEPARTMENT: Forwarding of Import and Export Shipments, Parcels, Baggage, Bullion, and Securities; Freight and Express Consignments in large or small lots between all parts of the world; Marine Insurance; American Express Company Through Bills of Lading.\n\nTRAVEL DEPARTMENT:\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nBANKS.\n\nSHIPPING NEWS\n\nThe following local shipping and mail intelligence has been corrected to noon to-day-\n\nVessel Pres. Wilson Dover M. Indien Kueichow Morioka M.\n\nMylie Kaiping Szechuan Hangsang Laibang Georgii Westfalen\n\nfor\n\nVessel Mohon\n\nReliable information planning trips, Tours or Cruises anywhere; Sale of Steamship, Railway, Sight Seeing Guide Tickets at regular Tariff rates; Baggage Insurance; Hotel Reservations.\n\nA COMPLETE WORLD-WIDE BANKING, SHIPPING AND TRAVEL SERVICE.\n\nDevorongis Yue Ying Wa Shizunka M. Shape Alabama M. Morioka M. Kiungchow Triseng Poolee\n\nYat Shing Kaijo M. Victoria Hangsang Dzufac\n\nVessels Arrived.\n\nAgents Pacific Mail Dodwell John Manners 8 & 8 NYK Moller & Co. Sing Kee B & S JH & Co. Wo Fat Sing Arnhold Bros.\n\nAgents Yue Woo OSK Yuan Seng Fat Chrong Bat NYK B & S OSK NYK B & S J M & Co. Hung Shun J M & Co. OSK\n\nFrom 8. Frisco via Manila Chinwantao Shanghai Canton Taikoo Dock Kow. Whf.\n\nASIA BANKING CORPORATION.\n\n(An American Bank for trade with the Far East.)\n\nOwned by group of American Banks and under the control of the New York State Banking Department and the Federal Reserve Bank.\n\nComplete banking facilities incident to foreign trade. Travellers Checks of the American Bankers' Association and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, negotiable throughout the world, for Sale and Encashment with us.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\nMooring Eow. Whf B 55 ▲ 52 Yokohamaa via Moji Saison C 36 Haiphong via Pukhoi Canton C 39 B. 19 C 35 Calcutta via S'pore Canton Kow. Whf. C 16 Bolt's Whf. Shanghai\n\nBRANCHES Canton Tientsin Hankow Peking Bremen via S'pore\n\nClearances.\n\nVessel\n\nWhere Bound\n\nDeparture. Sept.\n\nTerrane Yokohama vis S'hai Canton Hoihow hi Besttla via Keely Shanghai via Amoy Tacoma via Dairen Calcutta Amoy via Swatow Saigon Fort Bayard \" 6'hai via Swatow 1st Oct. Keelung Melbourne via Sandakan J M & UG. Tongtro via Swatow \" Bangkok via Swatow China Aut.\n\nImpending Departures.\n\n(Compiled from our Shipping Advertisements.)\n\nJ M Co. Destination Tientsin Singapore Sailing Date 1st Oct. let New York\n\nBRANCH: San Francisco. HEAD OFFICE FOR THE ORIENT: THE CHINA SPECIE BANK LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: Manila Singapore D. M. BIGGAR, Manager.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nTHE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG. Paid-up Capital Reserve Funde:- Sterling ... Silver $20,000,00 £4,500,000 $23,500,000\n\nkocezve Limbliday of Proprionezu § 29.800,000.0\n\nDODAT OF DIRECTURE G. M. Dodwall, Eng.-Obama. Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang-Deputy ChairmN. DG. K. Borzard goa, Mr. B. V. D. Parz A. M. Bower Smith, Eng W. L. Pattonden. Be G.T.K. Edkins, B. B. P. Waits. Be P. E. Holyoak . Cute! Manny): A. G. STITHES, Reg Manager: Abazyba! ——9, B. Mun Bes\n\nLONDON BANK: LONDON COUNTY WESTMINATION PARK'S BANK, LIMITED\n\nCurrens aconas opened is Leeal Barret and Fixed Depoaths recorved far on your i borter perioda a Losal Ourrapay and Òsterling na termi which will be quoted on appliest)00\n\nHongkong, 20th February, 1922 (Specially authorized by Pres- idential Mandate of the Republic HONGKONO SAVINGS BANK St. George's Building, Hongkong. of China on the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1917.)\n\nChairman of Board of Directors Mr. Wong Shiu Ham Chief Manager... Mr. L.S. Holum Asst. Manager... Mr. K. T. Wong Hongkong Manager. Mr. I. P. Allen Foreign exchange and general hanking business transacted.\n\nCurrent, Savings, and Fixed deposits bear interests at rates 2% 4% and 5% per annum re- spectively.\n\nL. S. HOLUM.\n\nChief Manager Hongkong, 2nd October. 1920\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n'KITHERLANDE TRADING SQUINTY,)\n\nBablished 1834 100,000, 8,333,333\n\nPaid-up Capital1:19 446,200 £1,620.433 Reserve Fund....... ....................... Spacial Laser F1.22 650,000 21,889,333\n\nHead Offer:—Amsterdam' Branches at The Hague Botterdam - Brad Agency :--Batąpia BRANCHES Pekalongan Tebing Ting RearijeraİD Knokeres Bandoent Bombay Medan Padang Bingapura Boerabal Borzakarta Caloutta Palemban (Boin) Due Hongkong Cheribon Djember Prong (Dell) lot Oct. Djokjakarta Pontiana Int Kobe Rangooz Telok Betong 2nd Rota-Radja Bamarang Tjilatjup Shanghai 2nd örd 7th\n\nVessel Agents Stanley Benmohr Alps Maru Westfalen Free Claims Goods Storage to be Stored Expires In by A L Kowloon Sept. 29 Oct. 24 GL & Co. Kowloon Oct. 4 Oct. 18 Oct 4 OSK Kowloon Oct. 4 Oct, 8 Wed. & Saturday RD Co. Holt' Oct. 6 Oct. 19 Oct. 5\n\nExamina tion Date Sept 28\n\nSteamers' Movements.\n\nLaomedon for London. Rotterdam and Hamburg. left Shanghai ou 27th inst for this port, dne here on 30th p m and will be despatched at 4 pm. un 2nd October Protesilaus from Pacific Porte. arrived at Yokohama 28th instant. Mentor arrived at London on 27th September.\n\n!Ange Weltevreden Correspondents at Colombo, Madras Pondi oberry, Bangkok. Baigon, Haiphong, Hanoi. Amoy, Yokohama, Belbourne, Sydney, New Tork, San Francisco, ets,, ete.\n\nLondon Bankers: The National Provimajai, and Union Bank of England, Limited.\n\nThe Bank bays and sells and receive for collection Bills of Ezcbenge, issum tottera <1 credit on a Branches and correspondents the East, the Continent, in Great Britain. America and Australia and transsets banking business of every description.\n\nW. B, GRONKAMP.\n\nAgent.\n\nBANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE (FRENCH BANK.)\n\nHead Onos: 96 Boulevard Hausamana, Pazin, Ginyo M. arrived at Yokohama on September 20th., and sails October 2nd for Capital - Honolulu, San Francisco and South Americk.\n\nMilan, Sept. 29. A hundred and forty-four bodies of victims have been recover- ed from the Spezzia explosion. More fatalities are feared. The rupted.\n\nInjured total six hundred.\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nHongkong Kengtze Noumes Papeets Peking Paom-Pent Pondicherry\n\nBANKERS.\n\nBhaure Tientsin Tour Do Vladivostook Yuankolo\n\nReserves Frabos 45,000,000 50,000,000\n\nBRANCHEA AND AGENGJES.\n\nBangkok Bairon\n\nTelegraphic Communications with Gap Rock and Waglen Lighthouses are inter-\n\nINWARD MAILS.\n\nambang Djibout! Haiphong Jankow Надоб\n\nFrom Per Duo Haiphong Azay Le Rideau ..30th Sept. Shanghai.. Kanchow ...30th\n\nRESTRICTION OF RUBBER OUTPUT.\n\nLondon, Sept. 29. A supplementary report of the Colonial Office Rubber mittee is to be issued shortly. It is anticipated it will restriction of output in British overses possessions.\n\nEurope via Suez (Letters only, London Shanghai... favour Jupan 31st Aug.) Com-Australia & Manila\n\nLaisang ...30th Taiyuan lat Oct. Suiyang + 2nd Arafura Sicilia President Grant F ... 2nd 3rd\n\nOUTWARD MAILS.\n\nPer\n\nMOORISH BRIGAND SURRENDERS.\n\nSan Sebastian, Sept. 27,\n\nThe Minister for Foreign Affairs announces the surrender of the brigand Raisuli, who has caused considerable trouble for\n\nEurope via Buen (Papers only, London 31st Aug) Canada, U.S.A, Japan & Shanghai\n\nPor Swatow. Amoy & Kestung...\n\nmany years.\n\nIRISH POSTAL STRIKE SETTLED.\n\nLondon, Sept. 29.\n\nThe Irish postal strike, which has been in operation for several weeks, was settled yesterday.\n\nTO KEEP WELL IN\n\nGAMBLING WITH THE DOLE.\n\nTwo men out of number before the Durham\n\nTHE HEAT\n\ndaily regularity\n\nthe charged first importance, and to ensure\n\nCounty magistrates with gaming\n\nja\n\nof\n\nthis Pinkettes are perfection. These gentle little\n\nthe\n\nShanghai, N. China & Dairen Switow & Bangkok | Weikaiwei, Chefno & Tientsin\n\nShanghai & N. China... Saigon Samahur & Wnehow Straits & Egypt ... Japan\n\nSwatow ..\n\n---\n\nPhilippine Is Philippine Is. Shanghai, N. China, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, U.B. A., C. & S. America, & *Europe via San Francisco...\n\n+++\n\nadmitted that they had been swatow, Amoy & Foochow receiving laxatives\n\nunemployment Straits & Calcutta \"dole,\" as well as Poor Law relief Shanghai & N. China. The chairman said it was a dis Haiphong, Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius Marques, S. Africa, grace that people should in this.\n\nIndia via Dhanuskhodi. Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseilles...\n\nPINKETTES\n\nway waste money received from- the Government for the upkeep\n\ndispel constipation, regulate the of themselves and family. In\n\nKaijo M.... Arabia M. Kiangau ... Kueichow Szechnen... Haiyang.. Kochow ... Laomedon\n\nLaisang ... 17th\n\nDate :OCTOBER: -\n\n| IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Emom! de Paris Credit Lyonnais; Banqu de Paris et dra Pays-Bas; Credit Industrial et Commercial Boiacte Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provinais sad Union Bank of England Ltd., Comp toir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais.\n\nIN NEW YORʦ J. P. Bogna 3 M\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposita scuording to arrangement.\n\nEvery description of banking and exchange business transacted\n\n7. MARSOT,\n\nAoking Manager.\n\n...Sun., 1 inst., 9 a m. Hongkong, October 21st, 1918. ...Sun.. 1 inst., 9 a.m ...Sun.. inst., 9am. ...San 1 inst., 9 a.m. ...Sun., 1 inat, 9am. ...Mon., 1 inst., 9 a m. ... Sun.. 1 inst. 10 a.m. .Mon., 2 inst. 10 30 a m\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF\n\n.. Mon., 2 inst.. ? 30 p.m Hydrangos......Man.. 2 inat. 3.30 pm.\n\n......Mon, 2 inst., 5 pm Slavic Prince ...Tues., 3 inst., 9 a m\n\nTyndareos\n\nPresident Wilson... Tnes, Jinat..\n\nRegistration 9.15 a.m. Letters 10 a m (Due San Francisco 25th Oct)\n\n...Tues., 3 inst., noon.\n\n..Tuee, 3 inst\n\n1. PD ...Tuse., 3 inst, 2 p.m\n\nHaifong Kutsang Kanchow\n\n---\n\nAngkor...\n\nliver, cuce bilious attacks, sick future the magistrates thought Bangkok... headaches, bad breath, costed that all similar cases should be\n\nPhilippine Islands Iloilo, Sandakan. tongue, clear the skin of pimples taken under the Vagrancy Act, and blotches. Of chemists, or so that offenders could be sent to post free, 60 cents the vial, trom prison for three months. Fines Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 were imposed ranging from £2 to Szechuen Road, Shanghai. 1£5.\n\n---\n\n..1nen. 3 inat\n\nINDIA, LIMITED.\n\nSend Offna 11, Ornenshurst\n\n#treat. Lozdon, 8. 0 1.\n\nAuthorised (apita) Aubearibed Capital Paid Up Capital Reveres Fund\n\n£3,000,000\n\n-\n\n-\n\n1,000,000 2.860,000 1.150,000\n\nDAVIERS\n\nThe Bank of Haglund The London Jolat City & Midlang Bank, Lad BS.ANCHE:- Bombay Calcutta Colombo Dalbi Galle Яoogkons Howend Kandy\n\nRegistration 145 pm. Port Louis (nurtsins)\n\nLettera 230 pm. (Due Marseilles 7th Nov) Doen Samud...Tues., 3itat, 4.30 pm\n\nKarachil Kota Bhere Kuala Lump Madra New Yorl Perang Kangoon Bbanghe\n\nBingapore HONGKONG BRANCH Every deseription of Banking and brabange business transmoked.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts at 8 per vent per annum on Daily Balanses, and on Fized Deposits at rates which may ba asceptained application.\n\nN. C. WILSON, Aoting pagar,\n\nAustralia & New Zealand via Thura- day Islands\n\nArafura...\n\n---\n\n*Correspondance hearing vansel's name only.\n\n... Wed 4 inst.. Registration 8 15 a.m. Letter's ga.m (Due Thursday Islands 19 Oct.)\n\n1, Queen's Road Central. Hongbong, 17th, January, 1822\n\nAuthorized Capital..$60,000,000.00 Paid up Capital...... 18,278,600.00 Reserve Funds...... 9,629,425.24\n\nHEAD OFFICE PEKING Hongkong Branch: 4 Queen's Road, Central.\n\nBranches and Bub-branches all over China other parts of the world\n\nThe business of the above hana ɔs soudbase by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA! BANKIN CORPORATION.\n\nAndes may be obtained an appurasi-D INTEREST on inwe\n\nCorporation, on th\n\nMinimum monthly balanges at $34 rer aona\n\nFor the Honghong sad wager Barbra\n\nA. H. BARLOW, Acting Chief Manage\n\nand Correspondenta in Kurope, America, and THE CHARTERED BANK OF\n\nINDIA, AUSTRALIA AND\n\nLondos Bankera:-The National Provincial and Calon Bank of England, Ltd The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New Tork Bankers:-The Irving National Banka. The Puitable Trust Company of New Yor]\n\nCHINA.\n\nIzaorporated by Boval Chan 12\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application Evary description of Banking Business traD RESERVE LIABILITY OF\n\nnoted\n\nLosas granted on approved neuritics Special failities for Home Exobangs.\n\nTSUYEE PEI\n\nManager.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL_ RESERVE FUND PROPRIETORE\n\n£1,700,00\n\n43.000.\n\nFOREIGN PICHANG) and Beneral hol\n\ning bugle transacted,\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS +paned and PIN DEPOSITO rapeived for 1 year or sborist person atste which will be quoted on naplisation\n\nJ. LICROCKATT.\n\nManage).\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, Hongkong, 1st January, 1914.\n\nLIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE No. 10 Des Voeux Road Central, Established 1919.\n\nAUTHORISED CAPITAL 1. CAPITAL.\n\n20,908.00% 00\n\nRESERTS FUND) mátti várnak meg§- 300,000.00\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\n2. Pong Way Ting, ChaIEDAS\n\nHOL. Mr. Chow Shan Son. Mr. Kan Ying Pu\n\nM Loon Chua,\n\nMr Fox Play Bhas\n\nMY P. K. Kwok,\n\n*. Thang Linh\n\nMr. Buyab Tal\n\nMr. Mck Ching Kong.\n\nMr. Wong Yun Tong, Mr. Cha Ching dhok, Mr. Kan Obiz Nam.\n\nDale Manager Mr. Kon Tong Pn. Loss. Manager, Mr. Li Tu Pong\n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES:- NEW YORK LONDON PARIS SHANGHAI XOBE NAGASAKI SINGAPOR TIENTSIN MANILA\n\nSAMARANG CALCUTTA SAN FRANCISCO YOKOHAMA SAIGON PENANG HANKOW BATAVIA SOURABAYA BOMBAY CANTON\n\nLinden Backers: ---The London Joins Ühty and Midland Bank, Ltd.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted on approved securities.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Deposit Account at the rate of Two per oost. per annum on Bav Ingi Asanunt Four per deni, por ananu, sad on Fixed Deponiis at the following ratan:-\n\nFor a month at the rate of 3% per annum For montbe at the rate of 4% por ana Foz 10 mostbe the rate of 6% per\n\nIAN TONG PO.\n\nBongbong, Marab Mh. 1991\n\nÜbiof Mangor.\n\nTHE FUTIEN BANK,\n\n2. Connaught Road, Central\n\nGeneral Banking and Exobange Business Transacted, Losas Granted O Approved Becurities\n\nInterest of Fixed Deposits— For 12 months... For\n\nmontbe .....\n\nFor 3 months.\n\n--% per annum,\n\n3% per annum.\n\n2% per aIELD,\n\nUn Demand Current Avvounts :-\n\n2% per annum on the Daily Credit Balakene of over $100, )\n\nLA CHEE YA.\n\nManager\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nNo, 6. Des Voeux Road HONGKONG.\n\nBANK OF CANTON\n\nLIMITED\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANGE D General Banking BURIDAR Transacted.\n\nINTEREST ON PIXEI DEPOSITS.\n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, For 6 Months 4% per annum For 3 Months 3% per annum. 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I D80, 11\n\nCAPITAL AND SURPLUS: CNDIVIDED PROFITS: RESERVE FOR DIVIDENDS: (Owned by the National City Bank of New York)\n\nHOAD OPPION; 60 Wall Stroms. NEW YORK BRANOMES. LONDON: 36 Bishopsgas, L. C. LYONS: 37 Pisos Tolosas BAN FRANCISCO; 232 Montgomery Struer CHINA: Canton, Bankow, Harbin, Hongkong\n\nPeking Bbanghai, TrenseLD, DOMINICAN REPUBLIO: Kurrió Plana Sez Pedro de Macoria, Banobus Baguays Banto Domingo, Karamona, San Fran eino de Mooris Chatar INDIA: Bombay, Calausts, Rangoon\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED\n\nHead Offee-York Building, Boad, Hongkong.\n\nBranches :--\n\nit hanghai and Hankow. Correspondents in all qummerajai denizen\n\n■China and abroad JAPAN: Kobe, Yokohama. BAVA: Batavia, BouraonYN PANAMA: Colon, PanaIDE. PHILIPPINE 18LANDS: Onbu, Malin. of SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid,\n\nSTRAITH SETTLEMENTS : Singapore,\n\nBRANCHEM OF THE NATIONAL STY BANK OF NEW YORK, ARGENTINA: Buenos Altos, koenzie- BELGIUM: Antwerp, brassek,\n\nPrompt Service. Attractive rates för all kinds of DepoHILD, Inquiries are welcoma,\n\nS. Y. HSUEH,\n\nManager.\n\nTHE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK. LTD.,\n\n醬精飓有行账\n\nLO\n\nAlexandra Bulld'ap1. Chster Boad\n\nDozera and Exebunga busimon\n\ntronasutad.\n\n| HEa2kl. Paranobus, form Amen. Bao Janeiro, Bancos, Ban Panic\n\nCHILE: Bantingu, Valparaino\n\nCUBA Bavana sod 22 səsinə in Cuba. ENGLAND: adaa.\n\nITALY:\n\nPERU: L\n\nPORTO 100: Pobus, dan Juna.\n\nRUSSIA: Mosenw, Forzigrad, (emporarily closed).\n\nURUGUAY: Mosterides VENEZULLA. Luznomi\n\nDADZIDO Pinshine tras\n\nAll descriptione di autod. Loans granted on approved suvarities.\n\nInterest allowed on surrent and satis Current Accounts opraad sad Fixed Deposits accounts and fixed deposita in joom va foreigi rseeived a rator which may be assortaimed ourrondins al raïme to be kerurteaned on applièw on application.\n\nThe Ban als conduct a Bavings Depart\n\nmeni.\n\nC. LAD. 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        "content_text": "động trong \n\n1922 \n\nVOL. 5 \n\n(185377) WI 177214/48 2,000 12/32 H. J. R & L, Ld Gp113 \n\nFROM \n\nDATE \n\n1 \n\nHow \n\nHome Office \n\nTO \n\nIndia Office \n\nmedical adviser. Berliament Houses & Fade-Board d \n\n4 \n\nBreasury. \n\nAsan Office \n\n# \n\nag- \n\n15226 Intl Opium Convention. \n\nN \n\n2. Open traffic. \n\n121 \n\nSUBJECT \n\nOffic dia ffice' \n\n4.5. Moses. Cert of Naturalisation \n\nMay Police Supervision Ordinance. \n\n15 Aug Opium traffic in the Colonies \n\n30 Nov. Open traffic \n\n18 Apr. Opinion pottery of Govt of India \n\n13 Nov Deportation Ordinance. \n\n18 Cfl 15. French. mud. Report \n\n24 May. Mui Tsai system. \n\n31 Mar Life saving appliances \n\n3 Aug. 19.7. Piggott. \n\n14 Dec Bankruptes. \n\n\"Jan H Hong+ Shanghai Bank Aminat. Ordinance \n\n16 Mar Building to accommodate caduto at Canton \n\n•May Seamen's strike \n\n24 \n\nProceeds of sale of ube \n\n14 Jun Chartered Bk. of India: Reallocation of Note Icons \n\n18 Oct. Strike political situation on J. China. \n\n22 A \n\nMap of H.1 Ting. \n\n# \n\n31 Jul military lands. \n\n14 \n\nMiscellaneous taneous offices. \n\nSanti Slavery Soc. clearing office Ad of Education Colonial office. An Ministry Colonial office \n\n22 Aug. Strike at H. Kong. \n\n16 Nov War Dept land at Victoria Harbour Hongkong \n\n9 Jan Mui Tsai \n\nMui Tsai system \n\nEnemy debto \n\nJunan master. \n\n11 Feb. med. School of H.H. Univ. Endowment by \n\n# \n\nProposed flight. \n\n22 \n\nCo Rookfelli Onor \n\nround the world \n\nMur Isai system. \n\nBoxer Indemnity",
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        "content_text": "Day wi\n\nL\n\n#\n\nJ.T. Holman\n\nSt.John's Cathedral,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nG. Elliott Manager,\n\nCommercial Union\n\nInsurance Co. Hong Kong.\n\nD. L. V. Virrimand\n\nc/o Inuwman & Co.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nS. Humphreys\n\nP.N. Baylis\n\nFraser Forbes\n\nAlfred Davis\n\nB. Marmy\n\nS.V. Drittan\n\nc/o B.D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nF. H. Hoggak,\n\nManaging Partner,\n\nReiss and Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nJ. C. Jenkin,\n\nSupreme Court, Hong Kong\n\nH. B. Derhiggis,\n\nPrincipal,\n\nStewart & Co., Hong Kong\n\nJ.Hawker,\n\nWalter Sask Tomes and Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nD.H.Flake.\n\nW. G. Roberts.\n\nJ. D. Denby.\n\nJ. M. Hooper.\n\nB. D. Crawford Morgan,\n\nManager, Carters Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nG.E.Wetton,\n\nManager, H. Spott and Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nN.C. Jantern\n\nH. White Stevens,\n\nHong Kong Glue\n\nC. Strafford\n\nJ.W. Rosser\n\nc/o P.& O. Co., Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nA. H. Lang\n\nJ. Brister.\n\nc/o Reiss & Co., Hong Kong.\n\nCharles V. Mart.\n\nH. Balsam\n\nUnion Building, Hong Kong.\n\nT.W. Hin\n\nDirector, Bradley & Co.\n\nHong Kong\n\nE. J. Booth\n\nH. H. Benson\n\nEdmund A. Ram\n\nc/o Dennis, Ram & Gibbs,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nA. li. Cross.\n\nC.H. Blason,\n\nA.\n\nc/o Butterfield and Swire,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nStark,\n\nc/o Harry Picking and Co.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nT. S. Corrison.\n\nD. M. Murray.\n\nD. De B. Nurcombe,\n\nc/o Chartered Bank of India,\n\nAustralia and China,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nVincent Sorby.\n\nGeo. Grindle.\n\nC.T.Rose.\n\nMichael H.Turner,\n\nc/o Descon, Looker, Deakin and Harston, Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 1925\n\n### NEW ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n**HONGKONG HOTEL**\n\nCOMMENCING on MONDAY NEXT, the 13TH JULY, 1925, \n\n| Meal | Time |\n| --- | --- |\n| BREAKFAST | 8.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. |\n| TIFFIN | 12.30 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. |\n| DINNER | 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm. |\n\n2410\n\n**THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED**\n\n9th July, 1925.\n\n### INTIMATIONS\n\n**HAROLD WALLACE PETLEY (DECEASED)**\n\nPERSONS having Claims against the Estate are Requested to forward particulars At Once to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors, Prince's Building, Hongkong.\n\n### NOTICES\n\n**ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB**\n\nTHE CLUB HOUSE will be OPENED on SATURDAY AFTERNOONS and SUNDAYS. No Meals will be Served, Ice and Drinks will be available.\n\n**PALACE MOTOR CO., LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION)**\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a WINDING-UP FINAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company, will be held at No. 21, POTTINGER STREET, Ground floor, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th AUGUST, 1925, at 2.30 P.M.\n\n1. Laying the Accounts before the Meeting\n2. Giving Explanations if required.\n\nWONG KAM YING, Liquidator.\n\nHongkong, 10th July, 1925.\n\n**THE HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION**\n\nTHE JUNE SETTLEMENT Has Been POSTPONED.\n\nBy Order of the Committee, M. FERNANDEZ, Secretary. Hongkong, 4th July, 1925.\n\n**THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION**\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim Dividend of £3 per share subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th JUNE, 1925, at Rate of 2/3d per Dollar.\n\nThe Dividend will be Payable on and after MONDAY, the 10TH AUGUST, 1925, at Offices of the Corporation.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors, A. H. BARLOW, Chief Manager. Hongkong, 7th July, 1925.\n\n**COAL**\n\nTHERE are Ample Stocks of COAL in the Colony. Those in need of Supplies should Communicate in Writing with the SECRETARY.\n\n**SPECIAL CONSTABULARY. PEAK DIVISION**\n\nALL ADULT MALES (other than Members of the Government, Naval and Military Services and of the Medical Profession) Resident in the PEAK DISTRICT who are not rendering Active Assistance to the Public in connection with the Existing Strike are hereby Called Upon to Attend before Magistrate at the PEAK CLUB at 6 P.M. TO-DAY (FRIDAY, JULY 10TH) for the purpose of being Appointed and Enrolled as Special Constables.\n\n**NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES**\n\n**THE EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.**\n\nTHE STEAMSHIP \"ST. ALBANS.\" LEFT SYDNEY, 18TH JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO from AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and SOUTH SEA ISLAND PORTS are hereby Informed that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions, Cargo for HONGKONG by the s.s. \"ST. ALBANS\" has been Discharged at SANDAKAN and/or MANILA.\n\nCargo landed at SANDAKAN has been Trans-shipped per s.s. \"HINSANG\" Due Here on or about the 18TH INSTANT while the following Cargo landed at MANILA, VIZ:- \n- €50 LEAD BARS.\n- 21 Boxes FRENCH BUTTER.\n- 6 Bales LEATHER.\n\nWill be Forwarded to Destination per First Opportunity.\n\nNo Insurance whatsoever has been effected by the Steamship COMPANY.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 9th July, 1925.\n\n**COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES**\n\nCONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEILLES, &c., Cargo from BORDEAUX ex s.s \"ETOUAN\" also Cargo from HAVRE and COGNAC ex s.s.\"COMTE DORISE.\"\n\nCONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon.\n\nB. BODENFUSER, Agent. Hongkong, 7th July, 1925.\n\n**PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER \"KASHGAR\"**\n\nARRIVED HONGKONG ON 9TH JULY, 1925. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRAL.TAR, MARSEILLES MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.\n\nCONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 9th July, 1925.\n\n**TO LET**\n\n- GODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS (Basement). Apply- SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- COMMODIOUS SHOP and PREMISES, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, from SEPTEMBER NEXT. Apply- SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.\n- OFFICE on 1ST FLOOR in UNION BUILDING-TWO. Apply- UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.\n\n### LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon when H.E. the Governor made a statement upon the present situation in the Colony.\n\nThe routine business of the Council comprised the first reading of the Ordinance relating to the postponement of the June settlement.\n\nThe Bill deals with two classes of contracts: contracts for the purchase or sale of shares for the June settlement and contracts for the carrying over of shares until the June settlement day.\n\n**FERRY BOAT PIRATED**\n\nNINETEEN PASSENGERS TAKEN PRISONER.\n\nThe coxswain of the steam launch Sian Hung On has reported to the Water Police that at about eight o'clock yesterday morning, whilst he was on a journey from Tai Lo So, in Deep Bay, he was informed by some JUNKIS in a passing sampan that the launch Po On, which is one of the ferry boats that runs from Hongkong to Cheung Chau, was being pirated at Wah Ha.\n\nThe coxswain saw that a sampan was being towed alongside the Po On. He blew four blasts on the whistle, but received no reply from the Po On.\n\nTwo watchmen on the Sian Hung On opened fire with revolvers on the Po On, but no notice was taken of the shots. A fishing junk which was near then fired on the Po On with a cannon, but again no notice was taken of the fire.\n\nThe Po On soon disappeared from sight. She was steaming towards Ling Ting.\n\n**TYPHOON WARNING**\n\nThe American Consulate-General received the following typhoon warning, by cable from the Manila Observatory at 9.05 a.m., July 9th:- \"Cyclone or typhoon near or over southern Formosa, moving N.W.\"\n\n### \"WANTED\" ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n- FOREMAN to Work All Night Shift. Experienced Machine Shop. Good Salary to Capable Man. Apply UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, SINGAPORE.\n- EUROPEAN FLATS at Kow. LOON with Modern Sanitation. Apply to KAYAMALLY Co., 3 and 5, D'Águilar, Street, Hongkong.\n\n### ACKNOWLEDGMENT\n\nMrs. Ang and family wish to thank all friends for their kind sympathy, floral tributes and the many letters of condolence received in their recent sad bereavement.\n\n## CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA\n\nINCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1868.\n\nHEAD OFFICE-LONDON\n\nPaid-up Capital ... Reserve Fund... Reserve Liability of Proprietors...\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.\n\nA. H. FERGUSON, Manager. 22, Das Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "# NEW ADVERTISEMENTS \n\n## HONGKONG HOTEL \n\nCOMMENCING on MONDAY NEXT, the Hongkong Hotel will serve meals at the following times only due to the strike:- \n- BREAKFAST......... 8.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.\n- TIFFIN ...............12.30 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.\n- DINNER ..............7.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.\n\n## HAROLD WALLACE PETLEY (DECEASED) INTIMATIONS \n\nPersons having claims against the Estate of the above-named Deceased are requested to forward particulars at once to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors, Prince's Building, Hongkong.\n\n## HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK \n\nAn Interim Dividend of £3 per share has been declared for the half-year ending 30th June, subject to deduction of Income Tax. The Dividend Rate is 2/3 per Dollar and will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 10th August, at the Offices of the Corporation. Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.\n\nThe Register of Shares will be closed from MONDAY, the 27th JULY, to SATURDAY, the 8th AUGUST, 1925 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors,\nA. H. BARLOW, Chief Manager.\n\n## HONGKONG GOLF CLUB \n\nUntil further notice, the Deep Water Bay Club House will be opened on SATURDAY AFTERNOONS and SUNDAYS. No meals will be served; light refreshments and drinks will be available.\n\n## PALACE MOTOR CO., LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) \n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Winding-up Final General Meeting of the Company will be held at No. 21, POTTINGER STREET, Ground floor, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th AUGUST, 1925, at 2.30 P.M., for the purpose of:\n1. Laying the Accounts before the Meeting\n2. Giving Explanations if required.\n\nBy Order of the Committee,\nWONG KAM YING, Liquidator.\n\n## SPECIAL CONSTABULARY. PEAK DIVISION \n\nALL ADULT MALES (other than Members of the Medical Profession) resident in the PEAK DISTRICT who are not rendering Active Assistance to Government or the Public in connection with the Existing Strike are hereby called upon to attend before a Magistrate at the PEAK CLUB at 6 P.M. TO-DAY (FRIDAY, JULY 10TH) for the purpose of being Appointed and Enrolled as Special Constables.\n\n## NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES \n\n### THE EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. \n\nTHE STEAMSHIP \"ST. ALBANS\" LEFT SYDNEY, 13TH JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO from AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, and SOUTH SEA ISLAND PORTS are hereby informed that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions, Cargo for HONGKONG by the s.s. \"ST. ALBANS\" has been Discharged at SANDAKAN and/or MANILA at the Risk of the Owners of the Goods.\n\n| Cargo Landed | Destination |\n| --- | --- |\n| at SANDAKAN | Forwarded per s.s. \"HINSANG\" due on or about the 15TH INSTANT |\n| at MANILA | 650 LEAD BARS, 21 Boxes FRENCH BUTTER, Bales LEATHER. Will be Forwarded to Destination per First Opportunity. |\n\nNo Insurance whatsoever has been effected by the STEAMSHIP COMPANY.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.\n\n### COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES \n\nNOTICE. CONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEILLES, &c., ex s.s. \"ETUAN\" and Cargo from HAVRE and COGNAC ex s.s. \"COMDT. DORISE\" are informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk at Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon.\n\nBills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after Monday, the 13th instant, at Noon, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charges.\n\nR. RODENFUSER, Agent.\n\n### PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER \"KASHGAR\" \n\nARRIVED HONGKONG ON 9TH JULY, 1925. CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon.\n\nOptional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the contrary six hours before arrival of the Steamer. Goods not cleared within 8 days will be subject to Rent.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.\n\n## THE SHARE & REAL ESTATE BROKERS' SOCIETY OF HONGKONG \n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the JUNE SETTLEMENT will be held on TUESDAY, the 14th day of JULY, 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Committee,\nM. FERNANDEZ, Secretary.\n\n## HOTELS, LIMITED \n\nWITH reference to the Offer of New Shares dated the 15th May, 1925 (made to Existing Shareholders of the Company), the Directors have decided to extend the Dates for Payment.\n\nThe Date for Payment of the First Instalment of $7.50 per share is extended to the 30th SEPTEMBER, 1925, and the Date for Payment of the Second Instalment to the 31st DECEMBER, 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Board,\nJ. H. TAGGART, Managing Director.\n\n## \"GLEN\" LINE, LIMITED \n\nCONSIGNEES of CARGO per s.s. \"BENAVON\" are hereby Notified that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions Cargo for HONGKONG is being Discharged at NAGASAKI where it will lie at the Risk and Expense of the Owners of the Goods.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon when H.E. the Governor made a statement upon the present situation in the Colony.\n\nThe Bill relating to the postponement of the June settlement has been published. It is proposed to extend the postponed settlement day over a period of four days, from July 14th to July 17th inclusive.\n\n## FERRY BOAT PIRATED \n\nThe coxswain of the steam launch Sian Hung On reported to the Water Police that the ferry boat Po On was pirated at Wah Ha. The pirates took 19 passengers prisoner and escaped towards Ling Ting.\n\n##  P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION, LIMITED \n\n**PAID-UP CAPITAL** £2,594,160\n**RESERVE FUND** £185,000\n\n## \"KASHGAR\" and \"PEMBROKESHIRE\" \n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES regarding cargo discharge at SINGAPORE and/or MANILA due to strike conditions.\n\n## TYPHOON WARNING \n\nCyclone or typhoon near or over southern Formosa, moving N.W.\n\n## WANTED \n\nExperienced Machineshop FOREMAN to Work on All Night Shift. Good Salary to Capable Man. Apply UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, SINGAPORE.\n\n## TO LET \n\n- GODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS (Basement). Apply SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- COMMODOIOUS SHOP and PREMISES, in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, from 18th SEPTEMBER NEXT. Apply SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- OFFICE in UNION BUILDING - TWO ROOMS on FOURTH FLOOR. Apply UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.\n\n## DEWAR'S \"WHITE LABEL\" WHISKY \n\nAwarded 50 Gold and Prize Medals. As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nThe Governor's statement on the present situation in the Colony was published. The June settlement has been postponed.\n\n## ACKNOWLEDGMENT \n\nMrs. ANGUS and family wish to thank all their friends for their kind sympathy, floral tributes, and letters of condolence received in their recent sad bereavement.\n\n## WANTED \n\nLetters are lying at this Office for various Box numbers.\n\n## TO LET \n\nEUROPEAN FLATS at Kowloon with Modern Sanitation. Apply KAYAMALLY Co., 3 and 5, D'Águilar Street, Hongkong.\n\n## MARRIAGE NOTICE \n\nA marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Major Holand Lawrence M.C., Coldstream Guards, and Susan, third daughter of Sir Charles Watson & Co., LTD.\n\n## CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA \n\n**Paid-up Capital** £3,000,000\n**Reserves Fund** £4,000,000\n**Reserve Liability of Proprietors** £1,000,000\n\n## INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. \n\nS.S. \"TAISANG\" LEFT CALCUTTA, 21ST JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO for Hongkong ex the above Steamer are hereby Notified that the s.s. \"TAISANG\" is proceeding from SINGAPORE to KOBE direct.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD, General Managers.",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nDAIRY FARM NEWS\n\nSALMON! SALMON! SALMON!\n\nFresh White Salmon Now in Season\n\nTry a cut of this most Delicious and appetising Fare\n\n60 cents per lb.\n\nAvailable at Mais Depot and all Branches,\n\nThe Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.\n\nWE SPECIALISE IN ENGINE PACKING etc.\n\nBYLDAM'S PILOT PACKING BULLDOG PACKING DICK'S UNIVERSAL SIZE PACKING WALKER'S LION PACKING M. P. GAUGE GLASSES BOILER DOOR JOINTS BOILER AND STEAMPIPE COVERING\n\nCALL SEE SAMPLES.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS Co., Price's Building, Connaught Road\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nEXPERIENCED CHINESE, AGE ADVERTISER willing to pay $100.\n\nTO LET—Spacious suite of OFFICES. 2nd floor, Chartered Bank Building, Kowloon.\n\nTO LET—Hard brick possession 30, greks position in any capacity.\n\nTO LET—One EUROPEAN FLAT. Apply to Linstead & Davis, Alexandra Buildings.\n\nTO LET—Furnished Flat, all modern conveniences, care of \"S. C. M. Post.\"\n\nTO LET—Fortified est in Row we bathrooms, Kay (WANTED. A experienced Clarkable. in escollect endision, by loon, with sorvant and telephone, to be let fur three moutha trom Erden 3900, if inken by Seps. 1st, 1st September.\n\nTO LET—Fully Furnished four Cantonese. from flat, all etern conventences, care of \"S. C. M. Post.\"\n\nTO LET—European FLAT in No. 7, Jordon Rd. Howloon.\n\nWANTED—Telephone Operators and General Assistant.\n\nWANTED—Motor Cycle, 1934 Harley Davidson ed, modern coaforte, Tonis Isyn, aurere.\n\nWANTED—Chinese Clerk forderte meals, price resonable.\n\nWANTED—European Lady whats Septe vesien:ea.\n\nWANTED—Chinese Clerks and Portingueze Rumor Mrs. M. Banker at the address, aderate, Hongkong aide\n\nWANTED—Barker Road, Feat, ai, No. 11, itankow Rose, Kow.\n\nWANTED—Contieman to quici quita TUITION GIVEN.\n\nWANTED—Correspondence lovit- Building Supplies Heating and Plumbing Floor and Wall Tiles Rocking Paints and Varnishes White Cement, Hydrated Line, Keen's Cement Waterproofing Materials ond Concrete Hardeners Corrugated Reinforcing Dars Expanded Metal Metal Lath Steel Factory Windows Steel Cascents Builders Hardware Fire Doors Door Hangers Wire Glass Tower Clocks\n\nDiscriptive literature on request\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd.\n\n330 4 Tel. C. 1990. 67-68, Des Vœux Road. Central, Hongkong And Shamsen, Canton\n\nExhilarating! As a dip in the sea That's how you feel after a glass of CASCADE\n\nAR--R-D... Refreshing Summer a that's CASCADE. It just tucks itself into your taste and satisfies your thirst. You'll CASCADE your best friend this Summer because of its delightful flavour and wholesome goodness.\n\nTry a bottle to-day—you order a ease.\n\nCASCADE THE BEER WITHOUT A PEER.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nWANTED. Newspaper compositors are re and game, Two (3) minutes ride and banking exparience, walls per- i tre Model. moet be in good rungisť Procery Store.\n\nReplies Post Offing Morning Pest, Ltd., 3. Wyudbami quired al ones by THE SOUT: from Star Ferry.\n\nApply to Boxment position. Apply Box No. condition. Apply Box No. 9, care No. 920, care of \"R. C. H. Port.\" 968, care of S. C. M. Post\" I of “S. C, M. Post.”\n\nHERATA. Massage, Faco Massage, Maoleurs, Chiropody. Patiente attended on request.\n\n34, Queen's Road Central. 2nd Loor.",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nFOR THE\n\nSWIMMING\n\nSEASON\n\nWe are displaying an excellent range of\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nRUBBER BATHING CAPS & SHOES\n\nSWIMMING FLOATS\n\nDo Not Fail to Inspect our Display of JANTZEN'S & JAEGERS'\n\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nIn all Colours and Attractive Designs.\n\nThose Pure Wool Costumes are unexcelled for their wearing qualities, comfort and style, and they always retain their shape.\n\nTHE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHOTCHKISS\n\nDON\n\nFALST BROS.\n\nKIRKCALDY\n\nHONGKONG EMPORIUM\n\nAN OLD FAVOURITE BACK AGAIN!\n\nConnoisseurs will remember \"DON\"- the favourite Scotch Whisky of Pre-War Days.\n\nNOW for the first time since the war, we can again supply DON.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nN. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.\n\nWhy Your Printing Should be the Best.\n\nMost people characterise the standing of a firm by its printing. Shoddy, or even mediocre printing gives the impression of mediocrity.\n\nAs you judge a man's character by his habits so do you judge a firm by its methods: its printing, its correspondence, the promptness, and its general tidiness in business.\n\nMake sure your printing is good, clean, and has that touch of distinction which a first-class printer makes his speciality.\n\nUp-to-date and good printing is executed by\n\nSouth China Morning Post,\n\nTel. 440.\n\nLimited\n\n3 Wyndham Street\n\nHongkong.\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST.\n\nTHE\n\nECONOMY IN HOME BUILDING.\n\nTHE OWNER AND THE\n\nARCHITECT.\n\nBy Oswald C. Bering. Published by Robert M. McBride Company, New York $5.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBUILDER.\n\nFOUNDATIONS.\n\nBUILDING PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG.\n\nMuch more general appearance\n\nThe timber pile, both squared and round in a \"tree shape\", have been the most greatly used in the past. These are driven in by a falling weight, or steam hammer, until a specified resistance at each fall is obtained.\n\nTo-day the timber pile has largely been replaced by piles of concrete, steel and combinations of concrete and steel.\n\nConcrete piles can be divided into two classes, viz precast and cast in position.\n\nMr. Hertug has added another to the list that may be met with by architects in the East.\n\nThe \"ground\" in Europe is one of the most important factors of shares and limits average matter, and in addition the conditions of space.\n\nThe precast pile is cast very much in a similar way to that of the thinner pile, and is generally made with a pointed end, and land reclaimed are so found by the soil, or a metal shell is driven into the ground upon completion of all the piling and forethought for back that they can ease to be carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britain, that old or bedding upon \"bad ground\" make a compromise when it comes to inferior quality is not usually a paying proposition, land being generally purchased at rates which are less than the cost of reclamation, or at less than the extra cost\n\nWith the metal shell as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible general pile cure, the shed and the raundiena sufit upon waslabic soil.\n\nArchitects seem to feel pretty strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignorance of the lay Homes, base & valce in giving man, as well as over ambitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space is devoted in this bank to emphasizing the importance of selecting a good architect, and what is more, excending\n\na bilding site may range from portance of rebitecturo as the Dig ind waa an art. I must be honoured with\n\nin\n\nold allowed to haraan, and dzisi\n\nThe precast pi'e la cast ven in a similar way to that ef the thinner pile, and is generally\n\ngood agricultural pie cast in position may\n\nJo\n\nend, and lande reclaimed are so fond by the soil, or a metal shell\n\nInto the\n\nupon completion of\n\nall the pianting and forethought for hack that they can ease to be\n\nWhere the earth forms be mould, at any heantau! thing that is spoken of as cocinimes worth being carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nland metal lobe la driver\n\ncompletion.\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britale, that ocliving driving the tube, concrete is passed pared fo\n\nmake a compromise lard or bedding upon \"bad ground\"\n\ndown the tube, the tube being with-- when it comes to inferior quality is not n staally a paying propal-drawn as the couerote is placed. of materials or -guted dion, lana being reuerally pureba\n\nWith the metal sheli as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible: cunstances, he always indicates as than the cost of reclamation, meral ple cure, the shed and the a smaller scute, or simplified as ur et less than the extra cost\n\nraundiena sufit upon waslabic soil. Architects seem to feel pretty Tan exceptious are to the rase strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignoranes of the Jay Homes, base & valce in giving man, Ax well sa over ubitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space in devoted in this bank to emphasizing the mould mad, to hard rock, or six à bilding site may range from portance of selecting a good arritures varying between these two tect, and what is more, excending Mad, soft ground, or Ta pat fath in bi The aveti-\n\ning.\n\nTHA\n\nIvos sand,\n\nle care being driven into the quil, 5s pic care heirg collapsed when i rewnioz the necteurs depth, and removed, feaving the shell in the ground to form a road to take the concrete.\n\nThe slams for the metal shell are f that before placing the camareis.\n\nhe concrete can do seen, and that the near space to be recupied ly\n\nas the hole is Hired by the motul shell there is no risk of earth o\n\ntect ia a Dinette,\" says Mr. Hat ve of indefinite depth, or ground water becoming mixed with\n\nthickness of there untable soils, the concrete. safely carry the structur covering soi! sufficiently solid tej claimed Jun.\n\nand\n\nHe e insistent on necessity of the architect knowing\n\nOne syle, where the fabe is: his clients understanding their\n\nHe-driven and withdrawn as la con-i needs, and the actual human fac have hoen ased for the disposti of the monid, attaches great value areas which ereta is placed the soil forming tors of thefe problem. The lay-earth, and rebash, come under the to ramming the earth at the foot Tan does not usually balanced picture or the problending or soft ground, which the gile to an enlarged base, over-lie good firm soll before commencing the concreting,\n\n14%\n\na\n\nQuality\n\nTOP NOTCH\"\n\n\"KING GEORGE IV\" Scotch Whisky\n\nSole Agents:\n\nGANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFresh Air on Top\n\nWHEN it is \"set fair\" with\n\nthe thermometer in this eighties\n\nyou CRO awoly command a refre sehga\n\nbreeze from your\n\nand is likely is mopese plans that The sides of water courses are and the camming of the concrete Electric Fan\n\nare inconsistent.\n\nTactful and Firm,\n\nIt is\n\natten of sor 2. var-lying is invera to ratosal, as placed.) The architect must be tactful may a exist, that is, a pool for the plic, and irregular sides which good firm button. The opposite which results in a bulbuions font tel bat in his criticiser. asstatis?, therefore, saleet himmering mud, or louse soft before pay atop a taken in the plays, ar buiting, Indeed, to help\n\nWhere had greend iz met with. the actual selection of the site the normal footings obtained he\n\nis claimed give greater skin letion.\n\nConcrete, it good, as a materiai | tor piles can be spoken of as per\n\nis unually a mistaka to scrno-widening walls un piers. under manent, whether in waler or in the zize in the matter of the custheir base, by bedek esate and ground ur \"hetween wind end of bis services. A selection of pain concrete, may not he efficient water,\" the\n\nIt will keep you fit until holiday-time, and suszała you at concert-pitch afterwards.\n\nOne unit of electricity will drive a small jan for 40 hours.\n\npositiva destrac-THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co., (1918) Ltd.\n\nat.\n\nthe rebt man will mean considersstrecoure over aning arca bu retive to other materials. able economy in purcheses snoduce the load to the amount per 01 subject to rot, at construction laier, and a personal quare foot, Part the soli wil carber. And doe's 201 corrode as does\n\nrunk from wond barers, as is m and artistic interest lu results. Recourse has then to be\n\nmade\n\nchanges, us\n\n50\n\noften it has\n\nArchitect expertaily young to other methods, such as spread and steel, s has the nd ones, make the mistake very often footings, piling, rafts, caissons,ntage, that, however pamarent ef giving a rapid estimate of cost, cylinders, sheel pillow, are a com wood piling sy he, i constantly teiling what the exact date o hinatione of these, according to the\n\nsaturated, there is rot the fear of commation will be. An experi-pe of strucuri and the nature decay if the line of sturation anced maz is too well acquainted of the soil. with finetusiona te the markei, The spread footing is the ineen found to do. There is and unfavourable labour candi-iment of the aormal convete rage, 46180 the increasing difficulty, tions, and uncertain whether to to give additional bearing aves.\n\ntowing the depletion spook Sognaticely on any of these The normal courete foundation foreste, to obtain timber of targe M. dering abould be expabic of wider then the frickenk it up rete may be found to be chaper. matera. God architecte, sage to a watt or pier, being bat ute seartling and when large scantlinga are required, the first cost of con- estimating within 10 per cent of ports, is subjected to but little or the cost. t is recommend that ho tention. he let out contracting directly, in stead of placing this function in the alone of another.\n\nThere are many ways of series\n\ning ccenomy, \"Ruild economical\n\n, but never cheaply,\" says M\n\nHeria, Econcutez depend agon\n\nBy eulanging. It is subjected to\n\ntalle stress in the underside,\n\n(1)\n\nRafii\n\no\n\nRaft foundations have become care into use since the introdie-\n\nand to take up this stress,, rotted of reinforced concrete. Pre-\n\nsteel jufte are inserted or the con- areta is relaforced with zods,\n\nFiling.\n\nWith cerisin scils and where the\n\nbe driven to\n\nVICK= to die introduction of reinforced aonercle, refta were co- steneten in plafa concrete, and sol being reinforced, were af thirdness.\n\n37622\n\nWith s raft the preseard on the\n\nthe nature of the plan, bup of atrasture resis apon the grandi,\n\ncortare, exbica o materials, resuficient piles may duction of regelremonts, market sonsolidate the earth sufferently to jail is diatributed over the waxi-\n\ncluziion. favourableness\n\ncarry the tend. Before driving them se possible, reducing the weather, etc. Cut out non-essen pilas the earth seemed a certain pure per square foot to a min tials first, he recomiende, bistoad space. After the piles are driver, roam, and if pemperly of making a\n\ndezigned, compromise\n\nthec in earth. plz piles, the earth in soft places. quality of materiale. He ecumer\n\nWith few ates and explains more extensive bulk of the driven pile,\n\nasing heen consolidated by the exceptions the site under buildings | ly and technically many others.\n\n1234 ke he movered sith au Supervious Bungalows.\n\nPiles for the purpose of conjayer. In most cases concrete is the solidating soda can be of tallar peatario! used, and this\n\nrerete\" made sufficiently thick\n\nface\n\nand restored, may form the raft.\n\nShowroom 62 Nathan Road, Kawi\n\n60 years ago!\n\nKAYIP\n\nThe Firm of MACKAY introduced LIQUEUR WHISKY Its success has led to the oxistence ni mszy fetior Brande offered under ritar title.\n\nMACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL- 1495EUR WHISKY\n\nBabe in face age and chore Bone pretation of Highland Whisky.\n\nTu Tubos na jou tuing Bred five leading divide throughout the int\n\nGaste no more than dory\n\nObtainable from all the leading\n\nstores in the Colony. WHOLESALE AGENTS-BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.\n\nCOLUMBIA\n\nNEW-PROCESS\n\nRECORDS\n\nMUSICAL COMEDIES\n\nSelection\n\n19\n\n465 THE GEISHA\n\n821 IRENE\n\n723 LILAC DOMINO\n\nWith badldings having basements, the basement level mag he balex\n\n666 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 932 BRIGHTER LONDAR\n\n12\n\n27\n\n645 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\n659 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\nTe duretes & chapter cach tepes to the used for beading country house. suburban town piles, but in several ecare pales of Aud semi-domestic. In the counhard materialy having no cobesion try and sobarben heuse it is a have been used, such as sacó, eliz importens to develop the exterior (kers, stores, pl.\n\nwater level, requiring reinforce! Surroundings as the interior de\n\nFrich pile of curò, stone or other ment against the opward ad in. tails. The arcaiteet must be con- Part materials, boles are formed ward presauce of water, the ruft earned with lawns, shrubbery, driving and removing pilas of useiber with the barzeniest walls, kennels.\n\nfilling thereoning a watertight box\n\nmaterials, aged in water bearing toil\n\nThe Puthor is heeed, or metal, and etc. arused at the surr of gull hole with the bead\n\nmen whe extat at having to with bearing les, that is plas A raft foundation may be mora \"pay an architect to design\n\nwhich support a structure, such as jerononteal, even when in itself it chicken coop\" Bungalows are a pier over open water and build costs more, then foundations taken\n\n¡Ay chase\n\nnot ganerally inexpensive, as ings on soft sort or liquid mud, the down to a low level, glling, when supposed. They must always bo freeistance against ponetration of the taking down of the founda! pleaned to ennform to the scythe pie may be obtained by its roations, the ailing roundings. The ideal way\n\nreaching sold ground, ot by dodge to dosing property.\n\n(Minders. Cylinders of iron and steel, and\n\nplanning a town house is to et tion of the soil against te sides,\n\nla group of people to share in les partiz by both it being driven\n\nlot having a common central gerte a suficient depth to stala treiufgrend coutrete, sinh tuto sott\n\nen and Como architectu friction, or support at its foot. style that can be planned har\n\nrol, water, wad and, and les moniously.\n\n279 FLORODORA\n\nVocal tems\n\n309 LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE\n\nAT\n\nANDERSON'S\n\nThe põe supported at its fot, with concrete, have been used. pose of being between groups of for that porting id a pie surround- Je some Chat:x eylinders have pites and giving rigidity.\n\nnd by water or liquid and giving surrounded groups or piles, the\n\nFor work of ar engineering\n\nHe discusses frateruity houses had the comparative lack of le rtle or na aters! support and piles being Srst drivan, the e7lindratare, enfssons of metal or rein. terest in their style. One of the friction, becomes a column and is ers, dropped over greaps of pites. forced concrete have heat, fosted Cardinal fundar.ontal guad subjected to siplar stresses to the ender resting on the bottom, to prition, suk architecture is dit \"the fecade those which columns are subjected and after the exlindars\n\n0:1 prepaved and plac shall express the par- to, and can be calculated as such. position, ing them\n\nare in beds, and filled with stones or son- prae of the building.\" The funda A feree, the concrete filling the spaces imental in move or leva nuylerted personally\" in the architecture of between the piles sed the naise sood supporting soils, in spite of in our semi-derarstic buildings. their homes. Throughout the vo- of the eslinder. By this mean, folical platements to the can-\n\nwith\n\n200-\n\nxk.\n\nCertain ally, ench as sund, are\n\nthe trury, providing they are not do a\n\nMr. Horing shows farther jamo one is coracleas of the au- support is obtained from amusement at the ladies who de there gesuire belief in the files. ne elinder and concrete position in which they can sore,\n\nand pure pemodse styles: atzo, portance and eigalheance of the inside binding thure who insist upon \"expressing Fart.-Christian Science Monitor piles together, serving\n\nthe pa\n\nof and to prevent spreading the elte\n\nthe par- can be enclosed by abeak piling, of\n\ntimber, iron, steel, er reinforced concrete. Sheet pillay, at comple tion, could be described as a box ariere, without top on bottom, enclosing the ground on which. the batting elands.\n\nScrew Piles\n\nThese are main! cylinders with \"screw\" anda, the pile being ra rolved and anteng the soil in a similar way to that of wood screw entering wood.\n\nTheir most frequent use is for light piers where the sea bottom le sand.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nTHE\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:\n\nPEAK HOTEL.\n\nTulographie Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”\n\nAND\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACH HOTEL;\n\nKALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: \"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.\"\n\nHOTELS,\n\nLIMITED.\n\n43 association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking,\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL.\n\nTHE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Satoon Bar.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nSTRIKE SITUATION.\n\nDEARTH OF CHINESE KIVER CARGOES.\n\nArrical and Departures.\n\nJUNG VOYAGERS.\n\nCHRISTIAN COLLEGIANS ARRIVE AT CANTON.\n\nUdging the Searchlights.\n\nNEWS\n\nFRENCH FLAGSHIP.\n\n13\n\nP. & O. BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND RASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIZA IRMOTROzed in ENGLAND) STATEO, JAVA ↳ OTTAMA, CREION, INDIA, PENSJAN GAFLF, WHAT IEDARA,\n\nKARTICA, ART & HOVE AFRICA, ANSA RAL-ANIA. INCLEDINU AR\n\nZNALAND & 4URENSLAND POSTA. RED HEA. WIEFT, ZUBOPY, KTO\n\nPENINNITLAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DAVET ROYAL MAIL UTKANADA\n\nSPER CONTRACT WI\n\nH. GYERSNXXT}\n\nIONS PROM TONGKONG ABOUT\n\n20th August.\n\nPENDING CHANGE IN NAVAL NARKUNDA...\n\nKIDDERPORE\n\nJEYPORA\n\nCOMMAND.\n\nKHYBER...........\n\nThe French battleship Jules\n\nNAGPORE\n\nof V140 Farry, ying the faz\n\nTILAWA TALAMBA\n\nTANDA...\n\nThe sixaution in the matter of\n\nAs was exclusively uncunced Admiral Prochos, Commander-in- ocean Donte shipping remains un- in the relature of the S. C. f. Post Ja Phart uime ago, a parts of Sqaadran, arrived yesterday over- sries and clearances varies but Americana left Hongkong toring and anchored in Kowloon ARAFURA\n\ntie. Cargoes are small in quan Canion by two fucks which were Bay as there are at present yo tity and few ju number. For the chartered For the purpose of berthe available in the man of yast fon; weeks shipments of more convering coroat and building war anchorage.\n\nthen\n\nThe usual ma\n\n0.334\n\n105\n\nDESTINATION\n\n42wers & wartorg-\n\n16,237 8th Sept., soon.rition & Fanuch.\n\n5,218\n\n17th Sept.\n\n0.114 19th September.\n\n5,83\n\njeet Soudna, Miles, London,\n\nLaterpell\n\n3465 September. patebay.\n\nBRITISH INDIA-LOCAH BAJURGS INDUTA\n\n10,000 24th September. 3'pore, Pung & Calcutta\n\n18,018 9 October.\n\nEASTENNÉ SUSTRALIAN RATING (SOUTH)\n\n16,9505\n\n8,000!\n\n2nd Sept.\n\nMaa, Sandokat Chnes. Is\n\n7th October Tarifle, B'ban, 'eer, &\n\nMethaurns.\n\nSADAMA win aga quli ni Turbo The 1. 9.3. Cu td. seatures will zien dil; of Shangkhu, B\n\nShaazhki, Dzsin. Debit, Kalam. The Timber Darwin, as her wine wich tho towing\n\nFrogweat conrad An the New Zaki, Tante\n\nas rand_nta\n\nSatan and soudit via Panama Canal.\n\nThe Ure 5.9. Company ateaders to the United Kingoeta 1,000 tons have beys rare, material to the Canton Christina {tional salutics were fired, and sise and now, even the local Chinese College under the leadership of the fing saiule in Vice Admiral whe may usually be depended upon 31r. Crumpton, No information Sinclair. which were duly re- to furnish small freights for river joald be obtained at the time turned. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkongingle package of cargo was ten who was acting as super Vion Admiral\n\nGnder the Persound Baparvicken and Matogoriană di\n\nFRANK L. COOKE.\n\nProprietor.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL. Electric lifts and Lighting. Telephone on each Floor, Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.\n\nTol. Central No. 370.\n\nTelegraphle Address: \"VICTORIA.\" J. WITCHELL, Manager.\n\nST. GEORGE'S HOUSE. KENNEDY ROAD,\n\nPrivate Hotel, affording Every Comfurt.\n\nLARGE AND OF HARBOUR\n\nAIRY ROOMS. SPLENDID EXCELLENT CUISINE UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPRIETKISS.\n\nLOSSIUS, Proprietress.\n\nFor te suply to\n\nThe only hotel in CANTON\n\ndirectly under European\n\nManagement.\n\nNAGPORE... 5,248\n\nSANJIS TO BHANGHAIR LAYER.\n\n26th August.\n\nHI\n\n......$10,000\n\nShanghai, Moji & Kobe.\n\n4th September. Sbbai, Moji kote. 6th September. Kebe.\n\nì deben re afrasimme wid subtrat in alteration without quiler. Wielan\n\nSTRAWERS. Parede og not mon than 21, x 16. × 7 th, will be prerived as ike Lumping's (not up lo egia on the day previous to unitis\n\nFanburding.\n\nB\n\ncestt, even though the pun la voly ether arough the Acerts The arrival of the dulos Perry KARMALA ......\n\nMac, are showing no Comandate of the Harbour Of is a proliminary to the charge OVET TILAWA design m despatch goods. Pas through which latter place in of the Commander-in-Chiership senzar hookings by the river sail- lucka cleared with no mention of at the squadron. Rear Admiral ings yesterday were good, but not 'pautengere other than Mr. Crnan- Basir is to be the successor of Fruchot, and will sen. ap.\n\nMules Michelet at as early data. 24 hours ending #sam yesterday Information has now been re After the command has been showed o vessels in harthour, of seived which confirms the state turned over, the Jules Ferry will which wery British, with 12 meu then made and this is to the leave for France, the new arrival arrivals and 11 doyartures. Bri- affect that the voyagers have becoming the Bugship in Lish shipping contributed six and reached Carton.\n\ntwo respectively, to these guzes. Warpon was reached at 2 a.. Arrival were the British ships on Sunday morning and taking Empress of Casada from Vancon- advantage of the darkness, the ver and Shanghai with 186 tour of junka alipped in ander the nearch- fouz, amigenium salphate aut Hights which awept the Back mails, Yut Shing from Bangkes Rear, without being detected. with 2,260 tons of rice and general There is no shipping activity\n\nThe\n\nstead,\n\nPARENTS PERTAINI\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nSHANGHAI DECLARED\n\nCHOLERA-INFECTED\n\nPORT.\n\nker\n\nand two bags of mails, Nam Sang in Canton, but sumbers of snail The following notice to muzinera: from Yokohama nt Shanghai boats are fraighting vegetables has been posted at the Harbour with 1,205 tena of general, tonius and produce from outlying die Once, seved by the authorities Revolutionary placards at Canton under date. August 13:\n\nHarbour Notification No. 1 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Custome and Representatives of Poreign Con- sale Bodiaz bave declared the port of Shanghai to be infected. AR vessels arriving therefrom either at Pantee or Whangea on and after this date are to be guvern\n\njing dangerous goods (firecrackerstricts. Tel. Central 116.\n\n(and matches) and 359 bags. of fare posted about the city treiting all, Jaining from Poochow and the people to take action agata\n\nforeig oppressore. Amoy with 50 tona ganerai and the mails, Hallie from Sulyon with gates to Alamen ure picketed 3.921 tons of ride and gear and the Chinese side to prevent any three bags of mail, Clearailah conuuunication with the defen Srum Sieganore and Hoi Nam with dore. Contradictory rumours are cur general, one bag of mulls and 200 deck paterpgera. the American reut with regard to the shipping\n\nTHE VICTORIA HOTEL,\n\nSHAMEEN,\n\nGuides\n\nand trips arranged for\n\nand special care\n\ntaken of TOURISTS. Cable Address 1 \"VICTORIA.\"\n\nEMPRESS LODGE.\n\nTel Kowloon. 296. fel. Add: \"presloge.\"\n\n8, Mudy Hoad, Kowloon Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes walk from the Ferry Newly furnished, with latest sanitary bath- Under Barpervision of the Pro- Excellant ralaine.\n\nMom?\n\nprintress.\n\nPor termos apply to Mrs. M. O. MURPHY, Propristress\n\nPALACE HOTEL.\n\nTel. Address \"PALACE.” Tel. Kowiuon No. B.\n\nThres mátutes irom Kowlen Wharf, Ferry Wharf and RawaJ Station, Entirely Bater English Management. Eletele Light and Faus throughout. Every Rovin with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Hilliard Rooms. turivalled Cuisine onder the personal supervision of the proprietor. Terma moderate, Special terms to families on appli\n\nJ. T. OXBEREY, Proprietor. tion to:\n\nSTATION HOTEL,\n\nTel. Add: \"Termotel” KOWLOON. Code used a.B.C. 5th. First class aud most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes' walk from Ferry. Moderate Larid and recst axel- lent cuisine auder entirely European tuanagement Monthly and Family rates can be arranged at mest reasonable terms.\n\nAPPLY THE MANAUERESS, Kowloon.\n\nTHE CARLTON HOTEL.\n\nUNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Splendidly Situated in the Heart of the European Secilon Convenient to the Ferry and to the Baalucss Centres.\n\nA First Class Besidential and Tourist Hotel with all the Convenienes of Homo. Large Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.\n\nCuisine ander the Immediate Direction of the Proprietress Monthly and Family rates at moderate ternis.\n\nFor tartas upply to Mra M. BLAKE.\n\nTelephone No. C. 812,\n\nNu. 30, Lee House Street,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.\n\nTelegraphic address \"ASTOR”\n\nTelephone Contra! 10,\n\n13. Queen's Road Central: A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rODINE, completely renovated and refinished. New Ulzing Room\n\nuidine. Meals a la Carte. Excellent\n\nMouthly Tickets for Fists and Duners. Under entirely new Management,\n\nH. A. VAZ, Nanager.\n\nROGATE.\n\nTel Address \"Rogate\" Kowloon,\n\nTel. 851.\n\n158-160 Austin Read, Kuwloun. Newly furnished. Up-to-date Priests Hotel. Excellent Oni sine. Moderate Term.. tinder personal supervision of the Proprietres\n\n\"ALBANY.\"\n\nResidential Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4 The Albany. Overlooking the Botanical Gardens. Under personal supervision of the Proprietress. Telephone Central 615.\n\nMADAM ASA UTANI.\n\nJAVANESE MASSEUSE. FACE MASSAGE. MASSAGE\n\n25, Wellington Street:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nMRS. 3. UZUNOVE\n\nHapert Massgeule,\n\n37, Queen's Road Central,\n\nA similar notice has been issued\n\ntaamer West Faralun from Los 10 the port, that gaining most Angeles and Manila with 196 tas iredence being to the edest that by the Excilay Regulations feri of general and President McKinicy to impose a tax of 23,000 or be the authoriting stentsin in\n\nthe Cunninginner of Commerce is the port of Canton. from Manila with 12 tone of\n\nvessels discharging, while 41. general and 10 bags of all, the monopoly has her granted to theviation to that port and Chin- German vereis Piala on Hardessane for a large sum, the x-\n\n(wengizo under date August 12.\n\nJourg and Marilu with 365 tona of\n\nyoueral and six bags of mai, the out of which is not naked. Japanese reasol Osake Mary from\n\nNAVY LAUNCH BLAZE. TWO MEN SENT TO HOSPITAL.\n\nMuch of this stegnation is due Two American seemen, the en-!\n\nCalcutta and Singapore with 320 by the Autenor for Sagapore and tons of general, nails chectical President Kinley and Bevenue products, and 13 bags of mail, the for Shanghai. Chineze ucastor Chung Hing from Kwangeheuwan with 180 tone of the increasing difficulty ofgineer and the electrician of abippers in obtaining export per- U. S. 8. Beaver's speed launch, firewood, vegetables and poultry.\n\nmita for lee, the stonks of which whlen was destroyed by fire at! Departures\n\nin the Colony, are now belevet in the Army and Navy Club landing Departure were the Brish be below is reserve margin. at Maul are now in the Set- vessels Isaching for Amoy, Pru- Another contributing factor berg General Hosptial. The men tecilaus for Shanghai, Japanese appears to be the belfer sung the jare badly burved, according to a Towels Koren Mora for Keelung, Chinese generally that something navy officer interviewed at the Tsuruga Alara For Shanghai, drastic is about to happen either place of the fire.\n\nlein Maru for Tallar Bay and on one side or the other. The\n\nflames completely demolished Jajo Man for Swate, the Datel more credulone point to the con- the high power engine and burned auction dredger G.G. Ideoburg Jucant exercising of seaplanes the inside of the launch, causing (Netherlands Harbour Works) fox and the large number of warships Jamage estimated at $5.00). The Macao, Tisondari for Bhunghai, jad present in harbour, as evidence forigin of the fire le vakowa. the Gormer vernal Pfalz for that the British Government is it was extinguished half an hour, Shanghai, the Chinese coaster about to take action. No amount of Jafter it started.\n\nThe been aboard and the crew Kazura fur drony and the tallat explanation will disillusion them, moter vessel Eaquino for Shang- and thts toeling is permeating the of the launch Genecock I put hal. Clearances were taken out lantize native commercial fabric.\n\nTHE\n\ncut the blaze.\n\nHONGKONG & KHAMPOA DOGK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO\", HONGKONG; UndesUsed: A1, A.B.C. Film Edition: Engineering: Fire and Second Edition: Western Union and Watking, Banson's Marcom.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.\n\nOIL TANK STEAMER \"PALUDINA.\"\n\n412, 0′ x 58′ 1′′ x 31′ 0′′ x 3,400 tons Lw. x 3,300 H..\n\nBuilt by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LTD., at KOWLOON DOCK\n\nso the ordero THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., IND.. being one of fusimilar\n\nVessels built in those WORKS to the same order.\n\nPlease address enquiries to the Chief Manager :-\n\nR. M. DYEE. B SC.. M.IN.A.. Kowloog Dock. Hongkong.\n\nFor Tenage Rates, Unzufbooka, Farizate, may apply że\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Alamur\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD,\n\nAgents for the following Services.\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE BOSTON, NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS\n\n1st September.\n\nM.V. \"ELMBANK”-\n\nrta Suez Canai\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE TELLERMAN & HUCKNALL BS. Co., Ltd.) 8,8. \"HALVERNIAN\" via Suez Canal 19th September. 3.S. \"WALTON HALL\"'\n\n7th Oe.ober\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT \"ELLERMAN\" LINE (EILERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO. LTD.)\n\nSth September S.S. KNOWSLEY HALL\" For Marseilles, London, Dunkirk and Hamburg. MODERATE PASSAGE BATES TO MARSEILLES & LONDON\n\nMAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA ORIENTAL-AFRICAN LINE\n\nMiddle August.\n\nS.S. SURAT\" Leading for Maurities, Delagea Bay, Durham, East London, Alges Bay. Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay & Capetown.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading lawned to Betra, Quilimaine, Lio, Port Amelia. Sezambique. Chlude, Iabambane, Zanzibar, Houmassa, Kindlat, Vezi Nellat. Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay & Madagascar.\n\nAUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE. (Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. Co., Ltd.) Sallings from Singapore og 6th of every month by \"City of Palerma or \"Maistine\" to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne nad Sydney, and vice versa. Through Freight and Passenger doakings from flong- tong in conjunction with \"Elterman\" Lice or other services.\n\nFor freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-\n\nTel. C. 4791 THE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\nBOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE\n\n\"BLUE FUNNEL\" LINE. KOCHAN BS, CO, LTD & CHINA MUTUA), S.8. Co., LTD.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINK.\n\nELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.S. CO. LT).\n\nBAILINGS FROM BONOKONG\n\nrie Suez Canal\n\n8.. \"Laomedon\"\n\n6.5. \"Peteus\n\n5.8. \"Haivurnjan\"\n\nB.S. Teneer'\n\n1\n\n26th Augast.\n\n7 September.\n\n19th September.\n\n28th September.\n\nSteamers proceed vis Huer Chant or Panama Cagni st owners' option\n\nSubject to Change without notice.\n\nFor freight and particulses apply to:- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, or THE BANK LINE. 19. Bangkang,\n\nHongkong & Canton Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.\n\nCat1 du\n\nCOMPANIA TRANSATLANTICA DE BARCELONA Spanish Royal Mail Line For MANILA, SINGAPORE COLOMBO, SUÈL. PORT Sam, BARCELONA & other SPANISH PORTS.\n\n3.8.0. LOPEZ I LOPEZ\"\n\n3.5. ISLA DE PANATU\n\n8.8, LESAZгI\"\n\nBAJ\n\n... for Yokosms, Koba, Koji & Shanghai.\n\nS.8. 187. DE PANAY”\n\n33. \"LEGAZPI\n\n... 3rd September. 2046 Votober.\n\n18th December,\n\n.. 8th Octobe\n\n2. Ja, 1986.\n\n30th Nov.\n\nThe manors of this Company are all eisused 200 41 at Lloyd'e and ar modern cottrenience for the enzufort and safety of sha\n\nEtte with wards and Doctor carrisé.\n\nO. D. BA'RRETTO, LA..\n\nFor freight andjur pannage apply to-\n\nCentral Avenue, B. C. CANTON.\n\nBOTELHO KROS.\n\nAvezzanīra Bailding.\n\nHangkang",
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        "content_text": "Military Expenditure exceeded the estimate by $233,412 due to increase in revenue. Education Department decreased $108,888 on account of unpaid Building Grants.\n\nEXPENDITURE.\n\n5\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £467,442. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,444,169 and £103,453 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1924, resulting as follows:-\n\n  \n    Cadet Service\n    $100,831.47\n    $289,630.18\n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature\n    $69,991.32\n  \n  \n    Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n    $27,512.96\n  \n  \n    Audit Department\n    $51,592.62\n  \n  \n    Treasury\n    $76,662.66\n  \n  \n    Harbour Master's Department\n    $623,395.92\n  \n  \n    Imports & Exports Department\n    $872,557.69\n  \n  \n    Royal Observatory\n    $52,638.49\n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Services\n    $1,092,558.10\n  \n  \n    Judicial and Legal Departments\n    $305,286.92\n  \n  \n    Police Department\n    $1,877,948.69\n  \n  \n    Fire Brigade\n    $199,570.25\n  \n  \n    Prison Department\n    $383,362.70\n  \n  \n    Medical Department\n    $502,882.89\n  \n  \n    Sanitary Department\n    $670,945.48\n  \n  \n    Botanical and Forestry Department\n    $86,516.80\n  \n  \n    Education Department\n    $945,642.01\n  \n  \n    Military Expenditure\n    $4,299,887.34\n  \n  \n    Public Works Department\n    $1,184,767.90\n  \n  \n    Do. Recurrent\n    $1,793,968.69\n  \n  \n    Do. Extraordinary\n    $8,112,785.49\n  \n  \n    Post Office\n    $257,573.59\n  \n  \n    Kowloon-Canton Railway\n    $1,329,927.46\n  \n  \n    Charge on Account of Public Debt\n    $941,923.95\n  \n  \n    Pensions\n    $503,929.39\n  \n  \n    Charitable Services\n    $72,137.48\n  \n  \n    TOTAL\n    $26,726,428.44\n  \n\nThe balance to the debit on the year's working was $2,516,788 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $13,107,549.29.\n\nThe following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1920-1924 :-\n\n  \n    Year\n    Revenue\n    Expenditure\n  \n  \n    1920\n    $14,689,672\n    $14,489,594\n  \n  \n    1921\n    $17,728,132\n    $15,739,652\n  \n  \n    1922\n    $22,291,065\n    $18,563,003\n  \n  \n    1923\n    $24,783,763\n    $21,571,905\n  \n  \n    1924\n    $24,209,640\n    $26,726,428\n  \n\nIncreases :-\n\n  \n    The City of Victoria\n    $387,772\n  \n  \n    The Hill District\n    $47,610\n  \n  \n    Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay\n    $20,110\n  \n  \n    Hongkong Villages\n    $74,411\n  \n  \n    Kowloon Point\n    $116,380\n  \n  \n    Yaumati\n    $223,615\n  \n  \n    Mongkoktsui\n    $30,655\n  \n  \n    Bunghom and Hok Un\n    $40,540\n  \n  \n    Kowloon Villages\n    $3,344\n  \n  \n    New Territories\n    $143,814\n  \n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $22,147,951 having increased by $1,088,251.\n\nDuring the period 1915-1924 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,287,285 to $22,147,951, an increase in rateable value of $7,860,666.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n\n  \n    Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation\n    $49,603,461\n  \n  \n    Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China\n    $11,611,486\n  \n  \n    Mercantile Bank of India, Limited\n    $1,296,455\n  \n  \n    Total\n    $62,511,402\n  \n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,864,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony.",
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        "content_text": "- 5 — \n\nMilitary Expenditure exceeded the estimate by $233,412 due to increase in revenue. Education Department decreased $108,888 on account of unpaid Building Grants.\n\nGovernor\n\nCadet Service\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £467,442. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,444,169 and £103,453 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1924, resulting as follows:-**\n\nEXPENDITURE.\n\n6.\n\n  \n    100,831.47\n    289,630.18\n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature\n  \n  \n    69,991.32\n    \n  \n  \n    Secretarial for Chinese Affairs\n  \n  \n    27,512.96\n    \n  \n  \n    Audit Department\n  \n  \n    51,592.62\n    \n  \n  \n    Treasury\n  \n  \n    76,662.66\n    \n  \n  \n    Harbour Master's Department\n  \n  \n    623,395.92\n    \n  \n  \n    Imports & Exports Department\n  \n  \n    872,557.69\n    \n  \n  \n    Royal Observatory\n  \n  \n    52,638.49\n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Services\n  \n  \n    1,092,558.10\n    \n  \n  \n    Judicial and Legal Departments\n  \n  \n    305,286.92\n    \n  \n  \n    Police Department\n  \n  \n    1,877,948.69\n    \n  \n  \n    Fire Brigade\n  \n  \n    199,570.25\n    \n  \n  \n    Prison Department\n  \n  \n    383,362.70\n    \n  \n  \n    Medical Department\n  \n  \n    502,882.89\n    \n  \n  \n    Sanitary Department\n  \n  \n    670,945.48\n    \n  \n  \n    Botanical and Forestry Department\n  \n  \n    86,516.80\n    \n  \n  \n    Education Department\n  \n  \n    945,642.01\n    \n  \n  \n    Military Expenditure\n  \n  \n    4,299,887.34\n    \n  \n  \n    Public Works Department\n  \n  \n    1,184,787.90\n    \n  \n  \n    Do. Recurrent\n  \n  \n    1,793,988.69\n    \n  \n  \n    Do. Extraordinary\n  \n  \n    8,112,785.49\n    \n  \n  \n    Post Office\n  \n  \n    Kowloon-Canton Railway\n    \n  \n  \n    257,573.59\n    1,329,927.46\n  \n  \n    Charge on Account of Public Debt\n  \n  \n    941,923.95\n    \n  \n  \n    Pensions\n  \n  \n    503,929.39\n    \n  \n  \n    Charitable Services\n  \n  \n    TOTAL\n    72,137.48\n  \n  \n    \n    $26,726,428.44\n  \n\nThe balance to the debit on the year's working was $2,518,788 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $13,107,549.29.\n\nThe following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1920-1924 :-\n\n  \n    \n    Revenue.\n    $\n    Expenditure.\n    $\n  \n  \n    1920\n    \n    14,689,672\n    \n    14,489,594\n  \n  \n    1921\n    \n    17,728,132\n    \n    15,739,652\n  \n  \n    1922\n    \n    22,291,065\n    \n    18,563,003\n  \n  \n    1923\n    \n    24,783,703\n    \n    21,571,905\n  \n  \n    1924\n    \n    24,209,640\n    \n    26,726,428\n  \n\nIncreases :-\n\nThe City of Victoria $387,772\n\nThe Hill District 47,610\n\nShaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay 20,110\n\nHongkong Villages 74,411\n\nKowloon Point 110,380\n\nYaumati 223,615\n\nMongkoktsui 30,655\n\nHunghom and Hok Un 40,540\n\nKowloon Villages 3,344\n\nNew Territories 143,814\n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $22,147,951 having increased by $1,088,251.\n\nDuring the period 1915-1924 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,287,285 to $22,147,951, an increase in rateable value of $7,880,666.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation $49,603,481\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, & China $11,611,486\n\nMercantile Bank of India, Limited $1,290,455\n\n$62,511,402\n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,864,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony.\n\nPage 183",
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        "content_text": "Statement of Assets and Liabilities on the 31st December, 1925.\n\nLIABILITIES.\n\nC.\n\nASSETS.\n\nDeposits not Available.............. 1,154,124.43\n\nSubsidiary Coins Advances ............ 16,628.96\n\nPostal Agencies ....................... \n\nBuilding Loans....................... 1,008,369.34\n\nImprest .............................. 310,919.62\n\nSuspense Account.................... 1,006,899.99\n\nHouse Service Account ............... 3,785.25\n\nCrown Agents' Deposit Account ...... 9,906.23\n\nUnallocated Stores, (P.W.D.)......... 33,634.22\n\nUnallocated Stores, (Railway) ....... 425,208.82\n\nCoal Account ......................... 197,108.85\n\n........................................ 16,683.31\n\nStatement of Funded Public Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed Periods outstanding on the 31st December, 1925, and of the Accumulated Sinking Fund at the same date.\n\nC.\n\nDesignation of Debt or Loan.\n\nJOINT SINKING FUND 1925.\n\nLegal Authority.\n\nOutstanding.\n\nAmount\n\nAmount of Stock, &c.\n\nCost Price.\n\nMarket Price.\n\nHongkong 8% Ordinance No 12 of 1914,\n\nWar Loan............................... $8,000,000\n\nDeposits on Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation .....@ 51% $404,070.66\n\nDo. Do............................ 14,647.56\n\n$104,670.66 14,847.56\n\n$404,670.66\n\n18,096.60\n\n15,098.69\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia and China 12,151.78\n\n12,151.78\n\nLeung Ki Ho and Butt Let Him ...Mortgage. 120,000.00\n\n120,000.00\n\n120,000.00\n\nP. K. Kwok ............................ 500,000.00\n\n500,000.00\n\n500,000.00\n\nChinese Estates Ltd..7% ............ 640,000.00\n\n640,000.00\n\n640,000.00\n\nCaptain P. L. Brown. 8% ............ 16,000.00\n\n15,000.00\n\n15,000.00\n\nSoo Wing Ke... 8% ................... 17,000.00\n\n17,000.00\n\n17,000.00\n\nTo Teuk Ki ............................ 30,000.00\n\n80,000.00\n\n30,000.00\n\nInvestment Account .................. 5,624,214.10\n\nTotal Liabilities .................... 1,183,478.60\n\nLorry Haulage Account ............... .01\n\nBalance at Banks .................... \n\nTAINI .................................. 8,113,482.68\n\nCrown Agents' Current Account ...... 645,456.56 21,779.96\n\nTotal .................................. 9,298,961.28\n\nTotal .................................. 9,298,961.28\n\n† Cash on Deposit............................. 4,000 0s. Od.\n\nInvested as follows:-\n\nAMOUNT OF STOCK, &C.\n\nNOMINAL VALUE.\n\nCOST PRICE.\n\nMARKET VALUE.\n\n$1,766,666.69 $1,766,566.69\n\n1,726,570.66\n\nLear Deposits withdrawn from Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation @3% Do © 2 Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China ...@ 4* 14,647.56 13,006.69\n\n14,647.56\n\n13,096.69\n\n12,151.78\n\n12,161.78\n\nDollar Total\n\n$1,726,670.66 $1,726,670.86\n\n1,726,670.66\n\nDOLLAR INVESTMENT.\n\nHongkong War Loan 1921-1928 6% Stock $120,000.00\n\n$120,000.00 |\n\n$120,000\n\nSTERLING INVESTMENT.\n\nAntigua (1919-44)\n\nBritish Guiana (1923-45)\n\nStock.\n\n£\n\nCape of Good Hope (1916-36)\n\nDo. Do.\n\nPo. (1934)\n\nFunding Loan (1960-90)..\n\nGold Comes (1989-59)\n\nDo. (1931-59)\n\nGrenada (1917-42)\n\nJamaica (1941-71)\n\nDo. (1984) Do. (1919-49) Mauritius (1937)...\n\nNatal (1987)\n\n(1929-49)\n\n(1933-43)\n\nCeylon (1940)\n\nDo. (1984-59)\n\nDo. (1939-59)\n\n400, 0. 0 291.13. 4 14,150. 0. 0 7,073.18. 2 6,650, 0, 0\n\n£ 368. 1.0\n\n(91)\n\n£\n\n364, 0.0\n\n211.15. 7\n\n(76)\n\n221.13. 4\n\n13,048. 4. 3\n\n(92)\n\n18,019, 0.0\n\n5,795.18.8\n\n(80)\n\n5,638.18. 6.\n\n5,204. 2. 6\n\n(79)\n\n5,253.10, 0\n\n4,532.15. 7\n\n8,688. 2. 3\n\n(81)\n\n3,671.11. 0\n\n2,556. 8. 5\n\n2,017. 0. 4\n\n(79)\n\n3,889.17. 5\n\n8,460.16. 6\n\n(87)\n\n600, 0. 0 164,181, 9. S 4,935, 9. V 200, 0. 0 292.13.10 | 2,000, 0. 0 4,111. 6. 8\n\n$65.12. 0 180,360. 8.6 | (86)\n\n(94)\n\n2,019.11. 5- 3,884. 8. 9 564, 0.0\n\nHongkong 8% Inscribed Stock. Ordinances No. & 2 of 1899 and No. 11 of 1905.\n\n141,196, 1.4\n\n4,313. 9. 9 (87)\n\n4,293.17. 5\n\n160, 1.0\n\n(78)\n\n156. 0. 0\n\n264. 9. 5\n\n(88)\n\n257.11.4\n\nDo. (1934-44)\n\nDo. (1914-39)\n\n1,685, 0. 0 1,500. 0. 0 1,000, 0, 0 200, 0.0 5,500, 0, 0\n\n1,910. 4. 0 3,885.18. 8 3,870. 5. 6 1,397. 0.6\n\n(94)\n\n1,880. 0.\n\n(95)\n\n3,905.15.4\n\n(81)\n\n3,784, 7.\n\n(92)\n\n1,380, 0.\n\n927.12.0\n\n(92)\n\n920, 0, 0\n\n167.11. 0\n\n(84)\n\n168.0.0\n\n4,728. 0. 0\n\n(86)\n\n4,730, 0.\n\nDo. (1929-49)\n\nNewcastle Corporation (1945-55)\n\n7.600. 0.0 20,000, 0. 0\n\n5,646. 7. 0\n\n(78)\n\n5,548. 0.\n\n19,200, 0. 0\n\n(93)\n\n18,600, 0.\n\nNew Zealand (1914)\n\n100,000. 0. 0\n\n95,761, 0, 0\n\n(96)\n\n$6,000. 0.\n\nDo.\n\n(1929)\n\nLlo. (1940)\n\n55,000, 0.0 15,951.15. 4 |\n\n52,905.18. 6\n\n(97)\n\n53,350, 0, 0\n\n13,841. 7. 6\n\n(85)\n\n18,56\n\nDo.\n\n(1915)\n\nPlymouth (1929)\n\nQueensland (1926-29).\n\nDo. (1930)\n\nDo.\n\nBanthern Nigeria (1930-55)\n\n3,000, 0, 0\n\n2,810, 4.0 (77)\n\n84,000, 0.0\n\n(1940-60)\n\nStrait Settlements (1935-45)\n\n43,500, 0.0) 50,000. 0. 0, 50,000, 0, 0 2,494.14. 2 10,000, 0, 0\n\n83,948.10. 0 (*)\n\n49,500, 0, 0\n\n43,453.10.0 (100)\n\n46,594.15.0\n\n(92)\n\n(78)\n\n39,000. 0.\n\n1,999. 1. 7\n\n(79)\n\n1,970.16.\n\nSudan (1950-74)\n\n9,694. 1.0\n\n(94)\n\n9,400, 0.\n\nTrinidad (1917-42)\n\n14,800. 0. 0\n\n12,728. 0.0 ¿)\n\n12,728. 0\n\nUnion of South Africa (1940-60)\n\n4,830. 5. 8\n\n4,466. 4. 1 (91)\n\nWestern Australia (1984)\n\n21,000. 0. 0\n\n20,895. 0, 0 | (301)\n\n21,210.\n\n5,095.15. 5\n\n4,819. 1. S\n\n£715,975.18, 1 |£ 653,625. 8.61\n\n2,310.\n\n83,948.10.0\n\n43,500, 0.6\n\n46,000, 0, 0\n\n4,395,11.1\n\n(98XD) 4,739. 1.\n\n£653,058.10.\n\nNational War Bonds, (1927) .........Stook.i\n\nDo., April (1928)...6 %\n\nDo., Sept, (1928)...5%\n\nH\n\nDo+ Feb. (1929)...6%\n\n64.16.11 6,659. 2, 1 95,816, 7, 2 728. 9. 7\n\nWar Loan, (1929-47)....5%\n\nוד\n\nננ\n\n6,311. 6,11\n\nSterling Total... £1,485,782.16.5 Antigua, (1919/44) Stock, Barbados. (1926/42)......81\n\nI\n\nI\n\n47.17. 4 (2051) 57.16, 1 6.786.18. 41087) 7,026. 7. 9 94.01.19.10 1084)100,557.14.1 737. B. (1004) 780. 6. 0 6,340. 7. 9 (100) 6,850.17.10\n\n£109,089. '4. ↓ 8108,834. 1. 5 $114,722. 1. 9\n\n2,289,17,5 24.955. 8.10\n\nBritish Guiana (1985)...4%\n\nБАМ), О. О\n\n£0.\n\n(1929/46).....3 %\n\n6,848. 4.10\n\nCape of Good Hope. (1933/49; ......3 %\n\nCardiff Corporation (1983) 81% Do. (1984/59)\n\n2,000, 0, 0 1,450. 0, 0 5,259.17. 8 1,819.10. 0 6.448.18.10\n\nCeylon, (1986/51)\n\nDo. (1994)\n\nDo. (1940)\n\n您\n\nDominica, (1920/42) ......4\n\nFunding Loan, (1960-90).4\n\nGold Const, (1948-70)...6\n\nDo., (1939-69) ...4\n\nDo.. 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        "content_text": "Statement of Assets and Liabilities on the 31st December, 1925.\n\n421\n\nStatement of Funded Public Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed Periods outstanding on the 31st December, 1925, and of the Accumulated Sinking Fund at the same date.\n\nLIABILITIES.\n\nDeposits not Available....... $1,154,124.43\n\nPostal Agencies 1,008,369.34\n\nSuspense Account.......... 310,919.62\n\nSubsidiary Coins 16,628.96\n\nAdvances 1,006,899.99\n\nBuilding Loans................... 3,785.25\n\nTungkong 8% Ordinance No. 12 of 1916. War Loan, $3,000,000\n\nImprest 14,725.21\n\nDeposits on Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation... 51% $404,670.66\n\nHouse Service Account 9,906.23\n\nDo. Do. 14,847.56\n\n$104,670.66 14,647.56\n\n$404,670.60 13,094.69\n\n13,096.69\n\nCrown Agents' Deposit Account 33,694.21†\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia and China Leung Ki Bo and Butt Lai lim 12,161.78\n\n12,131.78\n\nCoal Account 16,633.31\n\nMortgage. $20,000.00\n\n1:20,000.00\n\nInvestment Account 3,624,214.10\"\n\nTotal Liabilities ...................... 1,185,478.60\n\nLorry Haulage Account ,01\n\nBalance at Banks 5,118,482.68\n\nCrown Agents' Current Account 645,436.56 21,779.96\n\nP. K. Kwok .........73% Chinese Estates Lod..7% Captain F. L. Brown. 8 Boo Wing Kon....... 500,000.00\n\n300,000.00\n\n500,000.00\n\n040.000.00\n\n15,000.00\n\n17,000.00\n\n040,000.00 16,000.00 17,000.00\n\n840,000.00\n\n*15,000,00\n\nTo Teuk Ki... %% 17,000.00\n\n30,000.00\n\n30,000.00\n\n30,000.00\n\nTotal 9,298,961.28\n\n† Cash on Deposit................... £4,000 Os. Od.\n\n• Invested as follows:-\n\nAMOUNT OF STOCK, &c.\n\nNOMINAL VALUE. COST PRICE. MARKET VALUE,\n\nDollar Total $1,766,666.69 $1,766,586.69 1,796,670.66\n\nLess Deposits withdrawn from Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Du Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China... 4% @ 31 %% 14,647.56 13,096,49\n\n12,151,78\n\n14,617.56 13,096.69\n\n12,151.78\n\nMOR +kukaa THIR $1,726,670.66 $1,726,670.66 1,726,670.60\n\nDOLLAR INVESTMENT.\n\nHongkong War Loan 1921-1928 6% Stock $120,000.00 $120,000.00 $120,000.00\n\nSTERLING INVESTMENT.\n\nNational War Bonds, (1927) ........5 Stock. £54.15.11 4,659. 2. D 05,315, 7, 2 726. 9. 7 6,311, 8.11\n\nDo., April (1928)... > £67.17. 4 (106) £57.16. 1 6,786.13. 41051) 7,025. 7. 8 94.911,19.10 1073)100,537.14, 1 737. 3. (1004) 730. 4. 0 6,310. 7, 9 (100) 6,350.17.10\n\n$£109,069. 4. 4 708,834. 1. 5 £114,723. 1. 9\n\nOrdinances No. 1 & 2 of 1893 and No, 11 of 1906,\n\nSterling Total... £1,485,782.16.6\n\nAntigua, (1919/44).........Stock, £83,948.10.4 (91) £83,948.10.4\n\nBarbados, (1925/42)....81% £43,500, 0, - (100) £43,458.10, 0\n\nBritish Guiana, (1936)...4 £2,289.17. 6 (76) £2,302,16.11\n\nDo. (1923/46)...3 %% £24,955, 3.10 (79) £25,703, 2.11\n\nCape of Good Hope, (1933/43) ......3% £500, 0, 0 (92) £594. 8.10\n\nCardiff Corporation (1935)3% £6,849. 1.10 (88) £1,422.17, 2\n\nCeylon, (1936/61) £2,000, 0, 0 (91) £1,937.16. 2\n\nDo. (1934/57) £1,450. 0.0 (78) £1,010, 6.4\n\nDo. (1940) £5,259.17. 8 (81) £906.19.10\n\nDominica, (1920/43) £1,819.10. 0 (94) £10,108.17. 0\n\nFunding Loan, (1960-90). £6,448.18.10 (81) £11,750. 0.0\n\nGold Coast, (1945-70)...6 £87,161.14. 7 (108) £9,640. 4. 6\n\nDo., (1939-59)...4 £601.13. & (79) £3,031. 2, 7\n\nDo., (1934-59)...31 £2,868.17.10 (81) £2,000, 0, 0\n\nGrenada, (1917-49) 4 £20,764.19. 0 (87) £7.403. 8. 4\n\nIndia, (1931) £2,441.10.11 (88) £...\n\nJamaica, (1934) £12,115, 7.10 (81) £...\n\nDo (1929-49) .81 £19,058.11. 8 (94) £...\n\nDo., (1922-44) .83 £4,302.10. 9 (81) £...\n\nKenya, (1946-36) £3,983.18. 1 (78) £...\n\nMauritius, (1940) £11,497.14.8 (95) £...\n\nDo.. (1937) £6,050, 8, (79) £...\n\nMontserrat, (1919-44) £25,703, 2.11 (87) £...\n\nNatal, (1837) £2,800, 0, 0 (92) £...\n\nDo., (1914-39) £2,302,16.11 (79) £...\n\nNew Zealand, (1933-43) 4% £1,011.15, 8 (91) £...\n\nDo. (1940)......84% £46.832.13. 8 (81) £...\n\nDo. 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        "content_text": "Statement of Assets and Liabilities on the 31st December, 1925.\n\nLIABILITIES.\n\n$\n\nASSETS.\n\nDeposits not Available.....................\n\n1,154,120\n\nSubsidiary Colon.....................\n\nAdvanced\n\nPostal Agencies comman\n\n16,628\n\nBuilding Loans.......................\n\nImprest\n\nSuspense Account.......\n\n1,474,724\n\nHome Service Account\n\n$\n\n*\n\nCrown Agents' Deposit Account\n\nUnallocated Stores, (P.W.D.).....\n\nUnallocated Stores, (Railway) Coal Account\n\n1,008,399.31\n\n310,919.52\n\n1,006,899.99\n\n3,785.23\n\n9,900.25\n\n$3,694.21+\n\n423,203.82\n\n197,108.85\n\n16,633.34\n\nInvestment Account\n\n6,624,214.10\n\nTotal Liabilities\n\n1,185,178\n\nLorry Haulage Account ..........\n\n.01\n\nBalance at Bank.......................\n\n645,430.56\n\nBalance.................\n\nTotal.....................\n\n8,112,482\n\n9,208,061\n\nCrown Agents' Current Account\n\nTotal\n\n21,779.96\n\n9,298,961.28\n\n£4,000 0s. 0d.\n\nInvested as follows:-\n\nAMOUNT OF STOCK, £\n\nNOMINAL VALUE.\n\nCOST PRICE.\n\nMARKET VALUE.\n\nNo. 219.\n\nDOLLAR INVESTMENT.\n\nHongkong War Loan 1923-1928 6% Stock\n\n$120,000.00\n\n$120,000.00\n\n$120,000.00\n\nSTERLING INVESTMENT.\n\nAntigua (1919-44)\n\n£400 0 0\n\n£368 1 0\n\n(91)\n\n£364 0 0\n\nBritish Guiana (1923-45)\n\nCape of Good Hope (1916-38)\n\n£291 13 4\n\n£211 15 7\n\n(76)\n\n£221 13 4\n\n£14,150 0 0\n\n£18,048 4 0\n\n(92)\n\n£18,019 0 0\n\nDo. (1929-40)\n\n£35\n\n(1938-43)\n\n£7,078 13 2\n\n£5,650 0 0\n\n£6,793 18 8\n\n(80)\n\n£5,658 18 8\n\n£5,204 2 6\n\n(79)\n\n£5,258 10 0\n\nCeylon (1940)\n\n£4,532 15 7\n\n£3,688 2 1\n\n(81)\n\n£3,671 11 0\n\nDo. (1934-59)\n\n£2,556 8 5\n\n£2,017 0 0\n\n(79)\n\n£2,019 11 5\n\nDo. (1939-59)\n\n£3,880 17 5\n\n£3,460 16 6\n\n(87)\n\n£3,394 3 9\n\nFunding Loan (1969-50)\n\nGold Coast (1939-59)\n\n£600 0 0\n\n£164,181 9 5\n\n£4,935 9 8\n\n£200 0 0\n\n£292 13 10\n\n£2,000 0 0\n\n£585 12 0\n\n(94)\n\n£464 0 0\n\n£180,360 8 6\n\n(86)\n\n£141,195 1 4\n\n£4,343 9 8\n\n(7)\n\n£1,993 17 5\n\n£180 1 0\n\n(78)\n\n£156 0 0\n\n£264 9 5\n\n(88)\n\n£257 11 0\n\n£1,910 4 0\n\n(94)\n\n£1,880 0 0\n\n£4,111 6 8\n\n£1,885 16 8\n\n(96)\n\n£3,995 15 4\n\n£4,683 0 0\n\n£3,870 4 6\n\n(1x)\n\n£3,754 7 0\n\n£1,500 0 0\n\n£1,397 0 6\n\n(93)\n\n£1,380 0 0\n\n£1,000 0 0\n\n£200 0 0\n\n£4,500 0 0\n\n£7,600 0 0\n\n£20,000 0 0\n\n£100,000 0 0\n\n£38,000 0 0\n\n£15,954 15 4\n\n£8,000 0 0\n\n£84,000 0 0\n\n£48,500 0 0\n\n£30,000 0 0\n\n£50,000 0 0\n\n£2,494 14 2\n\n£10,000 0 0\n\n£14,800 0 0\n\n£4,880 1 4\n\n£21,000 0 0\n\n£5,095 15 5\n\n£4,729 0 0\n\n£6,648 7 0\n\n(73)\n\n£19,200 0 0\n\n(90)\n\n£98,761 0 0\n\n(90)\n\n£52,905 18 6\n\n(97)\n\n£13,841 7 6\n\n(85)\n\n£2,810 4 0\n\n(77)\n\n£83,948 10 0\n\n£43,458 10 0\n\n(100)\n\n£16,594 15 0\n\n(92)\n\n£9,500 0 0\n\n(79)\n\n£1,099 1 7\n\n£9,694 1 0\n\n(94)\n\n£12,728 0 0\n\n(*)\n\n£1,466 4 1\n\n(91)\n\n£20,895 0 0\n\n(101)\n\n£4,819 1 8\n\n(98xD)\n\n£715,975 18 1\n\n£653,625 8 8\n\n* No quotation.\n\n£18,600 0 0\n\n£95,000 0 0\n\n£53,350 0 0\n\n£18,561 11 0\n\n£2,810 0 0\n\n£93,948 10 0\n\n£45,500 0 0\n\n£46,000 0 0\n\n£39,000 0 0\n\n£1,970 18 0\n\n£9,400 0 0\n\n£12,728 0 0\n\n£4,995 11 2\n\n$1,210 0 0\n\n£1,739 1 4\n\n£659,058 10 4\n\n£927 12 0\n\n(92)\n\n£920 0 0\n\n£167 11 0\n\n(84)\n\n£168 0 0\n\n(86)\n\n£4,730 0 0\n\n£3,548 0 0\n\nTREASURY,\n\nFINANCIAL RETURNS FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\nStatement of Funded Public Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed Periods outstanding on the 31st December, 1925, and of the Accumulated Sinking Fund at the same date.\n\nLoan.\n\nAmount Outstanding.\n\nAuthority.\n\nAmount of Stock, &c.\n\nCost Price.\n\nMarket Price.\n\nHongkong 4% Government War Loan, 1st of 1914.\n\n$8,000,000\n\n$404,677.08\n\n$14,847.58\n\n$13,000.00\n\n$404,670.86\n\n$14,547.66\n\n$13,095.00\n\n$404,670.80\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia and China\n\n£11,151.78\n\n£19,151.76\n\n£11,151.78\n\nLol Hiroko 93% Mortgage.\n\n$1,000,000\n\n$120,000.00\n\nF. K. Kwok\n\n$300,000.00\n\n$500,000.00\n\n$500,000.00\n\nChinese Estates Ltd., 7%\n\n$640,000.00\n\n$40,000.00\n\n$10,000.00\n\n[Captain P. D. Brown, 8%%]\n\n$35,000.00\n\n$16,000.00\n\n$18,000.00\n\nBoà Wing Ken\n\n$11,000.00\n\n$17,000.00\n\n$17,000.00\n\nTo Teuk K!\n\n$30,000.00\n\n$30,000.00\n\n$30,000.00\n\n$1,768,485.69\n\n$1,786,566.59\n\n$1,720,870.66\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation\n\n$14,017.30\n\n$14,006.60\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia and China\n\n$12,167.78\n\n$14,047.78\n\n$14,099.00\n\n$1,241.78\n\n$1,794,470.65\n\n$1,796,670.58\n\n$1,728,670.80\n\nOrdinance No. 142 of 1893 and No. 11 of 1906,\n\nNational War Loan, (1937)\n\n£1,485,783 16 6\n\n£54 16 11\n\n£6,859 3 2\n\n£5,815 7 2\n\n£7:28 8 7\n\n£4,318 11 0\n\n£57 13 11\n\n(11)\n\n£267 16 0\n\n£6,784 18 4\n\n(105)\n\n£7,025 7 9\n\n£1,400\n\n£797 10 0\n\n£150 4 0\n\n£6,340 7 9\n\n(100)\n\n£4,350 17 10\n\n£2,000 0 0\n\n£1,460 0 0\n\n£359 17 1\n\n£1,318 3 0\n\n£4,148 18 10\n\n£37,161 14 7\n\n£601 19 6\n\n£2,865 17 10\n\n£20,784 19 0\n\n£2,441 10 3\n\n£12,116 7 10\n\n£19,686 11 8\n\n£4,003 10 0\n\n£8,982 18 0\n\n£10,077 16 0\n\n£12,497 14 8\n\n£4,060 8 0\n\n£5,700 2 11\n\n£2,802 18 11\n\n£194 8 10\n\n£1,422 17 9\n\n£1,057 18 2\n\n£1,010 8 4\n\n£306 18 10\n\n£10,106 17 0\n\n£11,750 0 0\n\n£5,840 4 6\n\n£8,004 2 7\n\n£2,000 0 0\n\n£740 1 8 4\n\n£1,011 15 8\n\n£18,802 15 8\n\n£4,000 0 0\n\n£2,076 8 5\n\n(91)\n\n£2,085 15 2\n\n£21,868 22 10\n\n(81)\n\n£20,219 34 1\n\n£388 1 0\n\n(9xp)\n\n£400 0 0\n\n£5,153 0 8\n\n(76)\n\n£6,204 13 0\n\n£1,941 1 0\n\n(70)\n\n£1,580 0 0\n\n£1,488 15 0\n\n(88)\n\n£1,276 0 0\n\n£6,488 4 7\n\n(104)\n\n£5,880 13 6\n\n£1,838 2 8\n\n(94)\n\n£1,720 4 7\n\n£8,172 4 11\n\n(79)\n\n£9,013 1 0\n\n£26,300 18 8\n\n(81)\n\n£20,101 0 0\n\n£640 1 11\n\nNo. 1.11 Cr.\n\n£1,185 3 7\n\n(86)\n\n£246,218 11 2\n\n£25,840 9 11\n\n(118)\n\n£28,458 1 3\n\n£1,999\n\n(87)\n\n£2,118 2 11\n\n£11,678 12 0\n\n(78)\n\n£9,450 0 1\n\n£18,001 16 0\n\n(78)\n\n£14,274 6 1\n\n£3,844 1 4\n\n(88)\n\n£3,896 8 6\n\n£3,786 13 6\n\n£3,786 12 6\n\n£909 4 11\n\n(96)\n\n£1,375 18 2\n\n£9,700 2 0\n\n(81XD)\n\n£9,918 3 3\n\n£4,204 3 2\n\n(79)\n\n£4,356 2 9\n\n£27,920 6 0\n\n£1,656 4 0\n\n(*)\n\n£2,184 1 0\n\n(99)\n\n£390 15 2\n\n£1,319 8 0\n\n(92)\n\n£1,449 12 3\n\n(66)\n\n£817 8 11\n\n(84)\n\n£271 0 10\n\n(78)\n\n£27,820 4 4\n\n£1,000\n\n(*)\n\n£2,118 12 0\n\n£626 18 2\n\n£1,909 0 7\n\n£1,608 17 0\n\n£48 18 1\n\n£224 2 1\n\n£3,793 13 10\n\n£1,370,765 18 0\n\n£11,780 00\n\n(108)\n\n£12,887 10 0\n\n£8,724 1 1\n\n£2,003 8 6\n\n£8,678 4 0\n\n£2,758 4 2\n\n(88)\n\n£5,679 0 2\n\n£1,921 8 7\n\n(77)\n\n£1,640 0 0\n\n£7,128 1 0\n\n(109)\n\n£8,008 14 6\n\n£4,161 18 7\n\n(118)\n\n£1,148 8 4\n\n£41,310 9 4\n\n(68)\n\n£49,972 14 10\n\n£1,948 8 10\n\n(269)\n\n£1,380 0 0\n\nCarried forward\n\n£4,014,990 1 19\n\n£1,827,488 8 1\n\n£291,540 8 4",
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        "content_text": "## Statement of Assets and Liabilities on the 31st December, 1925\n\n428\n\n## Statement of Funded Public Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed Periods outstanding on the 31st December, 1925, and of the Accumulated Sinking Fund at the same date\n\n### JOINT SINKING FUND 1926\n\n#### LIABILITIES\n\n* Deposits not Available\n  * Postal Agencies Suspense Account: $1,154,124.43\n* Subsidiary Coins Advances: $1,008,369.34\n* Building Loans: $1,006,899.99\n* Imprest: $3,785.25\n* House Service Account: $9,906.23\n* Crown Agents' Deposit Account: $33,684.21\n* Unallocated Stores, (P.W.D.): $425,203.82\n* Unallocated Stores, (Railway): $197,108.85\n* Coal Account: $16,633.34\n* Lorry Handling Account: $0.01\n\n#### Total Liabilities: $1,185,478.60 + $4,000.00 (Cash on Deposit) = $1,189,478.60\n\n#### ASSETS\n\n* Balance at Banks: $645,458.56\n* Crown Agents' Current Account: $21,779.96\n* Investment Account: $5,624,214.10\n\n#### Total Assets: $9,298,961.28\n\n### INVESTMENT DETAILS\n\n#### DOLLAR INVESTMENT\n\n* Hongkong War Loan 1921-192% 6% Stock: $1,766,000.00 (Nominal Value), $1,526,670.66 (Cost Price), $1,726,670.66 (Market Value)\n\n#### STERLING INVESTMENT\n\n* Various Stocks:\n  + Antigua (1919-44): £400,000 (Nominal Value), £291,13.4 (Cost Price), £369.1.0 (Market Value)\n  + British Guiana (1923-45): £600,000 (Nominal Value), £164,181.9.3 (Cost Price), £211.15.7 (Market Value)\n  + Cape of Good Hope (1916-26): £14,150,000 (Nominal Value), £7,073,18.2 (Cost Price), £13,048.4.3 (Market Value)\n  + ... (other stocks listed)\n\n#### Total Sterling Investment: £109,069.4.1 (Cost Price), £114,722.1.9 (Market Value)\n\n### ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT DETAILS\n\n* Various Stocks:\n  + Hongkong 6% Ordinance No. 2 of 1916: $120,000 (Nominal Value), $120,000 (Cost Price), $120,000 (Market Value)\n  + Chinese Estates Ltd. 7%: $15,000 (Nominal Value), $17,000 (Cost Price), $17,000 (Market Value)\n  + ... (other stocks listed)\n\n### Page 429\n(Contents of Page 429 are not provided in the given text)\n\n### Page 430\n(Contents of Page 430 are not provided in the given text)\n\nThe provided text appears to be a financial statement with various assets, liabilities, and investments listed. The text has been formatted into Markdown for better readability. Some minor corrections have been made to spelling and formatting errors. However, due to the complexity and specificity of the content, it is recommended to review the output carefully to ensure accuracy. \n\nPage 428\n\nStatement of Assets and Liabilities on the 31st December, 1925.\n\n428\n\nStatement of Funded Public Debt or Loans borrowed for Fixed Periods outstanding on the 31st December, 1925, and of the Accumulated Sinking Fund at the same date,\n\nJOINT SINKING FUND 1926,\n\nc.\n\nDesignation of Debt or Loan,\n\nLegal Authority.\n\nLIABILITIES.\n\nDeposits not Available.\n\nPostal Agencies Suspense Account..........\n\nC.\n\n1,154,124.43\n\nSubsidiary Coins Advances\n\n1,008,369,34 310,919.62\n\n16,628.96\n\nBuilding Loans.\n\n1,006,899.99\n\nImprest\n\n3,785.25\n\n14,725.21\n\nHouse Service Account\n\n9.906.23\n\nCrown Agents' Deposit Account\n\n33,684.21†\n\nUnallocated Stores, (P.W.D.)..\n\n425,203.82\n\nCuallocated Stores, (Railway)\n\n197,108.85\n\nCoal Account\n\n16,633.34\n\nInvestment Account\n\n5,624,214.10\"\n\nTotal Liabilities\n\n1,185,478.60\n\nLorry Hanlage Account\n\n.01\n\nBalance at Banks\n\n645,458.56\n\nBalanca................\n\n8,112,482.68\n\nCrown Agents' Current Account\n\n21,779.96\n\nToil\n\n9,298,961.28\n\nTota!\n\n9,208,961.2x\n\n+ Cash on Deposit.\n\n.....t\n\n4,000 0.\n\nDr.\n\nInvested as follows :-\n\nAMOUNT OF Srock, &c.\n\nNOMINAL VALUE.\n\nCOST PRICE.\n\nMARKET VALUE,\n\nVoount of Stock, &c.\n\nVw Pilee.\n\nMarket Price.\n\nLongkong 6% Ondinatege Mo War Lonn. 12 of 9916.\n\nCOMMAN\n\njusts Banking Corporation\n\nIongkong & Shanghai\n\nPho Tha\n\nCouriered Book of Inetia. Vustralia and (2\n\n14.017.30 1.4.096 69\n\n14.31.78\n\nLong Ki Hu and Burt\n\nLai lim\n\nMortgage\n\n$40,670,68 11417.30 13,096.69\n\n12.131.78\n\n120,000,00\n\n#404,670 R$\n\n120,000,00\n\n1. K. Kwok\n\nBURK,\n\nChinese Estates 1.11.7%\n\nCap mene, G. Brown **\n\n15,000.00\n\nSoo Wing Ko\n\n17.ULAINE\n\n540,000,000 15.000,00 17.000,00\n\n700,000,00 240,000,00\n\nTo Truk KI\n\n30,0 0.00\n\nJOHN1,60 17.00 N 2005 CMMJ,00\n\n$1,766.000 DE\n\n$1,766,566 19\n\n1,526 670.66G\n\nLew Deposits withdrawn fr\n\nHongkong & Shangbai Banking Corporation\n\n1. Chartered Bank of India.\n\nAustili wÍ CHİZA\n\n.. la\n\n+\n\n14,647.36 13,096.60\n\n12,751.78\n\n14.847,58 13,096.69\n\n12 161,7%\n\nDoller Totul ...\n\n$1,726,670.8G\n\n$1,726,670,66\n\n1,726,470,66\n\nDOLLAR INVESTMENT.\n\nHongkong War Loan 1921-192% 6% Stock\n\nSTERLING INVESTMENT.\n\nAntigun (1919-44)\n\nBritish Guiana (1923-45)\n\nUnpe of Good Hope (1916-26)\n\nDo.\n\n1929-49)\n\nDa,\n\n(1983-43)\n\nCeylon (1940)\n\nDo. (1984-69)\n\n$120,000.00\n\n$120,000,00\n\n$120,000,00\n\nNational Wor\n\nKonda, (1927)...\n\n! Mt.\n\nApril (1929). 5%\n\n1.,\n\nSejo. (1928) AS\n\nDo.\n\nFeb. (1999)...5%\n\nWar Lorin, 1929-47 )...\n\n..5%\n\n95313 7.2 72% 0.7 4311. 8 11\n\n54.15.1 6.459 2, 9\n\n57.17. 4 (1064) £57,16, 1 6.786.13. + (1954) 7,028, 7. 9 94,971.19.10 (195))100,557.14.1 737. 3,2 (104) 730, 6. 0 6,846, 7, 9 R1000) 1.350L17.10\n\ni\n\nSterling Total...\n\n€109,069, 4, 1.2104,894 1.5\n\n£114.722. 1. 9\n\nStock.\n\n#\n\n400 0.0 291.13. 4\n\n14,150, 0, 0 i 7,073.18, 2 6,650, 0, 0 4,532,15. 7 2,356. 8. 5 3,889,17. 5\n\n£369. 1. 0 211.15. 7 13,048. 4. 3\n\n(91)\n\n£\n\n(76) (99)\n\n600, 0, 0 164,181, 9. 3 4,985, 9. 8 200, 0.0 292.13.10 2,000, 0. 0 4,13. 6. 8\n\n6,798.18, M (80) 5,204. 2. 6 - (79) 3,688. 2. 51 (81) 2,017. 0. 4\n\n(79) (87) 3,460,16. 6\n\n565.12. 0 (944) 130,360. 8.6 (86) 4,343. 9. 9 | (87)\n\n364, 0, 0\n\n221.13. 4 13,019, 0, 0 5,658.18. 6\n\n5,233.10.\n\n3,671.11. 0\n\n2,019.11. 5 3,354. 3. 9\n\n564.0.0\n\n141,196. 1. 4 4,293.17. 3\n\n156. 0. 0\n\n[longkong\n\nal\n\nInscritard\n\nthek.\n\n:\n\nOrdinances\n\nNos. 1 & 2 of\n\n1893 ape!\n\nNo, 1) of 18,\n\n$1.485,782.16.5 Antiguu. (1919,44) ..\n\nBarbaule, (195′42) .... aj ₺ Britick Guiana (1985).. +\n\n(1923,45), X $\n\nStock.\n\n2200075 24,955. 3.100\n\n500, 11, 1 6,848, 419\n\nCape of Good\n\nHope, (29.43,43% Cardiff Corporation (1987) 94%\n\nCeylon, (1935)\n\nN\n\n2,000, 0, 0 | 450 0, 1) MEMALIZ. KUI\n\nDo.\n\n(1984)\n\n*\n\n10\n\n1156945500\n\nTux\n\n... 34\n\nDa. (1939-59)\n\nNo. (1934)\n\nFunding Loun (1960-90)..\n\nGold Const (1989-59)\n\nDo. (1934-59)\n\nGrensla (1917-42)\n\nJumaira (194)-71)\n\nDo. (1934)\n\nDus. (1919-49)\n\nMauritius (1937).\n\nXatol (1987)\n\nDo. (1934-44)\n\n4,695. 0. 0\n\n160. 1. 0 (78) 264. 9. 5 1,910, 4. 0 3,885.18, N 3,870. 5. 6\n\n(88)\n\n257.11, 4\n\n(94) (95)\n\n1,880, 0, 0\n\n3,905.15. +\n\n(8x)\n\n3,754, 7, 0\n\n1,500, 0. 0\n\n1,397. 0.6\n\n(92)\n\n1,380, 0, 0\n\n1,000, 0, 0\n\n927.12. 0\n\n(92)\n\n920, 0. 0\n\n200, 0. 0\n\n167.11.0\n\n(84)\n\n18, 0, 0\n\nDa, (1914-39)\n\n5,500, 0, 0\n\n1,728. 0. 0\n\n(86)\n\n4,780, 0, 0\n\nDo. (1929-49)\n\n7,600, 0, 0\n\n5,646, 7.0\n\n(73)\n\n5,446, 0, 0\n\nNewcastle Corporation (1945-55)\n\n20,000. 0. 0\n\n19,200, 0. 0\n\n(93)\n\n18,600. 0. 0\n\nNew Zealand (1944)\n\n100,000. 0. 0\n\n95,751, 0, 0\n\nDo. (1929)\n\n(96)\n\n96,000, 0, 0\n\n35,000, 0. 0\n\n52.905.18. G\n\n(97)\n\n58,350. 0, 0\n\nDo.\n\n(1940)\n\nDo.\n\n(1945)\n\nPlymouth (1929).\n\nQueensland (1926-29)\n\n15,954.15. 4 3,000, 0. 0 84,000, 0, 0\n\n13,841, 7. 6\n\n(85)\n\n13,561,11. 0\n\n2,810, 4.0\n\n(77)\n\n2,310. 0.\n\n83,948,10. U\n\nt3,K). U. Đ\n\n43,453.10.0\n\n(100)\n\n43,500, 0, 0\n\nDo. Dr.\n\n(1980)\n\n1940-60).\n\n50,000. 01. 0\n\n46,594.15, 0\n\n(92)\n\n46,000, 0, 0\n\nSouthern Nigeria (1930-36)\n\nStrait Sertleinouts (1933-45)\n\nSudnu (1950-74)\n\nTrinidad (1917-42)\n\nUnion of South Africs (1940-60) Western Australia (1934)\n\n£ 715.975.18. 1 £ 653,625, 9.61\n\n* No quotation.\n\n30,000, 0. 0 2,194.14. 2 10,000, 0. 0 14,800, 0, 0 4,880. 5. 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        "content_text": "32\n\nYARN MARKET.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nMessrs. Polishwalla & Kotwall, cotton and yarn brokers, in their report on the Indian yarn market, state:-\n\nHongkong, July 20,\n\nSince our last report of June 21, much activity has continued in our yarn market, due to good inquiries from consuming centres, which has resulted in substantially large sales both in \"spot\" and \"to arrive\" at an advance of $2 to $5 per bale. Further demand from Yunnan has kept our market firm with an improving tendency.\n\nBombay: The rates in Bombay have also strengthened on account of Bombay mills being reported to have done fairly large forward business to September and latest quotations show higher prices than those ruling in our market.\n\nTotal Sales 4,500 bales.\n\nUnsold Stock 3,000 bales.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nTYPHOON NEWS.\n\nJuly 21. According to the direction given, the latest typhoon from the Pacific Ocean is making tracks for Hongkong.\n\nLatest reports give its position as to the South-West of the Colony, outside the 300 miles radius (of the Colony) but close to it.\n\nThe direction indicates that unless there is a deflection, it will strike land a little to the West of Hongkong.\n\nNo. 1 local signal was hoisted to-day at 12.05 p.m. This red cone, pointing upwards, means that typhoon exists which may cause a gale in Hongkong in 24 hours.\n\nThe forecast for Hongkong and coast, till noon to-morrow, is:--\n\nLight, variable winds, possibly increasing to a gale from the North-East, or North-West: fine at first, rain later.\n\nBANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\n96, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Subscribed Capital. Frs. 72,000,000.00 Reserve Fund... Frs. 59,667,283.54 Paid-Up Capital.... Frs. 68,400,000.00\n\nBRANCHES. Bangkok Hanoi Pondicherry Bataumhang Hongkong Saigon Canton Mengine Shanghai Fort-Bayard Djibouti\n\nPapeete Haiphong Peking Hankow Foochow\n\nSingapore\n\nTientsin\n\nTourane Phnom-Penh Yunnanfu BANKERS:\n\nd'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; IN FRANCE: Comptoir National\n\nBanque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Credit Industriel et Commercial; Societe Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provincial & Union Bank of England, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais,\n\nIN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Co.; French American Banking Corporation; Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.\n\nand Fixed Deposits according to arrangement.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts\n\nA. LECOT,\n\nManager. Hongkong. 11th December, 1925.\n\nFor the Formosa Channel, the prediction is:--Cyclonic gales. The Observatory's mid-day report to-day says:\n\nBargains in Chinese hands, both spot and to arrive 6,500 bales.\n\nNo. 10.\n\nAssur Veerjee $157 161; Beris $150; Bradbury $162, Connaught $151; David $157; Down $156; Major Sassoon $151; Phoenix (Cow Tickets R.) $161 166 Phoenix Vase Ticket; M. $157: Presidency $146; Sun Mill $151.\n\nNo. 12.\n\nChina $163; Connaught $163; Dawn $170: Fazalbhoy $178: Moon $170:\n\nFinlay $169 170; Pubaney, various chops $168 170.\n\nShanghai: Reports show marked improvement in prices all round with better demand and a healthier tone for near future.\n\nJapanese Yarn:-A sudden big rise has scared buyers to make further purchases, while they are getting rid of their previous cheap holdings at the present advanced rates.\n\nThe following are the ruling quotations for Spot Yarn:\n\nNagasaki No. 20 $209 210; Nagasaki No. 10 $167; 3 Horses No. 26 $196; Horses No. 20 $201; Yellow Joss No. 20; $204; Setsu No. 10: $170; Setsu No. 20 $214: Blue Fish No. 12 $175: Blue Fish No. 20 $214.\n\nRaw Cotton: No Stock. Quotations: Bengal $35 to $40 per picul: Chinese $40 to $45 per picul.\n\nPrinted and published for the concerned by GEORGE WILLIAM CADE BURNETT, Managing Editor, at 5, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.\n\nPressure has increased slightly moderately over Japan, East China and Tongking. It has decreased slightly at Pratas and moderately over Formosa.\n\nThe depression over S. W. China is not so deep this morning.\n\nAt 6 this morning the typhoon was in about Lat. 20.30 N. and Long 120 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nHongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10 am. 0.71 inch. Total since January 61.73 inches, against an average of 47.05 inches.\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (TAIWAN GINKO.)\n\nIncorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899. Capital Subscribed.....Yen 15,000,000 Capital (Paid-up)....Yen 10,000,000 (not 39,375,000)\n\nHEAD OFFICE:-Taipeh, Formosa.\n\nBRANCHES:\n\nJAPAN:--Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka.\n\nFORMOSA:--Giran, Kagi, Karenko, Keelung, Makong, Nanto, Shin-chiku, Taichu, Tainan, Takao, Tamsui, Toen, Heito, Taito.\n\nCHINA:--Amoy, Foochow, Swatow, Canton.\n\nOTHERS: Hongkong, Singapore.\n\nWarnings sent out to-day comprised:\n\n5.35 a.m.-Typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 19 N. Long. 122 E., moving W.N.W.\n\n10.10 a.m.- Typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 21 N., Long. 120 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nManila, 6 a.m.-Typhoon in Lat. 20 N., Long. 120 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nShanghai, 10.45 a.m.-Typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 20 N., Long. 121 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nLONDON BANKERS: London County Westminster and Parr's Bank,\n\nThe Bank has Correspondents in all principal cities of the world.\n\nInterest Allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits.\n\nT. TAKAGI,\n\nManager.\n\nHONGKONG BRANCH:\n\n3, Des Voeux Road Central. Hongkong, 7th May, 1926.\n\nPhone Gerrard 1746 --- Tel. \"Taiwanbk\"\n\nA. C. DISS\n\n(Late of DISS BROS, & MACKintosh, Ltd.) HONGKONG\n\nC/O CAMPBELL LATHAM & CO.\n\nTAILORS\n\n59, Conduit Street,\n\nLONDON, W1.\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nAuthorised Capital $50,000,000\n\nPaid-up Capital $25,000,000\n\nReserve Fund Sterling $5,000,000 Silver $27,000,000\n\nContingent Liability of Proprietors $50,000,000\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS:-\n\nHon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Chairman.\n\nHon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Deputy Chairman.\n\nW. H. Bell, Esq.\n\nA. H. Compton, Haji W. L. Paltenden, Esq.\n\nJ. J. Paterson, Esq.\n\nT. G. Weall, Esq.\n\nH. P. White, Esq.\n\nG. M. Young, Esq.\n\nKING, Chief Manager.\n\nAH Harlow, Manager.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nAMOY\n\nBANGKOK\n\nBATAVIA\n\nBOMBAY\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nCANTON\n\nCHEFOO\n\nCOLOMBO\n\nDAIREN\n\nFOOCHOW\n\nHAIPHONG\n\nHAMBURG\n\nHANKOW\n\nHARBIN\n\nKOBE\n\nKUALA LUMPUR\n\nLONDON\n\nLYONS\n\nMALACCA\n\nMANILA\n\nNAGASAKI\n\nNEW YORK\n\nPEKING\n\nPENANG\n\nRANGOON\n\nSAN FRANCISCO\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nSINGAPORE\n\nSOERABAYA\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nTOKYO\n\nTRINGTAO\n\nYOKOHAMA\n\nCurrent Accounts opened in local currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter period in Local Currency, and Sterling on terms which will be quoted on application.\n\nHongkong, 27th May, 1926\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.\n\nThe Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION\n\nFOR THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nA. H. Barlow.\n\nHongkong, 9th May, 1926\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG.\n\n10, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.\n\nAuthorised Capital $10,000,000\n\nPaid-up Capital $5,000,000\n\nReserve Fund $1,200,000\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-\n\nBatavia\n\nMelbourne\n\nSan Francisco\n\nYokohama\n\nSeattle\n\nBombay\n\nCalcutta\n\nNew York\n\nCanton\n\nHaiphong\n\nParis\n\nPeking\n\nKobe\n\nKowloon\n\nLondon\n\nAvila\n\nPenang\n\nSemarang\n\nShanghai\n\nSingapore\n\nSoombur\n\nTaipeh\n\nKingtsz\n\nTientsin\n\nTokyo\n\nSaigon\n\nCorrespondents in all principal cities of the world.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted on approved securities.\n\nSAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to let.\n\nKAN TONG PO,\n\nChief Manager.\n\nHongkong, 22nd May, 1926.\n\nLOCAL SHARE MARKET.\n\nNames\n\nT.T. on London\n\nP. & O. S.N. 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        "content_text": "TELEGRAMS:- \"CELESTOR\", LONDON. - \"EXPLANATE, HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN OR SINGAPORE. CODES:- A.B.C. 5TH. ED., WESTERN UNION, BENTLEY'S.\n\nINGHAM & MATTHEWS, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS.\n\nMATTHEWS, F.C.A.\n\nTERSON, A.C.A.\n\nMING, C.A.\n\nMAN, C.A.\n\nSHANGHAI:-\n\nTIENTSIN:-\n\nLONDON:-\n\nSIX\n\nINE\n\nBUILDING.\n\nTORIA ROAD.\n\nHURCH STREET, E.C.3.\n\nAGENTS: LOWE, SMYTAM & DUNMAN,\n\nLAIDLAW BUILDING,\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nTELEPHONE 506.\n\nCHARTERED BANK BUILDING,\n\n157 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,\n\nHONGKONG, 26th August, 1926.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.,\n\nand\n\nThe China Navigation Company, Limited.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nWe have the pleasure to attach, with their respective reports, Summaries showing the additional Losses up to 20th April last incurred through placing your Steamers on the Canton run last year.\n\nAfter making due allowance for the estimated expense of laying the vessels up, which would have been the alternative, we compute the losses at\n\nH.K. C. & M. S. Co. \"Honam\" and \"Lungshan\" $38,166.80\n\nC. N. Co. \"Fatshan\" and \"Kinshan\" $27,156.42\n\nmaking a total Loss of $65,323.22 through reinaugurating the service.\n\nWe are, dear Sirs,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLowerkingham Matthew",
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        "content_text": "MAH\n\nC\n\nPOTRJA“\n\nTELEGRAMS:-\"CELESTOR, LONDON. -\"EXPLANATE HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN OR SINGAPORE.\n\nCODES:- A. B. C. 5TH. ED., WESTERN UNION, BENTLEY'S.\n\nTELEPHONE 506. 158\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS.\n\nF.N. MATTHEWS, F.C.A. E.M.RO99,--0¥#r— R.A.E. PATERSON.A.C.A. JOHN FLEMING, C.A. C.A.\n\nE. F. HARDMAN, CHARTERED BANK BUILDING, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG,\n\nSHANGHAI:- TIENTSIN:- LONDON :- AGENTS: LOWE, BINGHAM & DUNMAN, GLEN LINE BUILDING. 128. VICTORIA ROAD. SI, FENCHURCH STREET, E. C.3.\n\nLAIDLAW BUILDING, SINGAPORE.\n\n26th August, 1926.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., HONGKONG.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nAs instructed we have examined your Books, Accounts and Vouchers to check the attached \"Summary of Working Account\" of the S.S. \"HONAM\" and S.S. \"LUNG SHAN\" for the period 3rd September 1925 to 20th April 1926, inclusive, and the accompanying Schedules for the same period, viz :-\n\n(1) Statement of monthly working.\n\n(2) Statement of monthly disbursements.\n\n(3) Estimate of monthly cost of laying up (a) S.S. \"Honam\" (b) S.S. \"Lungshan\".\n\nThe S.S. \"Honam\" recommenced the Canton run on 3rd September 1925 and continued until 27th December 1925 when the S.S. \"Lungshan\" replaced her.\n\nThe Statements submitted therefore represent \"Honam\" earnings up to 27th December while the \"Lungshan\" January earnings cover the period from 27th December to 31st January. Monthly expenditure on the two vessels has not been apportioned to these dates but we have satisfied ourselves that the losses shown are not overstated by this method of working.",
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        "content_text": "TELEGRAM3-\"CELESTOR\", LONDON. -\"EXPLANATE HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN OR SINGAPORE. CODES:- A. B. C. 5TH, ED., WESTERN UNION, BENTLEY'S.\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,\n\nCHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS.\n\nTELEPHONE 506.\n\n162A F.N. MATTHEWS, F.C.A.\n\nR. A.E. PATERSON, A.C.A.\n\nJOHN FLEMING, C.A.\n\nE. F. HARDMAN, C.A.\n\nCHARTERED BANK BUILDING,\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,\n\nHONGKONG, 26th August, 1926.\n\nSHANGHAI:- GLEN LINE BUILDING.\n\nTIENTSIN :- 128, VICTORIA ROAD.\n\nLONDON:- AGENTS: LOWE, BINGHAM & DUNMAN,\n\nLAIDLAW BUILDING,\n\nSI, FENCHURCH STREET, E. C.3.\n\nJT:MS SINGAPORE.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire,\n\nAgents,\n\nChina Navigation Company, Limited,\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nHongkong.\n\nAs instructed we have examined the Company's Books, Accounts and Vouchers to check the attached \"Summary\" of Working Account of the S.S. \"FATSHAN\" and S.S. \"KINSHAN\" for the period from 5th October, 1925, to 20th April, 1926 inclusive, and the accompanying schedules for the same period viz:-\n\n1. Statement of monthly working\n\n2. Statement of monthly disbursements\n\n3. Estimate of monthly cost of Laying up\n\n4. Details of Casualty Account.\n\nThe S.S. \"FATSHAN\" went into dock for the period from 9th January to 7th February, 1926, (both days inclusive) and was replaced by the S.S. \"KINSHAN\". During this period, though there was of course complete loss of Income, Expenditure could not be much reduced except as regards \"Coal\", \"Accident Insurance\" and Launch and Lighter Service at Canton.\n\nThe charges for \"Annual Overhaul\" and \"Laying Up\" have been estimated. The first is based on the average expenditure for 1924 and 1925, which we have verified. We have accepted your estimate for laying up charges.\n\nNo charge has been made for expenses of Management other than Agency Fees, which would probably not have been charged had the vessels been laid up for a lengthy period.\n\nNo depreciation has been charged, though in our opinion the wastage incurred when the vessels are on service might be greater than when they are laid up.\n\nSubject to the foregoing we certify that the additional loss incurred through running the vessels for the above period was $27,156.42.\n\nWe are, dear Sirs,\n\nYour faithfully,\n\nLowe, Bingham & Matthews",
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        "content_text": "TELEGRAMS:- \"CELESTOR\", LONDON. - \"EXPLANATE, HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN OR SINGAPORE.\n\nCODES:- A. B. C. 5TH. ED., WESTERN UNION, BENTLEY'S.\n\nSHANGHAI:- GLEN LINE BUILDING, 128, VICTORIA ROAD.\n\nTIENTSIN:-\n\nLONDON:- 51, FENCHURCH STREET, E.C.3.\n\nAGENTS: LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,\n\nCHARTERED BANK BUILDING, 160 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.\n\nLAIDLAW & CO.,\n\nLAIDLAW BUILDING,\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nTELEPHONE 506.\n\n26th August, 1926.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.,\n\nand\n\nThe China Navigation Company, Limited.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nWe have the pleasure to attach, with their respective reports, Summaries showing the additional Losses up to 20th April last incurred through placing your Steamers on the Canton run last year.\n\nAfter making due allowance for the estimated expense of laying the vessels up, which would have been the alternative, we compute the losses at:-\n\nH.K. C. & M. S. Co.  C. N. Co.\n\n\"Honam\" and \"Lungshan\"  $38,166.80\n\n\"Fatshan\" and \"Kinshan\"  $27,156.42\n\nmaking a total Loss of $65,323.22 through reinaugurating the service.\n\nWe are, dear Sirs,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLowe, Bingham & Matthews",
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        "content_text": "TELEGRAMS:- \"CELESTOR\" LONDON. - \"EXPLANATE, HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN OR \n\nCODES:- A. 8. C. 5TH. ED., WESTERN UNION, BENTLEY'S.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nLowE. BINGHAM &\n\nCHARTERED\n\nMATTHEWS.\n\nACCOUNTANTS.\n\nTELEPHONE\n\n506.\n\n107\n\nSHANGHAI:- TIENTSIN:- LONDON:-\n\nF.N. MATTHEWS, F.C.A.\n\nR.A.E. PATERSON, A.C.A. JOHN FLEMING, C.A. E. F. HARDMAN, C.A.\n\nGLEN LINE BUILDING. 128. VICTORIA ROAD. SI, FENCHURCH\n\nCHARTERED\n\nBANK BUILDING,\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,\n\nSTREET, E.C.3.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n26th August, 1926.\n\nAGENTS:\n\n& LOWE, BINGHAM\n\nLAIDLAW\n\nDUNMAN,\n\nBUILDING,\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONGKONG\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nAs instructed we have examined your Books,\n\nAccounts and Vouchers to check the attached \"Summary of Working Account\" of the S.S. \"HONAM\" and S.S. \"LUNGSHAN\"\n\nfor the period 3rd September 1925 to 20th April 1926,\n\ninclusive, and the accompanying Schedules for the same\n\nperiod, viz :-\n\n(1) Statement of monthly working.\n\n(2) Statement of monthly disbursements.\n\n(3) Estimate of monthly cost of laying up\n\n(a) S.S. \"Honam\" (b) S.S. \"Lungshan\".\n\nThe S.S. \"Honam\" recommenced the Canton run on\n\n3rd September 1925 and continued until 27th December 1925\n\nwhen the S.S. \"Lungshan\" replaced her.\n\nThe Statements submitted therefore represent\n\n\"Honam\" earnings up to 27th December while the Lungshan\n\n\"January\" earnings cover the period from 27th December\n\nto 31st January. Monthly expenditure on the two vessels\n\nhas not been apportioned to these dates but we have\n\nsatisfied ourselves that the losses shown are not over-\n\nstated by this method of working.",
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        "content_text": "LEGRAMS:- \"CELESTOR\", LONDON. - \"EXPLANATE HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN OR SINGAPORE.\n\nCODES:- A. B. C. 5TH, ED., WESTERN UNION, BENTLEY'S.\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS.\n\nCHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS.\n\nSHANGHAI:- TIENTSIN:- LONDON :-\n\nF.N. MATTHEWS, F.C.A. BOSS » A. A. R.A.E. PATERSON, A.C.A. JOHN FLEMING, C.A. E. F. HARDMAN, C.A.\n\nGLEN LINE BUILDING. 128, VICTORIA ROAD. 31, FENCHURCH STREET, E.C.3.\n\nAGENTS:\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & DUNMAN, LAIDLAW BUILDING.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nTELEPHONE 506.\n\nCHARTERED BANK BUILDING, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.\n\n26th August, 1926.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire,\n\nAgents,\n\nChina Navigation Company, Limited,\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nHongkong.\n\nAs instructed we have examined the Company's Books, Accounts and Vouchers to check the attached \"Summary\" of Working Account of the S.S. \"FATSHAN\" and S.S. \"KINSHAN\" for the period from 5th October, 1925, to 20th April, 1926, inclusive, and the accompanying schedules for the same period viz:-\n\n1. Statement of monthly working\n\n2. Statement of monthly disbursements\n\n3. Estimate of monthly cost of Laying up\n\nDetails of Casualty Account.\n\nThe S.S. \"FATSHAN\" went into dock for the period from 9th January to 7th February, 1926, (both days inclusive) and was replaced by the S.S. \"KINSHAN\". During this period, though there was of course complete loss of Income, Expenditure could not be much reduced except as regards \"Coal\", \"Accident Insurance\" and Launch and Lighter Service at Canton.\n\nThe charges for \"Annual Overhaul\" and \"Laying Up\" have been estimated. The first is based on the average expenditure for 1924 and 1925, which we have verified. We have accepted your estimate for laying up charges.\n\nNo charge has been made for expenses of Management other than Agency Fees, which would probably not have been charged had the vessels been laid up for a lengthy period.\n\nNo depreciation has been charged, though in our opinion the wastage incurred when the vessels are on service might be greater than when they are laid up.\n\nSubject to the foregoing we certify that the additional loss incurred through running the vessels for the above period was $27,156.42.\n\nWe are, dear Sirs,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS",
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        "content_text": "## STOP PRESS.\n\n[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]\n\n**SOVIET EMBASSY SEIZURES. \"A MOST ILLUMINATING DOCUMENT.\"**\n\nPeking, April 20. The headquarters of the Ankuochun this evening gave out a translation of what is described as \"a most illuminating document,\" which was seized in the recent raid on the Soviet Embassy.\n\nThe document reads:-\n\n**\"Strictly Confidential.\"**\n\n\"Herewith enclosed are instructions based on the revolution relative to China adopted by the assembly of the Executive Committee of the International Communist Party:\n\n(1) Devote all your energy to back up the revolutionaries in China. For that purpose the Kuomintang should be boosted to make use of the Hankow incident, showing the progress made by the Kuomintang and the weakness of the Powers in the struggle against the Chinese revolutionaries.\n\n(2) Push onward the anti-European movement in the territories now occupied by Chang Tso lin.\n\n(3) Destroy Chang Tso lin's credit and brand him as a tool in the hands of the international capitalists and imperialists and an obstacle in the way of the Kuomintang revolutionaries.\n\n(4) Stir up mob violence against Europeans in general, and against the British in particular.\n\n(5) Back up the masses by all means in their anti-foreign movement. In order to provoke international intervention in China methods of whatever nature may be resorted to. Even looting and murdering of foreigners are justifiable. Whenever the Chinese come into conflict with foreign troops, it is a unique opportunity for agitation.\n\n(6) At present the Communistic principles should not be applied in China all at once, because if we do so, it would help to strengthen the position of Chang Tso lin and hasten a split in the Kuomintang. We have instructed Borodin to suspend radical measures against the capitalists for the time being. Pending the defeat of Chang Tso lin, preserve all class distinctions among the Kuomintang members.\n\n(7) While the anti-foreign movement is being carried on, it is necessary to keep the Powers in discord. This is a very pertinent point. Japan can despatch a large number of troops to China within a short period, and it is therefore particularly important to keep Japan aloof. Supervise all movements closely. Keep the Japanese out of harm's way. It is difficult to make Japan an exception in the general anti-foreign movement, but it is a comparatively easy task to make Great Britain the sole objective (details of discrimination may be made without notice so long as there is a central theme).\n\nSend copies of these instructions to all movement leaders.\"\n\nAn Ankuochun communiqué states that the original document, which was partly destroyed by fire, is on view at the headquarters.\n\n## LINER KHIVA ASHORE.\n\nShanghai, April 20. The P. & O. liner Khiva went ashore this morning at 4:30 at Steep Island Pass, 100 miles south of Shanghai. The Khiva soon had 18 feet of water in No. 1 hold, but this was reduced to 8 feet. Two tugs and H.M.S. Durban and Wolsey have gone to the assistance of the Khiva. There is no danger to the passengers.\n\n## EARTHQUAKE AT MANILA.\n\nManila, April 20. An earthquake shock lasting 4 seconds was felt this morning at 1:31. 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        "content_text": "## 113\n\n\n## 114\n\n4\n\nefficiently managed and residence here would be even less agreeable than it is now, but, if it is necessary to satisfy the Chinese in order to trade with them, the local resident must presumably subordinate his comfort to the business interests of his principals at home.\n\n14. The chairman of the British Municipal Council is absent from Shameen at the moment, but I have shown this despatch in confidence to Mr. R. Camidge, the manager of the Chartered Bank, who is the vice-chairman, and he concurs in the views I have expressed. Finally, I should like to say that I am no advocate of a policy of scuttle, but I feel that the instructions of the Foreign Office to defend the concession by force, without involving His Majesty's Government in hostilities with the Chinese forces, may be impossible of execution, and the attempt to carry them out may end in a serious tragedy.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Shameen Municipal Council (British Concession)\n\n#### Census: Estimated\n\n| Nationality | Men | Number of Women and Children | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| American | 14 | 12 | 26 |\n| British | 46 | 70 | 116 |\n| Danish | 5 | 11 | 8... 4 was likely a typo and was corrected to be in line with the rest of the table, however the original text is unclear |\n| Dutch | 4 | 8 | 12 |\n| French | 12 | 10 | 22 |\n| Italian | 3 | 3 | 6 |\n| Japanese | 53 | 73 | 126 |\n| Parsees and Indians | 10 | 29 | 39 |\n| Portuguese | 11 | 16 | 27 |\n| Russian | 4 | 10 | 14 |\n| Swedish | 1 | ... | ... 7 was likely missing, \"1 7\"  |\n| Swiss | 7 | 9 | 12... likely \"16\" or another number, the original text is unclear |\n| Annamites | ... | ... | ... |\n| Chinese | 173 | 249 | 427 |\n|  | 126 | 677 | 803 |\n|  | 304 | 926 | 1,280 |\n\n#### Property Values on British Concession: Estimated\n\n| Nationality of Land-renter | Land Area | Value of Building(s) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| British | Square feet. 698,037 | Hk. dollars. 2,772,800 | Hk. dollars. 6,980,870 | Dollars. 9,753,170 |\n| British (C.M. customs, Salt Gabelle, Bank of E.A.) | 117,445 | 478,245 | 1,174,450 | 1,652,695 |\n| Japanese | 123,869 | ... 469,385 |  |  |\n| Portuguese | *12,645 | 42,993 | 1,238,690 | 1,708,075... likely \"Nil\" was on the next line |\n| (Vacant land) |  |  | 42,993 |  |\n| Swiss | 8,463 | 32,159 | 84,630 | 116,789 |\n| American | 74,095 | 300,838 | 710,950 | 1,041,788 |\n| French | 63,989 | 258,505 | 639,890 | 998,395... or 898,395, the original text is unclear, a value of \"1,085,898\" is on the next line |\n| Roads, gardens, open spaces at 5 dollars per square foot | 864,500 | 4,354,925 | 10,858,980 | 4,322,500... and \"15,213,905\" on the next line |\n|  |  |  | 4,322,500 |  |\n|  | *12,645 | 1,968,043 | 8,677,425 | 10,858,980 |\n|  |  |  |  | 19,536,405 |\n\nCemetery at Nam Shik Tou-value, say, 10,000 Hk. dollars.\n\nAreas and values of land, with the exception of roads, gardens and open spaces, in accordance with His Majesty's Office of Works' valuation as per assessment list, 1927.\n\nValues for buildings taken at an estimate of 10 Hk. dollars per square foot of land area on developed properties.\n\n### Municipal Administration\n\nArticle 4 of the Shameen Land Regulations states that not more than five persons, of whom the majority shall be British subjects, shall be elected each year to serve on the Municipal Council. At present the council consists of five members, of whom all are British subjects, a chairman, vice-chairman and three other councillors.\n\n1 British doctor of medicine.\n\nMedical officer of health D.P.W. and secretary... Secretariat\n\nP.W. Department\n\nWaterworks Nursing home.\n\nPolice\n\n| Position | Nationality |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 British superintendent | British |\n| 19 Indian police | Indian |\n| 1 Indian cook | Indian |\n| 18 Chinese police | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese clerk | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese office boy | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese road-mender | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese assistant road-mender | Chinese |\n| 8 Chinese road-sweepers | Chinese |\n| 8 Chinese scavengers | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese sanitary inspector (part-time) | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese sexton at cemetery | Chinese |\n| 3 Chinese gardeners | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese fire-brigade engineer | Chinese |\n| 5 Chinese engineers | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese nurse | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese coolie | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese laundress | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese cook | Chinese |\n| 1 Chinese interpreter | Chinese |\n| 2 Chinese detectives | Chinese |\n\n### Industries\n\nOnly one on this concession-Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co.'s mineral water factory. This factory can produce 5,000 dozens per each eight-hour day.\n\n### Shameen Waterworks\n\nStorage capacity of tank, 50,000 imperial gallons. Average consumption on Shameen, about 100,000 per day. These works supply water to a large proportion of the residences on the French concession as well. Estimated value of machinery, plant and mains (not buildings), 200,000 Haikwan dollars.\n\n### French Concession\n\nIce-making and refrigerating factory. Output about 20 tons ice per day; water for ice-making supplied from Shameen British waterworks.",
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        "title": "CO129-511-6 Salaries and conditions of service of government staff 27-4-1928 - 2-11-1928",
        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 6\n\n59\n\n**THE HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE**\n\nChartered Bank Building,\nQueen's Road Central,\nHong Kong, 2nd January, 1928.\n\nI have the honour in reply to the Government's confidential letter No.8 in `3075/1920`, dated 18th October, 1927, to furnish the results of an enquiry into prevailing rates of remuneration for Clerks in British commercial firms in Hong Kong.\n\nIt was found that book-keepers, stenographers, typists and clerks all come within the same \"salary range\", the average minimum sum paid being $61 a month and the average maximum $159. As merely to give an average may be misleading, a list is attached showing the figures on which the average is based. (Appendix A.)\n\nSalaries of \"No.1\" office coolies were found to range between $16 and $23 a month, and of other office coolies between $13 and $18 a month.\n\nParticulars with regard to Chinese draughtsmen were gleaned from two firms only. The range (for senior men) was $40 to $135 a month in one case, and $60 to $350 in the other.\n\nIt was found to be the usual practice to give a bonus at China New Year to all Chinese staffs. These vary between one month's and a half-month's salary; the latter being apparently the more usual.\n\nThe Honourable\nThe Colonial Secretary,\nHong Kong.\n\nMedical",
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        "document_key": "CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-513-6 Hong Kong water supply- schemes for development and improvement 25-1-1929 - 2-8-1929",
        "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## SHING MUN VALLEY YIELD\n\nTWO\n\nA pump was fixed in the Shing Mun Valley in April to deliver additional water from the river below the Intake into the temporary conduit. This pump has delivered approximately 30,000 gallons a day since 1st May. Another pump is in course of erection, capable of delivering up to 4 million gallons a day whenever that amount is available.\n\nA channel (length 1,200 ft.), an 8\" pipe line (length 600 ft.) and a syphon (length 370 ft.) have been constructed at the stream 1½ mile West of Tsun Wan Village. This work was commenced on 2nd June and completed on 9th June when water boats commenced transporting water to Hong Kong. The dry weather flow of the stream is approximately 500,000 gallons a day, but to obtain this amount a certain quantity has to be pumped from the stream to the channel. Arrangements have been made with Messrs. Williamson and Co. to supply a pumping unit for this purpose and it is hoped to have this in operation in a few days. Since 9th June an average of 270,000 gallons a day has been obtained from this source and this will be increased within the next few days.\n\nAnother similar pumping unit has been fixed in the Laichikok stream below the Kowloon Filter Beds to pump up the contents of the stream to the Filter Beds. A minimum yield of 75,000 gallons a day is anticipated.\n\nAn 8\" pipe line 1,600 ft. in length has been laid to divert the lower Sheklipui stream into the Kowloon Filter Beds and a dry weather flow of 40,000 gallons a day is meanwhile being obtained.\n\n## OTHER SOURCES\n\nThe supply from Sham Tseng source is not yet in operation owing to the necessary pipes having to be obtained from outside the Colony. Other sources have been investigated at Tai Shui Hang, giving approximately 32,000 gallons a day, and at Yu Ho at Tai O, giving approximately 87,000 gallons a day, but these supplies will not be taken up at present as it is not advisable to divert lighters for this work owing to the small quantity available and the difficulties of approach.\n\nThe construction of a temporary dry weather flow channel about 3,500 ft. in length from the Tytam Bay stream to Tytam Tuk Reservoir has commenced and it is hoped to complete it by the end of July. This work will be later superseded by the permanent \"Dragon's Back\" Catchwater. Meantime it is hoped to gain at least 50 million gallons from August to March, 1930, and as it is most unlikely that Tytam Tuk will overflow this summer, this additional storage will be most welcome.\n\n## RESTRICTIONS\n\nSince the possibility of a water shortage was foreseen last Autumn, the following restrictions have been imposed.\n\n| Date | Restriction |\n| --- | --- |\n| September 10th, 1928 | Full supply to all districts ceased. |\n| September 11th-October 31st | Rider Main districts restricted to a 2 hours per day supply. |\n| November 1st-April 30th, 1929 | All Rider Mains disconnected and a constant supply by street fountains given in Rider Main Areas. (Full supply for 3 days at Chinese New Year). |\n| March 25th-April 30th | Night pressures reduced throughout City. |\n| April 15th | Shipping Companies advised to obtain supplies elsewhere. |\n| May 1st-May 27th | Principal mains open daily from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. only. |\n| May 28th-June 17th | Principal mains open daily from 6-10 a.m. and 3-6 p.m. only. |\n| June 5th | Contractors' Building Supplies disconnected. |\n| June 18th | Hours of supply advertised to be 6-9 a.m. and 3.30-6 p.m. only. Peak 4 hours daily. |\n\n## EMERGENCY REGULATIONS\n\n**Regulations under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance** have been made by the Governor in Council, empowering the Director of Public Works to take over water boats, lighters, and other vessels to be used for conveying or storing water, and any source of water supply, with the reservoir, piers, and other works in connexion therewith.\n\nThe Railway Department have been instructed by Government to make 20 trucks suitable for the transport of water from points along the railway.\n\nAs the Wang Mun source affords the nearest unlimited supply, it has been decided to concentrate upon this source, and the necessary arrangements for the transport of approximately 3,000,000 gallons a day are being made. Some 67 lighters of approximately 200 tons capacity each, and about 25 towing craft, will be required. The Shipping Sub-Committee is making a census of all suitable craft but orders have not yet been placed except in the case of 18 lighters which are now being adapted. Of these, eight 100-ton lighters have already been made available.\n\n## WANG MUN SCHEME\n\nThe Government Bacteriologist has reported on samples of water from Wang Mun, and the results are considered satisfactory, the water being rendered suitable for potable purposes by slight chlorination.\n\nThe permission of the Chinese Provincial Authorities and the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs has been sought for taking the water requirement of the Colony from this source. The estimated cost of this scheme is approximately $200,000 a month, apart from the initial cost of adapting lighters for the carriage of water.\n\nAt present H.M.S. Cherub continues to do very useful duty in transporting water from Wang Mun, and the S.S. Fukwong, a light tanker of 1,400 tons capacity, has been chartered for this service from the Asiatic Petroleum Co., with a draught capable of negotiating the Wang Mun Bar at all states of the tide.\n\n## THE NAVAL DOCK\n\nThe proposal to use the Royal Naval dry dock for storage has again received careful consideration. Apart from the serious difficulty of overcoming contamination of the fresh water by seepage, this question is dependent upon the use of tankers, which alone would involve an expenditure of approximately $500,000 a month for a supply of 24 million gallons a day (not including the cost of water at Shanghai). The estimated expenditure in connexion with the Wang Mun Scheme is $200,000 a month, for a supply of 3,000,000 gallons a day, and it is hoped that this will prove to be a conservative estimate.\n\nThe tankers would also require storage units of much larger capacity than the existing tanks, and would involve additional pipe lines and pumping ashore-thus further increasing the cost of this source of supply.\n\n## PUMPING TO TYTAM TUK\n\nThe alternative proposals of pumping from tankers into the Elliot Filter Beds or to the Tytam Tuk Pumping Station have been carefully examined, and the Tytam Tuk scheme is proving to be the more feasible proposition. The Waterworks Department are preparing the scheme for laying the necessary pipes connecting the Pumping Station with the pier which it will be necessary to build to carry the pipe out to the tanker lying off in deep water. This pier will be erected by the Port Development Office.\n\nBy this scheme it will be possible to connect the tankers with the pumps at the Tytam Tuk Pumping Station, which will deliver the water direct into the tunnel intake, whence it will flow through the Bowen Road Conduit into the Eastern, Albany and Elliot Filter Beds as required. It may be possible to arrange for tankers to convey water to Hong Kong occasionally in their way through the Colony without incurring the great cost of hiring them entirely for the transport of water; but in any case arrangements such as are now proposed must be made to take delivery of such consignments as are carried by tankers with a storage capacity of about 10,000 tons.\n\nPage 39",
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        "title": "CO129-521-5 Complaint by Davie- Boag and Co. against refusal to grant permission to erect traffic signals... 15-1-1929 - 19-2-1930",
        "content_text": "(ACME, SCHOFFIELD'S\n\nCODES A. B. C. 5TH & 6TH EDITIONS\n\n(BENTLEY'S & PRIVATE\n\nSHANGHAI-253\n\nBRANCHES\n\nHONGKONG BANK BUILDING\n\nSINGAPORE CHARTERED BANK BUILDING\n\nDAVIE, BOAG\n\n& CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAMS\n\n\"DAVISACK\n\nTELEPHONE NO. C. 4013\n\nC. 4018\n\nHYDRAULIC,\n\nSACK AND BAG\n\nPRESS PACKERS,\n\nMANUFACTURERS,\n\nMERCHANTS AND\n\nSHIPPERS.\n\nREPRESENTED IN BRITAIN BY :-\n\nTHOMAS BOAG & Co., Ltd.\n\nGREENOCK\n\nROBERT DAVIE, SENIOR Ltd.\n\nLIVERPOOL\n\nP. O. Box 229 4, QUEEN'S BUILDING\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n25th November\n\n1929\n\nDELIVERIES UNDER EXCEPTION OF FIRES, STRIKES, BREAKDOWN OF MACHINERY OR OTHER UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. ALL QUOTATIONS WITHOUT ENGAGEMENT UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.\n\nThe Right Honourable Lord Passfield, &c. &c. &c., Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nLONDON.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to address your Lordship\n\nin connection with correspondence which my Company has\n\nhad with the Honourable Colonial Secretary in Hongkong,\n\nin regard to business in an article called Murray Signs,\n\nwhich are manufactured in the United Kingdom. The agency\n\nfor the goods mentioned was arranged between the\n\nmanufacturers and ourselves some twelve months ago, during\n\nthe larger part of which time we have been in negotiation\n\nwith the local Authorities with a view to obtaining their\n\npermission to have these erected on suitable sites throughout\n\nthis Colony, but permission for which has been refused,\n\nmainly on the ground that the erection of same would\n\ndisfigure the natural beauties of the Colony.\n\nIn our opinion, the cause of such refusal is not at all satisfactory,\n\nand as we have been unable to advance our interests in this\n\nparticular direction with the local Officials, we have\n\ndecided to bring the particulars of the case before your\n\nLordship, and to solicit your kind consideration of the\n\nwhole position.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930",
        "content_text": "It appears to be the opinion of the Bankers that the premium commenced when the Bank stopped clearing in silver and adopted the practice of clearing in notes.\n\nThe time of this seems to be uncertain, and the causes which gave rise to it are far from clear.\n\nIncidentally it was agreed that there is a serious shortage of one dollar notes. The issue of $3,000,000 by the Hong Kong Bank, which is the maximum at present allowed, is inadequate for daily use. The Hong Kong Bank has no desire to issue more one dollar notes owing to the expense.\n\nThe Chartered Bank Manager was willing to issue one dollar notes except that his Charter prevents him and his Head Office does not appear desirous of issuing them.\n\nThe Mercantile Bank Manager said he thought his Bank might be willing to assist if desired, but reference would have to be made to London.\n\nIt was the general opinion that at least another $3,000,000 one dollar notes were required.\n\nIt was further suggested that an increase in the number of fifty cent coins might help the difficulties caused by the shortage of one dollar notes.\n\nThe shortage of one dollar notes has no particular bearing on the premium of notes over silver.\n\nI asked the Bankers for their views as to appointing a Commission to investigate the whole question. They were of opinion that a Commission would be unable to offer any solution and its only value would be to show the public that the matter had been considered and that it did not permit of any immediate remedy.\n\nConsequently they were of opinion that no public enquiry was necessary or even desirable.\n\nThey suggested that if the Chinese Bankers were really interested in the matter they might be asked to meet the Treasurer and put up to him their suggestions for a remedy.\n\n19th August, 1929.\n\nI-C.\n\n(Sd.) W. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPremium on Bank Notes,\n\nBefore reporting on the events which led up to the recent subsidence of the premium in the first week of October I propose to supplement briefly my previous remarks on the cause and on the effect of the premium in the light of further experience during August and September; of the two the effect of the premium presents less difficulty, and I shall deal with it first.\n\nIn my considered opinion it is abnormal, and when it is not actually detrimental to the Colony's trading interests it is at best neutral and in no case beneficial. I am of course concerned with the general trade point of view. The individual on a dollar salary must be ignored in this connection. He must no doubt suffer at the outset but after the usual economic lag in such matters his position will be adjusted.\n\nHong Kong's economic role is to handle not only the trade between South China and gold countries but the trade between South China and the rest of China, the only silver country now remaining. As regards the latter the presence of the premium introduces a superfluous exchange transaction which can only be a handicap.\n\nAs regards the former exports from South China are unaffected but imports are affected because the premium involves an exchange barrier between the Hong Kong importer and the Chinese dealer in the interior. The latter as he sells in silver desires to buy from Hong Kong in silver and be rid of the exchange factor leaving it to the Hong Kong merchant to settle beforehand.\n\nThe varying premium constitutes an impediment. Consequently the Shanghai importer who settles silver exchange with the foreign country in the initial stage of the transaction has an advantage over the Hong Kong merchant who can only settle exchange as far as Hong Kong and has to leave the dealer in the interior to negotiate a fluctuating premium in the final stage of the transaction.\n\nI have ascertained that in imports Hong Kong has undoubtedly lost much business to Shanghai. This loss very apparent quite recently is not of course all due to the premium as many contend. Shanghai has the permanent advantage of being within China's tariff wall and when duties are increased her merchants can import beforehand as much as they can finance whereas Hong Kong merchants can only import what their dealers in the interior can clear before the new duties come into force.\n\nHong Kong local industries, ship building, sugar refining, cement manufacturing etc., and the various domestic industries which are more numerous and important than is generally realised are probably handicapped by the premium in respect of the fact of wages.\n\nThe removal of the premium will of course act as a strong stimulant though wage-increases may eventually undo its beneficial effects.\n\nIn my previous remarks I did not, I fear, sufficiently stress the detrimental effect on the general financing of trade that must inevitably accompany the premium.\n\nThe fact that an advance which necessarily was made in notes (the customary commercial currency) might be legally discharged by repayment in silver dollars, (the legal currency), created an atmosphere of insecurity and nervousness on the part of credit institutions aggravated not so much by the actual dimensions of the premium as by the feeling that there was no real or visible check on its upward movements.\n\nBankers whose role it is to finance trade and who normally can rely on the pressure they can put on debtors to enforce repayment in paper currency became increasingly nervous as repayment in silver dollars became more profitable to the debtor.\n\nIf the premium continued to mount to even higher levels, the necessary advances required for trade would need to be hedged round with such safeguards as would ultimately cripple enterprise.\n\nOne is therefore on reasonably firm ground in deciding that the premium on notes is ultimately detrimental.\n\nBut the causes underlying the premium remain, I must confess, singularly obscure and elusive, and though the problem may be regarded as one of academic interest only now that the premium has shrunk to reasonable dimensions. I do not think it should be dismissed without a serious investigation by currency experts, if future control of the currency situation in the Colony is to be effective.\n\nI am not however, convinced as to the exact causes of the premium. There are several undoubtedly. One is portability as previously explained. Another is the heavy surplus of remittance from abroad causing the banks to be overbought in gold and desirous of \"cover\" in local currency, But neither of these or of the other factors previously mentioned has appreciably altered during recent years and yet the premium has this summer reached 20% a height previously undreamt of though the issuing Banks have not in any way restricted the note issue.\n\nIt might be worth while therefore to consider how European and American countries regulate interchangeable currencies and to what extent such machinery is absent in local banking practice.\n\nIn Hong Kong trade usually works on practically a fixed interest basis. As there is no discounting of bills, no discount rate or Government Bank rate is quoted.\n\nThe note issuing banks are also the chief banks of deposit, to which surplus currency soon returns for deposit. Paper currency they can readily adjust by withdrawing it from circulation when it is not required for trade, but the silver currency...\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "## The Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon \n### Balance Sheet as at 31st December, 1930.\n\n**The Diocesan Boys' and Girls' Schools and Orphanages.**\n\nSubscriptions and Donations to the Joint School Funds for 1930, towards the support of English and Eurasian Orphans and deserving cases at reduced fees.\n\n| Liabilities | $ | cts. | Assets | $ | cts. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | **GENERAL SURPLUS OF THE SCHOOL:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Per last Account | 132,985.86 |  |\n| SUNDRY CREDITORS | 199.31 |  |  |  |  |\n| Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China-Overdraft in Current Account | 1,144.07 |  | **SCHOOL BUILDINGS (On K. I. No. 1281)** |  |  |\n| Less Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (Credit Balance in Current A/c) | 844.71 | 299.36 | Insured Value, per last A/c | 120,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Add Furniture written off @ 31/12/29, now written back | 475.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions during the year- East Wing Extensions | 9,466.74 | 129,466.74 |\n|  |  |  | Less Fixed Deposit (Bowdler Legacy) transferred to Special A/c in Chartered Bank- Provident Fund | 3,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Loss for the year, per Income and Expenditure A/c | 529.31 | 3,529.31 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 129,931.55 |\n|  |  |  | **FURNITURE, LINEN & FURNISHING:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Insured Value per last A/c | 5,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions in 1929, previously written off, now re-transferred to this Account | 475.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Additions in 1930 | 1,911.48 | 7,386.48 |\n|  |  |  | **RESERVE FOR PASSAGES:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Per last Account @ Exch. 1/73 | 5,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | Less Payments during 1930 | 3,263.80 | 1,736.20 |\n|  |  |  | **SUNDRY DEBTORS (Outstanding Fees, etc.)** | 1,877.00 |  |\n|  |  |  | **INVESTMENT:-** |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Hongkong Government 6% Public Works Loan 1927 | 1,000.00 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | (Note.—Furniture and Fittings as well as Employees personal effects, etc., are now insured for $15,000.00). |  |  |\n|  |  |  | (Note. The Trustees hold K.I. L. No. 1281 in trust from the Hongkong Government to whom, in the event of the School vacating this Site, the original Building Grant of $10,000.00 must be refunded). |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  | 139,730.22 |  |\n| Total | 498.67 |  | Total | 139,730.22 |  |\n\nBrought forward ... $1,770.00\nE. Abraham, Esq. | 10.00\nAhmed Din | 10.00\nAnonymous | 50.00\nA. Kyum, Esq. | 2.00\nThe Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.C.), Ltd. | 50.00\nP. Larken, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Bank Line | 20.00\nK. F. Lay, Esq. | 10.00\nW. Barnes, Esq. | 5.00\nLee Shui Kai, Esq. | 10.00\nDrs. Black, Balean, Koch and Morrison | 25.00\nMessrs. Lee Yu keo & Co. | 5.00\nJ. A. Bloomfield, Esq. | 5.00\nA. Leong, Esq. | 5.00\nA. Bough, Esq. | 10.00\nLi Chor Chi, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Linstead and Davies | 20.00\nMessrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nThe British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nLi Ping, Esq. | 25.00\nF. A. Broadbridge, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Little, Adams and Wood | 25.00\nW. Broadbridge, Esq. | 5.00\nJ. L. Litton, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Butterfield & Swire | 150.00\nLi Yau Tsun, Esq., C.B.E. | 10.00\nThe Bank of Canton | 25.00\nM. K. Lo, Esq. | 10.00\nP. S. Cassidy, Esq. | 10.00\nA. A. Lopes, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Estate of the late Mr. Chan Kai Ming | 25.00\nJ. L. Lindblom, Esq. | 5.00\nChau You Teng, Esq. | 25.00\nN. A. E. Mackay, Esq. | 5.00\nChoa Po Sien, Esq. | 20.00\nA. S. MacKichan, Esq. | 25.00\nDrs. Chaun and (haun | 5.00\nE. Manning, Esq. | 5.00\nSir Shou-Son Chow, Kt. | 15.00\nM. S. Churn, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Colonial Dispensary | 10.00\nThe Commercial Press, Ltd. | 20.00\nN. V. A. Croucher, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Ming Yuen | 5.00\nE. J. R. Mitchell, Esq. | 20.00\nG. B. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nI. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nA. W. Mooney, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nF. H. Mody, Esq. | 50.00\nMessrs. Deacons | 50.00\nThe National City Bank of New York | 25.00\nMessrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nThe Nestles Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. | 25.00\nMessrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co., Ltd. | 50.00\nH. B. L. Dowbiggin, Esq. | 50.00\nThe Netherlands India Commercial Bank | 25.00\nMessrs. L. Dunbar & Co. | 5.00\nThe Netherlands Trading Society | 25.00\nE. C. Fincher, Esq. | 5.00\nThomas Ng, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Noronha & Co. | 10.00\nE. F. Fincher, Esq. | 5.00\nJohn Fleming, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Palmer and Turner | 50.00\nH. L. Fox, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Peak Church | 72.05\nMessrs. Pentreath & Co. | 10.00\nJ. Fox, Esq. | 5.00\nFung Ping Shan, Esq. | 10.00\nA. Perry, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd. | 20.00\nEldon Potter, Esq. | 50.00\nMessrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. | 25.00\nS. S. Perry, Esq. | 25.00\nH. Gittins, Esq. | 10.00\nJ. L. Quie, Esq. | 20.00\nW. Gittins, Esq. | 5.00\nC. S. Rosselet, Esq. | 10.00\nS. V. Gittins, Esq. | 5.00\nMessrs. Rutonjee and Son | 10.00\nDr. A. Gourdin | 5.00\nMessrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd. | 150.00\nG. Grimble, Ess. | 6.00\nI. Schnepel, Esq. | 5.00\nJ. F. Grose. Esq. | 10.00\nThe Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton | 25.00\nF. C. Hall, Esq. | 50.00\nShi Yu Man, Esq. | 50.00\nA. E. Hall, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd. | 20.00\nJ. M. Hall, Esq. | 10.00\nThe Standard Oil Co. of New York | 50.00\nG. K. Hall-Brutton, Esq. | 10.00\nE. Stone, Esq. | 5.00\nG. A. Harriman, Esq. | 5.00\nDr. S. S. Strahan | 25.00\nWallace Harper, Esq. | 5.00\nTong Fu San, Esq. | 1.00\nMessrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bowley | 25.00\nDr. Coxion To | 10.00\nE. M. Hazeland, Esq. | 50.00\nThe Tsang Fook Piane Co. | 25.00\nIlo Kam Tong, Esq. | 25.00\nThe Vacuum Oil Co. | 25.00\nHo Leung, Esq. | 10.00\nM. St. J. Walsh, Esq. | 5.00\nThe Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |  | \nMessrs. C. E. Warren & Co., Ltd. | 10.00\nM. Weill, Esq. | 5.00\nSir Robert Ho Tung | 100.00\nP. White, Esq. | 5.00\nE. S. Howard, Esq. | 10.00\nMessrs. Wilkinson and Grist | 50.00\nW. J. Howard, Esq. | 10.00\nMessrs. Wing On & Co., Ltd. | 10.00\nHo Wing, Esq. | 10.00\nDr. B. C. Wong | 10.00\nThe Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes | 10.00\nJ. M. Wong, Esq. | 20.00\nMessrs. John D. Humphreys and Son | 25.00\nWong Kam Fook, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Hung Cheong | 10.00\nMrs. Wong Lau Shi | 100.00\nDr. Ip Kam Wah | 5.00\nWong Tak Kwong, Esq. | 20.00\nF. W. James, Esq. | 5.00\nPeter Wong, Esq. | 25.00\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. | 150.00\nMessrs. Woo and Nash | 20.00\nMessrs. Johnson, Stokes and Masters | 25.00\nDr. Arthur Woo | 15.00\nJ. E. Joseph, Esq. | 100.00\nDr. Yamasaki | 15.00\nMessrs. Kayamally & Co. | 5.00\nYe Olde Printerie, Ltd. | 50.00\nKo Leong Hoe, Esq. | 5.00\nA. V. Youngsaye, Esq. | 5.00\nDr. C. H. Kwan | 5.00\nTOTAL | $3,230.05\n\nWe have audited the above Balance Sheet and accompanying Income and Expenditure Account with the Books, Account and Vouchers of the School and have satisfied ourselves that they show the position of the School at 31st December, 1930, and the transactions of the Trustees for the year ended on that date.\n\nWe have verified the existence of the Investment and Funds in hand and have ascertained that the Buildings are insured for the amount stated.\n\n**LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, Chartered Accountants, Auditors.**\n\nHong Kong, 12th January, 1931.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 2\n\n**THE DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL KOWLOON**\n\n## BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1931\n\n## ALSO WORKING & PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNTS (OMITTING CENTS) FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30TH SEPTEMBER 1931\n\n**LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS**\n\nF. N. MATTHEWS, F.C.A.  \nJOHN FLEMING, C.A.  \nE. F. HARDMAN C.A.  \nA. RITCHIE, C.A.  \nA. H. BALLARD, F.C.A.  \n\nCHARTERED BANK BUILDING, HONGKONG.  \nAND AT SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN, PEKING AND LONDON.  \nAND AGENTS AT SINGAPORE.",
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        "title": "CO129-539-11 Hong Kong Flying Club- proposed establishment of a Flying Training school at Kai Tak 8-4-1932 - 4-3-1933",
        "content_text": "32\n\n12\n\nWe, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association.\n\nNames, Addresses, and Descriptions of Subscribers.\n\n(Sd.) W. E. L. SHENTON, Solicitor, Hong Kong, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\n(Sd.) MICHAEL H. TURNER, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, Solicitor.\n\n(Sd.) H. G. HEGARTY, Chief Accountant, Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong.\n\n(Sd.) E. I. WYNNE JONES, Civil Servant, Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong.\n\n(Sd.) A. RITCHIE, Chartered Accountant, Chartered Bank Building, Hong Kong.\n\n(Sd.) A. W. SUMMERS, c/o Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Hong Kong, Passenger Agent.\n\n(Sd.) C. D. LAMBERT, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Kowloon Canton Railway, Kowloon.\n\n(Sd.) R. VAUGHAN FOWLER, Manager, Far East Aviation Co., Asiatic Building, Hong Kong.\n\nDated the 28th day of January, 1930. Witness to all the above signatures:\n\n(Sd.) R. A. WADESON, Solicitor, Hong Kong.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association.\n\nNames, Addresses, and Descriptions of Subscribers.\n\n(Sd) W. E. L. SHENTON, Solicitor, Hong Kong,\n\nNo. 1, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\n(Sd.) MICHAEL H. TURNER, No. 1, Des Voeux Road Central,\n\nHong Kong, Solicitor.\n\n(Sd.) H. G. HEGARTY, Chief Accountant,\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n(Sd.) E. I. WYNNE JONES, Civil Servant,\n\nColonial Secretariat, Hong Kong.\n\n(Sd.) A. RITCHIE, Chartered Accountant,\n\nChartered Bank Building, Hong Kong.\n\n(Sd.) A. W. SUMMERS, c/o Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong, Passenger Agent.\n\n(Sd.) C. D. LAMBERT, Chief Mechanical Engineer,\n\nKowloon Canton Railway, Kowloon.\n\n(Sd.) R. VAUGHAN FOWLER, Manager,\n\nFar East Aviation Co.,\n\nAsiatic Building, Hong Kong.\n\nDated the 28th day of January, 1930. Witness to all the above signatures:\n\n(Sd.) R. A. WADESON,\n\nSolicitor,\n\nHong Kong",
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        "content_text": "18. 8. 32 \n\nJ \n\n170 \n\nIt included board and lodging. I paid A To Hui $250. The balance has (or had) all been spent. I had had to advance money.\n\nSince the 26th March, I have never seen A Wong.\n\nI saw A Wong last when he told me he was going back to Shanghai, I do not remember the date, sometime before the Dragon Boat Festival (8th June, 1932).\n\nIt is mine, I recognise it by the mending at the tips of the fingers, done by my wife. (Exh.39) I kept it at Lok Fu Lam, at my master's place.\n\nI was arrested by the Police on the 20th June. On 22nd June, I was present at my master's house when a police officer found Exh.33 in my quarters there.\n\nGro 88+ examination deferred.\n\nTea Ving \n\nd. \n\nX Sheldon.. Boom boy, Kam Toi Hotel, Nathan Road, Kowloon, 1st floor. Exh.32 is a record of a booking of one of my rooms, dated the 24th (8th March) Room 903, the person booking being Cheung Tin Toi; I do not remember the man. He stayed there 2 days. He came alone and booked the room. People came to visit him.\n\nHo XX Lak Ful Cheung \n\nX Sheldons. Proprietor of the Ching Chan Money Changers, China Building. I see this man (describing Chuai Ying Shan). I recognise this man.\n\nI changed a $500 note of the Chartered Bank. I gave him four $100 notes and ten $10 notes on or about the 26th March.\n\nXo XX. (87)\n\n11.30 to 19th.\n\nPage 170\n\nPage 171",
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        "content_text": "## Visit Returned\n\nGen. Huang's response to the toast was delivered in Cantonese and interpreted by Col. Li Fong, who stated:\n\nWe have come from Canton to return the visit of His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, and it is most kind of you to entertain us so warmly to-night, for which we have to thank you heartily. Last year the members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce visited Canton, and the arrangements made for you at our end were so imperfect in comparison with your liberal hospitality to-night that we feel rather ashamed of ourselves.\n\nYour Chairman, in his speech, has just showered praise on our country and on us but I feel that we do not deserve such laudation. His remarks on the economic depression and trade development we feel we can endorse, and we are willing to make a common effort to secure their early realisation.\n\nOur sages say \"He who expects of others must himself be expected.\" This is true and if we desire mutual existence and mutual prosperity we must seek co-operation and work for mutual benefits. Let us then hope for the future prosperity of Hongkong and Canton.\n\n## Warm Welcome\n\nMr. Tseng, responding, said:\n\nI am happy to tell you how much we appreciate your warm welcome to-night and how deeply we have been impressed by the remarkable programme you have made for us. As a result of our visit here we have made personal contacts with your high government officials and we have had to-night the opportunity of meeting you, which will no doubt further cement the ties of friendship between Hongkong and Canton. I must thank you for the complimentary remarks your Chairman has just made in regard to the progress which China has achieved in recent years, and I want to take this opportunity of emphasising that this is just the beginning of our industrial expansion and economic reconstruction. We have carried out only a very small part of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's programme for international reconstruction and a great deal has yet to be accomplished. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's plans provided for the construction within 10 years of 1,000,000 miles of highways and 100,000 miles of railroads, but to-day in this country we have only 100,000 kilometres of highways and 11,000 kilometres of railway lines, less than a tenth of what we should have had, and woefully inadequate.\n\nIn the heavy industries we have made practically no start. The progress that has been made in the last decade has been achieved in spite of the formidable, indeed, almost insuperable difficulties within and without.\n\nOn the eve of our great commercial and industrial expansion we need foreign sympathy and support and we want to give everyone a chance to share in that advance.\n\n## Assistance From Abroad\n\nWe welcome economic assistance from the advanced industrial nations. As we have a population of over 450,000,000 China is indisputably the biggest market in the world. I think you will agree with me that China's prosperity will be a tremendous aid to world trade and economic recovery. If the purchasing power of our people is so increased that every Chinese can afford to buy $100 worth of merchandise each year, nations will have no need to worry that their manufactured goods will not find a ready market.\n\nIn recent years China has suffered from the great hardship arising from deprivation of valuable territory, internal turmoil, national calamity and financial and economic disorganisation due to America's silver purchasing policy all of which served as obstacles to threaten the industrial development and thus affect investments.\n\nCanton has embarked on an extensive programme of economic reconstruction and we seek your co-operation in carrying out our projects. We have made our plans for the development of the harbour, communications and transportation services: we are proceeding with our Whampoa port development scheme which I believe will be advantageous to South China and will help the prosperity that is so earnestly desired both by you and ourselves. I assure you that we are prepared to take the necessary steps to secure the removal of former obstacles to development (Applause). We are making a genuine effort to abolish unequal taxes, stamp out monopolies as well as other impediments to trade between our two cities.\n\nI note with gratification several steps taken by Hongkong towards closer co-operation, including the granting of facilities to Chinese merchant vessels and to Chinese mail and passenger aircraft. It is our firm hope that this spirit of co-operation will be continued and you have our assurance that your friendly gesture will be fully reciprocated. (Applause).\n\n## Mr. Ho Tsah-ping\n\nMr. Ho Tsah-ping said:\n\nI am so much impressed by the splendid reception you are giving us that I find considerable difficulty in expressing my thanks to you in proper terms.\n\nOn May 25 last year, I presided over a gathering of the representatives of business interests of Hongkong and Canton, in the building of Canton City Chamber of Commerce, the British Goodwill Mission, of which some of the gentlemen present were members, being the guests of honour.\n\nI even went so far as to remark that the businessmen of Hongkong and Canton lacked the kind of intimacy which helps to promote their confidence in one another. For instance, some British firms are too cautious in dealings with the Cantonese people, and consequently the latter have to seek elsewhere for easier terms and more favourable conditions. I therefore attached great weight to the constant touch among the business representatives of the two trading centres, and proposed that exchange of information and suggestions would improve trade and credit. I have the pleasure to tell you that my guests and friends agreed with me in this point. Canton and Hongkong are mutually dependent ports. It is needless to say that Hongkong, which is in some way privileged to give financial and technical help to Canton, has the greatest interest in its industrial and commercial developments. The unification of China, the completion of the Hankow-Canton Railway, the reformations effected by the Canton Government, such as the abolition of the exorbitant taxes, are beneficial to trade. I feel that prosperity is at hand; the more so when we can establish intimacy among ourselves by frequent receptions like this.\n\nSir Frederick Leith-Ross shares the same opinion with me, and suggested to me personally in Canton that the leading business men of Hongkong and Canton should organise a permanent Trade Commission to promote their trade interest. He said that the Chambers of Commerce of our cities would take charge of its organisation. Similar Trade Commissions exist in Shanghai and work with good results.\n\nMr. Chairman and gentlemen, before I sit down, I wish to draw your attention to Sir Frederick's suggestion, and ask you to accept my very sincere thanks for the hospitality you are showing us this evening.\n\n## The Hosts\n\nThe following members of the Chamber of Commerce and China Association (Hongkong Branch) were present as hosts:\n\n| Name | Company/Organisation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. D. G. Glenn Allen |  |\n|  | The Advertising & Publicity Bureau, Ltd. (Mr. C. J. Church) |\n|  | Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Co., Ltd. (Mr. D. D. Forbes) |\n|  | The Arnhold Trading Co. (Mr. E. G. C. Belbin) |\n|  | The Asiatic Petroleum Co., (South China) Ltd. (Mr. J. W. Platt) |\n|  | Messrs. James H. Backhouse, Ltd. (Mr. J. Harrop and Mr. H. S. Dinsdale) |\n|  | The Bank Line (Mr. A. H. Penn) |\n|  | The Bank of East Asia Ltd. (Mr. Kan Tong Po and Mr. Li Tse Fong) |\n|  | The Banque de L'Indochine (Mr. F. de Courseulles) |\n|  | Messrs. Bornemann & Co. (Mr. V. E. Feimann) |\n|  | The British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd. (Brig. General E. B. Macnaghten, C.M.G., D.S.O., and Mr. F. Stafford Smith) |\n|  | Messrs. Butterfield & Swire (Sir John Nicholson, Mr. J. R. Masson and Mr. C. C. Roberts) |\n|  | The Canadian Pacific Steamships (Mr. G. E. Costello) |\n|  | The Canton Insurances Office, Ltd. (Mr. F. C. Hall) |\n|  | Messrs. Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltd. (Mr. T. Addis Martin) |\n|  | Messrs. Carmichael & Clark (Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield) |\n|  | The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China (Mr. A. Brearley and Mr. H. C. Hopkins) |\n|  | Messrs. Chau Yue Teng (Mr. Mok Tat-huen) |\n|  | The China Light & Power Co., Ltd. (Mr. D. W. Munton and Mr. L. Kadoorie) |\n|  | Messrs. China Underwriters, Ltd. (Mr. H. R. Sturt) |\n|  | The Dairy Farm, Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. (Mr. A. Stevenson) |\n|  | Messrs. Davie, Boag & Co., Ltd. (Mr. W. A. Stewart) |\n|  | Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. (The Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell and Mr. U. Sze Wing) |\n|  | The Dollar Steamship Line (Mr. B. K. Carpenter) |\n|  | The Dunlop Rubber Co. (Mr. F. C. Young and Mr. R. C. Webb) |\n|  | The East Asiatic Co., Ltd. (Mr. H. E. Nielsen) |\n|  | Messrs. Fung Tang (Mr. Fung Kong Un) |\n|  | Messrs. Furness (Far East) Ltd. (Mr. C. C. Black) |\n|  | The General Electric Co., Ltd. (Mr. A. B. Raworth) |\n|  | Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd. (Mr. N. M. Currie) |\n|  | Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. (Mr. G. Miskin and Mr. C. 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        "content_text": "## In conclusion the General apologised for not being able to visit personally more Chinese merchants to get their views. He took the opportunity of saying good-bye to the merchants, hoping that one day they could visit him in Canton, where they could have more time to exchange views. He thanked the Chamber and all its members for the excellent entertainment.\n\n## Aeroplane Donors Thanked\n\nIn a speech the Mayor, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that for many years he had been away from Canton serving the Central Government in Nanking. For this reason he had little chance of visiting Hongkong, and to meet such a distinguished gathering of the Chinese business leaders was a great pleasure to him.\n\n\"As explained by General Huang just now,\" said the Mayor, “to pay an official call on His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, is the first reason of the visit of the Canton officials, while secondly the officials also want to meet the overseas Chinese here.\n\n\"On behalf of the National Government I wish to thank all Chinese in Hongkong for their generous donation and unselfishness in contributing half a million dollars for the aeroplane fund in connection with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's birthday. Such a good spirit is comparable to that of even the most patriotic peoples of the European and American countries to-day.\n\n\"Although Hongkong and Canton are on a different footing, actually the closest of relations exist between the two cities. If we can bring prosperity to both, the people in the two places will be directly benefited. For this reason there is every necessity for commercial and economic co-operation between Canton and Hongkong.\n\n\"As most of the Chinese residents in Hongkong are Cantonese, Canton serves as a backbone to them. Consequently a bad Government in Canton will not only disappoint the Cantonese in Hongkong but will have other detrimental effects on this Colony as a whole. The present Government in Canton is determined to carry out its readjustment programme to the fullest extent, so that prosperity will be brought not only to Canton but to both cities. If any future opportunity should arise, the Canton Municipal Government will be most willing to receive any constructive advice which may be given by the Hongkong Chinese.\"\n\n## Other Chinese Receptions\n\nAt the Hotel Cecil at nine o'clock yesterday morning representatives of 280 local Chinese organisations, including trade and labour associations and schools, gave a reception in honour of the visiting Canton officials. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Tang Chi-ching, who delivered the speech of welcome on behalf of the 280 organisations of Hongkong and Kowloon. The Chairman stressed the point that in cementing better relations between Hongkong and Canton they would increase the prosperity of the two leading cities of South China.\n\nAnother speech was made by Mr. Li Sing-kui (Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce).\n\nThe happy function came to a conclusion after General Huang Mu-sung had replied thanking the hosts for their excellent entertainment.\n\n## A Cordial Welcome\n\nLater in the morning, at 11 o'clock, another Chinese reception, given by a number of local commercial, educational, medical, religious and sports associations, was held in the Kam Ling Restaurant, at West Point. The reception was presided over by Mr. Ip Hau-chuen.\n\nAt this reception General Huang Mu-sung said that the Chinese Government was determined to push on with the new life movement in Kwangtung, as shown by the rigid suppression of gambling, opium smoking and the miscellaneous and unpopular taxes. This would relieve the financial burden of the people and would permit them to proceed with the rehabilitation work. In short, it was the hope of the Canton Government to push ahead the reorganisation of Kwangtung, making the province a model province of China. He said that there was great hope for a speedy recovery if the overseas Chinese continued to give support to the Government whenever they could.\n\nThe Mayor of Canton, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, said that he was greatly impressed by the enthusiasm shown in the many entertainments which had been given in their honour.\n\n## TRADE DELEGATION\n\n### Big Party of Businessmen Arrive from Canton\n\nBusiness men of Hongkong and Canton were enabled to fraternise at length when, in connection with the goodwill visit of His Excellency the Provincial Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and the Mayor of Canton, a party of Chinese business and financial representatives arrived from Canton yesterday morning.\n\nThe visitors were headed by Mr. Ho Tsap-ping, (Chairman, Kwangtung Provincial Chamber of Commerce), and included: Mr. Chow Dien-pong, (Chairman, Canton Chamber of Commerce), Mr. Chen Yu-chien, (Chairman, Canton Bankers Association), Mr. Li Lu-chao, (Director, Canton-Kowloon Railway), Dr. Chien Shu-fan (Lawyer), Mr. Kiang Ying-chi, (Manager, Canton Municipal Bank), Mr. Loo Im-min, (Manager, China State Bank, Canton), Mr. Chan Lim-chung, (Chinese Manager, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Canton), Mr. Tsai Chang, Manager, (Sun Company), Mr. Chung Ping-fung, (Manager, General Bank), Mr. W. J. Wen, (Manager, Bank of Communications), Mr. Yiu Pak-loong, (Director, Department of Navigation), Mr. Tang Ying-wa, (Manager, China Merchants Steam Navigation Co.), Mr. Lo Ting-yu, (Director, Weaving Factory), Mr. Shen Tsiao-chiu, (Secretary General, K.T. Provincial Kwokmantang Headquarters), Mr. Wilfred Ling, (Municipal Government Planning Committee).\n\nThe party was received in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong Hotel by members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, and light refreshments were served while introductions were exchanged.\n\n| Name | Affiliation |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Hon. Mr. Stanley H. Dodwell | Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd. |\n| The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson | Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. |\n| The Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson | Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co. |\n| Mr. G. Miskin | Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. P. S. Cassidy | Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co. |\n| Mr. J. R. Masson | Messrs. Butterfield & Swire |\n| Mr. T. A. Mitchell | Messrs. W. R. Loxley & Co., (China) Ltd. |\n| Mr. K. S. Morrison | Messrs. Reiss, Bradley & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. G. W. Sewell | Federation of British Industries, Ltd. |\n| Mr. W. Shewan | Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., Ltd. |\n| Major V. E. Duclos | Canadian Trade Commissioner |\n| Mr. G. C. Pelham | H.M. Trade Commissioner |\n| Mr. A. Brearley | The Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China |\n| Mr. J. W. Platt | The Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.) Ltd. |\n| Mr. J. H. Jessen | Messrs. Jebsen & Co. |\n| Mr. A. B. Raworth | General Electric Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. H. Owen Hughes | Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. A. K. Mackenzie | Messrs. Harry Wicking & Co., Ltd. |\n| Mr. R. D. Gillespie | The Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. |\n| Mr. F. Stafford Smith | The British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd. |\n\nFrom the Jacobean Room, members of the party went to the St. Francis Hotel where they were received by members of the Chinese business community, while others were shown round the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building by the Chief Manager, Mr. V. M. Grayburn.",
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        "content_text": "## NO DISTRIBUTION\n\n**Telegram (en clair) from Mr. Blunt, (Canton)**\n\n3/5\n\n**No. 1. SAVING.**\n\nD. January 3rd, 1939.\n\nR. January 13th, 1939.\n\nAddressed to Governor, Hongkong, savingram No. 1 of January 3rd.\n\nYour despatch No. 98 of December 20th, 1938, to Consul-General, Shanghai, and your telegram No. 386 of 1938 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe mortgage held by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on the Sincere Company Limited was never registered at this Consulate-General, nor was the fact that this mortgage existed ever brought to my notice until it was mentioned, inter alia, in a letter which I received from the Bank's Canton agent on August 12th, 1938, in reply to an enquiry as to the extent of genuine British interest in non-British concerns in the Canton Consular District. I then asked what had happened regarding the Sincere Company at Shanghai, but heard nothing further.\n\n2. With the imminent occupation of Canton by the Japanese army, on October 18th the Hongkong and Shanghai, and Chartered Banks both requested my sanction to fly the British flag on the premises of the Sincere Company and Sun Company respectively on the grounds that they had mortgages on the properties. I refused sanction, but as far as the Sincere Company's building was concerned, both officially and unofficially I took every step possible to call the attention of the Japanese military authorities to the Bank's interest and to secure such protection as they were able to give. The Sun Company's building was destroyed in the Canton fires.",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST-HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, CENTENARY SUPPLEMENT\n\n## HISTORY OF THE COLONY'S OLD BUSINESS\n\n### Notable Part In The Island's Prosperity\n\nBound up with the history of Hongkong is the history of the old \"hongs\" or business firms, some of which prospered and produced veritable merchant princes, while others were unable to weather the vicissitudes of early commercial competition, and failed.\n\nWhatever the fate of these old mercantile enterprises, they played a great part in bringing prosperity to the Colony; their principals did much for the betterment of the social life of the community, and several were champions of reform, so that their influence for good is felt even to-day.\n\nIn a brief notice of some older business firms, much of the romance of their foundation must necessarily be omitted, and it must be left to some special scribe (as was the case with Jardine, Matheson and Company) to write their full history. It is not possible to do more in the present article than note the origin and subsequent progress of certain companies whose foundation dates back to the early years of Hongkong, or beyond, or whose advent brought some important change in local conditions.\n\nJardine, Matheson and Company have the oldest history of any existing firm in the Colony, their origin going back to 1832 when Dr William Jardine and Mr James Matheson took control of the business, though the business was started by Mr J. H. Cox in 1732. Their old books show a change in 1787 to the firm name of Cox and Beale; to Beale, Reid and Company in 1793; and to Magniac and Company in 1817.\n\nThe connection of Gilman and Company with the corporation of Lloyd's in London dates from the early 'fifties, during which period they have acted as agents for the corporation in Hongkong and Foochow. The original R. J. Gilman went home in 1855, but continued his partnership in the firm. In 1862 the partners were R. J. Gilman, A. R. Hudson, R. J. Ashton, W. H. Vacher (later to become one of the promoters of the Shanghai Banking Corporation, Ltd.), Hongkong and W. H. Green, and a comprehensive merchant business was carried on by the firm.\n\n![The former Hongkong Bank building, at Queen's Road, demolished to make room for the present structure. Part of the old fountain opposite the City Hall is seen on the right.](##)\n\nThe earlier China trade was done from headquarters at Macao, where Mr Hollingworth Magniac had been in charge; and when Dr Jardine, who had been a surgeon of the Honourable East India Company, combined with Mr Matheson (afterwards Sir James Matheson, Bart), they took control of the concern and in due course made it one of the best-known merchant ventures in the Far East. Their interests, apart from imports and exports, extended to shipping, mainly for the purpose of carrying their own goods, and insurance. One of the firm's subsidiaries was the Canton Insurance Office, started as far back as 1804. Jardine and Matheson faced keen competition, as did other merchants of the time, on the part of the East India Company, which had a monopoly that gave them an advantage; but this monopoly came to an end in 1834, and that advantage went with it.\n\nJardine, Matheson and Company transferred to Hongkong from Macao in 1842, the year after Britain took possession of the island. Their establishment at East Point became famous; principals became leading men.\n\n## UNION INSURANCE\n\nThe Union Insurance Society of Canton is another old concern which has already passed its centenary. In 1835, Dent and Company (which some years later met with disaster) decided to found a second insurance business at Canton, where only one then existed, and where cargoes were increasing with the extinction of the East India Company's monopoly. The original subscribers are believed to have been Dent and Co., Jardine, Matheson and Co., Turner and Co., and Russell and Co., the first three British and ...\n\n## THE HONGKONG HOTEL\n\nThe Hongkong Hotel Company, which later developed into Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd, has an interesting history, as it was formed at a time when hotel enterprise opened a wide field here. The original company was formed in January, 1867, and commenced operations in July that year. The newly-built hotel premises, which then occupied a seafront site on the corner of Pedder Street, were opened in February, 1868; and soon it became the principal hostelry of the Colony, and one of the leading concerns of its kind in the Far East.\n\n## DAIRY FARM COMPANY\n\nDairy Farm Company deserves mention in any historical survey of Hongkong. Prior to its advent, the milk supply had been insufficiently controlled, and was not entirely above suspicion. It was Dr (afterwards Sir) Patrick Manson who instigated the formation of an up-to-date dairy, and in 1886 the Dairy Farm Company came into existence, with Dr Manson as one of its first directors. One of the local enterprises which it absorbed was the Hongkong Ice Company, which had been founded as far back as 1880, after the last of the old \"ice houses\" were becoming a mere memory.\n\n## LINSTEAD AND DAVIS\n\nA firm of chartered accountants, Messrs Linstead and Davis, have associations which go back to the early days of Hongkong, one of the founders, Mr T. G. Linstead, having arrived in the Colony in the fifties, originally working with the old concern of Lindsay and Company, pioneers who later passed out of existence. About the same time, Mr H. W. Davis had come out to Canton, and later entered business in Hongkong with Mr Granville Sharp, as bill and bullion brokers. Messrs Linstead and Davis in due course became associated in partnership, and founded the firm that bears their names to-day. Both were prominent in local activities of their time.\n\n## REISS, BRADLEY AND COMPANY\n\nReiss, Bradley and Company (formerly Reiss, Massey) can trace their connection with the Colony to Reiss and Company, who opened a branch at Canton in 1846, being a Manchester concern founded in 1818. The Hongkong office was opened in 1864. In 1923 it was reorganised as Holyoak, Massey and Company but later the old name of Reiss was restored.\n\n## OLD PRINTING FIRM\n\nAmong old-established local businesses, Noronha and Company, who are the Government Printers, deserve mention, their beginning going back to 1844. Mr Delfino Noronha, in 1847, was already well established in Wellington Street, and in the fifties when the Government Gazette came into existence, the firm obtained the contract for its printing, which they still hold to-day. It is their proud boast, also, that they have printed the Hongkong Jockey Club's race programmes ever since the Club was founded in the early years of the Colony.\n\n## SUGAR REFINING\n\nThe business of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery (controlled by Messrs Butterfield and Swire) dates back to early Hongkong, and recalls interesting local history. There was an old sugar refinery at East Point in the sixties, known as the Indo-Chinese Sugar Company, which Jardine, Matheson and Company took over to form the China Sugar Refinery. They later extended their premises by purchasing the former Hongkong Mint (a short-lived enterprise of the local authorities). It was in the early 'eighties that the Taikoo Sugar Refinery was established, and it has maintained its position ever since.\n\n## P. AND O. COMPANY\n\nIn 1865 the Colony's first dockyard, established at Aberdeen in 1857 by Mr Douglas Lapraik and Captain John Lamont, was taken over, and in 1866 the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ltd, was duly registered. Among earliest shipping firms with services to the Far East were the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, who came to Hongkong in the early forties. They obtained a lease of land from the Government in 1844, and opened offices in Queen's Road. Old records show them as occupying premises at the Jubilee Street-Des Voeux Road corner in 1852.\n\nThe property of Cosmopolitan Dock Company, founded at Shamshuipo early in 1880, was purchased later that same year, and thus all the Kowloon dockyards were merged in a single enterprise.",
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        "content_text": "The Bixitsh North Borneo Chartered Co \n\n`iving on 15540/153/4/7/10`, as Bank (new) \n\nSUPY. \n\n1305E/143. \n\nSir, \n\nBuilding,  \nHigh Street,  \nRickmansworth,  \nHerts.  \n\n16th April, 194 \n\n15 \n\nI am directed to inform you that shortly after the President and Vice-President of this Company interviewed Sir John Shuckburgh at the Colonial Office on January 27th last, a circular letter (copy attached) was issued to the various British Companies owning properties in North Borneo requesting them to acquaint us with any information received relative to losses sustained by reason of \"denici\" measures. \n\n2. The replies received indicate that in nearly all cases the companies have received no information on this subject from their managements in North Borneo. \n\n3. The North Borneo Trading Co.Ltd., whose launch \"J.R.PHILLIPPS\" was sunk on December 27th by order of the local Government vide the Governor's telegram to the Secretary of State dated December 31st - have stated that the value of this steamer at the time \n\nThe Under Secretary of State,  \nCOLONIAL OFFICE  \nDowning Street,  \nLondon, S.W.1.  \n\nof",
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        "content_text": "# 54401/4\n\nCircular letter to British companies owning properties in North Borneo.\n\n## 17 1305/E/352\n\nDear Sir(s),\n\n3rd February, 1942.\n\nI am directed to request that if you should receive information of any loss or damage to your Company's property in North Borneo by reason of the denial measures taken or authorised by His Excellency the Governor in anticipation of the Japanese invasion, you will furnish me with general particulars thereof (nature of property, financial loss sustained, etc.).\n\n2. It is intended to transmit these particulars as and when received to His Majesty's Government, for consideration when the time comes for them to deal with the matter.\n\nYours faithfully,\nW.O. Pidgeon\nSecretary.\n\n(Sgd)\n\n**BAKAU & KENYA EXTRACT CO. LTD.**\n\nThe Secretary,\n24, George Square,\nGlasgow, C.2.\n\n5th February, 1942.\n\n**The British North Borneo (Chartered) Co.,**\nLloyds Bank (New) Building,\nHigh Street, Rickmansworth, Herts.\n\nYour ref. `1305/E/352`.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nWe are in receipt of your letter of 3rd instant requesting to be furnished with general particulars of any loss or damage to our property in North Borneo by reason of the denial measures taken or authorised by His Excellency the Governor in anticipation of the Japanese invasion.\n\n2. Not much information was made available to us in the cables received from our representatives in Sandakan during the period...",
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        "content_text": "## BORNEO CHARTERED!\n\nTelegraphic Address: \"KINABALU RICKMANSWORTH.\"  \nTelephone: RICKMANSWORTH 3510.  \nIn reply please quote `1307/208`.\n\nTHE PERCIVAL LLOYD & Co.,  \nLloyds Bank (NEW) BUILDING,  \nHIGH STREET,  \nRICKMANSWORTH, HERTS.\n\n21 Jan 19th January, 1942.\n\nDear Gent,\n\nMay I refer you to the Governor's telegram No.246 regarding purchases of North Borneo firewood by the Hong Kong Government. A copy was enclosed in my letter to you of the 9th instant.\n\nWe have today received two corrections of the text of the telegram. In the 7th line the figure $11,050 is altered to $11,077, and in the last line $97,248 is altered to $97,192. Would you kindly make the necessary corrections in your copy.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.,  \nColonial Office,  \nDowning Street,  \nLondon, S.W.1.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-17 Government policy regarding firewood supplies 7-8-1941 - 31-7-1942",
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        "title": "CO129-590-17 Government policy regarding firewood supplies 7-8-1941 - 31-7-1942",
        "content_text": "Telegraphic Address : \"KINABALU RICKMANSWORTH.\" \n\nTelephone: RICKMANSWORTH 3510. \n\nIn reply please quote `1307/208` \n\nDear Gent, \n\n9.1.42 \n\nCopy p/ence to Seas(5), \n\n**THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO CHARTERED COMPANY** \n\n24 LLOYDS BANK (NEW) BUILDING, \nHIGH STREET, \nRICKMANSWORTH, \nHERTS. \n\n9th January 1941. \n\nI enclose a copy of a cablegram from His Excellency dealing with the question of firewood supplies for the Hong Kong Government. \n\nThe parts underlined give the nearest interpretation we can find of badly mutilated code words which we have asked to have repeated. \n\nThe general position seems to be clearly indicated, however, and I shall be glad if you will kindly let me know as soon as possible what reply we may send to the Governor. \n\nG.E.J.Gent, Esq., D.S.O., &c. &c. \nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nLondon, S.W.1. \n\nYours sincerely, \nW. ... grou",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
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        "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "## department was formed in the Hongkong & Shanghai bank building (part of the bank proper) which was operated by Japanese civilians, some of them members of the former Japanese consulate in Hongkong.\n\nThis department dealt with all the affairs of so-called \"third nationals\" which included Swiss, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, French, Portuguese, etc. During the first three weeks of January, all the \"third nationals\" were officially instructed to present themselves to this dept. in order to obtain \"third national\" passes with which they would be able to move freely in town. Two photographs were to be provided, one attached to the pass itself with a stamp of the Japanese Consulate over it. These passes were effective till the end of March and later on prolonged till the 15th of April.\n\nA branch of the Civil Affairs dept. was also established in Kowloon in the Peninsula Hotel. This department dealt with everything concerning third nationals such as issue of protective papers to tenants, issue of permits to take luggage across the harbour, permits to leave the colony, etc., as well as the business side - e.g., reopening of offices, etc. All the banks came under the Japanese Financial department. The foreign banks were allowed to open three consecutive days a month when the \"third nationals and friendly Chinese\" were allowed to draw specified amounts in Hongkong dollars from their personal accounts (HK$50.- in January, £300.- in February, and in March 150.-).\n\nThe employees of the \"enemy banks\" i.e., Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corp., Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Mercantile Bank of India, National City Bank of New York, the Chase Bank, Netherlands Trading Society, Nederlandsche Indische Handelsbank, Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, were interned in a Chinese Hotel (Sun Wa hotel) in town and were brought every morning under escort to their offices. These banks were officially in the state of liquidation, and their employees were allowed a certain salary not exceeding HK$80.- per month. The Chinese banks were eventually instructed to reopen, but their work was restricted and under the supervision of the mentioned Japanese Finance dept.\n\n## At the time of the surrender, Hongkong and Kowloon were packed with Japanese troops.\n\nAs a rough estimation, the Japanese Army in Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories included about 60-80 thousand seasoned Japanese troops - infantry, artillery, airforce, marines, and tank units. Some of the units were reportedly brought from Manchuria, being stationed previously on the Russian border; others, including marines, from the Canton area. After a month or so, the Japanese army in Hongkong decreased considerably - a skeleton garrison of some thousands was left, and the bulk of the troops was shipped away to other war areas.\n\n49\n\nPage 50\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "140 \n\nThe Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, as well as members of the Chartered Bank, Chase Bank, National City Bank, etc. were so occupied, and were not interned in Stanley by 17th Feb. During the latter part of January, announcements were made that the banks would open for periods of three days each, during which time money could be withdrawn by Chinese and Indian nationals only up to a maximum of $50.00 per person. No accounts belonging to Companies or Firms or Institutions could be operated. By this time, there was an acute shortage of money in various quarters. At first, no notes of large denomination were negotiable, but later notes of $50.00 and over were declared to be officially negotiable, but were only accepted at a discount. By the middle of February, it was possible to withdraw sums of $300.00 by dint of turning in a cheque for that amount plus $200 in cash. In exchange for this, a $500 note was given, which could be exchanged on the street for $400 of smaller currency.\n\nThe banks which opened for business included the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank, the Netherlandsch Indische Handelsbank, Chase Bank, Mercantile Bank, Banque de l'Indo Chine, Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, American Express Co., Manufacturers Bank of China, etc. Commencing on 7th Feb., the Japanese started opening the safe deposit boxes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Bank of East Asia to examine the valuables deposited therein. Depositors were invited to be present with their keys.\n\n## PUBLIC SERVICES\n\nWater Supply was resumed about the middle of January, the administrative offices being established in the Stock Exchange Building, Ice House St. A deposit of between 25 and 100 yen was demanded, with 15 sen per 100 gallons as the charge.\n\nElectricity was again available at about the same time. The offices were set up in the P. & O. Building, and very high rates were being charged, based on the number of points in each house, in addition to the actual consumption of current.\n\nGas was also available again before the end of January.\n\nTelephone. This service continued right up to the time of the Japanese Occupation, with certain exceptions, and was then disconnected by the Japanese. Service was resumed before the end of January.\n\nBus Services were re-commenced on Jan. 27th.\n\nTram Services were re-started on Jan. 27th.\n\nThe Star Ferry was running again from a date early in January. The use of the ferry was at first considerably curtailed, and the use of a special pass demanded, but later Chinese were able to pass freely, though they were subject to an inspection at both sides of the harbour.\n\nSteamer Services to Macao and Canton were resumed before the middle of January, and were being filled to capacity by Chinese anxious to return to their homes. The ordinary fares were $3.00, but a brisk business was being done by re-selling the tickets for anything up to $50.00.\n\nCars. Nearly every private car and lorry in the Colony was collected by the Japanese before the end of January and parked in the Cricket Ground or on the Race Course. It was understood that the engines were to be removed and sent to Japan. A few private cars were registered with special passes and high registration fees of $1,000 or more. Petrol was almost unobtainable.\n\nNewspaper. A daily newspaper in English called \"**The Hongkong News**\" was started at the beginning of January, published by Toshihiko Kato, 2 Connaught Rd., C., with its business department in 1-3 Wyndham St. The price is ten cents per day. The paper uses faultless English and is the channel of the most insidious type of Japanese propaganda.\n\nHongkong Radio Broadcasting Service was resumed early in January.\n\nMr. Wynne Jones, the Postmaster General, was virtually interned in the Gloucester Building and compelled to render technical assistance with the service. The Station, JPHA, operates on 1154 kilocycles, or 260 metres, on the medium wave. The following broadcasts (Tokyo Standard Time) might be of interest:-",
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        "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "(F2777/1193/10)\n\nLANCHOW,\n12th February, 1942.\n\n233\n\nI beg to have the honour to write to you this letter describing conditions in Hong Kong prior to my escape from that place on 31st January 1942, and confirming the cable I sent you from Watlam. I am a British subject by birth - Passport No. 3708 issued at Hong Kong and have been a resident in Kweilin for the past nine years.\n\n1. British and allied war prisoners:\n\n## Military Organisations\n\nArmy, Navy and other units were first concentrated in several camps both on the Hong Kong side (Causeway Bay refugee camp, Shaukiwan, etc.) and on the Kowloon side (Argyle Street refugee camps and Chinese soldiers internment camps, Shamsuipo Barracks) but now have all been transferred to Kowloon and are concentrated in camps all round Argyle Street and Kowloon City and Shamsuipo Military Barracks. Indian soldiers are mostly in Argyle Street camps.\n\n2. British and allied Civilian Prisoners:\n\nThey were first allowed freedom, but during the first week of January 1942, they were asked to assemble in Murray Barracks and were sent to the following hotels for internment: Asia Hotel, Tai Koo Hotel, Meichow Hotel, Naming Hotel, but during the middle of January they were all removed to Stanley Prison. Staffs of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank were taken under guard to their respective Banks to close up the accounts of the Banks and are still being done, and these for the time being are allowed to remain in a Chinese Hotel (Na Ping Hotel) until their accounts are fully made up. Dr. Selwyn-Clark is allowed free to operate as head of the Medical Service (situated top floor National City Bank Building). The Head of the Sanitary Department is allowed to retain his post. I saw the Defence Secretary, Mr. Lee and Mrs. Lee and five other members of the Colonial Secretary Department in the Colonial Secretary's Office now situated on the 3rd Floor of Princes Building (Harry Wicking's Office). This Department is retained solely for the purpose of collecting and keeping a record of casualties and list of Britishers interned.\n\n## Indians\n\nThere was considerable Fifth Columnist movement before the war started. I speak and write Gujerati and understand Hindi and so I know what was going on to some extent and also the Indian Police was filled to some extent with propaganda. After the surrender of Hong Kong these elements were loud in their condemnation of the white race and Britishers especially. The Sindhi Association in Hong Kong were foremost in this and they lost no time in protesting their filial bonds with the Japanese; and the Indian agitators, Mr. Malik and another whose name I do not remember have taken charge of the affairs of the Indian community. They went so far as to inform the Japanese that the Parsee community were absolutely pro-British and therefore they should not receive favour treatment and should be interned, but the well-known Beer Brewery owner, Mr. Ruttonjee, got over this and the Parsee community were left unmolested.\n\n## Sanitation\n\nThe whole city has never been swept and all over the place dead bodies are lying about. Flies infest the whole place. Water supply was resumed on the 22nd ultimo and light on about the 2nd ultimo. The streets are filled with rubbish piled mostly in corners.\n\n## Japanese activities\n\nThe Army Headquarters is now established in the Peninsula Hotel. The Naval Headquarters is established in the Naval Dockyard. The Army controls Kowloon up to Kowloon City and Kowloon Tong, Wang Ching-wei's henchmen the New Territories, and Hong Kong.\n\nH.E. Sir A. Clark Kerr,\nBritish Embassy,\nCHUNGKING.",
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        "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "234\n\nKong is controlled by the Navy. The \"Hsing Ah Kei Kwan\" is established in the Hong Kong Hotel (New Asia Order Headquarters). The \"Military Investigation Bureau\" (Kwan hsi Teo Cha Tuen) is in the Windsor House Dairy Farm. The local government (Mån Chin Teng) is situated in Jardines' Office. The Gendarmes are located in Gloucester Building. The Foreign Bureau and Passport Office are in the west wing of the ground floor of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The Chartered Bank is open to change military yen notes; each person gets 5.00 yen each time, and only about 1,000 yen in notes are changed a day. The Sanitary Department Water Works is on the ground floor of the Stock Exchange Building. The following offices and Buildings have been taken up by the Japanese authorities - Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, Chartered Bank, Holland House, Stock Exchange Building (ground floor), St. Francis Hotel, National City Bank (whole building), Marina House (telegraph office is established there), Loke Yew Building, Gloucester Hotel including lounge, Windsor House, Exchange Building, and Jardines Building. The Post Office is used as usual. They are now concentrating on removing all metals and every kind of stores from Hong Kong. Up to 30/1/42, more than 40 transports have departed with military stores, trucks, and all kinds of metal goods. The godowns in Kowloon are being systematically emptied, and all stores from military establishments which were practically undestroyed have been stocked on the wharves in Kowloon and are being loaded. On the Murray Parade Ground, Hongkong Cricket Club Ground, and the Happy Valley are stocked most of the automobiles of Hong Kong and Kowloon, and gasoline stocks and armoured cars and whippet tanks (Bren carriers) ready for loading onto vessels. Before I left, I have reliable reports that over 170,000 bags of rice have been removed from Hong Kong. The Red Cross vessel sunk by a submarine contained 50,000 bags of rice and 2600 Japanese soldiers (not wounded). I have personally seen stocks of Kodak Company, Lane Crawfords, Hongkong Hotel Dairy Farm being removed by truckloads, besides several company godowns being opened and stocks taken away. The Japanese have the intention to evacuate at least 600,000 Chinese and then restrict any increase in the population and convert Hong Kong into a naval base connected with the fortifications of the Canton Delta. The Japanese planes which have visited Hong Kong, I have noticed most fighters, have German aviators, and the bombers mostly Japanese. I have noticed many German advisers, and I understand that the Germans are in charge of direct artillery operations. I have noticed many familiar Hong Kong faces working with the Japanese, most prominent being Mr. Carroll of Carroll Brothers, Brokers, and several others.\n\nI am not mentioning other details as you may be aware of the same already.\n\nAssuring you of my best services,\n\nI etc.,\n(sd) K.E. MOGRA.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
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        "title": "CO129-590-24 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905",
        "content_text": "2 \n\n\nC. Campman ( \n\n1 \n\n་ \n\nThe following persons have dome out into the open' as \n\n'pro-Japanese' and are now, working for them in official capacities: \n\n) formerly Manager of Imperial Import and Export Co., now head of Chinese section of Gendarmerie in Kowloon. \n\nformerly members of Chinese \n\nTommy Tsui and C.Cheung \n\nFortress Units now in Chinese section of Gendamrie in Hong Kong. \n\nPeter sin, solicitor of P. sin a Co. is now Head of Department in -Civil Administration. \n\nR \n\nTsang Hung Nin ( \n\nrefugee from shanghai and residing \n\nat 51, Conduit Road was visited on 27th December, 1941 by high Japanese ufficials. His residence was given protection.. He is now working for the Japanese Government, in what capacity I was unable to ascertain. \n\nAll foreign banks were in the \n\nن \n\n64 \n\nLiquidation of Banks etc: process of being liquidated. The Hong Kong shanghai Banking Corporation advised most of the current account and other depositors not to file their claims unless,,of course, the depositor intended to remain in Hong hong. The Hong kong & shanghai Banking Corporation was shifted to the Chartered Bank, their building having been taken over as \"Government House\". The staff was being treated well, although they were 'housed' or interned in one of the Chinese hotels along Connaught Road Central. un two occasions the entire staff did a \n\nsit-down strike' in protest of maltreatment and in both instances they obtained satisfaction. Although the Finance Department has in their hands the combination of the locks of the vaults - they have, however, not yet mastered the knack of opening the locks etc. Sir V.M. Grayburn had not been to the office since the surrender. seems to be very depressed - physically he appeared to be in good health. Mr. dmonston is in charge at the office. \n\nHe \n\nNo attem, ts were made by the Hong hong rolice to destroy their records of Registration of rerson3. The Japanese Authorities have these records in their possession and are certainly using the data to further their own ends. \n\nJ \n\n> \n\nI was approached by the Governor's Department ( to reassume the management of the China Provident Loan & Mortgage \n\nThey then approached me CofLtd. Their offer was turned down by me. through the Taiwan Transportation Co. who made tempting offers to, me \n\nwhich i again refused to accept. I was questioned subsequently by the Gendarmerie as to how I managed to find funds etc. for living expenses. At this juncture I left the Colony. \n\n* \n\nX * * * \n\nI left Hong Kong on the 11th May, 1942 bound for \n\n= \n\nKwongchowwan via Macao, Whilst in Macao, I stayed at the Hotel Riviera where. I met Mr. George MacCaskie. \n\n} \n\nI arrived at \n\nKwongchowwan on 13th May and stayed at the Po sek Hotel until 20th May when I left for the interior. I travelled via watlam, Laochow, Kam \n\nI travelled up Sing Kong to Kweiyang where I arrived on 8th June. from kam Sing Kong ( \n\n) in the company of my sister \n\n) on China National Tea Vivienne Doris and Miss Chow Corporation lorries which were originally bound for Chungking, but due to mechanical break-downs, they were unable to proceed further than hweiyung. There 1 tried to obtain passage through various sources, including the Friends' Ambulance unit whom I saw on. \n\nEventually I obtained space on à 13th June, but without success. lorry due to leave on 30th June but unfortunately we were taken \n\nDavid Choa, who into custody by the kweiyang Police on 29th June. had arrived in Kweiyang in the company of Professor King and meeting \n\nun our arrest, me, he asked me to assist him since he was destitute. \n\nWhen Vivienne's passport was, he was also taken in custody. confiscated by the Gendarmerie on 28th June I approached Captain Hemingway and Lieutenant wright of British Military Missión \n\nfor \n\n\nassistance",
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        "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
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        "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
        "content_text": "PERIODICAL REPORT ON DEVELOPMENTS IN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SPHERE.\n\n68\n\nThe following is a brief report on developments in the financial and economic sphere since Mr. Butters submitted a detailed report on the 20th September.\n\nStaff:\n\nThe Financial Branch of Civil Affairs was reinforced on the 8th October by the arrival of Mr. C.G.S. Follows, C.M.G., as Chief Financial Adviser, but Mr. J. Fleming, senior partner of Messrs. Love, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Accountants, whose services have been of great assistance to the Department, is shortly leaving for England.\n\nThe Treasury Staff, though still below establishment, has been strengthened by the appointment of an officer to fill one of the staff vacancies. This Branch moved on the 6th October from the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building to the old Yokohama Specie Bank, but the move was carried out without interruption of business. The Chief Financial Adviser, however, is located in the Colonial Secretary's office.\n\nOwing to looting, the bulk of Treasury records, furniture, and office appliances have disappeared, and the issue of the new currency was carried out under extreme difficulty, without adequate staff, correct books of account, vouchers, and forms, etc., and even at the present time, it is not yet possible to analyse payments and post to ledgers, although careful records are being kept of all disbursements and receipts, and vouchers in some form or other are being obtained in all cases.\n\nExpenditure:\n\nThe following is a statement of expenditure up to 12th October, 1945:\n\n  \n    Expenditures:\n    \n  \n  \n    Cheques drawn as at 12.10.45.\n    \n  \n  \n    Civil Affairs\n    5,044,000.31\n  \n  \n    British Army Paymasters\n    930,509.-\n  \n  \n    Royal Navy\n    8,047,568.-\n  \n  \n    Royal Air Force\n    800,000.-\n  \n  \n    Other Authorities:\n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese Military Mission\n    150,000.-\n  \n  \n    Other trading Banks' drawings\n    4,460,000.-\n  \n  \n    \n    $14,432,128.31\n  \n\nRevenue:\n\nThe above statement does not, however, unfortunately convey a true picture, as considerable commitments, in respect of the period, are still outstanding.\n\nRevenue has not started to come in, except in negligible amounts, such as from the sale of postage stamps and entertainment tax on cinema tickets; but the question...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948",
        "page_number": 81,
        "title": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948",
        "content_text": "RIOTOUS MOB IN CANTON\n\nTweets\n\nSHAMEEN ISLAND\n\nATTACKED\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE\n\nBURNED\n\nCANTON, Jan 16.-A mob of several thousand Chinese attacked the British Consulate here to-day, setting the building on fire and destroying it, and slightly injuring the Vice-Consul, Mr. J. K. Blackwell. The attack was believed to be part of anti-British demonstrations which have followed an announcement that the Chinese Government had protested to Britain against prison sentences imposed in Hongkong on two Chinese. These men had been charged with resisting the police who were evacuating Chinese from buildings condemned for public health reasons in the Old City of Kowloon, on the mainland of Hongkong colony.\n\nThe crowd crossed two bridges from Canton to Shameen Island in the Pearl River, and demonstrated outside the offices in the walled compound of the British Consulate in the former British and French concession. Stones were thrown, and the building was set alight and completely destroyed. Furniture, documents, and clothing were thrown into the fire. The crowd then burned the house of the British Consul-General, Mr. R. Hall (it is not known if he was there), and the house of the Press Attaché, Mr. J. Murray, who lived at the consulate with Mrs. Murray. Next they burned the offices of Butterfield and Swire, in which the British information department was housed. Other buildings were also attacked. Among those burned and destroyed were the premises of the Chartered Bank and Jardine Mathieson. All the consular staff were reported safe, but the British Vice-Consul, Mr. J. K. Blackwell, suffered slight injuries. Mr. L. B. Wood and Mr. J. H. Parkhouse, on the staff of Deacons, and Mr. V. Curtis were slightly hurt.\n\nThree hours later, gendarmes, police, and fire brigades arrived and the Chinese left the island. Everything was later reported to be quiet, but the foreign community of about 150, mostly British and American, were remaining indoors.\n\nShameen has now been placed under martial law. Reuter.\n\nHONGKONG, Jan. 17.-An airliner of Hongkong Airways took off from here early to-day for Canton to evacuate 20 British women and children.-Reuter.\n\nBRITISH PROTEST IN NANKING\n\nCHINESE REGRETS\n\nFROM OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT\n\nSir Ralph Stevenson, British Ambassador in Nanking, has protested to the Chinese Government against the outburst in Canton, and has asked the Chinese authorities to take immediate preventive measures in Canton and elsewhere.\n\nChinese officials in London expressed their sincere regrets last night at the Canton disturbances. At the same time they recalled that their Government had repeatedly urged the British Hongkong authorities to use tact and restraint in dealing with the squatters in Kowloon. Kowloon has become something of a centre for Communists and other political opponents of the Chinese Government, which feared that these extreme groups would use any forcible British action as the pretext for anti-British and anti-Government disturbances elsewhere. The Chinese Government, in short, feared from the beginning that events in Kowloon could not be kept local.\n\nThe Hongkong Government gave warning last year that hutments in Kowloon where some hundreds of squatters were living would have to be pulled down; there was a danger to public health and the risk of fire. Alternative accommodation was offered. Towards the end of the year the people were ordered to leave because they were illegally occupying Crown land.\n\nSTONES AND TEAR-GAS\n\nOn January 5 the huts were pulled down without disturbance, but during the following week they were partly put together again by the people. When, on January 12, another attempt was made to clear the area, a crowd attacked the police with stones. The police replied by firing into the air and by using tear-gas. In the scuffles five Chinese were slightly injured and one more seriously; according to the Chinese this last person has died. Two agitators were arrested and, after trial, were sentenced to three months' hard labour. The Foreign Office stated last night that the men were tried at the request of the Chinese authorities, but the Chinese Government now appear to be asking for their release.\n\nThere is a legal complication in the matter, for the Chinese Government contest the British jurisdiction in Kowloon City. By the Convention of Peking, 1898, Chinese jurisdiction was reserved even though the territory was leased to Britain. But in the following year, after the Chinese police had abused their power, the British took over the jurisdiction and that arrangement has continued except for the break in the war. The Chinese themselves have hitherto acknowledged the de facto situation, while reserving their rights under the Peking Convention.\n\nTheir appeals for restraint in Kowloon were, however, chiefly based on their fears that feeling would run high and disturbances might spread. Especially after the war the squatters throughout China can hardly be numbered, and the authorities have not been able to deal with them for the most part. The Hongkong Government, for their part, were mindful of the risk of disease, and they took, in the words of a Colonial Office statement last night, exactly the sort of action which any public health authority would take in this country.\n\nPage 44\n\nThe Times\n\n17 JAN 1948",
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        "title": "CO129-611-1 Hong Kong Electric & China Light & Power Company Ltd. 1-12-1945 - 2-5-1947",
        "content_text": "PERIODICAL REPORT ON DEVELOPMENTS IN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SPHERE.\n\nThe following is a brief report on developments in the financial and economic sphere since Mr. Butters submitted a detailed report on the 20th September.\n\nThe Financial Branch of Civil Affairs was reinforced on the 8th October by the arrival of Mr. C.G.S. Follows C.M.G. as Chief Financial Adviser, but Mr. J. Fleming, senior partner of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Accountants, whose services have been of great assistance to the Department, is shortly leaving for England. The Treasury Staff, though still below establishment, has been strengthened by the appointment of an officer to fill one of the Staff Captain vacancies. This Branch moved on the 6th October from the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building to the old Yokohama Specie Bank, but the move was carried out without interruption of business. The Chief Financial Adviser is, however, located in the Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nOwing to looting, the bulk of Treasury records, furniture, and office appliances have disappeared, and the issue of the new currency was carried out under extreme difficulty, without adequate staff, correct books of account, vouchers, and forms, etc., and even at the present time, it is not yet possible to analyse payments and post to ledgers, although careful records are being kept of all disbursements, and receipts in some form or other are being obtained in all cases.\n\nExpenditure:\n\n  \n    1945:-\n    \n  \n  \n    Expenditures;\n    \n  \n  \n    Cheques drawn as at 12.10.45.\n    \n  \n  \n    Civil Affairs\n    5,044,060.31\n  \n  \n    British Army Paymasters\n    930,500.-\n  \n  \n    Royal Navy\n    3,047,568.-\n  \n  \n    Royal Air Force\n    800,000.-\n  \n  \n    Other Authorities:\n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese Military Mission\n    150,000.-\n  \n  \n    Other Trading Banks' drawings\n    4,460,000.-\n  \n  \n    \n    $14,432,128.31\n  \n\nRevenue:\n\nThe above statement does not, however, unfortunately convey a true picture as considerable commitments, in respect of the period, are still outstanding.\n\nRevenue has not started to come in except in negligible amounts, as, for example, from the sale of postage stamps and entertainment tax on cinema tickets; but the question of licence fees, which can be reimposed immediately, is under active consideration, as is also the question of the collection of duty on liquor and tobacco. It is the intention, too, that the collection of assessed taxes (rates) should be resumed at an early date. The Assessment Records were fortunately recovered intact, but they are very much out of date, and steps are being taken to obtain an amended list of the names and addresses of rate-payers where changes of ownership or occupancy have taken place.\n\nBanking Facilities:\n\nThere has been a general demand for increased banking facilities, as the restrictions on withdrawals to amounts of $200.00 resulted in a virtual suspension of deposits. There was naturally reluctance to deposit money in a Bank if it could not be withdrawn at will. The matter was discussed at a meeting at which all the Banks were represented, and it was decided that the time had come for the Banks...",
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        "content_text": "AGENTS FOR-\n\nPRICE, WATERHOUSE & CO. LOWE, BINGHAM & THOMSONS.\n\nSHANGHAI, TOKYO & KOBE\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nOUR REFERENCE\n\n0/R-08\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS.\n\nCHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS\n\nARCHIBALD RITCHIE, C.A.\n\nDAVID SCOTT ROBB, C.A.\n\nSIDNEY SAMUEL GORDON, C.A.\n\nCHARLES GOW SMITH, C.A.\n\nTELEPHONE- 28106\n\nCABLES- \"LOWEBINGHAMS”.\n\n7, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\n18th January 1951\n\nHONG KONG\n\nThe Director,\n\nThe Department of Supplies & Distribution,\n\nMercantile Bank Building,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nSir,\n\nDEPARTMENT OF SUPPLIES, TRADE & INDUSTRY\n\nCIVIL ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS\n\nIn the light of further explanations given to us and of subsequent instructions received by the Department affecting the closing entries of the accounts, we consider it appropriate to modify our Report dated 12th September, 1950. For simplicity of reference this Report is now submitted in a form which consolidates our Report of 12th September, 1950, with the modifications arising out of these further explanations and instructions.\n\nIn accordance with your instructions we have, since April, 1948, supervised and assisted your staff in the maintenance of the Department's accounts for the period 1st May, 1946, to 31st March, 1950, in respect of the following Sections:\n\nMARKETING\n\nRICE\n\nFUEL (Coal & Firewood)\n\nJAPAN TRADE\n\nINDUSTRY\n\nThe accounts of these Sections are dealt with individually later in this report.\n\nNo books of account were available in respect of the transactions of the Sections dealing with:-\n\n...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-629-4 Commerce and Industry Department- supplies branch. Includes a statement of accounts for May 1946-March 1950-... 1-11-1951 - 31-1-1952",
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        "title": "CO129-629-4 Commerce and Industry Department- supplies branch. Includes a statement of accounts for May 1946-March 1950-... 1-11-1951 - 31-1-1952",
        "content_text": "AGENTS FOR-\n\nPRICE, WATERHOUSE & CO.\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & THOMSONS,\n\nSHANGHAI, TOKYO & KOBE\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nOUR REFERENCE\n\n0/R-08\n\nLOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS.\n\nCHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS\n\nARCHIBALD RITCHIE, C.A.\n\nDAVID SCOTT ROBB, C.A.\n\nSIDNEY SAMUEL GORDON, C.A.\n\nCHARLES GOW SMITH, C.A.\n\n75\n\nTELEPHONE- 28106\n\nCABLES-\n\n\"LOWEBINGHAMS”.\n\n7, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\n18th January 1951\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nThe Director,\n\nThe Department of Supplies & Distribution,\n\nMercantile Bank Building,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nSir,\n\nDEPARTMENT OF SUPPLIES. TRADE & INDUSTRY\n\nCIVIL ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS\n\nIn the light of further explanations given to us and of subsequent instructions received by the Department affecting the closing entries of the accounts, we consider it appropriate to modify our Report dated 12th September, 1950. For simplicity of reference this Report is now submitted in a form which consolidates our Report of 12th September, 1950, with the modifications arising out of these further explanations and instructions.\n\nIn accordance with your instructions we have, since April, 1948, supervised and assisted your staff in the maintenance of the Department's accounts for the period 1st May, 1946, to 31st March, 1950, in respect of the following Sections :-\n\nMARKETING\n\nRICE\n\nFUEL (Coal & Firewood)\n\nJAPAN TRADE\n\nINDUSTRY\n\nThe accounts of these Sections are dealt with individually later in this report.\n\nNo books of account were available in respect of the transactions of the Sections dealing with :-",
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