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(NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY). ESTABLISHED 1924.
PAID UP CAPITAL FL. 15,000,000 (£3,750,00 ́1). FL. 5,000,000 (£117,000). RESERVE FUND FIN
HEAD-OFFICE IN AMSTERDAM. HEAD-AGENCY: BATAVIA. Brauches Singapori, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, Sourabaya, Cheribon, Tegal, Pocalongan, Paxoeroes, Tatjan, l'adang, Medan (Deli), Palembang. Ketu
Talok-SemawA, Hadja, (Acheon) Banjeraasin.
Correspondents
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The Bank boys and Rolls and receives for collection Bills, of Exchange, issues letters of credit on ita ranches and Correspondenta in the East, the Continent, and in Great Britain, Ameria, and Australia, and transacts Banking Business of every description.
INTEREST ALLOWED.
On Current Accounts 2% per anwar on daily
balances.
de.
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Fixed Deposits 12 months 41% per annum.
6 do. $% do. 3 do. 312 do.
L. ENGEL, Agent. (1450
Hongkong, 23rd July, 1906.
THE
LIMITED.
JOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
ESTABLISHED 1880.
CAPITAL SUBSUBIAND
Yen 24,000,000
CAPITAL PAID-UP ............
It
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3 900,000
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Kobe
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Ou fixed deposits for 12 months 5°, perazone
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THE HONGÈONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1906.
For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
RANKING CORPORATION, H. E. R. HUNTER,
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JAPAN'S TASK IN KOREA AND MANCHURIA.
JUE BANK OF TAIWAN LIMITED.
(CORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL
CHARTRE
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Amoy
BRANES AND AGENCIES:
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Anping Ponchon Feeling
Nagasaki
Osaka
Shanghai
Talaan Tamedi J'okin Yokohama
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THE MAN OR THE UNIFORM?
WHICH DOES JACK BALUTE?
There are many under the impression that
the British bluepacket salates the uniform, not the man who wears it. The following cutting from the Nroid and Military Record, however, will prove that this is a mistaken idea:
of Tokyo and Yokohama dainul noudent) what led to the issno
event their ease being stopped, if some insane could in adopted to enable them to un apmained with the features of the principal offers of the that in which they are It is difficul to show an ER.A., serving. wisp suds nearly all his time in the engine room
know the admirals and expfades of the Bent except by collecting their photographs, or
thing of that kind.
One of the mail papers has the following: HE Basiness of the above Bank is condu
Within fire wooks the frea port of Tairon ted by the HONGKONG AND SHANG. HAI BANKING CORPORATION, Holes Daly) will open its gates to the commeres of allations, and Japan will have given clear may be olduired on application.
of her readiness to allord emal oppor
Shortly after the Channel that had left Ensl- INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 3sities to tradors from East and West. Tho
bourne, the Following appeared on the lower. PER CENT. per annum.
decision to throw open Tairen was taken, it any dock notice boards of this ships taking part in Depositors may transfer at their optic supposed, in soins degrees at the argent the East Coast cruise" If the chief potty
$100 or more to the HONGKONG AND
ou shore. SHANGHA! BANK to be placed or FIXEDicitation of the moral community. thaler, notally E.R.A., when
in mul ent of Japan, for the Tokyo Foreign Sntinue to profess that they do not know
their DEPOSIT at 4 Pax CENT, por sua
Trade Society, which has been in existiues for
superior offers, it will ho nesary for them several years, and e
(eunts among its numbers the to be kaal on board the Hagship to have this Healing merchanta
to clean.
It is not generally known hought the Government of the Leased Terri (writes tory of Kwangluup to accelerate the preparations this notion, but it is ovidual that that were being made for the apting of the CPO. maist have noglucisi to salute naval It was not, however, the policy of alloora who were in plain clothes. A few years Tukyo Gorartinent wound Chinese
Chinese ago a distingin miral stopped the leave unton haste, and there has of all E.R.A.& in his command for an offenes ceptibilities by
cast amount of work to get through in
this character, 11. world rtainly b noforence to the settlement of Meachais, which inconvenient if the C.P.0.sind to proceed on
as yol to how boy partially an Yon 5,000,8 6e only la sain
2,500 cmpleted lint gradually i gion will be the shig for instruction before going entirely speal to tracks, and a thorong senses. But on the other hand, it would undoubtedly be for thic benefit, and perhaps of security will has tulished the must als ne been falt within the anomory of living me. Ax tauch of the capital which has hitherto bam invested in Japanese railways will, ovine to the nationalisation of railway's solemn, wood be returned to the public in flat forus of bands, considerable agortiess is being manifested to invest it in the South Manchurian Railway, the traffic coils from which average di ) you 199) per mile daily, out of which
one-fourth is art profit. The line, nevertheless, requires un
many improvements, had not a few lanches before it car he said to be even approximately capable of fulfilling its purpose, and these will involve a largs anting. The company was capitalised iniully by foChinese und.lapnagsottovarmaunts and Poples, Japan taking exaktly the plues of Russia in this matter of the Kwantung lease list the sovereignty of China should be prejudic, but the bond office of the
0 company is at
ance with the ordowel to visit China in accordance recommendations of the Elder Statesmen and the Ministry in ensitation had to consider the question of the abolition of the military administration in advance of the data that has bron
agreed upon, as well, ze the method of carrying into praction the policy decided on for the development of Manchuria, and the offest of the Commissioners inrealigations is to be seen in the spaudy opening of Tairen Mr. Yamazs, formerly in Loadon, and Genera Fokushima were the Commissioners entrusted with the discharge of this important duty, The most promising trade in Manchuria is that of coltou piece goods, and of that Amarios has hitherto claimed fully two-thirds
HONGKONG OFFICE:
3. Des Vux ROAD
Current 011
Account Intorent allows Deposits received on forms which may be learzod ca application.
D. TODOW, Manager: [999 Hongkong. 1st July, 1906, THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, INCOLPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 185: HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.
CAPITAL PAID-UP...... RESERVE LIABILITY OF
HOLDERS...yeah Tokat REVE FUND.
SHAKE:
2300,00 200,00 €975,000
INTEREST allowed on Current Assount at the rate of 21, per annum ou the Daily balances Ou Fixed Doposita for 12 months 4 per cent
2 T. P. COCHRANË,
Manager.
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Ingkong, lath May, 1906. THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.
Sa mg
SUBSCRIBED.uuuuqine s*** PAID-UP muda manut Kayehyb FUND
BANKERS LONDON JOINT STUCK BANK, LIMITED INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts at the rats of 2, per annoia on the Daily balanc ON FIXED Daros178 --- For 12 months.....
THE BRITISH ASSOULA TION.
The British Association opened ils aurual meeting at York on August 1st when the presit, D E. Ray Laskester, delivered his
of addinas. Professor Laukestor in the course of an interesting online of the advancement science in the past 25 years, raised the
question
radium far exceeded all other discoveries in importance. If the sun consisted of a fraction of per cont. of radium, it would account for lost by and take good the lest that is annually it. This is a tromendons fact," professor of apetting all cakulations cautioned, physicists as to the duration in past and future of the sun's heat auil the temperature of the oneth's surface. Thophysicists refuse to allow more than 2000 years (which they subsequently increased to 104,000,00), busing this estimate on the rate of cooling of a
a sphere of the size and
រង composition of the earth. They have assumed that its material is self-booting. It has now within these last fire yours, become evident. that the earth's material is not self-cooling, tut on the contrary, self-heating. And away go the restrictions imposed by physicists on goologiesl time. They now are willing to give us not
with a hrauch at Tairon.. The Commici" / "f the age of 1m earth. He said the discovery
..
scaly 1,000,000,00 years, but as many mor as we want." Profesor Lankester also dealt. with the study of disease, and said it wou'd bo reasonable and wise to 'spund. £10,000,00) a year of our revenues on the investigation and allumpt to destroy discase. What was spent was only a few thousand a year, and meanwhile people were dying by thousands of preventable
Aiseavy
In Kores Marquis Ito has no destil a vægt amount of prejudice to overcome, and roat progress must necessarily be somewhat slow, AUTHORISED CAPITAL..., £1,500,000
ut he is seeking diligently to eliminate the 1,125,000
to bring under control enureas of discontent 562,506 135,40 those disorderly elements that in the immense infar of perhaps 70,000 Japanese people of all classes could not wholly be guarded against An high-handed behaviour which can he brought home to the culprits is being adequat sy punished and redress affordul, Rouds are being built railways extended.
of foreign capital the employment 4.2
encouraged, farming on the most improved systomus is being widely taught to the natives,
Says the Vuval and Military Record-Vice- E. ORMISTON, and the permanent well-being of the conatry
Ite's is Marquis Manager.
He has much Admiral Curzon Home, who has been spoken Forsonal care,
to Lord Charles opposit on to contend with in respect of the of as a probable accessor Hongkoa, 26th March, 1906.
minor official clare, but the Korean Exporor Beresford, on the Mediterraum station, in the TONGKONG & SHANGBA) BANK Lavours the efforts which are continually betog-st-stilor in his family since the days of the More great Lord How. That famous seatman was ING CORPORATION
made te introduce genuine roforms, than this is not for the time, beig to be raised for his services to the peerage of Great PAID-UP CAPITAL.........$10,000,000 | expected. Reeseve FOND-
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217
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STERLING REIER...$10,000,000 SILVER RESERVE 10,250,000
-$20,250,000 HEBERVE LIABILITY OF PROP'TOR.$10,000,000
COURT OF Dingotors.
A. HAUPT, Esq.-Chairman. G. H. MECHURST, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. E. Goets, Esq. IN. A. Siebe, Esq. Hon, Mr.W.J.Gresson. R. Shewan, Esq.
H. A. W. Slade, Esq. II. E. Tomkins, Esq.
C. R. Lovemaan, Esq. D. M: Niesim, Eso. A. J. Raymond, Esq.
Chief ManagKE Hongkong-J. R. M. SMITH,
ACTING YANAGAB -
Shaugu-W. ADAMS OSAM.
LONDON BANKER LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMpany, Limited.
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is
THE FRENCH AT CHINWANGTAO
Our French contemporary chur de Chine] published on August 30th a statement to the foot that tricoloured posts had been planted on property belonging to the Chiness Mining and Engineering Company at Chiawangtao na an outward and visible sign of French occupation of the land in question. The word Feebeds Was tomewhat unnecessarily dragged into
the announcement, in order to be dismissed with
VICE-ADMIRAL CURZON HOWE
Britain from that of Ireland in 1780. In 1783 be was made Earl Howe and Baron Howe of Langar. In default of male issue the latter title passed his eldest daughter, Sophia Charlutte, who married, in 1787, the Hon. Penn Asabaton Curzon, e eldest son of the first Viscount Carson. Their oldest son was created Earl Howe in 181, and was the father, by his second marriage, of the Vios-Adzairal There was also one daughter by this marriage, the With the Present Duchess of Abercorn. exception of the Prince of Wales, Admiral Carzou Hans is the youngest, sic-admiral,
ewwar service in 1991, in the Vitu campaign, as chief of the staff to Sir Edward Fremantle. In
1994, while in command of
scorn, while the exploit was made the occasio Cleop dre, on the Nor.L America sud Wes
an encomium
fristate, en Peking for the list agruth of short,
he had played in the affair. It is differit
t
the
believe (says the N.-C. Daily News) that the to patating life and property at Bluefill, checkel whit might have incident which has called forth this highfalatin has a series civil outbreak in Nicaragus.
is as serious as our contemporary would sem
in
exxious to represent it to be. The laud
has book question
nominelly in the occupation of the French ever since it was occupied by their troops at the period tio of the Borer treables When the puerived for the French Government to withdraw
For 3 months, 2 per cont per Aunap. For 6 months, 31 per sent. per ±num. For 12 moslar, 4 per cent per Aanam,
H. E. R. HUNTER,
Acting Chief Manager, Hongkong, 20th Angast, 1906.
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EUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK.
CAPITAL FULLY PAID UP... Sh. Taola 7,500,00
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from this stretch of territory, it was pointed oat by their representative at Paking that it would be entirely opposed to the spirit of the Chins Treaties if Chinwal
IWAEDIBO
the becanis close preserva
cf a private corporation. The terms in which it was then proposed to loare France in possession of the ground sho kut occupied also clashed in her
opinion with the terms of the most favoured nation clause. Negotiations would seem to have been protracted a the wual manner, until France has found herself obliged to act in the manner stated There is no reason to believe that e
at any deliberate afront is intended to foreign interests in Chin wangtao, and we may conclude that the matter will "srrange itself through diplomatio channels Such negotiatious ne there have been, we understand, have been entirely with the Chinese Government.
MARQUIS ITO'S WORK IN KOREA.
From statement published by the Hochi "'' and translated by the "Japan Mail" it appears that the Resident General in Korea is working with great assiduity. Foreign affairs give him mach employment, and documents relating to their management. lis on his desk. The
piled system recently introduced for excluding bad
is working for characters from the
miscellanies" are now conspicuous by their absence. Morester the members of the Cabinst look up
successfully, and the
Marquis
It almost as though he were their father, sod it is thought that if things continus in this groose the task of administrative reform will be successfully achieved. But the attitude of the Court remains still questionable; uo reliance can be placed on its sincerity. The Emperor is said to be very anxious for boat Marqaiz It
a development of the military establishment, holds that armaments must be in consouanes with the general condition of the country'a civilisation, and he advocates, therefore, the founding of schools rather than the raising of to be a million you is regiments Half Deutsche Bank (BERLIN), LONDON AGENUY | Devoted to the former purpose.
DIRECTION DER DISCONTO GESELLSÖKAPT.
LONDON BANKERS: Messre. N. M, ROTHSCHILD & SON, THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITH'S BANK, LIMITED.
INTEREST allowed on Current Account, DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange business transanti, HUGO SUTER,
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HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS IN THE CHINA SQUADRON.
Alarity, despatch-boat, 1.700 tons, 10 guns, 3,000 .p.. Comdr. E. La T. Lahara, longkong
Arganaut, eraisir, 13,400 tons, Capt. E. H.
Smith, en route England
Astranu, 2nd class cruiser, 4,360 tons, 10 guas, 7,000 1.b.p., Captain . L. Vaughan-LeB, Hongkong
Bramble, gubat, 711⁄2 tous, 900 h.p., Linut. E、
C. W. Davison, Yaogize
Britomart, ganhout, 710 tons, 800k.p., Zhout.
W. I. Bauber, Yangisze
Cadmas, British sloop, 1,070 tons, Conde. I.
Case Ipard, Hongkong Clio, British
1970 tons, Comdr. II. D. Wilkin, D.S.D., Shanghai Dinlem, 1st class evaluer, 11,000 tons 16 gans, How Can II W. Payury, Fusin Fame, torpedo boat destroyer, 360 tona, G guns, 5.700 h.p.. Lieut.-Comdr. Hughes, Hongkong
Flor, Pod clas emisor. 4,364 tons, 10 gaus, 7.000 h.p., Capt. Grant Dalton, eu roste Hongkong
Handy, torpedo-boat derivoj 7, 260) tous, 6 guar,
4.000 hp., Liont-Comdr. Cox, Fus Hart, torpain-boat destroyer, 200 tons, 5 guns. Henniker 4000 h.p... Lisat.-Comdr. F Heaton, Fasan
Jauds, torpedo-boat destruyer, 20 tons, Cgant,, 3,900 b.p., Lt. Cendr. Darwal, Fusan Kent, cruiser, armonres, 9,890, tous, 14 guns, 220 hp, Captain S. V. You Hormy.
King Alfred, British craiser, 14,000 tons,
Capt. Cecil F. Thursby, Fucat Kiusha, river gunboat, 331 tous, Lietzt.-Com tr
E. V. FR. Dugmors, Shanghai Monmouth, cruiser. 9,800 tons, Capt. J. A.
Tuke, Fusn
Moochen, river gunbost, 180 tons. 2, Lieut. Comdr. Vanghan, West River Nightingale river gunboat 85 tons. 249 hp,
Lieut. Comdr. R. S. Roy, N., Shanghai Otter, torpedo-boat destroyer, 350 tons, 6 gaus, 500 i.b.p. Lt. Comdr. Kiddle, Fassu Robin, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 guns. 2,
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200 gunboat, 85 tons, 2 graus, ..dr. H. T. Allay, West Liver Snipe, river
85 tons, 2 guns, 249 h.p. "Lieut.-Comdr. T. J. S. Dy » Youglaze Tamar, receiving ship. 1,600 took ti gaus, Cammudere H. P. Williams, at Hongkong Teal, river gnaboat, 180 tons, 2 guna, Lient.-
Comdr. Secretan, Yar
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Virage, torpedo-boat destroyer, 69 tons, é guss, 6,300 h.p., Lieut.-Comdr. Stevenson, Mus
Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 teas. 450i.b.p..
Comdr. A. W. Glonnie, Hongkong Whitng, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tona 6 gabe, 500 b.p., Lieut. Comdr. C. F. L. Thorass, Fasan
Widgeon, gunboat, 195 tons, guns, 800 h.p., LA-Comdr. G. B. Spicer-Simon, Yangtze Woodsock. gunboat. 150 loan, 2 guns, 550 h.p. Lieu-Cumir. Hugh Somervillo, Yangtzo Woodlark, gunboat, 15 tons. 2 gans, 350 p.b.,
Lieut.Comdr. J. P. Knox, Yang (szo
CHILDREN OF
PAR CATHAY.
A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL NOVEL.
ABSORBING INTEREST,
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By CHAS. J. HALCOMBE (Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Custome- Service, Anthor of "The Mystic Flowery Land," etc.).
THE VOLUME, which consists of 10
Pages, and includes a Sketch Plan of historical interest thowing the disposition of the Forces at the bottle of Kweilín, fa dedicated to Sir ROBERT Hant, G.C.M, G., and Dr. A. RESME.
Its description of Chinese Social Custome and Superstitions, combined with the insight it gives into political conditions in China miskes CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAT" an excellent volume for presentation to friends at Home.
Well bound in Yoller Cloth with Chinose Emblem in Gold.
$3,50.
Fr
PRICE Tobe obtained from Messrs. KELLY & WALSH LTD., Mesers, W. BREWEL & Co, or from the Printers and Publishers, the HONGKONA DAILY PRESS "Roe.
Hongkong, 23rd April, 1908.
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