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BANKS

THE

OKOHAMA SPECIE

LIMITED.

BANK

CAPITAL PAID-Ur. Yen 24,000,000 RESERVE FUNDS ............... ☐ 15,120,000

HEAD OFFICE --- YOKOHAMA,

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.

Tokyo

Nagasaki

New York

Bombay

Chefoo

Nowahwang

Astang

Tisling

Osak Lyons

Hankow Peking

San Francisco Honolulu.

Kobo London

Shanghai

Tientain

Dalny

Luoyang

Chang Chun.

Port Arthur Mukden

HONGKONG-INTEREST. ALLOWED.

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent per annum on the daily balanda.

On fixed deposits for 12 months 5% per annam

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TAKEO TAKAMICHL

Hongkong, 24th March 1908..

824

TEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-

MAATSCHAPPIJ.

(NETHERLANDS TELDING BOOIETY). ESTABLISHED 1824.

PAID UP CAPITAL FL. 45,000,000 ($3,750,000) RUSSEVE FUND FL 6,752,894.94

\{about 2479,407)

HRAD-OFFICE: AMSTERDAM, HEAD-AGENCY BATAVIA, Branches Singapore, Penang, Shanghai, Rangoon, Samarang, - Sourabaya, Charbon, Tegal, Pocalongan, Pasooroosa, Tjikstjop, Padang, Medan (Dell), Palembang, Kota Radja, (Acheen). Baniljermasin.

Correspondents at Macassar, Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Fondicherry, Calantha

BANKS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY AUGUST 10co, 1938.

attributed to a kind of auto infection instead of to lack of food, and these are avoided if a small

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE DEVELOPING A NEW PIORAMA ́ÉID ́SHIRT Quantity is eaten,

(NETERELANDS INDIA COMMERCIAL BANE

ESTABLISHED 1883.

Authorised Capital Fl. 15,000,000 (£1,250,000) Subscribed Capital FL. 10,000,000 (Pald up) Beserve Fund FL 2,112,670.38 (£170,048

HEAD OFFICE: - AMSTERDAM, *BUR-OFFION: THE HAGUE

· HRAD AGENCY: BATAVIA, - BRANCHES at: Singapore Bourabaya Bamarang, Indramajoo, Bandoeng and Weltevreden. - CORRESPONDENTS xt: Cheribon, Toga

Pocalongan, Macassar, Pontuak, Padang, Medan, Penang, Rangoon, Calotta Bombay Madras, Colombo, Karachi, Djeddah, Bangkok, Saigon, Shanghai,

BANKERS:.

THE WILLIAMS DRAGONS BANK, London SWISS BANKVIRIR. Paris: COMPTOIR NATIONAL D'ESCOMPTE DI

PARIB Berlin: DeuricHE BANK, Brussels: BanqUM DE PARIS ET DES PASB BAS, Vienna: UNION BANK,"

Rome : BAKCA CommercialĖ IZALIANA,

THE BANK buys and sells and receives for sallostion Bills of Exchange, iennes Letters of Credit payable in all important places of the World and transacts every description of Banking and Exchange bucinam.

INTEREST ALLOWED,

On Current-Account at the Rate of 9% per annum on the Daily Balances.

On Fixed Despoist: 12 months 4% per annum.

6 do 84% do. 3 do 3% d

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C. WOLDRINGH Manager, No. 16, Des Vux Road Central Hongkong, 1st April, 1908.

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Bangkok, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi, Amoy,HE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED, Tokohama, Kobe, Melbourne, Sydney, Now

(INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL York, San Francisco, de, de.

CHARTRE

LONDON BANKEKA? ---

THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITHE BANE Capital Subscribed (paid-up)......Yen 5,000,000 Ten 930,000

LIMITED.

The Bank buys and Bella and receives for collection Bills of Exchange, issues letters of Credit on its Branches, and Correspondents in the East, on the Continent, and in Great Britain, America, and Australia, and trancsote

· Banking Business of every description.

INTEREST ALLOWED.

On Current: Accounts 2% per annum on daily

balances.

On Fixed Deposita 12 months 43% per annum.

do.

do.

6 do. 4% do.

8. do. SIZ

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J. L. VAN HOUTEN, Agent,

Hongkong 16th July, 108

EUTSCH-ASIATISCHE BANK,

DEUTSCH

25

CAPITAL FULLY PAID UP... Sh. Tras 7,36,

HEAD OFFICE-SHANDRAL

BOARD OF DIRfOTORĄ, Beźlin.

BRANCHES : Berlin, Hamburg, Calonita, Hankow

Tientsin, - Peking, Tsinania, Tsingtan, Kobe Yokokama, Singapore,

Founded by the following Banks and Bankera:- KOBNIGLICH SHEHANDLUNG (PREUSSISORY STAATSBANT) Berlin.

DIRECTION DE DISCONTO-

GSBIJSCHAFT.

B.-BLEICHRONDER

DEUTSCHE BANK

BELINYK. HANDELS.

GSBILSCHAFT

Borliu.

BANK LUSH HANDEL UND

INDUSTRIE

ROBERT WARSCHAUER & Co,

MENDELSSOH & Co.

M. A. VON ROTHSCHILD &

SOBENE

Jacon S., H. STERN

Frankfurt aM

NORDDEUTSCH BANK IN HAM QU2o, Hamburg SAL OPPENHEIM, JE., & Co., Koeln. BAYERISCHE HYPOTHEKEN UND WICKSBL-

BANK; MUENCHER,

LONDON BANKERS; Messrs. N. M. ROTA CHILD & Box; THE UNION OF LONDON AND SMITHS- BAKK, LIMITED, DRUTYCHS, BANK (BAULIN), LONDON AGINOY DIRECTION DEL DISCONTO GESELLICHFAT.

INTEREST allowed on Current Account, DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange bariness transacted.

A. KOEIN,

Manager.

·Hongkong, 4th- December, 1807. 24

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA THE

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Reserve Fund ...

HEAD OFFICE: TAIPRE, FORMÓRA,

Amoy

Anping

Foosbow Keelung Bwatow

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:

Kobe

Nagasaki

Osaka

Shanghai

Tainan Tarnsti Tokio Yokohama

HONG KONG OFFICE:

3. DES VEUX ROAD, Interest allowed on Current Account Deposits recvived on terms which may be had. on application.

"D. TOHDOW, Manager, Hongkong, 5th April, 1907.

INTERNATIONAL PANKING

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ORPORATION,

CAPITAL PAID UP

Rebesys FunD

783

Gold $9,250,000, about Mex. $7,222,522 Gold 39,250,000 about Mex. $7,224,292 HEAD OVPICE: 60 Wall Street, New York, LONDON "OFFIOR: Threadneedle House, E.

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FOR HOT-DAY COMFORT-CHE AMRITEZ-

TERITY - DSLUBION GAS-TIGHT BALLOON A compass-testing station, near Berlin, isn VABRIC - X-RAYS IN PEARL HUNTING-ique adjanot of the German navy. The FARMING WITHOUT WATER-THE WAY To tasting tower is subjected to pitching, rotating, shaking and every motion to which a warship ia Hable in any service.

SZARYE-A DISTUBBED TOWER,

Aside from the 'farcical, distribution of seeds. by Congressmen, the United States, through ita Bureau of Plant Industry, is quietly doing remarkable work in collecting the vegetable production of the world that promise greatest results in the diverse climate and scit of America, and is scattering seeds and planta for thorough tast, Those needs and plants are continually arriving from foreign countries, In a year in North Chios and Manchuria, a collector has secured over 1,000 cariaties of plante for trial, including alfasfas, seedless pirs immons four inches in diameter, hardy Chinese

INDIAN ITEMS.

The total amount of subscription to the Burms Pastour Institute is nearly one lakh and nine thousand rupees.

The Bank of Bombay on the 16th. ult. reduced its rate of interest on demand loans on Govern. went Paper to 4 por coat.

of Rs. 5,000 towards the restoration of the The Gorerament of India have given a grant Roman Catholic Cathedral at Pains,

The Government of India have authorized

The Madras Government has forwarded to the Government of India en application from the Madras Port Trust for a loan of 7 lakhs, under the usual Act for the execution

of certain works in Mdeas Harbour.

poars, a peach for the dry southwest, North provincial Governments to sanotion, subject to China grapes, the seedles Chinese date, timboreertain limita, the grant under the Civil Code bamboos, cow-poss, soy-boane, a rose, some of advances to Government servants for the. remarkable shady trees ets, Tests are made at purchase of homeas in places where house rent the State Experiment stations and elsewhere,

is exceptionally high. Two date garden-ong with 394 imported palms on 15 acres have been established in California, rush and sedge plaats from Japan bare been distributed by the air-load in California and the South for experimental growth as a material for matting, and bamboes from China, India. At a special meeting of the Caliont and Porto Rico are being grown, with a study Manicipal Council held recently it was resolved of their possibilities. Besides ail this cotton, that women of Malabar who have the nevestery tobacco, melon and other plants are being to vote at elections.

property and qualiãoations abould be allowed. improved.

That white dothing is unsuitable for 190 under å blazing tropical súa seems to have besu overlooked by physicians and manufacturers, bat was pointed out is a late lecture in London by Col. Mands: The disturbance of the nerves of the spinal onlemu by exosesive actinic rays reacts upon the stomach, upsetting digestion non-actinic covering for the skin, and a red as well as onaning mastroke. The remsty is-a lining-for-wearing apparel-and-helmet- gires instant relief to the troubles from a torrid ann, and enables & workman to stand savere exposure with comfort. Yet even a red shirt is hardly to be had in the trópica,

The cultivation of ambidexterity, making the left hand as efficient as the right, has bein more or less favoured. Sir J.Crichtos Browse enters a protest, and seeks to show that it is both impossible and undesirable to give the left band the skill of the right. Our righthanded. new depends not upon mare voluntary selection. bat upon anatomical straaturo, a study of the third frontal convulation of the brain... known as Benon's convolution—it has been founde; that injury to this part of the left lobe deprives a right-handed man of speech but leares a left-banded man with speach unimpaired. It is inferred that voluntary preference for the right hand is due to superiority of the left hemisphere in speech and other control. "Righthandedness prevailed in early times, as ja shown in the arts of Greece, Assyria and Egypt, and it can be traced even in the brozze ages and among paleolithio remains. In gome special employments, ambidexterity is sofal. To make it complete and a universal condition, however, would-be-á social calamity, and the labse of the brain would be overtaxed to

LONDON BANKERS: BANK OF ENGLAND. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND) LIMITED, THE CAPITAL & Countins Bang, Limited

|Branchno and Acente' all over the World.rasiet a strain that is often a mark of the

The Corporation transmete every description of Banking and Exolangs business, roce ver Cuarent Account at the Rate of money

2% per annum an Daily balances and accepts Fixed Deposits at the following rates:-

For 12 months 41 per cent. per annum. For 0 For 3

No. 8, Que's Road, Central, Hongkong: W. M. ANDERSON. Manager.

1103

Longkong 8th April, 1908 HARKING CORPORATION.

TONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

PAID-UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUNDS:

STERLING

£1,500,000 at 2/---$15,000,000- SILVER...

$13,500,000

$15,000,000

$28,500,000 Reserva LIABILITY OF PROF TURB$15,000,000

COURT" OF DIRECTORS.~

E. SELLIN, Esq., Chairman. E. G. Barrett, Eng." | W. Holms, ER,

Hon. Mr. WJ.GRISSON Deputy Chairasa

C,G,R, Broderson, Esq. C. R. Lesimson, Eg G. Friesland, Eex. R. Shewan, Esq

Hod. Mr.H.A.W.Slade H. Tomkins, Eeg."

CHIRP MANAGEY Hongkong H. M. SMITH

INCORPORATED BY ROTAL CHARTER, 1858, C. 8. Gubbay, Esq.

HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.

PAID-UP CAPITAL ................................... £1,200,000 RESERVE FUND... £1,525,000 Reserve LIABILITING OF PROPRIE

TORA............................................... £1,200,000

INTEREST allowed on Curront Account

at the rate of 2 por vent, per aunan on the Daily balancos,

59

On Fixed Deposits for 12 months 4 per cent.

for 6- 34 for 8 is JOHN ARMSTRONG,

Manager.

Hongkong, 14th May, 1908.

INDIA, LIMITED.

ATTEORISED CAPITAL

SUBSCRIBED PAID-UP...

RESERVE FUND

BANKERS:

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15

£1,500,000

1,125,000

562,000

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LIMITED,

INTEREST allowed on Current “Accounte the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the Daily balance.

OF FIXED EPOSITS; For 12 months

For 6

For: 3

MANAGER Shanglu W, ASMS ORAN, LONDON BANTES-LONDON AND COUNTY

BANKING COMPANY, LAMITED.

HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED. On Current Account at the rate of Two per cont: par Annum on the daily balanos.

For 3 months, 21 per cent per Annam, For 6 months, 31 per cent, per Annum. For 12 months, 4 per out per Annam,

UN FIXED DEPOSITS

Hongkong 31st July, 1908.

20

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK:

THE Business of the above Bank in 210,000 condicted by the HONGKONG AND

SHANGHAI BANKING: CORPORA LION. Eules may be obtained on application INTEREST on deposits is allowed at DI Per

Cent

per annum. Depositors may transfer at their option balandes $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 Per Cont. per annum.

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA. BANKING CORPORATION, J. R. M. SMITH,

Chial Manager:

per cont 31 per cent. per cont. EVAN ORMISTOŃ, Manager.

Hongkong, 23rd April, 1908.

· Hongkong, 12th January 1907.

imbecile.

A newly introduced balloon material-suppli ed in any weight, width or colour-is usually built up from savez thin layers of rubber, weigh ing 5 ounces per square yard, plaçed between two Inyers at fine silk, weighing 24 oandas per square yard. Silk and rubber are vulcanizad together Though very elastic, the fabric stands a straiz of 100 pounds per inch of width, it is unaffactad by-heat and cold, and is absolutely moisture and gas proof. These and other sivantiges ovar veraished silk more than off-set the high-cost of about $2.50 per square yard.

A graal waste of oyster life has been stopped by I rays. The pescafibers of Gaglon inspåst oysters under these rays at the rate of thousands an hour, retaining the few pearl-bearing individuals, but returning all others uoiaforad to the on-instead of destroying them he

hitherto.

Successful farming on arid laud "without artificial watering has been brought to the notice of Agricultural Society of Germany, with an explanation of the mathot. In Syria and Palestine, with practically no rain from April to October, the fields in July have a furishing abundance of watermelons, oncitmbera, tom fors and other products, and plants continus graśn and thriving until autumn: Tho sacrat lies in so plowing that the winter rains are absorbed. and retained in the absoil. The plowing is ahallow, averaging only four to six inches in pth, and after the fall harrest it follows each heavy rais ne soon as the ground begins to dry, the purpose being to keep a loose and friable surface to take up the water and to prevent its evaporation into the air from the subsoil In the spring the land is plowed to a depth of about six inctés The seed is dropped by the plow upon the moist subicil and it is covered by the closing up of the loose soil: Protected be tho-loasa, covering. the sabeoil furnishes sufficient moigniə for plant growth during the entire dry sensu

If one feels bound & nodartske starvation, for

a period, it is best, a trained physician tells us,

to make the process not gaffe complete by eating a little at the usual intervals instead of fasting absolutely for a comparatively long time. This makes freak treatment qaite harmless, Physio- logists find that sathe body is starved, fat and sugar disappear fest, and then the minor organa: are drawn upon to support the brain and heart, continuing until no more material can be epared. Exbauation is then várý near, Bafora this, however, disturbances appear that are

Siste thousand and five hundred emigrants from Southern India went to Penang in 1907. This is the highest figure on record and exceeds proviens records by 8,500-as many no 23,000 frat 29 600 Indians returned to Southern India coolien were aided with passage tickets and during the year.

BURMA OIL DISCOVERY.

According to the Glasgow correspondent of "The Financial Times, important nows has reached the headquarters at Glasgow of the Barms Oil Company of a fresh discovery of oil. The now field is stated to be in close. proximity to the existing oil ares in Barms, and will have so important bearing on the future of the industry which is worked under a special charter from the Home Government. The ospital outlay to secure this additions! source of production will, the correspondent states be small, The Company is farther reported to be doing an excellent business which for the first three months of the current year exceeds that for the same period of 1907. The price of oil is slmost 20 to 25 per cent higher, and the redaing plant is being increased to double it present capasity.

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The Pioneer hears from Burma that mes aures are to-be taken to guard against the fires in the oil field in the Yeanng to ung district The extension of the petroleum industry rendera some notion of this kind absolutely necessary.”

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