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NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

64 SQUARE BOTTLE "

WHISKY.

UNVARIED FOR OVER

150 YEARS.

THE SAME TO-DAY ÁS IN 1745.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.

SOLE AGENTS IN HONGKONG

LANE CRAWFORD & CO., and from ALL WINE MERCHANTS.

EASILY DIGESTED.

"Makes Bone,

Muscle, Brain”

DAVID F.- NLD

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PLASMON ARROWROOT

is a highly strengthening food, and is specially suitable in all condi- tions where a light, mutritious diet ia indicated.

"The admixture of Plas- mca increases the nutri- tive value enormously."

-Lancet.

54. per Packet,

ingink

1-16

An astonishing brilliance of finish

is produced in a few moments if you use MELTONIAN CREAM- and the brilliance lasts. Nothing clse so well preserves the nèt look, or so effectively imparts glove- like suppleness to black leather; nothing so surely adds to its Ufe.

Meltonian

Cream

For heavier footwear come prefer the equally exoellent MexTORIAN PASTE (brown or black) Sold by all Bootmakers, etc. Hanufactured by E. Brown & Sau, LTD., Garrick St., London.

MARTIN'S DIOLASTEEL

506-3

PAN, JUNTOT KILLṛeaga/Weisina. Brake Pads in the bonas, do that on the Gra BUT MANY lengutaziły nỡ thì Bysitry i Kamaly done may be admḥudanared. Zhoes wha R KESESAcomand Esari, benze Ebelezor ONZE 2013, AN Coals and bares at hos Sheather Wh Viceld,

Cross Ledit always to boot

MARTIN'S VAPIOL STEEL

Beetham's

Make the Bklas LOFT: AS VELVET, and keep it LUFT, BMOOTH and WHITE all the year round Removes and prevents Poughuen, -Redness, laritation, Tas, ele, e COOLING AND REFRESHING DURING THE SUMMER HEAT M. BEETHAM & SON, CHELTENHAM ENGLAND

ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS IN THE

EAST.

HONGKONG THANWAY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH, 1918.

The accounts show a profit of £10,302, which, with £3,918 brought forward from the previous year, makes a total of ££3,220. Of this the interim dividend absorbed $2,031. Allocated to the reservo for depreciation and renewals £10,000. The board recommend payment of final dividend for the six months ended Dec. 21, 1912, at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, making 7 per cent. for the year. Balance of £7,127 carried forward.

BOOK

MUSLIN

CURTAIN

MATERIALS

PLAIN

FIG

AND

WITH

RED

SINGAPORE ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS. The accounts show an excess of revenue over expenditure of £34,430, the profit for the year, after charging debenture. interest, depreciation and royalty paid, being £5,338. Compared with 1011, tram- way revenue shows an increast of £1,446. There were 398,080 more passengers earried in 1012 than in 1911, the car mileage being 29,098 less. After lengthy negotiations with the Municipal Commis sioners of Singapore, the company has been able to secure an extension of the arrangement under which it sunlies eurrent for lighting and power purposes. EDGINGS

SHANGHAI ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION.

The directors report for the year to December 31, 1912, that the accounts show a profit of £24,727, which compares with £14,130 for 1911. Including the amount brought forward from the preceding year, the total standing to the credit of profit and lost account, before making any appropriations, was £28,028. There has been transferred to reserve for renewals account £8,500, and there has been applied in reduction of the preliminary expenses leaving a disposable account £1,554, balance of £17,974. The directors recom- mend the payment of a dividend of 5 per cent. for the year (less income-tax), absorbing £16,000, leaving to be carried forward £1,074 The percentage of loss by exchange on subsidiary coinage was bigher in 1912 than 1911, but has recently shown a tendency to decrease. The loss under

this head for the year was £23,937; and is almost equal to 7 per cent, on the The sanction capital of the company.

of the Municipal Council of Shanghai has been obtained for a new type of motor ear, and the rolling stock is being in- creased this year by 15 motor cars and 10 trailers.

RECENT FRONTIER RAID. HOW MAJOR CURYSTIE WAS KILLED. Allahabad, May 14th, The Pioneer gives the following further details of Major Chrystie's death. It appears that a gang of raiders entered a village in the District and curried off four children of a wealthy Hindu, who happened to be away from home

The villagers and

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MADRAS

MUSLINS

PLAIN,

FRILLED

LACE

EDGED,

TASSELLED

AND

SCOLLOPED.

MADRAS

WILLIAM POWELL IT FRINGES.

LACE CURTAINS

COLOURED MADRAS CURTAINS.

WM.

PRINTED AND

STENCILLED

MUSLIN

POWELL, LTD.

THE LATE BROTHER GREGORY

yoare.

We take from the Bangoon Gazelle the following reference to the late Brother Gregory, whose rent death we have already briefly rearded-A cablegram was received in Rangoon announcing the death in Paris of Brother Gregory, who was director of St Paul's High School,

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Brother Rangoon, for others went in pursuit, and also sent in

Gregory, who was born in Canada on June with the result that when word to Bannu,

Major

15th, 1857, came to the East in 1859 and the party of Cavalry under

was at once appointed Principal of 8% Chrystie arrived on the ground, the raiders were located as having taken Benedict's College, Colombo. After a few years auccessful taure of that post, he' It appears that in refuge in a cave."

was transferred to Hongkong whore ha addition to the ordinary entrance to this.ably directed St. Joseph's College for a

chimney there was n sort of hole or

number of years. He next filled the posi through which bundles of straw were

tion of director of St. Joseph's Institu- pashed and set alight with the object of

The main tion, Singapore, and from there he was amoking out the raiders. entrance to the cave had meanwhile been transferred in 18 to Rangoon as Head of St. Paul's High School. He continued kept under observation from the front by the Cavalry and by some local Balt in this position with marked success until Revenue Sepoys and others who had 1008, when failing health necessitated his In 1909 he had an return to Europe; It further appears joined the troops.

Brother that these operations commenced about attack of paralysis and since then his 5 p.m., and were only concluded at dawn health has steadily declined. next morning. At the same time, during Gregory will always he remembered as a man of whole-souled energy who invari this period, while Major Chrystie was supervising the operations in front of the ably accomplished whatever he put his hend to. The fourishing state of St. cave, the leader of the gang got an

Paul's High School to-day inay largely opportunity to fire at him at close range from inside the cave. The bullet passed bo attributed this powers as

He found St. Paul's with 700 through both lungs, and the unfortunate organiser administrator, and school man officer expired in a few minutes. In the ager, final fight. later on, four of the raiders pupils; he loft it with 1,200,

killed, three were captured and one were made good his escape in the darkness, while on our side, in addition to the loss of Major Chrystic, two Salt Department Sepoys were killed. In gratitude for his saccessful efforts to recover the kidnapped Hindu children, the Hindus of Bannu have decided to place Major Chrystia's portrait in their Asram.-, Mail.)

THE RISE IN SILVER

We subjoin extracts taken from Messrs. 8. Montagu & Co.'s eircular dated May 15th:--

has uf Silver

bera

The tendency distinetly good.

Not only have buying orders, for cover- ing and otherwise, been sent from China, bat the Indian bazaars also have been purchasing moderate amounts in thin market. This has not been a feature for Home weeks, for the Indian "bull syndicate was feeding locally the demand from the bazaars, as well as a good drai of that from China,

Probably, therefore, though the London market has recently been rather restricted, it has not been because demand was small, but rather because the stock of speculators is being somewhat reduced by sales in the East, and orders have been diverted from London.

The stock in Bombay has risen in valac from £900,000 to £1,000,000. The offtake has fallen from 190 to 130 bars a day.

Shanghai reports a stock of £1,850,000, compared with £4,700,000 last week,

The silver output of Canuda for 1812 has been returned at 31,931,7100z., value $10,125,656.

ACCIDENT ON THE "KONGO" AT GREENOCK,

JAPANESE OFFICER'S BELIOUS FALL

A London telegram to the Nichi Nichi reports that Commander Masaki, second- in-command of the Japanese cruiser Kongo, recently completed in England, fell from a height of thirty feet while! examining the search-light apparatus on the vessel at Greenock at midnight on the 15th ult. The officer sustained serious injuries to his left arm and right leg as well as internal injuries, and apprehen- sions were felt as to his recovery. distinguished himself in connection with the blockade of Port Arthur in the late

He

BANK CUSTOMERS AND THEIR PASS BOOKS.

In a case recently tried by Mr. Justice Channell sitting as commercial judge, the question as to the liability of banks' cus- tomers to examine their pass books was discussed. Cheques were forged by à clerk, and his principal failed to notice them, through not inspecting the pass

Divers legal authorities book. quoted, but the judge did not determine the point, saying in his judgment;

The authorities were rather against the contention that there was a duty on the

were

MOUTRIE'S

SUPPLY

THE PIANO

FIVE YEARS' GUARANTEE.

LIBERAL DISCOUNT FOR CASI

PRICES RANGE FROM

$380.

00

EASY TERMS FOR HIRE PURCHASE.

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

BANKS

[629-2

BANKS

CORPORATION.

TONGKONG AND SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL BANKING HARING CORPORATION,

$15,000,000

PAID-UP CAPITAL

RESERVE FUNDA

STERLING

L

£1,500,000 at 2815,000,000 SILVER

$17,200,000

832,200,000

RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPTOES$15,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS.

S. H. DODWELL Eng-Chairman. Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE-Deputy Chairman.

W.L.Pattenden, Esq.

G. Friesland, Eng.

C. B. Gubbay, Esg.

P. H. Helycak, Esq.

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G. B. Laurent, Esq. F. Lieb, Etq.

part of the customer to examine his pass- book, but the point was not very im portant, for even if there was a duty the particular loss by honouring the first cheque was not caused by the non-per- formance of the duty, As regards the second and third cheques, it was true that if Mr. Walker had found out about the first cheque be would have got rid of the fraudulent clerk, and the second and third forgeries would not have been committed. But the fact that Mr. Walker did not do so was not in law the cause of the second and third choques being forged. At the most it was the causa sine que non, but that would not do. It was therefore unnecessary in this case to con- sider whether in no caso was there a duty on the part of the customer to examine oven assuming his pass-book, because, there was such a duty, the breach of it could not be said to be the effective cause of the loss.

MONTH TO FIND TWO HUSBANDS.

CHEERFUL GIRL VICTIMS OF A WILL.

Much amusement was caused at the im migration station at Ellis Island, New York, last month by the urgent petition of two pretty blue-eyed Danish girla, Alfid Anderson and Ingeborg Jansen, of Copenhagen, for permission to depart immediately for Winona (Minnesota). They are the cheerful victims of an eccentric will made by their grandfather, who bequeathed them each a half-share cf 800 acres of fine farm lands on the con- dition that they marry within thirty days of their arrival in New York.

By the tornis of the will, which the two fair cousins explained to an interpreter. title to the lands will not be finally vested with either of them until they become

others. If at the end of five years one of the cousins has a child and the other has not, the motherless one will lose half her land to the other. If neither has children at the end of five years the entire property is to revert to a male cousin in Denmark.

Both girls departed this afternoon for Minnesota, confidently declaring broken English that they would find good husbands within the stipulated term

MOTHER

Seigels Syrup

Mother Seigel'a Syrup, the ideal remedy

for Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation, andothercomplaints arising from disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, has a grand record of uainterrupted success. In thousands and thousands of cases it has cured even after other medicines had failed. If you have any digestive trouble; if you are Jiable to bilious attacks; if you rise in the morning un refreshed by sleep; if you have a poor appetite, and are able to headaches, nervousness and insomnia, take a lew doses of Molbar Seigel's Syrup, and you will be delighted with its wonderful curative and tonic effects on the stomach, liver, and bowels,

Mrs. J. Scott, of 10. Alice Street, Durban, Natal, writes on September tb, 1912: "Ehave tested Mother Seigel's Syrup for many years back, and I feel quite certain that if sufferers from stomach and liver troubles would take it they would derive real and lasting benefit.'

"

Removes and Prevents

INDIGESTION

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J. A. Plommer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shollim. H.A. Blebs, Eng.

CHIEF MANAQEB : Eongkong-N. J. STAED

MANAGER

Shanghai A. G. STEFAN,

LONDON BANKERS I LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINSTER

BANK LIMITED, HONGKONG-INTEREST ÁLLOWEE On Carrent Account at the rate of Two par osat, per annum on the Daily Balance.

OR FIXED DEPOSITS.

For 3 months, 2 per sent. per annum. For 6 months, 34 per cent. per Andum. For 12 months, 4 per cent. per Annum,

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager.

Gongkong, 8th May, 1913.

THE OKOHAMA SPECTE

LIMITED.

HEAD OFFICE 1 60, Wall Street, New York LONDON OFFICE: 36, Bishopegace, E.C.

BRANCHES –

Bombay

Rube

Calontta

Manila

Mexico

Canton

Periama

Poking

San Francisos

Shanghai

Cebu Colon

Empire

Hongkong

Hapkow

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS

Yokohama

W

87,060,000 equal £1,450,000 EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING

BUSINESS transacted.

CUBRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the usual

terms

DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fixed for one year

at 4 per cont. per annum, or for shorter periods, at rates which may be sacar- tained on application. BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED MAIL and TELEGRAPHIC REMIT

TANCES made. LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS

granted on all the principal eities in the World.

THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are available all over the World.

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT

ierned.

PURCHASE. and SALE of Stocks and

Shares efforted... TRAVELLERS' CHECKS sold and canked

GEORGE HOOG,

18

BANK

9, Queen's Boad,

AUTHORISED CAPITAL...... Yen 43,000,000 FAID-UP CAPITAL......... Yen 30,000,000 ESSERTS FUND............. Ten 18,200,000

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KIAD OFFION—YOKOHAMA, Branches and Agencies et Antaug-Hsien Lino-Yang Byojun

(Port Arthur San Francisor

Colautta Bombay Changchun

Dairon (Dalny)

London

Los Angeles Shanghai

Brons

Tichling

Fengtion (Mukden) Magnea Tientein

Hankow

Harbin Honolula Kobe

Newchwang Tokyo

New York

Qanka

Peklo..

INTEREST ALLOWED ON CURRENT ACCOUNTS Deposite received for £xed perioda aí rates to be obtained on application.

EISHI ONO, Manager.

443 Bongtong, 31st March, 1913. THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED,

(INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL CHARTSH),

Capital ........... Capital Subscribed (paid up) Reserve Fund...

Manager.

220

Hongkong, 2nd November, 1912.

HONGKONG BAVINGS LANK.

ducted by the HONGKONG AND THE Business of the above Bank is non- SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Bales may be obtained on application.

INTEREST on deposits is allowed on the Minimum Monthly Balances at 3 per cent

per annum.

Depositors may transfer at their option balance $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOST at 4 per cent. per annum.

For the HoKGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

N. J. STABB,

Chief Mausger

Hongkong, 1st July, 1911.

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BANK

OF

£1,500,000

+19

1,125,000

562,000

하류 415,000

MERCANTILE INDIA, LIMITED.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL 14. SUBSCRIDED

PAID UP

RESERVE FUND

#

#

HEAD OPPION I

414

40, Threadneedle Street,

LONDON, EC.

BEANOHLED

Kandy, Galle.

Singapore,

Perang.

Kota Bahru, Kelantan,

Yen 10,000,000

...Yen 6,250,000 ....Yen 2,620,000

Bombay,

Calcutta

HEAD OFFICE: TAIPER, FORMOJA.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:

Howrah

Delki

Mzdra,

Karachi.

Amoy

Swatow

Tainan

Auping Canton Trochow Kedang

Kobe

Tengui

Rangoon.

Nagasaki

Tokyo

Colombo,

AGENTS IN JAPAN I

Osalta Shanghai

Yokohama

HONGKONG OFFICE, 3. Des Yeux, ROAD,

on Current Accounta Interest allowed Deposits received on terms which may be he on application.

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K. TSUDZURABARA, Manager Hongkong, 1st May, 1913 TEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE

HANDELSBANK (NETHERLANDS INDIA COMMERCIAL BANK)

ESTABLISHED 1863.

Authorised Capital Fl. 16,000,000 (£1,250,000) Paid up Capital El. 14,905,350 (£1,242112) Leserve Fund FL. 5,022,161.27 (2418,5131 HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM. HEAD AGENCY: BATAVIA.

LONDON BANKERS:

THE WILLIAMS DEACONS BANK. SWICH BANKVEREIN,

BRANCHES AND AGENTS all over the World.

THE BANK transacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, receives money on Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent per aanum on Daily Balancus. Rates on Fixed Deposit can be ascertained on application.

G. VERMEY, Manager, No. 8, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1913.

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Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S.

Hongkong.

Shanghai,

Mennea, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Lr

BANKSES:

BANK OF ENGLAND,

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANE, Ir. Every description of Banking and Fixabange business transacted. Stooka and Sharəe bought and sold on secount of Constituents, Letters of Credit granted on Agents and Correspondents all over the world.

INTEREST allowed on Current Accounts 14. 2 per

Be

· cont. per annum on Daily Balance and ou

may Fixed Deposits at rates which ascertained on spplication

A. E. LINTON. Manager," Hongkong. 20th May, 913.

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THEAUSTRALIA AND CHINA. THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1953. HEAD OFFICE LONDON.

...£1,200,000

PAID UP CAPITAL REBZETE FUND... RESERVE LIABILITY OP

PROPRIETORS...

.. 21,700,000

...£1,200,000

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Genera! Banking basiness transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened IXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter parisis at rates which will be quotes on application.

A. B. HEWETT,

Acting Manager. *Hongkong, 14th April, 1913.

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