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RECEIVED

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SMOKED

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THE CHINA IMPORT AND EXPORT LUMBER CO., LIMITED.

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., General Agents.

WE

E HAVE This Day Opened

LUMBER TARD sud OFFICES at North Point next to the Kwong Sang Hong Glass Factory.

The sailing Vossel "JAMES TUFT" has srrived with a well averted Cargo of about 14 Million aup. ft. of

on

PORT OF BOMBAY,

INAUGURATION OF THE

ALEXANDRA DOCK,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH, 1914.

The inauguration of the Alexandra Dock at Bombay by the Viceroy on the 20th ult. marks the virtual completion of the greatest scheme of port improvement over attempted in Asia. Before the con struction of these works the trade of the port was conducted on primitive Hum Two wet docks-the Princes Dock and the Victoria Dock-were built on the eastern. foreshore of the island in the eighties. These are connected by nail with the two railways serving Bombay-the Great Indian Peninsular and the Bombay- Baroda, But the connections aro so do fective that direct railway communication is little used, and the bulk of the trade is carried on by means of low capacity and slow bullock carte. Cotton, the principal staple of the port, is first hauled south to the Cotton Green at Colaba, where it is marketed, and then has to re-traverso the narrow island to the docks and mills, The grain and seeds traffic comes into the railway termini, whence it is distributed among multitude of petty warehouses, and finally makes its way in bullock carts to the docks.

WM. POWELL

LTD.

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These conditions have become extremely expensive through the rise in the cost of labour and all accessories, and were totally incompatible with the efficient handling of the rapidly growing trade of the port. When, therefore, 10 years ago, the necessity of additional wet dock accommodation was demonstrated, ad vantage was taken of the opportunity completely to transform the trade condi- tions of the port, to remodel the method of handling importe and exports in accord- ance with modern practice, and at the same time to provide a mole alongside which the passenger sieauers could lie at almost any state of the tide, instead of INDO-CHINA BRICKS. TILES. PIPES anchoring in the stream and embarking and disembarking paysongers in tenders.

THE NEW DUCK.

These works divide themselves into three sections-the new deck, tho teade depát, and the railway connections. The dock, named after her Majesty Queen Alexan dra, when the Prince of Wales laid the foundation-stone in 1905, has a water area of nearly 50 acres with three miles of quay. It is in the familiar form of an oblong, with a large turning basin and east and west bays It runs almost due north and south, and is situated south of the old wet docks. Starting from the south, first there is the new mole, 1,500ft. long, for the reception of the mail and large railway station and baggage shei, passenger ships. Here there are to be a in direct communication with the main lines of railway, and facilities for the landing and sorting of the mails.

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MORE THAN TEN MILLIONS IN USE IN THE FAR EAST.

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WHE

several years provision has been made for these interest charges, and the Port Authority has accumulated a reserve On the west side of the mole there is a of £693,264 from which interest charges deep-water anchorage for steamers, which can be met while the new works are deve will be utilized for trooping and as a loping their full earning power. The subsidiary landing stage when more than average income of the port authority for aone passenger steamer is berthed at a the three yours ended 1908-7

time. The mole merges into the entrance £460,020; for the three years onded 1912 lock, 750ft. by 100ft of water on the sul it was £562,276. For the past six years at high water, ordinary spring tides, and there has been a large annual surplus, dift. at ordinary neap tides. In order to mounting in 1913 te £76,659. The give big ships access to the mole and lock, figures for the current year are not avail. The Flagstaff Shoal, which obstructed the able, but they show to date a revenus sub- channel, has been removed by blasting stantially in excess of the estimates Within the dock there is the turning basin, While the expenditure has been heavy, 1,100ft, by 1,07aft., with 10,000ft. of quay the return proportionately great; in accommodation. equipped with transit the opinion of impartial engineers the sheds, a complete installation of hydraulic Port of Bombay will be as well equipped. crans, and direct rail connection with as any in the world when these works are

very shed and every herth; outside the complete-The Times

OREGON PINE, Planks, Timber, Floorings and Spare.

Prices will be quoted application All Correspondenco please address tó~~

THE CHINA IMPORT AND EXPORT LUMBER Co., LTD, Letter Bar No. 120. Telephone No. 1710.

Hongkong, 14th April, 1914.

NEW CARTRIDGES.

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In

SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to 888G. at $6. $7 and $7.50 per 100, SPORTING REQUIS- ITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.

Inspection Invited.

WM. SCHMIDT & Co.

Hongkong, 16th April, 1914. -

1559

GRACA & CO. PEDDER ST. (Hongkong Hotel Building). Dealers in

PICTORIAL

OSTAGE

STAMPS,

TOYS, &e.

lock is a now harbour wall, similarly

equipped. Running almost parallel with the cutrance Lock the dry dock, 1,000ft, by 100ft., said to be the second largest dry dock in the world.

The governing principle observed in fixing all these dimensions has been to provide accommodation for the largest ships likely to be able to pass through the Suez Canal for as far ahend as we rupe This dock is ready for immediate secupa tion, though a good deal of work on the surface remains to be done, especially in this provision of passenger facilities.

RECLAMATION OF LAND

NANKING-HUNAN RAILWAY.

-The Asia Pac (Peking) says: From reliable information we learn that the loan for constructing this Railway was concluded on the 31st of last month.

from

Nanking and Chu-Chow in Hunan his The two termini of this line are

vince. There is a long history about this l. First it was named the Wu-Tum Railway, then it was changed into the Nin-Kan Railway and finally into the Nanking-Hunan Railway. As it was at first planned, the line was to begin, Wuhu through Huon-Cheng and termin ate at Tun-Ilsi. The enterprise was taken up by a company, of native merchants. After spending a large sum of money (about two million dollars). the company was dissolved owing to poor management, Since then the line has been turned over Then the plan of to the Government.

to start from construction was also Wuhu,

through Nanking and end at Nan- munications wanted this time with the chang. Later the Ministry of Com- den of connecting it with the Canton, Hankow line, so the terminus was altered from Nanchang to Chu-Cho; hence it is now called the Nanking Human Railway.

There are to be two branches to the trunk line, from Nanchang to Wachang in Hupeh and from Nanchang to Hang- chow. The total mileage will be over ond thousand miles long.

The second section may be called the servier works. Bombay is a long narrow sland, where land is extremely expensive Consequently the means of providing a suitable site for the cotton trade and the grain trafic was by reclamation. North of the docks and on the east of the island jan area of 506 aeris has been made avail able of which 525 nores represent band actually won from the sea. The method adopted was to pump mud from the bot- tom of the barboue by powerful suction dredgers, carry is through steel mais, and deposit it in ponds enclosed in gravel banks. By following this practice POST CARDS, SEEDS, BOOKS, balf the cost by the ordinary methods, the reclamation was effected at less than

and in a tithe of the time. On the land so reclaimed a great trade depôt is being constructed, when the cotton and grain traffic will be concentrated.

North of this is a sorting yard, con The proposal to borrow from Britishers structed on the gravity principle. When to construct the line was heard of a long these works are in full operation the meritune

Last ago.

England chandise for xport/will be received by demanded the right of constructing the the Port Authority from the railways at line in order to counterbalance the cou- this sorting yard: There it will be made struction rights obtained-by-France-in the up into train loads for the particulsa Hupeb-Yunnan Railway. The Eritish sheds on the trade depot to which it is con demand has been speedily consented to. TRON, Steel,tal and Hardware Morsigned. When the merchandise is ready Now, what is China to do if other Powers

chants, Wholesale and Retail Iron- mongers, Pig Iron and Foundry

for export it will be made up into train were to follow the example of Great

Britain Importers, General Storekeepers and Ship loads at the depot, and dispatched as such

The contract made for the railway is chandlers. Nos. 35 and 37, HING LONG

to the quays.

In this manner the diffu. sion of the trade all over the city will be Tientsin-Pukow line

practically the same STAKET (2nd St. West of Central Market).

as that of the Here is the gist Telephone No. 515.

corrected, and thore will be a continuous of the contract: movement of export traffic southwards into the decks, entirely rail-borne, and of import traffic northwards also entirely rail-borne.

JUST RECEIVED: POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES FOR 1914, Hongkong, 20th March, 1914.

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THERAPION THERAPION No. 2

OUREN DISCHAROSA, KIPHER ARE, WELIDOT IEJECTIONS.

OTAKA BLOOD PINK, BAS LEGS, · VIN

KADETIQUE.

THERA PION No. 3

GURES GIZKUNIO WEAR - 12825, DRAINS, LOW VIGORO `SOLD AT LEADING CHEMISTA. PRICE IN ENGLAND, 29. REND`ETAXP ADUERES ENVELOPK FOR FREE DOOR TO CORA, CO, LĂ GURE Havruce D. DIAMPOIBAL, 'KOKDON," TET NEW DEALINK (1LUTIARAY) FORM DJE

THERAPION

EXPENDITURE AND DEVENUE.

month

(2.

(2.

(3.

-Amount of the loan, £8,000,000- Interest per annum 3 per cent. Duration of loan, 45 years,

(4.

(o

First advance, £3,000,000. -Date of issue of bonds, London,

April 21st, 1974. ·

(6)—The other condititiis are the same as the Tientsin-Pukow Radway Loan."

The expenditure has been heavy. The total estimated cost of the Alexandra Dock is £3,009,571, while that of the reclimation and associated works it Apropos of the above article Reuter's £2,590,000. These extensions have more agent at Peking writes: than doubled the capital debt « the Port The Nanking-Hunan Railway traverses Authority. At our time it feared very rich country, with the best traffic. that when the interest charge on this possibilities of any route in China. The heavy outlay came to be borne by revenue line will go vid Ningkwofu and Hwerchow LATING CURK SOLe enhancement of rates would be and arrangements are being made to necessary; but the trade of the part is neel the former place with Wahu and expanding so rapidly that no such appre Hanchow and the latter with Hangchow. 175 hensions are now entertained. Fat!

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10 Om

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This part of the country presents some difficulties and tunnelling will be neces

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sary, but, after Nanchang, the railway will run fairly directly to Piughsiang, with neither very steep gradients nor acute curves, through rich, agricultural and mineral.country. The British and Chinese Corporation are taking over the Pinghsiang Chuchow Railway.

VICTOR RECORDS

THE LATEST.

SONGS.

DANCES.

AND

SELECTIONS, etc.

INSPECTION INVITED,

EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTERS:

MOUTRIE'S

BANKS

THE MERCANTILE

at

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or

INDIA, LIMITED.

Authorised-Capital

Subscribed

Paid-up

Beserve Fund

BARKHEN: BANK OF ENGLAND, and

...£1,500,000 1,125,000 562,500 485,000

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANE, LIMITED.

INTEREST allowed on Current Accouni per cent. par annum on Daily Balakər and on Fixed Deposits at rates which may be ascertained on application.

A. B. LINTON, Manager. Hongkong, 14th July, 1913.

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HONGKONG

BANKING CORPORATION.

Paid-up Capital Reserva Funds:

Sterling

AND SHANGHAI

$15,000,000

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

... $17,650,000

832,650,000

N

BANKS

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EDERLANDSCH INDISON

HANDELSBANK.

(NaraBLAND INDIA COMMERCIAL BANK.)

ESTABLISHED 1863.

Authorised Capital F1. 80,000,000 (£2,500,000) Paid-up Capital... Fl. 17,407,000 (£1,450,688) Reserve Fund. Fl. 3,518,000 (£649,1585

HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM. HEAD AGENCY: BATAVIA

LONDON BANKERS: THE WILLIAMS DRACONS BANE.. SWISS BANKVERRIN.

The Bank transacts every description of Banking and Exchange business, receive money on Current Account and on Fixed Deposit at rates which may be ascertainai an application.

G. VERMEY, Manager, No. 8, Des Voeux Road Contrai. Hongkong, 3rd October, 1913

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

A branch live will also be constructed Reserve Liability of Proprietors $15,000,000 Business of the HONG KONG AND from Nanchang to Wuchang giving an aggregate length of nearly one thousand. miles of construction.

The undertaking will necessitate the fotion of loans auiounting to £8,000,000 at fire per cent, repayable in forty-five ars and secured by a mortgage on the line and its revenues, backed by a Govern nient guarantee. It has been agreed that the chief engineer, accountant and traffic manager of the railway will be British.

PASSED THE CANAL.

March 10th-Den of Crombie. March 13th-Japan, Brautó Rickmers. March 17th-Brasilia, Nippon, Nyanza. March Sunda.

20th Agamemnon, rrall

March 24th Bermuhr

Himalaga, Norderney,

March 27th-Achiles, Cordillero, March 31st-4teuta Maru, Ellen Hick- Suruge, Atreus, O. J. D. Allers. mers, Glenlochy, Lennox, Nippon,

COURT OF DIRECTORS. Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE-Chairman. W. L. PATTENDEN, Esq.-Deputy Chairman. 8. H. Dodwell, Esy. F. Lieb, Esq. C. S. Gubbay, Eay. J. A. Plummer, Esq. F. H. Holyoak, Esq.

Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, C. Landgraf, Esq. H. A. Siels, Esq.

CHIET MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. STABB.

MANAGER: Shanghai-4. G. STEVEN.

LONDON BANKERS::

LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINISTER BANK, LIMITED.

HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED.

On Current Account at the rate of Two per cent. per muaum on the Daily Balanze. -ON FIXED DEPOSITA. For 3 months, 2 per cent. per Annum For 6 months, 3 per cent, per Annum April 3rd-Lycaon, Nore, Pyrrhus, For 12 months, 4 per cent. per Annum Glenfory, Novura.

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 9th April, 1914.

April 7th-dyjus, Kusama, Lützow, Surugu.

April 14th-fantan, Denbighshire, Ennacus, Hirana Maru, Hitachi Maru, }⠀⠀ Fleist, Nile, Ping Suey, Sambia, Tydeus, Vorderts; Africa, Magellum.

TRY

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REECHAM'S

Pills give quick relief, stimulate the organs to healthy action and have a tonic effect upon the whole system. If you have not tried them and have any doubt as to their real value and efficacy, get a box and judge for yourself. You will find Beecham's Pills a valuable aperient net unequalled as regulating the stomach, bowels, liver, und kidneys, and restoring. the powers of digestion. They increase the appetite, promote assimilation of food- and extatinh good health. No household. Many should ever be without a box. -thousands of families - have proved the

value of Beecham's

PILLS

ducted by the HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Bules may be obtained on application.

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

por annum,

Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 por cont. per annum.

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION,

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager. (10

Hongkong, lat July, 1911.

INTERNATIONAL

CORPORATION.

BANKING

HEAD OFFIOR: 60. Wall Street, New York, LONDON OFFICE: 36, Bishopsgate, E.0.

BRANCHES:

Bombay. Calcutta.

Kobe.

Manila.

Canton.

Mexico.

(15

Cebu. Colon.

Panama

Peking.

Empire.

San FrancisÇO.

Hongkong

Shanghai.

Hankow.

Yokohama.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA

'AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL Chantea, 1×53

HEAD OFFICE LONDON,

... £1,200,000. Reserve Fund...

... £1,800,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors £1,200,000

Paid-up Capital..

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business transacted.

OUĚŘENT ACCOUNTS opened зво FIXED DEPOSIT received for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted en application.

A. 8. HEWETT

Acting Manage

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Hongkong, 1st March, 1914.

THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED

(INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL IMPERIAL CHARTER).

Capital Subscribed. Capital Paid-up Reserve Funds...

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS Gold 87,200,000 £1,480,000 equal EVERY DESCRIPTION OP BANKING

BUSINESS transected. CURRENT ACCOUNTS seeped on the renal

terms.

DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fzed for one year at 4 per cent. per annum or for shorter periods, at rates which may be ascertained on application. BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. MAIL entl. TELEGRAPHIC REMIT

TANCES made. LETTERS OF CREDIT and

THE

DRAFTS

granted on all the principal cities in the World. BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are available all over the World.

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT

issued.

PURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and

Shares oectod.

TRAVELLERS' CHECKS sold and cashed.

GEORGE FOGG,.

Manager.

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Hongkong, 31st October, 1913.

9, Queen's Road,

... Yen 10,000,000

12

7,499.250

3,450,000

HEAD OFFICE: TAIPEE, FORMOSA..

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES!

Amoy

Kiakiang

Shanghai

Bataria Kole

Singapore

Bombay London

Swatow

Calentia

Manila

Taichu

Carton

Mojí

Tsinan

Nagasaki Foochow Newchwang

Takow

Tamsni

Osaka

Dairen

Hongkong Now York Tokyo

Как

Yokohama

Koung Ban Irroiseo Pte..

HONGKONG OFFICE,

3. Des Vaux ROAD. Interest allowed on Current Account> Deposita, received on terms which may br had on application.

· K. TSUDZUJRABARA, Manager. Hongkong, 19th February, 1814 11272

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