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LIBRARY

will shortly be opened for the

use of Subscribers to the

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

PREE.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 300

Banks.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA. LIMITED,

AUTHORISED CAPITAL" £1,500,000 SUBSCRIBED

PAID-UP 225+-+-+-+4)+£662,500

BANKERS:

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LItrego,

NTEREST ALLOWED on CURRENT ACCOUNTS at the Rate of 2 per cent.

per annum on the Daily Balance.

ON NEW FIXED DEPOSITE

For 12 Months.......4 per cent.

13

6.

"3

90

...

****....................3

ONYMUSTER2]

DEPOSITS RINIWED ON OLD TERME

J. W. R. TAYLOR,

Manager, Hongkong

Hongkong, 18th December, 1805.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1859. HEAD OFFICE LONDON,

CAPITAL PAID-UF

日三十月二年二十二精光

ESTABLISHED 1881,

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1896.

Intimations.

BELL'S ASBESTOS EASTERN

AGENCY, LIMITED.

HONGKONG HOTEL-PRAYA,

Sola Eastern Agents for

SPHINCTOR GRIP ARMOURED Host.

SNOWDON, SOM & Co. "SNOW.

DRIFT" MANUFACTURER.

THE NEW WIRE WOVE ROOFING CO.

THE ALUMINIUM AND GENERAL

FOUNDRY CO.

P

四拜禮

Entimations

魏大廿月三英港香

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

FOR

STEAMERS.

CAPTAINS

JAPAN, &C. .............Verona. C. H. S. Tocque, R N.R.Nooo, 17th Min....

TO BAIL

STRAITS AND} BOMBAY....]

ReMilla......S. Harcham

Aboat 4th April...

SHANGHAI..........FIN# »...........................Ţ, F. Jephson.. LONLON.........Formosa.........E. P. Blihop

73

REMARKS

Freight or Page (Pasting through the Inland Sex). (Freightor PassRPG,

(Calling

Colombo if suff clant inducement offers).

„Abou1 çih' April ...Freight or Passago. About 6th April ...Freight or Passage.

BELL'S METALLIC and ASBESTOS PACKINGS are unequalled for both Compound and LONDON...Shaipkat ...........). Cowie, R.N.R................About 18th April...Freight or Passage.

COTTON PARAGON PACKING, TUCK'S PACKING and all kinds of jelatings kept in stock.

ENGINE AND CYLINDER OILS, W. JACKSON, Manager,

130

Triple Expension Engines.

www.£800,000

SPECIALLY MADE CLOTH FOR FILTERS.

Hongkong, 27th February, 1896.

£800,000 +6325,000

RESERVE LIABILITY OF SHARE

HOLDERS...

RESERVE FUND

TNTEREST ALLOWED

INT

OR CURRENT

ACCOUNT at the Rate of per cent, per manum on the Dally Balances.

On Fixed Deposits for i2 months... 4 per cent.

6

# .*** 31

17

4

10 . 3. » T. H. WHITEHEAD,

Manager, Hongkong.

Hongkong, 16th September, 1895.

£53

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

PAIN-UP CAPITAL $10,000,000 RESERVE FUND$5,750,000 RISKRVI LIABILITY OF PROPTORS...$10,000,000 COURT OF DIRECTORS:

A. MCCONACH, Esq.-Chairman,

ST. C. MICHAELSEN, Eaq-Depoty Chairman. Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving. J. Kramer, Esq.

D. R. Sassoon, Esq.

G. B. Dodwell, Esq.

M. D. Esekiel, Esq. R. Shewan, Esq.

R. M. Gray, Esq.

N. A. Slebs, Esq.

CHIEF MANAGER:

Hongkong-T. JACKSON, Esq.

"MANADER?

Shanghai-J. P. WADE GARDNER, Esq. LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED.

·HONGKONG-INTEREST ALLOWED

On Current Account at the rate of a per Cent,

per Annum on the daily balance,

INTEREST ON FOXED DEPOSITE : For 3 months, 24 per Cent, per Annum. For 6 months, 31 per Cent. per Annum. For 12 months, 4 per Cent, per Annum.

T. JACKSON,

NOISELESS.

EX S.S. "CADIZ,"

(DIRECT IMPORTATION FROM ĮKRIZ.)

DRY SHERRY in casca of 12 Bottles.

And a small lot of choice Wines. GRANT JEREZ, N.P.O. :

CORONA VIEJO OLOROSO,

Hongkong, arat March, 1896,

at $8.00 per Cake.

FAMOSO MOSCATEL EXTRA.

NECTAR.

SHEWAN & Co,

(33

EXPLOSION IMPOSSIBLĖ,

JASTRAM'S PATENT

GOLDEN MEDAL

PETROLEUM ENGINES

of 2 TO 12 H.P.

FOR FACTORIES AND LAUNCHES.

WORKED BY ORDINARY PETROLEUM.

Consumption of Patroleum 1 lb. per H.P. and Hour.

A Working Stationary Engine and a Launch with a 4 H.P,

Engins will be shown and fall particulará be given on application.

SCHEELE & CO., HONGKONG,

SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EAST.

NO PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER REQUIRED.

SMOKELESS,

For Further Particulars, apply to Hongkong, 25th March, 1896. --

ALF. WOOLLEY, Acting Superintendent,

-[431

PHARMACEUTIC PRODUCTS OF THE FARBWERKE VORM MEISTER, LUCIUS & BRUNING HOCHST ^/M'IN.

Dr. KNORR'S LION BRAND

"ANTIPYRINE,”

(DOSE FOR ADULTS 15; TO 35 GRAIng Troy)

יי

Is the most approved and most efficacious remedy In cases of HEADACHE, MIGRAINE, NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, FEVER, TYPHUS, INFLUENZA, DENGUE, ERYSI- PELAS, WHOOPING-COUGH, and many other complaints. It also the very best ANTISEPTIC Highly recommended by the Medical Facults. Ask for DR. KNORR'S ANTIPYRINE! Each Tin bears the Inventor's Signaturs "Dr. KNORR" in red letters,

"DERM A TOL,"

Is the best Valnersty; its affect to stimulating the closing up of Wonads is described as amazing,

Da. OVERLACH'S

"MIGRAININE,”

́ ́ (ANTIPYRINE—CAFFEINE CITRATE)

Invaluable for MIGRAINE and of the greatest value las treating HEADACHES of definite etiology, in the HEADACHES of INFLUENZA, of NICOTINE and MORPHIA POISONING, and generally where the administration of other remedies have failed.

To be had of every seputed Chemist and Druggist, Supplies constantly on hand at the CHINA EXPORT, IMPORT & BANK CO.,

SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA.

BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS!

THE

CLUB HOTEL,

S.. BUND, YOKOHAMA,

4

[84

HOTEL METROPOLE,

1, TSURIJI, TOKYO,

FIRST-CLASS HOTELS, centrally situated, well-furnished, the Cuisine under the Soperl & Coel has ae qual, ENTIRE FOREIGN MANAGEMENT

Chief Manager THE HONGKONG BUTCHERY, Experienced Engilala, matron. in attendance.

Hongkong, 15th February, 1896.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

*HE Business of the above Bank, is conducted

The HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application.

!INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 34 PER C. per annum.

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

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,

T. JACKSON,

Hongkong, 1st August, 1895.

Chief Manages.

THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,

LIMITED.

Authorised Capital

Subscribed Capital.....

HEAD OFFICE

**£1,000,000

*****£ $00,000 HONGKONG,

Court of Directors--

D. Gilles, Esq.

ChowTong Shang, Esq.

H. Staterfoht, Esq Kwan Hol Chuen, Esq.

Chan Kit Shan, Esq.

Chief Manager.

GEO, W. F. PLAYFAIR, Interest for 12 months Fixed, 5 per Cent. Hongkong, 23rd October, 1893.

Intimations.

CONTRIBUTING FORTEMENT OF

*

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. *ONTRIBUTING “SHAREHOLDERS"art" BUSINESS CONTRIBUTED during the Half Year ended 31st December, 1895, aon or before the 31st instant, on which date the ACCOUNTS Will be CLOSED.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

R. COOKE, Acting General Manager. Hongkang, and March, 1896.

[430 CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED, ADJUSTMENT OF BONUS FOR THE YEAR 1895 “ONTRIBUTORS to the above OFFICE are requested to furnish the Undersigned with a LIST of their CONTRIBUTIONS for the year ending 31st December, 1895, in order that the distribution of BONUS may be arranged. Returns not rendered prior to the grst day of March, instant, will be adjusted by the Office, and no Claims of Alterations will be subsequently admitted. --- ---

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. General Agents,

CANTON INSURANCH OFFICE, LIMITED. E456

Hongkong, 4th March, 1896.

LEVY HERMANOS.

AND AT

BHANGHAI, MANILA, ILOILO AND PARIS:

▼EWELLERY, DIAMONDS, WATCH,

47:

CHRONOMETER & CLOCKMAKERS,

Also

GENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT

10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Nos. 11, 13 and 15 Central Market.

TRY OUR.

EAL SAUSAGES 25 Cents per D.

VEAL

Bor

OLOGNA SAUSAGES 50 Cents per SHIPPING AND COAST PORT'ORDERS WILL HAVE PROMPT ATTENTION,

Hongkong, 11th February, 1895.

-J. TATAM,

Proprietor.

DISSOLUTION OF

PARTNERSHIP.

HONGKONG

[49

TRADING COMPANY.

SALE

WILL BE CONTINUED DURING THIS WEEK.

· GREAT BARGAINS IN

GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING.”

Hongkong, a3rd March, 1806.

HAVE YOU TRIED

BRAUN'S "EXPORT" BEER

EN A QUESTION EVERYONE IS ASKING EVERYONE ELSE.

IF NOT, TRY IT AND YOU WILL PRONOUNCE IT A FIRST CLASS LAGER BEER, A MARVEL OF CHEAFNESS AND A DELIGHT TO THE EPICURE.

PRICE

$10.50 per Case of 6 dozen Pints. -$1250 per Cars of 4 dozen Quarts.

:

Cóză on Dillvary,

THE SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO., CHINA-JAPAN' AGENCY, Head Ones -8, D'Agullar Streat, Hongkong

For price and terms, apply to

The Hotel stearn-launch with European Agent attends arrivals and departures ; every assistance given in clearing luggages and affording Information, Passengers are mat at the Railway Station.

VISITORS, have the option of messing either in. ToxYo or YOKOHAMA, without extra chago—THE CULT HOTEL OFFERING SUCH AN ADVANTAGE, EUROPEAN HAIR DRESSER on the Premises.

Certified Guides are in attendance at both Hotels.

THE CLUB HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED, PROPRIETORS, E. V. SIOEN, Manager,

YOKOHAMA,

}

L. DEWETTE. Manager,

TOKYO.

[169.

LANE, CRAWFORD & COL

GENERAL STORE-KEEPERS AND COMMISSION AGENTS. SHIPCHANDLERY DEPARTMENT.

SIR CHAS, PRICE & TENGINE BR CYLINDER OILS.

ENGLEBERT'S CYLINDER

CRANES CYLINDER OIL..

TUCK'S GENUINE PATENT PACKING.

PARAGON PÁTENT PACKING.

VALVOLINE, CASTOR OIL, SC, &c. ASBESTOS PACKINGS of all kinds,

ROPE, CANVAS, &c. HUBBUCK'S PAINTS and VARNISHES. HOLZAPFEL'S PATENT COMPOSITION, ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTI-FOULING, for

STEEL VESSELS. SOAPSTONE ENAMEL COMPOSITIONS for HOLDS, BUNKERS and Tor-SIDES,"

FRESH

Hongkong, 4th February, 1895,

WATER SUPPLIED.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

MOUNT AUSTIN

HOTEL

1,400 FEET ABOVE SKA-LEVEL,

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,

"Excmazon," HONGKONG,

A, B; C. Coła,

TELEPHONE,

No. 35.

[273

THE TEMPERATURE IS AT LEAST 10.DEGREES Ccooler than IN. QUEEN'S ROAD.

TIFFIN.AT. I. P.M.”

DINNER AT 8 FM. ARRANGEMENTS can be made for TIFFIN or DINNER, PARTIES in PRIVATE DINING-ROOMS.

For further Paniculars apply to

THE MANAGER,

THE MANAGER.

Hongkong, aand january, 1896.

[1918

MOUNT AUSTIN HOTEL.

Honkong, 27th July, sos

SCOTCH WHISKIES.

FINE OLD GLENLIVAT. MONARCH OF THE GLEN,"

VERY OLD HIGHLAND BLEND. RARE OLD BLEND,

BSTD. 1804.

WAYFOONG BLÅND.

EXTRA SPECIAL FINEST

LIQUEUR.

V.0.8. (OLD MATURED).

VERRITOSH (GREAT ÄGE VERY FISE)

From $7 to 336 per Douen.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co.,

WINE and SPIRÍT MERCHANTS,

TRADE MARK. H

Hong Names YUEN W O.

TELEPHONE, No. 199.

N

(18

HIRANO WATER.

PKR CASE O

5.OF 48 BOTTLES..

A SPARKLING ALKALINE WATER WHICH MIXES PERFECTLY WITH WINES AND SPIRITS.

ISOLE AGENTS ¿

ONE

$1,000 THOUSAND

DOLLARS

European Subscribers to thi Hongkong Telegraph ate, from 111 October, 1895, insured fo the sum of $1,000 agaknat Fažaḥ Accident,

THIRTY DOLLARS

PER ANNUM.

Insurances.

THE MANCHESTER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1824.

CAPITAL 5210281029123904

TOTAL FUNDS AND SECURITY

NET ANNUAL FIRE PREMIA....

་

£1,000,000

3.480051

-£ 757:478

Hoe Company, ie are prepared to LIAVING been appointed AGENTS of the accept EUROPEAN and CHINESE RISKS, at CURRENT RATES.

HOLLIDAY. WISE & Co.

Agents. Hongkong, and Tanuary, 1865.

fco

NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,

Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at THE

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept Fleat CURRENT RATES.

SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 28th May, 1895.*

[34 NOTICE.

THE

“HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED

1,000,000 The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at CURRENT Rates on GooDS, & Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies,

CHAU TSEUNG FAT, Secretary. HEAD OFFICE

* No. 1 QUEEN'S ROAD WEST Hongkong, with May, playe

GENERAL NOTICE,

$247

THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)

"

CAPITAL, TAELS 600,000

EQUAL TO ***EDUSOTROS. RESERVE FUND

$833-333-33+

. $318,000.00€

BOARD OF DIRECTORS,

LEE SING, Esq.

LOU TO SHUN, Esq.

4

LO YEUX MOON, Esq.

MANAGER-HO AMEL

[ARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c., taken

MA at CURRENT HATES to all parts of the

World

HEAD OFFICE, 8 & o, PRAYA WEST. 11. phone, with Theromium Te

Intimations.

CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,

____LIMITED.

NOTICE. ANNUAL MEETING of ORDINARY

EIGHTEENTH

HE

HOLDERS of the COMPANY will be held at ika OFFICES of the GENERAL Acziers, Pedder's Street, at NOON TO-MORROW, the 17th March, for the purpose of receiving their Report with Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1895. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to 27th March, both days inclusivo.

"

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.. General Agents. Hongkong, 16th March, 1806.

1455

LUZON SUGAR REFINING, COMPANY, LIMITED.

t

THE

NOTICE.

FOURTEENTH

ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the COMPANY will be held at tha OrFics of the GENERAL Aarsrs. Pedder's Street, at 12.30 P.M. TO-MORROW, the 27th March, for the purpose of receiving their Repert and a Statement of, Accounts to 31st December, 1895.

L

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 13th to zyth March, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Ca, General Agents, Hongkong, 16th March, 1805.

1466.

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

THE

THIRTEENTH

ORDINARY.

GENERAL MEETING of SHARE. HOLDERS in the COMPANY will be held at the COMPANY'S FACE, No. 9, Praya Central Victoria, on SATURDAY, the 28th Mareb, si 11 o'clock Nook, for the parpose of receiving s Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 31st December, 1895, declaring a Dividend, and electing a Conselling Committee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compasy will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 18th Instant, both days inclusive.

SHEWAN & Ca

General Managers. Hongkong, 6th March, 1896.

(45% NOTICE. THE KAST POINT DAIRY FARM

.. COMPANY.

*

To avoid any misapprehension, I beg to

Inform our CUSTOMERS and the PUBLIC to general that our CATTLE are entirely FREE from DISEASE. The majority of our Cattle, of which we have svar 200 bend, were specially picked est from the unfncipal healtby Dairies and Cattle-rearing Districts in Australia by the undersigned, who has been connected with this Company and its Prodocensor since 1891, and who has spared no time of trouble to study the Diseases of Cattle, having: twice visited Australia and India for that разрове

The Cattia Plague which broke out the year before last in the Colony did not touch our Dairy

which is slinated in the Wong Nel Chong Valley at the Eastern part of the Colony and unded on all sides with fir and other trees, and it is one of the healthiest localities in this Colony for Cattle..

Our Produce, about 1,000 fb2, of mille daily, le Weed by the Civil and Millery Hospitals (not the Officers Mass as was rumoured in conneo. tion with the cases of Typhoid fever) and by the- principal institutions in the Colony for the past | D'Águilar Street,

GANDE PRICE & CO., years, and is sold at our Depit=No. 12,

WINE AND SPIRIT, MERCHANTS, "QUBEN'S ROAD CENTR

A. RUMJAHN

Managing glung, Bath March, 1990; -1