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The Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW SERIES No. 1103.日五十月一十年四十二緒光

Banks.

THE

•

ESTABLISHED 1881.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1899.

Intimations.)

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM

ESTABLISHED, 1886,

SunscribÉD CAPITAL....

Paid-up CAPITAL,

RESERVE FUND..

Yen 12,000,000 10,500,000 6,460,000

FOR

Head Offer:--YOKOHAMA, I

Branches and Agencies,

KOBE.

LONDON.

NEW YORK, LYONS.

SAN FRANCISCO. HONOLULU. BOMBAY,

SHANGHAL.

LONDON BANKERS: THE LONDON JOINT STUCK BANK, LD., PARRS BANK, ID.

THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, “LD.

HONGKONG AGENCY :-INTEREST ALLOWED, On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. -Annum on the Daily flalance. Un fixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent."

NAVIGATION COMPANY.

STEAMERS

-(:0:)

CAPTAINS

TO SAIL

· REMARKS

LONDON, &c, ...Purramatta.C. F. Preston, R. N.R... Noon, 7th Jan.......Freight or Passage. „Rosell* ...........È. 11⁄2 Bishop ..............................5 2.M., 7th Jan....Freight or Passage, JAPAN

| STRAITS, && „Peshawar..............F. W. Viben, R.N,R...Abinit 7ih. Jan....... Freight only,

| SHANGHAI............ Bargal ........S. Barcham................. About 7th Jans......, Freight or Passage.

| JĀPAN ..........Socotra” ....................'T, H. Hile, R.N.R....About 15th Jan, ...Freight only.

Japan........................G. K. Wright, R.N.R...About' túth Jan, ...Freight or Passage. *(Passing through the Inland Seal

(Soe Special Advertisement),

LONDON

For Further Particulars apply to

H. A. RITCHIE, Superintendent.

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S. CHOH,

Agent

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Hongkong, 6th January, 1899.

Flongkong, 3rd October, 1898..

THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,

LIMITED.

Authorised Capital....

L'aid up Capital

...1,000,000 324,374

HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG.

Court of Directors:

D. Cillies, Esq.

.Chạy Tung lang, Esu.

Kwan Hoi Chuen, Esq.

LT, Lauts, Esq.

Chan Kit Shan, Esq.

Chief Manager,

G. W. F. PLAŸFAIR.

Interest for 12 months Fixed, 3 per Cent.

On Current Account, Daily Balances 2 per

Cent. per Annum.

Hongkang, 30th November, 1897.

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ÓNGKONG AND SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

[PAID-UP CAPITAL.

RESERVE FUND

THE

CLUB HOTEL,

LIMITED.

No. 5-B, BUND,

FIRST-CLASS HOTEL Centrally situated, well furnished and

A supplied with excellent Cuisine and Gout Wines.

The Company's Steam-launch attends the arrival and departure of all Mail Steamers.

Special-attention paid to the Comfort of Visitors.

$10,000,000

$9,000,000

Yokohama, 1st October, 1897.

RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPTORS,510,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS; -

Hon. J.

BELEIRVING,-Chairman.

R. M. GRAY,-Deputy Chairman,

C. Beurmann, Esq.

David Gublay, Esq. A. I. Raymond, Esq.

A. Haupt, Esq.

R. II. Hill, Esq.

P. Sachse, Esq

R. Shewan, Esq.

A. McConachie, Esq. | N. A. Siebs, Esŋj.

CHER MANAGER :

Hongkong T. Jackson, Esq.

MANAGER:

Shanghai--- J. P, Wape Gard'neu, Esq. LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY. BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED,

HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED!

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per Cent.

per Annum on the daily balance.

INTEREST ON Fixed DepositS I

For 3 months, 2

For 6 months,

For 12 months, 4

per Cent, per- Annuni,

per Cent per Ansum,

per Cent per Annun

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 15th August, 1898,

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

Businessofthe above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application.,

INTEREST'on deposits is allowed at 31 PER- CENT. per annum.

Depositors may transfer as their aption balances of $ too or more lo the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT per annum,

For the HONGKONG AND SBANGHAL BANKING CORPORATION,

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 1st August, 1895.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

~ AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

TRY THE

E. V. SIOEN, Manager,

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CURRY

AT THE HONGKONG HOTEL.

CHAMPAGNES,

SHERRIES...

PORTS,

CLARETS,

HOCKS,

WHITE WINES,

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Telophone

BRANDIES

WHISKIES,

GINS,

ALES,

STOUT:

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1853,

HEAD OFFICE-LONDON.

CAPITAL PAID-UP......

£800,000

RESERVE LIABILITY OF SHARE-

* HOLDERS

£800,000

£450,000

annum on the Daily Balances.

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RESERVE FUND....

INTEREST ALLOWED on 'CURRENT ACCOUNT at the Raie of 2 per cent, per

On Fixed Deposits for 12 months... 47. per cent.

T. H, WHITEHEAD,

Muager, Hongkong.

Hongkong, 24th May, 1898.

IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.

ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL DECREE OF THE 12TH NOVEMBER, 180%.

Shanghai Tacl SunSCRIBED CAPITAL 5,000,000.

PMSUP CAPITAL

Fend Office :-SHANGHAL

Branches and Agencies,

CANTON.

HANKOW.

CHEFOO,

CHINKIANG.

FOOCHOW

PEKING.

2,500,000

SWATOW." TIENTSIN.

THE Bank purchases and receives for cal

----Iection: Bills of Exchange drawn on the ahove places, and Sells Brafts and Telegraphic Transfers Payable at its Branches and Agen. cies,

HONGKONG: BRANCH, “Advances made on approved securities: Bills discounted

INTEREST ALLOWED ON: DEPOSITS

per. Annum Fixed Deposits for 3 months.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.,

15, Quçen's Road.

Hongkong, 24th December, 1898,

五拜禮

Intimations.

銳六月正英港香

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL

AGENCY, LIMITED.E

SOLE AGENTS, IN

HONGKONG, CHIMA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,

FOR THE

UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD., LONDON,

CONTRACTORS TO HIM, GOVERNMENT.. MANUFACTURERS OF THE

· Best Qualities of ASBESTOS-GOODS and PACKINGS. HYDRAULIC and SELF LUBRICATING JUMP PACKINGS, of all kinds.

VICTOR" METALLIC BOILER JOINTS. ¡ASBESTOS SALAMANDER BOILER COVERING COMPOSITION of the best qualities.

ESTIMATES given for every DESCRIPTION of WORK? SUPERINTENDENT.

PEAK

THOS, SKINNER.

DODWELL, CARLILL & Co., General Agents,

HOTEL

AND

CRAIGIEBURN.

THE PEAK HOTEL is situated at VICTORIA GAP, adjoining the TRAMWAY TERMINUS,

1,350 feet above sea Level.

THE

CRAIGIEBURN is situated at PLUNKETT'S GAP, five minutes walk from the PEAK

HOTEL

Fine Healthy location, variety of beautiful scenery. Cool Southerly breezes in Summer with perfect protection against the North East Winds in Winter.

Well appointed rooms, attentive service and excellent Cuisine.

Crev Ornce, 7,-Duddell Street.

Hongkong, 4th January, 1899.

DON'T MISS

GEO. J. CASANOVA,

Manager,

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THE OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING SPECIMENS OF THE LATEST

PARISIAN BONBONNIERES

FILLED WITH THE CHOICEST.

PARISIAN FONDANTS & CHOCOLATES. Large and Varied Collection of the Latest and Most Beautiful Novelties, Specialities in Round and Square-Boxes, where the Contents is the chief object..

WE INVITE YOU TO CALL AT D

14 The Apothecaries Hall. ⠀ WATKINS & CO.

ROBERTSON SANDERSON & Co.,

LIMITED.

LEITH.

THE UNITEDHASHESTOR

ORIENTAL AGENCY.

Sole Agents for the UNITED ASBESTOS COM -PANY, LT'D' LONDON, DODELI CARLILI, & Co.

General Agents.

THIRTY DOLLARS

* PER ANNUM

Intimations

THE WANGHAI WAREHOUSE AND

STORACE CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the EIGHTH NORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING

of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the OFFICE of the General Managers, No.5, Queen's Road Central, on MONDAY, the 16th January, 1899, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers, together with a statement accounts to the 31st December, 1898.

This TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 7th to 16th January, 1899, both days inclusive.

MEYER & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 30th December, 1898.

THE

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EQUITABLE

LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. OF-THE

UNITED STATES.

RESULT OF 1898.

New Business......

in 1897......

Policies in Forca

in t897.....

Total Assats..

in 1897... Surplus Funds

in 1897......

£ 35,416,667 32699,103 £204,166,167 198,159,549

..£ 63,125,000

49,349,230

£ 11,458,333 10,529,828

The figures are preliminary and subject to revision; the information is published at ear liest moment for the benefit of the now considerable number of policy-holders residing in the Far East.

W. H. TALBOT, Sub-manager for die East. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1899,

THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LIMITED.

(NOTICE OF CALL,).

N MEETING of the Board of Directors TOTICE is hereby given that at a

of the above. Company held at No. 5, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on the Sixth day of December, 1898, the following RESOLUTION was passed.

"That a FIRST and FINAL CALL of TEN DOLLARS (SIO) per SITARE, upon "all the SHAREHOLDERS; in the above, "Company, in respect of all the shares held by them in the above Company, be and the same is hereby made. Such "CALL to be PAID to the Company at "their Bankers, the HONGKONG · AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, "Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hong

kong, on or before the 1st day of March, 1899.

By order of the Board of Directors,

A SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to the ....... HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY.CO, LD. General Agents, THE WEST POINT BUILDING CO.,

*GLIMITED ·

Hongkong, 1st January, 1899.

Insurances.

CELEBRATED SCOTCH WHISKIES. NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE

GLEN LEITH" BRAND.

SECOND TO NONE

MOUNTAIN. DEW

LIQUEUR WHISKY

Per Case.

$10.

12

15

All the above brands we guarantee to be pure Malt Whiskies, The differences in price are regulated by the age of the Whisky, The Second to None, "Mountain Dew and" Liqueur Whisky are all over ten years old,

SOLE AGENTS FOR HONGKONG AND SOUTHERN PORTS OF CHINA:

Hongkong-reth-May-1898,"

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY:

JUST ARRIVED.

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES

FROM THE WELL KNOWN MANUFACTURERS

ANGLO EGYPTAIN CIGARETTE CO.,

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CAIRO.

BRANUS 7

In tins of:

SULTANS

100

Price per tini,

$2.00

PACHAS ajraming

than 100

1.50:

UNEQUALLED AIR TIGHT HERMETICALLY SEALED TINS..

COMPANY OF HAMBURG.

THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS at CURRENT RATESZ

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

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THE MAN

HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,

LIMITED.

CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.

$1,000,000

The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS HE CURRENT RATES op GOODS, &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies,

CHAU THEUNG FAT Secretary

HEAD OFFICE,

No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST.

Hongkong, 36th May, 1894:"

Notice of Firms.

NOTICE..

7E bave This Day admitted ME ALEX WANDER ALFRED HEINRICH

FINKE Partner on our FIRM..

GROSSMANN & Co.

Hongkong, 1st January, 1899,

FROM

NOTICE

*ROM Date.my business will be carried on under the STYLE and FIRML of GEO. R.

W BREWER & CO., STEVENS & CO.

D. C. L.

UNDER HONGKONG HOTEL

OLD TOM AND DRY GIN, #7 PER DOZ..

Hongkong, 12th October, 1898. PETERS

SYS WONDERFUL SPECIFIC

THE

for

H. PRICE & Co., Sole Agents.

W. POWELL & CO.

NEW STOCK OF

CHRISTMAS TOYS.

19

Hongkong, 15th October, 1898.

EW RUTTER

Acting Manager.

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Hongkong, 1st December, 1898.4

· SPRUE, DYSENTRY, DIARRHŒA, HEMORRHAGE and ULCERATION

of the BOWELS. Recommended by some of the Chief Specialists of the Medical Profession- Sell retail by all Chemists and Wholesale

12th October, 1898;

THE BETER SYS COMPANY,

(Proprietors and Sole Manufacturers),

Old China Street,

Shanghai

THE PHARMACY.

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GEO.RSTEVENS: Hongkong, 1st Januity, 1899.

NOTICE

M

AIRE GUSTAV ADOLPH DEGENER

BOENING retired from our FIRM on the 31st December, 1898. We live established a BRANCH of our FIRM at TSINTAU, (KIAO- CHOU BAY), A MANET &

Mr C. SCHWENCKE has been nuthorized to sign our Figs by pmturation in Hongkong from This Daje.".

CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1899.

NOTICE

To here and at Shanghai, Jankow business of DODWELL CARLILL

Yokohama, Kobe, Tacoinu Wash., Portland Ore, Victoria, B., and Dock House, London

HAVE NOW A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF ATKINSON'S PERFUMES AND ARE has from This Day been transferred to, and will

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

WHITE HEATHER BOUQUET.

Sule Agents for VIN PASTEUR the great French Nerve Tonic Also Sole Agents for the now well-known JAPANESE TABLE WATER

TANSAN.

FLETCHER & CO and

CARMICHAEL & CO.

bo conducted under the title of DODWELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED. MAEDMUND SINGLETON WHEAL LER has been appointed Manager, and fre GEORGE HAROLD MEDHURST, Sub Manager, at This Port.

All Dents due to or by the FIRM of DOD) WELL CARLILL & Co will be received or paid by DODWELL & Co Ld.

** Hongkong, 1st January, 1899.