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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

ESTABLISHED 1881.

NEW SERIES No. 1273. #+=}X4E+=** THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1899.

FOKO

Banks.

THE

Intimations.

四拜禮

Intimations.

我七十月七英港香

KOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL

NAVIGATION COMPANY.

ESTADLISUED 1880.

CAPITAL(SUBSCRIBEDAND

PAID-UP)..................

RESERVE FUND

Yen'

12,000,0

Head Office:-YOKOHAMA,

Branches and Agencies,

ΤΟΚΙΟ.

NAGASAKI

LYONS..

BOMBAY

SAN FRANCISCO., HONOLULU,

SHANGHAL

AGENCY, LIMITED.

SOLE AGENTS IN

HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,

FOR THE

UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD, LONDON,

CONTRACTORS TO H.M. GOVERNMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF THE TA

Best Qualities of ASBESTOS GOODS and PACKINGS: HYDRAULIC and SELF LUBRICATING PUMP 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.....

THOS. SKINNER, DODWELL & CO, LIMITED, General Agents.

STEAMERS

KOBE

LONDON.

NEW YORK,

CAPTAINS JAPAN, &c „Formosà* ...A. G. Cubitt, R.N.R......About 28th July ...Freight or Passage LONDON.

„Socotra ..............T. H. Hide, R.N.R........About. 4th August... Freight only. SHANGHAI Chan E. Street

About 4th August...Freight or Passage LONDON, &c...Coromandelt.F. W. Vibert, R.N.R....Noon, 5th August...Freight or Passage. JAPAN „Rohilla ...S. de B. Lockyer, R.N.R..4 F.M, 5th August...Freight or Passage, LONDON.

Manila R. L. Haddock, R.N.R...About 17th August.Freight or Passage. *(Passing through the Inland Sea).

† (See Special Advertisement),

TO SKIL

REMARKS

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For Further Particulars apply to

H. A. RITCHIE, Superintendent.

S. CHOH,

Hongkong, 1st July, 1899.

1899...

Agent.

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Hongkong, 25th July, 1899.

THE

LONDON BANKERS: THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LD.

PARRS' BANK, LD- THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, LD HONGKONG AGENCY ;—INTEREST ÅLLOWED, On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. per Annum on the Daily Balance.

On fixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent.

IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.

Established DY IMPERIAL DECREE

OF THE 12TH November, 1895,

Shanghai Taels.

SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL $,000,000

PAID-UP CAPITAL .......................

2,500,000

Head Office -SANGHAL,

Branches und Agencies,

CLUB HOTEL,

LIMITED.

· CANTON,

CHEFOO.

CHINKIANG.

FOOCHOW.

HANKOW

PEKING.

SWATOW.

TIENTSIN.

Tianshange

THE Bank purchases and receives for col

ahove places, and Selis Drafts and Telegraphic Transfers Payable at its Branches and Agen cic's

HONGKONG BRANCH. Advances made on approved securities. Bills discounted.

INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS. per Annum Fixed Deposits for 3 months..

**

..... B

12

EW RUTTER,

Acting Manager.

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Hongkong, 15th October, 1898,; i

THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,

LIMITED.

Authorised Capital...

Paid up Capital ..................

€1,000,00

324,374

HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG.

Board of Directors -

-Chan Kit Shan, Esq.

Chow Tung Shang, Esq. | Kwanlfoi Chuen, Esq.

D. Gillies, Esq.

J. T. Lants, Esq.

Chief Manager,

GEO. W. F. PLAYFAIR..

Interest for 12 months. Fixed ...s%

Hongkong, 30th May, 1899.

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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1853.

HEAD OFFICE:--LONDON.

CAPITAL PAID-UP........

£800,000

RESERVE LIABILITY, OF SHARE

HOLDERS.missio

£800,000

RESERVE FUND

£500,000

INTEREST ALLOWED on CURRENT

ACCOUNT of the Rate of 2 per cent per

annum on the Daily Balanes

On Fixed Deposits for 2 months4 per cent.

3

T. H. WHITEHEAD,

Manager, Hongkong.

Hongkong, 20th May, 189574)

ONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

HBANKING CORPORATION.

PAID-UP CAPITA

RESERVE FUND ARMORíen

0,000,000

RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPTORS.SIOO

COURT OF DIRECTORS

R. M. GRAY; Esq., Chairman,

N. A. SIERS, Esq., Deputy Chairman,

Goetz, Esq

A. Haupt, Esq.AJ Raymond, Ese R. H. Hill, Esq., Sachse, Esq. The Hon. J.Keswick. E Shellim, Esq -A.-McConacio Esq.R.Shewan, Esq

ZÁG VUE CUIER MANAGERSON ANDME Hongkong-Sir THOMAS JACKSON.

Shanghai. PWADE GARDNER, Esq. LONDON BANKERS LONDON AND COUNTY BAR BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED

HONGKONG INTEREST ALLOWED TIME On Current Account at the rate of 2 per Cent. per Annum on the daily balance:

ON FIXED DEPOSITS 207

For: 3 months, 21 per Conta per Annum, For 6 months, 3 per Cent per Annum For 12 months, 4 per Cent, per Annum.

THOMAS JACKSON, ***** Chief Manager.

Hongkong, thJune, 1899

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK

BANKI

obtained

INTE

CENT

Depor

balance

SHA

DE

A

No. 5-8, BUND, YOKOHAMA,

FIRST CLASS HOTEL: Centrally situated, well furnished and

supplied with excellent Cuisine and Good Wines,

HOTEL

PEAK

HOTEL

AND

CRAIGIEBURN.

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

feet above sen Level. CRAIGIEBURN is situated at PLUNKETT'S CAR, five minutes walk from the PEAK 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 vellent Cuisine. CITY OFFICE, 7, Duddell Street.

Hongkong, 4th January, 1899.

GEO. J. CASANOVA, Mariager.

HOTEL ORIENTE,

MANILA.

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The Company's Steam-launch attends the arrival and departure of all TE Public are informed that the FINE and COMMODIOUS HOTEL is To-lay entirely

Mail Steamers.

Special attention paid to the Comfort of Visitors:

Yokohama, 1st October, 1897.

Telophone

E. V. SIOEN, Manager.

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AQUARIUS.

A PERFECT TABLE WATER.”

Pert Dozen Quarts

Peri Dozen Pints........... 7.75

Allowance for The Empties when return to one Godowns.

$1.00

0.75

Not Price.

$1.50 1.00

"There is no teaching in all the wide world of hygiene so valuable as the * inculcation of the idea that typhoid fever is a water-borne disease. - Exclud- ing a not-common liability to the air-diffusion of its germs, we acquire this “ ailment undoubtedly from water directly, or from milk which has been "fouled by polluted water. Pare water means practically the abolition of "both typhoid fever and cholera. Our safety abroad is to drink a pure "Mineral Water only." (Dr. Andrew Wilson in the "Illus. London News"}

HE

under ENGLISH MANAGEMENT, and is now on a. par with the best managed Eastern Hotels. All the latest improvements and conveniences have been added to the building, including Electric Light throughout.

The Premises are specially constructed for the tropics, and every gitention is paid to the Comfort and Convenience of Guests.

Cuisine of the best, and Prices Moderate,

A First-Class Livery, Stable is attached to the HOTEL

ACCIDENTAL DEATHS

WOULD NOT HAPPEN

IF YOU USE.

ESSET'S

Еван

FLUID

THE STRONGEST KNOWN DISINFECTANT

WATKINS & CO. 66, Queen's Road Central.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., Hongkong, 12th June, 1899

15, Queen's Road.

Hongkong, 8th July, 1899.

HONGKONG HOTEL

BOARD

GENERAL MANGERS.

AND

RESIDENCE.

On Monthly Terms from 1st May, 1890.

CLUB WHISKY

IS THE BEST.

PER DOZEN

H PRICE & Co

12, QUEEN'S ROAD,

W. POWELL & Co.

S.S.“ MANILA.”

THE PHARMACY.

HAVE NOW A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF ATKINSON'S PERFUMES AND ARE

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

WHITE HEATHER BOUQUET.

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

TANSAN.

FLETCHER & CO.

and Worker 'CARMICHAEL & CO

PETER SYS' WONDERFUL SPECIFIC.

TH

HE only remedy at present known as an INFALLIBLE and PERMANENT CURE for

SPRUE, DYSENTRY, DIARRHEA, HEMORRHAGE and ULCERATION

Kan of the BOWELS.

A Recommended by some of the Chief Specialists of the Medical Profession. Sold retail by all Chemists and Wholesale

1th October, 1898.;

THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED

by!

THE PETER SYS COMPANY,

(Proprietors and Sold Manufacturers) 9. Old China Street, Shanghai

N INTERIM DIVIDEND of SEVENTY

A FIVE CAN DO BLAND OF

months ending 30th June, 1899, will be PAY- ABLE c 28th instant, an which date DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on App cation at COMPANY'S OFFICE

The ANSTER BOOKS of the Company

de

ill beLOSED on the 27th and 28th instant,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

UZAĻSHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

SIENT AGENCY CO; LD

General Agents, *** WEST POINT BUILDING CO., I.D. Hongkong, foth July, 1899

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HONGKONG, CANTON AND MAÇAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

Auction.

*(1242

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION."

No. 405

HE following Particulars of Sale of Crown Land by Fullic Auction, to be held on

the spot, on

MONDAY,

the 31st day of July, 1899, at 3 P.M., are pub lished for general.information.

Dy Command,

JH. STEWART LOCKHART; Colonial Secretary's Office, **

Colonial Secretary:

Hongkong, 15th July, bo

Eosa!

Particulars of the fetting by Public Auction Sale, to be hold on Monday, the 31st day of July, *1899,"a§#3 PM) on the Spót," by Onder of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong a term of 75 Years, will the option o renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the further term of 75 years The Surveyor of Her Majesty the QUEEN, for

THE

THE SIXTY-SIXTH ORDINARY HALF L YEARLY MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 18, Bank Build- ings, Queen's Roaq Centml, on MONDAY, *** the 31st July, at 12 o'clock Ndow for fle Purpose of receiving & Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts déclar ing a DIVIDEND and Electing Directors and Auditors

NEW SHOES NEW HATS TRA ER BOOKS of the Company

AND

MILLINERY REQUISITES,

willbe CLOSED from the 18th to. 3161 instant

PÁRTICULARS OF THE LOT, OC

Boundary Mexaurningute

«Sole, Arints for thank UNITED ASBESTOS.COM

NDON

DODWELL & CO. LIMITED. General APPENZI

THIRTY DOLLARS

PER ANNUM.

Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

MESSRS, HUGHES & HOUGH have

received instructions to Sell

TUS FOLLOWING ON

LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES Situate at Victoria, Hongkong, in

29.40 LÓTS,

·by's

PUBLIO AUCTION, TO-MOXROW (FRIDAY), SATURDAY, and MONDAY, the 28th, 29th, and 31st July, 1899, at 2.30 in the Afternoon, at their Auction Rooms, lee House Laric.

Lot -No 325, Queen's Road West, Area 778 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent

Lut, 2-No. 333 Queen's Road West,, Area 740 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $3.80

Lot 3-No-331, Queen's Road West, Area 744 Square feet, Annual, Crown Rent $5.8

Lot 4-No. $19, Queen's Road West, Area 730 Square, feet, Annual Crown Rent

Lot 5.No. 317 Queen's Road West, Area 740 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent; $5.80

Lot 6.--No. 315, Queen's Road West, Arca 744 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.82

Lot 7 No. 313, Queen's Road West, Arca 744 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.8z.

Lot 8.-No. 311, Queen's Road West, Area

744 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.82.

Lot g-No. 309, Queen's Road, West, Area 744 Square feet Annual Crown Rent $5.82.

Lot 10. No. 307, Queen's Road West, Area 744 Sqare feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.62

Lot 11-No. 305, Queen's West, Area 744 ⚫ Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.82 Lot 12-No. 303, Queen's Road West Area

744 Square feet, Annual Crown Rebe $5.82.

Lot 13-No. 301 Queen's Rond West, Arez 744 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.81 19

Lot 14 No. 399, Queen's Road West, Arca 783 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent

·56.16

The above 14 LOTS forming the whole of INLAND LOT No. 1,473 are held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 999 years.-- Lot 15-No. 173, Praya West, Arca 7701

Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $6.14. Lot 16-No: 174, Praya. West, Aren 738

Square feet, Annual Crown Rent 95.87. Lot 17-No. 175, Praya West, Area 734 Square

feet, Annual Crown Rent $5.85

Loi 18-No. 176, Praya West, Area-770%..

Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $6,14, The Inst mentioned 4 LOTS forming the whole of INLAND LOT No. 1,279 are held from the Crown for the residue of:atem of 999 years. 499

Lot 19-No. 34734 351, 393 Queen's Road West, Basements Nos. 7 and

8 in a fine of King Latic, Area 4:713 Square:

quare feet. Annual Crown Rent $37.96. Lot 20.Nos. 41, 343, and 345, Queen's

Road West, and No. 1, An. Fung Lane; and Basements Nos. 4, 5 and 6, in a Lane off Ki Ling Lane, Area 4,390 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $35.37.7 Lot 21-Nos. 335, 337, and 339 Queen's Road West, and one House in the rent Un- numbered and basements Area 4,3043 Square feet; Annual Crown Rent $34.67. The last mentioned 3 Lots forming the whole. of INLAND LOT No. 1,270,are held from the. Crown for the residue of a temi of 999 years. Lot 22-No. 30, Cross Street Wanchai, Arca 646 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $0.78

Lot 23-No. 28, Cross Street, Area 602 Square

feet, Annual Crown Rent $9.12. Lot 24-No. 20, Cross Street, Area 594 Square

feet, Annual Crown Rent $800,00 Lal 45-No. 24, Cross Street, Area 596 Square

fect, Annual Crown Rent $8,96

Lot 70-No. 22, Cross Street, Area 606 Square,

rfect, Annual Crown Reat Syre Lot 27-No. 20, Cross Street, Area Goo Square feet Annual Crown Rent Sg rate Lot 28-No. 18. Cross Street, Area 604 Square

fect, Annual Crown Rent $9.134UA Lot 29-No, 16, Cross Street, Arca 636 Square

feet, Annual Crown Rent $9.60, Lot 30-Ne 13, Tai Wo Street, Arca 850. Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $261. Lol 31-No. 12, Tai Wo Street, Area 840 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $12,76 Lo: 32-No. 1, Tai Wo Street "Aren 8a0

Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $1276. Lot 33-No. 1o Tai Wo Street, Area 879 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $13.36. Lot 34-No. 8 Stone Nullah Lane, Area £30 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent St2.61. Lot 35 No. 6 Stone Nullak Lane, Area 846 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $1276. Lot 36-Nor4, Stone Nullah Lane Area 840 Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $1276, Lot 37 No Stone Nullah Lane, Area 280

Square feet, Annual Crown Rent $13.37 The last mentioned 16 LOTS forming the whole of INLAND LOT NO 430 are held from the CROWN

of a term of 999 Lot 38-Godown No. 43, Praya East, Actual Yo Area 2100 Suare feet Term years, Annual Crown Rent $381.28. Lot 39 No. 5 Li Yuen Street

West

feet, Annual Crown

Street Vest, Ares

8247Square feet, Annual Crown

For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale please apply to

CAEWENS:

Solicitor,

Iesors HUGHES & HOUG

Hongkong, 27tif