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B. F. TAILOR, Stevidare.

Lightors and Steam Launches Supplied.

ILOILO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

ESTABLISHED 1881.

NEW SERIES NO. 1731. ##Я-+4x+-*★ SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1901.

Banks.

THE

ZOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED.

· ESTABLISHED 1850.

CAPITAL SUBSCRIDED ČAPITAL PAID-UP .N CAPITAL UNCALLED. RESERVE FUND

.Yen 24,000,000

1

18,000,000

19

*6,000,000

12

8,130,000

Head Office:-YOKOHAMA.

Branches and Agencies,

KOBE.

LONDON.

TOKIO.

NAGASAKL

LYONS.

NEW YORK,

SAN FRANCISCO

BOMBAY,

TIENTSIN.

HONOLULU,

SHANGHAI

NEWCHWANG.

LONDON BANKERS :

HE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LD.

PARKS' BANK, Ln.

E UNION BANK OF LONDON, LD. ONGKONG, BRANCH:-INTEREST ALLOWED, Da Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent.

Annus on the Daily Balance.

affixed deposits for 12 months at 5 per cent.

6

11

#

FARO HOĎSUMI,

Manager.

onkong 21st Noveinber, 1900,

HE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,

LIMITED.

uthorised Capitul.....

aid up Capital

£1,000,000

324,374

HEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG.

Board of Directors

han Kit Shan, Esq.

1. Gillies, Esq..

how Tung Shang.Esq. J. T. Lauts, Esq

Chief Manager,

GEO. W. F. PLAYFAIR. interest for 12 months Fixed ......5% Hongkong 20th December, 1899.

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ONGKONG. AND SHANGBAL

DANKING CORPORATION.

¶D-UP CAPITAL.....

.$10,000,000

$12,000,000

SERVE FUND.- Sterling Reserve......$10,000,000) Siver Resene $2,000,000 KSERVE LIABILITY OF PROPTORS. $10,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS:

N. A. SIEns, Esq., Chairman.

R. SHEWAN, Esq., Deputy Chairman. The Hon. R. M. Gray,

Haapt, Esq.

R.L. Richardson, Esq.

The Hon.J.J.Keswick. P. Sachse, Esq.

AI. Moses, Esq.

4. Raymond, Esq.

H. W. Slade, Esq.

Paul Witkowski, Esq.-

CHEF MANAGER:

Hagkong-Sir THOMAS JACKSON.

MANAGER:

Shanghai-H. M, BEVIS, Esq.

LONDON BANKERS-LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED. HONGKONG--INTEREST ALLOWED:

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per Cent.

Annum on the daily balance.

ON-FIXED DEPOSITS:

For 3 months,a per Cent, per Annum. For 6 months, 31 per Cent. per Annum, For 12 months, 4 per Cent, per Annum,

T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager,

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*[Hongkong, 22nd December, 1900.

HONGKONG_SAVINGS BANK, THE Businessofthe above Hank is conducted bythe 11ONG KONG ANDSHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on application.

INTEREST on deposits is allowed at 5} PER CENT, per annum.

Depositors aty transfer at their option balances of tooormore to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BARS to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT, per annum,

For the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, T. JACKSON,

Chief Manager.

Hongkong, 4th October, 1900.

IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA.

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ESTABLISHED BY IMPERIAL DECREE OF THE 17TH NOVEMBER, 1596.

Shanghai Tnels,

SubsckinED CAPITAL .............................. 5,000,000

PAID-UP CAPITAL

2,500,000

Head Office-SHANGHAL

Branches and agencies.

CANTON,

CHEFOO. CHUNKIANG.

CHUNKING.

FOOCHOW. HANKOW.

+

PEKING.

PENANG.

SINGAPORE."

'SWATOW.

TIENTSIN.

THE Bank purchases and receives for coilee- tion Bills of Exchange drawn on the above ices, and Sells Drafts and Telegraphic Trans-

s Payable at its Branches and Agencies. HONGKONG (BRANCH Advances made on approved securities. Bills discounted.

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

longkong, ist January, 1901, .

Mails.

六拜禮

Entimations.

九十月正英港香

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL

FOR

NAVIGATION COMPANY,

STEAMERS

(0:)

CAPTAINS

LONDON, &c...... Peninsular* „T. Leigh ...................

SHANGḤAL ......Purramalla.....A. Symóns. MARSEILLES)

and LONDON Java...

TO SAIL

KEMARKS

AGENCY, LIMITED.

HONGKONG,

SOLE AGENTS IN

·CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,

FOR THE

Noon, and Feb...Freight or Passa UNITED ASBESTOS CO., LD., LONDON,

About 2nd Feb. Freight or Passage.

..G. W. Gordon, R.N.R..About 7th Feb.......Freight or l'assage.

*(See Special Advertisement),

PASSENGER SEASON, 1901,

S.S. PLASSY"

S.S.

-7,240 tons......March 30th SOBRAON ......7,382 tons......April 27th ................

For Further Particulars, apply to

longkong, tli January, 'gon.

MARSEILLES and LONDON (Direct).

WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT.

A. M. MARSHALL, Acting Superintendent.

CONTRACTORS TO H.M. GOVERNMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF THE

Best Qualities of ASBESTOS GOODS and PACKINGS. HYDRAULIC and SELF LUBRICATING PUMP PACKINGS, full kinds.

VICTOR METALLIC BOILER JOINTS. ASBESTOS SALAMANDER BOILER COVERING COMPOSITION of the best qualities. ESTIMATES given for every DESCRIPTION of WORK, CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT..

SUPERINTENUENT

THOMAS SKINNER. ARCHIBALD RITCHIE. DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General Managers,

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN,

PLUNKET'S GAP, the PEAK, near the THAM TERMINUS, Tel. 50.

For Terras, &c., apply to the

Hongkong, and July, 1900.

15

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

STEAM FOR

SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ, POLT SAID, NAPLES, GENOA, ANTWERP, BEEMEN/HAMBURG;

PORTS IN THE LEVANTE, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC PORTS; ALSO LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS, GALVESTON, AND SOUTH AMERICAN, PORTS;

Steamers will call at SOUTHAMPTON to land Passengers and Luggage. N.B.-Cargo can be taken on through Bills of Lading for the Principal Places in Russia. PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.

STEAMERS.

PREUSSEN

HAMBURG, Hamburg-Amerika Linie SACHSEN.....

BOAR'S

MANAGER.

HEAD.

FINEST BOTTLING OF

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THE UNITED: ASHEST":1 ORIENTAL AGENCY,

Sols Agents for the UNITED ÄSBESTOS CO., LIMITED, LONDON.

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED,

• "General Managers, ~

THIRTY DOLLARS

PER ANNUM,

Entimations.

THE WEST POINT BUILDING,

7. CO, LIMITED.

JOTICE is hereby given that the TWELF-

NOTICE

TI ORDINARY MEETING of

SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the COMPANY'S. OFFICES, Victoria · Builtings, or THURSDAY, the zath January, 1901, at 11.30 o'clock, AM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together: with Statement of Accounts for the year ending,,, 31st December, 1900

The Register of Shares of the Company will be OLUSED from TUESDAY, the 15th instant to THURSDAY, the 4th instant, (both days. inclusive), during which perind no Transfer of Shares cay be registered,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER,

· Segretaryso

The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company, Limited. General Agents for

The West Point Building Company, 1.Bulted. Hongkong, 4th January, 1997,

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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND, AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.

No

OTICE is hereby given that the THIR

TEENTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's OFFICES, Victoria Buildings, on THURSDAY, the 24th January, 1906, at 12 o'clock Noox, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statement tif Accounts for the year ending

GUINNESS'S STOUT $22 per Cask of 31st December, Ivo,

BASS ALE -

8 doz. Pints.

SOLE AGENTS: H. PRICE & Co.,

:

12, QUEEN'S ROAD.

Hongkong, 16th January, 1901.

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(SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.)

SAILING DATES. WEDNESDAY, 23rd January, ‚WEDNESDAY, 6ili February..

WEDNESDAY, 20th February, " WEDNESDAY, 6th. March. WEDNESDAY; 20th March,

Telophone No. 76.

WEDNESDAY, 3rd April.

WEDNESDAY, 17th April.

WEDNESDAY, 1st May..

WEDNESDAY, 15th May.

WEDNESDAY, 29th May.

THURSDAY, 13th June.

KIAUTSCHOU, Hamburg-Amerika Linie. BAYERN

STUTTGANT........ KONIG ALBERT*

PRINZ HEINRICH PRINZESS IRENE.

PREUSSEN...

HAMBURG," Hamburg-Amerika Linie SACHSEN

KIAUTSCHOU, Hamburg-Amerika Linie ..........

THURSDAY, 27th June.. THURSDAY, 11th July.

Calling at AMSTERDAM.

ON WEDNESDAY, te ard day of January, 1901, at NOON, the Steamship "PREUSSEN," of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, Captain E. Prehn, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE and CARGO, will leave this Port as above, Calling at NAPLES and GENOA.

Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, on MONDAY, the 21st instant, Cargo and Specic will be received on Bound until 5 P.M., on TUESDAY, the 22nd instant, and Parcels will be received at the Agency's Office until NOON, on TUESDAY, the 22nd instant...

Contents of Packages are required. No Parcel Receipts will be signed for less than $2.50 and Parcels should not exceed Two Feet Cubic in Measurement.

The Steamer has splendid Accommodation and carries a Doctor and Stewardesses. - Linen can be waslied on board.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

For further Particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 16th January, 1901.

MELCHERS & CO.,

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AGENTS..

HONGKONG

HOTEL.

Military Band during dinner on Saturday Nights.

A

12

E. W, RUTTER, Manager.

Hongkong, 15th November, 1900,

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UEEN'S CHOICE”

PRONOUNCED BY CONNOISSEURS

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 185 LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY.

HEAD OFFICE:-LONDON..

CAPITAL PAID-UP...lagatanga £800,000

RESERVE LIABILITY

OF. SHARE-

HOLDERS ***

RESERVE FUND

It

TO BE

4800,000 ONE OF THE FINEST WHISKIES EVER PLACED ON THE MARKET. £525,000

a delicate aroma, and is of great age and guaranteed purity.

$12 Per Dozen.

'NTEREST, ALLOWED on CURRENT ACCOUNT at the Rate of 2 per cent, per annum on the Daily Balances.

On Fixed Deposits for 12 months... 4 per cent. -

38

...2

+

p. Manager

COCHRANE,

Hongkong, 16th October, 1000,

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GREEN ISLAND CEMENT, COMPANY,

$3.00

LIMITED.

PORTLAND GEMENT:

7 Bos. Net ex Factory.

TOMES & CO., SHEWAN,

General Managers. Hongkong inh December, 1900/

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY

AGENTS.

PETER SYS' WONDERFUL SPECIFIC. THE only remedy at present known as an INFALLIBLE and PERMANENT CURE for

SPRUE, DYSENTRY, DIARRHEA, HEMORRHAGE and ULCERATION

of the BOWELS.

Recommended by some of the Chief Specialists of the Medical Profession.

Sold retail by all Chemists and Wholesale to

THE PETER SYS COMPANY, MEGHA

(Proprietors and Sole Manufacturers)

Old China Street,

Shanghai,

12th October, 1898,

15,

CHAMPAGNES

FOMMERY and GRENO. Sec, and Extra Sec. LOUIS ROEDERER, Grand Vin Seo.

BOLLINGER, Vin 1893.

KRUG, Vin 1893.

GIESLER, Extra Superior.

PIPER-HEIDSEICK, Vin 1892.

LANSON, Vin 1893.

IRROY CARTE D'Or., Vin 1893.

C. H. DARGONNE, Vin 1892.

PAUL DOMNIER, Vin 1880.

Bole Agents for above Brands,

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co.,

Queen's Road,

Hongkong, 16th January, 1901.

WINE AND spirit MERCHANTS.

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA

DOCK CO., LIMITED.

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THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO. LIMITED.

NOTICE is ENERAL MEETING

OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

of the Company will be held at the OFFICE of of the Company will be held at the OFFICE of the Company, No. 1, Queen's Buildings, the Company No. 1, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 21st day of January, 1901, at MONDAY, the 21st day of Fanuary, 1901, at 12 o'clock Noon, when the undermentioned 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon or so soon after. RESOLUTIONS which were passed at the wards as the Extraordinary General Meeting Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company to be previously held on that day shall be con held on the 31st December 1900, will be cluded, when the following RESOLUTIONS submitted for confirmation as SPECIAL will be proposed, namely:-- RESOLUTIONS: **

RESOLUTIONS.

1. That the following Article be inserted. after Article 6, namely:-

6A-The Directors may issue. "Certificates for fractions of Shares, "Directory "and provide for-the Exchange of; "may has "such fractional Certificates amoun

fractional "Certificatcating to a whole Share or number "of Shares for Certificates of a "whole Shard or Shares," z-That in Article 11 the figures "4,900," be substituted for the figures" 1,000,"

3-That the existing Shares in the Capital, namely, 12,500 fully paid up Shares of $125. each, be subdivided into 31,250 fully paid up Shares of $50 each. ·

4-That in Article 47 the figures " 10,000 * be substituted for the figures "2,500,"

That in Article 53 the words "Four! "Thousand" be substituted for the words "One Thousand.”

6.That in Article 67 the words "for every" "complete additional number of Forty Shares "be substituted for the words "for every com- "plete additional number of Ten Shares."

7.That in Article 71 the words "more than give or less than six be substituted for this.fords "more than nine or less than four." 8.That in Article 73 the words "two hun- "dred" be substituted for the word "fifty."

9.-That in Article 96 the words "and "bonuses" be deleted, and that at the end of the same Article there be added the tollowing patagraph, namely:

The Directors may also, with the! consent of; and in such manner, and upon such conditions, and at such times as shall be authorised by Shareholders. in meeting, employ the Reserve Fund for the time being, or any part thereof, In the payment of a bonus or bonuses "to Shareholders in respect of every "Share and fraction of a Share." By Order of the Board,

D. GILLIES,

Chief Manager.

farc Hongkong. 19th January, igng. UNIVERSAL TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS

INTERIM DIVIDEND at the RATE

1-That out of the present Reserve Fund. amounting to $900,000 and out of the sum of 537,500 representing undivided profits,

The Register of Shares' of the Company.will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 15th instant to THURSDAY, the 24th instant, (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered:

By Order of the Board of Directors,

A. SHELTON HOOPER," Secretary: Hongkong, 4th January, 1901.

HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT „COMPANY,

T

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE

SIXTY-NINTH ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 18, Bank Buildings, Queen's Rond-Central, on TUESDAY, the 5th February, at 12 'o'clock, Noox, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, confirming the Appointment of a Director and electing Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED) from the 23rd January to gth February, inclusive.

T. ARNOLD, Secretary.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

Hongkong, 13th January, 1901

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ROBINSON PIANO

GO., LIMITED... HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, SINGAPORE.

MANUFACTURERS

IRON FRAMED

PIANOS.

the Directors do pay to every Shareholder $215, $290, $345, $400.

· HAAKE, METZLER, WERNER.

JE

personally searched Germany and England thoroughly and found nothing

Others by COLLARD, DRIESHEAD, RACHALS. KIRE PAYMENT SYSTEM, if required.

a bonus at the rate of $30 per Share in res pect of every Share and fraction of a Share which is registered in his name on the 28th day of February, 1901, and that such bonus be, at the option, expressed in writing, of any Shareholder, applicable to the payment of the amount payable by such Shareholder in respect of the taking up by him of his proportion of new Shares under the pro- to come bear these. They are altogether un visions of the next of these Resolutions.

equalled in the Colony. Please see them before That on the said 28th day of February, 1901, the Capital be increased from buying.. $1,562,500 to $2,500,000 by the issue of 18,750 new fully paid up Shares of $50- each, and that such new Shares be offered at par to every Shareholder who on that date is registered as such in the proportion of three new Shares for every five Shares of his registered holding on that date, and that if any such Shareholder shall not take up and 1 pay for his 'said proportion of new Shares bofore the first day of June, 1901, the Directors may dispose of the porportion of new Shares not so takes up and paid for at such prices (not being less than the par value thereof, and upon such terms as they. may in their discretion think fit. The Directions may, however, in their "discre- tion, if the special circumstances of the case appear to them to render such a course desirable in order to obviate, hard-To Celebrate the Anniversary of the Birth of

ship to a Shareholder, permit a Shareholder to take up and pay for the proportion of new Shares to which he would be entitled under this Resolution, notwithstanding that The aforesaid time-limit for doing so, namely. the first day of June, 19h, has passed. 3.That the said new Shares shall rank (or dividend and-bonus as on and from the First day of January, 100t. By Order of the Board,

"D. GILLIES,

Chiof, Managér.. Hongkong, 19th January, 1901:14 co HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE FOR COMPANY, LIMITED,

THE FIFTEENTH ORDINARY ANN 1UAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the shove Company

Entertainments.

HONGKONG ST. ANDREW'S SOCIET SCOTCH CONCERT,

IN

ST. GEORGE'S HALL

FRIDAY, the 5th January, 1901, ato PM,

M ROBBET BURNS

COLOS will be given by Mrs. MUDIE, Mrs.

LOWSON, Mr. ALEC MARSIL, Capt. The 1160, H. W. F. TREFUSIS, F. PETELLA, H.M.S. Endymion (CELLO), and F. LICARI, H.M.S. Barfleur (V101N); and PART SONGS by a Choir of MALE VOICES. BAS

By Permission of the Adiniral and Officers, the Band, of HMS. Barfleur will play Selec tions of S Scorch Music

Booking a ROBINSON's, PRICES OF ADMISSION ~53 & $2. Hongkong, 15th January, toor.

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HONGKONG, AMATEUR DRAMATIC.

CLUB

PERFORMANCES of :

HIS EXCELLENCY.

A of 12% per Annum, being 30 cents per will be held at the REGISTERED OFFICES DI THE following art the Dules fixed for the Share will be PAYABLE at the OFFICES of the Company on MONDAY, the 28th instant, the above Company, No. 4. Des Voeux Road at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Central, on and aller die 219 JANUARY, 1907. Repon of the Directors, together with a State: DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be issued ment of Accounts for the year ending 1st accordingly

December, 1000

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 19th to 21st instant, will be CLOSED. from the 22nd to 3rst instant,

both Days inclusive. - WOME both Days inclusive

VESZELLIS KELLY,ZITIA

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Manager

General Managerdas

1700 Hongkong 14th January, 1901, 1560) Hongkong, 15th January, 1901

MONDAY TUESDAY

THURSDAY

SATURDAY,

11th February, 1901

14th

16th, an

THURSDAY 21st

SATURDAY RAL 23rd

A further announcement as regards dates for Booking will be made latera

Hongkong; 22nd December, 1900.