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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY

Company's Sugars during the year, the ReWE are informed by the Colossal Secretary finery could only be worked on a reduced melt, that quarantine restrictions have been imposed and frequent stoppages were found necessary, in' Orissa ports against arrivals from Hong-

Mining-Chinese Engineerings are unhong,

changed, with buyers a Tis, 181 in the North, W. Rosenstock, general manager of Reubs are offering at 583 PALOMAN

the Rosenstock Directory Publishing Com- Docks, Whirves and Godowns-Whampoa Dock continue out of favour and business has pay,teft for Manila Inst Saturday by the steam been done at low as $85, at which rate they ship Hub would appear to be cheap. Shanghai Docks are a little easier again and cap be had at Ts. 88 after Having reached Tis, 9 Kowloon Wharls have stendityttisen during the week and after sales at $51, havò inquiries at $54, Hong- kew-Wharfs Lave been booked in the North at **is. 175.

Lagar, Hotels and Buildings-flangkung Hotels are quiet at $87, ex the final dividend of 53 per sbare paid on the 8th last. Hongkong Lands have been in good demand and a fair number of shares bave changed hande at $98, 5981 and 599, closing firm at the latter ra Humphreys Estates are wasted at the slightly improved rate of $84. Kawicon Lands and West Points até steady at quotations..

Coulco Mills-Hongkong Cottons have again been sold at St. Ewas have advanced considerably and buyers prevail in the North at Tis, 15. Latest advices by mail give the fol lowing quotations for morthera mills-inter- nationals,.99; Lat Kung Mows, 94; Say Chees, 315

Miscellaneous-Chian Borneos have receiv- ed fair attention, and are in request at $1zł- Both buyers and sellers werd numerous for Green Island Cements and a good business has resulted, the stock closing firmer with probable buyan at 59.66. Hongkong Ropes are unalter- ed at $14. Caras Provideats are wanted at 59.30. Hongkong Electrics aid in demand at the advanced rate of $18-3/4, while China Light and Powershave been sold at$5. Hongkong ices are offering at S200: Union Waterboats are wanted at $10, ex tue dividend el do cents per share paid on the 8th inst. Dairy Farms bave Boon axed at. 314. In the North, Sumatras were sold at the reduced rale of Tin, 211, Langkats iza unchanged.

i

Exchange-The Bank's selling rate on Lon. don is on demand. The T/T rate on Shanghai is Tls. 741.

Dividends Payable-Langkats-first joterim of Tis. 1 per share for account 1909, payable in Shanghat on the 16th inst. Suara Dividend of 11. 5 per share for 1958, payable on the 26th just, China sugars-dividend of 55 per share for 1998 payable on the 19th inst.

Forward Settlements. The followjug dilles have bean fixed by the stock Brokers' Associa- tion of Hongkong for Forward Seulements:-

March Settlement 30th March. -

30th April.

April

May

Juny

July

August

11

319 May.

29th June.

goth July.

30th August

TO-WAY'S EXCHANÚK,

Salling. Loode-Bank T.T................1/8 11/16"

Lo -

Do.

4 months' sight Franco-Bank T.T.. Amenca-Book T.T....... Gormmay-Bank T.T....

India Traumbün

.. DD. domand....... Sboogey-Book Tofi albumá Stoguppid-Bric/T.T. par H.K. Japan-burk Teli siunausio juva--Back T-Tunin

Buying

4 Dioncos sigan Ef, ******

& mon..a vight 1/9...............en

1/87

.3.174

142

The stocks appear to being brought into use. again. Three men on Thursday warasentenced to that form of punishment, which, the magis traten believe, will lossen crime In the Colony. ¡f such is the case let it be so.

MARCH 13 1909.

SHARE QUOTATIONS.

Suppiled by Mearm. L. 8. KADOORIE & Co. Corrected to noon; later alterations giren under "Commercial Intelligence, page si

STOCKE

BANKS.

Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation

|

YEUNG KWAI LEUNG, alias Yung Pak Shua! formerly shroff of the Hongkong and Shanghal National Bank of China, Limited Bank, was charged with ambezzling $52,747.71. the property of the bank. He pleaded not guilty, and the case was remanded,

MARINK INSURANCEL.

Canton Insurance Office, Limited

G. A, DE SOUZA, the ticket puncher in the employ of the "Star" Ferry Co., Ltd., wag fined dellar and bound, over in the sum of $30 to keep the peace for six months for striking North Chlas Insurance Company, Lițalted woje ine motorman of a tramcar last Wednesday 'night.

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ONE year's hard labour and twenty-four strokes, of the birch was the sentence passed in the Union Insurance Sociere of Canton, Limited Police Court last Monday morning on a coolie who was found guilty of snatching an ear-pick from a Chinese woman in Queen's Road West- on Sunday afternoon

Tux Shoosi official body in Peking bas_peti- tioned the Yuchuanpu asking it to raise funds In build three railways, one from Singen to Tungkuan, que from. Siegan to Lunchou and A light one for transportation of the Yench'ang petroleum to the Trogkunn....

THERE was a good attendance of Chinese at the auction at Shanghai of the opium-hulle

Corea on 2nd inst., but there was considerable

difference between the value set upon the bulk by the vendors and the prices offered by buyers aud at Tis, 6,003 the vestel was withdrawn.

Te Department of State Affairs is considering the subject of framing special regulations for cfficial salaries. The same Department'in a conference on Tibetan Affairs on March 1, re ferred to suggestions by Generalissimo Nien King-yao contained in the Dynastic Institutes. PRINCE SU and Duke Tsai Tse together agreed on February 28 in discussing naval reorganiza- lion; to establish Naval Schools at Nanking and Tientsin, to appoint Naval Counsellors and to rentganize the Foochow Goverment Dockyard. They will report to the Thrane on these maiters: JAPANESE papers report that his Majesty King Leopold of helgium is to pay a visit to Japan aud that the Belgian Minister in Tokyo is to leave Tokya for home on the roth inst. to con- sult with the Belgian Government on the pro- jected visit.

A HAWKER Bamed Lo Fu was sentenced last Thurstay to one year's hard labour and to be ex- posed in the stock forteur hours for disposing of two counterfeit dollars to shopkeepers at Hunghom, on Wednesday, Accused handed over the base money in payment of outstanding debis. 1-76) | WITH seference to the permits to Japanese women proceeding to Australia,, which have 1308 | bitherto been restricted, the Minister of Foreign 741| Affairs is reported to have instructed the Pre- $100.744fectural Governors not to grant such permits if ...841 possible, in view of the bad feeling caused by ...104, the adverse reports of the character of this class

of emigrants. '..

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19

44

30 days' right San Frapujacu & New York.417 4 monina"night

du.

35 days sight Sydney & Melbourne ....................191 motus Might France.............................2.22 montas ghi

'4 months' sight Germany.jasa tertemeye

Bar SilveríadassianTIN Bank of England tate COOPE Sovereign .....

2.74

23 3/16 .....3% 11.45

PRIVATE W, Hason, of the East Kent Regiment, was charged in the Police Court, last Wednes day, with assaulting a ricksha, coolie in Ship Street on Tuesday night. The case was re

| manded · It was alleged that liason, after en

gaging the ricksha for an hour or so, struck the | conlie on the mouth, after paying the fare,

causing him to lose two teeth.

MR. J. E. Barker, manager of the Stag Hotel, proceeded in the Police Court lost Tuesday against Arthur fetch,described as a blacksmith, OPIUM QUOTATIÓNS.

for obtaining by means of false pretencer haard To-day's quotations are as follows

and lodging and a sum of money to the value Per picul of 5100 from complainant's hotel with intent to .@ 1,265/1,070 defraud on the 15th August last...Three months' ........................@ 1,080/1,100 | hard labour was the sentence,

Malwa Now i............niya

Old

1

៧.

Older S Oldest

Patna New

#1

Old.

Benares New

» Old

Perlan (Paper)

@ 1,010

(900/1,020

100/1,140 PRIVATE W. Hasan, who was charged the other day, with assaulting a ricksla coolie in Ship Per chest

Street, by striking him over the mouth with his 1,010

stick and causing him to lose a couple of teeth, 1,045

was, in the Police Court, last Thursday, sen- Lenced to a month's hard labour (with the option) and was also ordered to pay the coolie $15 compensation, or a further term of a month. HENRIQUE CRUZ, a merchant, carrying on business at 46, Queen's Road Central, was charged in the Police Court, last Monday, with disorderly behaviour is a house at 27, Graham Street, on Sunday. It was alleged that 'Cruz, during an argument with a Chinese compositor, by name Woag Yak, produced a revolver and thientcard to shoot complainant. A cross- summons is to be issued, and the case was re- manded. M. P. W. Goldring appeared för Cruz,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

TENDERS are invited for a small extension to Queen's College buildings.

TWELVE Bokes of the birch were awarded Chan Kam Chi, a 14-year-old youth, for obtain ing from Jose Sablog a purse containing $7.25 by false pretencer.'

Tik sum of Fr. 25,000 has been allocated by the French authorities for the new Commercial Akaché in Far East, who will have his head--| quarters either in Peking or Tokyo." H. E. MIYAOKA, the bead of the Japanese delegation to the Opium Commisson, now in Shanghai, wil, it is stated, be appointed Japan and Minister to Spain in place of the late Mr. Inggaki.

THE Foochow people have sent a joint telegram to the Chinese Press calling for a prutest against the proposed enforcement of compul Bory maturahzation of Chinese in Java and

Sumatra.

Tag-Yunpan Vicergy-bas telegraphed to the Grand Council-reporting a local outbreak at Chennachou, Chuksianto. He adds that he has ordered the Police Intendant to take meg spres to suppress.it,

As a result of the promulgation of the new Coinage Act the present issue of postage stamps which.gre of course in att denomina. tions will be superseded by stamps of satang

denominations.

The most obvious courre would be to surcharge the present issues but this we learn cannot be done. Both the Siam Test and English lettering for the new denomina. tions would be 100 long for the stamps now in use. We understand that the question of a new issue is being considered by the Ministry of Public Works whom the matter was handed over by the Royal Post and Telegraph Depart iment-Siam Weekly Mail.

A SCHOOLBOY, giving the naine of Chan Kaminga quantity of solder, valued at $4. Some time You, was dued oge dollar last Wednesday, for trespassing in the compound of the Central Palice Station. Chan went into the cells to look for 'n felend, who wasn't there.

› A TELEGRAM bas been received by the U.3. Consul-General from Admiral Harker, Com manding, the Third Squadron, U.S. Pacific Fiest, to the effect that he expects to arrive here on the evening of the sath inst. -TIE director of the Shanghai Gas Co., Ld,, have decided to recommend the payment of a final dividend for 1908, 01 Tis. 3.00 per share, being at the rate of six per cent on the paid up capital, making thirteen pier cent for the year, MR. KUROSAWA, formerly Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs at Dairen, now -on leave, has been appointed Commissioner at Xochow. This is the first tims a Japanese Commisioneri appointed wu Yzugise pont

Yangtere Insurance Association, Limited.

FIRE INSURANCES,

Chlus.Fire Insurance Company, Limited Hongkong Fire Jesurance Company, Limalied.

NO. OF SHARES

"VALUE" PAID UP.

10,000

10,000

Band

ર

F9,400

$150

|||-POSITION_(ASPER, BÄST REPORT

REJERVE

350

£4,0091 $150,000}

$1,500,000

Tis: 150,000 *Tis. 503,747. Tis: 118,277. $1,000,000

$302,478 $129,095

8

AT WORKING VACCOUNT.

LAST DIVIDEND,

(Final of Ga and bonus of g/- for 1908 1

[ox 1/88m$16.034 iss

APRONIKATE (ENTTINAS)

"CLOSING

KARES ON LAST

·VILLA'S DEV,

110,000

$125.

$125

£1,500,000 $14,500,000

$2,006,34

99,915

$10,221

Sa (London 3/6).for. 1903

none

$14 for 1907

1187)

Ti 160,512

Final of 7/6 making 15/- for 1907

Tis. 97) buyers

$2,500,0x1

Final of Sis making $45 for 19o6 ma {Interim of $30 for 1907..........

$830 buyers

a7,649

$1,000,000

IS,000

$100

560

+ $199,032

$591,703

Sra and bonus Sy for 1908

$85.157

$1,000,000

20,000

$roo

-$20

-$375.341.

~55-and-bonus- $2-for-1907

8,000

Fago

$13,802) $1,428,173

$368,711

£27 in 19 7.

71%

.

5308 buyers

$25

$14

$7,000+

51,035

$t for 1906-

5164,6382

Nil.

199,067

Sat for year ending 30.5.1908...

511 callers. 534 bayara

1*

$150,000

ongkong, Caatus & Macro Steambos: Co., Ld.

60,000

Sts $15.

$607,500

$20,279

2.

+79.428

$2,344

£10,000 Į £240,000 £

£73.755.

Tis, so Tis, 50

£1 $10 $10,000 10,000

$10

ils, 75,000

ro 55

30,000

Tia. 50 Tis: 50

Tia. 8,000 Tiz. 7,000

20,000

$100 Froo

7,000

$100

7,000

SHIPPING,

China and Maulis Steamship Company, Limited....... 30,000 ***0,000 Douglas Steamship Company, Limited

60,000 Indo-Obina Steam Navigation Co., Ld. (Preferred)}

60,000 do.

(Deferred)} Do thanghai Tog and Lighter Company, Limited. 200,000)

(Preference) 100,000 Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 1,000,000 *Star Ferry Company, Limitak,

Taku Tog and: Lighter Comonny Limited

China Sugar Refining Company, Limited nommer buzon Sagar Refining Company, Limited................ Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited.co

MININO.

Chiness Engine-ung and Mining Company, Ld...1,000,000 Rob Australian Ciold Micing Company, Limited

'bangbal and Hongkew Wharf Company, Limited

LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS. Anglo-French Land Investment Co., Ld. Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghel).

nairal Stores, Limited we a

ongkong Hotel Company, Limited................... Kongkong Lead Investment and Agency Co., Ld Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limfied... Cowloon Land and Building Company, Lalaited. banghal Land Inwestminer Company, Litlted Vast Polat Building Company, Limited

COTTON MILLE,

150,000

50,000k

£720,000) £60,000 $ 5,000 547,231

Tls $8,03. T1, B1,479 Tla. 44 150

Tis:14.510 £61,817

S08

Floal of 511⁄2 making $1) for 1908

56 for 1907 on Preference shares only (?) {ex 1/9 11/165§. 154......................

Final of Th, if making Tis, 33 for 1908 Second Interim, of je for afc 1908

for you ending, (0.1.1905.........

Fion of Th. Ky naking Tia. 3) # 1968

S101 bayara

(3301 buyarı

1319 buyers

7 Tle:46 buyers

Tis, ça büyem.

53' Enyais

Tis: 2,215

S100 Tis, 50 Tix, 50

522,538 $450,000

$36,848)

nogt

Tis. ICQ,000

Dr. $179,17:

($1,00)

1kasot

$8 for year ending 311,3,06.

・

Tik. 45 sklos

sales

517

Tis, 110 sales

Dr. $135 112

-Tis, 9,373,

Tis så forveranding 3: %0? l'an

£175,000

Dr.

£11,556

£3,191

Final of 1/6 (coupon No. 11) for year end."

Igg 29.208uinzainau

7. X

Tix. 18 buyers

582 salfare):

"none"

Tl: 314,000

แมน

§. The 150,000).

$10,000

150215 43,9391

Tu: 13745

TIL. 12,616

587 ex div.

Scg sales

DOCKS, WHARVES & CHUDOWS. euwick (Gẹp.) & Co., L. mited

18,000

Dr.

$42.916

57,471

$1.75

** eraf bulling, 3LIZ

550,00

514 buyers

Hongkong & Kowloon Whariand Godown Co., Ext. 60,000

:

++

Longkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld....... thanghai Dock and Engineering Do., L

'550' - $50

50,000

Sco 550 551700 The, 100 | 14,100,

*18. roo 6,000 TL 100

$25,Bos

$10,108

Final of 114 making Sik Furgoy

£40,000

297,199

186 sallers

$200,000

$387,078

Final of 54 making $8 for 190ß ...

Tis. 1,000,000 Tla. 697,257 TIL 75,000 Tis. 185,000

Interim of '. af for 6 months ending?

st X

*Ti 88 zales

1 grst October, 1908

Interim (Tis for account 1908

st.X

Tia, 175 sales

st x

Tik 104 sallers

25,000 Tls, 100118, 100 30,000

Saç

50,tig Sti

F15

Tls. 15,000 $30,000 31,000

TIR. 5,511

Tls,

for 1907 zák

Dr.

$4,200 $9,128

Sa for year ending 30,6:07.

51.80 for 1000 .............

11,000 $50

5648,975?

313911

5295

Final of 53 making $6 for 1908,

50,000

$100

$100

3250,000

26475

Final of Set making $y for 1908

150,000

$10

$10

274172)

$88 sales

+42,151

15.486 ·

6 coats for 8

Fjok

6,000

Sta

$10

$278

78,000. 3oria, go 12,500

Tim 1.523,045)

Tis 142,404

$50

*** 958 *·

(Final of Tia. 3 and bonus of Tia. 2 making) Tis, & for 1908 taidetta usar, Final of 52 making Så for 1908 apran

7%

Tia. 115 seller

9 X

144 sellers

41%

Tla, 115 buyers

15. 8,810

Tis $ for enar en sed 30.10.1968“

S} %

39 sales

59.553

'so ceata for year voring 31.7.08

Tlx.99

Tis, $75,000.

Tis, 8,373

Tis, 6 for year an nan jagọn,18. 2)

Don

Tis. 4, 29

Ti 47 148

· Ti: 31,172

Tie. 15,911

8,604-

13/6 60,000 Sia

Sia

€1,500 535,000

£648

Ni.

into] p? Thür:"9071909=51.037***** $1.20 of 1907 .......

-$5 males:

50,000)

$107.

5101

50,000

31]

GoDe

61,138

15,000

510

$10

1.01,000

SJ 407

So coats for your onded. 18.266 80 cents for 198 ·

· 59.53 salos

Top At Des TESOU

310,000

$149 Balan

40,000

36

$8,000

$48

400,000

$10

12,000

STO.

$12,000 $5,000

$$.078

Sası

... $1.10 for year ending. 30.7.68 Junqueras Interim of 40 cents for account 1908 ........... 75 cents for 9 months anding 31.12.07

11,000 Sao

$186,000

58,957

60,000

$10

Sto

to X મ

$13 buyers

$16 buyers

59,321

5,000 60,000

$25

150 000

$10

Sto

$20,000

$7,616 58,90

15,000 Ga, xoo (GB, 100

$5,000

(0,003

75,000

510 $10

Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company L. Hongkong Getton Spinning, Weaving and Dysing);

Company, Limited Toternational Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld.... Laon-kung-mow Cotton Spinning & Wearing Co., Ldi Voy Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited...

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limitad China-Borneo Company, Limited an inqu Chins Light and Power Company, Limited

Do. Da,

special shares.2000 2400 231] China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld.

Dairy Farm Company, Limited upstarescupquercorros Green Island Cement Company, Limited H. Price & Dampany, Limited ................................................ Hall & Holtz, Limited ...... Hongkong Electric Company, Limited Hongkong Ice Company, Limited. «rime...... Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld. ........... aatschappij tot Mijn, Bosca- en Landbouwex-7

ploitatie in Langkat, Limited, Pask Tramways Company, Limited Task Tramways Company (now) ......anzanilloszt

bippine Company, Limited -hanghai Gas Company, Limited

MR. S. Ackbar, an assistant of the Naval Yard, prosecuted a hawker, by name Wong Fak, in- the Police Court, last Thursday morning,fortheft. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to three montbe hard labour and three hours' stocks (to be exposed outside the gate of the Naval Ya di Wong was found guilty of stoni-"

on Wednesday afternoon he was seen standing outside the offices of the Victualling Depart ment, in Queen's Roxd. A parcel (containing the solder) was thrown into the street by na accomplice, and Wong was about to return | home with the staff when he was caught;

Four of the largest vessels plying the waters of the Pacific between San Francisco and Oriental ports, the Pacific mail liners Korea and Siberia, of 18,000 toss, and the Mongolia and Manchuria, of 17,000 tons, will make Manila a port of call during the balance of the present year, afford- ing the travelling public an opportunity to make the trip to the home country, direct, on theap swift and luxurious vessois, says the Mavila- Cablenews. Ope steamer is to call here each month, the first of the vessels to come to Manila under the new-arrangement being the Mongolia, due bere the latter part of this month. The vessels are to come bere from Nagasaki and will make the return trip to San Francisco vis Hongkong, Shangbai and Japan porta. Messrs. Castle Bros. Wolf and Sans are the local agents for the10 popular steamers. Additions to the Pacific Mail fleet are the steamer Azia and Parsin, formerly of the Orand-Orline, which recently-passed-out-- of existence after a business career of oxer go YOUTH

IT is stated that many officials in Peking who amuked opiam returned to their vice-alter bay. | ing been examined. Many who were being examined applied to be released on the ples -that-thay.wers-still taking antioplum pilis, Prince Kang, Auti-Opium Commissioner, is much displeased at the state of affairs,

hangbai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited

hanghai Waterworks Company, Limited................. ionth China Morning Post, Limited

teach Laundry Company, Limited compas, seprästocadason Ciantsin Wäissworks Company, Limited

Unlon Waterboat Company, Limited even s Juliad Asbestos Orishtal Agency, Limited someméme Válsòs, (À. S.) & Co., Limited.. Villiam Fówall, Limited

· Those shares are antliled to half of the profia: ...

510

15,000 TIL 50 $10 125,000

20000 TỈ 73 Ti

8,000 Tix, 100 TI, 100 3,000. Tis, joù TIs, 500

015

520

· 24,000 Tis, 10

Tia. Se 30,000 T1, 20 {T}s:10—

£20 6,000

535 20,0005.

Tis. 547,500 {TIS. 27,693

$5,000

Tis. 100,000

Tis, 14,830), Tis. 75,000 Tis-190,000.

Dons

*nom*

Tix, 17,127 $7,471

[P18,640

Tis. 6,001

Tla. 3,491

Tls 58,132 Dr. $56,622 $136

Tla: 101 $172

1,000 T, 100 TI, 100 50,000. $10 "SIO 10,000 Sto

The 15,295)

Tis 4.000

54.

$15,000

51,160

90,000

$1,000

$19

$7

$300,000 $15,000

- 56,438-

- 51.95

Tia, so for type)

Sa for year ending 28,2.08. $1and bonus 10 cla, for year ending 29.2.06||

per share Sto for 1982

Final of St per share making Sa for 1958 ........

54th Quarterly div. of Tis, to and bonus of

Tis to making Tis so to date .................. Bo cents on fully paid shares and 6 cants on ↑

St paid shares for yang ending 304.05mm,

Final of Tis. 4 making Tis. 74 for 1907

Final of Tis. 9 making in all Tin, 14 for 1907

Final of 17/6 making 52/6 for 1907 namaman

40 cents for year ending $1.5.08 .................. Tis, 51 for year ending 30,407 OF STRA 62 cents for year suding 31.12,06 vidçən (Ɛa cents on yiyoo urd, shares and $19.50 on 1

100 Fonnaers skates for yi, and, grig,093 *Interims of go cents aặc 1908............milkamarata značen Final of jo'cts: maxing, 'So. cts. for the)

year ended 30th Jann, 1905,

DIVIDENDS PAYABLE :**

Langkats SOPISALOTE

Obina Sugars mauzom

---Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Company, min

and Pakisked by JOSE PRORO HLAGs for the Hongkong Telegraph Company, Limited, at

Tis. 94

Sto sales

Sizi buyers

Sol buyers Srs

Frou sollars

Tis 810 buyers

- "Tis: 4371⁄2" sales.

55% unlaw Tis: 94 buytın Sioux diva bi

S13 bayars

S9% buyers

March's 5th