1909-04-23 — Page 17

THE came of Mr. S. W. McF, Hamsos has barn added to the local register of chemists 'and druggists.

THE Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin returned to the Colony on the Bih instant and resumed duty as Registrar General.

THE Grand Council has instructed the State Histodographer's Office to compilè a geo. graphy of the Empire of Obios.

ÁFFREHENSIONS among members of the Japan

se Parlament in connection with the Sugar Company's scandal continue to spread.

His Excellancy the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. E, D. G. Wolle to be a deputy registrar of marriages, with effect from the 815

Instant, Chyl

THE Russian Minister în Peking his demand- ad the right of navigation and policing on the Cesurl River, but the Walwupu has refosed the TEQUBIT...

On the night of the 14th a fire broke out is the school award by the French, in Nanchanglu capital of Kiangsi province, and the whole building was destroyed.

H.E. ORANG MING-CHI, Governor of Kwangsi, recently submitted a number of suggestions on reforms to the Prince Regent which were big 17 approved by the latter.

MR. Archibald Ritchie has been appointed a surveyor of boilers of unlicensed steamships under 60 tons burden, during the absence on leave of Mr. Thomas Skipper.

WE have received from the Japanere Copulata a booklet issued by the Welcome Society of Tokio, Japan, containing useful notes and Itineraries for travelling in Japan.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL 24 1909.

A ricu mine of fine rock-salt is reported in have best recently, struck near Manchouli, iba westem terminus of the Chinese Eastern Rail- WAY..

Ma. Tein-Shin-po informa us that Mr. Tsang Hon Cho, compradore to Messrs. Bradley & Co, did not take a leading part in organising the excursion to Haungchow,

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| Last Tuesday, Inspector Gourlay charged two truck cooller, who are employed by a local

SHARE QUOTATIONS.

Supplied by Mesura, E. §. Kadoonin & Co. Corrected to noon; later alterations given under “Commercial Jutelligence," pago 5.

STOCKL

BANKS.

back, with allowing the shafts of their truck to Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation drag, thereby damaging the roadway, Fined 57 each.

AT a meeting of the directors of Messrs. Hall National Bank of Chine, Limited were and Haitz, La, held recently at Shanghai, it

“MARINH INSURANOME. was decided, subfact to audit, to recommand dividend of ten per cent and carry forward $9,000 odd.

THE Waimupu and the Yuchuapps have been io negotiation with the Russian Minister to redeem the North Manchurian" Railway, but damption, no settlement has been arrived at. - as too high price is demanded for the-ro«^

Canton Insurance Umca, Limited

North China Insurance Company, Limited'

Unlos Insurance Society of Canton, Limited

A. CORONER'S inquiry is to take place next weak to investigate the death of a Chinese women, of Kennedy Streat, Hunghoms, who is Yangusse Insurance Association, Limited belleved to have poisoned herself with oplum the other day. The motive is not yet known,

A HAWKER, Ng Leung, of 6, Man Hing Laos, believes that he is a very much wronged man où Tuesday. He was arrested for selling part- ridges out of season, and fined $t for the offence. Ng wonders now when, partridges will be in

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DETECTIVE Sergeant Grant prosecuted a Japanese, Kashiro Matsuo, in the Police Court, glatt outside his place. of business at 24, Praya fast Tuesday, for, exhibiting the title "Drug East, without being registered. A fuc of Sto was imposed.

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On account of repeated representations by the Walwapu on the Pratas Island question, the Japanese Minister at Peking in reported to be incilued to be conciliatory in the matter. 2, PRINCE Kung, Anti-Opium Commissioner, and 'H. E. Sheu Chia-pen, Law Revision Commis. sloner, have formulated laws against clandes tine plantation of poppy. The punishments for this offence will be transportation and bat-Seames). It is to be held during the afternous, booing, according to circumstances.

A LIST of masters, mates, and engineers who bave passed tholt examinations and obtained centificates of competency issued under the provision of Her Majesty's Order in Council of the jist December, 1883, for the year ending. 21st December, 1908. I published in the Gouttie,

MR. P. P. J. Wodehouse, assistant superin tendent of police, left England on the 9th Instant for Hongkong. Mr. Wodehouse, it will be remembered, left bere some months aga to consult a specialist regarding one of his ayas, which was defective. We notice also that Mr. F. Howell, of the Supreme Court; is expected back about the same time.

A GARDEN fete on a large scale is being organized on behalf of the renovation scheme for the Sailors' and Soldier Home and the new Seamen's Institute, Praya E. (Missions to

and evening of Wednesday, May 5.

THE, Peking Government is deliberating upon taking steps to exercise China's own control over Christian missions and hes consequently ordered the Commission of Costitutional Ne forms to formulate regulations for the protéc tion of the Christian propaganda in China, ·

THE Chinese Commercial Attaché in Vladivo ttak has telegraphed to the Walwupu Informing it of the scarcity of salt in that port and. requesting that the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce be asked to import Chinese salt there to create for ita demand In that market.

THE Pulsne Judge (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz) has reserved his decision in the case in which International Banking Corporation to recover. the Man Lee Chan Company are suing the $84 in respect of a bank draft which the defendant were alleged to have paid to another'

LATELY the value of copper cents has fallen enormously and merchants are suffering great loss. Viceroy Tuan Fong has, in order to prevent a financial patie, instructed Tartai Fang, Director of the Commercial Bureau, to request the leading merchants to hold a meet-person by mistake, ing to the Nanking Chamber of Commerce and try to fix the exchange of the copper coins... In response to the petition of the China Public School in Shanghai, which has been organized by a number of Chinese students who returned to China on account of cartala derogatory re- skunkat panlamaz mali ghinese Viceroy of Ohikli has made a grant to aid of

H.E. Yuan Shu-hain, Governor of Shantung, has suggested that officials who have been cashlered for their epium babit may be reln. stated in their offices if they really have given up smoking, and the suggestion has met with the approval of the Anti-Opium Commissioners and the Goverment.

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FIRE INSURANCES.

POSITION AS PER LAST, REPORT

[NO. OF CHARES

VALDE, ¡PAID UP.

RESERVE.

AT WORKING· ACCOUNT

120,000

$125

99,923

{0,000

10,000

China Fire Insurance Company, Limited ... Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited..........

SHIPPING, China and Maalla Steamship Company, Limited..... 30,000 Douglas Steamship Company, Limited esemesser

· Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 1,000,000

*Star" Ferry Company, Limited..zais me in

blossa Engineering and Mining Company, L1,000,000 Rub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limtied

Docks, WHALVEI & GODÓWNI, Fenwick (Geo.) & Co., Limited

1 $0,000

50,000

tongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Dog $0,000.

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15

2118, 303,747

Tis. 75,000

£*£70,000

03,000 16,000 547,227 Tls. 98,0:0 Tlu. 481.479

'TIB. 44.10

Tix. 81,000

Tis. 3,000) $350,0507 156,8483

nora.

Tis, 100,000

LÁST DIVIDEND,

for year ending 104: 1958min

APPROXIMATE:

RETURN AT

PRESENT QUOTATION BASED ON LAST

YEAR'S DIY

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155

CLOSING QUOTATIONE,

1,500,000) $500,000 $750,000.

€4,000)

$2,006,334

Final of a and bonus of 5/-for 1958 @

*x 1/8)=516,024 0906

st X

15940 sales. LLondon 489.10

$10,993

"Sa (London's(6) for 1993.

31,550,000 5332,757

MONE,

$14 for 1997,

71%

$411,900, $125,000

TL 150,000

Final of 7/6 making 15/- for 1907

X

Tis, 201

13,400

Siço

$100

$1,000,000 (99,000 $193,348 106,149

52,664 901

Floal of Sty making $47 for 1997 and

6X

3735 ́ex div.'oï

1 intérim of $30 for 1998.............

$681,009

1,000,000

11,000 $100

560

$104,:05.

·5757,617

Sia and bonus $3 for 1907

5103) as div. b,

$199,264

$1,000,000

*:0,000

1,000

Stoo

$438.663

$375.341

S6 and bonus $1 for 1907

Stop buyers

13,807

Saça

· €1,438,173..

1163,711

$17 for 1927

*

$335 sellers

525

Sa

fongkong, Canton & Macão Steamboat Go, LE

10,000

80,000

Sto

$50

$7,000 5264,618 $99,007

St for 1906

St3 sollars

NIL

21 for year ending 30.6.1908.

*1 %

5gó salen

$150,000

$15

$20,179.

Final of 14 making $affoṛ 1908...

81 %

$607,500

$79433

S35-344

Do,

Indo-China Steam Navigation Co, Ld. (Preferred)}}

(Deferred) do, Do. Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, Llested

(Preference) 100,000

60,000 Водос

£10,000

£13,755

£240,000

56 for 1907 on Preference shares only |1 ̧ ́ en 1/9°11/16=$3. 154...............***

41%

($47

200,000 TIL 50 TL. 30

The 5 sales

Th. 14,510,

£63,817

Sta 19,000 10,000 510

$10 $5

398

Final of Tis. If making Tie. 34 for 1978 Second Interim of 1), lọr a/c 1908 ...

·$51.00! 150501

56-buyers

$14 bayara

$15

a:ྋ,'

faka Tay and Lighter Company, Limited

REFINERIES.

30,000

Tiago Tie, so

TI, 3,315

Final of Tis, tj making Tis, af for 1908

Tis, 43 sales

Jbina Sugar Refining Company, Limited. Laton Sugar Refining Company, Limited.. Perak Sugar Coltivation Company, Llulled

21,000

1100

$100

Dr. $5,858

$5 for year ending 31.12.68

34 %

51378

$16

7,000 7,000

Stoo 5tog Tiu, sa Tis, fo

Dr. $I$5,893 Tis. 9,273

$3 for 1897.........i

Thu, 34 for year ending $1.8.08 maisavi

MINING

18/10

£4,878

(£175,0003 16 £1,556

£1,189

Dr. £2,191

ƒ Final of 1/6 (coupon No.11) for your end-]

No. 12 of 1/48 conte muuragaiškiaison

7 X

Tia. 15 sales. 48 buyers

-18,000

本 Sax

Dr.

$41,976

$7,421

$1.75 for year ending gr.12.06

$$50,000

*550

$26,806

Final of Stj making 531 for 1007

$57 bayar

$40,000

30,000 $5.700

350 $40 Tis: tools, too

1. 100

591,193

$187,078

Final of $4 making $8 for 1908

10%

$79 sellers

interim of Tis,a) for 6 months ending } 1 stat October, 1908

Tis. 80 bayars

5

Final of Tis, 6 making Tie zo for 1908

6 %

Tli, 166 sellers

Inte

25,000

Tis. roo Tis, Too

- 30,000

$25

Tis. $5,000 $30,000

Tis. 4.134

Tia. 6 for year ending:29.2,09.............

6%

Tis, 100, buyers

Dr.

$4,200

2 for year ending 30.6.07.

Stol buyer

“11:30 on uld and 60 cenis ga first now issue.

11,000

$50

5545,7757

Stor

Final of $3 making 36 for 1998

X

$85 bayary

50,000

$100

$100

$250,000

*536,475

Final of $3) making 57 för 2908.g... (7%

$97. sajand b.

$10

"5251,1993.

541.1613

$3,486

60 cents for 1908 maan

7 X

-584-

Sjo

abat

5378

St for 1958.....yea

Ti 1,593,045}

Tis, 142,404

Final of Tis, 3 and bonus of Tie`s making 1

The. 117 buyers

Tls. 8 for 9ɔß ..................

"Final of Sa making $4 for 1908

9.%

$44

Tief for year ended 31.10. 1908

.4%

Tis. 191 bayara

3X

$9 sellar

TiL. 171,000

Tis. ga

- Tis: 4,819

· Tis 4 for 1908gioné mesmotis

Tls.

Tis. 410

31,173

The 15,901

con

8,604 60,000 50,000 *30,000 $ 135,000

Sis

Sia

£1,500

$40,000

£648 NIL

· i/1oj per’sharm for 1907—1,937............ $1,20 or 1905...

10

Stof salon $17.30 unles

Ito?

St S

доде

$51,138

510

510

$199,000

$31407

50 cents for year ended 28.2.06 .... Bo cents for 208

51

81%

59) rules

$10,000

40,000

$8,000 $

$48

51-30 for year ending 31 7.08.......................

st%

$16 buyers

400,000

Sto

$10

$11,000

12,000

SID

$to

53.75%

$5,000

·S151

11,000

530

$186,000

58,957

60,000 $10

non

#5,000

5,000 60,000

15,000 GB, 100 Gs 100

$10

Sag

$150.000

59,338 $7,616

Final of ga cents making po cents for 1908... 75 cènta for 9 months ending 31.11.07 .rayonini Sa for year suding 28.7.08 ............'uniara St and bonus 20 cts. for year ending 29.1.08%

$8 go callara

Sia

81%

$3 buyers

Srot buyers

$10

$10

$10,000

28 790

THE $47,500

Final of $15 per share making to for 1908. Final of $1 per share making Så för, 1908 |...|| 1st Quarterly div. of Tis, ta] for account 1939.asturaisammengesancarmanyaneet.

514

4%

Ti 8,040 by

50,000

$5,000

75,000

Sta 24,000 T18, 50.

The Sc

30,000 T1, 20 Ti, 20

5,640

15,350

and

$1,000

ห

TIL, 100,000

Tix. 24,8307 Tis. 75,000$ Tia, 120,000

орде

Til, 6,501

fão cenia on fully paid shares and ó caute on 13r paid shares for year ending 30 4.08 ...

Nona MALESUA Final of Tin 4 making Tie, 73 for 1907.

4%

58

61%

Tis 175 salad

Ti. 5,350

Final Tio. 5 making Tis 8 for 1908 kier Fipal of 3/-making 46), for 1908. .. name NoDe

·Tia 1334 b.

**

30,000

40 cents for year ending 31.5.08

INZER

71%

1,000T. 10 Tis, 100

Tis, 6h for year ending 30 407

10,000

SID

Tix. 2000)

Tis. 94 bayers Sto buyers

10,000

14

61%

$10 bayars

90,000

Bro

59 des

$15,000 }

Дома

$3.95

Saj bstyare

gkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Lede hanghal Dock and Enginesing Q00%, Lak. T

•banghel,and Hongkew Whart Compass, Limited...

LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGB. oglo-French Land Investment Co. Ld. Astor House Hotel Company, Llelted (Ghaugnat)

Tis. 3,000 a year to that lastitution, beginolex foris and fortifications, in order to preserve the Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited

from the present your'...

THE Ministry of War has decided not to call any foreign assistance. In the panadasanthamut secrele in coonection with such defences.. 'It, however, feels at a great loss what to do, on account of the absence of the requisite en- gineering skill in Oblas.

Hongkong Land Investment and Agancy Do., Ld. ... fumphriye Estats & Finance Company, Limited "$50,000 Cowloon Land and Ballding Company, Limited socios

The Courrier Saigonnais publishes interesting figures showing how it stood with trade between Cochla-China and the Philippines in 1908. The Colony, that year, exported to the islands articles to the value of $7.c94.409, of which rica accounted for seven millions. The Philippine | thirty-three boatmen and women before Mr. T, Shanbal Land Invaitment Company, Limited.

statistics show that imports there from the French Colony far exceeded in value those from the United States:

It is reported that the Empress Dowager Lung Yu is of opinion that the late Empress Hsino

Chle, by her pre-eminent services in' her life. time to the Stato, deserves to have a special ancestral ball.dedicated to her memory, and hes ordered the Prince Regent to convert the Ewo Park (Summer Palace) into an ancestral temple for her fate Majesty. A bronze status of Empress Haiso Chin will ba-erected in the Hali för ihn reverential remembrance of future, generationi,

FOLICEMAN J. O'Sullivan, of Sbau-ki-wan Police Station, arrested a coolie last Sunday momley as a suspicious person. The coolie, Cheung Wab, it is alleged, was found in a store room la the Shipyard, which contained about £5,000 worth of diving and other gear. Ac cused is believed to have entered the store. room by slipping back the bolt through a broken place of glass. On Monday morning, the suspect was charged before Mr. 3, H; Kemp, but owing to insufficiency of evidence, the caus was discharged.

At the fostence of Sergeant Angus, of Cheung chau Police Station, a coolle named Lam Shu! Hing was charged before Ms. F. A. Hassland inst Wednesday, with larceny. The avidence beard was, in affect, that some time on Tues day afternoon one Chau Shuo, who is employ, ad by the Kowloon Canton Railway, let fall to the street five twenty-cent places which he wat handing over to another person. Before he bad time to recover the cash, defendant rushed up, gathered up the coils, and bolted,

·Three waeks' hard' fabour and six hours' - stocks was Lam's medicine..

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THR water police, jast Tuesday, arraigned

H, Kemp on charges of remaining on the fore- shore at Hungbom for a period longer than was considered necessary for safety'in bad weather. They were also charged with committing a nuisance in the neighbourhood. Each defood-

ant had to pay 53.

A Citizɛan dispatch reports that a number of Chinese and Germans in Peking bave recently. formed a Chino-German Association at Teng abikkou, the objects of which are to improve the relations between China and Germany and also the learning of the two countries. The. members now number

·are held once in three weeks. *** and meetings

H.E, YEN Chib, Imperial Agent at Urga, has informed the Waiwupu by telegram that the Russians have hosted troops at the Yilo river region the plea of protecting their own morchants. They have also attempted to in- terfere in the local administration, and H.E. Yes, therefore, requests the Ministry to protest to the Russian Minister at once.

THE directors of the Maatschappij tot Mijn Bosch-En Landbouwexploitale in Langkat Ld. state that, according to a telegram received from Langkat, hole No. 94, on the Darat fields has been opened up and proves to be an ex- ceptionally productive well. Further informa tion regarding this matter will be issued to shareholder by circular as soon as possible,

AMAFOO, So Fat of Kennedy's Stables, wassum. mused by as indian policeman last Tuesday, for riding a pony in a farlous manner to the com mos danger of the public, along Queen's Road Hast last week. The maloo was stopped sear the Wanchal Market, and his name demanded. Mr. Hazeland did not find, from the Indian's, story, that the maloo was at fauit, and discharge od blm,

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Vest Polei Building Company, Limited

COTTON HILLS,

6,000 350 310 78,000 Tis. 50 Tis, zo $2,500 $50 $50

!

15,000 Tis, so "ix, so`

Ewo Jotton Splaning and Weaving Company, Ld.... Hongkong Botten Splaning, Waaying and Dijalog 125,000

Bio 110

Company, Limited assessorsószerma inn nun var me anë locational Cotton Manufacturing Company, Led...]- 10,000". Tiu 15 - Tys

-kon-kung-mow Gaston Spinning & Weaving Co, Lda | 5,000 Ti, 100: Ti..100 Joy Ches Cotton Spinning Compady, Limitad.......... 1,1,000 Tii, foo (Tik, foo

Do

MISCELLANEOUS,

Kell'a Azbastos Eastern Agency, Limited userspass China-Borao Company, Limlindance masses 200 pesos va China Light and Power Company, Limited

Do.. special shares isemisen ons bids Provident Long & Mortgage Company Ld.... Dalry Farm Company, Limited instag Greda Island Cement Company, Limited H.. Prices & Company, Limited...........................ANTI Hall & Holts, Limited Hongkong Electric Company, Limited ............................... Hongkong Ice Company, Limited Hongkong Rope Manaíacturing Company, Ind. Maatschappij tot Mija, Bosch en Landbouwax-)

ploitatie in Langkat, Limited: A Peak Tramways Company, Limitadesmen Peak Tramways Company (new) ...... Philippine Dompany, Limited sagadina me Shanghal Gas Company, Limited

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hanghal-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited Shanghai Waterworks Company, “Limited....... Vieth China Moming Past, Limited Steam Laundry Company, Limited sermon keruussarjarkan Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limited sanaar ben Union Waterboat Company, Limited seesienicans comme vo Visited Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited ........

OMCB more was the magistrate's altoption oc- cupind in dealing withoflenders under the Stamp Ordinance. Last Tuesday forecoon, Mr. F. A. Hazeland bad before him three storekeepers, THE Ningpo correspondent of the W. C. D. who were summoned for giving receipts to News writes:-The departure of Mr. and Mrs. customers and falling to affix postage stamps T. W. Lammert; os Friday, April 9, gave oce| Watson, (A. 8.) & Co, Limited... on them. The first offender had received three casion for a remarkable demonstration' of sums of Say each for which he gave a receipt friendzser on the part of both foleigusis and William Powell; Limitedcommiss

but not as required by law; the second collect | Chinese. For six years Mɛ, Lammert bas bean

M

I two bills, each being for $46, and the third

the Niogpp agent of Mesirs. Butterfield sad

received three amounts, as follows-841, $41) Swire, during which time he has gained the and $42. They pleaded guilty, and worn or dered to forfeit $25 aplece.

THE N. C D.. News Kweichoufa (Szechuan) correspondent writes that, in spite of Imperial -mandate 10-canes poppy cultivation this year, the prefect and sub-profect issued an order perlulag-a-crop-to be grown this year. Kature, however, has put a stop to this, an The

respect and confidence of the native merchants, and, by his genial courtesy, the goodwill and friendship of the foreign residents. Har. mony and confidence the satiate of a successful merchant's life in China-were marked characteristics Mr. Lammert's rew with the Chiness throughout the period of his residence is Ningpo. Chinese fashion they displayed their

Rationshly

truly

poppy crop to this prefecture in, accord.goodwill by saluting the departing steamer by

three to four hundred bombs, and sixty.

Jog to good. Authority, withered and hand crackers! As the lavitation of the

-on account of the speil of

best and the dry winds prevailing during the senior pilot of the port, Capt. & 1.

as two months. Now the rain has fallen itin who specially hired the storm-launch 100 Inte for dan poppy seedlings to revive The Shumming, a large company of foreign and Wheat crop looks promising. A French naval Chimera frisade ascorted the att, Lifa to the 9 omcar is surveylog holly lo preparation for the coming of the new fusillade of Chinese crackers conveyed best the river in front of our mouth of the Ningpo river, where a doni Treach gunboat which is expected soon from wishes for a safe voyage, and a pleasant and

| happy Úsilough in the Hemsland-

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$200,000,$

T11, 1,000,000 Ila, 697,457 Tis. 50,000 TIL 181,000)

Tis, 33,748

Tlu. 22,818

Tix. $53,000

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The 150,000

Tla. 45,9193

$10,000

BONG

୮

$1,968

Tie, 5,820 59.553

Tis, 8,172

BODI

fis. 75,395}

Tis. 23,038 Dr. $36,607 $136

$35,000 $300,000

Tijor $172

to cents for year ending 31.7.05.

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Tls, 6 for year anding 30.9.06 (8%). ...

Tis so for i906 indiania+4+

$1,360 $6,438

.65 cents for year ending 3012,08 [Bo conta on 9,900 ord. shares and Sig.Bo on

· 100 Faunders shares for yr. end. 31,5.07 ) laterim of jo conte a/c, 1908 mas se šire.

Final of 30 cts, making. 8o cts. for the?

year ended goth June, 1995, unermits,

DIVIDENDS PAYABLE *--*

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