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COMMERCIAL.

* Langkat Rubber Output.

We are informed that Mr. Geo. Mr. Bain, general agent of the Maatschappij, ete, in Langkat has received a telegram from the Manager in Sumatra informing him that the estimated output of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, – WEDNESDAY,

Entertainments

KINETOPHONE

EDISON'S

-dry rubber for the month of April MOTION PICTURES, is 4,301 lbs.

Shaughal Bullion.

May 1, 1913.

Mexican Dollars market rate :

Opening ...Tls.

73.8

3. Closing ...Tis. 73.8

Dragoa Dollars,

Nativa. Bank Rato

Shanghai Gold

Tla. 73.7625

**

Bars: 978 touch Tis. 3514 Bar Silver Tls, 111.15 Copper Caah...per tael. 1,767 Sovereigns: buy-

ing rate, at 29,5-8 Tls. 7.13 at Exch. 74-Mex. $9,04

...Tls. 352

Peking Bar

Native Interest...

Public Auction.

R.

.G. PARTICULARS and CONDI-

LATEST

i.

INVENTION.

TALKING PICTURES.

TERRITORIAL RIGHTS

AND

KINETOPHONES

ON LEASE ONLY.

SOLE RIGHTS FOR CHINA.

INDIA, AND THE PHILIPPINES

HELD BY

THE EDISON KINETOPHONE

P.O. BOX 335.

Cable Address: KINETOPHON.

TIONS of the letting by Public THE MUSICAL EVENT!!

Auction Sale, to be held on Tues- day, the 13th day of May, 1913, at 3 p.m., at the "Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Go- vernor, of Two Lots of Crown Lund at Leighton Hill, and Shau- kiwan Road respectively in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Rents to bal fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTI ULARS OF THE LOTS.

LOCALITY.

Boundary Mcurement. (Approximate.j

T

Contents

Square f

Ansal Rent.

1,757

Lpset Price.

feel, feet fret fra

114 ***

7,524,

100 about, 70

3150 32 about.

Public Companies

THE NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY,

LIMITED:

MARINE DEPARTMENT.

THE UNDERSIGNED having

been appointed. Agents for the Marine business of the above Society are prepared to accept riske at ourrent rates.

DAYID SASBUON & CO... LO

1[89 "Bongkong, 23id April 1918;

UNION, MARINE INSURANCE

CO. OF LIVERPOOL.

THE undersigned having been

CITY HALL.

NIGHTS ONLY, THURS., SAT. & MON, MAY 8th, 10th & 12th

piston of... Mr. WAVID E. 1),

THEATRE

Banksz

INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.

-Hand Offcat, 60, Wali Strent, NawYork.

London' Ofce-36, Bishopsgate, 2.5.

BRANCHES

Bombay

Canton

.Cobbi!

Colon

Empire

Inngkong)

Manila

Marico

HOME: PARINEE

en Paling

Tim Francisco

1.2. Shanghai 17

Capital spider7,000,000 (Guld)

$110,000 EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING BUSI NESS Crnance.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opend on the, ustas

tertas

DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fixed for one YORU AL 4% pharmanam, or for shorter periods, at rates, which may be sacertaloni on application.

BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED.

MAIL and TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES made

LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS' granted on all the principaleicies in the World,

THE BANK'S CIRCULAR, LETTERS OF CREDIT avaliabin all over the World.

DOMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT.

Luned

PURCHASE and SALE of Stocky and Shares efactad

TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and cabel.

GEORGE 1000,

Manager.·

91 Queen's Road, Hongkong.

1913

OKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,

Hongkong, let Nov., 1912

THE

YOKOH

AGENCY,

LIMITED.

Established 1880. ?

Paid-up Capital

Reserve Fund.......

ROYAL

TO-NIGHT

LY: 7,010183

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA-

TION,

Selling..

T/T. MIRGH Demandi

60°à/a

4 m/s

Paid-up Capital ..$15,000,000 | 90 a/a

RESERVE FUNDS:

Sterling

£1,500,000 at 2)=

·$15,000,000

Silver · 17,200,000.

Reserve Liability of

Proprietors

TT. Shanghai" T/T Singapore,

TT, Japan

T.T.India

$32,200,000 Demand. India

Demand, Manila

QRACT THATIZAZ

Exchange

1/16 4 m/s, L/C 24m/s. D/P

3/16

6 m/s L/C

Buying.

5/16 30d/s.S'ney & Melbourne

78730d/s. Ban Foo & New York, 1998

000,000 T/T. San Foo & New York...4834

T/T. Jaya

“COURT OF DIRECTORS.

1914 | Gold Leaf par taol..

86

m/s. Marks, -

.9816

149

4 m/s, Franca

.150

6 m/s. do

.2.601)

.98

BarSilver. ready.

forward

205) Bank of England rate....... 2.53 Sovereign,

50c

$9:87949

Subsidiary Coins. Discount per $100

| Malwa,Old - no. 3,100

#

3,350 perphe

S. H. Dodwell, Esq., Chairman. T/T. Marks

י

D. Landale. Esq., Deputy T/T, Francs

Chairman,

G. Friesland, Esq.

C. 8. Gubbay, Esq.;

P. H. Holyoak, Esq.

G... Laurenz, Esq.ų

F. Lieb, Esq.

W. L. Pattenden, Esq. J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Sieba, Esq. CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. Stabby-

MANAGER. Shanghai-A. G. Stephen. London Bankers-London: County and Westminster Limited.

Chinese...20 ate. pieces...87 13/16 Patna, New

Chinese 10.

..68 1/16

Hongkong.20.

626 Fatna, Old:

Hongkong:10

"::Opium Quotation.

Benares, New

Mar. 28::

Malwa, New ......$3,000 perplc. Benares, Old.....

SHARE REPORT.

3,250

LAST DIVIDEND and bathi'

*:

S-SELLERS SA-SALE

B-BUYERS

Stocks, & Part: DE; YALOW,

*BANKS,

"CLOSINO

$805 88.

£81/--

Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000

30,000,000 Hongkong-Interest-Allowed. 18,200,000

On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cents per Annum on the Hongkong, & S'hai $125 || daily balance.

Head Office.-YOKOHAMA;

3 MISS MAY ROBERTS Galoutta

CODEN.

By arrangement with G, F. Kalaka. Proprietor, Royal Opera House, Boabay.

The World Renowned Trio LEO

CHERNIAVSKY

JAN

CHERNIAVSKY

MISCHEL

CHERNIAVSKY

THE WORLD'S VERDICT: Decidedly The Greatest Young.

Artistes of the Age Now CRATING A Fusors Evravwo lesa,

Change of

Programme

NEW

"

Each

Night.

Box Plan at ROBINSON'S.

Jesen CL,"

Hewazn Enz, General Manager.

Advaare Manager. Fongkong 7th May, 1918.

and the

ANGLO-AMERICAN PLAYERS

in Eugene Walter's'. thrilling play,

Branches Antung-Haien Bombay

Changchun Dairon Fongtion

Harbin

Hankow

Honolulu

Kobe.

Liao-Yang

London

'PAID IN FULL" Lyons

America's greatest success.

Two years in New York, Booking at Muutries.

Prices $3, $2, $1,

Curtain at 9.15 p.m.

..

MARINE INSURANCES,

ON FIXED DEPOSITS. For 3 months, 2 per cent. per Cantons.

*** North China Annum.

Agencies at

Nagasaki

Newchwang

For 6 months, 3 per cent. per

New York Osaka

Unions

Annum.

For 12 months, 4 per cent

për

E

Yangtzes

Ryolun Port (Arthur)

Pekin

San Francisco Shanghai

Tiebling

Tientsin?

Tokyo

Los Angeles

Interest Allowed on Current Account.

Deposits received for fixed perioda at rates to be obtained on application.

EISHI ONO,

Manager.

Annum,

NJ STABB Chief Manager.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK

$50 +8825

£5 T13334

Ba.

$100 795 nominal:,

£50 $190

b.

$20 $148.

$50 - $356

归。

B.

$25 #834 b.

FIRE INSURANCES. Chins Fires Hongkong Fires

SHIPPING. China & Manilas THE Business of the above.

Bank is conducted by the Douglas Steamship 850 $126. HONGKONG,AND SHANGHAI Steamboats BANKING CORPORATION.

Indo Chinas Rules may be obtained on ap-

(Preferred) plication.

(Deferred) Shell" Transports £1

INTEREST on 'deposits is al lowed on the minimum monthly balances at $3 Per Cents per and

num.

...

Doors open at 8.30 p.m. Hongkong, 31st Mar., 1913. [18 option balances of $100 or more

THURSDAY

"THE

SWEETEST

(345 9.18

VICTORIA THEATRE.

TUESDAY. oth Inst. Reappearance of

The Charming

4.

HOWARD SISTERS, The Hongkong Favourites. Rag Times Dancers,

WEDNESDAY,

Grand Matinee at.5.30 p.ni. "THE USURER"! Grand Dramatic Film, FRIDAY

The Grand Dramatic Fitm "A Race for Inheritance."

Notices

appointed Agents for the KELLY & WALSH, LTD.

above Company are prepared to

accept Marine Risks at current An lavaluable Work of Reference

rates..

THE CHINA

YEAR BOOK 1913.

$7.50.00

$896

New Edition

THE BANK LINE Limited, Agente Hongkong, 28th April 1918; DANTON INSURANCE OFFICE THE TRADE & ADMINIS-

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE thirty second Ordinary

Mesting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- signed on Wednesday the 21st instant, et 11.45 a.m.

The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be closed from the 7th to the 21st instant, both days

inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON &

CO., LTD.. General. Agents. Hongkong 5th May, 1913.

Notice

NOTICE.

TRATION OF CHINA.

:: By H. B. Morse $6.00 Send For Our List of 1,000

COLONIAL NOVELS REDUCED

from $175 to 60 cents,

16

GIRL IN DIXIE." FRIDAY

"THE IDLER."

SATURDAY

"DIVORCONS."

MONDAY

FACING THE MUSIC."

BIJOU.

TO-NIGHT.

LAUGH & LEARN Cervantes' Immortal DON QUIXOTE

DON QUIXOTE

DON QUIXOTE

ALSO

9.15

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND

·CHINA.

1

Incorporated by Royal

Charter 1853..

Depositore may transfer at their to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT et 4 Per Cent. per

annum.

For the Hongkong and Shang- hai. Banking Corporation,

NJ. STABB, Chief Managof.

DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE

HEAD OFFICE.-LONDON. Paid-up Capital ...£1,200,000 Reserve Fund... ....£1,700,000 Capital Fully

£1,200,000

:

Reserve Liability of

!: Proprietors FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business trans- acted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re-

ceived for 1 year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.

A.S. HEWETT,

Acting Manager.

The Indian Maid's Sacrifice Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. Pathe Gazette &

Gaumont Graphic. AND

Miss VIOLET BONETTA (The Merry Soubrette)

MATINEES ON

ន

7.35

Sat'days 4.15 Sundays 6.00

7.15 PICTURES ONLY

Notice

ITALIAN CONVENT.

Top begs to renew her HE Superiorese' of the Italian appeal to the ladies and gentle- men of Hongkong for the usual gifts of cast off garments and

worn out clothes to the. Convent. Of late, there has been an ap- KELLY & WALSH LTD.preciable falling-off in the period- ical collections of old and second-

THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

Notices

OHINA

THE

PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

(Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.)

Loans on Mortgage of House Pro- perty, &a.

Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Merchandise. Loans made on the Provident

System.

.11

BANK.

Paid-up. BhTaels 7,500,000 Head Office-Shanghai, Board of Directors Berlin, Branches: Berlin

Calcutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe Peking Singapore Tientsin Teinanfu Tsingtau Yokohama.

LONDON BANKERS:

Messrs. N. M. Rothschild & Sons. The Union of London and Smith's

I

"

$15 $271.b..

£5 $95 nominal

b 116-

£11.

{ $10 $51

-b;

Star Ferry' .....'... REFINERIES. China Sugars $100 $106 Luzon Sugare $100 $8774

MINING.

Chinese Engineerings £1 95/-

Tronohe Raubs

£180

DOCKS, WHARVES, & O'DOWNS.

£1 $3.60b, $50 8854

Kowloon Wharfs H.K. & W poaDocks $50- 871 Shanghat Dooka T. 100 T.83 Hongke Wharfs T. 100 T.113

LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS

Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94

115 b.. Hongkong Hotels $50-

(876 bi · Hongkong Lands $100 $110

Humphreys Estates $108814

1

b.

Kowloon Lands $30 $37 b. Shanghai Lands T. 30 T. 92. b..

450 $63, 5.

Bank, Limited. Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London Agenov. Direction des Disconto Genell-

West Points

rschaft,

Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P.) INTEREST allowed on Current

COTTON MILLS, · · Account. DEPOSITS received

Ewos

T: 50 T. 136 on terms which may be learned- on application. Every description Hongkong Cottons 810 8934 of Banking and Exchange busi- MISCELLANEOUS.

China-Borneos....10 $122 $101 6. ness transacted.

-R. TIMMERSCHEIDT, Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct. 1911.

1

Light and Powers $101 $3

Do. (Spec.shares) $2 [China.Providents $10 $834

Dairy Farme

$10 842 Hongkong Electrics $10 $3214

$25 $175 6

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF Green Islands

· INDIA, LIMITED;

Authorised Capital Subscribed Paid Up

Hongkong Ices,

1,500,000.

...... 1,125,000

562,000 Hongkong Ropes 415,000 e

Langkata

: $10 1821

g. 10 T.61

$10

125122

LIZE

(Rates and Particulars on ap-Reserved Fund ..........

plication).

OF

The Office of TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR

WILLE, ATTORNEY, &c., Undertaken and Executed.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers, Hongkong, 19th March, 1998 $2 THE FAMINE IN CHINA. FIGHT Famibe Districte with

HEAD OFFICE: i 40, Threadneedle Street,

London; E.C. BRANOHES: Bombay. Kandy, Caloutta. Galle Howrah. Bingapore.. Madras. Kota Bahm, Kelantan Delete Bah, K Karachi. Kuala Lumpur, FMB. Bangoon. Hongkong, B

Colombo, Shanghai:

::

Morning Post: Peak Tramway

រ

$1 81 5

! Do. (now) Hongkong Electric Trams 7/1 $10 $5 Philippines H. Price & Co, Ld, $10-1 46

Pre

£2/5/- atex 2/-1 equal to)

$21.71 for 4 year ending 31/12/12

$18 for 1911

Interim of 10/- 'f'r 1911 Final of $20-making #50) for 1911; and Interim of $30 for 1912

Final of $12mak. $15 for).

*** 1911 & Int, of$3 for 1912ƒ.

|«^$10; fox/1911 19

$27 for 1011-

$1 for 1906

5 p.o. for year end'g 30'6;12. Dividend of $1 for-half) year ending 31*1218" (6 pc. for yest 1910 on

preferred shares,

(Final of 2l¬making 20% !.

for year ending 31:18*11gke Int, of 1-a/o. 1912 at

15 p.o. for year ending

30.4.12

$9 for 1912

· 88 for 1897............. Mouth

1/6 per share final 1911

(Coupon No. 18)" Int. of 2/6 a/c. 1913 1/2 for 1909" $4.50 for year 1912: $1 final dividend for

year 1911,

Tle. 8 for 1919) Bandu Final of Tis. 4 making izinli

Tls 7 for 1912

Tie, 6-29°2′10

$3 on old shares, $1.50)!!

on newshares for half

[ year 31*12*13 Final div. of $3

making

*#7 for 1918 #Agsk 5:50 cents for-1912"**

18.80 for 19122RAVA 15 p. o. for half to 30′6′12

& final of 6p.o. making 11p.o. for 19139 Final of $2,25 making $4,25 for 1912

15 per cent. for 1910.

T4for year ended 31′10′10) -E, OR T7for year ended 2012:10}

850 cents 31.7.08mm

85 cents for 1912

#70 canta for-1912---

how to de

$1.25 for yearend g 31712 40 cents for 1911 $1.60 per share:for 1912 Final of #8 making 8101/3

for 10120125 135 02 ans

31 Interim & final of 8

Tls. 1 account 1913

None 1215762 enf 80 cents on fully paid】

shares and 8 cents on $1 paid shares for year ending 3014*12

b. Int of #1 për sharoną 231

None

$450 for 1910sh bus doft

Soqiete des forred: AGENTS IN JAPAN:

Pulpeset 3801320 Papierteriespaid Messrs. Jardine, Matheson

& Co., Ltd. aku Vidu Tonkin up-$50 BANKERSK

Benefit $200, Bank of England,

No dividend brin year 1 To 12N www. Blianghai-Sumatras T. 20.150 London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, Steam Laundry $5 146

50 cts. for year end g 30'5'1 United Asbestos

Oriental Agency $10 a 20 per cents per ordinary Elenare for yoát) (onded 1187 VERY description of Banking L

EV thee Vith Jaunami 1019)

915 1912 and Exchange business United Asbestos

Stocks and Shares transacted.

Founders Shares

of 30,000 square miles. hand materials' received at the Convent. The Superioress feels TWO and ha million people NOTICE is hereby given that confident that she has but to fading stearation.

an Extraordinary General

urge the pressing and daily in- PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTRI-]

BUTION TO-DAY. Meeting of the Royal Hongkong oreasing needs of the Convent in Golf Club will be held at the Olub its provision for the poor, to re- IT WILL HELP TO SAVE LIFE House on Wednesday, the 7th of caive benevolent responses from Trusurer, B. C. GULLAND, Equ Manager, International Boating Co., [146 May, 1913, at 5.30 o'clock in the local residents.

afternoon, when tho Extra- The change of season calls for portion, Abant mi ordinary Resolutions which were change of garments for passed at the Extraordinary orphan children. If residents General Meeting held on the 16th will kindly realize the great help day of April, 1913, will be sub- they can render by sending auch GREEN ISLAND UEMENT bought and sold on account of

COMPANY. LIMITED, Constituents. Letters of Credit Union Waterboat $10 $10 mitted for confirmation as Special of their dress materials as are no Resolutions.

longer any use to them, the little

PORTLAND, CEMENT Tanted on Agents and Corres-

spondents all over the world.

Interest'allowed on Current As- children will be suitable provided with clothes they are so much in need of.

GONZALEZ DE BERNA print of the Resolutions will EDO, manager of the Vic-be found posted on the Board at toria Theatre, Hongkong, will the Happy Valley Club House. Bever"my"""Connection with the

firm of Ramos, Ramps & Com pany on May $1, 1913, -25. JNTA

By Order,

K. M. CUMMING,':

Hon. Secretary,

Anogkong, 6th May, 1818. ~~~ (849 Hongkong, 98th April, 19 10.

'ན,

ITALIAN CONVENT.. 1889 Hongkong, 18th April, 1918.

Weismana, Ltd.

Powell

$10 $300

$10918

$8.60

$1 per share for: Sear:LATEO

4 ending 31*12*1912"

25 per cent. for year?

ending 31711200

30 cents for 1910 44.ote year ending 30°6′12 Corrected to, tipo gem. Más 7/1986 073 WRIGHT AND HORNBY, that sai Canaril Brabus 6 14 - Vorna Rand Central) Bal, addewy Kroksár,

In Casks of 375 lba. net. counts at 2 per cent per annum Watson In Bags of 250 lbs. not.

Don Daily Balance and of Fixed Willlam SHEWAN, TOMES & 00. Deposite at fates which may be

ascertained on application, General Managers.

B. O,MACDONALD, [890, Hongkong, 18th August, 1901 [3]

The Telegraph doss mot hold itwalf responsible for any of the’nkove quotations,