COMMERCIALA
Shanghai Plece Goods Market
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
prices asked for locally span Public Companies
THE DAIRY. FARM Co., Limited
Financial. There has been a reduction of about 17 lacks in the ätook of Sycee and Bars, due Meners Noel, Marray & Co., to shipment of Bars to Bombay Ltd., write as follows in their and shares remain Tis: 46,062,000 NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, wockly piece go da trade report and $14,000,000 of which
of September 27-This month (Tls. 2,550,000 and 85,350,000 1 HE SEVENTEENTH OR-
DINARY
Banks
Banks
1913,
TIT
INTERNATIONAL BANKING HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Demand
CORPORATION.
BÀN KINH CORPORA- 30 địa, moi n
TION..
60 de 4 m/s
Head Ofc-6c, Wall Street, Nuw York. London Once, Biskopagus, Z.C.
BRANCHES
Boobay Calcutta
Cantos
Cebu
Colon
Empire Hongkong
Hauw
Capital and
EVERY DESCRIPTION
MESS (red
Kobe
Pabian
Exchange
Selling,
T/T. Marks - (11 15/36|| TATA Francs
20314
2/1/16" On Sal
1/8 On Bat
3/16
pm.
Paid-up Capital$13,000,00 T/T Shanghai-
•7296 - 4 m/s. L{O.
T/T Singapore
.8512 | 4 m/s. D/P
Manlia
Merke
RESERVE. FUNDS:
PANEER
Private 90 d/e sight S'hai T/T Japan
73) 6 m/s. L/O
11/16
crippsig 973) d/s.8'ney & Melbourne
San Francisco
Shanghal
Starling
T/T India sósuras van
14834 30 d/s. Ban F'co & New Yo)
4914
Yokohama
.14834. 4 m/s. Márka
209
£1,500,000 at 2}---
Demand Bombay,
.148 3/4 4 m/s. Franca
12576
* *ད་;
.....148) 6 m/s. do
Demand Caloutta
.:148 3/4 | BarSilver, ready
$15,000,000
Demand India ............
.148 3/4
forward
Demand Manila
Silver
17,450,000
,060,000 (Gold)
Acanus, or for shorter partoda, at zatan, which
YEARLY more attention has been giv n to are in Native Binks. Ohop MEETING of Shareholders in business generally and there an Loans are will outstanding for the above Company will be held be little doubt but that a very Tle. 1,087,000 Although at the Company's Town Office, great deal has been done. During Shanghai has a large look of 2 Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, the last few days the pace e Silver in her safer, it seems that on SATURDAY the 11th October fallen off and one is led to look ouly a small portion of this is of presenting the Report of the 1913 at 12.30 p.m. for the purpose around for a reason for this and available for rradal purposes, or Directors and Statement of we do not think it is necessary to can be used for replenishing the counts to 31st July 1913. soek very far, for it must baovid-stocks of other centres on the THE TRANSFER BOOKS ent to every one that the canse is other hand, purchases will pro- the Company will be CLOSED financial. Dealers have gone as bably have to be made in the from 1st to 11th October 1913
both days inclusive. far as they possibly dare to with
near futuro.
By Order, their own resources and having: reached the length of their tether, are perforce obliged to stop,, unti!
!
M. MANUK.
HONGKONG
Secretary.
of
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the usta. DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fred foe ons year at may be ascertained on application.
BILLS NEGOTIATED COLLECTED MAIL and TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES
LETTERS OF
OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted on the principal cities is the World
|_ THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS, OF
CREDIT'ara available all over the Work/t.
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT
Issued...
effectad
PURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and Shares TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and casbad, GEORGE HOGO, DE
Manager.
, Qaden's Road, "Hongkong 191 COM-Hongkong, 1st Nov., 1912
HOTEL PANY, LIMITED. NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Hongkong Hotel YOKO Company, Limited will he held at the premises of that Company.
THE VOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED
Established 1880.
their purchases are turned into TAXING OF VISS® LS cash before buying more as prices
IN KWAN UNG. that are certainly templing, when replacing costs are taken into
Telegraphic advices from Tak- consideration. The native Banks'
io to the Manchuria Daily News are unwilling, if able, to help them, and the old system of chop say that, after prolonged negotia- loand from the f reign Binky, the tone, the Ummunication, and former gole medium of fanncing the Finance Departmente, Tokio, the merchants has not yet been have come to agreement to tax, Pedder Street, Victoria in the Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 revived until that method vessels registered in the Kwan Colony of Hongkong, on Satur- Paid-up Capital 30,000,000 What day, the fourth day of October, Reserve Fund....... 18,550,000 again brought into use it is hard tung Leased Territory. to ses how the money required to form of tax will be laid on the 1913, at 12 o'clock noon when the
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA. bring business into a flourishing vessels registered in the Kwan- sub-joined resolution will be pro-
a posed:- condition once more, can be raised tung Leused Territory is
"That the following new Article
Branches
10. The Company shall pay Changchun "dividend, in respect of Dairen
•
any exis ing or new Fengtien "shares of the Company, Harbin
"in proportion to the Hankow
amennt paid up on sach Honolulu
*
share where a larger Kobe
by the Chinese Bankers. There is question of some local ports, be inserted in the Company's Antung-Heien
contemporary Articles of Association after Arti- Bombay much talk of government aid in comments: our connection with the old oustinTht it cannot be an import tax cls 10 thereof
Calcutta ding loans, but as the melium is easily inferrable from the fict proposed appears to be a bad of the ports in the Loosed Terri- issue ia exchange for the securitiestory being ports. It cannot and properties held by the Binks, be an income tax either, there it is questionable whither such being no income tax law in "assistance," would be acceptable. operation there. Neither can it Ready money would be another be a registration tax, because a thing altogether, hut whonce fee of 50 sen per 10s is being charged at the time of registry. can this be obtained?
Local Market. The activityThe most plausible theory is that reported in our last, has continu- the proposed tax will take the passed by the required" majority ed pretty well up to the glose, form of a local tax, as is in effect it will be submitted for contrnia and clearances have been very at home ports, and may range tion as a Special Resolution to a eatiefactory and include quanti in amount from 30 sen to Y. 1 ties for Szechven; the former put. per ton of registered tonnage.. choses for that market, referred
to in our No. 1550, are also mov-
ing away, thanks, no doubt to the higher value of cotton and everything elso! At the close,
A FATAL CLIMB,
however, for the reasons given. Two young professional men elsewhere, there is a distinct named Hirschtrger and Raclt- falling off in the volume of fresh fall, recently left the Eibar with purchsees which feature will no out guides intending to climb the doubt vanish directly remittances precipitous west side of the Zug come to hand, the country being spitze, never before ascended. evidently destitute of stocks and This is the highest and, perhaps, hungry for supplies of every desthe most difficult point in thin On oription, "wherein lies the greatest Bavarian Alps (9.720it). hope for the future of this trade, optember their dead borles Auctions,The trial offered were found by a search rart at this week was 111,988 pieces, an the foot of a cliff some 500ft. increase of 5:000 pieces, mostly below the summit. White Shirtings, T.-Cloths and Turkey Reds The Grey and White Shirtings, went rather irregularly but changes were not very great one way or the other. T-Cloths, Jasna and Sheetings
The Olymple Games Fund.... The Duke of Westminster's were week and Tarkey Reds Olympic Fund will henceforth be mostly lower. Italians improved the central fund to which sub-
M
amount is paid up on Liao-Yang some shares than on London "others "
Lyons
Should the above Resolution be
$1
TE
Agencies at Nagasaki "Newchwang
New York Osaka Pekin
Ryolun Port (Arthur)
San Francis00
Shanghai
Tiehling
Reserva Liability of
T/T Bombay.............
T/T Caloutta
..........98 Gold Leaf per tael....
T/T. San Fou & New York 48 3/8 Bank of England rate T/T. Java .................120 3/4 Sovereign
Subsidiary Coina,
Opium" Quotation.
Aug 15.
$32450,000
Discount per $100.
Malwa, New
Malwa, Old
$3,950 perplo
3,500
Proprietors..... $15,000,000 Jhinese ...20 ots. pieces $7 15/16%
COURT OF DIRECTORS,
Patna, New
Chinese...10
$8.5/- 6
Patna, Old..
4,305 perohe 4,230%
$6
Benares, New
4,200
$8 1/16
Benares, Old.
4,000
8. H. Dodwell, Esq.-Chairman. Hongkong.20 Hon. Mr. D. Landale-Deputy Hongkong.10
'Chairman,
G. Friesland, Baq. C. S. Gubbay, Esq.
P. H. Holyoak, Esq.
G. R. Laurenz, Esq. F. Lieb, Eeq..
W. L. Pattenden, Esq.
J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Siebs, Esq. CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. Stabb, MANAGER. Shanghai-A. G, Stephen.. London Bankers-London County and Westminster » Limited...
Hongkong Interest Allowed.
On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. Iper Annum on the daily balance.
ON FIXED DEPOSITS..
For 3 months, 2 per cent per
Annum.
Tiontain
Tokyo
Los Angeles
For 6 months, 34 per cent
Annum.
per
Interest Allowed on Current
.. Account. Deposits received for fixed second Extraordinary Meeting periods at rates to be obtained on woich will be subsequently con- application. vened.
Dated this 22nd day of Septem- bor, 1913.
By oider o the Board of
رایحه
Directors J. H. TAGGA'T,
Act ng Secretary.
Notices
Manager.
For 12 months, 4 per cent. per
Annum.
N. J. STABB, Chief Manager
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK
North China"
SHARE REPORT.
S-SELLERS JA-LASE D-DUYERS
Sipex & PAID of Valok.
DANKS.
M
$788 sa. & b,
Hongkong & S'hai $125
£80
MARINE INSURANCE",
Cantons
$50
330
b.
£5 T137) b.
$100 $786 sa, & b.
£50. $192)
FIRE INSURANCES:
Unions.
Yangtzes
China Firea $20 $149 b. Hongkong Tires $50 $368 b.
SHIPPING. China & Manilas
$25 $8 Douglas Steamship 850 833) Steamboats
Indo-Chinas
$15 $284
B.
}
£5 67934 b
107/- 68.
(Preferred) (Deferred)
"Shell" Transports £1
Star Ferry"
·REFINERIES.
MINING:
AST DIVIDEND AND SATE,
$20.31 for
year
£2 at ex 1/1156 equal to
ending 30/6/13
$18 for 1913
Final of 10 p.o, making
20 p.c. for 1911
Final of 820 making 850 for 1911 and Interim
· of $30 for 1912. Final of $12 mak. $15 for
1911 & Int, of $3 for 1912)
$10 for 1911
$27 for:1911
$1 for 1906
$2.50 for year end'g 30°6′13 Dividend of $1 for half
year ending 31'12′12
(6 p.o. for years 1912 and 1912 on preferred shares"
Final of making 6: for yearending:31*12*12 Int, of 1/- a/c. 1913" $2 on 10,000 shares 1st issue $2 on 10,000
$10 $5714 b.
$1 on 10,000
$3 for 1912
EISHI ONO,
$200 $95 Bank is conducted by the Luzon Sugars Hongkong, 30th Sept., 1918. 118 TE Business of the above China Sugars
B100 $95 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
CORPORATION. Chinese, Engineerings £1 32/6 BANKING
Rules may be obtained on ap- plication..
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853.
8.
13
2nd
3rd
for year ending 30°4′19
$3 for 1897
Interim of Shp.c. 8 2/5d per share. Coupon No. 1 ac-
count year 10.6.12
Tronoha.. Raubs
£1. 55/- £1 $3.10 BA DOCKS, WHARVES, & O'DOWNS
A,
Int. of 2/6 a
INTEREST on deposits is al- lowed on the minimum monthly balances at $3 Per Cent. peran- Kowloon Wharfe $50 1888. & b.
Depositors may transfer at their H.K. & W poa Docks $50 $78 b. HEAD OFFICE. LONDON, CHINESE IMPERIAL Paid-up Capital £1,200,000 option balances of $100 or more Shanghai Dooks T. 100 55
GOVERNMENT 7 %
Reserve Fund.......£1,700,000 to the Hongkong and Shanghai Hongkew, Wharfs T. 100.106 Bank to be placed on FIXED Reserve Liability.of Silver Loan of 1886, E. 54th Half Yearly Drawing.
Proprietors.£1,200,000 DEPOSIT st 4 Per Cont. per LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING
Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94 drawn
$125 INTEREST due and
bonds of this loan will bo FOREIGN EXCHANGE and For the Hongkong and Shang-;
Hongkong Hotels $50
1890 payable at the offices of the Cor-General Banking business trans- hai. Banking Corporation,
NJ. STABB, Chief Manager.
Hongkong Lands $100 $113 poration on and after the 30th acted.
annum.
September, 913. List of drawn CURRENT ACCOUNTS open. bonds can be obtained on applica-ed and FIXED DEPOSITS DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE Humphreys Estates $10 $914.
ceived for 1 year or shorter periods tion to the undersigned;
For the Hongkong & Shanghai atrates which will be quoted on
application. Banking Corporation.
Agents issuing the Loan.
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager.
THE CHINESE TELEGRAPH
in many cases, and were well criptions be sent, Letters con- Hongkong, 30th September, 1913. competed for. Venetians mostly containing cheques, postal orders, improved and Fancies, with and simps may be addres: ad to the Duke of Westminster st heavy offerings, were steady. Grosvenor Hours, London, W. Auction purchases are clearing Cheques and ens slopes should be very quickly indeed, showing à
marked "Olympic Fund" All bona fide demand.
American Goods-Sales have individual contribations, as well '. been made in more or less retail ag collective subscriptions, from a lote, but there has been a little farthing upwards, falling of in the demand for the acknowledged
ADMINISTRATION.
NOTICE.
A:6. HEWETT,
Acting Manager. Hongkong, 11th-April, 1912. 129
THE
Notices
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE. CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.) Loans on Mortgage of House Pro- perty, &c. Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Merchandise: Loans made on the Frovident
System.
BANK.
Capital Fully
Paid-up...Sh. Taels 7,500,00 Head Office-Shanghai. Board of Directors-Berlin. Branchen:
Berlin
Calcutta Canton Hamburg Hanko Koba Peking Singapore Tientsin Tsinanfu Tsingtau Yokohama, LONDON BANKERS: Mecsra, N. M. Rothschii, & Sons, The Union of London and Smith's Bank, Limited. Deutsche Bank (Berlin),, London Agency. Direction der Disconto Gesell. sohaft.
Will LFIE FOR REGISTERING
and by him
TELEGRAPHIO ADDRESSES. forwarded to the Honorary time being. Holders are trying to work 3-yard gloth up to Tis. Treasurer of the Special Com
inittee,
The organizer will be NOTICE is hereby given that 4.80 bat have not quite succeeded in getting that price established. glad to a at Grosvenor House, An attempt to buy 3-yard by appointment, supporters of
· cargo at 12-5d, resulted in ao un-the fund who wish to co-operate registration of Code Addresses. TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF on application: Every description
in the movement, The total of
from the let proximo this
plication), Administration will make a (Rates and Particulars on ́ap- charge of $12 per annum for every
All such Telegraphic AddresRGA
ter-offer of 12-10d, in one case, 80' that the New York market is a the fand now stands at £7,073 hitherto registered at this Office
firm one. Cotton Flannels have advanced as much as 1-3d par piece, of late. The Newchwang rale is now 700, A fourth device
7a. 3d..
will be cancelled on, the above given date.
Firms or persons who wish to continue their former Code Ad- dresses are requested to notify
for assisting the sale of Japanese Public Companies this Office of the fact and at the
made cloth has been pointed out
to us, which is in making pieces
of Drills, made by the Temma HONGKONG COTTON SPIN-
Mills, 40 yds. whereas the actual
length of the pieces is 41 yarde.
This gives a buyer an extra piece
NING, WEAVING and DYEING Co., Ltd.
in every, two bales, upon which NO110E TO SHAREHOLDERS,
no duty has been paid. This in
the case of a large parert is quite THE ORDINARY ANNUAL
MEETING of SHARE- a consideration, dmounting as-is.
HOLDERS of the above Com- dess to 2 per cent.
Yarn. After the busy week pany will be held at the Offices of the General Managers on last recorded, it is not altogether THURSDAY, the 2nd October, surprising that sales bave fallen 1913, at 11.30, for the purpas
...
The Office of
WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c., Undertaken and Executed.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers.
32 Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
17
same time to pay the registration PEAK TRAMWAY!
fee of $12.
L. 8. LOO,
Manager, Hongkong, 26th Sept., 10'3.
fi
CHINESE POSTAL ADMINISTRATION. · NOTIFICATION.-
FRAUDULENT SUR- CHARGE STAMPS.
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
7.00 AX. 10 1.00 . Evar 15 Min. 1.00 AM to 10:00 13. 10,00 A...H, to Is.00 A. M.
18 30 AM, to £1.45 1.56.
19,433.M. Lo
7.55 5.36. TO
$45 1.3. 20
·BSF-50. to
· 3.00 7,M» 20
1457-303
3.33 P.361
1,00 1:1.
$.10 7.5.
**NIGHT CARS.
#3 MIN.
20. Mi
'ቦ
15 MIN.
19
10 MIN.
[
10 MINI
10 MIN.
כון
..$5.MIN.
16_1-34_med_9°F-4,"9.30PM. 10"
17.00 2 every ball hour.
32.00 2.MTIOXI245 P,M. every"quarter of an hours SUNDAYS.
0.00 A.M. to 10.30 a.m. Every xy Blin.
11.00 AM.
na klaw.
11,45 A.M. LO 16.00 Nook 2-60 Nook to 1,00 22,
+
! O MIN,"
O MIN.
NT
6
. Mr.
- 6,00 PM, to 5.00 7.2:
6.00 ML 5.00 FM, to 6·09·7.M. ta ·2.00 FM.
to comparatively small figures of receiving the Report of the THIS is to notify and warn
10.30 AM to the public that any sur- during the interval; Of Indian Consulting Committee and State-
in the Report on the Working of Spinnings, the spot salos have ment of Accoun's to. 31st July, charges differing from those given hardly totalled 1,000 bales, but 1913.*
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Chinese Post Office, for the 4,000 bales have been purchased from India a portion only of the Company will be CLOSED 3rd. Year of Kauan Tung (191) which have been gold forward to from the 25th Septemba to the are unauthorised, and are not 2ad October, both days holusive, recognised by this Administration.
the Ohinese Japano Yarn JARDINE, MATHESON goea ataadily into consumption
and buyers have not yet made up
* & Co., Ltd::."
General Manago:3.
their minds to pay the higher Hongkong, 18th September, 1913,
By Orce of the
POSTMASTER GENERAL Chine e Post Office,
Hongkong, 26th Sept., 1919.
I MI.
7.00 8. too. "
·NIGHT CARS, as on. Week Days.
SATURDAYS
Extra' Care "at"dat inidalgis:
SPECIAL CARE.
By Arrangement aube,Company's
Alexandra Buildings, Go Your Kondi
•
Kowloon Lands $30 $46
Shanghai Lands T. 30 T. 91
West Points $50 $72 6.
Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8
COTTON MILLS.
Ewos Shanghai Cottons
b.
B.
T. 50 T. 142 b. T, 113 b.
"MISCELLANEOUS.
1/2 for 1909
1913.
$4.50 for year 1912
$1 final dividend for?
year 1911
Tls. 3 for 1912.
Interim of Tis 3 for 1913
Tls. 6 29'2'10
$3 on old shares, $1.50)
on new shares for half year 31 12 12
834 for 4 year ending 30 6.13 ·
50 cents for 1912
$2.80 for 1912
5 p. o. for half to 30′6′′12}
& final of 6 p.c. making
11 p.o. for 1912
$2 for 12 year ending 30.6.12
..
15 per cent. for 1910
7 p.c. for year ending)
31°10'12
Tls. 10 for half year end-
ing 30'6'13
199 b.
133 b.
b.
50 cents 31.7.08
85 cents for 1912
8.
70 cents for 1912
Laou Kung Mow Kung Yik Hongkong Cottons $10 894
$12 $91 China-Borneos Light and Powers - $101
14 Do. (Spec. shares) $1 ƒ || China Providents $109. Dairy Farms $0 $28
$10 $6
Dreadnor Bank INTEREST allowed on Current Green Islands Account DEPOSITS received | Hongkong Electrics $10-$41 on terms which may be learned Hongkong Ices
of Banking and Exchange busi ness transected.
R. TIMMERSCHEIDT,
Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF
INDIA, LIMITED. Authorised Japital....... Subscribed
Pald Up
"
Hongkong Ropes
Langkate
Morning Post Peak Tramway
b.
$25 $160 s
$10 823
8. 10 T27
$25-$22
$10 $104
$1 90 ots. Do. (now), Hongkong Electric Trams 9/6 sa. & 5.
£1,500,000 Philippines
$10 $5 ..... 1,125,000 H. Price & Co., Ld. $10||$6
562,500
Pre- 415,000 Bociste des ferred
Pulpeset
$50 $20 Papiertérios paid du Tonkin up 450
#
11 eniu
Reserved Fund
BANKERS:
Bank of England. London Joint Stock Bank,
Limited. '
Beneft) (8203 Shanghal-Sumatras T. 20T150" Steam Laundry United Asbestos
Oriental Agency, $10 $914 b. Lid...
Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts at 2 per cent per annum
Asbestos on Daily Balance and on Fixed United
$10 $300 Founders Shares) Deposits at rates which may be assortained on application Union Waterbost $10 | 617 1/2 b.
A. R. LINTON
Weismann, Ltd.
Watson William Powell
THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled, For Bread, Cakes, Confectionery, mesis with Wines & Liquorn,
$10 1690
$10 $8
$1.25 for year end'g 91°7′12
40 cents for 191199
$1.60 per share for 1912
$2 interim for 1913
$1 interim for 1913
Tla. 1 account 1919.
None
80 cents on fully paid shares and 8 cents on $1 paid shares for year ending 30.413
Final of $5 pic making
7 p.c. for 1912.
Моде
$1.50 for 1910
None
No dividend this year 50 cts. for year end'g 31.5.1
(20 per cent. per ordinary share for year ended 31'5'1912
:: #1. por share for year
ending 81*12*1912 22-2
25 per cent. for year]
ending 81711
60 cents for 1912:
$10 B. 40 ats, yearending 30'6:12 Corrected to tego pan. Oct. S. WRIGHT AND HORNBY, trad thesars Rebus « De Your Raúl Gmoval W13: Adderý Kastrula "Tilegraph', dastur KIA MUUT TRUDONAS ME QE MË TURANTES AA04%\[SU!
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