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Commercial

Rubber Share Market.

Mesara Zorn & Leigh-Hunt in their Mid-weekly Report on the Rubber Share Market and list of Quotations dated September 3.

state:**

The Rubber Share Market, has developed no decided tendency during the past week, and fluotun- ation have been confined to very narrow limits. The poor result. of the last actions, and a certain amount of nervousness us to the outcome of next week's sales, at

THE HONGKONG TELEGĦAPH, SATURUAI, DCTOBER 4, 1913.

Entimation,

THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.

CONTAINS ALL THE NEWS.

The most complete Mail Supplement in the Colony.

PHOTOGRAPH

Contains all the news of the week in a most sitraotive form and is the paper for mailing to friends at Home. The photograph this week is entitled Shaukiwan

which another large quantity of Day by day. rabber will be offered, have Passenger Lists ............. induced a little bear selling by Hotel Lists......ria

merket operators, but the effect

Steamers Corre-pondeneH

of this has been pretty well Commercial.... counterbalanced by some de

Shore Report The Courts

Leading Articles

"

CONTENTS.

Pages.

Pages.

4

5

1-3 Alice Memorial Hospital...50 pium Monopolies .........51 Croquet Tournament ... ..51 47 Piracy Erbo

............, 51 89 Godowa Gutted.....52 10-13 Naval Wedding ...... 52 14–15 Daring Burglary .................52 18-19 Ordinances Approved......52 .....20—27 | gival Sorvico Club ......... 53 28-33 Swimming Gala ....................53 34-38 St. Andrewe Society.....54 .......38-44 Death of R. A. M. 0. Man

..54 ......... 45-48.

40-560. S. R. O....................55 The Bay and the Coin. ...55 Canton News

...............55 Now Western Market......55 Absconding Foki.....

.....56

ealtory inverstment buying. There was one Fatialnatory feature at Telegrams last week's auctions, viz., the keen competition which

Notes and Comments.. istod for especially low-priced Special Articles lots, even those of somewhat Sport inferior quality,

Apparently General

a much larger amount of this Kowloon Cricket Club,...40 sort of rubber would have been Appointment........... 50 absorbed if it had been forthcom- Baptism by Immersion...50 ing-in other words, plantation H. F. Visit Convent z.60 rubber has now reached a prico

at which a very large demand,

exists. Taking the far-sighted Public Companies

view, this is a mhat cusouraging fact for the plantation industry. -It shows that we are still a long

THE DAIRY FARM Co.,

G.

way from any real overproduton, se the inferior wild rubbara re now beginning to feel the. in.

Limited,

evitable pinch, and, with planta-

tion ? rubber at its prezent quola- NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

tion, they will be steadily push- ed out of the market. Recent "developments in the Congo Rub- ber market in Antwerp, and the THE SEVENTEENTH OR

DINARY

YEARLY

Notices

Sanitary Board Office, Hongkong.

·

ΤΟ THE OWNERS OF DOMESTIC BUILDINGS. TAKE NOTICE that under No.

5 of CLEANLINESS and VENTIL-

the

DOMESTIO

Banks

INTERNATIONAL BANKING

CORPORATION.

Head Office-do, Wall Street, New York, - Imouton Offes ; mad, Bishopsgate, B.C.

Cib

BRANCHES-

Bombay

Calcutia

Coo

Colón

Empire

Hangbong

Hankow

Banks

T/T

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI Demend..... BANKING CORPORA 30 als

Exchange

| T/T. Marks |

12/1/18 T/T. Francs...

2/8n Haiphong

7/3/18 On Saigon

Selling.

pm.

"。 pin.

.........................................2/+ 1/4 On Bangkok

*.7644

-2)- 5/16 **

Buying.

.7234 / 4 m/s L/O

2/-5/8

85 3/4'4 m/s. D/P

.21-3/4

Private 30 dis sight S'hui

73 6 m/s. L/C

/13/16

97343 d/s. S'ney & Melbourne 2-7/8.

.149430 d/s. San F'co & New York. 494

1494 m/s, Marks

201

149 1/2 4.m/s. Francs.

239

.1494 8 m/s, do

287/16

28 3/8

5.40-

:5%

.$9.90

TION,

160.d/e

14 m/s

| Paid-up Capital

$13,000.00

Kobe

Manila

Mainu

RESERVE FUNDS:

Penana

Paking

San Francisco

Shanghai

Sterling "

Yokohama

£1,500,000 at 2/

$15,000,000

Silver

17,450,000

Capital and RuterTR..................................$7,360,000 (Gold)

about...

OF BANKING BUSI

EVERY DESCRIPTION NESS IESMĖtad.

CUREENT ACCOUNTS opened on the stum DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fasd for ce year t 4X SIE BIKES, ON (or shorter perioada, ut rutus, which may be nacurtained on application

BILLS NEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. MAIL 14 TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES mada.

LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS granted on all the principal cities in the World. "THE BANK'S CIRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT are sellable all over the Warid

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT

kand.

PURCHASE and KALE of Stocks and Shares affected,

TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and curbed,

GEORGE HOGO, Manager,

9, Queen's Road, Bongsone Hongkong, 1st Nor., 1912

THE

191

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED.

Established 1880. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 Paid-up Capital 30,000,000 Reserve Fund

18;550,000

+1

Head Office.-YOKOHAMA.

Bombay

Agencies at Nagasaki Nowohwang

Branches Antung-Hsien

Calcutta Changchun

New York

Овака

Petla.

Ryoun

Port

(Arthur)

San Francisco

Shanghai

Tishling

Liso-Yang London Lyons

Tientsin

Tokyo

Dairen Fengtier Harbin Hankow Honolulu Kobe

Los Angeles

Interest Allowed on Current, Account.

18

abandonment of rubbar collecting MEETING of Shareholders in

Deposits received for fixed hy the late King Leopold'e famous the above Company will be held ATION BYELAWS (as amended), periods at rates to be obtained on Kasai Company, afford ariking at the Company's Town Office, every domestic building or part application.

such building within the proofs of the way things are 2 Lower Albert Road, Hongkong, of going. When it is remembered on SATURDAY the 11th October EASTERN Division of the City how vast a proportion of the total 1913 at 12.30 p.m. for the purpose rubber output for the world has of presenting the Report of the hitherto been made up of inferior Directors and Statement of Ae: wild grados, it can easily be eren counts to 31st July 1913.

THE TRANSFER BOOKS of that plantation rubber around 20 the Company wil be CLOSED per lb. is bound to ospture this from 1st to 11th October 1913 great section of the market-leay- both days inclusive. ing out of the question altogether

what may be the ultimate outcome

By Order,

M. MANUK,

Secretary.

Notices

NOTICE.

CHINESE TELEGRAPH

ADMINISTRATION.

of competition "with Hard Fine Pera. With the economies which are doubtless being effected by plantation companies as a diret outcome of the recent bevere fall in the price of the raw material, half-a-brown per lb, will be by no means an unprofitable telling price as soon as conditions have adjusted themselves and yet it is a sufficiently low figure to achieve the result, we hire In the just ketched out. meantime, it is interesting to note that the average price to date of all grades of plantation rubber for this year is nearly 3/3 per 15, in spite of the low quotation, the undersigned, bug to in form the public that the which has been ruling of late. Central Government. at Peking! Even with a continuance of the has appointed me Managerofthis present price, fe average for the Administration in Hongkong and whole of 1913 would work out from to-day, all responsibitles in at about 3/0 per lb. Allowing connection with this Administra for the enormously increased tion will devolve upon me.. outputs of individual companies, there is no reason why the results! of the carrent year's operations should not be of a much -ziore, satisfactory nature than is anti- cipated in some quarters.

Anglo-Ceylons offer at 3, and

WONG TING-CHAN, Hongkong, lat October, 1913.

NOTICE.

Anglo-Dutch at 18/41 9/3 in bid E have this day transferred our Piano and Music Dept. for Anglo-Maley. Butang Mola- kas are obtainable at 1 and to Mr. Wm. Anderson, who will Batu Caves as 114 Borneo carry on the business from his date at No. 6. Des Voeux Road, Central

Trusts have been enquired for

up to 13/6. Bukit Kajanga are

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

wanted at 2, and Bukit Rajabs at Hongkong. Oct. 1st, 1913)* -

7. Castlefielda have been taken.

at 4, and Chersonesa at 210.

EISHI ONO,

Manager. of Victoria, occupied by Members Hongkong, 30th Sept., 1913. of more than one family, except those within the European Re- servation or in Kowloon South of THE CHARTERED BANK OF

· INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND Austin Road or those parte of a

CHINA. domestic building used as a Shop,

must Office or Godown, CLEANSED & LIMEWASHED THROUGHOUT by the owners during the months of October and: November.

be

N.B. The word "throughout" used in this notice means that the houses should be Limewashed in re-pect of all the Walle of each Room, all Cubicles, Partitione, Stair Casings and Stair Lininge, all Ceilings and the Undersides of Ruofs in Main Buildings, Offices and Servants' Quarters and inclu sive of Verandahs.

The Backyard must have its

T/T Shanghai

T/T Singapore

TT Japan

T/T India .. ....................

T/T Bombay

Demand Bombay,

T/T Caloutta Demand Calcutta Demand India Deroand Manila

,149 1/4 | BarSilver. rendy .149 P

.. forward

....9811⁄2 | Gold Leaf portaok York 48 5/8! Bank of England rats

..12€ 1/2 | Sovereign --

Opium Quotation

Aug 15. ...$3.350 perpio.

3,500.

*hct at,6it,

་་

4.305 perche.

4,250

T/T. San Fou-& Now

T/T. Java

Subsidiary Coins.

$32.450,000

Discount per $100-

Chinese ...20 ota.pieces 18% %% Chinese...10 Hongkong.20 Hongkong.10

$83:8

161⁄44 38

Malwa, Now Malwa, Old Patna, New Patna, Old.... Benares, New

Reserve Liability of

$15,000,000 Proprietors.............

COURT OF DIRECTORS.

S. H. Dodwell, Esq,-Chairman. Hón. Mr. D. Landale.-Deputy

Chairman.

G. Friesland, Esq.

0. 8. Gubbay, Esq.

P. H. Holyoak, Esq.

G. N. Lauronz, Esq. F. Lieb, Esq.

W. L..Pattenden, Esq. J. A Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Sioba, Esq. OHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong-N. J. Stabb.

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

Hongkong Interest "Allowed.

On Lurrent Account at the rate of 2 per cent per Annum on the {daily balance

ON FIXED DEPOSITS.

For 3 months. 2 per cent per

Annum.

For 6 months. 3 per cent. per

Annum.

For 12 months, 4 per cent per

Annum.

'N J. STABB, Chief Manager

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK

Bouares, Old...

SHARE REPORT.

JALASK

3-SELLERS

Stock & Paid ur Valge, BANKS.

$788 #.

Hongkong & S'hai $125

£79

9 $50

1335

b

£5

T137) b.

MARINE INSURANCEA, Cantons North China

Unions

Yangtzes.

D-BUYERS

4.200

-4.000

CLOSING

$100 $7,86 b

IONS

AIT DAYIDEND AND TALK.

£2 at ex / 156" oqual to $20.31 for 4 year

ending 30/6/13

$18 for 19:

น

Final of 1p.c..making

20 p.c. for 1911

Final of $20 making $50

for 1911 and Interim. of $30 for 1912. Final of $12 mak. $15 fort 1911 & Int of$3 for 9.21

$10 for 1911

£50 61923

: FIRE INSURANCES.

.820 6149

b.

$27 for 1911

China Firea Hongkong Fires $50 $368 h.

SHIPPING. China & Manilas 825 : 48° Douglas Steamship 850 1633)

Steamboats

.J

Indo-Chinas

(Preferred) (Deferred)

1

$15628/6

}

£5

3180

106/-

Shell" Transports £1

تا

$1 for 1906

$2.50 for year end g 30'6'19 Interim of $1 for half)

year ending 30 613 16 pc. for year 1912 on

preferred shares

(Final of 4 making 6. for yearending 31'12*12. "Int, of 1/- a/c. 1913

$2 on 1, shares let issue $ on 1,00

$1 on 1,000

"Star Ferry

{$10 65714b.

REFINERIES

$100 $95

$3 for 1912

THE Business of the above China Sugars

Bank is conducted by the Luzon Sugare $100 $35

MINING. BONGKONG AND SHANGHAI CORPORATION. BANKING

Rules may be obtained on ap- plication.

Chinese Engineeringa £142/6

2nd " 3rd

for year ending 304′13

$3 for 1897

Interim of 3 pic. 8 2/5 per

ehare. Coupon No. 1 ac count year 10.6.12

£1 151/3

Int of 6 &

£1 $3.10

6.

1/2 for 1909

& b

Tronoba INTEREST on deposits is al-

"Raubs lowed on the minimum monthly back, wHARVIS, & B'DOWNS balances at $3 Per Cent per an-Kowloon Wharfs $50 $90

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853. HEAD OFFICE-LONDON." Depositors may transfer at their H.K. & W'poa Docks $50 $78 h.

option balances of $100 or more. Shanghai Docks T. 100, 54 Paid-up Capital · Reserve Fund.£1,700,000 to the Hongkong and Shanghai Hongkew Wharfe T. 100 r.106-

FIXED Bank to be placed on Reserve Liability of

...£1,200,000

Bnnum

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business trans-hai acted.

For the Hongkong and Shang-

Banking Corporation,

Hongkong Hotels $50||

1913

$4.50 for year 1912

for}

1 final dividend for?

year 1911

b.

TIM. 3 for 1912

Proprietors £1,200,000 DEPOSIT 4 Per Cont. por LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINMANİ

Anglo French Lands T.100 T.94 £125

$90 |Hongkong Lands $100 $113 EUTSCH ASIATISCHE Humphreys Estates $10 694 s. DEUTS BANK.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re-

coived for 1 year or shorter periods

Containing Walls limewashed up at rates which will be quoted on

to the level of the First Floor: application.

Carved, Painted or Polished. Woodwork in good condition,

A. 3. HEWETT,

Acting Manager.

Notices

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD, (Capital Paid up...$1,250,000.) Loans on Mortgage of House Pro- perty, &c.

however, need not be Lime. Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. [22 washed, but must be Cleansed.

The EASTERN Division of the City is bounded on the West by Gilman Street and Peel Street. Kowloon is divided into the THE Eastern and Western divisions by Nathan Road and a straight line drawn from the North thereof through the Yaumati service re- servoir to the Northern boundary of Kowloon,

Dated this 1st day of October Goods received on Storage.

Advances made on Merchandise: 1913.

W. BOWEN-ROWLANDS. Loans made on the Provident

Systém. Secretary.

(Rates and Particulars on ap-

plication).

G.

R.

TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. Evening Classes in the Fol- lowing Subjects will com- mence on Monday, the 6th of October -

Duokwari are 2/0 bid. The offer have this day taken over the Engineering Section.

Piano and Music Dept. of

of F.M.8 around 17 is still Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., wanted. A bid of 2 7 8 is want-and will carry, on the business ed for a few General Cerlone, from this date at No. 6. Des Vœux There are buyers of Golden Road, Central, tinder the name of Hopes at

Highlands, the Anderson Music Coy.

WM. ANDERSON. after being taken at 21, have,

2.

receded to 2.5.16 sellers. Java Hongkong, Ist Oct., 913,

Rubber Plantations are obtainable at 14, but 11-32 is bid for Java Para, 1.9-10 for Jong Landor, and 330 for Jugca Lands. Kepitigallae have dwindled to 15/0. Baying orders, principally for foreign account, bave taken the price of Kuslan up to 44. 2.1-16 is bid for Langkat Puin trag, but Lankat Rubber offer, at 2.3-16. The quotations for Ling- | gia has see-sawed "between 14/0; and 14/9, and at the lower figure shares are briskly bid for. London Asiatica are wanted at 7/41. Malaccas have risen t

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OF

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. General Managers. Hongkong, 19th March, 1908

EAK TRAMWAT ¦) LIMITED.

PEAR

TIME TABLE.

7,00 8.1, 10

Š.00 AM, CO

WEEK DAYS.

5.00 . EVERY 15 MIN. 10:00 AM. 10.00 AM, to 12:00 AM IT30 AM SO mas Falla vo 11.45 PM to Tis Pa

3.5 r.. to LAS 2.M. to <M.ES P.34, to

3.00 7.3. 10

1.45 P.M.

5.00 7.3,

1.10 7.3. NIGHT CARS.

וז

zo Mix.

as man.

1 Man.

TO MIN.

so Max.

25 Ms.

Is. Mor.

Br.se, and M. -30% to

£1.00 "every half hour

11.00 °F.M*10*$1.45 PM.

Every quarter of ambour, SUNDAYS.

8.00 AM to 10.30 AM, Exery is due.

10,30 A.M. to 17.00 AM

11.00 NOON 20: 1,00 T30

50 MW.

$1,45 A.M. TO 210 No

*

IS MIN.

#

10 MIN.

15 MIN.

3.00 3. 20

6.00 PM.

34

10 MIN.

300

M. 10

7.00 P..

15 M32.

1.00 PM. to 5.00 7.1;

1,09 PM, to

3.10 1.3.

NIGHT CARS as on' Week Days.

་་་་་་་

SATURDAYS.

Batra' Cara-Cas 'ism midnight. SPECIAL' CARS.

By Arrangement at the Company 1 Gilson Alexander Buildings,

- Du Væss · Road+

32

N.J. STABB, Chief Manager,

Capital Fully

•

•

Kowloon Lande $30 1845

T91 Shanghai Lands T. 30

West Point

$50 $72

Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8

COTTON MILLS. Ewos

T. 50 T. 143 b Shanghai Cottons

T, 116

a.

8,

Paid-up...Sh. Taola 7,500,00 Head Office-Shanghai. Board of Directors-Berlin. Branches: Berlin Caloutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe" Poking Singapore Tientsin Tsinanfu Teingtau Yokohama. LONDON BANKERS:

10.b. Mesara. N. M. Rothschil & Sons. Laou Kung Mow

1131. D. The Union of London and Smith's Kung Yik

Bank, Limited.

Hongkong Cottons $10 $9 Deutsche Bank (Borlin), London

China-Borneos $12 $9 Kgónov.

4 Direction der Disconto Gesell-Light and Powers $101

Do. (Spec. shares) $1 schaft,

China Providents $10 89

$6 1828 Dairy Farms Green Islanda $10-$6 30 Hongkong Electrice $10 $41

Ioes Hongkong

$25 $160. Hongkong Ropes $10323

Dresdner Bank. INTEREST allowed on Current Account, DEPOSITS received on terms which may be learned on application. Every description of Banking and Exchange busi ness transacted.

R. TIMMERSCHEIDT.

Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Langkate

A

12 Morning Post

Poak Tramway

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF

"

Interlin of Tla 3 for 19 3

Tla. 6 29'2*10

$3 on old shares, $1.50)

$3

on new shares for half

year 31°12′12...

for year unding

30 6.13

50 cents for 1912”.

$2.80 for 1912

Interim of 5 p.c. for half

year ending 30'6")3

*2 for 14 year ending 30.6.13

15 per cent. for 1910

7.p.6. for year ending)

310 12

ending} end-1

Tia. 10 for year end-1

ing 30'6'13

50 cents 31.7.08

b.

85 cents for 1912

母

B. 10 7 Ba,

$25 $22 $10 $1014 8.

Do. (now) #1 90 ota. Hongkong Electric Tram49/6 s. INDIA, LIMITED. ... Authorised Capital.......£1,500,000 Philippines $10 $5 1,125,000 H. Price & Co., Ld. $10 66 Subscribed

562,500 Paid Up

Pro 415,000 Societe den førred

Pulpeset

$50 $20 Papierterier paid

12

Reserved Fund

BANKERS:

Bank of England, London Joint Stock Bank, Limited.

Interest allowed on Current Alo- counts at 2 per cent per annum

du Tonkin up $50

Benet $200 Shanghai-Sumatras E. 20,T.150 Steam Laundry $5 184 United Asbestos)

Oriental Agency,> $10 8916 b. Ld......

on Daily Balanss and on Fixed United Asbestos $10 $300 Deposite at rates which may be Founders Shares sscertained on application.

i

AR LINTON Union Waterboat $10 817 1/2 b.

Weismann, Ltd. 810 830

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Watson Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled, William Powell For Broad, Cakes, Confectionery. meals with Wines & Liquers,

8.

810 574an. Bi be

$10

DTM

· Comclid, va 1999 pm. Odl.“

70 cents for 1912

61.25 for year end'g 31'7′12

40 cents for 1911:

$1.60 per share for 1919

$2 interim for 3913 $1 interim for 913

Interim of T. 1 mál ing Tls. 2 a/c 1913 Noue

80 cents on fully paid) shares and 8 cents on $1paidebares for year ending 30.4.13 "Final of $5 p.

making

7 p.a. for 1912. None $1.50 for 1910

Моле

No dividend this year

50'cts. for year and g 31.5.12

(20 per cent. per ordinary share for year ended 31*5*1912.

$1 per share for year ending 31'12 1912.

25 per cent. for year)

ending 81711

60 cents for 1912

40 ets. yearending 80'8'12 WRIGHT AND HORNBY, 400 144

General brokers & Da Yocus Road Carl Wal, address Acestude

Abi Tolegraph dom ant hold, imeif qesponsible or any of the abere sončilicosi