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GENERAL NEWS.

THE CHARTERED BANK.

Macanese One.

1913.

The following is the Directors' Report of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, bich ordinary general meeting in Log- was to be presented at the sixtielb

don on March 18, 194

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 31. 1914.

Government Deposita

564,000 0:0 By Bills of

Exohenge... 6,721,636 12:5

counted and Loans By Liability of Customers for Accept ances, por Contre Agents and By Due by

Last year ip came into the Report and Balance Sheet for By Bills Dis ports the United Kingdom more than half a million tons of man- ganese ore, cr nearly two hundred thousand tone more than is 1912. The four leading ports at which the ore was landed are Middles brough, Garston, Barrow-in- Fornees, and Most . The Man- chester port now omes fifth Last year it received 63,000 tons of are, or nearly twice the importe of the preceding year. As far as that port is a acerned, the supply comes from India, the Brazils, and Southern Russia.

Barrister's Estate.

The Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account of the Bank for the year ended December 31 last show a net profit, after providing

bad and doubtful debts, of 2483,253 11 9d.. isolasive of 132,589 10. 94. brought for ward from the previous year. The Mr. Thomas Herbert Kershaw,intering dividend at the rate of C.M.G., aged 61 years, of 27, paid in September last absorbed furteen per cent, per annum Dodington, Whitchurch, Salop, barrister, Registrar of Deeds at £84,000, and a farther sum of Singapore in 1887, and Official $24,000 has been appropriated to Ansignee in 1890, and from 1808 Pay a bonus to the staff. The to 1903 Legal Adviser to the amount now available is therefore 8375,253 11s. 9., and the

Federated Malay States, left ostale Directore propose to pay final of the gross value of £45,100, of dividend at the rate of fourteen which 830,026 is not personalty. He bequeathed:£100 to Colonel per cent, per annum, making Robert Sandilands F. Walker, fourteen per cent, for the whole Bonandant of the Malay Statos year, together with add Guides, and £500 to Alexanderwelve shillings per share; to add

Gentle, of Singapore, coroner.

£100,000 to the Reserve Fubil, which will then stand at £1 800, Beats Her Speed Requirement 000; to add 50,000 at the Officers'

San Francisco, February 20.- With a triumphant15" show. Superannuation Fund; to write ing on a flipping canvas between off Premises Account £25,000 ber meste, the electrically driven and to carry forward the balance United States coffier Jupiter came of £120,253 116, 9d. into port yesterday after trial tripa over the measured Santa Barbara curse, where, phe main- tained an average speed of fifteen knots, an excess of the navy requirements.

The Right Hon. Lord George. Jamilton, G.C.S.I.. and Mr Will- ium Foot Mitchell, the Directors who now retire by rotation, pre- sent themselves for re-election."

The dividend and bonus, both The collier drop; ed anchor of free of Income Tax, will be pay- California City, where she under-able on and after Wednesday, went coal handling, tests, which March 25.

are understood to have been entiafactory,

Snow Chilled Lascar Crew: Philadelphia, February 27. Terror Stricken at the sight of snow and ice encountered by the German steamebip Ockenfels, off the Newfoundland banka, the orew of filly-eight lar cara deserted their poste, and for four days refused to leave the engine-room of the vessel. - Assisted only by the mess boya and cooks, be officers of the ship were obliged. to do all the seamen's work as well no navigate the vessel the voyage to this port

1

The cold was so intense, 883 the ship's officere, that waves froze into solid ies almost as soon as they broke over the rails of the veral. The steamship arriv ed here yesterday from Narvick, Sweden, with a cargo of iron ore. Seven Wonders.

Liabilities and Assets.

LIABILITIES,

To Capital;

60,000 Shares of £20 each, paid up

To Reserve

Fund

To Nótes in Circulation.

To Current and

Other Ac counts, in- olading Provision for Bed and Doble and Contin

By

Correspon dents

Bundry

Ascots, in-

duding Er. ohánge Ad- justments .. By Bink-Pre- missa and Furniture st the Hood Ofion and Branohe...

1

To Interim Divi

To

To

11,384,409 5 6

Prepaid Advertisements

4

WORD

NE CENT PER W

FOR EACH INSEÉTION.

TO LET.

ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow-

looo; unfurnished.

No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett, 1,807,746 3 3 Oburob Miceión Sooloty Bunga low) partly farnished. Cheap rent. No. 6 Cameron Villas, No, 59 Peak to let furnished for one

TO LET.

TO LET furnished for 8 weeks from the 6th April next No. & the Peak (Bishops Lodge North) Apply PALMER and TURNER, Hongkong.

181,024 17 year from 1st May, 1914. No. 19, Shelley Street. TO LET till 31st October TO LET.-From middle of 1914, No. 61, The Peak, roomed house. known as No. 6 April that finely situated 61 seven rooms and drying room, Morrison Hill, Magnificent furoished, including Electric fans.

view of harbour and within a few minutes of Golf Course. For fur ther particulars, apply Property Office, JARDINE MATHESON. & Co, Ltd.

130,098 5 2 and Telepbove.

554,810 9 2

£27,243,398 6 3 Profit and Loss Account.

£ a. d.

84.000 0 0

dend at 30th June, 1013...

TO LET No. 5 Mountain View from 1st April 1914.

No. 12 Beaconfield Arcade, Shop:

FOR SALE. HARTING and ROUATE, on part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154.

"GLENSHIEL" 124 Barker Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram Station.

Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Bonus to Staff 24,000 0 0 Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1913

3 Floor, Alanda Building.

`[2]1- Balance pro-

TO LET Two room Flats in

Kowloon. Suitable for Ear opoeus, in good airs "locality. Ali Modern Coaveniences. Torme Moderate. Apply H. RUTTON JEE. Royal George Hotel. Hongkong, 12th Oct., 1913. [967 TOLET-from 1st May, 191

The Peak, fur

posed to Te dealt with follows:- Dividend, at the rate of 14 per cent. per an- num, for the half-year date wer Bonus of 12 shil- lings per share Reserve Fund.... Officer's Supernu-

S

to

£84,000 0 0

36,000 0 0 100,000 .0 0

.

ed. Apply to S. J. DAVID & Co., . Prince's Buildings.

TO LET LA BACIENDA E.", No. 74 Mount Kellett nustion Fund 10.000 0 0 Road, from 1st April Apply 25,000 0 0 CHATER & MODY, No. 9,

Bank Promises...

Carries forward

to Profit and LCBS Now Ac- count

120,253 11-0

1,200,000 0 0

1,700.000 0 0

822,591 5 3 By

gencies 9,366,800 To Fixed De

Balance

375,253 11 9

Queen's Road Central.

[O LET OFFICES in King's

Building, Apply to

TO LET - FOUR-ROOMED

HOUSES In Grar ville Aveius and Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, Cheap rentals.

SHOP with ĜOÚOWN at sch el, Nathan Eoad, KOWLCON.

with Wha...I.

Notices

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

FOR NEW STYLES IN

SUN

HELMETS

00.

A LARGE SELECTION From $4.50 to $10.50 each.

ELLWOOD'S MAKE

As Illustration $8,50

LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

THE MEDICAL HALL.

Deutsche Apotheke,

Pharmacie Internationale

Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 LECITHIN IRON PILLS WITH HAEMOGLOBIN.

Windsor Lodge, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, 6 rooms and Tennis Court.

No. 3, Miaden Villas, from 1st Apřil nezt.

Apply to..

HUMPAREYS ESTATE &

FINANCE CO., LTD.

Alexandra Buildings.

WANTED

JANTED & Partner for a go-.

W

active.

ing concern; sleeping or For particulars apply to THE HONGKONG LAND XX” có “ Hongkong Tele

INVESTMENT & graph."

AGENCY Co., Ltd.

int The

d.TOLET-From April 1st.

First Floor of No. 25, Des Voeux Road, Contrál, Buitable

The best Tonio food for the Nerves and Muscles. Enriching the blood and increasing the mootal and physical strength, invaluable for nervous diseases, anaemia loss of appetite, brain and physical exhaustion and general Debility.

PRICE PER BOTTLE OF 100 PILLS $2.00

OSRAM

DRAWN WIRE LAMPS

£483,253 11 9

£, B

at

JANTED a Compradore for a going concern. Good for Offices. Rooms can be let "ecurity, cash and property,

"A B."

c/a. required. Apply 352,560 10.9 separato's. Apply DRAGON

CYCLE Co.

Hongkong Telegraph,

STAND

31st December

1012...

Les Dividend for

half-year to 31st December, 1912 890,000,

Bonus of 10 shill-

I

00

کیا

or

FOLET-No. 67 Moust Kellett Stone House, four rooms, ings per share 30,000 00 furnished, from 1st May to 1st WANTED Tutoring Reserve Fund

SMITA, preparation for University 50,000 0 0 November. PERCY

SETH & FLEMING, 5 Queen's matriculation, by experienced teacher. Apply." U," Hong- kn ́g Telegraph."

11 Officers Superan

nuation Fund 20,000 0.0

By Gross Pruft

for the year,

Road Central.

TO LET for six months from

April 15th next, farnished

ITTON

220,000 00 four roomed house in Wanchal WANTED A Compradore for

Road. "Electric light and fans

a good business. Write on 132,569 10 9 throughout. Nominal rental appointment to E. J. DAVIS,

"B," a/o "Hongkong Telegraph." ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.

posits 7,761,033 10 7 Bank Premises... 30.000 ToBillsPayable:- Drafts on dem- and and at short sight on Head Office and Branches... £2,035,071 8 1 Drafts on Lon- "don and For

eign Bankera against See- urity, per Contra

The Berlin Likäl, Anzeiger lately sent an invitation to its readers to name the seven wonders! of the modern world, and received 151,764 replies. Wireless tele graphy obtained the greatest number of sullrages, viz., 17,148, closely followed by the Paname Canal with 16,259, Zeppelin's dirigible airshipe had 12,828 votes and the aeroplane 11,428 Radiom in medicine was voted To Acceptan

for by 11,296, the cinematograph

by 6,347, and the monster steam abip the Imperator öbisined 6,276

votes.

ces on A - count of

182,910 9 4

2,217 981 17 5

Customers... 1,807,748 8 3

Those seven wonders To Loans together only account for 81.582 votes, and the Lokal Anzeiger merely states that the remaining votes were given in favour of "wonders" none of which were strongly enough supported to te deserving of serious consideration.

The Cheong Hock Klan.

Payable, against, Se- curity, per Contra To Due to Agents and Correspond.

ents

After fifty seven years service To Sundry

at last found Anchorage in the To Proft and

during which ebe bas braved all

sorts of "weathers on all sorts of

Liabilities, including

seas, the Cheong Hook Kian has

Rebates......

quarantine ground in Singapore Loas harbour. The vessel which is to

act the part of a kind of

fall provision

having been made for bad and doubtful

debis £690,318 18 11 being 12:22 cents.

Legs:-

Expenses of Man-

agement and General

Oh.

arges at Head Office and Bronches 339,664 17 11 350,884 10

754

Jotice.

IN. LAZARUS.

previous week, Prices in New York have also moved up, the May quotation on March 20 Although the "Census report has Im- parted A bullish tendency to the market, the mainten ance of high prices will depend entirely on the improvement in the demand by the mills, the prospects of such improvement. Nothing in more wety of your cou- however, are not bright. The sideration than the war of your eyes weakness in the local cotton The trouble that to-day is smali and eas market, apparent in the early partly remedied, if neglected may get beyond inglo meatures. Be on the safe side and £483,253 11 9

of the week, was only temporary, if your eyes are giving trouble call on ve T.H, WHITEHEAD, T. FRASER, and at the close the drop was fully and have them examined. No chargefor

Managera. recovered.

There

no special fight testing. 18. 20 CHAS R. HYDE, 8. JONES,

N. LAZARUS, Accountants. activity in this market, exoept ALFRED DENT, W. H. N. GO.that local mills are buying Jait OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. 1A, D'Aguiler St SCHEN, GEORGE HAMILTON, quantities; and they are expected Tel, 1292.

Directors.

to go on replonishing their stocks

QUARD AGAINST PLAQUE **** London,

March 4, 1914. of raw material if prices remain Eramined and found correct, at reasonable levels. Holders of according to the Booke, Vouchers cution are fairly strong, conse and Securities at the Head Office, quantly the range of price fluotua- 458,055 09 and to the Certified Returns made tions is expected to be Barrow. CHINA COMMERCIAL Co., 3 Daddell SE

from the several Branches.

1723,000 0 0

10,334, 14 4

་ ་་

375,253. 11.0

£27,243,390 6 3|·

'date.

MOWAT, Auditor.

(3), Queen's)

Road

| Dentral

Colton.

intermediate hospital will perhaps Liability on Bille of Exchange! be remembered as the "United re-discounted £7,364,128138.

Was...6 A here

considerable Service under which name she, of which, up to this was for some considerable time on $4,004,734 84, 3d. has ran off change in the Mid-American Outstanding Forward Exchangeblication of the final report of market in the North owing to the the Western Ocean run; she was used for carring coolies Contracts for Purchase and Sale the Ginning. Census. The total between China. Singapore, and of Bills and Telegraphic Trans-ginned, sucording to the report, in Javs ports, being in fact one of fers, etc., £10,250 452 118, 118.

Later

the pioneers in this class of work. Some years ago she underwent the rather serious operation of By being in halves for purpos28 of extension. She was built in 1857

ASSETS.

Osh in hand and st

DER By Bullion on Fland antin New County Court Judget. A Mr. F. H. Y. Badoliffe, K.O.Transit has been appointed county-court, By judge, for Oxfordshire (Cironit) 36) in Encossion to the late Bir T. W. Snagge, and Mr. Alfred Adams, has been appointed to fill By

in Leicestershire the Vacang caused by the death of Judge Wightman Wood.

Govern mont and other Secu rities

Security Tod gad against note

3,222,008

745,208-19-10-

2,130,803 12

18,964,000 balea besides 629,000 bales of linters. This result is

I certainly poorer than expected

the consequence is that cotton values, aftagremaining steady for a considerable period, have begun to move up, the latest Liverpool quotation on March 23 being (epot) as against 6,96d, she

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