1914-04-03 — Page 9

Commercial.

Bilvian Rubber Prospects.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, APRIL 3. 1914,

Public Companies Notices

NOTICE.

WE

Voeux floor.

have this day 'remored. our offices to No. 4 Les Road Control, Ground

VERNON & SMYTH. Share & General Brokers, Telephone No: 320 Hongkong 1st April, 1914.

NOTICE.

CHINA TRADERS INSUR- ANCE CO., LTD. The Bolinis Economique says NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. that notwithstanding the crisis that at present affects the pro- OTICE is hereby given that duction of rubber, there is no

the Forty-Eighth Ordinary reason to expsot anything bata Yearly Meeting of the Company brilliant future for Bolivian ubwill be held at its Head Office ber. The orisis consists simply No. 2 Queen's Buildings, Hong in reduction in values on the 1914, at 12.15 p.m., for the purpose kong, on Friday the 17th April, world's chiefly London) market, of receiving the report of the which cannot be expected to last Directors together with the state very long. The plantation rubber ments of account to 31st Decem-THE Office of Reuter's that has done so much to bring ber. 1913, and of declaring legram Co. Ltd, has this day this about is rising in cost price, Dividende &o.

been removed to No. 4 Des Voeur for the land is costing mero, and The Transfer Books of the Road Central, Ground floor, Isbour becomes more and more Company will be closed from 7th

F. SMYTH. expensive, so that plantation April to the 17th April both days

Agent rubber must find it increasingly

Hongkong, 1st April 1914. difficult to keep the place. it has won for a moment. Bolivia has the advantage that the rubber Hongkong, 2nd April, 1914. grows without cultivation: it is the

." Ite in-

gold of the tropics.'

inclusive,

By order of the Board of C. H. P. HAY,

Acting Secretary-

UNION INSURANCE dustry is not based on an ex- SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. penditure of capital that may or

may not turn out to have been NOTICE TO SHAKEHOLDERS wisely invested. Besides, there:

is the growing demand of the NOTICE is hereby given that widening industrial markets,

the Forty-First Ordinary- Yearly Mesting of the Society, will be held at its Head Office,

WE

NOTICE,

Banks

INTERNATIONAL BANKING

CORPORATION!

Hand Office:-60, Wall Street, New York, Squalog Offering, Bishopsgate, B.C

BRANCHES

Caletul!

Colon

Houghong

Hanow

Amples

Capital and Surplus ............

Banks

T/T

ONGKONG & SHANGHAI Demand HON

BANKING CORPORA-130 dis

TION;

Paid-up Capital ..$15,000,000

RESERVE FUNDS

60 d/s ....

Exchange:

T/T. Marks*********** Demand Germany::

Selling,

1/11 3/16

•1/11/1/

107

198

1/11 5/16-

T/T. França com setseakene On Haiphong

2.43

pm pin.

ཅ་་་་་་

.....................................1/11′′ 5/16 On Saigon 2.......

4 m/s 1/11 3/8" T/T Shanghai 74.

Buying. M Private 30 d/s aight S'hal ...74364 m/s. L/C T/T Singapore

1/11 9/16 ... 94346 m/s. L/C.......1/11 11/16 ∙144 30d/e.S'ney & Melbourne1/1119/16 14430 d/s.Ban Fcc & New York 4776 14494 m/s. Marks' mit . 2.02 -

SUTERALLY

Kobe

Masila

Mexico

Patas

Nektar

T/T Japan

San Franciaco

Shangbal

Sterling

T/T India

Yoksanma

T/T Bombay

...Bald $700,000

£400,000

£1,500,000 at 2/1-

Demand Bombay...

T/T Calcutta

,146)6 14 m/s. Franos

$15,000,000

Demand Calcutta

.14434, 6 in/s, do

Demand India: ............

14434 BarSilver. ready

Bilver

.$17,650,000

Demand Manila

954

T/T. San Fou & New York 47

Demand, New York

...47

$32 650,000 T/T. Java

.1163%

Opium Quotation

EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANKING BUSI NESS tad,

CURRENT ACCOUNTS spaced on the sa

Lars

Te-Dazs for shores and, at Vales, which

WE have this day admitted Mr.LENNOX GODFREY POLD WILSON as partners in BIRD, and Mr. GEORGE LEO-

our firm.

pakoša,

be ascertained on application. HILLS WEGOTIATED and COLLECTED. *** MAIL KESTELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES

HE BAYES CIRCULAR LETTERS OF

Proprietora

LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS prasad Reserve Liability of

all the peacial tiles in the World, CREDIT Us Available all over the Worki

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT PURCHASE and SALE of Stocks and, Sharer stacted:

TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and cashed.

A. GEORGE HOOG,

Manager. Queen's Road, Hongkong Hongkong, 1st Nov. 1912

THE

PALMER & TURNER, YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Hongkong, 1st April, 1914.

NOTICE.

No. 2 Queen's Building, Hong-IT. G. T. SWASEY announces song, on Friday the 17th April 1914, at Noon, for the purpose responsible for no bills contracted to the public that he will be Directors together of receiving the report of the under any circumstances by Mrs..

with the Swasey.

Here the journal interposes prophecy which cannot be cilled other than bold. It is that: "1 ie indisputable that the industry of Asiatic rubber, already in its agony, must disappear and leave the market free for the American statements of account to 31st product."

The journal then December 1913, and of declaring, advises the existing exploiters of Dividends &c. rubber in Buliria to add plen ations to those original growths which she already has the advantage of, for the future is going to make greater calls than the past on the reserves of Bonth

The Transfer Books of the. Society will be closed from 7th April to the 17th April to both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board."

C. H. P. HAYT

.

Acting Secretary.

America, owing to the necessary Hongkong 2nd April 1914, disappearance of the Asiatic plant ations. Insisting further on the adoption of a system of plantations, the journal enquires: Where will rubber plantatione flourish as well as on the land where it

Brew in the past.?

THE HONGKONG & WHAM

The article concludes with a reiterated affirmation that the

POA DOOK CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE DIVIDEND of $3.00 per

MAN LOONG.

FIRST CLASS PRESERVES, GINGER AND SOY MANUFACTURERS. Factory at Yaumati OFFICE; No. 36, Das Voix Rosi, W Telephone No. 177 & 12.

WE are the leading Manufacturers l this class of Goods Our Fruit & Gingers are all fresh and of the first pick. Our Syrup is prepared from the bost attention to our business and sanitary quality of Bugar. We give our special

arrangements. ·

THE

share declared at To-day's LONDON DIRECTORY

Annual General Meeting will be

(Published Annually)

in each glass of goods. Besides being a complete commercial guide to London &

Asiatic plantations must disappayable at the Hongkong & pear, and that the future of the Shanghai Banking Corporat on Enables traders throughout the World to rubberproducing industry must on and after Tuesday, 31st March, communicate direct with English. remain with Sush America, which 1914, and Shareholders are re-MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS has only to replace the trees quested to apply for warrants at already exhausted with new ones the Town Office of the Company, to obtain full advantage of the 2 Queen's Buildings. good times coming, when the world will be compelled to look once more to South America aa the almost only source of rubber of passable quality.

Trays Weighed With Food.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

GEO. A. CALDWELL, Hongkong, 30th March, 1914.

1.Secretary.

HONGKONG ICE COMPANY

LIMITED.

Its suburbs, the directory, contains lists of

EXPORT MERCHANTS

with the Goods they ship, and the Colonial and Foreign Market they supply:

STEAMSHIP LINES

LIMITED.

Established 1880.

Authorised Capital Yén 48,000,000 | Paid-up Capital ... Reserve Fund......

30,000,000 18,550,000

Hoad Office-YOKOHAMA.

*Branches Antang-Hsien

Bo Abay Calcutta (barchun

Dairen

Fengilen

Harbia

Hankow

Bonalulu

Kobe

'LiYang

Lond B

Lyons

Agencies at Nagasaki

Newchwang New York Osaka

Pekin (Fort

Arthur)

San Francisco

Shanghai

Tehling

Tlentsia

Tokyo

Los Angeles

Tingiau

Interest Allowed en Correas Accusint, Depas is rectired for fixed periods at rates to Le EISHI ONO, Manager.

obtafited on application

Hongkong, 30th Sept., 1913.. [18

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal

...Charter 1853,

Paid-up Capital

HEAD OFFICE-LONDON:

.$15,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTOR3. Hon. Mr. D. Landale, Chairman W. L. Pattenden, Eaq, Deputy

Chairman,

8. H. Dodwell, Esq. E. Goetz, Esq. C. S. Gubbay, Esq.

P.H. Holyoak, Esq.

C. Landgraf, Esq., : 3. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon, Mr. E. Shellim, H. A. Siebe, 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, per Annum on the daily balance

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

Annam

per

For 6 months., 3 per cent For 12 months, 4 per cent per

Annum.

Annum.

N.J STABB, Chief Manager

Malwa, Naw Malwa, Old Patna, New

Mar 13 $8,200 per po

8:900 +1

9.325 per be

Patna, Old........ 9,200. Benares, New ... 9,030 Benares, Old......... 8.925

42.48) 2.50) :26 15/16 forward...26 15/16

Gold Leaf pertael ..........,54. Bank of England rates...3% Sovereign

Subsidiary Coins.

10.25

Discount per $100.

Chinese...20 ota.pieces $12 1/8. Chinese....10.

$12

Hongkong.20

#617

Hongkong.10.

$8 3/16"

TO-DAY'S SHAKE KEPORT.

5-SELLERS BA-SALES B--LUYERS

„Frocki & PAID UP VALUS. BANKS.

Hongkong & S'hai $125.

$810

CLO 410

Q'T LO

HARINE INSURANCE<," £81/-/-

Cantons

North China

Unions

Yangtzes

$50 330

£5 T142 b.

$100 $845

£50 $205 b

N-NO NAL

LIST DIVIDEND AND' ATEI

£2 & 5 b. at ex 1/11 3/16 | equal to $23.29 for 16 year ending 31/12/13 818 for 19:2

Final of 1 pc, making

20 p.c. for 1912 Final of $20-making $50 for 1911 and Interim of $30 for 1918 Final of $12 mak. $15 for

1911 & Int, of89 for 1912)

2

FIRE INSURANCES. China Fires Hongkong Fires

$20 8145 $50 $368

B.

$10 for 1912

b.

$27 for 1912

SHIPPING.

Uhina & Manilas $25 $8 b. Douglas Steamship $50 335 Steamboats Indo-Chinas

$15 $28

(Preferred) (Deferred)

}

£571

1041-

"Shell" Transports £1

£11

"Star Ferry

610 $49

REFINERIES.

$100 $84

$100 $28

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK THE Business of the above

Bank is conduoted by the China Sugars HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Luzon Sugara BANKING CORPORATION.

MINING Rules may be obtained on ap- Chinese Engineerings £1376 plication.

£1,200,000 Reserve Liability of Reserve Fund...

...£1,700,000

Proprietors .....£1,200,000 FOREIGN EXCHANGE and

acted. General Banking business trans-Im

INTEREST on deposite is al lowed on the minimum monthly Tronche balances at $3 Per Cent per an-

Depositors may transfer at their

DOCKS, WHARVES, & DOWNS Raubs

£135- £1 83

$50 $84

Kowloon Wharfs

L.K. & W'poa Docke$50 {370

* CURRENT ACCOUNTS open-option balances of $100 or more ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- to the Hongkong and Shanghai Shanghai Docks T. 100.57 at rates which will be quoted on ceived for 1 year or shorter perioda Bank to be placed on FIXED Hongkew Whatfs T. 100.100

DEPOSIT 4 Per Cent. per application.

14

A.S. HEWETT,

Stato officials have just received HE Thirty-Third Ordinary etc., in the principal provincial towns Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. [22]

sall, and indicating the approximate arranged under the ports to which they Sallings PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTICES of lending. Manufacturers, Merchants, Annual Meeting of Share Industrial centres of the United Kingdom. petitions, mailed from Chicago, holders will be held at the Offices urging the passage of laws to re- of the General Managers at 12 forwarded, freight paid, on receipt of A copy of the surront edition will be gulate weighing and sanitary noon on Monday, 6th April to Postal Orders for 208, methode of retail grocers and receive a Statement of the Com-their trade cards for £f, or larger adver- Dealers seeking Agencies can advertise butchers. The petitions charge pany's Accounts to 31st Decem-tisements from £1. that consumers are defrauded suber, 1913, and the Report of the THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD. nually of millions of dollare

25 Abohurch Lane, London.E.C. through the sale of wooden dish es with purchases of lard, but ter, and mente,

In many Stutes, the petitions aver, there is no law to prohibit a merchant from including the

General Managers.

Company will be closed from the Ene Transfer Books of the 26th instant to 6th prox, both days inclusive,

JARDINE, MATHESON our

& Co. Lido General Managers.

weight of a tray in the sale of Hongkong, 23rd Mar, 1914.

food, and it is stated that food

trays used annually in the United THE CHINA BORNEO CO.,

States weight in the aggregate

LIMITED.

50,000,000 pounds. Many of NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS these dishes are used ia an on- sanitary manner, it is alleged.

HE Eleventh Yearly Meeting

TH

of Shareholders of the above

WING to the increase of our business, we have opened China Dept., next

Notices

annem

Capital Fully

BANK.

LANDS, HOTELS BUILDING)

DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE

For the Hongkong and Shang-Anglo French Lands T.100 r.94 hai Banking Corporation, Acting Manager.

N J. STABB, Chlef Manager. Hongkong Hotels $50 $125.

Hongkong Lands $100

Humphreys Estates $10 Kowloon Lands, Shanghai Lande T. 30 r. 80 West Points

Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8

COTTON HILLS.

112

38

$3044

$50: 167. b.

T. 50 T. 134 b.

T117.

91

THE" "CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD. (Capital Paid up...$1,250,000)

door, and keep the best class of Loans on Mortgage of House Pro goods-obtainable, ....

Inspection solicited.

NIKKO & CO., Hongkong Hotel Building.

SINGON & GD.

Established A, D, 1880. RON, STEEL, METAL and HARD- WARK MERCHANTS. Wholesale.

The campaign for legislation Company will be held at the is to be country wide. It is not Company's Office, St. George's intended, the petitions, say, to Building at Noon on Wednesday, prohibit or restrian the sale of the 15th April, 1914 to receive a and Retail Ironmongers, Pig Iron and food trays or to substitute any Statement of Accounts to the 31st Foundry Coke Importers. General Store- particular style of dish.

December, 1913 and the Report of keepers and Skipchandlers, Nos. 35 and The General Manager and Con- 37, Hing Loony Street, (2nd Street, west sulting Committee and to elect a

of Central Market) Telephone Nö, 515.

Public Companies Consulting Committee and

WE

NOTICE.

E have this day been ap

pointed Agents for the Swedish East Asiatic Steam Ship Co., Ltd, of Gothenburg, : All- Bill of Lading and Shipping Orders will be countersigned by

UB.

Auditor,

The Transfer Books of the

Company will be closed from the

perty, a.

Goods.received on Storage." Advances made on Merchandise:The Loans made on the Provident

System.

Ежов Shanghai Cottons

Paid-up8h. Taels 7,500,000 Head Office-Shanghai, Board of Directors Berlin. Branches: -Berlin Calcutta Canton Hamburg Hankow Kobe Tsinanfu Tsingtau Yokohama, Peking Singapore Tientain

LONDON. BANKERS: Mesars. N. M. Rothschil & Sons.

Union of London and Smith's Laou Kung Mow

Bank, Limited. Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London

Kung Yik

[121] Agency.

Hongkong Cottons $10 $81

MISCELLANEOUS China-Borneos $128117 Dresdner Bank.

Light and Powers $101:

$4,10 INTEREST allowed on Current Do. (Spec. shares) $1 Account. DEPOSITS received China Providents $10 384 on terms which may be learned Dairy Farms of Banking and Exchange busi- Hongkong Electrics $10 $44 on application. Every description Green Islands

Hongkong Ices MAX GUTSCHKE Hongkong Ropes

Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct.. 1911.

(Rates and Particulars on ap Direction der Disconto Gesell-

plication), AN

The Office of

OF

TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR

WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c,

* Undertaken and Executed.

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

schaft.

Wyness-transnoted. WANA

LESSONS IN CHINESE. PEAK TRAMWAY CO

1st April to 15th April, both days inclusive.

MR. LI HON FAN, a Chinese THE CHINA-BORNEO graduato versed in litera-

CO. LTD. E W. G. DARBY, General Managér. NOTICE.

ture, has been a teacher to European officials and merchants in this Colony for over ten years. He has a good method of train- ing Europeans to pass in the

A., B. THE SWEDISH TRADING MR. CHARLES GORDON Chinese examination, and is

.CO.IN CHINA: (Ltd.)

STEWART MACKIE has possessed of a first rate certificate ARTHUR NILSSON. this day been admitted a partner as a Chinese teacher. He has Managing Director. in our firm in Hongkong and also a good knowledge of Manda-

Queen'sBuilding. Top floor,

Telephone No. 1033,

Hongkong, 1st April, 1914.

NOTICE,

WE have this day authorized

China ng mg

بال

rin and Harka.

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. Those who intend learning the

Hongkong lat, April, 1914.

NOTICE

R. CHARLES CLEMENT MR

Y FRANCIS CUNNING-

Mr. G. W.OLIVEORONA HAM and M. LAWRENCE

to sign our firm per procuration.

NOEL LEEFE have been

A.B.THUSWEDISH TRADING authorised to siga on behalf of

CO, IN CHINA (Ltd) ARTHUR NILSSON

Managing Director,

Hongkong, 1st April, 1914.

our Company per procuration.

WE JARDINE, MATHESON

& CO. LTD. Hongkong, 31st March, 1914.

Chinese language are requested to write c/o Hongkong Tele- graph", office or direct to 37 Hollywood Road, 1st floor. Hongkong, 29th Jan., 1912.

USE. C. N.

AND GUARD AGAINST PLAQUE

OMMEROIAL Qo, BDudds!

LIMITED.

WMB TABLE.

-.00 23. 10°

Rent in Must

10 M US MEM

: WEEK DAYS,

1:00 AM 11.00 AM, 15

10:00 AM). -20,00 AM. to '32.00 £.M. ELJO AN. 10 (204) 72

NIGHT CARE.

Ego Pi and -l9 1965, 5-35/1M, 11,00 Kaết truly half hours

1.00 AM 10-1530 am,·EVERY **20:30 kim, ta - 31,09 4 MYCIA IN

RSS AM, Ovimano Nuork":

- Book 8 -1,00 FM,

: 200 3,2; 10

6500 2.1.16 |ZOJUMI,

Mon

15 MIN

14-Mrs.

· NIGHT CARI-as Lou Vask Daysı,

AUSATURDAYS

Katrs) Cars (987anildalyku?

SPECIAL CARE

Wy, Arinagment at the Company's Office,' (Alemanden Budalogs,

3

#6836

$10 $6+

$25 $145

$10 $22

Langkats

-10 T50

Morning Post

$25

$10

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF Peak Tramway

INDIA, LIMITED.

Authorised Capital

Subsoribed

Paid Upat,

Reserve Fund

BANKERS:

Do. (new) $193 cts.

£1,500,000 Hongkong Electric Tram 8/6

11,125,000 ANN

562,500 Philippines

$10

465,000 Price & Co., Ld,$10

Bank of England. London Joint Stock Bau

Limited.

Interest allowed on Current Ac- counts at 2 per cent per annum on Daily Balance and on Fixed Deposits at rates which may be sscertained on application.

AR LINTON

Manager,

Pro

Société des "ferred.

Pulgaset 20150320 Papierteries paid du Tonkla up $60

OTROK Benefit) $200 Shangbal-Sumatras T. 201.150 Steam, Laundry 35 (34) b. United Asbestos

Oriental Agency, $10 $94 b Id United Asbestos l Founders Shares Union Waterboat

Weismann, Ltd..

THE ALEXANDRA CAFE OF Cannot be Besten, if Equalled Watson For Bread, Cakes Confectionery William Powell ments with Wines & Liqueur

$10-$100

81020

$10 310167.80 E

Corrected is tego p. Apr. 1994

General buckers & Da Torax Road Căm) në

:$1 for 1906

$2.50 for year end g30'6'13 Final of $1 for half】 year ending 31'12'18 ƒ (6.p.o. for year 1012' on

preferred shares

(Interim of 1/ making 2 for 1913 Coupon No, 2L,

$2 on 10,000 shares lat issue $2 on 16,000

$1 on 10,000

2nd 3rd

for year ending 30'4'13

:63 for 1912

85 for 18974

Interim of 3 pic. 82/5d per

share, Couvón No. 1 ac count year, 10.6.12 NE Int. of 1/6 msk.6/6a/o. 19 3 1/2 for 1909

$3.50 for year 1913

$3 for 1913

Tis. 3 for 1912

Interim of Tle-3 for 1913

Tia. 6 29'2'10

$7 on old shares, $3.50)

on new shares for

year 31'12'13:

$31% for 12 year", ending 31 12.13

50 cents for 1919

$2.80 for 1913-

Interim of 5 p.c.for

year ending 90'6:13$2,251 for year ending 31.12 13 ter

15 per cent for 1010

Tie. 15 for year ending

* 31°10′19′′

Tis. 10 for year end- *ing 30*6*13

T. 12 for yearend❜g 31*12 Tls. 1 for year ending

30:11:13

50 centa 31.7.08

85 cents for 191%

70 cents for 1913

$1.30 for year end'g 317′13 40 cents for 1911)ZON 81.60 per share for 1912 $2 intorim for 1913

for 1913

(Infem of They Ung Tige None

c 1913

80 cents on fans a

shares and 8 ven

* $1 paid sharesTa

ending 30.4.18

Interim of 1d. pel

for 1913, 94, None

$1.30 for 1910

Коде

No-dividend this year

50 ots. for year endig 31.5.12

20 per cent per ordinary share for year ended 31′51912)

$1,25 per share for earl

ending 81-12-1913 2249

ount for wear? ng#317-11-

60 de Kor1919

50.ots, year ending.6′30′13 WRIGHT AND HORNBY Bhare and

Fba Maleureuk den ug wald koli suursusible for any atthe SHÍTI KUNSTGra