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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY,
SHARE REPORT.
1916
BANKS
BANKS
Queensland Gold Returns.
Brisbane, Dec. 11-The guld retums of Queensland for Novem- bar were as follows:-Chartere Towers 'crushed 3,500 tons, yield 3,600 omness; Croydon, 100 tone, 100 ouncer; Gympie, 8,100 tone, 3:200 onces; Mount Morgan 10,100 ounces. From copper oreRI "Ravenswood 400 tons, 400 ounces; other sources 1,100 tons, 900 Total 18,300 ounces. ounces Dividends paid: Charters Towers 511,200, Gympie £50,000.
QUOTATIONS.
COMPARATIVE. SHARE
SA-SALES
STOCK.
+To-day's
Closing
Prions
Number Par Paid
· 1914.
Highest
1914
Lowt
·
1915 1915.
Share
Last Dividend
and Date
Banka.
'cong& S'ha: Banting Corp.)
Shanghal Cotton Market..
Mr. A. B. Rosenfeld's Cattan Market Report for the week end- ing 27th January, 1916, is as follows:-Chins Cotton-We have had another week of small markets, the general range of prices being about 2 to 4 made lower than last week. Most of Yangtze Ins. Assoc. Ld. ....... $265
Marine Insurances, anton Insurance Office, La415 North China Ins. Co., Ld t-18214 &
the local buyers are justifiably keeping aloof and some of the local mills are reported to be going on short time, and if con- ditions do not improve I have TO doubt but that the movement will become a general one. Arrivals of Cotton still remain poor, and taking the year into consideration same is much below normal. The Tarn market shews no sign of animation whatever, and before
Hisbert Lowest, Sinan Stasi `14th May 14th May.
to boy
OF
SO HOW
$55 July 700 Oct 845 x dr. 790 c. div.
120,000 $125
all
#75/201
10,000 $250 10
10,000 £15 £5
3.30
145
Dec.
May
305
133
Oct
495
$6
Jan.
180
160
b
12,400 $950 100 | $47 April 700. Oct.
$979
$855
12,000 $100 60 210
April 1926 Jan.
270
925/
“རཱ,9158; ....$410
20,000 $100 20 $,000 $250 50
960 395
July 140
Oct.
16%
130
Feb. 368 April
420
Union Ins. Society of Cton, Ld.6915
· Fire Insurances.
China Fire Ins. Co., Lt
'kong Fire Ins. Co. Ld
Shipping. Dorglas Steamship Co., Ld. $124 Hongkong, C. & M.Ss. Co.,Ld 20 be Indo-China Steam (Combined $189 sa Navigation Co. Deferred $138 53. Id
Preferred $51 b.
any improvement in our Cotton shell Tport & Trading Co. Ld.91/- market can be hoped for, we rout
look for more actively and restor
(2/3 at 2/9 5/16 equal to 4. for 16 year 30/625
Final of $4 a/c 1913. Interim 1 of $18 s/c 1914.
Final of 121 pc making 125 p.c. for 1914
(Final of $20 and bonus of $5 making $55 for 1913 and Interim of $30 for 1914
f Final of $15 mak. $18 for 1913"
& Int of $3 for 1914
$9 for 1913 $8587 for 1913
45 $43 for year ending 30.6.15
Final of 40 cts, making 90 ets.
for year ending 31.12.14
b
20,000 $30 80,000 $15
all 36 all 29
Mar.
Jaz
2716 Nov.
124
23 Dec.
19
60,000 60,000
} 2
19
Jan
50
Sept. 188
96
b.3.797.610 £1 al 106 Feb. 70/- Sept. 90 x div. 89/-
ed confidence in Yarn circles. Star Ferry Company, L$361 40.000 $10 Tone of the market, Quiet.
ป
P
I div.
(5 pc on 2, a &3pc onda. for year 1914. x. quoted ex 9 p.c.diviz ÁK from $9.9.15 adintect div, of & più. on the combined a. paid in London 23,9.15 quoted en div.in H.K. LIRIS Interim of 2/-(Coupon No 25)
making 7/-for 1915
́$1.50 per share and bonus of 40 cents per share for year ending 30*4*15
49
Mar.
40
Not
39
32
Refineries.
New Japanese Competition în
China.
(3'na S. Refining Co., La............$132 -Luzon S. Refining Co. Ld.
b
20,000 #100 all
SEA
息。 ....$37
7,000 $100 all
31
Feb. 70 Jan. 17
Nov. Dec.
154 46
111 2714
$for 1919
$3for 1897
An interesting first-band ac-
Mision
INTERNATIONAL BANKING HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
CORPORATION -
READ OFFICE: 60,4 Wall Street, New York LONDON OFFICE: 36, Bishopsgate, EC
BRANCHES
BOMBAT. -LONDON. CALCUTTA.
CANTON.
CEBU.
COLON.
MANILA.
PANAMA.
PEKING
SAN F CISCO. HANKOW, SHANGHAI HONGKONG. SINGAPORE. БОБЕ
YOKOHAMA CAPITAL PAID-UP $5,250 000 RESERVE FUNDS.................... £210,000
(ULS. Gold) ST,460,000
All kinds of FOREIGN & LOCAL BANKING BUSINESS transacted.
હવે
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- and FIXED DEFOSITS received at rates to be ascertain- ed on spplication.
F. S. MARSHALL
Manager. Hongkong. 1st July 1915
THE
LIMINED.
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK.
BANKING CORPORA.
TION.
Paid-up Camtal $15,000.008
RESERVE FUNDS:
Starting
£3,500,000 at 2
-$15,000,000 Silver...$18,000,000
$33,000,000
Reserve Liability of
Proprietors.$75.000,00%
COURT OF DIRECTORS Hon Mr. D. Landaie-Chaimaan, W. L. Pattenden, Eaq -
Chairman.
Deputy
S. H. Dodwell, Esq.. G. T. M. Edkins, Egg-
C. S. Gubbay, Esq.
Hon Mr. P. H. Holycak. J. A. Plummer, Esq. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, CHIEF MANAGER Hongkong-N. J.Stabb, Esq.
MANAGER Shanghai-G.Stephen. Esq. London Baakers-London. County and Westminster Timited.
Hongkong-Interest Allowed:
On Current Account at the rats of 2 per cent. per annum on the daily balance-
ON FIXED DEPOSITS. For 3 months. 23 per cent per
Anttia.
For 6 months. 31 per cent. Dar
STAN TAN
For 12 months, 4. per cent per
N. J. STABB..
Chief ManageX.
count of the state of the Bombay Kailan Mining Admixtion...30- cloth market, written by a native Raub Australian Gold Min- merchant has been published in! ing Co, Ld:..........
the native paper Jam e Jamshed Tronoh Mines Ltd. The story is one of the excitements Ural Caspians
of the first twelve months of war,
and it needs no more than a sla-i
tistical account to show, that these "kong &L.W.& G. Co. L have been severe. The balance of K&W.D. Co.La,#8(older.b.77new:
...60
goods OR band beginning of 1914 was 110,000) Shai & kew W. Co., La. 90 packages, and the rise to 132,000
at the end of Jaly gave alarm. Bat Lands, Hotels and Buildings.
Anglo French Lands by December the stock in Governo ment godowns had become 170,- 000 packages, and merchants were holding & farther quarter-million of Indian-made gooda, Manches ter prices fell and Bomber pricea fell with them; but the holders of this dismaying stock had their West Point Building Co., Ld. $84 b.exdiv. hande full, and being in no posi- zong Central Estates€96 b. ex div.
tion to buy at low prices had to be content to sell at them. They,
kong Land Investment Co$101ierdie $100 all phreys Estate& F. Co. Ids 674 b. 130,000 $10 looa Land & Building Co., Ld $40 ---------...107 Shanghai Lands
Cotton Vills.
to 110,000 packages at the end of Laos Kung Mow July last Bleached stocks are Shanghai Cottons
30- Eterim of 1-account year
nding 30.6.15(Coupon No.5.) 316 1/2 or 1909
Established 1880.
Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 HONGKONG SAVINGSBANT.
| Paid-up Capital
Reserve Frnd
30,000,000 20,000,000
Head Office-YOKOHAMA
· 1,000,000 £1
All 41-
Feb. 33/6 Dec. 33/6.
Eranches
Aathers-Psits
3.30
b. 260,000 £1
27-
...38/6
b. 160560 I 795,666 £1
all 3.10 39/- all all 56/6
Jan
1.90 Nov.
4
Feb.
19/6 Nov
32/6
21/3
41
25-b-terim a'e 1915 paid 12.7.15 37/6 1-nterim 1915
Bombay Calcutta Changetan
March 7caption
#neban
Docks, Wharves and
Hankow Hennicka Kobe
Godowns &
t
thehai Dock & Eng Co.La
€0,000 $50 all
50,000 $50 all 72 $3,700 1100 all 60 36,000 t100 all9
នកទទី
Lao-Yang London Irone
Sylary
Isinain
98
68
57
$3.5 for year 1914
$3 dvidend for year 1914
63 49 ex div. Tis for year ending 304.15 9316 B0 Ta.. for 1914
Tls.6 for rear ending 29.2.14
($25 for half year ending 1.306 15
$3 for year ending 31.12.15 45 certs for year 1914 $3 for 914
Dividend of 6 pc. for year 1 ending 30.6.15
$2.25 fo-half year ending 31.12.15 $7.00 for year ending 31.12.15
s. 16 or year ending 37°10′15 7.1.50 for year ending 30′11′′15
Tls. 12 for 1913
(Dividend of Tis. 7 for year 1 ending 30′6′′15
Jan.
b.
81 Jst 53 Oct. 881 July
50 Dec. Jan. 8234 Dec.
13 Nov.
33,000 1,100 1,300
Hotel Co Ld$1122046 $50 50 128
all
b.
C.CLD $30
WSPOR £30 all 98
12.500 €50 all TS 10,000 $100 all
94 July 120
116 Dec
11716 July
Nov. 111 xdiv. 108 98 Jan.
6.10 Jove 93%
Jan. 44 Feb. Dec. €9 Cet. 106
June
€6 Feb. $6
.94
108
40
40
101
70
103
100
at any rate, reduced the balance
wo Cotton S. & W. Co., Ld$140 Kong Tik
$1314 b.
71
b
1.90
b.
40.040 ±50
-7.6
175400 t.5
20,000 1,50 b.
all 73.44 £30 all 2010 1700 all all
all
138
144 110 135 Feb.
July den.
125
May 180
135
11 Mar.
17
131
Feb. 70 70
May NOF 105
£9 b. £0
SO
61
576
£0.040" $19
all
12
May 10
20,000 $5 50,000 $1
all 14.30 July | 4
Dec.
April
10
10
85 cents for 1924
41⁄4
201
b
b. 125,00 $10 40.000 76
Nov.
10.10
39
b.: 400,610 $10
€90
60,040 $70
49
Jen. 5 Jan.
Dec 11
31 6.70
6,000 $25
all
b.
60V LD $10
25
325,600 56-
36 NOT. 174 June 22 Apr. 13 July 7 Feb.
45 Dec. 190
39
184
43
25
5.90
4.80
6414 Mar. 48
I ec.
42.
3634
25,000 $530
106 Jan. 14 June
10
40,000 $10
93 cte. Jan. 75 cts. Dec..
#1
20 cts.
h.
75,000 $10
4
12,000 $10
5
ཟ
$1.50 for 1910
$20
13,200 $50 - all
20
20
None
20.00 $5
27.723 $10 -90,00Ê $10
2.07. 5.00 June4
31
all $214 Feb. 17
Jan. 18
16
all
44 6% for year ending 28. „2.06
8.00 70 cts. for 1914
$1.25 for year ending 31.735 50 cts.for 1314
$2.00 per share for 1914 Interim of $2 account 1915- Interim$1 for yearending30.6.15
{$10% for 1914
Interim of Tls, 1 making Tis. 2
110 cts. cnfully paid shares and 7.cts.cn $1 paid shares for year ending 30.4.15 None
Agencias Nagasaki Sewchwant New York Omates
Pakit Byama Chor
Arthur San Franciaco Shanghai Bydney
Tientsin
Tokyo
Les ADE Tangra
Tsinanfa
Interest Allowed on Curran LCCOTINE.
obtained co application.
Deposits retired for fund pacient rates to be EISEI CNO, Manager Fongkong, 1st October, 1915.
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853.
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON. Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund... Reserve Liability of
"Proprietors
£1,200,000 £1,800,00€
£1,200.00%
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business trans- acted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS T- ceived for 1 year or shorter periods, at rates which will be quoted or application.
HE Business of the shore--
Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION- Bules may be cbtained or sp- plication.
INTEREST on deposits is al- [lowed on the minimum monthly balances at $31 per cent. per an-
Depositors may r transfer, st their option, balances of $100 or mora to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to be placed on FIXED DEPOSIT t 4" per cent. per Sum-
For the Hongkong and Shang hai Banking Corporati..
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager
THE MERCANTILE BANK OJ INDIA, LIMITED,
Head Office 15 Gracechurch Street, London. Authorised Capital £1,500,000 Subscribed
Paid Up Reserve Fund
1.125,008
562,306
500,000
BANKERS: The Bank of England, The London Joint Stock Baut Limited.
BRANCHES
Bombay - Calcutta
Karachi Kota Bharu
Kuala Lumpur
Madras
WE. DICKSON.
Bergberg, 131-41ril 1512. }
Marage:
Colombo
Telhi
Galle
Penang
Hongkong Howrah
Rangoon
Shanghai
Singapore.
ΡΕΑΚΙ
NOTICE
EAKTE AMWAY O LIMITED.
Lo Ma
IS ME
-
15 Xx
IS. MIL
-za M
3.00 25 cts for year ending 31575
($1.00, per share for year end- 1 ing 31,191914
81, April 6.90 Dec. 6.90 x đîv. 62 x div. 60 cts. for 1914
21,000 $ all 916 Jan €36 Dec. 7
-6.000 €25
(50 cts, on old shares and 25 cts, on new year shares for year ending 30.6.14 $1.50 for 1914
6, Des Vozux Road Central Tel address, Rectitude.
CORRECTED TO KOON. FEB. 2, 1918.
ANY SUBSEQUENT ALTERATIONS WILL BE FOUND IN “UP TO THE MIROTE SHARE MARKET NEWS," THE TELEGRAPH DOES NOT HOLD ITSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE QUOTATIONS,
MME TABLE
VEEL DAYS
2010 July 10 300 am, Event 15 Ma Locate 30.00 10. SoLoc ́aları. 10- 12:00 426- 13.30 to 15 IGNS FINA LO.
Z+45 700 by
135 P6.20
LES PA 5:00 FOR
5:00 7.14 TO Lin 1-364
NIGHT CARS.
1300 1900 very half bosri
every quieter of an houra-
TO TOVE ATI. Excut sy Mix,
Kandy
HONGKONG BRANCH Every description of Banking & Exchange business transacted. Interest allowed on Current Ac counts at 2 per cent. per annum on Daily Balances, and on Fixed Deposits at rates which may be ascertained on application. C. CHAMPKIN,
Acting Manager
large still, and Mr. Narandas
Purshotam tells of losses upon
Yangiazepoos
NisceBanccns.
them of from 50 to 100 rupees Chins Borneo Company, Ld. 210 per case. Such of them as aIE made for dyeing are anale China Light & Power Co.,)
sble for want of dyestuffs, and although it is admitted that good profits have been made out of longcloths, little can be done with either cainsocks or mails. Dyed accks and prints bave fetched prices corresponding with the scarcity of coloured goode, and
dealers have by no means lost! money upon woollene, of which some bent Local makes of greys are too cheap to make Manchester goods preftable, and now Japar- ese greys complicate the case. The latter sell both because they s cheap and because the markt likes the finish, and they are
La. $4.70
Do. (Spec. shares) .........)
hina Prov. L& M. Co. Id 10 Dairy Farm Company, Ld $20 Green Island Cement Co.Ld. ...10
$43 Hongkong Electric Co, Ld Hongkong Ice Co., Id 180 Hongkong Rope Mfg. Co., La... $31 Hongkong Tramway Co., La. {5,60
Langkats .... Peak Tramway Co., Ld (Old) $10
(New) 85 cts.
..$4
Do
all 9 Jan. 7
June 85 “Aug. 34
ཤྰäབཻ 3ཡྻཱ
Essie by 200,000 10 all
b.
Philippines Ld..
Price & Cos, Ld................................$5 Societe des Pulpes et Papier- teries da Tonkin .................... Steam Laundry Co., Id..............$34
cheap partly in virtue of the Union Water-boat Co., Id 16) freights, and also because the Japanese by their system of sell-Watson and Co., Id.............................$51
ing avoid heary commission.! William Fowell, Limited...856 Japanese competition presents a
2.
problem to the Bombay mills to S. C. Morning Post...
An
less than to Lancashire. Indian grey drill at 8d. to 9d.j per 1b. is dogged by a Japanese substitute at sevenpence. A satin Ta sold at 795. for which Indian mills have been need to get 84. to 8d, and the Japanese are sbeginning also to make bead way with calendered longcloth closely resembling the articles that form the staple Bombay production. spanece yarns are obtaining "s new prominence in competition with Indian makes in China. Japan had been supposed "not to be able to spin the 6's-10's which formed so large a part of Indian trade with China, but news has been received that such yarns have been produced and. been. ported, and the apparent effect to canes Japanese enterprise be taken with a respectful
WRIGHT & HORNBY,
Selling
T/Tut
1111/4
1/11 5/16 Demande 02.00 - 30 dis.......................1/11 3/8
...1/11 1/2 .1/11 9/16
60 als......
4 ID/B...? T/T Shanghai.......................73- Private 30 dis sight T/T Singapore .821 T/T Japan. 92 TT India
Demand India .*........344 1/2
21714 July
all.
30 Juze
$2
Tec.
29
Share and General Brokers
TIT Bombay
TT Calcutta
EXCHANGE
Demand Bombay...144 1/2 s
Demand Calcutta...1441/2 Demand Manila
.924
T/T San Fico & NZ46" 1/4 Demand, New York 46 1/4 TIT Java1091 T/T Marks
Demand Germany...
T/T Francs...69 Demand Paria
2,69
ولیه
29
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Feb. 2nd.
On Haiphong... On Saigon On Bangkok
prem
4 Fals. L/C...
4.3
79 1/2 Buying.
2/
Gold Leaf per oz. $57.20
$10.25 Sovereign Marve Bar Silver, per oz.27
40/SD/P
6 im's. L/C
21-1/8
21-1/4
30 da Sney & M 2-1/4
130 d/s Ban Fco & 7.47 5/8
4 m/s. Marks. NOIL.
4 mis.France2.80.
Є m/s. Franc#im, é
SUBSIDIARY COINS.
Discount per $100: Chinese 20 ets pieces $17-1/4 Chinese...10
$15 1,2 Bonglong220 cm pieces 8 SE Hongkong
$ 8 1/2
11.00 PM to 5
SUNDAYS
#
7.15 A 15130 kl.
21.30 am to 11.00 Noo ILOU NOW to. 2,00 TH.
Ty
*
10 Kan
5.00 31
100
to 400 7.3
15 MM.
6.00 2,1 20
7:00. 73: 10
.. 30 Ma
1.30:32
*
SIGHT CARS on War Day
SATURDAYS
Exbs. Ca at
samidighe SPECIAL CARS
By, Arrangement JE TÉM É
Das Voets Road, Central.
BANK OF CANTON
LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE. HONGKONG
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business Trans- acted, A PERMAN
CURRENT ACCOUNTS.open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS Re
INTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS:
"Season and peach tickets available for all con- | exved. Zoe already felf, running at the time stated in the Comagway's me cables, but not for specÍA! CARE "CAD oned application at the Company'sÜffice No son ticket wild ba înstand until "parment thens rams been made in Bank Notes or by Cheque or Compratore order, représerting Enak k
JOHN D. KUMFUREYS 250W-
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¿THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be Besten, if Equalled) for Bread, Cakes, Confectionery and meals with Wines & Lignore.
For 3 Months 3% per annum For 6 Months 4% per annum For 12 Months 44% per annum
LOOK POON SHAN, Chief
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