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COMMERCIAL NEWS.

FROM THE PULPIT.

'Yunnan's Metal Supply, *According to the Commissioner of Customs at Mengtes, in his report for the year 1915, the ever-

New Yaar and Old Enemies.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1917

“should

for this year or any year, but in and indire of degree touch with the living Christ there be enger to won an end put to is life indeed. Milton pots it that struggle it should be va,

*Tis the most difficult of soarosly share itı”

tasks to keep 2009 Heights which the soul in

competent to gain,

HONGKONG SHARE REPORT

8-SELLEES; AL-SALES; X-BUYERS; K.---NOMINAL.

OFFICIAL PRICES,

BANKS,

י

bound to approve the decision And yet, am I said, we are that the struggle must Notes of a farmon by the Rev. and the fact might be illustrated Pests in out of the question so growing demand for metals on J. Kirk Maconschie at Union indefinitely from the whole up long as auch an enemy poses as the European market has been Church on Sunday morning **** ward struggle of the world no the salvation of Yunnan Province. "And Elishe died, and they less than the history of the indiqueror. Not til further A rearing trade in the export of buried him. Now the bands of vidual soul. When some advance resistance were imposible dare Banks minerals and metale more than the Moabites invaded the land at in morals has been won, or even ay nation with respect for itself, counterbalanced the downfall of the coming in of the year. And some step in civilisation, it is and any regard for the future the import trade. To begin it sms to pass, as they were common to say that that battle of the world, make terms with, he says our most im- burying a mar, that behold, they will never need to be fought which at this stage would suit North Chinas

the bratal, bestial, heartless Yangtazes

Unions portant export simple, sin from spied a band; and cast the man again. But is it really so? Is any horde which has outraged every the Kokia mince: encouraged into the sepulchre of Elisha; evil ever destroyed root and by the constant demand and as soon as the man. scuched branch without reed or sucker law of God and set at naught for this commodity by the steady the bones of Elisha, he revived, left from which it may spring up, Convention of civilisation, China Fires high prices and favoured by an and stood up on his feet"-28gsia? On the contrary, all that counting nothing wrong which H. K. Fires abondanos cf water for washing Kings 13/20.

men most priss they have to gain it a point, and nothing

right which stands in its way. Douglases b. purposes, the Kokiu miners have

It is only a half truth that struggle for repeatedly-religion, been able to tura cut a record The evil that men do lives after liberty, enlightenment, Heath Saah is the Germanic orime Steamboats production of the smelted stuff, them; The good is oft interred enim, tyranny, superstition against humanity, the original Indos (Del.) thereby netting considerable

with their bones. The good cannot who is sargaine enough to ima-crime of bringing on the war, indos (Pref.) profits. The native smeliere, be destroyed, and the quint gine that the Christianised world catdistened by the deliberately despite their antiquated means of tradition of my text is a vivid of to-day is finally freed from applied barbarism with which it has been maintained. It is high smelting, have been able to sisuð the competition of the modern of conveying that inspiring these scourges of the past?

For instance, when the churches time that mentral nations spoke Sugars are told, as they are so cften their mind, if they have a mind, Malabons from what motives or in what these matters. What is the ass spirit I do not now ergaire-to of transmitting peace proposal Kailans attend to the heathen at Home which, by the way, are no Langkats before meddling with those proposals when all mankind is Raubs abroad, there is but too much threatened with a recrudescence Tronohs

sinful point to the encer;

every

tyranny Urals

DOCKS, WHARVES, life of multitudes of baptized which disgraced the The nerve to braon, the heart people is essentially pag D, in ages of the world, "and pesce

GODOWNS, &C. and at this stage would mean it H. K. Wharves S. Principle, in practice,

We here cannot Kowloon Docks n. creed. Atriumph ?

LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.

machinery imported by the Hei Woo Kang Sau, and to turn out tin of 99 grace.

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is necessarily at Blandetili

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in its more active operations, and

can only mark time and attend to the interests of the varions under-

more prosperous years

fact. A mech humbler poet than Shakespeare has expressed it:

Oh who shall lightly say that

famo

Is nothing but an empty

Dami! Whilst in that sound there is

& charm

to warm

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dead,

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couch will start,

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BANKS.

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LIMITED.

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ONGKONG & SHANGHAI

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·TION,

HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG Paid-up Capital .........$15,000,000

**

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business Trans-: acted

CURRENT ACCOUNTS open- ed and FIXED DEPOSITS"Be- ceived.

INTEREST ON FIXED

DEPOSITS:

For 3 Months 3% per annum

For 12 Months 41% per ann u LOOK POON SHAN,

Chief Manager,

NOTICE.

t "MARINE INSURANCES. Cantons

b

$700

$977

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British and Chinese Corporation. The annual general meeting was held at the Canson-street Hotel on Nov. 30, Mr. O.C. Macrae presiding. In moving the adoption of the report be ssid:-The Cor poration has been unable to enter * into any fresh business in the year under review. Since the political convulsions which have befallen China, and most seriously affect her financisi resources and

Our new Prime Minister, H'phreys Est. paralysed her chances of develop

for the chance of a bit of comfort' praising our new armies, and K'loon Lands ing the country by enterprises in- Tolving expenditure of capital, kens of his writings, "Oh, if the the grave.

"Forgotten!" exclaims Dic or some assurance of life beyond appealing to our historic past, S'hai Lands

Then trysony-we asid the other day that our West Points Corporation such as ours, whose

good deeds of human creatures are all aufering from the costliest enemies had forgotten what we main

to assist could be traced to their source, of all historical ballucinations if were like in the old days, bat Ewos purpose is her ia such

development how beautiful would even death our country and its Allies are not would never forget the leason of Kung Yiks by providing capital as required, sppear, for how much charity, engaged at this critical boar in a this war. We all felt a glow as we S'hai Cottons macy, and purified affection life and death contest for the read hin words; what then can we Yangtszepoos would be reen to have their right to live and breathe and trade do, here in this safe arruer of the growth

graves." and legislate otherwise than may Empire, to be worthy of them? The story about the bones of seem good to the most egregious We do a little work, some more China Light & P. b. takinge it has already promoted Elisha need not be taken literally, race of self-deluded egotists that than a little, we give a little Providents in that ocuntry until more favour-but it is certainly true symboli-ever dreant to impose its will upon money, perhaps postpone a Dairy Farms able times recur. Fortunately the cally. For fifty years he had been the world. conservative policy we adopted in the unfailing strength and pro- on the calendar of the Christian Hongkong on a whole is doing H. K. Electrics Bere is a sew figure furlough. Bat it is said that Green Islands has enabled

teation of the nation, and now thaters, yet still the straggle goes on, very well for itself because of H.K. Ice Co., as to continue paying dividends, he had gone, the ancient enemies and the only certainty about it is the war, what with trade, Ropes and were it not for the continual of the Kingdom found their that we could not abandon it at bonuser, percentages and so forth. Steel Foundries Bib depreciation in the value of our opportunity and invaded the the present stage without in. It is investments, we should have been land at the coming in of the fidelity to the past and treachery whole, our Colony has scarcal, Trams, Peak, old n. in a position to pay even higher

year."

Trams, Peak, new n to the future. The enemy has restricted dividends. In the last five years

We are not yet too far into par been putting cut feelers after far,

B3Laundries we have written off for depre- New Year to draw a useful lesson peace, bat, much as some of us on its comforts. Is that so? Watsons

infinging U. Waterboats ciation $44,885, and thie on well or two from this ancient history. would do to pat an end to strife You know better than I. Certain Wat. Powells selected and intrinsically sound As we turn over the pages of the and slanghter, we cannot but ly on the surface there are not Morning Posts a securities. The Chiness Govern-

new volume it is worth while to acquiesce in the onbestitsting de- many signs of seriously restricted ment is indebted to tia to e

remember that in the new period oision of the Allied Coveramente expenditure, though the surface very considerable amount, as it has been impossible to place the we are likely to encounter the old to nject these peremptorily. is not always a trūs index.

enemies.

I always feel, (the preacher The sine which trip men up proceeded) that we

bere The Empire is at sake, civilies- are not so often new and unheard Hongkong coght not to make very tion in peril. And yet men can of as old ones rising up again, free with big brave words on this spend time and money arranging reinvigorated like hibernating subject, becsues it is not on as prize fights and races, and betting

when aerpezle lies they have steadily paid the comer round. It is never safe them good. I don't in the least gravely deliberate on the sise spring personally that it falls to make on them heavily, and women interest on their heavy liabilities to imagine you have

stakes permissible fically insinuate that we are a colony of of the to us and their numerous foreign got the batter of an evil habit, skulkers, or anything of the kind, at card games which occupy oreditors, and we have no doubt finally overcome some beseiting As far as one cenjadge, there ca tims that should be given that they will emerge from ibeir trials with as high a record weakness, parted for ever from be very few men here whose duty to war work. It seems strange to T/T................... 2/3 1/2.

some boson ein. "Watch and really lies in the trenches. Bat an observer, and not in the best Demand for good faith and reliability pray," for the price of moral the fact remains-and who can of laste, to way the least of it, 30 d/s. in their engagements as hitherto, emancipation is sternal vigilance, help being keenly conscious of while our boys are bleeding is of dis. .....

I saw in my dream," wrote it? that we here, comparatively the trencher. People see things 4 m/s... which this Corporation is Banyan, "that thers is a way to speaking, scarcely know there is so differently and feel them so TF Shanghal... sociated bare, as usual, beanhell from the gate of heaves, as a war at all. Some of us are past d.ferently, I don't judge those T/T Singapore. 97 ander.car constant attention, well as from the City of Destruc- the age or otherwise ineligible, who see things at a very different T/T Japan... 106 and much of our work consists tion." A young officer writing for military service, and I feel angle, but you will allow me a Demand, India..... 166 Nom. in dealing with various questions from the front quoted that for one that it is hardly for us to opinion and the expression of it T/T San Francis- concerning them as they arise sentence recently, as you may say much about what " from time to time. But I need have noticed, as the most terrible meaning our country in

54X4 we," and it is this, that s great co & New York

"the many people are taking things T/T Java.....131 say no more about them at the sentence which was ever written. persons of its precious and at now moment than to mention that the He was not far wrong.

way they T/T Marks........................ No, Shanghai-Nanking Railway is "He that endureth to the end irreplaceable youth, are prepared, will be sorry for in time to come TIT Francs 3.17 Demand, Faris......3.17 proving itself to be a prosperous says our Lord, "shall be saved" for in the way of determination if they retain much conscience.

and atcrifica.

issues which would have enabled

them to meet these obligations but I think it is much to the oredit of that Government that

in the face of enormous diffical-

The various railways

sad

have

later ita been

the

in 1

in

an andertaking as we believed it and many a fall comes from for- and believe that if the lot going to be one of privation and I hope and Another year is on us, and it is would be when we undertook to getting that law. Men and women had fallea to us we should have Entering and restriction in the place the capital with which it get toward the middle atage of accepted it without gradging, homeland. What is it going to Was built. In the earlier years, or past it. The pitfalls of that if the war had broken out, be to as? Surely a year of work it had many difficulties with youth lie behind. They are ten years earlier and our daty and sacrifice. Surely it is in- which to contend, but these are settled in life and think them had not lain in special service inspiration that we are going to being gradually overcome, selvas secure, every year that this outpost of the Empire we derive from our dead, and not

earnings highly satisfac between them and that oritical the risking of life, health, for- graves in France, and Flanders, passes patting a greater distance should not have held back from reproach, as we think of the tory and for the first time cover time. But if it is never too late to tune, all that now is being and Macedonia, in Afries, Mesc- the fixed charges. We propose mend neither is it ever too late to ventured by others at the cell of potamis and the Dardanelles, and to pay dividend of 5 per cent err. There is no stage of life at used and honour. However, our ander the deep ses, which will for the year free of income tax, which you do not need to give heed plans of duty is here for the yet yisld up its dead. carrying forward £10,176 against to your defanoes. The past is present, but still I feel for the 212,641 in the preceding year, not dead. Any day when you rest of my life I must take second Bat with income tax at 5a. in the least look for it, the old wins may place, and a 81, and the possibility of further arise and emite you. There is after every

long second, inorense, it is only right that I

Deta Tha bay! should warn you that our paying in keeping in touch with Christ. has borns the actual brant of

no safety for any one of us savO put his own life

.4 peril, dividend free of incometsz, which Be not satisfied to have outgrown, battle by land or sas, or at least in this year makas the amount

kaʼyou may think, the errors and offered to bear it, has endured

be taken as a precendent.

Linng Chi-chao.

The Chinese Press reports that

GORRECTED TO HODH TUESDAY. -

JANUARY 16, 1917,

BENJAMIN & POTTS, Share and Ceneral Brokers.

Princes Building.

Tel. address: Broker.

EXCHANGE.

SELLING.

2/3 9/16

2/3 4

2/3/4 2/3.13/16 Nom

India .................... Nom.

4 m/s. LIC

BUYING.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

Loess Mortgage of House Property k

Gooda ructiveć sa Storaga, -

Advances mada en Merchandise.

Lokas made on the Provident Aystem. (Rates and Partãos laro sa appijcation).

The O

TRUSTEL, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c. Undariaken and Essccted.

SHEWAN, TOMES & U.. General ManagO 28.

MITSUBISHI GOSHI

KWAISHA.

(MITSUBISHI CO.) COAL DEPARTMENT,

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASIMA, OCHI, MUTARE, KISA. (DAKE, YOSHIKOTANI, MOJO, MAMA-

ZUTÁ, SAYO, KANADA, SHIANEW KAMIYAMADA, BIBA) and OYUBAR

Calflorias

Agent for SAKITO COAL

HEAD OFFICE:— MARUNOUCHL, TOKYO.

BRANCH OFFICES :-MAGABAIT. MOJL,

KARATSU WAKAMATSU- MURORAN HAKODAZE KOBE OSAKA, KURE, TOKYO, YOXO- HAMA, NAGOYA, TSURUGA, VLADI- VOBTOCK, HANKOW, PEKING, LON. DON, NEW YORK, SHANGHAL, HONGKONG HAIPHONG "d

CANTON,

Cable Address :--"IWASAKI,”

RESERVE FUNDS:

Starling

£1,500,000 at 27-

-$15,000,000 Silver ...$18,000,000

$33,000,000

Reserve Liability of

Proprietors..$15,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS.

K. Mr. C. E. Annon:

W. L. Fulton dans Mat. --Chairmata,

· Leg-Deputy Chairsaa

11. T. M. MaXina, Bog.

1. A. Mammet, B

Lion, MI. K Kidling

OMIEP MANAQEZ Hongbang-N. J. Habk, Esq.

MARAGIL

Shanghalma, G. Stephen, Zagr ***Condos Bankers-London Cheaty and

Wantminer, Limited.

Bungong-Laure Allowed 1

Os Chin Accounts at the mass of 2 par coo

ARDEN OR the dully Seianos,

For For

ON FIXED DEPOSITS.

month. If par coat, par ABEN. months, 2 per cent per aunts.

For Le months, a percent pat asham N. J. STABB.

Chief Manager,

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANT.

TEE Finest of the above Bank la conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BARKING CORPORATION. Rules may be obtained on applicant

La

INTEREST on deposits is allowed on the M3+

monthly balances at dri per ces par aSELS. Depositors may transfer, at their option, balanc of Side of stors to the Hongkong and Eheegbend Bank to be placed on F14) DEPOSIT # 4 cant. per attiKA,

For the Hongkong and Shanghai Backing Corpora tion

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter 1815.

MJAD OFFICE-LONDON, Paid-up Capital...

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Denkins

business transacted. CURENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXE DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter perioda, tates which will be quoted on application.

T. C. DOWNING,

Manager Hongkong, 11th April, 1912,

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF

·INDIA, LIMITED,

Head Office 15, Gracechurch Street, London,

Authorised Capital. Subscribed

Paid Up

...........£1,500,000

1,125,000

562,500

Reserve Fund ****** $50,000

BANKERS:

The Berk of England, The London Fine Stock Bank, Limitad BRANCHES >

Rombay

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Delhi

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tingaporn

HONGKONG BRANCH,

Every description of Banking and Exchants business treated.

Interest Milewed on Current Accounts

per anampa Daily Balances, and on Fiest Depres ni vaasa which may be ascertained on application.

C. CHAMPEIN,

"Acting Manager.

INTERNATIONAL KINGANB

CORPORATION.

HEAD OFFICE:

55 Wall-St, Be York

LONDON OFFICE: 16. Bishopsgate, EC. CAPTEAL PAID UP......$3,250.000 RESERVE FUNDS

$3,931,000

U.S. GOLD.....$7.181,000

***BRANCHES :-

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†BOMBAY

CALCUTTA KOBE CANTON

CEBU

MANKOW

LONDON MANILA

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PANAMA

YOKOHAMA

Through ¡y close affliation with The Nationa City Bank of New York, this Bank la skole sa oker the

and South America, Namely;-

Codes: A1, A.B.C. 5th Ed., West- Services of the Branches of that Lasistion is Cate

orn Union, and Bentley's.

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Ali klods of FOREIGN & LOCAL BANKING

2/4 5/16

BUSINESS unsacted. 2/1 9/16

2/4 9/16

4 m/s. D/P ............. 2/4 7/16

30 dis. Sydney &

6 m/s. L/C

Melbourne......! 30 d/a. San Franc-] 55 14

isco New Yorkf

4 m/s. Marks ......Nom.

4 mía, Francs ......3.29 6 min. Francs ......3.34

Demand, Germany.. Demand, New York. 54 4 TT Bombay .......... Demand, Bombay.... 166 Nom. TIT Calcuttara Demand, Calcutta... 166 Nom. Demand, Manila ... 10814 Demand, Singapore. 97

On Haiphong ....

On Saigon

67

247 prom 2% prem, On Bangkok... Sovereign 8.65 Nom

Bar Silver, per of........ ***

per cent, subject toʻtax, must not | Be satisfied with nothing short of quarters the frightful ako.k angg⋅ stitutional reformer of 1898, now | equal to a dividend of £6 13#, 44.) outlived the dangers of the past, the dire hardships, faced-at olma - Mr:Idung Chischso, the old cum. Gold Leaf, per ox........ 51.20-

constantly aiming at the restreo- the gruesome horror of the lecture to the President on the

in Paking, bus boen'delivering a "SUBSIDIARY COINS. tion life befitting Christian. desperate fiery trial which w• Meiji era in Japan, which the "Come see the place where the here only read of as a corrent at Prendent heard with great you have lost your appetite Lord lay" Not far from the far distance, whose out winterset

DISCOUNT PER $100: one of the big variety of mouldering tomb of a dead pro-ksep string ourselves will be

Mr. Liang declings all hinges... 20.cts. pieces 47% dainty dishes at the ALEXAN-phet but from the abiding priest in "os" favour, thongy not by ffice and en

ba is Chinowo... 10.0 DEA CAFE is sure to tempishood of an ever.

hood of an aver living Baring our efforts, accept in a very small

Himself to Hongkong 20 ata. pisces 1% Hongkong 10.

you

newness of li

CHIN KLANG-Messrs. GEAR- ING & Co. MANILA-Mesars, MACONDRAY & Co., SINGA- PORE Messrs. BORNEO Co. ¿LTD., GLASGOW-Heesra. Å. E.; BROWN, MCFARLANE & Co., LTD

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Manager, Hongkong. No. 2, Pedder Street,

MARTIN'S

APIOL &STEEL

Fuzion PILIS

* Frames Komady for all faraguiaricios,

dis. -- THE

diz. Cannot be

for Broad

and me

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received at rules to be ascertained os application.

N. 2. MARSHALL

Manger.

Hongkong, 26th September, 1916.

THE

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,

LIMITED.

Established 1880. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000 Paid-up Capital ... 50,000,000 Reserve Fand

» 20,800,000

· Head Office.—YOKOHAMA,

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