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COMMERCIAL NEWS."

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Wheat Prices in other Wars.

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THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.

With a Personal Reference.

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THE - HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,~~ TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917.

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EMPIRE RELATIONS.

A Special Conference Ought to be Summoned.

Among the many resolutions passed ananimously by the Im- perial War Conference one of the

HONGKONG SHARE REPORT.

S-SELLERS;' SA.—SALES; B-BUYERS; N-NOMINAL..

BANKS.

BANK OF CANTON,

LIMITED.

HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking business Fransacted.

INTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS:

OFFICIAL PRICES.

BANKS.

$7024.

MARINE INSURANCES. Cantons

b. North Chinas

S.

$340 t 150 $865 D. x 73 $200

1.

д.

#146 $8271

SHIPPING.

b.

По

B,

.$86 $17.60 3108. $40

For 3 Months 3% per annum. For 6 Months 4% per annum.

b & sa. 107/-

1.

$2914

For 12 Months 41% per annum LOOK POON SHAN;

Chief Manager,

REFINERIES.

IL.

b. & sa. $100 $30

MINING

b.

32,6

t. 16

1.

D.

$2.45

,

26/9

341-

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$99 $101 $98

b.

€6.25

1,

$33

I.

t. 80

b.

$75

COTTON MILLS.

Τόν

t, 15) t. 144

$3.

t. 127

t, 3.50

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE.

Capital (34 Paid 'up) Franes 45,000,000

Preaid-nt

André Barthelat General Manager A: 3. Pemnotte..

HEAD OFFICE:

74 Rue Saint Lazare,, PANIS BRANCHES in PEKING. SHANGHAI, TIENTSIN and HONGKONG,

BANKERS.

In FRANCE: Société Générale pour favoriser le Développement du Com- meres et de l'Industrie en France. In LONDON: Loudon County & West-

minater Bank. Ltd." In ITALY: Banca Commerciale Italiana.

Telegraphic Address: CHIBANKIND.

Interest llawed on Current Accousti and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application. Every description of Banking and exchange basiness transacted,

M. RQUET DE JOURKEL

Manager. HONGKONG BRANCE:

3. Qusea's Building.

Tel No. 2352 Hongkong, 14th May, 1917.

NOTICES.

HONGKONG & SHANGEÀ]

BANKING CORPORA

TION

Paid-up Capital ......$15,00€,900 RESERVE FUNDS:

Sterling

£1,500,000 at 2.

-$15,000,000 Bilṣer... $18,500,000

$33 500,88 0

Reserve Liability of

Proprietors........................$15,000,01 È COURT OF DIRECTORS.

Hon. Mr. S. B. Dodwell,hairma 1.A. Plamour, Tes. Deputy Chairm Ho Mt. C. E. Anton, 0.2.2. Meirs, Brg Qubbay. Est Hoe. Kr. P.1. iny. &Y. D. Parr, Eng., W. La Pasteuden, Kat A. . Coppo E

CHIEF MAXANER | Bong-N.I. tatik Ing.

KAKAGER Shangbai. Waphan, Esq. Leedon Bankers-London County ane

Westminster, Limited

Bongbong Interest állowed › On Dartsal Accounts at the rate of 3 par cons anium on the daily

For 1 months, 24 per cent, PET ADESIR. Fa

mooths, per cast, per asERO.

Forte mouths, per tant, pt AMANI. N. J. STABB,

Chief Mansge7>

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANE

THE Business of the above Bank is conducted be the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING TORPORATION Ryles may be obmined on application INTEREST on deposit is allowed on the ma imam monthly balances at $5k per ceas, par anamw

Depositoes may transfer, at their option, balances. of $100 or more to the Hoagie

cart. per saDES,

Bank to be placed on FLIRD DEPA aschal For the Hongkong and Shanghai Bashlag Corpunə

N. J. STABE,

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Chief Manager.

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Incorporated by Royal Charter s

"EAD, OFFICE-LONDON TAID-UP CAPITAL.ONE RESERVE FUND

PROPRIETORS

RESERVE LIABILETT OF ORCOR ET, BOTTOM JOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Benbland Intejners STADLsacted. ̧ CERPENT ACCENTS opened mot FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or anorter periods, w rates which will be quoted as application. T. C. DOWNING,

Manage Hongkong, 11th April, 1912.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OP INDIA, LIMITED.

Head Office 15. Gracechurch Street, London. Authorisen Capital

Subscribed

Paid Up

Reserve Fund

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$4,50 $7.85

$23

$7,70

$2.

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$9,10

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The decision has not been quitai {GRBY SO ATTITO -at- inscZBONES) Systhetic Rubber.

ways, but in the end it waho latout wynthetic rubler pro-

seemed plain that there is only osition has been launched in

one couree open to me, which is Tacomas, " Washingtor, by Mr.

[to accede to your wishes and Morton Gregory, who proposes to

endeavour my best; if life and produse rubber from Puget Sound

strength be granted, to carry on products. Mr. Gregory who has Notes of a sermon by the Rev. 5 work which it would seem God been experimenting for several J. Kirk Moonachie at Union has been pleased to bless, ars, claims that the fasaibitity Charab on Sunday morning :- The represenations made to me of his process has been demon- We preach not ourselves, bar are such as to toneb me very most important in the following: H. K. & S. Banks s

The readjustment of the cɔn- strated in a number of laboratories Christ Jesus as Lord, and our deeply. No minister could bat daring the past year. He has selves your servants for Jeans feel honoured, And

also stitutional relations of the com- leased 3,800 quare feet of sake."-2 Cor. 4/5.

bumbled, by them. I rejoice in panent parts of the Empire is too municipal dock property on which “Not ourselves." is a good text the place you have given me in important and intricate a subject Unions to conduct his operation. It is ] when it falls to a minister your good regard, and also in the to be dealt with during the war, Yangtszes stated that the pijet has been to speak in a more personal strain good will shown me beyond and should form the subject adequately financed by eastern than ordinarily, sa is my case this the circle of our congregation, be summoned as soon as possible China Fires

FIRE INSURANCES. of a special Imperial Conference to morning. It implies that what and I feel I could saigo no ever may be personal ie not sufficient reason for going when, after the cessation of hostilities HK. Fires In the course of an interesting merely so but wholly secondary in these circumstances Any such readjustment while comparative statement on wheat to larger considerations. The wish me to stay. I am far from thoroughly preserving all existing Douglases prices in the present and in other Apostle Paul is an example to all thinking myself indispensable Powers of self-government and Steamboats ware, an American contemporary as ministers in this respect, here for elsewhere, but I can complete control of domestic Indos (Del.) to hand gare that wheat for im- man with a personalty of rare hardly take it upon me to set aside after should be based upon Indos (Pref.)

Shells mediate delivery sold in Chicago mark, but masking it his the judgment of our responsible full recognition of the Dominions

Ferries his week-(first week in May)-glory to be wholly secondary to office-bearers that the Church sulgromous nations of an In- —at 13.17 s bashel, a price never his Master. Servants of the truth, would eager from a change perial Commonwealth, sad of exceeded in the open market of agents of another, is what we

at present. Perhaps this Indis as an important portion of Sugars this conatry. This price com- ministers are. Not that we cease

zounda rather

relact the same, abould recognise the Malabons pared with a record price pre to be ourselver. An agent is not ant response to sa cordial and right of the Dominions and India rious to the present war of a mere instrument, but one who, sarpest an invitation as that with to an adequate voice in foreign Kailans

216 reached abortly after though he acts for another, acte which you have honoured me. policy and in foreign relations, Langkats the Civil War, that price responsibly.

That would be an ill requital,

and should provide effective Raubs being reached in October, of

and, believe me, it is not so. We preachers are assumed by

arrangements for continuous Tronohs 1867. During the Civil War many people to hide or shelter be Only my mind did need a little consultation in all important Urals the high record price was $1.933 biad the traditions of the Church, making op, particularly in a timeters of common Imperial con- DOCKS, WHARVES, reached in July, of 1884. Daring or the letter of the Bible, or like the present, when the call cern, and for such pecessary GODOWNS, &C. the Crimean war, in 1855, when the standards of a denomination of the Homeland for help of every concerted action, founded on H. K. Wharves sa $76 Rassia was fighting England and Now or again one of us rane

kind rings in every true citizɔn's

consultation 83 the several Kowloon Docks så. $120 & 120) France and sending them none of amok, and then a cry in beard. heart.

Governments may determine. Sbai Docks b.

t. 90 "its grain, whest sold at $2.50 that here at last is a

From the first it has been my lions is indicated in the following

The purport of other resolu LANDS, HOTELS/ per bushel in New York. High who has the courage of his con- endeavour to make the Church's ammarice

AND BUILDINGS. as these prices seem, they are still victions. The a-called courage concern my own, and to be the

Centrals far below the figures reached in of conviction may be little mare really interested and helper of immediately after the war what Land Invest. The Admiralty to work oat, H. K. Hotels the Liverpool market at the time than the audacity of conceit but you all, just as much as if this they consider the most effective H'phreys Est of the Crimean War and riuring anyway it is rather hard if your had been the Napoleonic Wars. Daring ministers are to be credited with and

my firet pastorate, scheme of paval defense for the K'loon Lands the second"

020 1aken up Empire.

S'hai Lands year the conviction only when these hap-after nearly twenty Crimean War, the Liverpool price pen to run up against other con- of peculiarly happy relations with year.

West Points In the interests of the Empire's for wheat averaged $2.34 per victions in acmewhat aggressive a Home congregation. I trust that safety, prompt consideration and bushel, and its high mark was style. Still the demand for per endeavoar has not wholly-failed, concerted action should be given Ewas below the present New York prios. sonal sincerity is absolutely right, and if it did call for some ad-

to (1) the production of an Kung Yiks b. Bat during the Napoleonic Wars, whatever its cocasional extravag. aptability, that in itself is whole adequate food anpply and arrange S'hai Cottons wheat reached its bigbest price of encer. We are not to preach some because when one stops control of astural resources within ments for its transportation (2);

Yangtszepoos b. modern times, and possibly the ourselves, it is true, but we have being able to adapt oneself it ia the Empire, (3) economical Borneos

MISCELLANEOUS. bigbest in all history. It had no right to conceal our real probably time to stop altogether. atilisation of such natural re- China Light & P.n. broome very dear in 1807 and thoughts or to commend to However your invitation does 1899, when Napoleon's "Berlin others us trus anything which effect one change in the direction menuiscture carried on within Dairy Farms

водтсея through processes of Providents decrée" forbade all exporte has not laid bold se truth upon of home conditions which I con the Empire. dom France, Holland, or Ger our own minds and hearts. fess I welcome. It makes my

Green Islands many to England. Even then,

The development of Imperial H.K. Ice Co..

H. K. Electrics Our preaching ought to be our office a pastorate instead of just s however, England had, America own-I don't simply mean free chaplaincy, which say first ap each part of the Empire, having Steel Foundries.

resources on the_principle that and Russia to rely upon. Bat, from literary plagiarism, though pointment here is bound to be due regard to the interests of our Trams, Low Level b..

Ropes following DET OWN Noa that is important, bat in the The minister must Intercourue Act of 1807, the sense that it embodies Christian chosen, not by the congregable treatment and facilities to Trams, Peak, new n.

first bé

Allies, shall give specially favour Trams, Peak, old n.'' United States itself went to war truth as

ourselves have tion. bat by a confidential with England in 1812 and Nipo apprehended it and seen it in committee in London, and how the produce and manufacture of Laundries leon invaded Rassis. On top of operation in the world. On ever wise the long beade which

other parts. that, both the English and Con- the rare and prized occasion get together, and however oog- tinental harvest ran very short. when I

a bearer fident their assurance that ons is In that year, the average Liver- and am not the preacher, I feel precisely the square peg for amongst them. Well, if it ba pool price of wheat was $3.95 defrauded if many quotations are that particular square hole, the true that it takes all sort of) per bushel, and once in the year forthcoming in the sermon. I do fact it reached 84 25.

con people to make a world there not want to be told what the gregationaliste are America's War Food Export. Archibishop of somewhere said, democrats, and do not like the man who thinks little of his incurable may be a place somewhere for the The question of Eagisud's or a Professor of something wrote, intervention of even the excellent neighbours. Bat the very last ability to bring food from abroad

bow the Poet Laureate of the earth between minister place for him is in the ministry to her people, sordes the sub expressed the idea. What helps and fuck. I have married many of Jesus Christ, marine zine, and the question of me ie the trath as it bas a couple here who had not seen No man can help his neighboar how much foodstuff this country passed through the preacher's each other for years, but so far auless he respects him and hopes was likely to produce this year, own thinking and experience-it has not been my lot to unite for him, and not in a Pharisaic have (says the New York Even pat a string of personal aneca pair one of whom was selected or patronising way but a genuine ing Post) obecared the third dates, of course, but preaching for the other by a board bf and brotherly one. question, how much we are eend which is essentially a testimony aunts and uncles at the other ing to Europe now, as compared

This Hongkong is a curious TIT with the corresponding period in possibly laet Sandar, I preached myself to be so selected for you, its own peculiarities, and being 30 d/s.

Thirty two years ago to-day, or eide of the world. Yet I allowed place in some waye, and begets Demand other years. Somewhat belated,

my first sermon. It was and it seems to have turned ont small its peculiarities are forced 60 dis. the Government's detailed figures in a tiny chapel in a village all right Bat from this time to the front so that we become of agricultural

exporte from

the apple orchards forward we are on a rather differ more corecious of our matusl T/T Shanghai... the United States in March between Torquay and Newton eat footing, in my feeling about weaknesses than would be the r/r Japan

T/T Singapore ... were published this week. They Abbotin South Daron. I learnt it the matter at soyrata. In the case in a larger radius. It is easy T/T India....... Nom. 1134 were interesting. Of wheat, ect by heart-the first and only old days, exported 7,800,000 bushele, se time—and

Congregational to point these out and pour con- Demand, Indis Nom. got through well charch usually invited a minister tempt apon them, but if I ever T/T San Francia- against 17,200,000 in March, enough for the needed recom- by first making him a member deteriorate into thinking of my 1916, and exports of far decreasmendation for College training, and then calling him out from neighbours chiefly as a poor lot I TT Java..............

co & New York/

139% ed nearly 500,000b rele, or about I've been 33 per cent. This would seem to

trying to learn their number to serve them hope I shall have the grace to seek T/T Marks........... Nom. preach ever since; have in the pastorate. The underlying some other vocation. Hongkong T/T Francs............ 3.3.14 formidable; yet the month's made some ghastly failures, and idea was sound, and no Congre- may be this or it may be that, is Demand, Paris wheat exports, although so much still ree the ideal remote sa ever. gational minister really cares to will always be dear to many of smaller than in 1916 or 1915, But from that day to this I have be anything except the free choice as, and through this Church I am were nevertheless the largest in preached nothing which has not of the congregation. I like to proud to serve it, quaatity ever shipped dating been verified to myself. So much think that I am one of your- Marah in any yes: before the as that at anyzate is within one'e selves, appointed freely and with opportunity equal to the best any war with the single exception of power, and it is due to the truth, krowlege from smongat your man could give it the more I 1902. Meantime our export of to oneself, and to one's congrega- number. corn, the crop of which was fairly tions.

ace of that opportunity the more large last year, rose' in March to

I am no priest in s acordatel I hope that our bow may abide 10,800,000 bushele, as against those thirty-two years, six of them servant, "for Jesus aske." Don't If I had gifts which I do not

I won't wax reminiscent over caste, bat a minister, that is a in strength. 4,800,000 in 1916. They were at College, two in an assistant reduce me to a chaplain, any of possess they would have sbandant

6 m/s. Franes...... 3.4834 very mach the largest in ten ship, the rest in sole pastorsten-you, an officer to call in when scope, but such as I have are at Demand, New York. 581%

Demand, Germany. - Tears. The month's export of They have brought me biconincreased 25,600,000 pounds lessons, which I could wish had ed, or baptized, a mouthpiece to stely "for Jezue eske."

many someone is to be buried or marri-your service freely and affection TT Bombay .......... 1916 or 37 per cent.; of beef been better learnt, and certain say a prayer upon proper occa

Demand, Bombay... Nom. an its various forms, the increase change of view.

I have been trying to recall T/T Calcutta 10,800,000 pounds, or 62 per

sions, a functionary to transsct that first sermon I spoke of. Demand, Calcutta... Nom. This is a pretty handsome confirmation of the conriotions the chance to-day to tell you I that I may

Bat they have only brought ecclesiastical business. I hare The text was "What shall I do Demand, Manila... 116

inberis sternal Demand, Singapore, 1035% showing, so near the end of an expressed in the text of the first have had a life-long horror of be- life ?" I remember little but On Haiphong....... 34% prem

destisfactory agricultural season,

I preached in this Union coming a professionalised person, the Bermon

which On Baigon 334% prem. The two offsetting considerations Church-that the gospel of Christ and I had much rather you would was: "all sorts of people used to Day Bangkok ...... 6316

sentence, to it are, first the question how is the power of God through faith regard me as a human being. For some to Jesus Christ with Gold Leaf, por of 47,90

Boversiga. '... 8.10. Nom. mach is left in the home reserve, unto salvation, and that under its one thing, I believe I do know some sorts of questions," Somehow Bar Silver, per as... 3834 and second, how mesh of the ex-wide wing Jew or Greek and all the thing about the human being, and, that ports were destroyed by the Ger- tribes of men have their intended in the person of my neighbour at general theme of my prescbing SUBSIDIARY COINS,

give the man submarines.

portion and will find their only any rate, I like him immensely. A all along, all sorts of people and very kind correspondent last Jeens Christ. All need Him, and refer to the invitation given him might think some Hongkong folk God forbid that the minister of The prescher then proceeded to week suggested that perhaps I He wants them. All sorts and to enter upon a further period of poor lot," but if so that Christ should take upon him to service in Hongkong, and said :---- might be a reason for staying think little of any one of them!

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CORRECTED TO NOON TUESDAY JUNE 12, 1917,

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EXCHANGE.

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BUYING.

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4 m/s. LIC. 2/6 1/16 4 m/s. D/P............ 2/6 3/16 30 dis. Sydney & 2/6 5/16 6 min. 1/0........ 2/6 5/16

Melbourne......! 30 dis. Ban Frano- isco & New York

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THE ALEXANDRA CAFE Cannot be Beaten, if Equalled for Bread, Cakes, Confectionery and meals with Wines & Liquers,Hongkong,

EISHI ONO, Manager,

19th March, 1917.