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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1917.

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

British Comeg Growing Association.

The 184th meeting of the Council of the British Cotton

With the

ome in. The association bave

farmers to find some means of!

"KELLY."

The Joker of the German Navy,

commander who is

18

known

HONGKONG SHARE REPORT.

8-BELLERS; SA.-SALES; B-BUYERS; N-NOMINAL.

OFFICIAL PRICES...

BANKS.

BANKS

..

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BANK OF CANTON,

LIMITED.

MEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG

-$600

1.

$500

b.

b.

t. 115 . $785

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking bulbesa Transacted.

* er 79 $2.5

FIRE INSURANCES.

b

INTEREST ON FIXED

DEPOSITS:-

192

$310

SHIPPING..

S.

S.

$77 $18

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

$154

b.

$891

For 12 Months 41% per annum

aam on the cally balance.

112- $28)

"LOOK POON SHAN;

Chief Manager.

REFINERIES.

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MIINING

$98 $36

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PEKING.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

agation warp and 50 per cent. of the marine fibre for the weft, which made a rough cloth some- Substitutes in Pesce and War.

what like a Harris tweed or Irish It has been announced that s

friese. The Shre itself resembles fibre woven Lom nettles csa notjate to a certain extent, but will only be need as a substitute for not take regetable dre. I pottun in fabrics, but can be also anisimmable, but early Growing Assocation was held at British Waters, October 16.

"Biae American Flotilla in utilised in the preparation of experiments led to the belief that the officer, 15, Cross-street, MapThere is a German submarine | modern high explosives, says a it would be too course for cloth. writer in the Globe. We have 18. However, it was later found of the president (the right hon.hroughout the American fatilla H. K. & S. Banks n.

aheater, recently. In the absenda beard a good deal about the that a very good cloth could be the Ewl of Derby, K.G.), Mr. various substitutes Germany is sufactured with 25 per cent James Brows occupied the chair as "Kelly," his real name is

↑ MARINE INSURANCES. compelled to find for her vanish-of the fibre, sad when mixed

exception of about cathing quite different, but the Cantons ed supplies, and though some of with shoddy it made a cloth 200 bales of cotton grown in the American sailors promptly dabb- North Chinas these make but sorry makeshifts, very much cheaper. If one may Meko (West Africa) district, allled him "Kelly of the Emerald Unions

believe all one reade, cloth has the cotton which has been par- the songs sad stories of the navy

Tale," and the name will stick in Yangtszes been woren out of rocks, to say chased in Nigeria this season has unlikely material. It may be nothing of steel! Not a cost of been received in Liverpool. Ef as long as the great war is talk China Fires true that Germany has been mail, but a cast of ordinary forts are now being made to ship about.

H. K. Fires especially enterprising in this supple material; this is made as mack cotton seed as possible by his display on various occas Douglases

"Kelly" earned his Irish name DEB of erbetitates and waste from steel wool, and is used for before the new crop begins to ions of a rich vein of quite un-Steamboats material, but Britain bsa oot stiffening cost collars. Cloth lagged so far behind se many limestone, which is powdered and

made from rock consists of about 5,000 tons of this seed, the hero of namberless stories Indos (Pref.)

German hamor. He has become Indos (Del.) b. imagine.

which is a valuable foodstuff in Nettle abre is by no means the beated in a furnace with another his country, bat in the event of deck. Not all of theee stories Ferries

told in forecastle and on quarter-Shells first that has been substitued for substance, and finally emerges as

shipping facilities not being cotton. Four or five years ago kind of white daffy wool, ons of the leading epinning con

Vegetarians who object to the available, the bulk of it will have are true, and probably most of

to be destroyed, as theto ie very

them bevs grown in the telling. Sugars. ceros at Chemails reported that laughter of animals for any litle demand for the seed locally. All that the Association Press Malabons it had discorsted aanbetance that purpose may be able to buy boots report was read from the R can vouch for is that "Kelly" is could be atilised in place of cot. made of a substitate formed of sidens of the Sokoto Pravings, a real individual, and that there Kailans ton, but whether it would do for vegetable products, but whether Nigeria, dealing with the large remarkable tales of his exploits. Raubs

some foundation for the Langkats mauitions ie another matter, the substance is procurable

"Kelly" commands a mine- Tronohs though it would be interesting to commercially or bas been proved development which took place in coltoo growing Caring the year know whether it is being so used to possess good wearing qualities 1918. The Resident states that in laying U-boat, which paya fre- Urals by the Central Powers. It was history does not appear to 867. former years all the cotton grown quest visits to the district pet- Oriental Cons. oslied Kapok," and was deriv. though if the materiais os esclly in the Sokolo Province, siter sap-when he be finished his

rolled by the American destroyera. DOCKS, WHARVES, ed from a wild tree, though it be obtained and elabciate mach

plying local seade, was exported

GODOWNS, &C. was stated that its ose bad not inery is not required for ita rasa to the French Badan. In the appointed tack of distributing is H. K. Wharves sa teen extensive enough 10show its facture, a leather substitute which

mines where they will do most Kowloon Docks value, nor as it said where the as comparatively cheap would son 1915-16 the aeaal buyer baim, he generally devotes a few Shai Docks

from the North failed to appear, tree grew Whatever may be the be eagerly welcomed in these sad at the esme time the shortage micutes to a prank of same kind. care with regard to military daye, when most of our leather of specie made it imperative for with leaving s note; flying from a Sometimes be contents himself requiremente, en betitures for both goes to the Army. Artificial silt estion and wool for alothing Can German chemists being the first paying their taxes. The associa-boy, scribbled in schoolboy Eng: 1 H. K. Hotels

hse long been made, French and be obtained. In America was)

tion were buying cotton at their lish, and addressed to his American Land Invest. discovered a method of making to discover substitutes, though gingeries at a good price, and so army. On other occasions he 'phreys Est. n. thread from cellulceo the early prodaat did not possess the tran-port of cotton to Zuis picka out a deserted bit of coast K'loon Lands faatared from eprice wood.

the best qualities of the real

began and increased very rapidly, line at night, and goes ashore Shai Lands the time of the encarcement it article. However, recent im- The Sokoto-Ziris road was lo: with a squad of his men for a West Points wasesid this fibre could be woven provements are said to have over- into good cloth which was in me these initial difficulties. Ia weeks filled with donkeys, camels, esanter on the beach, leaving beReclamations

hind a placard or a bit of German oxen, and men carrying cotton to

COTTON MILES. flammable and took dye well. this case cellulose is the bseia Zaris. Sellers were pleased with the busting sa

8. reminder of hie Ewos Forecasts that the cloth could also of the sabatitate, and it has all price resliced sa being much presence.

Kung Yiks be made so cheaply that it would the appearance of silk, and

Bis moet audecicus exploit, S'hai Cottons higher than that formerly received. onst colton for many porposES for some purposes is actually were apparently too optimistic, superior. Imitation silk has also The Resident conclades that the however if the legende of the Yangtszepoos

forecastle are to be believed- Orientals for no more was heard of it. been made from the cccoon span great stimolas in all the eastern We

growing of cotton has recived a

a trip which he made However, Barnley is reported by a caterpillar which feede op half of the Province, and states several months ago to Dublin, Borneos b. to have made a cloth of which the leaf of the fig tree in Uganda, that up to the time of his report the where be stayed the weft consisted of pine wood and a species of mussel found in rains had been unusually good. at a leading hotel, after- Providents fibre and the warp colton, the the Mediterranean also provides The parchases of cotton inwarda rejoining his U-boat some result looking like csuves, while re need for the same purpose. Lagce to August 31 smounted to bere up the west coast. another English firm wove & £ce Queeneland experimente made 7,703 bales, as compared with Baid to have informed the British cloth with thread made of grate with a fibre obtained from the 9:134 bales for the ase period of of his exploit by leaving his te pulp. It appears also that cloth leaves of the pineapple yielded a can be made out of the areal cloth of silk like texture. Some-1916, and 5,748 bales for 1915 ceipted hotel bill attached to cre Steel Foundries "

Tte purchases of cotton in of their boays.

Trams, Low Level s. tree, the banene, by unrolling the thing similar has also been

Still spotber of "Kelly's" more Trams, Peak, old s. Northern Nigeria to August the webs stalks and steaming them until made

of 31 amounted to 3,713 bales, recent stunts was to plant the Trams, Peak, new s soft, the fibres being extracted, spidere, and in Malsgaicar a

AB compared with 10,522 German fog on a rising on the Laundries separated, and span into thread. big spider spins a shread so bales to August 31 last year, coastline. It was the first time U. Waterboats b. More promising was the report light and strong that the French and 531 bales in 1915. It was that the British and Americans Watsons of an American Consul describing Bathorities weave it into ropes for reported that arrangements had knew just where be and his men Wa Powells cloth woven from the bark of a ballcope.de we are threatened been made for a special allocation had set foot, and they shared the Morning Posts tree which grows in East and with a femine in wood, experi of 500 tons of space by the lines Fxcitement of the village folk Central Africa.

The natives menta made

at Lona some for the monthly shipments of who awoke one morning to find a weave it into cloth, made in month ago attracted attention. Nyasaland produce from Beirs or new kind of flag flying from their pieces some six yards by two and Straw chopped fine was boiled to Darban. This space, however, native soil. At first they couldn's a half, which takes dye well and prate with certain chemicala is only availble if the tonnage is make out what it was. has a good finish.

and pressed into shape in moulds.

not actually in excess of the But when they, made sure that Unfortunately, the era of cheap It can be cat like wood and priority cargo arranged for esch it was the German colors, they suite, made of what might be burns like wood, and is said to be termed seaweed, promised about suitable for the manufacture of given month, so that it is not were farione, for it so happened, five years ago, has not yet dawned, matches. How emokers would possible to say how much space so the story goes, that the fisher- will be available for cotton. At man along this particular strip' though those examining theirejoice to hear of something that the same time it is considered of coast had suffered much from threadbare garments, and think would not make matches as pre- that this concession will be of submarine raids. U-boats had ing of their diminished incomes,

cious as diamonds! would welcome such a blessing

grest sasietance in dealing with shelled their boats, Germans bad T/T.... did not reduced cargcea prevent

Nyassland cotton during the stolen their fish their only 30 d/s. M. Maxim Gorky."

means of livelihood-and left 60 d/s.... appearance. The seaweed It is reported in the Russian was a marine fibre dredged up papers at Harbin that H, Sha- cff the shores of South Australia, liano Pin, a well-known artist, and trisle in the Antipodes proved and M. Maxim Gorky, of Russia, ite valce, Several Yorkshire together with their families, are firma made experimente, using coming to Harbin,

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For ONE

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SPECIAL SHOW

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Dairy Farms b.

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H. K. Electrics H. K. Ice Co., Ropes

DE CHINE,

行銀業實法中

Capital (14 Paid up)...France 45,000,000 (1/3 of the Capital subscribed by the Government of the Chineas Republic.)

Chairman of the

Board of Directors Andre Berthelot. General Manager A. J. Parzotie.

HEAD OFFICE:

74 Bus Saint Lasaze, PARIS BRANCHES: SHANGHAL TIENTSIN HONGKONG, and SAIGON. BANKERS.

In FRANCE: Société Générale pour

favoriser le Développement merce et de l'Industrie en France. In LONDON: London County & West-

minster Bank, Ltd.

In NEW YORK: Redmond & Co. In ITALY: Banca Commerciale Italiana. Telegraphic Address: CHIBANKIND.

Interest slowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposita. Terma en application. Every description of Banking and Exchange basiness transacted.

M. ROUET DE JOURNEL, Manager. HONGKONG BRANCH: Queen's Building,

Tel No. 2352

5. Chator Road,

Hongkong, 20th August, 1917.

NOTICES.

NOTICE..

DEAR TRAMWAY Co.

LIMITED.

TIME TABLE.

BANKS HONGKONG & SHANGHIF

BANKING CORFURA-

TION,

Paid-up Capitul RESERVE-FUNDS

Sterling

£1,500,000 at 2

-$15,000,000 Silver $18,500,000

$33.500.00

Reserve Liability of

Proprietors$15,000(OC) COURT OF DIRECTORS.

Hoa, Mr. S. E. Dodwall-hairmar. Hos. Mr. P. E. Bolyons-Depels Chairusni Hon. Hr. C. E. Anton J. C. Barch

dkies

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MAXISTA

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On Current Accounts at the ream of pee as per

ON FLEED DEPOSITI

For & months, fi per cent par ADEN-

ar se months, per cent, paž Kazem,

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Chief Manage?

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANE TEX urine of the above Bank a posttuctOF THE the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK ING CORPORATION. Roles may be obtained on application! INTEREST on deposits is allowed it an as- Imam monthly balances at 833 PAY CDL. DEI BERING. Depositora may transfer, at thaiz opráca, visances of $100 of morí zo the Hengkong and Stanghal Zank to be placed on THE DEPORTS BA a cast. per an

Lao.

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THE CHARTERED BANK O INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.

Incorporated by Boys! Chacter y

HEAD OFFICE:-- LONDON.

PAID UP CAPITAL

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PROPRIETORS

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Omer Bek basine tracted. CURRENT ACCourts opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for 1 year or shorter perioda, ż rates which will be quoted on application.

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Manage Hongkong, 11th April, 1912.

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF" INDIA. LIMITED.

Head Office 15, Gracecharci Street, London,

Authorised Capital ..........£1,500,nes Subscribed 11

Paid Up

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BRANCHES

Karachi

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Madzas

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126

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$ 150

$291

PE

$10

$6,00

cts. 90

$3

Б.

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CORRECTED TO NOON TUESDAY

DECEMBER 18, 1917,

b.

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Princes Building.

Tel. address; Broker.

EXCHANGE.

SELLING.

Demand

2/1134 2/1176 3/ 31-16 3-14

*

Now.

| them empty-handed after a week's 4/B...

bard catch of mackerel. These T/T Shanghai. poor fisherfolk were in no mood T/T Singapore 12676 for this latest display of German TT Japan

........... 13746

Nom humor, so they promptly burned T/T India ............

Nom. the flag and set a watch for Demand, India ......

Kelly.

TT San Francis}.'71.

co & New Yorkf TC Java............... 16334 TYT Marks............................ Nom. T/T Francs 4.09 Demand, Paris 4.115

BUYING.

U. S. Copper Output. United States' copper produc- tion for the remainder of 1917 hse been requisitioned by the Clovern mant. First requirements to be" cared for will be those of the Government itself, the Allies to follow and if any be left the manufacturers using copper in arta or for strictly domestic pur- poses will get it. Outstanding

between contracts

producers and consumers will be s75. pended until snob time as cop

Flour for Ships' Stores at Home Ports,

4 m/s. L/C... "4 m/s. D/P..

6 m/s. LIC. 30 d. Sydney &

Melbourne

3/1 3/1/4 90135 3/1

721⁄4

It was recently announced by per comes forward în sufficient the Press Bureau that under the quantities to enable their falfl. Flour and Bread (Prices). Order; 30 d/a. San Franc-1 ment. The prios at which con-1917, no person may after Sept. isco &New Yorks tracts were booked will stand, this 15th take delivery of flour of ship's 4 m/s. Marks Nom. condition applying not only to stores for a ship departing on £ domestic manaisotarers but to the voyage from the United Kingdom 6 m/s. Francs ......

to parts beyond the sea except Demand, Germany ***

4 m/s, Franca

424 4.29

EVENING DRESSES federal Government which had under license, for which a charge Demand, New York. 716

MAISON LILY

This Establishment will be open on Saturday afternoons of the 8th, 15th and 22nd.

bought copper, yet to be delivered, at the rate of 188 per 280lbs. will T/T Bombay ......... at bigher than 236 cents a pound. be made. The Food Controller Demand, Bombay... Nomi It is estimated that October re- had made arrangements for TT Caloutta.... quirements of manufacturers who licenses to be issued at the ports: Demand, Calcutta... Nom. have no war orders on their books, by the Customs authorities to Demand, Manila ... 142 may be filled about January next, masters or agents acting on Demand, Singapore. 1267 The shortage in production, behalf of masters on payment On Haiphong 14% prem Ge evidenced in refinery Field being made at the above rate. On Saigon ****. 1%

prem. Ship's stores dealers may act as On Bangkok........................ doring September estimated st

515% Sovereign nereiken

6.60 Nom 135,000,000 pozuda compared agents for masters. with 153,000,000 pounds

Gold Leaf, per op... 44.20 August and 200,000,000 poanda

Bar Silver, per o.... 43

SUBSIDIARY COINS,

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in Jane, will now make itself felt to the extent of naming the price at far more seriously than was which the metal shall be sold and anticipated when the miners' apportioning the metal itself Atriken were at their height. among the users, according to Since that time the Government importance and argency of de Hongkong 20 cents. C. has taken charge of the industry mand.

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