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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1918.

BROSSARD, MOPIN & CO.

Telegraphic Address-"BROSSARD

Telephone -2566.

CIVIL ENGINEERS,

ARCHITECTS and SURVEYORS,

King's Building,

HONGKONG.

Codes, A.B.C., 5th, A.Z. Francais, Bentley's, Omnibus and Private.

Agencies:-SAIGON, SINGAPORE, HAIPHONG, PEKIN & TIENTSIN.

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REINFORCED CONCRETE WORKS:

Road and Railway Bridges, Bunds, Wharves. Weirs, Retaining Walls, Dams, Industrial Buildings, Towers, Tanks, Godowns, Frameworks, Cal verts, Vaults, Floors, Roofs, Piles hollow and full, all lengths and sizes, Soles and Foundation. plat- forms, Chimneys, Poles for support ing Telegraph and Telephone lines and carrying Electric Light and Power.

| COMMISSION, IMPORT & EXPORT:

railways,

Industrial materials for factories, mines, irou, steel, pipes, angle bars, steel

iros joists. sheets. motors" and Fichet's fire- proof safes

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REINFORCED CONCRETE IS ABSOLUTELY”

· FIRE PROOF AND OFFERS SUBSTANTIAL - RESISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.

RAILWAY, FERRY BOAT SINGAPORE, JOHORY.

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MARINE CONSTRUCTION: Lighters (river and sea) up to 1,000. tons. Hulks, Ferry Boats in steel, wood and reinforced concrete. Ses going ships in reinforced con crete, and wood. Steamers and Sailing

essels up to any tonnage.

IRON WORK

Frame work, machine tools, boilers, and industrial installations.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKS: Private and Public Buildinge, Fac tories, Godowns Tunnels Found--

COM- ations in bad ground, by pressed air, Walls, Drains, Sewers, Churches Hotels and Hospitals.

M. M. Brossard, Mopin and Co., shall be pleased to study all technical and industrial questions and are prepared to supply specifications and plans on every kind of metallic or reinforced concrete construction which may be required. "Address as above or to their agents Wm. C. JACK" & Co., Ltd., 14, Des Vœux Road, Central.

Reinforced Concrete SPECIALISTS.

GERMANS IN THE PACIFIC.

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BANKS

BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED

HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE, and

Geberal Banking Business Transacted.

INTEREST ON FIXED

DEPOSITS.

For 3 Months 3% per annum

For 6 Months 4% per annum.

For 12 Months 4% per annum.

LOOK POON SHAN,

Chief Manager.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE.

Subscribed Capital Francs 45,000,000, Paid up

22,500,000. (34 of the Capital, Le. Frares 15,000,000 Subscribed by the Government of the

Chinese Rapabila.) ·

Chairman of th

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BANKS

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA.

TION.

Paid-up Capital RESERVE FUNDS4,

Sterhing

£1,500,000 at 21

$15,000,000 Silver $19,500,000

$15,000,000

$24.300,00

Reserve Liability of

Proprietors$15,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS. Fee: Mr. Holyoak... Chadervan G. 23 M.Blkins, Big-Depery Custmast AH. Compton, Ext K... D. Purt, 2000 Beh Mr. & H. DOIWEL, W.2 Parsvaded 05. Gulday, s J. de Pinner, In- Ben, Me, D. Last /

CRZED KANAREN Hongkor, Ft Kadh, Sig

Abanghaland, G. Bapben, Zos London Banker-Landon CoRNLY IN WWETKİLEND

Bank and Parrs Bank Limited.

Hongkong-InterMAI Aleweć (

Ou Current scoorita at the rate of 3 per call pa shown on the dally balanca,

ON FIXED DEPOSITI

For 1 months, If per cent, per RANKOĮ For mortos, par cent. per angin

Deze monika, 4 per emit, per annum,

N. J. STABR

Chief Kaango)

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANI

THE Business of the abere Bank is conductać z the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BARKING CORPORATION, Rues may be obtained en applica INTEREST on deposity allowed on the mich Iman mosibly balances at iyi par cent, per mos

Deposkori may transfer, si chair option, balancei

of $100 or to the Hongbong Shangh Bank to be placed on 25xKO DEFIES test, por anncis,

Board of Directore André Berthelot. General Manager

tion 443. Pernotta.

HEAD OFFICE="

74. Rue Saint Lazare; PARIS,

BRANCHES

SHANGHAI

TIENTSIN HONGKONG

PEKING

For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Serater

N. J. STABB,

Chief Manager,

SAIGON THE CHARTERED BANK OF

INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND

HAIPHONG YUNNANFOU

BANKERS;

ID FRANCE.Scciété Gézéral pour favoriser le Developpement du Com- merce et de l'Industiie en France

LONDON... London County West- mínaies & Parı's Bank, Ltd. London Joist City & Widland Bank, Ltd., NEW YORK Redmond & Co. Correspondents in the chief commercial contres of the world.

CHIBANKİND.

Telegraphic Addiem:

Interest on Current Accountagand Fixed Deposita in Local Currency and in Gold. Terms on application,

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted.

Epecial facilities for French exchange.

M. ROUET DE JOURKEL,

Manager,

HONGKONG BRANCH,

Queen's Building,

* 5, Chater Road.

Tel 2640.

CHINA

Incorporated by Royal Charter 155.

HEAD OFFICE-LONDON. PALD OF CAPITAL PRADES RFERRVE FUND

BEBESTE LIABILITY OF

PROPRIETORS

£3,000,000

FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Deciyal Bankini business transacted. CURRENT ACCOUS opamad and F DEPOSITA reived for 1 year or izorum parleda. esima which will be quoted on application. •

T. C. DOWNING,

Managon Hongkong, 11th April, 1912,

THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED.

Head Office 15, Gracechures Street, London.

Authorised Capital .................£1,500.00 Subscribed

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COMMERCIAL NEWS.

sellschaft für In and Auslandische Unterenimanger in Hamburg)| were given in the Hamburger Nachrichten recently ; ➡ This

More Japanese Cotton Mills.company, projected for some time, Seizure of Steamer Frustrated. Two more Japanese cotton has now been founded. It is to mille of 250.000 spindles each ske over and continue businesses has been made in Samoa by s It is reported that an attempt are to be established in Shanghai, started by German foreign mer band of Germane to captare s one of them to be in the Yang chants which the latter desire steamer trading in the islands and texapoo district, and the other it to dispose of because of changed atilise it for the purpose of raid. Postung. Constraction is to conditione. Germany and all

ing vessels travelling scroes the

begin immediately and the foreign countries are to be Pacific. machinery, which baa been the field of the enterprise. The ordered from England, is expected company will to, arrive before the spring.

New Mining Combine It is reported that the Yams

Own

start its

The narrative told by the; breaches or subsidiariesin foreign Sydney Telegraph seems to be countries only where there is no well authenticated. The head of satisfactory German trade repre the band was for years the shita Kisen Kaisha is arranging eentation. Generally speaking, stevedore for a German trading to establish a mining company German firms in foreign parts company, and kept a general with a'capital of 7.10,000,000 by will be given the representation supervision over its native labour combining the interests of the of the compsty. I's purpose is and ite copra production.

Tamashita Coal Company, thro build and operate railroads. By some mesas, in conjunction PRESIDENT WILSON SAYS:

Hombeta Colliery (Hokkaido) street railwave, and other means with others, be obtained the use and the Yamashita Gomei Kaiebs. of transportation, to constractia 20-ton motor boat, ̈and, The latter posseseer extensive irrigation bat bour, and electrical loading it up with berzine and s mising concessiona at Otani, Miyao and Tenhers, Kjuzbu.

American Ploe.

plente,and factories of all kinds, supply of water and Csses of nd to exploit are fielde, plants-provisions, be got away to fea. tione, do, sa well as to form or On board, were two Germe The lumber department of the ke part in the formation of internees, one of whom waN CH U.8. Emergency Fleet Corpora baidiary companies, and parole, and a crew of several New: tion announces that approxi finally to grant or arrange Britain astiver. mately 400,000,000 feet of yellow credits. The authorised capital is What munitions there were on pine lamber bad been cut in £5060,000 marks (equivalent to the motor boat is unkowr, bat American forests and transported 5,250,000 dollars at normal exthe object of the expedition was to shipyards in the Atlantic and change), sbares being subscribed believed in Apte to be to lay hold Galf ports is little more than a at 110 per cent, by the founders of the 70-ton steamer Manos, year for the construction of The general manager is Alfred which carries on trading business vessels. This includes pine and Scheenlich, formerly connected between Apia and Pago Pago, fir lumber used in shipbuilding with Orenstein and Koppel the American naval station, and on the Pacific Coast.

Arthur Koppel. The chair transform it into a raider.

IT

"And when you give it, give absolutely all that you can spare, and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self-adulation, you are not giving at all, you are giving to your own vanity: but if you give until it hurts, then your heart-blood goes into it.” »

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has been said that St. Andrew's Society is allocating too much of the War Bond Drawing receipts to War Charities. "Just think for a minute of the War and not of the Drawing; think of the tragedy beyond words which is being enacted on the battle front; think of the vast relief organisation and the money that is nooded- to uphold it and think of your own duty "in the matter. No, we are not giving too much; we are not giving enough.

HONGKONG ST. - ANDREW'S SOCIETY

WAR BOND DRAWING

31st December, 1918.

TICKETS ON SALE AT ALL BANKS, HOTÉIS, CLUBS & STORES,

Japanese Iron Market." man of the board of direc- The motre bost got away, and The iron and steel market in tore is Carl Vorwerk, of Vorwerk was proceeding 20 or 30 miles Japan has recently been weaker Bros. and Co., bankers and from. Apis when an accident) owing to the peace rumours shippers, Hamburg. The follow- happened to itä machinery. Quotations for ship plates and ing are represented on the board Drifting asbore at Malifsans, it pig iron, stocks of which are of directors Bauke.Dredener we seen by some Samoen natives. smaller than other descriptions, Bank, Hamburg; Norddeutschs This led to ite seizure and to the are unchanged, bat there has Bank, Hamburg; "Suddenische arrest of the leader and his con- been a distinct decline in other Diskontogesellschaft, Mannheim. federales. One of the Europeane directions. Bars are now quoted Bankers.-M. M. Warburg and on board was the overseer of s st Y.350. which showe s decline On, Hamburg; Joh. Berenberg-German plantation, and the other of about 7.100 as compared with Gossler and Co, Hambarg; Gebr. a ship's carpenter. the prices quoted in Jane and Arnhold, Dreeden. Steamship The German company which T July:

Company :-Esmburg-American owned the mater boat is in Demand Steel Sales.

Line, Hamburg. Cool-Bhezish liquidation. The rassel was a 30 discoguntze The State Steel works at Tawats and Westphalian Coal Syndicate; small craft, capable of carrying 60 als opened the sixth sale of iron and Hugo Stinnes, Ltd., Hamburg; about 15 tons of capra.

The 4 m/s steel by public tenderon October Eichorn and Oo, Braalan leader of the gang bad had con- Shanghai........ 22, the amount offered being Metala :-Friedr.

TIT Singapore....... Krupp Asiderable ees experience. 5.000 tons, divided into 105 lote G., Essen; Krupps Grason

There have been other incidents Japan.

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EXCHANGE:

SELLING.

Only 81 lots were sold, the bide werk, Magdeburg; German Gold in the Pacific. A sailing Vessel Demand, India

T/T.India...

3/33/4

3/3 7/16 3/3 9/16 3/3.11/16

3/3 13/16

4 m/s. Francs

4.5014 4.5514

6 m/s. France Demand. Germany, Demand, New York. 77% T/T Bombay Demond, Bombay

*** Nom. T/T Calcutta ..........

Demand, Calcutta... Nom. Demand. Manila... 1564 Demand, Singapore. 14014 On Haiphong.... 14 % prem. On Saigon 10% prom. On Bangkok 4731⁄2

Sovereign....... 6-05 Nomí.. Gold leaf per Of

41.20

Bár Silver, per oz. 4914

SUBSIDIARY: COINS DISCOUNT FER $100: H'kong 30 nts sub.

10%

Nom.

14016 10

Nom

Nom.

773/4.

-

181

Nim

*... 4.34

BUY!

4.3334

31456

Canton

• 3/5

3/5

79%

for the remaining 24 lots no and Silver Refinery, Frankfort; which had called at Pago Pago, T/T San Francis-1 coming up to the reserve set by Basse and Selve, Altora; Metal had reported that mines had been the enthorities. Prices averrged Co. (Inc.), Frankfort. Shippers: found to be floating on the track. T/T Java

co & New York Y315 for round bare, Y.300 for-Carl Geo. Heise, Hamburg; it was requested that the United T Marks square bere, Y 570 for thin plates, Carlowi'z and O., Hamburg: States authorities would wazn T/T Francs Mad Y 800 for thick plates. These Nottebohm and Co., Hamborg: biomastere of the danger.

Deand, Paris are lower then on the previous F. Rosenstern and Co., Hamborg When the San Francisco mail poolsion be from 4 to 10 per cent., Schlatach, Thiemer and Co. boat Venture was at Pago Pago but are higher than quotations or Hamborg, Manufacturara Sie. the captain received the report 6mL/C the open market.

mens and Schackert, Berlin; it was suspected that the rest of 30 d/s. Sydney and Large German Combine. Falten and Guilleame, Carlewerk, the objzete seen by the railer Melbourno Farther particulare regarding Cologne. Planters: German were drifting mines. The Ven 30 d/s San Francis- the Corporation for Domestic and Trading and Panting Co., for sura discovered no trace of BET 00 & New York Foreign Undertakings (Aktienge" the South Sea Islands.

lon ite voyage to Bydney,

Dar. $50% prem $2% prem 144% dis

Freach Australian Mission:- Genezi Pau doa béon i fästelly Loominskd- BU) 210084-08. to M

Metinarmhead of the French Wisa- ion to Australi

Paid Up Beserve Fund

#

1,125,700

$62,300

650,000

NOTICES.

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO. LTD.

BANKERA

The Eack of England The Loades lolar Stock Eank, hindi sa

SEANCHES-******

Karachi Lots Ebara

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Bombay

Calcutie

TIME TABLE,

Colombo

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Dalst

WEEK DAYS,

Galis

Hongkong

Evy 18 mkr

Bowed

Kandy

15

10 do

Saturdays only *Saturdays only,

10 min

FIGHT CAES

40 p.m. 9.80 p.m. 20.00 pm 11.00 pm.

1130 p.m. ad 11.45 p.m. SATURDAYS EXTRA CARS. 1.30 p.m. and 1200 midnight. SUNDAYS.

to 3030 Every 13 ta

18.30 p

NIGHT CARS."

Port Loss (Marine) -

Ponate

Kangoots

Shanghar

Singaporw

HONGLONG BRANCH Every description of Baniring and Exam-> buzivars transacted.

Taterest allowed on Current ALÇOranÎN SI E PAS DIR per annum os Dally Balances, nać on Fund Depen at rates wilch may be'nscertained on application'

C. CHAMPEILY

Acting Manager,

INTERNATIONAL BANKINO»

CORPORATION,

HEAD OFFICE NATIONAL CITY BAND-

BUILDING S6 Wall Street, New York. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS US $6,500,000,00 UNDIVIDED PROFITE - $2,118,000.0 ELS Green, President and Gennal Manager LOKDOS ÜFTICE. 18, Bishopagate, E.C BAN FRANCISCO Office: 985 Montgomery Bizoo.“ PAR EASTERN BRANCHES CHINA: Shanghai, Peking, Menkin, Hankos

Ko

JAP ken"

PHILIPPINES: Mania

8.50 p.m. 1.30 p.m. 10.00 pm 11:00 pm. INDIA: Bombay Calcuts

.11.30 p.m. and 1145 pm.

SPECIAL CARB

By arrangment at the Company's" Omies.

Alexandra Brīdings. Des Voeux Bod JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE

~^CO, LTD.

(Capital Pal

up...$1,250,3.00)

Loans on Marteaga of Horse Property, &c. Goods Tee fred on storage,

Advances made on Hurenspdma Loans made on the Prou desa bystet.

TRUSTEE EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORSTES, de Gade tahap and Taeciled, Hates and Particdians on application

To the Ullion of ***

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Manegers.

LOSE MARTIN:8£</

POL&STEEL CARNE PILLS

MARTIN'S LE

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS: Singapore: DUTCH EAST INDIES: Batavia Boersbas.

WEST INDIAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN EXANCKES REPUBLIC OF PANAMA Prama, Colom BEPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA: Medelink DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Santo Domingo, B Pedro de Macoris Santiago, Puerto Pl In addition to on Beaches, by man of our close sufixon wing THE NATIONAL CITY BATE OF NEW YORK we azw, khia to offer the facilities of sin karacabe at Banka, Buenos Aires, Caraes, Desca, ElsyRUS- Montevideo, MosCOM, X

Pozograd Elo de 3 sata, Ban Juan, P. B., Bastiago de Cuba, BARBORA BRE Paulo, Valparaiso

CHIKESE MERCHANTS AND INDIVIDUAR CHISESE DEPOSITORS ARE OFFERED EVERY MODERN BANKING BERVICE

Commercial and Trarallers Letters of Credits Bir Bachange and Cable Transfers bought and sol Borghong Branet, f, Queen's Bond Content,

GEORGE HDGO, Hansgiɛ]

THE

YOKOHAMA SPECTE BANI

LIMITED.

Established 1880 Authorised Capital Yen 48,000.00€

Paid-up Capital

Reserve Fund

42,000,000

24.300,000

Fead OfficeYOKOHAMA