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AND CO.
Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents,
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THE EASTERN ASBESTOS COMPANY, QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG.
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF
HANKOW.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1919,
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
BANKING METHODS, Speaking atthe annual general meeting of the National Provinci- aland Union Bank, of England. Ltd., recently, Lord Inchcape, the Chairman said -A year or two ago it was fashionable to abower praises upon the German banks. We were all called
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CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
** BUYO, MARU,"
upon to stand and admire From SINGAPORE, April 23rd. their size and driving power, Consignees of cargo are bereby thair air of massive efficiency, notified to present their Bill of the closeness of their alliance Lading for counter-signature and with industry, their successes intake immediate delivery from pushing German trade abroad. alongside steamer or the Com- And we were all made familiar pany's godown, where all cargo with the facile counterpart picture impending immediate discharge of British banks as aloof and will be landed at consignees' risk.. lumbering iostitutions by com- parison with their bustling rivals of Berlin. There are just two comments I should like to make on that. In the first place
German
the
bank. WAS *
Etorage charges will be asssan- ed on cargo remaining " un- delivered or and after, Wednes- day, April 30th,
All broken, shafed and damaged clearing bank. aT accepting packages will be landed into the house, an issuing house, Company's Godowns, whare same discount company, and a promot-will be examined. Wednesday, ing syndicate rolled into one. April 30th, 10 LM. But all these functions are No Claims will be recognised performed in London by separate after the goods have laft the concerns and institutions, each | Rissmar'or Gedown and none will specialising in its own peculiar be entertained if presented later sphere. To compare the German than three weeks after arrival of banks with the British joint steamer.
stock banks is therefore, to contrast the whole of Germany's system with only a part of ours. Not only is our system better adapted to more varied needs and our world-wide and far- spread responsibilities and inter-
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No Fire Icsurance whatever will be effected.
T. DAIGO,
Manager.
TOYO KISEN, KAISHA.»
ests, but it is a more scientific and Hongkong, 23rd April, 1919. more highly developed system than the German. In the second place the German banker was almost
mech AS
trader a banker. He involved himself directly in the success, or failure of the particular concern that he undertook to Snance. He became a partner in the business; he was Tepresented on the board. he: controlled, and often directed its management. A year or two before the
three leading banking groups in Germany had their representa tives. on nearly 400 wading company directorates. But this way of doing things entailed enormous risks and liabilities led to the erection of a huge superstructure on a very shaky foundation; it meant trading on the narrowest of narrow margins;
TENYO MARU.”
From SAN FRANCISCO, BONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS
and SHANGHAI, Monday,
war
April 21, t
Consignees of cargo are hereby notified to present their Bills of Lading for countersignature, and take immediate delivery from alongside Steamer or the com. pany's godown, where all cargo impending immediate discharze will be landed at consignees” risk, Storage charges will be ass885- and it implicated industry and led on cargo remaining un- finance ip national and inter-delivered on and after, Monday, national politics to suca an April 8th.
extent that those may not be All broken, chafed and damaged far wrong who believe that the packages will be landed into the war was partly determined upon Company's Godown, where same to save a top-heavy edifice from will be examined Monday, April crashing to the ground. I certainly | 2tb, 10-A..
do not see the, least reason why No Claim will be recognised British banks should be tempted after the Goods Lave left the by Germany's example or by her Steamer or Godown and none
T: DAIGO. Manager.
NOTICES.
CERIN, DREVARD &
SOLE AGENTS
FOR
HONGKONG & SOUTH
CHINA
ÇO.
Allen
THE CAR OF EXCELLENCE
HIGH GRADE-LOW PRICE! STOCK NOW AVAILABLE IN HONGKONG
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MODEL 41 TOURING CAR.
CONSIGNÉES.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
THE
HE Steamship
present fate to abandon their will be entertained if presented sounder, more prudent, and in the later than three weeks after NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. long run far more effective, policy. Į arrival of steamer. methods, and conceptions. Some No Fire Insurance whatevSI people may still think the German will be effected. banking system is better than ours. I do not agree with them. All the banks in this company have come through the ordeal of the last four and a half years unscathed, their credit undimi- nished, their assets liquid, and the public confidence in their manage- ment unimpaired. (Cheers.)
TUNG LONG RAILWAY. The Tung Lung Railway Com- pany, organized some time ago, with a capital of $280,000, has
Hen kong, 21st April, 1919, "
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ADMIRAL LINE
already surveyed for a railway THE Motor Ship connecting the Tung Sha Maloo
with the town of Lung Ngan Tung.
"W. F. BURROWS" This company was duly register-haring arrived from Seattle, vin ed in the Ministry of Com-
ports, on April
1919,
"SEIYO MARU," Steamer arrived from JAPAN PORTS, Jhursday April 24. Consignees of cargo are hereby Dotified to present their bills of lading for counter jena vre 'nd take immediate delivery" from alonzside steamer or the m pany's godown, where all cargo. impeding immedie discharge)
will be landed at consignees'; risk.
Storage charges will be as
scased on cargo remaining un-
May 1st.
SALE ON
FOR ANOTHER 15 DAYS ONLY,
From 15th. to 30th April, 1919.
SWATOW DRAWN WORK, SILK & GRASS LINEN EMBROIDERIES FILET LACES, COLLARS, AND MANY OTHER KINDS OF FANCY GOODS FOR LADIES, Etc., Etc, Etc.,
COME NOW! COME EARLY!! DONT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY ! ! !
SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO.,
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No. 14, DES. VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL. FHONE NO. 2860.
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munications. The company has ligaces ses hereby notified delivered on a 3d site: Poured 5. WING ÔN CO., LTD. *
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All broken.chafed and damaze packages will be landed into the company's zodown, where same will be examined on Monday, May 5th, at 10 AM.
No claims will be recognised after the goods bave left the
T. TAIGO.
Manager,
chosen a place the that their cargo is being landed eastern suburb of the City as the
at their risk into the Hazardous site for its station. The town Lung and/or Extra-Hazardous Go- gan Tung is just 23.33 Chinese noway of the Hongzong and miles from Canton and the town Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. consists of many vegetable gar- Ltd., Kowison, and stored at dens and the produce being consignees' risk. brought to the Canton market Consignees of cargo must daily. A branch line of 30 produce an Import permit signed steamer or gotowa and none will Chinese miles will also be con- by the Superintendent of Imports be entertained if presented later structed if the main line is a and Exports, Hongkong, before than three weeks after arrival of financial success. The president Bills of Lading will be counter-teamer. and vice-president of the Tung signed.
No are insurance whatever Lung Railway Company recently
All broken, chafed and damaged will be effected. elected were Messrs. Chung cargo is to be left in the Gotowns was destroyed during the first re-Shui Lim and Wong Kwok Ping.where it will be examined at 10 volution eight years ago should be The Company has its temporary
on May 1st. 1919 by Shanghai. 13th April. Lead done without further delay as office at the Punys Educational the Company's surveyors, Messrs Hongkong. 24th April, 1919. ing Chinese merchants of Hupeh Hankow will surely become Association at Wei Oi 9th Street. Goddard & Douglas. province at Shanghai have just the Chicago of the Far East after According to its president the All claims must be presented received a telegram from the the completion of the Canton-company expects to start con- within thirtyd ys of the steamer's Chinese Chamber of Commerce Hankow trunk railway. It is struction of the railway within ariv, here, after which they at Hankow enquiring about the feared that fresh arguments will this year,-Caton Times,
cannot be recognized. No claims validity of the Hankow Recon-be raised by the Chinesa struction Loan of ten million merchants and others of Hupeh MACHINERY FOR JAPAN. will be recognised after the goods hive left the Godowns, and dollars from Messrs. Samuel province because they say the It is reported that machinery cargo pnselivered on and after and Company for which Samuel loan was contracted by will be imported into Japan from May 2nd, 1919, will be subject the BUI of thirty thou-the monarchists without the America and Britain in large to rent sand pounds sterling was sanction of the parliament or the quantities in the near future, No fire icsurance whatever advanced to Yang To, leader of approval of the Provincial As- owing to the former's lifting of will be effected. the monarchical movement in sembly at Wuchang four years the embargo on the export and Consignees are requested to un 1915 in Peking and that if the ago.
the latter's less rigid attitude on end in their Bills of Lading for said loan from Samuel and
on this matter. It is expected countersignature immediately. Company becomes null and void, Damage estimated at £10,000 that in another three or four the Chinese merchants of Han-was caused by a fire at the camp months, the import of machinery
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., kow can float a new loan from of a Tank Corps at Wareham, will greatly increase, owing to
5th Floor certain Sino-Japanese sources at Dorset, which resulted in the the shortage of stocks and the once as the reconstruction of the electric power station being des high prices of machines of Japan-Hongkong, April 26th, 1919.
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