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G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD.
WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS:
(Opposite G.P.0.)
Union Building
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T.T. on London... T.T..on Shanghai
Banks
$1350 8
.2/-) On London- .78% | Bank, wire ......................... 2/-
Bank, on demand ... 2/- 1/16 |Bank, 30 days' night....
Bank, 4 months' sight`2/– 1⁄4
sight.. Documentary & moutha'
8148 n Credits, 4 months*
A seaman,
As a result of a midnight quar- Hong Kong Bank rel aboard the Standard Oil Com-H.K. London Reg. pany tanker "Royal Arrow," on Chartered Bank
Mercantile A. & B. Friday, L. Pederson, will face a charge of murder at Mercantile C. P. & O. Bank Kowloon Magistracy to-day.
Pederson and a companion, John Bank of East Asia Zetterberg, are stated to have been
Insurances under the infuence of drink when
Canton Insurance
the brawl commenced. Words led Union Insurance....$370 b 371 8. to threats, and finally, it is alleg- ed, Pederson struck Zetterberg a terrible blow on the base of the akull with a full bottle of beer.
Death was almost instantaneous, although it was at first thought | the man was not seriously hurt.
North China Insurance Yangtze Insurance China Underwriters China Fire Insurance H.K. Fire Insurance
A doctor who was sont "for, how- Douglases ever, found Zetterberg already H.K. Steamboats dead.
It is stated that there were sev- Indo-Chinas (Pref.) eral eye-witnesses of the affair, Indo-Chinas (Def.) which took place in a cabin aboard ship.
The body was removed to the Kowloon Mortuary on Saturday, where a post mortem examination was held.
The "Royal Arrow," 4,800 net registered tonnage, arrived at 5 p.m., on. Friday, from San Pedro, California. At the time of the in cident she was lying alongside the Standard Oil Company's wharf at Laich Rok.
Nobel Prize Winner
Shell Transports ......... Union Water-boats
"MONDAY, JANUARY 1929.
Pamela
$224 b
2/1
£84 .214.
£3
sight
2/1
.$89 b
On Paris-
On demand
1242
Credits,
4 months'
.$680 b
sight..
1322
On Berlin-
...T160 b M850 n .$2.20 b
On demand
On New York-
On demand
48%
$280 b Credits, 60 daya' sight 50%
.$785 n
On Bombay-
Wire
133
Shipping
On demand
133
.$98% ...$28 &
On Calcutta-
Wire
183
Sale for TWO WEEKS only. January 16th-30th.
Everything Reduced considerably
13, Queen's Road `C.
-
H.K. Tugs & Lighters....$1.40 n
On, demand
133
.$50 b
On Singapore-
.$90 n On demand
86
.113/- n .824 b
On Manila...
On demand.......
97
On Shanghai...
Mining
On demand
78%
$2.40 b
80 day's sigŕt (private
.70/- b
paper)
Tl1 b
On Yokohama—- ·
T6 n
On demand
106
T2.90 b
Gold Les, 100 fine
.$3.10 b
(per tael)
.$5% n
Sovereigns
(Bank's
.17/6, n
buying rate)
9.60
Silver (per oz)
26 3/16
"
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*Cotton Mills.
Kong Copper Cash Chinese Copper Cents 6% Prem. Rate of Native In-
terest
7% p.8. Chinese Sub. Coin .. 29% dia. Hong Kong Sub, Coln Par,
24% Prem.
Nominal
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T13.15 8 ...T2.20 @
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THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL
WEKLY EDITION OF THE "CHINA MAIL"
Published Every Friday at 3a, Wyndham St. (Telephone Central 22.)
..$9 &
..$65 b
.T165 b $14.80 b ..$8.36 b
1
Shanghai Cottons (Old) T65% b
Shanghai Cottons (New) ..T32 b
Lands, Hotels & Buildings H.K. & S. Hotels
H.K. Landa
Shanghai Lands
Humphreys' Estates
Hong Kong Realties HK. Territorials
Prince's Buildings
Public Utilities
LONDON EXCHANGES,
London, Yesterday.
124.09
Paris
New York
4.84 81/32
Brussels
84.90%
Geneva
26.22/
Amsterdam
12.09%
Milan Berlin Stockholm
92.68/2
20.39%
18.141
H.K. T'ways
.$20
b 20% =
Copenhagen
18.18
Peak Trams (old)
...$13 B
Oslo
18.19%
Peak Trams (new)
$6.80 n
Vienna
34.522
Star Ferries
.$781⁄2 n
Prague
163
China Lights (comb.)
Helsingfors
1924
China Lights (old) ..$12 b 12% s
Madrid
*29.69
China Lights (new)
Lisbon
1102
China Lights 1928 issue
Athens-
376
H.K. E'trica (old)
$54 b & Ba
Bucharest
808
..$524 b
..$28% b .$7 b old
Rio.... Buenos Aires
5 29/32
47 18/32
Bombay
1/6 1/32
[6.90, b new
.$11 b
Shanghai Hong Kong
..12/- a
Yokohama
b 18/9. a
Silver Spot
$5 m
Industriais
2/6 4 2/- 1/10 27/32 28 3/16 Silver Forward... 26 5/16
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Cements (new)
.$1 b $23 b ..$31⁄2 n .$10.158 .$7.80 n $14 b
Son of an Empress
H.K. Ropes (old) $6.90 b 7.10 sa
| Estric (new); Le
Macao Electrics
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M. Hanri Bergaon, the famous China Buses
French author and philosopher, who
has been chosen as winner of the Singapore, Tractions 1027 Nobel Prize for Literature, He Singapore Pref. ....17/6 is a member of the Academy and a Sandakan Lts. Professor in the University of Faris.
WILLIAM THE GREAT
'THE EX-KAISER ADDS A NEW TITLE TO HISTORY
China Sugars Malabon Sugars Canton Ices Cements (comb.) Cements (old)
.46
Stores, &c.
.321%
$18.05 b 13.30 8
.80 cts, b
Berlin.-Germany's new twin | Hong Kong Ropes (new) ..6.85 b ocean liners, the "Europa" and United Asbestos the "Bremen," laid down a short while ago by the North German Lloyd, are remarkable
Dairy Farms for more than their projected speed and Der A. Wings
Watsons general scale of equipment. They Lane, Crawfords have furnished Republican Ger-
Mackintoshs many with the latest story of the
Sinceres ex-Kaiser, printed in the "Frank Wm. Powells furter Zeitung" as coming from a reliable source.
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.$20 n
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Miscellaneous Hong Kong Constructions $1 Hong Kong Amusements .$272 0. B. Ind. G. Bonds......... H.K. Govt. Loans ....5% & Prem. .68% b
The letter is on sent from Doorn to the president of the North German Lloyd in return for one informing him of the new ad- ditions to Germany's mercantile marine. It is understood that among the heads of the great Ger-
Another attempted armed rob- man shipping firms are several bery took place on Saturday close personal friends of the ex-evening, when two armed men Kalser, who esteem it a privilege entered a Chinese timber yard at to keep him informed of any ovent Reclamation-street, Mongkok dis- likely to reflect glory upon his trict. Those in the house resist- country in the eyes of watchers fed, and a foki waa wounded-in abroad.
the, hand by a dagger. One of
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M.P.'s FILM BAN
· AFRAID AUDIENCES WILL LAUGH AT THEM
Paris. The French film censors have forbidden the showing `in France of a film by M. Jacques Feyder, "The Newcomers," which, they say holds up politicians to ridicule.
The film shows a scene in the Chamber. of Deputies with mem- bars on the point of coming to blows.
There is also a scene showing * Cabinet Minister in comical atti- tudes reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin galloping wildly along a road to catch his train for Paris to be pre- sent at a sitting, at the House, “los- Ing his hat on the way and jumping into a market cart to get to the atation in time...
It is stated that diplomatic re- presentations may be made to the film censors of other countries to ban the film.
honourable
Does the right
Lochiel 7-Mr. T. Johnson, M.P.
It is as obvious that a reply desperadoes succeeded in escap-muress Zita of Hungary, who is now gentleman laugh at Cameron of from Doorn In the same spirit of ing, but the other was caught. pleasure in Germany's recovery is the expected, answer. This time,
| it appears, the North German Lloyd were disappointed. Doorn suggested that the names of "Frederick the Great" and "Wam the Great" would have done the firm more credit than those made famous by the nero- planes. "Europa," and "Bremen."
Unfortunately the Impetuosity of this tomark seems to have atruck those responsible for sand- ing it off almost as soon as the letter had been committed, to the post. A special courier was sent to "Bremen requesting the re turn of the letter, which was ad dressed to the bead of the com- pany in person. But the courier arrived six hours after the letter:
"William the Great" has not thought it worth while to con- gratulate the German post office on Its efficiency.
Boma of my finest perorations have been achieved when I have been negotiating recalcitrant
ball in a peculiarly venomous. bunker Mr Winston Churchill
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