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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
A.O.F.C. Quotations.
J
New York, Yesterday. Dow Jones Averages.
Last To-day's Changes.
Aver, Aver.
COTTON SILVER AND WHEAT
Latest Quotations.
NEW YORK COMMODITY
MARKETS ---
New York, April 6.
Messrs. Asia Lands Ltd. have re- caived the following quotations. on the New York cotton and wheat. [rubber,' milk' ‚and silver ́exchanges on the Commodity Exchanges Inc. New York:-
Closing Commodity April 5,
Price
30 Industrials ..103.18 103.37 .18 up 20 Rails ...... 48.81 48.79 .02 down 20 Utilities.... 28.83 20.239-40 up 40 Bonds .... 93.34 93.75 .41 up Commodity
Index 58.98 53.75 23 down Messrs. E. A. Pierce & Co. Ro- port:-Technical observations are against the market, but we think that the action of the list, as а whole, continues excellent, with better than a fair chance that the scepties will be convinced before of New York: many days. Wheat: Market dull.
Apr. 4 Range Apr. 6 Range Outside and local interest is May....46.40 46.48 46.50 46.52 dwindling.
..46.78 46.78 Late moisture is July
46.82 46.82 allaying dry weather fears.
Cot-Sept. ..47.23 47.23 47.28 47.28 ton: There was trading within a
47.88.47.88
·
SILVER. Silver: Commodity Exchange Inc.
Doc.....47.74 47.80
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. ten-point range towards the closs Total sales for the day:→→
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Head Office Hong Kong.
ARškorland Caplin)) (M.K. Currency) ...$11,000,00 Pall-Up Oplialarts Combated Kavares Fund 1,153,000
BRANCHES Cambod
Bangkok, Honkow, Bangkok,
LONDON BAYLISS :— -The_Liepi's Bank, Limbled
ODRÍESPONDENTS
In all primalpal etline of the World.
Forelge Exchange and making burlanet of stacy scription transolet.
Su Deposit Borse (variona sinna) ni u panely wind af from 25 to $44.
LOOK POONG SHAN.
Chief Manager.
and some selling
for Decem-140 contracts of — 131 contracte of ber by leading spot house. 25,000 ozs. ench
25,000 ozs. ench Worth Street is quiet. Silver: Market:-Firm. Futures were irregular during the
RUBBER. early trading. Switching from Rubber: Commodity Exchange May to September was a trading Inc. of New York: feature. The market later ruled
Apr. 4 Range Apr. 5 Range dull and featureless. Loans have May....11.49 11.51 11.60 11.60 increase by $60,000,000 in New July 11.78 11.79 11.91 11.92 York State. The Senate has de- Sept. 12.06 12.08 12.18 12.18 feated the Governor's proposal for Municipal operations of utilities,
Business Done:-1,420,000 shares Last To-day's Price Price
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. Air Reduction
Allied Chemical & Dye .150 ....$10,000,000.00) American Can
$5,598,600.00 American Radiator
Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital ..... Reserve and Undivided
Profits
American Smelting $2,434,000.00 America Tel & Tel
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Kan Ying Po. EM.
American Tobacco "B"
- 69% American Waterworks 20% Anaconda Copper Mining 15 Auburn
Bendix Aviation
Borden Co
horden
Canadian Paciße
J. 1. Case
13.
Caterpillar Co
Standard No. 1 "B" Contract. Publie Total sales for the day:---
31% 215%
Chase National Bank 27% 224 Chrysler Motors...... 55% 544 Consolidated Gas of N.Y. 37%
Curtles, Wright
*4630
607 contracts - 691 contracts
SILK.
Silk: Commodity Exchange Inc, of New York:
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934.
"Poor Butterfly?"
CINEMA
NOTES
Mine Toskie Atami The police board of Tokyo is in a quandary. It has been asked to act on a proposal of marriage received by Miss Youhle Atami, comaly Japa nese musical revue star, from Elle Bachaler, of Baltimore, Maryland, who saw ber picture in a magazine. Miss Atami iz puzzled, top
EXCHANGES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. On London
T. T.
1/534 On demand
1/54 Four months' sight 1/5 Credits 4 moving
Bight
1/6%
On New York-
On demand
Credits 60 days'
Bight.....
38
39%
On Parla
On demand
5771⁄2
97
Ots
Credite 4 month'
sight
617
151
100%
101
May
Apr. 4 Range Apr, 5 Range
1.34 1.35 1.31 1.32
On India—
T.T. and demand...
98%
154
15%
Sept.
136 137
44% 44% Dec.
unquoted
1.34% 1.34% Do Shanghai-
unquoted
On demand
119%
119
110
70%
SUGAR.
On Japan:-
214 10,4
Sugar: New York Sugar & Coffes
On demand
125
6214
53
Exchange:
On Manila-
19
April 4. April 5.
On demand
751⁄2
0976
May
On Singapore-
1.50
1.47
174
July
On demand
1.56
154
63%
73
714
September
1.61 1.58
On Batavia--
Market: Quiet.-
On demand
On Skigen~~
.COTTON.
On demand
.67%
Du Pant de Nemours 08% Eastman Kodak
........
4%
45
ຕ 98%
Cotton: change:
New York Cotton Ex-On Bangkok-.
On demand
-126%
88%
68%
Blectric Power & Light
Electric Auto-lite Co Electric Band & Share
28%
28
16%%%
19
17%
May
1/6%
7 July
..12.18 12.19
Batavia
Manila Melbourne
Seattle
Generi
22%
Semarang
General Foods
34%
22% Oct.
12.32 12.32
114
12.10 2.10 Bar Silver per oz. }2.24 12.26 Bar Silver in Hopt
20
Dec.
Bombay
Nagasak
38%
12.41 12.41
12.34 12.34
Kong
nom.
Shanghal
Calcutta
Canton
New York Osaka
Singapore
10%
1022
Jan.
12.47 12.47
Ralphong Fankow Honolulu
Sourabaya Swatow
214 2144
Mar.
12.58 12.58
12.40 12.40 Copper Cab 12.51 12.51 Copper Cents
nom.
1% prem.
41%
41/%
Middling
Peiping
Sunday
15% 15%
Penung
Tathoku
80
69
Spot 12.26
.12.20
Kobe Kowloon Landon
Rangoon
Tintain
Inc
12%
38%
WHEAT.
Saigon
Montgomery Ward
321⁄4
31%
National Biscuit
42%
42%
10
&
16
TG Electric 19% 19%
5%
5% 35 34%
May
July
86%
80
September
870%
Total sales for the day:-
7% 7%
10,000,000
аднит Сагр
49
48%
16% 16%
bushels
20,000,000 bushele
Brands
22%
225%
124
12%
40
27
27
... 7
6
44%%%
12914: 128
U.S. Treasury Gold Price, per o......
United Air & Transport 234
29
United Corpn
6
84
United States Steel
52%
51%
381⁄4
BID.:-t.
Copper, Oct., per lb. 7.50 Tin, Oct., per Ib... 55.15
Kau Tong Po, E14, Chief Manager.
Tas Fong, Esq. Manager.
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National City Bank 20† 29 t National Dairy Produels 15% Every description of Banking and
Olis
Elevator Exchange basiness transacted. Loans Pacifia Gas
Packard Motora granted on approved securities.
Panar Current Accounts opened in Local Pennsylvania Riy
Radio Corpn.
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exus Corpn
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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, Westinghouse E & M .38%
INC.
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Capital (fully paid-up) Yen.100,000,000 Reserve Fund
Surplus Reserves
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Messrs. Carroll Bros., have justi received the following cabled quo- tations of Shanghai shares.
Apr. 4 Range Apr. 5 Range 6overeigns bank buy.
12.05 12.06 11.98 11.98 - ing rate ).
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"SONS OF THE DESERT.".. QUEEN'S THEATRE
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.“
A. 5. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Nthat the Forty-alath, Annual
Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the 17th. April, 1931. st. 11.30 AM Stan. Laurel and Oliver Hardy
for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, the two inimitable comedians are together with a Statement of Ac- seen in another full-length pro-counts for the year ended 31st. duction, "Sons of the Deaert."
The story is centred round two, close friends, both Shriners of a
October, 1933.
The Register of Shares of the closed from
certain Lodge, who are holding Company will be their Jubilee celebrations at Chi Thursday, the 12th, day of April cago and to which the two heroes to Wednesday the 18th.
day of are determined to go to in spite of April, 1934, both days Inclusive, during which period no transfer of definite refusals by their respec-
shares can be registered. tive wives.
After a slow and somewhat ob- JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, vious opening." the film gathers
General Managers. speed towards the middle and
Hong Kong, 6th. April, 1984. reaches a whirlwind climax.
Laurel is the "henpecked" hus- band who consents to everything! his wife says, while Hardy poses as the "Lord of the Manor" who in reality is just as much henpeck- ed. If not more, then Laurel.
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"MAMA LOVES PAPA,”......... KING'S THEATRE
"Mama Loves Papa," the Para-
GOVERNMENT NOTICES.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
R
mount production starring Charles PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction Ruggles and Mary Boland, is a to be held on highly amusing comedy dealing 9th day of April, 1934, at 3 p.m. at MONDAY, the with the private lives of a simple the Offices of the Public Works De- husband and an ambitious wife,
partment, by Order of His Excellency Ruggles is cabt
as a middle the Governor of one Lot of Crown class business man, whose casy Land at Ma Tau Wei in the Colony aequiescence to the whims of Miss of Hong Kong for a term of 75 Boland, his wife, geta him a series years, with the option of renewal of dificulties. Lilyan Tashman, at a Crown Rent to be fixed by
Walter Caltett and George Barbier the Surveyor of His Majesty the are featured in the cast.
King, for one further term of TB
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"PADDY-THE-NEXT-BEST
THING,T-ORIENTAL THEATRE
Janet Gaynor gives one of her best performances in her latest picture entitled, "Paddy-The-Next- Best-Thing." the current attrac- Itfon at the Oriental Theatre,
Cast as a lively little Irish laza whose only fault is her ability to tell white les.. Miss Gaynor dis- playa, her usual charming manner, Warner Baxter, as the squire of the Irish coastal town where the scene takes place, acts splendidly in characteristic stylė.
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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SHARE MARKET.
Upret Price.
"GALLANT LADY”—ALHAMBRA Hong Kong Stock Exchange fasued The Officiul Summary of the
yesterday at 3.15 p.m.
THEATRE
Hotels and Ewos, coming under "Gallant Lady," the Twentieth Century Picture production star: and $12, (scilers) respectively. On pressure to-day, gave way to $5% ring Ann. Harding, presents ofte
Wheat: Chicago Board of Trade: BIG PROFIT SHOWN and appealing stories which has more attention, the last named be of the most poignantly dramatic China Lights and Dorks attracted the other hand, Star Ferries, April 4. April B.
86
BY A. S. WATSON'S come to the screen this season. 86
ing bid for at $15. The story deals with a young child, who is forced to assign the woman, mother of an illegitimate quite uninteresting.
The market on the whole was
86 Proposed Payment of 30
Cents Per Share. child
AMERICAN GOLD PRICE: (WASHINGTON).
for adoption Immediately after its birth, agreeing never to.
A net profit of $05, 902,74 will see it again." be reported at the 49th. annual As the yearn puns she becomes general meeting of A. S. Watson a phenomenally successful busi Apr. 4 Apr. 5 and Co. Ltd., at the Hong Kang ness woman, und at the height of Hotel on Tuesday, April 17, at her fame accidentally meets again $85.00 $95.00 11.30 am:
the child whom she had counted; NEW YORK METALS,
Milan
It is proposed to pay a dividend lost to her. April 2 April 5 of 30 cents per share, which, will
7.71 absorb $45,000, 55.45
77 31/32 5.14%
Other proposals are:- Place to Reserve Fund Write of Building. Im-
"
provements Transfer to Chinese Star.
Superannuation Fund And carry forward to
next account
The atory brings her to the point where sho in forced to choose between being reunited 25,000.00 with her child under: the, penalty of remaining eflent regarding her 7,660.07 true identity, and playing fair with the man she loves and ruating the 5,000.00 risk of wrocking the boy's future.
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"A SOUTHERN MAID”- STAR THEATRE.
"Y" PRESENTATION “A Southern Maid," now show- TO MR. J. H. HUNT.ag at the Star Theatre, is a co lourful romantic musical comedy starring Bebe. Daniela, Clifford Chinese Staff Tribute. Mollison, Amy Vencisa, Morris
Harvey and Hal Gordon,
LONDON EXCHANGES.
London, Yesterday.
Paris New York
Montreal
Yen.122,750,000
Mxico City.
MAL
$e.
Brussels
Amish
International Assurances
Beale
Shai Lande
6.25 26.50
Geneva Amsterdam
5.141 22 15.90 7.61
Head Ober:-YOKOHAMA
Biella
Bombay
Peping Parme
Shui Docks
.134.00
59 29/32
Branches and Agencies at:
Первона
S'hai Wharves
.350.00
Berlín
12:95
Alexandria
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Nagasaki Nagoya
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S'hai Trams
47.001
Berlin
New York
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton
Plopsakages Lublin
Mariade
Imite MarvelBan Mots Curla
Munich Mostow
Bing
Ewo Cottons
12.00
Stockholm Copenhagen
19.39
22.39%
S'hai Cottons (Old)
76.00
Oslo
Taormina
Langkat, Single
19.25
Vienna
19.90** 23
Yales Tokoba
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5.855
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Dairen. (Dolny)
S'hal Explorqüibas
4.90
Prague
Madrid
Hamburg
Hankow
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22612 124 37 11/16 110
M. C: A on Wednesday to Mr. J.
H. Hunt the departing secretary,
Athens
535 Sellors
Bucharest
225
4% 8.0.
Paris Peiping Rangoon
San Francisco Seatife
Fengtien (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro
Harbin
Hong Kong
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Sinking
Kobe
London
Semarang
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Tientsin
Los Angeles Manila
Tokyo Tsingta Yingkow
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partment.
and honde bought and mold Lowas rranted on approved samarillas, de ERH YANG:
W. DUGGAN,
Belgrado Blo
Buenos Aires
-Montevideo Shanghai' Bombay. Hoag Kong Yokohama
Silver Spot and Form
517
361⁄4· 8.0... 87 11/16- 1/434
1/8:8/82
1/6
1/2
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A presentation was made by the Chinese Staff of the European Y. MAIL REVIEW:
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About seventy of the Staff at-
"LOVE ME-TO-NIGHT"-
LEE THEATRE.
SALES
Hong Kong (189). Antamoka 73 cts.
Hong Kong Lands $66, Realties $6.20,
China Lights (Old) $8.90. Cements (Old) $1.90.
BUYERS
Union Insurances $575, . Underwriters $1.15. Rauba $144.
*Docks $15.
Chinese Estates $86. Star Ferries $96,
China Light (Old)' $8,85. Lane, Crawforda $4. Constructions (New) 70 cts. Govt. Loans 8% Prem.
SELLERS
Wharves: $110. Ewo Cattons Sh. $12, Hotels $54. Electrics $18.
.
Cements (Old) $1.90. Cements (New). $1.90. H. K. Ropes $6.15, CAKES BAKED WITH BLOW-TORCH.
Convict Plumbers Hit Novel Idea.
San Quentin Prison,
California, Cakes baked with a blowtorch
tended, among those present be Maurice Chevalier and Jeanétie Ing Dr. L. Allen, Rev. W. W. MacDonald are featured in a de- Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. In- Hightful musical comedy-drama, gram. Dr. Y. H. Tsao and Mr.Love Me To-Night" whch is now sent three convicts into solitary WK Chan of the Chinese Y. Mishowing at the Los Theatre, confinement here. C.A.
The story, set to music) sees Assigned to: repaff prison Mr. Wat Lok Hing occupied the Maurice Chevaller rise from a plumbing, they were given flour to chair and in phosenting Mr. and humble tailor to marry a princess, make paste for wrapping steam Mr. Hunt with a large photo Jeanette MacDonald. There are pipes with asbestos. One con- graph of the staff, a handsome several excellently-rendered lyrics vict went to the kitchen and re jade mounted ornament, and Fein the film
guasted some grease for the pips
King Fuck expressed the deep rae Others in the cast as Charles joints. C gret of the whole staff at the de Buggies, Charles Butterworth and] - A guard | found the prisoners. Bridah Wireless Barvica, parture of Mr. and Mr Hunt. Myrna Loy
feating the last of 16 caken-Ren-
ter,
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