The first photograph of King, Leopold III and Queen Astrid of Beigiam since their accession to the throne shows the royal couple leaving the Cathedral of St. Gudule in Brussels after a Te Deum servies in their honor, Queen Astrid 'wears mourning veil in tribute to memory of late King Albert,
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TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Wellington Street between Pot- tinger & D'Aguilar Streets and D'Aguilar Street between Welling- ton Street & Queen's Road Central are closed to, motor traffic on THURSDAY & FRIDAY, the 19th. & 20th.. instant respectively.
E D. C. WOLFE. Inspector General of Police. Hong Kong, 18th April, 1934.
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Latest Quotations.
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MARKETS
New York, April 18. - Messrs. Asia Lands Ltd. have re- reived. the following quotations an the New York cotton and wheat, rubber, silk and allver exchanges on the Commodity Exchanges Inc (Buker)New York:- Taingtao.
Closing Commodity (Peking) Yokohama Penang Zamboanga April 17.
Foreign Exchange and General Berking business transacted.
Current Accounts opened and Fix-
ed Deposita received for one yarr er
Price on
SILVER. Silver: Commodity Exchange Inc.
of New York:
shorter periods at rates which will be May...45.25 45.30 quoted on application.
W. H. E. THOMAS,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 20th February, 1984.
July 45.60 45.60 Sept....46.01 40.00 Dec. ...46.65 46.65 Total sales for the day:—
25,000 ozs. each
Current Avincente messé la Cory THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. 411 contracts of 266 contracts of
and Fixed Deporte ned for one your o aborter periode to Local Company and lering
on tarrse, which will be quesed on application
Hong Kong, 13th April, 1934.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Basis of the shory Bank in sondesi ot be the HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI WANKING CORPORATION.. Bulag may be viisikad, en spylimption.
ME THE HONORÒNG AND SHAMOWAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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Hong Kong, 25th February, 1934.
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Beers Fand 1,100,000
BRANCHE-
Contos Shanghai.
25,000 ozs. each
Market: Steady.
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY.
Silver Prices Décline.
The local doilar remains steady, opening at 1/5% this morning.
Spot and forward silver declined , closing yesterday at 194 and 19%, respectively,
The London on New York.cross rate closed at £US,$5,18%, 25 compared with £-U.S.$5.15% pa Monday, while the New York on London rate closed at £-U.S.45.15% against £US$5.15% on Monday.
EXCHANGES: -:
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
On London—
..RUBBER Rubber: Commodity Exchange On Paris Inc. of New York:
Apr. 16 Range Apr. 17 Range May ....11:31 11.91 11.99 11.99 12.28 12.28 12.5) 12.54
Fosbow, Bangkok, July.12.20 12.21
and Man - Frasedana. LONDON BAKKERI 1 The Lloyd's Beak, Lindyed. CORRESPONDENTI
Sept.12.43 12.45
On India-
NESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.
Belgian Rulers at Te Deum
+
- Apr. 16 Range Apr. 17 Range
45.28 45.28
45.70 46.75
T. T.
46.00 46.05
On demand
46.58 46.58
3/55% 1/5% Four months' sight 1/54 Credits 4 months'
sight
1/614
On New York.
On demand
Credits 60 days'
sight
37%
30%
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
On demand Credits 4 months'
eight
575
615
A.O.F.C. Quotations:
On T.T. and demand 97
On Shanghai---
On demand
110/2
On Japan:-
On demand
124
On Manila---
Chief Manager
75%
20 Utilities
30 Industrials 103.57 104.46 89 up 20 Raila
49.03 49.33.28 up 28.71 25.90 19 up
.
Dec.
$10.000.000.00
$ 6,698,800.00
$2.434,000.00
HEAD OFFICE:—HONG KONG 12. Des Voeux Road Central
Apr. 16 Range Apr. 17 Range | May...1.26 - 1.261⁄2 1.26 1.272 1.20 1.291⁄2 unquoted unquoted
SUGAR. Sugar: New York Sugar & Coffes Exchange:
On Singapore-
On demand
* 62%
40 Bands
On Batavia
On demand
55%
Commodity
Index
Qn Salgon-
On demand
571⁄2
On Bangkok-
On demand
126
May July
1.39. 1.40
ing rate
1.46 1,45
September
1.51 1.50
Market:Quiet,
COTTON.
In all rectal albles of she World.
Volg hanga and banking - kukaan of every sertipilo treated.
Bala Penis Bertou (various) visai ek u paarīz
bul et brev 06 14 $10.
LOOK POONG EHAN.
Standard No. 1 "B" Contract. Total sales for the day:
682 contracts - 611 contracts
SILK.
Silk: Commodity Exchange Inc. of New York:
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. Sept. 1.28 1.29
Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital ..... Reserve and Undivided
Profits
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Inspection Cordially Invited.
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Shek. Esa. Li Lan Sang. Esq. Wong Safe Deposit Chu Son, Esq. and Kan Ying Po, Esq.
change:
Kan Tone Po, Esa, Chlef Manager.
May
Li The Fong. Esa. Manager,
July
Oct.
11.87 11.88
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Calcutta
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watow Syndey Tathoka
Dee. Jon. Mar. Middling
Spot..11.80
.11.97 11.98
11.99 12.00
12.04 12.04
12.05 12.05
.12.10 12.10 12.12 12.13
11.80
San F'eiaco
Tientsin Tokyo Vancouver Yokohama
May
July
WHEAT. Wheat: Chicago Board of Trade: April 16. April 17. HO 781/2
782%
80%
September
814
80
On demand
nom.
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situations.
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April 16 April 17 Sovereigns bank buy-
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Apr. 16 Range Apr. 17 Range .11.63 11.65 11.62 11.63 .11.75 11.76 11.73 11.74 .11.87 11..87
Every description of Banking and Total sales for the day:-- Exchange business transacted. Loans granted on approved securities.
Corrent Accounts opened in Localf Currency and Fixed Deposits received
for one year or shorter periods in
cation.
20,000,000
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40,000,000 bushels
AMERICAN GOLD PRICE: (WASHINGTON).
April 16 April 17
terms which will be quoted on appli- U.S. Tressury Gold
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1. W. DUGSAN
7. Queen's Bend Onnten),
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1933.
shares were
New York. Yesterday.
Dow Jones Averages,
Last To-day's Changes
Aver. Avar.
SEEK GOLD Earnings Pooled To
Finance Quest
EXPEDITION TO VENEZUELĄ
2
178. years ago recently realised
small fortune.
ส In the Mann collection of New Zealand stamps dispersed by Harm- Jer, Robke and Co., was an envelope Tilated October 3, 1865, bearing the two stamps addressed to a Mrs. Muffat; of "Alnwick, Northumber- land. The ordinary rate of postage at that time was about a shilling. but it was a soldier's privilege to have cheap postage.
Miami, Florida. Just as soon as the winter tour ist season ends, three waiters in
Young Moffat's letter to his 34.61 24.60 .01 down one of the elite hotels at Mammother, bearing the two much- Beach intend to be done with soup prized dull carmine stampa tempted. 51.31 51.16 16 dawn bowls, and hie away to the wilds of collectors to hundreds of pounds,
[Venezuela to hearch for pots of gold.
"
London has proved itself the best market, for rare stamps, and collec- tors all over the world are sending
it to their rarities to the various sul earn-rooms.
MessTE. E. A. Pierce & Co. re- port: "We like the action of the
They are in earnest about market, despite the fact that there has been no activity in individual the extent of pooling their
And ings to finance the quest.
London dealers will not have the Principal interest is
they have gone so far as to chart privilege of selling the world's merely a matter of gossip, but we the course leading from the Vene-rarest stamp, the one-cent British understand that there has beez zuelan coast up the Careças River valued at anything over £7,000, Gulana in an American collection, excellent buying of United States for a distance of 200 miles. That This is to be sold again in New
Rubber Fd.
Company. "Wheat: natural rally followed renewed will take them into the heart of York. liquidation, but the market still the jungle near the Orinoco River.
of lacks buying power and specula where gold has been found, they be bidding perhaps thousands
pounds for the second rarest stamp in the world, the threepenny lic The trio is a cosmopolitan one.|1862, of New Zealand. Only two
tors continue to be intimidated by political developments. Cotion:
The Official Summary of the The market was reactionary early Hong Kong Stock Exchange issued in the day, later gradually gaining it consists of Bruno Condotti, an specimens are known to be in exist- yesterday at 3.15 p.m.
strength. The Bankhead Bill was Italian, who fought in his cous-ence. The second copy is believed passed after the closed." Silver:
to be in France, The low-priced
A few months ago the famous again in favour to-day, Hotels, After an irregular opening prices try's Army during the World War Lights and Cements closing buyers commenced to rally.
There was and later saw service with the blue Mauritius stamps were sold ut at $3.90, $8.85 and $2.70, respec-j
some liquidation for marginal rea-French Foreign Legion fighting Plumridge's for fabulous sums. It Mons. A Washington despatch tively.
has been an excfting year for stamp has the Rifa; Francola Parnee, a President The
states that the
fcollectors-Reuter, rest of the market
from rather patchy.
agreed to discuss the silver situa- Frenchman who came here tion with the Silver Senate Bloc.-Saigon province in French indo: China, and an American, Jule Business Done: 240,000 shares. Perry, Ilcenced aviator and para- TELEPHONE TRIALS
jchute jumper.
OF MOVIE STARS
SALES
Union Insurances $590 Baguio Gold 42 cta. Hong Kong Lands $64% Hong Kong Trams $20.40 Cements (Old) $294/2.80 Dairy Farms $26%1⁄2
BUYERS Canton Mburances $310 Union Insurances $590 Underwriters 11.15 Douglases $35
Docks $15
Hotela 5.90
Chinese Estates $88
Hong Kong Trams $20.30
Yaumati Ferries $241⁄2
China Lights (Old)- $8.85 Electrics $71
W26
Air Reduction
Last To-day's Prica Price
Allied Chemical & Dye .148% 151
American Can.
3. L. Case
Radiator
Caterpillar Co
Chrysler, Motora
The expedition was conceived by Perry after he read in the-news- papers of somebody finding gold in the Orinoco River jungle. He has section of South been in that 4344 America and has a feir knowledge 1207
of the country.
Frequent Changes Of Number Necessary
Hollywood, California.
7དྭེ༣ Most of their time, when they are nin Telephone Company a lot of It costs the Southern Califor- not working in the dining room, is trouble every year to change te- 16% spent in studying maps and miner-lephone numbers of film stars.
logical data of Venezuela, Rey-
WORLD'S RICHEST
B
08
102
108
American
1614
15
American Smelling
43%
American Tel & Tel
..119
American Tobacco "B"
.71
American Waterworks
20%
20%
Unfon Waterboats #11.20 Raubs $14.40
Anaconda Copper Min-
16*
Auburn
48%
Bendix Aviation
18%
48%,
18
Borden Co
2274 22%
ter.
Canadian Pacific
10% 16%
67%
30%
Chase National Bank
29
314 29147
*24.53%
Consolidated Gas of N.V. 37%
97%
Curtiss Wright:
434
Du Pont de
98%
Fastman Kodak
92
จาน
Electric Auto-lle Co. 28% Electric Bond & Share 16% Electric Power & Light. 7- General Electric
ral Foods. Gengral General Motors
274
224
10/ 71 22 3414 844
37%
88
104
11
21%
90%
33% 30%
Bathe world.
30% 48.43%
2916+ 294+
Telephones (Old)" $23 Cements (Old) $2.70 Cements (New) $2.70 Constructions (Old) $11⁄4% Constructions (Now) 70 cta.
• Govt. Loans 84% Prem.
SELLERS Ewo Cttons Sh. $11
WOMEN'S GUILD'
OF M.C.L.
Officials For Year.
de Nemours
Gillette, Safety
Gold
96
Trust Internat Harvester Internet Tel & Tel Jäggett & Myers “B” Loew
Ine
Ward Montgomery National Biscuit National City Bank National Dairy Products 15%
Elevator
1514 Pheific Gas
& Electric
19% Motors
The annual meeting of the com-Packard Hiy
3d
4854
bined Hong Kong Women's: · Guild; and Ministering Children's League Radio Corpn was held, yesterday at the Helena Benny-Vacuum Coron 18%
May Institute, Mrs. E. D. C: Wolfe, standard.
Brands
21
HARE
Animal That Bolted ·
With £70.
No matter how carefully the home phone number of Ruth Chatterton, "for instance, is guarded, within two months. too many people have it. It is
changed and when the old num-
ber is dialed a voice informs you that the number has been dis- ¡connected.
to
It is ori record that,
settle a bet, a Holly wood man got a telephone connection with the Ex-Kaiser's castle in Holland within ton 'min- Jutes. But Joe E. Brown, fran- tic with fear for the safety of his family after the Southern 14% Bielefeld; in the Rhineland,
California ... earthquake last 92 searching for the richest hare March, was unable to reach his
RHINELANDERS SEARCH
Cologne, Gamekeepers and villagers near
This is how wealth:
are
Beverly Hills home by telephone
It acquired its from New York for two days,
because the number had been 15% A peasant woman was walking changed during his absence.
But this is Joe B. Brown,“
10home from Bielefeld with £70 in
npies tied in her handkerchief. She he explained with growing, im- seyhad just sold a plece of property patience. "I'm calling my own
8% in the town.
house. The number has." "been
40% As she passed through some changed." -Reuter.
woods she saw the hare caught in'
18
21%
12% a potcher's trap.
15
2014
M.B.E.. taking the chair. the Standard Gil. Co of NJ.44% 12% The Committee elected for the
Carpn present year comprises: Patroness, Texas. America Lady Peel; Hon; · - Vice-Presidenta,
Union
Carbide & Carbon 44% Lady Dreyer, Mrs: 0.0," Borzetti, Union: Pacide Mr KDA MacGregor, and Mrs. United Air, &31 RM. Henderson; Hou, Treasurer, United States Bbool
United Corpa Mrs. Kelvin Stark; and Hop, Begre Westinghouse. 10 M tir. Un" GEL CHA
Thinking it too badly injured p 20live, the tied the handkerchief con- Recently, the rice transporters at- 41% taining the money round the an-Nantag
Chapel, Shanghai, 122, mal's neck and tried to strangle it abolished the payment of a sum of
22%
and
But the hare struggled free and 8) eta for measuring each pleut or 34 in a second had darted away with rice. Discontent arose among tho 51% the tandkerchief and the money-weighers, who declared a strike on
Renter
April