BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
Authorized Capital
... 850,000,000 90,000,000
Tarad and Fully Puidup dal da man dahan da Monogre Funds
£1,300,00
B$30,000,000
Reserve Liability of Proprietors $30,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONUKONG,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Bon. Mr. C., B. Make
Chairman,
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRÁLIA & CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.
"HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund
.£3,000,000 .£3,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
.£3,000,000
Agencies and Branches:
Alor Bler
Tickle
Razgoos
$. B. Dodwell, Esq.
Amer
Ipoh
Banglal
Karachi
Bemarang
Depoty Chairman.
Datavie
Klana
Karemba
H. Mr. W. D. Bell.
6. Miskin, Kag.
Bombe
Keba
Rhanchal
A. II. Complet, Xing.
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Juala
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Colomb
Wenl
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Current Ancounte epened in Local Currency and and Deposita melted for one year ne akarter periol in Laval Company and Sterling oo terms which will be subled on appication. Near Kong, 18th April. 7904.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK.
The Inf the shore Bank is conduct
Foreign Exchange sul General Banking busines
tramoled.
Gurmat Arepunte opened and Fixed Deposits rected for one that or shorter periode which will be quoted on application.
W. H. E. THOMAS,
Acting Manager. Hong Kong, 20th February, 1934.
COMMERCE
AND FINANCE
THE CHINA » MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1934.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
S. E. Levy and Co. And A.O.F.C. Quotations.
poration.
JAPANESE TRADE COMPETITION
British Goods Copied At Fractional Cost.
SOUTH AFRICAN COMPLAINT
Durban (Natal).
METEORITE
LOCATED IN
RHODESIA
Believed To Be First
Ever Recorded
HEARD FOR 50 MILES
Salisbury, (3. Rhodesia).
STOLEN M.G. CAR
FOUND
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
IN LONG GRASS AT AS WATSON & CO. LIMITED.
SHEK-O.
ME. PROULX HAD GIVEN O
IT UP AS LOST
AND
NOTICE
AFTER TUESDAY, 3rd. July, 1934, the Hong Kong Dispensary will be open for the dispensing of prescriptions' during the following hours:
Mondays/Fridays 8.30 am to 6 Paramount P.M.
Saturdays 8.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. 8
& Public Sundays
Holidays
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Hong Kong, 29th June, 1934.
The Union Government's In- ability to protect British manufac-
The M. G. Midget car, No. 2382, turers from Japanese firms who
What is believed to be the first which was stolen from Mr. B. A copy British goods and retail them meteorite recorded in Southern Proulx, the well-known local joe- in South Africa at fractional Rhodesia has just been located by key and manager of costs, has been stated in a letter the efforts of the Rev. Father Gits, Films of China, Inc., between from the Prime Minister's office of St. Paul's Mission, Mangwendi p.m. on Saturday last and 8.a.m. 10.00 a.m. to 1 p.m. The following mid-day quota- to Mr. Rosa Elliott, a Durban Reserve, about 40 miles to the east Inet Sunday morning, WIN din tions from New York were
covered by the traffic police hidden be executed under the direct su re-manufacturers' representative.
All dispensing, as hitherto, will of Salisbury.. colved at midnight on Saturday by
Mr. Ross Eltott wrote in Octo- On March 7 at about 12.45 p.m. in long grass' near Shek-O'`on
pervision of a qualified European Messrs. S. E. Levy and Co., and the ber last year asking what steps three loud detonations were heard Saturday morning, and returned to
Chemist. American. Oriental
Finance Cor could be taken to protect the Bri- in the air at a point north-east of the owner.
tish manufacturer and received the mission, followed by
A man has been detained by the a loud
police June 30 the following letter in reply this rushing sound.
In connection with the month:
When Father Gits heard the ex-theft. "On the subject of Japanese plosion he was in the open air and An extensive search, lasting al- 5.04% trade competition, I am directed it was no loud that he actually most continuourly for 48 hours was conducted by the traffic police, to inform you that as the Union's ducked his head, Customs tarif legislation stands Inquiries by telephone were re-following the disappearance of the it is not possible to take dis-ceived later from such widely se- car, but later in the week the criminatory tariff action against parated
Arcturus, owner had given it up for lost points [imports from Japan except under Macheke and Mtoku, where explo- consoling himself with the fact (the anti-dumping legislation and, įsions were also heard.
that it was the first successful car! leven so, dumping duties can only This means that the sound must theft in the Colony. He supposed be applied when such importation have been heard over a radius of att had been repainted, or shipped Is to the detriment of a local in- least 50 miles. Father -Gits' in-jout of the Colony on a junk. dustry.
This is the second attempt on quiries falled to elucidate the cause)
June 29
Time
Close Open
Sterling 1.
8.05 8.04%%% Cotton Oct... 12.36 12.43 12.40 Gotton Dec... 12.50 12.57 12.54 Silver Sept... 47.20 Marked closed Silver Dec.... 47.80
THE BANK OF CANTON, LTD. Rubber Sept. 1433
Established 1912
30%
Rubber
Dec... 14.74
Head Officet-Hong Kong,
Wheat Sept.
Wheat Dec.
01 9244
Authorised Capital
$11,000,000 Corn Sept.
0014
Paid-up Capital
Total Resources .....
8,655,000 Corn Dec. 12,170,492 Am Smelting 42%
0132
Branches: Canton, Toishan, Shanghal, Auburn |_Hankow, Bangkok & San Francisco,
22
J. L. Case
London Bankers: Lloyds Bank, Ltd. Dupont
Foreign Exchange and Banking business of every discription trans- Elec. Bond & acted.
Share
*00%/% 01
92% 92 604/ 60% 024/% 81% 43
42 22/ 29 60%
40% 49 88. 89 884
(at 10.20)
1434
14%
18
one
Rules may be
Current Accounts opened and Fixed Ges. Motors 30% Deposits received for
year or Inter. Tel. & shorter periods at rates which will be Tel quoted on application,
30%
for hire.
Calal Malager.
Hong Kong 2018 February, 1994.
1032 12%
(at 10.45) Myintyre For
cupine..... 48 4774 48 Montgomery
Ward
271% ..... 27% Neil. Distillera 2311⁄2 234
(at 10.20)
12
274
23
28%
28
16 18
15%
1844
384
18%
304
(at 11.45)
1.174 Marked closed
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V. M. KATUNK,
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Authorland Capital
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www.comm
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TOLD TO KISS IN
COURT
85
་
Later.
ENGLISHMEN DON'T GUSH
Favourable Comparison ·
With Frenchmen.
CHORUS GIRLS'. VIEWS
New York
are
"In regard to the competition of of the explosion but on March 21 the car, a local locksmith having This is the verdict of Miss Japanese 'goods with similar gooda a native came along and told of a been found endeavouring to start Evelyn Joslyn, one of the prin of South African manufacture, I phenomenon which had terrified the it a week before the theft. When who have returned to New York have to state that exchange dump- people of the district and which questioned, the locksmith explain- cipals of a group of chorus girls ing duties have been levied on a they had feared to talk about. ed that he had been engaged by a after playing in Monte Carlo: aumber of Items of the former on A "sun," he said came rushing Chinese to make a lock for the car. "Englishmen
nicer than their importation from Japan from the skies and buried itself)
Frenchmen. They don't push and "I may add that steps were re in the earth.
The recovery was due to the un-they
#FO more sincere. The cently taken by the Department of Father Gits proceeded to the spot tiring efforts of Inspector Nicoll Frenchmen are better spenders, Customs and Excise to enforce the and saw what he assumed to be a of the Traffic Department and his though." prohibition from importation of meteorite and at once communicat-assistants, who discovered the car Most of the chorus, who were of any goods contravening the ed with the Meteorological Depart-hidden in a secluded spot near the billed as Trade Marks
"Les Girls," say that and Merchandise ment.
se at Shek-O on Saturday morn-they found Continental gallantry, Marks Laws of the Union."-Reu His letter was forwarded to the ing
a trifle trying. ter.
Geological Survey and an official It is understood that Inspector "We were always having our went to the apot, which is about 40 Nicoll picked up a Chinese in one hands kissed," said one of them miles east of Salisbury on the right of the local dance halls on Friday who thought the babit was plea- bank of the Shawanoya River in night wha, on Saturday morning santer for the klaser than the Mangwendi.
indicated where the car was, but not "kisses,"-Router. Native's Story
after leading, the Inspector on The native was persuaded to re- few false errands lasting through- peat his story. He said that he was out the entire night on Friday. when something descended white investigation, while the Inspector guarding his landa from baboons: The Chinese is being detained for
hot and with a rosting noise. It continues his investigations at came sleeply down from a southerly Shek-O village. It is thought the direction and he saw it drop. It car was taken there only on Satur fell through the branches of a tree, day morning in an effort to "dump” Cotton:-There was some far
(which it cut off cleanly, hit the hole, lit, eastern, European and domenlic A middle-aged couple were told and went into the ground, passing buying at the opening with no by the magistrate, Mr. J. F. S. through several roots, and came to selling pressure though there were Hawtayne, In the Germiston rest in a granite boulder. some realizing sales.
Court, to kiss each other and for- It had not been disturbed and the get the quarrel they had bad.
hole was found to be reminiscent of They kissed in front of the a crater produced by magistrate's bench, and left the bang" about three feet in diameter: court smiling,
and 18 inches deep, the top of the The husband, Johannes L. Pre- aerolite being six inches below the Official Summary of the torius, a labourer of Alberton. ground level. Hong Kong Stock Exchange lasted pleaded guilty to assaulting his One large plece, weighing 49 lb. Saturday, at 12.30 p.m.
Fils Tork. Fr.. Chan Ching Shok, Fong T Tan Our New building is Specially Con- Liverpool-Cotton 6.54d.
Fin Eq.. Wong Chu Son. Eg, and Tan Ting structed to provide all of these Im-Liverpool Wheat 4/7%
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Kan Tone To. Fr.. £llef Manam.
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THE
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bukin transacted. The granted
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pproved
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THE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD, (TAIWAN GINKO)
HEAD OFFICE:- Taipeh, Formous Incorporated by Special Imperial
Charter, 1890.
Central Bank in Formons
Bank Notes rised Average amount...Yen. 45,000,000 On and after August 15th, 1938, the rate of Interest on Special Current
Deposit will be at 2% pa. on daily. balance and the rate for balance over; $10,000 will be quoted on application. (Maximum rate-14%).
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BONG YONG BRANCH:
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THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED.
Establimbed 1880
Capital (fully paid-up) Yen.100,000,000 Reserve Fund
........ Yen. 122,750,000
Bend Office:-YOKOHAMA
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Bataris
Berlin
Bombay
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Ģ. H. BENSON,
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The
SHARE MARKET.
Magistrate's Order In Assault Case.
wife.
ex-
SUSPENDED SENTENCE
Germiston,
AMERICAN CONSUL FAREWELLED.
a whizz- American Club Luncheon
On Saturday.
LEAVING TO-MORROW
3 oz.. and ten small pieces were!
The farewell lunchcan to Mr. With the further rise in
Mrs. Pretorius said that on the picked up and brought into Salla and Mra.. Douglas Jenkins at the change, Banks and Unions
BUB- evening of February 27 her husbury. As several small pieces are
American Club on Saturday was tained a further setback
this band threatened to cut her throat, missing it is quite evident that attended by a large gathering of American morning, being on offer at $1800
"I offered him twe kalves." she when the meteorite hit the ground members of the local In and $550, respectively.
community, the continued. "He pulled some
of it weighed about 60 lb. other nections, there was a revi-my hair, and a little later he
Mr. Jenkins has been American It is a block, ten inches by nine val of Interest in Hotels, Yaumati threw a shirt in my face and kick-by seven inches in size. The other Consul-General In Hong Kong, for Ferries, China Lights and Ce-led me."
surface is covered by a thin layer the past three years and leaves menta. Business on the whole,
"You ought to be ashamed of of black glass, showing that the with his wife to-morrow by the however, was extremely narrow.
President Lincola. yourself for kicking your wife, outside was fused by the friction of]
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Benson seted capecially as she is in a certain passing through the air. It is dut as host and hostess for the occa- condition." Mr. Hawtayne said to ed and pitted with marks like thumb sion, and after luncheon Mr. Ben- Pretorius on finding him guilty. marks, and it is easy to reconstruct
son, on behalf of the Americans 1.4m very sorry for what I did," direction of its fall. The interior in Hong Kong, presented Mr. and sald Pretorius, "I lost my tem is grey in colour and contains per, because my wife scratched numerous brassy specks, which suitably inscribed, as a memento Mrs. Jenkins with a silver" tray, |seem to be phrrhotite.
Sales.
Hong Kong Banks $1800. Union Insurances $560/5472. Hong Kong Trams $21. Cements $2.85.
Buyers
Underwriters $1. Wharves $108.
Providents (Old) $14. Ewo Cottons Sh. $111⁄4. Hotels $5.80.2° Chinese Estatės, $86. Yaumati Ferries $20.65, China Lights (Old) '$83⁄41⁄4%. China Light (New) $8.80. Electrica $72. Telephonea. (New) $12.
·Cementa. $2.80. Dairy Farms $26, Constructions (Old) $1.55. Canstructions (New) 70 cts. Govt. Loan (4%) 8%% Frem.
Is It Insured? ? Govt. Loan (8%%) 4% Prem.
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Teinstau Yingkow
Hosplula Hainking
Indon
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'ppaita received for fized 5 pažinda Tel, to be obtained on avoitation,
O. KISHINANE
Manager.
Head: Ozino
HX. Office Ania Life Buliding
Tal. 30224
Sellers.
Hong Kong Banks $1800.. Bank of East-Asla $90, Union Insurances $550. Antamoks, 68 cts.. Bier Ferries $10234. Electrica $724
LUNATICS AS COURT
WITNESSES
me,"
"It goes against the grain to It is being analysed and micros- pass a suspended sentence for an copically examined in the Geological offence of this, nature," said Mr. Survey Department-Reuter. Hawtayne, "but if I fine you' It
only means that your wife' will suffer."
Mr. Kawayne called Mrs. Pre- FAMOUS CHATEAU
torius to the bench, and read her and her husband a homily on domestic.. harmony. He then told them to kiss and be friends.
Ptetorfus was ¡fined £5, or 14 days, suspended for two years on condition of good behaviour.- Reuter.
FAMOUS VESSEL'S NEW HOME,
Arctic Ship "Housed In Norway"
Oslo:
OF TARASCON
Shortly To Be Opened
As Museum
FARMERLY USED AS PRISON
Paris. The fine fifteenth
century chateau of Taraseos, known to ali English visitors to provence" "is }| shortly to be thrown open to the
public
Hitherto the Imposing, fortreis of he-good King" "Rene has been used as a prison by the local au- The late Dr. Nansen's famous thorities. But now they have. Arctic ship, Fram, is to have per- agreed to sell it for £425,000 francs marent home on the Norwegian sea- (about 25,512) to the state."," shore,
As soon as the Interior has been M. Bjarne Tolen has won the re-conditioned the cheteau, which Rangoon prize offered for the best daign for jis built on much the Five lunatics, inmates of as "house" to "shelter. the vessel. If same massive linea as the PRINTING Mental Hospital, appeared as wit in a triangular, building having a Papal Palace at Avignon, will
Bring Your
- Probioms to Us
nesies, in k case here in connec-[wall of glass facing the sa, be opened as a museum. The tion with the murder of two other, That will enable the old "ship to exhibits will include armoor and Inmates of, the bospital by a per-look put on the waters she has sall- trophies" recalling the famous son believed to be suffering from ed so long," says the architect - courts" of love of maligeval. epileptic Sta-Reuter, Ar Rauter;
Heater
of their stay in Hong Kong.
ledged the gift on hehalf of him- Mr. Jenkins suitably acknow-
self and his wife.
Mr.
Charles "Louis Hoover, American Consul at Amsterdam, has been appointed successor to Mr. Jenkins, and, until his arrival.
In the Colony, Mr. Louis H. Gour- ley, present Consul in Hong Kong will be acting Consul-General.
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