BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION --
Authorised Capital ... $50,000,000 Issued and Fully Paid-up. 20,000,000 Beserve Fanchgan
Sterling Silver
Reserve Liability of Prom
Tristans
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON Paid-up Capital Beserve Fand
£8,500,000 $10,000,000
5$,000,000 $3,000,000
Reserve Liability of Prom
$20,000,000
prietors
£3,000,000
Agencies and Branches:
Alne Star
Tangoca
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
1 H. Dodwell. Zig-
́C. C. Exigit, Esq.
Deputy Chara.
Hon Me W. Bel
Hon. Mr. J.-J. Paterson
A. H. Compton Esq.," TE. Paxrce Eaq MT. Johnsca Esq, JA. Pirunther Esq. G. Miskin Esq. A. L. Shields Esq.
T. X. Grybu Eng
AKGY
BANGSOI
BATANZA
BOMBAY
CALCUTTA
CANTON
CREPOR COLOMBO
FAIRES POOCHOW
MAYBERG
FANTOW
BONGEEW
IPOH
ЗОНОВЕ
YURE
XOLOOX
Chind Manager.
BRANCHES
KUALA LUMPUR **
LONDON
INOXS
NALACCA
MANILA
YUAB Gokarni YEADER
NEW TOET
PELPING
PENING
KANGOON
MAIGON
2
---SAN FRANCISCO
SHANGHAI
SOCRABAYA
SINGATURS
BENGEI PATANI -TIENISIN
TSINGTAO
70510
TOKUHAMA
Carte opened in Loval Currenez and Food Deposits oxited for cas year ac shorter periods in Local Carreary and Sterling were which will be quoted on application. AUGO up to date SIPE DEPUSTÍ BOXES In various sizes_TO ZET.
Hong Kong, Norambar, 1935.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
| Aziztadr
Bangkok
EN THE Baraba Calcutta
Слов
| Casapers
coba Colenbo
Daiki
Esiphona
Hamborg
Paiping
Hookyw Harbin
Penning
Choking
Sourabaya Triping
Tomekaa
THE CHINA WAILS.
ommerce and Finance
BANKNOTES IN KWANGTUNG Shortage Still Felt
NEGOTIABLE. BILLS ISSUED
AS SUBSTITUTE
“LFrom" "Our Own Correspondent] Canton; Saturday. About $7,000,000 worth of bank- motes and negotiable bills have been Formigo change and Gammal Banking business given out by the Kwangtung Pro- Currunt honocado apenas and Flood Deposite vincial Bank since November 7, moured for one per i play, poda en catwhen Canton went off the silver which will be quoted on applesbon.
standard, it was estimated by Bank A. BREARLEY.-
Manager. officials to-day. Hong Kong, 1st Jamay, 1935.
frameacted.
Having exhausted its supply of banknotes, the Government bank in now...isszing negotiable bills 25 5. AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, makeshift and will rideen them
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DEC.
Head Office:-65, Brandway, Nev-Faci
Capital Swplms
Reserves
Anusia Cata
Antway
Athens
JAKZIAH Bandi
.U.S.$6,000,000.00 2183,633.06 -870,7$1.05
BRANCHES---
Geces Glasgow
The Hagon
Bombay-
Brecome
Beim may be
Berasal Care
bined on application.
Hamburg Barre Belieberg Innocinicom Forum "London
Liverpool Levovern
Vilan ios Sapins Parious Partia
Priping
The Business of the above Bank is conduct-
ed by tậề HONG KONG AND 6HANGHAI BANKING CULPORATION.
YOR THE HUNG SONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATIUS.
--
Y. M. GRASBUEN,
Chiar Mackgut.
Hong Kong, 25th February, 13-
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
-$10,000,000L.CE
$5,500.00.De
Authomand Capita Paid-up Capuna Emers and Endivided. Prodie $ 2,000,000.09
HEAD OFFICE-ZIONG KONG.
20, Den Vorex Bood Central.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: hir Abou-son Chow, Cham Id-hoon Cham, Esq., P. K. Kou Yay Wong Hang. Em Hong Che 300, "Zag, and beg 30g Pr. Eng.
Kat Tung Po, Eng_Chiet Mangat.
Li The 200g. Eng“, Manag
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES :—
Manila
Melbourne
DAMAGING
Kapsanki.... Shanghai
Зари
Batavia
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New York
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Foo
Kobe
Kowloos
Zoodco
Patio
Pripad Pazing
Hanson Stugon
Tahom
Twatin
"Luke
VABOORPRE Tokoba
Every description of Bening aah - Berlimago- bos rected. Loans granted, of approved BOTAZION..
Current Accombe opened in: Local Cormancy and Fixed Deporte toimed for one your ar
Lo and Yordgs Dumačios į shorter periode De terme which will be quoted, ser CuppliontSCUL
bas Deponit Boxes To Let
XAS TONG TO, ^
Berit
Calcutta Cannes Colombo
Copenhagen Dublin
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Matfle
Musich
Montrec
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Southampton
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Branches of American Express Company in Principal cities of United States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
Personal investment accounts hand-
The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its fetravellers Cheques" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services
when new notes arrive from Lon- don and New Yark A total-off $200,000,000 in paper money is necessary to meet the require ments of the entire province.
SHARE MARKET:
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day
The Provincial Department of Finance is planning to forma ex- change bureaus in the province to buy silver from the county people" who are still hoarding up silver coins. In the villages some are] buying and selling on a silver ĺbasis.
Import merchants are greatly re- lieved by the fact that the premium for Hong Kong dollars has been lowered to 36 per cent. The mate |2 week ago-was-50 per cent The import trade will improve, now that the value of the Hong Kong dollar is not so high as before.
LOCAL DOLLAR ·
STEADY
Silver Market-Closed
The local dollar is steady, open-
of its thoroughly equipped Traveling on demand this morning st Department.
E W. DUGGAN,
Kanager.
1/33%d...
The silver market was closed.
The London on New York cross- rate was unchanged at £--U.S.$4.- 92%, while the New York on Lon-
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK, don cross-rate was quoted at 5
LIMITED
(Incorporated in China) Head Office-Shanghai
$7,500,000.00
Capital Beserve Branches--All Important Cities in
China
$1,500,000.00
Foreign Earhangs and Games Banking Bus
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Cet and Sering Amounts opened and Pined
LIMITED
Batablished 188#"
Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Beserve Fed
Yen. 127,450,000
Head Office: YOKOHAMA
Branches and Agencies at
Alexandria
Batavia
Berlin
Bombay
Calentia
Canton
Deizen Haly).
Nagasaki Nagoya New York
OZine
Paris
Peiping
Bangoon
Fengtion (Makden) Rio de Jenéro
Hamburg
Hankow
Barbiz
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Hsinking
Karachi
Kobe
London
Los Angeles
Manila
Voji
San Francisco
Seattle
Semarang
Shanghai
Singapore
Sourabaya Sydney
Tientsin
Tokyo
Tsingtas
Yingkow
Deposits massived for cos me of shorter pecicide at makes which will be quoted an application.
696.2. CHIG
Manager.
SONG TANG TAINGE: 24, Dar You Buy Cal
Tel 23505 2256A 35547
Xsoner's Offs Foreign Exstunge Dept. Gamerni üre
- 05
0534.93, as |SUS$4928.
compared with
RAW RUBBER PRICES
Latest Quotations From Singapore.
Messrs. H. 3. Joseph & Co. bave received the followinzi Straits Currency quotations from *Singapore for Raw Babber.
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Head Office: Hong Kong 26, Des Voeux: Boad Centrala Authorised Capital: $10,000,000
LONDON BANKEES: Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every des cripton of banking business transact-
Current Accounts and Savings Ac- counts opened. Fixed Depositstore- ceived at rates which will be quoted) os application
Trusteeship & Executorship under! taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. PHILIP GOCKCHIN Chief Manager.
Interest allowed for Curren A QUALITYPRINTING
соси
Deposits received for fixed periods:
st rates to be obtained on application.
C. KISHINAMI.
Hong Kong, 12th September, 1985,
With Service
THE NEWSPAPER 'INTERPLANE, EIDÄ
Spot 21% b., Up 1⁄2 22 s Jan.-March 223% by Up 22/2
April-June 22% b. Up % 23 & July-Sept. 23 b. Up % 23
Market Quiet.
THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED- Het (Incorporated in China)
Capital paid up Beserves
$5,000,000, $7,300,000.
Capital Savings. Dept: $500,000. Reserve Savings Dept. $500,000, Head-Office-Shanghai
A Bank having as its mission the industrial development o China and the fostering of ber commercial relations abroad. Hong Kong Offiez--
7. Ice Home St. Phone 31481-2-3
Banks
FK Bank $1,470 b. $1,475 83. 15 Erik (London) Độ s Chartered Bank £12% n. Mercantile Bank A. and
£291%
Mercantile Bank C. £133⁄4 ne Bank of East Asia $7031⁄2 m.
Insurances
Canton Ins. SETÜ zie Unions Ins. $560 b China - Underwriters $110 mi China Fire-Ins. $430 m. HK Fire-Ins: $260-1 International Assce. 54 n.
Shipping
-
“Dougiases $36 nə
HX Steamboats "$5um.” Indo-Chinas (Pruf), $30 n Indo-Chings ~ (De£) $11_2- Shella (Bearer) 19/41⁄2 Union Waterboats $12 n-
Mining
Artamoks $11.30 a. Balatoes $17 n. Baguio Gold 22 ets. 2
$15% 1 Benguet Consolidated Benguet Exploration 11 cts. 1. Big Wedge 12 cts. n. Gold Greek, 30 cta. 2. Gold River 7-cts- n_ Ipo Mixing 90 cts. 1. Itogons 36% its n Solacots 15 cts tha
Kallen Mining Ad. 10/6 n Langkats. (Single) Sh$12 n. Shai Exploration Sh.$41⁄2 n. Shanghai Loans $574 n. Razbe $9.70 3. Vent; Goldfeld 3 b.-
Docks, etc.
HK and K. Wharves
$93% b.
1-1935
LUXURY THEA FOR EMPEON
Rowntree
Ther
SPENDING LEISURE HOURS
York-In employees to
tably
thestre“, has been their beneft, byl s colate ärm. The and cost $12,000
In a speech, ME
tree, chainman prophesied that
generation one might expect the normal wor
in England to be reduced to 186 x week
SIDENTEETS
STACHT
YET SAVES MONEY
ADVERTIS
MENTS
BANK HOLIDAYS-
Accordance with Gove-nzwert?
Sequoia Given Back FONDANCE, THE EXCHANGE
CHASTGUARD PATROL BOAT TO TAKE HER PIACE
Preside
BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business. on WEDNESDAY & THUESDAY. the 25th and 26th December,- Boosevelt 1995 (Xmas Holidays)."
Hong Kong, 21st Dec, 1985
sive the
the Depart She Sequoia On mang, aweekend tomac, and Chess-
the Cuyahoga,
used by the secret
:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMPEED.
NOTICE
On TUESDAF, the 24th Decem
trail him, and in ber, All Departments will be open. place be will get a larger until 7 pm
On WEDNESDAY, the 25th De-- faster, coastguard patrol boatsember, and THURSDAY, the It was highly important, there the Electra.
26th December, All Departments. fore, to have the opportunities for
The Electra, the President ex-will be CLOSED. (spending leisure hours wisely dis
plained to newspapermen, will be The Hong Kong Dispensary, The building is owned by the
[large enough for both the Presi-¡ employees Dramatic Society and dential party and the secret service will be open for dispensing pre-
Dispensing: Department, . : can be used for plays, lecturesmen, thus making possible a netcriptions from 10 am to 1 pane films, and meetings.
The Sequoia, now considered a
The hall has a wonderful-newaying in employees and in fuel and from 5 pm to 7:30 pm system of colour lighting and al-
The Kowloon Dispensary will most any effect is obtainable. The fire hazard by the President's adbe open for business from 10 am. seating is especially comfortable visers, became the President yacht 1 pm. and an air-conditioning plant has during the Hoover Administration. A. S. Watson, & Co, Limited,
Mr. Hoover commandeered it from Hong Kong, 23rd December, 1935- the Commerce Department after shandaning the *more
palatial Mayflower, which rode the Puto mac for many years under several Presidents.
been instaled-Beuter.
NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTES
Wants Christmas In Prison
Bilbao: Jose Saulina is prepara
PUBLIC AUCTION
The President's new ship is ex- THE Undersigned have received"
Tinstructions to sell by Publie
pected to reach Washington zert week after being outfitted in Nor Auction. folk, Virginia. It is 155 feet long. and has a speed of 15 knots, com pared with the Sequoia's pace of
little over 10 knots. „Presidential-yachts are supporte
ed to go on breaking other peo-ed by the Government and mamed ple's mirrors until the authorities by the Navy, on the theory that allow him to spend Christmas they could be quickly turned to prison.
Two months' sentence has just) been passed on him for angshing the mirror in a chemist's shop, (old) but as he has had to remain ́in custody for exactly two months
HK and K. Wharves (new){ waiting for his trial, he now finds
$312.
HK. and W. Docks $9 1. Providents (old) $185 b. Frovidents (new) 15 cts. n. Hong Kew Sh. $23731⁄2 n. New Engineering Sh.54 m. Suangbai Docks, $80 n.
Cotton Mills
Ewo Cotton Sh.$9% m.
Shanghai Cotton (old) Sh$75
Shanghai Cotton (new) Sh.541%
Zoong Sings Sh.$12. Wing On Textiles Sb. $25 1. Lands, Hotels, etc HK and S. Hotal $5_n. FK Lands $35 b
HK Lands 4% Debentures $100
Thi
himself at liberty.
He
military, purposes if necessary.
EELS HOLD UP TRAFFIC
Curious Scene In Sussex Village
He is annoyed at being deprived of his Christmas in prison in this way and has requested the authorities to detain him..... maintains he is ready to repeat London: Eels have held his crime until he is able to spend trafic in the Sastér village of Christmas where he wants.
¡Itchenor.
P
Asked to explain this maïque
The villagers say that the eels wish Sarcina replied, rather un-made their way in large numbers satisfactorily, that there was no from the village pond in bread accounting for tastes, was there? daylight
-Reuter.
DROWNED MAN TIED TO A STAKE
They crossed the road at the bottom of a hill and motorists pulled up to allow them to. pass.
Many of the eels were caught isnd eaten.
по
Friday, the 27th December, 1935-- commencing at 2:30 pm.
at their Säles Room, No. 35. Hankow Boad, Kowloon
A Quantity of
VALUABLY HOUSEHOLD
[composizing.
FURNITURE
Teak Dining Room and Bed Room Furniture, Chesterfield: Suites, Pictures, Carpets, Rugs. Clocks, Ornaments, Enarnél and Porcelain Ware, Brass and Almo Ware, etc., ett.
also
A Selection of Black-Wood
Furniture.
On View from Thursday the 26th. December, 1935.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT EROS..
Anctioneers.
Hong Kong 23th Dec, 1935.
BRONZE CROSS FOR SCOUT
A Jamaican boy scout, Martin
Ells are able to live for a long Watkis, aged 13, has been zward-
The body of James Gillies, 48, of Canuscross, Skye, who had been time out of water. They usually ed the Bronze Cross, the highest bed-ridden for three years, was travel overland at night in wet award for gallantry of the Scouts' Metropolitan Lands Sh. $10 a found in the ses close inshore, tied grass and during damp weather. Association, for rescuing a crip-
Shanghai Lands. Sh $20 a.
Humphreys: $1034 m "FK. Rexifies $5:05 b... Chinese Estates $84 m. China Realties $4 1. China Debentures Sh.$85 a. Public Utilities HK. Tramway: $14.35 b. Peak Trams (old) $5 h. Peak Trams (new) $4 n. Star Ferries $89 b.
Yaumati Ferries $17, p. C. Light $10% b. ez div. cum
F.K. Electrics $68 n. Macao Electrics $20 nj Sandakan Light $2.10 n. Telephones (old) $2432 b. Telephones (new) $91⁄2 n.. China Buses Sh$1134 n Singapore Traction 17/- nhi Singapore Traction Pre£ 267-
·Industrials
"Malabon Sugar $3.40 n.
Cald, Macz (Ord.) Sh.$194... Cald: Macg. (Pre), Sh$15 1 Canton Ices $1.60-z-. Cements $6.90.5.
HK Ropes $465 2
by a long rope to a stake planted Hin the ground. It is believed that he took the rope from two gozta: that were tethered near the shore,! and used it to avoid being carried font to sex.
Stores, etc., Dairy Farm $19% b. Watsons $41⁄21⁄2 1. Lane, Crawford $6 n. Mackintosh $5 Sincere $1.25 b. Wm. Powells 70 cts: n.
Wing On (FK) $40 1.
Miscellaneous
SAVED BY THREE HOURS
Just Too Young To Be Hanged
Vienna: Franz Kachelbaner, -an assistant, rinemployed barber's strangled his girl friend in a fit of zage three hours before his 18th) birthday.
Those three hours have saved This life.
When arrested, Kachelbauer con- "Entertainments $3.40- me
fessed immediately. He had quar- S. C Enterprises $1:35 n
relled with the girl, he asserted, Macao “Greyhonads" $2 n.
in and,
a fit of rage, had Constructions (old) $2 ̈n. Constructions: (new) 30 eta. n. (strangled. her.. Vibro Piling $4 n.
Ch. Govt 5% 1925 - G&Bds-
-94% 12.
A death sentence seemed in- evitable; but just before sentente was passed in court, Kachelbauer's
HE Govt 4% Loan 54% 1 counsel rose to point out that the
prem
W law here forbids the execution of
persons under the age of 18.
Kachelbauer's life was saved
·HE Govt 33% Loan 4% 1.
Wallace Harpers. $4 1.
To-morrow.
"What Better Proof?"
pled woman house.
2 burning
SPECIAL WEATHER SERVICE
A weather-report teletype and" broadcasting service has been in- stalled at the Wayne County, Mich., airport
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TO MORROW
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GOLD DIGGERS of 1935
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