BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised Capital
$50,000,000
Issued and Fally Paid-up. 20,000,000 'Beserve Funds: --
Sterling ......£ 6,500,000
Silver
......$10,000,000;
Reserve Liability of Pro
prietors
$20,000,000
HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
a. X. Dodwell, Eng. Chairman.
CC Knight, Esq.
Deputy Cha
Hon. Mr. W. A.Bell
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA,
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1858.
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HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
Paid-up Capital
£3,000,000 ...£$,000,000
Reserve Liability of Fro-
Reserve Fund
prietors
Agencies, and Branches:
Alor Star.
Tiesto.
Amrimar
1poù
Bangona Sagoo
Bangles
Kanchi
Klang
Tombay
Kobe
Shangha
Calcula
Kaula
Bagageira
Cavazo
Lacopur
Billawan
Campore
Enching
Sourways
Taiping
MAGÜE
Medex
Tongka
New York
(Bhaker
Tsingtao
(Peking) Pan
Yokola.com. Zamboangs
Hon Mr. J.J. Paterson Cabu A.H. Compton Esq. T. E. Pearce Es
Delhi
MM, Johnson Esq., J.A. Pinmmer Esq. siphong G. Miskin Esq. A. L. Shields Esq.
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HANKOT
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BRANCHES
EGALA JUXPER
LONDON
LYONS
MALACCA
MANILA
MUKDEN
BUA Globomai
NEW YORK
PEIPING
PEMANG
BANGOON
SAIGON
SAN FRANCISCO
SHANGHAI
SINGAPURE NOURABAYA
SUNGE PATANI THENTSIN
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Cures: Accola opened in Loon! Carswary and and Dapi receted for on year or shorter periode in Loon) Cursvacy and Sterling
en me which will be quoted an application. ALSO up to date SAFE DEMOTI BLES
Kim TU LEI.
Bang hoog at November, ExXS.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
The Baskness of the shora Basit as condict- by the HUNG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Buns may be obtained on application.
FOR THE HUNG BONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
V. M. GRAYECRN,
Cheet Manager.
Hong Kong 25: February, EAR.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Authorised Captai
Paid-up Capitan m
23,300,000.00
-I 5,325,00058)
Formiga Zzelunge and Geoses). Backing business Current Accounts opened, and Fixed" Deponite received for son gear or shorter perioda sa 'rates, which will do qunted on application..
A. BREARLET,
Manager. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.
THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
INC.
Head Offices-65, Broadway, New York
Capita?
Surplus
Reservea
.U.S.$6,000,000.00 2,183,633.06. 870,731.05
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BELD OFFICE:-HONG KONG.
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BUMED OF DIRECTORS.
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14 Soon Coun. Pok
Yan Tong. Eng. Cass Chise Mark End I
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BRANCHES AND AGENCLES
Pari
Sexta
Latoy
Mazie
Batavia
Helbourns
Sombay
Celestia
New York
Caplan Haiphong
Chania
Kaskow
Sydney
Focaliu
Cobe Cowicea
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Pepin
Perming
Pas
San Francisco
description of Basking' and Exchange bi tried. Sonne granted on appro
Barbarɔlume.
Current
Accounts opened in Local CommDKY and Fazed Degumite recevred for one your or Charter perioca, in Zoost and Foreign Currencies Webcam which will os quied of application.
• Bad Import Bose 10 lm,
HAN TONG PU,
Chic: Kangur,
States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken..
Personal investment accounts band.
led
*The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its "Travellers | Cheques” and Letters of Credit and, addition, the world-wide services
**
of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department
C. E. BENSON.
General Manager
THE CHINA MAIL" MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1936
Commerce and Finance
SHARE MARKET
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
The following is the list of local share quotations issued-to-day: «
Bankr
H.A. Banks $1,615 b.
HK Bank (London). £108. Chartered Bank £14 n. Mercantile Bank A. and
$2914 1
134.
Bj
Mercantile Bank C. Bank of East Asia $80 - $1783
Insurances Canton las. $270 n.
Unions Ins. $577, $3. China Underwriters $1.10.n. China Fire Ins. $480 m HK Fire Lis. $260 a.
ernational Assce. $34 m.
Shipping
Douglases $36 1 HK Steamboats $5 b. Indo-Chinas (Pref). $30 Indo-Chinas (De) $20 Shells (Bearer) 90/- a.. Union Waterboats $1434
Mining Antamoks $160 3a Balatoes $171⁄2 . Baguio Gold 22 cta a Benguet Consolidated $17.10 -
Benguet Exploration 12 cts. Big Wedge 12 ets. a. Gold Creek 30 cts. .
Gold River 7 cts. b.
Ipo Mining 90 cts. z Itogons 36% 2 Salacots 15 ct.. Nailan Mining Ad 12/6 n. Langkats (Single) $11_n. S'hai Exploration Sh.641⁄2 n. Shanghai Loans Sh.84 n. Raubs $113.
Venz; Goldfield $31.
Docks, etc.
LOCAL DOLLAR
STEADY
"Spot" Silver Not Quoted
PATHENIC LAST LETTER
Woman's Years Of Loneliness"
LITTLE DIFFERENCES WITH HUSBAND
A man whose trade had ["gone right out” told at an in- quest recently of six years' un- employment, of little differences with his wife, and of the com- The local dollar is steady, open-plete silence between them ing on demand this morning which preceded her death. at 1/34.
"Spot" silver was not quoted The London or New York cross- rate was quoted at 5-US.495
The inquest was at Watford on Emily Furniss, aged 54, of Whippendell-road, Watford.
James Joshua Wiliam Fur- niss said he gave his wife 22s. 25 compared with US$4.95 out of 265. a week unemploy while the New York on Londonment benefit be received. but cross-rate was quoted 3 three weeks ago
this money US$1953⁄4%. 38 compared with stopped altogether.
-ES.$4.9571.
When in employment he was a working jeweller.
Harold Farniss, a son, said be found his mother with her
RAW RUBBER PRICES head in the gas oven with the
Latest Quotations From
Singapore
the
Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co have received
following quotations from Singapore in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber.
gas full on
Two Letters Irene Furniss, daughter, said she found two letters on the dressing-table. One ad- dressed to her brother and her- self, read:
"Dear Renie and Harold, My last words to you-I cannot
Spot 23 Down 14 23 Five this awful life any longer. February/March 23 Dow
4 22 245-
April/June 24 Down
3/4 S
ss.July/September 24 4 Down
d. 244 s.
BK and K. Wharves (öld)
$103 H.K. and E
$101 n.
Wharves (new)
FK, and W. Docks $9 .. Providents (old) $2.30 By chang
Providents (new) 50 cts sa. Hong Kew Sh. $237 New Engineering Sh$4 'n
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK, Shanghai Docks $80-
*
LIMITED
(Incorporated in Chinx)
Head Office--Shanghai
Capital
Reserve
$7,500,000.00
$1,500,000.00.
Branches-All Important Cities in
Chine
Foreign, Zarbage and Gasara: Banking Busine
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Current and Saving Accounts opened and Fixad
LIMITED
Established 1880
Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000
Reserve Fund
Ten: 127,450,000
Head Office: YOKOHAMA
Branches and Agencies at
Alexandria
Batavia
Berlin
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton
Deiren (Dalry)
Nagasaki Nagoya
New York Osaka
Paris
Perping
EIFOOD
I
· Fengtier (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro
Hamburg
San Francisco
Hankow
Seattle
Harbin
Semarang
Hong Kont
Shanghai
Honolulu
Singapore
Hrinking
Sourabaya
Sydney
Tientsin
Takyo
Tsingtan
Karachi
Kobe
London
Los Angeles
Manila
Meji
Interest allowed for Current he-|
Counts.
Deposits received for faxed periods at rates to be obtained on application.
C. KISHIŇÁKI,
Manager. Hong Kong, 12th September, 1935.
Deponiam received for one year of shorter - periods arrates which will be quoted on application
500 2, CHANG,
HONG KONG BRANCH
21. Des Tout Bond. Central.
Men's O
Foreign Exchange Depl
Ode
Camber's 05
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Head Oficer Hong Kong
26; Des Voeux Road Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000- LONDON BANKERS:— Westminster Bank, Ltd. Formiga Exchange and every desi} cripton of banking business transact- ed.
Current Accotints and Savings Ac counts opened. Fixed Deposits re- ceived a rates which will be quoted] m appliextiot.
Trusteeship & Executorship!"under" taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire)
PHILIP GOCK CHIN Chief Manager.
RELIABLE PRINTING
no order foo small
“THE NEWSPAPER ENTIERPRISE LTD.
GRINA MAD, MUN.
SA WYSINOUE, WE,
POPEYE. A Judge Has Got To Be Fair!"
IMAGINE POPEYE, OUR OKTIPATOR: HOLDING A CONTEST WITH OUR FUTURE. [WIVES TO SEE WHICH IS THE
BEST KISSER IMAGINE
KISSING
| I THOUGHT HE HAD THOSE GALS COME TO OUR NEW. COUNTRY. FOR US TO MARRY
YEAH,"THET'S WH WE THOUGHT
Cotton Mills
Ewa Cotton Sh$84 n Shanghai Cotton (old) Sh$75
Market: Manufacturers drawn.
"DRIVER DIES AT POST
DRIVER
I had not a soul to turn to to help me out. Always alone. My 24 head has ached for ages. As
times goes on I shall only be in your way. No money and too ill for anything. So I leave with you both to rearrange your
lives."
A letter to a cousin said: "I thank you for all your kindness. I have gone through a lot lately fighting against this, but my life has Joseph Henry Lafamit, aged 50, been a nightmare these last driver. of Princes-road, few years”. It has been Teddington, died recently at his all pain and worry, and the.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WATER SUPPLY.
Γ
T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED Hthat a CONSTANT SUPPLY
OF WATER will be given in all- districts on the 22nd 23rd and (24th January. in connection with
the Chinese New Year Festival-
R. M. HENDERSON,
Water Authority.
Public Works Department,
Hong Kong, 20th Jan, 1986.
ANCHOR LINES DEFICIT
Official Receiver's Staternent
£2,000,000 LIABILITIES
DISCLOSED
•
The Official Receiver. In the compulsory liquidation by the Anchor Line (Henderson Bro- thers), Ltd., of Liverpool and Glasgow, has issued a summary of the company's statement of affairs.
This shows gross liabilities. |£2,224.589, of which. £1,271,807
Light green homespun wool is, are expected to rank, and.
combined with black Lyons vel- vet for this smart afternoon tailleur worn by Jean Muir, the screen actress. The six-panel skirt has a square flap section." _front_and_back below the kares, to give it fullness, while the set- in panels of velvet add to the un- usttal styling of the peplum jacket.
met
£951,887 Creditors
assets £4,105.
After deducting claimed by secured and £895 needed to pay pre- ferential claims, a total-de- ficiency of 2,192,702 K. dis-- closed regarding shareholders.
The official receiver reports that the profits earned during the war failed to compensate
controls just as he brought the years of loneliness more than 1 RAIL CRASH IN the company for the loss of ton-
tram to a stop in Clapham...
. Public Utilities HK Tramways $14.10 sa. Peak Trams (old) $5 b Peak Trams (new) $2 Star Ferries $93 b. Yaumati Ferries $184.b. C. Lights (old) $11.40
$11-40/11.70 s
B
C-Lights (new) $8:10 b; 381⁄4-
sa...
H.K. Electrics $741⁄4 5., $723⁄41⁄2/-
75 SL
Macao Electrics $20 n. Sandakan Light $44 b.
Shanghai Cotton" (new) Sh$41 Telephones (old) 226.80
Zoong Sings Sh.$12 a Wing On Textiles Sh. $25 n Lands, Hotels, etc.
H.K. and S. Hotel $54 b., $5/-
33.
5.80 H.K Lands $35 6.
HK. Lands 4% Debentures $109)
Shanghai Lands Sh$18 n. Metropolitan Lands Sh. $10 n. Humphreys $10.65 HK Realties $5.85 sa Chinese Estates. "$34′′m/2 China Realties $41. China Debentures Sh.360
THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in China)
Capital paid up
$5,000,000. $7,800,000.
Beserves Capital Savings Dept. $500,000, Beserve Savings Dept. $600,000. Head Office Shanghai.
A Bank having as its mission the industrial development on China and the fostering of bes commercial relations abroad." Hong Kong Office
6, Queen's Road Central Phone 31116.
WELL TRAIS THAT EACH ONE OF THE TEN THOUSING] NINE HØNERD AN FIFTY GALS GIVED MEA QUEST.
THE
CONTEST
SOVER
KISS
27 så
Telephones (new). $10-20 . China Buses Sh$111⁄4 n. Singapore Traction 15/3 b.
ZL
can bear."
The jury returned a verdict of Suicide During Temporary Insanity due to domestic and financial troubles.
NEW MACHINES ORDERED
Order Placed By US. War Department
ני
SNOW
Rescue Work By Torchlight
VAN FULL OF MEN OVERTURNED
nage arising from епету action.
Floating Charge In March, 1934, a floating charge was given on the whole of the company's undertaking, property, and assets in favour of the Union Bank of Scot- land, Ltd
The Bank was the representa- Five of all secured creditors, Four-men-were seriously-in who had surrendered earlier jured and taken to Southend charges
on the
company's hospital early last month when steamers. The approximate a LJLS goods train left the total of the amounts claimed to rails at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, be due to the bank and other latter half of last month awarded while being shunted. A brake secured creditors as mortgages
containing about a dozen and charges under the securit men was smashed and overies is £1,698,091
Washington
The War Department during the
b, contracts for 115 attack planes, van
|103 bombing planes - and 115 obj servation planes at a cost of |$15,000,000, it was revealed
cently.
·ex-
Singapore Traction Pref. 26/- The Department intends to pur
chase 100 pursuit planes, hausting the $23,000,000 app Industrials... Malabon Sugar $8.40 n-
priation for new aircraft.
It was Cald, Macg. (Ord.) Sh$19 acier. General Frank Andrews,
announced that Briga-1 Cald: Macy. (Prët), Sh$15 n.
commander of the General Head Canton Ices $112 b. Cements $92 b. $9.40/91⁄2vanced to the temporary rank of quarters Air Force, has been ad-
EK Ropes $5.55 h..
Stører, etc.
Dairy Farms $2134 n. Watsons 3485 3
Lane, Crawlords $6.a. Mackintosh $51. Sinceres $2.30, n. - - Wm Powells 70 cis. a. Wing On (ILK) $53 b.
Miscellaneous. Entertainments $5 $5/4.55 sa SC Enterprises. $186. n. Macao "Greyhounds”. $2 n. „Constructions (old) $165, 1
Constructions (new) 50 cts. Vibro Piling $4 Ch. Govt. 5% 1925
-94%
Major-General.
POISON, PUT IN COFFEE
President's Mother Has Narrow Escape
ned. Nearly all the men were injured The more seriously hurt were:
Groans Of Injured
A New Company Early last year the court sanctioned an agreement for
as
Hornchurch, timekeeper.
E. Jarvis, of Butts Green, the sale of certain assets and the goodwill to a new company W. Finch, South Benfleet, registered platelayer.
Anchor Line (1935) Limited. Schofield. South Benfleet. The directors chiefly attribute platelayer.
the company's failure to the A. Hubbard of Oak-road, large building programme or Grays. guard of the train 1919 and to the fact that credi- tors, who in 1931 entered into The men who were not a standstill agreement de seriously injured helped to drag cided at the end of last year the others from the debris, that they were not prepared to working by the light of flares keep the company going any and torches
The groans of longer, if they could obtain a the injured could be heard on buyer prepared to give a rea-- the railway platform some dissonable price. - (tance away. Falling snow made the rescue work more
IN OTHER DAYS difficult.
Every ambulance in
Panama The aged mother Southend was hurried to the In the early days of aviation, of Dr. Harmodio Arias, Presi- scene of the accident
it was not considered unusual for
dent of Panama, narrowly es- One of the slightly injured 3. stodent to fly solo in a day's caped, death by poisoning at the men said: “When I recovered time, after taking a few hops with n. country home of her son Her (from the first shock. I heard his instructor.
coffee was found to contain a screams? coming from all GSB-strong dose of poison.
around me. I ran to lend a and the ambulances arrived
A servant who had been re-hand, and in a few seconds Then the gangers had z roll-- FK Govt. 4% Loan 5% prem primanded and threatened with other gangers were working call to make sure that no one
b.
discharge for msnbordination, with me We first got out the was missing, and a further: is alleged to have put cyanide most badly injured, and gave search of the debris revealed in her mistress's cup
them attention until a doctor that all had been rescued.”
HK Govt 314% Loan par. u. Wallace Harpers $4 1.
To-morrow.- “A Fellow Cannot Shox Partiality.
STAN BACKYA SWBBS, I KIN OKT MAKE UP ME MUND BÍCH ONE WIND,
(50 1 GOT TO LETTEN KISS ME D
WHO
MARRY THE
•WHO
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AGAIN
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