BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised Capital $50,000,000 incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853. Issued and Fully-Paid-up 20,000,000 | HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
Baserve Funds:--
Sterling.£6,500,000
Hong Kong Currency
Reserve....$10,000,000
serve Liability of Pro-
prietors
HEAD OFFICE: BONG KONG.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Agencies and Branches:
Paid-up Capital
Eeserve Fund
..£3,000,000 £3,000,000
Reserve Liability of Prv
prietors
...-..£3,000,000
$20,000,000
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Hoa. Mr. J. J. Paterson.
Chairman
G. Miskin Esq.
Deputy Chau"TRINIT
Men. Mr. W.H. Bell, J.R. Masson Esq. AH, Compton Esq., T. E. Paarce Esq. Hon. Mr. S. II. Dodwell,
J. A. Plummer Esq.
MT. Johnson Esq. AL. Shields Esq.
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1. M. Grayburn, Esq.
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SAN FRANCISCO
SILANGHAI
SANGAPUKE
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SUNGLA PALANI
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Current Axolute upened in Loosi, Currency and Few ' toe om your ve borer pencerely sad bowrung on
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will be quiet où spieval the.
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Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
The Bustion of the atone Bank is voodver. by JONG KONG AND MEANG HAL SANG CORPORATION
Buis day
FOR THE BONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BASKINŲ, CORIAUBATION.
V. GRAYBURN.
Checa ? Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
$10,000.50
Askbored Capra' -----
SOMO.CAX). Pud-up Caps Reserve and Loŭrided Probl$ 2,885, BWG_112
HEAD OFFICE;-huko KONG.
De Vos Home, Cen
BARD OF DIRECTORS-
Jus Long Eng Chan Ching Blank, Ling, heat hono -Bacig. Emy. Whing can do by sad bao Ying
Amoy
Bombay
An Tung Po. Eng., Chiet Managutu LT Fong. Zeq., Huangst.
BRANCHES AND-AGENCIES:-
عليمية
-
Melbourne
Demikia
semaran
bhangin
Nayak
New York
wate
Calmiste Curion Paiphong
Cuka
Yurin
Prepa
Tenang
Kamoinin
Kowloon
London
Bangona
San Francisco
Man
Zongkah
11)
Juhunte Zamboanga
Furman Exchange nod Gusarai Basiung busines Curreal Accouster opsoed and Find Depos recsked for Que year or aborter perde si talou wide wild be quoted an appucsun.
A. BREAKLEY,
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936-
ommerce and Finance
NEW YORK STOCK
*** MARKET
Bearish Trend Seen
SALES ON RALLIES ADVISED
Messrs. White, Weld and Com-! pany, New York Correspondents for Messrs. S. E. Lery and Com- pany, report:-
Stocks: The market to-day es- tablished a bearish trend, with ro We ex- Manager.near resistance points.
Boag Koag, 1st January, 1935.
THE
fpect the current good business tol continue for perhaps another two months, but the market may bel anticipating subsequent
vace
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, tainty. We would advise sales
INC.
Joosepwated was bad basing in
Head Office:-65, Broadway. New York
Capital
_U_S_$6,000,000.00,
2,183,633.00 570,731.00
Industrial issues are on rallies.
resistance previous below the level, indicating a further sub- stantial decline if to support ap- Ipears before the close. done: 2,300,000 shares.
Business
Surplus Reserves
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SHARE MARKET
The following was the list local share quotations issued |day:-
Bankı
H.K. Banks $1.510 : H.K. Bank (London) 103 1. Chartered Bank £14. Mercantile Bank A. and
£31 m. Mercantile Bank C. £14% n. Bank of East Asia $73 1.
Insurances
Canton Ins. $275 n- Union Ins. $510 b., ar, sa. China Underwriters $12. China Fire Ins. $450 h. H.K. Fire Ins. $250 . International Assce. Sh$3. Shipping
Douglases $36 n.
H.K. Steamboats $54 n.
. Indo-Chinas (Pret.), $30 1. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $20 1. Shell (Bearer) 95/7 Union Waterboats $12.20 n.
Mining
Antameks $2.35, 2.42 sa. Balatocs $21 a.
$3.
n.
CHAMBER OF LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
COMMERCE
Annual Meeting Next Monday
Ho Tim-aan. an unemployed, The Hong Kong Inter-School was this morning sentenced to Sports will be held at Caroline Hill and Cheats: 2 pm) six months' hard labour by Mr.to-day
(finals: 215 S. F. Balfour at the Central Friday, May 1, Magistracy for throwing pepper pm). The prizes will be dis- The Annual General Meeting into the face of Mrs. Irwatatributed on Friday by Mr. G. R. of the Members of the Hong and attempting to snatch ber Sayer, Director of Education. Kong
Chamber
General
of
There will be a whist drive at the Cheero Club at S.30 pm to- day.
yester- Defendant admitted the day. of Commerce will be held at the handbag near Glenealy to offices of the Chamber, Char-
charge. tered Bank Building. on Monday next at 4.30 p.m. for the follow-! ing purposes:----
The usual fortnightly whist
Che Lin, a female, was admitted (1) To receive the Report to the Government Civil Hospital
Room at Kowloon Dock to- and Accounts of the Commit-suffering from injuries received drive will be held in the Reading
ended 31st when she was knocked down by
at $.45 day
Admis- P.1. Iprivate ear No. 3595 in Hennessey
50
Refreshments sion
cents. Road yesterday.
will be served and whist will be followed by a tombola. The Com- mittee extends a cordial invitation - to the general public.
B tee for the year
December, 1985.
(2) To elect a Committee. (3) To elect Auditors. (4) To transact any General Business
.
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
Silver Prices Firm
Ng Yuen was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suf- fering from internal injuries re- ceived when eight men assaulted
The ss. Chitral is due here, him in Portland Street resterday. from Singapore with the outward
English mails
morrow.
at 10
(11
A report has been made to the Police by Leung Kam-chuen, mas- ter of cargo boa: No. 1669W, that A rehearsal of the Hong Kong to-day called for dollar is steady, his boat collided with another Singers is The local
No. 1754V, in the at 5.30 pm at the Union Church, jopening on demand this morning cargo boat.
southern fairway at 1.30 rester-Kennedy Road. at1 81.
result were unchanged. day afternoon and as a Silver prices
thrown into i The Matshed Church Ladies' both "spot" and "forward" being seven persons were
the water. They were rescued Sewing Bee will meet at 10 a.. quoted at 20%.
The London on New York cross-by the steam launch Hop" Sang,to-day. rate was quoted at £-U.S.$4.93%, which happened to be near by.j
of
At-to-day's weekly tiffic Baguio Geld 30 cts., b. 31 ets. as compared with S-U.S$4.99. Yeung Lin-fai a married woman. Cotton: The rains in Texas áre
while the New York on London and Lo Fo were admitted to the the Rotary Club, the speaker will are insuf- beneficial, but they
cross-rate was unchanged at Government Civil Hospital and be Rotarian Laszlo Schwartz, of cient, whilst the rainfall in
U.S.S4.9391.
are reported to be progressing Budapesth. His subject will be Two Happy Bed-fellows - Com- satisfactorily. Oklahoma is entirely insuficient!
mercialism and Art." Wheat: While some beneficial! rains have been received, much
Wei in needed. more rainfall
be advisable to think it would
Total sales: purchase for a turn. 19.221,000 bushels.
Flash: Steel mill activity for the past week is estimated at 71.2 per cent of capacity against 70.4 American Express per cent. the previous week. Company in Principal cities of United States of America and Canada.
Branches
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
led
Persocal investment accounts hand-
The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its "Travellers Cheques" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services
COMMODITY PRICES
The following quotations have been received by Reuter.
Prev. Yesterday Closing Closing
of its thoroughly equipped Travel New York Cotton:- Department
(Incorporated in China)
Head Office Shanghai
Capital
$7,500,000.00
Reserve
-$1,500,000.00
Bungapore Sourabaya Mydlwy
Taihei
"Tak Vanocovat
Every description, of Banking and Exchang Loans grested on approved
Sape poate spent in Local CATRACY and Food Deposita esired low one year or shorter periods is Local god Formign Curr
A winch will be quoted, on "appisosLUID.
Bele Depoelt Bom To Le
SAN TONG PO
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK, January
LIMITED
Branches-All Important Cities in
tranamazed..
Current and being costs specs and Pized March
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Deputed for the year or shorter perioda
retes which wội he quoted on application.
Z CHANG,
Manage
2 De Tour Bond. Central
Chit Manage.
Benguet Consolidated $18.20 Benguet Exploration 22 cts. Big Wedge 40 cts. n. Demonstration 79 cts. 32. Gold Creek 15 ets. D. Gold River 44 cts. sa. Itogons $1.20 b. 31.24 sa IXL $16 n. Salacot 11 cts. a. Kailan Mining Ad. 12/3 n. Langkats (Single) Sh.810 n Masbate 70 cts. n.
S'hai Exploration Sh.$44 n. Shangbai Loans Sh.$4 n. Raubs $111⁄4 ».
San Maurico $1.20
.
ZLOTY TO BE CONTROLLED
Government Decree Published
Warsaw, To-day.
j
The sa Nellore
A Russian couple. Petrus and Maria Vitkovski, were this mor- !ning charged before Mr. S.. F.Manila, Australian and Tasmanian Balfour at the Central Magistracy ports on Saturday
with entering the Colony without a
The case was
a valid passport. adjourned for 48 hours.
will leave for
next at 10.30
One case each of enteric fever and puerperal fever were reported The weekly meeting of the Ur-to the Health authorities in the of controlled currencies, with alban Council will be held at 4.15 43 hours ended on Sunday.
The zloty has joined the ranks
decree closely regulating foreign pm. to-day. exchange transactions and
es-
United Paracale 76 cts. b. 76 tablishing a commission, whose
cts. sa.
Yenz; Goldfield $31⁄2 n.
Docks, etc.
The ss. Nellore, which left Moji The ss. Santhia will leave for on Sunday morning, is due bere leave will be necessary for the Osaka via ports: on 6 a.m.
onjon Thursday morning- purchase or transfer abroad of Thursday. foreign currencies, the granting of credits to foreigners, and the. import and export of gold.
Nearing home after addressing The Kowloon Chess Club will
over 17,000 Rotarians throughout meet at 5.30 p.m. to-day at the the world, Mr. C. S. See arrived ins
Hong Kong this week on his way to Kuala Lumpur after completing
the
at
ling
his
tour
a world tour which began in Mr. See year. Singapore Last at visited 18 different countries dur- addressed
and
H.K. and K. Wharves $91 x. KK. and W. Docks $9 n. Providents (old) $11⁄4 n. Providente (new) 20 cta. 1. - Hong Kew Sh$190 n. New Engineering Sha Shanghai Docks Sh.$100 B.
-Cotton Mills Ewo Cottons Sh88% b Shanghai Cottons (old) Sh$70
៦.
RAW RUBBER PRICES (new) Sh.-
The Government officially ex- Central British School plains that the decision is intend-
The annual meeting of ed to prevent speculation and the undue export of capital, and will China Emporium will be held not interefere with normal trading 62A-6S, Queen's Road Central,
4.30 p.m. to-day. [conditions.-Reuter.
Shanghai Cottons
$3714 b. Zoong Sings Sh.$12 r. Wing On Textiles Sh$25
Lands, Hotels, etc.
EK. and S. Hotel $4.80 b...“ á....
30/821 sa H.K. Lands $31 s
May July C. H. BENSON,
General Manager. October
December
March Spot
New York Rubber:- May July September China Forsign, Zambags and Owners! Banking Business December
11.53 1158 11.20 11.13 10.27 10.37 10.35 10.26 10.29 -10.38# 10.44 10.33 11.33 11.77
15.99a
15.93 16.11a 16.05 16.22 16.192 16.343 16.284 16.40a. 16.454
Chicago Wheat:—
H.K Lands 4%
Debentures
LIMITED
HONG KONG BRANCH :
May
10034
98
100% b.
Established 1980
Manager's Off -
• IL SEE
July
90%
$7
Shanghai Lands Sh$18 n.
Yoreign Exchange Deph MNCONTINE RADOST
53566
September
39%
$5%
Metropolitan Landa Sh, $10
n.
General Odas
Be360
Eumphreys $8.80 2.
Coal' as were
23509
..Yen 129,150,000
Chicago Corn:-
H.K. Realties $5 m.
May
63P%
61%
Chinese Estates $82 1.
Head Office: YOKOHAMA,
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
July
62
60%
China Bealties Sh.$4
China. Debentures Sh.$60 n.
Alexandria.
Head Office: Hong Kong
•26, Des Voeux Road Central
Winnipeg Wheat:-
Public Utilities
Batavia
May
8134
7954
H.K. Tramways $10% b. $10.-
July
825%
8034
85.sa.
Bombay
October
83
82.
Calcutta
Canton
Capital (full paid-up) Yen.100,000,000
Beserve Fund
Berlin
Branches and Agencies at
Nagasaki Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Peiping
Dairen (Dainy) Rangoon
Fengties (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro
Hamburg
Hankow
Harbin
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Kanking
Pondon
Los
Angeles
Marila Moji
San Francisco
Seattle Shang
Tientsin
Tokyo
Tsingtan Yingkow
Interest allowed for Current Ae.
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applica
G. KISHINAMI,
tion.
Manager.
Bong Kong, 10th March, 1936..
K
POPEYE. A.
IYA GOT TO BE BRAVE COWARDS DON'T GET NOPLACE GO CAPTURE A BRUTIAN
OKAY,
SOLJER
FLL TRY IT- GNATS TO THE ENEMY
Authorised Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS:- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every des cripton of barking business tranzact ed.
Current Accounts and Savings Ac-j counts opened. Fixed Deposits re- ceived at rates which will be quoted on_application.
Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN
Chief Manager.
'Brine Your PRINTING, Problems to Usi
THE PEKWEPAPER ENTERPELEE LTD.
GOURA HAR BURG
24 WINNIE WY.
Hand-To-Hand Encounter”
| HANDS UP OR I'LL)
PRICK YOU WITH
MY BAYONET
THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in China)
Capital paid up .$5,000,000.
Reserves
..$7,200,000. Capital Savings Dept. $500,000. Reserve Savings Dept. $600,000. Head Ofice Shanghai
A Bank having as its mission the industrial development on China and the fostering of her commercial relations abroad. Hong Kong Office-
6, Queen's Road Central Phone 31116.
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Peak Trams (old) $7 a. Peak Trams (new) $3 n. Star Ferries $86 b.
Yaumati Ferries $19 -
C. Lights (old) $10.70 b. C. Lights (new) $7% b.
HK Electrics $50% b., $50%-
51 sa
Macao Electrics 520 1. Sandakan Lights $8.30 m. Telephones (old) $25.40 n. Telephones (new) 19 n. China Buses Sh$11 Singapore Tractions 20/- n. Singapore Tractions Pref. 23/-
I
Industrials
Malabon Sugars. $8.40 n. Cald., Macg. (Ord) Sh$191⁄2 1 Cald, Mecg. (Pret:) Sh.$15
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[Earlier cable on Page 10.1
Latest Quotations From Singapore
5
following
Currency
Messrs. B. B. Joseph and Co. have
the received
Straits quotations in from Singapore for Baw Rubber.
Buyers
Spot May/June ¡July/Sept. Oct/Dec.
The St. John's Cathedral Church Rotarians in every country. Council will meet to-day at 5.30
P.M
A Dinner Dance will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow at 8.30 p.m.
CONSUMPTION OF TIN
.26% Down % WORLD FIGURES
27
Down 18
273% Down % .27% Down /
Market:-Uncertain;
Canton Ices 31 n. Cements $10 b, $10.15/10.10 HLK. Ropes $4 b.
Stores, etc.
Dairy Farms $20 m. Watsons $3 1
Zane, Crawfords $674 m.
Mackintoshs $5 1. Sinceres 22 1.
Wi Fowells 50 eta, zi. Wing On (HK) $55 n.
Miscellaneous Entertainments $2.90 n.
S. C. Enterprises $135 2 Macao "Greyhounds” $2 'n. Constructions (old) $1% Constructions (new) 50 cts: Vibro Piling $4. n.
Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G$BCA
934.
ISSUED
WORLD'S LARGEST
SHIP
"Normandie" Still Leads
Through additional construc- tion made aboard the French Line Aagship Normandie during her winter lay-up in Havre, her, London, To-day. gross tonnage has been in- from 79,280 to The extent to which the world creased
by 82,799.45, according to cabled is nsing more tin is shown the April bulletin of the Tin Re-advices received by Henri Morin sa-search Development Council, re-de Lindlays, resident General
H.K. Gort, 4% Loan 5% prem.
- b.
E.K. Govt. 3% Loan par. 1. Wallace Harpers $4 n.
To-morrow.
HELP! STOP ME! I'M LAUGHING MYSELF TO
DEATH
vealing the world apparent con-Manager of the French Line for the year ending here, from Henri Cangardel, the sumption
line's managing director in February 1936 at 145,492 tons, an
Paris increase of 215 per cent, compar- led with last year. the United The Normandie thus retains States leading the way with an the distinction of being the increase of 45.1 per cent. Other "world's largest ship," and is appreciable increases were: Hollikewise the longest ship afloat. land, $15 per cent; Czechoslova-her length being 1,029 feet kia, 25.1; Switzerland 18.9: over-all-the standard of mea-- Sweden, 17.8; and India, 16.9. surement by which the length It is estimated that 139,800 of vessels is always determined. tons were used in manufacture The advices from Paris also (an increase of 8.4 per cent.). announced that the gross ton-- while the 5,692 tons remaining
of the Normandie will nage from the above consumption reach the record-breaking figure figure have gone into consumers' of 83,000 tons by the time cur-
aboard rent construction stocks.
The bulletin.calculates Eolivia's finished and the ship re-enters
with arrears of exports at the end of service,
her departure *March at 8,081 tons-Beuter. from Havre on May 6.
"The Secret Service'
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IM-GRR-
TO OUR ENEMIES
OUR FLAG
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HONG KONG $ DIRECTORY
· 1936 ISSUE -
NOW
ON SALE
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