BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Authorized Capital
$50,000,000 lasted and Fally-Paid-up 20,000,000! Láserve Funds:--
Sterling
..£4,500,000
Hong Kong Chirrency
Reserve .$20,000,000 Boncve Liability of Pro-
pristors
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936
Commerce and
Finance
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
| Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fund ma
$3,000,000 $3,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
LOCAL SHARE MARKET
,000,000
- pristava
8,000,000
Agencies and Branches:
Alor Star
Bangoon
Saigon
Flanngvok
TÉMAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,"
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson
Сино
G. Makin Esq.
Dupatý Chairm
Kas. Mr. W.E. Bell, JR; Masson Esq., E. Compton Esq. T. E. Pearce Esq.
Kom Mr. S..H. Dodwell,
J. A. Plammer Dak Johnson Esq, AL Shields Esq.
Y. M. Graybara, Esq.
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BATAVIA
KOLONBO
BRANCHADO
LSDON
LIONS
MALACCA
MANZ
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MUNDEN
NEW YORK
YELPING
PENANG
•BANGORN
DALUON
JOOCHOW
SAN FRANCISCO
HANKOT
HARTEK
مکانات
SHARE
SUBS
KUALA LUMPUa
KUWLOOK
BELANG HAS
BINGAPURE
SUURABAYA
SUNEI PAZANI
TIENTSIA
GAROT
TALNOTAU
IVROSLAMA
Cheron Locounts opened in Loom. Curvety smili Bid Depania cenowed tur sine pour ce sharine Berman in Low Guaracy mod bracting on serum Break will be quoted on APPURAZION.
BLEND WE 30 4820 SAFE DEPOSIT 201ÉS
tana AU LINE.
Kamchi
Serpent
Saraghas
Batavia Bombe Calcutta
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-kunking
PERMITEN
Cabs Colombo
Canada Cawnpors
Бошава
Taiping
Madan
heatin
ENERI
Sew York
Langish
Bupbeat
Hamburg
Paging
(Paidag)
(Ahuket)
Taingro
Ha
Kaskor
Pe
Valco
Zum Benga
hlong Kong
Foreign Lachangs and General Banking busines
trażacid.
Cura Laswam opened and Fixed Deposita received de mois year or shorter perioda az Talen wing:h will be quoted on upplosion.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS The following was the list of [local share
to-day-
The Bank's Beed Dfice in London undertaken
CAMATAN | ~ and dry recovery of Bertaa. Inocuta. Tas overpaid ou veettu mapes may be certaited at any of the Agencies und Erenchen,
A BREARLEY,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st January, 1995.
THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, INC.
Incepared wilà Limited Liability in USA Head Office2-65, Broadway.
Hong Kong. 24th February, 1838 Capital
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
The Dusion of the shore Bank is ootudent- pbs HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI MAKING CORPORATION. Musim 2045 be FOR THE HUNG LUNG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
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V. GRATBERN
Ons Manage Hong Kong, 4th February, 1935.
Sorplan
Best res
New York
17.5.$6,000,000.00 2240.34438 897,612.65
BRANCHES:-
Armbuedada. Antony
Genos
Sztangow The Hague
Zapam
+
Beale Beckm Bombay
LEAVEDE Hamburg
Kaidelberg Interlaken
Lonton Impo
Paramak kara Puping Boctaron Baca
Southampton Singapore
Calssista Com Colourby
Dubax
1* Sdlaborgh
Monte Carlo
Macka
Yokohama Zurion
Manica
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.] Fation
And 'Capita" Fed-up Capal
-$10,000,000,00
For Branches of American Express
Lasers and Undersed Prolak 10mm | Company in Principal cities of United
"ONCH ONOR—'KOLIKO GER
30 Day Your Bood, Chosen.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman. Koos Chan, key, 2. X. Kwok, Lag, wrong Im Loog Lng Chan Ching shak, Esq., Li Lea Bang, ing. Wong Chu Due Foy and has F. IN
Janea Zambay
Campos
Ian Tung Pa. Eng. Clint Maung Tom E, Lagu Manage.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES
Mana
Malbou
New York
سنهس
I' Paisag Kangood Segon
Seabrig Bearing Dawg
Sourabaya Swatos
+
Pachalu
Lowtona Landas
"IMAGE Tokyo
San Francisco
Soulma
States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Tramactions undertaken.
sled.
Personal investment accounts hand-
The Company offers to intančing Travellers the use of its "Travellers Chegues" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services of it thoroughly equipped Travel Department.
CH BENSON,
General Manager.
Every descriptor of Banking and Exchange THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,
kunidana tenance. Lo gwased on spproved
about opened in Local Cucretiay
and Fixed Deposite owed for one of aborime periods in Lost and Persigt. Carrvácie OK_SOFTLE WÜzab will be quoted on appisostion.
Zala Deposit Boxes To L
FAX TONG PO
LIMITED
(Incorporated in Chine) Head Offer-Shanghai
Chaal Manager.
Capital
Reserve
$7,500,000.00 $1,500,000,00
Branches--All Important Cities in
Chins
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Foreign Rasengan seral Banking Busines
LIMITED
42 :
Established 1880 Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Beserve Fund
Yen 129,150,000
"Head Office: YOKOHAMA,
Branches and Agencies at
Nagsarki
Alexandria
Batavia
Berlin
Bombay
Calcutts
Canton
Dairen (Dainy)
Nagoya
New York Oznica
Paris
Fengtien (Mukden) Rio de Jensiro Hamburg
Eot Kong
Honolula
Haisking Karachi
Kobe
Todon
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle Semarang
Sydney
Ticatsin Tokyo
Tsingtao Yingkow
Manis
Interest allowed for Current Ac-|
counts.
Depasita received for fixed perioda at rates to be obtained on applica tion.
G. KISHINAMI
Manager.
Hong Kong, 10th March, 1938.
TEK
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in China). Capital paid up 15.000,009. Capital Savings Dept: $500,098 Reserve Savings Dept. $600,000. Blend-Office-Shanghai
($7,500,000
WHILE
Current and Bering Amounts opened and Fixed Deposits received far our pane of shorter perioda arabe which will be quoted as application.
By Dan Van Boad, Carm.
• HONG KONG BRANCH;
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Great Offins Cashier's Oos
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THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Head Office: Hong Kong
26, Des Voeux Road Central. Authorized Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS:- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every-des- cripton of banking business transact- ed.
Current Accounts and Savings Ac counts opened. Fixed Deposits - Te- ceived at rates which will be quoted on application:"
Trusteeship & Executorship under. taken, Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCK CHIN
Chief Manager.
quotations.issued
Bankor
H. Bank $1,582 sa
HK. Bank (London) £102. Chartered Bank $14 m. Mercantile Bank A. and
531 .. Mercantile Bank C. £14 n. Bank of East Asia $13 m
Insurances
Canton Ins. $255 Union Ins. $525 sa
LOCAE DOLLAR STEADY
"Spot Silver Up".
The local dollar is steady, jopening on demand this morning
at 1/3-5/16d.
"Spot" silver rose. 7/16 to 1914,
NEW YORK SHARE while "forward" declined 1⁄2 to
MARKET
Labour Trouble Possible
DULL MARKET EXPECTED
Messrs. White, Weld and Com- pany. New York Correspondents R for Messrs. S." E Lery and Com-
pany, report:-
19-9/16-
The London on "New York cross- {rate was quoted at $-U.S.35.02. jas compared with 4-US$5,021⁄4, while the New York on Landen" cross-rate was quoted at £-US $5.02%. 83
compared with U.S.$5.025%.
RAW RUBBER PRICES
"Stocks: Although business indices are at new high levels, the Latest Quotations From
possibilities of labour troubles, particularly in the steel industry,
The usual Sum-]
are disturbing. mer business recession will soon
Singapore
Mesarz: H. B. Joseph and Co
received the
be evident, with the extent of the have decline unpredictable, therefore quotations in Straits
following
China Underwriters $1 China Fire Ins. $462 n. H.K. Fire Ins. $250 n. International Assce. Sh$34 n. we believe that any market.bulges from Singapore for Raw Rubber.
Shipping
Douglases $36 n.
H.K. Steamboats $4 n. Indo-Chinas (PreĹ), $50 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $20`n Shells (Bearer) 95/7 n. Union Waterboats 512 5.
Docks, etc.
H.K. and K. Wharves $88 n H.K. and W. Docks $10 b. Providents (Old) $1 b. Providents (New) 20 cts. The Hong Kew Sh$185 n.
New Engineering Sh$4 1. Shanghai Docks St.$100 n.
Mintag
Kailan Mining Ad- 11/6 n. Langkats (Single) Sh.$8 n. S'hai Exploration Sh.$43⁄41⁄2 n. Shanghai Loans Sh.Si D. Raubs $104 I
Veiz; Goldfield $4 b Antamoks $ b. $4.80/90 22 Atoks 68 cts: b. Baguio Gold 26 cts. b. Balatoes $214 -
Benguet Consolidated $18.40 n. Benguet Exploration 27 cts. b. Big Wedge 52 cts. sa.
occurring on publication of good! second-quarter reports, should be
used for lightening long posi. Spot tions. Meanwhile,
we expect a July/Sept. dull market this week, Business Oct/Dec. done:-770,000 shares.
Jan./March
"Wheat: Cash and mill buy- Market:-Quiet. ing were absorbed by consider-
able hedge selling. Recent rains
cukrrency
CYCLIST'S DEATH-
Chauffeur On Chargé Of" Manslaughter
-
John Thomas Blackball, aged ~24, chauffeur to Col. A. E. New- land, of Sandhayes House, Cors les, Wilts, was charged at War- minster recently with manslaugh ter and was remanded in custody.
The charged followed an cident on Boreham-road. minster, shortly before mid- night one night, when Walter Bray, aged 22," a painter, of Hay- tesbary, was knocked from his bicycle by a motor-car and killed instantly.
War
MAN FALLS FROM LAUNCH
Ex-Nayal Officer Lost
In Thames
POIANA
"HARD AS NAILS"
Reading.
Buyers.
No trace has been found of Lt- 26% Down Cmdr. Maurice T. Maude, aged 36;) 26% Unchangedļa retired officer of the Royal In- 26 Unchanged dian Marine, who fell into the Unchanged Thames at Reading late one night last month from the motor-launch Meander. The police dragved the river all day without result.
27
in the North-West were negligible, SCHOOL RIFLES
while the Canadian crop also Ineeds additional moisture.
We
continue to recommend purchases:
MISSING
on any periods as easiness, as we Scotland Yard Officers
have
ultimate! confidence in the
strength of the market. Total
sales:-19,760.000 bushels.
“Cotton: — June precipitation
In Search
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A. E. WATSON & 00, LIMITED.
0
NOTICES
N WEDNESDAY, the 1st
July, 1936, The Company's Offices and sil Departments will be CLOSED.
The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing Department,
will be open for dispensing pre- scriptions from 10 am to 1 păm. and from 6 pm to 130 p.
The Kowloon Dispensary will be loper for business from 10 am to
1 patt
Hongkong, 24th. June, 1936.
PUBLIC AUCTION
T
HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction.
Of
Friday, the 3rd July, 1986, commencing at 2.30 pm.
at. their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:-
Chesterfeld Suites, Black Wood: Ware, Teak Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture, Office Furniture, He was one of a party of eight ornaments, Pictures, Gramaphona in the launch, which is owned by and Records, Glass and Porcelain Mr. Harold Graham. of Five Ware, Brass and E. P. Ware. Ways, Birmingham- He was un- Electric Table Lamps and Fans, married, and lived with his mother Curtains, Linen, etc., etc.
at Fleet
The party dined at the Roebuck 2nd July, 1936. Scotland Yard detectives are en-Hotel, Tilehurst, and were return-
Slipped On Deck
No one
is far below normal. The market quiring into the disappearance of ing after dark to Sonning. shows a hardening tendency and eight Service rifles while in transit we would advise purchases at the between Enfield and Croydon.
The rides belong, to the Whit-
saw. Lt-Cmdr. Maude present level
"Flash: Steel Mill activity gift School, Croydon, O.T.C. Some disappear, but it is assumed that the he slipped on the wet deck at the during the past week is estimated time ago they were sent to
absence Erfield Small Arms factory for stern. When his lat 74.0 per cent of capacity S
noticed a searchlight on the launch compared with 70.2 per cent the reboring:
Early last month Mr. Lewis, was turned round, and as it swept previous week":
commanding the Corps. was inthe river his cap was seen floating
Consolidated Mines 4 cts. b, COMMODITY PRICES formed that the work had been 150 yards away.
334/4 ts 33. Demonstration $1.99/110 sa Gold Creek 9 cts. n. Ipo Gold 31 cts. n. Itogons $1.29 11.*** LX.L. $2.05 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
· 100% b. Shanghai Lands Sh.$13 n Metropolitan Lands Sh. #10 Humphreys $2.55 L.
completed, and that the rifles had been handed in at Enfeld Station
was
Lt.-Cmdr. Kenneth E. Gains, of The following quotations have and consigned to the school The Esher, who was in the launch, been received by Reater:-
Prev. Yesterday effect.
War Office was notified to the same said: "I can only assume that he Įslipped and struck his head as he Closing Closing
reach The rides did not
the fell. A stunned man does not rise as hard school, and every effort to trace to the surface. He was them has failed. Various Southern as nails, having been in the Arctic Railway goods depots have been Circle. Russia, India and other and undoubtedly he visited by detectives, including the countries,
Old would have swum ashore had he Bricklayers Arms Depot, in Kent-road. S.E., but without result, been able to do so.
Masbate 79 cts. . Northern Mining 39 cts. b,
381⁄2 cts. sa. Paracale Gumaus 69/71 cts. ca Sakacots Mining 12 cts.
New York Cotton:
July
12.40
12.29
October
11.72
1161
December
1169
11.59
January
1168
11.60
San Mauricio $1.12. sa.
March
11.70
11.62
Suyoe Consol 34 ctx. n. United Paracale $1.12/1.15 sä Universal Explor 18 ets. b.
May
.11.74
11.68
Spot
12.49
12.39
New York Bubber:
H.K. and S. Hotels $455 n H.K. Lands $30 b., $304 sa. July
H.K. Lands
4% Debentures September
October
15.98 16:10 16.131 16.14m
16.01
16.11a
December
16.24a 16.243
January
16.250 16.26:
March May
16.34a
16.364
16.43
16.450
Chicago Wheat:
94
September
95
December
96%
Chicago Corn:
July
66%
September
66%
Winnipeg Wheat:
July..
82
822 82%
ELK. Realties, $41⁄2 n
Chinese Estates $80 m China Besltias. Sh.$47 China Debentures Sh.$60, n.
Public Utilities
H.K. Tramways $10% sa. Peak Trams (old) 6% n Peak Trans (new) $21.
Star Ferries $851⁄2 sa Yaumati Ferries $20 a
C. Lights (old) $10%1⁄2 b., $10.65
C. Lights (new) $7: sa. H.K. Electrics $50.3. $502 Macao Electrics $18. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. Telephones (oid)' $25 'n. Telephones (new) $84 n. China Buses Sh$111⁄4 n Singapore. Tractions 32/6 b. Singapore Pref. 28/-
Industrials
Malabon Sugars $9% b.. Cald. Macg. (Ord:) Sh$191⁄2 n Cald., Macg. (Pref.) Sh$15 n. Canton Ices $1 n.
Pilot Who Was
July
October
December.
Cements $9.20 HK Ropes $3.90 n..
Stores, etc.
Dairy Farms $191⁄2 n. Watsons $3.45. a. Lane, Crawfords $64 n.
Mackintosh $5
Sinceres $1.70 a Wm. Powells 40 cta. z. Wing On (HK) $50 a.
Cotton Mills - Ewo Cottons Sh.$8 n. Shanghai Cottons
$70
(old) Sh.
Showing Off" Fined Shanghai Cottons (new) Sh
Gosport-An airman who ad-[where he was standing. Then it] ¦¦mitted "showing off his flying rose to a good height, carried out skill to men on the ground whom a loop and corkscrew, circled The Imew, was fined here last round, and again dived towards him, month £50 (including costs) for He crouched to the ground, and causing annecessary danger to the machine struck 2 garden frame. It was completely wreck- Persons with an aeroplane
ed.
Ke was Feter. Alexander Nicholas, an admiral's son, of Lee- A constable stad that in hos- ter the crash the Industrial development one-Solent, whose machine crashedpital the day
A Bank having as its mission,
Hong Kong Office-
China and the fostering of bert the Fairfield Narseries, Gos Nicholas said: “I know I was a commercial relations' abroad,
port, on May. 2.
dd fool Later, when he was George Victor Mason, a garden- told that he would be summoned, er, declared that twice the ma- he replied "It was my fault." chine dived to within 10ft of hit an sir pocket and crashed.***
6, Queen's Road Central
Phone 18:
$9934. D.
Zoong Sings Sh418 n. Wing On Textiles Sh.$25 a
Miscellaneous Entertainments $2.90 z.
S. C. Enterprises' $1.35 n. Macao “Greyhounda” $2 a. Constructions" (old) 21% n Constructions - (new) 30 cta: b. Vibro Piling $2. n.
Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 GABAK **
933⁄41⁄4€****
HK" Govt: 4% Lou! 1% prem.
b.
HK Gort 375%
"preiseber
Wallace Harpers $435.
On View from Thursday, the
Terms: Cash on Delivery
GLAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 30th. June, 1936.
CASPIAN SEA IS DRYING UP
Old Fortress Re-Appears
Moscow. The ruins of a 12th long sunk century fortress, beneath Baku Harbour, are re-
emerging from the water."
This is due to the drying up of the Caspian Sen caused by the danmming of rivers to provide water for irrigation. Last March the sea fell to the lowest level recorded in a century.
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