BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI SARANKING CORPORATION “
Authorised Capital: 20....$50,000,000 Tasnad and Fulity-Paid-up. 20,000,000 Baserve Funda:---
Sterling ****----☎ 6,500,000 Hong Kong Coranky
-**----$10,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA – CHINA
HRAD OFFICE: LONDON
|Paid-up Capital
{Reserve Fund
pristous
• $20,000,000
Reserve Liability of Ero-
Pristons
63,000,000
0,000
Agencies and Branches:
HEAD OFTACK: HONG KON
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BOARD OF DIRECTOR. Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.
Ancione Zorginak Datervis
Katia Latzpat
· Chalciton
G. Miskin Esq.
Chairman
1. E. Masson- Feq.,
Colombe
A. E. Compton Esq. TE. Pearce Eag. Det
Hon. Mr. S. M. Dodwall,
Hamb
J. A. Pinmmer Bag,
Hon. Mr. M. I. Johnson,
A La Shields Esq., V. Ki-Graybuzz, Esq.
Ber Beng Long
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NEW YORK TENER
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Manager. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1995.
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TOKOHAMA
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BONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
The Bonitors of the shore Bank in ambuco- LONG AND SHAREZZAT
alan wag m PARKING CORPORATION
AND SKAFOKKAI FOR THE Lost ONG BANKING CORPORATION.
V. E GRAYBUEK,
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1986.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.
Allied Capical
HELD OFFICE --HONG KONG. Der Tour Xoad, Central.
BOARD OF THE ROTORS — Hon Sir Shou-son Chow, Christian,
Li In Chang Z. X. Look Log. Fo
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK, LIMITED
(Incorporated in China) Head Ofcs-Shaaghal
Capital
$7,500,000.00 EasErre
$1,500,000.00 Branches-—- All Important Cisim in
China
Forsigs Xmings wil. General Banking Zuslaven (Cheeks and. Bering Accions sonnet and 21200
HONG KONG FRANCES
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Head Office: Hong Kong 26, Des Voeux Road Central Authorised Capital $10,000,000
LONDON BANKERS:— Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchangs and every dea eziption of banking business transact ed.
Current Accounts and Savings Ac- Fixed Deposita re-
thig Em Thang Cha bok, Xan, and acceived at rates which will be quoted
Kam Tung Po, Esq., Chief Krong.
BRANCHEN AND AGENCIES 2-
Демер
Malbosene
Nagioski
Prati
Priping
HAMBOR
Kowlotu London.
· Tokyo
Sea Pransinne
on application.
Trusteeship & Executorship under taken. Safe Deposit Bazas for hire.
PRÍLIP GOCK CHIN, Chief Manager.
THE
INC.
Commerce and Finance
LOCAL SHARE MARKET
TO-DAY'S QUOTATION
"The following was the list of local share quotations issued yesterday.
..:: Banks HK Bank $1680’b. HK (Lon. Reg.) £107 n. Chartered Bank 415% n. Mercantile Bank A. and
$21 IL Mercantile Bank C. £14% u. Bank of East Asia. $88 1.
Insurances
Canton Ins. $263 b. Union Ins. $600 b. - China Underwriters $1 n. HK-Fire Ins. $255 n............ International Assce. Sh. $33⁄4
Shipping
Douglases $30 ». H.K. Steamboats 363⁄41⁄2 n. Indo-Chinas (Pre£) $35 m Indo-Chinas (DeL)- $36 n. Shells (Bearer) 117/6 n Union Waterbosts $10%, n.
Docks, etc.
HK. and K. Wharves $109 n. EK. and W.Docks $1á n. Providents (Old) $2.20 2. Providents (New) 20 ea. q New Engineering Sh.$i n. 7 Shanghai Docks Sh.#811⁄2 n.
Mining
Kailan Mining Ad. 15/- n. Raubs $1210 b. `Venz. Goldfield $5 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc. H.K. and S. Hotels $6 ș HK Lands $3814 s. and sz.. HK 4% Debentures 105% IL Shanghai Lands Sh. $13 n. Metropolitan Lands Sh.$10 n. Humphreys $94 b, and sa. ELK. Realties $531⁄2 n. Chinese Estates, $78 n. China Realties Sh4 n China Debentures Sh.$60 n.
PHILIPPINE MINING
Closing
Beary. Inseription of Dunking and Buling Los posted on approved C Laconis opened in Local Cotonney shorter periode in Local and Fesign Catalo a. Ma schol will be quoted til nypitition.
Sabo Duponts Dewa De Le
XA TENG PO
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, Benguet Explor
Incorporated with Ibutted Timbility in TAS.
Head Office: 65, Broadway, New York
000.00 | Masbate Consol 124438 Northern - Mining
7,51265 Paracale Gumaus
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LAMITED
Established 1880
Capnal (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Yen 133,900,000 Reserve Fund
Head Office: YOKOHAMA
Branches and Agencies at
Alexandria
Bangkok
Batavia
Berlin
Bombay
Carton
Mon Kageki
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Otero
Dairen (Dainy) Peiping Fengtsen (linkden) Rangoon
Rio de Janeiro San Francisco
Hamburg
Hankow
Zarbin
Hoang Trong
Ecgalniu Exinking
Karachi
Koba
·London
Los Angeles
Mania
Seattle
Semarang
Shanghai Singapore
Soumbaya Sydowy
Tientsin Takyo Thingtan Yingkow Interest allowed for Current Aver counts.
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applica-| Slott
7. KANO,
Hong Kong, 13th November, 1936.
THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in China). Capital paid up
Reserves
Capita! Savings Dept. 5500,000 Reserve Savings Dept.
$600,000.
Head-Office-Shanghai
A Bank having za His mission
the industrial development on
Rates Sales 10 a Local
NEW YORK SHARE
MARKET
Trend Likely To Be Downward
SECONDARY REACTION
[Znformed that, all Goods are being landed at thake risk into the hand- |00% and/or "extes hazardous. Godowns | or The Hong King, and Kowloon Wharf & Godown. Co., Ltd, whencs and/or from the wharter delivery
obtained. No claims
be admitted after Goods have late the Godow and ad Goods" remaining undelivered after the 19th November, 1936, will be subject to rent.
All cisims against the steamer Messrs. White. Weld & Commust be presented to the Undersign pany, New York Correspondents fed on or before the 3rd December, for Messrs. S. E. Lery & Com-1986 or they will not be recognized." B.pany, reporti
To comply with the General Bond-} ed Warebone Eagulations consignees Stocks: The rebound to-day was mast have a Review Officer in within technical proportions. Bails tendance when damaged dutiable are still lagging and their imme-zoods are scamined.
All broken, chafed, and damaged diate action may determine the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, short trend direction of the mar-where they will be examined on the ket, which we continue to think is 18th December, 1966, at 10 am, by likely to be downward in the form Messrs. Goddard and Dongias.
«No» Fire Insurancs has bee (of a secondary, reaction. Business
effected. =-]done:-2.370,000 shares. ⠀
Wheat: Despite good crop re-figunt kary ports from abroad, the firm un- dertone was maintained and prices fadvanced on a fair amount of sup- port by traders and consuTNERS. Total sales:—14,592,000 bushels (?
Bills of lading will be counter
GIFE, LIVINGSTON & CO. LED. Hong Kong, 16th November, 1936.
Agents.
Cotton: The macket moved high- PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
er dos to fairly heavy short-cover. |ing`and" „diminishing hedge, sales. We suggest the tranfeiringen af December option to March or May, preferably May Adel
AND SCIENCE
(Continued from Fuge-4).
We
Flashes: Steel mill activity for Private experimentation. the past week is estimated at 741 pork to-day, that can link every have our great telephone net. per cent of capacity.
home in the country with every
The Columbia Gas Company: shows earnings for the quarter other home and even stretch
of solout to other lands to bring the|| ending September 30th. cents per share as compared with whole civilised world literally 27 cents per share for the corres-st arm's reach, because of the ponding quarter of last year. efforts of men such as Alexan The E. L Dupont de Nemours der Graham Bell, Theodore N. Company has declared a special Vall. John J. Carty, Charles E dividend of $2 per share.
Scribner, and others."
The 20th Century Fax Company The telephone was invented has declared a dividend of $1. perjby Bell, a young Scotsman who| share.
went to Canada in 1870 to seek{ bealth and fortune. He moved to Boston in 1872 and while):
COMMODITY PRICES engaged as a teacher of speech hit upon the idea of improving the carrying qualities of the The following quotations. have voice by the use of a trumpet been received by Beuter-
train
On your way
SEE CANADA
Cross Canada on a Canadian
Roches Banff The
through the world-Famous Canacha Stopover at Lake Louise cities of Eastern Canada Canadian Pacific Hotch awaits you.
chain of hanurious.
Connect at Montreal or Quebec with. Cara Trans-Atlantic Liners sang by the sheltered rence Seaway to Europe.
Information and: ticketa: from
your own agent
Canadian Pacific
WORLD'S GREATEST #TRAVEL
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES
Νοτ. 16, Νοτ.
· 1936 1918
POULTRY.
Prev. Resterday as a transmitter and a harp as Chicken
la receiver. For several years Capons, Small Closing Closing
Bell experimented,
gradually bringing into being the first telephone actually capable of B, Hen (cook transmitting understandable ing)
in Pesos Currency New York Cotton:
March
Duck Doves
*
On March 10, 1876, Eggs, Hen (fresh) Bell's assistant, Thomas A. Fowls, Hafen Canton Watson, heard in a telephone! Geese receiver these words uttered by Pigeons, Canton Bell:
Haikow
"Mr. Watson, please come
Immortal Sentence
..
Turkeys Cock
Saipe
Pheksant
With that immortal sentence) Qali
the telephone was bors. Bell Partridg exhibited his telephone at the
Antamoks
3.70
December
11.74
1184
Atoks
Baguio Gold
$7 201
January
11.61
1274
March
11.59
11.76
Balatoc Mining
15
Benguet Consci.
14%
✓
May
11.56
1170
words.
.18
30
July
11.46
11.58
Big Wedge
.48
October
11.11
11.240
Consolidated Mines
04
Spot
12.18
12.29
Demonstrations
91
New York Rubber;
Ipe Gold
December
17.88
18.07
Itogons
January
17.86%
18.091
here; I want you."
Capital
17.90
18.12.
Saxplas Eeserved
May
17.96
18.130
July
17.97a 18.160
Salacot Mining
BRANCHES:-
San Mauricio
2.75
September
Amsterdam
Moment
Sayoc Consol
56
October
12.01 18.040
18.20
18.21n
United Paracales
1,65
Chicago Wheat:
· The Hagis
December
Nagin Provin Fade Friping Bathin
HK Tramways $12
..
Peak-Trams (old) $631⁄2 n.
July
Chicago Corn
December
May
1164 1144 101
102/ 95%
148
Winnipeg Wheat: November
1084 "106
107
108
B
Bombay
Bermina
Liverpool
Colbe Copesingen
Dabon
Flowenas Gebra
Moore Chic Matil
Mauzów
Branches of
Sendampio Singapore
Public Utilities
Peak Trams (new) $2% 1.
Star Ferries $92% b.
Yaumati Ferries $25 b.
May
C. Lights (Old) $13.65 b. $133⁄44 July
Tokobwo
B2
• Zadok
C Lights (New) $10% n
American
| Company in Principal cities of United
States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.
Personal investment accounts hand-i led.
The Company offers to intending | Travellers tha nse of its “Bestellers Cheques" and Letters of Credit and. (in addition, the world-wide services of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department.
C. EL. BENSON, -
General Managet,
· EXCISE DUTY ON SHK
Special Exceptions Listed
London, To-day. The Treasury has issued an or-]" der exempting from excise duty certain artificial silk yarn with ruptured filaments, flat strip ar- {tificial silk straw exceeding % of an inch in width, and tubular ar- tificial silk straw in pieces zot, ex-
H.K. Electrics $52 b., $52/524 December
13.
MBY
Centennial exposition în Phila-
delphia that year. The world
per
49 BUXASUPPRE88
Nov. 16, Nor
1905 1918
#BUTCHER MEATAS.
Bee Smoin
Prime Cart Commed
Roast Breast
Soup
·· Steak
Steak Sirloin
Sansara 7.
Ballock's Brains, perset
Tongue, fresh
Head
Heart
Hamp, Salt
Feet
Kidneys
Tail
Livez
Calves* Head
FRUITS
Feet
Ib. 1,000 35:
Matton
100
6
16.
Saddle
14 10
Pig's Chitlings
36
each 15
10
w Feet.
Head
Porks Chops
was amazed. From then on the Demum, Chînk“ 115% new invention saw rapid deve-Bannas (bride's) 1023% lopment. Even the electrical) Carambola
wizard, Thomas A. Edison, had Coconuts 10334 ja hand in perfecting it by in- Apples (California) Lemons, American 962 venting an improved transmit- Lichees, Dzied 93 ter. Without the aid of Vail] Oranges (Canton) the first telephone company] Oranges (Sweet) 109 might have died in infancy. Pears (Canton) 106% Without the inventions
Oranges (American) each of
Persimmons, Largo Scribner the present-day elect Punelo, Siam .... [tric switchboard might not have Walnuts been evolved: Carty's inven-| Grapes. tions likewise, were valusble contributions to the develop ment of the telephone.
The first home to have a tele"
tach
- VEGETABLES, ETC. Artichokes Beetroot
Macao Electrics. $20 n. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. Telephones (Old) $281⁄4.b.
LOCAL DOLLAR Telephones (New) $10.65 1. China Buses Sh.$113⁄41⁄2 n.
STEADY Singapore Tractions 27/- n. Singapore Pref. 27/-- 13.
Silver Prices Fall Industrials Cald. Maeg. (Ord) Sh$191⁄2 The local dollar is
·CaldTM, Macg: (Pref.) 'Sh-$15° n. Jopening
dermand Canton Ives $2.20 11.
morning at 1/2 . Cements $10.80 b. $11/11:10 62,"Spot" silver fell to HK Ropes $3.90 8:
1/16, while “forward” also fell 1⁄4 first multiple switchboard was Carrots to 21-1/16.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms $22 p. Watsons $4.25 2. Lane, Crawfords $63⁄4 n. Sinceres $3 n.
Wing On (KK) 550 12.
-Cotton Mills
Ewo Cottons Sh.$11.20 b. Shanghai Cottons (Old) Sh.182)
Shanghai Cotton '(New) Sh.345 || Zoong Sings Sh. 421 17 Wing On Textiles Sh.$25 n. MM Miscellaneous
Entertainments $3 n Constructions" (Old) $1% n. Constructions (New) (2971⁄2 eis.
Vibro Filing $5.30 mm
Ch Govt. 5% 1925 G&BİL
32% 3.
China and the fostering of berceeding 10 inches in length The BK GovL 4 Loan 8% prep
commercial relations abroad..
Hong Kong Oflasim "ON"
£," Queen's Road Central
Phase 31116.
order e also provides for="cpnse- quential modifications, in the ex- fisting drawbacks, and
Hestive on December 1-
HK Govt 34% Loan
Wallace Harperz 54
phone was that of Charles W- Brinjaiz, Green liams Jr. of Boston. The in- steady,strument was installed in April, Cabbage,
this 1877. · The first switchboard
and exchange was set up in] 21-Boston a month later. The
set up in Chicago in -January,Celery, Chinese -The London on New York cross- 1979. The first automatic exe Chities, "Dried rate was quoted at SU.S.$489,jchangé, doing away with the
Greca
Carambers..
as compared with US$4.882 operator, was set up in La Curry Stuff, Englis while the New York on London Porte, Ind., in 18921-* {cross-rate - was, qrinted" at £==[ (US$439-1/16, as compared with
-US$489
Vast Effort
Garlic. Gingery On January 25, 1915, Bell talked by telephone from New Hor Fadian York to San Francisco, the first trans-continental transmission: OAK Nine years ago commercial tels- Onions, Bot phone service was established; between New York and London.
Few person who to-day turn Pots to their dial phones to call z friend or make a business com Messrs HB. Joseph and Conection realise the vast amount, have received
and
expe |quotations
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