BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAL BANKING CORPORATION
Authorised. Capital
*$50,000,000
Hated and Fully-Paid-up. 30,000,000 | Reserve Fundac
Starling..$ 6,500,000 Hong Kong Corency
Reserva
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Invsmykupted by Magui Charter, 2016.
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON
Paid-up Capital
Reserve Fand
£3,000,000 -$3,000,000
$10,000,000.
-$20,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
priators
$$,000,000
Agencies and Besuchas:
Hangou
Bussere Kability of From
XRAD OFFICE, HORI KONG.
V
BOARD OF DIRECTOR. Hon. Mr. J. J. Patamon.
G. Makin Eng.,
1. 2. Masson_***, A. H. Compton Esq., T. E. Pearce Ear Hon. Mr. S. X. Dodwell,
J. A. Plummer Bag,
Hon. Mr. M. L. Johnson,
A. L. Shields Ex.
V. M. Grzyburn, Eng
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BINGAPORE BOURABAYA BUNGE TAZAXI
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YOKOHAMA
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1980 4 - 2 BFZ DEPOSIT BOXES
PRC 20 LIT.
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
The Benistan of the shove Bank in combat
by HONG KONG AND BHANGRAT SANLINE CORPORATION,
KONG AND BANGKAL.
Y. I GRA TOWER, Hong Kong, 24th February, 1986.
BALLING CORPORATION,
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.)
Aaibocived Capital man
$10.006.000.00
HEAD OFFICE BONG KONG.
36, De Yax Boed, Castra.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman.
Hong Jang
Perrigo Tantangs and Oname)- Sanking businanı
"Oused Janouite opened and Zind. Deposits
The Basics 1993 O Ensonder
and
Brandon boslarm, and cladema
meme which may be sanermined at any of the Aguacies and Brimba.
A BREARLEY,
Manager.
Hong Kong, 1st Jażnary, 1936,
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK, LIMITED
(Incorporated in, China) Head Office-Shuzhei
**$7,500,000,00 ......$1,500,000.00
Capital Reserve Branches-All Important Cities in
Chizza. Fonsiga. Exabangs and General Peaking, Bestnem Current and Saving Soonest opened and Fixed Dupenste rhonched dot one year at shorter jutade
HOUR. CHANG,
HONG KONG KHANCE. 3. Der Verex Bond, Camdth". Manager's Office Formga Sashange Dept, mendekatan
THE WING ON BANE, LTD.
Head Office: Hong Kong 26, Des Voeux Road Central Authorised Capital $10,000,000
LONDON BANKERS...... Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every der- |cription of banking business transact-
ed.
Contest Accounts and Savings Ac-|| Fixed Deposits re-j
Ini Leon Chan, Esq. P. X Kwok, Zone Conta opened.
Yas Tong. Ing, Chán Ching Shak, Zat,ceived at rates which will be quoted) Hang Bay. Wong Chu 5, Eng. and Kaz Ying
i
Arney
Kau Tang F, Eogs Chist Managet.
11 To Fang, 29. Manage
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Manila
Batavie Bombay
Kelbourne
Stati Semarang
Calcutta Cacao Lasphong Hackne
New Tack
Qualca
Parts
Mangia Kingspons Souzabeja Bestore Sydney"
Bangoon
Yowices
Tokyo
Žao Francod
Vancouver
Yokoharu
Papie
Bracy description of Booking and Exchaman bonbons ManOANINË. Le gated an approte
Lecomte opsied in Loved Cartoncy Fixed Deporte reared for on your s -marie periode la Lows and Forsigs Cafresia
turn think will be quoted on application. nd Deposit Banan To
FAN TONG PO,.
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THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED
Established 1888
Capital (full paid-up) Yen.100,000,000 Eserve Fund.....Yen 130,500,000
Bead Office: TOKOHAMA
Branches and Agendes ut
Alexandria
Bangkok
Batavia Berlin
Bombay
Calcutta
Canton
Moji
Nagasaki Nagoya
New York Osaka
Paria
Dairen (Daily) Peiping
Fengtien (Mukden) Rangoon
Hamborg
Hankow
arbin
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Esizking
Karachi
Kobe
London
Los Angeles Manila
Rio de Janeiro
Francisco
St
Sa
Seattle
Semarang Shanghai Singapore Sourabaya
Tokyo Tsingtan Yingkow
* Interest allowed for "Current Ac-
"counts
Deposits 'received for fixed perioda
at rates to be obtained on applica-
tion.
T. KANO,
Mariager.
Hong Kong, 18th November, 1836.
THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL &
SAVINGS BANK LIMITED
(Incorporated in China).
Capital paid up
Reserves
$5,000,000.
$7,500,000.
Capital Savings Dept. $500,000. Reserve Savings Dept. $800,000
Head-Office Shanghai
Bank having as its mission the industrial development, on Chins and the fostering of ber- commercial relations abroad.
Fong Bang Office
6, Queen's Road Central
Phone 21116
on application
Commerce and
Finance
SHARE MARKET REPORT
The following was the list of issued flocal share quotations
to-day.
"
Banks
HK. Bank $1750 b. HK. (Lon. Reg.) £108 m. Chartered Bank £15% 1. Mercantile Bank A. and B.
50024 1.
Mercantile Bank C. £14% The Bank of East Asia $53 n.
Insurances
Canton Ins. $295 b.
Usition Ins. $605 b... $60711⁄2 sa. China Underwriters $1 mhe HK. Fire Ina. $295 b. International Asace. Sh. $3% n..
Shipping
Douglases $30 n. H.K. Steamboats -$7.40 n. Indo-Chinas (Pref.) $35 n Indo-Chinas (Def) $36 a.. Shells (Bearer) 118/11⁄2 Union Waterbosts $101⁄2 a
Docks, etc.
H.K. and E. Wharves $108 .. K.K. and W. Docks $18 a. Providents (Old) $11⁄2 n. Providents (New) 20 cts. a. New Engineering Sh$4 n. Shanghai Docks Sh.$81
Mining
Kailan Mining Ad. 14/6 m. Raubs $15 b.
Yenz Goldfeld $5 b.
"Lands, Hotels, etc.
m.
FK and S. Hotels. $52.
$514 s
HK Lands $38 8.
ELK 4% Debentures $105. Shanghai Laces Sh. $13 Metropolitan Landa Sh.$10 ne Humphreys $914 ¤. F.K. Realties $5 a. Chinese Estates $78 m. China Realties Sh.$4 m. China Debentures Sh.$60 I
PHILIPPINE MINING
Antamoks
Trusteeship & Executorship under-Atoks taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. Baguio Gold
PHILIP GOCKCHIN, Chief Manager.
THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY Demonstrations
INC.
Closing
Estes Sales Local
10
Zoong Singh Sh.326 m.
Wing On Textiles Sh.$32 b.
Miscelaneous
Entertainments $5 m. Constructions (Old) $1% 1. Constructions (New) 40 ct. I Vibro Filing $514 b. Ch. Gort. 5% 1925 G.SBds.
934%
ELK. Govt. 4% Loan 8% prem.
b.
EE. Govt. 4% Loan 3% prem.
b.
Wallace Harpers 34 n.
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
Silver Prices Fall
"Spot" silver fell 3/16 to 21-1/15, while "forward" also declined 3/16 to 21-1/16.
ICE CREAM SUNDAES
Possible Sale Even On Sundays
A group of MPs are concerne ed that ice cream cannot be sold from certain shops of Sundays.
A Bill has been presented by Mr. Roland Robinson Com Blackpool) to provide that the Shops (Sunday Trading Bestric- tion) Act passed last year shall not apply to any person wholly or mainly employed in" the sale of ice cream (including waters and edible containers).
GOOD YEAR'S WORK
Over $1,000,000 Profit Recorded
CHINA LIGHT AND POWER
WEEKLY MISCELLANY
(Continued from Page 6)
If it be fine an Hallowmas Eve. Not before May will Winter leave. “And again:
If December after October do esme It's going to be tough, by heck and
by gum!
"On the other hand," he con- tinues, "we have the voice of Old' Noah, that bewhiskered seer, who tells us that:
NEW
ADVERTISEMEN
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
Įry‡HE Undersigned have received
Auction.
on
Wednesday, the 16th. December,
1936
Commencing at 230-p.m.-- at their Sales. Boom, Daddell Street
Toys! Toys 11 Toys 121
A Fine Assortment of Diessed
If St. Simon's Day be red ́at dawn-Dolls, Furniture Sets, Lead Sel-
*ing.
diers, Coackers, Wooden & An inch of ice on the milk next Mechanical Toys, Christmas De
morning But if the weather be war
mild
and
corations, etc., etc.
On View from Tuesday the 15th.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
"Twill make ye coul-merchants eversDecember 1986.
20 wild. .. ***
"Bat I don't trust Old Noah. I think he wants a large liver pill For in one of his more melancholy outbursts he says:
I piga do squeal soon after rain The sun will never shine again. If crows do land where donkeys
grazes
3
The eighteenth ordinary general} The local dollar is steady, open-yearly meeting of shareholders of ing on demand this moming at the China Light and Power Com-} |1/2 27/32
pany Ltd, will be held at the Head:
The world will likely bust to blazes. Office of the Company, St. George's
Finally he remarks: "Now and Building, Chater Road, at noon on
[again Old Noah does provide Monday, the 21st înst. The London on New York cross- According to the report which possible winner among his many rate was quoted at £-US$4901⁄2, has just been issued, the Working guesses, as when he tells us that: as compared with £-U.S.$4894, Account, after fall provision fori. When Oct. and Nov, do come to- while the New York on London expenses incidental to the con- cross-rate was quoted at £-US-duct of the undertaking has been $4.90-5/16, 23 compared with made, shows a profit of $1,372,-- SU.S.$4.904.
902.10.
BOARD OF TRADE INDEX OF WHOLESALE PRICES
of
gether
weather
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
programmie,
Gritty ones, yellow and black, Gales galore that bellow and roar,
Frosts your rheumatics-to zadky Days that are darker than midnight. Nights that are freesing and
Then why go abroad for the win-
ter?
drear.
We are in for a jolly one here.
Disappointment
I had a most tremendous disap- Ipointment last week. Reading, in We're bound to get all sort of a revered contemporary long (and most delightfully written
American brassiere-slip and win £25" I naturally got my little work-basket out and set to...
Be
A dividend of 50 cents which is perfectly true but not article on "How to make per share on the “Old” shares and (very helpful.”
a proportionate sum on the 1936 Aix And Bains Issue has been recommended by the Board of Directors..
One of his best efforts was
a cause, after all £25 is £25-and:
sant (and profitable) way of |spending my winter evenings.
In accordance with Article 92"poem" he wrote when he saw an so, for the matter of that, is a London. To-day-For the sixth
"Why brassiere a brassiere. Not that I month the Board of the Articles of Association, the advertisement which ran: (SUCCESSĪre Trade index of wholesale prices Hon. Mr. M. K Lo, chairman of Go South For the Winter? Come had any use for one at the time, showed an increase in the Novem-the Board of Directors, and Mr. Inside!" It is worth quoting in but it seemed to me such a plea- ber rise as compared with that of Felix A. Joseph retire but, being full:
Jeligible, they will offer themselves October amounting to 0.7 per cent. and against that of Novers-for re-election at the meeting. ber of last year in 7 per cent. For the first time for over six years the index was within 2 per cent. of the average of the base period —1930.—British Wireless Service.
RAW RUBBER
in Pesos Currency Latest Quotations From
3.20
Singapore
Messrs EL. P. Joseph & Co. have received the following quotations | from "Singapere în Straits
rency for Raw Rubber:
22/2
Balatoc Mining
14%
Benguet Consol..
14%
Benguet Explor
154
Big Wedge
26
Consolidated Mines
po Gold
¡I X. L.
Spot
Itogons
1.10
34
Northern Miming
.13
Paracale GumE US
45
„U.S.$6,000,000.00 21240,344.38 897,265
.06
2.10
Incorporated with Zimited Zibility in T.KA.
Head Offices, Broadway, New York
Capital
Surplus Reserves
· BRANCHES:---
Acantordans Anorary
Geos
AU
Betia
Bemania Com Celestia
The Enge Have Harry Have
Yastreck Kil
Pipin Pic
London
Copanlingen
Edinburgh Florumes
LAUEADO 14
Monio Caria
Venice
Vanila
Munich
Shanghal Saythampton Susgapore
Branches of American Express Company in Principal cities of United States of America and Canada.
All classes of Commercial Basking Transactions undertaken.
Personal investment socounts kand-:
led.
The Company offers to intending Travellers the use of its "Travellers Cheques" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services its thoroughly equipped Travel Department
C. E. BENSON,
General Manager.
Masbate Consol.
Salacot Mizing San Mauricio Sayoc Consol.
Jan./Mar. Apr/Jime
· Buyers
32% Down
32% Down
32% Down
Cur-
July-/Sept. ..... 3224 Down 24 Market:-Decline Temporary.
COMMODITY PRICES
The following quotations have been received by Reuters-
Prev. Yesterday! Closing Closing
New York Cotton: December
Public Utilities HK. Tramways $12 b. and sa. Peak Trams (old) $62 m. Peak Trams (new) $23⁄41⁄2 x1. Star Ferries 393 b. and sa. Yaumatic Ferries $25 n. C. Lights (Old) $13.20 82. C. Lights (New) $10% n H.K Electrics $534 b. Macao Electrica $20 n. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. Telephones (Old) $2834 n. Telephones (New) $10 n. China Buses Sh$11 m Singapore Tractions 27/- 1. Singapore Prei. 27/—'`n.
Industrials Cald, Macg. (Ord.) Sh$191⁄2 n.May Cald, Macg. (Pref.) Sh$15 m. July Canton Ices $2.20 n.
September
Cements $11 1.
HE. Ropes $3 s.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms $201⁄2 a. Watsons $1.85
Lane, Crawfords $63⁄41⁄2 p. Sinceres 3 IL-
Wing On (HK) $50 n.
Cotton Mills
Ewo Cotton Sh.$13.70 sa.
13
12.35
12.51
{January
1216
12.28
March
12.11
12:24
May
11.57
12.09
July
11.83
11.93
October
11.32
11.45
Spot
12.71
1284
New York Rubber:
December
19.292
18.90%
March
19.30
18.05
13.24a 18.95
19.17
18.86
19.16
13.86
Chicago Wheat:
December
125%
128
May
1217%
July
108
12478 110
Chicago Corn: December
May
108% 101
109%
102%
July
96%
97%
Chicago Corn: May
1034
1042
99
100%
Winnipeg Wheat:
112% 114
114
115%
Shanghai Cotton (Old) Sh.$85 July
迁
Shanghai Cotton (New) Sh$60 December
May
PIPPERMINT New York Share Market
GET
always
delicious
with
Messrs. White, Weld & Corn-should be watched carefully to pany, New York Correspondents morrow with this in mind.
for Messrs. S. E. Levy & Cors
pany, report I -
Stocks: The strength of railroad-
Business done: 1,860,000 shares.
Cotton: The market looks like-
stocks, presumably on expertation to move higher temporarily. We of an extension in surcharges, would advise traders to take their was an important feature in to prote on any further advance.
Wheat:, This, market continues creased, with industrials, especi-to look bullish and, as the market ally coppera, motors and oils also contimes upward, more people
crushed ice day's market. The volume has in-
iced water. We believe that trading post are inclined to buy.
tions may be returned and motors
+
GET FREES Revel (1)Garonne) Frees
Total axles: 3,450,000 bushels. Com: We would continue to buy
may be added to the list of stocks: that looks likely to go higher. The on dipe
possibility of King Edward
Flash: The Goodrich Company
dication, however, may unsettle the has declared a dividend of $100. marketa temporarily and prices per share,
A HOT CHANCE,
THIS
For Firemen Of 79 Or So
High Wycombe.
Fireman. J.
Collier, 79 years old. and still on
active service with the High Wy- combe Volunteer Brigade, has completed his individual trophy drill in 73 35ths seconds.
They are packing their baggage
and bores,
But unfortunately the second And looking up steamers and edition of the paper on that self
same day had a cruel, cruel para- That follow the sun now that win-graph on the middle page, as fol-
trains,
ter's beg
lows:
And taking their
Bains.
Aix
to
the
(So sorry)
They are off to the warm Eiviera,
Blue seas and a sky that is!
clear.
But why go abroad for the win-
ter?
We can do quite a jolly one
bere.
There are plenty of fogs on the
FOR THE LADIES
How to Make a Brassiere
Ladies will be interested in the
; details given on Page 2 of this issna- for the making of a tailored bras- siere-slip. By following the direc tions carefully, they will be able to. add this useful adjunct to their wardrobe. There is not, as was 20-- correctly stated in our first edition, any prize offered to those interest- ed in the making of this underwear.. So now Til have to stick to my knitting, and there's £25 absolute-
former member of the brigade, He may not compared with the thinks that the performance can- fellows of 25 or so, who can man-not be beaten in the veteran class, jaye the drill in 20-odd seconds. and he has challenged anyone be-ly gone down the drain.
But Alderman B. N. Janes, altween 76 and 79 to try!
money flies, to be sure!
HR
The Favourite
Down on the track the favourite is not always the winner
which difference of opinion makes horse- racing.
tables,
Up in the stands, and around the guest
opinions meet
common ground
The favourite, when BEEE is the choice, is always the winner...
U.R
And the reason is always the same:
U.B. is "Beer at its Best"
U.B.BEER
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W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
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