July 16, 1904.]
HONGKONG QUOTATIONS.
HONGKONG, 15th July.
ON LONDON.-
Telegraphic Transfer
Beans
$4
Bank Bilis, on demand
11
Borax
.$18 @ 17}
Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight
.1/10
Camphor (China)..
$105
Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight
.1/10
(Formosa).
.$110
Credits, at 4 months' sight
.1/10
Cassia (First quality)
$21
Second }
$14
ON PARIS.—
31
Oil
.$100
Cloves
325
170 55
Bank Bills, on demand
232
Credits 4 months' sight
2351
Fennel Seed Oil
$330
ON GERMANY.——
Galangle
.$13
198
Glue
$27
ON NEW YORK.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
EXCHANGE.
FRIDAY, 15th July.
1/10%
Documentary Bills, 4 months' sight 1/10,
On demand... .
,
55
shares are procurable. Electrics are wanted at $141 and $84 for the old and new issues respec- tively. Ices are enquired for at $225. Steam Waterboats are in request at $19, and Dairy Farms at $20, the latter after sales at the rate. Campbell Moores can be placed at 897 and Te- braus at 814.
MEMOS Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd., ordinary yearly meeting on the 16th instant. Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd. interim dividend of $6 per share payable on the 27th instant. West Point Building Co., Ltd., interim dividend of $1.50 per share payable on the 27th instant!
Closing quotations are as follows :-
Grapes
$14 @ 18
Bank Bills, on demand
.441
Ivory
$250 (@ 650
COMPANY.
PAID UP.
QUOTATIONS.
Kismiss
.88 @ 13
Credits, 60 days' sight...
.454
Rosa Oil
Saltpetre
.$70 @ 175
$11
ON BOMBAY.—
Banks-
Telegraphic Transfer
138
Hongkong & S'hai...
$660
$125
Į L'don, £67. 15s.
Sandal wood
$28 @@ 32
Bank, on demand
.134}
Natl. Bank of China
Oil
.$300 @ 400
Senna Leaves....
.$3 @ 6
ON CALCUTTA.-Telegraphic Transfer 1:8
Bank, on demand
A. Shares
1384
B. Shares
28 338, huyera 28 $38, buyers'
Sugar Candy
Vermilion
Wax..
$11 @ 15
714
Foun. Shares.......
$87} .$.10
.724
In urance
904
Union
Noir.
Nam.
1101
21p.cpm.
...2 p.c.pm
..62
MISCELLANEOUS EXPORTS.
HANKOW.-The prices quoted are for the net shipping weight excluding cost of packing for export
Cowhides, best selected
Do. seconds
Buffalo hides, best selected
Goatskins, untanned (chiefly white colour) Buffalo Horns (average 3lbs, each)
White China Grass (Wuchang and/or
Poochi)
White China Grass (Sinshan and/or
Chayu)
Green China Grass (Szechuen)
Jute
White Vegetable Tallow (Kinchow)
White Vegetable Tallow (Pingchew
and/or Macheng).
White Vegetable Tallow (Mongyu)
Green Vegetable Tallow (Kiyu)
Animal Tallow
Gallnuts (usual shape)
Do. (Plum) do.
Black Bristles
Feathers (Grey and/or White Duck)
Turmeric
Sesamum Seed
Sezamum Seed Oil
Wild Duck
Per picul Tls. 32.50
28.50
19.00
57.00
J
9.00
J
UN SHANGHAI.—Book, at sight
Private, 30 days' sight .
ON YOKOHAMA. On demand ON MANILA, -On demand ON SINGAPORE,-On demand ON BATAVIA.-On demand...... ON HAIPHONG.-On demad ON SAIGON-On demand ON BANGKOK.-On demand SOVEREIGNS. Bank's Buying Rate GOLD LEAF, 130 fine, per tael BAR SILVER, per os.
SHARE REPORT.
$ 0 80
.$56.50
196
HONGKONG. 15th July, 1904.-Business bas been somewhat quieter during the past week, 10.00 but rates generally have been fairly well main-
tained and close steady.
9.10
**
71
5.00 9.89
9.70
"
11
"
Vegetable Tallow Seed Oil Wood Oil,
14
Tea Oil
BANKS. Hongkong and Shanghais after sales at $660 are in further small request at the rate. London has advanced to £67. 158. Od. Nationals are still enquired for at $38.
MARINE INSURANCES.-Unions are quiet at 8545 with probable small sellers. China Traders have sold at 864 and are now in request at $65. North Chinas have advanced to ¦ 18. 65 18.50 buyers
Yangtszes and Cantons are steady at 21.00 quotations.
9.70 8.90
116.00
8.00 8.90
FIRE INSURANCES.-Hongkongs are wanted 19.50 at $310. Chinas have been placed at $98. 21.50 SRIPPING. Hongkong, Canton and Macaos 3.00 are easier with sellers at $29. Indo-Chinag 4.40 have sold at $114 and $1144 cu dividend 7.90 cash
and for the settlement delivery, 7.90 and close in further request at $108 ex the dividend of 5 per cent., equalling 10/- per share for 1903, paid locally on the 13th inst. China and Maniles have sold and have further buyers THE JAPAN MARKETS.
at 8251. Douglases have been parted with at The failure of an important bank in Osaka, and 835, and Star Ferries at $35 (old) and 8 3 (new). also a large local spinning and weaving concern,
the latter closing in further demand. coming upon the usual half-yearly settlements transports are easier with sellers at 25/6. has affected the Kobe market adversely, and
REFINERIES. China Sugars have been business has been depressed all round. The fea- booked at $185 and $185 cash and for the settle- ture of the Japan markets seems to be the demandment, and a few more cash shares are on offer for copper from China. Sumtiomo is sold out up Luzons continue unchanged at $9 sellers. to November and Mitsu Bushi for the whole year. MINING.-Raubs have been in some request during the week, and sales at 871 and 873 ure reported. market closing with further buyers at the higher rate. Panjoms and Charbonn ages are unchanged.
NEWCHANG TRADE.
Messrs. Bandinel & Co's.,Market Report dated 2nd July, states:-Our last report was dated 25th May, since which time the supply of tonnage has increased, though still far behind 1903, viz., 109 steamers against 343. Freights have greatly de- clined and outsiders are accepting 18 cents to Shanghai. Mines. On 30th June & Shanghai junk, southward bound with cargo, while poling through shallow water, a third of a mile off the point of the island of Changshingtao, south of Fuchow, was....blown up. The survivors were picked up by another junk and brought in yester- day. Vessels in Port are Tungshing, Kwangsi, Heiping, Kungping, Chingping. Victoria, Daphne, sad Kamor. Produce remains dear—prices per haps enhanced by a Russian Proclamation posted in Moukden and other Bean depôts forbidding or rather dissuading Chinese from sending Beans and Grain to this port. It was prematurely issued and is, so far, "disregarded with impunity. Quotations are:-Bean Oil per picul Tls. 10.70. Beancakes per 10 pieces Tls. 0.80, Beans per 3 piculs Tls. 8.70. Stocks are 280,000 pieces Beancakes, 180,000 piculs Beans. Exchange 1,000 Newchang Transfer Taels-835 Shanghai Taels Premium on Sycee.-Tl. 17 per shoe.
Shell
DOCKS, WHARVES, AND GODOWNS.-Hong- kong and Whampos Docks eased off a little during the early part of the week and sales at $217 were ffected; at the close, however, a firmer feeling has set in, and shares are in request at $217. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharves have sold and more shares are in the market at $113. New Amoy Dock continue on offer at $30. Farnhams have been p'ared both locally and in the North at the reduced rate of Tls. 15'.
LANDS, HOTELs, and RuildINGS.-Hong- kong Lands contiune on offer a $158. Kow- loo" Tands are s'eady "t $38, and West Points at $60. $134 with sales, but closing i request at the Hongkong Hotels have declined to
$121 (old) and $ti new, changhai Lands rate. Humphrey's Estates have been booked at harereceded to Tis. 115.
COTTON MILLS. —No business to report. Quotations unchanged.
MISCELLANEOUS. Green Island Cements have sold and continue in request at $294. China Borneos have improved to $104 buyers. Watsons have been booked at $14 and more
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China Traders North China.. Yangtsze.. Canton..
Hongkong Fire
China Fire Steamship Coys.—
I., Canton and M. Indo-China S. N. China and Manila... Douglas Steamship Star Ferry.... Shell Transport and Trading Co...... Do, pref. shares.......... Refineries-
China Sugar. Luzon Sugar. Mining- Punjom
Do. Preference.... Charbonnages Raubs
Docks, Etc.-
21 $10, buyers
$100 $545, sellers $25 $65, buyers
25 Tls. Go, buyers $60 $180 $50 $210, sellers $50 $810, buyers $20 $88
$15 $29, sellers 410 8108,exdiv., b'yers $50 $251,sales&buyers $50 $354, sellers $10 $35, buyers $5 $25, buyers £125/6, sellers. 210 28. 10.
$100 $185, sellers $100 $9, sellers
$11 (nominal
$1 10 cts., sellers Fcs.250 349 ›
18/10d. $71, buyers
H. & W. Dock H. & K. Wharf & G. New Amoy Dock S. C. F Boyd & Co....]Tis. Land and Building-
Hongkong Land Inv. Kowloon Land & B. WestPoint Building| Hongkong Hotel Humphreys Estate. S'hai Land Ins. Co., Ld. Tls. Cotton Mills-
Ewo
International Laou Kung Mow Soychee Hongkong Green Island Cement.
China-Borneo Co., Ld.
Watson & Co., A. 8.... Hongkong Electric { Hongkong & C. Gaa........ Hongkong Rope......... Fenwick & Co., Geo. Hongkong Ice. H. H. L. Tramways. Hk. Steam Water-
Boat Co., Ld.
Dairy Farm
Campbell, Moore & Co. Bell's Asbestos E. A.... United Asbestos
Do...... Tebrau Planting Co.... Watkins Ld...... China Prov. L. & M. China Light & Power
Co., Ld.
Shanghai and Hong. } Powell, Ld..
kong Dyeing and Cleaning Co., Ld } Canton, Hongkong Ice Cigar Companies—
Alhambra Limited. Phippine Tobacco Į Trust Co, Ld. ›
8.
C. Morning Post
$50 $217, buyers $50 $118,sales&sellers
$89 $30, sellers [100 Tls. 151
$100 $158, sellers
$30 $38 $50 $60
$50 $134,sales&b'yers $10 $121, sellers $21 541
50 Tls. 115
Tls. 50 Tls. 30, sellers Tls. 75 TIs. 25 Tls. 100 Tls. 32) Tls. 500 Tls. 160, sellers
310 $141, sellers $10 $294, buyers $12 $10, buyers 310 $14, sellers $10 $141, buyers
$5 $81, sales & buyers £10 $160, buyers $50
$140, sellers $25 $48, sellers $26 3225, buyers $100 $280, buyers $0 $19, buyers
$6 $20, Fales & buyers $10 $37, rales & buyers 12/6 ($5, buyers
$4 $10), buyers |$10 $210, buyers $5 $11, buyers $10 $91, sellers 310 374, buyers
| $10 |$81, bayers
| $10 |310), buyers
$50 $50
$10 [$10, nominal
$500 $200
| $10 |$94, sellers
$25 $25, nominai
VERNON & SMYTH, Brokers.