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TREATY-MAKING IN PEKING. HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CONFERENCE FROM WITHIN. THE WISE PARROT AND ABOLITION OP LIKIN
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT IS PEKING TO ** THE TIMES.'']
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Hongkong Bank
Fasivar 1st, 1926 ·· $1,065 nom, Do Londen.........£127 nom. Chartered Bank.............
£21 nom. Mercantile Bank, A. & B... nom. P.&O. Bank.
Do
0.....213 Dom.
$85 nom
East Asia Bank. Chias Underwriters Canton Insurance menne
money
.3590
bay.
4
39) nom. *Tis. 14 nota.
What will have happened to the Tariff Conference by the time this is published, what stage it will have reached, or whether it will have North China Insurance come to an abrupt end, ne
Union man
Insurance
248 bay.. Yangiaze Insurance........95 bay. can foresce. At the moment of writing, China Fire Insurance$165 bay. Peking is full of anverifiable reports of Hongkong Fire Insurance, 1590 sel.
250 sel. a disturbing kind. Some even go so far Douglas.....
O. & M. Steamboats 24 al. as to say that Feng Yu Hsiang is about Hongkong Tuga...$37 sol to establish a Soviet Government, and Indo-Chinas (Prof.).......... 38 nom. Shell Transports.......95/-nom. that the crumbling status of foreigners Star Ferri, will collapse and disappear Making a
Waterboats new treaty in such circumstances is dif China Sugars
Oriental Navigations ficult. However, in Conference "çircles Malabon Bagar.... we practice the virtues of faith, hope and Bongnats.... charity; let me describe the process of trenty-making from within.
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The room in which the Conference meets used to be Yuan Shih Kai's study, and one can well imagine how in such a room a man working alone might lose his sense of proportion, For, besides being gigantic, it has so many windows and stands in so fair scene that the mind's eye is easily inveigled into dreams. Below stretches a splendid sheet of water blue as the sky, spanned in the clear dis tance by a marble bridge. Midway, a fairy like peninsula runs out into the lake and to the left, like golden canopies catching every sparkle of light, are the yellow-tiled roofs of the Palace where. successive Ming and Mancha emperors lived magnificently.
THE CHINESE SPOKESMEN No wonder that in such an environ ment sovereign rights' and ** tariff autonomy ring musically, or, on the other hand, that a complete, reform of the country's inland taxation appears well within the scope of a three-year programme, Dr. W. W. Yen and Mr. C. T. Wang make persuasive spokesmen, and as they stand there in fashionably cut morning coats, the former suave, tactful and Benign with large tortoiseshell spectacles, the latter alert, incisive and A little staccate, punctuating his sen- tences with stabs of his cigar, one cannot but admire their master of their roles, or the effective assumption of, the bluff. simple-sailor manner by Admiral Ting Kan, who comes into the discussion, as he has more than once said, with no com- mand of words but with the decks clear- ed for action.
We have, of course, our practised spokesmen, too, and the ready wit of Mr. Silas B. Strawn, one of the American delegates, has frequently put the laugh un our side, as for instance, when he capped a parable of Admiral Tsai's. The Admiral had good-naturedly warned the Conference not to resemble an ancient Mississippi steamboat, the seaaawing of whose overhead crank or walking " beam seriously diminished her "Agreed," said. Mr. Strawn, "but I travelled once on a Mississippi steamboat whose siren blew off so much steam; at starting that she had none wherewith to make any way.
Way:
The technical advisers and secretaries sit behind the Delegates, appreciative, but no more than decorously amused, with files, portfolios, and all the equipment. The necessary to economic argument. Delegations are "arranged "alphabetically and arrive in handsome cara generously placed at their disposal-the Customs pay. Each car bears its number on a blue plate, at sight of which the double rows of police along the route and the guards at the vermilion coloured gateway. Prix to the Nan-hai-or Southern Ses, as the $45 like is called-give faultless salutes.
80 Meetings of the Conference begin at 101 45 and last till noon or a little later, when, with handshakes and bows, each Dele gation files down z glass-covered passage. way decorated with rows of fine chry santhemums and highly coloured paper lanterns to a spacious hall, in the centre of which stands a throne-like blackwood chair, backed by an enormous screen, also a blackwood and inlaid with mother o' pearl, and danked by tall punkahs or fans of peacock feathers.
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THE PROSAIC BIDE.
Kailan Mining Ad... Langkata (combined)
Da (single) Shanghai Loans....... Shanghai Explorations.. Baub.... Tronoh Mines Ural Caspiana..... KK & K Wharis, HK. & W. Docks. Honghow...
New Engineeringa.. Shanghai Dooks,. Indos Def..... H.K. & S. Hotel Hongkong Lands Hongkong Resityn (ap)
Teritorials (Lp.)..
Rural Lands Prinys Estates...
Hailding..
Ewo Cottons Orientals
$52 sol.
$18 bay.
$950. nom. $97 sol
.43 kom.
* nom.
th-com.
960 sol,
T. 29 sel Tix. 17 nom.
Tis, 5,45 pom
TL 8 101
..$5.80 sel.
35/- com.
.8 nom.
$120 sel,
$55 nom. Tls. 167 buy, Tla, 7
buy.
Tis. 110 sol. 350 sul.
$7 nom.
„350 bay, 18 sel.
...5 bay.
$5 buy.
$137 Dom $120 al.
sci.
Tis. 9 buy,,sel. Ths. 3 nom.
..7ła, 55 sai. »
(now)......Tls. 27 sel,
Shanghai Cottons (old)
Do. Amusementa Canton ices Cements (combined)
Chiza
Do.
Do.
..$11 buy.
..$71 nom.
$15 nom.
(old)
$19 nom
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Tis. 10 buy.
$15 sel
11 sel.
..sel.
$3 buy.
317 Je
$10 zion...
,uswr) China Lights (combined)
Buser Do (old) Do. China Providents Constructions
Dairy Farms.... Der A Wing (L.p.) Hongkong
Electrics Macao Electrics ..... H.K. Developmenta DK. Ropes (combined) Do. (old) Do. (ROW) Hongkong Tramways Lane Crawforda.. Mackintosha. Peak Trama (old)
Do. Siseres.A Thi United Asbestos. Watsons" (old)
(new) (a.p.)...
Do. (new). Wm. Powall........
Bil nom..
39) nom.
30 ata. nom.
$10 sel.
$13; nom.
.. nom.
..$124 Bel.
$21 nom.
$17
Sil sol.
nom.
$12 boy.
...12 buy."
baybayers; sel-sellers; 8-sales ;-
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nom.-nominal.
EXCHANGE RATES.
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REGEY, January 31st. To-day's exchange rates are as follows: Paris
128.1 ⚫4.86
New York.
Brussels
Geneva
Amsterdam Milan Berlin Stockholm Copenhagen Oslo
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25.22
12.12
120.05.
90.42
18. 16 19.87
23.9
34.55'-
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190
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7.5-10
403
1/0.11-04
3/01
2/41
Kobe
1/10
Silver (Spot)
30,15-10
Vienna Fregue Helsingfors Madrid Lisboa Rio.. Buenos Aires Bombay Shanghai... Hongkong
DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT.
HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF
The business" of treaty-making is not all, of course, as scenic as this. It has its hundrum aspects to be seen in work- A-day offices, where desks and files, type writers, telephones, trade returns, and amortization tables are the ob jects that hold the eye. Prosaic facts & GODOWN CO., LTD. rule here, harder facts than foreigners, have ever been called upon to face in loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., report Subject to audit, the Hongkong & Kow- China, and the atmosphere is decidedly. depressed. To the onlooker this depres that the balance at Profit and Loss sions seems all the more pathetic by Account for the year ended 31st Decem reason of the mistrust which helps to ber, 1925, is 8653,484.73, which together generate it. To use a simile heard more with 8332,695.83 brought forward from than once in Conference circles, each De- the previous year makes a legation appears to be afraid of having $1,021,100.30 available for appropriation.
The Directors will, at the approaching" 44 carry the baby," which, as the British have experienced, can be very ill meeting of Shareholders, recommend the
following distribution: tempered and noisy and ery very, loudly for boycott. So, at the first facial threats, there is apt to be a hurried exit From the nursery, whereas, if the Big Three, say, made up their, minds to deal with such tantrums firmly, close the nursery door and to stand with emi akimbo, Young Ching would probably be less obstreperous.
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Down in the drawing and dining rooms, however, all is harmonious, polished and lavishly hospitable. What lunches! Sharks fins and birds' nests and succd- lent Peking ducks and delicacies innumer able! A story of an incident which pre eeded one of these lunches has just begun to go the round of Peking. It is at least typographically accurate, for it mentions A billiards rooms, the table of which has been replaced by a businesslike Com mittee table, a postage-way and are markably wise-looking parrot in a com- modious cage. The story has it that, at (Continued at foot of next Column.).
To pay a dividend of 30 per
share To pay a bonus of 82 per.
share
To transfer to Repairs and
Renewals A/c
To carry forward
total of
$480,000.00
160,000.00
50,000.00 331,190.53
$1,021,190.50
the end of a long morning, when hunger gave a sharpish edge of disappointment at the rejection of a much discussed for mula, there came a squawk of uncon stramed mirth, a chuckle, and thea, high- pitched, the words abolition of likin! Abolition of likin !" ment that the parrot subsequently, dis appeared is, however, without foundation. I have seen it since, in its usual place, myself.
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