DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong Stock
Exchange
Bostro Ballers Jalta Nowa
Sharebrokers
Association
TUESDAY.
Bares
SEPT., 26,
12.
$1.800
***
£129)
ETO
220
£13
110:
320 #42
Ch. Fin. Corp. Orl. 8.
$3281
$2.05
370
*195
1324
$784
$800
FIN
130
$30
Bankr
H.K. Banks
Do. (London)
Chartered Banks...
Mercantile Bks. "A"
Do.
Bank of East Asin...
N. O. & S. Barks --
Am O. Fin.Corp: 8
Do. Prof, S
Insurance,
Banton LammE) QUE.....
Undarwriters
Union Insurance ...
China Fires...................
H.K. Fires
International Assoe, 9.
Shipping
Douglases. Steamboats
Indos (pref)
Do (def.)
Shelia *****
Watertontr
Mining
Amtamoks......
Balatcos... bett
£151 £95
3104 $7
32
3670
2580
3270
HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933,
MONEY AND MARKETS
H.K. STOCK
MARKET
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
WES
The market to-day being kept busy with the adjustment of the September contracts, there scarcely any fresh business report- ed. Indications in the afternoon session. however, point to rates. being well maintained.
LONDON EXCHANGE RATES
(BRITISH WIRELES SERVICE).
Sterling Parity.
19.10, Florins 375 Drachmae" "300. Belgrade. 276,316 Dinars 90.43 Marks Bombay ...... s. 6d per Rupee
Op" Amsterdam Athens
Berlin.....
Brussels...
Bucharest.. Buenos Aires
Copenhagen Genera Helsingfors Hongkong
Lisbon Madrid Milan
45 O.R.
22.40
*16.04
1317)
$1,8002
MOBIL WI
****
Sept. 93. 7.67
Sept
7.70
650
928
12.051
1/83/6i
!!!!!
35 Belgas 813,588. Lei
99.13 625
18.02. 1/83/84. 22.071 323
47.58 per Peso
43 0.R.
SALES.
18.159 Kroner 25.99 Francs
9240.
15.98
193.23 Marks
920
Underwriters 83,10
1/51/16
1/5 3/16
Hotels 86.85/6.90.
85%
***
#18
!!!!!
531
Hong Kong Trams $12.30
102) 37
103
37 3/32
SIN
58.13/16
393
$30
37 Nom.
37 Nom.
$35
4.89
1.85
Hong Kong Banks $1800
4.79
4.70
$15
Canton Insurances (323)
19.90
19.90
Union Insurances 8570
Douglases #32)
F
$1.20
$1.20
Wharves $128
540
Rio de Janeiro
124.21 Franca 184.23 Kronen 28.93d. per Gold
78 31/39
79 13/32
1041
105
Ewo Cattons Sh. $14.40
$1.03
Baguio Gold......
$1.25
Milreis
14
$43
Benguet Consolidated.
Hotels 86.80
4 OR
4O.R.
347
81 st
35 uta
Do Goldfeld
Do. Exploration
Hong Kong Lands $15
Shanghai
1/31
168 cta.
Stockholm
18.130 Kronor
19.351
Vienna... 34.58) Schillings
90
60 cts.
Big Wedge.....
70 ota.
Yokohama
24.568. per Yen
38
Gold Creek.....
Silver (spot)
1/21/18 18)
[64
Ipo Mining..........
1/8 9/10
18 D/18
#71
*1%
100 13718-
31/2
318
Explo9ingle)!
tion................
Cements (Combined) $3.85/4
BUYERS.
Montevideo
Montreal New York
Paris
Prague...
110 Escudos 25.22) Pesetas ****.46 Lire 50.88d. per Pesa
4.967 Dollars 4.867 Dollars 18.150 Kroner
Hong Kong Trams 82230
Star Ferries 899
China Lights (Old) 811.65 Electrics 977
Cements (Combined) $3.95
Dairy Farms $29
Constructions (New) 85 cents. Govt, Loans 3 per cent. Prem. SELLERS.
Silver (forward)
War Loan ****
Closing Quotations
September 26, 1933.
Telegraphic Transfer...{1/43 Bank Bills, on demand Bank Bills, 4 months'
ON SHANGHAL :---
25%.
842
318
16
Shanghai Loans
112.30 Raaba
387
Venezuela Gold Fide,
Tranch Mine an
313
17/6
Antamoks $1.00
Docks, Wharves,
35.80
Godowns, sto.
THE EXCHANGE MARKET
3126
531
$1.40
17
$0
$1481
18
MESSRS, ROZA BROS..
REPORT
Cis LONDON:
-1/3 7/16
10.40 29 1/31/18
187/16
PRESIDENT Liners
Fastest Time Hong Kong to San Francisco. Speed with Comfort.
To SAN FRANCISCO 19 Days To VICTORIA, SEATTLE 17 Days
via Shanghal, Kobe,
via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Bonolulu
Yokohama Fortnightly sailings
Fortnightly sailings
Free Coolidge... Od. 10, Midnight - Pres, Cleveland. Sept. 29, Midnight Pres. MaKinlay ....Oct. 94, alidnight Pres. Jackson ... Qot 13, Midnight Pre Hoover ... Nov. 7, Midnight Free, Jefferson „Ost, 127, Midnight/ Free Taft Nov. 21, Midnight Pros. Grant sasse Nov. 10, Midnight. Pre Coolidge". Deo. & Midnight Pres. Cleveland Nov. 14, Midnight- Pret. Pierce - Dec. 19, Midnight Free Jackson ............. Dec. 8, Midnight
ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA, Special through rates to Europe via · United States. ~ Direct connections with all Atlantié “lines. Chalos of rail lines barome United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges
Sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application.
fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America
Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays via Manila, straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suer Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Ganos. Marseilles. New York and Boston.
Pres. Adams sin sisè.... Sept. 30, 8 am. Pres. Johnson ................Nov. 11, 8 ame Pres. Harrison......Oct. 14,8 m, Pro Monroe........ Nov. 25, 8am. Pres, Hayes ...Oct. 25, 8 sm. Pros Yau Büren .......Dig. 9, 8 am,
TO MANILA
Next Sailing
Pres. Adams Sept. 80, 8 a.m.
Pres. Coolidge......Oct. 3,6 p.m.
Prea. Jackson Oct. 7, 6pm
Pres HeKin'ey......Oct. 17, 6pm
Pro Jefferson...Oct. 21,0 km
Pres. Harrison...Oct. 14, 8am.
Free. Hayor Oct. 28,8 m.
Connecting with 8.8. MAYON To CEBU, ILOILO, ZAMBOANGA
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP
LINES LINE
FEDDER KUUMNO-HONG KONG.
CANTON BLAFCU;-4, SHAKEE ROAD.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
ASIA LANDS, LTD., QUOTATIONS
On Demand
On Koat:-
On demand
AMERICAN
ON MANILA:-
wight
Credits,
sight
/5
On demand
months'
ON SINGAPORE:-
1/43
On demand
G
ON BATAVIA:—
On demand
નરે
ON SAIGON; ——
On demand
FR
OS BANGKOK :-
On demand
13!
SOVEREIGNS, Bank Baying
Telegraphic Transter... Bank, on demand.......................
•113..
Bate BAN SILVER, per i
1/54 181/0
(INCORPORATED IN HONG KONG.)
Tel. 29380-Gloucester Building, Room 306.
5128
$3.80
$1.35
8161
18
11140
$:2 20
192
$11.95
"H.K. & K. Wharver.
Providente (old!
Do. (LGW)
H.K. & W. Docks
S. China Motor!* A?
Do.
*3"
$1481 Shanghai Docka S.
$8
New Engineeringat,
#346 Hongk
וי'
$14
Lands, Hotels, and
Buildings *H,K. Hotels
HK Lands......... Shanghai Landı...S. Metropolitan Leads..
$6.65.180
**RE!
| 16.80/00
#10
#8
$7.90
H.K. Helties.....
$156
Chius Do....8.
$137
314
Dó. Debentures 3. Humphrey
313
New Asia Hotel
$140. Asia Realties “Á” 9.
Do. "B" S.
124 5.7
Chinese Estates
Cotton Milla
Ewon...............S.
$100 8'hai Cottors.....S.
$144 Zooug Sings ............. S. $20
Wing On Textilen(S.)
Public 10m
Tramways en
$14.70
***
* 109
$141 177
$32 30
#19.30
$22.40
31
Poak Tesins (old)...
$15
$71
Do.
(new)...
374
W
Star Ferrics
1991
$22
$23
$11.50
$11.40
H.K. Electrica ............
193
Macna do.
$10
Sandakan Lights ...
135
9.
15%-
1
$31
150 cts
Yaamati Ferries...
Chins Lights (old). $11.75
Do. (Dew)...
***
$7.80 $7.90
$3.95
3.86/4
Telephones.......*.**.
$112 China Buses... S.
Tractions.......................
Da. (prat.)......
Industrials
$16 Malabon Bugars**** Caldbeck, Tord.) M.
321
3154 Macgregora{{prof.)8. Canton Ices mes
58
Cements (comb.)) $3.80
"Do.
Do.
Ropes
(old) $3,80
(new)... 20 ets.
Miscalianecua
Dairy Farm... $28)
Amnements ........
F
Ch. Etainments...... 310 Constructions, (old)
Do.
(new) 90.cts.
$390 Lane Crawfords.....
Hackintoshana
Nanyang Tobacco...
$131 Bincere
#81 Watsons
88.10|| Wme Powells.
រ98រឺ
8
Der A Wing.........
$10
310
.88 sta.
311 40 $77)
138
$13
38
$9
**L
131
$4.20 $13
„78. | B. Ind. G. Bends... 77'.
$10
M. Greyhounds...
131
3. C. Enterprises
United Theatre... §.
prem.
14.5. Goyte Loans ........ #1413].
$8
Wallace Harper......
$170 BK Wing OD .....
#175
8745
하
S'bai Do...
Asia Lands Limited
Gloucester Building Tel. 28380
We offer you a complete brokerage service for the purchase or sale of
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Canton Agenta
John H. Ferguson & Co.
32, B. C. Shameen.
18624
་་་ Messrs. Roza Bros. have forward. ed Us the following exchange market report for yesterday:---
The price for Ready Silver dropped 1/6 yesterday but the Forward rate was unchanged, the quotations, be- ing 18.7/16 for Ready and 18.9/16 for Forward. Silver advices re- ported speculators, as having sold, The market was quiet. In America the rate was lower at 381 for Spot. New York advices reported the opening rate at 4.734 and the clos- ing rate at 4.74. The market was quiet.
*
MARKET. Steady but.quiet.
STERLING.
ON NEW YORK:-
Bank Bills, on demand 338 nom Credits, 60 days' sight.. non
ON PARIS:
Bank Bills, no demand fo Credita, 4 months' sight 650
ON INDIA
LONDON FINANCE NOTES
(Special Air-Mail Service)
BOOTS POOL TERMINATED
LONDON, Sept. 6.
Business was done during the course of the morning at 1/5,3/16 for. October delivery. The market It was announced last night that closed at lunch time with sellers the shares of Boots Pure Drug Co., at 1/5.5/32 September/October and which were available as the result 1/5.3/18 second half October, buy-of the purchase last May of the ers at 1/5.7/32 September/October block of shares whereby control and 1/5) November.
Bassed into British hands, have now US. DOLLARS.
all been disposed of, and the condi. Business was done early in the tions governing the marketing of morning at 34.1/16 October follow there shares are therefore terminat- ed by transactions at 34 for cash. ed. The announcement has a dual The market closed at lunch time interest. In the rst place, the ces with
sellers at 34 September/sation of supplies from the pool October and 34) November, buyers | should have a favourable effect, on at 34.1/16 for bear and probably the price of the shares; in the October and 34) November.
second, the disposal of all the YEN.
share of late at advancing prices Merchants were quoted at 120shows how skilfully the pool has for near delivery.
been managed, SHANGHAI DOLLARS.
At one time in July it seemed Shanghai dollars were quoted at that the pool would be of indefinite
duration 111.5/16 for cash.
Of the 1,000,000 shares placed at £8 15s. per share among panirs and finance houses, nearly.
trust and insurance com 360,000, it is understood, ware with drawn from sale, leaving 840,000 to be disposed of by the pool, the life of which was originally "fixed af three months.
SHANGHAI.
Erratic. Early advices indicated sellers at 1/31 but later the market receded to 1/33 bidding at lunch time with sellers at 1/3.7/16 Oc tober, buyers at 1/3-
IN THE AFTERNOON. The market was quiet in the afternoon, the tone being a shade steady.
■
STERLING.
banka!
1
After the pool had been in opera- tion for about ten weeks less than 100,000 shares had been sold and the arrangement was prolonged un- In sterling no business was re-til Nov. 4. The pool has completed ported finishing with sellers at its task, therefore two months 1/5.7732 September/October, and ahead of time, and as, yielded a 1/53 second half October/Novem-substantial proft to all partici. ber, buyers at 1/32, higher respec-panta. tively.
U.S. DOLLARS. Business was done at 34.1/10 for near delivery. The market closed with sellers at 34.1/16 September October and 34,5/16 November, buyers at 34) for near and prob. ably October and 341 November...
SHANGHAI
Canton Silk Market
PRICE OF GOLD STILL RISING
« GERMANY'S BANKING
POSITION
Since the collapse of GermanÝ'S credit structure two summers ago, it has been accepied that the subse quent arrangements of the Stand still agreement provided protection to British and other creditors in the gradual liquidation of the commer cial and other indebtedness.
has
been
The
With the assets of the Gerican banks steadily contracting, prices rising, and the volume of trade diminishing, the credit structure of Germany
weakened, though it may still retain na im Standstill posing facade. agreement fails due for renewal at the end of February next. Before then negotiations must be reopened. The advice tendered in the best quarters is that the creditors should call for an investigation of the position of the debtors. This is of practical importance, as the re payment of the existing indebted- cise now being developed as on the news depends as much on the polá-"
ability, to payı qal
1.C.I. DIVIDEND
An interim dividend of 2) p.c. was announced by Imperial Chemi cal Industries on its £43,989,605 Ox- dinay capital. This is the same rate as last year's interim, which was followed by a final distribution of 3p.c. The payment will be made on Dec. 1, less income tax at 4s, Sid in the pound, after allowing for Dominion relief std. in the pound,
The distribution fell short of market hopes, if not of cautious expectations, and the Ordinary shares declined to 298. after the official cle of business, the Defer
lieved that the trading results in the current year have been at least as good as in 1912, though recently there has been some slackening of demand and a slightly easier price. "tendency,
A fresh high record for the price of gold was set up on Saturday, when a further rise of 63d, advancred falling Bd to Bs. 6d. It is be Steadier. Business was report-fine ounce. The gold sovereign was ed the quotation to £6 11s. ad. per ed at 1/3.4 for October delivery.
this worth about 30%, 113d.
Purchases by Continental board. ers are still being made. On Satur, day about £163,000 of bar gold was sold at a premium of 7d. or the The company important in- parity price based on the frano exterests in the United States, and its changes
investments in that country musi have greatly appreciated în value, This market improvement, of course, may not yet be reflected in the investment income of the ICI but it should have a material effect on the balance-sheet position at the close of the year,
From the Kwangtung Raw Silk Testing Bureau, Department of Re- construction, Canton, China:—
"CANTON, QUOTATIONS." -
September 23. Extra O.8. 13/15 HK. 4640N,'" Small Extra OS. 13/15, HK
Crack N.8. 14/16, ELK #4871P. Extra Extra 20/22, H.K. #450P. Waste N.S. Open, ELK 1957.
YOKOHAMA QUOTATIONE.
Beptember
8pot. Ten 8457 Bourse 6 Months, Yen 827.
treated as
| The rise is expected to continue during the next few days, and in some quarters it is anticipated that the price of gold will reach £7 per
ounce.
This would mean that the value of the pound in gold currencies would be only about 12a, since every fall in sterling in terms of frands › jakttómatically- (Países. the price of gold band
On Saturdays the frane rom fur- ther to 80 11-32 compared with 80 25-32 to the pound on Friday, The
ST FRANCIS
value of the pound in Paris was AN IDEAL FAMILY HOTEL
thus worth about 12m 11ld.
3
"{KRUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICK)
New York: September 25.
Dow Jones Averages: High-1932-
30 Industrials
108,27
20 Rails.
$8.43
20 Utilities
37.73
40 Bonds
89.07
Low: Sept., 23. Sept., 25
41.39 36.78
13.92 $4.5M
"18.53 26.83
05.78 84.65
Change 98.03 1.75 down 43.51. 108 down 26.95 .81 down 81.05-14 down
Asia Landa, Limited, has received the following report from their New York correspondents, E. Pierce & Co. An indecisive market, which evidently does not know which way to turn under the circumstances, We see no reason to take a positive stand until we can face a Htle more clearly, what disappointment over inflation developments caused Satur- dayk buyers to liquidate.
Domestic Patistics are less bearish and foreign even more so." Cotton: The market showed considerable firmness and demand was. steady, mainly for trade accounts. During most of the day hedging pressure was virtually absent,
Silver Fatures: The market opened easy and continued weak on general toning down of inflationary talk and the lower sterling rate Business Doze: 1,310,000 sharoR,
301 8.00 Air Reduction 44211002 Allied Chemical & Dia
1932 Dzv.
ELIO
Low PR. SHE.
101
29
70+
987 67 68 769 698888888893359666283566*****= 2N BRENGE
28)
18...
400 American Can .......
American Shelting.....
9.00 American Tel; & Tel. 3.00 American Toba
1.00 American Waterworks
Anaconda Copper Mining 2.00 uur D
Bendix Aviation
3.50 Borden Company
Canadian Pacify.
5J, 1 Ole m
0.50 Caterpillar Co.
2,00 – Chem: National: Bank 1.00 Chrysler Motors
31 3.40 Consolidated Gas of
Curtis Wright!
3.00 Drugs, Inc.
2.00. Du Pont in Memurs hián 3.00 Eastman Kodak...
Electric Auto-Lite Co.
€24. Electric" Bond & Share
Electric Royer and Kight.
0.40 General Electric
198
1.80 General "Foods"
1.0 General Motora
10
1.
Gillette Safety
1.20 Göld Dost
0.60TM International Hafy
International Tel:
4.00 Liggett & Myers 100 Loe's Inc.
Montgomery Ward,
2.60 National Biscuit 6.00 National City: Ba 1.20 National Dairy 0.00 Otir Elevator
1612.00 Pacific Gas & Electrio - Párkárd Motors 10.30 Pennsylvania Bailway
Radio Corps,
Sears Roebrick,
100 Standard Brands Standard No *Standard ON
Socony Vacuu As Corpor Trone Americ Union Carb Union P
LAST SALE
Sept 23. Sept., 15.
$1082 $110
187
1951
921
-01
471
45
126 1251
22-
174
51
141
14
71
70
24 Bid 23 Bid.
-BI:
18