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DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS Hong Kong Stock
Exchange
Sharebrokers' Association
Baywi
Bal Baller
Nominal
TUESDAY, JUNE 2.
Seller
turm
$1,6701
$1,570
£105 214
£13
$73
£30
Banks
H.K. Backs
Bo. (London) .... Chartered Banks...
Mercantile Bka. "
"A"
Do.
Bank of East Aria........
N. U. & S. Harks ...
Insurances
Canton Lasarande...
!!!!!!!
Bales
Cools e
$1,360 £105)
NA
2392
£134 $73
324
$283
3263
Underwriters
Union Insurances...
1607
5071/3 10
$400
Chica Fires anaia)
$475
$482
H.K. Fires...............
1250
$250
#3}
International Assce, S.
Shipping
€38
Douglase
$35
15)
$4
130
Ludos (pref.)
$310
120
Do. (def.)
$20
100/-
Shells
100/-
$19 20
Mining
Antamos
$2,90
$2.82
B: Waterhoste
3219
37 CUN
Balateos..
Baguio Guld 27 cts.
$18.40 Bengust Consolidated
Do Exploration 26 sta
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33 ct. Big Wedge 3ets. 24 cm 33 ets.
Demenstations.96 cha,;
Gold River ...... 3 ctela et..jaj cu
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
STRIKE CALLED OFF PENDING SETTLEMENT
Agreement Over Commission Early Next Week
THREE SENTENCED FOR INTIMIDATION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1936.”
H. K. STOCK MERLE OBERON'S
EXCHANGE
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
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The market opened after the Whitsun holiday with a tone and more enquiry in evidence China Electrics, principally in Lights, Lands and Wharves, re- sulting in a fair turnover. H.K. Trams after closing wenk are Shanghai. May 29. again in good demand with buyers
at $9. Banks and Unions in Fears of a continuance of the Ash mongers' strike were alloyed tinue in request at higher rates.
In the Philippine Gold Mining yesterday morning when the men,
was centred in af trans- section interest assured of free choice
and Demonstrations portation and
of Antamoks consideration
their new demand for a reduction which changed hands at improved
prices.
of commission, peacefully resumed their business after
two days' strike. Contingents of police were saricned on the Pont Island and In streets leading to the market. No cases of intimidation were reported from there.
The mongers have been com- plaining of the high rate of com- mission-one and half per cent.. as compared to the 07 per cent. The In the old Nantao markg
strike
96 ct. grievance culminated in a
93 cta,
**
B cla
Bold Crock.........
aljet..
Northern Mines
3gute.
143 ctm.
Parcels-Gumaus
United Parncales ....
**
8 cl
105 cts. $1.04
***
14 cla
Saincote
13ata.
Bict.
$1.28
127-
Itogon
81.23
$12 16
| (single) 8.
8+
80 eta.
75 cla
$170
$2,30
d
$11
$1.05
$34
$43
น
Explontions......
Shanghai Loans 3.
$10.55 Haubs.
3114
San
388
(20 cts.)
Mauricio
Venezuela Goirt Fida.! Ducks, Wharves,
Gudowns, etc.
H.K. & K. Wharton
DJ.
(old)
Do. (DO)
Providents (vld)
[4
Du. (W)**** H.K. & W. Docks 5. China Motors' A' Shangaa Bocka S.
New Engineering. Hongket S,
H.K. Hocola H.K Lands..........
Do. 4% Debentures Shangual Landa.... Metropolitan Lands..
$5-
31.05
130 ata
+9
$105 $51
on Tuesday when the fish mongers learned that
had the market granted a monopoly of transporta- t on to the Island to one firm, and no other means of conveyance was permitted.
Headed by one Jen Yung-sung. a group of mongers concluded an agreement with the market au- horities for a settlement of the the Arst day of dispute on the
strike. Another group, sceptical of the settlement, forced a further day's suspension of business by means of intimidation.
POLICE PROTECTION For fear that the fish mongers might be utilized by undesirable elements, the authorities sought an early settlement. After assur- ing those who were willing to re- stime business of adequate police protection. they received delegates the of the opposition group, on Island on Wednesday night. choice of promising them free transportation. and consideration
the
of the new demand. for a reduc- tion of the commission from one to half per cerit. one per cent. Other terms of agreement. checking of weight, and sorting out office from the fish cargo be- fore weighing, were again endors- ed..
310
$4
3185
Lands, Hotels, and Buildings
14.70
*4,80
130
เบ
par
$13
$10
H.K. Realties........................
$4.10
China Do
$8.25
Do. DebouturesS. Hamphreys einstern,
18.55
$82
Chinese Esta [08... **-
Colton Mills
EWON MO
d's Cottons(old)S.;
$8.40
$74
Do. (new).
#39;
B
$14 $26
In
the
$8.85/.180
:6
+3
SK8
$30
$70
cazzolu z Tes
(nuw}***
Zoong Sings...............
Wing On exilles(15.)
Public Utilities
Tramways .......................
Poak Trains, (old)...
Da
Star Ferries *********
Yaumati Ferries...
110.80 Chins Lights (old)... $10.00
H.K. Electrica Мыса
uu.
Sandakan Lights ........
Telephones cld)...
Do. (new)...
Do
(Dew)...
#501
8,40/90
13
$90
$20
502
860.70
$20 18.30
$25
China Buses ......
20/-
Tractions
FEITSSTAKAR 20/8
99/-
Do. (pret)......214]
IM
Industrials
$
Malabon Bugare ***
Caldbeck, ori.) d.
$19 Macgregore (pref.JS.
$15
Canton Ice
$12
Cements
$9,40
$4.40
Ropes G
$19.70
Th
$2.90
Ch. Etainmenté...... Constructions, (old)
Miscellaneous
Dairy Farms"....
Amusemente con
Do. (new) 30 ct. Lane Crawfordan on
Mackintosha ansieda
Nanyang Tobacco...
Sinceren. *kespinosa un
Watsons...ESTOLYMP Powells
Wm.
513
19 $4.35
$13.70
13
$1
£5.90
$3.35
$1.60 13.35
50 ot3.
$1,70 $3.40
40 ots.
$2
M. Greyhounds
31.35
S. G. Enterprises ....
931
Ch.0.0% 1925.Bda,
prem.
HK. Govt. 4% Loans, (35
par
Do. 21%
$80
HK "Wing Ou
$45
8'
Do.
$4
Vibro Picog.********
364 $2
has
Wallace Harper .................
STEWARTS AND LLOYDS
2
a cushion for
A reply to the demand for a reduction of commission is expect ed to be given to the fish mongers early next week.
First Special District Court yesterday, three fish mon- gers were sentenced to 30 days' detention each for intimidation. The first two, Woo Tung-sung and Liang Ah-kong were arrested in Pingling Road on Wednesday for throwing stones at drivers of fish trucks, while the third. Zau Tuk-zung, was arrested in Broad- way "N.C.DN."
POLICE CLASH IN BUCHAREST
Fanatics Attempt To Storm Church
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Buyers
Hong Kong Banks. $1.578. Union Insurances, $510. Venz. Goldfelds, $4. Providents (Old), 95 cts. HK. Lands, $301.
H.K. Lands 4 per cent. Deben-
tures, 100.
HK. Trams, $8.90.
China Lights (New), $7.70. Electrics, $51.
Telephones (Old), $95. Singapore Traction, 25/-. Malabon Sugars, $91. Shanghai Cottons (Old) Sh.$70
ex. Div.
Constructions (New), 30 cts. Govt. 4 per cent Loan. 6 per
eent. Prem
Govt. 3 per cent. Loan, par. Antamoks. $2.95.
Atoks. 51 cts. Demonstration. $1.04. United Paracale 95 cts.
Sellers
Hotels, $4.70.
H.K. Trams. $9. Star Ferries. $90. Dairy Farms. 319.70.
Sales
Hong Kong Banks, $1.575: Union Insurances, $510-$5121. Providents (Old),"95 ets. H.K. Trams, $9.
Yaumati Ferries, $20: China Lights (Old). $10.80. Electrics. $51
Antamoks, $2.92-$2.96. Demonstration, $1-$1.02.
CLAIM
£25,000 FROM FILM COMPANY
Hollywood
Merle Oberon, the British Alm actress, is demanding £25,066' from the Selznick International Pictures
Company because she did not get the Florence Nightingale role in a fim about the famous British nurse.
Her lawyers have entered a suit against the company for this am- ount, representing both wages and that Miss damages, claiming Oberon's contract specified that she was to have the starring role in "Florence Nightingale." and that the company is not producing the
im now,
The suit brought by Miss Oberon against the Selznick concern. claims that it abandoned the pro- Ject for making a film on the life of Florence Nightingale because an- other producer was making a simi lar film.
The suit also declares that the Selznick company selected "The Garden of Allah" as a film in which she should star instead, but that when she reported for duty she was not assigned the leading role which. she claims, she had been promised.
A LEADING PART It had previously been stated that Merle Oberon had declined the lead- Ing part in "The Garden of Allah.” and, at her own request, was trans- ferred to play the lend in "Dark Vic- tory."
Marlene Dietrich is taking Miss Oberon's part in the "Garder of Allah." film it was stated.
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Aflm about Florence Nightingale. under the title "Angel of Mercy," is being made by Warner Brothers with Kay Francis in the leading role. The film has been in prepara- tion for over a year.
JOHN MCCORMACK IN NEW COLOUR FILM
To Appear As Hiuisell
John McCormack; the tenor, the latest addition to the cast of
FIVE ARRESTS BYWlags of the Morning." Robert T.
FRENCH POLICE
THRILLING CHASE IN EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING
Shanghal, May 22
Kane's first English production fo the Twentieth Century-Fox Cor- paration. Mr. McCormack will ap- pear as himself in the picture's Irish scenes and sing two songs.
Mrs. Natalie Kalmus, wife of the president of Technicolour, and the director. Glenn Tryon are giving Annabella, the star. tests for voice and colour. Preparations are being made for Alming the Derby and Irish exteriors.
"Wings of the Morning." which will be all in colour. is being pro
uced in London Film Productions' new studios at Denham.
THE KING INSPECTS
IRISH GUARDS ·
London, May 2,
A long period of surveillance re- sulted very early yesterday morni- ing in the arrest of Ave Chinese who are believed to be part, if not the whole, of a gang of robbers who have been operating in the Concession for some time past. The men have definitely been identined, i was learned from the French Fo- lice yesterday evening as the per- petrators of an armed robbery of a Chinese pharmacy in Rue Ad- mirai Bayle about two months ago.
One man was arrested in Rue The King saw the new sword Kraetzer by two detectives of the salute for officers for the first time French Police before he could offer yesterday when he visited the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards at ally resistence, while thres other men, who fled, were arrested at the Chelsea Barracks. This salute has corner of Rue Wagner. The first only just been introduced and ap-.. Hong Kong Daily Press" Spéciall
man was found to be in the posses-proved by the King. In it the Bücharest, June 2
sion of an automatic pistol contain- | officer extends his sword at an rounds of ammunition. angle from his body outwards to Two persons were killed and ng four several others njured during a The fifth man, who fled towards the right, instead of pointing it
down in front of him as before. clash between the police and the and down Avenue Edward VII, was
When the King stepped on to the fanatical religious sectareans, the seized by two constables so-called "stylists" who refused to Shanghai Municipal Police, and parade ground at eleven o'clock he was wearing the dark-blue undrèss adopt the Gregorian calendar, | held until the French detectives ar-
uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the when the latter attempted rived on the scene, when he was
He to them.
Irish Guards. With the King were Colonel Dawnay found to be in the possession of a Lieutenant
(Colonel Commanding the Regi-. fully loaded Mauser pistol.
ment), Feld. Marshal Lord Cavan (Colonel of the Irish Guards), and
storm the local church in order to turned over hold a service there. When the alarm shot proved of no avall the police were forced to open fire on the fanaties.
of the
Was
Although the French Police' are confident that they have rounded
It is believed that the Stylists up most of the reading members Major General Sir B. N. Bergison- had been incited to disorder by of the gang, investigations are be-Brooke (G.0.0, London District). Communists from Soviet Russia-ing continued in the hopes that Transoccan News Servic
HERZOGIN. CECILIE
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Experimental Operations
some of their minor accomplices may be taken into custody as well (N.C.D.N.).
FILM STAR MARRIES SCENARIO WRITER
Together with these officers the King inspected the long double line of Irish Guardsmen drawn up across the barrack square. They. were in review order. with scarlet tunics and forage caps, and the King commented on the smartness of their turnput.
After the inspection the King took the salute as the battalion, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Miss Florine McKinney, the Fitzgerald, marched past in column
Hollywood of fours. twenty-three-year-old
a balance of the sum of £140,000 set aside as reserve to meet the tax on the 1934 profits. The de- cliner profils. if the level of stock-in-trade and work a pro- London, May 15.
gress can be accepted as an in-
London, June 2. A reduction in taxation result-
dication of the trend of turnover,
Operations which are admittedly ing from the settlement of
has been a matter of lower prices
than of, reduced trade. experimental are proceeding in an substancial daim" for obsolescence rather
is 25 effort to salvage the Finnish bar- fim star, who played the 'part of The King, with the officers of This item, at £2,000,000, provided
que Herzogin Cecille which was Little Emily in "David Copperfield," the battalion, then walked over to per cent. larger than a year bo-
Chelsea Barracks Chapel, Stewards and Lloyds' shareholders. fore, while trade debtors" have wrecked off Salcombe, Devonshire, was married yesterday at Caxton the
where he talked for some time to Who are receiving the same rate risen from £1,554,000 to £1.921,-five weeks ago. Pumps are being Hall register ofte, London, to Mr.
an Bairy Trivers. the twenty-nine- the chaplain the Rev. E. W. Watts. 000: As the international tuba installed in the vessel and of dividend despite the 40 per cent
carter" broke down on March 12. attempt will be made to lighten year-old Hollywood scenario writer. After inspecting a party of old
Miss McKinney recently appear-
comrades of the regiment the decline in earnings, after making 1935, and prices of tubes on the her by pumping out water and provision for depreciation and in- world market became free as from grain. Until the cargo is removed ed in the Dorchester Follies. for King left the barracks. terest. No add tonal provision that date the group was faced for it is impossible to assess the which she was chosen on account for income tax in respect of the most of its year with what the damage to the vessel which is so of her voice. She has also appear-
cha rman has already described as wedged among the rocks and sand | ed in John Watt's shows.
competition,
The bride, wearing a navy blue ат ever that external examination of the profits for the past year is con- "all-in".
dress with a silver fox fur, and a -accom-
•sidered necessary in view of the larger decline in profits would hull is impossible.-
small navy blue hat, was British Wireless fact that this settlement has left have been excusable.
panied by her mother, Mrs. W. C. McKinney, and by Miss Bonita Bar- ker, another film actress.
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