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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
H. K. STOCK
EXCHANGE.
MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936.
LONDON EXCHANGE RATES
13
NDL
·FAR EAST EXPRESS
PASSENGER & FREIGHT SERVICE.
From Hong Kong to
Europe
Straits & Ceylon
S'pare Pusang, Rolawan, Colombe...........
(Beitian WirkMS NERVIÓN!
July 9,
Paris Gendys
7. 49/84
July 4, 75-45/64
15.931
15.324
Berlin
12.43)
12.42
Athens
527
Milan
633
631
Shanghai'
1/2 3/64
Amsterdam
5.02. 5/16 +381
5.02 1/16 7.361
Frague
Bucharest
SATURDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
There are no change of any im- portance to report during the short session, There were small en- quiries" for utility shares with no response from sellers.
The Manlia Stock Exchange was closed this morning.
BUYERS
H. K. & W. Docks, $10. Venz Goldfields, $43.
Atoks, 70 cts.
Bagulo Gold, 38 cts.
Benguet Exploration, 27¡ cts.
Consolidated Mines, 3 cts.
I. X. I. $2.10.
New York
Vienna
Madrid
Lisbon
Hồng Hồng
Montevideo
Montreal
Parti
Dato Se
Pota
Mam ona, s'hampion, Rottenika, Brewin, Benburg, Port Buchanan Samoillum, Oran, 'blanca, Antwerp, Llabon, R'dam, Hamburg,
July..
Bremva...
Jaty
Potariam
24
July 54
NAKA 1...
Manila
Fotador.
**pora Manila
July
July 24
Caris
-Bay
Airg #
Rotsdam
'hei, Yokohama, Kobi ....
Jub
Gineiwand
Bartl
S'hal, Yokohama, Kobo
Aug.
Dairen, Taku, Tingtao. bana, Nagoya, Kobežiaka
Masbate Consol., 80 ett.
Ang.
Suyoc Consol.-48 ats.
South Sea Islands | Keuerbareu ..
Rabau), Tulngi, Kavlog, utá
***Jaly
1
Sindang, Aulamnaun. Bahaud, etc. .........
Äubject to Alteration without Noties. For Pangs and Peight apply to:
Shanghal & Janan
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Shanghai, North.. China & Japan
16
Shanghal
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General Agents.
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Tel. 30237.
S.S. "BENVENUE"
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"Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG, and LEITH on or about the 18th July.
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CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
VIA SINGAPORE,
United Paracale. $1.19.
'''
H. K. Land 40% Debentures, 100.
H. K. Trams. $101.
Electrics, $50.
Telephones (old), $25.
Singapore Tractions 32/8.
Malabon Sugars, $94. Constructions (new), 30 cts. Govt. 4% Loan: 75% Prem. Govt. 3% Loan, 11% Prem.
SELLERS
H. K. Steamboats, $2). Union Waterboats, $12.
SALES
Hongkong Banks, $1580, Big Wedge, 54 cts. Consolidated Mines 31 cts. Gold Creek. 19 cts... I X. L. $2.17. Paracale Guamus, 66 cts. H. K. Trams, $10,35/101.
THE EXCHANGE MARKET
MESSRS. ROZA BROS.
Saturday, July 4 Silver prices dropped 1/8 yester- day for both deliveries, the quota- tions being 19 for Ready and 19 7/16 for Forward. Silver advices reported India and China as having sold. Subsequently India. and speculators bought. The mar- ket dropped through lack of sup- After the official axing the port. market was steady with buyers at 1/16 over the fixed rate and sellers holding off In America the rate was unchanged at 44 for Spot.
The London/New York cross- The New rate quoted at 5.021. York/London rate was quoted at 5 021.
MARKET
Steady but very quiet.
STERLING
A smalt business was done during the course of the morning
Brussels
Belgrade
Yokohama
Helsingfors
Rio
Buenos Aires
Silver (Spot
Silver (forward)
War Loan
Da LONDON:-
674
675
36 17/32
36 17/32
29.69
29.87
39 1/8
0.037
5.02 7/8
194
-- 19 9/16
108
101
19
Closing Quotations
July 4, 1936.
Telegraphic Trankfer... 1,3
. Bank Bills, on demand
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ON PARIS:
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Bank Bills, on demand 483
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Oradita, 4 month's sight 530
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ON SAIGON:-
On Demand
100%
On demand
49
ON SINGAPORE:-
ON MANILA
On demand
543
-On demand
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THE SHARE MARKET
Bank, on demand...............
BAR SILVER, per o.............................. 197
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
New York: July 3.
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(Through Kanter's Agsoey)
QUOTATIONS
New York/London Cross-rate *** New York Cotton-Oct. New York Rubber-Sep. Chicago Whost ~Sop. Chicago Corn -Sep, Silver Official
So Industrial 20 Raile 20 Utilities
40
Amer. Locomotive... 194 Amer, Radiator...... 251
at 1/5 15/32 for July delivery. Amer. Rowing M... 791 The market dosed with sellers at Amer. Smelting
1/3 15/92 July, 1/3 7/16 August/Am. Sugar Refining 1661. December, buyers at 1/32 higher Amer. Tel & Tel, ... respectively.
U.S. DOLLARS
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers were quoted at 107 9/16. buyers at 107 11/16.
SHANGHAI MARKET There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 and U.S. Dollars at 30 1/16 for cash.
Last Today's High Low Close Close Change
— 1,0%-9/32 5.02) 132 off 11.80 11.87 11.68 11.02 unchanged
16.33 16.35 18.12 16.23
.10 up 102 99 $7
5 up -711
$5,58 81.18
Business Dore:-1,070,000 shares.
'Harriman's Weekly
Review
Saturday, July 4. Messrs. G.A, Harriman and Co.s weekly share report and market review issued At noon to-day states:-
SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER
Latest Singapore
Prices
B ̧ B. JOSEPH & CO.
Saturday, July 4. Messrs. H. B. Joseph & Co., re- ceived the following quotations in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber from Singapore to-day:
Spot
July-Sept. Oct.-Dec. Jari-Mar.
Market:-Firm.
Buyers
27 up t
271 up i
271 up t
271 up i
BENJAMIN AND POTTS"
Baturday, July 5. Messrs. Benjamin and Potts re-
The local market during the week under review was rather quieter than it has been for some time with rates generally a little casier. Philippine" Gold mining share were also less active locally but trading apparently was very brisk in Manila, Local investment } counters were rather steady with Hongkong Electrics changing hands! v (at $50/50%. Hongkong Trams
opened firm at 10.55 but closed a ceived the following Straits cur- shade easier with sales reported at rency quotations (buyers) $10.30. Hongkong Telephones (old) | Slogapore to-day for Raw Rubber:
Buyers at $25 buyers.
Spot Hongkong Lands came to business
261 cts, up cent
at $30. Cements were put through at the opening at 89.10/20, but closed much easier with shares on offer · at $8.60. ·Hotels after being dealt | in at $4.55 were wanted at $4.50...
||
Aug.-Sept Among the minor issues
Providents (old) continued in de mand at $1 with sellers asking for. $ cts. more. China Lights receded
to $10.50 after sales at 310.70. In the Philippine mining section the feature of the week was a specta- cular rise in Itogons which im- proved over 50% in value since our last report rising from " $1.25 to $1.90. The whole mining Ust continued very Arm and *Hll higher levels have been attained again this week. Antamoks on the announcements of 2 5 centavos
(50%) interim dividend payable July 15 appreciated to 35.20 cum. but some profit taking brought
from $5.15 down to They closed firm át
$5.10. Big Wedge firmed up to
102 671 711 442
38 up unchanged
Dow Jones Averager
High-1934/35 Low: July 1.
161.99
July 2. Change
113.11 158.38
107.51
51.37
40.60 47.85
47.84
.87 off ,01 off
33.78
28.23 32.91
39.00
Bonds
103.24
28.02 109.66
11 Commodity Index
62.14
08 up 109.65 01 off 62.64 1.48 ap
Stocks
Last Sale
2 July 1
.. Stocks
Adams Express Amer. Can
11# 111
G. Western Sugar
Last Sale July 1 2
351 35
were unchanged
183
133
Bumble Ol
831 821
Amer. Cyanamid. 'B'
334
334
Int. Harvester Co....
801831
Am. & For. Power
TA
71
Int. "Nickel
49
49
Am. & For. P. $7 pt 373
381
Int. Tel, & Tel.
14
14
Am. Light & Trac. 25+
25+
Kennecott
380
387
191..
Loew's Inc.
491
491
248
Lorillard
231
231
..70
McKesson & Rob.
541 531
bins Inc.
44
441
187
Monsanto Chemical
96
961
1024 1001
Montgomery Ward...
31
423
++
| Amer. Tobacco 'B' 23+ 231 Nat, City Bk..........
39 *
381
Brlyn - Manhattari
Trans Corpn.
| Amer. Waterworks... 331 331 Nat, Dairy Prods.... 264
Nat, Distillers Business was done at 32 for Anaconda Copper cash and July. There were sellers Atchison, T. & S. Fe. at 32 5/16 July. 321 August/Atlas Corpn...
Auburn December, buyers at 1/15 higher
Baltimore & Ohio... 18+ 18+ respectively.
Bethlehem Steel
204 201 Pacific Lighting"..... 51 Boeing Airplane Co. Barden Co....... 301 301 Packard Motoi
231
761
261
201
284
Nat. Power & Light 11
27+
28
121 121 New York Central... .361 North American ...... 281 Northern Pacific 27
11 361 30
251
504
491.
Paciac Gas & Elec. 381
381
51
101
10
Paramount
Picture
'47%
477
Incor
91
81
1721 187
112
1121
641
15
31
- Manhattan Bklyn
$8 cum, pl.
101+ ........: 1013 Case, J. I..................
Pure Oil Co
441 Canadian Pac. Rly. 123 121 Rub. Bervice of N.. 171 Chase Nat. Ek........
441*
Radio Corpn. Chesapeart
731 Corpn. 724 Chesapeake & Ohio 591 Chrysler Columbia Gas & E. 194 191 C. G. & E, 6% 'A' pt. 1041 103* Commercial
64 Credit Comi. Solvents Comm, & Southern
(ord.) Comm. & Southern
Pennsylvania R. R 32+
314
out sellers
· Phillips · "Petroleum 411
413
$5.05 cum
45
171
114
11+
Radio Corpn "B"
594
$5.01
Schenley
1043 Reynolds Tob 'B'.54
401
1044 54]
Schenley 51% pt..... 100
Sears Roebuck Bocony-Vacuum Sthrn, Cal. Ethrn. Pacinc Stand, Brands
74 13
13+
Edison - 281
281
334
331
15
151
(ord,) 46 cum. pf. 711
Stand. Gas Y Elec
72
7+
33+
Atand. Of at N.J....
121 121 | Sterling Prods....
58 69 *
681
802
304
Swift International 30. 30;
791
Technicolor
201 27
154 Transamerica
51 5 Texas Gulf Sulphur 36 351 143 134
Distillers Corpn. Bea-
grams
20th Cent, Fox Film.
Comin,
241
21 201
1 20th Cent. Fox Film.
574 5&
DL
Un. Carbide & Car-
131 12)
bon
344
901
891
221. 224 Un. Pactic ..........." 1284
128
Un. Aircraft (New) 22
22
751
754*
Un. Airline Trans... 163 Un, Corpn.
181
08
83 84
Un. Corpn. $3 cum.
been
done
184
pf.
45
45
prices:-
57
574*
Un. Gas Improve-
384 38
ment.
161
151
411
401
U. 8. Indus Alcohol, '341
34
BAL
671.
US. Rubber
28
29
34 •
341"
U. S. Steal
1311
191
Vanadium...
501 531 1727 17
195
· 191
comparison with the Goodyear Tire & R. 241 game month last year-
G. Nthern Ely. pf: 384 (4544 Transocean News Servin,
241
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CONSIGNEE NOTICES,
ཙྪཱཙྪུདྡྷཡྻཀྐོཆྱེཡྻདྷཝོབྷཏྟཊྛཱ ཙྩ བྷུuཨྰཿབྷྱོཿཨྰཿནྟུ་སྐྲུནཱཊྛཱི་sསྐ = ཊྚཀྑུབྷཊྛཊྚནཀྐདྷ ནྟི བྷཱཀྐསྶ ཊྛཾ
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO, LTD.
AND
C
CHINA MUTUAL STEAN NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
per Co.'s Vessel AJAX FROM UNITED KINGDOM
CONSIGNEES
THE
REVENUES IN GERMANY
HAMBURG-AMERIKA” LINIE.
(Hong Kong Dally Press" Special) NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Basle, July 3. TIRE 8.5.
The German Reichs revenues "PREUSSEN "
from taxes, customs, duties ad having arrived from Hamburg and other sources, amounted during Ports of call, Congues of Cargo are April 1936 to 779.6 million Marks hereby notified that their Goods are
as compared with 684.9 millions being landed and placed at their risk
are heroby notified that their Cargo into the Hong Kong and Kowloon What during the same months of last Consolid. Gas of N.Y. 361 will be discharged into
Holt' and Godown Company's godowas at year. This sum was made up by Consolid. Ol
Wharf, Kowloon, where it will be at Kowloon, where delivery may be 455.3 milions paid on property Continental 011 ....." Consignees risk and subject to Tarma obtained as soon as the Goods are landed and trafic taxes and 334.3 mil-Corn.' Products ...... and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Optional Cargo will not be landed
Wharf The Cargo will be ready for hore, unles Notice Sas been given ons on customs and consumption Curtiss Wright (C)
Optional Cargo will not be landed hers anises Notice he been given prior to Steamer's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends,
Delivery from Godown on and after hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried taxes. The wage tax was 15.4 mil-Curtiss Wright 'A'... 151 4th July,
on from
port to port to the final port of lions higher than it was in April Delaware & Hudson 397 39 call to which the option extends.
1935. Income tax niso showed an No Claims will be smitted after the increase of 25.9 millions 53° com- Goods have left the Godowns, and alpared with that of last year, The Douglas Aircraft
140 Du Pont de Nemours 1504 Cloods remaining undelivered after the
tax for April 1938 11th July, 1936, will be anbject to corporation
Electric Boat All broken, chafed sad damaged Goods Rent.
shows an increase of 4.6 million Elec. Bond & Share be left in the Godowns, where All broken, chafed, and damaged marks as compared with April last they will be mamined on May Tuesdayr Goods are to be left in the Godown, year and the prodts tax amounted et Bond & Share and Friday between the hours of where they will be examined on 10th to 201.1 millions, which is an in-Etc. Bond & Share
Jaly, 19-6, at 10 am by our
are to
10.40 and Noom within the Freevor, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas,
15 DI......
Goods have left the Steamer's Godown. Warehouse with the General Bonded increase of property and trade Fec. Power & Light 161
Begulations, consignees must taxes in April 1936 as compared Gen. Cigar and all Goods remaining undelivered have a Revenue Officer in attendance with April 1935 was 61.3 millions.
Gen, Electric after the 11th July, will be subject when damaged dutiable goods are to Beat
All Claims against the Steamer must
be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 25th July, 1980, or they
will not be recognised.
No Fire Laranes will be effected
the 4th August, 1966, or they wille taxes show an increase of 334 Gen. Rly. Bignal... not be recognised.
for the month |・・ 967. million | Goodrich Tyre Co.. Bila at Lading will be countersigned by marks in
JEBSEN 200π
·Agenta. 145 16 || Hong Kong, 4th July, 1938.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents.
4th July, 194
No Clams
Storage poll be admitted after the
crease of 27.9 millions. The total
56 pr.
examined.
All claims must reach us before
The Agures taken as a whole Gen. Fooda... reveal that the property and trat-Gen. Motors
millions, making a total incrensé (Gold Dart
No Insuraos will be wrecked.
וי
54 cts. with shares still wanted at this rate, Consolidated" Mines
Oct.-Dec. Jan.-Mar.
from
271 cts. up i cent
271 cts... up cent
27 cts, up cent
Market:-Firm.
REICHSMARK RATES
Bona Kong Daily Press" Special)
Berlin, July 4. Relchsmark quotations (without guarantee) -
New York, 40.24. Paris, 609.0.
Amsterdam, 59.225. London, 12.437.
Paris Sterling low, 75,81. Paris Sterling high, 7570. Dollar low, 15.07,
Dollar high, 15.075. Traninceam News Service.
FINANCE BILL DEBATE
Londor, July 3 Winding up the debate on thu
came into the Umelight here and third reading of the Finance Bill, large parcels of this low par value which passed the House of Com- share (1 centavo) dealt in from mons without a division, Mr. Ne- 403 up to 4 cents, "Demonstrationsville Chamberlain, Chancellor of 100 * were quieter between $197 and the Exchequer, said in view of the -731 $1.09. Explorations were taken at acceleration of the defence pro- 28/29 cts. and Gold Creek came gramme, it was certain there would into prominence, after long neglect be a defcit on the present Budget at 19 cta. buyers. Paracale-Guamus The
only question, said Mr. were quietly steady at 67 cts, and Chamberlain, was what size the Masbate were sought for at 80 cts. defcit would be. There would San Mauricio have "see-sawed" | shortly be additional supplemen- from $1.04 to $1,15, closing in good tary estimates covering additional enquiry around $1.14. United
expenditure.— Paracale have very keen enquiries buyers bidding as high as $1.23 for scrip which is the highest price reached as yet for this stock. The 24 sterling section was very steady with Hongkong Banks in request 33) at $15824 after sales at $1585: Unions were sold at $525 and more shares could be placed at $5221. The local market closes on the quiet side but mining issues con- tinue to be active. Business during
Warner Bros. Picta. 101 10 Westingbetise: Eles: 123 124
11%
| Call Money
↑ possible zrustigst
the week has
at the following
H K Banks, '#1580/1582). Unions, $525,
Lights (old), $10.85/10)........ Lights (new},"$74,
Providents (old), $1.-/2.08.” H. K. Docká, $10.70. H. K, Landi, #30,-7301.
"H. K. Electrics. 8501/10).
Dairy Farm), $191.
euter Bulletin Seruice
H. K. Trams, $10.30/10.65. Telephones (old), 25.20. Hotels, $4.55.
Star Ferries, $954. Cements, $9.10/9.20, Antamoks, $4.80/5.15. Atoks, 71. cta./12 cta.
Benguet Exploration, 28 cts,/29
ets.
Consolidated Mines, 33 cts./42 cts. Demonstrations, $1.09/1.10, Northern Mines, $0.38 cts. 381 cts. Santa Rosa, 41/cts./4) sts. /~ Buyoc, 44 cts. Benguet Consolidated, $18.30 Salacots, 124 cts.
San Mauricio, $1,04/1.21/02 Big Wedge, 48 cts/53) cts. Paracale Chuamus 67 cts/71.ets. --Itogons: $1.43/1.30/7/20
United Paracale, $1.12/1.19%