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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
GOVERNMENT
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
GOVERNMENT BILLS,
etc.
TENDERS for DOLLARS current in this Colony, for tele. graphic transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's
Editorial and BusinessOmce:
15-19, Queen's Road Central Tel: 30351.
Night Editor (Wanchal Office);
Tel: 24511,"
London Office: 53. Fleet Street.
E.C. 4.
THREE PER CENT. LOAN Treasury; London, up to and for The Daily Press.
1962-1972
ISSUE OF $30,000,000"
Interest payable 15th April and 15th October. First interest coupon payable on 15th April, 1937. Author- ised by Straits Settlements Loan Ordinance. 1936.
PRICE OF ISSUE $100 PER CENT.
Payable as follows-
On application
$10
On 14th Nov., 1936
20
On 15th Dec., 1936
On 15th Jan., 1937
30, 40,
Trustees are authorised to in vest in this Stock subject to ffic limitation In section 8 of the Trustees Ordinance.
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and the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd. at any of the branches of these Banks in the Straits
the sum of £100,000 will be re ceived by the Treasury Chest Officer, Command Pay Office, un. UI 11 o'clock am, on the 30th September, 1936. :-
The tenders to state thể total amount (in pounds sterling). No telegraphic transler will be made for less than £100.
"The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, Com mand Pay Office, and endorsed Tender for Government Bill, etc."
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The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is re-
served.
Settlements, the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States
Applications must be for $100 be had on application. or a multiple of $106.
Cheques on outstation branches will not be subject to inland ex- change charges. ·
Copies of Forms of Tender can
"Persons tendering for (Bills) are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap. 45 and 41 George III Cap. 52′ the accep Cheques should be drawn pay. | tance of any such Tender is sub- able to Straits Settlements Gov.ject to the express condition that crament a/c New Loan, or no Member of the British House bearer, and should be crossed.
Debentures will be issued on Lästs will open on 15 October, payment of the final instalment
The Loan is being raised for the purpose of the redemption in due course of the Straits Settle ments 34% Inscribed Stock,
1936:
Priority will be given to plications from Co-operative So- cieties registered in Malaya.
The Loan is secured on the general revenue and assets of the Colony and of the Slagapore and Penang Harbour Boards and it not previously redeemed the oria. cipal will be repaid at par on 15th April, 1972, but the Straits Set
tlements Government reserves to. itself the right to redeem the Loan in whole or part by drew- ings or otherwise at par on or at any time after 15th April, 1962, on three calendar month's notice having been given in the "Gazet. te" of such intended redemption. In the latter event the deben. tures will cease to bear interest on the date fixed for such redemp.
tion.
A Sinking Fund will be created in London for the redemption of the Loan under the management of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
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Debentures will be issued in denominations of $100, $500. $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000, and the interest thereon will be pay- able half-yearly, by coupons at. tached to the debentures, on the, 15th April and the 15th October:
The first coupon will bear in- terest at the rate of one dollar
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on 15th January, 1937, or as soon thereafter as they are available. Although no guarantee is given, it is expected that bonds will be Issued up to the amount of the allotment in the denominations asked for.
Interest at 5 per cent. per 'annum will be charged on instal. ments in arrear, and non-payment of any instalment at its due date will render the deposit and in- stalments previously paid liable, to forfeiture and the allotment, to cancellation,
In the case of partial allotment, the balance" of the amount paid on application will be applied to. wards the payment of the first instalment. If there should be a surplus after making that pay. ment such surplus will be refund.
cil.
Brokerage at the rate of 1/32nd per cent, will be paid to Banks or recognized sharebrokers in Malaya on allotments made in respect of application forms bear. ing their stamp.
THE TREASURY,
SINGAPORE,
22nd September, 1936.
Application Forms are available
at the Offices of
för each $160 of stock, and will | The Chartered Bank of India, be payable on 15th April, 1937. Australia & China
Applications which must be on the prescribed form and ac companied by a deposit of $10 per cent. will be received by the Chartered Bank of India, Austra‹ ils and China, the Hong Kong & Shanghat Banking Corporation
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Eighth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 10th October, 1936 (weather permitting) may be ob-
The Hong Kong & Shanghai
Banking Corporation
The Mercantile Bank of India,
Ltd.,
in Hong Kong,
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HONG KONG CRICKET LEAGUE
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The Annual Meeting will he "held at the Urban Council Room, Post Office Bldg. (by kind per- mission), on Thursday, 1st Octo ber, 1936 at 5.15 p.m.
"A. H. MADAR,
Hon. Secretary.
tained at the Secretary's Office, Hong Kong 28th Sept., 1936.
Exchange Building; the Cinb House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and
the Stables, Shan Kwong Road:
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Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 1st October, -1936.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
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Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria, New Territories.
Actg. Secretary,
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Contract thereby made for the allotment
of such (Blits).”
net apply to Contracts entered "The provisions in question do into by any incorporated Com pany in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company.'
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L. J. LIGHTFOOT;.
Colonel, R. A. P. C., Treasury Chest Officer. His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.
BIRTHS
BUEROWS. — On September
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1836. at Solihull, Warwickshire. England, to Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Burrows, a daughter. RODDA.-On September 23, 1936. at Country Hospital, Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Rodda, a daughter,
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GOW-On September 23, 1935, at Faber Krankenhaus, Tringtao. to Capt. and Mrs. Ian Gów, a daughter. Both doing well:
September 23. SWEENEY-On
HONG KONG, September 20, 1936.
Aggravating
Suspicion
FRANC
FINANCE CONFUSION
LONDON MARKET DEALINGS
Dutch Guilder And Swiss Francs.
SWITZERLAND TO
FOLLOW BIG POWERS
BIG POWERS Dealings were
"At A Distance Of Ten Per Cent"
CURRENCY BASED ON
GOLD
Berne, September 29.. Switzerland intends to follow the currencies of the big powers
Perhaps the time is not so very "at a distance of ten per cent" and Swiss currency wil be based far distant when a remarkably meeting of the States Council (Swiss Upper. House).
patient world will become ex-
on fold, according to a statement issued on the conclusion of a
The statement adds that M, Myer, President of the Confedera
Alignment on American. British
a gold bases...
ceedingly angered at the deplor-floa, stated that the decision of the Federal Council maintained. able disposition on the part of freedom of movement of gold. nationalistically inspired Japanese and French currencies will only be effected Insofar as those cur-
rencies are stabilised on publicists to magnify the most "Innocent and minute, events to grotesquely large dimensions, after which such happenings be- Come dignified by the language of diplomacy as "'incidente"".
Since the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Andrew Caldecott, paid a personal call at Canton on Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, news
COMPENSATION FUND
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Profits made by Switzerland on
gold reserves, the statement adds.
w serve to create a compensa-
tion fund for support of currency.
The States Council, with; two decree dissentients, adopted 2
granting economic, powers to the Federal Council.
Reuter
FRENCH GOLD BILL
Paris, Sept. 29. "The Senate met at 11.35 this
morning and then adjourned until to-morrow to study the next of Gold BÜL adopted by the Chamber.-
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services which function in the| cause of Japanese propaganda have striven, in a manner at once unethical and irresponsible, to treat this visit as something savouring of deliberate intrigue.
By innuendo, not always of at- Butleria Secrece „ subtle nature, these news-services and newspapers have endeavoured to sell the story" that matters of such vital international im- portance as would fit them for prominent positions on an agenda for a Conference of Powers, were Dot only discussed" but "fna- haed" at the friendly meeting between the King's representative and China's leader.
GOLD BILL PASSED
Paris, Sept. 29. The chamber passed the Gold Bill with its twenty five articles. by 350 votes to 221.- fester.
FUTURE OF LIRA
Rome, Sept. 29. Important decisions regarding the future of the lira are expected to result from the emergency meet-. ing of the Cabinet held this morn-
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AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS
Vienna, Sept. 29. Austrian schillings will hence- forth be based on sterling, says the “Neuefreiepresse.”— Reuter.
At the back of all this, and a 18. great deal more, propaganda, ar- rayed in the myrisd-hued garb of "exclusive information", there is discernible a certain child-like peevishness, and that, perhaps, is a shaft of light in a gloom of saspicion.
EMBARGO ON GOLD*
Paris, Sept. ‘28. oficial Journal will pub- a decree to-morrow placing an embargo on gold- Reuter,
When all is said and done, it The
Listi is indeed refreshing to note amongst the expert publicists of a nation famed for its adroitness, such child-like belief in the
HOSTILE SENATORS
Paris, Sept. 28. Stx Senators, belonging to the 1936, at the Country Hospital seriousness underlying rainor
Union Republicaine Group have Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. N.matters which attract little more unanimously declared hostility to Sweeney, a son. Bryan An- than passing notice by those wards the Government's Monetary
whose perspective is not distorted | BIII, COWAN-On September 24, 1936. by national prejudices.
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the Country Hospital. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cowan, a son.
KENNEDY.On
September
24.
OLD WOMAN ROBBED
A robbery, with
violence
1936, at the Country Hospital, Shanghal, to Mr. ahd. Mrs. J. A. Kennedy, a daughter. WILFERT. On September 23, 1936,
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A delegation of the Left parties. after a-meeting with M. Leon Blum, the Premier, agreed that
London, Sept. 29.
recommenced the morning in the London for- eign exchange market in the Dutch gullder on the basis of B... to which compared with Fri- day night's closing level of 7.48). while Swiss francs opened at 21.321 as against Friday's level of 15.48.
The mean rates ruling at noon. were New York 4.94, Brussels 29.245, Amsterdam 8.865, Geneva. 21.355.
GOLD SALES
The record of to-day's gold deal- ings shows that 503 bars of an approximate value of 1,410,000 were disposed of.
STOCK EXCHANGE On
the, Stack
Exchange this morning there was a tendency to mark time and values in some section displayed some irregular- ity, but prices generally were well- maintained. The weakest market yesterday, as was expected. was that of gilt-edged and other axed Bri Interest bearing securities. tish Government "stocks, after be-
moming as precautionary measure. against possible selling, later showed some recovery with War Gold »Mines: were Loan at 108), les active, but changes were small. Gold quotation 14/7.-- British Wirelean.
DUTCH GUILDER ing marked down 1/8, 10 5.8 this
STATUS
Legal Devaluation Inadvisable
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The Hague, Sept. 20. Dr Collin told the Second Chamber that the Government did not contemplate fixing a new gold value for the guilder in the near future.
The Premier added this meant.
"DORADO"
ARRIVES
that the Government had not con- World Tourist Aboard
sidered legal devaluation at the present moment. The general confusion 10 the International money market made legal de- valuation inadvisable..
A natural depreciation of the guilder in relation to foreign cur- He rencies might be expected. could not at present say how much the depreciation will be.
In relation to the Netherland guilder the Netherlands Indies guilder will remain the same Reuter.
LIRA ADJUSTMENT
Rome. Sept. 28. A devaluation of the Lira similar to the Franc was regarded here in wormed circles as Improbable. An adjustment might however be considered, in special cases as for instance, in the "Tourist Lira.”—–—–— Transoczan News Service.
The RMA.. "Dorado" arrived here yesterday afternoon al 4.15 p.m. after # fast trip from Tourane. Indo-China.
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Mrs. M. C. Reith was the caly passenger on board. When inter- viewed by representatives of the press Mrs. Reith stated that she had down by the Imperial Air- ways planes from Bahrein Is lands, off the Persian Gulf Malaya and hence to Hong-Kong. She was now on her way back to America, and wou'd travel "by sea for variety. When she arrived back in the States she will have encompassed the world by alr and sea
Mrs. Retth stated that she went to" Bahrein Islands to join her
husband for three months He was working in an oll concern there. When she first left America LATVIAN DECISION
she did not have the intention of travelling round the world, but Piga, Sept. 28. The Larvian Government decid- since the Imperial Airways linked the Persian Gulf with thế vart ed to adjust its monetary unit, the Lai, to the Pound on an exchange of the word, she decided on mak- basis or 1931, before the dersion-ing the sea-board connection in tion of the Pound. The Pound is Hong Kong. IAUS worth 25.22 Lats. Latvia broke away from the Pound in 1931 when it was devaluated, so that
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the proposed articles in the the present decision to realign the referring to the sliding scale of Lat with the Pound will mean wages should be withdrawn and devaluation of about 40 per cent.-
Transocean News Service. replaced by a new text giving the Government full powers to pre- Ocvent a rise in prices..
LAD
at the Faber Krankenhaus, curred yesterday when Li Tsingtao, to Dr. and Mrs. H. | Fong, 47, unemployed of 222. Wilpert, a son.
Portland Street, third floor, at- tempted to steal 850 iram a 51- year-old widow, Tan Yee.
About four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Li was at 355, Des Voeux Road, West, first noor, the residence of Tam Yee, when he attacked her in order to steal the $50.
NICOLL-On September. 15, 1938, at Rangoon, to Isobel (née Stuart), wife of F. E Nicoll. Hong Kong and Bhanghal Bank, and 10. Howard Place. St. Andrews-a daughter.
DEATHS
KLATCHKO-On September 24,
1036, suddenly at Melbourne Mme. Phyllis Klatchko, the wife of Dr M. Katchko of
The money was in six 45 notes, ten $1 notes, and two 85 rolls of
10-cent coins
When the thief" ran away he dropped $15 on the staircase .on the first floor, which was recover-
The woman's conditions not considered serious as she merely suffered qunor injuries to her mouth, back and index finger.
Shanghai. MATTI-On September, 24, 1936, in Shanghai, Erwin Matti, aged 28 years, of the Nestle and Anglo-ed Swiss Condensed Milk Co. HANNA-On September 25, 1938. at the China Inland Mission Hospital, Shanghai, the Rev. W. 3. Hanna. THOMPSON. On September 13, 1938, at Weymouth, Harold Annesley Thompson, beloved husband of Rita Thompson and only son of Henry and Lady Katherine Thompson, aged 4 *years.
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- ĦARTIGAN. —On September. 11: 1938, suddenly, at Oatlands, Weybridge, Surrey, Dr. Willam Hartigan, formerly of Hong Kong, the beloved husband of Florence Gertrude Hartigan, in his 85th year,
HEWAT. On September 14, 1936
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BOAT INCIDENT
The new text will be submitted to the General Confederation of Labour. · Ity la thought that а general agreement can be reached among the groups comprising the Government- Reuter
TURKEY'S DECISION
Istanbul, Sept. 28. The Government has decided to link the Turkish, currency to
sterling, and has fixed the buying rate at 835. plastres to the pound and the selling rate at 638,-- deuter's Bulletin Service LATVIA JOINS
Riga, Sept. 28. The latest adherent to the sterling group Latvia, The Government has decided to align
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GREECE ACTS
Athens. Sept- 28. Following the devaluation of the French Franc, the Bank of Greece, with the consent of the Government, decided to abandon the Swiss Franc as a basis, and align the Greek Drachme to the Found Transocean Femi Service.
MOSCOW,
RUSSIA TO FOLLOW-
Paris, Sept. 28. ccording to the "Matm," has announced that it wul follow the example of France ami Switzerland, and devaluate the Rouble, reducing it to its ac- tual value.
Transocean News Service
BULGARIAN. CURRENCY
Bofia, Bert. 28: "The Bulgarian currency will with sterling on the basts that not be influenced by the devalua existed before Britain lert sold. The son of the French Franc," stated new rate! for Latvian Currency will be 25.22 to the pound....... Reuter
the Minister of Finance, Gureff, on "Monday to the press. The Minis ter pointed out that the Bulgarian monetary amit has been stabilised on a very low basis, so that no grounds for a further devaluation
The Dorado carried 0.907 kilos of freight and 181.602 kilos of mail
CHIANG KAI SHEK AT NANCHANG
Another Visit To Canton Probable
Shanghai, Sept. 29. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who arrived at Nanchang by air from. Canton yesterday, is expected to proceed to Nanking shortly, but he may stay sa short time at Kuting, where Madame Chiang - is. at present resting.
It is probable that the Cenera- salmo will return to Canton be- fore the Double Tenth, to attend the opening of the branch of the Military Academy.
Meanwhile, the return of Gent- ral Thai Ting-kal to Hong Kong. is reported, after his visit to Kwangs, where his activities in reorganising the old 19th Route Army at one time seriously em- barrassed the progress of the negotiations between Nanking and Kwangi
General Teal states that he has Landed over his troops to General Chung-Je for demobilisation. Reuter
A fisherman, Chari Ngau, 28, reported an armed robbery on his fishing boat off Un Long, at Lung
DUTCH GUILDER
Amsterdam." Sept. 22. Han, Deep Bay, at 10 p.m., on September 28, by four men and been made regarding the extent of No official announcement has one woman who were armed with the intended devaluation of the nor is there any danger of DR WANG CHUNG HUL Dutch Guilder, but it is stated that unstabluty of the Leva as a result It will be determined by wholesale of the French measures.....
Transocean Bass Forzicé. prices. Although stock exchanges
BERLIN MARKET. in Holland closed on Monday; prí-..
Berlin. Sept. 28 vate trading to a limited degree
quotations" took place, the Pound being trad-
two revolvers.
ADMIRAL PASSES
No currency
Canton. Sept. 29.
It is reported that Dr. Wang Chung-hul, former President of the Nanking / Judichal Yuan,, and are Judge of the International Court age at the Hague, and one of the
and Hong Kong by train to day and Tres- i will leave for Nanking on or about
New York, Sept. 28. |ed at between 10 and 12 Gullders, avaliable, Formen exch at Berne Bwitzerland, Henry The death has occurred of Rear-which constitutes a devaluation of quotations will not be made in peace mediators, has retuned to Hewat, late of Hong Kong and Admiral Wiliam Sims who com about 30 per cent Both Houses Paris, Amsterdam, Zurd Shanghai Bank, Baigen, China,manded the American naval forces of the Dutch Parlament have caller Milan either on Monday and of 5, Leam-terrace, Leam- in Europe during the Great Wared for special seasons. Ington Bra. In his 10th year,
Frandson News Service
day
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