Triestina
Lloyd
8.8. CONTE ROSSO
expected to arrive here
Feb 17. 1937, 9 A.M.
and Sails for
ITALY via
Saigon, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Massowah and Port Paid.
Feb. 18, 1937, 9 A.M.
LLOYD TRIESTINO
P.C1. Box 143. Tel. Adde. "Boydiano" -- Telephonex 32662/3. Canton Agents:-DODWELL & CO. LTD., Shamoor. "
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE
14
Far Eastern Mall, Passenger & Freight Service
Through hooking to Asterica via Europe and Europe via America. Booking- around the world. -- Through bookings to London
OUTWARD SAILINGS
BH." NORDMARK"
m.r." ERMLAND".
+m.v. DUISBURG "... ...
for Shai, Dairen, Taku, Tsingtao,
Yhama, Nagoya, Kobe, Oaks 19th Feb. for Shai, Thama, Kobe, Osaka,
Dairen, Taku. Tsingtao... 26th Feb. for S'hal,, Dairon, Tako, Tsingtao,"
Kobe, Osaka, Thams, Nagoya 10th Mar. HOMEWARD SAILINGS
5.4. "NEUMARK"...... for Miles., R'dam., Hamburg.....2nd Mar. +m.v. 'KULMERLAND' for Gonos, Antwerp, R'dam., H'burg, 13th Mary
.. "NORDMARK"...for Marseilles, Rotterdam, H'burg, 23rd Mar.
* Passenger Vonasl. • Limited Passenger Accommodation.
For further particular and passage fares, etc. apply to:--
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE
JEBSEN & CO.,
AGENT
12, Fedder Street, Tel. 28383,
CANTON AGENTS: CARLOWITZ & CO., Shakee Road.
JAVA
CHINA
VISIT BALI AND JAVA
Special Round Trip Fares 1st Class
HONG KONG BATAVIA-HONGKONG
H$275.
HONG KONG-BALI-JAVA-HONG KONG H$450.
HONG KONG-MANILA-HONG KONG H$135.
NEXT SAILINGS-
TO BATAVIA DIRECT 5.S. "TJISALAK' 28rd Feb., 11 am.
Toner Queen's Fier 10.00 am. Trader Polke Pier 10,35 m. TO MANILA, MAKASSAR RALI & SOBRABAIA $.5. "TJIBADAK" 2nd March, 10 am.
Tender Queen's Ter 9,00 ƐT);
Tender Police Pier 0,14 2,1),
TO AMOY & SHANGHAI S.S. "TJIBADAK" 19th Feb. 10 AM. For further information apply:
Holland-China Trading Co.,
Canton H. Nolasco da Silva, Esq., Macao JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LINE York Building
MODERN
Tel, 28010.
LIJN EXPRESS SERVICE
S.S. "BENNEVIS”
Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP. HAMBURG and LEITH on er about the 9th March."
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.
Next Bailing for SHANGHAI & JAPÁN·
S.S. “BENNEVIS
1
21st Feb.
For Freight and Pasige apply to :—
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD., York Building Agente:
Tel. 22333
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1937.
THE EXCHANGE
MARKET
MESSRS. ROZA BROS.
Hong Kong. Feb. 17. Silver prices dropped 1/16 yea terday for both deliveries, the quotations being 20 1/18 for Hendy and Forward. Süver advices re- ported China as having sold to a small extent. The market closed steady. After the official, fixing there were some inquiries at the fixed rate but sellers were rather reserved. American Silver quoted at 44 3/4 for Spot.
KAT
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
(Through Beater's Service!
QUOTATIONS
New York: February 17.
:
Now York, Loudon Crowe-rate Now York Cotton--Mar. New York Rubber-Mar. Chicago Whost -May Chicago Corn
-May Silver-Officia!
Dow Jones Averages-
SO Industrials
20. Rails
WILD
20 Utilities
The London-New York cross- rate was quoted at 4.89 3/4. New York-London was quoted at 4.80 23/32.
MARKET
Steady but extremely dull..
IN STERLING ||
No business was reported. There were sellers at 1/2 29/92 Febru- ary-April and probably May, buy- ers at 1/2 16/10 for any delivery.
U.S. DOLLARS
There were sellers at 30 3/8 February-April, and .30 5/16 May- June, buyers at 30 7/18 February- May and 30 3/8 June.
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Busir.ess was reported at 102 5/18 for cash. There were sellers at 102 1/4, buyers at 102 5/18 for cash.
SHANGHAI MARKET ¿ There were sellers of Sterling at 112 9/16, buyers at 1/2 19/32 for Spot. US Dollars, sellers at 29 11/18, buyers at 29 3/4 for Spot. Quiet.
40 Bonds
11 Commodity Index 81,87
Stocka
Adams Express
་་་་
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56
Allis Chalmers ....... Amer. Can Am. Car & Foundry Amer. Cyanamid Amer. & For. Power Amer. & For. 17 pf. 52 Amer. Locomotive Amer. Metals Amer. Radiator..... Amer, Rolling Mill Amer. Smelting Amer. "Steel Fdrics.. Amer. Sugar Amer. Tel, & Tel... 1811 Amer, Tobacco "8" 951 Amer, Waterworks ... 254 Anaconda Copper ... 551 Atchison, T. & 8. Fe. 74 Atlantic Refining Atina Corpn. Auburn Motors Baldwin Locomotive
Today's'
Change
Last High Low Close Close
4.89-15/33 4.69-93 39 † up 12.5 1238 18:0 1238 .It off 21.8 21.20 21.32 9139 .10 off
138) 130) 137 138 1098 109) 100% 1492
442
36+
341
"34
181
334
114
38
881
43
271
$ cum. pt. Baltimore & Onlo... Barnsdall Oil........ Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Boeing Airplane
Brigga Mfacturing 57 Brooklyn-Manhattan
MOTOR FACTORY Borden Co.......
FOR CANTON
Trans
Brooklyn-Manhattan
$6 cum, pf.
Scheme Meets With case, J
Approval
Canton, Feb. 16. Owing to the rupid construction
and the
of roads and highways. increasing demand for motor vehicles of different kinds in Kwangtung Province, which are now being purchased from foreign countries at great expense, it is understood
that Mayor Tseng Yang-po of Canton is in favour of establishing a factory for the manufacture of motor cars and motor vehicles of all kinds.
Its reported that the capital of the proposed factory will be *6,000,000 and that this will be borne equally by the Government and the merchants.
As such an industry means the saving of millions of dollars an- nually, the Government Advisory Board, and the Finance and Public Works Departments are consider- ing the best ways and means for the early establishment of the factory-
Chinese Evening Press.
Railway System
Improvements
Canadian Paclic Celanese Corpn. of
America
467
1004* 1011 165
161
327
Feb. 18.
if off
A off unchanged
High Low Close Change
189 167.08 18:18 21 of
67.80 87.08 57.44
Int. Tel. & Tel..... Int. Dept Stores
New York Central... 434
Phillips Petroleum .. Public Service of N.J. Fullman Inc. .................. Pure Oll
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Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama: Honolulu, San Francisco, Panama Canal and HavaDS. Pres. Hoover Pres, Cleveland Pres. Coolidge Pros. Taft Pres. Hoever Pres. Linooln
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Via Shanghai, Kobe and
Tokobama
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Mar.
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Mar. 3rd
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CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
COMPAGNIE DES. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES ..
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
8.8. LT. Br. LOUBERT BIE!
4°/37.
BRINGING CARGO FROM DUNKIRK via porta, vis.
ÅRVED HONG KONG »s TUES- DÁŸ, tak 167¤ FEBRUARY, 1987.
1936
High
Low Feb. 15. 190.70 -143.11. 188.30
60.46
40.88 87.37 37.79 26,23 36,09 10001 98.02 104.23
103.94 68.58 75.77
16.30 Business Donn: -9,290,000 shares.
.07 up
38.48 3475 33.14
.15 пр
.29 of
L
43 of
u
Last Balp
Last Sale
Feb. 15 18
Stocks
Feb. 15 16
18 181 751 741 107 ·
107
Great Northern Rly, 473 Great Western Sugar (37) Holly Suger Corpn. Humble Ou Int. Nickel
47)
373
I
861
861
844
651
14)
16
31
321
614
273 381 911 67
..67
521
521*
Kennecott Copper 60 612 Lambert Corpn....... 221 Loew's Inc. ...................... 76 Lorillard McIntyre Porcupine McKesson & Robbins 451 Monsanto Chemical 98
Pres. Wilson
23
Pre. Monroe
75
201 201
Prea. Adems Pres. Harrison Pres. Polk
46
971
Montgomery Ward .. 03/
621
Murray Corpn. .......
197
193
Nat Cash Registor...
36
351
Nat Dairy Products 241 Nat Distillers
241
*.
271
27
Nat Power & Light 121
121
$44
Niagara Hudson P.
Corpn.
16 157
North American
301 30
Northern Pacific...... 60 Pacific Gas & Elec. Pacific Lighting" Packard Motori Paramount
601
331
33+
471
481
138
111
25%
251
Pennsylvania R.R... Phelps Dodge
421
43
55 551
50 ... 501
GOT 70+ 211 211 Radio Corpn of Am. [1} ; 114 Republic Steel ......... 374 381 Reynolds Tobec, “B” 55} 561
St. Joseph Lead-Co. Schenley
:
Н
43
43
Schenley 51% pr....
97**
971
Sears Roebuck
* 891
897
Shell Union Oll
19
1BI
Bocony-Vacuum
20
Southern Cal Edison. 48 Southern Pacific...
481
331
334
Southern Rly 5% pr. 573
5'7
¿
041-
Consolidated Edison 444
Consolidated O
163
Stand Brands .......... Stand Gas & Mec. Stand Gas & Elec.
$T PL
521 Standard Oil of NJ, 72# Sterling Products .... 71+
157
151
12
137
551 731
70
45
60
Swift International 314 Technicolor
191
314 19
Texas Gulf Sulphur 401
404
Tidewater Assoc. O11 201
207
Timken-Detroit Axle Transamerica
277
271
ΣΤΗ
1251
20th Cent. Fox Films
384
17 361.
242- 67
20th Cent. Fox Films
pf.
45
447
Un. Carbide & Car-
1744 173
bon
108
109
141
Un Pacife
132
1331
Elec. Bond & Share 244 Elec. Bond & Share
$5 pf... Elec. Bond & Share
$6 pt.
United Aircraft ...........
301
30
Un. Airline Trans-
78
214
211
bort
United, Corpn.
81
7
851
United
Corpn. $3
22
cum pl................
442
444
37+
-372
Un. Gas Iprovem't 15
151
Firestone Tire & R 431 Funtkote
Un. Light & power
*A*
92 9%
491
bol
40
401
601
UB. Rubber
584
591
431
2
UB. Rubber $8 pí. 981
811*
1.8. Steel
Vanadium
Warner Bros Pict.
... '15 Westinghouse
Elec. 156 Youngstown Sheet
09 106 1053 321 321 151 157
& Tube .....
84%
83
Chase National Br. 837* National City Bank 591
624*
581*
Call Money
1%
1%
I ex div.
Bid
Cerro de Pasco..... 607 Certain-Teed P'ducts 2241 Chesapeake Corpn. 77 Chesapeake & Ohio. 65 Chrysler Corpn...... 1301 Columbia Gas & El 18 Columbia 6% "A" pr. 102 102 Commercial Credit 66 Commercial Solvents 181 Commonwealth &: 8.
34 Commonwealth $8
curn. pt.
Continental on Corn. Products Curtis Wright (C) Curtles Wright "A" 201 Delaware & Hadson 491, Del Lackawanna &
Western Distillers Corpa Bes.
grazDa Douglas Aircraft..... Du Pont ATAANWE Electric Boat .........
Bec Power & Light Elec Power & Light
$7 pí.
Canton.-Improvements will be Gen. Asphalt
בוס
made
two sections of the Gen. Cigar Canton - Hankow Railway-the Gen. Electric Hunan-Hupeh and Canton-Shiu-. Gen. Friods ............ 60%
chow sections-so as to prevent a recurrence of the unfortunate ac- cidenta which have occurred in recent months.
These improvements include the replacing of over 620,000 wooden sleepers, and to ensure safety in connection with the running of the new glant locomotives, the rallway bridges in the northern section will be strengthened at a cost of $90,000.
Turntables for locomotives--30 metres in diameter-will be pur- chased for installation at the prin- cipal railway stations. A sum of £31,000 will be expended for the
Gen. MotorA
81
Gen. Railway Bigna! Gillette Safety Razor 255 Oldden Gold Dust
48 *
Goodrich (B.P.) 17 (414 Goodrich $$ pl....... 95 Goodyear
413
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U.S. Industrial"Alco-
Hukuang Railway Bonds
Though no official conarmation
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEKS
Steamer "WILLANDRA",
From MELBOURNE & SYDNEY'
via MANILA
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Led.
at
Company,
the wowloon, whence and/or from
sdelivery may be obtained. Optional cargo will not be landed
nolera notice
has been Fiven 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried
YONSIGNEES are hereby informed. that their goods with the exception 291 of Opiom, Treasure and Valuables are being landed & stored into the godonne of the Hong Kong Kowloon Wharf ant Godown Co., Ltd Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the 20th Feb., 1937, cr they will not be recognized.
Damaged
by the Comages will be examined
Surveyors, Meraга, Goddard & Longlas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on Monday, the 22nd Feb., 1937.
Consigners must have Revenue Officer in attendance when any datiable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by
any case whatever.
can in
B. OHL Agent.
Hong Kong, 16th Feb., 1837. [6043
· NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO, LTD,
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
TONSIGNEES per Co.'s Vedas)
"DEUCALION"
From UNITED KINGDOM VIA SINGAPORE,
are hereby notified that their Cargo will be discharged inte Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will he no
Porto Claims will be admitted after the from port to port to the final tof call to which the option extends. Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the inst will be subject to rent. All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 27th inat. or they will not be
recognized.
20th
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 18th inst, at 10 am. by our surveyors, Mer Goddard & Douglas.
In the case of dutiable cargo, con- signees are requested to inform the Import & Exports Office that they have such goods for examination.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned
by
DODWELL & 00, LTD.
Aganti. Hong Kong, 15th Feb, 1987, 18034
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIR.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AGE M.V.
ΤΟΣ
KULMERLAND
having arrived, from Hamborg and Ports of call, Consigness of Cargo sro bereby notified that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf
delivery may
Tanded 'not be
Tanded
Consignees risk and subject to Tarmed Godown Company's godowns st
Howloon, where and Conditions of Biorage at Holt's obtained se moon an the Goods are Wharf, The Cargo wül ready for
Options, Cargo Delivery from Godown on and after here, nulear Notice has been gives 49 13th Feb.
hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the
option extends.
Optional Cargo will not be laudert here unises Notice has been given prior to Stosmer's arrival, but carried on from
port to
No. Claims will be admitted after the
which to the final port of call to Goods have left the Godawas, and all,
option extende,
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowni, where they will be
Goods remaining undelivered after the
20th Feb., 1937, will be ambjent to Heat.
examined on any Tuesdayr Al brolon, chafed, and damaged Fridays between the hours of
Goods are to be left in the Godowns, L.M. and Noor within the Fres where they will be axamined on 19th Stange period.
they
Bad
10.45
No Claima
will be admitted after the Feb., 1987, at 10 am, by our
Goods have left the Steamer's Godens, Burveyors, Mesur Goddard & and all Goods remaining undelivered Warehouse Begulations, consignees must comply with the General Bonded Douglas
repair and purchase of rallway was forthcoming in London re-demanding better terms, especially to 20th Feb., will be subject bave a Revenue Ofour in attendance
coaches and equipment.- Kuo Min!
SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER
Hong Kong Feb. 17. Mesar, H. B. Joseph & Co., re- delved the following quotations from Singapore in Straits Cur rency for Raw Rubber: ·
Buyers. Spot
351 Down March
36 Down j April-June
361 Down July-Sept
361 Down Market Manufacturers buying
were holding up negotiationsby after toe garding the rumoured Hukuang in regard to arrears, than the other
be presented to the Undersigned on 07 All Claims against the Steamer must before the 6th March, or they will -not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be affected
4. BUTTEBITELU & ¿WIRE.
Agents.
Railway bonds settlement. City interests, British, French and clrcles were very pleased with the German, were willing to accept. reported termė..'
The fact that the Hukuang bonds are higher priced than Pukows which were accorded similar terms, is attributed to the report that 18th Feb., 1937. Hukuangs may be given a len on a the Balt Gabelle, which is now.
regarded as excellent security.
Hukuang issues were dealt in around 64 for undrawn bonds and 623 for drawn bonds, while the market was very firm, with only very little stock, available,”
While an official announcement is still believed to be imminent, some quarters are inclined to be love that the unofficial reports re- present feelers put out by the Chinese Government in order to test the reaction,
More optimistic quarters are in clined to suggest that China has already made an agreement with American interests, who hitherto
pleasurable surprise regarding the Moreover, the City expresses
payment of five per cent, so soon.
It is not expected that any sharp upward movement in the bonds will occur, even if the reports are true, but the majority of brokers look for a graduated appreciation as the investment qualities of Hukuangs begin to be appreciated.
when
damared dutiable goods are casmined.
be
All claims must reach us before the 13th Mar., 1997, or they will not
recognized. No Insurance will be effected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JEESEN 2,00.
[6040
t
50 Guineas For A Stamp:
Wrong Colour
A stamp collector buying a 2jd. Jubilee stamp a few months ago at Highbury, N., noticed that it was Prussian blue instead of the ordinary blue
He bought the stock.
But a few had already been sold, and one of these, which was found
Agents. Bong Kong, 13th Feb, 1937.
(G029
in Holland: was sold in London for 50. gulness.
The sheet, was one of those printed as a specimen in different colours and had been issued by mistake after the choice had been made...
An expert said that it was million to one chance against one of the other used ones turning up.