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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922.
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TOM MOORE
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HONGKONG THEATRE
CHARLIE CHARLIN
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IT Shanghai
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T/T Singapore.
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IT Japan;
113
IT India...
189
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6.35
PEKING'S NEW YEAR FINANCE,
The $14,000,000 Loan.
Feking. Jan. 29.
Notes and departments gave their employees deposit slips for pay. Some of these the underlings dis- covered were fixed deposit slips which the banks would only cash at the end of a definite period. Others gave no hint of this, bar when the unfortunate creditors took them to the banks it was explained that while they were perfectly good they would not be cashed until the latter part of February. A limited number of brokers and cash shops were induced to advance cash against this paper at a discount of 23 per cent.
IT Francs Demand, Paris
BUYING.
2/7
2/834
+ m/s. L/C.. I m/s. DIP ..... 2/792 5 m/s. L/C 39 d/s. Sydney and Melbourne 33d/s. San Francis-1
co&New York 4 m/s, Marks .......................
i m/s. Francs
564 Nom. 6.93 7.15
3 m/s. Franca.............. Demand, Germany. Demand, New York 53% T/T Bombay
Nom Demand, Bombay... 189
T Calcutta
***.**. Now Demand, Calcutta... 189 On Yokohama....... 113 Demand, Macüz
... 111 Demand, Singapore. 107 Demand, Batavia 14412 Ja Haiphong 09 Nom. On Saigon
negotiated with the Salt surplus as security, which is a great satisfaction to the foreign Salt Inspectorate, Sir Richard Gamble was prevailed upon to write the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications & letter to the The great day of reckoning and effect that by virtue of an the subsequent great day of feast-order from the Ministry of Fin- ing have both passed, but there is acce he would instruct the foreign ample evidence to prove that banks to pay into the two Chinese neither were huge successes. On banks, out of salt surplus (when the accounting day very little it existed), the stipulated amor that is, proportionately little-tization instalments coincidental silver changed hand and the fre- with the regular surplus releases, works and feasting have been This is not the text of the letter, anything but fortissing. Includ- but the spirit of it as the writer ing everyone, from the humble understands it. This looked suf
A more ingenious and a cheaper gatekeepers and their dependants ficiently like an endorsement by way was to employ a couple of up to the cabinet ministers and foreign inspectorate to induce the Fengtien soldiers, or preferably their large retinues, there must
two Chinese banks to underwrite Fengtian military police to take several hundred thousand the issue of Treasury Notes in the the endorsed slips into the banks people in Peking who grow fat on hope of disposing of them to the and demand immediate payment the Government's rice when the lesser banks and to the bond in ready silver. This they in-
On Bangkok. Government is well off and who buying public.
variably got and then turned over
Sovereign are dejected both in spirit and in
Interest in advance, discount, the silver to the anxious Govern Fold leaf per Tsel... the flesh when the Government and the like reduced the hypo- ment employee at a modest 10 is poor. Peking is not a great thetical 14 millions. Between six per cent. discount, or at most 15 Bar Silver, ready... 3416
forward With foreign enBank of England rates 5% Commercial exchange, it is not a and seven millions were left to per cent. natural trade centre. and it is pay the hordes of Government ployees the bureau did not go to Yew York/Londoa... 4.3456 probable that more than 80 per dependants who are the Govern-the trouble to have the banks rest. of the shops in Peking, meat's creditors on account of issus deposit slips. They were groat and small, cater to the back pay which has been accum-simply given cheques on banks several hundred thousand who ulating on the books for three where there were no funds, but sat the Government's rice. When months among the lucky and for were left to find this out for Government cannot pay its ser-nearly two years among the least themselves. vants on a holiday, its servants fortunate.
Those Treasury Notes which kong 50 ct. pieces are pursued by the shopkeepers Ministry of Communications were got sa far as the open market
not only paid in full but were before the banks closed for the: given one month's salary as holidays are said to be selling at
40 per cent. discount.
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TO-DAY 5.15land 9.15 p.m. performances.
ETHEL CLAYTON
with Elliott Dexter and Theodora Robert
ΣΤΥ
THE
GIRL WHO CAME BACK
GREAT SOCIOLOGICAL LESSON TAUGHT in `-
GRIPPING PHOTODRAMA.
230 and 7.15 p.m. performancen
10 and 11 Epis, of "DIAMOND O 'EEN" Fixturing
EILEEN SEDGWICK.
Booking at the Theatre.
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MARINK AND FIRE INSURANOV Feb. 94. 12h. 23m.-Pressure
Co.
has decreased slightly from THE OSAKA MARINE & FLEE Vladivostock to Haiphong. The INSURANCE CO.
anticyclone over N. Chins has
Barometer ......29.96 29.95 29 not developed.
Temperature...
68 Moderate monsoon may be ex-Humidity No. 14. Pedder Sirent Hongkong.pected over the Chias Sea and Wind Direction
og along the Cast of Chiga.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 nours ending at 10 a.m. to-day. Rain....... 9.00 inch Total since January Highest аред air Temperature on the Lowest
Bir
9th Temperature on the
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Over £100 was stolen from the EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL- office of the magistrates' clerk ABI & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO. at the Huli Guildhall. There were no signs to show how the thieves entered.
in vain, so that the Happy New Year becomes a misnomer and the traditional gresting wealthy" is an unconscious
HOPES AND REALITIES. · cynicism, writes Mr.. Rodney
Just what happened at the last Gilbert in the NG. Daily News.
moment it is difficult to learn in THE $14,000,000 ADVANCE. The Government's part in the this season of calling and dining can be found at New Year settlement this year when no one
It is apparent, however, has been, admittedly, very much bome. afiasco. Mr. Liang Shib-yi in that the Treasury Notes were not his capacity as China's leading taken up over night by a paper- banker and dictator of the policy hungry public with silver to pour
A trajo mors sumptuous than of the native banks, arranged into the banks. Whatever hap
of the anxious any in which a king of England loan to the Government of $14,pened, most 000,000 at a generous interest, Government creditors discovered has travelled has been conveying the security being reasonably last Friday that many of the the Prince of Wales through Steamer Sheafdart, from London. banks were only exchanging India. Gold decorations prevail. good and the term being only two
The prince's bedstead is of years. Io exchange for the pro- paper for paper. a Presidential mulgation of mandate guaranteeing that here- after ao further loans were to be
MOST BUMPTUOUS TRAIN,
The banks gave the Goverr-oxidized silver and his bathroom ment departments paper credi's tiled with porcelain, states, a in exchange for the Treasury report from Bombay.
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