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ON THE COVASION OF THE VISIT OF THE
"EMPRESS OF BRITAIN".
FROM WINGU VESSEL, QVER 136
AT THE
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1932
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AS USUAL
THE
HONGKONG
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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932.
P. AND O. CARTHAGE DUE TO-MORROW.
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. The following is the list of local
WHERE WORLD'S GOLD IS HID.
The now P. and O. liner Carthage share quotations issued to-day: A
sistorship of the Corfu which passed through Hongkong recently, will ar- rive in port to-morrow about 10 a.m. from London via Singapore.
Built for the P. and O. service from London and Marseilles to the Far East, the Carthage combines comfort And eason travelling with beauty and luxury of taste. There are ningio and double bedrooms, soms with private bath, all furnished with care of detail pleasing to the sye.
4 ani
4
Superbly appointed lounges, fayers, dining rooms, and smoking rooms are fentures of the vessel. In addition the ship possesses an open-air swim.!
decia ming both on
spacious with verandah Cafe
American bar, children's nursery and many other minor facilties für passengeré. The vessel has a lonnage of 14,508 tone, and is provided with every con- Veniones which forethought, and in- zenalty have been able to contrive for the comfort and enjoyment of por- Angora.
Smoking Room.
This room, pine-panelled in the 17th Century manner, with carved mantlepiece and comfortable furni- ture, in a line example of the P. & 0. practice of combining beauty of design with practical arrangement. Large fatlice windown give light to the room by diny, and diffused arti ficial lighting adds to its charm by night,
The George V lounge imparts an air of restfulness and quietudo in an atmosphere of beauty and modernity. Over The Areplace hings a fine point- Ing. on either side of which is a de- corative panel from behind. Thu subdued patterns of the carpets, and The unpolished mahogany and sycamore furniture all add to the charms of the root.
The second class publle rooms Ard pbanned on much the saine generous lines да are these of the frat cines. The dining room reminiscent of a modern French style. and is panelled with sycamoro ply- wood, with its doors, skirtings and pilnsters in polished walnut. Ita kkilfully designed lighting and ita walnut furniturn it may So described as a model of quiet, good taste.
Music Room.
or
The music room
lounge is eminently suited for the purpose for which it has been designed. It is panelled in bird's-eye maple, its doors and columns being of polished walnut. The furniture is of walnut and uncut inoquette, with loose cretonne covers. Inset in a handsome marble replace is an electric fire, and the floor of the room is covered beneath its car pels with rubeolum paid in effects,
panel
The second cinna smoking room is decorated in the Georgian style, of which is suggestive. Two lended ginss windows and their place in the forward bulk-head, and the octagonal ceiling lights and electrie candle brackets in bronze add a pleasantly modern touch. An electric fire set in a handsome, Breplace adds to the room's chearful aspect.
All cabina lave hot and cold run-i ning water and the latest systems of mechanical ventilation.
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Banks.
Hongkong Banks, $1370 IL. Chartered Banks, £12 n. Morcantilo A. and B., £18 n. East Asia. $127.
Insurances,
Canton Ins., $1,350 n. Union Ina., $400 2.
China Underwriters, $4.621⁄2 n.
China Fires, $590 m.
H.K. Fire In.. $1,250 n.
Shipping.
Douglases, $25 b.
1. K. Steamboats, $23 n. Indo-Chinas, (Pref.) $45 A Union Waterboats, $20 n.
Mining.
Benguels, $11.50 98. Kalians, 30/- s S'hai Explorations, Tis. 2.70 n. Raube. $398.
Docks, elr. Kowloon Wharves, $153 h. Whampoa Docks. 329 n. South China Motors $10 n. Providents old), 8520 Hongkowa, Tl, 224 n. New Enginer Th. 6% n. Shanghid Dock. Tls, 9014 n. Cottons.
Ewo Cotton Tls, 15 m, Shanghai Cottons, Tls. 80 Zoon Sings The 11% n.
Lands, Hotels, etc,
H.K. Hotrohit, $19.90 94. II.K. S. Botels oùw) Stat H. K. Lands, $7812 sa. S'hai Lands, Fl. 30 n.
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Realties, $11,85 m.
Public Utilities. Tramways, $21.10 h.
Penk Tram, fuld), $15.00 n. Star Ferries, $99 b, China Lights, $221⁄4 n. 1. K. Electrics, $76 b. Macao Electrica, $23 n. Telephones, $43 n. China Busca, Tis. 16 n. Singapore Tractions, / b.
Industriais. Malhons, $38 n. Canton ice.. 30 n. Cements (com.) $17.60 9. Ropes. $16.
·
Stores, ele Dairy Porns, 828 b. Watsons, $16,50, ». Der A. Wings. $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $6,36 n. Mackintosh, $19 b. Sinceres $16 n. Powells, $3.60 n.
n.
1.
Miscellaneous. Amusements. $18 b. Entertainments (old) $10 n. Constructions (old), $5.10 sa. S. C Enterprises $10 n. Constructions (new), $2 sa. B. Ind. G. $ Bonds, $58% a. Loans, $3% b. Prem.
EXCHANGE RATES.
MENICA holda 45 per cent. of
the world's geld. It is per- fectly true that sho does. I have. just sean it. With my own eyes I' have gazed on riches greater than anything possessed by Solomon.
The Federal Reserve Bank In New York in of grey granite--the very essence of solidity.
It took me twelve daya and tex letters to get permission to see the this hoard of gold-and getting permission is not everything. the! poliemen at the doors have first to be assured that one's permit is not faked, the armed guards with- In have then to be passed. 1 was Interviewed by three officials, who And revolvers at their hips. Not until I had passed, all their ques tions with #ying coloura Wan I permitted to follow another official into the smooth, cell-like NO
even
There was no starting lever. My guide had to telephone to an in- visilde operator in the vaults for the SFCL to be lowered, and then he had to give three pass- We descended. We stop- { words.
ped. We passed through a turnal where there was not room for the twn of us to walk abreast, and 1 had to precede my guide. A cor- ridor of solid stel! I was told eight feet that the walls were
other
side thick. Upon the them the ren surged. Und we twe been a marauding horde, the cor Frisur could have been flooded by
the touch of a lever.
Like Books on a Shelf.
Our every movement was watch- el hy the vault guard. Long mirrors at the corners betray the whole of the corridor to his eyes. On and on, twisting and turning, A then into a wider open space. turn to the right
. and there was the gold. It glearned lumin- ously behind iron bars, shelf upon shelf, bricks worth thousands ranges like bouka. "£15,000,000," my companion unconcernedly re- of marked. "We have twenty these cells here, ali containing the Han amount. Would you like to see them ?'
Would 17 My heart beat high. My fingers clutched at the guard- ing bore. I could scarcely remove radjancu. my eyes from the soft Gold, gold! gold! Ounces of it, pounds of it, tons of it! More gold than is gathered together in any one place in the world. it all.
Mast
We removed on to another little room. Small bricks of Kaffir gold, ench worth £2,000, were stacked flour. into a little heap on the Above and around bars of solid gold were ranged on aheives. Gold pressed out and remly for miniing. Yesterday. Got in the crude nugget form.
27.11/16 Gok!!
Paris Geneva, Berlin.
Thursday.
B7%
176
.14.17/32 .18
17.70 14.79 18
| Helsingfors.
22-1
Athens....
270
270
Buenos Aires...30%
39
Shanghai.
1/10.13/14
Amsterdam.
Vienan.
New York.. 3.45%
Mudrid.
Bucharest
.8.50 .39
44.5/16 .580 Hongkong. .1/5.16/32 Brussels
24.76 Atilan
.06% Stockholm. .17.13/16
Copenhagen .18%
Prague.. Lisbon
Rio
Bombay.
Yokohama..
Holiday
ang-
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In one room, bars of it! in an other, bricks; in a third, milliona of little exiled British sovereigns, stored in canvas bags. I was al- lowed to handle one bag. "It's I commented. "1 3.46 very heavy, 8.67 should think no," my guide
32 wered, "you could enjoy £100 45 week for life from the contents of 580 it." Holiday! 24.25/32
60% Gradually, the defences of this 17% storehouse were explained. The 18.3/16 main underground entrance to the 118 vaults is guarded by two doors. 109 each forty-five lons in weight, each 4.3/16 held in place by two electrically. 1/6.0/64
hundred pound 270% Controlled two
.110
.109%
.4.3/10
.1/6.0/32
.2/0
Montevideo.
31
...3.96
(forward) 10%
31
19% 19 Britiah Wireless.
Montreal
Silver (apot)...19%
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45-Ton Doors."
bolts. The twin combinations of the lock are not known to any one man on earth. One man knows one; one
knows another. (Continued on Next Column.)
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