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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BALLANTINE'S
AN OLD
FAVOURITE
OF UNQUESTIONABLE.
NEW YORK STOCK Adams Express
EXCHANGE
B
Alaska Juneau Gold
Mining Co. Allied Chemical &
21 YEARS AGO
22%
221
FALL IN PRICES
Dyo 142 American Can... 0% American & Foreign
140
00%
RECORDED
According to Messrs. Bwan Culbert-American & Foreign son and Frits, the New York market
Power American & Foreign
10
0%
20
Pow. Warrants...
The
PURITY.
ALWAYS THE SAME.
OF IT!
WEN BOOTER
LOCER VIRKT
1 TEASE ÜLD
10 YEARS OLD
-EVERY DROP
OBTAINABLE AT
THE FRENCH STORE
99, Queen's Road Central,
Near Central Market
and at
All Loading Wine Dealore
U.S. dollar up, duo to unchanged Rold price and reports that shorts Anaconda Copper
ac-Atlas Corporation. are covoring dollars abroad count of an organized opposition Auburn Automobile 46"
Baltimore & Ohip monetary against the Government's polley and reported selling by Cana-Bethlehem Steel
Borden Company .. dians of securities in England, re- patriating funds through New York Borg Warner which involves a strong demand for Canadian dollars. There is no demand for stocks pending greater clarification of tho monetary situation with traders expecting President Roosevelt to dis- euns this subject in his speech on Friday night. Grains, silver, cotton and other commodities declined. French bonds were weak and the Belgian Issues were lower. Steels firmed at the last minute due to better buying from. automobile com panies and ratironde,
Brokers' loans wore reported at $700,000,000 a decrease of $9,000,000 from last week's figure of $715,000,
FOOD
tion
Railway
74% Case, J.1. Chase National Bank
(bid price) .. 18 Chesapeake Corpora-
2414 Chrysler Corporation 48% Columbia Gas
Electric Commonwealth
Southern Consolidated Gas of
Now York Continental Oil Coty Inc.
Corn Producta
Curtiss Wright Com. Douglas Aircraft.. Du Pont de Nemours Eastman Kodak Electric Electric
Light
Time money was quoted at %% for 60 days and 147 for 90 days, Our New York oflice cablo: Stocks: The market met offerings but showed good resistance and strong underlying demand. Wheat: New buyers were discouraged with mode- rate liquidation. Restoration or con. Fox Film "A" fidence by clarifying the
the monetary
General Aviation situation is necessary for price re- General Electric covery. Cotton:The market was General Foods heavily long and unable to withstand General Motors the effect of increasing opposition of General
present monetary policy and Signal spreading conviction that business is Gold Dust unlikely to improve materially under Goodyear current uncertainty. New buying in
Rubber apparently awaiting a more favour International Cement 31% able outlook. Silver: The market International was weak during the day on the vester strength of the U.S. dollar but clos-International Nickel 22% ed strong on news that President International Tel. & Roosevelt is ignoring the plra for stabilization.
tho
The RF.C. gold price yesterday was $33.78, unchanged,
The opening figure yesterday for the Dow-Jones industrial average was 23.03.
Dow Jones N.Y. Averages.
was steady yesterday, Business done American Metal 21
Wall Street American Bmelting 40% 1,370,000 shares. Journal report on yesterday's market: American Tel. & Tel 11D
Tobacco The market was down as much as American
** four points dus to reversal of inflation tendencies in all markets with the American
Unq.
Unq. 20%
44
70
Wator-
works
1014
16%
ол
12%
119
75%
-10%- 15% 11
43%
24%
231
82%
84
221
20
10%
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...
Pacific
1214 70%
19
Capt. the Hon. Fitzroy Somerset, eldest son of Baron Raglan, arrived In Hongkong to take up the post of A.D.C. to the Governor.
84
•
4712
&
101
13% 1
17% a74 18% 1776
101
申
70%
Packard Motors 70% Pennsylvania Rail-
4
4
46
road................
27%
201
2%
Pennroad Corpora-
14
tlon
24%
24
88% 78
8814
Phillips
Petroleum
17
104
70%
Radio Corporation
你强
7
Bond
Share
Radio Keith Orpheum
21⁄4
2
124
12%
Reynolds
Tooneco
Power &
404
47.
י,
4%
436
Sears Rocbuck....
43%
4276-
14
13%
Sholt Union
D
844
Unq.
Б
Bacony-Vacuum Cor-
2114 20
85%2
poration
10%
154
35
Southern California
・327
32
Edison
14%
1516
had stepped from the realms of
Railway
Standard
Gas
Ung.
Unq.
Electric
73
10
18%
Standard Oil Co. of
Tire
N.J.
40%
75%
4476
38%
37%
31
Sterling Products
56%
57.
Har-
Studebaker Corpora
42%
4114
tion
475
47%
2214
Texas Corporation
20%
20
Texas Gulf Sulphur' `441⁄4
437%
Tel.
143%
10
Transamerica
014
0%
Johns Manvillo
5736
70%
Union Carbide
Kennecatt Copper
2214
39 Industrials
Nov. 22 Nov. 23 .....100,07
08.60
20 Rails
1
MRS. MOTONO.
Hand and Electric Massage. Holder of Diploma and Certificate
of Tokyo Denki Ryoho Kenkyusha (Tokyo Electric Cure Institute), BIR Wyndham Street:
20 Utilities 40 Bonds
23.07 78.02 78.00
The following market closing prices are quoted subject to confirmation as to accuracy in transmission.
Market: Steady,
Business dono:-1,370,000 shares, “
Nov, 22 Nov 29
(bid price) **** National Distillers
New York Central North American Co. Owens-Illinois Glass Pdeifle Gas
Electric
39.62 23.26
38.80
Lehman Corporation 69% Liggett & Myers "B" 80% Louw's Inc.
80% Lorillard P. (Com.) 17% Meintyre Porcupine
Mines Ltd. Montgomery Ward 23 National City Bank
21% QU
Carbon
48
4A
Union Pacific
110
108%
8614
United Aircraft &
30
Trans.
3316
K%2C
17%
United Corporation
5%
47%
United Gas Improve
41%
40%
ment
1636
14%
22%
U.S. Rubber
18%2
17
U.S. Steel
44%
4.13%
10% 20% 24 30% 34
2014
Universal Len
Tobacco
46
46
Vanadium
20%
20%
14% 14
Wamer Bros. Pic-
82
80
tures,
414
0%
and
Westinghouse
40
30%
17
17%
Woolworth
41
40%
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24,
Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files
The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the
week ended November 20, 1912.
The rate of the dollar on demand was 28. 0d.
THE UNKNOWN BLONDE
(Continued from Pagò 3.)
1933.
But he saw her for exactly what sha was--and yet loved bor.
The taxicab awerved; rounding a corner, and Bannister's preoccupa- Paris. -- tion faded. He saw ahead two Genova bright lights and recognized the lin
Helsingfors Bannister opened bla eyes and entrance of the Shelby Arms, the Oslo... Saw that the rain was coming down city's new and only apartmout Athens faster. He noted this absent-hotel. The Shelby Arms had been Milan. mindedly, without interest. His pointed out to Bannister half a Buenos Aires thoughts continued in the groove dozen times by prideful citizens. Shanghal
New York It was generally considered that the Now? they had takon.
Anyone who knew Hollywood at apartment hotel appreciably in Amsterdam all would understand why. Adele creased the metropolital tone of Vienn Allen had thrown over Dave Ban-Tremont.
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110%
40.9/12 +660
90%
670 1/5:
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29.44
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22.40
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354
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The weddinga took place at St. nlater for Donald Quayle. Bannis- Signal lights halted the taxicab Bucharest. John's Cathedral of Mr. W. C. D. ter was, to be sure, a promising directly in front of the building and Hongkong,
writer. One of the new Bannister studied the brightly Brussels Turner, well-known Hongkong in-young torport cricketer, and Miss A. M. names in literature, But Donald lighted doorway. Suddenly the Stockholm. Cunningham, and of Mr. A. F: Quayle was an established success. door opened and a girl appeared. Copenhagen Carleton, U.S. Vice-Consul, and Handsome, Wealthy, too, with a She was dressed in green and sho Miss M. L. Henderson..
box office following reflected direct- halted, apparently dismayed by the Bombay ly in his contract. Certainly it was rain. Then, head bent to shield Tokohama easy to understand why Adele found her face, she ran down the steps Montevideo Donald Quayle so fascinating. toward the cab.
Belgrade.: Bannister stopped thinking about From his glassed-in section the Montreal .6.21 Quayle and thought about, Adelo. driver rumbled proteats, but the Silver (spot) ...18.5/10 Adele's eyes, mocking and mis-girl did not appear to hear. She Silver (forward). 18.7/10 chlovous, danced before lim. came directly to the cab. pulled War Loan The death took place of Mra. Adele's copper tresses. The slim back the door. It was then she Pearce, wife of Mr. Harold Pearce, gure, so perfectly graceful, per-saw Bannister, Sho cried in a Hongkong manager of the Newfectly rounded. Her soft, throaty startled, muffled voice, "I-oh, I'm had come but what of that?
He drew out laughter. Lips that were warm | sorry~!”
a handkerchief, Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd.
and Inviting-
"Not at all!" Bannister put a wiped away the rain drops from hand on the opposite door, opening his neck. "Rotten night," he said David had fallen in love, and It it. "You wanted a cab, didn't you? easily. had been for the first time in his I'll be glad to let you have this one," |
"Yea-It Is." life. There had been weeks when He moved the joy of Adele, the beauty of her, street. the amazing unbelievable sweetness "Listen, lady" the gruff voico Razing directly ahead. As though of her were overpowering. Weeks of the chauffeur objected, "I gotta she were starring at something he that had been-oh, well, they were fare. See? This cab's occupied." could not see. He asked quickly. over now! For Adele had been The girl had drawn back,Ban-"Is there anything wrong? If given a part in a picture starring nister, too, stood in the street now, you're ill we can and a doctor" Donald Quayle. She had caught the rain trickling down inside his She turned than. "Oh, no! I'm the director's attention, had given collar. "Get Inside," he said perfectly all right." [life and vividness to the brief | harshly,
scenes in which she appeared and already." with that single performance she
a new existence in
to step out into the He turned toward the girl and was surprised to seo that she was
"You're
drenched
Obediently she climbed into the
She was
But she wasn't; a fool could see that. She was palo and the wide- set cyes stood out in the white face. There was a break in her voice as the comparatively unknown to a cab. "But," she appealed, "I can't she spoke and he thought that her place in the film firmament.
let you do this! I can't take cab lips trembled faintly. With equal case, too, she had from you!"
"I'm parfectly all right," she stepped into
It pretty girl. Very repeated. which Donald Quayle was always pretty. In the dim light Bannister There was a slight motion and opposite her at luncheon tables, noted a pair of grave, wide-set Bannister saw she had dropped her hair was her handbag. He bent, reaching Donald Quayle was driving with eyes and saw that her, dancing with her, swimming blond. He was aware, too, that for it, just as the girl reached, too. with her.
the constant trickling of dampness The cabs jolted and their shoulders inside his coat collar was uncom-collided awkwardly. Bannister fortable. Chivalry be hanged! | grasped the handbag. He was 2,000 miles from Holly- He said, "It's a bad night and wo
And just then the cab jolted wood and what was the good of it? both seem to need shelter. Since again. The clasp of the leather Adoic's smile, Adele's throaty laugh, there's plenty of room for two in bag, dislodged in the fall, snapped Adele's trim, flashing ankles were | this cab perhaps you'd be willing to open. Something slipped into Ban- as much in his thoughts as they let me ride with you~"
nister's hand. It was something had ever been. He hud, come home "Of course I will It's your cab that was cold and smooth and to rest, to definitely brase from really. If you'll let me go as far heavy, his mind the nightmare he had been living through. But he had not succeeded.
David Bannister had returned to Tremont.
as the Hotel Tremont I'll be over He looked down as the light from so grateful! I wouldn't think of a street lamp shown directly into taking your cab away from you!" the cab. The yellow glow fell on To-night he would write another.. Bannister stepped back into the the object in his hand, catching the letter and then destroy it. He cab, leaned forward and said to gleam of polished metal. It was could write down the sneering | the driver, "Hotel Tremont." It a revolver.
bitterness of his disillusionment. meant retracing the entire way they
(To Be Continued).
HE RAN AWAY FROM LIFE...FROM THE PAST FROM LOVE! UNTIL HE MET A GIRL WHO GAVE HIM COURAGE TO FACE FATE.
THE DEVIL'S IN LOVE
with
Victor Jory Loretta Young Herbert Mundin
Vivienne Osborne
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