1933-12-08 — Page 6

£1,300.00

BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Autherland Optiel

Larnet und Pully Pullup 11,400, Berry Punde tre

Sterling

Mars Liability of Proprietors - 900.000,900 READ OFFICE: BONO SONO

BOARD OF DIRECTORE ·

+ 1 ca, Mag.

Chara

T. FL Mia, Kay

Duty Clemen.

A. II. Semption, Paq.

fox.Nr. N. 36 mckie.

AMOY

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Mtekin. Tag.

Don. Ms. J. 1. Pulervon

1. A. Humor, Than

V. M. Grayburn. Bos.

Chil gut.

BRANCI

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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

ANEPTIAN

BANGKOK BATAVIA MONDAY CALOUTTA

CANTON

CAWKPORI CIRU

COLOMBO

XLEX RATHOKO HAMBURG

XEW TORE

PRIPING ¿Pekingi

PENANG

141000

MALOON

BENARANG

BIKEMBAR HANGILAI

SINGAPORE GITIAWAN

W. 11. Hall, Reg.

N. H. Bodwell, Faq.

WOVRAT CALAUTTA CANTON

LTOKE

MANILA

MURDEN

NEW YORK

PRIPRO

HANKOW

ILOILO

LARACI

KLANG

EXCHANGES.

THE CHINA.MAIL.

Commerce and Finance..

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

www

A.0.F.C. Quotations.

New York. Yesterday.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933.

COTTON, SILVER Pan-American Envoy

AND WHEAT

Latest Quotations.

NEW YORK COMMODITY MARKETS

New York. Dec. 8. Messrs. Asia Lands Ltd. have re celved the following quotations on the New York cotton and wheat rubber. milk and silver exchanges en the Commodity Exchange Inc.. New York:-

Closing Commodity Prices December 7.

SILVER

כם

Silver: Commodity Exchange lac

Dec. 6 Range Dec. 7 Range

44.80 44.81

45.34 45.34

.. 45.84 45.84

44.58 44.58

45.15 45.15 45.65 45.65

Messrs. E. A. Pierce & Co. Re- of New York: port:-From the technical stand- point, the strength of rail averages Mar. must be considered as definitely May to con-July encouraging and tending firm the strength of industrials. Total sales for the day:-

163 contracts of No particularly new factors

the entering

picture; however, there is more uniform willingness to accept the probability of steady business improvement in earlier months of 1934 as a fact Inc. of New York: Declarations of special dividends

Are

134 contracts of 25,000 oza ench

Incorporated, by Royal Charter, 1863.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.

Paid-up Capital

.£3,000,000

Reserve Fard

.£8,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

On London-

prietors...

£3,000,000

T. T.

Agencies and Branchow:

On demand

1/4 1/4%

Four months' sight. 1/5

ALOB STAR

KUCHING

Credits 4 months'

MADHAN

MAXILA

sight

1/55/

MIDAN

On New York-

On demand

3614

30 Industrials

20 Rails 20 Utilities

Credits 60 days"

sight

Last To-day's Changes- Aver. Aver.

.101.28 102.04 .76 up 10.53 41.53 1.00 up 23.63 23.50 .13 down 40 Bond..... 81.97 $2.39

NOM

On Paris-

BOURABATA

On demand Credita 4

sight

585

months'

625

On Indian

TONOXAB (Bänket)

THIROYAO

T. T...

93%

YOKOHAMA

On demand

932

SAMBOANGA

On Shanghai-

General and

On demand

1104

Japan:-

On demand

116

On demand On Singapore—

72

Dec. 6. Dec. 7.

Manager.

Hong Kong, 17th November, 1918

On demand

60

On Batavia-

On demand

56

nesa

On demand

58/2

On Bangko

133 nom.

by domestic corporations continue December daily. News of announcements of March Government financing were favour May able received. Wheat: The firm July

the of coarne grains was

Standard No. 1 "B" Contract. Receipts keep Total sales for the day :- principal influence. light. Winnipeg prices are firm 187 contracts

Cot- in sympathy with Chicago.

8.85 8.95

9.22

9.35

9.45

9.56

9.67

9.74

www.

1.5

130 contracta

NATIONAL SILK EXCHANGE

18 11:16

nom.

nom.

1% prem.

CHIFOO

COL KRO

DUJIEN YOOOBOW HAIPHONG MAYBURG

TRANKOW

MONIEW

KOWLOON

COALA LUKTSIN

WALAGOA

MUAR Jeba)

PENANG

BANGOON

RAIGON

CAN PLANOTIOXI

#RDAPORK

BUNGHI PATAMI

TIENTRE

ΤΟΚΤΟ

THINGTAQ TOCOTLANA

HAYAT

HONG ỐN

1081

KUALA LUMPUR

TAIPING

TIENTSIN

Foreign Exchange

Baaking business transacted.

Current Accounts opened and Fix-On

ed Deposits received for one year or

shorter periods at rates which will be On Manila- quoted on application.

A. BREARLEY,

WARNIN

ILOILO

DON

JOHOR

KUAR

RITANGHA

BOUKAMATI

Derrent Acouste opened is Loval Churrasey

Pico Deponite remained for ans pour de sbarer periods to Email Curveley and Burto

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The Beatens of the phevo Bark ke anakueried HONG KONG AND EXABINAY BANK the CORPORATION. Roboz moty ko obénigal

O BONGKONG AND SMANDMAJ MJEKE CORPORATION.

7. M. GRAYBURN,

Chal Manager.

Hong Kong, 24th April, 1988.

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HRAD OFFICE:-Taipth, Formoon. Incorporated by Special Imperial Charter. 1879,

Central Bach in Puersoon. Best-Notes Sorund Average amount Tan

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LIMITED.

Established 1838.

Capital (fully pak"-up) Yen100,000,000

Reserve Fund

..Yen.121,200,000

Head Office—YOKOHAMA

Branchen and Aguades at:

Alexandria

Malaria

Berlin

Bombay

Calcatta

Bastos

Nagasald

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Author Capital (PL). Durrency} --#13,000.000 P-Up On

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thangbal Banhom, Bangkok,

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Chief Manager.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

.... $10,000,000.00

Undivided

Authorised Capital Paid-up Capital Reserve and

Profits

READ OFFICE:-HONG KONG 12. Des Voeux Road Central,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:--

Sir Shounen Chow, Chairman.

Li Koon Chun, Esq.

P. R. Kwok, Esq.

Wong Yun Tong, Esq.

Chan Ching Shok, Esq.

Li Lan Sang, Esq.

Wong Chu San, Esq.

Kan Ying Po, Esq.

Kan Tong Fo, Esq. Chief Manager.

Li Tae Fong, Esq., Manager,

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:~~

On demand

Sovereigns bank buy-

ing rate

Har Silver per oz.

Bar Silver in Hong

Kong

Copper Cash

Copper Centa

dia.

Rate of Native Interest 3% pa. Chinese Sub. Coin ... 33 Hong Kong Bub. Coin par

LONDON EXCHANGES.

Madrid

the

A small and rather constant ton: demand from the Trade and from European proved sufficient to rally prices slightly, To-morrow's timate is not expected to much variation

26,000 ozs erch

Market-Steady.

Rubber:

es- Dec. show

RUBBER.

Commodity Exchange

Dec. '6' Range Dec. 7 Range 1.38 1.40 1.34% 1.37

SUGAR.

from last month Sugar: New York Sugar & Coffes ja figures of 13,000,000 bales. Exchange: - Silver: Trading was very light.

within

Sopkenisba Breckinridge

To this diughter of Old Kentucky belongs the distinction of being se- lected as the first U. 3. wamas dele- gate to the Pan-American Congress, to open at Montevideo on Deccanber 3. She is Miss Sophonisba Presto Breckinridge, descendant of a long line of distinguished Kentucky statesmen. She is a lawyer and social worker.

NEWFOUNDLAND'S HUGE DEBT

Interest 65 Per Cent. Of Total Revenue.

BRITISH ASSISTANCE PROMISED

Landon, To-day. The Chancellor of he Exchequer,.

Chamberlain, in tha Mr. Neville

House of Commons yesterday mov

Dec. 6. Dec. 7, ed the money resolution on which Bill will be founded to carry out the recommendations of the Royal

1.19

1.17

1.28

1.24

1.34

1.30

Market: Quiet.

COTTON.

prices fluctuating

25 December paint range, December position March continues to be very tight and one May spread against December continues to narrow. Loans have been in- ereased by three million dollars. Business Done:-1,680,000 shares.

Last To-day's change: Price Pric

Air Reduction

48M

Cotton:

Commission on Newfoundland.

GENERAL NOTICES.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOT

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a Meeting of the Board

Directors

Green of of Island Cement Company, Limited, held at Exchange Building,

the

of Victoria. in

Colony Hong Kong, on- THURSDAY, the 21st day of September, 1933, a Call of 13.75 per share was made upon all the members holding shares whose names appear in the Co- pany's register of shareholders on the 21st day of September, 1933, upon which only $3.75 per share has been paid, and it was determined that such Call should be paid on the 16th day of December, 1938, to the Houg The Company's Bankers, Kong & Shanghal Banking Corpora- tlon, at their Head Office, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, aforesaid.

Upon presentation at the office of the Company of Bankers' receipt for the payment of much Call, together with the Certificate of Shares, a note of the payment will be endorsed on the. Certificate.

Dated this 21st day of September. 1933.

By Order of the Board, ALLAN KEITH, Secretary.

HONG KONG ART CLUB SHOW

Varied Exhibition At Gloucester Building.

HIGH STANDARD IN ALI SECTIONS

The annual exhibition of the Hong Kong Art Club, which opened

That Bill, the Chancellor men-jon Wednesday afternoon, shows, on tioned, would raise a number of ex the whole a remarkably high level of tremely interesting and important

Jachievement.

the

the

A total of 236 miscellaneous

New York Cotton Ex questions affecting not only people of Newfoundland but Dec. 6 Range Dec. 7 Range wider questions of Imperial rela-works, oil and water-colours, chalk and pencil drawings, photographic The Chancellor referred to the findings of the Royal Commission studios etc., with a few examples of which showed that Newfoundland modelling, are on exhibition, the had been the victim of a vicious work of some 36 artists, of which

ita political system and that if

Mr. Luis Chan and Mrs. Wong Sul financial position was to be restor

25 each. The ed there should be a rest, for time, from party politics.

"Dockyard-Cheung Cha The Chancellor said that it was Wan," at $200, is the highest-priced

CHICAGO WHEAT.

contribute Ling

latter's

Wheat: Chicago Board of Trade: only right to add that the present work in the exhibition.

Government of Newfoundland had

The landscapes of Mrs. M. 0. Kirenuous and made the most pralsworthy efforts to bring about Poster and Mrs. H. C. J. Asche are I was, worthy a better state of affairs.

of the Three of note. the more significant therefore, all

that the Government had endorsed latter lady's best entries, "The Fur- the recommendations of the Royal |bidden City, Peking," "In Tai Mino" Commission and had entirely ap and "The Anchorage, Foochow," proved their proposals.

The Chancellor said that the pre-

London, Yesterday.

$ 5,508,400.00 |

$ 2,312,000,00

Paris New York

83 15/32

tions.

Montreal

- 5.10%

5.04%

蠶

1

[Dec.

9.92 0.92

102 K

102 Jun.

Brussels

23.51%1⁄2

Allied Chemical & Dye

168

1474 Mar.

American Can

984 9414

Geneva

16.86

May

American Smelting

44

Amsterdam Milan

8.13

American Tel & Tel

1376

July

62

American Tobacco "B"

75

77

Oct.

9.93 9.94 10.08 10.08 10.28 10.23 10.34 10.34 ... 10.50 10.50

0.94

9.96 3.96 10.10 10.10 10.23 10.23 10,35 10.36 10.53 10.58

9.95

Berlin

13.69

American Waterworks

18%

18

Middling

Anaconda Copper Mining 14%

15

Stockholm

19.39

Spot.

10.15

48%

Copenhagen Oslo

22.40

Bendix Aviation

1614

16%

19.90

Borden Co.

21

Vienna

2934

Canadian Pacific

13

12%

J. T. Case

114

724

Prague

110%

Caterpillar Co

246

24%

December

84%

Dec. 6. Dec. 7.

84

Helsingfors

235 17-32

Chase National Bank

19%

17%

39 31/32

Chrysler Motors

51

May

87

88

....

Consolidated Gas of NY. 37%

374 July

86

854%

Lisbon

110

Cartin Wright

2

Total sales for the day:----

Amoy Batavia Bombay Calcutta

Manila Melbourne Nagasaki New York

Canton Haiphong Hankow Honolulu Fenang Kobe Kowloon London

Onaka

Paris

Peiping

Seattle Semarang Shanghai Singapore Bourabaya Swatow Syndey

Athens Bucharest Belgrade Rio

670

Du Pont de Nemours

914

550

Eastman Kodak

HI 1

824

20,000,000

240

Electric Auto-lite Co.

.. 1814

1812

18%

bushels

20,000,000 bushels

Electric Bonds & Share 134 13%

4"

Electric Power & Light 5%

Buenos Aires

35%*

Montevideo

35%*

General Foods

General Electric

2012

204

204

36%

36%

1/6 1/32

General Motors

39%

Copper, per b. March

NEW YORK METALS.

Dec. 4 Dec. 7

6.85

Gillette Safety

10%

30%

Tin

52.90

I

|

Taihoku

1/8 1/10

Gold Dust

17%

174

Kangoon Saigon

Tientsin

1/5 3/16

Internat Harvester

42%

49

18 11/16

Internat Tel & Tel

10

13

18 11/16

Liggeli & Myers B

53

84

Loew's Inc.

20%

304

National Biscuit

Montgomery Ward

234

235%

49%

National City Bank

18+

National Dairy Products 19% Otis Elevator

13

14%

Pacific Gas & Electric 18%

Packard Motors

4

i Rly

28

29

Corp

8%

Standard Gas

Standard Brands

28%

84

ม

Standard Off Co of NJ. 16% Socony-Vacuum Corpn

40%

10%

101

$5,000,000.00 Texas Corph

1,000,000.00 Trans-America

20%

20%

6% Kang.

Union Carbide & Carbon 47 ..111 Union Pacific United Air & Transport 38%

47

111%

4%

342 4%

San Pelaca

Tokyo Vancouver Yokohama

Every description of Banking and Loans Exchange business transacted. granted on approved securities.

Current Accounts opened in Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Leesl Land Foreign Currencies on terms which

be quoted on application. Safe Deposit Boxes To Let.

KAN TONG PO,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 24th November, 1938.

Bombay

Shanghai

Hong Kong Silver Spot Silver Forward Warloan 3% th

100 5/16

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THE OVERSEAS NATIONAL

BANK, LTD.

National Bank Building, 8A, Des Voeux Road, Central.

Authorized Capital AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, Paid-up Capital

THE

INC.

Head Oos-45, Broadway,.

New Tick

Capital Surplus Reserves

Amebackam

A Mono

Amu

Deals

Bombny

Dutie

Ontimet Dolby

Dublia

Plovykau

‚U.S.86,000,000.00 1.1.5.81,857,089.17 ..U.8.$1,718,379.87

BRANCHES Jum

Bloop

Kambert

Heidelberg Emberlake

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Paris Agente;

BANKERS TRUST COMPANY.

Sear

We offer facilities for the transac United Corp tion of general banking business. United States Steel... 46 Foreign Exchange transacted. Blacks Westinghouse E & M 39% and bonds bought and sold. Loans granted on approved securities.

LEE PANG, General Manager.

Mexico City

Wel Plisema Parts

Piping

THE BANK OF CHINA. 行銀國中

Reorganised October 28, 1928, under

Palarmes

Bertiem pies

Theaters

Taormins

Torbama Earlob

Branches of American Exprase Com- pany in Principal titles "of United States of America and Canada.

All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.

Personal handled.

The Company offers to intending Travalarm the use of the Travelers interest' allowed an Current As. Choquent and Letters of Credit and, in addition, tha world-wide sævinni Elaporite received for Exsd periods of the thoroughly equipped Tram De-

11th Berta

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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

BANK

News In Brief.

jare not for sale.

Figures and heads predominate, 6.00 Bent publie debt of Newfoundland 52.30 amount to £17,500,000 plus Cans Portrait Study No. 152, Mrs. H. Įdian $9,000,000 about £19.000.000 at Mills' two entries under this bead- the presen! rate of exchange, on ing, Mrs. A. Tata' Studies, Mr. Luis which the yearly Interest was about Chan's "Old Man" (No. 63) and £1,000,000 representing 65 per cent Portrait Study In Red Chalk, de- of Newfoundland's total revenue. serving special mention.

The efforts of its present Govern- Mr. F. S. Nicholls bas ten en- ment to bring expenditure in line tries, six of which stand out from

Colonel Rajah J. P. Bahaduri

passengers Singh was among the 15% for Hong Kong on the a.s. Fushimi with its revenue had been beaton the others.

by the economic depression und While in the Arts and Crafts 10% Maru, which arrived yesterday.

the disastrous fall in the price of Section. Mr. Luis Chan's bust of a codfish and wood pulp.

Chinese

woman, Dr. I. Newton's The forthcoming marriage is an

The British Government had no bronze statuette

H. and Misr 44%nounced of Frederick James Sexly hesitation in going to the aid of Carvalho's Bust of Lieut. Meakin 234 Hill, Engine Room Artifeer, H.MS Newfoundland as recommended by are worthy examples of the entries.

Medway, to Eileen Ellen Baker,

the Royal Commission and they Queen's Army Schoolmistress, of hoped that they might help "C" Block, Kennedy Road. Hong Island to return to its self-support-

ing basis.

the

He proposed, in regard to Lue The forthcoming marriage be Newfoundland debt, that the bulk tween Joseph Patrick Fehily, M.B of creditors would not be paid in 66% B.Ch., etc., Port Health Officer, of cash, but would receive stock of 39% 23m Lyeemoon Buildings, Kowloon, equal face value backed by the and Lydia Nicolaivna Pechterew Government of the United Kingdom Physician, of Garnloonnaya, 12 with interest at 3 per cent. which Harbin, is announced.

Government were advised would produce par value equivalent to the The forthcoming marriage of Win6minal value of the stock. lam Leon Cppningham, Mechanic,

LOCAL DOLLAR UNCHANGED.

Spot Silver Up 1/16.

The dollar is still unchanged, opening to-day at 1/4%.

New Stock Lane,

;

than

GERMANY REMOVES RIVER DANUBE.

Providing Room For New Station.

Berlin.

been

The bed of the river Danube has been moved several miles in order to make room for the new Tuttlin- of 80, Kai Tack Road, and Bertha

The effect of the proposals was gen railway station. Mau Yuen, Teacher, of 2, Yim that the annual interest burden Tuttlingen is an important rall- Tong Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, it would be reduced by £350,000 way Junction on the Berlin-Zurich announced.

debt would and Munich-Frelberg railway lines. year and that the Spot silver advanced 1/16 yes-

amount to £2,000,000 of trust secu-The-te of myeloma amek terday, closing at 18 11/16, while Mr. R. H. Woodman, of the rities and about £17,000,000 of new employed to make what is now con- aldered to be one of the finest rafl- forward remained stallonary, at Public Works Department, was this stock

stations in Wurttemberg.--- Subscribed Capital...$25,000,000.00 the same price.

morning fined $5 by Mr. Wynne The new stock would carry a way Paid-Up Capital ......824710.200.00

cent. Reuter Reserve Funds ............

The cross rate, London on New Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy for sinking fand of one per .* 8,820,505.82

York, is G$5.10%, while New driving a public vehicle without be which would start not more

ing licensed to do so.

five years bence. The burden of HRAD OFFICE: BHANGHAT York on London is £-G$5,11.

that sinking fund would be an ad- Constable Fedor Maxsimovich ditional £170,000 year, but they ed that whatever advances were Looshpin, aged 81, a guard in the might hope that before that began, necessary should up to the end of Russian contingent of the Hong the financial conditions of New. 1986, he free gifts from Britain, Kong Police Foros, charged before foundland would be so much im. and that afterwards they might be Mr. Balfour at the Central Police proved that the burden would not by loan or gift, an decided later.

He estimated that including the neglect, by being absent from duiz Nevertheless, He thought that 4650,000 which Britain had already on board the C.P.8. liber Empress they must assume that it would be found during the last 12 months of Asia at %.15 p.m. on December 4, necessary for some years for BH. and which was a free gift, Bri- And insubordination and misconduct, tain to come to the assistance of lain's total liability by the end of Was convicted and fined $25 on each Newfoundland and make up the da1936 would amount to from £1,- charge, in default two weeks” hird felt in hos; Budget, th

600,000 $0 £2,000,000-British Wireless Bervice.

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labour.

The British Government" propos