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BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Authorised Capital ......$50,000,000 Lassed and Felly-Paid-up 20,000,000! Beserve Funds-

Sterling.£ 6,5007000 Hong Kong Currency

Reserve

.$10,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

EILD OFFICE: RONO KOSU.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.

G. Mişkin Esq.,

Deputy Chairman 23,

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1953. HEAD OFFICE: LONDON

¡Paid-up Capital

om. Mr. W.H. Bell, J.R. Masson Esq, Colombo

Compton Esq., T. E. Pearce q

Bot. Mr. S. H. Dedwell,

J. A. Plammer Esq. MT. Johnson Esq., AL. Sheids Esq.

V. M. Grayburn, Esq.

£5,000,000 £3,000,000

prietors

ANOT

BANGKOK BATAVIA BOMBAY

ONLUITA CANTON CRLPOO 000030

DARREN FOOCHOW

MAPRONI

HAKEJZI HANKOW

HARBIN

HONGKET

LYOSS

ماركت

Becoming

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936

and

Commerce

Finance

Silver Prices Fall

GAINSBOROUGH'S "FACES?

(Continued from Col. 6)

animals in plaster. But this at- tempt at the conquest of London!

SHARE MARKET failed: the scarcity of buyers

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. The following was the list dollar is steady.local share quotations issued The local opening on demand this morning day:- jat 1/3%d.

Eeserve Fund

LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY

Reserve Liability of Pro-

prietors

.£3,000,000 |

.$20,000,000

Arencies and Branches:

Aloe Ghat

Rangoon

Ipak

Saigon..

Bangitok

Karach

KLAME

Berez.ban

Bombay

Kobe

ม

Velouris Canson

Kuala Lumpar

Kuching

Cewport

Maios

Kania

Mun

Taping Tant

Dellal

New York

Toughes

Hamburg

Haako liarbia Hong Le

Yokomanda Zamboang

BRANCHES —

LANDIN

HALAUNA MANIMA

Fos

U

TURK

KUWLOUN

KUALA LOMPAK

BURDEN

NEW YER

TEIPIMI PESANT BANGOON

NA

SAN FRANCI

SEAMA

SINGAPORE

NOBILAMANA

SUNGE! PATANI

TIENTSIN

TUETO

TEANUTAD

YOKOHAMA

Cartes Lamenta oposed in Lemi Curvacy and Bank Dupatta cmoschat for os, patto soucher

hods in Lubed Curry and bardag on tertin

A up to date stre

mes

TO LES

BES

Hong Kong, 24th February, 1926.

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK

The Business of sis shore Bank is maduc

by the HONG KONG AND MUKAI NING OURPURATUIN.

Da sppicose

Buins may

FOR THE BOKU ZANG`AND SHANGHAI BANKING CULPOMATION.

1. M. GBA SURS,

Che Moon EGF.

Hong Kong. 24th February, 1936.

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.

$10.00.

6,5.6.

Saborland Capital ---

- Capite ...... Mod Ladences Pro1,844,216.27

HELD OPPIGE-BOND KUNU.

29, D V Booth CAR!

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

b Chow, ComumTIINA.

Priping

Isa

Shanghai

Бірки

ولود مناسة

Surabay

"Spot" Silver declined to 20, while forward" fell 1/16 to

20-3/16.

The London on New York cross- rate was quoted at £-U.S.$4.984.

Foreign Exchange and General Banking bummelas compared with £-U.S.$4.9758. Current Accounts opened and Fixed Depois while the New York on London mored for one year or shorter panods as rele

luck will be gnosed on appitosios

cross-rate was quoted at £U.S.) A BEHARLEY,

$4.98, as compared with —US.- $4.99.

Manager. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, RAW RUBBER PRICES

ר

INC.

Lacorporated with Limial Liability in USA Latest Quotations From

Head Office:--55, Broadway,

Capital

Surplus

Reserves

Acaciam

Auto Ashens

Beale Berlim

Bob

New York

Goon

Ginger

Singapore

Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co. US$6,000,000.00

2,183,633.00 have received the following quo- in Straits currency from 870,731.00 tations

Singapore for Raw Rubber.

Buyers.

BRANCHES:-

Montreux Miles Siem

Spot

zapine

July/Sept.

Priva

The Engen

Gavian

Hamberg Havre

Hudaibang Exterialos. Jurumie London Lavergnol

Pana Paping Bottem

Bod

Shanghai Southampton

Singapore

Viena

Calouste

Colocs Be Copenhagen Dun Edinburg's Fore Guseve

Jungmod LALO

Vacion

Monte Carie

Zanch

Munca

American Express Branches of Company in Principal cities of United! States of America and Canada.

All classes of Commercial Banking Transactions undertaken.

Personal investment accounts hand-

24 Food Chua E. P. Kwok, Lagu Woogled.

Son

Bomb

Co

- Wong Chuk Eyed Kan Ying

Las Tung P. Eng.. Chus! Manager. La The Fone. Eng. Manager.

BLANCHES AND LOENCIES:-

Macla Malbourne

فجيرة

Deprag

Stemuka

P

Kaugam

Tag

* ductil bunces tra

Markun

Ska Feracio

Baking

battle

bearing Simanghe

ŽAN, PROBYN

wi

Sydney

ALL

**

درضا

and Expitanga Saved as approved

Cuent Je speciel w Lose Currency: Bad Pized Depot red for one year or stor part in acel sad Foreign Curren oder which mi bo quand on apponiaa.

Sale Depo: Saxon Is Los

FAN TUNG M.

Count Maungan.

.251⁄4 Up 4

.25% Up

.26 Up

Jan./March

.26% Up

Market:-Quiet.

Oct./Dec.

EXPORT NATIVE RUBBER

Duty Decreased By D.E.I. Govt.

The Hague, To-day. The duty on export native rub ber from the Dutch East Indies to 33 guilders! The Company offers to intending has been reduced Travellers the use of its "Travellers per 100 kilograms from to-day- Cheques" and Letters of Credit and,

Reuter.

in addition, the world-wide services

of its thoroughly equipped Travel Department.

C. H. BENSON,

General Manager.

THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK.

LIMITED

(Incorporated in China)

Head Office Shanghai

Capital Reserve

.$7,500,000.00

.$1,500,000.00

£500,000 FOR FIXTURES

London Syndicate's Offer

A London syndicate's offer of! Branches-All Important Cities in an annual sum of £50,000, over

a period of 10 years, for the China

of the Football Forkan Komologs and Conueni Beaking Busine copyright Current and Spring docutie oprost and Fixed League fixtures was considered THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Spored on your of shoring prints at last month's meeting in Lon-

LIMITED

Established 1850

Capital (full paid-up) Yen.100,000,000

Eeserve Fund

Yen 129,150,000

Head Office: YOKOHAMA

Branches and Agencies at

Alexandria

Batavia

Berlin

Bombay

Calcutta

Canton

Dairen (Dainy)

Nagasaki Naguya -New York

Osaka Paris Peiping Rangoon

Fengtien (Mukden) Rio de Janeiro

Hamburg

Bankow

Barbin

Bone Kons

Honolulu Hrisking

Barachs

Kobe

London.

Los Angeles

Manils

Moji

*

courts.

San Francisco

Seattle Semarang

Sourabaya Sydney Tientsin

Tokyo

Tsingtan

Yingkow

Interest allowed for Current Ac-

treserved

coles which will hat quoted on spplication.

Boo 2 CĂN

Manager.

HONG KONG BRANCH: 36. De Faux Bed Coveral

Fuga Exchange Dept, 35500 Grural e Canlure's Office

THE WING ON BANK, LTD.

don.of the League Management| Committee.

Representatives of the syndi- cate gave details of their pro- posed scheme for, the distribu- tion of the fixtures to approved jorganisations.

was

No official statement issued, but it was understood that the Management Commit- tee would call a meeting of the clubs in London on April 24- the eve of the Cup final-to desconsider the proposal.

Head Office: Hong Kong 26. Des Voeux Road Central. Authorised Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every cripton of banking business transact-

ed.

Current Accounts and Savings Ac- counts opened. Fixed Deposits re- ceived at rates which will be quoted on_application.

Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken. Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.

PHILIP GOCKCHEN.

Chief Manager.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION-N$1

Deposits received for fixed periods THERAPION N12-

at rates to be obtained pa applicaTHERAPION NO.3

tion.

G. KISHINAMI,

Hong Kong. 19th March, 1936.

Manager.

DR.LEGLERO'S PILLA Ter the Liver

THE

SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in China)

.$5,000,000. Capital paid up ...

.$7,300,000. Reserver Capital Savings Dept. $500,000. Reserve Savings Dept. $600,000. Eend-Oce-Shanghai

A Bank having as its mission the industrial development

照

China and the fostering of her

commercial relations abroad. Hong Kong Office-

6, Queen's Road Central Phone 31116.

Banks

H.K. Bank $1,570 n.

H.K. Bank (London) 1042 Chartered Bank £14. Mercantile Bank A and

£30.

Mercantile Bank C. £13 n. Bank of East Asia $75 1.8

Insurances-

drove him back to Sudbury' after a year. There he married Mar garet Burr, of whose origins his- tory can find nothing, and soon the young couple took a of after to-house in Ipswich at a rental of £6]

Canton Ins. $275 a. Union Ins. $52714 n. China Underwriters $1 n. China Fire Ins. $450 . H.K. Fire Ins: $250 n. International Assce. Sh$3 D. Shipping

Douglases $36 a

H.K. Steamboats $15. Indo-Chinas (Pref.), $30 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $20 a. Shell (Bearer) 97/6 n. Union Waterboats $12.20 r

Mining

Antamoks $242 b. Baiatos $2134 n.

Baguio Gold 28 cts.

B

Benguet Consolidated $18 b. Benguet Exploration 22 cts. Big Wedge 29 CIS. T. Demonstration 77 cts. b., 78 cts.

sa

Gold Creek 15 cts. Gold River 31⁄2 cts. n. Itogons $1.20 b. IXL $14

Salacots 11 cts. n. Kailing Mining Ad. 11 b. Langkats (Single) Sh.$10 n. Masbate 75 cts. b. S'hai Exploration Sh.344 n Shanghai Loans Sh.$4 a. Raubs $11.20 n.

San Maurice $1 a. United Paracale 76% cts. . Venz; Goldfield $3 b.

Docks, etc.

a year.

Small Livelihood

There was then a livelihood, though a small one, to be gained by a painter in a provincial town, where he had a position in the so-

NORTHERN RUSSO SIBERIAN SEA ROUTE

Lighthouses To Make It Safe

'For Navigation.

The most difficult sections of the northern sea route along the Russian and Siberian coast will be made safe for navigation by the construction this year of lighthouses, buoys and other safety signs.

Four lighthouses, with appar- atus of 170,000 candle power each and visibility of 35 nautical

lighted buoys and 59 other new navigational signs will be installed along the northern sea route, most of them in the eastern section.

cial scale between the doctor and instrument, he certainly refused the teacher of dancing. Gains to complete bis portrait which borough might well have lived out was part of the bargain.

Pall Mall Clientele

For 13 years Gainsborough had

his days in Ipswich providing ancestral portraits for the local gentry, and struggling with his natural genius in the production annually sent from Bath to the of "correct" landscapes, had not Royal Academy exhibitions, and a painted figure that he had his sitters had spread his renown. placed in his garden to scare the This time London was ready for him. He settled in Schomberg birds by chance attracted Philip Thicknesse, the governor of Land-House. in Pall Mall: Excepting weeks for a few stolen summer gaard Fort. near Harwich.

Thicknesse gave him his start to each year at Hampstead, where he landscape, the fame. He paid him 30 guineas could work at for a painting of Landguard Fort, stream of sitters for portraits which, engraved by Major, spread continued till his death. Their are a long catalogue of his name beyond Ipswich. Then, ames conceiving that the artist had ex-celebrity. bausted the pictorial possibilities

The adventure was a

BUCCC-19.

Among them figure George III!

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY

CLUB.

THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE

T MEETING will be held (wea

ther permitting) at HAPPY VAL- LEY on SATURDAY, 16th May, 1936, commencing at 200 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung at 130 P

By Order,

S. A. SLEAP, Actg, Secretary.

Hong Kong, 11th May, 1956.

PUBLIC AUCTION

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction

On

Tuesday, the 12th. May. 1936- commencing at 11:00 am.

at their Sales Room,"

Duddell Street

A Quantity of Valuable Household and Office

Furniture

Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers. Hong Kong. 11th May, 1936.

THE Undersigned have received! instructions to sell by Püßßc

TH

Auction

on

Friday, the 15th May, 1936 commencing at 11.00 am.

of the neighbourhood, his patron and his family. Pitt, Burke, Sheri- persuaded him in 1758 to move toj dan, the Duchess of Devonshire. Bath and risk taking a house in whose portrait was once the ob- ject of a sensational theft, and Mrs. Siddons, a National Gallery the Crescent at £50 a year. Thicknesse provided introductions favourite, of whom the artist com- and demands for portraits owed plained that there was no end to in from the trilliant society other nose.

But of his landscapes he told, visitors. Gainsborough's Bath

Hats to 40 guineas for a Lord Lansdowne, "People won't prices rose bak-length and 100 for a full-buy 'em, yet they will come to me for portraits. I can't paint. por- length picture.

traits." And to 3 friend

wrote, **I'm he

Painted Garrick

** !।

sick

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street

15 Cases Beads

14 Cases Boot Polish

6 Cases Materials for making

3 Cases Metal Ware

5 Cases Electrical Fuses

of

3 Cases Wood Ware

2 Ornaments for Ladies Dresse

There he painted Garrick, who

very much worried him by constantly chang-portraits and wish

to take my viol-da-gamba ing his expression, and Samuel Pichardson and his fellow-novel- and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips and' ist Sterne, besides many other famous men and reigning beau-enjoy the fag end of life in quiet- ness and ease." To George III be! ties. And in such neighbouring!

the need lamented

of doing

H.K. and K. Wharves $90 by country seats as Wilton he was journeyman work in the face

able to view work by Rubens and

$90 så. H.K. and W. Docks $ 2. Providents (old) $1.10 b., $1.20

590 sa.

Hong Kew Sh$185′′n. New Engineering Sh$4 a Shanghai Docks Sh.$100 n.

Cotton Mitts

Ewo Cottons. Sh.$84 b. Shanghai Cottons (old) Sh.$74

b.

way."

Van Dyck. Under their influence Clash With Reynolds

he passed from the detailed, com- pressed manner of his "Dutch")

ex

He had sent a portrait group of Providents (old) $1.10 b., $1.20 period to the gracious freedom the King's three daughters to the of 1784.- asking of style of his later canvases. Royal Academy From the Bath period come the for it to be hung, against regula- landscapes now in the Tate Gallery,tions, in a special position. When

The Watering-Place" and "The this was refused, he ceased Bridge," and the "Hay Wain" inhibiting at the Academy, to which, however, he left a picture after the National Gallery.

But Thicknesse, had become in-his death. The incident further creasingly querulous, forcing un-constrained his relations with Sir Shanghai Cottons (new) Sh-invited criticism on the artist, as Joshua Reynolds, the President

whose discoverer and patron hejwhich had never bcea gurdial.

Reynolds. with his scholarship insisted on advertising himself. Gainsborough, proud and quick-and respect for rules, essentially tempered, rebelled. There was an an academic painter, was the last of the Old Masters. He cham- explosion over 1 viol-da-gamba, and whether the painter did or Pioned the Italian School and pe Debentures did not pay his friend for the lieved that the secret of excel-

$291/2 b.

Zooug Sings Sh.$12 n. Wing On Textiles Sh$25

Lands, Hotels, ete HK and S. Hotel $4.70 n. H.K. Lands $924 H.K. Lands

4%

ام

100% b. Shanghai Lands Sh.$15 a. Metropolitan Lands Sh. $10 Humphreys $84 b. HK Realties $5 n. Chinese Estates $82 n. China Realties Sh$4 n. China Debentures Sh$60 2.

Public Utilities H.K. Tramways $11 b. Peak Trams (old) $7 n. Peak Trams (new) $3. Star Ferries $88% 0. Yaumati Ferries $19. C. Lights (old) $10.60 b. C. Lights (new) $7.35 b. H.K. Electrics $51 b., $51.15 sa. Macao Electrica $20 m-. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n.

Telephones (old) $25 b.

Telephones (new) $9 n.

China Buses Sh.$11

a.

Singapore. Tractions 22/6 5. Singapore Tractions Pref. 28/-|

Industrials Malabon Sugars $8.40 n.

POPEYE.

Rockabye, Babies!

THERE'S A MYSTERY GOING ON RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE AND I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT- I'LL GO TO BED- MAYBE I CAN THINK SETTER

IN THE MORNING

THE CAPN AN” FIRST MATE ARE SLEEPIN_I GOT ALL THE MEN KNOCKED OUT

EXCEP

THEM TWO

I'LL LOAD'EM INTO A LIFEBOAT AN TURN 'EM LOOSE THEY KIN MAKE LAND EASY WHEN THEY COMES TO

WHAT THE BLAZES IS THAT NOISE ON DECK?!

Cald., Maeg. (Ord.) Sh.$19 Cald., Mecg., (Pref.) Sh $15 n. Canton Ices $134 n. Cements $10.20 n.. H.K. Ropes $4.40 . Stores, etc. Dairy Farms $1934 n. Watsons $3.55 b. Lane, Crawfords $6% u.

Mackintoshs $5 n. Sinceres $180 1 Wm. Fowells.50 cts. a. Wing On (HK) 350 n.

Miscellaneous

Entertainments $2.90-n. S. C. Enterprises $1.85 n. Macao "Greyhounds" $2 n. Constructions (old) $1 1. Constructions (new) 30 cts. b. Vibro Piling $4 a.

lence

Was

contained within it

Gainsborough had no use for for- mulas and was the pioneer-of new methods.

Reynolds, in his "Lectures," was lukewarm in Gainsborough's praise, disapproved of what he called a "scratching" manner of painting, and at an Academy ban- quet pointedly commended him for his landscape work and omit ted reference to his portraiture.

2 Cases Doll Heads

2 Cases Telephone Wires

2 Cases Cloth for making Hats 1 Case Trimmings

1 Case Artificial Silk Bandings- 2 Cases Table Lampa

1 Radio Scales

1 Buttons and Aluminium Pea-

cils

1 Case Anti Smoking Fluid

also 4 Rolls Newsprint

and

A Quantity of Sundry Goods

Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 11th May, 1936.

0-0-Ouch!!

You didn't expect that, did you? -Be ready for the unexpected burn, scratch, cut, braise, or other

sores,

Yet Reynolds said of his rival in injury, by keeping She-ko. "I cannot make out how he pro- handy. She-ko instantly cools and duces his effect," while Gains eases the pain and heals rapidly.

Soothing, antiseptic, and cura- borough asked Reynolds to sit to him, exclaiming, on seeing one of tive, She-ko is equally beneficial for skin troubles such as eczema, itch.. his pictures, "Di him, how ringworm, head and foot various he is! There was ad- pimples, and piles."

Obtainable at chemists, or from miration, in spite of differing

Medicine Co- aims; and in 1788, as Gains the Dr. Williams

451. Kiangse Road, Shanghai: 70 was dying, he sent for cents per package; post free. Reynolds to show him his latest H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 5% prem. work, and uttered his last words) to him-"We are all going to

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 GSBds. --|borough

9334%.

b.

HK Govt. 31⁄2 7 Loan par. b.,heaven, and Van Dyck is of the Wallace Harpers $4 n-

To-morrow.

company."

"The Ghost Walks."

HAH WON'T THEY BE SUSPRIZED WHEN THEY

WAKES

UP

SHE-KO

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