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BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

Authorized Capital

$50,000,000 lasted and Fally-Paid-up 20,000,000! Láserve Funds:--

Sterling

..£4,500,000

Hong Kong Chirrency

Reserve .$20,000,000 Boncve Liability of Pro-

pristors

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA

Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1853.

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936

Commerce and

Finance

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON

| Paid-up Capital

Reserve Fund ma

$3,000,000 $3,000,000

Reserve Liability of Pro-

LOCAL SHARE MARKET

,000,000

- pristava

8,000,000

Agencies and Branches:

Alor Star

Bangoon

Saigon

Flanngvok

TÉMAD OFFICE: HONG KONG,"

BOARD OF DIRECTORS,

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson

Сино

G. Makin Esq.

Dupatý Chairm

Kas. Mr. W.E. Bell, JR; Masson Esq., E. Compton Esq. T. E. Pearce Esq.

Kom Mr. S..H. Dodwell,

J. A. Plammer Dak Johnson Esq, AL Shields Esq.

Y. M. Graybara, Esq.

- Chast-Manaągać.

NOT

BATAVIA

KOLONBO

BRANCHADO

LSDON

LIONS

MALACCA

MANZ

MV2 Jobard)

MUNDEN

NEW YORK

YELPING

PENANG

•BANGORN

DALUON

JOOCHOW

SAN FRANCISCO

HANKOT

HARTEK

مکانات

SHARE

SUBS

KUALA LUMPUa

KUWLOOK

BELANG HAS

BINGAPURE

SUURABAYA

SUNEI PAZANI

TIENTSIA

GAROT

TALNOTAU

IVROSLAMA

Cheron Locounts opened in Loom. Curvety smili Bid Depania cenowed tur sine pour ce sharine Berman in Low Guaracy mod bracting on serum Break will be quoted on APPURAZION.

BLEND WE 30 4820 SAFE DEPOSIT 201ÉS

tana AU LINE.

Kamchi

Serpent

Saraghas

Batavia Bombe Calcutta

E Kunis Lumpur bagapove

-kunking

PERMITEN

Cabs Colombo

Canada Cawnpors

Бошава

Taiping

Madan

heatin

ENERI

Sew York

Langish

Bupbeat

Hamburg

Paging

(Paidag)

(Ahuket)

Taingro

Ha

Kaskor

Pe

Valco

Zum Benga

hlong Kong

Foreign Lachangs and General Banking busines

trażacid.

Cura Laswam opened and Fixed Deposita received de mois year or shorter perioda az Talen wing:h will be quoted on upplosion.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS The following was the list of [local share

to-day-

The Bank's Beed Dfice in London undertaken

CAMATAN | ~ and dry recovery of Bertaa. Inocuta. Tas overpaid ou veettu mapes may be certaited at any of the Agencies und Erenchen,

A BREARLEY,

Manager.

Hong Kong, 1st January, 1995.

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, INC.

Incepared wilà Limited Liability in USA Head Office2-65, Broadway.

Hong Kong. 24th February, 1838 Capital

HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK

The Dusion of the shore Bank is ootudent- pbs HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI MAKING CORPORATION. Musim 2045 be FOR THE HUNG LUNG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

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V. GRATBERN

Ons Manage Hong Kong, 4th February, 1935.

Sorplan

Best res

New York

17.5.$6,000,000.00 2240.34438 897,612.65

BRANCHES:-

Armbuedada. Antony

Genos

Sztangow The Hague

Zapam

+

Beale Beckm Bombay

LEAVEDE Hamburg

Kaidelberg Interlaken

Lonton Impo

Paramak kara Puping Boctaron Baca

Southampton Singapore

Calssista Com Colourby

Dubax

1* Sdlaborgh

Monte Carlo

Macka

Yokohama Zurion

Manica

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.] Fation

And 'Capita" Fed-up Capal

-$10,000,000,00

For Branches of American Express

Lasers and Undersed Prolak 10mm | Company in Principal cities of United

"ONCH ONOR—'KOLIKO GER

30 Day Your Bood, Chosen.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Chairman. Koos Chan, key, 2. X. Kwok, Lag, wrong Im Loog Lng Chan Ching shak, Esq., Li Lea Bang, ing. Wong Chu Due Foy and has F. IN

Janea Zambay

Campos

Ian Tung Pa. Eng. Clint Maung Tom E, Lagu Manage.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES

Mana

Malbou

New York

سنهس

I' Paisag Kangood Segon

Seabrig Bearing Dawg

Sourabaya Swatos

+

Pachalu

Lowtona Landas

"IMAGE Tokyo

San Francisco

Soulma

States of America and Canada.

All classes of Commercial Banking Tramactions undertaken.

sled.

Personal investment accounts hand-

The Company offers to intančing Travellers the use of its "Travellers Chegues" and Letters of Credit and, in addition, the world-wide services of it thoroughly equipped Travel Department.

CH BENSON,

General Manager.

Every descriptor of Banking and Exchange THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,

kunidana tenance. Lo gwased on spproved

about opened in Local Cucretiay

and Fixed Deposite owed for one of aborime periods in Lost and Persigt. Carrvácie OK_SOFTLE WÜzab will be quoted on appisostion.

Zala Deposit Boxes To L

FAX TONG PO

LIMITED

(Incorporated in Chine) Head Offer-Shanghai

Chaal Manager.

Capital

Reserve

$7,500,000.00 $1,500,000,00

Branches--All Important Cities in

Chins

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK Foreign Rasengan seral Banking Busines

LIMITED

42 :

Established 1880 Capital (full paid-up) Yen 100,000,000 Beserve Fund

Yen 129,150,000

"Head Office: YOKOHAMA,

Branches and Agencies at

Nagsarki

Alexandria

Batavia

Berlin

Bombay

Calcutts

Canton

Dairen (Dainy)

Nagoya

New York Oznica

Paris

Fengtien (Mukden) Rio de Jensiro Hamburg

Eot Kong

Honolula

Haisking Karachi

Kobe

Todon

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Seattle Semarang

Sydney

Ticatsin Tokyo

Tsingtao Yingkow

Manis

Interest allowed for Current Ac-|

counts.

Depasita received for fixed perioda at rates to be obtained on applica tion.

G. KISHINAMI

Manager.

Hong Kong, 10th March, 1938.

TEK

SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in China). Capital paid up 15.000,009. Capital Savings Dept: $500,098 Reserve Savings Dept. $600,000. Blend-Office-Shanghai

($7,500,000

WHILE

Current and Bering Amounts opened and Fixed Deposits received far our pane of shorter perioda arabe which will be quoted as application.

By Dan Van Boad, Carm.

• HONG KONG BRANCH;

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Fongs Exclamps Degle mom

Great Offins Cashier's Oos

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2008

THE WING ON BANK, LTD.

Head Office: Hong Kong

26, Des Voeux Road Central. Authorized Capital $10,000,000 LONDON BANKERS:- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Exchange and every-des- cripton of banking business transact- ed.

Current Accounts and Savings Ac counts opened. Fixed Deposits - Te- ceived at rates which will be quoted on application:"

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

PHILIP GOCK CHIN

Chief Manager.

quotations.issued

Bankor

H. Bank $1,582 sa

HK. Bank (London) £102. Chartered Bank $14 m. Mercantile Bank A. and

531 .. Mercantile Bank C. £14 n. Bank of East Asia $13 m

Insurances

Canton Ins. $255 Union Ins. $525 sa

LOCAE DOLLAR STEADY

"Spot Silver Up".

The local dollar is steady, jopening on demand this morning

at 1/3-5/16d.

"Spot" silver rose. 7/16 to 1914,

NEW YORK SHARE while "forward" declined 1⁄2 to

MARKET

Labour Trouble Possible

DULL MARKET EXPECTED

Messrs. White, Weld and Com- pany. New York Correspondents R for Messrs. S." E Lery and Com-

pany, report:-

19-9/16-

The London on "New York cross- {rate was quoted at $-U.S.35.02. jas compared with 4-US$5,021⁄4, while the New York on Landen" cross-rate was quoted at £-US $5.02%. 83

compared with U.S.$5.025%.

RAW RUBBER PRICES

"Stocks: Although business indices are at new high levels, the Latest Quotations From

possibilities of labour troubles, particularly in the steel industry,

The usual Sum-]

are disturbing. mer business recession will soon

Singapore

Mesarz: H. B. Joseph and Co

received the

be evident, with the extent of the have decline unpredictable, therefore quotations in Straits

following

China Underwriters $1 China Fire Ins. $462 n. H.K. Fire Ins. $250 n. International Assce. Sh$34 n. we believe that any market.bulges from Singapore for Raw Rubber.

Shipping

Douglases $36 n.

H.K. Steamboats $4 n. Indo-Chinas (PreĹ), $50 n. Indo-Chinas (Def.) $20`n Shells (Bearer) 95/7 n. Union Waterboats 512 5.

Docks, etc.

H.K. and K. Wharves $88 n H.K. and W. Docks $10 b. Providents (Old) $1 b. Providents (New) 20 cts. The Hong Kew Sh$185 n.

New Engineering Sh$4 1. Shanghai Docks St.$100 n.

Mintag

Kailan Mining Ad- 11/6 n. Langkats (Single) Sh.$8 n. S'hai Exploration Sh.$43⁄41⁄2 n. Shanghai Loans Sh.Si D. Raubs $104 I

Veiz; Goldfield $4 b Antamoks $ b. $4.80/90 22 Atoks 68 cts: b. Baguio Gold 26 cts. b. Balatoes $214 -

Benguet Consolidated $18.40 n. Benguet Exploration 27 cts. b. Big Wedge 52 cts. sa.

occurring on publication of good! second-quarter reports, should be

used for lightening long posi. Spot tions. Meanwhile,

we expect a July/Sept. dull market this week, Business Oct/Dec. done:-770,000 shares.

Jan./March

"Wheat: Cash and mill buy- Market:-Quiet. ing were absorbed by consider-

able hedge selling. Recent rains

cukrrency

CYCLIST'S DEATH-

Chauffeur On Chargé Of" Manslaughter

-

John Thomas Blackball, aged ~24, chauffeur to Col. A. E. New- land, of Sandhayes House, Cors les, Wilts, was charged at War- minster recently with manslaugh ter and was remanded in custody.

The charged followed an cident on Boreham-road. minster, shortly before mid- night one night, when Walter Bray, aged 22," a painter, of Hay- tesbary, was knocked from his bicycle by a motor-car and killed instantly.

War

MAN FALLS FROM LAUNCH

Ex-Nayal Officer Lost

In Thames

POIANA

"HARD AS NAILS"

Reading.

Buyers.

No trace has been found of Lt- 26% Down Cmdr. Maurice T. Maude, aged 36;) 26% Unchangedļa retired officer of the Royal In- 26 Unchanged dian Marine, who fell into the Unchanged Thames at Reading late one night last month from the motor-launch Meander. The police dragved the river all day without result.

27

in the North-West were negligible, SCHOOL RIFLES

while the Canadian crop also Ineeds additional moisture.

We

continue to recommend purchases:

MISSING

on any periods as easiness, as we Scotland Yard Officers

have

ultimate! confidence in the

strength of the market. Total

sales:-19,760.000 bushels.

“Cotton: — June precipitation

In Search

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

A. E. WATSON & 00, LIMITED.

0

NOTICES

N WEDNESDAY, the 1st

July, 1936, The Company's Offices and sil Departments will be CLOSED.

The Hongkong Dispensary, Dispensing Department,

will be open for dispensing pre- scriptions from 10 am to 1 păm. and from 6 pm to 130 p.

The Kowloon Dispensary will be loper for business from 10 am to

1 patt

Hongkong, 24th. June, 1936.

PUBLIC AUCTION

T

HE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction.

Of

Friday, the 3rd July, 1986, commencing at 2.30 pm.

at. their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

comprising:-

Chesterfeld Suites, Black Wood: Ware, Teak Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture, Office Furniture, He was one of a party of eight ornaments, Pictures, Gramaphona in the launch, which is owned by and Records, Glass and Porcelain Mr. Harold Graham. of Five Ware, Brass and E. P. Ware. Ways, Birmingham- He was un- Electric Table Lamps and Fans, married, and lived with his mother Curtains, Linen, etc., etc.

at Fleet

The party dined at the Roebuck 2nd July, 1936. Scotland Yard detectives are en-Hotel, Tilehurst, and were return-

Slipped On Deck

No one

is far below normal. The market quiring into the disappearance of ing after dark to Sonning. shows a hardening tendency and eight Service rifles while in transit we would advise purchases at the between Enfield and Croydon.

The rides belong, to the Whit-

saw. Lt-Cmdr. Maude present level

"Flash: Steel Mill activity gift School, Croydon, O.T.C. Some disappear, but it is assumed that the he slipped on the wet deck at the during the past week is estimated time ago they were sent to

absence Erfield Small Arms factory for stern. When his lat 74.0 per cent of capacity S

noticed a searchlight on the launch compared with 70.2 per cent the reboring:

Early last month Mr. Lewis, was turned round, and as it swept previous week":

commanding the Corps. was inthe river his cap was seen floating

Consolidated Mines 4 cts. b, COMMODITY PRICES formed that the work had been 150 yards away.

334/4 ts 33. Demonstration $1.99/110 sa Gold Creek 9 cts. n. Ipo Gold 31 cts. n. Itogons $1.29 11.*** LX.L. $2.05 b.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

· 100% b. Shanghai Lands Sh.$13 n Metropolitan Lands Sh. #10 Humphreys $2.55 L.

completed, and that the rifles had been handed in at Enfeld Station

was

Lt.-Cmdr. Kenneth E. Gains, of The following quotations have and consigned to the school The Esher, who was in the launch, been received by Reater:-

Prev. Yesterday effect.

War Office was notified to the same said: "I can only assume that he Įslipped and struck his head as he Closing Closing

reach The rides did not

the fell. A stunned man does not rise as hard school, and every effort to trace to the surface. He was them has failed. Various Southern as nails, having been in the Arctic Railway goods depots have been Circle. Russia, India and other and undoubtedly he visited by detectives, including the countries,

Old would have swum ashore had he Bricklayers Arms Depot, in Kent-road. S.E., but without result, been able to do so.

Masbate 79 cts. . Northern Mining 39 cts. b,

381⁄2 cts. sa. Paracale Gumaus 69/71 cts. ca Sakacots Mining 12 cts.

New York Cotton:

July

12.40

12.29

October

11.72

1161

December

1169

11.59

January

1168

11.60

San Mauricio $1.12. sa.

March

11.70

11.62

Suyoe Consol 34 ctx. n. United Paracale $1.12/1.15 sä Universal Explor 18 ets. b.

May

.11.74

11.68

Spot

12.49

12.39

New York Bubber:

H.K. and S. Hotels $455 n H.K. Lands $30 b., $304 sa. July

H.K. Lands

4% Debentures September

October

15.98 16:10 16.131 16.14m

16.01

16.11a

December

16.24a 16.243

January

16.250 16.26:

March May

16.34a

16.364

16.43

16.450

Chicago Wheat:

94

September

95

December

96%

Chicago Corn:

July

66%

September

66%

Winnipeg Wheat:

July..

82

822 82%

ELK. Realties, $41⁄2 n

Chinese Estates $80 m China Besltias. Sh.$47 China Debentures Sh.$60, n.

Public Utilities

H.K. Tramways $10% sa. Peak Trams (old) 6% n Peak Trans (new) $21.

Star Ferries $851⁄2 sa Yaumati Ferries $20 a

C. Lights (old) $10%1⁄2 b., $10.65

C. Lights (new) $7: sa. H.K. Electrics $50.3. $502 Macao Electrics $18. Sandakan Lights $8.30 n. Telephones (oid)' $25 'n. Telephones (new) $84 n. China Buses Sh$111⁄4 n Singapore. Tractions 32/6 b. Singapore Pref. 28/-

Industrials

Malabon Sugars $9% b.. Cald. Macg. (Ord:) Sh$191⁄2 n Cald., Macg. (Pref.) Sh$15 n. Canton Ices $1 n.

Pilot Who Was

July

October

December.

Cements $9.20 HK Ropes $3.90 n..

Stores, etc.

Dairy Farms $191⁄2 n. Watsons $3.45. a. Lane, Crawfords $64 n.

Mackintosh $5

Sinceres $1.70 a Wm. Powells 40 cta. z. Wing On (HK) $50 a.

Cotton Mills - Ewo Cottons Sh.$8 n. Shanghai Cottons

$70

(old) Sh.

Showing Off" Fined Shanghai Cottons (new) Sh

Gosport-An airman who ad-[where he was standing. Then it] ¦¦mitted "showing off his flying rose to a good height, carried out skill to men on the ground whom a loop and corkscrew, circled The Imew, was fined here last round, and again dived towards him, month £50 (including costs) for He crouched to the ground, and causing annecessary danger to the machine struck 2 garden frame. It was completely wreck- Persons with an aeroplane

ed.

Ke was Feter. Alexander Nicholas, an admiral's son, of Lee- A constable stad that in hos- ter the crash the Industrial development one-Solent, whose machine crashedpital the day

A Bank having as its mission,

Hong Kong Office-

China and the fostering of bert the Fairfield Narseries, Gos Nicholas said: “I know I was a commercial relations' abroad,

port, on May. 2.

dd fool Later, when he was George Victor Mason, a garden- told that he would be summoned, er, declared that twice the ma- he replied "It was my fault." chine dived to within 10ft of hit an sir pocket and crashed.***

6, Queen's Road Central

Phone 18:

$9934. D.

Zoong Sings Sh418 n. Wing On Textiles Sh.$25 a

Miscellaneous Entertainments $2.90 z.

S. C. Enterprises' $1.35 n. Macao “Greyhounda” $2 a. Constructions" (old) 21% n Constructions - (new) 30 cta: b. Vibro Piling $2. n.

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 GABAK **

933⁄41⁄4€****

HK" Govt: 4% Lou! 1% prem.

b.

HK Gort 375%

"preiseber

Wallace Harpers $435.

On View from Thursday, the

Terms: Cash on Delivery

GLAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 30th. June, 1936.

CASPIAN SEA IS DRYING UP

Old Fortress Re-Appears

Moscow. The ruins of a 12th long sunk century fortress, beneath Baku Harbour, are re-

emerging from the water."

This is due to the drying up of the Caspian Sen caused by the danmming of rivers to provide water for irrigation. Last March the sea fell to the lowest level recorded in a century.

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