BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPOKATION
Authorised. Capital
Ieserve Funds:
Issued and Foily-Paid-up - 212,000
Starting ***.....5 6,500,000
Hong Kong Currency
Beserve
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA
Ag: Hugo) Chacht, 2005. #EAD OFFICE: LONDON
-$50,000,000
Paid
Capi
xx Pro-
- $90,000,000.
and Branches: Kangoon
................ $14,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pro-
prietors
XEAD OFFICE: MONO KONG.,
BOARD OF DIRECTORL
Hon. Mr. J. J.-Paterson,
Chelcom
G. Miskın Esq.,
Deputy Chairman.
1. E. Masson Esq.
A. H. Compton Esq. I. E. rearca Bag, Dub)
19in Lamper bungapore
Cascion Uwempare Cal Cotbe
Hon. Mr. & M. Dodwell,
Musbong Macsburg
brandin
New York
(Pedag)
wing
Toazish
J. A. Finmmer Faq, Hai Mr. M. T. Johnson,
Shields Bag V. M. Grayburn, Kaq, Chest Manager.
BRANONISHI 2000
Hash
Facing
متوسطة.
RAZANIA MIMBAY
CALONIZA
SANTUR
OUTLETO
MALACOL MANILA
لطواري كله .
S&W 102 PELPING PENANG
ommerce and Finance
NEW YORK SHARE MARKET
Aggression Seen In Cheaper Stocks
FURTHER WEAKNESS POSSIBLE
Mesara. White: Weld & Com pany, New York Correspondenta for Messrs. S: E. Lewy & Com pany report
Foreign, Enshange sad Gonses) Banking beelztási Stoche: The market to-day was Copych dostarcza opened, and Flast Dupontia) 205 impressive. Aggressive spect- SOMNÉVNÉ DE 900 20 d. sheh qachade vi entén & Intion in the cheaper stocks was The book? Bar Oda tagamemn masendis the predominating factor, with the Poovary of Brisiah Zaman Taz prepaid market bought, apparently on the song thanh tong by sonicnlaod of any basis of further armainents pre Agencies and Desmaken.
parations here and abroad. Fur ther weakness is possible, as much as 2 points, to-morrow, brot look for a fair rally possibly to fellow, on which we would take trading profits. Business Gone:
A BREABLET.
Managst Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.
HAINAKING
SAN FRANCISCO
KODCHUW
MASCHUNG BANAOW
HAMBAN
HUMLET
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Joung
KOWLOON XUALA LUMPUR
HAMKNIE
SAICHIN
SHANGHAI
BULHAHAJA
DUMAMI PATANI TIAMININ
TOKOHAMA
Cerveza Astearts opened in Lom) Carrey and
Secondo 10 Loval Curmacy and mariing on terms
(ADIO 19 s dano 117% Tarver norsk sa
Hong Kong, 24th February, 1336.
THE CHINA & SOUTH SEA BANK,]2,230,000 shares.
LIMITED
{Incorporated in China) Head Office-Shanghai Capital
+$7,500,000.00 Essere
$1,500,000.00 Branches-All Important Citise
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HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK fit mens vind win de quedar un apertandin
The Bankaan of the storm Dunk in amo RAY HEST HONG SUKI AND KELKIMLI BARÁLKI CUMPURATIUS.
POR TEX 230 1020 AND SHANGHAI BANKING "CUKPUSATION,
4. M. GIAYEGEN,
Get Manager.
Hong Kong, 4th February, 1985.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.]
Shorin Capital
$20,000,000.00
Prid Capita Have and Undivided Protra mumuð 200,206.26
HEAD OFFICE:~RONG XONG.
1, De Your Road, Canam
BOLID OF DIRECTORS --- Hot. Sir Shout-nom Chow, Chairman. Boom Chan. Tag. 1. L. Kwok, Eng., Thane Two Tone E. Chas Ching Sänk. Leg. Id La Ding, Zags. Wong Chu Jon, Ing, and Kan" Yang Pro. Ing.
Lab Las Fang. King, Manager.
Liney
bebera
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Marala
Mailerarbe
New York
SAMENGE Shang Singapom
Paro
Pompong
Bangun
Kapwing Loodan
>Wagon
Sad Fest
Canton Haiphong Hautow Moonda Lobe
Takyo Vancouver
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Erty doneription of Banking and Barbrags Buzzese transacted.. Lost grated on. appeared
Cuand kommunte
opened in Local Cormacy and Fland Deposita reaalveć see on your je aderier penola in Loud and Farwigs Cincin wo seems whack will be quoted on applination.
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ZAN TONG PO.
Chad Manger,
BONG KONG BRAKES:
3. Der Twex Both, Centre.
Cashier's Off
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
Bead Ofice: Hong Kong
We
Cotton Prices to-day were high- fer on good demand, coupled with covering by short interests. Dẻ- mand for textiles is good.
Any setbacks would provide an oppor tunity for traders to re-enter the market.
Wheat: The market was fir en shortage of stocks In spite of (some profit-taking, prices continue
to advance. Total sales: 37,931,000; bushels.
COMMODITY PRICES
The following quotations have
been received by Reuter-
26, Des Voeux Read Central Authorised. Capital $10,000,000
LONDON. BANKERS:- Westminster Bank, Ltd. Foreign Bronzage and every de cription of banking business transact January. (ed.
March
Current Accounts and Savings Ac- counts opened. Fixed Deports ro-May ceived at rates which will be quoted July un applications.
October Trusteeship & Executorship under Spot taken. Safe Deposit Bezos for hire.
PHILIP GOCE CHIN, Chie" Manager.
THE MERCANTILE BANK OF May
INDIA, LTD.
SHARE MARKET REPORT
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
NEW
BONG TONG
To Members
Ta meeting of the Generali
A
ciety held on 30th November,] 1936, it was decided to hold the Annual Eali on FRIDAY. 29th January, 1987.
The following was the list of local share
Will Members please note this quotations issued iste. to-day.
Banks
H.K. Bank $1745 b. $1750 să. HK (Lon. Reg.) 5708 n. Chartered Bank 216 n. Mercantile Bank A. and B.
£3974 **
Mercantile Bank C £147 1 Bank of East Asia $83 n.
Insurances
Canton Ins. $275 b. Union Ina $595 b., $590/600 sa. China Underwriters $1 n. HK. Fire Ins. $250 b. International Assoe. Sh. 191⁄4 1.
Shipping
Douglases 180 n.
HK. Steamboats $7.40 m. Indo-Chinas (Frel) $35 $ Indo-Chinas (Def.) $85 1. Shells (Bearer) 118/11⁄21⁄2 1. Union Waterboats $103⁄41⁄2 n
Docks, etc. HK. and K. Wharves $109 2. H.E and W. Docks $183 m. Providents (Old) $1.80 8. Providents (New) 20°cts. n. New Engineering Sh.$4 n. Shanghai Docks Sh.$81 m.
Mixing
Kailan Mining Ad. 14/~ 1. Ranbe $154 m.
Venz. Golddeld $9 b.
Lands, Hotels, etc. E.K. and S. Hotels $5.55 . EK. Lands $394 & HK 4% Debentures 105 D Shanghai Lands Sh. $13 a Metropolitan Landa Sh.$10 n. Humphreys 191⁄2 32. HK Realties $5.15 n Chinese Estates $78 m. China Realties Sh.44 n. China Debentures Sh.$60 PHILIPPINE MINING
Balator Mining
Benguet Conosi. Benguet Explor
mutilated] Big Wedge
Consolidated Mines Demonstrations
LENSTEAD & DAVIS.
Secretaries & Treasurers.
WEAKNESS OF DOLLAR Comment In London Circles
London, To-day. The unseasonal weakness of the dollar, which yesterday fell to 4.91, is arousing comment by members of the London foreign exchange, who are surprised. They note that the seasonal strength caused by the payment for United States) staple exports and commodities and the cessation of the American tourist traffic to Europe are more than ofset by the slowing down of the Sow of foreign capital to Wall Street. It is pointed out that the remittance of American dividends abroad is contributing to the weak-
Dess
Possibly the most cogent reason for the decline is the quiet bat persistent liquidation of United States stock-holdings on the Euro- pean account.-Renter.
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY Silver Prices Rise
.:
December 1
The local dollar is steady, open- ing on demand this morning at Rates Sales 1/2 21/32
Closing
Local
"Spot" silver rose 1 to 21.
in Pesos Currency while "forward” also rose 1% tot
2,40
30
.64
16
14%
.02.04%
Prev. Yesterday Closing Closing
New York Cotton: December 12.03
12.17
11.86
12.01
11.84
11.99
11.68
11.86
11.55
11.69
Anlamoks
mutilated 1125
12.43
Atoks
12.58
Baguio Gold
New York Rabber: December
18.46
18.46
January
18.4617
March
18.47
18.464
18.47
18.45
Ipo Gold
|July.
18.460
18440
Universals
[September
October
18.46
18.43
Para, Gold
18.460
18.430
Min. Resc
Chicago Wheat:
December
120
May
118
119%
July
107
108
ERANCHES :*
Bangkok
Ipa
Bombay
Calentin
New York PADRSE
Chicago Corn:
United Paracales
31
Xaract
Port Lo
Colabo
Dalla
Kuala Lumpur -
CMauritian) Fangsoo Shanghai
December
May
Hour Lore
Kuantan (Palazz) Kil
Howrah
July
1054
99 954
109
Dayakas
.18
102%
Ga Goldfield
18
98
Coco Grove
45
Madras
Bingapore
20
EONG
bus tracted
Tratallas Cherines · incised.
Irume and swetenskipa unčasteken. INTFIREST Alowed on Cazze cale and Pizad Deposits at Haier sånt may be ascertalanč
application.
1. VERNIET,
May Jasly Winnipeg Wheat: December
100%
96
104
99%
Hong Lg. 24k Ju5, 1981.
May
-1091/4
111
111 11214
HEAD OFFICE:
18, Gracecheren Street, London, ECA Authorised Capital .......£3,000,000 1,800,000 *** 2,050,000
Subscribed Capital
Paid-up Capital ..
Reserve Fund & Rest 1,247,839 BANTERS:
The Bank of Ingasë & "idiand Bank, Idd.
Low bard
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED
Established 1880
Capital (full paid-up) Yes-100,000,000 Reserve Fund
„Yen.130,300,000!
Head Office: YOKOHAMA Branches and Agencies st
Moji Nagamki
Nagoya
New York Ozaka
Every JEG KONG BRANCH Exchange Chicago Corn:Y
1. Dosen's Hood. Cuzztra!,
Alexandria
Bangkok
Batavia
Berlin
Calcutta
Bombay
Canton
Paziz
Dairen (Day) Peiping Fengtien (Mukden) Pangoon
Rio de Janeiro
Hamburg
Habkow Harbin
Hong Kong
Honolulu Hsinking Kazneli
Kobe
London
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Semarang
Shanghai
Singapore
Tientsin
Sourabaya
Sydney
Tokyo
Tsingtan
Yingkow
Interest allowed for Current · Ao- topate.
Deposits received for fixed periods at rates to be obtained on applica tion.
Y. KANO,
Hankzer.
Hong Kong, 18th November, 1935.
****** THE
SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL &
SAVINGS BANK LIMITED (Incorporated fin- China)
· Capital paid up .....
Reserves
„$5,000,000,
$2,500,000.
Capital Savings Dept. $500,000. Benerys Savings Dept. $800,000. Head-Office-Shanghai
A Bank, having as its mission the industrial development on China and the fostering of her commercial relations. siroed Hong Kong -05czne..
4. Quota's Band: Central Paso 21116.
THE
AMERICAN EXPRESS
INC.
LIL
Itogons
Masbate Consol
12334 Northern Mining
Paracale Gomans
Salacot Mining
San Mauricio
Sayoc Consol
COMPANY
Incorporated with Limited Liability in U.S.A.
REICHMARK TRAVELLERS
CHEQUES
ON SALE AT
ADVANTAGEOUS RATES
Office:
No. 4, Des Voeux Road
Central.
Mambulzo
Public Utilities H.K. Tramways $12.45 n. Peak Trams (old) $61⁄2 n, Peak Trams (new) $2% n. Star Ferries $53 b.
Yazmati Ferries $25 n.
C. Lights (Old) $13.30 8. C. Lights (New) $10. H.K. Electrics $52 b. Macao-Electrics "$20 n. Sandakan Lights 53.30 n. Telephones (Old) $281⁄41⁄2 n. Telephones (New) $10 n. China Buses Sh.11% n. Singapore Tractions 27/-- n. Singapore Pref. 27/-- #-
Industrials
Cald,, Macg, (Ord) Sh.$194 n. Cald, Macg. (Pref.) Sh.$18 n. Canton Ices $2M20 n. Cements $11 D H.K. Ropes 3 &
Stores, etc.
·Dairy Farms $20
Watsons 44.85 =
&
Lane, Crawforda -$63% n. Sinceres #8 n."
Wing On (H.K.) 350 1/
*Cotton Mili
Cottons Sh31440. b. Shanghai Cotton (Old) Sh.885
b.
Shanghai Cotion (New) Sh.460
E
Zoong. Singh Sh.$26 n. Wing On Textiles Sh.$29
Miscellaneous.
Entertainments $8. Constructions (Old) 31% 2 Constructions (New) 40 cts,
Vibro Piling $5.20 6.
Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G. Bdz.
9824% 82:
211-
The London on New York cross- rate was quoted at £US$4.90%.] as compared with U.S.34.8934. | while the New York on London cross-rate was steady at U.S.- $4.903
GERMANY FEELS
THE PINCH
Sale Of Cereals To Be Regulated
Berlin, To-day.
SAIT,
MANILA
EXPRESS OF JAPAN-
ATSPL DECEMBER 4th
HONG KONG
TO
PACIFIC COAST
IT DAYS HONG KONG DU VANG
via the Direct Express Boute
18 DAYS HONG KONG TO VANCOUVER
via Honolulu, "the Paradise of the Pacific”
29 DAYS HONG KONG TO UNITED KINGDOM (via directri
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
SAILS FOR VANCOUVER via SHANGHAI* JAPAN & HONOLULU -
AT NOON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11th.
For Information Apply To Your Own Agent Op
KNOCK!
K
Canadian Pacific
„SPANS,THI WOKS.
-28752
KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?”
“ANNA”
“ANNA WHO?”
“AN APPEAL FOR FOOD AND TOYS”
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
XMAS CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED.
Distillers in Germany are pro- Monday & Thursday from 10 am to Noos, No. 11 Ice House St.
hibited from using wheat and ryej
fer the production of alecholie; drinks from December 7, and must report what stocks they still have. Imprisonment and high fines will be the lot of offending buyers and sellers of cereals for! distilling purposes. The sales of]
NEXT OBJECT OF THE SOVIET DRIVE
(Continued from Page 4)
wheat and flour for delivery in Siberia, where cities and towns
January are also forbidden. Reuter's Bulletin Service.
FRENCH WAR DEBT TO AMERICA Discussions Opened In Paris
Washington, To-day. Or the French Government's initiative Franco-American dis cussions are proceeding in Paris,
are growing with boomtime tem-1 po.. In 1931 Magnitogitorsk, where Soviet geologists discovered 2 mountain of iron ore, had 64,100 inhabitants. To-day it has 220,000,
EUTHANASIA BILL REJECTED
House Of Lords Debate
London, To-day,
In the House of Lords: yester
the majority of whom are living day Lord Ponsonby moved the so in the same primitive barracks und reading of the Voluntary Eu- which are typical of Russia's new thanasia Bill, to legalize, - under settlement projects and which can certain conditions, the administra be found in every new industrial tion of enthanasis to personis mur-
fering from filness of af centre in the USSR
Tincurable character, involet
vere pain, which was sponsored the late Lord “Moynikan,.
Natural Wealth Once, according to the proad with a view to the settlement of Moscow press, Siberia was
ous surgeon. The Bill, which was par the French war debt. So far noftrayed as
Topposed by two medical members "snowy.
lifelesa end of the Upper House, Lord Dawson defaite proposals have emerged, empty" To-day the new colonies Per and band Border, and by
sers are beginning to exploft the natural wealth which for old was rejected by 35 Totes to 14
the Atchbishop of Canterbury, British Wireless Service.
-Beuter.
RAW RUBBER
+
gia was an inaccessible temptation
In Siberia, according to these writers, can be found every · ma-
Latest Quotations From terial needed to give Russia.com- Singapore įplete economie independence from
the remainder of the world. Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Ca} "Besides, Siberia is a natural have received the following quota-fortress which no country on earth tions from Singapore in Straits can now attack" says the Tevestial Currency for Raw Rubber: "We intend to develop war munt
b.
Spot
Jan:/March
April/June
HK Govt 4% Loan 8% prem.
b.
H.K. Govt. 34% Low 3% prem,
b... Wallace Harpers $4 n.
July/Sept.
Market: Quiet,
Buyers.
tion industries there and in case 51 Down of international..conflicts Russia's] 31% Down 4 position will be strengthened by 31% Down having an impregnable 'squrce of 31% Down 4 supplies."
ANGLO-ARGENTINE
TRADE
Agreement Formally Signed
London, To-day
The Anglo-Argentine Commer (cial Agreement was formally sign- lished under the authority of theed at the Foreign Office yesterday. POCKET RAILWAY TIMETABLE Trafic Manager. The booklet, in The signatories for the British addition to affording complete and Government were the Foreign Se We have received from the up-to-date information about thecretary and the President of the publisher, N. S. Mahomed, copy Railway, also has sections devoted Board of Trade, and on behalf of of a most useful pocket timetable to general information about Henry Argentina, the Ambassadore of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Kong, Carton and Macau, and is Lond which he has compiled and pub-linema
compilation.
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