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LOS ANGELES NEW@TOEK
AND BOSTON
Vis Shanghai, Kobe,
Pres. Taft
and Honoluim
---4.00 p.m. Aug. 12 Ang 21 Noon Pres Hoover Pres. Lincoln Midnight Sept. 7 Pres. Coolidge ..Noon Sept. 18 Pres. Wilson....8.00 am. Oct. 6 Pres. Hoover ...Noon Oct. 16
EUROPE, NEW YORK AND BOSTON Via Manila, Singaporė, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles Pres. Polk .............8.00 2.3. Aug. 15 Pres. Pierce 8.00 am. Aug. 29 Pres Van Buren 8.00 a.m. Sept. 12 Pres. Garfield...8.00 am. Sept. 26 Pres. Hayes ..8.00 a.m. Oct. 10 Pres. Monroe .8.00 aim. Oct. 24
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and
ight Aug. 13 Pres. McKinley Hidzight Aug. 27 Pres. Grant Midnight Sept. 10. Pres. Jackson Midnight Sept. 24 Pres. Jefferson Midnight Oct. 8 Pres. McKinley ..Midnight Oct. 22
THE MOST
SERVICE
NEXT SAILINGS
Pres. Hoover...9.00 p.m. Ang. 14 Pres. Polk .....8.00 a.m. Aug. 15. Pres. McKinley 600 p.m. "Ang, 21 Pres. Pierce 8.00 am. Aug. 29.
Midnight Aug. 31 Pres. Lincoln Eres. Grant 6.00 p.m. Sept. 4
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GoEMPRESS to America, Europe
THE CHINA
LOCAL SHARE
Follo enquirie mornin
MARKET
Douglases $4
Union Water "DOCKSITY
HIPEING
HK and K Wharves $119 b., $120
sa.
LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. Do. 4% Debentures $1021% sai Chinese Estates: $90 b.-
b.
- PUBLIC UTILITIES Peak Trams (Old): $5 bo Peak Trams (New) $2 Star Ferries $85% X Div. b.
STORES, &C.
VCHEQUERS
ART IN HEALTH SERVICES
London, To-day.
Local financial returns for the year 1934/1935 have just been pu blished by the Ministry of Health.
The figures clearly show that it is largely by the help of Govern- ment grants that local authorities, especially in the poorer areas, are able to maintain their good, stan-* dards in health and other social ser- vices.
Wm. Powell, Ltd. 40 cts. b.. MISCELLANEOUS - Constructions (New) 50 cts. br. HK. Govt. 32% Loan 1% P...n b. Wallace Harpers $5 b.. Marsmans Inv. (H. K.) s/TM 7/3 s.
Out of every £100 of expenditure Opening 10 am. falling on public funds in the aver- in Pesos age county borough, just over 39 36 is met, not out of rates, but out of
Stock
Antamoks
Atoks
Baguio Gold
Benguet Consol
Benguet Explor
Big Wedge
Coco Grove
Consolidated Mines. Demonstrations
EL, Mindanao Gumaus Gfield Ipo Gold II L Itogons
Masbate Consol
Min Resources.
22
191 grants from the National Exche 10.25 quer
.099
152 In one case this figure rises
$56.
53
023
18
1235 1435 .66
.63
19
Northern Mining
.06
Paracale Gumans
34
Salacot Mining
021
San Mauricio
1.05
Suyoc Consol
United Paracales
LONDON LOWEST
In the administrative counties, especially in rural areas where 18 agricultural land pays no rates, the proportion from Exchequer grants is still higher. The average is $47 but in 47 out of 62 counties it is over £50 and in the Isle of Ely, Huntingdon, Montgomery, and Rut- land it is over £70. The proportion is lowest in the prosperous coun- ties of the South-East, London be- ing the lowest of all-British Wireless
27
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
S. E Levy and Co.'s report on
yesterday New York market opera- BRITISH TREASURY
tions states:-
Stocks: Utility securities are. stimulated by anticipation of an early adjournment of Congress. Eastern
stocks are mark-
ing time
RETURNS
London, To-day.
thee the outcome of Exchequer returns show that the
situation, whilst lines total ordinary revenue amounts to operating in the West are likely soon £215,627,473 compared with $201,- to reflect the benefits of the heavy 524,180 at the corresponding date crop movement. Among industrials, of last year... copper issues are following the gen
Total expenditure, other than self- eral market trend. These stocks balancing, is £301,504,958 compared have seemingly discounted the rise with £282,865,048 at the correspond- in the price of the metal and traders ing date of 1936-British Wireless. are awaiting third-quarter earnings. Indications point to favourable earn-j Victoria ings by copper companies, in view
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Leave Arrive Leave Leave
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Leave Leave
Aria Ang. 17 Aug. 19 Aug. 21 Aug. 23 Aug. 25 Sept. 1 Canada Sept. 3 Sept. 5
Sept. 8 Sept. 10 Sept. 17 Rassis Sept. 17 Sept. 19 Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Sept. 25 Japan Oct. 1. Det. 3
Arrive
of the heavy demand for the metal RISING IMPORTS OF
at the present levels. Industrial re- Sept. 7
ports, on the whole, continue favour- Sept. 22 able, but the market is apparently Oct. 4 awaiting the adjournment of Con- Oct. 6 Oct. 3. Oct. 14 Oct. 19 gress with its attendant legislative breathing spell. Business done: 690,000 shares.
TO MANILA
EMPRESS OF CANADA, AUGUST 27th. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA, SEPT. 10th.
information from Passenger & Freight Offices
Union Building, Hong Kong
Telephones: Passenger 20752-Freight 20042.
Canton Agents, Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.
Canadian Pacific
NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam, To-day
The value of imports into Holland during the first seven months of
Rubber:-It is believed that manu-1937 totalled 893,000,000 Guilders as facturers will re-enter the market compared with 546,000,000 Guilders after the present technical correc-during the corresponding period of tion period has passed. The esti- 1936 The value of exports from mate of Malayan shipments in Holland during this period has. August has been revised to 60,000 not been published by the Nether- tons, which is most likely to increase lands Statistical Bureau-Trans- bearish sentiment. We think, how- Ocean. fever, that consumption is proportion- ately large and we would continue to advise the long-side
Singapore Raw Rubber
BOAT RAIDS SAIWANHO FOR PIGS
Seven or eight men entered an unnumbered but in Sai Wan Ho in Co., the early hours of the morning and quota-after tying up one of the two ocenpants rowed away in a boat. They took with them seven pigs, valued at $95 According to Ho
Messrs. H. B. Joseph and have received the following tions from Singapore in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber:
Spot 29% b. Downg Jan/March 30% b. Down 2. Oct/Dec. 30% b. Down Market Dull, uncer
Pan, who made the report, the men
armed with knives and one of them had a torch.
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