PRESIDENT LINERS
LUXURY LINERS
with Boury Stateroom, Outside, Large and Airy
SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
Via Kobe and Yokohama
S.S. PRESIDENT TAFT
Sails Monday, Feb. 7th 10.00 P.M.
SEATTLE AND VICTORIA
Via Kobe & Yokohama
S.S. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
Sails Monday, Feb. 14th. Midnight.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
ADIAN
RAILWAY LINES
12, Pedder Street.
8 DAYS
10 DAYS
DAYS
GO EMPRESS to America, Europe
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1938,
PROMINENT H.K. CHINESE SUED OVER ALLEGED BOND SALE PROMOTION PLAN
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Mr. Sin: "Before you commenced to work for Mr, Lam, had you any regular employment?” “Yes.”
"Which firm?"—"They are numerous to mention."
too
"What kind of work?”—“Adver- tising and publicity."
FREE LANCE
counsel to
Pressed further by state which firm. he worked for pre- viously and what, sort of work he had been engaged in doing, plain- tiff eventually remarked that he was a free fance.
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Mr. Sin: "In other words, you were a member of the unemploy- ed?"-"No." :
"Then will you please state which firm you worked for?" "The Far East Oceanic News,"
Plaintiff said that he had an office but closed it owing to the high rent.
"You are "Yes."
unemployed now?"→
"Have you tried to look for work?"-"Yes, but have been un- able to obtain it."
Mr. Sin: "I take it that your pur- pose in visiting Mr. Lam at the Bank in August was to do your best to help. China?” "It was two- fold, to do something for China and to get a job.”
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STAFF OF NINE
LOCAL SHARE MARKET
Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations this morning
BANKS
Hong Kong Bank $1450 b., $1470 8. Bank of East Asia $82 b.
INSURANCES
Union Ins. $498 b., $502 s., $500 sa. China Underwriters $1.40 b.
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SHIPPING
Donglases $573 b.
H. K. Steamboats $9,36 · 8.
DOCKS, WHARVES, GODOWNS.
ETC.
H. K. and W. Docks $28% sa. Providents (Old) $2.45 sa.
Raubs $74 b.
MINING
Antamoks Ps. .61 sa.
Atoks Ps. 29 sa.
Baguio Gold Pa. „24 sa.
Benguet Consol. Ps. 9,70 sa.
Coco Grove Ps. .63 sa.
Consolidated Mines Ps. .012 sa. Demonstrations Ps. 43 sa.
93.
I. X. L. Ps. .67 sa Paracale Gumaus Ps. San Mauricio Pa, 72 sa. Suyoc Consol. Ps. 201⁄2 sa. United Paracales Ps. .54 sa.
LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS. H. K. Realties $4.60 b. ·
PUBLIC UTILITIES · Peak Trams (Old) $63⁄41⁄2 b. Peak Trams (New) $3% 8.
China Lights (Old) $10.60 b., $10.80
5.
H. K. Electrics $55% b.
STORES, &C. Dairy Farms $25.30 s. Watsons $5,40 b.
Wm. Powell, Ltd. 75 ets. s. MISCELLANEOUS
Constructions $1% b. Wallace Harpers $5 szMaramanıs Inv. (HK) 8/- 4/3. b.
b.
LOCAL DOLLAR
The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar this morning was: 1/278.
"Spot" silver was quoted in Lon- don on Saturday at 204 and for- ward at 19-15/16.
Questioned further, plaintiff, said
The London on New York rate he employed nine_persons, Charlie was quoted at £-U.S.$5.0132 and King Chen, S. Y. Poon, A. Y. Poon, the New York on London rate: two office-boys, Leung Siu-ping, -U.S.$5.01-1/16. Mr. Fang, Frank Chong and C. Y. Chong. He denied that he approach- ed Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, Manager of the China Motor-Bus Company, for putting posters on the buses. He was not aware that the posters had been put on the buses until have received the following quota- after Mr. Ngan had phoned him up tions in Straits Currency for Raw about it.
Plaintiff added that Mr. Sin brought Mr. Ngan to plaintiff's office one day and Mr. Ngan took some of the posters away himself.
"What cock and bull story did you tell the S.C.A. when you saw him on the 28th ?"No cock and Victoria bull story. He asked
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me what I meant by putting the posters on buses and on the streets. I told him that you had obtained permis- sion from him."
Van- couver
Empress
Hong Shang- Naga- Kong
Leave
Arrive
Yoko- saki Kobe hama Honolulu
Leave Leave Leave Leave
Japan Feb. 8 Feb. 10 Asta Feb. 23 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 Canada Mar. 8 Mar. 10
Feb. 13 Feb. 15
Mar. 1 Mar 3 Mar 13 Mar. 15
Mar: 22
Feb. 21 Feb. 26
Mar. 12
Mar 27
17 Days HONG KONG to VANCOUVER By
DIRECT EXPRESS ROUTE FROM YOKOHAMA
18 DAYS VIA HONOLULU, PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC
Air-conditioned equipment carried on Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings from Montreal and Quebec, down the smooth St. Lawrence Seaway, to Europe.
SAILING TO MANILA Empress of Canada on February 12th. Information and rates from
Canadian Pacific
Union Building
SPANS THE WORLD
Telephone 20752
This afternoon,” the adjourned until March 2.
case
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Singapore Raw Rubber
Messrs. H. B. Joseph and Co.,
Rubber:
Up
3/8.
Feb./March 23 b. April/June 232 Up 3%. July/Sept. 233⁄41⁄2 b. Up 3⁄4%. Market:---Steady.
TELEGRAPH CO. TO PAY FOR BLACK VEIL
Operator's Mistake Costs- Six Shillings.
A telegraph operator's mistake in New York in sending the word. "died" for "dying" in a telegram
The H.M.S. "Empress of Canada" will cost the telegraph company pre- is due at Hong Kong from Yoko- cisely six shillings the price of a hama on Saturday, February 12, at mourning veil bought by the reci-· 6 a.m. and leaves for Manila at p.m. the same day.
THE WING ON BANK, LTD.
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Head Office: Hong Kong.
Des Voeux Road. Central. Authorised” “Capital $10,000,000
→ LONDON BANKERS:...
Westminster Bank, Ltd Foreign Exchange and every des-
pient of the telegram.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Ellen Asper,- originally asked for about $50, She- said that when she received the telegram, which was from her sis- ter to tell her that her mother was- dying, she bought the veil and made a long trip by train to go to her mother's funeral.
When she arrived, she found that.. her mother had recovered.
Mrs. Asper contended that
she
cription of banking business transacted would not have been put to any of
Current Accounts and Savings Ac-|
counts opened. Fixed Deposits re- this expense if it had not been for ceived at rates which will be quoted on the telegraphic error. application.
Trusteeship & Executorship under- taken." Safe Deposit Boxes for hire.
PHILIP GOCKCHIN,
Chief Manager
-The court has ruled, however, that she could only recover the cost of the veil, since she might have made the trip even if the message had read correc
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