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DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

SHAREBROKERS

ASSOCIATION.

!... TUESDAY,

Buyers Bellera

Hafe Nominal'

AUGUST 23,

Bayara

Sare Balen

Bombwa

$1,500

T1:

Banks

H.K. Banks

Do. (London) ...

Chartered Banks... £13

Mercantile Bks. “A”

Do.

$1,810 International Assoe..

********

B21

·ED) $108

$1,840

|$1,085)

£113

•+1

#13 £21

+44

$100

Bank of East Asia...

N. 0. & 8. Barka

57 25

825

Am. O, Fin. Corp:

China Fin. Corp. Urd.

61.60

Do.

Pref.

Insurances

$1,410

Canton saraucOS...

$1,410

+248

Underwriters ****** $2.90

Union Insurances .......

$400 $830

467/165

8470

Chinu Firde

********* $650

H.K. Fires

$1,50

skipping

38

Douglas

causanne

584

Steamboats

$231

$291

540

Indos (prof.)...............

657-

#32

Dos. (def.)...--|

Shella

17/0

80/- 46/0

Water-hoste

$2014

Mining

$20

$133

Benguois.......******

#144

316

Venezuela Gold Fids. $1,60

23/6.

Kailansi

95/-

T

T2.10

T2.30

Shanghina Loans

Explorations....

Langkais (single)...|

T.4

T41

Ti

+

13/7

$40

20 ata.

T.05

$5,10

MARIMA

Kauba

Tronoh Mines

Benguet Explorations

Docks, Wharves,

Godowne, sta.

$1381 H., & K. Wharves. $138

Provide ats (old)...

35.10

Do.

19.30

$23

H.K. & W. Dooks

(LOW)...

$2,20

$251

ប្ដូរប

5. China Motors 'A'

B

18

310 $10 7.64

Tot

Toi

Du.

Shanghai Ducks...

Now Engiuueringa

die Hongrow ........

Lands, Hotels, and

Bulidings

Do

R.K. Howls (old) $10.66

$10.55

$160

***

$10.80

(Dew) $1.15

H.K. Lands

+

$701

$754

1.241 Shanghai Lands

$9,40

T10 Metropolitan Lands..

H.K. Healties...... $0.40

Realtics M

T11.40 China Do.

|1.001

Do. Debentures

$15.90

$165

Asin

Humphreys

*********$15.80

141

3263 $100

Do,

"R" M

Chinese Estates.......

141

re

Dotton Mill

T.14

Ti4 [T.14} |T14.15

***

1.47

TI

**

Evolusteist Tes Blui Cottons......... T11.10 Zoong Sings

814

$22.10

$22,10

310

571

(34)

Feet

$6.00)

Wing On Textiles(S.) $132

Publio Dulu

Tramways *****................... Peak Trame (old)...

Do

Star Ferrion

(now)...

109

Faumati Ferries (old) $35

“... | -China Lights (old)... $17.40, $17.65

Macao do. ******

Sandakan Lights... Telephones (fully pd.)

Do,

China

(part pd.) Buses

Tractions .......................

Do. (pref.)!

Industriala

Malabon Bugura

1.104 Macgregore prof.)

Canton Ives..........

Coments (comb.)... 319,60) 313.75 +13.65.

Do,

(new) 34

18/17, 20

3161

Do.

(new)... #17

376

2702

H.K. Electrics

$24

#12

$28

$234

T.10

AL

18,6

£25

+41

T.14 Caldicok,

(ord.)

561

$14

$14.30

30

$13

Do. Do. Roper

$102

$28

SIBI

$13:

$6.80

31.70

$5!

121

816]

Sincere

313

$124

$3,36

(old).... (DOW)...

*

***

Pra

193

SIBI

$7

3931

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 1932.

BOOKS and READERS

THREE NOVELS AND

TWO HISTORIES.

THE CASE IS ALTERED. By William develops tension between the pro- Plomer. (Hogarth Press. 78.prietor and his wife, and the end is murder, described in horrible de

6d).

ARIA AND FINALS. By James Han-tail.

Joy. (Doriswood. 55.)

An interesting book, but not DEATH UNDER SAIL By C. P. completely successful one. It begins

Show, (Heinemann. Ya, 6d.),

firmly and well, but Mr. Plomer Mr. William Plower, in

has a restless mind, and does hot The Caso is Altered," has written a build up his story steadily enough story of London life which makes i There are distracting jerks in the me think that in due time he will narrative, and interpolations by become 1. considerable novelist, Mr. Plomer which snatch us and writes Mr. Howard Marshall indenly out of the atmosphere he is the London Daily Telegraph.

He takes us to a hoarding-honse in Cambodia-crescent, which smelt

so anxious to create.

Js

Still, "The Case is Altered" better novel than most, and de

Bea Reallem.

of the past, stale cooking, thwart.cidedly worth reading.. ed hopes, and all the Borrors of life at its worst in the bourgeois backwater of Victorian England.” He does not say exactly where Cambodia-crescent is to be found in London, but he presents it as a microcosm of our time and our race.

Boarding-House Inmates.

AL

HONG KONG - STOCK MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL

QUOTATIONS:

After Monday's fireworks, when dumped or the market virtually Coments and Lights were being regardless of prices, a steadier tone prevailed today, and rates held hetter, being more or less stabilised. Sales,

H. K. Hotels (Old), 810.00 Hong Kong Lands, 875) Hoog Kong Trama, 892 Cements (Comb), $13) Buyers,

Hong Kong Bank, $1,550 Union Insurances, $400

China Fire Insurances, $620 H.K, Steamboats; 2221

Union Waterboats, 820

Benguet Consolidated, $154 Raubs, 840 Benguet Explorations, 20 ets. No less interesting is "Aria and Shanghai Docks, Tls. 85 Finale," by Mr. James Hanley, Hong Kong Landa, 8764

H.K. Hotels (Old), 810) 7 three lengthy stories of stokers

ships and

and existenco

Humphreys, $15.00 sea. I can only call it existence if Hong Kong Realties, 801 Mr. Hanley's stories are true, and Ewo Cottons, Tla. 14.18 1 happen to know from experience Hong Kong Trams, 822.10 Material order is accompanied by that he does not exaggerate unduly Peak Trams (New), 87) spiritual disorder, and we see the He is a realist, and if you read Yaumati Ferrios (Old), "8342 oddly assorted inmates of No. 43 him you must be prepared for every Yaumati Ferries (New), 833) struggling to give some purpose and kind of brutishness in the speech China Lights (Old), 817.13 reality to their circumscribed lives, and motives of his characters. He Malabon Sugars, 825

There is the invalid proprietor, writes well, there is no doubt of Cements (Comb), 813) insanaly jealous of his handsome that, and his tragic story of Bailly Dairy Farms, 828 young Jewish wife; Mrs. Gambitt, the greaser, who jumped into the HK. Amusements, 8194 with a shabby past and a leaning furnace when he was superamunt Constructions (Old), 88.95 towards the occult; Miss Bux-led, is a fine and moving picos of H.K. Govt. Loans, -3 per cent. worth, genteel and needy; Eris work. So is "Aria and Finale," Alston, a fruiterer's assistant with a sketdi for a novel definitely in idons; Mr. Ramenmy, an Indian the Conrad manner. studont; Mrs. Rudd, stil! girlish, Mr.. Hanley's range is limited. Providenta (Old) 86.10 who was tired of Mr. Rudd. he does not venture often outside China Lights (Old), 817.40

Other novelists have given us the stokehold or the fo'e'sle-but at H.K. Electrics, 870 similar collections the boarding least the men he moves among are Telephones (F.P.), 823). house, indeed, is becoming areal, and not the usual marionettes Cements (Comb), 813) favourite device for presenting a of fiction. world in miniature-but Mr. Plom.

or

strikes deeper than usaal Beneath the surface trivialities he

ADVERTISEMENTS.

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

A Model Detectiva Tals.

And now at last we come to the proper kind of hammock book- Death Under Bail," by Dr. C. P. Snow. This is a detective story which keeps to the rules-no my- atorious poisons or death-raya or far-fetched coincidences, but the straight-forward and logical un- ravelling of a murder.

The owner of a wherry on the

an amateur detective-

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THE 'MAN WHO COULD NOT HAVE APPENDICITIS.

This is a story without a moral at least, those who know best can apply it as they think it.

It is the story of the man who could not have Appendicitis. The man was conscious of something he could not say what-in the right

NEW YORK STOCK, aide of his abdomen, but every kind

EXCHANGE.

A.O.F.C. QUOTATIONS.

New York, August 22. Dow Jones Averages:-

Aug. Aug.

90 Rails..

20

29 Change

30.14 -33.20 3.00 up

20 Utilities. 29.70 31.70 2.00 up

Meara, E. A. Pierce and do. Report.

Meeting of the Board of tiller of his boat, and the; murderer so Industrials 67.18 70.87 3.09 up Directors of Green Island Cement is therefore one of his guests. Sus- Company, Limited, held at Exchange piclon passes from one to another; Building, Victoria, in the Colony of there is Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 17th rather an attractive one and we day of August, 1982, a Call of $3.75 have the familiar blant policemen. per share was made upon all the members holding shares, whose names appear in the Company's register of shareholders on the 17th 123.60 day of August, 1982, upon which only 31.00 per share has been paid, and it was dotermined that such Call should be paid on the 31st day of

$75

$28

a

The solution is satisfactory, the tale is briskly told, and the interest well maintained. My only com- preference for a higher grade of

Higher prices have indicated plaint is that I picked out the mur stocks. derer too early, but that was a fluke, and anyway I had both his motive and his method wrong!

December, 1982, to the Company's CORNWALL IN PAST AGES.

Business dope: 3,900,000 shares.

LAST TO-DAY'S PRICE PRICE

853 #58)

$23

56

Bankers, The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation at their Head Office, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, aforesaid.

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CORNWALL AND

SCILLY. By Hencken,

Air Reduction Allied Chemical and

Dye American Can ......... 62. American Telegraph

and Telephone

Tobacco H. O'Neill, American

"B".

70

82

668

100)

116

761

82

82):

69

g

30

142

10%

57*

001

$121

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$19 $13

Dated this 17th day of August, 1982.

88.80 16.00

(now) $1.45

ALLAN KEITH, '

Secretary.

2471

Uh: Agricultures Miscellaneous

Dairy Fartos...

Der A. Wings.........

Amusements ...... Ch. Etsinments..

Constructions, (old); 18

Do,

Lane Crawforda...... $5 Mackintoshs

Nanyang Tobacco... $14

Watsons (old) ****|

Do. (now)....

Wm. Powells

.. Enterprises...

United Theatres

Jabura

$16

B. Ind. G. Bonds... 60% 14., Gort, Loans... $103

$12.90 Wallace Harper......

China Sports Ltd.

$10

SHI

13

Qui

M.

Greyhounds.

prem

*

$10

#265

H.K. Wing On B'ha Do.

LONDON EXCHANGE

RATES

[BRITISH' WIRELES? BERVICE]

Paris....

Brassels

Montreal

Rugby, August 22.

New York

3.461

24.04)

2,954

Genova

17.80

Amsterdam

8.504

Milan

077/18. 14.52

· 19 15/39

Berlin

Stockholm

Copenhagen

Ogis

Vienna

Prague Helsingfors

Madrid

Lisbon,

Athens

Bucharest

Belgrade

Rio

Buenos Aires.....

Montevideo

Bombay

Shanghai...

18.78

19 31/38

30 Nom.

117

[232]

43

· 110.

$56

600

218

EXCHANGE.

$260

$233

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

August 23, 1932.

On Lobo-

Telegraphic Transfer... 1/32 Bank Billa, on demand 1/87 Bank Billa, 4 months'

1/4

•sight ........... Credit, 4 months

night ................. 1/·42

ON Panta:

-Bank Billa, on demand 599k. Credita, 4 months' night 022)

On New Yo

Bank Bille, on demand 224 Credita, 60 days' sight. 24

ON BOMBAY :-

Telegraphic Transfor Bank, on demand

Ün Caloutta (

87

Telegraphic Trangler J874

ÜN SHANGH

on demand'

Bank, at sight

ON YOKOHAMA :—

751

* On demand 09

ON-MANILA-On-demand...457-

ON SINGAPORM:--

On demand

67

35/32 Nom. OF BATAVIA:~On demand, c73

1/5 1/32

On demand

ON SAIGON-On duthandrd.

OK BANGKOK :---

Nom.

D. furro

30. Nom,

1/95/16-

1/4k 1/3

Silver Spot R

17 15/18 18 1/10

Silver

Hong Kong

Jokubama

One domand

Bovanniona, Bank's Buying

Bate nuan --BAR":SIGVARZ PAT KEL"

Upon presentation at the office of the Company of the Bankers' receipt Five volumes have already ap Auburn for the payment of such Call, to-peared of the admirable series of Borden Company gether with the Certificate of Shares, County Archeologies," of which Canadian Pacific

note of the payment will be Dr. T. D. Kendrick, of the British Consolidated Gas of endorsed on the CertificatA.

New York Matoum, is general editor. The sixth deals with what, in some Drugs, Inc. ....... '41 way, is the most fascinating coun- Du Pont de Numours. 34

Eastman Kodak ...... 50% ty of all.

If by richness is meant the big' General Electric relics of the past, Cornwall is poor

General Foods indeed. It has no Stonehenge or General Motors Avebury, and can show but little, International of the artistic oraftsmanship of the

Harvester... 280 Dark Ages Long remote and aloof, International Tel, and it received its civilising influences Tel

214 late, It was the last refuge in Liggett, and Myers. England of the Celtic tongue.

By Order of the Board,

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE STANLEY.

TIXAMINATION for New Stud- Vents on Sept., 3rd, at 9 am, School begins Sept. 6th. For Pro- spectus, for Boarders and Day boy; apply to Ma, LI HOI TUNG, BANKER & CO., 20, Des Voeux Road, C., or

ST. STEPHEN'İ COLLEGE, .....

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of examination by every kind of surgeon only proved that he must be suffering from an hallucination, | for not only were all his organa free from disease, but in particular, his Appendix was outstandingly ro- trust.

The hallucination did not wear off with time, however, and it cam E to be that it was not so much the man who possessed an Appendix; as that his Appendix possessed-or rather obsessed'chim, and ho, bo say, of his own Appendix His came the more appendage, so to

every thought, word and deed soomed to be dictated, and his policy decided by his Appendix: in Iact, the conduct of his whole life' was ruled by: it.

..

From his earliest youth this Ap- pendix had instinctively repelled all attempts to inflame it, and as he grow up it only became stronger

As time went on it developed al. most the dignity of an organ, and became so full of self-confidence that, when a monkey-nut, melon seed or orange pip naively tried to, enter it, their instant and forcible exclusion was certain, and, when entrance was sought meekly by, a mute raspberry seed or a few inpo- cent grains of sand, their rejection- was accompanied by circumstances of the sitmost indignity.

But this was not enough!

In the beginning, the food necEB- sary to sustain life had passed on it's way unheeded it seemed to the Appendix a more or less no- tural happening until a foreign 'substance made a more determined effort than usual to forces the en- trance, and was rejected with con- tumely.

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After that, it was not so very long before the question arose os. to why anything should have to W. pass the entrance at all; it practise cally amounted to lose majestel and so by every means in it's power, it did it's best, by protruding it's 78orifice into the main pasange, to hinder, obstruct and discourage and thus make this undesirable element go round some other way, And, eventually, it did succeed in effecting a stoppage, for, one day, in it's strenuous efforts at self- determination, it projected itself Latest forward so violently that it turned

39)

Loow's Inc.' But its archeology is extraordin Pacific Gas and Elec- arily varied and interesting.

It trie has many stone circles and stand- Pennsylvania Railway 17 ing stones to show to the traveller, Radio Corporation and earth forts and camps; many Sears, Roebuck interments of the Stone, Iron, and Standard Oil Co. of Bronze ages. A tin trade in pre- New Jersey. historic and Roman times linked Socony-Vacuum Corp. 103 the peninsula with the Mediter Union Carbide and ranean. Still surviving are some

Carbon early relics of Christianity, such as Union Pacific the tiny church of St. Pieran, near United, Aircraft and Perranporth-no larger than a room.

Trans which is now happily:"preserved United States Steel trom pressure by the sand, Mr. Westinghouse E. & M. 37) Hencken places this church between the seventh and tenth centuries.

The Scilly Isles are crowded with pa prehistoric graves, as every Vinter of the Rajputana in the south, is knows. They mostly date about the Punjab, with an area about that 8,000 B.C. Bo plentiful are the of Great Britain and a population ac imide out, and could not go BRUNSWICK chambered tombs there, lined and of over 20,000,000

back again VSE roofed with rough stones, that they Ninety por cont. of its people are Of course, this put an end to it outnumber three times those of the villagers, 60 per cent, agricul and to the man who belonged to whole of Cornwall.

turists; it in a country of peasant it for the surgeons only laughed In 320 pages of his wide survey proprietors and small landlords liv. when he said he had got Appendi is given all information which the ing on their rents. The land is the citia. Bee wayfarer in Cornwall is likely to lifa of the people; problems of the require. The new volume bears and are the vital problems of the evidence of the same careful scholar-Punjab.c ship which distinguishes its pre- decessors.

"PUNJAB PROBLEMS,

JW

AIR TRAFFIC BETWEEN

In his book, which covers the

FINLAND AND SWEDEN, period 1890-1925, Mr. TevuskÍs makes a Boarching and knowledge

Helainglore, August 14.-The able economic survey, The vast irrigation system which Britain has municipality of Abo has decided to constructed to extend the waters of construct on the outskirts of this the five tributaries of the Indus, town. ati aerodrome with the financial which flow across the land, the aid of the Ministry of Communfen By

great financial benefits which have tions and with a view to still fur

salted, schemes for the develop ther improving air traffic between ment of the canals, Agriculture, Finland and Sweden, Together with In the north-west corner of In-live stock and forest problems, and the construction of the landing dia, occupying the great plan land administration are all fully grounit there, will be installed in the which stretches from the Himalayas described, whilst the author is ready service a number of now land plunes in the north to the desert country to advance suggestions for improve, which will replace the hitherto-05-

(Continued on next column.).

mento

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