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THURSDAY. FEB, 28...

Ballure

Ruyers

Salsa

New York February 28.

1.

Banks

New York/London Cross-rate

$1,400 ez div.

12.85

Last Today's High Low Ulves Closs. 4.881 4.287 4,877 £86 13.50 18.41 12.42 1247.03 up

1273 12.58 1279

£130)

£15

231

Bo. (London) Chartered Banks.... Mercantile Bk. “A”

Chicago Wheat-May

210)

Chicago Corn

-May

98 85

97 973 93 34 841 36

£31]

Montreal Silver March.

213

- Do.

3

Silver-Official

Bank of East Asia...

300

301

· c

N, O. & S. Backa...

--

$20

Am. O. Fin. Corp: S.

Dow Jones Averages

High-1833/34 Low: Feb. 20.

30 Industrials

110.75

-84.38-10924

$1.80

Do. Pret. S

20. Rails

68.94

31.70 30.14

20 Utilities

37.73

15.015,83

40" Bonds

98.6*

84.73 98.48

Canton insiranovs.

39621

$260

11 Commodity Index

65.45

41.98 52.98

Underwriters

$130.

$1,40

Union Insurahova vei

5145

$410

$480

China Fires

H.K. Fixes.....

2470 7228

Stock & Div.

Last Sale Feb. 26 Feb. 27

$227 International Asses, S.

5)

38

Shipping

$39)

Douglases

$39

Steamboats

57

330

Indos (pret.)

$30

Air Reduc (3) ... 112 *

Jun (1.00%) 162 Alaska Allied Chem (8)...... 134

17

135

$3.4

Do. (def.)

$35

Allis Chalmers

153

161

49/4

Shella

DO/-

Am.

Brake

Shoe

Waterhoats

(80)

26

$12

Mining

Amer. Can (4)

1174

26 1171

88. cts.

Amtsinoks ......

198 ota

Bulatios......

39 cts.

Baguio Gold........

(38)cts

Am Comm· Alcohol

(25)

262

13

814

Benguet Consolidated

Do Exploration

11841.

Am. Cyanamid "B"

(25dr.)

17

|10 eta.

Do

Goldfield ...

Am. Express (6)

101 *

10 ote.

Big Wedge.............

il ats

Am. For. Pwr

3

21

22 at Gold Bever

21 cts,

Am For. Pwr. T 1st

38jcts

Gold Creek.....

United Paracales...

35 ota

Fr.

20.

20

+

16 et

$11

Salacot Mining......

Ipo Mining...................

15cto.

Am Locomotive

12

Am. Metal Co.

42 cts.

Itogons

Am. PWT and Lt

17-

Kailans NO VARST

18.-

$15

Langkat (single) 8,

$15

Am Radiator

121

12

$5

Explorations...n Si

35

Am. Smelting

*331

343

15

Suangbai Loans s

Am. Sug. Ret (2)

28

671 67+

$7.90

Rauba

$2,80

Am. T. and T. (9)... 105

105+

33

$110

$108

311

16 cts.

3111

Do.

$5.50

$300

Hongkews

New Engineerings.

satire Bi

Venezuela Gold Fida

Docks, WhaKTOR,

Godowns, ate.

H.K. & K. Wharven. 310

Providents (old)

H.K. & W. Docks 110

S. Ubins Motors 'A'

"B"

Do, $120 Shanghai Docks S.

521

Am. Tob "B" (5)

80%

801

I

Am. Waterworks (1) 103

c d

-$108

(1.30.

Am: Waterworks $6

pref (6)

(new)...

16 cts

Anaconda Copper

91

Atch. T. and 5" F.

(2 d.)

391

417

Atlantic Ref (1).....

23+ 234

3.18 36

Atlas Corpn.

72

Lands, Hotels, andļ

Rafelings

H.K. Hotela

$5

$5

Auburn Automobile 22 Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Bendix Aviation.

10

15,10

460

H.K Lands. B

$49

Bethlehem Steel

26€

271

5101

Do. 4% Debentures

11%

Boeing Airplane

$22

Srangbal Lands...S.

Borden Co. (1.60)

247

$12.9

Metropolitan Landa..

$5.10

H.K. Kelties......... 14 90

20

Borg. Warner (idr.) 31

#9.60

China Do

Brook Man (3)

$123

Do. DebonturesS.

Cál. Pack (1.25)

401

41

39

Humphreys

8.90 lox div

Case

541

New Asia Hotel

$40

$10.

$17

Asis Realties "A" S.

Do.

Canadian Pacific

11 11

"R".

593

Chinese Estates..........

Caterpillar Tract Celanese

41 418

281

Cotton Mill

$9.991 Ewos

S.

ત

174

845

S'ha Cottons(old)S.

Da

$8.10 $74

Ch. Nat. Bk. (1.40). 24)* C'Peake Corp. (2.50) · 41

C'Peake Corp. and

(new)S.

3443

Ohio (2-80)

411

$56

$19,30 Tramways

$4

$9.30 Zong Sings S

Pak Teams (old)...). 81

Wing On Textiles(5.)

89:40 361

Chrysler (1)

385 38

Public Utilities

Col. Gas & Mec.

42

$15.30

Com. Invest. Trust...

60

59

Comm. Solv, (-60)... 201

18

Do. (new)...)

$4

་,

Comm. Starn. .......

1..

$34

Star Ferrica

89:

Comm Bthru.

$0

322

Yaamati Ferries » P

$21)

310.10 $10.10

Do.

144

171

**

$204

90/-

38+

321

$18

$2.05

-$3.80

5234

Chins Lights (old)... 310

H.K.. Electrica

Macao do.

Sandakan Ligits...

Telephones (old;

Da · (new)

Tractiona

Do. (prof.) »*****

Industriais

Malabon Sugars

Caldbeck, Hord.) 8.

Macgregoriprof.)8,

Canton Icon

Coments

Ropes............................

MiscellanBOSS

Dairy Farm

Der A Wings...

cum. P. (6)

32

$10.101

(new)...

Congo-Nairn

(1.60) 30%

71.

Cons: Gas, N.Y (2) 181

1

3325

$2

... $281

$10.10

10.60

$12.40

China Buses ........5.

Cons: 01 (28)

7#

Cont. Can (3)

701 71

Cont. On (25)

172.

Corn Prod (3)

65. 65

Coty Inc.

57

Cwm.

Cork $2.70 P. (2.70)

Curtiss Wright........

21

#

11 1

i

Curtiss Wright "A" 81

Delaware & Hudson 294

-30

$195

#31

Douglas Aircraft

201

$231

Du Pont (2.602)

East. Kodak (4)

Elec. Autolite Co.

931f

24+

24] 244

Elec. Bond & Share

$1.85

Amusement

$1

$71

Ch. Etainments......

$8.15

80 ot.

$32

$8

$1,70 Constructions, (old)] 314

Do

Lane Crawfords......

Mackintosha .................. Nanyang Tobacco... $4,70

Sinceres...!

"(zaw)|50 cts.

Elec. Bond $5 PT. (5) 421 412 Elec. Bond $8 Pr (6) 45 Hec. Power & Light Fax Film "A"

14

21

10

$62

Watsons boots mikro

$3.35

Gen.. Elec. (80)

231

70 ot.

Wm. Powells wer

155 ota

Gen. Foods · (1:80)

351

$2

M. Greyhounds.

Gen. Motors (1d)

30

$1.35

8. G. Enterprises .....

81.36

Wilcox, Oil and Gas Gen. Rly. Bigs (1)... 24231*.

United Theatres... 8,

***

Ch.G. 5%1925G,3Bda

Gillette Saf (1)

137

789°/

Glidden Co.. (1) -

261

prem

17.

Do.

31%

Gold Dust (1-20)- ...

17

ཚཏྟཱཎཏྟཱཎྜཾ ༔ཊྛཱ ཙྩ བྷཏྟཱ aཏྟཾ(ཞཱནྡྷསྦྱོཙྪཎྜ བྷཱཚ ཿཧྲྰིཀྑཾ།ཏྟཱགྒིསྐྱུཝརཎྜོ1ཎྜZནྡྷོཙཱཀྐཱ ཝུཏྟ7ཉྙརྫོ7 #ཉྙཨྰཿཨྰཿ=བྦོaཝོ, སཾཝäཧཱུྃཊྛུཕྲུགཀྰ་བྷལཊཨྰཿདཿཙྩཊྚེཡྻབྷུཊྛོ

Stock & Div. Goodrich Goodyear

Int. Cement

12

DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS Hong Kong Stock Exchange

$1,390 H.K. Barks

Sharebrokers'

Ch. Fin. Corp. ord. 8.

Insurances

Association

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935.

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

New York Cotton-May-

New York Rubber-May

Adams Express

69.85 456.70 - 65.80 58.26, 45 up

1001051

Here. Pwdr. (3d)

Tilinols Centra]

Int. Hary (60)

BEAUTY SEEKS THE BEASTS-

Girl To Explore

"

Wild Country

Special Air Mall Service)

London, Feb. 8. A girl has left London to explore & wild country where no white man has ever rod" before the depths of the hinterland of Liberia (the Negro Republic of Africa), a land of cannibalism and witch- craft.

Her name is Barbara Greene, and she is accompanying her Greene, the cousin, Mr. Graham

the ap- 27novelist, to investigate

palling conditions of slavery and [savágery among the tribes in the

This is her debut as explorer correspondent, "I'm

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Change of quiet

11 up

t up

t up

? up

Feb. 37.

102.65

30.63

16.01

93.JA

69.20

Change .31 up. .49 up .18 up .07 up .82 up

Last Sale Feb. 26 Feb.

91

91 3

201

21

... 75

75

Jungle.

10

114

277

writes ✡

283

ashamed to confess Tye

never

39;

391

been on so much as a caravan"

163

101

14 15

Lig. & Myers "B"

Liq Carb, (1) Loew's (1)

Lort (120)

McIntyre (22)

Int. Nick („60)·

John's Manville

261

Kennecott (151)

Krog. Gro (1.50%)

Lehman (2.40)

23+

2341

Int. Tel. Tel......

В

trip before." Miss Greene said in her Chelsen flat.

48

471

15+

151

24

234

201

70

(4)

105

105

281 26*

וי

try.

341

341

197

20+

411*

43

'Mont, Ward

Nash (1)

248

251

15

15

Nat. Elsc. (2)

27

27

Nat City Bk; -(1))

201*

21 *

Nat, Da P. (120)... Nat. Distillers

163

161

261

271

Nat. Pwr. Lt. (80)... Nat. Steel (1)

54

51

45

433

53* - 531 - N.Y. Central

14

151

N. Amer. (50c. 4%) 102

114

Nor. Pacte

154

16

1t

Otis Mec. (.80)

131

134

Owens-I, GL (3)"

901

90

8 Pac. Gas (1.50)

13#

138

21+

Pac. Ling. (3)

201 214

Packard Motors "Pennroad Corpn.

141 146 Fenn, Rly. (1) ......... 201

Phelps Dodge

4

4

11

11

201

147

15

8 72 Phil. Petro ̈(1)

145

147

241

Pierce Arrow

01

.07

327

Fro. & Gam (1.50)... 484-

482

Pub. Ber N.J. (2.30); 221

23

Pullman Inc. (3) 461

462

554

Radio Corpn.

44

41

Radio Kelth. Op.

14

14..

Repub Steel

12

13

291

Rey. Tob "B" (3)

.474

471

241' Schenley

251 26

414

Sears Roebuck

Shell Union Oil

324 334 63 61

414

Simmons Co.

81

B

Soc.-Vac. (.60))

131

131

量

Srn, Cal Ed (1.50); 11

11

Southern Paciác

14

147

201

Southern Rly.

82

..

'91

Stan. Brands (1)^..

Stan. Gas

32+ Bta. Oil Cal. (1)

302 Sta O'NI (1)

Ster. Pro. (2.80)

21 21 301 30 397 39 621 637

17 174

"The jungle will be rather, a change for me." - -

Miss Greene, who is 23, tall. dark and beautiful, is not alarmed at the prospect of a month's trek through entirely unknown coun-

"We sall from Liverpool' on Saturday," she said, "in the cargo boat David Livingstone and ought to be back in England by May.

"With luck," she added.

Mr. Greene and she will land at Freetown iri Sierra Leone and take the railway as far as it goes up country. In Liberia "there" are no railways, no towns; the two cousins will trek through-Miss Greene's kit is riding breeches and riding boots to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia on the West Coast.

..

"It's a pretty crazy idea," said Miss Greene cheerfully. "But it's comforting to know that cannibals don't like eating white people: we're far too stringy.".

Fever Real Danger As I was talking to her Miss Greene opened the letter giving her license to export firearms. She looked at her revolver with some distaste.

"rve never fred one of these things before," she said. "I hope I shan't need it."

The real danger will come from fever... there has been an outbreak of yellow fever in Liberia, which has the unhealthiest climate in "the" world, and has no hospitals or doctors. "Except," as Miss Greene says calmly."witchdoctors."

Sir John Harris, Parliamentary Secretary to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, who has travelled very widely in Africa, has been giving the young explorers advice before they sailed. "It will be an extraordinarily Interesting trip," he said. "T should think they ought to-"get

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Last

February 28 Close Open 1020 10.40° 11.00

Sterling. New York-London Cotton: March Cotton: July

480

4851 4851 4851

12.40.

12.34 12.34 12.31

12.53

12.45

12.51 12.51 12.50 12.43. 12.41

12.40

12.66

12.62 12.71 12.71

12.95

12.89 12.93

12.98

13.08

98

932

85

Winnipeg Wheat May

84

FITLI

13.06 13.06

13.06

981

977

$93

931

854

85+

837

84

STOCKS

Studebaker Corpn Texas C. (1) ....

192

Texas G. Sulp (2) .... 33

191 339

.51

UB.

(1.40)

Transamerica (1.13) 51

"461

51

Car and Carb

442" "441" Un. Pač, Rlys. (6)..... 951

2+

Un. Alteraft Corp... 121

Un Air Line Trans... "51

461 964 117 51

through, and their information, If they do, will be very valuable.

"They are going into the bluter-Du Pent land farther than any white man has gone before, as far as we know. The negro tribes, which have been savagely oppressed, may welcome them-but you never can tell,

American melting Consolidated gas of N.Y.

344 35 35+

351

35%

184

181

EL. Bond and Share General Motors

Int. Tel. and Tel. Loew's Inc.

931 93

41 301

301

$47 351.

Montgomery W.

Lime 25+

National Distillers

United Corpo

-14

New York-Central...........

15 153

211 Uni, Gas Impy. (1.20) - 70}'

934

Univ. Leaf Tob. (2) 554

121 1204 U.S. Indus Alcohol... 384

10t 651* 381

US, Pipe Fdry. (.50) 174

17

42 47 U.S. Rubber

191 14

›UB. Rab. $8 1st Pf. 31)

33

London, Feb. 28. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John

447

DS. Steel

-321

321

SIR JOHN SIMON IN PARIS

Simon left: Croydon this morning Commodities Prices

Standard OnCo. of N.J.

39

39

0.8 Steel

323

32

978186488

18

19

93+

93+

44

41

301

301 301

777

351

251

354 351

25 251

27+ -271 278 ·271. 271

15

15

15

39

39

321

32#

WINNIPEG WHEAT

UB. Steel $7 FI. (2) 80

*793

Vanddium

161

16

Free. Texas (1.20)... 214 211 Vick Chem (2.40%)... 358. Gen, Am. Tr. (1.00sa) 35

35

344

Warner Bros. Picts.

231 West Union Tel.: (253) A

35

West Air Brake ̋ (1) ~ 218

301 West E. & M:(,85).. **367

137

Woolworths (2:40)

281 Call Money!,

167

* Bid

rex div:

possible mutilation

H.K. Gort 4% Loans ej z

Wallace Harper

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LYNN'S LATEST

At The King's

thor famous the world over. These characteristic fatuities keep the plot moving at a great pace.AA

The Wodehouse dialogue is witty and extremely amusing, and situa- Lion after situation, raises a great laugh

THE MERCANTILE MARINE

Restoration Of Wage Cuts

London.

NEW YORK COTTON

February 27

Closing" It is understood that the offer

Closing Opening made by the ship-owners is for Mar. 1227 12.29 12.29 12.37 12.40

increase on an instalment

May 12.42 12.42 12.41 12.47 12.47 basis in present pay, representing July 12.49 12.49 12.49 12.53 12.53 a partial restoration of the cut. Oct. 12.41 12.40 13.41 12.44 12.45 The offer la believed to have been Dec. 12.49 12.48 12.46 1251 1251 uniform, applying to all sections Jan. 12.50 12.47 12.47 12.54 12.54 equally)

-27,000 Men Represented, The second meeting had a different task. Representatives of four organisations of ships omcers

July

(1936) Spot 12150

12.05

Septem

NEW YORK RUBBER

NEW YORK' SUGAR............

is said that, although the full claims of the men were not accepted by the ship-owners, an offer was made which the various unions and associations will con- sider, and their views will be put before the board at the beginning

and engineers, the Maritime Mar. 12.55 12.53-12.58 12.84 12.68 of next month,S

the May 12.68 12.72 12.74 12.79 12.79 The first meeting was between Marine Service Associat representatives of the owners, the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, July 12.84 12.87 12.88 12.88 12.95 December National Union of Seathen, which and the Marine Engineers A880- Sept. 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.06, 13.09 represents 200,000 men, the Ne- clation, and the tional Maritime Board, and the Whitley Council for the Merchant Bervice.

Increase by Instalments The men claimed the restoration

Miles Malleson, as a butler, is an "Ralph Lynn's asinine fooling has admirable comedy accomplice to always been a joy to this writer, the star, and the scene where they new film steal the pig at midnight is one and his work in the

Summer Lightning" at the Star of the high spots of the alm

Negotiations for the restoration Theatre this week is no exception. Winifred Shotter, justly describ- of the wage cuts imposed on some The story is a characteristic ed es Lynn's ideal partner, brings.227,000 seamen two years ago took burst of PG. Wodehouse's drilllant all her demure wickedness to the place in London recently at the nonsense, and concerns a feather-leading feminine role, and Dorothy offices of the National Maritime of the 10 per cent cut

1932 February. brained young man who steals a Bouchier la avivalious chorus girl Board.

Two meetings lasting, three leaders were optimist prize plg with the clever Intention

riew of of returning it later to win its Others who figure prominently hours were held, but the expected especially h Pideci and entertaining are Gordon decision was not arrived at, and men owner's consent to his niece marry-

g-with 2- James, Esme Percy, Helen Ferrers, further meetings will have to be ship ing the sche

which ident and especiall Horace Hodges held after the delegates have ady Ralph Lyn

ning", 14 a laugh reported to their respective bodies. ought to share. This me

No statement was issued but it not last long and

cut of the hero's past.

Engineering Union, altogether some 27,000 coming together stalis

the final

her

con

though the

ted Oct. 13,08 18.11 13,12 13.15 13.15 Dec. 13.23 13.25 13.28 13.31 13.31 were Total sales:

504 lots

pan

for:

Old

4

Old Old 2.03 2.00/02/201/02 New New New

2.02 ~ 1.09 B 1.99/00- Old Old Old F 2.08 2.07/07 2.08/08

New New New

2.07 2.06/08 2.06/07, Od Old Hold 2.14 219/13-213/13- New New New

2.14 2.12/14 212/12 Old Old Old

2.19 217/19 217/18/ New New New 2.19 2.17/18 216/17 "old"

Old Old

2.25 2.24/24 2.23/24 New New New 2.25 2.23/23 2.23/23

Total sales Old 13,000 tons, New-

#5,000 tona.

WARNEW YORK SILK Mar 1341:32 1.353 971 911 077 08 May 135 1.334 1337 11381

✓ CHICAGO WHEAT May 1974 924 Sept 91

udis to July

92 021 831 931 914 914 928 924

have Tuesday's sales: 11,231,000 bushels:

CHICAGO CORN

May

841

July

Sept!

Total sales: 6,000,000 bushel

135 134 184 133 sales 199 tots

MONTREAL SILVER;

May56.7 168.7

#761 | Boot: 145725

56,2

3

31

by air for Paris where he will de Hver a lecture on the British Paritamentary system to-night. British Wireless.

May

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July

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New York, Feb. 28.

371*

men's leaders had nothing to say

2

2

55.

544

en leaving they seemed in good. spirits.

1%

1%

May

an