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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936.
THE EXCHANGE
LONDON EXCHANGE RATES
(Barris WIRELESS SERVICE)
MARKET
R
MESSKS. ROZA BROS.
Sat, May 30. Silver prices dropped 1/16 yes- terday for Ready, the quotation being 19 7/8, but the forward rate was unchanged at 19 15/16. Sil- ver advices reported India as hav- Ing bought to
2 small extent. China sold. After the official x- ing the market was steady with small Indian inquiries and general selling at the fixed rate. In Ame- rica the rate was unchanged at 44 3/4 for Spot.
The
London-New York, croSI-
rate was higher at 4.99 15/18. The New York-London rate was slight-
ly higher at 4.99 7/18.
MARKET
Opened with indications of east- ness but towards the close reacted slightly.
STERLING..
Business was done shortly after the opening at 1/3 1/2 for near delivery followed by transactions at 1/3 15/32 for near and forward. The market then reacted and offers at 1/3 1/2 were accepted for cash and June, finishing with small sellers at 1/3 1/2 June, 1/3 15/32 July-December, buyers at 1/3 17/32 June-August and prob- ably 1/3 1/2 September-Decem-
ber.
U.S. DOLLARS Business was done during the early part of the morning at 32 3/18 for near delivery. The mar- ket closed with sellers at '32 3/16 for near and probably forward, buyers at 32 14 for any delivery.
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Business was done during the early part of the morning at 107 7/8 for cash and 108 Zor June and towards the close 108 1/8 was also arranged for June "delivery. There were sellers at 108 for June, buy- ers at 108 1/8 for June,
SHANGHAI MARKET There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 3/8 and U.S. Dollars at 20 7/8 for cash.
12.38
83 3/8
May 27.
May 28.
Paris
Седств Berlia
75 43/64 15.42)
75 53/64 15.45)
12.41
Athena
52$
Milan Bhanghal
83 3/8
1/2 7/16
New York
Amsterdam Vienna Prague
4.0814 7.3711
4.99
7.30+
123 3/8
1201
Bucharest
Madrid
38 17/32
36 19/32
Lisbon
Hong Kong
Brusse's
29.471
29.53
Montevideo
4.99 1/8
4.99
Belgrada
Montreal
Yokohama
Helsingfors
Rio
Buenos Aires
Silver Spot
Silver (forward) .............. War Loan
On LONDON :----"
191
15 13/16
34 105 3/8
19 15/10 19 15/16 105 3/8
Closing Quotations
My 3. 1936.
Telegraphic Transfer... Bank Bills, on demand Bank Bills, 4 months'
sight Credits. four months'
sight
ON SHANGHAI:-
On Demand ON. SINGAPORE:-
On" demand
ON JAPAN:
On demand.
ON INDIA: —
ON NEW YORK:—'
Bank Bills, on demand 39 Credits, 60 dage sight. 381 ON BATAVIA:—
On detuand
471
1/3 7/16 Os PARIS:-
Bank Bills, on demand 487 Credits, 4 month's sight 550 ON SAIGON :--
......... 107
On demand
ON MANILA:---
543
On demand
ON BANGLOT :-
108
Telegraphic Transfer... 844
Bant, on demand..........................
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1/27
On damand SOVEREIGNS. Bank Buying
Bate
BAR BILVEE, per ...... 17
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
New York: May 99.
(Ibrouza Beniar's Agame)})
QUOTATIONS
New York/London Crom-rate New York Cotton-July New York Rubber-July " Chicago Wheat -July -July Chicago Corr Silver-Official
20 Utilities
40
Laat Today's
High Low Close Close Change
--- 4.88-17/32 4.99) 97/32 up 11.44 11.49 1149 11.51
02 ug 15.69 15.82 15.69 16.52 unchanged
Low: May, 27. May. 28. Change
161.77
,80 off 45.99 ,34 off
PRINCE LINE. A
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Frox
NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES
THE
16
HE Motor Vessel
"CINGALESE PRINCE" having arrived from the above Ports on 26th May, Consignees of Cargo are. hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at rika into the Godown of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited Kowloon, and stored at Consignees' rink and expense.
MID LO
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Tuesday, 2nd June, at 19 A.M.
All Claims must be presented within 1 Days of the Vessel's arrival bare,
which date they Cannot be re
cognised.
No Claims will be wimitted after the Goods have left the federat, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 3rd June, will be subject to Rent.
No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
FURNESS (FAR EAST), LTD.,, 2nd Floor, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building. Daile 23166 & 23169, Hong Kong, 26th May, 1996,
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
·HAMBURG AMERIKA LIMIE.
IL
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE M.V.
TH
"MUENSTERLAND"
baving arrived, from Hamburg and Forts of call, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Goods are neing landed and placed at their risk isto the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's godowns at Kowbos, where delivery may be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Options Cargo will not be landed here. unless Notice
has been given 48 hours prior to Vossal's arrival, but carried en from port to port to the final of call to which the option extends.
port
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Gooda
remaining undelivered after the 8th Juno, 1936, will be subject to Bent.
- All broken, chafed and damaged. Goods- are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 8th June, 1936, at 10 by our Surveyors, Mosera Goddard & Douglas,
To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Ofiser in attendance when damaged dutiable goods pre ermined,
".
All Claims must reach us before the 1st July, 1936, or they will ant be recognized.
No Insurance will be effected, Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JEBSEN & 00.
Aganla.
(1470
Hong Kong, 1st June, 1938
(“Hong Kong Daily Press" Special) | SERVICES. CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE..
84
*601
691
83) 832 94 B01
69
443
off unchanged
Dow Joom "Averages.
SO Industrials
High-1934/35
103.07
98.71 153.37
20 Rails
61.73
87.31 48.33
38.36
14.42 31.51
31.53
.28 aff
Bonds
11 Commodity Index
103.24 62.10
93.43 102.31
109.56
·52.49 56.88
06.47
.05 of .11 off
Business Done: -760,000 shares. -
Stocks
Last Bale May 27, 28
Stocks
Last Sale May 27, 28
111 11
36
361
Adams Express "....
G. Western Sugar
1294
129
Amer. Can......
Humble Ol
58
58
341
35
Amer. Cyanamid 'B'
Int. Harvester Co...
261
851
71
71
47
Am. &, For. Power "
Int. Nickel
485
34
34"
Am. & For. P. $7 pi
Int. Tel, & Tel.......
14
132
271 28
Kennecott
381 37at
20 201
Loew's Inc.
472... 47
271
271
Lorillard
221
221
78
773
+i
McKesson & Rob-
56
56
bins Inc.
424 421
14458
Amer. Tel. & Tel Am. Sugar Refining 165"
165
Monsanto
921
921
Montgomery Ward.... 431 434
Chemical 84
851
DUTCH BANK RATE
Amer. Tobacco B Amer. Waterworks... Anaconda Copper
£21 22
Nat, City Bt.
327* 332*
341
331
Nat Dairy Prods....
231
231
. RAISED
714
711
Nat. Distillers
29
287
Atchison, T. & S. Fe.
27+
271
Nat. Power & Light 10
101
Union Insurances, $508: Venz. Goldfields, $4.
Atlas Corpn.......... Auburn
121
12
New York Central... 36
354
304
301
North American
261
Amsterdam, May 29. The Nederlandsche Bank 261
an-
18+ 18
Northern Pacific
291
284
́nounced on Friday a rise in bank-
Bklyn - Manhattan
Benguet Consolidated. $12.40, * Demonstration, 03′′ets. San Mauricio, $1.14.
United Paracale. 99 cta.
Credit
60
Sales
Curtiss Wright 'A'..
Delaware & Hudson
Distillers Corpn. Sea-
Da Pont de Nemours
དུགྒནཀྑུ ཙ བྷཱབྷཱཝདྨེཡྻངྒཀྰཊྛཱདྲོ ཨ ཨྰཿམྦོཔྤཡྻུཾབྷཱཏྟཾ a8gཊྛོ ༤ ཚོn$ངྷིཧྲྰི
513
Pacific Gas & Elec,
384
35%
rate from 2% to 34%
20
Pacific Lighting
500
51
281
Packard Motors .....
104
103
Paramount Picture
474
Tacar.
72
Pennsylvania R R.
31
304
204
1011
121
377*
Phillips Petroleum Pure Oll Co Pub. Service of NJ. Radio Corpn.
407
401 45 441
174 11
175 101
851
571
962
18%
611
164
Radio Corpo "B"
$5 of Reynolds Tob 'B'.....
531 Schenley
43+ 417 Schenley 51% f........ 100% 1001 Bears Roebuck ....... 734 722 Bocony-Vacuum
121 121
100*200*
sthrn. Cal Edison 26
261
31
34
Ethm. Pacific
332
334
Stand, Brands ......
15)
151
70..
Stand, Gas Y Elec
7
321
Stand. Oil of N.J....
59
58%
112
Sterling Proda.
687
68
· 29 291
Swift International 29j
201
77}
Technicolor
30
291
61
Texas Gulf Bulphur 361
36
14
Transamerica
12} 121
41
20th Cent. For Film.
comza.
24
231
231
20th Cent. For Film,
Yet another high record was set
671
pf.
331*
331
143
Un Carbide & Car-
124
bon
841
841
191
Un. Paclic
128
127*
Un. Aircraft (New)
23
241
70)
Un. Airline Trans...
161
17 ·
Un. Corpn.
6+
811
Un, Corpn. $3 cum.
154
.DL.
44
43
561
Un. Gas Improve-
ment
+371
157
U. 8. Indus Alcohol
381
381
US. Rubber sounda
811
304 291
U. S. Steel
601
ed by the “respective menth
Friday by the delegates of each Gold Dust, Country after having been approvGoodrich Tyre Co.
591
39
154
15
Vanadiuin...*••***
191
19
Govern- Goodyear Tire & R7 201
191
G. Nther Ris. pf.
251
251
391
381
Warner Bros. Picts. Westinghouse Call Money in
01
મા
Dec.
1161 - 110
1%
-1%
Transocean News Service.
ex. div.
Bld
t possible murely Yar
< 15+1 37
as from May 30. The last change in bank- rate took place in February 4, 1936, when it was lowered by 4%% to 24%. This measure came as a complete curprise and was on Friday night explained by leading men in fin- ancialy circles here as due to the indirect effects of the flight of ex- pital from France with a consequent swollen demand for Pounds Ster- ling and Dollars, resulting in a pressure on the Guilden.
1
SS, D'ARTAGNAN **-* 15736,
BRINGING CARGO ÏTM× MARSEILLES, &c
ARRIVED HONG KONG SATURDAY, THE 8TH MAY, 1936...
MONSIGNEES £re hereby informed...
that their goods with the exception Opiam, Treasure and Valuables are
down
of
after landing.
In general, the rise of the bank-being landed and stored into the Go- of Hong Kong, Kowloon Wharf rate by a whole. 1% 18 regarded & Godown Co., Ltd, Kawicon, whence merely as precautionary measure delivery may "bo obtained immediately of the Nederlandsche Bank. The last bank return published showed a decrease of Coldstock by 14:20 million Guilden, leaving 683.1 mil- lion Guilden, so that there is no reason for uneasiness...... Pranzorcan News Service,
ANOTHER STEEL OUTPUT: RECORD
London, May II,
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 10th June, 1938, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages will be examined by the Company's Surveyors Mora,
· Goddard & Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 am on Friday, 5th June, 1938.
Consignees must have • Revenue Officer in attendance when any dutiable goods are examined by the Company's
No Fire insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R. OHL
Agent.
£480
up by British steel production last Hong, Kong S0th May, 1936 month," Production reached 991,500
tons, an increase of 11,400 tons on the record output or the previous month, and in view of the holiday stoppage during the period the ac hievement is truly remarkable. It tells alike of the continued trade recovery throughout the country and the increased efficiency of the steel trade. Orders on hand give indications of continued activity. for a good many months to come, and while the position would be sounder if export busiziesą could be
had in greater volume it has to be remembered that the outlet for stebi
LOCAL MAPS
Peak District, B-Kowloon,
Victoria
New Territories.
in these times is steadily increas HONGKONG-DAILY PRESS.
ing through its use in new products..
S.S. "BENREOCH"
Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG, HULL and LEITH
on or about the 9th June.
F
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.
Next Sailing for SHANGHAI & JAPAN- S.S."
BENVENUE" June 5th
Tel. 22533
}:
For Freight and Passage apply to --
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD.,...
THE SHARE
MARKET
Li
Harriman Weekly Report
review issued
Grates:-
The market
at-
Rusiness during the week has
dode
the At
following
H. K. Banks, $15671/1570. Unions, $500/500.
stocks, continued to attract tention. Antamoks changed hands at $2.75 cash and $2.79 July. De- monstrations opened firm at 98 cts buyers but receded to 84 cts. at the close, Benguet Explorations Improved with sales at 25/281 cts. Northern Mines rose to 37 cts. At one time but had somewhat of a saturday, May 30.
setback, closing with buyers at 31 Messrs. G.A. Harriman and Co.'s cts. United Paracale opened with weekly share report and musket buyers at $1.03 but closed much, The at noon yesterday easter with sellers at 98 cts.
tone of the market at the close somewhat is quist with a slightly easier ten- ruled easier during the week under re-dency. view with rates in some sections i
slight decline,
the been showing a volume of business was moderate. prices: With the exception of Trams which slipped to $9 sellers at the close owing to a reduction in Tram. fares, investment issues remained very steady., Hongkong Lands were enquired for around $30). Star Ferries were obtainable at $89 Hongkong Electrics had enquiries at $50 and Terphones Cold) at $25.
Dairy Farma came to busi- mess at $19.70 and Wh.rves at the reduced rate of $88. Sterling counters were rather active with Hongkong Banks' changing hands at $15871/10, and Unions at $500/8, Minor issues were generally easier. Eotels, after being dealt in at £4.95 were on offer at $4.80. China Lights (old) were put through at $10.70/80. Cements Armed up to 39.60 in the middle of the week. but eased off to $5.25 at the close. Providents told?' had 'balea. "7e- corded at $1 Philippine mining
Providents (old), $1.- Trams, $9./10.30.
China Lights, Tolà), $10.70/10.80. Dairy Farms, $19.70. Wharves (old), $83.- Hotels, $4.80/4.95. Telephones (old), $25.- Construction (new), 30 cts. Ropes, $4.35.
Cements, $9.80.
United Paracale, $1.03/1.04. Antamoks, $21. Benguest Exploration, 25 cts...
284 cts.
Demonstrations, 97 cts. /$1.-. Northern Mining. 33 eta. 37 cts.
H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE
SATURDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS
Partly due to the lower Ex- change, both Banks and Unions are in good demand and show some improvement; otherwise there is litle change in the local Low level Trams have
market.
again eased off and are offering
at $0.
Bayers
Hong Kong Banks, $1.567),
HK. Lands, $301.
H.K. Lands, 4% Debentures, 100. Yaumati Ferries, $19. China Lights (New), $7.70. Electrics, $50}.
B
Telephones (Old), $25.
Singapore Traction, 25/- S'hal Cottons (Old), Sh.$72}. S'hai Cottons (New), Sh.$41. Constructions (New), 30 cts, Govt. 4% Loan, 6% Prem. "Govt. 3% Loan, par.
է Antamoks, $2.77. Atoks,. 50 cts.
Hotels, $41.
SELLERS
Star Ferries, $80.
Dairy Farms, $19.70.
Am. Light & Trac.. Amer. Locomotive... Amer Radiator
Amer. Rolling MB... Amer. Smelting....
Baltimore & Ohio... Bethlehem Steel .... Boeing Airplane Co. Borden Co. Eklyn
Manhattan
Trans Corpn. ......
$8 cum. pt. .........
Case, J. I
191
Canadian Pac. Rly, 12 Chase Nat. Bk. Chesapeake Corpn.
Chesapeake & Ohio $72 Chrysler
Columbia Gas & E
C. G. & E. 6% 'A' pf. 101à 101 Commercial
Coml. Solvents Comm, & Southern
(ord.)
Comm. & Southern
....(ord.) $ cum. pt.
Consolid. Gas of NY. Consolid, 'Ol... Continental Of ... Corn Products
Hong Kong Banks, $1.570/1.574.Curtiss Wright (C)
Union Insurances, $507).
HK, Trams, $9/9.10. Cements, 9.40,
Consolidated Mines, 14 cts. Demonstration, -95 cts, Northern Mining. 31j ets.
DUTCH-GERMAN AGREEMENT
1.
grams
Douglas Aircraft
Electric Boat
Elec. Bond & Share
Elec. Bond & Share
13 DI..
Elec. Bönd & Share
$8 pi.......
Elec. Power & Light ("Hong Kong Daily Press” Special) | Gen. Cigar
Berith, May 29.
Gen." Electric The text of the renewed transfer Gen. Foods and tourist agreement with Hol- Gen. Motors
Paracale Gomaus, 51 cls. 554 ets, land was intilalled in Berlin on Gen. Rly, Bignal
Itogons, $1,28.
Gold Rivers, 33 eta./51 cts. Balacats, 13 cts./14 cta. Buyoc. 39 cts.740 cts. Bagulo Gold, 27à cts.
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