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DAILY

SHARE QUOTATIONS

Hong Kong Stock

Exchange

anarebrokers"

Association

Buyers

Baire

MONDAY, SEPT. 14, .

Bujore

Beliers

Banka

$78

$11.60

1880

-$1,610 H.K. Banics

រឺ

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEM BER 15, 1936.

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE

Philippine Gold Mining Quotations

11.9.36 “Closing"

P.3.85

H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS

Was very Arm

BANKS

HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION

Authorised Capital..... 50,000,000 Issued Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000 Reserve Funds:-

Sterling

THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,

· AUSTRALIA AND CHINA, Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1953

HEAD OFFICE: LONDON, ........:£ 6,300,000 | Paid-up Capital... Hong Kong Currency

·Reserve Fund Reserve..

.....,$10,000,000 | Reserve Liability of Pro-

The market opened steady aut towards the close with buyers predominating.

The Manila market was also Reserve Liability of

STOCKS

Antamoks

14.9.36 Opening P.3.80

14.9.38 Closing

P.3.75

Atoks..........

Acvos.

gal

Bagulo Gold

76cvos. 42

74cvos.

Benguet Consol,

P.143.

P.141

39 P.14

Benguet Explor

J 32

341.

Big Wedge

31,600

Demonstrations

P.1

Arm.

£1091

* Do. (London)

2109

IX.L.

P.2.05

P.2.10

215

Chartered Banks...

BUYERS

B102

231

Mercantile Bha, "A":

Itogons

P.2.15

.P.2

P.2.10

231

Masbate Consol,

4 $6

Bank of East Asia, $76.

£143

2141

Bank of East Asia...

Northern Mining

Union Insurances, $577

N. O. & S. Barks

Paracale Gumaus

Wharves, $112-

San Mauricio

P.2.75

P.270

$270

$170

Sufoc Consol

.91

B.K. & W. Docks, 5131.

1875

United Paracale"

P.1.80

P.1.75

Providents (Old), $2.15,

2494

130 ata.

Market Comment

Steady.

3482

$457

Raubs, $11.60.

1955

$250

Insurances

Canton luxuradoon...

Union LouTALOON ***

Underwriters

Kina Fires

HLK. Firesonator)

33 International Aasco,'§.

Shipping

Dougiarom

Steamboats

Indos (prof.) inter

Do. (def.) AL

Waterboata

Mining

18. Gold Bayar.......

18hota Baloocta

Kailant

!!!!!!

$30

13.90

$40

-9:0

1107

[19 äta.

130

*120

ID 7

Shella

$1#

24. cts.

Balatoce

55 eta

Gold Creek......

$31

Langkats (single).

Simaghat Loans 3.

Explorations.......

12 55 19.30

Venezuels Gold Fide.

X. D. 111.30

عات 20

381

$185

(old)

$198

$1.05

$109

Docks, Wharves, Godowns, etc.

H.K. & K, Wharves

Do..

(now)

Providents (old)...

(new) 10 ot.

$134., & W. Dock

8. China Motor■ 'A'

Shangual Docks S.

New Engineeringss.

Hongkewe

Lands, Hotels, and

Buldings

H.K. Hotela H.K-Landa..... Do. 4% Debentures Shanghai Lands...8. Metropolitan Lands.. H.K. Kaaltics Ckins Do

Do. Debentareas. Humphreys Chinees Estaten.

35.85

.5.80/6

$40

159 cta 19 cis 10%-

480° /s

$109

$14

3314

$5.9

$103

$5.30

+2+

19}

Cotton Milla

Ewoe

S'ha Cottousfold)S. (now)B. Do.

$70

$304

718

Zoong Sings

Wing On Textila(S.)

Pabile Utilities

312.40

1911

102

$14

13.85/ 14

$10.80

$8.20

pram.

Tramways ............................

Posk Trams (oli) ...

Do. (LOW)...]

Star Ferries

Yaumati Ferries... $21 China Lights (old)... 113 vo (new)... $10.30

Do.

H.K. Electrica ................

Macao do $6.30 Sandakan Lights ....

Tolophones (old)

$28.35

$10.

$11.00

(new)

China Biles S.

297 Tractions

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Do.

(pret).

Industrials

Malabon Sugaru

$19 Caldbeck, (ord.) 8.

#15 Macgregora (pref.)8.

Canton Icea

Cementa

Miscellaneous

321 Dairy Farm

sta.

Amusement

128

11.90/12.30

$14

1543

£55

[0]

15/

$11.90

$1190

$2,15

$211

- d

Ch. Ertainmenta......$3.90

Constructions, (old)}

Do.

Laus Crawfords......

(new){50 pts.)

[50 afa

$5,90

$3.9 13

Mackintoabe .............

Nanyang Tobacco.....

Sinceres

$4.8

Watson 0 084 4, 204

Powells

M. Greyhounds.

S. C. Enterprises

Uk.G.5X1925G.3 Bds.

HE. Gort, 4% Loans] $108

Do. 31% B.K Wing Do

Wallace Harper

Vibro Puing

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE

From September 15 to 31. 1838

HIGH WATE

Month

Roug

Standard

LOW WATER

Hong

08,16

Height

Height.

$10041

50 ta

PIZ

$21

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REKLISTER.

Hong Kong Vomocvasory, Sept. 14.

Previous On,Date on Date

Day st

at 5p.m.; 1a.m.4 p.m.

19.89

P.1.80 Steady,

Steady.

Pounds, Shillings And Pence

(Continued from Page 3).

I began to save in Cairo. It was a very slow business. Then I had an idea to put "Egypt on the map." I have often been very hard up for money, but never for ideas. I Went to a conference of business men in Cairo and told them, with the utmost confidence, some of the things they ought to đồ.

They

were so impressed that they offered me £1,500 a year to organize a publicity campaign for them. IN

they are going to out me in the first round. they are making a mistake. I'll show 'em. I'll buy some more Chelekens!"

And, in fact, that's exactly what I did, though not at once. The shares refused

They to recover. were not only "easier": they were darned dull.

I pretty well exhausted my bank balance to take up the first lot of shares and then I spent several hectic days in "raising the wind." It was a stormy job, but I suc-

Fifteen hundred shillings would have been a big figure to me then.ceeded. And they were talking in pounds!

CAREER CHANGED BY DOCUMENT

When 1-health compelled me to leave Egypt and return to London.. the first £100 had become the first

£1,000, or rather better..

So I was just in the right mood

Gritting my teeth, I began to "average." Now "averaging sounds a simple operation. but sometimes it proves very costly. It simply means this:-

You buy shares and they go down. So you buy some more st the lower Agure and then work out the average cost of your entire

to follow up my first Stock Ex-bolding. They go down ugain, change tip, which had netted me less than a "ver" two years De- fore.

And the same relative recalled my mind to the thrills of anance by ringing me up one day to tell me that he had another little "P"

this time for Cheleken Oilfields,

Bome very sound people,” sald my relative cautiously, "are talk- ing' Chelekens better. And there' some quiet buying. But don't tumble into this, my boy just buy a few for fun.”

"I'd love to," said I, "out how?" Again he did the the buying for me through his own brokers, but on this occasion he sent me the

and you buy some more to keep your general average somewhere near the market figure.

An then-sometimes-the shares recover and the speculator re- covers his losses with them. Or they never recover and the spe- culator is "sunk"

I began to average in July 1914. The shares went down and down and down The mere humour of war knocked the bottom out of

the markets.

When the actual confict broke out prices had gone all to hell and Chelekens were in the nethermost pit. Everything. I nad was lost barring the share certificates.

The war came, went, and when I got into mufti again. I renew- All ed my attempts to average. the money I made out of my books and journalism was poured into this drain.

To-day I still hold 3,500 Chele- kena, bought at all sorts of prices, but averaging about 2 pound aplace. I think they have as no- minal value now of about four- pence.

But I have no mind to sell. I keep the certificates as a constant reminder of the uncertainty of "tips,"

contract note for my own purchase. It was an impressive and enticing document "Bought for the no count or Sydney A. Moseley......"

If he had kept the contract note and merely sent me my proft in due course the idea of loss had .never entered my mind-my entire career might have been changed. But the contract note naturally bore the brokers' names, There was a stamp on it, too, of course, and details of the whole transac- tion, cost of shares, amount of commission, stamp fee and setting date.

Now my relative had only bought Afty shares for me. 1 thought two shillings profit a share after Daying brokerage nct, on a "tip” again. I said "No! would be paltry. But two shillings on-suy-500 shares. That would be £50 and well worth picking up. I stared at the contract note a long, time before I rang up the brokers. With my heart in my mouth I asked if they would make the 50 into 500.

That is the only "tip" I am pre- "Er-what price are Chelekens | pared to give unhesitatingly to now?" I added.

other adventurers on the road to Thirty-five to sixpence," said The First £100,000" the broker promptly.

Phew! That would mean close on £900! But I shouldn't have to pay until the end of the account- a three-weeks' account that me with a fortnight to go. Before then I decided that I would take my small proft.

"All"right." I said, "buy the five hundred."

That was my arst personal deal with any broker,

And I made a "solemn resolve

Vena, Goldfelds, $42. Antamoks, $5.80.

Atoks, $1.20.

B.g Wedge. 82 cts. Consol. Mines, li cts.

Ipo Gold, 40 cts. Santa Rosa, 15 cts. Hotels, $5.85.

HK Lands, $10). Star Ferries, "$92. Yaumati Ferries, $213. China Lights- (Old), $14.30, China Lights (New), $14. HK. Electrics. 3513. Telephones (Old), $294. Telephones (New), 59.80 Canton Ices, $2.20. Cements, $11,90.

Ewe Cottons, Sh.$84.

S'hai Cottons (Old), Sh.$70. S'hai Cottons (New), 8h $39Į. Vibro Pling. $4.

Ch. Govt. 5% 1925 G3 Bonds

12%. Govt. 4% Loan, 74 Prem. Govt. 31% Loan, par.

SELLERS

Baguio Gold. 85 cts. Consolidated Mines, 11 cts. Demonstrations, $1.63. Mambulao, 88 cts. Hotela. $5 HK. Trams, $12.40.

SALES

Union Insurances, $580. Wharves, $109. Providents (Old), $2/2.20. Atoks, $1.24.

Baguio Gold. 67/63 cts. Benguet Explor., 55 cts. Big Wedge. 83/84 cts. Consol Mines... 10) cts. Demonstrations. $1,64/1.86. Mambulao. 92 cts, Masbate Consol, $1.10. Northern Mining, 57/58 cts. Salacots, 18 cts.

Banta Rom, 16/15) cta. United Farazale. $2.81. Hotels, $5.80/6. H.K. Lands; $401. Star Ferries, $92. China Lights (Old), $13.95/14 Telephones (Old). $29.35. Telephones (New), $10. Cements. $12./12.05. Vibro Piling, $4.

Proprietors

Head Office: HONG KONG

Hoard of Directors.

£3.600.000 £3.600.000

„prietors........ 2. £3.600.000

$20,000,000

BATAVIA - BOMBAY CALCUTTA

CANTON CAWNPORK

CEBU COLOMBO

KARACH

KLANG

KORK KUALA

Agencies and. Brunches:- ALOB STAR ILOILO AMRITSAR [201 BANGKOK

SAIGON SEMARANG

KEREMBAN

SHANGHAI

SINGAPDEK

SITIAWAN

LUMPUR KUCHING

SOURABAYA

TAIPINO

DILEI.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.

G. Miskin, Euty

Chairman.

Hon. Mr. W. H. Ball. A. E. Compton, Esq., Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell,

Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson.

J. R. Masson, Esq.,

K. S: Morrison, Esq.,

T. E. Pearce, Esq.,

A. L. Shields, Esq..

V. M. GRAYBURN, Esq.,

Chief Manager.

Canto

Branches:

Iloilo Ipoh

Peiping Penang

Rangoon

Amoy

Bangkok

Batavia Jobare

Bombay Calcutta

Kobe

Kowloon

Kuala

Saigon San Fran

cisco

Cheloo

Lumpur Shanghai,

Colombo

London

Singapore

Foochow

"Malacca

Haiphong Manila

Sungei

Patqui

Hamburg Auar i Tientsin

Hankow

(Johore) Tokyo

Mukden

Tsingtan

Hongkew

Dairen Lyons Sourabaya

Harbin

New York Yokohama

KSIPHONG

KAMBURO

HANKOW HARBIN

MADRAS

MANILA

MEDAN

*NEW YORK

PEPING

TIENTS IN

ТОМСКАЯ

(Bhuket)

TRINGTAC)

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(Peking) SAMBOANGA

PONTANO

KONG KONG BANGOON

FORLION EXCHANGE and General Banking Business, transacted.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOsirs received for Ope Year or shorter periods at rates. which will be quoted on applica tion.

The Bank's Head Office in Lon- don undertakes Executor & Trustee. business, and claims recovery British Income. Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at Any of the Agencies and Branches.

A BREARLEY,

Manager.

THE CHASE BANK

opened in 15. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Current Accounts Local Currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local Currency and Sterling on terms which will be quoted on application:

Also up to date Safe Deposit Boxes in various sizes Top Let.

Hong Kong, 3rd July, 1938.

HONG KONG SAYINGS BANK

THE

Business of the above

Tan conducted by the BONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION: Rules may be obtained on application,

For the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI

BANKING CORPORATION.

V. M. GRAYBURN,

Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 4th February, 1938

BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.

HEAD OFFICE:

18, PINE STREET,

NEW YORK.

An American Bank offering com- plate Foreign Banking Service in the principal Markets of the world. Interest Rates on Application.

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES

This Bank is entirely owned" by THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK; NEW Yous, with Resources over U.S. $2,097,000,000,00

D. M. BIGGAR,

Manager.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK (1

LIMITED

Capital (fully paid up)

Yan 100,000,000.00 Reserve Fund... Yen 130,000,000.00

FELD OFFICE:-YOKOHAMA

BRANCHES AND AGENCIEE AT: Alexandrie Honolulu Rangoon Authorised Capital' ...$10,000,000.00 Bangkok Hsinking

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Berlin Kobo Saa Proats hverken 7,885,395.52 Bombay. London

Francisco Calcutta Los Angeles Seattle Canton Manila Semarang Dairen Moji

HEAD OFFICE:-HONG KONG No. 10, Des Voeux Road, Central

Board of DirectorE 2

Sir Shouson Chow, Chairman

Li Koon Chun, Esq. Li Lan sang, Esq.

CROWD CHEER AN Kok, big Wong Chuson, Eaq.

EXECUTION

that thenceforward I would never 10,000 Watch Negro

From now on I will buy and sell only on "information" -- my own information."

Hanged

Wong Tan Tong, Lag. Kas Ying Po, Esq. Chan Ching Shel, Esq.

Kan Tong Po, B., Chief Manager. Li Tae Fong, Esq, Manager.

Andy

Batavis

Bombay

Calooza

Branches and Agencies :---

Kowloon

Malbourne

Fimang Bourkeys

Rangoon Busten Saigon Hynday

Ban Fran- Twihoko

niaço

New York Postig

CARAG

Backow Bedolulu Pirle Kobe

Alast I have discovered that WOMAN SHERIFF GOES phong even "information" may go wrong. THROUGH WITH JOB

and that in finance, as in racing. there is no "dead cert."

SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER

Latest Singapore Prices

8. B. JOSEPH & CO.

Monday, Sept. 14. Mesars. H. B. Joseph & Co.:28-

That night I bought my "late night final" just as eagerly and ceived the following quotations anxiqusly as my brothers used to from Singapore in traits Cur- buy their racing specials.

* "easier"-Bix Chelekens were pence a share down. Five hun- dred sixpences E12 10s-not to mention brokerage and stamp.

For the moment I was post- tively frightened, It didn't seen possible to lose £12 10s. Just by. saying a few words over the tela-

BO BI

R | Highest open-aly Temperaturs, 13:90 | phone.

Lowest open-air Temperature, 14:81

Kong

Time.

Kong Standard Time

4 S

Barumeter... 29.73 Tamperature

29.73

Hamidity....

74.

Tues

Wed 18

,.h. m.

00:06 17 0

Wind-

21 406-9

(30 18 1 1514 8 0

Direction BW NW

92 056 1

03 10 1640

Force Weather Kain

3. B

SW 4

Thur

1027 6 5

92-13

Fri

1086

22 20

Sat

1.20

22.54

1007 04 20 16321 B 05.09 $4 185 31

Baa 20

11 656 I

23 14 6 9

Mon. 21

1238 14 0 28 40

rency

for Raw Rubber-

Buyers

Spot." Oct.-Dec.

Jan.-March April-June Market: Dull

A cheering throng of between 10,- 000 and 15,000 persons crowded into a three-acre plot to witness the public hanging of a negro at Owensboro, Kentucky.

Pelping

TORTEM

Shanghai (Daloy) Nagasaki Bingapore Fenstien Nagoya | Soerabaya

(Mukden) New York Sydney Hamburg Osako Tientain Hankow Parii Tokyo Harbin Beiping Taingtoo Hong Kong

Kinkow

Interest allowed on Current A counts.

Fixed

Deposits received for Ferióda at rater to be obtained on: application.

G. KISHINAMI,

Manager.

Hong Kors, 11th Sept, 1938.

What do

you want?

If there

Every description of Banking and Exchange business transacted Loans granted

approved securities,

Current Accounts opened Local Currency and Fixed De posits received for one year or The man, Rainey Bethea, aged shorter periods in Local and 22, was condemned for criminally Foreign Currencies on terms which assaulting and murdering Mrs. will be quoted on application, Eliza Edwards, 'a 70-year-old white

Rafe Deposit Boxes To Let KAN TONG PO

Chief Mariages

woman.

The crowd Jeered at the priest who attended the man on the scar- fold, and after the execution broke down the barricade and fore the black hangman's hood from the head of the dead man, ripping it up into small pieces for souvenirs.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Women, young girls, and children

It was the first public execution made up nearly half the big crowd,

from Indiant.

is anything

you want to buy or fell,

・

Classified advertisement.

25 words $1.00 prepalą

for 3 Insertions.

Bethea himatk

mounted the

scaffold calmly faced the. \rising sun, and talked with the priest while his arms and legs were being to the history of Owensboro, and and it was not unusual to see wo hound and the hood slipped over

men from the hill country with | his head. brought crowds

small babies in their arms, and

At the signal the trap was ino and Kentucky in all sorts of children hanging on to their skirts, sprint, and Bethea's neck was in- 26 unchanged vehicles. There had been many

As soon as the sun rose the crowd stantly broken, but it was nearly 261 unchanged all-night celebrations, even chil-

16 minutes before his heart stop- 26 unchanged dren of high school age participat-began to cry, "Bring out the nigger.

ped beating. semedde Let's get going."

Even while doctors were continu- 27 unchanged ing in "hanging parties."

About 20 minutes later the policeing their examination spectators had managed to match the hood. which was promptly divided into small pieces

CHESS MASTER AWARDED BADGE OF HONOUR

Mrs. Borence Thomson, the wor man Sberit had said that she arrived with the victim, who was would go through with her official hustled through the crowd to the My first feeling, of bitter disap-

duties requiring her to conduct the foot of the scaffold, where Father execution. She did arrange the Herman Lammers, a Roman Catho pointment soon gave way to a kind

details, but when the actual time lic priest, permitted him to kneel of indignant determination, T B=Blue ; 0=Cloudy; D=

The Central Executive Commit-arrived she delegated the springing in prayer. ns 60 98 Drizzle; Fog; L-Lightning; was satisfied that the tio was

tee has award the Badge of Hon of the trap to Arthur Hash, a for-This appeared to anger, some right, M-Mist; Overcast; P=Paning 17 16 26

"Hal" said I to myself visualis our to Michall Botvinnik for his mer Louisville policeman. She members of the crowd, who shout, Ca 99 96(Showers; J-Equalls'; B-Hain;

Ing the Stock Exchange as a per-outstanding achievements as chess watched the execution from hered Take him up. Up on to the trap 17 21 13 8 T Thunder.

car, fifty yards from the gallows. so that we can see him.") sonal enemy. "If they imagine player Tass

Almost. At the same hour, iu ad- joining Tennester three negroes went to the electric chair at Nash- ville Chapl within sixteen minutes or one another without their ex- scution attracting more than lock. newspaper attention d

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