HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1936.
LONDON EXCHANGE RATES
(British Wireless Service)
November 13.
105 9/64
November 14.
105' 9/64
21.23
21.241
Authorised Capital
****** $50,000,000
12.311
12.13)
BANKS
HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI · THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA
BANKING CORPORATION
Issued & Fully Paid-Up $20,000,000
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1953,
HEAD OFFICE: LONDON.
540
Reserve Funds: ---
92
921
Sterling
£6,500,000
1/2 17:33.
1/2 17/32
Hong Kong Currency
paid-up Capital. Reserve Fund....
£3.500.000
£3.000.000
4.87 8/8
4.881
Reserve
..$10,000,000
9.06
0.051
Reserve Liability of
138
Proprietors
$90,000,000
Reserve Liability of Pra- pristora
********* £3,000.000
"Agencies and Brancher:~~
ALOB BTAR ILOILU AMRITSAR HOK
DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
Hong Kong Stock
'Boynuz
Builoco
"
$1,673
3963
2000
54+
*** iii
Exchange
Balen Nominal
L
Sharebrokers'
2100
$15
238
£14
$83
MONDAY. NOV.. 18.
Banka
BLK. Banks
Do. (London) Chartered Banks Mercantile Bks. "A"
N. C. & S. Barks...
Insurances
Catoa insatsen..
Union InsurRUIDES *** Underwriters
Do
0
Bank of East Avia....
Association
Buyure
Belleks
Salesmas
⠀⠀⠀!!!!!
H. K. STOCK EXCHANGE
YESTERDAY'S
OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS
I
Trading was of a small scale in the local market but rates gene- rally have remained steady. How- ever, there is a good demand for $1,675 the higher-priced investment gio stocks with feth sellers in
evidence.
81.
$83
BX70
The Manila Stock Exchange was closed to-day owing to the cele- bration of the first anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. Very little business was reported in the Mining section.
BUYERS
Canton Insurances. $283.
1800
18C ota.
China Fires
LIVERPOM
$457
1250
H.K. Fires ATLASAZANELE
$960
131
International Assoc. S.
HK Banks $1,675.
Skipping
130
Donghase
Union Insurances, $600.
130
161
Steamboat
38
Raubs, $12.
135
Indos (prol)....
$35
Venz. Goldfields, $67.
$36
Do. (def.) NEDOSTA
138
Star Ferries, $92).
117/6
Shella
117/0
Yaumati Ferries. $24.
$104
Waterbuste
$10
Paris Genera
Berlin
Athens
Mulan
Shanghai
New York Amsterdam
Vierina Prague
1 Lii!
SIR
!!!!!
15/-
Mining
Balatoes.....
Gold River Gold Creek.....
Salacotsi
Kallan
Langkats (singlo).
Explorations........
Shanghai Luau
Raubs AND THE ENT
Venezusin Gold Fidr.
Docks, WharvOS,
Godowns, sto.
H.K&K. Wharves
$100
Do.
(old)
32 10
20 ct.
314
381
34
***
3
S.
Do. (LOW)... Providents (oli)...
Do.
(DOW)
H.K, &W.Docks ...
S. China Motors 'A'
Shanguai' Docks S.
New Engineeringsb.
Hongkowa
Lands, Hotels, and
Bul dings
H.K. Hotels. H.K Lands.........D. Do. 4% Debentures Shanghai Lands... S.
Metropolitan Landa..
Ching, Do.................
Humphreys
****!!!!!
3110
32
20 sta
$811
14
6.20
138 $102
$9
$10.70
H.K. Electrics, $52). Ewo Cottons, Sh.$11.
SELLERS
R.K. Lands. $381.
China Lights Old), $14.
H.K. Electrics. $52) Cernents, $11 10.
SALES
H.K. Landa, $38). Benguet Explor., 30 cts, Big Wedge, 75 cts. Consol Mines. 7 cts.
THE EXCHANGE
MARKET
MESSRS. ROZA BROS.
Hong Kong. Nov. 15. Silver prices rose 5/16 over the week-end for both deliveries, the quotations being 21 5,16 for Ready and Forward. Silver ad- vices reported China and specula toi's as having bought. Sellers were rather reserved. Buyers were satisfied. The
closed market steady.
670
Bucharest
Madrid
Lisbon
Hard Kong
Brussels
28.84
28.881
Montevideo
Belgrade
Montreal
213 4.871
4.88
Yokohama
Helsingfors
Rio
-Buenos Aires
Silver: (Spot
Silver (forward)
War Loan
On LONDON:-
Closing Quotations
November 18, 1638. --
ON NEW YORK:-
י
Head Office:HONG KONG
Board of Directors. Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson,
G. Miskin, Esq.,
BAIGON
BEMARANO
BANGKOK KARACHI
BEREMBAN
BATAVIS
BOMBAY
KLANG KOME KUALA
BHANGHAI
SINGAPORE
SITIAWAN
LUMPUR KUCHING MADRAS
BOURABAYA TALPINO
MANILA MEDAN
AD
Chairman, CALCUTTA
Deputy Chairman. A. H. Compton, Esq.,
Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell, Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson,
J. R. Masson, Esq
K. S. Morrison, Esq.,
T. E. Pearce, Esq.,
Singapore Sourabaya
Foochow Malacca Sungai
Pataui Tientsin.
CANTON
CAWNPORE
CEBU COLOMBO DELEI
HAIPHONG : NIỀM NGHĨ
HAMBURG
HANKOW
HARBIN
PRIPING
TIENTS IN TONGLAH
(Bhakat)
ΠΙΣΤΩΤΙΟ
YOKOHAMA
(Peking) MOANGĄ PEMAN
HONG KONG KANGOON
FOREIGN EXCHangs and General Banking Business transacted,»
CURRENT ACCourts, opened and Fix Derosirs received for One 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 of British Income Tax overpaid, on terms which may be ascertained at any of the Agencies and Branchen.
A. BREARLEY,
Manager.
A. L. Shields, Esq.,
20.13/18 106 16
'21 5/18.
V. M. GRAYBURN, Esq.
Chief Manager.
Amoy
Telegraphic Transter...
Bank Billa, on demand sut Credits, 60 days' sight. 30 13/18
Bangkok
Branches:-
Iloilo 1pob
Peiping
Penang
Batavia
Jobore..
Bank Bills, on demand 1/9 ON BATAVIA Credits. four months'
sight
Bombay
Kobe
On demand
Calcutta
Kowloon
1/3 3/18
ON PARIS:-
Canton
Kuala
Rangoon Saigon San Fran-
cisco
ON SHANGHAI
Bank Bilis, on demand. 861 Credits, 4 month's sight 680
Chefoo
Lumpur Shanghai
Colombo
London
On Demand
***... 1043
ON SAIGON: ---
Dairen
Lyons
ON SINGAPORE:---
On demand
45
On demand
52 13/16
ON MANILA-
Haiphong Manila
Un demand
But
Hamburg Muar
On demand
..... 108
ON BANGKOK:-
Hankow
On demand...
1494
SOVEREIGNS Bank Buying
Babe
1/3
Bas SILVER, pae on.
On JAPAN:
ON INDIA:
Telegraphic Transfer... Bank, on demand.........
PHILIPPINE MINING
NEWS
21 5/16
There is little fear that the ma- Japanese and European stores. ritime strike which is paralyzing Steps have already been taken by shipping on the Pacific coast and several concerns towards establish- threatening, coastwise and deep sea ing connections with foreign sup- commerce on the Gulf coast and.
pliers, so that future sources of ne- the Atlantic seaboard will intercessities may be assured. fere materially with Philippine mining.
The London-New York C085+
Wamed several months ago of rate was quoted at 4.88 3/4 New
the likelihood of labour difficulties, York-London was quoted at 488 Philippine mining organizations
MARKET
18.10
NO
$105
$13
$10
13
H.. Healties............
100
Do Delonturesd,
201
378
Chinese Estat08..............
Catton Mills -
$10,70
Ev...B.
::
!!! } #
$8
Shai Cottons(old S.
$77
345
17. (дет.
$44
- 21
Zoong Sings.......
$17
31/32.
325
Wing On Textiles(3.)|
$26
Public Utilities
112
Tramways
312)
Peak Trama (old).......[
Do. (now)...)
Star Ferries
354
193
Yanni Ferria
3101
Do. (new)..
$521
1574
HK. Electrica
163
20
Macao do.
18.30
Sandakan Lights ...
$284
Telephones (old)
3261
$10.65
Do.
(new)
310
3112
China Buses.....8..
und 30 7/18
177.
94/8
***
$14.30 Uhina Lights (old)....
Tractions ....ANESİ
'Do. (pret.)......
Industrials
Malabon Bugars
$19 Caldbeck, jord.
$15 Mangregors}{praf..
Caaton Ices
Diiscellaneous
Dairy Farmsamarre
Amusementenen
Do. _(NOW)
32
Inactive but steady. STERLING
No business was reported. There were sellers at 1/3 November- 15.48 January and 1/2 31/32 February- $14
March, buyers at 1/3 1/32 Cash- $114
January and 1/3 February-March
هوه از
$2.20
Cetdents
$3.1M
Hopes..........
.11.20 $3.80
121
$221
3
Ch. Etainments......
$12
Constructions,`(old)
$1.70
4jote
162
Lane Crawforda...... Mackintosha akan
43 CAL $5.90
Nanyang Tobacco..
141
13
$4.85
14
92
prem.18%
HE. Govt. 4%Loans
$1 96% $109
3X
Do. 31%
$100
Wallace Harper .................
$60
B.K Wing Us
$52
+
B'bai Do
61
Sinceres
Watsons
Wm Powells............. M. Greyhounds...
S. C. Enterprises...
CL0.6219260.9Bds.
$5.30 Vibre Piling
*Sales 1. Shuangbaí
Height
HONGKONG METEOROLOGHEAL
have laid in several months' sup- plies of dynamite, cyanide, and other necessities. While ship- ments of new equipment and machinery from the Pacific coast may be delayed "for some time, such shipments can be made via Canada or on Japanese ships.
In case the strikes are prolonged for six months or more, the Philip- Nothing doing. There were sel-pine mining companies will seek
U.S. DOLLARS
lers at 30 1/2 November-January
February-March,
buyers at 30 9/16 Cash-January H.K. SHAREBROKERS
and 30 1/2 February-March.
፡፡
SHANGHAI DOLLARS There were sellers at 102 13/16. buyers at 102 7/8 for cash.
SHANGHAI MARKET
There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 0/16. buyers at 1/2 19/32 for Spot. U.S.. Dollars. sellers 2 25 5/8, buyers at 29 11/16 for cash IN THE AFTERNOON
The market was dull in the afternoon.
IN STERLING.
No business was reported. finish- ing with sellers at 1/3 November- January and 1/2 31/32 February- March. buyers at 1/32 higher res- pectively.
U.S. DOLLARS
"
The market closed with sellers
at 30 1/2 November-January and
30 7/18 February-March, buyers at 1/16 higher respectively.
**"TALKING" BOOKS FOR THE BLIND Lord Nuffield's £35,000 Gift Lord Nuffield who last year gave £5,000 for the development at talking books for the blind, has made a further gift or £35,000 for this purpose: It will be paid in seven annual instalments.
1
A gift of £500 a year for three years has also been made by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trus-
Houg Kung Ubeervoory, Nov. 16.
Previous On Data, On Date || tees.
Day at
ab
HONG KONG TIDE TABLÉ
From November 17, se 23, 1936,
HIGH WATER.
LOW WATER.
Hong Koog Standard Timas.
Hong Kong Standard Time
jat 4pm. 19 m.] 4 p.m.
Barometer... 20.04
201 80.13 Temperature 74
76 Humidity. 85
63
73
70
b. m.
Tobr. 17
12 23 22 18
ft. lo. 47
h. m.
0381,1 4 15512
Wed. 18
Thur 19
Fri. 10
Bat. 21
8an. 13
Mon. 19
13 10 2252 8 0
140845
0262 0 1708
2334
78
1601 46 GO 84 74
1549
4.81
0815 L4 181143 869 15 18344 7 18 1708 0840 2 0 18 14 4.8
Wind-
Direction Force Weather Haia
8
4.0
0129
6 9
18305 1
BC
|
"ASSOCIATION
BUYERS
Banks, $1,675. Trams, $12. Canton Ices., $2.15. Entertainments, $3. Demonstrations, $1.46. Big Wedge. 75 cts. Satacots, 10 cts
SELLERS Providents. $1.90., Cements, $11
SALES
Lands, $381 Telephones New, $10.
NEW PASSAGEWAY AT BANK OF ENGLAND. Handed Over To The City
The Bank of England presented a net thoroughfare to the City of London recently. As a result, pedestrians turning from Lothbury into Princes-street will be saved abcut thirty seconds in time.
The presentation was made with by Mr. appropriate ceremony Montagu Norman. Governor of the Bank, to Bir Percy Vincent, the Former Lord Mayor of London, during the lunch hour, in front of a throng of City workers.
The
new passageway
runs
through the Troll Corner of the Bank of England, and round the The talking book scheme to pro- domed root runs the inscription vide a new method of "reading" | "The Bank made this way through for the blind was started two years Tivoli Corner for the citizens of ago by the Sound Recording Com-London. A.D. 1936."- mittee of the National Institute "By the happy co-operation of for the Blind in co-operation with all concerned," said Mr. Montagu St. Dunstan's. An ordinary book Norman, "this passage has been of this kind is composed of a set constructed within the Corner so as to preserve its aethetic beauty, of ten or a dozen 12-inch gramo- phone records, each side of which and at the same time to make Highest open-air Temperature, 15:77 reade" for 25 minutes.
some provision for the needs of Lowest open air Temperature, 18:67
More than 1,000 volumes are in those who have to pass this way. circulation from a central brazy The Lord Mayor, in reply, said B-Blue sky; C=Cloudy; }= in London. The recordings in that he thought that the Gover 09 36 2 3 Drizzles F-Fog, L-Lightning: clude selections from the Bible, nor and Directors of the Bank 200748M-Mist; OmOvercast; P=Paming the English classics, biography, were to be congratulated on their J=Squalls; ReRain) and even modern detective stor forestght in giving up the Corner 1024 Bbowam
for the use of citizens. 2355 14 417 Thunder.
jes..
The general opinion in Manila seems to be that the strike will bring a considerable loss of trade to American dealers in dynamite, cyanide, and machinery. New con-
nections made during the strike are apt to be continued when labour conditions become better in the United States, it is reported.
With bodegas full and orders concerns, pending with foreign Philippine mining companies are. watching the American maritime situation with interest untinged with fears for the future.
J
⠀⠀ SINGAPORE RAW
RUBBER
La Singapore Prices
1. B. JOSEPH & CO.
(Johure) Tokyo,
Harbin Mukden Tsingtao Hongkow New York Yokohana
4
Current Accounts opened in 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 To Let. Hong Kong, 18 Nov., 1933.
HONG KONG SAVINGS BANK
T
HE Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. Rules
For the HONG KONG & SHANGHAI may be obtained on application.
BANKING CORPORATION,
THE CHASK BANK
16 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
HEAD OFFICE:
18, PINE STEERT,
NEW YORK.
An American Bank offering com. plate Foreign Banking Service in the principal Marketa of the world. Interest Bates on Application.
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
This Bank is entirely owned by
"THE OHARE NATIONAL BANK, Naw Yox, with Resources over U.S. $2,027,000,000.00
D. M. BIGGAR,
Manager.
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chisf Manager. THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANE Hong Kong, 24th February, 1936;
BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED.
LIMITED
Capital (fully paid up)
Yen 100,000,000.00 Raserve Fund... Yen 130,900,000,00
HEAD OFFICE:-YOKOHAMA
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES AT: Alexandria Honolulu BangooD Authorised Öspital...$10,000,000.00 Bangkok Hainking Rio do
aneiro Karachi Paid-up Capital .............. 5,598,800.00 | Batavia Reserve and Undivided
Berlin Kobe San Profits
8,665,305.54 Bombay
Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Manila
HLAD Orno-Hong KonG No. 10, Des Voeux Road, Central
Board of Directors; -
Sir Shousen Chow, Chairman Li Koon Chan, Esq. Li Lan Sang, Esq., PK. Kwok, Esq. Wong Chuson, Esq. Wong Yun Tong, Haq. Kaa Ying Po, Esq. Cur-Chan Ching Bhek, Esq.
Hong Kong. Nov. 16. Mesaro, H. B. Joseph & Co. rr. ceived the following quotations from Singapore in Straits rency for Raw Rubbe
Buyers
Spot
Jan.-Mar.
April-June December Market:-Firm.
301 Up t 301 Up.
301 Up t
304 Up t
Kan Toug Po, Esq., Chief Managur, Là The Fong, Esq, Manager.
Branches and Agencies S
Kowloon
it London
Calcutta
Canton Dairen
Moji
Semarang Shanghai
Soerabaya
(Dalny) Nagasaki Singapore
Fengtien Nagoya
(Mukden) New York Sydney Hamburg Osaka Tientaip Haskow Otaru Harbin
Paria Hong KongPeiping
Tokyo
Tsingtao
Yinkow
Interest allowed on Current · Ar- counts,
Deposite
Fixed
received for Periode at rates to be obtained on. application.
Y. KANO,
Manager.
elson Tenten Hong Kong, 13th Nov., 1936.
Pasang BOKSTORY
London
Владост
Śwstow
Kaigon
bynday
Melbourne San Fran
Talboku
Sew York
Bartle Tokyo
Duka
Semarang V&DOONYET
GREAT WAR COSTS
Parle
Kobe
Priping
Samagami Tokohims Kingapore
Gradual Reduction
In Canada
Evely description of Banking and Exchange business tranaietöd.. Loaus granted .on approved securities
Accounts opened
Current Toronto, Canada-Canada" stili
is paying for the Great War in Local Currency and Fixed De heavy annual charges, but the posits received for one year or total each year is dropping shorter periods in Local and chargea in the foreign Currencies on terms which steadily. War latest fiscal year amounted to will be quoted on application.
Bafe Deposit Boxes To Let about £32,000,000, but this
KAN TONG PO, some £4,250,000 less than the
Mat Homager amount that had to be raised four years earlier for Interest on the war debt and for pensions result- ing from wax service.
Wis
The principal causes of the decrease are the refunding of the war dept at lower rates of interest. and the declining cost of war pen- sions.
MILLIONAIRE'S
SEARCH FOR SLEEP
WHERE BRITAIN LAGS
Need For Cultivation Of Physical Fitness
A warning that Britain is falling behind the nations in physical fitness was given by Lord Mottis- tone, in an address at Scarborough recently.
Apart from militarista," he said, "there are enthusiasts who wish to budd up a healthy race, but Ho not let anybody think that this has anything to do with Fascism, or Boltivism, or Nazism, or any other am, because all over Europe, notly in the authoritarian States but also in democrátic France, they have now decreed that you must take the health of
"Figures show that we are fall- ing behind, and unless we take steps at once the state and the health of our people will be a real
The interest item reached a
Rai Eshadur, Ramil Das Bajoria. maximum of nearly £24,000,000 in 1932. has declined by three mil the calcutta millionaire. who re-the adolescent in hand. Hons, and will be cut still more as cently offered 20,000 rupees (£1, other issues of debentures are re- 5007 for the priceless gift of sleep, funded War pensions went to a top of nearly £10,000,000 in the and who claims that he has not same year, and have fallen by slept soundly for two years, re- more than a million pounds since ceived another doctor recently, Mr. that time as pensioners have died FJ. Multhers, who suspended and children have grown beyond practice in Los Angeles and came is Calcutta, to cure the sleepless pensionable age.
man,
Up to the end of last March the total cost of the war to Canada, including payment of all annual charges, had reached the colossal
For the past few weeks Ram Das Bairis has been under the treatment of a London physical
sum of nearly five billion pounds. culturist, Mr. W. E Holder.
menace to our national well-being. The late King gave his bigasing to the scheme for playing atlas. and a great sum has been raised through the Lord Mayor's Mansion House fund to his memory." But what is a quarter of a million pounds if the work is to be done on the scale on which it should be
done?'
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