Triestina
Lloyd
NEXT- BAILINGS,
"To Shanghai "Conte Verde" 6th Mar.
To Italy "Conte Verde" 14th Mar,
SPECIAL RETURN TICKETS
Validity 100 days at greatly reduced cost allowing of months stay in Europe. Special concessions to lat and 2nd Class travellers to London.
Fares to Venice, Trieste, Genoa and Return...£139, £88, £58 Special Two Months' Round Trip Tickets At Reduced Rates -
TO BOMBAY
11
COLOMBO
SINGAPORE...
SHANGHAI ...
TH
£44 £41
T
£18
- £12
£25
£31
€22
£19
£13
£9
£ 8
ROUND THE WORLD tickets issued at Special Reduced Bater in connection with all the Trans Pacife & Trans-Atlantio Confer Face Lines.
ITALIA & COSULICH LINEB Agents for the sale of through and independent tickets to North, Central and South American ports via Italy.
THROUGH
TICKETS TO LONDON — 19 days — Special facilities for despatch by train of heavy baggage with liberal free allowance.
INTERCHANGEABLE RETURN TICKETS with the Dollar Lines on very favourable conditions.
LLOYD TRIESTINO
Telophones 32982/3.
P.O. Box 143. Tel. Addr. "Lloydiano"
Canton Agents: -DODWELL & CO, LTD., Shameen.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE
Far Eastern Mail, Passenger & Freight Service
Through bookinge to America eis Europe and Surope via America. Bookings around the world. Through bookings to London.
m.Y."
OUTWARD SAILINGS
*." OLDENBURG"
"DUISBURG * ... For 8'bal, Dairen, Taku, Tsingtao,
Kobe, Osaka, Yhama, Nagoya 10th Mar. for 8'hai, Dairen, Takn, Tsingtao, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Y'hama, Nagoya 18th Mar, HOMEWARD SAILINGS
14. “NEUMARK "...... for Miles, R'dam., Hamburg ......8th Mar.
* m.y. 'KULMERLAND' for Genon, Antwerp, E'dami., H'burg, 18th Mar:
"NORDMARK "...for Marseilles, Rotterdam, Hburg. 13rd Mar.
* Passenger Vamal Limited Passenger Accommodation,
For further particulars and paasago, faros, etc. apply to:-
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE
JEBSEN & 00., Aarsts.
18, Pedder Street, Tel. 298368.
CANTON AGENTS: CARLOWITZ & CO., Shakee Rond.
S.S. "BENNEVIS"
Sailing for LONDON, ROTTERDAM, ANTWERP, HAMBURG and LEITH on or about the 14th March.
Cargo will also be accepted on through Bill of Lading to the usual transhipment ports.
Next Sailing for SHANGHAI & JAPAN S.S. "BENDORAN" 8th March.
For Freight and Passage-apply to:⇒
Tel. 22533
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD.,
York Building, Agents!
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
VISIT BALI AND JAVA
Special Round Trip Fares 1st Class
HONG KONG-BATAVIA-Hong Kone H$275.
50
HONG KONG-BALI-JAVA-HONG KONG
H$950. (all inclusive) HONG KONG-MANILA-HONG KONG H$135.
NEXT SAILINGS——
TO BATAVIA DIRECT S.B. TJIKEMBANG 9th Mar,11 E.
Tender Queen's Pier 10,00 atu. Tander Patios Fer 10,16 mm, TO MANILA, MAKASSAR, BALI & SOERABATA
S.S. 'TJISADANE' 16th Mar., 10 a.m.
Tender Queen's Pler 0,00 am, Tander Pailor 15er 9.15 at TO AMOY & SHANGHAI m.s. 'TJISADANE' 4th Mar. {0 AM. (Taikoo Bugar Wharf)
For further information apply:
Holland-China Trading Co..
Canton H. Nolasco da Silva, Esq., Macao
CHINA
York Building.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937.
THE EXCHANGE
MARKET
MESSRS, ROZĄ BROS.
Hong Kong, Max. 1. silver prices were unchanged over the week-end, the quotations being 20 3/16 for Ready and 20 1/8 før Forward, Silver advinces reported the market as being very quiet.
The London-New York cross- rate was quoted at 4.88 3/4. New York-London was quoted at 4.88 27/32.
MARKET
Steady but stagnant, STERLING
No business was reported. There were sellers at 1/2 29/32 March- August, buyers at 1/2 16/16 for any delivery:
U.8. DOLLAKS
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
(Through Router's Service:
New York: February 28.
QUOTATIONS
New York/London Cross-rate New York Cotton-May New York Rubber-May Chicago Wheat -May Chicago Corn Silver-Oficial
-Hay
Dow Jones Averages
So Industrials
20 Bails
30 Utilitie
40 Bonds
Last Today's High Low Clos Close Change
*466-25/32 4.66-27/32 1/16 up 13.77 1971 19.87 19.74 .07
ир 2411 31.83 11.95 21.83 *.02 aff
132 131 131 131
up 107 106 107
107) ap 442 unquoted
Feb. 27.
1938
High Low Feb. 98. High Low Close 120.70 113.11 187.17 1876 100.79 187.30
30.45 (0.68 67.81 37.79 28.23 34.03. 1601 $8.82 104.00
11 Commodity Index 81.57 85.68 74.90
Lust Bale Feb. 26 27 181 18.
Stocks Adams Express Allis Chalmets
Car & Foundry Amer, Can ... 1071 108
Amer. Cyanamid 32 Amer. & For, $7 p. 63 Amer. & For Power 121
Nothing doing. There were sel-Am.
·lers at 30.3/8 March-April and 30 5/16 May-June, buyers at 30 7/16 March-May and probably 30 3/8 June.
SHANGHAI DOLLARS
No business was reported. There were sellers at 102 1/B. buyers at 102 3/18 for cash.
SHANGHAI MARKET Steady. There were sellers of Sterling at 1/2 19/32 for cash, buyers at 1/2 5/8 Cash. US, Dol- lars, sellers at 29 11/16, buyere at 29 3/4 for cash.
IN THE AFTERNOON The market continued dull in the afternoon and ne business wa reported.
IN STERLING Finished with sellers at 1/2 29/32 March-August, buyers at 1/2 15/16 for any delivery.
U.S. DOLLARS
The market closed with sellers at 30 3/8 March-April and 30 5/16 May-June, buyers at 30 7/16 for any delivery.
SHANGHAI DOLLARS Sellers at 102 1/8, buyers at 102 3/16 for cash..
Tak
Amer. Locomotive ... Amer. Metals
54
66'
281
Int. Tel. & Tele
Int. Dept Stores.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE Sailings
President Llaves" freedon't willings and their uniqua stoporne prirlingm, allow you is travol just estually us, you choom, And Dollar Blanship. Libat zed American Malt List. worldwide som end agents are maintained so, savu you "sabore in whatever place you chance to be." "Hike your next trip issore enjoyable, tenvalling *The President Linn väri
TO SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK AND BOSTON
fla Shanghai Tobe, Yokohama, Honolulu Sax Francisco, Panama
12
Canal and HavaDA.
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA "THE EXPRESS ROUTE"
Via Shanghai, Kobe and
Yokohama
Free, Hoover 10 am. Mor. 7th Pros. MoKinley M'night Mar. 18th Pres. Cleveland 6 am. Mar. 2ith || Pres. Grant M'night Mar. 28th Pres. Coolidge 10 am. Apr. 3rd Pres. Jackson M'night Apr 9th Pres, Taft
Prez, Jefferson 'ught Apr. 23rd Free. Hoover
Pres. McKinley Might May 7th Pres. Lincoln
Pres Grant M'night May 21st
a.m. Apr. 1st Noon May 1st 8am. May 19th
EUROPE, NEW YORK
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suás Canal Naples, Gans and Marsailles.
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE
Next Sailings
Ram. Mar. 6th Pres. Hayes 8am. Mar. ith 8am. Mar. 7th Pros. McKinley 6 pm. Mar. 6th 8 a.m. Mar. 17th Pres. Wilson 8 m. Mar. 1th
8 a.m. 4a.m. Mar. 28th.] Pros, Monroe
Mar. 17th 8am. Apr. 11th Proe. Cloreland 6 pm. Mar. 17th 8am. Apr. 8th. Pres. Grant 6pm. Mar. 20th
MOST FREQUENT SRETION ON THE PACIFIC
14
65.18 57.76 08.1
36.24 32.85 34.08
Stocks Great Northern Rly. Great Western Sugu Holly Sugar Corps. Humble Oil Int. Nickel
104.05 74.04 Business Dona:—1,000,000 shares,
Last Bala Feb. 26 7 47 472 361
Change .13 up ,20 up .00 ap .01 up ci up
.371
83+
711
832 701
134 134
93
$21
Kennecott Copper .. Lambert Corpn. Loew's Inc
Pres. Hayes
63+
621
Pres. Wilson
224 221
Pres. Monroe
794 191
Lorillard
261
261
Pres. Adams Pres. Harrison
McIntyfe Porcupine la
Pros. Polk
McKesson & Robbins 4811
46
Monsanto Chemical 95 93 Montgomery Ward ... 621 Murray Corpn.
64
18+
181
Nat Cash Registor - 371⁄2
371
Nat Dairy Products 241-
241
75. 763
Nat Distillers i
301
$1
+
34 18
Nat Power & Light New York Central 2
121
121
45
* 451
312
Niagara Hudson P.
Corpa. North American .....
154
15
301
30
Northern Pacific ....
311
318
Pacific Gas & Elec.
33
331
Pacifc Lighting
471
471
M.V.
Packard Motors
118
111
28
264
Pennsylvania RR
43
431
Phelps Dodge
Phillips Petroleum
531. 537
51&
Amer. Radiator
·Amer. Rolling Mill.. 361 Amer. Smelting 95$ Amer. Steel Fdriès.... 68 Amer, Sugar Amer. Tel. & Tel... 178) 1771 Amer. Tobacco "B" 951 Amer. Waterworks... 251 Anaconda Copper... 641 Atchison, T. &z 8. Fe. Atlantic Renning Atlas Corpn.
Auburn Motors
Baldwin Locomotive
cum. pl. 111 1111* Baltimore & Ohio... 27971 Barnsdall Of
301
Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel ...... 918 Boeing Airplane ...." 471 Borden Co. inte 267 Briggs M'facturing 64 Brooklyn-Manhattan
Trans
Brooklyn-Manhattan
$8. cum, pi. Cases J.I.
TIN STOCKS RISE Cerro de Pasco
Gratifying Figures For January
Tin stocks rose by 2158 tons during January. According to A. Strauss and Co., the visible supply increased by only 116 tons to 19,828 tons. But the carry forward in the Straits is up by 1,445, and that at the Arnhem Smelter by 712 tons. The total expansion is, therefore, 2,158 tons, and world stocks now amount to 24,959 tops.
Deliveries at 11,432 tons were quite good. The United States took 7,615 tons against 6.930 in the previous month, and there was an improvement also in de- Hveries in Holland and the Con- tinent. Supplies during January about 30 tons lower than those in December.
were
The market was expecting an increase of 2,000 tons in World stocks, and the price was Arm, Bpot metal rose 15s. to £225 128. 6d. per ton, and three months £1, to £1246 10s.
The Metal Exchange; as
whole, was quiet but copper Improved 17. ad, to £52 188. 94, while deal rose "2x, $d.. to £26 7s. 6d. Speculative buying of copper W85, once again, evident, on the be- lief that consumer demand will be renewed in the near future.
101.
62
43.
157
41
784
7
Chesapeake Corpm 781 Chesapeake & Ohio 65+ Chrysler Corpn. 1251 Columbia Gas & El., 171. Columbla 6% "A" DL Commercial
Credit 614 Commercial Solvents 131 Commonwealth & 8.
31 Commonwealth - $5 cum. pf........ Consolidated. Edison Consolidated on Continental Ou Curtiss Wright (C) Corn. Products ...
Curtiss Weight "A" 201 Delaware & Hudson Del Lackawanna &
Western
121 Distillers Corpo Bea.
gerards
Du Pont......................... 1704 Douglas Aircraft **** 654 Electric Boat ...... Elec. Bond & Share 251 Elec. Band & Share
$5 pi...... Elec. Sond & Share
$6 01.
283
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Paramount
+4
Public Service of N.J." 47+ 473
DOLLAR⚫ STEAMSHIP. LINES * AMERICAN • MAIL LINE*
PADDER BUILDING— HONG KONŮ,
474
CANTON BRANCH - —91, FRANCH COXCESSTON, SHAMEEN,
!
BURNS PHILP LINE
"NEPTUNA
Due 17th March
}
471
Pullman Inc. ........................
*98**
Pure Oll
19
191
Canadian Paclic Celanese Corpn. of
America
1601 17
181
Radio Corpn of Am.
IR
111
Republic Steel
347
35
Reynolds Tobac. "B"
054
559
36
St. Joseph Lead 'Co.
761
Schenley
467
481
Certain-Teed P'ducts 201
Schenley 51% pt.
871*
971
Sears Roebuck .....
BP", 901
Shell Union Ou
334
331
Soceny-Vacuum
18.
181
Southern Cal Edison
284.
281
Southern Pactic...
541
55
Southern Rly 5% 31. Stand Brands
321
321
151
151
Stand Gas & Elec. Stand Gas de Mec.
128 124
$T pt...... Standard Oil of N.J.
€2
52
721
721
Sterling Products ... 711
704*
Swift International
303
304
Technicolor
104
104
Texas Gulf sulphur
41*t
411
Tidewater Assoc. Oll Timken-Detroit Axle Transamerica
201 201
257 281
20th Cent. Fox Fima
20th Cent. Fox Flims
pt.
348
121*
161 161
35
422
Un. Carbide & Car-
bon
1!
Un. Pacific
United Aircraft
Un. Airline
TANK-
port
United Corpid.
106 1061 132 135
301 301
208. 201 62 61
Return: £76.-0-0
Passenger & Freight Agents
United
Corpn. 13
cum pf.
Joint Passenger Agents:-
431
43+
Un. Gas Fproven't 14
15.
Un. Light & power
US. Industrial Alco-
81
hot
391
U.B. Rubber
561
561
US. Rubber $8 pf- 111
112
UB. Steel
Vanadium
1107 31
Warner Bros Pict, ... Westinghouse Youngstown -
Sheet
111+ 311 15 151 Bec-155
1501
& Tuberma
257
147
77
844
Elec Power & Light 231 Elec Power & Light
$7 pt.
(Jen. Asphalt den. Clgar Gen. Electric Gen. Foods
364
Firestone Tire & B 427 Filntkote
47
601
43
654
Gen. MotorS
60%
"
Gen. Railway Signal
Gillette Bafety Razor, 263
Gold Dust Goodrich (BF.)... Goodrich $5 DË! Goodyear
61 40
864 186
384
In the other commodity mar kets there was a sharp reaction in cocca, The turn over in thla market wax extremely heavy amounting to 4,000 tons. The price fell by 2s. 6d. to 28. 9d, a hundredweight. March futures closed at 485., compared with '60s. 101d. on the previous day.
Wheat, on the other hand, rose by fąd. to id. per cental at Liver- pool, with March closing at 8s. 310,
NEW YORK RAW SILK MARKET
Good buying in hostery grades
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LINE was seen in the New York raw Tel. 98015, silk market recently, while wea- ver, likewise, have been taking in small supplies as prices eased. Some dealers, it is reported, have re-sold all available suppiles through March
MODERN
LIJN EXPRESS SERVICE
Hosiery mill orders are petering
SINGAPORE RAW
RUBBER
H. b.- JOSEPH & CO.
Hong Kong. Mar 1
Messrs H. BJdseph & Co., Te ceived the following quotations from Singapore in atraits Currency for Raw Rubber:
Buyers
Spot
30) Up t 362 Down i 37 Up 37
Market:Flimer.
April-June July-Sept Oct.-Dec.
81
PASSENGER & FREIGHT service to AUSTRALIA
Sailing 22nd MARCH,
→ for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Salamana, Rabaul,
Sydney & Melbourne.
First Class Fare to Sydney:
Single: 47.10.0d.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Telephone No: 28031.
P.&O. Building.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
King's Building..
40 Japan Suspends Steel
823 83i Chase National BL 81 *
607. -National City Bank 3711 571*
1% 1%
BA
Call Money
LEIPZIG SPRING
FAIR
Teipzig, Feb. 28,
Import Duties
To check the rising tendency in the price of steel materials, the Ministry of Commerce and Indus- try has decided to suspend the imposition of import duties on all steel materials and pig-iron, for a period of two years..
Drastic increases averaging 35 per cent. have been made in the prices of steel materials in recent months. Early in February,
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
...
AND
OCEAN STEAM SHIP 00, LTD CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO LID.
YUNSIGNEES per Co.'s Vessel
"PATROULUS "
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA BINGAPORE
round steel bars were being are hereby notified that their Cargo will be discharged into Holl's quoted on the market at Y.100 a Wharf, Kowloon, where it will Ho metric ton for domestic products at Consignees risk and subject to and Y.195 for imported goods. Terms and Conditions of Storage st. During 1936, Japan imported Holt's Whart Tho Cargo will be The Leipzig Spring Fair which 12300 metric tons of steel mate- and after lat Mary from Godown on Optional Cargo will not be landed was opened to-day, promises to be rials, on which the Customs re- a record-breaking one insofar as It is estimate that imports this to Yuel's rival, but carried on: from ceipts amounted to 10.860.000 here, i use Notios bag bean girsa prior the attendance is concerned
year will total 890.000 metric tons. port to port to the final Foreign exhibiting fems num- Based on these figures, the pre Allbroke, chafed and chamaged Goods ber 017 as against 478 Last year sent decision of the Japanese are to be left in the Godown, where they and foreign buyers total $3,000 Government for the suspension will be examined on any Tuesdays and compared with 24,000 of the pre-of imposition of duty on steel Fridays between the hours of 1045 vious year, e 720p
means a reduction of about. Yil.-; had Noor within the Fres Storage period.
No Clans will be Altogether zz nations are repro 000,000 in the Customs receipts Goods Fave left the Vessel's Godown admitted alter the sented in the Fair, and the zumer- for the coming financial year and all Goods remaining unde vered ons visitors indicate that the Fair Of the total ports of steel after the 8th Mar will be subject
ko which, fle
All broken optice axter Dost of call
to
outs hosters are seeking new silks expect heavier movements of ¦ is also growing là this direction. I sheets, bars and billets constituted Beams against the Vill
business for Immediate delivery, printa in March. which regarded as a weakening The gastness of futures bas of the full fashioned price strue brought out more extensive cover
thing and speculative support, while In the meantime, while pre- the situation of rayon yarn, in Easter business "so far has been the meantime,” is becoming in- disappointing." traders in broad creasingly tight.
ture.
znat
Because of the exceptionally large | 200,000 metric tons and others All number of visitors, the board of 290,000 tons. It is expected that be presented to the Undersigned on. or before the 22nd Mar, or they will not directors of the Fair have provid-mportation of sheets, bars and be recognised, ed a "House of Nations" which will billets will remain unchanged for No Fire Insurance will be lected be the central meeting point for 1937, but arrivals of other steel BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, foreign vialtore and buyers.- materials will increase to 350,000
Agenia Transocean Yews Bervice,
metric tons;
1st March, 1937.
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