1932-02-09 — Page 8

Special Dinner Dance

ON THE UQUASION OF THE VISIT OF THE

"EMPRESS OF BRITAIN"

FROM WHIAN VIENAL OT 14 TOURISTS

AT THE

WILL да PREBENT,

Peninsula Hotel

"ROSE" ROOM & ROOF GARDEN

BOOK

EARLY

THURSDAY

11th

FEBRUARY

1982

8,80 p.m. till i a.m.

$7.00

PER PERSON

PHONE G8061

ne Wasion! Accaagements will be augmented

by a apelat iad from the Empress of Britain."

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

NOTICE

We beg to announce a substantial reduction in all and of Wines our prices Spirits as from Feb. 1st.

Kindly send or telephone for our new Price Lists.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

(lncorporated moder the Companies' Urdinances of Bang Kong).

Tel.

Princas Building

loo House.Street.

20075.

TESTER'S BEAUTY PARLOUR

FOR--

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SINCERE'S STORES

OPEN TO-DAY

From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

AS USUAL

For the Best

LOCAL VIEWS

and

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Go To

MEE CHEUNG

Studio, Ios House St.

Branch 7,Beacons Ardaedalč.

THE

HONGKONG

LUXURY LINER.

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1932.

P. AND O. CARTHAGE DUE TO-MORROW.

The new P. and O. Hner Carthage, sistership of the Corfe which passed through Hongkong recently, will ar- rivo in port to-morrow about 10 a.m. from London via Bingapore.

Built for the F. and O. service from London and Marseilles to the Far East, the Carthage combines comfort and oase in travelling with bonuty and luxury of taste. There are singis and double bedrooms, BORIO with private bath, all furnished with A care of detall pleasing to the øye.

Superbly appointed lounges, foyers, dining rooms and smoking rooms are features of the vessel. In addition the ship possesses an open-air swim- A spacious ming bath on deck.

оп American verandah Cafe with bar, children's nursery and many other minor facilition for passengers,

The vessel has a tonnage of 14,600) ton, and is provided with every con- venience which forethought and in- genuity have been able to contrivo for the comfort and enjoyment of pas- Bongers.

Smoking Room.

I

the carved

furni-

of

This room, pine-panelled 17th Century manner, with mantlepiece and comfortablo ture, in a fine example of the P. & 0. practice of combining beauty design with practical arrangement. Large Initive windows give light to the room by day, and diffused arti ficial lighting adds to its charm by night.

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The George V lounge Imparts nir of restfulness and quietude in an atmosphere of beauty and modernity. Over the fireplace hangs a fine point- ing, on either side of which is n de- The corative panel it from behind, subdue patterns of the mrpete, and thu unpolished mahogany JATI

to the ayenmore furniture nil add charms of the room.

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The second class public rooms are planned on much the same generous lines

those of the first claan. The raminiscent of a modern French style and in panelled with sycamore ply- wood, with its doors, skirtings, and pilasters in pollshod walnut. Its skilfully designed lighting and its walnut furniture it may be described an a model of quiet, good taste.

Munic Room.

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The music room or lounge eminently suited for the purpose for which it has been designed. It in panelled in bird's-eye maple, its doors and columns being of pollshed walnut. The furniture is of walnut and uncut noquette, with loose cretonne cover. Inset in a handsome marble fireplace Is an electric fire, and the floor of the room is covered beneath is enr pets with rubeolum paid in effects.

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The second class smoking room is decorated in the Georgian style, of which it is suggestive. Two leaded glass windows find their place in the forward butk-hend, and the octagonal ceiling lights and electrle candle brackets in bronzo add a pleasantly modern touch. An electric firo set in handsome fireplace adds to the room's cheerful aspect.

All cabins have hot and cold run- aing water and the latest systems of mechanical ventilation.

PUDLO

BRAND

CIMENI WATER PROCTE

Renders all Cenord Work

DRY AS THE DESERT

Comp Lasing Toda

Limel by the War Offer

Boje Agents for Honkong &B, China. BODWELL A COMPANY, LTD.

Tul. 28071 Hongkong •

SHARE PRICES,

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. The following Is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Banks, 81370 an. Chartered Banks, £12 n. Mercantile A. and D., £18 n. East Asia, $127 n.

Insurances Canton Ina., $1,350 n. Union Ins., $400 ka. China Underwriters, $4.62% 5. China Fires, $590 n. H.K. Firo In., $1,250 n.

Shipping.

Douginner, $25 b.

H. K. Steamboats, $23 n. Indo-Chinas, (Prof.) $45 1- Union Waterboats, $20 n.

Mining.

Denguets, $11.50 ea. Kaflans, 30/- #

WHERE WORLD'S GOLD IS HID.

A

MERICA holds 45 per cent. of

the world's gold. 'It is por- · fectly true that she does. I have just seen it. With my own eyes I have gazed on riches greater than anything posscased by Bolomon.

The Federal Reserve Bank in New York is of grey granite--the very essence of solidity.

It took me twelve days and ton letters to get permission to see the this heard of gok and getting permission is not everything. The policemen at the doors have first to be assured that one's permit la not faked, the armed guarda with- in have then to be passed, I was interviewed by three officinis, who

S'hal Explorations,. Tis. 2.70 n.had revolvers at their hips. Not Raubs. $30 8.

Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $168 h. Whampoa Docks, $29 n. South Chinn Motors $10 n. Providenis cold), $6.30 Hongkowa, Tlr. 220 n. New Engineers Tis. 6. Shanghai Docks, Tls, 90% n. Cottons.

Ewo Colfons T. 15 n. Shanghai Cottons, Ts, 80 n. Zoon Slugs Tis. 111⁄2 n.

Londe, Hotels, etc. FL.K. Hotels old) $83,90 sa. H.K. S. Hotels Chew: $13. 4.

1. K. Lands, $78. S'hai Lands, Tls, 30 Humphreys $18. Reulties, $11.65 .

Public Utlkies. Tramways, $21,10 b. Peak Trams, (old), $15.80 n. Star Ferries, $99 b. China lights, $224. H. K. Electrics, $76 6, Macan Electrics, $23 n. Telephones. $43 n. China Buses, Tix. 10 n. Singapore Tractions. 3/- b.

Industrials,

Malbons, 838 1. Canton lee., $5 n. Cements (com.) $17.60 *. Ropes, $16 8.

Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $28 11. Watiann, $16.50 1. Der A. Wings. $1 n. Lane Crawfords, $6.35 n. Mackintosh, $19 b, Sinceres 316 n. Powells, $9.60 .

Miscellaneous, Amusements, $18 b Entertainments (old) $10% n. Construction (old), $5.10 3. 3. C Enterprises $10 n. Constructions (new), $2 s2. B. Ind. G. $ Bonds, $58% n. Loans, $8% b. Prem.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris Geneva,.

Berlin.

OBI... Helsingfors.

Athens..

Thursday, .87%

17%

.14.17/32

18%

235

.270

Buenos Aires. .30%

Shanghai... .1/10.13/18

New York..

Amsterdam.

Vienna.. Madrid. Bucharest

Hongkong. Brussels Milan Stockholm.

Copenhagen Prague. Lisbon Rio...

Bombay. Yokolinma Montovideo.

.3.46%

.8.56

.32

.44.5/10

580 1/5,16/32 24.76 .00%

.17.13/16

18

116

100% .4.3/16 .1/0.0/82

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Until I had passed all their ques- toys with flying coloura was 1 permitted to follow another offelal into the smooth, cell-like lift.

There was no starting lever. My guide had to telephone to pn in- visible operator in the vaults for the lift to be lowered, and even then he had to give three pass- words. We descended. We stop- ped. We passed through a tunnel where there was not room for the

two of us to walk abreast, and } had to prevede my guide. A cor Fidor of Bolld steel! I was told eight fect. that the walls were thick. Upon the other side of them the sea surget. Ind we two been a marauling horde, the cor- ridor could have been flooded by the touch of a lever.

Like Books on a Shell.

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Our every movement was watch- ed by the vault guard, Lang mirrors at the corners betray the whole of the corridor to his eyes. On and un, twisting and turning. then into a wider open space. turn to the right . and there was the gold. It gleamed lamin- ously behind Iron bars, shelf upon shelf.

bricks worth thousande ronged like books. "£15,000,000," my companion unconcernedly re- have twenty of marked, "We these cells here, all containing the Would you like to same amount. see them?"

10"

Would I? My heart beat high. My fingers clutched at the guard- ing bars. 1 could scarcely remove my eyes from the soft radiance. of it, Gold, gold! gold! Ounces

More pounds of it, tons of it! gold than is gathered together in any one place in the world. I saw It all.

We removed on to another little room. Small bricks of Kaffir gold, ench worth £2,000, were stacked floor. into a little heap on the Above and around bars of solid Rold were ranged on shelves. Gold pressed out and ready for minting. formi. Yesterday. Gold in the erude nugget

87.13/10

Goldi

17.70

14.7/32 In one room, bars of It!-in-an-

18% other, bricks; in a third, millions

224

270

of little exiled British sovereigns, 39% stored in canvas baga. I was al- one bay. "It's Holiday lowed to handle

ans-

a

I commented. "1 3.45% very heavy," 8.67% should think so, my guide

32 wered, you could enjoy £100 45 week for life from the contents of 580 it."

Holiday 24.25/32

45-Ton Doors,

00% Gradually, the defences of this 17% storehouse were explained. The 18.5/10 main underground entrance to the doors, 116% vaults is guarded by two 100% each forty-five tons in welght, each 13/16 held in place by two electrically- 1/6.9/64 controlled two, hundred pound

2/0

31 boits. The twin combinations of

4 the lock are not known to any one on earth. One man

Montreal... .3.06

Silver (spot)...19%

19

(forward) 10%

19

man

one:

one man

-Brillah Wireless.

knowa knows another. (Continued on Next Column.)

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These Eggs are

produced in the New Territories by

Pure Bred Cana- dian Chickens.

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Should they daro to co-operate, hundred shota a minute, and more there is another defensive men- ordinary revolvers. An army of five hundred men is at bock and call. Even if all those measures Every time that the door is open-could not prevent slege, the od, a danger bell rings in the vaults are victualled, for three bank's police headquarters In an- months,

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