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SHARE PRICES-

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day.

Banks.

H.K. Banks, $1810 b. H'kong Banks, $1814 n. Chartered Bank, £14% n.

Mercantile Back, A.

.

·

£20% 0. Mercantile Bank 0.. £12% n. East Asia Bank, $101 n.

B

Am: 0. Finance Corp., 8h. $20 n China D. Fin. Ord, 9h.$4.75 p. China 0. Fin. Prof. Sh. $5 n.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., $810 ́. Union Ins., $580 b.

China Underwriters, $1.65 n. Chinn Firo, $625 n.

H.K. Fire, Ins., $200/270 BA International Asace, Sh. $6.25 n.

Shipping.

Dougins, $34 b.

H.K. Steamboats, $16 n. Indo-Chinas, (Prof.), $80 m Indo-Chinas,- (Def.), $35′′ 11. Shells (Bearer), 51/3 n. Union Waterboats, $15 n.

Mining.

Antamoks, 83 cts. n. Balatoca, 34, eta, n. Bagulo Gold, 50 cta. n.

Bengueta, $40 n.

Benguet Exploration, 80 cts. b.

Benguet Goldfield, 80 cta. n.

Big Wedge, 30 cta, n.

Gold Greek, $9 n.

Ipo Mining, $9 n.

Itogons, $74 n.

Kallana, 23/8 n.

Langkats (Single), $18 n.

S'hat Explorations, Sh, $4.35 v.

S'hal Loans, $0.65 n.

Raubs; $13.20 b.

Vonz: Goldfields, $0 n.

Blocks etc.

H.K. Wharves, $115 b. H.K. Docks, $161⁄44 m.

S. China Motors A., $0 n. 8. Chian Motors B., 88 n. Providents (old), $2.70 b. Providents (now), $1.35 n. Hongkews, Sh. $361 n. Now Engineerings, Sh. $7 n. -Shanghai Docks, Sh. $149 n.

Cotton Mills.

Ewo Cottons, $13 b." S'hai Cottons, Sh. $117% n.. Zoong Singe, Sh. $13 n. Wing On Textiles, Sh. 870 n.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

II. and S. Hotola, $0.80 m, H.K. Lands, $714 n. S'hai Lands, Sh, $30% n. Metropolitan Lands, Sh. $14 n. Humphreys, $12' n.

H.K. Reditios, $5.50 n.

Asia Rexities "A" Bh. $140 n. Asia Realties "B" Sh. 820 n. Chinese Estates, $97 b. China Realties, Sh, $151⁄2 n. China Debonturo, Sh.$137 n.

Public Utilities. Tramways, $21 b. Peak Trams (Old), $15% n. Poak Trams, (New), $7 n. Star Ferries (old), 899% b. Yaumati Ferries (old), $24% D China Lights (old), $0.60 8. China Lights (new); $934 n. .H.K. Electrics, $744 da.

Macno Electrics, $22 b. Bandakan Lights. $10. Telephones (c. Rt.), $30 n. Telephone (Rights), $11 n. Telophone (x. Rt.), $24.90 n China Busts, Sh. $11, D. Singapore Tractions, 8/-. Singapore Pref., 15/« n.

Industrials.

Malabon Sugars $15 n. Cald: Macg. (old), Bh. $21 n. Cald: Macx. (Prof.), $19 a. Canton Leea $24 n. Cements (Com.), $1.60 n. Cements (old), $2.60 n. Coment (New), 5 cts. n. H.K. Ropes, 80% ¤,

Biores, etc.

Dairy Farms, $23 n. Watsons, $6.30 b.

Dor A Winga. 31 n. Lane Crawfords, $4 b. Mackintosha. 821 m. Sinceros, $18,20 n. Wo Powells $2.10 n. Wing On (H.K.), $140 n.

Miscellaneous.

Amusements, 84% n.

:

H.K. Entertainments, $10% n. 3.C. Enterprises, $1 n.

United Thbatros, Sh. $2 n. Macao "Greyhounds,” $2 n. Constructions (old), $2 n. Constructions (now), 60 ets, D., B. Ind. G. Bonds, $81% n. H.K, Govt. Lonn $4% b. Prom, Wallace Harpers, $3 n.

SANTA

CLAUS

DUE HERE

SATURDAY

DEC. 16TH

HEADQUARTERS :-

SINCERE'S SANTALAND

CHRISTMAS TIME IS MECCANO TIME.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.

NEW YORK STOCK|

EXCHANGE

YESTERDAY'S MARKET

STEADY

SINO-JAPANESE RAPPROCHEMENT?

KENSINGTON'S NOISY "GHOST TRAIN”

Elusive Visitor That Spoils Sleep

Warwick-gardens at about six miles an hour, bringing 'distracted windows householders to their muttering curses and imprecations on the disturbor of their slumbers. A committoo of Kensington residents is now being formed, to track the offendor and stimulate the polleo to action.

RUBBER SHARES

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

Dec. 6 Dec. 13 $6.25 $4.40 2.00 2.20

(Continued from Page 8.) rapprochement, but most members

Messrs. Benjamin and Potts have of the Government would not be

tions of rubber shares from their According to Messrs. Swan Culbert, sorry to see it brought about. If

Unexpected Arrival, ́-, received the following cabled quota. son and Fritz, tho Now York market they could escape the personal

"The dimculty," explained one Shanghal office: was steady yesterday. Business done odlum attaching to those respon-

Strong complaints are being 1,400,000 shares. The Wall Streetsible for engineering it. Journal reports: The market was

An overwhelming majority of made by residents in Kensington of the residents in Watwick about the disturbance of their gardens,. "is to trace the actual quiet and generally downward due to profit-taking and grain prices were foreigners in China would be re-night's rest by a mysterious noise lorry or tractor which makes all Anglo-Javas

a Sino-Japanese in the early morning.

the commotion. We never know Anglo-Dutch depressed on account of professional lieved to see selling. The undertone, however, was rapprochement, not because they The source of the naiso has ant when it is coming, but it arrives Batu Anams Brm. Communication stocks respond. hold pro- or anti-Chinese or Japan-yet been traced, but from all ac-always at a most inconvenient. Chem

Consolidateds od moderately to the announcement

esa vlow, but because the continu-

Repaha that President Roosevelt is studying

"Last night I heard it coming Kroawocks ous hostility between the two counts it appears > be caused by hour.

a heavy tractor or lorry loaded with the merger proposals of the Postal

loose metal pipes or rails, or pos- when it was about 300 yards away. Tanah Merahs Telegraph and the Western Union, peoples is a source of serious em-

milk churns, which but by the time I had put on my Tobangs United States bonds were firm and barrassment to them, Many ofibly empty

them and social periodically through dressing gown and slippers it had Ziangber relations with both nationalities. Many questions which present Kensington at an hour when all passed the house, and I did not fancy the idea of chasing it up difficulties to trade and industry in good citizens should be asleep.

The last "appearance" of what is the atroot." China can only be solved satisfac- popularly known as the Kensington it is proposed to form a night next "appearance" its number may hla bo taken and other evidence torily by cooperation between Ghost Train was at about 1 am: watch, each member taking Chinese, Japanese, and other fore

doilar. Foreign bonds were unsettled due to a sharp break in the German dollar issues.

Iron Age Moparine cable report: Stoel Froduction was reported at 31.5% of capacity mostly due to in creased fulfilment of expiring orders. Rall deliveries are not expected to atart until late winter. Public Works programme le the predominant con- sumer, buying 28,300 tons as com pared with 22,300 tons last week, Exports are rising, especially to Welsh tinplato mills.

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and rattlings, it crashed along, night, so that at the Ghost Train's sleep has been disturbed, Igners. As long as the Sino-recently, when, with sundry snorts turn at sitting up throughout the collected from residents whose

Japanese feud simmers, however, such cooperation is out of the question, and any non-Japanese foreigner who suggests it is likely to fall between two stools. by arousing suspicion and antagonism Our New York office cable:-

In both camps. Both peoples are Stocks: The market continued to fluctuate within a narrow range with at present in such a hypersensitive little outsido interest. Wheat: The frame of mind that they are in- market in decidedly oversold and clined to take the view that anyone. natural reaction is overdue. Cotton: who is not for them is against Trading is limited but undertone of them. Yet the wheels of com- the market is steady and the general merce have to continue to revolve, feeling bullish. Silver: The market and the average business man can- closed strong on unconfirmed rumours not govern all his actions by con- that the RF.C. gold price may ad-siderations whether this or that vance to-morrow.

The RF.C. gold price yesterday $34,01, unchanged.

The Dow Jones commodity Index 47.83, off .00.

The opening figure of the Dow Jones Industrial average yesterday was 101.60.

Dow Jones N.Y. averages;

Dec. 12. Dec. 18, 80 Industrials

100.00 ... 101.04 20 Ralls

42,47 41.09 20 Uulitics

24.37 24.45

40 Bonda............... 63.12 03.11

The following market closing prices are quoted subject to confirmation as to accuracy in tratamission:

Dec. 12. Dec. 13,

8%

Chrysler Corporation 62

Columbia Gas

??

Ung.

transaction or utterance will give offence to Chinese or to Japanese, If, as it must frankly be admitted, de jure recognition of Manchukuo by the Chinese Government is out of the question in the present state of national feeling, that is not a Bulelent reason for burying one's hend in the Band and refusing to face facts. Sooner or later the Chinese and the Japanese must evolve some understanding by which they can live peaceably alde by side, and trade with each other. They may do so on a basis of international cooperation, or on the lines of a Pan-Aslan movement. The former must naturally com- mend itself to the other foreign communities in the Far East, who: therefore view with no little mis- glving the ease with which publle feeling in both nationa enn be in- flamed on the basis of real or: imaginary grievances, ngainst other nations. Even the settle- ment of so-called local issues in the North would in large measure restore confidence in the stability and future prosperity of China, and thus produco beneficial results both for China herself, and for all foreign interests In this country.

FUTURE OF S.M.R.

REORGANISATION PLAN NOW

APPROVED

Dairen, Dec. 13. The wide and dangerous dif- ferences between tho Kwantung Army and the South Manchuria Railway management over the pro- posals for the reorganisation the railway, are belleved to have

been overcome,

of

It was announced at Changchun to-day that final plans have been completed for presentation

to

Tokyo for ministerial approval. Their nature is now disclosed, but it is believed that they safeguard the employee.

The employees, nevertheless, are sending a delegation to Tokyo to protect their interests.-Router.

Adams Express Alaska Juneau Gold

Mining Co.

B1⁄4

20%

21

Allied Chemical

cal A Dya

American Can American & Foreign Power.... American & Foreign Pow. 7% Pref. .. American & Foreign

147 08

1404 D7%

15%

10

201

Pow. Warrants.. American Metal ...

0%

18%

7 18轮

American Smelting 43

4271

American Tel. & Tol. 1204

120

American Tobacco

76

74%

American Water-

worka

194

10%

Anaconda Copper

14%

14

Auburn Automobile 55%

64

Atlas Corporation ..

11%

Ung.

Baltimore & Ohio

25%

24%

Bethlehem Steel

36%

36%

Borden Company

213

21

Borg Warner

10%

1014

Canadian Pacife

Kallway

18%

Case, J.

72%

71

Chase National Bank

(bid prica)

184

18%

esapeake Corpora

tlon

3644

35 51%

Electric

1244 12%

Commonwealth and

Southern

1%

1%

Consolidated Gas of

New York

3914

Continental Oil

181

Corn Products

76

38% 18% 771⁄4

Coly Inc.

1

4

Curtiss Wright Com.

24%

2%

Dougins Aircraft ..

144

14

Du Pont de Nemours

01%%

Eastman Kodak

83

8914 .81

Electric

Bond &

Share

14%

14

Electric Power &

Light

0%

Fox Film "A"

5% 164 Unq.

General Aviation

Unq.

N.J.

404

46%

General Motore General

Rallway

Signal

20% 201

37 34%

34 *186

30%

30% 30 Har- vester

42 41 International Nickel 21 21%

Sterling Products

30%

Inc.

G2

62%

:34

Studebaker Corpora-

tion

4%

44

34

Texas Corporation.

20

25%

18

Texas Guit Sulphur

42%

424

&

Transamerica

0%

0%

35%

Union Carbide

Carbon

404

40%

Union Pacific Rail-

way...............

113

113

United Aircraft &

Trans.

83%

83

International Tel: &

United Corporation G

GX

Tel........

14

14%

United Gos

Im-

Johns Manville....

01%

60%

provement

154

15%

Kennecott Copper..

2014

20%

U.S. Rubber

17

10

Lehman Corporation 70%

60%

U.5. Steel

47

47

Liggett & Myern "B" 80 Loo's Inc. ... Lorillard P. (Com.) 17% 18 McIntyre Porcupine

Minca Ltd.

37% 30 Montgomery Ward 234 National City Bank

(bid price)

86%

32

32

234

Tobacco Vanadium Warner

Pictures Westinghouso E.

M.

Ung.

Ung.

23

2014

Brothers

0%%%

11

40

20

16 T 201

Woolworth

42%

414.

37

36

North American Co. 16% Owens-Illinois Gloss 83

15%

82

Electric

184

17%

Packard Motors

4%

41

Fennsylvania Rail-

rond....

31%

30

Pernread Corpora

tlon

2

*

17

10%

7% 7

214 314

48% 4844 41% 42%

General Electric General Foods

Gold Dust

Goodyear Tiro

Rubber International

International

Cement

Universal

Whatever you

do. 1.

WHISKY VALUES!

"LOOK AT

THOSE PRICES!"

PRICES COMPLETELY REVISED

Crawford's Old Matured

N. J. Club

"

$4.20 per bottle $49.50 c/s $4.50

$53.00 $60.00 »

Campbells "White Heather" 12 yrs. old $5.25

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AT

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THEY MARRIED TO BE FREE!

She Wanted Him As A Lover

He Wanted Her As A Mistress

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IN

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Hears Roobuck Shell Unlen ***** 8%

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Elson

104

104

Standard

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8%

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