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MISCELLANEOUS.
Three HOME WANTED FOR DOG. year old Alsatian. Good house dog. Owner leaving Colony. Apply Box No. 445, "Hongkong Telegraph."
FOR SALE.
FORD V8 4-door de luxe, in excellent Licensed June, Insured condition. September, owner driven. Write Box No. 444, "Hongkong Telegraph."
LOST.
com-
WHITE CANARY lost from Repulso
please Finder Bay Hotel. municate with Mrs. A. C. Ellis, Repulse Bay Hotel.
MANILA SHARES
The following business done quota- tions were received after the close of the morning session by Swan, Cul-
bertson & Fritz office:
Antamak
Atok....
Bagula Gold
from their Manila
Benguet Consolidated
Coco Grove
Confalidatet Mines.
Demonstration
IX.L........
Paracio Qumaus
Ban Mauricio
Suyoc
United Pacasato
Business Done Prices in Pesca
Unquoted Unquoted Unquoted
0.50
63
Unquoted
30
.74
Unqueted
.194 18 41
The tone of the market: - Dull.
HARMON TROPHY FOR PILOT DICK MERRILL
Washington, Mar. 10. On the basia of hls round-trip across the Atlantic 331 connection with the delivery of pictures of the the Coronation of Their Majestics
Dick King and Queen of England, Merrill has been awarded the Harmon Trophy for 1937's outstanding flying performance by President F.
Roosevelt. United Press. -
D.
REPORTS CAR STOLEN Mrs. C. Withers, of the Royal Artillery Mess, Gun Club Hill, re- porled to the pollee yesterday that her motor car, No. 419, was stolen from a car park in Kowloon, It contained a waterproof cover, and was worth $390,
PICKPOCKET BENTENCED Three months' imprisonment was imposed on Lou So, 13, nemployed, by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning for the theft of a fountain pen from Mr. Hyland Lyon, of Arlington Hotel, at Queen's Road Central, yesterday afternoon."
LOVE AS PRIMITIVE AS THE FOREST..AS UNDYING AS THE MOUNTAINSI
REX BEACH'S
The
BARRIER
A Paramount Plague wit
LEO CARRILLO
JEAN PARKER JAMES ELLISON, OTTO KRUGER. ROBERT- BARRAT ANDY CLYDE ADDISON RICHARDS 'SARA HADEN
Blowed by tostay falender
A Harry Sherman Productor:
Coming Attraction
ALHAMBRA
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY.....
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
Owners of a foreign-
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY NOTICE 18 HÉREBY GİVEN that an extraordinary general OF CANTON, LTD.
meeting of the above named Company will be held at the Notice to Shareholders
oflices of the Company No. 2 flagged 250 H.P. seagoing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Jun's Building, Victoria, in the tugboat and two 400 tons are willing to that the ORDINARY YEARLY Colony of Hongkong, on the 28th lighters MEETING of the Society will be March, 1938, at 12.15 p.m. or gu
soon thereafter as the annual charter their craft for tran- held at the HEAD OFFICE, Union general meeting convened at the sportation-purposes. Those Building, Hong Kong, on WED-sume place on that day at noon interested should write to NESDAY, 13th APRIL, 1938, at shall be concluded for the purpono 11a.m., for the purpose of recely- of considering and if thought at Box No. 446, "Hongkong Ing the Report, of the Directors passing with or without amend- Telegraph.”
and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1937, And of declaring Dividend, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 20th MARCH to 13th APRIL, Both Days Inclusive.
.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hongkong, 14th March, 1938.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
ment the following resolution an an ordinary resolution:-
NOTICE
We beg to notify that we have appointed Messrs. Yinly & Co.,
"That it is desirable to capitalize the sum of $507,300,00 being part of the undivided.. profits of the Company standing to the credit of the Company's reserve fund and accordingly for the purpose of affecting such capitalization in pursuance of article 122 (n) (b) of the Company's Articles of | Association a bonus of $2.50 per share on the issued shares of the Company bo and the same is hereby declared and that the Board of Directors be and they are hereby authorised to satisfy Notice to Shareholders such bonus by the distribution
mongst the persons who NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN registered as holders of the pre- that the SIXTY-NINTH ORDIN- sent fasued shares of the Company on the 28th day of March, 1938, ARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its HEAD of one of the newly issued shares OFFICE, Union Building, Hong of the Company credited as fully Kong,
13th paid up in respect of every four WEDNESDAY, on APRIL, 1938, at 11.20 a.m., for the shares of the Company hold by purpose of receiving the Report such persons as aforesaid and A. S. WATSON & CO.,
aro
that such new shares rank pari pusnu with shares already issued
of the Directors and the State ments of Account to 31st Decem- ber, 1937, and of declaring Divi-as from the 1st day of July, 1938, dends, etc.
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 26th MARCH to 13th APRIL Both Days inclusivo.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager. Hongkong, 14th March, 1938.
BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
Notice to Shareholders
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SEVENTY-SECOND OR- DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held ́nt its HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 13th APRIL, 1938, at 11.25 n.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directora and tho. State- ments of 'Account to 31st Decem- ber, 1937, and of declaring Divi- dend, etc:-
The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS | of the Company will be CLOSED from 26th MARCH to 13th APRIL, Both Days Inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
A. W. HUGHES,
General Manager, Hongkong, 14th March, 1938.
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Oilkes of the Company, 2 Queen's Building. Hongkong, on Monday, 28th March, 1938, at Noon for consideration of the Directors' Roport and Statement!
31st December, 1937.
with regard to dividend and that the Board of Directors Issue to shareholders holding a number of shares which is not a multiple of four, a fractional certificate in respect of the odd share or shares held by them and allot one new share to every person who shall produce (with such period as the Board of Directors shall determine) fractional certificates making in the aggregate a total of one share and that fractional
certificates shall carry no right to participate in dividends."
Dated this 17th day of March,
1938.
E. COCK, Chief Manager.
ST. PATRICK'S BALL
FRIDAY-18th March, 1938.
PENINSULA HOTEL
King's Building, Tel. 23178.
as our Hong Kong Agents.
International Guides
Bureau
Shanghai.
LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the FIFTY-THIRD ORDIN- ARY YEARLY MEETING of the
be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Company (since registration) will
Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, the 22nd MARCH, 1938, at 11.30 A.3L for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managera together with a
Statement of
Accounts for the year ended 31st
OCTOBER, 1937.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the
Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 12th MARCH, 1938, to TUESDAY, the 22nd MARCH, 1938, both days inclusive, JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, 4th March, 1938.
NEW YORK STOCK
EXCHANGE
SWAN, CULBERTSON & FRITZ LATEST REPORTS
New York, Mar. 16.
S. C. & F. Dow Jones summary of yesterday's markets:
Members of St. Patrick's Society of Hong Kong and their guests are informed that there will be a Special FIVE MINUTES Service of "STAR". FERRIES from HONG KONG to KOWLOON between
Prices to-day were lower on む 9.00 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. on 18th
sharply-accelerated market. The March and SPECIAL FERRIEStickers were once several minutes from KOWLOON TO HONG KONG behind the prices, while the list was at 2.00 a.m., 2.45 a.m. and 3.15 a.m.
onee from 1 to 0 points lower before on the following morning.
any support was received. The A BUFFET SUPPER will be murket then steadied and revived served from 11.30 p.m. to 1.30 n.m. | sharply. Prices here were influenced Tables may be booked with the by the persistent selling of British Management of the Peninsula gilt-edged securities Hotel before 7.00 p.m. on the night of the Ball,
Admission to the Ball is by ticket only which is to be present ed at the MAIN ENTRANCE to the Hotel.
Tickete may bo. obtained from the Hon. Secretary.
R. HL C. HALLOWES,
Hon. Secretary,
of Accounts for the year ending St. Patrick's Society of Hongkong. c/o Public Works Department
P. O. Box 417.
The Share Register and Trans- fer Book will be closed from 12th to 28th March, 1938, both days inclusive.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF:
DIRECTORS,
E. COCK, Chlof Manager. Hongkong, 3rd March, 1998.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
or
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders.
The Sixty-ninth Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the andersigned on Tuesday, the 29th March, 1938, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of with a statement of Accounts for the General Managers, together the year ended the 81st December,
1987.
The Fifty-seventh Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Messrs. Jar dine; Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder
The Share Register and Trans- Street, Hong Kong, on Thursday, fer Books will be closed from the J1st March, 1933, at noon, for the 15th to the 29th March, 1938, both "purpose of receiving the Report
in
London.
Continental Europe dumped holdings of repatriated proceeds, causing Sterling to break. The Street anti- cipated irregularity on the basis of the British decline and the weakened technical position, Farm equipments showed wide breaks. Rollroads touched many new lows for the year, but some later moderately revived. Gold minings sagged with Dome Mines touching a new low. Curb stocks and Bonds were both lower.
S. C. & F. New York correspondent
cables:
Stocks: The market to-day turned weak, as traders sell when the anti- cipated foreign buying falls to materialise. For a .quick trading turn, we would buy active issues like U.S. Rubber, Bethlehem Steel, International Nickol and Anaconda Copper,
Cotton; The spreading of poillical unrest abroad revived apprehenalon and retarded business, but no great selling pressure developed.
Wheat: The strength of grain and the weakness of the stock market is viewed in some quarters as an ominous indicated of the changed trend in foreign political DSWE.
totalled 1,000,000 bushels. Jepan is England bought 2,000 tons of Russian wheat, while ́our ́export · · sales reported to be enquiring for Aus tralian freight space.
Carn: The market largely follow- ed the trend of the wheat market:
Rubber: The market was affected, with others, by the action of stocks and by foreign political news. Japan JARDINE, MATHESON & is reported to be a buyer. Amo-
CO., LTD.
of the Directors, passing the days inclusive. Accounts, and sleeting Directors and Auditors,
The Trasfor "Books of the Company will be closed from the 24th March to 14th April Inclu- kalyojuak de *
By-order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON" & CO., LTD. General Managers,
11th Marab, 1988.
General Managers,
The Hongkong, Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 7th March, 1988. I
FORE COUNT THE MATH TELEGRAPH EVERYWHERE E
J. ULLMANN
& CO.
Established 1860
ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL
OF A NEW ASSORTMENT
OF WATERPROOF MODERN
WATCHES
RECORD
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
RADIO BROADCAST
(Continued from Part 1.1.
The Hongkong Stock Exchange Z.E.K, on; a Frequency of: 640 Kilo official
summary issued at 12.30 p.m. cycles pa yesterday, reads:
8.03 London Hèlay...The Band of During the anort sesalon, the mar- Els Majesty's Irish Guards. ket was quiet but the undertone was stendy. A fair amount of shares changed hands, as there were ready buyers for all that was offered.
Douglases $65
Buyers
KK., Steamboats #1214 Providents (014) $3.55 Providenta (New) $1.35 ;
BAZOR
*Humphreys 19,30/5
, H.K. Landa 17% Deb $100
HK. Resitles 10.30 Chinose Fatales, $95 HK. Tramways) 315,40 Posk Trams (013) 87 Yaumati Ferries $20 China Lights (oid) sízy. China, Lights (Now) $950 Bandakan ghita #135% Comenta $17,00 Constructione #1
Hongkong Bank $1570 1.K. Fire Insurance $345-
·H.K.--Beatties sammant China Lights Old) $12.48
Comenis 317.00. Vibro Piling 45
Balon Hongkong Bank 91,580/25 Union Insurance $850/530 Providents (014), $3.00/20 Providents (New) 31.56. 4&5; Hotels $8.50
Realties 13.90 ILK TADWAY! $18.45/50 China Lights (011) 212.50/80 II.K. Electrics 2001/03 Comenta 17,00/% Dairy Farms 12630/90
wo Coltona $14.40 Antamoks P1,′ 54 Atoks 25
Baguio Gold 21
Benguet Corvos 1.90
Coco Grove 57
Consolidated Mines 011 Demonstrations 37
I.KL. 38
Paracates Gumaus·22
Ban Mauricio 31 Suyoc Consol 191⁄2 United Paracales
U.S. COMMODITY
PRICES
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
New York, Mar. 10. New York Cotton
Opening Closing 8.99/09 0.93/03 9.07/05 8.96/08 9.10/10 9.03/04
0,03/03 9.07/07 8.89
14.09 N 14.10 N
14.70/70 14.59/59
14.63 N
Sales for the day:-1,740 tons..
(By permission of Colonel J. S. N. Fitzgerald, ME, MC Command- Ing" Irish Guards), Conducted by Captain J. L. T. Hurd, Director of Musle, Irish Guards. A Programme of Irish Music. March of the King's Men (Plater). Gems of Irish Song Air from (arr. Denis Wright), County Derry; Molly on the Shore (Trad, arr. Percy Grainger). Fan- tasla. Let Erin Remember (arr. Fritz Braze). Selection, The Emerald Isle (Sullivan and German).
8.30 London Relay At The Bizck Dor."
Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar- parlour. Presented by Pascoe
Thornton.
⚫ Irish Ballade
Irish
Danny Boy (Weatherley); My Old Mother (Dean).....Danny Malone singing a Dust with himself; Irish Medley....Reginald Dixon; Sweetheart Darlin' (From 'Peg o' my Heart')....Danny Malone (Tenor).
London Relay World
9.15 Affairs.
A talk by H. Wickham Steed. 0.36 The Band of II.M. Grenadier Guards.
The Mill In The Black Forest (R. Ellenberg); March Of The Mountain Gnomes (R. Ellenberg)....Band- conducted by Capt. George Miller; Marche Lorraine (L. Ganne).... Band-conducted by Capt. George Milller,
10 London Belay--Recital Of Irish Song
Denis
Laclia Finneberg (Soprano); O'Neil (Tenor) Three Traditional Irish Songs: Song of Glendum (arr. Carl Hardcheck), By the Short Cut To The Rosses (arr. Milligan
Carl Una Waun (arr.
Mary
O'More
Kitty of Coleraine
Hughes), Elleen Ogo (Percy Three Traditional Irish Forlorn
Queen
Johnny
The O'Reilly: Ch Breathe not his Name (arr. Herbert Hughes).
Rose of Tralee (Cbar-
les Glover), The Birth of St Patrick (Samual Lover. arr. Alfred Moffat), Flanagan's Party (Horatio Nicholls, arr. Denis O'Neil).....
10.30 Dance Music Orchestra-Quivering
Quavers- Fox-Trat (Lloyd Thomas); Dance Of The Gadfly Slow Fox-Trot (Ernst Otto Dobrindt and Hils Kalthoff) Plano, Symphonists; Orchestra-We'll Rest At The End Of The Trail- Fox-Trot (Poulton Rose); Queen Of
Henris-March (From the Fl
Sydney Kyte and His
Hotel Band with vocal chorus: Harp with-Quicker Than You Can Say Jack
Robinson-Fox-Trot (David Meyer and Wendling); Say I Wasn't Dreaming-Fox-Trot (Harold Ram- 85%/85% £16
Mario "Harp" Lorenzi and 63 /821 85 784% His Rhythmics; Orchestra-Yankee
Chicago Wheat
/87%
May
July
Oct.
Dec.
9.10/15
Jan.
9.17/17
SOME QUALITIES:
Spot
New York Rubber
Mor.
May
14.20 B
July
14.37/30
14.20/29
WATERPROOF
Sept.
14 50/52
14.43/44
Dec.
1
SHOCK-ABSORBER
Jan.
. ANTI-MAGNETIC
May
July
Sept.
. DUSTPROOF
Tuesday's Sales:-
. UNBREAKABLE CLASS
May
July
. 15 RUBIES
Sept.
Winnipeg Wheat
May
. PERSPIRATION-PROOF
July
108 108 110%/111
Oct.
93/03%
STAINLESS STEEL
MODERN CASE
. STAINLESS STEEL
BRACELET
SIMPLE & SAFE
WINDING SYSTEM
ACCURATE TIME
GUARANTEED.
GUARANTEE GIVEN VALID
FOR HONGKONG, SHANG-
HAI, TIENTSIN, SINGAPORE,
LONDON, PARIS, GENEVA,
One Price Only
$7500
drrate business has been "done" in, ULLMANN
c.l.f.
Sugar! Prices to-day were firm. There was some!^acáttéred: nervous covering and new buying, 'apparently on the European political situation. Dow Jones Aymagos Mar. 15% Cleme 3D Industrials GARDEN24 0122.37
20 venition"
40% Bond B
16.5836.11 10.0187.01 68.1387.813
|: 11 Commodity Index" BalfPS BLAT
J.
& CO.
Chater Road.
say)...
85/85% Doodle Never Went To Town-Fox- Trot (Freed and Hanighen); Stop! 14.793,000 bushels. Lock and Listen-Fox-Trot (Freed Chicago Corn
and J. and G. Van
Joe Eps) 57/58 50 /50% Venuti and His Orchestra; Orchestra 50%/50% 00%/61 The State Of My Heart-Fox-Trot 62%/62% (Heyman-Spina); A Rendezvous With A Dream-Fox-Trot (From
117/4/117 1104/110% "Poppy")....Maurice Winnick and
His Orchestra.
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