The-Hong-Kong-Weekly-Press-1895-05-29 — Page 19

Hongkong Weekly Press AND China Overland Trade Report All

May 29, 1895. |

BEFINERIES Bath Chinas and Luzons have ruled neglected, and we have no business to re- port At $100 Chinns are wanted.

MINING. Punjoms after farther sales at $6.75 have gone back to $6.50 with sellers, Charbon- nges have been enquired for at $60, but no shares are obtainable at anything near that rate. Jelebus have receded to $34 with sales.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Docks have changed hands at 99 and 100 per cent, prem.. and close steady at latter rate. Lands have been enquired for and have changed hands at $59, chiefly for the North. Wharfs have improved to $40, after small sales at $391, and Ices to $78, both closing steady. We have no further business to report.

Closing quotations are:—

COMPANY.

→Banks-

Hongkong & S’hai. China, Japan, &c... Do., Founders..... Nat. Bank of Ch.

B. Shares...... Foun: Shares.

Bell's AsbestosE.A.

PAID UP.

QUOTATIONS

$125 181 p. ct. pm., sales £2.6.0 nom.

£1 nom.

28 $30, sellers

£1 nm.

£1 nom.

Brown & Co., H, G....

158. $10, sales : $50 | 14), sellers

Campbell, Moore&Co.

$1

$2

China Borneo ...........................

$55

nom.

China Sugar

$100

$105, sellers

11 p. ct. pm.

-$5

$1

$10

$8, sales & seller,

$25 $16

Chinese Loan '86 E., Tls. 250

Dakin,Cruicks’k&Co. Dairy Farm Co. ... Fenwick & Co., Geo. Green Island Cement H. Brick & Cement. H.& C. Bakery Hongkong & C. Gas. Hongkong Electric... H, H. L. Tramways. Hongkong Ice....... H. & K. Wharf & G. Hongkong Rope...... E. &W. Dock. Hotels

Hongkong Hotel... Shameen

Insurances-

Canton China Fire China Traders' Hongkong Fire North-China. Straits Marine.. Union Yangtaze Land & Building--

H. Land Investm❜t Kowloon Land & B. Humphreys Estate West PointBuildg. Luzon Sugar Mining

New Balmoral.

Charbonnages

Jelebu

Punjom

Do. (Preference) Raubs Steamship Coys.--- China & Manila Douglas S. S. Co...

$50 | 494. sales & sellers $12.50 8, buyers

$50 $36.

£10 $125, buyers

$8 $5, aules & buyers $100 $71, buyers,

$25 $78, sales & buyers $50 | 40, sales & sellers $50 $120, sales & buyers $125 100 p. ct. pm., sales [& Pellers $5019, sales & sellers $20:4

$50 | +161, sales

$20 $871, sellers

$25 $66), sale: & collers

$50 $200, sellers

£25 Tls, 195, sellers

$20 $18, sales

$25 $162, sellers

$60 190, buyers

$50 $59, sales & buyer $30 $11, ale & buyers $109, sales & sellers $40 $18, buyers $100 $45, sales & buyers

$3 $5.25, sales & sellers $131.58 $65, buyers

$6 $31, buyers $34 $6), sales & sellers $1 $1.8, sales & buys |13s. 10d.| $4.25*:

$50 $521

$5

Bellers

00 $52, buyers

$20 $324, sales

Ind China S. N... 'chai Wareh'se Co. atson & Co., A. S...! $10 $0.50 sales & buyers

CHATER & VERNON, Share Brokers.

210 $54, sales & buyers $371 $371

CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.

415

the market in this direction. From Hankow for Lon-

have also changed hands at $85. Wharfe.Shang- berth, and now that tea is again ready for shipment hai and Hongkew Wharf shares are offering at steamers should experience a lively demand for ton- Tls. 295. Birta Wharf Co. will pay the half-yearly nago. Coastwise. High rates are still ruling from dividend of 34 per cent. on the 29th current. Japan, but an anticipated arrival of tonnage from Cargo Boats-Shanghais have been placed at the south to seek for employment will tend to weaken Tls. 1424. Miscellaneous.-Shanghai Gas shares have been sold at Tls. 215. Shanghai Waterworks shares at Tls. 175, Hall & Haltz shares at $20, Shanghai Investment shares, ordinary, at Tls. 37, shares at Tls. 474 and Tls. 49, Shanghai-Sumatra and fully paid up at Tls. 56, Shanghai Horse Bazaar Tobacco shares at Tls. 510 and Tls. 525 cash and Tls. 590 for 31st December, Shanghai-Langkat Tobacco shares at Tls. 120 and Tis, 125 for 30th June, Shanghai Ice shares at Tls. 117, and Bell's Asbestos shares, with 15/0 paid up, at $94 Loans. -E. Loan Bonds have been sold at Tis. 2514, Shanghai Land Investment Company's 6 per cent. Debentures at par, and 53 per cent. Debentures at Tls, 93, the buyer paying the interest which has accrued since 1st April. Quotations are -

don. We have no definito news of freights in this direction, and at time of writing nothing is known of the prospects for the Pingsuey, the only steamer loading. Tea in small lots has already arrived from that anything like the high rates ruling in former Hankow for transhipment here, and it seems unlikely years for the first ten stormer will be obtainable this London by Conference Linea, general cargo 408., waste season, Rates of freight are:-From Sbanghai to silk 45s, tea 55s.; to Northern Continental ports 42s. 6d., waste silk 15s.: to New York 50s., tea 65s.; to Boston 52s. 6d.; to Philadelphia 60s. Above rates are subject to a deferred return, as per Conference circular. From Shanghai to London by Shell Line, general cargo 40s. less 10 per cent.; to Hamburg 358. net.; to New York 14s. not; to Philadelphia 508. net. From Shanghai to Havre direct, general cargo 378. Gd. net; to Genoa, tallow 35s., general cargo 40s. net; to per ton of 20 cwt. for above three ports. Marseilles tallow 35s., general cargo 37s. Gd. net. 458. From Shanghai to New York by sail 25s. Coast rates are: Bank of China, Japan, and The Straits, Limited.-Chinking to Whampoa 20 candaroons regular lines, -Nominal.

no demand for outsiders; Moji to Shanghai $2.65 per ton coal; Nagasaki to Shanghai $2.50 per ton coal. No disengaged vessel in port.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. -180 per cent. prem.

Bank of China, Japan, and The Straits, Limited, Founders.-Nominal,

National Bank of China, Ld., A.-$32. National Bank of China, Ld., B.-Nominal. National Bank of China, Ld., Founders.-Nom. Shanghai Tugboat Co., Ld.-Tls. 1271 per sh. Indo-China Steam N. Co., Ld.-Tls. 39 per ah, China Mutual S. N. Co.-Tls. 50 per share. Taku Tug & Lighter Co., Ld.-T. Tls. 60% per sh. Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. -$31 per share.

Douglas Steamship Co., Ld.-$49 per share. Boyd & Co., Ld., Founders.-Tls. 300 per share. Boyd & Co., Limited.-Tis. 155 per share. S. C. Farnham & Co.-Tls, 140 per share. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.-95 per cent. premium.

China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.-$661 per sh. North China Insurance Co., Ld.-Tis. 195 per share.

Union Ins. Society of Canton, Ld.-$155 per share.

Yangtaze Insce. Assocn., Ld.-$90 per share. Canton Insurance Office, Ld.-$1564 per share. Straits Insurance Co., Limited.-$18 per share. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.-200

8h. China Fire Insurance Co., Ld.--$85 per share. Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co.-Tis. 200 per

share.

per

Birt's Wharf Hide-curing and Wool-cleaning Company. -Tla. 43) per share.

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.-$39 per share.

Sheridan Consolidated Mining and Milling Company, Limited.-Tle, 4 per share.

Punjom Mining Co., Ld.-$6 per share. Punjom Mining Co., Ld., pref. shares-$14 por|| share.

Jelebu Mining & Trading Co., Ld.-$3} per ab. Raub Australian Gold Min. Co., Ld.-$44 per sh. Shanghai Cargo Boat Co. s. 142 per share. Co-operative Cargo Boat Co.-)]

~Ťfs,130 per sh. Shanghai Gas Co.-Tls. 215 share.

per Hongkong Electric Co., Ld.-$43 per share. Shanghai Waterworks Co., Ld.--Tls. 175 p. sh. Perak Sugar Cultivation Co., Ld.-Tls. 294 p.sh, China Sugar Refining Co., Ld.-$110 per sh. Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Ld.-$45 per share. Hall & Holtz, Ld.-$20 per share. Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ld.-Tls. 87 per share.

Hongkong Land Invest. & A. Co., Ld.--$574 p. sh. J. Llewellyn & Co., Limited.-$40 per share. Shanghai Horse Bazaar Co., Ld.—Tls. 49

per abı. Major Brothers, Limited.-Tls. 20 per share. Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Co.-Tls 525 p. sh, Shanghai Langkat Tobacco Co., Ld.—Tls. 105 per share.

Shanghai Langkat Tobacco Co., Ld., Founders.

Shanghai Ice Company Tls. 117 per share. A. S. Watson & Co., Limited.-$10 per share. L'Hotel des Colonies-Tls. 20. China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company Debentures.-Nominal.

SHANGHAI, 24th May:-(From Messrs. J. P Bisset & Co.'s report.)-Banks.-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.-The market has been drooping during the week. Shares have changed hands at 183, 1831, 181, and 189 per cent. premium. The London rate is quoted £444. In-Nominal. Hongkong there are sellers at 185 and buyers at 182 per cent. premium. National Bank of China.— Shares have been placed at $32. Shipping-The rumour that the Indo-China S. N. Co. will pay a dividend of 8 per cent. for 1894 caused a demand for shares, which have changed hands locally at from Tis. 34 to Tls. 39, and have been purchased from Hongkong at from $50 to $54. A purchase was made to-day at $53). There are sellers at the close. China Mutual S. N. shares are offering, those with 5 paid up at £3, and some with £31 paid up at £1. Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat shares are offering in Hongkong at $33). Docks, Hongkong and Whampoa Dock shares have changed hands in Hongkong at 97

cent. premium. Marine Insurance.-Yang- tures have been sold at $90, and are offering at the same rate. Fire Insurance.-Hongkonga have been placed, and are offering, at $200. Chinas

per

:

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Lyceum Theatre Debentures.-Tls, 12, Chinese Imp. Gov. Loan, 1886, E.-Tls. 2514 (a). Shanghai Municipal Debentures.-Nominal. Shanghai Land Investment Company Deben- tures.-Tls. 100 (a).·

Shanghai Land Investment Company Deben- tures.-Tis, 93

(a) Exclusive of accrued interest.

TONNAGE. SHANGHAI, 24th May.(From Mossrs. Wheelock & Co.'s report.)-Business generally presents a more healthy appearance for homeward markets, more especially for New York, as witness the large amount of cargo going forward by the direct steamer on the

TUESDAY, 28th May.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

ON LONDON.-

EXCHANGE.

Telegraphic Trausfer

Bank Bills, on demand..

Bank Bills, at 30 day's sight

.217

.2/14

Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight .2/21 Credits, at 4 months' sight..... 2/21 Documentary Bills, 4 months' sight 2/24

ON PARIS.-

Bank Bills, ou demand. Credits, at 4 months' sight

ON GERMANY.-

On Demand.

ON NEW YORK.

Banks Bills, on demand.. Credits, 60 day's sight.. ON BOMBAY,—

ON CALCUTTA.——

.2.71

2.76

2.19

....527

54

Telegraphic Transfer Bank, on demand

194

.1941

Telegraphic Transfer Bank, on demand ON SHANGHAI.——

.194

194)

Banks, at sight Private, 30 day's sight

.71#

.72%

ON YOKOHAMA,-

On demand

..........par.

4% pm.

"par

$9.10

47.75

ON MANILA.-

On demand ON SINGAPORE.→

On demand

SOVEREIGNS, Bank's Buying Bed Go D LMF. 100 fire, per tael

VESSELS ON THE BERTH. For LONDON-Formosa (str.), Rohilla (str.), Shanghai (str.).

For BREMEN.-Prinz Heinrich (str.). For HAVRE and HAMBURG.Kriemhild (str.). For VICTORIA, B.C.--Strathnevis (str.), Astoun (str.).

For SAN FRANCISCO.-Queen Margaret, City" of Ris Janeiro (str.), Glenesslin.

For VANCOUVER.-Empress of China (str.). For NEW YORK.-Macduf (str.), Challenger, Fort Stuart, Santa Clara, Adolph.

SHIPPING

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES SINCE LAST MAIL,

HONGKONG. ARRIVALS.

May-

22. Kong Beng. British str., from Bangkok, 23, Thales, British str., from Taiwanfoo. 23, Lyeemoon, German str., from Canton. 24, H. W. Jarlsborg, Norw. str., from K'notzu, 24, Kwanglee, British str., from Canton. 24, China, German str., from Saigon. 24, Fushun, British str., from Shanghai. 24, Activ, Danish sir, from Pakhói. 25, Hong Leong. British str., from Singapore. 25, Catterthun, British str., from Sydney. 25, Kaisow, British str., from Glasgow. 25, Sangkiang, British str., from Manila.

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