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THE COST OF LIVING.
Renta, Prices, and Wagen.
BEFOLT OF CFFICIAL INQUIRY.
incresses in the prices of the several articles also showed large variations. The srith-
TUESDAY
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO.
LAST BAND NIGHT OF THE SEASON
FRIDAY THE 19TH SEPTEMBER......
BATHING AT THE BEACH AT NORTH POINT.
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By kind permission of Major Robinson and Officers, the Full Band of the 25th Punjabie will play on the Beach from 9 pm, until 11 p.m.
Special Care will leave the Post Office every few Minutes, Hongkong, Sept. 15, 1913.
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FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY
SATURDAY, 20th SEPTEMBER, 1913. The Turkish Egyptian Vaudeville Co.
This Coy: of Artists will present a very enjoyable Programme with their talented Actrasses Miss TERA MUSRIA And Miss RABLOG who willl introdues the latest Eng. tish, Franch and Spanish Dances, no Turkish, Egyptian and Syrian Songs and Dances.
Enchanting Music!
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Commencing 9.15 pmẹ IBRAHIM RUFFIHT;—3de Proprietor. 1115 Hongkong, Sept 15, 1913,
ENTERTAINMENT.
metical means of the percentage changer FILLIS CIRCUS,
between 1905 and 1912 in the 88 towns are na follows:
Benta
Retail prices
o
food and cas!...
Increase of 1.8 per cent.
13·7
IF, instead of taking the simple mean of all the changes, das regard in bad to the populations of the town in which they oc curred, the Bgures arrived at aro
Decrease of 0.3 per cent. Rents Retail prices of
food and coal... Increase of 13-0 Rants and retail
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LAST 3 NIGHTS: LAST 3 NIGHTS:
TO-NIGHT,
SUNDAY & MONDAY, The Exciting Sporting Sketch TALLY-HO
As the result of the recent maquiry a re- turn of great interest relating to working cinas rents and retail prices was issued by the Board of Trade last month. In 1905 similar inquiry was made, and the figures: in "the present return sro compared with
nticos combined
of 10:3 pr.com the former figures. Bir E. Llewellyn b16 Smith, in a foreword, states that the
These figures ralate only to rents, rates, and the retail prices of the principal articles gencial effect of the comparison is to show of food and coal. They do not include that while rente have, on the average, clothing, mainly because of lack of sufficient changed very little in the last seven years, data. "But an attempt was made to ascertain the prices of clothing during the years res il price of articles of workmen's con-
1905-1912, and the general practical cap- sumption have increased materially in the clusion was that there had been a rise in H. And from October 1st. 1818, the period. They are, however, still at a lower the cost of clothing, probably not mach PRICE of As to the Public will be level that about a generatica ago. Proin unlined, the rise taking the less is proportion than that of food and REDUCED 32.50 per 1,000 Orobably the average increase during the peat form rither of increased price for the seme "neven years in the cost of workmen's rent, article or lower quality for the game price. By Order of the Directora,
Mr. McLeod say that the rise hethe cost food, fuel, and clothing, taken together, of living, or fax as the articles covered by may be put at about 10 per cent. He also the present inquiry entered into the total says at the upward movement of prices expenditure of the working classes has been world-wide, and iq many of the shown to have beed!very marked in so short period as 1905-1912, and if the chief commericial countries the rise in food comparison is extended back to the year of prises has exceeded that in the United lowest pricos, namely, 1895, the increase in Kingdom.
food prices up to the year. 1812 would p pear to have been about 25 per cast. The feral now reached is, however, no higher than in the early Eighties, umechów that of the Seventies when prices were exceptionally high.
FewT.
J. Mc. CUBDIN, Arling Local Serdary
and Resident Engineer. Hongkong, August 9, 1913.
$80
FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS. SPECIALETTES
CORNED OX TONGUES CORNED BEEF ́CORNED PORK
PRESSED BEET.
GERMAN SAUBAGES These are low of the delicacies offered for sale by
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BON TON.
CHEAP SALE
COMMENCING
Mr. F. H. McLeod, who has been responsible for the inquiry, which deals with the year 1012, says that year proved to be a very difficult cae in which to certain prices tree from the influence of temporary cares. It was much affected by Industrial popflicts, notably the national coal strike. The influence of those labour disputes on pribos was, however, much less prolonged than the effects of the serious
prices of
the
RATER OF WAGES.
No attempt has been made it the return; to show the coprsa of:waget sixcept for tha period 1806-1913 in limited number of occupation in whichans and employment in nesales of wore thong in many cases rates of wages, were at the me at the dates of the two inquiries, and
TUESDAY September 15th FAREWELL PERFORMANCE
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Under the distinguished patronage of
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Administering the Government."
and Major-General F. H. KELLY, C.B. G.0.0., the Troops, S. Chia and
*the Bute of Hongrong,
Grand Special Pogramme for «this... · Qocasion, Commencing
at 9.30 p.m. Sharp.
Don't Forges:the Last Night, the Grandest of all,
Late Cars to the Peak, Free list entirely suspended for this night. Hongkong, Sept. 13, 1917,
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Ona ́week.
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FOR SALE
BOUT 500 The ENGLISH TYFI A. Ularendon and Nooparell (Modern) complebe fount, Indinding Italie,
In good condition. Send offers to
Jure of 'CHIA “Man 1·Onli Hongkong, March 31, 1913
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD. drought of 1912. The outbreak of foot in a few intances in the building trades and mouth disease was also a disconsorting were slightly lower in 1912 than in event, although ultimately prices were more. 1905. on the whole these was distiOARD AND RESIDENCE offered
in good locality LARGE, WELL | Affected in Ireland-whers they fell owing upward movement between the two dates o
each of the regroups bad in
FURNISHED Rooks Electrin light, Tennis, to surples supplies than in other parts of ing (skilled men and laboures), angr
Telephone. A dst of two rooms, with the United Kingdom. That the effects of neering (skilled men and labourers), and such disturbing factors have been wholly compositors. The rise as least carked in Seperate, Kitchen can be arranged for if excluded it would perhaps be too much to the building trade, in which only 25 of the desired.
re- 88 towns. showed increases exceeding torb say, but by October-the date of the turns they were very much misimised. per cent. for skilled man, and 45 out of the A farther reason for giving October prices 89 towns showed no change: or a light.
related previous inquiry.
deerssee for, Inbourem. The group with was that
to that month, and it was necessary to take the greatest rise in wages was that of stiled into secount the seasonal changes in the men in the engineering trade, 54 out of the of certain articles in order to secure67 towns for which information is available & proper comparison. He finds that the having had increases of from 2 to 10 per cost of living as represented by rante (in- cent. rather less advance was shown in the cluding rates) and the retail prices of rates for enginearing labourers. For com the selected articles of food and coal positors in the printing trade 24 towns was between 11 and 12 per cent, higher showed no change in wages; the remaining сетев towns covered by the inquiry, taken as a bad advances ranging from 3 to 15 per whole Lordon was followed in this respect The mean percentage increases in rates of by the Scottish towns, and at the other wages in all the towns were: Building end of the scale were the towns in the trade, akilled men 1.9, labourers 2.6; engi Midlands, in which both rents and prices naering trade, skilled men 8.5; labourers пето at A Low average. Croydon, &.9; printing trade, compositon 4.1 Newcastle-on-Tyov, Plymouth and Devon Lurt, Shearson and Branses are the towns in England and Wales for which the combined figures most nearly sp proached those for London, while the the towns in which the cot of living was lowest were Wolverhampton, Walsall, sod Macclesfield. London being taken as 100, the extreme range of index numbers for rent and pricos combined in other towns
11th SEPTEMBER
FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY in Landon that in the other 87 64 towns for which particulats are available
ANICZ AKSORTMEST
of
SUNSHADES, BOOTS
AND SHOES,
DRESS MATERIAL etc.
Must be Cleared Regardless was from di to 97.
of Cost.
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
A
Kent's showed little increase except in f = towns, especially Coventry and Mac chsfeld. In London they had fallen by about 4 per centų, although they still re- mained much higher for the same accom country. Thus, while the moan of the EL HON FAN, a Chiness graduserdation than in any other towo in this af weekly renta for two
Maned in Harare,
ba European oficials and merchants in the dominot vincial towns investi-
Colony for over ten yea, zur mo
Es good method of treiping Enzo peans to pass in the Chinees cremination, and powessed of a first rate certificate as i Chinees bacher, Habasca good lo lodge of Mandarin and Hakks
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“Thone who intend" lésrufng- the Chiper language are requested to write tare "ol China Hall utos or direct bo. 57.. Hudly wood Road, Ist floor.
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Hongkong. May 17, "1912,"
SAVARESSES SANTAL CAPSULES
700ms in all the gated was found to be did, the cor responding rent in the middle zone of L. ndon was 56, 8., an excess of 21. sid., or 76 per cent. The figures for three, four, fivet and six.cooms are as follows:
Exes of Lont vu
Stanta...
Number at Provincial.
Boo
Three
Four
Five
Six.
Town Laden. Amount seat.
4734 101 88 5 18 9 3 7 71 6.0 1094979 74 12 63 1] - 69
FOOD PRICES.C
The general level of prices of food and coal in the different towns showed a prostors
· degree of uniformity than rents, the range of prices iniez numbers being from 90 to bersas the range of rent indes-nu-
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here from 19 to 100. The amount of the advance between: Dara bery
October, 1918, hid" However, beau roush greater in some towns than ip there, -varying from 7 per cent, an forismontá ́20 per cent, at Stoo
Many statistical fables are given showing details for each of the towns investigated
A MEDÁL FOR MBS. CODY.
It is officially stated that the gold medal, the Aerial League's award for the beas work in seronautics done during the your whlah had been awarded to Colonel Cody, will be pissented to Mrs. Cody. The date of presentation is not yet fixed. Had Cody lived he would have roosired the modal in October Me Grahame White is among the recipients of the award.
The Man Who Gets There.
Is the mow who has blood- real rich red blood and plenty of It-in his body, WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER CIL COMPOUND
colonishing bloodi
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