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Public Auctions-
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#yuial Undersigned have received fastras- Koos bo sell by Public Auction.
On
SATURDAY, April 24, 1920,
commencing at 11 n..
at their Salon Rooms, Duddell street,.
7 Vickers Sewing Machinas-
Treadla
and
1 Vickers Haud Sewing Machine
(ma e or less damaged)
Terms -Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
Hongkong April 20, 1930.
Ot
MONDAY, April 86, 1920, Commencing an 2:15 pm,
at "La Escienda" No. 74 the Peak A Quantity of Valuable Bousehold Furniture, (Full Particulars from Catalogue).. On view from Sunday, the 25th mat. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
THE Undersigned have received in
stractions from Mesas. THORESEN
& Co., to sell by Public Auction
од
TUESDAY, the 18th May, 1910, at 3.
at his Sales Rooms; Duddell Street, The Steamer "DAGMAR"
as she now Fes in the Menam River, Bangkok, with all her machinery, gear and appurtenances, etc.
1:57 tong grone Reg.
921 tous et Reg.
1800 tons dendweight capacity.co 17 feet wenn draft. Speed 10 khets. -This Stenmer went ashore in the Gulf of Sium, was salved, and towed to Bangkok, where she was dry-docked and patched up.
Inspection orders on application to the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., "Bangkok.
The Steamer to be at purchaser's risk after fall of hummer, when purchase money is to be paid.
fall particulars apply to
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneer.
or
Messi, THORESEN & Co,
Hongkong.
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HILLS.
THE REIGATE A`D REDHILL
WAR MEMORIAL
Considerable feeling has been aroused in Reigate and Redhill by the proposal to erect as the local war memoriala granite cross on the crest of Redhill Common.
TRADE RETURNS.
The return of exports and imports for the Straits Settlements for the! fourth quarter of 1919 are now to hard.. The summary shows 29 follows:-
Singapore Penang Malneca
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IMPORTS.
4th Qr. 14 4th Qr. 18. $148,831 955 $274,949,305
WORLD'S RUBBER NEEDS.
INDUSTRY REQUIRES £16,000,000.
"G. V. W." informs his readers in the Financial News that he had been engaged on a little calculation, which resulted in a reminder that the cost of planting and financing new rubber into bearing had gone up very" consider- ably, even before the war. in the early days the cost up to bearing was £30 per acre. Before the war this had increased to something like £45 per acre, and nowadays it would be fairly safe to count upon 460 per acre. We think. £70 would be al safer Sgure. If we are to accept. re- $114,738.830 $211,311,575 cently published figures of the future 32,038,430 53,508,304 world's requirements it would seem 10,406,242 18,727,474. the present planted acreage of nearly Total $157.182,502 $283,547,858 3,000,000 acres will have to be £18,337,958 £33,080,583 doubled. To plant up such an area Increase $126,365,351 or £14,742,625, would take. say. £210.000.000 at a allocated Singapore $96,572,745;"cost of £70. per acre, which is a Penang $21.470,374; Malacca figure that leads to much thinking. $8,322,232. Malacca's increase of Whence can such a sum be. obtained exports it may be noted is Eighty end if it is not and the sequence is per cent..
that the price of the commodity rises.
S'pore. Penang Malacca
EXPORTS.
36.243 802 43,291,910 5,868,925 9,538,174 $189,994,082 3287,079,389 The monument proposed says a
£29,166,976 £31, 158, 1:48 correspondent in The Observer, is Increase $77,084,307 vr £2,993,159 described by the architect, Mr. W. of
which Singapore contributed H. Seth Smith,
a simple $65,410,350. as masonry monument, but it is to be in fact a very considerable structure, a Celtic cross of roughesed granite, 30 ft. high, with a base of four curved seats each sufficiently large to accommoda'e five or six people. This structure it is proposed to place on the highest point (475 ft. above sea level) of the common, a site which, in the words of the architect dominates the greaf Wealden area of Surrey. Sussex, and Kent. It is not surprising that opposition should have developed from those who love Turning to the details, the trade what are the profits likely to be when the Surrey Hills in their natural form, in rice has fallen off. In the corres, we see what they are at is. per lb.? and hate to see them disfrared. ponding quarter of last year we Objections to the proposal are not imported close on 20 million dollars directed against the design of the worth; last quarter less than 14 memorial, which is simple and million. Exports likewise, 18 million dignife, and therefore beautiful dawn to 13 millions. But in each They are two fold. It is felt that case the total values show a less the idea of a granite cross is alto increase than--the prices Dividing What must be a record career is Kether foreign to the whole spirit value by number of pikals, we get held by the P. and O. liner Nal- of the country. The material is for 1918 rice cost $73 & pikul in der which has just completed fitting. defended by the architect on the 1919 $144 apiku! as the cost of out at Greenock, and proceeded to ground that it will assume a beauti- the imported article. Pepper and Glasgow to go into dry dock. ful colour in perfect accord with its coffee are again coming into the mar Naldera" was ordered more than sit environment, and the cross itself ket, this last quarter, comparing very |
P. AND O. VESSEL'S EVENTFUL CAREER
The
on the ground that such crosses favourably with the corresponding years ago, and she has not yet been are common in Cornwall and the quarter of 1918. Exports of tin in out of the Clyde.*. West of Scotland. The analogy is the quarter.
erincreased in value by tea On the outbreak of war the vessel misleading. Granite crosses-are per-million dollars, but the quantity der was under construction by Messrs.. fectly natural where granite is the decreased by 72.000 piculs Para Caird and Conipany, Greenock (now local material obtainable almost by rubber, as it is still described, ran. Messrs. Farland and Wolf), for the scratching the ground, but even in up in value (exports) from 425 P. and O. Company's passenger ser Cornwall and Devon the ancient milions to 108, the quantities from vice. When the claims for war ves- crosses are not of this great size, and 581,000 pikuls to 913,000 pikuis. sels became more irgent all work on they were used rather to mark tracks
the vessel was stopped, and for over three years she lay on the stocks in the yard. -About the end of 1817; i, was decided to convert her into a cargo carrier, as this class of steamier was an urgent necessity at that time. The
and na guides than to crown the tors
and carns. Moreover, crosses raised
in Saxon counties, such as Surrey 1s, abandoned in face of unanimous were crosses of the churchyard, the protests from friends and public village green, and the market place; alike
and not, after the pagan fashion,On the whole, therefore, though transformation, was completed in the memorials of the heath and billtop,one cannot with any propriety later/summer of 1918, and as he was about Even more, it is felt that the fere with the local choice of the to sail the Government gave orders to great natural beauty of the hills form, it is to be hoped that the local convert her into grauxiliary cruiser should not be spoiled by artificial committee will defer to public ooms change was also made, but the monuments. We accept the eight position to the site. The beauty Admiralty authorities made a further eenth century, tower on Leith Hill of the Surrey hills, and commons alteration in their plans, and instruc- because it is nowy respectably ancient, concerns a far wider public than sons were given to make her an dero- it is built of the local stone, and it is Redhill and Reigate, and is much plane carrier. This latter work was almost the single thing of the kind too precious a thing to be lightly
in the county. But once accept the lost not completed when the armistice was principle of extending the number of Happily there are algns that some signed, and further gutting out of these memorials on the hilltors and members of the committee have been the liner took place. The builders who knows how soon may dawn the impressed by the weight of the argu were directed to again, convert ber day on which every rounded knoll or ments, and by the personality of into passenger steamer, and this beak might have its obelisk to those in opposition, and it is not work has now been finished, and after I vingarise the view?
perhaps, too much to anticipate an dry docking she will go on trisla
It is recalled that a few years ago early withdrawal. This would leave The Naldera is the largest ves- Bit was proposed to erect a stone free Mr. W. H. Seth-Smith's dignified set bulk in Greenock. She is 605 memorial to George Meredith on design to be retried out on a site feet in length, 67 feet in breadth, Box Hill, but the idea had to be open to less general objection. »fra with a depth of 41 feet.
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