LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVETORS, -Public Auctions-
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MONDAY, November 13, 1930,
commencing at 11 am,
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. An Assortment of High Grade Seit Lengths and Overcoatings. A Selection of Sports Coat Materials, And
A Quantity of High Class Woollen Blaketa.
comprising —
Brown Veldt Rags. 80" x 100′′ ± 6 lbs. Fawn Union Fleece Blankets,
60"x80" 4 lbs.
(in leta to sait parchasers)
On view from Saturday, the 90th inst.
Catalogues will be issted.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers
Bongkeng. November 17, 1920
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
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MANCHESTER, Sept. 29, 1920. Chemicals-There has been a curtailment of business during Sep- tember, the threatened strike of the miners and the position in the Cotton Trade having caused a tendency to postpone heavy commitments pend-
SUPER SILKWORM.
PRODUCE ANY COLOUR.
OIL BARGE BLOWN UP.
MILLWALL EXPLOSION.
STORY FROM NEW ORLEANS.
A super-silk worm is being pro- daced at New Orleans which not caly exceeds in output any other of the tribe, but spins silk heads of any desired colour.
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The discoverer, says the New irg more settled conditions. The Orleans correspondent of the Central price of Sulphate of Copper is un-News, is Dr. Vartan K. Osigian, a changed but more business has been naturalised American, the last of his race, which for seven centuries has passing and there is a better enquiry been producing silk near Harspoot, for export, especially for forward Armenia. The claim is made that shipment Green Copperas has been the discovery will make the South moving steadily for both home and the centre of the world's silk pro export account. Acetates of Limeduction. - are unchanged but. Acetic Acid is firmer.
There
The
FURTHER DETAILS TO HAND.
Following are further details of the oil barge disaster on the Thames last month which was briefly reported by Reuter-An oil tank barge, the
Warwick," belonging to the Cunard Company, blew up whilst at the quay side adjoining Hodge and Sons' works at Millwall and seven, possibly more, men were killed, four being injured. A party of workers were busily employed on and near-the Barge, which was undergoing repair, such suddenness that only two per when the explosion took place with sons in the immediate vicinity ap pear to have escaped uninjured. In some instances the unfortunate vic tims were literally blown to pieces, and dismembered limbs were found considerable distances from the spot. Other victims were shot into the river and drowned.
rugated iron sheeting was hurled right over the sailing ship "Gandara." which had left dock at the time and was proceeding down the river many hundreds of yards away. Eye witnesses declare they saw whole buman bodies mingled with mangled limbs and masses of the fabric of the barge hurtling through the air to
HOUSES DAMAGED.
The crash of the explosion was heard for miles around, and though no injuries were done to their oc- cupants, houses in Redriff and Odessa streets-which are almost opposite the spot where the craft was lying present appearances familiar after air raids in East London. Elsewhere considerable damage was done to windows.
The barge lay a torn and battered | wreck.
Dr. Osician's super-silkworm Acetate of Soda has doubles the output of the Italian, been in moderate request and Acetates French, Japanese, or Chinese insects. This colour is absolutely fast, prc of Lead have been receiving more attention at the lower prices ruling duced in the chemical laboratory of Nitrate of Lead, however, is dull. Mother Nature herself, an achieve
Heavy pieces of ironwork were Carbonate of Potash has been in only ment that threatens to destroy the slow demand and the price is a little dye industry as applied to the manufung high into the air; some cor- easier. Sulphate of Potash is offering facture of woven silk. in only moderate quantities. The
The super-silk worm is reared heavy demand from abroad for
on new food obtained by the graft- White Powdered Arsenic continues; supplies are short and firmly, held. fog of a mulberry tree on to the Yellow Prussiate of Potash has been esage orange, and injecting into moving steadily and a good business the plant the sap of a vege has also been done in Prussiate of table growth. This tree grows with Soda chiefly for export; the demand great rapidity, and is extremely continues bat manufacturers are not prolific in leaves, the leaves them- disposed to sell far ahead at present, selves being many times the size of gether.
the mulberry leaf and much more Tartaric Acid has been in goed succulent. When a leaf is pulled request for export, stocks have been from the tree a cluster of leaves reduced and good business has been done for next year's delivery. Cream Springs from the wound in a few days. of Tartar. has moved only slowly and It was this plant that produced the superworm, an insect worker that price is somewhat easier. has been some pressure to effect sales weaves into its cocoon 1,800 yards of silk, where the foreign worms in Citric Acid, and lower prices have employ but from 400 to 1,000 yards. been accepted for "quantities.
Dr. Osigian is growing these trees demand for Bichromates of Potash and Soda has fallen away somewhat, and shipping them to silk raisers all Oxalic Acid has been well enquired over the world. for, stocks of foreign have been- reduced and. English makers are holding firmly to their prices. Makers of Borax and Boracic Acid are still well supplied with orders. There is
Foreign countries produce but one a brisk enquiry for Phosphate of Soda
spite of crop of silkworms each year. In and supplies are short some good arrivals from abroad. New Orleans Dr. Osigian is able to The demand has fallen off somewhat produce eight crops annually.
The unwinding of the 1,800 yards for Muriate of Ammonia and Lump Salammoniac but prices are un- of delicate silk is done by machinery changed. Caustic Soda is easier for The cocoons are placed in hot water, ing streets were strewn with frag export. Bleaching Powder has been then Dr. Osigian takes an ordinary meats of glass blown out of the fac in better demand. The prices of whisk brush, brushes it through tory, Hundreds of workers rushed of the water a few times and brings it out of all the works round about, Ammonia Alkali, Bicarbonate Soda and Soda Crystals have been out, with a bumber of ends of strands advanced for the home trade. With of the cocoon clinging to it.
These strands he passes over tiny
An eye-witness, who hitself had a one or two exceptions the market for Tar Products remains practically wheels, attaches them to a square,
was quite empty and bad been berth unchanged, though little business whirling frame, rus by an electric remarkable cape, said the barge is being done. Benzoles and Tolvoles motor, and starts the motor.
The cocoons bob about in the ed for only a short time when the are readily absorbed by present
prices remaining water and unwind as easily as un-accident occurred. "It came without demands,
On the the slightest warning." he said, "and firm. There slightly winding a ball of yarn. very
in. activity
Solvent frame appear as if by magic great Lowe my escape, to the fact that I more. Naphtha and prices if anything are blobs of golden, crimson, bine white ducked instinctively as if I were back Letter Creosote is in good demand or black silk.
This is the raw silk of commerce with an upward tendency in price. Pitch continua a firm market and now ready to be shipped to the some good business has been done weaver. over next season at current values,
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The tree he gives to the world, but the secret of forcing the worm to spin any colour is reserved for his adopted country as a mark of grati tude.
It is expected that the discovery Crude Carbolic Acid is depressed will arrest the outward flow of with consequent lowering of price. £8,000,000 spent by America an Parcels of Crystal Carbolic shipped nually on imported silk. some time ago to the East are offer
ing for reshipment to this market.
Liquid Carbolic is also in better sup
"We beard a terrible explosion," said an employee at neighbouring crash was like that of a huge bomb works. "I was in the office. The going off. It shook our works. There was a great shower of glass, yard, which is about one hundred and pieces of machinery fell in the yards from the barge in which the explosion occurred. The neighbour
fusion until we learned, what had and there was a good deal of con
happened."
in the trenches Flames shot up to
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AMERICAN CHOCOLATES. the air. One piece that afterwards
THE BRITISH AMERICAN pieces of iron and steel flew through
CANDY STORE. found weighed nearly a hundred- weight was flung about fifty yards."
A FAVOURITE RUB DOWN.: THE galfer, the foot ba' player and the all round athlete know the ply. Sulphate of Ammonia remains high in price. A fair amount of value of Camberlain's Pain Balm. I: hard game. All soreness diappears unchanged,
business has been passing in Dextrine, just the thing for a rob down after d Soudries, American Pearl Starch Sulphate of Barytes has been in good like magic and speaint and swelled a has only been moving slowly from request, especially for the best white cured in one-third less time then by stock and the price is lower. Farias qualities. Castor Oil is in good deany other frostmont For sale by all has been steadily called for and is mand and price has been advanced Chemists and Storekeepers,
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