LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONKERS,” „ÄFFRAISERS AND SURVEYORS, -Public Auctions-
The havere anetdom Fiz Undersigned, have received tastese-
19
THURSDAY, June 30, 1893.
Commencing at 2:30 pm.
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street A Very Fine and Superior Selection of Genning
Old Gurion.
(Fest arred from Shanghai)..
'Dowprising —
Porcelain Vases, Ginger jars, Beakers. Bowie, Mine copa, Jones, Wall plates, Inlaid panels, Flower pots of Kanghi
to Towkwung Periods,
Enamelled and cloisonne Plates and. Vases. Goli lacquered-ware, Bronze wases and incense burners, Crystral, Agate and Jade figures and 'ornements.
Scrolls of Tong. Song, Yuen, Ming
Bad Thing Pyiasties.
One Large Celadon vaso-Kanghi,
Que Farge Agate Lica,
Ose White Goddess of Mercy-Ying,
One Large Blue and White 285-~-
King-
Ax2
A few pieces of Socgbow Redwood-
atre.
NR. The above are sold with a week's guarantee as to correctesa cí description of Periods and Dynasty.
Terms -Cash on delivery. Catalognes will be issued.
On view from Wednesday, the 39th Грде
LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers..
fiongkong, June 23, 1921.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in reASĶIVOŽTE
ca the 1st June, 1921—
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LET
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7. Below overa
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With overtow
Level with overdow
{Leyel with avertow
you Tell 21 fi in Level with overfew
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Be! Chunr. 1ft)
Below OTYLOW
Selam ovendie
of The Below overto
Level with rather
· SECAÑAS IN MILANONE AER DOGWAIN CY GALLONG.
$2,06
100%
與
SSC
*196.00 **
125.00
£2.50
6:00
$10.67
BLOG
50.
Cocemption of water in the City and M43 District în milions and decimake
of gallons during the month of May.
Cosmanption
tepopeiation....
Genemytten pet bed
15
19
1.04 21.440
galow
Constant apply in all district during May of both 1320 and 1991.
LASZÓON WATER WOLYA LEVEL...
Kontorm Gravita-
1190
Imel
with greatów
glas Laveevere...) beton arelor. BEILAGE DE MENS ARE USONGAZA OF BALIONS, "
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Gravitacion {
Cramption of water in Kowloon memesions and decimals of gallons during the
smash of May,
Lyok
45 67
1921. 38.22
ečni, pagalistion ...
14.9
bons
30130
15
The Govenment Analyst's reperis show
gint the water is of excellent qualfiy.
Public Works Department.
T. L. PERRIJA.
Water Authority.
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STORY OF SILVER.
DRAMATIC EVENTS.
DEPRECIATION 1915. the processes by which silver is From 1959 dontesto 1915, silver produced make it difficult to fix a steadily depreciated in value. Dur prime cost. Secondly, the profits ing this more than hell-centory there of coinage (seigniorage) and even were, of course, fluctuations. War toally coinage is the main LISE. of bull factor.silver-were so considerable that
mattered The Boer war put 2d, on the price. fluctuation really
very and peace knocked-3d. off the price. little to the principal - buyers Like The Russo-Japanese war zed 5d. most internasional affairs. It was no- is to the value: the Balkan war of body's business or everybody's busi- by 1912 had a similar influence. But ress, and so the silver marker re- with these exceptions. silver moved aired in a state of chaos until the
HOW THE METAL, HAS FASED DURING †is always scen 35
HALF A CENTURY.
The following article on silver contributed to Syren & Shipping Joseph L. Carizzi.
The world consumption of silverSeadily down from Balaclava to war, when chaos became too mild
Serajevo, from 620 to 23 d. Yet word. about sitter is the most usual medium of
RISING TO GIDDY HEIGHTS.
before the war |210.000.000 OLICES.
1915 exchange over most of the world. By 1916 silver bad tooched 37d.. the production dropped to about and at first sight it would appear during the last two years of the war 180,000.008 ounces, and in 1918-that the ever-increasing coinage and 1919 it ascended by leaps and only 160.900.000 ounces were pro-need alone would have kept the bounds. On January 2, 1920, cash. duced. The decline in production priec substantially above so low a iwas quoted 753d. "in spite of very heavy sales from the Continent, was natural, and equally, ratural was level.
fcat
as
the increased demand for the metal. One important reason was the where marks and kopen and francs The vastly enhanced productivity of repeal of the Sherman Act. in were being demonetized. The the East. the mumber of campaigns America. By this Act the Ameri-demand from the East, principally
insatiable. carried on round the Near East, the can Government took 54,000,000 oz. China, sppeared
drawing as much large numbers of native troops em- of silver per year. This naturally country ployed, all created an unprecedented induced the discovery and exploita. 10,000,000 taels of coined and bar, derrand for silver. which became tion of new mines, and when in silver in a single onsignment. On scarcer and starter as the American, 1893 the Act was repealed an extra February 11 the price of 891d. was Mexican and Canadian mines reduced | 54,000,000 ounces crane on the mar recorded for cash silver, this price outprt.
ket. That incident knocked. 74. DE comparing with the record low The price al silver is fixed daily in the price.
figure of 214d in 1902. the year London at a meeting of the London Previously, however." the "metal when the American smelting com brokers, who handle by far the had got into difficulties. Through-bine was formed, the Boer war end- greater proportion of the world's out the American States there haded, and China had to sell silver very [outpu This conference balances been a movement for silver coinage, heavily to pay the Boxer indemnity.
selling orders against buying orders, net as a convenience to the people, Such a price as 891d. was not and fixes the price accordingly. spot but as a benefit to the silver miners, without effect in India. At such a being the value for cash on delivery, and their tamme politicians. Of price rupees could only be coined the forward quotation representing these, the principal was Bland, who at a loss. The situation in India was metal to be delivered 60 days later. succeeded in getting a silver dollar complex. The rise in price had al- With sellers predominant, prices are coinage Bit through the legislature.ready been the reasod of a good, dest lowered; when buying orders are This protection of the mines naturally of trouble, and the prohibition on the more numerous, the quotations move led to Fürther developments, but as exports and imports of the metal ex- upward. These prices, fixed in Lon the silver dolker was extremely incept by the mint had caused: a cer don each afternoon, become the next popular and not accepted by the peo-tain amount of unrest. -Silver is a day's prices all over the world.. ple, it had eventually to be dropped, vini necessity to the East, and gry
and with it the market value of interference with dealings in i silver dropped. The Bland Silver especially if there is a plausible case The dominating influence in the Purchase Bill was intended to protect for political reasoning, is to be de silver market is the demand or lack the interest of the mine owners, but precated. The prohibitions were re of depend from the East. The failed in its purpose. Then came the moved, both as to import and "ex- bazaars of India, the sink" of silver Sherman Act, to which we have report, and to the use of coins other- of China are in normal times the ferred:
wise than as currency, principal consumers. There is, in addi- tion, a steady demand for the metal for
THE DOMINATING INFLUENCES.
THE CHAMPION OF BIMETALLISH.,
In this country, powers were a once taken to increase the mintage.
MONDAY, JUNE 8,
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AUSTRALIAN
ZINC
Those interested in Australian Zimne are invited to put into coururunication with the Zinc Producers Association Pty. Ltd., in Melbourne or Landes.
Electrolytic Zinc
Containing shot 99.96% Metallic Zinc
___£99,9 %-gtkASTCDD)
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Coutinho 905 Maite zime
Zinc Concentrates
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Containing about 95y Mack žiac
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use as subsidiary coinage, and every- In Europe a contributory cause value of silver coinage, to 122.18. where there is an industrial demand, of the steady tail was the adoption per ounce, which moved the temp The coinage demand is not likely to of the gold basis, and in some coun tation to mmm.com age into baition, be so important in the future, astries, as in Germany, the demonet and take an ille profit of 334 per the character of our new silve in zation of the smaller coins, the procent. The example was widely lol-Watt Bystam throughout East of Food and dicates. The industrial demand fuc fits on which were useful to pay for lowed on the Continent, and the steps. Telegraphic Aires VICTORIA || Lusies, but is never a factor in the the imports of gold. The Indian not only took the European trea daily quotation, as the silver requir: Government also closed the mints suries out of the market for & con- ed for industrial purposes is general. to the free comage of silver," which siderable period, but also brought ly the residue, when market deal thereby became a commodity with a large supplies of demonetized metal ings have been completed,
restricted market.
on to the market, as well as large At the close of the Indian Mutiny Of course, the decline in Vilve stocks of fabricated silver. silver averaged 61 5/16d. per ounce caused considerable perturbation, (Continued on Page 4.) and in the following year, 1859, the and fed inter aid to or Willien pre-war record price was touched. J. Bryen's championship of bimetal- 623d, which was due to the export isma cpioning which the of nearly 15 million pounds werif present state of the world would of silver to India, to put the E25ppear to justify. Various confer India Company, and other instituences were held at which plans were tions on their foot again, and for discussed end resulations passed for the reorganization of the administra measures to keep the value of silver
con
BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. URING the summer months mothers ·
bold watch for any unnatual course of the child's bowels. When orious trable say be avaded." Chati- given prompt attention at this time".
It is to be noted that exports fairly stable BR nothing - was; i brixin's Colic and Diarrhoes Remedy
to de East in that year exceeded the dora. The main obstacle the recan always be depended upon. For mo imports into this country.
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