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六拜禮 晚五十月十年一十二百九千一英
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1921,
日五十月九酉辛大歲年十國民華中
THE DOLLAR.
Today's closing rate 2.11 18
Today's opening rate 2/11 18.
(Reuter's Services to the China Mail)
STEAMER ASHORE.
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SEPTEMBER RECORDS.
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Will purchase a good style. FLUSH CLOSET
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$50.-
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SPECIAL TERMS FOR FITING
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Telephone 354.
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INSPECTION CORDIALLE INVITED.
ULLMANN & 00,
TWO THOUSAND PASSENGERS BEING LANDED.
LONDON, October 14, The 4000-ton British India wamer Coxonada from Rangoon to Coronendel with 2,000 passengers on board is ashore five miles south of Gopaulpore. The passengers are being landed. The steamer "Clan Mac- Bride" is standing by. The steamer Wamwala" is going to assist the stranded vessel and salvage appliances are being sent.
EXCHANGES PROBLEM.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONFERENCE'S INQUIRY.
BRUSSELS, October 14.
SPECIAL CABLE.
BHANGHAI HARBOUR.
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING | ENGINEERS MEET,
[China Mail SPECIAL]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 15. The opening meeting was held to- day of the international consulting engineers committer appointed by the Whangpoo Conservancy with reference to Shanghai port's development. An immente amount of work is to be doce and the committee will meet
The executive council of the international parliamentary trade con practically daily for six weeks, ference has opened. It appointed a sub-committee to inquire into the exchanges problem. Seventeen countries are represented, including Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and China.
MANY NATIONS REPRESENTED.
BRUSSELS, October 14.
The executive committee of the international parliamentary trade con- ference has opened. M. Franck, Minister of Colonies presided. Twenty countries were represented, including Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Japan, China, and Persia. A sub-committee was appointed to draft a resolu. tion un the exchange question.
MINERAL OIL DISCOVERY.
EXCITEMENT IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA..
MELBOURNE, October 14.
The Herald reports that following the discovery of distinct traces of mineral oil in the Kimberley district of Western Australia there has been a rush of applicants for oil prospecting licences. Leases covering 100,000 square miles in the western portion of the northern territory adjoining the Kimberley district have also been applied for.
CANADA'S TRADE DECLINES."
SEPTEMBER SHOWS A DROP OF $92,000,000.
OTTAWA, October 14.
Canadian trade for September had a total value of $119,000,000, being
HIGHWAY ROBBERY,
WOMEN ATTACKED AT LONELY SPOT.
A Chinese married woman residing at No. 119 Wahu Street, Taumati, was returning home from the cemetery at Mataukok with a friead about 1 p.m. yesterday when they were at- tacked by three highway men at a lonely spot on the Mataukok-Yaumati Road, and robbed of their jewellery. Throwing the two women violently to the ground, the robbers made up the billside in the direction of Mataukok.
GAZETTED APPOINT-
MENTS.
Mr. J. B. Wood to be First P.3. Dr. B. H. Hellot to be Second Port Health Officer.
Dr. G. D. R. Black to be a member of the Sanitary Board, during Dr.
Mr. Teiji Taabohami to be re- cognized as Japanese Consul.
Jr. Liu Kam to be Forest Officer, in place of Mr. Cheung Chin dismissed.
| a decline of $92,000,000, compared with September last year. The total for HOOSIER STATE" SAILS
decline of
the six months ending September was $721,000,000, $552,000,000 compared with the corresponding six months last year.
RUSSIAN FAMINE BELIEF.
INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER OPENS FUND.
LONDOS, October 14.
The Manchester Guardian has opened a Russian famine relief fund.
BRITISH KABUL MISSION.
SEVERAL MEMBERS SUFFER ILL HEALTH,
SULA, October 14.
The health of several members of the British mission to Kabul is on- satisfactory and four have returned to India to recuperate.
£184 436 PROFIT
MESSES. HARRISONS AND CROSFIELD'S DIVIDENDS
LONDON, October 14: Harrisons and Crosfeld's net profit for the year ended June 30 was £164,466 from which were paid full dividends of 6 per cent. for cumulative preference, 10 per cent. for preferred ordinary, and 7 per cent. for deferred ordinary shares. The sum of £44,525 was carried forward,
NO DIVIDIND.
DUNLOPS FEEL THE KUBBER SLUMP.
LUSDOX, October 14.
In view of the serious depreciation of stocks of rubber and cotton held by the company at the end of the financial year, the Dunlop Rubber Com
intimates that dividends on preference shares will not paid.
pany
AMERICAN ARMS” EMBARGO.
NO MORE MUNITIONS FOR CHINA..
WASHINGTON, October 15.
FIRST TRIP TO THE ORIENT
The s.s.Hoosier State," secord- ing to cable advice from San Fran- cisco, railed from that Pert te Octo- ber 12 on her first voyage to the Orient in the Trans-Pacific Service of of the Pacific Mail 8.3. Co., with a full complement of passengers and maximum cargo for Japan Oriental Ports.
FORTUNE PROMISED.
ard
CREDULOUS AMAH DECEIVED.
PALMIST'8 WILES.
An amah employed at No. 2, Torres Building, Kowloon, as the victim of an ingenious confidence trick which cost her $127. According to her report to the police, the mets fortune teller in Nathan Boad at noon on Oct- ober 9. After examining the palms of her hands, be told her that a large for- tune was coming her way soon. She gave him five cents, and on his invitation, agreed to call at his house, No. 153, Reclamation Street. Yarmati, for a farther consulation. She went there the samhe evening. The fortune teller
ber gave particulars of the fortune. This time she gave him $5. He told her that he would require, more money to win the favour of the god fortune, and made another appointment. This was followed by several others, in the course of which the woman gave the fortune teller various sums of money amounting to $127. A final consultation was When arranged for. yesterday.
of
the woman arrived however sbs found the foot empty. The fortunte teller had abeconded with her money, the savings of a life time.
Another earthquake was register- at the Royal Observatory on Thurs
In the Senate, Senator Lodge introduced a bill already agreed upon by the foreign relations committee forbidding the export of munitions to revolu tionaries in any country in which the United States has extraterritorialed rights. It is understood that the bill is intended to fallow the policy of the day night. It started at 8 hours, 18 principal powers in prohibiting the export of arms and munitions to China.
1963 PATZITIONING OF PANAMA:
UNITED STATES PAYE COLOMBIA $24,000,000,
BOGOTA, October 14.
The Colombian Berate has ratified a tresty the United States whereby Colombus
minutes and 49 seconds, and continued The very rapid until 8.25 a.m: vibrations denoted that it was local,
The 17th annual general meeting of Royal Hongkong Yacht Club mem -bers will be held at the Club House North Point, on Friday, October 21 530 pm. An extraordinary general meeting will follow to com der a proposal to raise the entranch
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