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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
TAJMAHAL SILK STORE.
LADIES': Shawls,
Hour!
Coats, Kinomos, Underwears, (3 pc. set) at $15.00. GENTLEMEN'S:--Silk Shirts $3.00 & Silk Pyjamas $6.00. 5. Flower Street,
(opp. "China Mall.")
BOOKBINDING.
THE
NEWSPAPER
PRISE LTD..
ENTER-
for Superior Binding "China Mail" Offices,
3A, Wyndham Street, Tel. C.22.
DENTIST.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road Central. Tel. C. No. 1255.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD.
72, Queen's Road, Central. Tel. 0.8270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay.
New Work & Repairs.
Call Flag "L" Sole Agents for Kalvin Motors.
NEWSPAPER
ENTER
FOR BETTER PRINTING.
THE
· PRISE LTD.,
General and Commercial
Printers, "China
Offices.
Mai
BA, Wyndham Street, Tel. C.22.
HAIR DRESSERS & BOOKSELLERS
HON MAN
57, Des Voeux Rd. C.
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON. Expert Barbers Moderate Charges
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hal
Dressers & Booksellers.
No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIAN.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL
CO.
'Phone 2232.
53, Queen's Road Central.
BOOTS & SHOES
Leather. Sole Canvas Stanes y 3 241 Car Crepe Rubber Sole
Black Brown Slurs frems
Hints Childers Wang Fourt
31000
Best syles, minna tongárte crack of a′′E sizes. Repairing a squcralos
· WONG SIU WOON 21, Püdiger St. Phone ("-11");
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Agents for:- ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Mausfacturers. High Clata English Jewellery,
LATEST
GRAMOPHONE
RECORDS
are obtainable at
THE WING ON CO., LTD.
(Music Department)
CLEAN
AS A WHISTLE
these garments that come back from the International Dry Cleaning Co. No matter how soiled their condition, you can depend on our quality work to restore to them their original lustre.
PROMPT SERVICE
THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.
19, Wyndham 8. 143 Wong Nel Chung Road,
Honr Hary.
Happy Valley
36, Nathan Road, Kowloon,
NEW CANTON BRANCH: 88, Tal Sup Po, Canton.
FIRE SEQUEL
THE
No Evidence of Arson Produced
FACILITIES FOR ESCAPE
CHINA MAIL.
CHINA'S WAR
Movements of Chiang Kai-shek
Have You Heard?
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1930.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE,
Opening Daily Official Quotations 26th March, 1930.
B15-Soll- Sales Nom.
STOCK
era ста
YEN DESIRES PEACE !
"Look here," said a man to the Further evidence was taken by Mr.
Shanghal, Yesterday, R. E. Lindselt and a Coroner's jury
foreman builder, "can you give me It is reported that Marshal Chlang yesterday afternoon in the inquiry into Kai-shek intends to remain at Fenghusa definite date on which this house. the circumstances attending the death until events have demonstrated the at-will be completed? You ace-I'm of a Chinese woman and two children titude which various Generals profes- getting married when.It is ready for during the Are at 12, Smithfield, Ken-sing to support him intend to take.
occupation." nedy Town.
"Right," the foreman replied. "You leave
see the It to me, I'll job's spun out as long as possible!" Mercantile Ek., AND.L
Mr. Tan Yen-kai, President of the Executivo Tuan, has wired from Nan- king urging Chiang Kai-shek to return. pointing out that his absence has re- Bulted in the circulation of rumours which are prejudicial to the Nationalist Government. Reuter.
Peking, Yesterday,
North
Mr. G. C. Moss, assistant engineer and station officer of the Central Fire Station, speaking about the burned house, said that it was one of a row of houses which wore rebuilt after being burned dawn by fire, once before, in 1022. They were not exactly tenements of the common native type, in that these It is understood that the were built in two parts, these being con- | China Standard and the Shun Tien |nected together on each floor by a nar-Shiha Po, both of which are Japaness row concrete bridge. The only means of | supported, are closing shortly, probably ingress or egress was by a wooden to-morrow. Apparently there is no in- staircase which was in the front part tention of re-opening either in Nanking and ran down to the front of the shop. or elsewhere. There was no back staircase of any kind.
Yen Hst-shan is reported to have again eniphasised that he always de síros peace, asserting that he does not | intend to establish a Government at Peking as that would make a cleavage with Nanking inevitable.
From the fire point of view, witness cansidered the position of the staircase made it more dangerous in this type of tenement. He could not say who- ther Euch type of houses was still being The Kuomintang offlelals who were built in the Colony, but he did know recently arrested Taiyuanfu have that a new type of buildings had come been freed, but nevertheless Yen Hsi- into existence with concrete staircaseshan is reported to have declared his and floors which were a distinct im- provement over such a type as that re- presented by the building concerned in the present case.
The Coroner: Do you know if that new type is a definite reform by the Building Authority?
Witness replied that he could not speak as to that, but he thought it all wrong that in such structures divided into two parts as No. 12,. Smithfield
willingness to accept the post of Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Forces. It is also reported that Feng Yu-hsiang has ordered his sub- ordinates to preparo his headquarters at Chengchow.-Reuter.
ARMY ESTIMATES
was, there should be only one stair Commons and Singapore
case, and a wooden one at that.
The jury expressed the opinion that it would be better to have some repre- zentative of the Building Authority to give evidence as to why this particular type of building which the Fire Brigade considered most insufficient in facilities for escape from fire should be allowed. The Coroner agreed, and after direct- ing the jury on certain points of the evidence, telling them that there was no possible negligence, in the matter of the origin of the fire, and that as re gards the death of the victims the only safe verdict was one of "Death by
Misadventure," he adjourned the in- quiry until Tuesday for the attendance
of a lepresentative of the Building
Authority.
LUNACY RIFE
Most People Are a Little Crazy
Base
NO CHANGE IN POLICY
London, Yesterday.
the
votes were
The debate on the Army Esti- mates lasted until two o'clock this morning when agreed to.
On the vote for work, Mr. C. Waterhouse (Con., South Leicester) asked whether the reduction in the amount for Singapore represented any change in policy.
▼
Mr. Shiawell replied that un-
Belleve it or not, but it's true, There's an animal down at the zoo
That looks hoary with age But the sign on its cago
Informs you the critter is
"Gnu."
Fun
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Insurances, Canton Ina.
$185
Chien is............$ 100
China Underwriters..$
1.30
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Dec.
for 10...
Dec.
China Fire Ins. ......$ 345 "What, after all, is the biggest H. K. Fire Ins...$905 child problem?"
"How to questions!"
answer little Willie's
Shipping,
...$ Douglases..... "This coal business will take some 11. K. Scanboat ..$ settling."
Indo-China (Pref.)
$ "You're right. I haven't paid for
(Del....$ the two tons I had at the end of Shell Transports.${ last winter."
Union Waterboats....$25
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Minlog.
... 23
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150
A holidaymaker at the seaside married his landlady.-This may have been the only way she could Scaguet ...............$ 0.05 make him stop complaining about Kailan Mining Ad, ■j- the food.
Langkat (Comb.)...Th. (Single) ...Tis. S'hai Exploration...Tls.
Force of habit. The actor who always gets up and bows when the curtains are drawn in the morning.
In Sweden when the family goi out they hang their door-key outside
Loans
.Th.
Raubs Tronoh Minc
Docks, Wharves,
..$ 133
FE
Dec.
-$19...May.24,9
Pending
Dec. Last dlratend for 1024
Dec. 1-30 for 10. Mar. 4, BU 1/1:47. ex. 2-1 in preferred June 19, 29
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ns a sign that they are not at home. Codowns, &c. -In Britain his would be a sign, K. & K. Wharves..$ 147 that they were not all there.
H. K. & W. Docks.....$
No Comrade.I can forgive a China Provident .....$5.05 ..TT. 290 man who buys his wife a new three- Hongkewa ....... piece suit for the holidays. But IN. Engineerings ...Th. 7.80 desplac one who encourages her to Shanghai Docks ...Th. 199 call on the wives of his friends in
Cotton Mill..
it.
"Film stars want everything up- to-date," says a somebody.
"Yet several old-fashioned ones
husbands.
Esra Cotton.......Th. 13
S'hai Cotton (old)..Th. (new)..Th.
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doubtedly there had been a change still have last year's model in Zoong Sing ......Th.
In policy. The Government were slowing up operations at Singa-
pore.
Asked if there had been any can- 'cellation of work, or whether they retarding work, Mr. were only Shinwell said that certain items of We are all insane. Not raving, of expenditure had bn cancelled. course, just a little bit mad.
Reuter.
Officers of the 14th Brigade Heavy Artillery claim to identify the mess described in the war book "Retreat" as that of their brigade. They assert that real incidents have been grossly distorted.
EXCHANGES
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
4
1/6.8
On London- Bank, wire Bank, on demand... 1/6 3/16 Bank, 30 days' sight Bank, 4 months' sight 1/6 5/16 Gredits, montha'
sight
3/71/% Documentary, 4
months' sight... 1/7
On Paris-- 1 On demand Credits, 4 months
sight
Dr. G. R. Cruikshank, for 20 years a lunacy inspector for the Canadian Government, says ao. In the Supreme Court the other day, he told the judge that more than 1,000 persons walking the streets of Windsor were insane. The prospect that your fellow pas sengers in trains, trams and buses, the fellows at the office (although you sus pected that), your wife (you knew it), your income tax collector, are all in- zane, needed a little explanation, and by judges rather than doctors. There Dr. Cruikshank put forward his argu- is no real distinction between sanity ment in very decided terms.
and insanity. Some of the most valu- "There is no dividing line between able citizens are "cranks" and yet they sanity and insanity," announced the perform most useful work in public life. On demand........ doctor. "Some people are feane in the
"Some people, of course, have to be opinion of others, and yet might be replaced in institutions. garded by the majority as being in full draw a line whenever we think that possession of their senses.
they will be benefited by such treat "It is often a 'matter to be decided mont."
We have to
On Berlin...
Lands, Hotels & Buildings.
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Mar, Socal Int. 18-ajcyemr51-350 Mar, 25, 80 Dec. th lovax Compon No. 91 Sep, 20, 29
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Mar. 13, 30
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Der. FindT.10 af 103
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140
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July 27, 99
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$ 673 374 37
H.K. & S. Hotels ...$ H. K. Lands Shanghai Lands ...Tis, Humphreys
H. K. Realies ....... Chinese Estates.......$
Public Utilities.
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H. K. Tramways....$ ... 10/» Peak Trams (old).....
(new)....$
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Star Ferries
China Light......
- Nov. 26, 39
Oct, 11, 90
Dec. 30 contator 193..........
Des. Final 1039 Dec. FT. 5 af: 192. 113.............. Flanier af
Pending
Fob, 19, 30
Dec.
Dee.
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Dee Final Sirere 1923
Mar. 19, 30
Feb. 8,29
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June 5, 20
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13.08
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Bet on new 5423
June, 7, 29
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Dec, 28, 20 Mar. 12, 30
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Dec. T. d for 153,
123
咖啡
937/2
1012
Sandakan Lights ..... H.K. Telephones ....512) China Buses.......Th. |18
5.05
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(Pref. 18/3
Industriala.
On New York- On demand
...36% 60 days' Credits, sight
382 (Continued at foot of next Column)
HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD
and
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
PENINSULA HOTEL
Friday, 28th March.
S'poreTractions Ord/-|- |10|-
China Sugars $ 80 c. Malabon Sugars ...... Cald: Macg, Ord...Th. Pref....Th.
Canton Icza
Cements (comb.)....$14
(old).....$ (fiew) འ -- ༤
H. K. Ropes .........$ 31 United Asbestos
Stores, &c.
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Feb, 21, 29
Feb. 6, 80
In Ligaklation.
27
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April 11,99
Dee, Incorporateil In May 1959 day
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Mar. 14, BQ
Dairy Farms $20 Wauco
201
17
Dec. 1,50 for 10
11.40 Oct. 30 conte for yox, 81-10-29; Pending
Der A Wings...
$80 c.
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Lane Crawfords
2.80
Feb. 1st divklead for year 19-9-98
177
Mackintosha...
18
Sinceres
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BRIDGE & WHIST
1st Floor Dining Room
3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Wm. Powell - 2.85
Miscellaneou.Y
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Fer
H.K. Amusement....$ 28
1.
Mar.
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Roof Garden
H. K. Constructions..$
7.80
Fob. for year 2322 April11,39
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Feb. 25 cents for year 23-29 Jun 10,99
2.50 on Preferred) for fear
(81.50 on Deferred) aids July 5, 29 Dec. Nque
B. Ind. G.$ Bonds 62% R44
73, Caine Hoed,
'3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
H. K. Govt. Loans.$ 1% Pram.
100
and
Internet halt yearly.
Hong Kon
THE DANSANT
Rose Room
明珠日
夜照相樓
THE WELCOME STUDIO:
(The Leading Photographers in the Colbwy)
PORTRAITS & PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN
From 9 a.m. to 9 pm. Daily
GUARANTEED SATISFACTION
-PROMPT SERVICE FOR DEVELOPING
PRINTING, ENLARGING AND REPRODUCING PURPOSES.
4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tea will be Served on 1st Floor at 4.30 p.m.
Results of all games to be handed in to Collectors by 6 pm. sharp.
A warning bell will be rang at 5.45 p.m., after which play must cease, after the hand is finished.
AUCTION
6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
(Signed Football, Sheep, Pictures, Chinese Mirrors, Pair of Game Birds in cage, etc., etc.)
Auctioneer: Mr. V. C. Labrani.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:
Bridge
Mah Jongg
Highest Net Score and Highest Net Score and Booby:
Booby
Whist
Highest Score and Booby;
Dancing
To Couple who finish up at the, close ct vibelfed dance on a hidden spot in the Rose Room. F
ALL KINDS OF LOCAL VIEWS, POSTCARDS, SNAPSHOTS AND FANORAMA ON SALE AT REASONABLE, PHICKS.
PRIZE GIVING by Mes W. T. Soutkorn at 3,50
TICKET
$2.00
EXPERT IN OUTDOOR SERVICE.
On Bombay Wire..
On demand.
1014
101%
On Calcutta-
Paris
LONDON EXCHANGES
Rugby, Yesterday,
124.26:
Wire **
On demand.
101 1014
New York
4.86 B1/32:
Brussels
94.88
On Singapore..
Geneva
25.135
On demand.
66%
Amsterdam
12.12%
On Manila
Milan
92.07
On demand
74
Berlin
20.885
On Shanghai--
Stockholm
-19.10
On demand
YB
Copenhagen
.18.16
| 30 day's sight (private,
paper)
Oslo
18.17
Vienna
- 84.575-
-On. Yokokama
Prague
164 3/16"
·74%
On demand.
| Gold Leaf, 100 ́Ans
(per tap)
Sovereigns
buying rate)
Silver (per
Bar Bilyer in
Kang
(Bank's
Copper Cash M Copper Cents.. Rate of Nátive »I
Chindie Suba Coin
2% dla nom. Nominal
8% prem
6% D. bhop
Hong Kong Sub. Coln 14% die.
Athens.
Bucharest
Buenos Aires.
Bombay
Shanghai
42% 30
1/5/18/16 3/1/11-229
1761
Hong Kong và Yokohama.......2/0.3%. Bliver Spot ***** 19 Bilver Forward 19 7/16
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Helsingfors
1981
Madrid
38.00
Lisbon
108.80
Rio
5.25/92