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"DECOLITE
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WED "ESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH, 1929.
FIRE-RESISTING FLOORING
(Awarded Gold Medal Franco-British Exhibition.)
JOINTLESS. HYGIENIC & NON-SLIPPING
Laid by Our Own Workmen on
STEEL, WOOD OR CONCRETE.
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tel. Central 236.
9, Queen's Bulidings,
ICY-HOT
BOTTLE
Useful and Much Appreciated
Present for All Occasions.
THE CHINA DISPENSARY
82. QUEEN'S ROAD C
TELEPHONE C. 2598.
OUR XMAS STOCKS COMMENCE TO ARRIVE.
THE DELICIOUS LIQUER CHOCOLATES
(An Appreciated Present to Your Friends.)
AND
A NEW SHIP-BISCUIT.
OBTAINABLE
THE FRENCH STORE,
9, Beaconsfield Arcade, Hongkong.
SOMETHING NEW
Tel. 795.
FOR CHRISTMAS
AT
THE SWATOW LACE CO.
NEW PATTERNS of Swatow Laces and Drawn-Work. BEAUTIFUL Shawl, Caper, Scarfs, Dresses and Underwear,' FINE CARVED Trory, Mother Pearl, Turtoire-Shell and Amber Beads,'
Pendente, Brioclets, Brooches, Mab-Jong, Lanterns, Lamp Shades and a
GREAT ASSORTMENT
or
NEW GOODS ARE GOOD
кон
XMAS PRESENTS.
INSPECTION INVITED! 17a. Queen's Road Central.
SOME DISTANCES IN THE SOUTH CHINA LEA AND PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
On Sale 37-***
BY CAFT. G. E. PENNEFATHER.
BREWED"& Co., Pedder Street.
YE OLDE PRINTERIE, LÆ, Queen's Road,
The CITROEN.
The Last Word in Car-Economy
RUNNING COSTS LOWER.
Less Tyres
Less Oil
Winner 2 years running 1920-11-22. Grand Prix for Law Consumption
Cars for Sale:
LEPACK CO., LTD.,
60-52, Queen's Rd. C.
SENSATIONAL SILVER-LEAD FIND IN QUEENSLAND" POSSIBLE SECOND BROKEN HILL. "The find premises to be one of the most important in silyor lead in Australia.” Septe
Hill.
THE MAGIC BEAN. EXPERIMENTAL CROP BEST EVER
RAISED IN ENGLAND.
The wonderful soya bean, the commer. cial uses of which range from the making of billiards balls and explosives to that
It is in this way the manager of the of flour and salad dressing, is growing to Chillagos State Smelters (Mr. P. God perfection at Chiswick, W., and a rich dard), in a report to the Queensland harvest is expected within the next fort
night. Mines Department, refers to the dis- covery of an outcrop of silver lead in the afr. J. E. North, curator of the Royal As a result of ten years' experiments Chillage district The information Beanie Society is now satisfied that he gives rise to a hope that this and many possesses a variety of the plant which is provide. Australia with a second Broken
adaptable to the British climate, and will Mr Goddard says the outcrop is approduce profitable results to the grower proximately three quarters of a mile in as well as to the nation. length. Ten samples from places about the best I have ruined."
My experimental crop this year is
he said. 100 feet apart averaged from 50 to Manchuria is the natural home of the oz of silver and 50 per cent, lead. in a gully between the two hills there was pure galena showing three inches in Langth, and asanying 116 s. of silver and 30 per cent, lead. The outcrop for the whole length stood about two feet out of the ground. In one place on top!
a bean, and the difficulty has been, to the very varying conditions of the Eng- care a variety which will flourish under lish climate. The pode of my plants are almost ripe and hope to have seeds aqual to those that come from the East. of the hill it steed out about 3 feet in The Board of Agriculture after four depth, 43 feet in length and about 3 feet in to produce a variety of the plant which years gave up their experiments of trying thickness, with very high lead and silver. values. The country surrounding was would suit the elinatio conditions of this porphyry. It is impossible vet to say country, but I hope now that it has bear what is under the grand, but a shaft shown the bear eth be successfully calti- sunk 10 fost alengde the lede disclosed d here that the Government will again a solid wall of luna at that depth, ake up the matter, which is one of vital Arrangements are now being made to importance. haul some of the cue to Chillagre.
Mr. Goddard suggested to the Ministe, that a geolegit be sent up at the earliest opportunity to inspect and re port, as the find proints to be one of the most important in silver and lead in Australia,
The show in on Woberodory pastoral vase, held by William Atherton. of Chillage, and on which in giunted Nicham station. The total distance by road from ChRacen is, 47 mufen, though, as the crow flies, de la 26 milia dhe porth. The number of intumoniae bills, how ever, work ander improbis by wake! a direct rowl,
The minister neulalia Wot the out-
thiu
America is growing more 1500,000 acres of the soya bran. Hull is
perting monthly about 10,000 tons of the hean. and about 15,000 tons reach Manchester every month from the East."
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
NOVEMBER 13, 1923. Canton Insurances
.......$600 b. Valon Insurances ............. „$934 by 235.20. Honkong Fire Fnsurances $505 b. Stanberts
2431 b., 46 5. "Sir Ferrics &
crop was laced by egrole i
dividuals, and thngolian
granted to privata litsents in Chillingos ! The State rezilom, an bakal di tha! Government, bord hentai
[bres of r
privatly a
in a very foxerei
North Queen of percep
AMERICA AND FOREIGN
HOW
TRADE.
FOREIGN MARKETS
ARE LOST.
"If the United States is to level out the valleys of periodic depression in the curve of its business cycles and is to keep its factories and farms steadily and fully occupied," says Mr. Julius Klein, director of the Bureau of Foreign
in and Domestic Commerce,
the maintenance of permanent foreign outlets must be asures regardless of fuctuations in domestic market con- ditions
It does not improve the standing of America's business abroad to have the first sign of better domestic trade-bring
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Harkony Rapes
hin Providente
Hoe deng Train
1933 b. & sa
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820 8.0
$10.b.
1948
21410 b. ..$247 b.
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Interest in those foreign contacts which had the House, No. 6, DUDDELL STREET
hout the immediate abarisegment of all WHOLE GROUND FLOOR and BEST been hailed with such joy and policitous regard during the dark days of 1921.”
Unhappily, despite the lessons of the War and the ensuing cycle of prosperity
and degresion, the American business man
in foreign trade remains too frequently
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the spoiled child. In a number of importFFICES in UNION BUILDING—010
unt
Mr. Klein
and
says, "the accumula bed past of goal will and experience likely to be thrown away over night squandered by a reversion to those hapha zard, spasmodic policies-or utter lack of policies-which had been the most serious
Room on Fifth Floor.
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handicap to our commercial progress abroad before the War." One frin, which hud heen courting foreign trade during the lean years, curtly refused a six-figure order because they were too busy with domestic dewands, Another Müdenly abolished its export department, which had been OFFICES & laboriously built up by a faithful foreign
GODOWNS. staff, with the explanation thint home markets are once more sufficient to take care of our entire output."
TELEPHONING TO SHIPS.
LINKING UP OF LAND AND WIRELESS SERVICES.
Capt. J. A. Slee, in the Engineering Section of the British Association Con- gress, described "Recent Developments of Wireless Telegraphy in the Mercantile
Marine."
Many improvements, he said, had been effectel during the last 18 months The application of modern researches enabled very high speeds to be attained, [and by the use of automatic trensmitting Transatlantic ships could now communi cato at the rate of 30 words per minute at a distance of 700 miles. Tuning with avier to protection from interference had also been improved, and this wast of great importance owing to the increas- ing number of powerful stétions. Steady progress continued to be made in the use of wireless in direction finding, and
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the aim hail been to render the ap in all Shapes, ranging from $1.50 each.
paratua, independent of the ordinary wireless outfit and place it directly under the control of the navigating officer.
Experiments wore in progress with the
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Insulin is now being prepared at the London Hospital, where patients are being successfully treated for diabetes:
Sir Arthur Balfour, president of the Associated: Chambers of Commerce, who roturned in September from a business
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TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., Tr. 127.
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