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DIRECT,CH,BELOKI,18,QUAÏ VAN DYCE,AN
THE SS.
FRANKEN."
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NEW NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD SHIPS.
DUE ON SATURDAY ON MAIDEN TRIP.
REMARKABLE GIFT OF LONDON PROPERTY.
A BARON'S £1,000,000 MANSION.
Memories of one of the strongcat characters of Victorian London, who once built a £1,000,000 mansion that no oue accidental Another new ship is expected to reach ever lived in, are recalled by the discovery by H London Hongkong on Saturday, this being the solicitor of the deed of conveyance by recently built Franken belonging to the which the eccentrio Baron Albert Grant gave Leicester-squate to the public in Norddeutscher Lloyd Line. The Fran- 1874. While Mr. Jocelyn Brandon, of ken is making her maiden trip to the the firm of Messrs. Brandon and Nichol. Far East and has been built by Bremer Vulkan in Vegesack to the order of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, Bremen. Her trial trip, on April 16th, was very Batiafactory.
The Franken will ply in a freight and limited pancager service between Bre men, and Japan ports, calling at Ham- burg, Rotterdam, Genos, Fort Said, Colombo, Belawan, Bingapore, Manila, Hongkong and Shanghai.
The length of the new ship over all is 150 metres, the breadth 19.40 metres,' and moulded depth 10.00 metres. The gross tonnage is 7,770.8 British registry, 19.440 tons. Her mean draught is 8.27 metres. The capacity of her hold for general cargo is 18,048 cubic metres She carries oil (037,403 cubio feet). cargo tanks, with a capacity for holding 2,889 cubic metres, or 2,446 tons.
The Franken, is fitted with twenty steam driven winches and 23 booms for carrying cargo. Of which one can carry
son, solicitor, 3, Suffolk-place, 8.W., was looking through old parchments to sea if any could be destroyed he found one heavily sealed with grean tapes and red disca. It bore the name Albert Grant, M.P. He remembered the name as that of a man who was later created Baron Albert Grant by King Victor Emmanuel of Italy.
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He could remember meeting this strange financier of the late nineteenth century, who raised capital of £24,000,000 in connection with foreign companies, ultimately losing £20,000,000 of public money and most of his own.
WHERE DUELS WERE FOUGHT. Mr. Brandon began to read the nest handwriting on the parchment, and was astonished to find it was the conveyance by which Leicester-square was given to the public by the strange baros. first conveyance was dated July 2nd, 1874, and bestowed thirteen-fourteentha of the squaro on the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The
The owner of the other fourteenth could not be traced, but an Act of Parlia ment made it impossible for this un- known owner to dispose of his share of a square in which a Prince of Wales and a Queen of Bohemia had died and in which famous duals had been fought
45 tons, one 20 tons and on 10 tons.
The ship is equipped with all modern conveniences, contrivances and safety devices, including wireles, submarine sound receiver, fire extinguishers, etc.
She is fitted to carry a limited number of passengers, the passenger accommoda.
Not long after this gift Baron Albert tion, which is situated on the boat and bridge decks, being both airy and com- Grant's fortunes began to wane and the loss of an action with the Franco- It fortable. These quarters have been con- Egyptian Bank finally ruined him. structed to meet the requirements of was in 1874-the date on the rediscovered passenger, who desire quietness during deed of conveyance-that ho decided to buy, scores of seres of property where the trip and so that they may be away Kensington Court now stands and to from all unnecessary noise. There are build a mansion at a cost of £1,000,000 number of social rooms, all-sdrairably that would be bigger than Buckingham furnished, including dining, sitting and Palace, His project was carried out.
By December 13th, 1874, however, the owner of this remainder was discovered in Italy, and another conveyance, written in tiny bandwriting on the reverse of the other deed, bestowed the remaining: fourteenth of Leicester-square on the public. The signature Albert Grant was inscribed in bold, angular penmanship.
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HONGKONG IMPORTS:
FORTNIGHTLY REPORT OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING“ QUOTATIONS.
JUNE 21T, 1980. Hmgkong Bank81,125 bay..
Do., London.....181 nom.
03 nom.
650
nom.
The fortnightly Price Current and Chartered Bank.....£20 nom. The engines are triple expansion and warmings ever held the crash come.
Do.,
021by com.. of the super-heated type. They are of Baron Grant nover lived in the huge 5,800 h.p., and each works on a four mansion Within little more than a year Market Report published by the Hong-Mercantile Bank, A. & B £90 com. of its completion, Kensington House was kong General Chamber of Commerce, P. & O. Bank...............20) nom.
East Asia Bank
...$640 buy Cauzon Insuranos. blade sorow. The ship is a coal burning boing demolished on behalf of the credi vessel and can take in her bunkers 1,380 tors. The famous marble staircase of states:
Cetton Piece Goods and Cotton Fancy Obin Underwater..........$1.40 now. tons and can carry in her reserve bun-alniem fund'e was one of the things
removed from it. rail: alight, improvement local North China Insuranca....... 145 kers 2,000 tons.
ings that separate Sandown Park race conditions has taken place with more Union Insurance
cies but in small quantities. Fairly large China maiden voyage on May 1st, under the of the estate.
sales of Brocades at very low prices are Hongkong Fire Insurance...8588 bay. command of Capt. P. Kuhnemann.
Frices gkong Tag......... Her sister ship, the Schwalen, is still
reported and further small lots of colour. Dongisas.....824) 100. accepted. Deliveries are poor.
Indo-Chinas (Ï'raf.) under construction, but when completed
od Stripo Taffetas and Prints have been H.K., U. & M. Beamboats...$26; mom. for both sorts of raw material show a will be put on the Far Eastern service.
last reported. alight docline since wo The local agents for the Norddeuts
Liverpool quotations of the 17th inat. cher Lloyd Line are Melchers & Co.
being Eg. Sakel. 18. sod.. Mid. Amer. **Spot" 0.45d.
The Franken loft Hamburg on her course from the road were from the front enquiry for various kinds of Spring. Fan-YangtzoomS190 kar
NEW ATLANTIC CABLE.
| GREAT TRANSMITTING INCREASE.
NOTABLE DEVELOPMENT.
The baron's later years were spent in defending a long succession of actions and bankruptcy proceedings and he died in fairly modest circumstances in 1809.
END OF CLAWSON SALE.
A TOTAL OF £128,000.
Ship
Bargaine: 8,900
Fire
Do [Voll Shell Transports Star Ferries H Waterboats.
LOADS
3 nom. .. nom.
..$48 nom. .92%. nom.
$67) buy, $15 nom.
$241 buy.
$34 som. ..$11 bay.
41-Rom.
T. 28 nom. Als. 124 buy. „The of nom,
i nom Tis.
..$5 nom. ..65/com. ..8/.tom.
tul bay.
China Mugars Malabon Bugars Benguets......
(single) Kaisa Mining Ad.. Langkats (combined) Shanghai Explorations.. Bad...............................
haubas,
Ural Caspians: Tronoh Mines...
1.K, & K. Wharta....... HK. & W. Dooku: Hongkew**** New Engineerings........ Shanghai Docks... HK. & D. Hotels ...........
Lands Hongkong Hongkong Realtys ...... H.K. Territorals .................... American. Developmentsuen
..25 cts, sol. ..314 buy. Humphreys Estates Prince's Balings....... 395 25m. Karal Landı .................... $7 sel Ewa Cotton sainengouraservoar 12.91 buy. 94 sol.
Cotton Yarn-A fair amount, of busi The sale of Mr. J. L. Clawson's library oss has been done in spot and forward ended in New York with total receipts at a decline of 89 to 83 per bale. Mar- amounting to 649,2687 dollars (£128,537]. ket closes steady, with some demand for The highest price, on the closing day selected chops. Quotations are puroly wae 5.700 dollars [£1,140] for Heary nominal:No. 168., $140/180; No. 128.,
8180/105. Arrivals: 100 bales. A development in overseas communica-Willebic's Willebie bis Avisa, 1584, 8165/100; No. 109, 8170/175 No. 209, tions of the greatest importance to the The book contains the earliest printed ments: Nit. Sales: 3,000 bales, Unsold business .communities of Great Britain mention of William Shakespeare by
Four thousand dollars (E500 stocks: 7,200 bales.
bales. and America was witnessed when the name. Westem Union Telegaph Company in was paid for "Westward for Smelte,"
Woollene.-Market quiet. augurated its now permalloy trans-1820, by "Rinde Kit of Kingstone," e curious
Raw Cotton-No business to report. Atlantic cable from Hay Roberts, Now book containing tales with
Metals-Market dull very littlo doing, foundland, to Sonnen Cove, Cornwall. analogies to Cymbeline and The Merry
Flour Market-Stocks: About 400,000. After a day's delay owing to unfavourable fires of Windsor.
George Wapall's "The Tyde Taryeth weather conditions, there was successfully
Back; landed at the latter point the shore-and no Man," 1870, fetched 3,000 dollars Market: Firm Quotations:-American
$4.25 per John Weever's Mirror of Patent,, of the now cable, about six miles in£600], lengths, which the cable ship Colonia, of Martyrs," 1601, 3,900 dollars [£760], Straight, $3.40 per sack; American Cut 10,000 tons, is to link up with the ocosmic ficbert Wilson's "Pleasant and Stately off, 81.40 per sack; Shanghai Flour, 83.15 apan of the cable, and carry across to Morall of Three Lords and Three Ladies per sack; Australian 'No. 1, 83.50 per Newlonadland at the beginning of July, of Loudon," 1800, 3,000 dollars [2000],ack; Canadian Cut-off, 83 per sack. Returning to England, the Colonia will reload with the final section of the cable and Nathaniel Woode's Conflict of Con which is to be laid between Nowfoundland science," 1581, 5,000 dollars (£500).
PERSPIRATION, BAD QUODES, AND ALL FOOT
PODOS VALUES BALE, FOR
ENGLIKE PRICE 3/-. ALL PHARMACIES
· TENDER AND BORE FEET
and New York,
Am
The new cable is the first of its kind ever landed in England, and will be cap-. able of transmitting. 2,500 letters a minute. "This fourfold increase capacity," said Mr. Stanley J. Goddard, the vico-president of the Western Unioff. Telegraph Company, recently, "brings Great Britain and America into stil closer relationship by facilitating overseps communications between our two nations, and should, in time, bring about a cheaper. cabling rate to the advantage of the two.
Mr. Pauli great business communities." trafle manager, and Mr. Kingsbury, tha company's plaut engineer, were in Cor wall to superintend the landing arrange inents.
The new "pormally" cable, which has bean designed by the engineers of the Western Electric Company in conjunction with the Western Union folograph Cop- pany and the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, constitutes fire radical departure from accepted cable construction for the last fifty years, and the importance of the parmalloy-loaded. cablo may be gathered when it is stated that on the New York-Azores cable speed of 1,000 letters a minute has been obtained, representing about four times the traffic capacity of an ordinary cable
EXCHANGE RATES. [BETTIBE WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, June 10th.
Paris
Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna *Helsingfors
Lisbon
1741
170
12.111
20.44
18.37
34.40
103
2.17/32
Buenos Airca
451
Shanghai
2/11
Yokohama
1/11
4.881
25.14
135
Oslo Prague Madrid Rio Bombay Hongkong
18.13) 29.082 1041 20.72
7.11/18. 1/8.29/32 2/3
New York. Geneva Milan Stockholm
stood that it is very easily magnetised netising forces, by which is to he under
Sugar.-Market very dull Saltpatro-Vory little improvement since last report.
Magistrate at Willesdon: Any questions to ask the policeman Costermonger: No, policemen never lic. When I have paid my Bae I will stand him a drink,
1926 EDITION
OF THE
Orientala @...
$119 bay. Tis. 170 buy. 180 se
Tis. 54 buy, & nel Talk 106) buy, ...311 bay; 11:10 am,
$87.buy. $5.70
buy.
35 nom.
*PL 9180 nom.
Do. (new)...... 28 nom. China Buses
174, 10 buy. Hongkong Tramwaya domen. 261 bar. & Peak Trams (eld)
$18 bay. Da.
$7.00 bay. Singapore Tractions .....12/. Bet, Ta...................................... Amusements Vantan Lees Uements (combined)
Lu (old) Do. (дем)
Shanghai Cottons (old)...... Tls, 68 nom.
China Lights (combined).
De (old). **! Do.
Ching
дет
$13 mel $18 nom.
BOUL
$21 buy.
$12.60 buy.
16 buy..
Providents ................16 buy. main
Construction Dairy Farms
DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE Dee A Wings
FOR
CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA HONGKONG, MALAY STATES,
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, NETHERLANDS INDIA, BORNEO, ŠIAM
THE PHILIPPINES, Era.
of the same size and length. The inquc and demagnetised by small magnetising LEDE EDITION, with Maps and Tren
tive loading, which has brought about influences Soft iron wire, the host load-
this remarkable advance, consists in sur
rounding the copper conductor of the ing material previously obtainable, has SMALL EDITION
cable with a thin layer or wrapping of only one twentieth of the permeability of
pormalloy, an alloy of about 78 por Ent.
permalloy. The proposal to use the alloy
nickel
in this way arose from an investigation
and 22 par cont, iron; Tho chirac made by Mr. Buckley soon after the war, teristic property of this alloy is its very
high magnatic permeability at low ng (Continued at foot of next Colump.)
ON SALE
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dealing with the application to submarine THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, LAD., telegraphy of new methods developed in
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Hongkong Blectrica ....................... Miscão Histria ******** H.K. Ropes (combined).
··(old) .... (NOW)
Do
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Lane Crawfords........ Mackintoshs.... MINCETON MAH@pace
United Aabestos
Watson (olds Wm. Powells......
12030
19 sel, 184 ss.
nol.
01 buy.
buy., 40 sol·
FOL
под (10) nom..
il coui.
$181 nom.
buy-bayora; sel-sellers; sales,
nom-nominal.,
ON SALE.
the
HONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS
the MEETINGS of
for LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Session 1925.
Revised by Members,
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