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By
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ROADS AND STREETS.
OFFICIAL CHANGES.
Qovernment Gazette notifies that the undermentioned roads or streets are to be known for the future by the names in- dicated against them:-
Road commencing at Sai Kung Road and being the first rond north of Prince Edward Road and running in a westerly direction-Nga Tain Wai Road.
Hoad commencing at Prince Edward Road and being the second road west of the junction of Sai Kung Road and Prince Edward Road and running in a northerly direction-Shek Ku Lung Road
Road commencing at Prince Edward Road and being the third rond west of the junction of Sai Kung Rond and Prince Edward Road and running in a northerly direction.-Sa Pa. Road
Road commencing at Prince Edward Road and being the fourth road west of the junction of Sai Kung Road and Prince Edward Road and running in a northerly direction-Po Kong Road.
Road commencing at Prince Edward Road and being the fifth road west of the junction of Sai Kung Rond and Prince Edward Road and running in a northerly direction. Tak Ku Ling Road.
Rond commencing at Sung Wong Toi Road and being the first street west of Ma Tan Wei Road and running in a southerly direction.-Shek Shan Road.
Road commencing at Sung Wong Toi Road and being the second street west of Ala Tau Wei Bond and running in o southerly direction.-Kau, Pui Loong
Rond.
Road commencing at Ma Hang Ching: Road and being the first strect east of Kowloon City Road and running in a Bouth-westerly direction. Ha Heung Rond.
Rond cazamencing at Dock Street and at present known as Kowloon City Road and running in a northerly direction and terminating at To Kwa Wan Hoad-la! Tau Wei Road (continuation).
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--JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE.
STATISTICS FOR MAY.
PROP IN EXPORTS,
From the local Japaness Consulate- General, we have received the following monthly commercial cable newa froni. Japan:-
Foreign Trade of Japan during last month-
Value of Exports
·Value of Imports Excess of Jioports
161,000,000 yen 220,000,000 yen,
55,000,000 yen
Tado of Japan with Ching during last. month-
Value of Experts Value of Imports
Excoss of Exports
13,000,000 yen
-29,000,000 yen
13,000,000 yen
Money Market: Still quiet, Stock Market. No effect being felt by the pessimistic view on trade.
Output of cotton yarns during the last) month 223,000 bales (of 40 bundies); according to the returns by the Japan Spinners' Association.
Quantities of cotton yarns exported during the last month; 21,000 bales (of 40 bundies), according to the returns by the Japan Cotton Yarn and Cloth Ex- porters' Guild.
Quantity of cotton goods exported during the last month: 10,503 million. yards, according to the returns by the Japan Cotton Yarn and Cloth Exporters' Guild.
Index number of wholesale prices for last month, according to the returns by the Bank of Japan: 234-57.
Amount of bills cleared throughout the country during the month before last: 7,278 million yes.
Street commencing at Ma Tau. Wei Road and being the first street south of Merchandise in stock throughout the the junction of Chatham Road and Ma cógntry at the end of the month before Tau Wei Road and running in a north-fast: 120 million yen. westerly direction and terminating at Chatham Road.-Shek Tong Struct.
Street commencing at. Ma Tau Wei Road and being the second street south of the junction of Chatham Road and Ma Tan Wei Rond and running in a north westerly direction and terminating at Chatham Road.-Sau Laa Street.
Road commencing at Gillies Avenue and being a continuation of the same and running in a north-easterly direction and terminating at Sun Lau Street-Gillies, Avenue (continuation).
Charter market: Concentrated in the coastal route.
Trado: Owing to the sudden rise of rate of Exchange, Export market is dull. In Export, Yen 9,000,000 is decreased and in
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TO-DAY ONLY.
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IN
THE NARROW STREET”,
19
A ROMANTIC MYSTERY COMEDY SURPRISE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
De
Juzn 26tu, 1920, Hongkong Bank....................$1,130 Chartarod Bank 20 buy.
London........£181 now. Mercantile Bank, A. & 250 num...
U.....13g num
Import, Yen 17,000 is increased compared HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. with the same period of last year. The total amount of the excess of Imports is Yon 304,000,000 during these five months Street commencing at Gillies Avenue past, and no remarkable improvement has and being the first street south of the been attained junction of Gillies Avenue and Ma Tau Exchange: The rate of Exchange, which Wei Road and running in a north-sul remained at $47 has shown the ton easterly direction.-San Wel Street.
street commencing at Ma Tau Wei Rond and being the second street south of the junction of Gillies Avenue and Ma Tau Wei Road and running in a westerly
Index number of wholesale. prices has direction to Gillies Avenue and thenco in a north-westerly direction and ter- fallen 0.182 per cent. compared with that minating at Chatham Road-Pak Kung of last month, but demand as bottom
Street.
dents of decline. On the 13th June, mnto fell by two pounds both on New York and on London,
Street commencing at Ma Tau Wei Price of rice, cotton yarn is low and the Road and being the third street south | market of raw silk is dull. Business circle of the junction of Gillies Avenue and altogether romains dull. Ma Thu Wei Road and running in a westerly direction to Gillies Avenue and thenen in a north-weaterly direction.- Hok Yuen Streat.
Strect commencing at Ma Tau Wei Rond and being the fourth street south of the junction of Gillies Avenue and Ma Tau Wei Road and running in a westerly direction to Gillies Avenue and thence in n north-westerly direction.-Lo Lung Hang Street.
INDO-CHINA S.N. CO. FINED.
SEQUEL TO OPIUM HAUL ON 5.S. SUI SANG."
NEW TRANSATLANTIC CABLE.
SHORE END LANDED IN CORNWALL.
hiter several postponements, owing to
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145 BOL Union Insurance
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Fire Lusarano
Hongkong Fire insurance.. bay, Douglases namamen kan now. H.h., U. & M. Steamboats...gids buy. Hongkong Taga.........
nom. Indo-Chinss (Pref.) ............
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Shell Trimporta Star Faras...... Waterbost
China Sugars
Malabon Nugars ***.. Benguet
Kaunu lising Ashvinsani Langkau (combined)
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Lo. (single) Street commencing at Ma Tau, Woi Road rough weather, the shors end of the
Shanghai Explorations... and being the fifth street south of the Western Union Telegraph Company's now Shanghai Loans en junction of Gillies. Avenue and Me Tau"permalloy" transatlantic cable to Bay Truck Minas, Wei Road and running in a westerly. direction and terminating at Gillies Roberts, Newfoundland, was successfully Ural Capiana Avenue-Fat Kwong Street.
landed at Sonion Cove, Cornwalt. This H.K., & K Wharts..... cable is the fint of its kind over landed
& W. Doaks
buy. Hongkot... 170 buy, in England, and, indeed, represents the New Engeserings
.54 buy. first radical departure from accepted Shanghai Dokkia. 105 buy,
H.K. & § Hotels ....................$10/10,55 56. cable constraction for some. 50 yeart. Hongkong Lands $67 BUL Together with its connecting cable belong Realtye 5.90 bay, 6 un.
Hongkong tween Bay Roberts and New York, which H.K. Developments.........20 ots. sol..
BLK. Territorials ..................$5 nom. will be laid later in the year, will he Humphrys Ketatea
$14 buy. The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.,
..$95 Ltd., the owners of the sa. Sui Sang, capable of transmitting 1,500 letters a Frince's building........
..35 sel were defendants at the Central Magis- minute, a capacity equivalent to that of oral Lands
Hwo Cottons tracy on Saturday, when, before Mr. four of the older types of eable.
The method which has enabled the now thanghai Cottons (oku)
Oriental R. E. Lindsell, they were charged with using the vessel for transporting oplum. type to be constructed consists in sur-
The evidence showed that preparedoundling the copper conductor of the China Bus opium, comprising 7,020 taçlt had been cable with a thin wrapping of* por found on board the vessel, when she was malloy," an alloy of about 78 per cent. in port on Lay 24th. The drug, which nickel and 29 per cent. iron. This alloy was valued at 861,160, was discovered is easily magnetized and demagnetized by Singapore Tractions
Soft fron Taxis inside the donkey boiler packed in 10 small magnetizing influencés
wire, the best loading material proviously Amuntlig om. bags.
When the case first came before the available, has only one-twentieth of the Danton ic
.Ş14 Rom. court early in June, Mr. E. 6. C. Brooks, permeability of permalloy." Until this Dements (combined)....... Bo (old) ni representing the Company, asked for a alloy had been invented a cable's speed
Do.
(now) $ nom. remand, stating that the Sri Sang was as definitely limited by lactrical char
$22 nom. on her way back to Rangoon and would acteristics, by which rapidly varying China Lights (combined)
sigual currents were partially lost through
(old) „każ sa. be buck in Hongkong in three weeks. -
the gutta-percha insulation to earth, in
(new) cium.8124 buy. The Sui Sang arrived in port on stead of being transmitted in their full China Proridents Friday.
When the caso came up for hearing on strength through the whole length of the Constructio... nem,"
Dairy Farms..... copper conductor. Saturday, evidence was given by Revenue in order to give a cable greater speed Dur A Winge Officer Ward as to how he discovered the drug and the method of its concentment in the donkey boiler.
"OFFICERS' · EVIDENCE.
Do.
(now)
Hongkong Tramways Posk Tram (old) .......
Dto. -(now)....
Do Do.
it was necessary to reduce its attenuat Hongkong strica ing effect on the signals passed through Macao ectrios
it, and in the caed of a cable of the onlopes (combined). nary type thi could only be done by
in 128 kol.
12. 10) buy. ..825 sel
„$16) buy.
$7.09 nom. 12/ BOL
(ald).
дод
1.$5 wal
Bol 136 buy.
sol.
Hel
..59 non.
nom. $20 nom.
$13 bay. 501 bay,
&
baybayem sel-sellers;
Capt. A. D. Kolman, master of the increasing the size of the copper con Unwords... Sus Sump, the Chief Engineer and other ductor or the thickness of the guita
Mackintoshan....... pdicha insulation. officers of the ship, gave evidence to the ways was the prospect of definito improve United Asbestos ......
In neither of there sinceres. effect that they were entirely unaware ment good. Loading of underground and Watson (old of the presence of the drug on board.. submarine telephone lines has beon ex-
Wm. Powelds............ was stated for the defence that a thorough tensively and successfully carried out, search of the yssel was made in the usual mainly by the insertion of coils at inter- way before she left port for Hoogkong vals along the line, but the practical and no sign of opium was found. Every difficulties associated with this method in precantion, the defence urged, had been the ease of long submarine cables were taken.
serious, and the use of a wrapping of It was also mentioned that three fire iron wire as the loading material gavo men lett, the ship when at Bingapore on too little improvement at telegraphic fro, the way to Hongkong, and did not return
5
After hearing the evidence, his Wor- ship imposed a fine of $500..
nom-wminal.
Manners are better to-day than they quencies to justify its cost. The trans used to be.-Dame Millicent Fawcett. atlantic cables already laid, with one exception, could not have been improved by iron, wire tonding.
A real boy is delightful, an imitation one is ridiculous. Ara, W. Clifford
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