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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST. 418, 1995
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tel Central 298,
BRIGG'S
2, Queen's Buildings,
AGENTS FOR
BITUMINOUS
ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS. ·
SOLE AGENTS FOR
UNION
ANTI-CORROSIVE" and ANTI-FOULING
COMPOSITIONS
FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.
ANCHOR
BRAND
PURE MANILA. ROPE.
"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST,"
MARINE ROPE
TRANSMISSION
OF-POWER ROPE
CABLE LAID
HAWSERS
WELL DRILLING
CABLES
ESTABLISHED 1854
YNCHAUST
ROPE
FACTORY
HONGKONG'S POPULATION. HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
DOUBLED IN TEN YEARS,
According to the report of the Medical Officer of Health-the estimated popula tion of the Colony at the middle, of 1925 was as follows:
Non-Chinese Civil population Chinese population:-
City of Victoria (includ-
ing the Peak) .......... 105,000 Villages of Hongkong... 23,040 Kowloon (including Now,
Kowloon)
200,000 New Territories (land) $7,300 Population afloat
79,380
89
Total Chinese popula
tion
RUPES OF ALL; SIZES FOR ALL PURPOSES
Total Civil population
The total population in
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Bangkong Bank ......
Do London... Chartered Bank..... Marcantile Bank, AB
Do
16,500 & 0. Bank
Best Ans Hanx Canton. InvaTAROU KEPT China, Underwriters North China Insurance Union, Insurance
Yangtzo Lasurence .............. Unins Fire InsuIMNICO ............. Hongkong Fire natrange Dongles ***
AUGUST SAD, 1935.
.$1,125 bay.
4131 nom.
£201 buy.
Dom.
194 bus.
* Day.
„SİBU DUFLA
T. 145 non.. $290 nom
bay. $200 buy. Jou buy.
BIG HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES
At THE QUEEN'S
At 2.30, 5.15,
TO-DAY
buy.
啦
..$20 bay.
Hauling U U. &at. Steam cots...so hongkong Tuga....
937,920 957,020 | Indo-Chinas (First)
Da (Deg.)....... Bell Transport ********* biar Farmer......... Waterbust...... Chine bugars to Malabon Sugar Benguet....... Lang kata (combined) Kalian Mang du
874,420
1915 was esti mated to be 423,970 so that it has doubled in ten years.
The British and foreign community numbered 13,320 in 1915.
(single)..........
..... له و شمدة
The-birth-rate-for-the-nou-Chinese-civit Shanghai piration population in 1925 was 29.6 per 1,000 as Babs compared with 19.8 per 1,000 in 1924.ronoh Mines.
The birth rate for the Chinese popula& Wharza,
Ural ChapS
tion as calculated from the registered B.K. & W. Docks births was 493 per 1,000 as compared
Rongkows
with 5.47 per 1,000 in 1924.
Now hngineeringe. Shanghai Dock....
The following table shows the birth rate. Hotely calculated from the registered births for
Hongkong Lands Hongkong
Realtys
HA TerritoriaÍS ........ M.K. Developmenta
Humphreys Hatates. Prince's Builungs.......
MADE FROM PURE MANTLA
HEMP.
the last ten years;
Year.
Non-Chinese Chinese.
1016
20.06
1017
20.08
4.9
1919
29.07
. 3.6
1910
20.0
3.9
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Bural Lands ...............
* MANUFACTURED
1920
10.79
3.90
1891
25.58
5.69
BY THE MOST
Do.
1922
99.84
8.23
China Buses
MODERN.
1923
23.03
6.97
1994
19.8
5.471
1925
29.6
4.23
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MACHINERY,
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Ref
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SEX OF THE NEWLY BORN.
For the non-Chinese community the ratio of male to female children for the year 1925, was 93 males to 100. Iemales,
For the Chinese community the ratio, | Was 196 males to 100, females.
Registration of births is largely evaded by the Chinese and more so in regard to female than male children.
. DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered:
in the Colony during the year 1925. was, 14,931 (15,553 in 1894).
Orientala "
Su buy.
num.
... nom. ...So sat..
IA.
.....33kg bay.
bay. 10, 10,
Tis. 12 nom.
Jsi nom
04/. nom.
Glazi nom. $53 nom. Tla. 171 bay.
..Tls. 5.80 bar.
Tin, lus x. div. buy.
$11 nom.
3051 nom.
‚§5ƒ sel.
$5 non.
10 ats, sal.
$132 buy.
390 sai.
31 buy.
Z.159.15.
TO-DAY
·GEORGE BILLINGS
IN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE FILM VERSION OF THE PLAY THAT · WAS THE RAGE OF TWO CONTINENTS.
SPÈCIAL MUSICAL PROLOGUE AT 9.15.
At THE
15, 9,10 bay.
TO-DAY
Tha. 24 bay,
Shanghai Cottons (old) .............."Tha, 6x buy,
(now...Th. 27 bay.
Hongkong Tramways.......$25.60 buy,
Peak Trans (Old) ..........
(Bow)......
Singapore Tractions. Amusementa
Canton Icas Cements (combined).
Ju.. (old)....
Tla. 10 buy,
$15 buy?
.$7.50 num.
-10/8 buy, £2/- 80%
$tit nom.
$7, nom
...lut admi
$14 num.
Do. (8m) ...... „$4 DOL.
China Lights (combined)ly buy,, 18t sa Do. (old) .... „Şi numi. Jo. (Iew)
il nom Providents
China Constructiona
Dairy Farmis
Der A Wings ....
Hongkong Llectrica
buy.
„$2), nom.
.si Kel.
..857 sel.
So buy.
Matue Electrica............. $35. Дышка H.K. Ropes (combined)....320 BEL (old)....... * 10 Beli (DOW)
The general civil death rate was 19.03 Lane Crawfords....... per1.000.(31.75_in_1981)."
ITALY" AND SOVIET RUSSIA.
IMPENDING AGREEMENTS.
BUSINESS AND POLITICS. POLITICS.
Whether, originally announced, MM. Chicheria-and-Stalin should short. ly visit Rome for the purpose, or whe ther the relevant negotiations be con- ducted through Ambassadorial channels, there is no longer any doubt that Signor Mussolini intends to conclude with the Soviet Government some very important and comprehensive agreements, writes the Deplomatic Correspondent of the London Telegraph on July 5th. While the object of such agreements will be primarily of
HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS, SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO. an economic character, it may well be
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that a Peet of Friendship, Mutual Non- Aggression, and-within certain limite- Neutrality will supplement the business arrangements involved, which will cover large areas of the Near and Middle East, notably in South Russia, the Black -Sea,-and--the-Caucasus. What Italy is specially intent on securing from the US.S.R besides grain, are coal, oil (she has just obtained a footing in the. Roumanian oil-fields), and maritime ad- vantages... What Soviet Russia is anxious to derive from Italy are military and transport material (aerial as well as land) and a number of technical experts, For the latter Moscow would wish to be less dependent than hitherto upor Ger- many.
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Sinceros...qoquetas United Asbestos
Watsons (ald) ..................
Wm. Powell
55 Bal. 59 nom..
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$19 pow.
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„Eku nom.
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EXCHANGE RATES.
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Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon Buenos Aires
Shanghai
Yokohama
New York Genera Milan *Stockholm
Oslo Prague Madrid
Ric Bombay Hongkong
Rugby, July 31st.
200
192
12.10
20.42
15.33
34.44
193
9.17/32
45.9/18
2/10
1/11.5/18
4.8815
25.125
1509
16.1825
22.19
364
-31.875.
7.8/10 1/5.57/04 -212
Silver (spot & forward) ... 293
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, August 3rd
Previous On Date On Data
Day At
Finally, Russia is po vast and, in parts, so sparsely "populated a country that it might be possible for the Soviet Government to concede to Italian enter- prise residential outlets such as no other Barométar country could concede without peril to Temperature!! the national sovereignty. In the circura- Humidity. stances, however, it is not inconceivable | Wind Direction... that Moscow, in return, will seek to draw
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wide awake. On the other hand, it is Highest open-air Temperature on 2zd one of Italy's aims having regard to Lovast open-air Temperature on 3rd her new economic partnership with Roumania-to facilitate a solution of the thorny Bessarabian dispute between Mas cow and Bucharest, in order to effect reconciliation between these hereditary rivals. It will be recalled that, prior to the conclusion of the Mosul Boundary Treaty by Great Britain, Turkey, and Irak, it was Moscow's ambition to effect a rapprochement between Rome and Angora. But Signor Mussolini has since
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B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy;, D-Drizzle;
Squalls; E-Rain; T-Thunder. Overcast;
Q- PePassing showera;
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rendered any auch intervention super- & BOOK FOR THE GLOBE TROTTER
faous, the Italian Ambassador to Turkey having just recently been instructed to proceed to Angora for the purpose of negotiating Consular, commercial, and other conventions designed to regularise the at present somewhat unsatisfactory position between Italy and post-war Turkey.
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MONDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.-$7.25 per cover.
SPECIAL (Tripes a la Mode de Caen).
TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m. 50 cts, including Tea. DINNER DANSANT-8-12, midnight.
TUESDAY
$2:25 par cover.
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. 81.25 per cover.
SPECIAL (Cassoulet Toulousain).
TEA DANBANT-5.7 p.r. ̄ ̄ ̄`***-
DINNER - DANSANT—8-12 midnight.. $2.25 cover.
WEDNESDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.
SPECIAL-(Gnoguis au Gratin).
TEA DANSANT --5-7 p.m. -
$1.25 per cover.
DINNER DANSANT-8-12 midnight. $2.25 per cover.
THURSDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.D. 31.25 per cover,
SPECIAL (Chicken Pie).
TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.
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DINNER DANSANT 8-12 midnight. $2.25 per cover.
FRIDAY
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SPECIAL (Choucroute Carnie).
TEA DANSANT~5-7 p.m.
DINNER DANSANT 8-12 midnight.. $2.25 per cover.
SATURDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN—1.2′ p.m.
SPECIAL-Bouillabaisse).
TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.
$1.25 por cover.
CARNIVAL NIGHT
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