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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST. 17TH, 192
1, Queen's Buildings.
ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE.
*THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST."
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BAWSERS
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KING'S RUILDING. TELEPHONE GENERAL $185,
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Rendezvous of the Elite.
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME:
TUESDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. $1.25 per cover.
SPECIAL (Cassoulet Toulousain).
TEA - DANŠANT-5-7 p.m.
DINNER DANSANT-8-12 midnight. $1.50 per 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. $1.50 per cover.
THURSDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN—1-2. p.m.
SPECIAL-Chicken Pis).
TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.
$1.25 per cover..
DINKEE DANSANT 8-12 midnight.--$1:50 paz cover.
FRIDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.
SPECIAL (Choucroute Garnie). »
TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.
$1.23 per cover.
DINNER DANBANT-8-12 midnight. $1.50 per cover.
SATURDAY
MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.
SPECIAL-Bouillabaisse),
TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.
CARNIVAL
$1.25 per cover.
NIGHT
SPECIAL DINNER-$3 PER COVER. NOVELTIES.
KINDLY RESERVE TABLES IMMEDIATELY. NOTE The Cafe and Lounge are Open Daily – From 8 a.m. to Midnight. TELEPHONE C. 1576 FOR RESERVATIONS,
ON SALE,
SOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG BWERKLY PRESS, July to December
1925**
•With Irozz, Price-$7,50, -
On sale at the Honakma Daily Prsts Offica
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THERAPION No. THERAPION NO.
THERAPION No. 3
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· THE TELEPHONE IN CHINA.
PROGRESS HAMPERED BY DISTURBANCES.
EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS
"ESSENTIAL.”
HONGKONG IMPORTS.
FORTNIGHTLY REPORT OF CHAM-
BER OF COMMERCE.
The fortnightly Price Current and Market Report published by the Hong- kong General Chamber of Commerce,
With the telephone, as with railway states: projects and in other directions, China's i
progress has been, 'it need hardly be said, seriously hampered by the disturb ed state of the country, and the lots of the construction engineer and the people, often enlightened Chinese, who back him in an endeavour to improve the communi- cations of the country, have not been happy DRES recently, says Bastera Engineering.
To give an example, a contract for the installation of a long-distance telephone system was entered into between the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Administration and a French firm early in July, 1995, and ❘ was approved in August of the same year by the Ministry of Communications. The estimated cost of materials required for the installation amounted to 8916,300 (gold), and was to be paid by the Ad ministration in instalments. In August and September, 1925, a sum of 8439,894 (gold) was paid to the firm. Principally due to sharp decreases in reverse, the Administration was unable to pay the third instalment of 870,193.20 when it be came due, but it asked the Ministry to make arrangements with the Post Office authorities to advance every month from December last a sum of $15,000 | (Chinese currency) from their receipts to the Banque de l'Indo-Chine in Tientsin until the traffe of the line had been fully ! restored. This was done, and work on! the Nanking and Changchow section of the system was scheduled to commence in October, 1925, but dwing to local dis turbances actual operation has been delayed. At present, all the materials
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods-Market still" remains at a con
plete standstill with no improvement in deliveries. Both Eg. Sakel, and Mid Amer. Cotton prices show a marked de of the 19th inst. 15.60d. and 9.38 Spot cline, the latest quotations being those respectively.
Cotton Yarn. During the fortnight under review the demand has slacked off and only a few hundred. bales changed hands at approximately the previous rates. Quotations are purely nominal:- 109. $130/168. No. 12. 8155/173 No. 20s. 8150/185. Arrivals 6,200 bales. Shipment Nil Sales 730 bates. Unsold stock 5,000 bales. Bargains 8,300 bales.
Woollens. Nothing doing, market dend.
Raw Cotton.-No sales to report.
Metals. Further rises have been re- corded in tin-plates and lead but other Prices are unchanged. Market remains stagnant.
Flour market. Stocks: About 300,000. Market: Quiet. Quotation :-American Patent, 81.25 per suck, American Straight, 83.55 per sack; American Cut off, 83.55 per sack; Australian No. 1, 83.70; per sack; Canadian Cut off, 82.0% Per sack: Canadian Straight, 83.00 per Back; Canadian Second Clear, $200 per sack.
Window Glass.-Market dull. Local stocks heavy...
Sugar.-Market steady.
Saltpetre Business entirely stopped owing to the heavy drop in Exchange.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
have arrive in Shangbai, and are lying on HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. the wharves there. This is but typical of the difficulty which has been experienced with other telephonic projects, and it is sincerely to be, hoped that at long last differences are to be settled in China, and a day of peaceful development is dawr ing, which will enable such projects 4 the one exampled above to go forward unhindered to a speedy completion.
PROSPEROUS SYSTEMS.
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When the developments in her railways, rondways, telephone, telegraph and other communications are allowed to advance, then only will China advance to that era of prosperity which all her friends wish to and speedily realised. It is a truism to say that efficient communications are essential to make a nation prosperous. and it is good to know, at any rate, that many, engineering projects towards this cnd are going forward in China as rapidly as conditions permit, whilst as Shell Transporte ........... far as telephones are concerned it is Mar Farris, interesting to note that many existing Waterboat....... system are prospering despite recent | Clima Sugars..... difficult times.
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A case in point is the Hangehow Tele-Bengast ... phone Administration, which was started Kailan Mining Ado toward the end of the Mancha regime Langkat (combined) with capital of between 890,000__and] $30,000. The present system extends to Hushih and Kungshenkiao an the north, Chakow and Nansingkiao on the south, Chienkias on the east, and the West Lake on the west. There are some 1,400 sub scribers, including a large number of Government and public organs and shops, The charge for the use of a telephone is 36.50 a month for Government or public organs or shops, and 85 a month for private houses, plus 820 for installation at a distance with five li of the central office. On the average charge of 28 a month per subscriber the monthly re. ceipts would amount to 88,400, or about $100,000 per year. Such prosperity is an indication of what is waiting other systems when they are completed, and, indeed, the use of the telephone in China should be greater still when peaceful conditions permit business to be done without let or hindrance, for, of course, the dissension which has hampered engineering works has imposed a serious handicap upon the business community.
CHINESE CUSTOMS. "
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Bingapore Tractions
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$7.00 nor. 10/8 buy, 12/. sol. 143 18.
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Trading conditions in China remain notoriously difficult, and so long as there is no strong Central Government little improvement can be expected. It is one thing, says the Financial Timer, for a
China Providents ... $3.30 bay" foreign Power or for foreign merchants Constractions animaisempie.did nona. to negotiate with Ministers who are Dairy Fama.......................... $10 sel known to be able and willing to carry Der & Wings out their engagements, but it becomes Hongkong section$54 bay. quite another atory when it is discovered Macao Electron that the real control of the country is H.K. Ropes (combined)......326 sel. Do. (oid).........$10 el. exercised by irresponsible military chief-
LG. (DSW) tains. Take, for example, the drawn-out
Lore Crawfords............ tariff negotiations. Here the real cruz
Mackintosh........................ is that whatever modifications are agreed cores................................... to at Peking, the Ministers who sponsor United Asbestos such agreements, are not even sure of Watsons (old)..... collecting the Customs revenues, still less wm. Kowalls .... of making the changes in the Customs
uny-nyers; sellers; -dalea " code effective.
To judge, however, from the latest memorandum of the Tientsin--British Committee of Information, the foreign Powers themselves are not always able to agree on what they want, and hence it is not only China who is the cause of the present fack of progress. Everyone knows that when dealing with the Chinese (or for that matter with many other nations) the first essential is for
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RUBBER PRICES.
RECENT BALES..
Messrs. Carroll Bros. reports the follow-
the other parties to have determined their ing sales of rubber shares from Singa exact needs. The Tientsin Committee
peaks of formule, and we are sure that pore:-
they will agree with us when we say that. formule in China, as elsewhere, can be one of the biggest curses with which we are afflicted. Some would even go so far as to say that formnim kave, under modern conditions, replaced good inten-, tions as paving material; and they are ' not so far wrong.
Allenbys Ayer Panas Glenealies Jerama Mentekabsri Uln Benuts Dividend United cent. Final
$3.45
813.00
€ 2.90
1.80
$ 0.60 4.6.80
Malaccas-16 per
Another
Wonderful
Programme
TO-DAY at THE QUEEN'S
At 2.50, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
"PRESENTS
HIS SCINTILLATING EXOTIC COMEDY
A THIEF IN PARADISE
THE
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ONLY
ров
TOGETHER WITH
Miss GLADYS GARFIELD
GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN VOICE.
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AND
FROM CAKEWALK TO JAZZ
BY
QUEEN'S ORCHESTRA.
WORLD
LEWIS STONE
5.15 AND
9.15 ONLY
WHY MEN LEAVE HOME
A FIRST NATIONAL ATTRACTION,
When you're thinking things ain't what they was: -What a rotten time everyone has,
All the work that one loathes
-No money-No clothes,
Fill the kettle and turn on the GAS.
Full particulars of Gas Fittings for every purpose can be obtained at the SHOWROOM OF THE
HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS Co., Ltd.
18a, Des Voeux Road Central.
£25,000,000 LOST BY MINERS,
EQUAL TO AMOUNT OF THE COAL SUBSIDY.
1,345,000 TONS IMPORTED - IN SEVENTEEN DAYS.
Remarkable estimates of losses caused by the mines stoppage were given by Mr. Walter Bunciman in the House of] Commons, on July 21st. His figures were as follows:
Losa. Miners' wages
...£25,000,000 Other workers' wages. ..10,000,000 "Big heavy" industries,
home and exporta.... 48,000,000- Manufactured goods, ex
porta
17,500,000, Manufactured goods, home. 20,000,000 .700,000 Shipping trade ....
..£118,200,000
Total loss
Mr. Runciman estimated the losses caused by the general strike at another £30,000,000. The miners' loss in wages is equal to the amount of the coal sub- sidy.
· Colonel Lane-Fox, Secretary to the
Paris
(LRA)
EXCHANGE RATES.
[2ITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen
Vienas Helsingfors
Buenos Aires. Shanghai
Ruder, August 14th.
1772- 182
12.10
20.401
18.28
34.40
1027
45.5
2/01
Yokohama
1/11.8
New York Geneva
4.86:15/16
25.145
Milan
149
- Stockholm
18.14
Oslo
29.14
164.17
31.88
Rio Bombay
7
1/5.63/64
Hongkong Silver (spot) Silver (forward).
2/17
28.11/16
231
Prague Madrid
Mines Department, stated that 1,345,000 tons of foreign coal were imported be-
(Continued at foot of next Golumn.)tween July 1st and July 17th.