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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 1926
THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tal, Central 236.
AGENTS FOR
2, Queen's Buildings.
BRIGG'S · BITUMINOUS ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.
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MACAO.
GREAT INDUSTRIAL FAIR FOR ONE MONTH,
Opens on the 7th November. Closes on the 6th December:
BEECHAM ESTATES AND PILLS.
PROFITS HIGHLY SATISFACTORY.
FUTURE OF COVENT GARDEN.
The second annual general meeting of Beecham Estates and Pills, Ltd., was held recently at the Tavistock Hotel, Covent Garden Market, W.C., Sir Arthur Wheeler, Bt., D., J.P. (the chairman), presiding.
The Chairman said that in making com- parisons with last year's figures he would like to remind them that they covered a period of practically thirteen and a half months. It gave him a small satisfaction
HERO FOR ONE DAY.
PRESBYTERIAN AS BETTINĠ TÁX COLLECTOR.
LONDON, October 4th.
M, William Adams, Chief Constable of Doncaster, has been appofated to the new post to administer the collection of the Betting Tax.
bets only twice in his life, both times to He is a leading Presbyterian and made oblige, & friend in spite of his intimate connection with the racecourse, during the Doncaster races. He says he likes race-crowds, especially bookmakers, who, he says, are a far better class than they are, generally given credit for rushed to the turnstiles and invaded the "Once in 1920," he says, " & crowd course threatening an ugly scene. I hap to report net proâts of £971,140 19. 10d.,pened to roll up, and asked the crowd to which compared with the previous profits stand back. Someone shouted What's at the rate of £79,364, per annum, and
[going to winte their prospectus estimate of £250.991 of two years ago. In view of the trade dificulties of the past year it was a highlyingly easy winner... satisfactory position.
I had no more ides than Adam and shouted the name of the only horse I knew. The crowd started backing the horse heavily and he was an astonish-
I was a hero for the remainder of the day, but I refused to give further tipa."
AN AERIAL FEAT,
FROM LAND'S END TO JOHN O' GROATS.
Taxation and Debenture interest take £106,006 173. öd, or slightly less than last year the Preference dividend re- quires £57,600, and, by maintaining the 10 per cent, dividend, the Ordinary shares require £76,000. In view of these results be felt sure that the shareholders would agree that they had no cause to regret the confidence they placed in the board and the business. Last year they entirely For the first time the journey from wiped out the promotion expenses of Land's End to John o' Groats has been £31,722 14s. 20, and against that they made by air. Flying a little De Havil were this year placing £27,500 to general and Moth," of the same type as that reserve. The balance, of. £3,043. 158. 4d.
on which Captain Broad won the King's is placed to the special reserve Fund Cup, the Master of Sempilla well- making a total of £27,620 in all-as pro- known Scottish amateur aviator-broke vided by the articles of association.
all records by covering the famous course Their reserve funds, therefore, amount-in 8 hours 14 minutes. He left a field near ed to over £35,000, and looking back over the village of Sennen, within a mile of the two years of our work as a public Land's End, in the morning at 7.25, and company, during which period general after only a brief halt at Shotwick, near trade conditions have not been easy, it Chester, he few direct to John o' Groats, represented no mean achievement.
where the landing was made in a field right on the coast.
Their two main assets were very differ- ent, but they were equally sound. Covent Garden properties become more and more valuable as each year goes by. Last year, he bad reminded them that some of the most important leases would fall in during the next few years. From the renewals we can reasonably look for a considerably bigger income," for some of these leases have run for well over half a century. Their other big assets was the pill business. In these days slogan were not always popular. Everything depended on whether there is anything behind the slogan ur met. In their own
case, the Worth a guinea a box" slogan is still going strong, and it was known in practically every corner of the English- speaking world.
A Modernized Covent Garden.
Sir Arthur du Cros, in seconding the resolution for the adoption of the reports and accounts, said that the directors would like to see an improved Covent Garden, up-to-date in every respect," and with room and scope to fulfil its purpose, which was the efficient and economical collection and distribution of healthy food commodities which are a necessity to the
consumer."
The directors recognised that the growth of the market functions called for a similar growth of market facilities, and they have had to consider how best to achieve the object in view-to extend or to remove that was the question. When they hesitated as two turbings it was only to be fully assured as to the direction they meant to take. The directors were quite specific in deciding a year ago to turn to the right and to effect a cure by a major operation, rather than to patch things up by a minor one; to remove Covent Garden, rather than to contique and extend it in its present position, course which would only perpetuate and aggravate traffic difficulties which were already becoming more and more acute in that area of London.
The distance covered was approximate- ly 630 miles, but by any other means of transport the route would be at least 800 miles. Travelling by train the journey takes upwards of thirty hours, and the shortest recorded time in which it has been covered by rond is thirty hours, taken by a motor-cyclist in 1913.
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Bangkong Baak$1,160 buy 1,185 23.
OCTOBER 27TH, 1956.
DOM Loadon£117 nam Chartered Bank
£21 buy. Mercantile Bank, A. & 8......£39; nom.
0......£13 num P. & 0.1
Dan
bay.
$630 day. $1.45 bar.
...buy.
3) buy.
buy.. ʊj. nom.
367 sel.
East Asia Bank Canton Insurance Chins Underwriters North China Insurance.... T. 145 Lon Union Insurance .....
...32961 bay Tanglaze Insurance
Mer. $30 bay. China Fire Insurance mum.$200
30 kay, Hengkong Fire Lasarince $510 bay, Douglas ELK, U. & M. Steambouts ...33 Hougtong Tugs...... Indo-Chinas (Pro)
Do, (Def.), Shell Transporta Star Farmies... Waterboot Malabon Sugars China Sugars longueta....... Kaisa Mining Ad..... Links (combined)
Da. (single)............ Shanghai Explorations. Shanghai
Loans Banus Tronoh Mines
Ural Caspians.......... ELK. & K. Wharts........... H.K. & W. Docks,
New Engineeringa.. Bhanghai Dockor HR&B. Hotels Hongkong Landa.....
K. Teritoriais.......
Realtys Hongkong
Estates.... Humphreys Prince's Building..........
They found that, to assist in overcoming a part of the growing problem of metro- politan traffic, they were invited, by ima portant and competent witnesses, to take such action as would relieve congestion in the immediate area of their market, and further, to facilitate a scheme in- volving a duplicated Strand running parallel to the existing Strand, and ex tending into Aldwych through your mar ket. A public duty would be thereby imposed upon them which they could not lightly dismiss.
Do.
315 bey.
bay., 35 m.
it som.
40 20:3
Ti 23 bay,
Tix. 142 buy.
Ths. 4.30 buy.
& buy.
Dom.
..80; bay.
1264 nom. ..$59 anm.
Tim. 1774 bay. . là. Cả apm.
$10) buy.
$65 now $5 nom." .84 Bei.
...316 el
.899 poin.
. 9.80
Burai Lauda
Sit nom. Ewu Cottons.
I buy.
10 Bal.&a Orientals
T. 3.35 set Shanghai Cotton (alu).Th. 04 puy.
(now)....Tis.
bay. China Busen
il. 10 nom. Hongkong Tramways.......3213 buy, Peak Trains (old)
$15 min Jo. (new).....................................47.6) now.
In these circumstances, could they scri- ously contemplate extensions to their present, market, which could only have one effect, that of bringing more traffic into an already overcrowded area, and Bingapore Tractions .........15/9.nom. of making congestion worse congested 1 Taz
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THE RAT"
A STORY OF THE APACHE.
EXCHANGE RATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, October 28th, To-day, dealings commence in the new Belgian unit, the Belga, which is equivalent to five of the old paper franes, gold parity of the new unit, being thirty!! fiva to the pound sterling. Owing to the latter being slightly under parity, the Belga was quoted at a premium, being
34.84.
Paris Brussels
Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors
Shanghai
INSURE
YOUR
MOTOR
CAR
1651
34.64
12.12
20,30
18.23
34.35
1921
..$2 kel..
[A.F.EL.]
inevitably mean an increase of trafo Cements (combined) congestion
It was plain to all that an increase of Amásenients.......per market facilities on the present site must Canton ices
$18 bay..
Lisbon Вислов Аітся
2 17/32
WILE
45.
TOM.
2/53
Do
(old)
..............$137 vel. $12 nom
Yokohama
2/07/32
Do
New York
4.881
GILMANS.
Geneva
25.14
Milan-
-1081
141 bay. buy $5.40 bay., 5.60 sel
Stockholm
18.15
Oslo
10.33)
Prague
1634
iy nom.
Madrid
39.07
Rio
$64 buy., 65 sel, 037 ALL.
Bombay
Hongkong
1/6 27/32 1/11 24 13/18 241
Besides the Exhibition of Industrial Products there will be Every Vanoty of Amusements each sa MERBY-GO-BOUNDS, HAWAIAN DANCES, CHINESE THEATRE, CINEMA, RECREATION POND, Etc,
Watsons
Banks
Docks
Wharves
MOTOR-BUSES, TAXIS Raping from Every Point of Macao to THE FAIR,
TEN THOUSAND ELECTRIC LAMPS ILLUMINATION !!!
FIVE CENTS ENTRANCE FEE.
I N NVESTMENTS.
WE BUY
Liberty Bonda
Unions
Providents
New Cements
WE SELL
Banque Indust Lane Crawfords Underwriters
Trams China Lights
All local and foreiɛn stocks negotiated.
HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS, SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO.
TEL 1630.
10, Des Vox Road.
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He was impressed by the police evi-
dence given before the Royal Commis China Lights (combined) F421) Dom.
Do. Do.
sion, because he had made it a rule to
(old) (new) have the police on his side whenever he ohins Pruvidents..... could. It was more pleasant to move Constructions ... on rather than to be moved on, and Dairy Farma.... voluntary progression had this advantage, Der A Wing? that one could choose one's own time Hongkong.
Electrics and company and destination-the de- Maco Electrics stination, by the way, being specially im- || HK. Bopes (combinad portant when the police were in question.
Do
The directors trusted that those tenants Do who did not as yet see eye to eye with Lade Crawfords, them in regard to the removal of Covent | Mackintoshe... Garden Market would reconsider the dateres *** matter in all its aspects:
The penny tin token, the relic of the famous prize fight between Mendoza and Warr in 1792, was sold at Glendinings for 218-10s. The fight was for 200 guineas, and Mendoza was the "victor in 4 rounds in half an hour, Arrange- ments for the fight, took several months, and at each of the places selected the authorities intervened. At Hounslow the magistrate read the Riot Act Three months later the fight took place at Croydon in the presence of a crowd of 10,000.
Si nom.
$û sel..
$35 RG.U.
320 Bel
$10 FOL
$194 nom.
$10. $20 pom Siti nom. set num. Tis. 4,35 sol., 4,30 sa sel-sellers; ne
United Asbestos Watsons (old)............ Wm. Powellesa Telephones ni
"uay, buyers;
In the Police Report for September, published in the Shanghai Municipal Gazette of the 22nd-instant, it is stated: During the month the professional Chinese story-teller visited various dis tricts and gava 15 addresses in mills, teashops, etc., on "Balety First" themes, Ein audiences totalled some 4,000 persone.
Silver (spot) "Silver (forward)
WEATHER REPORT.
Last night's weather report, forecast and remarks, issued from the Royal Ob servatory at 5 o'clock, stated:
A typhoon has formed to the South of: Уар. An anti-cyclone appears to "ba forming over China:
Local forecast:-N.E. winds, moderate to fresh, fair....
Typhoon Warning.
The following telegram was received
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WEEKLY PRESS, January to Jans, Manila, 27th October, 4 p.r.-Cyclone || 1928. / or typhoon meer or "over the Pelew Islands, direction unknown.
With Inos, Price-$7,20.
On sale at the Honakina Dailu Prus Office.