THE
WORLD RENOWNED COCKTAIL
BACARDI
AND. ITS MANY USES.
BACARDI RICKEY
Wine-glass of Bacardi
Juice of half a Lime.
One lamp of ico
Sërre in high-ball glass .
Add Sparkling Water.
BACARDI GROG Qas qusit of:B10 ardi
Oas pound of Sugar
Dao quart of Forincas Oolong Tea
“Use the grog, widing qual
Part of very hot water
Serve with slices of lemon
Dissolva sugar in hot water,
AGENTS:
BACARDI HIGHBALL Place a piece of ice in glass One glass of Bacardi
Fill glass with Sparkling Water.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 7th, 1928-
BACARDI MILK FÜN CHI
One glass hot Milk
One tablespoonful of sugar
A punch of nutmeg
The yolk of an
egy
A glass of Bacarth
Best up thoroughly the yolk of the
Egg with the sugar
Ada milk Bacardi and nutmeg Mix it thoroughly
A delicious punch and a splendid
berarage for Calds.
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Wine and Spirit Merchants.
St. George's Buildings, No. 2, Ice House Street, Tel C, 185.
. HONG KONG.
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Best Portland Cement.
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FOR TEN DAYS ONLY
from 9 am to 5 pm. of delightful
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WATER COLOURS
and Pastels
By the foremost "artists "of Japan.
The Pastels are all suitably framed. The Exhibition is being held at the Salon of
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Ideal for Wedding Present
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DUTCH FEN FIRES.
CATASTROPHIO PROPOR TIONS.
OLD MAN BURNED TO DEATH.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AMSTERDAM, May 8th. The Drentsche fen fires are 43- suming catastrophie proportione.
CAPT. COURTNEY'S PLANS.
ANOTHER ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
"CLÚSING "QUOTATIONS.
MAY ETH, 1948. A.K. Bank
$1,295 now.. Do Londen...£130j nom. LONDON, May 5th-
Chartered Bank...........£21 buy. Horcantile Back, A. £... £33) nom. Captain Courtney, who attempted
Do
O#141 boy. the east to west Atlantie fight last P. & O. Pank
Fast Amin Bank September and gave up at Cornnua
Canton Insuranc will again make the attempt this Union Insurance
North Domier Napier. month, using
Twenty houses have been destroyed machine, the dying of which he is in one village and a man aged testing at Pisa. She is of German sixty is believed to have been burn design built in Italy, and has two ed to death. Eight workmen nar-British Napier ongines developing rowly escaped death by swimming
over 1,000, horse-power. a canal.
AMSTERDAM, May 4th. The Xan fires in the Province of Drentsche are becoming more ex- tensive and it is feared that only the cessation of the wind, accom panied by heavy rain, can end the conflagration.”
The spread is largely due to the inadequacy of the extinguishing facilities in the sparsely populated moorland region.
The district round Emmen on the German frontier is now a raging furnace and many houses are burn- ing.
An area of several square miles has been evacuated and the at- mospheric conditions-resemble a eclipse of the sun, so dense are the smoke clouds.
The atmosphere is suffocating while the columns of smoke are viefble for miles.
L
INVENTOR KILLED.
PLANE WITH MOVING WINGS.
[12UTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
CURTISSFIELDS, New York. May 5th. 3. Bonney, the inventor of the Seagull" aeroplane, with moving wings, crashed and was killed while experimenting.
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AMERICAN ELECTIONS,
WALSH YIELDS TO AL. SMITH,
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
WASHINGTON, May th The Democrats are agog becausa Senator Walsh has practically with drawn from the campaign for Presidential nomination in favour of Mr. A7 Smith, the Governor of New York State.
Senator Walth ħases his action on Governor Smith's victory in the primaries
COLLISION IN CHANNEL.
BRITISH NAVAL YESSEL DAMAGED.
•
(THROUGH LAUTER'S AGENOT.]
LONDON, May 4th. The s.1. Bacchus, store-ship to the Mediterranean Fleet, collided in the English Channel with the Greek stesmar, Joannis Fafalios, during a fog last night,
The Greek vessel was badly holed and sank rapidly, the crew of 22 being picked up by the Bacchus.
The British naval vessel was also badly damaged and it is now re- ported to be sinking, and to have been abandoned by the crew and the survivors "of the Joannis Fafalios.
∙LTER.; The Bacchus has been towed into Portland. 10 Greeks were drowned and two died after being rescued.
SOVIET DIPLOMAT SHOT.
ATTACK BY EMIGRE.
(THROCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIE, May 4th.
A message from Warsaw states that a Russian emigre fired a re- volver at a car in which M Lizareff and another member of the Soviet Legation were travelling ML Lizareff was wounded in the hand by a bullet and his face in- jured by splintered glass. His
assailant was arrested.
The assailant's name to Georg Wojciechowski.
A representative of the Folish Foreign Minister called at the Soviet Legation and expressed the Government's regrets at the occur rence. He gave assurance that the azasilant would be severely punish- ed in accordance with the law.
JAPANESE DIET.
CENSURE VOTE PASSED.
(THROUGH ZAUWER'S AUKSOZ.1.
TOKYO, May 4th. The Diat which re-assembled after
a three-day prorogation has passed a vote of comisure against the Home Minister, who has already resigned. The motion was carried by the nar- row margin of fire votes, 233, to 298) It is expected that a vote of non- confidence is the Government will be introduced to-morrow.
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THE ATLANTIC FLIGHT,
YON HUENEFELD'S GENERO- SITY.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.)
NEW YOLL, May 5th. The prize of $12,500 offered by Alwanner Gren, Stockholm, for a successful flight from Europe to America was presented at a dinner last night to Baron Von Huenefeld.
He handed it over to Fraulein Herta Junkers, insisting that she should give it to her father, who built the Bremen.
SEAPLANE ENDURANCE
RECORD.
30-HOUR FLIGHT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.)
PHILADELPHIA, May 5th, The United States naval seaplane P.N. 19 has landed at the Navy Yard at the conclusion of a thirty. six hours' secret endurance Aight.
It is claimed that this beats the record by over seven hours. previous seaplane endurance flight
MINE DISASTER.
33 NATIVES KILLED.
(THROUGH EXUYER'S AGENCY.]
JOHANNESBURG, May 5th. Thirteen-natives were killed and five seriously injured in a skip disaster on the East Rand pro- prietary mines, when the cage got out of control, and crashed 150 feet
WAGES OF COTTON
WORKERS REDUCED.
ENFORCING THE DEMAND.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 4th.
A proposal to reduce the wages. of cotton-workers by 12) per cent is contained in a regalation-passed by the General Committee of the Federation of Master Catton chester to-day. Spinners Associations at Man-
most important development in the The resolution is regarded as the cotton crisis
A copy of the resolution was sent to the embers of the Federation with two ballot papers, one for the American Section of the industry. and one for the Egyptian Section.
The Federation Members are being asked to vote whether they are willing to leave the question of the reduction of wages to be dealt with by the Federation"Com- mittee and to close the mills if it is necessary to enforce the demand.
FRENCH FILM QUOTA.
REQUIREMENTS MODIFIED.
{THROUGH 'KEUTER'S AGENOT.]
Pants, May 4th. The decree of, February 18th, lay- down that a quota of one French film must be sold in the, United States for every four American films produced in France, has given rise to considerable acerbity in French and American film circles.
The friction has brought Mr. Will Hays, the American film magnate, from America to negotiate a modification, of tha ruinous ??. conditions of the decree, în conre- quance of which American cinema establishments in France threatened to close down, rendering 8,000 French employees idle.
An agreement has now been reached, not modifying the quote, but ameliorating the methods of its application by substituting import Licences for block booking, thereby enabling
French producers :tion negotiate directly with American firms.
COUNT POURTALES,
DEATH OF EX-AMBASSADOR. (THROUGH REUTER'S LOKNOT,]
BRESLAN, May 4th
The death is announced of Count Pourtales who wae Gerzona. Ámbss- mador at St. Petersburg in 1914.-
......75 nom.
3680 nom. sial bay, de mă. Tis. 140 nem *M. $47-buy
China, bur
Ins mons Insurance .... angtare
404
China Underwriters... buy. Chins Fire Insurance....ills nom. Hong Kong Frs in.....3760 num. H. Steamboats Douglass H.K. T
•Tags ...: Indo-China (Prof.).
(Def.)
Da
Shell Transports Waterboats... Bengueta Kailan Mixing Ad.. Langbats (combined). Lo. (singls) S'hat, Explorations Shanghai Loans
HK. & E. Wards.. H.K. & W. Dock.. Chine Providents Hongkens ....... New Engineerings. Shanghai Dooks
BANK NOTES IN CIRCULATION.
STATEMENT FOR APRIL
The returns of the average Amount of bank notes in circula tion and of specie in reserve in `Hong Kong, during the month end- ed April 30th, 1928, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks, were
Average Banks. Amounts.
Chartered
Specie in Reserve.
Bank $15,392,018 88,000,000* Hong Kong
& Shangbai
Bank..... 816,995,833 83-1,000,000† Mercantile
$37 buy.
378 noin.
.98, nom.
st nom.
Bank
81,763,077
$600,000$
74
Total $64,139,753 840,580,000
Tie. Si nom. „Tik 9,83 nom. Tis. 3 nom.
..17/6 nom „5137 HOL
$5.80 el. „T. 159 buy.
Tla, 3 bay.
Tis. 119 bay.
Orientale Cottons.
Lotions..."Tis. 8 buy, 8.40 wel.
The bay 8'bai. Cott
.Cottone (old)
Do. (new)....lls. 29 sel BK.45. Hotels buy, 8) wol
1851
B.K. Lands Bhanghai Land
Humphreys Estaten..............$1ág nom. HK. Realties
„18) buy,, 8) sel.
HK, Tramways $25.20 mon Peak Trams (old)..... ...$13) buy.
(new)..... R DODI. Star Forrics........ .30% sei. Obina Lights • (old).....—...$11.40 Bel,
Do, (new)......$il sol. Do. (1928 Lenae)...37 20m. H.K. Electrice.163702 mely 705 18 Macao Xleatzios TelephotB „...................
buy. Quin Basar..........11. &t bay. Singapore Tractions......9/- bay,
China Sugars verkamenn Malabon Bugaram..124) num.
antan Icm *** Cements (combined)..............$9† sol.
Do. ((old) "8) nom Do. (now) buy, dz 88.. HK. Ropes (old) .....
374 01.
$10 Rom.
Do.
Cnited Asbestos
Fairy Farms. Watana
Der & Wings ............
Lane Crawforde..... Mackintoshs...... wm. Fowells. Sinceros
H.X. Amusements
„122), nom. $14 Day. $0.50 nom 83% buy.
$11 buy.
#28 bay, 29
HK. Constructions. nom. 'que, Indus, G.Bonds...@xx buy. HK. Gort, Loans.71% prem, nam. buy--buyum; sol-sallors; sammide j nominacinal
EXCHANGE RATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, May 4th.
Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfora.......
Lisbon Bucharest.
Buenos Aires.
New York
Geneva
194 34.94
12:10
50.40
18.20
34.075
1031
2
785 47.13/16 4.88.1/16 25.34 *****82.85 Stockholm ........ 18.105 Oslo
Milan
Prague
Madrid
Athens
Hio
Bombay Yokobama Shanghai
Hong Kong.
Silver (spot). Silver (forward).
18.225
1041
29.315
3721
6.59/C4
1/0
1/11.13/84
2/7
2/01
98.15/16 26.13/16
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* In addition Sterling Securities
are deposited with the Crown Agen's valued at £1,271,000,
FOR SALE.
RARE ANCIENT CHINESE
BRONZE 'INCENSE -
BURNER.
THIS was used by the Kings of the Chan Dyomaty 3,000 Years Ago for Saarificial Rituals and is worth Thousands of Dollars,
For Inspection, Please Apply to
ME THANG YU TSANG,
TUNG HING PAWNSHOP,
t. In addition Securities deposit. 62, Prays East, Wanchai, Hong Kong.
ed with the Oro 1- Agents
and Straits Government valu-
ed at £3,313,119.
In addition Securities depòsit | ed with the, Crown Agents valued at £180,000,
DEPS
AT this season every
body needs the Peps breatheable tableta to ward off cold and abili dangers. As Pepa dissolve in the mouth, their rich medicinal fumes any soothing and hauling benefits direct into chest and langs,
Jaflammation and soreness in thrakt or bronchials is quickly allayed by Peps, coughs and esida are sipped in the bud, and, the entire breathing system is wonderfully strengthened and fortified.
for COUGHS
&COLDS
Of medicine inalzes 6 storns everywhe
INSURE
YOUR
Vichy Celestins Natural Mineral Water
from the famous Celestins spring, is a very pleasant corrective for gastric troubles and liver dis- orders.
It gives zest to the appetite and helps one to enjoy the. pleasures of the table.
VICHY-CELESTINS
Obtainable at Hotels, Clube, Chemists and Stores, or from the
Sole Agents
The French Store
Beaconsfeld Arcade.
BAGGAGEMARTIN'S
WITH
GILMAN'S
APIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.
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