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Seat
From the Bens and the Glens
This Illustration. depicts the attractive "Highland Nectar Decanter.
Welcomed and esteemed
because of its exquisite" delicacy of flavour and tree Highland characteristics, no other whisky makes such a definite appeal to the palate as "Highland Nectar" The quality is guaranteed and always rigourously maintained.
THE DISTILLERS AGRNEY, LTO,
DISTILLERS.EDINBURGH.
"Highland Nectar"
Rare Old Scots Whisky
SOLE AGENTS:
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,
183]
HONG KONG.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 1928.
Money and Markets
HONG KONG MARKET
REPORTS.
.
Business done in Hong Kong yes. terday on "rice, sugar and other foodstuffs included the following Transactions:-
Rice
Green double sword white
rice, 300 bags
87.44
Br
CANTON MARKET REPORTS.
Yesterday's quotations in Canton of rice, sugar, four and other food stuffs are as following
Flower Pot****
Red Seal
ני
No. 1 Granulated sugar ...... 10.11. No. 1. Fine granulated sugar
Rice.
Per picul
Per Picul.
Chui Mi ...
$10,30
Wong Chung Chai Mi
11.00-
White Siam Ribe
10.83
Old Glutinous Brewer
10.10
Green O' Tau white rice, 680
bags
Middle Chai Mi
10.70
8.50
10.00
Red Single gash white rice,
300 bags
0.3.3
6.17
Green Seal..................
0.03
Red dragon white Sium rice.
Red Wo Fung
0.83
441 bags
7412
Red Bell".
9.44
Red horse white rice, 580
Green Flower Pot
9.73
bags
3 Marks
9.48
Green Hung To white Siam
Red Po Kpi
9.40
6.88
Round Dragon
9.99
No. 3 White broken rice, 600
bags...
Green Double Afrow
9.83
546
Sugar.
No. 4 white Siam broken rice,~-
Per picul.
420 bags
298
Red Sing Ping white Siam
rice. 73 bags
7.54
9.10
Green Sing Ping white rice,
Fine granulated sugar
8.70
30 bags
7.50
No. 2 coarse powdered sugar
8.20
Red O Tau white rice, 304
bags"
No. 3 coarse powdered sugar
7,60
$$1
No. 20 coarse powdered sugar
7.70
Red flower pot white rice, 050
Spring Candy
"10.40
bags
7.09
Wai Chau Sugar
6.40
Green Seal pured Siam rice,, •
Shing Mor Sugar
8.00
100 bags.....
6.06.
Wah Lick Sugar
8.80
Red Seal white brewer rice,
Fleur,
76 bags.............
8,02
Per bag.
Black Seal white brand, 352
bagy
Man of War......
$4.00
431
Flower Silver Seal
4.90
TEL. C. 135.
Sugar,
Por
Banana
4.10
"Picul
Cheung Luk
4.10
No. 18 coarse powdered sugar,
500 bags
Maize
3.83
36.00
Sword of Kwangtai
4.33
No. 18 coarse powdered sugar,
100 bags,
Cannon
4.75
6.00
Native Cabbage
4.45
No. 24 coarse powdered sugar,
Daltor.
4.00
200 bags.
7.40.
Dog's Head
4.50
No. 24 coarse powdered sugar,
Miscellaneous.
200 bags......
7.45
Per picul.
No. 4 coarse powdered sugar,
300 bags
"Shark, Fins
4.50
7.40
No. 18 coarse powdered sugar,
Awabi.......
3.20
200 bags.
6.00
Mushroom
3.90
No. 24 coarse powdered sugar,
Tai Kai Fungers
280
Tai Lin Green Bean
70, 60
300 bags
7.39
800 bags
7.40
Miscellaneous..
KESORENE OIL REPORTS.
November 21st.
Per case.
New Star
$7.83
7.75
New Hang Fuk New Eagle
7.50
7.45
New Cherag Hoe New Day Break
7:30
7.30
CANTON COTTON YARN
REPORTS.
WURM'S
STOMACH DOCTOR
The Best Bitter for the Stomach.
Best Remedy for Poor Appetite, Deficient.
Digestion and Disorderly Stomach
Obtainable at
THE WING ON CO., LTD.
"GREATR than RUST?
Wilkinson's
ANTICORROSIVE
Ready Mixed Paints
for. Every Description of Iron and Steel Work
Large Stocks kept
of Two Shades each RED AND GREY
Specify
Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark's
Large shark's fin, 3 bags, at 350
per bag.
Red melon seed, 30 bags, at 825 per
bag.
New wihte grapes, 5 cases, nt 340
per case.
Green seed black bean, 40 bags, at
$7 per bag.
Middle black bean, 150 bags, at
$8.10 per bag.
Vegetable yellow bean 100 bags,
at $6.80 per bag.
New red bean, 30 bags, at 88.20
per bag.
OVERSEA MARKET
REPORTS.
NOVEMBER 12th.
Sugar.
.03
New York, Dec.....2.02 cents New York, Mar....2.07 cents -.04 New York, May......35 cents New York, Sept....2.30 cents New York (Cuban) 2.3-16 cent& Java, Spot 13.7-16 guilders. Nov.13.7-18 guilders .....13 guilders .134 guilders 133 yuilders
Dec, Jan.
Feb. London, Dec. London, Mar: London, May
New Balance
"CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
No. 10 Sailing Vessel
..8.9-16d. -318 No. 32 Po Tap
..::s‡8. —3-18
A
TIME-BALL TIME
IN EVERY HOME AND
OFFICE.
Modern Science now enables all users of Electric light to have, also, an Electric time-keeper at but an infini- tesimal extra cost for current.
Simply plug this wonderful clock into the nearest light socket, set it to the right time and forget all the worries of winding, cleaning and regulating.
It costs less to operate this electric clock than to keep an ordinary clock in repair, and you get Time-ball
time always.
Many beautiful models of this Telechron are now on show and you are invited to inspect them-to-day. "A Telechron will make a distinctive and much appreciated
present.
Telechron
THE ELECTRIC · TIMEKEEPER
is on view at
Andersen, Meyer & Co.,
David Building,
67, Des Voeux Road.
Hong Kong Electric Co.,
12, Des Voeux Road.
General Electric Co. of China, Queen's Building.
November 21st.
Per bale.
$273
Lutus Bee
266
Peacock
༣
270
-.03 -:04
Golden City
264
No. 12 Fu Kwai
292
Golden City
287
дом
Fun Hee......
281
Pretty Damsel
971
No. 10 Man Clock
Globe
302
306
No. 20 Ng Fuk
.306
............. nom.
.19%. Bid. +91 .198. 1018. +1} .138. 14. +94
Man Clock
310
Họ Chao
324
Po Yee
315
Clable A
324
and when the new Australian ser- Union Insurance**** 180 DAY.
... HOM...
London Rubber.
Golden City
328
Spot. Jan.-Mar.
440
Crack Double
PAINTS
. Spot
Extra, Spot
Dec.
New York Raw Silk.
Extra,
86.15 $3. $5.05 -01
Double Horse... No. 42 Foon Hee
433 516
34
No.
Varigrated Butterfly.. 524 6 Lion............ Vice Lion
240 103
HE
| Indo-Chinas (
Jan.
Agents:
Apr.
May
$3.07 -.02 .$5.08 -.01
S. C. LAY & Co.
Egyptian Raw Cotton,
Nov.
Alexandra Building
Jan.
Telephone Central 637.
Nov. Apr.
35.10 tallaris +.02 .35.53 tallaris +.09 Shanghai Cotton Yarn,
187.8 tacks +.7 .159.8 taels
November 21st.
Water Work Co. Electric Power Co.
# 3.10 5.10
-.1
Canton Hankpw Railway
0.45
The Sun Co
8.30
Wall Street.
Sincer, Co.
8.60
Steel' Anaconda Shares dealt in 3,250,000 +3,000,000 New York Raw Cotton.
resh.
+
+
Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co. Canton Tramway Co.
4.60
ath & bay. #5) bay, ..17/8 noia. ..3137 sel.
$37
o
..it nom. TU, 158
1.80
Chinese Merchants' Steam
Navigation Co.
8.30
Central Bank"
4.23
Centa
.19.85
+.10
[4.2.1.3)
Sole Agents:**
Drink
Spot. Dec.
Lowest
Jan:
May
July
THE WOOL TRADE.
Woch values at the last London auctions fell in most 'enses to
lower level than those ruling a year ago, and the new clip is being Bold in Australia at about a car. responding reduction. The decline
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
·CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
NOVEK ZA 21ar, 1929. A.K. Banks.......................$1,325 buy.
Do., London...141 nom.
buy.
is the outcome of the fact that Chartered Banks
prices paid for Australian wool to Marcantile Banks, A. wards the end of last season proved
Do.,
pom.
too high to permit semi-manufac- P. & O. Banka tures to be sold at commensurate East Asia Bank.. 380 boy. rates. This checked consumption, Canton Insurance ......1675 sel
son opened inat August, importers | North China Ina, Mom! held a considerable quantity of old Yangtze Insurances.....M. $50 nom. wool, for which they had been un
85.00 CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE obtaining at the end of last reaBOD,
more Highest
Asahi Beer Mar
it is
refreshing
Jon
and Feb.
.19.50 +.13
10.00 19.45 .
NOVEMBER 13th. Osaka Sugar.
Opening. Closing.
12.13
12.16
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Osaka Bice. Opening. Closing.
20.25
29.82
30.28
D
China Underwriters...............o; sel Okina Fire Insurancea... 280 buy. able to find remunerative outleta
Fire Ana.....3780 ast. Much of this raw material was Hong Kong returned to the last London aue Dougom. tions, which weakened market, and K. Steamboats.....23 buy. assisted the decline. I
(Pref.)......$12 bay. viously impracticable to pay for the new clip prices equal to those
(Def.) ...$72; buy. Shell Transports.......118 m. Wsterboats...............est bay. and fortunately the growers, realis
Bengueta
24 bay. ing the position, met the market,
Kailan Mining Admin....75/- nom, Values have thus been reduced to
kata (combined)...... Tla Langk
it som. more workable level, but the
The. 5 com Do. (ingle) ........... problem as to whether the lowest Bha
„Th. 28) buy. Explorations point has been touched has been rendered almost insoluble by Shanghai Loan...Th. 3
Batib occurrence of the strike in Austra-1 Tronoh Mines lin, where the, selling programme | R.K. & K. Whards............. has been dislocated, so that con- H.K. & W. Docks siderably less wool than expected China Providents will be forthcoming from that Bangkew! Bource prior to Christmas, while New Engineerings the offerings in the second half of Shanghai Docks the season will be proportionately Ewo Cottoas... avolien.
In the circumstances confidence
Min. St bay.
13 sal.
Tis. 12.85 buy
12.60/15
Oriental Cottons...T. 2.35 buy. 2. sol.
Do,
Tis, 65 buy. (now)......Tla. 34 DE H.K. & Hatela......$9 buy. & s.,
in a sound wool basis has been 'hai. Cottons (old) ..... dificult to re-establish, but it is known that the placing of a big volame of orders awaits the de monstration of the lowest point, and it is generally agreed that the 30.12 +.21 possibility of obtaining cheaper raw material increases the chances of successful manufacturing opera-
20.28 +.27 20.61 +.11
Oraka Cotton Yarn,
19.43 11 .10.41 11
Nov.
19.31.14
Dec. Jan.
19.18.15
Opening. Closing.
Nov.
Dec.
$240.00 240.30 +2.30 .239.00 238.60 +2.80
Nov. Dec.
Jan,"
238.80
230.00 +2.10
12.16 12.16
Feb;
238.20
235.00 +2.10
11:27 +.01
Mär.
..235.40
234.80 +1.90
11.33 +.01
Apr.
..235,50
Mar, Apr.
11.30 -.01
May
11.41 11.40.04
invigorating.
Yokohama Sük,
Opening. Closing.
Nov.
Nov.
Dec.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA LTD.
HONG KONG.
130.50 135.60 -80 Dec. 137.30 136.80 20 Jan. “135.50"*"*1:30" "FEU, Baby138.70125.901.10 Mas
Mar. 130.00 135.30 -1.20 Apr.
(Continued on next Column.)
Muy
17
9.10 sel
vel.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16th. Department of Commerce pre- 234.00 +1.80 liminary figures on United States ..236.00 -234.50 +1.50 exports for October show a total of 8555,000,000, which is the largest Osaka Raw Cotton.
monthly total since January of Opening. Closing. 1021
61.00 61,80 +10 The bulk of goods exported, has 81.80. +.50 increased, which as reported to be 02.46 +80 due to shipments of cotton, wheat 12.85 *** B2*7*****.05
and bactD.. €3, 2017 man83;35
Imports are the largest...which have been recorded for the year, and they totalled 8357,000,000...
K. Lands 888 bay, Bhanghai Lands......... Tls. 138 sel Humphreys Hatates. $151 E.. Resities 183 nom. FLK. Tramway...... (119.10 bay, 101
sel.79.10/t se. tions in the immediate future. Peak Trams (old) nzim$132
3 buy, Bo. (10).........48.80 now. AMERICAN "EXPORT TRADE: | Star Ferrias
..367) sal. Chins Lights (old)....***.. 15130 sal,
Do. Do, (1928 Issue). E.K. Electrice (3ld)
buy., 521 sa. Do.
10. (now) ...361 bay. 314 Macao Electrics ... #251 bay. Telephones...... $7.30 bay, cum righta
Do.
35.65 nom. x rights. 'Do. rights
The 11 bay. China Buses Singapore Tractions.....12/
Da (Pred)........ 10/0 sd China Bugar
$0.50 185 .420g bur. Malabon Ungars Canton Lees
...: 81.70 02.40
03.00 83.15 +75 £1.60 63.00 +.85
·
1334 nom.
HATS, GOWNS
& NOVELTIES.
“Felix.”
7. Icż Hoorz STREET,
HONG KONG.
TEL. C.6294.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris Brussels
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RUGBY, Nov. 20th.
124.10
34.89
Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna. Helsingfors Lisbon Bucharest
12.081
90.36
19.19
34.39
1921
I enos Aires New York. Geneva Milan. Stockholm
Oslo.......... Prague
Madrid
Athens
Rio
Bombay
Yokohama
Shanghai
Hong Kong Silver (spot) Silver (forward)
108.1/18 8051 47.18/32
4.84.31/32
25.19
$2,55
-18.14
18.10
183)
30.08
37巻い
5.29/32 1/8.1/82
1/10.13/32
9/7h
2/01
28.11/16
26.33/16
Cements (combined)......39.70 sel.
Do. (old)....$8ael.
Do. (now)...$1,60 sol, H.K. Ropes (old) ..$7.80 nom...
Do, (NEW) ..37.55 D02. United Asbestos montice 35 nom.
Dairy Farms...$22.00 mal Watsons
314) 30%. Der A. Wings
...$0,75 bay. Lane Crawfords. $3.00 nom Mackintosh......
820 Om.
Bindermusik bay,
Powells.
$3.65 buy.
WAL
H.K. Amusements....323) sol H.K. Constructions to
buy.
Bique. Ludas. G. Bonds...66% bay. HAL-Gori, Loans V
buy buyerselam-sellera 3-sai-