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NEW YEAR HAMPERS
We beg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Bates
No. 1 HAMPER-$38.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperisi 1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.
1 Pt. Blackberry Brady,
FL. D.O.M.
Champagna
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.
2 Gta. King George. IV Gold Label
or Perfection" Whisky.
Que St Julien Claret.
1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seai. 1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Burgundy, Burgoyne's.
1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.
No. 2 HAMPER-$34.
1. Guillemart Champagne.
1 Pt. D.O.M.
1 Qt. Bargoyne's Burgundy,
1 Qt. Mariall's XXX Brandy.
2 Qta. King George IV Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky,
2 Qt. Tawny Dry Port Qta. St. Julien Claret.
1 Qt Vino de Pasto Sherry.
1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.
No. 3
HAMPER-$30.
1. Burgoyne't Burgundy.
1 PL Peppermint GF.
1 PL DOM.
2 Qta. Superior Bish Old Port.
2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky.
1 Qt, Engrand's XXX Brandy.
1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.
2 Ota. Médoc Claret."
1 Phial Pomeranzen Bittera.
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Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31st, 1928.
Money and Markets
HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
Quotations in the local market for rice, sugar and other foodstuffs yesterday wors. as follow:-
Rice..
Par
Picul.
Blue Bag White Long Nice ... 87.49 8.53 Green Seal White Rice
1 Q. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin
Green Lion White Long Rice -7.09 White Long Rice
White Rice Brand
8.79 3.18
Green Eat White Long Rice 7.08 Red Seal No. 2 White Broken
Red Pearl New White Rice...
Rico
Green Pearl New White Rice Red Kim Chin New White
3.10 7.09 7.35
1 Qt. Paritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.
Rice
Red Pearl White Brewer Rice
8.02 8.32
Black Seal Old White Rico... Green Seal Old Broken White
Rica
9.40
6.60.
Red Seal No. 1 Old White
Broken Rice.... Blue Seal White Glutinous
Brewer Rice
3.97
Hong Koga.
Ted Seal No. 1 Glutinous
Rice Red Seal White Rice Bran 3.03 Bed Mok Kan, White Long
6.17
6.11
Rice
7.98
Black Mok Kan, Old White
Long Rice
.8.60
Black Dragon New White
Long Rice
7.09
Black Fan New White
Glutinous Rice .....
7.13
Green Peacock White Rice... Green Seal White Broken
Rice
8.02
Be Ship Old White Rice...
0.53 0.39
Sugar.
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.
TEL. C. No. 135.
DAIRY FARM NEWS
Reduction in the Price of
ICE
From 1st January Next the Retail Price of Ice will be reduced to
One Cent per lb.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
Parfumerie Rigaud
DIVINA
PARIS.
"FLORE DIVINA " EXCELLENT SCENT.
Most Popular & Famous Parfums. Moderate Price.
OBTAINABLE AT
All Drugs, Chemists and Leading Stores.
AGENTS':
VICENTE ATIENZA & CO.
No. 54, NATHAN Road, KOWLOON.
TEL K 155.
has
THE SHOE LEATHER
TRADE.
RISE IN LOCAL PRICES.
Hong Kong is a big distributing centre for leather, consignments being transhipped to North and South China Ports. and the volume of business done in a year amounting to $2,000,000 Leather for shoe making in chiefly import ed from Sydney, United States and Germany. Recently, business recovered from the slump brought about by the general strike. at 1925. Prices have risen during the last six months with the re sult that business has dropped" & little and no large transaction has been recorded. According
well-known to ä leather merchant the present con- dition of the market is a little dull, but this is causing no lose to the dealers, because stocks bought in before the prices rose are now The selling at the increased rate. total exports of leather from the Colony reached 81,800,000 during the past year.
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Two kinds of leather are chiefr The imported, sole and upper. former comes in the main from Sydney, and is generally divided into three grades, while the latter comes from United States and Gor- many. This also falls into three grades, the first being glazed kid leather.
The present market price for 100 lbs. of sole leather is quoted · at $110, while two years ago it was Quotations for upper jocly $80. Per
leather are from 888 to 200 per 100 lbs.
Picul.
No. 24 coarse powdered sugar 87.50,
Miscellaneous,
Wood Oil, $30.80 per picul.
++
Red Melon Seeds, 827.00 per picul. Black Beans, 87.00 per picul. Green Beans, 88.20.
CANTON COTTON YARN MARKET.
A telegram from Shanghai re- ceived on Saturday stated that the cotton yarn market is still firm. In Canton the commodity is scarce
bale.
CANTON MARKET REPORTS. and quotations increased by 89' a
Quotations for Sunday's Canton market, for rice, sugar, Bour and oil
were as follows.-...
Rice.
Quotations for cotton yarn in Saturday's market were as follows:
Per"
✔
Bale
Per
No. 42 Five Sons,
Butterfly
$550
592
Fui Kee
518
Pieni.
Chai Meg White Long Rice 811.45
No. 32 Pine Deer
483
Tin Koon
458
Cha Chim Native Rice
10.35
See Mui White Long Rice
10.60
Double Horse ......
448
Sui Yuk Native White Long
No.20 City of Gold
324
Globe
319
Rice
9.10
Green Seal White Long Rice
7.80
Good Harvest
316
Tin Koon
318
Black Seal White Long Rice
7.84
Fit
Double Horse
310
Green Seal White Long Rice Red Seal White Rice Green B White Brewer Rice Blue Sea! White Brewer
Rice
6.37
....
8.38
Double Elephant
319
0.25
Tramcar
30T
Man Clock
318
6.31
Shepherd
308
Three Stars.
308
Black Seal White Broken>
Fui Kwal
316
5.49 No. 18 Globe
298
Fui Kwai
205
5.57 No. 12 City of Gold
289
Peacock
268
-Per Picul,
"Fui Kwai
294
Tramedr
273
Taeis.
"Pretty Damsel
265
No. 3 coarse powdered sugar
7.50
Peacock
264
No. 20 coarse powdered sugar No. 1 granulated sugar ................. No. 1 fine granulated sugar Refined sugar. ..........
7.60 9.40
City of Goldque.
260
Lotus Bee
254
10.20 No. 6 Lion'
3.40
410
Hut How
208
Rice'..... Blue Seal White Broken.
Rice
"Sugar.
No. 2 coarse powdered sugar 8 8.00 No. 10 Sailing Vessel
Wai Chow native white sugar 9.40 Spring native candy
Man-of-War
Silver Seal
Flour,
10.11
Per
Bag.
34.00
4.15
Валлда
4.10
Cheung Luk
4.15
Maize
4.95
Sword of Kwantoi
4.23
Cannon
4.80
4.45
4.50
4.16
Per
NEXT TIME
your lamp bulb fails
Order,-Always,-the Gas-filled
ON
Perhaps they cost a little more than unbranded bulbs of
"poor quality bet→
they last longer,~-
give better light,-
barn less current:
therefore.
G. E. EDISON Lamps
are cheaper in the long run.
you
Edison Lamps,-always;
will
and save
see
better,
your sight.
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Asahi Beer
Invigorating & refreshing.
Sole Agents:-
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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.
HONG KONG.
HONG KONG WEEKLY
PRESS.
HATE, GOWNS
& NOVELTIES.
Cabbage.
Dalton
Dog's Head
Groundnut Oil:-
Hanan Best Quality Tientsin Best Quality Dairen Best Quality Chitu Best Quality Tang Chi Oil.....
INDUSTRIAL & COMMER-
CIAL BANK.
ANNUAL MEETING.."
The twelfth annual meeting of the Industrial & Commercial Bank,
Ltd.. was called to order at the appointed hour on the 12th instant by the Chairman, Mr. Wong Ngai Tong, at the head office of the Bank.
na-
Mesars. T. T. Cheng, Sun For, Leung Yan Po, Wang Joy Yee, Lee Sze Yuen, and P. Gockchin, Picul the retiring Directors. were 893.80 animously re-elected. The auditors 2.70 of the Bank, Messrs. Percy Smith, 27.00 Seth & Fleming, were also te 25.40 elected.
26.00
Tung Wo Oil.....
25.10
Kwangsi Wood Oil
27.30
CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
'December 28th.
Water Works..... Electric Power Co. Canton-Hankow Railways The Sun Company .... Sincere Company...... Nanyang Bros. Tob. Co. -Canton Tramways ......... China Merchant 6.S. Naviga
tions_Company
Central Bank .....................
EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Do.,
DECEMBRA 29TH, 1998. ELK. Banks... $1,910 bay., 1,323 sal
Do London...£141) zom, Chartered Banks now.
| buy. Mercantile Banks, A. &B...
C...£14] nom. F. & O. Bank......29 nom. $3.80 Ft Asia Banks
$84 nom 4.80 Canton Insurances...655 bay,
675 məl 49 Union Insurances. ........ $367 buy, 370 Bel, 368/70 sa. 9.40 Worth Uhins Las.........Tis, 160 buy, 4.00 Yang tere Insurances...... 850 2.00 China Underwriters 42 mel.
China Fire Insurances....1280
bay $780 PODL 6.50 Hong Kong Fire Ins.....
98 nom 4.60 Douglas
6.60
CANTON KEROSENE OIL.
Shall Transport
Union Waterbomta... Benguets
Kailan Mining Admin....70/-bay.
DOZA..
Synole
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Distemper
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Agents:
S. C. LAY & CO.
Alexandra Building
Telephone Central. 763.
HEYWOOD & CLARK
SHANGHAI HONGKONG
Der
7.48 | Tronoh Mixes Subiacon.17/6 noza.
ELE. & W. Docks .........138) buy,
„Tie, Ji nom. New Engineerings Shanghai Dooks.Ti, 105 mom. Ewo Cotion. 13.10 bay..
118.80 sel. 13. 24 val Oriental Cotton Lis S'hai. Cations (old)......Tis. 651 buy. Do, (new)....... 32 bay. B.K. & Hotels ($9.20 buy, 940 al, 850/25 s.
FL.K. Land Shanghai Landa Humphreys Estate FL Roadies ELE TIEWAY?
nom.
Ti. 165 bay, ...$14,80 buy.
Bar Ferries
..3691 bay. Ching Lights a ....$12.10 bay.
H.K. Electrics (old) ... 52+ buy, 621 sal,
Da (now) ......$51) moza.
Electra202 buy. Macao Telephones fold).16.0 buy, Do (new) $6,80 bay.
Tls, 101 Lay. Okina Bussie Singapors Tractions 19/- num
(Prof.)...17/6 bag., 18/3 pol.
bom.
De.. China Sugar Malabon Bugara (amme(23) Canton Loos35 211 Comenta (combined): 20/30 m.
(old)
nom.
0,75
do 10 sel & ja
$7.80 komi
ELK. Ropes fold)
(now)
Do. United Asbestos
Dairy Farma.....
Watsoma
A
$7,60 no 37.55 elibe som.
***..$214 buy.
*$18) nom
80 cia, buy
Lane Crawfords..... 13.06 nom. Mackintosh....inear Sinceres
W. Fowals
3,65, nom, ELK. Amusemente123) nel. H.K. Constructions ..... num.
B'que. Indas, G.Bunda 68% Ekk, Gavi, Loans
buy,—buy new ; sol—vallers';
Da (Def)
H.L. Steamboat... $20 buy., 291, tel.
31.10 buy. L.K. Tags ........
bay. Indo-Chinas (Prat)
172) bay, 18)- not
10 buy.
HOM
28th
Por
Case
(angle) S'as. Explortions Shanghai Loans
Tís. 10' nom.
noma.
TIA. 2,8) Bom.
27.65
35] buy.
7,20
HK & K Wharfa,...
..184 aal.'
7.10
7.90 China Providenta 1.
15.15 bay.
Peak Trame (old)
Langkats(combined)..
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