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Tel. Central No. 135.
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General
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16th, 1929.
Money and Markets
HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
Quotations at yesterday's loca! market for rice, sugar and other foodstuffs were as follows:-
Rice,
HONGAY COAL IMPORTS.
FLOURISHING BUSINESS IN
HONG KONG
In our issue of January 19th, "Increased Per under the heading Pizul Demand for Indian Coal," there 87.13
CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
January 15km, 1929
8.5. Banks.........$1,955 buy. 1.365 in.
Do., London...£148
Backs *** nome
Do
P. & O. Banks
east bay.
0.14% nom
East Asia Baskı (m. 1994 buy.
Danton Insurances ***$877) bag.
Union
Insurances North Chins Ini.
TH
160 bay.
Yangtare » Insurannes............. M. $30 nom. Chins Underwriters.......20 buy China Fire Insurances...1230 buy.
Kong Fire Ins....
Douglases.....
Steamboats
144 14
H.K. Tag*******
Indo-China (Prof.)
Do (Def)
nom.
...$1.40 som $50 buy.
$90 bay.
Shell bay,
Union Waterboat.........120
Benguet, man 32.40 bay.
Kailas Mining Admin... 10/- buy.
CANTON, Jan. 14th..
Water Works Electric Power' Co. Canton-Hankow Bailways The Sun Company Sincera Company.
$3.00
5.10
0.30
6.90
9.70
Nanyang Bros, Tab. Co. Canton Tramways.... China Merchant 9.3. Nav.
Com Central Bank
4.30
2.00
6.50
4.03
Green Three. Stars
Black Seal White Bran
Green Dragon White
3.26 €1.68
No. 1 White Broken
6.97
No. 3 White Broken
3.65
Bed Dragon White
7.13
White Line Glutinous
7.91
Green Seal Glutinous
8.57
were some references to French coal which were inaccurate. A corre- spondent kindly draws attention to these errors.
First of all, there are no imports Hang Fuk, vaatama of coal from "France, but from
CANTON KEROSENE OIL.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
CANTON, Jan. 14th.
New Comet ..... *1 Balance
87.70
7.50
7.90
Red Seal Glutinous...
6,23
Red Star Glutinous
*.36
Red Pearl White Brewer
6.53
Green Seat Old Brewer
6.48
Blue Seal No. 1 Broken Blue Seal No. 2 Broken
6.18
Sugar.
No. 18 ccarse powdered. No. 20 coarse powdered No. coarse powdered
· ́`Miscellaneous.
87.34
7.-13
7.58
French Indo-China, which is much nearer the local market. The coal imported is a semi-anthracitona çoni of very good quality indeed, and the principal colBeries, the Honger. Picul. mines, of which the Société Fraq- çaise des Charbonnages du Tonkin are the owners, have an agent - im Hàng Long.
Eagle ten Sheung Hi Day Break
7.10
7.20
7.20
EXCHANGE RATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUGBY, Jan. 14th.
194.133
New York
4.82 3/32
Brussels
34.901
+
2
China
12.09
Per
$9.79%
New Engineering
20.413
Shanghai Books
Stockholm
19.13
Copenhagen
19.19
Oriental Cotton.......... Tl.
Awo Votions............ Tis 13.20 com
Osio.....
13.191
S'hai. Cottons (old)......T. 65 bay.
Vienna
34.483
Prague
1831
Helsingfors
1920
99.71
1001
37%
808
3 29/32
2/7
Wood Oil
Hong Kong.
Red, Melon Seeds White Grapes
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Sole Agents-
Drink
Asahi
more
5.98
Per
Mesare Jardine Matheson are im- Picul porters of Hongay coal, and seem 831.30
to be quite satisfied with it, but it 29.00
would be an error to believe that 33.00
they are sole importers of coal from French Indo-China. Messrs. Butter- field & Swine use it both for the China Navigation Co. and the Tain koo Sugar Refining Co. The Hong Kong Electric Co., the Green Island Cement Co. are also very large con- sumers of Hongay coal, and what proves the favour
which this cos)
LOCAL BUSINESS - IN RUBBER SHOES.
50,000 PAIRS A MONTH.
It may surprise the average mea in the street to know that the Cology buys no less than 50,000 pairs of rubber soled shoes monthly, This commodity enjoys a brisk market in these days of trade de. pression and while other lines are suffering a set-back, rubber shoes are selling.
In an interview with, the agent of the Singapore "rubber king," Mr. Chan Kah Kee, a Daily Press representative was informed that they alone sell between 30,000 to 35,000 pairs of shoes monthly in Hong Kong. Then there are the American, Japanese and local made rubber shoes" to contend with, but the first named product have a very small share of the business owing. to their prohibitive prices, while Japanese and locally made shoes are of an inferior quality, and though cheaper than the ones from Singa- pore, they find a small market.
ia beld is the tonnage marketed in Hong Kong and Canton, which amounts to over 180,000 tons per year for Hongay coal only, not in- cluding the coal from smaller mines
CANTON MARKET REPORTS.
Quotations at Monday's market for rice, sugar, flour and oil were as follows:-
Rica,
Ching Wo Fung Green Lion Red Lion New Moon Three Marki Blue Lion Hung To Elephant Red Bird Pak Bok Chai Mi See Mai
No.
Sugar,
2 coarse powdered No duty is paid on this comNo. 3 coarse powdered modity, and the Singapore shoes, No. 20 coarse powdered which are of good rubber, are sold No. 1 Granulated.
Paris
Geneva...
Amsterdam
Milan Berlin
Madrid Lisbon Athens Bucharest Rio..... Buenos Aires Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong
Yokohama
Silver (spot)...... Silver (forward)
23.215
1/61/32
2/01 1/10 13/32 .: 907/16
281
Langbats (combined)..... 10.83 zom.
(single)
CORNAME
#UM 2.9) nom.
St num.
Bas. Explorations mon
Shanghai Loans
Batiba...******
(Trench Minor"
B.K. & K. Wharfa.........$153 nom.
K&W. Docks 10 bay, 1
bay,
Snel.
Providenta
Hongkow T. 3 nom,
***** 106 buy.
Do. (now)...... Tia. 89 buy. H&S Hot 9.30 bay.
Lands
Shanghai
Inds 165 bay. Humphreys Katatas......$1-4.BU buy. Bad $9.20 buy. Tramway... 120 buy, 30.65/70 M.
...
Peak Trama (old)...........813 vol.
Bo. Star Forden
buy 74 Obin Light 19), bel de sa. B.K. Electrics (old) .....354 bay.
(new .....
Do. (new)..... 53) buy, 53 xa. Macao Electrics.......1261 buy.
(Continued on next Column).
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FILM
"THE BIRTH OF
A FLOWER
AT THE
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TO-DAY
Promptly At 11 am.
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Do.. (new)
China Bosed ...95
$5 nom. $7. buy.
18.00 buy.
Tis. 11 buy.
Sings pare Tractions.......12/- nom
D
China Sugars 80 cte, som Malabon Bugars
(Fref)...17/6 bay...18/3 sal
Omatan Ices
Dam
bay.
...$10.10 sol.
Cementa (combined) ...........
Do. Do.
(old)....37.80 mom. (new)......$11 buy.
H.K. Bope (old)
Do
(www)
United. Asbestos
FATEL
Dairy Watsons Der & Wing Lane Crawfceda. Singer... Mackintosha.....
$7.60 nom. $7.53 mal
+911 val.
$13.50 sol.
.80 eta, bay. $3.05 nom.
391 bay. 65 BO
L
Wm. Powells H.K. Amusementa H.K. Constructions ......$lé nom. B'que, Indas. GBonds...69% bay. HK. Cort, Loans.5% prem, sel buy-buyura; vel-sellers; sa-sales;
nom,menominal,
Some of the Feature Numbers from the JANUARY list of VICTOR RECORDS
Here's a great start for the new year. Music to please everybody. Popular ditties of the hour. Smooth dance music with a wallop in every rhythm. Several selections of the more serious' music. You'll be missing something if you fail to hear these January Victor releases. Plan to visit us soon!.
INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL RECORDS
Christmas Hymns and Carols---No. 3
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing Chris- tians, Awaka Holy Night Oh Little Town of Bethlehem—Hallelujah Christmas Hymns and Carols—No. 4
Calm on the Listening Ear-It Came Upon. the Midnight Clear-Nazareth Star of Bethlehem-Oh Coine All Ye Faithful
TRINITY CHOT
Per Pieni.
80.68
9.84
9.74
9.74
0.45
10.05
0.56
9.30
8.90
11.20
-10.58
10.45
Per
Picul
Täels.
...... 88.40
8.10
8.20
10.80
10.90
8.70
10.20
8.00
Per
Flour.
Bag,
$4.05
4.20
No. 359146, 12-inch Prelude in C Sharp Minor
4.05
(Rachmaninoff, Op. 8, No. 2)
4.80
Prelude in G Minor (Rachmaninoff”,
4.15
4.40
4.18
4.09
4.25
4.50
Per
DII.
Picul.
Taels.
25.20
25.30
95,20
94.80
97.00
28.40 $0.50
at from $1.50 to $1.70 per pair. No. 1 Fine Granulated
Walchow White Local shoes, which are being sold at i 80 cents to $1 are mostly made of Spring Candy old rubber. They do not stand the Sang Mor Native wear and tear so well as the im- ported ones from Singapore. Ame rican made rubber shoes are sold Man-of-War at anything from $2.50 to 84 per Sword of Kwontai
Silver Seal pair.
The yearly turn-over of the Chan Cannon Baunns Kah Keefirin in Hong Kong amounts to over $1,300,000. This Cabbage big concern has about eighty brat. Cheung Luk ches throughout the world, and in Dalton Maize addition to rubber shoes, motor-car tyres are also manufactured. These Dog's Head tyres have recently been introduced to Hong Kong but they need to be well advertised before they will and
a wide market here.
Available stocks of shoes in Hong Kong at any time exceed 100,000 pairs of different sizes and qualities, and a constant stream of consign- ments regularly comes in.
One reason which may account for the success of this line of goods in the Colony is the fact that Chinese cloth shoes are being sold at about $1.30 per pair, and it is cheaper to wear rubber soled shoes, and that the Chinese are wearing them ca be seen at any time in the "streets
Groundnut Oil:-
Fanchi Min How Honan.... Tientsin Dairen Kwangi Wood Kwangai Tea Seed
CANTON COTTON “YARN MARKET.
SANDAL WOOD TRADE IN with Sixiang buyers, but stocks
HONG KONG
A SATISFACTORY REPORT.
Sandal wood is a sweet-smelling
wood grown chiefly in Australia,
Business in, cotton yarn on the 14th instant at Canton market showed a little improvement and some large transactions were done
were still scarce and prices advanc- ed two dollars a bale.
Quotations done at Monday's market for cotton yara were follow:-
the Malabar Coast of India and No. 42 Five Sons
the islands of East Indian Archi-
pelago. It is used as a perfume,
in medicine, and is manufactured No. 32 Pine Deer
into light articles of furniture and
put to a great variety of uses.
Australian sandal wood is, the No. best and considerable quantities are
Beer received here for transbipment.
it is
refreshing and
invigorating.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA LTD.
HONG KONG
There is a smaller tráde, in the In- dian product which is not quite of the same standard. Business in this line amounts to 84,000,000 ̈an- nually of which about 80 per cent. is from Australia and the remain- der from India and the East Indies.
"ו
According to a well-known mer-No. chant, the present condition of sandal wood market is satisfactory No. from the local point of view. The trade is chiefly in the handų of European firm who send consign- rents to the North and South ports of China and also to Yangtzze porta
Prices have steadily ad- No. vanced in recent years and the prem sent market price is 830 per picul for the Australian product and No. 228 or 828 a picul for the Indian.
Per
Bale.
3681
Fui Hi
524
Butterfly
532
478
Cheung Hi
468
Tin Koon
488
20 City of Gold
324
Globe
319
Good Harvest
315
Double Horse
310
Tin Koon
320
Cheung Hoo!!
310
Tramcar Man Clock Shepherd
300
312
301
Three Stars
508
Fui Kwai
314
16
Globe ........
201
Fui Kwai
290
12
City of Gold
£80
Peacock
980
Fui. Kwai
1'1
Tramear
Aeroplane
Pretty Damsel
10 Bailing Vessel
Peacock
City of Gold
8 Fion
Hnt How
Op. 23, No. 5) VICTOR CONCERT ORCHESTRA
No. 35951, 12-inch
Three Shades of Blue Suite---Part I
Indigo (Grofa)
Three Shades of Blue Salto-Párt 2
Alice Blue-Heliotrope (Grofá) PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS
CONCENT ORCHESTRA No. 35952, 12-kich Twisting the Dials-Part 1 and Part 2
THE HAPPINESS Boys No. 35953, 12nch My Little Old Home Down in New
Orleans With Guitar # Dear Old Sunny South By the Sea
"JIMMIE RODGERS
With Guitars
No. 21574, 10-inch
POPULAR DANCE AND VOCAL RECORDS.
"I'II Get By As Long As I Have You
Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain
Irving AaronSON'S COMMANDERS Sleep Baby Sleep With Vocal Refrem
EDWIN J. MCENELLY'S CECHUSTEA
No. 21786, 10-k#ck; Shreveport-Stomp Shoe Shiner's Drng-Slow Blues
JELLY-ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS
No. 21558, 10-inch
Sonny Boy (Theme song of the motion
picture production, The Singing Fool) Jeanine I Dream of Lilac Time
(Theme song of the motion picture pro- duction, Lilac Time)- Vicron SALON GROUP
No. 35945, 12-inch '*- Cross Roads (from the Hetro-Goldwyn-
Mayer picture, Shore People) Marie. (from the United Artists picture,
The Awakening) (Berlin) FRANKLYN BAUR
No. 21787, 10-inch Sommy Boy (from Warner Bros, picture,
The Singing Fool) She's Funny That Way-I Got a
Woman, Crazy for Me
to
GERE AUSTIN
No. 21779, 10-inch Dusky Stevedore Blue Shadows (from Earl Carroll's
Vanilica)
Naz Egyerm
No. 21765, 10-inch L'als Just Pals (from the motion picture
production, Submarine) .... Remember Me to Mary (If She Still
Remembers Me) · THE MELODY. THRES
No. 21754, 10-inch
There's a Rainbow "Round My
Shoulder (from Warner Bros. picture, The Singing Fool) Happy Days and Lonely Nightse
JOHNNY MARTIN `No. 21780, 10-inch
Pompanola-Fox Trot (from the
musical comedy, Three Cheeri) With Vocal Chorus
Maybe This Is Love-Fox Trot (from the musical comedy, Three Cheers) With Vocal Refrain WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS
No 21788, 10-fuch Say That You Love Me-Fox Trot
(from the musical comedy, Hello Yourself!
With Vocal Refrain
I Want the World to Know-Fox Trot
(from the musical comedy, Hello Yourself!) With Vocal Réfrain
WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS
No. 21783, 10inch
I Found You Out" When I Found You “In” Somebody Else's Arms Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain
THE WEEMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me
Today) Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain
EwIN J. MCENELLY'S ORCHESTRA,
No. 21773, 10-inch Another KisWaltz (from Paramount
picture, Manhatten Cocktail) With Vocal Refrain THE TROUBADOURS Gotta Be Good-For Trot
·(from Paramount picture, Manhattan Cocktail) With Voisi Refrain NAT SHILKEET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA
No. 21772, 10-inch
Oh! You Sweet Old Whatcha May Call It
For Frot With Vocal Refrain My Scandinavian Gal (By Yumpín”.
Yiming)----For Trot With Vocal Refrain
IRTING AARONSON'S COMMANDERS
No. 21778, 10-ach
"Upo-a-Daisy!--Fox Trot
(from the musical comedy, Ups-4-Doing!)" With Vacat Chorus
Will You Remember? Will You Forget?,
·Fox Tref (from the musical comedy, Upe-&-Daley!) With Vocal Refrain VICTOR ARDEN-
PHIL OXMAN AND TALE OECHESTRA
No. 21774, 10-fach
Just a Sweetheart-Fox Trot
(from the motion picture production, The Battle of the Sexes) With Vocal Refram NAT SHILKEET AND THE VICTOR, ORCHESTRA Was It Love?--Waltz With Vocal Befrukt
THE TROUBADOVEN
No. 21771, 10-inch
S. Moutrie @ Co., Ltd.
Chater" Road.