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Money and Markets
~CANTON COTTON YARN
MARKET.
A telegram from Shanghai of the 15th instant, stated that the cotton yarn market was at a standstill Stocky to Canton are scarce and prices showed a slight advance.
Quotations at Tuesday's market were as follows:-
No. 42 Five Sons
Butterfly
Fui He
No. 32 Pine Door
Tin Koon
Cheung Bi
No. 20 City of Gold
Fer Baic. $364
NEW YORK STOCK
QUOTATIONS.
New York, January (1 Market ströng. Pak "Businnes done, 4,237,500 shar
GAS SUPPLY FOR CANTON. American Can (Com)...
TENDERS TO BE CALLED FOR
Previous Latest
Allied Chem. & Dye (Com)
American Smalting American Tel & Tel. (Com.) American Tobacco “B” Armour & Co "g”.
KTA
Consolidated Gas of N.Y. Coty incorporated Darison Chemical Du Pont de N., B.I. (Com.) Eastman Kolah... Fox Film "A" General Cigar
pral Electric Co. General Motors... General Bly, Bignal (Com) Gold Dart Granby Consolidated Haygart Hadion Motor Car
Price Price
2481 254 1177:1173 Mult 96
1054
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
JANUARY 10TH, 1929.
K Banke.........$1,955 buy. 1,565 za.
Do London... 2148) nom. 1773 1794 Chartered Banks fil bay,' | 177 | 171 || Margantile Banki, A. &B...494 no. O...£141 nom. 824 831
Do
... 1904 1201 &0. Bank
267.395 Eart
++
85 84 19
100 100
240 200
- 19
74 74
1334 1248 106 106
TA 72 64
... 800+ 504
يو
93
Ara
Reake
Canton Insuranow......38171 bay Union In
Angermanes
160 bay.
North China In T Yangiare Insurances. 350 nom.
Chin
Underwriters.......20 b bay. China Firs Lazursaces....3280 buy.
Kong Fire Ins.... 1723.nom.
..S+ nom. H.K. Steambosta... 398 #al E. Tug 11,40 Indo-Chinas (Prof.) ......$50 buy.
До (Def.) 390 nom.
Shall Transports
Benguetegy.
..
nom.
1901 bay.
bay.
187 1891 Union Waterboat b
691 Kailan Mining Admin tabern.
091 1181
... 2034 2014 ... 001 001
..."
Langkats (combined)......
Do. (single). 6 nom. 77 78 Bxplorations Thx 2.93 buy, 87 861 Bhanghai Lown T. 3.10 buy.
Baube
871 873 Tranak Mime
The Canton Municipal Council Armour & Co. (D) 7% Pf.
Anaconda Copper has ender consideration the ques- Bank of Montreal
Barnsdali. Corp. " & "* tion of introducing a gas service Bacalahan Steel (Com.) for both illuminating and beating Bethlehem Stoel. 7% Fid.
Brooklyn Manhattan Transit... '7Sİ · 708 purposes. This matter has been re- Calumet & Hocia ceiving attention for some time, Campe Carp,
Canadian Facific Bailway says the Canton Gazette, the advoCavanaugh Dubbe cates for auch a service pointing Chile Copper out that all large cities possess this Chryslerin modern utility, and that a gas sup+ ply will be a great convenience.
This gas service, if installed, will not supplant the electric service, but will supplement it, there being room for both services. Gus can be used for bath illumination and heating purposes; and in the latter direction ofers great convenience and many advantages over the use | of Brewood Canton at present is entirely dependent on firewood for cooking purposes, and supplies aro dependent directly on the state of the three rivers of the province. In the dry season, when the low levels of the rivers render naviga tion a matter of grent difficulty, supplies of firewood to Canton are. seriously curtailed, and prices soar upwards, inflicting much hardship *44 on the poorer classes. It may well 206be that in the course of time the 201 use of gas by all sections of the community, except the floating population, will supplant the place CANTON MARKET REPORTS.¦ of firewood for domestic purposes. It is probable that in the near future tenders will be invited for the establishment of such a service, though it has not been decided whe
installation will ther such Per operated by the Municipal authori- "Piculties themselves. $10.06
9.72 9.45
474
470 168,
32.1
Globe.....
315
Good Harvest
315
Double Horse ....
310
Tia Koons.
Double Elephant ......
319 310
Tram Car
Man Clock
Stopherd
30% 319 300
Three Stars
305
Fui Kwai...
314
No. 18 Globo.....
-Fai Kwai
291 200
No. 12 City of Gold
Peacock
290
*55
No. 10 City of Gold
Lotus Bee
934
No. 6 Lion
Eut How
Quotations done at Tuesday's Canton market for rice, sugar, oil and four were as follows:-
Rice,
Blue Lion Red Lion Three Stars-
WHERE THE LATTER IS
E
GAINING.
be
A writer in the Financial Times
International Cement (Com.)...
International Natch, Fid.
+++
9 9 167
International Nickel (Com) Inter. Prod. Corp. (Com.) Kelvinster
International Printers Ink. ́...
Kannscott Copper Lake Superior Corp. Liggett Myers, Clam "B" Lariiard Co. (Com.) Mack Trucks Madison Square Gardan Maytag Co Missouri Pacific (Com.) National Dairy Products Nevada Consolidated Copper Pacify Gas and Electric Co... Packard Motor Car (Com) Pennsylvania Railroad... Phillips Petroleum Radio Corporation Reynolds Tebaceo, "B". Shell Union Oil. Standard Gas & Elec. (Com.). Standard Oil of California. Standard Olf of New Jersey Standard Oil of New York Tara Corporation (Com) Toms Gal! Salphar Timkan Boller Bearing Trans-American Corp.... Union Carbide
Jak
Union Pacife RR. (Com.)
US. Inter. Sccarity Fid
68) 551
50.09 124. 13
******...... 17/8 not.
HK. & K. What........
FAK
W. Docks
Chine Providents..... Hongkow
Notr
Engineerings
Shanghai Dook
164 16
157 157
Ewo Cottone.......
00 931
Oriental Cottone..
25 271
106 1061
20.
231 23
$134 buy.
$40
35
Tis
Les buy. Th, 51 nom.
......... Tis. 108 buy.
19.20
20
Tis, 220 ml,
Shai. Cottons (old)..............The, 654 buy,
Do, (new) Tis. buy. H.K. &B. Hotels...... 119.30 bay
buy.,
Shanghai landa.......Tls. 163 bay. Hamphreys Katates......$14,50 buy.
9.49
For Baby's Tender Skin Cuticura Talcum
The ideal powder for his daily tollet and for assuring his penonal comfort. Daintily medicated and unexcelled in parity, it prevent chasing and imit tion and soothes, cools and comforts render skins.
Sample each Soap, Olarment and Talcum faze upon request, from Dayton, Price ✯ Campery, Lodi, P. O. Box 650, Shanghai B*** Bold Throughout the World
'... 87 60
HK. Landa ......
... 129 130
54
4242
H.K. Realtics
144 148
78 781
ELE, Tramway............ 120 bar, 21
20 buy.
THE
44 434
* 365 3661
... 157: 1594
До
281 281
88 841
Obina Light......$19) sol, de so.
704 701
331 537
H.K. Electrics (old) .............. $34 buy.
Do.
4348)
65
841
77 78
... 149 150
1311 1814
200 2014
2191 2191
.... 100 100
SOVIET TRADE UNION
FUNDS.
WHOLESALE EMBEZZLEMENT
ALLEGED."
Peak Trama (old)
yal 20.60 12.
ani.
(now) $6.80 Bom, Star Farina...............173, buy.
(new)...552 bay, 52.75 . Macao Electrics $264 buy Sandakan Lights
Talephones (old) ..........57 buy,
Do. (new)
China
Busc
Singapore Tractiona
Do
China
$6.00 bay.
The 11f buy.
(Pre£.)...17/6 bay., 18/3 seli.
...80 etā, nom.
Malabon Sugarn
Do.
.193 buy.
$$] nom.
$10.10 al.
(old)......$7.20 xom. (now)......$14 bay:
H.K. Ropes (old).......36) bay, d'aa.
Do.. (now)
United Asbestos
Watso
Der A Wings Lane Crawfords....
incerca....... Mackintosha....
CANTON KEROSENE OIL.
Green Lion
9.50
Full Moon
9.76
"LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Wo Fung
9.84
FINISHES INSULATING
Chai Mee
11.06
CANTON, Jan. 15th.
See Mui
10.40
Per
VARNISHES
Red Scal
8,99
Case.
SHIPS STORES
Red Pearl
8.56
Comet.......
97.70
U.S. Leather
...Malt Mult
Bugars
•
Greed B.B.
6.64
Eagle
7.10
U.8. Realty & Lup, Co.
Green Seal
8.40
Sheung Hi
7.90
U.S. Rubber (Com.)
PH
Blue Seal
6.30
Balance
7.50
C.8. Steel
***
83 81 45 47 1643 184
Canton Icar
Cements (combined).
Green Seal Brewer
6.16
Hang Fuk
7.20
Vanadium Corp.
1011 1001
Do
Per
Day Break
7.90
Weatinghouse Elec. (Com.)
Sugar,
Picul.
*Willys Överland Co. Wright Aeronautical
146) 144]. 831 33
... 264 2681
Taels.
No. 2 coarse powdered No. 3 coarse powdered No. 20 coarse powdered No. 1 Granulated...... No. 1 -Fine Granulated Waichow White. Spring Candy
TIN VERSUS ALUMINIUM.
8.11
Dairy Farms...
8.70
7.30
10.60
11.00
8.60
10.00
Per
Oil.
45.30
24.00 24.80
24.80
Dairen
28.80
Kwongsi Wood
26.40
Kwongsi Ten Sond".
90.50
Per
Flour.
Bag.
"Man-of-War
$4.10
Silver Seal
4.13
Sword of Kwantai
4.20
Banana
4.15
Cheung Luk
4.15
4.25
4.80
4.40
4.09 4.50
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HONG KONG,
Fanchi
Groundnut Oil:-
Minhow
Honan
..Tientain
Maiza
Cannon" Cabbage Dalton
Dog's Head
Wm. Powelin H.K. Amusementa
16,70
15 nom,
.391) sol:
$13.20 al. 80 eta, bas.
$20 nom 391 bay.
$3.00 nom.
$3.85 nom.
..$97] sel
H.K. Constructions o
'qus. Indas G.Bands...69% buy.
who recently discussed the pros and cons of the tin vs. aluminium
Riga, December 18th-Tomsky, Picul controversy advances the following in his report to the Pan-Boviet Taels points in support of his belief that Trade Union Congress, now in B. Cort, Loans...5% praz. sel, 44% **..
the increasing use of aluminium is session in Moscow, painted a
substantial factor in keeping the gloomy picture of the conditions buy-buyers; sel-sellors; sales; price of tin at its present level:prevailing in trade union circles, (8) The increasing world consump especially assailing the higher off- tion of aluminium. In 1913, this cials. He dwelt on financial abuses" amounted to 78,000 tons. In 1927, as being "the greatest sore on the it was over 200,000 tons, giving an trade union body." average annual increase of 8,500
In
the course they had
discovered ember mount-
union presidents. Personal appropriation of trade union funda was provalent in every branch of union activity, fac- tory committees, pension funds, and clubs.: Tomsky demanded that embezzlers should be shot.
tons. In the case of tin, however, six months, he the average yearly increase was ing to about 500,000 roubles [about roughly 2,000 tons, and in the year £50,000] of the funds of trade 1927 WAS leas than that of unions, and more than 30 per cent." aluminium (b) Aluminium, he of the offenders were Communists, observes, has come inte its present chiefly trade position without intensive advertis ing, solely because, from choice, manufacturers now prefer it. (c) Had aluminium not been discover ed, demand for tin to-day would be more than double what it actual ly is, and the price of tin would
Kroll, a member of the central now be considerably higher, had organization, began a speech in not this rival entered the field. which he declared that the unsatis- (d) The use of aluminium in the factory labour conditions manufacture of articles which were largely due to political measures formerly made out of tin.
Had aluminium not been discovered, tin on the part of the authorities, would now be used for these com to allow the Trotskyists to occupy especially their continued refussi modities. (e) Aluminium possesses important positions. The chair- Picul. the maximum tensile strength, with man, however, refused to allow the minimum weight of any metal Kroll to finish reading the pro- known. On the other hand, the
· HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
Quotations at yesterday's local market for rice, sugar and other | foodstuffs were as follows:-
Rice.
Luk Fa Lam Green Bird... Green O. Tau
White Bran..... Green Star Green Fant
Blue Grapes
Per
87.24 6.57
7.29
were
tensile strength of tin is practical. Posals he had prepared, and the con- gress deprived him of his member- 3.23 ly nil. (1) The output of ship in the central organization. aluminium can be increased to Amid an uproar he was expelled 7.42 practically any extent, without ex from the congress.-The Txmés. 8.03 tra effort, and with decreasing
8.91
cost. Against this, world-wide re-
search for new sources of tin has, LONDON PRISON ESCAPE.
meagre results. The reply of the tin industry to these gloomy sug- gestions will be awaited with in- terest.
-EXCHANGE RATES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
Roger, Jan. 15th.
****+ 124.15
Green Elephant
7.92
Blue Seal No. 3
8.40
Green Beal. Brewer
3.42
up to the present, provided only
Blue Seal Broken
8.41
Green Seal No. 1 Broken ...
3.94
Green Dragon
8.44
Red Seal No.
3
9.43
Green Beal Brewer
6.39
Bed Seal Glutinous...
6.38
Red Seal No. 1 "Brewer
Glutinous
0.21
Sugar.
Per Picul.
No. 18 coarse powdered
87:23
Paris
No. 20 coarse powdered ...... No. 24 course powdered
7.40
New York
7.68
Brussells
34.00
Miscellaneous.
Geneva
Per
Amsterdam
25.91 12.00
Picul.
Milan
02.70
Red Melon Beeda
$29,00
Berlin
20.41
8.20.
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Oslo Vienna
18.14 18.18 18.10.
24.50
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BOLD DASH FROM WORM- WOOD SCRUBS.
London, December 1st:-Charles Coles, aged about twenty-three, who I was serving a short sentence at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, escaped yesterday afternoon, and was still at large at midnight.
Coles was engaged with other 4.85 1/18 prisoners on road repair work
within the precincts of the prison, and was not missed until the roll was called at 4 p.m.
28.70 109 5/16 375
807
5 20/32 47 -3/8 F/32
2/7
CANTON, Jan. 15th.
Lisban
83.90
Athens
Electric Power Co.
5.05
Bucharest
Canton-Hankow Railways
-0.31
Rio
6.80
Buenos Aires...........
Bincere Company.
9.70
Bombay
Nanyang Bros. Tob. Co.
4.45
Canton Tramways
2.00,
Yokohama
0.30
Silver (pak)
4.60
Silver (forward)
201
China Merchant 8.3. Nave
Central Bank
Shanghai
Hong Kong
2/01 1/10 18/32 20.5/10
Warders hurriedly searched the prison buildings and grounds, and the roads near the prison were scoured for hours by officials on foot and on bicycles, but there was no trace of the fugitive, e
It is believed that Coles, who had been regarded as a model prisoner; bolted a few minutes before the party was called together to be marched back to the prison. It is thought that he may have hidden until after dark in one of the housee now being built near the prison, and then made his way to wards central London, M
Detectives watched through the night outside the house where Coles formerly lived, and his description has been sent to all police stations,
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