DCL
ODLIVER
Distillers Company
"D. C. L."
MALT EXTRACT
WITH
COD LIVER OIL
· Is made from the finest selected Barley and malted with the greatest care on the Company's own pre- mises by the most scientifle methods of manufacture. THE DISTILLERS
LTD. COMPANY,
- EDINBURGH,
PRIOR: Per 1 lb. Jar...$1.00 Per 2 lb. Jar...$1.80.
SOLE AGENTS:—
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, 2, ICE HOUSE STREET,
Tel. Central No 135.
XT APPOINTMÉNY.
Hong Kong
General
Accident Fire and Cite
Assurance Corporation, £imited.
ESTABLISHED 1883.
HOUSEHOLDERS' COMPREHENSIVE
POLICY
Insures the contents of your
residence against Burglary, Housebreaking. Larceny Theft (excluding theft by servants), Earthquake, Typhoon, Flood, Burst Water Pipes, and/or Tanks, Riots and Civil Commotion and extends to cover temporary residence in any inha- bited Dwelling House or Hotel in China. The cover may be extended toma country outside China by arrangement on application.
Art:
JH. BACKHOUSE, LTD. TEL. No. 1733.
1A CHATER ROAD.
Have a glass of
ASAHI BEER
it cheers & invigorates
Sole Agents
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA LTD.
HONG FONG.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 1929.
Money
and Markets
HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
Quotations at yesterday's local market for rice, sugar and other foodstuffs were as follows:-
Rico,
Per Picul.
Green Tau White
86.94
No: 1 Siam White
6.91
Black Seal White Bran
2.79
Green Star Siam
7.95
Red Pearl White
8.99
Red Seal Glutinous..........
7.00
Red Seal Glutinous Brewer
6.22
Green Seal No. 3 White
6:39
Black Seal White Brewer Red Seal No. 2 Broken Black Seal Glutinous Brewer
3.76
5.36
6.35
Sugar.
For
No. 18 coarse powdered No. 20 coarse powdered No. 4 coarse powdered Java Brown
Picul 87.15 7.28
8.60
Honey Wood Oil Red Ten
Miscellaneous, -
824.00 31.40 38.00
"
CANTON'S BUILDING
BOOM.
FIRE AND ANT PROOF CEMENT.
BOOM IN BUILDING MATERIAL
LOCAL FOOTBALL"
UNITED SERVICES SENIOR SHIELD COMPETITION,
V
To-day at 4.30 p.m., Sookumpoo ground, R.A. Somerset Light Infantry.
Referee: Corp. Shead,
HOME FOOTBALL
LEAGUE RESULT.
[riovox REUTER'S AGENCY,]
LONDON, Feb. 25th, Playing at home in the Second Division of the English League to day, Port Vale scored four goals. [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] without repir from Reading.
CANTON, Feb. 26th..
After several years of depression, during which many were shut down, the building contracting companies in Canton are again doing brisk business.
BALLANTINE'S
in use for almost 100
H.H. The Late Queen Victoria
New concrete building are going up in great number in South Wing Han, and other parts of Canton. The buildings destroyed by fire dur ing the great Communist upheaval are nearly all replaced by new per picul.structures. Reinforced concrete fire-proof and ant-proof is the popular form of construction. This building revival has created a great demand for materials and prices have gone up. The following list CANTON COTTON YARN. of prices show fluctuations between PURE
last August and January:-
Selling prices for August Present 1999. prices.
$199.00 8185.00
160.00 912,00
CANTON, Feb. 25th..
Material.
Red bricks best
quality*...
years.
ESTABLISHED 1897.
By Appointment to
EM. The Late PES King Edward
VII.. and His Majesty King George V.
SCOTCH LIQUEUR
WHISKY 10 years old.
BALLANTINE GEORGE
& SON, LTD. 180.00 GLASGOW AND LONDON, DISTILLED IN SCOTLAND
A Shanghai telegram stated that cotton yarn prices had in- creased by one taef per bale and the Canton market quotations ad vanced steadily. Prices for No. Red brick second
185.00 quality...... 42 yarns increased 7 or 8 dollars per bale from that of the 24th No. Big green bricks... 209.00 32, 20, 12, 10, and § yarns also in-Second, size green
bricks creased by 2 or 3 dollars per bale.
7.80 The French Store
Beaconsfield Arcade.
180.00
Quotations at Monday's Canton Decorated market were as follows
cement pressed cakes "for
Per
paving foore, per
Bale.
100
.7.50
No. 42 Five Sons......
$560
White pebbles **
40.00
Butterfly
546
Black small peb
Fui Hea
642
1. bles **
No. 22 Double Horse
432
Clinker**
19.00
Tin Koon
460
Horse brand cement,
· 8.60
If you want a really first class 42.00 Scotch Whisky at a reasonable price, hare "no better than 38.00 you can 36.00
It is 12.80 | Ballantine's Liqueur Whisky.
arcellent.
Pize Deer
468
per sack
.9.00
11.20
No. 20. City of Gold
334
Tsing Cho
•
Globe
390
eement, per sack
5.20
Good Harvest .................
318
Quicklime,
per
Double Horse 19.09.
317
picul
-1.90
1.25
Tin Koon
392
Sand, per ship load
100
8.00
Double Elephant
322
inch iron bars, per
Tramcar
315
picul
9.20
10.20
Shepherd
307 finch iran bars, per
Three Stars
315
picul
9.50
No. 16 Globe ..................
301
Finch iron bara, all
300
sizes, per picul...
9.90 10.60)
No. 19 City of Gold
281
Smooth rectangular
Peacock
282
or
round iron
Fui Kwai
278
Pretty Damsel
bars, per picul
8.60
234
inch diameter tim"
Aeroplane
576
No. 10 Sailing Vessel
bera, per piece...
4.20
10.50
4.40
SIR ?
265
Boards, 3 inch wide.
City of, Gold
982
standard length,
Peacock
964
per piece.........
50
251
950
• Per 10,000.
200
-190
Man Clock
Lotus Bee
Tai Fat
No. 8 Lion.....
Lion No. 2
CANTON MARKET REPORTS.
Quotations at Monday's Canton market for rice, sugar, flour and oil were as follows:-
Black - Dragon Blue Anchor White Green Seal. White Blue Lion Siam Green Lion
เ
**Per. 100 Chinese cubic feet.
KWANGTUNG SILK
INDUSTRY...
REINED BY TAXATION.
PRESENT EFFORTS AT REVIVAL.
{TROM QUE CANTON CORRESPONDENT.].
MARCHANT'S
Certainly.
CANTON, Feb. 26th. What else
With view to helping the silk industry of Canton, the Sericulture Merchants Association is petitioning
Rice,
Per Ficul.
$12.00
10.80
10.60
10.96
11.00
Three Marks Siam New Moon White Siam Red Peach Siam White
9.75
11.00
11.50
Green Elephant White
-9.76
Red Seal No. 3
10.08
Chai Mee Native
See Mui Native
$12.85 1160
the Government to reduce the ex-
Por
Sugar,
No. 2 coarse, powdered No. 3 coarse powdered No. 20 coarse powdered
6.35 8:00
8.10
No. 1 Granulated
10.00
No. 1 Fine Granulated Sang Mor Native Candy Waichow Native Refine
Man-of-War Silver Seal
Banana Cheung Luk Cannon Cabbage Dog's Head Five Swallows
Flour.
Groundnut:-
Fanchi .... Mia How Bonan
Tientsin
Kwangsi Wood .....
Kyungai Ten Beed
port duty on silk. The Association Should,
contends that the decline of this
Picul once great industry can be traced. Taels to exorbitant taxation, dues having steading increased since 1922 until
at present a merchant has to pay drink 866 a picul in export taxes Ta addition the amount levied, in-ex-l 11.00 change for Government bonds, to- wards famine relief brings the total 8.00 6.80 to 882 As Shanghai merchants pay only 833.70 it is not surprising Per
that the Kwangting industry is in Bag.
a bad way.
-84.20
4,15
4.10
4.10
4.70
4.45
4.40
4.05
Per
The Association's petition goes on to say that each filiature plant has to pay $40,000 a year in various imports sum equal to the whole value of the plant in many cases. The small filature plants in the Canton Delta have all closed down, and there is little hope for the Ficul. industry unless the Government is Taela propared to remove these tarea 23.50 23.60
23.60
23,00
*23.00
A 10.20
The Government is extremely anxious to foster home industry and is known to view the Associa tione suggestions with sympathy..
The Kwangtung Provincial Burean? for the Improvement of Sericulture, has decided to establish 11 stations in the Province for the production
CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE. of silk eggs guaranteed free from
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
CASTER.
Teb. 25th. Water Works
1ST, 23.05. Electric Light & Power Co. - 4.70 Canton-Hankow Railways ... 0.53 The Sun Company.
8.00
Sincere Company
10.20
Canton Tramways
-2.75
China: Merchants 8.8. Nav,
Company
5.90
Central Bank
4.50
disease. These silk eggs, produced by the latest scientific methods, will then be distributed to farmers' and silk "worm Frearers at ́s nominal coat. It in estimated that Kwang tang consumes about 800,000 sheets of silk eggs a year. Each of the 111 stations will produce about 6.000, sheets of silk eggs per annum, The initial cost of opening one of these stations has been estimated at $5,000. The Bureau has already- submitted the scheme to the Depart ment of Reconstruction, for ap proval,
PUBLIC AUCTION. -
THE Undersigned have received
Instructipus
TO SELL, Br PUBLIC AUCTION, IN FOUR LOTS
TUESDAY,
THE 13TH DAY OF MARCH, 1999,
År 9 O'Clock 1.X.
AT THEIR AUCTION ROOMS, No. 4 DURILL STREST, VICTORIA, Hong Kong.
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES
PUBLIC AUCTION.
G.
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have mosirod
Instructions
To Sa Br
PUBLIC AUCTION,
AX
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
THURSDAY,
Toa x, 6TH AND 7TH MARCH, 1929,
H.M. NAVAL YARD, HONG KONG
*
AND AT
KOWLOON NAVAL DEPOT. COMMLYCING EACH DAY AT 9.30 Y. 19 Noom WITH AT INTERVAL`YXOM to 1.30 7.
OLD AND SURPLUS NAVAL STORES.
ta,do Comprising -
Steel Girders, Iron Reel, Davits Harmoniam, Air Purifying Plant, Cat- ter, Sampan, Os, Gis, Tube Ex ponders, Wrenches, Water Motors, Magnetos, Old Lead Battery Plates, and Wireless Telegraph Fit ings Glycer Iron Mattresses and Electric Cable, Old Batery Bedsteads Water Closet Paar, E
Peas, Bydranke Jacks Carpets, Bags, Tables, Chairs, Dasks, Filters, Ornamental Stores, Mos quite or Fly Netting, Megaophones Carpet Cuttings, Old Olá Cooking Pots, New
Lavatories, termomentors, Cid The Foll, Old Twill,
Files, Matting Fold-up
Lot No. 1-The Property known as Nos, 99D, 995 and 99F. WELLING TON STREET comprises thres newly erected, four storied Chinese shops and dwellings with basements rituale in the centre of the city su pises or parcel of ground registered in the Office as Section C and the Remairing Portion of Intan Lor No. 16 having a Arts of 26t Square Feet or thereabouts The Property is situata on the North side of WELLINGTON STREET and bounded on the East by PEEL STRIKT: and on the West by a Private Lane, Lot No. The Property known as No.
180, WELLINGTON STREET excellent class three storiei Chi abop sad dwelling house with iron balconies in front situate in the centre of the city on the piece or parcel of ground registered in the Land Office As Section 12 of INLAND LUs No. 8 having an Area of 723 Square Feet
Vitae, Curtains, Üver- Leather and rent payable on this Property is $12.00 Metallic Hoses, Flerble Metalltio Voice Lor No. 3-The Property known a No. Piping, Old Canvas Taking. Old Card- 360, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL age. Old Coir Mata, Canras Rage. Old and No. 47, LOWER LASCAR ROW India Rabber, Old Leather and Derine, are excellent class three storied Chinese Tarred Regs. Woollen shops and dwellings. No. 360 QUIE's Henson, Old Corr, Cocos-Nat ROAD CENTRAL has an attic story on Alberton. Packing
Fender, Ola Old LASCAR
Садтая the roof and No. 47 Loxx®
Trom Drum, New
Cuttings, Row & basement, The Property is Falt, Old Iron and Steel, Old Serap situate on the piece or parcel of Brass, Copper Lead, Zino, Metals of Barings, ground registered in the Land Office Sorts, Brass and Gun Metal as Subsection 1 of Section AR of Zane Bettoms and Zine Asher, Brate INLAND Loe No. 211 having an Area Tubes. Iron Blocks, Lamps Lanter of 1973 Square Feet or thereabouts. Gange Old Steel Pinter The Annual Crown rent payable an Shovels, Old Glats, Old Steel Wire Rope this Property is 21.81.
and Cuttings. Dirty Mineral Oil Lor No. 4-The Property known as Oil Fuel. Chain Cable Gear, Anchors, No. 1, CASTLE ROAD & Romi Forges, Compasses, Watches, Mary
phones, Binoculars Clocks, Air and Breast Ropes, Firewood, Old Steel Tools
or thereabouts. The Annual Crown Old glazed Tiles,
detached two storied European - re- sidence situate in the central district of the city on the middle levals in
the favourite residential
registered in pisce or pardal of ground ty The Land Offce as Section B of INLAND LOT NO. 503 having an Ares of 4193 Square Feet or thereabouts. The Property is ripe for re-develop- meat purposes. The Annual Grown rent payable an this Property in $5.63. Farther Information, and Cepins of the Partienlars and Conditions of Sale may be obtained from:
MIRA, HASTINGS, DENNYS & BOWLEY, Vendors' Bolicitors,
8, Des Vorur BOAD CENTRAL,
св
Masses. LAMMERT BROTHERS. The Auctioneers.
£7434
HY Continue to waffer when
WHY POO ON HERBS are within
Jour reach-Pimples, Catarrh, Arthas Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dia betes, Drupsy, Rheumatism, and many other Diseases. No Dragi, Purely Thinese Herbs.
POO ON HERBS CO.,
66, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 187 FLOOR. TEL. C, 5009
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE-BUICK TOURING Fern Good Condition $1,400 or Near offer.-Apply Bos 7294,
Hong Kong Daily Press. - [7994
EARLS # M. KOMOR & KOMOR, M. KODAKA has re- tarned from the South and will remain in Hong Kong for One Week to take
[406TM Orders for PEARLS.
MARCHANTS P
Gold Label
Whisky.
MAZDA
Buy
Mazda
Lamps
LOST.
LOST ON SATURDAY,
OST on SATURDAY Morning, 23rd
woven PURSEBAG, between Pix HOTEL and Lover Tran BRATION, Will Finder communicate with Mis
17443 HARRY, PEAK HOTEL
BTWEEN GRANVILLE BON, KOW B Loo, and the Hong Kong Dally Press Office, ICE HOUSE STAJET.–A Gold WATCH and bracelet Owner crossed by 2.5 M. Farry Will finder please communicate with Bor No. 7445. c/o Hong Kong Dealy Press.
[7445
FLATS WANTED.
"ANTED TO RENT A
|
Old
Oirealating Pumps, Hoo!
Sorts, Ebonite Old, Electric Fans, I Beds,
Gear, Sawa, Circular, Gymnastic
Wood Working Indicators, Foilers,
Machines,
Muling Machine, Plemirg Machines, Shaping Machines, Douglas Engine, Binnacle, Steel Wire Brushes, Tout Waterproof Sheets, Drilling Machines, Ets, Etc.
Also lying in FLEET AIR ARM RESERVE STORE, H.M. NAVAL DEPOT, KOWLOON-Old Aircraft Propellers. Old Sparking Plugs, Old Rubber, Aluminum Old Brass. Old Copper, Old Fabric, Light Steel, Old Dope and Oil Drums, Old Wood Onter Aircraft Covers, Inner Aircraft Tubes, Old Vices, Eté, Ete.
LOTS MAY BE INAFRATED ON MONDAY, 4 MARCH, 1929. "AL.30
SALE OF OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES
AT KOWLOON ON FRIDAY, 8TH MARCH, ComprisingBerge, Flannel Clothing Romante, Sundry Articles of Mess and Table Gear, Including Cutlery, Hard- Ware and Table Linen, Clothing, and Condemned Provisions for Poultry Feed ing, do
TERMS OF SALA detailed in Carlögin, 2*,
LAMMERT BROTHERS,
By Appointment Auctioneers
to the Admiralty. Hong Kong, 15th Feb, 1929, [7410
HOUSES AND FLATS.
ST
“PEAK MANSIONS.".
ITUATED within Two Minutes" Walk from the Tram Station and overlooking the Southern Bide of the Island. Ready for Occupation.
Tive-Boomed and Six-Roomed APARTMENTS
with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Booms and Ort-houses, Two Lifts.
Apply 10-m CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT,
FICH BAN: BUILDING,
TO LET.
V-FLAT in CARNARVON
BUILDINGS, KOTLOOK."
Apply to HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND
FINANCE CO., LTD. Alexandra Buildings,
7898.
ALINO (in Os Lex Village),
NO LET OR FOR SALE—A€
Furnished or Unfurnished, 4 Roomed HOUSE with Garden, and Garare. Moderata Price, ⠀ Apply --- KWONG SANG HONG, LTD 200 Da Ver ROAD CENTRAL
27 17386
Wuential ROOM - Re10 LET-One Room PLAT
Furnished or Unfamished from
in Hoxe Kono or KOWLOON: Bide | 1er APRIL. Bitusted at. Hm Later, Write Particulars, Best, elc, to Box | —Apply; XAVIER BROS, LTD, TEL 307, c/o Hong Kong Daily Press, (407 3216.