Haig
TO CLOSE
kad pash Jerir down
TO OPEN
Fameras compoulia
rone lever and
PEŃ 13Wards
NEW BOTTLE SEAL
(NO CORKSCREW)
QUICK
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CLEAN
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1929.
Money and
HONG KONG MARKET
REPORTS.
Quotations at yesterday's local market for rice and other foodstuffs were as follows:-
Bico, Pokmei, Superior Grade .... $3.30 No. 3 White
Markets
CANTON COTTON YARN MARKET.
The market is moderate and Prices have remained unchanged with exception of No. 33 which is three to four dollars higher. Latest quotations are as follows:- No. 0 Lion
8200 Lion, the second ....... 198 Hut Hou
159
&07 No. 10 Sailing Vessel
Golden City
Green Seal, White Broken... No." Glutinous Broken Red Seal, White Broken
6.12 5.09
3.60
SAFE
No. 1.
Red Star. Unglutinous.......
White Unglutinous, Broken ............ Black Senl, No. 1 Broken Green Lion
6.02
Peacock
Lotus & Bee
8.35
Five Libns
0.00
Yan Chung
7.90
Tai Fat
Black Seal, White Bran Miscellandòus.
3,38
Tak Lee Excellent Crops
Nobody can put better Whisky into any
bottle than that which goes into the Haig bottle.
No. 24 coarse granulated,
SOLE AGENTS:-
Doctors are using it
Judges are using it
Sufferers from acidity
And it preferable to
any other stimulant
No. 12 Golden City
Peacock
Foo Kwai
Poe Tec
Tramcar.****
Pretty Damsel Aeroplane
445.00 No. 18 Globe ......
YESTERDAY'S TRAFFIC
SUMMONSES.
| COURT HAS TO HEAR. 174 CASES.
PREMIUM ON GOOD RECORDS,
A large number of traffic cases were taken at the Central Magistracy yesterday, both Mr. E. W. Hamil- ton and Major C. Willson being fully engaged. According to the Trailo. Department there were 172 cases on the list.
Good records in many cases saved chauffeurs from heavy, fines, the most notable instance being that of Abbas Bin Ali, who was subtunned 950 before Mr. E. W. Hamilton for pass- 22ing a motor car on a bend. 275
Sergt. Saunders stated that on 257 April he was driving car No. 9177 985 up the hill going from Repulse Bay 273 to Stubbs Road, At a bend, the
It
defendant passed him at a speed of 272 about 22 to 23 miles an hour. 247 there had been a car coming from 250 the opposite direction an accident. 299 would have been unavoidable. The 957 witness added that it was impossible 257 for Ali to see what was coming
round the bend,
166
990
BgEr
$ 7.30
Nutmeg, Tientsz.
244.00
Black Bean, Ching Yan
8.60
White Grapes
37.00
White Pepper
140.00
Green Tea
17.00
Tak Lee
Mask, Szechwan
Bear's Paw
8.50
"Foo Kwai
Ham, Yunaon
80.00
Yan Chung
305 301
Dried Mushroom, Chuksä ... 290.00
No 20 Golden City
Globe
HONG KONG TRADE NOTES.
Good Harvest
Fui Sing
Double Horses
ST11
Tin Koon ....
Double Elephants
Yan Chung
334 320 322
Tramcar
Shepherd
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Arrivals of sea slugs, a famous Chinese delicacy are short and prices have advanced. The supply comes mainly from Australia.
The metal market has been dul! the last few months. -Consumption is short, goods have been overstock- ed and prices have dropped.
The market. for flour is dull but there are signs of improvement in Shanghai. The merchants have hesitated to buy as a good wheat harvest is expected this year.
One effect of the drought has been to increase the amount of salt produced this year and prices have fallen. No salt has been imported into the Colony recently."
The fruit merchants have received i telegram from Tientsin saying that there is a big demand for dates and every probability of a rise in prices.
Onions are among the principal agricultural products of Kwangtung and are exported in huge amounts to Malaya and Europe through Hong Kong, the current price of onion varies from $7.50 to $9.50 per picul.
*
No line of business is consider. ed altogether satisfactory in this Colony this spring. The falling of during the last few months, is n cribed to
the merchants baying
Ng Fook
Poo Tee
Three StarS
His Worship asked for the man's 296 record. After perusing it he ob 284 served that the defendant had been 310 driving since 1921. "You have a "very good record and I therefore let you off with a fine of $5. If you 345 had not bad such a good record 342 would have fined you $95.” 337
Addressing the Traffic Officer in 335 charge of the case, his Worship 335 added: It is really a very good 344 record indeed and I always believe. in encouraging people with good re- cords.
Dr. Li Sung was summoned for 330 causing an obstruction at Wong Nei 325 Chong Road by leaving his car in
334
332 456
Double Horses ...... Tin Koon
No. 3 Pagoda mijini
Pine Tree & Deer Sheung Hee
No. 42 Five Sons
Butterfly Happiness
the pathway near the Government quarters. The defendant explain-
ed that his garage was being white- 469 washed on the day in question and 406
500
490
604
his chauffeur drove the car out on to the pathway.
His Worship learned from the Police that the defendant had a 588 clean record and dismissed the aum-
'mons with a caution.
578
Parking Near E.K.F.C, Ground.
The problem of parking care at. Happy Valley has again cropped up. This time it concerne parking space near the Hong Kong Football Club ground.
CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
CANTON, April 22.
Mr. B. R. Gordon was summoned Water Works
8 3.90 Electric Light & Power
4.58 before Mr. E. W. Hamilton with Canton-Hankow Railway 0.51 leaving his car unattended in Wong The Sun Company
02.00 Nei Chong Read on April 8. The 113.00 Police Officer in charge of the case Sincere Company
4.30 stated that the car was parked Nanyang Bros. Tob. Co.... Canton Tramways
2.50 there during a football match. It China Merchants Steam
was left on the pathway that led to 55.00 the football club... 48.00
11
Navigation Co. Central Bank of China
CANTON TRADE NOTES.
The exchange rate for Hong Kong money has risen during the past days the figure being about 8140. The value of gold has also
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H.K. Fire Ins., joissa
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Steamboats.....
H.K. Tagi
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$281 bay.. 24) Bely 24 an. 12.40 num.
Indo-Chines (Pref) ...545 buy.
Do
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Cottons. Orientál 8 hai. Cottons (old).......
Do,
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(new)......Ti 23
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..$8,35 nom. ELK. Tramways...... $18 buy: &'ss.
18.30 sol
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Tariff was enforced. The anti- Japanese boycott and the present Firewood and bamboo are among political crisis bave also affected the principal products of the West the Colony's business,
River districts but exports have been limited on account transports ness of the river.
His Worship What is the actual Parking place there ?
The Police Officer in Charge: There is no authorised stand there. are left on the The private cars roadway further up near Ventris Road; but that is not an authorised stand.
His Worship: You will have to do something about it, I think. I was there last Wednesday week and I saw ive care there, but they had drivers inside, of course. Is there no objection if there is a tor is looking into the whole ques- tion.
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Since the settlement of the Teinsation difficulties due to the shallow driver inside? The Traffic Inspec MARGARET LIVINGSTON
incident, large consignments of Japanese goods have been import- ed into this Colony awaiting tran- shipment to Canton and the country districts. These goods are now held up owing to the decision of the anti-Japanese boycott to continue its activities and a strict search for *** undesirable, goods is still going on and causing further losses to the merchants. It is reported that the "boycott will continue until the Japanese troops entirely evacuate Tsinan and then it remains to be seen what excuse the Committee will make to continue its activities, or whether it will branch out in another direction.
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Business is very bad in Fatahan and unemployment more serious than ever. In the cloth weaving industry alone, over three thousand men are idle and hundreds of smiths are unemployed. Many out of work artisans have become peddlers and others have migrated to other cities.
As Mr. Gordon also bore a clear record His Worship dismissed the defendant with a caution.
The Tout Nuisance.
A number of motor touts who confine their activities to Pedder and Ramsey Streets were to have appeared before His Worship. Most of these were not in Court but sent a representative to plead guilty and to pay whatever fine was impos-
touted
for
The silk industry in Namhoi and Shuntak districts is doing exceeded ingly well this year as the weather In the case of a public chauffeur has been most favourable for the who
passengers in rearing of the silk worms since Jast Pedder Street, His Worship inflict JCBT. The price of mulberry ed a fine of 810. or fourteen days! leaves has been higher than usual hard labour in default. The Magis eight dollars per picul. The trate told the substitute who ap silk flatures in the districts peared in Court that the defend- along the West River have had un-
ant's licence would be cancelled if asual success this year.
he was before His Worship again, and the traffic officer in charge of the case was told to make a note of that.
EXCHANGE RATES.
[BRITISH WIRELESE SERVICE.]
RUGBY, April 23.
124.20 Besides the high cost of rice, 4.55 9/32Wachow is now experiencing un
usually high prices for poultry and When the name of Li Kwai WAS oils. An outbreak of disease has called, an Indian appeared before carried off large numbers of His Worship to answer the sum- poultry and the current price of mons.
Paris New York Brussels
34,95
Geneva
25.21
Amsterdam
12.081
Milan
02,70
Berlin
20.47
Stockholm
18.165
Copenhagen
18.21
Oslo
18.90
Vienna.
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Prague
1632
Helsingfors
1927
Madrid
108
375
618
37
Lizbon Athens Bucharest
Rio Buenos Aires
Bombay Shanghai. Hong Kong
Yokobama
Silver (spoty
Silver (forward)
33.175
47 6/18 1/5 29/32 2/61 1/11 1/10 5/32 25 11/16 25 11/10
Feak Trams (old) ....................$12) bay.
Bo. (now)....$6.50 now.
Star Forries.............................687† nom.
bins Lights...$13.85 huy-13.45 salds H.K. Bistries...
'i
chicken is one dollar and twenty His Worship: Your name is not cente a catty-the highest price ever Kwai? experienced there, The price of ails especially groundnut oil has also risen largely owing to the high exchange rates..
The cost of rice was exceptional ly high last year in Kwangsi in consequence of the drought and at the present time the cost is at a still larger figure. Rice of middle grade is sold at about eighteen dollars per picul and much anxiety is felt by the poorer classes. To meet the urgent need of Kwangsi population, the Wachow merchants have placed big orders for foreign rice with the rice mer chants of Canton and Hong Kong
$4 boy.
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$21 sel.
Der A. Wingser d.57
Lane Crawfords...... Mackintosh
Macao Electrics conse 316 nom. Aandakan Lights
Telephones
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Bones T 18 buy. Singapore Tractions:...11/8 com,
Da. (Prof.)......16/6 buy Chine: Sugars...$1
$27 bay. Malabon Bogars d Denton Ice $13 buy 1,90 sel, Cements (combined)... $81 buy.
18.80 1. .....$7.80 DOT. (new)..............$1.40 buy.
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Da.
Watsons
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The Indian: No, but he is my driver.
His Worship: Oh! You own a motor car, do you !-Yes.
The Magistrate then examined Li Kwai's record, after which he told the Indian to pay a fine of 810 and to inform Li Kwai that if the latter came up before the Court, he would probably lose his licence.
In another case of obstruction, a substituté answered the summons.
His Worship: Did he give you 810 f
The substitute: No, only $5.
His Worship: Not good enough! Adjourned for seven days. Tell him to come up himself. If he does not come his licence will be cancelled. In yet another case, the driver of a public car had two sumnjonses for obstruction against him. He Jailed to appear and a substitute represented him in Court..
His Worship: How much has he given you for these two sum-
mobsės 7
The substitute: $11 Your Wor- ship..
His Worship: $10 on one sum- mods and cautioned on the other.
In two other cases, chauffeurs with good records were fined $2 for obstruction in Ramsey Streat! (Continued at foot of next column).
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Before Major & Willson, the
driver of public car No. 1031 was srtains. The chauffeur in manmurr. fined 815 for obstruction. in Peddering his car, left no room for anyone
on the sidewalk to pass. After read Street on March 29 at 5 p.m.
Sanitary Inspector Strange des ing the defendant's record His cribed how the defendant drove into Worship imposed the fine stated the sidewalk and obstructed pede above.