Money and Markets
HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
QUOTATIONS.
Quotations at Saturday's loent market for rice, and other foodstuffs were as follows:-
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HONG KONG TRADE NOTES.
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The market for coffed from Sourd baya i slack and transactions are few.
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The market for metals, especially that of iron and copper, is quiet and quotations have fallen.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS,
Mar 19, 1920 H.K. Bank...$1 215 bay.. 1,23)
Duve London...8131 nem, Chartered Banks ......le bay, Marcaillie Hanks, A. Li...£33 nom,
Do.,
0...2151 nom. P. & O. Banks East Asia Banku .........1904 now. Canton lasurunor®.......?"
nom.
Valentine 12asuranses.......$50 Dom.
China Ina. Tis. 160 bay.
Since the Canted trouble, prices. China Fire Insurances... $300 buy.
China Underwriters... 20 bay, 230 el picul of edibles from some of the country H. Fm ina. .........
1773 no districts have been high and the Dogo ach .....$33 sul. current price is over forty dollare HE teamboata ..............
fresh
fish. H.K. g water per picul for
buy. 1.6. 181. Indo-Uhinas (Pref.)65 bay. earlyfty per cent. higher than. usual.
Da (Def.)70 som, Shelf Transpor...877. nom. Union Waterboats.........12 nom. Benguela
Rice.
Hung Fei Yue
87.42
Hung Sing
7.11
Fa Lam, Unglutinous
7.01
Ching See...
7.38
Ching Ling Chee
7.33
Hung Po Lo
7.35
Hung Ng Fook
Shing Tez. Broken
No White
Siamese. White Bran
Green Seat, Glutinous_
+32 3.53 7.43 2.86 7.67
Green Seal, Glutinous Broken
6.32
Red Seal, Glutinous granu-
5.08
Weo Muk Keng-
Black Seal, Broken
Black Seal. Fokmel
6.02 3.32
Red Seal, No. 1' granulated 5.91
Miscellaneous.
No. 19 Coarse granulated
ugar
8 6.70
No. 4 Coarse granulated
sugar
Red Copper plate
White Pepper. Siam
*.33 34.50 125.00
Dried Mushroom, Tung Koo 250.00 Fish Maw
250.00
AMERICAN COTTON.
Messrs. Pentreath & Co., have kindly forwarded us the following report, dated April 18, from Messrs. Hornby, Hemelryk & Co., Liverpool:-
Quiet markets have ruled during the past week, and, prices are unchanged. Manchester has report ed a very quiet enquiry for cloth, "and only a limited turnover has
been done.
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All steam hunches normally ply- ing between Hong Kong and Wu- chow have suspended sailing for the time being. Although the Tai Ming has resumed sailing between Hong Keng and Wuchow, she will not call at usual ports along the river.
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The sugar market has continued lump heavily although the granulated and brown sugar fac tories have continued production in the hope that the market will im- prore. There has been an over- supply and goods, have been over stocked.
Tea merchants have received ad- +icek from Wenshow that Inrge amounts of new black tea have heen imported into Shanghai from Wenchow in Chekiang Province. It is understood that a fair amount of Wenchow tea will be imported into this Colony.
RUBBER MARKETS.
IMPROVED UNDERTONE.
2
Kalan lining Adarin....64-bay.
„Tis, 14 nom. Langkala (combined).....Tis.
Lo. (single), 93 sol
7. 8hs. Explorations.... Shanghai Loane
2. 4 sel Ranbe
.....36) nom. ......17/6 nota..
Tronsa Mines
H. & K. Wharis121 nemo. K. & W. Docks...38 ul. China Providents .....$4 bay. $.40 sel, Hongkere
Tls. 178 nom. 14 ཏཿ་******ར�ན**་་་ New Engineerings... Tis 5.65 buy. Shanghai Deck
.....11. 197 boy., 129 £8. Ewo Cotion... ........Tha. 12.33 bay. Oriental Cottons Tls, 2 bay. £ 10 sol. 8'bai, Cctions (old)....The. 72 nom. Do. (new)....... 33 now,
BK & Hotels.... 98 bay. 8.85
Laida HK.
......$62 buy. .....Tls. 14 nomi, Shanghai Lands
дом. Humphreys Estates......14,85 H.K. Realies..........18.35 nom.
$18.05 sol. HK may Peak Trama (old)... $12 bay.
Ea (now)
....15.55 nom... Star Ferries
$66; buy. Ohina Light, Oum. (115.70 tay,
Bights. 13.5 BOL
Do. Er Right 113 now. Do. Rights 18 bay.
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·TIGHT-ROPE DANCER
KILLED.
FAIR GROUND TRAGEDY.
SUPPOSED SUDDEN ILLNESS.
IMPLICATED IN SPITE
DRAMATIC CONFESSION
CLEARS INNOCENT-
MAN.
Dramatic admission that a state- ment which incriminated an in- hundreds of spectators recent man was untrue and had While Tooked or, Theodore Gappa, aged been made under the inspiration sixty, of Heme Hill, was killed
of animanity, was forthcoming at while giving a tight-rope perform-Cardiff, where Frank T. Hoskins, ance at a fair in Smart's Meadow, was accused of stealing rings Southall. Apparently taken ill while valued at £700 in a traveller's case, performing 80 feet in the air the twelve months ago. man crashed to the ground and received injuries which proved fatal soon afterwards.
It was related by Mr. George Williams, who prosecuted, that on May 23 last Mr Frank Edward Gappa, who was billed as Dare- James, a commercial traveller, em Devil Orion,' had beer in ill-ployed by diamond merchants, de health lately, but insisted on per: posited his case in the cloakroom forming his act as the proceeds of at Cardit Station. Mr. James the fair were to be given to assisting placed the ticket in his wallet the family of an elderly and almost pocket, but the next day his wallet blind man and his devoted grand-was stolen from him at Cardiff child, who were killed by a motor- lorry near the fair ground a few days previously. The rope on which he performed his feats spanned part of a field at Hay's Bridge. About 1,000 people thronged the fair ground when Gappa began his
turn.
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Audience Applaud. Suddenly the performer was seen to slip and hang, head downwards, The audience, from the rope. thinking it was a trick, applauded. Gappa, however, remained suspend- ed for some time until it was realised that something amiss bad occurred.
Seared people raised cries of Get at him quick," "Get some thing to catch him in."
Some attendants seized a sheet of tarpaulin and dragged it to beneath where Gappa was hanging. While the sheet was held out people the wire-walker to let go, but he continued to "hang with his feet crossed and his arms stretched out.
shouted to
Attendants then loosened the guy ropes and immediately Gappa fell H.K. Electrica.....3572 buy. 58 sol, it sa struck the ground. He was rushed through the tarpaulin sheet and
Macao Electriosem. Bandatin Lizata ****** buy.
12) sol. Telephones.....$7 China Buses
Thu. 14g buy. Singapore Tractions......11/6 nom. Do. (Pre)......15/6 buy. China Bugars ..........................8) cts. nom. Malabon Eugars 27 bay. Canton Ices Demeats (combined)....18.10 buy, &
****$1.80 buy.
8,80 ++l. Do (old) ......$? scl. Do. H.K. Ropes.......7.10 buy. (DOW)......$1,40 pom United Asbestos Dairy Farms
remem
15 bay, $19.10 bay. ..$13.20 nom. ..80 eta, buy.
Messrs. Baker Morgan & Co. Kulala Lumpur, report:-
Rubber, after duit period of comparative inactivity, closed rather better in all markets and Satisfactory reports are to hand with an improved undertone ap regarding textile
in parent. Shipments "from Malaya, activity America. The Textile Association's although high, have caused no pur- report for March shows sales atticular effect, having, apparently, about 20 per cent. over production, been discounted well in advance. with stocks decreased by 7.4 per Whilst it is believed that Ameri- cent and an increase in 'unfilled
can consumption is being maintain- orders of about 7 per cent. There ed nt a high figute, the current has been talk of the textile atrike month's shipments from Malaya are
Wateque the South spreading. The
Der A Wings, Ceasus Bureau reported the March expected by most people to show an
appreciable reduction. Granted Lane Crawfords...... consumption in America at 33,000 that these forecasts prove to be
Mackintosha........ Macintosh......15 boy. bales, which was somewhat higher correct an improvement may be
Binders than expected, and compares with
W. Powell *** 526.000 bales the previous month locked for before long.
Amusements ILK The tin commodity market has and 581,000 bales in March last year. The distribution of American shown no sign of intrinsic strength cotton to the world's spinners last and has, in the periodic absence of work was 303,000 bales, bringing group support, sagged consider- the total so far this season to ably. Closing quotations are £199.10 19,530,000 bales,
against for three months' delivery (down 11,818,000 bales in the correspond-1) and £197 for spot (down 15s.). ing period last season.
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Spot at one time declined to £185 bút rose again on group support. EMPIRE COTTON.
Rubber shares have been on the Business has been quiet in quiet side during the week and Brazilian and East Indian descrip- closed with a firm undertone. Busi- tions during the past week, būtness was transacted in Alenbys gord business has been done in Peruvians. Sales: 1,200, 630 and 5.150 bales respectively.
Writing on the 25th ult., one of our Bombay correspondents saya that prices of Broach having cased in the interior, there is now a fair demand for this quality from mills and exporters. The tone of the local mill position appears to have improved, and work has been re- Eumed at most mills. Bombay stocks ате DOW estimated at 1,963,000 bales. compared with 1,034,000 at the same time last year.
EGYPTIAN COTTON,
around 81.80, Brogas at 81.05, Mentakabs at 40 cents, New Seudain from 81.62 to 81.721, Pajams around 81.80 and Ulu Bengts from 43 to 45 cents.
$11.80 bar. ..............................$3,65 nom.
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H.K Constructions....1] pal. B'que, Indar, G. Bonds..$77% buy. HK Gort. Loans.....8% prem, bay. buy-buyer seller-sales nom.-nominal
"POUR OUT THE DINNER."
WINE AS A "PERFECT FOOD."
[British United Press,}
to King Edward Hospital, Ealing, where be died shortly after admis-
sion from a fractured spine and
severe injuries to his shoulder.
When the crowd realised what had happened there was almost a panic. Many women fainted,
Gappa had been giving public performances for about 40 years.
One of his daughters was killed four years ago while walking a tight-
rope.
PRIEST CHARGES PRIEST. SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS
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IN BANKRUPTCY. Formerly a chaplain at Cambridge Ladversity, but now Catholic priest living in Oxford, Father John Ludlow Lopes made extraordinary allegations against a fellow-priest at his examination in bankruptcy at Oxford. He declar- ed that he was placed in his present position entirely by the action, based on untruthful representation and on the extortionate demands of priest of the Roman Catholic Church who he believed once was a friend. Father Lopes mentioned the fellow-priest relerred. to by
name.
In reply to the Official Receiver, Mr. George Mallam, Father Lopes Wine is the only practically per alleged that he had let the priest fect food, according to a report he mentioned have a quantity of of two French savants. The authore of the report are Professor D. valuable Church plate, which he Looper, of the faculty of medicine intended merely as security on a of the University of Paris, and on, but which the latter claimed Lucien Alquier, secretary-general as a gift. He added that the ac. the Societe Scientifique tion of his trustees in withholding of
money was caused by the action of d'Hygiene Alimentaire.
this priest.
Debtor's solicitor had warned everyone that 1.n arrangement which had been made aside part of hia, income to pay the creditors would cease if proreedings were taken. His. fellow-priest de- livered execution on him, which was withdrawn by the order of the Cardinal Archbishop of West-
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A fair amount of business has been done in tin shares, those chang- ing hands including Hitams at 673 cents, Kuchais from 81.27) to 81.99, Hong Fatts at 52 cents, Sunger Ways at 83, Kuala Lumpur Tins at varying prices from 30s. to 29/6. Batu Caves at 81137, Ayer Hitam Wine, according to the report Tins at 9/9. Sungel Luds at 4 and which represents the labour of 4 cents premium, Teja Malagas at several years, is one of the most 8/7, Ulu Klangs from 81.2 to generally valuable substancea known 81.20 and Pungahs at 24/2. j
It aida digestion in The market has been very quiet Industrials have been quiet but variety of ways and has a great during the past week with, on the steady. Collieries changed handa at therapeutic efficacy. whole, sagging tendency. The R450 Malacca Electries "continue" Wine increases peptic activity Egyptian Government report of to be enquired for 22.07). Straits from ten to twenty per cent, and glanings up to the end of March Traders are wanted at $30.40- pancreatic approximately ten per mimster. was issued yesterday and gave the Fraser and Neaves are easier at cent. It has a definite antiseptic following figures:-Sakel 2,270,795 817.76.
value acting energetically upon the cantars, Other Varieties 4,994,832,
microbes which flourish in the in- Scarto 210,073;
testines. It is diuretic because the sugar and potash it contains facilitates the dissolution of urates
It aids nutrition by acting on the liver with its sulphur, phosphorus, magnesium and iron. It contains several vitamines and is radio active, properties which are of un- usual interest to biologist and phy sician.
Loans can all be placed at quota Total 7,475,300 | tions. cantars. The total was more, or
less as expected. In a preliminary
report on his visit to the Sudan, QUAKER GIRL'S ROMANCE. and the expulsion of concretions.
the Managing Director of the British Cotton Growing Associa tion states that the progress made in Gezira in the past three years has been enormous. 130,000 acres are under cotton of the Sakel type.
EXCHANGE RATES..
(ORITIAN WIRELESS SELVICE.)
Rucay, May 12.
124.225
Oslo
4.85t
34.942
Paris New York
Brussels
Geneva !
25.20
Amsterdam
12.064*
Milan
02.845
Berlin .....
20.485
Stockholm
18.185
Copenhagen
Vienna
Prague
18.205 18.195 24.535 184
Helsingfors
193
Madrid
34.045
Lizbon
108%
Athens
··Bucharest ...
Rio....
Bombay min
Shanghai
Hong Kong.
Yokohama
Buenos Aires
35 8077 $57/64
47 11/32 1/5 29/32 2/3 + 1/11 1/10 6/32 Silver, spot & forward 253,
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DISOWNED BY FAMILY. How a Quaker girl defied persecu- tion and fouted the opposition of her family in order to marry the man she loved, is recalled by the funeral at Claycross, Derbyshire, "The action of wine upon the
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A GIRL.
POST-OFFICE RAIDERS
SCARED OFF.
Refusing to be intimidated by three motor-bandite who tried to held her up at the point of a re volver, Mias Eve Burling, daughter of the postmaster at East Clandon, between Guildford and Leather- head, courageously defended the
ly put the robbers to flight.
The men had, evidently been
watching the post-office, and were pretending to mend their car some little distance down the road. One of them came into the shop for a packet of cigarettes and then rejoin- ed his confederates.
of Mr. John Henry Hirst, 20, who gastric juices is rapid and power-till, and her cool conduct ultimate was closely associated with the ful, and constitutes a first line de- Primitive Methodist movement. fence against the possible local or Mr. Hirst's mother was a member general toxicity of food that has of a Darlington Quaker family. heen taken into the system. It in- When it was discovered that she creage the gastrie secretions, WAS habitually attending
the accelerates digestion, excites, the Primitive Methodist chapel she was liver by increasing the secretions of subjected to much persecution, bile. which became intensified when she The report, which despite its declared her love for the young technical language, gives wine a preacher, John Hirst. For six catalogue, of, virtues rivaling most weeks she was imprisoned in her patent medicines concludes as fol She then escaped through the Wine cad and tould be recom. cellar grate and travelled by state mended: in hyposthenic dyspepsia; coach to York, and then to Leeds, infections, inasmuch as wine in where she and Hirst were married. creases the organism's power of She was expelled from the Society resistance; anemia and uremia. of Friends for marrying outside the Society, and disowned by her She became the first family. woman preacher in the Primitive Methodist body.
own home.
The late Mr. Hirst's father, the Rev. John Hirst, was accepted for the Primitive Methodist Ministry in 1826. Mr. Hirst's sad is now the Connexional Foreign Mission secretary.
lows:
Thomas Hunter, farmer, of Bel- ford, Northumberland, was ordered to pay a fine of Rs and coste at Belford for aos notifying the police that & beast was suffering from mu thrax It was stated that the de- fendant had sent the beast to ken- mele for dogs' meet.
About an hour later two of the men entered and asked for cigar rettes, and when Miss Burling went to the till for change one of them! pointed a revolver at her, and ex- "claimed," "Put them up." At the same time the other man guarded the doorway."
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Miss Burling caught hold of the till with both hands, and, warding off her assailant with her elbows, shouted, "Dad, quick!"
At once the men took to their heels, jumped in the motor-car, which was then at the door, and decamped. They were so scared that they left their change behind on the counter. The three men wers young, and Miss Burling was able to give a good description of them to the police.
races.
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Hoskins and a man named Fred Harris were seen at the races to- gether, and it was alleged that after the races they went to Cardio Station, and Hoskins handed Harris the missing cloakroom ticket. Harris, after withdrawing the case from the cloakroom, it was Hoskins, alleged, gave the bag and when the rings had been ex- tracted de empty case was placed under the rent in a train, where it was found.
Det-Insp. Hodges declared he had taken a statement from a man named Harris, who asserted that Hoskins asked him to obtain the case from the cloakroom.
Harris was warned by the clerk when he went into the witness-box.
AR I know is that Hoskins is
innocent," he stated. "When I made the statement to the police I had a grudge against hini.""
Harris added that the statements he made to the police were all lies. Premed as to why he implicated Hoskins, Harris reiterated that he did it in spite, because Hoskins owed him fo
Hoskins was discharged by the magistrates.
BODY ARRIVES TOO LATE.
SINGULAR CAUSE OF INQUEST POST- PONEMENT.
Owing to the absence of a body
an inquat at Bournemouth the other day had to be adjourned. The jury had been summoned, and, after waiting 20 minutes, they were dismissed. The body arrived ten minutes after they had gone.
It traspired that insufficient notice had been given for the re- moval of the body from the hospital to the mortuary. The inquest con- verned the death of William Charles Jeff, of Stourbank-road, Christ church, who was fatally injured in a cycling accident.
An Italian has been arrested at Naples on a charge of stealing jewelry to the value of £10,000 from a member of the Argentine Embassy in Rome, in whose employment he was. All the jewelry has been re- covered.
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