Money and
HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
Yesterday's Toen market quot tions for rice and other foodstuffs
were as follow:-
Rice.
Markets
CANTON TRADE NOTES.
The Cantoti rice market is not 10 active as it was two days ago, but prices are firm.
Per delicacy, are short and there has Arrivals of ben slugs, a Chinese pical been nuch demand from the Tang- $7.15 taze River ports. Because of this, 7.10 prices are good in spite of the political nad military unrest in the two Kwangs.
Ching Chung Hing
Hung Chung Hing.
Ching Fa Lam, Unglutinous 6.98
Ching Ling Chee
7.10
Yea Sin
7.78
Red Seal, White Bran
Red Seal, Glutincus
3.03 7.02
Red Scal, Glutinous, Broken
8.27
No. 1 glutinous granulated 5.10
Ching Po To
8.1
Red Seal, No. 3
6,60
Red Seal, White Broken.
.8.01
Ching Pak Sin, Broken
No. 2 granulated
5.53
Pukmei. Bran
Blue Seal, No. 3.....
6.93.
Black Seal, Pokmei granu
5.40 lated" Green Seal, Glutinous Bran 3.02 Miscellaneous.
No. 19 Course granulated
sugar
No. 20 Coarse granulated
sugar
No. Coarse granulated
sugar
No. 2 Awabi
Wood-tar oil
8 8.73
6.80
7.og
102.00
33.00
Camellia-nut oil
20.00
Dried Persimmon
15.00
Dried "Chestnut `....
11.00
Dried Mushroom
24.00
Preserved Black Date
14,00
Searlet BeanI
8.00
Black Bean
White Grapes
6.50 38,00
CANTON COTTON YARN
MARKET.
Business in Wuebow is almost at a standstill. The exchange rate for Canton or Hong Kong money is ac high that prices of commodities have risen three times higher than urnal. Much less business is being done by the merchants, especially those, dealing in foreign goods and Juxuries.
On account of the dullness of the market, smaller cargoes have been exported to Wuchow from Canton and Hong Kong lately. A number of steam launches have resumed running between Hong Kong and Wochow. They have carried smaller cargoes with the exception of rice. Passengers are also very few.
An almtet unprecedented dull market for sugar is being experienc ed in Hong Kong since the Strike in 1925. The decline in this busi ness is attributed to the plentiful harvests in Java. It is expected that the market will continue dall, if not worse, us it is reported that 150,000 tons of sugar will be im ported monthly into China from Cuba in future.
Since the hostilities betweea Kwangtung and Kwangsi, deinand for groundnut oil has been slight but prices have been firm. Arrivals Telegraphic advices from Sbang-of wood-tar oil and camellaut hai indicate that the cotton yarn vil from the West and North River market is still quiet. The market districts are small and consumption are steady. The in Canton is also dull but prices limited. Prices are frm Latest Canton market market in bean oil is dull and prices have fallen. Latest quote quotations are as follow:
tions for groundnut oil, camellia cut oil, wood-tar oil and bean oil and 22.20, 820.40, 831.50, 815.00 respectively;
No. 42 Yang Hot....
Flower & Butterfly
Foon Hay
No. 32 Choy Kou
Blue Phenix
Tin Koon
Pine & Deer
Sheung Ery
No. 0 Golden Chy
Globe
Good Harvest Sin To .....
Blue Phenix Wan Pang Hung Kay Ng Fook Yan Chung Larp Ma Muk Yang
Poo Yec Three Stars
No. 16 Globe.
Foo Kwai
Yan Chung
No. 12 Golden City
Peacock
Foo Kwei
8441
40
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STOCKS AND SHARES.
WEDNESDAY'S LONDON
QUOTATIONS.
["D.P." Special Service,]
Prices quoted on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
stocks, and shares were as under: May 15, for the following bonds,
Allied News, 24. ' Amalgamated Press, 20/9. Anglo Persian Oil, 00/7.. British-American Tobacco
6.13/32. Bradford Dyers, 41/6 Branston Art Silk, ordinary,
deferred, 3/103.
Burmah Oil, 80/10). Canadian Pacific, 230 Coats, 89/.
AMERICAN INVESTMENTS
ABROAD.
FOREIGN DOLLAR LOANS ISSUED SINCE 1919.
1
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issued by the National City Com arranged in convenient form stale the amounts of the loans outstand- pany. The particulars, which are
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Courtaults, 44. Dunlops, 19/103. French 3 per cent, 201. Guinness Brewery, 90/ Eudson Bay Co., 3 Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ordinary, 36/11. Imperial Tobacco Co., 5.1/18. Indian 4 per cent., 87 (xd.). Marconi, 83/9.
Mexican Eagle, 15/1 Midland Railway, P. O., 53/6 (xd.).. Royal Mail S.S. Co, 69. Rubber Trust, 44/-. Union Corporation, 4.7/18. Vickers, 11/1).
War Bonds, 5 per cent., 1005.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
De..
r 16, 1929. $1.99 by 1,925 10- Do., Londen...(33) nom. HK, Banki Chartered Banks, Mercantile Bints, A. &B...233 nom, O...₤1bt nom. P. & C. Bake at nom East Axis Banks.......190₫ nom. Cantos Insurances.......1695 buy. Union. Lauriacri ... $368 al
1160 bay. North Ukizálás. mkia
Insurances...... $30 nom. Tangiste Okins Underwriters. bay, 2.30 sel. Chins Fire insurances....$100 buy. H.K. Fire Las.......1775 nou. Douglases 133 gel. sel. HK Steamboats..... HK. Tng......62). bug. 2.6, sol. Ludo-Chines (Pre)....117; buy.
Do (Del.),
$70 nom. Shall Transports......97- nom. men Waterboats... nom.
2) Bay. Bengueta Kailan Ming Admin....63 buy, Langba(combined).. Nile, 14 nom. Tix. 7 nom. Da (single).... 8'hal. Explorations......13.1 s
Tia. Bel Shanghai Loans Ranbe
..36) дом.
17/9 acta.
As already reported, the first erop of silk in Kwangtung this year was not satisfactory due to the exceed ingly high price of mulberry leaves which was then seld at nearly five dollars per picul and consequently very little or no profits were made by the silk filatures. Regarding the the silk present second crop, filatures are again disappointed on account of the drop in prices. They were hopeful of more favour- able conditions when the price of mulberry leaves dropped compara tively lower than the first erop and fewer silk-worms perished, but their Tronoh Min58 1*******
&K. Wharfs hopes were not realised.
ELK. & W. Docks
A****
136 135 5.
4:40 cl
Hongko**** 1, 0.85 buy. New Engineerings Shanghai Dooks 11. 128 nom.
.
Ewa Cotton...T. 12.60 bay, 12.čuna, Oriental Cottons.Tibay, 10 sel.
hai. Cottons (old).Ts.
China Providents
Peacock
020
•
Lotus & Bea
ong
263
Double. Lions
943
Poo Yee......
268
Five Lions
243
Tram-car
266
Yan Chung
246
Pretty Damsel
ORD
Tai Fat
250
Aeroplane
266
Tak Lee
218
Tak Lee
266
Excellent Crops
238
No. 19 Sailing Vessel
252 No. 6. Lian
190
**2
Lion, No. 2 Hut Hou
150
150
Golden City ...
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H.K. & S. Hetola.... B.K. Lands $62 bay. Bhanghai) Laude Ta. 13 acm,
Humphreys Estates......$14.95 nom.
A.K. Realies
$8,35 nom
F.K. Trway....... $18.40 set, Peak Tram (old)... $124 bay..
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bay.
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39 B571 sel.
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MARRIAGE LAW REFORM.
AN APPEAL, TO CANDIDATES FOR PARLIAMENT.
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An appeal to all candidates for Parliament, issued by the Marriage Law Reform League, calls attention to the recommendations of the
Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, published in 1912, the chief proposals relating. to divorce being the following-
Any married person may apply for a divorce on any one or more of the following grounds, that is to say that the defendant:-(a) has since the marriage committed adultery; or (b) has deserted the applicant for a period of at least or (c) has since three years; the marriage treated the applicant
with cruelty; or (d) is incurably
insane, and has been continuously a certified lunatic for a period of at least five years immediately pre- ceding the application; or (c) is an incurable habitual drunkard, and has for period of at least three years been separated from the ap- plicant under a temporary separa- tion order made under this Act on GERMAN COAL INDUSTRY. the ground of habitual drunken-
A PESSIMISTIC REPORT.
The report of the Reich Coal Council for 1995 shows a further
increase in output, though it painte the economic situation of the indus- try in dark colours. The output of pit coal was 150,750,000 tons or 2,750,000 tons less than in 1927; the production of brown coal, however, increased by 13,730,000 tons to The total out 166,750,000 tons
Less.
On other and serious matters re- lating to "nality of marriage, it is observed, the Commission unanimous.
Lord Buckmaster's Bill.
WLS
The proposals were embodied by Lord Buckminster in the Matri monial Cases Bill of 1920, which, after prolonged debate, was passed by an unusually large majority by the House of Lords. This Bill has never been eren presented to the House of Commons, and only the first of all the recommendations bas been carried out, though 20 years have gone by since the Royal Com mission was set up. The proposals put in terms of pit coal was
contain no startling or revolution- 185,000.000 tons, 1,000,000 tons more ary matter. In Scotland desertion than in 1997 and 28,000,000 tons has been a ground for divorce for. more than in 1913. The produc 350 years, but still the laws of Eng- land lag behind, and even the tion of coke rose by 1,500,000 to
wrongs which by the unanimous 40,000,000 tons Exports, including opinion of all the Commissioners deliveries on the Heparations ac-needed remedy remain without re- count, 330k
from 38,500,000 to dress, and judicial separation 37,500,000 tons, while imports in orders are daily made which, with- creased from 7,000,000 to 8,500,000 out opportunity for ultimate free- dom, are directly prorocative of. The League asks immorality." candidates to pledge themselves to support a Bill in the House of Commons, carrying out the recom- mendations of the Royal Commis- aion.
toas.
The report stated that the tem porary financial relief caused by the British coal stoppage of 1928 had been completely centralized by the scarcely profitable business of 1927 and 1928, and by the necessity for investing capital in new equipment. The price increases of May last had been offset by higher costsy and wage increases. It was difficult to see how the industry would raise the money necessary for the main tenance and improvement of the *mices.
The signatories are :—
Buckmaster, Birkenhead, Salve- sen, Muir Mackenzie, Frederick W. Margot Oxford, Pollock, Arbuthnot Lane, Cecil M. Chap man, Bernard Shaw, Charlotte F. Shaw, A. P: Herbert, Anthony Hope Hawkins, John Galsworthy, MacCarthy, (Mrs.) Mary Desmond Pethick Lawrence, and Bordea.
SURVIVOR OF AN ARAB PILLAGE.
During the report year 23 inde- pendent mines, and, since 1994, 88 pits, had been closed down. The number of men employed had de creased by 20,000 during the year. At the debate upon this, report in the Council, the miners' representa tives criticized its gloomy prognos tications, which they considered to reflect too strongly the owners MAN'S SUICIDE 'LETTER TO view, and pointed out that wages were much higher in England. They put forward the suggestion that, in view of the rationalization move- ment in the British industry, the time was ripe for a meeting "with our English partners at the confer ence table, with a view to reaching an understanding about markets."
DREAD OF TUBERCULOSIS.
CAUSE OF FOURFOLD VILLAGE TRAGEDY.
At the inquest at Marden (Kent) on the family of four who were found shot dead in their cottage in the village a verdict was return- ed that Samuel William Daw, aged 53, murdered his wife Rosins, aged 43, Nellie, his daughter, aged 18, and Samuel William, his son, aged 117, and then took his own life while
of unsound mind.
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.......89 cta. nom. Malabon Sugars 827 buy. Jamoa Ice
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bry. Dement (combined) $8.10 boy. 8.306 Do. (old) .....37) sel. Do. (new)....1.40 ROM. K. Boyer
17.:0 nom. United Asbestos iamen 25 bay.
$19 buy.. $1..20 nom. .80 sta. buy.
*Z sel $18 bay. $11.50 bay Wi. Powell
$3.65 nom H-K. Amusements 30 sel H.K, Constructions ......$1į sel. B'que. Indas, G. Band...67% bay. HK Gore Loans.....% prem, buy-buyer; sal-llera; za-salon
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"We are cursed by consump- tion," said Miss Martha Fanny Daw, of Balcombe; a sister of the dead man. "It was the curse of the family, and my brother dreaded it. I believe he was hoping that his daughter's trouble was only weakness. He had feared that this consumption would break out in bis own family. He was devoted to his children.".
The witne said the man's buy.consing, his sister, and his mother died of consumption. There had also been insanity in the family.
Medical evidence was given that the man's daughter, when seen by a doctor on Friday, was suffering from extensive tuberculosis. She was very weak, and was not then likely to live for more than a week ar ten days. Her father asked the doctor how long she would last.
In each case death was due to gunshot wounds in the head
RUGBY, May 16.
12415 4.85 1/18
11
Prague
Helsingfors
Madrid
Copenhagen an
Buenos Aires
34.945
25.186
-12.061
192.65
Berlin.....
20.46
Ria
Stockholm minces
18.185
Lisbon
1081
375
Bucharest
818
18.20
34.54
Athena
Ozle Vienna..... (Continued at foot of next column).
Bombay
Shanghai...
Hong Kong Yokohama.com
Silver (apot)
Silver (forward) .....
163 182
34.165 16:205
B 67/64 47 5/16 1/6 20/33
2/62.
1/11 1/10 3/32
25 5/18 25
A CORONER.
Archibald Hill, aged forty-two, a French polisher, of Addison-gar- dens, Hammersmith, who was stated to be the sole survivor of an Arab pillage in Mesopotamia during the war, committed suicide by poisoning with bichromate of petasb.
Mr. Henry William Hill, of Roseford-gardens, Shepherd's Bush, a brother, said at the inquest that his brother was in Mesopotamia during the war, and had a terrible experience.
During the night," he said, "the headquarters where he and a large number of others were sleep- ing was set on fire "by Arabs He was the only one to escape; all the others being burned to death. Fe came home immediately afterwards, but was never the saine man
Fear of Arrest.
Mr. Hill added: "His wife ran away with another men, and then His bon committed suicide by gas That zearly turned his mind. "He had a maintenance order made against him recently, and he was in fear of the police arresting him." Five unsealed letters were found in Hill's room. One was addressed to "H. R. Oswald, Esq., West Lon- don Coroner." This stated:
These few lines first hand may be useful as to why I am taking this step. I have had what I con sider to be a vindictive and crush- ing burden" placed on ine which has made my life just hell for the past month.
4
I know from day to day we all have our ups and downs, but, after all, life is a sacred thing- something not to be tampered with even under abnormal" con- ditions No one realises this more than 1, but there is a limit to human endurance when subject
Non-
te continuous strain and oppres I cannot carry this out at ses, however, where had my miserable body turned up flotsam or jetsam of neither, the trouble would have bren begligible.
It may sare the trouble of analysis by my stating that the poison is bichromite of potash. The coroner, recording a verdic of Suicide, while of unsopad mind." said that he did not remem her in his thirty years' experience A previous case of poisoning by bichromate of potazi
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