THE FOUR LEADING BEERS ON THE MARKET
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929.
Money and Markets
HONG KONG MARKET
REPORTS.
Yesterday's quotations for rice and other edible commodities are as follow:-
MUNCHENER BURGER-BRAU.
DARK
PILSENER SUPERIOR QUALITY.
LIGHT.
DARK.
Pagoda Brand, White Luk Kia Tue,White ...... Broken, Blue Seal
Rice,
per picul. Hung Sheung Chien, White 87,30 Fa Ma, White
7.71 6.80 7.51 5,85
Granulated, Green -Seal
No. 3.................. Black Bran, Black Seal... Laglutinous, Ching Sau... Englutinous, Hưng Ban
4.83 5.09 6.02 6.99
Granulated sugar, No. 13
COATEC
Granulated sugar, No. 24
COATS .....
7.53
Granulated sugar Brownish
6.35
Duck Feather
45,60
Canned Green Bean
7.50
Fish Maw.....
400.00
Date preserved with oney
24.00
Hoya KoNG.
Black Bean
6.60
Scarlet Hean
8.20
TUBORG FABRIKKER. DINNER BEER. LOWENBRAULION BRAND."
We guarantee these brands to be of first class quality and prices compare favourably with inferior brands.
A trial is solicited.
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"Miscellaneons,
CANTON TRADE NOTES.
The market for rice has improved
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as demand from the various coun- try districts is greater and arrivals from Siam and Annam are few. Slight increases in prices are re- corded.
Due to large arrivals, native fer- tilizer of groundnut and bean re- fuses have been cheaper. Quota tions for fertilizer of groundnut is Tis.5.25 and that of bean refuse
Tis.4.74.
CANTON RAW SILK MARKET REPORT.
Prices in Japan continue to de- eline steadily, and consequently the markets remain dull, with buyers offering lower prices."
'GIVE THE SAILOR THE BALFOUR NOTE.
HIS-SODA!".
AND NOTHING GOES WRONG!
WHAT THE MODERN JACK TAR DRINKS.
CRITICAL ISSUE OF HOME
POLITICS.
TRENCHANT PRESS CRITICISM.
THEATRE ROYAL
TO-NIGHT
·A·9,15·p:;
FAREWELL "PERFORMANCE "A CUCKOO
IN THE NEST"
"Suddenly, but quite inevitably. the Balfour Note of August 1, 1922, Are the sailors of to-day becom-has become a critical issue of our ing more sober Facts prove that politics." says the Daily Exprest. The market has been quiet, ex alcoholic liquors are not in the de-That Note laid down, as the guild. cept for some purchases made in mand they were in previous years.ing principle of British policy in cover of previous sales. These How much this is due to the men
the matter of inter-Allied debts, transactions, have helped to keep themselves, and how much is due that we should ask no more fron prices up for the current grades into the "dry" canteca, and work
our debtors than was necessary to FAREWELL PERFORMANCE 14/10. (New Style Crack Chops).. ot the padre on board, combined 2nd Crop-Duc to favourable with the efforts of institutions on weather conditions, it is, estimated shore, is a matter for conjecture. that this crop will give a yield of
One fact certainly cannot be 19/13,000 bales. This large crop is doubted. When, about 8 bella, in likely to weigh on the market, the forenoon watch, the rum call is given a contínuation of the present sounded, the quantity of liquor duli demand.
issued goes to a minor proportion of the crew. This is accounted for by the fact that men are allowed
Quotations. 14/10 N.S. Crack Chops 8083 20/92 N.S. Ex Et A 13/15 O.S. Best I
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE
4.
$45
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
MAY 21, 1929, H.K, Banks
$1,225 buy, Do., London...£1531 nom,
bay. Chartered Banks
BOM. Mercantile Banks, A. &B. 253
0...215) Dom. P. & O. Bank .....£9) Quin. Fast Alia Baaki......90) ncm, Canton Insurance....1696 bay. Union Insurances..04 se $385 sal North China Izik.
T 160 bay. Tangtare Insurances......M. 850 nem. China Underwriters $9.90 sel. China Fire Insurances........$30) bay. HK Fire Ina, ......
...3775 DODA Dongles H.K. Steamboats ..... ...$50 sel
$3.60 ml. HK Tags Indo-China (Pref.)
bay. Do (Def) $70 Rom. Bhall Transports Union Waterbod......... nom. Bengueteg ..$21 buy. Kailan Mining Admic....68% bay. Langkats (combined)....... 14 nom. Do. (angle)". „Tin. 74 mom.
Explorations Local imports have decreased Shanghai Lowas
Haubstad er The during the last few days.
Trazoh
..17/6 now. ...$leet bay. quantity of native coal imported HK. & K. Whari....
H&.& W. Docks.........$36 nom. recently was insignificant while the Chine
sel 178 Om *****T. 5.85 boy.
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The price for Java sugar which had been on the decline for months has slightly improved, but demand remains weak and it is anticipated that the price is unlikely to ad- vance more in the near future.
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↓aci.
Japanese coal imports were also 1988).
New
amall. Only three thousand tons of
Shanghai
Dooks. were imported from | Ewe Cottone... ................ Th. 19j Fushun coal
Onental Cotton Tla. 2 buy, 2.10 sol. Dairen recently.
S'hui. Cotton (old)......TE. 12 sel.
D6. (new)...... TU. 82) boo
$3.80 bath. H.K. & S. Halele...* HK. Lands 502 bay Shanghai Lands Humphreys Estates......14.85 nom.
13.85 Dom HK. Realties
The market for fruit is dull and prices have fallen. Crops of lychee are exceedingly. abundant and prices have fallen exceptionally low. Quotations for lychee, orange, peach, plum and water chestnut are Tls.1.43, Tls.24.80, Tla.5.20, Tls.3.20 and T20 per "picul respectively.
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FLK. Tramwaya
Peak Trams (old)...12) bay.
Da.
(new)...$6,55 xom.
Star FB061 Gay, China Light Oüm. ($13.40 bay.
Rights.. 13.60 sel
De. Ex Rights 13 sel.12.60 sá DA. Highĩa... 38 dom H.K. Electrica “.. $57 zei. The general market for cattonaco Electrics..$36) nem.
wel. yarns continues slack, both whole Sindakan Lights and retail sales being few. Arrivals Telephunediktēt nom.
China Bases........ ....Tl.14j buy. of native yarns are, limited, hence Singapore Tractions.....116 m. Do. (Pref) 18/6 bay. prices remain steady. According to
China Sugars...*** ..B cta. nom. telegraphic advices from Shanghai, Malabon Bugars...$27. nom. the market remains, firm and it is Canton ices... $1.80 bay.
Dements (combizódį 19.10 bay, 8.30 not likely that prices will fall more in the near future.
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Prices of pork have alightly risen, due to short arrivals at pigs from the various country districts along
"Three Rivers," the
Current quotations are from twenty-nine to thirty taels per picul. Arrivals of poultry are also limited, resulting in a sharp rise in prices. Chickens are above one dollar and thirty cents per catty, while ducka and geese, being in less demand, are eighty to ninety cents per catty.
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Over 377,500 Kwangturg -cent silver coins were taken to Canton from Hong Kong by the 8.8. Tai Shan and Bai On on the 17th inst. The value of the notes of "the Central Bank of Chinn has slightly risen in Hong Kong. The 81 Central Banknote stands at $0.49 Hong Kong In Canton the note is quoted at sixty-six per cent. of nominal value. There is every
value of these depreciated notes occurring soon.
Welcome, probability of further rise in the
Visitor
at any time in every
household. Every
Bag, Fles, Beetio, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with
KEATING'S
As already reported in these columne, some steam launches at-
Watson
8:05 sa.
Da. (old) ......87) nem .Do. (now)......$1.40 nom. H.K. Rope $7.10 nom. United Asbestos..........35 buy. Dairy Farms...$101 Ear
..412.90 sel. Der A Wings 30 ot. bay. Lane Crawfords....... 82 sel. Mackintosha.
181 buy. Sincerca
$11.80 bay. Wa, Powells..trosyanı
13.65 sol. H.. Amusements.30 sel. H.K. Constructions......$14 buy. B'que Ladus. G.Banda...677 buy. H.K. Gart Loans.......% prem, bay. buybuyera sel-selleri; ra—als;
DO.--nominal,
EXCHANGE RATES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS - SERVICE.]
Paris" New York Brussels Geneva
Amsterdam
Milan Berlin
RUGBY, May 23.
124.15 4.34 5/18
34.135
25.195
12.06
92.675
20.305
18.15- 18.205
Stockholm
Copenhagen.
Oslo ........ Vienna
18.00
34,53
-1601-
Helsingfors
Madrid
Lisbon
1921 34,125 "108"
4
Athens
875
818
tempted to resume sailing from Hong Kong to Wuchowy-but-they-Pruguem had to return when they sailed as far as to Sham Shui, az prohibited to pass bey they were locality an account of the military operations on the West Rivet, As
that
situation on the West River has become easier, the launch Kochow made another attempt and left the Colony for. Wachow on Wednesday fleruoup casormedd, box
Bucharest...
Rio ...... Buenos Aires.
5 67/64. *472 Bombay 1/87 Shanghai çizmek
2/0 Mongkong
1/31 1/10 8/3 231/18 Silver (forward) ...... 25°1/18
fore her departure, that she wouldYokohama call at the various ports along the Silver (spot)
river.
3d a day extra to their pay if they do not take the rum ration. After all, an allowance of is. sd. a week makes a nice sum at the' end of a cruise.
Unwanted Rum!
For instance, in H.M.S. Rodney, of the complement of 1,912 men, 950 are not allotted the ration, not having attained the age of 20 years. But of the remaining 962, only 340: take rum.
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This rum consists of a mixture of three parts of water to one of rum. Petty officers and chiefs are allowed their rum neat, but wor rant officers do not receive any at afl. This was their preference, for after the war a vote was taken, the result being that the majority de cided to receive their allowance in- stead of the rum.
One man for each mess lines up to receive the allowance of the rum,
which is mixed in large wooden tubs. If by any chance there is a pint or two remaining when all have been served, tho re- mainder is tipped overboard.
pay our creditors.
"In other words, we were only to collect such a sum from our Euro-BOOKING AT-MOUTRIE'S pean allies and from German re- parations as would enable us to meet the bill presented by the United States.
to
PRICES:-$3, $2 & $1.
BALLANTINE'S
ESTABLISHED 1527.
Intelligible Position. "That was at least a defrite and in use for almost 100 years.
occupy. intelligible position The wisdom and foresight shown in choosing it are other and much
were, in fact, pointedly challenged. The Late by Bonar Lay.
Queen Victoria
more questionable matters.
They
"In a pseudonymous article that appeared in the Daily Express of August 21, 1922, Bonar Law, who had then left the Coalition Govern- ment because of ill-health, and was not yet prepared to form an alter- native and strictly Conservative Ministry of his own, wrote, as follows:-
"Whether it was wise to issue the Balfour Note or bot is doubt. fal-I think it
mis. take.
PURE
By Appointment to
E.M. The Late King Edward VII.
and
His Majesty King George V.
SCOTCH LIQUEUR
WHISKY
10 years old. GEORGE BALLANTINE & SON, LTD. Bonar Law's authorship of this GLASGOW AND LONDON. statement, now for the first time.
Was
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revealed, justifies the assumption DISTILLED IN SCOTLAND that he never approved the Balfour Note. It is not binding on any Conservative M.P. or on any Con-
Of course, it should be under-servative Government. stood that while the ordinary sailor is at sea he is not allowed alcoholic liquors apart from the rum ration. Warrant officers are permitted wine
fi
"Lord Balfour when he penned it did so as the Acting Foreign Secretary of. Mr. Lloyd George's
If you want a really first class Scotch Whisky at a reasonable price, have no better than Ballantine's Liqueur Whisky. It is
you can
excellent.
and spirits in their mass, but the Government. So far as he hoped The French
hands have to be content with tea, coffee, and cocon in the mess,
that its arguments would conduce to an easier settlement of the Anglo- The Soda Fountain.
American debt, he was destined to There is a "dry" canteen on
an early and a complete disillusion- board large abips, a popular part of which is the soda fountain. ment. The statement in his Note Here детед different favoured that "our liabilities were incurred "soft" fruit drinks can be pur-for others, not for ourselves," was Ichased at 1d. a glass. Recently a
new system has been introduced,
at once and sharply taken up by the, whereby on payment of td., seven Americans, and the controversy on tickets for 1d. drinks can be obtain- ed These tickets are transferable on any date, in any canteen belong ing to the N.A.A.F.L., who run the "dry" canteens afloat.
While these transferable drink tickets still are new, their popu larity has not been a great as might be expected. An explanation is that the sailor afraid he might lose small tickets. But as time goes on he will realize the advantages of getting two extra. drinks for every shilling spent.
The soda fountain in H.M.S. Rodney is becoming more and more It is appreciated week by week. said that the whole crew patronize it at one time or another, while there are several dozen regular customers. During & week the average number of 1d. drinks sold is 2,040, which is an average of 377 a day. This speaks well for the men and the quality of beverages sold, for the fountain aßoat is a comparatively modern innovation.
"The Village Store." Manufactured from fruit syrups and soda water, enough syrup and supplies of carbon dioxide (to make the soda water) are carried to make drinks for a period of six months. In hot weather an ice box can be used to cool the sods-water, while for cold climates it is hoped to introduce a fountain of hat cordiala.
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this side issue quite obscured the feree of his main thesis..
"How do matters stand now
come to arrangements
We have
with France and with Italy that are conditioned by the Balfour Note. These arrangements must be and will be observed on our side, even though the French have thus far failed to ratify them formally. We can repudiate the Balfour Note without in any way repudiating the agreements framed under it.
Ite significance and its great power for harm, so far as this coun-. try is concerned, relate far more to the future than to the past. No matter what happens it binds us, in effect, to accept no more from Europe than we need to pay the United States.
"But suppose three things, none of them impossible, all of them, in- deed, probable.
Suppositions.
(1) Suppose Germany is able
Store
Beaconsfield Arcade.
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TWO LIVES.
MAN'S OFFER TO OBTAIN DIVORCE FOR A WIFE.
John Wallia, aged thirty-six, des cribed as a courier, of Rue de Sablons, Patris, was sentenced to Marylebone Police Court for frauds eight months' imprisonment at on an octogenarian and her daugh
ter.
The magistrate, Mr. Hay Halkett, passing sentence, remarked that he had taken off four months, Wallis paving, served in the war from the beginning to the end.
Wallas was accused of:----
Fraudulently converting to his own use £500 and £195 belonging to Mrs. Annie Maria Gore, an octogenarian, of Brondesbury- road, Kilburn, obtaining £10, £20, £25, and £140 by fraud from Gore's daughter, Mrs. Vera Will, fraudulently converting to his awn use jewellery valued at £400 belonging to Mra, Will and her mother, and fraudulently convert, ing to his own use £140 belonging to Mrs. Will.
Mr. Knight, prosecuting, said that
to make greater reparation pay-Wallis became friendly with Mr. ments than are necesary, plus the and Mrs. Will, and knowing that sums we receive from France and they were not on bappy terms he Italy, to discharge our liabilities to induced Mrs. Will to leave her hus the United States? Are we to band on the strength of evidence of remit this surplus or to divide it his alleged misconduct at Manches- among our allies?
ter, Leeds, Glasgow, Norwich, and Preston.
(2) Suppose five, ten, or fifteen years hence Russia thinks it as well to meet some of her. international The Balfour Note indebtedness.
Business Suggestion,
He obtained different sums from Mrs. Will, owing to his promise to produce the evidence, but the whole. thing was a windle from beginning
to end.
In the Rodney, next door to the fountain is the Navy, Army, and would obligate as either not to. re- Air Force Institute "dry" canteen, ceive remittances from this extra a wonderful shop reminiscent of source or, to hand them over at once the village general store." Here to France and Italy.
(3) Suppose and this inevit- Wallis also suggested that after groceries, toilet requisites, patent
conferably must happen-that the United the divores Mrs. Will should, go medicines, haberdashery, tionery, fruit, stationery, games States, choked with gold and moved into business as a chocolate manu and other little odds. and ends are by a businesslike sense of her own facturer at Worthing with his wife, on sale at reasonable prices. In the interests, wishes to cut down the and for the purpose of opening the case of tobacco and cigarettes; these £20,000,000 or so she receives a business be obtained £600 from Mrs. are supplied duty free to sailors Lually from Great Britain. The Gore, misappropriated £195 and two Balfour Note would compel us to brooches belonging to Mrs. Gore. LÜCEL
reduce proportionately the sume and obtained money and jewellery coming to us from our debtors in from Mrs. Will. Walls was arrest- Europe. Would the Americans ined at Wigan... these circumstances be likely to Detective Inspector-Kirchner said make us an offer the ultimate Wallie had "a clean character, benefits of which would be chiefly Mr. Hay Halkett: He has not. enjoyed by the Italians and the He seems to be a most numitigated -
scoundrel I do not sce-any excuse.
tween
Complete harmony prevails be the Navy, Army, and Air Force Institute canteen and the ship's bookstall, although in some instances, such as stationery, the same articles are on sale in both placen
French
Mrs. Will explained that Wallis
Bo long as the Balfour, Note for him. First of all he obtains all At port, Plymouth or Ports- mouth, the Rodney's dry can forces us to disinterest ourselves in this money by fraud, and, secondly, teen is open at intervals from 7 any higher reparation payments tries his best to wreck the married until 8, and from 7 until 1 on Sun- that may be forthcoming from lives of two people. days. When away from these home (Germany, in any inclination on ports, at intervals from 7 until the part of Russia to pay her and her husband were old comrades 8.15, and from 7 until 5 on Sun- debts, and in any future sugges in the war
tion from the United States that days are the hours.
The ship appropriates a small percentage of takings made by the N.A.A.P.I. soda fountain and "the "dry" canteen.
Mr. Hay Halkett: You are all our remittances should be reduced right with your husband now, ste to King thus i rad i dderbyniqsa vada in and injurious signpost of British Mr. Hay Halkett: So this has policy."
been a blessing in disguise.