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SMALL SHOP near STAR FERRY HOUSE Apply LOWE, BINGHAMTIONAL. MATTHEWS.
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For Complete sets of British Colonies
and
Dominions
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Established 1896.
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The Most Comprehensive Survey Yet Compiled of Reconstructional Progress in Modern China.
CHINA'S
NEW CURRENCY
SYSTEM
By TANG LEANG-LI
A survey of Chinese Currency and Banking System in Historical perspective and of the reactions of the World Slump upon Chinese Trade, Industry, and Finance, from the beginning of the depression to the Establishment of State Control of Silver-with Statistical tables relating to movements of Goid, Bilver and Prices in General.
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TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMMES
..
Broadcast by Z.B.W. On 355 Metres
12.30 to 2.15 p.m.-European re-
corded programme. 12.30 p.m.-Selections from Light Opera and Musical, Comedy. 1pm-Local: Time Signal and
Weather Report
1.03 p.m.-Four Songs by Josephine
Baker,
1.15 pm-Turner Layton at the
Pläng.
1.30 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music, 2 p.m.--Dance Music by Mario "Harp" Lorenzi and his Rhyth- mics...
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
5 to 8 p.m.-"European programme.
5 to 7 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong
Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra.
7 p.m.-
A Relay from Daventry
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30 Industrials
183.07
86.71 149.58
51.73
38.36
11 Commodity Index
103.24 83 10
27.31 44.60 14.42 30,82 93.43 103.04 32.44 80.95
20 Utilities
40 Bands
A Talk by the Chief Engineer of Am. & For. Power
the B.B.C.
7.17 p.m.-
1. Heute
(Spallansky).
2. La Danza (Rossini).
3. You, me and love (Stolz),
PUBLIC AUCTION. 7.30pm
THE
HE Undersigned have received
"Instructions
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1036
COMMENCING AT 5.15 P.M. .
AT TERIR SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE
STAMPS
Comprising
Fine Specimens of Triangular Capes, Ceylon, Old Europe, British Colonies, Hong Kong, China, etc.,
etc.
ON VIEW From MONDAY,
THE 25TH MAY, 1936,
THE HOTEL RIVIERA TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERT!
MACAU
Cable Address :-" Riviera, Macau."
LAMMERT BROS AUCTIONEERS.
HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS
AND
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
ILLUSTRATED
“
PRINTED IN GOOD QUALITY
.
PAPER OVER 40 PAGES
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
FULL REPORTS
OF
LOCAL NEWS, SPORTS, GOSSIP, TRADE, ETC.
30 CENTS A COPY
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD.
11, ICE HOUSE, ST.
TEL. 20251.
From the Studio Belections by "The Continental
Trio,"
8 p.-Local; Time Signal, Wes- thef Report, Stock Quotations and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Chinese Programme...
Relay from
Ko Shing
1.
Theatre.
the
11 p.in.-Close down. 8.05 to 10 p.m.-European
gramme from Z.EK. on a fre- quency of 640 kilocycles. 8.05 p.m.-
||
150.00 1.07 up 46.81 .31 up 30.50 .18 up 109.15 .11 up
65.75
Business Done;-140,000 shares.
2008
367 371
461
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received
14
instructions
TO SELL Br
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
MONDAY, MAY 25, 1936.
COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M
AT THE SALES ROUM,
DUDDELL STREET...
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
Black Wood Ware, Chesterfield Suites, Teak Bed and Dining Room Furniture, Office Furniture, Grame phones and Records. Typewriters, Sewing Machines. Clocks. Electric
22 21 Ceiling & Table Fans, Table Lamps,.
Linen, Curtains, Carpets, Rugu. Cutlery, Porcelain and Glass Ware, Brass and E. P.
Ware, Curios,
Pictures, Ice Chests, etc., etc.
10 101 Upright Pianos
THE 23RD MAY, 1936.
TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERT.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS
Last Sale
Stocks
May 22 23
Stock's
Last Sale May 22 23
Adams Express... Amer. Can
11
11
Western Sugar ...
354 351
128
129
Humble Ol
591
50
Amer. Cyanamid "B"
357
36
Int. Harvester Co.
841
85
71
Int. Nickel
45) 47
Am. & For. P. $7 pi
321*
341
Int. Tel. & Tel.
13
14
Am. Light & Trau
25+
27
Kennecott
Amer. Locomotive...
191
193
Loew's Inc.
Four Songs by Jan Klepura (Tenor)
Amer. Radiator
20
26
Lorillard
Amer. Rolling Mill...
701
774
McKesson & Rob-
Nacht oder Niel
Amer. Emelting
45
631
bins Inc.
412 413
Am. Sugar Refining 1814
1621
Monsanto Chemica
Amer. Tel. & Tel.
923
93.
Amer. Tobacco 'B'...
214
217
Montgomery Ward... Nat. City Bk
79% 42
-424
337*
and
4. My heart is always calling you
(Stolz).
Amer. Waterworks...
33$
34A
Nat. Dairy Prods....
221 23
Anaconda Copper
701
711
Nat. Distillers
291 29
6 Refrigerators
Atchison, T. & S. Fe.
28
284
Nat. Power & Light
Atlas Corpn. Auburn
113
12
New York Central...
344 351
2 Radio Gramophones
29
30+
North American
251 251
Baltumore & Ohio... Bethlehem Steel....
174 18
Northern Pacific
2271 271
1 Radio Set
50
51
Pacifc Gas & E'ec.
341 35.
Boeing Airplane Co. Barden Co.
184
191
Pacific Lighting ...........
50
491-
27+
28
Packard Motors ..... 101 101
Bkly
Manhattan
Paramount Picture
'ON VIEW FROM SATURDAY,
Trans Corpo,.................... Bklyn Manhattan.
46+
471
Incor.
3)
Pennsylvania R. R.
291 291
pro-
$6 cum pl.......... Case, J. I.
104
104
153
155
Phillips Petroleum Pure Oll Co
401
41
413
Canadian Pac. Rly.
12
121
Fub Service of NJ.
171 18+
Chase Nat. BK........
372"
379*
Radio Corpn.
202
Chesapeake
Corpn.
62 *
$31
Radio Corpn
"B"
Chesapeake & Ohio
56
561
$5 of......
991
100
Chrysler
951
Reyrioids Tob "B.... 532
531
19
191
Schenley
427 431
49 *
992
Schenley 54% p. 100
100
581
B01
Sears Roebuck
70+ 884
171 171
Socony-Vacuum
12)
12
PUBLIC AUCTION
Sthrn, Cal. Edison 201
261
3
21
Sthm. Paciic
31
32
Stand. Brands
151
151
£6
681
Stand Gas Y Elec
64
Consolid. Gas of N.Y.
321
311
Stand. Oll of NJ: 581
BTHE
Consolid, Ou
117
121
Sterling Prods.
681
681*
Continental On Corn. Products Curties Wright (C) Curtis Wright 'A'... Delaware & Hudson Distillers Corpn. Sea-
301 301
Swift Internationa!
29
27
761
771
Technicolor
30 298
61
6+
Texas Gulf Sulphur
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
354
351
15
15
Transamerica
121
124
ON
31
391
20th Cent. Fox Fim.
comm.
24
24
WEDNE DAY,
grazis
241
241
20th Cént. Fox Film.
Douglas Aircraft ....
541
581
pt.
331
334
Du Pont de Nemours 143 Electric Boat
144
Un. Carbide & Car-
11
·
131
bon
81
821
Elec. Bond & Share Mec. Bond & Share
$5 pt.... Elec Bond & Share
$8 pt...
191
· ឆទ
Un Pacific
1242
1241
Un. Aircraft
(New)
22
221
.671*
OB1
Un. Airline Trans...
153
161
MAY 27, 1936"
COMMENCING at 10.30 A.M.
A THRIE SALES ROOM UUDDELL STREET.
Un. Corpn.
781
791
Un, Corpn. $3 cum.
Elec. Power & Light Gen. Cigar Gen. Electric
15 151
pf.
431
434
50
56
Un Gas Improve-
381
361
ment
151
154
381
381
U... Indus Alcohol
38 392
614
"62
U.S. Rubber
291
30
U. B. Steel
331
351*
57
15
.151
Vanadium
181
181
Warner Bros. Picts.
191
194
92
10
L
WestinghouSP
Elec.
251
112
112}
Call Money
351
36
• Bid
Woollen, Artificial Silk and Cotton Piece Goods, Woollen Blankets, Bubber Shoes, Ginseng, Birds' Nests, Clothing, Japanese Leather, Cigarette Papers, Confectionery, Pepper, Milk, Canned Goods, Sharks' Fina, Bis cuits, Fish Mawe, Cuttle
Fiab, Compay, Dried Shrimps, Awabi, eta,
etc.
and
Excerpts from Grand Opera Orchestral Grand Fantasia од "The Mastersingers of Nurem- burg" (Wagner). Vocal "Carmen" Toreador's Song (Bizet-Riccardo Strae- clari. A Appoloni! E. Ticozzi and ChoruS. Aria-"Barbiere.
di Siviglia Largo al Factotum (Rossin!). Riccardo Stracciari (Baritone), Orchestral "The Bartered Bride"
-Overture (Smetana). Aria-"Norma"Queen of Heaven (Bellini)-Ina Souez (Soprano) Orchestral "Cavalleria Rusti- cana"-Intermezzo (Mascagni).
8.40 p.3.
4*
Choral Music
Ye Bank and Braes (Old Scottish
ANT),
Golden Slumbers kiss your eyes St. (arr. Dunhill),-Boys of Mary of The Angels Choir School.
O Who will O'er the downs so
free? (de Pearsall).
Columbia Gas & E. C. G. & E. 6% 'A' pl: Commercial Credit Com). Solvents Comm,& Southern
(ord.) Comm. & Bouthern (ord) $8 cum. pí.
Hush thee my bible (Suilivan).
The B.E.C. Wireless Singers. Gen. Foods There is a Tavern in the Town Gen. Motorsi
(Traditional).
Vive
la
Q. N'thern Rly..pf.
Gen. Rly. Signal Compagnie; When God Du Johnny comes marching home Goodrich Tyre Co.. (Traditional) Harold Williams Goodyear Tire & R and the B.B.C. Male Chorus, p.m.-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin and Announce- ments (Copyright by Reuter 9,20 p.m.-"Melville Gideon" Med-
ley.
9.30 p.m.-Dance Music.
10 p.m.-Big Ben: Close Down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
4.30 p.m. Call DJB. DJN. DIQ
(German, English). German Folk Song.
4.55 b.m. Greetings to our listeners. 5 p.m.-Dance Music.
5.30 p.in. News and Economic Re-
view in English
↑ .ex. div.
Operetta by Josef Strauss, Direction: Errist Wilhelmy, 11.45 p.m.-Sports Review.
12 midnight-Sign off DJA, DJE,
DJN. DJB (German, English).
RADIO MANILA
5:30 am-Breakfast Hour of News and Muste--English and Span- is Current Events and Vande- ville of the Atr. conducted by Don Alva. Morning Exercises by Prof. G. T Suva a.m.-Sign, Off.
5.45 pm. Therefore tis I love
thee, Germany." A Quiet Con-7 fession in Music and Poesy,
6.30 p.m.-Sports Review.
6.45 p.m.--News and Economic B-6
view in German
7 p.m.-Concert of Light Music.
8 .m.-News in English-Sign of
DJQ,
2.15 p.m.-Concert of Light Music
(continued).
9 p.m.-Sign off for South Asia
'Germ. Engl.
6
pm-Melody Lane, featuring
Mario del Rio.
pm-Are you Listening? Con-
ducted by Berzile Nolasco
Period.
6.35 p.m.-English Informational
Period.
6.55 p.m.-Stock quotations, through the courtesy of Swan, Culbert- son and Fritz.
9.05 p.in-Call DJA and DJE (Ger-7 p.m.-The Mystery Binger.
man English>
German Folk Song.
9.10 p.m.-Creetings to our Lasten-
19.15 pm-News and Economic Rè- View in German on DJA, DJE DJN, 'DJB.
9.30 p.m.-Brass Band.
to p.m-News and Economic Re- view in English on DIN, DJE and in Dutch on DIA, DJB. 10.10 p.m-To-day in Germany,
Sound Pictures. 10.30 pm Frühlingsluft
possible mud
བྷཊྛ ཙརཱྀཨྰཿžཏྟཊྚཨཿཝནཱ ཨོཨྰཿ=vནཱཀྐ ༔ཨྰཿཝོདྡྷིཊྚནཱཛྙྰནཱཙཨྰཿཧཱུཾཿབྷུཊྚརཱ བྷནྡྷསྨནཱན ཨཱ ཨཱཨྠ8ངྐོ སྦྲོ
HOME OF FAMOUS SETTLER
Deliberately Destroyed
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SIGHTSEERS ANNOY DESCENDANT
London, May 3. p
The century-old home of the the Scottish Laird McNab,
THE Undersigned have received
Instructions
A QUANTITY OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS
Comprising:-
78 Boxen of Vanek's Cheese (each box 5 lbs. nett)
ON VIEW FROM TUESDAY, THE 26TH MAY, 1986.
TERMS:-Ash on DeliveRY.
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
chieftain who brought eighty-five tario, was a giant of a man who e
on
0.20 p.m-Spanish Informational clansmen to Canada in 1825 and ruled his clansmen with a rod of settled on an 80,000 acre tract Iron, and sought to preserve feuda- given them by the Government of lism in the new land.
The
Who eighty-five settlers Upper Canada, has been deliber-
came out with McNab soon found ately destroyed at Arnprior.
John Box, the McNab descend- their dream of becoming free men ant, who is the present resident in a free land shattered when the the land where the original chief forced them to pay tithes to McNab home now stands, has him, perform services and do him homage, although the land bad. knocked away the crumbling foun- dations and let the building col- been a free gift to the settlers..
from the Government of Upper lapse into a heap of debris.
Box explained that he and his. Canada. mother had been "pestered to McNab was finally brought be 8.15 pm-Fire Feet of Melody-death by people asking questions fore the court of Quarter Sessions
Lina Flor, and Ariston Avelino, 8.30 pm-The Voice of the Herald, 8.45 pm-8tock Quotations and
Local Market Reports...
1.15 pin-Manila Motor Company present Richard Himber and His Studebaker Champions.
Sanatorium p.m-Teachers' Programme.
7.30
8 pm-To be announced,
9 pm-Dance Music from Legaspi Garden and Russian Eagle. 10.30 pm-8th ON-
about the building and by picnic at Perth, which was then capital barties who visited the grounds, of the district, and his career as trampled potato and corn crops. a fendal/chieftain was summarily and often went away leaving fires checked. After fifteen years of marle he left Canada and re- after their plenies."
The McNab, whose name has turned to Europe, and finally died become a 'fegend in eastern On- in France in 1843, a broken man."