THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
MARKET
PRICES.
1912-
moro Toet matoles than any man
alive. The match against Eng-
Twenty-Three Years in Bed.
land at Lord's on June 24th
HERE AND THERE.
COMMERCIAL
Hongkong, August 2, 1912.
· BUTCHER MEAT.
Ots.
Beof Sirloin & Prims Cut,-Mei Lang Pe
Cornel-Ham Ngau Yuk...
11.
Roast,-Shiu
1
Broast,--Nagu Lan
Soup,-Tong Yuk
Steak, Ngan Yuk Pa
"
6.9
do. Sirloin Colom-Ngan Lau Sausages,-Ngaa Chaung
Bullock's Brains-Kaow.....
52
"
· Tunguo frosh,-Ngau Li
corned,-Ham: Ngan Li
Head, Ngau Tan
Heart-Ngau Sum
DA
Hump, Salt,-Ngau Kin
Fool,-Ngau Kosk
Kidueys-Ngau Yi
441
Tail,-Ngau Mor...
#
Salmon.-Ma Yan Y,
lb. 44
肉食
Shark, Sa Yu, ...
9
Skato,--Po Yu
11
32
Snapper,Lap Yu
36:
迎您
28
沙熊
18.
28
66
Tonch,Wan Yu
lb. 20.
Shrimps,Ha
20 241 Boles,-Tat Sa Yu-
Turbot,--Cho How Yu
Turtles, small, fresh water,-Kork, Yu
White Bait,-Ngau Yu Chai
Almonds, Hung You...
FRUITS
***
Apples (Californis)—Kem San Ping Kho
(Chefoo)Tia Chun Ping Kho
Custard,-Fan Lai Ohi
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Bananas, fragrant, Ounton, Sun Sling Henng Chiu 1b.4
(bridos), Macao, San Houng Chiu Chestnuts, Chinese,-Foong Lut
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brought his number up to fifty, Russian General Oll Corporation,
"The days of our years are and Australians in England have
threescore years and ton, sings got up a testimonial to com- Details aro now published of the Pealmist; and the mann or memorate this record. * the Russian General on Corpora- woman who attains that age Though. "Syd" is now a very tion (Limited), the share of spende years of his life in doing fine bat, and when across here in which were to bo introduced on what are rogarded as common 1800 handed his side's averages, the London Stock Exchange on daily actions.
scoring nearly 1,500 runs, it was July 8. The Corporation has a The average person of seventy not as a bat or bowler that he share capital of £2,500,000 in has spent no fewer than twenty- was first asked to represent his shares of $1 each, of which three years of his life in bed, country, but simply as a fielder. £1,250,000 has been issued for assuming that his nightly sleep He is the only living oricketer of cash, the balance being held has been eight hours throughout whom that can be said.
in reserve. The company has
銀雞懂
life. Most people spand about Good judges consider him the been formed for the purpose of fifteen minutes a day over the best fielder at cover-point in the developing oil properties in
菓子
care of their tooth. The septun history of cricket, not even Jessop Russia. The Corporation has
gonarians have thus apeat oxcopted. One recort, at løset, already entored into negotia almost a year in this way. he holds as a fieldsman that is tions with a certain number of
How long have they spout at not likely ever to be equalled. producing companies and reflas table? Allow half an hour for When folding against South ries in the Baku district, and it is each moal, and the answer is six Australia at Adelaide once in a stated that these arrangements, years. Thoy oat on an average hot run, he turned sleepy for a when completed, will practically Fimono loaf of bread a day. In all moment. Mid-off shouted, "Look ensure to the Corporation this their life three inilos of loaves out, Syd!" Tho startled fields-control of a yearly production of have been consumed, supposing man saw something black dart petroleum of about 75,000,000 that the latter are put end to end. past him, shot out an arm, and poode. Including ton, coffee, and milk, brilliantly caught—a bird!
As the whole of the issue has been subscribed, no,
20'
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20
30
牛柳...
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牛膜
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Livor,-Ngau Koa
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Tripe (undrossed),—Ngau To
Calve Head & Foot,-Ngau-obai-tau-kark Mutton Chop,-Young Poi Kwot
30
11
Log, Young Poi
Shoulder,-Young Shan
Piga Chitlings, Chu Chong
Brains,-Ulm Know
Foot, Chu Kark Fry-Chu Chuk
Ib. 12
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Carambola-Young Tue...
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Cocoanuts,Yoh Tse
+45
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Linics, (Saigon)-Sai Kung Ning Moong
16
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lb. 12
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16
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each 13
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Tau Kark
BOL 50
Hoad,-Chu Tau...
Hart,-Uhu Sum...
Kidueye, Chu Yiu...
"
,,Livor,-Chu Con
Pork, Chop, Chu Pai Kwat
10
Cornell, -Ham Chin Yuk Log, Chu Po.
Fat or Lard,-Ulu fo
Shoop Hond and Fool,-Ar
oach 6
Lemons, China,-Ning Moong
America,Kum San Ning Moon Lichees Dried,-Lai Chi, small Stone
Fresh,
Maugo, Manila, Lui Sung Mong
Mangosteens,-San Chuk Teo
Oranges, (Canton)-Sun-shing Tim Ching
Swoot
Pears, (American),-Kam Son Shoot Lay
17
(Canton), Cooking,--Sa Lay Peanuts, Fa Sang
***
Persimmons Large,-Hung Chie
***
省企
throo hundred barrels of liquid • Strange ways of Sleeping.
have been accounted for,
Different nationalities woo the
The office man of seventy, has fickle goddess of sleep in different
scriptions are being invited.
Rubber Dividends
put in five years in walking to ways. Europeans and Americans Valambrosa Rubber Co., Ltd. the station and to his office. A like a soft pillow under the hand. has declared a final dividend of woman of seventy, evon simple in The Japanese, stretching himself 18. 7 1-5d. The Directors of her dress, has taken seven years on a rush mat on the floor, puts Ulu Piah, Ltd., announce
a harl, aquaro block of wood un- dividend of 20 per cent, for the
Ein olothing borsolf,
樂
10 本地波耀
644
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10
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10
20
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11
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10
紅梨
each: 18
Pino-apples, 1st quality-Peon Ti Paw Law occhi
2nd -Chung-tang Paw Law Plantain,-Tai Chet 猪排
**
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Plums,-Swatow, Hung Lai
**
Pumolo, Sisin, Ohim to You
Shanghai-Lo Kwet
Walnuta,-Hop Tuo
Groon, Sang Hop Tuo
Water Malon,(Am.) Kom San Sai Kwa
(China) Sai Kwa...
Grapes, Sang Po Tai Tse
VEGETABLES, &c.
Artichokos, Shanghai, Sheung-hoi Ah. Ohi
4-Boans, (French), Macao, Oh Moon Pin Tau
<
8中等波蘿
A man and a woman who have
der his head, and does not sleep current month, The London
renched the allotted span of life if he does not have it.
will have used six hundred pairs
of boots between them, four
hundred dresses, and fivo hundred
late.
Tobacco Talk.
Asiatic Rubbor Produco Co. hivo,
In China the beds are very low, sold forward 64 tons of the 1913.
scarcely rising from the floor, but
they are often carved exquisitely crop at an average of 4v. 73-11:
of wood. The Russian likes no sleeping place so well as the top. If your tobacco begins to mil- of the big soapstone stove in his dow, don't throw it away. It can dwelling, and, crawling out of ensily be restored. But the whole this blistering bed in the morn- of it must be treated, as one spoting, be delighta in taking a plungo
F. M. S. Tin and Rubbar. Official figures of the export for. June, &c., give, the following: corresponding figures for 1011 are given in brackets,
Tin for June, 12,752 pikule (12.574); tin ore June 15,573
of mildow. is sufficient to taint a in a cold stream, even if he has to whole tin or jarful. 縮機
break through the ice to do so. pikuls (51,628); total 53,326: 上海勢骨 合祧
Lay the tobacco on some mus-
lin, and hold the muslin over the
spout of a kettle for a minute.
The steam will kill the fungus,
each 16 and when the tobacco dries it will
3
西瓜
生否姫于
菜蔬
Ta 澳門邊路
上海豐邊
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4.
1
榮榮
140
8
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·
... oaoh' 5
紅榮酒
150
1+6
8
11
14
5
10
Heart, Young Sum
"
Kidneys,-Yeung Yiu
Liver, Young Cou
Suoking Pig», To Order-Chu Ch..
Suot, Boof-Sang Ngau Yaa...
Mutton, Sang Young Yau ...
Veal, Ngan Ohai Yuk
Sausages,--Ngau Chai Chaung
9
媵
1b. 21
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.,, 22
47
20
44-00
22
20 47-4:0 Chouk
lb
20
POULTRY,
生口
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(French) Shanghai,-Shoung Hai Pin Tou
Sprout, Al Cho
:-
Chicken, Kai Chai'
Capone, Largo, Small,-Sin Kai
Long, Tau Ko
lb 32
32
19
21
鸭
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THA
144
oach 22
·HE KA
Eggs. Hon-Kai Tan........'" ...
Fowls, Canton,-Kai
Hainan, Hoi Nam Kai
Quoc, Ngôi
15
10
+
Goose, Wild S'hai, Shang-ho You Ngoi
Musk Door, Wong Kong
Hare, Shanghai, Tu Chai
por doz 24
:饭
Cabbage Red,-Hung Yea Choy
lb 30
Cabbage, Shanghai,Yeh Choi
32
Cane Bhoots, bunch,-Kou Shun
27
#A
pair
上海好篇
ebeh
MAX
47
Partridge, Che Khoo
Pheasant,Shan Kai
Pigoons, Canton,-Pak Kup
山鷄
exch 30
#
DA
Ducks, Ap
Doves, Pau Kau ...
EXAM
Boot Root,--Hung Choi Tau
Brinjale, Green-Ching Yunn Rod,-Hung Ker
"
Cabbage, Chinese, com,-Kai Choy
***
Cauliflower, Large size,-Tai Yeh Oho Fa
Medium size,Cheung Yeh Cho Fa
Small size,-Sai Yen Ŏkoi Fa
Carrots,-Kam Shum
| Celery, Chinese,Tong Kan Choi
English-Young Kan Choi
Chillies Dried,Gon Lot Chiu
Red, Hung, Far Chiu
Green-Ching Lat Chiu
RE Curry Stuff, English-Kar Leo Chu Liu
1
pair $1-
413
Hoihow,-Hoi How Pak Kup,
Quail,-Um Chun
Rice Birds,-Wo En Choul ...
Snipo, Sa-Choy
Turkoys, Cook-Phor Kai Kung
31
Ilon, P No Wild Ducks, Bhai-Shang hoi Sui Ap Tool, Sui Ap Chai,
***
+
Wild Ducks Osaton-Sang-Shing Sai Ap
...
JI
25
141
#
dozoa
Back
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lb. 85
45
"
水鴨仔|
FISH.
fazi 3F#
be as good as ever.
If your tobacco, instead of mildewing, has turued dry and
In Lapland the native crawls, pikuls (64,202), a decrease of Approximate head and all, into a bag made of 5,876 pikule..
reindeer skin. The East Indian, value in Singapore $5,701,813
the other end of the world, also (80,132,018); duty $748,840 has a sleeping bag, but it is moro
porous than the Implander's, and
its purpose is to koop out the mosquitoes rather than to keep its
brittle, use a spray. A perfume occupants warm.. spray costs only a few ponoe at a chomist's. Load it with cold
water, and spray the tobacco
gently, having first strewn it out
ovonly on a flat surface. ·
The German not only sloops on a feather bed, but underneath one as well.
The Moon's Monthly March. Why does the moon vary so
(8783,051).
Tin, January to June 1912- Block Tin 98,108 pikuls (265,453); Tin ore 208,140 pikule (265,803); total 301,261 pikuls (349,250); increase 41,007 rikols. Duly $4,870,104 (84,158,120).
Wolfram, June, 310 pikuls (1,306)..
Gold, Juno, 700 oz.; total for
If, when you are at the seaside, much in the 27 days 7 hours dur-yoar 6,470 oz.
you find that your favouritsing which she revolves round the Rubber, June 2,306,015; total
cigars or cigarettes have "gono earth? As a matter of fact, the six months 15,382,205 (against
off" do not blame the local moon shines by reflected sunlight,
tobaconist. The fault lies in the and the amount of light she gives
[son air. The salt in it makes depoads upon her position rat
cigare and cigarettes "sick," to only with regard to the earth, but 紅柳茶 uval 10
with the sun as well.
use the technical phross. Many men stationed in the
tropica pack their cigarettes and
cigars in tea, which absorbs the
**ant moisture of the air.
8,349,397).
South African Export Trade.
South African produce export-
ed. everses for the five months
onded May last, represented a
When aun and moon are op value of £20,000,000 and the im-
posite one another in line with ports £15,260,000, an increase
our own planet, we get what we of £3,250,000 and $250,000 re
call a full moon, and the now spectively. The proportion of
imports from the United Kingdom
The Most Luxurious Train. moon and quarters naturally de- The Russian Royal special pead upon the remaining post was 60.4 per cent. train is the heaviest and most lion of the three heavenly bodies. laxurious in Europe. When it Tho moon is nearly a quarter
I was constructed it was devised to of a million miles from the earth, stand a charge of dynamite, and and bosides giving reflected light, Eit cannot be taken fast ovor most she also, in a minor degree, gives
of the European lines, because reflected heat. their metals are too light.
11
咖啡
16
IF
lb.
INST
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39
中国坔花
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Ib. 10
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2
20.
14
10
#
10
Ritter Squash,-Fu Kwa
Cucumbers Ching Kwa
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148
Mushrooms, Fresh, Sang Cho Koo
#
10
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old-Lo Koung
...
海鮮
Garlic,-Que Tau...
Ginger, young,--Sun Tes Keung
19
Horse Radish, Shanghai,-Lik Kun
Indian Corn, Suk-Mai
Lottuce, Yeung Sang Choi
Water Chesnuta,-Ma Tai...
Mandarin,-Kwai Lam Ma Tai
Mush Melon. Amer.-Kam-san Hong Kwa Okroes...
Onions Bombay,Young Chong Tau
Groen, Bang Chong
Shanghai, Shang-hoi Chong Tau
Papaw, 1st qual, Tai Man Sau Kus...
2nd
Parsley, Kun Cho
Green Peas,-Ching Tau
Cla
Bream-Bin Yu
Carp, Li Yo...
Catfish, Chik Yu...
Codfish,-Mun Yu...
Barbel,-Ka Yu
Canton Fresh Water Fish,
lb 9
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200
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Frogs,-Tien Kai
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28
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36
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60
KAT
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13
Herrings, Teo Pak...
240
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108
350
监督
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30.
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32
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28
491
...
28
22
Orabs,-Hai
Cuttle Fish,-Muk Yu
Dab, Sa Mang Yu
Doce, Wong Mei Lun...
Dog Fish-Tit Tu Sa
Eels, Congor,-Hoi Mann
Fresh water, Tam Sin Yu... Eols, Yellow, Wong Sin
Garoupa,Sek Pan...
Gudgeon, Pak Kup Yu
Halibut,Ohioung Kwan Kap Labrus, Wong Fa Yu...
Loach,-Wu Ya
· Lobsters,-Lung Ha
Mackerel,-Chi Yu... ... Monk Fish, Mong Yu ... Mullot, Choi Yu
464
Oysters, Sang Hoo
*
Parrotfish,Kai Kung Yu...
Parah,-Tan Loo
Piko-Fa Paw Poong
Plaice,-Pan Yu
+
Pomfret, Black, Hak Chong
Pomfret, White,Pak Chong
Puune Ming" Hada
„Rödk
Rosoli-Chun Yumm
**
190
20
曲曲
20
18
40
62
་་་
each10
APPEAL TO PEKING.
Money.
The lunar surface in broken by Wuchang's Immediate Need for The train contains a small vast mountain ranges, and one of chapel, with an icon of peculiar the poaks rises to a height of sanctity, a library, bathi-rooms, 30,000 fest. Photographs of the
drawing-room, dinning-room, and moon were first taken ià 1840. `
bed-rooms. The servants' quart-
era are at the rear, and consist.
simply of an ordinary van
OBITUARY,
A native paper says Generals
Li Lae sent a despatch to the Pre- sident to the follwing effect :
"According to the report of President Li Chung-hsusn of the
#4* like carriage arranged with Former Hongkong Resident Dies Bureau of Finance at Wuchong,
sleeping bunks as if on board
ship. The train is so made that.
4 it can be changed to fit the Rus-
lb 15
., 10
洋葱西
6
14
营事
6 EM
410
Chung
8
.400
SEN
...
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KA
11
蔬菜
400
街機
3
Foodbow-Foo-olow Shui Tsai
...ench10
上日我州
Potatoe, Sweet,-Fan Shu
aLa
"
Shanghai, Shang-hoi Shu Tsa
+44
Japan-Yut Poon Shu Tes
442
#
American,Fa Ki Shu Tea
8
123
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149
Pumpkin-Tong Kwa
A Radiah-Hung Lo Pak Taai
Rhubarb (Frean), Tai Wong Sago, Teo So Shallots,-Gon Chung Tan
A Spinnchi,-Yin Choi
·魚魚黃沙象
BEZSKEKE 1022 47ADEVRENS EBOERD
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Tomatoes, Fan Ker
Faros,-Wu Tau
A
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144
14
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Panti, (Long), Lo Pak
English,-Yanng Lo Pak,
Vegetable Marrow,-Chit Kwa
sian or the mid-European gauge.
Ivory from Milk.
at Yokohama.
it is learned that $2,000,000 was:: to be delivered from the foreign
The death took place on July loan of $10,000,000 to relieve
22 at Yokohama of Mr. E. Powys, the Hupeh finances and that
who resided in that alty for forty- 5,000 piculs of copper wos ale to
One of the latest discoveries of four years, and for many years le transported from Tientsin for
the synthetic chemists is how to was associated with the firm of the coining of copper conta at the
make ivory out of nothing more Lane, Crawford & Co., Ld. Born Hupeh mint. It is a great ploa wonderful than cow's milk-and in the Midlande, and serving his
sure to hear this. The financial! vory good ivory at that, according apprenticeship in the drapery condition of Hupsh is becoming to all accounts. The original idea business, Mr. Powys came to the more critical than ever. All the go was to use the new ivory "for East in 1868, being in Hongkong verament banknotes, copper coats. 47 piano and organ keya because and Shanghai for about two years. and silver are exhausted. The
3fit preserves its original colour Arriving in Yokohama in 1868 fanda remitted by the central
indefinitely, whereas the genuine he entered into business on his
Government and the contribu- article turns yellow after a time. own account as gentlemen's out-
But it has been found that the fitter. Latter on the business tions from cities have been new product is not only an was absorbed by Messrs. Kirby the Hupeh Government in used. The only resource of Tefficient substitute for ivory, but & Co., Mr. Powys remaining with
can easily be prepared so as to the firm until it was bought out and the amount collected per Balt tax and liking take the place of amber, horn, by Mossre, Lane, Crawford & Co.
都道彀
2
(American),Kam-san Chit Ky
Kwa
Water Cross-Sai Young Cho
Yom
Lily root,-Lin Ngan
To Shu
The prices necessarily vary from day to day and the Bonitary
Board has no power to compal stallholders to sell at the prices quoted.
W. BOWEN ROWLANDS,
the
coral, celluloid, and such-like Mr. Powys transferred his ser- month does not exceed T producte, and, it is claimed, can vices to the latter firm, with whom 4,000,000. The expenditure of hardly be distinguished from he remained until five yours ago larger and the pay of the soldiers the administration has become when he retired. At this time
theta
It is in its position as a sub- he was one of the directors of the fast that those disbanded havo has not diminished owing to the stituto for ivory that the new company, and continued finan material has the appearance of cially interested in the business been given double pay on leaving being another instance of im up to the time of his death The defleft of this month exceeds proving upoo Nature. The new "N.O.D. N."
ivory takes a very high and, last ing polish, and will probably not
as natural ivory continues to grow
lack a commercial field for itself,
Chinese Pork Unsatisfactory.
|
Tis. 1,000,000, and the accounts
of the administration have pl
yet been squared. Negotiations
Offloor of Health for the City of loan of The 1.000.000 with
Dr. Collingridge, the Medical have been going on to conclude acaroar and dearer year by year. London has reported unsatisfe: foreign firm of "Chef Chen,
In Fifty Tests
forily on the conditions under the contrast The present Australian captain, which frozen from Chim Tibigued owing to Mr. S. L. Gregory, has played in!
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