HONGKONG TRADE.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REFORT.
The fortnightly Price Current and Market Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, states:-
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY.
36TH ANNUAL BAZAAR
THE. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
The Admiral Line steamer West Hartland, of 6,167 gross tons. arrived in port this morning on As will be seen from an aber maiden trip from Portland nouncement appearing in another (Oregan) with 270,269 feet of column. the 36th annual bazsa lumber and a general cargo. Her of the Society of St. Vincent de departure for Singapore via, Cotton piece goods and Fancy, Paul will be held on the 7th Dec Manila is scheduled for Monday, Cotton goods. It is satisfactory ember. This year's bazaar will the 2nd instant. to report a very firm and advanc- be on a much larger scale than ing home market. Record prices those of former years,
are demanded for everything, so in addition to "the com- The programme
of arrange- that the phenomenally high ex-pound of the Roman Catholicments in celebration of the change does not make dealers' Cathedral, where the annual seventy-fifth anniversary of Union bargains look dear, considering bazaar has hitherto been held. Church has just been issued. It to-day's replacing values. the large play-ground of the old covers the eight days from Nov. Although the period since we St. Joseph's College has
this 16th to 24th. It includes an! last wrote has been a quiet one year been placed at the disposal Organ Recital on the 19th and a as regards new business, our of the Society for this purpose Social Reunion on the 24th in market is quite healthy and through the kindness of His Lord-addition to the Sunday Services. cargo almost all goods is badly ship Bishop Pozzoni.
The latter will be conducted on wanted. The latest cotton The two compounds will be the 16th by the Rev. J. Kirk quotation is 23.59.
brilliantly illuminated on the Maconacbie, Minister of the Cotron Yarn-Market ruled evening of the fête, two bands Church, and on the 23rd by the very quiet and a limited business will be present. and the Rev. Dr. G. H. Bondfield of the has been done. Prices, in numerous attractions of a Fairt British and Foreign Bible Society. sympathy with the rise in Ex-will be provided for the amuse-who held the pastorate of the change, declined $5 to $10 per ment of old and young. There will Hongkong Union Church from bale. Quotations are No...10s be several raffles, including a 1837 to 1894,
at $220254. No. 12s at $235258, Dollar Raffle for 100 valuable No. 168 at $290 325. No. 20s at prizes. the tickets for which will $325.365. Arrivals 8,000 bales.be on sale early this month, and Sales 1,500 bales. Shipments 300a Motor Car Raffle (the tickets bales. Unsold 3,000 bales. for which are now on sale) for Bargains 20,000 bales.
A SWEEPSTAKE SWINDLE. An English paper states that a. £100,000 sweepstake swindle in connection with the Calcutta Derby sweepstakes was pulled off last June. A gang of clever crooks
new Overland five-seater motor Raw Cotton. Prices show a car fitted with wire wheels. further slight improvement. The Bazaar Committee is Nominal quotations:-Indian appealing to the ladies of Hong-for the first time in the history of descriptions $44 56 picul. Chinese kong for prizes for the various the great race are said to have descriptions 847:60.per picul. Stalls. and to the generosity of
the Hongkong public for that Club tickets, for sale in England, issued spurious Calcutta Turf Woullens. Very little doing. Metals. Small business report- financial support which ed in nails and galvanised wire.necessary to enable the Hongkong been so late in developing is the and the reason why the fraud has Specification 18 gauge sold at Council to carry out the extensive fact that the winning tickets about $14.75. Business generally schemes of social work among must be sent to Calcutta for quiet.
the poor of this Colony which the
collection from the Indian banks.
is
Flour market report.--Stuck: Conferences of the Society in The refusal of the Calcutta Club About 300,000 sacks. Queta- other lands are developing so to pa on the spurious tickets has
successfully,
The Supreme Council of the last become known in London, Society of St. Vincent de Paul is and in more than one exclusive in Paris, the present President-club there has been great excite- General being M. le Vicomte L. d'Hendecourt. In the United
tions-American Patent $3.80 per sack; Shanghai Flour 2nd $2.86 per sack: Australian No. 1. $2.90 per sack: Australian No. 2
$2.73 per sack.
Sugar. Market quiet.
THE CORONET.”
THE AUCTION_BLOCK"
ment.
States the Society had in 1917 a ing after. The work of the Society membership of 17.819, and assist is not confined to members of ed during that year 30,306 farmilies your own denomination; the Pro- of 116,161 persons. the ex-testant poor also come within the The fame of that delightful penditure being $611.383. The scope of your beneficent work. of the Society inThat is one of the reasons why I picture. The Auction Block."position
Empire is admire you so much and why I had preceded it, and as a result the there was a crowded house at shown by the following figures:-am here to-night. You are gov
The Coronet. last night. When
we say The Auction Block" is
one of the finest pictures it has England
British
Confer-
ences. Members.
366
3,903
"Our
we
lo:
are not
to see any-Ireland
249
5,065
just Scotland
98
1.371
162
6,635
223
1,897
34
820
29
285
16
159
11
134
...
5
77
been. where, giving a cheap advertisement Canada. to boast The Coronet: we are Australia perfectly sincere.... It is of the Asia same class-only better-as the Africa other films which Mr. Ray has Egypt screened of the Metro productions Gibraltar and which have provided those people Malta who love the pictures "with en-British Guiana tertainment which it is more than West Indies... probable they would never had had their been no Coronet. We say in all sincerity that we would "rather see a film like The Auction Block," than a hundred cheap melodramatic sob-pictures of the sort the Hongkong public were asked to swallow only two or three years ago.
1,198
114
22,454
A striking testimony to the splendid work of the Society was delivered at the 68th annual meeting of the Glasgow Council on June 12th. 1917, by Bailie Graham, the Senior Magistrate of the city of Glasgow. "I have The Metro Company has dealt he said "an intimate knowledge in a very artistic manner with of the work of the St. Vincent this film play from the će Paul Society, and I ap- pen of Rex Beach, whu, as is preciate it very much. It gives pointed out in the summary me particular pleasure to of the picture. has dug deep attend this meeting, because I into the vender of our know that there is not in the city twentieth century civilization, of Glasgow a Society which does
good, exposing the modern marriage such
unostentatatious, mart as "The Auction Block" charitable work as yours. Your where the body and soul method of giving does not tend to of woman' is bartered and undermine the receivers' sense of sold without shame, just as it personal dignity: 'you give in was thousands of years ago in that brotherly spirit which makes Babylon. The same virility that a man feel that he is being helped characterises Beach's novels of out of a difficult postion by the Frozen North is to be friends, I congratulate the found in this vivid story of Society On the fourishing to-day. In all there are condition eight parts and each is full of and entertainment.
A word must be given to the music that is played during the the screening of the picture. This
erned by no narrow sectarian principles: you are broad minded men, extending a helping hand to all who need assistance."
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of its funds the
valuable work which is being done by its members. I notice that the members of the Glasgow Con- ferences have paid 45,633 visits 66 is of the best including selections to the poor in their homes during from Egmont, Maritana, Rigoletto the year; I do not know any other: and Boheme. "The Auction charitable organisation in Glas- Block, the public is remided, gow which takes such a practical has only three more nights to run. interest in the poor they are look-
HOLING THE PUTT.
I've holed ma putt,
And so I've won the match to-day.
And never better did I play.
I dinne' envy even the Prince,
For a the world is brighter since
I hated ma putt.
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I've holed ma putt!
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I feel that I could shout and sing.
Or even dance the Hielan' fling!
On everything the sun shines bright, Life's good to-day, my liver's right,
"I've holed ma putt.
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I've holed ma putt,
The Colony's going to the dogs
And profiteers are worse than hogs; Men can't get either hoose or but, So let it be What's money? Tut.
I've holed ma putt.
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THE AUCTION BLOCK”
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