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Cotton ploce goods and fancy ootton goods.-The market re- maine Hifolosa, and no fates of any ] importance are
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indifferent to movements of olther cotton and cloth prices or ex- chango, Clearances are relativo- ly very poor. Mid. Am. Cotton was quoted 14-14 in Liverpool on 12th instant, and Eg. Sakallaridos! 36.85.
Cotton Yarn.-A fow hundred [balos have changed hands at a ¦ reduction of $2 per balo, but donlora havo again stopped buying. Mattors have become Worso owing to the strike of boatmon in Canton. Nominal)
Sailing-To Canton daily at8 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Sundays 10 p.m. only) From Canton daily at 8 am and 5p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only) SERVICE OF THE HONG KONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.quotations are as follows:-No.
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Bailings to Macao-Daily at 8 a.m, & 2 p.m. (Sundays 9 a.m. only) Sailings from Macao-Daily at Ba.m. & 2 p-ru. (Sundays 4 p.m. only)nonte nil. Sales 1,000 bales.
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Flour Markot Report.-Stock: [75,000 sacks, Markot: Steady.
Quotations:-
American Patont Flour,. $4,80 por sack; Amorican Straight, $4.00 por sack; Amorican Cut off, $4.00- por sack: Shanghai, $3,60 por sack; Australlan No. 1, $4 00 per sack; Canadian Flour, $3.60 per sack,
Sugar--Domand improving. Baltpotre. Quiet market since last roport.
BRITAIN'S HARDEST HIT TRADES.
How the Sheltered" Have Triomphed,
MONDAY, MARCH 16 1925.
TO-DAY'S FASHION.
Three tails of ermino contrast their soft white and doop black against tho glittoring brilliance of silver Jace in this lovoly frook, Thoro is a silvor slip over which the shocrest tissue of groen is worn.
A CAFE IN POINT.
FRIGHTFUL FISHES.
The Spine that Killed Ulysses.
It is commonly hold that all sharks are dangerous to man. "Shark" is a vory inclusivo form, ombracing anything from tho bluo shark, which attains a length up to 25ft. and is some- timos caught in drift note off Cornwall, to the black mouthed [dog-fisli, 25ft. long:
The basking shark attains a flongth of nearly 30 ft., and small spocimens have bean rad-killed at Movaglusoy. The food of this creature consists of seawood and other soft stuff, including "KKS; It is, therefore, not a man-eater. The pickod or nikod, or spur dog has very sharp spines in front of both back fins, and has therefore to be handled by the angler or tho fisherman very cautiously, ofton punishing their handk badly.
Allied to the sharks are tho raye, including the whip-tailed ating ray, which has on its tail a foarful sorrated daggor; while the torpedo, numb-fisli, or cramp- fish has electric organs in tho head, with the aid of which it can give a strong shock. Tho Krostor Woover (othorwiso the Spitalfields Weovor, from its boing sold to the foreign Jows in Whitechapol) can give a painful wound with its long spino which it sooms always anxious to use, The viper Woover is oven more aotive and venomous, writes a correspondent of the Field.
THE DEVIL FISH. The fire flair, or sting ray is known by its spine, which has the tooth directod downwards Hike a spoar head. It was one of those spinos which ended tho carsor of Ulysses.
The father lasher, son scorpion,Į sea dovil, or dovil fish is also Thus, we find the bricklayer's known as ating lab, but although labourer in London earning, In it is vory spiny, it is not inten- 1925, 18. 44. per hour, an ad- tionally harmful. Modern sciant- vance of over 100 per cent. upon ista toll us that the sting of this his pro-war pay, which neaus fish is not venomous, as Was that, oven after allowing for formerly bollovod. As for the highor prioon, ho is earning much Josser Weover, or viper, thoro is more than before the war, alno doubt that a prick from one of though the national dividend, its sharp spines occasion a good There were "sheltered trades "again allowing for the rise in deal of Daia with much before the war, writos Sir Leopricos, is actually emaller than lowelling, it is cortain that Chiozza Money in the Daily bofore the war.
no exudation or dischargo Chronicle but no special nano No one grudges a bricklayor's of ♫ pisonous fluid pro- was then invonted for thom. labourer in London the wago of coods from the projecting spince, Indeed, our sheltered trades be-lo. 44d. por hour. It is little which the fish puts into action foro the war omployed the great-enough, if there are no other upon fooling a tough, but it is ter part of our working popula-parnors in the family, to koop & equally certain that the pain tion.
house hold going.
which instantly follows tho
They ranged from railway The fact remains that bo in do- puncture is sovoro, and there are sorvants to policemen, froining botter becauso of the war, instances where, within a few bricklayers and carpentors to while we have the misfortune to minutes, this pain has extended shop assistants, from scono- know that highly skilled mon in from the hand as high as the shifters to cooks and bottle-some of our finest industries are shoulder. However, roliof is washers, from school-teachers to caruing rates which, allowing readily obtained by means of the clergy, and from carmen to for the rise in prices, moan that smart friction with the sand of barmen.
their real wagos bavo fallen the shoro.
ROUGH AND READY ADJUSTMENTS.
I remember forming an estim-through the war. ato that of the occupied persons in the United Kingdom only one in four was exposed directly to foreign compotition.
Why, than, have the "sholtored" tradee, who were always with us, come into prominence since the war?
Wo do woll to bear in mind that the angler can rocnivo injury unhooking a captured perch or
It is clear, from an examin-piko, whilst the congor may prove ation of the canso at work, that ala holy terror. It is well to leave strong revival of our export trade a conger's tall saveroly alone would restore the pro-war relation whon altempting to despatch a of sheltered and unsheltered caught specimen, ospecially one trades, and enable the workor's in scaling, say, 50lb, Always leave unprotected industries to obtain the tail alone. The head is the The answer is that before the a better proportion of the nation-most vulnerable point, and its war, although the trades subjactal dividend.
formidable touth can generally
BEFORE THE WAR.
to foreign competition were un- But when this is said, what a bo avoided. Any attempt to shoitared by our fiscal policy, the flood of light is thrown by those strike a conger on the tail is. workers in thom usually contrived considerations upon our method certain to be ropaid with intorast to earn rates of pay equal to, or of adjusting wagos.
by tho sol. Anyone who has a bettor than, those earned by Horo is a mighty working notion that soa fishing is dull and workers in the sheltered trades-population engaged in a host of affords no excitement should try the trades which from their nature different trades. Each of those a night's congering, and be or were not exposed directly to trades is a law unto itself in the sho will soon be undoceived. foroign competition.
mattor of wagos. As to any par
or
Indood, it is true that the ticular trado, wages come to bo workers in many sholtered trades settled through productivity as were amongst the worst paid of worked upon by combinations of our wago-carnors, while those employors and work-people, and working in some of our industries as affected by the wisdom exposed to foreign competition unwisdom, the sharpness or wors, an things went, highly paid. stupidty, of these poople at any Thus a boiler-makor was re-particular time, with attendant munerated at a much higher rato quarrollinge and bickerings and than a footman, a fitter than a strikes and look-outs,
railway servant. On the other Suspicion roigne supreme, and hand, a bricklayer was much bot-thoro is rarely any good or tor paid than AT agricultural impartial information to be had labourer.
to enable the individual workeri
That tho War has brought to gaugo the justice or injustice special loss to unsheltered trades which attaches to any particular
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or influence agency to rolato any particular trade to the goneral body of industry of
NOBLEST TRADES MOST HIT. Amongst the industries which have suffered must, unfortunately,
or means
DAILY HUMOUR.
DETALLEN
THE PARIS BALON. Winston Churchill: "Yes, I which it forms an intergral part, know that little picture is the one The trade studios itself, as is we are looking at-but why not bo included some of our poblost and most characteristio trades. only natural in the circumstancos,
Evening News London,
The shipbuilder, the onginoor, and it gets more or less out of the have a look at these others ? "..- the
and national income; sometimes too boilar-maker-theso others have borne the brunt of much, sometimes trade depression. They have had without rhyme or reason.
too littlo.
Such a body, however, could to bow to the force of ciraums-) FAIRPLAY ALL ROUND. not function properly without; tance, and have found themselves During the war, when I was good information, and I therofora unablo, to prosoculo wago de-chairman of a Joint Industrial urge strongly that wo should! manda.
Board, I made the suggestion that establish a permanent National And avon while they have thus an Industrial Parliament should Consus Bureau, charged with the auffered a special and undeserved be set up, which would deal with all important duty of publishing misfortune, other trades, bocause all industrial matters, Including periodically and continuously the sheltered by circumstances and wages, from a national point of real facts as to productivity and therefore possessing superior bar-vlow, and which would help each income, for the nation as a whold gaining powers, have been able trade to relato itself economically, and for oach of its trades. That, to secure a larger share of the and thereforo justly, to the to my mind, is the way to solve national dividend:
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