OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
Acrons
1 An orator would be greatly handicapped if he had to speak only in there.
It would appear that this bost might be made by a draughts- man.
Here we ser a poor nainent lose its footing-or perhaps you would prefer a flower.
11 A case when to be in the dumps
is to be currect.
PEEK FREAN & CO.’S
THE
ENGLISH CRISPBREAD
100% WHOLE WHEAT
To keep your energy up and your waistline down, cat VITA-WEAT in place of ordinary bread. The whole of the wheat berry, with all its Vitamins, is in VITA-WEAT-you can tell it by its honest wheaten taste. There is no fattening, under-cooked starch in VITA-WEAT. It helps your digestion and naturally Start eating VITA-WEAT and corrects constipation.
you'll soon feel a change in yourself--you'll be Put VITA-WEAT on the brighter, brisker, healthier, table instead of ordinary bread or toast at every meal.
Stocked by Lane. Crawford's. The Blue Bird Cafe. The Sun Co.. The Sincere Co., The Wing On Co., The Kowloon Store, Hung Cheong and all the leading Compradore Shops.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET.
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY
STOCK EXCHANGE
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932.
There were no important changes to be noted at this morning's sension,. prices being well-maintained and the undertone quite good.
Saler.
Hotels (Rights) $1.80. Hongkong Renilles $12.30. Ewo Cottons Tia. 14.75. Hongkong Trams $23. China Lights (Old) 20%. Telephones (P.P.) $24.
Buyers.
Bank of East Asia $115. Canton Insurances $1200. Chinn Underwriters $9.30. China Fire Insurances $600. Dougiours $27.
I.K. & W. Docks $18.
Hotels (Rights) $1.80 Hongkong $16.40. Humphrey
Lands $77.
Ewa Coltons Tis. 14.70.
Hongkong Tramu $224.
Peak Trams (New) $8. Star Ferries $91.
Yauma Ferries (New) $31. China Lights (Old) $20.86. China Lights (New) $20%.
Electrick $74.75. Hongkong Macan Electrics $24. Telephones (P.P.) $23.85. Malabon Sugars $21. Canton fees
Hangkong
$11.
Dairy Farms $38, M. ******* Watsons (Old) $15.
Watsons (New) $142.
Lane, Crawfords (Old) $6.60.
Lane, Crawfords (New) $6,900, Sinceres $16.20.
Sellers.
Hongkong Banks $1636. Rouba $36M.
South China Motors "B" $12.
9 Days
of
Unheard-of Bargains
A few examples only:-
Radium Cropa
Usual Price. Bargain Price.
$1.85 per Yd.
Fuji Silk all shades
$1.00
.56
Crepe de Chine'in all colour
3.00
1,22
Radium Spun Crepe
2,00
1:15
Georgette Crepe (double width)
all colour
2.50
1,05
Printed Georgette
3.50
1.80
Printed Crepe
3.00
1.55
12 Such beautiful spots are
Gants Striped Shirts also Plain
6.00
2.60
Gents Pyjama Sults.
9.50. 5.50
Crepe de Chine Underwear
(3 pcs. set)
EXCHANGE RATES
Chiffon Kayser Silk Stockings
15.50
6.00
8.50
18
Why
2.75
Paris
Geneva Berlin
Yesterday, Previous Day.
03.7/16
93% .18.27/32 18.13/32
.16.65
Valo
Helsingfors
215
.20.1/10
Athens
565
Buenos Aires
8419
Shanghai
1/8
New York
4.00
1/7 3.6814
Amsterdam
.9.11
Vienna
30%
0.09 36
Madrid
44.11/18
Hongkong
Bucharest.
62014 173
1/3
Next to Moutries.
FELIX HAT SHOP
"York Building.
JUST RECEIVED A CONSIGNMENT OF "LUCILLE" FROCKS
IN THE
NEW ONDESE CREPE.
ALSO
NOVELTY WASHING FROCKS. Including a Large Number of Sizes 14" and 16".
Bombay
Yukahn
Monteviden
Montreal. ...4.181
Silver spot)... 16.15/16
The totul rainfall registered at, the Botanic Gardens during May was 2.22 | inches, spread over eight days,
Brusspis
Milan.
Prague
Stockholm
26.36
71%
717%
1236
.19%%% 197
Lisbon.
Coperhagen. 18.30
Itip.
.110 -17%
124 19.7/16 19.7/16 110
179
-174 1/6.5.10 175.15/16 1/9%
30
330
F1
(Forward 16.15/16
4.30 16.15/16 17
British Wireless,
SPOTS are SNAPPY !
WE HAVE JUST OPENED.
50
DECIDEDLY BRIGHT
DESIGNS IN ALL THE
NEW SPOTTED EFFECTS.
AS USUAL
WHERE THE NEW COODS ARE
BOMBAY SILK STORE
2, D'AGUILAR STREET.
LIPTON'S
CHOICEST PURE CEYLON TEA From all Compradore Stores.
LIPTONS
KING GEORGE
POUT
Agents:-W. R. LOXLEY & CO.
Your need these for, the, Summer.
PHARMACY'S
SUNBURN LOTION -
PRICKLY HEAT LOTION
MOSQUITOL
AND
COCKROACH POWDER
THE PHARMACY, Phono 20345.
615
The show-girl who can coni- mand a good figure usually has one.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
EACH OF THE KIDS PAID ME A DIME TO RIDE ON
MY NEW VELOCIPEDE..... THAT MAKES SIXTY CENTS... BOY! THAT'S
A LOT OF MONEY;
IF Y'ASK ME !!
READY MADE GOODS.
25% DISCOUNT ON SHAWLS, HOURI COATS, BRIDGE 'COATS, PERSIAN COATS, KIMONOS, UNDERWEAR, ETC.
Have you seen such prices
before?
Residents of 40 years have never seen such Bargains in the Colony!
NOW ON
at the
TAJMAHAL SILK
STORE
KING'S THEATRE BUILDING. D'Aguilar Street.
The famous home of the best of
WATER LEVELS.
SILKS.
WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS
The following table issued
River the Kwangtung vaney
on the dates named in the West,
North and East Rivers:
Highest on Lowent May June
record on record. Bi
1
West River at
Shishing 441.7
8.4
7.1
0
12.1
12.6
Bamshaf 27.3 Exat River at
Sheklang 15.5
-6.3
-2.1
2.0 4.5
$.4 1.8
by North River at
Tsingyuen +26.¢ Conker- North liver at shows the Commission height of water in English feet
WITH "TH' DOODLE AN' ME CHIPIN' IN TH" BALANCE, WE'LL HAVE ENOUGH TO PAY TONY
FOR POODLE UPSETTIN'
HIS FRUIT CART !!
vare,
but there is no reason why they" should not be dense,
13 Very uncommon reversed, 10 Ran into a trench and died in
extremities.
to
17 A very likely place in which to
And n cun-and something
into it.
aure
should the umpire make a angter? Because he's
of a a bite, of course. Easy, 21 Maternal nbetarnal insect
simply huge.
23 Birds that hide their heads be hind their tails in order think,
to
21 What graziers do, but the sub- stance of the matter is the main fiart.
25 No
landscapes arr complete
without much animals
28 Is this part of Mexien with
out its own particular animal. 29 Some flowers one finds in flelds, but this is a complete reversal of the process.
40 Best in prayers, at anagrammatically,
Down
any
2 Hinder part of the head.
rate
3 Noise and nothing else char- acterises this prominent 8gure In Norse mythology.
4 Gave up.
5 Describes the man who speaks
CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
REDS DRIVEN BACK INTO HUNG LAKE
Hankow, June 1. Government troops claim a big victory at the expense of a large
· in I.
G Shout like anything!
7 "Glory like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth 'to- itself" ("King Henry VI.." part }).
"I met my Della" nt once (anag.).
to This interpolation, by the way. is introduced by an ancestor.
14 A colour in which one is bound
to make a bit.
15 You can spell this fure in three
letters, but not here.
ball, or a
19 Might be a baby, n
chucker-out..
20 Rule when sovereign is a minor,
example.
for
This communicaton
21 This
when its time to eat.
tella ULA
22 Most melodious-ask any Savo-
"yard his opinion.
he's a highbrow.
26 Indians which are
dumb folk.
unless
beheaded
|27 A Hindu woman is quite wrap-
ped up in this.
Yesterday's Solution.
MUTABLE WITHERS
R FO
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T U NBTONESTHROW EATS E E E DI ET REU FLATTEN NI A INLEY B LASSIE LE A REP MOTER WHITEY REALMB AA UEGO DE A CAMBER UDAMNED [CM RUFF LANE D (USED [NF KEBAU 8 ROUNDABOUTS TO ETWE′′WTCTE
REYNARD MANHOOD
Lake district. The troops gradual- ly pressed the Communists back into the lake where fierce fighting ensued.
More thum a thousand Com- munists are reported to have been number drowned in the lake, and
of bodies from Hung Lake are at present floating past Hankow down army of Communists in the Hung the Yangtsze.--Renter's Special.
FLITSPRAY
The Charge of the Light Brigadel
LOOK! SIXTY CENTS!! AN' TH' OODLES FELL FOR,
IT LIKE A SACK OF SALT.... NOW WE CAN KEEP 'EM FROM TEARIN' OUR CLUB
HOUSE APART !!
YOU'RE CERTAINLY TH' NOODLE OF THIS CLUB, OSCAR... I'D HATE TO HAVE OUR CLUB BUST UP.... BUT NOW EVERY-
THING IS HUNKY-DORY
ABAIN!!
BUT.... ON
THE OTHER HAND,
THE OODLES
ARE ALL DETERMINGO
TO TAKE
THEIR - PARTS
OF THE
CLUB HOUSE
RATHER THAN
BE ASSESSED
A DIME APIECE....
KILLS THEM
We'LL SHOW 'EM THEY CAN'T GET- "AWAY WITH IT", AT'S WHAT
FLIT
$1218
By Blosser
SURE...TH' IDEA OF HIMA AN' OSSIE MAKIN' US PAY FOR BONGTHINGS. WE HAD NUTHIN' TO
DO WITH !!
THEY WONT
HAVE MUCH
LEFT OF
| HOUSE WHEN
THROUGH
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