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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924.

MAJORZANNI::

ARGENTINIAN AIRMAN OFF TO FOOCHOW.

AUSPICIOUS DEPARTURE.

Major Pedro L. Zanni may not CITY away very pleasant memorios of Hongkong, but there was no-

COMMERCE AND FINANCE!,

TRADE AGREEMENT.

CANADA," AND AUSTRALIA.

Router's American Service.) :

DARING PIRACY,

THE CHINA MALL..

FOUR JUNKS BURNED TO WATER'S EDGE.

"HONAM" FIRED ON.

WEDNESDAY'S ACCIDENT.

ENQUIRY AT HARBOUR OFFICE

of

MUONBAKER TO BLAMB

The finding of the Court angotry hot ur the Harbour Ofice regarding the facts of the collision on Wednesting between the Har bour Department launch Vic

- QUEEN'S THEATRE »

THE FIVE DOLLAR BABY”

With pretty Viola Dana as the star and supported by Ralph Lewis, "The Five Dollar Baby," the latest Metro attraction to come to the Queen's Theatreris

entertainment on the screen. representative of good all-round

This picture does not contain a

An exciting experience befall OTTAWA, September 26. Canada and Australia have con- the Hongkong, Canton and Macas cluded a reciprocal Trade Agree-Steamboat Co.'s steamer "Hanam thing untoward in his arrival and ment, under which Canada gravis | on her trip down from Canton to toria" and a (Moonraker) motor & restriction. There is little in the

Hongkong yesterday.

departure as far as his machine was Concerned.

preference on a number of Austro-

an products, notably foodstuffs Leaving Canton at 8 am, the

and wines.

After a stay prolonged, firstly because of unexpected political print free of tax; and gives prc-hour and when near the tide-pole nearly lost his life, was given to a ed to the litle gli induces him to

trouble in Shanghai; and secondly due to an unfortunate secident in which he was in danger of drown- ing the result of a collision be tween a launch and a motor-boat

ing.

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FORTNIGHTLY REPORT.

problem on the question of birth best, containing the Argentinian plot that needs recounting, except world fier, Mujor Zanui, his for the strange fact that a man mechanic and the Peruvian Consul picks up a baby and pawns her for and as a result of which the aviator $5. A mysterious missive attach "Chino Mail" representative this pay. his 10 cents Interest every moning by the Hurbour Master, month until after 18 years he Lieut.-Commander G. F. Hole, comes forward to claim the girl. On the other hand, the pawnbroker, an old member of Semitic origin, carries out his duty of keeping in good order and condition, any pledge entrusted to his care. By the time the girl grows up, he becomes so fond of her that he sacrifices all his wealth to keep her. However, the girl, (Viola. Dana) takes things into her own hands and settles her own destiny, and her future husband's identity

right kind and many pleasant There is plenty of humour of the situations arise. "The Five Dollar Baby" will be put on during the week.esd and on Monday,

Australia admits Canadian news-Honum had steamed about an ference inter alia to Canadian Ash,

at Whampoa Retired four funks machinery, and motor-cars.

baing packed by pirates. Of going in closer to investigate; JAN. tloso un board the "Honan" The Moonraker boat was found Cetion Piere Goods and Fancy noticed that all four junks were to be in tauls in that it had no cer- Cotton Goods-The Market reloaded with wood. The pirate:ified engineer on board us required (in which, be won a passenger), homunitas nominally unchanged since were clambering over the junks by the regulations, that an uncer- -left Hongkong ots another stage of uur last raport. A fow isolated and firing indiscriminately; and titled person was in charge of the his world flight ut 9.20 this morn-sales of White Shirtings have been both the craft and their cargoes boat at the time of and immediate The expects to take between made, bil Dealers generally are had been ignited in several places. y preceding the collision, and that

more concerned about satisfactory

Vessel Fired Upon. the bent did not conform to the four and five hours to reach quidation, of their present obligi

TheVic- When the "Homain" approached run of the road.” Poochow, which will be his next tions in respect of seasonable goods to within striking distance, theoria was found to Inve done sopivion-going-on-to Shanghai Dio nel commitments.

The murvellous lightness of his Cotton has declined further since Pirates opened fic on the river everything she could when the Moonraker boat was, therefore, machine marvellous whost one we inst reported, latest "spot price steamer and the latter led to reaccident became inevitable, and the

the against the well-armed horde. Ponsiders that it is been demon-received for Mid American being. O teaching Hongkong yester-

found to be entirely to biurne for the collision strited that such a flimsy.body can

d..y afternoon, the be impressed into a service around Cotton Yar → During the brought ashore by Captain C. H. the world-was revended by the interval a limited business has been Turner, When the ss. "Lung- Fact that Zanni's plane got its first done in chops for which demand shan, of the same company, pas- hany train its mooring inside Lui was good. Prices in general have sed at 6 pan, leaving Canton at bikok Bay, froin enolie in a declined $2/4 per bile. Quota pan. the junks were buraing

10 $220/236. vigorously

and it is thought mall rowing-bout; who himself ions are:-No. was carrying two passengers in his No. 12. 230/942. No. 166. that the junks had been aban diminutive craft.

$240/250. No. 208. $230/946. doned and allowed to burn to the Arrivals 000 bales. Shipment water's edge.

Unsold nil. Sales 2,000 bales. stock 7,075 bules, ·Bargains 850

HIS DEPARTURE.

14.02.

news was

Inquiry at the office of the Cul modore, brought no further in formation. As the junks were

Magor Zanni's plane was towed amiderable distance by the row-les. hot and a still further distance by the Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s launch *tretchen." Facing towards Papaiju, the aviator taxied till almost únt of sight of those who had gathered on the humch to see dull. him off. He then trimmed and

Flour Market Report-Stock: aceninally left the water before he about 1,500,000. Market: dull. got back to Stanerutters. Rising Quotations:

American Patient, tinctly improved. Egyptian yarus war Une idend. Major Zanni took a 94.95 per sack: American Straight, are in good demand although active as recently. course over the Kowloon Peninsula 3.05 per suck: American, Cut off, hardly so and disappeared towards Lyeeman, $3.10 per sack: Shanghai Flour. Spinners of American are in a the eastern entrance to the har-$2.80 per ck: Australian No. 1, much stronger position; output is Jur, en his thighy to the North. $8.10 per sack: Canadian Cit-off. Well sold and margins have been

2.75 por suck.

improved at the expense of the drop in colton. Manufacturers are also firmer, and the consequence is that prices have remained com.

It is almost imperative that Major Zanni call at. Shanghai na his spare-parts are there and his advance agent has sent all the solt of his pioneering to the Molel Sofflement,

ARMY FOOTBALL

„THE "FOWLER CUP"

"Passing Vessels.”

For the purpose of determining the cage of the accident, the posi din of the vessels when passing though the Kowloon man-of-war anchorage wue taken and when they were still about half a mile apart. They were "passing-ves- sels, each having the other on the port side: id if they had rain- tuined their respective

Confe

The

MOTORIST KILLED..

Lundor, Sept. 3-The famous racing motorist, Darloresta, was killed at Brooklands this morning in attempting to break the world's

record. His car dashed through

He was attempting to break the fifty miles world's record, and was

an iron fence bordering the track.'

Woollens.-The market remins

still burning last night it is though they would have passed clear of driving a two litre Sunbeain car at unchanged, since last, report,

that nothing could be done and one another at a distance of from 122 miles an hour, when it turned | Raw Cottons.There is no that the priste gang may have to 100 yards. From the evid- completely round and crashed into ence, it was found that, when the a fence. It burst into flames and change to report.

escaped. Metals-Market continues very

vessels were about 100 feet apart. Darioresta was incinerated, "but his the Moonraker baut was seen to be mechanic was thrown clear off the steering very erratically.

car and extinguished his burning "Victoria" was found to have clothing by rolling in the grass. sounded one short blast on her Darloresta was 40 years of age. iron and altered her course to star and had been racing for 20 years. hard. The Moonraker boat im- He had won practically every

her course. mediately altered

to international motoring race in the port, thereby crossing the bows of world. the "Victoria." which reversed her engines, but her how struck the motor boat on the starboard quarter,

Celsex. Godown. Sundries-Market quiet. Sugar.-Market dull. Saltpetre. Stock (10.000) bags, Good demand for inferior quality of 20 per cent. Refraction,

MANCHESTER MARKET.

paratively steady in spite of the fall in the raw material. Following the fall of nearly id. per lb. in Cotton, Spinners. only made con- cessions of 4d. to 2d. per lb. in yarn prices, and part of this was in some instances retained by the Under date of August 27, Messrs. Manufacturer. On the wreck, yarn James F. Hutton & Co., of Man, quotations are unchanged to 1⁄2d per lb. lower. India has bought chester writas- The following matches in the At the beginning of the week greys and whites prints and some Preliminary Round of "Towler cotton prices were firm, and ad-light goods. China business is sonie quarters, up" Football Competition have vanced nearly d per lb. owing more active in bren arranged for next week.niainly to less favourable weather mainly in whites and fancies. - Kick-off at 4.45 p.m. on the reports and batter Manchester trade.

The publication of the Bureau,; Mary Backs Ground.

September 30. No. 3 Platoon Report on the new American crop caused a rapid readjustment of versus No. 8 Platoon. October 2. No. 10 Platoon values however. Although the con- M. G.dition on August 16 is reduced Left Sec.

Cotton. The favourable Bureau to 64.9 against 67.4 on August 1, the yield estimate is increased to Report has caused further reduc 12,956,000 bales. Heavy general tions in price, but 50 for these selling followed these figures, and reductions have pot been reflected prices fell about Id. per lb. Should on the other sections of our market, the estimated crop be harvested, as the restricted output and short

Versus Platoon

"HAND TO MOUTH."

Under the same date, Messis Morreau and Spiegelberg write:

The Cup has been kindly pre- sented to the Battalion by Major General Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G., C.B... D.S.O.. com mending the Foreas in China, for the purpose of a football competi-a further fall is probable eventually, time still continue.

tion to take place annually among the platoons of the battalion.

CORONET THEATRE.

WESTBOUND LIMITED.

Yarns.A moderate inquiry is forthcoming for yarns, but spin- ners' bookings are limited by their insistence on better prices,

Cloth. We enclose an extract from the Board of Trade Returns of Exports of yarn and cloth for July 1924

Inquiry from Java, Singapore and the Philippines shows a slight improvement.

but it is still recognised that a very critical period is before it, and the final figures depend on weather conditions and the activity of the boll weevil. So far, damage by the latter remains light. It is to be noted that cotton prices have now reached the lowest point this year, and since the beginning of the Offers despatched from India month there has been a fall of since the Bureau Report are said Countless stories have been about 22d. per lb. for near months to be disappointing, but a few lots written about railways, but few at Liverpool. Spot is reduced very of dhooties and light bleached. have been more exciting than nearly 3d. per lb. In the same period, goods have been sold. "Westbound, Limited," the screen These are substantial reductions, version of which comes to the and a view of the uncertainties Coronet Theatre this afternoon as yet before the crop, it is not sur

There is more enquiry from the feature attraction for the next prising the undertone of the mar-

kels continues uncertain. In the China, but It has not developed few days. "Westbound Limited,"

Manchester market enquiry has yet, and only unimportant lots of while essentially an adventure been extensive and a good turn greys, whites and fancies have film, is also replete with human over his resulted. Progress has been done. It is reported that interest, the tender love theme been more general amongst pro-auctions are suspended. making as big a claim on the ducers, and although the position Other markets are doing little spectator's attention as the most cannot be termed very strong, more than hand to mouth business, spectacular features. Among owing to the short time which is but are keeping in close touch with these spectacular features are the still in force, the situation is die prices. mad rush of two trains towards |——— headlong collision; a terrifle duel to death in the careening cab of a wild-running locomotive; a horse- man's plunge into the bottom of a chasm to save his sweetheart; and a huge forest fire" sweeping hungrily forward. Enough has been said to show that the story abounds in thrills; all that need be added is that the filming leaves nothing to be desired and that the acting is consistently good, that popular here, Ralph Lewis head- ing an all-star cast.

It was admitted, in the evidence

of the coxswain and crew of the Moonraker boat, that previous to and at the time of the accident, Cheung Ken, an uncertified man and one who on examination at the Harbour Office with the aid of modele was found to have no knowledge whatever of the rule of the "road," was steering the boat.

As a result of the finding of the enquiry the coxswain's licence has been suspended for one year and the Harbour Master has given instructions that it is not to be re-issued to him until he has again passed the coxswain's -examina- tion.

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About 10,000 descendants of the exiled Acadians from Nova Scotia are now living in an Alabama colony, but without suitable. schools or other public advantages. It is said the state will soon investigate their condition with a view to improvement.

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doren Splits,

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CONSTABLE INJURED.

KNOCKED OVER BY MOTOR

*BICYCLE

"Chinese Constable, Male blat kwok, No. 568, was knocked, down by motor-bicycle No. 82, belong. ing to Mr. McKenzie of the T'aikoo Dock, at Praya Bast, at 12.05 a.m

Constable was admitted to trie Government Civil Hospital for

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