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STATE FUNERAL

DR. SUN REACHES HIS LAST RESTING PLACE

WIDOW'S STONY SILENCE

1

Nanking, Yesterday.

MONEY AND SHARES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London---

Bank, wire

1/11

Bark, on demand.... 1/11 1/16 Bank, 80 days' night . Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 Credits, 4 months'

sight

The booming of a salute of 101 guns marked the arrival of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's funeral train at Pukow at 10.40 a.m, when, Documentary 4 mouths' amidst most impressive. cere

sight monies, his remains were convey- ed aboard the gunboat "Weisher" for the journey across the Yang tsze river to Nanking.

The Pukow railway station was guarded by special troops armed with rifles and manning machine- guns.

Mrs. Sun Yat-sen was dressed all in black, and walked behind the casket to the "Weishen," ac- companied by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Sun Fo, Mr. T. V.

on demand' Credits,

eight

on demand

2/-

On New York- On demand

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Wire

On demand

T.T. on Loridon T.T. on Shanghai

Banka

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1/11

.$81

$1245 b

.£182л $19% b ..233 n

.£15

.£9. n .$90% n

2/- 1/8

P. & D. Bank Bank of East Asia

Insurances

On Paris

Canton Insurance

.$655 b

1192%

4 months*

1267

Union Insurance ....$340 s & sa North China Insurance ...T160 b ....M$60 m Yangtze Insurance

On Berlin-

China Underwriters China Fire Insurance H.K. Fire Insurance

$2.10 8) .$286. b .$775 n

Shipping

Douglases

.$33 s

On Bombay...

1282

H.K. Steamboats H.K. Tugs & Lighters

.$26 =

$2.60 s

128%

Indo-China (Pref)

$48 b

Oa Calcutta-

Indo-China (Def.)

.$70 n

128%

Shell Transports

.97/- n

128

Shell Transports (new)

Union Water-boats

$22 1

2234

Mining

Bengueta

$2% b

93%1⁄2

Kailan Mining Ad.

63/9 n

Langkats (comb.)

T14

80%

Langkats (singles)

.T71⁄2 n

Shanghai. Explorations

T284 n

Shanghai Loans

..T42 8

Raubs

$64 n

104

Tronoh Mines

..17/6 n

Ducks, Wharves, Godowns, &c.

H.K. & K. Wharves H.K. & W. Docks

.$122% b .$36 n

.$4 b 41⁄4á s

.T178 n

Soong (brother of Mrs. Sun Yat- Wire... sen) and other Government and on demand Nationalist Party leaders.

On Singapore Mrs. Sun, in spite of tear-stain-On demand ed eyes and being obviously on On Manila- the verge of a breakdown, walked on demand bravely aboard the "Weishen" and sat facing the coffin in stony silence, oblivious to her surround 80 day's sight (private ings.

The

On Shanghai- on demand 2.

paper)

On YokohamaR—~~* Thousands of Sightseers

"Weishen" arrived at On demand Hsiakwan (Nanking) at noon and Gold Leaf, 160 fine

(per tael) the coffin was placed on a special

Sovereigns (Bank's hearse and conveyed through the

buying rate) streets, lined with thousands Silver (per oz.) upon thousands of sightseers, to Bar Silver in Hong the Central Party Headquarters,

Kong where it arrived at 2.45 p.m.

Copper Cash Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, re- Chinese, Copper Cents 6% Frem. presenting the Party and Govern Rate of Native In- ment, placed a wreath on the casket.

terest

10.05 24

3% Prem Nominal

7% p.a.

Chinese Sub. Coin. 304% dis

Most elaborate precautions were taken to prevent any unto-Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. ward incident.

Sun Yat-sen will lie in state until June 1, when the remains will be interred.

High Government and Party officials will stand turns beside the casket, forming a guard of honour.Reuter.

OFFENSIVE TRADE

PROPOSED ISOLATION FROM TENEMENT HOUSES

SANITARY BOARD ACTION

At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday. Dr. H. A. Fawcett, Medical Officer of Health, proposed the following motion:→→

That, in the opinion of the Board, no Offensive Trade Licences for Bone- storing should, in future, be granted in respect of promises which are not solely used for the purpose of that trade; and that early action should he taken to cause the removal, from tenement houses, of existing estab lishments so licensed.

In seconding, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga said that he would refer the Board to his minute on the subject. The complaint which gave rise to the motion had come from

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Milan Berlin

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H.K. Realties

Paris

New York

London, Yesterday,

124.05 4.85

$140 b $144 .$8.35€

HK. Territorials

Brussels

34.915

Prince's Buildings

Geneva ..

25.19

Puble Utilities

Amsterdam

12.065

H.K. Tramways

$184 b

92.65

Peak Trama (old)

$1234 b

20.345

Peak Trams (new)

$6.55 n

Stockholm

13.14

Star Ferries

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Copenhagen Oslo

18:205

China Lights (comb.)

18.20

Vienna

34.53

13 bx rights

Prague

1534

[B rights

Helsingfors

1924

China Lights (new)

Madrid

34.325

China Lights 1928 issue.

Lisbon

109%

H.K. Etrice (old)..$56 56 sa

Athens

$75

H.K. Electrics (new)

Bucharest

818

Macao Electrics

$26 B

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Rio

Buenos Aires

Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama Silver Spot

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China Lights (old) $13 b c rights

H.K. Telephone

China Buses

Singapore. Tractions Singapore Pref. Sandakan Lts.

Industrials

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1/5 7/

2/4 4 1/11 1/10 1/32 24%

China Sugars Malabon Sugars Canton Ices Cements (comb.) Cements (old)

.$.80

..$27 n

.$1.80 b

.$8.30 s

.$7%

.$1.40 n

Silver Forward... 24 11/16

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Reclamation-street, Yau- HOTEL DECORATION Cements (new)

FAIRY TALES IN WOOD

HK. Ropes (old) HK. Ropes (new) United Asbestos

Stores, &c. Dairy Farms Watsons

mati. The point which he would like to emphasise was that if no complaint had been brought, the nuisance would not have come under the attention of the Board. Yet the visiting inspector, who

Totem poles of the Pacific was sent to investigate the pre- mises after receipt of the com-erests" of aboriginal tribes, are to Coast Indiaus, the "family plaint, had no words strong enough to describe the deplorable be used in the decoration of a

novel' Indian tes-room which Wm. Powells conditions which he found.

Dor A. Wings Lane, Crawfords Mackintoshs Sinceres

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Miscellaneous

[291⁄2

ILK. Constructions B. Ind. G. Bonds

$5 b

$19/h .$12 b .80 cts. b

.82 $18 b $11.80 b $3.65 8

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$291⁄4b 9 & sa $1% 8 ..67%

He would like to ask the Head forms part of the Canadian Na- of the Sanitary Department to tional Railways' new extension to issue instructions for the regular the Chateau Laurier Hotel in periodic inspection of all premises Ottawa. To ensure the faithful licensed for an offensive trade, reproduction of the original poles, and the reports of the inspectors native Indians have been brought making the visits should be sub-2,500 miles from British Colum-H.K. Govt. Loans ..6%% b Prem mitted regularly to the Board. bia to Ottawa for consultation, The Chairman, Mr. N. L. Smith, particularly in the matter of said that all such premises were colouring, because of the difficulty regularly inspected, but if all the of reproducing with modern reports were submitted, the mem-paint the sombre houses secured bers of the Board would have by the Indians with berries, roots had no time for anything else. and other natural colouring

The Hon. Mr. Braga suggested materials.

that all such reports might be Totem poles are fashioned from seen by the Board once a month. cedar trees and are carved with The motion was carried unani-grotesque figures to depict the mously.

NEW MARKET FIRST PLAN FOR KOWLOON

TONG

"TOO TEMPORARY"

prowess of departed chieftains in battle and the represent the legends of the tribes. Some of the poles have crude representa tions of the "Sky Beings," the mythological Gods of the Red Man.

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These relies of the past are found almost exclusively on The announcement that it is still Canada's Pacific Coast.

For a impossible to go ahead with a dis-time there was danger of their he cussion of the plans for the Kow-ring lost to posterity but the Cana loon Tong Market, was made by Mr. dian National Railways, in co N. L. Smith, Chairman of the Sani-operation with the national tary Board, at the fortnightly museum at Ottawa have been en- meeting of the Board yesterday. He gaged for several years in re- said that the plan which was sub-storing a number found at Kit mitted by the P.W.D., to Mr. Carrie, wanga, a native village of British

Columbia. his predecessor in the chair, seemne,

to be of too temporary a fiatore to satisfy the Board..

The second plan for a more pèr- manent structure had only arrived half an hour before the meeting. It would be circulated to the mem- bers of the Board for approval and

a discussion on the subject could'

be held at the next meeting..

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CANADIAN NOTES

Of the 40,000 miles of railway in Canada, 22,600 are operated by the Cariadian National Railways.

which spans the St. Lawrence river: just above Quebec City.

Due largely to mineral develop- ment and the progress of agricul ture, Canada has built about 4,000 miles of railways since the War.

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The natural resources department of the Canadian National Railways: says that a competent German authority has stated that the mining industries of Canada promise to ettract a flow of German capital to the Dominion.

After completing an eight hun- dred mile snowshoe trek through wild country between the Canadian National Railways and Hudson Bay, Arthur W. Norih, of the Explorers Club, New York, and his 14-year- old son, already author of two books, I arrived in Winnipeg from the north none the worse for the experienec.

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Mica Mines, Limited. of Van- couver, B.C., propose to start a development on Mica Mountain, seven miles from Tete Jaune Cache on the line of the Canadian National Railways in the central part of British Columbia.

.... It is possible that a large develop- ment of the salt deposits near Fort

A reward of £25 was offered by. Messrs, Tyler, assessora, of Hol-

The province of Quebec will expend McMurray In northern Alberta may born-viaduct, for the recovery, of 1, four diamonds valued at £2,000, $400,000 in corstructing an automo- take place soon, says the natural which were left in a telephone kiosk bile road over the Quebec Bridge resources department of the Cana-

of the Canadian National Railways dian National Railways. in Kingsway.

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