1929-07-17 — Page 8

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My Sin-Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain When My Dreams Come True---Fox Trot Vocal Refrain

WARING'S PENNSYLVANIAKS No. 21977, 10-inch

Yellow Dog Blues-Fox Trot

THE CHINA MAIL,

CONSUL INJURED

MR. C. A. KIRKE, C.B.E, OF

YUNNANFU

MAGAZINE EXPLOSION

Peking, Yesterday,

MONEY AND SHARES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London-

Bank, wire......

T.T. on London T.T. on Shanghai

1/11 %

Bank, on demand... 1/11 3/16 Bank, 30 days' sight

Delayed messages from Yunnanfu Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 % paint a lurid picture of street fight-Credits. 4. months' ing in that walled-in city, after sight which a powder magazine explosion Documentary 4 months' wrecked large areas of the city. sight...... including the, French and Consulates.

The explosion occurred on July 11. The British Consulate with most of its contents was entirely demolished, The Consul-Genera), Mr. C. A. On demand Kirke, C.B.E., was injured, but not On New York- seriously.

On demand It appears that troops under Credits, 60 days' aight 43% Generals Ho and Chang invaded On Bombay- Yunnan from Kweichow, and march- Wire

Banks

.1/11 % ..82

$1265 b & sa

H.K. Bank H.K. London Reg. Chartered Bunk Mercantile A. & B. Mercantile C... P.&O. Bank Bank of East Asia

Insurances

£129% `n

£19 b .£32% n .£151⁄4n

2/- %

.£91⁄4

.$901⁄2 11

2/-%

British

On Paris On demand Credits, 4 months'

sight.

1197

Canton Insurance Union Insurance North China Insurance

.$630 $3241⁄2 n

$1.60 b

1272%

Yangtze Insurance

M$50 D

On Berlin-

China Underwriters

.82.10 @

China Fire Insurance

.$305, h

H.K. Fire Insurance

-$770 n

46%

Shipping

Douglases...

H.K. Steamboata.

$271⁄2 n .$242 b 26 s

129%

ed on Yunnanfu where a weak On demand defending force attempted to beat On Calcutta- off the attack. The invaders

got Wire

H.K. Tugs & Lighters

120%

Indo-Chinas (Pref.)

.$47 b

Indo-Chinas (Def.)

.$70 n

12934

1294

On Singapore- demand

Shells Transports (old) Shell Transports (new) Union Waterboats

.97/6 n

.$22 n

83%

Mining

On Manile-

On demand........ 94

Benguets Kailan Mining Ad.

.$8.05 b

66/3 n

On Shanghai-

Langkats (comb.)

T15 b

On demand

82

Langkats (single)

..T9 ba

30 day's sight (privato

Shanghai Explorations

.T234 s

paper)

Shanghai Loans ...

.T41⁄4 b

On Yokohama——

Rarbs

.88% b

On demand

102

Tronoh Mines

.21/- b

Gold Leaf, 100 fine

(per tael) Sovereigns

(Bank's

10.00

Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c. H.K. & K. Wharves ......$125 b H.K. & W. Docks

...$35 8

China Providents ..$4% b 4.35 s

24 5/16

Hongkews

T168 ǹ

*T6% b .F138 b

into the city, and there was much On demand fighting in the streets, followed by the explosion of the powder maga-On zine. There are no further details yet. -Reuter.

KWEICHOW CHIEF

SEQUEL TO THE WAR WITH ·

YUNNAN

-SAID TO BE STILL ALIVE

Shanghai, Yesterday.

A report attributed to a British source says that General Chau Si cheng, lately commanding the troops in Kweichow province, is still alive and was recently seen in Chungking, in Szechuan province.

Silver (per oz.)

buying rate)

Bar Silver in Hong

Kong.. Copper Cash Copper Cents

Rate of Native In-

terest

22% prem.

Nominal

3% Prem.

7% p.a.

General Chau was a month ago reported drowned while engaged in Chinese Sub. Coin .. 324% dis. battle with a force of Yunnanese Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. invading Kwelchow. He sided with the Kwangsi faction in the late Kwangtung-Kwangsi "war."

According to reports from Kwei- yang, the capital of Kweichow, the pro-Government troops from Yunnan committed a massacre and destroyed a part of the city before evacuating. In the Kwangtung- Kwangsi "war," Yunnan sided with the National Government. Kwei- chow was consequently invaded and Kweiyang was captured. Now the Yunnanese forces have been forced to withdraw. - Nan Chung Kuo News Service.

WATER LEGISLATION

(Continued from page 1.)

Bay, Stanley, and Tai Tam,_and_else- where except at Tai Po or Fan Ling, shall be fifty cents per thousand gal lons.

In Kowloon

(8) In the case of filtered water supplied by meter in Kowloon or New Kowloon no price shall be charged in respect of the quarterly amount refer red to in sub-paragraph (1) of para- graph (a) of section 2 of the Water- works Ordinance, 1903, and the price of all excess consumption

shall be

LONDON EXCHANGES

Paris New York Brussels Geneva

Milan Berlin

London, Yesterday.

129.875

4.86 1/32

New Engineerings

Shanghai Docks

Cotton Mills

Ewo Cottons

Oriental Cottons

.714.35 b [14.40/14% så

T2.30 b

Shanghai Cottons (old) T77% b Shanghai Cottons (new) T43% b Lands, Hotels & Buildings H.K. & S. Hotels

H.K. Lands

Shanghai Lande Humphreys Estates

H.K: Realties HK. Territorials Prince's Buildings

.$8.55 b

-$601⁄4 b T147 b

..T18.80 b

(131⁄2 sa

.$8 b

| |

34.91

25.22

Amsterdam

12.0734

92.745

Public Utilities

20.355

Stockholm

18.095

H.K. Tramways

Copenhagen

18.205

Peak Trama (old)

Peak Trams (new)

:$19 sa .$11.80 n .36.05 n

Oslo Vienna Prague Helsingfors

18.205

Star Ferries

34.46

.$644 n

1634

China Lights (comb.)

193

China Lights (old).

$138

Madrid

33.46

China Lights (new)...$13.20

China Lights 1928 issue

Lisbon

108%

Athens

375

H.K. Electrics (old).$55 b 55% s

Bucharest

818

H.K. Electrics (new)

Rio

-573

Macao Electrics

.$264

Buenos Aires

...$7 =

China Buses

.T14% b

Singapore Tractions

.11-5

Singapore Pref.

.20/- b

Sandakan Lts.

$28

China Sugars

Malabon Sugars '

Canton lees

Cements (ald)

Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong

Yokohama

Silver Spot

Silver Forward

47 7/22

1/5 25/32 2/4 4 1/11/

1/10-21/32

24 5/18 2434

-British Wireless Service.

seventy-five cents per thousand gallons. tion gallons during the past week.

(9) The price of all unfiltered water supplied by meter at Tai Po shall be The week's consumption, excludi thirty-five cents per thousand gallons, ing supplies to Hong Kong is 17.74 (10) The price of all unfiltered million gallons plus 0.18 from the water supplied

meter at Fan Ling Taun Wan Supply, making a total shall be one dollar per thousand lons: provided that the special price hitherto charged for water supplied to the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club at Fan Ling shall remain in force.

(11) The price of all water supplied meter to shipping direct through

pipes on wharves or piers, or to water

of 17.87 million gallons.

The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week

123.50 million gallons.

Copper Storage:

The following shows the amount

hoate, shall be two dollars per thou-in storage (million gallons) on sand gallons, and the price of all the dates named: water supplied by meter to shipping otherwise than direct through pipes on

wharves or piers shall be four dollars April 22

་་ ་ ་

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929.

For rates, literature and

information apply

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.890 cts. b ...$27 n $2.10 b

Comenta (comb.).$9.20 s 9.10 sa

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H.K. Telephones

Cements (new). EK. Ropes (old) H.K. Ropes (new)

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Hong Kong Mainland

Miscellaneous

326.38

186.81

H.K. Amusements

$281⁄2 3

BEN'S BAD BOYS

per thousand gallons.

18

29

327.26

137.44

H.K. Constructions

(12) The price of all water supplied May

a11.72

121.65

B. Ind. G. Bonds

$1 b 67%

No. 21971, 10-inch

13

309.34

125,34

H.K. Govt. Loans

two dollars per thousand gallons.

20

283.97

115.90

HILO HAWAIIAN- ORCHESTRA.

27

261.03

* 102.18

237.90

87.98

10

212.71

85.41

192.75

80.51

177.02

100.28

175.54

114.27

157.79 105.52

352.07.207.31

Wang-Wang Blues-Fox Trot

Blue Hawaii-Waltz Vocal Refrain

Sparkling Waters of Waikiki-Waltz

No. 21985, 10-inch.

Sleepy Valley-Waltz (from Sono-Art picture, "The

Rainbow Man") With Vocal Refrain This is Heaven-Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

GUS ARNHEIM AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 21956, 10-inch

Building a Nest for Mary Fox Trot Focal Refrain Kids Again Fox Trot With Vocal Tria

HERMAN KENIN'S AMBASSADOR HOTEL ORCHESTRA

No 21991, 10-inch

Every Moon's a Honeymoon-Fox Trot (With You)

With Vocal Refrain: Huggable Kissable You--Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

RUDY VALLÉB AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES

No. 21983, 18-inch

I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling-Fox Trot Pipe Organ She's n New Kind of Old-Fashioned Girl-Valtz

Pipe Organ

JESSE CRAWFORD, WITH ORCHESTRA No, 21981, 10-inch

F

Wake Up Chillum, Wake Up-Fox Trot I'm Crazy Over You Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

NAT SHILKRET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA

No. 21976, 10-inch M

Love Me or Leave Me--For Trot (from the Musical

Comedy, hoopes") With Vocal Refrain The Land of Sleepy Water-Fox Trot (Sweet

Chewaukla) With Vocal Refrain

CA LEO REISMAN AND His OrchESTRA

No. 1966, 10-inch

I'm Just a Vagabond Lover For Trot With Focal

Refrai

I'm Still Caring Fox Trot With Vocal Refrain

RUDY VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKEES

No, 21967+ 10-inch 1575

S. MOUTRIE & CO.

(Vidor. Distributors)

Chater Road.

LTD

by meter for building purposes shall be

-

46

(13) This regulation shall have effect only in respect of water supplied June by meter in the third quarter of 1929, and for the purpose of this paragraph. the ward quarter with reference to any

17 21 particular meter shall be construed as eaning the period between two con-

July secutive readings of the meter as pro- vided by Regulation

7 of these regala- tions for the purpose of calculating the quarterly consuaption.

13

Consumptions

The following figures show the

2. Regulation 13 of the said re-weekly consumption (million gal gulations is amended by the inser-lons) on the dates mentioned-

tion of the words, "with such

variations (if any) as the Water April Authority may consider desirable," immediately after the word "re-May gulations" in the fifth line thereof.

3. The following, note is added.

to Form C in the Schedule to the above regulations:

Note This form may be altered by the Water Authority as he may con sider desirable:

OFFICIAL RETURNS

Extent of Hong Kong Supply Increase

The total storage in the island re servoirs on Monday morning amounted to 352.07 million gallons showing an increase of 194.28 million gallons during the past week the amount collected from streams being 212.12 million gal

The week's consumption totals 20.77 million gallons and is made up as follows-

From City Mains

17:84

272

Chi Kok

3.90

3.02

Hong Kong Mainland

87.5680.78 $7.59 29.83 $8.03 2717 30.57 25.07 25.08 25.38

$1.99

**$3.86*

27.48

24.86

27.87

19.59

··80.18

1400

27.140 ∙11.03

-27-212 20.71 27:25 10.91 26.77 17,67

LAHORE TRIAL

PRISONERS STILL ON A

HUNGER STRIKE”

HEARING AGAIN POSTPONED

Lahore Yesterday. spiracy zase has been again ad The hearing or the Labore con fourned owing to the prisoners of hunger striking and to Dutt's illness-Reuter

OLD TAYLOR

AGED BY TIME

.7% b prem.

BIG SUBJECTS

WHAT BRITISH CABINET ARE DISCUSSING

STATEMENT EXPECTED

London, Yesterday.

It is expected that the Cabinet, to-day, will discuss the future of Singapore Base, the proposed modifications In the Naval pro gramme and that Mr. MacDonald will make a statement in the House of Commons, later in the afternoonReuter,

U.S. DISASTER

NOW REPORTED "AS NOT SO SERIOUS"

PRACTICALLY ALL RESCUED

Montgomery, Ala., Yesterday. It now appears that the house collapse disaster la not so serious an at first reported, as the Police estimate that practically all the 75 people in the buildings that collapsed were saved by the promptitude of the Police and

Service. passers-by Reuter's American

The collection of letters dealing. with the early history of Australia, known as the Sir Joseph Banks Papers

realised:

£9,225 at Sotheby's room8ing C

The Lady of the Rose whic was-revived at Daly's after seven years was after a rum oi, three weeks.

CALVES LIVER

AND

BACON

THE IDEAL BREAKFAST DISH

Calves' liver is recognised by the Medical Profession for its medicinal value.

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