1918-12-31 — Page 2

Daily Press 孖剌西報 All

Series Prev Next Source

так HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER

WEBER PIANOS

Artiste in

prafention

Cate

HONGKONG TRADE REVIEW

FOR THE YEAR 1916

The following is a respew of the trunke of the Cycling for the year (BIS

SUNDRIES AND PIECE GOODS

tib,

with

1:3

unequal.ed quality

tul

ECIALLY

MANUFACTURED

FOR

THIS

CLIMATE

CASH

OR EASY TERMS.

31ST. 1918.

The quality of the Raw silk has left much to be desired. A matter worthy of

is the formation, special attention August 28th, of a Comite International poul Amelioration de In Semeinture

Kwantung formed

the

dans

tint

ford

M: W

STEEL PLATES AND 6,JIDETH. Prices curried over 'ngh from the pre vous year, amely, Sit to S40 pra parul Recording to thickness, sene of the thicker pintes fetching over 800 pre prul The market is very dull at pro ont, and conc tracts for a few thousand to have been cancelled For Bhick steels the featu Jr. been very small though at either

1914

JAPE

Move Yo

FLOUR

Dunbar reportą ne follows, --

3,030,754 bags.

20075,120

LAMAR

COTROND 200.509 will Bnd startamurad d the commed in longkong to the last The vox nemis are gulas Pak Australia, marl);

four conte for Hapky and of the wan hat out as Ar yr 1-6ght have

The cause dowane, cap Tunes heca sony ligh

SONDAUER

200

HE C French Chamber

Its dijects are to ban the Creme caldo aguaking the year just draw

Caoudience of the Chinese producers, and, a a los has been a to handling with

Li the scientific lammation of di Th European need

Landī by improvement of salk anneries and Flanged from 827 to 82% for pacul fra cần)

hst half, and for tin Good ball trom bellatures to my rose anal angiose the "pro

824 to $20 per jul, the 1 thee

expert

t:དss,,,

Slanglat

44, AND TRON WIRE

1925.

༣, རྣམ

luring los

PARE er of

Best sundries

The following liputs speak for them

sejtek

3.1

This year

Bus.

ind

Pries were good for tu list half, pat Licularly fo That

Jar

... VALOKCHN Kra

1..

34, je v NoỶ pe

RM 1

18 22 gama 825 la SAT DE IN pul foy 16 $19 Pascal quotes are $22 24 and 215 Under sosportinely, large

locks are bell som them

Jam

ther nd

!!!

: 1

...

it'

་

B.Q

AM IN R

Flu Gast

על -

-יו -

med the st

AO RED

נוז - ויין

The mask.

ייין

TE T37

11-2 to the cult stud

Pla

orlat:

*W-A

Ampang Penne sig to dio por naval.

tal and

Funch

4 leap from Japan, tot have and to has go

. then,

Tapi lanse

PIS

Candarger on

MOUTRIE'S

SOLE AGENTS.

Made by

Aquascutum

Jaeger"

|26-

Dexter "

OVERCOATS

and other reliable makers in a variety of cloths

suitable for all purposes.

SPORTS COATS

In all wool tweeds and knit wool web.

SWEATERS

MUFFLERS

GLOVES

MOTOR COATS

MACKINTOSH

& CO., LTD.,

Men's Wear Specialists,

10, DES VLX ROAD.

Telephone 29.

di Pauter

Lut

and a long 1 to of the trips of trade

ANONT PAGE RES

Urai To Kungu

Year You

11!4

19:2

ין.י

Fejlfativas classes of

JE stabl Seneste akže

font of wat codipeng

} at that dry into the tamasized condition that it tinik

Buka 24 yous for irri, vel Trend pores opained from Armor bos anguily sien

V tulta has support mat wants.

lawed stuffs in perivier, Hr

arted

Japan his putar ul host in the Handries d from The position she has MERK She

grand so will pukui some

bel only supplying this masked firely wath spot of ko grudds Sarms rly inad

sa mung and 1. samm, but at the survei

the tran

BRON westwtale British goods.

Under the Lending of “Sundries "it ugmasikin In report thoroughly un very item, but now than we have offend

amt

for the Čuluris, Tim an dieser inge, ditadel informa tion in respect pe partrenkar goda sforuld bands the and figures,

To Amerin

1. Juties 20 800

Chatease 4.67 unders

1:00

1. BIT

1 dusfes IMAGE

Luf

adema) 15 bales

If re wall And mand existed up to the end of Colier Roth for Earp and Aeron, and the remanier of the yras quiet, To Europe

Ta bales. 17.15

Year

Year 10

ady rose 9.5 bales

Caffer

Autorkena

None 1912

10 1017

Here, again, w wealth for anguge To Europ For detailed for nation to the unport

and export returns for

An regards

HE STANDARD OF

EXCELLENCE

AND

RELIA DILITY

the market, we can only say that withough

| stocks up country are short the internal

HOWE SCALES

LARGE VARIETY OF VARIOUS TYPES IN STOCK.

MUSTARD & CO.,

4, DEB Vous HOAD CENTRAL.

TELEPHONE 1188.

AGENTS in FOOCHOW, AMOY. SWATOW and CANTON: BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

FANCY DRESS BALL

IN THE MURRAY PARADE GROUND.

By kind permission of the Military Authorities and by urtesy of the Committer of St. Andrew's Society.

PRIZES.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 3RD, AT 9 P.M. Popular Prices-Ladies $2.00, Gents. $3.00

AS FAR BOND TICKETS TO BE GIVEN

Two Bands in Attendance.

PROCEEDS TO WAR CHARITIES.

NETT

Fancy Dress Optional.

Tickets to be had at MOUTNIE & Q»,

Late Trums 12.30 noi 1 a.m.

el. No.

743.

Late Ferry to Kowloon 1.15 am. Refreshments will be supplied by Carя WiesMAN.

($873

THE

CORONET

DECEMBER 31st, at 4.30 p.m.

JANUARY

LAST

ACK

Tel. No.

1743.

R H

CHLOW

METNE SRETIRING

Pranas funky len wrenal thehous Supplies butt curly tone Tugan with small parts from US$ that indi

| mga umarły sale as paestumst.

- 1953 201 AND SPOTON

Poms hav

4.4.177 bales. 14803

גן

1 bad bab•**.

i hales.

1.800

decrease) 1,499 Quiles.

Differ

T. Japan

Year 191% Your !017

Litter

Foard Voronts

Your 1914 Year 1917

→ 3.014 bales.

4.534

(increase}

440 alve.

Your HIM

Your 1017

2.412 lates

Dif

finetraset 2,300 balen.

YPA 181M Your 1917, wit.

state of affairs in China precludes the Fo Amer tea

natives keeping large storks with safety.

To Japan

IG bales.

METAL MARKET,

27th December, 1918. Mesers, Shewan. Tomes & Co. report as follows:

The first half of the year was very pro

שוון יי.?

sep warband bom.

Kork in the prod war the gojna of dirt groot Jay fl. www Hy bag, saltosta, Hongkong, bly m Besary Lunge logaz logig Japalem Sangham that and the pupy beto

sel atri, lakes,

Bare buying all

Mod de unurks

dam bo glert ale} val uge do

14 Wils to dap The fuel sjemes | for

bp small than pet gonsly.

The Bart. i the suberation of ano De Tonforment dealers Bunty, mong oto ga od kom, and abalduages The prime jnts Seon between this bugie garment drop The 12 t 15 + jat Ha, accendrag to some and the market.

How food ed section For other atoms there has teen 1100 g bala

Futog was get the d We shot bevo a great demand, but steaks in tử were

uch of this method teus by low med. 17 fore, good price were part the gods St ......

Prais ap the beginning of the year were abomu $1% pea pano, and went down to

い

ד ויי<

נני 44! י.

og flum leone Susturls, he tu tght

Tru . |

Luested, 1 being on the many l Erla sicuttle is, ‚』::་"』":|:* 41780 Tage wild their togyratone plants, and giver Japan shamet E first Sportwo slejonents en A dan ia by the met, the market has stiffened Japatio su stesenek - eiving lace June por pent

and July were most for Eagonese firma.

went back into Atralian

* with tako spreks and belle is no framg

sil at the Low fa has been

EMERALS AND SERAS

There has been a apartation worth mentions. The the

いい

ments of very juma material were made Japan at fran đã to $1 per pisih Nothing has been doin during de list SIA

suniths

beve, but lates this team its old enamels, and new

very

the tuund, slagen las a clonic get a proponting of

the freight spice ther Then lage quantity of good wheat in Aus- Trakta sund af hans besp lack tage that has kept 10 market from landing For the coming year the tlk would a mark larger punurity of this flour, for appear to very bright, as fair storks of the Australian Hour is a good weeper in ast materials are earned a present. das elute and stands our hut, domp Howe 14 by means veftian thrid senten If our trade with Australia i the talked of drop in prices will I realis to assume Jarge pro proti sem by

the contrary, it bask as af the able to buy at a praw that will enabl output in the United Kingdom is likely

as to sell at not more than $2.50 per bug, to le raken up for home nejurements, and that there will be latil, surplus for export

ex godown, bete 【, w、 can buy at this for nonch

price we shall be able to get back Bwalow, Neither does any to come,

Amoy, fall in freight, or wages seem tinent.

Fourhow and Canton These and the market here should, therefore, rule

porta are now buying their floor fram Bran melem

The Shanghai mall the thing is eer at exchange should On the other hand, f exchange, and that is ting the Chinese in the should falj a much stronger tone would outpurts and the qui ciot

will not buy be at once perceptible.

doar here in any large quantity all thes pre y very much lower than we can quote at the present time

ور

FREIGHT RATES.

slat

As the year closes the market here finds

· E 20 an extraordinary position. It Yak often been our hot to report that

The year this will always be remark

The Japanese wheat crop in reported to Hongkong was, for the time being, oue

able on the Chis count by reamin of the

be smaller then the last on, and the of the cheapest places in the world in

extraordinary level to winch rates at one Japanese mills have been buying Aus which to buy picer-goods. This is true

the advance, and we shall probably tralian wheat to mix with their own. neve again we such figures. This, how The crop in Mancharan and North Chinn today with a vengeaned, as local prices

ver, did not benefit the owners of steam I a much better on than last year and are anything from 25 per cent. to 50 per

ers under the Betish Bag, owing to theth Slunghar mais gave had plenty of cut, below replacing values, as far as

action of the authorities, who put under whent since July. The last six months bratash piece gods are concerned, Mato

requisition or control all such strainers,

Should have been very good open for the chester arms apparently do not realize

and it was left to foreign owners of tree Shanghai mills, for in September they what a vast amount of sunde work Japan

outs to crap this rich harvest. A re

had to refuse further orders till they Las done, and what mours she has made Sitable for Metal dealers owing to themarkable Fenture is the fact that the bulk could grind the flour they had already

to their buspss, Here, we view the demand from ludia, Java, Straits Battle of the money made in shipping uns been continued demand for increased wages by dents, ere, but when the news of the by speculators pure and simple, who took The crop in the United States waa She worked at home with considerable Armistice came through it knocked the steamers un time-charter at unpre very goal one, but an Caunda it was not alarm, because we have never seen coupled balkon out of a market that had been

We have not leva able to re up to average. with these demands anything about in-

weakening for six to eight weskydrated

hastened to

chartered them at still viously. Bealers |

withdraw orousing the pounjour of the mills and de

figurea get any American four this year, for the orders, some thousands of

Prices eventually reached a level at which 1.9, and the Canadian Governments have treasing the east of production.

tons being cancelled, the

LO majority of which, for business proved impossible, and this. shipping all their surplus It is impossible Er say how it will all tunately, had not been plated in U.8.A coupled with the sudden change in the Europe. The S Government. дать varti No new business is being placed at owing to liceneres not being forthcoming. political situation brought about by the guaranteed the farmers on the Pacifie present prices, and European importers

collapse of the Central Powers, caused a

Const 82.20 per bushel for their 1918-1910 en are for the it part. living on

reaction, with the result that those specu wheat crop. All milling restrictions are their cheaply bought stocks. No one can Priçes continued high from the previous Intors who are left with steminers on their reported to have been removed, but wo foresee the time when this market will your, but, after the first two months, drup. hands with no profitable employment are shall not be able to buy any American exome inter line with Manchester prices, ped a little, ranging from 229.50 to 832 per now inced with very heavy losses staring four here on account of the high prices Í bagnuse in all our experience there has ex Owing to an arrangement existing them in the face.

unless the Government steps in and makes never before been such an enormous gulf and the C.S.A., no export was allowed bright me, owing to the poor rice crop market at much lower prices than ara between the authorities in Great Britain The outlook for next year is not a very

some arrangement for supplying thin and, consumers having their contract in Indo-China, heavy requirements 41

possible under the present conditions. already filled, very little business was rice for Europe, and the probability of

it looks, therefore, as if we shall again done from local stocks.

The present price the China coast tonnage being largely

have to get our far from Australia, A fur demand has existed for Rawin nounnal at anything from 823 to 825.

from Japan, or from Shanghai. silk during the year, and, had it not The present 1.6. price is about G1.813 *upplemented by the return of British seamers withdrawn for war purposK, per box ei.f. (14" x 90" x. lik) x 112 lbs. }

to bridge.

CANTON SILK TRADE, Messrs. Reis & Co. report:

ON PLATES.

been for various difliculties, hereinafter Both countries are now allowing export, emuterated, a much larger turnover but up to the time of writing no prices would have been recorded.

have come through frou. England. Baring the first four months, the ! Cabaner of tonnage for French Porte handicapped trade with that country.

WIRE NAILS, Large stocks of both the small and large

ra,

coupled with the inct that Japan has recently largely increased her mercantile

marine.

The following were the top rates paid during the your:

From Saigon to Hongkong, 81.80 per PA. 2.80

The outlook for 1910 it much brighter, however, for mure and cheaper tonnage will con Le available. The present Bour stock in Hongkong is about 320,000 sacks, mostly first-grade Australian flour.

KEROSENE TRADE. Prices were 30 cente per CASC or,

The situation was somewhat relieved by sizes are held, and there are about 15,600 picwl; to Japan, Yen 3.25; to Philippine roughly, 15 per cent. higher at the end

the sailing. towards the end of April,

kegs still to arrive under contract. Prices

of the w., Aaron Maru, which loaded for the first quarter were from $13.60 to From south Japan coal porta to Hong recard shipment of silk from this port, 10 per picu) keg; for the second quarter kong, Yen 10 per ton; to Singapore, Yen 4., about 7,500 hales.

from 815 to 816.50, this being due to A Heavy flouds during the months of demand for export; but for the latter 30: to Java, Yen 3. June and August inundated the silk half of the year priers are down to 13 districts, causing great dainage to crops per keg with no demand. and forging many filatures to stop work about G.813 per keg,

Prices from U.S.A, for th" to 3" are

The local prices;

for weeks at the time. The total output are considerably below the hoing price. has thus been affected, as will be seen and cargo could be bought at still lower) from appended figures,

Bgures with a frm order in hand. Exchange be throughout, but more from June on-

1st,

anels.

p.m.

TWO PERFORMANCES

AND THE

BEANSTALK

ON'T MISS THIS BEAUTIFUL PICTURE!

BOOKING AT ROBINSON'S.

market.

rnled Very difficult

MAJR.

From Hongay to Hongkong, 812; to Swatew, 214; to Singapore, 820; to Penang, $24 per ton.

Bangkok to Hongkonu. #2 per picul. Jayn to Hongkong, 22. per picul. Time-charter rutes went up to 1.50 per ton dendwright.

Анкл

Tho

of the year than in January, its. demand throughout was good, and it

to any that a larger trade could have been done if freight dieulting had not interfered. Fortunately, however, there was pover actually any famine in Petro- leum products, except, for a short time, in Benzine.

New Territory. The effect of th general.

Piracies and fighting interfered to an appreciable extent with trade in ndjucent, markets. Hainan, the Luichow Penip OPIUM.

sala, and Yeungkong anffered much from This greatly handicapped trade, The market was good and prices were

foreshyidowed in last year's the latter, while beth organised piracy sprintly with the United States of firm for the first half of the year, but review, the opium business has been and sporadic attacks occurred along the Amerien, as the high rate of Exchange the demand from entside drapping off. brought completely to a standstill. The East River had the country worth of the

From January to rendered laid down costs much too high prices felk away.

June to rapete against Japanese silk on that prices were from $14 to $16.50 per picul in the market ling bern steadily

ly unsettled state of the country has not, maintained right through the year, except for 1" to 1"; larger sizes were correspondl

in July, when negotiations were enrried however, made itself felt as much a "Since the amlendid news of the Armisingly higher than for small sizes, lost there on between a local firm and the Chinese might have been expected, as the tonnago fice curly

very little market. in November all consuming it the blained of present from 20 to overnment for the shipment of do ponition prevented much in the way

Any quantity

of entres lava perforce boen very unsettled, and recent business done is only of Prices from

813 per B.A. are about 4.8158 per to the Chinese Government, and place thing there is manon te koje that more according to reifention. chests. This was subsequently exported development in any case. Now, however, han-temuth character, huvara being ton, which shown that prices there are then not a single chest of opium has ships will be released for the Eastern vory cautions until more settled condi- being maintained, but what these will be on either imported or exported

trade it is certain that, unless penes and tion Brevnil.

affer the end of this year, when the U..

order are rentored, business marketo Prices Hiroughout remained vere authorition withdraw all restrictions, re-

Je by Hongkong will be seriously ham- steady. The poor results of the 4th, atbains to

de For AIN'T.

Angles have been in and 8th crous bedmoul in stabilize any good demand, and high prices were ab- weakness which might at one time have inined for Ram, of the siren. Thin was been expected.

due chiefly to the local demand.

'COAL

Owing to constant changes in the pricepared. of goal it is impossible to give a review of the trade done in coal ŝill about the (Other Local News will be found on areoul werk in January.

1918-12-31 — Page 2

Comments

Private Research Note