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THE

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel. Central 338."

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1929.

3, Quson's Buildings.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

BELL'S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD..

MANUFACTURERS OF

Victor Metallic," "Dagger," "Quadruple" and

"Reefer Packings.

Bell's Asbestos Compositions.

“Salamander" Engine & Cylinder Oils.

alamanderíteJointing."`

XMAS

Choice" Selection from :-

COTY,

HOUBIGANT..

RIGAUD

PIVER, &

LEGRAND'S

10 %

PRESENTS

PERFUMES

DISCOUNT THIS WEEK ONLY.

THE CHINA DISPENSARY

52, QUEEN'S ROAD, C.

EAST OF CENTRAL MARKET.

SOMETHING NEW

FOR CHRISTMAS

AT

THE SWATOW LACE CO.

NEW PATTERNS of Swatow Laces and Drawn-Work. BEAUTIFUL Shawls, Capes, Scaris, Dresses and Underwear. .. FINE CARVED Ivory, Mother Pearl, Tortoise-Shell and Amber Beads,

Pendents, Bracelets, Brooches, Mah-Jong, Lanterns, Lamp Shades and a

GREAT ASSORTMENT

NEW GOODS ARE GOOD

JOE

XMAS PRESENTS.

INSPECTION INVITED! 17a. Queen's Road Central.

REMOVAL NOTICE.

NEW SHIPMENT, FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS PERFUMES

GUERLAIN

PARIS.

Suitable for XMAS Presents.

PARFUMS, JICKY.

L'HEURE BLEU

RUE de La Paix

Pour Troubler. Champs Elyses.

Sillage.

Mitsouko

B-Ess-de Violette. Guerlinade.

Ne' m'oubliez pas-

Faune.

Baton Lys. Londee Decore.

Creme Socret de Bonne Femme..

Quand' vientTM L'Eté,

Tale Parfumé é la Rose.

THE FRENCH STORE,

9, Beaconsfield Arcade, Hongkong,

YE OLDE

Tel: 794

PRINTERIE, LTD. PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, ETC.

14 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (NITY Dooz To Lazarus),

V. O. LABRUM, Managing Director.

The CITROEN.

The Last Word in Car-Economy

RUN IT COSTS LOWER

Less

Lesa Oil

Winner 3 years running 1920-21-22, Grand Frix for Low Conn

Cars for Sale:

LEPACK CO., LTD.,

50-52, Queen's Rd. C.

CHOP! CHOP)

PUISNE JUDGE ASKED FOR AN IMPORTANT. RULING.

ARMISTICE SCENES.

SILENCE.

THE CREAT

It was at five o'clock in the morning That the Armistice was signed, and it was (Mrboat that hour on November 11th, this

His Honour the Puisne Judge Justice Gompertz) sitting in Summary year when people began to move through Jurisdiction yesterday morning was asked the streets of the City and Westminster, the precursors of that vast multitude for a "ruling on an important point re-which later in the day was to flow ever on garding the binding effect of a firm's ward to Trafalgarsquare, and thence in solemn and orderly procession through chop.

Whitehall and past the Cenotaph. It was Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who appeared for the first time the anniversary had fallen the defence, admitted the facts and

on a Sunday, and for this, reason the im briefly explained them to His Lordship. mense course pressing onwards in the streets bore, in some ways, a striking He said the defendants were an ordinary difference to the crowds of previous years. trading firm and they formerly had a man would be prevented by their work from

Men

and women wha on any other day neting as general manager who had a paring, this respect to the Glorious Dead share in the profits but was not concern were able to join the pilgrimage, and chikiren, ed with the losses. The plaintiffs ad: they brought with them their

some of them too young to have any real vanced this, man sum of $1,000 for recollections of the war years, but who which he gave then a promissory note could not fail to learn something from this fresh demonstration of a nation's of the "chopped with the "chop"

veneration for those who gave up their firm. He did not account for, this mouey lives in the Great War to the firm and apparently he misapproThe comrades of those heres were there

Also, in

numbers than before, greater priated it, for which he was prosecuted pondly wearing the medals of their ser

Mr. Russ said that he had Mr. Layio, while the red poppy of Remembrance Day was conspicuously wora by almost mau, who appeared to support the clau everybody. Hour by hour the endless stream wanted a decision as to whether, ainder of people passed by the Cenotaph, and 1።

great mound

of these circumstances, the firm were liable. they went, so did the

flowers around the base of the memorial It was, he pointed out, a question of grow in magnitude. From the terraced agency and his submission would be that path in front of the National Gallery the spectacle Way wonderful. Trafalgar the Ilome law on the subject was ap square was ma

massed with people, the plinth plied here by the Partnership Ordinance. of the Nelson Columu was hidden from view beneath the moro adventurous of Me Layman for the plaintiff emphasis-

them, and down the centre of Whitehall ed the importance of the ruling, pointing could be seen almost imperceptibly moving. out that nearly every firm borrowed forward the thin line of the quoco in an money in the course of its business and otherwise empty street. From the Strand.

from

Northumberland aveaus, thousands used these **chops.” ~

more were ever pressing forward, while to the rear the steps of St. Martin's Church were thronged with people, caught up from the great rush from Charing- As the church crass-road westwards. clock began to strike the hour of eleven the multitude was hushed into stillness and silence. For the space of two minutes the only sounds to be heard arer Trafal

r-square came from the splashing waters of the fountains and from sparrows chirp ing in the trees, whose notes are: never beard in such a place except in the soul- stirring silence of these two minutes.

flis Lordship accordingly adjourned the case sing die in order to investigate the matter, both solicitors undertaking to submit a statement of agreed facts.

PRESENT FOR A-SANITARY

INSPECTOR.

LEADS TO BRIBERY CHARGE."

There was a distant rumble, denoting An Yan-chaa, a broker of No. 125, that the period of silence was at an end. Second Street," was formally charged lar traffic began again its anail-like course In an instant all was movement. Vehicu-

before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday | through impeding crowds of people, all with offering a bribo. of six bottles of of whom were seeking to join the queue

in Whitehall. brandy and two boxes of cigars to Sani- táry. Inspector L. Brower.

Mr. R. E. Á. Webster sppeared for the delence and the case was remandod.

EXQUISITE

BRITAIN'S BEST CUSTOMERS CONTINENTAL

One of the points made by anti-

preference economists is that to grant. PERFUMERY

Imperial Preference simply meads to give an advantage to the least important of Great Britain's customers. The follow ing table, showing who were, Great Bri 'tain's best customers, in the two years before and the two latest years for which figures are available after the War, has a bearing on this point:

1801

29.295,310.

19,200,000

300 F000

02,138,489

51,708,833

1,010,354

18.750.818

16.320.231

41,800,0 14,332,010.

21,827,007.

10,208,839

13,070,382

11.010.763

20,104,707

26,053,695

1010

India

anaiprstu.

£111,024,013

United Stato Germany,

Belgium. V

120,629, 19

169,215,841 :

Franco kerkokoaştern -

83,030,747

43,172,001

Australia

71,402,100

Holland

1913

£146,003,035 121,098,035

70,040,968 78,255,700

18,322,(M.)

2,145,702 39,006,995

1020

61,088,763 £183,031,715.

131,000,$05 75,747,743 08,625,692

£111,403,848

40,711,913 04,308,334

67,066,01€

38.340,433

$4,983,300

BEL

22,787,270

31,500, 143

17,423,988-

228 019 01

13,851,051

05,120,312

02,132,641

taly

Sweden .................... South Africa Caonda ............

Egypt.........

Argentina.......

40,707,267 -

154,200,830

23,230,830 35,387,03-4.

21,340,850

China

It is now regarded as practically certain

In Handsome Cut Glass Bottles.

Suitable for

XMAS

Presents.

We have received this Shipment

on Consignment and are sacrificing

at Manufacturer's Cost.

From $1.30 to

per bottla.

Rosemontag

Marie Charlotte

Myosotis

This opportunity will occur Once only.

General Commercial Co.,

10, Des Youx Road Centra",

Top Floor.

BOWERN &

No 8, MuuM HOAD, SHANGHAL

Members British Chamber of Commer (Shanghai). Me T. W. BOWERN, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Ehipbrokers, Insor parated by Royal Charter, London,

that the proposed new arterial road be, AGENTS AND SHIPUROTEZE, 2 tween Glasgow and Edisbargh will be pro- arded with during the coming winter at an estimated cost of £1,855,000.

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS

DECEMBER 131, 1923. Hongkong and Shanghai

Banks $1,090 s. Canton Insurances .........$710 % “'"Union Insurances include 235 2

H.K, C. & M. Stemmboats 346) bar.

Ferries ******** Sugars... Langkats (Combined)

Hongkong Hotels Cements Hongkong Roper

Chias ****

Providents

Watsons Ubian Lights

b-buyers;

3213 b.

34 b.

-ealess

For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Vessels of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, New and/or Old, with delivery Chins at Very Low Prices

BALTAGE OPKRATORS, MARINE SUKTKTORA -IN AUCTIONEERS, COAL MERCHANTEK

FERIDIZ KROKLES, METAL MIROKANTA. Machinery For Sale, New and Old First Class Condition,

IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, SHARK-BROKER Members Shanghai Share Brokers' Associa tion),

4....

SOLD AGENTS FOR CHINA- GREEN'S PATENT ÄNGUDES. -

Bamuel Warren & Co. Lzn. (Shafield). High-Clam Steel. Manufacturers (Tan) Brand

Catalogues and Price-Lists on application

Cinquires Welcomed

CAMER ADDRESS BOWERY, Bhanghai.

CODES: Bentley's, Boott's, A.B.C.

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то

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THE BETTER

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SEND FOR PRICE-LIST.

MATSUMURA,

5, Arsenal Street, Hongkong. DEALER IN

GENUINE

ART CURIOS

Ancient and Modern

Successor to Nikko

Artistic Gold,[Silver, Bronze, Damascene, & Lacquer Wares, Satsuma Porcelain, China Tea Services, Embroideries, Silk Lampshades, etc..

GREAT REDUCTION SALE

FOR 15 DAYS ONLY.

From October 25th to November 10th.

ALL KINDS OF LADIES' FANCY GOODS including Swatow Drawn Work, Canton Embroidery, Hand-made Laces, Ivory-ware, Beaded Works, etc., etc.

DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY.

CHINA DRAWN WORK CO.

To think of

(YUEN, CHEONG)

40, Queen's Road Central.

SEA-GRASS and RATTAN FURNITURE that will give you the Utmost - SATISFACTION -in every point of EXCELLENCE is

to think of

DO BE CHAIRFUL" COMPANY

51, Queen's Road Central.

Makers of Furniture, the QUALITY of which has long been accepted by knowing Forniture-bayers as the

·STANDARD OF MERIT."

PIANOS FOR SALE OR HIRE.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO

TEL: 2127.

94, WANGHAT ROAD,

PERFUMERY

Manufactured by

RIGAUD, PARIS,

"AIRE EMBALSAMADO'

"MARY GARDEN": "HORA CARIÑOSA”. "DULCE MIA

"LILAS DE RIGAUD"

Obtainable froma-

VICENTE ATIENZA,

15. Nathan Rd., Kowloon:

Telephono 155,0