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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tol, Central 238.

AGENTS FOR

PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH,

THE HONGKONG

DAILY

DISTINGUISHED ELEC- TRICIAN.

3, Queen's Buildings.

BRIGG'S BITUMINOUS ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

UNION

ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTI-FOULING COMPOSITIONS

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.

JUST RECEIVED

A GREAT ASSORTMENT OF

EAR-RINGS, PEKING BLUE BEADS, MANILA HATS, SILK LANTERNS AND LAMP SHADLE.

THE SWATOW LACE CO.,

Manufacturers and Exporters

OF

LACES, DRAWN-WORK

EMBROIDERIES,

17a. Queen's Road Central.

AND

GREAT REDUCTION SALE

OF

SWATOW DRAWN WORK

SILE EMBROIDERIES.

MAH-JONGG - SETS

HAND-MADE LACES

IVORY WARE MANDARIN COATS

All Kinds of LADIES: FANCY GOODS.

Those desirous of obtaining

VALUABLE GIFTS

Should not fail to Visit

SWATOW DRAWN WORK COMPANY,

Telephone E711.

16, Des Voeux Road Central.

BICYCLES

LADIES', GENTLEMEN'S OR TANDEM FOR HIRE OR SALE. NEW RACER JUST ARRIVED.

Telephone K711.

Excellent Opportunities for Competants in Bicycle Races.

HANG LEE CYCLE CO.,

To think of.

19, HAFHONG ROAD, KOWLOON...

Next to FALACE HOTEL.

SEA-GRASS and RATTAN FURNITURE that will give you the Utmost SATISFACTION in avery 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 knowipp Furniture-buyers as the STANDARD OF MERN.

The CITROEN.

The Last Word in Car-Economy RUNNING COSTS LOWER.

Less Tyres

Less Oil

Winner 3 years running 1920-21-22. Grand Prix for Low Consumption.

Cars for Sależ

LEPACK CO., LTD.

80-59, Queen's Rd. C.

LORD KELVIN GOLD MEDAL FOR PROF. THOMSON,

Professor Eliku Them, one of the founders of the General Electrie Com- pang, U.S.A. and the British Thomson-. Houston Company and among the world's nest einent electrical engineers, has been awarded the Lord Kelvin gold medal and will go to England during the curing sunuger to receive it,

The award was made by British ant American Engineering Sceleties acting jointly is awarded every three years as a mark of dialinetion and for excellence in original research work is engineering. Prot Thomson is the fit American to

revive this honour.

Prof Thomson has been granted" about 700 agents in the United States. His in- ventions in dynangweletrie machinery, electric welding, watt-hour meters, light- ning arresters and magnetic are ex tinguishers are fundamental. He was a pioneer in ate lighting, and innumerabla elvetrical deviges have been improved through his work.

He has received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale; of Doctor of Philosophy from Tufts, and of Doctor of Scliner from Haryant, and has been de corated as Chevalier and Officier the

*} Legion of Honour of France For his achievements in the electrical field he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris Ex- hibitions of 1950 and 1900 and the St. of 130 He was pre- Los Esposition

of Elec- sident of the American Lastitate trical Engine in 19-9 and the first recipient of the famous Edison medal, Prof. Thomson is a member of various British an American stientide and pro fession! worieties.

MONEY IN PLANTS.

A writer in a Hume paper says:-

A firm of Scottish serdsmen hava just sold a small quantity of seed of a new oat at a price which works out at £569.623

[wr tel.

Obviously the financial possibilities of producing new varieties of plants are worth considering. True; hybridising, is a lifelong study, and requires special gifts and immense paticue But the rewards are certainly grat

Take the potato. Twenty-one years ago a new diseaseproof variety, the Eld do." came firss upon the market, and ix tubers weighing in all just 5oz. were sold at auction. They realised £50 3. 54. Oud tube that weighed only half an ounce made nine guineas

Evergood," an extraordinarily pro- life variety which produced from 14.46 18 tots an aere, sold at five guineas a pound. and for another new discussprunf variety £70 pound was refused for the first sel potato marketed!!. At that dare the standard price for pure gold was only 40 14. 6d. per troy pound.

For sets of a new scarlet glúxinia in price of £900 per ounce was given a few years ago. In Crylon, where cinchona (producing quinine) is largely grown, £200 an ounce has been paid for, a single ouren DE - of new variety.

A new carnation finds a ready market. The French grower who produc- the Fiancée sold it to a Chicago dealer för £3,000. Yet such a price is not excessiva when you are told that its inventor spent twelve years before be perfected the Howwer Thomas Galvin, who was responsible for the Lawson "Pink of Perfection," received from T. W. Lawson the hitherto unheard- of price of £6,000 for his stock of the new flower. Two thousand pounds was given for the Flamingo," the carnation first shown by a Middlesex grower at the Royal Botanic Society's Show."

Eight years of patient" work in hybridis. ing gladioli resulted in the productive of "Glory of Noordwijk," one of the largest and most beautiful of gladioli. The inven tor sold two pounds of the new bulbs for £1,866,

SAIGON RICE MARKET.

The Compagnie de Commerov et da Navigation d'Extreme-Orient, in their report dated Saigon, March 28th, state: Site last week, the position of our marlat has remained steady with a slight upward tendency, induced mainly by the rise of the Hongkong market involving some sales. Paddy arrivals at the wills continue to be very scarce," and native holders keep their stocks in the certainty of getting better prices on April-May.

Few transactions have been made on Europe owing to the considerable rise of sterling. Neighbouring countries have re- mained in expectancy and Japan, which had started buying, stopped purchases.

A few operations have, however, taken place with Cuba and have resulted in strengthening our market.

The total amount of rice exported from January 1st to March 10th is: 298,334 tors against 251.671 in 1923.

We quote today:-White Saigon rice, No. 2 sifted, Japan quality, Hongkong $6.45 per picul, fo.h. Saigon, for April Afay shipment.

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET CLOSING QUOTATIONS;

Hongkong

and Shanghai

Arxit Brit, 1924.

$1,169 B. Union Insurance $241 ».

Banks

H.K., C. & M. Steamboats...$39) B.

* Star” Ferries .....

Langkat (Combined)...... Th 27. Kowloon Wharves

#lampen Dock

Docks ....

Hongkong Lanie Hamplinys Estate Hwo Colton Mills Cements...

..8164 8.

$150 th Tis, 9.

.Th. 11.30 b.

China Providenta... $17 (old), $ (new) be Dairy Farmax

Watan

Hongkong Trama .:.

Peak Tramwaya ....

330 ..$166.

b.---buyers; 8.—-tellers; sambales,

PASCALL'S

SWEETS

AND

EASTER

EGGS.

Large Assortment

M

Just

Landed.

BLUE BIRD

CAFE

CHINA BUILDING.

British trade, commerce, and seabes are progressing as if nothing had happened. Mr. J. H. Thomas, P...

We are now travelling on the old road on which Europe travelled before the last great war-Lord Grey.

To judge from today's speeches the Red Flag is not red, but a very pale pink. -Mr. Neville Chamberlain.

Can it be said now, as it was in the past, that English and is the best of all securities-Mr. D. T. Thring.

1921

· PERFUMERY

. Mansisctural by RIGAUD, PARIS,

"AIRE

EMBALSAMADO"

L....

"MARY GARDER"

"RORA CARINOSAL "¶"

**DULCE MIA"

"LILAS RIGAUD"

Obtainable from

VICENTE ATIENZA,"]=

18, NATILAN RD., KOWLOON. TEL. K. 155,"

WORLD THEATRE

Beginning 9th, WEDNESDAY, till 12th, SATURDAY.

at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m...

MAY ALLISON

is

LAUGHTER & TEARS SUNSHINE & STORM

in

The Tense, Emotional Role of

"The WOMAN WHO

FOOLED HERSELF."

FELIX THE CAT

LENDS a HAND

The Day of the Knight is Here !

IT IS THE

WILLYS - KNIGHT

Simplest and most trouble-free type of motor ever invented.

It has the most distnctive and gracefully balanced body of any car

in the market.

-The Willys-Knight car is the four cylinder motored ear that makes the six

unnecessary.

The Knight motor is atum principle. The valves are two cylindrical sleeves with rectangular slots or ports which when they register with each other and the ports in the block allow the ingress and egress of the gases without ulstruction. These wide open passages, particularly on the exhaustaside, permit a more thorough cleaning of the harut gas frous the combustion chamber than any other type of motor, so that every ounce of energy available in utilized from the explosive mixtan, which gives us such tremendous power.

2-It has no valve to grind and no carbon to clean.

The combustion chamber is completely surrounded by water and an alloy piston noted for its great heat radiating qualities is used so neither the combustion chamber nor the head of the piston gets hot enough to bake the residue from the exposed gases to form carbon while there is still enough heat inaintained to handle the explosive mixture effectively.

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3-It is the only type of motor that improves with use

While carbon can not form in the combustion chamber, still a certain amount of the residue from the burat gasts works n tehind the wide sealing ring in the cylinder head and, as this building in process altaine, it keeps pushing this sealing ring more tightly against the inner sleeve until it completely seals the compression chamber developing more power with every mile the motor is drawn.

4-It is the only type of motor that wears in while other wears out,

All parts in the Willys-Kiught car are assembled with wide clearance between each other and oil is forced into these clearances ander heavy preware so that the entire nesembly is lapping or wearing in on these heavy Ghos of oil instead of wearing out. In other words, every bearing in this motor is an oil beating instead of a metal to metai Learing which in pecessary, in the construction of a poppet valvo motor in order to keep it quict with subsequent quick

wear and noise.

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It has eliminated one hundred and sixty two quick wearing parte necessary in the operation of a cylindered poppet valve/motor. There are no bamtering parts such as cams striking against push rode, push rods “agaima valve stems, or valve heads snapping lack into their seats through the medium of heavy springs, etc.

THE MERCURY MOTOR CAR CO,

Sole Distributors.

i

IF

59-61, Des Voeux Road Central.

Telephone No. 977.

Head Office: 1st floor, Telephone 1340.