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SCARAMOUCHE"

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SHANGHAI TRADE.

Messrs. Ilbert and Co.'s Piece Goods Market Report, dated Feb. 13th says:- Once again demand has been poor all round thentsin, are

one or two of our outlets, sepecially

beginning to signs of te-awakening after the holidays and certain lines of goods have changed hands at improved prices. The mean

most favoured cloths at the moment are good quality White Shirtings which have advanced one to two mace per piece, though the quantities involved are com paratively insigniicant, but on the other hand dyed goods are still practically neglected and values are inclined to sag. owing chiefly to the fact that the Hankow merchants have still not returned to busi

Deas.

Native dealers are once again becom tog pessiruistic about the political situa tion, and with apparently good cause, as conditions in this neighbourhood gow contain all the elements of serious trouble notwithstanding the superficiale atmosphere of peace and the recent sign ing of the local socalled Peace Treaty in which nobody appears to place ans particular faith.

Some attempts at replacement orders for White Shirtings are reported to have been made during the week, but none of these have produced contraers of any importance, only a few

small lines having been booked here and there. It is significant that according to a Reuter telegram dated 10th inst., the American section ot

in weekly

Lancashire has decided to ret working hours from 30 to 33, which tanda to contradict the reports NO frequently telegraphed of late from that centre of improved business conditions and heavier engagements which were said to have placed the mills in a more or less independent position.

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET. CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

FLEXUARY 19TH, 1925. Hongkong and Shanghai

Banks in sinun Cantan-Inarastes

„21,925 b. .....$755 nom.

Hongkong Fire Insurances... 3710 nom.. Union Insurance

Douglas Steamabips.

HK., C. & M. Steamboats...358 b.

Star Ferries.

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China Sugars.....писа Langbats (combined)

Whampoa

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(old) 339 KL. E-buyers; 1-sellers; sa-salce.

HONGKONG YARN MARKET.

Messrs. Polishwalla & Kotwall, cotton and yarn brokers, Hongkong, in their circular dated February 17th, say

We have again to report an absolutely blank period since the issue of our last report, on the 17th ultimo, a period of one whole nroath, during which there has

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG.

SANITARY GOODS

FIRE GRATES,

COOKING STOVES, FLOOR & WALL TILES.

ESTIMATES FREE FOR HEATING INSTALLATIONS, HOT & COLD WATER SYSTEMS, Era,

COAL

not only been an entire absence of busi-JAPAN, FORMOSAN AND

uess, but practically no deliveries,—the latter. we are informed, being due to the adverse exchange with Yunnan. Other factors, which add to the deplorable state of our market, are the political unrest.

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A slump in prices is also reported from Bombay, whilst local dealers, in their anxiety to dispose of their holdings, are selling what they can 6 to 8 even below our, quotations.

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RECENT FINANCIAL SAYINGS.

The best triple alliance, after all, is and Labour.—Bir Braine, Capitul, Kingsley Wood, M.P.

Heavy stocks often spell big scrap beaps. Mr. P. Ross Frumier, C. (DE Beers Consolidated Mines).

SHIPBUILDING IN SCOTLAND,

Shipbuilding returns for the whole of Scotland during 1924 are now available. On the Clyde 185 vessels, with a tonnage of $48,794 und ih.p. of 828,331, were launched, compared with the 1923 figures of 19 vessels, with a tonnage of 179,240 and i.h. p. of 187,000. (These figures are exclusive of small craft such as motor launches, small yachts, etc.) The outputTravers Clarke. of the Firth of Forth yards totalled 14 Vessels, with a tonnage of 20,396 and i.hp. of 1,900, compared with te vessels, with a tonnage of 0,88 and i.h.p. of 10,040, in 1923 In the Tay and district yards 5 reseciz, with a tonnage of 20.418 and hp. of 10,809, were launched inst

year.

The Clyde figures have only twice been exceeded since the boor year of 1913, namely, in 1910 and 1920, "

́CINEMA, NOTES.

QUEEN'S THEATILE.,

We are bolding à valuable part of the earth's surface, and we must develop it or give way to someone who with-577

favour, the strongest being that British Our steel trade has many factors in its credit is still the best in the world.- Sir WiNium Larke.

France should be told by her friends that her attitude in the matter of debts has both puzzled and alarmed her friends.-Senator Reed (U.8. Benato).

france owes the world a complete atatement of her financial position, and the French people are deluding them: selves in not making such a statement- Bir George Paish.

If workmen deliberately reduce the volume of national wealth by reducing. output they are reducing their own Kofuel Sabatini, the author of chances of raising the "Scaramouche,

which in its screen Mr. J. R. Clynes, at pndard of living.

form, as produced by Rex. Ingram for Metro, opens at the Queen's Theatre to morrow, is one of the outstanding liter ary lights of the year. "The modern

• Dumho succeeded by doing the wrong!

as critics have called him, is

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an

New York is not yet so experienced a lender as London is: it does not know the borrowers of the world or understand their aceda so well as London does.— Commander Hilion Young

Rapid redemption of debt and heavy

thing. Sabatini persisted in writing national expenditure can follow the re- novels with historical hack-grounds when turn of prosperity, but they cannot pre-

the public deri

ed nothing, but studies of

by the war, want-

cede it

it without involving a towered scala

to most publishers, of living, and heary unemployment.

Alr B. G. Glenday (Federation of Bri- was published tish Industries).

When "Scaramouchy

in 1921, critics who declared the historical The present situation is such that a novel cond not come back were forced heavy increase of taxation in any form to admit their error, for the stirring with a view to the carly repayment of tale of France's fight for liberty became a large amount of national debt would epormously successful. Many editions do more harm than good, and would were printed, and Sabatini, after" years be most prejudicial to trade and em of only meagre recognition, tasted the ployment.-Mr. H. JP. Paine (Lloyds, fruita of popularity.

Bank).

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