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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1925

FIRE-RESISTING FLOORING.

(Awarded Gold Medal Franco-British Exhibition)

JOINTLESS. HYGIENIC & NON-SLIPPING

Laid by Our Own Workmen an

STEEL, WOOD OR CONCRETE.

THE UNITED SBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tal. Contral 236.

2, Qwson's Buildings.

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QUEEN'S THEATRE.

TO-DAY, at 5.15 p.m. & 9.15 p.m. First Appearance of

MURRAY

The Australian Handcuff King

FEATURING

"The 5,000 Trunk Mystery

and many other tricks.

Murray Will Baffle you

See If You Can Baffle Murray

ALSO SHOWING

KATHERINE MACDONALD

看看

IN

THE BEAUTIFUL LIAR "

A First National “Attraction.

PRICES OF ADMISSION:

At 5.15 p.m. & 9.15 p.m.-$1.50, $1.00 60 Cts. & 40 Cts.

Soldiers and Sailors Half Price to 1st and 2nd Classes

TO-DAY ONLY, 5 p.m. (Sharp)

9.15 p.m

THE WONDEBFUL PICTURIZTION OF PIERRE BENOITE

WORLD FAMOUS NOVEL

KOENIGSMARK”

A PRODUCTION SO PERFECT THAT WILL RANK PRE-EMINENT AMONG THE UREATEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR.

A MASTERPIECE OF THE SPECTACULAR IN MOVING FISTUBES, PORTRAYING A MOST SUBLIME, LOVE STORY WITH SUMPTUOUS AND GORGEOUA SCENES IT REPRESENTS, BEYOND QUESTION OF A DOUBT THE SUMMIT OF MOTION PICTURE ACHIEVEMENT.

DON'T MISS YOUR VERY LAST CHANCE,

STARTING TO-MORROW,

'THE FAMOUS "MERRY-GO-ROUND” GIRL

AND FANDOMB FAIREST FAVOURITE

MARY PHILBIN

EX

20th.

"THE GAIETY GIRL"

(IN EIGHT MASSIVE REELS;

A 130

JACK DEMPSEY

"FIGHT

IN

& WIN"

(FIRST SERIES).

WORLD THEATRE.

FOUNDATIONS

PROMPT AND EFFICIENT SERVICE ENSURED B7, ADOPTING

THE "FRANKI" · PILING SYSTEM,

EXAMPLES---

CONTRACT No. 40, P GODOWN (5 Storeys High) for THE CHINA FROVIDENT LOAN & MOET- GAGE CO., LTD., at WEST POINT. TOTAL WEIGHT ON Foundationi,12,000 Tons FOUNDATIONE STARTED... ...15th Oct, 1924 FOUNDATIONS COMPLETED

...15th Dec, 1924 (Time-52 Actual Working Days)

CONTRACT No. 44 GODOWN (4 Storey High) for THE WING ON CO, LTD,1⁄4 WEST POINT..

TOTAL WRIGHT on Foundations.11,654 Tons CofLLET SIGNED

...17th Dec, 1924) FOUNDATION STARTED FOUNDATIONS Coxrines

25th Dec, 1924 23rd Feb, 1925 (Time-13 Acial Working Days)

Ask for illustrated Booklet and fall information from the

HONGKONG ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, QKATER. ROAD.

Telephons Central 4581 (Two Lines).

PIANOS FOR SALE OR HIRE.

TEL. 4648

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO.,

No. 8, Dzs Vauz BOAD CENTRAL (Entrance Hous Street.)

COMPANY REPORT.

· DOUGLAS "STEAMSHIP' CO., LTD.

After providing $70.000 for the depre ciation of steaners the General Managers recommend a dividend of 3 per cent. per Annum (84 per share) to be paid on the working of the Company for the year. ending. December 31st, 1924, subject to the confirmasion of shareholders at the annual general meeting to be held on Saturday. March 28th, 1923.

SHANGHAI TRADE..

Mours. Ilbert & Co.'s Piece Goods Market Report dated March 13th says:

The imparved tone of our market men- tioned in our last two reports has been fairly well maintained.. Clearances generally have not been quite so favour able as inst week, but yet fair quantities have gone into consumption.

Auction prices were steady, with the exception of Fast Blacks, which were about 3 maci down.

This is the off season for Fast Blacks, ia addition to which the demand from Yangtze Ports has again been pear, the presence of large numbers of troops in the Chinking and Wuhu areas still causing uneasiness, and dealers ETU adopting a cautious attitude.

it would seem that our market is not at the moment prepared to pay the prices asked by Aanchester, as there is gill a fairly wide margin of difference in re- placing cats, and although there has been a certain amount of enquiry, very i Hittle business has actually been booked.

TAX SHOCK FOR ISLANDERS.

JERSEY, GUERNSEY, AND MAN

"ASKED TO PAY MORE.

The Government are considering what steps they can take to secure from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man their fair share of the costs of the war.

Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, is likely to raise the matter iu the House of Commons.

The position concerning the Channel Islands is remarkable. At the beginning of 1923 the British Government "invited Jersey to pay £395,000 and Gaern $975,000 annually to the Imperial Ex chequer.

£106.000 IN PENSIONS.

Freser's attitude has been that "neither legally nor constitutionally can she agree to make any contribution, not withstanding the fact that pensions and allowances disbursed by the Ministry of Pensions to ten in Jersey total £46,000

Millinery,

Summer Dresses,

Bathing Suits. MAUDE BRENNAN,

FLOOR, ASIATIC BUILDING.

TO ARCHITECTS &

BUILDING CONTRACTORS

SEND US YOUR ENQUIRIES FOR

SANITARY

PLUMBING

HEATING

year, while pensions. and allowances in HOT WATER INSTALLATIONS Guernsey amount to nearly £60,000.

When the Government made the request |"ESTIMATES AND which Jersey refused to meet, the total taxation of the island amounted to only

Be. a head The amount payable in Great Britain is 577 karhead.

The answer of Guernsey to the sugges tion that the island should contribute £275,000 a year to the Imperial Exchequer was an offer of one payment of £220,000. Last year the Guernsey income tax was fourpence in the pound. The duties on tabacco, spirits, and sugar are almost negligible. A bottle of whisky costs six chillings.-

SUGGESTIONS.

Action now rests with Parliament, and the Government have decided to revive the whole matter.

The suggestion of the Government to the isle of Man was that the statutory contribution of the island should be rais ed to £150,000 a year, including the tem porary war contribution of £20,000 for twelve years, and that the Accumulated Fund of the island should be reduced by

ne of The trans the transfer of £100,000 of War

ta

the Imperial Government for cancelacion The Isle of Man Legislature offered $200,000, with the proviso that the money. should not be takel from the Accumulat ed Fund nor raised by taxation on food.

TURKEY'S BUDGET.

"LOAN OPERATIONS PREDICTED. Sooner or later, when internal political infurrces, which run counter to the foreigner,

the new are controlled in Turkey, loan operations will need to he considered says the London Daily Tele- graph. That is 4 foregone conclusion which occasionally inspires hope. that the

SUGGESTIONS FREE.

WE INVITE YOU TO INSPECT OUR NEW SHOWROOM ON THE

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SUZUKI & Co., Ltd.

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Tol. Central 484, 468.

China Building, 1st Floor.

Terks will make an arrangement with the RUBBER COMPANIES DIVIDENDS. bondholders, and a perusal of the figures

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Hope or Curiosity

curiosity

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I think sometimes the word I is just another name for "hope." You might fancy that it was curiosity that made you smoke your first Kensitas-no, sir, it was really hope, the hope that you would. find Kensitas a really good cigarette, better than the kind you had been smoking.

But it is a fact, sir, that after you smoked that first Kensitas and experienced the cool, rare old bind of prime Virginia you continued to stoke Kensitas, because you found that Kentitas se

** good as really good cigarettes

can be.**

Kensitas

of the Budget for the year 1825-8 makes Messrs. Guthrie & Co., Kuala Lumpur, it clear that external assistance will be are in receipt of telegraphic advice from required to get the finances straight. The ne scretaries of Cheviot Rubber, Ltd., proposals submitted in the new Budget to the effect that, in respect of the year for the Turkish year 1341 (6

1025-6)

1024, the directors have decided to recom→ estimated expenditure T162,288,942, against T140,433,369 for mead the payment on the 25th inst. of the previous year, and though the expect. dividend of 7 per cent., to place £2,000 e revenue placed at £T145,306,978 to reserve, and to carry forward £2,621, against T129,214,810 the revenue does They are also in receipt of telegraphic not keep pace with the higher expendi-advies from the secretaries of the Labr and the deficit works out at (F.M.8.) Rubber Co. to the effect that, ST16,881,864, against £T11,218,750. in respect of the year 1994, the directors The principal cause of the increaand ex- have decided to recommend the payment penditure of 121,886,573 is under oa on the 28th inst. of a dividend of per tional defend for which ST6,420,000 more cent, to place £4,000 to reserve, and to is required, but as evidence that some carry forward 201 effort is bei

being made to take matters in band larger amounts are to be voted for education, justice, public

and, what is equally encouraging,

drbt. The expenditure is hardly likely to fail below

the estimated figure, and the queA- tion must always be whether the various taxes will bring in the estimated amounts. The land tax, which is calculated to in- On additional pascarments in respect crease 316,000,000, arises from an in- of excess profits duty the Inland Revenue crease in

rate on rural property from authorities have been collecting large sums of money from textile firms in the. real property belonging to the State is West Riding of Yorkshire for some time expected to

to realise some T8,000,000 more, past, says a recent London paper. and Customs duty on tobacco and con xumption taxes are enc

each considered like- In one case it is almoet openly acknow- ly to produce larger suma for the re- ledged that a firm has been paying On the other hand, for tithes, £100,000 a month for the past 12 months on the coming into force of a new law, At least three more big concerns are decrease of 178,150,000 is forcan, and known to be making heavy payments, though the "dry" régime was abolished although the figures are not mentioned and the duty on alcohol increased; leas while many maller firms are abo invol revenue in anticipated from this sourer.

4 per cent, to 24 per cupt. The sale of

venues.

ved.

FIRM'S £1,200,000 TAX.

PAYING INLAND REVENUE £100,000 A MONTHL

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The Valley of the Kings at Luxor,

MOON

OF ISRAEL

is an Authentic historical document.

LONG AFTER YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN OTHER NOTABLE FILMS

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You will remember Tainis, the Marvellous City of the Pharaohs;

The Israelites toiling for their task- masters;

The slaying of the first born of Egypt! The crossing of the Red Sea;

The overwhelming of the Egyptians as the waters roll back at the command of Moses!

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MOON OF ISRAEL

played for a full month at the London Pavilion, it is now showing in all the leading English cinemas.

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