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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel. Central 286...

AGENTS FOR

1, Queen's Buildings,

BRIGG'S BITUMINOUS ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

UNION

ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTI-FOULING.

COMPOSITIONS

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.

ANCHOR BRAND

"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST."

PURE MANILA

MARINE ROPE

TRANSMISSION

OF POWER ROPE

CABLE LAID

HAWSERS

WELL DRILLING

CABLES

ROPE.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY MARCH 2ND, 1926

ESTABLISHED 1854

RUPES OF ALL SIZES FOR ALL PURPOSES

YNCHAUST

ROPE

FACTORY

MANILA

MADE FROM PURE MANILA

HEMP

MANUFACTURED

BY THE MOST MODERN

MACHINERY.

STOCKS ON BAND OF ALL SIZES ENQUIRIES SOLICITED.

FACTORIES-MANILA, PH.

KING'S BUILDING. TELEPHONE CENTRAL -3165.

•

HONGKONG OFFICE:

If its Heating, Lighting or Cooking

GAS IS SUPREME.

The use of Gas means that every constituent of the raw material-Coal-has been completely utilised in its manufacture before reaching

the consumer.

Therefore the use of Gas' ensures

Economy of Labour

Elimination of Smoke and Dirt

Promotion of Cleanliness & Health Reduction of Fire Risks.

Full particulars of Gas Fittings for every pur- pose can be obtained at the Show Rooms of the HONGKONG & CHINA GAS Co., Ltd.

26, Des Vœux Road Central and West Point,

A.P.B.

HONGKONG HOTEL BARBER SHOP

1st

16,

Des

FROM MONDAY

MARCH, 1926,

GROUND FLOOR

Voeux Road Central.

* (Adjoining Old Block destroyed by Fire)

Hours:--8 a.m.

m. to 7

p.zzi.

(Sundays-9 am, to 12 Noon.) (Holidays: 8 am. to 1. p.m.)

NOTE: The Ladies Hairdressing Saloon in the Hongkong Hotel will be reopened so soon as necessary repainting can be completed."

FLEXIBLE GLASS" INVENTED. HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

AN ELUSIVE ORGANIC MATERIAL DISCOVERED.

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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Do

„Faxnuárý 17vi, 1996,

..$1,035 bay, 1,070 £129 nom...

Hongkong Bank

London..... Chartared Bank... Marcantile Bank, A.&

Do..

Flexible synthetic glass" has been invented at last, and is considered to have enormous possibilities. It appears to be as important an innovation as the first manufacture of rubber, says the Editor of The Motor, who adds that the invention is being developed in Great Britain and no financial support is being sought by Canton Insurance the promoters, all the capital required China Underwriters

North China Insaran Ge having been found.

Union Insarsace

0. Back P. & East Asia Bank.

It is the invention of two famous Aus- Tangtare Insurance trian scientists. It has many of the pro-Chine Fire

perties of ordinary glass but is an organic hongkaran.co

Do.

213) mora.

.377 nom.

$300_buy.n

1,32 sel.

Tix. 145 nom. $173 buy., 975 am. 344 bay. $160 buy..

Insurance....$530

& M. Steamboata

substance; is can, therefore, most appro- priately be described as organic glass... It is perfectly transparent and colourless, Hongkong Tig...... retaining its water-clear appearance under Indo-Chinas (Prof.) all atmospheric conditions, is sufficiently

(Def), hard to be safe from accidental scratch-Shall Transports

Star Ferri!!! ing, due to handling or cleaning, and yet.

Watarbonta is flexible enough to bend under stress to a marked extent without fracture.

Oriental Navigations Furthermore, it can be broken with the bare hands without risk, because the edges of the facture are not sharp or jagged; indeed, in its

China Sain

Malabon Bergesti. Kain Mining Ad Langhsia (combined)

....

Shanghai Explorations Shanghai cana Baubi

the material resembles toffee as much as anything. It does not break off in sharp splinters. Another important property is that the specific gravity is only about half | that of glass; in other words, a given Tranch Mines. sheet of the new material is only half the Ural Caspians weight of a sheet of glass corresponding H&K Wharle in eize and thickness.

Sheets and rods of “organic glass can Le bent between the hands to a sharp

B.K.&W. Docks, Hongkaws. New Engineerin Shanghai Docks.

Hongkong Landa Bongkang Realtys (a.p.) H.K. Territorial (l.p.)

Estates Humphreys Prince's Building.... Baral Lands

we Cottons ...... Orientals

curve, or can be dropped on to the floor, Hotels, without damage. Tested with a pen knife point, we find the material to be scratchable only when considerable pres. sure is applied." It is net inflammable.

Another very interesting characteristic, although not of importance in connection with the motor car, is the extent to which organic glass will transmit ultra-violet rays, in which respect it comes close after quartz ordinary glass, is practically opaque to these health-giving rays. This immediately opens up the prospect of shelters for sun treatment built ofar ganie glas" to replace open-air treatment; windows for greenhouses, and so on.

China

buy.

SUBOL $19 bay

som. $3d nam

90/3 buy.

$55 buy

$16 bay

130 năm

19/8 buy Tu es truy.

T12 nom. Tis. B sol.

.7

Th. 7 nom

5 bay, 53/"bay.

„B. nom.

SLIB

5 bay,

buy.

Ta. 7 nom.

TL 103 sel

381 bay, 9 sa.

ग्र

Soði buy. 61 sa,

$1 buy.

...312 £

*37 Mi

„Tix. 9.10 buy-

Tis. § now.

(old)....Ta 54 buy. (new)....Th. 29 buy.

Shanghai Cottons

Do. Amusements Canton Ices Gaments (combined)

Do. (old) Do. (new) The remarkable resiliency obtained is

Buses shown by some simple testa which we car. China Lights (combined), ried out with a small ball made of the

Do *(old) new substance. If allowed to fall on to

Do. a stone floor it will rebound almost to the China Providants height from which it was dropped. Für Constructions more, if the bail be flung down violently Dairy Farms, it will bounce up to a height of 20ft. or Der A Wing (4.p.) more, subsequent examination of the sur Hongkong Electrics face showing it to be undamaged. The

Macão Electrica H.K. Developments...... physical strength of sheets of this material

HK Ropes (combined) is adequate to prevent it from bending

(old) or sagging under ordinary loads.

Important as it is in itself, "organic

(DOW) Hongkong Tramways.. glass represente only che member of an Lane Crawfords....... entirely new series of chemical products intomas, the possible applications of which cover Peak Trains (old).. an enormous field of industrial activity. Do. (new) (a.p.). The range of applications includes such Since sidely differing trades as the paint and varnish, textile and electrical industries. In the last-named trade stone the new substance has great scope as an insulator, a dielectric, and also as a material for accumulator casings which is transparent, strong, flexible and non-inflammable: In the textile trade it can be used for treat- buy-bay; sel.

or decorating fabrics.

Many everyday applications also eug. gest themselves: Tumblers and wine Blasses which could be dropped without smashing, transparent tanks through which the level, of oil or petrol could be Been, or even a transparent fountain pen

Do.

Do

Taris.................. United Asbestos Watsons (old)

"Da (new) Wm. Powell Telephones ................

+

311 buy.

HOTEL

$110 bay.

$13 buy,

Mi, 10) bay.

$ bay.

+bay.

3 buy,

39 buy

bay.

$15! buy.

.310 nom.

$38 bus.

10 nom.

25 eta. nom.

$37 seL

$13 nom.

buy, 20/20 sa. $12 nom. .321+ nom. !

$1?; buy.

311 sol. H sel

320 nom.

$12 sel.

.:$12 sal..

$10 sel.

$3 buy.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

the ink level in which would always beW

visible !

HONGKONG TRADE.

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.

CO, (1918), LTD.

Shareholders of this Company dated

WITH Reference to the Notics to the

29th DECEMBER, 1995, whereby the Final Call of $9.00 Per Share on the New Share wai made Payable on 4th March, 1926, instead of 4th January, 1926, the General Managers and Consalting Committee have decided, in view at the Conditions Prevailing at present, to Further EXTEND the Time for Payment of This

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The fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce states, with regard to Cottor Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods that miscellaneous sales covering most styles of staples and NOTICE IS ACCORDINGLY HEREBY fancies eventuated when the market re- GIVEN that the Date for Payment of the opened after China New Year, but the FINAL CALL IS POSTPONED to MEX aggregate is negligible in quantity when JUNE, 1925, and that the Form of Bankers compared with that of previous years. Receipt already sent "to Shareholders can be Latest cotton quotations are those of used as though the Date named therain were February 5th Eg Sakel. 1.500. Mid. the 4TH JUNE, 1986. Am. 10.33d. Spot,

Fos THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD., SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

General Managaru. Hongkong, 28th February, 1926.

THE SHARE MARKET. IMPROVEMENT INDICATED.

Messrs. Vernon & Smyth in their latest report state that while business on the local Share Market has not been on a

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RUPERT WILLIAM BROADLEY (DECEASED).

ALL Persona" having Chaims agains

large scale the tone however, appears better, and there has been more enquiry the Estate of RUPERT WILLIAM for stocks which have hitherto been more BROADLEY, iste Lightkeeper in the Chi- or less neglected; in many cases for nese Customs Service who died at HowzI, "Investment" stocks an improvement is SMANTU or on November 1st Last, are recorded in prices and orders are difficult hareby Required to Forward Same on or be to close Sellers are not anxious to part fore alar MARCH, 1926, to the Under with stocks for which there is most signed, who has been appointed by HM enquiry, and the market has changed to CONSULAR COUBT at Cheloo to administer one in which" buyers predominate.

EXCHANGE RATES,

BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, February 27th. To-day's exchange rates are as follows: Paris New York

Amsterdam

Stockholm Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors

Lisbon

Buenos Aires

Shanghai

Yokohame

Brussels

Geneva

Milan Berlin

Oslo. Prague Madrid

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

Rio

Bombay Hongkong Silver and Forward.

132.15 4.8003

12.1394

18.115

18.605

34.50

193

·2.33/64'

the said Estate as an Officer of Court under Rule 295 (1),of the China Rules of Court 1905.

TO-DAY

and

TO-MORROW

QUE S

SUPER

TO-DAY

and

TO-MORROW

UEEN'

CINEMA

VIOLA DANA

IN

"A NOISE IN NEWBORO"

METRO

COMEDY.

INVESTMENTS

WE BUY --

WE SELL:-

Small and Large Lots of Local and Rubber Small and Large Data of Sound Local and

Shares of interest to Our Clients.

Rubber Shares. HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO.

FLAT, HOUSES DISPOSED OF DR Acquired FOR CLIENTS. TAL 4330

10, Des Voeur Road.

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SOUTH CHINA KNITTING FACTORY,

Owing to the rapidly increasing demand for our HIGH GRADE COTTON SOCKS.

We have recently installed the

latest machinery, making it the MOST MODERN KNITTING FACTORY IN HONGKONG.

We can now cope with the largest orders in the shortest time, and invite enquiries from Wholesale and Export Firms who are interested in a class of Cotton Socks which have rapidly acquired a wide reputation throughout the Far East and India for Quality and Dependability.

Office and Factory: MONGKOK, KOWLOON. TIL. K593

Dable Address:

SOUCHIKNIT, HONGKONG.

A.P.E

₤104

There is a Finesse in the use of Perfume that can only be appreciated by the Woman of Exquisite Taste. A Fragrant Perfume is the expression of a Woman's Personality and is worthy of an Artistic Receptacle.

CENTLË LIGHT and SWEET FRAGRANCE are combined in a manner to appeal to the most Fastidious Seeker after objets d'art for the Boudoir and the Nursery in

PERFUME

LIGHTS.

Nobody who is a Lover of the Beautiful and Useful in combination, should fail to see these Charm- ing Novelties, now appearing in Hongkong for the first time.

As a Present for Her, these, and other Beautiful and Artistic Examples of Boudoir and Toilet necessi- ties, can not be surpassed.

THE QUEEN'S

22 Des Vœux Road Central,

No Claima against the Estate received by the Undersigned after 3er MARCH Old Servants, from about APRIL 8TH TO LET Fully Furnished, with Staff of 1926, will be considered.

Persons oring Money to the Estate are for Bix Months, TAIWO," BARKER 30-or before Bler MARCH, 1926, Required to Pay Same to the Undersigned ROAD, Fire Minutes from BARKEE ROAD TEAM STATION, Apply HULYOAK. care HOLTOAK, MASSET & Co., LTD. [3938

J. KILBANK. H.B.M. Consulate,

Chefoo, 1st February, 1926. -" (3169.

MAIDA.

45.13/16/LOSED for 6 Months, Will RE-OPEN Again in the Aurua Customers kindly note that in the mean- time MAIDA will have No Connection with say other Firm or Person in the Colony.

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3/0 1/10 100.075 25.205 120.975 20.415

22.42

· 164.1/15

34.505

QUENISHED FLAT-Midleral, Suit One or Two Bachelors. Also Eight 7.9/29 1/69/64 Boomed HOUSE in Excellent Condition 2/4 Unfurnished. May be Let in Piata Tel, 30 9/16 4830. SMALL INVESTORS.

DISPENSARY.

Telephone C. 492

A.P.B.

TO LET.

LOON, TO, 61, GRANVILLE BOAD, EOW-

Apply to- -SPANISH DOMINICAN PROCURATION,

TO LIT.

O LET-From April 1st, 1926, for Bir Booms, Central District, All Modern Conven iences including Elevator. Apply --Box No. 155 af Hongkong Daily Press,

Months, Well Furnished FLAT Four G DIGS (Basement),

TO LET.

LIFE

N or About MARCH, 1926, WHOLE

OFFICES in the Fax BUILDING

VICTORIA BUILDING, No. 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CAL, (between CHARTIRED BANK and Myxdanzas BarK).,

Apply to BANQUE DE I INDOCHINE, AK

Chaber Boad,

“[2607

0 FLAT or SPACIOUS BUTTE of

10DOWNE in ALEXANDRA BUILD.

Apply

2082

SECRETARY,

A BWATICS, & On-Levi

PREPAID

WANTED

ADVERTISEMENTS

ma MÓ LET.—Large Suite of OFFICES

1- CHINA BUILDINGS, Ath Floor. Very Moderate Rental. Apply Post Office Boz 272.

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