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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel." Central 286.

AGENTS FOR

BRIGG'S

1, Queen's Buildings.

BITUMINOUS

ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

14

UNION".

ANTI-CORROSIVE and ANTI-FOULING

COMPOSITIONS

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMB.

ANCHOR BRAND PURE MANILA ROPE. *THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST.”

MABINH ROPE

TRANSMISSION

OF POWER BUPE

CABLE LAID

HAWSERS

WELL DRILLING

CABLES

ESTABLISHED 1854

AUSTI

ROPE

FACTORY

MANILA

STOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH, 192

COMPANY REPORT. GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED.

The raport for presentation to the shareholders at the thirty-seventh ordi nary general meeting states:

The Board of Directors have now to lay before the shareholders a statement of accounts, and balance sheet for the year ending 31st December, 1995:-- The gross profit for the year

ig

The amount brought forward

from the previons pear.

After allowing for

tors' fees, etc 9,858, 70

direstors and audi-

69

Writing of 10% for

depreciation on the

Company's build-

inga, machinery, launches, lighters,

etc.

:67,936,53

The balance to be dealt

BUPES OF alle

SIZES FOR ALL FURFOSES

MADE FROM FURE MANILA.

HEMP

MANUFACTURED

BY THE MOST MODERN

MACHINERY.

HONGKONG

OFFICE

ESQUIRTES SOLICITED./

FACTORIES-MANILA, P.I.

KING'S BUILDING. TILEPHONE ORNTRAL 3165,

If its Heating, Lighting or Cooking GAS IS SUPREME.

The use of Gas means that every constituent of 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.

28, Des Vœux Road Central and West Point.

A.P.E.

SOUTH CHINA KNITTING FACTORY.

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

We have recently installed the Istest machinery, inaking 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.

Offe

MONGKOK, KOWLOON, T., K593 BOUCHIKNIT, FONGKONG.

A.P.B.

₤204-

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

"OLOSING "QUOTATIONS.

MARCH 8TH, 1986, Hongkong Bank...$1,022 bay, 1 C20/45 mm. Do, London, 2124 nam, Chartered Bank...

Merowati Bank, A&B.2301 bay

0.....15 nom.

P.&O.

0. Bank.. East Asa

Bank. Canton Insurance........ China, Underwriters 8578,348.29 | North China Insurance

Union Insuranos

1.000

„3600 buy.

513 bay, a

.....

..Tim. 145 mom.

14,558.50

Yangtese insurance China Fine Insuranos

$ bay.

...$165 buy,

$599,904.81

Hongkong Fire Insuranos....33-40 buy.

Dongiacos

buJ.?

47.

пока

m

90/3 bay.

H.K... 0.

dik. Szomba

Hanghong Tugs............. Indo-Chinse (Fret) ............anted (Del), parteci

Da,

Shell Transporte

Star Ferrés.....beson

Walerboats.

Oriental Navigations Ukim Sug

76,880.23 Mabon Bugars

Bengueterias

Kaila

A

(combined)

with is $516,000.29 |«Langle

Which it is recommended should be applied as follow:

To pay a dividend of 80 cents per share on the Old

shares

To pay a dividend of 10.668 cents per share on the New shares

To place to reserve for new

plant

And carry forward to the

credit of next year's ac coupt

Shanghat Exporations.

Shangtal Loans is..... Banbe ******* Trench Mizo Ural Caspians $390,000.00. & K. Whadis.

·

H.K. & F. Docks Hongkews,... 42,666.68 New Engineerings Shanghai Docks..

100,000.00 | H.K. & S. Hotels

bay."

.99 nom.

49/5 T. 23 bay.

bay....

Tis. 11 buy....

Tis. 5 101.

TA. 7 Hom

$5 buy.

1,35/- buy. .8/. nom. ..$195 bar.

Jou bay.

TO-DAY

̈änd

TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S

TO-DAY

and

TO-MORROW

AMIE MAYNARD

AND

HER ROYAL HAWAIIANS

FAREWELL PERFORMANCES HAWAIIAN JAZZ,

A WONDERFUL AND COLOURFUL.

DRAMA OF THE FROZEN 'NORTH.

"THE CHECHAHCOS'

THE ONLY PICTURE EVER MADE IN

Th. 165 buy,

..Tis. 5 bay.

..T. 94 buy.

39 buy, & m

..$5) nom.

P. & 0, Banks

..134 bay.

$10 a $7

Hongking Lands....... Hongkang Realty (c.p.)......15 nom.

33,342.98 | ELE. Tentorials (f.p.).........15) sel

Estates Huilding....... Rural Lauds.....................

$516,009.58

Directors-Under Article XII. (14) of the Articles of Association, Mesars. R. G. Shewan and Conrad . Mendham retire, but being eligible offer themselves for re-election.

Auditora The account have been audited by Mossrs. Linstead & Davis sid Messrs Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Chartered Accountants, who are eligible for re-appointment:

RAIN MAKING IN MALAYA.

MALAY MAGIC.

الناه)

Th. 9.10 bag. Tis. S nom

Ths. 93 buy,

$ilt bay.

.....$16 buy., 15/151 mm.

$13 buy.

3 bus.

Tis, 10 buy.

1819) buy, di san

Ewa Cottons Orientals. Shanghai Cottons (old)....134. 54 buy,

Do. (new).. Amnsaments Cantin is Caments (combined) ...........

Do. Do

(10W) China Buses.... China Lights (combined)

Da (old) „Ji4ì buy, Dr. (new)......$11; boy., 11/119 mm. China Providenta .............

*...*?) buy. Constructions

3 nom Dairy Farms,

$16 bey. Der A Wing (f.p.) · .... $10 nom. Hongkong Electrics, $58 buy, 59 sa. Macao Electrica ............450 nom. H.K. Daralopments....... 25 cte, nom.. HK, Ropes (combined)........ $35 sel.

Dor (old) Do. (now)

$7 nom. Hongkong Tramways Lane Crawfords... Mackintoshs...

Peak Trams (ald)

Do (new) (α.p.) Sinceres Taxis........ United Asbestos Watsons (old) Wm. Powells Telephones

(new)

buy-buyers;

TUOKL

*** Fox "£¤q ****

$12 aol.

821 nom.

316 s.

311

$20 nom. $12 nom. $12 now. 10 nga. $31.bay.

-sellers -porginal

EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITION. WIRKLESS SERVICK.]

RUGBY, March 6th. Today's exchange rates are as follow: Paris

Bruscia Amsterdam Berlia Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors

Lisber Buenos Aires Shanghai Yokohama

New York Geneva "Milan Stockholm

Oslo Prague Madrid Ric

134 103.05 12.11 73/16

20.40

18,75

34.47

1821

2,

2/112

1/10

4.853

95.931

170.05

8.11

22.76.

103 15/16

3143

INVESTMENTS

WE BUI

Camaats Electrica Underwriters Providents Chins Lighta

(old, new, comb) Hongkong Tram

In some notes on Malay Magic in the last number of the Journal of the .B., R.4.S., Dr. R. O. Winstedt writes:-

There is no rain-god other than Father Water. In the monsoon region such a divinity would- be too beneficent to retain fearful devotion. But there are primitive ways of influencing Father Water. Rice-planters often, soak a cat to produce rain, the reluctant quadrup ed being regarded apparently as pleasing sacrifice. To kill a snake, whose skin looks always moist, or to dress up a frog in a cradle will causa disastrous floods, rain and these animals being to closely associated that insult to them invites vengeance from their protector. In parts of Pahang where Sakai influence is strong, to tease any undomesticated animal, celebrate a mock marriage be- | tween dog and cat or between cocoaut monkey and crab-eating macaque, to push aweater-bird's nest with one's punt-poll and make it spin or to play with a wild bees-nest are all methods of causing terrific storms, and landslides. It is to be noted that the tormentors must always mock their victims, and that when the floods comes it is only these mockers who cannot escape, every spot where their fect tread becoming soft. In the interior of Pahang, too, to invoke kindly rain: before the planting out of the. rice Malays wade through the shallows of a river, plant banana-suckers, sugar cane and young betel and coconut palms on a sady islet that has appeared owing to the drought, and then to the din of rough music carry in procession on the sauda boy or an old man costumed in rain-compelling paraphernalia. His um- brella is a succulent aroid leaf on whose surface showers leave water standing, his cap is the cane stand for a cooking pot, his dagger la rice spoon. The symbolism is not so farfetched as it looks Rain kings and a leaf-clad boy or girl, who representa vegetation, figure in rain-making ceremonies in many

parts of the world. The Mantra "believe the sky to be a great pot suspended over the earth by a string. And a common Malay method of calling down rain from that inverted bowl we call the sky is to wash the cooking SALE OF SHIPPING INTERESTS. pots and their cane-standa. For a pros pective bride or bridegroom to eat food After long negotiations conducted by out of a stewpan on the eve of marriage the Darmstadter und National Bank, Ber- is sure to bring showers to mar their lis, to agreement was signed recently for wedding day, presumably because their the acquisition of the whole of the share action involves tilting the pan. Rice capital of the Hugo Stinnes Shipping spoons are closely associated with cook-Company in Hamborg, which is nomin ing-pots. The Torajan of Celebes dip ally 5,000,000 gold marks (£250,000), by rico-spoons in water to make rain: to the Deutsche Astral and Kosmos shipping kill a storm the Malay fisherman will lines. There companies, the Deutsche tie & rice-spoon scross his mast in the Astrs) in Hamburg and the Kosmos in direction of the wind and bommand it Bremen, some time ago formed a com- to die before this pointing. While in other regions blood is spilt as a sympathetic charm to induce the falling of rain, in Pahang, again under. Bakai infilience, an animal is sacrificed so that its blood dropping on the earth may cause the torrent of rain to censo, or, if an animal cannot be procured, the villagers will cut their own hands or feet. That is, if no one knows what broken tabu has caused the downpour. "If one knows, it suffices to count seven and cut the hair of the person at fault, whereupon the storm stops. This last custom recalls the Malay sailor's prayer to the wind to let down her long flow ing treases and may be intended to stay

the rustle of rain" by imitative in 10,200,000 marks (2529,000), with a sulation from its source, Austrálian aborigines use human hair for rain- making.

The total output of the Kailan Mining

Administration a mines for the week and ing February 20th amounted to 7,472 tons, and the sales to 36,554 tong.

Bombay Hongkong Silver (spot & forward)

1/8-7/64 2/31 305/16

THE STINNES TRUST LIQUIDATION

manity of business interests. The Hugo. Stinnes Shipping Company will retain its individuality, but the purchasing com panies will become jointly entitled to the quota allotted to the Stinnes line by the International Shipping Conference.

The number of ships acquired is 24 aggregating 148,212 tons, a few small boats used for inland tradic being retain, ed by the Mülheim Stinnes Company. The three companies together will control over dl vessels, aggregating 334,733 ⋅ net registered tons

1 Tiga

Union Isiarangas

Hongkong Banta

Wa Job

Ferries

ALASKA.

WE SELL.-and

Lane, Crawfords

Talophones

Constractions

Mulakoffa Innis Raubr

Jarama

Developmenta

HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS.

SHARE & REAL STATE CO. Tac. $1300

10, De Voeux Boni

No Lot Too Small No Lot Too large.

Malaka Pindar -

Sinceres

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.

GENTLE 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 fall to see these Charming Novelties, now appearing in Hongkong for the first time. As a Present for Her, these, and other Beautiful and Artistic Examples of Boudoir and Tollet necessities,

can not be surpassed.

THE QUEEN'S DISPENSARY.

22 Des Vœux Road Central.

Telephone C. 492.

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"THE LITTLE MUMMERS."

(KOWLOON CHILDREN'S DRAMATIC SOCIETY.) (TRAINED BY MR. GAY CUMING)

In A New and Original Setting of Cinderela.

In aid of DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES

STAR THEATRE.

Wednesday, March 10th, at 5.30 p.m. 9.15 pm.

Friday, March 12th,

NOTICE.

TICKETS-82" & $1.

TO OWNERS OF DOGS,

TIRE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY WARNED Gring to the Decurrence of Cases The price paid for the shares and well-of BABIES All DOGS Found Straying or organized business of the Stinnes concern Wandering About between the HOURS 07 is 8,000,000 marks (£300,000). The Stinnes TD-NIGHT AND 5 AX. WELße feel was valued in the last balance sheet

BUE. D. C. WOLTE,

Capt. Supt. of Police,

reserve, of 10,000,000 marks (2501,000)); It ü mortgaged for 20,000,000 marka... The vessels are of very diverse quality, but at in average of £0 per ton would be werth 27,000,000 marks (£1,250,000)

The Astral line maintains comOOD service to Australia with the Norddents cher Lloyd and English and Dutch com pantes

March 3, 1926.

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