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STEEL. WOOD OR CONCRETE.
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PURE
MANILA
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY APRIL 19TH,
3, Queen's Buildings.
ROPE.
ANCHOR BRAND
"THE CORDAGE. YOU CAN TRUST."
ESTABLISHED 1854.
ROPE
MARINE RUPE
TRANSMISSION
OF POWER ROPE
CABLE LAID
BAWSZES
WELL DRILLING
CABLES
STI
FACTORY
MANILA
STOCKS ON HAND ON
FACTORI
HONGKONG OFFICE
TZLEPHONE
89
RUPES OF ALL
SIZES FOR ALL
PURPOSES
MADE FROM
FURE MANILA
HEMP
MANUFACTURED BY THE MOST MODERN
MACHINERY.
SIZES, ENQUIRIES SOLICITED ↑
KANILA, - P.I.
KING'S BUILDING. 3165.
WHY?
1:
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
ATL 10, 1936.
CANTON TRADE FIGURES,
The Canton Gazette publishes figures showing the monthly revenue collected by the Canton Customs Administration Hongkong Bank... $1,055 bay,, 1,087/60 cm. from July, 1925, and comparative figures Chartered Bank
Do London for the corresponding months of the Mercantile Bank, Az á
P.& Q. Bank.
previous three years as follows:-
Average for
the previous three years.
256,187
241,816. 209,205
1025/0.
70,711
150,160
ZOO ZTC
422,071
Year.
1922/3.
102374.
1024/5.
Months.
July
253,209
285,679 -
$29,523
August
335,984
200,815
Heptember
320,841
339,513
232,407
October
326.897
212,078
November
346,035
334,000
206,900
$313,635
202,304** 319,835
310,002
301,000 133,400
308,125
337,532
304,838
201,681
370,001
257,541, 303,494
· Décember
January
Natr.-All figures in the above table are in
Haikwan
tiels,
BANK RETURNS.
THE FIGURES FOR MARCH.
The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circulation and of apecie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st March, 1928, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks : —
Specie Average Amount in Reserve.
Do
East Asia Bank..
Chins Underwriters mene
£125 Ba
£30 bay.
£13; bay-
291 nom
$80 buy.
Canton Insurance....
..1625 buy
$1.95 nom.
North China Insurance
„TE 145 kam.
Unifor
1963 buy, 855-
Yangiaxo
$40 nom.
China, Fire Insurance
...$170 bar.
Donglasse
Inarsboo
Hongkong Fire Insurance .. $530 bay.
HA, O. & M. Steamboats...
(Pret).
De (Def.)
Shall Transports
Star Forres Waterbosta Oriental Navigations
China Sugars
Malabon Bugars
Mining Ad.
(combined)
Banba
(angle)
Tronoh Mines
Ural Caspians H.K. & K. Waazis.. E.K, & W. Docks
Hongkew...
New
Shanghai Docks H.K. & Hotels
Hongkong Lands Hongkong Resity (ap.), H.K. Teritorials (f.p.)..... Humphreys Estates..... Frince's Buildings...... Barat Lands
Buy
1pm.
87% buy.
пот. 250 nom.
32# buy.
dir, of P.B
42. bay. Tis. 24 buy. Tis. 123 buy,
of bay.
„Tii.. 7 nom.
15 buy.
8. дом,
1128 bay,, 130 sol,
$60 nom.
Tis, 185 buy.
T) 5.60 bày,
The 108 bus
$10.10 buy,, 101 st. ....$57 sol. ..$5 bay. ......316 buy. $100.
$720
Tis. 101 bay. Ths. At bay. 8% bay. (now)......Tis. 27 bay.
Ewe Uctions****** Orientals Shanghai Cottona (old)
Amusementa..... Canton Icus
Da
Cements (combined).
Do.
Do.
China Buses China Laghts (combined)
Do, (old}
078
UFEN
SUPER 171
CineMJ1
TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15..
JAMES KIRKWOOD
AND
PAULINE GARON
IN
"THE PAINTED FLAPPER."
At 5:15
& 9.15
יד.
D. J. DIMOFF
“KING OF BALALAIKA ”
WILL APPEAR.
THE STAR
Ar 5,80 & 9.15 STRONGHEART, THE WONDER DOG
IN
"THE SILENT CALL."
THE WORLD
AT 6.15 & 9.15%
HOUT GIBSON
IN
#TAMING THE WEST.
INVESTMENTS
WE NEGOTIATE --
311 buy. $71 nom
(old)
..318 bay.
$3 now.
Tix. 10 val.
$15 buy.
111 bay, II; sa.
Ali Local, Shanghai and Singapore Investment Shares.
.307 sel
al.
u nom.
$10 nom. $633 bay.
25 cts. nom.
$30 sel
J Do. (DRW) Chris Providants Constructions Dairy Farma..... Der A Wing (fp). Hongkong intrica Macao Electrics
f
A.P.B.
Banka. Chartered Bank of
India, Australia
H.K. Developments.
Do.
(old)
(LOW)
buy
Is Mac's Cafeteria becoming more popular every day? Because of the augmented service and catering facilities. You can obtain the finest assortment of French Pastries, and fany cikes Wadling and Birthday cakes made at the
shortest notice.
Chocolates, Bon Bons, and the finest selection of Biscuits made fresh daily.
MAC'S SODA
CAFETERIA FOUNTAIN.
With the advent of the warm weather you will find it very refreshing to call into Mac's and order a cool drink.
The Soda Fountain is open from 8 a.m. till midnight daily, and all kinds of Sundaes, and Ice Cream Sodas can be served hygienically and tastefully which is synonymous of Mac's... Call in on your way home from the Movies.
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THE POPULAR BUSINESS TIFFIN From 12 Noon to 2.30 p.m.
$1.20
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
THE WARM WEATHER IS HERE.
GAS FOR COOKING AND BATHS.
SAVES TROUBLE, SAVES TIME. SAVES DIRT.
All the latest Gas appliances can be inspected
..
at the Hongkong and China Gas Co's showrooms, 26, Des Vœux Road Central and West Point,
A.P.B.
SAUCISSON D'ARLES
FRESH - STOCK JUST ARRIVED. Delicious with Butter as Hors-d'oeuv
Prices ranging from $1 to $2. MAGASIN GENERAL,
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and China $15,455,517 $3,500,000* HK. Ropes (combined) Hongkong and
ing Corporation 47,154,064 40,000,000+
Shanghai Bank-..
Mercantile Bank
1,432,304 530,000$
of India, Ltd....
Total
864,012,055 $45,850,000
* To addition Sterling Securities de posited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,177,000...
† In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents and Straits Gover ment valued at £3,108,097.
$ In addition Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £380,000.
Hongkong Tramways Lane Urawfords....... Mackintoshs......... Peak Trams (old)
Do.
(now).. Sincerestávame
United Asbestos ..... Watsons-(old)
Wen, Powells. Singapore Tractions
110 sel.
,2464/) zm. $12) nom.
lg nom. $17, bay..
$72 buy, di sa. il nom.
sel.
.320 nom.
*ILOR SIT
$12 buy,
no
sel
buy-buyers; sel-sellers ;. - sa-alex ;
nonomiza!.
Tapas Jerams
New cadain
WE SELL
Malaka Pindas Malakoffs
Trafalgars
We are also buyers at difference of
brokerage.
No Lot Too Small No Lot Too Large.
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Stoic dogmas of areas Aurelius, but I'm blessed if you could tell a cylinder from a driving-wheel. And you couldn't say ten words to any foreigner in his own' language. "Nów you are apparently at home in half the capitals or the world, you talk af fifty-seven varieties of coals by their pet names, and the locomotiva foreman eats out of your hand. How come t
A POST-WAR PHENOMENON. THE BATTLE FOR MARKETS. PUBLIC SCHOOL BATTALIONS »
GOING. OVER THE TOP." "Dim grey, rain fell drearily on the collier port, and swept sudden acres of wharves and sidings Sirens hooted. coal hoista crashed and esitled, crawl
He grinned awkwardly. Oh, the old ing strings of coal-trucks bumped and story. Pleaty like me about nowadays. jolted everywhere, and the dock-basin Carcere knocked sky-high in 14-anem was scummed with a film of floating coal. Ployed ex-officer in. 18. glad to take the. dust. In the background the Welsh hilist job that came along, and learn it were hooded with low, rolling clouds of Ponio. Bein' used to swattin', I sup- pore I picked things up rather quicker A tiny 0-40 works loco fussed up to us then, of course, knowing how to tie a than the average N.UT. product. And and an angry young man swung himself dress-tie and talk pretty to the señoras CINEMA FEATURES.
from the streaming footplate.
"Where's Johnson ?"
helps a bit. Tisn't everybody's ridgin he demanded.
in this trade, you sec. Before the war it CURRENT ATTRACTIONS AT THE "Ob, there. Johnson, for the Lord's.
sake have these tubes properly run be didn't matter; old King Coal could sit THEATRES.
at home in Cardiff or Newcastle, and be- fore to-morrow,, and get all those bird's nests, off the tube-plate. And I want ental buyers had to come to him. During cause he had the goods the big Contin- Mr. Frederick Schnepel, of the Eastern The Hongkong Amusements have secure that hack ash-pan damper raised farther Extension Telegraph Company, was com-
ed some very attractive programmes for these damn Abertawe coals run over the our stuff, they learned to use all sorta of the war, though, when they couldn't get the Queen's and Starfire-bars like treacle. mended by Major C. Willson at the this week at
You might see to makee-do things, from sawdust to char the safety valve too she's blowing about coal, and now you have to go after 'em Central Magistracy on Saturday, for cap-. A pleture with a very alluring title five pounds light. I can't teat fuel with hard to bring em back to the fold. So turing a snatcher on Friday evening. opened at the Queen's Theatre yester a scrap-beap like this.' He wiped his
you want a fellow who can start for Paris A young Chinese, in the dock, pleaded! day, this being "The Painted Flapper," hands on cotton-waste and turned to me. Peru or somewhere, talk to them in starring Pauline Garon and James" Awfully sorry, Mind waiting just their own language, and if necessary take Kirkwood in a fim story showing that minute while I clean myself; I've got a shovel in the boiler room or the stoke: the modern flapper madcap in question couple of fellows to see in the office first, hold or the footplate. and show 'em how. is not nearly so bad as she is painted. and then we'll have some lunch." The story is obe of intense horse interest He drove the in a small car through a isn't a bad sort of job, really, once you from start to finish. It will be shown mile and a half of rain-swept decidland get to know it. again to-day.
mostly not-boles and railway lines,I was left speculating on this post war After we had got our hats and coats phenomenon the public schools hatta
A SMART CAPTURE.
BAG SNATCHER GAOLED.
guilty to having anatched a handbag be- longing to Mrs, Lim.
Sub-Inspector B. C. Watt said that Mrs. Lim and two other ladies were engaged in conversation near the offices of Messra. Jardine, Matheson & Co., in
Theatres.
41
of
Mr. D. J. Dimiloff, whose performance and I sat in his office while trams clanged Des Voeux Road Central, when defendant on the balalaika was much appreciated past outside.and he interviewed his two lions who are going over the top like on Sunday of last week, again appeared visitors. What their business was I shall this in our battle for the marketa- of a
tame up from behind and snatched Mrs. at the 5.15 and 9.15 shows at the Lim's handbag, leaving the strap in her Queen's yesterday and presented hand. He then belted up the lane bene programme which included Chopin's tween Messrs. Jardine's and Mesars Whiteaway, Laidlaw's, and was even- usily caught by Mr. Schaepel.
Van
Polonaise, Monti's "Czardas and Kamarinskaya," a composition of his
The story is by Joseph Hergeshiemer. From Thursday to Saturday Emil Jannings appears in "The Last Laugh " ́ German film, which is a very excellent
THESTAR.**
even know for the first conversation, lasting ten minutes, was conducted by both parties in rapid-fire Italina, and the second was in a strange tongue that I
could not place. Afterwards I sought
information.
sophisticated world. They are interesting material and I, for oney hope that they will make good
J. HM. S in the Manchester Guardian. OBSOLETE METHODS.
BAYONET FIGHTING TO BE
ABOLISHED♪..
That? Oh, a Barcelona cementman For to-morrow and Wednesday" Wild trying to talk Castilian, and mixing up Mr. Schnepel said that he had anti-Oranges will be the choice fruit on his Catalan horribly. They mostly do. cipated that the thief would turn into the menu. It is a Goldwyn production Good chap, though; I met him once in and has an uncanniness about it that the Plaza grill in Buenos Aires (I'd been. Pedder Strect, and he decided to inter rivets the attention of all on each scene running fuel-tests on the Transandine), cept him: He caught defendant, and a of the picture.
and we swopped yarns about the old In the recent Southern Command plain-clothes constable came up almost
Paralelo. Then, when I was in Galatz Orders in India by Lt.-General Sir last year, I ran into him again, and we
Harold Walker, K.C.B., K.C.M.G... at the same time. The bag was found in
shared a rubine in the Simplon-Orient D..., Commanding-in-Chiel, it is noti defendant's possession
back to Paris. Now he generally looks fied that bayonet fencing, as taught at me up when he's over this side and if the Army School of Physical Training, His Worship characterised Mr. Schoeproduction.
we're lucky we get a fat order for culm will be abolished for Indian Limits from pel's capture as a smart piece of work.".
out of him. He ripped open a cable 1st April, 1926. For British Limits it * Defendant"
zentenced to sir At the Star Theatre, Kowloon, there gram presented by a messenger, ran his will be voluntary Teaching in it will be months' hard labour, and 15 strokes, with opened yesterday The Silent Call," ere over it, and swore briefs, continued to be given at the Army School starring Strongheart the Wonder dog, thought na much. Here's the Ruritanian the birch.
which in this picture, takes the part of State railways contract gone to the Flash, a cross between a dog and a wolf. Anatolian people again, at threepence It is a picture of interse interest and under our price. Ungrateful Balkan beg
It is considered that the teaching of excitement adapted from Hal G. Evert's gars and I spent about a million lei.out. bayonet fighting as laid down in Small story of "Cross Pull." The picture will there, feeding half their blessed Govern- Arms Training, Volume I, is over- be screened again to-day.
ment in cabarete and making 'em happy elaborate, and necessitates more time be To-morrow and Wednesday Alice Laks at our expense-to say nothing of talking ned by the experience of the last war, ing spent on training in it than is justi- their fearful lingo till my throat ached. Heigh-ho! Sic to non-sobis! Let's go and by the probable use of the bayonet to lunch"
in future. The probable introduction in Over the chops and beer he became the near future of anti-gas training again a simple workshop-hand with a necessitates a simplification or reduction From Thursday to Saturday, Los grievance Talk about a perambulat of the existing training, as the in- Chaney will be featured in "The Blind ing junk-heep! The leaks from her dividual training period is admittedly Bargain," in which he takes a dual role, tube-plate nearly put the fire out; she already over full, de
that of a deformed servant and also gets a hot big-end three times every day bayonet training will be limited to tea-
It is proposed, therefore, that in future, and she wants half a dozen liñera put,in
SINGAPORE RUBBER QUOTATIONS. By cable received on Saturday after. Doon from their Singapore agents the Hongkong Small Investors Co. were in- formed that there are sellera of the following shares at the prices indicated
Tapahs.....
$31.00 Jerams New Seudais "..............
Melaka Pindas
Malakofis
Trafalgars
13 appearing in "The Marriage Market," sand is supported by Jack Mulhall and sparkling comedy.
Pauline Garon. It is a good drama with
1.80
3.20
3.30
3.15
2.00
as a polished and fiendish scientis
FUTURE ATTRACTIONE,
SHANGHAI” DIVIDENDS."
of Physical Training as a voluntary sub- t, to those desirous, their spare time,
...
her blast-pipe before she'll steam. And thing all ranks so armed (B) to deliver you have to get on with high-volatile at the double straightforward attack Future attractions include the booking low-fusibility much like and and with the bayonet without losing cohesion, Abraham Lincoln for the Queen's(he spat out three polysyllabic Welsh (b) to be able to defend themselves in Theatre. It is a picture that will be names disgustedly), instead of a decent such an attack from an enemy armed certain to fill the Theatre at every per- Monmouthshire black vein or a Cardiff similarly, or with the sword, and (0) to Messrs. Benjamin & Potts received on formance it is screened, portraying as semi-bituminous.
hare confidence in the weapon and hand- Saturday the following cable from their it does the story of one of the greatest Stop." Ibaid. "Listen to me a iness in its use in war. Add VE Shanghai Office:-Consolidateds final men in history," The French Doll" minufe. In 1014 you were a classical All teaching of bayonet fighting suit dividend of 20 cents, making 60 cents for with Mae Murray is also booked for an scholar of Balliol, reading moral philo-able for work in trenches will be definite the year
early screening" here.
sophy for Greats. I've heard you on the Jy cut out
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