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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST. 418, 1995

THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

Tel Central 298,

BRIGG'S

2, Queen's Buildings,

AGENTS FOR

BITUMINOUS

ENAMELS & SOLUTIONS. ·

SOLE AGENTS FOR

UNION

ANTI-CORROSIVE" and ANTI-FOULING

COMPOSITIONS

FOR SHIP'S BOTTOMS.

ANCHOR

BRAND

PURE MANILA. ROPE.

"THE CORDAGE YOU CAN TRUST,"

MARINE ROPE

TRANSMISSION

OF-POWER ROPE

CABLE LAID

HAWSERS

WELL DRILLING

CABLES

ESTABLISHED 1854

YNCHAUST

ROPE

FACTORY

HONGKONG'S POPULATION. HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

DOUBLED IN TEN YEARS,

According to the report of the Medical Officer of Health-the estimated popula tion of the Colony at the middle, of 1925 was as follows:

Non-Chinese Civil population Chinese population:-

City of Victoria (includ-

ing the Peak) .......... 105,000 Villages of Hongkong... 23,040 Kowloon (including Now,

Kowloon)

200,000 New Territories (land) $7,300 Population afloat

79,380

89

Total Chinese popula

tion

RUPES OF ALL; SIZES FOR ALL PURPOSES

Total Civil population

The total population in

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Bangkong Bank ......

Do London... Chartered Bank..... Marcantile Bank, AB

Do

16,500 & 0. Bank

Best Ans Hanx Canton. InvaTAROU KEPT China, Underwriters North China Insurance Union, Insurance

Yangtzo Lasurence .............. Unins Fire InsuIMNICO ............. Hongkong Fire natrange Dongles ***

AUGUST SAD, 1935.

.$1,125 bay.

4131 nom.

£201 buy.

Dom.

194 bus.

* Day.

„SİBU DUFLA

T. 145 non.. $290 nom

bay. $200 buy. Jou buy.

BIG HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES

At THE QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.15,

TO-DAY

buy.

啦

..$20 bay.

Hauling U U. &at. Steam cots...so hongkong Tuga....

937,920 957,020 | Indo-Chinas (First)

Da (Deg.)....... Bell Transport ********* biar Farmer......... Waterbust...... Chine bugars to Malabon Sugar Benguet....... Lang kata (combined) Kalian Mang du

874,420

1915 was esti mated to be 423,970 so that it has doubled in ten years.

The British and foreign community numbered 13,320 in 1915.

(single)..........

..... له و شمدة

The-birth-rate-for-the-nou-Chinese-civit Shanghai piration population in 1925 was 29.6 per 1,000 as Babs compared with 19.8 per 1,000 in 1924.ronoh Mines.

The birth rate for the Chinese popula& Wharza,

Ural ChapS

tion as calculated from the registered B.K. & W. Docks births was 493 per 1,000 as compared

Rongkows

with 5.47 per 1,000 in 1924.

Now hngineeringe. Shanghai Dock....

The following table shows the birth rate. Hotely calculated from the registered births for

Hongkong Lands Hongkong

Realtys

HA TerritoriaÍS ........ M.K. Developmenta

Humphreys Hatates. Prince's Builungs.......

MADE FROM PURE MANTLA

HEMP.

the last ten years;

Year.

Non-Chinese Chinese.

1016

20.06

1017

20.08

4.9

1919

29.07

. 3.6

1910

20.0

3.9

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Bural Lands ...............

* MANUFACTURED

1920

10.79

3.90

1891

25.58

5.69

BY THE MOST

Do.

1922

99.84

8.23

China Buses

MODERN.

1923

23.03

6.97

1994

19.8

5.471

1925

29.6

4.23

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MACHINERY,

MANILA

STOCKS ON HAND OF ALL SIZES ENQUIRIES SOLICITED

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HONGKONG OFFICE:

FACTORIES:-MANILA, P.I.

KING'S RUILDING. TELEPHONE CENTRAL: 3165.

A.P.B.

THEATRE

CITY HALL.

ROYAL.

THURSDAY, 5th AUGUST, at 5.33 p.m. Prompt

· (MATINEE)^«

BY SPECIAL REQUEST, 2D DEMONSTRATION OF OCCULT SCIENCE

BI

THE PROF. MAXIMILIAN LANGSNER, M.L.L.C.

(KARA-IKI)

SPECIAL PRICES:-$3, $2, $1.

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INVESTMENTS.

WE BUY

Ref

Lands

Met Banks

Wharves

B15 Unions

Watsons

J7 Amusements

Banque Indo-China Gold Bonds.

WE SELL

Hef.

100/500 Trams

A13

200 Humphreya

Ret 4310 BBA

A13

500 Providenta

Kie

500 Tags

BRA, C4 Wi

BK40

We negotiate all local and foreign investments, small and large lota.

SEX OF THE NEWLY BORN.

For the non-Chinese community the ratio of male to female children for the year 1925, was 93 males to 100. Iemales,

For the Chinese community the ratio, | Was 196 males to 100, females.

Registration of births is largely evaded by the Chinese and more so in regard to female than male children.

. DEATHS.

The total number of deaths registered:

in the Colony during the year 1925. was, 14,931 (15,553 in 1894).

Orientala "

Su buy.

num.

... nom. ...So sat..

IA.

.....33kg bay.

bay. 10, 10,

Tis. 12 nom.

Jsi nom

04/. nom.

Glazi nom. $53 nom. Tla. 171 bay.

..Tls. 5.80 bar.

Tin, lus x. div. buy.

$11 nom.

3051 nom.

‚§5ƒ sel.

$5 non.

10 ats, sal.

$132 buy.

390 sai.

31 buy.

Z.159.15.

TO-DAY

·GEORGE BILLINGS

IN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

THE FILM VERSION OF THE PLAY THAT · WAS THE RAGE OF TWO CONTINENTS.

SPÈCIAL MUSICAL PROLOGUE AT 9.15.

At THE

15, 9,10 bay.

TO-DAY

Tha. 24 bay,

Shanghai Cottons (old) .............."Tha, 6x buy,

(now...Th. 27 bay.

Hongkong Tramways.......$25.60 buy,

Peak Trans (Old) ..........

(Bow)......

Singapore Tractions. Amusementa

Canton Icas Cements (combined).

Ju.. (old)....

Tla. 10 buy,

$15 buy?

.$7.50 num.

-10/8 buy, £2/- 80%

$tit nom.

$7, nom

...lut admi

$14 num.

Do. (8m) ...... „$4 DOL.

China Lights (combined)ly buy,, 18t sa Do. (old) .... „Şi numi. Jo. (Iew)

il nom Providents

China Constructiona

Dairy Farmis

Der A Wings ....

Hongkong Llectrica

buy.

„$2), nom.

.si Kel.

..857 sel.

So buy.

Matue Electrica............. $35. Дышка H.K. Ropes (combined)....320 BEL (old)....... * 10 Beli (DOW)

The general civil death rate was 19.03 Lane Crawfords....... per1.000.(31.75_in_1981)."

ITALY" AND SOVIET RUSSIA.

IMPENDING AGREEMENTS.

BUSINESS AND POLITICS. POLITICS.

Whether, originally announced, MM. Chicheria-and-Stalin should short. ly visit Rome for the purpose, or whe ther the relevant negotiations be con- ducted through Ambassadorial channels, there is no longer any doubt that Signor Mussolini intends to conclude with the Soviet Government some very important and comprehensive agreements, writes the Deplomatic Correspondent of the London Telegraph on July 5th. While the object of such agreements will be primarily of

HONGKONG SMALL INVESTORS, SHARE & REAL ESTATE CO. an economic character, it may well be

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PLYMOUTH GIN

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that a Peet of Friendship, Mutual Non- Aggression, and-within certain limite- Neutrality will supplement the business arrangements involved, which will cover large areas of the Near and Middle East, notably in South Russia, the Black -Sea,-and--the-Caucasus. What Italy is specially intent on securing from the US.S.R besides grain, are coal, oil (she has just obtained a footing in the. Roumanian oil-fields), and maritime ad- vantages... What Soviet Russia is anxious to derive from Italy are military and transport material (aerial as well as land) and a number of technical experts, For the latter Moscow would wish to be less dependent than hitherto upor Ger- many.

Mackintoshs...ANG

Sinceros...qoquetas United Asbestos

Watsons (ald) ..................

Wm. Powell

55 Bal. 59 nom..

„

$19 pow.

..sli num.

„Eku nom.

buy-buyers; dai-vollers Ruck, le

am.-nominst

EXCHANGE RATES.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Paris Brussels Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon Buenos Aires

Shanghai

Yokohama

New York Genera Milan *Stockholm

Oslo Prague Madrid

Ric Bombay Hongkong

Rugby, July 31st.

200

192

12.10

20.42

15.33

34.44

193

9.17/32

45.9/18

2/10

1/11.5/18

4.8815

25.125

1509

16.1825

22.19

364

-31.875.

7.8/10 1/5.57/04 -212

Silver (spot & forward) ... 293

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, August 3rd

Previous On Date On Data

Day At

Finally, Russia is po vast and, in parts, so sparsely "populated a country that it might be possible for the Soviet Government to concede to Italian enter- prise residential outlets such as no other Barométar country could concede without peril to Temperature!! the national sovereignty. In the circura- Humidity. stances, however, it is not inconceivable | Wind Direction... that Moscow, in return, will seek to draw

-Force Italy away from Geneva and the Western Weather ... Powers. But Italian diplomacy is ever Eain

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28.32

29.81

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76

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1.31

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wide awake. On the other hand, it is Highest open-air Temperature on 2zd one of Italy's aims having regard to Lovast open-air Temperature on 3rd her new economic partnership with Roumania-to facilitate a solution of the thorny Bessarabian dispute between Mas cow and Bucharest, in order to effect reconciliation between these hereditary rivals. It will be recalled that, prior to the conclusion of the Mosul Boundary Treaty by Great Britain, Turkey, and Irak, it was Moscow's ambition to effect a rapprochement between Rome and Angora. But Signor Mussolini has since

F-Fog; L-Lightning; Mist; O

B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy;, D-Drizzle;

Squalls; E-Rain; T-Thunder. Overcast;

Q- PePassing showera;

VISITORS TO CANTON. Should Purchase

rendered any auch intervention super- & BOOK FOR THE GLOBE TROTTER

faous, the Italian Ambassador to Turkey having just recently been instructed to proceed to Angora for the purpose of negotiating Consular, commercial, and other conventions designed to regularise the at present somewhat unsatisfactory position between Italy and post-war Turkey.

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The Black Sen ports to which Italian steamship companies are particularly! keen on establishing direct and frequent. Hongkong aailings, are Odessa, Novaressisk, and Bataum. The choice of the last two is significant.

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..... $1.75

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At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15.

TO-DAY

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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME:

MONDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.-$7.25 per cover.

SPECIAL (Tripes a la Mode de Caen).

TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m. 50 cts, including Tea. DINNER DANSANT-8-12, midnight.

TUESDAY

$2:25 par cover.

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. 81.25 per cover.

SPECIAL (Cassoulet Toulousain).

TEA DANBANT-5.7 p.r. ̄ ̄ ̄`***-

DINNER - DANSANT—8-12 midnight.. $2.25 cover.

WEDNESDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.m.

SPECIAL-(Gnoguis au Gratin).

TEA DANSANT --5-7 p.m. -

$1.25 per cover.

DINNER DANSANT-8-12 midnight. $2.25 per cover.

THURSDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN-1-2 p.D. 31.25 per cover,

SPECIAL (Chicken Pie).

TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.

"

DINNER DANSANT 8-12 midnight. $2.25 per cover.

FRIDAY

MUSIC TIFFIN-1-2 p.m. - 31.25 per cover.

SPECIAL (Choucroute Carnie).

TEA DANSANT~5-7 p.m.

DINNER DANSANT 8-12 midnight.. $2.25 per cover.

SATURDAY

MUSICAL TIFFIN—1.2′ p.m.

SPECIAL-Bouillabaisse).

TEA DANSANT-5-7 p.m.

$1.25 por cover.

CARNIVAL NIGHT

SPECIAL DINNER-83 PER COVER. NOVELTIES.

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From 8 am to Midnight, TELEPHONE C. 1570 FOE RESERVATIONE.

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