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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13ra, 1936

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The problem of the foundations of HONGKONG and KOWLOON'S LARGEST HOTEL was solved by the adoption of the

FRANKI PILING SYSTEM.

EZ Sole Licencees for China

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd. HEAD OFFICE: ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.

LOCAL IMPORTS.

FORTNIGHTLY REPORT OF CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE.

The following extracts are taken from the fortnightly price current and market report published by the Hongkong'. Gen- eral Chamber of Commerce;—

Corros Fizz GOODS AND FANDY COTTON Goops :—Nothing 10 report market acagnant. Deliveries show light im- provement. There has been a beavy drop in both sorts of raw material Mid. Amer. **Spot "being quote at 7.178. on th inst and Eg. Sakel 12.70d.

COTTON YARNAnother fortnight has elapsed without any business having taken place. The continued decline in the raw material das had an adverse effect on the market, dealers being re- luctant to operate.

Nominal quotations are as follows:- No. 10 $140/178. No. 12 8150/173. No. 16. $170/175. No. 20. 6180/185.

Arrivals 7,300 balen. Shipments Nil Sales N. Bargains 12,600,"txies. Un- sold stock 12,000 bales.

WOOLLENS:-Quotations unchanged; only small sales reported. Dealers are waiting till October 10th before operat ing. They wish to see some movement of goods before making fresh purchases.

RAW COTTONS :—No business to report. METALS-Market dull, nothing doing. FLOUR MARKET:

STOCKS :-Abous 400,000.. QUOTATIONS-American Patent 8435 per sack, American Straight $3.33 per Back, American Cut, of $3.00 per sack, Shanghai Flour $2.20 per sack, Austra lian No. 1, 83.80 per sack, Canadian Cut of $3.20 por sack, Canadian Straight 23.10 per sack, Canadian Mixture 83 per seck, Canadian And Clear 82.00 per sack nominal

SUNDRIES (window glass):-Sales nit. Prospects of settlement of boycott pro-i ducing a healthy undertone. Market firm. Replacement values higher on ac count of weak silver exchange.

SUGAR-Market, advancing, SALTPETRE:Heavy drop in Exchange is responsible for the entire stoppage of business stocks of No. 1 are 12,000 bags. Local Exports.

In the fortnightly report of the Hong- kong General Chamber of Commerce, the following remarks are taken from the section on exports:—

Cantharides: market easy.

Cassia (Canton and Kwangsi): market strong.

Feathers (goose and duck): Firm, fair demand.

Matting steady.

Antimony crude ore: Some demand. Wolfram 65 W.O. 31 Good demand." Rice (Bee-miu, Pakling, Tonkin) No supplica.

Tobacco (Nam Hung): quiet."

COSTLY JOKE" IN LINER.

AN INTERRUPTED DINNER.

A third-class passenger in one of the

TO-DAY Till SATURDAY

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 und 9.20

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told! The most magnificent spectacle ever thrown

upon a screen, transcending mammoth settings any other cinema production ever made.

in

its

MESSALINA

The Flaming Love Drama of the Roman Empress of a

a hundred romances, in fused the scarlet

whose veins

were fused

stain of a vampire and the tenderness of a virgin.

Twelve gorgeous reels of Roman history showing not only the Forum, the Coliseum and the Circus Maximus in all their beauty, but also taking you into the intimate private lives of the rich and poor of the capital of the ancient world.

NO INCREASE IN PRICES.

big Atlantic liners which arrived at HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. Southampton from New York recently paid dearly for what he described as a

'joke."

The passenger, & young man, used the sleeping facilities in the class for which he had booked his passage, but in the evenings, wearing evening-dress and a monocle, entered the first-class dining, saloon and ordered dinner there,⠀

He made the scquaintance of a woman first-class passenger and, on the third day of the trip, invited her to dinner at his table on the following evening.

By then, however, the joke had been discovered. In the dining saloon on the next night the passenger was order ing" wine for his guest when a steward brought what looked like a wireleta message for him..

CLOSING QUOTATIONE.

October 19TH, 1926..

...$1;165 meld.

nom.

buy..! „31/1) m.

The 145 zone. ****293) buy

Bagrong Bank Do

Londen..

£113 nom Chartered Bank.

221 boy, Mercantile Bank, à. & B..............£30, nom.

Do.

......Lig Bum P. & O. Bank, East Axis Bank, Canton Insurance .................. Chins Underwriter North China Insurance Union Insurance ****ex. $36 buy. Yangtze Insurance Chins Fire Insurance .......$200 buy, Hongkong Fire Insurance ...3610 buy.

$29 buy. After reading the message he followed U. & M. Stambosts ...$29 buy. the steward to the parser's cabin.

Horgkong Tags

..12 buy The ruse of the message had been

Indo-Chinas (Fret) adopted so that the women passenger Da. (Def); should not be embarrassed. *Bar | Shell Transporta

The man was given the choice of pay Star ing the difference between the third-class Waterboats.. and first-class passage, or being handed | China dugar over to the police. He paid, his little adventure costing him about £40.

Malabon

Benguet Kailan Mining Ad Langkats (combined).

(single) PEOPLE WHO NEVER TOUCH Shanghe Explorations.

MONEY.

THOUGH THEY HAVE PLENTY."

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London's penniless millionairee-those really wealthy people whose peculiar circumstances and mode of life relieve gown ***** Bagitoura them from ever putting their hands into

Shanghai Docks their pockets for a coin-have- rivals HKZN, Hotels ............ among a few foreign visitors in London. puko

Landa. -English money is notoriously difficult ngkok *

Behitys for many foreigners to understand, and K. Territorials ......... there are always a few visitors who Humphreye Estates... succeed in spending as much as several Prince's Buildings..

Lands weeks in the country without spending a Kural penny A Maharajah who has been in Ewa Cottens London for most of the summer confessed Orientals to his friends the other day that he had Bhanghai Cottons (old) not had a single. British coin in his

China Buses pocket since he had been here.

Hongkong TramwAYI Peak Trazos (old)|

Do Singapore Traction

voorne Amusements Canton Ices Cementa (combined)

D

Everything Done for Them. Less illustrious visitors, however, qucceed in seeing London and are able to shop and go to the theatre without using any British money. Sometimes they carry a few 81 notes in their pockets, but rarely break tham,

Do

$30 bay.

443 bay

90% noin.

$67] bay, 68 s

$15 buy.

$231 buy.

nem

..334 nom. „40/- nom.

Tle, 264 bay.

The 15 bay. Tla 5 nom.

buy,

bay,

$127 buy.

„Tis, 175 buy,“

The 6.35 bay.

THOR ROT

tax-/g

Tla. 1234 noon. $10.80 507.- „104) kupi de sm.

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$16.80 buy, $29 som

$1 nom.

„Tie. 9.40 bay. De sh

Ti 185 buy.

Ti 27 buy

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nom.

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Telephones

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(Continued at foot of nezt, Golumn.)

Explaining their apparently magical holidays in London, an official of the

Uhins Tights (com Bavoy Hotel pointed out that many Con- tinental visitors, and sometimes American

Do visitors, paid their usan! hotel expenses Chin Pridents in their own currency.

Constructions .... They have few or no expenses outside Dairy: Fanar the hotel, he added: "Their own cars Der A Wings take them wherever they wish to go, and Hongkong if they visit theatre their seats are Macao Electrion booked in, the hotel. If they shop theyEK. Ropes (combin pay by cheque, or their purchase, are

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sent to the hotel and paid for on their behalf. They spend nothing-visibly.

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