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XMAS & NEW YEAR HAMPERS

We beg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Fortive Senson may be obtained from us at the following Beduced Bases. :——

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperisi 1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.

1Pt. Blackberry Branly. | 1 PD.Q.M.

Champagne ? Ota. St. Julian Claret.

10. Martoll's XXX Brandy. 2 Ota. King George IV Gold Label

or "Perfection Whisky,

1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal. 1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom ar Dry thin. 19. Burgundy, Burgoyne's. 1 Phil Pomeranzen Bitters.

No. 2 HAMPER—$34.

1 Qt. Guillemart Champagna,

1 Pt.. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

IQ Martell's XXX Braddy.

2 Qts. King George LV Gold Label

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1. Pt. Peppermint G.F.

I PL. D.O.M

2 Qta, Tawag Dry Part. Qts. St. Julien Claret.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12th, 1928.

Money and Markets

HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.

Business in Hong Kong yesterday in rice sugar and other foodstuffs was as follows:---`

2 Qta. Superior Rich Old Fort.

2 Qis. King George.17 Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky

1 Qt. Engrand'a XXX Brundy,

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Qt. Medoo Claret,

Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

TEL C. No. 135.

Old White" Broken Rice, 300 bags..." 5,60 Red Pearl No. 2 Old White.

"Broken Rice. 140 bags... 6.34" Blue Airship Old White Rice,

68 bags ******* Green Airship New White

Rice. 9 bags. White Rice Brand, 149 bags 3.49), White Broken Glutinous Rice,

CANTON, COTTON YARN.

PHILIPPINE - TARIFF· PROBLEM.

ONE-SIDED RECIPROCITY.

Marita, Dec. 8th.. Does Amarien plan to grab and eat the Philippines' apple and throw away the core f

HOUSING EVILS IN MARCHANT'S

LONDON.

DEAN OF WESTMINSTER'S

APPEAL.

A service was held last month at CLOSING QUOTATIONS,

the Church of St. Martin-in-the That is the way recent United Fiolda, in connection with West- Owing to the searcity of fine yarn. States 'effort toward restriction of minster Housing Weet the object quotations are continually increas Philippine sugar imports looks to of which is to secure funds for the ing while the Na. 20 and 10 yarns many business men here who,parchase of a building site in Pul have fallen by 81.50 per balę, favouring the mutual free trade ford Street and the erection there

Quotations on Monday were as relations which have prevailed since of working-class fistà. follows:-

1913, fear that any one-sided adjust- ment may bring disaster to the urchipelago..

Per bale. $280.00 $66,00 958.00 263,00 294.00 988.00 20.00 323.00 309.00 392.00 319.00 313,00

Rice.

1 Qt. Puritsa Old Tom or Dry

Gia

1 Qt. Vino de Pasto Sherry. 1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.

Red Pear! Old White Biec,

TTO bags Red Pearl Old White Brewer

Rico, 1000 bags

Рег Picul.

83.73

6.73

Red Pearl No.

or Perfection Whisky

No. 10 Sailing Vessel

Peacock

......

Lotus Bee.....

Man Clock

No. 3

HAMPER-$30.

No. 12 Fui Kwai),

"D.OS

City of Gold

Pretty Damsel

5.54

No. 20 Tin Koon

Ng Fuk

City of Gold

1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters, -

100 bags.

6.38

Man Clock

Red Seal White Glutinous

Rice, 120 bags

Pa Ye

7.05

Good Havest

392.00

New White Glutinous Rice,

No. 16. Fri Kani

1:0 bags

+667

Globe

Green Seil No. 3 White Rice,

. HONG KONG.

500 bags

7.03

No. 32 Double Horse

Butterfly

Red Seal White Broken Rice,

No. 43 Fang Ree

6.39

Pine Deer.............

Blue Seal White Brewer Rice,

402 bags... Blue Sent No. 1 Whiter Broken Rice, 180 bags... Blue Seal No. 3. White Broken Rice. 86 bags

Sugar,

No. 6 Lion

6.66

Lion No. 2...................

303,00 307.00 452.00 524.00 550,00 466.00 096.00 193.00

spg

€.30

No 18 coarse powdered sugar,

100 bags.......

No. 24 coarse powdered sugar,

300 bags......

8.73

7.23

THE NAVY'S CHOICE

Coates

ORIGINAL

PLYMOUTH GIN

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE..

Asahi Beer Invigorating & refreshing.

Sole Agents

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HONG KONG,

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VICHY-CÉLESTINS is a natural

orderly which helps the liver Ita gently to function normally, stimulating effect is welcomed in afl esses of sluggishness. It clears the blood-stream from all impurities.

Vichy Celestina is very pleasant to the taste, and may be taken at menis either alone or mixed with light wines or spirits.

The French Natural Mineral Water.

(VICHY-CELESTINS-

Obtainable at all Hotels, Clubs, Chemists and Stores, or from the

Sole Agents i

The French Store

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of the

400 bags

No. 1 coarse powdered candy,

100 bags

Miscellaneous.

7.33

Red Meion Seeds, 30 bags at 897.50

per bak. Totus seeds, 100 cases at 883,00 per

case...

Black Beans, 50 bags at 871.00 per

bag,

Yellow Beans, 50 bags at $6.50 per

bag.

CANTON MARKET REPORTS.

CLOSING QUOTATION.

December 10th.

Per

Picul. $11.01

10.07

Picul.

Rice.

Chai Mee Rice

See Mui Native Rice,

Tung King Glutinous Rice

10.00

Red Live Annam Rice

0.00

Green Lion Annam Rice...

9.96

led Wo Fung_.....

9.70

Green Flower Pot Rice

Green Yui I...................

Gicen Dragon. Siam Rice...

9.09 9.55 9.60

Red Seal White Rice

Black Seal No. 3 Rice

Sugar.

9.30 9.53

Per

No. coarse powdered sugar No. 3 coarse powdered sugar No, 20 coarse powdered sugar No. 1 Fine Granulated sugar No. 1 Refined sugar Refined sugar

7.80

7,50

Flour.

7.60 9.20 10.00 8.60

Per

Bale.

Man of War

84.05

4.15.

4.20

4.15

3.85

4.33

4.70

Silver Flower

Banata.....

Cheung Luk.

Maize

Sword of Kwantui

Canbon

LLOYD'S COMMITTEE ELECTION.

THE ERA OF YOUNG MEN.

An unusual degree of interest was shown this year in the election of members to fill vacancies on the Committer of Lloyd's. There were nine candidates for four places, and last month the announcement was made that Messrs. Montague Evans, A. J. Whittall., and Philip D'Am

rumenil had been elected to serve on the Committee for four years and that Mr. D. E. W. Gibb had been elected for one year to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Ernest E. Adams, a late chairman.

The first of the new members to be elected to the Committee is pro minently associated with various forms of insurance other than marine, the transaction of which at Lloyd's has much developed within recent years, and significant feature of the results of the presens election is that all the new members are comparatively young men who have taken a more prominent pac in affairs since the Way,

Lloyd's has never lacked good business men ready to serve on the Committee, and the remarkable growth of its business within recent times has not given the slightest ground for any suggestion that there was lack of enterprise. Still, it is necessarily on the younger men that the future of Lloyd's will largely depend, and it seems well that they should come forward gradually to take their part in the direction of the Corporation. Other institutions might, for similar re- sons, welcome the addition of the

younger men to the corresponding

boards.

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD'S CAPITAL INCREASE.

SIX NEW STEAMERS.

A general meeting of shareholders of the North German Lloyd last month approved the proposal CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE. to increase the company's capital"

CLOSING QUOTATIONS,

Summed up briedy, the situation created by the Underwood tariff gave the Philippines preferential treatment in selling sugar, hemp and other products in the United States in competition with such for eign countries as Java, and gave the United States preferential treat, ment in selling cotton shirts and motor-cars and other manufactured goods to the Filipinos in competi- tion with Great Britain, Japan and other would-be sellers.

It worked both ways. Since the Philippices had a tariff-free clear path to sell in America, they could Fikawise well afford to give Ameriqa

similar clear way to sell in the

Islands

SIR?

Certainly.

The Dean of Westminster (Dr. Foxley Norris) was the preacher. He said that they were there for one definite 'purpose, to concentrate their attention on the housing prob- lem and to reuse both themselves and all those they could reach to a sense of the obligation that was an them to do something towards put- ting right what was without any exaggeration, an intolerable wrong, To those of them who had worked What else in large cities and were familiar with courts and alleys and all the internal life of the slums, it was unnecessary to give any description

of the condition of things round should, I about them in London. But it was safer to assume that in a congrega- tion like that there might be some who were not thus familiar, and it

Yis absolutely, necessary if they drink ?

were to get a vision of the problem, Now the aising menace" of and their duty, that they should Philippine sugar has alarmed have before them some mental pie American sugar producers to such ture The sudden and terrible dis- an extent that enactment of legis-aster thas overtook them in Weat- lation which would restrict the minster a few months ago the ris amount of duty-free Philippine ing of the river and the Rooding of suga: annually imported into the miserable tenements atish ought. United States is threatened.

never to have existed, and all the loss of life, and the misery and suf fering served to bring the whole question" sharply to their minds, and the splendid spirit of the people who suffered must be en added incentive to do what they

There is no corresponding offer to help find other outlets for the sugar of the Philippines, nor is there any suggestion as to how the Filipinos are to continue to buy American manufactured goods if their own sales are cut down.

On the contrary, the obvious in- tent as seen from the Manila stand point is to close the one great market for Philippine sugar and presumably for any other product which might be developed to any great extent so that they might com- pete with American products while holding the Philippines in a vice which would keep them from open ing any other market.

Big Uncle Sam, in short, would see that little Juan de la Cruz did not turn for aid and sustenance to any such dangerous playmates as John China or the affable Japanese Without special favours in the form of exemption from tariff dues, Philippine sugar cannot compete with gar produced elsewhere. Labour costa bere are much lower than in the United States, for example, yet much higher than in sugar-producing Java.

Therefore

could to secure that in the, genern-. tions to come such fine spirits should not be so highly tried.

Bad Cases.

He made no apology for bringing before them one or two actual cases from official reports which were up to date. Those were taken at ran-

dom, not necessarily in Westmins- tes, but in London, and were typic

of conditions which they must be ashamed to feel lay close to all the luxury and comfort of their homes. The Dean then referred to 隐 dilapidated house, overcrowded throughout. In two rooms on the ground floor, which sre dark. gloomy and dirty, live a man and wife and girls aged 18, 10, and three, and boys aged 18, aix, and four T the little back room the elder girls share a bed with the boy of six, and the boy of 18 sleeps on a couch bed, which is made up when American producers of sugar bed, and a table has to be moved at night. There is no room for this suggest that the Filipinos find other markets they are suggesting a thing it. In the front room the parents out of the window to thake way for which is virtually impossible unless sleep with the two youngest child- the Filipinos can, in return for exren." emption from import duties into

MARCHANT'S Gold Label Whisky.

HATS, GOWNS

& NOVELTIES.

"Felix."

7. Ice Hopar STREET,

HONG KONG.

THL C.5294

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Dzczazz 11TH, 1928.

Bay

Dom London...£140 nom. Marcantile Banks, A. &B...234 nom. Chartered Banks .........£2e bay.

Do.,

C...£14) nom

P. & O. Bai

пот.

Caston Insurances.......3885 sel.

at Aria Banke..... Unum Insurances ....

$92, bay.

$354 buy, 357 Bel., 350 A. T. 160 buy Yangtare Insurances....... 450 nom.

nom.

"In a four-roomed house with | North Chim. Ini. some such country as Japan, offer small kitchen live two families-19 a corresponding free gateway into persons in all, 13 being adults. In China Underwriters ......32.45 sel. their own country for Japanese two of the rooms live a man and China Fire fegurances....$280 buy. manufactured goods.

wife, with seven boys from 24 years Hong Kong Fire Ins.......1780 sui. to three years old, and one small Douglases an girl. Six of the boys sleep in ene HK Steamboats..... room. The remaining two roome

ELK. Tag and the kitchen are occupied by a

Indo-Chiras (Pref) ******

(Pref)......15 bus. (Del.).....72 Do. man and his wife and seven child- Bhell Transports118- nom. rea-five girls from 25 to 10, and Union Waterbasis.........122) bay. boys of 16 and 12 years of age. The

$2, nom. husband is consumptive and ongh Kailan Mining Ad

Bengueta

Admin....73/- buy. to have a room to himself.".

Langhata (combined).

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

And while the United States retains control bere there is no chance of any such happening as that, everyone, agrees.

Philippine businessmen see their only salvation in an appeal to American fairness, ecupled with realization that the present 50-50 arrangement is of mutual benefit and not a charity.

HISTORIC MILL DESTROYED.

#

"In a two-roomed house live a man and his wife and eight child ren, the eldest girl being 18 and the eldest boy 17 years of age. The girls sleep upstairs and the mother goes to bed early so that the boys can get to bed (they share the

Public Action Needed.

by the issue of 25,000,000 marks of Ordinary shares on the American market. The chair- man stated that the action was INSPIRATION OF TWO POETS. ground-floor room)." December 10th. taken because of the delay in re Water Works

83.20leasing the company's sequestrated Electric Power Co.

3.00

property in America, and said the Canton-Hankow Railway .... 0.40 The Sun Company .................... 6.45 Sincere Company ........................ 9.90 Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co. 3.70 China Merchant's S.5. Navi-

gation Co. Central Bank

6.40 4.60

CANTON KEROSENE OIL..

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

December 10th.

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proceeds of the issue would be an lied to the construction of the six proposed new cargo steamers And to the refitment of the Colum-has been destroyed by fire.

mill bis. The company's business in

-Chaucer. 1928 had been less satisfactory than in 1927, owing to growing costs and to strikes, but they hoped to main tain the dividend at 8 per cent.

The thairman, stated that the negotiations for a working agree- meat with the Hamburg-Amerika Line, aiming at the avoidance of unnecessary competition, had not

been broken off.

Per Case.

97.70

7.40

ศ.14

7.25

7.23

7.20

Paris

Brussels

NEW YORK SILK MARKET.

A telegram received from New York dated December 10th, stated that prices in raw silk declined last week Dealers, however, are op- simistic and expect a revival soon. Silk picce goods and artificial silk are expected to enjoy a good trade next spring.

EXCHANGE RATES.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Dec. 10th.

124.15 4.85 1/32 34.89

New York

Geneva Amsterdam, Milan Berlin Stockholm Copenhagen

This thirteenth century water mill stood at the head of the Granta, in Grantchester Village

Tennyson, it is said, found in the old building inspiration for verse of which runa: "The Miller's Daughter," the last

S'hat, Explorations

bay.

nom.

#55 bay.. 2.83 sel. Shanghai Lowas „Tu, 3 buy,

151 05. Raab...

17/6 nora. Tronob Minse HK & K. Wharfs.........$135 eel... H.K. & W. Docka.... $37 buy. China Providents.15 sal

Tla, 158 bay.

fros

*****can. Tla, 128 bay. H.K. Realtion......$8) nom FL.K. Tramway... $19.10 buy, Peak Tram (old) $13.

19 m.

Do. (new) 18.30 now. Star Ferr

Ferries ..............$67 buy., 68 sol. China Lag

» Lights (Old).................. FOL

(now)........ 119.15 nom.

Do

The historic water mill at Grant- It was no use railing at londo

Engineering. Tia, 5t nom. chester, Cambridgeshire,

which lards; some of them were themselves Shanghai Doaks, 109 son. inspired two great English poets poor people unable to do to Oricatel Cotton......

Ewa Cottons...Th. 13.10 bay, 13.15.

Tie. 2.40 sol. Tennyson and Rupert Brooke ought to be done. It was easy to Oriental

buy. The criticize public authorities, but Bhai. Octions (old)......Th. 84

Da.. (now)......Tik. 81j buy, mentioned by those who had worked on public

H.K. & 8. Hote...$9.30 buy. &,94 sei. bodies knew something of the im-

B.K. Landa

65 sal 64 s. mense pains and care that they were taking in these days to do what Humphreys

Shanghai Lands could be done, and know also, far better than those outside, what the practical difficulties and problems were with which they were hamper- ed and surrounded. He was not there merely to make a speech about Arise and let us wander forth, housing, but to preach the gospel, To yon old mill across the wolds; to assert a great principle and, if For look, the sunset south and jis might be, to arouse a burning

Dorth

desire to act, to do something to help to right the wrongs which be had described as intolerable. They were faced with the problem in Westminster. This week they had splendid opportunity of doing something, and the

if it sent address would be purpose of hi China Bus some of them away profoundly an- comfortable,, determined to find s way,Thou shalt love thy neigh bour as thyself. A man he was talking to the other day said, be hoped without any irreverence" I should like to add three words to that Thou shalt love thy neigh- bour as thyself and show it

Winds all the vale in rosy folds, And fires your narrow casement

glass,

Touching the sullen pool below: On the chalk bill the beaded grass In dry and dewlegs. Let us go

Rupert Brooke, in his famous

"Grantchester," poco,

describes the scene as the favourite haunt of -poets:-

"Still in the dawn-lit waters

cool

His ghostly lordship swims

his pool

And tries the strokes, essays

the tricks

25.18

12.07

02.05. 20.355 18.14

18.19

Dalo

18.10

Vienna

34.403

Prague

Helsingfors

1831 1924

Madrid

30.025

Lisbon

1051

Athens

Extra Best Class ... $1,407

Bucharest

Extra Cins5

1,329

Rio

First Class

1,329

Buenos Aires.

Italian Silk:-

Extra Class

81,399

Bombay Yokohama

Chinese Silk:-

375 808 5.29/32 47.18/22 1/81 1/10.25/32 217

Long learnt at Hellespont

and Styx.

atill

Chatter beneath the phantom

'mill.

Kongtung Silk:-

Three Dancing Girls

$1036+

Hong Kong

Quotations in New York Market on 10th instant were as follows:-.-

Japanese Silk:-

Shangbai

Silver (spot)

Dan Chaucer hears his river

Tenpyson notes with studious

eye

How Cambridge waters hurry

by."

4.07.

Do.(1928 Issue)...$12,05 BLK. Electrics (ɔid) ......$52) sol.

Do.

(new) Macan Electrion kedimend$28)Į bay. Telephones......

Do,

Do. righte

7,30

$7.00 bay 1ael, cam rights E6.7v nom. x rights

$3 buy,

„Ta, 10.80 s

BUDD

Singapore Tractions. ..12%.

Do. (Pref.)...18/6 buy,, 19/3 sel.

..90 cie. nom. China Sugars Malabon Bugar

buy. Onurton Iose

$34 nom. Cements (combined)...$8.90 sol., 8.60

Do, (old)......$7.80 sal, Do. (now) ,31j sel. HK.Ropes (ald) $7.60 nom.

Do. (now) United Asbestos". Dairy Farms..... Watsons Der A Wings.

The "ghostly lordship" is a re- Lane Crawford...

ference to Byron, who swam in a Mackinto

37.55 nom. HOTEL.

..$214 buy..

1.80 ata, buy,

$3.00 100% 20 m

..$3.65 buy,

pool in the Granta near the mill. Sincerede det bay..

The mill was in the possession of Wm. Powalls. Mr. Nutter, in whose family it had H.K. Amusements from 1981 sel.:

до been for about a century. New ELK Constructions machinery, had been installed in B'que. Indas. 9.3 Bonds, 661% buy. the mill during the last five years. HK. Goyt Loans

Rupert Brooke lived within a buy-buyers; sel-seller