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XMAS & NEW YEAR HAMPERS

3.

Wa beg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Heduced Ratas :--

No. 1 HAMPER-538,-

1 Qt. Moët & Chandon Dry Imperial 1 QuSuperb Tawny Port.

1 P. Blackberry Brandy. 1 Ft. D.O.M.

Champagne! 2 Q. St. Julien Claret.

1 Qt. Martell' XXX Brandy. 1 Qt. King George IV Gold Label

1

or Perfection Whisky.Į,

1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal. 1 Q. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin 1Q Burgundy, Burgoyne's.

1 Phil Pomeranzea Bittara

No. 2 HAMPER-$34.

Guilleart Champagne.

1 Ft. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Bargoyne's Burgundy.

10. Martel's XXX Brandy,

2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky.

2 Qta. Tawny Dry Port.

Qts. St. Julien Claret.

1 Qt. Vino do Pasto Sherry,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1928.

vand Money and Markets

HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.

Business done in Hong Kong yesterday in rice, sugar and other foodstuff included the following transactions:

CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATION.

Water Works ........

Electric Power Co. Canton-Hankow Railwaya.

Rice.

Per

Ficul.

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin

Green Cash White Long Rice,

1,000 bags

Sincere Co.

The Sun Company,

CANTON, December 19th.

$3.20 6:00 0.48 6.40 0.20

87.12

Nanyang Tobacco Co.

5.70

Canton Tramwaya

1.80

Feacock White Long Rice, 379

China Merchants" S.S. Nav.

bags.

-7.33

Co.

Red Sun White Siam Rice,

160 bags..

Central Bank......

Red San White Siam Rice,

406 bags

7.33

7.40

Red Seal White Siam Rice,

1,833 bags

......16

1. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.

Tui Nam White Siam Rice,

CANTON KEROSENE OIL.

CLOSING QUOTATION.

1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.

No. 3

HAMPER-$30.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Pt. Peppermint G.F.

1 Pt. DŮM.

2 Qta. Superior Rich Old Fort.

2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky,

1 Qt. Engrad's XXX Brandy.

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.

2 Qts. Medoc Claret.

1 Phil Pomeranzen Bitters,

Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

TEL. C. No. 135.

HONG KONG.

Comfortable Smoking

ARDATH 222

Oval Cigarettes

CHC

The Food of Kings

Court Physicians know the best and see that Royal Babies have the best. That is why Glazo has been used with success in 5 Royal Nurseries. Only the best is good enough for your Baby, for is he not a King to you?" Gire him Glaxo, the food that contains everything that will build firm flesh, strong bone and à sound constitution.

Glaxos

The Vitamin Milk-Food

"Builds Bonnie Babies"

W. B. LOXLEY & CO., BOLE AGENTE.

Have a glass of

ASAHI BEER

it cheers & invigorates

ASAH

Sole Agents 2---

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.

7.42

7.37

680 bags. Red Seal White Glutinous

Rize, 130 bags

Brewer Red Seal White

Glutinous Rice, 133 bags B.61 Green Seal No. 1 White

Broken Rice, 730 bags. 6.31 Whire Brewer Rice, 350 bags 6.33 Blue Seal No. 1 White

Broken Rice, 150 bags 6.37 Blue Seal No. 2 White

Broken Rice, 60 bags......6.20

Sugar.

Per Ficul.

No. 20 coarse powdered sugar,

200 bags..................

86.35

No. 24 coarse powdered sugar,

700 bags

7.23.

7.23

No. 24 coarse powdered sugar,

300 bags

No.. 24 coarse powdered sugar,

300 bags

...... S'

Miscellaneous, Red Melon Seed, 30 bags at $26.00

per bag. Black Beans, 100 bags at $7.00

Ing.

per

Red Beans, 40 bags at $8.50 per bag Yellow Beans, 100 bags.at $8.80 per

bag.

CANTON COTTON YARN

MARKET.

A cable from Shanghai, dated December 12th and received by the Canton dealers stated that the price of No 20 yarn had risen half tael per bale. Owing to the quiet state of the Canton market, the price has not been raised.

Quotations for cotton yarn in yes- , ferday's market were as followsy

No. 42 Five Sons

Fui Eec

Butterfly

No. 32 Pine Deer

$352

522

198

403

Po Tap

450

Tia Koon

458

Double Horse

452

No. 20 City of Gold

Globe

355

Họ Chao

324

Double Horse

190

Double Elephant

30%

Trumcar

315

Shepherd.

311

Three Stars

Ni. 16 Globe.

Fur Kwai

203

No. 12 City of Gold

Peacock

790

Fui Kwai

284

"Man. Clock

Tramcars Aeroplane

No.10 Sailing. Vessel

307

6.30 4,00.

CANTON, December 12th.

New Starog New Balance

New. Chang Fung New Eagle

New Cheung Hi New Daybreak

87.70 7.45 7.25

18

7.95 7.95

BRITISH SHIPPING FREIGHTS.

INCREASE DURING OCTOBER.

A risa of 8.70 per cent in the general level of British shipping freights occurred in October, act cording to the latest Chambers of Shipping Index Numbers. The October index, at 97.97, compares with 25.60 for September, and 97.30 for October last year. Freights "were available on 19 routes, and the most substantial movements were an increase of 17.39 per cent over September in the United States group, and an increase of 8.31 por cent. in

MR. R. KIPLING'S. QUERIES TO DOCTORS.

STARS "AND HEALING.

MASTERING "TIME-LOCKS OF

LIFE AND DEATH."

Mr. Rudyard Kipling addressed some questions to doctors when re plying to the toast of "The Guests" at the annual dinner of

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Deckman 18x¤, 1928. ALK. Backson mall 991) Dum.

Dom

London... £140 nom. Chartered Banks wi£23 buy... Marcantile Baaks, A. £B...234 nom.

Dou

Q...£14) nom,··

KOM. d O. Banks. East Asix Bank” ...........81) bay. Cantos Insurance $650 18. Union Intro.. North China In ******* 160 buy. Yangtze Insurances....A 150 som Chin Underwriters ...... 2. is el. China Fire Insurances.... 980

bay. Hong Kong Fire in.....3780 L

E

..5557

the Canada to United Medicine, at the May Fair Hotel, Dongmooster Day,

Mr. Kipling went back to the

Kingdom (grain) group. The London. Time Charter Bate for October. 1099, at 23.01 shows an increase of 4.91 per cent. as compared with September, 1998, and is the same as that for October, 1927. If the average for 1813 is taken na 100, the value of the General Index of Shipping Freights for October,

1928, is 118.54.

During the last few weeks gu- Per Case. ployment has shown some improve ment on that for the first, aix months of this year and has reflect ed an

which autumn revival, should normally occur. In Novem ber the state of the market was not quite as active as in some recent weeks, and rates, particularly in the North Pacific homeward grain trade, were slightly easier.

ARBITRATION IN TRADE

DISPUTES..

CHINESE COMPLAINTS AGAINST BRITISH

IMTORTERS."

Business in preserved ginger, which is one of the important ex- port lines from the Colony, has been hindered this year owing to Chinese dealers refusing to have differences, with consignees bitrated in London.

ar-

Hitherto business was done under a contract to the effect that in case of any question arising regarding quality, etc., suck dispute was to be settled by arbitration in Lon- don. During the past two years several decisions have been given against the Chinese dealers, result ing, in lasses to them.

In a letter sent by the Chinese Genera. Chamber of Commerce to the Hong Kong Chamber of Com- merce, or April 3rd Inst, it was stated that dealers would refuse to do further business unless it was agreed that any disputes were to be settled in-Hong Kong. The com- plaint was that several "bad" do. cisions bad been given by the Lon- don Board of Arbitration.

Local European exporters met on several, occasions to discuss this matter, and the views of the Lon- don Produce Brokers' Association. were also obtained: As a result,

to come

the exporters have

EXCHANGE RATES,

[SRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Paris New York

RUGBY, Dec. 19th.

124.13, 4.95 3/39

*34.493 ·

163)

Brussels

34.89

Geneva

95.18

Amsterdam

12.07

Milan Berlin

99.85

20.355

Stockholm

18.14

Copenhagen

18.29

Oxlo

18.19

Vienga Prague

Helsingfors

110%

373

8091

5.29/32 472 1/8 1/39 1/10 1/32 2/7 2/01

Madrid Lisbon Athens Bucharest

Rio

Buenos Aires Bombay... Yokohama Shanghai

Hong Kong. Silver (spot)

1023 29.925

26 5/16 Silver (forward)... 67/18

SUN BATHER'S LOST LAWSUIT

WRONGFUL DISMISSAL CLAIM REFUSED.

unanimous decision that trade in BREAKFAST AND LUNCHEON

preserved ginger would be impos sible if disputes were to be settled in Hong Kong.

...

The London Produce Broker. A- sociation pointed out that this com- 419 modity being a luxury and not a necessity, it does not meet with a 303 very large demand from abroad, and that the only time any appre- ciable business was done was dur- The ing the Christmas season. business, therefore, had be handled with care, and unless dis- putes were settled in London, im 20 porters at that end would have very |

little protection.

074

City of Gold Peacock

265

967

058

218

Lotus Bec

No. 6 Lion............*

Lion No. 2

196

to

Local European exporters ac cordingly took a firm stand, and Chinese dealers are now selling in small lots under the old term. In view of the fact that the bulk of the trade is done with Europe, CANTON MARKET REPORTS. America, and Australia, it is quite likely that local Chinese dealers will eventually Tesume normal business under the original con-

"Quotations in yesterday's market for rice, sugar and flour were as follows:-

Shuit Yat white rice White Kang Yut rice

Annam Rice. Hung Fuk rice ...... Wo Hop white rice

Hung Wo Fung ........

Nalive Rice.

Chai Mi rice

See Miu rice

Per Picul. $11.20

10.75

$135" 6.80

$9.88

11.01

0.70

9.85

6.30

6.50

Green O white rice

$8.75

Green Cannon.....

9.80

Green Flower Pot

9.89

Red Double Sund rice... Three Marks white rice

9.68

9:40

Sugar.

Red Bell white rice.......... Red N white brewer rice...... Green Seal white brewer rice

Slam Rice,

No. 2 coarse powdered sugar..

3

20

Do. Da.

1 Granulated sugar

tracta

A European's Vlewa.

SHOCKS.

BEELIN, Nov. 19th, The difficulties that still beset the path of ardent sun-bathers in Germany, despite official support of the movement, were. revealed in Berlin law court to-day, when Fraulein Ediths Pumpf, a house" keeper, and one of the 400,000 mem- bers of the National Nakednem Association, sued her employer for wrongful dismissal and two month's wages.

Herr Albert Salz, a sixty-year-old Berlin business man, explained in his evidence that he had engaged Fraulein Editha to act se hopso- keeper in his home during the tom porary absence of his wife in a nursing home.

"Scanty Costume. Fraulein Editha, he said, had been working extremely well until one morning she astonished him by appearing in extremely scanty cos tume to serve him his breakfast She declared in answer to his pro tests that she had been having ä sun-bath in the garden, and had not had time to put on all her clothes before attending to him.

days of the practitioner nearly 300- years ago, and told a story of the astrologer-physician, Nicholas Gul

HE.

$99 $1.40

sel.

$15 bay.

ཏྭཱ

2

bay. 18/-nom.

324 nom.

Indo-China (Prof.)

Do. (Def.). Skell

Transporta Union Waterbosts... Benguets pepper, who, on learning that Kaila Mining Admin....73/. buy,

Ma. 11 nom. maidservant had fallen sick with Langkas (combined)... what the local practitioner diagnosy, Explorations .......

Do (single) ...... 51 nom

Tla. 2.55 bay..

3.8) al

17/6 now,

ed as plague, asked what hour" thei young woman had taken to her Shanghai Loans. The 3 buy. bed, then erected a horoscope, and Rube

inquired of the face of the Trench Mines heavens how the malady might K. A K. Wharfa....

EK. & W. Dockt.......... prove.

The face of the heavens indicated China Pendants ...$4.90 buy., 5.10 sei. it was just smallpox "-" which

Hongkows our ancestors treated almost as light as we do."

I Culpepper Returned.

$135 ael. ..837 nom

Tie 156 bay.

nom.

New Engineering I Shangha Dock ...Tis, 104 Bel, 103).

Bwd Cottons...Tl. 13.40 bay, 18.457.. Onental Cottens. The 2.40 sol

ShLands

buy

"Preposterous as all this was," g S'hai. Cotton (old)......? Tim. 654 buy. said Mr. Kipling. "Culpepper justified his practice by the theory that this creation, though compos ed of contraries, is one united body, of which man is the epitome, and that he, therefore, who would understand the mystery of healing mauet. look as high as the stars!"

"If he could return to earth to day (Mr. Kipling continued), and see how things have progressed in the mystery of healing. I fancy he would be quite at ease in your Zist-

De (now)...... Tle. 3 buy. B.E. &S. Hotel $9.30 buy.

Del. 64. Shanghai

Lands......... 138 buy Humphreys Estates. 3166 bay, 15 sai. E.K.Bemítion ....... E.K. Tramway........ Peak Trama. (old)

Do.

He believed in the tracsmuita. tion of metals. He could be shown that in full blast at a Eoyal Society Boirée with emanations. He would And that the essential unity of creation is admitted as far forth ne we have plumbed infinity; and that man, Culpepper's epitome of all, is in himself a universe of universes, each universe ordered-| negatively and positively-by sym pathy and antipathy on the same lines as hold the stars in their

courses.

$19.50 buy. $13 sol (now)....$6,30 zor.

bay,

*་ས

Star Ferries $57 China Lights (old)...$12) sel, 12.10 m.

Do. (now)........$12.15 sek. H.K. Electrian (ald)......)

Do. (1923 Lasne)$12.05 sel.

Do.

(now)...

Macao Electrics... Telephones......

Do.

дот dom..

$167 buy. ......$7.10 buy. 7.30 1 sel, cum rights nom. x rights

$5.70

13.

bay

Do. rights China Buse

Ti 10% buy. Bingapore Tractions...... 12/. num.

(Pref.)...18/9 bay,, 19/3 sal.

Do cts. nom...

Ds.

China Sugar Maisbon. Bugars Cantos Icen Cements (combined)...3.80 bur

(old) ..... Do. (new)

Do.

HK. Ropes (old)

Do.

(DOW)

Consequently, he would not he astonished to see men satch out of the air an influence-an inner United Asbestos...... heat or pacuma-of which they Dairy Farm..... know no more than that it visibly Watsons warms, lights and works for them, Der A Wing...

their Lace Orawford........ and, invisibly, tranamite speech and vision to one side of Mackintoshen the world on the instant that they themselves speak or look from the other."

His Axiom Proven. ·

he

Sinceres

Wm. Powells...........

ebay. 334.com.

9 sel. 7,80 sal. $1) sol. $7,80 noth.

***$7.55

поп.

$5 now.

$211 buy, 22 vol.

314 sel.

80

ots. buy.

$305 Fam.

820 Rd,

„39$ bay. ·

33.65 lmy. 1981 sol.

HK. Amusezanda K.E. Constructions ......le nom, B'que. Indna, G. Bonds...661% bay, Being an astrologer, be would," of H.K. Gort, Loans.....5% prom. sel. course, go to Greenwich Observa- | buy —buyers; sal-soliera: 22-gales; tory, to learn more about those in

nom.--nominal fluences. From Greenwich would certainly push on to the B.B.C., who would tell him that there were unknown heavenly in fluences, which prevented millions of bold youths and blushing" maidens from hearing the music they would dance, to

Presently he would be shown marvellous films of infected tissue being subjected to the influence of an influence called radium.

"Then, 1 fancy, the fun would begin. Up to that point, be would find the main axiom which he had quoted three centuries before ac cepted, proven, "and in use,

So, as with his small-pox case, Culpepper's first question after he had seen the films would be: What да the aspect of the Heavens at the time these pheno- mena occcurred ?"

"And what answer would he get?

Jan't it likely that the multitude and significance of the revelations, heaped upon us with in the past few years, have made in self-defence, specialise men, more and more narrowly?

Haven't we been driven head- long to abandon our conceptions of life, motion, and matter! And isn't it human that in that up" heaval men may have carried off, each his own cherished preposses sion, and camped beside it--just as refugees do after an earthquake 7

Problems For Astronomers.

In an interview with Mr. J. M. da Rocha," principal of Messrs. J. M. da Rocha & Co., Ltd., a Daily Press representative was informed that as exports were the life-blood of the Colony, it behoves merchants to take a firm stand against..any Herr, Salz thought her conduct unreasonable demands by Chinese strange, but determined to say dealers, as only in this way can nothing about the matter. When,

Is it then arguable that` we business generally become stable however, he found the housekeeper's

may still mistake secondary causes again.

devotion to the September Bin Was Mr. Rocha, who is also Chairman such that she was forced to appear for primary ones, and attribute to

instant and visible agents of the Export Committee of the in nothing but a pair of running disease unconditioned activities, Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce shorts at lunch, he spoke severely to which, in truth, depend on some is of the opinion that the growing ber, and Fraulein Editha promised breath drawn from the motion of

of ginger in the New Territory to do her work in future in a more should be encouraged. believing European costume. The next morn

of

the universe of the entire

that it is only by such means that ing, however, Herr Sale's call for universe, revolving as one body (or trade

conditions can be made breakfast surprised her, once more dynamo, if you choose) through in easier. Preserved ginger mostly in the paradisical garb of the finite but occupied space? comes from Canton, and heavy Per export duty is levied, thus render- ing business hard to settle.

Fine Granulated sugar......10.10 Wai Chow refine sugar

8.40

Spring Brand native candy ...10.10

The Chinese View,

The idea is wildly absurd? Friends of Light and Nature."

Quite true. But what does that Herr Salz dismissed her on the matter if any fraction of any idea. spot, and the court decided that helps towards mastering even "one Horr Salz was justified.

Picul." Taels. 8.00

Our representative was also able 7.50 to obtain the views of Chinese ex- 7.00 porters, who say that arbitration

Business Becoming Normal. 9,40 in London is most unfair, and often causes them great losses,

Be that as it may, business, on They allege that whenever the mar the old conditions, is gradually be ket for this commodity was un-coming normal. The four qualities favourable, importers in London mostly exported to Europe are: invent excuses in order to evade $4.00 taking delivery. They are of the opinion that the only fair means of deciding a dispute is to have the matter arbitrated here. Importers abroad can be represented by their local agents here, the Chinese dealers en have their interests protected by a representative from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, (Continued at foot of nest column.

Flour.

Man-of-War

Silver Flower ka

4.16

Banana

Cheung Luk

Maize *****

Sword of Kwantai

4.10 4.15 3.95 4.30

Cannon diren

4.80

Cabbage

4:40

Daltoni

4.00

Head

4.00

time-locks

combination in the of Life and Death reat

"Suppose, then, at some future time, when the bacteriologist and the physicist are for, the moment" at a standstill, wouldn't it be in- teresting if they took their problem to the astronomers, and in modern scientific language, of course-put Ginger Cargo in Syrup, Ginger to him Nicholas Culpepper's Stem in syrup, Duy ginger cargo, curious question: What was the and Dry ginger Stem. Prices vary aspect of the Heavens when such from time to time, and current and such phenomena were observ- quotations are 44/- c.it. London fored?' Cargo Ginger in casks of 1 cwt., and 41/- c... London, for stem ginger in casks of 1 cut..

Busincas done in Hong Kong Novembor during October and amounted to 3,000 caaks.

Mr. Winston Churchill, propos ing the "Royal Society of Medi cine," said that he had always been one of Mr. Kipling's greatest ad- mirers, although M. Kipling had not always been one of bia

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