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2.Qte. Superior Rich Old Port.

2 Qt. King George IV Gold Label

1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy.

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.

2 Qts. Madoo Claret.

1 Phil Pomeranzen Bitters,

Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

TEL. C. No. 135,

2

XMAS & NEW YEAR HAMPERS

We beg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampere suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Beduced Estas :—–

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

1 Q. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial

1 Pt. Blackberry Brandy. 1 PL. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Superb Taway Port. Champagnata. St. Julien Claret.

י י

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy. * Qta King George IV Gold Label!

or Perfection Whisky.

1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal 1 Qt. Paritan Old Tom or Dry Gin, 1 Qt. Bargandy, Burgayna's. 1 Phil Pomeranzen Bittern.

No. 2

HAMPER-$34.

1 Qt. Guillemart Champagne.

1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy,"

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.

2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label

Qte. Taway Dry Port

Qta. St. Julien Claret

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.

IQ Vino do Pusto Sherry.

1 Phis! Pomerazen Bitters.

or Perfection Whisky

No. 3

HAMPER-$30.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Pt. Peppermint G.F.

1 Pt. D.O.M..

or Perfection Whisky.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1928.

Money and Markets

HONG KONG MARKET

REPORTS.

Business done in Hong Kong yesterday in rice, sugar and other foodstuffs, included the fallowing transactions:-

Rice,

"Per

CANTON COTTON YARN MARKET.

A cable from Shanghai stated that the prices for Chinese cattan yarns had dropped by one tael per bale. The market in Canton was

HONG KONG STOCK

EXCHANGE, "

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

a

Dec 19, 1938. A.K. Banki

.....$1,300 bay. De London...140 nom. Chartered Banks bay. Marcantile Bank A. &B.....£34 núm.

Do,

0...141 nom. F&0. Banks.......9] om. East Asia Banks

buy aston Insurances $665 buy, 673 mal Union Insurance

$960 buy. & 4. China, Ins.......fls. 160 pay.

i quite active but the Shanghai new nutate Insursnow................. $50 nom.

had a depressing effect and quota-China Underwriters 12.45 aol. |tions dropped end" or two dollars China Fire Insurations....$230 buy.

Hong Kong Fire Ins....... $78 per bale in the native yarnTS.

Douglases Quotations in yesterday's market

Steamboata H.K. H.K. Tags **** were as following:-

- Per bale.

Lado-China (Prof.) ......$15 bar.

Do

Kailan Mining Admin....

(combined)....Ta, 10) ma. exorations.

(ringia)

Th. 51 nom. TL. 93.

Bhanghai Loans i The 3 bay.

Baube. Buy 154 buy. Tronoh Mines

...17/d noia.

H.K. & K. Wasts.........5135 nel.

mà W. Docks

China Providente...$4.95 Hongkows བཿpp**ནའ་4.***P"

37 bay.

5.05 #3. bay, Ti 158 buy.

Now Enginearings ......Fle. 5 Dom

....Tu. 104 bay.. Shanghai Docks.....THE..

BwoCstions... Th.19.10 buy. 13.10/20mm, Oriental Cottons......... The 2 sal

8 hai. Lotions (old)......1la. 65, buy.

Da.. (new)......Th. S buy.

Shanghai Lands. 160 buy.

Humphreys Estater...$14,60 buy.. is nel,

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Red Hung To White Long

Rice, 235 bags Kak Po White Long Rice, 85

baga

$0.80

80

$38 nom.

7.11

Ser

bar.

Green Elephant White Long

Rice, 250 baga

$1 sh

6.98

Green Seal White Brewer

No. 42 Five Son,

8553.00

(Def.)

$72) bay.

Rice, 120 bags

8.00

Fui Hee

516.00

Shell Transporta

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom är Dry Gin.

White Glutinous Rice, 68

bags

Butterfly

$24.00

Union Waterboat........192 bay.

1181. nom.

No. 3 Pics Deer

468100

Benguete

6.72

Tin Keon

458.00

bay..

Wu Mok Kan Old White

Rice, 400 bags

Double Horse ...

459.00

7.37

No. 20 City of Gold Fing

327.00

Red Seal White Glutinous-

Rice, 170 bags.........

Globe

-390.00

8.72

Good Havest.......

318.00

No. 1 White Broken Glutin

Double Horse-

317,00

ous Rice, 136 bags......

8.55

Tin Koon

320,00

HONG KONG.

No. 2 White Broken Glutto

ous Rice, 57 bags

Double Dragon

*392.00

8.26

Tram Car

312.00

Shepherd

309.00

Green Anchor New White

Three Stars

319,00

Rice. 500 bagi

7.87

No. 16 Globe......

303.00

Green Seal White Rice, "800

baga

"Fui Kwai

300,00

8.00

Man-clock

300.00

Green Seal White Broken

No. 12 City of Gold

299,00

Rice, 400 bags ...

6.39

Peacock...reg.

238.00

Tram Car

$73.00

A.K, & Ketal .............. 1

19.10 buy..9)

Red Pearl White Brower

Victory

280.00

Rice, 300 bags

6.40

B.K. Lands

$8311

.9.15/20 **. 844 set., 64a,

Aeroplane

972.00

Green Pearl White Brewer

Pretty Damsel

263.00

Rice, 280 bags

6.42

No. 10, Sailing Vessel

265.00

B.K. Realtios...... ..184 sal." ".

Blue Double Key White

Peacock...

260.00

lay. 2013 1.

Rice, 300 bags

8.10

Lotus Bee"

954.00

Peak Trams (old)

sol.

Blue Seal No. 3 White Rice,

Three Sheep

935.00

Pat

No. 6 Lion

€18.00

130. bags

0.68

Lion No. 2

196.00

China Tights (

Green Seal No. 1"White

Do

and

Broken Rice, 277 bags..... Green and Red Line Brewer

Glutinous Rice; 220 bags 6.51 Green Seal Old White Rice,

700 bags

6.49

CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE,

Sugar.

6.58

Per

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Picul

VARNISHES

SHIPS STORES

Manila Green Sugar, 464

bags

$8.53

elt, éle

Manila Green Sugar, 740

Water Works ..... Electric Power Company Canton-Hankow Railways The Sun Company

8.83

bagy

Sincere Company .......... Nanyang Bros Tob. Co...

3.60

9.20

6.50 Canton Icss

Uaments (combined)......$9 bay, 91 sel.

Xo.

No, t

20 COLISE sugar, 100 bags

coarse powdered sugar. 2,000 bags

powdered

Do. (old).$7.80

THO

*

Canton Tramways

1.95

6.98

China Merchant S.S. Naviga-

ELE. Bopes (old) .$7.80 noma.

tion Company

6.40

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7,38

Central Banks ...

4.60

W Powells....

No.

21 coarse

powdered

-Dairy Farms.....

FL.K.. Amusementa

Watsons

sugar, 3,500 bags......

7.33

..318) nom.

*

་

Der A. Winge

No.

24" coarse powdered

AMERICAN COTTON CROP.

Lane Crawfords.............

$3.00 am

sugar, 300 bags...........................

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No.

*24 COLTSE powdered

sugar, 3,000 bags

*.33

Do. (w)........$1 Bol.

Do.

(now)

United Asbestos ....................... $5 now.

Madantorks,

$91), sel

.....80 ct.. buy.

„820 nori.

(Opntinued on next Columa).

89) bar. $3.65 buy, ......$28*22* H.K. Constructions ..... ma K'ora. Indna G.3 Bonds...67% bay. R.K. Gort. Losos...... 5% prom, sel bay,--boj era; sel-sellers;

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Chater Road,

No. 24 coarse powdered"

sugar, 500 bags 7.38

No. 18 coarse powdered

sugar, 250 bags

6.83

Per

Star Ferries............$8 buy.

(old)........... nom. (LOW)$11.90 el.

Do, (1928 Issue)...$11.80 sel.

.....169 buy, &-18. Do (new)...... 51 buy, Macao Electrics ..........$264 buy. Telephones (oid)

Do China Buses

H.K. Electrica (old)

**** 5.65 bay. (ac)....35.55 bay.

4. 10% buy.

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..SOLE AGENTS:

(Pref.)...17/6 buy, 18/3 sek. L. RONDON & CO., LTD.,

83.20 Singapors Tractions....12). nom.

Do, 5,00

Clin

Saga

...........90 sta, nom. 0.44 Malabon Bugar 28 buy.

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Miscellaneous.

FINAL ESTIMATES SHOW IN. CHEASE OVER PREVIOUS FORECAST.

The final cotton crop estimates been made public by the Agricul. Picultural Department of the United

Sheung Lotus Seeds, 10 bags 255.00 States, on the basis of conditions

South Beans, 25 baga

Green Seeds Black Beans,

BO baga

Yellow Beans, 200 bags

14.00

prevailing on December ist, indicate that production will reach 14,373,000

7.20 bales, an increase of about "240,000

6.45 bales as compared with the preced- ing forecast made on November 1st.

CANTON MARKET REPORTS. The report gave much stimulus to

Quotations in yesterday's Canton "market for rice, sugar, flour and ail

were as follow:-

Zice.

Per

NATIVE RICE

Picni.

Ha Wan White Glutinous

Rite

$11.50

Middle White Glutinous

Rice

0.80 Chai Mee; White Rice........ 11.40 Pak Yuk White Long Rice... 10.50

SIAM RICE.

Drink

more Red Pearl White Long Rice

Green Seal White Rice Cheung Hoi White Long

6.50 9.56

Asahi

Rice

Beer Hai Hing White Rice...

3.42 9.45

Green Seal White Brewer

Rice

Green A White Brewer Rice Green Seal White Broken

8,40 6.51

Rice

it is refreshing and

invigorating.

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.8.18 Blue Seal White Rice ... 8.50 Sugar,

Per Picul

No. coarse powdered sugar 7.90 No. 3 course powdered sugar 7.40 No. 20 coarse powdered sugar 7.50 No. 1 Fine Granulated sugar, 10.30 No. 1 Granulated sugar Wai Chow. White sugar...... 8.40 Spring Natiye Candy 10.11.

Man of War:

Silver Seal

Flour.

the bear operators on the cotton markets both at home and abroad.

The reports further say that about 2.4 per cent of the total acreage under plantation was abandoned, and the plantation zone which ap- pears to be hopeful covers an area. of 45,236,000 acres,

The Department estimates that the production will be 1,419,000 bales larger than the actual crop of the preceding year.

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At the same time, the Cengur Bureau of the U.S. Government has made public the figure for carry- over cotton. from the last into the new crop year at 12,302,000 bales, which was somewhat larger than generally expected. This report urged the bulla on the American cotton market to haaten liquidation and the bear operators in the South. ern states became active, causing a decline of about 53 cents in quota- tions.

EXCHANGE RATES:

(BRITISH" WJEELEBS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, Dec. 18th.

124.10

4.15

Borlin

9.50

Per

Paris New York Brussels Geneva

4.85 5/16 34.89

23.17

Bag.

Amsterdam

12.071

Milan

92.83

84.05

-90.36

Stockholm

18.113

Baanaza

4.10

Cheung Luk

Copenhagen

16.17

4.18

Maizo

3.35

Oslo........

18.19

BATS, GOWN:-

Vienna-

34.443.

Sword of Kwontai

*7*35**

Prague.

1634

Cannon

4.5

Helsingfors

1994

Cabbage

4.45

Madrid

20.825

Dalton ..........

4.50

Dog's Head

Lisbon

1101

4.50

Athens

376

"

Oil.

Per

Bucharest

8071-

Picul

Rio

Groundnut Oil:-

Tientsin Best quality ... 23,00

Dairen Best quality

Honan Best quality

28.50 23:40

Buenos Aires Bombay Shanghai

47 11/32

1/8 1/32

9/7

Hong Kong

2/0

Fangtsi Best quality 24.85

•Yokobatan iviru

1/10 28/32

Chilu Best quality

26.70

We Wand Di

26.00

Silver (spot)

Silver (forward)

281

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