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XMAS & NEW YEAR HAMPERS

We beg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Bates :-

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

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

Champagna! Q. St. Julien Claret.

"

1 Pt. Blackberry Braddy, 1 PL. D.O.M.

1. Martell's XXX Brandy,

ta. King George IV Gold Labs!

or Perfection Whisky.

1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal. 1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 1. Burgandy, Burgoyne's 1 Phial Pomeranzen Rittera.

No. 3 HAMPER $34.

1. Gaillamart Champagne. 1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy,

1 Qt. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky

No. 3

1 Qt. Bargogue's Burgundy.

1 Pt. Peppermint G.F.

1. PL. D.Ö.M.

2 Qts. Superior Rick Old Fart

2 Qt. Tawny Dry Port. Qts. St. Julien Claret.

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin".

IQ Vino de Pasto Sherry,

1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters.

HAMPER-$30.

Que. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection WhiskyJ

!Qt: Engrand's XXX Bran

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.

1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.

Qta Modoc Claret,

1 Phial Pomeranzen Bitters,

Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

TEL. C. No. 135.

Hong Kong.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

JUST RECEIVED:

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY,

Money and

Markets

CANTON MARKET REPORTS. | CANTON AND YOKOHAMA

Saturday's quotations in Canton for re, sugar and four were ac follows

Per Picul.

SILK MARKETS.

BRISK BUSINESS FOR

AMERICA

In Canton during the past fort night silk transactions between Chinese and foreign merchants have been very active. There is a strong demand for Canton silk in America, as the weavers now want Chinese silk instead of Japanese, the quality of which is not so good as the Chinese product.

10.03 9.00

3.70

9.64

7.36 Business done in Canton-mostly for American consumption-in- cludes the following transactions (prices being per pleul) :-

Rice.

Chai Mee Native White Rice $10.10 See Mui Native White Long

...Rice Kam Fung Sui White Rice. Winter Glutinous White

Rice

Red Prach White

Long

Rice

Green Lion White Brewer

Rice

Red Lion

White Annam

Ries

Green Double Sword White

Rice

Green Seal White Brwers,

Rice

Mack Seni White Brewers

Rice

Green & White Brewers Rier

6.10 6.33

Sugar.

Per Picul

No. 2 course powdered sugar 17.80 No. 3 coarse powered sugar 7.10 No. 20 coarse powdered sugar 7,33 No. 1 tiranulated sugar........ 9. 13 No. Fine Granulated sugar 10.40 War Chow White" sugar

Native sugar

Flour.

Man-of-War Silver Seal

9.40

Roon Kee 13/13 silk, 30 bags at

$1,303,

Ming Cheung 13/13 silk, 10 bags

at 81,119. No. 1B. 13/13 silk, 20 bags at

1,030.

1!

14/16 Raw sik. 20 bags at

- 11.074.30

No. 1 Star B. 13/15 silk, 20 bags

at $1,040.

No. 18. 13/13 silk, 10 bags at

81,025.

A cable from Yokohama dated December 21s: gives the following quotations:-

December April Delivery. Delivery.

$1,411

1,416

EXPORT OF DUCK FEATHERS.

BUSINESS DULL

10.10

Per Bag:

84.05.

forenoon

4.13

Afternoon

Banana!!

4.05

Cheung Luk

4.15

Maize

3.95

Sword of Kwantai

4.30

Highest Quality English Hams

Cannon

475

Cabbage

4.50

10-14 lbs. Bach

$1.00 per lb.

Dalton

4,60

Dog's Head..

4.63.

Cumberland Hams

12-16 lbs. Each

.90

Dairy Farm Hams

6-12 lbs. Each

.70%

59

NOTHING FINER ON THE MARKET,

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

Sole Agents:—

Drink

21

Asahi

more

CANTON OIL MARKËT.

an

1,373 1,367

the

Business in duck feathers is quite

important export, from Colony, the yearly figures, nearly About 28,000 Supplies of groundnut-oil arriv-reaching $4,000,000. ing in Cantof were not sufficient bags (200lbs. each bag) are sent to tomers the demand. therefore Europe and America, every year, but quotations have moved slightly only about per cent of this totales higher. On atcount of recent losses provided locally, the remainder by importers, only very small coming from Canton. About 20,000 quantities of wood-oil and bean-oil bags are imported into England, of are coming into, the market, and which a large portion is re-exported

to Franc, Sweden, and Germany. quotations have strengthened ar cordingly. Business" done on Fri- day included the following: Groundnut Oil:-

New Fang Chi Oil New Honan Oil

Old Fang Chi

Kwangi Wood Oil. Bean Oil

Per

$26.00 25.30

224.40

97.80 19.95

A representative of the Daily Press was told by merchant that this year business has been very Pical, dull, with quotations about 17 per cent. higher than last year. The total export this year is about 23,000 baga from January to November.

There are two principal varieties of duck feathers exported-down and long, feathers. The latter are obtained from the tails and wings, while the down is gathered from the body, and it is this variety which is mostly exported. Down is again divided into two varieties- machine-cleaned and uncleaned. Usually every 100 of duck feathers contains a mixture of abour

CANTON COTTON YARN

MARKET.

A cable received by the Canton dealers from Shanghai states that the cotton yarn market remains

Beer firm, but on the 99nd instant the 5 per cent. of other feathers.

it is

refreshing and

invigorating.

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Canton market weakened. and Chinese wholesalers in Hong quotations dropped $2 per bale. Kong buy feathers in Canton at This fall is due to the market for about 33 per picul, and after native, cotton, piece-goods in Nan arrival in the Colony the feathers yang having declined, and Canton are sorted. In former years the merchants were consequently afraid price for 100 lb. of down was about make further purchases of var.958, but this year the average is Quotations on Saturday's Center about 864. Quotations for machine- market were as follows:-

20

OPTIMISM IN LONDON.

Messrs.

Carroll Bros., Hong Kong, state that cabled advice has been received from London to the effect that figures prepared there by reliable partics indicate that, if American consumption is maintain- ed at around that achieved for the past three months, the world's con- sumption during 1929 will exceed the world's production by some 60.000 tons.

Per

cleaned feathers, was formerly about 873, but is nearer 880, at present.

Bile

No. 12 Five Sons

Ba45

Fui Hee Butterfly

316

THE RUBBER MARKET.

520

No. 2 Pine Deer

468

Po Tap

431

Tin Koon

135

Double Horse

438

No. 20 City of Gold

297

Globe

310

Good Harvest

316

Double Hörs

316

Tin Kuon

Double Dragon

4-0

Tram Car

311

Manelock

216

Shepherd

308

Three Stars

310

No. 16 Globe

303

Fui Kwai

300

Man-clock

300

No. 12 City of Gold

232

Peacock

Fui Kwai

935

Tram Car

275

Vietory

960

Aeroplane

944

Ayer Panas

$6.00..

Pretty Damsel

985

Glenenlies

1.70

No. 10 Saiting Vessel

265

Jerams

1.15

City of Gold

201

Jimahs

1,45

Lotus Bre

234

Kedaba

3.20

289

Kuala Sidims

3.20

No. 6 Lion

216

Lunes

1.93:

Lion No. 4

196

Rajama

1.60

Victory

It must be admitted that such forecasts are extremely difficult to make with any degree of accuracy, but it is certainly very much more pleasant to find on all sides euch -258 or similar optimistic opinions. More inquiries have set in in the rubber share Market.

SHANTUNG RAILWAY

RETURNS.

FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IN- CREASE OF REVENUE.

PERINO, DE 18th. From Tsingtao it it reported

Lateest quotations are:~,

Dividends.

Murai Tin un %%% Int. Puteh Tins ...... 74% Int. Pelurit Ting.... 5% Int. Lahat Tin 91% less tax. Pajan Final. Kamasan

5% Int. Bungei Way Final.

that the income-of-the-Shantung MUKDEN TO PUSH TRADE.

Railway for the first ten months of

this year was 89,718,000 compared

with 85,888,000 in the same periód

last year. Goods carried this year from January to October amount- ed, to 1,818,000 tons bringing in

PROPAGANDISTS GOING

ABROAD.

PEKINO, Dec. 18th.

A message received from Mukden 87,037,000 compared with 1,013,000 states that Marshal Chang Hsüch tons and $3,153,000 for the same Liang is sending representatives to period in 1927.

Europe and America for propa Passengers carried decreased by gands purposes. These officials are 450,000 but the income from this collecting statistics, source increased slightly, for dur photographs together with speci- ing this year all passengers paid mens" of Manchurian produce to their farce, whereas last year many carry with them in order to ex- mldiers you officials txaxelled fren Lplain conditions in Manchuria.

mane

and

DECEMBER 24th, 1928.

EASTERN TEXTILE ASSO- CIATION.

BRITISH SHIPMENTS. TO CHINA.

Great interest has been aroused by the registration in England as a private company of the Eastern Textile Association, Ltd. Traders on the Manchester Royal Exchange were not slow in recognising this organisation as the body of men engaged in the different branches of the cotton trade" who, as Mr. W. E. Thompson revealed some weeks ago at a meeting of the Man chester Rotary Club, are partici. pating in a joint effort to try and recapture some of the trade lost in China.

EXCHANGE BROKERAGE.

·SHANGHAI BANKS TO RE-

DUCE RATES BY HALF.

Recently the Shanghai Exchange Brokers Association has been advis ed by the local foreign banks that as And from January 1st, the brokerage paid to brokers by banks will be reduced to one half of the The brokers asked present rates, that representatives of their Asso- ciation should be given an oppor the bankers are understood to have tunity to discuss the situation, but refused to discuss the matter of cially. The Chambers of Commerce have been asked to take the matter up, as it is one in which merchants, brokers, and bankers equally are interested, but it has not been pos- sible yet to arrange a conference at i' which all concerned could be rẹ presented.

At the moment, says the North China Daily News, the brokers and Chamber of Commerce are endea

ouring to have the question settled by arbitration but so far nothing definite has been arranged. It is quite willing to submit to some re duction.

understood that the brokers are

By

Special Appointment

to

HM. King George V,

REKLIVE CUVÈS CHAMWAONE

The experiment is being carried out on co-operative lines, each of the parties performing his fune tion of spinning. manufacturing, or whatever it may be, and any losses being shared in agreed pro- portions. There is nothing in the nature of an amalgamation-hence the new company has, only a nominal capital,--and the joint efforts of the firms concerned are restricted to operations in one or two standard makes of cloth in thirty-second, which is, is hoped to do a bulk At a meeting of their Association The Choice of the

It may be added that in Tientain the banks have agreed to make no change until June 30th, 1999 and at that time the inter-bank broker- ape will be reduced to one-six- teenth, the point at which it stands to-day in Shanghai and from which the proposal is to lower it to, a

-trade. The incorporation of a last week the Shanghai exchange private company, foreshadows no brokers unanimously passed a re- change in rither the personnel or solution declining to incorporate

the policy of the movement. The the new banks' rates in their rules

step has been taken on legal ad- vice, in order to put the activities of the participants on a recognis able business basis.

It is generally understood that. the resulta achieved so far have been satisfactory, but, the

or

鼹

Ranisers of the movement would be the first to point that operations are only being conducted on small scale, and that nothing in the nature of a spectacular eflen- sive against Japanese competition is to be looked for. The Associa- tion, however, is doing very useful. and its results will be closely pioneer work, and its activities watched, for if it succeeds in re- one or two styles of cloth it is pro- capturing the China market for bable that other similar organisa- tions will be formed.

A Reuter message a few days ago stated that a serious hitch, due to the attitude of the London banks, has been reached in the creation of the corporation. Financial in- terests. in London were prepared to sponsor the amalgamation to the extent it is said of £9,000,000, but the banks, who are the virtual owners of the amalgamating mills, are hesitating. On the other hand the Manchester banks are eager assist any possible appeal which may be made to the Government.

EXCHANGE RATES.

(BEITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

Paria

Geneva Berlin

N

RUGBY, Dec. 21st.

Oslo ... Helsingfors Athens Buenos Aires Hong Kong New York Amsterdam... Stockholm Vienan Madrid...

Bucharest

Bombay ..... Yokohama Brussels. Milan Copenhagen

Prague Lisbon

Rio

Shanghai

Silver (spot ...... Silver (forward)

$14.

45.17

20.36

18.10

193

375

47.5/16

2/0.11/10 4.95 13/32

12.071

18.11

34.473

29.78

800

1/8.1/32

1/107

34.ST

999.63

18.17

1604

100%

20.3/16 28.5/16

and stating that any broker re- reiving less than the existing rates from the banks would be doing so under protest.

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