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NEW YEAR HAMPERS

Wa beg to notify Customers that Assorted Hampera suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced Rates

No. 1 HAMPER-$38.

1 Qt. Most & Chaddon Dry Imperial 1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port..

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

Champagne. 2 Qt. St. Julian Claret.

QL Martell's XXX Brandy. 9 Qta. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky.

1 Q Old Brown Sherry, Black Seal 1. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.

1 Qt. Burgundy, Burgoyne's. 1 Phlai Pomeranzen Biitar..

No. 2

HAMPER-534.

Ut. Guillemart Champagne.

1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Qt. Martola XXX Brandy.

2 Gts, King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky

2 Qts. Tawny Dry Port Qts. St. Julian Claret

1 O Vino de Pasto Sherry.

1 Phisi Pomeranzen Bitters.

No. 8

HAMPER-$30.

1 Qt. Bargoyne's Burgundy,

1 Pt. Pappermint .F.

1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Bogmand's XXX Brandy,

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry.

2Qts. Superior Rich Old Fort.

2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label

or Perfection Whisky

1 Phisl Poufëranzen Bitters,

Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

TEL. C. No. 135.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 1928.

Money and Markets

HONG KONG BUSINESS REPORTS.

CANTON COTTON YARN MARKET.

LONDON FINANCIAL

SAVINGS.

This is not the time for incom- petency or old age to be in indus tryThe Prime Minister..

WLS

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

"CLOSING "QUOTATIONS.

DecaMax 17TH, 1928,

......$1,505 bar. A.K. Back....... as

Dou London.....81dij nam, Chartered Banks ***

buy

DOM.

In

0 £14) nom.

bay

Canton Insuranom...$685 buy., 375 sel

1385 bay. Union Intro 116, 160 bay. North China Yangtze Insurances..... f $50 nom. 230 buy.. China Fire Insuranos........... Chin Underwriters.....40 ml. Hong Kong Fire Ine......178

$780.mal. $38) nom Houg Douglases

$99 buy, 20 sol

If every foreman is a factory A safety-first enthusiast, the task of dealing with the workers Marcantile Banks, A. most prone to accidents would be

Day greatly simplified. Safety work 15 ↑ P. & O, Banks ********£34 Business in Hong Kong yester-

A telegram from Shanghai stated not a hobby; it is a science.-Mr. Fast Avia Banks day, in rice, sugar and beans, in- cluded the following transactions: that on the 28th cotton yarn prices G. H. Hopkinson.

Looking back, it must appear Rice.

Per were steady. The Canton market Picul. recovered slightly from the slump strange that English people who

caused by

the Anti-Japanese Boy have been so instinctively interest cott. Prices have gone up by seed in the proper care and use of per baic, for No. 30 and No. 16 dead machinery have shown ignor yarns. Quotations for fine yarn ance and apathy in the wasteful were firmer.

of human machinery-Sir Quotations in cotton yarn in Walter Fletcher. 26th market

were as follows:-

The purchasing power of the Par bale.

120,000,000 of the United States is $649

greater than that of the 500 mil 438

much lions of Europeans, and greater than that of a thousand Alberto million. Asiaties, Sir Pirelli.

648 bags..................................... Red Seal White Broken Rice,

583 bags

Mai Lan Fan White Long

Rice, 292 bags Green Elephant White 'Long

*87.88

Rice, 415 bags ......

*7.08

1.Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.

Red Hung To White Siam.

Rice, 307 bugs.

6.55

Green Bata White Long Rice,

400 bags

8.90

No. 43 Five Sons'.

Black Seal

White Brand,

1,500 bags

3:02

Butterfly

+

Green Double-Peach White

Fui Hee

308

No. 39 Pine Deer

406

1. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Qts. Medoc Claret.

Long Rice, 100 bags...... Red Seal White Long Rice,

200 bags

7.32

Tin Koon

436

*

6.92

Double Horse

448

Green Horse White Long Rice, 354 bags_........... Red Horse White Long Rice,

1,894 bags in

No. 20 City of Gold

300

7.70

Globe

316

Tin

316

Good Harvest

314

7.87

Kam Au White Siam Rice,

Double Hor

30T

300 bags.....

7.22

Double Elephant

318

Tramcar

305

Double Star, White Long

Man Clock

306

Rice, 150 bags.....

Hore Kosa.

Double Flag White Long

Shepherd

303

Rice, 530 bags

6.DS

Three Stars

303

Black Seat White Broken

.Fui Kwai

314

No. 18 Globe

Rice, 730 bags

6.05

Red Sai See White Rice,

2.000 bags

Fui Kwai

.293

7.90

Man Clock

993

Red Seal White Broken Rice,

300 bags White Rice Brand, 200 bags 2.00 Green Seal New Fashion

No. 12 City of Gold

238

6.53

Peacock....

DSA

Fui Kwai

Tramcar

274

White Rice, 454 bags Black Seal No. 2 White

7.78

Aeroplane

274

Pretty Damsel

205

Broken Rice, 179 bags. 5.78 Red Seal White Glutinous

Rice, 499 baga...............

Seal White Broken Red

Glutinous Rice. 47 bags 6.06 Green Anchor White Rice,

No. 10 Sailing Yesse!

289

City of Gold

6.78

Lotus Bee

No. 6 Lion

Hut How

052 910 503

7.78

5.51

Sagar.

Per Picul.

No. 18 coarse powdered sugar,

500, bags" No. 94 coarse powdered sugar,

100 bags

..... 86.98

7.45

No. 9 coarse powdered sugar,

430 bags

7.48

on

No. 20 coarse powdered sugar,

100 bags

7.08

Manila Green sugar, 1,900

baga

6.68 Berns.

Per Picut. Nantoi Green Beans, 30 bags 87.30 Szeshing Yellow Beans, 50

7.30 bags Newchang Red Beans, 50 bags &.90. Ching Yan, Black Beans, 70

7.10

-baga. CANTON MARKET REPORTS.

OVERSEA MARKET.

REPORTS.

DECEMBER 17th.

Sugar. New York, Dec......2.08 cents New York, Mar.......13 cents New York, May...90 cents." New York, Sept....2.30 cents New York,

Cuban

23-18 cents

Java, Spot...13 13-16 guilders -1-16 Jaya, Dec....13.13-38 guilders -1-16, Java, Jan....13.13-16 guilders -1-15 Java, Feb....13.13-18 guilders -1-15 Java, Mar....13, 13-18 guilders "-1-16 London, Dec. 12. 3d. +1 London, Mar. 123. Bid. London, May ......12s. Std. -1

New York Raw Silk. Crack Double Hitra,,,

Spot

-.01

Extra, Spot

Dec.

Jan,

$5.15 .33.02

.83.09 -1

85.10

+1

Quotations at Canton market on Wednesday in rice, sugar and four, were as follows:

Feb.

Mar.

$3.07.

Rice,

Per

Apr.

83.08 +1

...85.07 +1.

Chai Mee Native Rice........ Kam Fung Yuk White Rice Soe Mui White Long Rica... 10.20 Green Horse White Anriam

Ficul- June

May

.85.07 +9

$10.80 9.03

July

Rice

10.20

Jan. Mar,

Red Horse White Long Rice

10.32

Burning Sun White Long

Dec.

Rice

9.80

May

Three Marks White Rice.......

9.99

Red Seal White Brewer Rico

6.32

Green Seal White Brewer

Steel

Wall Street, .........1517

Rice

8.54

Red Seal White Brewer Rice. 4.58 Green H. White Long Ricè... 30.76 Green Dragon White Long

Cents.

Rice

10.75" Green Anchor White Rice... 10.60 Sugar.

Spot Jan.

Per Picul.

Highest Lowest

Mar.

20.25 +.15

May

.20.19 +.13

July

Oct.

19.83 +10 19.40 +10

Use

There is too much leakage from the Civil Service into private in dustry. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Having regard to the large sur pluses in recent years, we consider that the time is overdue for a r version to the peony post. Mr. George Terrell (Național Union of Manufacturers).

Germany must be allowed to carry out her obligation according to the limits of her own resources:

H.E. HE

Do.

8. nom.

Tags ......* Indo-Chinas (Fred)....$16 bay.

(Def.)$72) buy. Shell Transporta Union Waterboala....... Benguete ............ nom. Kalan Mining Admin....70/buy, ex dir. Langkats (combined)....Tis 10, som.

(single)

...Tls. Stnom.

98) nom. B'hat. Explorations Shanghai Lane****

1.3 bay. Tranch Mines BK & K. Wharfa... E.K. & W, Docka... China)

Home Jvidents.

17/6 .

..$5

5 buy..

5.15

New Engineering Shanghai Dooks Ewo Cottons... T. 13.10/20 Oriental Cottons... Tls. 23.

*****-**--•-••••-.. TIK 156 bay.

At nom. 105 buy.

the standard of living of the nationShai. Cottons (old) TL. 654 buy. must not be endangered by the country having to pay impossible amounts in Reparations-Herr Stresemann.

The outlook for tramp shippias seems to be more favourable than it has been for some considerable time past.-Lord Kylsant.

What indication has any one of the leaders of the Labour Party ever given that he is adequate to manage any business at all-Lord Birkenhead.

It is the height of folly to sell anything at An unremunerative price. Lord Melchett.

Do. (new)....... 39 bay, -. H.K. & S. Hetol $9.95 buy. H.K. Landa Shanghai Lands

TL 165 bay Humphreys Estates, $14.80 bug., 15 sel.

Retion B.S.Tramway............191) sai, Peak Trams (old).......$13 sal.

Do (new)$6.30 nom.

$694 nom. Star Ferrie Chins Light11 nom, ez, div.

.5. Electrice (old). 153 buy,

Do (Dów)....351 bay. Maese Electrics ......

...$104 buy. ......... 16.20 bay. Telephones fold)

Do. (new) (Continued on

$6.10 buy next Column).

SILK TRADE CONFERENCE.

The American Raw Silk Society announces that a conference of re- presentatives of the raw milk in- terests will be held in the spring to discuss questions regarding the manufacture of raw silk and its production. Delegates from all silk countries, including producing Chias, France, Japan, Sweden, Italy, etc, are invited to attend „

China Buron

Tia 1 bus. Singapore Tractiona......127. num.

Do.

(Pret)...17/6 bay...18/3 sel. China Sugaz kala ...90 ata mom. Malabon Bugac $23, buy. Canton Icon53; nom. Čements (combined)......19.60 buy.

80 0. (old)

Do.

Do. (new) H.K. Ropes (old)

"Do.

(DOW)

United Asbestos

Dairy Farms...... Wacions

Der A Wing s Lane Crawfords. Mackintosha.

W. Powella............................

..$7.60 nom.

7.65 #L

85 пол. 21 bay.

$18, som. ,80 eta, bay.

3.0

13.06 nom.

*$3,85 buy. H.K. Amusements ......$981 sol. H.K. Constructions ......l) nom. B'que Indas G.Bands...69% bay. H. Gort, Losn6% prem, sel buy-buyers; sel-sellers; sa-mion;.

nom,nominai

HATS, GOWNS

& NOVELTIES.

"Felix."

7, Im House Staxst,-

Faxe Kore.

The New

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The Food of Kings

Court Physicians know the best and see that Royal Babies have the best. That is why Glaxo 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? Give him Glaxa, the food that contains everything that will build firm flesh, strong bone and a sound constitution.

Glaxos

The Vitamin ilk-Food

"Builds Bonnie Babies"

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Comfortable Smoking

ARDATH 222

Oval Cigarettes

ли

9.40

No. 2 coarse powdered sugar $8.00 No 3 coarse powdered sugar 7.80 No. 20 coarse powdered sugar 7.70 No. 1 Fine Granulated sugar. 10.20 No. 1 Granulated sugar.

Bombay Raw Cotton,

Rupee. Spring Native White sugar... 10.30 9.00 Sang Mor White sugar

Broach, FG Apr. May......381 Flour.

Per Omra, F Dec-Jan..320 Bag Omra, M Mar,326 $4.00 Bengal, FG Dec.-Jan......278

Bengal, FG Mar.

Man-of-War...... Silver Seal

Banana

New Star

New Balance.....

Drink more New Hang Fuck

..285

α-

༢། ༠༣ ཅ གའ ༤

...85.07 +1

.$5.07 +1

Egyptian Raw Cotton,"

38.32 tallaris +19 ........ 35.75 tallaris"+8 Shanghai Cotton Yarn.

.....164.8 taels -1 160.1 tuels

Anaconda .........104-

Shares dealt in 2,250,000 1,000,000 New York Raw Cotton,

20.50 +.13

.20.93 +18

.20.24

20.20**

238.80 +1.00

235.70% 235.70 +.80

235.70 +1.00

Opening. Closing.

+ :00

138.60 138.50 -.90

.128.70

141.60 +.10

....138.10

-,50

.139.60 138.10 -.90

.137.40 136.60-.60 .137.50 138.70-80

Osaka Sugar. Opening. Closing.

11.01.13

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DECEMBER 18th. Osaka Uotton Yarn.

Opening. Closing.

..843.90

241.70

243,90 +.10

241.00 +,50

237.70 +.30

4.10

4.05

Cheung Luk

4.15

Maize

3.95

Sword of Kwantai

4.2%

Cannon

4.80

Dec.

Cabbage

4.40

Jan.

Dalton

Feb. 4:30

...37.70

Dog's Head

4.50

Mar.

238.30

Apr.

CANTON KEROSENE OIL:

May

935.60

June

235,40

935.20

LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Kobe Su

December 28th.

Per

Feb.

Case. Mar

.138.50

87.85

Ápr.

.138.50

137.80.70 137.90.60

7:45

May

..137.80 137.70

-.30

7.20

Yokohama Bik,

New Eagle

7.10

Now Sheung Hee

7.20 Dec.

Opening Closing.

...141.40

Asahi

Beer

Now Dalbreak

7.25

Jan.. Feb.

CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE. Mar

Apr.

it is

refreshing

LATEST QUOTATIONS." --

December 8th.

Water Works

83,80 Dec.

11.91

Electric Power Co.

0,49

JaD.

11.15 11.20

Fit

The Sun Co.

6.60

Tob.

11.15

Sincere Co...

9.90

and

Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co... 4.00

Mar.

1130

Apr.

11.25

it.2 -.02

Canton Tramways_

2,00

China Merchant S.B. Navi-

May

·∙11.23

11.32 -.01

gation Co.....

8.50

Sole Agents:-

invigorating.

ISSAN KAISHA., LTD.

BONG BONG

Central Bank

4.00

Osaka Rice, Opening, Closing.

Jan. Fab. Mar.

Dec

Jan

.... 28,20 £3.60

Apr.

28.50 +.09 June

28.38-03 May

·64.06.

65,00!

Osaka Raw Cotton.

Opening. Closing.

82.95 02.60 +15 63,20 63.05 +.20 03.40 83.00 ++,33 04.001.04.55 -4.25

84.85 +:40 65.05.30- rious Columns.).

you

will see

better,

and save your sight.