JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-
LIJN.
JCJL
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929.
Money and Markets
RAW SILK REPORTS.
M
HONG KONG MARKET
REPORTS.
Yesterday's quotations for and other edibles are as follows
Rice.
York
Hongkong)
JAVALYN
Tel Central ·1575
REGULAR PASSENGER & CARGO SERVICE BETWEEN HONGKONG,
AMOY, SHANGHAI, MANILA AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIES...
SOUTH BOUND.
EXPECTED
Ching Chuk
Kwek Po
Hung Po To
Woo Muk Keng
STKAMINS
FROX
• MO NO
ABOUT
rice
Mesara, Pentreath & Co. have kindly supplied us with the follow- ing report, dated April 28, from Per Messrs. Hornby Hemelryk & Co. of Picul.Liverpool:--
87,30 7:33 7.32
8.37
Rroken. Red Sea!
6.02
Broken, Green Seal
6.18
Granulated, Black Seal, No. 9 5.99
White Bran, Black Seal
3.35
Glutinous Red Seal
7.93
Glutinous granulated. No. 1...
6,04
WILL
Fou
LEAVE
Granulated sugar, coarse No.
18
$6.03
Pad May, 'Manna, M'es
4p.m.
Brown sugar, Java
6.35
& SOFMABAJA BITATEA
Sugar candy, native
9.40
Fish Maw
300.00
Honey ...
30.00
Senriet Bean
8.20
8,50
Unglutinous, Ching Yat 6.98
Miscellaneous,
As foreshadowed in our last re port, the advance has continued during the week under review, and values are about 10e. higher for near deliveries and I higher for September.
The New York certificated stock on the 17th inet was 2,320 bales, made up as follows:-
Grade:
A
TJIKINI ***. DAINT, KLUNG. InHarbour
Α ́ ΔΥΟΣ TJIKEMBANG S'YAI. & AMOT, 23rd May TJIMANOEK DAST, KLUNG 3rd June
& ANOT TJIKARANG ...S'. Axor 3rd June
TJISAROEA ...Star. & Amor 19th June TJISALAK - DALNY, Klung. 17th June
TJISONDARI ...S', & Amor 24th June
&AMOT
15th May, p. 5th June, MANILA, M'ESAX. 1 p.m & SozRABAJA 8th June,
BATAVIA 4 pm 15th June Betala
4 p.m. 19th Jure Masna. M'esar
& SOINABIJA Seth June BATAVIA
4 pan.
NORTH BOUND.
STEIMERS
From
BATAVIA
EXPECTED
ON OR
ABOUT
1st June
Mnd May TJIKARANG TUTTAROEM... JavaMakassar 99th May. TUISAROFA BATAVIA TIILEBOET... JAYA.MAXASSAR 19th June TVISONDARI ..... BATAVIA 19th June TIKEMBANG
Sind June BATAVIA ... Java,Maxangar 96th June TJIKINI
WILL LEAVE ON DE ABOUT
Black Bean
AOAALPAN
700 bales.
"683
535
970
925
"
55
3
19
15
10
1
Mail advices to hand from New York, state thas due to the warm weather, the sales of piece goods have ingreased, and manufacturers
CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE. are confident of a good summer de
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Water Works
CANTON, May 19.
84.70 4.50
0.39 97.00
Electris Light & Power
Canton-Hankow Railway
FCR
The Sun Company
Sincere Company
.110.00
Nanyang Bros. Tob. Co.......
Canton Tramways
2.85
China Merchants' Steam Nav.
Co..........
24th May Amor & S'Est,
lat Jane Axor & N. Cra 2nd June Amor & S'EM. 4th Jane Amor & S
14th Jane Ayor & S'HA 14th June, Amor & B'nai. 29th June Axor & S'air.
EXCURSIONS TO JAVA
.
The regular service of the Java- China-Japan-Lijn steamers from Hong Kong to Java, and vice-versa, offers a splendid opportunity for excursions to Java (the Pearl of the East) and other parts of the Dutch East Indies,
Famous for craters and volcanoes, delightful scenery, invigorating Mountain resorts, excellent sporting facilities.
Travel in comfort on first class steamers with excellent accommodation for passengers; European Doctors carried; Wireless telegraphy installed.
Hong Kong to Batavia (7 days). saloon fare: $175, return $300.
For particulars apply-
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Agents-
ROYAL NETHERLANDS INDIES AIRLINES, LTD. York Building.
Telephone C. 1574.
Hamburg-Amerika Linie.
COMBINED FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE CABIN CLASS 400OMMODAWION FOR 50 PASSENGERS. FARE FROM HONG KONG TO GENOA-£73.01, 0₫. OUTWARD.
Sailings from Europe for S'hai, Japan & Northern Porta:-
8.8. "OLDENBURG**
8.S. "SAARLAND" MV. "RHEINLAND"
8.8. "TIRFITZ
M.V.” LEVERKUSEN " M.V. "ERMLAND"
HOMEWARD,
dne here on or about the 28th May due here on or about the 10th June ...dus bere on or about the 25th June ...due bere on or about the 10th July due here on or 'about the 19th July true here on or abort the sad Ang
Sailings for Genos, Botterdam and Hamburg via Manila, Singapore, Colombo & Port Said:
IM.V. VOGTLAND”. M.V. DUISBURG" MY."BAUERLAND 8.8. "OLDENBURG "* 18.8. "BAARLAND"
MV.BHEINLAND"
Calling also at Marseilles.
sailing from here on or about the 21st May sailing from here on fr about the lit Juse sailing from hers on er about the 16th June sailing from here on or about the 2nd July ailing from berg on or about the 18th July sailing from here on or about the 27th July
For Freight, Passage and further Particular plomes apply to
JEBSEN & CO.
11, Pedder Spect
[161]
INTS.
Tel O. 2225.
Tel. 0.4754.
Central Bank of China
4.20
.
52,00 49.00
of
CANTON TRADE NOTES.
mand. Hosiery mills also report a well maintained demand and are basy supplying retailere' needs. The hosiery trade is, however, ex- hibiting signs of uneasiness due to the fent of a revival of last year's stockingless fed in America.
The total number of transferable notices for April delivery issued up to the 17th inst. was 99, and we understand they were eagerly absorbed by aborts and large con- sumers. 20/22 denier and medium grades of 13/13 denier are still com- manding a premium, and importers are unable to satisfy the demand at present.
More optimism has been display-.. ed in the New York market during the past week on the strength of Dae limited consumption and
Japanese markets and the statis large stocks, the general market for tical position. Consumption con beans is inactive. Prices of 20 and increasing demand for Raw thues good, and with an active bean have dropped by twenty to Silk, the tone has been arm. Our thirty cents. Latest quotations for New York correspondents cabled soy bean, white bean, green bean, last night that stocks of actual silk scarlet bean, and black bean are New York are reported to be 89.20, 30.90, $11.30, $13 and $8.10 very low. The demand from manu- respectively
facturers for near positions is" On account of the military opern-increasing, and this is steadily in- tions, communication between Hoog fencing distant, deliveries. Kong and Wachow is again held up. Close New York last night:- Five steam launches loaded with rice June $5.15c., Joly-$5.07c., Septemn- and other goods attempted to reach | ber 84.916. Wuchow but were forbidden to pass
beyond Samshui and they had to return. Various goods, especially
firewood, from Wuchow are held up, MENTAL GIANTS OF THE resulting in a higher price for fire- wood in this Colony.
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FUTURE.
SCIENTISTS DISAGREE ON THE PENALTIES.
The quantity of coal imported into Canton during last month (April) totalled 49,787 tons. Of this, over 24.000 tons came frem Japan.) Since the anti-Japanese boycott was
In learned discussions of Man, abandoned about half the total his origin and future, leading quality of coal imported is of American scientists, recently assem Japanese origin. In consequence, bled at Philadelphia, agreed that Chinese native coal and foreign coal human beings in the course of the from the Dutch Indies and Hai next few thousand years will evolve. phong have been imported in much into a race of mental giants. smaller quantities.
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On the question of physical growth there is some disagreement. As a result of the recent rainfall, One group holds that man will be- mulberry leaves have become more come a superman in stature; an- abundant causing a sharp drop in other holds that while the brain will prices. During the first silk crop increase
in size the body will of this year, mulberry leaves were diminish. sold at nearly ten dollars per pidul, Delving into the mystery of life, Br unusually high price, with the Dr. G. W. Crile, the eminent result that many of the silk filatures scientist, of Cleveland, declared were faced with loss. At present that recent experimenta had disclos- the current price is only two dollars td that electric stress per picul Koukong.
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Born 1820-
Still going Strong
Sole Agents: CALDBECK MACGREGOR & CO., LTD., SHANGHAI HONGKONG TIENTS IN
JOHN WALKER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY, DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND,
was the NORTH BORNEO CHAMBER RIGHT TO CANE A BOY driving energy of life, and although
OF COMMERCE,
it did not "create life it had been- The exchange rate for Hong Kong very closly identified with the vital money has dropped much lower re-j mark. cently notwithstanding the political Rose More Prominent. unrest in Kwangtung. The current Dr. Ardlicker, a scientist asso- value of 81 Hong Kong money is ciated with the Smithsonian In- about 81.28 Canton. This is attri-stitute, Washington, declared that buted to the maintenance of the man is making steady progress in value of the Central Banknotes by the struggle with his environment. the local authorities and to the fact that with the political unrest, mer chanta need less Hong Kong money to pay for their orders.
MINUTES OF A COMMITTEE MEETING.
HELD IN THE SANDAKAN CLUB.
He ventured to sketch the human being of a few generations hence as
At a Committee Meeting of the a person with larger brain and North Borneo Chamber of Com- therefore a thinner kull. His eyes would be set deeper, the nose mar rower and more prominent, the teeth smaller and fewer in number, and the hands and fees more slender.
merce held in the Sandakan Club on Friday, 3rd inst., the following business was transacted.:----
Labour Advisory Board Meeting
in Jesselton, A
The groundnut oil market has passed from bad to worke. There Erc large arrivals and overstocks Demand has been lacking since the fghting broke out and prices are Stature, he said, promises to be low. As arrivals are short stocks taller the face will proceed slowly of camellia-nut oil and wood-taf in refinement and handsomeness
Mr. J. K. S. Malcolm placed oil are scarce. Demand is limited and character,
before the Committee the draft and prices are firm. The bean oil
To pay for his mental progress minutes of the above meeting upon Quotations for and greater physical refinement market is normal.
camellia-nut groundnut oil,
oil,
man will be faced with more fre- which an informal discussion took wood-tar oil, and bean oil are Tla
functional disorders and place. It was resolved that when Tls. 20.40, Tls. 3150 and $18 mental derangementa.
the revised minute came to band respectively.
The only serions danger to these abould be circulated to all humanity's fature, Dr. Ardlicker members. said, was the probable decline in the birth rate as man's mentality de- veloped. Large brains and large families do not go well together," he concluded.
BERLIN EXCHANGE.
Berlin, May 17.-The stock ex change was very uneasy to-day.on account of the shortage of money and the difficulty of obtaining short term loans. The tone re- covered slightly on the strength of favourable reports from Paris. Frankfurt showed some improve- ment although prices weakened by from 1 to 9 per cent. Hamburg reports little business with falling prices.
4,216
New York London............................ 20.454 Paris.
10.47 Amsterdam
109.49 22.07
Rome
queat
DUTCH INDIES RUBBER,
FIGURES OF: EXPORT FOR:
APRIL
Batavia. The export of rubber from Java and Madoers during April amounted to 0,123 tons, in cluding 1,000 from Priok, 2,008 from Sourabiye and 400 from Semarang.
Recruiting of Javanese Coolies,
with an extract from a letter of the
SMOKER.
HEADMASTER'S AUTHORITY
UPHELD.
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Ch 1/29
CONTEST OVER ACCESS TO SCHELDT.
IMPORTANT NOTE BY THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT,
The decision of the magistrates at
Brussels. A very important note Newport, Salop, that a headmaster of the Dutch Government has been had the right to cane a boy pupil published bere concerning the for smoking in the street after question of the river Scheldt, which so for had remained in school hours was upheld by a
abeyance ever since two years ago. King's Bench Divisional Court.
The court: discharged a rule, nisi the First Dutch Chamber rejected for mandamus granted to the convention agreed upon between Ernest James Wright, of Newport, Salop, calling on the local Bench to the Dutch and Belgian Foreign show cause why they should not Ministers, giving Belgium free state a case for appeal in conee- access to the river as far up as quence of their dismissal of a sum- Antwerp, a question which proved. Ions for Besault on his son, Freak of the greatest importance in the Douglas Wright, aged fifteen, by early days of the war, Mr. Brooks, headisaster of the Adams Grammar School.
Law and Girls,- |
The boy was a day pupil at the school, and he was cuned by the headmaster for smoking in the street out of school hours. The case raised the point of how far the authority of the headmaster ex- tended,
...
In the latest note, the Dutch Government refuses to continue or resume the negotiation of 1829. whereas it would be willing to sab- mit the whole problem to the Inter- national Tribunal at the Hague in case Belgium desires so.
This concession on the part of the Dutch Government refutes the suspicion variously expressed in
A letter was received from the Government Secretary together
Mr. JL. Pratt, on behalf of Mr the Belgian press that Holland had Governor-General of the Nether Wright, said that it had been ron by the refusal of the First Cham- seized upon the opportunity given Hands East Indies addressed to His tended by the other side that under Excellency the Governor. It was the Children's Act a policeman for taking up this question at all, ber to istify the former convention. stated therein that the Government could confiscate any cigarettes or of the Netherlands East Indies was cigarette papers found on A boy as she herself is not interested in unable to agree to the transport discovered smoking. That apparent seeing the present status changed of Java-recruited coolies by others did not apply to a girl under six-in favour of Belgium. then Dutch skips.
Import and Export Trade. Imports for the State for the 1st quarter 1929 amounted to $2,000,245 and exports $3,382,745. The export of rubber for March amounted to 1,173,268 ibi.
parable to con-
teen, as only the cigarette which she was smoking was liable to con- Assation.
The Lord Chief Justice, giving The Lord Chief Justice, Lord | judgment, said that there was a Hewart: That, like many other rule of the school prohibiting mole things, thows the importance of being on the school premises or in longing to the other sex.
the street, and the boy new (Continued at foot of next column)," that rule.
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