1929-05-30 — Page 9

Money and

HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.

Yesterday's quotations for rice and other comestibles were as fol low:

Red Sea!

Wa Lung Foo

Rice.

Long Unglutinous, Green

Market's

THE NEW U.S. TARIFF.

BILL PASSED BY LOWER HOUSE.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929,

ATTACKING ASTHMA

SCOURGE.

RESEARCH BY TEAM WORK.

PHYSICAL METHODS OF TREATMENT.

Good progress is being made in the British national campaign for

scientiae investigation of asthma, har-fever, eczema, migraine and allied diseases which, it is

WASHINGTON, May 27.

estimated afflict at least half a The Tariff Revision Bill intro-million people in Great Britain. 6.90duced in the House of Representa

tives on May & has been passed by that Chamber, and now goes to the Senate for approval.

EFFECT ON CHINA'S EXPORT the

TRADE.

Green Seal

Ching Sam Chin

Fer Picul. 87.46 714 6.56 7.32.

Broken, Green Seni

€30

Glutinous," Green Seal

Cilutinous, Broken, Red Seal

0.30

Sealing,

Miscellaneous.

Granulated

coarse sugar,

No. 15

course No. 21 Groundnut Oil, Fongtze ... Camellia-nut Oil

sugar,

Yellow Dried „Fungus

Awabi, No. 9

Green Bean

Black Date

White Grapes ...

34.00

Dried Mushroom, Heung

Shun.....

138.00

Granulated

1992 $

CANTON RAW SILK.

MARKET REPORT, „

19.50 240.00 102.00 7.50 16.00

During the last three weeks various amendments have been made to the Bill, but it does not appear 92.70 that these anges Have affected the lines exported to the United States from China. The following list shows how various Chinese products were affected by the revision as originally drafted:-

Figures within parenthesis indic ates present tariff.

Nei Tarif. Walnuts, unshelled. 3 cents a lb. 13 cents a l Walnuts, shelled Almonds, unshelled

(4)

3 cents a lh.

161 cents a N.

per cent.) .... 20 per cent. Pearl, imitation (60

per cent.) Motter of pearl,

There is no change in the posi. tion of the market. Prices in Japan have further declined, and Locally markets remain dull. there have been small transactions for American account, but new Iusiness cannot be dote at the prices quoted by sellers.

Quotations

8045. for 14/18 N.8. Crack Chops. 2605-for 20/22 N.S. Ex. Ex.A. 5. for 13/13. OS. Best I.

CANTON STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

CANTON, May

Water Works .......

Electric Light & Power

Canton-Hankow Railway

The Sun Company

4

Alin on da, shelled

(14) Pearl, genuine. (20

50 per cent.

Undressed free Rattan Furniture

60 per cent. 60 per cent. Wrapper Tobacco.

Linstemmed

82.10 per lu Wrapper Tobacco

Stemmed Sausage casings

! (free)

Catton lace (50 per

cent.) Catton rag rugs (50

per cent.)

8 3.80

4.40

Oil sreds

0.50

Flax seeds".

£7.00 Soya benos

120.00 Peanuts,

unshelled

4.00 2.50

Steam

Sincere Company.....

Nanyang Bros. Tob.. Co....

Canton Tramways

China' Merchants

Navigation Co.

Central Bank of China ...

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

H.K. Backa...

$2.75

free

20 per cent.

35 per cent. 36 cents per lk. 30 cents per .

2 cents per

14

(3 cents per h.)... 4 cents per lb. Peanuts, shelled (4

cents per b.) 6 cents per 48.00 Peanuts, blanched... 7 cents per 1. 42.00 Soya bean oil (2)

cents per là....... 3 cents per Eggs (scente per

Jozen)

10 cts. per doz.

MAT 29, 1929. $1,245 buy.

Do.. London...£181 nom, Chartered Banks

Marcantile Banks, A. &B...233 noin,

Do-

P. & O. Banks

ROZL

||

East Asia Brak) DOM. Canton Insurances.........3650 Buy

buy. $340 sal. & sa. Union Insura:QUE ... North LDN

China

Tia. 160 buy, Insurance........

...M. $50 num. Yangtze Ohias Underwriters......$2.19 sel. Wire lusurances... buy.

485 Ins..........$776 no. Douglases..............333 el. H. Steamboats......$20 bel.

China

ELK

Lodo-Chines

$2.80 ocl.

HK TE Prof.) $43 bay. Do. (D) $70 num. Shell Transporte...7j. nom. Union Waterbesta.............. Bengueta

buy.

Kailan Mining Admin...61/9 nom. Langkasa (combined. Tia,+ nom

Tis. 7 neat.

Lo. (single), nom Bhat, Explorations ******. * .. Shanghai LORTE

Banbe ***

Trench Mines

H.K. & K. Wharf...

B.K. & W. Docks China Providents Hongko

17/0 BOL

$122h buy. $36 num. #4 bay. 4) vel

178 20 1.

New Engineering....

Tia.

6.86 buy. Shanghai Dooks Tis. 1x5 nom Ewo Lotion!...

Tls. 12.40 bús. Oriental Cottons, 2 bay, 2.1 sel.

Cctions (uld)......The. 63 baj. (new). Tls. 31 no.

$8.60 buy, 6.80 sol H.K. IB. Hotels ELK, Lands $614. buy, t

63,634 8 Shanghai

gbai Lanús ...Th. lầu bay. . Humphreys Betator......$11 sel.

K. Belties

38,85 sel.

Da

EK. Tramway! and $18t buy. Peak Trame (old)......$19 buy..

Do. (new)....$65 nom. 66 nom. Star Ferries

Do. Da

China Lights, Cum, Bights $10 bar.

Ex Right $13 wel. 19 new Rights B.K. Electrica - ..$56 Bel.. 56 xa.

acao Electric# ........$26) nem. Sandakan Lights Say noi. Telephones........... *7 Bom.

China Buses

..BU cta, buy.

Hà 14, bảy. Singapore Traction ....... 11/6 BOL. Do. (Pref.)....18/6 bay. China Bagara Malabon Bugars...? "Captor Ices $1.80 bay,

$8.80 sol Cemente (combined).

(old)....$7) nem

Do

DOM.

Do, (now) $1,30 zom. H.K. Bape...........87 sel.

· Wanted Asbestos kā buy,

Dairy Farma.....

Watsons

Der & Wings Lane Crawfords.

Mackintosh.........

bay.

.613 buy,

,80 ate, buy. $2.6 $18 bay.

A Guy's Hospital, London, a team, including a clinician,, bioche- mist, bakteriologist, immunologist, hinologist, psychologist and radio- logist, is already at work. Here a number of patients are being sub jected to an exhaustive investign- tion which has already disclosed a constant deiciency of certain ele- ments in the blood, the correction of which it is hoped may relieve or even permanently, cure the condi-

tion.

Equally promising is the work now being undertaken at the newly formed clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, where asthma is being attacked at its simplest and most curable stage. The association of asthma with cyclic vomiting, epilepsy, migraine and skin disease is being investigat- ed at this centre.

At the London Clinic, Ranelagh Hoad, S.W., physical methods of treatment including medicated in halations, ultra-violet radiation, diathermy and breathing exercises are being carefully investigated by a physician who has visited the principal asthma spas on the Con- tinent, including Mont Dore, Bad Reichenhall and Ems.

Grants to Hospitals."

It is proposed to give a grant to St. Mary's Hospital where active research on nsthma has been carried out for the past eighteen years. It

is also proposed to appoint a re-

PLIGHTS OF AGED CURATES.

HOPES AGAIN DASHED.

MARRIED MEN WITH £250

A YEAR.

Disappointment is felt by a large number of Churchmen who have been working to better the conditions of the older assistant clergy at the fact that their cause has found no place in the schemes made by the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners for disposing of the surplus income of £150,000 expect- ed during the year.

The estimate of the surplus and the schemes are described in the Commission's annual report.

NEW GERMAN VENTURE.

MAMMOTH LINER ALMOST COMPLETED.

A

BID FOR ATLANTIC TRAFFIC;

[British United Press,] -

Berlin. Virtually all Germany, but more particularly that section of the populace whose self-interest is bound up with the welfare of German shipping and shipbuild- ing, is counting the days until the

дея

giant transatlantic liner Bremen is put into service--and

new era

incidentally is also praying that no misfortune overtakes this ship as happened in the case of its Married Men on £250.

sister, the Europa. The position of the older curates

Conversations. who have not attracted the atten- shipping men, government officials with dozens of tion of the patron of benefice is and private citizens have left the

Many impression that a one of extreme hardship.

will dawn for Germany the moment are married men, and the average. stipend available for them is no

the Bremen begins plying between more than £250 a year. Owing to Europe and America. In brief, the natural desire of the beneficed this unusual liner-unusual not clergy to have as their assistants only because of its size but also men younger than themselves, how because of its radical design-bas ever, many of the older clergy ex- become a sort of symbol. On it is perience great difficulty in secur-pinned the hope that the realisa- tion of Germany's dream of ing even this sun.

The Ecclesiastical Commission

possessing the largest and most (Grants to Unbeneficed Clergy) magnificent liners afloat is now not

This dream Measure was passed by the Church far distant. Assembly in the Summer Session Inunched when the Bismark, Levia for the sole purpose of extending than

and Imperator were built, the powers of the Commissioners and appeared to have been shat so as to allow them to inake grants tered during the war when these to beneficed as well as to bone- proud ships were pressed into ficed clergy, with the principal ob-

English and American service. fect of assisting the old curates,

During the debate Sir Lewis Dibdin, the First Estates Commis- ioner, announced on behalf of the Commissioners that they would pot oppose the Measure, but that owing to lack of funds it was unlikely that any effect could be given to it.

Was

Luxurious Furnishings." There can be little doubt but

that the equipment, appointments and furnishings of the Bremen. will be most modern and luxurious. Officials of the North German Lloyd company have promised Never- "the best of everything." Younger Men Beneft. theless the real point of interest Among the schemes that have will lie in its performance, in its now been made by the Commission ability to develop sufficient speed to dispose of the surplus is one for

to make it the fastest passenger North ship on the Seven Sens contributing to funds for the en-

German Lloyd authorities are con- dowment of assistant curacies. The announcement of this scheme fident that the Bremen can nake has aggravated the disappoint the English Channel-New York ment, since it is felt that the Com-crossing in exactly five day's and missioners have availed themselves do it regularly. They have saori- of the powers given them by the fired principles of ship construc tion and traditions of many years' Measure only to introduce a scheme which will not affect the fortuzes standing in order to provide for

additional speed. of the older assistant clergy. argued, will have no other effect than to relieve certain parishes of the costs of maintenance. It is further believed that if any ad- accrues to unbeneficed the younger clergy it will go to rather than to the older men

The hopes reposed in the Eccle siastical Commissioners were the greater since another recent effort to provide for the older assistant clergy failed.

The endowment of curacies, it is

Carpet weos nominally are in-earch worker at King's College, creased, but a provision continues London University, to study the ex- whereby the duty is remitted if the perimental production of asthma carpets or rugs have been many- and the effects of drugs which re-vantage factured within four years (the present law requires manufacturelieve the paroxyam. At Brompton within three years). The present Hospital arrangements are being duty on Oriental carpets and rugs | made to investigate the relationship is 58 per cent.

Tung oil and antimony are on the free list.

The duty on metallic tungsten would be increased to 50 cents a pound.

The tariff on wools and woollen fabrics generally is increased. Cot. ten cloth when the grade number exceeds is increased to 11 with the same for bleached, printed and dyed cottons and coloured cotton fabrics generally. The tariff on cat- top products ranges from 16 to 471 cents a pound.

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Palm kernel oil is made dutiable to the amount of ons eert, gold per pound.

of asthma to general respiratory discases. A grant is also required by the London Hospital for examin- ing the effects of X-ray therapy, of which encouraging reports have been made,

So keen is the national desire to

forward this work that a number of institutions in the provinces have agreed to provide research facilities as soon as the necessary funds per mit

Medical sub-committees are being appointed to inquire impar tially and without prejudice into

the claims of osteopaths, homes- paths, nature curers and others to treat asthma and its allied diseases, and no line of investigation which gives any promise of increasing knowledge of these mysterious dis orders will be neglected.

The duty on sesame oil will be three cents, geld per pound if the Bill is passed.

Vegetable tallow is unchanged as is raw silk and straw matting.

An interesting feature of the cam- the appeal which is being The duty on cocoa fibre mattingspaign and rattan would be increased to 10 made to asthmatic sufferers to. co- operate. All sufferers and the par- cents gold a pound. Also pilo mat- tings and the same materials would ents of all children suffering from he increased by two cats gold per asthma in Great Britain and the

Overseas Dominions are being invit pound.

Egg yolks and egg albumened to assist the campaign not only schedules range from unchanged to by subscribing but by filing in eight cents gold per pound but the family history forms which, it is present duty on dried eggs would hoped, will give valuable informa not be changed.

tion as to the influence of heredity The schedules.do not change the in asthma and its allied disorders. present duty on seaweed and pro-A report of progrees will be sup. ducts manufactured from seaweed. plied to subscribers and the press The Bill would increase the duties The estimated cost of the campaign cotton yarn, thread, textiles, is £30,000, of which approximately and clean wool. There is an in- £5,200 has already been received in crease of three cents gold a pound gifts and promises. on raw hides and raw cotton.

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EXCHANGE RATES.

[RITISH WIRELESS AZRVICE]

Ruast, May 29. "

Paria Geneva Berlin Dalo Helsingfors -Athens

Buenos Aires

Đong Kong. New York Amsterdam Stockholm Vienna Madrid Bucharest Bombay Yokohama Brussels Milan

124.05

25.10

20.345

18.20

1921

-378-

47 7/32

1/11

4.85

12.065

18.14 34.53 34,326 €18 J/BK 1/10 1/32

34.815 02.65.

Copenhagen

Prague Lisbon

-- Kalka pompomikal, .

Rio Shanghai Silver (spot)

18.205 2031 108 5.57/04

Silver (forward)......

24 1/16

Sincere......................

..$11,80 bay. W, Powells me 83.65 sel H.k. Amusements...... $29) buy.. 291

sal, de s

B.K. Constructions: ......l) sel. B'que.Indus. G.$Bonds:..67% nom. Hie Gort: Lonnayant prom buy buy.-bayern, sel-pollera;

SUGAR FROM WOOD.

NEW GERMAN PROPOSAL.

[British United Press.)

Washington, D.C.-Commercial manufacture of sugar from wood is proposed in Germany, according to reports received at the United States Department of Commerce from Berlin.

This was an A-

in

In consequence the Bremen looks quite unlike any liner now

Naturally it is neither service. grotesque no, bizarre in appear- ance; it is after all a steamship; because of the noteworthy yet, difference between them, it will never be mistaken for the Levis- than (Vaterland), the Majestic (Bismarck), the Olympic or the Ile de France. Instead of their tower- ing impressiveness and greyhound lines, the Bremen bas been built fat and squatty; it lies low in the water and its smoke funnels ap- pear to be mere stumps; from a distance over the water is looks for all the world like a huge, fat, brightly coloured cigar.

successful attempt made at the last Session of the Assembly so to amend the Patronage Measure as to make the Patronage Board responsible for reporting the name of clergymen who could not attract

In the third of week of July the the attention of patrons..

The constitution of the Ecclesias- Bremen is scheduled to make its tical Commission has from its muiden trip. Early next summer

been subject to

the the Europa, now being rebuilt, will join its sister ship on the formation criticism that it makes no provi North Atlantic run. Should these sion for direct representation of line-s prove as successful as their the clergy, Its personnel consists of the diocesan bishops and mem-

owners predict it is not doubted but that they will be followed by larger and perhaps faster ships bers of the leading official laity.

under. Hamburg-American owner- ship.

I

LURED BY LIGHTS.

CURIOUS FISH WITH HEAD.

LAMP.

Some of the weirdest fish ever collected were shown recently to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in a room at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. There, in tall glass bottles of acid, hung many evil-looking fish, with long teeth as as any needle and black sharp bodies of sizes ranging from an inch to a foot..

"Some of them live at tremen- dous depths, between, 10,000 and 15,000 metres below the surface of the sea," a woman oficial stated, "and, of course, there's very little light down there, so they have & kind of headlight as a part of them!"

ARRIVALS FROM WEST RIVER.

AN ATTEMPT TO REACH

TAK HING.."

At the beginning of the week several West River vessels left Hong Kong for Sham Shui, the highest point up the river which it was then considered possible "to reach. These vessels have return- ed and the masters report that everything is in order and the city very quiet.

The s.8. Tai Ming which arrived afternoon left again yesterday last night having "reached Shiv Hing, a port higher than. Shais Shui. It is understood that the vessel will attempt to reach Tak Hing this trip. It is the "second port from Wuchow and about 50 Post-ocular Luminous Organ.”

miles from that city. The masters She pointed out a little white of the river beats have every con- dise immediately behind the eye,fidence that they will be able to

reach Wuchow itself "A post-ocular luminous organ."

their week, granting that the "I suppose, they can see way about by these phosphorescent war situation takes its normal headlights, which, we think. give course."

off. a glow like moonlight.

within 2 present

The Chinese gunboats which have

But, do you see these barbels "been part of the natural scenery of She pointed out stringlike and in- Sham Shui for the past few weeks tricate attachments which trail are now at Shia lng Following the establishment in from below the mouth of these. Yesterday, the B. Kong Ning Heidelberg of a maBufacturing "monsters."

(Captain McCarthy) left for Shiu concern established for the use of "Well, some of these sh haveing on her first voyage since the the process, it is now proposed to lights, at the end of those barbels, trouble. build a plant in Stettin with an presumably for a remarkable approximate capacity of from 200 reasons The lights attract the very to 700 tons daily.

small fishes. And that is the end British Distillers, Inc. of Edin- of the curious ones, for at the burgh, according to the report, are other end of the curious ones, for interested in this process and have at the other end of the barbel is formed International Sugar and a big mouth! Alcohol Ltd. After erection of the "Other members of this family producing plant in Stettin, it is of fish have big headlights in planned to build other plants in youth, but the luminous organ Germany Decision-hingeron seems to shrink with increasing. necessity of putting further age, wher the frir come nearer

the surface." financial backing.

XTHY Continue to suffer when your reach-Pimples, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Cough, Constipation, Dia betes, Dropsy, Rheumatism, and many other Disaster. No Drogs, Farply Chinese Herbs.

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