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Yesterday's quotations for riec

and other foodstuffs were as fol.

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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

JUNE 10, 1929. $1,247) vol.

Do.. London...132 uom.

Mercantile Bank A. &.. £33 nom.

H.K. Bank.......

low:-..

Rice..

Ber Picul.

Chartered Banka

Red Seal

88.90

Do.,

Green Seal, No. 3

6.30

P. & U. Bana

Blue Seal, No, 3

6.57

East Asia Hanka

Hong Sa Ngar

7.00

Dantes InrunTALECER,

Hung Sheung Kut Broken, Blue Seal· Broken. Green Sea! Granulated, No. 4 Granulated,

No. 1

Glutinous Broken

Glutinous, Granulated

Miscellaneous,

coarse

6.38

€40

.....$14 buy.

...215

£9) rom

190, DOM. $655 nom.

*****

18 Daion Insurance. 135 ul.

160 buy. North China Ins. fangtane Insurancer,..... $50 373 Cain Underwriter 210 sel China Fire Insurance....$285. buy. H. Fire Las.....1775

18-71 nom.

by sol. $1.00 201 ..150g buy. ..370 num.

Green

Seal

3.03

6.70

6.15

H.. Stamboute

Douginses ****

H.K. Tags.....

todo-Chinas (Frel.)

Ilo. [Def.)

Shell Transporte

6.73 Union Waterboats,

nom.

Bengoana..kit kay.

7.63 Kwa Mining Admin...3 now.. 45,00 Langkaia (combined)........ 14 nom.

Do. (ingle) 220,00

T»«. 74 nöm. Tim H nom. „Pin. +4

25.00 8 bal. Exporations

Granulated sugar, No.

19

Coarse

Granulated sugar, No.

24

·

Canned Seal's Meat

Dried Yellow Fungusu

Red Melon Seeds

Rinck Melon Seeds

75.80

Barley

23.00

Soy Bean

6:80

Tronoh Minas

Saco

6.50,

Aniseed

18.40 B.K. & W. Dock

н.к. &K. Whart....

Hongkows

Dried Mashroom, Superior 320.00 Chin Providents

CANTON TRADE NOTES.

Stocks for brown sugar are short and prices are higher, Chinese brown sugar from the ountry dis tricis is heins sold at about 17 per picul.

*

Large arrivals of foreign four from Hong Kong and Chinese four

from Shanghai' are reported "but demand is still facited and prices are low.

10m.

NOW.

17/8 ou

3150 ek 135 buy.

435 buy.

$4.10 sel.

Tia 169 nom, New Engarags. 5.85 bay, 6 sel. Bonoghs Docky

Tis, 128 bay.

·EWO COLLOLI...

13.90 buy- 27 Unenia. Cupiens....... .......... Tla, 2005 buy. S'am. Cichow fulu) ... Tha. Ca bay.

Do. (now).... 51 bay, sa. | H.A. & S. Hote...

38.78 buy $2}'nom. B.K. Lazde

THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1929.

INDIAN MERCHANTS |NEW PLAY BY MR.

IN LONDON.

ATTITUDE OF EXCHANGES,

MEMBERSHIP" NOT REFUSED.

BERNARD SHAW.

"THE APPLE CART.”

FIRST PRODUCTION IN POLAND.

THE TRANSLATOR'S ENTHUSIASM.

new

A DISILLUSIONED BRIDE.

MARRIED AS WIFE: TREATED

AS CONCUBINE.

CHINESE GIRL SEEKS MAIN- TENANCE ORDER.

An interesting case

was heard yesterday at the Central Magistracy Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, when a Chinese woman claimed main- terrace from her husband, to whom

The reference to the admission of Indians to London trade or ganisations and mercantile ex- changes, made by Sir Stephen Demetriadi at the dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce recently, has brought before the public a question which is of con-portance, and on May 17, Warsaw she was married about nine months siderable importance, though not was to be the centre of the ' [of very wide application.

theatrical world. On that date

▼

At present only one Indian mer- chant is a member of any of the great London organisations, which control the dealing in Indian co- modities, and not more than three

18 CET

or four firma are known to be de sirous of sending their Indian principals on to the exchanges.

"Everybody Welcome," So fur

be ascertained, none of these merchants has been refused admission to the member- ship of the exchanges, because none has put forward formal applica tion. They would all welcome, ju intimation that if they applied their cases would be given sym- pathetic consideration, for their trade is made very difficult when it has to be conducted through subordinates. That is the position of certain merchants who are e tially represented on important exchanges by members of their

Ataff.

|

The first production of a play by Mr. Bernard Shaw is now (!) event of international im-

Ago.

Mr. A. E. Hall was for the com-

plainaa; and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks for the defendant.

"The Apple Cart" was to be seen for the first time on any atege at the Teatr Polski (the Polish

The complainant, who gave her Theatre), which is under the direc age as.eighteen, stated in the wit: tion of Dr. Arnold Szyfman, who ness box that she was married to. has already produced a number of defendant in October last in the Mr. Shaw's playa. The translation Heungshan district according to has been made by Mr. Floryan the laws and customs of the coun Sobieniowski, who went from Lon- don to Warsaw to assist with ther. She was "given away" by production.

her paternal uncle and was convey- The Polish title is "Wielkied to her, husband's house in a Kram," which, means "The Great Market Stall." and it conveyed to theatregoers in Poland almost the exact equivalent of "The Apple Cart" in English. It is the six- teenth play by Mr. Shaw that Mr. Sobieniowski has translated, "and next season "Widowers' Houses,"

Candida," and "The Doctor's Dilemma are to be played at the Teatr Polski.

"

flowery chair," On arriving at her husband's house she worshipped the ancestral tablet, and weat through the customary ceremony, of entertaining a number of guests. She had understood, she continued, that she was to be defendant's wife not his concubine, and she produced certain documents to show that she was married as such.

The scene is laid in the king's Owing to the difficulties arising

"when out of such a system, one Indian palace at a distant date.. shipper some time age contemplat.all people living to-day "are dead."

Another Woman in the House. ed taking his business to Hamburg There are two long acts, and and importing direct from Cal between them comes a short inter-

On the third day after her mar- lude in the boudoir of the king's welcutta into Germany. He was as

Bured that the Hamburg ex favourite, which Mr. Sobieniowski riage, the defendant brought her to

tells changes would welcome him, and me is remarkable for its Hong Kong, where they lived in a though he would have encountered romantic beauty and its insighthouse in Causeway Bay. The young various problems, due to the fact into feminine psychology. that the financial side of the busi- part of the king's favourite is wife noticed that there was another in literature and will woman in the house whom she ness must be carried cut in Lon-unique don. his proposal was regarded as the token of a possible threat to the entrepôt business of London.

da ....... 141 bay.. ney's Eataly...$13) rel EK Realtres 373 bay, 7

312.45 buy. & ka ER. Tramwaye .. Poss Traur (old) ...

$11.20 bay. now... ..$6,05 nom. Bar Ferries Cams Light, Cum.

Bights

a.bo buy,

rel Do. EfRigh $12.50 bu,,' DJ. Aign

$7.90 buy 305 any 55; a }.

H.K. Electric........ Macao Electrics....... 21 nom. Sandakan Lights ...žģ bel.

Today (Tuesday) heing the Chi-Telebuger 67 buy.

rese

Dragon Boat Festival, the

custom houses in Canton. Kong

Chins Büses ............Th., 144 buy. Singapore Tract cus.....11/3 sel.

Do. (Petäj? nomi Chira zagare

Cautuo Ices ........81.80 buy... Coperte fior

$8.10 we

moon, Samsha and other pestaaten gain take a holiday.

en

Several silk filstures in Namboi and Shuntak districts closed down some months ago account of losses. Nearly, all of them have. however, re-opened as the pret erop is promising.

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The ice market in Hong Kong ́is steady and prices especially for Siam rice have advanced by ahout thirty cents per picul owing to short arrivals. The rice market in Cantón remains duil.

The Canton shoe making induɛ- try is going through a very bad time and the market for foreign leather has been quiet. Most of the leather used by local shoe makers comes from Canada and Japan.

The canvas industry has been doing well during recent years and imports from Japan and Britain have been considérably reduced. Besides supplying Kwangtung, jargo quantities are exported to Malaya for overseas Chinese.

The marker of Chinese, silk in the United States is still dull and prices remain low, owing to over supplies of Japanese sik. In Can- ton, very few tranzactions are being. nade by foreign merchants and prices are still falling.

nom.

The

create an extraordinary amount of interest.

thought was a fellow lodger, but a few days later the defendant told her that the woman was his first wife and that she must look upon herself as his concubine. The bride. refused to countenance "this and she alleged that the defendant then struck her, and ordered her away. She left on April in the company of defendant's sister-in-law and returned to her village to stay with her mother.

A Political Message. The holes in which the Indian "Did you have any difficulty in merchants in London are parting getting permission for the first

of larly interested are the Baltic production the play in Exchange, the London Commercial Poland P

a correspondent asked Sale Rooms, and the London Jute Mr. Sobieniowski.. Association. cta. uny.

The Inst-named or "No," he replied. "Mr. Shaw ganisation has already admitted to has always taken a great interest membership one Indian merchant. in my translations for the Polish Mr. E. Heary, secretary of the theatre, and he consented almost Answering Mr. Brooks, witness association, stated that the ques at once. In the course of our talk said that she did not leave her tion rarely arose and that every it occurred to him that the politi-husband's house voluntarily, nei case was considered on its merits en message was more apposite to ther did she know the defendant's which Poland than to any other country first wife prior to ter arrival in The association's contract, was the important thing, he ex- the moment. Dr. Szyfman is Hong Kong. plained, only covered London, and very keen on the play and extreme- there had never been an appliesly proud that he has been given tion from anyone in Calcutta be the opportunity to present it be- cause they stood to gain nothing fore it is seen in England. It is by it. The exporters accepted the

a" fulfilment of a long standing contract, knowing ambition. association's that it held the balance impartial. ly between the spinner and the baler,

Diu. tolaj...57 nom. Lo. (Gew!...$1.40 nom. B.K. Koper.

$7 nel. Caited Aster os 5 buy. Dary Farme. Watsons Der 4 Lane Orawtoria.

W. Powells...

$19 num.

Siz nomi .80 cts, buy. .82804

$18. bay. $11.80 boy .$3.40 x. div. sel H.K. Amusements 12 buy. H.K Constructius. ......$1ḥ kel. B'que. Indus, G. Bonca...17% MOI. H., Gon. Loans.......% prem, bus, buy.-buyers; we-wellera; - zalud j

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Paris New York Brussels

Genera

Milan

** Amterdam.

Berlin Stockholm Copenhagen Oslo

No Applications,

The London Commercial Sale Rooms, Ltd., is in the same posi- tion of having no rule to exclude Indian members, but none has been admitted. A member stated that there had been one or two inquiries from Indians during the last few years but that these had not be come actual applications.

What a Woman is Worth, The girl's mother stated that her daughter was married according to Chinese custom 23 a wife, not as a concubine. She told the court "It is a difficult play to pro- that the defendant had to pay 9130 duce, perhaps, because of its ap-in money, six hundred cakes of parent simplicity. Having trans- large size and six hundred of small lated sixteen of Mr. Shaw's plays, size, and that in addition he gave I may be said to know forty catties of roast pork. The I think something of his work. "The girl was given a suitcase contaio- Apple Cart will rank among the ing one silk suit and a number of best things he has done in the cotton suits. theatre. It is a new departure as regards Mr. Shaw's artistic ac tivity.

Although placed in the fature, it deals with a subject of moment to-day, the crisis of de- mocracy or of the parliamentary The Baltic Exchange, in the same

system of Government. The scene way, has not found it necessary to take a decision as to the principles in England, but the application is universal. Its universality in as 120713/18 to be followed in such a case. obvious as that of every great

work of art."

163 11/10

Vienna .Prague

Helsingfors Madrid Lisbon Athens Bucharest

183.05

35.

1081

374

9181

54

Buenos Aires Hombay Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama

47 3/16

1/5!

2/31

1/102

1794

Silver (spot)

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A third witness identified the second witness as the mother of the girl. At this stage the hearing was adjourned in order that an S.C.A. interpreter might give evidence on the document produced by the com- plainant.

Mr. Brooks pointed out to the Magistrate that the defendant's" wife also had a similar document, to which his Worship replied that if Mr. Hall's client proved her case, the defendant, would be up against ing complainant under false pre- a number of things, such as marry.

tences, etc.

The hearing was adjourned until Monday next.

Polish Play for London.

EXCHANGE RATES, .

TÉRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE]

RUGBY, June 10.

124.025 4.84% 34.90) 25.19 92.697 20.33 is understood, that inquiries by 16.13 11/18 Indians have not been encouraged

Mr. Shaw a Prophet. 18.201

and have therefore not developed 18.19 15/16 into actual proposals for member.

"Why do you say that it is a ship. None of these organizationsdifficult play to present?" he was 34.515

asked. however, is prepared to set a gen-

Mr. Shaw eral ruling for itself and they all

is the unique appear to prefer to consider cases instance of the artist working side individually.

by side with the social reformer, It is stated that a parallel or the imaginative genius hand-in ganization in the tea trade actually hand with a critical mind and a admits

it clever intellectual insight. Indian members to

It is a prophetic play-not a branches in the East and would be came over from Ireland and, con- fanciful flight of imagination but willing to admit them to Londonquered England, but on the other the outcome of a searching mind. membership if they were engaged hand, England has conquered him Shaw is a prophet (one has only ( in the trade in this

and brought him to the essentially to read his early prefacca and then try. Mr. T. McMorran, deputy English frame of mind. And this take a look at Landon to-day to 23 16/247 chairman of the East India is what The Apple Cart' shows realise that fact) and The Apple Section of the London Chain more than any of his plays, and, Cart' will help to dispel the

said Commerce,

he if I am not mistaken it is what popular view that G.B.S. is only. was in sympathy with what Sir the English will realise when the

a master of paradox.” Stephen Demetriadi bad said. He play is done bere. The character. thought the Indian Tea Association of King Magnus can be truly said

In addition to the Shaw plays would be open to Indian merchants. to be that of the first gentleman

Mr. Sobieniawski's translations of There was a feeling in the City of Europe, without the ironical Lord Chesterfield, presiding at that now that this matter has been meaning that is usually attached Mr Lonsdale's "On Approval" luncheon given recently at Verrey's given publicity through the Cham to that phrase. The difficulty lies and "The High Road," and an Restaurant by Textiles (Newber of Commerce and that Lord in the fact that the play presents O'Neill play, are to be "produced synthetic wool," Anid, if the Sir Stephen Demetriadi's remarks, immense subject is dealt with, and He has also made an adaptation claims made for the new product some move may made by the the degree of intensity is commen- of "Bird in Hand," putting it in- were realized, it might prove to be great exchanges concerned with the surate with its bigness, but it is to a Poliah setting, which is also of signal assistance to British Indian trade, to look into the posi- merely a political discussion; it is to be performed at the Teatr manufacturers.

tion of Indian merchants in Lon- a first-rate comedy, in which there Polski,

He has translated several modern Since the anti-Japan Roycott WRE By using "N.T. wool," as the don and to examine the possible is the glamour of romantic beauty. lifted, large quantities of Japanese commodity was called, as apeffect of opening the membership to It will be my endeavour in War Polish plays into English, and sheet brass and copper have been admixture it would be possible, it them.

Baw to see that it is presented as three of these are to be staged in

The first will be

The imported. The market for similar was hoped, to lower the cost of the

a work of art rather as a piece of London. Chinese, goods has been affected raw materials used in a wide range

political propaganda.

Wedding," by Wyspianski, which, and prices have dropped. The of woollen textile productions by 35

"Although new ground is struck although only written in 1000, is current price for Japanese shees per cent, and in certain cases by price of average wool. "N.T" was in The Apple Cart, and a whole regarded as a classic in Poland. copper in about eighty dollars per a even greater amount.

not a rival of wool, but an allyliterature will grow up round it, Sir Arthur Somervell has compos pitul and for the Chinese article

It would enable wool to enter the play is a logical development ed. some special music for that markets hitherto untouched by of his other work. There is an production, which will take place seventy dollars.

Some of the articles exhibited wool, and would permit its wider amazing consistency about Mr. in September. Two other plays, that day were, he said, made in uses by those who formerly were Shaw's output in the last fiftyThe Human Touch," a comedy by ..Business at the cinema houses Yorkshire in ordinary mills, prov- debarred from its use owing to its years, and at the same time it is Rittner, based on a very novel has been on the decline this yearing that neither special equipment high cost."

interesting to watch his develop idea, and "Giving Notice, and about four picture palaces nor special training of onerative According to a leaflet distributed ment. The latest play comes from Perzynski; will follow. Mr. Robert have closed. Canton has about a was necessary when "N.T." was by the company, the new fibre, the same mind as his first novel, Atkins. will act as producer. dozen cinemas and until the pre-used.

the basis of which is a' waste but it shows proofs of his growth "The Apple Cart" will not be sent troubles they were doing Capt. Arh, joint general manager vegetable material, is changed by a and expansion. For instance, sten in England until August 18. fairly well. The main cause of the with M. Viallet discoverer of the chemical process

into staple there is lees of sardouic and 'It will then open the Malvern devine is said to be the monopoly Nouston Textile said the passing strength elasticity satirical laughter und more of the Festival of Mr. Shaw's plays that of foreign pictures Vértain pre fuir foot any per tricht knowing and loving mily of intense bringen WAS the IVETA theatres, and the fact that Chinere approximately one-third of the allows of competition and co-opera- sage in "The Apple Cart."

Theatre under the direction of Sir pictures are becoming less popular, (Continued at foot of next column).tion with the natural roduct." (Continued on next Column). Barry Jackson.

The banknotes of the Central Bank of China are gradually rê- covering as the political situation clears. Recently, they were quoted

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