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Money and Markets

HONG KONG MARKET

REPORTS.

Yesterday's quotations for rice and other foodstuffs were as follow:

Common White

Glutinous, Ching Hung

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1929.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

GREATEST IN WORLD.

PROFESSOR SADLER'S

ADDRESS.

am

DUKE'S TALE OF EMU'S EGG.

THE FIRST CHIMPANZEE.

CENTENARY OF THE ZOQ.

Three years after the foundation of the Zoological Society of Lon- don in 1898. King George IV granted the new organisation a royal charter. The society has celebrated the 100th anniversary of

This is institution well worth supporting, because we are all too prone to take our language very much for granted," said. Pro- festor Sadler in proposing the least of the Australian English this event. London...£132.nom.

Assosiation, at the annual dinner recently.

JUNK 24, 1929. ̧ ...$1,240 nom,

Do.. Chartered Banka .....$19 bay. Mercantile Banks, ASV...£3 DOM C...215 om, Do.,

Rice,

Per picul.

88.76-7.50

Broken. Red Seal

H.K. Banks 5.98

Granulated

3.81-8.00

18

Cargo Rice Bran

2.48

White Bran, Big Bug

3.08

Cherk

8.17

P.&O. Bhats

Leng Unglutinous

8.77-7.34

"

Miscellaneous,

Granulated sugar

Brown sugar, Java

No. 2

Bird's white edible nest,

רה ותFish

Dried cuttle fish.....

Dried fat fish, Chung

Pin

Dried sea weed in sheets

Scarlet bean

Soy bean

New red melor seeds

"White grapes

East Asia Banks

ndia.

Canton InsuTAS.COM

..$649) sel.

Union. InsuranOTE North Obina

8.53

Tangiero

2,350.00

380.00

48.00

$34 el. TUM, 160 bay. 26.28-8.13orm Wa Ingprendes..... $30 nom

Ching Underwriters....10 sel Chine Fire Insurances...

H.K. Fre Look russe - sud Dougla

H.K. Bleamboata ........... **}

FLX •Tigt. $2.00

bay.

70.00 Indo-Chinas (Prof.) ..............$15 buy...

8.50

(Del.) $70 nom.

6. Shell Transporta 6,70

29.50

34.00

CANTON TRADE NOTES.

The market for ground nut oil has improved.

Salt prices have been on the de- eline as large quantities have, been imported and the demand from the country districts has been less,

Union Waterboat.nom. Benguet........... ...FOR. Kailan Mining Admin ...65/- nom.

T .14 ch. Langksts (combined)......

73 Bal.

Do. (single)................... 8h. Exploratiana ..........

Shanghai Loans. 44

Barbs **********

Tronoh Mines**

HK. & K. Whats

& W. Docki

Chins Provident Hongkews

şi num. .191. bay.

$134 bay.

Bom.

13.80 hug.,

Tix. 168 som

of

Zoologists mustered from all parts of the Continent and America: learned scientific socie ties

sent representatives. from France, Germany, and Holland, The Ambassadors of France and Italy came in person.

The celebrations were twofold. First there was a mass meeting of Fellows

at University College Hall, Gower Street, where the Duke of Bedford, the president, took the chair.

We don't always reolise," he continued, "that the English lan- guage is the greatest the world has ever known (Applause.) Its literature is equalled only by An- cient Greece, but its extent, course, is quite a different thing and although Australia's position The duke ontlined the history and development of the society. is one of isolation, which is in itself & great drawback in getting and told a couple of good stories. He spoke of Lord Derby, the works and stimulating interest, we occupy here a very interesting posi-president in 1832, who had a large private collection of his own tion on the Pacific Ocean.

"I would describe it in the words Once, in the absence of the duke,

It is like his agent wrote him as follows: of a Chinese proverb. agimlet in a bag; you, never know when it is coming out

Like & Sliver Bridge. Australia is almost three-quarter of the Pacific, and civilisation in the Pacific will be one of the most .sh language then may come like important in the world. The Eng a silver bridge between the Pacifo peoples On the other side of the Fazife, among the people of the Chinese civilisation, there are some extremely great litterateurs. There.

arc

I beg to inform your lordship that the emus have laid an egg. In your lordship's absence I have obtained the biggest goose I could find to sit on it.

in 1835.

"How Like Lord T!" Lord John Russell, great-uncle of the duke, came to see the first chimpanzee exhibited The Duke of Bedford, with chuckle. told how this visit was related at the time in verse. ¦

Lord John came up the other

day

few Englishmen who could

Attended by a lady say. #8:43 Lay., 2.63 wel. write more beautiful English than

some of the Chinese scholars.

"We live in an age when there is such a flood

Now Engineering**** 11. 184 UEY. Shanghai Docks.....

son some in 83 huy. Eve Lattons Oriental Cottons. Th

U bay. Prices of firewood have recently. Cottons (old)... Tis. 211 bay.

Do,

bay. dropped owing to heavy arrivals

(1), 534 since traffic on the river was re- HE. & S. Hatois

Şüz zel sumed. Many junks loaded with EK. Land

Tl. 147 Lay, "Shanghai Lands firewood are cow on their way to "Canton from the West River, and

Humphreys Estate......$19 buy,

Renities H.K.

........... $74 buy. it is expected that prices will drop K Tramways $18.60 buy. 19.20 sal. still lower.

Peak Trama (old) . $11.60 num.

Bo. (new).........06 nom. Star Ferries"

$65 bay, 06 rel Uhins Light, Cum, Bights... $id) sel

Do. Ex Hights $12.90, 201 Do. Kight --- $7.90 nom

As an abundant rice harvest is the East River dis- expected in tricts, the price of rice has drop- ped considerably. Superior grade) rice is sold at about thirteen cat- ties to the dollar, medium grade at about fifteen and inferior grade Rabout eighteen entties.

Telegraphic advice from Shang- hai state that cotton yarn prices Have dropped by about half a tael. In Canton, prices of No. 20 have fallen by two dollars, of No. 22 to 42 by three to four dollars, Prices of No. 16 and downwards were however as usual. Merchants are willing to sell off their stocks at

low prices

The foreign rice market in Hong Kong has been slack and prices are generally low. Siam rice has been imported in very limited quanti ties and prices are about one dollar higher per picul than usual. The price of Annam rice has also risen by about twenty cents per picul. Tonquin rice is being imported in large quantities but demand is

limited.

statement

H.K. Electrics

1561 bay. Mase Electrice ....$204 Sandakan Lights

sel Taishonte

..37 buy!

144 bay. 216. Obína Kusos Singapore Tractions......11.

Do.

(Pref.)......19 nom.

60 cta. Uny. China Suga Malabon Bugars

Ji nom $2 buy.. Outon Ice

$8 lu buy. Cements (combined)..

DO

(old)...

..871 vel. Lic.

(new)....8140 nom. HK. Ropes **** ......47 zel, United Asbertos Dairy Farma.....19 nom, WAT ODE Der & Wings Lane Crawfords. Masuntosha..

Sinceras

80 ct. ony.

End volu

$18 Day. ....J12 buy.

W. Powell....... ...$3

399 buy.

A. Ambrement... H.K. Constructiona...... wel. B'que.Indas. GBond...57% 0.

Gort, Loans.7% prem. buy. boy-buyers; sel-sellers; -sales;

nam,-cominal,

COUNCIL UPROAR.

SINGLE-COMBAT "

CHALLENGE.

literature that there

is need for an association like the Australian English Association to advise us Now that the moving pictures have begun to talk there is more need than ever "for this Association, and under the guidance of our president, Professor "Sir Mungo MacCallum, the greatest English scholar in Australia, w are in that sitanted"

respect happily

EL

"O dear," he cried," "how" like

Lord T

I can't bear to look at this

chimpanzee.

The lady said; with a tender

emile-,

O, never mind, Lord John; to

me

You are not in the least like a

chimpanzee.""

Sir John

Bland-Sutton

said Eden was the first Zoological Garden, and Adam was the first keeper and bad the privilege of The Attorney-General (Mr. naming all the animals. The Boyce), speaking on Australian first travelling menagerie was call literature, said that Australian ed the Ark, and many must have Judges generally delivered most wondered how Noah induced the elaborate judgments. If the judeganimals to go in two by two when ment was delivered extemporaneit was realised the anxiety the ously, they would not expect any superintendent of their gardens Biterary achievement, but a

and the keepers had in transfer- aidered judgment usually contained ring an animal from a box. most beautiful and charming lan- A number of congratulatory |guage.

speeches were made by the foreign and other representatives, and afterwards distinguished com

a semi- pany of scientists had private dinner at the Zoo at which the Prince of Wales was the guest of honour.

cop-

World Language. Professor Zachrisson then ex- pressed the view that English would soon be raised to the rank, honour, and dignity of a world language. Inspired by this, a Swedish paper has been making some interesting "practical" inquiries on its own account..

It has sounded representative men in banking, commeres, indus try, the wireless, gramophone, and cinema worlds, tolephone and tele- graph operators, police, taxi drivers, tram conductors, and a host of others

Import and export firms and in- dustrial man in practically all

After dinner the party visited the gardens. The Zoo was silent then, save for the solitary grow! or two who wondered of a lion

what the unusual gala was about.

MISS JOSE COLLINS'S

AFFAIRS.

THE ORDER OF DISCHARGE.

of 100 cases English is the language the failure of Lady Robert Innes

TEACHING MOTHER- CRAFT IN SCHOOLS.

FOR & AGAINST IN WOMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD.

'RIGHT-O, MRS. CHAIR- MAN."

The importance of teaching mothercraft in schools Was phasised by Mrs. Wilkinson (Bour- nemouth) at the annual conference of the Women's Co-operative Guild which ended at Burslem recently.

Mrs.

All girls of twelve and upwards are simply marking time," Wikinson said, and as mother. hood is the most sacred duty that a woman can perform mothercraft should be taught to the girls in our schools.

Mrs. Hood (London) said that girls had plenty of opportunity to learn mothercraft at home. When a child I never knew what it was to get out to play without taking

baby with me. There are many other little girls to day who have to do the same.

the

On the question of homework for children the delegates expressed the opinion that the amount given as present should be reduced, as it was injurious to health, an unfair prac tice both for children and parents. and also interfered with mother's home training.

In a discussion "or housing, in- dignation was expressed at the way in which exploited poor and homeless people

unscrupulous landlords by letting large self contained de- controlled houses in one-room tene. ments for which very large rents were charged. This, it was said, increased instead of decreasing slums. A resolution was passed protesting against the exorbitant rent of houses now being built and urging the Government to build houses with rents suitable for the ordinary working man.

Homely Language,

In a discussion of the need for adequate lighting, warmth, and ven- tilation in schools Mrs. MacLewis Government, had said that the issued pamphlets taking credit for. improving schools, but what good they had done was done during their first year of office and was the result of Labour's brief period of government. The Government had not attempted to do anything with the thousands of schools which had been condemned for years.

During discussion on social. matters, a delegate inquired whe ther any consideration had been given to placing a congress. wreath on the local cenotaph.

The pro posal was "greeted with a murmur of disapproval, and the Guild secre tary (Mrs. Eleanor Barton) eaid- "The, cenotaph of the. Women's Co-operative Guild is its own con valescent fund which will help the living." The matter was dropped

without further discussion.

It was decided that next" year's

conference should be held at

Bournemouth.

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The homely language used by delegates has been a feature of the conferencë, For example, one speaker, wishing to express disap proval of a resolution, said,she was dead nuts against it." An- THE GERMAN-AMERICAN

other invariably answered the chairman with "Right oh." AD CHEMICAL ALLIANCE.

the speakers called the chairman Mrs. Chairman" instead of the CRITICISM IN U.S.

branches say that certainly English An application was made to Mr. has the greatest prospects of becom- Registrar Franke at the Bankruptcy customary Madam Chairman."

The Guild secretary has had to Mr. Hugh Farrell, formerly as

ing a world language. In 65 out Court in London recently under

run a miniature lost property office sociate editor of the New York

Two members of Cardiff City in which their foreign business bas Kor, professionally known as José mislaid daily by delegates. Every to deal with the variety of articles Commercial and author of "What Price Progress," bas" issued a Council threatened" to "meet into be conducted. German taxes a Collins, scene producer, of 4,

attacking the new single combat" following an up-good second place, but, while for Sussex-square, W. An order of day articles have been spread ou on the chairman's table for dele- alliance between American finance roarious scene at a meeting a few eigners may use any language they adjudication in bankruptcy was and what he calls the notorious days ago.

like in writing

to Sweden, a made on July 13, 1926. On January gates to claim. These have includ ed, gloves, brooches, umbrellas, German Dye Trust, and describes The council were discussing Swedish business man would, when 31, 1928, an order of discharge was cotebooks, handbags, and it as one of the most discouraging salaries paid at the Technical writing to foreigners, always use granted to the debtor, subject to

return, tickets. developments in the recent history College when Alderman AJ. English except to a correspondent judgment for £600.

behalf of of the country, He foresees, as a Howell, & former Lord Mayor, resident in Germany.

Mr. W, N. Stable, on result of this latest maneuvre of

Mr. F. S. Salaman, the trustee said: the Dye Trust, that research in the

under the bankruptcy, asked the important fields of explosives, dyes, and medicinal specifics will

Court to revoke the order of dis charge. That order, he explained, be left exclusively to Germany, and

prosided that the debtor was to pay the American chemical industry.

£800 out of her future earnings, will be either swallowed up or

after a deduction of £1,000 a year trampled upon.

for living and other expenses. The debtor was directed to furnish the trustee with an account of her in- come on January 1 and July 1. An account was furnished in July, 1928, showing gross income of 82,845 for the six months, and, after des ducting £1,850 for travelling and other expenses, there remained a surplus of £res, of which £280, was available to satisfy the judgment. Nothing had been paid to the trus KILLED BY BREATHING INTO tee, nor had any account been re-

HIS NECK.

ceived relating to the six months cading January 1 las. In those circumstances he asked that the order made on January 31, 1928, should be revoked."

on this council unfitted for public work that man is Councillor Robson."

"If there is one man

Book dealers inform the news paper that the greatest demand is for English and American litera- ture, and at the Public Library an incredible inquiry for English Socialist members jumped to their and American books is reported,- fet in protest, with loud cries of modern American, classic English. Withdraw," but Mr. Rabson, his The newspaper's inquiries in other face dushing angrily, waved his fields all point in the same direc- arms and appealed to his friends to tion-English is the inevitable sit down.:

world language of the future. But Swedish will remain in Sweden for the special use of Swedes.

Mr. Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, has issued a statement that his company has no financial

"I do not want the remark with interest in the new American I.G. Corporation, and his directorship drawn," he said, when order was of that concern is the result of restored. "I consider it a elose and pleasant personal repliment, coming from Alderma lationship with the leaders of the Howell.

1.G. He also stated, however, that

com

The Lord Mayor then took mat. the Standard Oil Company of Newters in hand and asked for a with Jersey and the I.G. are jointly in drawal. terested in some research work Alderman Howell withdrew the bearing upon the oil industry, for remark, adding, "We shall meet in which a new Jaboratory in the single combat somewhere else." United States is planned, and negotiations are. afoot to broaden this relationship and use certain manufacturing procesees to mutual advantage.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME, /. BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON

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Councillor Robson's retort was: And I shall not be afraid of you."

U.S. LYNCHING RECORD.

The nineteenth Annual Report for 1998 of the American National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Coloured People records lynchings in the United States, during the past five years as follows:-

1821

RARE CAUSE OF BOY'S DEATH.

A peculiar injury, cases of which were stated to be rare, caused the death of. Albert Cecil Jack Clack, aged five, of College Road, Collier's Wood, who stumbled and struck is threat against the corner of a table during celebrations at Singlegate School, Mitcham

WIFE'S “DECEPTION OF EVERYBODY."

DIVORCE JUDGE RESCINDS

A DECREE

The King's Proctor successfully intervened in a case which, came before Mr. Justice Bateson in the Divorce Court, Mrs. Edith Ethel Jane Larter, of Deepcut, farm- borough, Hampshire, bad asked for a divorce on the ground of the alleged misconduct of her husband, Mr. Albert Edward Larter, of the Ministry of Agriculture Testing Station" #t Pirbright, Surrey, whom she married in 1916.

Ma Stable, for the King's Proc tor, said that Mr. Justice Swift granted a decree misi at Winches ter Assizes last June. The wife then admitted one act of miscon- duct in 1923, and the judge exer- Mr. Tindale Davis, representing cised discretion. I was now the debtor, referred to correspon alleged that she had been living dence showing that the debtor was with the same man in 1925. now abroad and in ill-health and,

.

It was submitted for Mrs. Larter

in consequence, had been unable to that she had not deliberately de Dr. C. Davis, house surgeon at comply with the order of the Court.ceived the court.

Hia Honour, having perused the Mr. Justice Bateson said that Nelson Hospital, where Clack died, said at the inquest held at Wimble correspondence, said that the debtor the intervention must succeed.

"I think it would be wrong of don that the child probably caught was unable to earn money at pre- his larynx, thus crushing the cricoident, and he adjourned the applica me to exercise the court's discre cartilage, which meant that every tion for the January account to be tion again in this case," he said. "She did not tell. Mr. Justice time he expelled breath, the breath, supplied to the trustee. instead of passing out of the month.Mr. Stable asked for costs of the Swift the truth about her own discretion passed into the tissues of the net present application to be given to misconduct. To exercise

The breath gradually killed the the trustee.

again in this sort of caso would 1926 .....

tissue of the skin, even as far down, The Registrar rofused to crder only encourage people to tell lies 1997...............

as the knee. There was no sign of the coels against the debtor, who, and deceive the court like this injury to the neck. It was an ex- he said, had evidently lost her voice petitioner has done with impunity. Sho has deceived everybody-her. thetrpatke kastmegado injury andthaudes, And reason of ill-health had been for the forty-year period over which similar cases he had traced showed debarrea from mirisiying the Juugowy disentan

allowed her to sue as a poor per- sup-lynching statistics have bees, kept that they were always fatal. One ment.

To-day's wireless programme is aa follows:-

1.48 p.m.-Weather report. 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.-Programme of Chinese music (records supplied by The Pleasant Co.).

7.493mEvening weather" re

p.m. Evening programs (Victor and H.M.V. records plied by S. Mouttio & Co.). 30.30 p.m.-Close down.

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He rescinded the dëéroe nisi.

All the victime were, with the ex case was that of an acrcitat who The application was adjourned son, and the judge."

generally. ception of one Mexican, negroes, allowed men to walk over his neck.

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