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Money and Markets

SAIGON RICE.

SUDDEN RISE: NO SELLERS.

We have received the following report, dated June 28, from the Société ladochinoise de Commerce, Salxon:-

The rice market reached bottom on Thursday with the price of $7.93 per picul instext of 37.53 on the opening of the market last week. There were at once buyers, and five thousand tons have been bought, The market immediately rose to close frm at 97.40 en Friday and #T.CC to-day with no sellers.

There have been some enquiries from Java, and it seemed that we were very near doing fair business, but Anally only a few hundred tons have been closed, demands being eut.

the sudden rise.

"It is also rungured that there are sous offers from China, but up to now no confirmation has arrived..

From France, demand has been very pour and only, small business has been possibly at the lowest pritr quoted.

On the whole cur market has not been very active, and its sudden rise comes, in our opinion, from the fact that stocks of paddy in" Chalon, having been constituted at a rather high price, detentors are endeavouring to keep the market

up.

The market closed firm with very few sellers at the following prices: No. 1 Long 25 per cent and No. 1. Round 25 per cent. --1 franes per 100Ks. 8.19 guilders per Java pikol 0.43 yen per picul; 1/- per cut.

No. 2 Japan 40 per cent. : -122 francs per 100ks: 7.75 guilders per Java pikol; 0.29 yep per picul ;, 10/7 per cwt.

Brokens 1 and 2-117 francs. per 100Ks.; 7.23 guilders per Java pikol; 3.83 yen per picul; 0/11) per cwt.

F.O.B. Saigon. Shipment June! July

Paddy-Good arrivals of paddy

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during the week and prices dropped JOINED THE NAVY daily according to the rice market. We have not heard anything fur- ther concerning an increase in ex- port duty, but it may be that if the present rise continues the ques- tion will be again examined.

STEEPLEJACK'S PERIL.

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1930.

GOLD RELICS AGES OLD.

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LUXURY TRAPPINGS OF BARBARIC CHIEF.

FOUND IN TOMB...

Gold treasures from a tomb more than 1.300 years old are a dazzling feature of the Art in the Dark Ages" exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in Savile Row, W.

This extraordinarily lavish use of gold by a Serce barbaric tribe is one of the surprises of the exhibi tion.

Under the name of Langobardi, the Lombards, after long tribal wanderings, reached Hungary, crossed the Danube, and id 486 began the conquest of Italy.

Thus, was Lombardy founded. and the treasures now shown frein the grave of a Lombard chieftain are among the most interesting ever seen in London.

The luxury with which this semi- savage chieftain made his conquests is almost incredible. He used a spur of solid gold weighing more than 130z. troy, highly decorative iran gold-mounted daggers," an spear-head with a band of red cluisoqué enamel on a gold base above the mouth, and wore a gold almost collar of six curved and oblong plates embossed with scenes and figures.

Not content to decorate only bir- self with precious gold, he had, a pair of gold horie-trappings, "with gold rivets.

In this amazing grave was found also the gold mount of a horse- collar with two grotesque wolf-like heads to all the end panels, and a sword and helmet of iron, both mounted in gold.

Precious Manuscripts.

Experts believe that the tomb of Attila, King of the Euns, when YEARS found, may reveal even more BS-

tounding treasures.

A man who joined the Royal Navy no less than 8 years ago as an A.B. and left it 40 years later as à commissioned officer recently celebrated bis 96th birthday.

He is Mr. James John Mills, of Beatrice Avenue, Plymouth, and he recalls vividly the days when sailors received dd. a day and were fed on salt pork and biscuits.

Mr. Milis provides a living link with Nelson, for his first ship was the San Joseph, 120 guns, which Steeplejack Thomas Brewis, Tyne was captured by Nelson from the Street. Gateshead-on-Tyne. was Spaniards. rendered unconscious by furnace gas Thrills fell to the lot of this jolly while sitting in a chair painting the Jack Tar of the "wooden walls of binstfurnace metal chiranes at the England" which are never likely to United Steel Company's Derwent happen to his successors of to-day. works, Worington. He slid headHe tells of days when floggings downwards out of his chair, and, his were the punishment for the most feet becoming entangled in the minor offences. ropes, hung suspended until his mate, Thomas H. Fleming, climbed up the steel ladder for 160ft. to his

rescue.

Fleming called to a sixteen-year- old boy, Nichol Whitehend, to bring him a life-belt, and Whitehead, although he had never before been on a ladder, exhibited remarkable coolness and obeyed Fleming's in structions. While Fleming held the unconscious man Whitehead fastened the belt round his body, and the two then lowered him to the ground. where he was treated by the works ambulance and soon recovered.

Fleming says that Whitehead showed no nervousness, though un-. accustomed to heights." He played a far bigger part in saving Brewis' life than I did," he said. Brewia was working on the lee side of the a hole from chimney, just below which gas escapes.

This grave of a Lombard warrior, dating from about 600 A.D., can be compared only with that of the Frankish King Childeric, who died in 491, and which was discovered

Tournai, in Belgium. Among the precious manuscripts exhibited is discovered by a

one

in the happy chance Lambeth Palace.

library of

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It is a fragment of the creed of Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxon treaaurs of the ninth century, the valac of which had been so little recogaited that it had been aged to form ced papers for a 16th century book.

Discovered by Dr. Jenkins during his work in the brary and recog nised as of great value, it has now been lent to the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury.

The Book of Lismore, a many- When he spent four urbroken script of the latter part of the 15th and painful hours in the rigging at century found in a walled-up pas night of Cape Horn trying to furl sage by workmen repairing Lis

more Castle, is also shown. a main topsail which had split.

When his ship then the Cale-manuscript had suffered from damp, donin-chased gang of blood- and had been gnawed in places by thirsty pirates (who had murdered rats and mice. an English captain and crew), and saw five of them shot on the beach at Valparaiso,

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Ameriena Smelting Anaconda Copper Baltimore and Ohio Borg Warner ****** Continental Oil City Service Common Curtis Wright Common

Exquisite glass. ivories; jewels, coin, and stone work all show the history of art from 400 to 1000 A.D.

TUT'S TOMB.

DOCTOR'S THEORY OF POISON GAS.

Was there some potent and mys- terious poison gas in the tomb of King Tutankhamen, which might for the mysterious deaths of 80 mauy who more or less directly were concerned in its opening?

A German chemist, Dr. Albertus, of Munich, has devoted years to the study of methods for restoring valuable silks that may have been wrapped round the remains of some eminent personage for perhaps 1,000 years.

The ancient Egyptians," he said in an interview," undoubted- y worked with very potent poisons, whose nature and qualities "are un- known to us, in order to dry and preserve the bodies they embalm, cd.

"Such poisons, enclosed for thou- sands of years in tombs hermetic-. ally sealed, are gradually convert. |ed into gas, and their effect is then

greatly intensified.

Priests Warning, "This deadly poisonous gas pene trates the dry walls of the buriai chamber and all the objects con- tained in it.

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