1931-07-08 — Page 11

Money and Markets

SHANGHAI REAL · SAIGON RICE MARKET.

ESTATE.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW

COMPANY.

AN IMPORTANT ALLIANCE.

An announcement of outstanding importance to the real estate world is the creation of the Land Invest ment, Brokerage & Mortgage Co. a joint agency for realty operations formed by the Shanghai Land In: vestment Co. and the Asia Really Co This now organization has started business at 50, Nanking Road.

QUIET BUT STEADY.

The Export and Import Co., Ltd., of Cochinchina, have sent us the following report, dated June 18, of

the rice market:-

Since last reporting on May 30 this market has ruled quiet, but steady, mainly owing to the inade quato supplies of paddy which have been coming down to Cholon from the interior

North China porta have bought

a few oargues for aesond Hall Jung- first half July shipment and latest advices to hand are to the effect that further and larger quantities This alliance of the two leading of medium quality rices will be re Teal estate organizations of Shongquired in the near future. Hni unites the ripe experience and resources of the Shanghai Land Investment Co. with the up-to-date and efficient organization of the Asia Realty Company.

Joint Agency Functions," This joint agency arrangement, while preserving the identity of cach of these two companies, is formed for the purpose of buying and selling real estate, hath im- proved, upon brokerage or commis- sion, or as principals.. It will ar- range mortgages and leases, super. vise and manage estates and pro perty, and do other real state work for third parties. A purchases and sales of real estate for both companies are to be conducted through this joint agency.

The Woods of Shanghal.. Security holders of the two.com. panies will naturally be keenly interested in the effect that this. arrangement will have upon their shars. Securities of both of these

As anticipated in our last circular, onquiries have come in from Indian ports of broken rice and paddy which resulted in several fair sized orders being booked.,

Our total exports to date amount to about 483.000 tons as against 682.000 tons for the corresponding period in 1930..

Wo quote to-day as follows for shipment during July-August

Rice.

No. Pycnow Long 25 per

cent. brokens

ሆነ

1 Saigon Long 25 për

cent, brokens

1 Saigon Round 25 per

cent, brokens

1 Ordinary

Europeap

...quality 25 per cent.

83.00

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931.

ST ANDREW'S, KOWLOON

OLD ENGLISH FAIR BEING ARRANGED.

Sometimes ago it was announced

BOOKS and READERS

A GREAT NOVEL ON CLASSICAL TIMES."

that the Church Council of B.THE CORN KING AND THE SPRING/ the minds of barbarians, Greeks

Andrew's Church hoped to arrange. a Scottish Fair towards the end of the year. We hear now that it is an Old English Fair that is to be organised. The date has been fixett for Saturday, October 3, and it is hoped to produce a fair fully on the lines of those held in England for centuries past the proceeds of the fair will go towards the organ

fund.

Various members of the congre gation of St. Andrew's Church having expressed a desire for ser mans of an expository nature, the Rev. E. A. Armstrong has arranged to preach three special, sormons on St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians The following are the titles of the sermons and the lates upon which they will be preached,

Sunday, July 10-God in His

tory Sunday, July 28-Jesus Christ

the Meaning of History. Sunday, August 2-Self-expres- Bion and Social Life, All the sermons will be preached at the 11 am. service.

The Rev. W. Walton Rogers Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Kow loon, and Mrs. Rogers are spending short holiday at Shatin in the New Territories. They expect to return to St. Andrew's vicarage in about a month. During the absence 3.70 of Mr. Rogers, the Rev. E. A. Arm

strong is in charge of the parish.

3.70

brokonsz

-3.70

Japan quality 40 per

cent. brokens

3.40

2 Java quality 50 per.

3.10

cont, brokenk

Nos, 1 and 2 Saigon broken

mixed

2.50

No. 3 Saigon broken rice..... 2.10 companies have long been in active Saigon cr, f.o.b. per picul of 131 demand and both should be streng-be, gross including export duty..

thened by this alliance for joint operation. This Anglo-American 'alliance, forms a well-rounded and efficient property trading organizu tion, well fitted to serve the growing needs of Shagahai" It will be welcomed by all who are interested in Shanghai real estate from any point of view.

-Capital of the Two Companies. The Shanghai Land Investment Co, for years the outstanding or- ganization for property operations in Shanghai, was founded in 1899 and operates under the Hong Kong Ordinances. The prestige and re- sources of this organization aro well-known, the latter having a balance, aboot value alone of Tis. 22,209,613.93.

The Asia Realty Co. was founded in 1922 and operates as a China

Paddy.

Baclieu best Long-

·82.70 Long ordinary was

2.60 Qocong best round.

2.80 Round ordinary

2.70 Cochinchina low grade. 2.60 Cambodgian White (long)... 2.50 Cambodgian Red (lowest

grade) Saigon es., f.o.b., per pical of 150 ha, gross including 'export duty, packed in second-hand bag,

*2.20

ROTHSCHILD BANK MAY

LIQUIDATE.

'AUSTRIAN, BRANCH EXPERI-

ENCING DIFFICULTIES,

سب

SCOUT NOTES,

QUEEN." By Naomi Mitchi- son. Cape, Jos, ed.: "ALL PABRION SPENT" By V, Snak- vill-West, Hogarth Press, T78. Bd.

1

and

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Instructions

SELL BY

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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1981,

Commanding at 10.30 AM AT No. 40, HUMPHREYS BUILDING, KOWLOON

and Egyptians. I only know that Tarrik and Erif and Philylla and Pääteus and............ Metrotime Shaeros and the rest are made of the stuff of which human nature is, it would com, eternally made, It is their experience which under- us to accept them as reality should not be surprised if re Mitchison proved of the calibre of which Nobel prize-winners are ON VIEW From WEDNESDAY, the made.

It is not often that a great book is writton, and I do not think that during the five or six years that, have been reviewing novela one has ever come my way before; but do believe that The Corn King and the Spring Queen is a great book, writes Miss Winifred Holtby in the News Chronicles

Ever sines the publication of AN ESSAY ON OLD AGE. "The Conquered, through her ex- pariments with Gau and Greoca and Rome, Mrs. Mitchison seems to have been working her way to warils some synthesis of ideas that truths that she has learned about would bind together the separate. life. And here, I think, it is.

lica our experience. They force

283 B.C.

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"All Passion Spont” is almost', '~ overything but a good novel. It is is a charming day-dream; it is a an exquisite essay on old age; it

poet's chronicle dit with delicate glimpses of other countries by cno. of the best of our travel writern. Only in the satisfactory portraya} of human beings, and the fusion of their personality into the rest of the book does Miss Sackville-West fail. I cannot feel sure that theTHE Undersigned have received novel is really her form of writ ing, but artists must choose their, own modium.

The period she has chosen is one neglected by the aerage render of history-between 223 and 18 B.C. The scenes are laid in March, on the shores of the Black Sen in Greece and in Alexandria, and the immensely intricate and vastly coneaived story warks into one de, sign the lives of Black Son barbar Miss Backville-West's ¦ ¦ idea...¦ in ians, of Spartans and of Egyptiana charming. Lady Stune, at 88, in The theme concerns" three types left a widow, after having been, of human consciousness. There is ever since girlhood, the devoted the barbarian, consciousness, com-wife of a Viceroy of India,, Cabinet munal, prerational, part of the mail Minister, wit, courtier, statesṁion, and the seasons, accepting magic personality of invincible charm; as simply as we to-day access the and then, instead of accepting the Tesults of applied science, knowing old age planned for her by her for the most part as little of the rather overwhelming family of laws governing our electrin light over-competent children, she escanes and radio amusements the mon to a little house at Hampstead, of March know of the laws go to live all that remains of life for orning the spells wrought by their herself. For she should have been wives; savage. consciousness, an artist. strong and direct and passionate, Her marriage, outwardly so bril bat alert always for that unseen working of magic which makes to-diant, was really a betrayal of her in Central Africa the miser-millionaire, Fitz-George. true self, though only cna man, day n man cousin from the city would march laed this spring aside from a path when his who loved her, when a boy, has fo straight on. A

The visit some time ago to Macao of the St. Andrew's Scout Troop was greatly appreciated by Scout Imperial Headquarters at Home. A photograph taken on the occasion showing two troops, St. Andrew's and the Macao troop, appeared in a recent issue of The Scouter, the official organ of the Boy Scouts Association and the Scout move ment. A paragraph describing and Commenting on the camp held at Macao accompanied the picture. Clear, cold and austare is this Mr. R. Dormer and Mr. R. Wong consciousness of Kleomenes and his are, respectively, Scoutmaster and friends who try to restore the pur Assistant Scoutmaster of St. Anity of stoicism to Sparta in the

New Times. drow's Troopa

At & recent examination the following scouts, of St. Andrew's Troop were successful in passing swimming tests and therefore quali fied for special scout badges Messrs. J. Mackay, V. Bond, R. Branch and A. Li Sunh.

A film of tho. International Scout Jamboree held in England in 1929 recently arrived in the Colony. It is hoped that a special exhibition, of the film will be arranged shortly.

DECLINE IN COTTON PRICES.

Vienna, June 29.-The Austrian Branch of the famous banking firm. FALLS REGISTERED IN NEW

YORK AND LIVERPOOL. Trade Act Company. In the nine of Rothschild will probably be years since its formation, its assets liquidated in consequence of the have grown from Tle, 604,478.30 to difficulties of the Kreditanstalt, the bank which was These Agures old-established Ts. 13,404,213.25. epenk for themselves as to the formerly the strenghold of the enterprise and efficiency of this Rothschild interests and which has American Middling, July 6.41 5.26

rapidly growing company.

Management.

now passed under the control of other predominantly foreign, bank ing groups

Liverpool June June

27 29

The chief of the Austrian house Egyptian, Sakellariis,

F.G.F., Spot

Aug. 5.44 5.39 Oct. 5:51 5:46. Spot 6.63 6.31

6.45 8.25

New York Market.

of Rothschild, Baron Louis Boths.

The board of management of the Land Investment, Brokerage` & Mortgage Co. includes four names. than whom nens are better known child, according to a report of the

in Shanghai property operations.

Neue Freie Presse, in resolved to

Instructions

TO SELL BF

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ON

THURSDAY, JULY 9,

▲ 12 O'CLOCK NOON

AT THEIR BALES ROOM,

4. DEDDELL STREET,

(For Account of the Concerned)

I-BARBER'S REVOLVING

CHAIRS

8 ELECTRIO CEILING FANS 8 ELECTRIC TABLE FANS

Also

5 BILLIARD TABLES

tole conscious. Then there is the

All through there are passages ness of the Spartans, who return so delicately written, that one hur

ries along delighter.. Yet afro-84 BILLIARD QUES to a communal sense through ra tional acceptance of responsibility, quently ane is checked by the user:

· & MARKING BOARDS $ BILLIARD CHAIRS having first realised themselves as frustration of an imperfect thing. individuals, Totherd magic is a The characters do not fit the theme, your facts are facts; virtue is Lady Slane's children have stop-14 RATTAN CHATES discipline, and truth is all imported out of a domestic comedy en

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the Jane Austen model, but rather ant

crudely designed; her Hampstead followers are out of Barricaquo fairy tale. Mr. Bucktrout, Mr. Fitz-George, and Mr. Gosheron do not belong to the world seen. nó serenely and tenderly through Lady Bland's own mind.

Decadent Egypt."

The Egyptians are merely de- cadent. Their intelligenco has turned to curiosity, their initin tive to sensationalism. They are Greeks gono rotten, toying with barbarian tricks to combat bore: domn

beng

The composite parts of the book never quite fuse into the unity essential for a work of art-pos sibly because Miss Sackville-West it, not really interested in people. No one else has hor gitt for depict ing places, and seasons, and the butterflies round the cart as Lady Slane jolted through Persia; but domestic comedy and eccentric old bachelors do not quite suit her style.

But there is a third way of life, a third theme woven, in and out of the patterns of Maroh, of Sparta and of Alexandria-the super-ra- tiona mysticism which we, in our day, associate chiefly with Chris tianty. Very delicately, yet dearly,' Mrs. Mitchison suggests this theme, in the pictures of Agis which Ber- ris. Der the barbarian designe in, Sparta, pictures showing the King betrayed by a kiss, and Agie” in ¦ THE the mountains, suddenly knowing what was laid on him to do, a boy in the dawny and lambs on the hil.- side behind him, a

She suggests it in the last sup per of Kleomones and his friends before they go to death in Alexan- dria; in the rush through the city with Hippitas set upon a colt in the treatment of the body of the King who died for the people raised up that it may draw all men unto it and guarded by a serpent. The serpent is evoked by barbarinn magic; the King who died was a Stoic, philosopher; but the symbol, has become part of our Christian and philosophy have been fused.

TRAGICAL COMEDY, OF

0. HENRY..

CALIPH OF BAGDAD, Boing Arabian Nights Flashes of the Life, Letters and Work of 0. Henry (William Sydney Por- ter By Robert H. Davis and Arthur B. Maurice Appleton. 128, Gd. net.

All critics now place "O. Henry"

6 SETS BILLIARD LAMPS AND

SHADES

6 SET BILLIARD BALLS 1 Ser SNOOKER BALLS ́& ELECTRIC TABLE FANS -2 STOOLS

(Now lying on Second Floor of Nos. 193 and 195, Des Voeux Road Central).

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HR Undersigned

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ON

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6,

GomaamatNG AT 11 AM.

Ar Taxis SALES BOOM,

4, DUDDELL STEELT

4 PIECES FANOY SHOE CLOTH 12 BOLLS GOODYEAR PATH.

FINDER CAMEL BACK, 48 PIROES GOODYEAR RADIA-

ATOR HOSE

& ROLLS REBUILDING FALER 156 CANES TYRE AND TOP

DRESSING

108 Doz REPAIRING KIT

6 PIORS RED TUBES › .4 PIECES. WOOL MIXTURE

FANCY QUALITY

2 Pixers TROPICAL SUITTINGS 10 Boxza or GERMAN DYE

- 2 Casza AMERICANCES

!STEENES"

'LILA FOAM SOAP

4 CASES SUNDRIES SAMPLES.

1 LARGE WEIGHING SCALE:

1 CASE HOLLOW GOODS

1 IRON SAFE

7 FELT HATS

Also

A. QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND MISCELLANEOUS GOODS, Ero., Exc.

TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERY.

LAMMERT BROS,, AUCTIONFERS.

BY ONDER OF THE

MORTGAGEE.

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OF THE

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD'

PROPERTY

Situate at Kowloon and registered at the Land Office KOWLOON INLAND LUT: No. 1445.

PARTICULARS.

ARIA—126,000 Square Feet BOUXVARIES:-'

Northeast-BAN SHAN ROAD.

J850 Foot: Southwest:-A HAND URUNG ROAD. 880 Feat. Southeast-PAU CHUNG STREET,

860 Feet Northwest :-PAZ TAX BTEZETEN

NB-PAK TA STREET was formerly known as KOWLOOK CITY ROAD and

among the greatest masters of the MONDAY, JULY 13, 1931, was so named in the Crows Losse Plan

short story,

Many appreciations of his artis try are given in this definitive biographer, the outcome of a happy, clinboration, and a letter from Colonel House to the authors al ludes to one of the best of them.

A wayward and evasivo person-

COMMEMOIRO AT 2.30 P.M.

A THE SALES ROOM, 4, DUDDELL STREET,

A "VALUABLE

The property lios between, and near MA TAU WE ROAD and HowLOON CITT BOAD

ality vovealed in this record. COLLECTION OF CURIOS CHUNG ROAD, and Two 6. 16 sonrenging.

The chairwan is Mr. N. L. Sparke, dispose of his vast estates íà Aus. prices declined on the New York consciousness into which both mangio Like. Conrad's Lord Jim, ho folt

Mr. Sparke, for many years the

Mouth

judgment regarding Shanghai, land values is recognized by all." "He was the moving spirit a few

years ago

a last effort, to persuade Baron Louis from liquidating the firm in the formation of the Shanghai and, failing that, to assist in it.

July

|10.20 ̧

Oct,

10.69

Dec.

10.75*

0.01

10.26

10,63

Jan;

10.92

10.65

Property Owners' Association. Mr.

∙Mar.

70.17

Britton has provided the manage

May

Bpot

11.37 10.40

10.83"

-11.05

10.03 JASIA:

War and Love,

that an early mistake or misfor

Also

Large Bronze Incense Burners, Large Bronze Figures

New York, (June 29.-Cotton

Comprising a diffe trin and withdraw, from the coun-cotton market to-day. At the close the three other members of the

tune had fatally distorted both his Porcelain Vases, Bowls, Large and career and his character. Evidence Small Wall Plates, Flower Pots, Board being Mr. T. C. Britton, Mr.try, settling in England. Colour is the spot raw cotton price was quot lent to this report by the arrival ined at 10.05, off from last Saturday's

That is a great theme for any is here submitted which suffices AÐ Hugo Sandor, and Mr. A. W. Buck, Vienna, of Baron Anthony Hoths close at 10.40. The futures pasi-book: it could have been handled proof that he was not guilty of the large and Small Bowls, Porcelain sative head of the Shanghai Land child, brother of Lord Rothschild, tions were correspondingly lower heavily and stifly, but Mrs. Mit defalcations for which he was sen: Figures Ornaments, Brass and the head of the English branch. Following are the closing raw onthis has made as her vehicle to tenced to five years in an Ohio Bronze Ware, Lacquer Ware, Chinese hold it a rich and exciting story, penitentiary, where he was made Paintings, Embroideries, Blackwood Tavestment Co. is recognized as an

a living story, with adventure and night druggist" and treated with Joss Tables, Blackwood Cheste, expert property appraisor whose Baron Antony is believed to have ton futures price quotations:

June 27 June 20 wars and loves a story that con- great consideration

Blackwood Screens. Blackwood come with the intention of making

cerna people so real that they com He had become involved in the Opium Stools, etc., ste, pol our conviction, and dominate affairs of a badly managed bank, our minds throughout the entire and did not know enough about pageantry of thriv tanglod lives his responsible work there to put The manner of writing is what a stop to the depredations of others, she has taught us to expect So when the Federal authorities de laconic, matter-of-fact, and ecu cided to make a killing," he was crete detail Inid upon another, hor one of the victims. SKATE Tors and glories recounted with tha

His prison experiences, however same scher and assured detachment, gavo him an insight into the Ameri“ Readers with queney taste may can underworld, which was an in- here and there be disturbed by valuable asset in his story-telling physical violence and cruelty and An understanding sympathy with corruption, but only those complete the under-dog" and a knowledge On View From SATURDAY, the ly vitiated could take real offence of the queer pranks played by de at this arene and noble candour, stiny (some of which suggest what which neoopta all manifestations of Vachel Lindsay calls the triple econd life, and which rises in times of hinged surprises""" of his miniature draws) were familier reqared, in captivity. He could make friends with anybody, and tazun Failing, humour, nad 43,6 Tula ther than glad.illuminates #letters as well; be his stories.

THE SHANGHAI DOCK &

ment had developed the organiza the Board the results of many tion under which the Asia Realty years successful experience, in Co. has made its remarkable charge of the trading of the Asia growth. With previous banking Realty Co. Mr. Sandor will be the experience, his application of active director of the joint agency, modern methods to Shanghai real Mr. AW. Buck comes to the estate problems has been fruitful of Board as a senior member of the results, satisfactory alike to his "shershardeye and to the clients of Shanghai, and, lancement Calandere Benjamin do Potts-informa trayed; chanderia to yere

his company, nie podsecretary of the Shanghai Property

Mr Hago Bandor, a leader in Owners Association, land trading operations, hrings to which organizations he ha (Continued at food of next column.) Iserved, for many years.

ENGINEERING CO., LTD..

us that their Shanghai Ofios lins beauty! LAYERPRE wired them that the Shanghai Dose--I am art historian,

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& Engeering Company has declar-i know how nearly, in her ed a dividend of Tla, e por share hide-and-seek in the for the year ending April 30, 1981.) - Mitchison has found her way

and

Very Large Satcoms and Porcelain Vance,

GLITE Jazz, 1981.

BMS"— CASH ON DELITEKT:

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A Large Bbed. and other Building, now used by a monthly tenant foram automobile business, occupy part of the site. Allowing for a 60 ft Street from PAY SHAM ROAD to HA HANG lanes, the site a capable of subdivision into a house sites, 16 x 60" 6! lopment is given as an example only: fend sites 176695) Saoh dere- sams would require removal of the existing bulidinga.

Term-75 years from Stab January, 1929, with right of renewal for one further term of T your

Crown Bent $724 Per Annum)

The Property will be sold on THURSDAY, Tan Sri Day or JULY, 1981, Ar 8 P.M.

MERE. JAMMERT-BROS, Auctioneers,

BALES ROOM, No. 4 DUNNELL STAKES

B. Hong Kong

For Further Particulars, Apply to ME, LAMMERT EROS

NO.

DUDDELL STRENT, Hong

Hong Kong, June 21, 1981,