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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

MARKET

PRICES.

1912-

moro Toet matoles than any man

alive. The match against Eng-

Twenty-Three Years in Bed.

land at Lord's on June 24th

HERE AND THERE.

COMMERCIAL

Hongkong, August 2, 1912.

· BUTCHER MEAT.

Ots.

Beof Sirloin & Prims Cut,-Mei Lang Pe

Cornel-Ham Ngau Yuk...

11.

Roast,-Shiu

1

Broast,--Nagu Lan

Soup,-Tong Yuk

Steak, Ngan Yuk Pa

"

6.9

do. Sirloin Colom-Ngan Lau Sausages,-Ngaa Chaung

Bullock's Brains-Kaow.....

52

"

· Tunguo frosh,-Ngau Li

corned,-Ham: Ngan Li

Head, Ngau Tan

Heart-Ngau Sum

DA

Hump, Salt,-Ngau Kin

Fool,-Ngau Kosk

Kidueys-Ngau Yi

441

Tail,-Ngau Mor...

#

Salmon.-Ma Yan Y,

lb. 44

肉食

Shark, Sa Yu, ...

9

Skato,--Po Yu

11

32

Snapper,Lap Yu

36:

迎您

28

沙熊

18.

28

66

Tonch,Wan Yu

lb. 20.

Shrimps,Ha

20 241 Boles,-Tat Sa Yu-

Turbot,--Cho How Yu

Turtles, small, fresh water,-Kork, Yu

White Bait,-Ngau Yu Chai

Almonds, Hung You...

FRUITS

***

Apples (Californis)—Kem San Ping Kho

(Chefoo)Tia Chun Ping Kho

Custard,-Fan Lai Ohi

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Bananas, fragrant, Ounton, Sun Sling Henng Chiu 1b.4

(bridos), Macao, San Houng Chiu Chestnuts, Chinese,-Foong Lut

***

brought his number up to fifty, Russian General Oll Corporation,

"The days of our years are and Australians in England have

threescore years and ton, sings got up a testimonial to com- Details aro now published of the Pealmist; and the mann or memorate this record. * the Russian General on Corpora- woman who attains that age Though. "Syd" is now a very tion (Limited), the share of spende years of his life in doing fine bat, and when across here in which were to bo introduced on what are rogarded as common 1800 handed his side's averages, the London Stock Exchange on daily actions.

scoring nearly 1,500 runs, it was July 8. The Corporation has a The average person of seventy not as a bat or bowler that he share capital of £2,500,000 in has spent no fewer than twenty- was first asked to represent his shares of $1 each, of which three years of his life in bed, country, but simply as a fielder. £1,250,000 has been issued for assuming that his nightly sleep He is the only living oricketer of cash, the balance being held has been eight hours throughout whom that can be said.

in reserve. The company has

銀雞懂

life. Most people spand about Good judges consider him the been formed for the purpose of fifteen minutes a day over the best fielder at cover-point in the developing oil properties in

菓子

care of their tooth. The septun history of cricket, not even Jessop Russia. The Corporation has

gonarians have thus apeat oxcopted. One recort, at løset, already entored into negotia almost a year in this way. he holds as a fieldsman that is tions with a certain number of

How long have they spout at not likely ever to be equalled. producing companies and reflas table? Allow half an hour for When folding against South ries in the Baku district, and it is each moal, and the answer is six Australia at Adelaide once in a stated that these arrangements, years. Thoy oat on an average hot run, he turned sleepy for a when completed, will practically Fimono loaf of bread a day. In all moment. Mid-off shouted, "Look ensure to the Corporation this their life three inilos of loaves out, Syd!" Tho startled fields-control of a yearly production of have been consumed, supposing man saw something black dart petroleum of about 75,000,000 that the latter are put end to end. past him, shot out an arm, and poode. Including ton, coffee, and milk, brilliantly caught—a bird!

As the whole of the issue has been subscribed, no,

20'

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20

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牛柳...

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Livor,-Ngau Koa

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Tripe (undrossed),—Ngau To

Calve Head & Foot,-Ngau-obai-tau-kark Mutton Chop,-Young Poi Kwot

30

11

Log, Young Poi

Shoulder,-Young Shan

Piga Chitlings, Chu Chong

Brains,-Ulm Know

Foot, Chu Kark Fry-Chu Chuk

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Carambola-Young Tue...

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Cocoanuts,Yoh Tse

+45

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Bot $1

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Linics, (Saigon)-Sai Kung Ning Moong

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BOL 50

Hoad,-Chu Tau...

Hart,-Uhu Sum...

Kidueye, Chu Yiu...

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,,Livor,-Chu Con

Pork, Chop, Chu Pai Kwat

10

Cornell, -Ham Chin Yuk Log, Chu Po.

Fat or Lard,-Ulu fo

Shoop Hond and Fool,-Ar

oach 6

Lemons, China,-Ning Moong

America,Kum San Ning Moon Lichees Dried,-Lai Chi, small Stone

Fresh,

Maugo, Manila, Lui Sung Mong

Mangosteens,-San Chuk Teo

Oranges, (Canton)-Sun-shing Tim Ching

Swoot

Pears, (American),-Kam Son Shoot Lay

17

(Canton), Cooking,--Sa Lay Peanuts, Fa Sang

***

Persimmons Large,-Hung Chie

***

省企

throo hundred barrels of liquid • Strange ways of Sleeping.

have been accounted for,

Different nationalities woo the

The office man of seventy, has fickle goddess of sleep in different

scriptions are being invited.

Rubber Dividends

put in five years in walking to ways. Europeans and Americans Valambrosa Rubber Co., Ltd. the station and to his office. A like a soft pillow under the hand. has declared a final dividend of woman of seventy, evon simple in The Japanese, stretching himself 18. 7 1-5d. The Directors of her dress, has taken seven years on a rush mat on the floor, puts Ulu Piah, Ltd., announce

a harl, aquaro block of wood un- dividend of 20 per cent, for the

Ein olothing borsolf,

樂

10 本地波耀

644

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each: 18

Pino-apples, 1st quality-Peon Ti Paw Law occhi

2nd -Chung-tang Paw Law Plantain,-Tai Chet 猪排

**

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Plums,-Swatow, Hung Lai

**

Pumolo, Sisin, Ohim to You

Shanghai-Lo Kwet

Walnuta,-Hop Tuo

Groon, Sang Hop Tuo

Water Malon,(Am.) Kom San Sai Kwa

(China) Sai Kwa...

Grapes, Sang Po Tai Tse

VEGETABLES, &c.

Artichokos, Shanghai, Sheung-hoi Ah. Ohi

4-Boans, (French), Macao, Oh Moon Pin Tau

<

8中等波蘿

A man and a woman who have

der his head, and does not sleep current month, The London

renched the allotted span of life if he does not have it.

will have used six hundred pairs

of boots between them, four

hundred dresses, and fivo hundred

late.

Tobacco Talk.

Asiatic Rubbor Produco Co. hivo,

In China the beds are very low, sold forward 64 tons of the 1913.

scarcely rising from the floor, but

they are often carved exquisitely crop at an average of 4v. 73-11:

of wood. The Russian likes no sleeping place so well as the top. If your tobacco begins to mil- of the big soapstone stove in his dow, don't throw it away. It can dwelling, and, crawling out of ensily be restored. But the whole this blistering bed in the morn- of it must be treated, as one spoting, be delighta in taking a plungo

F. M. S. Tin and Rubbar. Official figures of the export for. June, &c., give, the following: corresponding figures for 1011 are given in brackets,

Tin for June, 12,752 pikule (12.574); tin ore June 15,573

of mildow. is sufficient to taint a in a cold stream, even if he has to whole tin or jarful. 縮機

break through the ice to do so. pikuls (51,628); total 53,326: 上海勢骨 合祧

Lay the tobacco on some mus-

lin, and hold the muslin over the

spout of a kettle for a minute.

The steam will kill the fungus,

each 16 and when the tobacco dries it will

3

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生否姫于

菜蔬

Ta 澳門邊路

上海豐邊

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4.

1

榮榮

140

8

ILA

·

... oaoh' 5

紅榮酒

150

1+6

8

11

14

5

10

Heart, Young Sum

"

Kidneys,-Yeung Yiu

Liver, Young Cou

Suoking Pig», To Order-Chu Ch..

Suot, Boof-Sang Ngau Yaa...

Mutton, Sang Young Yau ...

Veal, Ngan Ohai Yuk

Sausages,--Ngau Chai Chaung

9

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1b. 21

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.,, 22

47

20

44-00

22

20 47-4:0 Chouk

lb

20

POULTRY,

生口

***

(French) Shanghai,-Shoung Hai Pin Tou

Sprout, Al Cho

:-

Chicken, Kai Chai'

Capone, Largo, Small,-Sin Kai

Long, Tau Ko

lb 32

32

19

21

鸭

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THA

144

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Eggs. Hon-Kai Tan........'" ...

Fowls, Canton,-Kai

Hainan, Hoi Nam Kai

Quoc, Ngôi

15

10

+

Goose, Wild S'hai, Shang-ho You Ngoi

Musk Door, Wong Kong

Hare, Shanghai, Tu Chai

por doz 24

:饭

Cabbage Red,-Hung Yea Choy

lb 30

Cabbage, Shanghai,Yeh Choi

32

Cane Bhoots, bunch,-Kou Shun

27

#A

pair

上海好篇

ebeh

MAX

47

Partridge, Che Khoo

Pheasant,Shan Kai

Pigoons, Canton,-Pak Kup

山鷄

exch 30

#

DA

Ducks, Ap

Doves, Pau Kau ...

EXAM

Boot Root,--Hung Choi Tau

Brinjale, Green-Ching Yunn Rod,-Hung Ker

"

Cabbage, Chinese, com,-Kai Choy

***

Cauliflower, Large size,-Tai Yeh Oho Fa

Medium size,Cheung Yeh Cho Fa

Small size,-Sai Yen Ŏkoi Fa

Carrots,-Kam Shum

| Celery, Chinese,Tong Kan Choi

English-Young Kan Choi

Chillies Dried,Gon Lot Chiu

Red, Hung, Far Chiu

Green-Ching Lat Chiu

RE Curry Stuff, English-Kar Leo Chu Liu

1

pair $1-

413

Hoihow,-Hoi How Pak Kup,

Quail,-Um Chun

Rice Birds,-Wo En Choul ...

Snipo, Sa-Choy

Turkoys, Cook-Phor Kai Kung

31

Ilon, P No Wild Ducks, Bhai-Shang hoi Sui Ap Tool, Sui Ap Chai,

***

+

Wild Ducks Osaton-Sang-Shing Sai Ap

...

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25

141

#

dozoa

Back

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lb. 85

45

"

水鴨仔|

FISH.

fazi 3F#

be as good as ever.

If your tobacco, instead of mildewing, has turued dry and

In Lapland the native crawls, pikuls (64,202), a decrease of Approximate head and all, into a bag made of 5,876 pikule..

reindeer skin. The East Indian, value in Singapore $5,701,813

the other end of the world, also (80,132,018); duty $748,840 has a sleeping bag, but it is moro

porous than the Implander's, and

its purpose is to koop out the mosquitoes rather than to keep its

brittle, use a spray. A perfume occupants warm.. spray costs only a few ponoe at a chomist's. Load it with cold

water, and spray the tobacco

gently, having first strewn it out

ovonly on a flat surface. ·

The German not only sloops on a feather bed, but underneath one as well.

The Moon's Monthly March. Why does the moon vary so

(8783,051).

Tin, January to June 1912- Block Tin 98,108 pikuls (265,453); Tin ore 208,140 pikule (265,803); total 301,261 pikuls (349,250); increase 41,007 rikols. Duly $4,870,104 (84,158,120).

Wolfram, June, 310 pikuls (1,306)..

Gold, Juno, 700 oz.; total for

If, when you are at the seaside, much in the 27 days 7 hours dur-yoar 6,470 oz.

you find that your favouritsing which she revolves round the Rubber, June 2,306,015; total

cigars or cigarettes have "gono earth? As a matter of fact, the six months 15,382,205 (against

off" do not blame the local moon shines by reflected sunlight,

tobaconist. The fault lies in the and the amount of light she gives

[son air. The salt in it makes depoads upon her position rat

cigare and cigarettes "sick," to only with regard to the earth, but 紅柳茶 uval 10

with the sun as well.

use the technical phross. Many men stationed in the

tropica pack their cigarettes and

cigars in tea, which absorbs the

**ant moisture of the air.

8,349,397).

South African Export Trade.

South African produce export-

ed. everses for the five months

onded May last, represented a

When aun and moon are op value of £20,000,000 and the im-

posite one another in line with ports £15,260,000, an increase

our own planet, we get what we of £3,250,000 and $250,000 re

call a full moon, and the now spectively. The proportion of

imports from the United Kingdom

The Most Luxurious Train. moon and quarters naturally de- The Russian Royal special pead upon the remaining post was 60.4 per cent. train is the heaviest and most lion of the three heavenly bodies. laxurious in Europe. When it Tho moon is nearly a quarter

I was constructed it was devised to of a million miles from the earth, stand a charge of dynamite, and and bosides giving reflected light, Eit cannot be taken fast ovor most she also, in a minor degree, gives

of the European lines, because reflected heat. their metals are too light.

11

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16

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lb.

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39

中国坔花

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20.

14

10

#

10

Ritter Squash,-Fu Kwa

Cucumbers Ching Kwa

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148

Mushrooms, Fresh, Sang Cho Koo

#

10

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..

old-Lo Koung

...

海鮮

Garlic,-Que Tau...

Ginger, young,--Sun Tes Keung

19

Horse Radish, Shanghai,-Lik Kun

Indian Corn, Suk-Mai

Lottuce, Yeung Sang Choi

Water Chesnuta,-Ma Tai...

Mandarin,-Kwai Lam Ma Tai

Mush Melon. Amer.-Kam-san Hong Kwa Okroes...

Onions Bombay,Young Chong Tau

Groen, Bang Chong

Shanghai, Shang-hoi Chong Tau

Papaw, 1st qual, Tai Man Sau Kus...

2nd

Parsley, Kun Cho

Green Peas,-Ching Tau

Cla

Bream-Bin Yu

Carp, Li Yo...

Catfish, Chik Yu...

Codfish,-Mun Yu...

Barbel,-Ka Yu

Canton Fresh Water Fish,

lb 9

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Frogs,-Tien Kai

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Herrings, Teo Pak...

240

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350

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30.

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32

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491

...

28

22

Orabs,-Hai

Cuttle Fish,-Muk Yu

Dab, Sa Mang Yu

Doce, Wong Mei Lun...

Dog Fish-Tit Tu Sa

Eels, Congor,-Hoi Mann

Fresh water, Tam Sin Yu... Eols, Yellow, Wong Sin

Garoupa,Sek Pan...

Gudgeon, Pak Kup Yu

Halibut,Ohioung Kwan Kap Labrus, Wong Fa Yu...

Loach,-Wu Ya

· Lobsters,-Lung Ha

Mackerel,-Chi Yu... ... Monk Fish, Mong Yu ... Mullot, Choi Yu

464

Oysters, Sang Hoo

*

Parrotfish,Kai Kung Yu...

Parah,-Tan Loo

Piko-Fa Paw Poong

Plaice,-Pan Yu

+

Pomfret, Black, Hak Chong

Pomfret, White,Pak Chong

Puune Ming" Hada

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Rosoli-Chun Yumm

**

190

20

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20

18

40

62

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each10

APPEAL TO PEKING.

Money.

The lunar surface in broken by Wuchang's Immediate Need for The train contains a small vast mountain ranges, and one of chapel, with an icon of peculiar the poaks rises to a height of sanctity, a library, bathi-rooms, 30,000 fest. Photographs of the

drawing-room, dinning-room, and moon were first taken ià 1840. `

bed-rooms. The servants' quart-

era are at the rear, and consist.

simply of an ordinary van

OBITUARY,

A native paper says Generals

Li Lae sent a despatch to the Pre- sident to the follwing effect :

"According to the report of President Li Chung-hsusn of the

#4* like carriage arranged with Former Hongkong Resident Dies Bureau of Finance at Wuchong,

sleeping bunks as if on board

ship. The train is so made that.

4 it can be changed to fit the Rus-

lb 15

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6

14

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6 EM

410

Chung

8

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400

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3

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...ench10

上日我州

Potatoe, Sweet,-Fan Shu

aLa

"

Shanghai, Shang-hoi Shu Tsa

+44

Japan-Yut Poon Shu Tes

442

#

American,Fa Ki Shu Tea

8

123

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149

Pumpkin-Tong Kwa

A Radiah-Hung Lo Pak Taai

Rhubarb (Frean), Tai Wong Sago, Teo So Shallots,-Gon Chung Tan

A Spinnchi,-Yin Choi

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Tomatoes, Fan Ker

Faros,-Wu Tau

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144

14

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Panti, (Long), Lo Pak

English,-Yanng Lo Pak,

Vegetable Marrow,-Chit Kwa

sian or the mid-European gauge.

Ivory from Milk.

at Yokohama.

it is learned that $2,000,000 was:: to be delivered from the foreign

The death took place on July loan of $10,000,000 to relieve

22 at Yokohama of Mr. E. Powys, the Hupeh finances and that

who resided in that alty for forty- 5,000 piculs of copper wos ale to

One of the latest discoveries of four years, and for many years le transported from Tientsin for

the synthetic chemists is how to was associated with the firm of the coining of copper conta at the

make ivory out of nothing more Lane, Crawford & Co., Ld. Born Hupeh mint. It is a great ploa wonderful than cow's milk-and in the Midlande, and serving his

sure to hear this. The financial! vory good ivory at that, according apprenticeship in the drapery condition of Hupsh is becoming to all accounts. The original idea business, Mr. Powys came to the more critical than ever. All the go was to use the new ivory "for East in 1868, being in Hongkong verament banknotes, copper coats. 47 piano and organ keya because and Shanghai for about two years. and silver are exhausted. The

3fit preserves its original colour Arriving in Yokohama in 1868 fanda remitted by the central

indefinitely, whereas the genuine he entered into business on his

Government and the contribu- article turns yellow after a time. own account as gentlemen's out-

But it has been found that the fitter. Latter on the business tions from cities have been new product is not only an was absorbed by Messrs. Kirby the Hupeh Government in used. The only resource of Tefficient substitute for ivory, but & Co., Mr. Powys remaining with

can easily be prepared so as to the firm until it was bought out and the amount collected per Balt tax and liking take the place of amber, horn, by Mossre, Lane, Crawford & Co.

都道彀

2

(American),Kam-san Chit Ky

Kwa

Water Cross-Sai Young Cho

Yom

Lily root,-Lin Ngan

To Shu

The prices necessarily vary from day to day and the Bonitary

Board has no power to compal stallholders to sell at the prices quoted.

W. BOWEN ROWLANDS,

the

coral, celluloid, and such-like Mr. Powys transferred his ser- month does not exceed T producte, and, it is claimed, can vices to the latter firm, with whom 4,000,000. The expenditure of hardly be distinguished from he remained until five yours ago larger and the pay of the soldiers the administration has become when he retired. At this time

theta

It is in its position as a sub- he was one of the directors of the fast that those disbanded havo has not diminished owing to the stituto for ivory that the new company, and continued finan material has the appearance of cially interested in the business been given double pay on leaving being another instance of im up to the time of his death The defleft of this month exceeds proving upoo Nature. The new "N.O.D. N."

ivory takes a very high and, last ing polish, and will probably not

as natural ivory continues to grow

lack a commercial field for itself,

Chinese Pork Unsatisfactory.

|

Tis. 1,000,000, and the accounts

of the administration have pl

yet been squared. Negotiations

Offloor of Health for the City of loan of The 1.000.000 with

Dr. Collingridge, the Medical have been going on to conclude acaroar and dearer year by year. London has reported unsatisfe: foreign firm of "Chef Chen,

In Fifty Tests

forily on the conditions under the contrast The present Australian captain, which frozen from Chim Tibigued owing to Mr. S. L. Gregory, has played in!

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