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WOOL FLANNEL

Assorted Colors with Stipes

Prices 90 cts. to $1.30 per yard.

VIYELLA

Pure Wool. FLANNEL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TRADE WITH CUBA.

ITS IMPORTANCE TO

HONGKONG.

"Merchants_Must" Open Their Eyes."

We

interviewed ̄ ̄ ̄Mr. ̄ ̄ ̄. Harrington, the Consul for Cube, las: week, on the prospects of trading direct with that country in rice without the intermediary of the San Francisco houses. Mr. Harrington delivered him-

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1990.

NOTICE:

DAIRY FARM

J. T

NEWS.

CHEESE

SHAW

692

SILK HOSIERY

COLORS

BLACK

WHITE

per lb.

GREY

CURDY

NEW SHIPMENT JUST RECEIVED:-

self in the following vein-The Gouda Cheese

people here should open their

eves a little more. Why do the Edam Cheese

rice merchants in Hongkong nati

have their own agents in

Cuba Mostly all the rice Gruyere Cheese-

merchants here do their business either through San Francisco or sell their rice direct to Cuba without having an agent there. I There are two or three in the Colony who have agents in Cuba, but most of them quote the price to Cuba without having an agent]

American Cream

Cheese

OUR OWN

who can inform them of the Picnic Cheese

position of the rice importing

firms in that country. The rice

exporters here must realise that Cream Cheese

80cts. 80 ..

80

19

80..

MAKE :--

30

**

30.

14.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

it is essential, if they wish rice to do direct trade in with Cubs, that they must have themselves represented ia uba by a representative, who will keep them in touch with all the developments in that market. A big firm with a fine credit can go into bankruptcy as a result of faulty busine-s. There are many rice exporters here who roade a lot of money last year. Thes can afford to spend a little money In Aid of The Famine Fund.

to exploit the Cuban market well.

transaction is closed a latter of teredit is opened. The Cubans

are a wealthy people. They made! pats of money during the war in sugar, especially."

A.D.C. PRODUCTIONS.

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with

jar

pat

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE

(A FRENCH BANK) Capital Paid-Up and Surplus -Frs-105,000,000,00

ANY FOREIGN CURRENCY.

These accounts may be con- verted

The rice merchants here de not The curtais will rise at 9.30 knew what they are doing They pm sharp to-morrow night on know all the best rice-importing the "Golden Doom", the opening houses in Cuba Then why doplay of the evening, by which

The organisation of the Bank they not have their own time it is hoped everyone will be presentatives in Cuba? I think seated. The sequence of the rest enables it open CURRENT AC- the business in Cuba is done on a of the programme is as follows-COUNTS, SAVING ACCOUNTS and cash basis, that is when a Immediately after "The Golden fixed DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS in LOCAL

(The Assyrian Door), CURRENCY and Kismet Reminisences." the original music composed by Norman Peterkin for the A.D.C's "In the ordinary course, the 1916 production, in which Mrs. J.

appear S. Jennings will Cubans are accustomed to buyingMarsinsh and Mr. Howard their rice from the American?

Freeborn as the "Caliph." enquire the interviewer.

"In the usual way we were Following close buying

Hamburg and "The Glidering from Liverpool. These places general-Celestial Door).

Interval of 15 minutes the now an inmate of the Kwons did most of the business with

Cuba in rice. I think since the only interval during the evening. Wah Huspital.

War Hongkong became the

"The Lost Silk Hat". (The principal market. Bat the Hoog kong merchants are going to lose Georgian Door) and "The Com- We have been asked by the this trade, if they do not open promise of the King of the Golden

There is too much Isles "(The Chinese Door). Tract to notifs Lehair-eves

Dunsany's new play-which readers that Kennedy Rodd will jealousy on trilling things between

Prices $1.50 to $2.75 per yard.

MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

Chinese Man Killed.

The Polis report two further motor car accidents yesterday. one of which has proved to be it a fatal catare.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT.

haan's Lousas.

A9

thereon:- Gate (The

ATANY TIME WITHOUT ANY CHARGE in ANY OTHER CURRENCY. Apply for terms and particulars HONGKONG BRANCH Queen's Building. 5, Chater Road

DAIRY. FARM LOSSES.

Improper Use of Pass Books.

be open to raptor trate from the the rice merchants in this Colony has never been acted before and

It is stated that several thou- east end as far as the washer- There is a lack of unity amongst of which Hongkong will therefore'

this concession them. Ever since I came to this bave the privilege of witnessing sand dollars form the extent of will conclude the loss which the Dairy Farm As aluat. S o'clock last even having been granted for the con- Colony I have heard nothing from its Premiere) ing, wh let motorcar No. 99 was Ivenience of residents of the dis-rice merchant but complaints, the programme,

Company bas sustained through being driven along the Pratrics. The prohibitive signs will against his competitors. All this Bast, just east of No. Pollerbe noved to-morrow.

dɔwa Station, knocked Chinese man, of about 5 years of age. The wheels of the car must have passed over the man's body, for he died just after his adinission to the Government

',

GENERAL FISED

A Chinese Orchestra consisting the activities of thieves who bickering will possibly drive of a number of leading local have managed to obtain goods

their

At Feltham, on the 13th Sept.They must cease to consider the

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valne by the Cubans to bay

tha: rice from Saigon or elsewhere. 1amateur musicians will play be- totalling

fore the rise of the curtain on the production of stolen pass- suggest that the rice exporters The Compromise of the King" books.

To guard against such form themselves into an associa-and during the play.

losses. which were principally tion to protect their interests.

The same programme will be due to the credulity given to the Brigadier-General Edward Bous- Consul for Cuba as a highway repeated on the nights of the 30th thieves stories, the Company LAUNCH PARTIES

As the recently issued an intimation to teat Cuthbertson, Army and man. At this stage I may be perina and Nov. 3rd.

Do no account should a pass- The Police have arrester the Navy Clik, Pall Mall, was fined mitted to tell the merchants of theatre is booked after that, it all the compradore shops that book be surrendered to. anyone man driving the car and he is £2 for driving a motorcar at a Hongkong that the Consular fees will be impossible to give further

who represented himself as com- now in custody awaiting trial og greater speed than 20 mile an part by the merchants go into the performances,

ing from the Company.

Civil Hospital, his injuries boing

& crusted chest.

a charge of careless driving.hour on the Kingston Road at coffers of the Cuban Government jpją sieted chai be dià non son shiord in Juls. The General's and are not packeted by the his car after the accident.

in

The other accident took place

TO-DAY'S OBITUARIES.

the

constant tonch

On the 21st of August last, by The means of a trick, a young thief to obtained a pass-book from a shop

with

explanation was that he had been Consul, as some may imagine. as quickly as they can. held up on the road by a char-a-baye nothing to do with this Government allows those Street, Hunghom, bane for a quarter of a mile, and mones. This is mentioned og have rice stocks to store only at Pottinger Street and made Cooke

is 130,000 to 200,000 bags in the an order on the Dairy Farm

of lbs.

butter. As through which a Chinese woman when at las: he managed to pass the invoice. itself. There was knocked down and injured it he was greeted by the occup- a very big and important field for Government docks. The Govern-for

an extent the rice marchants desirous ofment will not allow any more.”

an order of such by motor car N. 245. She is ants with jeers and shouts.

trading with Cuba Caba is a

"How did the rice exporters could not be complied with mere- Prosperous country, and opportunites of trading are enorbere receive the news of the ly on the production of a pass- mous especially in rice as every. embargo placed by the Cuban book, the Dairy Farm Company body in Cuba eats rice, from the Government on imports of price rang up the shop in question, and found that their suspicions were The thief, however, richest to the poorest. Rice goes into the country ?”

verifed. "No merchant has come to

escape into every dish. I think the Cuba

wwer the bad made good his market has only been scratched see me since I lux by the Hongkong rice merchants. Consulate. That is very strange. by the time the enquiries ter- What about the trouble bef I were a merchant I would minated, but he was destined to be caught on a second occasion. tween Sao Francisco and Cuba be in with regard to rice contracts? "Consuls. I cannot understand when he attempted to practise

the trick again. The San Francisco pople are why the merchants do not come

An accomplice yesterday rang not the only ones to sell rice to to see me."--

up another compradore shop at Cuba. I think the San Francisco "Do you know of any firm that Pottinger Street, and made su house are connected with the has an agent in Cuba?

order, purporting to emanate from Cuban Rice Trust, or as it is other-

the Dairy Farm clerk, for the wise known as Compania de

surrender of the passbook for the Arroceros. There are at present in the hands of this Trust & may be others. If the Americans purpose of checking the figures million bags of rice in Cuba. represent that Cuban buyers do therein with the accounts kept by not pay, then it is not true. Why the Company. Some ten minutes The consumption in Cuba is about do they trade with them, seeing later, the young thief made his fifteen thousand tons of rice al that they do not pay? Merchants appearance at the shop, and was month. They calculate that usually do not wish to do business instantly arrested by the shop with men who do Got pay people, who, on this occasion, eight months time. That was their bills. The Cubans eat had taken the precaution of calculated when the Cuban Gov-other rice than the Saigon long-verifying the telephonic order. exament put the embargo which is called Canills. They

Inspector Blackman charged imports of rice from September do not eat Japanese rice which is the boy at the Police Court, before 5th last. No Cuban Consul is too hard, nor do they eat American Mr. N. Smith this morning allowed to riad any document rice. They consume a bit of and made a statement which relative to the exportation of rice Valencia rice, Bod that is showed that the boy was the tool to Cuba without a telegraphic for special

dishes. Cuban of bigger criminals whose identity, sanction from the Cuban Govern- Consuls have no interest in any through the silence of the pri ment. The embargo will be in business and are always prepared soner, was still a mystery,

A sentence of one month's hard force until the end of this year to help merchants. If the rice A notification issued by the Cuban Government stated that merchants in Hongkong combine labour and sight strokes with the and trade with Cuba, they could rattan was the penalty inflicted the - rice dealers of Caba

by his Worship on the prisoner. must tako up. their rice do a really big business",

THE KING OF GREECE,

MR. MacSWINEY, late Lord Mayor of Cork.

these stocks will be consumed in

I know of one firm here that bas an agent in Cubs. There

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