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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931.

SPECIAL

SALE

OF

DRESSES

This year's

fashions in

dresses specially priced from

$4.75

AND

HATS

HUNDREDS OF HATS PRICED FROM $2.50.

Make your choice at once at

LE BEAU

KING'S THEATRE BUILDING

D'Aguilar Street.

Phone

27892

Anniversary Sale

NOW ON

SPECIAL LINE FOR MEN

Silk Pyjamas

Plain or Striped Silk $7.75

(Usual Price $18.00)

Silk Shirts

Plain or Striped $3.50 (Usual Price $600)

Tie & Handkerchief Sets

In a Wide Range of Colours $1.95

(Usual Price $3.00)

Men's Silk Socks White, Black or Fancy $2:25 (Usual Price $3.50)`

TO LADIES ALL OUR NEW SUMMER SILKS IN THIS SALE.

TAJMAHAL SILK STORE

King's Theatre Building

D'Agullar Str

QUALITY

SILVER AND GOLD.

-AMERICA'S GOLD IMPORTS FROM FAR EAST.

The general economic and financial situation of the United States during 1030, with detailed descriptions · of the country's external trade, basic industrias, agriculture, transport, communications, and labour condi tions, in reviewed in a White Paper Issued by the Department of Over- soan Trade: "Economic Conditions in the United States of America" (Stationery. Ofce, price 3. net). The report is written by Sir J. Joyco Broderick, until recently Commercial Counsellor to the British Embassy at Washington, and Mr. Arthur J. Fack, Commercial Secretary to the Em bassy.

On the subject of gold and silver the report Bays:

In January and August, 1980, the monthly averages of the dally quota- tion on sterling were a little above par. In the remaining months, the averages showed a slight discount, the weakness being maintained in the last three months of the year, in spite of the fact that during that period interest rates in New York were lower than those obtained in London. Gold movements between the two centres during the 12 months were so small as to be negligible. Total Imports of gold by the United ended States during the 12 months last December amounted to $395,054,- 000 ($79,210,800), the principal con- Japan. tributing countries being Brazil, China, and Hongkong.

Exports of gold during the same 12 months included over $73,000,000 (£14,000,000) worth to France and over $30,000,000 (£7,200,000) worth to all to Canada, and amounted in

Pre- $115.007,000 (£23,193,400). liminary estimates of the stocks of monetary gold in the United States placed the total as at the end of December, 1930, nt $4,699,000,000 with (£908,600,000), as compared

At the $4,284,000,000 (£856.800.000) close of 1929.

Reference is made in the report tu the silver question, which "promines to develop into an international con- cern of the first magnitude." The principal causes assigned for the remarkable alump, it says are the general decline in world price levels, continued heavy output by silver- producing countries, the abandon- ment of the silver standard by British India, the sale on the open market of Indlan surplus stocks of the metal, proposals for demonetization of silver in Indo-China, Persia and Hongkong of the and, finally,

persistence

How- political disturbance in China.

the pricu ever responsibility for debacle may be allocated between of those various factors, the effect the decline was heavily felt in the Chinese silver currencies, which are now at lower exchange points than have ever before been recorded.

ZOO'S NIGHT PARTY.

CONTEMPTUOUS CAMELS.

London, June 4. Animala in the London Zoo wore provided with an evening'a enter- tinment last night when the par-3 dens were opened to the public for the-first evening this year. coloured Gaily

lamps shone round the edges of buildings and mong the trees, while a flood of light bathed the great restaurant where, to the soft music of a band, men and women in evening dress dined in the open nir.

The animals responded in dif- ferent ways.

The camels were

contemptuous and the grisly bear was so indiffer- ent that it lay asleep in a ridiculous attitude on a mound of rock.

The rivets and martens in their bandstand enclosures near the

were in a state of bigh excitement and rushed wildly round and round their cages at the strains of a foxtrot flowed by them.

Nobody enjoyed their night of human society more than the par- rots. The tumult from their houne could be heard some distance away. The most human of all in their reaction to the unwonted extension of the day's life wore the monkeys. Some fell asleep, while other per- formed fantastic acrobatic feats. A few, while keeping awake, showed disapproval of their visitors by making rude faces at them.

The lions and tigers scemed puzzled arid rather bored.

Always insist on having "BEAR" BRAND Genuine AWISS MILK from the famous mountain pastures of the Emmenthal, Switzerland. Stands unchallenged and foremost for RICHNESS, PURITY

and

DELICIOUS FLAVOUR

Obtainabló at all·le ding storas or from the Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China:~~~ A. B. MOULDER & CO., LTD.

Chios Building

NEW PEKING RUGS AND CARPETS.

also.

NEW SHIPMENT OF STUNNING BEACH PYJAMAS and

THE VERY LATEST LOUNGING PYJAMAS. JADE TREE. LTD. PENINSULA HOTEL ARCADE,

YEAR GUARANTEE

GENERAL

ELECTRIC ALL-STEEL REFRIGERATOR

On view at Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. Wm. C. Jack & Co., Ltd.

The General Electric Co., of China Ltd. ANDERSEN MEYER & CO., LTD. Sole Agente.

WHITE ANTS

and cockroaches will be banished from every place where care

taken to use.

FLUIDE EXPRESS.

unknie Opfor“

Central

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