THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 28,
1936.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
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Alternato Insortions 20% Extra.
If Not Prepaid a Booking Fee of 50 cents is Charged.
WANTED KNOWN.
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Hemstitcher-Picoter 5/-. Automutie!
SEWING MACHINE
2/-
Darner 2/→,
3/-.
Embroidery Brudder
Rugmaker Automatic Guaranteed atthus. Perfect Plenter
21 YEARS AGO, Extracts From The "Telegraph" Files
The following "xtracts are from 7/- (Recommended "Good House- keeping"). Magie Needle Threader the Hongkong Telegraph for the Sewing Out 17, Postfree (C.O.D.,week ended September 4, 1915.
Products, 1 2/- extra).
The rate of the dollar on de- Dept. II.T., Aqua House, Old Stelne, Brighton, England, Deinestle cote-mand was is. 9,7/164, Ingue frer.
Universal
TO LET
Mr. R. J. Kilby, of the Pacific Mail SS. Co., was entertained to a farewell dinner by members of The Olympic Tennis on hie transfer to San Francisco,
TO LET.-Non. 3 and 4 King's Park Buildings, Austin Rond. Kowloon, four-roomed Flats, Hot and Cold
Ramours current in London Chat Moderate rental. Apply water.
Company Union Trading Co., York Building, the Indo-China S.N.
would amalgamate with the P. and Telephone 27738,
6. Company were proved grouts!- less.
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
LATEST CABLED
QUOTATIONS
The following quotations on the New York commodity exchange are Issued by Router.
New York Cotton
11.43/3
11.48/40
11,61752
$1.53/54
41.53/68
11.00/60
11.62/02
11.56/50 11,62762 11.66/66
11.62/62
11.88
1467/67 11.88
New York Rubber
October
December
January
March
Mny
July
Spot
September
October
December
16.39/90
January
(6.42h
March
(6.4V/30%
May
16.575/50n
July
36.226/24 16.26/20 10.271
10,41 16-1742 145,41 16.61b/5a 18042/62 18,68b/70a
16.666/68
Total sales:-1,460 tons, Chicago Wheat
September 1119/111% December 110%/1104 May 109/109
The Douglas Steamship Co.. Ltd. declared a dividend of wine per cent,
WATER LEVELS
STATE OF RIVERS IN KWANGTUNG
The following returns have been Conservancy the River inued by
Pro- Commission for Kwanglung ivince, showing the water levels in English feet at the places of obser-
ation named:
Wet River at
K'qs rr ?r
West River at
Shlultiva North River at
Thingyuen
Highest Lowest
所
Τ
cerned securd Aug. 26 Aug. 27
$1.0 2.5
+49.0
A
23.0
1112/112
North River at
Shanhul Far Blver at
Sheklung
: 20.0
- +27,0
ກ
1
14,1
7.7
15.7
116.6 -2,7
3.1
2.4
110/110%
100/109
1104/110
December
1644/9634
May
9270245
9514/95% D14/00%
Winnipeg Whent
DA
98%/08%
169, 1903,
97%/97%
99%/99*4
Wednesday's sales: 20.557,000 bushelk, i
Chicago Corn
September 112/112%
October December May
AIRMEN LEAVE
Despite the threat of local showers,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. TIN RESTRICTION
DIOCESAN HOYS SCHOOL Founded 1869. Hongkong. Headmaster:--Rev. C. B. R. Sar- gent M.A. (Cantab.),
Next term starts on Tuesday, September 1st, at 8.30. a.m.
MAY CONTINUE
́REASONABLE HOPE OF
יז
AGREEMENT
WOMAN ROBS SISTER
HUSBAND HIDES STOLEN JEWELLERY
Charged with stealing seven London, Aug. 27. Announcement of the further post-articles of gold jewellery valued at $200, from her sister yesterday morn- poñement of the International Tin Committee meeting is welcomed In London as offering a ray of hope for the continuance of the restriction scheme which the majority of pro
New boys' tests will be held on Monday, August 31st, at 1 năm.
Entry forma, prospectuses and all particulars may be obtained from the Acting Headmaster.
It is pointed out that the Com Telephone No. 57777, P. O. Box 33.mittee would not have consented to
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS,
LIMITED.
Notice to Monthly Ticket Holders.
ducers desire to secure.
defer, the discussions unless Sinm made proposal, however informal. holding out a reasonable chance for agreement.-Reuter.
Monthly Tickets will be on sate, LONDON STOCK
in future, at the SHOWROOM of The HONGKONG ELECTRIC COM- PANY in the Gloucester Building Arcade instead of at Mesars. whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
September Tickets will be on sale on the 29th and 31st August, und the 1st and 2nd September, 1936.
The Showroom is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Saturdays when it closes at I p.m.
F. IL GLOVER, Acting General Manager. Hongkong, 15th August, 1936.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
LTD. CO.,
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim Dividend of One Dollar per Share has been declared for the six months ended 30th June, 1936, and will be payable on and after FRIDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER, 1936. Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Company's Registered Office, P. &0. Building.
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 31st AUGUST to THURSDAY, 10th
SEPTEMBER ·
(both days Inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be registered..
By order of the Board of Direc tors.
the New Zealand sirmen, Capt. F. GHB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
C. Chichester und Mr. F. Herrick took off from Kat Tak at five minutes past elght this morning on their way to The fliers Fort Bayard and Vinh. planned to stay the night at Vinh,
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH
SIXTH ANNUAL
Amateur Photographic Competition
Details have been unavoidably crowded out of this edition but the list of sections, rules and Entry Form are printed below,
SECTIONS:
SECTION 1
Story-Telling
SECTION 3
Views
SECTION 5
For Children
SECTION 2 Chinese Studies SECTION 4 Still Life SECTION 6. "News-happening”
DON'T DELAY—SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW
COMPETITION CLOSES, 5 p.m., 31st AUGUST
READ THE RULES CAREFULLY.
The following Competition1—
Ruten
gorviti the 7. No responsibilty will be accepted for
non-delivery, loss or damage.
4-The Competition le confined exclusively
to amateur photographers, 3-Pictures submitted in Sepia tonen should
be accompanied
smaller print i
black and white. -The Prizes will be awarded in the competitam sending in what are adladered to be the best photographs in each Becton, Each entry must be accompanied by form which will be publishef daily during the period of the Competition. 4-The right to publish any or all of the entries in the Telegraph is reserved. 4. Photographs which have been already entered in local competitions are elisible.
---At the bunclusion of the Dompetition
· entries- wili ·be returned, to competitori on application at this Outes within seven
·USE THIS ·
FORM AND LIGHTLY
PASTE IT
'GN THE
BACK OF EACH
ENTRY..
- SECTION
HAKE
ADDRESS
DATE DO
be less than 5.--Photographe munt not
Post-card air tercepting in the Children's Section) and the entry form abould be Ughtly parted on the back.
-No errespondence will be entered law
in connection with the Competition, 10.-Entries In the Children's Bection most
bear the name, age and address on the entry form countersigned by a sarvaL 11-No employee or member of any firm
in the photographie trade is permites
ta corapele.
12-Members of the Staff of the Hongkous Telegraphs and the South Chlas Morning Post are not permitted to compete,
38,in The decision of the Judæus shall be final.
Entry Form
Please use Block letteren and paste this on back of each entry If; entered in Chlidren's Section, parent please countersign
Agents.
Hongkong, 30th July, 1936.
CONSIGNEES NOTICES.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
The Steamship,
"PRESIDENT DOGMER"
No. 21 A/30
Bringing Cargo from Marseilles &c. Arrived Hongkong on Friday, the 21st August, 1936.
EXCHANGE
YESTERDAY'S CABLED
QUOTATIONS
Ori
27.
The following quotations are the middle prices at the close of the market in London
Aug. All quotations are subject to con- firmation and
no responsibility is assumed for errors in transmission. Last To-day's Price Price War Loan 3
redm, after 1952 £197% 107 Chinese 44% Bonds 1898 (Png. In.) Chinesa 5 Gali Bonds 1025-47 Chinese 432%
Loan 1908 Chinese 5% Loan
1912 Chinese % Reorg Loan 1913 (LK.
(Ias,) Chinese Imperial
£1034 £1034
£ 70%
£100
£84
S 90
£100
£ 84
£93
£ 03/
£ 95
£ 95 £ 0·
€ 64%%%
Illy, 5% Honan Aly. 5%. £ 68 Kukung Ry.
£544 1911 5% Lung Tang U. Hal
Rly, 1913 5% £313135 Shal-Nanking Bly.
£ 2012 Tient-Pukow Fly.
5% (Brit Stpd) 56- rient-Pukow Rly.
5 (Ger. Std) £ 4814 Tient-Pukea Riy,
5% (Brit. Stpil.
sup
Lonn)
Tient-Pukow Itly.
Loan 1924
of 1. A. & C.... £ 15% B.K & Shai Bking
€ 79
£ 50
£ 184
Supl.
£ 49
€ 48
Supt. Luan)
5% (Ger. Stpd.
Japan
5% Sterling
Loan 1007
Japan
0% Sterling
£ 48 £ 404
£80 £80
£98 £ 8814
German 7% In-
ternational Loan 1924 Chartered
£60
Bank
£007;
£ 15
་
Chinese Engineer-
Corpn. (Lon. Regd.)
102
£102
ing the Mining (bearer) ...
Chosen Corpn.
9/0 10/7
9/9 10/7/2
Pekin Syndicate .
2/9 2/9
S'hal
Shai Electric Con-
straction Co.
Waterworks.
45/6
45/0
34
341
Insurance
Soc. of Canton
33%
331⁄2
Rubber****
28/3
28/3
35/3
35/-
55/
55/-
54/0
54/4
57/9
123/14 122/0
14/0 14/3 26/3 27/115 52/3 52/3
58/3
107/0 30/0
107/0 30/-
.80/3 30/3
150/- 150/- 28/9 20/0
Consignces are hereby informed Union that their goods with the exception
ore Dolum Tecure and Valuables Gula Kalumpong
Janded and stored Into the Godowns of the longkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may bo obinined immediately after landing. All claims must be sent in to me on or before 31st August, 1936, or They will not be recognized.
Cx-
Allied Ironfoun-
ders Associaind & Elec- trical Industries Austin Motors ord Boots Pure Drug. Belt-Amner. Tob.
(bearer) Damaged Packages will be
Laird, amined by the Company's Surveyor Cammell,
ord. Messrs.-Goddard & Douglas in the
afexican Eagle presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 27th August, 1036. Courtaulds Consignees must have a Revenue Distillers Ofileer in attendance, when any dull- Dunlop Rubber
Electric able goods are
the General examined by
(England) Company's Surveyors.
No Fire Insurance will be effected Guinness (A) Son
& Co. by us in any case whatever.
Aircraft Hawker Bristol Acroplanes
J
R. CHL.
Agent. Hongkong, 21st August, 1830.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
The Steamship,
"SI-KJANG"
54/6 54/0
onl Imp. Chemical
Industries..... 30/6 30/6 Imperial Tobacco 108/14 108/11/2 Marks & Spencer
"A" ord.
O.K. Bazaars
C.
Rolls Royce Tate & Lyle Turner & Newall No. 10 AEO/30
United Steel Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk, Vickers, ord Antwerp &c., arrived Hongkong on Woolworths Friday, the 21st August, 1936.
Anglo-Dutch Consignees are hereby informed Rubber Plantation that their goods with the exception Investment
Trust of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being tanded and stored into the Burma Corpi Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon
onwealth Com Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- Mining toon,
whence delivery may be Marsman Invest- obtained immediately after londing. ments
All claims must be rent into me Randfontein on or before 31st August, 1938, or they will not be recognized,
Damaged Packages will be amined by the Company's Surveyor Messrs.-Goddard & Douglas in the presence of the Consignees ut 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 27th August, 1930. Consignees must have a Revenue Omeer in attendance when any dutf- able goods are examined by the Compuny's Surveyors.
ex-
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
R. om.
Agent. Hongkong, 21st August, 1930.
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS” EVERYWHERE
Es-
89/44 90/- 56/3 55/0 170/3 170/3 89/0 80/0 107/8 108/-
35/3 35/3 32/1033/ 131/0
140/6 27/3 27/3
31/15 31/1/1⁄2 10/0 10/0
0/- 0/-
-33/-
32/0
70/3 77/0 40/- 10%-- 242/6 *- 242/0
tates Spring Minea Sub-Nigel Tanami Gold
Mining.. Anglo-Iranian- Burmah
Transport Shell
and Trading (bearer) Chinese 5% Sterl- ing Notes 1920 (Vickers)
2415 Canton Kowloon
Hly. 5% ........... 324
1/3
1/8 89/1% 68/0 05/72 .86/3
105/74 107/7/
27 12
314 --Reuter,
FACING DEATH
Moscow, Aug. 27. The Russian Military Attache in London, who was recently recalled, is the latest to be charged with com pilcity in the so-called Trotsky plot and it is expected he will be sen- tenced to death after his trial Reuter Bulletin Service:
Pun King-sin, married woman, living at No. 1 Tak Ku Ling Road, was brought before Mr. E. 1lims- worth at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Her husband, Chan Wai-yan, 24, employed in the home of Dr. Grimil, of the Kowloon Hos- pital, was charged with receiving the stolen goods.
10
the
Del-Seat MacPherson stuted that complainant, Lo King, and recently come from the country to visit her sister. Wishing to go to market in the morning, she looked under her pillow where she kept the jewellery and found it was missing. She im- mediately reported the luss at 11.30 poller, who sent Det.-Sgt. MacPherson and a Chinese constable to investigate.
First defendant, the | tu
married woman, was acting suspl- clously, and
she was arrested and taken to the station, where she nd- mitted having stolen the jewellery, but gave seven different stories as to where she had taken it. Finally she told the police that she had gone to the Kowloon Hospital and had It to her husband, telling him given to keep it for her. Second defendant denied that he had been handed a package by his wife, and stated that he had not seen her the whole day, Second defendant lived at home and went to his work from there dally. After further questioning he nimitted that he had been
21 Kiven
small pockage, but stated that he did not know what was in it. He hid the package in the rear of a cupboard, us he said his room at the Hospital. was not safe because it could not be locked.
11 Worship thought second de- fendant's story that he did not know what was in the package was n ile, and that he hid the goods in trying to shield his wife.
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bound defendant First over in the sum of $20 to keep the peace for one year, whilst a fine of $10 was inflicted on second defen- dent, with an option of one mouth's imprisonment.
TRAFFIC CASE DISMISSED
CHIEF INSPECTOR PROSECUTES
A summons by Chief Inspector Booker against n lorry driver, Au Mun, was heard at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, before Mr. charge against Macfadyen. The accused was that he drove his lorry, No. 4355, on Castle Peak Road on July 25, in dangerous manner
Chief Inspector Booker stated that about 5.30 p.m., he was travelling in car driven by his wife in the direc- tion of Castle Peak. Approaching u bridge about 200 yards beyond the milestone, Mrs. Booker saw a ninth Jorry coming in the other direction and pulled over to the left, the left wheels of the car actually running over the grass bordering the road. The lorry crossed the bridge, well on the wrong side, whereupon witness look down its number.
In evidence by Inspector and Mrs. Booker, I was stated that the lorry was currying baskets. This was
denied by the driver, who suid that on the day in question, he carried nothing but sand.
Remarking that there was just a possibility of a mistake, the Magis- irate dismissed the summons.
OTHER CASES Deciding that both men charged with driving without due care and caution were in foult, when Lam Huen, driver of public car No. 1082, and Leung Hee, driver of lorry No. 3282, again appeared before him as the result of a collision on Castle Peak Rond on July 18, Mr. Mucfad- yen Imposed a fine of $12 on cach,
The drivers collided with rach other because both were guilty of rounding corners in the middle of the road, according to a statement nade by the police ut a previous
ticaring.
A plea that he was looking for a garage to x his light was put for- ward by I. S. le Gay Brereton when he appeared in answer to a sum- mons for failing to show a red rear light at night. He was Aned $5, Mr. Macfadyen kolding that he should either have enrried a spare bulb or not driven his car.
Real Internationalism.
Moscow, Aug. 10. Sculptors from all parts of the world aro invited by the Borlet Government to submit plans for a number of monuments to faxim Gorki, the famous author, who died on June 18.
The AR-Union Committee' "of' Arts propose to erect the memo. rials at Gorki, Moscow and Lenin- grad. All pláne must be submit- ted by October 1, 1937. Twelvo prizes will be awarded.-Router.
GOMBOES RETIRINGT
Budapest, Aug. 27. Hungary's strong man, General Gomboes, has been severely striken with an internal complaint which is expected to enforce his retirement shortly-Reuter Bulletin Service.
Three great stars-united in danger,"Täughter and love--head the cast of 20th Century's film, "A Messope to Garcia," starting to-day at the King's and Alhambra Theatres. Thep are Barbara Stanwyck, Wallace Beery and John Boles, seen abore.
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