Cdeorapb. EXCELLENT CONDITION OF PROPERTIES Both the Cloielly and Kuala Kepia properties have been maintained in excellent condition and all permanent buildings are in a good state of repair. It will no doubt . interest you to know that the annual rate of yield per acre on Clovel

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prominent seller, quotations have given way, bars bein g quoted at 22 1/16d. per oz. at the close, which is the Lowest figure since December, 1908. The .stock of silver in Shanghai on Dec. 14 consisted of about in sycee, $126,000,000, and 8.540 silver bars as compared with about

1930, will be PAID on and after Jan. 6, 1930 (Saturdays excepted), between the hours of 11 and 3, at The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., where lists may be obtained. Coupons must be left three clear days for examination prior to payment. • • • . For The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd., D

Mr. Benjamin Charles George Scott, who died at his residence at Ealing on Dec. 19, was one of the senior past members of the Chinese Consular Establishment. Born on Sept. 22, 1846, he was in his 84th year. He went out to the Far East 62 years ago as Student Interpreter. In 1875

SIR E. BIRCH The funehl of Sir Erne:it Birch took place an Dec. 21 at Bexhill. The chief mourners were Lady Birch (widow), the Misses H. and E. Birch, Mrs. Cargill and Lady Wheler (daughters) ; Major Cargill and Sir Trevor Wheler (sonsin-law), Mrs. Patrick Birch (daughter-in-law

The eighteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the Clovelly Rubber Estate. Ltd., was held on Dec. 19 at the Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool-street, E.C., Mr. H. W. Hewitt (chairman of the company) presiding. The Secretary (Mr. R. D. Saw) having read the notice convening the me

; • , London, Dec. 17 . .—Great: Britain has throu44iOut 1929 shared in the general - silk trade depression. Price cutting from competitive Continental centres has eaten intO .margins• seriously, and. the great development of the silk industry. Canada, ;together ;with increased