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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1931.
Wo ara Informed by tho RSOME SIDELIGHTS ON 1020 as the equivalent. Also in
gistrar that the meeting of the Court of the University has, for unavoidable reasons, been postponed
until 5.15
27.
p.m. on Monday, April
SILVER.
the formula they use to arrive at the conversion rate of 110.90 they allow only 1 per cent. for tho superior finchoss of bar silver over
The meeting will be held in "Subject for Prayer and aycees As the latter is reduced
the University.
A painter named Yip Hung (21)
was taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from injuries to
Fasting."
SECRETS OF 'SYCEE.
by copper alloy' to about 985 fine, this allowance assumes that bar silver is about 995 Ane" instead of 998 fine: So here we have another slight difference. "
our out
his head and hands, resulting from) Mr. C. Champkin, In the course If we export sycee for remeltling [a fall off a scaffold whilst painting) of a witty address before the into bar silver, and base the outside of No. 236, Queen's Rotary Club of Hong Kong at the turn upon the certifled markings of Read West, first floor.
weekly timin yesterday dealt in on the Kongku, we shall find that in original manner with the subject of an A Chinese woman, Kwong Mui, silver, his subject being "This shoes, there will be a still further average shipment of 20,000 was arrested at Yaumati Railway Silver Business."
less of 2 per cent. on fineness and Station in possession of 6,011 Can- Mr. Champkin, who caused much 2 per cent. on weight. ton po pui lottery tickets, valued at amusement with his comments re-losses moreover
These little
that we are buy-
$2,681. In the Kowloon Police Court garding the Chinese trel, neverthe-have announced occur when 10 to-day, she was fined $50 or one less gave an interesting expositioning sycee specially for export, in month's Imprisonment.
of the currency problem in China. which case the mint shops charge Mr. Champkin, after stating that us 1/32 per cent. more for what is Found in a dwelling house at 35, in some respects he might feel an termed Portland Street at 12.15 a.m. and unetuous satisfaction in the re-really, real sycee, and
Dew aycee that is, the unable to give a reasonable exflection that he stood, as it were, in ordinary syeee that
not the planation for being there, a Chin- local parentis to
the local Rotary sycee.
is only real ese, Cheung King, was in the Kow- Club, said that he wished to make light difference.
So here we have another loon Police Court to-day sent to it clear that what he knew about
The conversion Jail for three months.
rate of 110.90 currency entirely concerned other monetary tacls for 100 Canton taels people's hoards.
of bar silver 938 fine is not a per- manent rate. It is true that being
Unsolved Mysteries.
An official notice has been issued. to the effect that Captain Parry, of Theoretically, a monetary, tacl of merely a rate for the conversion of H.M.S. Vindictive, is promoted to the conventional fineness of 985 is one kind of silver into another it Rear-Admiral, and has been placed said to equal in value a Chauping should be permanent, but it changes on the retired list.
H.M.S. weight tael of silver 916-2/3 finc, with the price of charcoal that is Vindictive laf: Sheerness on March ho said; or, to put it in another way, extensively used in the remelting G for trooping duties in the Far a thousand Chauping weight taels processs. It has also been known to East.
of silver 985 fino are worth 10754 change for other reasons. monetary taels. The Chauping tack with grave concern the anniversary- I view A brown chow dog, belonging to in based on the Canton teel that is of the Battle of Salamanca coin- Pun 0, of 146 Lockhart Road, has taken to weigh 679.84 grains, ciding this year with the Feast of been taken to Kennedy Town for though in fact its weight is alightly Singing Insects and I shall watch observation. It bit Д Japanese more. One hundred Canton taels closely the effect this has on the con woman, F. Takama, who resides at are taken to equal 102.5 Chauping version rate. 404 Hennessey Road, She was taels, so that a treated in the Moshima Hospital, weighs approximately 565.7 grains Chauping too!
Wanthai.
when he appeared in the Kowloon the Sanitary Board if, that is. [Police Court to-day. we are to be for ever denied the
The 192.4. Chuaping taels.
A Difficult Subject. Gentlemen, I have said enough at least it does when the mint about sycee in China to convince Unlawful possession of 106 lb.,
shops buy silver.
you, I hope, that It is a subject When they sell silver they reckon more fit of Chinese tobacco on which duty
for prayer and fasting should be asked to fritter away had not been paid, at No. 12, Prince that a hundred Canten taels equal than for half an hour's considers
dia-tion after tiffin. petty parochial Edward Road, resulted in Leung crepancy is very slight, but it is Harities It is deserving of respect. With all its pecu. matters emphasises the need for Wai, being fined $1,100 with the not made any slighter by the Jan expansion of the constitution of/option of six months' hard labour, practice that obtains of using one tribute to the late Mr. Stephen, of In conclusion, Mr. Champkin paid set of scales and weights for re-the Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank, ceiving and another set for paying. whom he termed the ablest and How the buyer and the seller adjust greatest manager of our times. privilege of a Municipal Council have no fixed place of abode, is now selves is one of the unsolved my- these discrepancies between them- on the lines of those existing in lying in the Government Civil Hos the Straits Settlements. Also, it pital in a serious condition, as the tions in China that emphasises that the time is ap-result of a stab wound in the left
shoulder alleged to have been in can hope to understand. proaching when grave attentionflicted by Li Hi (16), also of no must be paid to the advisability fixed address. The latter is suffer- of creating urban and rural ing from a cat in the head, which is inflicted by Boards in Kowloon and the New alleged to have been
Cheung. The men had apparent Territories to whom could be ly quarrelled. given power to deal with the pure-
absence of Council
or
any
Cheung Yu-man (22), stated to
old Chinese, woman, who was knock-
sterica of
internal bullion opera
no foreigner
The Power of the Kongku. Let us take a shoe of sycee. We do not know what its weight in, nor do we know its fineness, because we have neither weighed it nor sasayed it, but we have every confidence in it because it has been passed as
FLYING IN INDIA.
Amazing Progress of Civil Aviation.
&
"SHUT UP FOR TWO YEARS.”
Man From Asylum Declares That He Is Sane.
"If his story is true it seems strange indeed to keep him shut up for two years for only stealing an overcoat."
Mr. J. Clements, the chairman, made this comment at Brantford ly civic problems affecting the An inquiry into the death of an good honest tender by a Kongku,
A Kongku is a kind of public Police Court, when extraordinary mainland. The scope afforded one ed down by a motor cycle driven shoes of sycee are sent by the mint Hardy, aged twenty-five, giving ab valuer in Shanghai to whom all allegations were made by Thomas Sanitary Board' is altogether too by Mr. Lee Wing-chan, A clark at limited. The activities of the the Dollar Steamship Co., at the chops to be attested before being address at Sleaford Road, Bourne- circulation. He is ap-mouth, who was accused of break- various Government Departments junction of Des Voeux Road Central put into
and Ice House Street, on March 22, pointed by the mint shops and is Ing and entering an officers' meas are much too great, considering was held yesterday by Mr. E. Wil like the rest of us, he doubtless re-
'I thoroughly trustworthy, though, at Hounslow Barracks.
Detective Watts said that Hardy, especially the phenomenal de-liams (as Coroner). and a jury. velopment of the Peninsula. An Dr. G. H. Thomas said that death cognises that business is business, was a criminal lunatic, and asd He tests each shoe in a perfunc-escaped from a mental hospital at increase in the jurisdiction of the was due to a fractured skull and
a touchstone, but Fareham. An escort was on the injuries to the brain. A verdict tory way with Sanitary Board and a reduction of "Accidental Death" was return-judges it principally by "look see," way to take him back.
that is probably more Hardy said that he was certified Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 1, 1931. in that of the Government De-ed, the jury attaching no blame to a method
reliable than the touchstone. Ha insano without his knowledge by a partments seems to point to a the driver.
marks In Ink on each shoe his prison doctor, workable compromise in the!
opinion of its weight and Aneness.
"Played The Game." Municipal
We find that this shoe He was charged while under de hae markings-that the
· Rural
un- tention with stealing an overcoat, Boards. The dignity of the Legislative Perhaps
sophisticated might mistake for and the judge told him that he was when the reports Council is to be impaired by the of
Chinese oath-that indicato insane, and sent him to the home. the Retrenchment Com-
its weight
fifty Chau- He had "played the game" for introduction, at its meeting to-mittee and the Currency Com-
ping taels and its fineness a3 2.69 two years, and had frequently ask- morrow, of parish pump topics. missioners have been solemnly
premium. This is the premium ed to be let out, but was always The sedate assembly of legislators placed in the archives of official gressing by leaps and bounds, seper shoe, not the premium per cent. told that the Home Office would is to be invited to forget its lofty dom, a little attention may be given last night by the Aero Club taels, saves us some mental arith- Royal Navy, tried to get him out, cording to speakers at a dinner to weigh exactly fifty Chauping His father, a captain in the mission as a legislature and de-given to finding a happier method of India and Burma and the Delhimetic as we are able to double the but he died, and he (Hardy) had scend to a consideration of such of disposing of parish pump poli- Flying Club to Col. F. C. Sheimer-
per made up his mind to escape and petty civic matters as the public tics than by lowering the dignity
dine, the retiring Director of Civil Premium and say it is 5.38
cent. premium over what may belgo to see his mother. lighting of roads in Kowloon and prestige of the Legislative
"Lam quite song," he added, Col. Shelmerding is leaving for termed standard aycee, and facilities at public bathing
I have already referred to the "and am perfectly willing to be? England to-morrow to succeed. Sir beaches. As the question of
Sefton Brancker (who was killed convention that 98 Chauping taes examined by any doctor."
He was awarded £500 damages dumping bodies in Hong Kong
in the R101 disaster) as Director of Bycee 985 fine are equal to 100 of Civil Aviation in Great Britain monetary taels of account and it for a motor accident some time streats has been described by an
News in Brief. When Col. Shelmerdine came out is this aneness of 935 that the ago, but had never recolved MP. as more suitable for the Grand Guignol than for the Mr. W. A. Cornell has been ad- House of Commons, so might it mitted a partner, in the Hong Kong be said of lighting of roads and branch of Messrs. Palmer bathing beaches that they are more suitable for a Residents'
Council!
Turner.
The Netherlands
and
New Delhi, Jan. 22. Civil aviation in India is pro-
Aviation:
This particular shoe, as it happens net allow it.
Ifpenny
A
The chairman said that the court
in 1927, there was not an aeroplane Kongku takes as his standard. are 66. The flying clubs have put 15.38 per cent. we shall find that thie had no option but to hand Hardy on the Indian register. Now there therefore, we add to the standard in 11,000 hours flying.
name.
shoe is 985.8 fine...
This gives us. 53.765. and If 60It is reported that local
over to the escort, but he seemed This is a fine achievement, and
"Trifling Differences," perfectly rational, and the police Col. Shelmerdino, has grounds for,
Now, if we want to ascertain its should make close inquiries about Batisfaction: With him in London, value in monetary taels we take its the matter and report it to the India Com-sympathetic liaison between India weight 50, add. its premium 2.69, court. Association meeting than the mercial Bank advertise that their and England in civil aviation multiply by 100 and divide by 98. Legislative Council. There are office will be removed to No. 5 Des should be secure.
flour Residents' Associations on the Voeux Road Central, as from April | Sir Victor Bassoon, who presid-Chauping teels of Syces 985.8 fine mills in the Moose Jaw division of Peak, the Mid-Levels, and Kow-
ed, said he had never known any are worth 53.765 monetary teels the Canadian Pacific are doing a ono like Bir Sefton Brancker, but then a simple calculation leads us good business this year gristing for loon, any of which could be trust. The forthcoming wedding is an- he knew no one who was so well to the conclusion that a thousand the farmers. ·At Assinibola: 89,870 ed to deal with the two questions nounced of Joao Francisco Vieira qualified to succeed him as Col Chauping taeis 985 fine are worth bushels of wheat have been gristed on the agenda of the Legislative Ribeiro, of 2, Minden Avenue, Kow- Skelmerdine. With a perhaps sub. 1074-98 monetary taels as against since August 1, compared with
loon and Marie Luiza Remedios, of, conscious memory that the
the convention that they are equal 3,855 for the corresponding period Council and to make the neces-2, Jordan Road, Kowloon.
Shelmerdine figures in Michael to 1075-25. A very tribing differ- of 1929, sary representations to the Gov-
Arlen's novels, he described Col. ence indeed but we find these trif ernment.
The annual dinner of the Law and, and Mrs, Sheimerdine as "these ing differences at every one of the Commerce Society of the Hong charming people.”~ #i
several stages of the evolution of The matter of better lighting Kong University is to be held in Sir John, Thompson, the Chief for silver into monetary taels. of roads in Kowloon is one of a Lane Crawford's Restaurant, on Commissioner, who is president of So far we have dealt only with purely parochial nature. The Saturday, April 11, at 8.80 p.m... the Delhi Flying Club; proposing the conversion of sycee, but we have question of a reduction (or other-
the toast of Col. and Mrs. Shelmer to bear in mind that yous itaalf wise) of facilities to residents at and Co. advertise that Mestá, claring that very amber of the ellver. The mint shops take a Axed. In respect of the loss of the Bri
Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie dine, amused, his audience by dele an evolutionary product of bar public bathing beaches is, one M. T. Johnson and H. V-Wilkinson club had the satisfaction, of know- rate for the conversion of bar aliver tish steams Hong Wan I. The that should be tackled by a con- have been admitted partners of ing that, in knowledge of flying into monetary taels payable. În Marine Court is of the opinion that ference of delegates of all the Re their firm in Hong Kong and and desire to encounter its perlis, sycee. They pay in sycee or did the stranding of the ship was en-
Shanghalk sidents Association in the ab sence de a perinanent central body. At the meeting,
of the areas
Board, yest hout Residents A850 consider.
we app
fully
on causes com the
Councilfchin
ted on
Ten Years Ago,
(From, the “China Mall” of,
| April 1, 1921.1
To-day's dollar is worth 2/4%.
he excelled the president, but Sir until recently, 110.00 monetary thels tirely due to the careless navigation John yielded to nope in his admira- for 100 Clantongtaels weight of bar of the Master in view of the fact the Sanitary in, for what their Director of liver. 998 fine that no attempt was made by him
to kens Good Hope Cape light on a- following Civil Aviation had done for them, Buying and Selfing. mittes to and proceeded to prove his word In considering this convention, we safe bearing, which simple pro- lines. In replying, bave to remember what I have al-cedure would have averted the tary:
redit for the light ready stated, that when they buy casualty, In view of this fact the Sir Victor the Silver they reckon 102.5 Chat Court orders the Master, Mr. J. D
ping frels are equal to 100 Canton Liddell'acertificate to be suspended
When they pay for it by de- for two years, but granta him a first- livering thesycee they reckon only mata's certificate during that time.