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100 millions, and probably a good deal more."
of a note issue which is not pro-
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At the date of the Inst Bank of England return (July 29) the total note Issue was''£902,000,000, against which gold stocks amounted to £132,000,000, leaving a balance of £200,000,000, represented by Gov- ernment securities and about £4,000,000 of silver coln.
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This £260,000,000 of notes is the fiductary isaue, now to be incraned to £276,000,000. ***
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Life of Charlie Chaplini.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 8, 1931.
WEDDING.
St. Margaret Mary Church Ceremony.
COTOWEZ-ELMS.
The wedding took place at the St. Margaret Mary Church, Breadwood Road, Happy Valley, yesterday afternoon, of Miss Lillian Frances (Stella) Elms, second daughter of the late Mr. F. J. Elms, of Vancou ver, B.C., and of
Mrs. M.C. Hingston, of Hong Kong, and Mr. Leonid Gregorievitch Cotowez, el-
wez, of Vladivostock. est son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Coto-
The Rev. Fr. D. Page, Rector of the Church, officiated.
A PIG LIFTER.
Feeblest of Excuses from Culprit.
TWO MONTHS' HARD,
Ha Che-wan, *Hoklo. was brought before Mr. Schofield' this ed larceny of a pig, valued at $25, morning charged with (a) attempt- from Chan Kan-shing, a pig-dealer at Shek-O, and (b) possession of an offensive weapon, to wit, pepper, and being unable to give a satis... factory account of it.
Pepper Not Offensive Weapon.
Before opening the case, Inspec- tor Stimson said that he had con- sulled the Publis Prosecutor with regard to the second chargo. The Public Prosecuter" held that pepper was not an offensive weapon, and,. asked to withdraw that charge. on that ground, the Police officer
spector Stimson said that there
Replying to the Magistrate, In was no broken glass mixed with the pepper.
Mr. Thomas Burke, the author of "Limehouse Nights" and other best- sellers, will probably begin shortly his life of Charlie Chaplin.
He has left for Paris, and may later join Mr. Chaplin. They are old friends, and the famous comedian has said that there is no one by whom he would rather have
The bride, who was given away his life story written. Like Mr. by her step-father, Mr. H. J. Hings- Chaplin, Mr. Burke is a Cockneyton, Chief Steward of RM.S. born and bred, and consequently Empress of Japan, was charmingly They should understand each other. attired in a costume of white satin crepe, beautifully hand embroider- A Record Persanal Wine Bill. ed, with a tulle veil edged with
Caught Red-Handed. M. Andre Simon, the fanona silver flowers and shot with silver
Outlining the facts of the cude, wine connoisseur, told the other threads, surmounted by a coronet inspector. Stimson said that at day pleasing war story. When of orange blossoms. She carried 1.45 o'clock yesterday morning, a the Germans were making one, of a sheat of white lilies and muiden-witness, (Cheung Sui-tak), living their last drives in the Summer of | hair ferns.. 1918, the French, under Gen. The bride's attendants were her squealing. Gouraud, found that the doon and sister, Miss Margaret Maude Elms beautifully ventilated cellars of a bridesmaid), and her cousin, Mrs. famole champagne Grm near P. T. F. Julyan, (matron of honour). Rheims made a first-rate fortress, Little Miss, Gertle Remedios (bride's and in fast when the men in the niece) was the flower girl, whilst cellars were ordered to retire, they Master Kevin Julyan was the page. refused to do ab. After the war, The bridesmaid was attired in when compensation claims wera pale pink crepe-de-Chirie with pic- being adjusted, Gen. Gouraud was ture hat and carried a bouquet of presented with a personal bill for white roses, whilst the matron of 1,000,000 bottles of champagne honour wore a dress of salmon pink, surely the largest on record! flowered silk voile, with hat to
match. Shakespeare.
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with his brother. heard a pig He got up, went out- side and there saw defendant und two others who were not arrested. The defendant was trying to chase a pig into a crate which the other two men were holding. An alarm was raised and the defendant was caught, and villagers,
as was the usual custom, bound him up.
A Lifter's Implements. Inspector Stimson explained that a sack, which might be used for stealing chickens, was found out- side the stye. In the sack was found. a torch, the light of which was not very bright, but bright enough to find one's way out of a pigstye. A knife and a packet of pepper were also found in the sack.
Came from the Country. After evidence had been given, defendant auid that he came from the country three days ago, and had intended to go to Shamshaipo, but instead found himself walking on the main road to Shek-0:
The flower girl and page wore The Works of Shakespeare, we costumes of pink and white silk, reud, Are being translated into respectively, the former carrying Chinese for, it is believed, the first basket of roses. With regard to the huge dole time." Three translatare are now The bride's mother's dress was of expenditure and the fact that un-at work turning the English into light brown crepe-de-chine with hat
Chinese prose which will later be to match. employment is still increasing, rendered into verse, A Kingly Gesture.
the Prime Minister has been sur-
The duties of best mun were car- We also read that a "marbledried out by the bride's brother, Mr. His Majesty the King and veying, with the aid of experts, mansion" is nearing completion in F. J. F. Elms, and Mr. H. Tillman H.R.H. the Prince of Wales have, the idea of greatly enlarging the seribed as a mansion "of which even the groomsmen..
Washington. It has been de- and Mr. Boris Ivanchenko, were according to the news from Home scope of unemployment, insur- the omniscient Shakespeare could After the ceremony, a reception to-day, made a typically kingly ance. A plan to that end has not have dreamt." It is destined was held at the bride's mother's re- geature to the nation during the been prepared which would have to hold the richest and fullest col-sidence, 834, Lockhart Rond, where economic crisis. They have both the effect of bringing into the brought together. It will comprise ed.
lection of Shakespeariana ever the usual toasts wère duly honour- volunteered cuts in the allow-national scheme roughly 3,000 numerous copies of the various The honeymoon is being spent in ances in the Civil List more workers who are at present folios, many of the rare quartes of Canton, the bride's going away voted annually by Parliament exempted.
the plays, and These include the of contemporary literature.
a unique collection dress being of pale pink satin crepe, His Majesty to the extent Civil Service, the Police, railway-collection
with hat to match. woa bequeathed to
The bride's gift to the groom was of £50,000 and the Prince to the men and possibly domestic serFulger, the famous American book groom to the bride was a pair of mud of mine.
Washington by Mr. Henry Clay
a jade scarf pin, whilst that of the extent of 410,000.
vants and agricultural workers. collector.
diamond ear-drops.
YOU KEEP LOVE
LETTERS ?
الأمة
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Some Eloquent
"Lunatics."
From Napoleon's letters written in passionate haste on the battle- field to Josephine, to the lovely Lady Hamilton's note to Nolson, he- ginning "Dearest Husband of My
In reply to his Worship, defen- dant said that on the first night here he slept in a boarding house; and the next two nights in the street.
A Friend. Asked why he went to Shek-0, defendant said that he went there to look for a friend.
Magistrate-What friend! Defendant-A coolie-a clans-
Magistrate-Does he ve at Shamshuipo7-Yes.
Lame Excuse,
His Worship remarked that de fendant's excuses were the feeblest he had ever heard. He added-"It seems to me rather that he simply came from the country to steal any- thing he can, This has often hap- pened in the New Territories, Hoklos 'going to the villages and stealing cattle."
Chloroforming Pige Inspector Stimson intimated that employed in
Ten Years Ago,
[From the "China Mail" of September 8, 1921.1
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%.
With little less than thres weeks
with Shanghai takes place, the task
It has been emphasised in all It is argued that the inclusion of the discussions on the Imperative these classes of workers who are News in Brief. need for the economy axe being in regular employment would brought into play that any sacri- automatically reduce the debit fices must be made by the nation side of the unemployment fund as a whole and not merely by a by reason of the huge aceration section of it. That was the spirit of new money from contributions. that enabled Britain, and, indeed.. It is not the intention' of the Reuter cabled yesterday from the whole Empire, to surmount Government to propose any re- Miss Johnson was seen flying over have said from the Bench in a re-
London to say that the report that
Mr. Justice. Avory is reported to the greater crisis of the World duction in the amount of benefit Libau is confirmed. She refuelled cent breach of promise case that he the usual method War. That is the spirit by which paid to adult unemployed but re-at Liepaja and resumed her journey did not suppose anybody but a stealing a pig was to put chloroform alone the present financial crisis adjustments of other benefits to London where she should arrive lunatic kept a copy of his love on the end of a bamboo pole. cari be overcome within the short- may be considered.
Reductions by to-morrow. est possible time. The voluntary are also likely to be contemplated Whikt engaged in replacing a particularly iterary history, has
Sentence of two months" hard : If that were so, history, and labour was passed. action of the King in reducing his in the salaries' of teachers and the new electric light bulb over a Civil List expenditure-without, Polite.
signboard on the first floor of 339 been peopled with a race of belit noted, increasing unemploy
eloquent lunatica. On the eve of the most import, house-boy, accidentally fell
Hennessy Road, Leung Tung, 'a'
to the ment cannot but have a most ant and critical session of Par-street and received injuries, which heartening effect on the new liament since the War there is necessitated his removal to National Government and on the evidence on every hand that the pital. His condition is serions. people of Great Britain as a nation will view with an open The master of the es. Sui Tal re- Heart" and posted too late to reach whole," which latter, it is now mind each and every scheme ports at the Harbour Office that him before his death, such pieces admitted in all the Home news that will assist to balance the the three-masted junk with deck of correspondence are the treasures to go before the Interport contest
awaah off Sha Ku Chan Island; in of all time. papers, were kept far too long in Budget without increasing the Lat. 22 deg 12 N, Long. 113 deg. Robert Browning's love-letters of choosing the Hong Kong team the dark as to the reality of the already excessive burden of taxa- 55" 46" E, as reported on Septon are as ablaze with life now as has been taken seriously in hand. spectre. On August 18, for tion. It now hit the splendid re- position, one cable West of Sha gloomy days in Wimpole Street. trials in the V.R.C. bath twice a ber 8 has shifted and now lies in when they lit up Elizabeth Barrett's has been decided to hold the example, one Home paper stated gal example set by the King, and Ku Chan Island. li fa a danger to They are among the perfect and week, namely, on Wednesdays and that, "whatever may be the out the Prince of Wales an example navigate. come of the Government's deli that shall undoubtedly be an in- berations on the present crisis, it spiration and stimulus to all Majestic Theatre will by
The public is invited to attend We know more, of Sir Richard these trials,, for which there will is at least something gained that classes affected by the economy mount's production "The Marriage Steele from his charming letters to be no charge. the existence of a crisis is for axe, however personally and Playground which features his "dear Prue" than from his
Fredric March, Mary Brian, Hunt-
"Spectator" papers. Swift's letters mally admitted. In spite of Mr. | collectively distasteful rits. appllley Gordon, Kuy Francia; William to Stella and Sterne's letters to Snowden's past warnings, the cation may be. His Majesty and Austin, Lilyan Teshman, and aix Eliza, though perhaps better. Government has hitherto acted the Prince have again risen to of the screen's most adorable
described as permanent proofs of as if it were unwilling to admit the occasion for the sake of their Juveniles," including Mitzi
that strange and deep friendship that can grow up between a man that anything more could be in people during a great national and Anita Louise,
of genius and a woman of foeling question than some temporary crisis, thus forging ever stronger
After an interval of over seven than as love-letters, are among the embarrassment which might be the bonds of realty and loyalty months, the Indian Round Table immortal things that those two Edissipated, or might even dis-between zuler and ruled Conference resumed work yester writers left, saya the News
day when the Federal Structure Chronicle. sipate itself with a little pa-
Sub-Committee met at St. JamesThe letters of 19-year-old Mary tience and the adoption of certain
Palace, with Lord Sankey presiding, Shelley to her "Alry Elf," the vol. makeshifts. That attitude has The Fluck
Out of 31 members of the com-conic explosions of George Sund, mittee only about half were pre Carlyle's lettera to his wife, Byron's now been abandoned. It is ad-- A few weeks ago the cables from sent. The others have not yet af letters to someone else's wife, Cap mitted that drastic steps must Home talked about Increasing the rlved, including Gandhi who is faiz Scott's baautiful, Inst. letter be taken the ret ridor Aduciary Issue of the Bank of expected at the end of the week written shortly before his death fy "What is a fiduciary the Prime Minister extended the Antarctic, these are among the which must be Issue we were asked recently.
yeprdial welcome to the delegates, most precious fecords of the human casinot less than A fiduciary Issue is, that portion skyse Reuter, meshare.
heart, that we possess.
28. deficit
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