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Correct styles FELT HATS: —
Andrews, Battersby, Cambiaghi,
Hardeman, Ward's, etc. etc,
at reasonable price
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The China Mail.
From Other Pens.
The Reporter. Scores.****
A reporter got a job on a pro- vincial picture paper. At every turn the editor stopped him; he could do nothing right.
"Well, I'd better leave," he said: orle day,
The only answer he got Was "Ha!".
"Nothing I do seems to please
you. I think I'll go back to my old business."
This caught the editor's ear. "What was your old business?". "Newspaper work:"
Haunted Houses.
The Mansion House, it appears, is no longer haunted. The ghost has been laid-or explained away.
MONDAY JANUARY
COLONY'S TRADE
IN
1931
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS BOTH INCREASE
OFFICIAL RETURNS
The Statistical Branch of the Imports and Exports Department reports that the total value of imports of merchandise into Hong Kong during the calendar year 1931 amounted to $787:7 millions, an increase of $87.7 millions as compared with the 1930 figure (estimated), and an increase of, $124.4 millions as compared with the year 1924.
Exports were declared to a value of $542 millions, represent I am reminded that a good many ing an increase of $42 millions as compared with 1930, and $1 mil years ago a room in the block of lion as compared with 1921.
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December.
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In terms of Hong Kong currency imports totalled $69.5 millons, ineroase of $44, millions as com- pared with December 1030; while exports were valued lions, a decrease of $4.5 milions.
at $44 mil.
Japanese Imports. Imports from Japan showed slight decline as compared, with the previous month, but a very heavy fall as compared with December of 1930, the total value amounting to only $1.6 millions as against $7.7 millions. The chief récessions were in foodstuffs $1.4 millions and plece. goods $3.2. millions,
buildings that contains the Guildhall Police Court was supposed to have Its ghost.
In terms of sterling value both month of
Imports The late Mr. John H. Major, an imports and exports in the year amounted to £4.5 millions, an in- amateur organist of note and by no 1931 suffered very serious declines crease of £1.1 millions as compared means a spookish" person, oc-48 compared with the year 1924, with December, 1980, and exports cupied the room and frequently de- but it should be noted that taken at totalled, 8.1 millions, an advance. clared that he had seen the ghost. their face value these figures do not | of £800,000.
London's haunted houses would accurately represent the ratios of fill a largo volume. The most the actual volume of trade handled famous, of all is the haunted house in the Colony during the respective of Berkeley-square. about which periods. roams have been written, notably by Coramodity prices ruled high In George Augustus Sala and George 1924, and did not break until tho R. Sims. The late Lady. Selkirk, a latter end of 1929, when a persis- charming lady, interested in farm-tent decline set in. This decline ing, lived there fairly recently." in world wholesale prices continued The house looked quite mundane up to the end of last year with the and cheerful when I passed It this result that commodity prices in morning-Peterborough in the 1981 were more than 30 per cent. Daily Telegrar'
below 1924 prices.
Therefore, to arrive at an ap- proximate estimate of the compara- tive volume of trade in the years 1024 and 1981" It is necessary to of the calculate on the basis of 1924 prices. in the Taking this and other factors into 6 p.m. consideration it can be reasonably estimated that the volume of im- 20 per cent. as compared with. 1924, ports last year fell by a little over while exports declined approximate- ly 30 per cent.
the whole weekly or monthly
News in Brief, salary, less the husband's pocket-
The first general meeting money for fares, tobacco, etc., Hiking Club will be held Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 25, 1932.or that she gets an amount vary- French Bank Building, at
ing in proportion to the decency to-day,
Credit and Chits.
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chief piece goods exporting countries With the exception of Italy the all enjoyed an increased share of this, trade during the last quarter of 1931, on account of the Chinese or generosity of the husband The lowest open air temperature
boycott of Japanese gods, which is supposed to cover all her yesterday up to 4 p.m. was 61 de-
plece goods trade during the last The British share of the total . Long residence in the Orient keeping. The details of such ar-
expenses. including the house-gcees. The humidity was 57 at
10 am and 68 at 4. p.m.
quarter amounted to 30.4 per cent., tends to make one indifferent to rangements are, of course, end-
It should further be noted that as compared with 18.9 per cent. in the various issues raised by the less in variety, and they may re- yesterday by a public motor car in would be of greater value,
A Chinese
1924 was above the average. Com-the corresponding period of 1930, WAS knocked down parlson with a more recent period while the Japanese share declined question of credits and chits. sult in constant domestic squab and had his right leg fractured. He which trade statistics were compfied 28.6 per cent.; Germany from 5.4 Belchers Strcot, near North Stret, 1924 was the last completed year in incressed from 25.9 per cent, to but from 31.6 per cent., North China Every decade or so the topic is bles or in perfect domestic har-was removed to the Government by Government. revived by the Press in some mony according to the tempera- Civil Hospital for attention. part of the Orient
per cent. to 14.8 per cent.; France Bangkok ments and habits of both part-
from 1.8 per cent to 2.3 per cent.; 1902, Penang 1912, Singapore rers. It is doubtful, however,
while Italy fell from 4.3 per cent. to 8.7 per cent. 1922, and now (why?) Hong whether dress plays the largest Kong, 1982 (Shanghai can pre-part in such cases, because as & Ceremony in St. John's pare for it in 1942!). Men and rule the expenditure on dress women are alike notorious in the simply has to be kept within com- matter of signing chits either in paratively narrow limits. Clubs or stores. Many get hard-
There is, however, one aspect ened to the invasion of shroffs of the case on which Mr. Justice and Edith S. L. Chan was solemnis- The marriage of Tang Man-chun at the end of each month and M'Cardie might have dwelt with ed in St. John's Cathedral on Satur go on signing chits ad infinitum. greater emphasis. It is the fact day afternoon. The ceremony was It is, again, "so handy" to have that women and this does not Swan.
performed by the Very Rev. Dean a compradore's book! What does apply only to the wealthy class
amah
-
WEDDING.
Cathedral,
TANG CHAN.
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December Figures. Sterling values of imports and ex- ports still further increased in the
MAN WITH A
TAIL
Author's Shock for the
Fundamentalists.
visioning the household. It is her excessive debts than face a brother, Mr. Chan Wing-kit, and satisfied the scientists, but the the same stage of development
To-day's Thought.
He suggests that as there are many millions of years to come in which human life may be pos- sible on this earth, there is time for almost inconceivable develop ments and he thinks that if in the course of untold ages the air outside the earth becomes too cold, or too something else, man will by that time have found out There is a new shock in store haps miles down, making plenti- how to live inside the earth, per- it matter if the house boy or the are tempted by skilful sales of the late Mr. Chan King-wa, and fundamentalists, who refuse to his air supply pure and sufficient, The bride is the eldest daughter for the tribe of Tennessee ful supplies of oxygen to keep gets five per cent. manship to buy much more than the bridegroom in a member of one believe that man had an ape and living on foods made up in "squeeze" from the store each they can afford. The
of the oldest families in the Colony. like ancestor. month? the reward of making know that even
stores He is well known among the Chin The Java ape man skull, the
the laboratory, enfin where a wife ese social set, being a popular rece Piltdown skull from Sussex, the McCabe holds that there may well "missee" order far more than has
As for other worlds; Mr. is reasonably required for pro-husband will usually rather pay
a fixed dress allowance, a horse owner and rider.
skull of the Peking man dug up be hundreds of thousands of The bride was given away by her on Chicken Bone Hill, and many other planets supporting life, other pre-historic relies have although not necessarily life at obvious that this credit system humiliating exposure
was attended by Miss S. M. Chan Fundamentalists always want to as on earth. pays certain stores, or they would Courts, and the less worthy of maids.
in the and Miss K. W. Tang as brides know what man has done with have abolished it long years ago. them undoubtedly trade upon were performed by Mr. T. F. Lo
The duties of best man his tall. True it is that they are often left that fact.
with Mr. Andrew Tse as grooms- monkey," they say, "show us his "If he is descended from a lamenting by "bad pay masters" The same phenomenon is to be man. A very large gathering off (and "bad pay mistresses"); but seen in the humbler walks of so- at the ceremony.
relatives and friends were présent
tail." evidently many of these debts ciety, where a salesman will too A reception was afterward given
Mr. Joseph McCabe now shows them man with his tail.: 20 are passed on in some mysterious often tempt; women
The man with a tall lives in
Luxuries are necessities to the into gross in the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room Honolulu, in the middle of the children of to-day because they fashion to other customers. And extravagance, resulting in terri-where a large number of prominent Pacific Ocean. He has a tall a have not known a world without so the system goes on, year in ble misery.
realdents attended to offer their foot long. He not only has a them. and year out, pernicious though There is need for severe dis- couple. Mr. Ho Kom-tong, O.B.E., and has been photographed, felicitations to the newly married tail, but he is proud of his tail, it may be.
couragement of such practices. In au eloquent and appropriate with tail complete. Mr. McCabe A couple of months ago, it If the Courts in general, both at speech, proposed the health of the has the photograph. may be recalled, Mr. Justice Home and overseas, would refuse bride and bridegroom.
Mr. McCabe makes this state- McCardia, a bachelor, aired his to enforce debts beyond what married couple laft, for the North new book.The New Science After the reception the newly ment in a learned but graphic views on the problems of the should reasonably have been in of China to spend their honeymoon, and the Story of Evolution married state and discoursed curred in the circumstances, upon the particular problem usually well enough known to raised by the expensiveness of the trader, women would find it women's dress in the social circle less easy to get credit for extra- in which a dress allowance la a vagance. There will probably recognised Institution. A very never be any complete solution of small class at Home and in a problem so intimate dépen Hong Kongl
dent on erratic hun
something might mitigate the darker
For the great majority people the question of a wit dress allowance.
Lover - arisej
They have. no such margin of in- come beyond plain.
how
FREE VACCINATION.
Ten Years Ago,
[From the "Chini Mall of
Jannuite 25::: 1922
just published (Hutchinson, 78: d.), in which he tells the story
To-day's dollar is worth 3/7. of the universe, according to the generally accepted scientific George Thomas Sharp was charges by members of St. John primordial globule of which away on the 8. Wenatchee which Number vaccinated-fres of rama of man's progress from the this morning with having stowed theories, and describes the panocharged before Magistrate Wood Ambulance Brigade, up to md in W. S. Gilbert made good fun, arrived in this port from Manila duding Thursday, January 21:- down to the present day yesterday, Chinese YMCA (Hongy Mr. McCabe insists that there He said that he wanted
Kong
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