THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.
THE CHINA MAI
BRITISH SILVER IN
P.& 0.-British India SOUTH AFRICA
Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT,
CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
*ALIPORE
CHITRAL **DURDWAN
I
From
110
Than Hong Kims
About
1934.
Destination.
6,300 18th Mar. S'pore, Penang, Colombu & Bombay,
Marseilles & London.
18.00
24th Mar.
6,000 81st Mar.
16.000 16,000 19th May 6,000 20th May
Effect Of Withdrawal From Currency
AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT:
Cape Town
Full particulars of the position caused by the withdrawal of Bet: {tigh silver; "from «eurrency: In the Union are given in the annual re- port of the Auditor-General:
The total value of allver colti which was withdrawn and received at the Pretoria branch of the Royal Mint up to March 31, is stated to be £1,436,797. The cost of withdrawal, charged during the year to the Mint Silver Bullion Account amounted to £16,037, of which £7,251 was paid to the commercial banks as commission..
For all British coin delivered to [the Mint an equivalent amount of Union allver coin will be issued to the banks with the exception - of | £500,000, the amount ́agreed upon between the Treasury and the banks as being surplus to the re- Jquirements of the country.
Redemption of British Coln This amount has been withdrawn- from circulation, and the face value has been refunded to the banks and charged against a special provision
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, on the loan cetimates in the 'pro-]
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull,
Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilies, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Marieilles & London.
6th May Bombay Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
AANGHI
17,000
ARTHAGE
**SOMALI
7th Apr. 16.000 21st Apr. 15,000 28th Apr.
NALDERA
CORPU
BANGALORE
MANTUA
RAWALPINDI 1.BHUTAN
20,000 2nd June 17,000 16th June 6,000 23rd June
ISAR--HIND **REHAR
1,000 30th June
6,100
7th July
**BEHAR
6,000
RAJPUTANA
17,000
+*SOUDAN
9,700
7th July
14th July 21 July
"KIDDERPORE
- DO
portion of £190,000 to the South African Reserve Bank, £190,000 to Barclays Bank, and £120,000 to the! Standard Bank.
President Taft Hits Whale.
* San Francisco,. ^ With a terrifc impact, the Dollar lizer, President · Taft, bound for New York from San Francisco, struck a giant whale about 1,027 miles north-west of Balbos.. The whale can be seen on the surface at the bow of the liner a moment after the collision. The liner's wireless operator The bost trembled vio- messaged. I thought we hit a rock. lently, and the passengers all ran out on deck". The whale ap peared stunned after the shock and remained on the surface, forc ing the President Taft to reverse and detour around it.
ST. PATRICK'S BALL
Official Programme For Tomorrow
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
President Liners
S.S. "PRES. MCKINLEY"
will sail for '.
SEATTLE & VICTORIA via
Shanghai and Japan
AT 10.00 P.M. FRIDAY, MARCH 16."
S.S. "PRES. COOLIDGE"
will mail for
MANILA
AT 9,00 PM. FRIDAY, MARCH 16.
A MADISON SQUARE S.S. "PRES. MONROE"
ARABIAN NIGHT
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"No, no," said Chalmers; earnert- ly, "you interest me very much Did all your portraits, reveal some unpleasant trait, or were there some that did not suffer from the ordeal of your peculiar brush?"
The British Government hasi
The official programme for St. agreed to redeem the whole of the Patrick's Ball, which takes place British silver coin, without distinc-to-morrow evening at the Penin-
"Some? Yes," said. Plumer] tion between various finenessce, sula Hotel, commences at 9.20 p.m., "Children generally, a good many For a period of three years the
when the President, Vice-Pre-women and a sufficient number of amount to be redeemed is not to sidents, and Past President will as-men, All people aren't bad, you exceed $100,000 a year face value.j. semble at the main entrance of the know. When they were all right Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
After three years the question of Peninsula Hotel to receive H.E. the pictures were all right. As I Hult.
expediting the rate of redemption The Governor's party who will ar-sald, I don't explain it, but I'm Bumbay, Marseilles & London. will be examined. No arrangement rive at 9.30 p.m. At 9.30 p.m. the telling you facts."
has yet been made with the British Reception Committee will assemble Hamburg. Rotterdam. Antwern Government regarding any por-all other official guests at the dels the photograph that he had received On Chalmer's writing-table lay Hull. Bombay, Marseilles. Havre, burg. tion of British silver coin not re-in the Bail Room, and at 9.40 H.E. that day in the foreign mail Tem Rotterdum, Antwerp & Hull. patriated but used for re-minting The Governor and party will be minutes later he had Plumer at] Bambay, Marseilles & London,
into Union silver coin. Bombay Marselles, Havre, London
Apart from the melting of coin Elsie Lane will
piped into the Ball Room. Miss work making a sketch from it in Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &
then present partels. At the end of an hour the Hull.
in 1932-33 of a face value of sprigs of shamrock..
artist rose and stretched wearily. 6,300 14th Apr S'pore, Penang, Calambo, Bombay £100,000, a further amount to a face
Karachi.
The Official Guests will be, HE. "It's done," he yawned. "You'll value of £475,989 had been re-mint-The Governor and Lady Peel, H.E.exctise me for being so long. I got ed during the year.-Reuter.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London
*Cargo only. † Calls Cablanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- tantinople, Piresus, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.
#TILAWA
BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS.
+*SANTHIA
TAKADA
SIRDHANA
TALMA
+ Calla Rangoon.
10,000 17th Mar,
10.30a.m..
8,000 lat Apr.
7,000 15th Apr. 8,000 29th Apr. 10,000 18th May
& Rangoon
Singapore, Penang.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Calcutta.
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Call Port Swettenham.
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FRANCE'S MEN OF
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THE MOMENT
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but
Major General 0. C. Borrett and Interested in the job. Lord! Mrs. Borrett, His' Lordship the I'm tired. No bed last night, you Chief Justice Mr. Justice Mac-] know. Guess it'll have to be good- Gregor and Mrs. MacGregor, Mr. night now, 0 Commander of the M. J. Quist, Commodore F. Elliott, Faithful!"
in the fall.
(and 'Mrs. Elliott The Hon. Sir. Chalmers went as far as the door Thomas Southorn and Lady Sou- (with him and slipped some bills into thorn, Professor F. A. Redmond his hand.
"Oh I'll take 'em," said Plumer. In the sound and fury of yester-and Mrs, Itedmond Mrs. Moore, The day, before Domergue came to the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mrs. "All that's included rescue, Herriot and Blum were Alabaster. The Hon. Mr. E. Taylor Thanks. And for the very good
and Mrs. Taylor, the Hon. Mr. R. | dinner. I shall sleep. whispered, but not
on feathers 80 loudly as Tardieu. In many
M. Henderson and Mrs. Henderson, to-night and dream of Bagdad.. }; ways Tardieu looks like the man, but I do not the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and hope it won't turn out to be a dream B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for think he has earned the love of the Lady Pollock, the Hon. Sir Williams in the morning. Farewell, most ar
people by being the great oppor-Shenton and Miss Y. Shenton, the cellent Caliph!"
Hon. Sir William Hornell, the Hon. Again Chalmers paced restlessly tunist, and the U.S.A. fan of polí..
Sir Shou-son Chow, Mr. and Mrs, upon his rug. But his best lay as tics, who says "Sure" instead of EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, "Yes," and makes large statements Shields, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ear from the table whereon lay the to the effect that he has no wife or ford, Mrs. Scott Harston, Mr. B. H. permit. Twice, thrice," he tried to Thomas, Lady Thomson, Mrs. Hos-pastel sketch as the room.would children because his life is dedicate C Hallowes and Mr. F, P. R. approach it, but failed. He could to France.
James. 7,000 80th Kar.
But you have to throw down this 7,000 4th May. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & eort of copper coinage un the poli
Dance Music 7,000 2nd Jana
Melbourne. 7.000 30th June
Lacal counter, and Tardieu has the The dance programme will com 7,000 2rd Ave.
jadvantage of the label "brilliant" mence at 9.30 with the well known He was a journalist before the war. song-hit Shuffle off to Buffalo, fol-
1st and 2nd class passengers.
NANKIN NELLORE
TANDA
NANKIN NELLORE
1934.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and JapaxClemenceau's lieutenant and Hong Kong to Australia.
see the dun and gold and brown of the colours, but there was a wall, about it built by his fears that kept him at a distance. He sat down and tried to calm himself. He sprang up and rang for Phillips.
a soldier for part of it, and lowed by Sweetheart Darlin' Lent
There is a young artist in this at Vert Heavenly, Erinalia, Wearin' of sailles. He is a Parisian, and has the Green, Hornpipe, Gypsey building," he said, a Mr. Reine- been Prime Minister twice His Fiddles Elleon Alannah, Three man do you know which is his Frequent connections from Australia with the following The Union 9.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom in New Just Ministry fell in 1982, and since Wishes, Thanks, The Mountains of apartment?".
"Top floor, front, sir," said Phillips.
"Go up and ak him to favour me with his presence here for a few
Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The F. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
that date he has been dormant; but Mourne, The Day you came Along, The went to Italy in 1933 and came Forty Second Street, Father The New Zealand Shipping Company's teamers for Southampton and back bursting with admiration for OFlynne, Jig, Did You Ever See A
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamere to London via Suce.
London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
*SOMALI..
CARTHAGE
TARADA NELLORE NALDERA SIRDHANA
BANGALORE
CORRE
•ВЕНАВ
NANKIN
SOUDAN TILAWA
1956.
6,800 21st Mar, 15,000 28rd® Mar. 7,000 23rd Mar,
2000 5th Apr 16,000 6th Apr.
$6,000 12th
will sail for
EUROPE & AMERICA via Suezz' AT 8.00 AM. SATURDAY, MARCH 17.
DOLLAR
STEAMSHIP
LINES
AMERICAN
LINE
PEDDER BUILDING, HONG KONG. CANTON BRANCH ~~~ NO. 4, SHAKEE ROAD,
BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY - SERVICE.
TO Panama
Pacific San Francisco ~·~· Balboa (Panama) Los Angeles
M.S.
оп
Cristobal (Colon)
Next Sailing
Atlantic New York Boston
"TAI YANG” MARCH 18th
Excellent Accommodation for 12 Passengers,
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Queen's Buildings.
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KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE.
HOME
FACTORY
AND
BUNKERS
Beineman⠀⠀ came" at, once: Chal-
the Mussolinl regime. He may be Dream Walking, Im Young and no dictator, but he has no respect Healths, Blievenamon and closes for democratic machinery unless it with the National Anthem, fulls its purpose.
A special programme of music mers introduced himself, has been arranged during the "Mr. Reineman," said he, "there Marchal Foch's Advice
buffet supper, which will be served is a little pastel sketch on yonder Among the other ex-Premiers from 11,15 p.m. to 12:45 am, the table. I would be glad if you will who are expected to squash them-Items, sing. Brien Boru, Sheamus give me your opinion of it as to its selves into power are Laval, as O'Brien, Killarney, Lily of actatic merits and as a picture. Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokobama.clate in the news with Tardieu, Killarney, Londonderry Air, Song The young artist advanced to the Shanghai, Moji, Kobe 4 Yokohama, and Barthou, an old associate of o' My Heart, The Shamrock O'Don- table and took up the sketch.” Chil Amay, Shai, Moll, Kobe Ou
Ouka. Poincare's as Minister of Justice nell Abu, Irish Reel Medley and mers half turned away, S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama
upon the back of a chair jund" ✨ a pre-war Prime, Minister, Hills of Donegales
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Mel Kobe & Dula
8,000 5 LAPICE
Shanghal, Moj, &
Apr
"1.000" "6th May 0.100 18th May 17,000 176 MAY 4,100 30th May 7,000,- And: June €700 12th June 16,000 1th May
Shala Kabel Kobe Yokohama When last in offes he was consider Special Corries will be run at 116
Kabe
Yokoham
Mo Shai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohams, 107. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. E Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Moj, Kobe & Tokohama, Shaughal, Kobe 4 Yokohama. Amoy, S’hai, Moll, Kobe à Oraka,
requ
and
ed excellently sound and safe.m., 1.45 2.10, and 2.30 2.m., while asked slowly,
Daladier,” Chautempa, - Barraut, the Peak tram will run Paul-Boncour, Poincare, Bleag, Mil-intervals. lerand, and Marsal would also, aur- port.... Doumarguo if peeded. But| Daladier and hautempa can hardly
"reconstructión: hap Gallaux, who was
be the
aning
THE KAILA
DODW
LIQUOR RUNNERS PURSUED
Thrilling Chase For
Thirty
TRANSVAAL POLIC
باد
POWER
HOUSE,
TUGS &
MINISTRATION,
Ha, Hong Kong.
50 miles an hour
They re
police
time at 65 mlk
to