THE GOLF MATCH.
Fire: Golfer (after magnificent drive): What do ye know about
tlust
Second Golfer: Well, it's good, but I'll tell you what, we won't 1 Rave you on for play for the usual ball this time. War Bond ticket, lower pays, First Galfer: Right O! But to make it fair, laser shares if the
ticket wins a prize.
Second Golfer: In any case it is $450 for War Charities, and I think we ought.inPay the Piper" for our pleasures in these time.
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AN OPIUM CASE,
An old Chinese woman, who was charged with being in unlawful possession of thirteen taels of prepared opium: was Bned $1,200 by Mr. Wolfe. The opiam was confisented.
CHARGE AGAINST A PEAK SERVANT.
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A Chinese servant, employed by Mr. A. Ritchie, of the Peak, was charged with quitting service without notice.
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A LEPER IN COUET. Two Chinese-one a leper-were charges with stealing a piece of zine sheeting valued at $0, from a feld in Catchick
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CHINA AND HIGH SILVER
EXCHANGE
The United States Consül-General. Mr. Geo. E. Anderson, Hongkong. in » recent report referring to the high silver ex- change, writes-
MESSES. EZRA, CHEN AND CUTLER PALMER & CO,'S-
NIELSEN.
ECHOES OF THE SHANGHAI BASEBALL AFFAIR,
With reference to what occurred in the During 19 silver reached its highest private discussion at the Mixed Court on Thursday afternoon in the matter.of. value in many years, resulting in a con- truction, or, rather, a limitation of basi the procedings taken by Messrs. Judah ness; for with silver at a high value the Ezra, F. Elias and V. Gensburger against Chinese producer secures for his exports Mr. Eugene Chen and Mr. Gordius a correspondingly low price for his gonds Nielsen, we understand, soys the Y.-C. when sold on a gold-standard market in Daily News of the 14th inst.. that the competition with similar goods from gold, following result was achieved,
Mr. Eugene Chen was produced in standard countries: while, on the other
hand, if he has the money, his silver goser to the summons against him bỷ much farther than usual in the purchase his counsel, who pointed out that be Mr. Wolfe "remanded the case for a of good produced on a gold-standard Mr. Chen, had never meant to run away basis. Theoretically imports into China from the summons-merely, that he was. from the United States, Europe, and other sick and wished to go to America for the exporting countries should be stimulated.
An undertaking and to a certain extent they are stima benefit of his health. Inter, by the high exchange value of silver, was given that the security for Mr. Although
this may so depress silver prices Chen's appearance, when required would ressived for Chinese exports that many be paid, and the hearing of the action was postponed for four lines of Chinese goods do not bring against him ough return to the producer to justify months.
3. Ezra and his friends then insisted exportation. Unless Chian can sell its
that Mr: Gordius Mielsen should devist Inspector Macdonald asked the Magis own products it cannot buy the coun trate to diselurge one of the defendants astry's products at any price. During the from publishing carrilous articles about past year there has been an strong a themselves, id reguril to the baseball he was suffering from acute leprosy. demand in the United States and other scandal. Mr. Gordius Nielsen, in reply, countries for certain raw materials pro-is understood to have atated that he was Mr. Wolfe sentenced first defendant' 10
duced by China that they have been taken willing to desist, on condition that Mr. a month's hard labour, and discharged in spite of high exchange and at almos Ezra and his friends would cease writing the leper, ordering him to a deported any price in gold. The rxtraordinarily letters to suels papers as cared to print high prices paid in gold by the United immediately.
States for its imports from China have the offering to lay large sums that not benefited the latter, however, for its nobody could prove the guilty of returns in most lines of its exports have bribery. On these terms the public will not been up to normal prices in silver, be glad to know that both parties con- (at least they have not been enough above sented to desist from further indulgence y hermal to compensate China for extra in print. In all probability the public ordinary costs and expenses in other lines. would be quite satisfied with this under-.
FLUCTUATIONS "OF EXCHANGE.
taking, without any prospect of the affair During 1917 exchange ranged from being raked up again four months hence, around 37 gold to the Hongkong dollar, when Mr. Chen returns from America. as American telegraphic-transfer rate in January, down to 2.30 in March; thence to athund 37 again in April and May and the first part of June. It then commenced to rise and went to c.50 early, in July. and then fapidly to 70 in August, and by September 20th reached 4 for the same rate in Hongkong, although thas rate was below parity with New York
ALLEGED KIDYAPPING.
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A Chinese woman was charged om zel omnd, with kidnapping one little and selling another for $23 at Tai0.
A Police sergeant stated that in conder tion with the case he was preferring charge of aiding and abetting against a present in Court, little hoy who was. H intended to ask the Magistrate, while the case was proceeding, to discharge the little boy, who would subsequently ap pear as
a "witness for the prosecution
I
He also thought that the woman, if foundxchange in very ather silver market at of conscience on that score, she replied,
guilty, should be committed for trial a the Criminal Sessions.
MR. NIELSEN'S FACE SLAPPED,
The whole upisode reminds one, on both sides, of the lady who went to confession burdened with the fact that she had kiss da man who was not her husband. On being asked when this grave sin had been committed, she replied. Twenty five years ago, and on being told that she need hardly have any further tenderness
that time.
Yes, Father, but I do love talking Perhaps the Brust significant and inter-about it.. esting feature of the entire upward move- ment of silver was the fact that by reason. The mutter unfortunately does not rest Mr. Wolfe remanded the cast till Mon- of a special control over the supply in here. In connection with the above ngree-. day."
Hongkong, and to some extent in China, ment, there was a further call, for "pro- dominant banking interests were able to ceedings at the Mixed Court yesterday hold the exchange value of the silver afternoon. Mr. A. Verbruggen, Belgian dollar far below its actual metal value in Vice-Consul and Acting Danish Assessor, the markets of the world. Realising that the advance in the price of silver was too who was to sit, had arrived. Ent through rapid for the commerce of this part of the some misunderstanding Mr. C. P. Byrne. Far East to adjust itself thereto, the the British Assessor, did not pat in an colony's banking interests refused to appearance, follow the price of silver in the markets.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION-OF
AMMUNITION.
!
A Chinese was charged with being in unlawful possession of a revolver and 200 rounds of ammunition.
It was stated that defendant was rested on the Kwong Hing wharf, when his luggage was searched the traband articles were discovered cealed in a box with a false bottom.
år. Wood fined defendaat 8500, the alternative of three months' hard labour and confiscated the revolver and
aminanition.
While the parties concerned were in the
Mr. Verbruggen being in the chambers,
of the world in their exchange rates. On court-rcom waiting for the Court to sit, and September 2nd. when silver reached its con-highest point. the telegraphic transfer Mr. Gordius Nielsen walked over to Mr. rate of the Hongkong dollar was ei. Judah L. Ezra, shook a anger, and called con- while the parity of silver, that is, the him a swindler.
actual value of silver in Hongkong as Mr. Ezra asked Mr. Nielsen if he determined by its cost the world a would repeat what he had said. markets at 55d. per ounce in London, with Nielsen repeated his remark, with a freight, insurance, etc., added, was forceful adjective predixing the word estimated at 4s, or about c.90 goldswindler." Exchange in Hongkong, therefore, was
in
Another Chinese was charged with being in unlawful possession of a revolver and one round of ammunition.
in
Mr.
e:17, or about 18.3 per cent, below the Nielsen on the left cheek.
Thereupon Me Ezra slapped Mr. In value of the silver it represented.
The Court was not ja session, in fact Shanghai on the same date the tale- graphic transfer rate of the tael at 81.171, no officers of the court were in the room, with the silver parity of the tael placed so there were no official witnesses of the at about 81.30, was c. 12, or about 9 per affair. Friends of each stepped forward Mr. Wood fined defendant $200, and cent, below the value of the silver the taal and the scene ended with Mr Nielsen'a
represented. confiscated the revolver,"
repeating his 'epithet and saying that he should summon his assailant before the British Police Court this morning..
GERMAN DYE IN COURT.
A Chinese was charged, on remand, with being in unlawful possession of three ting of German dye.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada appeared for the defence."
A salesman at a Chinese shop stated that he bought the dye from defendant for $1.59 ä tin, as he wanted to use it himself. He had since, however, sold it for 318 tin. He had known defendant as a marine-hawker for over ten years and had no reason to suspect that the dye bad been stolen.
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Mr., d'Almada submitted that the de- fendant should be discharged. At the time when the charge was laid the defendant had nothing in his possession. The goods were in the possession of the last witnese, who purchased them and sold them.
Mr. Wood said that provided the con stable found someone conveying the goods he was entitled to follow the person up. If the person having the goods could satisfy the Court that he had obtained the goods from a second person, then that person became liable to the Court, unless he could satisfy the Court that be got them from another person, and so on.
The defendant was discharged...
policy of holding down exchange was followed more or less closely during
Court oficials came in after it was all the rest of the year; Unquestionably it had a marked effect in protecting the com. over and bounced there would be no mercial interests of the port, for had there proceedings because of Mr. Byrne's been no prohibition of exports of silver absence, and after that nothing farther from the colony and no such control of happened, at least not in the vicinity of the exchange situation, the result would probably have been the disappearance of the ixed Court the stock of silver in Hongkong banks; the whole system of advances and credita to customers of Hongkong banks, would have been destroyed, and the business of the port would have come to a standstill.
Gradually the import and export trade
MARRIAGE.
[FROM PUCK"]
of the port adjusted itself to some extent Marriage is one of the little problems There was a time, way to high exohange conditions, and Chinese of civilization. producers in Hongkong a trade territory back in the Stone Age, when no one ever also met changed conditions accordingly. thought of doing anything of the sort, Notwithstanding this, it is patent that but gradually the habit swept over the comparatively low exchange is the founda entire educated world, just like the use tion for the best average import and of tobacco-which antedated it by only export trade in China and Hongkong So a small margin. long as present exchange conditions exist Men get married from a variety of mo- a home, a housekeeper, for the free shipment of Chinese produce is tives for impossible, even at present high gold someone to answer the telephone or re- them when to get a haircut. prices, and until China can ship its pro- mind duce freely to a good market it can and Women have only two retsons: they will do comparatively little in the import marry either because they do not want to go to college or because they have been to college.
line.
WOMEN IN BUSINESS,
Mea suffer most from married life, be cause they are brought up in the touching old superstition that they were created free and equal.
the
A new departure has taken place in
Dallying with the idea of marriage pto- regard to women's activities in the appointment of Miss C. E. Williams as duces a wonderful thrill. It is like see- secretary to the Corporation of Insurance jeg bow far you can lean out of a window Brokers and Agents, Miss Williams has before you fall. Only there are records succeeded a man, who left to fill a high of people leasing out of windows who post in the insurance world, and whose have drawn back in time. principal assistant she was for fourteen Every one is supposed to marry in order months, Asked how she gained the quali to have seen life just as every one is sup- fications and experience necessary for such posed to have learned to play bridge an important office, Miss Williams told or to dance. One experience in any of You a representative of The Daily Telegraph these lines is usually sufficient. that she considered the school of practical seldom care to repeat.
In the old-time circuses there was experience the best possible training. She AN IMPROVED AIR MACHINE. commenced her business life as a short always a Happy Family of miscellaneous hand writer and typist, but she was well animals. And there was always a sign Happy The Royal Air Force is now being equip. educated, and she had no intention of on the cage telling how long. ped with a machine the like of which is spending her life in that employment Family had together without a not in existence, it is believed. In it the Convinced that she could improve her renewal. Marriage is like that. People secret of carrying a maximum supply of status only by developing her own powers count the years they have lived together petrol has been solved, and as it is excep- and knowledge, she attended lectures and and boast about it. At the end of twenty- tionally awift, the old trouble of nerd availed herself of every chance of acquir fire years they give a party and receive planes giving way when within the Huning general information of a kind likely congratulations on the successful comple- lines has been to all intents and purposes to be useful to a secretary. She learned tion of their endurance test. Their eliminated. Its climbing powers are little routine work during twelve year's offered on this occasion, and if they last out friends present them with silver trophies short of the marvellous, it being capable ence in a newspaper office, and this of rushing up 20,000 ft. in a very brief her a wide sphere, for she had both, a another twenty-five years they get gold period, carrying with it at the same time variety of work and opportunities of Pritch
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