NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG ART CLUB,
THE CHOICE OF
THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION THE CONNOISSEUR!||
will be held at LANE, ORAW. TORD'S RESTAURANT (FRONT Rook) DECEMBER 1019 and 11T¤.
The Exhibitim will be OPEN From 10A.M. tn 7 P.M.
ADMISSION - 50 Cents. N. BROWN (Hxo.), Hon. Becretary.
176, The Peak.
[10217
IN THE SUPREME COUrt of HONG KONG.
+
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IT TOR GOODS OF
CAWASJI MUNCHERI KARANJIA, LATE OF No. 27, FansCA CONEIX,SXWHEN, Canton,, IN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, DECKAGED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions of Boetion 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, wads An Order Limiting the Time for Oreditors and Other to send in their Claime against the above Estate to the 29TH DAY OF DECEM. IER, 1890.
All Creditors and Otheru are accord- logly bareby required to and their Claims to the Brdersigned on or before That Dato.
DEACONS.
Solicitors for the Administratriz, 1, Des Vaux Road Central, Hong Kong.
SCOTCH WHISKY WпION
SKEMS TO HAVE Captured
THE FUKSHING OF THE
THE TANG
BAILEY,
OF THE PEAT SMOKR
THE MELLOWNESS OF GREAT
AGR.
WHISKY
WITH A FRAGRANT BOUQUET,
A GRACIOUS MELLOWNESS, AND
A ORNIAL FLAVOUR TILAT
WARKS THE HEART — SUCH
19 DEWAR'S, A BARK OLD SCOTCH WHISKY.
DEWAR'S
"WHITE
[10215
LAND FOR IMMEDIATE SALE.
VACANT LAND & EAST POINT
consisting of R.P. of I/Lot 749 and B.P. Lot 78, having Areas of 4,730 and 10,047 Square Feet BFD Vory respectively. The Lots Buitable for CHINESE FLATS and Fare Situated Closs to the MAIN ROAD.
For further particulars apply
·Property. Office,
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD., Joint Liquidators,
CHINA SUGAR REFINING
Co., LTD.
(In Liquidation).
[10203
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME.
-
ORIENT.
MORTGAGE BANK AND ESTATE.
ADENTS.
"PEAK MANSIONS"
LABEL"
AGED IN THE WOOD AND BOT-
THE TLKD IN SCOTLAND,.
UNVARYING QUALITY OF
DEWAR'S LEAVES NOTHING TO
BE DESIRED.
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON & Co.,
LIMITED.
Established 1841.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
Six-roomed & Fire-roomed ApartmentsNTRY
PRINCE EDWARD BOAD, KOWLOON,
Detached and Semi-detached Villas Modern Construction with Garage,
-"CAMBAY BUILDINGS" Flate with Modern Couvenienvoi.
Lovely Books For
CLUB. PROGRAMMES and FORMS for the
EXTRA THIRTEENTH
LACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 19TH DECEMBER 1930 (Weather Formitting may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, HONG KONG OLUD and CAUSEWAY BAY STABLES.
Entries CLOSE et 12 O'slock NOON on MONDAY, 821 DECEMBER, 1990.
[10202
Fireside Reading.
Warwick Deeping's Latest Book of SHORT STORIES..."
Stories of Love, Passion and Adventure. They all have a vitality and charm that will make this collection a inst ing pleasure to the possessor.
$9.50
Y PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930.
HONG KONG DAILY
-WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore 'cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at, 6.83 p.m., stated:-
The anti-cyclone is central over
E. Koren. Fresh monsoon along the BE. coast of China and over
the N, China Sea.
Local Forecast:-N, wind, fresh; fine..
Editorial and Business Offices: 11
Bi-motalism, in ao far as it con ceras silver and gold, is utterly dis credited as an economic measure. It,failed when the parity was established at or about the market price of both metals. It has no possibility of succeeding when it is
proposed to establish a' parity of 20 to 1 against a market price of more than 30 to 3. Bi-metalliam at its best was never more than a devies of national finance. It
first came into prominence late in
News and Views *
The cricket writer of the let bourne Herald understand, that Bradman has received some tempt ing offers to return to England,. but has decided to roman in Aus tralia. The some writer says that.... Mr. Kelly,
the Tanager of tourista, intends to protest to the Australian Board of Control Plans have been inode to tiso a The death of a married womangainst not being consulted before lie detector machine for Uni-out-patient of St. Bartholomew's versity of Chicago students who
cheat in examinationa.
Our youngest Royal lady's name appeared for the first time in the Court Circular, issued from 148, tho seventies,
Piccadilly, simply as "Princess To quote Mr. C. CHAMPEIN's Margaret." Evidently there is no excellent little book on the sub-intention that aho shall be known Ten House Street. Tel. 30251,
as "Margaret Rose." Night Editor (Wanchai Oßco):|ject:-As is often the case in
Tel. 24611.
national questions; the real issue was obscured when it became a
London Office: 53, Fleet Street,
B.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 5, 1930.
SILVER AND FALSE
OPTIMISM:
old
Hospital, named May Gatti, who Bradman received permission to lived at Groat Saffron-hill, Hol- leave the ship at Fremantle, Mr. born, E.C., was, stated at an in- Kolly also intends to recommend the curtailment of future tours in quest the first in over 2000 cases in which patients received similar England by the deletion of the re- turn matches with Yorkshire and Lancashire. treatment."
The Proposterous H.F. Tax.
H.M.8. Crystal Palace.
18
Memories of the Crystal Palace 4 warship were revived by the reunion of the Royal Naval Divi- sion which took place there on board" thero in 1914, who slept in November 18. Men who "weat. closely swung hammocks, saluted, a theoretical quarter-deck, and mar- chud in the Surrey lanes, lunchod in H.M.8. Crystal Palace with Karl Howe as chairman. Mr. Winston Churchill, who "invented"" the Royal Naval Division, and Sir Tan Hamilton were present.
THE VOICE OF THE' NIGHTINGALE.
Could I, with the sweet liquid of
thy notes,
A brimming bowl of alabaster-
fill,
And, from that mond, a heavenly
wine distill, Twould be a nectar grateful to the
throats
the High Gods; the music of the
mountain rill,
Of trees and birds, the perfume.
of all flowers. The sun-cleansed firmament, all
happy hours, Would, concentrate in this, be mine
at will;
British motorists are rejoicing that Mr. MacDonald has at last acon of lonet a glimmering of the Mr. Lloyd George has seldom light regarding the horse-power taxOf
How this impost than he was at the Lytton lunch. has survived so long is one of the bron in botter post-prandial form on motoronys, He was humorously reminiscent, he mysteries of modern taxation. The deprecated his own public perfor handicap it imposes on the motor mancos compared with those of Bir industry is obvious. It compels the Henry in most amusing fashion, construction of cars for the homo market which are not suitable for touch of the orator his note of scri- foreign and still less for the Dom- ousness was fully appropriate. Heinion and Colonial markets. Thus One made an excellent point in refer i halves the advantages to be de- ring to the continued youthfulness rived from mass-production. of the Gilbert and Sullivan audian the other hand, there seems to be oes. True, the grey-headed flock no argument against the use of One to them to renew the memories of the patrol tax to raise an equivalent their youth; but the post-war genrevenue, The more powerful enr eration is always well represented consume more petrol per mile, and too. The lunchers ranged from the therefore pays more. The man who One octogenarian Dame Madge Kendal use his car (and so the roads) ine young in spirita na anybody)nore would pay more than the man to more than a sprinkling of the who takes his out only occasional-
ly. "Bright Young People."
On
The Palace Chapel.
The chapel at Buckingham Palace, where the christening of Princess Margaret took place, was originally arranged for Queen Vic "Luxury-Loving England.”
toria when she consed to attend the plank in the platform of party Right Rev. H. A. Wilson, speaking very small, but is now beautifully The Bishop of Cholmsford, the Chapel Hoyal, St. James's. It is politics, and its economic soundness at Witham, Essez, said that when furnished, as members of the Royal or otherwins could hardly be judged young people of to-day looked at Family have placed many of their memorials thore. The from the degree of enthusinsan it pictures of their grandfather, and private
grandmothers-very quear
gleaming gold plate was given to evoked under different party tan- things, no doubt"-they were look the chapel as a memorial to Queen ners. The presidential election of ing at people who hold the world's Victoria soon after her death, by 1806 was fought on the bipietallic markets and built up the industries | her surviving children, and the of this land. The Bishop added handsome white altar cloth was question, and since that date the "We have the million unemployed, given by the King and Queen in subject has gradually faded, from largely because we have forgotten memory of Queen Alexandra. Prin- publis intercet There is enough how to work hard. I can rememes Elizabeth', was the only chris- literature on the subject to satisfy her when the heads of a business tening to have taken place thore would work five-and-a-half days a so far, but the chapel has seen a anyoto eufficiently interested to week. Now they want to play golf wedding that of the present King study it, but it will suffice hero to on Saturday, perhaps on Monday, and Queen of Norway.. state that the matter was first and for half a day on Friday. Wo are thriftless, indolent, plea UNUSUAL intereat was aroused in the raised apparently in connection suro-seoking and luxury-loving, Colony yesterday by the financial with the Government bonds issued and we are lazy!” proposals, cabled to us by Reuter, during the Civil War, which were : of Mr. J. F. DARLING, one of the
largely held on account of the "L.G.".at His Best. Directors of the Midland Bank. National Banks as security for His suggestion, put before the Con their note-iasuca An Act of 1860 grow anal Silver Sub-Committer at to restore the public credit pledged Washington, was that the British the Government to pay the bonds Empire and the United States in coin. When the price of silver should combine to stabilise silver had fallen in 1876 to 47 ponce, and when the moment came for the at a 0 to 1 ratio of value to gold. ratio for gold and silver of 20 to As the present figure stands around 1, and it was found that an Act 60 to 1 the proposal is startling, of 1873 had dropped the silver and Hong Kong was eagerly dollar from the coinage, the people discussing whether a scheme to jumped to the conclusion that it that effect had any chance of being was a trick of the Londholders, who operated, and what would be the were already getting over 7 per effects upon ourselves. It is a cont. interest, to secure
a further well to say that the visions of a advantage in the payment of their thres and sixpenny dollar are bonds in gold. It was useless to wholly illusory,hot
urgo that for forty years before 1873 gold had been the standard of value, and that silver dollars had been token money with an average cuin- age of only $150,000 per annum. Congress yielded to the pressure of the silver-producing States and the unreasoning advocates of "cheap and abundant money," and the Bland Act was passed in 1878 over ministration has made a net profit the veto of the President under of 83,000,000 since January. which the Government commenced One case of typhoid fever, one His expressed views mainly contre systematic coinage of silver of of diphtheria and one of corebro round banking unity and the between two and four million spinal meningitis were notified for
the 24 hours ended: December 3. mobilisation of Imperial gold ro- dollars per month without regard
Part of the property stolen from sources for the common security of to the real requirements of the the leading banks within the Em. nation, and the silver dollar was the dining room of 35, Conduit Road, the residence of Mrs. Kawa- pire. Ho has in fact advocated the made legal tender to any amount.
zu, on Saturday, has been recover- Agitators were not satisfied anded by the Police in a pawnshop. catablishment of what would be in effect an Empire Central Bank, the advocates of free coinage of His proposals are attractive to aflyer becaine formidable. In 1699 pany at Gin Drinkers' Bay has re-
The manager of the Texas Com
those who are interested in the the Sherman Act was passed exported that a fire broke out a mat- wider aspects of inter-empire econo- tending silver purchases by the shed in the Kwai Chung Village
on Wednesday and that a child The following forthcoming mar mies, but the practical student of Government to 4 million ounces
was badly injured.
riages are announcod:-Mr. Joseph local currency problems finds little monthly, payment for the same, to
Harrop reaideg at Huntington, All hawkers in the Colony have Stubbs Road, to Miss Phyllis Mar that is helpful in doctrinaire be mado in Government notes to be
been instructed by the Police to garet Goodall, of Ava House, May theories that nro based on the ne redeemed in gold or silver coin, standardise their stalls to six feet Road. Mr.
Constantino Nicola
Honkow sumplion that all currency prob with the appalling results above by three feet. The order for this Doldin, residing at 32, lems are merely differing expres- | stated:
was given with a view to preventing Road, Kowloon, to Mies Annatasia Demion Falavikoff, of 3, Carter sions of the same problem and that
DARLING's proposal is obstruction in the streets.
Road, Shanghai. a grand solution is possible for utterly impracticable of achieve
ment," said a leading Hong Kong Buffering from injuries received
at the Kowloon Godowns, whers The disappearance of a boy cuthority
yesterday. achievement were practicable it he is alleged to have been attack-employed by the Song Lee Co.,
world has lost faith in silver as a
man named Kwong Kos (25) has neesy Road, has been reported to precious metal. It is now, nothing been admitted to the Kowloon the Police. It was scouting boy named Loung Hing but a commodity. The salvation of Hospital for treatment. silver-using countries lies in the adoption of a gold exchange stand
Hong Kong unfortunately cannot take the lead in this re- apret."
Mr. DARLING is a frequent con- tributor of far-sighted schemes for currency reform and the re-adjust ment of international exchanges. He was closely associated with the late Bir EDWARD HOLDEN, Bart., who built up the Midland Bank Ezom a comparatively unimportant provincial concern into its present position as one of the largest banks in the world.
all,
TWICKENHAM CALLING. By Capt. H. T. Wakelam
$5.00
A practical book on Rugger. What to watch and how to play:
CAN YOU SOLVE IT?...
$2.50
1194 puzzles and problems, with their answers. ENGLAND THE UNKNOWN ISLE. By Paul Portheim... $8.50 This book shows the British public how their ways impress a forigner. It is neither an historical treatise nor a scientific investigation, but a brightly written testimonial of a lover of England;
Owen Butter's THE PIRATE WIND
"Mr.
ita
precious drop, down-sprayed
thereon, and mould Would miraculously turn to
gold:
waft, and all the music of the
apheros
Would fill with melody my
ravished ears:
taste would, to my longing.
open wide
The Gates of Heaven that I
might look inside,
JOHN WILLWYN.
* Local Notes and Events ⋆
According to the Canton Press, the Canton-Shiulwan railway ad
According to a Police report, an old man and two small girls were drowned near Stonecutters Island on Wednesday, when their junk suddenly, sank. There were 10 peo- ple on board but the other seven were picked up by several vessels which rushed to the spot on hearing
the alata.
بس
Mrs. Andrown, of 7, Prate. Build 258 Kowloon, has made a report to the Police that some time bo- twein 9 pm, on Monday and 6 a.m. on Wednesday, someone. enter. cil the basement of her house and stolo silver ornaments and clothing. in the value of 838.
The annual exhibition of the Captain Kancko, master of a Hong Art Club will be held at fishing junk, the Kushiro Maru, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, front. was summoned before Comdr. G. Flange on December 10 and 11. The Hole, N., at the Marine Court exhibition of pictures by loca! yesterday for failing to register artists, will be open from 10 an. the arrival of his vowel on Novem- | to 7 p.m. - and will be very well- ber 14, and for failing to obtain | worth a visit. The entrance fee is.. A clearance permit. Defendant was fined $100 or two months. 2.
50 cents.
Looking Back 25 Years,”
We suggested at the time that there must be some mistake in the Chinese queues to England. It is report about the importing of now started that the Bradford cuy coroner resumed the inquest attend- ing the death of John Dieghton, who had been employed by a wool combing firm, in opening balos cou- taming a quantity of human hair, men who died from anthrax. Or.. Eurich said he had bacteriologio- ally examined a sample of the hair. He found it had undergone imper- fect sterilization a process which and destroyed all bacilli thas did
Mr. DARLING is essentially anauld still fail in its object. The led by a number of men, a tally-building, contrastom, of $27, Hon. said to be the pigtails of China-
enthusiast, and an enthusiast in teo often like a man walking in a fog. Everything immediately around him is dear enough, but beyond the little circle of which he is the centre
all is miss and confusion.
...$10.00
Tales of the Bea-Robbers of Malaya, With 18 illustra tiene and & maps.
John Masefield's THE WANDERER
$8.50
A charming narrative of a four-masted barque, and ita
ail ng days from 1891 to 1907
THE WIRELESS MANUAL By Capt. J. Frost
--~$5.00
This book contains full details and instructions for. manipulating all-kinds of wirelcas receiving als. SPEECHES AND TOASTS-How to make and propose them... $2.50
Including model examples for all occasions. SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF RUDYARD
KIPLING ...
worth more than eighteen penco an Ounce 1:
"GREAT SEA STORIES OF ALL NATIONS ...
$4.50
$8.50
This work is a literary gem which itself takes a pluca among contemporary casays.
a high
GREAT STORIES OF ALL NATIONS.
$8.50
Among the famous modern authors whose work is repro- sauted in this volume are:-Galsworthy, Conrad, Wells, Bounett, Lawrence, Huxley, d'Annunzio, Morand, Capek, Lageroff, Wharton, Gorky, Pirandello, Chekhov.
KELLY & WALSH LTD.
Incorporated in Hong Kong),
Rotary in Hong Kong.
The enanagement of the Wing Bing Knitting Factory, Sai Yeung Chor Stroet, have notified the Palice that during the past week they have either had stolen from them, or Lost, spare parts to their knitting machines to the value of 8250:
End absconded with a sum of 8098 which he is alleged to have takon from the accountants' desk after having broken open a drawer.
in that court. The inquent was fur- her adjourned for a week.-Hang Looking Back 50 Years.
not form sporca. He had hatched all the species of spores found, It is easy enough within Mr. Din
A master of a cargo junk was none of which were of anthrax, and LING's circle to talk of operation
brought before Comdr, G. F. Hole, one even inimical to mankind. between the British Empire and the
R.N. at the Marine Court yester Two or three species he had not.
yot identified, and asked mora day, on a charge of anchoring his United States to stabilise the price The inaugural macting of the
Hong Kong Rotary Club has been The Minister of Railways, Sun junk in Shaukiwan, instead of theme for investigation. The mini- of silver at the relation of 20 to arranged for next Monday evening Fo, is expected to arriva in Canton Dangerous Goods anchorage, while pulation of such hair, he said was the uneasiness caused and to support the idea with plati-at the Hong Kong Hotel Mr. by the middle of this month to having 16 tins of kerosens of board. dangerous The Coroner com tudes about world depression and James W. Davidson, the Honorary make arrangements for the construc- His Worship remarked that he alment on
General Commissiones of the Rotary tion of a railway between Chung-ways punished this type of offence by stateurents in some London pa-, the purchasing power of half the International, has been in the shan and Fatehan. He will leave very severely and ined the defeapons attributed to him, that the hair was used for artifical fringes. dant $70 human race, but who is to pay the Colony for the past few weeks, Nanking about the 10th instant.
Such a statemeat was over made price of putting a fictitious value quietly and efficiently organising the
local branch of this great moverent For the larey of a quilt and J. Two ricksha puifiers were charged of four shillinga an ounce on a
eighty names, covering the blanket from 148, Lai Chi Kok before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon commodity that at most la not leading Kong Daily Press, Doc., 5, 105,
nationalities have accepted six works imprisonment by Biring donen An Indian-sergeant invitations to join and H.E., the Buttore at the Kowloon Magistracy and constable stated that the de
We are gald to hear that the Governor (Sir William. Peel) is the vesterday. It was elated that the fendant throw stones at the in Will Amerien pay the price ID first honorary member, Me: David defendant was arrested while walk- Jordon Road. The defendants Choral Bosiety intend to continue 1800 the Sherman Act declared it son has had the greatest success in ing along Yu Kok Street carrying denied the offence and said that give performances of an opera character, as well as converts. The to be the established policy of the reading Rotary through twit the quilt
East, and there is no reason why it
question was discussed at a recent United States to maintain gold and should not do well in Hong Kong. The Chinese Press relates that
meeting of the society, when a few of the members, expressed their dis- silver on a parity with each other Its primary object is to bring men butcher of Fatahan, after slaugh upon the legal ratio of 18.088 to of different races, creeds and, oc- tering a pig found valuable ring When charged before Mr. Lindsell approval of the former and wished cupations together. It adopts the inthe animal's stomach. Un with the possesion of 21 tacle of the society to devote itself entirely 1, and the holder of legal tender fundamental method of holding a fortunately for him he talked opium, a Chinese woman stated that the cultivation of classical plat notes had the option of demanding meal- luncheon once a week after about his discovery, and the owner it was left in her keeping by an form music. They were, however, payment in, gold or silver, with the which a short addrons le given of the abhatoir care along and elder sister who find gone into the overruled by a very large majority by a member or a guest. There are and that the ring belonged to his country and had died. It was star who saw no occasion for sacrificing result that the gold holdings of the now twenty-thres, Rotary Clube in wife. Ho claimed that the ringed by the prosecution that the either. We understand that during Government were depleted by 150 the Middle Asia area; five in India. must have Lallon into some swill opium was found secreted in the the present season "H.M.8. Pina- milles daliere-and-560-Statement two in Burma, ons in Coylon, three which his good lady prepared for beams on the roof of defentiant's fore," will be repeated, and later
m the Straits Sexvoractice, thur This wind 2,000 for alleg dard Indill the producsi Ziqu swings banks and private bankery FACS aix Jav om in Sumatra TNKSTY'Story and ga
Daily Peci, Dec. 5-1880. Bupanded payment.
And ons, in Bangkok
ring.
they were arrested for making a noise and skylarking. The case was adjourned till to-day.
labour