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Lull before the Storm
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A Plea for Old Hong Kong"
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932.
RACING CARNIVAL BEGINS TO-DAY.
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which is going out here and ha is as good at Chatunu Bay. y Tourist has some good raining] times behind him to strengthen hin elaim for rocognition in the Trial Pinta. If Trontbridge is kept for this raco, ho should win and if Wild Life is sont out here instead! of in the Hopeful Stakes, he ought to get very close toe,"
EARL'S SON FINED ON SUMMONSES.
EARLY MORNING DISPUTE WITH A TAXI-DRIVER.
APOLOGY TO COURT: “ NEVER
INTENDED CONTEMPT,"
The Hon. Edward Ward, son-pl' the Earl of Dudley, of Silver-street, Hampstead, N.W., was fined £ at Westminster Court on
A SUEMOna
A
MONEY MELTING TRAFFIC.
TURNING EACH SOVEREIGN
· INTO THIRTY SHILLINGS,
ELABORATE ORGANISATION TO DEFY THE LAW,
A big träffo in sovereigns and half-sovereigns for illicit melting down into gold bars has sprung up becauso of the world gold situation. for using obscend language to
Since the rims in the price of fina police constable. On a summons gold from the normal rate of 88 for non-payment of a taxion fare an ounce to the present figure of he was ordered to pay the farola.10. d. gold coins have a market. able value considerably above their 3d.--and £2 108. costs..
face value..
APOLLO'S CHANCES. For the sprint over Ave furlongs, Apollo, the speed champion is aure starter and although he is not in such good condition as he was at the last annual meeting, yet, over five furlongs, it is dif
A warrant was issued for the ars Acult to pick anything to bent him. Totman can give him a good race rest of Mr. Ward when he failed and if Apollo faile, the Dynasty to appear at a previous hehring candidate is the most likely one to but, following an explanation to the get the honours, Gleneagles alo has a sporting chance as he is very magistrate, this was withdrawn.
Mr. H. Shaply, for Mr. Ward, The Old Course Plays in another made an application to have the interesting ruce
of and Pride Tsingtao, who accounted for the Ce brought forward in the list, Autumn Champions in such deand Mr. E. Boyd, the magistrate, cisive manner, ought to command asked if the witnesses in the case
fit.
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A sovereign when it leaves; the Mint contains 386 ounce of gold, so that at the present rate it int worth about 308.," against its face value of £1
4)
Elaborate Buying..
H
A
After allowing for the cost of coll lecting, melting, and marketing. this leaves a wide margin for pro..
A good following, and in truth, were present." He was told that theit. Despite the savore penalties for tha pony has a big chance here.
Befoing or melting gold coins,
Gay Crusader and Wisdom Stag cabman was not yet in attendance. are some of the other candidates The magistrata explained to Mr.there has arisan a wide-spread ox-
likely to do well hero.
ARMY HALL" AND SITTING"
BULL
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The Hope Stakes seems to me to be a big chance for Wild Life to score a win in the first day. The distance suits him to a tee and he ought not to find it diffoult to win. Army Hall, one of Mr. He Kom Tong's best griffine, s entered here and if Mr Dallas is going to get on this pony ho has an oven chance of doing, no hero. Mra. Dunbar's Powhattan is likely to ac- cept for this rics and should ho be ridden by Mr. McOman, a place seems «cortain. 4
King's Bounty Sitting Bull Sapko, Fortune Bay, Adam and The Tiger are likely to command support in the last race of the day, Sadko is reputed to be a very good pony and he appears to live up to his reputation during training. Sitting Bull, however, will not be easy to beat if he is sent out here and for that matter Fortune Bay and King's Bounty are not such bad propositions. On the whole think Sitting Bull ought to win if sent out.
THE SELECTIONS.
Shanly that he had Axed the case for three o'clock as the cabman had to work at night. "He has had to attend at this court on more than be occasion," the magistrate vid. don't know whether the question of the cab fare is in dispute."
Mr. Shanly-No.
anisation for buying up as many as possible of the 3,000,000 to 10,000,000 gold coing habitually hoarded in England..
unes out
The mon who, ara making fort. of this business have
buyers all over the country. In particular, agents are concentrating
The magistrate said he would be on agricultural market towns, for willing to proceed at once.
3.15 am. Dispute.
it is well known that country dwellers have. hoarded gold in 'a sovereigns passed out of comioon currency during the war,
The Hon. Edward Ward came forward. He was asked to plead in
In towns and cities most of the respect of the summons for using buying is done quietly in puolio obecone language in the street. Hehouses. Prices of 238. to 258.#are pleaded guilty. To the second sum-commonly offered for sovereigns, mons, dealing with the non-payment and at this profitable rate of ex... of a cab fare of 15. 3d, he also change people who had hoarded a pleaded guilty,
faw ecins are willing to come, of
A police constable said that on the gold standard. November 28, at 3.75 am, there waE
The coins find their way to Lon- |
a dispute between Mr. Ward addon, where they go into the cruci the epb-driver.
ble. After radhement, the gold ip The Magistrates was during the form of bars and ingots passes this dispute that the obscene langu-through various channela and Ands age was used 7..
its way on to the market at the high prices now prevailing.
Policoman.-Yes.
The police constable said that Mr.
The selections for to-day are asWard, in using the obscene langu-
followe:-
"Race 1,
The Crook. *Helter Skelter. Fighting Blood.
Race 2
Dan' Whiddon. Lucky Bird Ghost Train.
Race 3.
Tontine. Bowery Buy. White Jade Slag,
Race 4.
Zadderday Manna. Joy Bny.
Race 5.
Sunlight. Taiping City of Melbourne.
Race 6, Diana Bay. Gay Crusader. Gold Key.
Race 7.
Racing Boy: Philanderer. Cy-Prca.
Race 8. Chateau. Bay.
Race 9.
Toutine.
Flying Tourist.
Prepairing for the Derby
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and
Other Interesting Features.
Apollo. Hotanan. Gleneagles..
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Race 10,
Pride of Tsingtao. King's Colour. Wisdom Stag.
Race 11.
Wild Life, Army Hall,
Powhattan.
Race 12 Sitting Bull.
King's Bounty. Sadko.
[The drawing for the Wong Nei Chong Stakes, appears in our sport page]
nge, said he had offered the cab dri-
Inquiries from Hoarders.
A representative of Messrs. John- ver a "ten-bob note" and the driverson Matthey and Co. assayers and had replied that he had no change.roiners, of Hatlongärden, EC...
Mr. Shanly, stating the case tor said: the Hon. E. Ward, said he fully ap preciated the gravity of the ritua tion. "Anything he has done that may have appeared to have been in contempt of this court had been dona unwittingly. Mr. Ward thought that if he wrote to the court
-he should have known better-and
The illicit trade in gold coins is unquestionably widespread. Daily we have inquiries or...call from people who have 20, 30, 27 40 sovereigns and want them melted down. Of course, we do not handle
pleaded guilty, and said he was that type of work, but there are willing to pay, that would be satis-places where it is done. 'factory,"
The resultant bar gold pas408. The magistrate said that the suc-through various hands, and finally menses were applied for on differ-
comes on the market through a're- putable dealer, so that it is vir- tually impossible to trace it back: to illegally-melted coins,
¡ent occasions."
Another Letter."
Mr. Shanly, continuing, said that when Mr. Ward was summoned for using obscene language he should have appeared, but in that case he sent another letter, thinking that letters might be sent as in motor
The Magistrate-You appreciate the difference between the twol
Mr. Shanly.-I fully appreciate that, but I am afraid Mr. Ward did not appreciate. it.
There was
a further adjourn mont, and Mr. Ward went away, Mr. Bhanly said, and when he re- eived the summons to appear for the next hearing he was ill in ued He did not receive the summons to appear, in fact, until the very day an which he had, to appear.
"In those circumstances.........Mr......... Ward offers a full apology to the Court and wishes to say that he never intended to show any con tempt to the Court," Mr. Bhaaly said.
"In the dual case when he appear- ed to be contemptuous in his' beha-. vious be really could not help it."
Breach of the Pesce,
The magistrate said this was not a case where he was prepared to allow Mr. Ward not to appear. In this case Mr. Ward was guilty of a branch of the peace,, and, being guilty of that offence, he was liable not morely to a fine.
"It is generally, mixed with gold from jewellery. The quality of gold in our coins is much the same as that in wedding rings, and as those are being melted down by the thousand detection is out of the question.
"The amount of old gold in the form of jewellery and ornaments now being melted down ie without precedent. We have more orders than ever.
The fact is that Eng. land is clearing out its old gold and having it turned into the. monetary article at the grantly in- creased price now prevailing. The rise in price is sufficient to enable watchmakers and jewellers to melt down their äld end unsaleable, stock at a profit.”
Melting Down,
An Evening Standard" repre- sentative saw something of this new gold rush. MANA
In the melting shops every cruci- ble furnace was working at full pressure, and all around were piles of watches, rings, bracelets, specta clo frames, brooches and even sets of false teeth, waiting their turn- to change from the es. to the 1218. gold standard. The counters of the weighing rooms were like a corner On the charge of using obscene of Ali Baba's cave language he would have to pay a A tray of, wadding rings going to fine of £2, On the other matter the the furnace represented hundreds of magistrate had to bear in mind that dead and forgotten romances. He the cabman had to apply for the saw too, a bundle of gold or summons and had to appear on reign cases. Rings and watches other occasions at the court, Mr. and brooches will spring anew from Ward must, therefore, pay the cab the refined gold, but sovereign cases fare-and-oosta?
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