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DAY BY DAY.
EXCELLENCE 19 NEVER GRANTED
LABOUR-Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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An American ease of typhold was reported yesterday.
Mr. N. V. A. Croucher returned to the Colony from Home this morning.
to have been felt on the recent TO MAN HUT AS THE REWARD OF spectacular rise in values so long as it was confined to those who could face la possible shake-down, but when "the smail fry" began to come in, fears developed. Then the unloading began, catching thousands of men of struw UR- awares, and now the process hus continued until the big bankers have been compelled to rally to the support of the market. At the time of writing, the situation is still unsettled, but with a slightly more hopeful outlook.
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The Taikoo Club is closing its bowling green for the season on Saturday, when prizes won by members will be presented,
CORRESPONDENCE......
The Deflated Dollar.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telograph:]
Sir, "Inflation" has given a very lucit explanation of why retail prices on imports should rise, and I am no longer puzzled on that issue. I wonder if He would oblige by clearing up another little difficulty that is puzzling a good many of us?
He states that the present value of the Hongkong dollar is about 10% lower than it was 1 few weeks ago and that the local Mr. M. Mattuk will speak on
retailer is justiñed, in increasing "Nature's Memory at the usual his prices by this 10% to make weekly public lecture of the Theoso-good for the dollar depreciation. phical Society, Hongkong Lodge, This now appears to me to be quite reasonable, but what about to-day at 6 p..
the dollar depreciation in relation to labour? The knowledge a skilled workman posscases is a marketable, commodity and as the same amount of work is expected from him as before, is not he justified in demanding an imme dinte increase to make goud his Engineer Captain H. B. Sears, 10s? His maintenance is already R.N., and Mrs. Sears returned to costing him more, his savings have been reduced thereby, and what the Colony by the P. and D. 8.s.littlo ia now left from his salary Kashgar last week and are now residing at the Repulse Bay Hotel.
We are informed by the Colonial Secretariat that the quarantine restrictions imposed against -ar- rivals from Shanghai ou account
of cholers have been removed.
frantic happenings of the past few days. Bankers say they can withstand the shocks so far ad ministered, and they think the crash, will have beneficial results in the long run. Let us hope that this will be the case. Some of the trouble is traceable to too much prosperity. Most of it is without doubt due to the desire to get rich
Receiving internal injuries quickly. Here in Hongkong" we through falling off a bed, Chan have, in times past, known some- Tam-kat, a three-year-old lad, was thing" of the effects of wild and Lane to the Government Civil Hos. removed from No. 37, Stone Nullah
uncurbed speculation with nothing|pital, whère he died early this to back it up.
New York has had morning. a taste of the same thing on a BENSON. -At Shameen, Canton, tremendously bigger scale. The on the 20th instant, Jane Ben-moral is that artificial inflation son in her 76th year,' the dear- ly beloved Mother of A.E.. caused by speculation, must in- O.I. and L., Benson, Mrs. evitabiy bring disaster in the lob W White and Mrs. C.E. Wat-run. son, Funeral will pass the monument to-day at 5 p.m. [Melbourne
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THURSDAY OCT. 31, 1929.
THE PENALTY, OF
SPECULATION.
Canton Progress.
has deprecated in intrinsic value. Many Hongkong men, moreover, are supporting families at Home and making up on the exchange means a further heavy drain on their already depleted salaries,
The Very Idea!
Artificial teeth as firmly fixed as those provided by nature is the latest achievement of dental science.
It is
called "transplanting teeth," and is done very much as a gardener transplants trees, except that the dentist makes the false teeth and "plants" them in the old sockets.
The work has been specialised in America, where women worried their dentists so much for false
teeth to look more natural than natural ones. Only a few London men havo followed the system, and most of those who have are either or Americans with Continental practices in England.
There is no doubt about the success of "transplanting" as it affects looks.
and long for aesthetic standard was A woman whose face was too thin ordered by a doctor to have her teeth extracted, and decided to have the new set transplanted. The operation rounded her face and im proved her looks, and the new teeth looked like a natural growth.
manly for the inert bodies of
It is undignified und ungentle
knocked-out boxers to be tossed over the shoulders of their seconds and carried out like sides of beef. This, in effect, is the opinion of the who have ordered two stretchers to Illinois State Athletic Commission,
be on hand at all fights under their jurisdiction, so that incapacitated boxers may be carried out in a more dignified manner.
is justified in covering himself on It seems to me that everybody
this deprecated dollar except the wage-earner and that he alone is to suffer for the parent. mis-
ding of Mr. Donald William Gal-affairs:
We are informed that the wed-handling of the Colony's financial We are told, of course. laher, of the B. . F. Base, Kal that the emplovce will benefit from
an increase in trade, but have we A darkey and his golden sweet- Tak, and Miss Irene Rachel Ruy any guarantee of an inercase and heart, followed by three pickanin- Kowloon, will not now take place, to sit back and make sacrifices in clerk for a marriage license. The mond, of 11. Humphreys Buildings, is it not unfair to ask one man nies, applied to the court-house its announcement having bech a the Colony's interests while others clerk looked at the children and was mistake.
are being allowed to re-establish properly scandalised. "You ought themselves at his expense? Why to be ashamed of yourselves wait- not have the burden shared by all? | ing to gel married until you have a I should not like to think that the half-grown family." dollar fall had been engineered for "Judge, you'll have to excuse the sole purpose of exploiting men that," put in the bride, sweetly. who are already hard put to it,"De roads out our way has been to make ends meet.
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A fine of $75, or three weeks' hard labour, was imposed by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on Chinese woman, who was charged with being in unlawful possession of 2.6 taels of raw opium in Water-
By the way, there are many men out here on dollar salaries based on the 2/- rate. What chance "There is no-one to support me, have they, of being compensated was the plea of an old woman, who before the end of their five year's was charged before Mr. E. W. contract, and though perhaps of Hamilton, this morning, with the minor importance, is not the possession of 22 taels of contra Colony losing purchasing power band opium."You can't support in its local commodity market ta yourself by breaking the law," re- the extent of something like $60 joined the Magistrate, as he pass-per-month on one man? ed sentence of three month hard own case, for example, it is cost- labour.
ing a Home firm about £7 per month less than before to pay my salary. This means £428 in my five years. Yours, etc.,
The next time you come back, I shall send you to the Sessions" said Mr. E. W. Hamilton to a Chin-
The steady progress in the modernisation of China's leading cities even during times of blight ing internetine strife is a tremen- dous fact which repeatedly im-loo Road. pressés itself upon foreign observers, yet challenges analysis.. Our near neighbour, Cunton, is distinctly a case in point. The last twelve months have been far "from easy. The sudden arrest of Marshal Li Chai-sum bringing a complete change of administration was an event which shook the city to its foundations. The Kwangst invasion of a few months ago cume perilously near success, while the seriousness of the threat offered by the Ironsides may be judged from the measures taken by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to frustrate their plans. Enough of turmoil and disquiet, aue would imagine, to, cause. the most optimistic to hesitate; enough at least to delay big development schemes. And yet we find the very opposite has been the case. statisties, we should hazard that Without delving very deeply, into Canton has taken greater strides in the last twelve months than in to their foundations. Last week, any similar period in its history ong of "America's best-known since it formed contact with the economists asserted that no other West. The city has its automatic
If the disastrous erash on the New York Stock Exchange brings about a healthier condition of affairs, it is to be welcomed, even though thousands of people have suffered bitterly in the process, Never before in the history of the such frantic, trading. A week ago, there was such a slump as had not been experienced since the Great War. but Tuesday's record has completely overshadowed those happenings, with the result that some of the leading financial houses have been shaken almost
country has there been
ese banishee at the Central Magis- tracy this morning, when he wen- ment and 24 strokes of the birch. tenced him to 12 months' imprison- The defendant pleaded that he had been sent down 'from Canton by his mother, to take back his brother who was ill.
For returning to Hongkong after
In my
PUZZLED.
Kowloon, Oct. 31st, 1929.
ART EXHIBITION.
so bad."
Defendant at Tottenham: I sur rounded him.
Detective at North London: The prisoner, an Irishman, is known as. being bad tempered, but he says it is nerves.
My wife is like an overwound gramophone."Man at Lambeth."
Sir R. Wallace, the chairman, of the London Sesalons: When the officer felt down the prisoner's back he discovered what appeared to be a jemmy. It did not occur to him that the man might have had a supplementary spine.
coroner:
Dr. Guthrie, the East London Children may play with about as much safety on à railway line as in the streets of London.,,
A wom.iu, summoned at Newport. (Mon.) as a rate defaulter and granted time to pay, said: "May I have some water on paying an in- pic-stalment?"
eountry in the world could have telephone service far in advance of his sentence, but the defendant re-which have the effect of showing was told to see the manager of the
corporation water department.
KOMOR & KOMOR DISPLAY NOW SHOWING,
The Autumn Exhibition of
Chinese was this morning sentenced for besides the pleasure of view the other offered her a glass of Two policemen rushed towards being banished in 1920 for textures at Komor & Komor's Salon years and re-banished in 1924, a is a society event in Hongkong. her. One put her on a chair end to 12 months and 20 strokes by ing the pleasing colours, one meets water. Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Imany lovers of Art.
She told them she was quite Magistracy, The police stated
The display this year shows well. What she wanted was the that the man had returned seven. months before the expiration of many improvements, daylight re-resumption of the water supply at flectors having been installed her house. It had been suspended when the rate became overdue. She plied that his time had expired aethe works in their natural tints. withstood the shock then exper-bour, Hongkong. Big contracts
its supposedly more alert neigh-cording to Chinese reckoning,
The selection is good, and pictures enced: be eren went further by have been awarded to foreign
by well-known artists may be stating that it still remained to be firms for a huge waterworks day, Mr. E. W. Hamilton announc-wards." There are some excellent At the Central Magistracy to secured from three dollars up- seen whether the final conse-scheme, for the establishment of ed that Li Fung, who was in nos- examples by such favourites as WHO WAS——?, quences of the cataclyism would a trunk telephone service, to Hong-pital as a result of injuries re- Kobayashi, the doyen of Japanese he weathered. After the events kong, and, as reported yesterday,ceived after being knocked down painters, and by Terauchi, while for a $1,000,000 bridge between by a public motor bus, had accept Nos: 27 and 43, showing Fujiyama, be cause for very considerable Honam and the city. A "greated the $50 compensation to which are novel in idea. The Shoji views he was entitled under the court are very interesting and many of aterial food from Honam to order, and the magistrate there the seascapes are most imposing. Whampoa is being laid down. fore ordered the bus driver, who The crash has not come without The railway service between Can-was charged with driving to the collection of about fifty views very A newcomer is Chiba, with a warning: Early in the summer, ton and Hongkong has. been danger of the public, to pay a much in the style of Terauchi, and when the market was poised at brought to its highest state of fine of $25 and the $50 compensa not one marked higher in price remarkably high levels, due to efficiency for years past and Contion, adding that the defendant than nine dollars. Chiba is surely speculative activity, warnings ton is still not satisfied; the re- was a lucky man.
a man of the future; and his early works should therefore be good in- were issued regarding the need of placing of old sleepers is to go on
Commander. Douglas C. Lang vestment. caution on the part of investor's space and the time for the journey
has been appointed to the aircraft be reduced, while
The Exhibition remaina.open for and speculators, and only quite engines and conches are to be station. At the end of the warp.m.
carrier Hermes., of the China ten days only from 9 a.m. till 5 recently Mr. Roger Babson, the ordered to enable a night express he Wan Flag Lieutenant, to well-known statistician, predicted to he run. It is not riven to many Admiral of the Floot Sir Henry that the market would undergo a foreigners to understand how the. F. Oliver, then flying his flag PICKPOCKET SENT TO
of two days ago, there must still
anxiety.
correction in the course of which
is to
new
Innumerable difficulties are" sur-
prices would fall from 60 to 80 mounted; we can only survey and points. When last week's crash admiro. And while giving this impression of bustle and energy was apparently overcome, Mr. there is no flourish of Budgets or Babson's critics described him as trumpets. It does not arinear that a "crape hanger" and a "calamity whims are allowed to, interfere howler." But he has been more when work needs to be done. than justified by subsequent Admittedly there is much which evente. As to the causes of the Canton may still learn by a study of this Colony's" administration recent crashes, there can be no
and methods, but shall we ever questioning the point that specula-condescend to take a leagon from tlon on margins is at the bottom of such an apt pupil? the whole business. Responsible financial authorities
are un-
animous in declaring that the A solemn celebration of the beatification of Don Bosco, the slump represents a much-needed founder of the Salesian Congrega: correction, in view of the foolish- tion, is to be held at the St. Lewis ly high quotations at which many Industrial School, West Point, on stocks stood. Adverse business Sunday,
I
in the Renown, whom he accom-
1
GAOL
panied to the King George V. for the command of the Reserve Fleet in March 1919. He remained as Flag Lieutenant in that ship after MAN WHO WAS UNDER Admiral Sir Richard F. Phillimore relieved Sir Henry Oliver until
POLICE SUPERVISION. August 1921, when he became Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral previous convictions for larceny Possessing a record of twelve. Wilmot S. Nicholson, C.B., in com- and other offences, a Chinese was mand of the. Second Cruiser Squadron in the Curacon for two hum, at the Central Magistracy sentenced by Mr. A.W.G.H. Grant- years. After a year at the, R.N. this morning, to 12 months' hard College, Dartmouth, he joined the labour and Revenge in August 1924, as Fleet supervision, for picking the pocket two years' police Signal Officer and Flag Liauten- of a Chinese boatman and taking. ant again to Sir Henry Oliver 80 cents, in Queen's Road ContraÏ. Accused pleaded guilty and the Magistrate said to Inspector Shannon-I see that this man is still under police supervision.
when he took over the command
of the Atlantic Fleet, where ho remained until promoted in June 1927. He has since been through a course at the R.N. Staff College, Greenwich, and lately has been the Commander of the Dartmouth on a trooping trip to China,”
Inspector Shannon:-Yes, and the reports himself every month nost religiously.
STIGGINS.
at:
The congregation Emanuel Methodist Chapel wore united in 'their devotion to the Rev. Mr. Stiggins, who was considered by one and all of these religious maniacs to 'be' a saint.
Mrs. Weller was greatly im pressed by Mr. Stiggins. His ranting prayers she took for fervour; she never divined that his piety was assummed as a cloak for his weaknesses. Not even the fact that he spent the greater part of his leisure hours imbibing pine- apple rum at her cosy little bar in the Marquis of Granby could shake her faith in the intemperate old hypocrite.
Mr. Weller dearly loved to throw Mr. Stiggins out of the house, but he was obliged. to restrain his desires, or a flerco quarrel with his wife would - have ensued. To his ever- lasting glee, Mr. Stiggins is in- duced to attend the meeting of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Total Abstinence' Association in a state of ad- vanced Inebriety, which caused' the speedy dissolution of the meeting.
Mr. Weller has the further satisfaction, after Mrs. Weller's death, of kicking the interloping Stiggins out of the house and ducking him in tho, horse-trough.