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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUL - SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930.
- $1,000
THE SUB-GRIFFINS FORMER HONGKONG FISCAL AUTONOMY TWO NEW SHIPPING
CHAMPION.
TONBRIDGE TOO GOOD FOR TANGO.
GOOD DIVIDENDS AT TO-DAY'S RACES.
HANDICAP DEAD HEAT.
|
LADY.
KILLED IN MOTOR MISHAP
AT HOME.
WIFE OF CAPT. TALL.
Old residents of the Colony will hear with the utmost regret of the death at Home, under tragic cir- cumstances, of Mrs. Marion Tall, wife of Captain Peter Tall, who of the Taikoo tug. was for many years in command
It appears that on January 22nd, Mrs. Tall, who had been residing with her husband at Maghull, near
OF INDIA.
BUDGET REVELATION AT NEW DELHI.
INTERESTS OF INDIA BEFORE
GREAT BRITAIN.
ASSEMBLY'S RIGHTS.
New Delhi, Feb. 28.
MISHAPS.
KASHMIR COLLIDES WITH H.M.S. APHIS.
STEAMER HITS ROCK,
FURTHER SLUMP IN SILVER.
NEW LOW RECORD SET IN LONDON.
IN SYMPATHY,
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
"IM PER ANNUM *
GAH COFF 11 GENTE
Bulls
DUNLO
OP
DUNLOP CARRIES THE TRAFFIC.
They're British, too.
LOCAL BRANCH: Fadder Building.
and
C.4554
Inners
From the Office Butts.
The Street Snatchers' Trophy:---- The Ladies' "Purse.
A burglar who posed as a chimney-sweep has, we read, been operating in London. This is one of the sweep's-takes that should be prohibited.
Despite Sir Cecil Clementi's recent claim, Diana Bay may be fitly termed the Mare of Hong- kong.
pictures, a
Judging from some of these race number, of ponies appear to have passed the post under a cloud of suspicion.
What about giving some of these B.O.T. (Bought On Trust") certi- ficates to those newspaper racing.
Appropriately
the
enough; Chautemps French Cabinet was. only in for a short time.
ᄆᄆ
Brief details of another ship-HONGKONG DOLLAR DROPS ping mishap caused by the fog which extends over a wide area outside the Harbour, were receiv-
Turkey has decided to make. ed in Hongkong this morning...
Sunday a day of rest. It's how up The Japanese 3.3. Paling Maru,
to Hongkong to select a day. it is learned, struck a rock during The brilliant success of the first
a dense fog in the early hours of
Couldn't these Naval Coafer- tipsters? A further slump in the ster-ence delegates be called Powers' four days of the annual race mect-
The Budget, eagerly awaited yesterday morning, being eventual- ling value of the Hongkong powerste
ly beaches on the sandy shore of dollar is to be feared. This ing. producing one new record Liverpool, was returning to her and regarded in many respects Manao Island,
□□ east of Swatow. morning, the opening quotation after another, no doubt accounted home after visiting a surgery in as one of the most important in Details of the damage done to the on demand was 18. 5.13/16d: in operation, we suppose some If we had the automatic phone for the unusually large "Off Day" /order to procure some medicine for the financial history of India, ship have not yet been received, which is the lowest in the his- people would blame it for the
enjoyed good health, when, her husband, who has latterly not was introduced into the Legisla-though it is presumed that the
Shanghai is now full of brokers wrong numbers that they've got and many others who couldn't be crossing a street, she was knocked Schuster to-day.
on tive Assembly by Sir George beaching of the ship indicates that
this week. she was badly holed.
any broker. down by a heavy motor waggon.
The 8.5. Paling Maru is a steam- Fresh sources of taxation are
Three Chinese The back wheel of the vehicle
There was a young girl, named terms of imprisonment, on Cham- got varying passed over her, and she proposed, Sir George explaininger of 2,422 tons gross, her, owners
Bianco
plons' Day for having bad ten-cent was that the Government of India being the Nissin Kisen Kaisha for
Who retired while the ship was picces in their possession. instantly killed.
We.. The late Mrs. Tall, who was 65 desired increased revenue in order whom the N.Y.K. are agents in
at anchor:
would like to know what happened But awoke with dismay years of age, went Home with her to permit greater assistance to Hongkong. The vessel is fegister
to the man who gave us a chopped the provinces and to enable the ed at Tokyo.
When she heard the mate say dollar at the pari-mutuel on the. known during their lengthy re
"We must pull up the top sheet same day. Both were very well- Government to work on reforms, sidence in the Colony, and their
The Important Item. numerous friends will hear of One of the most important items Mrs. Tall's tragic death with the in the new Budget, and one with deepest regret.
which the Finance Minister dealt at some considerable length, is an additional protective duty on non- British cotton goods. The ordin- ary duty on all cotton piece-goods is increased from eleven to fifteen per cent, but the Government pro- poses to impose a further five-per cent. on non-British goods.
way
attendance at the race course this afternoon. The weather was pro- mising and there WB8 a large aprinkling of the fair sex.
Some excellent
sport adequate reward. The day's pro- gramme opened with an upset, Armony turning the tables on Cream Cracker in the All Out Stakes and paying her backers a dividend equivalent to odda of about 9 to 2.
A place dividend of $186 was paid to supporters of Siamese Shop which obtained third place in the fifth race.
A Dead Heat.
With several good ponies in the field, the Hongkong Handicap "A" provided a sensational finish, Mr. Charles getting the best out of Boxing Eve and making a dead- heat with the favourite President Hall,
husband from Hongkong some years ago.
Much sympathy will also be felt for the bereaved husband in the heavy loss which he has been called upon to bear.
GOVERNMENT HELP FOR RAILWAY.
Ir regard to this special duty, Sir George Schuster's speech showed striking evidence of the vention has become an integral part of the constitution of the Government of India.
Only five ponies went to the IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT fact that the fiscal autonomy con-
starting post for the most impor- tant event of the day, the Sub- scription Griffins' Champions, but four of them had been prominent in the earlier days of the meeting. and they were regarded as a fairly representative batch.
Tonbridge, Mrs. Pearce's pony,
splendid race, A
beating Tango, which was strongly fancied by a length and a half, Loch Fyne being third, five lengths away.
won
of
THE "HAY AND CORN" STAKES --Winner $100. Second $150. Third $100. For Subscription Griffins any season that have started at least twice at this Meeting and have not won. Weight for inches as per scale, (Jockey allowance). Entrance 85 Five Furlongs.
Mrs. R. M. Austin's Armony
(Mr. Frost) 1 Mrs. K. E. Beith's Cream
Cracker
(Mr. Heard) 2 Mr. Wayfoong's The Jamaica
(Mr. Collaco) 3 Two and a
Thirteen starters. half lengths; two lengths.
Time:1 min. 16 secs. Pari-Mutuel. Winner, $25.90; 1st, $7.10; 2nd, $5.80; 3rd, $9.70. 2-THE "LOITERERS" STAKES. --Wimmer $400, Second $150. Third
$100. For Grifins of this Meeting
i
Intervention Restricted.
Even when British interests are
affected by tariff
tory of the Colony. It repre- sents a drop of d. since yester- day, and the conditions now obtaining in the silver market, following the re-introduction of a duty of fourpence per ounce in the Budget of the Government of India, definitely suggest that the bottom has not been reach- ed.
.
Another shipping mishap, in volving a P. and O. liner and a Bri- tish warship is reported from Shanghai. The ss. Kashmir graz- ed H.M.S. Aphis while the latter was secured alongside H.M.S. Cornwall at Shanghai yesterday. Some slight damage was sustained by H.M.S. Aphis, The Kamshira British Wireless message receiv- Scottish golf was apparently undamaged.
ed in the Colony this morning.club are fined setting up a new low record.:
and spanker." 0.0 The sudden fall to-day is in
Our idea of a lucky number is "The garden keeps a man out that appearing on the ten dollar sympathy with the price of bar of mlachief," says a writer. What note, we discovered in our waist- silver in the London metal mar-ehout Adam?"
coat pocket after leaving the races. kets. The price dropped to 19%d.
0.0 per ounce yesterday, according to
The original Apollo was said to be the win-
A Third Mishap..
Later.
News has now been received of another mishap to a Japanese vessel, the steamer in this case being the Tetsuzan Maru, for the local agents. whom Messrs. Wada and Co. are
Lowest on Record,
☐ ☐
Members of a
every time they remove, a divot. These ground The existing price, which latents should ascribed to the India Government's bring in quite a decision, is the lowest reached lot of money. since official records were kept.
the
the
A low record was also C5- A lot of good tablished by tin in London yester buys on Seen by a Telegraph representa- day, tive this morning, an official of £168, 1s. 3d. per ton, which is the market turn out price dropping to Hongkong share Messrs. Wada & Co. said message lowest since 1922, when £139 per to be farewells. had been received from the masterton was recorded. of the vessel stating that she had gone aground in Hainan Straits but was in no immediate danger.
The Tetsuzan Maru, which is a
.
calculated to raise once again the and
The further slump in allver is question of stabilising. Hongkong currency.
MADE AT HOME.
London, Feb. 28. Sir Joslab Stamp, President, speaking at the annual meeting of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, said that development profoundly schemes for the Railway, involving changes in India, the intervention an expenditure of approximately of the British Government is res-steel screw steamer of over 2,000 £1,800,000, had been approved by tricted to representation and appeal. gross tonnage, was on her way the Government.
Of this amount, £1,450,000 would that the British Government has
Sir George Schuster revealed from Port Corbet to Swatew. rank for grant of interest from the addressed a message to the Govern- Government under the Act which provides for such assistance to utility works calculated to promote account the serious effects their THE CASH SWEEPS. 1923, the outlook remains employment.
proposals would have upon the Further schemes involving an effect which they felt sure neither Lancashire cotton industry, an outlay of between £3,000,000 and the avernment of India £1,000,000 were under considera-Legislature would desire to create. nor the tion-British Wireless.
The Government of India, he added, had replied to the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom, ex- pressing deep sympathy, but stat- ing that the interests of India must i come first.
THE REVOLUTION IN SANTO DOMINGO.
INTERVENTION BY THE US. LEGATION.
Washington, Feb. 28.
ment of India asking it to take into
how
The Final Decision. They realised, however, important it was for India from a political viewpolat to take account) of British opinion. The Government
THE LUCKY NUMBERS AT THE RACES.
TO-DAY'S WINNERS." Below are the Cash Sweep ticket
numbers on to-day's Races:
Race No. 1.
Ticket No. 269 $1,654.80 472.80 230.40
196 323
$50 tickets:-126, 678, 459, 298,
Race 2.
Ticket No. 807.
$2,147.60
#
474. 79.
The State Department has re-had therefore suggested an addi- 21, 440, 644, 311, 533, 200. Ceived a despatch from the Ameri- tional duty on non-British cotton can Minister at Santo Domingo goods, but the final decision lay stating that an armistice has been with the Legislative Assembly. En-arranged between the rebels and
President Vasquez by the inter-that the Government anticipated Sir George Schuster concluded vention of the American Legation. that very considerable comment It is hoped that a basis of per- would be aroused by the decision, manent settlement of the trouble but they welcomed the most critical will be attained.
scrutiny.
that have started at longt twice and have not won. Weight for inches as per scale, Jockey allowance), trance $5. Five Furlongs. Messrs. Hynes and Mackie's
Piccalilli...... (Mr. Noodt) 1 Mr. Harbot's Gay Caballero
(Mr. Collaco) 2 Mr. Chan Tin-sion's Witty Stag
(Mr. Quincey) 3 Seven starters. Six lengths; half a length.
Time:-1min. 13.2/5 secs. Pari-Mutuel. - Winner, $6.60; 1st, $5.30; 2nd, $7.30; 3rd, $5.70.
3.THE "ALL OUT" STAKES.--
Winner $400. Second $150, Third $100. For all China Ponies that have started at least twice at this Meet- ing and have not won Weight for inches as per scale. (Jockey allow-
to
613.60 306.80 $50 ticketa:-324, 603, 760, 504.
Race 3.
H.M.S. Wistaria was despatched He appealed, however, for
Santo Domingo as a
Ticket No. 116. the precau- decision of the Assembly to tionary measure, following in-given in a calm judicial spirit.
be
849. formation
220, that revolutionaries were in control of the city-
Reuter's American Service.
ARMED GUARDS ON THE CHINA COAST.
ance). Entrance $5. Five Furlongs. PREMIER CONSIDERING NEW
Messrs. Toeg and Priestley's
The New Taxes,
on
#
·
$50 ticket:--375,
$2,507.40 716.40 358.20
Race No. 4. Ticket No. 918. $2,588.60 269, 739.60 749.
369,80
J
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$50 ticketa-812, 616, 961, 610, non-British 252, 319, 618, 275.
The new taxes proposed in the Budget include an increase in from eleven to fifteen per cent.. the duty on cotton piece goods an additional protective duty of five per cent. cotton goods, and a three-year silver duty of fourpence an ounce. Fair Sport.... (Mr. Reidy) 1
The excise duty on kerosene is raised from one anna to one anna Messrs. Bennett and Cave's San
and six ples; the import duty on London, Feb. 28. Francisco.... (Mr. Charles) 2
kerosene is In the House of Commons
reduced from two Mr. Dynasty's King's Courier
at annas and six ples to two annas (Mr. Bulteel) 3 Alexander, the First Lord of the
question-time to-day, Mr. A. V.and three pies. Four starters. Three lengths; | Admiralty, stated four lengths.
that Ramsey MacDonald recently Time: 1 min. 15 secs.
ceived Pari-Mutuel.-Winner,
a communication in
1st, $9.60; 2nd, $7.70.
7
REPRESENTATIONS.
The import duty, on sugar is Mr. raised by one rupce and eight
re- annas per hundredweight.
TC- The income tax on incomes of
$21.70; gard to the proposal to withdraw, fifteen thousand rupees and up-
4. THE TYTAM HANDICAP
"A" CLASS. Winner $750. Second $300. Third $200. For subscription griffins of this meeting that have started at least twice. The minimum weight alloted will not be less than 140 lb. Entrance $10. Ono Mile. Mr. John Peel's Done Again..
(Mr. Heard) 1 Messrs. Bellamy and Gordon's
Snaefall... (Mr.. Ainold) 2 Mr. Glehh's What's Yours...
(Mr. Y. S. Chang) .3 Eleven starters. A length and
as from April 1, the armed guards wards is raised by one pie in the
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Many a man his wife are the life of a party, but it isn't always the same, party.
He: Have you ever kissed.
a man before.
She: Yes.
He: Tell me his name so
that I can thrash him.
• She: But but he might
be too many for you. 00
ner of the frat Olympic Race.
Of course, that was a long time ago,
Lots of Hong- kong people have this week been enjoying. bad joss.
'Local' jockeys
do not suffer with nerves.
That is because
they are. not
upset by the jumps.
Bottom Not Reached. Notwithstanding the remarkable decline in silver values witnessed during 1929 and the two months of
It seems a paradox, but 'If unity The advertiser who seeks home is reached at the Naval Confer- accommodation on the mid-level, far stilence, it will lead to a good deal evidently wanted a square deal. from encouraging, and a lower level of prices in the near of "scrapping." future is to be feared,
The French Cabinet is now out This is the considered view. of Messra. Samuel Montagu and going to press, its record hasn't awash-out. Up to the time of Co. the well-known London
bankers and bullion brokers, who been beaten,
in their annual bullion letter, re-
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ceived this morning, point out The one thing which strikes us that suppites have been amplified about these United Empire expen- by further demonetisation of ents is that they don't seem to live silver coin. Hongkong, in using up to the adjective. some of this for re-coinage, has possibly been instrumental in
Bre Hongkong women absorbing silver which might gamblers, provided their husbands otherwise have added to the glut give them plenty of money. in the market. Hongkong's return
ᄆᄆ to a silver basis did nothing to create a demand for new silver.
Shanghai Stocks.
It is also pointed out that stocks of silver in Shanghai which at the beginning of 1928 amounted to about 108,000,000 ounces, present total about 192,000,000 ounces, such on accumulation naturally creating a depression in the market.
As to the future,
Montagu and Co. state:
Messrs.
great
. maison.
On the morning after the Cham- ful and sympathetic of the S. C. M. pions" race, it was very thought-
Post to assure readers that even in the Grand National, "Seventy- two Horses Stand their Ground." The brutes!
1
An old-timer told a story at the races, on Wednesday, of the good old days, when a pony was so fast she led the field by two lengths in the first fifty yards, ten and s half at the stands, nineteen and
A male brute, found hanging on at the rock, and finished fifty a half up the incline, foaled a colt
to the railings in Statue Square
last
lengths ahead with the colt running
Wednesday evening, Was second! A fast pony!
heard to remark:-"I wish thish
car wouldn't shway so mush!"
口口
0.0
During the week we met a man
Next to the abolition of Christ who discovered how to make a mas, the most important thing the dead certain $270 during the Soviet has abolished is "Peace on annual race meeting. He didn't Earth."
buy any tickets!
CO
☐ ☐ The trouble about these men who laud the low dollar is that
In view of the fall which silver they never seem to be in our line prices have sustained, the future
of business.
trend, whilst obscure, is still a
be assumed that as far as Europe
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matter of great interest. It may It goes on for two hours.
"The Last Kiss" is a long Alm.
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□□
Some motoring feats are of. Delage variety.
Both Chiang and Yen have said their last word-until next week.
白口
It was announced that Scott and is concerned, there is little likeli hood of a revival of demand for There seems every reason to Sharkey were
to fight "under The man who coinage purpose, and the absorp-hope that by the next St. Andrew's waving palms," Race, No. 5,
tion by the film industry, though Ball we may have a vehicular cabled that forgot to add the further realistic touch of dancing. Ticket No. 339. -$4,944.80
likely to become of increased im-ferry..
lights. 437.
portance, can ecarcely yet prove a 1,412,80
fully compensating factor. 1647.
706.40.
$50 tickets:-310, 535, 433, 1881, 804, 1250, 1805, 485, 244, 1419, 1877, 1026, 86, 40, 88, 520, 643, 184. Race No. 6.
Ticket No. 283. $3,082.50
1579. 1470
3,082.50 685.00
A
. . .
Shanghai woman's bag.. snatched by car bandits, contained only patent medicines. They got something for their pains.
Some of our Kowloon motor-
Report from the home market: Cabinet-making is booming, with a brisk demand from-France,
Some, at least, of Kowloon's big
Burden on the East. We must turn once more to the possibilities of the great silver using countries of the East being able shoulder the burden. Silver Cyclists would appear always to guns are not wanted, They only importa into India in 1929, will exhilarate when passing the get everyone rattled, probably be about 65,000,000 machine in front. $60 tickets:-301, 467, 1216 ounces and into China about 130,- 1.
The O.B.I. (Order of the Bulls" 000,000 ounces. In the case of
A local dentist was seen in the and Inners) is hereby awarded to the former country silver is a vicinity of the Jockey Club stables Mr. C. M. Manners, O.B.E., for luxury and, given a measure of on Champions' Day, but he failed his supreme optimispi, when, prosperity, there is no reason why to extract anything from the facing an audience
composed the demand for silver should not horse's mouth.
wholly of bachelors and married. be maintained, for, although move-
400 ·
men at the K.R.A meeting last.
from His Majesty's Forces recent- rupee; and the super tax is cor1446, 265, 205, 796, ly supplied to certain merchant-respondingly raised, except the
men plying along the China Coast. flat rate super tax on companies.
The proposals made in the let-
A full rebate on the silver
ter were being examined and it duty is allowed for re-export of was hoped that a reply would be silver. scat shortlyReuter.
FAIR WEATHER.
The local weather, forecast till noon to-morrow is as follows: a half: two and a half lengths. -. Moderate east or variable winds:
generally fair.
(Continued on Page 15)
The additional protective duty
Race No. 7... Ticket No. 1619.
$4,936.40 1366. 1,410.40 1237.
.705.20
O
on non-British cotton goods is 1795.
$50 tickets-507, 1813, 338, ments to provide greater banking The local punter who tried to night, he declared, in relation to: subject to the approval of the
facilities for the masses of India and reasons for spotting winning the provision of a maternity ward Assembly...
are. under examination, the time numbers now knows numbers why at the Kowloon Hospital We is still far off before the ancient he couldn't.
therefore trust Goverment will custom of-hoarding is likely to fall, DO
give sympathetic and immediate
......
The new taxes will produce a surplus of seventy lakhs. A loan f 23% crores in India is fore- shadowed, of which 74 crores will be new money-Reuter.
Race No, 8. Ticket No. 104 $5,076.40 526. 1,450,40 269,
725:20 $50 tickets: 1470, 440,
into disuse. Somewhat different A critic of Mr. Snowden says consideration to this very impor Is the case with China, where she is holding up rural houses, tant matter which may affect any ver represents the basis of cur We always did think he was the of us at any time and may result
(Continued on Page 8.) strong man of Labour
in the saving of valuable lives."