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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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FRIGIDAIRE
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.
20%
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
SATURDAY, MARCH `8, 1930.
low the mean of ten years, namely, about 6,000 or 6,500 packages, but, although no actual records are kept,
DAY BY DAY.
FIRE AND SWORD ARE BUT SLOW EN-
it is thought that the exports of CINES OF DESTRUCTION IN COM
WITH THE BABBLEX-
woollens for the year ended Febru- PARISON
Steele.
The name of Mr. W. C. Felshow has been added to the list of au- thorised architects.
ary have been about 10,000 pack- ages. It would thus appear as if Mr. Julius Ring has been ap the exports included cargo import-pointed to act as Assistant Asses- ed some years ago, and might eren sor. include part of the cargo held up by the boycott of 1925. If this is so, whilst it relieves importers of dead stock, it only goes to em- phasise the caution which dealers have been forced to exercise, when it is borne in mind that only quarter of this quantity has been purchased up to date as replace- ments.
For cottons, the buying season has not come on yet, but whilst the cargo purchased last year for spring wear has been quite good and deliveries to date all that could be expected, the question arises whether some of this purchasing is not mere speculation on the part of dealers from the outports. These people must know that re- placement costs will most likely be
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has ap pointed Mr. C. G. S. Mackie, to be a Member of the Harbour Board, vice Mr. M. T. Johnson.
The Return
Eunice.
CHAPTER V: PERCY'S
PYJAMAS.
of
By Elinor Slim.
"That night the Spanish Counsul had arranged a big dinner party, Eunice felt a bit overwhelmed, and instead of putting it off, be There seemed to be so much all at asked people to bring their sleep- once, but she resolved to got all ing togs and stay the night at his this internation sorted out later, house. It happened that Percy and cenecntrated on the important and his wife were spending the points. "Is he married?" she week-end with M'Clusky who lives asked. "Oh, yes, definitely: Inext door and were enjoying a quiet evening with some of Mrs. mean, absolutely."
"I see. And what is she like?" M'Clusky's Adventurer friends. "Oh, she's quite all right really They had just finished a cup of tea The Government has accepted the following tender: The Hong-you know, but inclined to be mish. and were having a spot of prayer kong Excavation, Pile Driving & Heart of gold and all that, but a before going to bed when they Construction Co., Ltd., $38,396.90 bit difficult to live with if you heard a terrific row coming from is in a mission somewhere up It sounded as if the Reds had for construction of ferry pier naar know what I mean. Her old man the Consul's house. Wilmer Street.
country among the aborigines. gate-crashed into the dinner party One of these Seventh Day Aven- and were slaughtering the merry turers. Sports a long white beard throng. M'Clusky seized his six- So shooter, and Percy grabbed a rid- and used to wear a queue,
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Dun- can Myles, O.B.E., R.A.M.C., has been appointed a member of the Sanitary Board for a term of three years, vice Major Douglas Gordin Cheyne, O.B.E., R.A.M.C.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- Government has ministering the accepted the resignation Lieutenant H.C. Macnamara of his the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. considerably more in the future, Commission
Sole Distributors
HONG KONG & 8, CHINA.
The
and they are therefore probably prepared to take a gamble. Every- thing indicates, we are assured, that when the question of replacements of cotton cargo comes up for con- sideration, the reduction in sterling
in
Clusky's got to toe the line when ing whip, ready, to dash into the Percy say much, you know, but starts a Scheldthauer asking. # he's about. The old bloke doesn't fray, when a chit came from Bira nasty hacking cough as soon as could come in at once and quieten anyone lights up a cigarette. Mrs. Frascati," Got lots of bedtime stories about
"Who to Mrs. Scheldthauer? · I young men who've gone wrong haven't heard of her before," said Kuttle Eunice. through demon drink." was silent for * moment, and
"She is the Spanish Consul's then continued thoughtfully:
*
"Yet there's something about wife," said Biggs "I told you it him I like.. He's a good influence. was rather complicated.
"Scheldthauer doesn't sound like Useful man to have about the place sometimes. I personally think it a Spanish name. Is he Spanish?" "Oh, no. He's a Scandinavian would be a good thing if all these young fellows just out from Home of some kind."
"That's funny. Why don't they had someone to look after them.
Thongkong Telegraph. prices will be considerably less than signed on the 5th of May, 1910, have to take in a white-haired I think they would if they
has been the case in respect of woollen cloths, and as exchange has SATURDAY MARCH 3. 1980. fallen since the bulk of the woollen purchases were made, the tendency will be to make cotton fabrics dearer than ever; indeed, many are will be wondering whether any
THE DOLLAR AND PIECEGOODS.
It is notified that information has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the Government of the Republic of Honduras have denounced the Com- mercial Treaty between the United Kingdom and Honduras which was and the Treaty will consequently lapse on the 16th December, 1930. The projected construction of a five-story concrete hotel on the vacant lot on Calle Echague be tween the American Hardware and the present New Washington Hotel at Manila is revealed in plans submitted to the office of the city
But there aren't any
Chinese.
In fact, if I had my way, cvery have a Spaniard as Spanish Con- bachelor's mess in China would sul." missionary for one month a year. could. That would learn 'em. The mis-Spaniards in the port. All the sionaries would learn a lot too. Spanish subjects aro
Scheldthauer is what they call a Only the other day...."
"Yes dear," said Eunice who had merchant Consul. He's a shipping are Consul Pidgin on the side, and col- heard enough about M'Clusky's man really, but he does a little father-in-law, "I'm sure you
all about the lects the fees. It all helps in right. Tell me house. You haven't told me any-[these hard times."
"I see, so he's not really д thing about it yet. Is it like our
Consul. But what about Percy's Where do they come "It's fine, my dear, fine. But pyjamas? Bonzo to meet us." "You mean "Where do they come off?" Mrs. Mary Anne Allen Yates. Mr. Bigga, dear," she corrected, you should say," interjected Kuttle
with a laugh. widow, who died on June 10, last They left their baggage to the "Eunice gave him "'a warning against non-British-made year, at No. 28, Braham Gardens, crew of the launch to deal with, took and he subsided. She did not
Earl's Court, London, left net per- trade has suffered here in the South 80ods, this may offset to sorbe ex-sonalty of £24,035 23 5d., and Hong-1 Biggs was completed, walked up to conversation. After four cocktails kong estate to the value of $2,000. Re-sealing of certified copy of pro- bate for the local estate has been granted to Mr. M. H. Turner, of Mesars. Deacons, who is attorney for the executors.
Whilst it has long been obvious bought at all. It will thus be seen engineer for approval. The new house on the Peak? that British exports to China muat that the outlook for Lancashire is building will cost approximately here we are, and here's, jally old in?"
suffer as a result of the decline in silver, we doubt whether the aver- age individual realises the extent to which the Bradford woollen
none too encouraging, although if the Legislative Assembly in India should decide to impose an extra tariff
tent the poor prospects in China.
Sir Cecil Clementi and the
Pesos 500,000.
and after the introduction to Mrmean him to take charge of the the O.P.C. mess for timin.
-she had counted three, and Biggs turned out to be a tall, guessed that he had managed to thin, young man with blue eyes and dispose of a fourth while she had dark hair, a combination Eunice been listening to Biggs-she knew had always liked. He seemed at he was not to be trusted to discuss first rather quiet and shy, and she
a cubject like pyjamas without thought she would get on well with unseasonable levity.
"Please do go on," she said, He was a bachelor and lived smiling sweetly at Mr. Biggs. "I with another man in the O.P.C. suppose Mrs. Frascati was one of guests. How cosmopolitan, who was at the moment travelling sup in the interior,
you are in Chaomey. Is she After cocktails had been served, Italian? I suppose she is. I shall
hìm.
from the fall in the sterling value of the Hongkong dollar. A few facts and figures which we have been able to secure show that the most disastrous effects have oc- curred, and this, be it noted, at a time when manufacturers, financiers and the Government at Home are making every possible endeavour to stimulate British exports. The tang in-Malaya, would comunand tion conferred upon them by His Kuttle opened the conversation love to talk about her wonderful
Kuomintang. Commander Kenworthy's sudden concern for the susceptibilities of the Chinese, his implied criticism of Sir Cecil Clement's action in confirming the ban against the political activities of the Kuomin-
In order that a complete list may be maintained for record purposes, will those ladies and gentlernen re- sident in Hongkong other than those now serving in His Majesty's Forces, who have had any decora Majesty the King, please, inform the Chief Clerk, Colonial Secre- tariat-if this has not already been
done within 14 days?
EXCHANGE RATES.
Milan
Madrid Athens
Rio
Bombay
Hongkong Silver (spot) Silver (forward)
with,, "Well, what's the news, old country with har boy?i
"No, she's not exactly Italian, "Nothing much has happened though her husband is. She since you left, old man. I sup comes from Matilla.. One of the pose you heard about Percy having old aristocracy there. Very good his pyjamas pinched?" Eunice sat straight up and made it clear looking woman, but highly strung; temperamental you know. She that she intended to listen. She and her husband were guests at knew the importance of first im-
the dinner party:: pressions, and did not want. Mr. 124.22 Biggs to think that she was the 64.35 sort of woman one could tell risky .92.82 stories to on first acquaintance. .20,375
"Who is Percy?" said she to her .18.165 husband, coldly. .34.505
London, Mar. 7.
"Well, M'Clusky still thought he ought to go and see what he could do, but his wife wouldn't
allow him to. She did not mind
him facing the Reds, she said, but she was not going to have him
"Percy's one of God's own. He's mixed up with that woman. He .193% all right," said Kuttle. "Ite's one had better keep out of it. So poor of the few remaining genuine old old Percy went out alone.
.108.30
..818
42.3/16
China hands," said Biggs. "Been
.2/0.5/16
10% in the port for years and years. I (To be continued next Saturday).
.1/10%
I think he must have been here since
486% the port was opened to trade in
25.135 eighteen hundred and something." WHO WAS.
.12.12% "I see," said Eunice with a polite
18.12 smile. "He must be an old man.
18.17 Is he married?"
.104%
"Yes, rather. This is his fifth 40.15 wife."
875
.5.25/92
"Well don't let me interrput you,” said Eunice. Biggs' manner was
.1/6.27/32
..1/5 reassuring and she felt that there 19.1/16 was nothing in the story that a .18.18/16 young married woman should, not -British Wireless. hear and she was curious to hear
it.
greater respect if the Hon, Mem- outlook, indeed, has never been ber for Central Hull had a claim blacker, and at the moment there to consistency. Ranged alongside seems no prospect of any ray of the fire of questions with which he riddled the Government of the hope to illumine the future.
According to those in a posi-day when British troops were be- ing withdrawn from China, his tion to know, the mean average of
rather incon- standpoint appears Bradford and Continental woollens
The fact that his question gruous. imported into Hongkong for the on Wednesday misrepresented the Paris past ten years has been something position, suggesting as it did a Brussels slightly short of 9,000 packages, change of policy, is unimportant Berlin whereas, in spite of greatly reduced except in that it shows clearly his Copenhagen
lack of acquaintance with the sub- Viera manufacturers' prices, the pur-ject. Had Commander Kenworthy
Helsingfora Lisbon chases during the present season known anything at all of Sir Cecil Bucharest have been only about 2,500 Clementi, of his character and sym- Buenos Aires
Shanghal packages at the most. How far pathies, no doubt he would have Yokohama New York prices have fullen may be gather-stepped more warily. Reading be-
tween the lines of the official state. Geneva ed when we state that they are
Amsterdam ment issued from Government! Stockholm down some 25 per cent, in the case House, Singapore, following the Oslo of goods where the labour ele-interview with the leaders of the Prague ment enters largely into manu-Kuomintang in Malaya, it emerges facture, whilst where that factor that Sir Cecil's well known friend- is not so marked, the decline has ship for the Chinese precipitated a declaration of the line of his been, as much as 35 per cent. It policy. The appointment of Hong- is pertinent to remark, also, that kong's Governor as Governor and during this season the tendency has | High Commissioner in Malaya been for Chinese buyers to purchase was considered a matter for great the lowest of low cloths, which is rejoicing among Straits Chinese. They thought that recognition of not the general principle followed, the Kuomintang could be had for because under normal conditions the asking, or, at the very least, the Chinese prefer a good quality that they could pursue their activi- fabric. Another aspect of the ties openly without fear of official
To The Editor of Hongkong question which is liable to be lost
It was incumbent interference.
Telegraph.] sight of is the effect of the low upon the new Governor to remove
Sir,--The wireless lecture last this idea from their minds, quickly dollar on the knitting factories in and finally, and he acted character- night at the Engineers Institute Kowloon and the New Territories. istically in inviting the leaders to ably covered just the right ground We understand, in this connexion, meet him to be told. Sir Cecil Cle-Radio Society. I was pleased to "The night your husband left here that considerable perturbation is menti knows the weaknesses of the felt amongst the companies opera. Chinese just as he knows and appre ting these factories, because of aciates their good qualities. It may be perfectly true that Britain is on fear that the consuming public i
terms of friendship with the Nan- China will not be able to pay the king Government, but that does not increased prices for knitted articles prevent the circulation by the Kuo- necessitated by the fail in the mintang even to-day of virulent dollar, since prices of the yarn used anti-British. propaganda. We are in manufacture have been reduced helpless to prevent the campaign. but very little during recent in China, but there is no reason why months. To revert to the trade we should suffer it in silence in n Eritish Colony. Sir Cécil's prestige in woollens, for the 1928-29 season in Hongkong has certainly not suf- Hongkong bought considerably be. fered.
CORRESPONDENCE.
++
Local Radio.
to inspire a revival of the old
"I'm afraid it is rather a long story and a hit complicated if you don't know any of the people to start with Biggs said apologeti- cally, so you'd better have the other half. It's a very weak one." "Thank you," murmured Eunice, "just the teeniest drop," and she turned to catch her husband's eye| as Biggs filled Kuttle's glass,to the brim. "Please tell me. I shan't be shocked, and it will be so in teresting to meet all these people afterwards."
"It was like this, "began Bigga,
hear the lecturer suggest this for Hongkong, there was a big possibility and am sure there will scare. The Reds or the Con be no lack of support now that we munists or whatever they are call- have ZB W going so well. ...ed got to within five miles of the 1. am curious; however, to know town. Thousands of them. Most if the old bands would consider the of the Chinese officials bolted, the idea of the Society being thrown local Navy put out to sea as usual open to all enthusiasts. I have until the const was clear, and several Chinese friends who would martial law was declared in the be pleased to join up and there is town. All the shops were shut and no doubt that it would be to the some of the streets were barricad advantage of all licence holders to ed. have an enterprising, fully repre- sentative Association behind the Colony's future radio development,
Yours, etc.,
ENTHUSIAST.
It looked as if this time there really was going to be trouble, and it was certainly not the sort of
"night one would choose for trafp-|
sing round the town,
MEGDODS?
No better fare could be obtained in all St. Ronan's Town than that provided at the Cleikum Inn. Meg Dods was a wonderful cook, and her cellar was stocked with the best: Yet many a traveller rival. betook himself to a establishment, for Meg was known as a・・ formidable- woman, who would have her own way in her own house. -
She domineered over her customers, and those who resented her patronizing ways were abruptly bidden. to go elsewhere. Old friends might. staunchly declare that her bark was worse than har bite,, but newcomers were apt to demand what teeth could have matched a tongue which, when in full career, is vouch- ed to have been heard from: the Kirk to the Castle of St." Ronan's?".
As Meg's temper sharpened with the years, so did the landlord of the rival hostelry" wax more prosperous on the scared custom which she away, yet for those who could contrive to turn a blind eye, or more accurately a deaf ear, to her defacts, the Cleikum Inn remained the neatest and most comfortable old-fashion- ed house in Scotland."
This character occurs in one of Scott's least read' works; "St. Ronan's Well"