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ANOTHER CURRENCY
SCHEME.
would be a half-penny for all prac- tical purposes. All subsidiary coin. should, thought Professor Hinton, bo of nickel, to prevent them going out of the Colony, and a 10-cant plece would serve as the penny, with a 25-cent coin marked both 25 cents" and "threepence," whilst the 50-cent plece would be Gd. If it were decided to issue copper token of the gold cent which would pro
DAY BY DAY
WHAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED (IN russia) is the FAMILY, THE HOME WHICH GIVES A MEANING TO LIFE, AND THE LIBERTY WHICH MAKES IT WORTH WHILE Geo London.
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His Excellency the Governor has
The Return of Eunice.
By Elinor Slim.
CHAPTER XIV, "The Battle of the Bridge." One of Mr. Percy's favourite]
Ho lost heart in the methol without losing faith in the air...
He also had the increasing bur-
bably be best left until China adopt appointed Mr. A. E. Wood to pupils, after a brilliant career at den of his family to think of and
ed a gold standard-a thin as Secretary for Chinese Affairs. coin ko the best of the
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The Gazette contains a warning to the public that chopped or under- weight coins are not legal, tender in the Colony.
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University, returned to he sougis about for some, means Yenfu, the upcountry station of obtaining a livelihood that would where Percy was stationed and enable him to gain a larger, share for a time was a regular attendant of the good things of this world. at the mission services. But when as well as laying up a store in the the Revolution broke out it was next..
He first worked as a printer and discovered that he was one of the revolutionary leaders. pag salesman for a firm selling print- The Government had a garrison ing machinery, a business in which: of three hundred men in Yenfu he was very successful.
He knew the language and was and their barracks which were built on a hill overlooking the town trusted by the Chinese, and before formed a fortress which could very long he was given a more have withstood a siege for several important position in Shanghai. The officials of the There he made enough money to months. Government withdrew to the bar- give his younger children an ex- racks and waited on events while pensive education at home. In the the rebels paraded the town and course of time they returned - to celebrated their victory. Chang, China, one in the Customs Service, the Christian, realised that unless another in the Consular Service, the garrison could be overwhelmed and a third in the O.P.C. During or driven out quickly before the bis life as a missionary he had enthusiasm of the mob had cooled formed the habit of looking twice down, it would never be done at at every cent before he parted with all, but he could not persuade the and as a business man he was
extraordinarily successful. Revolutionary Committee to act.
During the Great War when They were speechmakers
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His Excellency the Governor has Chinese stamped copper "cash" appointed Mr. E. R. Hallifax, could be adopted instead of C.M.G., C.B.E., to act as Colonial the clumsy cent pieces, whilst Secretary half-cents somewhat smaller, of a different design, would be worth about two "cash" and could entirely displace the existing cash" token. The usual precautions, it The King's Exequatur empower was suggested, should suffice ing Senor Don, Patricio Smart Fabres to act as Consul for Ghile to keep the nickel coins in Hongkong has received His Ma-
thejesty's signature. whilst par,
for ag parity of the notes, that would
It is notified for the information maintain itself, since the notes of owners and occupiers of tone could always be sent Home, and thements that rates for the third quar- r of 1980, are payable in advance Colonial Treasury could issue more on or before the 31st July. when they were at a prémium.
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Ernest Charles the scheme, Professor Hinton pro-Ogilvie Bird, No. 8, Wing Lak posed that when the new cofnage Buildings, Kowloon, to Miss Olivia was introduced, it would be nec-Hulbert, No. 41, Welbeck Avenue,
Southampton, England. essary to suspend the enactment
So Chang who was at that time he soon acquired, a small forture, A bankruptcy notification states making the dollar legal tender, and
that a first and final dividend of sincere as well as being ambitions and added to it by successful ven- make it compulsory to quote prices $5.74 per cent, has been declared in conceived the bold plan of captur tures in property. He also dabbled Mr. F. M. F. de Graca and sisters in gold--although not in gold only, the matter of Messrs. W. G. Huming the garrison by bluff. With in piece goods and sundries, and
tender sincere thanks to their relatives and friends for the European salaries would be paid phreys, and Co, who were adjudi- two friends he walked up the hill there were some people in the port cated bankrupt on November 14th, and knocked at the gate of the who said he had not been too scru- barracks. It was opened and he pulous in some of his dealings. many kind expressions of in sterling currency, and likewise 1925.
was escorted to the Mandarin's But the moral code of a missionary sympathy in their recent bereavement, also for floral taxes. Shops patronised by Euro-
The health bulletin of Eastern quarters. There he made an im-needs considerable adaptation to fit tributes sent and atendance peans would, it was suggested, pro- Ports for the week ending June 21 passioned speech imploring the the life of a merchant it is stric- at the funeral.
their retail shows the following cases of infec- official to save bloodshed by sur-ter in some things and not so strict bably conduct all business in the new unit, and the tious diseases, and deaths there rendering the fortress. He ex-in others and if in the transition plained that down in the town period there were one or two trans- from: Plague, Mombasa I case,
10,000 armed actions that fall below the standard. result would be a lower cost of Alexandria 6 cases 2 deaths, Bagh- below there were living, since the fluctuation of ex-dad 8 cases 5 deaths, Bombay 2 men ready to attack and willing to of either-well-Charity suffereth cases 1 death, Saigon 1 death sacrifice their lives for the Re-long and is kind." "Render unto change is a fruitful source of Cholera, Calcutta 94 cases 86 deaths public. The Mandarin, who, was Caesar the things that are. rises in prices. For those mer-Rangoon 2 cases 1 death; Bangkok an old man and only too anxious Caesar's" is a splendid moral pre- 1 case Pnom-Penh 11 cases 7 deaths, to avoid fighting so long as his cept, but Percy found that it did chants who wished to quote in Saigon 7 cases 2 deaths. Small skin was safe, ordered the garrison not help him much In making out dollars, there would be no new pox, Bombay, 22 cases 19 deaths, to lay down their arms; and Chang Custome Import Applications nor difficulty, according to the author Calcutta 45 cases 29 deaths, Kara- gave his solemn promise that in his dealings with the tax cffl- chi 1 case 1 death, Madras 8 cases their lives would be respected, and cials of the Provincial Government. of the scheme, for the Hongkong 1 death, Moulmein 9 cases, 3 deaths, they would be allowed to go away Anyhow, Percy made money and, and Shanghai Bank could issue Rangoon 1 1 death, Palembang in peace. Their arms were hand-what is more, kept it when the
case, Shanghai Cerebro ed over to small party of re- slump came
He married again, this time the paper money as before to serve as Spinal Fever, Shanghai: 4 deaths. volutionaries, and the garrison
marched down to the river where widow of a British Consul, and the medium of payment between Typhus, Alexandria 1 case.
three small boats had been pro-settled down as the father of the At the present moment, when the Hongkong and Canton,
vided for them.
port. He entertained lavishly and was popular and respected. currency question still looms large sterling subsidiary coins, being Britain's Parliament is told that
Hardly had the soldiers got on At tiffin someone suggested that ly in local affairs, it is interesting nickel, would not go out of the Hongkong is "practically a board before the mob began to they should send Peres a round to recall that some fourteen years Colony, and the existing subsidiary Chinese town" then we may rea- bombard them with rocks, stones, robin expressing their regret at Chang and his men his absence and their wishes for a ago certain proposals were put for-coin could be withdrawn as fast sonably expect that whenever and filth.
The chit was written and the boy was told to send it over to Mr. then Professor of Political Economy the silver dollar. Professor Hin the House they will receive scant hurriedly dived into the water and
attention. For It is unreasonable Within a hundred yards, one Percy. This master no can read at the Hongkong University, where- ton asserted that legal tender is to suppose that anyone will bother of the boats had run aground and chit just now," he said. placidly. by, he contended, an experiment not of so great importance in a with Hongkong now the House was immediately surrounded by a "Have makee die." "No boy" sald could be made with the gold stan- country where the currency to be has been told exactly what sort of howling mob of collies who attack. Mrs. McClusky, "No have dis. Only dard on a partial scale, and with used is as much a matter of bar-a place it is, or rather is not. ed the defenceless soldiers with little sick "Yes Misses, have bamboo poles, boat hooks and die," he insisted and within a few cut the Colony committing itself de-gain as the goods to be bought, aware that Hongkong is a Colony hands on... Those soldiers that did to be correct. How the news had Presumably Dr. Shiels is not yet everything they could lay their minutes his information was found. finitely and finally to it. In the but the sterling currency would | and
as auch Includes
a city, not jump overboard and swim to spread so quickly only an old China course of his contribution to the no doubt be made legal tender. to wit, the City of Victoria. Yet the opposite bank were beaten to hand could tell, but it was quite
true. Percy had, died suddenly. question, Professor Hinton argued In course of time, it was suggested, the whole is described as a death. Another, bont ran aground
(To be Continued.) that it was by no means necessarthe dollar would be little used, "town." But Dr. Shiels is not and its occupants suffered the
Bame fate. ily the case that a silver currency though the note based on it would aide world entirely for he was a Jacking In knowledge of the out-
Percy watched the slaughter from a distance and saw that could not be tolerated in Hong-be required so long as China re-member of the Empire Parliamen- among the ringleaders of the mob WHO kong alongside a new gold currency.mained on silver, but when she tary Association's " delegation to were several of his converts. He held the opinion that in any changed to a gold standard, it Australia in 1926 and of the Chang was not to blame, but the Incident had an unexpected effect scheme which is to hope for suc- would be time to think of the Issue Special Commission on the Ceylon on his future career. He saw that
Constitution. cess while China remains silver- of copper tokens.'
In our sorrow at given the opportunity, there was Dr. Shiels's distressingly in nothing to choose between the re- using, it would be advisable to keep
In putting forward this scheme. adequate knowledge regarding volutionaries and the supporters the silver dollars and notes based of which we give the main details Hongkong we offer a fervent of the old regime. They were all upon it as a means of carrying on as being of interest at the present prayer that some more enlighten-worse than the tyranny of the old savages. Of the two, mob law was trade with Canton. The problem, juncture, Professor Hinton said ed member of the House will point Empire. But he realised that the he contended, was to introduce a what he proposed was an exten- out where he was wrong. We day of the Empire had gone for could also wish that Hongkong ever, and that the power lay in gold currency which would operate sion of the British system to had some champion in the House the hands of the so-called Republi- side by side with the silver currency Hongkong, with a modification of who could describe the Colony as cans.
Some of his friends were feather- until the time was ripe to replace the decimal system. He felt that it is to-day and, by way of com- ing their nests as hard as they there need be no more difficulty |parison," also-Adwell on thecould and laughed at him for, not
Their example. Professor Hinton's suggestion in quoting prices in dollars after amenities, if any, of the average doing the same. was that the unit of the new gold the exchange to gold than before, of the information which Dr. of the people to whom he had de Chinese town. Yet the remainder and his disgust at the behaviour currency should be the shilling, and if such quotations were desired, Shiels gave to the House was sur- tionary, proved too great a strain | voted, hia, short life as a Revolu. that the multiples thereof should be because the dollar rate in sterling prisingly accurate and there was on his principles, and he began to the 10s. and £1 notes, obtainable would always be known. What little or nothing wrong with his follow suit Being a bolder man from the British Treasury at a critics will think of the proposals logic. But we are still tempted to and a better educated man than loan-bearing interest. Such notes we cannot say, but the author of criticise on the ground that he most of them he soon came to the top, and within five years was the would be issued as a loan to meet the scheme contended that the new Presumably skirted the question governor of the province.
regarding a possible discussion on On Sunday mornings he used to currency requirements, and the currency would lend itself readily mui-tsaf and brothels at the go for a walk in his private park great advantage of this would be to use as a unit of account; that Colonial Office Conference, together with his eight wives. He that they need not be redeemed it would not be expensive to According to the cabled report of was worth at least a million dol- lars and had large properties in In gold bills by the Government. establish, an important factor the question and answer In, Farlin Hongkong, Singapore, and Japan, In effect, such notes could be re-seeing that bearly all the entreportment, Misa Turberville's thirst for but whenever he met Percy he used Information was not quenched. We to smile sweetly and say "You garded as gold bills themselves, trade of Hongkong Is done in sil suspect, however, that Dr. Shiels know, Mr. Percy, I shall always be but a small amount of T.T. opera-ver; and that it would be, as was rather in a hole. For he is a Christian." tion might be necessary to support nearly as possible, automatic. -
the Parliamentary Under. Secre- The part played in the glorious the rate from time to time. For
tary of State for India. We can "Battle of the Bridge" as it was submultiples, Professor Hinton sug-
only hope if other questions called, afterwards by members of gested that the pence and half-pence
regarding Hongkong are put in this congregation, and the decline It is more in Borrow than in Parliament that Lord Passfeld, and fall of Chang broke Percy's could be abandoned, and the cent anger that we comment on the Secretary of State
heart; need not be colned for the time description of Hongkong as given Colonies, and Mr. W. Lunn, the ts: Christianise Chins by convert-
forthe
He came to the conclusion that being. A five-cent piece, of nickel, to several hundred members of Under-Secretary of State for the Ing Chinese was like trying to take and pierced like a "cash" or lobed Parliament by Dr. Drummond Colonies, are in their places so the salt out of the sea by dis- to distinguish it from a 10-cent Shiels who holds quite a promin that members of the House of tilling a bucketful at a time and piece should be coined, and this ent place in the Ministry. If Commons are not misled.. then throwing it back again into
the" ocean.
it..
Hongkong in Parliament.
WAS 7 JOHN GILPIN.
To celebrate the twentieth nuniversary in their wedding, John Gilpin, a London shop keeper, and his wife decided to take a holiday, for the first time in their married life. They do cided to spend a day in the country, and feeling that a little extravagance was justifiable they hired a carriage for Mre Gilpin and the children and a horse for honest John...
But the little ·linen-draper was no horseman, and the horse was a frisky steed. When ; it broke into a galloy, John clutched at its mane with both hands, and away flew his cloak, his bat, and his wig On went the horse at a furious rate. Gatekeepers thought the rider was doing it for a bet, and, good-naturedly, cleared the waY for him Dogs barked and children shrieked, but on want the horse and John Gilpin, on through dust and puddles, D through Edmonton, where his family were awaiting him, right on to the town of Ware. Here it stopped-shaken, disheyllod and breathless, Mr. Gilpin diş-
mounted, borrowed clank and hat and wig from a friend, and set off back again.
The return journey was almost as replete with disasters, and when Mr. Gilpin reached his bome be was the most ex- hausted man in 'all' London 3.
The story of his ride is told
by the poet William: Cowper, It is based on a story, told to him by Lady Austin, about the amusing adventures of a Mr. Boyer of Paternoster Bow, who hired a horse and was carried farther than be intended,