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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 1 1931.
THE CURRENCY MISSION.
DAY BY DAY
THE MAN WHO WINE IN AN ARIU- MENT 19 THE MAN WHO KEEPS H8 TEMPERA. W. Laird.
A Chinese case of typhoid wan the Medical Oncer of reported to Health yesterday,
STEPHEN LEACOCK on
HANDS ACROSS THE ETHER. BACK-SCRATCHING BY WIRELESS.
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to some extent by the report of that Committee, and, though prob ably it has already been noted, wo would draw attentiou to the curious attitude adopted regard. ing stabilisation. The Committee disapproves any steps until China abandons silver, the only justifieu-|-
Mr. W. A. Cornell hus been admitted TSN'T it just wonderful the way! The new international courtesy tlon, they admit, being * Co-
a partner in the Hongkong branch of the invention of wireless has which governs these things prompt graphical link. It is then elated Messrs. Palmer and Turner.
connected up the farthest parts ed an hamediate reply: that stabilisation could not be of-
"City of Saskatoon and Provinco The Netherlands. India Commercial of the earth? I was just noticing
Saskatchewan acknowledge fected at an arbitrary figure, but Bank sulyertise that their office will be the other day the reports in the of would have to be determined by removed to No. 5 Des Voeux Road newspapers of the messages sent cordial congratulations Republic of back and forward between some- Honduras. We are having a hard
ilner the value of silver at the time the Central, no from April 7.
body who was travelling in a winter," change is made. The price, it la Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and somewhere I forget his name The answer: "Congratulation
city or addod. would undoubtedly be Co. advertise that Messrs. M. T. John and the Mayor of some
Mon and II, V. Wilkinson have been ather. And the picasages seemed on hard winter" got through within much lower than the exchange admitted partners of their firm af to go back and forward as easily the same day.
I am told that there is no doubt as if the two men had been side by value of our currency at the time Hongkong and Shanghat. the decision to stabiilso was taken,
The farthcoming wedding. is an side. I felt lost in wonder to think that the Interchange of this last nounced of Jono Francisco Vieira of the marvellousness and impor sot of messages will do a tremen dous lot for trade between Saskat Yet it is recommended that we
Ribeiro, No. 2, Minden Avenue, Kow-tance of it. walt for China to throw her enerjoon, to Miss Maric Luiza Romedios. First of all, the traveller sent out chewan, and Honduras. The Pro-
mous stocks of the white metal upon the market before we add our quota! We feel sure that the can Buggort Currency Mission aomething more comforting than this.
In point of fact, for the pur- poses of the investigation on which the Mission is embarking, the Report of the Currency Commliter,
No. 2, Gordon Road, Kowloost.
treatment
Not the Whole Story,
by wireless: "Greetings from the aident has already got through a Atlantic. I am saffing through a message: "If you want any log wood, teak, or first-class cordwood, Through falling from a scaffold in field of ico."
let us have your order." front of 36, Queen's Road West, n
And the Mayor answered back: Chinese painter received injuries to his head and hands and was removed "Greetings from the Atlantic re-
As a matter of fact, these mor- to the Government, Civil Hospital forceived. Please necept greetings from all here. I am sitting in my
sages of greeting that are reported office at my desk."
every day or so in the current Press. Then back came the return mes-prove on Inquiry to be only a very age: "Accept cordial congratula-mall part of the messages of the tions from the Atlantic on sitting kind that are sent back and forward your office. All here glad to from ane great world-centro to the know that all there are sitting there. other, conveying thoughts Am salting slowly."
tabsolutely vital importance for the And in return to that came the welfare of the world. Capt. Parry, of 1.M.S, Vindictive,
Through the kindness of one of has been promoted Rear-Admiral and instantaneous reply: "Cordial con. placed on the Retired List. The Vin-gratulations on sailing slowly. All the operating companies, I am able active is at present on a trip to the here glad to know that you are to reproduce brief abstracts of onn
wishes for or two of these, thrA :--- Far East, with unita for Hongkong there. Accept beat and the Yangtze River.
A fine of $10 was imposed on the at the mistress of a trading junk Marine Court this morning before the Hon. Commnir. G. P. Hole, R.M. for attempting to leave the harbour dur
The China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., advertine that dividend warmnts will be available)
being there..."
of
as distinct perhagis from the an-ing prohibited hours. nexures, may be scrapped. It bas already led Mr. Ezechiel astray, At Kuala Lumpur he referred to the note premium as still existing
"From Habibullah Khan, Acting that the and remarked
silver
Khan of the Khannery of Kabul, That dollar is hardly ever seen.
Then Another Chips In.
Afghanistan, to Secretary of Junior should be enough to Hlustrate how
Hardly had this information been League Convention of Lancashire. rapidly the Report has become out on April 8, and may be obtained on conveyed across the atmospheric-Ameer Afghanistan and entire
Nevertheless, of date.
application at the registered office of wilderness when the traveller, it Army congratulate Junior League recent
the Company. 178 Connaught Rond avers, was able to get into contact on election of Miss Roslo Rosebud nasociate vice-president. All contributions to locul discussion | West.
with the Mayor of another city and as
here Join in cordial greeting, to all wirelessed to him: Mr. W. H. Clegg and his col-have revealed that there is a sec-
For having had in his possession at "Accept greetings from the At-girls in your league and any other. leagues of the Currency Mission tion of opinion, embracing those No. 12. Prince Edward Road, 100 lbs.
who fear the loss to Hongkong off Chinese tabacen on which the duty lantic to your city. We are movin placing orders muslin or native men. Wo have had A warm made their first aequaintance with
had not been paid, Leung Wal was ing at about 15 knots, warm sun-head work, don't forget our sales-
winter." Hongkong to-day and are taking
for to call exchanke gumbling ment by Mr. Hamilton, up their difficult task almost im-
who pin their banners to the com mediately. Needless to say, they
elusions of the Hongkong Com are exceedingly welcome. Whe ther or not their labours are des
Elly.
tined to be of permanent valus to
the Colony is a matter which, ob- viously, it is much too early to
discuss. Nor is it an important get, at feast, and at last, an expert
as the broad fact that we are to
independent view on whether thin Colony can safely adopt a gold standard: an opinion which will be free of the bias which, we are afraid, has contributed prtnen- deruntly to the stabilisation con- troversy which has been raging.
exchange business--which we pre-fired $1,100 or six months' imprison-shine."
nt Kowloon Back flashed tho message: To this message the League was
This morning.
After having bitten F. Tamaka, n
"Greetings received. Please accept able to send back a direct, unrelay- greetings from our city and co-ed radiogram straight to the city Japanese woman residing at 404, Hen-gratulations on warm sunshine, of Kabul, City Hall office, top floor, room, where it mitter. And this conveys a warn-nessy Road, third floor, a brown chow We had a touch of rain last night." Ameer's private
But it seems that these messages, was decoded and disintegrated into ing. Not for a moment must the dog belonging to Pun 0, of 140, Lock-
hart Road, has been taken to Kennedy important though they were, ward Afghani in 4m 22s. those
Town for abservat n. The lady was only a few samples of the tremen- "Junior League President, of- Colony think of allowing chielly interested in exchange treated at the Majima Hospital. dously vital world information being cials and members send greetings carried back and forward by radio. Habibullah Khan, or any Acting fluctuations to have "all the say" in representations to Mr. Clegg's
Khan and tions Afghanistan on Mission. Now that a real chance
Chan Yat-cho, coxswain
of the
steam launch Kwon Chee, was fined That very night, it appears, the Khan, or Half Khan. Congratula $10 at the Marine Court this morning President of Mexico "get the city Khan on Afghanistan. Convey con- by the Hon. Cammir. G. F. Hole, council of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, gratulations Army. Don't forget of getting something done has RN, for failing to provide a screen and sent out the vital words:
Lancashire for cotton gooda." to prevent the port light of "Greetings from Mexico City. 1 am not just sure whether the emerged, there must be no miss as
is launch from being seen across the take about presenting fully the bows whilst under way. Defendant I am sitting in my chair.”
And the answer came back by tho was tuckels a genuine one. It views of responsible gold standard admitted the ebarge. advocates.
Unemployed and Employed. There is one fact about the un-
had
next
away among a heap of them, and in appearance it looked like the others. Whether It is genulae or not, at any rate it re- presents the wide desire of con- gratulating everybody on avery thing that is making the fortune of the wireless apparatus.
of the silver market. That, we Great Britain, we shall find that School Former Pupils' Association, Saskatoon received a wireless caftcorrespondent. The operators re-
had previously adjourned the hearing
EXS
||wan,"
"Sultan of Somaliland: Plain congratulations in any European language, except Irish; no extra charge for atmospheric reports,"
Looking over messagos of this sort the other day I couldn't help reflecting on what a pity it is that the world didn't have the wireless messages in the days of the great explorations and discoveries. How much more vivid the pages of our history would have been!
very next ether wave: Admitting a charge of having had
"City Council, Saskatoon, Saskot-k possession of 6,911 po pin lottery
greetings tickets in Canton Rond. a Chinear chewan, acknowledges woman, Kwong Nel, was fined $50 or President Mexico. We are eating one month's imprisonment by Mr. breakfast. Most of us are taking on and off, for more than twelve employed situation at Home which lamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy kippered herring."... months. And there is room for is apt to be overlooked, namely, this morning. The accused said she
"Sultan of Borneo congratulates been given the tickets by a Fermenting Good Relations. hopefulness. There is ground for that although there are now many
William Jones, of Essex, on report. woman in the street to carry.
The newspapers of both pinces et prize at county show for cabbage the belief that a definite altempt more idle people than ever record-
agreed that the interchange of these 2ft. in diameter. All here send la to be made to solve the long-ed before, the number in employ-
Making his third appearance before messages would do a tremendous greetings entire population Essex." Mr. Hamilton, at thro Kowloon lot in fermenting good relations be kong currency problem in such ament to-day in some parts of the Magistracy this morning, Leung Yau-vern
Sometimes 8c the operators in- Saskatoon and Control United Kingdom is far more chi was sentenced to six and twelve America. As a matter of fact, the found of people who would wish to form me-rather pathetle cases are way that the Colony will no longer be at the mercy of the fluctuations than for a great number of years, months hard Inhour respectively on Am
Indeed, if we take the whole of cutlery from
had hardly got get into wireless touch but have no articles of first message charges of larceny
through the Kowloon British:
when the city, clerk of
celvo messages such as "Arab belleve, is the interpretation to until quite recently there were King's Park on March 21, and hav-from the President of Honduras, Sheikh, Southern Sahara, with he placed upon Mr. Ezechiel's more people in jobs than at any
ing returned from banishment before which said:
second wireless set formely belong- the expiry his term. The Magistrate
"Please send us a message, too. ing to Pilfrim, would like get into speech at Kuala Lumpur, in which time since 1923. Statistics issued he stressed that the most desir-by the Ministry of Labour disclose of the case for committal, but decided We have a machine of our own, touch small Republic or Large all paid for. Honduras business territory; good opportunity to hear it summarily and accordingly scarly able character of a currency must that the number of insured people accepted the accused's original plen sends cordial congratulations to ivory or gin." Or this message, at all times be its stability. Unless in employment. with June 1923 of guilt. The sentences are to run Saskatoon on being in Saskatche-which lay near the other:- silver itself is stabilised there can taken as the 100-mark, was 106.1 concurrently.
fer 1930, although it fell con- be no stability for Hongkong's aiderably by December last, but currency, The only alternative is was still above the 1923 figure. a gold basin. The change-over. Even so relatively recent as 1920. everyone realises, offers serious the figure was 110.5. In Wales ficulties, but these complien- and the Northern. parts of Eng- tions should not be allowed to in-lund, the situation is admittedly bad, those in work being even less terfere with the working out of a
than in 1923, but if we look at the nolution which will prevent a re-
South of England, the position is currence of the debacle of the
Infinitely better. Still taking past two years.
1923 at 100, we find that in Juno When the Mission settles down last the figure for London was 119, to the collection of data, the lists which is only a fraction below the will be opened for a full tilt. The 1929 return, this latter being the anti-atabilisationists will, doubt-highest for the past eight years. In South-Eastern England, last leas, present a strong front, being year's mark was 129.9 and in the far better organised than the op- South-West it was 117.9, in both position. Nevertheless, it is to be instances much better than any of hoped that the advocates of a gold the years quoted in the latest basis will not be so backward In statistles. It is most encouraging voicing their opinions as they were to find that, in spite of the general when our own Currency Committee trade depression, there are actual- sut last year. Since then, forly more workers in jobs in the South of England than for a very tunately, the issues have become long period past. Unfortunately, clearer and fower. The complica- the total of unemployed is now a tions attached to the premium of record, but It is well also to bear paper currency have disappeared. in mind these other facts to which The effect of the slump has been we have drawn attention. Wales fully felt by every local interest, and the North of England have and many individuale and firmssion in the coal, iron and steel been especially hit by the depres- propared to load their support to and the textile Industries, but for the views of the Currency Com-which circumstance the position as mitico in the summer of 1980 and | a whole would have boen infinite- reason to take the other sidely better than it is.
ER STRE
LAUNDRY
♫ NA NGA LAROCË VIC-
"Time out for a new first base! This truck's leaving."
I suppose most readers are aware that there a scientific legend to the affect that wireless was invent- ed and actually used centuries ago by the great Italian scientist and painter, Leonardo da Vinci. Later on, so it is claimed, he deliberately broke the machine, and the secret of the process
was lost and not
agala discovered till the present day.
Ion
If this story is so, it londe an air of truth and genuineness to a message which I found inscribed, along with its appropriate answer, an ancient parchment. The documents, which were dated "Octo- ber, 1492," had at least all the ap- poarance of age. The message read:
"Cordial greetings from Christo- pher Columbus to King Ferdinand and Isabella. Have just discovered Japan." And the answer:King and Queen both here at breakfast In Escurial Palace, second place of toast. Cordial greetings to every body you discover. – Your achieve- ment greatest impetus onion trade.. And yet, after all, perhaps Leonardo da Vinci knew what he was doing when ha broko the MR- chine."