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The Hongkong St. Andrew's Society advertise that the 50th Annual Gene- Tal Meeting will be held in the City Hall, on Tuesday, September 29th, 1031, at 5.45 p.m.
Mesars, Lane, Crawford, Ltd., ad- vorties that owing to the Exchango Restaurant and Lounges being en- caged for a Wedding Reception, the asual Sunday Ten Dance will be held at the King's Restaurant.
Opinions will, and do, differ concerning the proper mental oquipment with which a young man should be sent out into the world. It will vary, of course, according to the futuro walk of life in which he will find himaék. There can be no dead level set: obviously what is of value to one may not be to another. Wo are not, of course, looking for the moment at the broader, aspect of education, that is, as something quite apart from the utilitarian aspect. Here we enter a field too large to permit of dlacussion at the moment, Lot UA conclude by stating that Intellectual indepen- dence and fearlessness, a habit of mind that examines everything, Araujo a Vice-Consul for Brazil In charge of the permanently represent what the University pro-Brazilian Consulate at Hongkong. duct should have perhaps above everything else.
The World Crisis.
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The forthcoming wedding la on- nounced of Mr. Werner Leutsch, No. 16, Canton Road, Shanghai, Ellaabeth Jacoba van Raamsdonk, who in travelling to Hongkong on board the m.v. Leverkusen from Amsterdam.
His Excellency the Governor has under Instructions from the Becretary of Stato for the Colonies been pleased to recognise Benhor. Waldemar de
Madame and Malle. Corveira Alba-1 querque leave Hongkong this morning:
BLACK DIAMONDS.
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far Lisbon, sailing by the Fulda at ton BY DEXTER H. TEED.
o'clock. Malle. Albuquerque will not be returning to Hongkong, as she is
Notwithstanding a tendency, ingning home for her marriage in January next, and her futore homo. the will be in Portugal.
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The Treasurer of the St. John Am-
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Little black bits of vinder-like mineral, insignificant appearing as our opinion, to overstate
grate sweepings, are caught by the world industrial gravity of the
The Gazette contains a new regula- downward thrust of a steel tooth. crisis intrinsically, the views of our correspondent, "X" as out-tion the effect of which is to reserve Relentlessly it crunches, with pres-
Government craft the space to the sectioned, VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED lined yesterday are thought-pro-at all times for the exclusive use of sure of 26 tons, and fragments aro And because that has been hap- AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE voking. With much that he has southward and eastward of the fair
in to say regarding the mismanngo-way from the southern entrance of the pening in a small office high up
Yaumati Typhoon Shelter to the piersi THE HONGKONG HOTEL|ment of labour-saving devices, thear wharves habitually used by the Manhattan ballding for 30 years, thousands of wheels are turning, wrong uses to which they are being Yaumati ferry launches.
chimneys all over the world are GARAGE.
put from the community view.
belching amoke, automobiles point, we find ourselves in cam-i plete agreement. He paints an bulance Brigade acknowledges with whining over a network of high- exceedingly gloomy picture of the grateful thanks the receipt of the ways--and billion dollar projecta following donations to Brigade Funds are specded onward. Boulder Dam consequences, a complete rupture Mr. Wong Sik Kay $100; Mr. Chau couldn't be built without them.
The cinder-like bits are blacks dia- of elvilisation as we know It to-Yue Ting $50; Mr. Fu Sik $20; Mr.
Yung Tezo Ming $20: Mrs. Ho Kom monds, as puro as the brilliants that day and we would not nesert. Loo
Tong $25; Mr. Kan Tat Coy $20; Mr.sparkle on the bosoms of heiresses. all events, that Li Tsz Chung $20; Mr. Lo Chung: But theirs is a lesa glamorous dogmatically a!
though more practical destiny, for zurh prophecies are ill-founded. Kut $25.
they are destined to become the will be celebrated on Tuesday, theHowever, "Mr. X." commencen
Under instructions front the teeth of drills that cat into earth- 22nd September, at 8 o'clock a.m.
of our attitude sharp for the repose of the Soul of with a criticism Bruna Celesto D'Almada e Castro towards himetallism. He thrusts Secretary of State, H.E. the Governor bound minerals, far below earth's
has appointed Mr. Extwin Taylor to be surface. Treasurer, Collector of (Honey) at the Cathedral of the Im-it aside ne not worthy of conside-Colonial
In that single breaking machine maculate Conception, Glenenly.
ration, but fails to submit an alter-Stamp Revenue and Assessor native solution to the immediate Ratce, as well as Commissioner to black diamonds worth $20,000,000 carry out the provisions of the Estate have been fashioned by Arthur problem confronting the nations Duty Ordinance, in place of Mr. C.Bandler, called the "black diamond of the world. In our view, this Mel. Menser, reticed. The appoint-king" of Amerien.
mort takes effect from June 28th Jast, Дя catting edges for diamond problem is ninety per cent, mone-
drills
these unimpressive bits tary in character. Tho gold stan-
The Offices of the Supreme Court you wouldn't pick one up if you dard-which perpetuates the pre-open daily from 10 am to 1 saw it on a sidewalk-have historie custom of barter-ia on p.m. during the Long Vacation, except covered unguessed mineral de-fear of robbers, for criminals who the verge of a breakdown as the on Public and General Halldays, when posits in all parts of America, and obtained the black bits could never
international credit, they will be entirely closed, and on the world. They are indisponan-sell them, aa mining and other or
Saturdays, when they will be open ble. From the time they are wash-ganizations buy only from reput- UNIVERSITY PRODUCTS There is not enough to go round. from 10 am to noon, subject however, ed from alluvial sands in the
A REQUIEM MASS
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1931.
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SILVER FUTURES.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
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Black diamonds less to milady as Jowels but in- valuable to industry
be come the teeth of drills after being shattered by the device pictured at the top. Below, Arthur S. Bandler, the "black diamond king of America, tests the quality of one of these strictly utilitarian stones un-, der the microscope.
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The maldistribution of existing to the provisions of section & of the wilds of Brazil until they are playable Arma. They are worthless us supplies of the metal hau jeopar- Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordinance,
Once Thrown Away. We were commenting the other dised the entire credit structure. 1898, so far as relates to the Criminal ng an essential part for some Sessions. The Long Vacation com- giant corporation, they are whol
Until it was discovered they day on the wastage of effort in Hence we have felt bound to supmences on the 20th Instant, and ly out of the limelight.
Tougher Than White Stones. were better than white diamonds Universities, caused by the poor port the alternative of the double terminates on the 17th October, (both
daya inclusive).
for drilling, some 40 years ago, They are used only for commer- they were thrown away. But once material which so often finds ita standard, gold and silver at a fixed ratio. Our correspondent
cial purposes. As the white dia- that discovery was made, waste way to these seats of learning. It regards it as extravagantly op
mond is crystalline, has lines of beaps were combed frantically by will be interesting, therefore, to timistic to expect that Europe and
cleavage and will therefore crack industrious natives. Now they it is unsuited for drilling. But are worth about $185 a carat, more take notice of a complaint recently America should deliberately give
the black diamond, cinder-like than the white diamonds, The made by the Carnegie Foundation, a fictitiously enhanced value to an
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demand exceeds the supply, though not quite on the same element which is to stand na point, regarding the shortcomings guarantee for the intregfty of real hard wealth. We could see his of students after they have gra-point more clearly if we had his tunted. The complaint is that definition of what constitutes real, senior college youths often ap-hard wealth. In the absence of must con- proach graduation with a stock of such explanation, we knowledge that is only a little fess that we fail to recognise its larger than that of the average importance in the matter of setting the wheels of commerce moving' freshman. It is a complaint that freely once again. To our mind, has often been voiced before. Sup-the vital point of consideration is posedly educated young men and that two-fifths of the world's popu- women have turned out to bolation, and more, have been de pitiably ignorant, not only about prived of their purchasing power the arts and sciences but about by factors entirely outside their control. Such purchasing powers such elementary subjects as gram- mar, spelling, geography and his- can be restored to them, by inter- national agreement, without creat- tory. Never, Indeed, have the ating a vacancy, to the extent of a tainments of colleges and univer-single cent, in the pockets of sities been called into question as those in whose power It is to effect the transformation. All this, often as in the past decade.
of cleavage and thus can stand the The largest black diamond ever battering when a drill borca down found weighed 5,078 carats and Messrs. Pentreath and Co. have into rock-ribbed Manhattan or was as large as a big fist. - Bond- been advised by cable of the ful-finty rock of ore-bearing ranges. ler, with his machine, has broken loving quotations for New York Bandler, who saven years ago diamonds as large as 600 carate. silver futures as at the close of obtained the only diamond con- The
Yearly production is 35.000 the market yesterday.
cession ever allowed in Bahla,earate, worth $5,000,000 September 1931 27.75 down 23. Brazil, sometimes carries as much Secrets of methods of breaking December 1931 27.83 down 35. na $100,000 worth of black dia-up diamonds have been guarded May 1932 27.96 down 37. mands in his pockets. He has no Jealously for decades, but Handler says now that he aues. uo. reason for secrecy any more.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday-has | been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co.
It is, of course, as the Carnegie however, is purely elementary. Mr. X disagrees, and we should like Foundation remarks, distressing to
to hear his views on the correct And college graduates who do not method of curing the world's ills. know the meaning of such words as "inert," "enient" and "im- merse," and who think that "de- clivity" and "climate" mean the sama thing; but while we must agree that such a person is hardly educated, it would be a mistake to, think that education consista sim ply, or even chiefly, of the amaas Ing of a great sture of facts. Primarily, an educated man is a man who can think things out for himself-Indeed, who nat only can, but does. Education is first of all the process of teaching him how. to use his brains properly. It is not supposed to make of him a storehouse of Information. An educated man is not necessarily a walking oncyclopedia. The ons serious criticism that has beon:
London Terminals. The following cable at the close March 1082 6/8 lp-11⁄4d. May 1952.6/10% up 11⁄2d. August 1932 6/1, up 1d.. December 1931 6/63⁄41⁄4% un 11⁄44d.
New York Terminals, March 1932 1.86 up 1 pt. May 1902 1.41 up 2 pts. July 1982 1.44 no change. Septembar 1932 1.61 up 1 December 1931 1.82 up 1. pt.
No telling when
"Oh, we'd butter get one this summer.
we'll be in a larger apartment.
Sees High Future.
Looking into the future he pre- dicts enormously wealthy de- posits of mineral may soon be dis- covered because of a new utiliza- tion of black diamonds.
Diamond drills con be trans- ported to isolated and unexplored regions by aeroplane and borings made to locate deposits deep in the earth. The older method of sinking a shaft was impractical In territory far from civilization.
But that is not Bandler's job, He must conduct his business, di- rect 1,400 natives in Brazil and crush out tooth on his machine to mako the drills that probe deep down in the earth.......
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH. AND EAST RIVERS.
The following table, issued by-the- }Kwangtung Hiver: Conservancy · Come {"minsion," shoWE":"IT" ENFUCcky-foot" the water lovals on the West River, North River and East River on tho_dates named:
290 Sept-Sept
Wost River at Shluhlar 12.8319 North River at Bamahul 9.28.6. North River, at Tsingyuen 9.8 10.0 East River Bat Sheklung...11.2 10.5... The highest levels recorded-arezi Shinning, 41 feetz Taingyuan, od 19.19 festy. Samshu), 27.3 Test: Sheklung,
"The "lowest levels on record - Ara mimus:& feet at Bamahui: and-minus 2.7, feat at Eheklang."