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SUGAR MARKET,
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
1
The following cable at the close
of the sugar market on Saturday
has been received by Messrs. Pen
trenth and Co.
London Terminals.
March 1932 6/10% down
d
May 19:32 7/-% down
d
August 1932 7/2% down December 1932 7/61⁄2 down 4d Buyers above prices, sellers aking d-d. more.
d.
New York Terminals. March 1932 1.10 up 4 pla. May 1932 1.35 up 4 pta. July 1932 1.20 up 4 pts.
HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG
GOVERNMENT BEATEN
FINLAND'S PLAN FOR STATE ENTERPRISES.
-
The
Helsingfors, Dec. 12. Government
been
defeated on the proposal to re- organtia the State industrial enterprises as limited companies. The Cabinet is expected to resign, and a dissolution is possible.- Reuter.
September 1932 1.26 ap 3 pts. December 1931 1.05 up 4 pts. Sourabaya (12/12/31).-Trust Mills sales for the last week 7,000 tons Whites, 8,000 Lona Browns; buyers and price not disclosed.
10 A.M. 9 P.M.
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931.
COST OF LIVING
LOWER!
PARADOXICAL EFFECT OF FALL IN £.
HOTEL PRICES.
WOMAN "ADMITS
THEFT.
STOLE JEWELLERY WORTH OVER $1,000.
BLAMES A MAN.
of
TERRORISTS, IN IRELAND.
SENTENCED TO GAOL
IN DUBLIN.
DOOR GUARDED BY LAND-MINE.
Dublin, Doc. 10.
Jewellery to the total value London, Dee, 10.
$1,300, belonging to Chines
21 Reports are current that Britons woman of 13. Man Fong. Wanchal, in Europe are taking up permanent was the subject of a
theft a charge of domicilo abroad as they are afraid brought against a married woman The military tribunal set up to return to England owing to rum- of Yee Kuk Street, Shamshulpo, on here under the Irish Free State oured high prices as a result of the her appearance before Mr. Gran-Constitution (Amendment? Act in depreciation in sterling. These rotham at the Central Police Court proceeding with the trial of prison- parts are received here with in-this morning. The defendant ers, credulity. The currency fluctus-pleaded guilty to the charge. tions have, in point of fact, had a paradoxical effect in the com- parative immobility of commodity prices which are either unchanged or falling alightly.
Since the gold standard abandoned on September 20 cost of living iri England
Two brothers, George and Char- les Gilmore, were sentenced to-day Detective Sergeant Rozcakwy in- for assisting in the formation of formed his Worship that the de fondant, on Saturday, went to the and for possessing arms and am an legal milltary organisation complainant's house and there had munition.
conversation In the bed to five years' and Charles to a George was sentenced short
after which she intimated year's imprisonment. room the that she would be leaving. Before
гуда
It was revealed during the pro-
actually fallen. It is true that the departing. However, the decution that a detective had dis-
after the compininent had
covered
a trap-door concealed by
London-New York cross-rate, which left the room, requested to be al- undergrowth, and had summoned on September 19 tood at 4.85,lowed to use the bedroom, closed yesterday low as 3.30% request was granted and she but it must be emphasised that ex- shut the door, later leaving change quotations are very small house. in range, speculative and artifeni.
Winter in England.
Com-
The following day, the plainant discovered that her jewel As the result of an investigation bedroom, had been stolen. On be
fery, which had been kept in the undertaken by Reuter, it is clearing told by the servant that the That Londen hotels are tending to defendant had closed the bedroom reduce their prices as compared
then that if the door were opened a
Her
an explosivea expert, who found the that would be established which would have exploded an enormous- ly powerful land-mine. The door was nevertheless opened by the expert,
but
there t
› was no explosion. included contempt
The charges against the accused
of court. The Irish Free State la conduct- complainant became susing a rigorous campaign against picious and the police were accord-terrorists, many of whom, fearing ugly Informed. The defendant heavy sentences, have fled from Street and, when questioned. ad-ted following throats to the accur. was found in a house at Percival the country. The drive was initia- mitted the theft.
ity of the State.
with this time last year, and that door. the they are willing to cumpromise with regular visitors rather than to lose custom. They are trying to encour age English people who are hard hit by the high taxation and the exchange to spend the winter in England. High-class residential hotels are charging three to four gainens a week for full board and many ure charging less.
There is no change in theatre or restaurant prices or in railway fares. Any movement that can be discerned represents downward tendency.
LUCKIEST SHIP IN
THE WORLD.
CORINTHIC MAKES HER LAST VOYAGE.
London, Dec. 10.
The career of the famous liner Corinthie, described as the luckiest ship in the world because during voyages totalling a million miles she had never had an accident, ended to-day when Sir Thomas Walford, High Commissioner for New Zealand. hartled down
her In the Royal Albert Dock.
ffay
During the War the. Corinthic brought New Zealand troops to England and took them back after the Armistice.
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TYPIST SENT TO PRISON.
She had already pawned a brace- int for $300 while the remainder of the jewellery the defendant had given to a woman friend for safe custody saying that it was given to her by her uncle. The second woman, in turn, asked one of her friends to keep the jewellery which JUDGE'S COMMENT OR was lucked in a safe.
The defendant, continued the officer, was married to a student who was, he thought, mentally deficient. Her
mother-in-law lived at Yee Kuk Street, but when asked to attend court she refused to have anything to do with the defendant.
dant said that somebody had In reply to his Worship, defen-
induced her to steal.
BLACKMAILER.
Lundun, Dec. 10.
A typist who evidently preferred dictation was sentenced to three to dictate rather than to receive
Yeara' penal servitude at the Win- chester Aasizes to-day for black-
scribed her offence as "the most mailing three men.
In paglag sentence the judge de-
The prosecuting officer remark-
wicked, cruel, and cowardly that ed that he had been told by the can be
be committed." He added defendant that a man had told that the only doubt he had was her to steal and when she had that he was erring on the side of pawned the bracelet for $300, the
Rentency money had been given to the man, ed from the dock, said in flutter- The typist, who had to be assist- who had since go e to Canton.
Remarking
woulding tones; "I am sorry for all the he sooner bind the defendant over,
trouble I have caused." his Worship remanded her for 48 that she had demanded money from It was stated during the trint hears fur the police t
make another attempt to secure the the men, saying that she was in a attendance at couri
certain condition. Reuter, mather-in-law.
The
that
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A lecture will be given in the Sailors And Soldiers' Home Wednesday next, 18th inst., cammene. n. by Col. R. B. Skinner,
two women, who had in On her daat voyage from Newturn, received the jewellery for Zealand, which ended a few days safe custody were brought before ago, she brought 40.000 boxes of his Worship on a charge of reling at butter and over 4.000 crates of ceiving stolen property, but, .B.E.. on "An Officer's Experiences cheese for the English Christmas the application of the nolice. the in Indin" Admission is free and the markets.
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