THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932.
'QUAKE SCARE IN ENGLAND.
HOUSES ROCKED BY A SERIES OF TREMORS.
London, Jan. 24.
Houses were rocked and consi- derable alarm was created by a series of violent earth tremora felt ever a wide area around Manchen- for yesterday.
Shocka lasting for several sec- onda roused people from their beds, and in some cases property was slightly damaged.
At least five distinét tremora were felt at Swinton and Monton. and one Monton resident stated that his house was shaken to such an extent that plates were thrown
from a shelf and smashed,
Other places at which shocks
werd
included:- ́experienced
The guunt ruins of a once-imposing bullding in the Chapel district.
Urmston, Clifton, Worsley, Lower | WE ALE NOT AFRAID TO Broughton and Eccles.
Mr. A. Banks, of Clovelly-rons, told a
reporter. "There was
loud rumble and the house goested
to rock as though it was grip of
THINK FOR OURSELVES.
for
(Continued from Pope 6.)
the loss of the comfortable
in the habit of theit acquiescence in cur- giant. Ten minutes later ¦ rent conventions which distinguish- there was another rumble, followed their own youth.
ed by a second bock Testing several seconds,"
Mr. W. Firth, of Polson-street, Lower Broughton, and that when the tremor started the window panes rattled and he bowht there. was a gale springing 1036 Inter he noticed a bed vibrating, nad a donr rattle loudly as taugh someone were trying to enlaw.
Pit Subsedence"
Mary reports from plures in the aren slate that the ahecks were au severe that furniture rocked vio inly.
Yet at Stonehurst College Oh servatory, a few miles away, there was se rerord, nend Mr. J. J. Shaw, the West fromwich seismologist. stated that is instruments also been unaffected,
had
Father Rowlands, of Stonyhur Callere, attributed the tremors to
a coalmine surface subsidence.
In Ma last
year Manchester won the centre of an earth, tremor which shook East Lancashire so severely that people were 11:00 out of bed.
IN DEFENCE OF BYSTANDING.
A
By A. P. GARLAND.
Sa bystander, with some pride. in my work, I resent the slur that was cast the other day on hy-i writer who cổm! standing by a plained that no effort was made to stop a street affray.
Why should a bystander inter- fere His multo is the same ne flunt of the faithful old clown in al stories adunit cireuses The show nutsi go .
Take the case of the bull that ran amok in Bedfurshire town and. as the story went, "scattered the bystanders."
HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET.
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.
No change, nad only officially reported.
(wo
xlen
Saler.
Hotel (old) $13, Gnyt. Loans, 46 Prem.
Buyers.
Union Jamarances, $461.. Hotels told), $13.
Chinese Estates $95.
Slagapore Tractions 'ref) 147-. Amusements $194. Govt. Louna, 32% Prem.
Sellers, Hongkong Banks, $1350. Docks, $21.
China Lights (old), 821,
Yesterday."
EXCHANGE RATES.
Previous Day.
XX
.17.75 14.57%
Paris
That is nonsense. The bull did deneva not scatter the bystanders. They Berlin.
Oslo scattered themselves.
They saw that the bull, for reaHelsingfors en best, known to hanwlf, wanted Athens...
a clear field in which to carry out Buenos Aires...39%
So they gave certain mRNEYPOS.
Shanghai..
New York. Amsterdam.
ten ose. And if they did it in a hurry it was berase the bull was (Vienna....
abo in a hurry.
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SPIRIT.
PLACATING THE EVIL off his bead and tries to com- Milan
mit suleide under a taxicab, the Stockholm. genuine bystander will never make Prague,
Lisbon Frantic dive to save it from des-
Rio truction. He watches the drama Bombay, with deep interest, but he keeps on Yokohama. his own side of the footlights. Montevideo
The Detached Attitude.
A little touch like that shows Bucharest breeding.
Hongkong Again, when
bowler Brussels.. A tann's
577th 1/5.13/16 0174
1/5.13/16 24.16/16
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100%
117! 1099,
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1/11%
1/69/64 1/13/16
.81%
30
Montreal
8.93%
(forward) 20
3.91 19.16/46
201
British Wiretens.
BURNT OFFERINGS IN FOR- TUNE TELLING CHARGE.
Ammanford, Jan. 28.
How a burnt offering was made | to plačate an evit spirit which was said to stand between a. Car-
It is this detached, non-committal "Silver (spot)... 19.13716
of the bystander that inde makes him so entrancing a feature
marthenshire farmer and fortune of the social, landscripes.
Che day, for instance, last s-
from a rich ancle nbrond was ex-{ plained to the magistrate at Ling- mer, a Bolshic orater, whose feu-
sawel, Carmarthenshire, yeater: day.
į turis, were much toonest with reddish vegetation, was lecturing in Hyde Park on the Five-Years
Lily Jones, aged 50, and her Plan. At the end of his in passion- daughter, Violet Jones, 22, both of Fed address he asked if anybody had the New Bungalow, Mountain any question to ask. Thereupon Haro Merthyr Tydfi, were charg-a mililooking bystander bell up! ed with "pretending to tell for- bis hand like a schoolboy and anid, tunes so as to mislead his Majesty "Did you ever do anything for subjects."
that nose of yours?"
Few people realise to what extent
The mother was fined 30s; the bystanders act as a stimulus to In- daughter, who had pleaded not, dustry and high endeavour. guilty, was discharged.
The farmer, Morris Jones, vi Penygraig, snid the women drove up in a saloon motor-cnr.
Take the case of such rond-re- sirers as forgo that hideous au- tomatic drill with Its chine-gun acemmpaniment and rely on the uld- fashiane 3 sledge-hatimer and The older woman, he said, told wedge. him that he had a relative abroad
1. W
around. bystanders are who was going to leave
him #
watch the graceful stance and poise large sum of money.
of the hammerman, the careless ne- curaty of his swings and the cor-1 tainty of his nim. He is trying to please his public, and good work results.
He was invited to gaze into a crystal. The woman wrapped the crystal in a black cloth, on which ahe sprinkled salt, and after an incantation he saw the words. "Overcome evil by good." Looking again he saw the figures £500.
The woman said an evil spirit stood in the way and a burnt of tering would have to be maule.
At her bidding, said the farmer,
But if there are no bystanders he lopts a listless air, his timing la far from good and only too often the hammer lands on the knuckles of the man holding the wedge, making the latter regret bitterly that he had not started life in the cooked meat industry.
Similarly, a bill-poster, under ob. heights of de-
he produced a fi note and a half-servation by bystanders, rises to
sovereign, which were wrapped
little
great artistry. His with great ceremonial and poalted on a plate, over which colour scheme becomes more dur
ing. Je tries for. were drawn two strips of paper in the form of a cross. The offer chiaroscuro and his brushwork la ing was then placed in the kit bolder and firmor. Sometimes, in fact he becomes so lost in his work. that he falls off the ladder. That is an unforgettable moment.
chon fire.
A charm was produced and the farmer was bidden to wrap it in money, not less than S, and con- ceal it in his bed.
At the Shop Window. Likewiac a window dresser in a departmental store finds much in- spiration in the presence of by- On a subsequent visit by the standers. Gribley's stock of Gent's women, while rites of a further Winter Pylamas never were dlo- offering of £2 were being perform played so dramatically as one day ed, two policemen emerged.
when eight fat faces, the property
keen bystanders, of somo pressed against the window. And Mr. Spaffle. of Jimps and Carboy's, who is temperamental, simply re fuses to make a start with the cropo de Chine until his crop of by. The 51 notes were found on the standers have rallied round-which floor at the feet of the two women. they always do.
The burnt offering was snatch ed from the fire and was found to contain only an empty cigarette packet, while the charm was a piece of tinfoil.
Wore
SHARE PRICES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
The following is the Hat of local share quotations issued to-day:
Danks.
Hongkong Bank, $1350 s. Chartered Banks, £12 n. Mercantile A, and B., £18 n. East Asia, $127
Insurances.
n.
Canton Ins.. $1,350 n.
Union Ins.. $405 b.
China Underwriters, $4.621⁄2 n. China Fires, $590 n.
H.K. Fire In., $1,250 n.
Shipping.
Douglases, $26 n.
H. K. Steamboats, $23 n. Indo-Chinus, (Pref.) $32 n. Union Waterbonte, $25 n.
Mining.
Benguests, $11.75 m. Kailans, 25/- n.
S'hai Explorations, Tls. 2.10 n. Raubs. $39 n.
Docks, etc.
Kowloon Wharves, $1541⁄21⁄2 n. Whampoa Docks, $29 s. South China Motors $10 n. Providents toặt). $1.00 sa. Hongkews, Tlx, 220 n.
New Engineers. Th. 6% n. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 90%1⁄2 n.
Cottons,
Ewn Cuttons Tla, 141⁄2 n. Shanghai Cottons, Tia, 80% n. Zoon Singa Tha. 11% n.
Lands, Hotels, etc.
H.K. Hotel (old) $13 b. H.K. S. Hotels (new) $13 n.
1. K. Lands, $76 m..
S'hai Lands, Tis, 30 я.
Humphreys (old) $194. Realties, $11.66 n.
Public litles.
Trunways, $20 a.
Peak Trams, (old), $15.00 n.
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INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA. BANKING CORPORATION, CORPORATION LTD ted by Mepal Charter 1888,
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Authorlord Capital
Subscribed and Paid Up'
Reserve Fund ******
HEAD OFFICET
./£9,000.008)
4,005,049
HEAD OFFICE|---LONDON,, | Fail-Up Capital $1,000,000 Mosanya Sund .................
2,494,109 | KMarre Laskility of Proprietom . 1,295,200.
100,000
122, Leadenhall Street, London, EC.
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BUARD OF DIRECTORS
Hon. Mr. G., 0, 8. Markle,
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POR JOHOR
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Stores. ele Dalry Farms. $201⁄2 n. Watsons, $16.50 . Der A. Wings. $1 n. Lane Crawfords, 36 n.
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HONGKONG BAVINGS BANE
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HEAD OFFICE: 55, Wall Strees New York.
Strafta $20.000.000 Capital, Surplus and Undivided
$,008,508
4,060,000;
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4,000,000
3,330,000 AEGENTINE
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Pald-Up Capital Zamestu Panda
25.000.000.00 Transfers bought and sold. Cur 74,110,000.00 rent accounts and Savings Bank
8,320,300.82
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