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LAMMERT BROS.

ÁVOTIONEERS, AIFRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

-Public Auctions—'

Undersigned have received instruc Mons to sell by Puble Auction.

00

THURSDAY, August 18, 1921, commencing at 245 pm

at No. 6, Stewart Terrace. No. 9

The Peak,

A Quantity of Valgable Household Furniture,

Comprising:-

Teak batstand with berelled mirror, Chesterfield sols and armchairs, wade by Powell Ltd., Carpet, Lace and Cate ment Curtains, etc.

Teak extension dining table and chairs, sideboard with bevelled mirror, dinner waggen, ice chest, tes tables, dinner crockery and glass ware, etc., etc.

Test double bedstend, Brass mount- al single iron bedsteads, teak wardrobe rita bevelled mirrer, marble top wash.

stand, toilet crockery etc.

On view from Wednesday the 17th

August, (iteracon).

Catalogues will be issued.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, August 11, 1941.

FUITOES AT THE HOTELA

HONGKONG HOTEL.

Augost 11.

INTIMATIONS

YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.

JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good is quality during Hot weather (2) LAC TOSE (Milk Sugar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID JINSEO TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitses, Bags, Flies and all other Insect Peets in Summer days, and (4) JOHN CABILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in

Houses.

PRICES are Very Moderata. Ias pection and Enquiries are cordially invited.

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USE

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FRIDAY, AUGUST. 12,- 1921.

NOTICES.

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A FINANCIAL CRISIS.

- UMBRELLIA OF RANK

an

USED BY NEGRO CHIEF AT

PRIVY COUNCIL

any put forward by the economists, we quote it beka

We could imagine that in VARIOUS DEFINITIONS OF SUCH epidemic fit of the passion of gambl

ing, all dealers, instead of giving only CONDITION.

the their accustomed orders to manufacturers or growers of their commodity, commenced buying up

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A gorgeously arrayed West African- In an arbitration which is just being brought to a close cre of the ques all of it which they could procure, as chief, under his umbrella of state, tiers that has come up fer decisicar as their capital and credit would sat before the Judicial Committee of is. states the Financial Times, whether

dressed in A white robe; a certain set of circumstances at a 80. All prices would rise encrmously, the Privy Council last month. He

even if there were no increase was particular period did er did not con- of money and no paper credit, but a cloak of blue and gold brocade; and stitute a financial crisis. New, at mere extension of purchases en book wore a white hat. He was one of fret sipht What is a bnancial crisis?"ereas an irquiry susceptible credits. After a time those who had the Idejo White Cap chiefs of Lagos, eighteenth century to a predecessor of prompt and easy solution. Yet bought would wish to sell, and prices and his white cap was granted in the

would collapse. the proceedings revealed a consider

This is the ideal extreme case of and fellow chiefs in token of their able and interesting diversity of what is called a commercial crisis, ownership of the land of their res- opinion. There is no confict of There is said to be a commercial, pective clans.

His son, also picturesquely attired view about a catastrophic culmira-crisis when a great number of tion of events like the Overend merchants and traders at once, either attended the court carrying the Gurney smash in 1866, the Baring have, or apprehend that they shall umbrella of state; while a secretary failure in 1890, and the American have, a difficulty in meeting their bore a long silver-headed staff sent collapse in 1907, but evidently there

the chief, are other states of disorder in the engagements. The most usual cause by the Prince of Lagon to identify of this general embarrassment is the commercial and financial

On the staff was an inscription recoil of prices after they have been which do not command a unanimous raised by a spirit of speculation, showing that it was presented in 1852 verdict, The subject is attractive intense in degree and extending to to the grandfather of the present prince by the British Government, as enough to induce us to pursue it further, especially as it must be cur That Mill clearly intended to in-memorial of the treaty and for the in which all our readers may be clude purely financial events within suppression of the slave trade, the presumed to take a wide interest, the scope of his classification is promotion of commerce, the abolition Let us see firer of all bow the autho-hewn by his subsequent references of human sacrifice and the protec rities describe a crisis. It is only of to the 1847 crisis another class of tion of Christian missionaries.

The chief claimed absolute owner- late years that corcmic developments

mercantile phenomena "-which was have enabled an increasingly sharp chiefly brought about by speculation ship of the land held by him, and line to be drawn between commercial in Railway securities initiated mainly complained to the Privy Council that and financial crisis, and therefore by George Hudson. This was one of 250 acres of it had been taken by the practically all standard definitions the first crisis due chiefly to extensive Colonial

Government for public still include the latter in the former.gambling in shares, though the purposes

collapse in 1825 was largely con-

DICTIONARY EXPLANATIONS.

worlds

many commodities.

For the defence it was urged that Here is what the lexicographers tributed to by the bursting of a boom the property in the land in dispute have to say on the subjectA in mining enterprises in South was ceded to the British Government by the King of Lagos in 1861, and vitally important or decisive stage in America,

that the chief was only entitled to compensation for certain rights of

the progress of anything; a tuning. WHAT THE STREET THINKS. point; also, a state of affairs in which a decisive change for better or wore is imminent; now applied especially to times of difficulty, insecurity and suspense in politics or commerce,

MURRAT.

•

The hearing was adjourned.

In the arbitration care referred to control and management. the views of witnesses were of a very This view had been upbeld by the colloquial character and naturally Supreme Council of Nigeria (Southern lacked scientific vividness, but they Province), but the chief, in his appeal, plainly showed how each individual now asserted that the land did not expected a crisis to affect him perform part of the territory ceded to A turning point in the progress of soraliy. The crowning proof to most the British Crown, and that it had an affair or of a series of events; a men was that it restricted their credit belonged from time immemorial to critical moment; a juncture on which with their bankers in respect of his predecessors as head chiefs of the depends a transition, to better or speculative commitments. To 3 Oluwa family. worse; as a financial crisis-Funk other it was a bad time in which to Times of difficulty in commercia) being out companies. One gentleman matters are, when pressure becomes advanced at evidence of a crisis the acute, termed crisis,

In difficulty. of unloading securities va some respects all crisis are alike, the public. inasmuch as all such events arise "Arbitrator': You mean you were from what is called an "abuse of left with the baby? credit." But that abuse may take Witness Yes.

Counsel: But that isn't so unus various forms, sometimes the vagaries of banks in lending enormous sumsal an affair, is it? without any security that can be Witness: No, but when the baby realised have caused the trouble. At | is twine, it's a crisis. other timens

These examples are picked out to ments by the public in stocks which typify the ideas of men as to what are worthless, or much depreciated, constitutes crisis, in addition, of Ehave had a similar effect in arousing 'exaggerated -alarms: The causes varying, the results also vary, much

Palgrave:

great invest

FOR A WEAK STOMACH.

course, to such general factors as high money rates, disturbing events in the political and Industrial worlds and acen mulating trade depression. As a contrast may be given the crystal- Hsed account of the business expert as represented by Clement Juglar, who wrote a Brief History of Panica in the United States. "A crisis or pasic, be says, "may be defined as

a stoppage of the rise of prices: that†

is to say, the period when new buyż

ers are not to be found.It is alwayz accompanied by a reactionary move

A 8.a geral.rule all you need to do ment in prices. A panic may be

A koopt dist suited to you- beoadly stated as dus to overtrading

Both Murray and Fank refer to age and occupation and to keep your which causes, general, business to

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