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TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1930.

WHITE METAL..

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THE CHINA MAIL.

MAN STABBED, Charge Against Indian Chauffeur.

COMPATRIOT IN HOSPITAL.

A stabbing affray in which two Indian chauffeurs were concerned occurred in Kowloon yesterday afternoon. A quarrel arone be

NEW

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL

Social Functions. To-day Tea and Dinner Dances t Peninsula Hotel, 8 and 8.30 p.m. respectively.

Entertainments "One Hysterical Night." To-day - Queen's

To-day

Star Frisco Sally Levy." "fidnight Rose,"

To-day World

To-day Majestic Theatre; "Convoy."

Sports

The trouble with Silver is that it capital is on a gold basis-and by has no friends. At least only Youheir last year's report I see that tween the Indians at the Star and Me. You, John China, on the they produced eight million ounces Ferry motor car stand and words far side of the Samehun Creek, and of silver extracted from their cop-led to blows. In the scuffle one Me, John Smith, in this little red per and lend. And I can't find any of the fighters, Ajun Khan, WAS dot on the map selept Hong Kong. thing written up against their ex-alleged to have stabbed the other And Youanme, the old China hands|raction expenses, though I nearly on the left thigh.

The injured amongst us at anyrate, can remem-sent "stane blin" looking for it. man, Noor Mohamed, was taken ber the day when Silver ruled the Only £57,000 for intal extraction to the Kowloon Hospital and later world from Karachi to Kutchinotsu, processes, and that evidently covered transferred to the Government yea, even unto Tokyo and far away impurities as well as silver. So | Civil Hospital. Hakodate. What a falling off is their silver cost then 1.7 pence per Ajun Khan, who was arrested there, my countrymen! Think of unce, or less; and they could still by the Police immediately after

sell it at a profit at sixpence. And the stabbing, was produced before s I have noted the effusions of a as far as I can learn all the other Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the, number of bright lads in our local base metal companies are

Irom the same complaint. What we might call Dollaritis too much Dollar in the Cosmos. The big round eart-wheel of White Metal

it

It.

NEW

Columbia

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

N NOTIFIED

TO. S. 181-IT IS HEREBY that SEALED

TENDERS In triplicate, which should be clearly marked Theatre, "TENDER FOR QUARRY”, will be received at the Colonial Secretary'à Theatre, Ofee until Noon of MONDAY, the 19th day of May, 1930, for the oc- Theatre, cupation for a period from 5th June, 1980 to 31st December, 1981, of the place or parcel of ground at Ma Tan Kok and known as Kow- loon Quarry Lot No. 3, containing See Special Sports Blary on page about 4.13 neres, as shown coloured

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Anlia Waltz

Melodious Memorles

9722-3

Pot Pourri

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Wembley Military Tattoo

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in the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Press, but they all seem to suffer same stable. Silver at sixpence, and when Mr. Leo d'Almada, sen., ap- and ports (Taiyo Maru). the dollar at fivepence. Think of peared for the defence.

of $1,200, but subject to certain and then think some more! The

Meetings. weapon alleged to have

conditions which can be ascertain- To-morrow--Humphreys Estate &ed at the office of the Director of Best Graft in the World. been used by the accused in the Finance Co., Ltd, Hong Kong Public Works. Nonsense, says the bright ind. affray, a spring blade knife, was Hotel. 11.30 am. that came to us first from Mexico, rathering his wish; and the Man in

produced in Court by Detective

Each tender must be accom- and has been imposing itself on us

Sergeant Humphreys,

To-morrow-Hong Kong Tram- panied by a receipt to the effect the Bank, he says nonsense. Why, na a roin ever since. And it isn't when China stops fighting and gets

Surgical Opinion.

Ways Ltd., `extraordinary meeting, that the Tenderer has deposited really a coin, it never was a coin-really busy she

The Sergeant did not go into

Messrs Jardine's Board Room, in the Colonial Treasury a sum e civilisation knows coins but hundred million ounces easy. When fed to the Magistrate that he had C เอ absorb five the cause of the fight. He report,

of $100 as a pledge of the bona enly a chunk

May 8-Socioty for the Praven-fides of his offer, which sum shall dity. The "wooden dollar," our the nasty word. Who's doing the fore going to Court, and the doc-May

dollars or she atops fighting when! That's consulted Dr. G. H. Thomas be ton of Cruelty to Animais, Messrs. be forfeited to the Crows, if the Jardine's Board Room, 5.15 p.m. Tenderer refuses to carry out his American friends called it. Just a Chunk off a commodity, fluctuating brokers and merchants and farmers would probably have to stay a office, Ltd.,

fighting. I ask you?

Bankers and tor had said that the injured man meeting

16-Forty-ninth annual tender and comply with the condi- in value, bought and sold by weight.think again! Men with names fortnight in hospital, if there is office, noon.

Canton Insurance tions, should the tender-be accept- A marketable commodity ranking that sound like one

Messrs. Jardine's ed. with wheat, or rubber, or mutton plexus Generals (Christian and a serious one and if septic pol- of Canton, Ltd., 11 a.m.; China the office of the Director of Public Form of tender and further on the solar no complication. The wound was chops. No, I'm wrong there--I

May 30-Union Insurance Society particulars can be obtained from apologise to mutton chops. The de. therwise, mostly otherwise), war soning set in he would not like to Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., 11.15 am Works. mand for mutton chops is practically lords and tuchuns, with thoir misay what the consequence might British Traders' stable, whereas the demand for Foldiers every man

tions of hired minions, professional be.

and mother's' In the circumstances, the Ser- Silver is fading and likely to go on gon. Are they going to stop fight-geant asked for a week's formal fouling unless the unforeseen haping of their own accord Like remand, stating that he had beet Spring Jumble Sale. gens; as this scribe will try to show fades they are-and be out of a instructed to ask that bai! he fixed you, if you'll just have patience and job. They've got the best graft in in the sum of $500. "bide a wee". Only get this-Silver

all the world to-day, and they're to-day is hardly even

The Magistrate granted the ap- a precious

rticking to it. Can you blume plication. metal; it's just a commodity.

them? Meanwhile China gets bled! Supply and Demand.

white.

A marketable commodity, and as

Who's going to stop them? The

the British Empire. America,

Insurance Co., 'Ltd., 11.20 am. respectively.

Miscellaneous.

May 9-Union Church Annual

May 9 Arrival of H.E. Sir William Peel.

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CHEUNGCHAU NOTES ROUND THE CINEMAS

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such its price laetantes according Tewers. America, says you, and Big Demand for Houses "One Hysterical Night"

te the Law of Supply and Demand. Now We. Us and Company can estimate the demand with some measure of exactitude as it is alt in our own corner of the world and in own hands. And we ean to some extent regulate it too, but we can't regulate the Supply. So what we want to know first is where all these tons of Dollars come from.

Silver mines, say yon. Forget it!

OW

for Summer:

bombarding them with written pro- tests, and Britain blowing them up) with bag-pipes from the Shanghai

[From Our Own Correspondent.] Bund. Stand at Ease! Stand easy!

Cheungchau, Yesterday. Don't make me laugh! I've got a cracked lip. This war is going on again after the Easter invasion.

Matters are quietening down indefinitely-and perhaps longer. few visitors are staying on.

A More likely longer.

French friends al 18A depart to-day. Bat joy cometh with this para- Mr. and Mra. Kastman have left ernment Commission studylug the the autumn.

Our

at the Queen's.

FINAL SCREENING TO-DAY.

Norn Lane, who appears op- posite Reginald Denny in the Universal all-taking comedy "One flysterical Night" now showing at the Queen's Theatre, is an old-

No silver mine can turn out the Kraph. For now we've got a Gov- for Canton. They will return in fashioned girl in one way, at. least..

Product of

“CONDEMNED.”

The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.

HAROLD T. GREASY, Director of Public Works.

2nd May, 1930.

CHURCH NOTICE.

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road.

JUMBLE SALE

on FRIDAY, May 9, at 2.30. Contributions of old clothing etc. thankfully received at Church Hall.

RECEPTION ON THE ARRIVAL OF H.E. SIR WM. PEEL, K.RË.

-OFFICIAL WELCOME AND

that H. E. Sir WM. PEEL, K.B.E.,|| will arrive in this Colony on FRIDAY morning, the 9th instant, instead of Thursday morning, the Eth instant, as previously intimnt-

ed.

previously published for the 8th The arrangements and times as

instant will stand for the 9th changed. instant, the day only being

atctal at the price offering to-day subject, and everything will be all! A great improvement has taken She carries her embroidery with her PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS.

Miss Lane "just loves to embroider." Most of the mines closed down years right. Now just think! Did you place at No. 27, the house is being to the studio and while others are ngo. So whence all this unlimited ever know a Commission come to any put in order, and the garden looks gossiping or playing cards between TNFORMATION has now been supply of silver? That is the ques-decided conclusion on any one thing less forlorn. tion. And the answer is the

The house has been scenes, she is busy, with her "knit-officially received. In the Colony world's silver is produced as a Bruch I hand it to you. If you can

under the sun? If you know of one rented for the Summer.

ting." as she calls it. The Vegetarian the base metal indus remember that much can you ever making a noise in this part of the theatre, after tries. Silver to-day is a By-Pro- remember the Government taking world, has closed down for another duet. Honce all this grief.

their advice? Any Commission I've year. Now what is A By-Product?

Ann Harding, the internationally ever known came to one of two con-! Like lots of other terms it's rather clustons-either "keep on keeping, quests for houses for July and opposite Ronald Colmon in "Con- It is impossible to fill all the re- famous Broadway actress, who plays hard to define. You might call iten" or "wait and see." That was August, but there are vacancies for deened" his intest starring pic n side-line. Often something left all it amounted to, though they may the other months. over when the main product is taken have taken twenty pages to say it.!

ture which comes to the Queen's away: like coke in the Gas Industry. And this commission is composed of start in getting the paths in good with pictures before she even dream

The road repairers have made a Theatre to-morrow, was associated Ammons and Dyes in the Coal In-

bankers and brokers and officials-shape. dustry, or à fnt head in the "Scotch”

ed of being a star either op stage or bound to the chariot wheels of The bathing matshed is being re-screen. Consumption Industry on "the

Her first job was that of morning after the night before." Bankers, of course, especially, as readiness for the Summer.

(As you were) erected, so all should soon be in script-reader for Famous Players- Something you get more or less for they stand to make Ly the fluctua

Lasky in New York. nothing; something that sometimeations of exchange. They and their

The Provincetown Players, New Mrs. Evans (wife of the First York's noted group of experimental you don't particularly want.

silver reserves! What will a twenty Asalatant at the Observatory) was actors and managers, introduced her

H.E. SIR WILLIAM PEEL million silver reserve look like with driving out to Castle Peak on Sun-to the stage where "The Trial of

leaving Queen's Pier he will, the dollar at sixpence? Better day. In avoiding a cyclist at 13-Mary Dugan" made

her name accompanied by H.E. The Officer twenty million mutton chops,

mile Beach, the

Government car skidded and known through the nation two years Administering the went off the road on to the beach, jago.

Her first motion picture role and party, proceed in motor care running into one of the matsheds. In "Paris

in a Bound" Immediately

Westerly direction. down was damaged, but Mrs.ruised her to notice as one of the

Connaught Road Central and

The damaged car stage to screen.

Tong Taul he will turn up Hill was towed back to the Observatory

Road and thence by Queen's Road yesterday.

'CONVOY" AT THE MAJESTIC, West and Queen's. Road Central to the City Hall, where the public address will be presented.

By-Products.

So it falls out that there are twe classes of By-Products-the Economic and the Compulsory-the Economic being that of which large

the status quo.

Stabilise in Time,

Se stabilise while there is yet. The car

ARRIVAL OF H.E SIR WILLIAM PEEL.

quantities are in demand at a stable time, for Silver is slipping, sliding. Evans fortunately escaped with a most prominent emigrants from Connaught Road Wost. At Shek

price, and the Compulsory being

that whose extraction is necessary for the purification of the main product-whatever the market price offering. It's hardly worth mentioning to a reader of your sympathetic. Intelligence that Silver falls into the latter category. as the sparks fly upward!

if you wait for China you may wait few bruises. till the China Sugars bloom again. When the dollar flops you may see the day when a shoe-string capital- it comes here with Fifty Thousand Pounds in his little bag and buys whelm the New Tredegar Colliery, the Navy's part in the War, "Con- A landslide threatens to over- Unfolding the dramatic tale of Soat fifty dollars a pleal for now only been reduced to ruins, and a see- now showing at the

up the Godown Company. And rice Bargoed. A large building has voy," Robert Kane's special, is premises to all. Think what that would countries on a gold basis have rice, tion of road has disappearod. mean to our friends Sumchun.

across the

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Opposition to the Idea of first- class cricket on Sunday has been expressed by persons prominent in county cricket arcles.

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his typewriter for the occasion in So stabilise, pray you Merry rape, as Murger did his pen. Gentlemen, Stabilise!

Theatre, Kowloon.

It is hoped that occupiers of adjoining the route Majestic taken, will make a suitable dis-

play of flags and bunting. The plot, taken

from Jolin Tainter Foote's story of a girl's sacrifice in uncovering the German RECEPTION ON THE ARRIVAL espionage system in the United OF H.E. SIR WILLIAM PEEL, States at the outbreak of the war,

K.B.E. is one of the most tense and un- usual stories ever screened.

Dorothy Mackaill, Lowell Sher- man, Lawrence Gray Buster

Collier, jun, and Ian Keith_head

OFFICIAL WELCOME" AND PRESENTATION OF ADDRESS.

Now the base metals are copper, tin, spelter, zing, lead and the greatest of these is lead, au a sinner and from our point of view because it contains the most silver. But the The writer is free to own up that demand for lead for paints and pipes this article is in the nature of a and polsons and what not calls for "draw." He, as the many great chemically pure lead, or at least minds in this Colony must be doing, load with less than 10 dwts, of silver wants to know more about Silver, to the ton, which is just half-an- wants to know about its production, pants out actor, the Directory is that one of the Grand Panjam-

an impressive cast. Ernest Haller, A at the City Hall on FRIDAY, ounce Troy, according to that in- its prospects. What he really needs

TA PUBLIC MEETING held. And our British Leads, say Lead- drums of the Beacon Light of West-

best known for his work on the 4th April, it was decided to hills and Wanlockhead (don't. I know era Learning on the Hill should Greatest Enemy.to Trade. "Stella Dallas," "The White Lily," presant H.E. Sir WILLIAM PEEL A fixed dollar might complicate and several of Kane's latest pro- K.B.E., with an Address of WEL the bounle hills!) contain 10 to 12 descend and come down and tell us pances to the ton, and some of the all about this White Metal on which business in the beginning, might ductions, was in charge of the COME on his arrival in this American leads used to run up even the prosperity, indeed the very life, even shift some Httle business to camera unto 200 ounces. (Of course I of this Our Colony depends. He Canton. But just think what it

Colony, which will be during the Actual scenes of the Battle of morning of the 9th May next, haven't been there since Prohibition must, or at least should, have avalt would mean to the community at the North Sea between the com- At the same Public Meeting it was enacted!) And all that sliverable an uprto-date technical library large for the Europeans stable bined British and Américan battle has got to come out whether it's siving all the horrible, but neces- salaries in line with all the world, squadrons and the German Graus was decided that the whole of the wanted or not. You can see what sary, details. As for me, I had at for the Chinese the food they depend Fleet constitute one of the many open to the public without charge Theatre Royal should be thrown

we are up against. 20:

command only the prehistoric copy on at world parity. The greatest features of the story.

save only that the stage be re- Dollars Aplenty, wom of the Encyclopedia Britannica at enemy to trade possible to conceive to the ordinary intelligence is a

Borved for the Reception Com The gay lad that runs the Mer- the Club, and a mouldy volume of a

mittes, Members of the Executive cantile Bank said in London the Dictionary of Applied Chemistry. Buctuating means of barter - an

A polition of broadcasting | and: Legislative Councils, Repre other day that the annual production was five hundred million ounces. That means about six hundred mill-

district is to be sent to the Post Hon dollars. God help us! Let us

master General, protesting against hope he enjoyed his tiffin when the

the disbandment of the Birming meeting was over. Aplenty dollars

as a

That his personal contact with the enemy Hong Kong has suffered for licence-holders in the Birmingham sentatives of the Navy, Army and desilverising of Load finished in too long.

1886 with the original Pattinson So let Hong Kong, as always, Process will tell the expert how far sho

show the way to China, and lead that this writer is behind. But he knows Great Country and People along the there has been a great advance In Path of Gold

ham studio orchestra.

y new floors on the Peninsula the process since then. So now, way because of apk and x 16 in disclosed that Britain's

Professor, it's up to you.

to lay

* | change Experts and Such should wo

Air Forces and the Heads of Public Departments, the first two 10ws of the stalls for the Con- sular Body and their wives and the representatives of the Churches, also the first two rows

Hotel seventeen layera deep. You may observe that the wellow-Ho down to the deepa with a stone of total trade turnover with Switser of the dress circle for ladies

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Street Into a Skating Rink for BrokersNE

Now the undernoted is private between Youanme. I have some shares in a base metal company very few you may be sura: ns-thair,

of this article has tried to keep it liver about our necks. Rather, and last year showed a great do

cheerful. He has tiled to temper his message with frivolity At the same time he can assure you that

mlapting Bryan, Ipt the cry go forth

It is hoped that as many resi Cresso on that for 1928.

dents of the Colony as possible will attend this. Public Meeting Mrs. Frances Neilson, the atthe Theatre Royal, and this = "You għall not crucify Hong Kông | daughter of a Chicago millionaire, give a practical demonstration of is said to have purchased a Rem the support of the Colony to its brandt for £50,000; 20

his heart is breaking his financial a cross of silve heart, of course. And he has draved

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