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TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931.

POLICE RESERVE.

ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.

KING'S BIRTHDAY PLANS.

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.BL.G., Inspector General of Police, are as under:-

SCIENTISTS' ORCHARD DISCOVERIES.

Growing English Fruit All the Year Round.

A YA WA

NO MORE THORNS.

A great deal of space in the report is taken up with the policy of the Indian Govern- ment; but there is a clarion call for stabilising the money of half the world. This factor must be the guiding lever of all discus- sions on currencies of the Orient, particularly China and Hong

King's Birthday Celebration. Will it ever be possible to have Kong.

The following Police Reservists fresh British apples ripening The Chairman of the Bank of will parade for duty in connection all the year round? writes the China, speaking at the annual with the King's Birthday Celebra- Daily Express Agricultural Cor

Įtion on Wednesday, June 3:- meeting only ten

respondent. 35 members of the Chinese It may be, for the scientists Ngid:-

Company to parade at Central working in their laboratories are Police Station at 09.00 hours discovering strange things about sharp.

fruit. 25 members of the Indian

They have found more in the Company to parade at Central last five years than in the last Police Station at 09.00 hours five centuries. Within certain sharp.

limits they can manipulate fruits 12 members of the Flying so as to change their colour, Squad to parade at Central shape, and size.

days

ago,

Police Station at 09.00 hours sharp.

The real cause of the silver decline appears to lie in the gen- eral decrease in commodity prices throughout the world and in the fact that production of silver far exceeds, present de-1 mand. Unless international trade returns to normal or the production of silver is restrict- ed, it will be difficult to stabilise the value of silver. We do not expect silver to return to its or-1 iginal position in the exchange volvers will parade at market, but it should at least Police Station at 0845 hours sharp Innes Horticultural Institution at

15 members of the Sharp shooters' Company to parade at --Central Police Station at 09.00.

hours sharp.

Central

They can change their flavour, 100, and make barren atock yield heavy crops and render sterile the tree that was prolific.

Some of the most interesting work on the breeding side of this Those who are entitled to re-science is being done in the gene- tical department at the John

Wimbledon, of which Professor J. B. Haldane, the Cambridge scientist, is head.

to draw them. be stabilised. If silver should

General.. continue to fluctuate, or should

Revolver Practice. The regular drop to still lower levels, China weekly revolver practice will take will not be the only country to place at the Bowen Road Revolver Range to-morrow at 17 hours. It suffer. The stabilisation of, will be open to members of the silver is far more important to Chinese Company, Hong Kong the world than the rehabilita- Police Reserve.

Police Training School. tion of silver. It is good to see

The weekly classes Reservists at the Police Training for Police

School, Kowloon, will be held as

that the campaign in favour of Istabilisation of silver is rapidly gaining recruits in. all parts of the world. That is the best sign in a very troubled sky!

News in Brief.

74

!

It was here I learnt that fresh British apples all the year round are not an impossibility.

"We already have British ap ples that are ready at the end of June." Mr. M. B. Crane told me. "and we have the Sturmer Pippin ripens as late as March. that is picked in September and

Suffolk Discovery.

usual to-day at 6.30 p.m. All "The original Sturmer tree was members of the Chinese Company found, I believe, in a garden in and of the Flying Squad who have Suffolk. The trouble is that the not yet passed Part 2 of Training crop falls easily with insufficient Course should attend.

Wil-

Chinese Company. StrengthConstable R92 llam Silgean Zons has been struck off the strength of the Chinese Company as from May 20.

Squad Drill-All recruits of the Chinese Company will attend Cen-

17,tral Station for Squad Drill on (40) Thursday, at 5.30 p.m. under L. S.

R.43 Tao Chi-on.

sun.

"But by breeding it might well be possible to introduce charac teristics of other trees into the Stormer to offset this weakness.

"I don't know about getting amples that will ripen in April.

May, and early June, but I wouldn't like to say we never

shall."

Out on the experimental plots I saw the first full-sized black- berry bushes that have been grown without thorns.

The advantage of them for easier picking is obvious. They have been grown from a thorny "father." mated with a small "mother" that is without this

to pay twice as much for gold with their silver as they did a year ago, which, to them, means

The lowest open air temperature that they are paying twice as yesterday was

The degrees. much for

our products. The humidity was 87 at 10 am, and 85 abnormal, sudden, and unpre-al 4 p.n. cedented fall in the price of

Falling down the stairs of silver has cut in half the wealth New Street, first floor, Au Lun and the purchasing power of fructured his skull and died soon

Flying Squad. the people of China, restrain-after admission to the Government)

Civil Hospital.

Squad Drill-All recruits of the ed them from purchasing

Flying Squad will attend Central other than the necessities of Suffering from the effects of Poice Station for Squad Drill an life, destroyed credit, and stag-opium poisoning, alleged to have Thuraday, under L. S. R333 A. W. nated trade. The price of silver teen self-administered, a married Mooney.

woman, Lam Sze (43), living at 10, The weekly instructional patrol from May, 1928, to the present Cresson Street, was removed to the of the Kowloon Section will take time has steadily dropped until Government Civil Hospital for place to-day. Fall in at Tsim-tsa-:

tsui Fire Brigade Station at 6.30 it has now reached, the lowest treatment.

p.m. sharp. Dress-Kharki uni- level for all time of less than

Three months' Imprisonment form, and cap with khaki cover. 26% cents an ounce. In June, was imposed on Chui Hul at the

The final instructional patrol of 1928, silver was 60.1/3 cents an Kowloon Police Court this morn- the month of Hong Kong Section ing, for breaking and entering No. will take place on Friday, and all Not only has the purchasing 228, Shanghai Street, and stealing members should take part in this Fall in at Central Police a basket of clothing valued at patrol. power of China been cut in half $50.06, the property of Lai Chiu-Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress and the cost to them of ex-wing.

--Khaki uniform and cap with khaki cover. ports doubled but the credit

Sharpshooters' Company, situation has been even more seri-

Riot Drill The Riot Drill, post-institution is hard collar worlt of Hong Kong. Tuesday, Mar 26, 1931. ously affected. In fact, it is testi-Godown, three coolies-Leung Ling poned from May 20, will be carried everlasting experiment and in-

fied by exporters without contra- (44) Chan Wui (35) and Li Man out to-morrow at 530 p.m. diction that all transactions with (85)were sent to the Government (bers will assemble outside Queen's

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seen even

as

ounce.

Resulting from a scuffle with other coolies at the Kung Yuen

protection.

The mother, whom I saw nest. ling under a hedge, is fairly rare

commercial and too small for

purpose.

But her lusty progeny will eventually find their way to the market, to be the ancestors of the first full-sized thornless black- berry bushes in the world.

This is rather a spectacular in- stance. Most of the work of the

Mem-vestigation.

Civil Hospital suffering from Fier at that time with belts, hols China at the present time inust slight injuries their heads. ters, revolvers and truncheona

to

CABLES CENSORED.

CHINESE MILITARY ALREADY

AT WORK.

Shanghai, Yesterday,

(Sgd.) D. L. KING, D.S.P. (R.)

OLD ENGLISH SILVER.

£3,038 For Two James II. Caps

And Covers.

In a sale of old silver at Sothe- by's in mail week a pair of mag-

Perhaps the most important branch of this is the research

that Mr. Crane has made into the sterility of varieties of fruit

bushes and trees.

Only in the last few years have we begun to find its causes.

CALCUTTA CORPORATION.

Chief Executive Officer's Power Curtailed.

Calcutta, April 27.

be on a cash basis. This is due Their condition is not serious. It Uniform optional, Although written at a time

to the fact that the price of silver is thought that the fight originated when a revival of the disturb.:

has not only been steadily de-in a quarrel over work. ances in China could not be fore- creasing but the cause of this

recently as

decrease continues to exist, and February this year there is

under such conditions a further: much of interest to China and to

great decrease in the price of this Colony in the report of a

silver is constantly threatened sub-Committee appointed by the and is expected. In this uncer- United States Senate to investi-tain condition

The Government military autheri-nificent James II, two-handled cups, The powers and functions pre- no safe agree-

to the Chief gate and report upon the depres-ments can be entered into as to of cables filed and received by the the trustee, Brigadier-General Sir Executive

tles have commenced the censorship and covers were sold by order of viously delegated

Offeer, (Mr. C. C. sion of United States trade and future payments for goods sold. cable companies.

Henry Page Croft, and fetched Mukerji), were considerably cur- commerce with China, to study Again, it is pointed out that{ It is stated that this censorship £3,088-310s. per oz. (Permain). tailed by the Calcutta Corporation Treaty stipulations relating to the disaster that follows the de-s only temporary, until the Nan- The highest price per ounce, at its meeting this evening. The same, and to make recommenda-struction of the purchasing power

king-Canton crisis has been settled. however, came for a rare piece of power of appointment was reduced The censorship is proceeding Scottish silver. In the shape of a from Rs. 350 to Rs. 50 of temporary tions to alleviate disturbing con- of the wealth of the Orient, and smoothly, and commercial tele-Seal Box, 44in. wide, inscribed in appointments, from Rs. 160 to ditions." The report was signed its value as the basis for credit, grams are not suffering any delay. charming contemporary lettering. Rs. 50, for three months in plate of by the Hon. Key Fittman, whose is obvious. The chief market of-Reuter.

"The seal of the University of Glas- six and of dismissal from Rs. 100 gow," and with a small leat decora- to Rs. 50. Power of suspension, resolution seeking international the world for cotton textiles in JEWELLERY HAUL. tion. The sides have moulded and however,

wat increased from negotiations with other Govern-in the tropical climates of China,

scalloped fringes, and the base is 300 to all officers." ments notably the British -

India, Mexico, Central America, ROBBERY FROM EUROPEAN IN

plain..

Mr. C. C. Biswas with the help of interested in silver currency was and South America. These people

This piece, the property of a gen- the European Councillors, wanted a SHANGHAI. unanimously adopted by

tleman, was made by John Luke, committee of the house to go into the find that they have to pay twice

and bears the Glasgow Hall Mark the question whether any Senate after being approved by as much for a piece of cotton

Shanghai, Yesterday, of 1709. It is not definitely known change was necessary, but Relations Com-

Thieves ransacked the residence whether it was the work of the his motion was the Foreign

lost. Mr. gooda as they did ́n year ago — of Mrs. F. Maguire, in the French father, who died in 1702; that is, Biswas Bald the appointe mittee.

that is, they are compelled to Concession, early yesterday evening, five years before the date letter of ment by the Service Committee It is naturally pointed out give twice as much of their and decamped with jewellery valued 1709. It could, of course, have would mean the filling up of posts that United States commerce money, which is silver, than they at $16,000 and a deposit receipt for been made by him about 1700 and on a communal and political bias and with China has been retarded for paid a year ago for the sume

$5,000 from the National City Bank. not hall marked until 1709; on the when that was done it would be the The robbery was discovered when other hand, the box may have been worst thing in the animals of the several years by reasm of war article. The result is that they Mrs. Maguire returned home after the work of his son John Lake, Corporation. and other conditions in China buy only that which actual neces-visiting friends. The jewellery whose mark is somewhat similar. affecting her production, develop-sity compels them to have. The was not insured.Reuter.

In any case, the Seal Box realised 'ment, and prosperity. The sud-American

£80 106.—£17 108. par oz. (How). cotton textile mills

Contributing an. . increase st From another source was a pair den, unusual, and destructive commenced to suffer at the bare nearly half a million dollars over of fine Charles I. cups and covers, depression in the commerce with time that silver began to drop, the corresponding month of last maker's mark. “K.C." London, 1883, China since January 1, 1930, The textile mills of Manchester year-building returns from the which made £696-3208, per oz. cannot, however, be accounted commenced to suffer at the same Columbia for the month of Febru- cistern, by David Willlaume, Lon- principal centres of British (Permain), and a Queen Anne wine for by reason of conditions that time that the price of silver start ry totalled $2,059,694, as com- don, 1710 £1,276 161-66s. per oz. have existed for several years. ed to fall. With the decreased pared with $1,578,329 for Febru- (Permain).

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mail"" of.

May 26, 1921.) -

P

To-day's dollar is worth 2/5%.

The second day of the Interport cricket match was marked by

A

The chief cause during the latter demand for cotton textiles camelary, 1980. The greatest gain was Several lots, the property of the strong southerly gale. Shanghai part of 1929 and 1980 was the the fall in the price of cotton, reported by Vancouver City, al Viscountess Downo, Included a din-concluded its innings with a total of sudden, great, and unprecedented until to-day cotton is about half though nearly half the districts her service, by Thomas Whimpham. 891, Barrait passed the century reporting showed increases The London, 1766, which brought £750 and a half and was caught out. fell in the price of silver. what it was a year ago, The two monthe total for 1981, 108.--98, Od. per oz. (Thesster), and Hong Kong was all out for 80, Dr. We may quote from the report same condition applies in a more amounting to $4,802,878, is well in a Charles II. tankard, maker's mark O'Hara. Letehing geven wickets, re- "as" follows:-The people of China or less degree to all exports advance of the total for the cor- "P.D." with three pellets above celvad a rousing ovation. Sayer

must pay for our goods with such as wheat, lumber, motore, when building permits authorised1228. per oz. (Harria).

responding - period of last year, and cinquefall below, London, 1667 and De Roma opened Hong Kong's second. innings, scoring 27. Fur- gold and they buy glo with radios, electrical appliances, and construction to the value of The day's total was £12,565 78. ther play was impossible owing to silver. › They are now compelled machinery.

$2,669,785,

64.

the steady downpour,

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