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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1931,

COST OF LIVING HERE

Prices Show A Slight Rise Over Three Months.

DEARER FRUIT RESPONSIBLE.

Hong Kong wholesale prices re- gistered a general average increase 014 per cent. in the June quarter of 1931, 45

April Sulphate of Ammonia still further declined to 87.0.

Details of individual and group averages are given in the follow ed with the March quarters, ing tables: And $40.4 per cent. AN

Individual Averages.

compar

com.

pared, with the base year of 1922, according to the index constructed. by the Statistical Branch of the Imports and Exports. Department.

THE CHINA MA

ACQUITTAL OF MRS THE CAUSES OF

HEARN.

Sandwich at Bude Tea-Party.

CROWDED COURT.

EARTHQUAKES

Relative and Provisional"

MOUNTAIN-MOVEMENTS.

CHILD BITTEN BY CHOW DOG.

Taken to Hospital for Treatment

MONGREL DESTROYED. Mr. Justice Roche in his sum-

The British Isles are situated ming up at the Cornwall Assizes exactly midway between the two at her home at 9, Kent Road, Kow- Whilst playing with a chow dog

at Bodmin of the evidence in the canoes those of Iceland and the Peggy, the four-year-old daughter principal European groups of vol-loon Tong, on Wednesday afternoon, trial of Mrs. Sarah "Ann Hearn, Vesuvius group, writes F. Hof Mr. S. Houghton, was bitten on the charge of murdering Mrs. Mackintosh (The Consulting Geolo on the left shoulder. She was Thomas, her friend, said that gist) in the London Morning Post. taken to the Kowloon Hospital, Should either of the groupa cease whilst the dog was removed to Ma circumstantial evidence could be to function the pressure, now being Tau Kok for the usual period of ob- stronger than human testimony, relieved by these safety valves servation. 100.3 147.9 180.3, The Judge said that it was no would accumulate elsewhere to ac- His black and fan mongrel, be-l 118.0 221.5 222.2 use beating about the bush. The celerate mountain folding, and, coming very ferocious Mr. Yim, of 94.5 133.0 150.8 case rested between two people, ultimately, as the Agures extended 22, Somerset Road, Kowloon Tong, 90.4 121.1 124.7 Mrs. Hearn and Mr. Thomas (the upward, to give rise to volcanoes.summoned the Police and stated .123.4 169.1 342.0 dead woman's husband). The These falands have been the that he wished to have it destroyed. 106.9 1440 148.0 jury must decide which. If they scene of intense volcanic activity in Acting Sub-Inspector McEwan, of $2.2

201.7 165 could not, Mrs. Hearn must be the past. There are extinct Kowloon City Police Station, ac .114.3 178.8 175.8 .103.1 177.0 180.2 acquitted....

volcanoes of considerable magnitude cordingly had the dog shot.

1022-100.

Foodstuffs

1921.

Beans

Focdstuffs and Matala and Beef Minerals group showed slight in- Exgs creages, while Textiles and Mis-Flour (Wheat)

Salt Fish' cellaneous groups "recorded. de- Fruits (Fresh) creases, the figures being as follow: Lard

1st 2nd

Milk (Condensed) Mutton Quarter Quarter

Onions

Pennut Oil

Foodstuffs

144.1 147.3

Textiles

147.9

143.1

Park

Metal & Minerals 138.5

143.8

Potatoes

Miscellaneous

129.7

125

Poultry

General Average 139.8

1922-100

140

The increase in the Foodstuffs graup was accounted for in part by the big jump in Fresh Fruit prices. During the quarter con- siderably smaller quantities were received from the South China area-at-greatly increased prices. the index figure rising from 180.2 in April to 386.8 in May and 459.1 in June, giving an average of 342.0 as compared with 109.1 in the first quarter.

Condensed Milk fell from 201.7 in the first quarter to 185.9, re- maining steady through the whole of the second quarter.

Following last year's trend Onions dropped from 177.9 to 139.2, the figure for the month of June falling as low as 88.5.

Peanut Ol reached 120.3 in

April, but average 116.2 28 com- pared with 112.3.

Potatoes jumped to 125.1 in April, but

steadily declined to average 114.1, the June gure be ing 100.

Poultry averaged leas at 176.3 but fluctuated from 153.8 ia April to 211,5 in June,

Rice (Broken) Rice (White)

Sugar (Raw)

Vegetables (Dried,

etc.) Vermicelli

fst 2nd Qr. Qn. 1931. 1991.

97.8 122.1 130.8

934 102.5 114.1

.111.0 112,8 116.2 If the jury believed that Mrs.in Arran, around the Firth of 103.6 145.0 134.3 Thomas died from arsenical poi- Forth, and also in Shropshire. 111.0 197.3 176.3 soning, was it not inevitable that Central France and the Rhine valley 112.3 133.6 122, it was administered by the sand have also been scenes of great .110.2 143.8-128.1 wich? If it were the sandwich, volcanic activity.

97.7 was it not difficult to escape the conclusion that the source of the arsenic in the sandwich was the maker of the sandwich Mrs. Hearn? The sandwich was the kernel of the case.

.135.8 96.7

06.3 *50.4

100.6 127.4

Group Average.

1018 78.6 1929 = 100,0 19241001-

1st Quarter 1931 1441 2nd Quarter 10311473 Individual Averages.

Textiles Cotton Yarn 120.5

51.3

129.0

Jat 2nd Qr.

and a nurse..

The Great Glen.

been built along these old lines; have been denuded away, and have Far From Haphazard. been rebuilt again and again, but Vesuvine had probably been an always within the same zone of extinct volcano for thousands of mountain folding. The stresses and years before Strabo recognised it as straine are always active, but their such. Our extinct volcanoes may, results are inconceivably small un- perhaps, awake again some day-less they are measured over an Mr. Justice Roche said that it Mediterranean get out of order. But, it must not be thought that

our safety-valves in Iceland and the enormous interval of time. was alleged that Mrs. Hearn's story of her marriage was some-ed with mountain regions, few, if rocks gradually

Earthquakes are closely associat-simple folding Is going to bend thing from the realms of fiction.

Into mountains It was surprising that she did not plains. Examination of the map of The forces, perhaps, for a time are any, originating beneath the great without other attendant phenomena: 1924. 1931. 1931, know where she was married and the world on spherical projection incapable of producing, any effect.

142.8 148.7

95.7 01. could produce no marriage cer- Cotton (Dyed Plain) 100.4 Italians (Dyed

tificate.

For, better still, on a globeshows For centuries they accumulata until Figured Plain) £2.2 77.5 102.0

Tears were streaming down that the distribution of mountains the resistant rock yields either by Shirtings (White

40/48 yards). 91.4 91.0 102.1 Mrs. Hearn's face and she almost is far from being a haphazard one. bending or, perhaps, a fracture is Hemp (Manila), .187.0 130.9 180.3 collapsed when the judge had The greater portion of the earth's developed. Gunny Bags.... Hessian Cloth

201.5 816.6 304.5 concluded his summing up. She surface is occupied by great plains, ..138.0 €3.0 Silk Piece Goods

75.8 left the court, bowed, her face in- while the mountains are confined to 91.4 84.3

visible, supported by a wardress well-defined belts. Silk Yarn (Art) 91.3 45.0 50.0

For instance, over the greater Blankets (Wool and

Union)

.105.2 142.9 101.0 Mrs. Hearn was taken to the part of Rusela and Siberia the Flannels

106.0 481,0 303.9 court long before the doors open-atrata are in as flat and as unfolded Sultinga and Tweeds

ed so as to avold the crowds. She a condition as they were when they (Woollen)

81.8 100.8

wore a long brown coat and close were first deposited, aeons of years Group Average.

ago. The outer edge of this un fitting hat. *1913 55.1 1022 = 100.0

A few minutes before the arri- disturbed region is bordered by some 1024 112.5 val of Mr. Justice Roche she had zones of mountain ranges which a short conversation with her extend from the shores of the solicitor and then sat back in the Behring Strait through Eastern dock.

China, the Himalayas, Pamire, Cau

Carpathians, Alps, Black Once or twice she made some 6, Qr. 1931. remark to the nurse who has Forest and the Ardennes to the 136.5 been her constant companion Boulonnais

From this point the mountain since the trial, began. 88.1 189.0 124.0 Mr. H. du Parca, K.C., (for chain is continued beneath the 30.1 115.6 122.7 the Crown) and Mr. Norman ses as a remarkable ridge extending 124.7 1997 200.9 addressed the jury, Mr. Birkett's coastline to Greenland. The depth least one great fault, that of the 93.5 100.7 114.2 Birkett, K.C. (for Mrs. Hearn) at right angles from the European

Within the folda of (2) lles at .1812 2017 149.8

72.0 91.0 123.3 speech lasting four hours. Mr along this ridge is barely 2,000 970 196.5 164.3 du Parcq, who was taken ill, feet, but its flanks descend into the Great Glen which cute Scotland in 93.5 141.8 128.8 spoke for two hours.

Arctic and North Atlantic oceans to halves, and to the movements of 91.1 101.694.3

depths of 12,000 feet, with the Bri- which are attributable the small 150.4 1789 182.7

tish Isles, the Faroes, and Iceland earth tremors, which that ragion Mrs. Hearn, who is 46, pleaded appearing above the waves as mere will be noticed that the ares of (b) experiences from time to time. It "Not Guilty to murdering Mrs. peaks upon this submarine moun- Alice Maud Thomas, aged 47, range. The highest point in the and (c) are directly opposed to each

other. wife of a farmer of Lewannick, British Isles is Ben Nevis 4,000

Ist Quarter 1931 = 147,9 2nd Quarter 1931 143.1 Individual Averages, Jst Qr,

Sheathing

Metal

103.2

2nd

*95,8 157,0 183.2

Both White and Broken Rice de- elined steadily from April, average: Metals & Minerals. 1924. 1931. ing 128.1 and 122.5 respectively: Brass Sheets..... 99.9 138.3 while Raw Sugar advanced one Yellow point..

Dried and Preserved Vegetables Coal continued their downward trend Iron & Steel Bars to 51.3, the lowest figure of 44.0 Iron & Steel Plates

Iran & Steel Nails being recorded in April.

Lead. (Pig) The slight fall in the Textiles Kerosene group is accounted for by de. Oli Fuel

Lubricating Oil creases in Dyed and Plain Cottons, Petrol Manila Hemp, Gunny Bags. Silk Tin Piece Goods and Flannels, all fall- ing heavily. In the third month of the quarter. Practically all items in this group declined in June as compared with April.

72.0

Group Average:

1919 63.2 1922 100.0 1024 = 102.3

1st Quarter 1931 = 138,5 2nd Quarter 1081148.8 Individual Averages.

Miscellaneous

750 118.3

qr.

45.2

2nd

...

The Sandwich,

In the British Isles the rocks composing the submarine ridge strata have been folded in three principal directions (e) in folde trending approximately from North East to South-West, and due to a force exerted from the direction of the North-West; (b) in an are éx- tending from North-Eastern Eng- land through the Eastern Counties to the Boulonnais and Belgium (this is due to throats from the North-East); (c) along an passing through Southern Ireland, and South Wales to Brittany and. then South towards the Pyrenees and due to forces exerted from the South-West.

arc

Cornwall. She was a neighbour feet-but, if the height be measur-The recent earthquaite appears to of Mrs. Hearn's and died in hosed from the base of the ridge, the I have originated somewhere in the top of this mountain is 16,000 feet, North Sea, to a repetition of fold-, Qr.pital on November 4 last 1024. 1991. 1931. The Crown alleged that Mrs. high, a trifle higher than Mont ing movements along the lines of (b) Hitherto it would appear that 60.7; 78.7 Hearn gave Mrs. Thomas arsenic, Blanc. JAMIY

The islands between Greenland, the arcs of (c) have acted as a .157.4 160.2 106.7 obtained from a weed-killer, in a

44,7 89.7114.5 110.5 salmon sandwich at a tea-party and Alaska being likewise moun the direction of (b). This having 80.5 92.195,2 in a cafe at Bude on October 18. tainous, it will now be seen that now been overcome for a moment, 178.8 184.5 204.6 Mrs. Hearn also denied having the mountain zone of the Northern buttress against movements from 1143 224.2 101,3 murdered her sister, Miss Minnie hemisphere forms an almost com other shocks are naturallyip be 87.8 10.7 Everard, aged 52, who died on plete circle. A subsidence of the expected for a while, but not never- .108.8.

89.5 139.4 July 21 last year. It was allegearth's crust has caused the seg sarily of a violent nature, though 98.0 101.7 168.6 ed that she was given arsenical ment between's France and Green- that is not impossible.. .116.9 129.6183.3 doses for the last seven months land to sink beneath sea level, 85.4 188.3 139 of her life. The court, however, leaving only isolated parks above

proceeded only on the charge water. 96.7 98.8 87.0 concerning Mr Thomas Group Average.

In the Metals and Minerala *groups Coal advanced from 109.0 to 124.9, partly on account of shortage of supplies. Iron and

Coment Steel Bars, Plate and Nails all

Charcoal Increased while Pig Lead fell from Feathers (Duke) 201.7 to 149.8. Tin advanced a Firewood few points.

Hardwoods Miscellaneous items showed a Hides (Cow) general decline of two points to Leather (Solo) Hides (Buffalo) 127.5. Cement rose to 73.7, the Paper (Chinese) figure for the month of June, Raitans however, falling to 69.9. Charcoal Saltpetre fell to 44.9, a slight decrease 16 Soda Ash Softwoods compared with the previous quar Sulphuric Acid

Sulphate of Am-

•imonia

ter.

It should be noted when" conal- dering the low index figure for Charcoal that supplies were very limited in the base period, owing to the extortions of bandit groups between the sources of aupply in China and Hong Kong, thus fore- Ing up prices to a great extent.

Sole, Leather showed little change at 130.7, but the June figure fell to 121.8 from 187.7 in

BAD STORM AIDS WELSHERS.

Oaks Race Frocks Ruined,

TREK OF BROKEN BOOKIES.

A storm, almost as bad in its suddenness, and intensity as the famous one at Ascot last year, completely ruined the finish of the Oaks race meeting, esazh

the

with

116.

08.3 180.3 135.0

1:

1

1913 =.01.2.

1022- 100.0

M

*

(1924 = 100.3

1st Quarter 1931 129.7 2nd Quarter 1931 127,5 Average of All Articles.

*** (1918= 64.0⠀

1922 - 100.0 1924100.6

·lat Quarter 1081 189.8

2nd Quarter 1983 ± 140,4

Hours of Waiting There was a queue outside the court for some hours before the doors opened. The first arrival was a man who took up his posi tion at 8 am.

Two hours later there were 14

even

A great deal has been written to show that thèse Islands are not on the Earthquake: Belts”” - Thore is Cruetal Movements.

no doubt whatever that we are most It is in the crustal movements distinctly upon the principal earth which produced this mountain ring quake belt of Euro-Asia-the moun- that the Cause of earthquake tain are which has been just phenomena must be sought.described.

rise

of the earth the first solid crust is due to another reason. The In an early stage in the history Our immunity from severe shocks was thin and floated upon a semi prime cause of earthquakes fa the Halid "magma" The speed of proximity to the surface of the people there, 19 being women rotation was then much higher than more plastle Sima upon which the it is now, and consequently cen- continents are based. Where the he court was Bo crowded that trifugal force played an important molten magma to

some ticket-holders were part by impelling floating crust enough within them to points unable to get in "bookies" Once the summing up began the direction of the Equator. The the water in the rocks can be con-

away from the axis of rotation fn erust is thin, Assu enab frankly told their clients that no member of the public was a direction of movement was tangen verted Inte steam with explosiva they could not pay them their lowed to enter or leave the court tial to the then attitude of 45 violence winnings.

The summing up had not and degrees, but between this attitude ear

giving rise not But the storm quickly settled ed when the judge adjourned for and the Equator it became more and se most of these arguments, Many lunch. Few people left the court more radial, and in consequence the mens people, rather than walt in the for fear of not being able to get crustzcrumpled up along the 45th downpour, quickly decided to cut in again parallel, and so formed the first enoug their leases and scuttle for shel- - Throughout the long ordeal primitive mountain.

ter

Several small

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financially

not pay four days Oaks £480. I

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