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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1931.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SHOPPERS PROTEST:

M. C. L.

List of Forthcoming. Events.

September 8-Children's Swimming Gala. Repulse Bay 3 p.m.

To the Tailor of "Thing Mail."] Si-'shall be much obliged if you will publish my protest against the withdrawal of the Sincere's "Free Purchase Scheme" as adver- tised in the Chine Mail on the 4th

October 3.-Sale or Work at St. inst Before the plan, was launch- ed by the above firm its manage-Paul's Girls' College to be opened by Brent should have considered the Lady Peal at 2.30 ..

possibility of carrying it through and now that it has been abruptly cancelled, I am certain most people cannot Imt feel that they have been fairly induced into making extra purchases from the Company in the hope of being lucky enough to fave all their money refunded

to her.

September 21-Lady Prel At, Home, Government House, to immlers and helpers of the M.C.L.

October 7-Whist Delve to be held at the Helena May. Institute by Police Lady Peel has kindly con- Branch. sented to present the prizes.

October 12.-Sale of work Peak Children's Branch will be held at the Peak Club on Monday October and will be opened by Lady Peel at 3.30 p.m.

SMALL BOY BEATS DEALERS.

Auction Comedy at Christie's.

'CHARLES I. SALT CELLAR.

MAIL.

THE CHINA

CIVIL SERVANTS” PAY UNDER SWARAJ.

What the Elizabethan dramat-. ists were wont to style "A Merrie Enterlude was enacted at Chris- tie's recently, although the chief actor in it played his part with preternatural gravity.

Mr. Gandhi on the Rs.. 500 A Month Limit.

CONGRESS TOO GENEROUS.

Bombay, July 30. Compared with the salaries paid to public servants in Japan. the Congress limit of Rs. 500, as the maximum salary of a public servant under a Swaraj Govern- ment in India, is over-generous, says Mr. Gandhi.

He was an American youth of a sports

Reiterating his conviction on aliout twelve, clad in and he was accompanied by his the question of a reduced salary costume of many diverse colours, father, Mr. Kenyon

Swaraj Govern- Vicars scale under a Painter, of New York. The moment, Mr. Gandhi writes in to-, ment arrived when the Charles day's Young Inilla: "No item of I plain trencher salt-cellar was the fundamental right' resolu-

October 22-Golf and Bridge Tour- It was this thought that drewnament at Shek-D Club to be held by

the Muy Road Bruticit. auch large crowds to Sincere's October 1-Children's Fete and

A ten Sale of Work to be held at the volunrenched. during the past ten days. per cent, discount, which is now teer Headquarters by kind permission Aulestituted for the "Free Purchase of Lt-Cal. L. R. Bird and Ollery,

R.K.V.D.C.

tinn

The assembled silver dealers soon found that they had an op- Seher," would have, comparativeNovember 1-Bridge and Mahjong ly speaking, received little atten. Drive to be held at the HMI, by the ponent of the true hall-mark, for the bright lad immediately chal- It would be highly undesir-Military Branch.

November 21-Dinner Dance to bolonged the opening bid from their able it other firms imitated the ex- held in the new Grill arm of the

ranks. Moreover, in the most angle af by Sincere's and made Hong Kong Hotel.

approved manner, his bidding similar promises which would only

was of the silent film order. Rais- remain unfulflied, and I trust that

ing his index finger to his brow, the Company will reconsider its de

be immediately caught the eye of cision and remove what must be a

the auctioneer. Mr. Gordon Han- blat from the name of a respect able firm.

Yours, etc..

J. M. WALKER Hong Kong, September 5.

A BECALMING PSALM.

RAN. OFF WITH GOLF BALL.

A 14-year-old gipsy boy, of East- wood, Essex, was in Southend Junen-and-held it. venile Court fined' 10a. for stealing a golf ball, worth is 6., the pro- perty of Mrs. Olga Hilditch. The

latter had driven off from the seven- teenth tee at Belfairs Golf Course when a dog ran out from the trees which bounded the fairway, picked The following letter was publish-up the ball, and carried it to the ed in the Belfast News-Letter on boy, who ran away. It was stated July 25. We (Harrogate advertise. that considerable annoyance had August 13 may mention that Moi le

been caused by the thefts of golf Pin is the Chinese nome of

balls by boya. former. Harrogate resident, Mr. Chinese Im- Robert Hurt Maze,

perial Maritime Customs Service his mother, giving expression to his fear that he might catch the (retired):—

Sir,-Apropos a reference, which disease. When, the letter was re- 1 lately came across in one of your ceived, its addressee showed it to the a lady who happened to be staying English contemporaries, to number of small folk who are nervy with her. The guest advised her nowadays: "At an early age the hostess to tell her small boy to late Sir Robert Hart, Baronet, read the 91st Psalm every evening G.C.M.G., of Peking, then living in at bedtime and each morning be- the fair County of Down, went fore leaving his room, the calming us a boarder to a school in Dub-verses of which would dismiss his lin. Soon after his arrival an apprehension.-Yours, etc.,

MEI LE PIN. opidemic of measles caused him

London, July 23, 1931. dire anxiety; and he wrote home to

Was

Amused. Competitors. Every time a dealer made an advance the boy countered it with a solemnity that was irresistible. that he evident It mennt to outstay every opponent on the auction stretch. As they dropped out of the contest they sat amused to watch the fate of the rest.

tion has come in. for s much notice 9, the resolution limiting the salary of Government ser vants to not more than Rs. 500 per month,

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Entertainments.

To-day. King's Theatre; "Derelict."

بره

To-day Queen's - Theatre:

en Call It Love."

Today Central Theatre; "Up Pops The Devil,"

To-day-Majestie Theatre; Noah's Ark."

Today Star Theatre: "The 13th Chair."

To-day-Prince's Theatre; Paul Pedrini and his Royal Zambesi

Baboons.

13.

Radio.

See to-day's programme on page'

Sports.

"Had we na been accustomed

See Sports Diary on Page 4. by our foreign Government to

Home Mails. high salaries for servants in

Today Outward for Europe public departments, the limit of

(Pres. Cleveland), Rs. 500 would not have produced via Siberia

16 p.m. any shock,

Land Sales. "There is no sanctity about high salaries, The way to ex-

September B-At P.W.D. Offices, amine the justness of the Con- gress conclusion is to find the three lots of Crewn land, 3 p.m.

Lammert's Auction. proportion between the salaries

September 9-At Sales, Room, and the average income of India's millions, and, secondly, to com-household furniture, 2.30 p.m. pare both with the salaries and

Miscellaneous. the average income of other coun-. tries.

Japanese Public Service.

"I have now before me sume figures about the Japanese pub-

To-morrow-Tea. Dance, Crawford's.

MORATORIUM.

Lane,

Vital Points That May Arise.

Mr. Willson was the last to leave the fight, and at the boy's lic service, both superior and sub- WAR DEBTS AFTER finger-bid of 780s an ounce, aordinate. Its Governor-General total price of £374 88, the trophy is getting less than Rs. 1,000 was knocked down to him. The monthly, the Governor Rs. 600 to auction-clerk. Mr. 800, the Secretariat staff any- veteran Edward Smith, hastened to col- thing between Rs. 150 and Rs. lect his name, but the father, al- 500 monthly, the president of the though evidently very proud of Supreme Court less than Rs. his son's auction debut, properly 1,000, other judges anything be

tween Rs. 150 and Rs. 700. The

Two vital questions are likely to gave his own.

subordinate services get between arise once more in the near future. Rs. 250 and Rs. 300, a police ser- and the value of President Hoover's geant between Rs. 70 and Rs. 80, plan lies in the opportunity It gives The average daily income of the for consideration of them in a cain- Japanese per head is about four er and, less heated atmosphere annas. Compared, then, with than would otherwise have develop- the figures of Japan, the Rs. 500ed, states the current issue of the limit put by the Congress is over- Midland Bank monthly "Review" in generous."

an article on war debts.

When Mr. H. B. Jacobsen, of Clasgow, rushed into the street with his clothes alight, a 'bus driver went to the resetle and put out the flames with a fire extinguisher.

LAST 4 DAYS

SINCERE'S

OF

SENSATIONAL OFFER

THOUSANDS OF BARGAINS in Small Clearing Lots must be sold.

SALE CLOSES on Sept. 8th.

WE WILL HOLD A SPECIAL

Children's Day

TOMORROW

SUNDAY, SEPT. 6th.

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Many surprising attractions, on our Gardens, including free tuition of magic and exceptional values in school requisites and toys. Bring your children along to-morrow morning, to avoid the crush.

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Continuing, Mr. Gandhi writes: The more urgent question is in "No doubt the scale of living essence an extension of one which differs between the two coun-has engaged the attention of econo- tries, to a certain extent, because mista and what may be called! of the mode of life. But the politico-economists ever since the mude of life is not an abstract war: Is Europe, and Germany in term. It is relative; and, a man who has surrounded himself with artificial wants, and created con- ditions out of all proportion to the natural

particular, capable of bearing the increased burdens of war debts, in- cluding reparation, defined in monetary terms prior to the recent surroundings in calamitous decline in the price which the people of his country level? It is one thing to adduce live, can claim to exceptional consideration because of his artifacts or authentic estimates, and quite another to arrange for their flcial mode of life.

message to be translated into

"Such people, unfortunately,

we have in our midst. They will active measures of amelioration and

relief. naturally feel the pinch during

It is possible, indeed, that the the transition stage, but they will soon accommodate themselves to question might be brought to an the new and natural conditions issue by formal notice from Ger- when the maximum of Rs. 500 many of danger to-her "exchange monthly will cease to appear so and economic life" incurred by any ludicrous as it does to-day."

LOCAL SHARES."

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attempt to transfer the postponable | portion of the annuities. Such notice would furnish the pre- liminary cause .for calling a special advisory committee as pro- vided in the debt certificate of the Gernian Government.

Kong Ropes have buyers at $22.251.

Possible Revision. and sellers at $22.40 Dairy Farms remain very steady at $33.25 buyers This procedure, states the Re- with sellers asking $34.00. Hong view, seems unlikely in view of Kong Amusements are wanted at the probable suspension of "post- $26.50 for the Old shares and $28.50 ponable payments under the Hoover and $28.00 for the "A" and "B" plan, and it might therefore prove phares. Constructions have ad- necessary to raise the question in- vanced to $14.40 buyers. Lane. some other manner. The Initiative Crawfords are wanted at $7.90 for might conceivably be taken by the the Old shares but very few,are United States Government itself. coming on the market. Watsons Truc, "Mr. Hoover has explicitly reiterated his opposition to an are quiet at $18.60 nominal.

Exchange:-To-day's TT rate cellation of debts due to us." on London la -/11 and on Nevertheless, some revision might Shanghal 79.

be accomplished, without modifica- Forward Settlement Days: 28th tion of this principio, in a manner September, 27th October, and 24th that would benefit the ultimate. November, 1931..

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SOLE AGENTS:

If, for example, the rate of in- terest on the debt of the British to the United States Government were Sir Edward Clarke, the famous substantially reduced, the direct to Britain would be' KC. of Peterhouse, Staines, loft benefit £89,429, with net personalty passed on, under agreement, pari passu to our own debtors, and Ger- £80,895. He left: 42:

The freehold of Peterhouse (sub many might be relieved to the ex- feet to his wife's occupation for so, tent of a few millions sterling per long as she should wish to use it) annum. Some such plan as, this to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners would have the additional ad- upon trust for use as a vicarage vantage of according with the for the parish of St. Peter's. American principle, now restated Staines, or otherwise to apply it to by the President, that "reparation the increase of the endowment of is necessarily wholly a European the parish church. 1) avodart problem with which we have not s

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