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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1931.

Our Spokesmen.

stabilisation

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17,

series of extreme insanitary dist- According to a Router message bina

from Washington, the Italian How differently they do these Foreign Minister, Signor Grandl,]

there things in Vienna, I reflected. Here arrived

yesterday, Was is à point on which London's local welcomed by Mr. Stimson and im

conducted to White anthocltics need have no shame in mediately aecepiting a hint from their Aus-House. trian friends.

"CHEUNG CHAU NOTES

[From Our Own Correspondent.

Monday

A very successful "Retroat"? béen held during the past the days at house No. 10. The beg In Vienna every house must be

According to a Router message ning was, unfortunate As far provided with its quota of dustbins apecially designed to a standard pat- Danish Minister to

from Copenhagen, Von Kauffmann, weather was concorned. The for

China and topped running owing, to the T tern with sliding lids. Each morn Japan, is replacing Von Olden- phoon, so the majority of the party ing there tours the city a magniburg, Danish Minister at Oslo, were unable to come out on Wednes- ficent motor "train" of tank wag-who is succeeding Von Bernhoft, day evening nor on the early ferry, gons tightly closed save for a long Danish Minister in Paris, who has but they chartered the Sun Chow, line of sliding lids on either side.

been appointed Director of the after she arrived at 9 M.m. The dustman seizes your bin.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. hitches it on to a special hook, up- tilts it, and the lids on bin and waggon now -pressed tightly to gether open, and later clone, simul- taneously.

THE ROMANCE OF HELIUM.

The contents of the bin have been transferred to the waggon. That

moment is all. At no particle be free to fly about the spectroscope,

streets.

The Viennese. Way.

one

more

About 16 missionaries (clergy. doctors And teachers) from various misalona took part either дн leaders in the various sessions or in the discussion that followed. Some members had to leave before the final meeting,

Discovered in the sun by the but all agreed that the meetings

before man

had werd very helpful and well worth seen or handled it; regarded for while. Similar gatherings will be years as a mere laboratory curio arranged in the future. The speak sity, after it had been found on era were the Rev. G. McNour (New earth; helium is now in full-Zealand Mission), Dr. Utley, the Vienna. I imagine, pays

the Rev. attention to this question of street fledged activity as a necessity of Rev. Carpenter, C.M.S.,

Shoop. United Brethren, Mr. Simp- cleanliness than any other city in industry.

That the United States has a son, and 'Rev. Halward. Europe. The man who drops a

On Saturday there was a further piece of paper in the street readers helium monopoly was pointed

¡influx of visitors. About 50, stu- out at the time of the R-101 himself liable, if observed by a policeman, to an immediate fine of disaster. The airship would not dents of the True Light Seminary

arrived on have exploded and burned, it was

the 6 a.m. ferry and two achillinga. `-

Other still more offensive habits thought, had non-inflammable spent the day in the vicinity of No. are dealt with yet more severely. helium supplied its buoyancy in-

stead of inflammable hydrogen. Some of the "Retrent" party loft And no bad thing, either.

Alphonse Berget recounts its by boat to make for "Lantau Camp" remarkable history in Candide where they were to stay over night. The rest of the party and the the 4 p.m. atudente returned on total

ferry. The French

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Belleve It or Not,

A correspondent sends me the (Paris), thus: following story:

In 1868 there was a

"A Viennese was out for a walk eclipse of the sun. in his native city when he dropped astronomer Janssen examining a a piece of paper on the payement.photograph of the spectrum of A polite policeman approached, cere- the solar corona, found a new the spectral line, indicating the pre- moniously saluted, and, in

demanded the

suavest

manner,

title earned by the victor

persons

of

+

6.

Dr. and Mrs. Clift are now reald- ing in Kowloon.

MR. K. K. STAPLE..

FUNERAL.

The funeral of Mr. Kenneth-

sence of a hitherto unknown ele-| statutory two schillings for the ment. He gave to this substance

the namic "helium" (sun-) "Is it desirable in the in-offence.

substance). terests of the Colony that the "The offender complied, received |

Years passed. About 1882, value of the dollar be stabilis the policeman's receipt for the

money, and walked away. Absent-9ome American scientists dis- ed? If so, can any effective mindedly, alaal he screwed up the covered that the mineral cle- steps be taken to that end?" official receipt into a ball and threw veite, from Greenland, gave off, Kingsley Staple, of the firm of "Having carefully rend the it away. Once more the guardian when heated, what appeared to Messrs. Palmer & Turner, who was be nitrogen British scientists killed in a tragicmotor amah on of Vienna's law approached; an- found that this gas had in its Sunday morning, took place at the local Committee's report. In their enquiry into the cur--

other salute, out came the notebook,

spectrum a yellow ray we have derived and two

cor. Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley more schillings changed rency problem of the Colony from which

sent out valuable help," the Home Com-hands!"-Peterborough in the Daily responding exactly. with that of last evening.

Janssen's helium.

"The service the Commission

was performed by Helium was thus no longer a the Rov, G. T. Waldegrave, by the Secretary of State for mission divides the problem into Telegraph,

monoboly of the sun. Once dis- Among those present were the Colonics appears to have had three main parts. It falls into Luck of the Pendrells.

covered on the earth, it appear-Messrs. H. J. Tebbutt, J. L MC- The Nelson pension of £5,000 a ed everywhere in rocks, in Pherson, A. Morris, L. E. Long- quite an easy task. It was arm-the trup set it by the local Com- ed, first of all, with the report of mittee by placing the first not year, still paid to the holder of the hot springs, and even in the air, bottom, J. H. Bottomley, H.. Overy, in infinitesimal quantities. W. S. Drake, W. Pryde, J. M. Jack, the local Currency Committee the last!-part where it was fifth

of Trafalgar, is not the old-

This helium is a remarkable T, G. Stokes, P. T. Farrell, A. E. pension for special ser- appointed exactly twelve months in the local Committee's set est

gas. Together with hydrogen it Silkstone, L. J. Blackburn, G. T. queations:---

vices which has been hand-

is the busia of what has been Taylor, J. Gardner, O. A. Smith, before. That local Committee, it

"Whether it would be desired on from father to son. Scattered called the "integration of mat- A. F. Paul, B. Pasco, B. C. Randall, the may be recalled, settled

around the world are about forty ter." The nebulae of space are A. E. Clarke, C. S. Coombs, C. able to change the basis of a. whole issue before hearing

who receive pensions as made of atoms of hellum, hydro- Champkin, F. A. Mackintosh, Capt. Hong Kong currency from descendants the family of serap of evidence by declaring

silver to gold, popularly called foresters who hid Charles II. gen and a gas yet unknown on Thomas, and Capt. Gelli,

earth, called "nebulium." It. is publicly against

Wreaths were sent by Hia Sor- stabilisation."

Reven times lighter than air and rowing Wife, Joan; Isa: Johp.. After its preliminary meeting on

battle of Worcester. Fifty pounds only twice as heavy as hydrogen. Hugh and Bert; Maude and Mac: Thus three learned jurors is sent Across the Atlantic Its liquefaction point is very Rita and Francis; Billie, and many April 7, 1980, it was announced

two all the way from London and every year to George Pen close to the absolute zero. that

friends, Masonic bodies and other When radium spontaneously institutions and firms, "The meeting was unani- one all the way from South drell, who is a retired laundry

owner, and Dr. Francis E. Walker, decomposes it gives off three found it delightfully of St. John's, Newfoundland, re-kinds of rays, of which the first, mously agreed in the opinion Africa that no reason had hitherto apeasy to endorse the verdict of ceives £10 a year on the same acor. "alpha raya,are atoms of peared to show that the use the local jurors at the latter's count, George Pendrell is 77, and helium. It is thus an important by Hong Kong of a currency preliminary meeting. They de his pension will pass to his eldest term in the atomie disaggrega- son, then to his grandson, aged 16- tion of matter, as it is in its in- based on any other metallic cide against immediate stabilisa- Should both these, die there are tegration. When we find hydro- Some people have to make n dié. standard of value than that tion and, still imitating the pro- three more sons ready to keep the gen and helium in a nebula we play of their unreasonableness be- prevailing in the neighbouring cedure of the local jurors, give pension alive in the main branch of are observing a world in forma fore they will listen to reason.

the Pendrell family,

tion, and these two essential ele- country of China would be warning to be prepared for

The charter establishing this pen-ments under the action of un- anything but detrimental to stabilisation if and when China sion is in the safe of a Wolverhamp-imaginable temperatures and "goes gold." Not at all convincing! ton solicitor but it should be made pressures, will give birth to all the interests of the Colony

clear that the funds from which the the atoms of the known chemi- The meeting at which this de- The tendency of the day

money comes are not provided by cal elements. cision was unanimously reached from the temporary lapse on the the State but by a perpetual charge

Helium, for thirty years a ought to have been the first and part of the British and other on the land in the neighbourhood

Boscobel oak atood. scientific rarity, is to-day an in- dustrial substance. It has been last. What judge or jury desires Governments is directly to where tha

Richard Pendrell, who was buried found ward stability of exchange, na-in St. Giles-in-the-Fields was the

in natural gas, and by to call evidence after solemnly

tional and

and international. That frat recipient of the pansion, and liquefying this, the Americans delivering judgment? Yet three

The funeral of Mr. William to inflate their giant dirigibles, George Lay, Commissioner of months were spent calling wit-tendency is bound by the process the income is distributed now by prepare it in sufficient quantities

P

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apart

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after the

To-day's Thought.

Ten Years Ago,

[From the "China Mail" of November 17, 1921)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%.

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nesses, taking up the val- of economic evolution to become the trustee of the King Charles because of its uninflammability. Customs, whose death at the Peak

estate. Manchester Guardian.

News in Brief.

The

The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 68 degrees. humidity was 64 at 10a.m. ad

at 4 p.m!

69

meeting of the local Committee. leaders..And, instead of a evening, left the place without tak obstruct the circulation. The

Helium has another applica- Hospital was reported yesterday, able time of Government stronger instead of weaker as

tion in "artificial air." Air is took place. at the Protestant officials and heads of mercantile the years roll by: and any na-

composed, roughly speaking, of Cemetery, Happy Valley, yesterday one-fifth active oxygen and four-evening, when many attended to firms, and preparing and print- tion or Dominion or Colony that ing the report to the Govern- refuses to read the signs of the

fifths inert nitrogen. Workmen pay their last tribute. The prin- who labour in caissons of com-cipal mourners were Mr. A. H. Lay, ment. It is, therefore, not dif- lines must be content to be left ficult to imagine that the Home in the rut. World opinion must

Pressed air breathe it at high pres-(son), unders were Mr. A. H. L sure. When they return to the (brother-in-law). inevitably and ultimately force

open air, they have trouble owing Commission

immediately was

China to "go gold" in spite of Four robbers, who entered the to the fact that the compressed ewayed by this unanimous deci

bubbles when released, and nay: sion reached at the preliminary the scruples of her financial Chuen Lal candy factory yesterday air, dissolved in the blood, forms

ing anything but stabbed a woman "Thrice armed is he who gets powerful British Colony giving according to a report made, to the troublesome constituent is the nitrogen. Now by replacing this his blow in firat.” - The local Ching the lead, it will be in the Police

with the less soluble hellum, the humiliating

ating position of being anti-stabilisers delivered that

The brutal murder of a Chinese danger is averted in great mea- powerful blow

led. That is the whole moral of woman at Sung. Wong Tol Hill, sure. within a few minutes of their first meeting to the Currency Commission's Te Kowloon City, on September 12 was consider details of the proce-port in a nutshell, dure to be followed in the con- duct of their enquiry! Was over a jury heard to proclaim: "The man in the dock, is guilty—give ..us now the evidence on both

sides"?

The last of five questions sub mitted to the local Committer

WAS!

From Other Pens.

Vienna for Cleanliness,

Mias Renee Adorac, the film

rocalled yesterday afternoon when Mr. Fraser conducted an enquiry. The Coroner returned a verdict of

murder, by person or persons un-actress, is reported to have passed the crisis of her long illness, which known bowyobatas,

Was due to a pulmonary ailment. But several monthe must elapse | before she will be able to leave the

nursing home at Hollywood.

1ersonal Pars. Torning the corner in a Waste) or walla GERM end, Strbat early one morning, I was) · Mr. M. St John Hall, Manager. smothered in a cloud of dust and of the British Americau Tobacco rubbish from a refuse cart collect Co., returriad by the 6.5. Presideçt 'Ing its unsavoury burdòn from a Lincoln:",

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