1934-03-15 — Page 13

THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.

THE CHINA MAI

BRITISH SILVER IN

P.& 0.-British India SOUTH AFRICA

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT,

CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

*ALIPORE

CHITRAL **DURDWAN

I

From

110

Than Hong Kims

About

1934.

Destination.

6,300 18th Mar. S'pore, Penang, Colombu & Bombay,

Marseilles & London.

18.00

24th Mar.

6,000 81st Mar.

16.000 16,000 19th May 6,000 20th May

Effect Of Withdrawal From Currency

AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT:

Cape Town

Full particulars of the position caused by the withdrawal of Bet: {tigh silver; "from «eurrency: In the Union are given in the annual re- port of the Auditor-General:

The total value of allver colti which was withdrawn and received at the Pretoria branch of the Royal Mint up to March 31, is stated to be £1,436,797. The cost of withdrawal, charged during the year to the Mint Silver Bullion Account amounted to £16,037, of which £7,251 was paid to the commercial banks as commission..

For all British coin delivered to [the Mint an equivalent amount of Union allver coin will be issued to the banks with the exception - of | £500,000, the amount ́agreed upon between the Treasury and the banks as being surplus to the re- Jquirements of the country.

Redemption of British Coln This amount has been withdrawn- from circulation, and the face value has been refunded to the banks and charged against a special provision

Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, on the loan cetimates in the 'pro-]

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Hull,

Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

Bombay, Marseilies, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

Marieilles & London.

6th May Bombay Marseilles & London.

Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

AANGHI

17,000

ARTHAGE

**SOMALI

7th Apr. 16.000 21st Apr. 15,000 28th Apr.

NALDERA

CORPU

BANGALORE

MANTUA

RAWALPINDI 1.BHUTAN

20,000 2nd June 17,000 16th June 6,000 23rd June

ISAR--HIND **REHAR

1,000 30th June

6,100

7th July

**BEHAR

6,000

RAJPUTANA

17,000

+*SOUDAN

9,700

7th July

14th July 21 July

"KIDDERPORE

- DO

portion of £190,000 to the South African Reserve Bank, £190,000 to Barclays Bank, and £120,000 to the! Standard Bank.

President Taft Hits Whale.

* San Francisco,. ^ With a terrifc impact, the Dollar lizer, President · Taft, bound for New York from San Francisco, struck a giant whale about 1,027 miles north-west of Balbos.. The whale can be seen on the surface at the bow of the liner a moment after the collision. The liner's wireless operator The bost trembled vio- messaged. I thought we hit a rock. lently, and the passengers all ran out on deck". The whale ap peared stunned after the shock and remained on the surface, forc ing the President Taft to reverse and detour around it.

ST. PATRICK'S BALL

Official Programme For Tomorrow

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

President Liners

S.S. "PRES. MCKINLEY"

will sail for '.

SEATTLE & VICTORIA via

Shanghai and Japan

AT 10.00 P.M. FRIDAY, MARCH 16."

S.S. "PRES. COOLIDGE"

will mail for

MANILA

AT 9,00 PM. FRIDAY, MARCH 16.

A MADISON SQUARE S.S. "PRES. MONROE"

ARABIAN NIGHT

¿Continued from Page 12.)

"No, no," said Chalmers; earnert- ly, "you interest me very much Did all your portraits, reveal some unpleasant trait, or were there some that did not suffer from the ordeal of your peculiar brush?"

The British Government hasi

The official programme for St. agreed to redeem the whole of the Patrick's Ball, which takes place British silver coin, without distinc-to-morrow evening at the Penin-

"Some? Yes," said. Plumer] tion between various finenessce, sula Hotel, commences at 9.20 p.m., "Children generally, a good many For a period of three years the

when the President, Vice-Pre-women and a sufficient number of amount to be redeemed is not to sidents, and Past President will as-men, All people aren't bad, you exceed $100,000 a year face value.j. semble at the main entrance of the know. When they were all right Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

After three years the question of Peninsula Hotel to receive H.E. the pictures were all right. As I Hult.

expediting the rate of redemption The Governor's party who will ar-sald, I don't explain it, but I'm Bumbay, Marseilles & London. will be examined. No arrangement rive at 9.30 p.m. At 9.30 p.m. the telling you facts."

has yet been made with the British Reception Committee will assemble Hamburg. Rotterdam. Antwern Government regarding any por-all other official guests at the dels the photograph that he had received On Chalmer's writing-table lay Hull. Bombay, Marseilles. Havre, burg. tion of British silver coin not re-in the Bail Room, and at 9.40 H.E. that day in the foreign mail Tem Rotterdum, Antwerp & Hull. patriated but used for re-minting The Governor and party will be minutes later he had Plumer at] Bambay, Marseilles & London,

into Union silver coin. Bombay Marselles, Havre, London

Apart from the melting of coin Elsie Lane will

piped into the Ball Room. Miss work making a sketch from it in Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp &

then present partels. At the end of an hour the Hull.

in 1932-33 of a face value of sprigs of shamrock..

artist rose and stretched wearily. 6,300 14th Apr S'pore, Penang, Calambo, Bombay £100,000, a further amount to a face

Karachi.

The Official Guests will be, HE. "It's done," he yawned. "You'll value of £475,989 had been re-mint-The Governor and Lady Peel, H.E.exctise me for being so long. I got ed during the year.-Reuter.

Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London

*Cargo only. † Calls Cablanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- tantinople, Piresus, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.

#TILAWA

BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS.

+*SANTHIA

TAKADA

SIRDHANA

TALMA

+ Calla Rangoon.

10,000 17th Mar,

10.30a.m..

8,000 lat Apr.

7,000 15th Apr. 8,000 29th Apr. 10,000 18th May

& Rangoon

Singapore, Penang.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Calcutta.

DO

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Call Port Swettenham.

T

FRANCE'S MEN OF

J

THE MOMENT

(Continued from Page 81

but

Major General 0. C. Borrett and Interested in the job. Lord! Mrs. Borrett, His' Lordship the I'm tired. No bed last night, you Chief Justice Mr. Justice Mac-] know. Guess it'll have to be good- Gregor and Mrs. MacGregor, Mr. night now, 0 Commander of the M. J. Quist, Commodore F. Elliott, Faithful!"

in the fall.

(and 'Mrs. Elliott The Hon. Sir. Chalmers went as far as the door Thomas Southorn and Lady Sou- (with him and slipped some bills into thorn, Professor F. A. Redmond his hand.

"Oh I'll take 'em," said Plumer. In the sound and fury of yester-and Mrs, Itedmond Mrs. Moore, The day, before Domergue came to the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Mrs. "All that's included rescue, Herriot and Blum were Alabaster. The Hon. Mr. E. Taylor Thanks. And for the very good

and Mrs. Taylor, the Hon. Mr. R. | dinner. I shall sleep. whispered, but not

on feathers 80 loudly as Tardieu. In many

M. Henderson and Mrs. Henderson, to-night and dream of Bagdad.. }; ways Tardieu looks like the man, but I do not the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and hope it won't turn out to be a dream B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for think he has earned the love of the Lady Pollock, the Hon. Sir Williams in the morning. Farewell, most ar

people by being the great oppor-Shenton and Miss Y. Shenton, the cellent Caliph!"

Hon. Sir William Hornell, the Hon. Again Chalmers paced restlessly tunist, and the U.S.A. fan of polí..

Sir Shou-son Chow, Mr. and Mrs, upon his rug. But his best lay as tics, who says "Sure" instead of EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, "Yes," and makes large statements Shields, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ear from the table whereon lay the to the effect that he has no wife or ford, Mrs. Scott Harston, Mr. B. H. permit. Twice, thrice," he tried to Thomas, Lady Thomson, Mrs. Hos-pastel sketch as the room.would children because his life is dedicate C Hallowes and Mr. F, P. R. approach it, but failed. He could to France.

James. 7,000 80th Kar.

But you have to throw down this 7,000 4th May. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & eort of copper coinage un the poli

Dance Music 7,000 2nd Jana

Melbourne. 7.000 30th June

Lacal counter, and Tardieu has the The dance programme will com 7,000 2rd Ave.

jadvantage of the label "brilliant" mence at 9.30 with the well known He was a journalist before the war. song-hit Shuffle off to Buffalo, fol-

1st and 2nd class passengers.

NANKIN NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN NELLORE

1934.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and JapaxClemenceau's lieutenant and Hong Kong to Australia.

see the dun and gold and brown of the colours, but there was a wall, about it built by his fears that kept him at a distance. He sat down and tried to calm himself. He sprang up and rang for Phillips.

a soldier for part of it, and lowed by Sweetheart Darlin' Lent

There is a young artist in this at Vert Heavenly, Erinalia, Wearin' of sailles. He is a Parisian, and has the Green, Hornpipe, Gypsey building," he said, a Mr. Reine- been Prime Minister twice His Fiddles Elleon Alannah, Three man do you know which is his Frequent connections from Australia with the following The Union 9.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom in New Just Ministry fell in 1982, and since Wishes, Thanks, The Mountains of apartment?".

"Top floor, front, sir," said Phillips.

"Go up and ak him to favour me with his presence here for a few

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The F. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

that date he has been dormant; but Mourne, The Day you came Along, The went to Italy in 1933 and came Forty Second Street, Father The New Zealand Shipping Company's teamers for Southampton and back bursting with admiration for OFlynne, Jig, Did You Ever See A

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamere to London via Suce.

London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

*SOMALI..

CARTHAGE

TARADA NELLORE NALDERA SIRDHANA

BANGALORE

CORRE

•ВЕНАВ

NANKIN

SOUDAN TILAWA

1956.

6,800 21st Mar, 15,000 28rd® Mar. 7,000 23rd Mar,

2000 5th Apr 16,000 6th Apr.

$6,000 12th

will sail for

EUROPE & AMERICA via Suezz' AT 8.00 AM. SATURDAY, MARCH 17.

DOLLAR

STEAMSHIP

LINES

AMERICAN

MAIL

LINE

PEDDER BUILDING, HONG KONG. CANTON BRANCH ~~~ NO. 4, SHAKEE ROAD,

BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE

MONTHLY - SERVICE.

TO Panama

Pacific San Francisco ~·~· Balboa (Panama) Los Angeles

M.S.

оп

Cristobal (Colon)

Next Sailing

Atlantic New York Boston

"TAI YANG” MARCH 18th

Excellent Accommodation for 12 Passengers,

DODWELL & CO., LTD

Queen's Buildings.

Agents.

Telephone 28021.

KAIPING COAL

FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE.

HOME

FACTORY

AND

BUNKERS

Beineman⠀⠀ came" at, once: Chal-

the Mussolinl regime. He may be Dream Walking, Im Young and no dictator, but he has no respect Healths, Blievenamon and closes for democratic machinery unless it with the National Anthem, fulls its purpose.

A special programme of music mers introduced himself, has been arranged during the "Mr. Reineman," said he, "there Marchal Foch's Advice

buffet supper, which will be served is a little pastel sketch on yonder Among the other ex-Premiers from 11,15 p.m. to 12:45 am, the table. I would be glad if you will who are expected to squash them-Items, sing. Brien Boru, Sheamus give me your opinion of it as to its selves into power are Laval, as O'Brien, Killarney, Lily of actatic merits and as a picture. Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokobama.clate in the news with Tardieu, Killarney, Londonderry Air, Song The young artist advanced to the Shanghai, Moji, Kobe 4 Yokohama, and Barthou, an old associate of o' My Heart, The Shamrock O'Don- table and took up the sketch.” Chil Amay, Shai, Moll, Kobe Ou

Ouka. Poincare's as Minister of Justice nell Abu, Irish Reel Medley and mers half turned away, S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama

upon the back of a chair jund" ✨ a pre-war Prime, Minister, Hills of Donegales

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Mel Kobe & Dula

8,000 5 LAPICE

Shanghal, Moj, &

Apr

"1.000" "6th May 0.100 18th May 17,000 176 MAY 4,100 30th May 7,000,- And: June €700 12th June 16,000 1th May

Shala Kabel Kobe Yokohama When last in offes he was consider Special Corries will be run at 116

Kabe

Yokoham

Mo Shai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohams, 107. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. E Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Moj, Kobe & Tokohama, Shaughal, Kobe 4 Yokohama. Amoy, S’hai, Moll, Kobe à Oraka,

requ

and

ed excellently sound and safe.m., 1.45 2.10, and 2.30 2.m., while asked slowly,

Daladier,” Chautempa, - Barraut, the Peak tram will run Paul-Boncour, Poincare, Bleag, Mil-intervals. lerand, and Marsal would also, aur- port.... Doumarguo if peeded. But| Daladier and hautempa can hardly

"reconstructión: hap Gallaux, who was

be the

aning

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DODW

LIQUOR RUNNERS PURSUED

Thrilling Chase For

Thirty

TRANSVAAL POLIC

باد

POWER

HOUSE,

TUGS &

MINISTRATION,

Ha, Hong Kong.

50 miles an hour

They re

police

time at 65 mlk

to