1934-11-17 — Page 9

STEADY MARKET

ADVANCE SEEN

Wall Street Expert's Prediction

BOND PRICES DECLINE

According

New York, To-day.

to advice received

through the United Press, a lead- ing Wall Street authority predicts: there will be a steady advance in the market for the balance af 1934 und the early part of 1935.

A decline in high grade Bond prices is also forecasted.

Favourable factors yesterday were that Pittsburgh steel scrap advanced 25 cents a ton and that other districts expect higher prices, and that the directors of the United States Chamber of Com-1 merce mel yesterday to discuss methods for aiding in the economic recovery of the country and assis- ting President Roosevelt against the Left Wing party in Congress.

Ал unfavourable factor that the weekly bank clearings .totalled U.S.$3,860,276,000

буде

$0

against U.S.$4,327,134,000 last year. SE Levy And Company's Report In their market report, Messrs. S. E. Levy and Company, corres. pondents for Messrs. White. Weld and Company. New York atate:

"Stocks: The Gold Bloc disturb ances are still causing a weakness in Gold shares with the Canadian: and London markets as wilded fac Lory. Though further gelling is likely we would consider the leading stock in the group as favourable for investment rather than speculation.

Industrial shares would seem to have gone high enough and we would be inclined to wait some reaction. Business done:-1,030,000 shures.

"Bonds: U:S. Government's Bonds] and high grade issues remain quiet but better. Second grades were slightly lower.

"Grains: The market was strong. The tightening of Cash premiums

in all markets and the December

situation were main factora. We

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1934

Sous of three famous Americans are beginning their college days to- gether at Harvard. L. to R.; Randal Hearst, John Roosevelt, Seward 8. Brisbane. Hearst is the fourth son (one of twins) of the publisher; Roosevelt is the youngest son of the President, and Brisbane is the son of the noted editor.

Lighter Side Of Old Bailey

Some Queer Judges And Sentences

MIDDLE TEMPLE DINNER

To-day's Short Story.

Professor Boynton By Edith

Re-reads History

Mirrielees

T ten-minutes before twelve, "Where on earth do they get it?"

According to his daily cure Boynton wondered briefly, sick"

tom, Professor Boynton got up for the Parkere had a definite mean- from his study table, stretchedjing. "I thought she was sent up Hifa arms vigorously once or for a cure of some kind last month?" twice above his early grey hend, "I thought so, too, but she got and strolled out through the off. But what I started to say was open door of his study to the this: he went out through the back verunda. At its farther. end his entry, and when I looked, your gar- daughter Helen was sitting beden coat was gone. He was the tween two of her high-school only person here. classmates, all three surrounded kill that old scoundrel one of

by a sea of hooks and note-books these days," Boynton threatened, and scattered papers.

more amused than angry, **I like "Why didn't you ever have me that coat. I wonder if Thornley'd learn any history when I was little, mind getting it back for me." father?" she reproached him, as he He went in to the telephone and came up the porch. "When you found the number. used to teach it—”

Boynton let himself down into "Pro-

the hammock behind her. bably that's why. Whether you teach it or whether you write it.

you find out how much of it isn't What's the examination this

80.

time?"

"She isn't giving an examination; it'e a question we're to write on for Monday.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Creaking Gate," by W. Humphreys.

"Thornley? "In your opinion,

This is

Boynton

A

what has Magna Charta given to speaking. Thornley, Parker stole a West Brookins? She means, what's coat from me this morning.

brown one.... lasted that we get out of it,”

Yea. Yes, I} "She's chosen a good place to put knew they'd been at it again.. Mrs. the question," Boynton commented. Thornley told us. If he's over "Now if she were teaching in San there working on your lawn, I won- Francisco, and trying to find what der if you'd mind telling him to fragments they still bad What leave the cost there till I can get are you deciding?"

it? He can't have had time to do "We haven't finished yet, but anything with it yet.

And you there are three things What is might mention to him, too, that if it, mother?"

he sets foot on my place again, I' save expense and shoot him

Mrs. Boynton had been putting last touches on the lunch table in-sight.. Last time it was my beat! side. She came to the door now.

trowel..... Oh, over in Brookins, "Nothing. Only I wanted to tell suppose. You know what law en- Edward, forcement amounts to over there.... your father something. Parker hasn't done a thing toward Yes, she's worse than he is." getting that wall down. He came He came back laughing to the Jover to say Mrs. Parker was sick porch.

and he couldn't. Mrs. Thornley

"Now, there's a question, Helen,

would advise the transfer of Decem- The dinner in the Middle take none at all, and for years says they were chasing each other that Magna Charta didn't settle. ber Grains to May options. Total Temple Hall on November 1 to worked for nothing. He holds the around and screaming half the When it comes to a town like this, sales:-Wheat: 30,426,000 bushels, celebrate the centenary of the record for the shortest summing night, last night,"

lots.

(Continued on Page fi.

TANGSHAN ARMY MANOEUVRES

tory of the Old Bailey in the last

Baron Park's Mannerisme

TU

TAXATION RELIEF

90 per cent. of it law-abiding, home- owning professionals, having to stagger along with neighbours like

the Parkers You young people

staying to lunch?”

IN SUIYUAN

They were near the end of the meal when Mrs. Boynton, who, was Overdue Sums Allowed racing the open door, motioned

To Lapse

try.

Corn 19,894,000 bushels.

Central Criminal Court must up, which he uttered when a pri "Cotton: The market remain dull. have been one of the most resoner. who was defending himself Amarkable gatherings of legal anded a long speech with the re "Spot" markets are firming. technical rally is expected after the luminaries London has seen, for mark, "I have nothing more December liquidation is over." figures famous in the Old Bailey's (add." "Nor I," said Kerr and,

Rubber: The market remained past, like Lord Reading and Lord turning to the jury, anid, "Con unchanged. Technical and funda-Daring, were to have mingled kider your verdict."

through it. the But bis bullying attitude to- mental conditions are sounder and with the Lord Chancellor

"Look, Edward! It's both

of and the wards the Bar once brought on his a constructive view is justified for Lord Chief Justice.

a tremendous retort. He As a means of relief to the them." the long pull, Total sales:-252 majority of the King's Bench head

taxes: which Outside, the two Parkers, the off- judges and others engaged in the testily asked a lawyer named War- farmers, all land administration of criminal jus-burton-Pyke why he called himself were not paid in Suiyuan pro-cial derelicts of West Brookins, were tice, full reports of which occa-thus. "Because it is my name," vince during 1928 and 1929 will coming waveringly along the pave- sion have not yet come to hand replied the lawyer, "but may I ask not now be collected, according ment, arm in arm. Three or four the after-dinner talk on this oc- when you are a "Kur?"

Fortunately for the prospects of why you call yourself a "Kair" to instructions issued by the small boys derided safely from a

Ministries of Finance and Indus-distance.

It was the boys Boynton saw first. jension there is plenty in the his-

This step has been taken to He got up instantly. But the queerest judge who ever assist the farmers who have been "Oh, come, we can't have that! 100 years that is entertaining, not in the accidental way that pro- presided in an Old Bailey court seriously affected during recent Why, he's a man as old as. I am! years owing to the depression She's going round to the back. duces "laughter la court," but must have been Baron Park, of from the old Old Bailey's manners, whose mannerisms several stories and floods. However, the back Cara. You head her off and I'll go

lare told. For one thing it was his payments for the years 1930 to down and speak to him.""". The Japanese garrison at regulations, and characters." Tangshan, the mining town on

the present date will be collected Parker had turned in behind the practice to repeat, aloud evidence Central Criminal Court as he was taking it down, and to by instalments.

hedge with which the Boyntons the Peking-Mukden line, held

To touch on the last-named first, make audible remarks about it.

were replacing a partly torn down military their two-day

brick wall. Behind it, he was out oeuvres recently, and when in-when the Central Criminal Court Once when he was trying a man

of sight from the house, and re fantry and machine-gun units began to function on October, 1994, for stealing faggots-the sort of moved out of Tangshan over an one of the judges was Serjeant offence for which an Old Bailey!

membering the three girls at the William Arabia, whose sayings and judge in his time would give B SON-

table, Boynton hurried with the area of several miles.

Gun fire was heard for several manner of speech were so, uncon-tence of five years he mumbled, The recent emergency relief charitable purpose of saving him miles around Tangshan during sciously funny that a lawyer who "One faggot is as much like an manoeuvres held by the Chinese the embarrassment of an audience. took a short-hand note of them other faggot as one egg is like an police and military forces in

"Where's that coat, Parker?" he published them in a privately cr other egg, and this was dexter- Shanghai will be repeated during demanded, as he came into hearing. culated book called "Arabiniania." ously incorporated by defending severe cold weather this winter. "What coat, Mr. Boynton?"MY The British Museum has a copy of counsel into his speech.

"Now, look here," Boynton or dered, with exasperation, "you

Japanese Hold 2-Day

Exercises

the manoeuvres.

man-

FRESH DEMANDS ON NANKING

Hupeh Seeks Monthly Grant Of $300,000

this book, so had the late Sir "Stop, stop!" cried Park, who

Arabia's Summing-Up

Here are two specimens of Arabin's summing-up in 1884-

EMERGENCY RELIEF IN SHANGHAI

Harry Poland, but there must be was very fond of saying he was judge) you stand convicted on the know what coat as well as I do. very few, if any, other coples ex-"Christian" judge. This is the most conclusive evidence of a Haven't you just come from Thorn- tent. Significantly, the author ap-inter-position of Providence. The crime of inexpressible atrocity-aley's? Didn't he tell you I said I'd pends to each quotation a note, same thought occurred to me. The crime which defiles the sacred finish you if, you came - near this "anto prandial" or "post prandial," case cannot go on "n

springs of domestic confidence, and place again without bringing it Fresh demands are being made alluding, of course, to the dinners Much has been written of the is calculated to strike alarm in the back? If you haven't It ———-” on the Central Government fol- which the judges had during the terror which the Old Bailey foren- breast of every Englishman who "I don't know about no coat, Mr. lowing the order issued from evening sessions of the bad old sle style was to prisoners and wit invests largely In the choicer vint-Boynton. I don't know what you're Nanking that the provinces daya.

nesses, but this generation at any tages of Southern Europe, etc. talking about. Mr. Thornley, he should abolish all illegal and

rate can see its funny side."?

In a matter on which the Old came out an' said somethin', but I exorbitant levies.

"Look," Bald Montagu Williams, Bailey used to pride itself exceed- didn't know. most brilliant of the rantere, "looks ingly, namely, its regard for The sentence went unfinished. Law is founded on common at these men in the witness box technicalities, there is something Boyston, facing the speaker from sense, and those who take it for the cunning of the cat teeming which to us seems merely funny. A the other side of the pile of bricks, their guide in matters of facts and from the eyes of the one, the ofly court which in all other ways load had turned his eyes away in a sort plain sense will generally come to soft, serpent-like treachery of deed the dice terribly against the pri-of vicarious shame at his protesta lan ultimate conclusion; and all ceit trickling from the mouth of soner would let him go Instantly if tions. As the words broke off, he property depends upon particular the other. That was the there happened to be a flaw in the was conscious of something, he circumstances. If this had not sort of rhetoric the Old Bailey indictment. If the prosecutor or a hardly knew what a kind of con- Two cases of alphtheris and been marked there would have revelled in. "Splendid, Monty, witness were named "John and cussion, a sense of violent distur three cases of typhoid fever were been no mark on it. (R. v. Mahony, splendid, said Ballantine once his proper name was James," the bance to which there was yet at

dge would give an immediate tached no movement, reported in the Colony during the Nov. 28, 1884, Pastiprandial). when Williams had finished his 24 hours ended November 15.7 And here i Arabia scolding a speech. If only the jury will mis

The Hupeh Provincial Govern- ment is now short of. funds and has petitioned Nanking for monthly grant of $800,000,

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

woman witness-

tako perspiration for inspiration

The Diocesan Cathechetical Com You come bare with your heads you will score mission's prize distribution will in false wigs. If you can't speak tal. And the Jury often did

Solemn

Nor car

take place at St. Joseph's College, out I will take off your bonnet; if Kennedy Road, on Tuesday at 4.80 that won't do, you will take your p.m. The Right Reverend H. cap off; and if you don't speak out solemni Valtorta will present the prizes," then I will take your hair off.

The R.M.8. Empress of Asia which leaves Nagasaki on Jund "will arrive in the Colony on-

Lawyer's Rebuke Commissioner Kerr teresting than

court and out of court. increase in salary, he

galloping acquit

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Avery

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the bar

The man in

Anda upsbis jury to return a front of him flur not

with a choking grunt and crump) are the lighter mem-forward. inctivaly Boynton

Hey Mr. Justice caught him as he fell but he

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