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The market for both sugar and fluur is dead and prices are low.

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There has been a brisk demand for Chinese fertilizer from up coun try merchants, and prices have risen consequently,

According to silk merchants, the export of Chinese raw silk to Japan has shown an increase, due to the drop of the silver exchange,

The oil market is generally bad Latest quotations for groundnut oil are $20.38 per picul, bean oil $7.30, woodtar oil 842.20 and tea-seed oi $20.10.

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Consumption of cake-molasses by country traders is healthy. This, compled with the short arrivals from the Dutch Indies, has caused a sharp rise in prices., Superior molasses is being sold at Tis 6.4 per picul.

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There has been some inquiry for cotton yarn by merchants in Pakhoi and Fatshan. The market appears somewhat active, but the prices re main normal, as buyers have refus- ed to offer higher prices. Accord ing to a Shanghai telegram, the market there is quiet, but prices are unchanged.

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It is reported from Wuchow that the piese goods market there, na in "Canton, is very inactivè, De- mand for foreign piece goods is lacking. The contributory causes are three-fold-firstly, communica. tion with the interior of Kwangst is still interrupted, secondly, prices of forbigo, goods have risen con- thirdly, there has been a movement for the promotion of the use of Chinese products instead of foreign goods. declared that they are suffering losses.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930.

AN "HEIRESS" TO |AMERICA'S "DIVORCE |

£200,000.

WOMAN SAID TO HAVE DUPED A BARRISTER..

An amazing wtory of alleged false pretences by which a young woman obtained various sums of money by pretending that she was heiress to a wealthy American, and to have tricked a bank manager and a barrister into believing her was told at Tower Bridge Court last month.

DADDY."

JUDGE OF THE MISMATED,

NEW STARTS FOR PARENTS,

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NO FEUDS OVER ANTARCTICA.

BYRD EXPLAINS HIS ATTITUDE.

Admiral Byrd, in a wireless mes San Francisco's Divorce Dad-sage to Capt. Railey, his personal representative in New York, says dy," as alr. Thomas F. Graham is

he was misquoted in a published sometimes called by the young and

version of an interview which was flippant, stands alone in bis calling.

sent from Dunedin to America. for he withholds divorces instead of giving thes

This mentor of the mismated will not graat a single decree to any Detective-sergeant· Spash, who husband or wife during what is arrested Mrs. Jonn Crage at Bis known in California as Graham's heps Stortford, said her husband reconciliation period"-that- is, wag a carpenter, and she had re-it children are involved. presented to him that she heiress to £200,000.

was

Mr. Raphael, prosecuting, said the woman went to Mr. Scroggie, manager of Barclays Bank, Water- was Mra loo-road, and said she Henderson and that she was stay. ing at the York Hotel with her husband on their honeymoon.

His ideas on legal separation are crisply enunciated. Most cou ples," says the reconciling judge ale divorce suits hurriedly, Hot tempers and impatience are at the base of their unconsidered actions. But if they are forced to think the matter over for a few weeks they often see the error of their haste, and resolve to try again.

Avoidable Squabbles. What Sedoull could opportune

a patching up of quite avutuspig zou remedia, squats the beginning the

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She had found out that her hus- band had been previously married and that he had now gone off with his wife. She asked if he could tell her of a solicitor she could consult, and asked him to cable her father, Mr. R. C. Michael. year, when trope springs eterual in Bil umur things, especially if the Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Canada, and gave him what she said was numan neart people who cannot ber father's private code word-make up their minds to "Knormanac.'

Belleved Her Story."

LOOK

atrimony a sape light are in- possible. I give them up.""

The manager was so impressedment of the "reconciliation period" Judge Graunat began his experi- by her story that he sent off a cable Daughter stranded. Frankstered practically radical at the twenty-ve years ago. It was con- married. Cable already and instructions. Urgent."

Mr. Scroggie said his wife would

money

tune, au "lellow jurists openly made mock of his optimism: To day the scheme has been widely serable success.

That version had caused Mr. Cotton, acting U.S. State Secretary,

-to-announce that the Admiral's remarks on Innd discovered in Antartica were "not binding on the U.S. Government."

Admiral Byrd gives the following as the actual words spoken:

I note that there has been a.

some quarters-in tendency in America and Europe to create a controversy between the British Empire and the United States con- cerning our claims to Antarctica.

"There is no reason or ground for that.

We have considered our sepedi- tion a scientific venture, and we hope a sporting one.

"We went down there with the utmost respect for the British, who had preceded us.

No Quarrel Over Frontiers. "Our work should bring us closer together, not further apart.

It would be a pity should any controversy arise. That would go entirely against the feelings and first. hopes which I have held from the

"We have from the beginning recognised the Ross Dependenes."

PORTATION OF CRUDE OIT siderably due to the exchange and be pleased to entertain the woman copied all over America with cor- long. 160 E. and 150 W., was, by

[UNITED "PRESS]

Fort Worth, Tex., April 19. Representatives of the independ ent petroleum companies of the United States, meeting here to-day." decided not to seek state legialu- tion designed to improve their con dition until Congress has taken steps to restrict importation of crude oil on a basis of a duty of G81 a barrel.

said counsel, and told her to go back to the hotel, pack her things, and telephone bim when she was ready and he would come and help

Ross Dependency, comprising all- the land, with territorial waters, south of lat. 60 S., and between

British Order in Council in 1923, placed under the New Zealand-

"Antarctica" (proceeds the Ad- miral's speech) is big enough for all of us. Our claim lies entirely outside of the Ross Dependency- over to the eastward.

Government.] Piece goods merchants have

WAGE REDUCTION IN JAPAN.

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA'S WARNING TO STAFF.

her to his house.

She then said: "I hope they won't charge me for using, the icle- phone, as I have no money." Ec She went off, sup" gave her 10%. posedly to pack her things and Mr. Scroggi never saw or heard of her till now.

On another "bccasion she went to Mr. Campbell Lee, a barrister, of Brickcourt, Temple, and said that the American Consul, Mr. Carrol, had recommended her to come 'to him as she was in dificulties about her father's will.

Parted-With-£54.

The meeting was held under leadership of Mr. Wirt Franklin,

[EXITED PRESS.] who egently tuck a delegation to Washington to present the pro-tariff

Tokyo, April 30.-In view of the case of the independents. Accord-serious business depression now ing to Mr. Franklin, there is no prevailing in Japan, the Mitsui. over-production of oil in America Bussan Kaisha has issued warning

She said that her father and mo- despite propaganda to that effect, of a probable reduction of salaries

at any moment in the near future ther had been killed in' a motor while the large companies are im porting quantities of foreign oil to its Tokyo staff. It is believed accident the previous August. She against which there is no tariff that the warning will not only gave her husband's name as Horace cause a sensation among the 3,500 Crago and said that her father employees resident in Japan and had left her £100,000, to say noth abroad but will adversely affecting of four houses. other hig business concerns in this

barrier.

It was subsequently decided by the independent, that they would give 50 per cent, of all dues from the various state independent or- ganizations to a national body, to be used in a campaign on behalf of a petroleum tariff

This action is subject to adop- tion at a general convention to be held next week.

CHICHIBU MARU IN SAN FRANCISCO.

BETTERS THE ASAMA MARU'S TIME ACROSS PACIFIC.

[UNITED PREES.]

country."

U.S. UTILITIES AND

PUBLIC WORKS.

RECORD DURING FIRST

THREE MONTHS OF 1930.

[UNITED PRESS.)

Washington, April 20. Mr. Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce, announced today that public works and utilities struction Contracts for the first three months of

1930 totalled

the past five years.

Con-

Contracts for private residences The ship's officers were hosts to and commercial and industrial local shipping men at a breakfast Luildings, however, fell far below an board after arrival, and the recent years, offsetting the gain in guests were taken for an inspection public works and utilities.

the vessel.

On various occasions Mr. Lee, who believed she was an heiress, helped ber. In all he parted with 61.

The prosecution contends, said MrRaphaely that these stories, are untrue and that the money was obtained by false pretences.

The woman was remanded.

PASSENGERS.

Arrivals,

As an instance of the technique of his plan, the judge recently at tended the wedding of a girl whose parents he had reconciled twenty years ago. They are still living in perfect, amity. ''

Tacutres, winemas, and motor- car rides furnish other convenient pivots for his philanthropic plot- ting."Take your wife to a good takie or a musical comedy," he will order a reluctant husband. The bulky mate at first demurs: then accedes, often with the result that little differences of opinion are soon removed.

Rebellous Husband.

"There is nothing in the situa tion that can cause controversy. We are more interested in good fellowship with you British and in our common investigations down there than we are, with any claims in Antarctica.

It is another case where the intangible things of the spirit are far more important than material aspects.

One husband rohelied when told to take his wife for a ride. *** She's a back-seat driver," he countered.

She flusters me with her advice." TRIAL ELOPEMENT." "Then take her on the front seat with you," urged the judge.

The man reported that the plan had beca successful. He had taught his wife to drive for herself, but the Erst time he went out alone she did all the wrong things with which she had taxed her husband. The ear was promptly wrecked. So now this has evened things up." said the husband. But we are so happy, that we want our divorce action dismissed," he add-

ed, with a smile.

WIFE GOES BACK TO MAN

WHO LOVES HER STILL.

"I am as much in love with my wife as ever."

So declared Mr. Benjamin March, curator of the Asiatic Department. of the Detroit Institute of Art, when his wife returned to him in

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The judge receives hundreds of With her husband's consent, Mrs. grateful letters from wives and hus- Dorothy March left him and their bands thanking-him for interfer-318-month-old baby and eloped with ing" in their affairs with such felicitous results.

Women married for less than a year can have no hope for alimony. Judge Graham contends that the golden prospect of compensation an otherwise blissful lures many bride into the quagmire of the divoree court. He is determined to keep that trap under control, in spite of the relatively high divorce figures of the State of California.

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air, Thomas Newton, jun., her mar ried lover.

It was agreed by the parties to the affair that if at the end of a month Mrs. March still wished to remain with Mr. Newton her hus hand would divorce her.

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Broken-Hearted, One day Mr. March received a telegram from his wife, announc ing that she was on her way home.

Hardly had she left Miami when TJISONDARI SHAL & AMOT 27th Apr. 29th Apr., MANILA, MKʼGAH. Mr. Newton shot himself in an hotel, broken-hearted because Mrs. March had decided her love for him could not endure.

He died shortly afterwards, just TJIKARANG as his wife was preparing to leave her home in Michigan to go to his bedside.

still love Dorothy," Mr. March said. "We are both hoping we will be able to forget this tragic affair and continue life happily together, as before Newton stand

at our door."

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Last year's birth and death re- turns established another record for Sarawak, for a Malay inhabitant of Kampong Mentawak died on August 3 at the age of 116. A Malay woman of Kampong No. 1 died on June 22, aged 100, and two women of Kampong Tanjong both died in September, aged 5 years.

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