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CORRESPONDENCE. THE SILVER SCREEN.

[All Letters to the Editor in traded for publicatim must be aganmpanied by the name and address of the writer, in addi tion to the pen-name to be uaest. Correspondence which does not nclude the writer's name and address cannot be published.]

WHAT IS "POVERTY"? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG

DAILY DRESS,''

THE PATRIOT AT THE MAJESTIC.

FIRE ENGINE COMES TO GRIEF.

WOMEN LITIGANTS.

CLAIM FOR WAGES.

电容

SAD MEETING WITH IRON

عمر کو

RAILINGS.

women

An unusual number of Speeding eastwards in reply to a appeared as plaintiffs in the case call, a are engine, officially known!"fixing" list. at the Summary as Appliance No. 1" came to Court yesterday before the Puisne grief near the Supreme Court short-

ly before 1 p.m. yesterday, when, Judge (Mr. Justice Wood). They after overtaking a tram car which sued the owner of some property was proceeding in the same diree- in Kowloon for money due to them tion, it skidded, struck the traffic shelter post in this vicinity and us wages, the total of their claims then crashed into the railings being $313. around the Hong Kong Cricket Club ground. Fortunately, no one

EXTRADITION PROCESS,

FUGITIVE HAS A CASE TO

ANSWER, IS RULING....

Extradition proceedings against Wong Yin Yau. who is wanted by the Canton authorities for alleged murder, armed robbery and kidnap- ping. were concluded yesterday, when Mr. R. É. Lindsell held that the fugitive had a case to answer, Wong Yin Yau will therefore re- main in, Victoria Gaol for the usual period until the order from Hig

fugitive will be sent back to the Chinese authorities for trial.

Headed by the incomparable Emil Jannings. The Patriot" swings along in a smooth manner resolving from one sequence into another with as fine. a climax as ever por trayed by any group of players Jannings is superb, and gives characterization that will be long remembered. The great actor por trays the Mad Czar Paul, Autocrat

Mr. R. A. Wadeson, appearing BIRAs one of those who not of all the Russias. He was a most only tries to but does keep out of fascinating figure, so historians tell was injured as a direct result of for the defendant, said that the jebt on very much less than the us, and Jannings has succeeded in the crash though one of the fire plaintiffs worked under a contrae Excellency is received, when the $1,000 a month paid to the Univer-capturing the spirit of his charassmen, who was on the engine, wastor, who absconded without paying | sity Professors, I was very interest-ter. ad Paul had the heart of a hurt in trying to make a jump ed in the letter of "XQY" in child, and the brain a tiger, to-day's paper, calling attention to Jannings portrays both. Florcare the position of "the schoolmasters Vidor is delightful as the Countess who get only $600 a month.

Ostermann Lewis Stone na Pablen, the leading figure in the conspiracy, has done his best work to date; Neil Hamilton as the Crown Prince Alexander gives a very human character... Others who contribute Arc Vera Voronina and Harry Cording.

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If a salary of $1.000 a month is poverty," what is the position of those of us who have to manage on half that sum

I know that some men have the assistance of wives who go out to work and bring in an extra $150 or $200 a month as scenographers. This opens up another question which I think needs ventilating-as to whether "married women should go out to work.

Perecnally, I think this is wrong. They do not get a real living wage, as employers know they are not entirely dependent on their salaries, and they keep men out of a job who have wives and children to look

after..

If I had $1,000 a month coming is, I should not bleat about poverty, for I should consider myself very well off-especially when you con- sider, the number of hours & Univer- sity Professor works, about twenty hours a week, not counting the various long holidays and vacations when they do no work at all. Yours, etc.,

LEDGER.

Kowloon, May 30.

THE DWINDLING DOLLAR. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESA."]

Sit-One of your correspondents

case of recently mentioned the British Honduras as a parallel tö currency conditions in this Colony,

ELDERLY CHINESE HEAVILY

FINED.

FOUND QUILTY ON TWO

SERIOUS CHARGES.

into safely before the machine came them, and they were now suing the into contact with the iron railings, owner. The front of the engine was some- what damaged while the traffic shelter pest also suffered as a re- sult of the accident, the wooden platform on which the pointsman usually stands during rainy weather being broken to hips.

As is usual with things of this

Ia answer to his Lordship, one of the plaintiffs gave as the reason for suing the plaintiff that he had asked them not to worry, as he would pay them if the contractor. did not do so.

The case collected

was fixed for hearing next Thursday, and plaintiffs were told to inform two of the absenters also to attend on that day.

It was alleged that on the night of December 13, 1993, the accused, with nine other men, broke into the house of one Wong Ping: Fong, ables and property to the value dnd, besides carrying away valu

of $1,000, kidnapped Wong Ping Foug, his uncle and his cousin. It was stated that when the party were on the road, Wong Ping Fong's unele, who was an old man, could not walk any farther. The accused, Wong Yin Yau, got into trage and shot the old man. Wong Ping Fong and his cousin were later rescued by the Village Corps. Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Assist- appeared

crowd soon nature, s round the machine and the break down, gang from headquarters was Roon on the job. The engine being fixed up as best it could be in the circumstances, it was then towed back to the station, where the mechanics set to work to do the necessary repairs almost at once.

The outbreak, which was indirect POLICE ASK FOR COMMITTAL. ant Attorney-General,

La Kam Fat, aged 79, of Tsai Wan village, appeared on remaadly the cause of the accident, occur- before Mr. J. S. MacLaren at the District Court, Post Office Build- ing, yesterday on the charge of unlawful possession of 718 teels of opium and 151 Mauser pistol maga-

zines,

Defendant, who pleaded guilty to the first charge hut not guilty to the second, was 6ned 890,000 and $1,000,, or six months' on cach charge. the sentences to be served concurrently

He was represented by Mr. F. I. d'Almada, senior.

business transaction, whether "in the Colony or up country, would all be conducted on the basis of

Hong Korg currency.

red in the Praya East reclamation, where a pile of iron pipes were stacked near the P.W.D. workshop. Three engines, under Mr. Bucke ridge, were sent on to the scene of the fire, which was put out without any really serious damage.

SWIMMING AT REPULSE

BAY BEACH.

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"ORANGE" BUSES TAKE UP THE RUN.

Facilities are being provided for Before the silver slump most

prompt and comfortable transport firms, both Chinese and foreign, the bathing season. In past years to the beach at Repulse Bay during trading up country, quoted in Hong one has had to wait some time be- Ang currency, and were paid by fore getting to the beach and back Chinese in Hong Kong dollars, and owing to the small number of buses there seems every reason to believe then running on the route, but the

and anid the establishment of a gold that these conditions would obtain spacious vehicles of the Hong Kong

currency in place of a mixed lot of silver and paper dollars had been effected there without any dif- very important

ficulty.

This secins

pices of evidence of great value to as at the present moment, and 1 write this letter to inquire whether your correspondent will be good enough to provide us, if he can, with some, more details as to the manner in which this change from silver to gold was carried out.

If such information is to be had, it might be of very great service in considering applying the scheme to this Colany. Yours, etc.,

Hong Kong. May 30.

CURIOUS.

in a fur greater degree if the Hong Kong dollar was issued and backed and Shanghai Hotels will supply the much-needed cheap transport by the Government,

to visitors at the popular bathing tractive as it provides for a stay

Of course, this would mean that the huge profits on exchange made by the banks would be eliminated, and all the exchange-brokers would be out of jobs, but it would make all the difference to the ordinary business-an.-Yours, etc..

ALMOST HELPLESS. Hong Kong, May 30.

resort. The time-table is quite at-

until late in the evening.

As from to-morrow, the Hong Kong Hotel Garage will place special buses on the run daily, the first leaving the Hotel at 2.30 p.m., and thereafter about every half on hour. The first return journey is

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG 5 o'clock and the last at 8.30

DAILY PRESS."]

SIR, Those who are in invour of gold standard seem to blame us for the public sufferings, and call us jugglers" I think they are [TO THE EDITON OF THE HONG KONG jealous of our being able to

DAILY PRESS."

"juggle" and make proft, and of the backing we have from the

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SIR, consider." Sceptic has touched the real crux of the situation when he mentions that the Currency Commission, before start ing its investigation, announced that its mind had already been made 1775!

Starting from these premises, the whole idea of a commission of in- vestigation is futile and ludicrous

Why waste the presumably valu able time of the Commissioners and financial experts who have appeared before the Commission in toying with a question on which the Com mission had already decided.

What's the sense of holding a publid meeting and spending money or long cables to the Government at heme, when, as "Sceptic" points oct, we would simply be referred to the findings of the Currency Com- mission t

powers "that be." Certainly we are the favoured group and, I may Our add, very influential as well. opinions bear more weight than others, because we are experts on currency, and our selfishness-after all, who is not selfish-dictates that

we must be partial in our opinion when it concerns our money-making facilities.

Pable to the Home Government or petition the iceal Government; they will ultimately decide in ac cordance with our wish and not with yours.

Trade or no trade, slump or no slump, public suffering or no public suffering, we, the powerful juggling minority, desire the silver standard to remain and it shall remain, This is a business world when it concerns money; conscience and rubbish of that sort are in discount. And by the time we are vouch-Let us both try by hook or crook safed a reply, we shall all be ship to get our desired end, and see ped home to sleep on the Embank- who will win Yours, etc., ment, or have a home in the House

of Detention of 'be in Victorià Gaol

for debt-Yours, etc.,

OVERDRAFT.

Hong Kong, May 30.

p.m. The time table and fares are given in an advertisement 'ap- pearing elsewhere. The fare for adults is 40 cents for the single journey and 75 cents return, while a specially children are allowed reduced rate.

"MAN WHO STRUCK HIS

AUNT.

QUARREL OVER A CHILD.

When a Chinese was charged bo- fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-mith.for assaulting a woman whom he claim- ed to be Eis aunt, he stated that be stated that he had received a report from his sister in the country to the effect that her child had been kid- napped. He then made inquiries locally as to the whereabouts of the child, and when he visited com- plaisant, he saw the child with her. An argument followed, as the wo- men refused to talk to him, and it was then that he struck her. He, however, did not know whether the child his aunt was carrying was his sister's child or not.

The Magistrate imposed a fine" of $10, and ordered the defendant to sign a bond for $200 for his good SELF-ACKNOWLEDGED behaviour for the next twelve.

JUGGLERS.

months.

Hong Kong, May 30.

[It will be realised, of course, that the above letter is written in cynical vein by one who considers [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG himself a victim of jugglers."

DAILY PRESA."]

ED.]

Sin. Like your correspondent THE COST OF EDUCATION. "Worried," I am not one of those

"in the know," but I do know for [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONO certain that one of our local ex

DALLY PRESS."]. change-brokers, who, presumably, is,

in the know,”-is betting heavy. SI, Lux seems in one sense adds that the dollar will be down to be a wily bird; he seems to here a definite object in view, yet I am to 1/1 before Christmas.

sure he is not really wily, or he would not have had that cut at the Central British School.

A, SERIOUS ASSAULT.

I.

The Chinese who was remanded last week on the charge of assault- ing a woman of Tai Nam Street was again before the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday, when a fur- ther charge, that of inflicting the injuries with intent to cripple, dis- able or maira the complaioant, was brought against him.

Detective Sergeant Meadows, who prosecuted, remarked that the (Continued on next Column.)

UNEQUALLED

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for the Crown, while Mr. W. D. Owen was for the fugitive during the hearing of the case.

Police took a rather serious view of the case and asked for a mittal.

com-

The defendant was formally re- manded for a week, the Magistrate fixing the hearing for the after- noons of Tuesday, June 17, and Thursday, June 10.1

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