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AND

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14: 1920.-

|AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.

(By "Ajax.")

The steady and serious drop in exchange bas been tha main topic) of conversation during the past week, if we excluda the loss of the bathing beaches, "What is! the dollar going to do?" is a common query put to the wise cres, and there is none in the

'DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON.

and who can speak with any Farm Fed Turkeys and Geese,

Degree of certainty on the matter.

Dealers and remitters Home have been very badly hit by the

depreciated dollar, and there Sucking Pigs, Capons, Haggis, Ham,

is no doubt that if exchange remains at the present level for another month wo shall B higher prices ruling for most

Bacon, Hares, Rabbits. Sausages of

commodities in the Colony. This all description.

is a point which neither the jordinary man-in-the-street or thej housewife has yet caught, but they will soon realise that, if the dollar remains at the rate that it is at present ruling, things must cast much more than they do now. for the simpla reason that most dealers who have not booked their exchange months ahead will have to pay much more for their cargo than they have done, and this extra charge will be levied on the selling price of the goods. That is one way how The price bf living is going to mount up.

It is very difficult to forecast the trend of the silver market. upon which the value of the dollar o largely depends. This severe reaction may be temporary at any rate, and it is hardly surprising that it has set in after such a pronounced ascent. It is the law of polarity, as our friend Emerson would explain. There is no (negative without a positive, and there is no boom without a slump. This is one of those phenomena which we are so experienced to seeing in life on all sides. The real elements that have rendered the present silver position so are many, the most im- weak portant being the partial failure of the monsoon in India, which has all along been the only bright spot in the silver firm- ment. India instead of being a large parchaser of the white! metal, has now come out as a seller, and this, coupled with the fact that export trade in Chica has shown no signs of improving. has put the lid on the whole

ROYAL thing.

Commencing. Monday December 20th at 9.15 p.m. Return for a short farewell season of the

BANDMAN COMEDY

COMPANY

In their repertoire of new plays.

MONDAY Dec. 20th. TUESDAY Dec. 21st. WEDNESDAY Dec. 22nd. THURSDAY Dec. 23rd..

FRIDAY Dec. 24th. SATURDAY Dec. 25th. MONDAY Dec. 2.sb. TUESDAY Der. 28th.

WEDNESDAY Dec. 291a. THURSDAY

Dec. 39th.

THE ROTIERS..

IN THE NIGHT.

THE NAUGHTY WIFE.

THE YELLOW TICKET.

LORD RICHARD IN

ROMANCE,

ROMANCE.

BILLETED.

CAESAR'S WIFE.

Mince Meat.

PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY TO AVOID

a month.

DISAPPOINTMENT

CHRISTMAS

1920.

Splendid assortment of acceptable gifts!

WATCHES, JEWELLERY, DIAMONDS,

SILVERWARE, CUTGLASS, ETC.

POPULAR PRICES

Having received goods quite recently, we are giving our patrons the full advantage of the "downwards" tendency t home.

dollar touch

J. ULLMANN & CO..

34. Queen's Roail Central

The price of silver has been going down steadily. and this downward trend has been accelerated by a good deal of bear selling, until now it looks as if the bottom has really been touched. There has been no teal; outlet for silver, and the fall is buoyed with hopes of seeing the Chine beg to inform the bolders of The foreigner gets! The Banque Industriells de hardly surprising, but the tide!

five. 200 should soon begin to change. antrefrains from committing bim-Sational 1919, which have been he the temporary bonds of the Credit the long lane must have a turn-j self. and decides 10 wait subscribed through them, that When things take same must be exchanzed in their a turn other than be expected | Paris Office for definite bonds Chinese Sex there is wailing and weeping-before March 1921. month before! Tac

heavy drop in Chinese - Exchange bas taken the shine out of things, especially with the sending their foreigner. He is not happy, for saving home for investment he does not know how the dollar purposes. In ordinary years will go. He is steeped in pessimist these come up to some millions and as this slamp or reaction, of dollars, and are remitted

ing.

1

Just before the Year, at least a that day, the sidente abroad accustomed

to

have been

and see.

recent

GUARD THE BABY

AGAINST COLDS.

To guard the baby or young call it what you will, has come child against colds nothing can by the Chinese in the United just before the festive season, it equal Baby's Own Tablets, the States, Canada, the Straits Settle has made him positively disgusted. Canadian

ments, Australia and South Ame- frica and other parts of the world.

NOTICE.

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TEL. 892

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XMAS PRESENTS

FOR GENTLEMEN.

We have received a choice selection of Men's

Wear of a pleasing description and invite your

inspection. Below are a few suggestions.

Umbrellas

Gloves

Ties

Handkerchiefs in fancy

boxes Sweaters Waistcoats

Socks in Silk and Wool

Collar Boxes

Attache Cases

Fitted Dressing and Sult

Cases

Walking Sticks Jewellery

SLIPPERS in Felt and Leather.

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MODELS NEW

OF

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SPECIALLY MANUFACTURED FOR THE

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children's remedy. These Tabletajare a mild laxative which will keep the little one's THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO. LTD. To those who think that there stomach and bowels working. Last year, owing to the very THE PANTRY.

unfavourable rate of exchange, is no bottom for the sterling price regularly.

15. Des Vcent Road. It is a recognized the flow of the money into Chios of the Hongkong dollar. I may be fact that when the stomach and was arrested, and remittances for permited to advise a little bowels are in good order colds investment purposes were con-waiting. I would hardly like will not exist: that the health of siderably on the decline. This to prophesy, for were I to the little one will be good, and rear is very auspicious, for the turn out to be a false prophet, that he will thrive and be happy. Chinese resident in foreign well you know what used to be

Baby's Own Tablets also cure. countries can, in most cases, the fate of the false prophet. In vomiting, feverishness, indiges- secure a great deal more for his my opinion--I should prefix the tion, and expel worms. They money in China dollars that he qualitive humble" the dollar make teething easy; are guar- would have last year. All these should begin to look up very soon.anteed to be free from opiates remittances go into the interior Trade must begin to revive and perfectly harmless. via Hongkong, and it is the belief Countries

require com= Sold by chemists, or by mail st that this element should help modities. The large stocks 60 cents the vial from the Dr. to arrest the decline and send the held a few months ago in Williams Medicine Co., 96 Sze- Hoogkong dollar up to four shill- most consuming countries are chaen Road, Shanghai. ings. If trade revives, there is no being rapidly consumed and

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

Booking plans open at Moutrie's.

PHILIP CARLTON,

Manager.

CRICKET.

9. M. R. W.

H.K. University v. Staff

and Depts.

Hollands. Bowen Spinks

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P. 53

STAFF AND DEPTS.

....

In a friendly game played or Lt. Col. Greer, hit wkt., b Saturday at the Sookupрoo Freeborn Valles, the military team beat Lt. Col. Nicholson, b Freeboro the University with comparative 15. Sgt. Marsh, b Freebom ease. The scores were:-

Col. Humphry, st. Mogra, b

UNIVERSITY.

H. Freeboura, c Maughan, b

Hollands

K. E. Mogra, b Bowen

D. K. Samy, b Spinks...

M. H. Roffey, c. Greer, b

Spinks

H.C. Hunt, Spinks, b Bowen

R. W. Barney, run out...

Samy...

Sgt. Hollands, C

Ching, "b

1 Freetorn

12 Cap Spinks, not out

46 Lt. Col. Bowen, not out

R.M.3. Maug-

4 ban

8 S. M. Haynes

3 Cpl. Savage

5 Capt. Carter

Did not bat

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will

reason why we should not see there must be a call to replenish

five shillings. The economic the stocks. The markets cannot beach to replace the one that crisis that is now surging the be dead for.. considerable is Dow lost. That should not be

1 markels of the world has helped period. We have been marking difficult to do, and from all indi-

10 depreciate the Hongkong time for a very long lime and the cations it is obvious that the 4 dollar, but when exports and im-tide must change sooner or later authorities are conscious of this

ports begin to

46 normal trend, things will right set in. Exchange must improve,

Those who expected in last! Saturday's Government Gazette to see an announcement of the

resume

their With the demand beginning to duty.

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themselves. The malady is not and things will become more confiaed to this Colony, Had China stable. accepted the Consortium's help

37 by loans, the immediate outlook

9

5

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io five lots were dis-

The loss of the bathing beaches sale of the Old Post Office might have been improved, and to the email man who cannot site the fall in the exchange would afford to go to Repulse Bay by appointed. The consensus of opin- 10 not bave been so severe.

motor car or to Stonecutters by ion is that the Government could launch is a decided calamity, but easily secure more than the upset Out in China and other parts after the statement made by the price of fifty dollars per squarefoot of the Far East Exchange enters Hon. Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher in the were the area split up in five sec- very largely into the life of the Council last week, all criticism tions. There are genuine buyers ordinary foreigner. He has re- must be silenced. No one in his in the market for the lots, and it lations at Home, to whom he senses would suggest that the seems a foregone conclusion that sends money regularly. Very beaches should be preserved, if the Government will not be dis-

take ...13.8 few

the wise step of that meant the retarding of the appointed this time. It behoves the fixing the rate in advance for six progress of the Colony as an im-|P.WD, to get ready their terms O. M. R. W. or twelve months, Man is by portant port in the East. Ad-soon, and put up the site to suc- 13 1 51 4 nature optimistic. The rate to mitting that the Government tion at the earliest possible time. 50 85 0 day may be three shillings and have made out a very good case, I expect the next is, of the 30 44 1 may go up to four" bob" within it is incumbent upon them to look Gazette will fix the date of the

round and select another bathing|suction.

R. Robertson, b Spinks...

R. A. Basto, b Bowen...

0

E. K. Ching, b Bowen...

13

Total (5 wkte)...

C. H. Yeoh, b Spinks...

11

4 Freebour

Y.O. Yeow, not out

Extras

Total

Robertson

...109 Bamy

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