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FORCE OF ECONOMIC LAW.

would still como and go from hore | Lauennais, even if there were no Canton,

AMERICA'S COMMERCE.

MR. HOOVER MAKES IMPORTANT SPEECH

New York, March 17, Addressing the Export Mana gers Club, Mr. Hoover asserted that the recent fight against Bri-

RICE PRICES.

STEADY RISE IN SHANGHAI,

Notwithstanding all remedial measures, rice prices are Boar ing and have reached a figure not" There was a clean bill of health

reached since the critical days. Our docks with their services over in the Colony yesterday.

of autumn, 1924, when Chinese all For at the disposal of

armies ravaged this district,, says Eastern shipping, our sugar The weather forecast up to noon

a Shanghai paper. that warn foreign governments

Best qualities of rice are, quot». refineries, our other industries to-morrow is-E. winds, moder-tish rubber control had served to

ate; overenat, rainy, misty.

they cannot with impunity mobilseed at $14.10 to $16.60 per pleul, and all Hongkong's natural trade # facilities will inevitably go No British wireless news has raw materials to the disadvantage as against a normal price of $10 on existing in spite of Canton, been received from Rugby this of American consumers, He ad and $11. Much distross is being at-vocated the speedy abolition of chased in Chinese territory and. and it must be borne in mind that morning, owing to bad

Government operation of ships as free rice depots have been open mospheric conditions.

an essential developmnt of the ed by philanthople Chinese, Fiva Cantonwould not get'(nor can ever hope for these things oven pre- A roport has been received merchant marine and the extension years ago best quality rice was Heupted at $8 and 30 à pleul, but suming Hongkong could suddon- from a beef stall mastar at Yau-of American foreign trade.

mati Market that a foki collected expressed the fullest confidence in the trend since then has been up- ly be orased from the raap. Hong-$203 from various shops, and the ability of the United States to ward, although the present figure maintain its share of the world's is abnormal, due to failure of kong hasan entity und separate then absconded.

foreign trade, arid urged American crops and disturbed conditions la existence which it is beyond the

Mr.. H. W. Looker, (+7) is co-operation in European recepthe rice-producing districts. power of Canton (or foolish Chi-drawn against Mr. A. J. Bennett struction by means of additional During the civil war around nese strikers) to affect. If the+9) in the draw for the House loans for productive purposes. He Shanghai at the end of 1924, rice dovelopment of the port of of Parliament Squash Rackets Whampoa will make for the more efficient handling of, cargoos do stined for. Canton and South China, then the carrying out of that development will be of profit to those undertaking it, but if they think that an artificially stimulated and uneconomical port at Whampoa is going to injure Hongkong's pro-eminence as the great trade entrepot of the South they are reckoning without

the force of economics. It is the most officient cheapest and method that always survives, and no costly substitute can ever hope to displace, or ever injure, the naturally-preferablo ons. For a time our unthinking friends the strikers and short-sighted Canton officials may be pleased to tilt against this great principle It can be taken as a general of the inevitability of the best. axion that an uneconomic pro-but they will assuredly fail to cadure is hound to disappear in achieve anything more than a the long run. It doesn't pay to

temporary inconvenience. | run counter to the ordinary facili

illustration.

Haughton, the United States

[rom recovering

taxation of

repayment of debta would upset the Handicap, which will be decided scouted the fears that the foreign reached as high as $17 a picul,

American trade balance, and siml- at Prince's Club.

increased

RUBBER SHARES:

Mr. P. M. Ellis, of 455, Thelarly denied that an Peak, has reported to the police tariff would so diminish the total that sometime between March imports as to destroy the ability 16th and 17th, some person stole of other nations to buy from $48 in money from an unlocked America. He estimated that the

annual foreign debt payment vised by cable from Singapore js would be 900 million dollars, drawer in his bedroom.

payments

LATEST QUOTATIONS.

Messrs. Carroll Bros. are ad-

the

and that the following are A Musicalo will be held at the which was more than counter that rubber is now $1 per lb.,. falena May Institute on Thurs-balanced by the vast

latest Straits quotations: day, March 25th, at 5.30 p.m. aboard, like tourists' expenditure. Allenbys Tickets, including tes, 50 cents as well as American loans totalling Alor Gajabs

Amalgamated Malays. each, must be booked before noon 700 million dollars annually. on the 24th instant.-Adu.

Mr. Hoover said he was unal- Ayer Moleka".

Ayer Panas terably opposed to reprisals or Balgownies

Mr. Un Hew fan, who used to trade war on the part of the be Hon. Secretary of the Chinese United States against price-fixing Recreation Club, has returned to discriminations like, the British the Colony with his wife. Mr. Un rubber monopoly. He opined that has been managing the New such problems should be handled by York branch of the Bank of manufacturers themselves, the Glenneplies Canton.

policy success of whose

was Jerama exemplified in the recent fall of Jimaks Among the arrivals by the fifty per cent, in the price of rub- President Grant was Mr. C. Rber-Renter's American Service. Zeininger, editor-in-chief of the Manila Daily Bulletin, who is on his way to the United States, ac- companied by Mrs. Zeininger

and his son.

ENGINEER DISPUTE.

$3,35

2.00

4.55

2.70

13.60

4.50

Bassetts

Bukit Jelotonga Brogas Bu Bukit Katils Changkat Serdangs Connemarus Indragiris

1.45

7.80

1.36

1.40

9.00

2.65 ex div.

2.35

0.75 1.95

Kedahs

4.50

Кетрая

11.40

Kunin Sidins

4.00

Lunas

tunes

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Mainka Pindas

3.10

Malakoffs

4.40

Tokongs

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14,00

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New Ser Pajams, Crofts

Punggors

New Serendahs

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4.00

1.40

4.00

2.00 8,00

23.50

1.45

13.60 3.00 4.60

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Two business' friends who lived to Joseph Parr for $100, accord- one one invited the other to dine with arrested the two men. They live. in the country met one day, and ing to police at Galena, Ill., who him that evening.

ut Dubuque, la. Parr wanted to At the appointed time the guest marry Bertha.

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London, March 17. The late Mr. William Gould

The Executives of the seven Bennett Denman Fuller (45), of

Unions involved in the threatened Coniston Lodge, Richmond Park-lock-out of engineers have decided ties of commercial life in order to

Better Days Ahead.

roud, Bournemouth, formerly of! satisfy a personal desire to "get

Detractors of Britain and Hongkong, left property in Eng-to instruct Messrs. Hoe's men to Sungei Bagans

resume work by March 19th., but Tapaha ono back" at the other man. And there are many nowadays will land valued at $7,643 (not per the men have issued a manifesto Tambulaks

Teluk Ansons it is because this fact has been no doubt have noticed with some sonalty £7,562.

that they are not going to surren- United Malaccas

Utan Simpana der.Renter. proved time and again that, measure of chagrin that Mr.

Sir George Stegmann Gibb,

Tag sooner or later, this senseless Ambassador in London, spoke in who will be remembered as visit- boycott in Canton of British goods most hopeful terms of the future ing Hongkong in connection with and of goods coming via Hong-of the country on his arrival in the telephone negotiations, and New York a few days ago. He who died on December 17, aged kong is bound to come to an end. asserted that conditions in Eng-75, left estate of the gross value If is only a question of time before land had considerably improved, of 146,501, with net personalty the foolish principals in the piece and exprossed the belief that the 40,815. will come under the inevitable country would prosper more in the next quarter of a century

An Indian from Singapore was action of life's neonomic order than ever before. Those words charged at the Kowloon Magin- liness, and be forced to give up are particularly cheering just tracy this morning with arriving this arbitrary interference with now, and it is comforting to feel in the Colony on board the 8.8. that they are in no senso Nam Sang without paying his what is the best way of doing misrepresentation of present

guilty, was sentenced to things. Let us state just ono tendencies, but that they are in passage. Defendant, who pleaded

fact based on ample evidence month's hard labour. Even now, a lot of the goods showing that the Old Country is

the shock When some coolies were push-set forth in the direction of his

The best way to keep well la to going into Canton emanate from resulting from post-war condi Hangkang.

The Chinese and tions, with the heavy loading a truck, loaded with iron bars, friend's house, and, as the roads in

along the tram lines, on the Praya the village were somewhat dimly go to some place where there is no- which

has East, they were unable to get out lighted, he took with him his old body to listen to your symptoms. non-Chinese agents for those arisen therefrom. Almost every of the way of tramear No. 60, fashioned stableran's lantern.

The dinner was good, the wine An old Scots lady had the habit goods do business here, and, week now, the unemployment and a collision occurred. One of

of driving to church. Her coach- gratifying although the goods come" from figures

The next morning, however, he the face and right arm received:

mon nearly at an end, would slip many different parts of the world decrease in the number of those the coolies who was injured in excellent, and all went merrily.

out of work, whilst the latest attention at the

Government received the following note from Man, when he considered the ser out quietly to have the carriage they are naturally contigned by trade statistics reveal the fact Civil Hospital, and the rest ran his host of the night before:

"Dear Old Man: I am sending

ready. One Sunday John, after the makers to their recognised that during February there was a away.

my man over to you with this note, dealere in this Colony. Now, the marked reduction in imports and ja considorable rise in exports, In procedure by which these goods the realm of finance, alsó, Britain bibiting at the Chester Gallery, tern.

Mrs. Gertrude McPherson, ex-and he takes with him your las hanging about the door, grew in If you have quite finished patient. Creeping down the aisle are going up to Canton is, mainly, is slowly but surely regaining 2, Chester-terrace has drawings with my, párrot and cage, I shall toward his mistress, he whispered. . by way of Shanghai, or some her position, so that frum every of Hongkong and Canton, done be awfully glad if you will return: "Is be no near dune yet?""

standpoint there is ground for other coust: port. On to the believing that the corner has been in pen line and grey wash, with same per bearer." ordinary cost of such goods turned and that Britain is again the tones enriched by penwork. ition, a sonse of the strangeness has to be added the cost of on the high road to progress and Her work shows real imagina-

prosperity. Whatever our freight out of Hongkong, the cost wishers may say or think, British of junks and of Chinese architec- of freight froni a coast port down genius and British perseverance ture, says the Chinn Express and

Telegraph. to Canton, the transhipment and will rise equal to all emergencies

Arrested on the train bound handling charges at the various with which the nation may be faced. We have had, and no. places, and whatever amount of doubt will again experience, for Canton yesterday, a Chinese squeeze (in the way of "fees") periodical set-backs, but there woman, who was in possession of be no doubt about the $20, was charged before Mr. E. which the strikers' pickets und, oran

W. Hamilton this morning with The latest dance in Paris is call- bination of the two sometimes pro- ultimato futuro. officials care to impose at Canton.

attempting to export money from ed the Wain-Waia, presumably be. duces funny effects. For instance, the Colony. The defendant was cause you have to bend about such in his last bout; after he had Then, after all that, the goods

stated to have accused a police) cun apparently be sold to tho

Bergeant of robbing har of $20. A fine of $10 was imposed.. Chinese free from the taint of British "imperialism." In many eases the extra cost of this proce- dure mounts up to over $20 por

ton

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Natural progression :-:-

Pals. Booze."

No Breakfast

No Tiffin. Sprue. Pallbearers

Happy Valley.

a lot.

R. I. P.

"Dune" returned the old Indy in high indignation, for her pa Hence had long been exhausted, "he's done half an hour since bil he'll no stop!"

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Joop Liet, the boxer, la distinct. ly good, with every promise of im-: provement. As a singer, also, het carries a decided punch-Alhambra audiences are showing a great lik ing for his voice; but the

curb-

knocked his opponent out in less than ten rounds, Liet obliged with

A Wiltshire horticulturist says 4 song, and warbled "Mother," 1'm he has grown a plum weighing half. dreaming of you."

One has considerable, A small firo broke out at the a-pound. French Consulate-Goncral in difficulty in swallowing It.

Mrs. Rosie Baker, caused by a defect in the central

At noon, the following vessela Shanghai a few days ago, boing of merchandise, and the

Chicken croquettes are the part

An Oxford lecturer prophesies that chemistry will create synthe 16, af tic men. There should still bo effect upon the price to the were expected to be in communi-heating plant but it did little Carthage, Mo. is going to be room, however, for the self-mado

cation with Hongkong to-day :- damage. The French Fire Bri strapped if she doesn't stay at home variety. Chinese consumer can easily be Delta, Japan, Dovanha, President gade was called out at 6.12 a.m. and mind her 9-month-old baby. guessed. Sooner or lator, there Madison, Kitano Maru, President the alarm being given by A-Judge Grant Emerson has ordered will come an awakening to the Grant, Sinklang, Resolute, Kalyan,namite policeman No. 255. After her husband to use a razor strap of the bird left over from the day

Aki Maru, Calchas, Kaying, Khiva, about half an hour's work, the on her if she runs away from home before. Chinese masses, and the game of Helonus, Sulsang, Amakusa Maru, fire was completely extinguished again, and has detalled the town

A silver penny, about 700 yarrs personal gain now played by the Honghwa, Paul Lecat, Porthos, a couple of small hoses being marshal to see that his order is

old, has been unearthed at: West? strike organisations will come to Protesilaus, West Carmona, Vest used. The fire ecourred on the carried out.

Wycombe, It would be a graceful land, Parrott, Genbu Maru, Stentor, third floor, and did about Tls. 300 Tingsing, Amur Maru, Talemuchus, damage. Two men were left on

But that's nothing. Listen to gesture on the part of America if Diomed, Nanko Maru, Mito Maru, duty at the Consulate to guard this: Lemuel Tittle tried to sell she allowed the Old Country to re Alps Maru, Azuma Maru, Anjui, against another outbreak pending his 13-year-old daughter, Bertha tain it. Franconia, Tintang and Van Gloon. the repairing of the system.

a sudden end.

Canton's talk of permanently injuring Hongkong by boycott is; similarly, just so much unecono