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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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3 pint..

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Hot Water Jugs

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926.

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various

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The Telegraph

FRIDAY, CCTOBER 22. 1926.

RATING REFORM.

Frequent references are to be found in newspapers arriving from Home to the new Rating and Value tion Act which has recently been passed and is to come into force early next year. This measure is described as one of the moat effective pieces of legislation with which those engaged in local go- vernment have had to deal for a very long time, and it is believed that it will do away with numer- ous anomalies inherent in the existing rating system. One strik ing change is that the powers and duties of overseers with regard to the making and levying of rites and the valution of property for rating purposes are to be trans. ferred to the Borough and Dis- trict Councils, thus abolishing a historic office which has been iden- tified with local government for more than three centuries,

are unduly penalised whilst others get off far too lightly. In several other respects, also, the law needs revision here, and, in view of the extreme importance of the matter. to all property owners; it is to be hoped that the time will soon come when the whole question of rating will be thoroughly gone into.

DAY BY DAY.

A COMFORTABLE OLD AGD IS THE REWARD OF A WELL-SPENT YOUTH Palmer,

21 YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS, FROM- TELEGRAPH FILES.

The following items are extract- ed from the Telegraph files for the wack ended November 4th 1905.

"HERMES" DANCE.

TAKES PLACE TO-NIGHT.

Those who are looking forward to the dance being given by the ship's company of H. M. S. Hermes

at the R. E. Theatre to-night will The rate of the lotlar on debo glad to hear that the function mand was 18, 11:4.

is not, as stated by a contemporary, to be cancelled.

A strong NE, monsoon is ro ported by all ships coming into harbour, vessels from the South experiencing rough weather.

Six of the British destroyers roa cently arriving here from Home left for the North last evening, the remaining three still awaiting or

ders.

Mr. J.-V. A. MacMurray, the United States Minister to China, arrived here from Manila by the 6.3. President Lincoln to-day, being accompanied by his wife.

The Empress of Canada arrived at Manila at 7 am, to-day, leavea there at 1 pm to-morrow and la due at Hongkong on Monday, at 10.30 a.nz

At the Marine Court this meru- ing, a fine of $10 was imposed on the master of a junk, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully attempting to leave the waters of the Colony.

All is in readiness for the event,

At the F.W.D. offices, a plot of land at Deep Water Bay, 112,000 square feet in extent, was bought which promises to be of a most at- by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and tractive character, as many novel- Co. for $5,620 on behalf of the ties are to be introduced. Danc- Green Island Cement Co.

ing will commence at 8.30 p.m. and contiue until 1 am, the music to be supplied by the Hermes band. A most enjoyable evening is an- ticipated..

The engagement was announced of Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar and Miss L. B. Hickling.

A terrible tragedy was reported cellation of the dance was due to The announcement of the can- from Lienchau, Kwangtung pro-

dance vince, in which, during an anti confusion in regard to a missionary rising, five American which was also being given to missionaries, including three night by H.M.S. Vindictive, at the. women and a child, were murder Seamen's Institute. It is this ed. A mob burnt down hospitals, Hermes' dance, which has had to | latter. function, and not the a girl school and foreign resi dences, whereupon seven American be cancelled, owing to the Vindic- missionaries took refuge in a cavetive having left port. and all were murdered excepting. two who escaped.

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The death occurred in Macao of Dr. J. Gomes da Silva, former Colonial Surgeon to the Macro Government

EXCHANGE RATES.

Rugby, Oct. 21:

New York Genova

4.8427/82 .25.14 111%

18.14

19.64

Milan Stockholm

The anti-America boycott in Canton, over the new exclusion law, Oslo. was reported to be continuing Prague with unabated force, the agitators Madrid being extremely active.

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Berlin

Copenhagen

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Vienna

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17/82

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British Wireless.,

The Hongkong Dollar. Now that attention is focussed on the fluctuations of the local dol lar there is the Inevitable queation ing regarding the fact that Hong- kong's currency does not enjoy a fixed exchange value in relation to aterling as do the currencies of practically every other British Co- lony. One. understands the or The body of a dog belonging to dinary fluctations of currency Mr. P. Lannigan, Ravenue Officer, values as between different coun-2, Cox's Path, Kowloon, has been tries, governed by the financial sent to Kennedy Town. It is merit of the countrics concerned, certified that the animal had been but it is anomalous that a Hong-suffering from rables.. kong dollar should one month be

The Hongkong A. D. C. is to worth 2s. 3d. and, that during the following month its aterling value give a series of performanées.dur- should drop below 1s. 10d. when ing Laterport Cricket Week. The the financial standing of the Co-plays to be presented will be "A lony has not altered one iota.. It Matter of Time," The First and is also anomalous that the sterling the Last," "The Burglar and the value of our silver cinrency should Girl," and "The Man in the Bowler alter according to the relationship Hat." of price between silver and gold,

It has been reported to the because if that were an unalter- able factor then the value and police that some time between number of silver shillings to the June 12th and October 16th, a sterling would also fluctuate. telephone set, valued at $50, was But they don't and it is easily ex-stolen from the third floor at 24, The N. Y. K. Far East-New Hongkong plained why. The value of the Connaught Road West. The York Line was inaugurated ten Silver (spot)

Silver (forward). silver coins in British currency premises were occupied by ayears ago, and in view of its grow- is fixed by Act of Parliament; and steamship company which wenting importance to shippers and in all the Crown Colonies where into liquidation, after which the merchants, the Company has there is a silver currency the sterl premises were vacated.

decided to berth two motor ships. One Chinese case of typhoid ing value of that currency has

the Atago Maru and the Asuka also been fixed: Before February, The body of the Chinese boy Maru, each of 10,000 tons d.w, in ferer, was notified from Kowloon 1906, the dollars of the Straits named Leung Fu, who was drown-addition to the steamers already yesterday. Settlements and the F.M.S. were at ed in the harbour the day before engaged on the route, which, the mercy of silver flucuations, yesterday, afternoon has been re- latter, being now equipped with sif but the value was at that time covered. It was alleged that the burners, can maintain higher fixed at $60 to 7-or, at 28. 4d. boy was drowned as the result of speed than beforo. to the dollar. Thore is a fraca collision between the Holt's tional fluctuation but not enough launch Poseidon and a cargo boat to make a practicable difference. at Kennedy Town, but a collision Even the Indian currency has been was denied in a statement.made at stablised except for the war period, the Harbour office. it was 18. 4d. per rupce before the war, and has been at 2s, since 1920. If Hongkong were not Bri- tish (Bike Shanghai, which is in ternational) one could understand the dollar fluctuations to sterling, but it is an anomalous survival of the old days when we had the Mexican dollar, as currency that the Hongkong dollar should have no fixed relationship to the gold currency of the Old Country, Most people would benefit by a standardised dollar, though it is

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The Mounted Infantry of the Volunteer Defence Corps, in com mand of Capt. HB. L. Dowbiggin, paraded at the Polo Ground, Last- evening, when an Inspection was carried out by Major General C: C. Luard, C. B., C.MG. The detach ment presented a very smart ap- pearance and the manoeuvres were: well carried out, the officers and men being complimented by the General at the close:

The report of the Royal Obser vátory issued to-day states that a Thus the trip by N. Y. K. houts belt of high pressure extends from from Hongkong to New York via south-west China to the east of Panama Canal is shortened and Tokyo. The local forecast up till will be attained within fifty-five noon to-morrow isEast winds, days.

moderate; fine.

The Very Idee!

There are plenty of ways you can the peerage class with inferior

get into trouble. You worry about stock heralds the decadence or rich it and make it seem double. Your ancestral strains.

We have not as yet come across a detailed explanation of the vari- ous provisions of the new Act, but it is apparent from the references which we have seen that a really big effort has beer made to cen- trafise rate control, to sweep away said that the Banks like matters The following ships are expect-mind plays around with whate'er "Family distinction of a stable many anomalies' and to put the as they are. For business people, ed to be in wireless communica-its's about, where it ought order is a product of slow growth whole question on a better all-whether exporting, importing ortion with Hongkong to-day-Pre- to be thinking of ways to get out, and is seldom won by sudden elava- How seldom we wonder how far tion, which usually brings a loss round footing. The methods of selling retail, a fixed currency is sident Jefferson, President Monroe,

obviously desirable." Perhaps Kutsang, Yuensang, Sunning, we are getting, by wasting a lot of adaptive equilibrium and fre rating various classes of property someone authoritative will come Glenfalloch, Tjikembang, West of our good hours in fretting. A quent reversion to the are the subject of numerous forward and tell us why the Co Prospect, Benrinnes, Chaksang, wee bit of action, in proper ways, ancestral level." clauses, and for this purpose the lony cannot have a fixed currency. Takliwa, Sanuki Maru, Haruna brings the chance for a person to

Eighteen children is too many, new rating authorities are em- Is there any valid reason at all? Maru, Menado Maru, Mito Maru, right the wrong things.

Korea Maru, Soochow, Ryusei There de'er was a man who has said Judge Granger in Southwark Maru, Susana II, Teucer, Tjita gained very much by fussia and County Court to the father of the roem, Neutralia, Simaloer.

fumin and sulkin' and such. family, who was sued for posses When into the channel of worry hesion of his home on the ground that

powered to serve notices on owners, occupiers or lessees re- quiring such particulars as may be ! necessary for the purpose of ar- riving at the correct valuation of given properties. There is on- other feature about the Act which is worthy of mention, this being a provision by which rating au- thorities may direct an allowance to be made to any ratepayer who has paid his rates before a speci- fied date. This allowance, or dis- count, is limited to a maximum of 2% per cent, and the idea at the back of this provision In the Act is to encourage the early payment of rates.

From these and other provi- sions, it is clear that the new Act represents a big measure of rating reform, and we are hoping that the authorities here will endea vour to secure from Home full de talls of the scheme, with a view to ultimate revision of the exist ing system in this Colony, Thero is certainly much need for a thorough overhaul of the local Rating Ordinance, particularly in the methods employed for making assessments thereunder. As mat-

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CORRESPONDENCE.

THEATRE MANNERS.

To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph.]

geen

on..

page

common

She simply craved to learn to

amoke,

"And when she toolt one.

breath,

As will be

by an swerves he's just a poor creature he used bad language before a advertisement

man who had eight children. It. four who gets on folks' nerves. of to-day's lasure. the an-

Snap out of the trance, if you're was stated that ten of the children. nual sale of woollen sarments one of that sort. Maka faces at lived at home.. and dainty and useful articles, trouble, and be a good sport. The made by the blind and orphans of old optimistic game's never a flop. the French Convent at Causeway Try playing it, man, and you'll Bay, is being held on Tuesday come out on top next and following days. The Sir,-As one of those who went good work being performed by this to the Quech's Theatre last night, institution is alrondy widely might I voice s protest against the known and is worthy of every sup- conduct of those who think (or, port. A special appeal is made perhaps, fail to think) that a selec- this year for a large attendance tion by the band shouldn't be le at the sale, the proceeds from tened to, but should be combatted which form so important an item and drowned by loud "doggy" talk in the yearly revenue. about nothing that really matters?

Seven-year-old. Howard: "Aunt May, are we Lpglish?"

"Yes."

Is Aunt Hattie English, too?" Yes."

Oh, thought she was a Bap tist:

She promptly cut out smok

ing cause

She doughed herself

death..

A League for Fostering Genius has just bean started. in New York, and it has announced that Mordern democratic, ideals con- it will establish a Campo Santa night be old-fashioned but I like A majority of the stock of the net with proven results of Eng where geniuses shall be buried: to listen to bund music, when so mimes Company, which publishes lish peerage heredity, according to In London, it is true, a fair num- well played as by the East Sur- the Manila Times and operates the Dr. Thurkill Cooke, noted anthropo- ber of our dead geniuses have ray's but I (and many others who Times Fress has been purchased logint, in a recent address, been gathered together, in West- felt as I did) was prevented from by Mr. Jacob Rosenthal. This Peerage is never benefited by minster and St. Paul's, but thorp doing so by the loud inanities of stock, formerly held by Mr. George marriage with lower class08, he are a good many scattered about some "dressed" people who ought H. Fairchild of Welch, Fairchild declared Families, which spring the suburbs even now. How many to have known better. I am sure Company, was offered at auction from socially homogeneous classes people know, for example, that His Excellency, the Governor, and by the International Banking Cor- party, so badly did they suffer portion, bid in by the bank and tand to show a greater preponder Hogarth is buried in Chiswick from a near-by group, felt the later transferred to Mr. Rosenthal ance of noble lendowments than Churchyard and Gainsborough at through private transaction. Me families subjected to social and Kew? One feels that while the same as I did,

Rosenthal has not announced his psychic stresses, particularly those New York centralisation scheme plans for operation of the pro-stresses arising from the intermar will save the time of pilgrims It de party. The Manila Timos, publish flage with inferior stocks not to be commended for All that. ed since 1898, has been controlled "Natural distinction and sound Posthumous fostering is often the by Mr. Fairchild since 1920 when heritage are not improved by the only recognition of genius) and at he acquired control from Filipino Introduction of elements which are the best the Sitwells might object political interests following anot in accord with a naturally ra to lying side by elde with the Ir strike of Filipino employes. tional family Intermarriage of vinge and the Troes.

In any case, whether one likes band music or not there ought to bo regard shown for ordinary theatre mannersYours, etc.,

"DRESSED". ALSO.

Hongkong, Oct. 22, 1926.