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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.

NOW IS THE TIME

TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIO FEET STORAGE CAPACITY,

OVER

1,000,000

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD:

shaped by expediency, and worked upon with the knowledge that it i really a revenue tariff, as well as a prolective one. There appears, however, to be fairly general agreement that if Mr. Bruce's plan lu dosigned specifically against the United States, as a retaliatory measure, then there is something to be sold for it. To quote a Sydney paper, we owe the United States no consideration in trade arrangements; the imports from that country vastly outvalue the exports which we send there, and If further Customs duties against us are to reduce our small exports, then we have little inducement, to trade with the United States at all."

'DAY BY DAY.

MEN WITH GREY EYES ARE GENER-

ALLY KEEN, ENERGETIC, AND AT FIRST COLD, BUT YOU MAY DEPEND UPON THEIR SYMPATHY WITH REAL SORROW, SEARCH THE BANKS OF OUR BENEVOLENT MEN AND YOU WILL AGREE WITH ME-Dr. Leask,

Tickets sold for tho Kowloon Football Club'à concert on Satur- day night totalled 661.

The P. and O. 8.8, Kashgar, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on 3rd August at 10 a.m.

The Hongkong Tramways, Ltd. has declared an interim dividend 50 cents per share, payable on the 27th instant,

SAIGON RICE MILL FAILURE.

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LIABILITIES SAID TO BE $1,500,000.

LONGKONG AFFECTED, A sensation has been caused amongst rice merchants of the Colony by the failure of one of the biggest rice mills at Saigon, with liabilities stated to amount to a million and a half dollars.

The rice mill was until recently operated by the Tu Phoug firm, under the management of Chinese who is well-known to the business 'community of the French city by reason of his large busi- The only case of notifiable dis-ness and personal connexions. ease reported during the past With a capacity of 00 tons of rice three days has been one of diph a day, the firm was an old-estab theria, the sufferer being a Chin-lished one, being closely associat

ed with the rapid development of the rice industry in Indo-China The Hongkong Football Asso-within the last decade. no denying the point that "the ciation is giving a farewell dinner Last Wednesday the rumour got majority of the people think a pro-to Mr. F. W. Black at Lane, Craw-abroad that the firm had failed, tective tariff is necessary for the ford's Restaurant, on Saturday and this, unfortunately, was con-

night. development of the country. There are, however, many low-

Among the passengers arriving tariff members on both sides in from Manila" on the President Mr and Mrs. Peter Dragon and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sampson.

Whilst the idea of a permanent high tariff, fairly general in its application, is seemingly apponede to popular wishes, there can be

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DODWELL & Co., Ltd. Parliament, and these are deter-Grant were Mr. J. K. Bousfield,

Sole Distributors HONG KONG & S. CHINA

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY ACCUST Ģ. .1929,

AUSTRALIA'S TARIFF PROBLEM.

mined to make their views felt. They want protection for the home producer, but not protection, which A naval wireless mesenge sintes that Capt. A.N. Dowding, R.N., as- will exploit the consumer for the sumed command of H.M.S. Corn- sake of inefficiency, with mana-wall yesterday afternoon in place of facturers using the tariff as a Captain the Hon. W. S. Leveson Gower, D.S.O., K.N., who will be shelter and continually seeking leaving for England in the near fo- more protection. It is, however,ture. not an easy maller to draw the

Two cyclists who appeared be- line; neither can considerations of fare Mr. T. S. Whyte, Smith at revenue be overlooked. But these the Kowloon Magistracy this morn fare issues always to be encounter-ing on charges of riding on the side of the T were Wrong ed in countries where protection is Lstated Lo have been describing the fiscal policy, and the adjual-circles on the roadway. Each ment of the conflicting aspects of defendant was fined $3. the problem is not an easy one.

Law Observance,

The Very Idea!

A new lighting device which is operated by the rise and fall of daylight is to be used on the Grosvenor Canal, which, Was reopened with a civic ceremony recently,

The Westminster City Councl! has adopted a recommendation to instal flood lighting and to apply to the electric lamps, Дв nn experiment, 71 selenium cell device.

The city engineer reported that this device was actuated by the hitensity of natural light, lighting the lamps when daylight. intensity and extinguishing them fell below a certain degree of when it rose to that point,

It was favourable oppor unity to test the invention, foggy weather which might prove to advantage when occurred suddenly,

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great.

After eight years' absence the man alighted at the young

Lions, there was no one there to station, and, despite his expecta firmed upon investigations by meet him, no one! He caught cerns which had business dealings sight of the stationmaster, a friend since boyhood. To him at least he would be welcome, with it."

and he was about to extend a the other

The Creditors.

Amongst

hearty greeting, when spoke first,

"Hello, George!" "goin' away?"

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Recently there were published firm. particulars of the record of

family, of Bures, Suffolk, in which the ages of the father and mother and nine children total 674 years.

It was found that the Tu Phong firm had incurred liabilities to the extent of between 1,100,000 and 1,400,000 plastres, which it is said to be unable to meet. the creditors affected is a foreign shipping and exportation which is said to be involved to the extent of P400,000, two banks to the extent of P70,000, a French Arm to the extent of P40,000," und a Cingalese banker to the extent of several thousand dollars. The balance is distributed amongst a number of smaller concerns.

Hongkong is closely bound up with Saigon in the rice trade, and as to the effect which this failure may have on the local market, a Chinese banker, manager of a well-known bank in Hongkong finances, rice shipments Mr. N. Jeramdas, of Messrs. which Thakurdas Jeramdis & Co., the Hon. from Saigon, when interviewed by Secretary of Sind Hindoo Mera Telegraph representative, this chants Club, was the guest of morning, sald that the local re- honour at the tea given to him by percussions are negligible. Ilo the Club on the eve of his departure said that not more than $15,000 for home on holiday last Saturday, assessed as the lose that may when Mr., G. P. Daswani, the Pro have to be borne by local mor- sident, spoke a few words apprecint- chants as a result of the fallure ing Mr. Jeramdas' duties to the of the Saigon firm. presented to the guest as a souvenir.

Club.

A silver elgarette case was

A free licence, the fee for which

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Exchange Effects.

This record is disputed by a Devonshire family. Mr. William Blackmore-who was born in the village of Homnyook, near Exeter- and his 11 sons and daughters boast of an now living can aggregate age of 772 years,

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Tramp at Lambeth-1 do not want to see a doctor. I would rather see a butcher.

Acton Magistrnic-How long have you been married? Wife Twenty years, and he has left me at last.

Young Husband at Willesden

I admit that I caught hold of my wife's arm, but that was because. there was a poker in her hand.

Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch County Court-When motor cara first came in we used to have a man with a red flag to walk in front, and we should be much Clerk at Tottenham-Your hus- safer if we had one now.

methods and uneconomleal produc- | An American writer says there is whyte Smith at the Kowloon arer the heading of contracts band provides you with sufficient

them.

woman was

BRIDGE MADE EASY

The

interesting information was also imparted by our inform- and that within the last two weeks there had also been a number of other business failures at Saigon, owing to the adverse exchange.

The piastre has been quoted at as much as 10 per cent, dis- count in exchange for local eur- rericy.

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The following notice has during the last few weeks been posted up in a certain works:-

attend the funeral of a relative "In future anyone desiring to

must give at least two days" notice before the match. By order."

In Australia, a: elsewhere, the tariff question is at the moment. commanding a good deal of atten- tion. It would appear that the Hongkong is not the only place nftitude of the Prime Minister on in the world where gambling, the subject is coming in for a deal whilst illegal, is tolerated, in some of criticism. Some little time ago, forms. Law observance, indeed, Mr. Bruce gauneinted the policy seems to be one of those thing"

He was of the opinion that the that the tariff must not be regard-endorse but that few are willing that nearly everyone is glad to

ed as # shelter for abrafete

to observe with absolute rigidity, is to be paid out of the Poor Box, failure was due to big commit was recommended by Mr. T. Sma contracted by the Tu Phang

for delivery. The heavy long-food and clothes, so how can you ficti No-one could complain atmore" loose thinking, and self- Magistracy this morning when a kong discount on the Indo-Chinese say he neglects you? Wire- thut dictum, for it has to be always deception on this matter than on middle-aged married

piastre which normally wasnt get no luxurles.

Wife at West Ham-For seven kept in mind that a tarif imposes any other phase of his country's charged with hawking without a

par with the Hongkong dollar, | obligations on the industries which national life. He takes the State licence. It was stated that the dead intervened as an adverse fac seva my husband has gone to be

fendant was the mother of four if protects.

He be- unill Monday, when he got up To protect efficient of Ohio as an example, and is at children, all of whom had to spend tor against these contracts, and on a Thursday and stayed there

is the night at the Police Station as precipitated the failure. production at home against com- pains to point that Ohio |petition from abroad is the basis generally regarded as "a law-and-result of her arrest; In caution lieved the extent of the T and signed on for the dole. 1

sake of peace. order State." But in Ohio-there in the defendant, his Worship Phong's Habilities to be as much took his food up to him for the of all protective tariffs, bat, as one

the Poor Box for a licence. are numbers of race tracks, as well ordered that she be granted $4 from as a million and a half dollars, of the Sydney papers has remark-

as strictlawa against gambling. ed. It is obviously unfair to the The State laws permit horse consumer that inefficient produc-Pacing, just, as they permit base- | fion at botte'should be protected | ball and golf; but they very plain-")

front officient protection abroad. | ly forbid any betting on Mr. Bruce, however, appears to Everybody who knows anything lavé modified his attitude lately, about horse racing Knows that no for he has intimated that the tariff track can operate for a week

The percen without betting. must be raised to paint where it

tage" from the betting machines romes practically prohibitive, He appears to have become con-If there is no betting, there is n

is what gives the track its profit,

verted to high tariff JIH L racing.. Yet, despile Ohio's strict principle, rather than as an ex-laws against betting. Ohio has pedient. Hence the criticism.

plenty of horse racing. Here's There are many factors to the the way it usually works, says our

As the bidding ends and the contract is declared, the first tariff problem, one of which is American friend:-The tracks are question which you naturally ask that adequate protection cannot be located in small suburban towns of yourself in, "How can my part guaranteed if at the same time the near the big cities. One of them ner and I win the greatest pos tari Is regarded as a means of announces a three-weeks meeting. sible number of tricks with the raising revenue. In the case of that it isn't his job to stop-racing; about the playing of your hand.

The Mayor of the village remarks cards we hold gre

There is nothing mysterious Australia, It, is admitted by her that's up to the Sheriff. The Neither genius nor a magician's

An unusual incident marked the | own economists that there is too Sheriff says that he doesn't know skill is required. What you must

much importation of

foreign anything about it, that he has know is how to manipulate your reappearance before Mr. E. W. Hamilton this morning, for an- cards to your best advantage-you | goods, The country's yearly trade tereived no complaints, and that must understand the mechanics of other formal remand, of the four balances ave usually adverse, he can't enter the village to make game. This knowledge can be accused in the Sincere Company which is not'u healthy sign. Com-arrests unless the Mayor calls on rained by any person who devotes jewellery robbery,

A One of the recused, charged I statement in a cable from pared with Canada, which shows him for help. State, officials say a little time to the study of bridge

New York, re- anually

a considerable excess of that the whole mutter is up to the methods and watches others play with the major offence of carrying Reuter's agency,

As in bidding there are certain out the actual burglary, was seem- porting the purchase by exports over imports, Australia is local authorities. So, with every-fundamental principics governing ingly in great distress as, through American of Nelson's furniture on a Kwangsi interpreter, he asked II.M.S. Victory is described by But the body "passing the buck," the race the playing of the cards. These pour position. trouble is that if imports are re-meeting is held, a lot of money principles you must master if you for his immediate relee.

is bet quite openly, and everybody You must know what card to lend

want to be an average winner. He explained that he had a 70-ipaccurate and misleading." duced, the main source of revenue

is happy-except, mayle, the and what card to play after your year-old mother up at Wuchow, mementoes, which are still in the. for the Federal Government also familles, of the luckless wage-opponent leads you must know whom he was anxious to rėjoin.

Indeed, it was because earners who have lost more money when to take a trick and when to She would be heartbroken if she fore cabin where he ivft them on imports were reduced beyond ex-than they could afford. To decrifice one so that you may cap. were informed of his present pogi- loan last October, Mr. Feueriieord

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by W.W.Wentworth

Logie Versus Luck-v

ture more tricks later.

Lam Thi, the manager of the Ta Phong Arm, la reported to be missing. In his absence, the bus ness of liquidation has been placed in the hands of a Court official, who is to subject the ne- counts to a close investigation.

SINCERY COMPANY

ROBBERY.

ACCUSED MAN'S PLEA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

tion.

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pectation that the Federal Treasure, the tracks don't have every- suror reported a deficit of two and thing their own way. If there are and suggested plays are included Magistrate on this request.",

Many conventions, rules, tables No comment was made by the a half millions sterling in his last too many meetings in one place, In this series. To teach them all The hearing of the case was account. It seema logical to business suffera-and the business by rote is not the function of the fixed for Tuesday next, at 2.15 expect, therefore, that if, by a pen spouk to the Sheriff, and the following chapters. The author's increased tariff, the Customs re-But where the track owners are tools" of the game. In bridge It law gets enforced beautifully, alm is rather to develop a rational understanding, of the "working venue is reduced still further, an "reasonable", they are not inter-is not sufficient to know merely

Another week's formal remand even bigger defiċit will be witness- fered. with. Here is what this how to accomplish a result, If was given by Mr. T. B. Whyte ed next year. This, in turn, will American writer says in conclud-you are to derive the maximum Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy involve retrenchment in services,ing:-"It's pretty nearly time we pleasure. out of playing, demand yesterday in the case in which

the reason for overy suggested Chinese is charged with murder some of which are of vital impor-slopped kidding ourselves about play. The greater your desire to big an Indian constable near the tance to the Commonwealth. The law enforcement and modified know the logic of the manoeuvre, Kun Chung Market, Yaumati. His trouble with Australia apparently some of those other laws that we the keener will be your interest in Worship reserved the afternoons Improving your game and playing of the 21st, 22nd., 29rd. and 27th is that the tariff has usually been don't really intend to enforce."

better bridge.

for the hoaring of the case,

When two men were sentenced at Nottingham recently for income.* tax frauds it was stated that in 14 years the aggregate of income tax, super tax and excess profits duty evaded amounted to £14,160,

John Morris, 50, laundry pro- prietor, was sentenced to six. months In the second division and fined £1,000, and William John West, 64, necountant, was tenced to three months in the second division.

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A redeeming feature was that the whole of the money had been pald by Morris with the exception of a small balance of £60,

The girl who married an old man excused herself by remarking that if anyone offered you a cheque for £10,000 you would not stap to exainlue the date.

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Mr L. M. Feuerheerd as "wholly

As sole owner of these historic

writes that he has never relaxed

is efforts to find a purchaser patriotic enough to keep "these antional heirlooms on the old ship where they rightfully belong."

"They have been in my family for three generations," he adds, "and it is with deep regret that I' ind myself compelled to part. with them."

At the end of the eighth round the badly bruised boxer told his second that he could go on no The second objected. longer. "But," pleaded the boxer, "I can, hardly see him."

"Never mlad," said the second. "hit him frois memory."