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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1929.

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR "TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET

STORAGE CAPACITY.

OVER

1,000,000

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

DAY BY DAY.

* CORRESPONDENCE.

A Chinese case of small-pox Was notified yesterday,

Imported Goods.

ITo The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

The Very Idea!

An Irishman appointed surveyor. to a Welsh Council in a valley which suffered badly from floods caused this warning to be posted: "Notice is hereby given that when Sir-in your yesterday's issue, this board is under water thig road. "Puzzled" puts up a rather puzz- | is impassable.”

"Why should |prices of imported commodities go up if the value of the local cur-

Gunner A. J. Steele has been ap-ling question: pointed to H.M.S., Suffolk.

hed with the Government's treat- ment of this question. It has, how ever, to be borne in mind that

WHEN CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT the problem is one of immense BULEB THEY SHOULD ALSO DE magnitude, full of complexities, TAUGHT WHEN THEY MAY BREAK and that, having been in office for THEM.-James Calcutt. about four months, the Government could hardly be expected to come forward with a

out-and-dried scheme to solve it. A deal of time and energy has been spent by Mr. Thomas in studying the manifold aspects of the question, and it would obviously be unfair to con- demn the Government until it has had the opportunity of disclosing its plans and putting them into ef-Shanghai, is due here on Friday feét. "There aro many other domestic issues which will engage the attention of Parliament before the next Recess, and amongst these is the coal problem, to which we re-

The Tea Dance at the Helena at length yesterday, and May on Thursday next has been. ferred which is likely to test both the cancelled owing to lack of support. sincerity and ability of the Govern--Advt. ment.

The appointment of Lieut. A. V.rency declines ?"" Walker to H.M.S. Titania is an- nounced.

The P. and O. 8.

afternoon.

Nagpore, from

The closing rate of the dollar on demand yesterday 18. 8. 13/16d.

WAS

..

The Captain and officers of So far as we have been able to H.M.S. Titania are to be **At judge from Home comments, the Home" to all officers of the Naval public is still in a mood, to give the Dockyard and establishment and Government a fair chance of maktheir friends at 11 am. on Satur

day. ing good; indeed, few Governments

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HONG KONG & S. CHINA

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The wedding of Mr. C. W. E. Bishop to Miss Marjorie M. Hansen will take place at St.

Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Wednesday, 20th November, at 3 p.m. and afterwards at the Peninsula Hotel. No invita

stances betokening a greater de- sire in all quarters, excepting among the

extreme elements, to show what it can do. In the sphere of foreign politics, where weak- ness was expected by its critics, Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues have won high praise, especially in regard to Mr. Snowden's spirited stand at The Hague and Premier's mission to the United States. We do not, therefore, anti-

the

י,

Well, I am of the opinion that even prices for goods produced locally will gradually rise, If the present low rate of the Hongkong dollar remains steady for a period

of more than a few months; and in order to avoid further misunder standing between local retallers and their customers I think it is time to give some explanation about the position created by the fall of the dollar.

I will not dwell further on the question, whather it was 'right and advisable to force down the rate, of the Hongkong dollar to silver parity, and whether it is really necessary for Hongkong to have Its currency on a silver instead of a gold basis. The fact is that the present value of the Hongkong dollar is about 10% lower than it was a few weeks ago.

An informal social evening is to

I believe nobody will blame a be held at the V.RC. on Saturday commencing at 9 am, at which the merchant who tries to sell his Championship prizes won during goods at least at the value he the swimming season will be pre-purchased them. Now take re instance that a retailer purchased sented,

and paid for goods in Sep-

the

A warrant has been issued for tember. The real value of these the arrest of Chin Kwan, alius goods did not change in Oc- Chui Kwai-chung, aged 40, an ac-tober; but the value of countant of the Kwang Hung Sang, of 400, Queen's Road West, on a charge of larceny by bailee of a sum of $120.

•

A Concert will be given at the

"Huah!" says the expert, finger

ou lip,

"It's a secret! Do not give it,

away:

But all the same you can take

my tip,

Whatever you see around you

to-day,

Before the autumn' has bared

the trees

Skirts will be reaching below

the knees.

"There may be a 'protest here

and there.

For the girl with the prettiest

knees prefors

To give them plenty of light

and air,

But the final decision is hard-

ly hers

And she who desires to be

smartly dressed

Must needs fall into line with the

rest." ..

Thus the oracle speaks, and

yot Prophetic howlers are not un.......

known.'

I know the sex, and I can't

forget

That woman has a mind of her

own.

And if it happens to be her

will

To show us her knees we shall

see them still.

Hongkong dollars-which he paid for the goods and which he will obtain again when selling the cargo-declined in the meantime by about 10%. In other words,

"Let's see. Your nephew attain. the dollar we had a month ago ed his majority several months that a local retailer is justified

"Yes," replied honest Farmer in increasing the prices for his goods by 10% now, in order to Hornbeak, "but it ain't a working make good for depreciation of the majority even yet." dollar, and in order to get back the same value of his goods which he paid for them,

tions will be issued but.allcipate any serious attacks on the Helena May on Thursday 7th Nov. Therefore, I am of the opinion ago, didn't he?"

friends will be cordially wel- comed.

Government's foreign policy. It is on purely domestic issues that Labour

Including two new Musical Masterpiece The wedding of Miss Mary Kot muy expect some trouble.

Series.

No. 56 Le Cid-Ballet (Massenet) By Alfred Hertz & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

No. 55

"Symphony No 6 in GMajor- Surprise" (Haydn) By Serge Koussevitzky & Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Whether

wall. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. that trouble will be serious depends E. D. Kotwall, to Dr. M. B. Osman, M.D., of the Univer- largely on the statesmanship which sity of Hongkong, will be the Government leaders display in solemnised on Friday, 8th No-handling the problems with which will be given at the Roof Gar-it will be called upon to deal.' den of Hongkong Hotel at B.80 p.m. ad invitations are be- ing issued, but all friends are

tion.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY OOT. 30, 1929.

LABOUR'S TASK.

往

the' cause

at 6.30 p.m. (Classical, Music.) or ganised by Madame Bonenfaunt. Tickets may be booked in advance. Teas must be booked; please ring Matron C. 2160.-Advt.

She threw her husband at me The body of a Chinese, which

to prevent me getting at her."- was found yesterday at the Cause The opinion of “Puzzled" that Woman, at Feltham, way Bay Typhoon Shelter, has after the fall of the dollar a keaner Deaf man with one eye at Mary- been identified as that of a boy competition among foreign expor-lebone: You passed a rude re- named Cheung Ping, who was re-ters would force down prices of mark which I never heard on the ported missing from cargo boat our Imports is entirely wrong. The blind side of me. No. 5709 on Monday morning;

who

The British Legion is anxious to obtain photographs or prints of Earl Haig, or locally drawn posters or pictures applicable to Armistice Day, to be auctioned or raffted for the benefit of the Poppy Day Funds. Such contributions will be most gratefully received and should be sent to Mr. H. R. Remington. Assistant Secretary. Poppy Day Sub-Committee, C/o Harry Wick- ing and Co., Prince's Building.

Wm. Powell, Ltd., have issued

foreign exporter is not concerned Street trader at North London at all in the rate of the Hongkong Court: I thought onions were a dollar. He is selling his gooda domestic article.. not only to Hongkong but all over the world, and his prices are more or less fixed on a gold basis. good the difference of the local exchange by paying accordingly more Hongkong dollars for "the imported commodities.

is up to the local importer to make

H

TWO LADS ATTEMPT

SUICIDE.

RESCUED BY SEAMEN AND SENT TO HOSPITAL.

A lower value of a local currency invariably mean higher prices for imported goods and in the long

Rescued by two Chinese acamen, run higher prices for goods pro-named Au Yan and Li Lo, who are duced locally too.

employed on the eteum launch Sea- Enclosing my card,-Yours, etc. gull, Li Cheung and Chag Hok, two

INFLATION.

Hongkong, Oct. 30th, 1929,

"Masks of the Devil"

Chinese lads, aged 20 and 19 res- pectively, have been sent to the Kowloon Hospital, after attempting suicide by jumping into the har- bour,

The Air Mail Disaster.

The shocking "feature of the Amongst the passengers cordially invited to the recep "City of Rome" disaster lies in the left by the Blue Funnel liner Aeneas terrible experience of the victims for Home yesterday was Sir in the few hours before the air- Percival Phillips, K.B.E., the well- liner was overwhelmed. Beside it, known Daily Mail special corres- seems to lose its impondent, who has been studying conditions in North China. Mrs. portance. The feelings which Hawker and children, and Mr. must have been aroused in the P. H.. Tiedemann' left by the same breasts of Captain L. S. Birt and boat. his companions when the Famiglia chanced upon their battered machine, and the ghastly reaction inevitable upon their observation of the hopelessness of the rescue efforts in such an angry gale, can Parliament has again reassem-be imagined all too easily. The rise bied, after the Summer Recess, of hope and its destruction is some with every prospect of the Labour thing which we could wish they Government having to face an Op had been spared, though some

The boys, who are natives" of position which, whilst giving It slight consolation" may be derived

Namhol, arrived at the Canton every chance of showing what it from the tribute to their unflinch

Wharf on board the 8.8. Kwangsi can do, will be disposed to ask for ing courage in the face of death,

an attractive 20-page catalogue of bion, to the film coming to

Sir.I should like to draw atten- at about midnight on Monday, and deeds as well as words. The Mac-paid by the master of the Famiglia, their outätting services, covering Queen's to-morrow, The Maske into the water by their rescuers, the they were apparently seen to jump Beyond all shadow, of doubt, the all ranges of men'e Donald Administration exists by little Italian steamer of which he price list was compiled before the bert, Aima Reabens and Eva von land, handed them over to the water wear. The of the Devil," featuring John Gil-who, after getting them safely to courtesy of the Liberals and Con- had command did all that was drop in the dollar, but fortunately Berne, a newcomer, I saw servatives, for if these two parties humanly possible to avert the the firm's financial arrangements Am in Vancouver and was much

the police. were to join handy in the division tragedy. In this case, however, preclude the necessity of raising impressed by it-it is a most in-

prices, and those quoted in the list lobby, it could quickly be ousted the elements were unmerciful. In will be maintained until the end of treating and a well-produced pic- from office. But whilst this is so, all the circumstances, the attitude the season. All interested can

ture. I consider the last riarmed we cannot imagine either party adopted by the business men of secure copies of the catalogue on artiste "steals" the film. She a WHO WAS-?

Calcutta with regard to the Indian application to this popular store. making the attempt except on air mail must be regarded as a some issue of vital importance in little unreasonable. It is natural

The September number of the which "the Labour attitude runs that two mishaps on the route in Silver Wolf, the local organ of contrary to popular opinion. To the course of two months should the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides turn the Government out merely tent, but we see no reason to con- number contains a letter from undermine confidence to some ex Associations, is, as might be ex-

pected, an interesting one. for the sake of doing so would be demn a properly organised long-General Lord Robert Baden Powell disastrous to those responsible. Mr. distance service as being any more to Mrs. Southorn thanking her for Lloyd George only recently stated adventurous than a cross-Channel photographs of the inspection by that the Liberals would have no flight. The vision is narrow which H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester of hand in any premature attempt to conceives such a view. The Jask the Boy Scouts and Girl Guldes, and some helpful data on the eject the Labourities from office. mishap was the result of the World Jamboree. There are also.

sheerest ill-fortune. No previous the usual features, We may depend that the Conserva-

case had. ever been reported of tives also realise the danger of any wing-tip flares getting fire to the false step at the present moment. wing of an aeroplane.. and it was ment when a crowded bus from The Legislative Council is to Whilst the Opposition, however, theorised that there had been a leak Repulse Bay on Sunday evening, meet to-morrow afternoon, when has to move as warily as the Gov of petrol, the spray from which, shortly before dusk, was been to the Attorney General will move. ernment within the next few blown along the wing, rendered it be emitting flames from near the second reading of the follow

the wheels, while going downing Bills. months, there are not wanting highly inflammable. While it was Stubbs Road, and a passer-by.

impossible to confirm this theory, warned the driver, who promptly afons with respect to the British An Ordinance to make provi aigns that Labour will have to

the mishap was so extraordinary came to a stop. It was found Mercantile Marine Uniform. utilise all its resources if it is to as to be unaccountable otherwise. that the friction of the brake remain in office. Mr. J. H. Thomas There is clearly no cause for hasty shoes had been so great that a has predicted

that the present judgment. Those who have looked small blaze had resulted, but it Government will last another four on the removal of the frontiers of was put out immediately, with

• fire extinguisher. possibility we paraphrase a re- years, whilst Mr. Snowden is con- cent article-and watched the doing fident that if it does so it will have of what never had been done and The following forthcoming wed-Female Domestic Service Ordin-

The

There was considerable excite-

announeed:—Mr.

excellent with her first and only opportunity. understand she re- not receiving farther chances on turned to Germany heart-brokin at

the screen. One wonders why.--

Yours, etc.,

A Lover Of JUSTICE.

COUNCIL MEETING

TO-MORROW.

SEVEN BILLS FOR SECOND READING.

An Ordinance to amend the Uni- forms Ordiance, 1895.

An Ordinance to amend the Pro- tection of Women and Girls, Ordin- ance, 1897.

An Ordinance to amend the.

achieved such a record of work that never could be done till then, may dings are it will be sent back to power again arce is no vain thing. To trans-R. A. F. Base, Kai Tak, to Miss

rightly feel that British porsever Donald William Gallaher, airman, ance, 1923.

An Ondinance to amend the with an independent majority. But late imagination into physical truth frene, Rachel Raymond, No. 11, Watchmen Ordinance, 1928. that is locking rather far ahead. has become the privilege and func- Humphrey's Building, Kowloon; An Ordinance to amend the In- There are any number of controvertion of this age. It confronts Private George Brown, 2nd. Bat-dustrial Employment of Children sial issues due to come to the fore humanity with a fresh challenge in talion, King's Own Scottish Bor-Ordinance, 1922.

The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton the progress of the mechanism 1 dorers, Murray Barracks, to Miss in the immediate future. The unhas created. Can there be a strain Elizabeth Aaron, nurse, No. 80, is to move the second reading of employment problem is one of these of manhood that does not have its The Peak: Dr. L Tsoo-yu, No. 8A, an Ordinance to provide for the The extreme element in the vision of potency enlarged as dis- Babington Fath, to Miss Jane incorporation of the Trustees of tance is dwarfed and time le made Wong, nurse, Sisters Quarters, the, Chater Masonic Scholarship Labour Party is by no means satis- to double its harvest 7

Government Civil Hospital.

Fund.

Harold Skimpole.

As an artist, Harold. Skim- pole was a mere amateur, but as a sponger he may be said to have definitely attained pro- fessional standards.

He possessed to a high de- grec those two essential quali- ties of the sponger, charm, and selfishness. So cheerful and sweet-tempered he was, so plea- sant a' Volce he had, auch a brilliant and fascinating talkér he always proved, that his friends were consistently do ceived by his calculated gulle- lessness and ingenuousness, and rescued him from a deb tor's prison over and over again.

* Somebody always does it for me, you know, Let us drink to Somebody, God bless him the bright little creature was wont blandly to observé, carefully Ignoring the fact that more often than not the Some: body was his "friend", John Jarndyce, who finally turned against him. One would have thought that the memory of benefits received would have' remained with Skimpole, but not in his diary he dilated at length on Jarndyce's selfish-

nese

Bleak House when it drat appeared gave considerable offence in some quarters, for in Harold Skimpole, Dickens was clearly satirising his fellow- writer Leigh Hunt.