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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 8, 19 0.

THE DOLLAR.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

1930.

ter to what point exchange may de cline. This is a very vital question In view of the debased condition of the white metal," which fa rapidly becoming a neglected and despised commodity for currency purposes.

DAY BY DAY.

WHAT IS USEFUL IS BEAUTIFUL Socrates,

Five further cases of smali-pox were notified yesterday. All were Chinese.

SHOULD EXTRALITY BE ABOLISHED?

(Continued from Page: 1.)

Sauce For the Goose. Even to-day this strict limitation of foreign movement in the country persists, and the Chinese author It is advertised that the fall ex-ities in declaining against inequal press tram service between Kowity forget that whereas their own loon and Canton will be resumed nationals have quite extraordinary to-day.

freedom of movement, protection before the law, and liberty of mak ing money and owning property in foreign countries, foreigners in China are hedged about with all

Mr.

Eduard Michaelsen, of Tsingtao, will be admitted as a partner in the firm of Messrs.manner of restrictions.. Melchers & Co., as from January 31.

+

The Very Idea!

Thus a writer in a Home paper: A Guildford reader risks me what, is the tallest building in London. used for commercial purpocas," and- whether London's tallest can also claim the record for theao islands. I understand that the tallest com mercial building in London is the new. Underground Railway offices at St. James's Park, the top of tho tower being apme 180 feet above the pavement. With regard to the rest of England I am afraid that I" have no data, though I know that there are some very tall buildings at Liverpool, Visitors from New York, of course, regard these, as more bungalows.

Taking stock of the situation, we cannot but feel that the Colony'e greatest need is a stabilised cur- rency. Fluctuations, in whichever direction, are bad. That fact, of Itself, seems to us to damn the Inking of our dollar with a com- modity subject to constant change in intrinsic value. Above all, the present tendency of the dollar must obviously kill what remains of our import trade, put up prices of neces- aflics, cause demands for higher wages, and greatly increase the cost of government, since the con- tinued fall will mean further de- mands to meet the civil servants' exchange compensation allowances, On striking a balance, therefore, we seen in danger of losing much and gaining little. Finally, we cannot is to be re-appointed to H.M.S.foreign nationality and so contract grimly, "that's just 11

·

The diffculty which a Chinesa mandarin felt in earlier years when a case concerning a foreigner came

A alage carpenter went to the The forthcoming wedding is an-Up made it a source of genuino re- lief that foreign countries should nounced of Mr. Lawrence James undertake to deal with him. And theatre manager one day and asked. Grimtha, of the P.W.D., realding at Empress Lodge, Kowloon, since the system was substantially for an increase in his wages. The "Why," lo exclaimed, "I really" Beatrice Mary Brown, No. 6, Wing confined to the treaty ports, China manager appeared surprise...

as a whole was scarcely affected,

That there have been abusca la don't see my way to giving you a Lok Buildings, Kowloon,

probable, but less in the jurisdic-rise! You have nothing much to tion exercised over foreigners than do. Half the time you are merely Commander II. T. Murphy,

the play." tions have allowed Chinese and peo-

"Yes, sir," replied the carpenter, whose promotion to his present in the loose way in which some na- standing in the wings listening to rank was gazetted some days ago,ple of other nationalities to acquire Kent on promotion. The Com-out of responsibilities which they mander is attached to the Ad should have borne in China. There is, however, no evidence that these abuses were wide-spread, while abusos can be rectified,

miral's staff.

resist the argument which has re- cently been put forward that there has already been enough tinkering with our currency. The obvious

Hanging out some washing on need le te employ the services of the first floor of 109, Whitfield an expert to advise the Colony on Hond, Chang Yu, a married woman the best means of coping with the aged 28, overbalanced and fell on situation. If we can engage ex- to the road beneath. She injured her spine and is now receiving perts, as we have done, to advise us treatment in the Government Civil on port development and cerebro-Hospital. spinal meningitis, then surely in

cu.

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What Is Extrality?

The question however which the Powers must put clearly to them- selves before they assent to the high Nationalist doctrine is what would happen if the system were abolished and to what extent does. it, in fact, infringe Chinese sover-

such vital matter, as currency, A misßre during blasting opera-eignty as at present administered? This latter question is less im- which affects each and every one of tions at Boundary Street, Sham- us, a like policy should be follow-shuipo, yesterday evening, caused portant since, given the revolution- In Cheung, a stone-breaker agedary psychology, it is desirable, what- history may 30, to be seriously injured in the ever justification head and neck. He was taken to indicate, to abolish it at the the Kowloon Hospital and detain first possible moment, in order to ed, his condition giving some rise remove causes of friction and mis- understanding. To answer the to anxiety.

first question it is necessary to examine two points."

Smallpox Treatment.

Shanghai's

concern over

the

slump in the exchange value

The attitude of Government medical authorities in the matter:

the

4

Among the passengers on board of the threatened smallpox epidemic, the Empress of Russia due to ar-

What, in brief, is extrality; and how does it work? and What is the present alternative?

(Conversation is a dying art be- cause many people do not know what to talk about, we are told.)

When politics are boring, and the

weather's been_maligned, And "shop" has been taboo in

all directions,

And nothing worth discussion or

Indictment comes to mind And we slowly drift to feeblo

interjections, .

We may brighten up proceedings

and inspira some repartes, (If we find a kindred soul of

that persuasion).

By the challenging suggestion

that, as far as we can see, We're a fearful.lot of duds at

conversation:

She: "Have you any poor rela- tione?"

He "Not one that I know."!- She: "Have you rich relations?” He: "Not one that knows me.”“. An Irish sailor and an Irish slaker were having a private fight; and the crowd they drew stopped.. the traffic

"What were you fighting about?" "Ah, just nothing at all, sir, replied John Ryan, the sailor. "It was just a friendly argument."

tuel is no kreater than that of

as revealed by the brief discussion rive at Hongkong on the 18th in- Mr. George Hogg,

Our contributor sceke an answer Hongkong at the continued drop at yesterday's meeting of the Sani-stant are

to these questions in the second in the rate of the local dollar... Wetary Bonn, must on the whole bej Manager. National City Bank, have now reached a point at which regarded is satisfactory. No dis-Shanghai, and Mr. and Mrs. H. instalment of his article which will it looks as if our dollar, reckoned position to fall in with Mr. M. K. Burgess. Mr. Burgess is Superin-appear in the "Telegraph" to-mor-Inquired the Magistrate.

Lendent Engineer of the C. P. rate. The third and last instalment

will be published on Friday.] 11 S.S. Ltd., at Vancouver..

Rend-

The police at Central quarters have in their possession a sum of English money, which has been brought to them by Hong- king, a shop coolie in Pedder Street, who discovered it after It had apparently been left there by claimed for at the Central Police

CINEMA NOTES.

"EVANGELINE" BELIEVED

BASED ON FACTS.

"You've Raved my life and I'd give you $5, but, unfortunately, I have only a $10,bill."

"Never mind--Jump in the river agnin

EXCHANGE RATES.

in terms of sterling, will full to a Lo's well-intentioned but ill-advised lower level than has ever been ex-suggestions was shown; on the con- perienced before. Even as matters rary, it was made fairly clear, that the Government places no reliance are, we have to go back more than a in methods of Inducing voluntary quarter of a century to find a rate notification of smallpox cases, and us adverse ne that of yesterday, does not meditate experiments with which, it is interesting to note, is that end in view. It was pointed only about a farting above the out that the only real solution for Colony's record low rate. Finan-smallpox epidemies in the vaccina a customer. The money can be einl circles predict that the bottom had not even yet been renched; if that be borne out by future develop ments, the Colony would appear to be in for a very lean time.

Our own problema and those of Shanghai are admittedly not quite en all fours; many varying factors abvious that mere compliance with School and Trinity, where he ob hood in northern Maine, near the Amsterdam

ton of the population on the widest possible scale. Some slight ambi-Station. guity regarding the treatment of patients in their homes was pro- bably unintentional. We

should have liked a clear statement on the affietal standpoint, but it was not forthcoming. It must or should be

home for

все We

the

Honours in

Edwin Carewe, the well known version of "Evangeline" starring Alm director, has completed a screen Dolores Del Rio in the title role which will be at the Queen's Theatre Paris to-morrow. The film is a faithful Genuve

Berlin transcription of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's immortal love epic.

Prague

Rio

Mr. J. A. Gaunt, B.A., who was recently appointed to the staff of St. Stephen's College, Stanley, 'has

Longfellow was a, Professor at Athens been elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr. Harvard University when he wrote Buenos Aires

was educated at Rugby "Evangeline" and because the poet Hongkong Gaunt

was born and spent his early boy- New York the conditions enumerated by the tained 1st Class

Canadian border, many have bo- Stockholm

Vienna contribute to the difference. None Head of the Sanitary Department Mathematics last year. He is ex-

Heved he heard of the deportation

Madrid Stephen's in the less, we do seem to have reach-is not sufficient to ensure that por-

at St. pected

of the Acadians in his youth and February,

Bucharest ed a stage in which we have this mission

elaborated on his memory pictures Bombay treatment

of their trials and romantic ad- Yokohama much in common-a real anxiety will be given. If We Aro

The Hon. Mr. Justice Richard ventures when, in later life, he had Brussels regarding

in this, thes exchange tendencies, mistaken

Feetham, C.M.G., of the Supreme time for reflecthin and flig command Milan As we view the matter, Hongkong sooner

the repeal of Court of South Africa, who is on of language to paint a poetic pic- Copenhagen Helsingfors is worse off than Shanghai, for the the Board's resolution, to which we his way to Shanghai to act tem-ture of his drearms.

Much of Lonfellow's poem Lisbon simple reason that we are not pro-strongly object in principle, permit. porarily as an expert adviser to

based on historical fact ting treatment in- homes, the bet the Shanghai Municipal Council is

Shanghai ducers, whereas Shanghai is; in

ter. Surely the situation of the in regard to certain municipal and though his well remembered Silver (spot).

lincs are lyrical narrative only, Silver (forward) other words, that we have very little premises must be a prime factor: problems arising out of the pre-

of the British Wireless, with which to offset the rising costs it would be little short of scandal-sent political situation, arrived in they do describe much

Hongkong yesterday: from South sweetness of Acadian iffe and much of imported goods: It is not our logs, for instance, if a person sick in Africa on the Kawachi Maru.

of its hardship rather accurately.

However, it is said Longfellow intention at the moment to delve an overcrowded Lenement house was

never visited Louisiana in his life into the intricacies of the exchange allowed to remain because the in-

time and his description of the. problem; as we have anid before, mates submit themselves to vaccina-

bayous, the Tečhe country and the tion. Disinfection, which is the

subtropical topography must have there are two opposing schools of

been supplied by another. most important counter-measure thought on the question as to who after vaccination, cannot as far as ther it pays this Colony to have we can see be properly carried out, a high or`n low dollar. We do aug strangers are probably passing, in gest, however, looking at the mat- und out of the house, In fact, every ter merely from the point of view law for combating disease would He is one man by day and

STOLEN DIAMONDS

POSSESSION.

MAN WHO FAVOURS TWO

SUIT STYLES..

of the layman, that, up to the pre-incvllably be set at nought. Gen- another

man by night," said

sent, Hongkong has not profited by eral disinfection should be carried Detective Sergeant Mottram, at

In the Evangeline country: of Louisiana it is said that Judge Voorhies, grandfather of the presi sent Judge James Simon of St. Martiniville, told Mr. Longfellow the story of an Emmaline La Biche, an Acadian girl, while he was a student at Harvard and that the post wrote his most celebrated verse around this information.

Whether Emmaline La Biche was

Evangeline or not is still a mystery, In Louisiana, the Acadian settlers

the Central Police Court this morning, when charging a Chinese with the possession of

two diamonds, part of a ladies, orna- ment, valued at $200, believed to

of the Evangeline country pay hom- | have been stolen.

ago to the memory of Evangeline at The comment was occasioned by an unmarked grave. The poet the fact that, over his native states that Evangeline les buried in clothing, the accused was wearing a churchyard in Philadelphia, where

a European suit.

London, Jan. 7.

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34,02%

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WHO WAS..

GAMELYN?

The Cook'a:

Talo Gamen", one of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales, supplied "Shakespeare with several of the characters in "As You Like It," Gamelyn himself being the prototype or Orlando,

the forcing down of its dollar to out on premises as soon as a small- pox case is discovered. Perhaps the silver parity. Indeed, we see no- 31.0.11. will tell us how this can be thing in the present state of the adequately carried out with a pa- Colony's trade to cause us to depart tent in the house. Instead of from our previously expressed view making conditions caster, the Gov- that the chunge has actually been ernment would better serve the in- injurious. If it were true that the terests of public health by abolish

· | Gabriel is at rest: However, Phil- high dollar was adversely affecting ing home treatment,

A Chinese delective on duty at adelphians say there in no grave trade; then it should follow as a

a pawnshop In Des Voeux Road stone to attest this fact and the natural corollary that a low dollar"

Central stated that he questioned mystery of Evangeline, like the fan The return of the number of the man as he came in to pawn spiring Longfellow poem continues would automatically improve it. cases of notifiable diseases which the diamonds, The man then to hold the interest of new mil- Has it done so? We sce no ovi occurred in the Colony during the said that the stones belonged to allons of people with succeeding dence of it. Let us take the point week ending January 4 shows the sister-in-law, who was in Canton year.: further. Even granting, for the following: Typhold 4 cases (two Other evasive replies were receiv- Bake of argument, that the dollar Chinese, two non-Chinese): Small-ed and after being led upon a was too high four months ago, did pox 27 cases (all Chinese), and 29 deaths. Diphtheria 2 cases (both It follow that the only remedy was Chinese) and 1 death. Influenza

obtain confirmation of his story, Wild-goose chase, in an attempt to THE PRINCE OF WALES. the police now charged him with felonious possession.

to revert to a silver basis? Was one death (Chinese), Malaria 11 A previous conviction for KENILWORTH CASTLE REACHES

no half-way measure possible? It deaths (Chinese) and Tuberculo would also be interesting to know is 46 deaths (Chinese). The re- whether those responsible for the cord for the 24 hours ending the drop in the dollar favour absolute 6th inst. shows 3 cases (Chinese) adherence to silver parity, no

no mat of smallpox,

felonious intent was proved against the prisoner, and he was labour. An order for police con sentenced to four months hard fiscation of the diamonds was Ugiven by Mr. Graptism.

AMADEIRAJE,

"Madeira, Jan. 7. is on his way to Cape Town Aboard HRH the Prince of Wales, who the Kenilworth Castle, arrived Madeira to-dayRevier,

The youngest son of Sie Johan de Boundys, he was scur- vily treated by his eldest bro ther, Johan, after. bis father's death. On one occasion Johan

ordered his servants to best Gamelyn, but the youth laid

about them so lustily with ad stave that they were glad to de sist. Af another time Johan had Gamelyn bound to a tree, and left to starve. With the help of a faithful old retainer – Adim, he escaped and fled Into the greenwood, where ho joined merry band of outlaws, whose leader he eventually, became, i

Johan still pursued his btn- "ther with quenchless hatred and - Jealousy, :- He had the outle

arrested and cast into prison) but his unnatral, wicked recolled upon his own hou at the assize his were revealed, not Gamelyn, who: demned to death.

Oh the second brot