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THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO LIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.

OVER

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FRIDAY JANUARY 10, 1930.

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DAY BY DAY.

THERE IS NO GREATER HANDICAP IN LIFE THAN A DISTINGUISHED FA- THER-Engieman.

Injured in the left leg by a plate falling on him, a coolie employed at the Taikoo Dock was admitted into the Government Civil Hospital yes terday.

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

**TELEGRAPH” FILES,

The Very Idea!

A summons taken out against member of the American Embassy nine at his home at Surbiton was for wasting water by using a hoso withdrawn on a plea of diplomatic privilege. I must confess (says a The rate of the dollar on de- commentator) that the alleged of- mand was 1s. 8d.

fender has my sympathy. If mem- bers of foreign embassies can re main "Wet" in "Dry" Washington, it would be hard to enforce a "Dry": law in" "Wet" England against an American diplomat. Beside, no. good American can be blamed for not taking a “Dry" edict seriously,

The Portuguese Lilliputians presented "The Geisha" Club Lusitano,

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at the

converted · Singapore from one of the cheapest places in the world in which to live to one of the dearest, and that the pinning of the currency to silver was bound, in the long run, to lead to bank-

The following extracts are from Yesterday's return of notifiable the Hongkong Telegraph for week ruptcy. Eventually, of course,

diseases shows three casco of | ended January 9th, 1909. Singapore fixed its dollar, and' Itanill-pox and two of diptherla remains stable to-day. There had All were Chinese. been an effort some years " pre- ; viously to induce Hongkong mer chants to join with the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in pressing Tor fixity of exchange, but, un- not fortunately this Colony did feel inclined to co-operate. None the Jess, so keenly did the Chinese Commercial Union in Hongkong fect on the subject, knowing from practical experience what baneful results were being experienced from the deeling in silver, that they decided to make representa- tions to the Government to Institute an Inquiry into the whole problem with a view to establish- ing a fixed basis for the Colony.

The whole trouble, of

course.. has arisen because this Colony, like China, has adhered to silver when it had long been apparent

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THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.

More Interesting Pictures To-Morrow.

Once again, the Telegraph Art Supplement to-morrow will contain many pletures of topical interest to readers,

Amongst the illustrations there will be three showing the official landing of Sir Mur- chieon Fletcher at Suva,..on assuming the Governorship of Fiji. These will be found most interesting to many resi dents who knew Sir Murchison during his lengthy service in Hongkong,

Of wedding pictures will be those of Mr. W.D. Fidden Wilson and Miss Leila Clarke,. Mr. J.N. da Silva and Miss Maria AM. Riberio at Maeno, and of Dr. Edward Sun and Miss Constance Quan.

will Other photographs show the fancy dress carnival at the Kowloon Football Club on New Year's Day and the children's sports at the Police Recreation Club.

Ab the annual meeting of the" Hongkong Chess Club, Mr. ynow Sir Henry) Pollock was reappoint ed President and Mr. P. A. Re- zario Hon. Secretary.

It was atated at the Ellis Kadooric School prize-giving that one of the Chinese students had attended school for six years with- oul once, being absent.

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There was published a memoran- dum by H.E. the Governor (Sir Frederick Lugard) setting out the objects and scope of the proposed Hongkong University. An appeal was made for subscriptions for the endowment fund, for which and the cost of equipment a sum estl- mated at £310,000 would be re- quired.

NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK.

4.

ALL AMERICAN BANKING RECORDS BEATEN.

any value as currency basis The question as to whether Hong- kong could or could not afford to place itself on a different basis to China, with which we do so much of our trade, is one on which opinions sharply differ. Be that as it may, even China herself is at long last beginning to realise that she cannot resist world. ten- dencies and romain practically isolated; hence the suggested dis- HOBBS.--At the General Hospital, warding of the tack and the even- January 9th,tual adoption of a gold standard. Shanghai, on 1930, Frank Hobs, dearly Such a step, if it could be taken, beloved son of Mrs. F. 4. Gel-would have manifest. benefits tộ Hon. Kowloon. Aged 36 years.

the country ag a whole. Hongkong obviously would then have to follow suit. Whatever happens, it is obvious that the situation is in such a state of flux at the monent that this Colony ennnot afford to sit with folded arms and awall developments. That is why there is an much point in the sug- gestion that the Government step Mrs. Costello, living at No. 1, in and appoint an expert to udvise. Amal Villas,, Kowloon,, hus report-June, on the best means of coping with nted to the police the theft from a bedroom of various articles of jewel- situation of extraordinary gravity.lery, which she values at $69.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY JANUARY 10, 19 0

MORE ABOUT THE DOLLAR.

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Now that the Hongkong dollar in as low as it ever has been in The history of the Colony, it is in- teresting. to look back

Should Extrality be Abolished? to An impieta) study of the vexed the 1ime, just. twenty-seven problems of extraterritoriality,

when ago,

Whe rate uncoloured by any marked hias

jA what it

th. towards one side or other, is an

year's

WIN just

day. The.

Several further prize-win- ning pictures in the Hongkong University Amateur Photo- graphie Club's exhibition will also be included.

KARANASAN KOZENS BANNERETEJ DODO IZZUDI DOKONANĒZESİ KALASTİK

It is announced in the latest Volunteer Orders that troops will line the streets on February 1st. on the occasion of the departure of H. E. the Governor,

Pleading guilty to a charge of carrying a chicken by the wings, a Chinese, who appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy, to-day was fined $5.

The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Willeni Johannes van Woerkom, chief engineer, liar- bour Works, Macao, residing a No. 6. Astrada Victoria, Macao, to Mias Apolovja Janusvkewicy, of the same address

(Speaking at Plymouth the other day, Mr. Bernard Shaw, expressed the opinion that sailors have the best manners.).

We've had lots of songs, "iis true,

of our gallant lads in bluc, And the breezy, bring life that

they adore, t For we know that Jack's a sport,

with his girl in every port And a way we can't resist when. he'a nshore.

His expressions, so they any, are,

"Ahoy, abaft, belay," And "Yo-ho, ye lazy lubbers,

stir your stumpe;" But the purposo of my song is to

show that they are wrong, For he'd blush to call his worthy

shipmates "chumpe," When the vessel gives a heave his

remark is, "By your leave," And a drenching merely makes

him look benign,

As he murmurs, "Naughty wave”

in the middle of a shave, And declares, "Of course, the fault was really mine."

I am bound by the oath I took us medical man to save life every time, whether it is to end happily or on the gallows. Sir George New. man.

If all the diamonds in South Africa were thrown into the ses the world would be a better place, Referring to the new which The Bishop of Kensington. appeared in our issue of the 7th The reason why men love to get instant in regard to the new high into politics is that they are ex- record established by the Nationaltraordinarily fond of gossip--the City Bank of New York for the kind of gossip that goes on and on year ending 31st December, 1929, [und on-Mr. Bernard Shaw. below is a copy of a telegram re- ceived in Hongkong from the Hend Once in New York, giving fuller particulars:

"All

existing high records American banking exceetled with publication by the National City Bank of New York of statement of condition as of December 31 1929, showing total resources US$2.206,241,170 against US$1,- 847,705,548 on December 31, 1928 and US$2,062,400,220, previous high level recorded last June.

"Deposita total US$1,649,260, against US$1,349,024,386 a year ago and US$1,470,891,893 last

"Total capital fund stands US$239,650,233 compared with US$166,993,006 A year ago and US$236,260,406 at the end of last June,"

LAST EVENING'S® CONCERT.

The citizen in the gutter has in theory the same rights as the citizen in the motor-car; but in practice he has become a serf, an outlaw, a beast of the field, a hen under the wheel.--Mr. A. P. Herbert,

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A Londoner. wa recently stopped in the street by a little girl of about five years of age who cheer- fully informed him that she had "Lost my mommy, please," "Lost, are you?" he said. "I'm-well, Í had better take you to the police atstation, eh?" "Yes-I fink so," she replied. She thereupon grasped his hand, and during the journey to the nearest station confided in her pro- sector that she had "lost my mammy two times last year." "Really?" my " friend remarked. "I suppore, you are used to it now, then?" "Yer- fank you," she told him, gravely, odding: "The mans what founded me before bought me some ice- cream!" After he had "done the" honours" similarly, he deposited his little charge at the police station, where she settled down without the the least sign of being upset!

Woman at Bow County Court: If

he is out to tell lies, I'll do my share

Detective at West London: The

fendant was first convicted in

1719.

as now, the evil exceedingly welcome interlude effects on trade were the cause of in the flood of propaganda on the

EXCELLENT PROGRAMME AT HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. much comment. The Telegraph, subject, especially helpful at this dealing with the situation in De-time when the air is thick with

There, was a large attendance at discussion and when negotiations

the Helena May Institute at even- {rember, 1902, isserted that the

are contemplated. The article

The Canton News Agency re-ing, for the concert arranged by outlook for the eammercial

concluded in to-day's issue, we porta that on a charge of killing a Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith, classes, as indeed for all classes believe, meets these requirements, person in a motor accident, Leng two of the Colony's best-known and except bankers and bill brokers, Both timely and instructive.

Kum-fu a chauffeur was sentenced most accomplished artister, Those

Willesden Wife: I badly want a it. at the 5th Police Sub-Station to a present were rewarded with

separation from my husband and he was anything but pleasing to cun- discusses frankly, without the fine of $500, three months impri- programme of much charm and

frightfully wants one from me. template. It suggested that the slightest tendency to gloss over sonment, and a permanent suspen-merit.

Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery Mrs. Bowes-Smith was as good Division: A truet for the suppres time had come for some well anything, the inherent deficiències sion of his licence.

as ever in all her numbers. Thesion of boys would more likely be defined line of action to safeguard and irregularities of Chinese nd-

Three Hukka women were ench three Brahms songs were most charitable than one for providing the trading interests of the ministration and legal procedure.fined $5 by Mr. Whyto Smith at the artistically sung, whilst of

the them with knickers. Colony, at the same time pointing But it also finds some warrant for Kowloon Magistracy this morning group which she gave Inter "Love's out that the instability of the Chine's urgency, some justifica- for trespassing on a Government Philosophy" (Quilter) was espe

tion for the demand for abolition, Plantation at Lachikok, where they cially good. dollar rendered almost every although, our contributor ays, had gone to cut grass. it was trade transaction one of specula-the case would be stronger if the stated that the defendants had Lion in exchange. That, it is Nationalists confined themselves not gone to cut treen. needless to say, is precisely the to general principles, the prin position to-day.

Manoeuvres on n large scale will ciples which really move them. be carried out by the military forces in conjunction with the Hongkong In view of the argument that The mistake committed by the Volunteer Defence Corp to-day, to- fixity of exchange might hamper leaders of the Nationalist mave-

morrow and Sunday. A notice to the export trade of the Colony, Itment is that they defend their at-marinera in the Harbour Office this may be pertinent to recall that titude not on the high ground of morning announced that Defence that same point was being put for their approach, but on the gound Electric Lights will be used during ward in 1902, but that it was then of their opponents' choosing, rebutted by contentions "made in where they meet with one pitfall Singapore, where the low level to after another. The answer to the question Should Extrality be which silver had fallen was caus-Abolished? therefore, is No, but ing iust as much anxiety as it was with

reservations... The

"most

the manoeuvres..

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of

MATTHEW

BRAMBLE?

Mr. Bowes-Smith gave a studied WHO WAS....... interpretation of the 1st movement of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, which was greatly appreciated, and he followed later with seven Chopin's Preludes, all played with sympathy and understanding. Later, he joined Major MacNair in Grieg's Sonata in C Minor for piano and violin work which was ex- tremely well handled.

The whole concert was most en- joyable.

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EXCHANGE RATES,

New York Brussels

Amsterdam

Berlin.

... With reference to the case in which Mr. Herbert Blok, of the Hongkong Daily Press, is summon. ing Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Botelho and Miss C. Botelho for assault, and in which ross-4ummonses have been in Hongkong, and where the de-obvious murk of conditions of issued, it should have been reported Paris mand for putting the Colony on a China to-day is the insecurity that the summonses are also for gold basia was most insistent.of life and property, and until "using threatening, abusive and in Geneva The argument put forward in this is rectified, the Powera clanguage" as was erroneously re- Milan

sulting words" and not. "Indecent Singanore was that as the Colony not possibly assent to abolition.

ported yesterday. produced practically nothing, but Nevertheless, the five points with

Stockholm Amongst publications to hand is à Copenhagen hought its exports from surround-which the article concludes are ing countries, which found it con-worthy of serious consideration, copy of the Ranpoan Times Christ- Oslo,

Vienna mas number, which is a credit to e Our contributor advocates that its publishers, both from the ex-Hal venient to use Straits ports, the Power, should do all possible cellence of its printing and the var Madrid Praguo Helsingfors would, if those countries conto meet Chinese susceptibilities, ety of matter which it contains. Lisbon tinaed to use silver, still be able while China, on her part, should Besides an illustrated review of the Athens to ship as cheaply on a fixed concede something to history and Year's activities, there are numerous Bucharest standard as on a silver basis. It the actualities of the situation. atories, whilst a feature is the series Buenos Aires.

light articles and entertaining Ro was submitted that the damage to and be content with something of coloured plates reproducing some Bombay export trade would be nil, or so less than the abolition of the of Mr. S. WUliams collection of Shanghal

Hongkong little as to be negligible in com- system, which should be replaced of paintings by B.I. Wiles. These

deal with Burmese subjects and Are Silver (spot)

Yokohama

parison with the benefits result- by some arrangethent whereby extremely artistic, and well worth Silver (orward) ine. In any event, it was pointed foreign interests will be adequate framing. The book sells at the ro

markably low price of two rupees, out that the drop in, silver hadly protected.

London, Jan. 9.

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25.13

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.18.14 .18.20%

4.34.02 .104%

198 .30.60%

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375 .818

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-British Wireless.

The principal character-in Smollet's amusing novel, “Hum- phrey Clinker," is not the youth after whom the book is named, but the gouty old gentleman whose servant he was.

Matthew Bramble was country squire of the type of Sir Anthony Absolute in Sherf- dan's comedy, "The Rivals", whose fundamental kindliness of disposition was offset by a terribly quick temper and a domineering manner.

It was in the course of the family tour which Matthew Bramble had insisted-upon tak- ing, in company with his sister. Tabitha and her maid, Wini- fred Jenkins, who was a sort of Mra. Malaprop, without that lady's claims to gentility, that: Matthew made the acquaintance. of Humphrey Clinker, the ex- workhouse apprentice, and tak- ing pity on his desolate plight, benevolently engaged him, as his servant and personal at tendant.

Smollett, usually so cynical: in his drawing of character, ro- lented a little in the case of Matthew Bramble, and made:: him a very likeable old fellow In spite of his testiness.