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DRY GIN

GILBEYS

ALLONDONS

DRYGIN

GILBEY

Hear

GLORIA SWANSON

sing

· Love" ( Your magic spell is everywhere)

Theme

soug

from

The United Artists Picture

"THE TRESPASSER" (Now showing at the Queen's Theatre} Victor Record No. 22079

Also recorded by Arden:Ohman Orchestra Victor Record 22114

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY MARCH 22, 1910.

DOLLAR FACTORS.

Whilst the past week has wit nessed an improvement in the of the Hongkong sterling value dollar, it is interesting to observe that the fluctuations which have

taken place have not always been in full sympathy with the silver:

DAY BY DAY.

WE ARE STEADILY ADVANCING TO A STATE IN WHICH ONE CLASS WILL IMPOSE THE TAXES, WHILE ANOTHER CLASS WILL BE MAINLY COMPLETED TO PAY THEM.-Lecky.

The Return of Eunice.

By Elinor Slim.

quite Immaterial whether a contract were fixed in sterling or Hongkong dollars. An order to the value of 2100 would be the equivalent of Hongkong $1,000, whether booked following January or the in December. The only fluctuation

The Ben Lines.s. Bengloe, to be reckoned with would be the

from

Home and Straits ports, is due here on the 26th instant. possible variation in the actual

*.* commodity value, due to fluctuat-

or Tenders are being invited for ing costs of raw materials other factors in connexion with the supply of one wood twin screw motor launch for the Import and the actual cost of production. Export Department. That would not, of itself, give cause for gambling, which results from the existing fluctuation in the local currency. The fixed dollar would, it is further argued,

His Excellency the Officer Ad-. One side of the house which was y. "Have we are at last." Through encourage local merchants to in-ministering the Government has apa ramshackle affair, had fallen the banyan trees Eunice could see crease stocks. As an hypothetical pointed Chief Detective Inspector away carrying with it the stair- what appeared to be a magnificent case, a merchant might to-day Timothy Murphy to act as an Assis-case and leaving the rooms expos-mansion. Two broad stone stair-

tant Superintendent of Police. import stock of a certain line to the value of £500 and fix his ex-

change at 1/6. It therefore costs him approximately $6,666 to satisfy the factory. A competitor might, however, import a similar line at a better exchange, say, for example, 1/8. His factory cost would therefore enable him to un dercut his competitor by $666. in- Such possibilities, says our formant, are responsible for un- certainty of the market as far as holding local stocks is concerned. Taking the argument further, it is pointed out that the merchant Bells to the local dealer, who usually fixes local exchange with the merchant. The dealer in turn re-sells to a Canton or Outport merchant, who is the man who has ultimately to fix exchange in his local currency. It is claimed that the very fact that a fixed dollar would encourage the holding of heavier stocks locally, would be to the advantage of shipping and godown companies, as it is more than likely that such ports as Shanghai, for example, would

The Government invites tenders for the construction of a market at Kowloon Tong, with drainage "and any other contingent work.

"Oh yes, my wife, Mrs. Lock- CHAPTER VII: KUTTLE GROWS]

head," said Kuttle joining in MYSTERIOUS,

ceremoniously. "So you've come When Biggs arrived he offered at last," said the old lady fierco- to walk with them to their house ly. "And high time too." and auggested that they call at old Eunice made a mental note of Mrs. Lockhead's on the way. She this remark for future reference, was an old lady who lived alone but at the moment she was too in a house a few yards away anxious to get home, to ask MIS. from the Kuttle's, and it was pos Lockhead what she meant by it.

kurt. They

As they turned the corner of found that her house had, as a the lane down which they were sible that she was

matter of fact, a narrow escape walking, Kuttle shouted cheerful- from being demolished.

ways formed a semicircle up to ed to view

There were no servants in evi-un imposing porch. At the foot was of each were large granite figures' A first dividend of $40 per cent. dence and Mrs. Lockhead has been declared, under the Bank-nowhere to be seen. "It looks as of Chinese tigers and on the balus- ruptcy Ordinance, in the case of if the old lady was done for," trade at the side of the steps were the ground below were numerous Wong Kwan-sheung, alias Wong said Kuttle. "But where is she?" several pots of poinsettias. On Cochrane "We'll probably find her up broken pots, the result of the

anid stairs in her bedroom," Man-po, clerk, of 45, Street.

Biggs. "Let's climb up and see if earthquake. But the damage did not look serious and her first It is notified that, at the expira-she is still alive." tion of three months, the Interna- In the garden they discovered thought was, what a gorgeous tional Traders, Limited will, unless a bamboo ladder and while Eunice place it would look in a photo- cause is shown to the contrary, be stood at the foot and steadied it graph. How the Vicar, would be Stone pillars supported wide struck off the register and the Com-Biggs followed by Kuttle climbed impressed when she sent him one. pany will be dissolved.

up to the first floor. There they found the old lady safe and sound verandahs, and the general in- Mrs. E. M. Minett., M.B., B.S., in bed peacefully enjoyi ig her pression was like that given by M.D., D.P.H. will deliver a lee afternoon nap. Kuttle shook her the advertisements of gentlemen's in Country Life. start residences ture on "Hygiene and its Import and she awoke with a

(with lantern "Young man, what are you doing There was style about it. Eunice ance to Schools" pictures) on Tuesday, 25th. Marchin my bedroom? Get out! How was delighted.

The garden seemed to have been at 6 p.m. in Room K of the Main dare you? She pulled the clothes Building of the University. The up to her chin and holding them well cared for too, and Kuttle be-

tightly with one hand pointed to gan to point out to her the dif lecture is open to the public.

the door. "Get out" she shrieked

ferent flowers that had been plant- furious at the invasion of hered. This is Alyssum, there's privacy. They managed to per- Begonia and Coreopsis. justified, and suggested that it over there. sunde her that the intrusion was photheca and Eschscholtzia are would be advisable to get dress and Godetia, and that one in at the side of the ed and find a safer place. In the the corner is Hibiscus. end she agreed, but she did not some more

and forgive them for the shock to her house,

Ipomoea, Jacobén modesty, and made it quite clear Lavatera, but Alphonse ate the that she was on her guard against Mathiola Bicornis and the Nemop- any further approaches to undue hila. Otherwise we'd have had just half the alphabet." Eunice

The Gazette notifies that satisfac tory proof of the appointment of FRC.S. Edin, as Senior Mission- ary in Hongkong of the London Missionary Society has been placed in the hands of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern ment

Dr Robert McLean Gibson, M.D.,

*

There will be a Concert at the Helena May Institute on Thursday April 3rd, at 5.30 p.m. The Pro- gramme will include Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin, etc. Artists, Mr. Harry Ore, and Miss Winifred Henderson (Dancing). Tickets may

familiarity.

•

Dimor

Then there'a Freezia

I've got

She made them go down the took a deep breath and gave him ladder again until she had dress-a strange look. She was never ed. After several minutes had quite sure when her husband talk- passed in silence Kuttle said, "Ied like that whether he was above be booked in advance. Please note, think you'd better go up again her head or beneath her dignity, Matron C.2160. Advt.

quotations. We are still, of course, prefer to hold stocks here, know. teas must be booked, telephone and see how she's getting on, old But she pulled herself together

Beven

We

ing that the price would remain steady solely on account of the fixed value of our currency.

of

not

2 good way off silver parity, although decidedly nearer there- to than we were six or months ago. Occasionally,

It will be kept in mind, have witnessed a decline or a

course, that the arguments rise in the sterling rate even when forward by our informant do silver itself bas not moved.

involve any submissions in regard Speculation in exchange

to the actual rate at which the largely explains this circumstance, dollar might be fixed: all that is. and it seems likely that this in contended is that stability of ex-

will fluence on our currency

change is desirable. We can continue to be felt as time goes imagine that a fixed dollar would

this fact; amongst It is

not be welcomed in quarters

very

The health bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ending March 15, shows the following cases of infectious disease and deaths

Bassein 2 with some typhoon or other that therefrom: Plague,

she ask-

man. The old lady has probably and determined to be tactful. not be done in one day. Though We are informed by the Hon. forgotten all about us and gone The reformation of Chubby could Secretary of the Hongkong A.D.C. back to bed."

"Nothing doing, you go up she was not much interested in that the arrangements for a bar in yourself," retorted Biggs. Mean flowers at the moment it was ob- the Dress Circle at the Theatre while Eunice was becoming more vious that he was expecting à Royal during the performances of

"Who is Alphonse " put "And So To Bed" have broken and more impatient every moment kind word.

She was tired and worried, and down, and the Society has there anxious to get to her own house ed, smiling sweetly, "And what fore been regretfully compelled to cancel the notice in the programme to see what had happened to it. has the alphabet got to do with.

a facility It might be no longer in existence. it?" to the effect that such

She could not understand how her Alphonse is the goat I wrote to would be available.

husband could remain so calm and you about. He ate the bud off my disinterested. He and Biggs were night blooming Cereus if you re- chatting quietly as if an earth-member, and I had to have him. quake were an everyday occur done away with." rence, and were now comparing it "Poor thing" she said, "Never death, Prom Penh 7 deaths, Eunice's nerves were on edge. other one by and bye, but how on others, which has often been cited where money is made by exchange cases 1 death, Bangkok 1 caso 1 had happened five years before.

to sit still earth do you remember all these 1 case, Cholera, She could not bear as showing the desirability

of fluctuations, but that has no bear Alexandria

Calcutta 97

73 deaths, while these men talked and talked names? I didn't know you were placing the local dollar on a stable ing on the situation. The prime Pnom Penh

death, Sai- as if time were no object. She so clever."

“Ha Ho”' anid Kuttle, mysteri- basis, whether that basis be necessity is to aim at measures gon 1 case 1 death. Small-pox, had come twelve thousand miles to

Zanzibar 9 cases, Bombay 233 take up a position as one of the ously, That's where the alphabet relatively high or low. in sterling which have as their aim the pre-cases 123

Entirely deaths, Calcutta, 106 ladies of Chaomoy and was now comes in. This is an alphabetical servation and expansion of the cases 77 deaths, Cochin 87 cases within two or three hundred yards garden. My own idea.

His little plot was working out During the arguments which commerce of the Colony; and it is 14 deaths, Karachi 14 cases of her destination. She was burn- original.”

deaths, Madras 38 cases 8 deaths, ing with anxiety to see her new Moulmein 39 cases 15 deaths, home, and yet she had to waste according to plan.

about (To be continued next Saturday.) Rangoon 5 cases 2 deaths, Vizag time listening to gossip patam 4 cases 1 death, Batavia 1 what had happened in 1923 while case 1 death, Samarinda 2 cases, some old woman whom she had Macao 1 death and Shanghai 4

never heard of before fiddled deaths.

On.

value.

arosc

when the

Banks of the contended that, so far from busi- Colony decided to revert to the neas being assisted by exchange .clrculation of silver dollars, It fluctuations, the precise oppsite is was conceded by both schools of the truth. thought that a high dollar would

be beneficial to the import trade

to

1

Overloading of Steamers, sudden development

The

or

4

cases

1

endorsement of his attitude from totally unexpected quarter.

drastic a

mind. Perhaps we can get an-

and fussed over her appear WHO WAS

ance.

She

tu did not want be rescued anyhow, why should they worry?

•

Was

But her meditations were inter-

of Hongkong. Opinion, however,

Eunice sat on the bottom rang differed on the question of the

disclosure-one case after another The Advisory Committee appoint- of the ladder and looked fed up. effect of high exchange on exports.where none occurred

She was fed up. If this before-of ed by the Home Government to Chaomoy, give her Upper Tooting. So far, the divergence of view an apparent temptation to over- deal with matters connected with It might be dull there, but she i point continues to prevail. In load local river-steamers has merchant shipping, has just re- not find this very exciting. Not conversation with a leading im- attracted a good deal of public commended stricter penalties for the right sort of excitement any porter yesterday, it was put to attention, and not solely because the over-loading of ships. The Com-how. She wondered whether after us that a stable dollar, not neces-of the fairly heavy fines imposed. mittee points out that the present all she had done the right thing The point of most interest, though maximum of £100 is sometimes for herself in coming out to China again. Living in Hongkong and sarily on high sterling value, but of no actual importance, evolves considerably less than the extra mixing with really superior peo- irrespective of the figure decided itself into a question. How is freight gained through overload-ple was one thing, but living in a on, would unquestionably create it, it is asked, masters or owners ing. It is recommended, not only place no-one had ever heard of, a steadier and healthier state of are in a position to take more that the fine be increased, but with all sorts of queer people, and edrthquakes and Heaven only affairs in business circles. We cargo than their ships are allowed that the master should be llable knows what else, was quite a dif

every earry when

im to have his certificate cancelled ferent matter. will give his viewpoint as

porter and exporter in the Colony or suspended. Such further contribution to what re-

is full of complaints regarding penalty as that proposed in the mains a vexed problem, in the be-trade depression? Or is it pure latter part of the recommendationrupted. Eunice felt the ladder move] lief that even those who disagree coincidence; the result of activity would, of course, not be consider and looking upwards to of skinny lega slithering down to with the conclusions may find in the Government hive, the ed except in very flagrant cases; wards her. She leaped out of the some interest in the submissions. gingering-up of supervision? We certainly not in the type of offence way with a shriek, while the two Our informant says that a very do not anticipate that answers that has come to the attention of, men jumped up to catch Mrs. her from will be forthcoming. Neither the Marine Magistrate of late, Lockhead and save large percentage of the Colony's import business is conducted on mont display partiality to

business hongs nor the Govern- where the steamers had not left breaking her neck. She did the last few feet in record time and full their wharves. There is, indeed. but for Kuttle's manly arm around the indent basis, and no matter confession. The main thing is room for reasonability as well as her waist would have crashed to whether the currency the that overloading is not under any watchfulness by the Harbour the ground. She freed herself country be in sterling, gold circumstances to be permitted. Department. Presuming a Board-from his grap and turned her dollars, yen, or any other cur- The Harbour Master has ading Officer discovers a ship over-back upon him. She would allow "Now you've got me here" she rency, the contract is fixed at this dressed all legal representatives loaded just before time of de- no liberties with her person. end according to the currency of who have appealed for leniency parture but discharging cargo, said, to Biggs "What are you go-

In terms, which the commission of surely the offence, if any, would ing to do?" the country of origin. If the such an offence certainly requires, be largely negatived by the "I think we'd better all go to Hongkong dollar were stabilised Since the last case at 2/-, it would, it is claimed, be he has received a

of

of the kind, very strong

Master's obviously proper tentions?

in-Kuttle's place." Allow me to in-

troduce Mra. Kattle."

AMPHION?«

Luckless Antiope, flying from the malice of her rival Nirce, died on Mount Citheron after giving birth to twin boys, son of Zeus.

The herds, ranging thos slopes with their flocks, came upon the two children and brought them up. One of the. brothers, Amphion, became a wonderful player on the lute which instrument the Greeks repute him to have invented. As with Orpheus, miraculous

grew stories

up around. Amphion. The very stones. danced, so it was said, when he played and Thebes the magnificent was built thus. from stones which danced themselves into palaces and houses and ramparts.

As Amphion and his brother grew tall and strong, Niree began to be afraid, knowing that the day would come when her victim's children would. seek for vengeance. This they did, and tied her to the tail of a mad bull, which battered her to death.

Then Amphion married Nio be, who bore him twelve children, in whom she gloried' overmích, so that the outrag- ed goda slew all the twelve na a punishment for her pride. Niobe died of grief, and Am- phion, left desolate, slew him-

self.