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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930.

RIDE ON YOUR SPARE DOLLARS!

BARGAIN CARS WITH US ARE BARGAIN CARS.

FOR EXAMPLE

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. STUBES ROSU,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, OCT. 2, 1930.

CURRENCY AGAIN.

China Coast

DAY BỶ DAY

and put the facts and the neces sities plainly before the parent body at Home. So far as we know, however, it has been strangely silent on what is without doubt the

MINISTERS SHOULD FIRST PREACH most serious problem with which TO THEMSELVES, THEN AFTERWARDS

TO OTHERS Cardinal Pole.

&mmence TEARETHEATE

Countries Obtained As Bargains.

NELLING a country is a. morefielands when he became afraid war of that Scotland might otherwise humane way, than changing it's ownership pm wage a bloody war and win them. by conquest. This was Magnus It is advertised that the offices

stations of. the Chinese vided, of course, that the parties to the Law Mender. He became so and Maritime Customs for Kowloon and the deal have full power to act terrified of the might of Scolland District will be closed to public writes Byron Bellingham in a Home that he sent a messenger with power, to sell these islands for four business on October 6th and 10th.

thousand marks and the deal went through.

of

paper.

the business community of the Colony and residents generally have ever been faced. In the circum- Another Chinese case of typhoid stances, with the absence of was reported to the Medical Officer

of Health yesterday. guidance. from this end, it is scarcely to be wondered at that there should be such appalling Ignorance on the subject at Home. In the meantime, nothing ap pears to be happening in regard to

The great new Dominion for East our biggest problem excepting that

The forthcoming wedding is an Africa which has just been fore- In modern times there was an- the Report of the Currency Com-nounced

Fredrick Private

shadowed in a Government Memor mitter is either on the way Home George Hutchings, Somerset Light andum will include countries which other Scotsman who may be claimed Infantry, Murray Barracks, to Miss were once bought and sold as we to have bought a country, Robert or by this time lies hidden some-Julia Marin Remedios, St. Joseph's might acquire any other real estate Gillespie Reid. He was born in a where in the archives of the Building, Hongkong.

home. The Sultan of Zanzibar sold small cottage at Coupar Angus and Colonial Office. With larger ques

the coast territory of Tanganyika caught the gold fever when a boy. tions affecting the Dominions now. A snake, believed to be à cobra, to Germany for no more than four He suffered in Canada and Aus.. tune, but had too much grit to sur- engaging the attention of the Home about five feet in length, was killed million marks, about £200,000 at tralia; he found no road to for. render. He first struck lucky in Government, and the prospects of in the boat-house of the V.R.C. last the time...

evening, it possibly having been

Zanzibar itself is a once great America as a contractor. considerable political controversy washed down from the hillside realm with a romantic place in the

Then he descended on Newfound- on big current issues, there is through the nullah which runs into story of Arab influence, which has

shrunk by sales rather than by land. The colony was in trouble. every probability of the

wars. The same Sultan it was who Reid. come to the rescue. He ob- being conveniently overlooked by

The forthcoming marriage is an- made a Christmas deal with the tained more than six million acres the Imperial authorities. This is

nounced between the Rev. Law. British East Africa Company by of land with harbours, and railways, But was virtually the monarch by pur- all the more reason why the local rence Neville Watkins, of Lagard disposing of his rights over the ter-and telegraphs all complete. He

ritory they were working. Government should make some ef-Hall. Hongkong University, and this was not a strict cash transac- chase of a territory about a third

Miss Hazel Marjorie Maude Somer-

by administrationand shrewd, de nual subsidy. fort to get Sir Otto Neimeyer, the ville, of 2, Bidwell Street, Welling- tion; he wisely accepted an anof the size of his native land and velopment began to lay the far- noted expert who is now in Newton, New Zealand, who is on her

Hongkong by the ss.i

tunes of the dominion as it is to- Zealand, to come here and give us Way to

day. Changte. the benefit of his advice: We are surprised that 'none of the Un- officials has yet seen fit to press the Government to take such a stop.

matter

the harbour near the V.R.C.

more

Voyage of the ""Tory." One of the most remarkable mo- dern dealers in territory was Co-

Bankrupt King. A fire broke out in the early lonel William Wakefield who sail

But there is surely no hours of this morning on the first ed away in a ship called "Tory"

in entire floor of No. 14, Bowring Street, from Plymouth ninety years ago. romantic transaction Kowloon. The floor was used as After a three month's voyage, states than that of Theodore of fancy goods shop and considerable Colonel Wakefield reached, Port Ni-Corsica. After wearing the crown damage was done, though no one cholson and then proceded to buy as Theodore 1. for eight months Mukden's Motives.

He he came to London to raise funds was injured. Four fire appliances up New Zealand in chunks.

the scene and gave 195 stands of arms, twenty-but was immediately arrested for The growing feeling that Chang quickly arrived on Hsuch-liang's descent on Peking succeeded in putting out the flames one kegs of gunpowder and a cask an old and large debt at the in- of. ball cartridges for the harbour stance of a creditor who had be- and Tientsin was not entirely moin an Ler's time.

and surrounding lands of Portfriended him during a previous al-

venturous residence in England. tivated by friendship for either

According to the record kept by Nicolson. of the warring factions will not the Botanic Gardens there were 16

A public subscription was started For £1,500 worth of muskets, to- If we are to judge from the news

be removed. by Dr. C. T. Wang's rainy days in September, the total mahuwks, Jew's harps, handker to pay the bill and get the monarch item which we published yesterday, denial of Nanking uneasiness. rainfall registered being 29.40 in-

fifty pounds. After all, Theodore the China Association in London That the Mukden leader has acted ches, of which 23.96 inches fell in chiefs and tobacco he obtained a from prison, but it realised only had to go bankrupt, and his to the 18th. The next heaviest fall

Before he had finished his travels schedule registered his kingdom of appears to have a very hazy Lien quite independently might be in-six successive days, from the 13th territory "as large as Ireland." of the currency situation in this ferred from the fact that his sup was from the 20th to the 30th with and deals, it was said that Wake Corsica for the benefit, of his

As a result of represent port is still claimed by both. Dr. 3.72 inches. The heaviest full in field had obtained millions of acres creditors. Colony.

Wang, talks of a complete under-any one day was on the 16th with at an estimated cost of sixpence tions made by the

The great Horace Walpole wrote 14th a thousand acres! standing between the Nanking 8.34 inches, the next on the

his epitaph about which there was Officers' Guild, the Officers (Mer Government and the North-eastern with 7.45 inches and the next on

Had everything happened accord- a curious difficulty. "You will the 17th with 6.16 inches. The chant Navy) Federation get into provincial authorities. Supporters raallest fall was on the 26th with ing to plain, the sailing of the laugh to hear," he wrote to a friend, "Tory" from Plymouth might have that when I sent the inscription touch with the Association some lit of the North suggest that Mukden's 02 inch.

become almost as famous as the the minister and churchwardens fle time ago, but it appears that peaceful penetration was according

sailing of the Mayflower from the demurred, and took some days to release the all the help or informaion it could to plan, designed to

But the chief quar-consider whether they should suffer same chay. relled about their sales.

him to be called King of Corsica.".. secure was a statement that "while Shansi forces. policing Chihli for is im-

Wakefield was baulked in his de-

It did pass, however, and in the the subject of, à gold currency for service at the front. It China has been in the air for some possible for both to be correct, and

The Royal Observatory reports sire to make his fellow-directors Soho churchyard is the stone which the whole circumstances of the in-

and pilgrims the government. marks the grave of Theodore, King time, the agitation appears to be vasion tends excuse to the auspic-that the depression to the N.E. of subsiding, and they have had no re-ion, that Chang Hauch-liang has a Hongkong has filled up. The de-Britain refused a charter and in-of Corsica. It actually records that pression to the N.E. of Shanghaifsisted on protection for all in- he died immediately after leaving presentations as yet from the Euro-policy of his own. We are rehas moved to the S.W. of Vladi- terests. pean community in Hongkong." If minded that Marshal Chang Tso-linvostock. An anticyclone has form- the official of the Association is cor. took a similar step six years ago, ed over China. The Forest rectly quoted, he appears to have losing his life when he was per-to-morrow is:-North winds, fresh;

wishes of fine. hopelessly mixed up Hongkong and suaded. against the China, and, in fact, seems to have Chang Hsuch-liang, to retire to Mukden. Exactly how the present very little knowledge of what is Mukden leader's policy will work happening either in the one place out in the new situation provided or the other,

by a still undecisive war in which the belligerents are both worn out and impoverished cannot be fare- shadowed, but it may be confident- iy assumed that he will play a do- minating puri in the settlement that will not long be delayed. His second peace telegram, now in the course of preparation, will be awaited with the keenest interest.

It is of interest to note that whilst other people were arguing and dis- eussing the matter, the China Coast Officers' Guild went straight to the paint by endeavouring to get the Federation at Home to press on the Governemnt the desirability of placing Hongkong's currency on

a 'gold basis. We do not imagine, If the Peking' vernacular press may be relied upon at all, it will re- however, that the Guild for a

veal an embarrassing estimate of moment thought that the matter

the real fucts of the situation, and was likely to be settled by a mere may call for the retirement into call at the Colonial Office with a private life of Chiang Kai-shek ps request that the Hongkong Govern-well as Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen ment be instructed to make the Hai-shan.,

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change-over. These matters are not quite so simple as all that. In any case, the Federation communi- cated with the appropriate Depart- ment, but. to use its phraseology, "as was expected, the reply was unsatisfactory.". Never- theless, it would have been inter- cating to have learned the exact nature of the Government's reply. What interests us most, however, is that the Merchant Navy has a body, at Home which is able to bring to the notice of the, Government any subject of importance to officers serving afloat in Eastern waters.

ROSARY CHURCH.

FEAST TO BE OBSERVED ON SUNDAY.

The Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is to be celebrated at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on Sunday. The programme in: ·

Morning Service. First Mass, at 6.30 a.m.; Second Mass, at 7.30 Third Mass, at 8.30 a.m.; a.m.; Solemn Pontifical Mass, at 9.30 am.

Evening Service 4.30 p.m. Re- citation of the Rosary, Procession, Sermon, and Benediction.

་

The members of the Confratern-

It may or it may not succeed in get-ity of the Holy Rosary and all the ting what it wants, but the channel Faithful are invited to approach the Sacraments of Penance and

is there for use as occasion de Holy Communion and to visit the mande. In this matter of the Co-Church in order to gain the numer- lony's curency, the ordinary rest-ous Indulgences accorded. A Plen- ary Indulgence is granted to those dent of Hongkong has little or no who assist at one of the Holy opportunity of getting his views Masses, and also to those who visit before the Government. Were the the said Church from Saturday afternoon, 4th October, until mid- local branch of the China Associa night of the Feast Day. A Flen- tion a live body, instead of a mere ary Indulgence is granted at each name in directories, it might well visit. have taken up this currency issue

Kowloon, 23rd Sept. 1930.

FINE WEATHER.

Víking's Sale.

There was a viking who sold the Isle of Man and the Shetland

the King's Bench Prison, by the be- nefit of the Act of Insolvency, "in consequence of which, he registered his kingdom of Corsica for the use of his creditors."

"The trouble is we have a world of truck horses and race horses."!

"A worse trouble, Auntie, none of the race, horses, think they are truck horses."