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problem remains: the uncertainty. as to what will happen to our cur rency on the following week will atl be an issue of serious moment: to nine-tenths of the community. To atabilise or not to stabiliac is still the queatlon.

to

DAY BY DAY

THERE

DIVINITY WHILE MEN PREach, and WILL DE MISTAKES IN

ENORS IN GOVERNMENTS WHILE

Two

re-

Lanco Sergeant H.N. Moran turned from Home leave yesterday by the P. & O: Corfu.

Two Rare Old Criers.

By F. G. PRINCE-WHITE.

wwwwww

TF you are one of those who be-It about, he says, that from to-

moan the vanishing of Lon- day I shall not hold myself res don'a "old characters," you should ponsible for her debts. venture as far beyond the sound of Bow Bella as Norbiton, which and cries the woman down, with "And so out I gnon with my bell, lies by Wimbledon,

Oyez! Oyez!-this la to give

We need not go fully into the MEN GOVERN,-Sir Dudley Carlton. fallacies of the Currency Mission's

Chinese cases of diphtheria Report, nor detail how the Mem-were reported to the M.O.H. yester bera refer

the labouring day. Chinese, representing say seventy per cent. of the community, to the Government, the "firm" with the

There you will find, if you are notice'-and so on. Bless you, it widest ramifications, to commer-

as lucky as I was yesterday, ajured to be a regular thing In the The Shangbai interpart cricket cial employees, the bulk of the team sailed for the North aboard the couple of rare old "criora" whose old days.

looks and talk will fure your} And," he added, with a wink, workers in the Cily, and to our Empress of Asia this morning.

thoughts back to days far more it was a paying busincas, for my atruggling industries, and sum-

leisurely, far more picturesque fee for crying a woman down was Nish, Mr. F.

of the Official marily dismiss their claims to

| Measurer's Office at Connaught Road

never less than five shillings. consideration na worthless. Most Central, reports the theft from him.

'They are Old Ben and Sophle

Ben told me some very droll of the necessary criticism on these office of a spy-glass, valued at $60. Smith.

stories of his trade. One of them Ben, who in 78, may be sald to was of what happened when, the lines has been done for us by a

The man reported the other day have been born a crier of the other Christmas ove, he was asked correspondent.

เม been as having been removed to Hospital "Oyez! Oyez?" order, for his to cry that a certain poulterer had pointed out, the interests of the suffering from scalda from pot of father, grandfather, and great many turkeys and geese for sale majority have been sacrificed and bling vinegar which upset, died grandfather went a crying with cheap.

yesterday.

the clanging bell, before him. "I cried that they were going no really acceptable justification

Sophie, his 75-years-old, but vory Among the passengers for Shangspringly spouse, has for nearly 40 "but it seemed that everybody at 8d. a pound," Ben narrated, for this serious decision is distal aboard the R.M.S. Empress of years past cried her craft, which mistook me, for a great crowd of coverable. The clearest evasion Asia this morning were Mr. and Mrs. is that of a mender of cane chairs, people rushed down to the poul

As

than these.

of the Report concerna dollar-paid J. M. Walker, Mr. J. Arnold and Mr. and mala.

A. E, Silkstone.

wag

terer's place and clamoured for Europeans. There is a suggestion

Down Wimbledon way and cightpenny gecsel Thero that employers have increased

round about Kingston and Raynes such a crowd that the traße was Yeung Yan, proprietor of the Yick Park everybody knows them, and held up, and the public had a ter- dollar anlaries so as to compensate Lee Timber Yard, has reported to the the sound of Sophie's voice, es rible job clearing the street! That for the increased expenses Police that a man whom he gave $200 pocially, is as familiar as that of was a go. Ha-ha-ha"

to buy empty oil drums-from the the invisible gentleman who so VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED incurred in making sterling remit-A.P.C. has not fulfilled his mission and regularly says to us: "Good night. AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE |1ances. But nothing is snid about is missing.

everybody-good night!" the tremendous increase in the

Sophie's voice is as young as it THE HONGKONG HOTEL | cost of living and no reference is

month at the Kowloon Magistracy was when she first went crying, GARAGE.

made to the hardship occasioned before Mr. Fraser this morning for "Chairs to mend, mate to m-c-n-d!" #go. It is merc thereby. The grievance is not, stewing away from Singapore on the four decades

the sound B. 1. boat Birdhana The prosecuting #weetly bell-like than of course, confined to Europeana. [offeer informer his Worship that the of her own Ben's beli. People It affects, in some way or other, No. 4 hatch, when the Sirdhana was tones of it, and marvel that anch defendants wero discovered in the stop to listen to the melodious eighty per cent. of the community.about 24 hourn out of Singapore. youthful music should leap from

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OBITUARY.

JOHNSON,- -The death occurred this morning at the Matilda Hospital of Mr. John Johnson, of the Taikon Dockyard. The funeral will pass the Monuntent at 6:30 p.m. to-day.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1931.

FALL IN THE DOLLAR.

A stabilised dollar would enable employers and employees to adjust matters. The rate of stabilisation would be, less, immaterial, provided a fixed rate existed

the basis of

withi

more or

The Real Value of a Car.

Value

Two Chinese were fined $50 or anej

an aged throat.

CAN STONES SPEAK?

By LADY DEMETRIADI.

TH

HERE are certain people who, gifted with the sense ol paychometry, have only to hold an object in their hands to know most of Its past history.

How can an inanimate object

"Brother, let there be good, under-

The Song. standing between us. You know I nm but finding my daily sustenance."

Yesterday as she was mending an alleged hawker is said to have told

a chair in her workshop (which is 11 constable who arrested him

falso, her parlour) she cried for convey anything of Its past? Do Ireking " license yesterday. Mr.)

this."uch objects absorb and then re- Williams, before whom the man was my benefit. "It goes like

flect the vibrations of former own- taken this morning, found there was she said:

ers, and if so does this apply to no case and discharged the defendant.) "Chairs to mend,

grass and trees-for many people Mats to mend—

receive impressions of the prst while standing on an open down or common?

TWO DESTITUTE RUSSIANS.

NO LIKING FOR THE FIVE YEAR PLAN,

least two

For

at

Russians,

I'll make them like new, Ladies, it's true- Chairs to m-e-n-d?"

"Do you like it, sir?" she asked, as a young girl might inquire. "Do I sing well?”

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| adjustment.

Perhaps we should sympathise with the Mission. They appear to have come here to discover a set of conditions unlike those of any

A psychometrist known to me country or community with which

proved her talent to a aceptical ac quaintance. Sho asked him if he knew the history of the ring he they had formerly been required to deal. And, we judge, the task

was wearing, and if so whether "The gentry," she went on, she might hold it and read its proved too much for them. They

"often ask me to make my cry for past, to which the owner of the were at the tender mercies of the Gorge Bikanovitch Verubieff (25) their pleasure. Dearie me, they ring agreed. targe financial and bullion-broking a mechanic, and Dmitry Kurnnets heginning to get quite proud in signet, handed down from father aru ali so nice to me that I'm The ring looked like a family (10) clerk, the Five Year Plan interests, Instead of presenting of Soviet Russia has had no amy old age!" She laughed, and to son. After holding it for a few the Colony with an experts' report,traction.

her bright old eyes grew brighter moments the paychometriat told Speculators having judged the therefore, they have, on the fare Questioned by the Magistrate (Mr. Still, and her checks that are as the owner that it was given to him time ripe for profit-taking. the of it, endowed us

ruddy as an apple crinkled into a recently by a priest who was Williams) at the Central a lucal

Police thousand signs of her mirth. inheren!

Court this morning when charg-

Spaniard. All of which was true. weakness of silver-bankers' report, parrotwise. ed with being in the Colony in a

Old Ben had been listening with under present economic and finan

destitute condition and without honest pride. "She can cry, sir- eial conditions-is exerting itself

In a newly built London church proper passports, they replied that el?" he queried. "Why, I'd sooner und the dollar is on the downward

they left Russin on account of the hear hers than my own cry any there is a side-chapel in which hardships they had to endure day!

worshippers complained of uncom- trend. Temporary stimulation has

there.

fortable spirit influences. A pay- Whatever the pedestrian muy into China, they reached Canton time. sir.

Then,

working their

way

"I've done a lot of crying in my chometrist was asked. to investi- been introduced, but in the long have to say about the ever-incrend Hongkong and were waiting Why, anything and everything, as and heard what she can only des What have I cried? Kute. She sat there one morning run a further effective decllae, and ing road traffic, the value of the for an opportunity to go to Manila, you might say. Mostly things cribe as a woman's voice saying it may be heavy, is regarded, in motor vehicle to the busy city where- they had been informed, that's lost or for sale, but that's that she had been hanged on that circles best able to

the worker is undeniable. Though in were many of their countrymen. not all, by a long chalk.

spot for crime she had nol probabilities, as well-nigh certain. | Hongkong cars are used primarily Asked how they proposed to "Why, many's the time I've had committed. Her relations had It is, indeed, a fact that the only to convey their owners to and from fact that they had only eighty a woman cried down, air? I've down the shame. She gave her carry out the trip in view of the to cry women down. Never heard ¦ emigrated to Australia to live real uncertainty in the markets insiness, given a mild and sunny

cents between them. the defen-cried down scores of 'em, and soname and the date on which she in the past month has been regard.Sunday, the majority of them will dants said they had intended to dut my father and my grandfather was banged.

get into their vehicles ing the exact moment at which spent a few hours driving either

stowaway

afore me. Sergt. Mottram asked for a con- fall could be anticipated. around the hills which border the viction, punishment and an order Possibly the downward movement | Island), offering incomparable ziewa

of expulsion, came prematurely, from the specuad exhilarating air, or on a lator's viewpoint; it is possible sant little excursion through

The that Mr. Neville Chamberlain's New Territories. Generally these ¡drives ure almless. They lead refusal to initiate a world silver

nowhere, and they usually retire- conference had something to dosent no more planning than is im- with the commencement of the plied in the remark "Let's go for a selling wave, but whatever the drive". But when you add them chuse, the Colony must expect the together they probably give the dollar to drop to a level well below average motorist more enjoyment prevailing rates. For

than anything else his car does for many

the

and

him. For they provide, In one way

were

people this will undoubtedly prove a serious misfortune, but from one For just

or another, the illusion of escape. point of view we must regard the tired man and women to imagine few hourn they enable development with some satisfae that the city, with its monotonous tion. The Report of the Currency jobs and close confinement, has Mission has been far more kindly somehow dissolved into the glories received than it deserves. On the of the countryside. The world is surface, things were locking a getting thoroughly urbanized, and trifle brighter on the day of

a great many people would not publication and the scrutiny. af forced to live on a farm. But wo

know how to act if they many residents was, we imagine. have, nevertheless, an inborn ycarn. brief and uncritical. There was ing for the open country, and 'n an inclination to believe that the distrust of the cities, in which wo conclusions regarding stabilian-make our homes, a feeling that man tion had ceased to matter urgent cannot be entirely healthy unless ly. We ourselves have under-air now and then to look with feel- he can dip his soul into the open gone an adjustment of attitude.Inga of joy on the groves of trees Well prepared for the Mission's and the majesty of the wooded decision not to recommend stabili hills. This method of getting into sation, we paid more attention to the wide open spaces, has, of the proposals for the reform of course, its drawbacks. · It is incom- the existing currency system, over-parable to tho bonofits derived by looking the fact that the real the accker aftor the uncontaminat- ed atmosphero of the upper re- problem in till as vitally impor glons of the hills and tant to the community no ever it country. But put to such n use, a WUG. Whether the dollar la 1/-car bocomes a very valuable posses. or 18, 4d. or 18. 6d. naxt week, the slon.

untrod

Inquiries proved that the chapel stood on the site of a gibbet, and A Wife's Bills.

advertisements in Australian "see, this is how it. cumas supors brought an answer from $40, or in default, four weeks. to says his wife's left him and is

His Worship imposed a fine of about. A man comes to me and the woman's descendants. be followed by expulsion.

running up bills in his name. 'Cry nected with spiritualism. I re-

"When a man retiros, ho must find a new Interest, so I got him to take the place of the steel mill."

Psychometry is in no way con-

gard it as an additional sense and I lay no claim to it myself, yet al times I have a feeling of certainty about the history of buildings, and occasionally objects call up definite visions of the past.

There is in my garden a lion's head. It is Egyptian and ex- quisitely sculptured in granite. It was bought with other things at a sale. There were many sugges- tions as to how and where to place it the garden. I felt convinced that it was made to be

pear

water, and so it WAS fixed gazing over a small stronra. By moonlight its black velvet shadow moves slowly with the ripples on the water. Watching it, I began to wander. and wrote to the former owner, He replied that the lion was ex- cavated at Karnık,

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•

Since then I have been to Karnak, I was right about the water, but before going there I had pictured Egypt as a water- ICAA

desort. I had no idea of the Importance of the Nile, and of the temples along the banks Как- oak. know nothing of the avenues lending from the river to the temples, avenues not of troes but of sculptured animals, some of which are terrifying some

calm and sphinx-like.

at

What was it that convinced me that the lion was made to be rear water?

Nothing in his outward

was

| appearance suggested it, yet I

nover more sure of anything. Now I know why he gazes so far away. The atroam in my garden is not wide enough for him, and he seems to laugh at it as Naaman laughed at Jordan.