THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1936
BRITON WHO RULES PACIFIC ISLAND
"KING" OF COCOS ISLANDS:
DIFFICULT JOB
Supports Whole Population
NO SERIOUS CRIME FOR OVER
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
THE Cocos Islands, a little known part of the Straits Settle- ments, under the rule of "King" John Sidney Clunies-Ross, are in a precarious financial state due to two reasons-the rapidly rising population and the low price of copra.
"It costs Mr. Clunies-Ross about $35,000 at the minimum to run the people and the island," said his secretary, Mr. A. R. E Young, who is in Singapore on his way to England on leave. "The people, who number, fe of a century! about 1,100-having grown from
TWO BOOKS A DAY
"Tuao Governor," as Mr. Climles-
800 about ten years ago and Ross is known by the islanders, is an are all Malays, live on Mr. Ross, avid reader of detective stories. He who gets his revenue from the read over 600 mystery thrillers a sale of copra, and also from the ment of over 200 books is shipped to year. Every four months a consign- profits and dividends on them from England. He finishes two many shares which he owits in day! the Christmas Island Phosphate The "King" opens his "Palace," 'a
bungalow charming
with broad Co."
verandalis, every Friday to residents, and nine Englishmen from Direction Isfand, an important cable station, just across the fagoon, steam over and have a pleasant time.
Mr. Young is-apart from Mr. Clunies-Ross hingelf--the oldest" European Inhabitant of the Islands. He has lived there for nearly years,
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His wife, the only white worn a "I have not found it boring." he the islands, makes a charming hostess. remarked. "An exile, yes, but de-airs. Charles-Ross is also now in Anitely in an Interesting place.
Slugapore. She is going to England with her youngest son and is looking forward to visiting her Exeter,
in
ánve done everything from pulling out native's teeth to affairs of State'l And after the day's work there is tennis, swim- mirer, fishing or billiards,
AN IDEAL, STATE "Recently I began teaching the Islanders tennis and football. Somi
home
She does not and life on the Cucos very dreary as many would imagine. "I like she says. She has been there nearly 13 years.
Mr. Clunier-Hoss, who is the fourth
of them are so good now that it is a monarch of the Cocos, was the second case of pupils beating the master, of his fine to marry a white womun
"We have eight soccer elevens and His two predecessors married dough
a full size football field. A knock-ters of Malay chteltuins. out competition is held every New Year.
SUPERTAX CLAIM
In January last year he was sued in The climate is comparable to that the Law Courts, London, for over of the South of France."
£10,000 etuimed as due from him Every islander who marries is pre-under assessment to super-tax in res | sented with a house of wood and poet of the years 1921-1930. nitap by Mr. Clunies-Hoss, To-day
The Italian offensive continued in
with Ethiopia
unabated vigour. Picture, from one of the bombed towns,
but shows
which Wa set on
by bombe. Perfect' Number.
Contains 155 Digits
Chicago, Apr. 26.
Dr. Samuel I. Krieger laid down his pencil and paper to-day and claimed he had solved a problem that had baffled mathematicians since Euclid's day-the finding of a perfect number of more than 19 digits.
equal to the sum of. Its divisors, his A perfect number is one that is explained. For example 28 is the sum of 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14, all of whleh |may be divided into it.
Dr. Krieger's perfekt number con-
153
digits. Here it is: 20,815,815,850,885,304,109,148,040,-
tains
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
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The following quotations on the New York commodity exchange are |issued by Reuter.
July
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May
11.21/24
October December
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January
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March
10.407410
Spot
11.00
New York Rubber
May
.15.266/410a
July
15.36/30
September
15.45/40
December
15.56/57
March
16.07b
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
MARKET DOWNWARD -
YESTERDAY
or
New York Cotton
New York, May 8. 11.55/65 11.57/47
Swan, Culbertson & Fritz Dow Jonea summary *1125/26
yesterday's 1031730 'markel:-The market to-day 10.82/82 very dull and irregular. Automobile **10.35/45
Isues were slightly higher on Cram'a 10.30/36 report of weekly shipments at 118,706 Lunita agalast 87,305 units during the corresponding period of last year. Traders have transferred to sidelines due to Tax, French and Italian un- curtainiles. There is tendency on the part of some major issues to rverde seasonally. The list rallied from the low levels inte in thei session. Steel stocks regained a part
11.67
16.250. 15.38/40 15.48748 16.57/57 15.69m
Total sales:-232 lots. /
Chienga Whent Mny
15770677037905% of their lossen. Utility, piz, electrical July
RT/879% 8614/88% equipment, motion-picture and avin- September 803478834 8475/86 tion securities were firm. Stocks on Thursday's sales: 16:246,000 bushela. the Curb Exchings were Irregularly
Chleage Corn July
biglier, but dull conditions prevalled, 617742 4155761% | In bonds, French issues were wealt,' September GOTL/60 59739% whilst domestic bonds were higher,
Winnipeg Wheat
but trading was quiet. May Farby | October
77PW/778% 704/762
78147784) 17/77
Swan Culbertson & Fritz Wall| .79%/701%. TN6/78% Street Journal comment on 7/51
TENDERS ACCEPTED its sharp April gains. April revenues LATEST GOVERNMENT
LIST
The Government has accepted the following tenders:
Block of flats for European Medical Officers-Messrs. Hop Choong. Messrs, W. S. Bailey & Co. Ltd.
Repairs to No. 4 Police Launch
| market:-"Itelall trade is continuing
of-some of the leading railroad com-
of April fast traders expect a secondary reaction before any sustained upturn is possible,"
is should be sharply Professional
last year.
S. C. & F. New York ollice cables: Stocks: The market was irregular, but moderately firm. Continuedi duliness is Indicated. Pittsburgh Steam heating and hot water øer- | steel scrap prices have been reduced ital-Messrs. C. E. Warren & Co., Company's sales to consumers in vice Installation at Stanley Gaol Hosby 30 cents per ton. Generni Motor Ltd. -
April totalled 200,117 unlts, against fond from Au Tau to Shek Kong.-143,000 units during the correspond- General Construction Co.
ing month of
The Kiosk for Hongkong Trawl Asso-Standard Oil Company of New Jersey ciation-Mesara. Hop Shing & Co.
in 1935 earned $2.43 per share against Renting to European Staff Quarters, $1.70 per share the previous year. 196,411,092,264,950,731,041,104,780,- New Grol-Manets, Bradley & Co. The Company proposes to offer 25- 755,447,122,807,443,528,060,140,078.
year 3 per cent. debentures in order to retire its 5 per cent, subsidiary pre- ferred issues." American Steel Foun- dries earned 37 cents per share during the March quarter against a loss of | $160,800 last year. The Boeing Avia- tion Company lost 8 cents per shinre during the March quarter, ngainst a loss of 41 cents last year. Du Pont's business in April was 20 per cent. above that of April, 1835. Lank Clearings during the past week were up 0.9 per cent.
181,514,511,280,138,181,284,395,055,- Sir Thomas Inskip, K.C., then At-
Iwo
houses are springing up like mush-torney Generni, said he had roomal
things in mind about the Cocos
128.465.118.831,722,842,125,050,853,
632,308,860,381,882,698,268.
Sixty-year-old John Sidney 1siands.
Its formula is two to the 513th Clunies-Ross dislikes being called "I remember as a boy, there was a power minus two to the 250th power. "King". He prefers to describe him- book, "The King of the Cocos Islands, work it out and five years to prove it He sak i took him 17 hours to self sole proprietor" of the and I remember the warship Sydney islands.
sank the Emden there during the correct.-Associated Press.
paid to him by that company."
Judgment for £10,050 was given for the Crown..
"It seems a pity," he continued, "to
His is what Mr. Young describes as War. "a benevolent autocracy, an
ideal State."
He holds court, once a week disturb the bliss of these islands, but when headmen present complaints. unfortunately Mr. Clunies-Ross owns There is no police force, and no need a large number of shares in the for one-there has been no serious Christmas Island Phosphate Co., and crime in the Islands for over a quar-there were large prafts and dividends
Mr. John Clunies-Ross celebrated the centenary of the possession of the troup of islands by the Clunies Ross family In December, 1928.
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REUTER QUOTATIONS Dow Jones Averages;
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May .1/4 side markets are weak. Prices will justified. It is estimated that April .1/44 probably move lower.
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