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Evening Star, Issue 20613, 13 October 1930, Page 7

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Logically introduced in the all-talk-ing Fox Movietone production, ‘ The Black Watch,’ the current attraction at the Roxy, starring Victor M'Laglen, are a half-dozen tribes with the Afridis, Afghans, Pathans, and Mahsudis, the most important. Those tribes occupy the mountainous borderland between India and Afghanistan, and it has been said of them that "nothing is finer than their phsique, or worse than their morals.”

They have nothing approaching government, for the most part, no education; they nominally have a religion but Mohammedanism, as understood by them, is no better, or perhaps is actually worse than the creeds of the wildest races of the earth. In their eyes the one great commandment is blood for blood, and fire and sword foi all infidels.

In the picture version of the Talbot Mundy story it is into this country that " Captain Donald Gordon King,” played by Victor M’Laglen, is sent by his Government at the outbreak of the World War. " King ” had just returned to England after six years of service with the Khyber Rifles in India. Myrna Loy heads the supporting cast of this John Ford production.

WAR BONDS(Bonds quoted are £IOO Bonds.) 1938 p.c. Bonds ... 1939 41 p.c. Bonds ... 1933 5J p.c. S.S. Bonds 99 0 0 1938 4A p.c. Inscribed 1936 51 p.c. Bonds ... 99 0 0 DATES OF DIVIDENDS PAYABLE. Brown, Ewing (ord.), final, Is, October 18 (approx.). Brown, Ewing (pref.), final, 7 l-sd, October 18 (approx.). D.I.C. (ord.). final, Is, November 1. D.I.C. (pref.), final, 7 l-sd, November 1. Waihi, Is, November 1. Bank of New Zealand (interim), Is 4d, December 6 (approx.). South Otago Freezing (final), ss, date not fixed. COTTON, RUBBER, ETC. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 11. Friday’s closing prices were;— Cotton: November shipment, 5.48 d per lb. Rubber: Para, 5Jd; plantation smoked, 3 13-16 d, Jute: October and November shipment, £l6 ss. Hemp: Small business. October and November shipment, £23 per ton. Copra: November South Sea, £l4 12s 6d per ton: plantation Raboul, £l4 15s. Linseed oil, £29 10s per ton. Turpentine, 34s 9d per cwt. Osmiridium is unchanged. BUTTER PRICES IN SYDNEY. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ; SYDNEY, October 12. Butter prices are being reduced on Monday by Jd per lb. Butter will bo retailed at ls’7d to Is 7Jd per lb—the lowest level since 1918, NEW ZEALAND STANDARDISE!? CHEESE. SOUTHLAND OPPOSED. [Per Unitkd Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, October 11. At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Southland Cool Stores Ltd., on Saturday j the following resolution was carried:—“That, in view of the reports from overseas of the deterioration in quality of New Zealand cheese and of the necessity of maintaining the highest quality of our , exports in order that we may derive the highest price and thus be in a position to face the grave economic conditions, this meeting of Southland dairymen expresses the opinion that it is not in the interests of the dairying industry that standardised cheese should be exported; further, that the regulations governing the manufacture of full-cream cheese be strictly enforced.” Mr H. J. Middleton said that until members of the industry made themselves heard they would get no support either from the Minister of Agriculture or from the director of the dairy division. MEAT MARKET. Pren Association—By Telegraph—Copy right. LONDON, October 11. Frozen Meat.—New Zealand sheep: Cross-bred wethers and maiden ewes, North Island, 57-641 b, s|d; 65-721 b, sid. Australian sheep; First quality cross-bred and/or merino wethers, 40-65. b, 4£d; ewes, 30-551 b, 4Jd. Ar-gentine-sheep: Ewes, 56-641 b, sd. Patagonian sheep: Wethers and/or maiden ewes, 50-60Ib, 4fd. New Zealand lambs: Other Soutli Island brands, 37-4211), Bid. Australian lambs: All States, third quality, 6Jd.- > Argentine lambs: Second quality, average 301 b, none offering. Argentine Chilled Beef.—Ox hinds, 160-2201 b, 71 d. New Zealand Pigs.-—First quality, 101-1201 b, 8d; others unchanged. T. AND G. MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The board of the Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society reports that for the year ended September 30, 1930, new business complete I was 20,088 policies for £6,553,128 in the » linary department, and 122,100 policies for £5,765,574 in the industrial department; a total of 142,188 policies for £12,318,702, compared with a total of £12,219,710 written for the previous year.