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BONGKONG, WIDEBIDAY, JAN. 12, 1911.
LOCAL MATTERS.
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pulled, or discovered a place where The interests are more intricately dovetailed. Sometimes we feel tempted to ask for the Greek's lan- sern, with which to search for the bonest man. The necessity for all our Government concessions being put above suspicion, by the fullest possible daylight, surely needs no further demonstration.
LOCAL AND GENETIL
A message from Harbin states that the Baikal railway line is in a state of collapse.
The following approaching wed-
SPECIAL CABLES.
AVIATION IN CHINA. -
AERODROME FOR SHANGHAL
A SHANGHAI-CANTON ROUTE.
[China Mail SPECIAL__]
SHANGHAI, Jan. II.
WEDNESDAK, JANUARY 13, - 103L
MISSING MOTOR CAR.
OORRESPONDENCE.
IMPROVED FERRY SERVICE TO VAUMAIL.
[To the Editor of the " China Mell.")
CHARGE OF TERET.
GODOWN WATCHMAN "DISCHARGED.
There is said to be a bad eat- break of cattle plague in North Man-
The case in which a Chinese youth churia, and the ill success of the
Dear Sir.-During the past year, was charged with the theft of & the Gort, arranged a monopoly seven-seater motor car from a godown There is talk of a new Montreal measures taken to cope with it is
with a Chinese Co. for the above at No. 20, Irving Street, Wanchai, was line of steamers, to ran in conjunc-causing anxiety.
Service, at favourable addition again mentioned before Magistrate rion with the British India, want-
to the revenue, and, one that Orme at the Magistracy yesterday ing wharf accommodation here.
dings are announced-Mr. G. Tiran, The arrangements have practically should leave bandsome returns to afternoon. Have they been promised esgineer, to Miss J. A. M. Merlette: been completed for the establishment the monopolista, from the crowds that thing? We do not know. Japan Mr. Owen Chan, of Messrs. Snowman of an aerodrome at Shanghai in patronize the Service daily.
The car, which was valued at ese companies may be wanting & Co., to Miss Ng Towa
$1,000, was taken by a Chinese mere connection with the air mail and This public ferry is a great advance chant in sett ment of a hill of sale, wharf sites. The American abip ping will probably want some. Ara they all to have what they ask for without public competition, granted by departmental complaisance, and we to learn of it when it is all
over?
to distribute the prizes at the annual prize giving of the Diocesan Boys School on Friday, January 25, at 5.30 p.m
Lady Stubba has kindly consented / Passenger service between Shanghai | on the old, uncertain one, for all of and stored in the godown at War- and Peking. The inauguration in which much credit is due to both chal Before the new owner had the summer of a Shanghai Canton parties Government and Co.,bul, seen it, the car was removed from the route is also contemplated: Colonel there are certain minor defects as godown. Holt and Tcheng Hung of the Peking follows, which the Government ought
Consequently be was not in a pori- " Aeronautical Department are due at to look into, and have remedied, astion to identify it. A car alleged to Shanghai on Wednesday for the it has a duty to the public to perform, be the missing vehicle, was discovered purpose of completing preparations.besides taking the money from the ta Canton, and the accused, who was
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Perhape, as regards the sugges The following story was told tion that the Government could on the Manchester Royal exchange gain much money by doing its own just lately-A China merchant r feclamation as such saleable points ceived a cable "cancel all orders as Laichikok, Changshawan, and immediately," to which he promptly North Point, we may be told that replied "cannot cancel immediately; the P.W.D. has already too much you must wait your turn?” to do. We have heard that before. But if we get a good head for that
Mr. Edulji, for over 30 years on department, who will re-organize the business staff of the Hongkong it, and not restrict contracts to a Daily Fress, is here on a holiday from small ring of apparently privileged Shanghai, where he is now a broker. contractors, that difficulty soon dis-He is a most worthy member of the appears. The brains of the whole Parsee community, and we were P.W.D. stafi might be drawn upon, glad to see him looking so well. instead of being sealed up and made subordinate to the whims of one
NEWSPAPER BOMBID.
OMINOUS SIGN.
FURTHER OUTRAGES FEARED.
[China Hal SPECIAL.]
1-Overcrowding at certain hours 2-The usual Chinese rush to the side of the lamches when nearing wharf, and presenting to view, more of the copper on the bottom of the launches than is comfortable at times.
3-Natives" spitting all over the launches.
4-Natives placing fowls, &c. on the seats, with the usual mess occurring..
the watchman of the godown, went up with Sergeant Kelly and identified the car as similar to the missing one. At the last hearing of the cam however, it was shows that the engine number of the Canton car was not the same that quoted in the bill of sale. Consequently, the Canton car could not be the missing one. An adjournment was granted in order that the possibility of the engine number having been altered, as suggested by Inspector Kent, might be investigated.
Yesterday the Inspector reported
factory where the car was made was. prepared to state that the car number. had not been altered. The police were therefore unable to go on with the case.
SHANGHAI, Jan. II. Following the recent attempted
5.-The incoming passengers murder of an ex-political leader in Wei-hai-wet road, Sunday's bombing being permitted to crowd, and rush of the "Sin Wan Pao newspaper is down the stairway of the wharf, and tman. Contractors should be made Agency report, Mrs. Hah Chang feared to be the sign of a recrude, į on to the lampches, while those that an expert who had worked in the
scence of the crop of assassinations passengers on the launches are try marking the revolutionary days.
ing to get ashore, &c.
6. People, and cargo such sa beel, bones, carcases of ducks, "liver and lights, etc. all being mixed up on
The defendant, who was represent- the wharf (a Chinese, or foreigned by Mr. E. J. Grist, was discharged. lady having a nice coat, or skirt, perhaps spoiled by dash of bloody beef is not O.K)
According to a Minchi News an, wife of the new managing Director of the Canton Samshui Rail road, has signified her intention of asking her husband to employ wo- men as ticket sellers in the different stations.
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to provide qualified overseers, then much of the time of P.W.D. of cere, spent in watching details, would be saved for other work. Of course there most be P.W.D. in spection, but if registered Civa Engineers were compulsorily em- ployed by the contractors. much
That "Pussyfoot "has met with unnecessary watching would be a severe reverse in Scotland is clear avoided. At present some P.W.D. from figures supplied by Messrs mer might just as well be contrac Gaude, Price and Co., showing an iors assistants, for all the public overwhelming majority for no change can tell.
on the temperance vote as follows:- A great deal of good P.W.D.No change, 347; no licence, 28; and work has been done on roads, which imitation 27. are an excellent asset; when wisely planned and mapped. But it would The engagement is announced, be impudent to deny that the plan- says the Peking Daily News of Mr. ning has been done with an eye on R. Dunbar, Third Secretary of the the desires of our comparatively British Legation, and son of Mr. and small motoring class. What has Mrs. J. P. Dunbar of Sheffield, to the Government done to get a quid Miss E. C. Sowerby, youngest daugh- pro quo, and at the same time help ter of the Rev. Arthur and Mrs the nation's trade? It has not im- Sowerby of Peking. posed, as it might have done, a big. tax on all foreign made cars im- ported, and a small one on the Home product. It has encouraged for years, rathont fertim
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Among the spectators this morning at the pony training on the race course was the Blahop of Hongkong This honour greatly.
oko ---,-hn h fraternity; they said it was sporting," which, we may inform kis Lordship, is high praise..
very
proportionate out of them.
Characteristic of the general atti- tude we are disapproving is the strange secrecy in which the report of the Committee on our Colonial Resources is kept. It may have obtained much confidential in formation. It may have disclosed has come up as a passenger boat
Among the steamers arriving here yesterday was the large vessel "Anchises" of the Blue Funnel which
SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL
ELECTION.
UNUSUAL INTEREST,
IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC UTILIZES.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
7. Chinese fakis of the coxswains who are responsible for the steering of their launches, and the safety of the lives on board being allowed to go into the steering house, while the launches underweigh, and, on occasions, SHANGHAI, Jan. 11. <crack huge jokes with them; Public interest is centred in the from the laughter greeting the French municipal election on Wed-remarks, diverting his attention from The contest will be of his duties, and may lead to accident, nesday. unusual interest. The main issue when, I have no doubt, he would hinges on the struggle between the swear blind that he was attending to Council and the Tramway Company the wheel, and the other vessel, when relative to the improvement of public he was doing nothing of the kind.
utilities.
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT,
ARRIVAL AT MADRAS.
HMS
MALAYA
STRAITS.
LEAVES TUK
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
Mr. G. G. N. Tinson (for the par- chaser of the car at Canton) asked.. that his client might be given posset- sion of the car.
The Magistrate gave order Fccord- ngly and returned the receipt for the purchase money which had been handed in during the hearing of the
LOCAL WEDDING.
LINDSEY-WILLIAMS.
PRETTY" CEREMONY AT WANCHAL
This is a public service run by a Chinese Co., as far as one knows, who charge the same 1st class-fare-
A very pretty wedding took place 10 cents. as the Star Ferry Co.,
foreign-managed concern, at the Wesleyan Church, Wanchal, and
earrica
this on Monday, when Miss Madeline whose new venture must be affecting May Williams, daughter of Mr. and I have no interest in the Star Ferry Mr. W. J. Williams, Kennedy Road, CamTMwhatever).. There is no comm was married to Mr. Alexander Max- parison between the services for well Lindsey, of Messrs. Jardine. arrangements for the public on beard, Matheson & Co., Ltd.. second son of and on the wharf, and for cleanliness, Mr. and Mrs. M. Lindsey of West India. Many therefore, it behaves the Gavz, while View," Ranikhet, securing such an excellent service to friends attended the ceremony, which SINGAPORE, Jan. 11.
Kowloon per Star Ferry boats, not was performed by the Rev. Clouston The Duke of Connaught arrived at to permit this Yaumati Co. to run Perri, assisted by the Rev. Scholes, resources profitable to explois. It detached from the Australian trade. Madras yesterday. HMS. "Malaya" this one as it pleases, and as if there M. A must be known to a few. How do It is quite likely that she will compete left for Malaya to-day and is due on actions and those of its servants father. She was charmingly gowned were no authority overlooking its The bride was given away by her we know that some of these few, in the passenger traffic between Monday.
Both the Govt. and the Co. can afford in cream charmeuse with pearl_trim- to see that the service is improved. mings, with a Brussels net veil, and It is a much better policy to do a train trimmed with orange blos something now, than to wait until soms and white heather that bad accidents and loss of life perhaps, been sent from Inveradoch, Scotland. Sbe carried a beautiful bouquet of do occur.-Yours, etc.
TRAVELLER."
white roses and chrysanthemung
· and maindenbair fern. Hongkong, Jan. 5, 1921,
or of the friends of these few, have London and the Far East.
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not had the advantage of an early start? That is the sort of sus-
A committee of inhabitants of picion which inevitably arises under Kitngchow, the land of Hainan, a policy of hush. We do not sllege now residing at Canton, will assist cause for it. We do not seriously the Government in denying the suggest it (although past history 18 rumour started by Peking agents that less clean than it should be) but Dr. Sun Yat-sen and other Constitu- there you are. Let us ask the questionalist leaders are trying to sell the tion since the Commission was island to the Japanese for $50,000,000 per share. formed, have any concessions been
We had a visit to-day from the!
Subject to audit the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., will pay a final dividend of $4.50 per share and bonus of $6.00
The Blue Funnel steamer "An-
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of the public interest in the matter.granted in the New Territory? Or
The question has not even bean any part of the Colony? If so, to boy who wanted to buy a rabbit, and chises, offering excellent cabin (To the Editor of the" China Mall,"] mooted yet, though it should have whom? We understand that. the whose disappointment we contrived accommodation for saloon passen- been, whether it might not pay theiron ore rights of the Colony were to moralize upon. He has got the gers, sails for, Shanghai on January.
practically given away ago,
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Rever.ne Officers yesterday
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The bridesmaids were Miss Nellie Williams, sister of the bride, and Mies Ruby Young. They wore white silk lace over champagne satin crepe, and Dutchee caps to match, with | maid of honour, was dressed in fawn rosebud trimmings. Miss May, the
silk with hat to match. Bridesmaids
and we know how little real deve He demanded to know "by what are the agents.
Dear Sir,Could you not speed up and maid of honour carried bouquets ing of these marine sites, and get topment followed. There should right we put it in the paper." There
the Sanitary Department, or are its of white and bronze chrysanthereums. the benefit of the enhanced prices be coal within our boundaries. Hae was nothing for it but an apology, so
members hindered in their endeavour: Miss Gracie Winfield and Master it could then charge for them. Say anyone been promised that? Or here it is.
by the Government? Perhaps the Gussy Young were winsome little it cost ten or fifteen cents per is it still open to competition?
arrested the master of a passenger latter will not grant the money for train bearers, attired in white satin Gossip informe us that our square foot, plus the cost of the
sea wall. It should sell readily, if After such big matters it is anti- Mr. H. Foster Bain, who was sampan"in which they seized 946 motor dust carts, having spent too and old lace, and bearing between The bride's new roads for motor-cars. It is a chrysanthemums. Governor knows **what's what,"
there be such a demand as to ex-climax, perhaps, to speak of the recently in Shanghai,, has just been taels of prepared non-Government much on alterations te old and them a large hoop basket of white common sight to see between 10 and mother was dressed in fawn crepe de as the saying is, and that he has cuse the rape of the public bathing slackness which allows public pro-appointed director of the Bureau of plum. Formally charged this morn was reminded by ing, the man
il am, the slow, cumbersome chine, with hat to match, and carried besa setting his face against the beaches, at a price to return a perty to be used for prorate pita Mines of the United States to replace Magistrate Orme until to-morrow.
the outlay, sure. We are thinking of a matter Frederick Cottrell, who has resigned.
sanitary carts, being loaded near the a handsome bouquet of bronze excessive assumption of authority handsome profit on
junction of D'Aguilar and Stanley Chrysanthemums. The best man was by certain officials. We trust it is whereas by granting these marine to which our attention has often Mr. Bain has for the past four years
lots at low prices we gain rothing been called, namely, the numerous been making mining investigations While a foki of a Chinese shop Streets, and the filthy materials Mr. J. Beal, wardmaster at the Naval true, for one or two had had their that we would not get in any case. times on which the Government in China for the New York Orient in Bird Street was negotiating a turned and raked over by the Hospital
Shek Ki" sanitary coolies, making the disease, A reception was held at the home In any case, with our rule about yacht "Stanley is used for shoot- Mines Company. He formerly edited gangway leading to the own way for so long that they had come to regard themselves as Little sales of land being open and fair, in trips, and the continual "joy the Mining Scientific Press of San passenger boat, lying alongside the spreading dust on a windy day, of the bride's parents in Kennedy
That is Francisco.
Praya, he missed his footing and fell by all round into the eyes, etc. of Road after the ceremony, and largely it is improper that we should be riding" in service cars. Tin Gods, resentful of critician of told by the Colonial Secretary, as not right. In the event of dam-
into the water, sinking immediately. those residents of both sexes, who attended. The usual toasts were opposition, self-willed, and, if it were no concern of ours, that age, the loss would be public. It Shanghai householders have been All attempts to recover the body have to use this busy part of the honoured appropriately, and many small ways, inclined to nepotism: a site like that at Cheung Sha Wan is one of the local scandals of which warned against a foreigner who has failed, and it is thought that he city at this hour. It is time such bearty congratulations extended to
methods were done the happy couple. a price the people often talk, so we men been obtaining entrance to various was rendered unconscious by striking out-of-date Too much authority, as we are is practically sold and
away with and all sanitary debris The honeymoon is being spent at domiciles on the pretext of examining his head on the side of the vessel Opportunity for tion it..
removed by motor-carts at an earlier Macao. The bride's travelling dres never tired of saying, is bad for agreed upon.
competition should always be With regard to the abortive electrical metres. Coincident with any man. It is our hope that we given.
Home-building Loan scheme, it is this unauthorised gentleman's visits | ·. Singapore-born Chinese, hour in the morning, as the present was a grey velvet coat frock, grey are about to experience a more" We ought to be told the moposed hardly worth while arguing any various losses have been reported to employed in the Dockyard as a copy ways are unsanitary, and may breed hat and cape. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey will leave, later for England, by way reasonable state of things.
length of the lease of the North more. It never had a fair show, the police who are on the outlook in clerk, yesterday absconded with disease instead of preventing it.
of India. Yours truly, As regards the secrecy with Point beach. Is it to be the neual and if we should say that perhaps order to put a stop to the depreda- $1,800 the property of the H. M. S.
Many handsome presents weR ́Ambrose” “Canteen. The police
"PASSER-BY," which Government likes to work, 75 years, or is a 999 year lease to it was never meant to, we would tions.
received by the bride and bride- who arrested the youth the same
Hongkong, January 5, 1921. we suppose we shall never wholly be sprang on us? We do not not be too unreasonable, in view
The bride's "gift. After five years hard fight in evening found in his possession
the bridegroom Was 'a overcome that. But much of it as know, yet we have a moral right of the way it was managed. The
gold appears unwholesome we are deter-to know.
conditions offered to "interiding the courts for the recovery of a $1,200 of the stolen money. This
ring, and to the maid of honour a mined to fight. For example.
necklace of pearls. The bridegroom We walk, though perhaps our builders and developers of land are mummy discovered along the banks morning the clerk was brought to Take the matter of the bathing writings make you think otherwise, a by-word, the conditions imposed of the Abra river many years ago by the Magistracy on a charge
The Seoul Press is fain to admit gave the bride a diamond and beaches. We have been officially in these matters gingerly, as if on in the case of the Old Postoffice a Protestant preacher, Attorney embezzlement and remanded.
that Marquis Okuma is a great fire platinum pendant, and presented the told that the North Beach bas been eggs. Scylla and Charybdis are site being typical of many more. Jimenez of Manila has finally secured
enter and talks of war with America bridesmaids with platinum brooches promised to somebody, for a pur-nothing the perils that beset us. For the Government, in excuse for it for the discoverer. The mummy As cases of burglary have in a manner which is reprehensible, and the train bearers with a gold puse described as developing our On every hand we encounter in taking the public bathing beaches, will be exhibited at the coming Carnfrequently happened in the houses of but it assures its readers that nobody scarfpin and gold brooch, harbour and commerce. All sorts terests. It amuses as to find, for to talk of the need for development, val The mummy is supposed to foreigners residing at Lienhuashih, takes much notion of what Marquis of rumours reach us as to the des- instance, that a "public-spirited was almost humorous.
have been preserved for about a outside Hai-plen-men, Peking, Gene Okuma saya. It would be pleasant century. tiny of this property, which has man who comes to us to suggest Before there can be any real ap-
rai Wang Hasi-ching, Commander-in- to be able to endorse such a state
The Tanda" of the BISN, not yet been exposed for public that we advise the Government proach between Government sad
Chief of the Peking Gendarmerie, has ment. Incidentally it would be more roup as the Old Postoffice Site not to rush at this business of people, with mutual understanding The two hundred or more mem-Increased the number of soldiers on flattering to the Japanese public. Co.,, is reported by the Mainichi to W38. If we knew just who is ex-granting marine lots to develop the and fair criticism, these shadows becs of Parlament now in Canton patrol duty in that vicinity and has But they are not the only public in have brought 1600,000 worth of gold pected to get it, we might under- barbour business, bas really most inust be chased away. We had a are at present very busy preparing also instructed the soldiers on duty the world that supplies a large ingots from Hongkong and Y23,000 stand some of the voting in Coun- at heart the interest of the Whart Daylight Saving scheme once. It bills for introduction at the coming to exercise mora vigilance in looking following to a leader given to blatant worth from Shanghal, arriving at Unfor Kobe on December 18. After dus. cíl That we should understand and Godown Company! It often seems to have saved too ranch. extraordianty session of the National after the property of the residents in and aggressive methods. the voting of our non-official mem- bss wharves to let why make We want more daylight, upon our Assembly. There seems to be that quarter. The engagement of tunately Margols Okama still has a inspection the gold was transported mare? We have never anatomized public departments. Up with the desire on the part of many to soldiers to supprem robbery in Chins great deal of influence in the country, from Samomlys to the Qaka Is that beach going to an alien place where there are more blinds. Let in the light. Estab reorganize the military Government is not eo foolish as would at first and could at any time stampede the Branch of the Specle: Bank. It is firm? Ramour pretends to know," wheels within wheels" than in fish public confidence. Why not, so that there will be a president to appear. There should soon be nothing country as he did before his last not stated what the gold was for, but we don't. The Gernment mingkong, never laboured in si al is fair and square, les it be preside over the government instead for the burglars to burgle," remarketer to power, remarks the Japan but it was probably for repayment should know, but is silent. In view, greater fangle of wires that she also above-bokil ?
bers is desirable.""
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