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Owing to the sostinued rain, League Bawla will not start to-day as arranged. The groenz are far too "beavy."
(Continued on Page 4.) have my support, without dia- crimination, because I am English, and ought to be patriotic first, and
The Government Gazette publishes religious afterwards. I call that the regulations for the protection of splishy-splashy. Since I learned to life and property in the harbour dur Trad. I r longer use the spellinging typhoon weather. primer. Major-general Seely thinks
that I shall be "patriotic," and
The maximum temperature for retain the primer as any favourite April was 848 on the 27th, and the reading. He considers my desire minimum was 605 on the 8th. The for the more advanced literature rainfall for the month was 2.820.
be-washy.". Tha: seems to
It is notified in the Gazette that the names of The Tai Teng Hotel Company, Ltd., and The Chi Chung Daily News, Ltd, have been strick off the Register.
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THE CHINA MAIL..
"MERRY WIZARD,”
K CLEVER ENTERTIIRER.
MATİC AND MYSTERY.
If there is one quality that stands ous more than another in the work
ARMED ROBBERS BUSY.
· TÄKKHOUSE-ENTERED.
INSLATES INTIMIDATED.
WHA
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While a farmer and his wife were of Mr. Percy Abbolt and Miss, Mildred) asleep in their house in Kupailung Sydney who have just concluded a last night, three men, one
armed with *.... m norably successful season" of what whom might sptly be armed mirth magicdagger, entered the bosse about The light of * farch SHANGHAI, May 6.
and mystery at the Victoria Theatre 1145.
man awoke the. Most impressive was the ceremony it is the remarkable. versatility and carried by one of laying the foundation stone of the originality that marks their perform-farmer who got up to investigate. The man with the dagger seized him Hongkong Bank by Sir Beilby Alston, ance as one of exceptional merit. British Minister at Peking on Thurs- It is all too rarely that Hongkong by the collar of the coat, and pointing day. The occasion was rendered is afforded the opportunity of enjoy the dagger at his chest, threatened {to stab him if he attempted to remarkable by the presence at the ing an entertainment so rich in me raise an alarm. While the armed ceremony of Mr. Vivian Dent, his as that which Mr. Abbott and his son, and grandson, representing the talented partner prescni-so capably man stood guard over the farmer in second, third, and fourth generations, Both artists are Australians and the corner of the room, the other two ransacked the house. The noise of one of the bank's founders in 1865, success which marked their first ap made by the robbers awoke the Mr. John Dent.
pearance down under has followed farmer's wife. The armed man there- them all along the world widé trail that a kinday take has made to include eyes of both the farmer and his wife, upon man threw pepper in the
Hongkong.
and giving signal to his accom- This clever couple are to appear aplices, van cut of the house. The diferent clubs in the Colony next robbers took with them clothing and week.
jewellery to the value of $12.80, and $5.50 lo money.
BANK NOTES.
CIRCULATION RETURNS
Returns of the average amount of bank notes la circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended April 30, 1921, as certified by the managers of the res pective Banks are as follows
Average Specie în
Beer Amoun
Eucl Chartered Bank of India Amtralis. and Chins Hongkong
Shangtal Banking Carpation Mersatile Bak of lig, Limited
Tel
and
BABY STRANGLED.
A WAKOHAT MYSTERY,
The remains of a fewly born male Chinese child were yesterday -ernoved | by the police to the public mortuary, $11,101,10 $3,400,000* having been found lying outside a latrine in Ship Street, Wanchai, with string tied tightly round the neck The police are making enquiries.
1,197,722
-...5-17,978,542 50A0L00
• Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents calmed at £550,000. + Severitin with
the Crown Agects
QUARREL OVER THEFT.
WRONG MAN GETS SCALDING
WATER.
GYMKHANA TO-DAY.
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A NEW BANK.
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HONGKONG CONCERN.
SHANGHAI BRANCH OPENED,
The China Specie Bank of Hong- kong, incorporated under the Hong- kong Company Ordinances his open- ed a branch in Shanghai at No. 43, Trentsin Road, comer of Honan Road. The Bank is staffed by an experienced group in men having a long training in banking, the majority having come. from the Hongkong head'office.
In spite of the rain, it was learned
The official opening of the branch on enquiry at reen to-day, that the took place on May I under auspicious Gymkhana will be held at 3.30 peircumstances, deposits amounting to as advertised.
The
$2,000,000 being received. Bank will transact all kinds of bust- ness such as buying and selling drafts, One fatal case of smallpox was opening of current accounts, etc., reported yesterday, also a non-fatal while another feature will be the say. case of enteric fever and another of ings back department. paratyphoid fever. All three cases were Chinese.
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e a fair analogy. Inašuuch as it is and natural for men to be cherrimists. that requiring thought and no moral effort, tare was one for his speech, and no wishy-washy exens the it. The ingrmationalism" of the chiết
The following is a statement of the League of the securities lodged with the Crown Phampions of Natiels ideal is a fruit of intellec- Agents by the Mercantile Bank of Fatia, struggling to sprout in India, Limited, against their notes in genial, and should dot be circulation:-Security, Fanding Loan; lightly attackedl or jeemd at. amount, £180,000; latest market
hauli be given ite chance to grow, price, £71. Not to give it its chance is unfair.
It is notified in the Gazette that A: I read the Seely intolerance, 1 "see fully, as well as unfairness. It at the expiration of three months reveals in bright light the from this date the Wo Lok Company. mud and moral superiority of Limited will, unless cause is shewn The wishy-washyness hrsmered at.to the contrary, be struck off the Key almost certainly goes to Register and the Company will be
The Shaukiwan scalding case was
Bank is capitalised church. He is the sort of respecte dissolved.
concluded before Magistrate Orne at
£2,000,000 Sterling and has a abi- tatesman who would. He;
The road beginning at Whitfield the Magistracy this morning when
Board of Directors in Hongkong. would lack the courage to detence
At the meeting of the Sanitary M. L. S. Hollum is the Chief Man- Christianity as wishy-washy, which Road and running in a southerly the defendant, an elderly Chinese" it is lit his reckoning. Jis by direction along the Fraya and farmer, was ordered to pay the com- Board to be held on Tuesday, May ager, the Shanghai Manager will be the Seely reckoning, was certainly terminating at an unnamed street at plainant $5 as compensation or 10, at 4.15 p.m., appointments of Mirr. Lee Yang-isa and the assistant u wishy warly milksoy, with the northern boundary of Hongkong undergo 14 days hard labour. He Martia Blake and Bombardier Watson Munger Mr. Y. C. Yung
Numerous visitors, foreign and wi-by-washy sentiment for Cien- Inland Lot No. 1588, will in future was also required to sign a bond in to be 2nd class Sanitary Inspectors
the sum of $50. to keep the peace for will be considered....
| Chinese called at the Bank, moongat Tiles and ooteiders: why does he the known as Hing Fat Street.
six months.
them being General Ho Feng-lin, say so? Probably because he hasn't
Sergeant Logan, who prosecuted, The total output of the Kailan Defence Commissioner of Stangimi noticed it, because he didn't and
said that the scalding was the Mining Administration's mines for) and Sungking. Mr. Hsu Yuan, Coq don't think.
result of a quarrel over a small the week ending April 23, 1921 missioner for Russian and Foreign larceny last Sunday. The defend amounted to 98,046 tons and the Affairs in Shanghai, Mr. Wang Keng ant accused, the man living on sales during the period, to 72,659 ding, the Teorin of Shanghai, Mr. the floor below him.
Heated tons.
Het Kuo-lang, Chief of Chinese words followed, and the defendant
Police Constabulary, Fu· Skao-en, threw a basin of boiling water at the The wedding takes place at St. Sung Han-chang, Chu Pao-san, Wang other man. It missed its object and John's Cathedral this afternoon of fell on the complainant, a passer-by Mr. Harry Gordon Baxter, of the-ding, Sung Lien-fong, and many who had no part in the quarrel.
Chartered Bank, to Miss Dorothes Farmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Farmer, of Shameen.
The engagement is announced between Miss Edith M. P. Paxton, only daughter of the late Mr. George Paxton, Richardland House, Kilmar neck, N.B., and George Marshall (MBL), second son of Mr. J. H. Marshall, St. Brelades, Jersey (late Netherhill, Aberdow, Fife).
missionary institutions. Amongst the donations are £700 to the China Inland Mission and £200 to the Japan Evangelistic Band.
No people were THE GERMAN less wishy-washy, YXAMPLE. Or are patriotic in an unvassning was, than the Germans. Are they To be our models? Deutschland peter alles"-wy country above
Mr. Alfred Thoraber Ellis, of all, even abone morality and Walmer-road. Birkdale, Southport, humanity and civilized decency, who died on December 27. left estate The defendant said that what he The Fatherland-and Gott strafe of the gross value of £58,233, with threw was tea. He would not dare other people's fatherlands. Yenet personalty 56288, of which to repeat his action again. He did That is undoubtedly the Seely £50,000 goes to the charitable or it under great provocation, teaching. You have seen how worked, how insane it made the people obsessed by it. They scorn cd the wishy-washa surap of paper and put their trust in brute force -all for the Fatherland-and what Rice merchants in Shanghai held happened? The wishy-washy sentia meeting at which it was decided ment of the British for the Bel-to write to the rice guilds and con- gians sent them in. The wishy-tractors inland asking them not to Sashy attachment of France to sell rice to strangers. It is feard that Russia sent her in. Wish-wasbunless prompt measures are taken, about making the world sale for rice riots will break out as they did democracy brought the Americane last year. The present price of rice in. It would have been cheaper far exceeds the price at this time last and more profitable (surely a year.
consideration) patriotic them to have stayed out.
“GOT HIS OWN BACK,”
A HOOLIGAN FINED,
KINEMA THEATRE DISTURBANCES.
Surgeon-Lieutenant H. A. L Guthrie has been posted to the river steamer Robin, China Station. This officer was recently serving on the "Hecla," torpedo depot ship, Chatham.
others:
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
PUBLIC MEETING ON THE BATES QUESTION"
THE Joint Committees of the
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Captain Aubrey Lambert has just succeeded Captaiz H. S. Currey, ASSOCIATION and the KOWLOON RESIDENTS, ASSOCIATION invite D.S.O, to the command of the light their members and the Public generally. Before Magistrate Orme, at the craiser Cairo, Chica Squadron, to meeting for the purpose of passing Magistracy this morning, a Chinese the latter having completed his two a Resolution against the increase of the was charged with having assaulted years in command. Several other House Rates an attendant of the Taiyat Theatre, officers of the Catro" are due for Yaumati
The defendant said that when he relief this year. According to a new rule made by the Goverior in Council, all money passed the theatre on his way to the
FOR A LAME BACK. or other effects brought into the market, the complainant and some of On hia ing's Post that we prison by any prisoner, or sent to the his friends assaulted him
the back bathe the parts with a motor boat, called prison for his use, which he is not war back he saw the complainant WHEN you have pains or lameness in
entitled to retain, shall be placed in alone, and "got his own back"
The police said that the defendant Chamberlain's Fain Balm twice a day massaging with the palm of the hand
For
I see by this morn HOME COMFORTS have in our harbour
ON BOAT.
"REVENUE AND EX-
PENDITURE.
The Meeting will be held at the THEATRE at 3.30 PM on WEDNES DAY, the 11th May, 1921, and it is hoped to obtain a large attendance,
Hongkong, May 7, 1921.
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the Paula, 53t. 10in the custody of the Chief Warder, who was one of a gang of hooligans who for five minutes at each application. dong, with a saloon piano, the con, shall keep an inventory of them in a had caused trouble at the theatre then dampen a piece of fansel slightly forts of a home, including **?
Book. Articles of a perish- births.
"This is the first time I able of dangerous nature me for some time. Last night, they with this iniment and bind it on over the WANLAT Koon Reply to
again caused a disturbance, and when seat of pain. For sale by all Chemists
and Storekeepers. have seen twins described as home destroyed.
the attendant went outside to blow a) comforts. The little darlings, even
police whistle, the defendant attacked when they come singly, somewhat Commander Francis B. Favell him with a bamboo pole. disturb comfort. But perhaps at has been posted to Hongkong dock- Mr. Ray, managing director of the -ses it's different.
yard for duty from March 15. Com Hongkong Amusements. Etd, sald mander Favell, who has been latterly that he had experienced much trouble employed at the Humber Naval Base from men of the defendant's descrip- as Admiralty Port Officer at Imming- tion who rushed into the theatre with ham, entered the naval service in out paying for their tickets and when 1894, specialised in navigation, was remonstrated with by the fokis of the promoted heutenant in 1901 and theatre, threatened to assault them, commander in 1914. When the late This state of affairs was commonest | war opened, he was with the battle on Saturdays and holidays, when ship "Hindustan," of which he was before half the tickets for which navigating officer. He saw much there were seats in the theatre had Domestic Occurrences The Government Gazette gives service with the Grand Fleet in the been sold, the house was packed. aome interesting figures in a com-North Sea and elsewhere.
The Magistrate Laposed a fine of Leading Articles parative statement of the revenue and
$5 and ordered the defendant to sign Motorist Ignores Sammons... expenditure from January 1st to 31st Unlawful possession of eleven 1921. During the period the revenue tons of empty cartridge cases in a bond in the sum of $50, to be of Local and General -
good behaviour for six months, -was. $1,336,236.70 which is slightly correctly described, for the purpose below that for the same month last of obtaining "an export permit, wasS year when the figures were $1,406, the charge preferred against a Chinese 193,47. Expenditure for the month before Magistrate Lindsell at the showed an increase. In January 1920 | Magistracy - yesterday
INTERESTING FIGURER
Dr Sun Tatacar
Japanese Shipping
Sir James Lockhart Chair Coolie's Girild? Owing to the rain, the matches Ferocious Dog. ****** afternoon. in connection with the 1st and 'Znd'
Constable's Theft
CROUP.
A Fire at Sea -**** "Easily Done * ******* Ship's Officer Assaulted Children's Corner ... $400 Opium Fine Engineers and Shipbuilders Bank Manager Swindle Comware Fined..
a suur of $723,409.79 was expended The defendant it was alleged export divisions of the Hongkong Lawn Motor Prosecutions while in the same month this year ed some of the cases to Canton where Tennis League scheduled to be play-Hongkong Business Types
disbursed. In it was said, it was only due through ed off to-day have been postponed. Dishonest House Boy... -$881,40371 way crease in revenue were made in the vigilance of the Customs authori- light does, the Courts, Post Office, ties there that they were discovered and the Railway, while licences and in- and sent back to Hongkong, ternal revenue, rent of Government Although the cares are not property, land and houses showed ammunition in the ordinary or deadly a falling off In cxpenditure the Secre- sense of the word, as they have no THB discane is so dangerous and so rapid in ita dovalopment that over? tariat for Chinese Affairs, Botanical percussion caps, the empty cartridges mother of young children should be Horestes Department, and Military are Included in the category of prepared for it. It is very ricky to wall Expenditure were the only heads OBLATION der Ordinance until the attack of crony appeare and under which there were redactione. under which the defendant was then send for medicine and let the Accidents in Kore Paice and Prisons in January 1920, charged. The are alleged to be a child suffer until it can be obtained. Grachana
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in Cost $89.599.53 this January they part of a consignment of fifty tous and enocinal and has never prom
$130000 At the end of from Rusels. The case which is said to fail in so C nary there was a favourable to be a serious one, was reminded bottle in the home Foc.
until Priday next's balance of $4,945 099 30
Hongkons Hongkon
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17 Local Weddings....
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Our War Memorial
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Shanghai Races
Steamer Wrecked
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Praya East Reclamati Armed Robberies. Alongside Too Soon Marder Charge un
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$11,000 Gone DHE Two ** Wasters Motor Cyclist Fined French Admirał im Shipping News
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