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DEATHS.
SHAW.--At the Government Civil
Hospital on March 7, 1922, Jam Totton Shaw, aged 46 ye..ra Funeral passes the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day.
aged 74 years.
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ties would be lessened, and the admir. abio energies of the residents would be spared and made available for the assistanes of other sections of the community.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One fatal case of pingue, Chinese, and a con-fatal case of small pox, British, were notified yesterday,
The examination service at the castern and western entrances of the port was withdrawn al. p.m., yesterday.
SPECIAL CABLES.
SHANGHAI NEWS
SHROFF SHOT BY UNKNOWN MAN.
China Mail SPECIAL.]
SHANGHAI, March 7, A shroff employed by the Chinese City Waterworks Company was fatal ly wounded by a revolver shat last evening when walking towards an alleyway in North Thibet Road near the Chapel boundary He received the bullet in the left breast fired by a man who sprang in front of him. The
BACK TO WORK.
COLONY SETTLING DOWN.
"EVERYTHING IS WORKING SMOOTHLY."
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1122.
CORRESPONDENCE:
REPORT DENIED.
To the Editor of the "China Mail.”)
Sir-A statement appears in the issue of the Daily Press of the 8th that the man Robinson,
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The total output of the Kailan nilast seaped's The motive docs show that the Colony is getting that the full particulars regarding
Miting Administration's mines for the week ending February 18, 1922, amounted to 66 807 tone and the sales during the period, to 64,079.
tons.
not appear to be robbery.
WELL-KNOWN CHINA RESIDENT DEAD,
China Mail SPECIAL 1
Your obedient servant,
GENERAL ITEMS.
Sixteen Ireehold cottages were sold at auction at Monmouth for a total of £100.
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found on the west coast of Ceylon, New pearl oyster banka have been
between Negombo and Chilaw.
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The coin for Mr. B. P. Lnacelles, the Harrow master and second cousin to Viscount Lascelles, measures 8ft.
lin.
Brigands have held up a mail coach near Trapani. Sicily, and robbed the passengers and mails of all articles of value.
According to the annual report of the Chief Inspector of Stook, there are no fewer than 5 996ramels in Western Australia.
"Everything is working emoothly and without a hiteb. A far as I March
Bow the men are returning to work sentenced by the Marine Magistrate
unlawful all over the Colony." That was how lor
boarding, bas the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (the been
released ns ប result Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax) described
of the striko. negaliations. the situation when approached by a China Mail reporter for official nows
This statement is not true; aut I tl is morning.
amat a loss to understand how it There was plenty of evidence to came to be made, in view of the fact
back into its stride again The coal conlies
this matter were known to the Editor were working in full
and of the Daily Press on the afternoon swing this morning all the cargo coolies who could find of March 7. jobs were bar at it, too. The river
I am, Sic; steamers have got going again and amongst the departures last night It is understood that Mr. E. A.
were those of the "Sui An for Sly who is at present British Vice-
HANGHAI, March 8 Macao, the "Tai Lee" and Sun Consul at Canton will proceed in due The death bos taken place of M. ning" for the West River and the course at Chinkiang, and Mr. Mille Pierre Huber, formerly of the Chinese "Kwong Sui." "Hoi. Sang" und will proceed to Foochow as Vice Customs. M. Haber was very well-"Heongshan " for Canton. The
kdown throughout Chins where he trie last mentioned are to bring back LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. Algiers fell into the cellar and 9 were, was born 41 years ago. He was a seamen to Flougkong. The "King: nephen of the late Sir Robert Hart. shan" will leave for Canton this His father, & customs commissioner, evening. In some cases the river married Sir Robert Hart's sister. M steamers got all their old crews back Pierre Huber was last stationed at in other instances they had a nucleus Kongmoon. He was on home leave of old hands and managed to "scratch in France when war broke out. He up" the rest. The coastal shipping immediately joined the colours and companies are busy preparing for the fought gallantly in France. He retorn of their crews and aoine of married an English lady, His wife them expect to get basta away by. and fanuly at present en route for next Friday. France left two weeks ago.
Consul
A Chinese woman living at No. 41, Staunton Street reports that hor servant girl absconded yesterday afternoon, taking with her clothing. jewellery and money to the total Ltd. value of $434
WING & 00.
D- Væma Road, CENTRAL.
Some
The Mr. Butterfield referred to 111 Д yesterday's China Mail advertisement relating to the Feak Tramway, was Mr. W. A. Butterfield, of the engineering department of the Asiatic l'etroleuni Co. (8. C.) Ltd.
After giving evidence in the Beicher Street murder case at the Criminal essione, a 70 year old Chinese woman, one of the victims of the affair, collapsed. She was removed to the hospital in a grave condition.
Corrected to December 1, the 5th issue of the Maritime Customs list of lighthouses, light-vessels, buoye and beacons on the coast and rivers of China has come to hand from Shang Kai. Particulars are given of 192 lighte, 5 light vessels, 52 light boats, 276 bdays, and 970) bracon--a total of 1,490 lights in Chinese waters.
A variation on the "awat that
fly" campaign is announced from Kores, the Seoul authorities having offered to purchase flies at the price of ive sen for 20. Prizes ranging from ten sen to ten yen are also, men tioned as part of the same campaign. The Japanese papere profess to ace in this the creation of a new occupa tion for the indigent of the city.
The Hongkong Boxing Associa tion has offered a Challenge Cap for the Service unit winning most marks at the forthcoming Novices' Tourna ment at the City Hall on March 31 and April 1. The arits will be cun- stituted as follows:-The King's Regt., one unit; rest of the Garrison, one unit; the Flagebip, light cruisers, Gobmarines and H.M.S. "Tamai," to be one unit each ; and Police, Wardore and Civil Servants to combine as one unit.
THE BRITISH LEGION.
ANNUAL MEETING HELD.
a score of
With so many ex-servicemen doing special strike duty it is not remark.
able that only about members, breides the committee turned up at the City Hall yesterday evening at 5.30 o'clock for the annual meeting of the British Legion.
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HOTEL BOYS RETURN.
"
Kas. We've got every mother's son back this morning" was the reply when inquiries were made
Hongkong Hotel
at the
this There morning.
18, it Beemis, по truth in the rumour
A. G. M. FLETOBER, For the Colonial Secretary.
ARRIVALS.
To reorganise the municipal omni- bus an tramway car services, the city of Paris is to borrow £18,000,000 from American banks.
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Owing to the decayed floor giving way, 20 Arabs sitting in a café in
seriously injured.
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During the "rush "hours 222 tram- waycars per hour pass along the Em- Mentor, (B. & S.) from Liverpool, bankinent between Westminster and
Waterloo bridge. Singapore.
Bermuda, (Nemazee) (rom Cardiff, Haiphong.-A30.
Pyrrhus, (B. & S) from Kobe, Shanghai...
Caddoprak, (P: M. $.8. Co.) from Calcutta, Saigon.-Stonecutters.
Hongkong, (Lapicque & Co.) from Mauritius, Saigon --Stonecutters.
OLBARANCES.
Francisco via Keelung-March 8.
Shinyo Mara, (T.K.K) for San
Pyrrhus, (B. & S) for London via
Introduced into the Polish Parlis- mot, a military service Bill provides for a peace army of 250,000, each max to serve two years.
National Savings Certificates sold during the week ended January 7 numbered 1,630,585, the largest weekly sale for nearly two years.
Swansea is to have a new dry dock, which will be one of the largest in the country. It will be constructed by the Jarrow Shipbuilding Company.
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Two seagulls flew from the wings of an aeroplane which landed at Farn-
Pak Wo, (Yue WG) for Tsingtas. and back. Mentor, (B & S.) for Shanghai.borough, Hampshire, after a flight from Farnborough, towards the coast March 7,
March 7.
that the hotel servants are demanding big increases. The Hongkong, the Peak and the Repulse Bay hotels were Singapore.-March 7. Brig. General Macnaghten, who boys wire back again at the King working normally to-day and the wore the uniform of a private in the Edward Hotel. The Astor House, Volunteers, was in the chair. The which was the last hotel to close minutes of the extraordinary general own, has not got ita staff back niceting held on December 21 wore yet. The boys are coming back to confirmed, the report and balance the private hotels but the restauranta shest approved and the following have not re-opened yet. Wiseman's officers elected :-
do not know yet when they are likely President: Brig. Gen. E. B. to be able to provide meals again. Macuaghten.
Chairman: Lt. Col. L. G. Bird. Vice-Chairmaa: Mr. J. Bell-Irving. Hon. Secretary: Mr. H. K. Holmes. Hor. Treasurer: Mr. W. J. Hawker, A.C 1.8.
Auditors: Meas. A. Pierry and H. Spicer.
Committee Lt. Col. G. R. Hall Brutton, Mr. A. W. Roberts. Mr A. Murdoch, Mr. F. W. James, Mr. M. II. Turner, Mr. F. C. Hail. Mr. T. Young. Rev. C. C. Porti, Mr. G. Yates, Lt. Com. Hakr. R.N.R., Mr. T. W. Hill and Mr. 11. S. Burleigh.
HOUSE BOYS?
March, 8. We Sun, (Pak Kong.) for Shammi,
Tourane via Hoihow.--Match, 9.
Chung Hing, (Cheong Fat.) for
Hawaii Maru, (0. 8. K.) for Tacoma via Shangbai.-March, 9.
Tean, D. & S.) for Canton.→→ March, 9,
When are the house boys, and amabe coming back? Nearly every-the usual daily deliveries of milk and body was asking that this morning. meat had to be suspended and the The answer seems to be that they ayatem of selling against cash had to will come back when tired of staying away. A few came led to the closing down of the depots at they are be resorted to. Transport difficulties back this morning and the remainder Kowloon and Quarry Bay and every will, it is thought, dribble along body had then to go to the Central within the next few days.
depot in Wyadham Street for his sup plies.
Comp
Before the meeting ended the THE RETURN OF THE SEAMEN, chairman made feeling reference to the recent deaths of two members Mr. C. Farebrother Mason, M.C. and Mr. A. II. Crew.
Australia.
OBITUARY.
MR. J. T. SHAW.
of
Yesterday the last obstacles which stood in the way of B general resumption On the
part the Beamen were zemoved when the Government issued
a special Gazette announcing the
A special train to convey seamen
The
With the help of volunteers the European butobers and members of the European clercial staff set to and were able to serve abont 3,000 customers each day. Supplies of beef, mutton and pork were plentiful —as a matter of fact, due to the fore- sight of those in charge, the Colony could have been kept going for another couple of months. Poultry and eggs were unobtainable but with the re-
to
Two hundred and forty-four coine, several dating back to the reign of Edward III., were turned up during ploughing at Cowhill Farm, Whitburn, Linlithgowebire.
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In a case at Clerkenwell County Court it was stated to ba a custom of the race that a Jew should not transact business for seven days after a death in tilamily.
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The estimate: not expenditure of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for £2,377,680, or £515,870 less that the the year ending March 31, 1925, is
current year's estimate.
In granting permission for a fancy dress ball the Bradford magistrates stipulated that cotton wool or other highly inflammable material should not be used for the dresses.
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It is no longer necessary for Belgian subjects to obtain the Swiss viss before proceeding to Switzerland, but Belgians going to Switzerland to sock employment must obtain the Swiss
visa.
to their customers shire, having broken away from its
ав usual to-morrow morning fastenings while a test was taking
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Bridge has lately been introduced
repcission of the Order-in-Council efferency in too many ways, even on
outlawing the Tallymen's Guild, the the Ptak railway itself. Jack is still
Mr. James Totton Shaw, a well Tung Tak Guild and the Cargo sumption of the river steamer services the handyman of his traditional re-
*Passing from this world is not so known business man, died last night Cooliee Quild. putation, as capable as he is willing.
at the Government Civil Hospital were also issued excluding the Chinese made good.
Announcements this deficiency should speedily be pleasant as one would think," was the We understand that the equipment of A new nuisance has appeared in after a short illLess. Mr. Shap was from the operations of the Travellers
farewell message left by Nelson the line, and especially of the engine. Osaka in the form of an association the principal of J. T. Shaw, the out- Restriction Ordinance and withdraw-to-day by a China Mail reporter
The Dairy Farm, it was ascertained Stevens, 45, cf Camden-road, N.W., rrom, is so far from being up-to-date thats ends its time trying millionaires fitters, with premises in Pedder Street. ing the examination services at the who
who committed suicide by gas that no engineer who has not known for their lives and passing sentences It is about seventeen years since he entrances to the port.
made inquiries cn the poisoning. and pursed" it for some time, of death. The latest person to be came to the Colony from Brisbane,
subject,
are now getting back humouring its idiosyncrasies, could deemed guilty of offences for which
Bormal working conditions Weighing over a hundredweight, a He joined the firm of to Hongkong was to have been dea- again. They hope to resume their dummy attached to a parachute fell it without
hitch his life must be forfeit is Mr. Tomura Coitam and Co., Ltd., and on the patched from Canton last night but it daily deliveries of an e Or lesa serious, Public Tokubichi, the well known Osaka firm going in to liquidation he started was cancelled. Three river steamers and cream
fresh milk into a street at Farnborough, Hamp- feling rune very strongly along millionaire. On the 19th instant, ac business on his own account in about have gone up and they will bring the WIGTON.-Oo February 22, 1992, at the line that the company cording to the Oraka Asahi," Mr. 1908. His first premises wers in the men back free of charge.
Shanghai, Mrs. Y. B. C. Wigton really ought to spend some of its Tomura received a letter which inbuildin, now occupied by the Fench"Heungshan" is due back this after reopening of the depots at Kowloon |
and to-morrow should also see the place at the aerodrome, profits on improvements that would formed him that he had tees tried Store. Of a very retiring dispositics, soon but the others will not leave and Causeway Bay. Atrangements CAMPBELL. On February 27, 1929 make the plant casier and safer to by a meeting held for the pronounce Mr. Shaw was not prominently Canton until to night.
at Shanghai, John Campbell operate. Two strikes. Two arcidents. ment of sentences, that he was fourd identified with the juble life of the For some time before the arrival of are being made to send supplies into the French Chamber of Deputies,
The third one, they may, echoing a guilty and that "sentence" of death Colony, but nevertheless he possessed the midday express from Canton a Retired Engineer), aged 18 years.
down to Canton by river an innovation which must greatly well known superstition, will be more had been passed on him." The those sterling qualities which made big crowd of Chinese lined the Prays The present system of selling against somewhat gitomy part of the Palais steamer ini the usual way. have astonished the attendants of the tragic. It is quite possible, and even letter admonished him to prepare to him re pected by all with whom he near the Star Ferry wharf, prosum cash will be continued until the house Bourbon used so a dining hall by the- likely, that this foreboding may come meet his God. Mr. Tozours promptly came in contact The funeral takes ably to welcome back the big party boys come back in order to prevent members of Parliament. true. It is worth providing against. placed it in the hands of the Police.
plass to-day, passing the Monument of scamen that was expected to return delays to customers who have still The Prak people showed capital
by that train. Not many seamen to do their shopping in person. poweta of organization in the matter
came back probably because the pro-
"John Mitchell, who served in the- of food distribation, etc., when the pinch came.
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spect of a cumsha trip on the river heartily relieved to see their coolies during the war, and was discharged The staff of the Dairy Farm were Navy and with the Scots Greys la this connection sn
steamera Was a 'more attractive elfícient Pook Tramway could have they are so ontle, in action yet so
proposition. The waiting crowd bad
and clerks back. They have put in from a hospital dumb and without burn most helpful, and it is inciden- certain in rosult-in brief The Fourt Lazutive" Are you troubled with con
bands and banners ready to welcome long hours on unaccustomed tasks and sense of smell, was knocked out while tally to be noted that the tipation? Pinkettes brini enay n d now Peak Motor Road, about which quick relief.
the returnees bat, possibly because forget the seamen's strike of 1922. He recovered in ten minutes, exclaim
they said to-day that they won' soon boxing at Renfrew, near Glasgow. Are you lauk líverish, wa had all been grumbling in the stimulate the liver, romvo headsher
of a demonstration. hendachy blue Pike's gently
the smeliness of the party had reduced One who will have difficulty is ing "Whose winning* Specch their enthusiasm, there was not much forgetting it is the accountant Mr. J. and smell had been restored. The act of the Government in traditional Hongkong way, got ita causes, dispel the gloom taking over control of the Peak Tram chance to come into its own. Lower serves to call attention to conditions level folk grumbled at it as a too APINKETTES that require serious notice. Is it eastly
The China Mail.
*TAZTA, JUSTION, PUBLIN AFKVIER"
Hovasoru, Winsusnar M-Ben 8 1927,
PEAK TRAM.
na
"whito elephant."
Peak
ginity
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MARRIAGE SHOCK..
COUPLES TOLD THEY WERE NOT LEGALLY MARRIED..
FEEDING THE COLONY,
WHAT THE DATAY FARM DID.
M. Jack who, while serving in the batcher's shop, was unlucky enough to injure his hand with a chopper.
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when it was del red that many couples A great stir was Giused in Montreal who had gone through the marringe cercniony were not legally married,
An amusing story arising out of thes mot about time that the Peak Trampeople docused it of threatening their
An official who had gone back to
extraordinary differences in Europian 1829 to read the statute of that year Company realized, and showed that olympian peace and quietude. Provi
currencies comes from Cologne, A Ivory druggist solls them, or post regarding the sol-mnisation of mart it realized, that it has a duty to the stony were brought up this read, when freno con this phint from "Drages in Quebec found that only
traveller, ou his way to Switzerland, public as well
to its share the Tramway failed, in the side cars Road, Shanghai
NO TRUTH IN IT. purchased for 500 kronen a bottle of Williams' Medicine Lo, 90, Bavelzen holders? Twice within a compara of motor bicycles. Residents who
lergymen who are British subjecta
wine at a village inn in the Austrian tively short tim this impor ant may have been regarded as too
may perform warringes in that pro- If anybody should ask any of the vince
Tyrol. During the journey he drank Inquirine by a Chine Mail reporter the contents, and having crossed public utility has been affected by a dignifled before became very human
Dairy Farms people what they did in this afternoon dlcited official donin the Swiss frontier he sold the empty The Assistant Attorney-General the great strike they will to ble of the truth of a rumour widely cir-bottle for 50 centimice. As e Strike. Twice payal ratings bave and very helpful, und from the Peak
BEST MEDICINE "MADE. came to its recue. Twice thero Hotel as a convenient distributing
atates that only a small number of truthfully to make shower that they better medicine can not be made churches are affected Bud there is no fed the Coloby. It has been no joulate concerning official rigus Bwiss 50 centime piece is worth has been an alarming breakdown. conto the needs of the whole med. It relieve the lungs, opens the cause for the lightest lar: The other
A than Chealberisio's Cough Bo
lon None who knows the attendant
700 kroned in Austrian currènoy, the munity circumstancen drrave of augurating served.
were very satisfactorily secretions, is expectoration and islet marriages may be perfectly legal. If When the opidamis
traveller had good reseon to be Natura in restoring the system to any congregations boglected to store strike berat All the that the naval ratings cannot do the. With a more dependable Feat healthy audition Besides to utalne proper authorisation the Government deliy
Beregof the Chinese Seamen's satisfied with his bargain. He wAI job as well as the regular servants of Tramway, we suggest that on thy so oplates sind is perfectly safe to take will undoubtedly give Tolliler for dental
doollesand, the
Union took delivery, of their frames 200 kramen in pocket after haviu, he company. They have proved their future ducas hul of this sort the diffiend kooper all hemlata:nách: Store-i
other property at the Central quenched his thirst with passing necessary if பிரட்
Police Station this morning.
ille
ipsthy Farin
Blam
bottle of wine.