PATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1922.
TO-DAY'S
(Reuters
CABLES.
the China Mail.)
• EGYPT" INQUIRY CHARGTMB.
SEAFARING PROFESSIONS INTERESTS.
Loxnos, September 15,
The Imperial Merchant Service Guild and Mercantile Marine Service Association have decided to co-operats in any stops deemed desirable ia the interests of the profession as regards the seriousnces of the charges aga'nst the captain and officere in the fullings of the court of enquiry into the loss of the "Egypt."
SOUTH AMERICAN STATES
BREAK WITH THE LEAGUE ?
GENEVA, September 15. Brazil as Lutified the Disarmament Committee that she will be unable to participate further in the Langue's naval disarmament sebring.
This following the Argcutine's wit' drawal cauce o fear of a break be tween the South American: tates and the League.
GERMAN CHEMICAL FIRE.
DAMAGE REACHES MILLIONS.
BERLIN, September 15 Merck's big chemical works at Darmstadt are reported to be on fire. The damage is estimated at willions of marks. The firm's valuable supplies
of op'um have be `n eaved,
SOVIET ROUBLE'S 'HTADLONG PLUNGE,
FOURTY-FOUR MILLION TO THE POUNDS.
Rica, September 11.
The Boviet rouble catastrophically fell in 24 hears. It is now quoted at 44,000,000 to the pound sterling compared with 39 before.
HUNGARY LEAGUE MEMBER,
GENEVA, September 15. The Sixth Commission adopted with acclamation the sub-committee's recommendation for admission of Hungary to the League.
HOLLAND'S QUEEN.
CHRISTIANIA, September 15.
Great enthusiuem has been evoked by the impending visit of the Queen of Holland The streets have been gaily festooned and bellagged.
WARNING AND A WILL
ECCENTRIC MAN'S FAREWELL NOTE.
A house painter, admed William Davey, EU. of Hethpool-street, Pad-, dington, who, it was stated at the inquest at Paddington, was eccentric and lived alone, wrote the following nots and left it outaide the door
NEW DANCES.
MISS AILEEN WOODS STUDIES IN AMERICA.
Fatoresting dancing innovations are promised for Hongkong as a result of Miss Aileen Woods' vivit to America
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONGKON; TRADE.
FAIR INQUIRY FOR PIECE GOODS.
The fortnightly trade report issued by this Ilangkong Chamber of Com meren stat 8-
Cotton piree goods and fancy coʻton
FIGHT WITH POLICE.
ARMED ROBBERY TUWARTED
Reviving information that a gang, was planning an armed robbery at No. 1, School Street, Tailang, Sub Inspector Shaftsin and several detectives hid in the vicinity. Th
where she is now studying to latest Roods-Siner our last report there made and arrest, a man dressed
has been a fair enquiry, and sales on movements in order to trach them a moderate reala have been effected
Soo in Fancy Goode. Some cheap sales of hers. Mas Words Inves
White Slicting are mentioned, but generally spanking the market for Grey and Whito Bhirtings remains tagnant. Cedrances continue satis. factory.
Francisco by the Shiny Baron September 21 and arrives here on October 24.
Writing home by the last nail, Miss Woods raya:
"I am at present taking tw lessora In day and night classes twice a week. My teacher is one of the very best aud work ev. ry minuta of the tesacno. Sho ineits that I write down all the exercises and steps
order to commit them to memory, and she is very par 'cular about the graceful atm move dents, I have learnt some very pretty dances. notably a Spanish dance with a fan, a mazurka, Ilighland fling, hrn pips Irish jig, and scarf dance. At all the principal halls and hotle I have olosely atudied the ball room da c'oy.
As a rule it is simple-very smooth and graceful with plenty of three step movements. Shimmying is not al lowed."
Miss Woode adds a tribute to her
a
teacher who, she says, pasteses wonderful gift of buparting her know- ledge. Miss Woods looks forward to resuming bor classes bore in October.
A CHANCE TO REFORM.
BOW STREET'S NEW MAGIS- TRATE AND A GIRL.
Mr. W. H. Leycester, lately the Marylebone magistrate, began his duties at Bowstreet Plice Court in mail week.
To a pretty girl of 20 charged with ancoying mea in the West End he said: What made you sink so lɔw as this?
to.
:
The Girl: It was a case of having
Mr. Leycreter: You will find that the older you get the more miserable you will be. If I give you a chance is there the smallest possibility of your
NIAGARA SKIPPER DEAD. giving up this lifel-Yes.
CAPTAIN OF THE HISTORIC
MAID OF THE MIST.
Captain John Ross, who piloted the tourist steamer "Maid of the Mist" for 33 years noross the foot of Ningarn
Mr. Leycester: You are very young and it is worth trying. I will postpone seltence for a month and will help you if you will be helped. But if you insist on going to the dogs you must go.
Cotton Yarn. In sympathy with the stagnancy of Shanghai market, where prices continue to aag, dealers: here aro dizi clined to operate for j more than their immediate require A fuit' er decline of $2 pe muta. bule has been registered, and the market closes weaker.
Quotations are:-
No 108. $148/172. No. 128. $150/170. No. 103. $188/210: No. 201 $188/213.
Arrivals 5,000. Sales 2.500 bales.
Unsold stock 17,000 bales. gains 7,000 bales.
Shipments nil.
Bar-
Woolens.-3mali sales of fastings
and serges are reported bat the muket is still quiat,
Raw Cottons.We have again to report that there has been no business in this commodity. Nominal quota tions. Indian descriptions at $31/37. Chinese Staple at $31/40 per picul.
Metale.-Business very quiet. No change.
like
An
elootrio fitter. wbo made a strong bid for freedom. Ia the course of his struggle with the police, his large sun belmet fell to the ground, and a revolver loaded in five chambere dropped out of the crown.
TC-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
MARINE ENGINEERS GUILD OF CHINA.
Hongkong franeli.
Reguler Monthly Meeting will be
held of the Cinili Office, failors' Hon West Point, en MONDAY, 180h Hoptember, nto o'clock P.M.
Business-General.
W. J. STOKEA,"
Branch Becretary- Hongkong, September 16, 1922.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD,
an Extraordinary General Meet ing of LANE, CRAWFORD LIMITED Will be held at the Office of the HONG KONG HOTEL CO., LTD, Powell's Building, Des Voeux Road Central,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong,
on MONDAY, the 2nd day of October, 1922, at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of considering and, if thought
Flour Market Report. Steck: About, approving the draft new Articles of Association of the Company which 500,000 sacks.
will be submitted to the meeting.
Quotations:
American Patent $3.70 per eack. American Straight 2.60 per sack. American Cut off 2.70 per rack. Shanghai Floor 2.95 per sack-Aus talian No. 1 2.90 for asek.
Window Glass Market weak.
SANITARY BOA! D.
COMING ELECTION.
Election for a new member of the Sanitary Board t kes place at the City Hill an Thursday, September 28 at 4 p.m.
Those entitled to vote are given as follows in today's Coverament Gazcite-
"Bach persons as are included in either of the jurors lists referred to in section 7 (3) of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, and also the following persons, exempted from serving as jurors, that is to say:-unofficial members of the Executiva er of the Legislative Council barristers and solicitore on t'e roll of the Supreme Court; medical practitioners; dentists in
actual practice in the Colony; persons re
A print of such draft new Articles and a print of the existing Articles of the Company may be seen at the Registered Office of the Company, Royal Building. Victoria aforesaid, and at the Office of Messrs. DEACON, LOOKER. DEACON & Harston, 1 Des Voeux Road Central, Victoria afore said, and the portions of the proposed new Articles which differ from the existing Articles are indicated by being underlined in red.
Should the meeting approve of such new Articles of Association, with or without modification, the
subjoined Resolation will be proposed as an Extraordinary Resolution, namely:-
"That the now Articles, a'rady approved by this--cting and for the purpose of identiɓeition sub- scribed by the Chairman thereof be and the same are hereby adopted as the Articles of tho Company to the exclusion of and in substitution for all the existing Articles thereof."
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO
GIVEN that a further Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company wilt be held at the same place on TUESDAY the 17th day of October 1922, at 930 o'clock in the forenoor, for the purpose of receiving a report
Falls and conveyed thousande LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. gistared under the Pharmacy Ordin of the proceedings at the above
British tourists, has died, aged 73. "Don't strike a watch. The gas is The "Maid of the Hist" is une of on, Good-bye."
When the door was burst open the best known versels in the world, Dovey was found dead in bed. Close for she has for many years carried visi to bia mouth was the end of a rubber tors to Niagara Falls from Prospect gas tube attached to the gas bracket Park out across the river right up to in the wall, and tied by a piece of the spray and thunder of the Canadian atring round his neck.
In his room was found an unilated Falls, then along the coast of Goat Island to the splashing and roar of and anxigned will, leaving all his pro
the American Falls. Moreover, she party to his landlady.
was the first visel to shoot the
A verdict of "Suicide while ci u
sound mind" was returned.
Rapids, the so called whirlpool that lies Lelow the third bridge after the Fal's,
Ilore the immene volume of water!
"A SAILOR-MADE MAN," that pours over the Fails, 12,000,000
FICTURE'S OF SWATOW.
Hugely delighted audiences saw the four-real Harold Lloyd Comedy "A Sailor-Made Man" at the Compet yesterday. It thoroughly justified all that had been said about it and was generally pronounced the brightest, best and. breeziest picturs that had come to Hoogkong for some time.
cubic feet a minuis is forced through a narrow gorge of 200ft, and to over whelming is its pressure that the yater at the centre of the river at this point is 20ft. higher than the water at the sides, the stream having a convex surface. In 1861 the "Maid of the Mist" was beavily mortgaged, and to prevent her seizure the then skipper, Jel Robinson, decided to try to run her into a Canadian port. Un- der full steam he sped her down the Rapide and she emerged safely into
An interesting feature of the sams the calm waters below with the low progamme was a film of Swatow of only her funnel. after the typhoon. It would perhaps have been a thore effective pieturs it
the camera man had gone in mers for bird's
vicws rather сто
than
"alose ups" of isolated heaps of debris but a very good idea of the terrible. desolation and destruction was con vaye neverthelrer.
The views, particularly those of the etranded steamers "Topgebing" and "Shan- clost. were remarkably tubg,
"
DANGEROUS GOODS.
A Bill to spend the Dangerous
Goods Ordinance of 1873 in gatatted:
KOVEMENTS OF STELMERS.
ARRIVALS.
J
from
Foosing. (J. M. & Co) Teingtao, Swatow-Co's Wharf,
Sai Yang, (B. & S) from Shangbai, Amey.-B12.
S. J. JORDAIN,
Secretary,
anzas, 1916-1917; clergymen of the mentioned Meeting and of confirm
a Special Church of England, Roman Catholicing, if thought fit, as
above mentioned priesto, ministers of any congregation Resolution, the of Protestant dissenters or of Jews Resolution. functioning in the Colony; the masters Dated this 15th day of September 1932.
By Order of the Board, of any school other than a vernacular schoul in the Colony; the professors, lectures and other academic officers of the University of Honghong; the editors, sub-editom and reporters of any daily newspaper published in the Colony; pilots licensed under the Busko Maru, (0.3.K.) from Kee-Pilots Ordinance, 1901; and persons hoo lung-Wanchai.
of sound mind who have previously days, rest in bed if posible, be careful Prosper, (Fok Tai Cheong) from been iucinded in either of the said of your diet and take hamberlain's la and Dian hoca Remedy This Cantor.-C40.
jurers lists but have been removed medicine has cared cass of citronio Talthybius (B&S) from Manila, therefrom on
account of age or irons that physi i ne bare filed on, and it will cure you. For sale by al infirmity."
Chemists and torekeepers. Cebu -Adm 1.
Linan, (B. & S) from Saigon.-Cia. Taming, B & S.) from O bu Mati a-C31.
Pre-dt Cleveland, (PM.S.S.) from San Francisco, Shanghai. Kowloon Whatf.
Tings nz (J.M. & Co.) from
from- Cantos - B7.
Hydrangea, (Chia Ou) Swatow.-Co.'s Wharf.
Namwal, (Sik Ing) from Hoihow. --C37.
Tungbing, (Shun Cheong) from Kwong Chow Won.-Co.'s Wharf.
Englee, (Yee Tai Hong) from Chefoo.-C36.
Fooles, (Yea Tai Hong) from Canton.-C21.
DEPARTURES.
China, (C. M. 8. 8.) for San
The C. MArmarustan" will sail Francisco, Shanghai. September 16.
Kaiping, (Singken for Haiphong. Pakboi. September 16.
for moy and Swataw on Monday, Sept. 18 at nuan
The . . .s. "Tynd rous" from
Hok Canton, (Wo Hing) for Fort Pucife Parts Icares Osaka on Eeps. I for Hongkong in Kushinalan and is Bayard.-September 10. expected to artive heio un or about Bept, |
Hwah Ping, (Chang Wha) for
93
The B. F... "Protesilaus" from Valparaiso Karatsu-September 16.
Songma, (Lápicque) for Maurities,
· Faciliu Ports loft Beattle on Eppt. 14 for | this Fort via Japan and is dus here on or Singapore.-September 10. about Cat. 13,
Foaleo, (Yes Tai Hong) for Cheloo. Well ainei-September 16.
Kwangtong. (B. & 8.) for Singapore, Swatow September 17,
Prosper, Fok Ti Cheong) for Canton Beptember 17.
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Our usual Children's Corner
The "Objects and reasons" state does not appear in this issue owing to
that some of the new rules are based the illness of "Peter Pan."
on a model supplied by the Petroleum Department of the Government, at Home. Offenders are to be tried by|| one magistrate instead of twa. There wasn't time to redraft the whole of the original ordinance, which would have been better Bedce them amendments
2.
A Good Buggestion.
Try Climberlain's Tablóis when bilions
Tidgesng, (J.M. & Co.) for Tringino, Swatow September 17.
Linan, (B. 8.) for Canton. Beptàmber 17.
Gweneth, (Moller & Co.) for Saigon.
or constipated. You are certato ti be-September 17.
much pleased with them. They are easy to tato and plostant in effect. For sle by all Chemis aand B orcheopers,~~~
Kaijo Mard (0.8.E) for Keelang, Swatow-September 17-
0
Chronic Diarrhoea.
Are you subject to attacks of diarr
Keep ablutely quiet for a few
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Domestic Occurrenões Leading Articica Swatow
Local and General ... Early Morning Brauns Stended Thirteenɔdo. Obituary
Pirates at Wuchow... Harbour Collision -
Alleged Coiners...
New Chinese Back Swatow's Bhipping T.W.C.A. .....
CONTENTS,
PAGE
1 Bomb Explodes at Wanchai..14 1-4 China's Millions
PAGE
.14
4
K.O.C.'S Band Concert
.14
5-7 Peak Hospital.
.14 ·
7
Chinete Post Office
.10-16
7
Engineering Society of China..16
8
Amoy Trade
16
Cathedral Manise
16
Sir Paul Chater in Lendon
Water Flushing System
...17
P.W.D. in 1931 ...
...17
9
P.W.D. Man Wade
.17
Bank Returns....
9
Bhangbai Wedding
The Tragedy on "Fatahun."..18
Piracy Charge...
9
Highway Robbery.
Correspondenca
.19
.10
Stole for "Swank.”
.19
..10
The Fire Brigade
.19
.10
Interport Swimming
.20
..10
Sport
.10
Big P. & O. Liners to England 21
.11
Bank Bund
.11
Buffalo's Varful Journey.
.22
Sordid Facts.. Hongkong Epidemic.
Bored Body
.22
.12
Ticketisas Travellers
.22
Gagged With Wlaecopin
12.
Passenge
.22-
Film Depth ... Housing and Disne Hypnoüe Monk Borglar Alaron_
.12
Exchange
.23
13.
Local Share Market
.13
8.P.U.A. and Fowls
"Last Year's Meet ....
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