"SOLIGNUM'
THE ONLY REMEDY AGAINST DESTRUCTION OF WOODWORK BY WHITE ANTS AND DET-ROT,
DOES NOT EVatorate, crACK OR PEEL, DUT BEARCHES HIGHT INTO THE WOOD,
Solo Agentar ARNHOLD BROTHERS & Co., Ltd. 1A, Çhatar Road, ‹ Phone Central 1800.
CHINA SUGAR DIVIDEND. 800 MORE TOURISTS.
$10 PER SHARE.
ANOTHER WORLD CRUISE
The reports of the general man-EMPRESS OF FRANCE" ARRIVES. agera of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. (Messm. Jardine, Mathe
27 statee:-
The Bulance at Credit of Profit, and Lass Account is $172,762.16 which the Genom! Agents and Con- sulting Committee recommend should be dealt with as follows:- Trasfer from Equaliza-
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE PARALYSIS OF CHINA. LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
TRADE AT THE MERCY OF
BANDITS..
ARRIVALS.
Ixion, (B. & S.) from Liverpool,
Tean, (B. & S.) from Canton.- C34...
The Manchester Guardian corres- pondent at Peking recently wrote | Singapore.—Holt's Wharf. as follows:
Soochow, (B, & S.) from. Shang During the past two years I have hal, Swatow.-B12, ocen in touch with the provincial authorities and chambers of com- merce in the provinces of Chihli. Shansi, Shantung, Honan, Hupch, Szechuan, and Hunan, and have travelled pretty extensively in those parts and I am only now beg- inning to realise the reasons for the present depression, and vague- ly to see some of the possibilities for its belief.
Haiphong, (Thai Thuan) from Saigon.-C43
Van Cloon,(J.C.J.L.) from Amoy, Swatow.-A25.
Reims, (Tal Woo) from Hothow, Haihong, (Douglas & Co.) from Foochow, Swatow.--Anchor.
Willesden, (Tuen Kee) from Rangoon, Singapore.-A27-
Yoshino Maru, (N.Y.K.) from Melbourne, Manila-Kowloon Wharf.
In Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, and Ticatsin lic the offices and godowns of the various firms who specialise in Far Eastern trade, while in Peking are their repres- entatives, who negotiate the big Kamakura Maru, (N.Y.K.) from deals with the various Government Yokohama,Moji.-Kowloon Wharf departments concerned. But to: big order is not everything.
Tjikembang, (J.C.J.L.) from negotiate a big deal or to place a Sourabaya, Batavia-A10.
The
Passat, (Kung Yuen) from Saigon.
goods must be delivered and pay--Anchor. ment made.
¿
Bon & Co., Ltd.), for presentation At 12.30 10 day arrived the "Em- to the shareholders at the forty-fifth press of France" carrying the
To the outside world, which annual general meeting, on March large number of 800 tourists. She only sees the suave and courteous follows close upon the heels of the English-speaking Chinese repre- The General Agents beg to sub-"Resolute" which only a fortnight. sentatives in Washington and mit to the shareholders their reportago passed through with 400 globe London, it would seem extr on the Company's business for the trotters, and just previous to that ordinary that their. Government year ended 31st December, 192. the "Laconia" called at Hongkong could be so important that its
while on a world cruise.
authority should not extend a The Empress of France" is a hundred miles from it capital. typical C.P.S. vessel of 18,500 But this is the case in China at tons and was chartered specially present. by Mr. Frank C. Clark of New
China is not yet a manufacturing York, whose task of shepherding country on a large scale, and it is 300 passengers must be no sin the agricultural labourer, the small ecure. The boat commenced farmer, and the small shopkeeper her world trip on January 22 who are the ultimate consumers of and she has had a fairly easy
imports. How do they reach voyage right up to Hongkong. On them? the way she called at Havana, Colon, Panama, Frisco, Hilo, Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki. Like the other two vessels she did not make a call at Shanghai.
tion of Dividend Fund to Profit and Loss Account ..............$30,000.00 Leaving for distribu-
tion the sun of To pay a Dividend of $10.00 per share ab- sorbing And to carry forward to
'new account
202,762.46
200,000.00
2.762.46, Consulting Committee.The pre- sent Committee consists of Hon. Sir Paul Chater, Kt., C.M.G., -Megare. A. O. Lang, H. P. White, and E. J. Chapman who ofer them solves for re-election.
Auditors.-The accounts hovo been audited by Mera. H. Percy Smith, F.C.A. and A. R. Lowo, F.C.A., who offor themselvee for re-election.
CHEAPER PASSAGE HOME. LORD INCHCAPE'S BELLY
TO MEMORIAL.
The tourists will continue their Singapore and the usual near Eas- journey on to Manila then via tern ports until Southampton is re ached. There, the party will split up and some will make stay in Europe while others will re-embark on one of the company's trans-Atlantic steamers and make for New York. The bulk of the passengers
Kaijo Maru, (O.SK.) from Kee- lung, Swatow.-Co.'s Wharf.
Taito Maru,(N.Y.K.) from Shang- tai, Swatow.Anchor.
CRICKET,
H.M.S. HAWKINS v. R.A.M.O
.
This match was played at Happy Valley, the flagship winning com fortably. Chief Writer Baker re- tired after making a century and also took 8 wickets for 11'rune.
1.M... HAWKINS. Mus. Wilson, b Nash L, Sto. Alexander, c Peroy, b
Osborn B. A. Stirk, b Nash Ch. Wtr. Baker, retired
THURSDAY MARCH 15 1929
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
NATURE'S BEST
Milk, and its products
BUTTER CHEESE « ICE CREAM ~ are the most nourishing of all foods for people of all ages. There are no substitutes for
DAIRY PRODUCTS - and - HEALTH Include a liberal supply of the above in the daily diet and insure the health and efficiency of the family,
6
2
1.106
0.
3
37
0
Frash Milk
10
15 per bottle.
Oheese
6
16
CO. Vergine, o Piggott, b Big, Hill, Osborn
*Nashi
Mus. Norman, a Figgott, b Sto. Ebden, b Osborn.
Tomlinson A. B. Lewington, a Piggott, b
Osborn ....
Pte. Young, not out P. Turner, c Percy, b Tem-
linson
Extrus
Total
Dowling Analysis.
.92.1
0. M. R. W.
5 0 52 0 7 1 33 3
.80 per lb.
Daisy & Dairy Maid Butter $1.10 and $1 per lb.
Ice Cream
$2 per quart.
THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW
HAVE RECEIVED A FRESH SELECTION OF BABY CARRIAGES, FOLDING PRAMS, PUSH CARPET SEAT CHAIRS & HIGH CHAIRS.
8 Q 47
7 0 06
2 0 21
R.A.M.C.
0
"
Fukuyo Maru, (T.KK) mPercy Kobe, Dairen.-B26.
Nash Nissci Maru, (Sato & Co.) from Osborn Swatow.-B53-
Tomlinson Taiszema, (Yan Fat) from Belcher Kwong Chow Wai-C41.
Saichon, (Yue Woo) from Canton. Pto. Belcher, b Vergine .... -Off Stonecutters.
DEPARTURES.
Chiali, (B. & S.) for Ningpo.- March 14.
Pte. Osborn, b Baker Glenade, J.M. & Co.) for Yok-Pte. Nash, b Wilson
Kamakura Maru, (N.YK) for Bombay, Singapore.—March 15.
Soshu Mani, (O.S.K.) for Takao, Swatow.-March 15.
BABY CARRIAGES WELL UPHOLSTERED WITH HOOD & WATERPROOF APRONS.. PRICES-879.50. $85.00 $89 50. $95.00, $100.00, 9105 00, 8115.00, $130.00, $140.00, $150.00 and $160.00 each,
Capt. Tomlinson, "e Hill, b
Vergine
0
Cpl. Howarth, b Vergine
1.
Cpl. Chilton, 'c Baker, b Vergine 10 Cpl. Percy, c and b Baker
7
Pie. McCurrach, e Turner, b
Baker
11
3
Carpet
Best
Go Carts
11
P. Mills, st., b Wilson
Extras
G
Without
10
Kooda
Fitted With
Total
77
Steel Wheels
Bowling Analysis.
and Rubber
0, 31. R. W.
Tyres.
6
0
24 4
$18.00
1 20 0
0 11 3
and
3.3 0 12
g
$2100 Each.
Vergine Norman Baker..................
GREAT NETWORK OF RIVERS. There are 8,000 miles of railway, but the railways are at present jahama, Shanghai-March 14
Pte. Piggott, b Wilson the merciless grip of the millitarist Kwaisang, J.M, & Co.) for Hai-Ptri. Kelly, not out party, which, under pretence of phong, Holbow.-March 14. administration, is slowly squeezing them of their financial life-blood. More important in the present network of navigable rivers and circumstances are the wonderful canals, the true trade arteries of gon.-March 15.-
Doylestown, (Ad. Line) for Sai- China. Some idea of the almost
Glymont, (Ad. Line) for Saigon. incredible extent of the trade which |-- March 15: they carry may perhaps be given
Talthybius (B, & S.) for Glasgow, by the fact that at every halting-Manila-March 15, place along a navigable stream in good weather one may count at living least thirty sailing junks laden with on the ship while staying here, merchandise. There are 20,000 but arrangements have been made miles of these navigable rivers. places of interest in the Colony unioaded from river or rail that the whereby they will visit the various But it is after the goods are
The following have been selected Saichon, (Yue Woo) for Canton.to play for Civil Service 1st XI-v and Canton and periodical dinner unique feature of Chinese trade-March 15.
H.K.O.C. in a league fixture at and tea parties have been fixed traffic is manifested. Out in every mp to take place at the Hongkong direction for hundreds of miles, March 15,
Ichang, (B. & S.) for Canton.-Happy Valley on Saturday, at Hotel and at Repulse Bay.
2.15 p.m. :—X, E. Wood (copt.), 'stretching over a country onequar¬ Taito Maru, (N.Y.K.) for Canton.G. R. Sayer, E. W. Hamilton,
ter the size of Europe, run the foot--March 15. paths. followed by numberless
A. R. Sutherland, F. J. Ling, F. Yoshino Maru, (N.Y.K.) for II. Holdman, B. C. Fincher, W. donkeys, camels, and carrying Yokohama, Nagasaki-March 16. H. Edmonds, F. Baker; R. C. Wit- coólics.
Kwongsang, M. & Co) for chell and E. Dunkley. Manila-March-16′′
arc
NOVEL JUDGMENT.
WOMEN'S QUARREL OVER HAT.
SOLDIERS WHO TURNED,
BANDITS,
Nairung, (Nemazee) for Amoy, Wilson Swatow.-March 15
Nissei Maru, (Saio & Co.) for Hongay-March 15.
Hydrangea, (Chin On), for Swatow-March 15.
CIVIL SERVICE v. H.K.C.C.
K.C.C. 1st XI. v. INFANTRY .0.0.
K.C.C. 1st XI. in a league match The following will represent the
Infaudry G.C., on Saturday, March 17, ut Kowloom, at 2.15 PJ P. Robinson, Capt. E. G. Spinks, E. F. Spinks, G. A. V. Hall, S. Jex, C. Dance, J. C. Flet- cher. B. Petharam, H. H. Benson, R. E. Lindsall and H. Overy.
Acknowledging receipt of the This will be the last time the memorial addressed to him by the C.P.S. Ltd. will charter ay of her European Association regarding vessels to private agents as the pamage rates to and from Europe, company propose to manage all Lord Inchespe wrote from Delhi- future world cruises directly and Up to 1920 this mercantile system
It was a great satisfaction to me
with this .object іл view had continued, unhampered by and that the F. & O, and British 1 udia Mr. P. D. Sutherland the company's unheeding the manoeuvres of the Companies found themselves able to
Eastern passenger agent will join Péking or provincial governments, make the reduction announced on
the ship when she leaves at noon and it is now necessary to deter- stated he was taking as a prisoner: December 1 lest between Bomb ay
on Sunday.
.mine the effect caused by the to the local Yamen. Everyone and Europe, and as I realised te
breaking of the dykes which con gave him right of way. Entering hardship to which you have draw.
tain three of her most important the courtyard of the police station, altention in the postscript to your
rivers, the Yangtze, the Yellow he was met by the chief of police memorial to which those who by
River, and the Han.
and his second in command, where force of circumstances were obliged
upon he swung his revolver and to go to and firm Calentta, I urged
shot them both dead on the on the P. & O. and British India
The financial resources of the spot. His band, in disguise, had directors the desirability of making
provinces concerned have been followed him closely and, rushing a reduction in the Calcutta rates
strained to the utmost by the effort in they massacred the rest of the to repair the damage caused by police force of twenty, capturing also, and this they agreed to do, and| the reductio ns were announced.
A novel method of deciding the the floods and by the loss of taxes the local magistrate, and holding ownership of a large bamboo hat from the flooded areas. The the chief merchants of the town to It has been a source of regret to valued at thirty cents disputed by provinces are also, owing to the ransom, making a haul of some us all that we were compelled to two Chinese women, was adopted weakness of the Peking Gover. hundred thousand dollars. raise rates of passage money, but yesterday by Mr. E. I. Wynne- ment, virtually in a state of war I met the chief of this band.my- working expenses of all kinds in-Jones at the Magistracy. Instrue against one another, maintaining self, an ex-offices and a pleasant creased to enormously that it would tions were given to Inspector considerable armies both for enough fellow outside his line of have been quite impossible to keep Purden to cut the hat in two and defence and offence. Their business, which he told me he had the ships running at the old rates, give half to each claimant. One soldiers are usually many months been forced to adopt because he and oven now operating costs aro
woman then became silent but the in arrears of pay, and therefore and his ex-soldiers had received no greatly in excess of pre-war figuren, other appealed that the hat should live upon the countryside, extort-pay for over a twelvemonth. as I am sure the Council will not be cut up. His Worship then ing money through the local What, if any, solution of these. reslice.
ordered the hat to be given to the magistrates and chambers of com- difficulties and dangers is possible?
H.M.S. Titonia..... 1 woman who continged arguing.
The famine conditions have been Defence Corps... Whenever any provincial ameliorated by the efforts of the Royal Engineers general gains a considerabic International Famine Relief Gom- victory over an opponent the loser's mission, and in order to prevent a troops at once turn bandit, scatter recurrence of such disastrous in- in the nearest hills, and harry the undations, unfortunate merchants, travellers, have been formed for the Yangtze, conservancy boards
and peasantry.
the Han, and the Hwai rivers.
I have to thank you for your memorial which I will send Home to the directors,
Over 11,000 people signed the potition.
THEATRE SMOKING.
C.S.P. ISSUES WARNING.
LIKE A LONG NEEDLE
-DRIVEN DOWN HIS LEG. Scintion Sufferor's Vivid Des- cription of a Malady from Which, Fortunately, He Has Been Cured by Dr. Williams* Pink Pills.
A graphic description of the cause, progress and sure of sciatics is supplied by Mr. A. E. Fowler, Fordyce streof, Queenstown, Routh Africa, whe states:
merce.
As an instance I may quote a junk trip which I made Jast summer up the Han River and a pleasant experience of local soldiery.
If these function effectually they should not only obviate trouble in the future, but the pavigable capacity of the rivers concerned
RIFLE LEAGUE,
The League table to date is as
***TEEM.
followe
$
F. Y.
Dockyard R.C. .... 0 B Taikoo B..C........ Police
0
3
2
1
R.G.A.
2
4
FOOTBALL
H.K.F.C. v. RG.A.
The following have been selected
The junks generally tie up for should be improved a hundred per to represent the Kowloon Foot- the night at some village, both for cent. safety from bandits and case in
About eleven at
TENNIS.
MATCH ON FRIDAY.
AS
HALDSEKCHHOZ PRIOR
Also
Convertible High Chairs Made of
Polished Hard Wood
$28.40
and
-$81.50
Each
Those can
also be
wheeled.
[FULTON FOLDING PERAMBULATORS
E
$37.50 ВАСН.
WHITEAWAY'S
FIRST FLOOR. -
Daniel Crawford's "Bene Vobis"
(HEALTH TO YOU)
WITH
EKTRA
HOOA
C
E
$45.00
BACH.
Bare & Very Old Liqueur
BLENDED
Scotch Whisky.
Daniel Crawford & Son, Limited, Glasgow.
Bola Agents HOLLAND PACIFIC TRADING CO., LTD
STAG HUNTING,
IS IT CRUIL?
An official notification from the Captain Superintendent of
navigation, and our boat came to depredations of the bandits, urgent match v. the RGA at Kowloon, With regard to the constant ball Club in their Tst division league Police appears in the advertise- ment columns, drawing attention wetting and remaining in very wet which was going upstream for cot-made by the various output foreign man; Wheeler and Kaight; Morri Some years ago throu- h a severe anchor next to a big sailing junk appeals for protection have been on Saturday, 17th iner-Wood- to the fact that smoking is strictly clothes I developed sciatics, Those ton, having on board the merchant organisations, and five of the Lega-son, McKelvie and Pasco: Clemo, prohibited at all performances at who have never had it can little under proprietor, together with the pur-tions in Peking have united in a Hall, Scilly, Dean and Mason. the Theatre Royal.
stand what it means, but to a sciatica chase, money for the cotton.. Questioned by a China Mail re- sufferer it mesna horrible agonising
strong Note to the Chinese Foreign Rostrve: Randle and Duncan (G.), torture. I had a absrp, cutting pain porter as to the reason for issuing from my back to my bro; it was most soldiers appeared on the bank and Government has practically no night six Office. Unfortunately, the Central the warning, the C. S. P. said that painful for me to get up after I had been demanded the immediate payment authority in the provinces at the his attention had been drawn to ditting for a while; the curds in my 1-g of 10,000 dollars. Hardly waiting present time. the fact that 3 number of seemed to be drawing together, and the for an answer they opened fire Europeans were smoking in the pain felt as it someone was driving with their rifles, rushed the boat Chang Tso-lin, Wu Pel-fu, and The militaristic attitude of vestibule of the theatre on Tues-long needle down my leg. I had med and lobted it, and escaped into the various other minor generals and
It took refuge in a wood, where it wus led for soute weeks by farmers, day night and his instructions good, and I was beginning to lose darkness, leaving one of their politicians is really responsible for
elno prescribed for me, which did no were to see that the regulation, general tone for want of sleep and lows number dead; seventeen dead and the present impasse in the country,
but while still in a wesk condition which is quite clear, is enforced in of appetite. One day I was told I ought wounded was the tally on the sur and unless this attitude can be
was again hunted, "and for the future. This means that smoking to take Dr. Williams pick pills. After rounding boats when we came to done away with the future of
second time it was badly mauled. MR. GORE EXPECTED TO PLAY. will not be allowed in any place taking the pills for a time the swingos of examine them. The owner of the China is dark.
Interviewed by Reynolds's" where the notices are exhibited sciatica creard, and gradually all pain boat was dead, and his son stated
representativo, a member of the Jncluding the upstairs balcony,
disappeared. I continued taking the
Weather permitting, Mr. A. W.
committee of the Norwich Blag pills, and got quite toned up and myself that fifty thousand dollars had been with which to pay the hordes of ably partie apate in an exhibition Much indignation has been orvus made tearing of the skin impossible.
Gore, the ex-champion, will prob-
hounds said that a stag's long opat again."
the reward of the soldiers..
older and consequently no doubles game on the H. K. C.Ced in Norfolk by statements, as to in view of the fact that the hounds, On April 25, the Life Guarde and nervesaab aranzemi, cheamation In-another-town-of-thirty them from subacquently turning Whether the game will be played meste of the Norwich tag, odrasleadingka
As a remedy for disorders of the blood | A DARING EXPLOTT. power to disband them and prevent match.court at 40 p.m. on Friday, what ban happened at recent when pups, had their fange, extracts. leave Regent's Park Barracks for tica, lumbaro, acurategis, indiges thousand or so I was two days late bandit. Windsor, states the London Even Hon also the special allments of women, for a very, daring bandit exploit. The foreign advisers, of which "City of Poona, by which Mr. Gore
Dr. Walisms pink pill have enjoyed i
will also depend on the s.s. hounds.
It was stated that the R.S.P.C.A Guards, come to the barracks from world-wide reputation for over thirty The chief of a bandit gang of some there are not a few, and the is traveling..staying here long Vicar of Micklewood, who is one of to touse stage, and deer under the The Rev. 8. G. Mensbridge, are unable to take action in regard Windsor so that London for the most free, 150 per bottle, 89-for at dawn- dressed as a soldier, and Government to Peking, are alike enough the chief agitators against the hunt Protection of Animals Act, and the
5 care.Dealers everywhere sell them, or two hundred entered the town at representatives of the various first time for many years will be from Dia Willards Medicine Co., 60 marching ahead of him at the powerless, and can only watch and by Lt. Cont. Worthington against in his parish, when the animal was that it is time, there was a change, without its Life Guards
Mr. Gore is likely to be partnered ing of time deer, telle of a scene local branch of the society consider King Road, bhanghai,
pistol's point a bandit, whom he wonder what will happen next.
Ng Bas-kwpɔng sad M. W. Lolly tom by the hounda. Fin the legislation on the subjerg, kes
ing News, and the Royal Horse
The Government has no money
OUTORY IN NORFOLK.