W. & A. GILBEY'S
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SCOTCH WHISKY.
Messrs. W. & A. Gilbey Ltd., being the proprietors of Three Highland Distilleries are in a position secoad to none to supply the finest possible Scotch Whisky, "SPEY ROYAL" Scotch Whisky is beon matur, . ed for many years in their own Excise Bonded Warehouse, and has been specially stored in Sherry Casks.
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a number of spirited Chinese gentle mon backed by the fulaence of a woll-known, local “Cleric, consider able delay, would have, taken place before on Arts Faculty would have boon established. The former mised a guarantee fun which had the desired offect. Events, bove proved that this net of faith has justified itself and a word of con- gratulation to those principally on cerned in the least that can be given The gry has always been that Ching | needed engineers to help develop her
LOUAL AND GENERAL
A number of German electric table and ceiling fans have been placed on the market at ́excep- tionally low prices.
Members of the Club Lusitan are reminded of the Extraordinary General Meeting this afternoon at 6 o'clock:- Advt.
On Thursday next, the 14th, the local Chinese barbershops will be closed as they are celebrat ing the anniversary of their guild,
tons.
The notifiable diseases which occurred in the Colony-during the 48 hours ended June 10, included 3 cases of smallpox, 4 enteric and cerebro spinal fever. All the patients are Chinese.
OUR FOOD SUPPLY.
CORRESPONDENCE,
MONDAY
JUNE
1023
TOOK TO DRINK.
DOWNFALL
WEST RIVER TRADE STILL LOCAL EDUCATION QUERY. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER'S
[To the Editor of the Ching Matter.
⚫ on.
the
Arthur Hulse (32) of New Jersey,
.1
CHAOTIC.
ALLEGED CANTON JUGGLERY.
Sir, I am not given to writing U. S. A, an American citizen born There is no improvement in the to the papers, but I must say, that of British parents, was charged be- position of merchantmen trading after having read the report of the fore Mr. JR. Wood this morning between Hongkong and Wuchow. meeting of the Education Board Only the 5.8. Tai Ming" and "Ko and the attack made on certain with vagrancy.
Detective. Sub-Inspector Cockle Chow" are able to make the Government Departments, your through trip and the remainder note throws an entirely different informed His Worship that defen- which number about ten can only light on the matter sd publicly dant had had trouble with his wife get as far as Hohau. It has ventilated. Our officials I believe in Amoy and had taken to drink." been unofficially stated that are debarred from making any Drink had been the cause of his The total output of the Kailan, the Canton authorities wish the defence in public against the present downfall. He was afraid. I vast mineral respiren. She needed Mining Administration's mines for present conditions to continue, it periodical attacks made upon them, the police could not do anything railways, mines, roads, bridges, the week ending May 26, 1923, being alleged that they fear the often by unthinking critics, for for him and the United States etc., and to bring this unit the amounted to 98,025 tons and the river steamers, Hying the Chinese what seems apparent negligence Consul refused to help. needed her own engineers, trained sales during the period to 90,370 flag, may be commandeered by the and indifference to sensible needs Questioned by the Magistrate, Kwangsi troops at Wuchow and This perhaps is just as well, Haise said that he was a commer other cial traveller. He arrived, in on the spot if necessary. This the
used for military transport in an- although
hand if they had that Hongkong two and a half months other invasion of Kwangtung. Hongkong University was, and is.
This morning a report was power it would probably reveal ago and had been in China for fully capable of doing. It is no idle
circulated to the effect that the another side to questions which thirteen years, living mostly in best le say that the Engineering
Ko Chow," which had made criticised one-sidedly remain un-Amoy and Shanghat. He came to Faculty of our University is as well
several trips since the British naval answered and leave wrong impres- Hongkong in order to try and find authorities provided an escort, is sins. The Government should employment, his last position being have its Bureau of Publicity. It at Changchow with the Asia Life equipped in then and hunchinery as;
at present held up at Holau as she could do at least one good thing, Insurance Co. He could do noth- any other University that can be At the recent degree ceremony has received advice that the upper and that is silence the type of self-ing there on account of trouble with naned further it is equipped with at the University, ont of a total of 27 reaches of the West River have conceited, 'mind I'm telli ye' type the soldiers. In Hongkong, he had men who are enthusits. Students degrees conferred, 14 were conferr- been mined. It is said Mage of individual who cries stinking been living in various places, once
ed upon students resident at May will wait for the s.s. "Tai Ming' enrolled in large munters, and Hall, a record of which May which arrived in Hongkong unish in our assemblies and at the Sailors Home and once at hostellers are justifiably Saturday and will be leaving on a agines himself a hero to his own the Carlton Hotel. During the Jast few days he had been many obtained their degrees. To go Hall
return trip, so that the two ships
I am not competent to judge theiving wherever he could get a into China and develop her re-proud.
can be escorted together.
point you raise the question chance; sometimes in the cpen air sourees? That is what they wished
The Pen Club was successfully
With the arrival of the "Tai consulting those who are destined and somtimes walking in the to do. We have no official inforna-, inaugurated on Saturday afternoon Ming" on Saturday, small quanti- to teach in the new school buildings Streets at night. He wife was in tim to go upon, hot we think we last and we hope to give an account ties of cattle, poultry, plgs and about to go up, as to the type of Amoy with her mother and there td are safe in saying that with a few of it in our Saturday's issue. firewood were brought in to rebuilding proposed to be built, of its members have not read fplenish the depleted stocks of the beyond saying that it is a comition-
"This excoptions where students have join-Winter Comes, and three ed local firma of architects, the grest | Freedom," majority have had to seek an outlet
The Mack Sennett, mirth for their energies in avenues of maker Love, Honour and Be activity other than those for which have," which has been amusing they spent time and money to Kowloon audiences over the week equip themselves. They were want end, is to be screened at the Coronet from to-night until ed, and are wanted, but conditions Wednesday. are against them. Changing Obina changes too often. "Here to-day and gone to-morrow" may be said of
What can
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Colony,
valet.
sense one.
Yours etc.,
STUDENT.
All the dealers accompanying their live-stock complain of diffi culties in making shipments. The Hongkong, June 10. routes from the farms to Wuchow are robber-infested which mean
ONION SOCIETY, that levies have to be paid or stock captured.
and dealers are Purchases at market-fairs
fairs are not held on account of
robber bands. threats' by
were two little boys.
Answering further questions de- fendant said that he had some papers when he left Changchow. but they were taken from him by soldiers who boarded the train at Hankow. They scattered his documents all
over the floor and destroyed some but he manag ed to retrieve a few. He knew several people in Hongkong one of whom had helped him out a little while back. This was Mr. Powrie, His Worship asked Inspector Managing Director of Davis & Co..
the many who are in and out of lief in Kwantung. Drives which export-tax-and then again consider-mittee has decided to award its Cockle to see him at 9.30 to-morrow
Over $50,000 has been collected by a committee in connection with the Tung Wah hospital for war re- office; who appeur to be a law ante will include every shop are to be carried out and it is hoped that all whose outlook themselves: narrowed by a belief in the greatest districts devastated by the ravages good for the greatest mumber of war in Kwangtung will receive Number one.
Whilst these condi some help. A sum of $5,000 ear tions continue to exist, China's remarked for Shiuhing has been ex sources will continue to remain pended in the purchase of 600 bags undeveloped. It is not likely that of rice which have already been Chinese parents will consent to their sent for free distribution. sons, taking a course that, in ordin- At Stanton's Fair, Kowloon, on ary circumstances would make them Saturday night, a soldier met with saviours of their country and assist a severe accident. which made in opening China to the trade of the him unconscious for some time. world, but at the moment leaves With a companion he was swinging them high and dry on the inhospit on one of the boats which was sup able shores of their own country. ported by a steel rod. The rod gave way causing him to be thrown to the The pity of it!
ground from some feet. He fell on his head. After being revived he was able to proceed back to barracks with the help of his comrade.
Seamen's Institute.
are practically impossible as the [To the Editor of the " China Mail." At. Sir-May I have the courtesy of Wuchow the military levy an your columns to say that my Com able sums have to be incurred in onion in the third degree (unpick-
could be done for defendant. demurrage owing to the limited led) to Mr. R. H. B. Mitchell for morning when he would see what accommodation on the two ships his speech at the V.R.C., fête, the Meanwhile he was to be sent to the If, for instance, a dealer is enter peroration of which reads:
I am old-fashioned and while I prising enough to bring his goods to Wuchow with a view to exporting delight in seeing the fair sex them to Hongkong, he has also to emulating us in sport, I do not wish
Yours etc. run the risk, of his cargo being to see them wearing the breeches.
THE HON. SECRETARY shut out owing to there not being enough freight space. He cannot bring his stock back to his farms Hongkong, June 10. as the expense is prohibitive and the danger is too great. He must therefore leave it in junks at Wur
chow in which a certain percentage HONGKONG'S MENTONE. of the live-stock must perish,
REPULSE BAY HOTEL CHANGES.
A. P. CO'S NEW HOME!
GROUND FLOOR ALREADY BESPOKEN.
Having marked the rapid prog- ress which is belig made with the big building going up for the Asiatic All things considered, Hong-
Petroleum Company at the corner". kong's food supply from Wuchow is in a very unsatisfactory condition
of Pedder and Flower Streets the public will learn with interest that and unless something drastic is done there will be no improvement
Alterations are being made at Mr. N. L. Watson, the Manager, ex- for some time to come. There is the Repulse Bay Hotel, which, pects to be fully installed in the 20 reduction in the price of beef as when completed, will make the new premises before the end of the arrivals have been insignificant. establislunent one of the most up- April next, the date by which the Poultry is now over a dollar a to-date seaside hostelries in the contractors, Messrs. Wing Vick, catty or about 80 cents per pound Far East. The present office will have undertaken to complete the and it will be higher if the dealers in future accommodate the band, building. The architects in charge lose heart and stop shipments.
the floor being raised fifteen inches, are Messrs, Palmer and Turner.
The frame of the building is so that in the event of professional dancers appearing the band-master steel; the walls are of reinforced. will be in a better position to "play concrete with outer panels of brick faced with granite plaster. The up" to the performers,
The present floor of the band-floors are alsoof reinforced concrete stand is to be removed and on the with a top surface of decolite, a same level an artistic device, in the composition of asbestos which is shape of a peacock's tall, will be fire-resisting and gives forth but. built out and studded with vari- little sound when walked over. Canton politics were inentioned coloured globes; This, when lit at There will be three passenger The goods lift. in Mr. Lindsell's Court. A pleasing effect. Apparatus is being Chinese, was charged with the installed to enable coloured lights as the central well is 17 feet wide. The new sky-scraper will be possession of an automatic pistol to be thrown on the dancers. and 41 rounds of ammunition at one of the Canton steamer wharves yesterday.
HOPE AND A GUN.
SEEKING PAY FOR THE NAVY.
and
one
not command credit with the world's great fending Powers Revolver Range Tragedy. woop-On June 1, 1923, at Financiers will hardly advance] Commenting on the unfortunate
Vladivostock, to Mr. and Mrs.
money when the security offered accident which cost a promising M.W. Wood, a son.
become valueless LANNING-Oa June 2, 1923, at may
any young police officer his life at the
Hankow is shortly to have an No 21 Carter Road, Shanghai,' moment. Therefore until France Kennedy Road revolver range last to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lanning, undertakes to refrain from father week, one or two people have been absolutely up-to-date theatre with heard to refer to the "foollanliness seating capacity for 600 persons, reckless Ruhr escapades. Gerany's of an instructor standing in front of sloping floor so that every person credit will remain seriously, ruin-la pupil white the latter aims his in the building will have a clear It this is foolhardiness view of the stage, modem safety ously down'; and any attempt to raise weapon.
must be and innumerable emergency exits SMITH-On June 1, 1923, at Cam outside her own impecunious real not the individual but the system appliances including fire screen
musketry instruction- berley, England, or the mousy necessary to see her blamed for one important exercise fitted with panic belts, and com- fortable foyer where the men folk Sentance, wife of Frank Smith, through immediate troubles unist to correct errors in trigger pressing can wait without looking grotesque late of Chinese Customs.
be and sighting commista of taking in while their feminine companions. RULDAN-On June 2, 1923, at the inevitably fail,
Shanghai, George Alexander achieved when immunity from sul-at a dine which the instructor holds are titivating themselves in the in front of his eye. The army lost ladies' room and innumerable Ruddan (Messrs. Jardine; den invasion is assured and outside the services of at least one ethezena | other features which at present are in a case heard this morningnight, should produce a very building should be light and airy' Matheson & Co., Ld.), the brother of Mrs. F. D. Allen operation is promised finds strik-musketry expert that way during not known in Hankow.
What Friday's tragedy and Way: E. Ruddan, aged 32 ing illustration in today's cables the war.
about the Austrian loan. Far frau does segju" to show is the inadvis
The present floor of the dancing eight. storeys high. The ground. hall is being re-planed, the pillars door has already been bespoken by promising the co-operation, France ability of mixing up aiming instruc tion and actual hiring practice on the
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
and walls are being re-decorated the Netherlands Trading Society. has not yet undertaken to refrain range. It ought to be definitely
Defendant admitted the charge and the roof is being remade on the The first and second floors are be Mr. P. J. Van Hecke has been and said that he belonged to the simplex system. The walls and ing laid out as offices, which will be According to`present She China Mail. From wizi. Earth German towns laid down that, on the range, an
pillars in the passages, when com- sub-let. Moreovy, France has raised the old instructor must on no account get stumbling block again-passive re-in front of his pupil and all the pre-appointed local Manager of the Chinese Navy at Amoy.
His Worship: Are you a Cap-pleted, will have the appearance of plans; a China Mail reporter learn- liminary training should be com- American Express Co. in place of
marble. The Hongkong Hotel-ed this morning, the APC will Mr. R. P. Boyce, who has resigned. tain? And all the Botokong, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1952. sistance met stop.
pleted somewhere else, first,
The interpreter's translation of Coy: is sparing no expense, all the occupy the remaining space. world knows that it will not stop
Mrs. Agnes McCorquodale, who defendant's reply was that he was new fittings for bedrooms and Quarters for the caretaker are until she leaves the Ruhr. National
British firms are supplying all". was quietly married at Shanghai a clerk or secretary. After a passages being electro-plated. In situate on the top floor. honour is a very stubborn pride.
on June 5 to Mr. John R. Tweedlie, further query by the interpreter ho short, the hotel is being renovate the materials except the bricks, it Perverse fate usually seen that a was a resident of Hongkong for explained that he was a Pay from top to bottom. However, France has agreed to a Pressman is not about when an many years, her former husband master. To-day's cables give you both
joint Allied reply. Eiven though accident occurs, but it happened having been one of the employees His Worship: Why are you des." London financial experts, this concession is made with hostile that a China Mail man was present of the China Sugar Refinery
going back to Canton ?.
Defendant: To draw the pay. on Saturday night when one of the shrewd men who face facts, hold conditions, it still represents a very Stanton circus swing boate came
General Sir Manuel, Gomes da for the Navy that Germany's note represents an big advance from the oulurate crashing to the ground, giving the Costa, accompanied by his A.D.C.His Worship: Not much hope advance, if only because it provides
basie for further negotiation. and which France, look when the occupants, two privates of the King's arrived in Shanghai on June 6 and there, I should think.
And Regiment, a very nasty full-one was, welcomed by Mr. Alfredo Defendant. But there is no
The acci- Casanova, Consul General for Por- hope at all in Amoy, was knocked genreleaé. Franco's Premier, although he has last German offer was inde.
dent was due to one of the steel tugal, Mr. J. Botello, Vice-Consul, stays snapping-wearing through Captik Diniz, and a deputation consisting of the president of var might be mare correct near the eye fous Portuguese associations in fastened to the best, from which
Shanghal. the boats are suspended. A mem-
MORE HOPES.
therein lies our hope.
1
· ARTS AND, ENGINEERING
Nasty Accident.
SAME OLD GAME."
SUNDAY FOOTBALL PLAYER FINED.
was learned. The Tees Side Bridge and Engineering Works are supplying the steel mast J. W. Singer and Sons, Frome, Somerset, the flag-staff holders; S: W. Francis and Company, London, steel roll- ing shuttera; Carter and Company, Poole, white tiles for the centraly well Potter, Rax Gate Company, Shepperton Road, London, collap His Worship: Why did you
sible gates for the lifts, Nicholls and Clarke Shoreditch, glass for agreed to a collective reply and a
take a pistol, along for? A Pay- master is a non-combatant. "
Tong Yiu-leng, a Chinese boy the windows; Dorman, Long & Co. sabacqueat, conference, dauns" the
Defendant:: In a place like was charged before Mr. RE Middlesboro, the steel girders. offer by rejecting the proposed inter-
Canton, why not?
Lindsell this morning with playing Mr. Malcolm, representative of national experts' conference as non-
Answering further questions, football in Wardley Street yester Shanks and Company, of Glasgow, rary to the Versailles theaty und By
We may be inørrur but it seems bor of the orci staff quickly ex- Many friends in the Far East will defendant said he only arrived in dby, Sergeant Elston prosecuting is already on the spot to superia rejecting the proposed guarantees as to us that Friday's Degree Ceremony plained that the soldiers were learn with sincera regret of the the Colony yesterday and was not After seeing the charge His Wor-tend the installation of the sanitary alueless. The proposed arbitration' at the Unigersity is a strive-indiet-entirely to blame, having stood up deaths at Camberley, of Mrs. Frank conversant with the laws in ship remarked "Same old Sunday fittings; the decolite is being sup boat in spite of the warning Smith, Her husband, who is a Detective Sub-Inspector Fallon, game to which the Sergeant plied by the United Asbestos Commission may conflict with the ment of the present chaos in China.Standing Prolibited." That, brother of Mr. Jenner Hogg, was who had charge of the case, told replied "Yes, but in this case there Oriental Agency the Crittall treaty, but most people, after for or that the present and possible however, does not dispose of the well known in-different parts of the Magistrate that the arms were was a lot of traffic, and the con- Mariufacturing Company, Braint years' bitter experience, would hold,
window franies; R. Cristall and Co. What distinctly in its favour. This future condition of Chint is not matter. There is decided element China, as Commissioner of Cus concealed in some bedding and stable noted, several numbers of tree, Essex, are supplying the
of danger in these swing boats at toms, in which capacity he was defendant was quite frank about cars which passed."
Defendant denied the charge London, the heating apparatus; the viewed with optimism the best of times, but if the mange stationed at Soochow among some them when arrested. He bellaved would not be more cynicism Chinese friends who sent their solis ment are going to plead that they other places, for a number of years. his story and had no reason to think and the Chinese constable proceed General Electric Company, of that he was a bad character.ed to give evidence. He said that China, as agents for the Express though Heaven knows. they have. ito University. The number of take no responsibility for gear He retired at the end of 1918,
His Worship then asked what at 11.30 am. yesterday he saw des Lift Company, of London, have nough to rooke them oynical-hut
ply cold sanity. The Versailles 1 degrees conferred in the Arts breaking when people stand in the Reiter cable from London to money defendant had with him fendant with six or seven other secured the contract for the lifts; swings, it is high time the author day announces. The death of Pierre and was informed that he only had boys playing football in Wardley Bratt, Colbran and Company, Lon- Faculty was one hundred per centies paid, beed. We are perfectly. Lots the famous Broach waters 05 cents in Hongkong money and Street. A motor car from Queens don, have furnished fire-bricks and. treaty framed by men with
1in advance of thōna conferred 1 in willing to admit that if anyone Loth entered the French Navy in 80 cents Canton money.
Road turned into Wardley Stroot stove parts; while woopees medieval minds seeking inedieval
|the Engineering Faculty, and we stands, in spite of the warning 1867 and rose to the ray of captains This drew remark from the and defendant bicked up the ball fabrics the reinforcing material ende, has surely wrought enough believe we are fight in saying that notice, then he must take the conse After Serving aboard the Magistrate to the effect that he was when he saw the car approaching for teel, has been purchased from favoc with Europe's peace. Again
quences if he falls out. But if the "Oceania "in 1881, he served in the afraid that the Chinese at The car had to slow down and the Barb Engineering Company of the Arts Faculty is now the most gear cannot bear the sirun of pat Pacific, the Tonkin campaign and Amoy would be without their hay swerve to avoid defendant Chester and Manchester. whon France stigmations Germany
When complete the new build" guarantees as valueless, the doubt popular of the three Faculties at the sengers standing, it is self-evident in China. He was made meme for some time. He imposed a fine. Asked if he bad any questions. Tear speaks the truth. But why are Doi Hok Tong. When the Univer that the gear is not sufficiently ber of the French Academy in 1891 of asa or three mon the ampe son datendant said that the ball rolled ug, covering A
ards him and he was seized just proximately 9,15224; will make
was in the act of picking it
a.bantisome Gormany'd gunfanteed valueless, ity way about to open its doors, strong to come under the category and a Commander of the Legion of monta in default.
Worship then imposed kong's archite simply because any country which there was no Arte Faculty, and had of even being reasonably safe. We Honour in 1910. His books I was being removed from
hope that affich action will be clude many travel works including he begged the Court to reduce if not been for the perseverance of taken in the matter without delay, some about the East.
have its Lancashire seized can
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