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CRICKET PRO.
It is Interesting To-day's
to note that the Ceylon Cricket
WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 024 CHINA COAST TRADE.
INDO-CHINA *LIEN SHING" LAUNCHED Kowloon Docks Ceremony.
THIS MORNING'S INTERESTING EVENT.
state of affairs resulting from unemployment at Home building "An opinion exists in some quarters that owing to the deplorable
preference to foreign ports or even British Colonies. While this is contracts wherever possible should be placed in the Old Country in. undoubtedly a most commendable spirit, I venture to state that there is something to be said on the other side," commented Mr. R. Sutherland
anunrecognised uthority at Canton Questions submit them. selves.for answer in this aspect Association is considering the I'd like to be
(Maples.) of the chaa. Has Peking been idea of engaging a professional As proper as a maple tree consulted in the matter and been instructor. The names of Geo. And hold myself as gracefully: asked permission for this suggest Gunn (Notts) and Hitch (Surrey) I'd like to render aid
are already mentioned in this con- And offer if ungrudgingly ed "fight to a finish" And has nection, the former's fee being As maples do their plot of shade, Canton been "sounded? British £250 for the season-the latter' And with undaunted upward eye diplomacy is notoriously slow, fessional is to be met by contribu- Have Intercourse with storm and £350. The salary of the pro- safe and sure, and carried out on fons from the various clubs and
sky, orthodox lines. This piracy evil colleges. Local cricket is not such And keep my hold as sure and demands immediate repression an idea might be copied with And wear my dress
an exhilaraling affair but that such
true; M. In repressing it on the lines of profit to the game and the players. Both when it's plain and when it's at the successful launching of the new steamer for the Indo-China Mr. Bernard's suggestion, the
kay M famous or infamous as you will-words of Lord Milner (or of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain?) | Police Cour" gives this little suggest themselves. So far as we a light on human nature. You foo! piece of observation which throws remember them they are."Damn that it is true; but you cannot the Consequences."
explain it:
The Settlement.
The writer of In the same becoming way HUMAN NATURE. "Thirty Years That maples do. at Bow Street
-Therese Lindsay.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
It frequently happens that' when a mother is called to speak on behalf of her daughter, who 1886. has been keeping bad com pany, the prisoner's face hardens, and she resolutely declines to make any satisfactory promise as to her future conduct. On the other hand, if the girl's father steps forward, not infrequently he bursts into tears, then the prisoner breaks down entirely, and is ready to promise anything
We have heard TELEPHONING. a lot in the past on the question
Figures are available to show how a share boom can.materially benefit the coffors of the State. Our local Treasury has added to its receipts quite a respectable sum by reason of its stamp duties. on share contracts, thus helping to exceed the estimates if any are made of receipts from that quarter, and making it a little easier to bear the heavy brunt of the Military Lands purchase. of the alleged deficiency of the Brokera alsa have added to their telephone, but precious little It! income by an exceedingly large seems. to us on the de increment in the way of broker- ficiency of some of those age fees. A voil we suppose must who answer calls. The following be drawn over the question that has been a not uncommon arises is to who have paid for all experience Wa telephone a certain this. Those who have turned place and ask for a certain name. over their deals quickly have been In retom we are asked our name content to assist both Government the wrong number. Or we 'phone and then cordially told we are on and Brokers, leaving it to thes laggards and
and, stating our request, are asked the incurable
to wait a minute. Someone comes optimists to "carry the baby" along, and cross-examines us..on which not being experts, is a our business. We state it. Tais phrase
we can only dimly enquiry extends itself until finally understand. In a somewhat we are cut off by some fiend in the difficult and often trying other office, or a still small quiet business it is to be noted that voice announces that Mr. so and so never, so far as we know, has a is out. What some alleged business recognised Broker been hammer- offices need is some competent ed"; that he invariably keeps to person in charge of their "phones. the strict letter of his contract, and that clients are safe in his
Our somewhat fervid hands. That cannot always be
BREVITY: interest in other peo- said of clients, and we make this rather the money left by them; and ple's money, or often is the Broker humorously, led us to note that a man who was favourable point knowing how also the question of wills, has but more often maliciously, able to leave behind him nearly a maligned. He is not as black as million pounds, was able to make the bowler hat he wears.
his bequests known in just under, three hundred words. The shortest will known at Somerset House is: "All to mother." Wo understand that lawyers say that brief wills make-Briefs 1.2.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Our brokers may or may HATS not be disturbed to be
Wear a good hat, The secret
of your looks. Dwells with the beaver in Cans
dian brooks. Virtue may fourish on an old
cravat,
But man and nature scorn the
shocking hat.
MARCH 26.
It has been raining, softly and silently, a benevolent rain, and the large red blossoms of the almonds, and the buds of lilac, and the branches of the firs áre full of that delicate day dew, glittering and glanc ing and shaking off showers of devels into the moisten- ed ground.-Ruskin.
A FOLLY.
Amongst the greater of the economic follies is that of spend ing wealth merely because one. happens to possess it, or is in a position to borrow it, or is strong enough to steal it.
M.A. Appleton.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Adve
fo The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
March 26-Coronet Theatre. "Fair Lady."
March 26-Star Theatre: The Abysmal Brute, 5:30 pm: Kant's Royal Hawaiian Troubad ours; IS p.m. ii
Lights Out" March 26-World" Theatre ;
Royal,
Grand Concert, 9.15 p.m. March 29.-Theatre
SOCIAL William Rees Davies at Hongkong April 18-Public Dinner to Bir
Hotel 8p.m
the Church Hall and grounds, April 2 St. Andrew's Fate in Kowloon, 2.80 p.m.
SPORT.
Athletic Moeting at U.S.R.C. March 27,28-Royal Artillery Ground, Kowloon, almaktad
Sanders end offices of the Royal March 28.-Lieut. Col. W.0.6.
fonds, 3 and 6 p.m. Artillery "at boue" to their
extra race meeting.
March 29 H.K. Jockey Club
April 9-Annual Athletic Sports of the University of Hongkong.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS... April 1-Lammert Bros.
at Godown No. 1 H.K. Kowloon Wharf. & Godown Co., Ltd., Kow loon, 100 bons sulphate of aminonia, 11 sm. A
April 1.-Lammert Bros. at Chater Bungalow, 66 Nathan Road, Kowloon, household furniture, 5.45
It is a well known fact that in some direction our sense of values is all wrong. Of that there is no possible doubt, no. possible prob-
told that "Do man who able shadow of doubt, whatever, wears a bowler hat can be revolu- We send down & guard of honour in connection with the heady garb tionary." The question has arisen and our best and bravest when of Labour Cabinet members. They ever a visiting Admiral's ship seem to have succumbed to the puts in for coal, or someone ups idea of wearing a shiny topper and arranges a Garden Party according thereby to the dictum of should our visitor be the possessor Oliver Wendell Holmes of a vast array of newspapers which in America would be called Yellow." Let our visitor be a poet, a playwright or a some other kind of writer or thinker, and those who ought to be concerned do not turn a hair. It may be of the time which is being spent in are bald-in, which case no one course that on the male aide they debate and recrimination with the expects a bald man to turn a hair! BEGDON DIXON-On March
Years ago we are told workmen 1924, at Shanghai, Kieran question unsolved. We can only sentences prompted by the news and pull down Hyde Park railings. These are somewhat loosely flung used to wear brown paper cape Begdon to Dora Marjory hope that the latest-and it seems that Rabindranath Tagora is call- Now thay wear bowler hats and BERTENSHAW KING. — On /to us beat, considered utterance on north, and that all classes of the
ing at Singapore on his journey pass resolutions.
March 27-Fifty-fifth reating of March 15, 1924, at Shanghal, the subject, that of the Chairman community there are uniting to
shareholders of the HK. Fire In- William Turner Bertenshaw of the Chamber of Commerce, will do honour to him and to offer.
It comes assurance Co., Ltd. at Mears. to Edith Winifred King
Jánline Matheson's offices, toon. receive the earnest consideration him a welcome when he arrives. once great comedienne-whose y general meeting of the Hong- news that this March 20-Further extraordin which is its due and that its Thus Singapore in our eyes takes naine Is Lady de Freecela kong Land Reclamation Co.,Ltd, DEATH.
on an added interest and lustre suffering from advice will be adopted. It is not and we begin to speak of the place Vesta used to delight huge Offices, 11 am. HYDE-On March 20, 1924, at merely his advice, but that with we Mudiences with her
melancholls at Messrs, Jardine Matheson's Shanghai, Frank Harry Hyde of the Committee and members of light and understanding live personations. We are not sure that Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd. at March 29-Ordinary Meeting of (Crest Hotel), aged 52 years of the Chamber. It follows the there. It must be so for only such the audiences were not more Company's offices 20, Des Vous suggestion, made in our columns their way to do lionour to a Poet were, of course good, but the meeting shareholders of the
people would wish to go out of Intrigued with her costumes Bond, 11 m some time ago by a correspondent and a Philosopher. It is likely resplendent nature of the clothes Ching Sugar Refining Co.. lat than with her songs. The latter March 81-Forty-sixth annual who advocated blowing the coun- Tagore will call at Hongkong also worn made many male flapper Mewes, Jardine Matheem's Offices tryside to bits. We discounten- Shall it be said that this place is sigh with envy Many frequen- 11 am anced the idea at the time think without those of light and under ters of the old time Marie Halls OTHEE MEETINGS.
standing, and that there are those will wish for, Vesta speeds
Dixon.
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The China
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Mail,
VESTA TILLEY. a shock the
April 1-Lammert Bros. "Heng Shan," noon. Bales Rooms, Duddell St., the
COMPANY MEETINGS.
Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., at the Kowloon Docks of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., this morning. Mr. Sutherland pointed out that the placing of contracts in Hongkong when the bulk of the materials and fittings were made and shipped from Home, materially benefited the industrial concerns in the United Kingdom. In this new vessel alone, he was told that the coat of materials ordered from Home amounted to £40,000.
are
The launching ceremony at the Swatow, and the "Kumsang" on docks was attended by a large Northern Luzon,. built by the gathering. The "Lien Shing
striking examples of the elasticity and Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. for the
thoroughness of your orginization, Indo-China S. N. Co., for their capable of coping with every further the up-to-date plant
Shanghai-Tientsin service slid.
down the stocks gracefully after emergency cannot but be a source the traditional, christening, per owners in the Far East but to of satisfaction not only to ship
formed by Mrs. A. B. Stewart, "the ship's godmother, as Mr. H. Insurance companies, and under- P. White, Chairman of the writers in all parts of the world.
Hongkong is Dock Co., happily termed her.
unfortunately Among those present
situated in a parlous position as HE. the Governor attended this subject I would refer to the regards typhoons, and while ou
werd
Capt. Neville, Major-General Sir John Fowler, Sir Paul Chater, the Hon. Mr. E.D.C Wolfe, Coin modore Grace, the Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. Messer, Mesars. H. P. White J. Reid, R. M. Dyer, A. B. Stewart D. G. M. Bernard, R. Sutherland,
remarks of the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce made at a meeting held some two days ago, of the auticipated installation of in which he spoke in hopeful strain Wireless and meteorological and many others.
observing plant on the Pratas. To After the launching the com- this question it would perhaps those who have not closely studied "Ever: Increasing : "Promotion,”
pany adjourned to one of the dock appear that timely warnings of buildings where various toasts were typhoons are only going to be a drunk and the event celebrated. Saving to the Colony in respect of In asking the garthering to drink getting ships into safety and to the success of the Lien Shing taking effective measures against and prosperity to her owners, damage ashore and afloat. By a coupled with the name of Mrs A.B strange anomaly however, the establishment of the Pratas Station, Stewart who had consented to act as the new vessel's god will be a great saving to the Colony mother,” Mr. H. P. White mention- ta respect, not of the typhoons that ed that the name Lien Shing”
come here, but those that don't. In meant ever increasing promo explanation I would say that in the tion." This was, he said, the third words of an expert who sat on the steamer to be launched for the Shipping Sub-Committee, of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Chamber of Commerce-* the during the last six months difficulty is that typhoons hav and the seventh that had been ing either crossed Luzon or entrusted to the Dock Com entered the China Sex through pany in the last eight years lost." Therafters period of anxiety the Ballingtang Channel aro and from this it was evident that would seem to exist in the minds the work of the Dock Company of the meteorological experts who had given satisfaction. He hoped that the new “Lisa Shing would re unable to determine with any be as successful and as remumera- degree of accuracy whether the tive as the vessel that previously storm centre will pass up the bore that name. In conclusion, he south'ard in the direction of Indo Formosa Channel, will curve would ask Mrs. Stewart to accept China or will maintain its line of
souvenir of the occasion, (Applause.)
progression towards this Colony:
&
· Responding on behalf of his To guard against the possible wife, Mr. Stewart thanked the eventualities it is necessary for the Chairman and
Observatory officials to have ree Directors of the Dock Company for the great course to local storm signals and honour that they had done her.. H to play for safety, and I may say said that when he first came out in tightly so too! What does this 1910, the old "Lien Shing" was one mean, however, may n 1910, the boats he had anything My look experience of shipping to do with. Theld Lien in Hongkong goes clearly to Shing was lauched in 1890 and
be thought if they compared the Prove that in the large majority construction and accomodation of of cases that when signals have the two vessels they would realise been hoisted, Highters have taken that considerable progress had shelter in typhoon refuges, been made since that date. He steamers, have moved to shelter, trusted that she would not only this have had their business large industrial concerns such as promote the good name of the dislocated or partially suspended, bullers the Dock Company but the end normal weather condi also the good fortune of her tions have eventuated. This is no owners. (Applause.)
In proposing the health of thee's fault, but in the opinion Hongkong and Whampoa Dock
of all who are in touch at was in 1895, that I first went of the Pratas Station It will be Company Mr. R. Sutherland said ted that, with the establishment with the situation it is anticipa s..!
over these premises, and it is impossible to explain the changed the direction of typhoons and so possible more effectively to gauge conditions. Where you will au minimise the heavy financial loss And established in the now-exion-which hitherto has of necessity sion the most up-to-date atrical been suffered by the Colony, both machinery, equal to any the athore and afloat.
March 27. Third annual general
great shipbuilding yards of the Some years ago, for the sake of World, there was then only to be curiosity, figures were taken out as seen a herd of goats grazing and to what the suspension of shipping, I can well remember my feelings
of wonder as to what nourishment cost this Port. The demurrage on could be forthcoming from those craft and suspension of industrial vessels to say nothing of smaller granite hills, sand, and sea-weed concerns on shore amounted to At the annual meeting of this over $100,000, per day, and this Company held godte lately, result was arrived at considerably. mention was made of recent ex before the increase of tonnage in pansion and of the important those waters, so I leave you to future developments you have in estimate what the total today,
view Speaking as one, therefore
who has been in constant touch would be
Boxozuno WEDNESDAY,' Man. 26, 1994. Fing probably of the international who cannot see why the Colony recovery and that it will be a long meeting of the British Legion in the rears, would like to associate comment upon a matter which has
"DAMN THE CONSE,
QUENCES.
She had many imitators, but as the advertisements have it few Lequals,
aspect of the question, and the should step aside to say wel time before her light goes out. law which governs "invasion" of come"? An opportunity seems Her songs were clean and catchy another country. But events have waiting to be bought up, proved our correspondent's aug- The mere tyrb in statistical gestion to be a reasonable one and work will soon be telling us that probably the only one worth
all the ink used in submitting adopting in the circumstances. It
plans to eradicate the
would be collected, a
boat might contaiv
Threats
MADNESS
form of M
Todas Correspondent OVERSEAS. Querously enquires phobia which g acy evil has now the backing of the Bong-the extent that they mark walls local branch of the Overese Club affects people to anything of the activities of the if we can tell him fair sized kong General Chamber of Comth Initials names, and designs We are afraid wo cantot, Mr. Eric be floated merce who calmly, amongst other of a generally artistic kind is Rice was an enthusi
if the things, advocate, following the amostrated by a walk along and so
pirates to their lairs and rooting them out and exterminating them,
It may be easier said than done, and there
in its cause inktess has had to be made are not likely to return. some of our new roads where but both ha
Crawford Jeft the through hills Invariably will be found these expre
form of
Board room of Mesere Jardino, March 26-Anual meeting of Matheson Ltd. 5.80 mA Members of the Association of ex- porters and dealers of Hongkong, Chistored Fank Building,
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with the Hongkong and Whum- |- The Shipbuilding. Question, poa Deck Co. for over, twenty. I have been asked to further myself with the optimistle views, been a somewhat mmon topic in of the Directors then
ction with present day ship All who have an inner know
An opinion exists in of the trade potentialities off this, some quarters that ow port, particularly with, regard to deplorable state of affa shipbuilding, of the prospects of from unemployment opening up China" and "alle that buildin
cannot“ but realisë
Indust
to the ting thar wherever
placed in
hendable