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4 - HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925.
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What the
THORNTON
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Mark
Stands For?
THOROUGHLY PRACTICAL
as users of the Thorton Pickard. Reflexes & Shutters
freely tercity,
SAVE ST. PAUL'S !
HONGKONG NOT TO TAKE BACK SEAT.
GOVERNMENT GRANT?
Probable Vote by the Legislative Council.
Comments as to what has been termed the apathy a official quarters in regard to'kontributing to the fund' for the restoration of St. Paul's will be probably nullified to-morrow as it is quite,on the cards that the question of a Government grant may be brought up at the Legislative Council meeting..
A contributor to a contém porary recently stated that it would appear us if Hongkong took not the slightest interest in whether St. Paul's stood or collapsed and that to those who knew the spirit that prevailed in and dominated" Hongkong" would be no surprise to see when the list of responses made to the appeat of the Ben and Chapter was published, that flongkong's name appeared at the bottom of the list among the following
BONUS FOR ROPES.?"
·
RISE IN SHARES THIS
MORNINGA
FEW SHARES AVAILABLE. Rumours were current "this morning that the Hongkong Ropė Manufacturing Co., were to pay abonus in addition to the dividend announced in the repoft
frculated,
THE DOLLAR.
To-day's closing rate 2/5 15/16
To-day's opening rate 2/5 15/16
日三初月弌丑西;年四十國民攀中
AGE AND HONOUR.
THE AUSTIN SEVEN.
Catalogues & specifications from Sale Akonta:
ALEX. ROS8 & 00. (CHINA) LTD
LOCAL", EMPORIUM'S LONG "HISTORY.
ESTABLISHED" 75 YEARS.
Early Beginnings of. Lane, Crawford's.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month."
Next week there will be celebrated the bringing into being of a business house which for three-quarters of a century" has been actively concerned with the well-being of the Colony,
On Monday "combined Rope shares were quoted at $53. This morning one official quotation was "From Log Cabin to White. In the plays when it was estab $561% cash, business done. Before House," the title of a well-known lished that there had been the morning's transactions had book dealing with the life of Pre- attempts" made to poison the ended fo-day being a half sicent Garfield, might almost be troops it was to Lane, Crawford's ug by the Archdeacon of London
holiday on the exchanges-the applied to the development of the that the Government looked for in an address given there recent- ly. It could be summed up in one shares were quoted at 357 and well-known firm of Lane Craw the re-establishment of conditions single line or sentence, he said. $57 for cash. A leading broker ford, Ltd., for it is said that in of confidence, and in this connec consisting of the Scriptural words going to tiffin informed the its early beginnings the firm's tion it is interesting to note that "Safe and Sound. The Cathe "China Mail" reporter that a very business was carried on from a the firm was presented with a spring of water for bringing water free of charge from Kow. dra had been found to be safe but firm tone prevailed, but smiled matshed. not "sound and it was intended when questioned about the re-
loon Bay and keeping the Colony with the help of the public to keep ported bonus.
According to the dividend
going in drinking water during i it what it was and to make it
severe drought. More fresh in what it was not, so that it would figures in the annual report the
the public mind, of course, was be safe and sound for the main final dividend on a "combined"
the firm's action during the strike object, for which it existed, the share would work out at about
of 1022 in ploviding an adequate worship of God. A very geher-81.60, making the total, inclusive
of the interim dividend,
bread service through Cafe Wise- $240 for the year. Credence was
man, the direction of which they given "on the street to a report
had just acquired: that the bonus would be equival- ent to about 60 cents per com- bined share.
! ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAY. wh
small sums were also "tributed."
con- į mus Press was helping them to their anticipation into turn
realisation.'
over
The annual meeting will be held at eleven o'clock, to-morrow morn¬ ing?and it remains to be seen if the report turns out to be correct. Meanwhile, very few shares are) coming out". even at the higher quotations.....
TO-DAY'S WEDDING..
POWELL-HEAP.
CEREMONY IN ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
A wedding took place rather suddenly at St. John's Cathedral this morning, owing to the un- expected departure of the bride by the "Derbyshire," a number of army friends of the, bride and colleagues of the bridegroom in the fevenue office tag present.
The young couple were Mr. Arthur Lawrence Powell, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Powell, and Miss K. Heap, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: Heap,
Apart from these tangible results, there is always to be con- sidered the moral effect of the knowledge, that the large reserves of a house dealing with stores on such a large scale as Lane, Craw ford's do would be at the dis- posal of the Government "when- ever occasion called. With huge quantities of goods handled by them in the course of ship pro-
for fear lest stocks would not be sufficient to meet almost any emergency,
Lane Crawford finder visioning there would be no cause
From such humble estate, and connection with the Colony dating Of the actual development of back to its carliest days, just Lane, Crawford, Ltd., little need eight years after Hongkong was be written here except to point formally ceded to the British by out that it has kept fully apuce the Treaty of Nanking and ten with the giant strides that the year before" Kowloon was Colony has made since the incep acquired under the Peking Con- tion of them both. "Anything vention, has sprung their present from a needle to an anchor" gives vast emporium, comprising many a small "impression of the variety different departments, each fub of needs entered for, but to get stocked with the choicest goods any sort of idea of the compre- the world edn provide.
hensiveness of these or of the By the provision of these facili- manner of their administration by ties à service has been rendered | the several departments a visit and a claim on the community | should be paid to them. Partien- established, and there are other larly interesting will be found to directions in which their Service be the furniture work shop where has been even more "vitally im-after many, tests, carried out Owing to her imminent depars] portant a factor in the contribu- under European supervision. as ture the bride went to the altar infion to the present comparatively to the genuineness of the comfortable and safe conditions materials, the "real goods" are of life.
The bride was given away by Capt. Kent, and Mrs. Kent was the matron of honour.
her travelling dress.
Friends were afterward enter taified 1,1 No, I Beaconsfield Arcade, the résidence of "the bridegroom.
STRUGGLE IN BEDROOM
LIVELY AFFAIR IN EARLY MORNING.
USE OF THE KNIFE.
A Chinese living at Wanchai was disturbed in his slumbers early this morning by a peeping over the partition of his room.
man
CANTON'S WARS."
QUIET AT YEUNGKONG
REPORTED."
turned out, and the mede) rooms where the effect of them on other fittings may be seen. The con- siderable scope and-extent of goods held in stock by the other departments, and, the stacks of If however, the Government
boxes in the godowns on the pre- decides to make a substanțini
mises and elsewhere, are in The Commission which for two grant this amount combined with
effective contrast to the times that raised by the A.D.C. as a years has bem investigating the
long ago when "the business was result of their special perform-" problem or what best to do with
Private letters reaching Hong- almost entirely a ship's chandlery. ance should compare favourably, St. Paul's Cathedral came to the
kong subsequent to the reported! The present accommodation for having regard to relative size, conclusion that all that is neces
capture of Yeungkong by Chan the several departments is indeed with the forty od, thousand sary is for the piers supporting
Cheung-po. (an anti-Sun com- hardly sufficient at present for dollars raised by means of Gov- the dome to be filled in with con ernment grant and private sub-crete under pressure, but other
mander) report generally quict the volume of business done, but conditions. No reference when the move comes about to the scriptions in The Straits experts advise. more extensive
been made to the alleged shaugh- new Exchange Building in Des alterations, Settlements
"The intruder was caught, but inter by the various troops and the Vieux Road it is to be expected The Commission's
a struggle which followed he The position" in regard to the plans would involve the expendi- deprived his cuptor of a wristlet resulting fight of inhabitants, that there will be even more rapid historic Cathedral was sunimedture of £142,000.
watch valued at $15.
This, at any mentioned in our Kongmoon cor forging ahead.. The robber next turned his at respondent's last message pub-rate, may be said with confidence tention to a drawer containing a lished on Monday."
by all those who have had experi- . There is little new to report ence of the policy of its present fght again, and scared the robber regarding the East River cum-directors-that they will maintain away, but he received several stab paign.
the Company's reputation for a The wounds in the head in the course
Dr. Sun's men are still moving policy of adherence to honesty forward steadily and the capture and probity and strict conformity of the struggle.
of Pingshan has been reported. with the tenets of fair dealing.
Canton, says our correspondent, Other interesting items relating
11
A. B. ALLAN LEADS MOTOR CAR CAMPAIGN. sum of $200. "The owner put up a
FIRED AT POLICE."
pain is like a horse-racel public of Hongkong represents the crowd in the grandstand. The Mr. Everyone likes a winner.
boosting and the enthusiasm given by the crowd in the grandstand will help to encourage a Little TEN YEARS' HARD LABOUR faster the leaders in the race.
Numerous changes in the list of standings in the China Mail" and Sunday Herald" Popularity Campaign appear to-day. Alee. B. Allan of the Naval Yard is in the lend with 261,100 votes, while H. Chon of the Equitable Eastern Banking Corp. holds second place with 258,830. Mies Mimi Alves is a close third with .190,676.
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Voting seems to be very active all along the line. Many who are not taking an active part in the Campaign are being dropped from the list.
GET VOITS!
All members in the "China 'Mail" and "Sunday Herald" Cani- paign should be busy to-day call ing on friends and collecting pro- mises, as this is vote-getting week, Numerous contestants have secured promises of sub- scriptions in order to take advan- tage of the special bonus offer which closes on Saturday, March 7th, and this wetk is the time to cash those promises.
The big extra special bonus offer at this time gives 400,000 extra votes for each total of $100 subscription money turned in Many contestants will make up one bonus and some two or three. Every advantage taken at this time will. mean large and bettér prizes at the finish. This Cam-
Encouragement and compli ntents make the way easier, while "knockers" and pessimists" make
►
FOR CHINESE.
Ten years' imprisonment with
it harder. The contestants in hard labour was the lot of a calling on their friends meet both prisoner who appeared before Mr. daily." Contestants are warned Justice H. H. J. Gompertz at the attention to the Criminal Sessions, yesterday on a to pay no "knocker" and "passimist" who charge of firing at the police. He. belittles the Campaign; who tells was said to have run away when the contestant that he or she has challenged at Causeway Bay and no chance to win; who says that to have turned and fired at his this one or that one will receive pursuers. special favours, extra privileges or tips, etc.
This is a straightforward Every proposition. business safeguard and protection possible will be afforded the contestante. The reputation of the "China Mail" and
- FELL INTO HOLD. MISADVENTURE OF A
TALLY CLERK.
"Sunday Herald" A tally clerk at work on ihe stands solidly behind this pro-s." Huichow" yesterday accident
ally fell into the No. 2 hold, position."
sustaining several injuries.
The man i.ad to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital,
Contestants, don't be bluffed Don't let the other fellow bluff you out of what la rightly yours Fix your goal, of securing' so
Two cases of diphtheria--one many votes each day, and reach that goal. "If you do your best Eurasian and one Chinese-were your efforts are bound to be reported to the health authorities crowned with success.
yesterday,
is not alarmed at the rumours to the development of the firm concerning the Yunnanese and will be found elsewhere in this
issuc.. Kwangsi armies,
WHO IS THE MOST POPULAR MAN OR WOMAN IN HONGKONG ? CLIP THE COUPON AND VOTE
DAILY VOTE COUPON
GOOD FOR 20 VOTES
I VOTE FOR
Nam d
Street...
AS THE MOST POPULAR PERSON This Coupon, neatly cut out, with name and address filled in, brought or mailed to The Club Headquarters China Mall-Sunday Herald will count for 20 Votne.
NOT GOOD AFTER MARCH 7th, 1925.
"ARROW" SHIRTS
Plain white with soft double cuffs..
$6.50 $7.50.
"White with neat "coloured stripes. Soft
double cuffs.
36.50 $7.50.
Jain white with.. collars attached.
$6.50 $8.50.
DRESS SHIRTS with soft pleated or stiff pique fronts.
$7.00
$8.00.
MACKINTOSH
& CO., LTD. Men's Wear Specialists,
Alexandra Building
Des Voeux Road.
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Successor to
the hate STENTING 14, D'Aguilar Street."
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