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usually to be found in
aryahipbuilding yard;
interesting conje
the possibility of Hongkong pro
FRIDAY
CORRESPOND
SUNDAY
CINEMA HOURS.
ducing some parts of the nation's (To the Editor of the China Masl
SHEK KIS
NEWWW HO OPENED.
HONGKONG'S HELP.
RESS
"first line of defence" The Singa pore Base will. In all probability,
An event of more than ordinary Sir The prospect of another importance took place on Tuesday, benefit this Colony. An increased demd demp and dismal" wook March 24 in the progressive and navy flotilla, will mean increased and makes the question of the rapidly changing city of Shek Ket, overhauls, which the local Dock opening of Cinema Theatres on the capital city of the Heung Yard will probably not be able to Sundays, the more pressing. Shaan District. This was the carry out to the full. The over- The arguments in favour have formal opening of the spacious plas will go to our own yards and been sensibly made and there and splendidly equipped new the sound of the hammers, etc., seems to be no reply "Kel Kwong" Hospital, erected will be good to hear Optimism against them. The pictures invari by the Christian Chiasse merchants had a deal to do with Hongkong's ably shown on Sundays have of Shek Kei and of Hongkong. ship-yards. On the high seas are hight moral effect in that they to be seen vessels designed, built stress the consequences of evil presentatives of the Canadian
About six years ago some ro and launched here. Shall we ever doing and hold up for emuln Presbyterian Mission met with see war boats owning their birth tion, the heroic and the good, some of the loading Houng Shaan to Hongkong?
Contentment should be aimed at men, now in business in Hong by all, and principally by those in Kong, and the suggestion was authority. They lose nothing by
project.
New Ferry Service."
relaxing a rule that cannot be made that these mea undertake the commended on the grounds of building of a Hospital in their Reference to the annual report common sense. It can surely be native city of Shok Kel. The of the Chamber of Commerce for no more wicked to hold a per gestion was sympathetically the year 1924 confirms our report formance at 2 p.m. than it is at 6
and enthusiastically received, at that the intention of the Govern pim. A deputation should wait the carrying out of this worthy plaas were made immediately for ment all along has been that it upon the Captain Superintendent will have nothing to do with the of Police and ask for the repsal proposed new ferry service be- of any rule which emanates from tween Jordan Road and Jubilee his department covering this us Road apart from the provision of warrantable Interference with the the wharf, although interested liberties of a hitherto uncomplala persons recently approached by ing people. If the matter is cover the "China Mail on the mattered by some Ordinance, a request appeared to be under the impres- for its repeal should be made;
Yours, etc..
SUNDAY FREE Hongkong, March 27.
(To the Editor of the Chino Mail)
Yours etc., HONGKONG ORIENT. Hongkong, March 27,
The total cost of the undertaking. including the land, building. equipment and furnishings will be been subscribed entirely by the about $100,000. This amount has enterprising and charitable minded men of Heung Shaan, among the leaders of whom are Messra Mah Ying-plu and Mah Wing-chan of the Sincere Company, together with many other men connected with the Wing. Oo," "Siacere,
Tal Sun" and other companies in business in Hoogkong and in
Those who were present om Tuesday at the opening of this furnished modera hospital saw the well equipped and beautifully highly satisfactory results of those completed plans. A large and representative audience assembled in the specially erected ping sion that the Government was.
in front of the hospital to witness going to be responsible for the
and take part in the opening whole scheme. According to
exercises. The Heung Shaan statements recorded in the annual
guard. Dr. John Kirk of Canton official was present with a military report of the Chamber of Come merce to the then Chairman of Sir, In your yesterday's issue for the occasion, while the whole delivered an appropriate. message the Shipping Sub-Committee the Time Improver" refers to Ame proceedings were carried through type of ferries suitable would be rican films on Sunday. I cannot promptly and with good judgment. equal-ended vessels of about 150 vouch for European tastes but on the part of those in charge. feet long by 40 feet beam, driven Happy. Valley
and by steam or possibly motors, and readers would welcome any kind cuples a commanding site ne the
Wanchel The Kei Kong Hospital oc having a speed to give an eight of Blu that was sufficiently good river front towards the westem to ten minutes service. On the on a Sunday afternoon. Six part of thrity. A three storey lower deck there would be accom-o'clock is just on or before the building it of brick from the modation for 12 to 16 motor meal hour and the other performinal brick kiln, the Kal KwODg vehicles and the remaining space ances are too late for those who Hpital stands as one of the most on this deck would carry about must needs go to work early. On subunit and imposing buildings 250 passengers when the full com-
Saturdays, most of us are at in the city of Shek Kel plement of cars was carried, and Happy Valley or Sookumpoo when an increased number when fewer football is played. During the cars were carried."
cummer months, we go bathing on startling in its organized daring, deck would accommodate about with a picture no matter what its The upper the Saturday. A Sunday matinee have the same lesson for the 300 passengers with a good per origin would certainly be ap Colony. Each belongs to the type bad weather.
centage of covered in space for
preciated. that speedily, becomes epidemical | unless promptly punished. We do not know what prospects there are of effecting arrests in either, but
FERRY FACILITIES. we do know that speedy justice is the only deterrent. Our police
(To the Editor of the China Mail). have time and again proved their
Sir,-As one who by the force
The Kel Kwong Hospital is a prowess-the Homuntin robbery With reference to the report of economic circumstance has Christian institution and as such arrests have, not been forgotten concerning M. Y. San & Co., Ltd., been driven to the neighbourhood will mean much to the city of and we earnestly hope that suc-Tsz Yat Po? this morning that know that I voice the feelings of of the sick, the alleviating of it was mentioned in the "Wah of Shamsuipo for residence, Shek Kel and to the surrounding districts as a centre for the healing cess will reward their efforts in the liabilities are stated to be in many similar situated when I suffering and for the advancement the present -two instances, excess of $4,000,000, this sum write that we are pleased to hear of all that makes for the health and Otherwise the Colony can only being made up of trade accounts, that the matter of providing happiness of the homes In that
loans and $1,700,000 capital, face the coming months with the
ferries which will take us to our great city, N About a week ago, it was doors, instead of our having to greatest misgivings.
Much of the credif for the rumoured in Chinese business transfer ourselves from boat to successful completion of the circles that developments were vehicle to the detriment both of undertaking is due to Dr. G.. G. pending as the result of a run by our pockets and our comfort, has Wannop, Superintendent of the depositors who had deposited not been shelved and I think we Hospital and to Miss B. F Baty, sums with the concern, it being a owe you our thanks for having Superintendent of Nurses. Dr. London has been electrified with practice of some Chinese business taken the trouble to find out Wannop and Miss Baty have the exploits of those it has called houses to take in deposits from exactly how the situation atands. during the past three years "cat burglars." Nimbleness and the public, payable on demand. As you have pointed out, it is developed a large dispensary dash on the part of agile thieves According to the vernacular in the vicinity of Jordan Road, work, and have thus paved the has earned the title. Hongkong paper, $1,700,000 of the register- where the connection is to be way for the greater opportunities burglars, and the position regard-paid up. A representative of the development has taken place and Many changes are taking place has its own collection of cat ed capital of $3,000,000 has been made, that nearly all recent now afforded in the Kol Kwong
Hospital, ing undiscovered perpetrators is firm when shown the statement it is equally true that it is the in Shek Kel The main business EPIDEMIC?
becoming "curiouser and curi- this morning said that he did not strategic traffic centre The street in the centre of the city has ouser.""
Within three months, think the liabilities were as much journey by water will be longer been widened and paved. A bund three places in the centre of the as reported.
but we have been given to under-is to be built along the water Hongkong this week has seen city almost. adjoining have been
A meeting of shareholders has stand that the boats will be fast front, while a motor road is being two crimes of a very disconcert burgled. Large hauls have been been called for 3. p.m. on April 2 and a quarter of an hour should constructed between Shek Kelant ing nature. The first was the made ́of goods not readily market. to pass a resolution appointing a be the maximum time taken-It and Macao. The city is provided.......
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ANOTHER ROBBERY
been
*
made.
Cat Burglars?
、,
HEAVY LOSSES.
M.Y. SAN & CO., LTD., TO LIQUIDATE.
PIERROT
PIE."
MADELINE ROSSITER'S
الله
Shak Kal.
THREE AGES.
able. Rewards have been offered;
liquidator. attempt to rob a Peak lady of her clues followed; and a net round firm was transferred to Hong- First established in Manila, the
takes me about double that at with a powerful electes lighting handbag in broad daylight. This the city gradually drawn in, but kong in 1913. From humble
present.
plant Many new blocks are bo was not the first time that such all without result except to beginnings, it has gradually ex-
Thanking you for your courtesy, ing opened for business. Shek
Yours, etc, demonstrate apparent weakness panded and branches have been
Kei is one of the foremost cities an attempt has
# SHAMSUIPOITE."; in the police system, and to make opened for the sale of the com-
of Kwongting in its schools, Earlier in the year there were, burglarly insurance. 80 unproft-pany's products in many Far
Hongkong, March 26,
churches, and charitable Institu tións. several instances where the crime able that companies will either not Eastern ports. was brought off successfully and quote rates, or do so at prohibitive
SCRAMBLE FOR WÄTER. the victima were very roughly police beats and supervision gen- premiums. The whole question of handled.
(To the Editor of the China Mail). But Wednesday's erally is raised by this fresh out-
BUSTER KEATON'S LATEST. attempt was marked by a new burst of misdirected ingenuity
Sir-Nobody has challenged cunning that bodes ill for the watchmen and whether their ser and daring. Also the question of
your statement that public health The first feature. length SUCCESS.
is the Colony's most urgent comedy, Three Ages, to be safety of ladies in our streets. vices are of more utility inside
problem. I have waited in vain made with Buster Keaton as the Hereafter ladies must beware of than outside a building. There is
Tasty ingredients. went into the forward the cause of those, who ingenious young comedian for a more fitting champion to put star, is the best work of this the Chinese who presents a chit need for enquiry and reconsidera-composition of Pierrot Ple" serv suffer because of the water Three Ages, now playing at the book and requests to be directed tion of present methods At the ed to a large audience at the Star restrictions.
moment the police are being made Theatre last night by the Madeline Our Government has taken the laughs and thrills and establishes Queen's Theatre, is replete with to an address, for that Chinese to look a little foolish.
Rossiter Company
course with the least trouble, just Keaton permanently in big full may be a thief of the worst type
Miss Rossiter, who has a charms it did for Rents. It is all very length feature comedies. who quite possibly, will not
all her own in everything, she well to argue in a general way In Three Ages" Buster springs hesitate to use violence to secure
undertakes whether in song, dance about the greatest good for the with agility from side splitting his booty:
or at the plano, kept the audience greatest number but the number exposition of life as it was in the Sir Paul Chater has been in high spirits, ably assisted by the of cases of individuals insist on cave man era to an hilarious The other crime this week that old optimist. He is not isolated The comle items by Charles Each house is supposed to be the brilliant-reign of triumphant
described as Hongkong's grand other members of the Company,
redress.gov gives rise to our alarm is the on the mount of optimism. Quite Mason kept the audience roaring able to get water from the rider Rome. From Rome he carries us explanation of life as it was in grand robbery perpetrated in the a number of us see progress writ and helped to dispel gloomy malos two hours a day Top at forward to our own age wh premises of Messrs. A. Tack & Co. large on the horizon, and it is not thoughts about the weather; he seldom if ever ahare the ratlon and Here again it cannot be said that cult to agree with Mr. J. P. kept ups continuous patter Lena the occupants are forced to walt at enjoys himself in's kean the crime is the first of its kind the eve of a great Industrial Gemmel and Billy Iredale helped rampant Two hours is no use as the
Braga that Hongkong la but on Lion in her dainty tripplag and the street fountains, where there the modern world
songs, Madre Aberdare, Don The disconcerting feature is the development: We think at the in the success
no control and street bullies are:
ever, of the
the fact that it comes ao soon after the moment of our ship-building yards formance of
the second porground and first hoon monopolise touches, with which mode similar raids made upon the pre-in front of them. Melbourne we
and the great possibilities that lie season
Company's br the whole period. People living in mises of Messrs. Whi
Early hooki
higher storaya should be protested has placed
law & Co. Ltd., and
Hing indicating:
may be
epider
Optimism.
is advised
and each fat should