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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1925.
"PRINCE GEORGE.
MANY LOCAL PEOPLE GOING HOME. CHOICE OF ROUTES.
Well-Known Residents Sail Aboard "Russia."
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Today The Empress ot Russia
(Canadian Pacific) and thi "Macedonia" (P. & O.) left for Shanghai and America with full complement aboard and on Sunday at daybreak the delayed S., "Masti" (P. & 0.) is to leave conveying a large number of passengers and the mails for Europe.
L
steamer
Not Passenger By Macedónia.
WHEN, WILL HE COME?
According to Ceylon papers to arrive in Hongkong to join the H.R.H. Prine George, who is due China Station on the Hawkina was a passenger or the Macedonia which arrived in Hongkong yesterday and left early this morning.
confirm this, in fact it can be de- Enquiries made orally failed to finitely stated that neither in his own name or in that of any one the Macedonia." else's did Prince George travel by
THE DOLLAR.
Today's closing rato 1/3/1/16 | To-day's opening rata. 2/3 - 1/16
日一十月三丑乙夫曲年四十國民學中
EVEN LATER!
Catalogues & specifications from Bole Aposts:
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month...
LATEST KOWLOON FERRY REQUEST. MOOTED 2.A.M. BOAT.
What One Mainland Fesident Thinks.
things and stay up late is evident from the reported move by a That Kowloon residents are deterned to make the most of number to secure a further extension of the ferry service till two
o'clock.
Shall it be by the Suez route or across the U.S.AT The Hong kony Spring exodus. has begun and this is the question which has had to he decided by those fortunate people to whom leave has fallen due The first steamer "Taikwa Maru," 2.200 tons gross, will leave
Last night, a casual observer no need to provide for a few who noticed about two hundred people could not be in time. This week Hongkong on the 17th instant for Haiphong via Hoihow and Pakho
Hongkong, each gladly paying ten minute service would be main- using the one o'clock ferry from the company announced that their The 2nd
* Amakusa Maru." 2,400 jons gross, will leave
their twenty cents and a few tained till 9 o'clock at night. The Hongkong for the same route 2
beaming like schoolboys on a great boon appears to lie in the weeks after sailing of the former.
holiday,
extra ferry leaving at the hours ith the above 2 passenger Prince George i believed to It was only Wednesday night A gentleman who has lived in
nientioned vessels, fortnightly regular ser-have recovered only recently from (the first of the month) that the owloon for at least two decades China Mail" representative vice will be maintained calling at the operation for tonsilitis and he Ferry Co. put on the late ferry-and who, because of business who this morning put to Mr. the following ports:-Keelungould not have returned from, his from Kowloon at 12.45 am. and E. F. L. Stordee, General Passen- Aney. Swatow. Hongkong. Can short recuperitive holiday on the from the island at 1.00a.m. Some
intercourse, must stay with ger Agent for the Orient of the ton. Hongkong, Hothow, Pathol. Continent in time to have boarded time last year, the "China Mall Chinese friends till fairly late, CPR.. the query whether the Haiphong and vice versa.
the Macedonlu. No definite newsuggested to the management
was one of last night's crowd. In comparatively small extra sum
has been received in official quar-that there might be ample support chat with a "China Mail" repre- repaired for the America and Kabias fitted with electric fans and; ters in Hongkongas to whether for late ferries but Mr. W. S. sentative, he hinted that a num- į
Prince George will travel by the Brown, the then Secretary, gave decided to approach the matage- ber of Kowloon residents had it as his opinion that there wasment for a further extension-a
Canada conte was attracting considerable portion of those Phongward bound frum Hongkong. was shown the passenger list of the "Emmess of Russia" which left early this morning showing What chrge number had decided in favour of the inclusion of a visit to the Rockies and other sights in their journey home. Arrangements had bees the for the conveyance of these nernes the USA. by rail, their accommoda-. tion whilst on the ears and visit- ing places of interest en route, | and their final sea journey home. kundenlations having been made for as much as possible to be seen on the way.
At the offices of the P. & O...the list for the "Mantua" WEN no1 Lavailable but it is known that the yessel will leave with a full com- jdement including severd well known Hongkong residents. The Company were finding more and more people using the route the practical advantages of which are too well known to need enumerat- |ing.
The steamers have high class
over 500 deck passengers' accomm- mutation.
Y
next P. & D. boat,
BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY
This in the latest photograph of the Royal Family, taken not long before the King's illness. In the front row, left to right, are: Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, King George and Princess Mary (Viscountess Lascelles): In the back row, left to right, are Prince Henry, the Duke of York and Viscount Lascelles, Bincess Mary's husband.
48-HOUR STRIKE
PARIS STUDENTS DOWN BOOKS.
ARMED ROBBERY.
POLICE FIRE AT A SUSPECT.
Lord Stamfordhum, Private Secre tury to King George, conferred with- the Government on the question of a commission to set an Council of State suring the absence of the King, wher His Majesty was ordered Icave England, for a 'henith cruise la the Mediterranean.,
GANDE, PRICE & CO.
ANNUAL MEETING THIS
MORNING.
last ferry from Hongkong at 2. x.m. When asked if there would be any support, he replied that no matter the conditions, people. would always be willing to pay even fifty cents and much more than, twenty centa-to travel by the ferry in preference to paying $1.20 for a motor boat. He added that all the previous talk about the motor-boats running on to harbour buoys.. was "rot"--the coxswains knew the harbour like the palms of their own honds; what Kowloon people very much disliked was getting thoroughly soaked in winter from spray and in summer from rain.
During the course of the con- varsation, "the speaker remarked that the number of passengers on Wednesday night might have been smaller because of the weather! and because everybody had not got to know of the new arrange ment. He also predicted that the ferry would be full,. from both sides, on Saturday night.
A Chinese apprentice engaged in some work outside the verandah of the second floor of No. 213, Des Voeux Road Central yesterday missed his footing and fell into. the street. The man sustained several injuries to his body-and had to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital.
[ So if the resident with leave approaching seeks a guide for his decision on the popularity of the routes it would appear that he must weigh the pros and cons himself Suffice it to say that all the Companies concerned are as allve is ever to the need for study- ing the comfort of those entrust- ed to their care and improvements
re tontinually being effected.
Amongst those leaving by the Empress of Russia" were Mr.
makes a total credit of $11,081.96 and Mrs. J. Duncan, the Rev. J. I Kirk
which your directors recommend to Maconachie and Mrs.
be disposed of as follows: to pay a Maconachie, Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
dividend of 60 cents per share on Farrell,. "Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
18,105 shares, which will absorb Hewitt, Capt. C. G. Brodie, R.N.,
$10,853 and to carry forward the of the China Station, who is also
balance of $218.96 to this year's going Home on leave, Mr. Á. J.
(Reuter's Service))
An armed rbbery was com-
account. In conclusion, gentlemen. Keith, of the Standard Oil Com-
mitted at a tenshop at Woosung
A decrease of profits but the I am of opinion that the year under pany. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Mac-
PARIS, April 2. Street, Yaumai, close on mid-effecting of improvements which review has been a satisfactory one kintosh and children, Drs. J. C. D. It is estimated that two thirds night yesterday. The mistress of it is confidently anticipated will be and I beg to move a vote of thanks Allan and J. A. Urquhart, Mr. of the Parls University Students the tea-house, tho made a report the means of increasing the sales to the management for the able P. A. Urquhart, Mr. P. A. Cox,to-day downed books.
to the police on after, stated and adding to the prestige of the manner in which they have looked Assistant Oriental" Manager of The students in fifteen out of that three me armed with re- Company was referred to by the after our interests and I sincerely the Canadian Pacific, "Mr. J.eighteen provincial universities arevolvers and dagers rushed into Chairman at the annual meeting trust that with their co-operation
striking in sympathy. MicGrath, advance agent of the
the premises b forcing, open the of Gande, Price and Co., Ltd. we shall have far better results to [The appointment of Professor door. The inmates were huddled Mr. C. H. Lyson presided over place before you at our next Lee White Revue Company, Mr. Georges Scelle, the Principal into the kitche, and the robber's the meeting, others present being annual meeting. With these few K. Kable, a prominent Chicago Secretary of the Minister of escaped with money and property Director, C. Band, Secretary, and proposing the adoption of the Messrs S. C. Pank, Managing remarke I have much pleasure in merchant who has been paying Justice and an ardent Socialist, to amounting to $16.0 his yearly visit to the East, Mr. the Chair of International Law of
the following shareholders. and
report and accounts presented and Mrs. **J M.
A "BUSPET" ARRESTED. McKee, Paris University, led to fierce
Leung Yan-po, J. H. Oxberry, D after they have been seconded I well known
A 3 o'clock fis morning Lance Rumjahn, Pang Kok-sui, Chau shall be pleased to answer to the in Pennsyl- encounters between students in Sergeant Butger and a picket Tung sang, and Pang Kwok-fat, best of my ability any question vanis, who have been the Latin quarter, attended with a
The Chairman said: Gentlemen, the shareholders may desire to put. visiting Hongkong, many other long casualty list. Royalist and Party were foceeding through Americans who have included the other anti-Government students the same stree when they noticed the repent and statement of ac
Mr. J. Oxberry in seconding Colony in their itinerary, Messra resented the appointment as an act a man running away from an un-count for the year ending 1924 said: Although as shareholders W. Lindley. Jones and M. F. of political favouritiam, and went occupied house The suspect dis- having been in your hands for the we should have liked to have seen Hillary newspaper proprietors in procession to the lecture room regarded the order to stop and prescribed period, I propose with a larger dividend something in the from Great Britain' and Mr. M. C. and erected barricades, prevent was fired at the course of a your permission to take them as nature of former years, he thought Coxon General Manager of a large ing the Professor from lecturing, long chase: The man
The net profits for the they would all agree that the out chain of Hotels in Great Britain. Later they came into collision wounded in ne hand and sur-year under review is $10,755 20 ports and coasts ports had been in The latest news concerning the with a body of youthful pro rendered. A basket of clothing which is a decrease of $4.473.34 a very unsettled state in the last students outside which had ben stolen was found on the previous year. This is year. This, coupled with the re s.s. "Malwa" which is delayed by Government
partly due to the extra evpenses strictions imposed on the sale of heavy fog between Shangha and the Sorbonne. The police inter- in his possesson. Hongkong is that she is not anti-the melee. The students scattered. vened and Communists joined in
involved in alterations to our new wines and spirits by the Govern cipated to reach Hongkong before but later reformed and re-engaged
premises, coolie hire for the rement, has resulted in a decrease moval of goods etc. which cost us of our business He thought 2 p.m. to-morrow and the arrange the police. Order was eventually
approximately $2,000. But I am there was no one in, a better ments at present made are that restored after 20 had been wound.
sure you will agree with me, gentic position than himself to say what she shall leave Hongkong at day-ed and 36 made prisoner. Seventy
men, that the sum has been well was the position of the wine and break on Sunday.
gendarmes were wounded, some
einended as we now occupy one of spirit trade. He thought share- seriously,
the finest sites in the Colony which holders would be quite satisßed should be the means of increasing that the directors and officials-of our sales and also add to the the company had done their very prestige of the company.
Although our probis for the past year show a decrease" on the previous year, your directors con- sider that as our business in the outports has been practically all, with the prevailing troubles, and also taking into the consideration the adverse circonstances consed carried An adult on board the ing
Moscow, April 2-Rosta states, London, Aril 2-The airship by the general depression of Mr. Pank proposed coming ss. Taliwa died of con-that the foreign Commissariet has 193 flow from Cardington, where-business throughout the
handed a note to the Polish it has been baked up ton four the balance sheet. sumption,
Mission, declaring that the ex years, to Palaro aerodrome this you is. equatur of the Polish, Consul at morning... TWill unde special trust 11, wil Two junkmasters were each Minsk has been anculled, hoping | festi al Pajha with
of the sh Alof fined $10 – at the Marine Court he will be re-called framediately perfecting 150 this morning, for anchoring in for harbouring Ussau" for two adoptable toegular. the southern harbour, fairway.
the Damin los.
was I read.
COMPAY PROFIT.
LANE, CRWFORD & CO., LTD.
New Coastal Line. The China Mail has been re-
HEAVY CASUALTIES.
The accous for the year of quested by the O.S.K. steamship
PARIS, March 29 Lane, Crawfrd, Ltd., have now line to notify passengers or According to the latest reports been complet and the "China intending passengers to Amoy, regarding the rioting in the Latin Mail was formed this after Swatow, Hoihow and Pakhoi that quarter, seventy policemen were noon that ahet profit of about | the line which they are operating more or less seriously hurt. One $225,000, is on, $25,000 being in place of the Y.K.K. line com- was sent to hospital with a fractured brought forward. It is proposed mences this month:
arin. Thirty-six arrests were made to pay a divlend of $1.26 and a but only seventeen students were bonus of 15 cuts a share. detained.")
i
days.
co to balancs
from pro
best in the interests of the share. holders
The motion was unanimously carried
The re-election of Mr. Lad Powing as a director was pros posed by Mr. Bond, second by Mr. D. Rumjahd and unanimously
tion of Messra. « LOV and Matthews as a
and they of $5 approved an
for 1923 secon
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