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authorising a strike ballot. In London and districts.. The Labour members have run- riot in the House of Commiens on the Economy Bill thirteen of their number being ejected in the course of an all-night sitting... They apparently must do some- thing in the spectacular line to Hmpress the "free and indepen dent electors, who returned them to. Westminsterl
Amongst foreign topics the serious menace of Bagdad created no little anxiety for some days, the flood level being fifteen feet above the city." Fortunately the breach in the River Tigris has
SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926.
STREET CROWDS.
1.
THINGS HEARD OUTSIDE A
. . NEW SHOP
OLD ORDER OHANGETH..
[By "Li Chung-vin."]
"It's an HF wind that blows
QUIET STILL.
REVIEW OF LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
PRICES, MAINTAINED.","
Messrs. Moxon and Taylor's » weekly share report states:
Our market has remained quiet during the past week, but prices generally have been well main- talined. new
nobody any good," the old saying goes. One result. of a recent bankruptcy case is that. a
Shanghai market is stendy Chinese shop has been established, replete with most forms of but quiet.
The following are the principal modern display, whilst neigh- with things as they are. bouring competitors are content alterations. since last week:--
Banks-Continue in good des
This is characteristic of a great mand and with the fall in x- many branches of Chinese trade. change have come to business nt
walk through the native bust-$1,090,
UnionsAre steady with buy. ness quarter will show the laymani
| been veprived by a thousand men that there is abundant room for ers at $283 but few if any sellers
depositing thousands of sand bags craftsmanship in setting off a
under $285
Canton Insurances and Hong- in the river from barges... And business. the populace of Bagdad have been Along Queen's Road.. facing the kong. Fires:-Are wanted
Central Market, have been a num quotations. reloved of the fear of inundation.ber of shops which are generally Hotels-Are rather easier at C. C. Wu, but beyond saying that The Spanish aviators who are known as storekeepers. The the close but a considerable num these were cordial and friendly tying to Manila from Madrid are writer remembers every one of ber of shares have changed hands and that they will be resumed behaving their movements duly re- With an established clientele, they week.
them for the last twenty years.from $10 to $104 during the fore the formal conference be- ported.. Their leader, Captain made their yearly profits, and
Electrics-Are stendy and tween the Canton and Hongkong Estevez, however, has been left were therefore satisfied Each have come to business at $64.
ane looked very much like the
others.
here, better lighting there, a gen-at $25.
Lands:-Ate rather easier with
the eye..
Trams Are firm with buyers Ournland China Mail. delegates the publie is left to behind between Cairo and Amman
int quotations. magine a lot. It is something, and has not yet been located!
A few months ago, one of them
China Sugars-Have been in however, to learn that Mr. Kemp, although his machine" has been was closed. "It now seems either some demand and have come to on behalf of the Hongkong Gov-found intact. His two comrades that the stock has either been business at $27 at which price ernment, informed Dr. Wu that were yesterday reported to haveed has changed hands..
cleared, or that what has remain more shares are wanted.
China Lights: Are steady under no circumstances would
reached Agra.
The new owner has arranged with buyers at $15 for the Old the Hongkong. Government pay
his establishment on very differ-Shares and $11 for the New.
Steamboats:-Have been done anything, in the way of pay for The Allied forces in the North ent lines. Touches of decoration the strikers or compensation in of China have closed in on the
erally "showy display of the! Jany shape or form, and that it Kuoringhum armies, who have lines carried, and many other sellers at $669.
would not, countenance any such been compelled to evacuate knick-knocks combine to impress Humphreys Are wanded at -
$15% without attracting sellers. payments by others The British Peking. Tuan Chilju who re
Cements:Have been done ab Consul General in Canton. Sir cently took refuge in the Legation custom that was not ignored. $15 and close with buyers at
There was one phase of "olo James Jamieson, arrived in Hong-Quarter, has returned to the Pre-This was the string of firecrackers $15 for the Combined shares. kong during the week and left onsidential Palace and resumed the which went off one morning this Friday for a trip to the Old Coun functions of his office: Tsao Kun week when the new firm formally
opened its doors to the public. try on leave. It may be expected the ex-President, who was re- that most of his holiday will becently released from confinement be spent at the Foreign Office in by the Kuominchun, has now gone which case Sir Austen Chamber to the Legation Quarter. The MOUSLEY- ARGENTO ain's replies to questions in the Allied commanders have avowed April 19 as Shanghai, Hamy House of Commons may prove a their intention to suppress Bol Mogsley, son of Mr. George Mousley, of Leamington Spa, trifle more illuminating and in-shevism, and the Mukden War Warwickshire, England, to formative in future than in the Lord has clearly hinted that if M. Helen Thompson Argent, recent past. Hongkong: has been Karakhan values his skin he had youngest daughter of the late
better quit Peking.
London Ofcoal The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Lid... 24 Devonshire Street, Bloomabury, W.C.1.
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THE CHURCHES:
WharvesAfter coming to business at $130 are rather easier, buyers only offering $128.
Hongkong Docks-Have seb ers at 360,
Star Ferries Have been done
Looking For Bargains.” One of the crowd of idlers that stood around for no apparent reaat $6114 and more shares could son they were not admiring the be placed as this price. to make a remark. His manner with Fistle if any enquiries. contents of the shop was heard
Dairy Farms: Are nominal! had to be seen to be appreciated. "This shop must be very miserly,
Several people have been in and he confided to a younger man made purchases, but not one of them got a bargain."
When a Chinese business opens the first customer is given
London Quotations of the 15th
instBarks £125, Indos Defer- middle prices, red £5.15. Shells £4 12s. 6d." AT
Exchange-Demand rute on London is 2/2 13/16, and T/T on Shanghai is.Tis. 764.
Next Settlement Day is Tues-
genuine bargain, probably gettingday, April 27.
Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson favoured with a visit from one of Argent, of West Berghout the two Danish aviators who are near Colchester. Essex, Eng-flying to Japan, but this aerial land.
"ace called at 'Canton and gave
an article three or four times Hongkong the go by-only to find
(either in quantity or quality) that after all he may be obliged
the value paid by him. This is Rarely, ever, do customsprobably a courtesy of old times. to bring his machine to this change in things Clerical. AnThe first "client" of a pawnshop Colony and take off here on his exception may be cited in the can usually hand up an old, worm departure to Shanghaf and Community Church at Shanghai pair of cotton trousers and get Japan.. Whilst the "Wets" and which is a place for the
DEATH.
MAXWELL.. At Chungking,
A Maxwelt.
lieatenent Commander R. S
Hongkong, Saturday, April 17, 1926/
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STOLEN RIFLES
LENIENCY IN CHINESE
„CRUISER CASE:
labour.
A. loan of $2. or so, which would be com. more than what the garment the "Drys" have been enjoying munity, and where the modern is originally cost. Accordingly, a
NOT "PRIME, MOVER." almost hectic week of controversy introduced to £1 A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
remarkable new pawnshop is besieged with
The chief armourer of the Chin- before the Senate Committee of degree. In Hongkong the dignity men of the coolie class when it
ese eruiser "Kwong Ching" was. commences business, and the Quiet and almost uninteresting Enquiry into Prohibition
the of the Church of England service struggle for the "bargain" e-Kowloon Magistracy on a charge of found not guilty yesterday at the miniature contrasts with the simpleness of solves itself into a case of the larceny of five rifles, held in trust may well describe the events of "Wets" here had a the past week when viewed field day on Friday. The annual the services at the Union and survival of the fittest...
The idler's. grouse recorded for General, Chan Kwing-min, but through the bugnette of the meeting of the shareholders of Wesleyan Churches. It cannot alone may have been based on the the charge of alding and Hongkong resident. There was, Gande. Price & Co., Limited, dis-be said that these three places fact that this generosity was disabetting he was found guilty and of course, the elections to the Sani- closed a good business in the wine attract the crowd to its services. pensed with in the present hard sentenced to one month's hard
times... tury Board, the fiasco at which trude during the year, and if the So much the worse for the crowd
His Worship, Mr. J. H. B. Nik has provided the newspapers with profits were not quite so good as perhaps. But there may be some-
Pickpocketa Alert.
said that he was satisfied that de- A practical joker who looked in fendant was not the prime mover in quite a lot of unexpectedly good in the previous year they were thing in the thought that if for a moment or two, boked at the undertaking, and the tendency "copy. The Government has sufficient, to allow of a dividend people won't go to church, the the scene disapprovingly. As of the sentence was due to the fact virtually declared the election being declared. The annual meet-church must go to the people with a shake of the head, he said. tion the previous good record of the though speaking to himself, and that he had taken into considera- null and void-on account of in- ing of the Lawn Bowls Associa How? That must be for padres "Oh, here's a splendid oppor accused and the peculiar, circum- sufficient voting facilities for tion was held during the week, and workers themselves to decide. tunity for pickpockets". those electors inside the polk when it was wisely decided to re- In these days of debaters, and the
When the writer approached regard to wages. him for further information he to the system in vogue move to get men on their feel to retorted: "If you don't believe was ordered to be returned to the ing booth at the closing hour-and
before last season of deciding the spank what is in their minds, me, stand back in the crowd the captain as the money was the pro- given a definite ruling on the pro- cedure of future elections in the
singles championship. could not the Church do some next time there is a big weddingceeds of the larceny.
In the course of the concluding Colony by ordering another elec-Fifteen entries were received for thing to aid the thought of manor funeral procession and watch
the pickpockets at work." He evidence. the captain and arcond gations, we are told, si mute and see the light-fingered fraternity in the sale of these or any other
From a side view, so the speak-Turrns that had been on the cruiser. torpid, sluggishly allowing divina truths and human errors to flower mentioned, the job was erude Another election this week has
indiscriminately down the chan-in, the extreme. One man would been a bloodless affair-the ap-
nela of their ears. Preachers are pretend to jostle people about for At Home the Coal Commission's from four to six feet above criti-what was inside pockets. On a n better view, meanwhile feeling pointment By the General Chamber of Commerce of a repre chief topic for Rauter and the might be gained in alertness and get in front of the victim, put the
report has again provided the cism. That is the trouble. Much prize being fixed. the thief. would A KOWLOON APPOINTMENT.
vert
open
stances suffered on the cruiser with
The $100 found on the accused
tion in the City Hall on April 25, the League competition, a Club in matters of religion? Congre- guaranteed that anybody could officer, recalled, denied complicity
the candidates being Dr. Ho Sai-new to the Association being wel chuen and Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio.comed, namely, the Clut de
Recreio.
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not the answer:
of marriages.
Y.M.C.A.
sentative on the Legislative Coun- eil Mr. D. G. M. Bernard was
British Wireless Service. On attention if congregations were right hand under the left armpit, The interesting news is to hand and extract the article under that Mr. P. Sands, B.A., has the only nominee, and he will Thursday it appeared as if the expected to raise questions upon cover of the left shoulder and accepted the offer made to him to accordingly act during Mr. P. H. negotiations between the coal the sermon, at all events after it
arm. If there was a chase, a become Assistant Secretary to the Holyoak's absence from the owners and the miners would was over. For there is frequent-confederate tricked the victim up, Kowloon branch of the Y.M.C.A. Colony. The householder and the break down completely, but they some point in a sermon open to and then kept him engaged on an Mr. Sands, who is at present on a questioner would argument for "pushing into him." the staff af St. Stephen's Col-" "paying guest" once more rejoice Prime Minister's intervention has doubt, and
lege, takes up his duties in July for the restrictions on the use of Provided a ray of hope. Still always remember his question if This is not a
next. He is a licensed Lay xxxxx water have been abolished for there is time yet for a genuine new idea; but it is an iden with
Reader at St. Andrew's Church, St. Arthony's Church, 177 Third Kowloon, and for some time now. probably another year-and the crisis to arise, just as there is tremendous possibilities. It con- Street, has been proclaimed a has been closely identified with early morning or forenoon "tub" time for both sides to decide to tains a challenge. It might, if licensed place for the soleminsation the work carried on at St.
Andrew's more can now be enjoyed with greater come to a mutual agreement on adopted, attract the "gas-bags."
particularly among young men in conjunction zest than before the scarcity of the controversial points at issue. Properly managed it should at- The following officiating appoint with the assistant chaplain, the rain led to the severe limitation It is noteworthy that His tract the thoughtful person: the ments are made in the 6/2nd Rev. G. E. Arrowsmith. Mr. of consumption. The rabies scare Majesty the King has summoned doubting Thomases; and the Punjab Regiment:Capt. M. G. Sands will bring to his new duties seems to have abated, though the the Prime Minister to Windsor many who are perplexed, and re- O'Leary, M.B.E., Co. Officer. to be zeal, experience and enthusias
main so because they see no clear Officiating Co. Commander, vice- He is not unknown at the muzzling of dogs is still enforced to discuss the position. An
Capt. H. J. Hawthorn, rellevedY.M.C.A, where he has taken part and there have been a few more engineering crisis is threatened, way out from the moress of their April 1, 1920; Capt. M. Middleton, in debates, etc. The possession Co. Commander: to be Officiating of a ready and witty pen should cases of persons being bitten by the conference of Engineer Perplexity.
2nd-In-Command, vice Major also make him an acquisition.""" their canine friends (or enemies).fing Employers and Trade
G. T. M. Smith, granted one year's The Kowloon branch of the The Government bas kindly in- Unions on the national demand It is reported In Command. Or combined. leave to UK. April 2 Y.M.C.A. has already justified the formed a waiting and anxious for a pound weekly wage increase dexs that Flight Lieut. L. Wanless Capt. H. J. Hawthorn, Co. Officer optimism of its promoters, and. public about the Attorney having failed to reach an agree. O'Cowan, RAF disembarked from to be Officiating Co. Commander, with Mr. Hunt and Mr. Sands as the s.s. "Macedonia" on April 1, vice Capt. M. Middleton, appointed working colleagues-backed up by General's trip to Canton and his ment. The Trade Unions are now and assumed the duties of Air Staff Officiating. 2nd-in-Command April the members themselves, the Informal conversations with Dr. considering the question of officer on that dato.
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