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"CONCORDIA ISLAND."
To the Editor of the "Cklan Mail"],
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TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1926.
GRUESOME FIND.
SUPPOSED 'MURDER OF
OFFICE BOY.
COMPANION MISSING."
VEXATIOUS.”
MR. LO AND THE SANITARY CASE.
SUMMONS DISMISSED.
The police are investigating the
The summons brought by In- apparent murder of an office boyapector Hughes, of the Sanitary at the offices of the China Com-Department, against the owner of mercial Company, in the building
a house at Wong Nei Chong for partly occupied by the British alleged insanitary condition of à American Tobacco Company...
Four office boys are in the habit of sleeping on the premises in question and one of the other three is missing. His two com- panions state that they heard no thing unusual during the night.
Str-In your Saturday's issue à eorrespondent suggested Converting Keller Island into a pleasure resort. by nume of Concordia Island, Permit me to point out that even If it were possible to remove the present gunpowder depot it would be hard to find room for the many erections he desires. Furthermore I have heard that the famous Port Development report of about two years ago recommended that Kellet Island be reserved for the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, the Govern
The body was found in a mati- ment to resume the present sits at lated state when the office was North Point.
As a boating en opened yesterday morning and thuslast I am prejudiced to the
there was evidence of a struggle extent of claiming that Kellet having taken place. The weapon with which the crime was appar- vacht club than a pleasure resortently committed was discovered It is questionable if such a place nearby, being a claw ended bar would prove popular in Hongkong. similar to those used for the
Yours, etc., opening of packing cases.
Hongkong. Jane 28.
Island would make a mora'sultahie
C. C. c.
naval problema of the Orient and to make decisions for the guld- ance of the Imperial Government COMPANY REPORT.
It is from there that momentous rulings will be made, once the Base is completed, when British interests in the Orient are menaced or imporilled: In fact the Naval Base in Singapore will
constitute one of the finest forms of insurance possible for British subjects and British property in our Far Eastern Possessions and in the Treaty Ports of China.
The Federated Malay. States have much more at stake
LIVERPOOL & LONDON &
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From the 19th' annual report of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co., Ltd. It is noted that:
Robbery is not thought to have been the motive of the attack as nothing is reported as missing..
KITCHENER MEMORIAL.
PRINCE OF WALES STRIKING TRIBUTE.
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London, June 0, A striking tribute to Earl
lavatory was concluded before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
At the previous, hearing the case was adjourned to enable Inspector Hughes #2 produce witnesses when Mr. M. K. Lo (for the defence) termed the summons as "vexatious" in that it had been taken out against the owner in- stead of the occupier. The name of the occupier, Mr. Lo contended, was known to the inspector.
When the slimmons was heard yesterday Major Willson thought a fine would meet the case, but Mr_La disagreed and' anid. ha would like the whole matter thrashed out, helding that the summons was of a vexatious nature
His Worship: It is a question. of law
Mr. Lo: Yes, it is a question of law; but based on fact.
His Worship: You are asking. me to find that the summons.was wrongly taken out on a question
of law...
did not know it.
Inspector Hughes replied that
The combined Fire, Accident Kitchener was paid by the Prince and Marine Premium Income, Wales, who unveiled to-day a amounted to the grand total of statue of the Field-Marshal on the
Mr. Lo argued that the name £10,039,028 compared with Horse Guards Parade.
The Prince of Wales dwelt on of the occupier was known to the crease of £793,003. £9,246.025 in 1924 showing an Earl Kitchener's work in Egypt, the inspector on June 1, although he had admitted in evidence that he Fire Department: Fire premiums freeing of the Sudan and caring than has the Colony of Hongkong.at 24.929.181 show an increase over for the prosperity of the Egyptians, It is vital to them to ensure the 1924 of £249,877. Lorses amount When in South Africa, his obite what he had stated had been per to 22,500,000 representing a ratio was not so much to subjugate those completion of the Naval Base asof 50:73 per cent. against 525 in
in arms against him, as thereafter fectly true. "He did not know the early as possible. On the strength || 1924. After placing to reserve to harness the free energies of the name of the oceppier when he of the British Navy they depend 40% of the increase in premiums great Dominion to the coming first visited the house, but found out the name by deducing it from for their security-for their very there is a balance of profit amount needs of the great Empire.
ing to 2218.782 which is carried to) The Prince of Wales quoted Sira letter, which he said had been existence. That they are cog Profit and Loss Account.
William Birdwood as saying: "But shown to headquarters and was He there. nisant and appreciative of this Accident Department: Premiums for Earl Kitchener's work in re held to be irrelevant. was well illustrated when, during in this Department amount to organising her armies India would fore did not propose to call evid-
compared with never have made her great contri-ence. the Great War; they gave the gift $4.754.231
His Worship held that the sum- AITKENHEAD--At" Clyde Estate,
Ceylon. on June 17, to Mr. and of the fine battleship Malaya to 44,226,211 in 1924 showing the very bution to the War."
Earl mone had been wrongly taken out satisfactory increase of £528,020.
referring to Mrs. Aitkenhead, a son. the British Government-a/battle. Payments under policies amounting Kitchener's setting in order of the and dismissed the case. HODGKISS-On June 22, 1928, at ship that subsequently did good to 32.387.615 and after placing 40% military house in Australia and the Victoria Nursing Homework at the historic Battle of Jut-of the increase in premiums for New Zealand, whence came
Armies, the unexpired risk the sum of £184,028 irresistible" Anzac Hodgkiss, son, stillborn, PEAKE--On June 10, 1926, at Rulers and people of the Feder-Account.
BIRTHS.
DA
After
the
Shanghai, bo Mr. and Mrs. J. Hand. In time of peace the Malay is carried to Pront and Lose Prince of Wales concluded by
...........dwelling on Earl Kitchener's work
Binghampton, New York, teated Malay States are not un- Marine Department: The Marine in the Great, War, which transform
Department premiums amount to ed England into a mighty military £366.666 or £15:106 more than in power and an arbiter of the
Betty (née Heller), wife of W. Penke, Chungking, a sou
William Heller).
1924 while claims of £278.933 ure destinies of the world. 413,118 heavier. After making lample provision for all outstandings the sum of £29.382 is transferred to Prost and Loss Account.
"A little nickel-pinching for the
"There is nothing so despicable
as the way we are prone to sit in judgment on the characters of our neighbours in the light of the fragility of our own."--Dr. A. F,
Fitch.
mindful of the debt they owe to the British Navy. As a country rolling in surpluses and rich in MARRIAGES.
"It (wealth draft): would exercian rubber and tin they can afford a
fine purpose of bringing up a family a sobering effect upon the cheerful BROWNE CARTER-On June 19, grant of two million sterling. But
will not hurt anybody, but all the unthinking chauvinists who talk 1926, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, the amount is a detail. 'What Life Department: In the Life dollar-squandering in the world big army and big navy and demand Singapore, by the Venerable pleases most, as the Secretary of Department the gross new business will not buy happiness." Mrs. that Uncle Sam bear a chip on his Thomas Frosdycke Browse, of State for the Colonies pointed completed amounted to £1,906,851 W. C. Hudmen.
an increase of £177,248 on the pre- Sungei Lembing. to Grace out in the House of Commons.vious year. The new Net sums Caster, of Dartford, Kent. Enx-yesterday, is the spontaneity of
Archdeacon F. G. Swindell,
tänd.
DEATH.
WOODBRIDGE.-On June 23, 1926. at the General Hospital,. Shanghai, Rev. S. 1. Wood- Bridge: D.D.. of pneumonia, in his seventieth year.
#
Hongkong, Tuesday, June. 29, 1926,
assured amounting to 21,478,351 which shows a small falling off of
£76,252 as compared with last year's figures.
Claims, by death amounted to 214,591 as against £289,479 in 1924 showing an unusually light rate of mortality and testifying to the care. exercised in the selection of risks.
As a result of the year's opera- tions the Life and Annuity Funds £7,056.344. have increased by £538,830 to
the
· O'HARA — AMBROSE. On June the gift. Unsolicited entirely they 19, 1926, at the Holy Trinity met in the Federal Council and Cathedral, Shanghai, by, the unanimously, passed the vote, of Very Rev. C. J: F. Symona. two millions sterling. That is M.A.. Aimy, daughter of Mrs. H. C. "O'Hara, of Windsor, the kind of gesture that talks Australia, to Sydney, son of most in Imperial politics. That is Mrs. E. C. Ambrose, of Doftus,
the kind of loyalty that is worth Australia.
all the mere lip service that is forced and mechanical. The Malay States truly deserve all the appre- Profit and Loss Account and In- ciative remarks that have been creased Dividend: From Published in connection with their various underwriting accounts the total amount, ineluding exchange most generous gift. By that act transferred to Profit and Loas they have done not a little to Account is £456,899 as compared for 1924. The cement ever closer the ties of with $522,959 Empire. And, what is equally Balance in the account at the be ginning of the year amounted to comforting, they have disconcert- £537.776. To these must be added ed the critics of the Naval Base, interest not carried to other who have been hoping against accounts amounting to 2440,645 hope that the scheme would be (which compared with £412,256 in No one wil grudge the Feder-delayed time and again for lack of making a total of $1.437,320.
1924 shows an increase of £28,389) ated Malay States the paeans of the ready money to bring it to After making substantial addi- praise for its generous and spon- fruition. As the original estim-tions to the various reserve funde to the Staff taneous gift of two millions ster-ate is only eleven millions ster.allocating £70,000
Pension Fund and £50,000 for Bri- ling toward the cost of the ling, it should now be well within tish Government taxes an increased construction of the Singapore the bounds of reason for the Home dividend of 22 shillings per share Naval Base. Eeside that amount Government to accelerate the was declared, which in comparison Hongkong's $250,000 may sound work." With two million sterling niggardly and mean; but, of thrown into their lap they can | course, the circumstances govern-do much in a very short time. Lat ing the two gifts are entirely it, take the advice of the London different. Before the spectre of Times and get on with it! trade depression was dreamed of here Hongkong freely gave what she could toward the Singapore Naval Base and likewise without
REFLECTED GLORY..
H
The damage done by monkeys
a request or even a hint. Hong. to mangrove seedlings is in part kong as the most natural place atoned for by the
with 20 shillinge in the preceding. year and 19 shillings in 1923 Is. perhaps. the best evidence that could be produced of the great pros perity of the Company, especially when taken in conjunction with the addional strengthening of the De- partmental Funda, `
The total Aasets of the Company now stand at £23,650,978 which figure shows an increase of 21,264-) 725 over the preceding year.
destruction
ST. PETER'S DAY. for u Naval Base in the Orient wrought by then amongst the
To-day being St. Peter's Day, a being ruled out by that remark-crabs, writes Mr. G. E. S. Cubitt in
patronal festival and thanksgiving his report on the Forest Adminis- able document known as the tration for 1926, Mr. Godfrey re- nervice was held at St. Peter's Washington Convention, this ports that it is a common sight to Church, Holy communion was Colony cannot but regard the Bee a monkey hooking crabs out of celebrated this morning and the selection of Singapore for the their holes with its hands, or festal evensong will take place at Base with the greatest interest, with its tall. Having caught a
angling for them dn their holes 6.30 p.m. there that the Ching the
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TAKE THIS BEFORE GOING. 10:
Squadron will repair in time of rato, the raonkey taken it to 'na Do Jou want to be the unfortunate emergency for any essential over and then ents it. On one occasioncert, lecture or theatre, blots aut
on a rising tide he found a drown, haul. It is there that the Ading monkay with its taill down. mirals of the three Fleets meet hole: The crab was a big, one and in annual conclave to consider the caught the monkey.
person whose coughing at church, the word was most want to hear Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helpe theas embarrassed once anlikely puts an end to coughing and dekling throat, For sale erzżywhere;
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