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China Provident Co.'s Affairs,
CHAIRMAN'S REFERENCE.
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Committee's Report Considered in
Private.
BHAD
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1926.
BATH IN STREET?
MISUNDERSTANDING IN INTERPRETATION,
· COATS LEFT: ABOUT. {\
"What do you mean: picked them up Nobody leaves loug coats lying about in the middle of the street," said Mr. R. B. Lind sell at Central Magistracy this
At the instance of the Com-morning to a Chinese charged ny's solicitors who, in a letter with being in possession of a
RECOGNITION.
Britain and Canton Government.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT,
Guarded Reply to Commons Question.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
NEW HOSPITAL.
CONTRACT FOR BONHAM RD. BUILDING.
SIGNED THIS WEEK-END.
A contruct is to be signed this week-end for the construction of a hospital which will be avalu-{ able addition to the group which,. under the title of The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals In the House of Commons, Mr., S. P. Has for 45 years done a very fine
Londen, Nov. 11.
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Miners Yield Over Hours.
FREE HAND FOR LEADERS.
Early Settlement Now Expected.
The miners' delegate conference is considering a resolution from. Lancashire to give the Executive
Notable Decision.
read at the meeting, expressed the quantity of clothing which he Vlant (Labour) asked whether the work in ameliorating the lot of unfettered powers to continue the] view that the Press had no righi jetaimen to have found in Third Government was considering the desir- the suffering poor. Po attend Such a meeting which Street.
ability of recoghillon of the Conten
negotiations with the Govern-" A Chinese woman said that she National Gavernment."
The Hospital, which will facement with the object of arriving was concerned solely with domes- ti mitters, the Press withdrew heard a noise, and a crowd col-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of which will be cut inte, is to be.
Mr. was bathing outside her house she
Bonham Road and adjoin the pre-jut a settlement of the coal dis- G. Locker-Lampeon, Under
sent Nethersole Hospital, a parti pute. this morning from the meeting; flected.
said the Chinone authorities at Can-known as the New Alice Memorial | called to "receive, consider, and if thought fit to adopt" the report do you mean: having a bath in lyeni administratio
His Worship: What earth on were recognised and dealt with an
Later. Hospital and the estimated cost! The miners' delegate conference of the Committee of Investigation the middle of the street?
of its erection is in the neighbour- unanimously authorised the Exes hood of $80,000, appointed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shureholders washing her hands.
Court interpreter: She was
curive to continue, negotiations with the Government urfettered. the China Provident Loan and!
An effort is being made to get in touch wh the Government this evening -Reuter,
| Mortgage Co. Ltd
Mr Lindsell: Well, why don't you say so?
Any step beyond this must be very carefully considered by His Majesty's Government, having regard to their treaty obligations, the facts of the situation, and The wiches
of the Chinese people-Reuter.
No Head in China..
London Nov. 11.
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Meetin With Premier.
Rugby, Nov. 11. The Miners Delegate Confer afternoon to grant the Executive ence decided unanimously this unfettered powers to continué: ment with the objeet of reaching negotiations with the Govern-
The new hospital, which will be a four-storeyed. reinforced cone A resolution in favour of hold-!
rete-framed building, will have ing the meeting in private was was at first thought that the dead
Continuing, witness said that it!
thirteen wards, a nurses' lecture proposed by the Chairman (Mr. body of a child had been found.
room, small operating theatre and R. G. Shewan) and seconded by but the bundle turned out to be
an out-patients room which will Sir Robert Ho Tung.
In the House of Commons, incommodate from 80 to 100 fonly a few coats. By far the greater number of fendant pick up one or two pieces Lampson. Under Secretary for he claims to public sympathy
She saw de-answer to questions, Mr. G. Locker people.' hareholders present refrained and walk away.
m voting on the resolution.
Foreign Affairs said that the
fand support of the Alice Memor. The chairman declared the re- the Bench that accused was ar-new Minister to Feking had been exceptionally strong by reason of Div. Inspector P. Grant informa-feredentials of Mr. M. Lampson the group of Hospitals are solution carried and the Pressrested a few years away from the addressed to the President of the the principle oh which the Hos. settlement.
spot and His Worship discharged Chinese Republic, but he had been pis has bean run since its in- This meant that the Executive Inccused, adding that if the clothes instructed to defer presentation
ception no patient is turned could negotiate on the basis of were not chimed within a week until there is a President recoffees of any kind. The hospitals servation as to hours, conditional- they would be handed over to him.nised by His Majesty's Government are free and the only charge madely upon certain national safe" away by reason of inability to pay district settlements without re- and in the meantime to send copies in cases of patients who have pards being assured. of his credentials, to the Foreign THE DAWES PLAN.to recognise him informally in or-this principle in the administra. and they met Mr. Baldwin and Minister at Peking and invite him means, is in respect of food The Executive thereupon sough: There will be no departure from an interview with the Premier, der to enable him to peform histion of the new Hospital which it Mr. Churchill in the Premier's duties provisionally. Reuter.
withdrew.
The Annual Meeting.
At the annual meeting which followed the private meeting, Mr.]" R. G. Shewan presided, supported by the following members of the! Consulting Committee: Messrs. T. G. Weall, H. P. White. W. J. Hawker (acting for Mr. J. H. Tag- gart) and Lee Hy-san:. Mr. W. E. L, Shenton Company's soli- Heitor and M. D. L. King, acting
Manager and Secretary.'
The Chairman said:-
WHAT AMERICA HAS
DRAWN.
Londen Nov. 13. in the House of Commons, Mr. Ronald McNeill, said that up to The report and the accounts for October 30 the United States had the year ended December 31 drawn 29.106,000 gold marks for 1925, have been in your hands for reparations under the Dawes plan, some time, and with your permis-Reuter. vion we will ney take them as they read.
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The net profit on the year's working shows only a profit of: 546.125.57, hut after transferring $200,000-from the reserves to credit of profit and loss account and debiting the same account with $2.851.915.66 to cover bad and doubtful debts and loans, de preciation of property and invest ments and general reserve for con- tingencies, and deducting the halance at credit from last year. there is a net deficit of $2,086,-! 864.50.
Estimates Only. ".
PORTUGAL'S DEBT...
London, Nov. H. Mr. Ronald MeNeil Financial
TRADE BY 3 WAYS. Test" Ship Sent With Cargo »
Fo Canton.
is hope will be completed by next Boom at the House of Commons. Astimo or from the principle Later the full Cabinet Coal governing admittance. namely Committee took part in the inter- that the hospital is for all. ir" view. Hopes are entertained in pective of race or creed.
some quarters that a provisional The London Missionary Society settlement may be reached to- provides he Superintendent and night. In that case a special mid started by the luntury calling Matron of the Hospitals but, night message may be issued by of the boycatehere merchants part from that. the ministra official wireless. British Wireless ure fircumvent the "new boy-mittee consisting of Chinese and
tion is in the hands of a Com-Service. cott in Warre way snu cargo non-Chinese membo the man- stil moving up and down between agement providing an outstanding Hong Kong and Canton.
Anxious to continue the trade re-
1-800 Snays,
Lordon, Nov. 11.. The miners conférence ded- A "test" steamer went up this example of united effort of the sion means that the miners have Chinese and non-Chinese com yielded on the question of hours. morning with a small quantity of Secretary to the Treasury, stated in was consigned to Chinese tradersing of which a contract is to be are willing to accept district" set- The Executive is now prepared to general cargo, the most of which munitie in philanthropic work.
The new hospital for the build-inform the Government that they the House of Commons that nero- debt to this country had not a freighter run by the Canton and liations in regard to Portugal's!
This was the "Tetsuzan Murü"
signed this sulted in any settlement-British Shanghai S.S. Co., with offices at
week-end. is to tlements both on hours and wages take the place of the old subject to safeguards of national Alice Memorial Wireless Service.
Hospital for principles or an appeal tribunal. merly in Bank Building.
Hollywood Road, The conference adjourned until Under the Japanese flag, this ves-which was built in 1887 by to-morrow to hear the result of sel does not come within the scope and the surroundings of which
Dr. (afterwards Sir Kai) Hokai, the resumed negotiations,
ceived $10,000 commission, Tshown in the 1924 accounts.
In the The result is deplorable, butments $314,848 consist of:-
balance sheet invest- You must remember that most of those figures are estimates only 10,000 Hong Kong and Territorial
475 China Underwriters. based on the lowest points of the
Estates.
ia Cunton.
the
Mercantile
A delegate, interviewed, declar-
of the Transport Union's resolution as to hovenit merchandise in vessels have become too insanitary for it ed the position was that if the
to be used for in-patients. Oying the British far..
Government met the miners liber- It remains to be seen whether the
The work of this group of Hos-ally as regards the establishment Tetsuzan Manu" will be discharg. pitals has continued to grow of a tribunal, what ver the views ed on arrivai to-night at Canton since its beginning. 45 years ago, of the coal owners might be, there but the вропзога
and to cope with the growing would probably be a settlement, are hopeful. Consignees will have
number of patients who daily but if the miners' compromise on to arrange their own transport and take del-avail themselves of its ever open hours was interpreted as a digu very from alongside, in the stream to erect an operating block, bewere contemplated, then negotia. door, it is proposed in the future of weakness and harsh measures as before; consequently a moder-pany's shares were underwritten Should this test trip prove a suc-tween the present Ho Miu Ling tions would break down finally ate rise in values would put us on by us for a commission of $23,726 cess, operations will be extended. a very different footing.
and Nethersole Hospitals. When Mr. Baldwin has cancelled. an
market in very abnormal times 23,726 Sandakan and that the securities themselves
have not been realised but remain
Light
and
Rower Co., Ltd. The Sandakan Light
Com-
Union Not Omnipotent.
which has been written off the cost In the profit and loss account of these shares. The late Mana-steamboats (including vessels run launched, the public may be de-ist conference at Glasgow to- Since Nov. 8. the Hong Kong the appeal in this connection is engagement to address the Union- you will notice a reserve is made yer had arranged for these by "outside" companies) have not pended on to meet it with the morrow. Reuter. of $62,500 for cancellation of an shares to be taken over from us brought down cargo: Yesterday the ready sympathy they have ex-... agreement with China writers, Limited.
Under by a syndicate of Chinese, but s.8. "Kwong Sai" brought down tended in the past to this most
Funds From Russia:" We made an this fell through, owing to the about 460 packages--a small ship worthy cause, agreement with this Company to money stringency brought about ment comparatively, but a signifi
Rugby, Nov. 11. underwrite the last 125,000 shares by the boycott and we were left cant development as she is register
The Home Secretary, replying of a New Issue at $2.50 per share. with the shares on
to questions in the House of Com- As the shares then stood at $4 in But we
our hands,
mone, stated that; according to the ed in Hong Kong and is manned by ment) anybody frustrating trade is sion, the total sum of money the market the Underwriting these shares, as the Company is The Kwong Sai"
are not anxious about British officers.
latest information in his posses- acemed quite safe, but before the now working at a small profit and Honam, in Canton harbour as the tions!
following an anti-Nationalist policy which had been received from anchors off by interfering with communica issue could be made the outbreak seems to have good prospects.
Russia for the miners was of the Strike altered the whole Supdry creditors $1,424,429.48 Shippers of those "480 packages company does not have a wharf. prospect and a compromise was has been reduced to about $968-sent their own cargo-boats along the Trapavort Union has pronounc sources. British Wireless Ser-
"Very Serious Crime."
£1,870,000. finally negotiated with the China 000 and sundry debtors from side and were not interfered with.
True, the merchant continued. vent money coming in from any He had taken no steps to pre- Underwriters, Limited, by which ($270,804.35 to about 33,000:- we were released from all liabili-
Merchants with a regular turn: But those who need not
ed a boy.tt against British ships. | amount of $9,920.62 over in Canton have more or less public cargo-boats are at liberty to ty for the payment of 50 cents per against capital trust funds is
engage share, viz, $62,500 and the loss of what was due to the employees' cargo bonts. Some own their own Government in its declared foreign. It is eviden that the most | permanent arrangements with our commission.
trade and thereby support the With regard to the reservation.
(provident fund. of $895,589.92 on property; this obtained from the Government for Transport Union.
Kowloon Inland Lot 1992 was therefore, not members of the cargo on non-British ships, can fact that at one o'clock this main-
craft, the crews of which are,
policy. Similarly Hong Kong earnest efforts are being made to secure a coal settlement from the amount is based on valuations of the purpose of a timber yard, as each property by Messrs. Palmer there was a strong demand for
hardly be saized. * Clever Argument. and Turner.
Such merchants have taken the Economic Relations with the Bri- till closeted with the Cabinet The Society for the Severance of ing the Miners' Executive was storage space for timber until the Arst step by continuing to trade in tish has not officially started opera- "Most Disappointing." end of June when conditions were spite of the boycott engendered by tions although registration forms
Committee entirely altered.
It was announced that the the Union S lighterage is most disappointing] As" to the loans to Mr. Shewan agitators are going to pravent such the merchant concluded, he did not
It is difficult to see how the have been broadcast. Therefore, parties were considering the de-
tails clause by clauset, to us, as the late Manager assured and Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co, shipments going through, or being stop trade and not opesly fout the yesterday evening and were inter- us there would be a handsome pro-I must point out that these loans landed from Hong Kong hosta policy of the Kusmintang.. "And rupted later to enable the Calint Consultations began at 5.30 fit at the rates he had fixed. We have been running for years past. A merchant put the situation
Ministers to consult the owners,
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The loss of $101,666.27 on
The
Loans to Company.
see how any organisation could
vice.
Earnest Efforts.
Loudon, Nov. 12.
can only suppose from the resultand as a money-lending company very aptly to a "China Hall" r. We have often been told that any that he did not make allowance" we were glad to have them; they porter. He said: The Nationallet anti-Revolutionary action is a very after which the miners met tha for the great loss of time occasion- (brought good returns to this Com Government officially announced serious crime," added the speaker Cabinet again, when the latter ed by the use of amateur tally-pany in former years and were that the boycott had been called ilustrative of the trend of opinion owners' "last word." clerks and unskilled labour on more than fully secured when the off. The Strike Committee follow in Canton business, circles. Trade Thereafter information was not All this ta by the way but ere understood to possess the which he had to depend, all our Strike commenced. own men having left us.
ed with a manifesto, endorsing and is wanted and the merchants are youchasafed beyond an intima Interest $214.685.95 is interest been reported upon by the Inves Government's foreign policy which
The loans to Mr. Tong have just professing utmost support for the fully alive nx to the situation andtion that the conference was like earned, but it has not all been tigation Committee, and therefore in that, to accomplish Nationalist collected.
ly to sit all night long-Reuter to the possibilities. Profit
I do not comment upon them now. aspirations, communications will
Avenue of Small Craft. $9,044,50 was on sales of China Territorial Estates, Ltd, was par
shares The loan to the Hong Kong and be maintained but other measures hoped to sustain commercial rela-
The third method by which I 16)
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR Underwriters shares taken over of the conditions when the
may be adopted Such new mea- tions je still being explored. under a previous Underwriting
suros, havo not been announced, Lagreement on which we also re-
(Continued on Pags
on sales of.
fore in the speaker's argu- (Continued on Page 7.)
The Closing rate of the dollár. on demand, to-day was 1/11/1/16.
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