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News in Brief.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930.
SOVIET DUMPING.
A Chinese woman was fined: EGYET › PLANS TOP PROTECT;
$1680 or even months imprison- ment by Mr. Buttors this morning for being in possession of 66 Laels of raw eplum at Kowloon Railway Station yesterday.
HERTTRADE.
DUTIES INCREASED.
Cairò, (Yesterday."",
MOTOR SMASH.
LORRY HANGING LABOVE, A COURTYARD.
OCCUPANTS THROWN OUT.
An inquiry into the circum- In addition to the import duty, stances surrounding the death of A Chinese yellow dog, belonging the Government has increased the Ho Wai, who died as a result of to a worker at the Sang Lee Mat-excise duty from 225 to 300 injuries received fallowing a motor shed, Kennedy Town, was yesterday. piastres a ton, in order to protect smash at Beth's Corner on Decem- sent for observation, after it had 26,000 workers in, the local sugar bar 8, was opened by Mr. R. E. bitten the right hand of Gunner industry.
Lindsell (Coroner) with a jury, in Barker, of Mount Davis Barracks.
The company will not be allowed the Central Magistracy yesterday. to increase its prices until it .The lorry was deacending from Pun Tin a Chinese boy was |reaches an agreement in connecthe Peak Road with a load of charged before Mr. Butters at the tion with the Government mono-bricks, and in attempting to turn Kowloon Magistracy to-day with poly, as regards maximum and castward Seth's Corner, it ran alealing a pidgeon coop and one minimum prices.
A pidgeon from Argyle Streat. remand of 24 hours was granted at
the request Sub-Inspector Evano,
into a wall overlooking the Albany, High Tarfits.
Certain occupants of the lorry were' Cairo, Later.
thrown into a compound 20 or 30 The Premier, Sidky Pasha, in an feet below the road. As a result, interview, declared that steps had they received a number of injuries
The manager of the Far Eastern been taken to protect Egyptian and Ho Wai was killed. Hat Factory. '175 Portland Street,products against Soviet dumping. Acting Sub-Inspector Saunders has notified the Police that between.
He said he hoped the conversa- said that he found the near front
3 p.m..on December 18 and 10 am. tions with the American Minister wheal of the car hanging above the yesterday, some person entered the would result antisfactorily regard-courtyard. Five feet of the wall factory and stole one large and two ing the high American tariffs was broken and a quantity of old small sawing machines, as well as againat Egyptian cotton and bricks, carried by, the lorry wer other accessories, to the total value onions.
thrown on the road and into the of $162.
He asserted that Egypt was courtyard. able to satisfy her own sugar re- He examined the lorry and found Charged before Mr. Lindsell this quirements, and the new import the hand brakes wore off. The morning with the unlawful posses-duty would not touch the con-vehicle was sion of 63 taels of raw opium, asumer, but afford necessary pro-gear system, Assuming that the Chinese pleaded gulity and wastection.-Reuter. Aned $750 with the alternative of] three months' hard labour. It Was stated by Revenue Officer Grimmitt that the defendant was a member of the Stevedores' Guild on board the s.8. Tean.
SIERRA LEONE,
APPOINTMENT MADE OF NEW GOVERNOR.
A Chinese school boy named AUTHOR OF TRAVEL BOOKS. Wong Shiu-tong (9) residing at
210 Portland Street, was yesterday
Rugby, Yesterday.
fitted with a double
lorry was going down an incline with a heavy load, witness sald that the hand brakes alone would not be sufficient to check the vehicle's pro- gress effectively. To check the speed, the auxiliary gear would also have to be employed, and witness was of the opinion that probably this gear was "neutral" when it started; otherwise the 'driver would have had no difficulty in pulling up. The police officer pointed out that the auxillary gear was operated He considered this with pedals. system to be unsatisfactory, as a
knocked down. and killed by a H.M. the King has approved the vehicle of the China Motor Bus appointment of Mr. Arnold Wien- Company, which was travelling in holt Hodson, C.M.G., Governor and Reclamation Street, near Soy Commander-in-Chief of the Falk America, as elsewhere, are also Street. -
land The lad tried to run
Islands since 1926, being blamed for the existing de-scross the road when he met his Governor of Sierra Leone in suc-light movement of the vehicle was pression. In this connection the death. The body was removed to cession to Sir Joseph Byrne. sufficient to move it from position.
The inquiry was adjourned. circular of the National City Bank of New York states:-It would
the Kowloon Mortuary.
the steamer
Owinging
NAVAL TREATY.
Не
ISLAND PATHS TO BE REPAIRED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.1
been taken up, In addition, a narrow brick archway and an idol shrice have been demolished. The
British Wireless Service.
[Mr. Hodson was born in 1881 A cordial Invitation is extended and was educated in Italy. clarify the thoughts of many to ladies by Mme. Kees, who is joined the Queensland contingent CHEUNGCHAU NOTES staying in the Hong Kong Hotel, for the South African War in 1902, people if they would simply grasp Room 802, to Inspect an exclusive and later saw considerable service, the idea that every class of reselection of the latest Paris both military and diplomatic, In gular business the world over is models. Mme. Kees is represent-Abyssinia. Mr. Hodson is the suffering great losses by the pre- Ing Maison Lucile, of Shanghai author of several travel books, sent situation. The mining,
and Paris, and her visit affords principally on Abyssinia.]
Cheung Chau, Yesterday. a timely and exceptional opportun-
Among recent visitors to the manufacturing, transportation,ty of additional choice for the
COTTON TRADE.
Island wore the Rev. and Mrs. trading and banking interests approaching festivo season.
Knight Anstey, and Mr. and Mrs. include practically all of the big
EFFECT OF WORLD-WIDE
McClure, who stayed in Dr. Cad- Alfred Warner, a native of interests which are supposed to vienna made his second appearance
DEPRESSION.
bury's House. Dr. McClure, who is attacked to the Ling Nang Uni- be powerful through the influence at the Kowloon. Magistracy this
London, Yesterday, versity, Canton, came with his of money, and all of these are morning, on a charge of stowing
The first report of Combined wife from. Kongmoon to superin- suffering heavy losses by the away on s.3. President Folk from Egyptian Mills, Limited, represent-trnd the improvements and altora.
Shanghai on Friday last.
of thirty-four mills slackening of industry and trade.
an tions to No. 3a, which they recent- to Insufficient evidence he was dis-equivalent mule spindleage of overly purchased. They are all interested in the charged at the request of Sergeant three million, covers the seven- Dr. and Mrs. Selden are still maintenance of employment and Sheperd who added that the owners teen months to September 30. unable to return to their station trade at the highest possible of
were sending
The directors. regret that world- at Llenchow, on the North Rivor, volume; indeed, their interest in Wanner back to Shanghai next wide trade depression and inten- and are still residing at No. 17.
week,
sive competition turned the mar
Read Repairs, volume is greater now than in the
ging into losses. The board's Improvements are being carried past, because the part of capital Leung Kaa, a Chinese appeared in production is greater than ever before Mr. Butters at the Kow-strenuous efforts to stabilize prices out in the village to the lanes and have not met with the hoped for side gutters, which are being loon Maglatracy to-day charged successes, and the company from its cemented. The old cobble stone before, and an idle industrial with stealing a woollen cardigan inception has had to contend with paving, which has probably done Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1930. plant earns no return on its property of Tony Carrollo (12) falling cotton yarn values.-Reuter, service for a century or more, has
cost. If the leaders of indus- Complainant sald he was playing in of St. try, sometimes loosely referred to the Recreation Ground
Josepha School when defendant, or "controlling" the BANKING FAILURES. as "ruling"
together with two others picked the country, had the power to control cardigan up and ran away. Defen-
Station have been improved and the fluctuations in the volume of dant admitted a previous conviction
they will shortly be connected up To-day's news of the further business, obviously, they would for larceny and one for false pre-
with the market square, which is closing of banks in the United keep it at a high level, but they months' imprisonment.
Rugby, Yesterday.
badly in need of repair, being: fill- The First Lord of the Aded with pools of water during the States need not unduly alarm have no such power. They are
miralty. Mr. A. V. Alexander wet weather. It is understood: depositors in American banks in chiefly occupied with the problem CORRESPONDENCE.
speaking at Rotherham, claimed that these alterations are due to Hong Kong or elsewhere in the of maintaining the activities: of
as one advantage of the London the requests made by the Hon. Naval Treaty that the Government Secretary of the C.C. Residents" Far East. Curiously enough-in their own industries in the face
could spread its building pro- Association, through the good view of recent local developments of competition, which intensifies
gramme, within the limits of the offices of the District Officer. The -the monthly circular letter of as the general volume of businessTo the Faltor of "Chins Mall"] treaty, over five years, and so local kaifongs are subscribing.a the National City Bank of New declines, and with keeping results Sir,--On the night of December equal the employment of labour portion of the cost. York remarks on the large part on the right side of the ledger. The I was openly challenged by Teddy and capital in the industries con-
As Pat and Mike were making O'Brien to fight for the Light-heavy cerned. played by nervousness in accen- vast capital represented as underweight
the championship of
their exit through a low passage Luating the depression. Just as a their control is mainly invested in Colony, I accepted the chalbe bulit at Birkenhead, while des from the quarry where they had "yetir ago in boom conditions every fixed properties, usually more: örlenge, as I have always done troyers and other craft would been working, Pat suddenly yelled
one joined in exaggerating every less encumbered by obligations on
believing, and built on the Clyde, on the Tyne. out with pain. before,myself I think the general publicat Southampton ard: at Barrow. "Are yo hurt, Pat?" asked Mike. fact that made for optimism and which interest must be paid also, that the fight would be British Wiess Service.
"Yus," moaned Pat. OI've neglected every warning circum-They would soon involve their staged at the next Hong Kong
banged mi head on the roof." MONEY LEFT. stance, so now the people are companies In Bankruptcy if they Boxing Association meeting to be
"Begorra," exclaimed Mike, feel- held, The data fixed, I believe,
ing Pat's bald head, "If you haven't equally unanimous in attending
disregarded the general trend.
being: January 8, so far I have not Local estate, to the value of $18,- gone an knocked, yer nose, clean on solely to that which gives occn- Finally, the National City Bank been approached on the metter, and 800 was left by Tsang Shun-tong, yer face." alon for gloom. The National gives reasons for belleving that I should very much like to know if otherwise Tsang Sheon-tong, other City Bank of New York, however, every wave of prosperity produces this fight la going to be staged, or wise Chong Sla-tong, allaa Teang |*| Tong," alias - Victor - Taang-tong, does not believe that "doses of
a general wave of over-optimism, not, on January 8.
I can practically guarantee that otherwise Victor Chang, otherwias sunahine" will cure the trouble, which, in turn, produces the slump will be able to cover, any uldesake Victor Chang Tong, otherwise which is due to "fundamental, that follows. Even so, there must that is likely to be put up by my Victor Chang Fons, who died Intestate, on or about October 30, maladjustment."
be in due course a halt made to Intended opponent. The failure of certain smaller
every alump, however large, and A certain person has stated that this year. He was formerly banks in the United States may it can only be hoped that not suitable opponent for me, so I will Chang. Hnca and Company, of Cuba.
Teddy O'Brien is not regarded as partner in the Brm of Messrs. 3/16 be cited as az example of one im- America alone but the world In therefore repeat my challenge that Letters of administration to thie
I
tences. Sentenced to three
ROWLES 7. O'BRIEN.
BUILDING PROGRAMME TO BE paths in the vicinity of the Police
SPREAD.
He thought one cruiser would
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Chins Mall of December 15, 1920.1
Collar its
Yesterday avening a fire, brok. portant respect in which Great general will speedily emerge from am willing to meet anyone in the estate have been granted to the Britain is better equipped to the gloom of depression into the light-heavy Division for the Cham-widow Tsang Fung-shi: allas Fung out in a matshed belonging, to the Chol-tel, alius Elies Font de Chang Hong Kong Electric Company's planship of the Colony,AN stand the strain of adversity than sunlight of commercial huoyancy. If the Hong Kong Boxing Aago who is living at No 247, Hen Fower Station At North Point
banks of the second or third
grade in the United States. There are in America no fewer than 25,000 independent banking In- stitutions, most of which are not linked to the Federal Rese Bank system, which is the bone of the co
redit
units.
ding, or ZellU
apport
MURDER SEQUEL.
There was a sequel yesterd the murder boy In the which oce
019-Fall
The Fire Brigade, was quickly aummoned but on arrival Zound
clation wish me to defend my title nessey Road, Hong Kong. on the night of January 8, I should be very much obliged if their The new porter at the tallway that the flames had taken auch promoter will inform me within the station had been assisting in the strong hold of the structure that next few days so that i can settle goods despatch office, and the it was impossible to aayo it Pre- tadown to training.
manager thought it advisable to see cautions were taken to safeguard ouse As I have been without a contest how he was getting on the neighbouring structures, sod for nine months and my time is up Had a dificulty, just now," said these, after, very strenuous two couleur brought dght were kept untouched. The e on the China Blation parl early year, I should like this opporti packages Ing and I mixed 'em up matabed in which the fire origin-
fdefending my title, so that
dercharged: one big, parcel sud died was usedes wastoro for sismallionel gy, machinery › End, cables). The shed did cron?" anorted itself was completely gutted and
while the damage to
go home with the knowledge, that
mereputation aga
bibels
on the
Feireright" wala and, cables has not yet
changed the tertained, it is testirati.
will run into five figuzel