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the Public Works Department for the coming year is to be as under,
Public Works Recurrant... $1,330,430 Public Works Extractdi.
nary
Total
8,187,000
$10,517,650
CORRESPONDENCE. On the departure from Singapore of the j has been for the past thirteen years English Tutor to the Emperor, and lat Hon. Mr. F. M. Baddeley, who has been PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES. terly in administrative control of the appointed Chief Secretary, Nigeria, the
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG Imperial Estates, or at any rate of the Hon. Mr. Hayes Marriott, General Ad-
DAILY FRESS.") Summer Palace), a very trenchant though viser Johore, will act as Colonial Score-
Sin, From the Estimates of Expendi studiously polite reply to many accusa-tary of the Straits Settlements, and Mr.
speech at the Council meeting of October tions made against himself and the Im-G. Hemmant, at present acting as Under-ture made public in His Excellency's perial House by a certain member of the Secretary, will act as General Advisor 16th it appears that the expenditure by House of Representatives. It was a very Jobore. Mr. Baddeley had arranged to convincing reply to the censation that leave Singapore today, the 7th inst. the Manchu Emperor was breaking the Abdication Agreement: The cables leave us uninformed of the precise reasons which have dictated General FANG's drastic action against the Emperor and his estates, but in the absence of nowa that there are any substantial grounds for considering that the Emperor has violated the terms of the Agreement, we must assume that the action has been dictated by considerations of national economy: It appears that the Govern ment of the Republic" is owing to the Imperial House "millions of dollars" under the Abdication Agreement, and the action taken by General Fisa would therefore seem to be prompted by con- sideration of the need for drastic economy in the national expenditure. When, how-
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
FROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS of JOHN
TO LET.
AGREEMENT.
A social event of great jutereab in the foreign community of Kabe was the mar ringe on October 25th of Miss Beryl Davidge, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Davidge,,to Mr. E. Alan Summers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Summers. The parents of both the bride and bride- groom are Kobe residents. The consular ceremony was performed at the British Consulate General by Mr. R. G. E. Foster, C.M.G., H.M. Consul-General.
WANCHAI MURDER MYSTERY.
meat is to be;
For the same period the estimated ex- penditure upon the Public Works Depart Public Works Department $1,490,950 Public Works Department
85,000 Special Expenditure ......
$1,575,930
To these figures it will be fair to ade something like the following:
Pensions Ofice rent
Materials, Instrumenta, &c.
# 56,000
36,000
10,000
$102,000
Making the total annual outlay upon the Department about $1,877,959.
A GRIM DISCOVERY, A mysterious murder case, disclosed on Wednesday by the discovery of the That is to say that, presuming the sna body of a Chinese woman in a nullah of 10,817,650 is actually spent in 1925--- near the Wanchai Gap Road, is being which is extremely unlikely and presum- ing that no part of the work is to be cap- investigated by the Police.
ried out by private arms-which is I ha The woman had been stabbed twice infieve the case the design and superin- the head and a rope was tied round the tendence of Public Works in 1825 will have neek. The body was partly undressed been carried out at a cost to the com when found, and examination showed munity of about 10 per cent upon the that death had occurred about 48 hours cost of the works!1!-I am, yours faith-
fully,
ENQUIRER...
SEAMAN MURDERED IN
violating a solemn national agreement it must create a 'very uneasy feeling as to how far the new Government is prepared to go in dishonouring other solemn pledges given by successive Governments of the Republic. More detailed explana- tions will be awaited with deep interest previous to the discovery. No arrest has and concern regarding this flagrant viola. yet been made" tion of the Abdication Agreement; and it will be interesting to see how the Chinese people generally regard the step.
A SAMPAN: It is still uncertain whether General
BO'SUN WANTED. FENO is complete master of the situation outside the walls of the Capital We
Cheung Kam, a freman on the Norwe. have been told, of peace negotiations gian steamer Dukat, while in a sampan between Fexo and W. (through interia Hongkong Harbour at 7.30 pm on mediaries, for they have not yet met face Wednesday, was it is alleged, attacked to face since General FENG's coup) but by the bo'sun of his own ship. The fre there is no information yet as to what man, who was severely wounded, was has been the outcome On the other taken to Hospital by the Police, and he hand, we have reports of a great military died at 85 am. yesterday. A starch in combination by the Yangtaze provinces being made for the bo’aut. to move to the support of Marshal Wu PET, so that it still remains to be seen whether the disaster suffered by his great. artay at Shanhaikahn at the bands of Marshal CHANG Tso-Lis can be regarded as his Waterloo.”
Mr. Martin, of Highlands, Austin Road, Kowloon, has reported to the Police the theft of $70 from a box which he placed on a dressing table in his bedroom.
It will be seen from, an advertisement to-day that arrangements are being made for the annual golf match at Fanling be- tween members of the St. George's and St. Andrew's Society.
The Police have been notified by Miss
Tax news of what is going on in Peking and North Chica generally is not a little bewildering, but one thing the cables
is that General FANG YO HUTANG is cex yesterday and to-day make perfectly clear
tainly not aiming at a restoration of the Monarchy as, in some quarters, there has been a disposition to assume, for he has gone to the length of scrapping the Ab- dication Agreement and depriving the Emperor and the Imperial Family of all Woodberry, a hair-dresser employed on TOFFIORI 182 GOOL, No 18. titles and dignities and, furthermore, has the Empress of Canada, that sometime reduced the State grant to the Emperor on Wednesday two watches valued at and Imperial Family from four million $56 were taken from her cabin. dollars to but half a million dollars per annum, though it appears that the Government will assume certain obliga tions towards the Manchu bannermen which have hitherto been met out of the State grant to the Imperial Family, Up to now it has been perfectly legal and
HENRYPIDDER. STEKET.
WILLIAM ARMSTBONG, late of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, 11 deceased.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Const has by virtue of Section 53 of the Probate Ordinance 1997 (No. 2 of 1897) made An Order Limiting the Time for sending in Claims to or against the above Estate to the 30TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1924.
Creditors and Claimante am hereby Required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Dato.
Dated the 1st day of November, 1924.
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THE CORONET "REVIEW (The latest news-reel of the world).
TO-DAY LE TO-MORROW AT THE CORONET.
Reports at the Harbour Office state that a deck passenger on the ss. Tean, from Singapore, died of beri-beri on the jour- ney, and a coolie on the ss Hop Sung died of tuberculosis on the trip from Bangkok
by
**CARMEN.”
BIZET'S OLD FAVOURITE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.
The announcement that the Italian Opera Company were playing "Carmen" drew a large audience of music-lovers to the Theatre Royal last night, and they all went away well pleased with the even- ing's entertainment.
Mlle. Pinna Minotti, in the title role,
was accorded an onthusiastic reception, and gave special pleasure to the audienco with her tendering of the charming num. berSi Tu M'aimes, which is regard. ed by many people as the most attrac tive item in Bizet's uniformly delightful
opera.
The other members of the cest, all of whom were thoroughly efficient, "were as under
Don Jose..
Escamillo....
Sig. Franco Corbetta. Sig. Fielefo Scamuzzi- Sig. Carla Milacchi.
Sig. Barontini
Sig. Borghesi.
SWINDLING CARPENTER. DEFRAUDS WORKLESS COOLIES.
Five unemployed Chinese appeared be fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Zuniga......
Duncairo Magistracy yesterday, tharged '« with:
Remendado towing away on the s.s Lai Sang The Morales.... vessel's carpenter also appeared, charged Micaela
Frasquita with aiding and abetting them.
Mercedes Mlle. Vittorina, Polastri. Of these Signor F. Scamuzat as the a wide appeal "last Toreador, made night.
Mr. B. E, A. Webster, who prosecuted for the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, said that the firm did not wish to press the case against the stowaways. than the fares to their respective destina They had paid the carpenter sums greater
tions. The carpenter's case was different. He had taken the men's money, snoggled them on board, and defrauded the Com- pany...
His Worship imposed a fine of $250,
Sig. Contini. Mlle Henkins.
Mlle. Aida Ballarín:
THE MARITIME CUSTOMS. THE ORIGIN OF EXTRA- TERRITORIALITY.
ADDRESS BY SIR FAGLEN.
In a fascinating address, which hin hearers found all too brief, Sir Francis
or three months' hard labour in default, Aglen, Inspector-General of Maritime
on the er penter, and each of the stow-emos, sketched for the benefit of the aways was fined $5 with the alternative tion in Peking at their monthly tiffan recently the early history of the Bervice of seven days' hard labour.
which be is the Head.
LAUNCH MASTER FINED.
DANGEROUS PRACTICE OF
OVERLOADING,
of
80
a
Sir Francis began by expressing amazement that there should be abroad much ignorance of the precise functions of the Service in spite of the fact that last July it celebrated that 20th anniversary of its inauguration. The Maritime Customs Service, the Inspector-General emphasised, was Chinese Service and its Head was under allegiance to no foreign country, not even to his own. The names of Sir Robert Horatio Nelson Lay were some of those
Sir Thomas Wade and Mr. mentioned By Sir Francis in his inter- survey of the growth of the Ber- the most anomalous of its
A fine of $48, with an alternative of six weeks hard labour, was imposed at the Marine Magistracy yesterday morn correct to speak of the descendants of Yuen Yue Kuon, in clerk employed
ing, on the master of the steam launch China's past
monarchs as the Family, for Messrs. Bradley and Company, it was Fik, who was found guilty of over- under the Abdication Agreement the learn, the winner of the big lottery ex-loading his launch
kind in existence-which had its begin- Emperor (then an infant and now nine-ganised by the Chinese community in aid It was stated in evidence that when ning in the action taken by the British. teen years of age) was permitted to of the China Flood Relief Funds. His the Police boarded the launch in Futau- American and French Consuls at Shang- retain the full Imperial title, though he prize is a house situated near Centre man Pass they found she had aboard bal in the middle of the last century with the object of evolving some kind of order was left without a vestige of Imperial Street, West Point, the value of which is 207 passengers, cows, 15 pigs and 30 out of the chaotic condition into which
toes of cargo. The launch was carrying drifted. Digressing for
the customs administration there had authority in the State. To the Western $28,000.
a moment to 23 poengers more than the licence allow mention the question of extra territori miad it was certainly an anomalous Mr. GS.. Moss, who has been Hin ed.
ality, Sir Francis pointed out that this arrangement, but its existence has never: Majesty's acting Consul in Shanghai, bas The master said that he knew nothing 20, as a matter of fact, a foreign invention at all Extra-territoriality theless been fully recognised by the handed over to Mr. J. F. Brenan. Mr. of the Ordinance. The storekeeper look was first of all imposed upon foreigners Republican Governments of the past Bronat, who has returned to China fromed after the freight and bookings.
by the Chinese themselves because when the first foreign traders arrived at Can thirteen years even though some ultra furlough, is well known in Shanghai where The Magistrate, Lieut, Comdr. G. F-ton they did not know what to do with Republican politicians in Peking have he served under the late Sir Everard Hole, B.N., sternly reproved the defen these barbarians and thought it bester to put a wall around them, and let them studiously ignored the Emperor's right Fraser as Vice-Consul in charge of the dant, saying that the practice of over-carry on according to their own peculiar to his title, as well as his freedom to Land Office and as Deputy-Registrar of loading launches must be stopped. If laws and customs Ong remarkablo
one capsized many deaths might be caused. thing Sir Francis told his ho manage as he pleased the estates assign Companica Mr. Moss is proceeding on thereby. It was the master's business to Chins and the coup d'etat which had be in spite of the internal troubles ef
ed to him. It will be remembered by transfer to London to serve one year in know what was going on board the come so frequent in recent years the our readers that a few months ago there the Far Eastern Department of the For launch of which bo was in charge, and appeared in oar paper from the pen of eign Office, Mr. and Mrs, Moss and their ignorance was no excuse, Next time de Mr. B. F. Jonnaros (formerly a Cadet three children are proceeding home by fendant appeared in the Court his licence
would be taken from him. in the Hongkong Civil Service, but who the P. & 0, as Helwa
Khoarers, was
revenues of the Maritime Customs never
declined, but were always increasing
At the instance of the Honorary Secretary of the Association (Major Hayes Kroner), Sir Frans Aglen, was warmly thanked for his address,