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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, November 24th.
[Previous]On Date On "Day
at 2 pm 6 am 3. p.
Day
Barometer
30.00
90.01
29.97
Temperature
75
79
M
Hamidity
60
67
Wind Direction...
ESE
ESE
*
Foren
3
Weather Rain
0
0
0.00
0.00
0.01
78
Highest open-air-Temperature an 23rd Lowest open-air Temperature on 24th
104
Seltona
THE PAPER FOR. BEAUTIFUL WORK. SELTONA is the simplest of all photographic papers. After printing in daylight the only processes involved are firing in Hype and washing, yet Seltons prints are permanent and without equal for their rich sepis tone and fer their exquisite gradation.
SELTONA is made in the following grades
MATI
GLOSSY CREAM · ANTIQUE WHITE ANTIQUE CREAM
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DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH, 1925
HEALTH OF SINGAPORE.
NAVAL INVESTIGATIONS. Now that the development of Singapore into a great naval base has beconfe a reality which ho future counsels are very likely to neutralize, sayɔ a Service paper, the rather important question of the health conditions of the place is occupy ing official attention. The Admiralty re cently called for statistics of sickness amongst the native labourers, who have been so far employed upon the works, and it is impossible to deny that these are anything but encouraging. Amongst the Chinese something like 73 per cent. have at one thas or another come under medical Treatment. The most prevalent trouble is malaria, to which the Federat ed Malay States uro particularly addict ed in consequence of the humid heat of the climato.
HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS
BUT,
Loudon
Hongkong Bank Chartered Bank. Marcantile Bank, A.,
Do.
Bank P.&O. Ext Bank Caeton Ohina Underwriters
Insurance
NOVEMBER 24TH, 1925.
$1.100 ml, 10,000.
E131 E131 pom
B.....29 201
......£19) nom
nom
$85 nom. 3600 nom. Ja betr.
North Obins Insurance.......140 nom.
Insurance'. .......................243 tay, it sa
$35 day Insurance........ Yangtra Dhins Fire Insurance $160 nom
$160.nom.
.....$40 nom.
gins Fire Insurance. 3000 ml. HK, U. & M. Steamboats
$20+ buy.. Indo-Chinas (Prof.) Hongkong Tags...... $39 noza. (Def.), London...$70 nom. Hongkong 70 nom.
Shell Transporta. Star Ferries Waterboats.
--Ą"raI
Oriental Navigations . China Suganya Malabon Bugars... Benguets Kailan
Mining Langkate (combined)..
Do. (single) Shanghai Explorations. Shanghai Loans Baubeg Tranch Minse Ural Caspians
E.K. & K Wharfs....... HK & W. Docks. Hongkow
93/8 buy
$16 boy
$950 nom. 135 sol. $48 nom.
nom.
Tis. 83 bay.
Tla. 18 bay.
Tls. 3 bay.
Ths. & nom 331 bay. ,60/-pom.
.8/. DO
3122 sales.
$58 no Tia. 160 buy. Ms. 74 bay. Tis 119 bay. $8.20 b.. $9,81 $0.
$5 nom.
$16 nom.
$150 nom $7 rel.
Probably Singapore is not naturally more unhealthy than Colombo, and the remedy which has been employed in con nection with the latter place is already being considered with regard to the former. The Hill Camp at Diyatalawa has proved the means of enormously re-derings......
Docks ducing sickness amongst men belonging H&B Hotel (old)......--
Hongkong to the warships which spend any time in
Lands........... Hongkong Realtys (2.p.) Colombo, and it is in contemplation to
HAC. Territorials (f.p.)$6 sel. develop a similar scheme for Singapore Humphreys Estater. The difficulties are considerable, for the Prince's Building..... nearest suitable hill range in Johore Bural State is about 70 miles away, and road Bwa Cottons
Orientals. making" over the intervening country
Shanghai Cottons (old) presents rather a serious undertaking.
Do. The Malay Government is prepared to
Amusements .... do its share, and, fortunately, the coun-
Chaton Loen try is just now in a pretty prosperous
Caimenta
(combined) condition owing to the recovery in the rubber and tin industries. It does not seem too much to expect that by the time the new Singapore base is finished-and possibly a good deal earlier-a hill station will exist, with facilities for easy access, in readiness to recaire the com- "panies of ships which have to spend any
length of time in the port.
STAND AGAINST TAXES.
CHANNEL ISLANDS' POSITION. NEVER PART OF THE UNITE.. KINGDOM
The Committee of the Privy Council appointed to study the question of ä contribution from the Channel Islands to the Imperial Exchequer arrived in Guernsey last month The Committee consists of the Duke of Atholl (chair man), Major-General Seely, Sir Henry Craik, MP, and Mr. W. Graham, M.. The general consensus of opinion may be summed up as follows: In Guernsey the line taken will be an actual disprov ing of the alleged facts and the figures contained in the Treasury Memorandum on the subject, and an effort to maintain that the islanders are totally unable to contribute in anything like the terms suggested.
Lands
(now)..
Do. (old) Do.
Tla. 10 b., 97/10 65.
Ti&. S buy. The 50 by.
30 bay.
..$10 bay.
.873 sal
810 sel
18 noti
$2.90
buy., $3.1
Tr. 10 "buy"
China Buses...... China Lights (combined).....$22 sel (aid)
Da
Do
Da
..$18 nom. (new)........13 nom. Chins Providenta (comb.).....$33.or
TE. ˇ Do. (old) ......$91 sol. Do, (new)
Constructions"......... Dairy Farms........ Der A Wing (f.p.) Hongkong Electrics Macao Electrics R.K. Developments
Ropes (combined)
(old) (new)
Do.
Do.
Hongkong Tramways. Lane Crawfords Mackintoshs... Peak Trans (old)
Do. (now) (4.p.).. Binteres
United Asbestos Watsons (old)
Do.. (new) Wm. Powells.
bay-bayers:
nom.
P.15 vel
32 nom.
$18 buy., 19 sel.
10 nom
$53 sel
50 cta, buy.
540 nom
$131 nom.
38. nom.
$22 b., 225 sales
8124 bay.
921 nom
..$15.10 day.
.89 nom. ..$11 sel.
..$5 Bal.. ..$20. nom.
.816 nal $15 sel. 314 Bel...
dellers; as
RAILWAYMEN AS SHARE- HOLDERS.
N.U.R. LEADER ADVISES THEM TO TAKE UP STOCK.
Railway employees when the last mail left Home, were taking a great interest in the issue by the Southern Railway of 3,000,000 3 per cent Debenture' stock in which they have been invited to take part,
Mr.
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Jersey, on the other hand, adopts different attitude, and is expected to confine her attentions to the unconstitu- tional attitude of the British Government in this matter and to take her stand on the great principle which is claimed as the sheet-anchor of British policy-no taxation without representation. NOT PART OF UNITED KINGDOM. Jersey is not, and never has brun, a part of the United Kingdom. She is part of the Duchy of Normandy. The secretary. nexus of the Channel Islanda with the ivational Union of Railwaymen gave British Empire is not the Imperial Far- the scheme his support when asked for
only his view. liament, but the Crown, and it through the fact of the Duke of Nor- manuy being also King of England, aut the accident that really all the attributes of sovereignty have passed to Parliament, that it is being sought to rule Jersey from Whitehall.
"We will," the argument continues, also point to the economy of the public services in these islands and the totul absence of the bureaucracy of the United Kingdom. The privilege of honorary service is valued in the islands, and consequently our taxation is low. Our members of the States of Assembly are unpaid; so are our senior police officers, who perform honorary service, as do cur: Mayers In fact, the whole system of Government in the island is, and always has been, a splendid. example of the efficiency of honorary service.
WORK FOR EVERYBODY.
WELLINGTON & WARD, LTD, The Commissioners urge us to tax
ESTREE, HERTS.
LAVOL
“A drup on any desencí seze or Mchdog erupi tion and you be able to rest wed siwa
more. Think Coop. Is it worth terind
Get mirisi bulte Boday, pe
41 út) good chantant" chent demekte, VA.
Assistant B. Marchbank,
the and ex-president of
"My personal view," he said, "is that railway stocks are
a good investment, and any railwayman who may have any surplus money, although I do not expect there will be many, would be performing a public service in investing in the com Pany under which they are engaged."
Sir Herbert Walker, general manager of the Southern Railway explained the "In these rather difficult times for aim of the company in making the offer. railways it is essential," he said to an 'vening Standard representative, "to keep operating cose in all departments down as low as possible, and with that aim in view it has been found in other businesses that if the staff are given a chance to become part proprietors, they inevitably take greater interent in the economical working of the concern.
"Such policy tends to encourage
esprit de corps and makes the man feel ourselves more heavily and hand the that he has a personal interest in the surplus to them. Do they believe this business. That is what we, the Southern honorary service would then continue for Railway, want to encourage" the benefit of Whiteha!! and a bureau- eracy? We have no income tax, but nevertheless we have old-age pensions and workmen's compensation." Work' on the roads and in the quarries of the island is provided for every able-bodied man unable to find other employment."
To sum up, the general opinion of the islanders favours the taking over of the payment of war pensions to the islanders from His Majesty's Government, but will not countenance for one moment the payment to the Treasury of an annual contribution.
The islanders contend that they are na loyal to the Crown as ever, but they cannot agree to crush themselves for no useful purpose whatever
Apart from ertain quite trival Crest, property and ancient rights du the Channel Talar do not at present mar any contribution at all to the Imring revenue,
Been in a motor accessory shop in Broadway, New York, to-day, a series of enamel plates for attachment to the rear end of motor cars-inscriptions as follows:
"If you can read this you are too darn
close."
If you must bump me use your bead" "There's plenty of room in front.' "I can stop-can you?"
Step in chicken, here's your coop."
total output of the Kailsa Mining inistration's mines for the week November 7th amounted to 29,619 and the sales to 64,645 tona
CHARLIE
CHAPLIN
A Real Love Story, tenderly sweet, strangely pathetic, yet full of funny angles, threads through this Great Comedy
That hits a new note and turns tragedy into hilarious laughter.
Charlie Chaplin
~ Never was funnier, kis
antica_more laughable
THE
GOLD RUSH
“Ɑ Dramatic Comedy Written and Directed by Charlie Chaplin
TO-DAY
THE QUEEN'S.
TO-DAY
HAROLD LLOYD
WHY
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A REMINDER.
THE HONGKONG A. D., C. PRODUCES
"A LITTLE BIT OF FLUFF"
АТ THE
THEATRE ROYAL
ON
December 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th, at 9.30 p.m.,
Seats can now be Booked at ANDERSON'S. Soldiers and Sailors-Half Price to $1 Seats.
THEATRE
ROYAL,
12824
IOLANTHE."
December 11th, 12th, 14th, 17th, 18th and 19th at 9.15 p.m.
MATINEE :-(Children half price) Dec 18th at 4.30 pm.
BOOKING COMMENCES MONDAY, Nov. 23rd
ANDER ON
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