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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
Tel. Central 238.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 22ND, 1926
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ANGLO-CHINESE MARRIAGES.
SIR MATTHEW NATHAN'S ADVICE EFFECT OF CINEMA AND PRESS
TO AUSTRALIA.“
WORK HARDER.
WARNINGS.
*
Every year the number of marriages between Chineas men and white girls a The former Governor of Queensland. declining a tendency which is attribut- Sir Matthew Nathan, who hai travelled ed to newspaper and cinema campaigns, the Far East and visited all the southern says the Daily Express. Anglo-Chinese United States since his term of office ex-marriages in the Poplar area now aver A lew pired, is reported in New York to have age fourteen or Bfteen a year. said that he is satisfied that Australia | years ago an East-and-West couple wore. For. will always be comfortable, but never married every week in Limehouse. great, unless the Labour attitude, as formerly a Chinese with a flourishing busi
white bride Two hundred English as it concerns the amount of work done, es could almost pick and choose his urides of Chinese shopkeepers' ships' is Americanised.
"It is perfectly proper to demand high alors, and firemen are living in Poplar and Limehouse. learning each other s wages, and shorter hours," he says.language, and trying to adapt themselves "They do not matter, but it is important to each other.. that men should work hard in those hours That, and Labour's friendly co operation with expital, has helped to make American prosperity, and automp tically brought higher wages and better opportunities for all.
"They are as different from the Eng
from the lish as the Americans are Australians, they have more simplicity in their natures and independent charac- Iters than the Americans."
One of this year's Easter brides was a paog and pretty waitress. Her husband & Chinese shopkeeper. The girl, whose home is in. Poplar, niet her Eastern lover at a social mission in Limehouse on the Feast of the Dragons. The couple were married at the local register ofice, where nearly all Anglo-Chinese weddings take pinces and their future home will be in! the Midlands, where the young Chinese bridegroom has built up & Hourishing] business.
They will do the same for Australia. Australis, Americanised, and taking fewer holidays; and less horse racing,
"He seemed quite a decent type of would have every chance of ridiculing the Chinese," said a man who was present "and it was obviously statement of the American journalist, at the wedding. Mr. Samuel Blythe, who was there re-u genuine love-match between the pair, cently, that Australians echo the Eng-The girl was very attractive, and the couple appeared deeply attached to each lish.
other. There is no reason why they i know should not be happy together. many cases where London girls, are hap- pily married to Chinese, chiedy shop keepers in and around Poplar, and Chinese sailors and firemen. The Chinese in Limehouse who are married to English girls are, generally speaking, devoted Sir Matthew says he takes every opinbandar passionately fond of their portunity for boosting Queensland. Hewives. and they worship their children,, finds her credit good, though many thick especially if they are boys. With Asiatics the case in very it a part of New Zealand. He tells in- of another type, however, and parti-
eularly black men, terviewers that the Government" is good, different" that the abolition of the Upper House was not so bad, and that Queensland is searching for someone with £1,000,000 to spare for research work on the Great Barrier Reef.
"I talked with many on that subject,” he say
"and studied extensively Ari- zona's desert rubber plant.
I questioned research workers whe ther the scheme would be suitable for Queensland, and regretfully concluded that it would not.
China offers a big field for her goods, but Australia is not studying China's peculiar needs, and shipments are too irregular," he concluded.
POSTAGE STAMPS.
A CHINESE CHRONICLE..
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INDO-CHINA S.N. CO.
RESULT OF YEAR'S WORK.
The Forty-fifth ordinary annual general meeting of the Indo-China Steam Navi- gation Company, Limited, will be held at the Offices of the General Managers on Thursday, June 10th, at noon.
Alter providing for Depreciation, all Liabilities. Outgoings in 1925 and taking into account the transfer of £335,000 from Contingency Account to Revenue Ac count, there remains a credit balance of £669.16.2 which it is proposed to carry forward to 1026.
HONGKONG, STOCK EXCHANGE CLOSING QUOTATIONE.
MAY 21ST, 1926. ..$1,100 buy.
127 nom. 2204 nom ......£30g nom. ......13 nom.
mgkong Bank..
Do... London... Chartered Bank.......... Mercantile Bank, A. & B.....
Do.,
In the thirty years since the creation of the national postal service of China, many interesting stamps have come out of the East The present disturbed con- ditions will be leaving their traces in stamps, albeit moaths or even years may éiapse before their histories are known. P. & 0. Bank ...... But there is a whole chapter of interest East Asia Bank........... behind the recent provisional "3 eta." Cacton Insurance..... surcharged en the 4. cents slate-grey, China Underwriters... Insurance well-known North Okina which, according to the philatelist, Mr. Fred. J. Melville, in the Union Insurance
Yangtze Daily Teleghaph, throws a carious light China Fire Inrarance.... on how Chinn has been saved from in Hongkong Fire Insurance... creased postage razes. The usual assump Douglases
Insurance
$33 now. ..1600 bay.
$1.80 bay..
145 nom.
137 bay 288 buy.
$180 buy $560 507,
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0. & M. Steamboats...:44 bay.
Tugs..
...e zel
tion when a stamp of que denominationPref).
Do
SAA KOKA.
87/6 nom.
$62) nom.
$15 nom
$24 nom.
999 nom. $1, bay. A2/-bay. Th.244 buy. Tla. 12, buy.
Tis. et nom Jila. ? nom.
„55/ nom.
8. nom.
$128 101.
255 nom.
TL 180 buy.
is surcharged to service na of another value is that it has been done to meet
(Det), shortage of stamps of the surcharged value.
Shell Transports 3. W. I. Chow, in the newly-started Star Ferris... bulletin of the Chinese Philatelic Society, Waterboats. unfolds a strange tale to explain the Chins Sugars. existence of this recent provisional. He Malabon Sugarı. takes us back to the winter of 1922, when Benguata. the postal authorities raised the tariff on Kailan Mining Ail.. ordinary letters from 3 cents to 4 cents, Langkata (combined)
Do. (ingle) at which time they discreetly prepared
LO vast quantities of A cents stamps to meet Explorations.. the increased use of this denomination,
Mines Tronoh But as Mr. Chow says, "who would have anbe ...... known that. Lu Yung Toiang, the Mili-Ural Caspians tary Governor of Chekiang Province, ELK & K Wharis. would strongly oppose this increase in ILE. & W..Docks. postal rates. His opposition has made me
Hongkows.. He de New Engineering postal and philatelic history. clared that Chekiang was an autonomous Shanghai Docks. province, not under the control of the HK & N. Hotals
and that Central Government,
Hongkong Lands Hongtong postage rate in Chekiang would remain
HK. Territori at 3 cents. enable the authorities through their postPrince's
Lands men to demand cash on delivery of in Burl sufficiently prepaid mail, but Lu Yang Ewa Cottons Tsiang showed considerable ingenuity in Orientals ...........
Do. preventing the collection of postage-due Shanghai Cottons (old)
Amusements on Chekiang's 3-cent letters. He had a large oblong postmarking chop prepared
Camenta (combined) and stamped on all letters, with the bold Oatan Ices
Do toid) z instruction in Chinese: "According to
Do, (new) the orders of the Military and Civil Governors the Post Office will collect Chins Ensen ............... rates according to the schedule in force Chin Lights (combined)......$18 nom.
(old) before November lat, and will not charge
די
Realtys (ap.)
(2p.).. Estates
China has postage-due stamps, which-Humpding.....
for insufficient postage. Iospectors will take note of this.
(new)
(new)
So far as letters China Providents .......................... circulating in Chekiang province were Constructions ..... concerned the plan was successful, but Dairy Farms.. letters going into other provinces were Der A Wing (Lp.) ........ duly surcharged with the prescribed fine
So
Hongkong Electrica Macao Electrics H.K. Developments H. Ropes (combined) Do. (old) Do.
of double the deficient postage. letters may be found with the Military Governor's big black-letter command, and the Post Office's insistence on the fine in the shape of the tiny blue postage-due
Crawforda stamps. But it was very inconvenient Hongkong Tramways
Iana for the Post Office, to collect postage due
Mackintoshe From
Peak Trams (old) on many thousands of letters.
"Do (LOW)....... Hangehow to Shanghai severn) tens of. thousands of letters are sent daily, and Sinceres the work of collecting the postage-due T became exceedingly troublesome. So in United Asbestos........... the spring of 1923 the Post Office restored Watson (old) .... the 3-cent postage rate, and not to waste Wm. Powells.......... the accumulated stock of 4-cent stampa bad these used up by surcharging them
3 cts.
5.90 nom.
„Tis. 100g nom.
$10.40 buy.. $62 bay. ...$54 buy. $5 nom. $15) now. $95 buy.
. nov.
T. 10 nom...
Tis, 3 nom
Ma. 53 bay, 2
Ths. 27 buy. $11' nom."
el
$18 nom.
„13 now.
T. 11.30 bay.
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