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The report of the Registrar of Com- panies, under section 18 of the Life In-
LOCK-OUT AT EWO COTTON
MILL
WEY A STRIKE WAS PROMOTED.
́EMPLOYERS' FIRM ACTION,
When nearly 3,000 cotton mill workers, surance Companies Ordinance, 1907, Ordi-employed at the Ewe Mill No. 1 46 nance No. 11 of 1907, upon the Valuation Yangtzapoo Road, Shanghai, struck and Report of Mr. Herbert R. Stuart, work last Monday, the management F.F., for the five years ending S0th.
adopted a stern policy, and locked them March, 1925, 'is published in the Govern-
out. This is the first British mill to be ment Gaserta -
affected by the labour unrest in the pro- sent year, says the .-D. Daily News,
The valuation Balance Sheet,-which-is- based on the company's balance sheet made up to the 20th March, 1925,
According to official reports, 1,360 shows liabilities $1,781,900.30 and assets workers of the day shift became dissatis- $2,428,692.85, a surplus in nasets of fied at the appointment of a certain 8074,792:35. This surplus has been dealt foreman to Chinese superintendent, and with in accordance with the company's | demanded his demotion. At night they regulations and the provisions of its were joined by 1,400 of the other shift. policies in the following manner ---
(a) Interest at the rate of
10 per cent. per annum on Paid-up Capital of 8234,000.............
(b) Among Founders (c) Among Shareholders (d) To Reserve Fund
..$117,000.00
(e) Among 81 policies for total Sums Assured of $489,500 numbered from 1 to 12 which have be come claims ........ (f) Among 434 policies for total Suma Assured of 8770,000 numbered from 713 to 9,064, and from C1 to 10 which have become claims
(g) Carried forward to pro-
vida för Bonuses policies maturing and becoming claims subse- quent to 20th March, 19:15
The day shift, as they left the premises, were chatrepaus and damaged Furniture and-window-There were no casualtica-
The Chinese papers declare that work. 102,535.69 crs decided to strike early in the day.
41,171.36
-102,828,89 At 7 am, about 50 or 60 of the power. house gang armed themselves with bara and crow bars and attacked a group of those favourably inclined to the new official. In the resultant braw) £ve were seriously injured and double that number received minor injuries. At 8 o'clock the whole lot left their machines,
40,305,13
31,700.00
238,756,68
$674,793.35
The workers demanded:
1. That the new officer be with-
drawn,
2.That they be given a. 10 cest in-
crease and a rice allowance.
3. That all be paid the same rate for
same work.
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4.-That more help should be employ- ed during the summer in the boiler
TOOND
5. That all who were dismissed abould
be reinstated.
The Nikka Cotton Mill workers de-
HONGKONG AMUSEMENTS, LTD.manded that alleged instigators, whe
CHANGE IN SHARE ISSUE. PROPOSED,
į
had been dismissed, should be reinstat
ed. The Shanghai and Woosung Con- stabulary broke up a meeting which 700 attended.
The fifth ordinary yearly meeting of the About 130 leather workers at Lunghoa on the Monday. shareholders of the Hongkong Amuse-struck work at 8 a.m. ments, Ltd.,, is advertised to be held in They demanded a 30 per cent. increase, food allowance and a bonus of per the Queen's Theatre on Tuesday, August cent, of the nett annual profts. 10th, at 12 noon. Following the transac tion of the ordinary business," there will "be" an extraordinary general meeting on
at 19.15 p.m., for the purpose of cou-HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. sidering and; if thought fit, passing an extraordinary resolution, the resolution following:-
That the 8,000 deferred ordinary shares of 85 each and the 18,000 pre- ferred ordinary shares of $10 each in the Company be re-organised and con- solidated into one class of 20,000 shares of $10 each to be called ordinary shares and to rank as regards dividend and capital pari passt and each share to confer one vote and that the Company's Memorandum and Articles be altered accordingly.
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LIBRARY DISCLOSURES. GIRLS WHO READ BOYS BOOKS.
That modern schoolgirls are reading books that earlier generations have always regarded as essentially and exclu- sively boys' books is one of three interest ing disclosures in the report issued of the (Room Only 4-3 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust on the TOKYO-
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SPECIAL MUSICAL PROLOGUE AT 9.15.
At THE WORLD
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At 2.30, 5.15,
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A Mighty Story of Medieval Days by the same producers and cast
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CORSAIRS
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PAUL RICHTER
Who electrified you as Siegfried.
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MOSQUITO'S FATAL STAGE FRIGHT
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONGKONG,
FOR AUGUST,"
1928.
"DEATH WHILE REHEARSING
AT 2LO..
A mosquito, that for months past has been specially fed on apples, green, food, and all that the skill of experts could suggest attended recently at the studio of the B.B.C. with a view to the broad- casting of the humming of its wings and the trampling of its feet to listeners throughout Great Britain.
STANDARD TIME OF THE 120TH MERIDAN,
EAST OF GREENWICH.
Sunrise, August 2nd ...-5.68 4.11.
Date:
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Its name was "Cynthia" Theobaldia Annulata, and for weeks has been cherish- ed by Mr. Moore Hogarth, who intended Ker to illustrate a lecture he was about to broadcast on "The Peril of the Mos quito." She had learned to hum when sel she wanted food, and could be relied ou to perform at a moment's notice
All arrangements had been made for ber to give an experimental broadcast. Her owner brought her down in a bottle, and she duly commenced a mosquito goose step on the top of the microphone. The: sounds of her step were reverberated like the beating of a drum, but became slower and slower until at last all sound ceased. Cynthia," under the ordeal of broad- casting, apparently suffered from heart failure, and died on her miniature stage. As a martyr to science she will be re- membered as the first of mosquitos to tread the stage for the benefit of British listeners. Unhappily, her footsteps were not recorded on a gramophone record, so that they will never be heard by the British people. She proved, however, that the exploit was a possible one, and that within the next few days her des cendants, or the descendants of one of the same species, will parade at 2L0 to give an exhibition, in sapport of shim noiselessly to his life's work is ont scientiife lecture,
There are some things no university
can do for its graduate, and to adjuss
of them. Prof. C. B. Piper,