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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
Kowloon... Yaumati...
Fanling..... Sheungahui Shumobun
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
AM Noor
...Dep, 40 915 10,80 11.40 19.00
Dep. 6.50
9.24 10.39
Statin
144
Taipo
...Dep. 7.16
Dep. 7,03 9,36 10.51
12.09
12.21
9.49 11.04
12.34
Tips Market
Dep. 7,91
9.5311.08
12.38
...Dap. 7.32 10.03.11.18
12,48
...Dep. 7.86
10.07 11,92
12.52
Art. 7,43
10.18411.28 12.20 19.58 3
9.13
|- 3.11 6,24 6,19
3.15 5,23 3.£15,846,298,08
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A.M. P.M.
1.M.
Shuachan
Dep.
7,918,05 10,88 1140 1.56.
800.4.17.
...Dop. 7.34
8.13 10.45 147
3,07
Fanling
... Dep. 7,93
8.18 10.49 1151
9.11
Dap. 7,49
Taipo Shatin
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759
338
3,50
... kr. 8.90
2,37 8,58
*456 6,51|~~,6,48 5,06 8,03 6,58 3.16. 6.11 7.06
Sheangakui
Taipa Market
Tanmat... Dep 8,14
Kowlasa...
828 10.59 12.03 8,30-11,0419.07 8,317 TELET 8.55 11.29 12:53 9.03 11,87 12,41
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
WEEK DAYS,
STATION1, -2 Fanling
AX
FL PM
...Dep. 7.48 11.80 220 6.25 Shataukok...Art. 8.40 12.95 $15 7.20*
STATIONS
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,
4.M. M. M. P.3. Fanting ...Dep. 715 T120 8,20 -6.25 Shatankok...Art. 8.40 19.25 435 720
STATIONS,
2.K.. KIS BAS 6.15
6.20
428
5.24 8.19
6.34 6.29
4695,386 ZZ
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The report of Mr. Philip Jacks, the Land Officer; for 1925 states that there was a decrease in the number of deeds registered in the Land Office during the year 1025 as compared with the two pre- ceding years, which was due to the con- tinued depression in the property market LIGHT and to the abnormal conditions which existed in the Colony during the last six months of the year. Towards tho cad of the year there was a slight recovery and the total amount-of-registration-done- during the year eventually reached a point which was normal in the years be fore the boom in house property, Dur- ing the year 1925, 4,226 deeds and docu- ments were registered affecting 5,453 lots of land. The total consideration on sales mortgages surrenders and miscellaneous documeats amounted to $114,165,009..
GRANTS OF LAND.
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ARRESTED AND ASSAULTED BY NORMAL NUMBER OF REGISTRAS
STRIKE PICKETS. Lady Hosie, who revisited China.with The unhappy experiences of a Hong- her brother, Professor Soothill, a mem- kong Chinese detective, who was arrest. ber of the Boxer Indemnity Commission,ed by strike pickets in Canton last has contributed the following interesting year, will be placed before the Finance article to the Sunday Times:-
Committee of the Legislative Council The white man in China has a different to-morrow when a sum of $1,250 will be problem from any other in the world. asked for to cover this officer's expendi- He can claim no sort of authority in the ture and to leave a small margin 48 country as in India or Africa. He is compensation for the hardship he was purely in the position of a guest some made to suffer. times an uninvited one, but also some- This detective P.C. C628 Mak Po Tai times an honoured and welcome one. He was sent to Canton on duty, and on 28th is-segregated in a settlement-for-conces-Jene,--1923, was arrested and detained sion. He may not live outside it, unless by strikers at Canton. He was severely be is a missionary, when he comes under assaulted and lost his watch and cloth a special treaty clause which he owes to ing. He was taken over from the carly French patronage of Catholic mis-strikers by the Police Department in sions. The settlements are small areas of Canton
and detained until 28th land fringing a Chinese city. But the February, 1926, when he was sent to foreigner has made these areas of segro Macao. He had thus been a prisoner gation so beautiful and prosperous that for eight months, and suffered severely fringe," so to speak, has become at the beginning of his detention is à more desirable than the garment to which result of illtreatment. He was attend.. it is attached! The guest has been guilty ed daily by a Chinese doctor-for-be- of outstanding the host. Hine illa tween two and three months, and was lachryme-and many of the late troubles supplied with Chinese medicine, He between Chinese and foreigner.
was obliged to borrow money for food, The settlement of Shanghai is inhabited medicine and comforts from friends and by dense crowds of persons, of whom the relatives including membere of the foreigners form bat a merest fraction, Police Department in Canton. His Nearly a million people live round about friends alas expended certain suma with Shanghai settlement, of whom eight hun- view to securing better treatment for dred thousand are Chinese. A large pro-him portion of the remainder are Japanese, In addition to these expenses the and of the remaining handful of white Government consider it reasonable to people some ten thousand are Russian allow him compensation. A sum of refugees The streets of shops behind $247.50 has therefore been added mak- the Bund are entirely Chinese owned; ing a total of $1,250. wealthy Chinese, far wealthier than the foreign merchants, have built palaces for themselves in the more attractive dis tricts, and thousands of poorer Chinese live in the purlieua 'Away from the water front, if you lose your way, you will walk an hour before you meet any- body but a Chinese to direct you, and you will be lucky to find one who under-cratic doctrice of no taxation without etands any language but Chinese. representation," the foreigner, for whom and by whom the settlement was created, would be swamped entirely out of its government. Alas! it is too obvious that in that case, Shanghai settlement... would soon be in the same deplorable. The cumber. of Crown Leases issued condition as Shanghai-native city. De- during the year was 178. The total mocracy would have defeated its own ensive of the New Territories) during amount of fees collected by stamps (ex-
the year was 875,058,78 being 828,541.50 less than the previous year. Land re- gistration fees in the New Territories amounted to 85,821.45 and Crown Lease fees to 8120.00.
This city, with its vast Chinese popu- lation, is still presided over, as in its inception, by a municipal council run on English lines by a small group of public spirited "gentlemen, mainly British and American And very accessfully," to There are all the latest developmenta
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SURRENDERS.
One hundred and fifty six deeds where by one hundred and eighty' lots were sur- rendered to the Crown were prepared and registered in the Land Office. The majority of these related to loss which ware required for public improvements including practically the whole of the village of Wongneichong which has now disappeared. In many cases "new lots have been granted in exchange for the lots which have been surrendered. Sums amounting to over one million dollars have passed through the hands of the Land Officer and been paid as compenso- tion.
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The Crown Rent Roll for Hongkong and Kowloon and the Village Crown. Rent Roll were revised during the year. The total number of lots on the Hong- kong and Kowloon roll was 5,178, an increase e1 180 on the preceding year. Crown Rent amounted to 8570,192.30 m decrease of $3,929.95 which is mainly ac- counted for by the surrender of some large lots in Junk Bay.
THE RICH CHINESE. Indeed, the difficulty of the settlements is the rich Chinese, and these the for CONTRAST AND FRICTION,
eigner would willingly offer up on the altar, if he knew how. Sometimes they Looking at the settlement, and seeing are political vampires escaping with the throngs of Chinese working and their ill-gotten gains, military satraps living there and paying taxes, it is not who have robbed a province, contractors unnatural that certain Chinese students, who have built up the Yellow River dykes more at heart, studying modern history, with mud instead of concrete. Of course, should cry,
Give us back our settle not all the money of the wealthy Chinese ments. They are Chinese soil; and it is is tainted. But the fact remains that a shame and an injustice that foreigners outside the very reasonable municipal de should have complete rule over so many mands they pay not a cent, not a cash, of our people and over such a fair corner to anyone! They have neither income of our land." The foreigner, who has tax, nor poor law, nor education-tax. been almost driven out of his own settle- Being outside the reach of their own ment by the food of Chinese coming it, Government, they contribute neither to
One thousand two hundred and twenty either for protection from their own the army nor the navy. The Government soldiers or to trade in peace between says, if there were no concessions they nine documents were prepared in the themselves and with him, becomes anney could catch and mulet them They are Land Office during the year. ed. He has to live on the edges of the optimistic in this, for I imagine they settlement, in much smaller houses, for would repair to Manila, or Singapore, the most part, than the rich Chinese, and for Japan. But with their own country bear the brunt of very greatly enhanced in such a hapless plight they are content ROME'S POLICY IN THE MISSION prices. He naturally replies:We to live on their riches in Shanghai or made the settlement what it is out of Tientsin.
a scrap of waste ground you could not use. What is to become of us if you take it over! We made it desirable. If you had it, how long would you keep it so How long would it be before it was as full of corruption, literally and spiritually, as your own Shanghai city which is next door to us Go and govern that decently, and then come, and talk to us!”
THE ONLY SOLUTION.
The total number of lots on the Village Rent Roll was 3,511 a decrease of 930 on the preceding year and the total Crown Rent in this roll was 82,242.90° än compared with $2,983.05 in the preceding year a decrease of $620.15.
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PAPAL LETTER TO CHINA MISSION.
But a light has arisen in this difficalty. A new general, Sun Chuan Fang, the marshal of the three provinces round about Shanghai, has publicly said that he is ashamed of the condition of things,
The Pope has addressed an Apostolic and intends to make the neighbourhood Letter to the heads of the mission in of Shanghai as clean and well governed China which contains interesting refer- as the settlement. We have grown scepences to the Church's general policy in tical of generals who taik largely of the non-European countries. THE CHINESE DEMAND.
regeneration and unification of China. The Pope declares that the Church's That has, in effect, been the situation But this is a brave man, for he has situation in China would be better but for some time. And regrettable incidents acknowledged the shortcomings of his for fallacious ideas current in the Far arise from the friction Since last year, people, which the others labelled misfor East that missionaries pursus political after actual shooting took place in May, tunes. And he has begun by appointing claims advantageous to foreign countries a certain lack of co-ordination in city someone to do the work and start at once. in addition to purely spiritual sims. governance has been corrected by putting Moreover, he has chosen Dr. V. K. Ting The intrigues of secular politics have one man, an Englishman, in charge of for the part. Dr. Ting struggled his way sometimes given colour to such suspicions, the settlement as Commissioner, and he with many hardships to a brilliant de but where the Church has accepted the has the responsibility for preserving gree at p. Scottish university. Bo be has protection of foreign Powers this was not peace therein, at least amongst the mob. the pluck he will need to bring this thing a mark of hostility against the natives Moreover, the municipal council decided through, ag
but sprang from motives of sheer neces- that three Chinese members be put on It is indeed, the only solution-to make nity. Each Government has obviously the their committees. Instead, however, of the garment as fait na the fringe upon right to protect it own abjects in. accepting this as a grace, the Chinese as it. Undoubtedly there will cosne many foreign countries-missionaries with, the sociation dealing with the matter, urged causes for friction yet between Chinese rest-but the Church only accepts sich by wire pullers of the revolutionary type, and foraigner. Amongst many other protection within strictly" necesary replied that they would only be satisfied virtues, however, the Chinese have supro-limits. For the Church there is no race with representation equal to their taxmely that of patience. If they have en-distinction, all men being brothers. She tion!" Now the Chinese, being so dured their own misrule for as many has always fought against the penetra enormously in the majority, pay by for years, surely we can. endure a few mistion of nationalist, spirit among mit- the greater part of the taxes. So if understandings and take example from sionaries and seeks to create everywhere Shanghai wishes to uphold the demo- their patience. All the virtues are not native clergy capable of taking over the
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