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PPLICATIONB are Invited for
A the Sale by Pabllo Anction to A FOST of CHIEF INTER
be held on MONDAY, the 26TH DAY of AUGUST, 1929, At 8 P.M., at the Offen of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellamor virs Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Mong Kok Tsui, in the Oclony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Kant to be fixed by the Surveyor of Ein Marasty THE KING, for one, farther term of 75
yours.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Salo.
Lot No. 2212.Registry No. Kowloon Inland
Opposite Kewloon
1652,
Lot No.
Nathan
Locality.
'Q.
Road,
Boundary
MERIDIA
menta.
ft. ft.
Дя рет
vala plan.
Annual
Kental.
Contents in
Bquare feet.
14,950
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Upset Price,
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. 2219, +
Tang Choi Street Bale Street between
and Fa Yuen Street,
Kowloon Inland Lot
Mong Kok Tani.
No. of Bale.
Registry No.
Locality.
Boundary
Menure-
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. X. 3. 2.T
As per
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Contents in
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Bental
WI Up et Price.
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ARTICULARS CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Anction to be held on MONDAY, the 2018 DAT of AUGUST, 1929, at 3 px., at the Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His EXCELLENCY TER GOVERNOR, of One Lot of UROWN LAND at Sham. shaipo,
the
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Kip Mel
G.
Boundary.
Measure
mments,
As per
Balo plan.
Annal
Rental
About
Contents in
6,324
Square feet.
9.486
Upset Prica?
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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Puss Bale by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 267 DAY of AUGUST, 1929, at 3 F.x., at the Office of the Public Works
by Department, Order of His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR of One Lot of CROWN LẠND #t Waterloo Road, Kowloon, in the
Kong, for Colony of Hong
A
tario of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Orown Bent to be fixed by the Burvayor of HIS MAJESTY TAK Ko, for one further term of 75 yeBTE,
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Silo.
Registry No.
Locality.
land Lot No. 2145, Lot No. 2214.
Kowloon Inland
Waterloo Road, Kow.
Adjeining Kowloon In
Boundary
Measur
.mente.
As per
Contents in
Square feet.
Aunuai
Rental.
About
21,000
0,500 Upset Pric
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News and Views.
Tiger, Tiger!
In Tsungfa, a mountaincus dia- trict of northern Kwangtung,' says a Chinese paper, the villagers arò
In the maternity ward of the terrorised by tigers, who kill and
Tung Wah Hospital on Tuesday
a young Chinese woman gave birth to triplets, all girls. The mother and the babies are doing well.
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devour many bend of cattle and a
certain number of buman beings every year, In times of scarcity these "kings of the beasts," as the natives call them even come out im Private Naismith of the K.O.S.B. broad daylight in search of food. who was reported to the Police as Recently a farmer was driving his a deserter on Friday, August water buffalo, a particularly fine gave himself up to the Police yes-bull, home after a day's ploughing terday. He was handed over to the in the padi fields. Suddenly a tiger Military Authorities.
The Canton authorities have de- convert the Hoi Tang cided to Monastery in Honam into a public
ATEN.
emerged from a bamboo thicket and advanced towards them. The man fed and quickly climbed a tree,. where he watched with much trepidation the terrific battle which park. The monastery is very well ensured. The tiger sprang at the known and occupies an extensive buffalo, who met, his attacker Work is expected to com- bravely, butting fiercely with his mence shortly.
horns. Again and again the tiger Ten cases of enteric and four prang only to be thrown back by deaths were reported last week. the buffalo, At length after a They were as follow: British 1; desperate, silent struggle, the tiger Annamite (imported) 1; Chinese 8 suddenly fell dead, its belly torn. (2 imported). There were also open by the horns of its would-be three small-pox cases, with two prey. The gallant ball was so bad- fatalities and one influenza death. ly Jacerated that he died shortly
afterwards.
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reciprocal tariff arrangement with Canada, American, fiscal policy has since changed-and so has that of the British Dominions. Australia and Canada have set out to protect Laue,"infant industries" at home Their tariff arrangements certainly allow preference to British as against other manufactures, but the fact remains that loyal native sons are expected and are encouraged to buy goods manufactured in their own Dominion. If a home-made article is not to be had, then the purchase of an English substitute
at the Queen's Theatre. Mr. Torent telephones in their offices and homes: is permissible, but not otherwise, and his "troupe" of 60 game realise the accessity for covering. Canada and Australia are not con-roosters are to make an early ap- these instruments against loss of tent to remain mere wheat-growing pearance. Further announcements damage by fire! A telephone is
will shortly be made.. and cattle-raising countries. They have vast mineral resources which so far have been scarcely scratched. With all the necessary raw material ready at hard, they assert their right to develop secondary indus tries as well as primary. They want to build their own ships and rolling-stock; their own industrial
One of the most original theatri- Insurance on Telephones.
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FREE-TRADE UNDER THE UNION JACK.
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How many people who have
property hired by the subscriber, for which he is responsible in the event of less or damage, and as the For having refused to permit telephone company look to the the holding of an anti-Soviet mass subscriber to make good any less, meeting in the Great World Amuse it is rather important that special Wu Wui, manager of the park, was phones in fire-insurance policies. ment Park at Nanking, Mr. Koo mention should be made of tele- arrested by the police fast week. We understand that some disqua~ and is now waiting prosecution by sion on this point has been going the party authorities.
or locally, and difference of opinion appears to exist as to the liability of subscribers for loss or point, however, appears to be made damage resulting from fire. quite clear in the contract signed by telephone subscribers, where it of the instrument is responsible for la distinctly stated that the hirer
signed by a subscriber is binding. loss or damage. Such a contract
jate,
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LORD BEAVERBROOT has started a vigorous agitation in favour of absolute free-trade between all parts of the British Empire. The move ment has attracted very great in terest, and considerable support with, of course, some criticism and opposition. For example, it has been stated that the plan is merely machinery, their own electrical
An agreement has been arrived a revival of Mr. JOSEPH CHAMBER- equipment; they want to make their and their employees for an eight at by the 'bus companies in Canton LAIN's ill-fated scheme of Tariff on clothes, their own boots, their hours day. In ease of an extra own sait-cases and trunks; they hour's work, two hours overtime Reform, but this is certainly not the want to make their own pots and must be paid, and the wages of any Twenty-five years ago there pans and household furniture in employee are to be reduced in the was a strong movement in the Con-short, they wish to be self-support same proportion if he is an hour ing, exporting as much as possible servative party in favour of putting of their wheat, fruit, beef, and
R A similar arrangement exists in a tax on all foodstuffs imported into mutton, and importing as little as
England, where telephone subserib- ers are distinctly reminded in the Great Britain, but giving preferen- possible of such articles as cannot Cox's Path, Kowloon, near the contract for the service that the
be supplied by their own factorica: tial rates to imports from the Lord BEAVERE300x and his Im-E.C.C. yesterday morning A con- instrument is the property of the British Dominions. Students of perial Crusaders believe it is pos- tractor's coolie was buried but was Postmaster-General, and should be politics will remember the excitingle to bring all these conflicting rescued before the arrival of the specifically covered against destruc-.
tion or damage by fire. interests together, and effect a con-Fire Brigade who had been aum- events of a quarter-century back, solidation of Empire commerce. Itoned. The man was taken to the when the Conservative party split is admitted the task will strain the Fowloon Hospital suffering from completely on the issue of Tariff sinews of stateamanship, but the asphyxiation.
history of Great Britain is its own Reform. Your food will cost you assurance that the occasion will The engagement is announced and
The report and accounts of the more declared the Free-traders produce the men." There is only the marriage will shortly take Hong Kong Gas Company for that. of all parties; "Tariff Reform one reply to the rich Free-trade unit place at Singapore between J. Nor year of dismal darkness, 1003, are within the borders of the United man Milne, of Teluk Anson, and truly illuminating. The accounts. means work for all!" declared the States- that is a far more vast Barbara Mary Theresa, only daugh. show a profit balance of £13,781,.. supporters of Mr. CHAMBERLAIN. and far more powerful Free-trade ter of the late Mr. C. H. Grace, which is about £2,500 larger than Britain's industries were either unit within the borders of the of Hong Kong and S. Devon, Eng--the profit balance of the previous. "going" or had "gone" under the British Empire," says Lord BEAVER land, and of Mrs. Grace, of Nilai, year. The balance brought forward from the last account was £7,387, BROOK. But is there such an Negri Sembilan.
which was more than sufficicat to fierce and unrestricted competition analogy between the United States
pay 10 per cent. dividend. The In a telegraphic dispatch to the Directors thus bad a total profit. of foreign countries-especially and the British Empire! Germany. Ten per cent. on manu-former is a compact mass, the latter Ministry of Foreign Affairs in of £21,184 to deal with! After de- a scattered mass separated by theu-Nanking, Minister Chiang Tso claving a 10 per cent. dividend and. CHRONICLE factured goods would revive home sands of miles of sea. Canada or Ping, of the Chinese Legation in
industry, it was declared, and it is Australia could be more fairly taken Berlin requests that hereafter only £3,000 to reserve fund to meet a bonus of 1 per cent, and adding interesting to note that the feeling States, and in both of these Domin- merchante be granted passports to to the general reserve fund (which in comparison with the United bona fide and well-to-do Chinese fluctuations in exchange, and £1,000- of trade-unionists on this issue was ions precisely the same economie Germany. Minister Chiang states now stands at £23,100), a balance shown by the victory of Mr. ARTHUR forces are at work which gradually that lately a number of Chinese of £7,025 is carried forward, to
divided States of the Union into Secretary) over a Tariff Reform what are now the wholly United whom, however, are apparently of last year, his wrestlings with the the streets in Berlin, many of remembering his experiences of eandidate. Io 1003 the Labour States. There was a time when there the undesirable class, being de representatives of the gas company, Party had no use for Safeguard- were Customs barriers between bo
and bow often he was compelled to less than thirteen States; now there ing, Protection, or Tariff Reform is none from the Atlantic to the
hie himself, to bed because he has. As a means to compel the city not sufficient gas light to read. by in 1920 its attitude on the funda-Pacific, and inter-State trade goce police to take strict precaution or otherwise occupy his leisure will mental issue involved is not quite ton free and uninterrupted through against robbery, banditry, etc., the read these figures with wonder
out the Union.
Tientsin Public Safety Bureau has ment.... The basiness," the so solid,
In theory it may seem a compara-issued an order to its branch police report says, "continues of a pro- The new crusade which is being tively simple matter to arrange
stations to the effect that in the gressive character," and so evident- launched in England under the similar freedom of trade between event of a further occurence of roh-ly are the profits. It is not then
Great Britain and the oversea leadership of Lord BEAVERBROOK is Dominions, but the difficulties of bery, etc., the responsible police too much to ask that the charge to men and sergeants, in whose area the consumer shall be fixed at quite unlike the Tariff Reform putting the theory into practice are
the case occurs, will be punished something less than This Large Volume of approximate-scheme. What is now proposed is insuperable, The mother country by stopping their salaries for the thousand feet. Think, for contrast, ly 2,000 Pages gives, in addition that there shall be a Customs/eeds nothing from the Dominions period until arrests can be made, of elevenpence per thousand sa a
other than footstuffs and raw mat failing which the responsible men Union throughout the British Em-erial for her industries. She can will be dismissed. pire, under which there is neither export nothing to them other than
manufactured
the goods, and duty or drawback, but absolutely Dominions, being Protectionist, re- Warriors of Peace. Free-trade among and between all gard every manufactured article "We believe in peace!". Fifteen dominions under the British dag. imported as so much loss How, London-Americans members of the Certainly there is one feature of Free-trade under the Union Jac1ittle room in in hotel expressed then, is it possible to have absolute American Legion gathered in a the BEAVERBROOK scheme which must Great Britain can only submit to their belief in this creed, placed American mining expert, whose appeal to the plain man-its amaz they do not want, because they com- a visitor to Landon from Tennessee, Government has just en de rand Dominion buyers samples of lines before them by Major George Berry, term of engagement by the Chinese. ing simplicity. A Birmingham-madepete with their own infant indus. We know something about war, gentleman was engaged by Grand motor-car goes into Canada, Austries." If Canada and Australia said Major Berry, a former nation. Secretary Li Hung Chang to pro- tralic, and any other part of the were content to remain primary in al vice-commander and one of the spect the mineral resources of the dustry countries, supplying Britain American ex-service men who was province of Chihli, with a view, British Empire duty free (much to with cheap footstuffs and raw mat-present at the founding of the of course, to their future early de- the satisfaction of Canadian and erials in return for manufactured Legion in Paris after the Armistice, velopment. His engagement was. Australian makers of cars). South goods, the Imperial Free-tradeWe know what it's all about generally regarded by foreigners as African, Canadian, and Australian scheme could be worked easily Major Berry outlined the proposals an indication that the great Viceroy enough. But these young countries of the American Legion to prevent had determined to do something primary produce will go into Great want, and have, their own manufae war "when it can honourably be to win back for his province its We are proposing n. förmer prosperity; to open up & Britain duty free (as they now do, turing industries, and their own prevented." mush to the delight of the Eaglish protective tariffs to encourage, those universal draft of men, of money, new industry that might provide. industries. The British Empire is of property-for use in case of employment and bread to the poor farmer, struggling to raise enough not a Free-trade unit; it, is a group war," he said. "We found hun- people who have suffered so severe money to satisfy the demands of of Protectionist countries intensely dreds of millionaires who had made ly from auccessive failures of the the tax-collector, railway company, jealous of outside competition-even money out of bloodshed when we crops. Mr. Hague's time has from England herself, and to pre- returned from the Great War. We now expired and practically noth...... Covent Garden brokers, and agricul- tend there is any analogy between don't want that again." We knowing has been done.
The $12
tural labourers, and hoping to have the Empire and the United States that if the nation's human and Chinese Government will neither $8 enough left to meet the mortgage is to ignore the most obvious facts, material wealth is at her disposal allow railways to be constructed Imperial Preference is possible, but for immédiate, use, then there will nor mines to be worked in the Cen- holder's demand for interest). Man- Imperial Free-trade is not, because he no war unless it is forced upon tral Kingdom, and therein adberes chester goods can go into Canada British manufacturers cannot expect us." Hefore the dinner began, the to its tradition, and its prejudice. Ltd and Australia free of duty (to the to gain free admission to territories members stood silent with bowed The task of conquering that pre- surrounded by high tariff walls deeds for ten seconds for the boys judice will prove, we fear, a long indescribable joy of manufacturers liberately erected for the protection of the H.47 who are dying at the and laborious one indeed long- of textile goods in those Dominions of Dominion industries,
bottom of the sea."
Kong Daily Press, Angust 22, 1870.
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If further proof were wanted. that there are two strong opposing influences at work in Peking, it mission of Mr. Arnold Hague, the might be found in the profitless.