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One Chinese case of small-pox When, a giant pine tree was felled in Broomfeld Park, North Lon- was the only entry in the Medical
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but essential, it is not so readily realised why the gap should be so wide as it is. Nor can 840 3 month be regarded as a living wage for a youth who is engaged ns junior clerk in the Government service. This figure was recom- mended by the Salaries Commission as the minimum wage for juniors, but it is certainly not a living wage, though it might be regarded as a sort of pocket money allowance to youth who is serving an ap- prenticeship.
THE COST OF LIVING.
THE views communiented to the Chiness Chamber of Commerce this week by Mr. M. K. Lo will have bean read with very keen interest by
The calculations which Mr. Lo a much wider circle than the per- sons specifically mentioned therein. has made concerning the allow ances proposed to be made to Mr. Lo was invited by the Chamber Government servants paid on a te express an opinion on the recent sterling basis at a fixed rate of exchange are extremely interesting. report of the Salaries Commission, He shows that a married man. which of course concerned itself whose salary is £1,000, payable at softly with the financial affairs of the rate of twelve dollars to the every class, grade, and group of pound, gets an 18 per cent, allow
Ante in dollars which brings his the Government service. That re salary up to an equivalent of port was prepared by Sir HENRY £1,416. A single man on the same GOLLAN, Sir SHOU-SON CHOw, and sterling salary would get a 8 per rent. Allowance in dollars monthly Mr. PAUL LAUDER, and their find-which would bring his total salary ings were laid before the Legis. in sterling up £1,305. The Salaries Commission is of opinion that an-
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A billiards exhibition match be- tween Mr. A. J. Osmund (Hong Kong champion) and Mr. Young Bak Nin will be held at the Hong Koog Billiard Saloon (2nd floor, 108, Des Voeux Road Central) this evening at 8 pm:
A Chinese was sentenced to six
weeks' hard labour by Mr. Whyte Smith yesterday for stealing 850 from his master. The thaster asked his Worship to take a lenient view a relative and he had promised to of the case as the defendant was make good the loss."
Two Chinese were before Mr. Whyte-Sirith yesterday on charges ef harbouring two girls. The first defendant was also charged with duster. On the application of De- being in possession of a knuckle tective Inspector Failon they were
both remanded for a week.
A report has been made to the police that when the .a. City of on Monday, her anchor was lost Birmingham was lying in Junk Bay
chain. On Tuesday Police launch'
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A practical joke had a fatal end- ing in the little country town of Berlainout, in the north of France.. when Alfred Cogniaux was found hanged in an attic. An old woman of the town was murdered recently, and her assailant was not found. Cagniaux's friends decided to ge- cuse him of the crime as a joke, Although he was perfectly innocent and a man of excellent character. he took the accusation to heart and
committted suicide..
"It is no use teaching the ABC to children if they are to be killed the next day. With all the millions we spend on education, children should be taught safety first prin ciples. I would teach them how to dodge buses before they learn the ABC" said Mr. E./F. Hadow, coroner, at Rugby recently at an inquest on John David Withers, a five-year-old boy, who, while run-
at Bilton, was killed by a motor- ning across the road to his home car. The verdiet was accidental 'death.
Miss Lilian Foster, the Broadway actress who slapped Hannen Swaf fer in a London restaurant because he did not like her play, has been cited as the contributory cause of the marital troubles of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Mullally. Counsel for ou behalf of his client for separa Mrs. Mullally has filed an action
lally, who is a director of the All- tion on the ground that Mr. Mul wood theatrical enterprise, is so infatuated with Miss Foster that he has neglected his wife and caused of his infatuation in the presence her great humiliation by speaking
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Council 1st September.other 15 per cent. addition to the together with several fathoms of of others." Nearly three hundred witnesses existing nominal sterling salaries No. 4 reported that it bad located. A sensation has been caused by were examined at the fifty-odd may properly be regarded as re-
the anchor and was proceeding with the announcement that wonen gam- Llers are to be barred from the International Sporting Club at sittings of the, Commission, and presenting a permanent increase in.
the cost of living in the Colony. the work of salving it. evidence taken from members of If this view be acted upon, a
A Canton paper says that a big Monte Carlo. In other words, wo- men will not be permitted to gam- a branches of the Government married man with a £1,000 salary tiger was recently killed in the
ble for heavy stakes, but will stilf A Hokien District. wood-cutter service. The recommendations made would receive with the dollar at 18. 6d. the equivalent of £1,360, in the report appear to have been and a single man £1,038.
These the pugs and a party of village be free to gamble in the public fully approved by the Government, figures represent roughly an in militia set out to hunt the animal. rooms at the Casing, where stakes which merely awaits the approval crease in salary of over 50 per They soon found it, and opened fire, ara limited. The origin of the new men. The hunters made their kill believed to be a sequel to the suicide women who had suffered of the Secretary of State, before sent., yet it is proposed to give but the tiger sprang on one of the regulation is a mystery, but it is
those public.officers paid on a
losses, although the losses were not wounds. putting the proposed changes into dellar basis an increase of only but the injured man died of his of two
on a big scale. Monte Carlos' at- force as from January. Mr. Lo, 20 per cent., and without making therefore, is of opinion that it may any special allowance for those
His many friends in the Colony titude is in striking contrast to be a waste of time for the Chinese who are married. This looks like will be interested to learn that Mr. that of the authorities at the new Chamber of Commerce to reply to double discrimination, for he who
was for many Casino. at Nico where women are the Government's invitation to ex-gets paid definitely in dollars and. Dalziel, who
sears connected with Taikoo Sugar encouraged in every way, and have press an opinion on the Commisho whose salary is based on sterling Reiners, and who went home on proved themselves to be as heavy sion's recommendations, but even so both have to pay the increased
Hung Kong. the points raised in his letter are prices charged for their food, cloth retirement several years ago, has gamblers as the men. of very great interest and imperting, and rent, and both, when Dalziel has been spending the anec, not only to those directly married, have to feed and clothe winter in Jamaica, and intends to Looking Back 25 Years,
remain in the Colony for about concerned, but to the community wife.
three months.
generally.".
returned to
M.
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"Sir,In walking through the In regard to rents, this" is an-
streets of Kowloon, one cannot help Everyone in the Colony is aware other item of expenditure which -and to many the knowledge has is beginning to loom larger in in
Fred Mahan, a prize-fighter of noticing the signs of improvement been acquired by very painful dividual household budgets. The process-that the cost of living is explanation, no doubt, is that land promise from Tombstone, Arizona, and progress which meet the eye. fell to his death one day last It is an encouraging sign to sco increasing steadily and rapidly. is dearer, building materials marc
month in a parachute jump from that the following companies have Careful housewives who keep close costly, and labour more expensive an acroplane 5,000 feet up in the established themselves on the Pen- check upon their compradore's Towards the end of last year a CHRONICLE books know that scarcely a single Rent Problem Committee was ap air. Mahan was a victim of the insula for good, vis.The Dairy Co., Ltd., Terminus Stores, China item of their ordinary household pointed, under the auspices of the widely held notion that by rapid Farm Co., Ltd., A. S. Watson
movement through.the air the hear Trades Merchants'
and Japan Telephone Co., Station expenses stands to-day at the águre Twenty-four recorded twelve months ago. The Guild, to look into the questioning of deaf persons is restored, Hotel, Occidental Hotel, Kowloon
A very influential His parachute failed to open, and
Hotel, Anglo-American Stores, increases may appear small-a few of high rents.
Choung cents here and there every day, but committee was appointed-includ: thousands of borror-stricken specta-owloon Stores Moc
Brown & Co., H. Ruttonjee'a Stores, Cosmopolitan Hairdressing Saloon, the compradores of leading foreignfield near the aerodrome. they represent an increase ing several professional men and tors saw his fatal plunge_into_a of about 20 per cent. all round.
Kowloon Butchery, etc. In view Some items will be less, and others business-houses-and it was indicat-
Yesterday afternoon there was 2
of the fact that a railway will soon more, but taking a general average ed that at an early date a kaifung well-filled house to witness the
connect the Peninsula with the it will be found that ten dollars meeting would be held at which the spent on housekeeping to-day buys publie could express their views on matinee performance by the A.D.C.
If it of And So To Bed." A large Prosperous and flourishing city of little more than could be bought the question of high rents.
as Gaupp & Co., A. Chee & Co., various local schools took advan
A. Fong, photographer, Falconer & CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO for about eight dollars this time were then shown that public opinion number of young folk from the Canton, one wonders why such firms
last year. The Salaries Commis- was in favour of an all-round re-
tage of the half-price privilege Co., Hong Kong Ice Co., Kelly & CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS sion in September-recommended duction, of, or alternatively some SETTLEMENTS, MALAY that the Government continue pay restriction being put on, rents, it kindly offered them by the "A.D.C., Walsh, Ltd., The Medical. Hall, approach the and judging by the applause they Noronha & Co., Robinson Piazo was proposed to STATES, "NETHERLANDS.] ment of the special high cost of
Co. Singer Sewing Machine Co., INDIA, BORNEO, THE living allowance, but since last Government with a view to obtain-enjoyed the play just as much as
autumn prices have increased very ing the desired relief. All this their more critical elders: Tester Watkins, Ltd., and Powell it Co have not already established them- PHILIPPINES, Etc.
considerably all round as a result happened last November-but what day's performance was again an im of the great drop in the dollar. has occurred since? Has there been provement on the preceding one, When that report was laid before a sudden slump in rente, render- and tonight's repetition should be elves. Perhaps they have not yet still better. Seats for this evening realised the value of the prospects the Legislative Council the dollar ing further activity unnecessary and for Friday and Saturday can be which are inatore for the penin-
sula Yours, etc., KOWLOONITE stood at la 11fd Sines September Have the promoters of the move-
Hong Kong Daily Press, March 28, it has steadily declined, and to-day ment grown suddenly weary of booked at Andersons! However had well-doing and given up their in-
"O the films shown in public stands at is old. the position of some people was tention of protesting against alleg, last autumn, it is now considerably ed profiteering! Or has it been cinemas to-day only one in twens
This morning, at about 10,45, 12 said has any educational value,' worse, for the drop in exchange intimated to those who sponsored is fit for boys to see or, at least, means that imported articles of the movement that it would be
carrying along Stanley Street food and clothing cost more dollars polite not to proceed with their Mr. Austin Noxon, beadmaster of licensed chair No. 600 was seen. to buy, and that difference bas to plants lest it lead to the introduc- Highfield College, Leight-on-Sea, Chinese, apparently a leper, with be passed on by the retailer to the tion into the discussion of political at the annual speech day recently, the horrible distorted features and limbs exuding matter ieques which are strictly forbidden The cinema is the greatest educa- swollen. consumer. Coupled with this un- pleasant state of affairs is the fur- Whatever the explanation, the tional "possibility which is wasted which is peculiar to the loathsome
08 Elephantiasie.. ther fact that any dollars remain agitation against high rents in Hong today," said Mr. Noxon, who has disease known ing unspent locally are of very Kong appears to have ceased most installed a school cinema, Later Tuberculocus es Oriental leprosy; much less value when sent home suddenly and mysteriously, though he remarked that if he could have while to make matters still woTED the poor creature had been stricken to pay for schooling or mainten- there is no evidence that rents came his own way he would abolish all
by smallpox, which terribly in- down simultaneously. It is un-home work for boya, an announce- ance, so that for most residents in
ment which was cheered lustily by fectious disease, was evidently out the Colony-whether Government fortunate that this question of
Hundreds of the pupils present. on him-in its most virulent stage, servants or not the outlook is high rents has been allowed to
having assumed the form known as decidedly gloomy...
Japse without further inquiry. The point of view taken by Mr. Possibly the charges made against "Percy," a page boy at a London confluent." This chair, number were quite un hotel, was afflicted with a cough., deposited the small-pux patient Lo ia scrutinising the report of the property-owners Salarice Commission was naturally founded, or greatly exaggerated. Here you are, my boy, go and buy at the doorway of a house at the
bottle of medicine for
that corner of Stanley and Shelley from quite another angle. He Public discussion of the issue would Eas examined the recommendations have brought the real facts to ebugh," said many guests,, giving Streets, where there is a chair- to the ailing lad stand, and the chair-coolics ther mainly as they affect Chinese em-light, whereas the position now re generously
"Percy". counted up the day's tak ran away with their chair appar ployed in Government service, and mains as unsatisfactory as ever. the Chairman of the Chinese Cham-All that the average resident knows ings in "cough money," and de-ently in order to evade recognition. bor of Commerce summed up the for certain, is that it costs more dided to develop a permanent The small-pox patient was then taken situation very neatly when he said to live now that it did twelve cough, and during the next three by chair number 166, and carried wecks was as happy as a sandboy. away in it by its bearers as a ot- the treatment proposed to be ac months ago, and most people are
A doctor who examined "Percyfer of course, they making no, or corded his compatriots by the beginning to look for signs of Government was rather leam" relief. A few fortunate folk are said that the cough was faked, and very little, demur at carrying him. Yet there was a Chinese representa already receiving extra allowances that the boy was in perfect health. And all this was in the full view tive sitting on the Commission, and from their employers; the less Other page boys, speaking of of a Sikh policeman, who did not Chinese witnesses were examined lucky ones are expectantly await-"Percy's departure, say he was interfere.-Hong Kong Daily Prest,
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