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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1921.
THE RENTS QUESTION.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Our Theatre Seats.
THURSDAY, MAY 12, '1921.
DAY BY DAY.
ANOTHER BIG BUILDING
Seven-Storied Structure
Contemplated.
The new building will cover
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Hongkong. Telegraph".}
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WEI-HAI-WEI.
TROUBLESOME CHAIR COOLIES.
Mr. C. E. Edgecumbe's Experience.
At the instance of Mr. C. E. Edgecumbe, two chair coolies in his employ were charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Police
to obey arders.
It would appear from Mr. Edgecumbe's statement that the coolies had been told to wait for him when he arrived at the Peak from work at the office. They were in a fit of bad temper, and vented it on their master in a peculiar way. They Joited him in the ehair with such consistent force that he was obliged to protest, `a proceeding of which they took no notice. One of them took no pains to conceal his antipathy, and when only half-way home they put their master down, and refused to proceed. Mr. Edgecumbe had to walk the rest of the way, and on arrival at his residence he communicated with the Police and had the coolies srrésted,
THE DESIRE FOR RICHES DOES NOT PROCEED FROM A NATURALĮ
The Rates Question. Those responsible for the man- FASSION WITHIN US, BUT ARISES agement of our Theatre Royal FROM VULGAR, OUT-OF-DOONS A new palatial building, seven
Bir-I had lutended, at the could have heard many unsom- OPINION OF OTHER PEOPLE-stories in beight, will shortly be plimentary things said about Plutarch.
built over the site now in the Public Meeting yesterday, to point them last evening after the meet-
occupation of the Bank of Canton, out why it was thought necessary ings in connection with the rents.
There were two fatal cases of the Chinese Industrial Bank, to proceed by way of Public Court this morning with refusing question and constitutional re-
Messrs. Hughes and Hough, and Meeting instead of by Public form. Practically the whole of small-pox reported yesterday. the men who eat downstairs Otherwise, there was a clean bili ather mercantile offices, to form Petition,
the new home for the head offfoo The reason was that as the pro- of health. left the building with their costs
of the Bank of Canton. The posed increase of Rates is to take ruinously marked with the rad
property, bought from the Hont-offect on the let July, the adoption stain (or paint or whatever it Among those who returned to kong Land Investment Company of a speedy method of procedure might be) off the backs of the Colony to-day by the Empress four years ago at a price which was essential. the seats, It
warm of Japan were His Excellency Sir worked out at $40 per square foot, WOB 癌
Thanking you in anticipation evening and the majority of Reginald Stubbs (accompanied by has a present valuation of some- for inserting this explanation. those present were in whites. Capt. E. J. Warner), Sir Ellie thing like $65 per square
Yours, etc.. The sight of dozens of men' with Kadoorie, and Mr. H. Percy foot. red slashes across their backs did White.
H. E. POLLOCK. possibly possess a crudo humour,
an erea of 10,000 square feet and Princes Buildings, 12th May, 1921 but the matter is far more serious The body of the Chinese who will be erected on lines which than humorons, for one wonders was drowned at Quarry Bay will harmonise well with the how many of those white coats during Monday's heavy raine, surrounding buildinge. Its cost were permanently marked. Our was yesterday recovered on the is estimated at four lakhs of Theatre is not one of those free foreshore of Quarry Bay, about dollars, or about as much as was places that one must take as they 30 yards from the spot where the paid for the site and present find it is a building for which accident befell him,
building when they passed payment has to be made and it is
from the possession of only right that public should ba given seats they can use with
Two men have boou detained the Estate Company safaty to their
A report in the vernacular clothing. If by the police in connection with a Bank.
The plans for the new structure press states that negotiations It was stated sleo that the any of our Hongkong ladies find stabbing affray at No. 39 Belcher
on between the cooliee had, in the course of their during the hot weather that the Street yesterday, in which one of are in the hands of Messrs. are going
diplomats and the employment by Mr. Edgecumbe, seats in which they aro compelled the inmates was wounded on the Palmer and Turner, and work British
put io hand in Peking Government to have the shown a singular attitude of to sit spoil their dainty frocks it right shoulder and back. She will bo
about six months time when the British concession of Weihaiwei independence, and has on some is questionable whether they was sent to hospital.
Bank expects to be able to find returned China and in occasions frightened could not recover something in
Mrs. for which, the Edgecumbe. the way of compensation. But. If any doubt still exists in the other temporary accommodation exchange
Peking Government is to In reply to the Magistrate the that apart, it is nothing less minds of the Government as to in the city.
extend nore truculent of the two defend- than disgrace that the the housing and office shortage in The Bank of Canton, it may be grant the right to varnishing, от painting or the Colony it should be dispelled stated, has found it an advantage the concession from Kowloon to ants alleged that his master was staining of our Theatro chairs by the fact that over one hundred to own its own premises in view Whampao in the province of drunk, a statement which was should be in such a condition as and fifty applications for office of the increasing cost of land and the British, says the report, is defendant's demeanour before the Kwangtung. Another request of disproved by Mr. Edgecumbe. The to be so easily transferable to the and resident accommodation at is building its own offices in that the Poking Government Magistrate was such that his clothing of those who occupy present lie unfulfilled at a local Canton and Shangbai. In the should recognise the Cassell Worship found it necessary to them. Our theatre has come infestate company.
construction of a new building at collieries contract made with impose a fine of $10, this includ for a good deal of deserved criti-
Shanghai an outlay of 4 lakhs of
Mu Yung-hsin, the discredited {ing a penalty for being insol. In a case of opium possession taels is provided for in
cism in other respects, but this is
to the
the
Talk In Canton Of An Exchange.
to
report states ¦ was fined $5.
ja matter that could easily be re-to the extent of 96 taels, beforal estimates. A new branch will be Kwangsi Tuchun of Kwangtung. ¡ent in Court. The other defendant trol of institution. And that Government is medied by those who have con- the Magistrate this morning, onej oponed at Swatow as soon as the Continuing, the.
sincerely hope they will do some. thing to prevent a repetition of what took place last evening.
Shanghai's New Structure.
represented by Mr. Webster, was discharged, whilst the other was sentenced to a term of six months imprisonment with the addition of a further term of a like duration One can credit from the in the event of his failure to pay {description that the new $5,000,
premises in Shanghai of the famous banking corporation so
An ingenious plan to rob a! closely associated with the two shopkeeper was adopted by a ports, and with China generally, Chinese who effected the haul of constitute "a lordly building" $150 worth of cotton singlets. The Hongkong and Shanghai At 7 p.m. yesterday he went to Bank's new structure in the No. 154 Queen's Road Contral northern port towera Up
and purchased the singlets, five storeys, crowned by
for thom promising to pay a massive dome, of which the whon the goods were handed to
will be
contains
two
members
to
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NEW STEAMER.
Launched at Kowloon Docks To-day.
start
the
COMPANY REPORT.
bext account,
Between Ourselves
few
By Robt, MacWhirter.
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willing to grant ell these Concessions provided Hongkong Victoria Buildings, we are will aid war lord Lu Yung- informed, has been sold to sting of Kwangsi in the campaign to The report to the shareholders of Chinese syndicate headed by the drive out the present authorities in the Yokohama Specis Bank for the Manager of the Kue On Bank, of Canton. A telegram is reported to half year, ended 31st December, Bonham Strand, at a price which have been sent the Kwangui War states: worked out at $56 par square lord to the effect that foreign aid is
The gross profits of the Bank for foot,
forthcoming and he is urged to the past half-year, including Yen campaign agaiust 4,444,846.58 brought forward from Kwangtung immediately. The last account, amount to You intention of
the Hongkong 188,680,140.20, from which the sum Government to extend the of Yea 125,301,174.66 has been concession to Whampo is to deducted for interest, taxes, cur- convert that place into a great rent
bills expenses, rebate on treaty Port which embracing curront, bad and doubtful debts, Hongkong will wield consider- bonus for officers and clerks, etc., able influence in the development leaving a balance of Yen 18,587,- apex rises to an altitude of 180 ft. the real purchaser, who, he said, The successful launch of a now of British trade in South China. 974 68 for appropriation. The Direo- Hongkong had its meeting of protest against the The architecture is Neo-Grecian, tive a little way away. A foki steamer took place this morning The vernacular press further tore propose that Yen 8,000,000 bo increase in the assessment rate and it was a meeting so with Hongkong granite for the was ordered to accompany the from the shipbuilding ways of states that so great is the anger added to the Reserve Fund, and largely attended, so representative of the varying interests facing. At the opening ceremony man to deliver the goods. At Wing the Hongkong and Whampoa of the Chinese at these reports recommend a dividend at the rate of of the Colony and so productive of sound argument that Mr. Stephen, the new
Chinese urged a twelve per cent. per annum, which chief Lok Street the foki was set upon Dock Company's premises at that some
general boycott of the port of will absorb Yen 5,885,100. The pur Government can hardly fail to act upon the recommenda- manager, concluded his epitome by two men, and robbed of all Kowloon Docke.
The vessel, a sister ship to the Hongkong so as to paralyse the balance, Yen 4,662,874.03, will be tion contained in the resolution. When the meeting was of the Bank's history with this the singlets. The man who want convened it was wondered whether Hongkong people would wipers indication building to the shop disappeared during "Hektor" which was launched commerce of the British Colony. carried forward to the credit of
an of our the scuffle.
last February, has been built to-Canton Times. bestir themselves sufficiently to demonstrate in public what faith in the future development
the order of Messrs. Brudegaard they were all thinking in private, but from the very opening of the trade of China, in the
In the description of the Hong-Kiosterud & Co. of Drammen, of the Theatre meeting there was not the slightest shadow future of this port, where we of doubt that all sections of the community were solid in expect all nations will be allowed kong and Shanghai Bank build Norway and under the supervi to trade peacefully for all time, ing published in to-day's Daily sion of their Superintendent, their disapproval of the Government resolution passed in and in to future of the Bank, Press, we note with concern that Captain Ivar Siqveland,
The launching ceremony was The speakers to last evening's which we truet the Legislative Council.
will always among the subjects to be repre- motion voiced the sentiments of all the different communi-maintain its leading position sented in rich mosaic, Hongkong gracefully performed by Mr. R. M. Dyer, the wife of the Chief! Hongkong:
Manager of the Hongkong and! Here's a ties that go to make up this cosmopolitan Colony and our here." The Colony's Governor, is described thus:-
more anticlimaxes from the best cellers Sir Edward Stubbe, appropriately Government will be autocratie indeed if it fails to act upon added a tribute when he com-
Central figure with British by Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., the Janet thinks they're fine but I'd hate to have to buy them. The symbolic of its becoming a vessel being christened "Hellen" next dose of love mush that comes along for review our pet so commonly expressed a wish.
mented upon the value of the
British Crown Colony in as she left the ways.
"librarian" will have to tackle the lot himself. Janet's now got The Hon. Lau Chu Pak impressed us most, because Bank's assistance, in finance
After the ceremony the com- so much saccharine in her system that she's given over putting be pointed out that increasingly high rentals was an asset and in advice, to Hongkong, Legislative Council,
Symbolic of what? It is perpany adjourned to the Offices of sugar in her tea. to the Government. Speculation in property, due to the whose
lais Excelleney observed, haps just as well that a copy of the Company where the usual never failing demand for house and shop room, has had the a
esteemed the jour
contemporary's toasts were housured.
"Dear," she said, and her effect of putting up rentals to a figure at which they have bank's Board and now
Mr. latest issus did not find its way The principal dimensions are as voice broke softly, "Take me become an intolerable burden for all but the wealthy. The Stephen." When the Bank among the copies of newspapers unchecked influx of Chinese from the hinterland. the produced its first balance-sheet in the cell for the foundation follows, viz:-Length between with you. Oh, but you must moulded 52 feet, depth moulded to not to have learned-yet-what paucity of building that has marked the past five years, forty-five years ago the profits stone of Shanghai's latest build-perpendiculars 400 feet. breadth think me very slow and stupid amounted to less than a quartering. Otherwise we tremble to
8 feet, and the exploitation of this situation by conscienceless land of a million dollars, last year think of what posterity might Upper Deck 31 fest, tween decks love means!
erections feet Ah, Max! Max! What am I lords have combined to bring about a condition of affairs they reached over 12 millions, think of Hongkong,
6 inches. A total deadweight of to do, dear, if you won't let me unparalleled in the history of the Colony. Whilst the burden with a sterling reserve of 244
8,250 tons will be carried on a go with you? What shall I do mean draft of 25 feet 6 inches, with all the love that is in my is falling heavily on the average European it is falling far millions and $21,500,000 in silver. heavier on the bulk of the wage-earning Chinese and as "Wayfoong" is essentially a councils has been enhanced by the speed loaded being sleven heart-if you won't take it?"
Far Eastern institution-Hong-his reversal
His artos went around her. knots per hour. Propelling ma- these form the very backbone of the Colony they are entitl kong, not London, holde its methods, for instead of seeking cbinery "constructed by ed to some measure of protection. But instead of this-headquarters; and Sir Thomas he has shunned the limelight, builders is amidships and of 3,100 wonder of it. "Oh, my sweet!"" instead of enacting legislation whereby only a fair and Jackson's foresight in rebuilding He does not write books or indicated horse power, consisting reasonable rent can be extracted, the Government has seen the premises here on their pre-articles, and if the indefatigable of one set of triple expansion fit to look for some of its additional revenue from the very has been abundantly vindicated. hold of the Colonel he is unoom-ing cylinders 27-44-73 inches sent lines much laughed at then American pressmen do ever get surface-condensing engines hav- source that is the least fitted to bear it. Surely a rare
monly sparing in his statements. diameter x 48 inches stroke, blunder was committed. And we might be forgiven for The Unseen Force..
This characteristic is exemplified steam at 180 lbs, working pres- again pointing out that our Government stands to benefit Of more than ordinary interest in the present incident of sure under forced draught being by high rents, inasmuch as its assessment duty is levied (in is the notification that the new his arrival in England with-supplied by three cylindrical re- the case of all rented property) on the rent the landlord U. S. Ambassador to Britain, who out preliminary announcement. turn-tube boilere of 15 feet 6 inches charges and not upon a figure gained by an independent has just arrived in London, is President Harding, like his pre-diameter x 11 feet 6 inches long. assessor. We know of no place in the Old Country where accompanied by Col. House. The decessor, has been credited with The engine and boller room outfit latter holde no official post, nor is one, or rather with two or three, includes a Weir's D.C. heater and such a proceeding would be tolerated. It has been clearly-ho a member of Congress; but he of these "ghosts". At the same Weir's main feed pump, Indepen- shown that the financial position of the Colony is not in an is generally believed, and with time the President will doubtless dent
centrifugal oirculating of pump. also general service, immediately parlous state, that the revenue from the new good reason, to be a living store- welcome the co-operation Stamp Ordinance will probably exceed expectations and house of State secrets. Until such valuable man if Col. House ballast, and winch condenser President Wilson's tenure of the projects a continuation of bis un- pumpa.. Unusual in cargo that there is no moral justification for the levying of an White House, the Colonel-a obtrusive but important activities steamers is the See's Ash Ejector additional burden on the thousands of householders who Texas-planterwas not widely under the new administration, and Elector pump installed for her hand, as he had the first are already embarassed by the constantly growing cost of known in his own country, and The Colonel, though not a mem- disposal of ashes from the stoke-night when they enter into their living. And for these reasons we hope that the Govern- not at all outside of it. It soon ber of the American Commission, hold. The coal bunkers are of strange partnership.
"Never never can I begin to bacamo bruited abroad, however, accompanied President Wilson to large capacity, and provision has went will act in the way it has been asked.
that Col. House was Mr. Wilson's the Peace Conference, and is been made for warrying oil fuel pay you what I owe." he asid But we feel constrained in closing our reference to the chowon confidant, and that acquainted with most of the throughout the double bottom in huskily, his face near hers.
He felt her warm breath almost meeting to comment on the fact that those Unofficial Men the President reposed profound statesmen of Europe and doubt accordance with Lloyd's require- bers who spoke so well in the Theatre last night uttered faith in bis judgment, this being less with their policies. It may ments, the vessel having been on his cheek, saw the quick colour no protest and revealed no disapproval when the Govern- the more noteworthy on account be that his visit to England is a specially surveyed during con- come into her face, her breast ment resolution was before the Legislative Council. If of a certain pragmatic atrain in private one, or it may be that he construction by Messrs. Gerries and fall with emotion. Their
the Wileonian temperament. is of course "unofficially diner and Morrison, local repre- met.
You need not pay," she whispered. they had spoken then much might have been saved. Let Colonel House's reputation as a giving the new Ambassador a sentatives for Lloyd's Regleter us bope that it is not a case of speaking too late.
of, Shippings potent factor in his country's little coaching.
of
customery
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the "If I don't take it!" he cried, his voice all shaken with the
-From "The Splendid Folly " by Margaret Fedler.
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And then Dugald Shaw took me in his arms.
By and by he said huskily; "Beloved, I had no right to ask you to share such a life as mine must be the life of a poor sailor."
At this I raised my head from Ite nestling-place and laughed.
"Ask me? Silly, I asked you!"
-From "Spanish Doubloons" by Camilla Kenyon.
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Graeme bent down and took
-From "Constance Duulap
Arthur B. Reeve,