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(via Kobe and Yokohama)
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"INION"
NEW
Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver
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23rd Nov. YORK SERVICE "
(via Suez or Panama)
"KNIGHT TEMPLAR" 17th September.
via Suez-
PASSENGER SERVICE "PYRRHUS" 11th Oct for Singapore & Loadon "MENTOR" 27th Oct. for Shanghai
15th Nov. for Singapore & London
"MENTOR"
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA.
From EUROPE & STRAITS. The Company's Steamship
**IYO MARU”
as the kioods are landed.
AGENTS.
CONSIGNEES.
"GLEN" LIVE LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From UNITED KINGDOM, GENUA, PORT SAID, CU- LUMBU & STRAITS. The Motorship
THE HONGKONG
CHINESE EXCHANGES SUSPEND BUSINESS..
TELEGRAPEA
Effects of the Gambling Evil
Visible.
SATURDAY.
SEPTEMBER 17. 1921.
DOMESTIC SERVICE
CHARTER.
No Heavy Work After 5.30 p.m.
Should servants work after 5.30 p.m.?
This is the question which is agitating the Middle Classes Union, officials of which inter- viewed Dr. Macnamara on the subject recently.
The heavy gambling which bas taken plaos among Chiness at Shanghai for many weeks past bas culminated in a sensational manner. »On the lat inst. one of the exchanges engaged in these operations decided to suspend business, and its doors will It is alleged by the union that remain closed until a settlement Labour Exchanges send servants between the two classes off to employers ou condition that speculators has been reached. Au- rules for the domestics' comfort other exchange affected is the are observed. Objection is mada Chartered Stock and Produce to this interference, bur Miss Exchange. This deals in various | Julia Varley, who is responsible. kinds of produce, and here the for the success of the Birmingham department dealing with Tung- | agreement, defended the chart- chow cotton, which has been the erin an interview with Press
subject of the most vi lent oper-
ations, is closed. The remainder of the activities of this exchange continue as usual.
representative recently.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE, "In Birmingham," she said, The first- "we have an agreement between mentioned institution is the Cot-three parties-mistresses, maids, ton Exchange on the other side and the labour exchange and is of Avenue Elward VII, and it is working very smoothly indeed. suspended operations about the
ama time as the Tungehow de servants should stop work at 5.30 "We have never suggested that partment of the Chartered Ex. change.
D.D.
What we say is that no servant ought to be asked to do heavy work, like washing, or scrubbing, or blackleading after that hour, and I don't think much of the housewife who wants that sort of work done late at night.
TUNGCHOW BULLS. About the time the mania for establishing exchanges started in Shanghai Tuagchow cotton be- came the medium for an absolvie- ly feverish gamble. Within a
*Cooking and serving late very short time its price rase to dinner is not heavy work, but zure at which the mills refused part of routine duties. We think
servant to buy, but the fact that no de. it reasonable that mand existed for it had no effect should be free after 9.30 p.m., an the course of these purely that she should have decent sleep speculative prices. Even thoughing accommodation, fair wages. he local spinners turned their and a certain amount of leisure altention almost solely to the each day. Indian and American staples,
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CAUSE AND EEFECT.
A POPULAR ERROR.
BUILDERS.
REPAIRERS.
BOILER MAKERS.
FORGE MASTERS.
OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL
-DRY DOCK-
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
ENGINEERS.
LENGTH 787 FEET.
LENGTH CN BLOCKS 750 FEET
DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
SILL- IHW.OST) 34 FT. 6 INS. -THREE SLIPWAYS- CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT. ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS
TEL, Asoness—“ FAIRDODECA“ HONZKONG
TELSPREMNE NO. 212
CALL PLAST COVER “AKS PENNAN?".
THE PACIFIC CON- FERENCE.
More Chinese Activity. That the Chinese leaders and
educationalists are continually keeping the interest of the coming
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Pacific Conference · before the [Chinese people is shown by the fact that in addition to the Chinese ignoring China cotton, there was "A good employer never objects Pacific Conference Association o halt to the upward trend of to conceding these points, and the organised by Mr. Yeh Kung-cho, 100tations. The gambling feser good employer gets the good the Pacific Questions Investiga was too strong for the specula-servast.
tion Society formed by Mr. ors to take heed of any of the "The agreement is elastic. For Chiang Meng-bsiung. acting
dinary economic la·s.
instance, if there are visitors in Chancellor of the Government As the weeks passed an import- the house or it spring cleaning is university and others, Mr. Wong! ast feature developed corner in progress, we think that servants Ta-hsieh, former Foreign Minis in Tuagehow cotton. Apparently should, if necessary, be willing tex, ex-Premier Kung Hsin-tean, hese engineering the corner to sacrifice their time off during ex Premier Hsiung Hsi-lin and held A certein amount that period, and that mistress The 40.000 piruis reported to be should take the first chance of merchants and students have or many other prominent oficials, having arrived from the above;
"LENAPP "
storage in Shanghai and making it up to them.
zanised what they call "the ports, Consignees of Cargo are having arrived from the above vicinity, and moreover they hereby informed that their Goods ports. Consignees of cargo by ue: sur seeded
"I can't help feeling that the Chinese people's foreign relations in interesting the protest of the Midle Classes association in the Capital with are being landed and placed at are hereby intormed that all goous Tungehow cotton farroers in Union is an their risk in the longsong and are being landed at their risk into their venture. The latter seem to Government department which Chinese official delegates to the attack on the the sole object of assisting the Kowloon Wharf and Godown the hazardous and or extra haz.hare come forward to support the bas refused to conscript girls international gathering in Wash- Company's Godowns at Kowloon,ardous Godowns of the Hongkong comer and possibly the exchanges as servants, where each consignment will be and Kowloon Wharf and Godown also, with small amounts of
ington in November next.
All these sorted out mark by mark and
associations and Company. Limited, whence, capital-two or three hundred delivery can be obtained as soon and or from the wharves, delivers dollars and the like so that the
"Let me give my own experi-presentatives who will call on the
societies have appointed their re may be obtained.
position of the bulls was one of ence. I have 100 girls who have Optional Goods will be carried to Goods not cleared by the 22nd considerable strength.
come to the end of their unema week for the exchange of views Waichiaopu officials once or twice on unless instructions are giveu Sept. al 5 p.n. will be subject 10
In all 170,000 piculs of theployment pay. They were factory and opinions about China and the to the contrary before Noon To-leat
Tungehow staple are reported to bacds, and would, every one of Conference and Dr. Yea has all broken, chafed and damag.have been sold short for August-them, like to go into donest Cser-appointed Dr. P. K. C. Tyau and Goods not cleared by the 23rd ed packages are to be left in the January delivers, the amount for vice. But i can't fint a singler. Chien Tai to receive them st Sept., 1921, will be subject to whs where they will be ex-end of August settlement being mistress to have one of them. anted in the presence of co-entioned as in the vicinity of Employers say they won't take Damaged packages must be signees by Messis. Goddard 30,000. Meanwhile quotations ad these antrained and inexperienced suxestion of ex-Minister of Com
So much for the theory the various associations
munications, 3r. Yeh Kong-cho, left in the todowns for examine Douglas, on the 2nd Sept., at luvanced steadily. it became in. gira. ation by the Consignees and the am. Clans against the seamer reasingly difficult for the shorts the girls would rather have the societies are going to is absorbed Co's representatives at ang cluding those tof cargo sauti to cover, and events made it dol than work. pointed our on Tuesday and Fri- delivered must be presented on rear that the bulls were in a "Girls are not afraid of service into one Chinese national associ- Ation for representing the day. Altcrums must be presented the special forma provided and position to hammer the beats on decent conditions, and I think
Chinese Deople 2* a whole.! Waum ten days of the steamer's must also be submitted within deadly. A week earlier the price they are coming to see that the is believed that this arrival here, after which date days of arrival otherwise they perficul had risen to about Tis very word servant is honour-ble. they cannot be recognized. No will not be recognized.
132, and last week it is understood Lady Bertha Dawkins, the united association will prove to be Surife Insurance will be effeco have gone as high as Tis. 35. Queen's" Lody-in-Waiting, told of tom-ne service to the Chinese
official delegates. During thei ed by us in any case whatever.
thout 30 cent. #tove its normal, sont servants at a meeting I or Bis of Lading will be cou lef-
value.
Besed that after all she was meeting of the Members of Com only a servant, but she was proudssclat on the other day, after Iminre of the Pacific Conference Sigued by
and hot discussion, a telegram, in the name of its entire members, was despatched to General Wu Pei-fu, General Cbao Heng-ti and other military leaders in Central'
day.
reth.
Cline Wui be admitted after the Guoda navo lett the Godowns.
NIZUN YUSEN KAISHA,
Aseuts.
Hongkong, 16th Sept., 1921.
DISPOSING OF STRAY WONKS," That there are difficulties in
JARDINE, MATHESON
CU. LTD.
Hongkong, 15th Sept., 1971.
Ageutz.
BEARS WITH SONE HEADS. Oven at Tls. 35 no balt seemed likely to be called. and it is understood that at this figure the shorts decided to leave the
of the fact.
pleased."
* The girls were surprise
all times. Further. at the
and
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS, į
HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
ESTABLISHED
1814 ESTAR 1914
100
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Export and Import Agents
For ONE HUNDRED YEARS În the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, ** Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote your interests? We shall be pleased to enter into correspond- ence with a view to arranging to mutual advantage.
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terms
BANK CREDITS ARRANGED. '. CASH ADVANCED AGAINST SHIPMENTS,
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Colonial Merchants and Produce Agents, . SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, EC.
market. This precipituted A So far as can be seen the cessa the way of cleaning stray "wonks" thara shot from a small calibre crisis, and it became necessary tion of business in the present in-Yangtze and the_Liang-Kuang from the streets of the Settlement ¡sporting rifle intended for a stray to find a compromise lest maistance is only temporary. Bat Provinces urging them to put the by the drastic action of stooting tamuzzled dog had hit the coolie. ters should go bad beyond hope when it is remembered that the interests of their nation before them has been illustrated by an As the gentleman who fired the of recovery. Accordingly business present settlement comprises only those of their factions by ceasing incidens which took place day 90t is a well-known loca, marks was inspended, and will not he 30.000 picula out of forward trane domestic feuds immediately so as ortwo ago in the Wayside districi, man, it must be supposed that a resumed until means have been actions of 170.000 spread over to enable Cbina to present a A covite reported at Wayside bullet ricocheted on to the coolie's found to adjust mailers.
the months from now to January, united front in the Washing- slation fuse walle adjusting his foot. After the shos had been It is understood that negotia.it must be apparent that veryton Conference. Furthermore, straw Sawdals in Ford Lane, a tired. the marksman saw ations are proceeding with view serious difficulties and in all prol-the various associations -are foreigner standing atthe verandan Chinese rice from some long grass to fixing upon a price which will ability crises are ahead of the discussing the subject of conven- Eastern Conference and for the Chinese Repablic and Treaty Dis nouse Ifeu a moot and the and walk away. No serious enable the shorts to meet their exchanges. Meantime it is reporting a Chinese citizens couvea-
IQ tuo foot, damage was done, but the coole margins, and it is stated that noted that some of the Turgebowtion at Shanghai in September Purpose of making preliminary Ports to enlighten the minds of Causing a word. Upon maquiry will remain in hospital for a day business will take place until this farmers who gambled their sav-for the investigation of both Preparations towards this end, the Chinese people about the
travelling lecturers will being made, I was discovered for two.-N.C.DIN":
has been done and the settlement jugs on the bull side of the circus domestic and foreign questions
be significance of the Washington despatched to carried through on these lines..
have hed handsome returns.
the provincial Conference to China and her peo- in connection with the Farlcapital of every province of the ple and what they should dojetc.
bullot struck
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
GEE-LOOKIT
"THAT BLACK CON,
VICULOJA!
A DIDAT
KNOW THEY
WUZ CONS
UP HERE
How Did Alek Get so Wise?
JES TRINK TAG-
THAT BLACK CON
GIVES WHITE MILK
AND VELLOVI BUTTER→
"AIN'T THAT
FUNNY?
AVI-IT
DOESN** ETHER.
JUST ASK ALEK IF IT DOESN'T.
BY BLOSSER
DOES THAT BLACK COW GIVE WHITE MILK AN' YELLOW BUTTER, ALEK?
SURE- THAT AIN'T NOTHIN'
AINT BLACK BERRIES- RED WHEN THEY'RE
GREEN?
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