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As the Ordinand aiands, the Governor-in-Coudella given wide powers to exclude the oper fation of the Ordinance in ex-
DAY BY DAY.
TELEPHONE CHARGES
INCREASE.
SUN YAT-SEN.
Arrives Back in Canton.
The Canton Times of to-day ́~ |states:-
Prealdent Sun Yat-sen arrived -
"FUNG SHUI.”
LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR THE PATH OF LKAST The Government's View. ceptional cases, but knowing| | PERSISTENCE.
There is no doubt that meas His Excellency's “sympathiss| with oppressed tagants, there Lisut. A: H. Mockridge, RG.A.telephone users'in the Colony need be no fear of the weakening has qualified at the examination consider the increase in charges at Canton from Sinkwan vester-
in colloquial Cantonese,
excessivo. Yesterday we gave day afternoon, as 4 o'clock p.m. the views of the Telephone Com President Sun landed at the of the provision of the enact- ment on tha account! The
There were ten cases of plaguò pany on the subject: to-day our Government Pior and was wel- called од thecomed by Governor Wa Ting-fang amended Bill is a distinct im-(five fatal) and two of small pox representativa
(one fatal) notified yesterday, all Acting Colonial Secretary (the and other high officials in the city. provement on the old Ordinances,
Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Flatcher) to A part of the soldiers of the Can- being Chinese.
bear the Gorerament's point of ton Garrison formed the guard of and we hope it will operate until
honour. The President was taken the time comes when tenants no Two fokis of shop at 126,view.
Negotiations have been taking in a motor car to the Presidential- Chung Chau Street, who went to longer need protection.
collect $1.198 from
various place for some time between the Office escorted by only thirty customers, failed to return yester. company and the Government body-guards.
with view to the extension of day.
the company's licence. Experts The Macao Aftermath.
The Governor of 'Macao, in! Amongst the passengers booked have been called in, Mr. P.H. Cole, conjunction with the Executive for Manils by the Fresident of the Shanghai Mutual Tele- Council, has adopted the amphatic Hayes are Mr. R. F. Barnett. Me phone Co., and Mr. Cook, who
carry out and enquire into the Three Violent Disputes. measure of dissolving the Chinese R Deming, and Mr. Rena Uliman was a member of the committee to labour guilds, or at least of issu-(Messrs. Ullman and Co.)
telephone service at Home recent-
District According to the ing a deerce for that purpose, and
ly. "Acting on these gentemen's
• observations the mandate directs the military
advice, the Government propose Officer, there were three violent authorities to see that it is taken at the Botanic Gardens,
another of the New Territories over "fung enfared. The ban applies to all there were only saven days during to extend the local company's disputan in the Northern district
agreement for about guilds whose rules have not been May when no rain fell. The twenty-seven years, on the under-abul" during last year, character- service ised by the usual vanom and standing that the submitted to the Government and total fall was 5 87 inches.
bongte trely up-to-da'e.
mradacity. In one case the to those which participated in the disturbances. It should be noted) The P. & O. s. s. Donzola The Government consider that manager of the "Chai Tong" at that about a third of the guilds, which was ceasly in collision the new rates will bring in a just Fan Ling induced a poor farmer belonging to a distinct federation, with the Kumano Maru of and proper dividend. What the of Lung Tauk Tau to sell the deprecated the fatal demonstra-Woosung, has arrived in harbour. Government consider a fair disid resting place of his grand-pirants tiors. The Macao authorities are She leaves to-day for London.
end, Mr. Fletcher did not make and the village of Tung Kok Wai, prave, and having indeed adopting a drastic course.
clear, but that point will probab. nest. the The principal items on and some question arises as to the
thely be made public when the new received no share of the purchass utility of the proceeding. Ap-agenda for Tuesday's meeting of agreement is signed, which should ones, entered a strong pro'est parently the guilds have only to the Sanitary Board are several be within the next week or so which was upheld, though not on that ground. The other dispute move across the way into Chinese applications for the erection of If after a certain period-say
conveniences. five years the
concerned a grave site near Liu Company is territory, as many of them have modern sanitary co done, though it may be that their
making more than what the Gor. Pok and a "she t'an ” at Wang Cban. where the various consider transference from the spot will The crows of the Star Ferry eroment
proper now back and the dividend tha rates will be "suraames" quarrel ceaselessly. prevent them from exercising the boats are same direct influence. On the normal service has been restored. reduced.
Mr. Fletcher pointed out that THE RENTS ORDINANCE. other hard, being outside of As of old, the last ferty now
Macac's surveillance, they may leaves Kowloon at 12.15 a.m.originally the charge was $100. be able to stir up strife in still sad Hongkong at 12:30 am. When the dollar fell below two more · sinister" way.
shillings the rate was fixed at
Offering.
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HONGKONG, 2nd June, 1922.
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The explanations given by the decree uses the term "dissolved", Near the Western Marker, in £10. Then the dollar increased in a Chinese value and as the rate remained at Attorney-General regarding the it would appear that the measure Des Voeux Road.
merdrietta which have been is pot merely temporary one yesterday was injured in the 10 the company was losing To promote commercial mr-
Certainly the conduct of the right foot by the wheel of a track money. introduced into the Rents' Ordia- truculent type of guild invites passing over it. He was taken With regard to the Shanghai lations between Chine and the ance are such as to establish the some restrictive action. How far to the Government Civil Hospital. charges being lower than in Scandinavian countries, a bank Hongkong. Mr. Fletcher explain-with a capital of $10,000,000 and point that the Government bas the sweeping course adopted at
reserve funds of $2,500,000, styled Maceo will prove practicable re-
One of the best of Mr. Philipled that the northers port has the Sino-Scandinavian Bank, nade a sincere and honest at-mains to be sABU. It is regrettable Oppenheim's mystery tales is system which is in excellent which has been established at tempt to strengthen and clarify that the Chinese Isbour move- the law in such a way as to make ment, in its modern phase, should t fair to all parties concerned. soon have fallen ander the
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The Long Arm of Mannister." It working order.
They have not
A Criticism.
has been filmed and yesterday the to renew their system and put in Peking. bas just opened a branch screening of it, in seven parts, new plant, if they bad, as the in Hongkong, with offices on the beld the attention of big audi-Hongkong company bas to do, ground floor of the Club Lusitano
building If extensive alterations have
ences at the Kowloon Theatre. they would not be able to carTY OD The Luck of the Sweep.
The chief manager is Mr. Li at their current rale. not been made it is
Better to be bora lucky than At to-morrow night's perform-
Mfan-chi, the sub-manager Mr.FL. because there is a disinclination
rich. Given the luck, the gift of ance at the Star Theatre a very
Sorenses, and the Board of protect tenants rather the wealth seems almost superfluous. interesting picture "The Wonder
We have received the following Directors includes Mr. H. Skappel and Mr. Kong Tin-lok, an ex- teverse, for tinkering with an because the luck brings it along, Man" (an American society for publication:- 9nactment can easily end in its Some hundred thousand or more drama) will be screened for the Sic-An examination of the Minister of Agriculture, both being made less watertight than people waited on the wheel that first time in Chins, in which the reasons put forward by the Chins these two latter gentlemen rep allotted the cumbers in the Cal-famous French boxer, Carpentier, and Japan Telephone and Electric resent the interests of their re- it should be. Such alterations asculta Sweepstake, and the lucky will appear in the principal role. Co. Ltd., in their circular of thespective nationalities, which are have been made are couched in torn fell to Miss Gwendoline No-one should miss this splendid 30th. May. 1922, for increasing invested in equal shares in the
rates appear wholly inadequate. play. simple language. thus avoiding Thomas, a typist in the Royal Insurance Office, Liverpool,
The reasons put forward are:- ambiguity, and there has been a where it is a reasonable inference
1. High price of telephone Our Picture Page to-morrow obvious attempt to steer clear of that there will be a vacancy before will contain two photos showing appara anything that would complicate long, seeing that the winning the damage caused to the 5.5. ticket carries a prize of £60,000. Dongola in the recent collision: the law or make the measurele eclipses the big Shanghai pictures taken at the wedding of to be undertaken for erection of
2. Working costs in general. 3. Heavy expenditure about
Dex Bank.
CRIMES IN NEW
TERRITORIES,
the
unduly cumbersome. The ten-sweep, substantial as is the latter. Mr. C. Labrum; and groups of new Exchange and installation, new Central Battery porary character of the legisla and reduces the Colony's pool on the Hongkong Football Club of
Castle Peak as Home tion was a factor that had to be the local Derby or the Champions team, St Paul's College running System.
to insignificance, though nobody team and Catbolic clergy includ-
As regards:
of Political Intrigue. considered, though we cannot will think of despising either of ing the new Bishop of Kwang
1. This is capital expenditure:
In bis annual report. and cannot affect the working ex- help thinking that the Attorney-these. Miss Thomae will not Chow Wan.
penses of the concern, except that District Officer of the New Ter General was rather optimistic in receive the full £60,000. Her
Iojaries were sustained by a provision for depreciation will be ritories (North) says -The more uggesting that this protective Bense of prudence impelled her to
serious crimes reported included heavier. part with a half-share at the
Chinese Festerday when he was measure will only be needed for modest figure, considering that knocked down by mo or car No.
2. It is common knowledge jose double murder and armed a further twelve months. The the winner was of the 373. He was taken to the Gor that a considerable number of rubbery, one murder, two armed
£3,000. favourities, of idea has been to produce & com- £33,000 represents an agreeablaternment Civil Hospital for teast-new telephones have been install-robberies accompanied by kidnap-
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prehensive but not unduly in-back-balance, Yes; give us the volved measure, and, in cases of luck and we will gladly let the in dispute, to leave it to the Courts wealth look after itself.
o interpret the spirit of the Ordinance.
The suggestions that have been adopted by the Government are
OBJECTION TO DAM.
made
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samicient warning to apply the
He has since succumbeded within recent years; and it is ping, three armed robberies on to bis injuries. It is stated an accepted fact that the ratio of land, four on water, two robberies
one report that deceased working coals decreases with with violence and one highway.
larger turn-over, therefore the robbery. The double murder took sudden dash across the roadway at Queen's Road expenses of working per telephone place at Castle Peak, a district notorious as a home of political East and was knocked down by should be less.
3. This, again is Capital ex-intrigue. The real motive appearsTM the car, whose driver had not
penditure, and the same remark to have been revenge on's person applies to this as to No. 1.
of mysterious antecedents who brakes in time.
tha living in It would appear that the chief was
temple reasons for increasing the where the crime occurred. The of such a nature as to reveal a A New Territory Dispute.
SUN'S EXPEDITION.
subscription is for the purpose of other victim owed his fate to his desire to be fair to all parties, for The District Officer for the New
installing a new system, and the endeavours to procure belp. The some are in the landlords as well Territories (North) badbe follow Heavy Fighting Reported. erection of a new Exchange; in other murder was committed by as the tenants' favour. It would ing in his auntied report t
other words, subscribers, instead a man subsequently found to be The opposition of the Kam Tin The following message appears of shareholders, are to find the insane, the victim being his owɑ have been admittedly difficult to
daughter. Of the piracies ore was villages to the proposed dam for in the Canton Times:
In conclusion, it would be in-committed on the 9ha U ̊Chong
WIL 8
Yours, etc.
J. H.
The kidnapped persons were soon released and the whole circum- stances of the four crimes aroi suspicious to `* degree and
incorporate some of the proposals the new Shan, Eui-Hai-Po re- Shiuchow, May 30th. During recessary capital put forward, excellent though clamation assumed very serious the last two days the centre of they may have been in intent. proportions in March when the our army frustrated great attempt teresting if the public were in- Ferry Launch, the robbers board- We are quite prepared to admit leading Elder of Ping Aban, who of the enemy to regain their formed of the working expenses, ing the vessel at Shs U Chung and acts as local agent for the losses by a counter attack upon excluding such capital expen-carrying out their crime shortly that landlords are not the only syndicate, was roughly handled Shincheng, which cost the latter diture as may have been charged after she left that Chinese port. profitsers, for many tenants who by
For very dearly, for the enemy left revenue, percentage of depre- The other three were all com- Kam Tim crowd. time there
dis-over a thousand dead and wound-ciation and gross income, for, say.mitted on the same day on cargo the last ten years of this junks off So Shi Mun. One of the lease property and complain of
tinct danger of an old-style ed, besides great quantity of war
Company.
armed robberies with kidnapping bigh rentals make no bones about aght between the two groups of supplies behind them.
took place closs by at Leng The right wing of our army charging excessively for furnish-villages and although this was
SETH.Sbon Wan only a fortnight later. Sinfeng yesterday ed quarters. But we realise the bappily averted by the mediation captured
of the Tai Po and Un Long morning after two days of fierce Hongkong, June 1, 1922. difficulty of legislating against branches of the same clan, it was 5ghting. The defenders of Sin- these hypocritas. Chinese ten-evident that no dam-could be feng were composed of the best of ants and some Europeans as well constructed at the place proposed the northern army in Kiangsi CALIFORNIA KLEAGLES TO LOSE thoroughly in keeping with the
without inviting perpetual and which wasled by the Tuchan's own
evil reputation of the neighbour. will appreciate the strengthen-
dangerous friction. The original brother. Here our army captured
Atlanta, Ga., May 25.-The hood. From its position effective ing of the law to cover cases proposal for a dew below the road-seven artilleries, twenty machine where landlords give notice to bridge was then revived and it guns and over a million cartridges head office of the Ku Klux Klan patrol is extremely dimcult add here announced to-day that the 40 far se the shore population la quit on the plea of an intention was decided that a dam might be and thousand rifles.
The left wing of our army commissions of every kleagle in concerned it is at least open to to carry out alterations. In such constructed from the foot of a
hill some 1⁄2 mile downstream Captured Changyi on the 28th and California would be revoked after question whether they do not anem preliminary lovestigation of merit - expulsion rather than cases, the landlord will have to from the bridge to the opposite is now pursuing the
We do ed in the other case (from Lin Fe out the reconstruction (right) bank of the creek The towards Kanchow. The backbone alleged lawlessness there. The protection. The children kidnapp expeditiously or he may find height of the dam is strictly of the enemy is broken and the announcement said:
limited and fimes of flood its barrier of Kiaogei is open, not intend to reinstate any kleagle) were released from Chinese himself with thousand-dollar whole length 1,400 feet will be Klängst people greatly rejoice and who has taught or encouraged Territory after much negotiations,
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a ransome being paid. welcome the democratic szmy, fine, plus damages, to pay. available for verlow.
carry
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