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HONGKONG, 8th June, 1922.
SUN'S MANIFESTOES.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922.
DAY BY DAY.
venues of Parliamentary meet- ings. We know the sort of unification Sub wante—the Southern Government roogat-30B; THE THING TO DO IS TO IT IS EASY TO HOLD DOWN A
ed, with himself at the bead of it, MAKE IT OROW. (and the harshest of punishments.
| meted out to svarybody who dia- Mrs. Taggart returned to the agrees with him. But, happily, Colony by the Empress of Russia
to-day. nobody takes Sun quite sof sariously as he takes himself.
Castle Peak.
of
There were eight cases plague (six fatal) and one fatal case of small-pax notified yester day. All were Chinese,
THE COLONY'S RATEABLE VALUE.
Big Increase Shown.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
(Continued from Page 1)
*for that rent would be increased According to a report laid on as soon as legislation was takon the table at the Legislative Conn-off, be would have no hesitation cil meeting this afternoon, a new in teeping it on permanently. valuation of the whole of the His Excellancy mentioned that Colony as regards assessment has 89 a word of warning to certain been made, the Colony's Rateable persons in this Caleny!!
After some discussion it was from $18,696,660 to $19,805,929, decided to postpone the com Value thereby being increased: an addition of $1,100,269, ar 5.91mittee stage of the Bill to con-
sider the Hon. Mr. Bird's point.
FORGERY. The Bill intituled An Ordin-
per cent.
According to the statement
The assessor, the Hon. Mr. Mrs. Sun Yat-sen, as President C, Mcl, Messer also reported that made by the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, the Acting Colonial of the Red Cross Society of the during the past year (ended April Secretary, to a Hongkong Tele- Northern expedition, has been 30tb), 1,063 interim valuations are to consolidate, simplify, and graph representative on Tuesday: Kiangsi front.
visiting the wounded on the were made, the rateable value of amend the law relating to forcery sites for building purposes at
the new property being $348,096 and kindred offences, was passed- The following statement shows through all its stages and agreed and, in view of that statement. For Saturday afternoon a base-the Rateable Value of the Colony we should not be surprised to see ball game has been arranged be-of Hongkong in each of the ten REGISTRATION OF IMPORTS AND this popular bathing and picnictween the Hongkong team and a years from 1913-1914 to 1922-1923) resort developing very shortly Japanese nine from the Japanese inclusive along the same lines as bas Ra-Young Men's Association. pulse Bay. On a recent Sunday
Castle Peak are now available.
1914-15
Rateable
Vaine
Year.
1913-14
$ 12,435,819
14,410.103
14.247,285
14.282.186
14,410,153
15,638.736
15,304,801
17,408,959
1915-16
1916-17
1917-18
1918-19
1919 20
1920-21
1921-22 1923-23
afternoon the writer counted as The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, many as 21 motor cars parked accompanied by Mrs. Severn and along the roadway, and the nom-fher mother, Mrs. Bullock, who ber of matsbeds which have been have been on a trip to the North. erected along the beach has been returned by the. Empress of added to only as recently as the Russia to-day. past week. For Hongkong res- idents, Repulse Bay is still and The number of cases dealt with possibly will rears in the main at the Police Magistrates' Couris Neaside attraction of the Colony,jia Hongkong last year was 17,374.1 but for residents on the main compared with 15,304 in 1920 |
In the ten years 1913-1914 to land, Castle Peak, entailing ss The revenue was $149,195,73, as 1900-1923 the Rateable Value of does a 20-mile motor against $103,132.51 in 1920. The the Colony has increased by spin along a beautiful scenic expenditure was 521,867.02, com-$7,370,117 or 5926 per cent. road, will doubtless become the pared with 645,539.94 in the pre- counterpart of the island resort.vious year.
The Gorerament has provided thei
1$ 696.660 19,803,929
THE COLONY'S FINANCES.
41
to.
EXPORTS.
The Hon. Attorney-General moved the second reading of the Bill intituled An Ordinance to provide for the registration of im- porta and exports.
The Bill was taken through all its stages and passed.
MISDEMEANOURS.
The Council approved the Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the Misdemeanours Punishment Ordinance, 1898, which was 60- cordingly passed.
GOVERNOR'S THANKS,
65
In adjourning the Council until, next Friday, His Excel. lency said that
that was the last occasion on which bs would have the pleasure road and it now remains for "Any explosives or ammuni-
of meeting Hon. Members, be private enterprise to develop the tion on board?" is one of the
desired to express his sincere district and make it attractive to queries in the report which has
thanks for the assistanca given holiday makers. We were rather to be filled in every time a ship
him during the past two and a surprised to learn that sites are comes into Hongkong harbour.
A Satisfactory Year. half years and for the way in which that help had been given The fresh crisis in Chinese immediately available, because, Six soldiers" was the reply
from what we had previously given by a Dutch steamer. Per Although there has already and advice bad been placed at politics brought about by the heard from private sources, the haps the explosives were sex-ben published in the Government his disposal. resignation of President Hsu Government was rather averse to genot-majors.
fizeti the abstract abowing the) Shih-cbang bas induced Sun permitting permanent buildings
Calony's revenue and expenditure Yat-sen to issue a couple if that was on account of the fact round to Des Voeux Road yester-be interested to learn, from a characteristic manifestoes, one that the Government had not then day to pick up a Chinese who report presented to the Legislative of which is drawn up for the formulated its scheme of develop-was severely injured in the bead Council today by the Hon. ment and was anxious not to when be lost his balance and fall Colonial Treasurer, that the total special benefit of the Foreign allow buildings to be erected in an attempt to alight from a revenue for the year amounted to the
"The following items regarding Macao affair Bro from Powers and the other for the which would conflict with the moving tramcar. The patient 517,728,132 being $2,391,782 more to-day's tonton Times:- general public. The chief object general lay-out of the ares. That was taken to the Gorecoment than the estimate and $3,033,460 of the former of
According to a report made by these
general scheme would now seem Civil Hospital.
more than the revenue in 1920 the Investigation Department of to be complete, and we think it
Compared with that year there the Citizens' Diplomatic Society, to intimate to the Powers that is possible to look forward to the Her foot slipped on a banana were increases ander every bead. the number of dead and wounded any recognition of a fresh "pop-Jexily development of what will skin as a fifteen-year-old girl was The total expenditure brought to in the recent Macao incident is pe: President" will be construed prove to be Kowloon's seaside carrying a pot of hot water in account amounted to $15,739,652 as follows: 38 were killed and by Sun and bis followers as an
the kitchen of No. 44 Des Voeux being $1,609,498 less than the wonded. Road Central yesterday.
Many of the The estimate, and $1,252058 more than wounded are still lying in the act of interference in China's Shanghai Shipping
pot was smashed and the girl the expenditure in 1920. Compar- Hospital. Yesterday we referred to the was severely scalded in the chested with the estimates there were activity of the Hongkong Sabesides baring her foot sprained. savings ander eight heads. Mis men's Caios in seeking to expand She was sent by the police to the cellaneous expenditure exceeded i means anybody excepting him itself into the Chinese Seamen's Government Civil Hospital. the estimate by $195.971 mainly Macao are returning to Canton self, but he ought to realise by
due to transport of government and Heungshan every day, a bis time that be is as much conquest being Shanghai. A Tiring of this life, a Chinese servants. Kowloon and Canton requested by the people in the of & "poppet" to others as they regarding demands by workers attempted to commit
message from that port yesterday female, only twenty years of age, Railway exceeded the estimate province. The Diplomatic Society soicide by $210,530 due to two motor has announced that since the are to him. At any rate. we in the shipping industry at firat by jumping off the "Evening coaches and trailer
Portuguese government in Macao have not heard of any nations auggested that the Loion had Star" yesterday. A watchman The Imports and Exports De.had given the Chinese residents clamouring for Sun as President lost no time in adopting & forcing instantly leaped into the water partment decreased "$254.086 such brutal treatment, all Chi-
policy, notwithstanding
account its and brought her unconscious but on of the Republic.
of issa opium pese in that Colony should returo declared intention of proceeding safe back to the ferry. After Erst purchased while Public Works immediately to Chinese territory, It is admitted by Sun Yat-sen upon orderly lines. It is not clear aid was applied, the young lady Extraordinary saved $1,913,874 More than 10,000 cattles of rice stocked by the that the fact that the militarists seamen, or only to certain types Government Civil Hospital.
whether the demands refer to the was taken by ambalsace to the because the programme of works bare been
placed in the Estimates was not Diplomatic Society for. the in the North want the old Parlis- of workers on ships, such as
going up just yet. We presume A motor ambulanca was laken in 1921, the public will doubtless THE MACAO AFFAIR.
own affairs. By a "puppet Pres ideat," Sun Yat-sen obviously
resort.
Union, the immediata paiat of
carried out.
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Chinese Exodus. Thousands of residents
Help from Labourers.
in
At a recent special meeting of the Kwangtung Mechanics' Union. it was unanimously decided that each member of the union should donate one day's wage to help the labourers who
returned recently from Macao. The chair- man of the Union announced at the maeting that 40 of our country- men were slaughtered merciless- ly by the Portuguese soldiers in Macao. Consequently the Diplomatic Society in Canton had advised all Chinese residents in Macao to return to Chinese land, Thousands of labourers had sacri- ficed their jobe and returned to Canton and Heungshan recently... The Canton-labourers, the chair- men declared, should render as much assistance to these labourers as they could for these bave sacrificed their daily earnings for ithe
Тве country's welfare. members of the union were great- ly impressed by the speech. Most of them hava already paid up thair donations for the relief of the returned labourers from Mecao.
accommodation of the returned ment re-established proves that engineers and cooks. Whoever The Canadian Pacific Railway The revenue for the year ex-Chinese. In Chinshan, Wanchai the struggles of the Constitue parties are, their Union is not Bulletin says:-The .s. Empress ceeded the expenditure by a sum and Canton, places have been
half-bearted in its demands, as it of Asia arrived & Vancouver of $1,983,480: with the result that made ready for them." tionalists have not been in vain is out for a radical increase. and that their cause has at last Already the Nisshin Kisen Kaisha April 10, after completing the the surplus balance increased to Line is reported to have agreed. was only one hour behind the
fastest trip of her career. She $5,478,745. triumpbed. Then what more If the East has been late in com record for the fastest tine across does he want? First of all, heng joto the trade-anion field, it the Pacific, which is held by her asks for the punishment of those evidently proposes to make up for sister ship, the Empress of Russia. who violated the Constitution, lost time. In Japan it has become This record time, which was quite common to see strikers established in May, 1914, is 8 and then he demande guarantees stipulating that they shall be paid days, 7 hours. 18 minutes, from of the matches played on June 1:
The following are the results of the abolition of militarism by at the enhanced rate for the Yokohama to Victoris, B,C. the Northerners transforming period of the strike-and getting this! If the development bas one-half of their troops into labour
Chan Chung, a hawker, was come to the ears of trade-union battalions, whereupon orders leaders in the West, these latter Kowloon City wbea" at a lonely walking from Yaumati ta will be issued throughout all the must be turning graen with envy spot he was met by three men. provinces for general disarms-Now we find that the union at Two of them stood at a distance Shangbai is to ask the Harbour ment and for the organisation of
and impassively looked on whilst Master to inflict penalties on 1sbour corps." This latter pro-strike-breakers." The guions will the third produced a dagger and posal would no doubt suit Sun next be directing the authorities to asked Chan if he would consent to fight. Looking first at the very well, since he, as a militarist order the employers to agree to dagger then at his interrogator,
all strikers" demands. himself, would find the strength
Chân said he was not so disposed, of his opponents reduced by one. The County Championship. and meekly submitted to a search of his pockets. The strangers said The Bank Holiday matches that they half. It does not apparently
were looking for occur to him, as the self-styled brought several of the leading revolvers, but it proved not to be
Detroit counties into contact, and the so. Some $6 in various coins head of the Republic, to set the result of the War of the Roses is Chan possessed at the time, and example himself and thus prove to pat Yorks at the "head of the this was taken from him without bis bona fides. He might, then table with an unbroken succession any compunction. The robbers of wins. Ernest of the Tyldesley left the hawker to make his way esen get recognition. His sug ilk contributed a fine sport back to Kowloon City where be gestion, however, is too trass-behalf of the losers, playing 40 made a report to the Police in parent to be seriously considerad. ioploge of 178, which did not spector. This resulted in the
prevent the White Rose from arrest of one man If San really believes that the triumphing
who will by six wickets. shortly be charged before the Constitutionalist cause has "at That other time-honoured
Magistrate. last triumphed," why does bexture, Surrey Notts, ended
}la--- victory for the}
Bot, without further ado, join Southerners, for whom Hobbe badda with those in the North gave evidence of being in his old 51. Leicestershire, who are pretty who want the old Parliament re-form with an unfinished innings well off for fast bowlers, had an of a century and a half. The easy win over Northants. The convened and thus bring about encounter between the Weatern champions, Middlesex, won their actual unification? Instead of sbires gave Gloucester the victory match in two days, but have that, he prefers to stand glorious over Somerset. Kent, with three sustained & defeat from Lanca ly aloof and doing nothing but to
of their players reaching three shire. Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, figures, beat Pants, but in the and Lancashire will fight out the object to suggested provisional circumstances the latter did well leading positions, with the first- Presidents and to the proposed to run their rivals to a margin of named as favourites,
St. Louis Pittsburg
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NATIONAL LEAGUE- St Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2. Cincinnati 6, Chicago 1.
New York 0, Boston 2, No other games.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 4, New York 5. Detroit 2. Cleveland 5... Chicago 3, St. Louis 4. No other games.
JUNE, 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE- Chicago 11. Cincinnati 7. New York 3, Boston 7. No other games.
AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 4, Cleveland 9. Chicago, 4, 8t. Louis 12, No other games,
CLERGYMAN OF AMERICAN FILMS.
America prohibits the ssle of drink; 1 would to God they would put a prohibition on some of the films they send over here," says the Rev. C. Ensor Walters, of the London Mission. · ·
CENTENARIAN CLERGYMAN:
AH DEAD,
Rev. Peter Bonamy 'Collings died at his residence at Bawdrip Somerset, in bis 101st year., Hs. was at one tints vlear of Blurry. near Canterbury.