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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3; 1922.
DAY BY DAY.
jman, and they lad to that person-
al' contxot which in such valuable factor in the mainten- SOME SIT WAITING FOR THE ance of friendly relations. Let DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY TO OPEN WHILE OTHERS OLIMB THROUGH the former customs be renewed. THE WINDOWS, with bonsfits which will be mutually enjoyed. Then, with
ROBBERS BOARD JUNE.
Forma in a
CANTON NEW
Master Shot in Jaw,
New Governor's Intents. Robbers who boarded a junk fo
Our Canton correspondents the harbour sarly yesterday it is reported that Mr. Pokfulum Reservoir in reported morning used a revolver, and Chik-gue, the new Civil
freda abot which wounded the ernor, will leavelMai Kai vill the commercial and official into be full to overflowing.
master of the vessa) in the jaw on a special gunboat, escoi terests la fall and friendly con-
The hour was 430 o'clock, and by a number of other warsh General Chan King-ming has tact, we may hope for a return decided to establish a library as a
the presence of the robbers, who and will proceed to Canton i of better times, the dissipation of memorial of bis mother's 81stdetected until they had boarded then take over the official sea sampan, was not Heungshan to-morrow, Ha w the misunderstandings of the birthday.
the junk. At the time the vessel which were deposited with th past and a resumption of big
A case of plague and another was lying of the T.K.K. coalgard Provincial Assembly by the lat
in the Yomati shelter. along Dr. Wo Ting-fang. business to the manifest advant-of paratyphoid fever were notified with other boats. It was as a age of all concerned.
yesterday, both being Chinese.result of the master calling out It is said that the new & e Neither was fatal.
"Rabbers!" that the shot was ernor will thorooghly reorganise fired. The two men engaged in all the departments, with the ex- the attempt then abandoned their ception of the administrative intentions and rowed away in section." and will create new their sampan in the direction of Educational sad Industrial De Taikokisui. No arrests have been partments. made.
General Yip Kue has again The injured man was taken to armly refused to allow San Hung- the Kwong Wah Hospital on the ying's forces to return to Kwang arrival of the police.
si via the northern border of Kwangtung.
The V.R.C. night fale arranged for last night had to be postponed owing to the inclement weather It is fixed for to-night.
The Telephone Dispute...
It is still pretty much à caso of as you were so far as the telephons dispute is concerned. At the moment there is nothing The welding will shortly take to suggest an early termination place of Mr. Granville Murray, of the deadlock which has been 30, The Peak, and Miss Elsie reached. Things, however, can- | Gittins, 120, Lugard Road. not go on indefinitely in this way; sooner or later there must
The fears that the B I. steamer either be a so:tlement or a fasl Gondia has been lost with all shreakdown in the negotiation. hands are confirmed by the dis It seems to us that the principal covery of two lifebuoys marked point to be dispose of is the "Gondis" near Amoy. question of valuation of the|
THE FIRE BRIGADE,
New Turntable Ladder.
A report from Limebow states that although Wong Ming-tong't forces have been defas ed, many so-called citizen soldiers havi jarrived to aid him, with the reap) that Vimchow, Limehow, Kd Telephone Company's capital, The Observatory Returns show The turntable ladder with which chow. Luicbow and Yangchow and in this connection it mus:that 2 38 inches of rain fall during our Firo Brigade will be are at present infested by thase be borne in mind that the Com- the 24 hours which ended at 10 equipped to deal with fires in
border. mittee, in its recent report, gave o'clock this morcing. This high structures arrived in the zo definite indication as to what it makes nearly seven inches of Colony yesterday marning by the considered a fair figure. It merely rain since Sunday.
Glenavy. It was packed in) Ho3-valuation for the purpose of secur accused the Company of over
three cases, the various parts being fitted together immediately
Yard, and by five o'clock it was The telegram quoted below wa moving with its own motor power received by the American Con to the Wanchai Station, where it solate-General. Hongkong, frot remains prior to heing given the Manila. Observatory at 2.3 Tits initial tests. Another ladder pm. to-day:-Typhoon in abou
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pital, this morning, at Il o'clock, ing bigher rates, but obviously arrived by the Empress of Asia on being landed at the Naval
Albert Weill, aged 19.
The Telegraph,
HONGKONG, 31s: August, 1922
the point cannot be disposed of by generalisations of that character. The Company is doubtless quite within its rights, and is standing on firm ground, when it argDES that it is an abomaly for the Com
jupon which those charges are
Amongst the passengers who today were Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Atwell, Mr. and Mrs. A. Pieres, Mr. F, A. Britton, Mr. A. E Crapnell and Mr. R. Roxburgh,
TYPHOON WARNING.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
mittee to propose certain definite Yee Ying Wa was sentenced to from Home and will be shippal degrees Lat. X., moving W.N.W A stowaway caught aboard the of the same type has been ordered 123 degrees Long. E. and Z HONGKONG AND CANTON.subscribers' rates without giring three weeks hard labour this as soon as the Crown Agents are
some indication of the capital morning at the Magistracy, whilst in the position to deliver it. Our Canton contemporary has based. The position now is that another man produced in the same made a good point by stressing the Company, after negotiations Case was remanded to enable the police to investigate his story that the fact that the new Civil with the Government, and after he went aboard to work as a sub- Governor bas bad close and
reports made by experts oc its own and the Government's behalf. intimate relations with the has intimated that it considers the British in Hongkong and the Portuguese in Macao, and that there should, therefore, ba, no
stitute for a relative.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Annual Report.
true capital to be £280,000. That To commemorate the birthday
To circumnavigate the worl without having to worry abou to an offer for the Company as is A firm figure, tantamount of H.M. the Queen of the Nether Hands, who is 42 years old to-day.
catching steamers and trains, o going concern.
On the other reception was held this morn-
The annual report of the Hong. fading hotels, is now open to the difficulty in clearing away any band, neither the Government nor ag at the Dutch Club. The ong Horticultural Society for the tourist with about £400 to spare Clab was nicely decorated and year ending at March to start the craise next winter
The new Cunarder. Laconia, misunderstandings that exist the Committee base decided-in
their own minds what they can.the Dutch Consul and practically be presented to the angusi meelib?taking 130 leisurely days t 3 is stated, Mr. Cha Chik-yue sider to be the true value of the all the members of the Datch on September 5th., states. works in friendly co-operation Compar5. As we see the ques community were presant.
The Committee leg to present that they shall be nearly al get round, and so contrivej with foreignets to bring about tion, the Government is morally
their seventeenth annual report. bound to name some figure, and It is reported at the Publici better business conditions, then until it does so, the deadlock must Works Department that a land-jand "Vegetables was held in the Board is also making a bid for thi
we shall all have cause to feel continue. thankful at the appointment.
AS'T
&
or
...
crawled around fand at Tichbori
The Janusi Sbow of Flowers summer days. The U.S. Shippin Surely Mr. Parker slide occurred this morning at Botanic Gardens on 2nd. March. kind of traffic, and is sending tw Ness would be willing to make Morrison Hill where a big The entries were more than for the its fioest vessels on the worl We fully endorse the
some concessions on the Con quantity of earth came down the previous show. Uwing however. has to be done with these costl cruise next January. Somethin tion that "nothing is more devout expect that, he is quite justified nection
pany's figure, buz before we can costing being made in con- the general -trike troubles which
with the reclamation reached a crist during the show hips when the Atlantic passenge 15 to be desired than the ushering in asking the other side to make works along the Prays East. No week many exhibiture were unable traffic falls 吧 and #t in of a bappy phase of southera defoite counter-proposal.
casualties were mentioned.
to sead exhibit, and there were the Mediterranea lasting
Mauretania is taking a holiday l intercourse."
roasequently many blank spacesdays, from February onward." Foreigners and Chinese Actors.
A heavy squall off Lantau The standard of exhibits was, in Chinese alike have had, more That the Chinese are born Island on Monday capsized spite of geceral bad weather, than enough of the squabblings actors is the option of Mr. Passenger junk voyaging between throughout February, well up to of the past and we trust that, Basil Dean, who is producing that island and Cheungebau, the average.
Saya & Home paper-Probab Their Excellencies the oldest curse in this counti play with the appointment of a new faire
throwing the passengers into the Sir R. P. Stubby and Majar bieb brought & "penalty" w with the expres tileEsst of Suez" at a water. The distressed people General Fowler sited the show that of Isabella Lymerston, Lac Provincial head, a fresh chapter London the stre on Saturday,
either swa Ashore were and Lady Stubts presented the Tichborne, in Norman timer, w of renewed friendship all round" with the help of Chinese rescued by boats which put of prizes.
actors. Whether this means an
from Sep Leung. The only As the exbibit specially still known as the Crawie, t will be begun. Hongkong and all Chinese cast or simply that fatality was that of an old woman, worthy of meation were collections usufruct of which was to feed t Canton ATO so closely bound Chinese actors are lending in who was drowned before rescuers of vegetables by the Hongkong poor at the gates on Lady Da together by tier of sentiment cidental aid is not quite clear, could reach her?
Club, Mrs. Bird and Mr. Ho Kom-Two centuries tong, stocks by Mr. Ho Fook, and a agd business connections the: it Neither is the added reinark
(known so the Mabella Dole) w is essential there should be ancnotered
Mr. Dean bas
A modern little city Cinderella collection of cut flowers. by Mr. given up, and the benefactres auch remarkable the heroine of "The Magic. A. Nicholson, and arum by better understäuding created be- supers. We regret that our know. Cap." Constance Binney's latest Feak exhibitors, Mr. H. B. L. Curse came true. A portion
the house fell down, seven so tween the two. Indeed, as we ledge of the native drama does not Realart picture, which is being Dowbiggin winning the first prize followed seven dangbare, have often remarked, there is no function of a Chinese super is; from to-morrow until Monday. accted with the about show failed for want of male iss A larger part in the work con they died childless, and the ti enable us to say what the normal screened at the World Theatre better field for the exercise of Mr. Dean's words almost suggest The prince charming in this case necessarily concentrated in two The dole was restored, but was true statesmanship than hers, that the supers participate in the is a young reporter, and the two days, and cannct pressibly he done too late to avert the terrible t leading roles The other night reet, not at a ball, as in the old by one person. The Hon. Secretary which resulted in defeating t mercial communities and the ance--we refer to & pakk one,mosphere of a hotel kitchen. valuable help be received in "run which impoverished the ests we witnessed a Chinese perform fairy story, but in the unrom entic wishes to place on record the iuclaimant's costly pretensions, a Governments of both places. sot the semi-Westernised piece It is most engrossing story, Ding the last show from the fol- Trouble bas always followed!
The past can be left to take ziven in aid of the Swatow Relief which should draw big houses.
lowing: Miss Wallace, the Presi house, and one baronet 30 ye dent, the Hon. Treasurer. Mr. H.
both on the part of the
com.
that
never
Food. We did not notice any
on circuit.
ago the
One of the most famous of
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care of itself, provided there is a remarkable acting by the supera The contract for the Macan B. L. Dowbiggin. Mr. Ho Kom. 4go, as High Sheriff, was fir mutual willingness and desire to or it may have been that we Harbour works scheme has been long, Mr. A. Nicol, Mr. F. F. Ees 500 for not receiving the juc work together in closer harmony. mistook the supers for the "stars." awarded to the Netherlands Har da Silva, Mr. J. P. Hobinson and We should like to see more inter-
Mr. Dean's innovation is certainly bour Works Co., of Amsterdam, of Mr. B. E. G. Spiaks. interesting. though. Occasion which the Holland China Trad.
The Committee wish to express) course between the commercial ally quasi-Chinese dramas, like ing Company are the local agents their thanks to the Cricket Club stately homes of England will bodies of the two places and be."Mr. Wa" and "The Yellow is stated that the contract is in for the loan of a tent, which how recalled by the engagement. |tween various other organisations Jacket" have been produced in the neighbourhood of six and ever could not be used, as tea could Captain Denzil Cope, of Brai the Old Country; now apparently half million dollars. Messrs. not be provided, owing to the strike; bill, Hants, and Edas, young as well. Lat the leaders of there is to be a real Chinese ele Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., to the Hon. Captain Superinter-daughter of Mrs. Hilton and different phases of activity get to went. The Chinese drame, we Ltd., of Newcastle. and the dent of Police for Police supervi- late Mr. Edward B. H know each other more intimately, understand, had its rise in ele-Pacific Construction Co., of Van- sion and to the Superintendent and Bramahill is a lovely Jacob by excbangs visita and the mentary performances by itiner-couver, were also tenderers for staff of the Botanic Gardens for house, which abares with periodical holding of gatherings pretty much how drama start-
sat mendicants (which seems to be the project.
but
much help on the show ground. other ancient mansions the They also wish to record their tinction of being the scene pf in which all can find a common en in most countries). In course A small boy who was brought thanks to those who undertook the tragedy of the "Mistletoe Bour interest. And the time appears of time it attained a very notable before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this erous duty of judging the ex-It is supposed to have been b ripe also for the officials of the most part it retains its a tennis ballabout in the Pokfulum Prize fund.
standard of development. For morning for the offence of punting hibits and to the donors to the by John Thorpe, John of Hongkong and Canton getting original
dus," for James L's soo, Pri features,
The Committes tas continued its Henry, though this point in Rosd, was fined $2 by his Wor endeavour to provide local io- never been settled, but it is together more frequently than income CLAS bas borrowed ship. It is hoped, in view of the the recent past. There is no from the West as far as to use pains which the Magistrate took formation on gardening subjects, lieved to be the original of Bre reason that we know of why the of chairs or other objects pre- that it was against his own Chinese has been published and Malet's famous novel of
palated scenery, for which a pile to convince the youthful offender Puring the year 2 "Gardening burst, the hame of Bit Rict
Vocabulary" ia English Hongkong Government should viously did duty. The native-terests to do this, as he might distributed free to members. A title. "Lucas Malet" bas ko
and Calmady, the hero of “Li
not enter into the closest relation-style actors, however, are a con-have been killed by the motor ship with the Provincial Goveruservative body, and it would be traffic, that he was duly impress. 3. Nicholson was read at the her father, Charles Kings puper oa dablia growing by Mr. Bramshill since she waS & interesting to know ed. In the case of another boy ment of Kwangtung, of which whether the performers over who was caught at about the same Helena Alay Institute and will having been rector of the ne Mr. Chen Chik-yue is now the whom Mr.
su tima but did not appear in the shortly be published. A paper on bouring village of Eversley, titular head, In other days, eulogistic are members of the Court when the case was called, an ass lawns by Mr. H. Green was those familiar with the Cr official calle between the two-though this does not detract tion of the bail of $5 deposited Institute and is now being prepared its description in that of Be fraternity or Westernised actors order was made for the confisca also read at the Helens May splendid old seat can easily) Governments were quite com- from their histrionic gifts,
for the press. with the Inspector, -
hurst,
rather
Daan waxES