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VAULT DOORS. British justice, witnes
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DAY BY DAY.
A. D. C. PRODUCTION,
The Dancing and the Music.
avidity with which they take their business disputes into Court. And it would be British justice which they would get| from a body such as is suggested: Other times, other needs. The
I THINK THE WAR HAS OURED EVERYBODY. OF NATIONALISA», TION.-Sir Alfred Hond
Once again there was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
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[old method has been tried and has
been found wanting. It unduly The Sunning Railway has paid protracts negotiations and lacks a four per cent. dividend the authority and power. We there at since its inception seventeen fore earnestly appeal for the creation of some such body 19 wa The new Governor of Macao, have mentioned above. Practical Dr. Rodrigo Rodriques, is due politics demand the consideration here on the Atsuta Maru earls
years ago.
CANTON NEWS
The Portal Rates
Our Canton correspondent
It is always easy to overstep statee that a tbe Postmas the differences in taste between General has declined to comply the Seventeenth Century and the with the request: that the in- Twentisth. The dancing and creased postal rater should be music, which are most important abolished, Mr. Low Yak-lin, the elements in "The Tempest," serva Commissioner for Foreign Affaire, to remind us that the English called on him on the 15th, instans theatre-goer had the same loves and had a long conference with then as now. Shakespeare was bim on the subject. always remarkable for the four- Members of the Provinciál რlessness with which he would sembir hace requested the Civil coocool dramatis mixtures odious Governor to 'call a special masi- to the more academically-minded ing on the 15th. Instant to deal critics. The author who orasted with the question of the improve- Romantic Drama by sweeping ment of the banknotes and to aside all the classical theories of rechire the Budget repart. The available for the prevention of It is stated that the Chinese those who would keep tragedy Civil Governor, however, has re- labour stoppages. Nothing would Army officer who killed two and and comedy separate as distinct plied that the Treasurer has been Specifications on Appliebe lost by making the experi-wounded two other policemen in kinds, must have revelled in the instructed to do his best to improve Canton has confessed to his production of "The Tempest" the encrency, and that as finan ment, anyhow. And it is possible crime.
because he wrote it to include jotal reports from various parts of that everything might be gained.
masque and a ballet. Nawhere the province have not yet been Mr. G. P. Lammert informs us else does he extend to the sister received, there is no necessity to that he is in receitp of advice to aris & more liberal invitation to call & maating before the end of the effect that "Shells" bave de-supplement his dramatic art. This the present year. clared an interim dividend of two invitation to the dancer, the The following items'arà. from shillings.
singer, and the musician, provides the Canton Times-According to
tion to
MUSTARD & Co.
Distributors.
The Telegraph.
of other means than those now
Labour In Parliament.
Immediately after the recen: General Eleqtion, we predicted some lively times in Parliament whenever the big Labour element
in the new year.
"
A great opportunity for the the Southern News Agency, the An intimation has been receiv-modern producer. It is not only Canton Government is sending
Canton Police, there are now 918
of the Opposition got going. The ed that Shanghai intends to send in conformity with the popular detectives to Hongkong and Ma- 17, Connaught Road, Central breeze" over the question of an interpors football team here taste of the day, but it provides to prevent further smuggling unemployment bears out this during the Chinese New Year an opportunity for adding soms of arms from those ports to
thing to Shakespeare at Shake-Canton. holidays. forecast, and may be taken as an
speare's request and without According to the report of the earnest of what is likely to come
soy risk of being in the future. Leaving aside the A Sale of Work is being held incurring cause of the uproar for the in the Diocesan Girls School,aid to misrepresent our great places of public worship, includ- poet. As Shakespeare wrote no ing monasteride, manneris, an- moment, it is interesting to con- Kowloon, to-morrow, Saturday; music and had no stage directions cestral temples, and others. It sider the marked tone of hostility from 3 p.m. till 6 p.m. in aid of for the steps of his dancea, he is the desire of the City Goveza- to the Government displayed. School Funds.-dørt. and, one might almost say, the
HONGKONG, 15th Dec., 1922.
NEED OF AN ARBITRATION BOARD.
very threatening words on one The Toro Kisen Kaisha has Labour member, who indicated the issued an attractive wall calendar, possibility of a resort to mob vio-each sheet bearing a striking lance if the working classes did not Japanese picture in colours, to get what their representatives in gether with two months' dates. the Hoces demanded. No doubt |
news
obviously expected such things to meat to impose a tax on this be composed on the occasion of holding, and all these institutions production. As there is no special have been requested to submit reason why Prospero's spirits their land deeds and titlen for should dance in an Elizabethan inspection. manner rather than in a modera According to a local The bakers' strike, a relatively
style, the producer is entitled to agency report from the provincial choose the music, as hechooses the Educational Commission, there small thing in itself, raises the much is said in the heat of debate | Amongst the passengers who scenery and costame, and as ha are now 19,139 persons in Kwang- question of the need for some which is not really intended, but left by the President Jackson decides the gesture of the actor. tuog engaged as teachern. Of
all the same, words of this kind yesterday were Mr. better machinery than at present leave a nasty impression go all Skinner Turner, Mr. S. Sashio pratation of the play. For the from Normal Schools; 3,463, from Justice in accordance with his own inter these, 1.076 have been graduated settlement of sober-minded members of the (the Japanese tennis player) and present production, dances and Normal Institute 3,209, from labour disputes. Unhappily, public, and are not likely to Mr. Roy C. Burdia. the tendency at present is advance the cause of Labour or the rather towards the multiplication much for that Turning to the res-Institution of Shipbuilders and interests of the unemployed. So
At a meeting of members of the
exists for the
seeks to adjust the differences,
|Harman) it was decided to hold
musical settings Live arranged by local talest.
been Middle Schools; 1,346, from other schools of high standing; 4,246. from Higher Primary Schools; | 1,356,havə attended otbar soboole while 4,238 have not attended
modern schools but only the old
classical schools.
of these periodical stoppages son of all the commotion, we think Engineers last night, presided CONFLICTING STORIES. than otherwise. That fact alone the Government might have been warrants every possible avenue those advocating the cause of the the annual ball at the City Hall Convicted Man to be Used a little more sympathetic towards over by the President (Mr. G. J.
The fire at Sup Sam Hong early being explored in the attempt to out-of-work. The soft answer
on the morning of December 8 prevent strikes from occurring. turneth away wrath. That there on January 26th.
.as Witnesa.
caused damage of some 8473,000 After serious consideration of are thousands of unemployed in
to the many insuranos companies Britain who are suffering great
Mr. J. R. Wood (First Mag- Two Chinese youths were and agessies in Canton. Forty the question, we have come to privations is well knowa, and the istrateh, this morning, sentenced charged before Mr. J.R. Wood, at insurance ofices have given the the conclusion that the present Labour members of the House, Chinese youth to these months the Magistracy this morning, with foregoing figure. The Commer method, by which the Secretary coming as they do more closely in-hand labour, for snatching a cap, the theft of a box, containing pro-cial Insurance Company will to touch with the masses, are bost with a gold ornament, from the party to the value of $91. The have paid out $63,000, the largest for Chinese Affairs calls before qualified to plead on their behalf. head of a baby carried on the rabbery occurred between seven amount involved, if its claim are him representatives of botb
back of its mother, at Yaumati, and ten o'clock on Wednesday settled; while the Shanghai, the yesterday.
morning. Prisoners were arrested Nam Yuab, and others have parties to a dispute, and then The World's Navies.
yesterday, Hard on the heels of British
suffered $1,000 each. First defendant admitted the protests against their Govero- The Hongkong Fire Brigade
The Headquarters of the Army has had its day. It is lacking in meat's policy of trustfulaess in yesterday moved into its tem-offence.
of Kwangtung has instructed all effectiveness because there is naval matters, and the sugges porary new quarters in the build.
The second pleaded that he military stations to probibit the +T behind it nɔ power to enforce the tions that other Powers might ing recently raised on the old knew nothing about it. The box use of foreign flags, by Chinasa steal a march on us. comes a Victoria Theatre site, part of which was found in bis possession steam launches.. It is said that decisions reached by the S.C.A.,
suggestion from America along which has been rented from Mr.was handed bira by the first de- some Chiness have been avoiding however just and reasonable they the same lines, expressing M.J.D. Stephens for the purpose.fendant to keep while he went to the disadvantage of baring their may be.
similar fear as regards the United There is accommodation on the
vessels commandeered for military Sistes. It seems that there is a premises for over sixty firemen est defendant's statement after foreign flags.
It appears that, according to transportation by displaying Last year. in the early stages good deal of mutual suspicion whilst the new quarters are a of the seamen's strike, our con-still abroad, and that some of the distinct improvement on the old his arrest, the first man went to the house where the robbery took tributor, Rob. MacWhirter," countries that put their signatures in every way.
place at the invitation of the put forward the suggestion that to the Washingtoa pact would
second defendant. He remained not be sorry if the disarmament Labour Tribunal, or Arbitration provisions could now be ignored. will coutain groups of the Eow-went up and forced a door. The Our Picture Page to-morrow downstairs. bile the second
There was a pretty wedding at Board, be established for the Mr. Bonar Law has expressed the loon Deck Recreation Club's second man called him up and Shanghai on Lecember 9:b, when purpose of adjudicating upon
Government's grave disappoint-bowlers and their opponents, the gave him the box to carry away. Miss Irene Taylor and Mr. F. ment" over the continued delay Corinthians: a photo of the H.M.S. labour disputes as they arise. in ratification by two of the signa- Hawkins team which won the first defendant to three months Cathedral. the Very Rev. Dean The Magistrate sentenced the Scarborough were married at the One valuable proposal which he tories. Looking at the matter Chefoo Cap for raching whalers, imprisonment. He asked Inspt. Symons officiating. put forward in this connection dispassionately, it seems that, as and another of the team from the Earner, who prosecuted, to put was that in the case of the Labour with many documents of lesser sama ship which won the signal-the second man on a new recordi import that came before the men's contest for racing whalets; and charge him before Mr. R.E. Guilds it be made a condition Courts of Law, the Washington as well as a picture of the 3.5. Lindsell to-morrow with robbery of registration that all repre-Treaty has been so worded. no Hai Sang as she lies wrecked in and receiving stolen property, sentations with regard to wages doubt quite unintentionally, as to the West River.
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The
and working conditions be re-those parties desiring to could ferred to the Tribunal, in the fescaps their obligations. It is We much regret to record the event of iustility to reach an unthinkable that a nation ranking and oldest Portuguese residents death of one of the best known agreement by mutual couces should wish to go back on a as of any importance in the world'
of the Colony, in the person of
A notice of reward has been issued by the Commissioner of sions. Such a Tribunal would solemn pledge of this kind, but at Mr. F.F. d'Azevedo, which took be a permanent body, and its the same time it would be of who was 17 years of age, was place yesterday. The deceased,
Police at Shanghai for infor- mation leading to the arrest and promulgations would have the little use to hold an unwilling born in Macao and for over thirty Twenty-three previous con-conviction of the perpetrators of
party to contract which might full weight of law, any opposi be considered a matter of life or old firm of Deacon and Co. He Caygill told Mr. R. E. Lindsell at berg, of the Victoria Theatre, in. years was bookkeeper with the rictions; all for stealing." Inspt. the murder of Bernard Golden- tion thereto incurring suitable death to the country concerned.. penalties, as
to Hongkong about the Magistracy this morning, his bedroom adjoining the theatre in the case
of Perhaps we are inclined to be breaches of the ordinary laws of cynical-we have good reason to quarter of a century ago and when an old-offender was found on November 27th. last.
be-but we think the best way served here with the Mercantile guilty of being in unlawful posses, amount of the reward is $3,000. the Colony. The suggested out of the business for all parties Bank and Messrs. Meyeringh and sion of skelton keys. The con-
his According to a visitor from Tribunal could well be formed of will be an admission that the Co. Much sympathy is felt with viction this morning was
bis five children in the bereave-twenty-fourth,
Honolulu who la prominent in an equal number of representa- Washington Conference was a
Prisoner's record showed that tennis, the United States Lawn tives of employers and guilds, with freedom of action existing before
mistake, and a return to the meat they bare sustained.
his life of crime started in 1905. Tennis Association is considering aufficiently elastic personnel to that maeting of Powers was called.
Most of the offences committed a plan to divide Davis Cup con-
eliminate members directly in-
were petty ones, except the last, testants next Summer into Euro- which was burglary and for which pean and Pacific zones for the terested in any particular dis-
he was sentenced to a term of preliminary matches, with Japan, pute, the Chairman thereof to be
Australia, New Zealand, the The following will represent three years. one of the Judges of the Supreme
the United Athletic Club in their Inept. Caygill said prisoner was Philippines, Hawaii, Canada and
recently Second Division League fixture, released only as Court. Such a body would, we
as various North and South Amer- Political Breach Healed.
against South China "B" team: October this year.
ican countries listed in the feel sure, command the 'respect
A Peking telegram states that Ozorio: Jackson, Chilton; The Magistrate to prisoner Pacific group, saya the Shanghai of all classes, and the workers, President Li Yuan bung has been Leonard, Mackenzie, Urquhart; You have just finished three ferning News. The plan has gone
so far that representatives' from / informed that the dispute between Botelho, Derry, Brown, May and years and here you are again.
To Inspt. Caygill;-Why has he| Japan, Australia, New Zealazel be able to feel that they could the Chibli and Fangtien parties Chabb
and the Philippineshays expressed has been mutually settled, and The following team will repres-never been banished? trust their case to its deliber-that the terms of the settlement ent the Club in their League The Inspector-He was locally approval and willingness to play next year in Hawaii if the plan is ations. With disinterested will be announced shortly. - game with the H.M.B. Titania:-born.
Another Peking message says Rodger: Gerrard; Bishop: Israel; In passing sentence, his Wor-adopted. This makes it a possi- Judge as Chairman, there would
that Wong Ching-ting has agreed Stewart; Me Phail (Capt), Purvis, ship said:-The most you canbility that Shanghai sorne day be a guarantee of fairness for all to act as Preinier for one week Forsyth; Begg Valentine and have is three months and that may see some Davis cop matubes,
weld the visitor. The Chinese, se we all know, only.
you shall have, England.
as well as the employers, would
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PEKING NEWS.
FOOTBALL.