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HONGKONG LABOUR.
Amalgamation of Unions,
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TELEGRAPH,
The proposal ta farm a single union to supplant the two existing general tour associations |Hongkong is attracting many seem.
The pr ingly ardent supportets. ject was once mare discussed at a inacting of labour leaders in the Jace of the King Then Tsung Wal Geders! Latour l'aisai co Tues day night, at which represenURLIVES | of the labour guilds which belong to neither of the two general issocia tion, were mare in cumber than A at the meeting on Sunday last. good deal of interest arose over the representation of the Engineers" lastitute and mae other guilla which hal hilberto maintained an independent attitude and have aftea held aleci from the work of {the Ka Tare Teang Mai sod
Wah Kuat Tawny W (Chinese)
This Cara) General about fre-b combination is said to have expressed its willingness to help in bringing about the rastian of A parent body.
jour meeting Tuesday's Headers were appointed to present la petition to the Secretary for
Chinese Affairs solleiting his per! misia for the formation vi aj temporary surety to make the These COCUSTATY urso gefnent-. representatives handed the petitio to an Besistant in the Svetary for Chinese Adair ye-teniny morning and were told that sply wedd be given sites the petitios bad town: e-ided by the Hon. Mr. E. R Hallfax, the Secretary for Chrow |
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As stated in this paper on Tues day, the closing of the lip Tun
AL!! Gal bakers, houseless others and the Hongkong-Wuchow! Seamen's lots was discussed at the meeting. Representatives from both guide explained the evenin
THURSDAY. MARCH 1. 1923,
FINERY FOR THE YOUNG
How desirable to begin it in pretty clothes--in such frilled or plested frocks as those worn by the damsels jus! above and directly to the left?
The pleated dress and the one next to it are recom- mended also for school, on account of their pescucal good style.
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The bars suits are of various woollen and cotton materials, with pongee or linen callara and cuffs. party suit is almost sure to be of velvet.
-tance leading to the suppressio ITALY'S NEW HIGHWAY. 6) their cabas.
tale that a
The
A proposal wil
A Great Motor Road. petition, to be rebopped" be all labour map in the ful my, be
Italy has begun the construction forwarded
theeranat tr the
of a road which will be the first in eatreating them to permit the reall the world to be built for the
exclusive use of motor vehicles. opening of the closed quid- proposal was Avgatived (B
It will be 86 kilometres long. Restion being dis - that the two will run from Milso to the Italian
-bould fins thema-ives'
lakes and connect with the Alpine the sanction endeavour to obtain
roads beyond, and it is firmly E: we also lot the Government.
suggested that the two guilds should intended to finish the construction
pestis
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elect new edice beaters ani then approach the watarities
A JAVA DRAMA.
Friend Mistaken for
Burglar.
this year.
It will bare a, tarred cement surface, dustless and impervions to rein: will be 10 metres wide ard have a 2-metre-wide track on either side for the use of push- egelica. The main road will carts only motor vehicles, care, lorries, and motor rycles, and no other form of teathe thin motor will be allowed on the road.
The construction is being under-
FLUCTUATING VALUE,
A Damaged Chinese Picture. In the King's Bench Division before the Lord Chief Justice, on January 17. Mr. Charles Hartneli Sinclair, of 22, Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W., sought to recover from Messrs. Yamaraka and Co., Ltd. Conese and Japanese antique dealers, of New Bond- to a picture owing to allegef street, London, damages for injury of the defendants' negli.ence agent. The defendants denied that their agent was negligent.
Mr. Charies, K.C., in opening the case, said that the picture #23 painted in 1580 on very fine and It was called delicate silk fabric.
The Old Man's Paradise," and was valued at £450. The plaintiff bought the picture with a number of other Chinese antiques some As he wished to sell A terrible drama terminating in a fatal tragedy, as enactel inaken by a newly-fisted com- years ago.
pany. the financial difficulties j the articles, he got into touch Sourabaya early in February.
which have for long steed in the, with the defendants, who sent their expert. to The heer Mittelmeyer, employ way of the conter plated scheme Mr. Sugine.
examine them. The picture was led at the government railway having been overcome largely
about ft. long and 6 ft. wide, ofice, had for some time been with the gond will and interest of accommodating an, ucerpployed Signor Mussolini, who is himself with rollers at each end. Mr. The cast is Sugano examined it at Mr. Sin friend from Australia, a certains keer motorist.
a! 60,000/00 lire clair's Ost, instead of unrolling it! Laufer, in his house and they estimated both shared the same bedroom. (present rate of exchange being i on the isor he laid it on a small At about 330 that morning about 90 lire to the 41 and the Laufer wished to leave the room intention is to derive an income and happened to be just at the from tells to be impud
using the road, B door opening when Mittelmeger motoris's awoke, saW Laufers silhouette average coll of 12 Hire per vehicle and, believing him to be a thief, being the intended rate.
This is certainly reasonable zrakped his revolver and fired point blank
at the unfortunate enough, and it is anticipated that man, who sank to the ground there are few motorists making mortally wounded
the journey between the lakes The sictim was immediately and Milan who will not gladly ¡tre, spried to the hospital, but pay this amount fray 961. at rate of chang-) for the pleasure Idied a few hours later,
of driving on a wide, ged-surfac- ed road with only two curves in
TWO THOUSAND A DAY.
on
table. During the examination
Mr. Sugano dropped one end of the picture, and it was ripped by the sharp edge of the table and was irretrievably spoilt. Instead of being worth $150, it was not nor worth more than £23. When asked what he was going to do to repay the plaintiff for the damage, Mr. Sugano simply aid that he
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After bearing evidence from both sides, the Judge held that the defendants were liable for the negligence of Mr. Sagano. The value of the picture, he said.
between the fastidious pessimism of the collectors called for the defendants and the rosy optimism of the dealers called for the plaintiff. He assessed the value st £10, and gare jude:gent for the plaintiff for that amount,
with costs.
The her Mittelm per Was taken up by the police authoritie the very next moraits and the fits whole length of 86 kilometres.
and no towns or villages on the rented clearly resultant investization proved that there was absolutely way to pull up the speid-man. ro question of any premeditated
Judging from the motor traffic Assault. The relations between himsel and his victim had always of recent years, it is fully expect ed that at least 2.00) motors a been of the first.
A couple of years ago Mittel-day will use the new road and meger house was broken into pay toll, so that with and all his savings robled, and income of some 8,4000 lire & that so frightened him that the year the road should prove a pro- fear of a further violation of hisfitable undertaking. Altogether, property had grown to be almost part from its money-making pos- an obsession with him. this per-sibilities, however, the road can haps explaining his immediate not fail to confer great benefits on action on being confronted with the very important industrial district it passes through and the the figure at the doorway.
manufacturing towns past which it will ruc.
The heer Mittelmeger was liberated after the investigation. His victim was 30 years of aze and unmarried.Ima Tribar.
gross
It was only last year that the
expected that any part of this subsidy will be required, the Gov- ernment security gives the bads an assured standing, and will en- courage their taking up by local authorities through whose dis. ( tricts the road will pass and whose communities will benefit by it.
The whole scheme would ap
scheme was seriously considered pear to be built on the sourdest, at A meeting of the Italian possible basia, and it may well be Touring Club in Milan, and this asked whether there could not be
here some similar) club, the Touring Club, and the initiated POLICEPROSECUTETHEMSELVES. bead of a firm of road-making cheroes which would provide At Aldershot Police Court, the engineers are largely responsible keen motorists with exclusively other day Superintendent Davis for the enterprise, and for arous-motor roads at little or no cost to suramoned one of his own police- ing the interest and enlisting the the country, and with the ad- sergeants for having allowed the support of Signor Mussolini. ditional advantage of providing chimney of the police office to
An agreement has been formed good employment for great huma catch Bre. The Superintendent with the Government,under whichbers of workers. explained that he should really they undertake to provide a sub- have summoned bimself, but the sidy of one and a half million sergeant was in charge of the fire a year for 50 years in office, and so accepted responsi-the
profits bility. The Bench dismissed the not being arough to provide in case on payment of costs.
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