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DEATH.
DAY.--At the Government Civil Hospital, on February 8th., 1924. Harold H. Day, of the Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd., sged 30 years. Funeral passes the Monument at 5 p.m. to-day.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT...
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 9th Feb., 1924.
fortunately not very oftepi
the relationships: between holders” and directors : of public campäänien ever became an
Bulls and Inners
From the Offen Batts.
ntary" discussions, there | strained as they are to-day in the
There is no truth in the theory Another method des may be but from all that has Green Island Cement Company,
The extraordinary general most-that Hongkong's recent Military shaving... – No girl want transpired during the past few ing held on Thursday at which over-contributions were in the a human hair brush. months we feel sure that more four of the directors rasigued be- nature of a secret reserve. will get be heard of what can cause they interpreted the actioni fittingly be described as an amazing affair.
of shareholders as tantamount to
From the look of some of the Evin cement will not keep books, your favourite äuthor a vote of no confidence was not some shareholders and directors is dear at $1,00, only one of the most outstanding together,
.
We thought at first it was a
tised a book entitled Girth Control"
Our reasons for approaching happenings of the week, but is
I probably without presedent in the What some of these share mistake whan a local shop adver the subject again and giving ikhistory of public companies here. holders want is evidently a rein- such a measure of publlaity in So far as the merits of the dispute forced cement Directorate. our columne, is that we have been areconcerned whetherthe policy advocated by Mr. D. G. M. Bar enabled to peruse a defence of his hard or that followed by the have been booming since our The Soviet has decided to com
Markat raport Firecrackers position which the late Trade shareholders is the belter it is last report.
him from his
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Whisky won Fou're well
makes you sick? Whisky makes you well when
you're sick!
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Judging from recant ecutions, Russia would still appear to be revolving.
The women of every nation,
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The Hongkong Police cannot use dogs to smell out pirates, for how then could we buy soupineat and shares?
If this intensive advertising continues, we shall next read of the man who loaned his landlord
the revolver.
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One way of disposing of Mar-
make it the first prize in the Hongkong Ching Foo Sweepstake?
We're still awaiting Ramsay MacDonald's answer.
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What we need most is a pony measuring device to forecast the length of its kick.
Judging from the dances ar- ranged for the Shanghai Billiard team, we should think Hongkong, would win easily.
The way of the wicked is hard.
menco business with Greece. Commissioner is sending to the not our purpose to discuss them. Commonwealth Government and We don't know enough about the
"Londonere Admire The "intelligant" compositor workings of the Company for one who referred to the Boar of Palice," says a newspaper head- to every Australian M.P. with a thing and we don't know any Education must have meant a ing. Excepting the people who ples for their further considera- " inner history "for another. But
get jugged, we presume. tion of his case. Mr. Little sets we do think we are privileged to out the various charges made express regret that at a meeting of
so important a local concern such Memarise this after reading it against him, and replies to each uncompromising attitudes should in turn. in A manner very have been displayed. It must be frank and appareatly convincing, assumed that both directors and ahareholders were actuated in
A problem for youthful arith- He declares that the attack made holding the views they did by a
maticians,—If it takes the War on bim in the Australian Parlia- | desire to do the best for the Com
Office and the Government forty We should think more af Sir years to agree to the sale of ment took him entirely unawares; pany of which they are part
owners, and, surely, some pre- John Oakley's "greeting" in his military lands, how long will it certain undisclosed information timinary feelers could have award if it had not been accom- take the Churches of England in the possession of the Ministry been exchanged before the meet-panied by a bill for about seven- and Rome to unite! was referred to in a manner thating and so have avoided the teen million dollars. suggested misdemeanour on the spectacle of a public rupture. It
was surely unique to see. share- As it is, we feel likę doing the excepting "Egypt, do not agres Commissioner's part; and the holders forcing directors to take greatin' oorsel's. ¡report made by Senator Bakhap more money from them, and it
(who went to Shanghai to in-was equally unique to see direc- The monthly report. of the
tors attempting to refuse it, but Hongkong S.P.A.C. shows that The question will most pro Testigate) has not been given its inasmuch as the question was one there were fourteen sheep and bably be referred to the League of due consideration. This report wholly concerning the future de-goats seen ashore during Janu- Notions. completely sxonerates Mr. Little velopment of the Company it is ary. We observed far more than
* If these Colorums continue to from every charge made against hard to see why some compromise that in Brokers' Alley in one day. could not have been effected. The
misbehave they will run a grave him. besides supporting the lesson of it all is, to our minds. A fire interrupted a wedding in risk of getting their pictures in suggestion that he was the victim that Ibcal shareholders are de-London, but it went out. Bet the newspapers. Mr. Thomas Petrie returns of deliberate misrepresentation. (termined to become more artica-that's more than the bridegroom sincere thanks to his many Mr. Little states in the course of fate than has been customary inlcan do now. friends for their sympathy in bis
past years. And, so far as that bereavement and for the floral his defence that be disclosed the is concerned, we can see nothing tributes to his dear wife.
whole of bis financial interests at which to object. in China to the Commonwealth A Fine Site. Government and scrupulously One of the most pleasing
Friday is fish day. Suppose observed their conditions: be features of the settlement of the proved he had no investments military lands question, if it be the bachelors will be the poor
affected, will be the eventual; fish on Friday, 29th February. whatever in a Shanghai firma secaring for the public of that bearing his name and did not big stretch of ground or Nathan bit thick for the Mule's Home ray Parade Ground. Why not give them trading preference: Road. Kowloon, which is bounded in Kowloon.
on the one side by Haiphong AN AMAZING AFFAIR. he did alt be could to
Road and on the other by Austin) obtain publicity for all the Road. The whole plot comes to A few months ago the com-
samples arriving from Australia; over 78 acres, but, of course, în
Statistics show that if mercial world of China learned certain significant passages in the eventual lay-out a consider-
able portion will have to come off work hard we may pay all last with interest of a decision by the
cables sent to the Government by this for roads, etc. Nevertheless, Christmas bills before December Australian Government to close
his accusers were omitted from it is a fice piece of ground. and 25th this year.
be something its Trade Coromissioner's office the Parlamentary report; threats it will
much to the good when it is put One thing about Leap Year, in Shanghai and dispense with were uttered to him that every to better use then the stabling of it gives us an extra night out. the services of Mr. Edward S. attempt would be made to oust mules, etc. We are wondering Little, the Commissioner. This
position he what will be the ultimate fate Cigar business at Home only information came in the form of a naturally made no profit out of of this area. It would, of course, increased four per cent. last year, make quite a fine European despite the fact that there was a his salary (which was not ex-reservation. but newspaper extract, first repro-
this is an-General Election. duced in one of the Shanghai cessive for his office) as it was in likely in view of the character
taels and was spent in China as of the plans laid down for the The printer's "devil' who dailies. which gave a fairly full
future development of the whole made a contemporary refer to account of a discussion in the such various persons asmed of Kowloon Point. We do hope, the festive week as these fast Commonwealth Parliament of by his accusers actually testified however, that the Government few days "deserves promotion.
in his favour; Senator Bakhap| will not permit this site. the alleged peccadilloes of the Trade Commissioner. and the was thoroughly impartial in his situate on such a magnificent
road, being put to whatever declined last year. We thought How about the Boxing Associa seeming lack of benefit from his investigation, which fully exo-purpose the eventual purchasers ao-nobody seemed to have any tion staging the next Company
nerated Mr. Little; he was not think fit. It would be something when our pipe got empty. activities. Among the charges
meeting? accorded fair treatment by the approaching a disgrace were the brought against Mr. Little were
Nathan Road frontage. for: Statistics show that 45,093,982 Directors on the knock-out Government: and, in short. be example, to be utilised for the banches of bananas were sold system would surely appeal to his alleged neglect of opportun
declares he was the victim of erection of Chinese shops, either last year in the States. ities for pushing Australian
That the public. deliberate calumnies. He refers with or without the customery song-writer must be a liar. trade by giving preference to a business in which he
to the supposed enquiries by an tenements above. There should
The individual who entertained M.P. in Hongkong, whom thewhereby a measure of control is
some provision laid down The days are getting longer residents in the vicinity of the supposed to be interested financially. bis "alleged general;
local Chamber of Commerce had exercised by the authorities over claim that the Labour Govern- "selections until 1.15 this morning Suppose somebody will lower tram station with bagpipe not even heard of during his the type of building to be allowed ment is responsible! unpopularity with the
has about as much thought for his apparently short visit to the port, suggestion, we know that mercial community. and
others as a banana skin on a wet
alleged profitable "deal" out of
If your Leap Year prospect pavement Above is a brief summary of shall have with us the support the exchange fluctuations in his Mr. Little's defence. He publishes of the majority of the European hairbrush will toughen your lips Overheard on the ferry. The
residents of the peninsula. salary of taels compared within full all documents connected
sweet thing, reading her Post, to her mere male; "How is it so Australian pound. There with the matter, apparently sure,
"An Introduction to the Study many of these naval boxers have were minor charges of other of the verdict of any unbiassed TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. of Alternating Currents" ought to the same initials?" kinds as well. Were one to investigators. "He appeals for
have a ready sale among local accept those allegations as cor- justice to the "profound sense of rect-and the impression made right." irrespective of political by a Parliamentary discussion feeling, which exists in the hearts
Half of our politicians are fit on the minds of the general pub-of men of British race. If the read by Mr. John H. Anderson "almost everybody wishes to for nothing, and the other half fit lic would naturally be a serious facts are as Mr. Little states before the Institute of Marine bave his hair cut." This is one for anything!
barberous custom that hasn't Engineers. one-there could be no occasion them, then he has certainly Mr. Anderson said that an died out.
From an American for surprise at Mr. Little's dis-suffered a severe blow to his average of two hundred vessels
"Bootlegger Loses Suit". Better missal. On the other hand, were prestige and reputation for in-per annum were destroyed from Under the heading "Sports of that than his case 1 one to learn that the accusations tegrity, which he claims extends fires caused by spontaneous sl Sorts," the Post gives figures were unfounded, the only feeling over 37 years, in the Far East bunkers. Broadly speaking, all Belgian forces in the Ruhr are now cursing the man who ignition of the coal in ships of the reduction in the Franco- Some of our whipped criminals towards Mr. Little could be a If there has been the deliberate coal was liable to spontane France evidently wins, because invented salt. deep sympathy and a hope that campaign of false accusations ous ignition under certain condi- her figure is 30,000 to Belgium's be would receive adequate re-which he refers to in his defence, tions: Old heaps of coal should 4,000.
be cleared out of a hold before dress. We are not acquainted then he has been the victim of a new coat was put in, because the
Rever put off till to-morrow with any of the parties to this terrible injustice. We trust that new coal was easily fired by the whom you can do to-day. dispute, and we do not know any if he be able to vindicate himself beat from the older stuff. Wood should be absolutely probibited of them even by sight, but before the representatives of
If you want to stay single dur in every place where bunkering Leap Year, wear your Christ we feel that the matter the Commonwealth Government, coal was stored. Where large mas ties. bas become one for a wider there will immediately be a public tonnages of coal were put into publicity than it has receiv retraction of the grave charges seen the coal was not piled up dress instead of going naked, you coast could find nothing so eat one great space it should be
If you ask her why she doesn't Sailors wrecked off the Alaskan ed; and as absolutely impartial he has had to face. That would above the height where it was may remain a bachelor during excepting porcupines. Stuck up commentators we can leave those be the very least that would be safe to vent itself without Leap Year. of our readers who care to con.due to him."
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A Canton contemporary says
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