1924-03-15

Oh! Dear!

My y do ache with all

this work.

I must call and see Lazarus

and have them corrected.

LAZARUS

12. Queen's ROMA CENTRAL

The wait Entumaas Caseras in the Jalong

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1981

六拜禮

五十月三英港香 SATURDAY

No. 12.135

FURTHER SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE.

BIG PAYMENT BY JAPANESE ALLEGED.

DAUGHERTY IMPEACHMENT CHARGES RECALLED.

(Reuter's Service.)

Washington March 14.

MARCH

15,

1924, 日盘十月弍

KOWLOON FIRE. A. S. WATSON AND GO.

CRACKER FACTORY

OUTBREAK.

when the

com-

the

A member of the committee reminded his colleagues that the Factory, a concern which does records of the Daugherty impeachment case contained an allegation a large business with the United! that Mr. Daugherty had failed to prosecute the aircraft case. also States. that there was over-payment of six and a half million dollars made) by the Government.

ROPE COMPANY.

HAWAIIAN MELODY.

MORE TAXIS.

KOWLOON S'RVICE COMING CON.

A RECORD YEART

WORKING,

CAPITAL TO INCREASED.

at the

Was

PETROL UP.

BAD NEWS FOR LOCAL

MOTORISTS. “

$3.70

and

In conversation with a well-

has come as

FüR next battery,

Fungus for the service tha render.

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.

Expert and constant European supervision.

revi! Telephone Central 5950.................A, J. Alfixon.

136 FER AXURE.

AN INTERESTING INDUSTRY.

HONGKONG TIN REFINING.

(Special to the "Telegraph.""}

KONGMOON NEWS.

LATEST POLITICAL

DEVELOPMENT8.

The

the

A fire which occurred at Mong-

Motorists will learn with inter- koktsui last night destroyed the

(Our Qux Correspondent) eat, and, we think, displaseuro. { that the price of gasoline in Hong whole of the ground floor and

Kongmoon, March 14th. partially damaged the upper

The feature at the annuallkong has again been raised.

High Street has nothing pre-

The position as regards the storeys of No. 166, Portland meeting of Messrs. A. S. Watson Intimation was given yesterday tentious about it Perhaps the bandits in the Sunwui district is Street. The building, with five and Co., Ltd., which took place by the big importing concerns majority of foreign residents in none the better for all the Mr. Gaston Means, former secret agent of the Department of others, was used for the manu- Hongkong Hotel this that the price has been raised by Hongkong don't know where it is Justice, gave sensational evidence before the Teapot Dome investiga-facture of fire crackers.

morning was the presentation of 1 for every eight gallons, muk-It is sway down near West Point measures hitherto taken by the which The outbreak. He testified that in February, 1922, in Washington tion committee. he received from a Japanese representing a large Japanese firm one menced in the ground floor of/a record account and the declaring an addition of 12 cents. per and it runs from Bonham Road Bureau of the United Volunteer)

tion of a record dividend, as well gallon..

on the east to-Pokfulam Road on Of course, success at the present hundred thousand dollars to end the Government prosecution in the No. 166, spread with alarming as an announcement of the Com- The retail price charged by the the west and intersects such well-day is measured in terms Standard Aircraft case. The witness said he turned the money over rapidity, but fortunately

can be accomplished. per four gallon capital. to the late Mr. Jess Smith, a friend of Mr. Daugherty. The witness Brigade were able to move up pany's intention to increase its larger garages up to yesterday known thoroughfares as Eastern money, without which nothing draw for non-members of the Street. To walk through High dificulty in the way of finance. Street, Centre Street and Western

Bureau has experienced, much described himself as a money carrier in the transaction for Mr. one of their engines installed in

Association Mr. Henry Humphreys pre-Automobile the sub-station nearby and dealt Smith and others.

Street is to walk through a very Mr. Chia Hon-chun, Director of He related that while he was making an "under cover" in with the flames before they sided, and other directors prosent $3.55 for members of the Associa-ordinary kind of thoroughfare: vestigation, which he believed was at the late Mr. Harding's in- could make much headway. Aware Sir Paul Chater, Mr. Jtion, the increase representing there's nothing in particular to the Bureau, has called a second

Ge-Scott Harston. and Mr. H. P. 131 per cent. for non-members stance, he questioned Mr. Mellon. Secretary of the Treasury, in con-series of small explosions

finst., sad it is hoped that vigorous nection with permits for the withdrawals of liquors, "and got him."curred

crackers White. with Mr. J H. Tarrant and just over. 14 per cent for attract attention, save, perhaps, meeting to be held on the 16th some vendors stalls and open anti-bandit measures will be Mr. Means declared that he questioned Senators Caruway and Lajbecame ignited but a plentiful (secretary) in attendance and members. „

cooking places of varying

taken as a result of the meeting. Follette after the latter had agitated for an investigation into the supply of water from hoses kept jabout fifteen shareholders. The

savouriness. For the rest there the conflagration under control, secretary having read the notice known garage proprietor this appears to be just the usual kind A few gun-boats have been de- Teapot Dorse case.

Me. Means, who also admitted he had been employed as a GerThe damage is unknown. convening the meeting, the chair-morning, a Telegraph representa of Chinese shops. But to walkspatched to Canton by the naval tire was told that the increase through a few of these Chinese authorities here, and it is report- man secret agent, and had been tried for murder, declared that he The building was occupied by man said: learned of the source of the hundred thousand dollars from Mr. Smith. the Hey Sun Flash Cracker

a great surprise-doorways and to witness, what is ad that they have something to CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.

More gasoline is being used here going on behind is to realise that do with the recent conflict_be- than ever fact which should High Street not only plays a tween the Hunanese and Yun- Gentlemen.-1 propose with tend to decrease rather than in very unique part in the commer-nanese troops in Canton your permission to take the Crease the price. The price inicial life of this Colony but that It seems as though there were raport and statement of ac- Hongkong is high compared to counts and auditors' report what it is in other parts of the lens, and even hundreds of thou-a conspiracy of silence about the

sands of dollars worth of valuable local papers

regarding as read. I have again the satis-world, and motorists have a right commercial metal is refined and political situation in the southern setion of presenting you with to know why the price has been stored in these seemingly mean part of the province. The large. record account and & record

30 greatly advanced.

little houses. Tell the average numbers of troops recently de- dividend. The increase of profit!

man that something like two milspatched from Kongmoon and for the period under review

lion pounds sterling worth of tin other sources to Yeung and amounts to $129,200.34.more than

is refined annually in Hongkong Yeungohun are an unmistakable THIS MORNING'S MEETING. LAST NIGHTS BIG SUCCESS

the profit for the previous twelve

and you will tell him something, indication that some important We fearn from M.A. H. Rowe, months. Of the above sum $61,834)

that surprises: be will wonder military development has been A: an extraordinary general The Hawaiian Troubadours had of the Hongkong and Kowloon has accrued from the sale of our

where it comes from, where it taking place down there. meeting of the Hongkong Rope a great reception at the Theatre Taxicab Company, ina: ten new Shakee and Stanley Street pro-

goes and why he hasn't heard Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Royal last night, when they gave taxicabs are being put on the roads parties, which you will observe

Lef it before. But there is quite held at the offices of the General their first performance in Hong here to-day, these being of a no longer figure in the accounts. THIRTY-FIVE YEARS

a romtam ittle story to be toldmander of the Military Vigilance Managers.

Shewan, kong. The audience thoroughly stronger type than those now The balance, viz. $57,365.34, re-

Forces, who was ordered some Messrs.

FAR EAST.

about Hongkong tin exports time ago to go to Yaaping to Tomes and Co., this morning appreciated the complete mastery operating. The new taxis will be presente increased trading profit,

how they have risen in quadrengthen the defence there, ha resolutions were adopted putting which each artiste hat over his able to climb up to Caine Road in a condition of affairs which I into effect the Company's decision for her instrument and encored second gear like ung other car, althink you will agree witit me lg ́a

A wide circle of friends in this and value and what the Govern-again been ordered to trans

his riles-be to increase the capital from the time and tire again.

different gear ratio being employ matter for mutual congratula part of the world will learn with ment has done to assist.

of Capt. WHERE IT COMES FROM. regret of the death $600,000 to $2,000,000,

Laylar Heywood in her dances ed to that of the cabs now inton.

further instructions. appealed to the imagination, but service. A further 20 cabs are

Joseph S. Lewingdon, late of the solutions were

Practically the whole of the You will note that a news.s. Chung On, who has succumbed unrefined tin which comes here is "1. That there be offered at it is difficult to individualise the now being uploaded and will soon par in the first instance to the whole company being saexcellent. be put into commission, whilst Property features for the first at Home three months after an from the province of Yunnan. It missioner of Finance at Canton, members of the Company who The sage settings were extremely a still further 20 are on shipment time in our accounts, what we operation for cancer in Charing comes down by rail from Yun-arrived at Sunning on the 12th, on the 15th day of March 1924 effective.

and will be here within a month. Call the Honam Island site. This, Cross Hospital Capt Lewingdon nanfu to Haiphong and is thence inst. He was escorted by a guard are registered in the Company's

well This will make, altogether, 50 new when we have accquired the left Hongkong early in August brought by steamer to this port composed of Hananese soldiers " Share Register as the holders of arranged and diversified, and it is taxicabs, and as there are 30 in additional piece of land we are in last, owing to his ill-health, after At one time it was thought that over 100 in number. He brought of the present issued share capital: being changed for this evening's operation already. Hongkong will treaty for, will measure some 21 35 years in the Far East. At the it would be better to carry the with him some rifles and ammuni- It is situated next to time of his death he was 62 years metal by overland routes totion which he had bought at of the Company viz. 150,000 performance:

soon be served by a fleet of 80 of mow. shares of $10 each out of a We understand that the Com-these motor vehicles plying for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's old. He was well-known, and Canton, but as these routes are Canton for Mr. Lau Chor-po, the nominal capital of 200.000 shares pany will appear at Cantou on hire. Licence numbers for these property and has a considerable much liked, all up and down this unsafe, owing to their being in- Magistrate of of $10 each) one new share for: Monday and Tuesday, will then new taxis bave been reserved and water frontage, the depth of water coast. A keen Volunteer, he was fested with brigands, and owing to welcomed Mr. Mui at the railway every complete number of three, go to Macao for Thursday, Friday will range from Nos. 1250 to 1299. st. low tide being sufficient to for several years in the local park animals being expensive and station and later entertained him

The Reserve,Co. He leaves a widow difficult to obtain, the rail and sea in his gamen. old shares hold by them res- and Saturday, and will return Work is now in progress on the Boat coasting steamers. pectively and so that on accept for a brief season at the Star new garage for Kowloon, nex: to intention is to remove our existing at Home. and much sympathy roste has been found to be the the will be extended to her in her only one practicable. The maxi- ance of the offer the nominal Theatre. Kowloon on the fo the Railway Station, and it is aerated water factory on

Shameen to this site. -Wall033. amount of $10 due in respect of lowing Sunday, Monday and hoped to have taxicabs running

to build each of such new shares shall be Tuesday.

in Kowloon in about two months originally intended

a new factory on the Shameen time. payable as to the sum of $1.00

and with that end in view, we part thereof.on acceptance of

purchased Shamsen. Lot No. 82 such offer and as to the balance thereof at such time or times as the General Managers of the! Company shall see fit to make a call or calls in respect of the Restriction on Trade Unions

The re-

same. Provided nevertheless that i

holders whose place of address is

The programme. was

· CONSERVATIVE BILL DEFEATED.

Sought.

Lordon, March 14.

The House of Commons by 211

included as

they contract out.

THE "CHONGVA.”

DEATH OF CAPT. LEWINGDON.

1922 bad

mum output of the Yunnan mines as at present organised is put at from 9,000 to 10,000 tons per anaum and the average for recent Fears is said to have been from 8,000 to 9,000 tons.

The refining business in Hong-

General Lan Kwok-fum, Com-

3. Mai Kwong phủi ox Com

Sunning, who

TO-DAY.

Closing Exchange 2s. 4. 1/16. Lighting -Time 6.33 p.m.

tested

and

respect of any odd share or shares believe. He asserted that mem-terday that salvage operations issue of 30,000 shares at par in the often that directors were the ready for testing and export The{from that time refiners bave

bers seeking to contract out bad on the stranded vessel may com-proportion of one new share for recipients of been intimidated.

mence next month, when it is three old. In view of the high price marks; as it was the said new shares shall be fully Mr. Tom Smith, moving the hoped the weather, will be more at which our shares now stand (a for them to listen to hard words paid up they shall vis-a-vis the rejection, declared that the reason propitious for this undertaking. said 150,000 old shares only rank for the Bill was that the Con- for dividend in proportion to the

for $45.000, but the expansion of Our audit is a very long affair, our Canton business has been and covers a period, from start such that we are convinced that to finish, of several months.

I have no further remarks to kong is entirely in Chinese hands, the Shameen Lot will be too

STILL HIGH AND DRY.

small for our requirements. No make, gentlemen, and now pro-firms of other nationalities only A few years ago harm has been done, however, as pose that the report and state-handling the tin sfier importation at least three months' prior notice of any such call shall be

The Portuguese master of the Property on the Shameen has ment of accounts as presented be and refining.

appreciated since we bought and passed. When the motion is duly one of the foreign firms tried to a discount in the market owing given.

Caongea which is still in the meantime--pending the seconded, I shall be pleased to do its own refining but found that to the fact that its standard of share-it could not do it so cheaply or so purity could not be relied upon. any questions 2.-Taat such offer, be made to 129 rejected the second reading 5. 5.

of the Trade Union Act of 1913 stranded at Mo Fu Point, in the construction of a new factory on answer

well as the Chinese. It is cer-and that the "chops" of the re- tainly true that the Chinese fineries offered no guarantee. by notice specifying the bumber Amendment Bill, providing that Hainan Straits, returned to the Honam Island-onz Shameen lot holders may have to ask. of shares to which the member is when a trade union passed a Colony a few days ago to report

than pays for itself,

CONGRATULATIONS. refineries, in High Street, contain American buyers-and it is to entitled and limiting a time within resolution in favour of political to the owners of the Company saving

does as it

"mach

no elaborate or expensive plant. America that the bulk of our tin

have. which the offer if not accepted by action the members desiring to that the ship was still in a money in godown

rent and In seconding the report and

A big cauldron is set in a hole in is sold-would scarcely the member on behalf of himself!

contribute to the support of fintact condition. The vessel is Gre insurance. We shall com-accounts, Mr. C. B. Brooke con-

fed with large-sized firewood. the Government came along and, or his nominee will be deemed to politics! objects shall indicate stranded high and dry on the flats mence building operations ongratulated the directors on their the floor, and under it is a furnace anything to do with it. Then be declined and that the General Managers be at liberty to fix such their desire in writing, and shall and is being closely guarded by the new factory as soon as we successful administration and Tin melts at a fairly low tempers through the Government Analyst, time and (in the case of share not as heretofore be automatically armed watchmen lent by the have acquired the piece of extra the excellent results obtained. tare, as is well-known, and the began to test the refined tin and

year land already alluded to, and plans The

been impurities and foreign substances to issue certificates. During the supporters unless village near-by.

The Chongva being of Por-and tenders are approved. They considered

record obe for and their way to the bottom of war, when practically the whole not in Hongkong) to extend it to Mr. Ainsworth (Conservative) tuguese registry, Captain Pes will entail the expenditure of not the Company. but it had been the cauldron the fluid metal on of the local output was bought on such date or dates as they may moving the second reading said sanha bas gone to Macao to hand lass than three lakhs, possibly eclipsed by the past year. He the top being of almost 100 per behalf of the British Govern- The molten ment for war purposes, every think ft.

cent. fineness. the object was to prevent trade in an official report of the mishap more, and we therefore propose as referred to the specific evidence 3.That no shareholder shall

from 1st. November next to in-of the Company's progress. be entitled to any offer of a unions insisting on their members to the Macao Harbour Master.

Officials of the Company told crease the capital of the Company

In thanking him, Mr. Ham-etal is poured into moulds little bit of tin, wat

and thus are made the slabs all before being sent away said it was not fraction fan additional share in paying contributions for political

purposes in which they did not a Telegraph representative yes- from $900,000 to $1,200,000 by the phreys

capital of a tin reider so far as his realised the value of the Govern- held by such shareholder.

working plant is concerned must mant stamp on the slabs of refined "4.-That until such time as

be extremely low compared with metal At the present day, the the great value of the metal he is Hongkong Government stamp is accepted by buyers the world over handling.

A CURIOUS PROCEDURE and Hongkong refined tia fiods a Chinese are ever a suspicious ready market. people and the tin slabs for sale The method of taking samples locally are treated in a curious is also quite interesting. A core way. When the refined metal is of the metal is drilled out of each first poured into the moulds, it is slab and this core is tested in the not allowed to cool down in the Government Laboratory. A Gov- On the proposal of the Chair ordinary way. By quickly chill-emment stamp is affixed to the Reserve Fund, Staff Provident man, seconded by Mr.J.M. Alves, ing the sides by means of cold slabs, but should the test result in Fund and Chinese Staff Buyer the following directors were re-water, the sides contact so mush proving that the tin is not up to elected:-Sir Paul Chater, Mr. J.quicker, than the addie that the correct standard of purity, the annuation Fund meet with your approval. As regards the Staff Scott Harston, and Mr. H. Pdeep crack is made right down Government stamps are erased the centre of the slab, thus ex- and the whole block of slabs has Provident Fund, only those who

Messrs. C. Bernard Brown and posing to view the metal right to be refined again. A fee is have been substribers one year of H. Greenwood wers re-elected down to the bottom. A chop charged for testing and out of this mofe prior to October 31st. 1923, will participate in the allocation auditors for the ensuing year, at or a stamp is not nearly so con-income is paid the cost of employ s remuneration of $750 each, on vincing to the Chinese merchant ing an official sampler and all the The auditors, have, subject to the proposal of Mr. D. E. Clark as a "look see" for himself, your confirmation, been granted seconded by Mr. G. A. Lawrence, an increased remmeration of Tais concluded the business of $300 per annum between them. the meeting...

servatives were anxious with

ratio borne by the amount paid up thereon in respect of the regard to the progress of the

nominal value thereof to the full nominal value ($10) thereof.

He denied the Labour Party. allegation of intimidation, and declared if the trade unionists, 5. That any of the said shares which shall not be taken political activities be hampered up by the Company's shareholders they would be compelled to rely

in manner aforesaid be disposed

of in such manner at such time

or times and upon such terms as

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