THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1924.
INDO-CHINA RICE.
FACTS ABOUT THE TRADE.
CHEFALO AGAIN.
CLEVER SHOW AT THE
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY DAIRY FARM NEWS.
The number of paraons on STAR THEATRE.
January 28, 1934, recorded on, Telegraph" Interview.
the live registers of the onplay- The performance given by the ment exchanges in Great Britain Six miles beyond Saigon, situat. Chefalo and Palermo company at was 1,384,700, This was 60,019 ed at a point in the very heart of the Star Theatre last evening more than on January 21, 1924, the rice-producing country, lies deserved much better patronage but 201.178 less than the figure the little town of Chalon. The than it received. Chefalo is no recorded on January 1, 1923. name means "big market" but stranger to Hongkong audiences The increase was due to the tem- outside of a very limited number and the excellence of the "show porary discharge or suspension of interested in its potentialities as is sufficiently well-known to at-work-peuple on account of the a milling centre, it means nothing tract. Last evening over two railway dispute. The total in to the mass of foreigners living in bours' really good entertainment cluded 961,600 men. 42,900 boys, the Fast. Perhaps situated go was provided. Quite a number 240,400 women, and 39,800 gids. near Saigon, the little town may of new and mystifying tricks In addition, the number, working have shrunk into significance be were done, and Chefalo is nothing systematic short-time and draw- side its more well-known neigh- if not a very convincing magician, ing benefit for intervals of in- bour, and yet it is no deviation His card manipulations, the employment W38 32,300 on from the truth to say that had it mysterious manner in which he January 25, 1924, as compared not been for Cholon and its prin- makes live birds and animals with 31,290 on January 21, 1924. ripal industry, Saigon would not appear almost from nowhere, to-an1 56261 on January 1. 1923. have risen to the prominent posi-gether with the rapid succession tion occupies to-day as of amazing tricks performed by
Among Old English silver plate leading port for the loading Palermo make the entertainment sold at Christie's was a relic of and exportation of more than highly interesting and puzzling. the early occupation of the Cape one-third of the world's supply
There is some very good danc-of Good Hope by the British. rice. Indirectly Hong-ng also, and the whole parfor This was a cup and cover, chased
has kong
also benefitted mance is of a high-class and with oak and laurel branches, from the enterprise of Cholon and diverting nature.
the cover surmounted by a figura taken its place as the chief em- The company is appearing of Britaiania, engraved with the porium for the bulk of this grain (again this evening and also to-Royal Arms, and inseribed "Stt- destined for consumption in jmorrow. China.
of
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tlement at the Cape of Good Hope, Anno 1801": it also bore The road to Chalon meanders
an inseription to the effect that It is reported from Rome that the cup was presented to Jacobus over a law-lying plain, which has been transformed into one of the piece of over realistic film acting Johannes Vos, Burgerrand, 1:97, finest boulevards in Indo-China. led to a lioness tearing an actor who was President of the Burgher You may also reach Cholan by a to pieces. During the filming of Senate at Cape Town on the occu- tram track, which, with the scene in "Quo Vadis?" a group pation of the Cape by the British march of progress, has come to of hons and lionesses was released in 1799, the present vendor of the stay, to the greal joy of these into the arena, where 30 actors up being his great-grandson. foot-weary passengers who up and actresses were playing the The cup weighs 15802.,, and was till a couple of years ago had to parte of Christians. Suddenly sold at 18s. 6. per oz., totalling he content with the less comfort- ja lioness sprang on to the plat £146 3, to Mr. F. Partridge. able mode of conveyance provid-form, seized an actor, mangled ed by an antiquated stein-tram. him, and bit his head right off. Or you may go by beat in the The rest of the actors and ac dinner at Lansdowne House a direction of the source of the river, tresses become terrarstricken, as few weeks ago at which a number and linger on the way to observe the other wild beasts, smelling of young Unionists were present, the interesting systein of irriga. blood, sprang viciously at the and at which the need for younger! tion carried on across the rice platform. Fortunely the keepers candidates both for Parliamen- fields which spread towards the were handy, and after a desperate tary and municipal elections was horizon seemingly without end stundle they succeeded in driving strongly urged. It was agreed The uniform appearance of the the infuriated beasts off. Thes that in many cases the difficulty fields, unrelieved by high lands. is killed the lioness who Was apt to be monotonous. But, responsible for the tragedy, whichever way is chosen, thei
Mr. Baldwin was present at a
is due to the unwillingness of
| constituencies to adept compara. tively inexperienced candidates
effec: is the same. You come chiety in connection with the of moderate means. But the upon the spectacle of a towniete irade from Saigon. The whole question is now being con- fairly humming with the noise of
owner of three of the most sidered by the Unionist Central many machines, for in this humpotant mits in Cholon, his Office, which realizes that the place is milled Gearly all the views concerning the pro-pect- of younger men must be attracted Tremendous output of rice prodius of the trade will be read with to the active work of the party if rd in the country.
anth interest. Mr. Lan told it is to regain its old position. Thomps representative yester The cost of fighting elections and fey that a tremendous future lies maintaining local political or ahead of the rice-trade which organizations
State of will go far to stabilise the world's efficiency imposses
a burden requirements of the grain. The which a great many otherwise past year business had not he suitable crididates cannot under-
rezarkable I China take
It was the Chine wash introduced into this town modern methods of preparing the grain Their enterprise, coupled with the far-seeing policy of the French Goverment in encouraging by every posside means the validi
at the had beiged to 12porters than previous periods.! the Country what it is but the emp in Cochin-China had
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Ti taxi-ate learnther the day. Had they be un especially good, and bad full-salieri wit nor the good- themselves, the natives wophi have been content styled that country to meet the humoured outlook of the old- that which is never be their expectedly heavy demandstrom fashioned cabby, of whom a few
Manila and Japan. The atter white-hairesi bus rubicund speci "own needs, but the over-pervade
ing spirit of 1gress changeuntry had not fared so well in mons are still to be met with. its culture of the rice this year, Wo lately heard one of them. and Philippine crops also hath not the driver of a" growler." having un argument with a taxi-driver one up to expectations.
ail that, And now they have commenced : ball their own mills, and hall the rice, which process was fermerly in the bands of foreigners.
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Comenting on conditions of the on the topic of "Safety First." trade in Saigon, he said that the writes the London Morning Post The history at the growth of stem there was to buy from The all cabby concluded bs. the industry was the cative growers and then to mill saying: If you are an acciden:
the grain.in up-to-date mills, off with a car, where are you? Buri en fore in time for bir en am Three of these were owned by there you are!"
which there were nine large one, if you have one with a keb. why hung at No. 440. Strand, whence This cryptic the bank moved only a compar- Population. Chine had seed edi
French concerns, hat the remain. Statement greatly annoyed the latively few years ago. Such enterprising webs theder beliged to Chinese traders taximan, who told the old fellow who entered the entry and ex-
German machinery was fun to clear off with his "blooming
Originally built by the Human panded an Avustry to the extenti
by very effective, and its earse." "Well, young tuppence-Carmarthen Bridge a that it now practically unsuÀ»«
massive replied the Veteran dependable yunk of the staple intoduction had enabled him toj «etiek”
stone structure of seven arches turn out an output of between genially, that ain't no wore which spans the River Towy on food for the faster outro 15m and 1prons from each than driving, stink on wivel- the main artery from the South men. At the same time, the prehismills. In olition there were sibilities of the trade have attracted a.g-l mang into the day as smaller plants the
majority owned by natives. country and the latest figures bes day give a Chinese ; quistio, afi 300,000 in the region all being immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, from Hongkong. Cane. ton and Swatow.
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Wales industrial areas to West The public expenditure and Wales. has been condemned as revenue of the Province of Niva unsafe by us inspector of the Though it was highly desirable Scotia last year passed $5.990. Ministry of Transport who has that China strupt he selfsupport for the first time, corting recommended the erection of a H that stage had not been to the report of the Provincial | new structure. The bridge bas reached. Cone ions in the Secretary. The total revenue played its part in history. In interior being they arc.or the year was $5.317.795."ar. 1234 Hours de Turberville, who One of the leading merchant intensive cultivation of rice will increase
of 1264.954 over the came up, the river in vessel in the trade is Mr. B. C. Lau. ot be achieved for many years estimated revenue and $326.12% broke down the bridge in his No. 20-Six bolld Objects well-known in Hongkong as the Yet, and in the meantime, added, or the previous year's revenue successful attempt to relieve the Manager of the Chinese Merchants Mr. Lau, they must continue to Total expenditure was $1.208.210. town of Carmarthen, which was Bank, a cancer whirl operates import from Cochin China.
thus showing a balance surplus besieged by Richard Marshall, of $109.145. The expenditures for the Earl of Pembrose. The re- the year 1923 were $4538 cords also show that in 1250 the greater than the previous year.bridge was broken "by presure of the report indicates, this increase ice, the river, although a tidal having been practically all ex-one, being frozen, in 1326 "a pended
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THE ORPHAN SCANDAL.
BY BENTON PRABBY.
There was a little scandal ani its name was Teapot Dome." tcome to Mr. Fall's house and it made itself to home. Tnd after it had stayed awhile it grower and growed and growed. And just how big it meant to grow nobody never knowed: AGD way from here. you scandal." were the words of Mr. Fall. "You're some one else's scandal, and you ain't my kin at all!".
But the scandal called him "Dadds," and it lingered round about And the Tea Pot Dome'll git yub, ef yuh don't watch out.
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Then it come to Mr. Denby, an' it said, "I've come to stay." But Mr. Denby answered it with "Beat it, go away! Though I say you ain't a scandal, still I'm givin' you the raus, For I do not care to have you runnin' round about the house!" So that orphan scandal wandered and it kept on growin' too, An' it tried to claim relationship with Mr McAdoo: An' he drove it from his doorstep, with a loud an' angry shout, But Tea Pot Dome'll git him ef he don't watch out!
Well, by an' by, that scandal was stupenduous to see,
It made a lot of trouble for the well-known G. O. P.
The Dimmycrats was happy, till the scandal, with a smile.
Began to make advanees for to stay with them awhile:
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The old building of Coutts's bank in the Strand has gone st last, to make room for the needed.
At the funeral last month of widening of that thoroughfare. Mrs. Congreve, the mother of mistake. Tery good: the mistakes. Originally the firm was known as General Sir W. N. Congreve, Middleton and Campbell, and as V, C., in the village, churchyard failed to make all estimates inside of
was established in 1692. of Burton, Cheshire, the church next the Globe Tavern, in the was decorated with flowers, the Strand, at the Three Crowns" clergy wore whit stoles, the the famous device still appearing church bells rang a wedding peal,
such
not till the few houses had been
were flown not at belfast,
on their cheques. Indeed, it was and all the flags in the village hymns. I want the service to be erected on the site of the New but from the top of the flag pole, as bright and cheery as possibic, Exchange that the firm, in 1738, The Rev. Patrick Morrell, in his for I am looking forward to the took the middle one. In 1767) addresses, said that Mrs. day of my death as the greatest Robert Adam reconstructed the Congreve's last words to him, day of happiness. I can possibly bank premises themselves, but before she left Burton were:--
conceive, for then I shall be re the marble mantelpieces bel
I hope to be brought back to united with my dear husband. Do designed have been removed to Burton to be buried.
It will be not toll the church bells, but let the New hank, as well as that
Then they muttered and they grucibled far to find that scandal there, famous Chinese wallpaper which great day of rejoicing for us have the wedding chimes."
For a monstrous orphan scandal isn't welcome anywhere;
So the politicians tremble, bein' scared beyond a doubt, For the Tea Pot Dome'll git 'em of they don't watch out!
me, and I do not want you to Mrs. Congreve was the widow of Lord Macartney sent over to wear a black stole for mourning. Captain William Congreve, of: Coutts, and which, with infinite I don't want you to have doleful Burton Hall, Cheshire, and of care, and at great expense, wes
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