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FOUNDED 1581
No. 13 701,
四拜禮 ·號九月四英港香
THURSDAY
·APRIL 9,
1925 日七十月三
MORE WEATHER' "RECORDS.”
CHINA PROVIDEN IS.
SPORTSMAN'S
"BAG."
MOTOR CAR COMPETITION.
DIVIDEND PROPOSALS.
THIS MORNING'S UNUSUAL
COLD SNAP.
AN ANTI-CYCLONE RESPONSIBLE. When referring to the unusual darknons of last week, wo said:
"Our list of weather "records has been continuously, altered during the past two years, and
** |
FOUR FIELD WORKERS HIT.
GIANT "PLANE ARRIVES
INTENDED FOR PASSENGER SERVICE.
The amount at credit of Profit Four field labourors in the Now Keen Contest for Prizes. & Loss Account of the Chios Tozritorios were injured goster- Provident Loan & Mortgage Com-day through gotting within range
With our Motor „Car Competi- pany, Limited, for the year ending of a shot-gun discharged by tion fast drawing to a close, Hongkong from Manila Chiel 31st, December, 1924, is $540,702,-sportsman.
85,
Mr. H. W, Abbott retumed to
morning, bringing with him the
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BHIP ABANDONED.
OWNERS DON'T WANT IT.
BALE TO BATISFY CREW'S WAGE] CLAIM.
TRAM:CAB
YIELDS LOADED
REVOLVER..
A party of pallon who boardad” a tram our at the foot of Garden Mag
Road on Monday night, for the Presumably because he had purpose of prosecuting a search And, aftor doducting Mr M D'Eon was out shooting}keen struggle is taking place for
"fortune (when they found interim dividend paid on 29th snipe near Po Kong village, and the bandsome prizee offered. For new giant aeroplane which is not the wherewithal to pay his for arms, had a stroke of good August, 1924. amounting to $101,- had discharged his weapon from the week ondad on Saturday last, between here and Shanghai. The partner in the Man Lee Brm, now an in possession of fully
intended for "passenger service officers and crew, the managing 352.80, subject to audit, tho a distance of 50 yards. at some
floadedrøvalvaramongst the third. General Managers and Consult snipe within sight, when he was an extremely large number of maching is-packed far seotions, defunct, absconded, leaving the ing Committee will at the forth-made painfully aware of the fact coupons was sent in, and the and will take at least a week to crew in possession of the Comparers. Others held assemble for the first local test pany's caly steamer, the Kwal their arms without hesitation but this man drew suspicion to thoro is no saying when the new coming annual meeting of the that othor objects not intended
Our result is that several hundred fight. This plane was the one Wah," which normally trades himself when he kept one hand standards will again he ohanged." Company, to be held on Monday for his bag were
the 27th, April, recommend the carious villagers, who had vont-orodits have boon secured by the which broke adrift in a storm botwaen Hongkong and Swatow. How true these words ware is balance of pr: fits to be allocated ured too near, were struck by the various contestants. The prin- two wooks ago, but was recovered The ship has been lying idle in pread over his hip, pocket. To the Sikh pollcaman who had shown by this morning's mini-
as follows:-
fying pellets and wore injured in cipal change revealed by the men after six days, about. 40 January and, Supreme Court the hard thing felt against his by military and naval air service barbour since the middle of him in hand, he replied that mum tomperature reading, which
To place to Reservo
the faces and hands. Fortunately.
action having been taken by the wus the coldest on record for
Fund
$ 90,000.00 the distance was too long for the shooking of the coupons In that miles from Manila
hip was merely. a.tobacco pipa, April in the past algbtoon years. To place to Equalles-
shots to cause much injury, and, the compotitor who was third on A bombing seaplano, it is capable nestor and crow for wages and but, disbelieving him, the Sikh and but slighty higher than
disbursements, it is now officially investigated and found that which tion of Dividend
with the exception of one, it was the list for the previous week has of taking eighteen passengers on under arrest. the absoluto minimum
Account...
100,000.00j not found necessary to detain thei rocorded for this month. And To write off from
he hoped for a revolver with Mr. F. C. Jonkin (instructed by iva-bullets-in-it. Injured mon at the hospital to now jumped into first place. The peace flights. The wing spread
is 114 feat, and it is driven by Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Bergeant Dungey, who was in coming only a few days after a
which they were taken.
correct words for last wook two 450 barsepower · Liboriy roading of 80 degrees in the shado
Mastor) appeared for the plaintiffs (on the 3rd.) the prosent "cold
| motora, and can fly 10 hours on two ex paris notions before Sharge of the plokot, told the
stretch at an average cruising|
Magistrato.this morning that ha enap" is all the more remarkable.
speed of 80 miles an hour. The Henry Gollan this morning, the amined the cartridges in the On enquiry at the
claims being for wages since vary-charge room and discovered the Royal
typo la tho Curtise F5L. Observatory to-day,
ing periods in 1024 to date. Mr, Abbott had already sout The first notion concerned the the effectiveness of dum-dum informed by the noting Director
three smaller Curtiss planes over compradore, three ongineers and (Mr. C. W. Jeffries) that the
to Hongkong, with which he the ship's carpenter, and Mr. ininimum temperature recorded
hopos abortly to serumonoe ble Jonkin referred to the fact that ay and he was committed to the The prisoner had nothing to on April 5th was 53.9, whilst this
flying school. Four pupils have the Kwai Wab normally traded Sessions on the application of morning at2 o'clock the reading
After this week, the Compoti-so far signified their intention of batwaen Hongkong and Swatow, Detective Pincott. was 52.7. Those are the lowest readings recorded for April since 1907, when 53.9 was registered. The lowest tomparature on record for the month of April in 51.8, on April 4th, 1905,
avor
Wo were
VERY LOW AVERAGE.
WAS
Godown Equipment Account...
To pay a final divi-
dond of 80 conte por sharo on 170,000 Old shares
оп
To pay a final divi.
dend of 77 canis per sharo
30,000 Bonus shore... To pay a final divi- dond of 18 conta por on 396,246
share
Now shares ... and carry forward ta
new Account...
JUNK
7,442.85
LOCAL BOXING,
136,000.00 | BIG FIGHT UNLIKELY TO
TAKE PLACE.
wore.c
March 30th.-PROOF. March 31st-COVER,
April
1st.-MORE.
April
2nd,-SAY,
Owing to what are considerad 23,100.00 unreasonable demands by tha
April
3rd, COMMENT.
April 4th. BRKEN,
French boxor, Andro Dupre, in regard to the purno to be put up by the Hongkong Boxing Association will only last & fortnight. It taking a course in aviation, 71,324.46 tion, it seems most unlikely that will definitely and on April 25th,|
the proposed match with O. P. O and the result, with figures to the 11,482.76 Jim Cartlidge will take place,
bullets to have boon out to givà
bullets.
It appears that the Association credit of the various competitors. LOADED REVÓLVERS. their back pay, and promises which he placed with the polles $439,350.05 offered a purse of $1.000, with $500 will be announced on May 1st..
ADRIFT.
as exponeer, but that Dupro turn-
ad this down, asking for $1,500
win, loss or draw, with a rezervo
TION REVIVED.
option of 35 per cent, of the tak EVENTS IN CHINA. ings. This, howovor, was not agreed to, but a firm offer WAR made by cable to Dupro of $1,500 To this, exclusivo of exponses, Dupro replied asking for a further $500, or £2,000 in ail. These terms are quite beyond the figure which the Association in willing to put "P. and therefore unless Dupro modifies his demands there is little prospect of the fight coming off.
FOUND IN FALSE BOTTOMED BOX.
calling at Intermediate ports. At Swatow on January 15th re-
BAIL FORFEITED. An Indian, named R. M. prosentations were made by the plaintiffs that they wore neading Sidney, forfeited a ball of $10 were made that their claims on being takon into oustody last would be settled in Hongkong on night for disorderly conduct dur- January 19th. The promises wording a search carried out by a not kept the men found on police search ploket.
Sergeant Dangoy told the reaching Hongkong that, the owner had absconded and that Magistrate this morning that the A charge of unlawful posses his whereabouts were unknown, man submitted to the search, but QUESTION OF INTERVEN- sion of four automatio pistola, 198
Evidence was given by the man treated the police to a flow of rounds of ammunition and a as to the dates when they were abusive language afterwards.
Defendant, who' was charged number of sparo magazinos, was last raid their wages, and the 1.
brought against a Chineso pas-question aroso se to whether the with disorderly conduct, did not anger of the s.e. Limobow, be-compradore was a seaman and appear and his Worship made In the House of Commons, Mr. foro Mr G. W. Hamilton at the therefore able to make his claim the order for the confiscation of his bail at the Central Magistracy H. W. Looker, the former Hong-Kowloon Magistracy this morn in Admiralty Jurisdiction. kong solicitor, draw attention to ing. Mr F. W. Whitehouse ro Mr. Jenkin said that the man this morning. the fact that Marshal Chang Teo-
presented the dofondant.
performed the duties of a roaman in still retained a noction of tho
in addition to supplying tho The case for tho prosecution Peking Mukden railway, which
FRENCH NOTES. S. AFRICA'S BUDGET. be seized in 1922..
was that prior to the s.s. Lim-vessel with food etc.
departure for The local police having boon
His Lordship pointed out that Hai Ho suggested that the Govern-chow's
the word disbursements" was on Tuesday apprised, the rescued men wore
morning
BANK'S BIG ISSUE. tions to put an end to this wrong-14
party of police boarded mentioned in the writ, and Mr. lator transferred to the Tung Wab PREFERENCE PROVISIONS.mont should make representa- phong
Jonkin asked permission to
Paris, April 8. Hospital.
Capo Town, April 8. ful retention of the section, con- the ship and carried out a search amend the word to "nacos&TIOU
According to the Liberto, M. The abandonment of the present stituting a serious branch of the under the
His Lordship:-I cannot so0 Demenzia told the financial com Imperial Preference WAR an-railway agreement and Impairing Ordinanco nounced in a Budget spuoch by the security on which British cabin was a black box, witch how I can do that without re-imittoo of the Chambor that the
As regarde fican tom- peratures that is, the averago spread over the whole twenty-four hours of the day-tho figuro for April 5th
56.2,
FIVE MEN RESCUED. and for yesterday 57.4. Thesa uro the
lowest valuon ro-
Whilst fiabing off Sam Tam Corded at
Observatory Moi, south of Lintin, a fishing tho for the month of April, with the junk from Hongkong was a excoption of April 4th, 1905, whenproached by another junk which the mean temperature was 54.8. I was drifting helplessly owing to "An anti-oyolone of abnormal hor rudder. The crew of five on intensity for the time of the board, who appeared to be in an your has," said Mr. Jeffries, exhausted condition, wore taken "boon & feature of the weather off, and tho fishing vessel rotum- map for some days, and to this ed to Choung-chau. must be attributed the present low temperatures."
It is interesting to recall our last cold snap, almost a record, on January 31st-February 1st this year, when the reading fell below 40 degrees at soa lovel and there was frost on the Peak.
LOCAL AIR TRAGEDY.
Mr. Earnshaw will therefore be resumed on Thursday next.
sworn in.
ARMED ROBBERY,
WOMAN'S BANGLES
STOLEN.
thousand and
London, April 8,
tectiva,
Piracy Prevention In the defendant's
тода
found
to bo
ex parte action.
THE CAPTAIN'S CLAIM,
THE NEW SOVIET COMPOSITION.
COMMUNIST MAJORITY
REDUOLD.
the writ, especially in an
had oxceeded the logal limit for justment of preferential tariff on Chinese lines,
Mr Jeakin: It is only for the the note issue by 3,300 millions à quid pro quo basis, under which Mr. Austen Chamberlain replied heavier than an ordinary box of British goods would benefit to the that representations had been and its size. After the clothes had boon purpose of saving delay, for the of francs, in order to meet the extent of three hundred thousand were being made, both to Peking takon out and nothing found, ship has in fact been abandoned Government's nood for dash. A highway robbery occurring pounds storling, and the Do- and Mukden, to secure the return
tho police
M. Beronger, the reporter gan- searchers became by the owners,
His Lordship reservad judg-eral to the Budget, in a spooch in at Bowrington Canal last night minions fifty thousand, compared of this section,
suspicious. Two amall holes
ment on the question as to the Senato stated that the excces had its sequel in a pawnshop with, hitharto, oight hundred and Asked whether he did not think were made in the bottom of the MR. ABBOTT RETURNS.
early this morning, when a man sixty
ninety the time had arrived to consult bor and it was discovered that whether the oompradore could be totalled over two milliards of
francs. Reuter. was arrested in the act of pawn thousand rospectively. The South the other Powers interested, with there were arms concealed in the regarded as a seaman. Mr. Abbott, the aviator, returning a pair of bangles, identifled African penny postage has also a view to taking definite stops to fales bottoms, in which whon ed from Manila this morning, and to be those takon from a Chinese boon restored.
got a sottled position in China, searched at the Police Station,
The second action concerned This was the first time in his Mr. Chamberlain said they had the arms and ammunition were. the enquiry into the death of woman in the robbery.
In her report to the police, tory that the Budget speech was been communicating with the found. Three of the revolvers the master of the vessel, and Mr. Jankin pointed out that the faots: the woman stated that she delivered by an Afrikender. Mr. other Powars concerned, and if wore loaded.
wore similar. was caught by the collar of Havenga foreshadowed a revision he saw an opportunity of ad- Aftor the hoaring of the Giving evidence, the master, A now jury will have to be hor jacket and thrown to the of tariffs adequately protecting vantageously taking any steps, ovidence, the defendant was com
ground. A pair of banglos, valued home industries, admitting raw he would do so-Reuter, mitted for trial at the Criminal at $32, was taken from her. The materials froo or at the lowest
Sossioua. IMPRIS NED RUSSIANS. robber made his oscape after the possible rate, adjusting Imperial]
-London, April 8. commission of the orime,
Proforenco on a quid pro quo
In the House of Commons, ro- basis, providing for maximum and minimum ra'os in certain complying to a question suggesting modities, to enable the Govern that representatious should bo ment to negotiate most favoured made to Chinx to speed up tho nation agreements with countries trial or procure the release of the outside the commonwealth; also Russian railway officials, M. M. CAUTION CALLED FOR.
providing for suspended duties in Ostroumoff and Gaudatsi, im- the case of nascont industries, prisoned at Harbin, Mr Auston London, April 8. which thereby are assured of Chamberlain said he was soaking Before the Committee of In- In the House of Commons, protection when the Government report on the case before decid- dustry and Trade, witness on beat question timo, Mr. J. C. C.bocomos satisfied of the needing whether any action was poa-
sible or desirablo.—Reuter, Davidson Baid the Govern- thoroof. half of the Fadoration of Mastor
ment would gladly co. The rovenuo amountad last! Cottonspinners Associations ro ferred to the competition by Japan oporate with the other principal year to £25,940,000 and the ex- in India and the East generally, Powers in a further restriction of penditure to £24,540,000.
naval armaments, They had Mr. Havongs, illustrating the and from local productions, and expressad the opinion that the already given much attention to working of the now tariff policy, prosent difficulty and abroncs of the subject, but the publication instanced the reduction in duties
of a roasoned etalement
on ou such goods as cotton and wool British naval needs as a basis of lun piece goods, cotton threads, limitation of naval armaments, and mechanical tools, and the
THE PIECE-GOODS
SLUMP.
EVIDENCE BEFORE TRADE COMMITTEE.
London, April 8.
bulk trade was due mainly to the high price of the raw material and impoverishment of the main consuming countries.
BRITISH NAVAL
DISARMAMENT.
i
· A USEFUL DOCK.
!.
AUSTRALIAN PROJECT.
Sydney, April 8..
ANOTHER FRENCH
ORISIS.
GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO RESIGN.
said that he was employed at a salary of $150 por mooth. Hej had not been paid since August,
Moscow. April 8. 1924, and in addition had made
The elections to the Moscow. disbursements on bohalf of the Soviet resulted in the return of He had paid the wages 2,554 Communists and 1,308 non- for extra mon, fireman, watch-
party sandidatos. mon and quartermasters, and It is officially pointed out that paid for lighting, and other the latter constitute 34 per cent, tbings.
of the whole number, compared. His Lordship gave judgment, with only 12 point 3 per cent. in the question of amount boing re- the last Bovist. Altogether -933- ferred to the Registrar.
women were alsoted.-Reuter.
Mr. Jenkin asked for an order Parls, April 8. for the esls of the Kwal Wah After adopting motions for without appraisement. roducing certain items in the His Lordship:-I don't think public instruction estimates, the that is lawful at Home and as Senate by 142 to 140 passed these are ca parte proceedings it resolution in favour of restoring seoma rathar
the appropriation for scholar- Mr. Jenkiu Yes, your Lord- ships, which the commission on ship: I merely thought it would! finance had decreased,
- save coste.
•
DUTCH WIRELESS.
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
ENCOURAGED.
Amsterdam, April 8;- According to the Handelsbiad. M. Herriot had previously His Lordship mado an order an official committee which is complained of the commission's for appraisement and sale of the enquiring Into the postal and that the telegraph servicos recommends as suggested by the questionor, abolition of dutise in the case of The Commonwealth Govern-hostility, and mado the voto vessel and ordered
proceeds should be paid into that the Kootwyk wireless would not conduco to this end; agricultural machinery and in- mont has accepted the proposals question of confidence.
The Cabinet will meet lator and Court.
station, constructed specifically Thuy considered that British
nor would it be in the public dustrial plant. On the contrary, of the Government of New South
to.communicate with the Dutch commercial aupromaoy in colton interest.
the duties on blankots, rugs, Wales for the construction of a it is expected the Government
Indier, should be handed over to goods could not be seriously Bir H. Page-Croft declared that motor-cars, petrol in bulk, print floating dock at Walsh Island. Will resign to-night-Router." challenged with reduced taxation Britain had decreaand her naval od matter, and machinery, would
private enterpiss-Reuter: The dook is to have a displace
* Paris, April 8, and longer working hours. Ou armaments to a far larger oxtont be introssed,
ment of thirteen thousand tone, Contrary to general anticipat behalf of the Manchester cotton than any othor naval Power in He pointed out that if he had and will takvo years to build i|ion, the Ombinat, after conferring assoofations they suggested that, the world.
worked on a strictly quid pro quo and the Commonwealth Govern for over three and a half hours, as rogards raw cotton, certain Bir J. Nall askod for an basis, Britain would not have got ment will ööntribute £180,000 did not abounds its resignation, Empire cottons abould be made assurance that in any further three hundred thousand sterling towards the post.
- for, itie considèzwilon of which it tandorable against the Liverpool | conference the British naval of preference but only
two
This dook will be fined for had been urgently, convened, but futures contract, and thus receive power would not be reduced die hundred thousand, hence the commercial purposes, but id time merely insued a communique, to a proper status and expedite their proportionately to other Powers. preference was about thirty per of war or soy other emuthor the cutest "slint-ly ha development to that extent.----- Mr. Davidson said the question cent; more than if there had been the Commonwealth Mateuler.
was hypothetical-Reu(c).. \really a quid po quo basta –Beuter. Will take over or
'LIGHTNING STRIKE.
'DUTUH DOOKERS OUT.
The Tech
TO DAY.