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No 12.818
PAKHOI NEWS.
六拜禮
號三廿月五英港香
SATURDAY
MAY 23, 1925
LOCAL DOCK CO.
CANTON STRIKE.
NEW AERODROME.
Pakhoi, May 18. General Tang Poon-yan is erecting an aerodrome to contain two machines. The site chosen is immediately in front of the Foreign (Protestant) Cometary.
SHAREHOLDER'S SUGGESTIONS.
MATTING WORKERS
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·RENT INCREASES.
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, LTD.
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According to the Post, од too subjct of an official injury."
car
We have received the following
The O. B. I. is this week be- A local Company director We have received the following At the present moment, a strike latter for publication:- lotter for publication:--
stowed on the lady, who with boarded the midnight Peak tram Sir, I note with satisfaction which is affecting business in
conspicuous persistency,unswory on Saturday with a live lobster. NOTABLE CAREER.
Sir-I will thank you to allow Hongkong is operating in Canton, that a correspondent signing biting loyalty and total disregard which began crawling about me some space in your valuable the men affected being the matt- salf "Stung" has come forward for personal injury in the crush, the car. He can't have read paper for the purpose of expressing workers. Reuter announces the death
The counterfiot coin affair here ing my opinions on one of the of the Earl of Ypres, who passed
It appears that recently, the they have rights under the new daily descends from top-side in that warning about keeping pets.
safely up to tiffin.
ᄆᄆ away yesterday after a long has been cleared up by two of the oldest and largest industrial con- members of the Matting Workers' Reats Bill which they will do order to assist her husband on leashes. illness following a severe oper principals having to pay out corns in this Colony-namely, Guild demanded an increase of well to watch.
I am sorry to say that in con- !.
The Telegraph saya miniaturė are to be taxicabs for London ation some weeks ago. In his fifteen thousand dollars each, the Hongkong and Whampoa pay, threatening to strike on the passing, one of Britain's most together with a supply of several Dock Company, Limited. For-15th instant if their demands were versation with many people..in famous soldiers has gone-a man hundred suits of new uniforma sonally, I believe there is a great not conceded. The Chairman of the past I have encountered Saturday the owner of a
dangerous. who had his share of criticism, for the soldiers. This money was future for this Company, though the Guild repeatedly communicat-dozens who did not have the had the misfortune to break hie So even the small ones appear
... but was undoubtedly a great for the purpose of redeeming the during the last six months the ad with the employers, who, how-faintest idea of what the rents back axle."
0 0. commander in his particular bad coins, but there are still a lot shares havo.droppad from $186 to over, would only concede one of law was. Many of them, I am
Must have been just as A report states that "The of them in circulation. When $115, or a depreciation of over the six demands made-namely, sure, have been bamboozled as a this. 'fraud Was discovered four million dollars, which is that casual workersshould receive result of their ignorance. Well, painful as the case reported by total weight of children born in foreigners bere found themselves almost one and half times the a dollar per day, or 0.78.Tael nott. they have only themselves to the Telegraph in which a con- King's College Hospital in one in possesion of something like paid-up capital. I will analyse the As a result, several of the workers blame, and I fear many of them stable rusked into the street after year is over two tons." Surely two thousand dollars of the bad last balance sheet as follows:- left their employment and wont era too maskee even to try to a robber "and out off the man's this is carrying mass production
escape."
too far.. money, and their claims werd
Assets-Value of three Dooks, back to their native districts in understand the law,
0.0 promptly settled.
plant etc., $10,081,006.55; sundry Tungkoon and Toishan, being. For the benefit of such, I would' let them know that when their
We know now where, all the
The same report says "If any~, accounts collectable, $1,308,958.- given free passages by junk. 81; material in stock, etc.,
The casual workers remained, landlords make a demand for in- Kowloon mosquitoes came from, one could induce them to lie in a $2,428,658.61; total, $13,818,653.97. but as no further concessions croase of rent, as they will no They're being driven in from continuous chain they would ex- tend the length of the longost ᄆᄆ Liabilitios-1,000 debentures, were made, these men went on doubt shortly do," such landlords Taipo. Boors were surrounding Lady-
corridor, 920 ft." Such Induce- smith, and White was driven to $1,000,000; sundry creditors, strike on the morning of the 19th have to state what the standard
MacWhirter says he fears at ment would appear to be the first towards making them the defensive, Buller, who had $5,596,386.75; payment of final instant. They numbered some cent of the house is and also to just arrived at the Caps, sent a dividend $120,000.00; total. $6,- nine hundred, and they in show by what percentage they times that an old man's contempt step telegram urgently commanding 716,386.75 Divided into 60,000 modiately proceeded to their are going to raise the rent. for the younger generation is successful golfers."
chief point heartily reciprocated. French to join him.
shares, fully paid up. we get a Guild headquarters, where they This is
are not permitted sum of $7,102,267.82, equal to are being provided with food and landlorde
toris.
Runs
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The second missing line verse will
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the
"THE PEAK TRAM.
GRUMBLING MANIA."
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Appropriately
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A motor firm agnounces that
The China Mail reports that it can put a car together in seven minutos. That's nothing.. Some Ollerdessen, playing in the inter- local chauffeurs and a tree can port match, executed a bad stroke take one apart in two seconds. when contending with a ball that was well on the shirt side,"
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singlet.
A progressivo Kowloon lady is Perhaps he was trying to steal a one who wears a last month's hat," drives this year's model and lives
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A subscription list to raise funds for a Kowloon saxophone
We have received the follow-on next year's income.. ing letter for publication:-Sir, Why all this clap-trap and hot This Flapper Wife song makes player was over subscribed with- air about the alleged inadequacy Mac Whirter sick. In his day, in fifteen minutes from date of of the Peak tram service? Some he says, we had songs like "Ta people are assuredly the victims Ra Ra Boom De Ay" and "Daddy of grumbling mania. If it is not Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow wow”
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the weather, its the Government, that had some sense in them. high rente or the Fire" Brigade, and now it is the Peak Tram Sheer imaginitis! How many of them have ever been crowded out of a London Tube? It stands, to reason that during rush tours!
Mutton chops are appearing fairly frequently at a well known local hotel just now..
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there mustbesome congestion, and From the Daily Press:"Dr yet your know-all correspondents O'Hara, 1. b, w, O'Hara. 0," raise up their hands to the Peak That's what comes of trying to and call down all sorts of abuse knock up a boundary off one's and unkind things upon the heads own bowling.
isgue.
To judgo from the number of harbour rescues those days, it looks as if the Government will have to pay for valor ad valorem,
Cyclones are caused by hot air currents. This explains a lot of local brainstorms.
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The old German mobility are disappearing from public life von by von.
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$118.37 per share intrinsic value, lodgings free of charge. The by the new law to increase 15 per A temperature of 2,000 degrees pencils hold out, we shall soon be The last train to come "into against today's market price of number of strikes is so large that cont. on existing rents, unless is said to be the highest possible in a position to prove that the Ladysmith had brought the naval $115. Most of the local industriais additional promises have been those rents are the standard rents in a conflagration. This is about Peak is being run at an actual
which proved of such represent one part "solid" and secured for the purpose of hous-of the houses. They can only equal to the heat developed in net profit.
raise it 15 per cent. on the stand- local religious controversies.
We'll never believe that it is The strike is affecting many ard rent-that is, the rent paid inestimable value in that garri-nine, parts "water," or inflation, ing them.
possible to communicate with the son's defence; the laut train to but this cannot ba aaid of the
New York is to have "wreck dead until we receive a message go out carried with it Sir John Dock Company as the intrinsic foreign export firms who do in 1920.
with America and
What I would say to tenants is proof taxis." Once aboard, the from the Constitutional Reform Franch, reports said, as a paston-value of its share is higher than business
that if you find your landlord bas the market price.
safe from Association. ger in a cattle truck.
been charging you more than the passenger will be At the annual moeting which
standard rent (you will know everything but the driver and the
meter. sent to Colesberg. Was
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enough, AL where his cavalry actions, carried was held on the 30th. March,
that THE GOULD ESTATE. when he is forced to tell the standard rent), thon you should on over a front of twenty miles 1925, the Chairman said
since the yoar 1916, we have
The latest theory is that cross American actress just divorced is for three months, held Schoeman,.
aue bim for the amounts you have word puzzles were invented, by playing in "They Know What Field Marshal the Earl of Delarey, and De Wet in check, spont, approximately 12 million DEALING WITH MILLIONS. over-paid, as you have a right to the Rubber Trust to promote the They Wanted," whilst her hus-
do even under the present law, Ypres was born in 1853, the and afforded the commander and dollars on improvements and
band is starring in "Love for New York, May 22.
Love." Yours, etc., eldest son of a Kentish naval his men invaluable experience of additions to our various pro- officer, and began his career as of South
The referee of Mr. Jay Gould's coz ditions Perties" and "our assets stand in
our books at about 14 million ostate has further ruled giving
EYES OPEN. naval cadet on the Britannia, but warfare.
dollars which is a very low Mr. George Gould's children by Kowloon, May 25th, 1925. after four years entered the
Then came the relief of King-estimate of their actual valua". his first wife several millions army, where he was destined to berley, achieved by Sir John's My opinion is that the assets of more, but has ruled against the make his name 49 Sir John
dashing exploit of galloping his the Company are worth over 35 participation in these sums of the French in the South African division through the Boer lines. million dollars, or something three children of Mr. George campaign.
Three days later, although his like $500 to $550 per Gould by Guinevere Sinclair- He was chiefly noted. +8 men were spent with fighting and share instead of to-day's Reuter's American Service, cavalry officer, and made his incessant riding, be loaded off value of $115. Of course, one reputation by his lacking Cronje, forestalling him in his may build all sorts of theories on movements by means of which retreat at Paardeberg. Drift promises which lack foundations. the English Army swept Later, by a terribly exhausting The properties of the Company, northwards, finally to take Pre-march, Tronoh's division joined including Kowloon, Cosmoplitan Lord Roberts in his main advance, and Aberdoan Docks cover an He also led the flying column and was constantly in action In area of 96. 49 acres dr 4,203, 104 which relieved Kimberley, an the battle of Diamond Hill, Juno square feat, which at $8 per foot event which was one of the first 11 and 12, 1900, French, by a comes to $35,726,840. I base my signs of the turn of fortune in magnificent stand, held a greatly caloulation at $82 per square foot the war. Sir John French con-superior force for forty-eight on the fact that properties at Hung- stantly displayed great personal boure,
hom and Samshiupo districts During these latter operations fatched this price recently, to say bravery, and eye-witnesses testi- fied to this remarkable Bang Sir John French and his man, nothing of the extensive marino froid under heavy fire.
exposed to the wildest weather, son frontage of the Company's At first he obtained a commie-ware, cut off from the commis-properties and plants, buildings, sion in the 8th Hussars, but sartat, and were hard pressed to etc. included in my estimate: shortly afterwards transferred to find sufficient food supplies on which I consider a conservative the 19th. In 1880 he was a cap the high voldt.
one. Last year's net profit was taiu and in 1884 was promototod Finally,although seriously worn $140,771.57, in addition to the to a majority. In the same year in health by his unceasing activi-amount brought forward of $319, he saw his first active service, tios and anxieties, Sir John 796.96 from previous year. To being one of the Camel Corps French undertook the difficult earn $140,000 for the shareholders which made a desperate dash task of keeping down' the rebels with over 30 million dollars worth
nine years now, and feel grateful that a special line of buses will feat this hot weather. The that enterprise has provided such run from the lower station to trouble with most folk, however, across the Bayuda Desert in in Cape Colony.
at the othor of property is not considered good connection with the Gardon Afterwards, Sir John rendered Gnance and it is time for the eventually earn a large revenue auch a difficult course.
a safe means of transport over Kennedy Road to accommodate is generally.
No people who go up and come down extremity. reliof expedition. He was pricoloss; sorvice in raising the Company to look for more for the Company. prosent at the battles of Abu standard of the tactics and lucrativo employment of
doubt if we lived in the age of to get up. ita Godowns.-There is plenty of miracles we might awaken one Klea and Metemmah and arrived organization of the Home Forces, capital expenditure. At presont business offering in this line, as fine morning to find a servise. These are stirring times for in Khartoum to find that Gordon
Army Corps from 1001 to 1907, half of one per cent.
Sir John commanded the First the Company is earning only recent reports stated that there capable of carrying all your grum- Cheungchau, for according to the shots at her oloping husband' are only 18,bertha to accommodate bling kings at once. People should China Bail the Botanical De- without effect. She now says
that she missed him terribly. COLONEL OF HUSSARS,
was Inspector-General of the Forces from 1907 to 1911, when with the Chairman that to sink ocean steamers.
Kowloon Dooke.--I donot agres an average daily arrival of 98 have a little patience and above all partment has started digging
Steamers are make an effort to be reasonabla.
holes for tree planting, the" now Five years later he was made he became A.D.C.. General to the several million dollars in-the new now loading and discharging in
shops on the Bund are having "In some countries it is illegal Yours'oto. commander of his regiment; in King; and has been Chief of the graving dock of 1,200 feet is in the stream an account of shortago
their roofs put on, and the com for a woman to go through her 1893-4 he served as A.A.G. of Imperial Staff since that year. the interests of the shareholders." of bortha and this is the most
SATISFIED,
pradora who opened a foreign husband's pockets at night. Mac- Cavalry on the staff; in 1895 he The rank of Field-Marshal was The existing No. 1 Dook-(700 opportune moment to go in for the
store last year has now gone out Whirter, he says in his house it was appointed AAG. at head-given to him in 1913, He was a feat) could easily be extended at a storage business which is proving
of business.
is merely a waste of time. quartore; in 1897 he was appoint-frequent visitor to foreign cost of about half a million dollars very profitable to the Companies ed Brigadier to command the 2nd mancouvros, and a keen student without the necessity of going interested.
"Peking Students Still Rest. Many a motor-cyclist takes a Cavalry Brigade, and two years of military theory.
loss," pays a newspaper heading, month learning to drive and all' later was transferred to the 1st
lattor dock is only used less than the Company seems to me to lie A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. Seems that some bug is always he gets for his pains is liniment. Brigade at Aldershot.
half a dozen times in any your. entirely in the hands of Chinese
biting them. Then came the war from which His sorvice in the Great War
Cosmopolitan Deok at Sam-and Portuguese shareholders as
Umtata, May 22. he was to emerge with the re-needs little recapitulation, as it shuipo. I would suggest that the they own about 40,000 out of the The greatest native demonstra-
This Paak controversy would putation of being one of the must be frosh in the minds of Company should go in for the 50,000 shares, as por list dated tion of the tour held in the Prince appear to indicate that no longer 'world's cavalry loadore.
godown business in order to com- 20th. March, 1925, and distribut-of Wales' honour was given here do still waters run steep. From bis Aldershot command Ho was made Commander-in-peto successfully with the existing ed at the annual meeting. I am by forty thousand native agricul-
0-0 he wont straight to Natal, being Chief of the Expeditionary godown Companies. The area of quite aware that unity among turists, including fifteen thous
Somo Kowloon roads at pro- appointed Major-General in com Forces in France, from 1914 to this property is almost five times shareholders is not easy to secure and horsemen, who assembled to sent look as is they wore built- mand of the cavalry there, dos-1915, whón - ho' WOS made larger than the Holts Wharf they are apt to have the general greet the Princo, riding in across pite opposition on the part of Viscount Ypros, returning to the (frontage 1,600 ft. and an area of defects of coalitions but once the vast sloping plains of the vold for aeroplane traffic. senior officers, who distrusted | Homa command until 1918 108,000 sq. foot). In a pamphlet thoy realise their potential accompanied by thousands of ox- his capacition for leadership, as Trom 1918 to 1921 he was Lord ieaued by the Company last year I strength, it will he an wagons packed with natives. The Wa may talk about Chinese ahown in manœuvres.
To him as commander of the raised to an Earldom in the off Cosmopolitan Dock is the best tions as outlined in this letter. and girl guides, and placed but recent Taipo history reveals would be our only chance with Lieutenant of Ireland, being read that it is a fact thelanchorage easy matter to act on the sugges: Prince reviewed the boy scouts gates and all that sort of thing, boxing, we are informed. That British troops was owing the in-latter your. He has been Captain in the harbour of Hongkong and There is a procedence for this, as wreath on the war memorials to that the Now Territory isn't any itial victory of Elandelangte, a of Deal Castle since 1923.
wall sheltered from typhoons." the largest dook and wharf Com-whites and natives-Reuter. Buccoss which was followed up Among the honours and de-This must be true because the panies are at prosent under one by the brilliant pursuit of the 5th corations he won
the word were
Samehuipo" in Chinoso managemont. Why not do the Lancers.
Grand Cross, Lagion of Honour,moane Deep Water Bay..
same with the Whampoa Dock, It was not in Fronch's way to Russian Order of St. George, Abordoen. Dooks.-This valu- Company ? retreat, but oven in that phase of Modaille Militairo, and the able property can easily be con-
Yours oto., warfare ho distinguished himself Freedom of the City of London. vorted into "open storage" for all
SHAREHOLDER. in a remarkable way. When the He is survived by two sons, kinds of timber, etc., and would Hongkong, 21st, May, 1925,
was dead.
THE LATE WAR.
most of us.
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iato unnecessary expenses, as the Shareholders. The future of
of those who manage the Tram Company. I have used it for
PRINCE'S TOUR.
There is no truth in the rumour. A reader complains of swollen
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way near Bottled yet.
A New York woman fired four
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One reason why thore are so mssy funny names on the, mat- sheds at Castle Peak is that so many funny people use them.
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Good footwork is essential in
Dupre.
The way thoso young girls run Judging from the entries in about suggests that they may be our Limerick Competition, it trying hard to find their mothers, would appear that golf not only
TO-DAY.
Closing Exchango 2s. 2. 15/16 Lighting Up-Time 7.00p.m.
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improves your general health but No prediction that the Pook in also enables you to expand your going to the dogs has over yat vocabulary.
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