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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1925.
this hoading we notice that Bri tain still leads the way in now construction, as 388 of thos50
DAY BY DAY.
FIND YOUR NICHE AND FILL IT.
VONNOls were built in Great Bri-IF IT DE EVER SO LITTLE, IF IT 18. tain and Ireland. It is of interuet ONLY TO BE A HEWER OF WOOD! to nota that more than 25 per OR DRAWER OF WATER, DO SOME- THING IN THE GREAT BATTLE. cent of the total tonnage of new FOR GOD AND TRUTH.-C. Spurg Vossels classed during the twelve een. months wore fitted for burning ol fuel in the furnaces of their boilers, and some indica- tion of the developments along
The opening rato of the dollar on demand to-day was 28. 4.3/168.
There was ono Chinese caso of
thaso lines can be gathered from Jentoric fever notified yesterday. the fact that whereas in 1914
Effective desk and wall cal- steamers fitted for burning ol fuel andars have been issued by the totalled 1,310,200 tons, the figure Blue Funnel Line.
The quarantine restrictions im- used on arrivals from Japan have now been removed.
Quarantino restrictions have been imposed by Hongkong on arrivals from Shanghai on ac
in July of 1925 had reached 17,804,122 tons. The outstanding foaturo of the developmont, of marine propulsion is still the adoption of the internal combus tion engine. Motor ships other than yachts, and excluding those count of small-pox. of less than 1,000 tons, only
Among residents who returned numbered 297, of 234.287 gross to the Colony from Home by the tons in 1914, but for July of the N.Y.K. Ateuta Maru yostorday present year these figures had were Mr. and Mrs. W. G. C. Bur- risen to no less than 2,145 vesselspott, Mrs. R. A. C. North and Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Sath. of 2,714,073 tons, this including 132 vessule of 6,000 tons, or
Mosers. Benjamin und Potts
upwards. There are many other have received a cable from their Shanghai ofice stating that the extremely interesting features Angle-Dutch company has de disclosed in the report, but suffi-felarod a third interim dividend of cient has been quoted in show 20 cents, making 55 conts for
1925. the trend of shipping at the pre- sent time. It is to be hoped that The Right Honourable the the rather gloomy situation still Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the appointment of provailing will in due course give Mr. R. D. Acton, Malayan Civil way to better times, in which Service, to be a Puisne Judge of event we may be sure that Britain the Supreme Court of the Straits
Settlements.. will be quite ready to play her outstanding part in the days to
come.
The Philharmonic Society play- ed "Iolanthe" to a full house at Hongkong, as one of the world's
the matinee performance yester- Cleansing Kowloon. day afternoon, and gave much greatest ports, is intensely inter-1 ested in the state of shipping, We feel sure that the general delight to a large gathering of which at the present time is opinion of Kowloon residents is children and adults. There are in favour of the proposal to have only three more performances- passing through a period of ex-the servants quarters of European to-night, Friday and Saturday. treme depression. According to houses there thoroughly cleansed
THREE BRITISH STATESMEN.
The British Premier and two ex-Promiors are here- sean at the Cenotaph on Armilistico Day. Loft to tight: Mr. Ramsay Macdonald (Labour), Mr. Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) and Lor.] Oxford (Liberal).
THE WELSII DÁM DISASTER-
Picture shows some of the hugo boulders brought down by the floods in the great Welsh dam, disaster, when 180- "million gallons of water swept down the mountain-side in
a torrent 50 feet deep.
WELSH SOCIETY.
LAST NIGHT'S ANNUAL MEETING.
The annual meeting of the
AMERICA'S LOANS.
FOREIGN OBLIGATIONS
CRITICISED.
Washington, Dec. 10.
and disinfected by the Sanitary Chan San-meng, who had been the annual report of the oper- Department. It must, indeed, be convicted by the District Judge ations of Lloyd's Register, in a matter of surprise to many to at Singapore on charger of assist- some important aspects the pre-learn that a practice which ap-ing and being a member of a local sent depression is the most parontly has been usual in the branch of the Chinese nationalist
lower level districts of Hongkong society known as the Kuomintang, Cymdeithas Dewi Sant, Hongkong, i An unusually acrimonious debate serious in living memory, and it island has never been applied to end was sentenced to 18 months' which is the name of the national in the Sannte was occasioned by is put on record that the situa-the mainland. The advantages of rigorous imprisonment, has had association formed by local Welah Republican efforts to deal with the
such a system in preventing in-this sentence confirmed by the men, was held tion is unrelieved by any pros-fective discasos, or checking Court of Appeal.
at the offices of italo-Belgian debt settlements be- Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and fore Christmas. Mr. Reed attack- peet of improvement in the near their spread, and enabling the
Masters last evening. under, theed the British settlement as "white- future. On the one hund, there discovery of possible insanitary Amongst the passengers who chairmanship of Mr. J. Owen washing, international bankers to
permit them to make loans to
tonnage aflost, brought about by made 2; &
The report of the Committee and debtor nations at 6 and 7 per cent." least an annual Edward and Lady Pearce, Sir in Kowloon building operations during the practice
in Percival Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. the statement of accounts were He asserted that under the Italian which the settlement the United States would- war, whitst, on the other, there is future. The other day we read Kuigwin, Mr. and Mrs. G. N. adopted, following
a very interesting article on "An Orme, Rov. E. K. Quick, Mr. D. officers for the ensuing year were not get one per cent. of the prin-
cipal. a serious shrinkage in the volume Outline of the History of Plague II. Blako, Mr. R. E. A. Webstor, elected as under: of the world's ocean trade.com-in Hongkong", contributed to Mrs. Webster, Mre. Somos Ellis, pared with pre-war times. With the Journal of the Royal Sanitary Miss Ellie and Mr. J. Barr.
Institute hy. Dr. A. G. M. Severn,
Hon, Secretary, Mr., D. Davles, of Soveral members bitterly criticis freights brought down below a
the Asst. Medical Officer of Hoalth, A concert is to bo held in St.
the Sanitary Department; Honed France. Mr. Smoot stated: paying level, and with no cor-in which the following passage Stephon's Girls' College on Satur-Treasurer, M. L. E. Hopkins; Com-France has bluntly told us sho "Districts were treated day December 19th, at 7.30 p.mmittee, Messrs. D. M. Richards, Howes us nothing, but unless she responding reduction in the costs occurs:
in rotation, po that each tenement in aid of the Cathedral Organ Owen Hughs, F. P. Williams, makes a settlement the franc will of the production and operation house was cleansed at least three Fund and the Mission to Soumon.
is large amount of surplus practices, need not be emphasised. left by the Blue Funnel steamer Hughes, the President,
We trust that it will be Patroclus on Tuesday were Sir
L
a more normal ratio is establish-
tor is allotted a certain number of
Senator Smoot, however doubted Fresident, M. J. D. Lewis; Vice Italy's ability to pay even the President, Dr. W. Leslie Thomas; amount promised.
Apart from the routine bust. nesa, the only matter to be con-
year,
ments.-Renter's American Ser
vice.
SINGAPORE LABOUR.
SUPPLY.
DEPLETED BY NAVAL BASE?
London, Dec. 16.
of ships. Lloyd's declare that the times a year. This important An excellent programme has been Hugh Jones, A, Morris, E. I go the way of the mark,"
The Republicans were forced to position of shipowners and ship.measure is still being carried out arranged by the St. Stephen's Wynne-Jones, Capt. R. D. Thomas,
with great success and with but girls and the pupils of Fairlea Mrs. E. I. Wynne-Jones, Mrs. abandon their efforts to obtain im- builders has become one of un-slight modification. It has all School. It is to be hoped that the Chesterton and Miss Buddug mediate consideration of the agree- exampled difficulty. These are the advantage of simplicity, offi-offorts of the girls to help others Roberts. facts with which Hongkong icacy and economy. Each inspes will be strongly supported. only too well acquainted, for indoors daily; the occupants turn Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt, sidered by the meeting was the the matter of both of construction out their household possessions, nephew of the lato President manner in which St. David's Day and operation this. Colony has the floors and cubicles are washed Roosevelt, recently in Singapore, shall be celebrated and the So- suffered greatly from the slump out, and the bed-boards are cleans has haen touring Java. He is ciety's social activities for the ed in portable iron tanks. An connected with the New York
Regarding this, announce- As to the future, the opinion is inspoction is made for minor Times, and, after ending his study ments will be later, viced by Lloyd's that there can etructural illegalities, Pat-runs tour through the Netherlands The Society extend a very ccr- be no permanent improvement and similar holes are filled in Indios, is visiting the Philippine dis: invitation to Welsh people to
with coment at once and all rub-Islands, to compare the systems become members. IN GREAT until overscas trade revives and hich is carted away." This, the of government,
a basis for
The report stated that the In the House of Commons, re- ordinary routine work in Chinese future articles from his pen.
Society's membership had increased plying to Mr. F. G. Pauny, Who ed between the cargoes to be residential areas, has had most
valuable results. The servants It is with much regret that wo from the original 18 to 55 at the drew attention to the allegation The Committee re- that the labour supply in the plan- carried and the vessels available quarters of European houpes pro-learn of the death of Mr. H. E. present time,
vide the link between for carrying them.
China-Stearns of the Union Insurance corded with deep regret the death tations in the vicinity of the naval town and western sanitation, Society of Canton, Ltd., Mr. during the year of Capt. Woollacott, base at Singapore had been greatly Some idea of the amount of und might easily prove the means Stearns, who until recently was one of the founders of the Societx. depleted by Government compet shipping, now available is to be of infective contact. The intro-Manager of the Society's Branch The financial statement showed a tior, Mr. J. G. C. Davison statod gathered from the fact that at the duction of systematio, periodical at Kobe, had been in poor health balance in hand of $131.55. oud of June this year the total cleansing of servants quarters in for some time and only recently! all parts of the Colony must surely passed through hore on the Man- tonnage of merchant Vonsole only be a matter of time. ittua on his way home on sick leave. afloat amounted to 28,436,965 appears to us to be long overdue. He was, however, unable to pro- tons, which is the highest ever
coed farther than Colombo where In memory of the late M. Paul be ontored hospital and, following| recorded. Add to this the further Kremer, former Consul for France an operation, he passed away on fact that on this date there were in Hongkong, who died at Hankow the 14th. instant.. under construction to the last week, members of the French Society's classification 372 vessels community and many of the de-.
ceased's friends attended Re-HARBOUR COLLISION, of over a milliom and a half tons, quiem Mass at St. Joseph's Church and it is shown that the aggregate this morning.
YELLOW TAXICABS $1.50
DOLLS
PRAMS
FROM
$10.00
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
Draped in black,
of shipping holding, or intending the interior of the edifico was. In to hold, the classification of keeping with the impressive char
JUNK BADLY DAMAGED.
FRANCO-GERMAN ATHLETICS.
WAR ANIMOSITY ENDED.
Lausanne, Dee. 16.
A conference of delegates of French and German athletic
that!
that he had been advised from Sin- gapore that the prosant labour reeds at the base were inauMclent greatly to affect the supply of la bour at Singapore, where there wan a big demand at present owing to the prosperity of the rubber and tin industries. He added that the Admiralty offleers were co-operat ing with the local Government. He would note the submission that the most suitable labour for naval purposes was recruitable from the noithern and not from the squ< thern provinces of India-Reuter."
Falling from a 50 foot high
A collision occurred in the har-associations has decided
and Germany should netut of the service. The Rev. Fr.bour yosterday, when a fishing France
vessel was run into by the steam immediately resume their pre- Lloyd's Register, amounts to Robert, offeinted at the altar, as launch Yu Choong off the Hung-war relations In the domain of 9,962 vessels, of more than thirty sieted by members of the French hom Forry Wharf. The junk was athletics. miillion tons grosa. Dospito the Mission and a choir, and amongst hit on the port side and substan The first meeting of French Gor-scaffold at Hillsborough, Shof conditions provailing, new vessels those present were the Pro-Visartial damage was caused. Nono man and Swiss athletes will be held field, Harold Grimstone, o brick- Apostolic of Hongkong. Rev. Fr. of the crow was hurt, and the in Switzerland next August, and a layer, turned a somersanit in the continue to be built, for during Spada, the French Consul and vessel was ultimately brought to second between French and German air and landed on his feet. He the past year no fewer than 493 Madame du Courthial, the Forty-shore for repairs..
athletes the same month in Paris, was dazed by the fall, but by the The In a report to the water police French athletes will visit Germanytinio a doctor arrived, he was at were assigned classes by Lloyd's, guese Consul, and others.
service concluled with the playing the master assesses the damage in 1028,-Router.
work again on the scaffold. totalling 1,315,730 tons. Under of the Dead March in "Saul,"
to his junk at $1,000.
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