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The Telegraph
SATURDAY, FEB. 20, 1926.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
20, 1926.
DAY BY DAY,
ought to pay to recompense the Chinese for trade losses which were occasioned by the notion of
FIND OUT WHAT YOUR TEMPTA- Chinese, and it is the montal TIONS ARE AND YOU WILL FIND process by which the Chinese OUT LARGELY WHAT YOU ARE lay these losses at the door YOURSELF.-Henry Ward Bee-
cher. of tho foreign
administra.
tions that baffles us
us. Frankly, The annual dinner of St we cannot understand its logia or David's Society, Hongkong, has reasonability. If we take the
at the Hongkong Hotel. case of Hongkong, we wouldlike to know how on earth we of this
HUMPHREY'S ESTATE. EGYPTIAN IRRIGATION.
THE YEAR'S PROFIT,
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Humphreys Estato and Finance Co., Ltd., this morning, the Chairman sald-For ke
WORK OF COMMISSION TO
The
BE RESUMED.
Rugby, Feb. 19. British and Egyptian Governments have agreed' that the.
which was interrupted by the ill- ness of the late M. Cremers, Pro- sident of the Commission, shall be
been fixed for Monday, March 1st second year in succession we have work of the Irrigation Commission, no pofitra to record under the head- ing of sales of property. The net
resumed by the two remaining mem-
Lady Clementi, M. B. E., will preside at the annual distribution profit for the period under review Kowloon, on February 23rd. compared with that of the provious It will be recalled that by an
of prizes at St. Mary's School,
}|
shows an increase of $2,221.29
bers of the Commission.
the Nile. Thia Commission was to -
Colony can be made liable for 'one cont of the losses which have been incurred. We wore helpless to do ought else but stand by and One Chinese cuse of enteric year and the amount we propose to exchange of Notes, dated January watch our trade and industry foyer was the only notification of carry forward is larger, viz., $98,- 26th, 1926, the two Governments
infectious disease received by slow up almost to tho. point of the Medical Officer of Health on 729.14" as against $88,879.94 for arranged to set up a Commission of Experts charged to study and the year 1924. The acounta are cassation under "the growing Thursday,
propose a basis of irrigation con- absenteeism of June and July
simplicity itself and call for very forming with the interests and last. The men who went had Companies have been struck off
The names of the following little explanation. The item Fire rights of Egypt in the waters of beon" refused nothing, because the Register :--- The
Victoria and Earthquake Premia is bigger present its report before June 30th, they had asked for nothing, and Trading Co., Ltd., and Sisiman than usual because it includes, for 1925. The Commission began its the first time, earthquake risk and meetings on February 17th, 1925, the administration of Hongkong Steamship Co., Ltd.
fire caused by earthquake. "Ac-and its members visited all the moat and the foreigners who reside
Kowloon residents are remind-counts Receivable" consiat almes! important works and investigated. hore cannot, either with logic ored that the annual meeting of entirely of outstanding rents and together with other engineers and honour, he asked to pay for a the Kowloon Residents, Assoola-Sundry Creditors" of amounts due experts, the different aspects of the strike in which they had absolute-rew's Church Hall at 6 p.m. on Auditors and depositors..
tion is to take place at St. And-to General Managers, Directors, problem. The Commision was on the point of completing its exami- ly no responsibility. Those are Monday.
The meeting was prosided over nation and preparing its report the ethics of the matter so far as
Patrons who have purchased by Mr. Henry Humphreys and when M. Cremers was taken III. wo and most others here see
there were present Mr. J. Scott Having regard to the importance advance tickets for Miss thom.
Harston, Mr. W. L. Pattonden, attaching to the work, the two ro-, O'Keefe's dancing display to- night are asked to exchange them the Very Rev. Fr. Robert, Hon. maining Members of the Commals- for seats at the Anderson Music Alves (Directors, and Messrs. delegate, and Abdel Hamid Solei- Mr. A. O. Lang, and Mr. J. M.sion. Mr. Macgregor, the British Company.
L. S. Greenhill, C. Bulmer John-man Pasha, the Egyptian delegate, Amongst the passengers who son, J. D. Humphreys, and D. E.will now complete the investiga-
tions and present a Clark (shareholders). of new words and phrases, but left by the Empress of Australia
Proceeding with the business of British Wireless. from some recent examples which were Mr. and Mrs.
Athe meeting, Mr. Greenhill second- have just come to our notice they Stewart, Mrs. Hayley Ball, Mr.ed the adoption of the report and seem to be excelling themselves in W. R. Buckberrough and Mr. accounts. The motion was carried the art. A professor of the Univer. A. M. Preston. sity of California has been making.
New Words.
. Our friends the Americans are.
notoriously adept at the coining
a collection of some of these now
SETTLING THE COST. words, and we will quote a few Sir Cecil Clernenti, K. C. M. G. His Excellency the Governor, for the benefit of those who like paid a visit of inspection to the to keep apace with the limos, new Government Building on Wrecketoria" is a place where Connaught Road and the Praya
A few days ago we published
11 somewhat rough estimate
of the losses suffered by local
old motor-cars are discarded or yesterday morning. sold. At a "Bobutaria "you can
unanimously,
The Directors whose rames aro Board, on the proposition of the given above were re-elected to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr. C, Bulmor Johnson.
Messrs. Percy Smith, Soth and Fleming and Messrs. Linstead and Davis were reappointed
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roport
TITLED "UNDESIRABLES."
COUNTESS OF CRAVEN REJOINS HUSBAND.
Montreal, Feb. 19.
The Countess Craven has arri-
.COUNTESS OF CATHCART.
get your hair bobbed. Amongst Bishop G. H. Lander, vicar of auditors to the Company at a ved and, re-joined her husband- Chinose merchants because of the the names given to a pay-as-you-Holy Trinity, Lyonsdown, Herts, remuneration of $250. This was Reuter's Americau Service. strike and boycott which has loave delicatessen shop are (formerly Bishop of Victoria proposed by Mr. D. E. Clark and
Grocoteria and [lasted since late last June up)
Grocery-(Hongkong), has been elected seconded by
Mr.: J. D. teria. The limit is by no means unopposed as a Proctor in Con-Humphreys. till now a period of nearly eight reached with "Healtheteria" for vocation for the diocese of St. This concluded the business, months It is exceedingly in-a sunitorium, which term is Albans.
the Chairman announcing the teresting now, to find that responsible for a flock of deriva
dividend warrants would be
lives. At the Pantatorium'
1 is notified that, at the..ex-ready on Monday.. efforts have been made by Ohi-
trousers are pressed, whilst
piration of three months, the C nese in Shanghai to estimate the "Kanditorium" is a confectionery Richardson & Co" (Swatow
Restatorium Limited will, unless cause is losses up there. The Kuo Wan shop, and at a
you take your ease. What the shown to the contrary, he struck News Agencya native news pedants will say to these additions off the register and the company agency which, has earned a gront to the American language, we will be dissolved. deal of attention lately because hesitate to contemplate, but time
of the veracity of its reports has estimated that the total loss by the merchants of Shanghai as a result of the strike after the May 30th. incident, amounts to $10,000,000. But the Chinese newspapers, however, have been giving different figures. Accord- ing to calculations made by the Amalgamated Association of Street Unions the exact figures are $7,700,000 plus Tls. 2,300,000, which this Association claims should be submitted by the Chinese Foreign Office in Peking to the Diplomatic Corps for settle ment by the Shanghai Municipal Council It will be remembered that the Chinese returned the
GERMANY AND LEAGUE.
A CONDITIONAL
APPLICATION.
5
New York, Feb, 19. Lady Catheart has secured u respite in connection with the order for her exclusion from the United States, the Federal Judge having issued a writ of habeas | corpus, calling for her appearance in court the morning of February 23-Ruster's American Servic.
COTTON TRADE,
LANCASHIRE'S BIG HANDICAPS.
works wonders and we presume
Thieves entered No. 12, Prince that these and other new words Terrace, the residence of certain vill have to stand the test of members of the Pioneer Silk Store usage. If they are found con- staff, yesterday morning, and
Berlin, Feb. 19. venient and apt, no amount of departed with a haul of clothing meticulous criticism will kill and an alarm clock. The packets The Foreign Affairs Committee them; they will gradually work of the suits contained sundry of the Reichstag has passed a re- their way into our speech and sums of money, private documents writing, and almost before we and other articles. The thieves solution declaring that Germany's At the annual Federation of know it they will have lost their apparently made a hurried exit, application for admission to the the Master Cottonspinners Asso-
for none of the trunks in the League is made conditional on her ciations at Manchester, the presi frooms had been interfered with,
novelty.
NEW CHURCH.,
FOR FRENCH CONVENT. A new church to cost $300,000 has been planned in connection with the Franch Convent at Causeway Bay.
LOW RECORD.
London, Feb. 19.
receiving a permanent seat or the dent. Mr. Fred Holdroyd attribut- Council, the composition of which ed the last five years' depression The Hongkong Amusements, to be otherwise unaltered. Then the American section of the Ltd, are arranging with Amin resolution claims that a
Lancashire cotton trade largely to promise Maynard, of Denishawn fame, who has danced herself into fame was already made to that effect to the trade war, upon which several of their competitors, particularly Germany-Reuter, throughout the world, to bring
Japan and Italy had entered. He could not see direct from Hawaii a company
how Lancashire- goods could possibly live against of Royal Hawaiians. They will perform at the Queen's Theatre
Japanese competition when as part of the programme for a
Japan's cotton industry was large- Plans are being prepared by the week commencing March 3rd.
ly protected and State subsidised. Some day the workers, whether architects, and the site chosen for There will be no increase in the new edifice is on a spacious prices and the Company will
white, yellow or black would as- chaque of $75,000 which the plot of ground next to the build-change their programme with
sort their rights to reasonable overy change of picture.
lving conditions. The foreigner was not winning or retaining mar- kets by skill or enterprise but be cause he had favoured conditions which were denied us. National taxation enormously handicapped the home industry but Lancashire could beat any country in quality.
Council issued as compassionings of the Convent. monoy for the May 30th shootings, but it is not very hard to guess the amazement of foreigners generally when the Labour Unions claim that A
well over $11,000,000 should be paid by the Council' in settlement of losses
SHIPPING TRAGEDY.
SAIN
Suffered by Chinese through the
FREIGHTER'S STARVING CREW RESCUED.
Tokyo, Feb. 19.
FRANG FALLS IN VIEW OF OUTLOOK."
Paris, Feb, 10.
A new low record for the frane His Excellency Sar. Manuel Firmino de Almeida Maia Magal. 136 to the has been register haos, Governor of Macao, ha ed. It is attributed to the con- Jaccepted the invitation tendered |
Structural additions to cost EXCHANGE RATES.
about £20,000 are to be made to the Royal Caledonian Schools at To-day's exchange rates are a craft rooms, playrooms, and a
Bushey, Herts, Science and handi-"
.185%
to him by the officers, non-com- fused Parliamentary situation, and missioned officers, and men of the it is most doubtful if the now Taxa Portuguese Company, S,V.C., to tion Bill will be adopted by the He was hopeful for the future of the celebrations to be held on end of the month. A grave con the cotton trade. Short-time. February 27 and 28, in com-fliet" between the two Chambers working, if honourably adhered The s. Juva Arrow, from Yoko-memoration of the 20th anniver- looms ahead, as the Senate Finance to, would end the appalling losses cassation of work and trade by hamia to San Francisco, bus wire-sary of the formation of the Committee has drastically alterad in the American section.-Reuter. Chinese strikers. The logic of fessed that she has picked up the Company and of its incorporation the Chamber's decisions-Reuter, the Shanghai Unions is a little Japanese freighter, Taishin Mare, as a unit of the Shanghai Volun
teer Corps. The members of bard to understand. A claim for 85 miles north-east of Yokohama, Portuguese Company, S.V.C., are which has been disabled by a $2,000,000 has already been put in
elated over the prospect of re- { storm and drifting helplessly, for ceiving such against the Council- claim a month. The thirteen members visitor and the very high honour a distinguished: regarding which nothing yery of the crew aboard were starving thus conferred on them. much has as yet boen heard. when rescued, and report that nine- teen others took to lifeboats on The figures compiled in Shang- February, 2nd., These are believed hai rolats, of course, to a few to be lost-Reuter. | wooks of time only as compared with the months to bo covered by any figures compiled for Hong- kong and Canton, and this fuct makes the estimate we published:
SS. BOLTON BEACHED,
Constantinople, Feb, 10, a few days ago all the more con-
A Turco-American modus vivendi servative. The fashion among
London, Feb. 19,
has been signed giving the United] Chinese leaders, at the moment. A message from Brest says that States most favoured nation com-) seems to be that of making calcu- the steamer Belton is, on fire andmercial treatment for a period of is spreading to number three six months. The United States is' lations and estimates of how hold. The ship has been beached consequently excluded from the much it is the foreign administra- and the forepart will be filled-operation of the increased customs
duties-Reuter. tions of Shanghai and HongkongHeuter.
TURCO-AMERICAN TRADE.
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