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Mustard & Co., Ltd. - (Incorporated under Companies Ordinance
HONGKONG,
16-17, Connaught Road," Central.
FRIDAY, MAY 28.
the shift system, which, it is believed, will attract more men to the Brigade, and it is urged that
1926.
DAY BY DAY.
THREE WOULD NOT BE SO. MANY at least 120 firemen are needed, | OPEN MOUTHS IF THERE WERE NOT So far as we can see, the present SO MANY OPEN EARS.-Bishop Hall. number provided for in the Estim- ates Is 96. The suggested in- crensé will need the provision of more accommodation, but that. surely should not be difficult when
Our weekly feature, "Hongkong 21 Years Ago," will appear in our issue of to-morrow.
INCREASED DIVIDENDS. SOLICITOR AND WIFE.
STRONG POSITION OF CHINA
FIRE INSURANCE CO:
The strong financial position of the Company was stressed at this
morning's general meeting of the Chinn Fire Insurance Company,
CASE SETTLED OUT OF · COURT.
The case in which Mrs. W. B. Hind sued her husband, at tha Kowloon Magistracy, for malu tenance was again mentioned 'bu- fore Mr. J. H. B. Nihil this morn:
Mrs. Hole, wife of Lieut.-Com-Limited held at the Union Building, when, in the absence of both
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Mr. J. A. Plummer presided and there were also present:-The Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Mr. T. G. Weal, Mr. W. L. Patienden (direc tors), Mr. Paul Lauder (General Manager) and a number of share-
holders.
the new Fire Station is ready for mander G. P. Hole, R. N, (Harbour Ing.
Master), arrived from Home yes- occupation. We rather regretterday on the P. & O. 3.s. Mantua. that no particular recommenda. tions have been made regarding.
Australian-Oriental Line firomen's pay, for we cannot help s.s. Changte left Sydney the afternoon of the 25th May and is thinking that this is not suffel-due in Hongkong on the 14th June. ently high to attract the right type of men With the proposal that
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Passengers arriving by s all men should be engaged on a Mantua from Home yesterday in-vening the meeting. three-year's agreement, we are in hearty sympathy, for nothing is more likely to cause pusatisfac tory work than the constant clian ing of the personnel
1 is particularly gratifying to note the reemmmendation that
cluded Commander E. W. W. Ling R.N.
Mr. Lander read the notice con-
The Chairman said.The Work 1924 ing Account for the year shews a balance of $715,063.76 to A memorial service to the late be dealt with. Your Directors held at St, John's Cathedral onderd of $5 and bonus of $5 per How M. P. H. Holyoak will be recommend that this balance be appropriated as follows:-Divi- Monday, at 6.30 p.m.
siture on 20.000 shares, $280,000; to bo carried forward to Under Writing Suspense Account, $4:5,- 69.75. The balance at credit of
A coolie fell, from ap upper sterey of the Bank of East Asia the charge of the Brigade should building yesterday, fracturing his
be vested in an officer who would fier. He was later removed the 2025 Account is 300-4,610.30.
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It gives your Directors much pleasure to be able to present to you an annual report showing thes Company to be in such a strong position. You will notice the working accounts that the ac a de- tual nett premium shews crease in comparison with last year. This was anticipated, how- the conse- ever and represents
be capable of taking over com-spital. plute administrative and technicat
We are informed that a telegram control. That, in our opinion, is has been received by Mesars. a prime ndcessity. The old sys-Holyoak, Massey and Co., Ltd., to the effect that the funeral of the tem, by which the Captain Superlate Mr. P. II. Holyoak takes place intendent of Police, whoever he to-day. WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT. might happen to be, was ind
the head of the Brigade, is bad The Chinese petition to the
Hongkong Government asking for unce from many standpoints, and it the continuation of the Ordinance
We restricting rentals, carries, high time it disappeared cannot see however, why an exhops of 4,882 firms, and signatures of 3,392 private naval officer with fire-fighting ex-
dividuals.
The marriage of Miss Ald
Augusta Franco and Mr. C. A. Behneider will take place on Baturday, June the 5th, at 3 p.m.
is
in the Chapel of the Convent of perience should be speciallý "men;" the Little Sisters of the Poor,tioned as most suitable for this Tharshan. Cinton. No invita
The Telegraph
FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1926.
OUR FIRE BRIGADE.
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of the curtailment of business, the results of which did the not in the opinion of our Manage
It is anticipated that the "En- the ment justify the liability incurred. lance of 1925 working account will show a satisfactory result.
I may mention that the figures" roughout the accounts freted by exchange. The ster
are
of
parties, the sunmons was adjourns, ed sine dic.
In adjourning the summons, his Worship aaid that a settlement had been arranged out of Court,
course,, means a drop in the dol lar equivalent of all sterling so far as this year's accounts concerned
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As. I have already stated, the balance sheet shows a very strong position and you will notice, gentlemen, the total assets are now over $8,450,000.
The Reinsurance Fund and Underwriting Suspense Accounts show a satisfactory Increase.
I am sure you will have noted with pleasure that the dividend and the bonus this year have been increased by the sum of $2 each.
I now move that the Directors! report and statement as presented he adopted and when this has been seconded, shall be pleased to answer hay question that may be.' put.
Mr. G. S. Archbutt seconded, and the resort and accounts were idopted.
BUSINESS MATTERS. ·
The re-election of Mr. J..A. Plummer and Mr. T, G. Well to the Board of Directors was pro- posed by Mr, A. Sommervelt and seconded by Mr. V. R. V. Itibeiro.
This was carried.
Mesare. Lowe, higham and Matthew and Messrs. Linstead and Davis were re-clceted Audi- tors on the proposition of Mr. A. A. Alves, seronded by Mr. F. H. Faine.
Ke Very
Vering Idea!
man.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade will assemble on the Murray Parade Lions will be issued, but all friends post, for surely there are profes-ground on Monday, at 5.15 p., will be "welcomed at the Chapel jonal Fire Brigade men. With the when H. E. the Governor will preling wate taken at 31st December and to a reception afterwards at necessary training for such a pasi-seat the Long Service Medal of the 1925 being 2/4. 3/8 as against a Order of St. John of Jerusalem to corresponding rate at 31st Decem- the China Baptist Publicationjon. Ong other point, may » be
die Assistant Commissioner and the ber 1924 of 2,3. 3/4. This, Society Building, ungshan,
mentioned, and that is in regard District Surgeon.
and y Cartone t
to types of building. It may, as
After an address by his solicitor is wgetated be impossible, Lasting for nearly an hour, Rajah apply modern segalatins to old. Salleh, a clerk in the Naval Ora- Chinese tene tents, but at any maneu Department was sentenced at the Central Magistraer rester- rate in regard in new structures day to nine months' hard labour on we expected something mire con- charges under the Dangerous grete than a hint that every effort Goods and Pharmacy Ordinances. Ishould be made to encourage'con-
Twe typewriters, valued at over Of her first novel, "The Sunken came President for information as | crete stairenata: If these are ad: 3100, ware stolen from the offices Garden." Nathalia Crane, aged to the financial standing of one of
This Was the. Odell and Bebar twelve years, says in part: his neighbours. viable,"or it Aome other typu
Mesere.
"Yours of the tenth received. -The Committee appointed to ex-giving more safety than the exist brokers, in the A. P. C. Building, is an idyllic tale, but jucked with answer:
sometiniz during the night of the adventures. For in this bewilder-
The thief is believed ing sanctuary security is threaten- First of all, he has a wife. and quiry fato she' question of iming ones could be devised, why not 20th-27th, Proving the Colony's fire-fighting make their provision compulsory to have entered the room throughed by the danger dormant in the baby; together they ought to be
In this Secret worth $500,000, to","any the Teulignt of the depr. A re- sinken garden. services has certainly lost najin now structuros",
port has been made to the police, basin of natural loveliness the Secondly, he has an office in which python regis, a monstrous oph'- there is a table worth $1.50 and time in presenting its repoft. It
Incorporated with the usual dian, haunts the rim of a sullen three chairs worth, say $10. Last was Baly on May 1st that the
Fevening service at St. Andrew's port. The magic of the book res of all, there is in one corner & Inrge. committee avas appointed, and its
Among some of the very integChurch, Kowloon, on Sunday will in the fact that from the first rat-hole, which will bear looking recommendations were yesterday eating matters which engaged the be an organ recital by Mr. Rupert page there is a recession from all into.
Respectfully, laid before the members of the attention of the Legislative Coun- Baldwin. A. T. C., the Church conceptions of present-day life."
"A. LINCOLN," Legislative Councft. In the nuin, el yesterday was that relating torganist who will give five num- we think it can be said that the the provision of public bathing bers. Miss F. McGill and Mr. J.
beaches in the Colony, and we W. Baldwing will render Committee has put forward an ad-learn with considerable pleasure solos. mirable series of suggestions, that a strong Committee has been which, it put into effect, should appointed to examine the whole fatter and report. We are sure result in many of the causes for the general public, also. past complaints being removed. pleased that the Government has
Shirala. The steamer was put sires to show his tongue to classes up this On the other hand, a close read-at long Inst taken
round while a lifeboat was lower- of English gentlemen." serious! of bathing.
which ed, but, in spite of a lengthy Administration the impression that several rela- the
should search, the man was not seen again tively minor; but none the less im-have very much more concern and is believed to have been
drowned. than it has shown of late, years. portant, points have not
Sen buthing here is not to be view
Amongst the passengers who dealt with as fully as could have ed as a luxury-something which left by the Empress of Russia to- people can go without if the day were Surgeon-Commdr. and, don't happen to possess a unich Mrs. Adshead. Mr. and Mrs.
matter
Bathing Facilities.
ing of the report leaves us with for it is one
been wished.
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Dr. H. S. McCray, of the Illinois. State Society of Optometriste, 'Rudolf Laubenthal, German said at a clinic recently, that tenor at the Metropolitan Opera "brown eyes are better than blue House, New York, became too much in earnest in the 'duel scene While proceeding through Suleres because they last longer."
in the second act of "Die. Walkure." phur Channel yesterday, an Indian"
French tutor's ad. in English Michael Bohnen, singing the part
by Laubenthal's sword and it re- quired half an hour to stop the bloeding and dress the injury,
stearage passenger, jumped over- are beard from the B 1. steamer paper: "A young Paris man de- of Hunding, was struck on the nose
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Time,
Do not be forgetting it, Always get as much Money us
you can.
But don't get "Time" for get-
ting it,
The decision of the city of Hull,
Down by the dismal swamp They heard him holler. Heated and moist he was Under the collar, For that new ball he'd lost. Cost him a dollar.
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or a motor car to take them to Annett, Mr and Mrs. J. Hooper, distant beaches. Bathing is Mr. and Mrs, H. Priestley, Major. to pension its blind beggars should Grant county, Wash., carries portas to cancel one ble scales in his automobile. Ho and Mrs. Trench; Mrs. and Miss make it necessary Thwaites, Mr. D. J. Lewis.. Mr. R.
verse of the old vagrants' litany plans to weigh every pupil twice a A. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. "From Hell, Hull and Halifax year. Bridger and Mr. H. Potts.
Good Lord, deliver us." Old Full-
First and foremost, the Com- ittee places the necessity of an
healthful pleasure, which it should immediate increase in the person-
be the Government's air to bring nel both of the European and within the reach, of all, and we surare, therefore, glad to see that the Chinese stalls. This is not prising, for it has long heen felt newly-appointed Committee is not only charged with reporting on that the Fire Brigade is under manned, especially considering the steady growth of the Colony bath on the island and in the big
er explains this quaint saying " A new law, which comes into
achieves nomenclature
A report of how he was attacked thus: "This is part of the boy force on May 7, forbids the serv the existing facilities but on the and thrown into the harbour by a vars and vagrants litany, On ing of any alcoholic drink to feasibility of inaugurating addi-number of men on the Praya these three frightful things it is scholars under eighteen years of tional public bathing beaches and East, has been made to the police to be feared that they least fear age in colleges or boarding-schools. on what should be the future by S. Anderson, a seaman of the the first, conceiving it to be the in Italy. policy of the Covernment with steamer Elkridge.. Anderson was furthest from them. Hull is ter districts 'growing up across the
Women are all right, but they respect to the whole matter. The suffering from a cut above one rible unto them as a place of good harbour.. We are told that the terms of reference are exceedingly eye, after the affair, which is government where vagrants racet have no talent for nomenclature. present shortage makes conditions wide and the opportunity now pre-stated to have cecurred at five with punitive charity, and 'tis to A woman
sents itself for the gentlemen o'clock this morning. He was re- be feared are oftener corrected only through grinding and con- irksome for the, men, and, what nominated upon the Committee to moved to Hospital, and has missedute unto them for the law thereof years ago we started to teach Ade- than amended, Halifax is form- tinued application.. Fourteen is even more serious, that a great take a broad and liberal-minded his ship in consequence.
whereby thieves taken in the very laid the nomenclature of a news. deal of necessary work cannot view of the matter and lay it as
act of thieving cloth are instantly paper office.. It was a tedious pro be done. The view is expressed a distinct charge upon the funds According to Religio e Patro, that, in the European section, one of the Colony to provide adequate Rev. L. G. de Garcia, S. J., at pre- beheaded with an engine without ceas, but she is pretty nearly letter perfect now. And she uses the and cheap bathing facilities fent at Woodstock College, Wood any further legal proceedings." Inspector Omeer and three Suball. There should, by all means, stock, Maryland, USA, will bo
word "stuff" to designato anything A split infinitive, is where two presented in printed or written Offers should be immediately be proper sanitation and, scaveng ordained priest on June 14 by His added to the strength, with an ad- ing at such beaches us Repulse Grace the Archbishop of Balti-persons who had no right to actu- form as glibly as a veteran re
Bay and Castle Peak, but it is to mora ard will celebrate his first ally care for each other cannot porter: ditional officer later. This, in be hoped that such matters will mass on the next day 16th June). find anywhere to privately enjoy our opinion, represents, the very not monopolise the Committec's He will return to Shiubing after their affections and decide to minimum of requirements.
Re- attention. The Committee is a the time of his probation. Rev. positively quit."
representative and well-chosen Garcia is the Bon of tho garding the Chinese staff, pro-one and we are expecting an in- late General Garcia. His mother, Lincoln some years before he be-. dent. Washington Star,
A New York Arm applied to by a few moments after the acc posals are made for introducing 'teresting and progressive report. Mrs. Garcia, is living in Maeso,"
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