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When you see our diversified assortment of musical instruments you won't deny yourself the satis - faction of music any longer.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
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Three for 8 25.
Ideal for sports wear.
All wool Golf Hose, from
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MEN'S WEAR STYLISTS.
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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
of the whole situation should be obtained. Little attention had been given, for instance, to the
1 PITT THE MAN ÖVERWHELMED case of the poor collleries which WITH THE WEIGHT OF 18 OWN cannot afford to instal efcjent | LEISLURE-Voltaire.. machinery and in which, the profits are either low or non-existent. Many of them are in the hands of a large number of small shuro- holders, with a manager paid by results, and practically the only means of getting profits,is by cut- ting wages.
Mustard & Co., Ltd. invested as
(Incorporated miär Companies Ordinances HONGKONG,
16-17. Connaught Road 0.
Phone C1486 or write for particulars.
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DEATH-AL Portsmouth, Eution of nationalization.
land,
on July 22nd 1926, Thomas A. Hamilton lute of the Royal Army "Ordinance Department, Hongkong..
The Telegraph FRIDAY, JULY 23′′ 1926.
THE COAL DISPUTE.
With so many other things to distract us, such as rainstorms, typhoons, French crises, etc., is it, perhaps, pardonable that we should be inclined to overlook the fact that the coal strike in Britain is still dragging its weary way, and, at the moment, it looks as though it will outlast the prover bial thirteen weeks, which have characterised coal strikes in the past. The passage of the Eight Hours' Bill has not resulted in the return to work of the men as
was so confidently expected by the Prime Minister when he introduc- ed the Bill in the House of Com-
Ona Chinese "case of enteric Cover was reported in the Colony on Wednesday.
According to the old Chinese calendar to-day is the festival of Great Heat (Ta-shu); ;
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The as. Taima, which left Singa- pore on the 17th instant, is now due here at daylight on the 23rd..
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The 8.8. Tanda reports that a deck passenger committed suicide on the way to Hongkong by jump
ing overboard,
To-morrow's Telegraph will con- tain a further full page of pictures of the food. These will show in graphie manner the devastation wrought in various districts.
The sale of 'property situated at Sands Street' and Lau Kwai Fong, advertised to take place at the China Auction Rooms reater day, was postponed until Thurs- day next July 29.-
Economically" there can be no doubt whatever. that these mines"
The health return for yesterday should be closed down. Socially shows one Chinese case each of they are a breeding ground of dis-paratyphoid fever and cerebro- content and Bolshevism. The ex-spinal fover. pense of mining machinery, again, is seldom realised. In America It works for sixteen hours; in Bri- tain it is only permitted by trade union regulations to operate cleven and a half hours. Even if other conditions were equal, an cleven and a half hour day cannot yield the same result on the capital sixteen hour day. The diminished output results in lower wages as well as lower profits and it is a fact that in some districts the Miners' Union has de- clared that its policy is to break Messrs. Calbeck, Macgreggor & the capitalists by short work and Co. Ltd., nak us to announce that they are able to deliver, wines, se pave the way for the introduc-spirits and mineral waters to the Feak districts and other parts of It is often forgotten that Ger-
the Colony as usual.
man canl receives a concealed sub-
We are asked to state that the sidy on account of the ridiculouslys.s. Taiping, of the Australian low cost at which the State Rail-Oriental Line, which was to have left for Manila and Australia" on way carry export coul, in addition the 22nd instant, will now depart to which German collieries payat 2 p.m. to-morrow. much lower wages, while American" collieries work longer hours than in Bellain. There is naturally a real, distinction to "be made be tween collieries supplying the Home market and those working i for export. The former are to some extent a sheltered trade. The latter have to face world con- petition and to quote world prices. British costs must be reduced and the fight now waging is to settle who shall bear the burden of that reduction. It is to be hoped that an early and satisfactory answer will be found.
Our Troubles.
fair share of trouble during the Hongkong has had more than its
past few years. To go only back as far as 1922, we have since that time experienced a big strike of stamen, the disastrous typhoon or 1923, the general strike and boy- cott, the floods of Monday Jast, and. yesterday, a severe "blow" which added further still to our misfor. tunes All these happenings, with the fortunate exception of yester- day's typhoon (which so narrowly escaped us) can be described as events of major importance, such as would be taken considerable
mans. In spite of the fact that the majority of the miners could have resumed work at the same or slightly less pay than they were getting. before the stoppage they have not responded, which shows how badly the essentials of the situation, were appraised by Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues. It is now evident that the miners were Indeed, it would almost seem that notice of in the Press of the world. not nearly so adamant against anywhen Hongkong gets "into the reduction of pay as they were, papers" at Home, the news is usual- against working longer hours and Which prompts the thought that ly of a depressing character. that the passage of the Eight the Old Country raust have a rather Hours Act has had the effect of false impression of this Colony,
"Inc-
re-uniting
the. various tions" in the Miners' Federation and strengthening the men's de termination to fight the matter to à finish. It is an unfortunate turn
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21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are extraet. ed from the Telegraph files for the week ended July 22nd, 1906.
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The rate of the dollar on demand was 1s. 10. 11/16d
The appointment of Mr. H. Homann as Manager of the Hong- kong branch of the Deutsch Asfatlache Bank was announced.
It was riotified that Mr. W. J. Saunders, had been appointed Secretary of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd.
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RESCUE SCENES.
SAMPAN CAPSIZED IN SOUTHERN FAIRWAY.
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Exelling rescues of both pag- sengers, and baggage were observed off the Prayn at about eleven o'clock this morning when the sails of two fairly big sampans became entangled causing one to capsize.
According to the report of the mistress of the more fortunate of the two craft, a cargo sampan (her property) was sailing from enst to west in the Southern Fairway when she was overtaken by the stoam launch Hol Hong which had two passenger boats in tow.
Later in the morning, the sam-
Swaying in the wind the sails of the cargo and the near passen-”": ger boats became entangled, the latter overturning and precipitat- Eugene Sandow, the noted
tho Ing Its, human freight Into "strong man," arrived in Hong-water. No lives were lost. kong and gave a series of de- mentrations at the Theatre Royal pan was observed in tow some four. fcet under water, whilst a large Interim dividends were an- quantity of baggage was landed, nounced as follows-Hongkong badly damaged, of course, by water. Ico Co., Ltd., $4; Wharf and Go- down Co., Ltd., $21⁄2.
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pointed Captain in the Hongkong Lieut. G. P. Lammiert was ap-
Volunteer Corps.
An advertisement notified the closing of the Hongkong branch of the Imperial Bank of China.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PEAK WATER SUPPLY.
To the Editor of the Hongkong
Tolograph.]
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Sir,-Appeals from the Water Authority and others have been published in your paper request- It would be a dangerous doctrine ing Peak résidents to use rain water from the hillside as far as if it were to be said that it was a possible. This water is being ob.. guilty sign when a man held his tongue on being charged."Mr Coolles at great danger to life and
tained by numbers of cheerful -- Justice Solter in the Court of limb from the waterfall along Criminal Appeal.
Harlech Road. They have to climb over a high spiked iron fence, and new shower-proof stocking is stand on the slippery rock and being placed upon the market. It then lower the water over the The concert advertised to take is made from artificial silk treat-fence and clamber back. place at the Thikoo Club to-mored by a patented "process, which Surely something could be done. row night has been postponed on prevents mad or water from ad- to make compliance with these ap-.. account of the damage cansed to hering. These stockings can be peals less dangerous? Yours, etc.,
IMPAILED... recent storms." the roads in the vicinity by the dyed any colour and look like any
other artificial silk stocking, Hongkong, July 23, 1926, They will, it is said, be no denrer [We quite agree with the writer. than ordinary stockings. Another It should be possible to make ac interesting invention in the arti-cess to this prolific supply safe and ficial silk industry is a process in easy, and to suspend the normal which, by means of a special regulations which forbid interfer finish, artificial silk goods can now ence with this stream. Tons and be made with the characteristic tons of water are running to waste. dull lustre of real silk.
Ed., H. K. TI
Amongst the passengers who left by the Empress of Russin were Mrs. A. Dyer Ball, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Tratman, Mrs W. C. Pasamore, Mrs. P. R. Warren, Mr. A. E. F. C. Goodman. Wood, Mr. A. K. Mackenzie and Mr.
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The master of the steam launch Aloha was fined, $5 at the Marine Court this morning for mooring alongside the s.s. Taiping outside two others. For a similar offence in respect of the same vessel, two motorboat toxswains were similari- ly fined.
The Harry Jon!
Very
the
action rooms yesterday afternoon At Messrs. Lammert Brothers'
Mr. L. E. Lammert sold by public;
It rained-cats-and-dogs on Derby passion that destroyed auction 5.400 square feet of pro-Day-especially dogs. It was worth Carthaginian empire-envy. perty situated at Shamshuipo for examining the newspapers He was a great dog. His rating the sum of $11,800, the upset price order to see what the Schools of in Dun and Bradstreet was $74,000, Mr. Yeung King-lam. being $8,000. The purchaser was Journalism have done in the way and that's more than many human of teaching reporters to describe beings are worth, in dollars at a gend soaking. We understand least. But Carthage was great,:
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The Rev. John Watson M.. A., the man who wrote that "ordinary too, and the jealousy of Rome laid of Carden-place, Aberdeen, for 46 language is altogether inadequate low her might. years foreign missionary with the to describe the "miseries and utter "Carthage is greater than. English Presbyterian Church at wretchedness of this day?" The Rome," is the gist of the reason Amoy, and one of the pioneer
other kind of language must have why Carthage was destroyed. missionaries in the Fokien Pro-been very current upon the course, "My dog is better than yours," is vince of China left personal estate though it does not find its way into the reason why Peter the Great in Great Britain of £1,195.
print. The suggestion of an died on the altar of human envy. amphibious contest was very Peter, the Great's trainer got natural. "Colorado was always into an argument with a Los'
Capt. A. W. Holl, of the s.8.
Pheumpenb, was bound over in the sum of $5 to come up for sentence if called u on, at the Marine Court, to-day, when he was charged with When things are going along in failing to carry regulation mooring conditions are extremely good, the their normal way, and even when lights on his vessel whilst she was at a buoy. The offence was admit- Home people are told very little ted, it being stated that the ship's about us, but we do gain consider- forward light was out. able notoriety in the news which goes out of the Colony, by cable and mail, telling of our misfortunes. Happily, we are able to bear up all
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several waves behind, in constant Angeles breeder of dogs. As the poril of being swamped in the automobile bore Peter away, a leaders' wash" is the effort, quife rifle spat out the bullet that ended appropriately, of Mr. Leonard the great dog's life.
Envy and its twin, jealousy, are Spray. But the Birmingham Post seems to put it most happily in the silliest and the costliest of IL
that "the fame saying
of famed human desires. Coronach's Derby will be, writ largely in water."
If each citizen of the United States had an equal share of all A Canton report states that at a wouldn't, for the world, marry a try, the per capita division would There are some fellows who money in circulation in this coun- of events, but "the Government
meeting of the Kuomintang Execu- girl for moncy, and some girls no be: $3.04 in gold coin, $9.54 in gold must be charged with the main that happens, and it is to the credit decided to refuse the request of fellow would marry for all the certificates, 45
tive Committee recently, it was
cents of the. responsibility. The only hope of of the whole community that we
the Hongkong Central Labour money in the world.
atandard silver dollar, $3.10 in a settlement now, is by the process come smiling through most of our Union for financial assistance for
silver certificates, one penny from The enterprising gentlemen who each treasury note of 1890, $2.39 of economic exhaustion-a-process bed in Despite years, we are all being, the ground being that dur-enfell, and
troubles. all that has hap- publicity purposes for the time
ascended Snowdon, in half dollars, a United States in which the owners are bound to confident in the future of the ing the period of inter-provincial Scafell, and Ben Nevis in less than note worth $2.54, $14.42 in Federal outinst the men and leave an after- Colony, concerning which there can war, funds are not available.
twenty-four hours did not, as some Reserve notes, a nickel from each math of bad feeling and unsettled silver lining. to every cloud, and be no doubt. They say there's a
newspapers have affirmed, "climb Federal Reserve bank note, and the three highest peaks in Great $5.00 worth of National bank problems. It is a wrong way in that lean years are followed by the post office counter show a
Britain," although they mastered notes. The total share thus would which to settle industrial disputes, brighter days. So we continue to downward grade, and do not im England, and Scotland respective-
the highest summits in Wales, be $12.11. especially a dispute in such an in-
be optimistic. The "boom" days prove the atmosphere," protested will come. All we need is a little Mr. A. E. Bunney (Winchester) at ly. The three highest peaką in dustry as that of coal mining more patience. In the meantime, a meeting of the South-Western Great Britain are all in Scotland tongue, Doctor? where the workers have such a let us all stick to our tasks with a group of the Post Office Control- Ben Nevis, 4,406 ft.; Ben Macdhui, Doctor: "Er let me have a distinctive and unusual mentality.
4,248. look at it, pleaso. It is curious that oven after all
mouth. He feared that shortly the Snowdon boasts but 3,571 ft., and authorities would have to withdraw Scafell 3,210. this length of time since the dis- Quite a fierce morality campaign the rule as to going on duty in pute broke out, many of the most is being carried on by the Chinese toxicated, because they would be. subtle difficulties of the mining expressed their condemnation of all been patronising the stuff you are authorities in Shanghai, who have faced with the retort I have only problem, have been very little ven- sorts of pleasures and arts in advertising. Mr. Pye (Ports- tilated, even by the unusually strong terms. The Shanghai Dis mouth postmaster suggested that thorough Coal Commission, and it pressed a local College of Arte for to drinks of superlative quality, trict magistrate has now sup- advertisements should be limited is well that, in considering the immorality in exhibiting nude and that postmasters should be ap erisis, the fullest picture possible figures for the use of students. pointed to judge
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Dad took the baby in his lap, So quiet she would keep. But, shucks, she kept on
howling, till
Sho ́erled her pop to sleep.
Hostess: Will you have some
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A bullet has killed Peter the reduce, and meals are so preparéð. Great, the famous movie deg, a Reducing exercises and treatments bullet poisoned with the same are after-dinner amusements.