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SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
DE SILENT WHERE REASON 18
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feyer was reported yesterday.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Phillp Jacks to act as Puiene Judge, until further notice.
Mr. Frank Baylis is to act na Deputy. Shipping Master during the absence on leave of Mr. G. W. Coysh.
AT A FOOTBALL MATCH. Justice as Well as Skill,
Wo wore bound for my friend's staking hands before the battle. club; but on entering the tube They spun the coin, took up their railway station found ourselves position., Amid murmurs of ex- excitement, the surrounded by a multitude of perpectation and sons, mostly young, wearing cloth game began. cans and, if not actually bointer- There was cunning transfer of
the ball from man to man, clever. ous, evidently eager and intent
"What's on 7 Where are all footwork, rhythmic weaving of these bound for?" asked my liter-Patterns, long swerving runs down the wing at top speed, feat, hoads ury friend,
"For a football match, I think." and cheats used as buffers, pro- "What sort of football peliere, battering rams; thero
cheera, Tenders are being invited for
tsvo
match?" "A" the construction of
"A professional football match, shouted comments.
The players swarm under Association rules, between Claas reversible buoys 10" 0*
two famous English League rearest goal, the crowd sways and Diameter by 8′ 0′′ ".
Clubs,"
excitement. Bang!
д
were
countor-cheers.
about the
It is evident that the present time is peculiarly favourable to employers Initiative in this matter if they have the necessary fore- sight to move.
Trade unionism haa, during the past year, páid very heavily for the folly of its class-warfare and the eaner minda among trade unionist ranks can regain the leadership if they show their fellows that moderation will be mot half-way and that "high productions something moro than a mere trap. With judicious guidance and with employers showing the right spirit, it would be possible to-day to convert trade unionism from a negativo irto a positive and creative force in Industry. There is a work- adny temper abroad among work era and it is in such moods that they are reasonably plastic to sug- Festion. If the Federation of Bri- In the matter of the Yue Hong tigh Industries could evolve a Bank, in bankruptcy, it is notified that a first dividend of $15 per {policy of co-partnership and an-cent, has been declared.
nounce that its members were pre-
Lieut. Col. Frederick Eaves, pared to adopt it, then the full
"I know; but London is not quite dvantages of the present situa-D.S.O., has been appointed to act
As Land Ofieer and Mr. W. Jancient Rome. Have you over terraces, through which COMUS sion might Be reaped. The ques-Lockhart-Smith to act as Assistant seen one of these matches?" the referee's whistle, shrill and tion of the workers' place in in-Land Omcer.
peremptory. The swelling sound "Suppose we seo this one." The this time is harsh and remon dustrial management touches one
a swift strant. man of letters gave me
There is keen feeling in that plance.
"A proletarian football match" noise," said the literary man.
"It was a case of tripping-of He shook his head:
"Why not? I have seen one befoul play."
"Play the game, reds !" from bo- fore now--and not from the stand. but on the open terraces among hind us. the fans. That is the real thing."
f the most sensitive nerves of the problem of industrial peace, for it is lack of status that rankles perhaps even more than what is considered low remuneration. Mr. Winston Churchill said the ther day that never before had the English people so much to eat and; as that is more or less true, it only goes to indicate that indus- trial discontent has its roots in other than material conditions. The worker often feels that while, in the political community, he is a fall partner by right of his vote, he must be either a subject or a rebel in the economic coromanity. The day of autocracy in industry is going and we think that em- | INDUSTRY'S PARTNERS.1loyers and employed will be wise to aim at the minimum of friction in its disappearance.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1527.
A first dividend of $2 per cent. has been declared in the matter of Sheow Lan O'Hoy, of 41, Sands Street, Kennedy Town,
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Captain P. C. Per feet, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, to be one of his Hon- orary Aides-de-Camp.
While working on a Japanese boat, a Chinese cargo coolie fell into the hold and suffered injúries He was removed to to his hond. the Government. Civil Hospital,
Mr. B. A. Rama is retiring from the Arm of Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibos, on March 31st. The business will be carried on
heretofore by Messrs. L. Gibbs and E. R. F. Sample.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed the Rev. C. P. Shann to be one of the German Missions Trustees, during the absence from the Colony of the Right Reverend C. R. Duppuy.
*
The accountant of the a.s. Leong Kwong has reported to the police that on March 5th he entrusted a
servant with 367.20 with which to buy provisions, but the man has since absconded with the money.
rocks
with
"Oh, I see! But don't these The ball has hit the cross bar, ani.
white splash of borrowed white- youngstors play themselves, in rebounds into play, piebald with stead of watching?"
wash...
•
"To look on takes less time and trouble. I suppose; and the game adds a weekly enthusiasm to many “Near thing!" comments the
man behind rather colourless lives."
us. Wake up the "The rage
for spectacles in reds!" great arenas helped to end ancient "If Blair had been playing, he'd " Home Panem et eircenses, you have had that. It's a reserve man know."
they've got there."
Loud rumour again, from the
"Never."
A pause. "I will come with you," said Letters-"For once."
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2
"Then the crowd do want fair play?" asked Letters.
"Always. Fair, Tust, and clever play is what they ask for. Not even the partisans enjoy unfair ther call football. Dirty work,' it."
"It never was the British way in port. That's quite certuin,
•
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So instead of battling with the crowd we joined it, and by the simple process of doing as it did we were at last sucked up above ground again by a swirling ter rent of humanity. Then we were: With varying fortunes the game whirled down a mean street of continued as, moment by moment, small grey houses and mean little the twilight closed and deepened squeezed into an open over the ground. At the back of house yard that was loud with urchins the stand the shadows loomed yelling programmes, pushed in a huge and black, the windows queue, through one of a long line showing as rectangles of glimmer- of clicking turnstiles. propeller light against spaces of smoky from behind up a broad flight of darkness. Now the home right. stair; and so let loose upon a great wing had the ball, and the outside, opun terrace, sontless, but lined with a 'swift, swerving run, raced at intervals with iron rails, analong the touch Hine, then slowed I will be remembered that the
commanding the vast, green rec down, and deftly swung the ball now yeat was ushered in at Home
tangle of smooth sward the field right across the goal mouth. of play-marked out with white
The visiting back was waiting to the accompaniment. of much Disfiguring Our Streets." -
lines, and extending from the for it; but he misjudged his kick, white and netted poste, at our and fell. Right beneath the bar optimism regarding the prospent The growing use of bill-boards"
The Observatory returns for end, to the opposite goal at the the ball dropped, at the feet of a of a revival in British trade and in the streets of Hongkong, for
the purposes of advertising, is February show that the average other. industry, and judging by the re-matter to which the authorities mean temperature was 58.5, the
Round, three sides of the field home forward, who trapped it might with general benefit turn highest being 74.2 and the lowest ran sloped terraces identical with with the toe of his right foot, took
There were 43.4 hours of that upon which
we stood, than instant's deliberate afm, and their attention. There is in 46.9.
an Ordinance under sunshine and 4.35 inches of rain. furth side on the right being shot, hard and low, into the cor- "Goal!" from about 40,000 existence arrives to prevent whilst the average humidity was wholly occupied by a huge roof t the exhibition
of advertisements. "..
the middle with a gable, surmount-throats. Pandemonium! and a "in such a manner as to effect injuriously the amenities of any The health bulletin of Easterned by a great sphere, symbolic of forest of waving caps. Gusts and tremendous inerease in the num cublie place," and we recull, in ports for last week, issued by the the national and inerndicable Bri-roars of applause pealed round the her of idle workmen which was this connection, that some years Principal Civil Medical Officer, tish love of games. tie direct result of the coal strike, jago the practice of utilising the contains the following
Plague, Bombay 2, Colombo 3: purposes was prohibited. Similar Bangkok 19; Small-pox, Bombay
cent figures showing a big and ogressive reduction in the num
ber of unemployed, it would seen that that optimism was well juafi fred. Even after allowing for the
CASCS:
and sented stand ornamented in
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terraces and from the stand. The youth with the rattle got value for
A long ripple of applause flow-bie money at last. The game was
it was revealed this week that insails of sampans for advertising Cholera, Calcutta 41, Rangoon 1d round the terraces; and a col-restarted with the home team now dustry has re-absorbed a consider," a Juent firm desiring to make 52, Calcutta 285, Rangoon 30/oured file of players, ten of them ascendant and its partisans in able number of workmen who were use of an intermittent electric-Tuticurin 3, Bangkok 6, Saigon 1 black and white, ten of them red cheerful mood.
out of work this time last year.light sign was informed that this Vladivostock 2.
not permitted. Latterly, For this comparatively satisfat however, the practice of display-
The Superintendent of Imports
tory state of affairs there is much ing posters on bill-boards, and and Exports has been appointed to themselves about the two goals at and vanished. Here
.our
in Biso,
ear.
Deeper grew the physical gloom and white, with two goal keepers | in green Jerseys, came trotting over the football ground. Lúcifer and there, into the field of play and grouped matches flickered out, like stars, pro-from the terraces, flared a blazing certain "forwards" to be grateful, although there is even on big shuts of cardboard, exercise all the duties in connection while to take desultory and ra-torch-a-newspaper, lit, to bright- reem for a lot of improvement. in the streets of the city, has with the issue of Chinese wine and the aimless not shots, while a lader the darkening proceedings. We note that curing, the early started and it has now become so piril shop licencer, dealers' licercester us whirled steadily, with his Mysteriously, spectrally almost,
widespread that it is high time and distillery licences which were
right band, a welcoming ratele the players flitted, dimly visible in months of this year there has the authorities stepped in. under the Liquors Consolidation
ef letters, as we left the ground, I and raucous note.) leen much earnest enquiry at These boards which can be seen Ordinance, vested in the Captain provided with a peculiarly vibrant the rathering glorn. Of the man
"An enthusiast!" said the liter-izquired:
"Bread and circuses, my friend. Tone, among leading industrial-resting against verandah pillars Superintendent of Police, the Trea-
and other prominent places, are not surer and the Captain Superintendary man, with a hand over his left
Was it so very bad after all?" ints and others, regarding the pro- only an eyesore, giving a cheap ent of Police respectively.
"Not so bad. The ritual game "Yes, and a partisan, I oxpect." Ispects of industrial peace, and and tawdry appearance to
A further recital in aid of the
"Are they not all partisans?"
of 400 years ago. has become a that these discussions have re-streets, but they are
In Organ Fund was given in St.
"By no means. Some are a spectacle for the masses--and I inany cases, an obstruction. vealed a more favourable attitude these respects, they are far more John's Cathedral last evening and aloof as any critic may be. Te shall go to my club next Saturday, mong Labour leaders towards objectional than advertisements was greatly enjoyed by all present. them, this game is a form of art instead of coming here. But I see the idea of co-partnership, and on sampan sails and by means of Mr. Frederick Mason, the Cathe and they understand its technique that they like justice as well as skill. The 40,000, are sound; I that there has been some contem: flashing signs, both of which dral organist, gave some most de- through and through."
In the centre of the ground the think, at heart." methods have been banned locally, lightful numbers, played with poraneous indication of agreement and for the preservation of the much skill, whilst Mr. C. D. Lake two captains and the referee were. on, the part of employers. It is amenities of our streets it is to proved himself a really good tenor There time that, in dividing the joint be hoped that some effort will be vocalist in his two songs.
In is to be another recital at 6.45 pm. made to restrict their use. product of Capital and Labour, other times, the business contre next Friday! Le profits, Labour should have of the city presented a spick and
Resealing of probate of the will NEW ORDINANCE PENDING. other guarantees than those of span appearance which contrasts force or coercion for its equitable sharply with, present-day condi-of Alfred Heywood Hrycock, of slare. Must Labour
tions.
1.
EXCHANGE RATES.
always threaten to go on strike in order? to get what it considern is its fair Proportion? It is time that every
Paris balance sheet was intelligible to
Brussels employces-either in itself or in Amsterdam popular form, and it is time also Beclia..... Copenhagen that the truths of industrial psy- Vienn chology were realised by more Helsingfors,
Lisbon than a mere handful of capitalists, Rucharest for there is nothing which has pró- Buenos Aires
Shanghai ved more economical than the Yakolinmn harmonising of industrial metholNew York
Geneva with the human instincts, workers. These are some of the
wain arguments which are being Prague adduced in favour of the general adoption of the co-partnership Athens
Rin
iden, and those big employers who Hambay
Hongkong
are antagonistic to it are display- Silver (spot) ing an attitude which drags far Silver (forward) behind the times.
'London, Mar. 18.
BASEL MISSION.
Notice is given that the Presl-
P. A.
FOR AGED POOR.
FEAST DAY OBSERVANCES.
To-day, being St. Joseph's Day,
Ila Talbot street, Southport, re- tired merchant, who died on No- yember 4, 1926, has been grantai dent in Hongkong of the Basel is the feast day of the St. Joseph's Wan, Kowloon City. The Little to Mr. W. E. L. Shenlos, solicitor Evangelical Missionary Society, Home for Aged Poor at Ngau Sho of Hongkong, attorney of Mesars, with the consent of the German Sisters will be pleased to receive C. T. and M. S. Heycock, the Missions Trustees, intends at a visitors from 3 to 5 p.m. and show 121 executors. Mr. Heycock loft state carly date to apply to the Legisla-them over the Home.
At 3 p.m. His Lordship Bishop 12.19% estate of $8,100. In addition to bill incorporating the President Valtorta will give the Benediction.
31.00 in England of £15,120 and a locative Council of Hongkong for a 20.16 numerous bequests he leaves for the time being in Hongkong At 4 pm, a special dinner will bo
of the said Society.
Juorved to the inmates, and visitors £500 to the Southport Infirmary.
The Bill merely revives in an who wish to wait on them are wel- «
Gifts of tobacco, cakes, Improved form the former incor-core. poration Ordinanca No. 2 of 1896, sweets and other good things will which was repealed by Ordinance be appreciated, and it would contri- bute much more pleasure in the Section 7 of the Bill, taken with giving it benefactors would take
2/18.95
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Sir Francis Aglen, Inspector General of Customs, was amongst 47.4 the passengers who arrived here, 25 Homeward bound, by the P. and.. 2/0.11/32
1 liner. Mongolin yesterday. During
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The war cemetery at Jeruanlera
26. his brief stay here, he was the the Schedule, revests in the now the articles to the Heme and there 106.8/16 gucat of Lieut. Col. Hayley Bell, corporation the immovable pro-join the group of distributors.
18.13 Commissioner of Customs, with perty formerly held by the old cor- 18.56 when he yesterday had luncheon Poration which is now vested in 104 with H.E. the Governor at Govern the German Missions Trustees. 27.7014ment House. At night, Lieut-
In addition to a previous gift on the Mount of Olives is neating.. 37 Ch. Hayley Bell gave a dinner of £10,000 Mr. Bernhard Baron, completion, and the memorial, ins 1/6.63/64 party at his residence, Magazine chairman of Carreras, Ltd., has the form of a chapel, the cost of 1/11% Gap, in honour of the distinguish given £5,000 to the fund for the which has mainly subscribed by 26.7/10 ed visitor, those present including raconstruction and development members of the Egyptian Exped!- 25.5/10 H.E. the Governor and I. E. Major of Middlesex Hospital..
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General C. C. Luara.
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