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HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI ·
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.
Telegraphic-Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAL”
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL
Meals can be had as follows -
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Breakfast 7.30 a.m.-10 a.. $1.00 per Cover. Tiffin 1.00 p.m.-.2 p.m. $1.00 Dinner... 7.30 p.m.9 p.m. $1.25 Nothing to equal it at the price in the Colony. CENTRAL LOCATION
Electric Lifte and Lighting. Telophones on each floor.
Hotel Launch meets all Steamers.
TELEPHONE C. 373.
TEL. ADD. VICTORIA J. H. WITCHELL, Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
When in doubt, make it The Savoy!
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet 'System.'
Elovator and Telephones to each floor.
Smoking Room and Saloon Bar. First Class Billiard Table
Recently renovated throughout.
Manager's Personal Attention
Teis. K. 608-609. Cablus KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
PALACE
WM. HAROLD PERRY Manager
HOTEL.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
GOING HOME.
THE "MONGOLIA'S" BIG LIST.
The P. and O. 9.8. Mongolin- one of the "ernek" ships of the line was due to sail at noon
to-day for Home, carrying the largest number of local passengers on any Hoheward-bound vcsaci this season.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927.
GUARDIANS'. £1,000,000
two
"DEBT.
ANOTHER BOARD TO BE
TAKEN OVER,-
GUIDING PLANES »
IN FOG.
EXPERIMENTS WITH A "LEADER-CABLE.” ... ·
Experiments at night-time and Bodwollty Board of 'Guardians, after five years of severe financial in foggy weather are now being embarrassment, and with a debt made by big twin-engined aero- of almost £1,000,000, has received planes of the R.A.F. with an elec news of their anpercession by trically charged cable intended to Government officials, Mr. guide airmen approaching an aero. James Evans and Mr. A. Broad-drome when about to alight safe- Among the large number of
Icy.
ly in conditions of bad visibility, local-residents-to-leave-were: Mr. A letter from the Ministry of says a Home writer.
Following laboratory testa, a and Mrs. H. T. Brooks, Mr. and Health" informed the guardians Mrs. W. G. Coysh, the Hon. Mr. that these oficials would net as full-scale section of cable, starting Commissioners for the next 12 from the Royal Aircraft Establish- H. T. Creasy and Mrs. Creasy, Mrs. months, as other Commissioners ment, Farnborough, Hampshire, C. D. Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. are doing at Chester-le-Street and has been laid across country in
West Ham.
the direction of Basingstoke. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Nolson,
The electrical current radiated As the clerk finished reading} Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Nightingale, the letter, the chairman nakeupward from the "leader-cable," Mr. and Mrs. J. H. B. Nihill (pro-vhether the members of the boar as it is called, affects sensitive re ceeding to Mesopotamia), Dr. and were prepared to sing "Auld Land plane flying above, the pilot being cording instruments in the aero- Mrs. W. L. Paterson (going to take Syne."
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Among those also travelling by the steamer is Sir Francia Arlen, who is on his way Home from Peking. Other passengers em- barking at Hongkong were:-
"Extravagant Expenditure."
up an appointment in another They were not. Instead they thus warned when he is deviating Colony), Mr. E. A. Ram (on retire-assed a resolution asking the from his position directly above ment from Messrs. Denison, Ram Ministry of Health to receive a the cable. It also tells him his and Gibbs), Mrs. W. E. I Shenton, doputation with a view to recon-height above the ground.. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Taylor and sidering its decision.
It is proposed that a perfected i family, and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. M. Bedwellty Guardians have had leader-cable system should be em- Young and family.
some astonishing experiences. On ployed at the London air station, one occasion, when they could get Croydon, for the guidance in bad no money, the unemployed forced weather of air express pilots.. their way into the board-room and extracted individual promises that the women should be housed and Mrs. C. A. Allison, Miss C. Alll-fed.
In its letter the Ministry state The master of son, Miss A. Anderson, Mr. and
the workhouse that after careful review of the Mrs. G. M. Bathgate, Mr. and Mrs.had to scour the town to get the administration of the board it hus been forced to the conclusion that Clarke, Mr. C. 5. Coom, Capt. and necessary" supplies, Mrs. P. R. G. Cumming, Mr. T. H.
Bedwellty Unior. comprises the efforts made to secure improve- aroa-Inment in careful and economic ad- Daly, Mrs. E. J. Dovoy, Mr. J. O. most important mining Donovan, Miss G. E. Dunk, Mrs. Monmouthshire, which has been minstration have not been success- B. E. Elliott, Lieut. F. G. Emley, particularly hard hit since the war ful. On the contrary, the prac- Mr. A. O. English, Mr. and Mrs. J. by industrial depression, and last tice of the guardiane has been to Interpret the regulations so ss.to Ferguson, Mr. M. J. Flattery, Miss year by the coal stoppage.
bring the largest number of per- V. Godson, Mr. J. A. Gow, Mr. A. Gray, Mr and Mrs. B. Guest, Mr.
sons within their scope, and gotor- nly to grant relief on the most T. Gwinnell, Mr. L. W. Harrison,he 1921 stoppage.
liberal scale, which led to a rate Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Kilbee, Mr. P.
of expenditure both unnecessary Kellett, Mr. J. Kelly, Mr. and
and extravagant. Mrs. Win. Kerr, Miss L. Lesch, Mrs. Mackintosh, Mr. J. V. Mc Mahon, Miss V. M. Mende, Mrs. Nettleton, Mrs. J. B. Nowill, Mr J. F. W. Plascott, Mr. C. Poyntz, Capt. R. H. T. Raikes R.N., Capt.
In the Blaina area a number of collieries have not worked since
By November 1925 the board had reached & debt of nearly £500,000, and had no prospect of repayment. At one time last year their loans exceeded £1,000,000...
Notwithstanding that the Min- stry imposed stringent regala- The board now, owes £976,000 tions when granting recent loans, for the current half-year ending one parish alone out of six relief March, of which only four months districts in the union spent as has expired; £220,000-has been re-much as the others put together in
B. H. Ramaoy, R.N., M.V.O., Lieut.ceived on loan. Col. and Mrs.. T. A. F.--Robinson, Mr. C. C. Shilton, Mr. M. J. Sul- livan, Mr. Y. S. Teo, Mr. and Mrs. J. Turbyne, Mr. L. Tyler, Mr. sind Mrs. Wardell, Mr. T. K. Whelan, Miss Wilson, Ma and Mrs. K. S. Wong, Mr. C. E. Wood and Mr. and Mrs. G. R. M. Young.
STOLEN SACKS.
CHINESE SENT TO GAOL.
A Chinese policeman arrested a coolie who was wandering aim- lessly with a huge parcel tucked Tel Kowloon No. 8
Tel. Address "PALACE." under his arm, Morrison Gao Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station.Road, at four o'clock this morning. Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout, Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms: Uprivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Stolen. The man was this morn Terms moderate. Special torms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietressing brought before Mr. R. E. Lind-
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing 'every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Cables :-
"EUROPE"
Singapore..
HOTEL
SINGAPORE,
Grill
THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director,
·CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
Optional cargo will landed
been given
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD.
And
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
3.
From UNITED KINGDOM vla SINGAPORE.
not
here, unleas notico
on
The parcel was found to be four- tcen sacks, believed to have been
sell but could give no satisfactory Recount of how he came to be in possession of the sacks.
Sentence of four weeks' hard labour was imposed.
SORRY. PLIGHT.
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difficult financial position of the company, and the uncertainty of Railing, we are compelled to "tem- porarily dispense" with the ser- vices of the floating staff with the excention of the master and chief engineer, etc."
The letter also stated that this action had been taken with the greatest reluctance but it would have to carried into effect without delay
Each of the officers concerned received a notice of the termina- tion of his services from date, (January 31).
Compensation Question.
The question which is now exer. cising the minds of the men is whether or not they can claim acme compensation for such sum- bemary dismissal. There is 10
has doubt that a day's notice is insuffi- prior to atcameraient in any country and in any arrival, but carried port to port to the final port of call considered, no notice at all. All from employment; but in China it is to which the option extends,
of the men accepted their "tem-
All broken, chafod, and damaged porary" dismissal on a day'a notice goods are to be left in the Godowns, because they were led to belleve where they will be examined on any that they would be re-engaged at: Tuesdays and Fridays between the later date. Such a belief was hours of 10.45 a.m. and neon withinot groundless but it was appar- the free storage porlod.
ently a great mistake,
are hereby notified that the cargo will bo discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- loon, where it will lo at Consignee's will not be recognised. risk and subject to terms and condi- tions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery | from Godown on and after 19th March.
No claims will be admitted after There are 18 ships of the com- Consignoes per Company's Steamer, the Goods have left the steamer's pany at present in Shanghai, five
CALOHAS.”
Godown, and all Goods remaining un- in the South and six on the river. delivered after the 26th March will the officers holding positions be subject to rent.
lower than a master or chief en- All claims against the Stanmer ginger on all of these are affected. must be presented to the undersigned Exactly when the ships will com
or before the 8th April or they nence operations
again is not known at present but when they No Piro Insurance will be effected. do ull foreign officers with the ox
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. ception of skippers and chief en-
Agenta.
vineers will be replaced with Chineso.
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Hongkong, March 19, 1927. ·
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