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THURSDAY,
MARCH 31, 1927.
DAY BY DAY,
IT 18 A COMMON PLEA OF THE
FAINTHEARTED THAT SUCCESS DE PENDS UPON LUCK.--Sir F. Treven.
ately the cost of upkeep of both Bureaux, It would also be the work of those Barpaux to supply data on any part of Australasia to intending settlers or poopla desirous of sponding a leave in the Antipodes, With the expansion of both Dominions, markets will have to be found, and, lying ao ndyan tageously close to China and bor vast maiver, It is there they coul; go for one outlet. The danger is that they may arrive too late; for many eyes are on China. And to
Expectorating rather noisily, a attempt to gain a footing on the Chinese seated at the rear of China market without any or-Major C. Willson's Court this ganised spade-work would he morning, was called up and fined
$5 for his misdemeanour.
futile.
A few years ago, Mr. Shenf, Australian Trade Commissioner in Singapore, pointed out to expor ters of small goods from Austra lia the necessity of making wrap- pers and labels na colourful and gaudy as possible. Mr. Shear suggested pictures of Chinese giria and striking Impressions of animals--in fact, anything that: would strike the eye, for he had learned that the Chinese buys largely with his eyes. Mr. Sheaf
met with ridicule, scorn and pro- texts of all descriptions in Aus- tralia but he was correct! This is merely mentioned to point out how necessary is a knowledge of the oft-times peculiar require
The P. and O. liner Macedonia, which left Shanghai at 7.80 nm. yesterday, is due here at noon to morrow.
PEAK TRAM FARES.
P. R. A. WRITES TO GOVERNMENT.
The Very Idea!
A Doan was once at a dlaner, when, just as the cloth was removed, the subject of discourse happened to be that of extra. ordinary mortality among lawyers. "We have lost, sald a gentle
In view of a statement by a One British case of diphtheria correspondent yesterday suggest and one Chinoso case of small-ing that the Peak Residents' Association were taking no action pox were notified yesterday. :)
in connexion with the proposed man, "no fewer than six ominent' increase in Peuk tram fares, a barristers in as many months." Telegraph representative culled on The Dean, who was quite deaf, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, the Hon. road as his friend finished his Secretary of the Association, this romarks and gave the company morning and was informed that grace-"For this, and every other the matter had already been taken mercy, make us truly thankfull up. Mr. Hornall stated that a letter had been sant to the Govern- While a film was being shown in ment on the subject, and that a one of the chief cinemas of Paris copy thereof had been forwarded a young man suddenly drew a
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to the President of the Mid Levels revolver and tried to shoot, him Residents Association.
acff through the hoart, wounding A dog belonging to Mrs. Brown, Mr. Hornell said the letter had himself soverely. The Buvre of No. 8 Armend Buildings, Kow been sent to the Government at anys that he tried to take his life loon, was removed to the depot at the requçat of many members of when a rival in his wife's affec Matnukok yesterday after it had the Association, who had comtions appeared on the screen. attacked and bitten a house-boy,municated with him asking that
Solicitor at Marylebone County
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the matter be taken up with the This morning's Harbour Office authorities. These members aug Court: Will you agree with me? reports gave 10 arrivals and 11 gested that a public utility com-Witness: If it costs me nothing, departures, with British vessels pany had no right to raise its yes. registering fivo and two, leaving contract rates by an advance of 70 vessels in harbour, of which 33.1/3 per cant. without adequate Midland woman: I put a jug
reasons being given the on the shelf. Solicitor: 24 wore British.
Did it Government for such a step, hit your husband on its way to whilst it was submitted that the the shelf? Company's contentions regarding
The
police have regelved a report of the theft of clothing to the value of 350, from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Mess, some time between the 26th and 30th instant.
The annual sports meeting of St. Stephen's College, which was to have been held at the sports ground of the Hongkong University at Pokfuium yesterday, was postponed on account
Zhongkong Telegraph.quirements of a foreign market of the rainy weather.
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927.
TRADE OPENINGS.
however
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Automobile Association is to be held at 5.30 pm. to-mor- row afternoon at the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. It is hoped that there will be a large attendance of mem- bers.
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improvement of stations and roll- Nottinghamshire wife: I stood ing stock and accelerated service my ground--prepared to be mur- did not justify the increased fares.dered for once.
The Association's, latter to the
undertakers to remove bodies from hotels and other public places.
Government mentions that the .4 hollow tapestry-covered buildings and rolling stock were settee, instead of the usual shell, long overdue for reconstruction, is being used by a London firm of whilst the argument that the now charge for season tickets la a re- turn to the former rates does not, says the letter, apply to married householders who take out two season tickets, as before the pre- sent rates came into force ($9 for each ticket) the charge was $12 per month for men and $6 for ladies.
Subsequent to our representa tive's visit, Mr. Hornell wrote us as follows:
Dressed Je furniture-removal men, wearing green baize aprons and caps, the undertakers' assist- ants carry the settee through the hotel it its busiest hours without any attempt at concealment.- Daily Mail.
Some 'schoolboy howlers": An old soldier is called" n vegetarian.
The Home Office is where, Home
requirements, which
In addition to those mentioned strange they may seem, niust be yesterday, passengers leaving by given serious consideration. T the Empress of Canada included Mr. and Mrs. H. Humphreys, Mr. the onlooker it would seem that and Mrs. J. G. Dick, Mr. and Mrs. Australia is jeopardising her. McKelvie, Miss M. 1. Turnbull With the Duke and Duchess of chances of building up a lucrative and Mr. G. Pect.
"With reference to your repre- York visiting both Dominions, it export trade on account of her
sentative's call this morning en-Rule is made, to inevitable that Australia and high production costs. are reason
quiring as to what steps, if any; A bishop without a diocese is New Zealand should at present for which are the very high wages
were being taken by the Peak called a Suffragette. command more notice than is or-paid to unskilled labour. To take
Residents' Association with regard to the increased faros on the Peak dinarily the case.
an example, it may be noted that
rum, you have doubtless publish The interest-of
the Americans have almost a monc
ed elsewhere the gist of the letter, Hongkong in both Dominions must
forwarded to the Government, poly of the canned fruit industry largely be commercial, and it is
which absolves the Association of
The Court of Chancery is so in China, merely on account of surely a matter for regret that
The Artillery Co. H.K.V.D.F.the charge of "masterly inactivity called because it takes care of price, because it is admitted by will hold their Annual Dinner at. E. Le-N. Side."
made by your correspondont, property when there is no charco the business done between Hong-
of the owner turning up." experts in the trade that the Volunteer H.Q. on Friday," 1st. "From the concluding para-' A volcano is a mountain with: kong, or China, and Australasia is
quality of the goods put out by April, at 8.80 p.m. Will all those graph of H. E. Le-N. Side's' letter a hole in the top, and if you look so small; morcover, it is a matter the Shepparton and Queensland intending to be present, and who it would appear that he is a down the hole you can see the have not already done so please needing investigation. The rea-State Canneries, to mention only send in their names to T. A. Max resident of the Peak, in which case reater smoking.
tin, Central 75. List closes noon
Friday.
The young Pretender was. 80-. called because it was pretended that he was born in a frying pan.
The pied piper promised to rid the town of rates. -
I am interested to know whether son for the acantiness of business two, is on a level with, if not
he is a Member of the Penk The King's Sailor son, Prince done may be traceable to the lack superior to, the products of the
Residents' Association or not. If George, delighted 600 dancers at of knowledge of Australian trade big American companies. Much
he is a member of the Associa Shoreditch Town Hall by asking conditions on the part of business-more could be written on
A special attraction will be tion, it would have been more that the Charleston should be the offered to patrons of the Star courteous if he had madedded to the programme, and then men domiciled in the Far East
.subject of China-Australasian Theatre, Kowloon, to-morrow, Sat enquiries before trying to belittle dancing it four times himself with and a similar lack of knowledge trade, but the point that commands session, when the band of the 1st to which he himself belongs. If Miss Violet Varnals.
urday and Sunday at the 9.30 p.m. the activities of the Association the Mayor of Shoreditch's sister, of the conditions of trade peculiar most attention is the immediate Balin Middlesex Regiment will, he is not a member of the Ass0- to China on the part of the Aus-need for more systematic propa by kind permission of Lieut. Col. ciation, his criticism is not unly tralian and New Zealand men of ganda by the Australian and New render selections.
W. A. Stewart, O.B.E., and officers, worthless but unjustified."
Zealand Governments.
commerce.
That certain businessmon in New Zealand were alive to the fact. that more knowledge of the East was imperative is borne out by
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“BLUEBELL. BOYS."
COMING CONCERT AT TAIKOO.
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There are too many civil Bor vants-Sir Hugh Bell...
Acting to-day is a precarious profession. Mr. Arthur Bour chier.
The people who can save nowa days are very few indeed, Col. 3. T. Lawrence,
The Clerk-Is that you?" The Accused-I don't know, am sure. It looks not unlike me.
Asked whother Mrs. Collier was
The long-expected extradition papers having arrived at last from A Timely Intimation.
Indo-China, the Hanoi piracy. sug- pect was to-day discharged from After the trying times through the local Court and re-arrested on
The British Fleet. keeps Aug- the fact that in 1925 a small dele- which this Colony has been pass the French application for his By permission of Lieutenant-tralia an earthly paradise for the ing, it is extremely reassuring return to Haiphong, both measures Commander D. J. Anderson-Mors workers-The Bishop of London. gation was on the point of leaving that the Secretary of State should being in accordance with neces-head, and the Officers of H.M.S. Dunedin to make a thorough in- have sent through the messageBary formalities involved in the Bluebell, and under the patronage trates had before them a man. The Croydon Borough Magie- vestigation of trade conditions in which His Excellency the Governor change of procedure,
of the Vice-Presidents and Con- who dented that he was the person' yesterday communicated to the
mittee of the Talkoo Club, a con he was représented to be, and China and Java. The proposed District Watchmen Committee. An Interesting presentation took cert will be given in the Club Hall when his wife gave evidence said trip had, unfortunately, to be There is some comfort to be gain-place in the Naval Yard club on Wednesday, April 6th, when he did not know her. abandoned on account of the ed from the fact that the Imperial rooms on Tuesday evening last, H.M.S. Bluebell will present the
The man was charged with. Government has been cognisant of when Mr. George Kemsley was pro- "Eluebell Boys at Play". boycott, although since that time the difficult situation with which sented with a handsome silver tea
having neglected to maintain his Part. 1, which is dayoted to two children. A Mrs. Collier, of individual investigations have been Hongkong has been faced in the set and a pair of gold and jade songs and monologues, includes South Narwood, declared em carried out by New Zealanders in-past two years and that a ready cuff-links, subscribed for by the "Vale" and "Calling" to be sung phatically that the "accused way
sympathy is displayed towards staffs of the various departments by Mr. J. H. Atha. terested in China. Treating of the Colony in general. It is true of the Naval Yard. The presen- Part 2 is a "stupendous epic of photograph of him taken when he She produced a her husband. Australia, it may be sat down that we have not been called upon tation was made by Mr. J. W. Bald the sea in two acts and entitled was in the Army. that her share in the trade of
to suffer the indignities and win, the club secretary, who in a The Bowling out of Berjamin outrages which have been the lot few well-chosen words spoke of Bootle, or The Truth about the China is smaller than it ought to of many British residents in Mr. Kemsley's good qualities and British Navy, attributed to WI be and it naturally follows that China; nevertheless, we have had club sportsmanship. The reclliam Shakespeare." there must be some reason for adverse conditions with which to plent, suitably responded. Mr. A collection will be made in aldnot his wife, the accused enid
contend, and most business houses Kemsley, who has been re-appoint of the Greenock Infirmary and the "No. I don't seem to know her this. More than once it has been have felt the pinch. Eut of even ed Home after four years on the Young Men's Christian Associat all. I cannot remember having suggested that the Australian more importance than the sym-Chief Constructor's Staf of the tion, and it is hoped that as many seen her before." Government should establish, in pathetic, refurences contained in Naval Yard, leaves the Colony for the Secretary of State's message England on Saturday next by the Hongkong and, Shanghai, Trade is the assurance that Britain has a. City of Bombay. Bureaux to be staffed by men with not the least intention of giving thorough knowledge of Austra- up Hongkong or of abandoning pr diminishing our rights and au- lian trade conditions, and whose thority over the New Territories. work it would be to advise upon This" intimation is particularly up- Australia primarily in regard to posite at this juncture, when the future of lensed territories and commerce. At the same time, itforeign Concessions is the subject Paris would be incumbunt upon the of so much conjecture. It is well Bruscels
Berlih staffs to familiarise themselves therefore, that Britain should
make her position in regard to Helsingfors Copenhagen with commercial conditions in Hongkong, perfectly clear, the Lisban China and the special require- more so since, we know that, al Bucnos ments af China's market. At the though they have not been loudly Hongkong end of some agreed time, say the voicing the view, the Nationalists New York have covetous eyes on this Colon? Stockholm
Amsterdam usual period of five years, reliefs The status of Hongkong is alto Stocch
Prague could be despatched from Austra-wether different from that of any
Mndrid, lia, the China atas returning ing been ceded to Britain in per- Bombay
of the Concessions in China, hav-
Bucharest thenee, where their experience of petuity, whilst the retention of Yokohama the East could be placed at the the New Territories is absolutely Geneva, disposal of the Australian busi-essential for the effective defence Milan
of the island. It is this latter Oslo The scheme, of course, circumstance, no pegsman.
doubt, which Athena Vienna would be a purely governmental causes Hla Majesty's, Government one and it might be possible for to "attach the highest importance" Shanghai
to the retention of our adminia- Silver (spot) the Australian and Now Zealandtrative rights over the whole Co-Silver (forward) Governments to sbaro proportion- ' lohy.
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as possible will give their support, The Clerk Can you remember Launches will convey visitors to whether you have ever been Hongkong and Kowloon at the married? finish of the show. Commencing The Accused-No, not that and launch times will be advised know of. Inter.
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The Clerk-Well, that is not an avent you are likely to forget..
The Accused-No, I suppose. nót.
The Magistrate had no hesita- tion in deciding that the accused was Collier, and sentenced him to one month's hard labour.
...When I have nothing left to
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(As is, indeed, the case,
to-day),
I often make the matter worse. By chucking in a bit of verse.
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seventeen demands the forces of Mrs. Charles Chaplin dropped her 25.24 coercion have evidently been at renewed effort to obtain alimony 105% work, for the Chinese office staff from her movie actor husband.
18.04 of the Company, which hitherto She has also abandoned her inten-" .84.52% had abstained from any participation of filing an amended divorce
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Her attorneys sald Won in the affair, left their om- complaint. 67% 2/ployment and went to Canton on the hew programma. eliminates 20 1/18 Monday night. Only depart-" "complicating technicalities" and .2618/16 mental heads and a few assistants is designed to force quicker action British Wiroloss. are left behind to "carry on" on her original suit for divorce.