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Hongkong Eelegraph.
TUESDAY, MAY
3,
1927.
their Concessions elsewhere and in- sist on the proper observance of all the old Treaty rights. People are alrendy forgetting Nanking and, as time passes, will get into the habit of thinking that every- thing there is all right. But it is not, and the conditions that exist there, as well as at Kiukiang and
Hankow, are à disgrace and an in-
DAY BY DAY..
IN GENERAL, THE FOUNDATIONS OF A HAPPY OLD AGE MUST BE LAID IN YOUTH.
CANTON INSURANCE
OFFICE.
THE ANNUAL REPORT,
The Very Idea!
The dealer in antiques WA3 showing an old violin to a pro- General bable buyer.
It affects me so
The report of the The P. and O. 8.9. Kidderpore, Agenta (Mesars. Jardine, Mathe
"Yes," he said, "This Is of groat from Shanghai, is due here aboutson) which is to be presented at historical interest, daylight to-morrow.
boing the the ordinary meeting of the Can-identical idle Nero played while ton Insurance Offee, Limited, Rome was burning." The annual dinner of the Hong-which is to take place on May 17th,
"What!" gasped the customer, sult to British prestige. Codauts keng Football Club fixed for Satur-states:
"That is a myth." have to abode on shore and Briday next, has been postponed. The General Agents and Con- "Yes, it is," came the ready tish nationals are
sulting Committee have pleasure reply "and Myth's name was on it, as fugitives. The weather forecast up ti in submitting a statement of the but it has got worn off!!" The day is not so long since when noon to-morrow, as issued by the affairs of the Office made up to an insult to the British flag in any Royal Observatory, is: "North 31st December, 1926, in Sterling part of the world would have east winds, moderate; overcast at and Hongkong currency.
first, finer later."
1925 Account. After paying aa brought a smart reminder to the
interim dividend of $18 per share culprit, but now, here in China, Mr. M. A. Grant, a missionary, on 18th May, 1996, the amount British nationals can be murder-living at No. 59, Saikong Road,standing to the credit of this
Kowloon City, yesterday reported Account is $671,362.81. to the police theft of $75 in notes,
This it is resolved to deal with from a jacket left in the bathroom:in the following manner: To pay a final dividend of $22 per share, writing Suspense Account to close of 48. He had a collection of in- $220,000; and to add to Underway porter, has died at the age the year 1926, $454,362.81. sects numbering between 4,000 and 5,000 gathered from all parts
ed, housca can outraged nad even British war-
be looted, women
ships can be fired on without any- thing adequate being done to check
such things.
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called to Woosung Street rester
The Kowloon Fire Brigade was day, where a car, parkel outside the Chung King Restaurant, had caught fire. Damage was done to the radiator and the engine before
men.
1926
Account-The amount
I'm almost fighty To hear a girl say-
"Nightie, nightic."
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Nicknamed the "Butterfly King" Owing to his hobby of collecting Edward Burton, a Worthing rail- butterflies and motha, Albert
We are not advocates of unneces- sary force but we are convinced
standing at credit of this Account of the world, which he arranged that in order to bring matters back the fire was put out by the fire-General Agents and Consulting finest in the country.
19 $2,351,296.01. Out of this the in artistic designs. The collec- tion Is undoubtedly one of the Committee have declared 38 interim dividend of $18 per share
Clover, of H.M.S. Dragon, the By permission of Commander Dragon Concert Party will give an
to a reasonable orderliness we (the British) shall have to demonstrato
On returning to bis office yes. our power to punish and correct terday morning, Mr. D. Davies, those who wilfully offend and who of the Sanitary Department, found misinterpret friendliness and con- his telephone missing from his ciliation as weakness to be exploit-desk. It appears that overnight a ed. Cancer cannot be killed by the carried away the telephone in its thief had severed the wires and mere application of an cutside entirety. plaster surgical operation is necessary and we think that the Powers will make a great mistake if they favour the plaster of con-entertainment for the Services at ciliation to the clean cut of insist the "Checro" Naval and Military Y.M.C.A., Chater Road, to-morrow елес. The dulling effect of any evening. The party will introduce plaster wears off and leaves the themselves at 6.30 p.m. diseuse just a painful and just as
The Hongkong Cricket Club has chronic. The present Chinese anti-arranged that exhibition tennis British unrest is a political dis- nmtches be played on behalf of the case, and it needs a drastic cure. Ministering Children's League, on Hongkong Women's Gaild and The opinion of "Patnam Wenie" Mr. "Putnam Weple's" suggestion Wednesday, May 11. commencing (Mr. W. Lennox Simpson) that o pecupy the Yangtsze from the at 4-p.m. Many leading local play sure outside action is urgently in-sea to Hankow would not be a bad ers have consented to take part. perative in the Yangtze zone if beginning.
TUESDAY, MAY 3 19:7.
RIGHT AND WRONG POLICIES.
foreign and Chinese trade is to be saved from utter ruin will be shar- ed by many, especially when he asserts, after personal visit to
Water Supplies.
artesian system that has every precaution against infection or contamination of any kind, and the is to drink. There is, of course, result is ample water that is quite a slightly peculiar taste that the newcomer dons not fail to remark, towing to the presence of lime salts,
consisting largely the underlying strata of the island
of limestone
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absorbing $180,000. The balance Wife at the Thames Court: My $2,171,206.94 will be carried husband does not give nie forward,
sufficient money. Mr. Cairns, General Agents regret to have to ever did.
Consulting Committee. The magistrate: No husband does or record the death of Sir C. P. actively interested in this Com- Chater, C.M.G., who has beca Midland woman: I could not pany since 1891 in the capacity of see anything because I Was a meniber of the Consulting Com-screaming! Messrs. A. H. Compton, L. Dunbar, mittee. Sir Robert He Tung
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Woman accused of drunkenness I had rheumaties.
A. S. Gubbay, Henry Humphreys, at Highgate:
T. E. Pearce and H. P. White re-Magistrate! But rheumatics do tire but, being eligible, offer them- not make you drunk. Woman: selves for re-election.
Auditors.-The Accounts have been audited by Messrs. Lowe. Bingham and Matthews and Perey Smith, Seth and Fleming who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
CHINA PROVIDENTS.
$3,000,000.
the China Provident, Loun and The report of the Directors of
Mortgage Company, Limited,
ordinary annual meeting to ba held at noon on Saturday, May 14th, states:
They made me drink.
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an Edinburgh evening paper:-
From the "Fudge" column of
TO-DAY'S NEWS.
Shanghai Alarm; French Concession Shelled. Grief-Mad Father's Crime: Terrible Story at Inquest. Shots In A Villa: Jail For Edinburgh Doctor. Murder In A Train: Girl's Sweetheart Arrested
"Only Mad In Love": Story Of Ex-Soldier's Suicide. Who can blame us if we are becoming a nation of pessimists?
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Further gleanings from the classroom;-
bag, divided into four parts by a The heart is a comical shaped fleshy petition.
found the fossil footprints of In some rocks there are to be
fishes.
The two chief volcanoes in Europe ure Sodom and Goinorah.
During the Napoleonic wars crowned heads were trembling in their shoes.
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ture incurred in connexion with After inclusion of all expendi- the investigation of the Company's affairs, amounting to $23,908.58 over and above the Reserve pre viously created, and the emission of Interest on Lous amounting to is considered doubtful, the year's $135,82177 the recovery of which working shows a loss of $74,700.37. The following adjustment is The latest issue of the. "Red onsidered necessary "Transfer Triangle," the organ of the. Kow-to Reserve for Bad and Doubtfal on YMCA., is a bright number, Loans $223,423.33, creating a
In "Vanities and Vicissitudes,"
here, including the commencement which, together with the balance
Mr. Ralph Nevill has a chapter with several features of interest Debit Balance of $298,123.50, devoted to the gambling habit. of a series on "Rites and Core (adjusted at the Annual General highly superstitious. It used to He says that many gamblers are monies of Chinese Weddings," Meeting held on 12th November, which is illustrated.
be said that the clergyman of the The contri- 1926) from last year's account. English Church at Monte Carlo bufet articles and reviews follow leaves a net deficit of $2.981,235. had, to the standard already set.
Directors--Mesara, A. L. Alves under number 36 because members cease giving out hymns and T. B. Wilson have been invited of his congregation to join the Board, and their numbers with a view to backing noted down appointment requires your con- then at roulette. frmation. Under the Articles eff Association Sir Robert Ho Tuang and Mr. C. R. Brooke retire, but Roysterer, finding his way home, being eligible, offer themselves for
stands outside HD undertaker's re-election
offee, contemplating wreaths under glass case in the window. He goes in..
Overhaste in alighting from a NETT DEFICIT OF NEARLY Iram cur before it had come to a stop in Des Voeux Road Central, yesterday, brought about an acci- dent to a Chinese female passer It is interesting to note from ager. She fell on her head. news item we reproduced yester-was removed in Tankow, that there is now no Na-day that the artesian wells at condition to the Government Civi which is to be presented at the
an unconscious tionalist group in Haskow capable Maria are likely to be supersed-Hospital. of forming a Government. It has cd, as meaps of supplying the city been impossible of late to avoid the
with water, by a filtration system The return issued officially of run from reservoirs. The idea of the number of Chinese passengers conclusion that there has been a
well-water for drinking purposes who arrived and departed during lot of shilly-shallying between the usually conjures up visions of im- the week ended April 24, show Powers on the subject of the Nan-purity, and the nervous will hesi-35,873 arrivals and 25,841 depar tate to risk what they may imagine tures, by river steamers; and 9,773 king Note and that, owing to the would possibly be typhoid-laden and 9,946. respectively by ocean pusillaniraous altitude of certain supplied. That is true of certain going vessels.. The excess of Powers much time and prestige is types of wells, but the visitor to arrivals in the Colony was thus heir lost, as regards the present-Manila Is soon reassured on find-approximately 11,000,"
ing that the city is supplied from tation of a second Kote. The first comminications addressed to Han- kow were supposed to have gained in foren by reason of the fact that they gave no time link for com
dince, but it has siner been dis covered that the emission of a time limit was only berase the five Great Powers concerned were But this is soon forgstien, and, bol unanimous regarding what ac-
as the wifiter heard one resident observe, it lends a special flavour [tion, if any, should be taken in the to whisky and water! Be that as vent of non-complikace. It is it may, it has to be admitted that now manifest that the differences for a bis, expanding, seaport, pro- por reservoir and Altration sys- have not been bridged and that
tems are the best. The question certain of the Governments are of private artesian wella also inverse to taking any action what arises, but that is more a matter ever. That is, we think, a wrongly, the idea underlying the reform for municipal decision. Apparent attitude, and it may be that Bri-proposed at Manila is cheapness,
"Chinese Economic Itain will once again have to as- and precaution against occasional Journal" for April appeals with a sume the responsibility of acting carelessness is permitted to exist.
contamination", in areas where wide selection of matter, of which an article on "Dyeing and Dye- on her own a responsibility which As purity of a city water supply sta's in Chiru," illustrated with we trust the Home Government is the ideal always to be aimed at drawings of the plants considered. will not shirk, even though Britain the change is not too early by is particularly valuable. A con- tribution: on the disposal of Artesian wells have any means. were for
while to bear the
China's Customs Surplus is alse obloquy of a lone action. We are
worthy of apecial mention. It is convinced that there will not be
altogether an issue full of interest, As was notified, the new cars respect for foreign lives, property
The Probation Alt has saved of the Peak Tramway were again The return of rainfall recorded tented this morning for braking hundreds and hundreds of young or treaties along the Yougtsze and
at the Botanic Gardens during last efficiency, the service being sus
men and women.--Sir E. Wild. in other parts of China until the
month, issued to us by courtesy pended from 9.30 onwards.
We have steadfastly pursued the foreign Powers have shown suffi-
ef Mr. H. Green, the Superinten- dent, shows that the total for the the haulage gable became twisted, one word, is peace.--Sir A. Cham- During the testing operations, same policy which, summed up in elent self-respect to insist on what
8.08 inches, was
the and it was found impossible to. berlain. are their fundamental rights.
heaviest fall being on April 20, resume the service at 12.30 as was Mr. H. G. Wells, who might be when 2.75 inches were recorded. anticipated. When we enquired called the President of the Cranks, There were 14 days on which no at tila time, we were informed has now become a sour critic of 124 rain fell, a dry spell of over a that it was expected to get the what is being done in the air.- .3.1.00
Earl Winterton, week near the end of the month service running again soon. .20.50 18.77 following a wet three weeks.
If we look at what has happen- ed in the case of Japan at Hankow
one great advantage--they are not entirely dependent on the amount of rainfall. Manila can no doubt retain her existing wells as a re- that she is more fortunate than Hongkong."
serve in times of drought. In
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris Brussels we find that firmness has been re- Bertin warded with friendship. The Oslo Japanese refused to surrender their Athena
Helinsefors
Concession and made it a fortified Buenos Aires and defended citadel against Chin New York
Hongkung
ese mob elements, and one result, Amsterdam
Stockholm as told in a telegram ever the week- vint
Vienna end, is that Japanese shops and Madrid
Bucharest colton factories are re-opening and
Bombay thousands of Chinese workers in Yokohama Japanese factories are returning. Milan
Geneva Self-respect is being respected and Copenhagen we would go so far as to say that Prague the British Government, in view Rio
Lisbon
of the broken. Hankow Agreement, Shanghai should take back the British Con- Silver (forward)
Silver (upot)
cession at Hankow and re-take
1927, .802
A Chinese girl living at No. 9, College View, was attacked and bitten severely in the arms and legs by a chow dog near her home on Sunday, The girl was taken to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment, while the police, on receiving a report of the case, in- stituted a search for the dog, but it has not yet been found.
The
month
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Auditors. The accounts have heen audited by Messrs. Linsten and Davis and Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, who offer themselves for re-election. ~
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PEAK TRAM.
OFFICIAL TESTS THIS MORNING.
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"Gi'es a tupponny pic." " "A what" exclaims the under- taker's laly assistant. "A tupenny pic."
"But this is not a baker's shop. This is an undertaker's."
"Then what the blazes dae ye keep bridesenken in the windy for?"
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Take care of the children and the country will take care of it- self.The Duke of York,
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Old beadlo (endeavouring to say something pleasant to minister who
A local vernacular paper this 47.19/32 morning states that the Wai Fung ministered it is thought, has caus-years' service)--"Weel sir, a' mind An overdose of oplurn,"self-ad-la leaving the church after many 2/0% Bank, newly organised, will be ed the death in Hospital of a Chin-ye cam' unanimous, an' a' may say 4.8536 opened soon in 25, Des Voeux ese. Early yesterday morning they'll gang usaniiaóun." 12.13% Rund, Central, with both Chinese man was found in his cubicle at,
18,16 34.524
and British capital, the sub- No. 6, Yec On Terrace, in a very 27.41 scribers including Mensra. I. sick condition and almost uncon- ......765 Brower, barrister-at-law (who will acions,
He was removed to the
Passengers arriving from Manila
1/5.65/64be the chairman of the board of Government Civil Hospital, whereby s.s. President Jefferson includ 1/11.11/16 directors) Chow Shing Cho, a Can- he died a few hours later.
25.20 ton banker, Pun Dick Wun, a Ma- .04.11/16
ed Mr. E. W. Macready. Through passengers for Shanghai included cao merchant, Lee Tang-sang,
Ara. J, Patterson, while Mr. and The second annual athletic meet-Mrs. J. McSweeny and Captain and, 124 Chow Kwan-ming, Yew Kee-maning of the Wai Yan Collego will Mrs. J. C. Raddell and family" 153
and Chung Tat-chew. The latter be held on the H.K.P.C. ground, wore, .2.17/32
en route for Kobe. For .6.27/32 four are Hongkong merchants.
Happy Valley, to-morrow, com- Seattle, there were Lieut. Comdr. Branch offices will also be opened moncing at 1 pm. Mr. E. Ralpha and Mrs. V. S. Armstrong, Lieut. In the near future in Canton, will afterwards distribute the A. R. and Mrs. Harris. and Mr. .26% ¦ Shanghai, the Straits Settlements,
prizes.
.2/64 .25%
British Wireless.
Siem and Java, the report adds..
R. A. Hedcock.