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HOTELS.
THE
HONGKONG
KONOKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Telographie Address: “KREMLIN, HONGKONG.
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI.”
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Central Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms, newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and All Trams pass in front of Cold Water, also Telephone. Hotel. Most Moderate Rates In the Colony. Hotel launch meets all steamers.
Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.
TEA DANCES
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS. & FRIDAYS
5 to 7 p.m.
Tel. Add Victoria.
"Telephone C.878. J. H. WITCHELL,
Manager.
HOTEL SAVOY
Comfort, Ounvonience nad Distinction.
HOTEL METROPOLE. HOTEL BOA VISTA.
22, Ice House Street,
·
Macao.
UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT.
KOWLOON HOTEL
PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON
Modern Toilet System.
Elevator 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.
Cables KOWLOTEL. HONGKONG
PALACE HOTEL.
EUROPE
H. J WHITE
Manager
!
Tel. Address "PALACE."
Cables :-
“EUROPE"
Singapore.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
C. N. C. DISPUTE.
SUGGESTION OF A SETTLEMENT.
Although there havo been no announced developments in connection with the China Navigation
Company dispute,
WC learn, Unofficially, that there was a meeting of the Hong- kong branch of the Guilds last evening, when a desire was express ed for the Guilds at Shanghai to get back into negotiation with the Company with a view to arriving at a settlement. According to our informant, it was decided to send a telegram to Shanghai urgin” a resumption of the conferences,
On making enquiries to-day, we learn that there are about ten of
AUGUST 17, 1927.
HAWAII MEMORIAL. TELEPHONE WIRES GO
BRITISH DISCOVEROR OF ISLANDS.
CEREMONIES NEXT YEAR,
UNDERGROUND...
WORK IN THE CENTRAL DISTRICT.
Considerable interest has been shown in the laying of a big cable in Des Voeux Road, and a number of pedestrians passing the Pedder Street corner have wondered why this cable, having hundreds of separate wires, was being laid.
The now cable, which is a thou-
Honolulu. Just below the calm surface of the waters of Keaia kekua Bay, island of Hawail, just where Captain James Cook, the English navigator, fell on Feb- ruary 14, 1779, with his face in the water, a bronze tablet will be sand-pair one and the largest set on August 18, 1928, by the Ter-made, has been laid by the Hong- ritory of Hawail, during the cere- og Telephone Company in con- monies attendant upon the 150th nexion with the work now pro- gressing, of substituting under- anniversary of Cook's discovery eground wires for the overhead the Hawaiian Islands.
system.
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The tablet will occupy one of the most unique settings in the world to mark the memory of one of the world's heroes.
The tablet, which will be about
2 feet long and 18 inches wide, will bear upon its face, in incused Roman letters, this legend:
This work was started shortly after the new Company took over, and is proceeding rapidly. At the moment, the Central district, where there is a large population, is receiving the most attention, and a walk along, Des Voeux Road nt the present time will show that the overhead wires there have disappeared, being replaced by the new one-thousand-pair cable re- cently laid.
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the Company's vessels back on their regular runs, and that the number of officers and engineers now at
"Near this Spot, Captain James work must number fully 60 men. It is also stated that if the men on Cook expired, February 14, 1779." strike now in Hongkong are in The suggestion for placing the favour of ending the dispute on the tablet jast below the surface cane
The reconstruction scheme was terme already offered (as it is sug-from Chairman Victor S. Houston, gested to us they are) the Guilds the Delegate to Congress from the inaugurated owing to the trouble in Shanghai will probably have Territory of Hawaii, who, until caused by the more or less fre something less than half the C. N. July, 1926, was an officer of the quent lightning storms and high winds. In time all telephone C. personnel behind them in holding. United States navy, his father anwires in the Colony will be under- admira), his mother, 1 part- Hawalian of distinguished an cestry. The Captain James Cook Commission, which was appointed by Governor Farrington, 0% Hawaii, upon authority of the Legislature, which authorized a celebration from August 15 to 20, inclusive, 1928, immediately adopt- ed the suggestion, and the tablet will be made at an early date..
out.
PRIEST'S STRONG
PROTEST.
ITALIAN MISSION FINED.
ground, but at the moment it is impossible to say when the work will be completed, although it is being pushed on rapidly.
PUBLIC MONEY.
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at the rate of 12 cents and cent per mile run, with a maximum of $150 and $50 per month res- pectively, and as no provision for such expenditure
was made in 1927 Estimates a supplementary vote for $1,317 is requested to pro- vide funds until the end of the current year.",
When a Sanitary Department summons against the Italian Mis- sion, Chine Road. wais called Ceremonies Start in August. before Major C. Willson, at the
The Commission plans a wide Central Police Court, this morning.
the Fr. Bianchi, who appeared in range of ceremonies. On response, uttered a strong protest morning of August 16, the Commis- against the proceedings, sayingsion, attended by the Governor of they were unwarranted.
Hawaii, and distinguished invited The summons was in respect of guests from Great Britain a water closet in the servants' and the United States, will arrive. quarters of the Mission Building at Waimca, island of Kauai, where Caine Road, which was said to be Captain Cook made his first land- The sum of $6,000 is requested defective, owing to the front shield of the basin being damaged.ing, which was on January 20, to pay for three latrines in the 1778, and there officiate at the vicinity of the Shamshuipo Camp. Fr. Bianchi said that with the dedication of a monument which it is stated that the work is exception of the tip of the shield will be erected by the residents of being undertaken at the request having been chipped off, there was the island of Kauai, and toward of the Military Authorities who are nothing wrong with the closet to which Sir Joseph Carruthers. of contributing to the cost: the poal-
tion is as under!--
| interfere with its working arrange-Australia, through whose personal efforts monuments, and statues to
ment.
The Sanitary Inspector, who took out the summons, said it was the usual thing to have a shield for this type of watercloset and the shield was so damaged as to be useless.
to
Captain Cook were erected in Aus- (tralia to mark his discovery of that continent, and in London, has con- tributed $250,
Camp Latrines.
Estimated total cost of work,
$16,000; Less contributions to be made by Military Authorities, $10,000; Vote now required $6,000..
The above is to be met from say. ings."
Furniture,
Of the $10,000
From Waimea the official party,
TL Kowloon No. 8
Fr. Bianchi said that this had escorted by British and American Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. nothing do with sanitary Warships, will proceed to Kealn-
kekua Bay, island of Hawaii. Under the heading "Mainten- which he maintained! Entirely under English Management. Electric Light and Fans throughout.defects,
where additional ceremonies will ance of Furniture" the Public Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. should be the objective of these be held. and where the bronze Works Department requests $10,- Every Room with Unrivalled Coisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. prosecutions. Except that the tip
"This supplementary pote Terms" modarnie. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. had been been chipped off from the tablet will be laid under the water 000.
shield, the water-closet was in per- This is near the monument erected is required to meet the cost of to the memory of Cook in 1887 by furnishing, in accordance with the feet working order. The water-
the crew of the British warship approved standard, the undermen- closet represented merely Q11e of a number of types on the market Fantome, on ground given to the tioned buildings(a) Six new and was not one wherein such fea- Government of Great Britain in Subordinate Officers Quarters, at tures as the shield were required by 1876 by Princess Likelike, sister of Ventris Road; (b) Six Flats for any existing Regulation. He sug-the late King Kalakaua and Queen Senior Officers at Queen's Garders- gested that the Sanitary Depart- Liliuokalani, of Hawaii..
approximately ment should confine themselves to
British Territory', '
$6,000 is required for (a), as this seeing that the water-closet was
non-recurrent expenditure was un- pot in a dirty state.
This circle of ground is still fortunately overlooked when fram- owned by Great Britain and pre-ing the 1927 Estimated. As re- sents the novelty of British Ter-gard (b) it has only recently been ritory within that of the United decided that the whole of the States, the only instance on recor! Queen's Garden Flats are to be re-
At Napoopoo, across the bay served for Government from the Cook monument, a tablet and therefore no funds are avail- will also be placed by the Com- mission to mark the spot where able for furnishing the six flats William Wattman, a member of recently vacated by the public." Captain Cook's crew, was buried, and where Cook himself read the burial service, the first recorded
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
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THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD.
Arthur E. Odell, Managing-Director.
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QUAD-DECANTERS
Four Liqueurs in one Bottle.
A saying of time.
and
joy to the eye.
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Telophone 75 Central.
Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PEROY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street, la the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
Major Willson, I think the Sani- tary Inspector is the best judge of what is necessary, and if this is necessary I have no option but to impose a fine of $5, and to order that the work should be done, with- in one week,
Mr. Bianchi asked to be inform- ed of the nature of the work which he was now required to do. He had already spent $60 on the closet, and now saw no other prospect but
of spending a further large sum in Christian burial in the Hawaiian the entire replacement of the closet Islands
for the damage could not be repair- On the return to Honolulu, on
Officers
Disaster overtook - an éxpress train at Mendoza recently, says a the passengers were the Chilean South American paper. Among
Ambassador and members of a
ed. He suggested that the Ins-August 20, the principal Hiterary Chilean cadet school on their way pector, if he were looking for in- ceremonies will be held at the old dor appears to have escaped un- to Buenos Ayres. The Ambassa- sanitary conditions, should have royal paince, now the executive should have given his attention to building of the territory, where hurt, but of the cadets 30 other conditions in the water closet addresses
on the importance of killed and 80 injured. which fell under this category, but Cook's, discovery. will be
ing.
His Worship confirmed his deci- sion..
CHIANG ASKED TO RETURN.
were
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:-
he had not done so. Neither had made by men distinguished HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? the Inspector paid any attention to in literary-historical fielda who other matters requiring his atten- are to be invited from tion in front of the Mission build-Europe and America. The final a series of ceremonies will be pageants to be presented by
1, (a) The old. International Jenlours; (b) Hawaiian societies, dépleting in-
The Spanish succession, 2. Henry VII, riven cidents of olden Hawaiian hism by the Pope for his article siznina! From Lestantions. 3. The Orluoco basin and tho tory, associated with the period of Amazon: England. France, Holland, Vene- Cook's discovery. These pageants uclu, and Erasil 4. The religion of the will be colourful and picturesequence; the Sus Gui. 5. The mistress of Louis XIV. C. The L.M.S. Tilbury-Dunkirk roule. The Commission has recom-7. The dialect spoken in Brittany, 8. Dr. Zamenhof, . The slave of Cicero, who invent- mended to the Governor of od asystent to record the epeeches of his ea Hawaii that he request the State ter for the bement of posterity. 19. Five Hel
selan france. 11. The rupture between the Department at Washington, D.C., Roman and Greek Churches. 12. Versailles. Louvre, Invalides: Corneille. Mollere, Fecine. to extend a formal invitation to
La Fontaine, Bollen, Rouet, Fenelon, Great Britain to participate in the celebration by sending a war-liam R. Castle, Jr., Assistant ship, or warships, and a civil re-Secretary of State for European presentative of the Government, Affairs, grandson of one of the as reprosentatives of early America missionaries, to
Now Zealand and Hawaii.
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of the Yangtsze, and that all junks have been removed to the south bank.
The troops of General Sun Chuan-fang are reported to be
as well rapidly advancing.
Thousands of refugees are leav- Australia, ing Nanking and Chinkiang for Canada, which countries were 'as- The Commission will also have Shanghai, and the railway is un-sociated with Cook's, discoveries. an exhibition of Cook Memorabi able to cope with the traffic. American warships, it is expecta, from various lande, to include ed, will be detailed to participate a sword of Captain Cook, from in the ceremonics.
Router.
England; a part of a dress worn by the wife of the navigator. Olden-Day Connexions.
An international salute to Cap- There is expectation, also that tain Cook will be fired at Keala- among the guests will be United kekua Bay by the visiting war- States Sonator Hiram Bingham, ships.
NO CHANGES.
Shanghat Remains Calm.
Shanghai, Aug. 16. There are no developments to of Connecticut, a grandson of It is believed that this celebra- record in the Shanghai area, Rev. Hiram Bingham, the first tion will be one of the outstand- while there is no change in the American missionary to set foot ing features in the history of the altuation at the Yangtze ports on Honolulu soll, in 1820; Wil-Pacific area in 1928. Naval Wireless.
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Entertainments
QUEEN'S THEATRE
Third Revival Night Picture-
SYD CHAPLIN
IN
ON
THE
MAN BOX
Even better than "Charley's Aunt.”
TO-DAY ONLY 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
WORLD THEATRE
The smiling cowboy again HOOT GIBSON
in
THE DENVER DUDE
Western comedy and thrills..
TO-DAY ONLY
Orchestra at 5.15 and 9.20 Chinese Interpreter at 2.30 and 7.15.
STAR THEATRE
"The funny man with the high silk bat" RAYMOND GRIFFITH
in
HANDS UP
An amusing story of the Civil War period.
TO-DAY ONLY
Continuous from 2,30 to 8 30
At 9.30
OUR GABARET in "A LA CARTE"
STAR THEATRE
TO-NIGHT at 9.30 p.m. THE NEW
OUR CABARET
CHARLES CHAMIER'S Bevue Company of Ten London Artistes
in
"A LA CARTE”.
Booking at Moutrie's and the Star Theatre Prices $3, $2 & $1.
Special prices to Back Stails for Servicemen in uniform, Saturday excepted.
Complete change of programme To-morrow night.