!
COLD, DAMP, AND
CHANGEABLE WEATHER
V
bring to mind stops that may be taken to protest the
fragile and susceptiblo.
WATSON'S”
MALT EXTRACT
with
COD LIVER OIL
givos valuable support to the patient's natural power of resistance.
Proparod from British wintor malted barloy and cod liver oil specially solected for ité vitamin content. Its palatability makes it acceptable to the most fastidious.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
TOTAL
DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928.
the situation here in South China..
DAY BY DAY.
MAN GIVES FROM PRINCIPLE:
The health return for yesterday ahowa ono caso cach of typhoid and cerebrospinal fever. Both were Chinese:
CORRESPONDENCE.
LICENSING HOURS.
To The Editor of Hongkong
Telograph.]
Sir, On requesting a drink at a local hotel at 11.50 p.m. one night thia week, I was informed by the Sub-Inspector Hourigan, Sub-manager that he had adopted the Inspector M. Murphy and Detec practice of closing his bar at that tive Sergeant McEwen returned to time precisely. the Colony from Home leave yes terday.
He asserted that we could not expect people overseas to pur- chase British goods unless they WOMAN FROM SYMPATHY-John were obtainable at reasonably Puleford. competitive prices, adding that "this problem of ensuring that British prices are on a compara- tive level la one that imposes an obligation, not, only upon notuai | producers, both masters and men, but also upon all those engaged In the process of distribution and marketing." ^«As "we say, those observations have a very, apt ap- plication to the position in South
It has always been my impression China to-day, whon British busi
that an inn was legally obliged to ness interests have the opportuni
supply refreshment right up to the official closing hour, and I believe ty of recapturing some our
that I had n legal right to demand lost or partly-lost markets. Not The 8.8, Empress of Asia is dock-that my request bo gratided. It is only have worte got our goods being at Kowloon at 2 p.m. to-day to annoying to invita a person to drinkc replace a chipped propellor blade, with you when apparently there is! fore our customers in attractive but will-sail for Manila on sche- plenty of time and then to find that a hotel has established regulations contrary to those of his licence.- Yours etc.,
·B. Hongkong, Mar. 15th, 1928.
of
During Mr. H. C. Shrubsòle's absence in Shanghai, Mr. B. H. Langston will take charge of the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. NO PERIODIC REFILLING form, but: we have to nuch their dule to-more-wo
THE HONG KONG DISPENSARY
Phono No. O. 16.
Kowloon Disponeary K. 19.'
Now On Sale
NEW
MARCH VICTOR RECORDS.
Including a very fine
selection of popular
and classical records.
S. MOUTRIE&Co., Ltd.
Tel. 527.
(Victor Distributors)
Chater Road.
DOMESTIC.
Tel. 527.
BRUSHWARE.
KENT'S PURE BRISTLE
BROOMS: $4.50
Hair Balusters-- -$2.26 Whish
-$2.50 Sweeps Brushes -$1.75
Sink
75 cts.
13
Clothes
-$3.00
"1
Scrubbing Lavatory
78 ets. -$1.00
O'CEDAR MOPS & POLISH
Mops: $2.70 & $3.25
Oil: $2:75, $4.00, $6.50
LANE, CRAWFORD Ltd.
HARDWARE DEPT. GROUND FLOOR.
NON-CONDUCTOR
of ELECTRICITY
TYPES for MOTOR CARS,
INDUSTRIAL AND ALL ESTABLISHMENTS. RELIABLE and EFFICIENT
KELLER, KERN Co., Ltd. 16/19 CONNAUGHT HEAD, 0.
The
anle by every available means of publicity open to us if we are to make full use of the channels once again opened up for us. On the point of quality, British gooda need fear no competition; it is in the distribution and marketing that the
campaign should be waged with unremitting energy and enterprise. There is another big, and equally important, fac-R. Q. F. Johnston, tor. We refer to the point of personal contact with the Chinese, upon which so much depends, in the cultivation of business, rela- tionships. We have heard it said
The late Mr. William McNiven. Muat, C.B.E., M.B., C.M., of Hamil ton Park-terrace, Glasgow, late Senior Medical Offeer, Weihaiwel, North China, left £14,023.
Amongst the passengers who left for Australian ports by the As, Taiping were Mr. and Mrs. Ford Yuill, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hill, Mr. and Mrs, C. Strafford, Mr. and Mrs. D. Mulcahy, Mr. and Mrs. G. Manwaring, and Capt.
This morning's Harbour Omed
May I enquire whether the hotel keeper has a right to refuse to serve a drink ten minutes before the officiol closing time?
COMPANY REPORT.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE
CO., LTD.
The Very Idea!
Husband
car)-Groat hoavens The engine is terribly overheated."
Wife (calmly)Then why don't you turn off the radiator?"
Lord Lascelles, spanking in sup. port of a clinic in London, said the people in the wollen and worsted trades in his part of the country.......... the West Riding of Yorkshire--had fallen on evil times, for they were the victims of fashion. The cloth they made was used for ladles' dresses, and regarding those dresses the Bishop of Ely. had written:
Half an inch, half an inch, half
an inch shorter,
The skirts are the same for
mother and daughter;. When the wind blows each of
them shows
Half an inch, half an inch more than they oughter. Viscount Lascelles sald ho hoped that what the ladies saved on those half inches they would devote to the clinic.
San Francisco-More than 20 persons were washed into the bay. when the ferry Peralta seemed to dip her bow, on Friday. Thoy were picked up by passing boats.
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Nottingham youth: Football in far more important than courting. Willoaden magistrate: If you, knew you were drunk why did you go to the expense of having a doctor. called? Man: I was not sure until I had seen the doctor.
Hongkong Telegraph. by Chinese, in quite a friendly over the four-figure mark inward, $344,000; To add to Sterling Ro-trate: Surely her son is not gut-
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928.
TRADE OPENINGS.
4
looked,
"reserve." Whether that
their contract,
4.
Codaulting Committee.-Sir Ro- bert Ho Tung, Messre, C. Bernard There will again be a most in- Brown, A. H. Compton, L. Dunbar, tures in to-morrow's Telegraph.I. P. White retire but, being teresting selection of local ple- A. S. Gubbay, T. E. Pearce and In addition to three photographs eligible, offer themselves for re taken during the oficial visit of election.
M. K. T8O.
EXCHANGE RATES.
London, Mar. 15.
}
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE #TELEGRAPIT" FILES.
1
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the wook ended March 16th 1907.
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.124 The rate of the dollar on de-
.86 mand was 28. 2d. .12.1244
20.41. .18.21
Woman at Willesden: Every- thing my landlady's family do is to spite me and my husband. Magis-
ting married to spite, you,
Solicitor at Shoreditch County Court: Were you connected with the accident? Man: Not guilty:
mean no.
down under the emotional strain of canning the blissfully uncon-- sclous humour of schoolboy hope fuls. Scanning their questions, and nibbling away the end of their pens in the throes of mental effort, the young knights of the exercise books produce in flashes of inspira tion, wonderful fragments of times it is the parent who is the philosophic humour. But some
to get a note from "Charlie's, mother, slating that the little fellow had been absent on the pre vlous afternoon as he "got a ter riblo pain in his dinner-hour!"
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Ex-Ballic Cochrane, Leith, told some amusing "Irish bulls" at a social function recently.
An Irishman, after being in America for many years, returned to Ireland to spend the evening of his daya, and inquired for a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.
He was directed, to the domicile of this man, and knocked at tha door. To the party who answered the door he said, "Does Fat Murphy live here?"
The report of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., for the year ended 31st Decomber, 1927 states: 1926. Account-This Account reports gave an increased tonnage, shows a surplus of $742,214.12 with 15 arrivals and 20 departures, and it is recommended that this but cargo returns were low. There sum be appropriated as follows were only six froight registries To pay a dividend of $48 per alinre, and only five through, with one serve £25,000, $248,153.85; To add way, that occasionally the Bri-vessel from the north in ballast. to Silver Resorve, $100,000; To add tish business man shows legs The heaviest returns, of, the day to Reinsurance Fund £5,287.75, aptitude. In eceuring orders were made by Japanese, Dutch and $52,050.27.
German. At 9.a.m. there remain- Sterling Reservo. During the than do the representatives of ed 67 vessels in harbour, of which past year the sum £50,000 was some other countries, mainly be 25 were British.
transferred from the Reinsurance. Serious minded academic ex- CAUBO of his "stand-ofshness"
Fund to create a Sterling Reserve, aminers, as they wade through and with the above recommended miles of foolscap at examination. and criticism is justified or not, we THE WEEK'S PICTURES. appropriation this Reserve will time, have been known to breaks
stand at a figure of £75 ^00. will not venture to say. But the
1927 Account.-The alance at The references in the Legiala-personal element is certainly
credit of this Account is $702, 4 FEATURES OF TOMORROW'S | 865,11. tive Counell yesterday to the big one in the world of commerce,
"TELEGRAPH.” benefits resulting from the ex-and we do feel that it is up to change of official visits between the representatives of British the heads of the Hongkong and
commerce to do all in their power, Canton Governments were very
by sincerity of friendship and by timely, and we should In particu- happy contact, to make it a lar like to associate ourselves with
H.D. the Governor to Canton, there Auditors The accounts have unconscious humorist, with her pleasure for Chinese to do busi-will ho snapshots of the Shield been audited by Messers, Lowe, following example, which is vouch- native "note to teacher," as the the deserved tribute which Sir
neas with them. The points we semi-final between the Hongkong Bingham & Matthews and Percyed for, will show. The teacher of Henry Pollack paid to His Ex-have mentioned are some of the and Kowloon Football Clubs, with Smith, Seth and Fleming who, a Queensland country town was cellency the Governor in this
pre-requisitics of better trade for a group of the Kowloon team; being eligible, offer themselves for considerably, diverted one morning connexion. It was only a few Britain here in South China. Wo Motor Cycle Reliability Trial; a
some intercating pictures of the re-olection. days ago that we had occasion, to trust that they will not be over- group of the officers of the Volun refer to the fortunate position in
teer Defence Corps; and groupg which this Colony is placed by
taken at the wedding of Mr. A, E. Kew and Miss Nancy Joyce Ho, having, at this juncture in its
and of Mr. Ma Wai-but and Miss history, a man of the type of Sir
Licensing Hours, Cecil Clementi at its head. Sir
There will be many who will Henry Pollock put Into a few
agree with a correspondent that words what this means when he the last one" is an important: stated that Hia Excellency com-item in the daily programme of bines a profound insight into the some of our rugged residents, and,
therefore, view somewha sym-Paris Chinese character with a genuing pathetically his grievance that Brussels aympathy with the aspirations of some local hotels are not perform Amsterdam the Chinese people. Those at- ing according to the essence of Berlin
It must be a Copenhagen tributes have been of distinct great hardship to find that at Vienna value in the task, to which Sir 11,50 p.m. it is impossible to ac- Lisbon
Helsingfors Cecil has devoted himself with quire the spirit necessary to a
Bucharest such success, of achloving a re- thorough mellowing of the tem- Buenos Aires
perament, and if this state newal of the traditional friend- affairs is continued we cannot Yokohama
of Shanghai ship between this Colony and forecast the destination of modern New York Hongkong. When His Excellency society! Nonsense to one side, Geneva
however, the point raised by the Milan took up the Governorship of correspondent does seem a sub- Stockholm Hongkong, he was greatly pained ject of considerable interest. In Oslo
Prague to find that the old relationships a hotel entitled to close its bar bo-
Madrid fore the hour Bet down in the between the two places had given terms of its licence? The licence Rio
Athens place to what he himself, has de- itself does not make it quite clear, Bombay scribed as an artificial semblance stating “No liquor shall be sold or Hongkong
the removal of drunk upon any licensed premises Silver (spot)" of enmity, to which he has since applied him except between 8 am, and 12 Silver (forward)
o'clock midnight." We are won- self with energy and optimism.dering whether the hours specified How far his efforts have succeed- also imply that the hotel supply must be available to visitors at ed, the whole Colony
now knows.
any time between those hours; and, The restoration of official con- if we mistake not, cases at Home taet, valuable as it ie, represents, all point to this as an established practica. A public-house, by. Its however, only the first stage in a designation, is established for the movement which should prove of benefit of the public. It seems to Inestimablo benefit allke to this us that a licenace la granted a favour in permission to sell
Over 3,000 tales of prepared Colony and Canton. On the liquor at a profit to the exclusion opium were asized in a raid carried foundation now laid, it is for the of a great many other folk who out yesterday morning by Chief business mon of both places to might desire to do so, and that in Preventive Officer Clark and Re build up a new structure. There return for that favour, he is under venue Officer Ward on the ss. Hai are scarcely any limits to the an obligation to remain open for Hong, at the Douglas Company's
of trade between possibilities
As a sequel to the raid, three men appeared before MF. R. E. Hongkong and South China gen-
Lindsell, this morning, charged erally, but the business has to be
with being in possession of 8,300 ← KING AMANULLAH NOW sought; it will not come of its wood, the Independent Conserva- were charged with attempting to
The expenses of Mr. E. A. Hall-taels of prepared opium. The men GUEST OF GOVERNMENT own accord. It is here that com-five candidate at Northampton import the contraband. mercial enterpriss will reap fta byelection on January 9, amount Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro ap-
London, Mar, 16, due reward, and it is here thated to 1999 178, 3d, representing peared for the defendants and ap-
The State visit of the King and 188. 814d. per vote. The other plled for a remand. In the course Queen of Afghanistan concluded the opportunity existe for the candidates expenses were Colonel of his application, he told his Wor- to-day, when their Majesties left
Forthcoming weddings announc- British trader, Some, fow weeks L'Estrango Malone (Labour), who ship, that, In view of the large Buckingham Palace for Claridge ed include that of Mr. J. Johnston, ago, the Chairman of Barclay's was elected, 1947 188. 8d., or prac- quantity of opium seized, he would Hotel, where they were received by prison department, Victoria Gaol, Bank, speaking at the annual A. P. G. Benton (Conservative), that he required a remand in order Government, whose guests they chung Road, Hongkong. Also, Mr. tically is. 3d, per vota; Captain not ask for ball. He explained Viscount Peel on behalf of the to Miss D. Wiltshire, 109 Wongnel- meeting of that institution, made £1,133, 59: Gd., or 1s. 8d. per to have an opportunity to inter- now become. In Claridge's, two H. E. Gardner, banker, & Minden some remarks which, it appears vote; and Mr. S. Copo Morgan view the defendants,
complete, floors have been specially Avenue, Kowloon, to Mi M. P to us, apply with much force to (Liberal), $1,041 158, 2d., or 2,
The case was adjourned until decorated and prepared-British Follett, 47 Granville Road, Kow. 2d.-per voto,
Wireless, March 21st..
the sale of refreshments until the hour stated by the Government.
Major J. G. King, D.S.O., was .34.84% posted to the General Staff, South
193 China Command. .1.15/16
.7874 The London Times comments on 47% the improved feeling towards for 2/6.1/cigners in China, and on the .1/11.3/82 carnest desire belag shown for .4.87 27/82
Western education. .25.34 92.40
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"Sure, and he does, but he is dead," replied a fellow-countryman. "I am sorry to hear that. When did he die?" inquired the visitor.
"If he had lived till to-morrow he would have been dead a fort- night," was the answer.
And where is he buried?" was the next query, plet
"io is buried in the old church- yard of Tipperary, where I hope to be buried if I am spared," replied
18.18 The Hongkong and Kowloon 18.32 Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., re- 164% ported a profit on 'working of this son of Erin. .29.0244 3407,698, and recommended
867 final dividend of five per cent, .5.59/64
A
1/6.1/64 making ten per cent, for the year.
2/04 26.5/10
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Mr. John Armstrong was ap- .20% pointed. Manager of the Local
branch of the Chartered Bank.
British Wireless,
BIG. HAUL OF OPIUM,
· OVER 3,000 TAELS FROM THE LAI HONG"
wharf.
"And did Pat leave any family ?", asked the vialtor.
Te left no family, and his father and mother left no family," was the last amusing “bull” of the Hibernian."
A Jew named Leibfeld died at The not profit of the Hongkong the age of 125 years at Llako, Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd., after a century of happy married Including $5,313 brought for life. He is survived by his widow, ward, totalled $108,212, A divinged. 119 years, and six children, dend of $2 was recommended. of whom the youngest is aged 80. Liebfeld was never ill during his lang life.
Mr. J. H. (now Sir Joseph) Kemp was appointed to act as Registrar of the Supreme Court..
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The marriage took place in Hongkong of Mr. C. C. Wu ond Miss Martha Ho Kal.
STATE VISIT ENDS.
Toch has become the religion of the younger people of the country.
Mr. P. N. 8. Graeme...
Young people of the present day want warmth and colour in tha Church services, Prigadier-Gen- eral AJ, Kelly,
Sometimes human society is a whole dons things of which apen might very well, feel ashamed Sir Charles G. Robertson, ...Whether it would be less painful to spread the agony of paying In- come-tax over a lòng period 'is'a matter for personal judgment Mr. Churchill.
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