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THE HUNGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JUNE
*1928:1
After Bi Game
Whenever Captain Nimrod tore
To hunt big game in Cholapure
The Bigon and the Kangaroo. Took fright, and disappeared from view
Until his sorrows soothed by this He fell into a dream of bliss.
Mae miles aw(ormaybe (en) A figer, couchant in his den,
Emu and the Flat Nosed Stank Hid behind Caclus Trees in funk
Upheld his nose, and miffed arare And suille fragrance in the air.
And so this clever fellow the
Quides than hæres by springs are trapped in.
Captain,sought solace with a The Tiger started for the Captaint magnum CAPSTAN" —
The Nephant and Crocodile Maved after hum with happy smilej
The Boa-Constrictor slithered by With untold yearnings inhis eyes
Nor did the Wart Hog linger long To join that captivated throng,"
Moral The men who are the most In favour Are the smokers who prefer the CARSTAN Havour,
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At the annual meeting of the (Shantung provinco). liquor manufacturers belong to Hongkong Gonoral Chamber of tures classes: grape vino manu-Commerce last month, Mr. P. W. facturers, beer brewers and old Massey suggested that it would style distillers. The Chang Yu be a convenienes" to firms and Grape Wine Manufacturing Com-private Individuals if mails for b pany capitalled at $3,000,000, has steamer leaving Hongkong at day- been in operation for nearly 30 break could be kept open lator years. The raw material is pro than 5 pm. on the day before, the duced entirely by its own vine-present closing hour. In convey- cover over 3,000 ing this proposal to the Govern- yards, which mow (about 500 acres) on whichment the Chamber suggested that wine of the Austrian variety is an extension until 7 p.m. might be grown, the American variety havssible.
The Colonial Secretary repiled ing been tried without much suc- cess. The wind is grown by first on May 16, as follows: planting a cutting of the Austrian variety in the soil. In the second year another culting of some other variety is grafted on the stump by the modern method. In the third year, the vino is transplanted to a prepared bed. ·
"The Postmaster General points out that, if the full facilities asked for were provided, it would in- volve retaining a large · propor- tion of his staff, (both shore staff and floating staff), on duty until 8 or 9 o'clock at night almost daily daily as it is an almost vccurrence for some steamer to clear in the early morning with
A year or two after the trans- plantation the plant is fertilised with beancake, silkworn excreta and Bome chemical fertiliser, mails.
"He does not think this could Weeding and removal of insect
out, be. justified by the actual trac must be diligently carried and in winter the vine stems must in many cases and suggests that, be carefully buried in the earth. In any case, it would suffice to In the oighth of nineth year after allow up to 6 pm, to close the grafting the plant will begin to malla. yield a large crop. Red and white grapes are grown.
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"This extension could not be made to apply to registered letters Op to parcels, in respect of which the time for closing would remain as at present; that is to say, in the case of a mall now advertised to close at 5 p.m. and henceforward to be closed at 6 p.m. the time for registered letters or parcels would continue to be 4.10 p.m."
The Chamber, writing on June 2, thanked the Government for the additional postal facilities. pro- mised, agreeing that a concession of one hour would be adequate to teat public demand for later clos- ing hours at the Post Office,
The new' arrangement comes into operation forthwith.
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"Ifc proposés accordingly to arrange for an extension of time to 6 p.m. in the case of the Five Years in the Wood,
more important mails for Shang- The wine is made, by n ruinedhai and London and to observe to Chinese stair under the super what extent the public make use vision of an Austrian expert. The of the increased facilities." grapes are first sorted and wash- ed, and then pressed in a machine and the juice collected in a wooden tank for fermentation, after which it is pumped into another wooden tank in the cellar for storage for at least five years before being bottled for sale. Some of the wine in the company's cellars, is over 20 years old and is recommended by physicians as a tonic for in- valjds. The company's product has won the Gold Medal at the Panama Exhibition, and has me dals and certificates from different Chinese Government organs.
The company makes 13 brands of grape wine and two brands of brandy. The former is sold at $10-$16. per case of 12 large or 24 small bottles. The brandy is sold at $16 a case of the Gold Star CHINESE IN PARKS. Brand and: $21 a case of the Kao Yu Brand, The bottles are made' by the comany's own glass blow- ery. In former years the annual Hales amounted to $300,000-$400,-
From 11 o'clock yesterday morn- 000 but last year it declined to same extent because of unsutileding an old bone of contention be- conditions. The Li Chuan Beer tween foreign and Chinese ré- Brewery Co. is another modern lations was removed by the ad style manufacturing plant, at Eno- mission of Chinese into parks of huyen, Chefoo suburb, started in the Settlement, says the N. C. D. 1921. The company obtains water News of June 2. The admission charge for all comers of 10 cop- from a special spring..
The number of workmen empers was then put into effect. played varies from 30 or 40 in win ter to 60 or 60 in summer and autumn, in addition to a staff of 30 or at in the business department, the former working under an Aus- trian expert. The workmen are paid a monthly wage of $6-$16 ench with Tree meals of wheaten bread and noodle. In considera- tion of the low local wage rate, the workmen are well paid.
JESSFIELD AND HONGKEW
LITTLE PATRONIZED.
A visit paid to the Bund Gar- dens, Jessfield and Hongkow Parks carly was sufficient to prove that' the idea was not catching, on very rapidly in the latter parks, but that the Bund Gardens, a more centrally situated visiting place, were being used extensively by Chinese visitors,
At the entrance to all the parks Municipal Regulations, framed and posted, encased in glass, were giving the hours when the parks Old Style Distilleries.
would be open and stipulating the The annual output of the com- kind of conduct which would and pany in the past few years has would not be allowed. A ticket been about '30,000 cases of beer, booth, likewise, was a now feature 10,000 cases, of aerated water and at the entrance where a guard set to dispense tickets for the payment about 1,000 tons of artificial lee, of 10.coppers, to make change in all sold under the Three Star case the exact amount of coppera Brand The bulk of the beer and was not in one's possession, and to aerated water is exported to give a limited amount of informa- Changchun, Harbin, Shanghai and tion in English, chiefly to the other ports through local effect that to-day everybody who agents, who deduct a five per cent. paid 10 coppers could enter the commission. The barley for brew-park. Beyond the entrance gate- at the Bund Gardens two ing is grown in neighbouring die-way tricts and costs about $10 a picul. Chinese, police constables were The company is doing well and posted, and elsewhere Chinese has recently enlarged its premises, ganda in bluo uniforms, All Bottles have hitherto been obtain tickets sold were plainly marked name of the park for ed from the Chang Yu glass blow with the ery, but the Company is contem- which they were intended, and plating the setting up of a blowery while one ticket was being pur-
chased the Information of its own.
volunteered that a season ticket would be "more cheap."
tho
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number of
The old style distilleries turn out samahu from kaoliang grain,
Inside the Bund Gardens at by which the liquor has acquired the name of kaoliang. Compared about half past two an interesting with the samshu of Hauchow and group of loiterera was in evidence. other Northern Kiangsu districts, Young Chinese of apparently the
and 8 the Chefoo product is weak in student class were in a large taste. There are about ten dis-majority tilleries in the port, the largest philosophical-seeming old gentle- being the Hung Li and the Tung man sat quietly on the benches watching the Whangpoo. Nearly Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. Lal which also turn out other kinda all the benches were taken during of liquor. Chinese Economie Bul- the early afternoon, by Chinese visitors, only a very few, for- eigners, including a few foreign children with their amahe, being
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TRAPPED BY POLICE IN
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manding money in 'sums ranging from 30 to 40 dollars at a time.
The merchant compiled with these demands for some time, but a few days ago the gang, again the ***The wrote him demanding $1,000.J
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Ten alleged blackmailers were arrested at the Chinese ten-house, Walchow, on the Praya East, in the vicinity of the Bowrington matter to the Police and a trap Canal, on Tuesday night as a was set. A number of police went to the house shortly before. result of a police trap..
A Chinese report states that re-7.30 and lay in wait. And a few, cently a Chinese merchant in Wan-minutes later they arrested ton chat received several threatening persons who sat down at the tables letters from a gang of ruffians de mentioned: in the letters:
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