CENTRAL
THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15. & 9.30 P.M.
HAROLD LLOYD
IN HIS FUNNIEST COMEDY
"SAFETY LAST"
REISSUED WITH SOUND AND MUSIC,
STARTS TUESDAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1984.
SEARCH FOR KAILAN MINERS”
i
OIL IN BRITAIN
SUDDEN GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION
ON THE VERGE OF DISCOVERIES ?
The
STRIKE
· AN · ARBITRATION PLAN
(Special to "Telegraph")
Tientsin, March 23. The situation in the Kailan min- Ing district is easier and the strikers are quiet.
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
BILL GOES TO THE
PRESIDENT.
BIG
MAJORITY IN SENATE
(Special to "Telegraph")' Mr. Tao Sheng-ming, Commis- sioner of the Luantung Special Ad-
( Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphia Men- ministrative Zone, has returned toeges Ordinance. 187). Heesiwed, Kinroh Tangshan from Tientsin to set up #2 #3 an arbitration bureau to handle the dispute. He hopes the miners may have bo persuaded to return to work
News.
London, Mar. 22, Government under consideration measures Peading # settlement-Central
to stimulate a search for
petroleum oil in great State.
Britain.
Washington, Mar. 22. The Senate to-day passed the Tydings-McDuffle Bill grunting independence to the Philippines. in accordance with the com- promise arrangement reached Rights of the owners of the aur-between Mr. Quezon and the 24 face to be recompensed for dis President. Since the programme of drilling turbances to their property and inanced by the State
loss of amenity"-will be safe- ended twelve years ago, no largo scalo guarded. offort of this kind has been made, but the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, in the Commons to-day, stated that
Several amendments were In- troduced directed chiefly towards Persons who wish to search shortening the period of transition and bore for all must obtain a to less than ten yours, but all licence, payment being made to were rejected.
Those who secure a licenco
the Exchequer on any oll produced. The Bill was finally passed the Government had recently ra will make their own arrangements practically unanimously, 68 mom--
with the owners of the land for bera vating for the measure and the necessary facilities but where only eight against.
The Bill now goes to the Pre- such facilities cannot be obtained
ceived indications of renewed Interest in the subject and had, therefore, decided to review the whole situation.
As a result, the Government were at once introducing legisla tion with the principal object of removing some of the main dif- Aculties which are said to have stood in the way of search extensive scale and to secure the orderly development of any oil
discovered.
STATE OWNERSHIP.
by agreement provision will besident for signaturg and members made for security, a grant of the of the Quezon Mission are packing their bags ready for their return facilities considered by the court
to Manila. to be necessary, on terms which the court will determine.
BILL INTRODUCED.
The Measure was Introduced
Senator King, was the principal advocate of Immediato indepen- dence during to-day's debate. He condemned the Tydings Bill as
into the House of Lords this foolish during A long speech evening and read a first time. advocating the reduction of the It la understood that the period of transition-United Press. promptitude and surprise nature of the Government action was Mr. Runciman said the bill pro- due to the fact that negotiations vides that the ownership of all were already in progress between petroleum which may exist in foreign and British interests to Britain, but which is at present exploit all deposits in Britain. unknown, shall be vested in the British. Wireless and Reuter.
LAST TWO
DAYS
At 2.30,
5.10. 7.15 &
9.30 p.m.
Three cases of small-pox, one case each of diphtheria and typhoid, and ve cases of meningitis, were reported to the local health authoritica on Wednesday.
KINGS
"Step up, folks. Sho's mild as (a, tomado. Sho's gonilo as (an aarthquake. When she dances, she's on fire. Hor burning beauty mokos' old mon young and young men weep."
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313, G 25332. FROM SUNDAY
QUELA'
Final Showings To-day at 2.80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30
BIG
wea
his
His businesS 'affairs' rack the world va
·His love af- fairs make the frant pagesi
Parmount
Picture
EXECUTIVE
TO-DAY and TO-MORROW.
STAR
At 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 8 9.20
ith
RICARDO CORTEZ RICHARD BENNETT
ELIZABETH YOUNG
BRITAIN'S BEST COMEDY
"Indiscretions
At Hankow Rd.
Kowloon
of
STAR
Phone
Eve"
with
STEFFI DUNA
Fred Conyngham
57795
ALHAMBRA
THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 8′ 9:20
CONSTANCE
ennet
as the girl who took a short-cut down the prim rose path to make herselfa
OF ROSES
BED OF RO
JOEL MCCREA
JOHN HALLIDAY
PERT KELTON
• SAMUEL. HINDS
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20 p.m.”
THE ROMANTIC TEAM
James
Sally
DUNN and EILERS HOLD ME TIGHT
Directed by David Butler
Fox Picture
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PICTURE
LATEST FOX
Clara BOW HOOPLA
with
PRESTON FOSTER · RICHARD · CROMWELL
HERBERT MUNDIN
MOVIETONE
NEWS
4 SHOWS DAILY
2.30-5.15
7.15-0.30
•
JAMES GLEASON
MINNA GOMBELL ·
ALSO
LATEST
CARTOON
"FANNY IN
THE LION'S DEN"
MOVIE
TINTYPES
WHERE IS MY WANDERING
BOY"
A"Cavalcade": of emotions in the "Private Lives of a man and woman who made their "Design for Living", a "Design For Loving"!
Noel COWARD'S
BITTER
•SWEET
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HERE
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· Lovin' again ... and fightin' again...just for the fun of making upt The screen's “Great Lovers "at their. funniest!
EXTRA COMEDY, FEATURE
TED
'and his STOOGES
HEALY
SCREAMING COMEDY
"PLANENUTS
"
Marie. DRESSLER Wallace BEERY
LECHAI
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TUGBOAT ANNIE
They're at it again
and how they
do their stuff in
this lond of falle
A smack on the
Ups -- a crack
on the jaw!
Fighting” or kian ing, they're Amer fen favorite. sweethearts!
Great Star
In His Greatest Picture!
JOHN BARRYMORE COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
With BEBE DANIELS, DORIS KENYON, (Onslow Stevens, trabal Jewal, Melvyn Dougiat, Thelma Todd, Produced by Car Laemmis, Jn from the play by ELMER RICE. Directed by William Wyler. Presented by "Cari Laemmle." A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
COTTON, WHEAT AND SILVER
LATEST NEW YORK QUOTATIONS
Mesars, Swan, Culbertson and Frits have received the following quotations on the New York cotton and wheat and allver exchanges for, yesterday.
Cation
Close.....
Chicago Wheat!"
Close
Mar. 21.1
Closing
Rango
May July September
87%
87
88%
Mar. 22. 874-87 874-87% 894-80%
Winnipeg Wheat
Close
Closlog
Range
May
July
67%-07% *08-09
Clone
Closing
Mar. 21. 46.50
Closing
Raneo March
Blar, 21: blar. 22.
67%
08%%
Silver
Mar. 22. May 45.56
11.82-11.83 July can. 40,00 11.89-11.00 September 40.80 12.02-12.03 December 47.06 12.10-12.11 January 12.18-12.19 Total sales for the day
*Mar. 21.
March
11.00
May
11.03
July
12,05
October
12.10
December January
Soot
12.20
12.82 12.28-12.29 12.1612.15
'47:80
Rango Mar. 22. 45.50-45.00
**: 45.00-45.60
45.85-45.05 46.40-40.40 147,15-47:18-
44740-47-40
1,926,000 0x33,800,000 0 (77 Contracts) (152 Contracta))