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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1931.

MERCURY MOTOR QAR SERRAL. OFFICE

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CASES ASSETES

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EONGKONG.

BANK MANAGEE

SWINDLED

"BOGUS SUBSCRIPTION

CANVASSER.

CHARGE AGAINST SCHOOLBOY.

A 17-year old schoolboy named George the Yeung, alias Yeung Kai Yong,living a No. 52, Caine Raad, was this moraug charged before Magistrate Lindell with having ob- tained by false pretences the sum of $1,500 from Mens, M. J. B. Montargis, maager of the Banque Industrielle de Chine.

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Bomson Moab, 1

Ware Paare KRANOM: LALA WORK HEOP

LOGEL AND GENERAL,

THE CHINA MAIL.

*Five fatal cases of small-por, all Chinese, were reported yesterday.

No bidders appeared to, offer tenders for the privilege of supplying bar silver to the Canton Mint.

SHIPOWNERS' LIABILITY.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENT,

SHIPPING COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

The report of Imperial Shipping

THE

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

THE Interest and repossibility d BOWLEY, in our fra sensed on the Mx. FRANCIS BULMER LYON

DENNYS & BOWLEY,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

Undersigned have received in- stractions to well by Public

Auction.

The annual athletic meeting of Committee which has just been pre 28th day of April, 1991, Mr. CHARLES | the Victoria Recreation Club will bented is a doarment of far reaching BULMER JOHNSON ME HENRY held to-morrow, Saturday, commen the reasoned opinion of a body continue to carry on the business.

Importance, respresenting, as it does LARDNER DENNYS, Junior will Icing at 1 pm. "

thoroughly representative of the Empire and of the industries affecte

Dated 29th day of April, 1921. - The Canton paper states thated by the report. The committee President Sun has formed an Advhory the Dominions, the Colonial office, consisted of representatives chosen by

Committee on Finance which includes some of the best known merchants the Board of Trade, and of two shipowners and two shipbuilders, and of Canton and Hongkong.

It was appointed to go into the ques- The total output of the Kailantion of shipowners' Bability, arising Mining Administration's mines for out of complaints in regard to the week ending April 16, 1921, freights, facilities and conditions in amounted to 94,865 tons and the the inter-Imperial trade, and bearing largely upon clauses in bills of lading sales during the period, to 72.741 by which shipowners "contracted out of their liability for the safa custody of goods caurkak by them. The Owing to the present high cost committee which, as stated, re- It is, for good or evil, a sign of the of living, the shoemakers, in Canton presented erty interest cop- times that the Office of Works finds have approached their employers for cerned,

to

unasim itself embarrassed by a multitude of an increase, in wages.

The shoe cus decision, Contracting aut offers of historic buildings. Thereroakers threaten to declare a general is to be forbidden, but, on the other are few great estates left in our strike if their demand is not conced band, the Australian law as to the country, and the number of men whi can, er care to, sustain the charge of maintaining old structures as there

HISTORIC BUILDINGS.

ANCIENT CASTLES OFFERED.

TO THE STATE.

are prepared to transfer them to

top

ed.

Co-education K

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came

absolute warranty of seaworthiness, which was considered to be harsh, The schools of Canton are preis to be relaxed, while the cause monuments or objects of art is small-paring to accommodate girl students mittee proposed the setting us of a sense of the value of such things admitted on the same footing as the to consider possible dispates between We are, however, fortunate in that a who under the new ruling will be permanent Imperial Shipping Board,

now an the shipowpers and the shipper, it The accused it was alleged, inter now general, and that the owners boys viewed M. Montargis at the Bank on March 5, reresenting himself to be the State for the use of the public accepted fact among educationalists being pointed out that shipowning was largely centred in the United a canvasser or subscriptions in aid rather than pillage or sell them after

Kingdom, while the shipper was of the Kwagtung YMCA. He is the manner of our ruthless forebears.

... A remarkable, disclosure is made] mainly ko the Colonies and demin- said to haw produced a subscription Some half-dozen ancient castlesin by Sir Maurice Hankey in the new ions. list on whia were recorded subscrip various states of preservation, or tions suppsed to have been made shall we say of ruin, are now await-pumber of the Round Table It is that but for the rebellion of Easter

of the province.

S

by other banks and invited M.ng the decision of the Office of week in Dublin, Mr. Lloyd George |

to the Montargis to contribute fund. Oe bank was said to be represened on the list as having sub- scribed $2,500, and several others $1,500 ach. M. Montargis gave the accused$1,500 as his bank's contribue tion to what appeared to him to be a genuir and deserving cause. Later, when aterviewed by a collector for the Nrth China Famine Relief Fund, M. Montargis previus

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The sailing of the s.s. "China for Singapore is postponed to 10 a.m. on Sunday next, May 1.

Works, among them such famous

would have accompanied Lord Kit the bartled towers, the places as donjon keep" of Marmion's Norham, chener in May. 1916, on his fatal and the old fortress in Loch Leven mission to Russia. On this evidence, whence Mary of Scots made one of Sinn Fein may have altered the the most romantic escapes which whole history of Europe. sober history has to record The department is like the rest of the world, suffering from a tinhappy want of pence, and the indiscriminating acceptance of new mentioned

therefore difficult. donation. and was responsibilities

the Governor will give a dinner in that reasonable comfort is all that any- surpised to learn that no appeal had Restoration, we are mclined to honour of this distinguished guest body requires and that ample pro- beer issued by the Kwangtung fortunately, is out of the question, YMCA. for financial aid. A couple but even the maintenance and pre-to-night. Pres.-elect Sun Yat-sen vision should be made for cargo on of ays ago the accused is alleged servation of the structures in their and Dr. Wu Ting-fang are also invite all passenger ships.

ed to the dinner. “Artängunurken agn to have interviewed M. Mor-present condition involves a consider

Canton taris, this time to raise funds for able outlay. The problem does not have been made by the theHongkong Chinese Y.M.CA. M. appear insoluble. While we should Christian College, and the Figh Mitargis promptly communicated desire all national possessions to be Normal College for Prof. Dewey to wh the police and had the accused open to the public as freely as deliver a series of lectures at these

two.colleges possible, there seems no objection asted.

From those who Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for the to levying dence and asked for a remand.

The Magistrate said that be under- sod that the accused was to under-

French shipowners, it is stated, entertain the view that the question Prof. Dewey, the eminent Ameri- of ocmfort at sea is being overcone, can philosopher, with Mrs. and Miss and in this opinion they are supported Dewey, accompanied by the Americas by the French Government, which Corsul General called on the Canton looks askance at the building of Governor Chen. It is reported that luxury " vessels. It is suggestedĮ

́g medica" examination.

dr. Hal said that was so. The acused's parents have decided to hee him examined by Dr. Forsyth atil o'cock. If the doctor was of opion tat the accused had weak metality he would have to go to jail for week to undergo medical obervatn there.

visit an old castle or abbey.

Before Magistrate Lindsell this

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

FOR SALE.

ON

MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921,"

commencing at 11 a.m.

at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street, 10 bolts each about '100 yarda - Nel 1

Woodberry Gotton. Canvas,

15 bolta sach about 100 yards No. 3

Woodberry Cotton Canvas,"

100 bolts each 36 yarda Imperial Crown

Tarpaulin Canvas,

Flag Brand" David Lowa & Co'a Strung "Tarpan- lin Carras

60 bolts each 38 yards

100 bolts each 36 yards "Flag Brand"

Bleached CanvŽE. Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkong, April 29, 1921.

TUESDAY, May 3, 1921:

commencing at 11 ms.

at the godowns of the Yeumati Godown

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Co, Yaumati

59 cases Window Glass,

34 kegs Wire Nails,

8 packages Wire Kails,

6 bundles Iron Square Bars, 2 bundles Iron Tubes,

16 pieces

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3 Stovert, *{Typewriter,

1 Cash Register. Tarmu-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong April 29, 1921

STEAMERS FOR SALE.

UNDER instructions received from

THE MINISTRY OF SHIP PING, LONDON."

Offers are invited for the purchase of the following F-Enenty Steamers - Name of

Groes Net

Tonnage Tanangu Bult.

790 317 1906

BANEY ANGHIN CHOWFA WO CHOI 177 MANILA

1613 1001

1903

1646 1055

1888

those who actually benefit from its morning, Capt. Ernest Lawrence

ROOM SUITE, by POWELL'S, maintenance, a small charge. This appeared as complainant in a case in FOR SALE JACOBEAN DINING is, in fact, already_the_practice at which a Chinese youth was charged | EXTENSION. TABLE, &-CHAIBS. many places in national, municipal, with having picked his pocket LARGE SIDEBYARD and DINNER RECE

private ownership, and, speaking and stolen a fountain pen. Mr. HK WAGON. Box 1289 c/o "CHINA broadly, it is not criticised Funds Woo, who appeared for the defence MAIL. might thus-be obtained for all, or said that this was a genuine case He could nearly all, necessary charges The of mistaken identity. obvious weakness in such a scheme, produce a dozen witnesses to prove that some building, though eminently an ab. Inspector Moore explained worthy of preservation, may be so that the offence was alleged to bave inaccessible as to attract few visitors, been committed on Saturday and can be easily compensated for when the that the defendant escaped. Yester- State has a number of buildings in its day Capt. Lawrence saw the defend- control. The deficit on one can be ant loitering about the same place, made up by the surplus on others and had him arrested. On

the T of Mr. Woo, the This as agreed to and later in the Upon the main issue, that it is desir-application morni the accused was again pro-able for historic buildings to be in Magistrate remanded the case until haring amived from the above Ports, duced fore the Magistrate and re-the care of the State of of some Monday fixing bail in the sum of Consignees of Cargo are Hereby informed

authority responsible and responsive $250. mand for a week.

to the public, we can hardly imagine that there are two opinions. There

Ispear Appleton, who prosecut ed, said at he had no objection to the accased being examined by Dr. Forsyuf he were sent to the latter's

office der escort.

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UMLE DEATH" BILL.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

From EUROFE and STRAITS.

118K Company's Steamship

#LIMA MARU,"

1115 1806 1790 1108 100%

Terms of sale, and full particulars may be ascertained on application to, and permits for inspection will be in- ed by Messrs. Boustead & Co., Singa pore; Messrs. Bulloch Bros. & Co., Ltd Bangoon; Messrs Mackinnon Mac- kenzie & Co., Hongkingand-the undersigned.

Sealed tenders should be lodged with that their Goods are being landed and Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co. Calents. placed at their risk in the Homokong The tenders which must be in Starling will be opened at Calcutta, on Ghost hunting is becoming quite aan Kowloon WEAKS AND GODOWY Oc.'s FRIDAY, the 17th June. 1941, med LETAL GAS EXECUTION. will, no doubt, arise dubious cases, as a popular amusement. A committee Godowns at Kaloon, where each consign must be valid for 14 days after that clate.

to whether some structure is of quite of local spiritualists held a seance in will be sorted out mark by mark and

MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO., sufficient interest or importance to be one of the dungeons of Nottingham delivery on be obtained as soon as the

16 Strand Road, on the rational schedule. Certainly Castle with the object of getting into Goode sis landed.

CALCUTTA. we need not lay down that a touch with some of the earthbound Optional Goods. wül be carried on

Hongkong, April 25, 1921. New York. The "Humare Death" thing is beautiful because it spirits haunting that structure. One unless instructions are given to the Bill has been issed by both Houses a ruin or important because by one the candies which ilumined contrary before NOON, TO-DAY.

But in general it is better the gloor were extinguished, and of te State Congress of Nevada, is ola

Goods not cleared by the 6th May: TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND provding that ondemned criminals not to make the, irrevocable blunder

OTHER INSTITUTIONS. shal be painley put to death by the of destruction. We do not, indeed, the spiritualists joined hands and 1921, will be subject to rent.

sang "Swanee River, a song Damaged packages at be left in the introduction of thal gas into their suppose that control by a Govern which is well known to be particuGodowns for amination by the Consignee's cell while in sleep. Governor ment department will preserve our larly effective in making ghosts and the Co.'s representatives at za appoint. ALL preliminary notices of forth- Boye says he tours the measure, antiquities from all the effects of walt. In a few moments "there ed hour on TUESDAY and FRIDAY. coming meetings, lectures and and will sige as soon as it is pre- negligence and ill-advised meddling appeared a glow in a corner near the All claims, most be presented within entertainments; seat for insertion in sented to him At present con- The Office of Works will assuredly entrance steps. The singing ceased, ten daya of the steamer's arrival the news columns of the China Mail, cemied murdes in the State of make its mistakes. But in the nature the audience watched eagerly, the hare, after which date they cannot be charged for at the rate of $1 each, Nevida a givehe choice etween of things it must avoid the rain or photographers prepared their cam recognized. No chime will be admitted (as announced in May and June of hanging shops, but there have wanton transformation which may,

after the goods have left the GodowDL.

Last year) providing that they do not been instances danger and ineffi- and often does, befall an historic

NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA.

occupy more than four; Hines. In ciency in carryinut the sentence. building at the mercy of a reckless

future. If this space in exceeded they Agents The new law is oned to eliminate or uncultured owner. So we hope

will be placed in the advertising all uncertainty. pecial cell will be the Office will accept all the castles

Hongkong, April 28, 1921-

columns at the prevailing rates". built in each pentiary in which it can get. persons sentenceto die will be placed. The judfare required to designate a certi week in which the sentence is tocarried out, and the warden willlect one night when the prisonepeacefully sleep- ing to introduce dy gas into his cell. Sentences oath in the State

have been rare, itaimed, because

juries are opposeo the present

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SIAMESE RAILWAYS."

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.

Interviewed by the Pinang Gazette,

But the manifestation was

destroyed by a man with a match. The ghost turned out to be nothing more than one of the party who had arrived after the others. That is the worst of admitting sceptics with matches and flash-lights to seaDICES. They bring everything down to the material plane.

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methods of execut and under the Mr. Henry Girtins, the retiring Ad In future our coasts will be illumi- new law it is the extreme viser to the Siamese Railways, said nared automatically. Changing timest penalty will be ced more fre

-1" quently and cal offences distat on the Kelantan side through The lighthouse keeper seemed secure Domestic Occurrences....

| Local Weddings là- trains were running from Chiengmai, as the last of our romantic instituLeading Articles UA VÕRGUE couraged.

1-6) Famine Relief..... and the line was practically finished. tions. But scientific advance, "has

Vale, Mr. D.K. Bizir..... The majority of the complaints re-made him unnecessary and economy

Big City Blaze

Arms Seized en me specting the train service between has doomed hira dispensable.

6/7 Local and General ......

Armed Robbery Prai and Bangkok were unfounded as In point of 'fact his disappearance Proposed Stamp Duty...

18-10 Forgery Charge****** regards Siem. Some matters needed has been gradual. In our coast light Chamber of Commerce.

A COXSW FINED."

A Chinese cois was presented

at the Marine Comis morning on attention on the F.M.S. railway with ing mechanism bas been steadily re- Prevalence of Rables a charge of havidotravened the regard to the Alor Star rest house, placing - man over a considerable | Q.C.OBA. ...... harbour regulatilby, plying for Sleeping and restaurant cars were on period. Gas buoys-which shed their Fast Steamer

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hire with his mboat at Keng order, and when they arrived rest light untended for months have been Children's Corner ........... Chau Wharf themission of the houses would be abolished.

in general use for some years. The St. George's Day... harbour, master having been

A project was on foot to link the electrically-lit beacon is well known Kowloon Affairs... granted to him inct of Pottinger northern and southern Siamese lase, in most countries. · Indeed entomatic Counting the People Street Wharf. Tefendant's plea involving a bridge over the Bangkok lighting is so well tested and depend Ex-Service Men that he put into Chau Wharf river at a point 50 feet deep and 800 able that the decision to bring it into Admiral Line because his en bad broken feet broad. He foreshadowed the universal use along our costs might Company Meeting dows fabled to less the Court linking of the Siamese system with wel have been reached sooner. Legislative Council and the magist (Lieut. W. C. the railways of the surrounding states, Our lighthouses will now be lone Sanitary Board Hake) imposed abf ten dollara and countries. He anticipated no her than ever, but their welcoming Our Governor's Errand

Hongkong Art Club Defendant was td in a further difficulties in bringing French Liners bears will still be lovely as hope penalty of five défor neglecting into Penang harbour on account of the to airman and mariner approaching our ports and Exports...

depth of water,

China Coastin to carry his licent

stormy coast

"Chinese Business Man Stabbing Affray

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.11-12 Sport

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Obvious Lies i

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Hongkong University,

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Child's Tragic Death

Not Guilty. *sinsgestare met.

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Embezzlement Charges.

The Kowloon Monster,

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Hainan New minutes,

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