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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1071.

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Fish That Fight falaria

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HONGKONG.

The public health authorities state Fish kau as timbusia that affinis, which devours the larva of the Anopheles mosquite, the propaga tor of malaria, has been acclimatised

in Spain. Attempts to acclimatise these fish in France. Britain. sad Italy are said to have tried. The fish, which were imported into Spain be the American Red Cross, are bing sent in lng quantities to the

alarial regions of Spain. Finger-Prints by Phose

Mam Ben & }

How Moon

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ROBINSON BOLD; } 201

BRACH

WHIT PAINT BLANCH 1543 MORE GHOF

GENERAL ITEMS.

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Travelling incognito, the Prince

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Regent of Serbia has arrived in Paris. There are now 1,218.270 white people and 49.000 Maoria in New Zealand, an increase in population of 10.8 per cent, since 1916.

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So many mackerel have been caught at Swansea Bay in mail week that most of one day's catch of nearly 3 tons was put back into the sea.

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THE CHINA MAT

SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. quantity of tonnage the completion of

SAD PLIGHT.

REACHING A STANDSTİLL,

Archibald Hard writes in the Daily Telegraph.

· MOULDERS STRIKE.

ATTRIBUTED TO BULLY-

ING WATCHMAN.

to consider his folis demand for the sulted in the strike. There was no instant dismissal of the Indian, re-

disturbance. Thr men merelr

** dawned tools" and walked out of

OPIUM ON STEAMER,

A despatch from Karuizawa

which has been postponed owing prin- cipally to the joiners' strike and the coal dispute. The tonnage on which work has been suspended amounts to 735,000, and the tonnage which has

As the result of a dispute between been delayed in completion amounts to about 444,000 tons. These two one of their number and an Indian watchman, the moulders of the Cosmo- stals, amounting to 1,179,000 tons In the quarter which ended on June equal to one-third of the whole of Politan Dock, Samshuipo, went out tons, were commenced in all the ship-must be deducted in order to enable all-used the wonder, and a refusal 80 only twenty-three ships, of the tonnage under construction) on strike on Saturday morning. The watchman, it is understood, had yards of the United Kingdom!comparison to be made with the Owing to high costs of labour in the figures for normal times, and we thus iron and steel industries, as well as in arrive at a reduced total of 2.351.000 the shipyards and engine shops, tons under construction in the United it no longer pays to construct vesselsKingdom. and it is also cheaper to What is happening is that nothing of the yard. repair them abroad, apart from the is being done on one-third of the ships fact that the work is done quicker.now in hand, and that the progress or Within living memory. the ship- the remainder is slow. In its last two building industry has not before been quarterly returns Lloyd's Register in such a sorry plight as it is to-day, | directed attention to the slow pace The persons who are least concerned at which work was being completed.

During the week-end. Chief Preven appear to be the men whose livelihood. It was pointed out that, whereas in tive Officer Watt and sonar RO's as well as the comfort of their homes. 1913 the average tonnage completed boarded the J.C.J.I. 8.s. ** Tjibodas,” is at stake. Work is proceeding during each quarter was over 23 per half an hour prior to her departure abroad smoothly, and Germany rent. of the total work in hand at the for Java, and seized four boxes con- ! especially has begun to make con- beginning of the quarter, the corre-taining $17 lbs of illicit Indian raw siderable headway with the task of sponding

figures for 1920 fell opium in the firemen's quarters in building up her mercantile mariac. below 13 per cent. There was a the forecastle. No arrests were made, The belief which was cament some still further reduction during the last and in view of the fact that the vessel time ago that Gersary was down six months, the output for this period had been out of dock only a few and out, so far as merchant shipping having fallen as low as 1 per cent. hours, the Company could not be is concerned, has already proved a In the June quarter of 1919 181 held responsible. į

Sir Harry Lauder has instructed delusion. Owing to long hours and steamships, of 311.240 tons, were Messes Kright, Frank, and Rutley to low wages, ships are being built rapid launched; in the Jane quarter of last sell his estates in the county of Argyll ly and cheaply; and owing to the rear the launchings areunter to which consist of about 12,000 acres. alliances which have been formed 151, of 318.568 tons: and now for the

Queen Alexandra seat for Mime, hand, and with the Soviet Governships, of 313.103 tons.

with American companies on the one last quarter the figures were 91 steam Pavlova at the conclusion of a recentment on the other, the German ports performance at the Queen's Hall, and

It has recently been reported that No fewer than the workers in shipyards and etgine congratulated her, and presented her are again active. with her own bouquet.

eighty oversea services are already shops are beginning to realise the in operation from Hamburg, and error which is being committed under other tieman ports are also calibiting mistaken leadership, and that greater remarkall signs of activity. Before industry is being exhibited. It is not we know where we are the Germans, only high wages which are affecting who are obtaining cheap ships which shipbuilding. but slow production. they can run more economically than and we can never hope to hold our own we can run them, will once more be until wages fall and the rate of produc our most serious rivals in sea carriage. tion rises. Towards the close of last With the support of the workers century we bail: upwards of $1 per shore and afoat the leaders in the cent. of the shipping of the world: shipbuilding industry are rapidly unless an awakening comes we shall THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA picking up the threads revered by lose almost entirely this valuable DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. the war. and with the exchange a branch of our export trade, which in well as all costs in their favour. they the past has provided highly paid NOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that they are making remarkable progress and fairly regular employment for N an Interim Dividend of $1.00 per Germany is certainly not down and tens of thousands of highly skilled share will be paid on the 11h October, our and the future of the ship-artisans.

A has already been stated next to all Shareholder on the Register building industry in the United States only twenty-three ships. of fis,918 of Shareholders at 30th September,

1991. will also repay careful study.

tons were commenced during the

By Order of the Board, three months which has just closed, | The figures for British shipbuilding In respect of foreign order the ship

R. M. DYER, during last quarter. which have just building industry is on its trial. Sear been issued by Lloyd's Registerly one-third of the tourage to be seen make depressing reading. The in our shipyards to-day is on foreign mather in which high wages. account

-n legacy from the boom in association with the derange-period which followed the Armistice, When workmen at Portsmouth meat of the exchanges, are making and it, as those ships take the water. Dockyard entered the brass foundry in business impossible is illustrated by nn other orders are available, a large the morning they heard someone an incident quoted in an article in the proportion of the workers will have calling for water, and found William current issue of "Fairplay." It is to be discharged. Wilson, 54, a chargeman, lying in a stated that about eighteen months

In contrast with the hold-up three-ton ladle with his throat cut or two years ago a couple of shelter- of shipbuilding Lloyd's Re- From SAN FRANCISCO, via HONO. having apparently been there all night. derk steamers built in Britain gister supplies us

for!

Professor Ben's machine transmitting photog aphie evords over a telephone wire is fede mobilised in the interests of justice. Prez fessor Ottolenghi, the chief of the Italian school of scientific entreinology, pro- passes to use this instrument for the

Binger-prints

transmission

suspected criminals. By this oratis, when a man is ametel in Paris, for

instaure, it will be possibla¦ sirinktanesly to despatch his finger-

Berlin prints to Loudon. Home and ask the witce of the cities for any details they have as to previous condemnations.

Beauty Surgery.

A new road to beauty kudan a The Sewed Smile" as rival a grear advertisement though an announcement that Mrs. Herbert Carey, wife of a tortor pasilent of the United States Steel Corporation (who, when on the stage as Mabelle Gillman, was known as of the loveliest women in the United States). has undergone a surressful operation at the hands of a French beauty specialist to acquire a upit's how uvath. The originator of The Sewed Suite is understood to be Dr. Ley Stoddard New York surgeon Intarprise:

prominent

So keen has competition became in the second-hand furniture trade

that dealers are porting to wel methods. Some of the more enter-

prising go to register offices and copy the names and addresses from the thrice beard of this who are to be

Then they take a barrowfa

tarred

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| After opening a corporation sea water bathing post at Lowestoft, the magor. Alderman Humphrey, who was in bathing costume, slid down the water chute and had a swim.

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Towards the £4,500 required to pay the costs of the Bishop of Lincoln in the recent Archdeacon Wakeford case £2,200 has been received at the Diocesan Church Office, 6a, Guildhall street, Lincoln.

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No. 1, Cheapside E. C., formerly known as Farrow's Bank, and the leasehold interests in part of No. 2, Cheapside, and 2 and 3, Panyer-alley, were

sold by Messrs. Douglas Young and Co. for £30,000.

Two women were summoned for

fortune telling at Dudley, Worcester shire: the one who used cards was sent to prison for 14 days, but the other who did it by palmistry, was discharged en payment of costs.

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Stated to be a member of a South London gang known as "The Forty, itdeves," which intes's the West End of London, especially during the sales. sent to six months' hard labour for

Army and Navy S'ares.

Ada Wellman, 25, was at Westminster

DEPRESSING OUTLOOK.

states that Dr. William Brice, an American lecturer at Tokyo Imperial University, while crossing a moun- tain stream at the upper reaches of a waterfall at Karuizawa was down to the basin of the waterfall, accidentally carried away and fell the height of which is about 20 fret. His head struck a rock in the basin and he was killed on the spot. His body, the despatch says, was found about half an hour after his fall.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

→ Chief Manager.

Hoogkong, August 29, 1921.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA

NOTICE TO CUNSIGNKES.

TEE Steamship

"SIBERIA MARU,"

with figures. LULU, JAPAN PORTS, DAIREN were sold to an Italian firra for about which show that great activity is

& SHANGHAI. £325.000 each. The purchaser paid being exhibited abroad. Though about £270,000 in instalments at the there has been a set-back in the United rate of 100 lire a £. when. a dispute States, it ships of 2.669.421 tons are arrived on Eanday, the 21st, ut The above named Steamer having

having occurred, the boats were sold under construction abroad-and they 1991, consignees of eargs are hereby notif by auction by the builders for £85.000 are really under construction. The ined to presett their Bill of Lading for cach. If the Italian firm had interesting feature of foreign ship countersignature, and take

immediate

of furniture round to the house with stealing a dressing-gown from the plemented their contract and paid for building is the great attention which delivery from alongside steamer or the

a plausible tale that a friend has sent then. One persistent dealer resently unleaded a bedroom suite

he would take the stud away.

Minister's Kiss.

To kiss or not to kiss "

was a

incident at the Primitive Methodist :

Company's Godown, where all cargo impeding immediate discharge will be.

landed at consignees' risk.

Storage wil be

Monday, the 29th Aug27.

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their vessels at 100 lire per sterling is being given to motor vessels. It is reported from Reval that, each boat woull have cost 320.500.000 Whereas we have fifty-seven of 211.003 to the pavement at ber hanse forccording to a statement in the lire, or at the pre-war exchange tons in hand, there are 126 of 261,941 the approval of a brile, and it was Pravda of Petrograd, mortality in $1.400.000 or taking the boats tons building in other countries, mt met à policetzen was called that Russia since 1917 has increased im at 8,300 tons, with the deck opening Denmark, Sweden, Holland. Italy

cargo remaining undelivered after mensely, and that altogether the not closed. £161 per ton dead weight. Norway. Esthonia, and France are

All broken, chated and damaged pack- population has fallen by 12,000,000 which is surely a record price. French.all building these ships of the future." ages will be added in the Company's since 1914. Moscow. for instance, Belgian, and other firms are also in and there are seven building in the Godown, where same will be examined on had 2,043,000 Inhabitants in 1917, varying degree finding it difficult to United States and two in the Dom- Wednesday, the 1st August, at 11 A question that caused an amusing but has now only about 1,000,000. do business with us, and British ship-inions. Apparently what is checking No claims will be recognised alter owners bave been forced to abandon the swifter introduction of motor goods have left the steamer or Godowo, and Conference at Sheffiell. Fach inom-; Mr. Richard Temple, the inventor an idea of placing orders.

vessels into the merchant fleets none will be entertained it presented ing the president. the Rev. S. Horton of the gun which, it is claimed, can

It is impossible at the present of the world is a feeling of uncertainty later than three weeks after arrival hes greeted with a kiss little girls be developed to fire a shell weighing freight to build ships, which who have presented a bouquet to five tons a distance of 200 to 300 will show a profit. On the one at which they will be obtainable in the as to the supplies of oil and the price awang woman. miles, gave a demonstration of the hand. it still costs about £18 per top future. It is a significant fact, recently him, and whea nearly

us tall himself. handed working of the model in London.

Hewers Mr. Mr. Temple is a Londoner who spent to build a new cargo carrier of 7,500 recorded by the Motor Ship, that of bunch

many years in Canada and the United tons, whereas the value of such a there is not a single large motor vessel States. With his model weapon Mr. scamer ready for service is only about laid up in any part of the world, when, Temple drove a belt half an inch £8 10s per ton, and some ships have owing to the dramatic fall in freights, thick through a fin, steel boiler plate, recently been sold at a considerably the steel being perforated as easily lower price. The explanation of the

large proportion of steam tonnage failure of shipbuilders to keep pace

is lying idle. with the falling market for ships may

bito

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as if it had been butter. There was no recoil and hardly a flash.

Horton hesitated whether to give a similar salute. The delegates broke into laughter, which became more boisterous when someone exclaimed: "Take the plunge!" The president. joining in the laughter, said: "I have been accustomed to kiss the young

he summed up in two words-wages. Whje at work loading sugar at ladies up to a certain age, but my A Japanese purse, Otoki Sakabe. and output. Directly and indirectly, the Taikoo Sugar Refinery's wharf wife is in the gallery." (A Voice: who is accused of the murder of the the expenditure on a ship is governed yesterday morning, a coole missed *Never mind!" and loud laughter.) baby of Dr. and Mrs Hay-Bolton, was by the total sum paid for labour, for his footing and fell from the walking The president. siniling at the young again before the magistrates at woman, remarked: 3 should like Chipping Norton Police evidence of making the steel, fashioning the steel plank into the harb ur. He stnk to kiss you," and immediately gave the discovery of the body and the constructing the ship, manufacturing with a bag of sugar on his shoulder, the blushing girl a hearty kiss amid fact that the nurse was alleged to the engines. and fitting the vessel out and was not seen again. loud cheers and much laughter,

The Best VAD.

captain of the American steamer.

services.

bumanitarian

steamer,

No Fire Insurance whatster will be *ffected.

·Y. TEUTSUMI.

Manager. Bowekook, August 12, ÞA.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received in. atrections to sell by Public Auction tros 20000TY OF THI CONCERERD), Ox

FRIDAY,

August 26, 1921, st 11.30 am,

their Bales Booms, No.- & De Vox Road, Gerber of

Ics, Roe Street,

2.Carer APZIS,

1 Large Lawn Mower New (Ransome)

8 American Fold Iron Beds, SUNDRY FURNITURE, 20, 26.

cem :-Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, August 22, 1921; ;'

have been found hiding in a field of for sea. The raw material is not a The many fiends in Shanghai barley near at band was given. Inserious item. A comparatively amall of Mr. E. S. Kadoorie, the well-known answer to the formal charge, prisoner um goes in overhead charges, and local financier and philanthropist, Arriving at the appointed bour said, through an interpreter, that she only in times of booming trade is and crother of Sir Ellis Kadoorie, Jf¦ one day in mail week at a London could not remember whether she anything more than a modest return Hongkong, were pleased to hear that, church to be married, a bride und killed the baby or not. She was made on the capital, invested. In following the recent bestowal on him bridegroom found that the best man committed to the next Oxford Assizes these circumstances, the outlook for by the French Government of the had failed to turn up. The bride-

the shipbuilding industry must re-medal "de la Reconnaissance Fran groom, who has served in Ireland, had On June 18, in mid-Atlantic, the main black until the various bodies caise," he has now been decorated a week earlier got a Sinn Fein note Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's of men concerned realise that it is with the Cross of the Legion of stating that he would be shot on his orbita," westbound to New York, being strangled by high wages and Honour, in recognition of his eminent wedding day. To prevent any such received a wireless message from the jjow outpat, and that; as a result; they Dbilanthropic azd outrage two detectives were stationed "Indiana Bridge" asking for medical are ruining the trade which is their outside the church. The marriage assistance, as a man on board was support.

During the war the old full-rig was solemnised without the best suffering from appendicitis.. The CANCELLATIONS, AND POSTPONEMENTS. Red ship reappeared on the high seas man's help. On leaving the church "Orbita". promptly altered her Nominally, there are 3,530,047 tone and it was not necessary to visit the bridegroom found his best man! course, and came up with of slips building in Britain but Scandinavian sean in order to see the ALL preliminary notices of forth. struggling with the detectives, who the

·Bridge." The Lloyd's Register, in recording this sailing ships of old, Many barques coming meetings, lectures and explained that they had taken charge doctor proceeded on board. and figure, isages

a warning against were built in America during the last entertainments, sent for insertion in of him as they found him rushing found it would be necessary to any hasty deductions which may be three years of war, but it still re the news columns of the China Mail, mained an unusual sight to see one are charged for at the rate of $1 each, based upon it. into the church ten minutes after transfer the sick taan to the "Orbita."

in these waters, says N. C.-D. News. (as announced in May and June of the ceremony had begun, and thought This was safely accomplished, and a

As in the previous quarter, the There are, however, two full-rigged last year) providing that they do pot he intended to harm the bridegroom. successful operation was performed The best inan's hurry was due to his immediately. A deputation of the total includes a considerable amountships now lyingʻin the upper reaches | occupy more than four lines. In

"Indiana

having been delayed by a taxicab breakdown.

American passengers on board the "Orbita" expressed to the captain their appreciation of his actioni.

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