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The China Mail.

TRUTH, JUNTRIE, PUIGIO SERVICE*

Haxsxona, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1923,

CHINA NEW YEAR.

Kung hay fat choy! Despite the hard times and the dreary, weather, Hongkong's heart is glad. Even the

HONGKONG CIGAR STORE,

Alexandra Buildings.

experiments that to them would not have been worth trying.

THE CHINA MAI

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

THURSDAY FEBRU RY45 1923

NEW YEAR CRIME,

HUMAN MARSUPIAL."

may to despise this indifferance THIS AFTERNOON'S MEETING, ARMED ROBBERY EPIDEMICS ak barbarous,, we must yet, "an, the Times points out, remember that it was before wo wots and may endure when we are no longer,!:"! The Obinėms

UNOFFICIALS' VIGOROUS PROTEST,

of the future are not likely to troubleWhen the Legislative Council.met themselves with the history of our this afternoon the business on the delice and fall; but they may append notice paper included the first reading a note to their histories to the effect of a bill dealing with this disposal of that in a certain century the foreign Germen mission property, the second devils of the West ceased to molest readings if the two new bills in them and life became altogether troduced last wool and the refump more agreeable.", Meanwhile, what tion of the committes discussion of ever the future may bring, the the Mui Ties Bill. foreign devils not only triumph. in the west but are also a power in the East, and the China Mail, their oldest newspaper in this part of that vast realm, may perhaps ha permitted, for the 78th time, to wish the Chinese race the seasonable "Kung hay fat choy."

19

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

**The China Mail will not be published to-morrow, China New Year Day.

One imported American ease of small-pax, a Chinese case of enteric fever and an imported British case of cerebo-spinal fever, were reported yesterday.

Playing at the V.B.C. last night, in the open billiards obampionship of the Colony, Mr. Tong beat Mr. Earnshaw, the scares being 500 to 423. Mr. Tseng's highest break was 40 and Mr. Earnshaw'k 27.

Mr. James Rankin has been ap pointed General Agent of the O.P.8 |Ltd., in Japan, în charge of Operating and Traffic, with headquarters at Yokohama; and Mr. Maurice Fitz Gerald has been appointed Special Representative for, Japan.

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Capt. S. W. Hace of the se. Pheumpenh" which arrived in port thie morning from Baigon with 800 tons of rice, reports to the harbour authorities here that on the first day out, a Chinese deportes jumped over board in the River Baigon and was lost.

A grocery at Shamshuipo which opened till late last night to cope with the New Year eve ruck was entered by three robbers, two of whom had revolvers. As usual the fokis were driven into a rear cubicle where they were bound and gagged.. The robben eosped with $152. **

Among the departures by the N.Y.K. *teamer "Atanta maru;"

London.

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ATTENDANCE.

There were present: His Excellency the Governor, Bir R. E. Stubb, ...0.

H.B.the General Officer Command: ing the Troops, Major General Sir J. 8. Fowler, E.G.M.G., 0., D.5.0.

The Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. Cloud Bovem, gia

The Attorney General, the Hon. Mr. J. H. Komp, KC, dam.

The Secretary for Chinese Affairs the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, G.B.E.

The Director of Education, the Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving.

The Director of Public Works, the Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins.

The Colonial Treasurer, the Hon. Mr. C. MX Messer.

The Hon. Mr. H.E. Pollock, E.0. The Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen. The Hon. Mr. Chou Shou-son. The Hon Mr. Ng Hóa Yaz.

The Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr. Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak.

DARING DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP,

ELECTROCUTED.

MAN AND CHICKEN

NOBODY TO TAKE CARE OF IT.

Aad tragedy occurred in. No, 5, Sub-Inspector Lanigan, when office at 1 o'clock this alternoon, Wai Tak Lane, behind the China Matt

CHINA NEW YEAR TRAGEDY.

The us! epidemic of robberies prosecuting a Chinose in Mr. J. R.

prior to China New Year is again Wood's court this morning for the when a 16-year old Chinese youth evident, four robberies having been larceny of a chicken, described the doctrocuted.

The man's appearance when arrested na reported during the lust, twenty-four having the chicken hidden under

was helping in the hours.

general cleaning of the bis jacket with the head popping premiate for the New Year, and was

found the chicken wandering under- His left hand was on the brass socket out.

wiping a lighted electrio globe with a Defendant's reply was that he wet cloth when the tragedy occurred: mantha Railway bridge without and with the wet cloth in his right anybody to care for it. His Wor- hand acting conductor, the le ship disbelieved him and sentenced floor on which he was standing com him to one month's imprisonment. pleted the circuit. He gave a yell on

daylight in the city this morning, the A daring robbery was committed in

victim being Mr. Hung Hing fat, the compradore of the Kowloon Godown Co.'s Wal Point godowns.

CHINA SPECIE BANK.

{

THEFT CHARGE WITH. DRAWN.

8.

Koceiving a andden, bock than collapsed in heap, bringing the lamp- down with him. Death was instan- ἀκούσουν.

A woman who held the boy round the body to drag him away from the Iamp also received a shock and was stunned for a few momenti,

100AL AND GENERAL,

Stroot (near Jardine's Wharf) Weat On reaching his office No. 2 Centre

Point; hanoticed that the cloak had stopped. When he went to wot' ib, six men entered the room, , and covered him before he could turn. The robbers

Loi Pui-aun. 25, alias P. had entered the office on s pretext of Lewis, was charged before Mr. J. asking for one of the Co's tallyman. R. Wood this moming with steal- The staff in the effica.could put up na ing valuable securities... to wit,

The Jazz Quartet will play at the resistance against the rovolvera Bills of Exchange to the total

amount of $13,563,78 and with Palace Hotel Dance on Saturday, the- and two daggers and had to submit stealing money from the China 17th. Dancing at 9p.. to being bound and gagged, Chinese Specie Bank, wine cups being used for the latter Mr. M. K. Lo, for the prosecu An advertisement appears in this рагрова,

tion, said that after going into the issue relative to tickets of admission- A sum of approximately 1,600 in evidence more fully it appeared to to Annual Race Meeting on February | notes, shortly to have been deposited him as being doubtful as to how for 28, March 1, 2 and 3. in the bank was taken. Mr. Hang was they could proceed or offer evi- also robbed of a valuable gold watch dence. In any case, the defend- For the annual Race Meeting. ant's relatives, fesling that, the member' badges of admission to the The Police were informed and en-his failure to observe proper cared. Badge may now be obtained money was lost to the bank through members' enclosure, must ba produc- quiries are being made; the tallyman in his duties, considered it their from Ms. Linstead and Davis, whose name was mentioned by the moral duty to make good this robbers has been detained pending sum without in any way admitting investigation.

any criminal liability. They had Hongkong Yacht Club will take place The closing cruise of the Boral An innovation in the efforts by the given an undertaking to pay a car Folice to combat the inurrass in crime tain sun to the bank by way of on Saturday at the Club House, North is, the sending out of uniformed recognisance of these moral duties. Point, and an Interport Rowing afficers to board trams and newch He (Mr. Lo) had placed all the Begatta will be held under the auspices Chinese customs, paint of, a mui Panger with a view to detecting facts and circumstsacos befors Mr. of the Club in co-operation with the

G. N. Orpe who had been appoint- Victoria Recreation Club, taai who wishes to get her back from suspicious characters.

ed a provisional liquidator for the her employer.. is bound to repay to such employer the suin-of money which such employer has paid to such parent for the transfer of anch mani taai to the employer?

Mr. A. G.H.Fletcher, 0.M.G., C.B., and chain, Clerk of Councils.

MUI TSAT QUERIES.

Parenant to privata matice the Hon. Mr. Pollock put the following questions to the Becretary for Chiness Affairs.

1. It is not the fact that, by

2. Han not much castor bean followed by the officials. of the Chiness Secretariat in regard to the redemption of a mui tsai by her parent from her employer?

replied as follows:-

The Seentary for Chinese Affairs

QUESTION J.

• QUESTION 2.

OUR FINANCES.

..

TO DAY'S COUNCIL MINUTES,

The following financial recommend stions by His Excellency the Govern-

ment were tablad at this afternoon's

meeting of the Legislative Council:

$39,998 on recount of Miscellaneous Services, Beatow Typhoon Relief

$12,956 on account of Banitary Department, Special Expenditure, 1 Steam Launch..

China Specie Bank and Mc. Orme An announcement appears to this "had authorised him to, make an effect that a limited number of tickets application to his Worship, to allow are available to members who wish to the complainant bank to withdraw use the privilege of introducing two

non-members to the membera en closure for the Races. Tickets can. be obtained from Messrs. Lima tead and Davis at $10 per day or $30 for the meeting....

the case.

In reper to the Magisaate, Mr. Orme said that ha igroad, subject to defendant giving all recosanry saaistance to the bank.

His Worship male tesesory order for the case to be withdrawn.

NEW STATUE PIER.

CHINA'S NEEDS.

WHERE AUSTRALIA. LAGS.

Chino's great progress indus A FINE STRUCTURE, trially and Australia's opportunities for business in the East were doalt The new Statue Pier, wiloh ne with by Mr. R. H. O'Young, a ra Feen under constriction by Sany presentative of Wing On & Com- Lee, contractors, for nearly a year, pany, Hongkong, who arrived in has at last taken defnin shape and Sydney by the Victorin to-day on is now completed to its duck level business, says the Sydney Sun of The final details will be completed January 19. during the next two or three weeks, Mr. O'Young, who came from

According to Chinese custom Fund. is the usual but not the invariable$05,500 on account of Public Works custom for some repayment to be Extraordinary, Provision of addition made. ?

al accommodation for the staff at Cape D'Aguilar The S.C.A. acts solely in the in- yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. W. H, terests of the girl and does not re Bell, Mr. Marshall Wood, Mr. and gard himself as being in any way Mrs. Middleton Smith, Mr. C. F. L. bound by the custom. Grat. Mrs. D. 1 Piercy of Shanghai The practice of the Secretariat

pasenger to Marseilles, on route totion 32 of Ordinance 4 of 1897, and The corporation will consist of 5 per and then it will be ready for the Chiau in his youth for education at (formerly of Hongkong) was through for Chinese Affairs is based on sec door will be sealed up to-night and

we never lose sight of the fact that sons, and the power of appointing super-structure endors for which Maitland High School, was empha opened in the morning. Debts paid

the guardianship of any girl for successors to the first mimbers of the were invited recently, and the con- tic that Australia could do business whose transfer money his been corporation is vested in the Governor,traat han just been awarded to the in manufactured woollens and other and collected (as far as Canton dis

A money changer's abop coolie of paid is vested in the Secretary for the intention being that all members Taiko Dock and Engineering Co. goods in China.. orders permit), thus will the Chinese 229, Queen's Road West has reported Chinese Affairs, against the parents of the corporation shall be of the

The new pier which is built en to the Police that after leaving the wch as against other parties. Protestant faith. start the new year with joy and with shop at 5.15 p.m. yesterday, carrying In all cases where mui-tsai are con

China is becoming more and the same phn as the Yaumati Ferry more economically independent," hope. Thus will this great race,baving a bag containing $515 in silver sub cerned, the care of the girls is en plained that the general purpose of sures 160 feet in length from the goods daring the five months of Atter the Attorney General had expier, but on larger scale, moi-he said, but we still need woollen sidiary coins to be delivered to au trusted by the S.C.A. to nobody the Bill was to provide thas any pro praya wall to the ses end; but there winter. Road Central, he was attacked by tear the Offics and in-the Po Leung of it must be need only for the mis feet, as ten feet will be taken op ing my stay in Sydney into this other money-changer ashop in Queen's until full enquiry has been made inperty on the income from or proceeds is an actual puer length of only 160 I will be making inquiries dur- or five men who relieved him of the Kuk; and the ruling consideration sion to which the propaty farmerly by s facade. This will be built business." money..

is always the best interest of the belonged, he moved the first reading entirely of granite, and will be in Mr. O'Young stressed that Ameri girls... No oppostion is offered to a

The Colorial Secretary seconded keeping with the architectural style con grocery exporters had a tro- of the buildings which now form mendous advantage over the three sides of Statue Square. The majority of Australians in that line. pier is 40 feet at its wider and 28 The packing is the secret, he feet at its narrower parts, and has said:

added one more chapter to its age-old Letory, face another twelve-months history, its national instinct strong sa the call of its destiny clear and airing That Chins will yet over-

To mark their appreciation of monetary arrangement being. reach and motion was carried. fear that the end of the sixty year heritage, that she will yet recover her Toan Football Club, at a very hut failure to reach sitch' an arrange-

come the evil forces threatening her

his services the members of the Kow. fed between the parties themselves, cycle means trouble-soperstitions amabs have warned children not to doubt whatever. Modem republics Kowloon Theatre last night, presented in the way of a decision in the in- held in the ment would not be allowed to stand say kung bay fat choj tomorrow'

terests of the girl. for this very reason-even the darkest cannot be anbstituted for autocrática gold cigarette case, appropriately, inscribed, to Mr. W. A Morgan who is relinquishing the poet of hoa. secretary and is shortly proceeding to..

its

ancient greatness there can be no successiul

systems centuries old.withons some disorder and confusion.

*Rome

The s... "Van Overstraten," from

NEW BILL

GERMAN MISSION FROPERTY.

OTHER BILLAS PASSED.

MỖI TAI BILL CAPELED.

*

four runs of Iron steps, nine feetOnly one Australian firm has a The second and third readings of wide, running down to the water'e reputation in China for its bis- forebodirga cannot make Hongkong'

the Billa, to amend farther the edge at low tide. They are located cuits," he said. Its tina are heart heavy in this happy season was not built in a day, neither Amexics on leave.

Medical Registration Ordinance two on either side of the narrow attractively labelled, the packing is parts of the pier, fore and aft creditable, and the goods satie. 1894 and Chinese greatest festival bas

to amend the

The pier is strongly built of rein- factory was any present day govern day govern round

Maintensocs Orders Ordinance 1921 forced concrete, on a foundation of Of Australian jam the same oncs more; the дет ment established in a decade. The

were carried on the motion of the 14 feet concrete piles and when may be said," remarked Mr. year celebrated countiers

times French are said to be Europe's Singapore, had an unusual series of

Attorney General seconded by the completed the deck surface will be O'Young. "Only one make is well before, i bere again, ita

The Attorney. Genara! moved the Colonial Secretary appeal nothing lessened and most logical people, but a brief 125 happenings on board during the first reading of a Bill intituled an

paved with a tar carpet three inches known, I have generally found ita thick The roof which will be tins true to label. Other Austr years has seen their country's govern voyage. On the first day a baby was ordinance to provide for the carrying charm, in these material times, even ment republic, dictatorship, empire, on the second day a Chinese deck certain German societies and persons The Council then went into com the sides of the pier. Iron railinga Mr. O'Young then dealt with made of cement slabs in an ironian jam manufacturers would now born to a Portuguese passenger, on of the work formerly carried on by

skeleton, will be supported on steel find it difficult to compete with this greater. Everything is now ready monarchy, republic again, once more parser ger jumped overboard and was in the Colony of Hongkong, sud to

pillars bolted into the concrete on firm.” for the great day, to-morrow. Pro empire, and now yet again public drowned, while on the third day out deal with curtain proper angle mittee for the purpose of considering will run right round the pier and China's wonderful progress liminary-sorties with orackers have A century and's quarter forms but two other Chinese, passengers died held or administered by, or psed in farther the Mei Tai Bill and a num down the steps to the water level, economically Lanterns, quaintly traced, have been fraction of China's history, twelve suddenly on board and were buried connection with the work of such ber of amendments proposed by the and the pier will be electrically We are making our own leather societies and persons in the Colony of Attorney General was approved, lighted with bright are lamps sus goods, in addition to cotton,” he hung outside doorways and red Years but a fleeting minuts. Tha Chinese have a fearet of perpetuity.

Hongkong, and to pronde for the The third reading was then moved Pended from the roof. said, and much of our woollen papers have been distributed for A Mediterranean civilization, as we Jervois Street has reported that at said work is to be carried on.

An assistant accountant of 118 control of the persons, by whom the by the Attorney General and seconded The facade, which will screen wear from wool produced in the fick. Fesets have been arranged and are now discovering was destroyed 2 po. yesterday he was instructed to The objects and reasons of the new In the name of the unofficial ture, built entirely of square block grade, and big business in oras in

by the Colonial Secretary,

the root of the piar from sight north of China ashore, will be simple in architec"China's exports are on the up best clothes selected.. This evening before ont history began. Before take $2,000.40 to punting shop is more were stated inter alia to members of the Council, the Hon. of granite terminating with a flat ahead. Not so much is going to. the Chinese maid will draw water for Minoa wao, China is, subject to clariman, and they both went to The bill is necessary in order to protest against the gross misrepre, shelter to vehicles loading and unlike peanuts and rice sre-the prin

Mr. Holyoak entered a vigorous turret-like roof, which will give Australia as many Chinese would three days' us and the well (in Hong anarchies and conquests and super. Lyndhurst Terrace. Here he went carry out the provisions of Articlesentations of fact made in the press, kong, a proisie city main) will be fcial changes of all kinds, but still the into a pawnshop to deem. Fome 438 of the Treaty of Versaillte. Darin public, and in the pulpit at loading passengers or luggage icipal; lines.

already scared away the, demone..

at sea

Des Voeux Read West. He met al bes--

sealed. The mus hoai, oblivions of came Chine, with the same kind of articles but before doing so he handed in the war temporary arasgemente cribo se malicious political pro- facade, which will be built on the wet weather Commencing flush which he did not hesitute, des with the line of the playa wall; the the wordy battle that has raced at in its earliest bronzon, the same the money to hir clanman. When were made for supervising and carry paganda. They were, he said, p pier it will have a frontage on over her statne, even this very after sophisticated yet simple scepticism, vanialed.

he came out his clansman had ng on certain parts of the work glue on she come and good govern- Statue Bquare of 40 feet (the whole moon, will sweep the how with extra that remains to this day." But this,

formerly carri on here by the ment of the Colony were largely width of the pier in care. Erming their maintenance, we are told, does not

Gorrian missions, but soma permanent without foundation"

ich will be fact and were built three arches, which give direct Supporting the

access to the pier to pedestrians. oak a remarks the Hom, Mr. Par be

Hol On either side of the ficada, will

arch, with

for another twolvė, moons, children----

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a very wild term for this occasion, Mr. Bertra

including young men stil unm

and spinatım who have not yet

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Ordinance, 1919

1919,

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