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NO FIRE JOHN NO BURGLAR

COMMERCIAL NOTES,

FLOUR RATES.

This moming, the leading Chinese flour dealers quoted for spot"goods-basle usual guild terms per sack of 50 lbs

Molluse Fairy Banana

$2.82

has ever destroyed

the contents of a

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in opening a JOHN

2:82

Dayton

2.84

JOHN TANN Fire-

resisting SAFE. *

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White Rose

22.8

C. and C.

2.85

*

Melon

2.80.

White Greens

2.90

2.95 200

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$1.95 pair. $2.35 pair.

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BEAD BAGS

AT

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46, Queen's Road Central.

HONGKONG TRAFFIC.

EIGHTY RICSHAS

RESTRICTED.

As exclusively reported in the China Mail at the time, the Police traffic office has reduced the number of public ricshas on this side of the harbour. At present there are lying idle in the Central Station compound some eighty vehicles,

Tel..C. 4529.

ENGAGED.

Tiger Shield.....

Kingfisher

*RICE QUOTATIONS. Chinese Importers" quotations this morning, per picul, were

No. 1 Siam long white (superior) $8.50, (ordinary) $8.28, No.1 Saigon long white $7.40.

SUGAR PRICES.

In Nan Pak Hong this morning, business was done at $16.15 per picul for No. 24 Java rough white. No. 24 fine white was nominal at $16.50 and No. 18 rough brown changed hands in small quantities at $15.72.

COMPANY REPORT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

YELLOW RIVER.

NO APPRENTICES.

| RECLAMATION SUCCESSFUL. OUR DISAPPEARING CRAFTS-

MEN, Official Inspection of the Yellow River reclamation work, which

British apprentices. who have was carried out by the Asia been the backbone of British indus Development Company, was held try, are a failing quantity, so much 'on November2, at Lincheng, Shan- so that new craftamen are not forth tung province, and found entirely coming and the skilled trades can satisfactory,

find no recruitą. The waters have now been turned More than 2,000 poineers engaged Hatoanew leading channel and the in the building trade in Glasgow work is guaranteed unt! July 1, have stopped work because of a dis- 1924. The scheme cost $1,500,000 pute concerning the interpretation of which $1,140,000 was raised by of u now working agreement drafted the civil governor of Shantung pro-by the National Wages and Condi- vince and the remainder by the tions Council for the building in- International Famine Relief As-dustry.

sociation,

This is the kind of dispute that in through the North dyke at Kung There is no one to take the place of In August, 1921 the river broke paralysing the building trade. Chai .Ko. The principal break the skilled bands. The people are occurred at a sharp bend about einmouring for heuses, the, builders eight miles above the city of cannot provide the men to erect Licheng, and the waters, spread- ing over portions of five bslen, them because the skilled worker is Inundated approximately five either going abroad or going on hundred towns and villages and strike.

Everywhere the British bricklayer deprived a quarter of a million people of their homes and lands. is wanted, and official figures show Hsiung Ping-chi, Civil Governor that for every 100 vacancies notified of Shantung province, signed a for bricklayers to the Labour Ex- contract with the Asia Develop changes only 60 have been filled for ment Company to repair the gap como time past.

British bricklayers in the United bd reclaim the land in August, 1922. Work was started in DecemStates are earning £19 to £14 u ber and, except for various details, week. The official rate for brick- completed in May this year. layers in London at present is 1s.

THROTTLED TRADES.

The annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd, will be held in London on

The contractors cut a new chand. an hour, or 71s. 6d. for a December 10, 1923, when the Direc- tors' Report and Statement of Ac-nel some 6,000 feet in length and 44-hour week. counts for the year ended June 30 200 feet in depth to eliminate the 1923. will be submitted.

sharp bend of the original course, Another channel acted as a leader tive housebuilding just now, said There is a good deal of specula- for the waters, the plan being that Mr. A. Brown, secretary of the the current would carry out the London Master Builders Associa excavated earth. As a matter of tios, wed local builders are absorbing fact, it is estimated by engineers the bricklayers and paying them excavated to make the leader chan-higher rates than the federation nel has been carried away by the members are allowed to pay. The only remedy is to train more apprentices.

EXTRACT FROM DIRECTORS'

REPORT:

The net result of the year's trans- actions shows a balance to the credit of Profit and Loss Account of £134.199 made up as follows

| MARRIED MAN'S EXPLOITS. Proportion of Kailan Mining Administration's Profits

China

How a married man separated, from his wife imposed on girls with whom he kept company was fold at St. Albans police-court.

The plausibility of the man, Arnold Cavendish Poyuer, thirty-

Interest... Interest in Europe... Agency Fees Sundry Receipts ........... Balance brought forward

DEDUCT.

the pullers of which are alleged to lour, an educated man, hailing Expenses in

have infringed the traffic regula- tions. This has reduced the total number of ricshas plying for hire, on the Hongkong lower levels to one thousand one hundred and

seventy.

In connection with the plans for street chairs, it is also learnt that a committee is going into the whole question of Hongkong traffic but no decision has been arrived at yet.

SPORT.

GOLF.

CAPTAIN'S CUP.

The Captain's Cup Competition, played at Fanling on December 1, 2, and 3 was won by Mr. E. C. Wrey, 94-20-74

JASPER CLARK CUP.

The result of the Jasper ClarkCup Competition, played at Fanling on December 2, was as follows Major H. G.

Gandy46, 36, 41, 41--164 Colonel B.A. Hill 41, 40, 44, 41-166 G. Murray.....42, 44, 37, 44-167 R. M. Smith46, 43, 41, 39-169 R. A. Camidge 47, 39, 41, 44-171 W. Galloway 39, 41, 44, 49-173 H. R. Buckland...45, 48, 40, 41-174

...

GRAND OPERA COMPANY.

FORZA DEL DESTINO TO-NIGHT.

from Cannock, Staffordshire, was amazing.

But for his misdeeds-two charges of false pretences were laid against him-he has now been sentenced to nine months' hard labour.

It is alleged that he had obtained board and lodging to the value of £23, and also certain goods, by re presenting that he was employed as a master at St. Albans School, whereas he was actually out of work.

In an eloqueut appeal to the Bench to be placed on probation, Poyner said that had he admitted the fact that he was out of work he would have been homeless.

He was living in daily hope of obtaining employment so that he could discharge the debts he had incurred.

Something of Poyner's powers to charm young women was disclosed by Detective-sergeant Pains. He stated that Poyner had been educated for the scholastic pro- fession, but failed to

pass his examination.

It was in December last that he went to St. Albans. First he in- curred a debt at a boarding-house, and to pay, this he obtained 30s.) from a local man by saying that he had lost his wallet and £7.

That money was eventually re- paid by a

Young lady whose acquaintance Poyner had made in St. Albans.

years.

Europe ............£15,768 Cost of New Coo-

3,412

pons and Shares Warrants Directors' Fees ... 4,200 Exchange........... 12,444 Income Tax ........ 140,114 Corporation Profits

Tax................... 24,100 Interim Dividend

pald 30/5/1923 ... 105,000

£422,102 5,044

·6,000 146 5,945

£439,237

305,038

Leaving a net balance of £134,199

which the Directors recom-

mend should be appro- priated as follows: Final Dividend 8% per cent (free of Income Tax)....... Directors' Percent-

£119,000

agen ... 4,662 Balance carried for-

ward......

10,537

£134,199

ALL-WOMAN COMPANY.

QUALIFIED ENGINEER

CHAIRMAN.

Great Britain can boast a metal company with a woman chairman, women directors, a woman auditor,

J!

that ten times the amount of earth

current.

To reclaim the inundated land, a dam was constructed across the "Building, engineering, shipbuild- waters. A temporary bridge was ing are being throttled by a dearth first erected by means of Oregon of apprentices. Boys will not work piles from 60 to 80 feet long. Then five or seven years at a trade at à a light railway was laid over it. small wage when they can get a Thousands of tons of rock were much higher price for casual labour. thus brought to the bridge and Boys leaving school take a casual dumped into the waters, forming a job because their parents will not dam which forced the water into support then during an apprentice- the new channel. The rock was ship termi. brought more than a hundred miles down the river by junk. At one time 400 boats were in use.

Finally, the dam was sealed and made watertight with sand and earth. Now that the work is accomplished, tens of thousands of refugees are preparing to reoccupy the land which was submerged for

two years.

The secondary schools are turn- ing out boys who, having ambitions above a trade, enter the overcrowd- ed markets of the desk mou.

Builders cannot get bricklayers, shipbuilders cannot get trained artisans, farmers cannot get skilled workers, watchmakers cannot get nagistants; and everywhere is the of employers wanting Since the waters were, diverted paradox back to the original course, the labour and labour unable to find Asia Development Company has employers. made frequent inspections of the undertaking. Some idea of the extent of the project may be gained from the fact that at one time as as many as 23.500 labourers were employed

Paul Page Witham is president of the company and LF. Patstone was the chief engineer in charge of the work-Chinese Economic Bulletin,

1

PIKE FILM ACTOR

JUGGLING WITH BAIT.

An annoyed pike at the London Zoo may shortly appear on the

films."

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PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD.

INQUIRY TO BE PRIVATE.

It has been decided by the con. mittee appointed to inquire into the question of preservatives and colour- ing matters in food to hold their sittings in camera.

There is no certainty that a report will be published at the end of the inquiry.

Act. Then a line was skilfully excessive use of preservatives in baited with a dead fish. This food, and of medical and other opin- made a few feet of close-up" in ions on the danger this causes to

The hook was removed before the tended to reveal the real secret of public health. this branch of the art of angling.

There may be sound reasons for: this decision, writes a medical cor- respondent, but the matter is one of great importance to the consumer, Nearly everything else showing and it would be better if informa- the art of catching these fish had tion were available from day to day.. heen recorded, but the actual the inquiry proceeds, regarding taking of the bait had still to be to kind of drugs people cansumme photographed so the camera, ex- when they eat potted meats, jams, Poyner, said the officer, had Stainless and Non-Corrosive Metals Zoo

and a woman secretary, It is the perts went to the Fish House at the sausages, hams, and so on. lived apart from his wife for four Company, of Birmingham, of which actor should "register" the chairman) followed the frequent The appointment of the com- Dianer was delayed so that the mittee of inquire (Sir H. C. Manro, Papers found in his possession Miss C. Griff, a qualified engineer the fierce enthusiasm proper to the publication of examples of the showed that he had been en- and metallurgist, is the Chairman. gaged to be married to two girls Owing to illness, Miss C. M. The Italian Grand Opera Co., and at the same time he was Davie, who with Miss Griff was will offer Verdi's Forza Del

keeping company with a third, joint managing director, has retired, Destino" to-night at the Star. Although probably little over had apparently captivated another Gabrielle Borthwick and Lady Ger- During his stay at St Albans he and two other women, the Hon. shadowed in England and America young woman, and he had had trude Crawford, have joined the bait was dropped into the glass TEETOTALLERS AND WINE. by the composer's other big works, several sums of money from her. board as directors. this opera is held in very At the time of his arrest he was

tank, for there was no desire to high esteem on the Continent, and negotiating for the rental of a house daughter of a former Lord Borth-

Miss Borthwick, who is the damage the unwilling actor. indeed, is considered to stand out or flat at Eastbourne, and had been wick, is the governing director of power was focussed on the fish and A searchlight of 2000 candle- alone in its wealth of interpretative making inquiries with reference to Borthwick Garages, Ltd., whose the picture started. ・・ melody.

marriage. Last night's blil

"La Was

Now his plans have been sadly street, W.

principal premises are in Brick There was a swoop, and the grim Boheme" in which the artistes interfered with by the sentence of

jaws had gripped the balt, holding gave further evidence of their the Courts.

Lady Gertude Crawford, who is at crossways.

The pike next versatility. The lighter scones

Bister of the Earl of Sefton, is also juggled with his mouthful, making were handled in pleasing fashion,

director of Borthwick Garages, little soaps and jerks so as to work and the more dramatic arias sung

Ltd. She is the only woman free, it round until he had the houd in in the usual competent manner.

man of the Turnera Company. She his teeth. Then the bait was on Saturday promises to be a red-

was chief superintendent of the gulfed, and an imaginary angler letter day, as in addition to

Women's Royal Air Force,

(the man holding the other end of Carmen at night, a special

| the gut-line) struck." matinae performance of the ever- welcome "Rigoletto" is announced.

TYPHOON WARNING.

PRIEST CHARGED.

STORY OF A WOMAN.

BILLIARDS.

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CLUB DE RECREIO WIN

BASILY."

CHRISTMAS PUDDING

DRUNK

Teutotallers are among the best customers of wine merchants said: Me E. Rutherford, chairman of the Wine and Spirit Trade Defence Fund, "af"að" International cons forence of anti-Prohibitionists at the Savoy Hotel

In his view it makes all the difference between profit and loss You saw the pike's indiquant to the wine merchant to have those The Rev. Giuseppe Spiteri, 39, a

struggle to keep his prize, and as teetotal, clients who take just a. Roman Catholic priest, was at Bow

he was dragged nearer the surface little drop to make them sleep; street remanded on a charge under

you watched him come to the de- make the Christmas pudding the Fugitive Offenders Act, of

cision that the dend fish was dear | almost drunk and disorderly with fraud within the jurisdiction of the

at the prics," "As the balt was dis- brandy sauce; and maintain that At the V.R.C. last night, the gorged the camera stopped. port, though twice as strong as Government of Malta. The following telegram was 10- Detective-Sergeant Keech, of with the Catholic Union tures was foiled by the fish. No If Prohibition became an

Club de Recalo had easy time An attempt to get further pic claret, is a teetotal beverage. beived from the Manila Observatory Scotland Yard, said that ho found Club, winning the fired two games sooner was the spotlight moved imminent menace, wine merchants by the local American Conquinte Spiteri in custody on Saturday at and getting a walk-over in the his way than he was off to find a could within two to three years General at 1 p.m. to-day--Cyclone Liverpool, where he had been are RECREIO, C.uc.

third. Scores follow or typhoon B.W. of Manila moving rested while on the way from Malta

| dark comes in the, tank. He make their, fortunes by Biling up Weat

twisted and doubled until the at the cellars of their fellow-country- to Quaber with a woman When EE. Silva 250 H. Meyers. 60 tempt was abandoned

men before the dry” days bɑgan. the warrant was read to him he sald F. Barradan.....250 A. T. ..... -223

Mr. H. F. Fox (United States) he hid borrowed £70 from a friend Remedios W. O. Opponent ab-

said that police statistics in his to go to Quebec and dented that he

6 country, while showing is more bad made any falso statement

"ArunWonders under – robibition- did not tell of what was going da in the people's homes or behind closed doors in private clubs and

sent, they

Commander C. W. Beckwith, RN. (Marine Magistrate and Har bour Master) is laid-up Hebecante unwell on Saturday last whilst at In his possession were found 29 Helps Thow Hard work and was ordered by his doctor

la cash, 13 travellers cheques for

to rest for a few days. The Asalatant £10 each, and a police perrait. Harbour Master (Ligg, Conway authorising "him and the young Hake,, R.N.) is suffering from an “oman to lenye daga florN attack of fever but is ablato, attend, that £50 of the mone." belon to his dutiesAre the woman.

: It was just like a silvery Zeppo

lin evading the sword-ames of the searchlights/E

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WEDNESDAY-- DECEMBER- 5 10997

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