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VISITORS PLIGHT.

All Dressed Up and No Place to Stay.

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Yesterday a "China Mall" reporter set out to find a room in Hongkong. He did not really want a room, which was just as well, as investigations show.

"Abandon hope all ye who enter office did their best but had to here"-abandon hope of finding say "No" to the reporter, who accommodation. Such is the Warning that might well be posted then explained that he did not up on all our wharves, along with really want a room.

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QUIET

TO-DAY'S LOCAL SHARE

SETTLEMENT:

EVERY ONE PLEASED.

RIVAL · DRYKERS BECOME MORE AFFECTIONATE.

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Owing doubtless to the forthe coming holidays and the absence of sensations, brokers permitted this morning and made their their ricsha coolfe to "stand easy rounds in a leisurely manner.

This month's share settlement has been comparatively small..

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HONGKONG AND THE "EXHIBITION.

GOVERNMENT'S DECISION.

Colony's Pavilion to Reopen on New Lines,

If certain small concessions can be secured from the Home Government and the workers informed in time, the Hongkong Govern ment has decided that the Colony shall be represented again at the British Empire Exhibition this year.

good to us in the way of trade account. On Imperial grounds the "The exhibition can do little neas on direct Government

advertisement," said the Hon. Mr, combined committee representing E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E., the General and Chinese Cham- the police notices about opium anded that they had, been full for earlier than usual and the Exhibition, in an interview mended the Hongkong Govern- Here the management explain-Two reasons-the fixing of a day Hongkong Commissioner to the bers of Commerce has recom- frearms. For yesterday ··

China Mail" reporter found that me time. When visitors arrived approach of China New Year-given this morning to local news-ment to grant $200.000 for work- the Colony is literally crowded to had to be turned away if a room

in their twos and threes they have contributed to this.

paper representatives, "but we are ing expenses and $100,000 for the asked to assist in the general financing of stock which would be Nevertheless, the cloud was not did not happen to be vacant just

effect for the exhibition to con- recoverable by sales, any profit without its silver lining. At the then. However, no hard and fast

tinue as a British Empire Exhibi- being available to reduce the Repulse Bay Hotel, sixty rooms rule could be laid down. A

tion."

working expenses. are in course of being erected and away a dozen patrons and rooms departing steamer might take the management expect these to might be had just then. But they be ready for occupation by August of this year so as to cope. with next season's tourist traffic.

Calling first at the Hongkong Hotel, the reporter asked if in the event of his wanting a room. could one be allotted to him.

"Shall we try courteously suggested the member of the staff approached He did forthwith but all that was forthcoming was three fists-one of reservations for the s.. "Enstern" due from Australia and. Manila yesterday! afternoon, second of rooms which would be vacated this! morning and the third a list of reservations for the "President Lincoln."

During a most interesting chat about the problem of finding ac- commodation in Hongkong the Hotel management mentioned that it was not due to lack of local enterprise that conditions. had reached their present stage. It was recognised that Hongkong had to maintain its prestige-or rather, its reputation-for hos pitality. No stone would be left unturned to prevent Hongkong getting a bad name among people passing through. Travellers 'could rest assured that if suf-

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As on other settlement days, the Ice House Street stalwarts were armed with cheques, transfer deeds, and share scrip which they with whom they had had deals: dispensed as they met Everybody was cheerful enough

those

FLYING MISSION STARTS FOR DARKEST AFRICA.

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According to Paris cables, Captain Perthier D'Oisy, who visited Hongkong after his brilliant light fren Tokyo, is a member of the French military m is flying to Lake Chad in French Equatorial Am in the map above,

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ficient notice was given they had were always likely to be filled in a a good chance of securing accom- day or two.

A suggestion put forward by modation. Far from adopting a nonchalant attitude, the Hotels The Astor House was that were doing all they could. But, of course, there would be instances of individuals being turned away on presenting themselves at an hotel office.

one

which shown

A broker from one exchange went ting his arm around the shoulder of .so far as to forget himself by put

another belonging, reputedly, to a rival association.

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ations, it was expected that every

In the absence of violent fluctu- hody would come up to the scratch.. Hence the feeling of serenity all round.

Calling on a genial member of been kind to him before, the the bowler hat brigade who had

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It transpired in the course of "We are now waiting simply for take paid men and conduct busi-question of the elasticity of the interview that participation, if the answer from Home to this

small regulations," said.........__Mr. Hallifax, chatting with Press, re presentatives this morning. "We must have an answer before the end of the month or it will be too late to participate at all. As it is we shall have difficulty in collect- ing and arranging the personnel." "The Exhibition has been taken not altogether as an advertisement between separate parts of the Empire" said Mr. Hallifax, "but

PEOPLE'S RIGHTS.

COMING REHABILITATION

CONFERENCE.

SUN YAT-SEN'S VIEWS.

PESSIMISTIC OF RESULT.

(Reuter's Service.)

an advertisement of the ★ Empire as a whole to the world and it was considered that any gaps among the pavilions as they were last year would seriously detract from the general effect."

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Asked by the "China Mail" re- presentative if he thought that the l▼ difficulties still to be overcome in regard to Hongkong's participa- tion were easily to be overcome, Mr. Halifax said that he would. not like to prophesy definitely, but the chances were in favour of the participation.

"If we go, the idea will be to extend the process workers' side of the pavilion,” added Mr. Hallifax.

"With a similar reduction in the selling side?"

"That follows rather."

Speaking generally of the bene- ficial effects of the Exhibition, Mr. Hallifax said that one of the most satisfactory.things had been what some of the Dominion Commis- sioners had called "the overcoming of the prejudice against Dominion products."

Which would effect the bigger men rather than traders here? Mr. Hallifax."

"Yes, we are not producers really.""

gentlemen travelling together on form a "passengers union" for steamers would get together and the stay at Hongkong, it would be to everybody's advantage. The Hotel could not very well put up a To the present unrest in China temporary dormitory for and the resulting stagnation in man but if, say, a party of men trade, conditions could be partly from one incoming ship called attributed. There were in the together, the Astor House would Hongkong Hotel yesterday, ap- certainly convert one of the public proximately a dozen piecegoods rooms for them. travellers who would probably

It was the same story at the stay till after China New Year King Edward Hotel where the in the hope of picking up some counter clerk could only reply, "I orders." The hotel official men- tioned that one piecegoods travel- am sorry, sir. We had a room, ler had stayed six weeks without this morning but it has been to-day, pointing first of all to firstly, because in addition to pre Colony would

The

in all prob- again,

Shanghai, January 20. China Mail" reporter was Bur

Sun Yat-sen, replying to Tuan prised to find himself greeted with Chi-jul's invitation to attend the the following: If you want any Rehabilitation Conference, says that if there was peace in China Continuing, Mr. Hallifax said scare lines you, had better get out that the proposed Conference dif- Hongkong would have as much 've got nothing for you this time." show the official suutations for issued at Canton on November 18, Empire producing centre.

fers from the preliminary Con- trade as she could manage in the Nevertheless he goosented to ference proposed in his manifesto ordinary way; it was not an Cements. These, According to the paring a convocation of the ability be represented opening his samples.

snapped up."

expert, were $2814 buyers and People's Assembly, it is empower- Then, again, the number of per-

Warfare in the adjoining pro. $2812 sales. He explained, the led to deal with and take binding however, and the figures of leat manent residents at the Hong- vinces, from time to time, has position by saying "Cements, as decisions on financial and military guarantee would not he called year's working showed that the kong Hotel had increased from always resulted in an exodus to you see, are firm, For March they questions.confronting the nation; upon. The cost was likely to fall twenty-two last year to sixty. If Hongkong. It is not every reare quoted at $29, but no shares are

and, secondly, it excludes from within the estimate of $550,000. these people could not get accom-fugee who can put up with rela-forthcoming" modation elsewhere, the Hotel had tives or friends and a good many Invited to enlarge on other the deliberations various people's The total turnover of the exhibi-

organisations,, to put them up, and it was mainly have perforce to live in the Chin- shares, the speaker ventured the to cater for residents that the ese boarding houses and hotels. opinion that there were one or two. He adds "You also adopt the tors had reached something like

£48,000. sixty additional rooms at Repulae These have been full for the last companies whose shares had been principle of appointing those Bay were being built. It was the three years or so and are still pushed up to a level slightly holding power, and ignore the Hallifax said that they had suffer- Referring to the restaurant, Mr.

company's object to inducere additions to the number of estaband that no surprise would be therefore, that your Conference,, ed a great deal of harm from the

I fear, reaping their harvest.. Recent higher then they really warranted, rights of the people. Hoenta to stay at the Repulse Bay

and to maintain the Hong- the demand for accommodation. kong Hotel, generally, for transi- tory business.

DRAMATIC ARRESTS.

is STORY OF PLOT TO BLOW

UP WARSHIPS.

SUPPOSED IRISH REBELS,

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Since December last, the Hong- kong Hotel has been full to capa city. This season, the number of people passing through fewer than last season--due no doubt.to unsettlement in China-] but in the next few months,.ship- loads of tourists will be coming,

On January 31, the "Belgen- land" is due, to be followed by the (Reuter's Service.) "California" on March 12 and the "Empress of France" on March

LONDON, January 19. 21. If any of the ships have to The arrests of five men and one go into dry dock, the majority of woman alleged to be merabers of their passengers will want to stay an Irish Republican organisation on shore and then the Colony's concerned in a plot to blow up accommodation will be taxed to warships, had a sequel at Bow Street, the utmost. Still, the Hotel has to-day, when the two men were already tried the expedient of remanded for a week. temporarily converting a dining- dockyard shipwright of Ports. Jeremiah Joseph O'Leary, a room into a dormitory for men mouth, was charged with come HONGKONG GOLF CLUB. to you frankly, While not necestions on military and financial an experiment first tried at the municating information about Astor House, Shanghai, a year the Haslar dockyard to Cydl or two ago. The Hotel does not McGough, civil servant, of London, want strangers to go home and who was charged with receiving say that it is no use visiting the information. Hongkong during the cold months

He added that trade was bad, property was slumplug, and there was little call for money from consistently excluded from parti-there frequently if not regularly. those directions. Accordingly, he cipation, and even the proceed-The "chow min" dish (consisting maintained, financiers perferred to ings were withheld from the pub of fried rice, potatoes and egg) put their cash into shares He He. These conferences were at had proved very popular and it had heard that Teans on shares tended only by those having actual had been possible to sell it at could now be obtained without power in the country. You also something like 1/6d. or 2/6d. a

dish. difficulty and that rates of interest adopt the principle of appointing wore by no means At exorbitant as those holding power and ignore they had been, say at the height the rights of the people. I fear, of the property roon.

therefore, that your Conference, traders. The Government will constituted as it is, will prove as tural associations. If this is much of a fallure as those pre done, I am prepared to agree to ceding it. Having carefully con your Conference and its rules, sidered the matter. I wish to write subject, however, to all resolu

much a failure as those preceding as largely in the nature of a joke Another broker, who was pulled it. Let us give back to the people and laying emphasis on the 4 a Up outside the American Express, their right position as masters, head meal. This, said Mr. Hallifax, was drawn out on the alleged and let the Government again be was what he might fairly term tightness of money just before their servants."

an "all-star" meal, each course China New Year.

[An extended, telegram in the coming from a separate province **** I wouldn't say so, at least on Daily Bulletin states: Sun and consisting of the best from in shares." he said with consider Yat-sen's reply points out that each. It was possible to get quite able confidence.

a cheap meal at the restaurant and barren because the people were previous conferences all proved many people, took their meals

as there is no room. Should the The woman was released. Hotel be pressed again the Three other men have been dormitory might be regulaftioned detained though up to the present once more,

Ad no : chirge" has bean" preferred" At the Astor House Hotel, the against them.

BOGEY COMPETITION......

The monthly bogey competition played at Taqling on January 17 and 19, resulted a follow

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sarily insisting on a preliminary problems being reserved for final — ■x Conference being called; I request decision by the People's Assem the inclusion in your Conference bly, which will fellow. The of a limited number of the people are masters of the country people's representatives elected and the Government are their by the various Industrial and servants. Taso Kun and Wu Pel merchant bodies, educational so fu sought to oppress the people. cieties, univeralties, students We are trying to start anew, Let unions, trade unions and agricul↑us give back to the people their at all will not be left to private right position of masters,"

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