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Government's apathy. In short
忖
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925...
STEAMER AGROUND.
ንና
HEAVY MIST,
น
NO SERIOUS DANGER.
they ask: What are you going to MISHAP TO "KUNG ON" IN do about it? The Government can unawer this question in three ways. It can ignore it altogether; It can bring in outside assistance,
Going up to Kongmoon from possibly from the Rockefeller Foundation; or it can give the Hongkong on Monday night the steamer "Kung On" ran aground Colony, an up-to-date public healtha a few miles above Whangmoon, service in place of the present Captain Best is master of this ship obsolete and unomalous system. which flies the Chinese flag.
It is thought that the "Kung On" Which of these three courses it
Is in no serious danger as the But Kwong Fook Chating" stood by will choose we cannot tell.
and came on to report at Hong- we have our fears.'
kong."
Shipmasters are of the opinion that the Kung Da" went ashore on account of the heavy mist and general darkness prevailing in that part of the river."
When the Wing On and Leung Kwong left Hoogkong last night Pratas Wireless.
they were asked by the Tai Ping SS. Co. to take off the Kung Typhoons have wrought so On's passengers and bring them much damage in Hongkong, on to Kongmoon. The owners in- ashore and afloat, that anything formed the "China Mail" that the cargo had not been trans-shipped promising to lessen their menace and that it was hoped to get the must be welcomed by the whole "Kung On" off by her own steant. Colony. Yesterday, we were able to announce a big step in this direction, a very big step indeed, not less than the placing of a wire- less station on the Pratas Shoal; As every mariner knows, the Pratas Shoal is situated just at the point where typhoons most commonly change their course, and with an observing station there, Hongkong should get ample warning of any typhoons heading this way.
ሳ
EMPTY HOUSES.
AN INTERESTING RETURN PREPARED,
號
TOTALS FOR DISTRICTS,
various dis-
Hankow Road (a) nil (b) five.. Haiphong Rond (a) nil) 27. Canteron Road (a) enty-one ch.nil.
in regard to the Rents Ordinance When the wireless mul the assertion that there are station was first mooted, some 7000 empty fats in Kowloon, an Parties in this morning's vernacular years ago now, the suggestion was made, or implied. that if the papers is of much interest,
Detiled figures are given of Chinese Government, beset by its internal troubles, could not under- cup honses in take the work, the task could he triets by the Far Eastern News Agency of Hongkong" as follow :- shouldered by the Hongkong
Yesterday, the article states, Government, and latterly the fur- ther suggestion was made that there were in the streets mentiond shipping control surplus might upty flats (a) completed (b) an-
mpleted: well be used for the purpose. However, the question of sover- eign rights made it impossible for the Hongkong Government to take any direct action, and our local authorities had to limit themselves to representations to the, Chinese Government through the usual diplomatic channels. Evidently these, representations, backed by those of the General Chamber of Commerce, were not, as it was once feared, merely a 96. waste of time, for presumably it is in direct consequence of them (b) 78. that the work is now being pushed ahead by the Chinese Admiralty, Why the Chinese Admiralty was unable to tackle the job before, and what is the secret of its pre-
Hongkong, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1925 sent energy, we frankly confess
TYPHOID MENACE.
its'
ourselves unable to guess, since it is difficult to detect any governing change in the political situation. But why trouble to seek the answer to such riddles. The wire- less station is being provided at last, and that is the thing that counts!
HUMBLE START.
HOW LANE CRAWFORD'S HAVE GROWN.
(a
Granville Road (a) two. (b) nil, Canton Road (in Taim Sha Tsui)
nil (b) 32.
Totals for Tsim Sha Tsui dis trict completed, 23'; unrom- pleted. 64.
Austin Road (a) five (b) nil. Woosung Street (a) nineteen Temple Street, South (a) 101
16.
(b)
Shanghai Street fa) 70; (b) 38. Jordan Road (a) 28; (b) 56. Canton, Road (a) 25; (b) nil. Battery Street (a) 97'; (b) eight. Reclamation Street (n) ten (b)
In nine other lennet known streets (a) 287; (b) 24.
2
Totals for Yaunati and Kwoon Tang districtscompleted, 526 :
completed 316.
COTTON STRIKE.
PROSPECTS OF EARLY SETTLEMENT.
(By Courtesy of Daily Bulletin).
*SHANGHAI, February 24... The strike situation, has cased considerably during the last few
ENTERPRISE OF THE FOUNDER days, making the prospects of an
early settlement more brighter.
There have been no demonstra- tions, and the strikers are waiting for the negotiations to open.
DR. SUN YAT-SEN,
WEAKNESS INCREASING.
DIVIDENDS FOR 1924,
HONGKONG. ELECTRIC
COMPANY.
-
At the forthcoming annual meet- ing of the Hongkong. Electric Company, Lid, to be held on March 14, 1925, the Board of Directors will recommend subject to audit that the balance available for distribution be disposed of as follows:
To pay a dividend of
$2.50 per share on
300,000 shares......$600,000 00 To place to Reserve$750,000 00 To carry forward to
next account......$124,153.64.
REGIMENTAL DANCE.
EAST SURREYS."
HAPPY SOLDIERS' EVENING.
The City Hall was given over to
the Surrey Regiment last night for their annual ball. On a table at the stairhead, the many cups and trophies won by the Regiment in athletic and other contests were laid out, and the Regiment colours held a prominent position on the wall.
Cancing was carried out in the St. George's and St. Andrew's rooms. The music was provided by the band of H.M.S. Titanfa.
There was a large attendance, including many officers from other regiments and ships, and not a few civilians. It was the "soldiers" evening," however, and the most was made of the opportunity by all those who tirelessly danced through the whole programme until the early hours of the morning.
SAMPAN WOMAN'S TRIAL.
FIVE YEARS FOR POSSESSION OF ARMS.
A sampan woman convicted of being in possession of 15 revolvers 7 pistols and 9,200 rounds of ammunition broke down when the
sentence of five years' hard labour. was announced.
The police found the arms in her boat and her défence was that they had been left there by passengers. She denied all know- ledge of the contents, but Mr. Justice Gompertz pointed out to her that it was her duty to enquire into the contents of packages as the onus of proof was on the person in charge in these cases.
HELD UP!
A JAPANESE ENGINEER
ROBBED."
A highway robbery took place last night near No. 2 Police Station, Wanchal, when Shigahara, an engineer on a Japanese vessel, was held up by six men.
They secured a sum of $200 and a gold watch and chain.
GIRL SHY."
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SPEEDY CURE FOR RACE LOSSES. Exactly who lost the most money at last week's races it is impossible to say, but if that luck- less one whoever he is still feels glum he should hie him to the Coronet Theatre, for the pic- ture now showing there will" speedily chase away his sorrows,
love, this is written by one who knows and knows and knows,
Dr. Koch contends that the typhoid fever resolution passed by the Sanitary Board yesterday evening was a direct slap in the, face to the officials. Possibly he is right. But the point is hardly worth arguing, because the facts are pretty well known. Nobody suggests that the Sanitary Department, with totally Inadequate staff and its almost entire lack of facilities, is in any-
META. Lane, the master of way to blame. The fault lies with
a-trading vessel sailing to Hong- the Government in failing to give kong in 1848, found difficulty in London Offees-Thi Far Eastern
On Advertising Agency
the Colony an up-to-date public obtaining necessary supplies. (London),
health service, fully staffed and his return Home he joined forces! properly equipped, not simply for with Mr. Ninian Crawford, raised carrying out the routine work, but the firm of Lane, Crawford and Co. (By Courtesy of Daily Bulletin.) Like the book on how to make
the necessary capital, and formed also for undertaking general Returning again via the Cape with research into, local endemic dis-stocks, they started business in eases. That this general research 1850 on the water front in a build-
Dr. Kreig's bulletin says that along with many other fortunate Ling of the matched type, where the
Sun Yat-sen-e-condition-has-shown-people who have already visited is a vital need almost goes without ragon Motor Car Garage is no difference since yesterday, but the Coronet Theatre this week. Yet yesterday evening situated in Des Voeux Road. This, the general weakness is increasing. The picture is of course Harold we had every single speaker either as other departments were opened His pulse is 116, temperature 99.1. Lloyd's great new comedy, "Girl Shy, which has captivated am openly or tacitly admitting that it up, was quickly pushed through to and respiration 26.
where Queen's Road, coming out
Eugland and the United States. is impossible to expect the Lock Hing's are now in business.
Harold Lloyd is cast in the role of Sanitary Department to under- The present building was occupied
a bashful village youth who take research into one individual in 1905 and when the next move.
thinks he knows all about women. --he actually writes a book about" ELLIS-BACH.-At the Great disease which is steadily becoming i de to the new Exchange
the firm "will
them-and who stutters! Is it Synagogue, Harbin, on Tues- more alarming! Therefore what building
within a few hundred yards of
neccssary to say more than that day, February 24, Frederick does it really matter whether or where the old matshed store stood.
to give the reader an inkling of Ezekiel Ellis, son of the late not yesterday evening's resolution In the first interval branches (Bay Gourbong of Daily Bulletin).
the fun that awaits him in this Mr. and Mrs. E. 1. Ellis, of
PEKING, Feb 24
diverting picture?--to mention Hongkong, to Annie, daughter was a slap in the face to the were opened up in "Shanghai and Yokohama. These were afterwarde
Harold Lloyd's comical love General Crozier, while riding a
BIRTH.
TUDHOPE. At Peking,
February 11, to. Mr. and Mrs. G. Tudhope, a son.
on
MARRIAGES.
saying,
PEKING, February 24.
"
Do
GENERAL CROZIER.
INJURED IN RIDING "ACCIDENT.
of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bach, of officials-doubtless the Colony's taken over by local managers, later poay yesterday, fell, breaking his
medical officers, as Dr. Koch till turned into limited companies, hinted, fully appreciate his and at tho present time
Harbin. HORNER SMITH -ATKINSON.
tlie
the
The pony injured its shoulder.
At the Children's Hour at the
*
affairs, real and imagined, to catalogue his amusing scrapes or to enlarge upon his thrilling exploits in the service of an At Shanghai, on February motives—so long as the gravity of only connection with Shanghai is
ardent if elusive love? Surely it 19, John, eldest son of the the problem is forced upon the that the same buying agent acts for both houses. This greatly
is not! Surely Harold Lloyd's late Mr. and Mrs. William attention of the Government. assist in obtaining first class Helena May Institute, on Friday; fame as a film comedian is so Horner Smith, of Dundee, to
say he rivals, Maude, eldest daughter of Apart from any reflections that agencies, besides helping them to February 27, Mrs. Gompertz will great. Bome
Charlie Chaplin himself that his Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Atkinson, the one might seem to cast upon place large orders so that they can tell Fairy Stories' at 5 p. m.
latest picture needs no praise of Shanghai,
the officials which, as we have obtain better terms from
A pretty view of Kandy, show beyond the bare statement that manufacturera, The Yokohama already noted will hardly be taken store was wiped out in the great Ing the procession of the Sacred it is the best ho has ever made,
tooth, is published with a calendar DEATHS,
seriously by the gentlemen con- earthquake of 1928, the old partner, for 1925 by Lipton, Limited, for alike for its amusing story, its earned the warding of both Mr. McKinnel who was originally whom Mesars B. Moulder & Co.hritis," at its amazingly skilful droll acting, its impossible resolutions was equally pointed as Hongkong, being killed, with Limited, are local agents.
photography, But apart from all most of the stuff. DOWSON. At Shanghai, on to the necessity for a thorough As it was in the shüpehandlery
this to dilate upon the merits of
··A STANDARD REMEDY. ... February
the picture here would be to anti- 17 Maskelyne investigation of the whole subject and food commodities that the
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Dowson (late Master 8.8. Loong Wo, Indo-China N. being undertaken without delay. firn made their first start, special standard family medicine. Prempt, cipate the pleasure of those who shows are being made in these lines reliable and effective for coughs, colds, have still to visit the Coronet Co.)
.To do that, They have in effect thrown down in the windows and show rooms croup, bronchial coughs, coughs result Theatre this week.
who has seen the NISSIM At Shanghai; on Februa challenge. to the Government, during this week, and a visit should from whooping cough, nervous everyone
hacking, tickling throat, troublesome ary 18, Matook Nissim, aged They say, almost in so many prove both pleasurable and justgue-aight coughs and the chrople coughs of picture will agree, would be
elderly people. For sale everywhere. shame. 67.
words, that typhoid is a growing 'tive.
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