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Open All Night..

Are we approaching the stage when Hongkong may be said to be open all night?" The beginning, of this month has witnessed the institution of a late Kowloon Ferry, People keeping social engagements have no need to hürry: there is a ferry at 1 a.m. Not only that but travellers from: Canton having to cross the bar- bour, appreciate a sensible boon for which they are prepared t pay. The same reform should certainly be instituted in connec- tion with the lower level trams and the Peak trams. It is not uncommon for visitors to the Theatre Royal to find no car avail- able. if, as often happens. the entertainment ceases after 11.303 p.m. This shows lack of enter prise and not a little indifference to public" needs on the part of a

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1925.

"LITTLE HONGKONG”!

DISMAL * PROPHET'S. VISION.

“PERNICIOUS CLIMATE.”

"One of the Most Unhealthy Spots In the World."

Taken from an old book written by Mr. H. R. Fox Bourne and published in the year 1869, entitled "The Story Of Our Colonies," the following will serve to illustrate to the present day reader the improvement which can come to a city within a short span of years.

public utility company which Hongkong as it looked about the time the accompany

should keep well within-if not a little outside-the, implied condi- tions of its licence. The public needs are of paramount import- ance and should be so recognised. : A monopoly should not rust into I'monotony. Conditions with re- gard to the Peak are fairly reasonable in view of the privilege that exists of hiring special and late cars. In the way of catering for those desiring refreshments, Hongkong cannot be said to be in bad circumstances. We are less puritanical than has been alleged and the fact of late ferries seems to suggest evidence of increase in social activities. There is now a indicated. British shipping re-will be interesting to see if this demand for a 2 a.m. ferry. It

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TRADE · REVIVAL.

Was

may well say Hongkong is open. all night.

the depression of the last few years and a greater volume of trade was carried. As the result, insurance business improved. Going Home.

faint suspicion of change in days of May when there is that

things English which means calm and sunny days, and things— whether in town or country-take only be described as English. on that appearance which can

And so it is that year by year, the exodus from Hongkong is big in numbers and in anticipation: for of Hongkong life, scenes and the mind, after even a few seasons

surroundings, dwells more than

"Much of the trade by which island-rock; but its geological Singapore is enriched is derived formation, and the pernicious from China, and passes through climate to which it is exposed, the little island of Hongkong, the render it one of the most un- smallest of all the colonies of healthy spots, in the world.. Great Britain.. The island con- This inhospitable, little island, sists of a broken ridge of moun- with an area of about 30 square tainous hills at an average height miles, for centuries the haunt of of about 1,000 feet: but from this Chinese pirates and smugglers,. ridge and its spurs various conical was ceded to Great Britain by mountains rise to the height of China in 1842 as a free port for 1,500 or 2,000 feet above the sea, trade and a naval station for the and are very precipitous. The protection of British interests in greater part of the coast shelves Chinese waters. To it was added abruptly from the ocean, parti- the small peninsula of Kowloon in

which affords further evidence The poet Browning told us of greater commercial activity. England was just the place to be The export trade of the textile in when April's there. It is prob- industries Was substantially ably this thought that excites the hetter than in 1923. The general imagination of those who arq, due engineering trades. the ship-for Home leave. They do not building yards. the electrical arrive in April, but in the carly industry and the tin-plate trade all did well, but the wool industry suffered on account of the heavy foreign demand for raw material, the coal industry was depressed, and the iron and steel trades did only fairly well. There are many encouraging signs, but many shall Le doomed to disappointment unless there is industrial peace al home. It was said recently perhaps is good for it, on "Home cularly on the north face. There 1881. Its population, about 12,000 that the Cabinet had arrived at dearie Home." Fortunate indeed are a few narrow valleys and deep in 1842, was 29,607 in 1849, and is the sojourner in these parts ravines through which the sea 117,471 in 1867: but of these only definite decision to reduce the who has to face the interesting occasionally bursts, or which serve 1.644 were Europeans, and 30,537 aggregate amount paid out in problem of Home leave. The as conduits for the mountain of the natives, unable or unwilling unemployment and insurance question of cost of passage is torrents; but on the north side of to find homes on the barren shore, benefit, and it is to be hoped this generally solved at the beginning, the island, especially where the lived in boats in the rivers. The will have the effect of bringing all and, the choice only of route re- town of Victoria is built, the rocky revenue of the Colony rose from mains all of sufficient interest ridge approaches close to the £31,078 in 1847 to £160,226 in efficient and able-bodied men into and education to make them harbour; and it was only by 1866. But it derived its import the ranks of industry.

doubly attractive. A happy holi- hewing through this ridge that a ance from the jealousy of the day then to those on their way and street or road could be made to Chinese in excluding foreign trade- happy dreams to those who, at connect the straggling lines of from other porta; and now that a the moment, live in anticipation. buildings which extend along the better policy has been established,

Patriarchs of Scholarship.

The recent deaths of Sir James Ramsay of Bumff and Sir Clifford Allbutt make one suspect that the

LOCAL BANKNOTES.

life of a scholar conduces more to longevity than any other calling," The former was in his 93rd and HOW MUCH HAVE YOU GOT? the latter in his 89th year. Both

Banks

Chartered Bank of

Average

Specie Ambunt. In Reserve.

India, Australia and Obine... $11,122,100 Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, 41,092,548 Mantile Bank of

Juda, Limited, 1,210,810

$5,000,000*

20,000,000+

580,000

The old Praya front which is now Queen's Road Central,

•

We may derive satisfaction from the knowledge that at last British trade is within sight of normal times. The progress in the past two years had been slow but steady. The optimistic state ments by those high financial had busy and distinguished Returns of the average authorities, the Chairman of the historian and the other was the tion and of Specis in Reserve in careers: for one was a great amount of Bank Notes in circula- leading British Banks, at the "Grand Old Man" of British medi- Hongkong, during the month recent annual meetings, show that cine. Sir James Ramsay, who ended Mar. 31. 1925, as certified they have every confidence in a was the head of a most ancient by the Managers of the respective trade revival. Capital issues last after trying the Bar and politics,

Scottish family, early decided; Banks year were in advance of 1928 and that his true path lay in scholar well above the average. In the ship, and for more than half Money Market the year

century devoted himself to the mediaeval history of England. It characterised by a higher range is awe-inspiring to think that two of money and discount rates and years ago the last volume of a the London Bankers' Clearing work was issued which was begun House disclosed a fresh record in Bir James's volumes are the chief before the Franco-German war! the total of cheques and Bills authority on that intricate period cleared. The manifest improve of English history, between the meat in business on the Stock Normans and the Tudors. He Exchange is attributed chiefly to had few of the literary graces; but he was an exact and luminous a renewal of confidence in the writer somewhat after the pattern political outlook. The fears of S. R. Gardiner, and bis history § Securities with the Crown some isolated hills, or along the attractive and more commodious aroused by the accession to power is admirably arranged. He work- Agents £130,000

precipitous alopes of the moun places on the northern coast.", of a Labour Government proveded to the very end of his life, and The following statement of the tains, scattered houses have been until far on into the eighties" he securities lodged with the Crown without foundation, but not until might have been seen busy in the Agents by the Mercantile Bank of constructed; but rugged, broken, Mr. Baldwin was again in the Rodiaian or the British Museum: India, Limited, against their notes and abrupt precipices, with deep saddle did prices fully revive. He is known as the father or in "circulation de published for rocky ravines, must effectually The

› sterling two distinguished daughters: one general information under Section prevent any contracted population our Chamber of Commerce, that married the late Provosts for Softhe Mercantile Bank Note from being able to provide cfl the Importar of the Colony for the proof of Britain's Trinity College, Cambridge, after Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance clently for its own protection year 1819 were £90,651,708, and

andava taking the highest Tassical | No 65 of 1911)HR Ard (the honours at that Univ other is the Duchess

Isabund

financial: return to the gold

export of gold has been progr Clore Albut, lik hibited since the War) is clearly 8F Norma

Late

Total.......... 168,501,527. ='{$ 25,450,000

Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued

· at £1,057,900,

+Securities with

Contrast this with our crowded' harbour of to-day!!

the Crown water's edge for nearly four miles. commerce is passing from the un- Agents and Straits Govern Here and there, on the tops of healthy rock in the south to more ment £3,091,200, "I

What a pity that this ancient dismal prophet is not alive to-day to visit our beautiful Colony, and after viewing the architectural wonders of the Peak, to learn from

cleanliness, and comfort... Hong- the Exports £108842984, and kong cannot be said to possess any | from the Senitary Board that our Vegetation: a few gosta, - with health rate is higher than that of difficulty ** find pasturaga. “As any other large city in the Far,

| £180,000 107-108-108) rugged, beauty characterizes the East