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CORRESPONDENCE.

Local Radio.

Interested's reasoning, be "better," and "six yearly examina

more

THE CHINA MAIL.

MORE "PHONES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S

STATEMENT.

NEW $5,000,000 CO. EXISTING SUBSCRIBERS' POSITION EXPLAINED.

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The Colonial Secretary said:-

SILK DUTY CUTS,

SUBSTANTIAL CONCESSIONS

GRANTED:

THE NEW HATES.

(Reuters Service.)

I may be wrong but I gathered equally ineffective; for the former pose to refer quite shortly to the $2.50 is to be paid on the issue of pound, respectively. A

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Under Clause & the two direc tors nominated by the Oriental Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd. Eard Mr. Holyoak and Mr. Taggart. The shares of the Company are to be distributed as follows: To the Editor of the China Mail.)tions just proper. It is most klad of him to suggest an annual

250,000 or 50 per cent, to the General Public,,140,000 or 28 per Sir. In common with your examination and not a six-yearly correspondent

cent. to the vendors, 110,00, or 22 writing under one when he expects the unsuccess.

per cent. to the Directors. Of the

London, May 21. yesterday's date I have no desire 'ful "prospective doctor' to go over

110,000, 10,000 shares are to be

The Chancellor of the Exche to discourage anyone from trying All the work;" and I believe the

allotted on payment to each direc to make a financial success of under-graduates of the Medical

Telephone provisions at Taipo, tor and an additional 15,000 quer announces that as a result of broadcasting in Hongkong. But Faculty would like to thank him

poses modifications of the scale of it is as well that difficulties should that, in justice to the pioneers of pinces where the number of sub- Chater and Mr. Taggart, who are duties on natural and artificial for, his too evident flattery, only Stanley and other developing shares on payment to Sir. Paula series of conferences, he pro- be faced, and the one which im-Medical Science, they cannot find presses me moss is that connected a way to accept, try what they scribers would warrant it were recognised by the Government as silk in agreement with the Silk foreshadowed in the introductory promoters of the Company. The Association, the London Chamber with the collecting of money for may.

remarks made by the Colonial shares available for the public are of Commerce, and the artificial. licences. There has been con- If fear of failure acts

to be issued only to persons ordin-silk interests.. ́siderable discussion over this at|stimulant” to

diligent Secretary at this afternoon's

The customs duty on natural Home, the attittile of many being application to work,

when Legislative Council meeting when arily resident in Hongkong and to

be apportioned according to the silk waste will be reduced from that "the Englishman's home is annual examinations are conduct he moved resolutions regarding practice prevailing in England, 1s. 6d. to is. per pound; and the fall the formation of the new. Tele- with the exception that a reason customs duty on raw silk from 48. his castle" and that any inspected, surely, it does not

38 stich with phone Company.

able quota of shares will be set to Ba. per pound. "tors, Government appointed or to "function

Such a "stim. not, have no right to enter and six-monthly ones.

aside for a small allotment per

The excise duties on artificial search for hidden wireless sets in ulant," is, however, altogether Sir, In moving the Resolution exchange line to individual tele- singles, yarn and waste will be re- to the scholar, which stands in my dame I pro-phone subscribera unnecessary respect of which no licences have

The sum of duced from 28. 6d. to 1s. 6d. pér and to the happy-go-lucky, been taken out.

negotiations which took "placé a the shares to the public and Direc- The customs duty on aingles has no need for it and the latter few years ago, between the Gov- tors and in" addition the sum of yarn will be 2s, per pound; upon from your synopsis of the regula: does not care to benefit by it lione which are to govern the Far from helping to maintain the ernment of Hongkong and Mr. $1 premium is to be charged on waste 18. per pound, and upon activities of any wireless compány j«

Parker Ness representing the such shares. The present posi- doubled twisted thread 35. per pass" standard, annual examina-China and Japan Telephone and tion of the money market is such pound. formed that the Government will tions on the other hand, "tend to Electric Co. These negotiations that the Government is satisfied The customs duty on imported reserve the right to enter pre-lower it, by influencing the ex- mises. Now this would be an aminers, not only in the setting of were started as Honourable Mem- that the shares will be fully taken artificial silk tissue remains at 3s. easy enough matter if serials questions but also in the correction bers will remember, owing to the up without underwriting at the 6d. per pound.

fact that the licence of the Com-premium proposed. The effect of It has also been agreed that the always took the shape of poles, of the papers. but wireless reception has been

Yours etc. pany was due to expire in 1930, auch premium will be to reduce customs duty on made-up articles

LIM.

and it was desirable that some the yield on the first instalment will be reduced from 33.1/8 to ten reduced to such a fine art that m frame packed into small compass

arrangements should be arrived to 5.7 per cent. while the final per cent, where the value of the at considerably before that date return when the shares are fully silk component does not exceed 20 is all that is necessary for picking

as to the lines on which the paid up will be 7.3 per cent. per bent. of the value of the arti- up the waves, and how is any

public téléphone service of the

It is proposed to invite Messrs.cle, and to 2 per cent. where it inspector to know what house to

Colony should be conducted. The Freece Cardew and Rider to send does not exced five per cent. enter? I have heard it suggested

matter was last before this Coun-out an expert engineer who will 'that the employment of a number

cil on October 12, 1922, when Mr. study the situation on the spot of shroffs, working on a percen

Fletcher, who WRS acting and who will advise as to the best tage basis, would best meet the

Colonial Secretary made a full method to be adopted for securing difficulty but they would have to

statement on the subject of the an improved telephone service. be well qualified, for many of us

Telephone Company and of the Until the report of such engineer

GERMAN MONEY. can recall the difficulty there was

negotiations which had taken has been received it is impossible during the war, when wireless sets

place from March, 1920, onwards to estimate the expenditure that

(Reuter's Service.) were banned in defining what was

and a resolution was unanimously will be required a part of such set and what was

London, May 21.

adopted to the effect that no new

Stalling a

BERLIN, May 21 not.

With reference to the state-agreement should be entered upon

The Reichs Bank's discount rate may say that 11 Care-remains unchanged A ment of an official of the British with the China and Japan Teleful study of the figures which Broadcasting Company that the phone and Electric Co. unless that have been produced during the the German Gold Discount Bank [Yesterday's cables stated that hest programme in Europe and Company agreed to accept certain last five years leads the Govern had reduced the discount rate from America will shortly be relayed by rates means of a "bottling," a device is rates were to be $84 in 1922, 896ent to hope that it will be possi-eight to seven per cent.) now being perfected, it is stated. in 1923, $108 in 1924, $114 in rate shown in the Resolution, for by the invention of which German | 1925 and $120 in 1926. The in-. a long time to come without) steel wire passing at an even tention of the Government was incrense, more especially as the speed through a magnetic field has that the Company must in future proposed premium on the shares electrical fluctuations caused by a be domiciled in Hongkong and will give an additional capital sum microphone impressed thereon. work on a dollar basis and in of $360,000 for which subscriber's Speech or music is thus frozen 1923 the question of the purchase will not have to provide interest. into the wire as it runs round the of the undertaking and the forma. spool, something after the man- tion of a new Company was taken per of a gramophone record and up with Mr. Taggart and others. can be stored and reproduced Certain proposals were put for endlessly.

ward and were reported upon by the Telephone Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the Government thereupon authorised Mr. Taggart to negotiate for the purchase of the Company for a sum not exceeding $900,000, such

However, perhaps I anticipate too much but in the solution of these little problems the company if and when it comes into exist ence has my sympathy and best wishes.

Yours, etc..

JOHN BLENT, Hongkong, May 20.

Garden Road Danger. (To the Editor of the China Mail)

Sir, as your correspondent "P.E.R." taken into consideration the fact of there being a right of way to Kennedy Road at the place hu thinks the entrance to the Penk Tramway should be?.

agree with him that it is opposite the station that the greatest danger lies but I do not think its remedy lies along the lines put forward by him

Yours, etc.,

Hongkong, May 20.

Tennis Betting.

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Hongkong, May 21.

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LATEST MARVEL.

"BOTTLING" RADIO,

WAVES.

RELAYED PROGRAM MES,

(Reuter's Service.)

RUBBER INDUSTRY..

THE NEED FOR STEADY PRICES.

(Reuter's Service.)

of subscription.

These.

for in- new system, but

ble to maintain the subscription

#s

The drawback' rates appro- priate to the new scale of duties have also been settled.

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CANTON JUMPY"

"SOMETHING IN THE

AIR.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, May 19. ·

JUNK SINKS.

RUN DOWN BY A STEAMER?

move

As regards the rates set out in Paragraph of the Resolution I would point out that, under sub- * General Long Hai man and Gen paragraph (b) the Company will erul Lau Tsun-won, Commanders

ovide exchanges as soon as possi-in-Chief of the Yunnanese and ble in the neighbourhood·

antiwan, in the northern part of expected to arrive here to-day by of Kwangsi armies, respectively, were

that after these exchanges have been Koon Peninsula and nt Tuipo es. Honam.

A fleet of motor-cars and squade beribers who will have to pay to meet the generals but they did opened there will not be many of bodyguards went to the wher sum not to include the land

thin the $108 rate. It is not leave by the wharf. If they belonging to the Company, the proposed that exchanges shall did travel by the boat they must buildings thereon or the stores. In January, 1924, the opportunity opened at certain places such

Aberdeen and Stanley, and have left by the river. London. May 21,

That something is in the sir"' The Secretary of the Rubber Colony of Mr. Preece of the firm subscribers justifies it.

was taken of the presence in the in any place where the number, of is evident from the stir to Association announces that a of Messrs. Preece Gardew and

baggage and the number of per meeting of the committee at Man-Rider, Consulting Electric Enumber of subscribers in Victoria

There are at present a certain sonulitics present, chester has passed a resolution ginects to the Government. and more than one mile from the present quarters, packed off to Whampoa This morning, the Aviation head- (Po the Editor of the China Afuit.) expressing the opinion that the he was asked to examine the posi-sehage who are paying a higher farther down the river.

present price of raw rubber is not tion. Subsequently the firm re-rate than £10 but it is not proposed Sir, understand large sums justifiable and asserting that ported as to the value of the pre-to require these subscribers to paying in the city. It is thought that Small bodies of troops are mobilia of money are daily wagered on legislative restriction of the ex- sent undertaking on the assump more than rate of 108 when the they may demonstrate over or the results of the matches in con- port of crude rubber was devised tion that it was in good service-new Company begins to operate. nection with the Tennis Tourna-with the object of stabilising the able condition, they also reported

dispute as to the custodianship of ment. If this is so, I think the price of standard quality smoked on the cost of installing a new detail which remain to be settled monopoly,

There are a number of points of the

fantan revenue from the practice is entirely reprehensible sheet between 15d. and 18d. per system. In March, 1924, a draft and these will be set out in an and should, if possible, be stopped. lb.

scheme was prepared much on the Ordinance which will shortly be in It proves again the weakness of Therefore "the committee con- lines of the scheme set out in the troduced in this Council professional christianity and the siders the present scheme should resolution except that the par- I think that Honourable Mem- incurable tendency of people to be drastically modified in such chase price for the plant was fixed bers will agree that the proposala impart excitement into pleasures manner as to reduce the price of at $900,000. The late Mr. A. R. are mutirely satisfactory from every the most peaceable.

rubber within these limits.

Lowe approved this scheme but point of view and that this now Yourx, etc.,

he thought that the proposed price Public Edility company will embark

SURVIVOR'S REPORT,-- CONCERNED.

was too low seeing that the same on its career with every prospect COST OF THE BASE, figure had been suggested two of rendering efficient service with The steersman of a trading years previously and that the due regard to the public intereste. junk carrying à crew of ten has Company had in the meantime I cannot finish without express reported to the police an accident spent about £18,000 in additions ing the high appreciation of the involving the loss of his boat (To the Editor of the China 'Mail).

to plant. Last summer Mr. Flet- Government for the services render- which was returning to Wanchai (Reuters Service.)

cher was in London and he dis-ed by all those who have worked to with a cargo of sand. Sir, the rumour I hear re-

cussed the matter with Mr. bring this matter to a satisfactory. The report states that at 9.80 garding the closing of the Stone-

London, May 21,

Parker Ness and Sir George Gibb conclusion. and I wish particularly p.m. yesterday the junk collided cutters Bathing Bench are In the House of Commons Sir and it was agreed that it was to to mention the work done through with the s.. Kwangtung under" correct, I think I can offer a G. Strickland asked what was the the interest of all parties that Sircut the negotiations by Mr. Taggart. way at the southern fairway. The Daychological explanation of the annual cost of the Imperial naval George Gibb should come to the The promoters, were fortunate in junk was struck on the port side. action taken by "the authority establishment ashore, at Singa- Colony to settle matters on the having, during the latter part of the and sank immediately. that be" (at present an unknown pure and what was the estimated spot. He arrived in January last negotiations, the presence of Sir The steersman claims to have person; may he ever remain so).

Paychology teaches us that naval base-is completed.

cost thereof when the proposed and after protracted negotiations George Gibb in the Colony, a gen- been rescued by an Indian con- he and Mr. Taggart signed a pro- tleman of wide experience and high stable travelling in a small boat, many grown-ups rejoice in giving

whilst a launch also assisted in The First Lord of the Ad-visional "agreement embodying starling in business circles. free-play to that self-assertive miralty, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, most of the terms that are set out Government has been ably re- rescue work, but he did not know instinct which is such a common replied that at present there was in the resolution. The Govern presented from the earliest stage of whether all had been saved."

only a commercial dockyard, at ment was not a party to this the negotiations by Mr. Fletcher Without intending to cast a slur Singapore. The only purely Ad agreement as it was not prepared whose ability and tact have tended on anyone I offer this explanation miralty establishment there was definitely to commit the Colony in no small measure to bring matters with the hope that it may open the oil fuel depot, but a beginning without the consent of the Legis. to a satisfactory, conclusion. the eyes of the person concerned was being made with the naval

lative Council. The Government and lead him to adopt a more con- base works. The cost of the has been in close touch in this cillatory attitude,

future establishment would de matter with the two Chambers of pend on the final scale of develop

Commerce who have concurred in ment which was still being considered."

Hongkong, May 20.

"Bathing Scandal."

feature of little children.

Yours, etc.,

"PSYCHOANALYST.”

Hongkong, May 20.

University Examinations,

(To the Editor of the China Mail).

Sir,When she undergraduate enters the third M.B., 8.S., he is examined in all sections of subjects balonging to a particular branch, be it Surgery of Medicine and cot

QUESTIONS CONCERNING

SINGAPORE.

BREAKERS AHEAD 7.

LATEST HOME WAGES TROUBLE.

(Reuter's Serviss.)

LONDON, May 21,

In sections of subjecte as imagined. A conference of the engineering

the "-prospective; Doctor

bakTrade Unions of London kup

examined, in subjects the course, mously, pas

of which extends over two-years,

afok of what is exe foran lacrosse in wages on Tsupposed to basis suggested in the emplo Studied during bla

socording to

the arrangements which have been provisionally made and in the terms of this resolution, and I now propose to go through such

of its terms as require explana

$320,000 AWARD

BIG WILL CASE NOW

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