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TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1927.

NOTES NO GOOD.

WATER CO. AND FOREIGN ACCOUNTS.

REFUSING CENTRAL BANK BILLS

The "Central China Post" of July. 10 contains the following interest- Ing article on the position of the Hankow Waterworks Electric Light

which read as follows:-

Notice,

FINED BY P.W.D.

COURT USED AS A COLLECTOR.

DECISION RESERVED.

his

£10.000, MAIL-BAG.

VANISHES BETWEEN CARDIFF AND LONDON.

MISSING FROM EXPRESS.

Four registered packages con- tafting Treasury notes to the value

THE CHINA MAIL.

*PLUGSTREET.”

LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE

TABLET UNVEILED.

'GENTLEMEN OF BLACK BUTTONS'

Brussels. Three hundred and fifty officers of £10.000 were among the contents and other ranks of the London of a mail-bag which was lost in Rifle Brigade (5th City of Lon-

London.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL_” ·

Entertainments.

1

July 26-Queen's Theatre; "The Sporting Chance."

July 26-World Theatre; "Sixty, Cents An Hour.”

"The Silent Rider."

July 26-Star Theatre, Kowloon;

July 20-Tea Dance, Cafe Res-

The Magistrate, Mr. R. E. Lind- sell, yesterday reserved decision in the case in which Mr. Company.

Li Tse-fong, builder, was sum- transit between Cardiff and London don Regiment) crossed the taurats Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Foreign consumers of water and moned by the P.W.D. for trespass in mail week and la belleved users of electric current were sur; in utilizing Crown land for setting have been atolen.

to Channel to see Lieut.-General Sir July 26-Isake's Circus, New Re- prised to receive A printed waste pipes.

The Treasury notes were being H. F. M. Wilson unveil & memor-clamation ground, Wanchai, 9.15. notice from the Hankow Water- Mr. A. E. Hall, who appeared sent by Lloyds Bank, Cardiff. teal to the regiment's war dead in m.

July 26-Entertainment of song works and Electric Light Company for the defence, said that the the head office of the bank in the cemetery at Ploegsteert-the

P.W.D. condoned this by the fact

Flanders village still remembered and dance by the J-Pans in Ben- men's Institute, 21 Praya East, 8.30 that the intake of water from aby the Great Western dining-car

The missing bag was despatched by thousands as. "Plugstreet." p.m. It is to our regret that at pre-spring, and the pipe-lines, were express for London which left officers and 1,831 non-commis- p.m.; Whist Drive, "Better 'Ole," The tablet commemorates 91 July 26-Concert, "Cheer O," 7.30 sent foreign trading firms are reconstructed on the suggestion of Cardlit at 6.37 p.m. This train fasioned officers, and riflemen who 7 p.m. fusing to accept bank-notes of Han-one of the Department's represen-timed to arrive at Paddington at were killed during the war. kow currency. As this company

July 27-Whist Drive, "Cheer has to pay for materials, especially tatives, and by the fact that it 3.40 p.m.

0," 7.30 p.m. Concert by Mobile The bag, one of a heap of 21, coal and oil, great difficulties are was not until four months later

Concert Party, Shamshuipo Camp,| experienced in obtaining Shanghai that action was taken by the De-war placed in the mail van of the After the tablet in the London 7.30 p.m. money or silver dollars. In view partment. Then a fine of $50 was train at Cardiff Station by postal Rifle Brigade Cemetery here July 28-Informal Dance, "Cheer of the above fact, this company is imposed, and a condition was officiala. The van was locked, and consecrated by the Bishop of Lon-9," 7 p.m. Sing Song and Singing unwillingly compelled to request made for the payment of this was opened for a few minutes only don in 1915 had been unveiled Competition, "Better Ole Con- their foreign consumers that as penalty before the encroachment at Newport and Swindon, when by Sir H. F. M. Wilson, who com cert by "J-Pans," from this month (June), their bills was legalised.

Rope Factory, other mails were added to the manded the 4th Division in 1914, July 20-Concert, at "Cheer '0,"

7.15 p.m. for water and electricity be paid in silver dollars or such bank-notes as P.W.D. had usurped the powers Cardiff and London was at Read-said in the

Counsel suggested that the pile.

Earl Cairns, who commanded the p.m., . "Better Ole," 7 p.m. The only other stop between regiment at the outbreak of war: they would receive from us.

July 20-Grand Concert, City of a Magistrate in imposing a fine. ing, but no mails were taken

course of a brief Hall, Gao p.m. ***Meaning of "Fine.”

there and the van was therefore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith (Assist- not opened at Reading.

The Hankow Waterworks and

Electric Light Co, Lir.

Hankow, June, 1027.

071

While we have a certain amount ant Crown Solicitor) appearing Paddington the bag in question On the arrival of the train at of sympathy for the management for the P.W.D., denied that the was missing, and since then every and shareholders of the Waterworks Department was usurping the effort to trace it has failed. Company, we cannot, but feel that Magistrate's powers in imposing

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the courage they have now muster-the penalty, which was merely are known as "final" bags, which The missing bag was one of what ed to express the suggestion that the currency of their Government made a condition before the work are tied with pink labels to dis is not as good as foreign money, has could be permitted. There had tinguish them.

Postal officials.say! been much too tardy be of any been too many of these breaches, there were three of these in the value.

and some action had to be taken, train when it left Cardiff. He produced Stroud's legal die- tionary and expounded that the

When the contents of the van word "fine," apart from its strict were checked at Paddington and meaning, had a meaning also akin only two pink-label Cardiff bags were found immediate inquiries were telephoned to the South Wales

Where is all the Silver?

It probably is n-source of regret to many besides the management of the Waterworks, that foreign firms

BS

to "premium."

Thief's Opportunity.

refuse to accept the banknotes of the Central China Bank, and their circular evidences they are

His Worship said that it was city, and meanwhile the train was beginning to realise the fact that only when the defendant refused searched from end to end. Cardiff if goods have to be purchased to pay the $50 that this summons was emphatic that the bag was abroad. or outside the sphere in was taken before the Court. pinced in the train, and all sub- which a Government has the power "What else does that menn," his sequent inquiries have confirmed to enforce its exactions, such goods Worship said, "than asking this them. must be paid for in real money, and Court to act as a lever for the unless such goods are sold for

trade no matter of, what

in of each other's washing." or they

are compelled to fall back to

primitive state of exchange

and

The officiala ineline to the belief

address:

Ploegsteert.

Lammert's Auctions. July 28 Valuable household furniture at No. 9 Queen's Garden (ground floor), 245 p.m.

The 1st Battalion was treat- ed with the greatest kindness and consideration by the in-

August 4-5-Household furniture, habitants of this little town. I pictures, curios, etc., of the late can recall actions which, after Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, No. 6, Peak all these years, are still sur Road, 11 a.m. prising in their generosity. If September 15- Valuable that spirit still lives, as I be-perties in the New Territories, at lieved it does, those who lie here Messrs. Lummeris' Sales Room, 8, are assured of respect and re- Duddell Street, 3 p.m. Meetings. cognition for all time-not only in London, but also here in Belgium,

pro-

July 26--Sanitary Bourd Meet- ing, 4.15 p.m.

July 29-Annual meeting of mem-. bers of the Peak Club, at the' Club,

And I like to picture future generations taking their even-6 p.m. ing walks along the rond which bounds our cemetery, and pointing as they pass to this gate, with the words, "There sleep the gentlemen of the Black Buttons."

Ypres.

barter, Coal and oil not forming NEW TOKYO HOTEL,bag may have been snatched when Capt. G. J. C. Dycett.

part of the products of Hankow, there in no possibility of the Com-) pany exchanging their water and current for these essential pro- ducts. Hence even this system would break down in the ease under review. Whoever was responsible

SEVEN STOREY STRUCTURE BEING PLANNED.

turned for a

·

NOTICES.

THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON

EXTRAORDINARY

money of an equivalent value, then Payment of this fine imposed by that the bag went astray or was The Cross of Sacrifice and TAXICAB COMPANY, LIMITED. there speedily comes an end to all the F.W.D. It is obviously an im-stolen either at Cardi or Pad- Memorial, a monument to the

T AN Those within the aphere may live affect all other cases of this na- where a thief would have the best men of the British Empire who embers of the above-named Com- nature, portant point which will also dington. It is at these two places memory of the $5,000 officers and A GENERAL MEETING of the for a time by the proverbial "taking ture. I want time to consider."

opportunities.

fell in the later actions in the There are always several postal Ypres. Salient and have no known Des

jpany duly convened and held at and railway men superintending

Vœux Road Central, оп the despatch of the mails at Cardiff, graves, was unveiled in Tyne Cot TUESDAY, the 5th day of July, but it is quite possible that the

Cemetery, Passchendaele, by 1927, the following Extraordinary Resolutions were duly passed; and their backs were

The Tyne Cut Cemetery lies at a Second Extraordinary Meet- moment.

just under the crest of the Pasa-ing, duly convened and held at the At Paddington the bags are chendaele Ridge, an objective of same place on WEDNESDAY, the checked as they are taken out of the fighting in 1917. The nucleus 20th day of July, 1927, were duly There is a scheme on hand for the mail van; and it was during of the cemetery is a few battle confirmed as Special Resolutions, for the drafting of this circular iding a hotel on a grand scale tons was discovered. It is declared of several iron-concrete block 1-That the Company be wound up

this checking process that the graves lying round the highest viz has perhaps unconsciously express-

in front of Tokyo Station, or on that the ed the foundation of the whole the site adjacent to the Kaijo sight for a moment at Paddington.

bags are never out of houses. trouble when he or they state that Building. The Japan Tourist

A stone platform has been "great difficulties are experienced Bureau is the sponsor, and is letters are stated to form part of house and on the top has been A number of cheques and other built round and over the block obtaining silver money or ardently supported by the Rail- the contents of the missing bug. dollars.

The question that should way Department and other in- be asked is, what has become of fluential persons,

erected the War Cross, with the the silver and the dollars. People

"It will be recalled that in Octo-War Stone in the centre. On the do not ent silver, and dollars do not According to the plan the hotel, ber 1925, Treasury notes to the Stone are inscribed the words: disappear into thin air of their own which is to be capitalised at value of £6,000 were stolen in tran-Their Name Liveth for Ever- volition. Even the wild assumption Y.12,000,000, is to be of seven sit by railway from a mail-bag more.": that military expenses have been storeys and built of fireproof between Snow Hill Station, Bir- In the wall are panels inscribed paid in dollars, and that every sol- ferro-concrete, with 2,500 tsubo mouthshire.

mingham, and

Newport, Mon-with the names of the 35,000 off-| dier has received all the pay due floor space and 750 rooms, each in packages of 2500 each, were Ypres battlefields, supplementing The notes, made uplcers and men who fell on the to him in silver, does not account with a bathroom, on a site cover-handed over in two parcels at the those inscribed on the Menin Gate THE HONG KONG & KOWLOON for the curious disappearance; sol-ing 2,789 tsubo. It will accom- General diers do not eat dollars any more modate 1,000 guests. The hotel by a local bank.

Post Office, Birmingham, at Ypres. A smaller semi-circular TAXICAB COMPANY, LIMITED. than other people, and

therefore is also to the silver must be in

The mail-bag apse is consecrated to the New existence

be equipped with vanished between its arrival somewhere in the country, The Turkish and Russian bathrooms, Snow Hill Station and the exami-

at Zealand dead. question for the management of the grill room, dance hall, music nation of the mails at Newport, Waterworks and similar organisa- hall, and various other chambers, when it was found that another tions who find themselves in the and a grand banqueting hall to bag had been substituted. same dilemma is where is the much hold 2,000 people. needed aliver?

in

**

Previous Mail Thefts.

voluntarily. 2-That John Fleming, C.A. and H. R. M. Cleland, C.A., both of Lowe, Bingham and Matthewa be, and are hereby appointed Liquidators to act either joint-

ly or severally for the purpose of such winding up. Dated this 21st day of July, 1927.

N. CROUCHER,

Chairman.

N Pursuant to Section 181 of

In February last year a mail- HONG KONG RADIO. that a Meeting of the Creditors of The hotel charge so far fixed bag with £2,000 in notes was miss- ed from a train while in transit

Are Chinese Approached? is from Y.4.50 up to Y.40. The from Bradford to Manchester. In By what process of reasoning the directors of the Waterworks arrive owner of the site is the Mitsubishi this case, also, the notes had been at the conclusion that it is easter Company, which is likewise an despatched by a bank.

for their foreign consumers to ob- enthusiastic supporter of the

tain silver money than it is for scheme.

FIRMS PLEASE NOTE!

the Chinese consumers the circular) does not disclose. If it did, the majority of foreign consumers would have heartily welcomed its appearance, and we suggest that further circular be issued contain- ing the necessary information. In

Even a journalist's life has its which case there is no doubt but pleasant little interludes, as, for that foreign consumers will not instance, when, accompanying the

Says the "North China Daily JAPANESE ATTEMPT WITH Newg"

era particularly the various Goy- ernment departments who are

lavish users of electricity, and in

too.

this hot weather possibly of water Makes the Currency Good,

no small recommendation.

The

HARI-KIRI.

PEN KNIVES.

Manila, July 20.

(In Liquidation)

TQTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

the Companies Ordinances. 1911

the HONG KONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Offices of the Liquidatore, 3 Queen's Road Con- tral, Hong Kong, on THURSDAY, The "Manila Bulletin" of July the 18th day of August, 1927, at 22, announcing the new radio 12 noon for the purposes provided service between Hong Kong and for in the said Section.

THE NEW PHILIPPINES

SERVICE

the Philippine Islands, says:

The management of the Radio Corporation of the Philippines said last night that beginning at 7.80 a.m. to-morrow, June 23, it will open

a commercial radio

Dated this 25th day of July, 1927.

JOHN FLEMING,

H. R. M. CLELAND,

Joint Liquidators.

AND

only cheerfully pay in the currency compliments of Meners. F. W. Ham-penter living at 315 Calle Eldorado, Kong. The circuit will be oper-

Masanobo Kono, Japanese car-telegraph service with Hong IN THE MATTER OF THE COM-

PANIES ORDINANCES 1911 requested, but will in addition, cele-mond & Co., 24 The Bund, there Quiapo, made brate their accession to knowledge arrived a bottle of Young's Gold attempt to commit hara-kiri early Government post office authorities IN THE MATTER OF THE HONG

an unsuccessful ated in collaboration with the by & display of illumination which Medal Mountain Dew whiskey, for yesterday morning, and na a result: will be of material benefit to the which the claim is put forward that now confined in the Philippine Company. As it is not the foreign- it is "Scotland's Oldest," in itself General Hospital suffering from a rate per word "via RCP" will be

In the British Colony. The full KONG AND KOWLOON TAXICAB

COMPANY LIMITED. ers who are responsible for the fact woman's Page" bespoke the hand severe wound in his abdomen and 128 centavos, which is a substan-THE CREDITORS of the above- that Shangbai and other places re- fuse to accept Hankow paper cur- some square bottle, when available, another in his neck. His condition tial reduction in the existing rency, it would be pertinent to ask, for a dressing table ornament, and is. serious, but complete recovery telegraphic rate. Deferred mes on or before the 18th day of Sep- named Company are required, why the circular particularly speel- promptly secured it. The contents is almost certain, according to the sages will be accepted at one tember 1927, to send their names fies foreign consumers, and whe- otherwise were disposed of and, at attending physicians.

half of the full rate. ther the same circular has been dis- the dute of writing, do not

and addressca, and the particulars con-l Kono made the attempt while patchert to their Chinese consum-tradict all that is claimed for them. Bested in his automobile, parked be accepted at the city office of names and addresses

Messages for Hong Kong will of their debts or claims, and the in front of a small garage at 315 Radio Corporation of the Philip Solleitors (if any), to the under- of their BURNED IN DOCK YARD.

Calle Regidor. He employed the use of two pen-knives, using one in pines at 25, Plaza Moraga, which signed, of No. 3, Queen's Road A Chinese from the Taikoo dock each hand, with which he slash is open at all hours. Traffic "via Central, the Liquidators of the yard has been admitted to the Goved himself wildly. The wound in RCP" to Hong Kong will be re-sald Company, and, if so required, The relative proportion of coal from severe burns to the right side Incheong, while the one in his the radio telegraph section of the Liquidators, are, by their Solici ernment Civil Hospital suffering his abdomen was two and one half celved in and distributed from by notice in writing from the said and oil consumed. to the volume of of his head caused the acht side neck narrowly missed severing the Government post office situated in tors, or personally, to come in and water and current produced is ing on him whilst working on the jugular vein. small one.

the heart of the business district such time and place as shall be prove their 'said debts or claims at The items which figure largely on the expense side of the 8.8. Seang Bee" which

Despondency over ill-health is on the Bund. Preliminary tests specified in such notice, or in de- belleved to have been the motive of the facilities indicate that high fault thereof they will be exclud- Company's ledger, are the wages of repair. employees and taxes, and it is quite

A Sugar Refinery worker has been for Kone's attempted suicide. Ac speed conditions will obtain for a ed from the benefit of any dis- certain that none of these have to removed to hospital auffering from cording to his friends, he has been great portion of the time between tribution made before such debts

to a crushed toe.

ill for two weeks. The fact that he attempted to take his own life Hong Kong and Manila,

are proved. the Company one, the chief, wae dis-

was not a surprise to his neigh-Pacific circuit, the RCP will As in the case of its trans- missed by order of the Waterworks' Coolles Union, without compensa- Government and people here. They K. Kuju, a neighbour, who happen- and reception in the Hong Kong Kono was found at 6.50 a.m. by employ automatic transmission tion or consideration of the fact that must make that currency good. two-thirds of his contract period There will be no hesitation on the ed to be passing the car in which circuit. Every endeavour will be of service was unexpired. Even part of tradere of any nationality to he had attempted to kill himself. made to provide a thoroughly first had this gentleman's services been exchange their goods for Hankow He was in an unsconcious condi- class service on this, its first retained up to the present time- currency once the fact is demon-tion and a pen-knife was clasped inter-Oriental circuit, by the there was no stipulation in his con- strated that there is sufficient me in each of his hands.

local radio concern, which in tract to the contrary-there is little tal under the control of the bank The attempted suicide is doubt but that salary that issues the notes to meet the years of age, single, and a native cisco during the past month has $1 actual operation with San Fran would have been pald

in normal demands of ordinary bank of Fugusima, Japan. the currency in forea ating usage. Till that time trade

completely dispelled the old bogey this centre. The remedy does not will only droop and wilt under the We are sick of the women's of mutilation and delay on He in asking foreigners to pay in difficulty which the Waterworks is question-Miss Margery Fry, radiographs which has existed for a different currency, it lies with the but one, in facing here.,

Principal of Somerville College, some years in Manila.

be paid in foreign money. Of two

foreigners who were employed by

his

is under

bours.

Dated this 26th day of July, 1927. JOHN FLEMING, CA.,

H. R. M. CLELAND, CIA.,

Joint Liquidators.

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