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The banns of marriages are published of Mr. Justice J. R. Wood and Miss Gladys Frances Kember of No. 153, the Peak.
The engagement is announced of Miss Rose Edkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Edkins, to Lieut. A. D. Nicholl, of H.M.S. Biucbell.
The s.s. Pyrrhus, Blue Funnel line, arrived in port on September 1st with the English mail of July 28th. She did the voyage from Liverpool to Hongkong in thirty-three days.
The Bishop of Victoria (Dr. Duppuy) returned to Hongkong on August 29th, after an absence of two months on tour of his extensive diocese, which
extends to Yuncanfu.
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The South Staffords go from Singapore to Maymyo relieving the 2nd K.O.R. (Lancasters) Regiment, while the 2nd Wilts go from Hongkong to Bangalore in the Spring relieving the 2nd Dorseta.
Rural building, lot No. 175, adjoining Villa Miramere, Pokfulum, having an area of 37,100 sq. ft., was sold, this week, The to Mr. E. T. H. Bunje for $4,800.
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upset price was $2,226, or 6 cents a sq. ft. No fewer than fourteen lots of Crown
four land
lots (including the which the old Post Office and Supreme Court stand) are advertised for sale by auction. Six of these are on Mount Davis.
Announcement was made on Sept. 1st of the appointment of Mr. J. H. Taggart as Managing Director of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.; of Mr. H. N. Beau- repaire as Secretary; and Mr. E. W. Alderson as Sub-manager.
The King held an Investiture at Buck- Amongst ingham Palace on July 19th. those introduced into the presence of the Sovereign was Sir Charles Addis, who received a Knight Commandership of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
The financial statement of the Colony for the month of May, published in the current Gazette, shows a revenue for the month of $1,484,925.43 and an expendi- ture of $963.561.46. The balance of assets over liabilities is given as $5,573,420.44.
A very desirable public improvement is foreshadowed in the Government Gazette by a call for tenders for the construction of a reinforced concrete public pier, 160 feet 8 inches long by 41 feet 4 inches wide, and approach at Queen's Statue Square. Following the seizure by the police of a revolver and 48 rounds of ammunition, a European named Sydney Spalding, living at No. 6, Observatory Villas, was arrested by the police but was after- wards found to need hospital treatment. in the Government Civil He is now Hospital.
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Mr. John J. Gorman, manager in the Far East of the Admiral Line, was passenger by the s.s. Keystone State. Mr. Gorman is on a visit to the Com- pany's agencies at Hongkong and Manila and will return to Seattle on the same steamer. Mr. Geo. A. Heyburn, assist- ant, manager, will be in charge during the absence of Mr. Gorman.
It will interest old Hongkong residents to know that among those mentioned as possible successors of Mr. Crane as United States Minister to China was Dr. Stuart Thomson. A New Jersey paper
says:
"Dr.
Thomson was formerly manager at Hongkong, China, of the Pacific Mail and Toyo Kisen Kaisha Trans-Pacific Steamship Company's office, in which position he succeeded the Far East veteran, John Sheffield Van Buren, nephew of President Van Buren.”
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &
Improvements at Government House for which tenders are being invited in- clude the erection, on the site of the existing stables and outbuildings, of a garage, laundry and custodian's quarters, and the forming of a new carriage drive involving alterations to the eastern entrance.
Ten robbers, armed with rifles and re- volvers, broke into the Kwong Wo Yuen grocery shop, in Leungshanwan village, Saikung district, on the night of Aug.25th. They stole a large quantity of clothing, jewellery, money and provisions, and took away with them the proprieter, and his son, whom they are holding for ransom.
To mark the anniversary of the birth- day of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, the Consul-General for the "at home" at the Nederlands held an Holland Club, on August 31st. H.E. the Governor and the Colonial Secretary were represented and the foreign consuls and a large number of the Colony's Dutch residents attended.
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[September 3rd, 1921. Many friends of the Rev. Charles Bone, who for seventeen years was the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Wanchai, will regret to read the an- nouncement of the death, in England, of It is a little Mrs. Bone, on August 26th.
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two
one
more than five years since they left the Colony. At present their three married daughters are all in England. leave from Hongkong and from West Africa. The only sur- is with Messrs. Butterfield viving son & Swire in Shanghai, the younger son Much having been killed in the war. sympathy will be felt with the husband and family in the loss they have sus- tained.
Association
The
new Sharebrokers' formed by the "outside brokers" was when inaugurated, on September 1st, there was a gathering of brokers and investors at the offices of the Association in Ice House Street to launch the Association in the customary way with Mr. A. wishes for a successful career. H. Carroll, who has been one of the moving spirits in organising this Asso- ciation, explained that the membership of the Hongkong Sockbrokers' Associa- ion was severely restricted and a desire
ers for the formation of another Asso-
The desire was ciation.
now fulfilled, and he was glad to be able to announce that the new Association was supported by some of the largest investors and speculators in the Colony. The Associa- Revised rates of postage on parcels tion would meet at the same hour as the that there would no posted in Hongkong to various parts of older body, so the world came into force on Sep- possibility of cribbing" quotations. tember 1st. A list occupying a couple The Association intended in the near of pages appears in the Government future to include in its list many stocks Gazette. The rates to the United King-especially Chinese Bank stocks-not at dom are not affected by the revision, but present quoted on the local exchange.
number of British the list includes a Colonies and possessions in Africa and America.
A small railway platform is being built at Ho Mun Tin and we understand that, from the 16th inst., two trains in the morning at 8.15 and 9.00-and two in had long existed among the outside brok the evening-from Kowloon at 5.27 and 7.09-will stop at this halt. Residents at Ho Mun Tin express themselves as highly gratified by this consideration on the part of the Railway Administration.
A bathing party had a gruesome ex- perience in Junk Bay a few days ago. While the bathers were in the water they observed a dead body rise to the surface. It was the truncated body of a European which bore indications of having been in the water many days. Evidently the man had been drowned while bathing, as the body was covered with a bathing dress. No report had been made to the police of any European being missing, and it is presumed that the body is that of a sailor from a vessel who may have been taking a lonely swim and lost his life unobserved by any one, and his dis- appearance from the ship may have been regarded perhaps at the time as deser- tion.”
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The newly-formed Society Protection of Mui Tsais, held a meeting in the hall of the Tung Wah Hospital
August 27th
the under
chair- manship of the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak. There was an attendance of about 200 interested Chinese gentlemen, the majo- rity of whom were members. On the Chairman's suggestion, the membership fee was fixed at $2. It was decided that an annual subscription was unnecessary because whenever the Society needed money it could appeal to its members who would subscribe whatever amount was required. Office bearers were ap- pointed as follows:-Patrons: Hon. Mr Lau Chu-pak and Hon. Mr. Ho Fook: Chairman: Mr. Wing-kwong; Vice- Chairman: Mr. Kwok Shiu-lau: Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Simon Tse Yan and Hon. Secretary: Mr. Wong Kwong-tin. A Committee of thirty was annointed, in- cluding the committees of the Po Leung Kuk Tung Wah Hospital, and the Dis-
Committee. trict Watchmen
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MUI TSAI IN HONGKONG. ANOTHER QUESTION IN THE COMMONS.
In the House of Commons, on July 6th, Lord H. Cavendish-Bentinck asked the
ther he could give the names Secretary of State for the Colonies whe- of the Chinese ladies appointed to consider women and girls, especially the mui tsai, matters connected with the protection of in the Colony of Hongkong?
Mr. Wood: The information is not in my possession, but I will inquire of the Governor.
THE SANITARY BOARD.
PREVALENCE OF RABIES.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held, on August 30th, Mr. G. R. Sayer presiding. There were also present: The Director of Public Works (the Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins), Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Dr. Graca Ozorio, Mr. Chow Shou-sen, and the Secretary, (Mr. C. M. W. Reynolds).
Beyond business of a routine character, the only item of interest was a discussion concerning the prevalence of rabies, in regard to which the procedure of noti- fication of such cases or suspected cases was dealth with. It was mentioned that, a dog recently, suspecting it of rabies owner shot his dog through the brain. This made it difficult for the bacteriolo- gist, as it was necessary to an examina- tion for suspected rabies that the brain should be left intact. Dogs suspected of com-suffering from rabies should be handed mittee of seven to draw un the constitu- over to the Police and killed by shooting tion of the Society was also appointed. though the chest.
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