SOARING SUGAR. EXPLANATION OF THE PRESENT POSITION.
An unprecedented rise in the price of both refined and raw stigar sold in Hoog keng, and the extreme diffiehlty being ex-
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 24TH, 1919.
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CANTON NEWS..
THE CIVIL GOVERNOUSHIP.
July 23rd.
Somebody in Tattersall's ring sought to impart consolation by chalking up on a board The winner of the St., Leger, It is stated that now candidates for the 11. will be The Panther. There n Civil Governorship are being daily recom- At the time of writing the Labouruthers, however, who are inclined to think eaded to the Administrative-Directors of
Government. it may be Buchan,"
1. Major Astor's the Military
Chan Lim-pak, the compradore of the ruent in France threatens a general Strike ona semli which is spoken of as th.. horse, which very narrowly missed win Shanghai Bank in Shameen, who has been ning both the Two Thousand Guinens and
strongly recommended for the post, has, perienced by househunts is laying in Pegishing of a social revolution. All the the. Derby. But, after the inglarious it is runoured, gone
to Hongkong in deteng of the elect of the racing prophets | order to avoid being appointed.
the rby, and the scarcely Tess Lung Kin-chang the ex-Governor of
by Kweichow, who is largely supported, is sensational defeat of "Rosenay
Basuda," an outsider. in the Oaks, the expected to be successful, as he has had a
of emptation will not be great to consider deal
int Political the pee won before it is ruu
committies Which participated in the war stocks of reflash sugar, prompted enquiry ive had their Labour diffentin to pon. as to the state of the market from Me. Č.jrand with, and in a country are we ever „B. Brooke, of Moses, Poutreach & 46, Į likely to hear the last of thin. A social revolution has sec in all the world over. : the the largest dealers in raw suZIE
and is simply a question as to whether it is to develop sunthly and penerably Colony.
Fur through convulsions and economic Mr. Brookes informed our representative catastrophy to an end that no man can that, although the price of sugar pur foresen, It begins everywhere with the alemand for higher wages at shorter ghasol in dasa, just before the Armistice, hours of labour This turns that the was no low as 3 guilders (approximately | higher cost of living, which the great war $2.500 a piqul, it had been stenthly rising has every where entailed, becomes perman- owing to the heasy demand for the Eurent, amb this in itself will Remme 12-
staht cause of discontent.
At the mutual, the United Kingdom is singularly free of strikes, bus Labour un rest is here all the same.
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will experience, and his favoured by the the authorities. lenders, on the other hand, Among the holiday attractions at Whit
that appointment must untide, we has had an air race at have
Al passenger recrive their sanction, otherwise they Hendon Aerodrome.
intrud taking measures to secure their fights in aeroplanes at fares from a
far from settled guinea upwards. When Hawke, after ds. The question
THREATENED
ÁTTAČK UN KWANOSI his return from his Atlantic experience.
In connection with the rumour that went to Hendur. a young North Country Tong Kai-yow. Tuchun of Yusnan, has Tady paid as much as aty guinens for threatened to attack Kwangsi the privilege of being the first to make a General Luk Wing ting's desire sidered it the bevel of the local market
short flight with him. Long before this clude a separate pray with the Peking that it is reported letter reaches Hongkong we shall see a Government), wis lowong and $12 per pleat manship and timely recognition of the revival of the Aerial borby, or air-race Tong has really sent a large army with two artillery regiments to the Kwangsi Between the end of Junk and July 18th. Fart that the douends of bear will have around London, for prizes valued at ove
General Luk is busity engaged however, there was a jump in the focal the sympathetically considerered and 1 The 1911 course covered a disorders.
me go the fullest posible extent, have tange of approximately 3 miles, within military affairs in Kwangsi, the object market, the perigo of Paw engar being t
served. lowers to check the activity of is turning points. This course is to be of which is kept secret. ute timur 826 ver per picul.
strike leases for the present. A week retained in the coming race, but, owing TSHANGWAL CONFERENCE.
The Peking Cabinet has derided to Asking to what he attributed the sand a great strike of Folies throughout to the improvements in the speed of air appoint Chin Nanz-fan chief of the the entry was threatened, but, happily, craft during the war period, the course Northern peace delegates to the Shanghai den" rise. Mr. Brooke replied that their did not take places The Geveransere now to over a double circuit, making the Conference, and orders have been given chief mason was local speculative busing ļaununerd the fact that a Commitare, distaner approximately 100 ruites. It is to the ether envoys to return to Shanghai by the Chinese and the Japanese, especial i wkien hail,burn evnsidering the grievances expected that the speel of this year's as soon as possible, The demands of the Southerners, which were rejected by the the_the_latter, who for reasons of of the Bulice, bad recommended a subsinnge will be at least 150 miles an hratt. shes) nan, purchiad enormous stock, an stantial inerer of pay, and this unit may be interest to add-that-a-Peking Government, are to be revized. that there was a tal senreity.
gomerieur was accompanied by a Erm plane and flying-boat fights between Eng Refined sugar sold locally. Mr. Brook intimation that all policemen going on and and Heliand, as well as between sant, always remained at between and strike would thereby dismiss themselves England and France or Helgina, are 1 A FIREMAN'S DERELICTION. 8 ore than the print of raw sugar, but from the Force and forfeit all claims tooming relatively common. A few days.
ago Dutch seaplanes made the flight tor sharp was the rise on or about July pension. The Government refused to re
the first time to British shores. They 14th, that it was actually possible the purvognise the Belice Union, and has in- chase suge refinest by the China Sugar Linated chat when other arrangements arrived at Felixstowe for the purpose of Refinery and the Taikoo Sugar Refinery now in contemplation, for communicating taking back to Holland two medical at 82 less than the price at which raw the grievances of members of the Force offers who had been visiting this country
rould be purchased.
are brought into operation, au member of to investigate the British systems of As the To-day the price of raw sugar has the Force will be allowed to belong to medical examination of pilot covered somewhat, and it new stands at ani of the character of the present Dutch seaplanes were not equipped with about $20 per pient: This is due, perhapa, de the Eaw that the Japanese have stopped
wireless a British flying at escorted laying in stocks. As tor refined sugar, it
them back as far as Scheviningen. Both is difficult to purchase stocks even at pres
to and return journeys becupiert one hour and fifty-five minutes, and through. sent prices. The local price is 2 odda, picul and the refiners will not quote
out the whole trip the British flying-box: was in wireless communication with its owing to the uncertainty of the market,
Most of the sugar which comes to this
base at Felikstowe. Colony is from Java, and shipments are
"Police Enton
The latest developement in the British Labour World is a union of insurance officials, which looks forward to a possible federation of brainworkers on trade- anion lines. The Chairman of the first confereare of the Guild of Insurance Officials espressed" the hope that ocials in banks, shipping and insurance ofhces, and kindred organisations would weld
A GARDEN CITY BY THE THAMES.
A scheme which will mark one of the
PUNISHED BY THE MARINE'
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at the Marine Court, yesterday, be- lore Captain Basil Taylour, R.N.. Thomas McGill fireman of the wa War Sepoy, was changed, at the instance of Linat. Madie, of the Royal Naval Yard, with having wilfully and negligently remained in the Colony after the departure of his strainer, on or about July 12th. “a
Lieut. Madie, Naval Transport Officer,
said the master of the Fir Sepoy had rn- ported that the defendant had deserted The Master had had trouble of a similar
urt with one or two of his bands.
The defendant, who pleaded guilty said
arriving regularly. There has been a rithemselves into dar gren: movement with most advanced and courageous steps in the had no intention of leaving the ship. in the price in Javw owing to very strong demand in Europe, but the local the object of keeping their footing in municipal housing is about to be urter. The taken by the Hammersmith Borough
the economic life of the country."
He was given permission to go ashore on Friday night. July 11th. He spent the advance has not been in the same proper business of the first conference of the Council.. The plan agreed upon invol night at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, For instance, when the price in Guild of Insurance Officia's. however, was the reconstruction of practically the whole I and knowing the steamer, was wiling in
tion
Java was 30 guilders (80) the local prier was $5.00, though the cost of getting picul of sugne, here is only $1
In answer to the enquiry as to how long the price was likely to keep at its present height, Mr. Brooke said he would rather "not venture an opinion. It was widely
a butter of supply and demand. Pusition was exactly the same as in the vice niarket. Speculative huxing caused the shortage und ns. soon as the present unusual depiand-mostly by Japanese crases the price will drop.
The
EPIDEMIC OF_STABBING,
SEVERAL CASES REPORTED. An epideinie i stabbing appears to be aweeping over the Chinese inhabitants of "the Colony, for daring the last two days sotne twelve cases have been reported to theulier. The latest incidents are as follows:--
reasonably invited to subscribe n least the difference between the present cost of our and materials and that existing before the wax!
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the morning, asked the "boy" to wake
him at 6 am. Instead, the "boy" woke him at a.m., by which time the steamer had left.
...The defendant admitted that be had een absent without leave on two pera-
SCOPE,
Cant. Tarlour said that had it not been for this admission he would live dealt with the defendant leniently. He "fined defendant bro days' pay and sectented him to four weeks' hurd labour."
COURTESY TO THE PRESS
confited to passing a resolution in favour riverside front from Fulham to Chiswick of a mininium wage and the fair treas and the reclamation of a large and over
crowded area from fum conditions to the of men returning from the Front.
This reference to the men returning the of a comminal "model" town. An
Capt. Taylour. read a letter from the from the war reminds me of an important esplanade is to be constructed for the Captain of the Bar Seo saying that liuth statement which has just been made length of nearly a mile along the Thames the defendant had absented himself from by the Minister of Labour in connection side starting from Hammersmith Brid the steamer without leave several times with the decision of the Governmeas to ge. Faħda for carrying out the schrtarhile the steamer was in port. extend the period of the unemployment are at present ar the stage of negotiation donation "to discharged ca-Service men. The land affected is, in the main, private and to mobile members of the women'sly owned, some of it belonging to certain corps attached to the fighting services. of the City companies, who have readily At practically concerna 100.000 ex-Service mat the borough authorities in furthering Fien who have not been re-absorbed into the scheme. It is being suggested to the industry. Sir Robert Horne stared that | Government that the riverside undertaking these 400 400 ex-Service men are 10 per will form a very large work, for the n cont. of the total number of discharged | sorption of enemployed labour. towards soldiers and sailure. That is to say, which the Local Government Board might per cent. have found employment and are back again in the ranks of industry. This, ins the Daily Telegraph rightly observes, is no mean achievement, and it shows that the employing classes have honourably kept their word. Of the 10 per cent, who are doy yes in employmen, it is pointed A maid servant. of 22. Wing Kat Street, out that a considerable proportion of them Komplained to the Police that at about are suffering from disabilit--eome ser p.m. on July 2nd a Chinese man, un-ious, ethers not so serious, but placing known to her, came to the house and in then al at a marked disadvantage with vited her mistress to accompany him in rival applicants for work. This is a He a friend who had come down from special proble.ar of its own, and the Canton. Believing the man, the mistress, Government ave arranging that a cer ompanied him to a house in Chitain proportion of partially disabled Long Street, where they were met on men shall be provided with employment II. C. Sandford........ „Abe - staircase by another man, who im- in each trade On the whole, there is Hon. Mr E. V. D. Parr medinely seized hold of her and robbed risson be well satisfied with the pro-H. B. L. Dowbigging... her of $25 and a pair of gaid hangles.gress which has been made in the United Wiil she attempted to cry out one of the Kingdom with the enormous task of gut. wem stabbed her in the abdomen with a ting back a peary contiitious dagger, inflicting a serious wound. The THE DERRY, men then disappeared. Complainant in- formed the Police, and they removed the injured woman to the Government Civil 10-pitil
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The Derby is a national institution that He Kem Tong interests the averige man in the Colonier Wong Kam Fuk nearly as much as it interests the new Shop Son rage man at Home is not the Calcutta He Wing..... Swerp on the Derby, for instance, one To Se Tum of the biggest things of its kind in the Ho Lung..... Empire This year's Derby was gene Ho Ki
A Chinum street-coolie has been seng tot the Government Civil Hospital, suffering hom a cut wound in the neck, alleged trally described in the papers as The Chin Chau Sam, has been inflicted by another coalie, not Victory Derby." The King and Qacen1 Shiu Cheuk and other members of the Royal Family Leung Siu Tong gustody.
were there to witness the race, and the Kwan Ki Sang "A Chinese visitor to Hongkong, during attendance of the public was something u San Kwan the Peace Celebrations has reported to
like a record... Yet the raring experts. for Sze Yue Man the Police that while he was walking along weeks before, bad made up the winds fo lu Reclamation Street, un the evening of that there was only one horse which would M. K. Lo July 2nd, he was sûrrounded by six men, count in the race for the Blue Riband of Te Ka Po..... who stole a pocket-book from him, con the Turf.
That was Sir Alee Black's Teang lu Ting taining 89. When he resisted one of the horse The Panther.", winner of the Two Li Yeng Chi
men stabbed him in the back, necessitating Thousand Guineas. His success was Chan Fu Cheong bis removal to hospital
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len sent to the Kwang Wah, Hospital, suffering from two slight wounds on the aru. inflicted by her husband with a knife. The husband has absconded,
AL the Magistraży, yesterday. Я Chinese was charged with causing gric Yous bodily harm to another Chinese.
Sergt. Moore stated that the complain ant was stabbed during a fight between two gangs of nah-coolies.
Mr. E... Agassiz, un behalf of the defendant, applied for a remand. This was granted, hail,being fixed at $200.
garded as maris assured when, on the. Po Sang.... day before race, Major Aster's horse Wong Iu Tung.
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A married woon, aged 93 years, buLord Basit had to be scratched owing Li Chak Nam
to an injury to one of his legs. But to, the La Hon Ping intense dismay of his crowd of backers, Subscriptions from Swalni
The Panther came home nearly last G. H. Brangwin.... infeld of thirteen On coming out A. Macgowan The Panther got page fright. Pro. Robinson" sumably the great crow and the strange. M. Moorhead ness of his surroundings seriously, dia. D. Pitzipios turbed his equanimity before the raising J. M. Forbes of the tapes He got nway badly, and H. Grifin.... nover in the course of the race looked. Thornton "ke. winning. The victory of Lord V. A. Maunder
Glanely's Grand Parade" was as great G. Duncan Whyte a surprise as the failure of "The Pan J. H. P. Hance ther Lord Glanely ran two horses. B. D. Tisdali ........ "Grand Parade, some weeks before the J. A. Bloomfield At the Magistracy, yesterday, Chinese "war charged with wounding and evrat, had been strongly fancied by his M. E. Summers....
(owner and trainer for the Derby, but as J. C. Smith.... cutting another Chinese,
Defendant. who is believed to be in the events drew nearer confidence in him H. F. Wallace sene, was living with the injured man at an lost, and the hopes of the stable were A. R. Pollock West Point. While the injured man was transferred to "Dominion." which had H. Wood sleep on Tuesday night, defendant is recently won the New Market Stakes. The J. 8. Enright alleged to have nicked up a chopper and table jockey, A. Smith, rode "Domin-Anonymous attacked him. inflicting rather serious in-ion," while Templeton was given "Grand K. F. Lyle ...... “juries. The Police arrested the assailant Parade," which started at 3 to 1.
dispatched the injured man to bos Mr. Lindsell remanded the case.
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The S. E. McGrath, success of "Grand Parade" left the crowd A. Millar...... almost voiceless. They were too staggered A.. Darlington to cheer. Only once has the Derby (at Wm.-Faton
Topicist, of the Ningapore – Frét Preas, says he noted with a sad regret that a local contemporary appeared an- noyed because at the Chamber of Com merce dinner the Press representatives not allowed to feed out of the same Were trough as the members of the Chamber. But surely the protesters must admit that the horrid habit of all pressmen of wrap- ping up
the unconsumed portion of their teal in a newspaper, and pocketing it for future
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I don't know if it's bad or not." In all these things does the real instinct of the gentleman inevitably betray itself."
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At the Magistracy, yesterday, Chinees woman was produced to the third time by "Inspector Watt, on behalf of the Singapore authorities, who are applying for her extradition on a charge of absconding with stolen jewellery.
Inspector Walt asked for a further remand, as the extradition-papers had not arrived from Singapore.
Mr. Lindsell: Singapore seems to be £53.0 very dilatéry în sending things. ' In" the 550 last care the authorities there took over a 5. 3.0 month to send the papers.
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Mr. Lindsell remanded the case.
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Inspector Kent stated that complainant 1.0.0 was walking along Spring Garden Labe 1.0.0 with his sou when he was jostled by two 3 men, one of whom snatched the purse and passed it to his confederate. The purse was never found.
Defendant pleaded guilty, and also ad- mitted that he had been banished for
theft.
Mr. Lindsell rentenced defendant to a month's hard labour.
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