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THE CHINA NEW YEAR HOLIDAY.

CELEBRATIONS IN HONGKONG.

Though is would be inaccurate to say that the Chinese New Year Holiday paar et off dietly, at any rate, it was marred by n untoward incident.

A holiday spirit breathed in the air on Friday, or driver, when the street market sprang up, mushroom-like, in the streets west of the ventzal district. Drizzling rain

cause

way

THE BONSKÒNG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JANUARY Sist. 1849.

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. CHAT WITH A PROPAGANDIST.

CARGO COOLIES ON STRIKE,

days will see the settlement of the sea- The general fealing is that the next few men's strike, but nothing occurred during the China. New Year holiday to bring a

conclusion Dearår.

meet any delegates that may be sent to axtatement that they are willing to the Colony to discuss the preliminaries

of arbitration, which must be confined to the question of wages, no other matter having been under discussion."

The phrase "any delegates that may be sent to the Colony" bears out the

THE SHIPOWNER'S VIEW.

HOW VESSELS ARE APPROACHED.

Is may be of interest to print the latter that is now delivered to the Captain of oach ship arriving in port. It seada ná follows:-

To the CMPTAIN,

6.3.

DEAR SIR,-The members of ou: Union who are seamen serving on boanl vari- ous steamers, in view of the high cost of living they have repeatedly written their busac requesting them to favour them with an increment. į

to

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ER VANCY WORKS IN

EWANGTUNG.

ANOTHER ANNUAL REPORT.

We have received a copy of the latest annual report on the important conærv oney work which has been in progress in the neighbouring province during the past seven years.

The following introduction to the re- port by Mr. Sua Po, the Director-Gen-, eral of the works supplies a general idea of the character of the undertaking:

para-

It will be remembered that the men came out with a fresh proposal on Friday throughout the day discouraged Euretracted conference, the ship-owners ismed afternoon, and that evening, after a pro peans from visiting the market in aar

Not having been able to arrive at satisfactory result they have at l large numbers but the usual array of pot

It gives us great pleasure to present turned their tendency to the accking of plants in flower, goldfish in globes and

some other profession in Cantor and the activities of the Board of Conserv- to the public another annual report of ask that you kindly grant them loving curios (suspected in many cases of Brum-

your ship. All Chinese crews on board aney Works of Kwangtung. This serves magem origin) were on exhibition.

the steamers at port have done the same. The

Yours faithfully,

to indicate that in spite of political seamen's strike was 12 ever-present shadow, but in spite of it supplies of

(Rubber Stamp of the Chines turmoil and strife, the spirit for con-

Seaman's Union.)

structive work for the benefit of the fruit were pleatiful During Friday,

According to Mr. Ma Sun, he comes but is aroused to greater zen! in increas populace is not in any degree minimized, also, ekampagne was flowing free in many report that the proposal came from Can-quests that it be handed to the Captain.in a concise a form as is consistent with

alongside with this note and politely re-ing ratio. Chinese hongs; in European hotels, too, ton; it is further stated that it bore theThe men then leave the ship," they know its purpose of the evolution of prelimin This publication gives a full summary, there were those who were quite ready to signature of the Civil Governor of Can the strike is on and need no furthery plans, the execution of engineering celebrate as many New Years per annum ton. as the Calendar-liked to send them.

The local "representatives of the intimation. Presumably signals are ax for the fiscal year of 1920-1621

projects, and the expenditure of funds Seamen's Union declare that their pre- changed with the crow while, the episto- Cracker ring was in full blast on mises in Des Yeux Road are only a lary effort above quoted. is being conveyed Friday and eontinand for the next two branch, and that the head office is in to the Captain. A banner inspribed with days. Bound in a long rope and suspend. Canton, where also, they say, the leaders Chinese character will tell a good deal in ed from an upper storey of the touses, of the Union are permanently established. narrow compass. crackers were fired in such numbers as to It may be that the Civil Governor of a cena less detonation, and tram-Canton, if he signed the letter, is merely passengers found themselves con-acting as an intermediary between the tínuously under åre. The prohibition of representative of the S.C.A. at present in "cracker-bombs" seemed to have been Canton and the seamen, but it seems -effective, from all accounts. Nothing is curious that he should put his name to so effectual in recalling old memories es decuments on the scamen's behalf. a familiar odour, and the smell of explod- ed fireworks must have brought to mind, for nury Westerners, damp nights in the garden on the fifth of November when the whole family was invited to stand, shiver ing, on the verandah to watch the Guy Fawkes cribration. The damp generally interfered with fireworks and the old folk cacountered strikers who refused to get after all. They issued a notice to expire The cargo-coolies decided to came cut, were usually unenthusiastic and rather said.

down to details. They want us.' ho

10. hand over our ships and our to-day but their lenders called there off, tocubriously glad to get back indoora ompanies to them on a silver platter." and in mchairs round the fire.

Ite averred that none of the companies

esterday. fireworks were a religious rite at home, made anything in the last twelve months;

running ships across the Pacific ha as out here, how much larger and more they had drawn upon reserves and, in. successful those displays would have been they were going to the very utmost limity yesterday morning and the Bay water in the principal rivera will force

making their cent offer to the men, The grent feature of China New Year" a "fact," he added, we looked to the State took her departure in the after its way into the bench channels.to in- they would be fair to us as well as to the cared that the cargo coolics are getting strict the major volume of the water to Arbitration Board to save us We hoped roon. At the Seamen's Union it is deter penetrate. We now endeavour to re- undate the country over which these tat- scabies and would tell the men, The ship-owners have offered you more than financial support from the Union.. they ought to pay

the principal rivers by the construction with less with thutu kuist be content The Hue Funnel steamer Cyclops, patens are weessary to regulate the

systems of dykes and such dans The feeling of the shipowners, gen

ledas toiday "wah naval ratings Home How into the branch channel to obtain ally, is that they have a duty to the ward bound. No difficulty was found in permanent relief, and such restriction community to resist to the uttermosu ar mancing the ship as the necessary coming and dredging purposes. unqualified demand for

will increase current velocities for our so much more

This will been extensively resorted to.

Qur en- deavour as outlined above will unwater fields for increased production and re- vent floods at the same time. The earlier. we complete our project in entirety the leas will be our losses.

Therefore we incident at Tung On and vicinity as a cannot afford to delay. We point to the

the East River we unwatered an concrete example. With an expenditure of $25,000 for three branch channels of sufficiently extensive to reap an increase over six hundred thousand dollars in one season. The increase will be recur son why we shall not expect similar re- sults from other reclamations. and the carlier the start the sooner will the bene- Of course, the progress

have reaped direct benefit from the work The Board is approaching its seventh

of the Board ardent wishes for longevity birthday. From the lip of those who

will come. Others, who are not familiar with the magnitude and logical sequence of our work will complain that we have The above method was successful on not done as much as we should Friday night with the Empress of Russia.rs.

in these The men were to be paid off anyhow, but magnitude and importance the careful We uguin deem it necessary to they left the ship at 3 p.m.-without their collection of data, the surveying and. emphasize that" 1 Ch undertaking of such

ship elicits that 500 men left. including overcome pay. Mr. Ma Sup said. Enquiry, on the and recasting of engineering plans to mapping of localities. and the framing

local difficulties were the boys who would ordinarily have been thrashed out to fit harmoniously with mount and the details haw had to he kept on. The head boys had not come the complete project before a single A local manager of a

-back yesterday evening and white ste be initiated. This necessitated time and shipping cowards are cooking for the officers,

stroke of construction was permitted to Pany, "who has had great experience in handling labour disputes elsewhere, told

thought, and a review of four preceding reports will reveal to our readers the wisdom in painstaking. One should re metaber also that we had in most in- stance is obtain data Brst-hand and have had no sick of figures to draw from to the public dur fundamental idea in We would like particularly to make plaiu the work. Through years of patient study of the flood prevention, probetus in this Pr.rine we have found that the principal urden-laden rivers have been got controlled. and that any

permitted to ramify the delta regions in- superduous

I

WIRK

representative of the Daily Press, yesterday, that he had never before

CARGO COOLIES DECIDE TO STRIKE ALSO..

W

SHIPS DEPART. Severtheless, the Robert Dollar

.

ciple is established, industrial chaos is reply to a call for volunteers. Or we won't work." Once that prin-plement of men was readily found in explain why artificial dredging has not brought about and business relations are impossible. Nationals other than Chinese would be squeezed out of existenco.

A CHAT WITH A UNION PROPAGANDIST.

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THE BUSY RAILWAY.

The railway has been busier than was expected during the holiday. The officials the Union claims that 100 a day went in not that 60 seamen went to Canton but the last three days.

Area

MATSHED FIRE IN BRIDGES rent yearly hereafter. There is no rea

STREET.

of our

is of course, that this is the one occasion in the twelve months when this patient, aver-active people takes a holiday. For once, even the little shops and work-rooms were closed, buildings in course of con- struction were deserted and the place, in consequence, wore a most unfamiliar napect. About the only people who were working were the street hawkers of charms and 'comestibles and the ricksha and chair coolies, of whom a proportion only were in the streets. Every one else was about the town in holiday attire-there none so por but could, afford a new suit for China New Year, or, at least, to has not yet had word of the ship-owners' The local office of the Seamen's Union rescue the, gid one from the pawnshop reply of Friday last; doubtless the reply and the usual visits of courtesy were paid.will reply, apparently without consult want to Canton and the officials there Babies appeared in curious head-dresses ing anyone locally. Judging from the and some remarkably decorative costumes information the local representatives of the Union impart (and say they sincerely were to be seen. The colour scheme believe) the Canton office sends down what sometimes seemed bizarre to Western it thinks will be suitable propaganda and But for the prompt action of some it be repris depends primarily on the peyos, but who is entitled to lay down matter calculated to keep up the spirits

of the strikers here.

Chinese yesterday morning there might fagds available. The conservancy works hard-and-fast rules as to what goes with

A representative of the Daily Press had have been a very serious blaze in Bridges affect directly the local population and what? These are matters of opinion and. Ma Sun, whose function it is to visit alighted on the roof of large matched indirectly the rational revenues, and the a conversation, yesterday afternoon, with Street. A cracker, carelessly thrown, the Chinese have their own views, the steamers as they come in, and call ou

and set it on fire. Some Chinese stand.verning and the governed should in There is reason to believe that a

the seamen. He explained, incidentally,g near climbed on to the roof and man-

Lerest themselves alike in the provision general pre-occupation during the holi has been decided that ships must not be before it got a firm hold.

how the calling out is done now that it

aged

to extinguish the conflagration of funds sufficient to carry out the work. day was gambling and the belief is con boarded without permission, but of that

Engineer-in-Chief Major Olivecrona's firmed by a number of prosecutions in

more aton: Mr. Ma Sun also hands outporary accommodation for the Sanitary is localities influenced by flood disasters This matshed was built to provide tem

anggestion of levying a surcharge for t specified period on the present field tax the Police Court yesterday morning.be interesting.

strike news and a few samples may Hoard Coolies, but na permanent quar The motor garages had a busy time and out, Mr. Ma Sun, who speaks English As it is situated in a very narrow por. and just.

Asked how long the strikers could hold has not been used for a considerable time. for their benefit is most commendable tera have since been provided the shed vision of funds by the peoples and spent worthy of serious consideration. Pro- all day on Saturday, Sunday and Monaemed to understand it very well, tion of the street surrounded on both major portion of the expenditure for day. a "procession of cars, packed with replied "Two or three years."

In view of the fact that a passengers, passed through the principal- Why how much money have they got? danger of a large fire is apparent. work, the funds are reverted to the locs! sides by a number of Chinese houses the our work is allotted to labour and earth- roads of the Colony. Amongst Euro was the next question. peans, golf cricket and football

Should a blaze start in this shed, when inhabitants, which is different from were About $2,000,000, replied Mr. Ma there is a strong wind blowing from the transferring wealth to elsewhere. played on both Saturday and Monday. Sus gravely. He also said there were Saturday's football crowd leaving Happy about 10,000 strikers in Canton and that

North, there is great danger of the feel confident that the people will give

Wol Valley, by the way, was an extraordinary one man cost 30 cents a day to keep, being involved.

houses in the immediate neighbourhood the taxation scheme their whole-hearted sight; at least, it would have been He added that about half the men did

approval. thought so only a few years ago. Foot act requirs food as they lived with ball has quite got hold in the Orient. Usion was in such good favour with

The e maintenance and preservation of the Tennis, also, had its followers and there Canton merchants, he said, that they lent (and presumably on) their families. The

dyke system are of ainoat importance. INDIAN were some who took advantage of the.

-POLICE CLERK

In a few instances we have had the un- pleasant task of reprimanding farmers cool weather to take palestrian tours accommodation for the strikers free of

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Two people who walked, on Saturday, the funds.

who have cultivated into the dyke bound- charge

and made handsome donations to

aries or who have attempted to use the from Wongmershong to Taikoo via Tythm

BAIL INCREASED TO $30.000. dykes for private purposes, thereby on- Reservoir one of the finest walks in the Press representative that many scamen lasted several days, terminated on the public-spirited men to co-operate with

Mr. Ma Suc agreed with the Daily

dangering the stability of the system. Colony-report that they met one other (on their miserable pay.") had saved Chitices Near Year's ete, when Fateh us in checkmating such selfish motives The police court investigation, which We earnestly appeal to local officials and person doing the same thing in the considerable sums of money and he der Mahomed, "a clerk at the Central Police for the good of the community. reverse direction. He was the only human clared that these men subscribed largely State and Aboni, Santra were committed being they saw in three-and-a-half hours. to keep their poorer brethren, They ware inclined to flatter themselves

Horetofore our principal work has been that they were spending the day in an that the Union had opened a picture ducting the case for the defendants, possible, the duties of the Accounting. Da The zealous propagandist also doclared for trial on charges of fraud and em confined to surveying and planning, and ultra-intelligent frahion when the sober theatre in Canton and was making a

bezzlement. Mr. Longinofto, who is con-in order to curtail expenses as much as the thousands of people watching foot and 81. Mr. Ma Sun mentioned that the bean previously fixed at $15,000. being; but in due course a separate de- ing reflection came to mind,What if good thing of it with charges of 86, 83applied for a reduction of ball, which had Partment have been abouldered by the ball in Happy Valley are the normal; strikers themselves are being entertained Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell) in the case of partment will be needed to relieve the Engineering Department, for the time, sane type of human being, and we are ab. by means of moving pictures, and Mahomed, however, pointed out that the Engineering Staff of the extra burden normal, frenkish, even (dreadful thought) amongst the subjects: show were films charges were too serious to allow of any so that it may devote ita undivided at- insane 17.

The vessels in the harbour, thanks to Russia. They were considering taking a 830,000. As Mahomed was unable to find, grows with time our present office will of scenes during Jabour disputes reduction and increased the sum oftention to its own duties. As our work the strike, still looked like "painted cotton factory, he said, 'to ind ships upon a painted occan". Only one ment for the seamen.

I thé" previous1bail ́ ́of $16,000 it is un- captain had the heart (or the staff) to politely as he could, that he did not tra's tail of 86,000 was, allowed to stand. Mustainer Authorities, we have receiv

When our representative indicated, an suraties for the increased mount. Sun Through the

probable that ine will be able to and found inadequate and our present or

ganization will .need.. dress ship in honour of the occasion."

readjustment. generosity of The sampans and junks, were adorned believe a word of all this, and put it to with red fase-paper and their denizens did Ma Sun that the strike would be obtained goods from Various Arms on the Canton-Kowloon Railway Station, the Canton The chargo against Mahomed is, that graht of a parcel of land adjacent to their share in warning the devils of ill-

over in a few days he seemed inclined f to agree. luck that, if they hoped to find on the he believed to be the public's point of by the Government. He was also charged Ofis Building, with which we shall have

Our representative put what

The false pretence that they were ordered where we are now erecting a substantial water, the peace denied to them on land, view and urged Mr. Ma. Sus; if he had with conspiring with Aboni-Santra to a place for the safe keeping of a vast they were completely mistaken. It is to any influence with his leadera, to try defraud the Government by falsely repre-acmalation of important documente bs hoped that they gave up in despair and, persunde them to send a reply as seating that Dirge sums of money were and drawings and to house an expanded the search for any foothold in Hongkong, soon as possible to the shipowners: We due by the Government to various firms the untold sorrows of the people from and that the coming year will be a agree to arbitration,"

office force, whose one aim is to alleviate prosperous one.

An enigmatic Many thousands of dollars are involved in Hoods and to labour for the completion smile way the only response.

of the much needed conservancy works.

the case.

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