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HONGKONG DOG, CAT, POULTRY AND PIGEON SHOW.-
By kind permission of the Officer Command-
ing The Hongkong Defence Corps, Show will be held at
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THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE CORPS
SATURDAY, 10тü Maken, 1923, from 3 to 8 7.3. Besides the usual classen for Dogs, there will lasses for Puppies from 6 to 12 months old, for litter of Puppies under 3 months old on the
t of the Show; and for cross-bred Dogs, Entry Forms may be had from the Under- siundi.
No Entry will be accepted unless accompanied by the Entrance Fee. Dog, 32; at, 31: Poultry wiil Pigeons, 150 cents per pen..
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B. L. FROST,
Hon. Secretary, c/o THE EASTERN EXTENSION TELEGRAPH Co.
COMPANIES (WINDING UP). IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION,"
IN THE MATTER of the COMPANIES
ORDINANCE 1911-1921
BANK,
and
LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRÉSS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21m
THE CHINA SQUADRON. IMPENDING CHANGES IN COM- MANDS.
Several of the river gunboats on the China Station are about to change com- mands, relieving officers boing en voyage
CHINESE MINES". CASE. GENERAL KAVANAGH OBOSS- EXAMINED.
EXTRATERRITORIALITY.
THE LESSONS OF A TRIALA The Peking Evening News says: -The the Chinese court (of which a trial Dr. Schmidt Ross of Tientsin by full acsoant is published), cannot be passed by without comment The ignorance displayed by the judicial authorities in charge of the case is so Bagrant, that it
Lieut-General Sir Charla Kavanagh wis" recalled at Westatister Police Court on January 18th, and, after an to the station to take the places of the other whold day in the witness-box, his presoat skippers Lieutenant Commander examination was smoluded, and the hear C. R St. G. Tucker will assumo coming was adjourned until January 20th. mand of the Woodlark; Lieutenant-Com The case is against Willian Hory Ben hardly possible for a foreigner to have mander H. Anchor will take over the nott, Edwin Alexander Enever and Leslie y respect for this court and others similar to it We shall neither. dwell Scarab; Lieutenant-Commander E. W. Ernest Haynes,Cross-examized by Mr. M. King, the Woodcock; Lieutenant-Com- Marshall (for Enever), counsel asked: of the judge that a bill of indictment is on the proceedings, nor on the statement mander A. C. Tharfield, the Teal; Lien- Can you say which of the statement, not needed, or on other details which wa tenant-Commander E. J. E. Dawson, the as representations made by Enever to should not hesitate to call an outrage to Moorhen: Lieutenant L. C. P. Tudway, you, were untrue! Witness: Yes, as to
the principle of justice. the value of the boncessions. It proved trying to point out is the fate of all DSO, D. S.C., the Robin.
to be untrue when I got out there.
Did Enever put a value on these co-be deprived of the rights of consular foreigners in this country, should they cessions-He said that they were very jurisdiction and submitted to treatment He could not have put a similar to that which Dr. Schmidt was sxact value on them,
In order to avoid all misunderstand-
Among other postings, Lieutenant-Com- mander J, S. Morrell join the Tamar at Hongkong as wireless officer in charge of the Singapore Station; Lieutenant F. G. Hughes join the Tamar for a spell of service; Sub-Lieutenant G. H. Thomp son goes to the Bee, Sub-Lieutenant, F. B. Tours to the Ferglove, Sub-Lieutenant A St. C. Dobald w the Magnolia, and Sub- Lieutenant J. W. Grant to the Cockche jer.
KOWLOON CITY MURDER.
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What we are
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a man's body was picked up, with the face ing to further questions, Sir Charles said note that they are different and that
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under the provision registered in Hongkong | obviously was,-took place on Sunday satire knowledge and approval, and that of the constitution of the U.S.A.
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application for two thousand shares nings we geplars from the beginning that
Mr. Marshall: When you signed the forend to face. you seriously suggest that you regarded we are not at all inclined to impose on it merely as a matter of form-Wittes: the Chinese people our own way of under- Yes, because it was merely to give me an option of taking up the shares when ura confirmed enemies of imposing on standing justice. More than that, we I returned from China. That was the
Chin, an on every other nation, laws whole bargain.
Don't you think it would have been a which may be perfectly suitable for the and customs, religion and education, well to have made a memorandum to! that effect on the application form l-It Occident, but are quite unfitted to this A horrible discovery was made at the
country, with its thousands of years of IN THE MATTER of the CHINA SPECIE Earth Cutting. Kowloon City, near the would have been better. I should have culture of her own. We do not even try seen it done, but I trusted him. Reply to compare the two cultures, but only Tong Valley, on Monday morning. A
be thought his name had been placed on every attempt to conciliate the two usually petition for the winding up of the shove covered in blood. Closer examination re-
the prospectus as a director of Eum- named Company by the Court was on the 9th, vealed a number of stab wounds, and from iny of, February, 1923, presented to the said the rigid state of the corpse it would phrey and Denman mit of compliment. It brings failure if not disaster, as with as was not true that it was done with his attempt to enforce in this country a copy Court by THE GENERAL EXCHANGE COMPANY, appear that the "murder, for such it
If the Chinese people and jurists think that was why he took no steps to have it necessary to mix up a criminal case et the Companies Urdia- night. The molive would appear to be 1911-1921 and whose registered office is robbery, for nothing of any value was it removed.
with a civil claim for dmages, as in the 4 No. 15, Lee Honau Street, Victoria in the found on the body, and from the state of
Witness said he saw Grant, the mining case of Dr. Schmidt, or to arrest an in: Colony of Hongkong aforesaid,
the clothing the body seems to have been engineer, in London, and Grut told him
nocent man, after his innocence And that the said?
be said petition is directed to
the concessions in China were very valu- searched. heard before the Court sitting at the Courts of Justice, Victoria, aforesaid on the STIL DAT of blood stained file which had been sharpen-able. Later, when witness got to China proved by judicial investigation, as
and Graat did not turn up, as arrangedalist, without any warant, on a simple the case of Dr. Lo, or to arrest a journ MARCH, 1923, at 10.30 4.x, and any creditor ed down to a point, and looked as if it
he became suspicious, and thought Grant letter of an official against whom his contributory of the
saki Company desirous to had been used as a dagger. No arrests
have been made
had deceived them all. He thought Grant Happort or oppose the making of an order on
had greatly overestimated the value of writings were directed, as in the recent the said petition may appear at the time of
case of Mr. Lin, nobody except Chinese hearing by himself or his Counsel for that pur
can stop it. If they seem unwilling to "pose; and a copy of the petition will be furnished or contributory of the said Com-
alter this state of things, after all it is any creditor
their own business and their own country, undersignal on
But when these principles, absolutely THE CHINA TEA CLIPPERS.
uncomprehendible to us, who were born and bred on the rigid justice of the Regarding the suggestion of rice be- Remno law, which is the basis of all Opel, tween the Catty Sark and Glory, Mr. dental jurisprudence, afflicts us, then wo Basi Lubbock, his book on The have a right to say that we do not want China Clippers," says When, in 1870, it, that we understand our rights differ- on her maiden voyago from London in cording to our own laws. the Culty Sark run out w Shanghaiently, and that we want to be tried ac
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pany requiring the same
payment of the regalated
the
for the same.
Dated the Eth dayay, 1923.
GEO K. HALL BRUTTUN & CO.
St. George's Building, Chater Road, Hongkong, Solicitors for the Petitioners.
NOTE.
his intention so to do.
Close at hand was found
OLD AND DILAPIDATED BANK NOTES.
THE PRACTICE OF THE HONGKONG
·AND SHANGHAI BANK.
With refervte to the letter" from Sanitas" which appeared in our issue Any person who intends to appear on the of yesterday we are informed that the bearing of the said petition must serve on or Bank is at all times willing and pleased sond by register post to the above-named Gro.
to change old and dilapidated notes when K. HALL BRUTTON &Co... notice in writing of presented at the Bank. It will be readily The police must state the name and address understood that it is not possible for the of the person, or, if a Erm, the name And addressBank to collect them and that the remedy of the firm, and must be signed by the person lies with the holder who should exchange or firm, or lu or their solicitor if say), and them at the Back fastead of passing them must be served or if posted must be sent by on to other people. As a matter of fact post in afficient time to reach the abovessmed the Bank, we understand, do regularly at later than Bo'clock in the afternoon of the destroy... old and dilapidated notes." 4th day of March, 1923,
particularly re-dollar notes, that are. presented at the Bank.
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TENDERS are invited up to the 28th FEBRUARY for the purchase of the abore named vessel WITH ENGINES AND BOIL MRS AND VARIOUS AUXILIARY MACHINERY ON BOARD:
of
Fall Particulars of the vessel and conditions and permite to view may be obtained -00 application to the undersigned, and tender forms will be issued, on payment of a deposit of $500, returnable when decision on the ten- ders has been reached.
The vessel will be on view at H.M. Dock- YARD, Hongkong from the 18th Jannary.
PARTICULANS of H.M. OIL TANK VISSEL
'DAZDGOL"
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Displacement Tonnage (about) 7,500
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11. THE PASSING OF THE MUI TSAL
I have song to singo
What is your song-o!
It's a song of & Government on its guard, Whilst M.P. kept their watch and
Ward,
And the S. of 8. was terribly bored,
And all on account of the mul
Heighol Fiddledee! Hongkrong is a long way over the sea But we'll role is now from far GB., And all for the love of the mui.
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I have a song to Bing-o.
What is your song-o?" It's a song of a mui-tsai, sad and sweet,
Whom a bad employer did ill-treat Upon the neck and the arms and the feet,
And all for the good of the mui.
Heigho! Fiddledee!
We have had a Council jamboree And have passed a law to set them
free
And all for the love of the mui.
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I have a song to sing-o," "
What is your song-of It's a song of the unco' guid on the track, But the Une," got a bit of it back,
Till the D. came with a sounding.
whack; ."
And all on account of the mai, (Chorus of employers is heard "og” to inft music:)
Heighol Miary me!
the concessions.
At this stage the hearing was ad- journed.
in
We do not
97 days, it was obvious that the Ther-wonsider, to repeat it agin, that ser laws are worse or better-they are simply mopyle would have to look to her laurels. I 1867 the latter had made the passage different from the Chinese, so different. from Foochow to London in 1 days that what seems natural for Chinese against the monsoon-a record up to that jurist, upsets every feeling of equity in time. In 1570, she repeated the perform the average foreigner, not to speak of a ance, but the Clyde-built Sir Lancelot the lawyer. This was understood by our pre- same year beat her home by two days, decessors, who established the principle of Leaving Foochow on July 17th she passed extraterritoriality, and there is no reason the Lizard on Dctober 10th, and berthed in whatsoever why this principle should be Loudon four days later-85 days to the forgotten now. We can hardly under- Lizard and so in all, thus establishing the stand how people with genuine knowledge record pastuga of any tea clipper home, of the situation of this country want to The year before the same ship had done raise a campaign for the abolition of the the same run in 103 days, while the Nor- rights of foreigners, telling us that times Court and Thermopyla, which both have changed since the enforcement of left within three days of her, took 104 the treaties, and now China is ready to and 105 days, respectively, This is suffi- take care of the rights of foreigners liv- pient to show, that the Sir Lancelot was ing within her territory. Chin is not "Bier, and she in her turn was more ready, and we should say never will bo, than once beaton by the Norman Court not because she is less cultared, (in -on one occasion (in 1871) by ng much many points her culture is higher than as a fortnight from Gravesend to Shang-ours) or less moral (we cannot boast very hai. I don't think that either the Sir much on this) but simply because she is Zakkelot or Norman Court ever had a and always will be different from us, in straight race, either out of home, with mentality, upbringing, and outlook, the Cutty Sark, but if such had tiken place it would not have been," odds on" 2y one of the three, for they were all capable of wonderful performancs,
“THE METHOD OF MOUNTING spectacle glasses is of the greatest im- portance." writes Dr. C. Hartbridge, F.R.C.8., Ophthalmic Surgeon and PETROLEUM IN FORMOSA. Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to the Official statiglics of the Formosan Gov. Westminster Hospital, "they must be ernment General give the production of accurately centred in frames that are crude petroleum ia Formosa during 1920 light, strong and fit well, otherwise the and 1921 as 7,000. koku (about 331,500 good effect of the most carefully chosen gallons) each year, with a value of correction may be entirely frustrated by $108,373 in 1990 and $99,195 in 1921. An
a faulty position of the glasses, or even officially published analysis of the oil obtained in Formosa is follows: Volatile a fresh source of eyestrain may be intro- constituents, 5 per cent. lminating duced," The Hongkong Optical Co., oil, percent. (82 per cent, after refin ing); and heavy oil, 8 per cent. The heavy oil is said to contain 40 per cent, paraffin-From a report by Consul H B. Hitchcock, U.S. Consul, Toiwan.
MARY FIDEFORD AGAIN,
"THROUGH THE BACK DOOR.'
The girl whom I bought. I must now set. It is inconceivable that Mary Pickford
free, And I'must not as for return of the fee
Which I paid as the price of a maí.
Note:
(Curtain).
G.B," e, Great Britain."
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should be permitted to grow up and her myriad admirers amongst local, moving picture patrons will rejoice to hear that inThrough the Back Door," which brings her before Coronet, audiencos today, she figures in one of the most Unolia, t, Unofficial Members of delightful little girlrols imaginable. In the beginning of the picture Mary appears in rags but they have been con- the Legislative Council
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verted Cinderell-like into "glad-raga before the film arrives at its touching $1.00 conclusion. Cled in the pictureique costume of a small Belgian miss, she clattere along in her wooden shoes and, Little Jeanne Bodamere, got to America to make herself known to the I hope to make a start on my world mother who thinks her dead. Many are Versel is fitted with spacious Officers Quar-flight at the end of April," said Sir Keith the obstacles she surmounts before the ters, also good crew accommodation.
Smith on his arrival at Liverpool, last mother Anally learns that her little Chased 100", A month, from New York by the Cunard daughter is a servant in her own home. advertised for the 27th February has, owing Lloyd's Register
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WEDNESDAY, 710 MARCH, 1923, America, and during this tour, of over than ever. From a photographic stand- eight months made the necessary landing point, the film offers a wonderful variety Any Tickets already purchased will be available
for the Changed Data arrangements. Sir Keith Smith hopen to of scenes which onen with the famous use Viking machine, and will travel pleasure report at Ostend in the gala days eastward. Everything is ready for the of 1903, and win alto a glimpse of New Booking at THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO.
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