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INTIMATIONS.

NOTICE.

HE Undermentioned Certificates for

T500 Shares in this Company, stand-

ing in the Name of JOHN MAONAB, PUBLIC AUCTION.

Decassed, lata of 9, Graxeans Drive, POLLOKSHIELDS, Guascow, have been ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS LOST, and if at the Expiration of PARTI by Pie Aterion is it be

following Share Certificates be forthcoming, Other Certificates for the Said Sharee will be issued by the Company and thereafter No Other will be acknowledged :-

be held on MONDAY, the 30TH DAY of JULY, 1923

at 3 ris, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Elin ExcALLENOT THE GOVERNO, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Shamshuipe in the Colony of Hong Kang, for a term of 75 years, comman ding from

with 1st July, 1898, the option of renewal at a Crown Bant to be fixed by the Surveyor of Hu MAJESTY THE Krvo, for one further term of 24 years lena three days.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Nuw Kosioon üland

Lot No. 1143, Junction of Yu Chow Street and Shrk

Kip Mei Street,

Phamshuipp

} No. of Sale..

| Registry No.

Locality,

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Boundary

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As per

Bale pinn

7,140

9,300

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Equare feet.

Annual

Bental.

Upast Price

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS

PATIO by Public Auction to

be held on MONDAY, the 30th Day of JULY, 1923, at 3 r., at the ices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hta EXCELLESOT THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Prince Edward Euad, Kowloon City in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1899, with the option of renewal at & Crew Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of MAJESTY THE KING, for one farther term of 24 years less three days.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

No. of Sale

Registry No.

Locality.

Lot No. 1145. A Between New Kowloon Inland Lots Nos, 1028

New Kowloon Ioland

and 1120, Prince Edward |

Road, Kowloon City.

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· INTIMATIONS. ·

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25th, 1928.

conducting an inquiry into the CREMATORIA IN THE JUDGE LOO APPEALS TO possibility of either widening, the canal or constructing a second one. Of the two projects a new canal seems the better. Grave engineering

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The

increase in the size of the Panama Canal, but the piercing of a second water way rid Lake Nicaragua should not prove a vastly difficult feat. The Republic of Nicaragua has offered facilities and no trouble should be experienced on that

COLONY.

FOR JAPANESE AND INDIANS.

SANITARY BOARD BUSINESS. OBJECTIONS TO SEA WATER

FOR CLEANSING,

NANKING.

DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE'S WANT OF JUSTICE..

REQUEST FOR A NEW COMMITTEE.

CANADA'S 61st BIRTHDAY.

LOWEST TAXATION IN THE WORLD.

BRITONS WÄNTED.

FUTURE PROGRESS ASSURED.

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Judge Loo Hsing Yuan, says the N.-C. Daily News, bas lost no time in appealing to the Nationalist Questions relative to crematoria Government at Nanking against the leaps and bounds. In twenty years Canada has gone ahead in and sea water for road cleansing decision of the Judicial Disciplinary the" per capita wealth of the were asked yesterday at the fort Committee, Certain international difficulties, nightly meeting of the Sanitary Kiangsu Provisional Government's times, Caundiana are the most pros upheld the Dominion has increased twelve however, may attend the construc-Board. tion of a second canal. Under the

score.

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Hay-Pauncelote Treaty of, 1901 long before work on the present canal had been commenced, America agreed, in the event of ita comple- tion, that an equal toll should apply to the ships of all nations. Congress subsequently exempted American coastal shipping, bat a reversal of this decree and the

honouring of the letter and spirit of the Hay-Pauncefate Treaty was one of the political triumphs of the non-alcoholic late President WILSON, the exemp- Champagne An excellent tion being annulled in July, 1914. substitute for

anis question of dues would pos sparkling wine, possessing the same canal were built.

aibly arise again of a Nicaraguan wonderfully stimulating and refreshing qualities.

Pyeris

SPARKLING"

MINERAL WATER.

Customers Br

reminded that there are only three more days of the Stocktaking sale at the Princes Silk Store

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A report made to the police by the salesman of the Standard Oil service store in Leighton Hill Road states that eleven tins of motor oil, valued at $18.90, were stolen on Sunday night.

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Those present were Mr. W. J. Carrie (President), Mr. J. Watson (Secretary), Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon, Mr. H. T.. Creasy, C.B.E., the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Dr. G. W. Pope (M.OH.), Dr. S., W. Tao, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Dr. S. C. Ho and Dr. W. V. M. Koch.

No Government Crematoris, The following questions were connection with crematoria in the asked by Mr. Wong Kwong Tin in Colony:-

which

order dismissing him from the Pre. perous and the lightest taxed sidency of the Provisional Court. People in the world to-day, not ex- Judge Loo argues:

"That the decision is in many respects erroneous and irregular, fundamentally defective and con- trary to law."

Enemies Made Judges. In the first place the Disciplinary

stituted according to the law for the Committee was improperly con-

|cluding Americans.”

This declaration was made by the Hon. P. C. Larkin, High Comm- sioner

for Canada in Great Britain, to a Daily Express repre- sentative on July 1st, on the sixty- first anniversary of the confedera- tion of the Dominion,

Canada's growth is not a dis covery not a development of recent

has ever stopped growing, years," Mr. Larkin said. "Canada (a) the number of crematoria inmittee-in other words Judge Loo's Dominion is always moving ahead

The

the Colony.

(i.) these established by the Gov.

ernment. (ii) those established by private

bodies.

(b) The number of burials which have taken place within the last

six months.

(e) The number of cremations which have taken during the same period and at each crematorium.

(d) The number of cases (if any) where cremations have applied for and refused.

been

Is it a fact that the existing crematoria are insufficient to cope with the demand for cremations and if such be the case, what steps are the Board going to take 1

Revenue officers who visited the 3. Has the general public been Yaumati typhoon shelter oarly yes-sufficiently informed of the advan- tages of the cremations in Hong Kong?

A "Delicious Table Water,terday morning were rewarded with a find of a large quantity, stated to be over 1,000 taels, of teit opium on sampan. There were no occupants on board.

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Apply to

Street.

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The Baily Press.

HONG KONG, JULY 25T, 1928.

THE PANAMA CANAL.

APART from the Great War prob- ably the host important event in the history of the world during the Taat bundred years was the construc- tion of the Suez Canal and the consequent opening of a new era of commerce and inter-communica tion of all kinds between East and West. But the development of world trade and the political and psychological reactions summed up

WATSON

& CO., LTD,

Aerated Water Manufacturers.

ESTABLISHED 1841.

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The young Chinese painter who

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remanded from Monday on charges of trespassing on Stone- cutters laland and breaking into the range Canteen was ordered by the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday to be given three strokes of the on the first charge and a further eight strokes on the second

.cane

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THE WATER SHORTAGE.

MANY COMPLAINANTS TO CHINESE CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE.

At the monthly meeting of the merce yesterday, the secretary, Mr. Chinese General Chamber of Com-

Ip Lan Chuen said that they had "received

complaints from Chinese residents many and voluminous

regarding the sunrcity of water in' the Colony.

4

said that on Friday laat he and the

Mr. Li Yau Tsun, the Chairman,

Hon, Dr. R. H. Kotewall called on

Mr. Henderson of the Water Works.

The records of the Panama Canal show the rapidity of its commercial development. In 1915 the number of transits was 1,075, with a net tonnage of close upon four millions; by 1920 these figures had nearly doubled, while in 1927 the transits numbered 5,475 and the tonnage was

They had done all they 28 millions. Of that amount about instal a pipe, line enabling the could to urge the authorities to one half both of transits and ton- Colony to draw water from the

mainland.

This matter is now nage were American and a quarter commanding the serious attention were British. Norwegian ships of the authorities. madé 285 transits, Japanese 185 and vessels of other nations considerably

smaller numbers.

The one difficulty that arises with

.

reservoir at Pokfulam, if filled, It was also explained that the could only supply the part of the Central district effected for about three weeks, it no rain fell in the

...

4.-What are:

(a) the conditions and (b) the charges

for effecting cremations at each of the crematoria ! Is a profit being made in each case and if so, how much?

The following were the replies W. J. questions given by Mr. Carrie:

1(a)(i) None. (ii) Two: the Japanese Cre- matorium at Sookunpoo and the Sigh Crematorium at the Sikh Temple. There is also a "burning ground" at the Central Cemetery, Kowloon, for Sikhs, Hindus and Dogras.

setting-up of auch bodies. Further, Chen Ho Shen was on the. Com

principal acetser was made one of his judges. Chic, an ex-judge of the Provisional In the third place Liang Jer

plaints against Judge Loo, on which Cart, was allowed to file com- the Disciplinary Committee took given an opportunity an "answer. action without the accused being

Without Justice Or Fairness. Judge Loo then proceeds to traverse.

the

accusations made against him to show their trumpery nature and lack of foundation and he concluder -

sum

..Te up, should your petitioner abide by the decision. rendered by the Committee that has not been properly constituted, your petitioner would feel he had tailed in his duty to uphold the law of the country and had in jured the fair name of the people's Government 48 ад arbiter of right and justice. Your petitioner therefore respectfully prays that the decision of the Disciplinary Committee be set aside and a new committee be ap- pointed to deal with the case."

street

People and organisations who" stand still find that they are going backwards.

Mining Expansion,

sion of the mining industry is "At the present time the expan

enormous. Pulp and paper maru- factures have sprung into pro minence since the war, and electri- cal

power development has been multiplied scores and scores

of

times.

Without any of that, however, Canada will always be wealthy and prosperous with her agricultural resources alone. It has always been the policy of Governments to keep. at least half the people on the land. What does, that mean?

It means that at least half of the people of Canada are landlords.

"It is estimated that in the cities at least sixty per cent. of Cana- dians own their own homes. They may be mortgaged, but a home is a stake, and that creates a vital personal interest in the welfare of the country."

Mr. Larkin is a highly success- The President Of The Board Said

ful business man. He has spent In Reply.

most of his life in building up a vast tea "business that has spread. 1-The Chie! Officer of the Fire not only throughout Canada, but Brigade has always been willing also through the United States. to assist us and some years ago Authorised the use of the fire float

American Markets, "There is for filling water carts. The use of

a mistaken iden sea. water, however, for

abroad," he said, "that Canadians are dominated by the American in- watering was abandoned after ex- periments made in 1928. Its use on dustrialist and capitalist. The in- a water bound macadamised road roads that Canadians are making (c) 13 at the Japanese Creis unsatisfactory as it rains the in American markets are, however, matorium and 11 at the Sikh road; its use on a tarred road or surprising. We find it as caay to Temple.

one with an impermeable surface sell our goods, in Michigan, for in- (d) None so far as I know on is not, I understand, objectionable tance, as in Ontario.

hindrance"is the account of any lack of facilities, from the rond engineer's point of American system of inter-State Cremation is, however, governed view but complaints were received by Ordinance No. 5 of 1914 and from the Hong Kong Automobile regulations made thereunder, and Association and "from the Chief cases might arise where cremation

(b) 6,943 burials.

had to be refused:

would appear to show that the -The Dumbers given above existing facilities are sufficient.

3.I am not aware of any pro- paganda in favour of cremation having been undertaken in Hong Kong.

The only cumbersome

commerce. All trade between one

State and another is bound to en- counter tax cbstacles of various Officer of the Fire Brigade that kinds. In Canada the exchange of the use of sea water on the roads commerce between the nine pro-

is done in Victoria and very little caused akidding of motor vehicles.

2. At present no street watering in Kowloon. Water is required for two purposes, house cleansing and; side channel flushing and in normal times the water used is largely drawn from the mains.

Fresh Water For House Cleansing.

large centres and unwieldy popula vinces knows no restrictions,"

Mr. Larkin is not a believer in tions.

Outlet Needed. 少

In London to-night there are thousands who have had no dinner, will have no place to sleep, and haven't the slightest idea where 4.-The Sikh Crematorium and

their breakfast is coming from. It are confined to persons of the races For house cleansing fresh water Prescott (on the St. the "burning ground at Kowloon

is worse in New York. Yet I'll named. It is not known what is essential as so water will not River, in Ontario) there is not one bet that in the little town of charges (if any) are made.

Lawrence mix with kerosine emulsion. For meantime, It gives out an average owned by the Japanese Community why we should not use sen water will have a year from now.

The Japanese Crematorium is side channel flushing I see no reason is going to live and what money he person who cannot tell just how he of 750,000 gallons a day. regard to the Panama Canal is that As a result of representations in Hong Kong and is primarily for if it can be made available. Some two months ago in anticipation of it has very nearly reached the being made to the Water Authori Japanese..

ties, six more street hydrants have By the courtesy of the Japanese enquiries. The question is a dif- population that needs

the present shortage I commenced "Great Britain has Д limit of its capacity for dealing been brought into

large 118€ in the Community the crematorium- is

an outlet. with shipping. In ten years time, ed that if the shortage gets serious,

Central district. It is also suggest available for the cremation of

ficelt one as with the substitution We. want them in Canada-but we persons of other nationalities on of motor refuse lorries for the old only want the people for whom if anything like the growth of pre-water boats will be employed to condition that it is recognised that bullock dust carts and the abandon we have work. We do not want vious years is maintained, thebring water from the Eastern dis-Japanese have a prior claim to its ment of street watering, we have unemployment, although every

trict.

use, that the present equipment, now no water carts on this side Government knows that despite Canal will be entirely inadequate With regard to street hydrants, not altered and that a fee of $75 and no bullocks. It would be neces prosperity there will always be n to meet the demand. Nor is there the Chamber suggested that they is paid for each cremation. This sary, therefore, to have pumps and number of people out of work. We any doubt that this progress will against water sellers, who general fication No. 607 on the 17th Decem-ion will be further investigated.

would ask for police protection was published as Government Noti- tanks at various levels. This ques make allowance for that.

"It is believed that the United be maintained even if China isly form along queue throughout ber, 1920.

Meanwhile, as a result of a notice States has all the gold in the denied the expanse of, commerce of residents of the neighbourhood the day and thus lessen the chance

It is not known if a profit is Water Authority requesting me to wealthy, that every one is working which I received last week from the world, that she is immensely which peace and stable government being able to draw water for them-

cut down all house cleansing and and prosperous; that Canada on would bring. American exports to

flushing to a minimum especially in the other hand is a meagre off- the neighbourhood of Caine Rond spring of that wealth, and barely Chile and Batavia now amount to

and Bonham Bond, I have made successful. 58 and 53 per cent, respectively of

the following arrangements which United States contracted a debt of "It must be remembered that the will enablo me to avoid using main 23,000,000,000 dollars during the water for any purpose in the City war. All the gold in the American of Victoria west of Arsenal Street.

selves.

WEATHER REPORT.

cast and remarks, issued by the Yesterday's weather report, fore- Royal Observatory, stated:-- winds, veering to N.E., later fine.

Local Forecast:-Light S.W.

Typhoona.

in the phrase "the Awakening of the total imports of those countries Asia," received a second impetus as compared with 28 per cent. and of almost equal significance with 8 per cent. about ten years ago. the opening of the Panama Canal. Between 1913 and 1920 American The Canal has also been one of the trade with Japan increased five-

The western typhoon is less than with all Modern Conveniences, Drying development during the last ten

big factors in Americas industrial fold and with India during the 300 milce E.S.E. of Aparri, moving

westward. same years from G.8162 millions A message received here from years. It has removed an insuper- to G.8537 millions. The increase Manila gives the approximate posi- able obstacle to direct shipping of business with the Dutch East

tions of three typhoons at 10.30 a.m. yesterday." !!! trade between the East and West Indies, New Zealand and Australia coasts of the United States, and has been proportionate. To meet by a great reduction in distances the opportunities that are offered To modious

BE LET OR BOLD-Com- has opened new markets for the and to ensure that there shall be no

BUNGALOW at Magazine, Gar, near Meron ROAD: Eastern States in the Far East," the check upon this accelerating our- Good Garden. Private Garage-Apply West coast of South America and rent of traffic the Committee on 3. In about 141° E., 109 N.; Box No 4273, c/o Hong Kong Daily Press

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Inter-Oceanic canals is already recurving North-Eastward.

CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT.

4 Floor, FRENCH BANK BUILDING,

1. In about 1280 East, 10° North; direction unknown.

A later report issued at 8 p.m. states that there is a typhoon in West about 196 East, 18 North, moving

2. In about 1390 E, 29 N.; moving NW.

made,

SEA WATER FOR CLEANS ING. PURPOSES.

pos

BAD FOR ROADS.

Mr. Wong Kwong Tin further been leat to

Two motor lorries, which have treasury would not pay off that

colossal debt. naked the following questions re-

me by the Public

Canada contracted a war. debt Works Department are being fitted of 2,500,000,000 dollars, and we have lative to water for cleansing pur-with water cart tanks, which still reduced it as much as America has

remain in store. For house clean reduced hers. (i) In view of the scarcity of sing fresh water will be obtained

water, is it not possible for from certain nullah supplies which want of it. A hydro electric de "Money-we can have all we arrangements to be made with have been in existence for many velopment concern secured millions the Chief Officer of the Fire years and have always been used

a few weeks ago at the phenomenal- Brigade to utilize sea water but, of course, unly in the neighly low rate of 4:20 per cent. Most from the fire float for clean- bourhoods in which they exist. The of it was underwritten by Cana sing "purposes, except for water will be conveyed by these indian financial houses. general house cleansing provised water carts to the house Canada will continue to forge (i.) It is a fact that water for cleansing tanks. For side channel ahead slowly and steadily that is, cleansing streets is obtained flushing water from these nullah if the past is any criterion of the from the mains? If so, can supplies, from a brackish well in future. Our population will not not the Head of the Sanitary the Western Market and possibly rise rapidly, but it is bound to in-. Department devise, means to also, sea water, will be similarly crease with the years. We do not ensure a supply from other conveyed by motor to the areas want it, however, to increase at the whore flushing is required. No expense of our present prosperity (Continued on next Column). water will be drawn from the mains. or the solidarity of Canadianism.

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