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SHIPPING NOTES.

The

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Jemployed by the Harbour Police are slow and that there are not sufficient of them on duty at one time. So much is this so that the return of the patrol-boat can be accurately estiniated by those

to seoking

avoid detection.

the Government, for the extra force. Broadly, the problem of preventing pilferage has one main aspect-strengthening of the Water Police. If increased, the force must include highly trained men capable of pitting their brains against those of the skilful"} thieves who are at work. It may not be recognised that thefts of goods in godowns have a direct effect on the cost of living. At the moment neither a person consigning the goods nor their recipient at their destination is materially concerned in the financial sense with any loss, The incidence of thefts on ships or in any on the large docks have compelled insurance cota- panies to increase their rates materially. Consequently, the wholesale purchaser has to pay for this addition.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19: 1921.

NOTICE.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Customers are requested to

apply for our Revised Price

He intre List which came into force

passes the increase on the retailer. and finally the consumer is called

upon to pay the added cost.

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The freight market is stagnant. There has been a further increase in the price of rice, as much as 10 cents per picul. No time charters are reported. There have been large arrivals of rice again from Saigon and Bangkok and a good deal of this is going to Canton, Amoy and Swatow, while Tientsin has boon purchasing large quant- ities this month. There is a de- mand for tonnage from Saigon to Hongkong.

A PIRACY,

Three Men Kidnapped.

& cross BX-

A fish junk plying between Macao and Aberdeen Village was on the 16th instant met by what appeared to bo two oyster-fishing junks and fired at with a fusitade of small arms. Immediately afterwards, Boven men, five of whom were armed with revolvers and the others with rifles, boarded the fishing junk from one of the at- tacking vessels and subjected the crew to amination,

the object of which was to force them to reveal the whereabouts of valuables. Not succeeding in these efforts, the robbers then drove the crew into the hold and commenced to ransack the boat, from which they took fifty pieces of clothing. They selected three members of the Crew whom they kidnapped, taking the victims with them back to their vessel, and then sailed away,

on

1st March 1921.

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GYMKHANA NOTES AND TIMES.

(BY "

WIRELESS.")

(By "Neptune.") From a perusal of the report of the General Committee of the Particularly is this so by night, Hongkong General Chamber of It is suggested that a couple of Commerce for last year it is not fast motorboats, Occasionally surprising to see that the queet-running with lights out would

Owners are reminded that the Mouse for the Stakes and Mr ion of pilforage of cargo has been very quickly result in the capture entries for the first Gymkhana Sutton will be on Hongkong Chief agitating the Chamber.

of craft on the move, without just Meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Parran will be steered by Mr. correspondence

cause." After pointing out that

Soth, whilst Dolphin and Spotted the leading shipping and wharf Club will close on Wednesday Sand will be ridden by Messrs. tween the Chamber and the companies have in existence a next, March 23, and that entry John Beli Irving and Fred Soares and Kandy Chief will gallop to- j system of watching and take forms may be obtained at either respectively. The shortage of Government covers ground that certain measures for their own the Hongkong Club, the Jockey jockeys is much felt by owners is already familiar, but there protection, the Chamber mention-Club's Stables or the Coffee Room are one or two points raised ined that it is not possible these letters that are interesting. for all the smaller concerns For instance, in their letter to involved

their to have

the

the between P. and O. Company and Chamber of Commerce and be

own

without a jockey and it is rumoured that there is a possi bility of Mr. Knoll not returning to Shanghai. Hongkong Chief," Repulse Bay Chief, Stanley Chief

morrow morning. The last two! named ponies went for half a with the result that Mr. Dyer has mile spin this morning, covering at the Race Courao.

so far been unable to secure a the distance in 1.02.2 and the last There are seven races, and the jockey for Harlequin. However, quarter in 30.2 secs.

There was the usual interested the Chamber of Commerce, watching organisations. and mala oveat will, as usual, bo the all these ponies are in good con-

tion and for the present crowd of owners at the rails this Messra. Mackinnon, Mackenzie that these at any rate are Gymkhana Stakes-one mile. I would not like to nominate morning to witness the gallops. Co. state that entitled to expect more considera-understand the Mr. Doyle has the first, second and third The grass track was closed. The is well known among the tion at the hands of the Govern- been booked to ride Speckled positions. The. Dablias are still times recorded age: shipping community that harbourment. This is all right, but if the thieves are alarmingly on the shipping interests need further increase and it is reported that augmentation of the Police and certain native shops are being Detective force on the stored with goods for sale, atolen harbour the shipping interests from ships in port. If the can club together and defray this practice is still continuing, surely

expenditure. If the shipping com-!

and

the Police can bring these native panies cannot put their hands stores to book. It is rather & serious matter for native stores into their pockets in such a matter

to sell goods that have been they cannot expect an abatement Pantile

of the evil That has been abua- Parran

PONY'S NAME.

pilfered in such a public manner, thus flouting the law. If these things continuo it will threaten seriously the reputation of the it is not too much to expect that Spoilt Child..... port. It is a very serious con- the shipping companies will fall Talpo Chief... dition of affairs, and if it is not in line with such a suggestion as Marble Tile... suppressed already, it is high the lesser of the two evils. time that something was done to stores a teach these. native lesson.

dantly indicated, by the Govern- Moorland King ment in their communications to Cranby the Chamber of Commerce, and Hatton

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Dolphin The Ameer... Tweedledum. Meanwhile the business com- munity has been thoroughly Don Carlos & Field Child 1 The reply, of the Government aroused to the gravity of an evil Hope Dahlia to the ropresentations of the which entails an gaoual loss of Javelin Chamber of Commerce follow lakhs of dollars.

Distance

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largely on the lines of the state- ment made sometime ago by Mr. Fletcher.

Spotted Saud Frampton Aspirin The claims arising under thie

Merrysand In the Legislative head are simply scandalous. Spackled Mouse

a small comparatively

Bolshevic Council the reply of the Govern- From ment stated that they considered amount before the war pilferage Forest Child" that the remedy for the evils lay claims now come up to very neat Beggar King largely in the handsof the shipping figures. This state of affairs will Tour

Waterlight companies and others who are have to come to a stop, and it responsible for the carriage and may be well that the shipping Sepaudi safe custody of cargo, the practice companies have tried themselves of leaving cargo unwatched to grapple with the problem and Mountam Stream & Frome throughout the night in funks and did not expect too much from the lighters, where there is ample Government. There may be gangs Don Juan opportunity for pilfering and sub-of

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should be nade Thistledown

stimulate police supervi- Red Bird

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