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"The Wine of Kings

The King of Wines

CHAMPAGNE

De St. Marceaux, Vin Brut

or Veory Dry Vintage 1911.

SOLE AGENTS

THE HONGKONG

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Our Peak TraMWAYS.

DAY BY DAY.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE PUT- TING THE SHINE ON ANOTHER'S FACE TO FUT THE SHINK ON OUR OWN—W. C. Gannett,

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Comented on before, and to the conditions at Wushow,

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

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The Hongkong Telegraph

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SAVIATION NOTES,

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after

THE FAR EASTERN OLYMPIAD

and second places and the The Philippines took the first Japanese the third in the 50 yds. All the times were records, except in the 50 yds.

AN EMPLOYEE'S BONUS.

Interesting Legal Debate. By teorite.

Arising out of a agreement

day's New The meeting of the Peak Tram -

Possessing the prood distinc-alleged to have been entered into

"Our "special coʻrrespondant at ways Company was more than

tion of being the only man in the between the Hop Yau firm and an Shanghal wires us as follows usually intaresting as the Chair

world to occupy such a position, employee named Hot Fat, in concerning the apealing heat of man, in the course of his speech,

Major 8. T. Greer, has been which the firm screed to pay the swimming competition in the indicated that preparations will

Yesterday's health return have to be made this year to shows that there were four fresh appointed air station master at bons on the year's profits, an, Far Eastern Olympic Games at

Croydon. It will possibly be interesting case came before Mr. Shanghai yesterday accommodate larger trams. In cases of small-par, three deaths that in the course of time, with Justice Wood at the Summary Japan gained three places in asking sanotion for the placing taking place. There were also of $40,000 to the Special Repairs two non-fatal cason of paratyphold the wider spread of aviation, this Court, yesterday afternoon, when the quarter-mulle. Japanese distinction will be taken away the Hop Yau firm claimed from five and the Philippines' one re- Reserve Account he said that not fever:

from him, but for the moment he Hui Kan the sum of $173.15, presentative qualified in the 100 only would the viaduct at the

moves in an environment which Wages overdrawn. Mr. H. C. Les yds, back-stroke competition. Ia upper terminus have to be entire-

To-day's. advertisements con- romanticists have attempted to appeared forplaintiffs and Mr. F.B the mile Japan gained three by rebuilt this year but the tain an announcement that the colour with vivid descriptive Mason represented defendant.

places. Company would have to re-lay Hongkong Garage has opened at pictures. From his office in a

Mr. Mason admitted the am- the line from end to end with No. 20 Fraya East. The new big central towar perched on four cunt overdrawn, but contended new rails. These new rails would garage will be the nearest garage legs high above the hangars and that defendant was entitled to the be of heavier calibre than the to the racecourse and Taikoo. service buildings at Croydos, it money. The amount was correct, present ones as they were needed Moderate rates for hire are pro is stated, Major S. T. L. Greer the but a similar sum was due to to cope with larger cars, capable mised.

first air station master in Great defendant in respect of a bonus. of carrying more passengers.

Britala—it is believed, the first

Mok Pan said he took over the The conjestion of passenger The skipper of a small steamer la the world will direct all managership of the business on traffic on the tramway, at certain on scheduled runs to Wuchow in arrivals and departures at that Feb. 11th, 1918. Defendant, who ed very conveniently. The whole hours of the day, has been severe-reply to our enquiries in regard | zerodrame.

joined the firm in 1914, was then dispute arose on the bonus for |getting $15 a Chinese mouth snd | 1916 and 1917. some little time ago the Hon. which is reported to be under

a commission of 10 per cent., ou

Witness said no profit was made Mr. H. E. Pollock asked several martial law, stated that he did the Loudon "Star", has bad wide date the accounts between plaint- employees were giran no, bonus---

Major Greer, who, according to the year's profits, and at that during those years and so the questions on the matter in the not perceive any apprehension Legislative Council. The traffic at that port of threatened experience in military and civil iffs and defendant were square.

He knew that the accounts WETS to the Peat is constantly growing Kwangtung expedition, nor any giving safe landing ordare to a books of the firm, which Mr. Lee paid defendant over a hundred flying, will be charged with: His Lordship asked to see the square in Feb. 1918, because he in volume-a circumstance that signs to show that trade was not incoming machines, and thus handed up to him, with the ex-dollars, which he was not entitled led the Government to provide proceeding in the normal way... the motor road from Morrison

prevent_collisions on the serod-ception of certain books for 1916 to under the agreement bat Hill-and it is high time that the Before Mr. R. P. Lindsell this roue. By wireless he will be and 1917, which Mr. Lee said had which be was given to encourage important residential district of morning a Chinese was charged its way from Lympus, after Mr. Mason submitted that if

able to instruct an aeroplane on been sold.

him in his work, the Peak was better provided for. with picking the pocket of another crossing the channel from Paris. the books could not be produced, the business from 1914 until it Hong Wing said he managed Not only does improvement apply Chinese in Queen's Road Central either to increase or slacken plaintiffs bad no case. to the size of the cars, but also yesterday and stealing $16. The speed so that it does not collide

taken over by previous to the frequency with which defendant maintained that he was with the arrival from Amsterdam, end of the year the firm's profits during the whole of that time. Witness continued that at the witness, and they made no profit they run. For a certain time in wrongly arrested and that he was and joy tiders" lingering on were over $2,000 and the middle of the day the running not the thief. The man said he the aerodrome must be hustled in defendant had been paid $200 had embezzled the firm's money, He denied that the accountant is suspended; and the compars could prove his respectability if order to insure clear landing commission the accounts showed and said defendant would not tively early hour at which the he were given opportunity to call space for approaching machines that he was overdrawn. service stops altogether has been witnesses. The case was accord-At night Major Greer will direct

have been entitled to a bonus if found inconvenient OR manglingly adjourned..

Mr. Mason said his whole there had been any profits. air traffic with rockets and Very case rested on the missing books. occasions. The meating beld

Mr. Mason, said the defence yesterday revealed that the re-

lights Far away over the Surrey He contended that during the was that defendant was entitled Mr. R. E. Lindsell bad before bills be will see the green light years ceipts in traffic had shown the him this morning the adjourned rise high in the aky-night flier was a bonus due to defendant.

1916 and 1917. there to a bonus from the day on which very satisfactory increase of case of a Chiness who was pro- on the airway signalling for a

he joined the firm. Profits had $30,469.79" and the public who tecuted for failure to report a case landing at Croydon. The answer witness said between 1914 and given for 1916 and 1917, owing to Cross-examined by Mr. Mason, been made, but there was no bonus have helped to make such in- of small pox. The man said he was will be flashed back green the time he took over he knew the embezzlement. Defendant was crease ought to be given the ignorant of the law, to which the light if the way is clear, or white nothing of the business. benefit of whatever improved Magistrate replied:

told that he could draw the money service the Company and the.

if no landing space is available These laws are for the good of sad the flier should defer his made a profit of $1,500-No pro-

Mr. Mason: In 1916 your firm afterwards, and he had done sq. Government can devise. It is to the public health. If you people do arrival till space can be made it was made that year.

Defendant, in the box, denied be hoped that the day is not long not go and report it means that ready.

receiving any money when the distant when the larger cars will smallpox spreads. It is for your

In 1916 and 1917 your sccount management changed hands. A be in operation.

ant embezzled the money of the bonus-about $280—was due to: [own protection, in fact. $25.

"It is all so matter of fact", firm-No, the accountant has him,but nothing was paid owing A Recognised Principle.

We learn that is connection says the "Star", "this first air post caverembezzled the firm's money. to the fact that the accountant And whilst we are on the sub-f

Mr. Mason said in the years had absconded. The firm promised Some delay occurred in the issue of the Shipbuilding [ject of the Peak Tramway Com.with the Kowloon site purchased in the world, all so full of wonders

locked up in innocent little 1916 and 1917 the basiness show-to pay the money Ister. Returns compiled by Lloyd's Register of Shipping for the pany and its service to the public, the Fred Ellis Estate Agency bouses beside the mighty ed a proât of $2,800, but a boons In summing up. His Lordship that some 200,000 square feet of first quarter of 1921. and the reasons are noteworthy. The is might not be inappropriate to land have already been taken up. hangars, that it is only when one was not paid because the profit returns, briefly cabled at the time but now available at revert to the question we recent It looks as. though the whole gets behind the scenes that one bad been swallowed up by the

ly raised regarding the whole of greater length. are accompanied by a qualifying statement the public utility, companies of property will be taken up by other realizes its outstanding features. accountant embezzling the firm's A lighthouse to guide pilots lights money. Defendant was not re- of a kind not previously found in these statistics, This is this Colony. Where a private Prospective lessees before many to the effect that the amount of tonnage then under company enjoys a monopoly in weeks are passed. The buildings up and goes out automatically, its sponsible for the embezzlement,

not what the state of the account construction" in the United Kingdom-3.798,500 tons gross catering to some essential publis on the property are confidently 1000 candle-power beam visible and Mr. Mason submitted that he, -should not be taken at its face value. The figure need, then the community has predicated to be completed within from the air for thirty miles, was entitled to receive & bonus.

His Lordship said the evidence was at that time, not the circum- eight months' time.

Three powerful searchlights help mentioned is larger by over 400,000 tons than the tonnage rice given should be of the a right to insist that the ser-

with the night flying operations. showed that defendant was not stances that led to a change of

whether for the corresponding quarter of the previous year, hence best possible kind, and, that

Music lovers will have the Near by is a rocket apparatus for entitled to ten per cent. on sales, management, it was on a grims face view the position would suggest ground after a certain reasonable profit opportunity of bearing two consignalling. The old fares that but on ten per cent. of the pronts the account in February 1918,

used to indicate to night pilots the declared at the end of the year. was for congratulation. Accordingly, the compilers of the has been mate, the surplus in- certs to be given in the City Hall direction of the air currenta-Witness had stated that during It seemed to him that the ac- statistics have found it necessary to introduce the nnwonted crement should be devoted to the on the afternoons of the 14th and since & machine always lands those years there were no profits. count was closed. Be WBS improvement of the service or the 17th is when Vladinir Siroido, head to wind-have been replaced Mr. Mason said there were no inclined to believe that the firm qualification in order to avoid a mistaken inference.

lessening of public charges. The Violie Virtuoso, and Harry Ore, From the qualifying clause it is learned that there are focal Government has autimated Pianist Composer will appear in by an ingenious landing light in books to show whether there met to consider their position the shape of a huge capital L. It were any profits or not. "Where and found their accountant gone some 407,000 tons on which, owing to the present exteme its approval of that principle in solos and ensemble playing-is let into the ground, the electric are the books for 1916 and 1917?" and their money gone with him. shipping depression, work has been suspended. There are connection with the Hongkong Those two young Russian artists bulbs being covered with glass he asked witness.

They discussed the situation, the also some 350.000 tons the completion of which has been Electric Company and it also have been playing with great suc safe for an aeroplane to land upon Witness replied that the books accounts were closed and

acknowledged the principle when cess in Shanghai, Japan, etc. and The upright arm of the L. faces bad been sold.

balance was carried forward to the postponed owing to the vessation of work by the joiners it passed the latest Ferries are at present on an extensive the direction in which the wind Mr. Mason said it seemed to following year. Judgment would Deducting these totals, amounting together to 847,000 tons, Ordinance. We have in mind the concert tour. The arrangements blows.

him that the books had disappear-be given for plaintiffs, with costs. from the figures of tonnage described, as being under fact that the whole of our public for the concerts bore are in the construction, the new shipping on which work was actually utility services-trams, lighting, bands of Prof. Danenberg. proceeding in the United Kingdom is reduced to 2,951,500 ferries, gas, telephones, etc., are

provided by companies enjoying There arrived in the Colony regret that the death is recorded tons. The first set of tonnage, being in abeyance through aither actual or virtual monopolies yesterday on his way to "Ls of Lieutenant William D. Corey, the unfortunate slump, belongs to a different category, one and the public has a right, there- Belle France" Monsieur Bapst, which sad event occurred at 5.20 can only hope that an improvement in the world's commerce fore, to lasist that surplus profits who for the past two years, has. March 30 in a hospital at will ere long justify a resumption of work on this block of should be devoted to the improve H. I. Japanese Majesty. M. Bapst, had been taken after injury in ao been Ambassador at the Court of Natches, Mississippi, whither he tonnage. As for the 350,000 tons, shipbuilders bave forment of those services and to who is well-known in diplomatic aeroplane accident at Crowville, they got off at and to what extent they could be expected to treat Since Lloyd George began to tell the pushful Poles just where something like six months had the mortifying experience of

circles as a capable official, is Louisiana, March 25, at 7.30 a.. the Yerazilles Treaty and yet no' make it a scrap of paper," I've seeing work, it consequence of the joiners strike. trans-business

either proceeding home on leave accom-I was in a dashing and gallant been very amused to read Herr Wirth's utterances wi regard to ferred to Continental yards at a time when contracts, succeeds or languishes by reason panied by bis daughter. On his attempt to stretch his own record England. All of a sudden we began to be very fair folks. Yea a contrary to the position obtaining two or three years ago of its excellence; competition arrival here by the M. M. Andre in making a one stop flight Daniel, come to judgment," we almost hear the worthy Chancellor

compels it to maintain a certain Lebon, he was met by the French across are the subject of keen competition.

When I look back and think of the "Gott Strafe England" Consul General and other mem- Lient, Coney met with standard. Public utility concerna

the days, there's no' one of us but cao gainsay the fact that time is By comparison with the pre-war returns,, the reduced often succeed by reason of the bers of the French community. disaster that resulted in his death. indeed a great healer. Some of these days I wouldns' be a bit total of 2,951.500 tons gross on which work is more or less public's necessity and the public The vessel on which he travels is the evening of Feb. 21, Lieut. surprised if it should leak out that we're signed up a secret treaty Coney left Rockwell Field, San Germany and that the most favoured nation clause will once actively proceeding exceeds the amount under construction has a right, therefore, to say that due to leave this afternoon.

Diego, California for Pablo Beach, more begin to operate in the way of according her nationals at the end of the March quarter of 1914 by 1,060,000 tons. where a monopoly is enjoyed and Three stone-breakers employed Jacksonville, Florida, in an effort the privilege of carrying our soup and fish and relieving the As a matter of shipbuilding activity this is sufficiently competition eliminated the Com-

pany shall give a service as at Lysemoon were charged before to cross the continent in a day tedium of the times wit ber once famous bands. Our barbering

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921.

SHIPBUILDING RETURNS.

reduction

of consumers or patrons* couts. Ia private

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It is with a feeling of protou ad

the continent that

Jay.

Between

said the issue before the Court was whether the account was a raoning account dating back to the early days of the firm or if it was closed by matual consent in Feb., 1918. The real point was

closed

to both parties.

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

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encouraging, but just now impels some disquietude as to excellent as if there were com- Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Magis-in one stop flight. Because of during the past six years has been on patriotic lines but surely the its employment. If all the nations of the world were petition. There's a moral justice tracy to-day with committing an engine trouble Lieut. Coney was time has come to realise that a haircut by any other hand would busily employed in producing and consuming goods, the behind the plea, and we are glad assault on other coolies and also forced down at Bronte, Texas, lock as nest. I can see our scare head lines disappear and those The flying thence to Love Field, who compile our news bills reduced to impotence-makers of bricks increase in the tonnage under construction might be regard to think that our local Govern with disorderly condost ed with great satisfaction; but with enormous numbers of ment recognises it. In the future matter arose out of a quarrel Dallas, from which point be without straw

If Herr Wirth sends along ony more of those messages, per the world's inhabitants standing aside from international principle should not be lost sight transpired that there was actual fling time for the Renter it will soon be deemed an impertinence on the part of development of Hongkong that a gang of stone-breakers, and made one hop to Jacksonville, commerce and with others not working at full measure, the of

fight in which poles and bammers transcontinental flight being 22 patriotic, though distory, War Memorial Committees to continus existence of so much shipping in the course of construction

were used, Mr. Longinctio prose-hours 27 minutes. Disappointed their labours. Those rouvenir guns of ours packed carefully away Australia Again. arouses mixed feelings. Employment cannot be found for

cuted and Mr. Hind defended. by his inability to produce the in godowns will one day have to be dumped sixty fathoros deep, for the Surely the Australians must His Worship thought there were performance aimed at in this day isna fer distant when an indignant Germs Consul will talk a great many of the ships already afloat. That trade will have got the Indian eleno lies being told on both sides and light, Lieut. Coney desired to of international discourtesy and a crack in the Anglo-Teutonic revive sooner or later we know, and it is the duty of all borrow phraseology favoured of bound the parties over to be of make a return trip from Jack-Entente. So you Memorial messers had better get busy while yet to consider how they can best help to effect an early in boxers over the willow-wielders good behaviour.

sonville to San Diego in a one-there is time. For the souvenir guns I know of a party badly in day, one stop fight. It was this need of the like just a hundred miles away. Bhast-it's all right. provement. In the meantime, it is a question how the of the Old Country! That the

attempt that ended fatally The Canton Times doesna' subscribe to this paper, additional tonnage is going to earn its upkeep. For the Cornstalks are a rattling good

March 30. Hopping off from immediate present, at any rate, new shipbuilding orders trated during the M.C.C.'s. tour, grounds, England would do her 25, engine trouble forced Lieut. something from Renter on these lines.

combination was amply demons-Lord's, and the other landing Pablo Beach at 1,40 km. March Aye, things are looking up. Ony day we may new expect cannot be expected on a large scale, which makes it the when Armstrong, Macartney, self justice. And now in the Coney to attempt a landing st more deplorable that many of such contracts as are going, McDonald & Co accomplished Erst Test match-the hundredth 7.30 the same morning. His plane

Berlin June 7 The German foreign office announced "to-day that the as for repairing work, should have to be sent abroad owing the unprecedented feat of sweep-meeting between England and struck a tree, and fell 75 fee

German nation must realize it was defeated in the war. It to the attitude of a certain section of the workers. The ing the board in the firs Test Australia-theinen from the Lieut. Coney sustaining injuries fartber stated the government would pay twice over all general body of shipyard workers have come to au amicable matches. Even then thers were Southern Cross have again that resulted in bis degib,

reparations demanded by the Allies. arrangement with the employers. A number of the joiners chances. While in Australia Hobbs' absence was a misfortune, plenty of believers in England's trounced Albion's representatives. have found employment in other fields, this accounting the homeland's cricketers had otherwise there is no excuse to largely for their obduracy. Such extraneous work may experienced a measure of ill-fuck offer. The wicket was wet for not always be available in large volunie, so that it behoves in the toss and several players Australis as well as for England.

had been below par in the Balding all praise, then, to the visitors the joiners to see reason before the goose quits England to department. It was felt that on accustomed to dry pitches for lay her eggs, golden or even silvern, elsewhere.

the familiar turf of the Oval, their greater adaptability.

DUKE AS DISTRICT COUNCIL CHAIRMAN.

The Duke of Bedford has been

elected chairman of the Woburn (Beds) District Council,

And if that, why not this ?

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Patrogra, June? Lenin and Troizky to-day accepted positions with a Brition syndicate at £10,000 a year each. They hate re nounced Bolshevism and have asked the British Govor meat to set up a protectorate over Russia. They would like to have Prince Edward appolated first president,