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LIFE ISN'T A SPURT, BUT - A
A Storm in Shanghai. STEADY CLIME. YOU Whoever has to go short, his LONG Excellency Marshal Chang Tao- CAN'T RUN UPHILL WITHOUT (From Our Own Correspondent)
Shanghai, July 19.
Crnight ago your Director lin, High Inspector-General of STOPPING TO SIT DOWN, SOME
A crowd of over one thousand eral meeting of shareholders in warwapproached by the Hongkong Manoburia and Mongolia, may be MEN DO A DAY'S WORK, AND
LOLLING Chinese stormed the gates of the the Stasm Laundry Company, Hotel Company with a sabemo the lion's share. As the resuls of AROUND ADMIRING IT.-G. H. Bankers Association, which was Ltd., was held at the office of Sir for the absorbtion of this Come
cashing
Industrialla Paul Chater at noon to-day. Banqua
pany by the Hotel Company. We' the recent Tientsin vonference,
notes. Two foreign polies ware Mr. E. J. Chapman presided carefully considered the matter the War Lards carried away)
and there wer» also present Strand are convinced that the tarms The Sergeants of the Wiltahire injured. spoils calculated at somewhere
C.P. Chater, CM.G." Mr. W.8. | offered are in the benefit of our about ten million dollars. The Regt. will hold the usual whist
Brown. (Directors), Mr. G. Mon-shareholders. The difference be share which Wang Chan-yuan, drive on Friday neri commenc
tague Ede, Mr. LS. Greenhill, tween the present value of our Tuchun of Hupeb, was able to ing at 8.30 pp. sharp. Adnits
M. N.V.A. Croucher and Mr. C. assets and the book value was secure appears to have been only.
Bernard Brown (Secretary). taken into secount and the basis greatly exaggerated, hence the
Reported Arms Agreement.
The Chairman, in proposing of the scheme is that in exchange outbreak of his Ichang and Over the week-and there werel; From Our Own Correspondent) the adoption of the report for 234 Laundry shares you will Wuchang troops, who were hoping three cases of plagus reported, as
Shanghai, July 19. and accounts,, said Your be offered one share in the Hotel for a good lump of pay. This did wall as one case of enteric fever,
The Journal of Commerce states Directors are pleased to be able to Company. The Hotel Compaay. not mean that the amount bauded one case of spotted fever and one that Depaties from the Ministrias place before you the excellent as you are aware is splitting over by the authorities had been case of puerperal fever.
of War and Navy are here figures shown; the profit on) up the nominal value of over-stated, but that Chang had
investigating & reported agree-Working account is the best wei its shares, and the one Hotel appropriated the bulk of the spoils, A jumble sale will be held at meant between Sun Yat-sen and have had since the Company share inferred to will be of the Ostensibly the money was for the the City Hall, on Friday, 2nd Moscow, whereby the latter is started, 19 years ago, being new nominal value of $10. A
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A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Sfongolian expedition, which daily July, at 3 p.m. The Benevolent furnishing arms for the southern $32,014.50 against 13.120.16 last spesial meeting will be called
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THE RUBBER SITUATION.
becomes more and more of a farce. Society will be glad to receive forces
year. Our earnings were greater, later at which the necessary" Chang has since demanded, and contributions for the Sale at
Chinese Naval Pay. and as overhead expenses remain | special resolutions will be placed apparently received, more funds Helous May Institute.
The Chinese Admiral has fairly steady, irrespective of the before you, and if you pass them from Peking for the same pur-;-
received messages from Com-amount of turnover, it follows liquidator will be appointed pase, although no serious move The loss through theft of a goldmanders of the Fleet stating that that our profit is larger: shipping and the Company put into volun- has been made towards Mongolia. watch and chain, valued at $300, the men have not been paid for was good and we were working at targ liquidation. Not satisfied with having pretty the property of shopkeeper two years, and submitting that full capacity the greater part of I now beg to propose the adop- well drained the central coffers, travelling from Kongmoon unless pay is forthcoming there the year. Our thanks are due to tion of the Rsport and Accounts his Excellency intimated that if Hongkong by the San Ning, has will be resignations. The Admiral the Manager, Mr. Gee, and as presented; after they have he is not allowed to exploit been reported to the Police.
has wired to Peking asking for the staff for the excellent been seconded, I shall be plaased Manchuria's wilt in his own way
aid.
results before you. Your direct-to answer to the best of my ors recommend that the balance ability any questions that share- at credit of profit and loss holders may desire to ask. account, $27,653.71, be apportion- Mr. Montagne Ede second ad ed as follows-To pay a dividend and the resolution was agreed to. jof 12% $12,000, Write off Mach- On the proposition of Mr. inary $4,500, Write off Buildings Greenhill seconded by Mr. An Improvement. $3.500. Carry forward $7,653.71. Croucher, Sir C. P. Chater was From thir then Correspondrut.)|The writing off is the same as re-elected & Director.
[last year but the carry forward Mr. Croucher proposed the re- Singapore, July 18.
is larger, the reason for it is that election of Mr. H. Parey Smith thelot plague (all fatal), five non-fatal Rabber is quoted at 33 to 34 your directors are aware of some as auditor at a remuneration of new commissioner. More than cases of enteric fever (three cents per P. and shares have large contingent expenses which $200. Mr. Greenhill seconded and this, it is reported that the Ad British), and one non-fatal case become more active.
must be met during the next few the proposition was unanimously ministration contrived to bring of diphtheria Three Chinese
months. Our boilers Important Meeting at
are in-passed. out of Manchuria something like died from infinenga.
eficient, they Amsterdam. ⚫ million and a half dollars which
Later. he super-Tuchan bad earmarked The Hongkong branch of the
The Rubber Growers Associs as his own. If correct the Nederlandsch Indische Handels-tion's Executive in London has Administration out-manœuvred bank has received a wire from the
he will close all the Gabelle | The Indian constable charged bureaux in the Three Eastern with the theft yesterday morning Provinces. A little while agoļof a purge from the tunic of a Chang appointed his own salt European Revenue, Officer in the commissioner, hoping to gain Imports and Exports shed on the complete control of this valuable Praya was remanded this ntoro- source of revenue, but the Salting, Administration refused 10 recognise The appointment Last week's health return
ordered
Bank shows that there were three cases the
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delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd. Chang on his own ground pretty Eastern Head agency at Batavia met a representative of London which we can acquire at a low Secretary. Thank you for your
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921.
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who certainly needs some curb
placed upon his pretensions.
far compiled off the "Cornstalks'"
the
stion of a Dutch Corporation
Between
Ourselves
smartly. The War Lord is stated stating that the meeting of share-provincial and colonial pressmen, Government for a piece of land to have threatened reprisals in holders in Amsterdam has decided and explained the scheme of the adjacent to that on which we EXIT SHENSI'S OLD TUCHUN. the form of extinguishing the to declare a dividend of 15 per in connection with which an in-secure it at the auction we intend meat, the Civil Governor of Shen- Rubber Producers Corporation. house part of our staff and if we Telegraphing to the Govern- bureaux over his own seal. The cent for the book year 1920. Administration, it is said, bas
tercational mesting is being held to put up additional quarters. We si stated that General Chen Shu- joined issue with the dictator.
A fine of $1,000 was im at Amsterdam next week. The also propose to rearrange our fan had handed over to him the
is dependent on the ing jank on whose vessel a similar to the British and on the regard to our assets you will added that General Yea Hatang- to economy of working. With preparing to leave Sianfa. He The Scottish Captain's Feat. quantity of raw opium was seized adhesion of at least two-third's notice that during the year we wan, the new Tuchun, was ex-
by Revenue Officers during the
of the world's planted acreage have expended $4,688.63 upon a lpected to arrive at once. In scoring 147 against the week-end. The seizure took
Local committees must approach The Rents Bill has been passed. That is the main Australians at Edinburgh, the place off Kennedy Town where
small owners, and producers will Scottish captain registered, we the junk was moored. central fact that has emerged out of all the discussion and believe, the highest innings so
be asked to subscribe one share per planted acre, which can be debate on the Government's measure. It is now an offence
Archbishop Manak. accom-called up in balf-crowns quarter- against the law of this Colony for any landlord to demand bowling. This is a distinction to panied by Bishop D.
Foley
It is expected that four calls a rental for a domestic tenement higher than that which be proud of, even if, as mayor Bishop Vaughan and Mr. J. T. will be sufficient.
I must confess I had a wee touch of the blues over the week-end was paid on December 31st. and it is impossible for him to pay no-have been the case. Meagher, all of whom are return- the visiting skipper gave his ing to Australia after their tour
but I never thought that onybody would have taken me seriously turn, a tenant out unless the tenant fails to pay the regular bowlers a rest. The per- of the orient, passed through
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enough to sit down on the Sunday and pen the following The standard rent or fails to behave himself as a self-respecting formance raises an interesting Hoogkoog to-day on the N.Y.K.
Editor o' the Telegraph was a bit annoyed at what I wrote last tenant should. All the other conditions and clauses might print as to the proficiency of steamer Nikko Maru. which
Saturday but he had to let it go, there baing no time before going be considered the legal frills or safeguards. Yesterday's Scotamen with the willow. In sailed for Sydney and Melbourne.
For driving at a speed between to press for a more liberal application of blue pencil (Incidently, 20 or 30 milles an hour in a cot- when I waste time hunting out latin phrases. I wish be'd see that meeting of the Legislative Council was productive of much some quarters of Caledonia, in- eluding the Public Schools. evidence showing that public interest has been deeply cricket has its enthusiastic de Council meeting yesterday we Nathan and Coronation Roads a
In our report of the Legislative trolled area, at the junction of they're no' mangled by the time they appear in print).
But a promise is a promise and therefore I feel in duty bound stirred by the Government's action. Chinese tenants were votees, but the game does not stated that Mr. C. G. Alabaster Chinese driver in the employ to give what was sent me, though, of course I don't quite see that almost fulsome in their expressions of thanks and Chinese advance beyond a certain stage,represented the Chinese Chamber ment of the Eagle Garage was there was sufficient provocation for wishing linguistic shortcomings
23 athletes south landlords were must decisive in their opposition. It is aand. nuch
as Mr. Alabaster was represent Lindsell.
may be the height of flattery but I'm no' so ultra-perfervid as to long time since the Legislative Council has witnessed the of the Tweed respect the Scots-Commerce. This was not so. tc-dar fined $25 by Mr. R. E. on a clientele already surfeited wi quastionable doric. Imitation
man's prowess at football, there
willingly countenance the constant infliction of a language so presence of two be wigged barristers pleading opposition is a general impression that Jock was not instructed by the Cham- ing a number of landlords, and
barbaric. causes on a Government measure, and it all goes to show is little berer than a duffer with bet.
A popular figure in the Civil
But, I suppose, we'll have to let it go this time... Is this view correct,
Service in the person of Mr that something like a record has been established in the bat and ball.
Dear Rab.
like that. A'm sure that Mr. George Ng Fook-sang passed matter of popular feeling aroused. The petition to the or is it due to mere egotism on We have received from the way at 3 o'clock this morning at Government representing over 200.00) Chinese tenants is we can remember one frish of the calendar for 1920-1921. The deceased was formerly Fol- Here," says she dingin the it'll be a kind os register part of the ignoble Sessanach University of Hongkong a copy the Government Civil Hospital ower the paper the other sicht Affair, will be pleased to have The wife wasos' five meenutes Ross, the Secretary for Chinese
in itself an eloquent index.
player. Mr. L. H. Gwynne, being which sets out the attractions of ice Accountant, and had been on Telegraph at me in a by ordnar for him, far better than ony Mr. Alabaster's point relative to retrospective legisla-selected to play for the Gentie-the institution and details the pension for a number of years kind o' temper which raither census an' it micht come in tion need not be so seriously taken as he urged. When the men: against the Players, but we matriculation examinations and The funeral takes place to mor- startled me). What the devil do handy some der when the Gov- law of supply and demand is being exploited as the are unable to recall any such the work of students who enter invitation to a Scotsman, let either of the three faculties. The
row afternoon.
I care aboot the French Revola- ernment's lookin' for mair bew- supply and demand for housing accommodation has been alone selection for a Test match little book is well arranged and
tion onyway? That chiel Mac. bees for they "laxary roads” any Government has the right to step in and control Here an important reservation produced and should
The opening of the company's Whirter's off the track: ye'd they speak about. prove a
Weesht Marget,” says 1, “yo that exploitation for the benefit of the greater number of interposes.
belpful guide to all prospective the extraction therefrom of a we're livin' in the present day."
sfs with a duplicate key and better write an' tell him that
manna say things like that; its citizens. If conditions at the time of a legislature's A Suggestion.
sum of $560 by some unknown "I'm nae han' at writin' says ye'll frichten the Chinese an action warrants the retrospective dating of a measure In the statement just made we in order to restore matters to just condition then such have used the word "Scotsman When a mui-tasi was this of the Pang Tak Tong firm, as yer tongue onyway",
thief is reported by the manager I, "Well ye're pretty guid wit they'll no send the peteeshun in." "Weel, if they diuna." says she saya be retrospective dating is indeed justifiable. One is forced to in the sense of a member of a Orme on charge of stealing of the 16th and the morning of utes to jot doon tws or three ideas Government withdraws the Bur
morning brought before Mr.G.N.Joccurring between the morning an' it'll no' take ye five meen-
***it'D "Bairve" them richt If the appreciate the argument regarding the undermining of Scottish olub. If we consider piece of clothing from a shop at the 18th instant. The money to help the chap oot What an leaves them tae the tender confidence, but it is a matter of choosing the lesser of two the case of Scotsmen resident in Das Vieux Road under the pre- has not been recovered or the am I tae write? saya 1, sittin marcies of the landlords. There's evils. The Government has made a wise choice in this England, the late Gregor Mic-tence of taking it to her mistress thief trace L
Gregor, prince of wicket-keepers,
doon resigned like. Tell Mac- been awer much hanky-panky wi' instance. But the Government came in for very un-springs to mind. Again, "Archie" for approval before payment. his
Whirter" says cha "That if he's the Chinese in the past an it's Worsbip dealt with the case by ambiguous censure regarding its own part in contributing Mc Laren, halder of the world's referring the girl to the Secretary caught fire early this morning (gie us a little mair o' The Duffs, duties as citizens. I thick Mac- The Police motor boat No. 8 stuck for a topic again just tae high time they realised their to the present shortage, and there will, we think, be general record score, must have more for Chinese Affairs instead of histon its way from Yasmati I like that wee mannie, he's sic Whirter will appreciate that agreement with the criticisms regarding the Land Sales than a suspicion of Scottis blocs sending her to prison. This deci-to Teim-sha-teui Pier. The awning pliable kind of husband, no
point." Department. It is undeniably true that a prospective pur-in his veins, if nomenclature goession, his worship said,
Wi' that the bell rang an' in was damaged, whilst additional like you says she. glowerin' at for anything; and by the sam- chaser of land would sooner deal with a private person token more than one member of
prompted by desire to give marks of fire were left, which was me.
But there's nas ides in stepped oor next door neibour than with the Government; that the Government has been the all-conquering Australians the girl a chance to lead a
thought to be caused by the ignithat," says I. "Is there no?" frae twa streets awa," "Ja'nt that aggravatin'," whispers Mar- miserly and ofttimes extortionate with its undeveloped must have affinity with the Land
tion of loose oil on the casing, says she. "Just ask the women before the outbreak was ex folks. There's twa things in that get the me, an in the same property; and that no encouragement has been given to o Cakes, to say nothing of legitimate enterprise in the work of developing the housing previous instances, such as Bruce, be attributable to lack of practice tinguished by the efforts of the paper they like. The first is broath. Come in Mrs. Mac-
Then, al-against first-class teams rather craw.
Maister Doff an the next is Fudgen; awfu gled te see ye. resources of the Colony, Building restrictions and laws though that grand batsman, A. E than to lack of talent, which
Maister MacWhirter when he's We were juist writin' a line tas are far too cumbersome and operate only to hamper. The Stoddart, represented
He's oor dochter at hame, but it'll dae England prompts us to venture a sugges- The seizure of 716,120 cigar-argy-bargylu' wi' Janst. military, too, is keeping an unduly tight hold on valuable against Scotland at Rugger, wetion. Just now when the selec-ettes at a Chinese shop at some bandfu. but she just has any time. Come in an' tak yer. land that should be freed for the public benefit. Mr. bave heard that he was of Scottish tion committee at Home are so Shaukiwan was to-day followed him every time; ony woman can cloak of its gey BD WATE indoors the nicht. Willie, you descent. As another example hard put to it in making up by an interesting case at the see that. Alabaster's speech was noteworthy for these two strong
a tour of a Test eleven, they might do worse Police Court when the defendant, "Noo," says she "tell him to shut that pad up noo an' help we may recall points, and we sincerely hope that, they will be taken notice Lancashire eleven in Scotland, than offer Mr. Kerr, the Scottish who is an agent for the B.A.1. write something about the Chin-e to entertain Mr. Mac
Fudgen." of and acted upon.
when Arthur old just gone to captain. an opportunity. It is a Co. was charged with being in ese an' the rents. Amab telle me There were nae mair ideas fae The rectification of both those matters should engage the long rest), one of the reasonable conjecture that such possession of dutiable tobacco, there's a big peteeshon signed by official attention without delay. The Government has at fastest bowlers that ever hurtled an innovation would do quite a The defendant was represented the tenants that'll fair pit that be jotted doon, but I maun tell last corrected by law the hindering and unjust operations the little leather sphere between lot to stimulate interest in the by Mr. Lyson, who asked for a constitution reform veterehun of ye that MaoFadger, puir soul, the wickets, was bit with freedom, game among Scotsmen. The light penalty, but the Magistrate yours in the shade. She tells has barn cot of job for ever se of landlords; it should at least correct its own faults as a These circumstances suggest that, matches are England Australia, (Mr. Orme) resolved to treat me that ower a hundred o' the lang an bis wife was just sayin' quid pro quo. It is only by co-operation on the part of all while the general standard of you say? In this case we don't the offence as a serious one. societies have signed, ower eicht he's been workin' saa hard lately that we ball reach that happy state when the necessity Scottish cricket is far below the think either Scotsmen or the By virtue of the Ordinance he thousand shops an' firms. Yama- tae get a job that he'll hae tae for the measure just placed on the local statute book will English or Australiao, the fact Australians would protest against imposed a torm of one month's tee has the come in yet. Man, tak holiday when he gets it.
that few players north of the the term comprehending the imprisonment in addition to a that's grand wark. You constitu no longer exist.
border achieve prominence may United Kingdom,
fine of $500,
ion reformers couldns' combine
M'Leod, and Duff.
students.
life better
in
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the future.
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