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MONDAY, JUNE
Criminal or Patriot ↑
*The Canton agitation againNİ nomination of Li Yuan-bung as President is now in full blast:
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DAY BY DAY.
MONET DOESN'T TALK AS MUCH |
Mr. Que Tai-chi, Administrative AS PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY. Secretary of „Kwangtung,__an "important member" of San Yat
vis-a-vis Li Yuan-bong." Io view jewellery and money.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
The Financial Position:
CINEMA NOTES.
Comedy at the Caronet.
When a man goes to the pic- Lures he goes there to relax, and This month's Criminal Sessions
discerning cinəmə managements RIGID ECONOMY STILL
discovered long ago that the san's office and formerly private commence on Monday, the 19th.
NECESSARY;
average picture-goer is more si- secretary to Li Yuan-bung, has instant
The financial position of the reacted by good comedy than by addressed a lengthy telegram to
His Excellancy the Governor University of Bongtong is clearly heavy drama. A jodioious mix- (the latter urging bìm not to take on the job and pointing out that of Macao left for Lisbon to-day set out in the accounts for the turn of the two is not infrequent- it would be illegal for him to do travelling as far na Marseilles by period September to December. ir successful but the popularity so. The message is couched in the s.s. Angers. He is accom-1921, copies of which have been of the straight comedy remains even panied by his wife and children. forwarded us by the Registrar undisputed. That is probably the temperate language and
Mr. N. Teesdala Mackintosh) reason why the present pro- goes so far as to admit Li's'
The A merchant's concubine, dis- Accompanying these accounts is gramme at the Coronet is draw- You can forget that disinterested patriotism."
significance of the telegram, so satisfied with her lot, has led an explanatory note addressed to ing such capital baases. It in- burglars exist when the Cars" lies in the from o. 11 Tung Street where this Excellency the Chancellor cludes two joyous comedies, the fact that it is believed to define the she lived, and is said to bars and to the members of the Fin-chief of which is Mack Sennett's tba you put a Yale general attitude of the South West taken with her 3600 worth of ance Co William Brungate Home Talent wherein
Court by Sir famous Mack Sennett bathing Vice Chancellor, which is of! official attitude
**bsauties disport themselves -as Night-latch on your of the
Roman slaves. The Mack Sen- the Canton Parliament towards A Union bas recently been follows
In my Budget Note for the nett film is ably backed up by door.
Li, that observation is intensely formed in Canion by the workers
the different brasawara period September-December 1921. Larry Samon in one of his most The Yale Cylinder Night-latch interesting. Now, what does the in
It in-granted these labourers a permit nor the expenditure of that period Waiter" and deadlock, clering all the constead of showing a brave front at to organize the Union.
could be usefully separated from those of the preceding academic Special Kowloon Dance. Joniens of the spring lock, togethers critical moment, Lisacrificed
Encouraged by the remarkable most perfect security his duty for the sake of ŝaving his]
For the second time the Tracy year, and thet only as at 31st. life and signed the mandate team of the U.S.S. Destroyer No. December, 1921, could we regard success of last week's fixture the turning over the Republic to the 14 defeated the All-Canton team, our financial reorganization management of the Kowloon Mancha House." It then goes by a score of 11-10. The game completed or arrive at a cles Thesire are arranging several on to describe him as "one of the took place last Saturday at statement of our financial posi special features for the dance criminals of the country" and Pui Ying's Football Field action. My then estimate of the which is to take place to-morrow position as at 31st. December evening. Several of the dance asserts that, "being a criminal, Fongisten.. Li Yuan-bung has lost
anticipated a balance on current numbers to-morrow night are to privilege of being a President." Perched in a precarious position account of approximately $71.000 be vocalized by Lena and Tedo, on the cutting at Morrison Hill, plus some $17.000 due from the the popular focal couple, and a 3D earth coolie tumbled down Central Chinese Government or new Fox Trot composed by Pro- In view of these declarations, the hillside when the gravel Provincial Government, the pay-fessor Anino, of the Coronet it is pertinent to ask what the save way. He was injured in ment of which in the immediate orchestra, is to be tried out. Mrs. верт doubtful. Harry Woods has consented to South-West really does believe of the leg and was ramosed to the future would
The actual position as disclosed give another rendition of her star- Li. If be shirked his duty and Government Civil Hospital. by the accounts now submitted popular "Pearl of the Pacific"
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One result of the Washington) Conference was
mittee
Which is Right?
the
is a criminal, obviously he cannot
be disinterested patriot." as Mr. Quo Tai-chi says he is. More
than that, the discovery that Li
balance of $37.068, Waltz. &
Shortly after two o'clock this shows afternoon, an accident occurred together with a reserve for bad
at Tung Tak Lane, off Cochrane and doubtful debts of $45,000, the
is a criminal appears to have Sreet, when a Chinese fell from latter exceeding in amount the
A PW.D. Query.
the
ara
On
Hend
our sterling
a decision to paly been just made, for we have the top fear of 2 building and total of debts the payment of on exchange on appoint an international com- Mr. Quo's word for it that during was instantaneously killed. The which is due course is in any way investments and in part to under- to investigate China's the regime of Sun Yat-sen as deceased fost ber balance whilst in doubt. This position is problimation: $3,600 on tuition
Generalissimo in Canton (that is, eleaning windows
the ably more satisfactory than was fees due to the number of It students entering for the by- judicial system with a view to after Li had committed the acts verandah and was precipitated at all hoped for a year ago. the eventus) abolition of extra- now described as illegal) cease from a height of over thirty feet. means that with the exercise of term September to December of OTE
rigid economy we ought to be able exceeding our very conservative territoriality. In Peking cd less efforts were made by the Southerners to persuade him to
Miss Eileen Woods is leaving to carry on for a period to be estimate: $423 on Hostel profits; measured in Fears without and $1,506 profit on Book-store. Shanghai the authorities made
resume official life, but he stead-
on the 20th. instant by the efforts to push on with the work fastly refused to do so. If because Hoosier State for the United actually running into debt. The The item last-mentioned is dus current balance is, however, not to raising the prices at which. of reforme in, readiness for the of what he did ir 1917, Li Yu&D States for the purpose of studying cutirely due to the, fact that a books have been sold but to good all the latest dances, which she visit of the commissioners. These burg was a "criminal," why did
the Sduth make overtures to him? will bring to Hongkong on her re- portion of the recent Government fortune is being able to dispose a certain amount of stock activities, rightly or wrongly The plain fact seems to be that win in to be will make grant was not ear-marked for of
investment: it in no way means which had been written off as described by some as window. Sun Yat-sen and party are deter-
Ja special point of children's that there is any surplas on obsolete. dressing, were interrupted by the mined to oppose Lf at all costs dances and the ballroom tango
to working, whether Allowing for the special credits current Chang-Wu collision, and word/Bad, in order to make a case they which looks like becoming very make good existing and admitted above mentioned, our estimates
are quite prepared to tell the
popular next season.
deficiencies, or to provide for of expenditure under different ibat a.. "disinterested went forth that China contem-world
the expansion which increasing abstracts have been in no case plated a postponement of the patriot" is in reality nothing but
Floods along the East River
numbers will render argently exceeded, save for a sum of $305 "criminal"
reported. According to
an Electric Light and Power, and investigation. A few days ago
necessary in the near future. correspondence received from It will be remembered that in$184 on Wiring and Maintenance. report came along from Shang.
Waichow, the streets in the city the Budget estimates the items The net result is an excess of As he calls at the Middle East are flooded. The bridge acroes University Examination fees Income over Expenditure of hai that the Chinese authorities
the river in front of the East and Matriculation and Local $2,577.43, which, added to the Are renewing their preparations ports on the voyage out
grifin" meets with the novel Gate of Walchow city Examination feas" were left surplas of $84,490.83 as at August now that the civil war appears spectacle of vehicles drawn by destroyed by floods on the 10th.
blank on both sides of the 31st. given the total of 887,068.26 to have blown over. At the that patient quadruped the yak. inst. It is reported that the momect there is some doubt con- A rather rough time some of the water is still rising. The Wai.account, on the ground that the above mentioned.
The Departmental Accounts recent change in the fees for our poor beasts seem to have of ik chow Chamber of Commerce and local examinations rendered any call for little comment. It may cerning the position.
especially down in Indo-China, the authorities of the district are accurate estimate impossible: it be noticed under account 5 that where we noticed some Annamese conferring ou plans to prevent was, however, stated that those Sundry Debtora sro as high as aging the animals Danks raw further damage by the flood. examinations would be conducted $101,000. This means no more By the time this Colony is reach
at a loss. The net cost of Univer- that the half-yearly income of 's ed, the animals are no longer seen except in P.W.D. sehicles. Here, Su, contractor's foreman, of No. at 8881.73, while there is
The business instincts of Liity examinations is now shown large part of our investments is payable at the end of December in the Model Settlement. Fol-we are happy to say, there is 502. Shanghai Street, got him into logs on Martriculation and Local and was not credited until the lowing the unedifying episode in none of the Baying process: trouble on Saturday. Met by Examination fees of $4,050.35. year was closed. The sum in- some me on the Shatin Gap The last mentioned item is rather volved is approximately $42,000, relation to Mr. Fleming, a practi- least wo have never seen it admin- istered, nor noticed traces of it! Liorer before that tribunal, Judze on the yak's hide. One thing that ad on Saturday, he was asked alarmingly heavy, and is to be duly received and credited during if he would consent to take no the
the increased the first half of January.
It will be noted in the same Lobingier, last year returned to has astonished us, however, is America upon what has develop that in some of the carts the job of building a retaining wall, number of candidates and to the
A more was made to a secluded excessive. cost of stationery. table that no less than $54,000 of cros-bar is so low that, to all appearances, the animals' heads pot some distance away, for the The loss provided for in the our current balance was invested consequence is that Americans are forced almost to the earth. Purpose, it was given cat, of dis 1922 Budget is $3,500 only, and bearing interest at the end
cussing the terms; but when the and.
A further increase in of the year. The sum provided in the Far East find their suits It is true that the formation of foreman reached the place he the number of candidates is to be for in next year's Budget is help up. and, besides this, Chinese the yak's neck tends downward. discovered that it wLS trap-expected, it will be necessary to 845,090 only, the excess being bat in the carts to which we Other men were already there, consider how our loss can be due to be fact that a sum for the refer the cross-bar, unless we are sad these laid their hands on him minimised. I should be very re-investment of which provision altogether mistaken, depresses and relieved him of a sum of $17. nctant to recommend a further had been made in advance was the bead much below the natural It was a sadder, but wisor fore increase of fees at the present still outstanding. level. Certainly the bar is lowers who afterwards made his moment. on some of the vehicles than on others, apparently causing the animals unnecessary suffering, Possibly we are under a misap- prehension, as nobody could suppose that the Hon. Mr. Perkins would countenance gratuitous
A difficult problem threatens to become aggravated by the state of affairs in the United States Court for China, located
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This has an appearance of admitting the thin end of the wedge. Perhaps it is the Mixed) Court that it is proposed to use, though the correspondent writes as if American cases are to be
way home.
MACAO AFFAIR.
cruelty; but the arrangement of Canton Labourers' Meeting, the cross-bar left a disagreeable impression upon us..
Y
to attributed
as
Amongst the Special Ac- Other expenses not provided counts shown on the Liabilition for in the Budget for the period side of the same account is $3,320 under review include (4) 87,719 in respect of interest on the John for Hostel Repairs, which, Swire Benefaction. It has been stated in the Note accompanying decided to carry the interest on last year's accounts, were intend-this fund to a special account, year and the carrying forward Budget, and it is proposed next ed, to be charged against last to be dealt with outside the The labourers of the city have of which increased the nominal year to include a soparais table recently formed Society to surplus as at 31st. August: (b) showing its situation. deal with the Macao affair. The $2,442 for Surveying, Chemical In account 15 Ho Fook and inauguration of the society was and Physical Equipment, met Chan Ksi Ming Scholarship CANTON NEWS. held yesterday afternoon at the out of additional grants from the Account the only interest shown Educations! Association Build Finance Committee:(c) $2,137 for as received is $7.16 in respect of offices for the Bank interest. The hall-yoerly dealt with by the porels native Police Threaten to Strike. or suilds were present at the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge.
ing. More that one hundred additional
met interest on the capital som was in the same way: (d) $1,738, receivable in London and only tribunals. It is to be hoped that.
Our Canton correspondent says meeting.
sxpenses of the reached Hongkong after the eloge the report has no official found it is rumoured bat negotiations Mr. Mok Yo-tab of the Sincere additional
The completed accounts, taken ation, for such a course suggests are proceeding between Sun Yat- Company presided and gave a Vice-Chancellor's more extended of the year. letting the issue go by defaultsen and so American capitalist speech on the recent Micio in-toor in the North, and $552 in A piece of inadvertence on the for loan of fifteen million cident. The speaker declared that connection with our represents-es a whole, serve to confirm me dollars, with the revenue from a since Chinese were so mercilessly tion at the University Congress in the view that it will be possible part of one of the treaty Powers section of the Canton-Samahui slaughtered in Macao, all citizens in London; and (r) $999 for the to work with considerable ac. country must fight purchase of furniture, being for curacy to the figures shown in was to some extent responsible Railway and other property as of the
for a satisfactory settlement of the most part the desks necessary our 1922 Budget, save so far a8 (12 for the abolition of extrality "security.
To view of the discount on the ca 66. Simply wiring for the increased number of may be deliberately decided to in Japan. Of course, sooner or bankuotes having dropped to 40 telegrams, petitioning government candidates in the Local Ex-spend any of our current balances, by way of special credit, for the later abolition must have come for 50 per cent, all the officers of authorities," Mr. Metssid, "csn- aminations.
The As the estimated surplus for the sake of efficiency.
The new form of accounts which that country, where the the various Government depart not help the situation. judicial system, whatever be its ments have requested that their people must unite in a solid period under review was $10,097
above enumerated could not have the year ending: 31st. August Cefects still, as outstripped pay in future be made in sub-union to deal with the affair, oply, the additional expenses was adopted in the Account for
sidiary coins. The members of practically?"
Speeches on measures to deal been met unless our receipts bad 1921, and is reproduced for the procedure in China. Eventually the police forces have jointly abolition will come in the latter notified their Superintendent that with the matter were given by also exceeded our estimate. The period now, under review
if their request for an increase of other labour and social leaders, principal items in excess are proved of considerable assistanos country too. But let the question two dollars monthly in coin is The Society will hold another $5,857 under the heading in enabling us to judge of our be decided on its merits, not by not granted they will go on strike greeting this Saturday-Canton "Interest, due in part to favour-financial position under dinerent
able investment, in part to gain huedings at any given mement within a week.
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