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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1923.

DAY BY DAY.

ing money from the Government for building purposes should not charge a rental yielding them more than aight per cent. op capital outlay. People are now

The Diocesan Conference is to asking why, if eight per cant. was considered a fair and just be held in Hongkong on March

13th. return to landlords, that figura

AND SOUND NATIONS,

HOMEWARD BOUND,

BOOST HONGKONG. -

ECONOMY MAKES HAPPY HOMES Delta Taking Drafts Away Why Not More Publicity? To-Day.

All sorts of literature, finds its Drafts from the different mili-way into the office of the average Some American keng by the sa. Delta this after-syndicated matter, presumably tary units will be leaving Hong.wspaper. noon, soma of the officers on written by somebody intarested cannot be adhered to in the case A Club room has been opened retirement from the Service, their in certain shipping company and Canada, came my way the of new property, at least until in the St Andrew's Church Hall, reliefs having arrived by the same and for publication to the States other day. The article, which such time as the supply of Kowloon, for the boys of the Scout vessel on the outward voyage,

There was much bustla at the was illustrated by a photo of Troop.

R.A.S.C. wharf this morning, Hongkong barbour from the Peak houses meets the demand. They

Yesterday's bealth return when the beary baggage way and a picturesque snapshot of a argue, with a considerable degree of reason, that, so far as the shows one case each of diphtheria, collected and taken on board. junk, gava a short description of lombarked from Stonecutters, winter resort. It was little teaant is concerned, it is im enteric fever and cerebro-spinal Early this afternoon the waits the advantages of this Colony as

All were Chinese.

Lyemun, Kowloon and Hongtong more than cleret camouflaged material where the landlord fever. obtain the 'money with which to

Among the forthcoming, mar and there were the usual scenes advertising.

It has always struck me a build-that the origin is nothing.riages announced is that between accompanying such departures.

The officers and their wives rather remarkable that nobody Hotel, Kowloon, and Miss Alice who embark by the Delta from the considers it worth while to spend and the need of protection every. Mt. Ernest Kern, of the Station

At from this

J. V. Nally, of the Victoria Hotel, Hongkong command are the fol the money to bcom Hongkong. lowing:-Of the Royal Garrison Advertising paye, but Hongkong thing. Loaked İstandpoint, it would appear that. Shameen,"

Artillery. Major C. L. Hickling, as a city does not seem to realias so far from the present Ordinance. being repeated, there are good arguments why it should be widened in its application.

MUSTARD & CO. Hauls of Arms.

17. Connaught Road, Central, Tel Central No. 1156.

BIRTHS. ROE-At the Peak Hospital on Tursday, 6:h. inst. to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Koe, a son.

LLOYD-At Cranagh, Jervois Road, Singapore, on January 15th. the wife of C. J. Lloyd, Hongkong Bank, a daughter.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 7th Feb., 1923.

RENT CONTROL.

The prospects of a renewal of

The Rev. M. W. Shewell, M.A.D.S.O., Major W. C. Dawning.it. Bringing the Colony before CF, is appointed Senior Chaplair Major E. D. Matthews and Mrs. the notice of the world would at to the Forces, Chins Commsz, Matthews, Capt. P. Havelock tract more tourists. it would more trade represenia- with effect from Jan. 1st. 1923, to Davies, MC., Capt. C. S. Cum-attract administer a!! denominations ming. Capt. J. M. Murphy, Lieuktives, it would probably attract G. E. F. Boyes, Lieut E. T. O'N more firme, with the natural other than Roman Catholic.

Hogben, Lieut. A. H. Mockridge result that it would bring more

to Lieut.business

the commercial Mrs. Mockridge, The discovery of huge consign..

The eighteen barrels of arins and ments of arms and ammunition in and ammunition seized whilst W. H. Thornton, Lieut. J. T. houses here and more revenue to the Colony goes merrily on, so being taken into the Kowloon Bigg, Lieut. C. G. Lovegrove the Government.

Advertising has the same ra- to speak. Twenty machine-gunsgodawns on Monday were from and Mrs. Lovegrove; of the Royal 440 pistols and revolvers, and the s.s. President Wilson, and not and Engineers, Lt. S. L. Ham-sults whether applied to a town of several tundred thousand rounds the President Jackson, as a first mond and Mre. Hammond; and of to a business. And look at the the Royal Army Medical Corps, big business houses whose suc- of ammunition is the latest tally stated.

Major D. L. Harding, D. S. .,cess to a large measure is due to in a single coup effected by the

Cap K. A. M. Tomory and Mrs. their belief in letting the world Tomory, Capt. and Qtr 3. know who they are, where they Hongkong preventive service. Euber half a company of bandits

arms were

We have received from Mr.

Capt. Linton, R.A.M.C., of the

by the Delta. Sorth China command, and Mrs. Linton, are also homeward bound

are and what they have to offer- Pear's, Bass, Beacham's, Johnnie

ed business success. They bad Walker, Dunlops, to mention only a few. Those firms have achiev the goods, they told the public they had them, and the public Hongkong has the goods, too; bought them.

or three or four gangs of pirates, Wallace Farley several calendar Eawright and Miss Eawright. have been disappointed of getting issued by Messrs. Hustler and their weapons this time, but will Palmer, the well-known biscuit probably wait for the next lot to manufacturers of Reading for get through or else equip them whom Mr. Farley is the Shang selves from the considerable stock hai representative.

Major Harding is the officer in that must have accumulated in

Several of the steamers to arrive charge of these drafts going back different parts et South Coins) by now. Or it may be that these in port to day and yesterday roto Blighty." The total number, intended for the port having experienced a very including the men's families, is ure of some Southern war lord, strong monsoon and heary seas. abou: 290. Besides the officers, but Hongkong does not let the purpose of The 5.5. Banca, which brought the the other ranks of the military world know about it. Does Brik about 50 in number; audain realise the possibilities of for the legitimate

Whatever the Home mail in yesterday, had its are

few aval Hongkong from a commercial the there

view? Our ousting a rival.

of the steering gear damaged on ultimate destination

ratings. inclrding Chief Writer point of coasigement, it gives rise tofway up.

Arnold, father of the lad who jour motor-cycles, our cinema Carrying a revolver, knives was fatally mauled by a cheatah films, our music, our matokes, a who is proceeding great proportion of our clothing. on. Has the proportion et dis and torches, three men boarded recently, coveries been greater of late, or is junk whilst it was moored along-Home with Mrs. Arnold. The toiles necessities- large pro- every day-from where do they come? Not from Britain. the business of smuggling arms sine the Hunghom Ferry Wharf Delta is expected to sail aboat portion of the articles we use and ammunition flourishing more last night and stole money and four o'clock. than ever?

further speculation as to bow much of this traffic is really going

Working on

the clothing of the total value of $46.

are

also B

Cars

the Bant Control Ordinance form the subject of a deal of discussion amongst householders at present There is no doubt that landlords sumption that less than twenty The cask was the only person

per cent. of the traffic is being aboard at the time, and he was MOTOR SHIP DELAYED countries which apply them, would like to see the present checked, and bearing in mind easily intimidated.

law

annulled,

W2 but

shall the recent big hauls, ene arrives

be much surprised if their wishes at a startling estimate of thei

for 90.

Some appear to think kong-

quit if the property changes hand. That is not the case, and

be Coited States co

taken into account.

limited

Surgeon-Captain H. S. Burnis

steamer.

The

well-known

Three Chinese.

I'm not saying anything against these goods,

or

tba

but, when all's said and done,

this is a British Colony and the Britisber naturally

wants to do all he can to hely Parole his own country-especially when

Exhibition in London next year,

1:

proportions of this smuggling ton, C.M.G., has been appointed Serious Charges Against ale realised.

There is, among business. Much of the ammus: to the Royal Naval Hospital at

An interesting case, in which a million or so of his fellow. - many tenaats, considerable ignor-ion can be used up from time to Hongkong, sad will be borne on ance regarding the exact nature time, bat the weapons must be the books of the Tamar, depot of the present law, although insteadily accumulating, and we ship at the port. Captain Burais-three men formerly employed in countrymen at Home are paem wonder how many unlicensed ton saw a great deal of hard work the engine room of the motor ployed owing to slackness of trade. has been in force for two years firearms could be found in Hong. afloat and ashore in the late ship. Kong Niug, belonging to Du the Brush manufacturers w: (mentioned in despatches.ir. Banker and which is on the sealing the market they have here, Kongmoun run, are charged with they care to take the trouble C.M.G.).

doing damage to the engines of to work up the necessary con- that they can i given notice to Immigration Problems.

Our neighbour Malays has an The restrictions now being in- Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, the ship, was opened before the nections? troduced by the Government of the Naval Commander-in-Chief Marine Magistrate (Comcasder

aliens

boom the country and to let the in China, is expected to visit C. W. Beckwith) at the Marine information agency in London to it is as well that tenants should emigrating to that land are not Manila on February 16ib. on the Court this morning. Mos: of the

The master of the vessel, Mr. world know they are or the map. What doan this Colony do? know the fact So long as the to be wondered at.

Hawking, accompanied by the standard rent is paid (that is, the emigrants from Europe now Despatch, Diomede, Peterfield, F. L. Pyne, is charging the men

days are refugees, whose re- Titania and several subrosrines on two counts, the first being that apparently nothing. We are to rent applying on January 1st., Sources are small and whose Lady Leveson and the two Misses they deserted from the ship in represented at the Empire 1921) they cannot be dispossessed. chances of being successfully Leveson are also expected to visi: Hongkong at 3 p.m. en Sunday but that will be only temporary

into the productive

little mors per- .omething 5 save where the building is to beaten:bed

did wilful damage to the engines.advertisement; we should have

When the case came on this

MANGAL. pulled down or substantial im-population of America are slight, Manila, travelling by passenger last, the second being that they

There is a limit to the expansion provements involving a specified of every country, and in the

Then, do our Eastern neigh- Stanghai morning, it was formally adjourn.

norbours, the Straits Settlements, | expenditure are to be carried out. United States, despite the great billiards player, Mr. E. D. Bush, ed until to-morrow, after the

the Federated Malay States, Any tansot, therefore, who is developments going on. there is

It will be alleged agains: the the Pailippines, Borneo, Java, number of years. under the impression that very early as big a population who has figured promineatly in defendants had pleaded

as the country is likely to need billiards championship in Shang guilty."

hai for A The important change of ownership of itself can for years to come. result in bis being turned out, can factor of the natural increase of defeated the local champion Mr.defendants that before leaving Sumatra, Shanghai and some of rest assured that the law gives the settled residents has to be R. C. E. Johnson in a 300-up the ship they put a quantity of the Northern ports, realise the

Even in game at the Thirty Club on ground glass powder into certain attractions of Hongkong as

A Shanghai resident the other the new owner no such right.

countries, like Australia, where January 1st The holder of the working parts of the engines and winter holiday rebors?

title, who was representing the also into the bearings. This war,

a wonderful large tracts of land are practical French Club, made a total of 177. fortunately, discovered, but even day said he had no idea tong.

in the winter. Mr. Bush made breaks of 58, 50, as it was the bearings suffered a kong had such

certain amount of damage, the climate onpeopled, only a annusl absorption of immigrants

delayed in con-was a revelation to him-and ship being Qae fexture and 37 un6nished. can take place.

l'a pleasant ons after the intensa sequence.

cold he had been experiencing in A most interesting program me of this question that also counts

the Northern port. And those who for a great deal now is the general

are condemned to spend economic distress and lack of has been arranged for the concert

their lives in the perpetusi employment. This constant flow which is to be held in the Church

sweltering heat of the tropics, of the surplus population of one Hall, Kowloou, to-night, moder

with the sun blazing pitifes.ly land to another, and the fact that the auspices of the St. Andrew's

down on the day alter day, the number of people in the world Church. Mec's Association. The

with Discovery in Harbour. is steadily increasing, gives rise Hongkong Male Voice Choir,

an intensity even mora to speculation on the position of under the conductorship of Mr.

Evidence was taken at the severe than our hotfest days in even a hundred years hance. 0. 0. Fieldgate, is to render The time of synthetic tabloid pamerous items, songs are to foods might have come by then, be contributed by Miss Jean Police Court this morning in the summer, do they realise that Com-case in which two men, after from hovember to May thera ia to discourage building. Since or else man, like the animals of Lowson and Engineer the intro iaction of the Ordinance, the jungle, might be engaged in ander Hocken, Mra. Balean is haring received sentences for climate on a par with an LDK- We have wonderful traže of Zellensky will provide humorous had to answer other charges of steamer journey away 7. however, the demand for houses war of extermination of his to give a violin solo and Mr. L. A. possession of opium trafficking, lieb kammer only a few days'

The accom-possession of 19 Mauser pistois of the the survival has continued unabated, with the kind, under the

fittest, impersonations. warfare Panists will be Mrs. Collett and end 1,900 rounds of ammunition, facilities, for six montas of the result that many residents seek Commentators

climate, and our scenery said. ing accommodation have had no among the so-called civilised Capt. H. Fogg, M.C. The pro-The defendants were the master year we enjoy an simast ideal Sergeant Carey, of the Water to compare favourably with may Police, related that, on seeing a part of the world. Then let the option but to go into new houses. nations have sometimes as nically ceeds are in aid of the Seamen's and fori of a junk.

suggested that man is merely Institute.

fare light attached to the mast world know. That has meant the payment of carrying out the dictates of bis

of the junk, he put off in a boat exorbitant rentals, and, with original animal nature, under the

W. B. Hulke, D.S.O., Brigade-with a seaman and came upon the increase in the number of guises of modern methods, and will continue so to the end of the

OSAKA'S ATHLETIC STADIUM. new bouses, this hardship is world.

Naturalists who merely Commander in Flanders during the defendants in the process of

The new athletic grounds at being felt by a growing number look upon mankind as a higher the War, is now running a coffee dumping the opium and arme of householders. If matters con- form of the animal kingdom, and shop near Oxford Gircus. Inter-overboard, to avoid discovery.

was be held, will be completed by the tinus as present, the time will who bear in mind the ruthless viewed, he said, "My wife cooks Three of the sacks containing Osaks, on which the next Far methods that Nature uses to keep and superintends the kitchen, arms and opium were recovered Eastern Olympic content are to come when these people will the creatures of this earth within while I take the money, and if abs means of drags. It need protection as well as the limits, sending famine and pestil-customer wants beer, I run and intimated previously that if the end of March. They are said to ence when necessary, are inclined fetch it from the public house evidence were satisfactory, the be the most elaborately equipped I rise to all defendants would have to stand athletic grounds in the Far East, occupants of older property.

to feel sorry for the world's up the street,

of Y.200,000, The hearing is proceeding. Some time ago, it was made a population four or five genera occasions, even throwing out their trial at the Supreme Court. and have been prepared at a cost

undersirable customers." condition that landlords borrow-tions hence,

There is one point in connec tion with rent control which needs mentioning at the present time and that is the extremely high rentals which are being charged on new property. By the terms of the Ordinance, landlords can fix whatever rentals they choose on new property. Such property was not brought under the restrictive clauses of the Ordinance, because it was felt that this might tend

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