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WICKEDNESS IS A WONDER. best means of thecking further infation. The whe matter 1 FULLY DILIGENT ARCHITECT OF MISERY, OF BRAME" 1000M- summed up as follows: "In the PINED WITH TEBROR, AND present situation, with the COMMOTION, AND REMORSE, voluma of building

itsAND ENDLESS PERTURBATION.—

Plutarch. maximum and all building in- dustries working full time, thère is virtually no competition sod no factor of restraint on soaring prices."

To come nearer home, we have

the case of British Malaya,

where rent control and housing socommodation are two of the |country's big problems at present. About four years ago a Straits Settlements housing commission commendations and there, ap- sat, took evidence, and made re

favar. All were Chinese,

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the ** Hongkon gi Telegraph.) Hongkong Bank War Memorial.

THE PROPERTY BOOM.

Eight and a Half Lakhs for

bean 'In

S.S. KEIGI MARU.

On

East Point Block.

Another big property "deal han been put through, this time in Hongkong, and the purchasers are again Chinese. Sir, I read with interest in

We learn to-day that MN your issue of yesterday's des-F. H. Kaw, acting on behalf Yesterday's health return eription of the memorial in course of the vendore and pur shows three cases of small-pax, of erection in Statute Square by chasers, has arranged the sale by two of plague and one of enteric the Hongkong and Shanghai the Hongkong Land Investment Bank in memory of those of its Company, Ltd., of an East Point staff who made the great sacrifice block with a total area of €5,360 In thus bonouring its dead, the rquare feet, and comprising the On the trip from Canton by Bank is doing itself honour, for following houses: Nos. 161 to 183- steamer, a Chinese yesterday the credit of an institution is Praya East, I to 19 Bowrington jumped overboard. He was dis-made or marred by its staff, Street, 100 to 118 Wanobal Road, covered in the act, a boat being and surely no better evidence 1 to 10 Che Sing Street, and 1 to

of the promptly lowered and the man re-

right spirit could 5 Tin Lok Lane, a total of 58 scued. His mind appears to be be found than the record of the houses. unsound. He was taken to the Memorial. It forty-two KAVO The purchasers are two Chinese the ship's arrival in port. Government Civil Hospital on their all in the Great War, many gentlemen, and the price paid is more must have served and come $350,000. This works out at a through. parently, the matter ended, so

fraction over 313 a fool... I feal certain that the only In connection with the sale of far as the general public were

A. E Jackson and Thomas motive underlying the erection Punjabi buildings, Kowloon, re concerned. In the course of that O'Connor were obarged before of this Memorial was a desire to ported by us yesterday, the pro- enquiry. the expert evidence Mr. J. R. Wood this morning for Pay tribute, and that no unworthy [perty does not comprise only disclosed the existence of

ever four houses but a whole terracë, a vagrancy. It was stated that on ides of self-glorification

of those at present mostly occupied by Chinese contractors" "ring," and their arrival from Shanghai last entered the heads

night they gave themselves up to responsible. It therefore seems poorer-class tenants. the wasteful methods of dealing the police and informed the In- unfortunate that the wording with timber were also drawn spector as to their destitute con- In memory of the men.

lives were given. attention to. It was pointed out dition. An order for their entry whose that, owing to the absence of any into the House of Detention should not have

who pending enquiries by the police memory of the man pretence standardisation, as to the prospects of getting a job gave their lives", for no-one who planks and beams were supplied for them was made.”

has been any length of time in No Hopes of Saving, the East can be unaware of the in all manner of lengths and

proprietorial attitude assumed to- The Manila Daily. Bulletin öf The Telegraph. thicknesses, and were sawn to

wards their staff by some petty. April 14th reports: The Kaigi Our Picture Page to-morrow minded employers the required dimensions on the will include a photograph show which cannot justly be brought off the island of Pausy

a charge Maru, stranded on Arena island building site itself, with conse-ing the Boy Scoute on the trestle against the Hongkong and Shang- March 20, will be abandoned as quent grave wastage.

bridge which they constructed at hai Baok, but to which they a total wreck, according to a the recent Jamboree & group of unwittingly lay themselves open cable received at the office of the. In view of the above dis-Lady Stubbs and Girl Guides at by the wording of the inscription Mitsui Bosao Kaisha from the closures, it appears to us im-Government House; the Univer on their Memorial. possible to think that Hongkong Bound up with the question of can be free from similar in adequate dwelling-house accom-Enences, operating in the and modation. and the constant towards higher building charges outcry against high rents, is that and higher rents. We look to of building costs. The prices the commission now.investigating] paid for materials and for labour the subject to probe all such A Chinese arrived here from AFTER THIRTY YEARS. all fitting of the Kaigi Harn have soared considerably since questions thoroughly. Incident-Sandakan was charged with being the war. One factor operating ally, we in Hongkong can con- stowaway on board the steamer towards this result has been the gratulate

Victoria. Defendant was dis- Mr. J. C. Fincher Retires. ourselves 00 the covered concealed under a bed in actual shortage of material and knowledge that the recommend-the steerage hold. In reply to After thirty years continuous of machinery owing to war-time ations of the commission will his Worship, he said that he residence in the Colony, Mr. J. C, dieorganisation; another has been receive the local Government's had intended to buy his ticket Fincher of the Sanitary Depart aboard the steamar, but found bis ment, bid farewell to Hongkong the increased cost of living, re- earnest consideration, and prompt pocket had been picked when this morning, when he and his sulting in the demand for higher action where necessary, for in asked to pay the amount. family left for his home, Victoria, To Call At Hongkong. wagas by builders" workmen ; and this we have repeatedly been able possessed certain personal effects Australia, by the Yoshino Maru, on board. His Worship believed Mr. Fincher is retiring from the finally there has been, the actual

Mesars. Botelho Bros., Agents example to other the man's story and ordered bis Government Service on pension for the Compapis Transatlantica profiteering by contractors owing Crown Colonies.

discharge,

Mr. Fincter first came to the do Barcelona (Spanish Royal..... Colony in 1893, at the age of Mail Lins) advise us that this twenty-six, and joined the police. Company are extending their line years later he was to China and Japan. Haretofors transferred to the Sanitary the steamers of this line made Department as inspector. Mr. Manila their terminal port, but Fincher well remembers many beginning with the 8.5. Legaspi, Strike in Shanghai. trying times through which the which sails from Barcelona ön Colony has passed. The terrible the 25th, Instadt, these steamers Shanghai, April 19.

plague epedemic in 1901 when will touch at Hongkong both on Two thousand employees at there were over 1,500 deaths the outward and homeward tion, to study the conditions in warmest of welcome. Nothing Wing Ca's Yangiazepoo factories from this dread disease, will voyages. The steamers of this other parts of the world, and note can now be found bad enough to struck work owing to a dispute never be forgotten by those who lice are fitted for the carriage of

say about these outside forces who between the local and Can were with the Banitary Depart passengars and cargo.t wrested control of Canton from tonese foremen-Courtesy "Daily ment at that time. Then, in General Chan_King-ming and | Bulletin." made possible Dr. Sun's return. We do not intend at the moment

HONGKONG, 20th April, 1923.

BUILDING COSTS.

to the big demand for houses,

following the slackness of the

ta set AD

war years. To what extent pro-Slaying Their Fellows, Steering has affected building The Kwangsi troops who a few costs and eventually rents-in weeks 520 were failed as the! Hongkong is for the present com dubbed se traitors and mercenary saviours of Canton are now being

mission of enquiry to discover. soldiers by the very people who

It is interesting, in this connec-formerly extended to them the

to say anything whatever as to the

Enclosing my card.

poins); & picture of the landing of sity Cricket team (League cham the French Admiral and studies of Mara and Koka Shipoff, now appearing at the Hongkong Hotel Hongkong, April 19th, 1923. Roof Garden.

WING ON WORKERS. Five

merits of the present dispute, but SHANGHAI COUNCIL. we merely cite the above facts to

show the sudden changes that

neither has a monopoly of in-

Yours etc.,

INTERESTED.

1906, after the big typhoon, Mr. Fincher did valuable work in

salvaga vessel Curs Maru which ́ was sent down to save`the vessel. -The cable further stated that the divers of the Ours Maru had found BO large ⚫ hole in the bottom of the stranded vessel that all hopes of Bay- The Qura ing her were futile. Maru was to take the crew and

and then proceed to

board Manila.

SPANISH MAIL STEAMERS.

connection with rescue and clean-TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. ing up. Both for his services! during the plague and the typhoon Mr. Fincher bas letters)

There is a one-armed ex-Service

the conclusions arrived it by investigators in three continents. Britain is at present in the throes of a controversy over housing control, embracing the questions of rant regulation and

from the Government thanking man at Sutton, in Surrey who is building subsidies. There is no come over the situation in Can Accused of Extravagance. him for his valuable services, also an artist, and hehas been sum necessity to discuss these subjects ton. Instead of getting better,

and these are among his most moned for selling his water colour here, but they involve problems from bad to worse, until we affairs appear to be going

Shanghai, April 19 nigbly prized possessions. For drawings without having

The lawy very similar to those which can dever tell what even a week

At the annual meeting of the past few years Mr. Fincher pedlar's license,

sa the concern us locally. One point in may bring forth. No matter with ratepayers, yesterday, several has been acting Senior Inspector may be as good conuection with Home housing what party the blame lies (and speakers criticised the Municipal and for some time has been in ex-Service man's art, but it

Council for extravagance.

charge of the Sanitary Depot at would have ruled hardly against that was brought up a few years nocence, we fear) it is a standing

Kowloon.

many a famous artist of byen The Council, however, succeed- Though not an active player gone days. In different parts ago was the profiteering in the disgrace that these periodic crises ed in passing all the proposals, himself, Mr. Fincher was of the country there- are ion-2 building trade. It was declared should arise. Here we have the including the proposal for the an enthusiastic follower of cric signs that were painted by streg. that "rings," or combinations of troops of adjacent provinces fight acquisition of waterworks as akat. For some twenty years gling artists, now world-famous, ing against each other, not on Municipal undertaking. — Court he was a member of the Civil in return for board and lodging. builders, were responsible for the dy vital point of principle, but esy" Daily Bulletin."

Service Club and acted as official This seems to bring thêm very- exorbitant prices demanded-for merely because the leaders of

scorer at almost every match.near the ruling of the Sutton example £200 pre-war cottages the rival sides are at variance

Mr. Fincher's sons are very fond | magistrates. And if you go into: cost £500 to build, and so forth. we fear, of the possibility of the fixture. It has not been turned out for the Civil Service the Zuider Zee, you will see many

one witb saother, and because, China students are boycotting of cricket also and both have a certain hotel in Volendam, on- The recent decline in the cost of material'gain. The bald fact is an easy matter to raise the these last few seasons, and done pictures with which English- living has resulted in a consider that Chinese are fighting Chinese considerable sum needed to cover very well. The elder "son was artists, by no means unknown to able improvement.

-slaying their own countrymen, the expenses involved; hut the tenais champion of the Civil fame, contrived to settle a part of It is as though Yorkshiremen apparently the money will be Service Club, Mr. and Miss their bills. One very important feature in were to take up arme against Lan-secured and a team sent from Fincher have been closely the problem of cheaper and cashiremen. The people of Kwang- Canton. The advice of Dr. J. H connected with St. Peter's Church tung, we may be sure, have no Gray, urging the students to and the Seamen's Institute, and

The Italian Government has quicker building is standardisa- desire to fight the inhabitants of enter their best men in the Misa Fincher was well known Buttered the philological dovecots tion, and we shall now turn to Kwangsi, but, at the bidding of contests and make the Games a on the concert platform

by its announcement that it will the Taited States of America, military leaders, the soldiery of genuine expression of the real There have been quite a round no longer continue its subady to where standardisation, partic-throw the whole countryside into instead of laying themselves open by the many friends of the family his society has its offices in the both provinces come to grips, spirit of the Chinese people, of valedictory functions organised the "Accademia della Crusca." ularly of timber work, bas, per the borrors of warfare and cause to the charge of being bad sports who wished to show their sense Palazzo Ricardi in Florence, and haps reached the highest develop almost interminable trouble to men, was sound and sincere. We of loss at their departure. A busies itself with the compilation ment. We find the whole coun-people who want to live in peace are glad that the Canton students the Banitary Board

of an Italian diotionary which

ty at this very moment in and quietude. As in the South, are soting upon it they will be Mackenzie, C. V. S., on behalf shall separate the fine flour of the so in the North. And so the evil thought all the more bighly of of Mr. Fincher's colleagues, language, from the bran ol revolt against profiteering in goes on, year in and out. Is it for it, and their resolve will wished him many years of happy current phraseology, The men. the building trades, or, as it is any wonder that unification of certainly throw into greater retirement and presented him bere of the Academy move put, "the unhealthy condition, the country appears se far off to relief the foolhardy attitude of with a handsome silver kettle with the deliberation of Esop

day as ever it did? due to inflation." The novel suggestion for a remedy is that The Sporting Spirit.

the Northerners. Sport has noth and a gold wristlet watch, and tortoise. In 60 years they have ing whatever to do with politics, for Mrs. Fincher a pair of gold reached the letter "O" in eleven and it is:no part of a student's and jade bangles. At the 0.8.C.C. volumes, and it is considered that there should be a strike by the It is with relief that we turn business to meddle in affairs of Mr. A. E. Wood, the captain of it will take at lossf

other cen building public, led by the to decision of the Cantonese State. Bo let us hope that this the team, spoke on behalf of the tury to get to

athletes to participate in the boycott movement will now come members and presented bim with suggested that the soo Government itself, in order to Olympic Games in Japan, desto sa end so far as the Olympiad a silver-inlaid blackwood tray as a bandy-volume dictionary mu bring the "ring" to its senses.pite the fact that the North is concerned at any rate, la token of their esteem...”

to modern requirements,”

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