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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925.

was realised at Home, when

DAY BY DAY.

GENTLE INFLU- OFTEN PROCEED.

BOMBAY RENT LAW.

PROTECTION FOR TENANTS.

PAKHOI NOTES.

| progressivo-inoroases of rent

wero sanctioned. Some

such

FROM ROUGHEST OUTSIDES system of de-control would pro- BERENE AND

ROBBER BANDS ACTIVE.

bably be found to work here ENCES

(Our Own Correspondent). without undus dificulty, and Dickens.

In vlow of the forthcoming| strict fairness should be obtain-

discussion of rent restriction in

Pakhol, Feb. 18. able through a roprosentativo Captain C. T. Williams, O.B.E., this Colony, the following leading

Robbers have been very' sotivo ront board. Local de-control, of the East Surreys, has retired article from the Kaiser-i-find around about Pakhoi lundering (Bombay), which is forwarded us and kidnapping during the last howovor, will have to be gradual, with the rank of Major.

by a reador, is particularly fow weeks. According to the interesting:

reports of the village people in The health return for yesterday | "In the last soasions of the bandita have taken

the vicinity, some 300 to 400 easily prove, disastrous. Suocos-shows two cason of diphtheria) Bombay Legislativa Council annosition on the coast somo 12 up their (one Chinese and ono Eurasian). asgurance was given by the Gonoral Mombor on behalf of

milos to the cast of Pakhol, and Government that he would in- are using this place as their base, troduce a new Ront Act Bill at hours in the surrounding country. making raida during the night the next sessions that would A number of villages visited aftor satisfy both landlords and tonants. The toxt of tho now

an the offoota of a suddon with-i drawal of protection might

sive small allowances to property- ownors (except in the ensos

Gonoral Crozier, while riding a whore rents are already excon-

pony at Peking, foll, breaking his sively high) would not only leg, says a Daily Bulletin tole romova

.any suggestion of gram.. partiality but would also obviate. the apprehensive uncertainty which lack of definito policy has produced.

raids had been made on thom

Bill which has now been publish-report the loss of many hords of ed for general information shows cattle (some of the bords number-- Lieut. G. P. G. Cortlandt-that so far as the middlo-plass of ing over twenty hoads of cattle) Anderson, 2/4th Bombay Grona-tenants is concerned it does not and evory articlo worth carrying diers, has qualified in Preliminary at all fulfil the assurance that way, the places being thorough- Urdu.

was given. After inquiry into ransacked and numbers of the prevailing housing conditions people kidnapped. Villages with- thought it necessary to extend in this city, Govorament have in a mile of Pakhoi hayo boen

Stroams of similarly raided. the Rent Act for a further poriod farmors and villago peoplo of three yours.

with

CAN their cattlo

be mercy much thanks; but ovon this For this small

Boon coming into Pakhol concession to insistont public protection for the night, and they before darkness acts in; for domanda is deprivod

return to the country at day-

At the Children's Hour at the A Splendid Work.

Holona May Institute on Friday, Another your of successful February 27th, Mrs. Gompertz endeavour in relieving the lot of will tell "Fairy Storios" at 5 p.m. MUSTARD & Co those who find themselves up -Adet.

against the stern realities of lifo is reflected in the annual report

17. Connaught Hand Contari

Tel.C. 1186

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 25th Feb., 1925.

IN THE BALANCE,

The rents question is to come

Council mouling to-morrow, with

of its

of the Hongkong Bonevolenti Amongst the passengers who beneficial effect by a total lack of Society, whose meeting was held arrived by the Empress of Anla appreciation of the difficulties of light next morning. The cause yesterday. The activities of this to-day wore Brigadier General It is true that the poorer class of country is a lack of soldiers.

middle-class tonants in Bombay.of this state of the surrounding organisation are known to low MacNaghton, C.M.G., and Mr. tonants paying less than Rs. 50 outside the immediato officials | H. J. Brott.

Reports have just reached here? por month, have been exempted of a Yunnanose Army having and those who are hofpod by the

from any further increase, thus entered the western part of tho Society, but the facts revealed in the annual report, together with the result of a fall into the hold population from bardship at least city of Lung Chow.

A tally clork was injured as saving a large part of the topant Kwongsi Province and taken the the statements made yesterday of the steamer Haichow yostor- for a poriad of three yours to by Sir Henry Pollock, are

day. Ho sufficient to show that a note Government Civil Hospital.

But to the como.

Reporta from Nanning on the middle-class tonant, paying from Ra, 50 to 95 West River state, that city is worthy work of mercy is being discharged by this body. Much

por month and more, is badly hit; undor sloge by a fores command- of whatis done obviously remaina

for the protection afforded to himed by Gonoral Lam Tean-ting. Mr. O. W. Daroh, assistant is quite inadequate in proportion This is the General that wse in largo-measure a secret, but the manager of the Asiatic Petroleum to his income and his paying forced out of this territory some utmost confidence can bo placod Co. in Hongkong, is shortly capacity.

weeks ago. In those ladies who give up time leaving to take charge of the

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in the manu facture of Moutrie

Pianos regardless of cost.

up for montion at the Legislative

a motion by the Colonial Seero-

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BUS ACCIDENTS:

only at Rs. 85. Thousands of A number of bus accidents tary which is designed to sot the

Socioty are closely scrutinised, Mosers, A. B. Moulder and Co. persons with middling incomos have taken place hore, one in ball rolling. As we announced and those of the public forward us a calendar advertising have now-a-days to pay

particular boing serious. Soldiers yesterday, thero has been nothing who support this organisation Lipton's tea, and bearing a strik-than Hs. 85 for a couple of rooms commandeered a bus at midnight in the nature of a definite doci-can rost content that good ing coloured picture of the in any decont locality. Rs. 85-1s for Limehow oity. The dangar uso is made of their contributions. Procession of the Sacred Tooth certainly not the mit for a of travelling on those roads by sion, either way, on the much- It is a sorry sight to seo dis- at Kandy.

middle-class tonement in these motor vehicles after dark is discussed topic of whether to trossod Britishors and other

days, and thore seems no reason known to the bus people and they continue restriction or not, and white people in this Colony, and

why tenants paying more than asked the soldiers to wait till we are glad that the number is Mr. W. J. Stokes, local branch Rs. 85 should lose ovon the slight daylight, but the soldiers would the official resolution is moroly not large, but during the course Secretary of the Marine Engi-protection afforded by the Act, not yield, and a bus set off on the intended to bring the matter of a your a good many such folk noors Guild of China, left for The farmers of the Bill appear journey with doublo its number of before the Council for mombors with little prospect of being able Kamo Maru, being accompanied that all poresas paying more than from Pakhoi it

find themselves stranded here Homo ou leave to-day, aboard the to have taken it for granted passengers. About three miles off the to take cognisance of it; and it to got employment on thoir own by his wife.

Rs. 85 must be capable of paying road and overturned. There were is an almost foregone conclusion initiativo. It is good, therefore.

from 50 to 100 por cont, more number of broken limbs, and that very little will be deno apart valent Society should be able to and others were at the station

that such a body as tho Bone- A large gathoring of officials within the next threo years. Such one of the soldiers lost an eye. a supposition reveals alther mon- The driver was not injured and he from the appointment of a com-givo head to cases of this kind. yesterday, says a Poking message/strous ignorance of the trustat once took to his hools, fearing fully, and, wo prosumo, tako thog necessities of those in dis-bye to Sir J. W. R. Macleay and anco to their fate. We hope that? mittee to go into the subject as well as to relieve other press-to the Daily Bulletin, to say good-economic condition of middlo- that the soldiers might deal with

class residents or callous indiffer him on the spot. tress. Wo commend the work of Lady Maclony, ovidence of all parties to the the Society to all who have a

Plans are being prepared for when this Bill is brought before the widening of Pakhoi strasts, controversy, to be ombodied in a kindling fooling for the unfortu

the Council, it will be so amended which will entail the pulling down nate and the helpless.

Footpads attacked a Japanese that adequato protection will be of part of the shop fronts. report to the Government. Ac-

The onginoor namod Shigihara on the given to middle-class tenants, people are calling mootings to tually, such a body would amount("The Cup."

Praya East last night, near the that is, those paying from Rs. 50 opposing this. to a routs commission, and pre- Tho

English Football Cup No. 2 Polico Station, and got to Rs. 200 per month, and that in sumably the authorities will be Competition is now in a most away with a sum of $200 and a no case will the increased per- MURDERED U.S. DOCTOR.

interesting stage, the draw for gold watch and chain.

contage be allowed to landlords propared to abide by ita recom-the fourth round having been

higher than 30 per cent. over the

An American naval transport mendations. If our forecast hof made. Thoro are still some fino

prosent schedule.

ship that visited this place TVO- the correct one, the public can cup-fighting toome left in, whilet Sun Yat-Son's condition has Dr. Kraig's builotin aays that

ontly, with the American Consul the South is quite well repreecat shown no difference since yostor.

from Canton, has again roturnod congratulate itself on this pro-ed. Neither Southampton nor

hero with the Consul on board So far as business promises and is now anchored in tho 70 cedure of the Government, which Liverpool, who have to meet, telegram, but the general weak-are concerned, they are totally harbour. These visits ara fa con- Iwill thas give a fair hearing tooth have got through to the final. 116, temperature 99.1 and respira-f of the now bill. Thousands of ionary doctor who was murdered have won the trophy, although nosa is increasing. His puise is excluded from the provisions nection with an American misa- $1.00 tenant and landlord alike, noither In the next group are Cardiff, coddling the former overmuch Hull and Lolcester, the first- $1.75 nor londing too ready an ear named having to moot the winners

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patty shop-on Hainan Island. Indemity of keopors who hoped that the now G$25,000 is being claimed. It fa Bill would free them somewhat stated that the murdered doctor the claims of vosted interests. three has yet appeared in the dress rehearsal of "Tronch Leave" at this total disregard of their Chinese official concerned in The Hongkong A. D. C. gavel a from difficulty will be disapointed had a wife and five children. The .80 with the early appointment of final. Shoffield United can look last night, nuch to the delight of condition. That the pathotic this affair is General Tang Pan. such a committoo, tha voxed back on a good record, having those prosent. T'ho farco way complaints made by thom of the ying, who was chief administrator

won the cup in 1899, 1902 and very cleverly intorproted, and grood of landlords question of rent control should 1915, but they are up against there should be large and ap- persecution to which they are doctor was murdered. He res- and the of Hainan Island at the time the 65 bo finally, decided by the dato at veterans in either the Villa or preciative audiences at the deliberately subjected are not ontly invaded this territory and West Bromwich, both of whoin Theatre Royal during the season, groundless is fully apparent from is now rosiding in Ham Chow restrictivo have splendid records, the latter's which commoncos to-night.

first capture of the trophy being

the facts and figures brought to city, some sixty milos to north- light by the Joint Honorary west of Pakho coase to operate.

Secretarios of the Bombay Ront While it is not possible at this the winners of the Waat Ham v. Colony

Rovers or the Spurs have to mast Prince Kuno, who loft the

Act Committoo. Instances are yesterday ол the given of fabulous rents being stage to predict what the ultimate Blackpool contest Of these four Kasbinia maru on his roturn to demanded from businessmon by decision is likely to bo, we can teams, Blackburn has the finest Japan after spending six moathe landlords. These Bguros clearly The weak-knoud attitude of the Cup record, witining the competiin Europe, is a younger brother reveal the absolute need for the loader of the Swaraj Party in the safely state that if the tonants tion in four successive years from of the Japanese Crown Princess protection of tenants not only of Council last year have a clear caso to put forward 1883 and again winning in 1890 Nagako. He is only 22 years of dwelling houses but also

absolutely of betrayed the cause of the tenant for continued protection they and 1891. As to whether they go. The Prince is accompanised business promisca, will get it. There is no doubt lapse of years is doubtful, but we

population. It is to bo hoped will come back" aftor this long by his secretary, Mr. Takėda.

When Mr. K. K. Nariman display greater

that the Swaraj Party will now that ront control in its prosent look to this particular group of

trmness in withdrow his private Bill in the carrying out the mandate of their $1.30 form is unfair to property-owners gamos as likely to furnish most afternoon, an onquiry is boing Council, he did so only after an ho made to secure the co-operation At the Central Magistracy, this last sessions of the Legislative electors, and that every effort will in Bomy Instances, and such exciting contests. 2.35

hold into the circumstances at-assurance was given that what and support of counoillors from anomalios should be eliminated,

lending the death of a Wel Hat ever the nature of the measure the mofussil, who are likely to be Wol policoman from an overdose introduced by Government at the drawn away from the popular 1.20 but we maintain omphatically

of opium. The man was found next sessions, it wouldrostentirely causo by official blandishment. A that the majority of tenants are

In an unconscious condition in with the Counoli to altor or vigorous campaign is necosary the Contral Police Station and amend it in any manner doomed to secure the support of the 1,50 quita justified in their foar that

entire abolition of protoctivo;

died altor admission to the expedient, and that in other majority to such amendments Government Civil Hospital. 1.10 legislation will rosult in vory

Caso the decision would rest with and alteratious

may bo the majority of the Counoll: In brought forward by such cham- 1.90 classes, and might ovon throw Shanghai stocks from

following cable quotations of We made a slip in our rofer-view of this assurance it is now plons of the popular cause as Mr. clearly the bounden duty of the K. F. Nariman and others. their enco to the Paracola yesterday,

when we spoke of tho suggested popular members our of local Meantime it is also the duty of Legislature to put up a stiff fight local tenants' Associations and Langkata (comb.)-Tis.. 20, meterological station there. The for the protection of middle-class other bodies to give voice to the

roference should have been to Ewos.Th. 12, buyers.

Pratas, where, wo understand tenantry when the now Bill opinion of middle class tenants amething is at last to be done. Comes ofore the Counoll for in the city regarding the new But tho Paracela might also offer

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Colony out of gear. At the same timo, all but the most biassed must admit that rant restriction Shanghai Dooks. Tls. 11014, cannot go on for over, and that a ex div, buyore. gradual riso in rates in a grow- Jing city la inevitablo. This truth|buyers.

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Thero should now be no ho-so modifying it as to secure 's or at least a lighthouse, which is sitation and dilly-dallying, as was fair and equitable degros of pro- badly needed.

unfortunately the case last year, tection for them."