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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1925.

HERRING HALL MARVIN ing Bank, but, of late he has boon

BANK VAULT DOORS. "A STANDARD FOR THE WORLD"

The installation of a Herrlig Hall Marvin Vault Door Is a form of insurance which cannot be duplicated. The namo iteolf is the best proof of the high quality of the product-the leader of its kind for over three quarters of a contury,

SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES

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'Phono Control 1186.

DAY BY DAY.

asked for that extra margin bo- cause the official quotation for Land Investmont

BUT FOR FRIDE AND AVARICE, shares has "stuck" at round about $65. The AND THEIR LIKE, WE MIGHT BE SELFISHNESS AND AMBITION,

Bank's action in asking him for HAPPY HERE, AND WITH THEM more margin is forcing him to solford Avebury.

WE CAN BE HAPPY NOWHERE.

...

There was again a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday. -

out, because he cannot borrow any further. That is a supposi: The opening rate of the dollar tional caso

which is parallel on demand to-day is 26. 47/182. with a good many others, and it) is being very persistently argued by brokers and others that if the exchanges had kept closed, there would havo baon no official quot- ations which Banks and others could have employed

when asking for bigger margins from thos to whom they had provious ly loaned money.

There are practically no buyere

The .8, Talamba loft Singapore on Tuesday and is dus hero at 7. a.m. on the 22nd, instant...

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A junkmaster was fined $20, at the Marine Court this morning, for leaving the waters of the Colony without having his licenco on board.

Four arrivals and twelve de-i in the share market to-day, partures yesterday reduced the because the man with just a few number of vessels in harbour to- thousand dollars is too scared to day to 62, of which number

exactly half are British.. venture yet, and because the men with larger sums find their cash

Eleven Chinese were burned to all locked up in unliquified form.deuth or asphyacinted in a fire that broke out in the Wayside The sellers who are coming out, district of Shanghai on November are those who must realise cash 10th, and rapidly gutted two tene- 16-17, Connaught Road Contral.ure being asked for cash by

on their holdings because they❘ment houses.

A car, drivon by Miss Mow others from whom they borrowed Fung, knocked down a chair- Never before has the system coolie in Caine Road, yesterday, of credit broken down more com his leg and head. The man was causing rather serious injuries to

pletely and the Government taken to the Government Civil AUSTIN.-At the Peak. Hong-Trade Loan is not going to be of Hospital.

kong, on 17th instant, to Mr.vory much use to the man who and Mrs. N, J. Austin, a son.

BIRTH.

Mr. and Mrs. Gompertz much regret that the time remaining is too short to send out P. P. C, corde. Will their friends be so kind as to take this notice us A farewell.

The Telegraph.

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The public is reminded of the are concerned with shares. The froe lecture on Christian Science remedy lies, according to those which is to be given in the old most loud in their complaints, Chamber of Commerce room at the City Hall to-morrow at 5.30 in the hands of the Banks andp.m. by Mr. Algernon Hervey- others who have loaned out Bathurst, of London.

money against share securities,)

The forthcoming weddings are who, by a policy of generous announced of Mr. William Henry trust, can leave share bolders Peters, of No. 8, Orient Buildings, unharassed by calle for larger to Miss Rose Margaret Shoe, of margins. Everything possible Luiz Maria Franecs, of the Go- No. 7, Seymour Terrace, and Mr.

should be done not to force shares vernment Gun Powder Depot, THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 1925.

out at ridiculous sacrifice pricos, Groen Island, to Miss Casmelina Maria Xavier of No. 21, Jordan because much hardship will

Road, Kowloon. THE SHARE OUTLOOK, undoubtedly result. We have to

It is stated in a London paper that the late Mr. Charles Mos- tague Ede, of Park Road, Victoria, Hongkong, for many years execu tive head of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., who died at Hongkong on May 22nd, left property in England and Hong-

tido over the present times of stringency, and that will best to In spite of the fact that accomplished by a general policy the Commission of Enquiry ap-of mutual assistance. pointed by the Governmont to enquire into the working of the local and stock market reported In the sphere of practical,kong of the not value of £185,775, adversely on the temporary clos-common-sense

For the Poor...

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charity,

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Shanghai Cantonese residents

FIGHTING AT. SATURDAYS SHOW.

Marine Botts, who dofonde

his welterweight title against A. B. Ewin,

Hermos, who trios conclusion with Drummer Bowlos.

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

RESUMED.

A. B. Ewin, who meets Bette

Stokor opponent,

Morris, Piper's

NORTHERN WAR.

THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Poking, Nov. 18. Reports from apparently rellable sources indicate that although General Feng Yu-halang has come: to terms with the Fengtien forces, a somewhat hostile attitude is stili being adopted by the Kuominchun troops under Yueh Wei-chún ́and- Sun Yuoh.

A conflict between some of Yush Wel-chun's forces and

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the of which 152,837 is in Hong ing of the market owing to the which has just issued its annual

Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Kong, and 432,938 is in England. strike and boycott, it is now being report, can proudly claim a fore very openly stated that the re-most place in this Colony Year and organizations have addressed in and year out, guided by an en-lengthy telegrams to Canton pro opening of the market has beenthusiastic band of officials at the testing against the introduction A. B. Gardner, H. M. S. a mistake. Almost immediately head of whom is Mr. J. M. Alves, of Bolshevism into Kwangtung after the publication of the Com-its indefatigable President, this and urging the people to rise mission's report, in which the half of those who need and authority are requested to change organisation busies itself on be against the Reds. Those in strictures were contained, the deserve help in the battle of life, their ways and obey the will of SPAIN AND GERMANY." local market was re-opened by the no matter what religious creed the people if they wish to roign threo exchanges, quotations were they profess. Last year, the in the province for any length of Society spent well over $23,000, time. It is interesting to note in again issued and un attempt was or some $550 more than its re-this connection, says the North- made to run things in a normal ceipts, and some idea of the China Daily News, that the leader way. But the practical experience nature of its work may be gained of the Bolsheviks and the real when we say that relief in money lord of Canton, Gen. Chiang Kai-

Madrid, Nov. 19. has been very much different from and provisions was provided shek, is not a Cantonoso, as is

Hispano-German commercial re. per th 150 what was at one time expected, |to the extent of nearly popularly supposed, but a native lations have been re-established on

of $2,750 of Chokjang.

the conclusion of a modus vivendi for it was thought that to re-open $9,000; 1.20

of six months, while negotiations would be to restore confidence to was spent in rent; education

absorbed $5,418; whilst closo on The following transfers and pro- are being conducted for the draft of some extent and to rehabilitate$5,000 was distributed in grants. motions in the Colonial Service a regular treaty-Reuter. prices from the extremely low These are only a few of the items have been made by the Secretary disclosed in the annual report, of State for the Colonies:-Mr. level to which they fell during the from which we also learn that M. H. Whitley, Puiene Judge, darkest days of the strike period, during the year no fewer than Straits Settlements, to Attorney-COMMUNISTS ON TRIAL. Ching-lin's men is stated to have when a little unofficial business 145 families have been regularly was dono. But, with the continu-grunted relief, whilst medical aid has been given to the extent of ation of trade stagnation and with 8353 in 1924 and over 8420 for the ready money still unobtainable first nine months of this year. In except on very large securities the matter of housing accoumo- and at high rates of interest, thoredation, the Society has boen, at munder A. C. Bucknell, late Chief great pains to better the conditions Officer, s.s. Lord Milner, to 'Har is little or no business being done of the poor, with the rosult that bour Master, Selangor, Federated in sharos at the rates now pre-many improvements have been Malay States.

effected and some twenty families| vailing. And there is every pos- have been moved to flats and sibility that prices will fall still cubicles in less crowded districts its appreciation of that work on defence and submitted that the further owing to sales being fore-than those where they formerly December 2nd, when the annual documents or the extracts from the lived. So far as education is street sale of roses takes place, defendants' newspapers which had ed on those who are nominally concerned, the Society looks and again on December 6th, at holding shares да securities after no fower than 176 children, the all fresce fete, when we trust been cited by the prosecution did against previous cash advances. and WO aro glad

to note suficient funds will be forthcom- not constitute seditious libels and that its policy is not

the defendants had not MR. CHAMBERLAIN RE-STATES that To give a hypothetical caso: "A"

toing to enable the Society to carry encourage Chinese under its on affectively its labour of love, conspired to publish them.-Reuter. is the owner of some shares in, care to take up the study of Eng- say, the Hongkong Land-Invest-lish until they have completed ment Company, and, before the their preliminary vernacular edu

cution. We could go on at gruat strike, he had obtained an ad-length citing other instances of vance on these up to $60 per the excellent work done by this share an advance that possess. Society in which connection It is gratifying to learn that through

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ed all the elements of caution, as the agency of its new Employment

General, Straite Settlements; Lieut.-Commander W. G. Older- show, Harbour Master, Trinidad, to Deputy Master Attendant, Straits Settlements; Lieut.-Com-

MEXICAN DEBT.

INTEREST TO BE RESUMED."

New York, Nov. 19.

DEFENCE DENIES CONSPIRACY.

'London, Nov. 15.

occurred south of Paoting-fa, and the Government has sent répresen- tatives to investigate and proverit funther trouble.

It is stated that an understand- ing has been reached between Yen On the resumption of the trial | Hai-shan and the Kuominchun

of the twelve Communists at the troops, whereby the latter will con- Old Bailey, the case for the pro-trol several heiene on the Shansi- secution was closed.

Suiyuan border-Reuter.

Sir Henry Stessar opened the

ANGLO-RUSSIAN QUESTION.

BRITAIN AND CHINA.

ATTITUDE.

London, Nov. 18..

House Speaking In the

of Commons, Mr. Auston Chamberlain, in the course of a statement, on China, said that the instructions. to the British delegates attending NO RECENT PROGRESS.

the Tariff Conference at Poking. It is learnt that a modified agroo- the shares then stood at nearly Bureau much valued work was ment for the resumption of payment

were framed in 'a liberal spirit and London, Nov. 18. $100. Then came the strike and done for the community during of interest on Mexico's external

based on the principle that the the strike, but we think sufficient

Replying to questions in the purport of the tariff arrangements the collapse of the share market, has been indicated to show the debt of five hundred million dollars House of Commons, Mr. Austen contemplated at the Washington and the price of Land Investment truly magnificent work which in January has been approved by Chamberlain said he was unable to Conference was one of benent to shares pank, to somewhere around this body dischargus on behalf the British, French, Dutch and report any progress in the settle-China as a whole and that effective 860. Tho client was not then asked of the loss fortunate section of Swiss sections of the Internationalment of the outstanding Anglo- safeguards must be devised to

the community. The public will Committee of Bankers-Renter's Russian question during the Parlia- ensure the fullment thereof for's further margin by the lend-have its opportunity of registoring American Service.

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