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HOTELS.

THE HONGKONG

HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL Tolographio Address: "KREMLIN, HONGKONG."

AND

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL.

Telegraphic Address: CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"

HOTELS.

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel Dos Wagons Lite, Peking.

KING EDWARD HOTEL.

CENTRAL LOCATION

ELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH, FLOOR. HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.

Telegraphic Address

Telephone Central 373

"VISTONIA"

KOWLOON HOTEL

Premier Hotel in Kowloon

RATES:- Daily

$5.00 Upwards Monthly $120.00 do

MODERN TOILET SYSTEM Elevator and Telephones to each floor. SALOON BAR & BUFFET.

Manager's personal attention. Tols, K. 608 & K. 609. Tel. Address "KOWLOTEL" Hongkong

Tel. Kowloon No. 8

PALACE HOTEL.

Wm. Harold Perry,

Manager.

Tel Address "PALACE”! Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely under English Management. Electrle Light and Fans through. bt. Every Room with Private Bath.. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms. Unrivalled Cuisine ander the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terma moderate. Special terms to families on application to:

Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY. Proprietress.

EUROPE

After-dinner dancing every

Tuesday, Thursday

and Saturday.

Cables :-

"EUROPE"

Singapore:

HOTEL

SINGAPORE..

Grill

THE EUROPE HOTEL. LTD. Arthur E. Odell, Managing Director,

ASAHI BEER

BREWED BY

DAI NIPPON BREWERY

Co., Ltd.

TOKYO JAPAN

Specially Brewed for Export.

Sole Agents:

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ltd.

HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LOCAL HONOURS.

(Continued From Pape 1).

figured prominently in the social ile of the Colony, having been intimately associated with the Helena May Institute over since Its establishment, whilst she has also done much good work in con-- neation with the Bonevolent Society, the Ministering Children's Lengue and Church work," To her as well as Sir Joseph Kemp we extend hearty congratulations...

MR. KOTEWALL'S CAREER. For many years. past, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, who has now been honoured as a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, has been prominently As- sociated with the public life of the Colony, having served with "dis- tinction on the Legislative Council since October, 4th, 1923. He was educated at Qucon's College and the Diocesan Boys' School, and in 1896 he entered Government service after winning first place

In &

MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927,

P. & O. MEETING. ing Trade union benefit ads

LORD INCHCAPE'S SPEECH

LOSSES IN CHINA.

In the course of his apocch, at the eighty-sixth annual meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation, Company, on Decem- ber 8th, Lord Inchcape, aftorres viewing the accounts, stated that they could insure their outstand ing risks to-day' for a much lesser sum than that standing to the credit of the insurance fund. The Board had under consideration the question of treating this fund as

a reserve.

A year hence he might have more to say on the subject, For supplies, maintenance and repairs they were paying 75 per cent. more. than before the war. The bills were staggering, and unless prices came down passage rates, much to his regret, would have to go up.

MISSIONARIES BLAMED,

Many of their voyages had been disastrously short of cargo and conditiona in China had resulted in serious loss of traffle. He be lieved that the antagonism to the British in China was largely due to our sending missionaries to that country!

should be separately and indepen dently audited, and members should be exempt from the poli- tical levy, unless they contracted for Asecret ballot of each union should be instituted and not less than a three-fifths vote ought, to be effective, either to call or to continue à strike, dz

He was glad. at Mr. Baldwin's decision to withdraw the proposal of a compulsory tribunal which would have caused further cool trouble.

During the year undor review the shipping industry toolf Had been run free of strikes. J. Have lock Wilson's campaign in favour of industrial peace and concilia- tion if it was expanded might prove the country's economic sal- vation.

CRITICISM OF 'FAST LINER SCHEME.

A few hairbrained and misguid- ed beings were out to destroy the fabric of society and they would fail in the homeland. With a populution of 40,000,000 everyone was free under the Crown to rise- to any position. Not a fraction of the people were disloyal to the Throne.

competitive exumination. Amongst the posts which he held were those of chief clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office und First Clerk In the Magistracy. He resigned in 1916 and then went into business under the name of Messrs. R. H. Kotewall and Co. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1918 and for many years he has served the Chinese com- munity in innumerable directions, being a member of the Tung Wah Hospital Advisory Board, the Po Leung Kuk Board of Permanent Directors, the District Watchmen Public Committee, the Chinese

Their passenger traße continu- Dispensaries Committee and the ed to expand in a remarkable de- Court and Council of the, Hong-gree. They got an occasional kong University. He is also growl, but he welcomed the sug- University honorary examiner in. gestions for an improvement. Re-which would give him £550,000 Chinese, past President of Univer-cently he had received a vehement alty Football Club, and a Patron and amusing expostulation against of the Roving Troop of Buy mixed bathing in steamers. Scouts.

WAS

It was prophesied that the P. and 0. Steam Navigation Company would be badly hit by aeroplanes and airships. Missionary efforts He believed that even if the were Imperial Airways became a com- among uncivilised peoples

but marcial proposition the P. and 0. doubtless fully justified

28 Company would hold its own. China's ancient faith sacred to Chinese as Christianity Regarding the proposal to form a company with a capital of eleven to ourselves.

millions to run 22 knot ships to India, Ceylon and Australia he considered that the promoter hi better put his money into war loan

yearly.

His shareholders would never get as much out of the proposed venture, as the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation" Com- pany with 400 ships and a capital to-morrow would be able to dis-of less than seven millions found charge all its obligations and give it difficult to provide half a million

yearly to pay its dividend.

NEW C. M. G.

A statement in their accounts Despite his business calls, Mr. showed that the P. and O. Steam Kotewall has taken the keenest in-Navigation Company if broken up terest in all matters pertaining to the well-being of the Chinese com munity, particularly in vernacular education, and is the author of two books as well as two Chinese plays, one of which was perform. ed before H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on. his visit to the Colony. He was made an Honorary LL.D. of Hongkong University in Janu- ary of last year. During the strike and boycott, Mr. Ketewall rendered much assistance to the Government in various ways, and bis valued advice has always been available to the authorities. His honour has been well earned, and we join with his numerous friends and well-wishers-in-complimenting. him on the recognition of His Má- jesty's favout which he has now secured,

HONOURS. LIST.

of

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Grand Knight

Cross the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, and President of the Empire Press Union; and Sir Lawrence Napna Guillemard. Governor of the

Straits Settlements,

Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George-Hon.' Dr. R.. H. Kotewall, of Hongkong.. Honorary G.C.M.G-King Feisal of Irak.

Knights Commander of the Or- der of Saint Michael and Saint George-Viscount Chileton, Minis- ter at Vienna; Robert Clive, Min- ister at Teheran; Miles Lampson, Minister at Peking: Charles H bert Montgomery, Assistant Un- der-Secretary of State for Foreign Office; Professor Mitchell, Vice- Chancellor of Adelaide Univer- sity; and Charles Skerrett, Chief Justice of New Zealand.

Knight Commander of the Or- der of the Indian Empire-Wil- lium Poll Barton, Resident at Hy

derabad,

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.The Earl of Cromer.

A

The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote- wall, who has received the C.M.G. decoration in the New Year's honours list.

more

the deferred stockholders' than to-day's market value of their holdings, but the P. and O. Steam

Company Navigation" national institution, and would grow in the conviction that good

was a

If the P. and O. Steam Naviga- tion had seen its way to cover expenses they would have gone in for a 22 knot service long ago..

2

had

THE DE LUXE TRAINS, Recently the Board. arranged with the Great Indian Peninsula and East Indian Rail- way Companies to construct two de luxe trains to run each way between Bombay and Calcutta in conjunction with the P. and 0. Steamers.

....They had had 483 steamers in commission during the year. These ships had traversed 17 mil- lion miles on the ocean, made. 33,000 port entries, carried 15 million tons of cargo, 350,200 animals and over 2% million pas- sengers. The average daily pum- ber in the ships of the company was 40,000 and their daily expen- diture on wages and victualling of the crews was £15,000,

Entertainments.

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ALICE TERRY & LEWIS STONE

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NOTICE.

Registered and Parcel Maila are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

Correspondence for Canton will be forwarded by train if so super- It was difficult to estimate the scribed, Such correspondence must be posted not later than 7.30 am, at number of outside men to whom the General Past Office or 7.40 cm. at Kowloon Post Oilles for despatch. also these ships gave employment. by the Express Train scheduled to leave Kowloon Rallway Station at 8.05 - Three hundred thousand sterling, and to arrive at Canton at 12.20 p.m. was invested in the Company's profit-sharing scheme during the year on which an interest of 7% per cent. had been charged in the accounts. The scheme provided a simple way of interesting, em- "The general strike had involved.ployees in the success of the Com- the Company in serious loss.

times would come again.

STRIKE

LOSSES.

The coal strike had cost the Company over £200,000: Conl

pany.

He would conclude with a per-

prices had risen and inferiorsonal word. Thinking of the quality of foreign coal had greatly numerous organisations which it increased the consumption. Nine fell to his lot to direct and the of their steamers were oil-burners leisure and recreation he managed and they proposed to convert the to secure he realised how mun "Narkunda" and "the "Naldera" to he was indebted to his capable, While the liners, bad upright, loyal and affectionate burn oil.

coadjutors.. suffered, the tramp steamery had

Whether at home or abroad he benefited by carrying coal to New

was kept informed almost from castle," Forty-nine tramp steamers owned by the P. and O. Steam Navi-hour to hour of all that took place. gation Company were under these As Nelson said of his captains at unnatural conditions and foremost the battle of the Nile he and his coadjutors worked together as t band of brothers. paving the way.

TRADE UNION ANOMALIES.

To all associated with him at

The men, women" and children home and abroad he expressed his Before many affected by the coal strike had grateful thanks. Knights Commander of the suffered much hardship through years he supposed he would have Royal Victorian Order The Earl Mr. Cook, whose disregard for to give up work which he dearly His one ambition was of Denbigh; Sir Arthur Cope, economic laws had damaged the loved. Royal Academician; Brigadiertrude of the country which would when that time came to leave Gonorel Gascoigne; Captain Er tako months if not years to re-every business of which he was the responsible head, including the nest Towse, blind holder of the cover. Victoria Cross, who. is Chair Tho, extremists had done as old P. and O. Company in a sound man of the National, Institute for much material damage as could financial condition.

have been wrought by an enemy Blind..

invader.

Dame Commander of the Order

With a porch weighing 7oz: 6dr., low. The competitors, who tra- Mr. J. Lowndes, of the Wallington valled by special train, numbered of the British Empire. The Dow Angling Society, won the Geen 866, but owing to the poor condi-ager' Countess of Jersey.

The Reverend Hugh Sheppard, Cup competition of the London tions only five fish were caught. Angling Association, which was The total catch of the 366 angiora who recently retired from the fphed for on the Thames at Mar- in 5% hours was 1 b. 11 oz. 14 dr. vicariate of St. Martins-in-Fields, London, where he did 'grost social service, is appointed a Member of the Order of Companiors of

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