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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927.
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DAY BY DAY.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday,
order under martial law, that men- tion was made of the original trouble. That is one way of sup
HE WHO IS MOST SLOW IN MAKING pressing monacing industrial
A TROMISE, IS THE MOST FAITHFUL agitation, the use of the iron | IN THE PERFORMANCE OF IT.-Rotis- | hand-and in this we sua the necessity for firmness. at times. Yet one can be permitted to query whether there will be any good in throttling unrest, of what- ever nature, when it only. Hes dorment, ready to boil up at i convenient moment. The case of the Australian waterside workers takes us to the opposite extreme,--- where men are given so free at hand in the conduct of strikes that they do things which would hardly be tolerated elsewhere
The Ben Line a.s. Benderan, from Home and Straits porta, is due here on the 12th instant.
H.MS. Castor arrived from Eng- land this morning, with relief rank and ratings for the China Squad-
ron.
HELPING THE BLIND GIRLS.
SALE OF WORK FOR KOWLOON HOME.
a
The Very Idea!
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Barrister to Dalston man at Shoreditch County Court: I sug- gest this accident was a trival one. to lose before it is serious? Man: How many legs do you have Man at Shoreditch County Court,
In a village off the beaten track weather-tanned old countryman There was a first-class array of The stitches were put in wrongly, underwent a minor operation. articles for purchase at the annual and the patient had to be chloro sale of work, held" at the Helena formed again to have them takon May Institute this morning, on, be-out. When he revived the secondi half of the Blind Home, Kowloon time he said, "Is it all right?"" City Road, Kowloon. The event "I think so," said the doctor. was organised by Miss K. Beswick,
"If there's any doubt," wald the Superintendent of the Home, ns- countryman, "put buttons on me." sisted by Mrs. J. R. Wood, and Mrs. W. T. Featherstone Hon. Sec. A microscople photographi su of the Cathedral Women's Guild small that three hundred repro- and promises in every way to beductions of it would only occupy A Chinese woman jumped over-a success.
the space of an prdintiry pin-head board from the lower deck of the The sale was declared open this has been stolen from the exhibi- Golden Star while in midstream, morning by Mrs. J. R. Wood, who tion of the Royal Photograph would-be suicide was rescued and was carried on in a beautiful home at 4.30 yesterday afternoon. The remarked on the fact that the work Society at Russell-square, London. The photograph is mounted on a In the case of the waterside strik-subsequently removed to the Gov-situated on the top of a hill on the slide, and is so small that it cannot ers, who are causing considerable ernment Civil Hospital.
way to Kowloon City, and housed be seen by the naked øye, 51 blind girls, whose ages ranged damage through their holding up
In an altercation with another from 16 to 19 years. Miss Beg- of shipping and commerce in gon-man, a shop-foki at No402, Deswick, continued Mrs. Wood, is the eral, the men have gone back on an Voeux Road west was, yesterday, only European in the Home and injured in the right wrist, through she has two Chinese assistants, arbitration award. It is ap A cut inflicted with a chopper one of whom coaches the girls in parently a way of getting the un-wielded by the other man. He was knitting while the other is the asked why he had not paid a debt: satisfactory decision of an ar-taken to the Government Civil Matron. Most of the girls work-I have not been able to. My wife bitration body. (from the men's
Hospital.:
ed at knitting, but those who were decides what I spend. not able to knit did the house work. point of view), set aside by de- Locui vernacular newspapers They could see for themselves, if when a man attacked her she pick- Woman at Tottenham said that grees, through continuous agita-state that the Chinese Chamber of they glanced at the numerous cd up a bucket to defend herself. tion. It is also a means of doing asked by the management of the wonderful work the girls did. Woman: Of course
Commerce has been unofficially articles laid out for purchase, the Solicitor: Did he kick the bucket? much damage" to the country. Hongkong Electric Company to Mrs, Wood emphasised that by should not have been able to sum- not, or I But that is a phase of its labour supply copies of complaints which their own knitting they supported mon him. situation which Australia knows the Chamber may in future receive themselves and were able to meet
from the consumers of current. » all about, owing to its frequency
two-thirds of the expense of their
A unique birthday celebration support, which she thought, was was held at the Grafton Hospital of occurrence. The latest re- The health return for last week very creditable. They did not live Brisbane recently, when four ference to industrial unrest comes shows three fatal Chinese cases on charity and Mrs. Wood ex- members of 'one family, two
of typhoid; from Germany, where the workers arrences of diphtheria tate Chin pressed the opinion that it was up sons and two daughters, met to to their supporters to back the wish each other "many happy ré- are insisting on an eight-hour use and cre British); and ine girls up by buying the goods.
turns of the day" The singular day, as decreed by statute, and also cerebro-spinal fever: A rabid doy the Home when there was a water the fact that the feur recipients of
fatal. British case (imported) of
Continuing, she said she was at feature about the celebration was higher wages, The iron and steel was also reported from the New shortage and she saw two of the the birthday greetings were born. Industries, "the ones affected, see Territories.
girls walking down a path carry month, namely Detaber 7. The
On the same day of the the necessity for an increase of
A customs notification states and quite happy. They were ab-hy two years. Strange to say, a ing water. They were laughing ages in each case were separated prices, and consequent loss of that as from to-day the Bank Buoy, solutely footsure and showed no niece, the daughter of the eldest very important, world markets, if a black conical busy, will be signs of stumbling, "It was real-son, now deceased, was also born these demands are to be satisfied; established to mark the southernly wonderful to see them," she on October 7. Probably this is the and this having been-pointed out, Yangtze River. From the posi
side of the Tungchow Channel, Added: a satisfactory arrangement with tion of the buoy, Fushan Pagoda the men is expected. It seems as
will bear S. 79 W., magnetic, dis- if the German worker is still There has been & great deal of sufficiently conscious of the need reference in cabled news, recently.for a big national effort to pro- to industrial unrest in many parts mote commerce, to repair the of the world. Of the bigger losses of the war, as to accede to movements, only, is special notice such appeals to his reason; but required, for the present, but the the time must come when post-money amounting to nearly $300,ed for help with regard to ideas which necessitated his removal to
Orders Hongkong. Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central ?
BIRTH.
HAWKER-On 5th December, 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. W. Hawker, the gift of a daugh-
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
1927
TUESDAY, DEC. 6.
WORLD INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
tant .1 miles.
Re
non-fatal
oc.
said that buyers would find that Referring to the sale, Mrs. Wood the patterns and designe this year yere even better than Inst year, The police yesterday effected wanted to buy but did not like the but if anyone found anything they the capture of an alleged thief. colour, style, or if it did not fit, C. Wilson this morning and she would get articies made to whom they produced before Major if they approached Miss Beswick charged with the theft of a lady order. passenger's handbag, containing
same
unly ease of its kind in Australia. members of the Wicks family, of The principals in this story are South
Was
Grafton, Sidney Wicks born on October 7, 1866; October 7, 1808; Mrs. J. Stevens, Ernest Albert Wieka, of Grafton, Grafton, October 7, 1870; and Mrs. 1, 1872. On September 13 last Mr. W. Layton, South Grafton, October Sidney Wicks met with a serious In conclusion Mra, Wood appeal. Accident, and sustained injuries evidence all points to restiveness poned requests are translated into The man was remanded.
on board the O.SK: Hoyan Maru. Miss Beswick, she said, would be ruple birthday was celebrated at the Grafton Hospital. The quad- on the part of workers," and the asistent demands, and strikes.
glad to hear from anybody who the institution. The above, four accumulation of problems for cap-It seems another, instance of the
tains of industry to free in the vicious cycle of unrest in indus.de Paul Society's Fete, yesterday, and colours, as such assistance being the issue of the late Mr. and. In our report of the St. Vincent had ideas with regard to patterns persons belong to a family of 10,
charges,
it was inadvertently stated that Madame Cerveira d' Albuquerque Secretaries. The correct name' is Was one of the organisation Madame Carreira. The scrutineers of the Motor Car. Draw, it should also be mentioned, included Mr.
M. D. C. Hoare..
not distant future. Apart from trial realms-higher the Far Eastern outlook-such a greater living costs, and then the strike fever at Shanghai-nore demands for higher wages. which is almost entirely the work Meanwhile, truces are patched up, of revolutionary axitators, there and the capitalists breathe a sigh is growing uncertainty about the of relief at having staved off an- labour situation fr western coun- other serious threat to industria! trias. Britain wears an aspect of harmony; though they are all the industrial peace or the surface, time no nearer finding a satisfac-tho but it is becoming obvious that tory remedy. serious under-currents exist which will sooner or later scek an outlet, and the movement by am.
ployers towards a better under standing between masters and men is designed to avert this break. The coal mining industry is in a bad way, and there is no- thing to prove that the promises of the optimists, that the year
would
see
it
would help the sale of the goods. said 'n prayer.
The Rev. II. Copley Moyle then
'clock this evening, and those The sale will be open until six who are able to go should make a point of securing some of the real bargains that are being offered at very reasonable prices. On
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Mrs. Robert Wicks, of Ryde.
*
The Doughboys. are the flour of America.-Lady Spencer Churchill.
ideal to my friends in the Enat I always hold up America 'as the End.--Col. John Dodge.
We live at a time when man's mechanical progress has outrun his
The ship of peace is really on the sea of reality, and the port of security is in sight-Dame Edith
Subsequent to the dismissal of the stalls are laid out socks, moral progress.-Bishop of Win- No. 19 Queen's Road Central, at jumpers, complete outfits of babies' a foki from the A. Lung firm, at shawls, jersey suits. cardigans, chester.
end of last month, it was clothes, dressed dolls, tennis nets found, according to a report made and hearth rugs. These latter are by the manager to the police a new departure and there are a Lyttelton..
of excellent rugs yesterday, that he had collected cumber $231 from time to time from pleasing colours going cheap. It various customers and had failed' is to be noted that all the goods to turn it over to the shop. are made by the blind girls them-
selves.
in
A "SCOUNDREL." MAGISTRATE'S REPROOF TO
THIEF. Giving evidence at the Central
men, is the greatest cataract in Guide "This, ladies and gentle- the country, and if the ladies will only be silent for a moment you will hear the thunder of the
I
etands, the greyhounds disappear- finish could be seen from the In one race, only the start and
ing in the fog and suddenly reap- pearing fifty yards from home,
Racing was interrupted for near- ly an hour owing to mechanical difficulties with the hare...
A schoolboy "howler" from an essay on the Normans:—
chased his dear." maid, and he killed everyone who "King William had a New Forest
*
The verger of a little county n one-dollar note, Mr. A. M. church was showing a party of Thornhill, Manager of the Soldi- visitors round. They ascended ers' Club at Queen's Road East, to the belfry.
The Kuomintang. Messages from Shanghai show that the preliminary, conference of Kuomintang officials found extremely difficult even to come To-day's Observatory report states. Ladies assisting at the stalls are waters." to agreement regarding the Conference proper when, if ever, 600 miles east of Cochin China, stone, Hayley
mat that a new anticyclone has formed Mesdames Jackman, Goldsmith, be dealt with by the over China. The typhoon is about Murray, Pope. Hynes, Feather-raced after an illuminated hare, a ter to
Greyhounds at Harringay Park it usembles. This fact is
Bell, Redmond, light being placed on the front to due moving westward. Fresh to strong Wood, Austin, de Rome, Shellshear, make it more easily visible in the to what is evidently a serious split in the Party, for the coast of China and over the North Brindley, and Carothers.
very monsoon may be expected along the Jackson, Nisbet, Hopper, Loseby, fog. opposing elements have already China Sea, with cyclonic gales over a remedy," for the come to grips on what, after all, the South China Sea. The forecast cost, the arrangements being under Tea can be obtained at a small menace of continued unemploy-appear rather trivial. points. up to nuon to-morrow is-North- the direction of Mrs. Grimble, ment, are likely to bear fruit. In What will happen when it comes east winds, fresh, cloudy.
to discussing really vital matters
Mra. Jackman, and Mrs. Wright. certain directions, there is un-
may well be left to the imagina-" A thief has stolen $85 from Miss doubtedly an improvement in the tion. The Left and the Right Doyle, a nurse of Queen Alexan- outlook, and some branches of in wings of the Party are now fur-dra's Imperial Military Nursing dustry in Britain have revived her apart than they have ever Service, who is staying at quarters been, and, where so many personal established at No. 108, Kowloon, sufciently to give rise to the hope ambitions'are at stake, it is hardTong. From a report made to the that the bottom of the depression to see how there can be any hopes police yesterday, it appears that Police Court this morning in a of future solidarity. In the days he thief must have profited from has been reached and passed. when the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen Miss Doyle's short absence, last case in which he charged his Yet, while the coal mines are ex-was alive, and when the Party's evening, to enter her bedroom second house-boy with the theft of periencing a severe slump, and the influence was largely centred in through a back window, and to miners are getting restless, it the South, the Kuomintang was a steal the money from a drawer.
more or less unified body, in cannot be said that the million which Party discipline was and more unemployed in the coun- forced and respected. Latterly, with the attempt to carry Party try do not constitute a constant
ideals into other parts of the reminder of what looks like be- country, there has made itself coming a permanent Incubus, and manifest a distinct rift amongst a recurring tax on the exchequer. the leading officials, so that to- Paris
day the Party is all at sixes and New York But until the new year dawns, it acvens. This outcome would ap Brussels is perhaps premature to attempt pear to have been an inevitable Geneva. assessment of the general consequence of the death of Dr. Amsterdam
standing personality to take his Berlin Sun and the lack of some out-lan
place. The trouble with the Party Stockholm
Copenhagen If we glance abroad, there are now is that it has too many po
would-be masters. Further com- Vienna three big issues in industrial un-plications have been added from reat which claim the attention. the fact that the Party head-
Prague Helsingfors One hears very little, ordinarily, quarters have moved from the Madrid
South, and it has become obvious Lisbon about strikes in America; but that the effort to make the Kuo- Athens there has been a serious upheaval mintang a National Party in more Bacharest in progress for some weeks in thethan name has utterly falled. Rio Colorado mining belt. It was Maybe this is all to the good of Buenos Airs
the country. Be that as it may, Bombay only when some of the minors ac-the fact remains that the Kusmin Shanghai tually rloted the other day; and tang is losing in power and in- Hongkong
fluence as the result of the sharp Silver (spot)
Tokohama were shot, down by police, and divisions which have made them-silver (forward) troops were called out to maintain selves upparent in recent times.
outlook so far as Britain is con- cerned.
Co-
EXCHANGE RATES,
.
London, Dec. 5.
said that, having previously miss- "Now this 'ere hell," said the ed large sums of money, he decid-verger proudly--"a bit remarkable ed to iny a trap.
this bell is. It is only rung on the occasion of a visit from the bishop, a fire, a flood, or any other such calamity!"
Before going into the bathroom
in bis quarters above the Club yes- terday, he noted the numbers on five one-dollar bills and left these .124 4.88% in the pocket of his trousers, in 84.88% the bedroom. On returning, a few. .26.30 minutes later, he found that one .12.07% of the notes had disappeared, and .89.00 immediately went to the kitchen, -20.42 where he searched the "boy" and 18.08 found the missing note in his .18.20
1834 breast-pocket, .34.01 .1644
29.02%2
The accused, replying to Mr. R. E. Lindsell, said that the note in 193 question was handed to him by Mr. Thornhill's daughter with the 7/16 request that it be changed for her. 300 Other questions by the Bonch 700 elicited contradictory replies, and 7/8 in the end his Worship cjaculated: 477/10Miserable acoundrel." .1/0 1/16 "How long has the fellow been 2/04 with you?" his Worship asked Mr.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
S.S. "Corby Castle" (D. & Co.) sailed from Honolulu on the 26th Nov. and is due in Manila on Jan.
1st,
S.S. "Bowes Castle" (D. & Co.) sailed from New York on Nov. 26th and is due here on the 22nd Jan., 1928.
M.V. "Reme" (D. & Co.), sailed from Singapore on the 2nd Inst.. and is expected here on the 8th Inst.
M.V."Viminalo" sailed from Aden on the 5th inst.
(D. & Co.).. and is due here on the 5th Jan,
1928.
1/10 17/32
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