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GENERAL.

MR. JAMES MCNEILL TO BE APPOINTED.

London. Dec. 15.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER (16, 1927.

DRASTIC SHANGHAI

REGULATIONS.

DISCOVERING THE WEALTHY."

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

Passengers

Per Trip

SCALE OF CHARGES. Effective 1st January, 1928,

Per Trip Persons under 16 years of age Non-Commissioned Officers and Men belonging to

Army, Navy, Folice and Fire Brigade in Uniform

1st Class 3rd Class

$ 0.10

0.05

0.05

Special Ferry 1.00 a..

0.20

Asiaties only are allowed to travel 3rd Class

4 copper

cents

Book of 100 tickets-Asiatics only

$4,00

Monthly Tickets-Single

6.00

Monthly Tickets-Single (Persons under 16 years

of 'age)

2.00

Monthly Tickets-Family (3 persons)

9.00

Monthly Tickets-Family (4/5 persons)

12.00

Free

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

IRELAND'S GOVERNOR

BANK AFFAIRS.

Children under 3 years of age

The following persons will be considered as members of a Family: Husband, Wife, unmarried Children- and Governess, Nurse or Amah, living in the same house..

By Order of the Board of Directors,

F. H. CRAPNELL,

Secretary.

Hongkong, 14th December, 1927.

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The Tug of the Ankle.

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a lesson from Hongkong's treat- It is understood that Mr. Timothy'

ment of noisy motorists, Healy, Governor-General of the

Still one more set of model re-anys the Shanghai Times. Irish Free State, who has now gulations, strictly up to date and As the result of numerous com- completed five years of office is covering their field with the usualplaints received from offices about to retire and that his succes- thoroughness, has been devised the Colony with regard to

announced. sor will shortly be

The name of Mr. James McNeill, and published by the "National-nuisance of noise caused by exces- present Free State High Commis-ist" authorities for the anxious sive sounding of horns, the drivers sioner, in London, is mentioned in contemplation of those Chinese of a number of motor cars were connexion with the appointment who are interested in banks or are summoned before the court and lucky enough to have anything fines were imposed. The Bench British Wireless.

still deposited in banks, says the remarked that drivers were N. C. Daily News (Shanghai), fond of sounding their horns and The Chinese press has reproduced, they sometimes made a deafening

An Official Announcement,

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It is officially announced in Dub-as coming from the Bureau of the noise.

21 YEARS AGO.

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in that Mr. James McNeill, the Currency Comptroller, at 15 The The fact is that Hongkong is Free State High Commissioner in Ilund, the various rules for the re-really better off than Shanghai London, will shortly succeed Mr.gistration and inspection of banks, when it comes to this type of Tine Healy as Governor-General of trust companies, insurance com- nuisance, and though it is on re- the Irish Free State.-Renter. panies and the like which appear cord that something was done to give expression to a simple and during the oppressive heat of the Yet ingenious scheme for discover-summer before last to stop this ing pal only just how much every nuisance, nothing has been done such institution is worth to its in recent months. Most Chinese promoters but also how much chauffeurs are not content unless every individual who should be they have at least two motor horna patriotically contributing his attached to their cars, and some of tithes to the Nanking war chest, them have even more than two. was invested or deposited in such A motor car driving along Sze banks and companies.

chuan Road Aven during the The regulations governing re-times of less crowded traffic fre- gistration are thorough-going, as quent sounds like a tin pan alley 13 Pithy. has been said, but the rules for symphony, only several degrees 14 Marsh loving plants. inspection of accounts and hooks worse. While asking that some-10 Pertaining to the countryside. are the ones that leave nothing to thing be done to stop a city-wide 18 Variety of quartz. chance, but are calculated to re-nuisance, this is not an argument 20 One and one together. veal the intimate finances of every for throwing caution to the winds 22 Run. Shanghai resident who has deal and stopping all use of motor 23 Deceive.

sirens. It 24 Serpents. ings with banks to those most in-horns, klaxons and

20 Radiated. rested in relieving him of his would be impossible to do that 26 The conscious thinking subject. surplus. It is even stipulated that anyway. "no excuse shall be made by the party examined,"

The following items are from the Boughing Telegraph for the week ended December 15th, 1906:

The rate of the dollar on demand Wits 28. 2. 7/3d.

+

The British steamer Hongkong, lying wrecked off the Godown Com pany's wharf, was sold for $7,800 to Mr. Wong Leung-ki..

The late Mr. E. R. Belilios left property in Hongkong valued at £275,304 and personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £660.

The American steamer Sorsogon, which was blown ashore off Hung- hom during the typhoon, was suc- cessfully

raised by the Kowloon Dock.

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.

A Magnificent Opportunity. The first possibility that any Chinese experienced in administra tive affairs will see in these regula A foreign firm. offered to supply tions, is the magnificent oppor- the Canton Viceroy with quick-firank inspectors at exorbitant fig- tutunity afforded for selling posts us ing guns for gunboats at a cost ofures to needy or greedy officials SGOO(gold) apiece.

who can raise the ready capital to buy the appointments. These gen- try in their turn will see in the power of approaching the Chinese bunks in an official capacity, of pretending to pass upon their merits and demerits, and in nosing into their financial transaction, op

The Hongkong Gas "Company notified that the price of gas would be reduced to $2.75 per 1,000 chic

feel.

Erigadier General R. G. Brond- wood, the new G. O. C., arrived in Mongkoi Irata Home,

portunities for extortion and blackmail in the richest centre of readily negotiable wealth in China Mr. John Hughes, ninety-one, such as no hungry yamen attache works manger at George Salter's West Bronnwich, who had been ent-in this country has ever envisaged ployed by the same firm for eighty-before. The banker who pays is two years, and was said to be Bri-registered and declared sound; the in's oldest workman, died recent financier who cannot satisfy the Inspector is officially unsound and denied registration. The amount paid is a matter for arbitration and comprenise, perhaps, but the

stance the last word in closing the bargain.

LETTER GOLF.

A FIVE-LETTER ONE.

Go from PLANT to PEACH, in four strokes, Not so easy.

10 Rested.

13 Multitude.

15 Seat without a back..

17 Stimulate.

One who samples. 11 Alpahabetic character of a parti 19 Pay attention to.

cular set, 12 An excuse.

27 Ten millions (Eest Indica).

28 A brother's child. 30 Scethed, 31. Level.

32 Temper of mind. 33 Frightened,

37 Liquid principal of ells.

41 Religious song! 42 Reels.

Animal's inir.

Following tradition, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa has been éonferred upon a number of foreign anvants on the occasion of the re-opening of Paris University for the autumn term, says Reuter. There were two British recipients, Principal Librarian of the British Sir Frederic: Kenyon, Director and Museum, and Professor J. S. E. Townsend, Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Ox-50 French unit for solid measure. ford.

and invariably booms after a war as though the trading field were newly fertilized, but that nothing can combat and outlive systematic official extortion such as would be made possible by the application of these regulations here and the Imitation, of them that would inevitably come elsewhere.

1.

Effect of Extortion on Capital.

Extortion has driven capital from the most remote quarters of China into the foreign Concessiona and Settlements und, within the

15 Recess for baking. 46 Low sand hills, 47 Narrow strip of wood. 18 Marshy place. 19 Pozzled.

51 About.

53 Revolving part of a motor. 55 Hautboy.

56 Brother to Cain. 67 Coward. 58 Vast.

1 Encourage. 2 Discourse. B Throw.

4 Entity.

5 Smokey.

6 Extend.

7 Watchful.

1

Doton.

8 Come face to face with.

9 Cushion stuffed with soft material.

21 Tako heed of,

23 Cried like a rook.

24 Newly married woman.

26 Festivity.

27 Loses heat.

**

20 Slender legged bird.

30 Volumes.

33 Mocked.

34 Subterranean cavern.

35 Combating ground.

36 Fruit of a fir-tree.

38. One averse to labour,

39 Close by.

40 Kind of fevor,

42 Impaired by "time..

43 Variety of the citron-tree.

46 One who gives.

47 Long Roman garment.

49 Species of armidillo.

60 Let it stand.

62 Word expressive of refusal

54 Species of African sorcery.

Yesterday's Solution

inspector must have in every in- past year, blackmail, and further Christmas Crackers-

extortion, with intimidation and intruded kidnapping, have even upon the foreign controlled areas, have been too little resented, and have consequently robbed the Chinese residents of their feeling of security and therefore of their

velopment Trade depression is in much greater dugree traceable to this situation than to warfare and the interruption of communi- which the

PLANTches. Will presumably he mast in enthusiasm for investment and de-

PEACHI

1-The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, a given num her of strokes. Thus to change. COW TO HEN, in three strokel, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN....

2-You can change only one letter at a time.

3-You must have a complete ward, of common usage, for each jump. Slang words and abbreviations don't count.......

The order of letters can- not be changed.

One solution is printed on another.page of this issue.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

MYBUGAY YOU'D LIKE

| 70 MLEY FRECKLES,

CCUSIA ALRY-HE'S

A NICE FELLA-

SOMETIME.

IS ME THE ONE MAY MAS PRECKLES ALL

OVER AIS

MOSE?

A Scheme for Exact Information.

The second possibility in the schere, and that in which the of the "Nationalat" war terested, will be the compilation of exact information from the books or all the local native banks and similar institutions, of the re- spurces of every individua! mercations-obstacles chant d'nd investor who could pos- Chinese merchant has evaded and ably be thought worth approach-pvercome for centuries until he is ing, with urgent appeals for an expert at it.

voluntary patriotic contribution. We have had imposed, upon this

Just arrived (all kinds) Chocolates in Fancy Boxes, Nougat, Liqueur Sweets, Sugar Almonds, Marrons Glaces, Crystalised Fruits

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and many other dainty novelties and delicacies for the Festive Season

THE FRENCH STORE

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

TEL. C. 794.

It is not difficult to see what the community, the 30 million loin, the effect upon the Chinese banks here 24 million loan, the rent tax, the would be if the foreign authorities Central Bank bubble and the were to countenance the Impost- "opium suppression" schemes. on of any such system of inspec- And now they have wearied of in- tion and registration. The result direct approach and round about could be nothing less than a investigation of the individual's Janicky transfer of, all cash "ac-ability to pay, and have decided to

The first wedding for three On the return, a stag-hunter, who counts and securities from the go directly to the, banks for both Chinese to the foreign banks, a ready money and detailed informa-years took place at the little had hidden in the bracken, sound- ed the Rouse on a hunting-horn, lack of confidence that would tion. Toleration by the Municipal moorland church of Stoke Pero, much to the concern of the deer, affect note issues and another all-authorities of the least gesture near Porlock, Somerset, recently, who thought hounds were in the round depression of. grative trade within the Settlement towards

through the hiding and hoarding bank registration and inspection There are no roads in the parish, vicinity. The population of the of capital.

though there is a church there is It is well enough will undoubtedly have a most de- and the bride and bridegroom had parish is only thirty, and al- known to every Chinese business vastating effect upon such Chinese to trudge in wild weather and no rector. Mrs. Ada Harding man and to very foreigner who confidence in fpreigner's over the moor to the church, the who played the organ, is verger watches the Customs returns that ability to resent and resist extor-

churchwarden and her brother trade survives domestic warfare tion in the Settlement as is essen-journey including the crossing and sexton, and her father is the in this country in an uncanny way tial to surviving commerce. of a stream by a narrow plank. the rate collector.

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