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TRIDAY MARCH 15, 1929.

STRICTER SHIPPING

SURVEYS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

21 YEARS AGO.

WOMEN ARE SUCH AN ADDITION TO SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE THE CAPACITY OF MANKIND, THAT | ATELEGRAPH" FILES. THE IDEA DE LEIR INFERIORITY

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The Very Idea!

A curious situation has arisen since. 'the'election of Professor

WOULD NEVER OCCUR TO ANYONE, The following items are from DID NOT MEN MENTION IT WHO CAN- the Hongkong Telegraph for the George Gordon of Merton College, NOT COMPETE WITH THEM.-George week ended March 10th, 1908. as the President of Magdalen, | ♬ Holysake,

Oxford. The rate of the dollar on debetween the two colleges in 1617. A feudal agreement was, made and was 15. 10. 11/16d.

one of the terms of, which was that, in return for a licence,. enabling them to acquire certain lands in Chalgrove (Oxfordshire), Magdalen should, for all time, on the election of a new. President, do fealty for the Chalgrove lands, and should pay 168, 8d. to Merton for four centuries.

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The remedy for the present dia- parity lies in the hands of China and other countries, for when stan- dards, generally have been raised to the British level, competition will be based on equal terms. Unforton. ately, there is little room to hope for the early establishment of Chinese authority comparable to the British

Yesterday's health return"show- Board of Trade. There is an abed one case of small-pos and one sence of uniformity as regards of typhoid. Both were Chinese. some other nationalities, including

Dr. W. V. M. Koch began a The forthcoming wedding is an- series of lectures some whose certificates are recognis-

on home nurs- nounced of Mr. J. Chang Linging, under the auspices of the St. ed and nccepted in British ports. Wong, of 'No. 86, Bonham Road, John Ambulance Brigade, It would seem there is room for to Miss Edith Sue-on, No. 1, Beau- strone international action until Uiful Terrace, survey requirements for all vessels of all nationalities are made identi- cal. This is obviously the line of action to be taken, but the establish- ment of world-wide national survey services of equal integrity is not easy of achievement, either from the technical or the co-operative point of view. Meanwhile, one fears that British owners and ship- pers must carry on accepting it as an inevitability that the flag they ave privileges to fly imposes n stan dard of worthiness that it is part

Mr. E. Nissim was authorised to sign on behalf af Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co., Ltd.

*** * According to the officer in charge of Ping Shan Police Sta- lion, a report has been received at] the station, by letter, stating that The Hongkong and Kowloon

Wharf and the s.s. Shon On is ashore west of manual report showed profit en Sha Chau Island,

Godowa Company's

working, amounting to $350,290.

LOCAL ESTATE.

WILL OF THE LATE" MR.

M. MacCAW.

Mr. W. J. MacGengh MacCaw, Inte of No. 103, Eaton Square: Westminster, and of Rocksnest

of their duty to uphold. The dis-Park, Godstone, Surrey, who died. advantage as regards costs should at Monte Carlo on March 3, 1928, left Hongkong estate to the value be counted as offset by the greater of $5,200, while net personally in prestige and its consequent attrae- Great Britain amounts to £10,122. tiveness for business.

The Fifth Test.

Re-scaling of probate of the will and a codicfl has been grant- ed to Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, of Deacons, who is the attorney for] the executors.

Testator'a sona and daughters are named as the executors, In-}

cluding Mr. V. H. MacCaw, of No. 21, Strand Road, Calcutta, India.

The bequests are of a family

WHITE LINES AT KOWLOON.

DOCTOR FINED FOR WIFE'S "TRANSGRESSION."

LEERTJENERATA

THE "TELEGRAPH ART SUPPLEMENT.

More Hotel Fire Pictures

To-morrow.

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will contain further pictures showing tho destruction caused by the disasterous Are at the King Edward Hotel. There will also be photo- graphs of the funeral of the " late Mr. and Mrs, D. J. Rob- son, both of whom lost their lives in the disaster.

Sporting pictures will show the Army hockey team which won the Sim Shield, snapshots taken at the Extra Race Meet ing, the baseball and football teams of South China Athletic and the U. S. Fleet, the box- ing team of the leadquarter Wing of the K.O.S.B., and the European members of the P.W.D. and Sanitary Depart- recent ments who, met in a football match.

The embarkation of the Bedfordshire and Hertford- shire Buttalion and the fare- well of Major General Luard. will also be illustrated, whilst other photos will be of Dr. G. Montagu Harston, who is leav- ing the Colony after 31 years' residence, the guests at the Cralgengowo C. bachelors' ball, and plctures showing Canton's change-over to auto- matic telephones.

In reply to his Worship, Sub- Inspector McWalter said the white lines outside the Railway Station were comparatively new, having | Beads been there for about five weeks,

The 10s. 8d. has now been re fused, on the grounds that, the payment belongs to a class of of 1660. feudal dues abolished by the Act

The agreement of 1517, how ever, gives Merton the right to distrain on the Chalgrove proper, vais ty, ahold the payments be more than one month overdue.

Some of the members of Mer- ton suggest that the right should. be exercised while others think the matter should be submitted to arbitration.

On

Sergeant "But if he was his hands and knees in the road, what makes you think ho WAR Iollering with intent to commit a felony 7"*

New Constable-"Well, sir, he was groping at the white line, saying he was going to roll it up and take it home to make a fricze for his bathroom."

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Cheers grected Sir Gerald Du Maurier's remark that he would "like once more to see the un- shingled."}

Once you wove a cunning anare, Phyllis, with your golden hair- Caught my heart; but oh! the

pain

When you set it frea again; When you clipped the gentle

подне,

Freed my heart and let it

loose.

In a golden mesh anew

I would be ensnared by you. I would never fret, I vow, Were my heart imprisoned now. Set anew a lover's 'snare: Phyllis, darling, Krow your

hair.

"But this officer says that while you were in a drunken stato yay tried to climb a lamp-pest."

"Yes, I did, your Worship, but Mamthree crocodiles had been follow- |ing me' around all night, and' I After an interim of 4 per cent,, a admit they were getting on my final dividend of 3 per cent, was nerves." | recommended.

Once again England and Aus- tralia have come to thrillingly close grips. The Fifth Test at Melbourne has reached a stuge when to prophecy would be ex-nature. tremely rash, the only thing -as sured being a tense struggle for victory. The problem Hes in the hands of the Australis téain, which has been set the task of retting 279 Paris ມາ ມາ a wicket Hongkong being a British Colony which, having been worn for six In which British laws and standards days, appears to be breaking up are operative, it is inevitable that badly, while their task is not sim- Dr, B. Souan Was fined there should sometimes be a clashplified by the fact that the whole 35 at the Kowloon Magistracy this between those standards and the of the cricketing world is anxious-morning for leaving his car out- standards of our friends the Chi-Interest is just as keen to-day as admitted the charge but said that ly following their performance.side the white lines opposite the

Raliway Station, The defendant; cse. More particularly lit this when Hobbs and Sutcliffe went out his wife had been driving the car stance do we refer to matters relato apen England's innings at Bris-and was not aware of the new re- ting to shipping-load lag, surveybane over three months ago. The xulations. The lines were hot certificates, passenger steamer re-"Ashes" have been captured by there when Mrs. Sousa last drove

the car some months ago, quirements and such like things. the visitors, but Australia are now It has been represented to us by striving desperately to atay the an experienced local shipping man run of success achieved by the that, Hongkong shipping is, by rea-M.C.C. The duel has been curn- son of the stricter requirements of est enough from the beginning, British laws and regulations, 'at a

the 'unexpected has happened at constant disadvantage in compet-vital periods of the game as we ing with Chinese shipping and also trust it will always happen in the grand old game, and in ho pre- the shipping of other nationalitiesvious game. have the respective which have not so high a standard captains been presented with so of requirements. It is contended many difficult problems. A glance that many ships which formerly over the scores to date shows that put in at Hongkong are now giving an unprecedented shifting of bat- the port a miss and proceeding ting orders has occurred on both direct to Canton, that some of the sides to meet these problems and to prevent the opposition from tak-

to learn that they will not have non-British roastal boats in possos-ing full advantage of dangerous

an opportunity of hearing the sion of certificates issued at neigh periods. It serves as an illustra- great Indian scholar during his

tion of the grimness of the strug-brief stay in Hongkong.

Mr. A. H. Rerinie's bouring foreign ports where re-ple, though we cannot forbear to

offer of quirements are not so high

Dr. Tagore arrived early this $150,000 towards the building of operating at a financial advantage one aspect of their play yesterday, Naldera and was met on

These men were evidently, bent boam cepted by the Government.

on some serlous errand-stern, against British ships, and that ship their rapid scoring. Averaging by many member of the

practically one run a minute, in unity, including Mr. J. 11. Rut-

set faces; and determined mien- ping owners and operators in this spile of the critical position, Eng-tonjee, who was to have been his minated by the Chamber of Com-man, with rugged features

Mr. Murray Stewart was no-especially one nearest me, a, tall Colony are suffering a handicapland's hitting must have given the host during the paéta atay merce for a scat on the Legisin-red hair. was astonished against competitors. As is well Melbourne, crowd something to Hongkong.

tive Council during the absence their dress, not having seen any- known, stricter survoys have lately play in contrast to that of Well think about so greatly was such

of Mr. E. A. Hewett,

one in Scotch dress in the neigh- been instituted at Hongkong, with eslay when the Australians bat

bourhood, and I wondered how they had managed to leave their the result, that additional expense te practically all day for 124 has been thrown upon local owners, rane. The here of the occasion was Maurice Tate, who the and at a time when competition for Australian bowlers all over the the coastal trade is keen and down to smail profit margins.

· DR. TAGORE'S BRIEF STAY HERE.

TOO SICK TO GRANT INTERVIEW.

To-day's

Ghost Story,-One The wedding took place at St.autumn morning, at a small shoot- John's Cathedral of Mr. J. R. M. ing-box in the South of Scotland, Smith, of the Hongkong and we were all at breakfast. I was Shanghal Banking Corporation, facing a French window from and Miss Edith A. M. Sanders, which, across a small garden, the sister of Dr. J. Herbert Sanders.village field rose up against the jekyline, about 50 yards from the

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Local admirers of the world- famous poet and philosopher, Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, will regret waris the erection of the Seamen's into view, in Scotch dress, carrying Mr. I N. Mody gave $35,000 to-house. Suddenly about 60 men came

Institute.

targes and claymores, marching down to the river just below, where there formerly was a ford, now superseded

by a bridge

nearer the house, arcongratulate the England teum on morning on the P. and O. ..he longkong University was ac-

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and at

Dr. Tagore was by no means in It was learned, however, that good health and hit it was his Intention to sail from the Colony again by the Naldera for Japan, arranged by Mr. V. C. Labrum

An enjoyable smoking concert work at such an early hour." where he will take ship to Canada, was held at the Kowloon C. C. on nothing at the time, but after As everyone was chatting I said

round and collected 54 runs himself who sought to geture an

A representative of the Telegraph Wednesday night. Mr. E. Abra-breakfast mentioned it to my

inter-ham presided over a fair gather hostess. She was no lean astonish in the space of 65 minutes. It was

onc.

an interval in the programme.

had

his performance almost entirely that view with Dr. Tapore, wasting of members, who thoroughly ed than I, and no one else Obviously, on the other hand,mbled Langland to leave Aus-formed, on making inquiries, that enjoyed the evening's proceedings, seen the men, though they were there is much to be said in favour tralia, with an uphill, if by no and would be unable to see any refreshments were served during

the distinguished visitor was alck Several songs were rendered and quite three minutes in view. of the official standpoint. The pres- means impossible, task. The re- : ge of British shipping and of sult, of course, depends on how the wicket plays to-day. May the British certificates must be main-

Fortunes go to the deserving side. tained, inasmuch as there is the important moral obligation on the Board of Trade and other authori- ties to see that safety of life at sea

is fully protected. The traditions

EXCHANGE RATES.

of the great British mercantile fleet Paris must not be allowed to suffer in the New York

Brussela competitive fight for trade or at the Geniva. wish of leas worthy owners. Bri-Amsterdam

Milan tial certificates must always be a Berlin guarantee of kenworthiness and that Stockholm a vessel puts to sea properly equip Oslo

Copenhagen ped with life-savine appliances and Vienna all those other things which are

Prague Helsingfors essential to a "well found" condi-Madrid It would be a retrogessive Lisbon Athons

tion.

attitude to lessen the standards, or flucharest even not to improve them. While Rio It might be true that the burden Buenos Aires

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falls on British shippers, it is also Shangha! true that this is part of their con- Hongkong tribution towards the general bet- Silver (Spot)

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At last she exclaimed that she now remembered, what day it was, and that years ago the clan nearest to the one in that dis- trict, between whom thera, was a feud, had marched down to the ford, fought a pitched battle there, And the invading clan had been utterly wiped out.

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