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To-day's dollar is worth 39 6 child has been found floating in the The body of a three-months' old 7-164.
suggestion might thus occur, but we doubt its frequence. Pictures seen every day are never seen-that is what experience shows, and what the Japanese knew when they hit upon the scheme of exposing only one picture, and changing it from To-day's return of communicable Lime to time. So far as the homes disease shows eight cases of plague,
harbour near Yaumati.
The Haitan leaves for Swatow, i Amoy and Foochow at 1 pm, on of England go, many a man must one of smallpox, and one of cerebro-Friday instead of Thursday. have jumped upon his mother under spinal fever. the very eyes of a pious. pictire, many a man beaten his wife under
the shadow of the framed query "What is Home Without a Mother?" Of the many landladies we have known, those who cheated us most seemed to be those whose walls were mest piously ornate.
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The Civil Service Club members are holding an American tournament on their Courts to-morrow afternoon for members and friends.
The Chaksang, Haitun, Uragasan Maru. Hanyang, Alicorne, Tokensan Maru, Hong Hwa, and Hsin Chang, are among the latest shipping. arrivals.
The Harbour Office Compound was packed with coolies this morning They are going as labourers on Java and Ceylon plantations.
Mr. K. Yamasaki, manager of the O. S. K. local branch, left by the Paul Lecat to-day for Singapore where he will assume charge of 0. S. K.
interests.
So far as making" Home goes, either you have taste or you haven't Beyond that comes the matter of moral courage. Have you enough to insist on having it as you like it.
The body of a Chinese woman, with the blade of a knife sticking in or do you have it as the neighbours have it? If you like to have it as left Hongkong yesterday on the at No 3 Bridge, King's Park. Murder The Laura Guerite Revue Coit, has been discovered by the Folice the neighbours' have it, whywe Tean, for Shanghai. They will is suspected.". suppose you have the right to please probably return to the. Colony in yourself. But in that case you have time to open a season here on June; no business to read the China Mail.[21. Try one of the others..
OUR PEACE CELEBRATIONS.
Messrs. Dodwell and Co. and the United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ltd, are opening their new godowns at Taikoktsui on Monday, May 19. The companies" launches, Teen Cheang and Gladiator will convey the guests to witness the opening ceremony.
The gossip in the city is that the Celebration Committee doesn't know there is a peace on. Some men are getting excited about it, and say that this is that kind of everybody's business which is nobody's business. Everybody wants to know what some- body is going to do about it and to Ltd body seems to knew. There you are.
Were we not justified in saying that The sale of money orders shows an this committee ought to have been expectedly large sale" and "This is chosen by the people, instead of being not surprising in view of the high a sort of Heaven's decree? Here is exchange." The total for 1918 Peace on the very doorstep, and no-should read $212,760.0.0. body to answer the bell. As the time
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DREYER QUIEN --On May 7, at the Danish Legation, Peking, Holger Dreyer, of Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Co., Hongkong, "to Henriette Fransisca, eldest daugh ter of. Mr. and Mrs. Fred, C. Quien, Junr., Peking.
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BRODIE-DEBAQUE-In March, in
the South of France, Capt. Nell
C. Brodie, C.L.C., eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Brodie, of
Shanghai, to Marie Julienne Debaque, youngest, daughter of M. and Mme. Debaque, of Lille.
DEATHS.
RICHARD.-On April 17, in London
Timothy Richard, B.h, LITT.D.,
LL.D., of the Baptist Missionary
Society and Secretary Emeritus
In our report of yesterday on the General Post Office the sale of Money Orders should have read:
$15.
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At the Magistracy, yesterday. before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the Chinese factory girl who was remanded for stealing a quantity of Florida water from the Kwong Sang Hong factory: was fined $10, or fourteen days hard labour.
WEDNESDAY” MAY 、14. 1919.
HONGKONG POLO CLUB.
FANVARD'S BEAUTIES.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH AT OUR THEATRE.
UNUSUAL MLET FOR EMPIRE DAY.
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The American Company was turn-: Below is the programme of the ing people away again last night. Polo Club's Gymkhana that will be They have certainly scored a hit held at Happy Valley Race Course to do with the Sandwich Islands as (by kind permission of the Stewards, here. Hello Hawait" has as little "The Suffragettes" had to do with Hockong Jockey Club) on Empire Day, politics, but who cared?. The scenery Saturday, May, 24 at 4 pm. It will be was rich, the frocks as extravagant observed that the programme is of as ever, and the fun very genuine.
Charlie Chaplin an unusual and amusing character Recollection of the Walk by Hazel Boyd and her Chaplin and that anyone who can ride is girls must have caused many a welcome to compete. An entrance snigger at office desks this morning.
An eccentric dance by West and fee of $1.00 per race will be charged Pearl Jardinere went very well, and (Ladies free) or $5.00 for the whole
Ryles the latter's "If I were a married programme. Entries must reach Mr. man" was another hit. Robert Grimstone before noon on Monday
does a lot. of good work without riling anybody. "Miss next. Myrtle Dingwall is a cantatrice of Entrance fee to the Gymkhana will high class, and her rendering of the be $1.00 per head (children under 12 To pianga" sole was most artistic half-price) payable at the Gate. Such and sweet In addition, she is a very pretty lady. So is the "Salome entrance fee also includes tea, which dancer, whom thany of us wished to see more of last night. because hers ment with the Hongkong Hotel.
is being provided by special arrange- is the poetry of motion we used to
1.-Half Section's Race-Gentle hear about. West and Horley, the men only. Competitors will start The Staff officer has often come in for some hard knocks, but perhaps ions comique, were more amusing dismounted, saddles on ground i criticism was never more wittily put naughty and as nice as before. The mount, and ride to given point, ever, and Hazel Boyd as front, on word "go" will saddle up, than in the words of a subaltern first act was located at Honolulu, unsaddle, and ride bare-back to quoted by the Daily News. "Bread;" said the subaltern" is the staff of life! The second was supposed to be at the finish, together, partners will be and the scenery looked just right winning-post- Half-sections rust but the life of the Staff is one lonx Moulin Rouge in Paris, ant 1 oked as drawn for
2-Ball and Bucket Race.-Open
loaf."
miles.
The following candidates have been successful in their examinations for certificates of competency before the Board of Trade, Hongkong, during AprilH. Brewer, Master, square rigged; J. E. Levine, Master, steamship: J. R. Doughty, First mate, steamship; J. M. Sturgeon, First mate, steamship; F. W. Potter, Second matc. steamship: A. G. McKinnon, Second mate, steamship. There were three failures during the month.
than
The Admiral Line Manager tells about 36-Hour Schedule.
Each vessel planned will cost $2,000,000; Orient also is field. Plans for what will be the fastest passenger vessels on the Pacific Coast are being prepared by the. Admiral Line for use on the San Francisco-Puget Sound ran, accord- ing to A. F. Haines, Vice-President and General Manager of the Com- pany, who arrived here yesterday on at the Palace Hotel, and will be in an inspection trip. Haines, who is the city for a week said:-
much like that bygone dance hall as claret looks like beer. But who cared? It was announced in New York It was whole heaps more amusing: Ladies and Gentlemen. Three on Feb 10 that Mr. Ernest Alexan than the real thing. Something was posts will be set up, on top of each derson, an American inventor, had happening all the time. That is a will be placed a polo ball; competi perfected a device which makes it special feature of the Banvard shows. tors on word "go" will ride to each is now so short, and they are sure to The Manchester Liberal Federa possible for wireless telephonic cou, Presumably a 'stage wait" would post in turn, take the ball off and make a mess of it if we leave it to tion has formulated its own political versations to be held between New give the Ranvard manager apoplexy, place in bucket. If competitor drops them, may we offer a practical scheme on advanced progressive York and New Zealand. The device Barring the interval upon which a ball or misses bucket, she or he suggestion? Let's hire the Banvard lines. Though it disavows opposition aver a distance of about 12,000 an unoccupied moment for the com-mount before placing same in bucket. is said to assure perfect audition thirsty patrons insist, there is never must dismount, pick up ball, and re- crowd to celebrate for us. They'll to the central organisation, it is do it right. If this be not agreed to, believed in some quarters that this will that committee kindly let us hear marks the beginning of a new phase
pany. Everybody keeps busy right 3.-Tent Pegging.-Gentlemen frote it, show some sign of life? It of British Liberalism.
along, and the business is good and. only. Ladies' Nomination. Unemployment in Japan is, in-well thought out. One happy patron may seem harsh to wake it and
creasing with the development of the said he wished it was like one of those Gentleman partners. Start dismount- 4. Brain Fever Race-Lady and éummon it from its deathbed, where
commercial depression, and only be Chinese plays in the matter of dura-ed, on word sleeping sickness or something like
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice cause of the sław increase tion, and said he never before realized to given point where men will go" mount and ride that must have sent it, but tire Memorial and Affiliated Hospitais does it attract so little atten-what humbug it is to claim that a dismount and hand their ponies over business is urgent, Peace is upon following donations to the funds of and Commerce reports that during For beauty is the middle name of partner's pony back to starting acknowledges with thanks the tion. The Ministry of Agriculture thing of beauty is a joy for ever, us. Somebody must feed the baby..
to the ladies, who will then lead the Hospitals-Zoroastrian charity the first week of February 146 this company. I ever you see in a point. Gentlemen, on dismounting. Fund $100, Mr. Su: Un $50, (Messrs.) factories dismissed hands to THE ROAD TO CANTON,
the T'am Hung-kwan $10, Chan Tsunumber of 2,639 men and women.
garden a passionate flower bed of will run a short distance, pick up Tseung
roses and peonies and lilies, larkspur and open an umbrella, turn four Chan Sze $10 Yesterday we reprinted in the and Kwok Yeuk-pang $7.50.
and pansies, everything in the bloom-times round a stick, then return to ing line save the shrinking violet, take their ponies as quickly as possible, China Mail a letter by Dr. Chambers
another look at it. It will remind mount and ride to winning post advocating the making of а His many friends in Shanghai,
you of the Banvard girls, who as a together. Umbrellas must be kept highway between Hongkong and says the N.-C. Daily News, will be
chorus don't blend, but as emblemsfully open all the time. Canton. That road is sure to be interested to hear that Captain Neil
of the roses and raptures of a well- made some day. The proposition is C. Brodie, Chinese Labour Corps,
spent life are sure the real goods.
5.-Musical Chairs.-Ladies only. not a new one, its merit lies in the was married in the South of France,
They change American alang so. coming this event may be changed.) (If sufficient entries are not forth- wery good point in that persuasive suggestion that the job should be in the early part of this" year, to
Whereas now such people are refer book of his. Merrie England," when
tackled now. It should be quite easy. Mile. Marie Julienne Debaque, the
red to as
6.-Victoria Cross Race.-Gentle- he dwelt on the slavery to un-he Canton Government is very daughter of M. and Mme. Debaque,
be peaches", which was an apter 'chickens.", they used to
men only. Ladies' Nomination. necessary furniture of the work.enterprising, and would probably lerd formerly of Lille.
epithet for such charmers as these, only. Ladies' Nomination. Competi- 7.-Mounted Combat.-Gentlemen ing-class woman. He was not quite Hongkong Government. No body is a receptive ear to a proposal by the
who have beguiled masculine Hong- tors will ride bare-backed, no whips correct when he said that the likely to object, unless it be our under gian, Swiss, Serbian, Roumanian and The British, French, Italian, Bel- Japanese homes are free of this staffed Police, who consider that there Greek diplomatic and technical dele-new Bills, including a drastic Food on them, believe us, when it comes
kong out of what little sense it ever or spars allowed, combatant remain- foolishness, for they, too, multiply are already sufficient facilities for gates are considering a new railway Production Bill affecting all owners to making a League of Nations. All
In the SS. Gazette are published had. President Wilson has nothing ing mounted longest to win. instead of simplifying domestic im- the coming of Cantonese bandits.service, via Paris, Milan, Trieste, of arable land of teri acres or over, the men of all the races in cosmopo pedimenta. We know one man who, Perhaps the work of making the Agram and Belgrade, ultimately who have to file returns of what litan Hongkong are unanimous now 21-KNOT SHIPS ON PACIFIC after reading Blatchford's book, road would reduce the number of reaching Odessa via Bucharest, and crops they are growing or proposing in declaring that at ever determined to live right, and realize these unwelcome immigrants. The also Bombay via Constantinople and to grow. The Government is given is the only event that ever eventuated ing that it was easier to go to Japan river and rail traffic between the Bagdad. This service would divert the power of entering on and dealing here. Only a bonehead would dream
COAST RUN PROMISED. womenfolk of England, took ship tion, nor has the competition of and explains the British Govern- refuse to cultivate it, abrogating if shares and buy a seat to-night-if than to convert the conservative two cities shows no sign of reduc- the trade of Germany to the Allies with all such land if the owners of denying it. Sel! some godown chop-chop. He was dismayed when steamer and train caused
spring cleaning" came along in
any ment's sanction of the construction necessary all leases, covenants, etc. you can. Japan, and revealed that he was out would justify the provision of a
apparent loss to either. The traffic of the Channel tunnel.
Another Bill imposes flogging as a of the frying pan into the cinders. motor road, if that were necessary; Still, in one respect the Japanese have but the real advantage, of course, 24 Lord Jersey foreshadowed a drastic
compulsory part of all sentences for In the House of Lords on March robberies.between sunset and sunrise. us beaten. They do not cover the would be the opening up of eighty expulsion of interned aliens. Their
DEATH OF VICE-ADMI walis..of their having tons with miles of intervening country. An-number was now about six thousand, at All Saints' Church. Tientsin,
H. LYON. The marriage took place pictures. They have pictures, which other reason for Hongkong support are kept in a cupboard, and hung one of the proposal is that its starting and of these about four thousand on May 4, of Mr. Howard Tulloch at a time. There is more merit in would carry on the development of Wuld probably desire to remain in Bennett, of the Eastern Extension this than appears on the surface. We our own Territory and incidentally to expect the worst, though the ence Mary Baker, daughter of the Britain. Lord Jersey advised them Telegraph Company; and Miss Flor were reminded of it by the item on accelerate the provision of a bridge Government would allow the right late Thomas Edward and Mrs. Baker our second page the other day, which or tunnel or causeway across our
The death is announced of Vice- told us that the newest idea in house harbour. The new road would call of appeal to a tribunal. The Primate decoration in London is to have the for that.
(Dr. Randall Davidson) and in Tientsin on the morning of the Adml. Herbert Lyon on March 19 at walls bare. 'Crowds of pictures.
others appealed for a less drastic wedding, which was of a very quiet the Diglu Hospital, Malta, from heart make the room look small," said the
measure. Lord: Jersey promised, on description.. The bride was given failure, following.on tubercular dis- from Puget Sound to San Francisco We are going to make the run. EDWARDS. On May 2, at Taiyuen. Daily Chronicle story.
Bare walls
behalf of the Government, that all away by Mr. P. S. Jameson. Little ease of the lungs. Adm. Lyon in thirty six hours, I can't tell when! fu, Shansi, Dr. George K. Ed-are restful. The fewer odds and
ends in a room the more easy it is to Banvard Show laid down the pro-
One of the advertisements for the cases should be considered on their Miss Phyllis M. Jameson, was brides during the war held the appointment the vessels will be on the run, as the wards.
individual merits.
maid and Mr. Divens discharged the of Commodore of the base escort at contracts have not been awarded, live in. 1 advise any woman who position that a business-man needs
| duties of “best man." The Rev. S. Malta.
pending on a final decision on the wants to make a small room look something like that in his out-of- Mr. C. Lauritsen was summoned G. Teakle officiated.
The news will be received with types of vessels to build. The ships John Sharp Fenwick, of Boyd larger to take down every picture, office hours, "something that interests by an absurd policeman for obstruc-
deep regret at Devonport, where will make about twenty one knots an & Co., Amoy and Formosa, 41 and to have the walls papered in a him without requiring him to think."tion on the Prayz. The case was It is announced from Rome that Vice Adml. Lyon was well known hour and will have two berth state. white or a plain colour, and it will This is good advertising, but is it dismissed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at a new Italian biplane (Marchetti and highly esteemed. Born on rooms. They will be finer in many be almost as good as moving into a good sense? Would it apply to a the Magistracy yesterday. Mr. Vickers-Terni), piloted by Sergeant December 28, 1856, the deceased respects than any ships on the Pacific... newer and larger house."
So on, man's reading, for example? The Lauritsen, it was alleged, unloaded a Elia Lint, has given under its official officer became a naval cadet on Whether the ships will be built on the and so on, all very true, but if we brain isn't so tender a tool as all number of motor cars on the Praya, trials an average certified speed of January 15, 1870, and, attaining flag Pacific of Atlantic depends upon the know anything at all, the man who that. Who gives his watch a res:? thus holding up traffic. Mr. Laurit 260.8 Kilometres (162 miles) per rank on April 14, 1910, retired on prices we get. When about $2,000,- wrote the story went home to his The brain is like a watch. Wind it sen handed the Magistrate some hour. The trials were conducted at January 25, 1913, and had held the 000 la involved in each vessel we will suburb and entered a room that was up regularly and it will go better. photographs showing the nature of a height of 30 metres (nearly 32 rank of vice-admiral on the retired build the ships where we can get the papered with green cockatoos biting Car a man who lets his brain run the obstructing. After viewing the yards) from the ground, so as to list since October 24, 1915. As a best price. Right now they could be blue cherries off a red wall, a room down be said to live a full life? We photographs Mr. Lindsell said: "If control the "fatness" of the flight; midshipman of the Charybdis be built cheaper in the East than on the that was occupied chiefly by a large doubt it. centre table which carried "doyles"
and the Police constable had gone to the and flights were made both with and served during the operation in the Pacific. That is what, the shipping reflective mind is the only Traffic Inspector, instead of going against the wind. The motor was 200 Straits of Malacca in 1874 (Perak board authorities meant when they and a vase in the middle, an awkward excuse for frivolity, and the man through the irregular course of going h.p. of the SPA type used in Signor medal and clasp), and as a sub-lieut. told Pacific Coast builders and workers sideboard and an irritating over without it is incompletely, man,
to another Inspector, this summons, D'Annunzio's flight to Vienna, It is of the Boadicea landed with the HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1910. | mantel with many shelves loaded and not getting out of life all I am sure, would not have been claimed that the average speed attain Naval Brigade during the Zulu war that they must get down to a com
with rubbish. On the walls would that it offers. It is the eager mind issued."
petitive basis”. be pictures of Flora Macdonald that proves progress from the mere-
ed exceeds by 30 kilometres (184 (Zulu medal). He received the Cross miles) the previous record under of the Order of Naval and Military transpacific freight business to stay. Haines said his company is in the kissing the Stuart Prince's hand.ly animal status. Are you interest John Bunyan, and his wart, a child ed in ideas qua ideas? Do you seek ter of Enggor, Perak F.M.S. who is
Mr. Fred Wickett, a rubber plan- similar conditions.
Merit from the King of Spain in Within the last forty eight hours ".. 1907, was appointed A.D.C. to the and a puppy, and other soul uplifting ideas for their own sake? Are your on his way to Canada from Singapore
The War Office has been asked, King in November, 1908, and was in turned over two more vessels for the he said the Shipping Board has No more for many of us can come works of chromatic art. Even if the happiest adventures among ideas? arrived by the Marabouni yesterday.in view of the great dissatisfaction charge of naval establishments at Oriental route. That makes four we the joy of first nest-building, of Daily Chronicle man himself were Do you read for ideas? These are Some time ago Mr. Wickett created a which exists among officers who Hongkong from 1908 to 1910. furnishing and decorating the first enlightened, his wife wouldn't be, questions that should be answered sensation in the Malay States by de have earned their decorations under
are now operatlag, two from Port home for the lady of our choice; but and she would rule in such matters. for himself by any man who takes claring that he bad found coal on his hell fire," to make some distinguish
land and two from Puget Sound, it happens to be the case with most Between living with impossible stock of his business of living, and estate. His statement set the Going mark when the same decoration
running to Oriental points and the of us that we still have the prospect decorations and a snivelling woman on the answer depends his title and vernment moving and it was found given for purely staff work. Mr.
Philippines."Seattle Times. ahead of us in less romantic circum a man has no freedom of choice. In his hope. If yes, he may consider that his claim was founded on fact, Churchill said the difficulties in max. stances. The subject is not one to our University Settlement work we himself cultured and on the right but neither Mr. Wickett nor the sentimentalize over rather a bore, used to give away better pictures way. Reading makes the full maa, F.M.S. Government was able to de- he agreed that the suffering and ing distinctions were enormous. While which the man gladly leaves to his with the quite mistaken idea that we and excuses some dalliance by the velop the coal because of lack of sacrifices of the fighting units were the Sanitary Board was held at the doctor, is among those who condemn womenfolk as a rule but it has were thereby raising the culture of interest for those who are sensible the people. These that happened to way, but all work and play makes machinery owing to the war. There in some respecta more arduous than Board room yesterday afternoon. Mr. jazz dancing. Speaking at Eolian enough to know that it matters ve y be "classic" undraped, were sought
Jack the dull boy.
is a small coal mine at Rawang, near those of the trained officers of the A. Gibson presided and there were Hall, New Bond-street, London, he much. There cannot be any doubt after by some, as "ot stuff," and
Kuala Lumpur, which filled an un- staff, yet the life of the latter was a present Mrs. Hickling M.O.H., and said that in high society there were FOR A LAMB-BACK. that the Home Baotians are what spurged by others as indecent. We
doubted want when coal from India Very hard one. Captain Redmond Messrs. W. H. Woolley, Secretary, many signs of carelessness, silliness, they are because of their homes; remembe: a remark in a life of WHEN you have pains or lamencas in and Japan were only obtainable in urged that the system followed in Chan Kat Ming, F. W. Bowley, Lt. and ugly conduct. When they heard Horsehair and mahogany inspired Lincoln, we believe) concerning the Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice a day, ping difficulties. If investigation guishing mark should be made to Tso.
the back butha the parts with very small quantities owing to ship France should be adopted; a distin Col. Crisp, C. G. Alabaster and S. W. of those wild dances that went on Victorian narrowness, and the supposed suggestive effect of a pic massaging with the palm of the hand for prove that the coal on Mr. Wickett's differentiate between an award to a
among people who ought to know pseudo-Japanese
The business before the Board con, better dances to music good enough. gimcrackery of ture constantly on view. A picture dampen a piece of flannel alightly with estate is part of a big coalfield, Ma- man for service in the front line and slated of applications for the erection only for. West African savages***
five minutes at each application. Than Tottenham Court Road must have of ships or the sea, for instance, was this finiment and bind it on over the laya will soon be independent of in a similar award for services at the of water closets and applications for when they saw that in London dray brought about the modern Jazz supposed to affect a boy, with a desire seat of pain. For sale By all thesists ported-coal, except for the best-an-base. Mr. Churchill said he would offensive trade licences. Nothing of ing rooms, it showed great degrada morality. Robert Blatchford made a for seafaring. Some sub-conscious and Storekeepers..
examine that proposal.
public interest.
of the Christian Literature
Society for China, Shanghai, Aged 73 years and six months.
BOURNE. On May 8, at Shangha: Mrs. E. J. Bourne (nee "Patsy"
Macfarlane), aged 30 years.
FENWICK-On April 29, at Amey,
years.
REMEDIOS. On May 8, at Shanghai Armando Augusto des Remedios, aged 11 years.
The China hail.
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tion and demoralisation.