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HONGKONG, Tuesday, June 94, 1910.
NEWSPAPERS,
Ltd
was added. By 1815 the tax was fourpence. Between 1831 and 1835 journalistic Bolshevism was
rife
at
Home.
The total' abolition of the tax in 1855 led to an amazing change. Our contem- porary should change its heading to Everybody Displeased," if it wants to fit that suggestion correctly.
The proper change to make (when the time comes) is to nationalize the newspapers, allowing one to so many thousands of population, and having The North China Daily News, the editors and principal writers under the amazing headline "Every-elected by municipal suffrage for body Fleased," suggests that a tax fixed terms. Cost of production to ou newspapers would be a tax about come out of the rates; the paper to which nobody would grumble. It have no trade advertisements, and
CUCKOO,
THE CHINA MAIL.
ALL MEN ARE LIARS.
LOGIE AND SIELIT.
per "Kitana Maru" for Hongkong.
Mr. C. J. Lafrentz is a passenger
TUESDAY, JUNE 24
DOWN UNDER.
ME. MAULDIWARP,
A newspaper paragraph has caught our eye. It was evidently inspired volume of the Ellis Kadoorie College at you?
The first mamber of the second"
Today's dollar is worth 3. & STRANGE ADVENTURES OF. 3/164 by a musician, for It says that the Magazine has come from Honam, first note of the cuckoo's call is E Canton, for review. We like school fat, and the second natural. The Magazines. We love schoolboy key is C minor. Sometimes the writings. It is always interesting to opening note rises to Enatural, in watch the unfolding of the mind, to the major key. How terrible is ex-see the thinking machine started. pert knowledge! Do botanists enjoy But this magazine does not seem to flowers, cooks food, or doctors female have any schoolboy stuff. beauty? One supposes that this musician must have missed something of the message of the cuckoo, while he was straining his ears to get the Lexact place in the scale..
His is the opening article, a robust, Is Frederic Coleman a schoolboy? unrupulous attack on the German character. In terms he tells us that.
to
Harbour from Wuchow this morning, H.M.S.Tarantula "returned to
"AT LAST!
GERMANS AGREE TO SIGN UNCONDI- TIONALLY.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has. received a telegram from the Secre tary of State for the Colonies dated the 23rd June as follows
BY F. ST. MARS.
Two peewits went bowing to one white doubleted, treeched elves on another like courtiers-black and
an austere field of dull green, with The hotels and clubs are quiet.8 background of marshalled trees Hongkong Club at tiffin time. there was no Speechmaking at the behind in field grey. One of them ran to the top of a mound of earth and stood erect there.
Nobody seemed to know who had made that mound of earth, or what was in it (if anything), of why. As a matter of fact, a roughly circular nest of grass was in the chamber. chamber rose in the centre of it. A Other tunnels ran all around, but not THE VICTORIA THEATRE. into it. The builder miner of the simply to carry earth up to make edifice had used them. evidently the mound above. There was noth
*HANDS UP” AND HAROLD LLOYD.
་་
from Zamboanga this morning with The Katsura Maru" arrived 1,885 tons of sugar for Hongkong.
kong men from Kirkee, returned to Mr. J. Brooks, one of the Hong- the Colony yesterday on the "Dunera,"
ing else.
black and white against the dell Then, one after the other, the two peewits rose and flew winking trees-away. And the lean little wedge head of a weasel poked dis- Mary from appointedly out of a mole run near
The Authorized Codes may.now Atsight of the mere word cuckoo,tion may be good for us. especially other Islands of Dutch East Indies.
all Germans are liars. This informa-be used for Telegrams to Java and pictures flashed before us. Many for those who haven't heard it before. pictures. One in particular. · High
He says the commercial reputation onec in the Duchy of Normandy of nations is based, invariably, on stands a chalet called "Belles Rocks, the experience of the world of busi with a turret. In the valley below ness with the commercial element of meanders a mill stream, in which the that particular nation." Delete the blue brookline flourishes. The word "invariably" and the statement opposite slope rises from masses of is approximately true. The Japanese gnarled apple trees in, bloom to commercial element was never so terraces of potatoes, and thence to black as it has been painted. George a skyline that has "fir trees dark Robison did business in Japan for 40 enthusiasm so noticeable on Armistice It seems as if the spontaneous and high silhouetted against the years as a merchant, and wrote tonight will not be seen again on an sunset. The turret window is open the Times six or seven years occasion that is anticipated. The air is still. Softly from ridge ago to ridge comes the call of the cuckoo, the reputation of a nation depends 50, Sometimes
visible on a bare limb of one of the not. The Boers, for example. In the fira. E flat in C minor? Nothing year 1969, when we are allied with so trivial. To the lonely watcher the Germans in the next holy war in the turret e sounds a paean of even their reputation will have under- both love and adventure. the two gone a sea change. things that move a man. Is he not a traveller from overseas, bringing romance and summer? Here in this turret room: all the winter the watcher had sat busy with m. s. Are manuscripts things with which a man should afflict his soul? Decidedly not, shouted the cuckoo. Within a very few hours of the bird's
say
The "Kitano
"The Foreign Office has received an intimation to-day from Paris that the Germans have agreed to sign treaty unconditionally."
Li
are assured a suitable programme. Visitors to the Victeria this evening Following an introductory piece of tansic by the Victoria Orchestra there will be beautiful
and the bird himself is actually on whether we are war with it or Middlesbrough (England) May 10./Where they had been, and watched landscape scenes from the Homeland.
1:13 all
3 lie
arrived yesterday with 150 cabin for Hongkong. passengers and 7,263 tons of cargo
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending 7th June, amounted to 52,125 tons and the sales during the period, to 87,301 tons.
chem go.
The last film is
+
Team
$1
The County of Worcester will be MR. MAULDIWARP,
depicted 41
in the well-known Baulked of his bird prey, the colour process of Pathe. Next there weasel presently turned back into will be the interesting. Gazette. There isn't a nation known to us
as aimlessly as its maker seemed to episodes of "Hands Up" a serial the mole-run, and followed it, almost following comes the penultimate whose history broken pledge.
have bored it. Wherefore, I fancy, him so many are following up does not show
the weasel was considerably sur- Mr. Coleman says "A lie is a lie,
prised when be blundered through and will draw many for itself alone. wherever we find it. Literally this is true, but the spirit of it, that the
the black and stuffy darkness into Harold Lloyd, such a fun-ranking immorality of
the nest chamber aforesaid.
film comedian. same
Last week there were 27 cases of
appears in the is the
As the weasel went in at one end, farcical flm "She Loves Me Not" and places, is not. Society would peral, and one of c. s. fever. In the or bundle rather, for the nest had which is saying something.
circumstances plague, one of enteric, one of puer there was a movement in the nest. It is one of Harold Lloyd's funniest, A capital programme with some- Mauldiwarp, the mole, went out at the other end.
kinema patrons. The "Sunning," "Jemmei Maru," Now it has been written, that the i deliberately lied. There is evidence "Agamemnon."
Mr. Coleman says that Germany Hongwan " Kitano Maru"weasel never relinquishes a trail, in support of his statement, and weKatsura Maru,"
"Shisen Maru," but that weasel had to, for Mr. could not contradict it if we wished
Singaporean." Mauldiwarp, working wonderfully to. But. Germany's worst offence are late shipping arrivals.
Dunera" "Prosper" and "Priam," with his trowel-like forepews, sank a was her deliberate devotion to what
fresh tunnel as he fled, and that so For their work in rescuing from she believed to be the truth. Germany
quickly, and into such marshy the Pratas Islands, the eight Chinese enough to get out of it in a hurry. Co's. launch, Sung Su, the officers Eround, that, the weasel had job forming the crew of the Standard Oil before the place filled with water. and men of B.M.S. Fame have been drove his shaft sharply up again with sufficient speed on the far side. Per Mr. Mauldiwarp, you may guess, complimented by the Commodore.
haps he laughed, if moles can laugh, to himself in the dark.
challenge, the m. 5. S. were put explode into fragments if it man- last 48 hours we had three cases of no entrance, and the owner, Mr.thing in it to suit all kinds of
away, the bags were packed, the aged for only a day or two to ex-plague and two of . s. fever. steamer ticket purchased, and clude every remark that wasn't the cuckoo path before him. Aha! strictly the stark truth. the jolly, jolly world. and the brave cuckoos thereof. C miner? C fiddlesticks! The note of the cuckoo is every clef and the rest of the alphabet. It is the jaily trumpet that sounds the departure of les diligences (chanson des soldats, tons saver?) bour tous pays. Yes. That is what it is. It is the salute to Else where, which is for ever the most attractive place in all the world.
QUO VADIS?.
I
said: I am superior. I am strongest. A. Ogden) arrived from Birkenhead The Holt Line s.." Priam (Capt. What I want I'll take, and whatever this morning at 6 a.m. The "Priam" do will be right because it is I who brought 800 tons of cargo for Hong do it. I do not lie and say I will tong, and 4,300 tons for Northern observe a treaty I have made, mean- ports. She brought a Home mail. ing not to. No. I leave lying to the weaklings, and boldly say. It is a scrap of paper. It is nothing.
The Hongkong Tramway Com The truth-teller is more dangerous pany's traffic receipts for the week
DIVING FOR FOOD. than the liar. The liar is a barking were $15,351 or $2,657 more than in feld mice and half-an-hour after The weasel went away-to murder Someone has sent us, anonymous dog, who may or may not bite. "The the same week last year. The aggrewards Mr. Mauldiwarp came back to truth-teller of the artegant Nictz gate for the 25 weeks was $357,604 his nest again. But he was restless chean sort is the mad dog, who cr $25,431, more than in the corre- The little red incarnation of death
sponding period of 1918.
had awoken him from his winter semi-
or if he had buried any at all. had buried his last store of worms, sleep, and he had forgotten where he
ly, a card bearing these words:
I expect to pass
through this world but once. Therefore, if there be any kind.
ness I can
show, or any good thing I can
do to any fellow human-being, let me do it now:
for.
I shall not pass this way again.
OMAR KHAYAM.
They are not the words of" Omar Khayam", nor even of Fitzgerald, but they are a splendid
motto " for good men.
che fugaces and the labuntur anni Years and years ago stuff) we knew a real nice man who had them printed on his notepaper. That was Doc Bedloe, U.S. Consul at Hankow. He must, we fear, have
BJYS the suggestion that a tax of to be distributed free. That would long since done his passing. one farthing be imposed on every be a sensible change to If the sender of the motto, (who newspaper, magazine. and trade make. But while. there areas thus revived a tender memory) journal sold, which was referred to undoubtedly far, too many news. cares to make himself known to us,. in the course of the Budget debate papers, and too many of them written we will be glad to try to cheer him might be such a tax."
by incompetent and unscrupulous on his happy passage. We will also It doesn't say how a suggestion persons, and while they do a great be glad to find out why he attributes could be a tax, by the way. At first deal of mischief, while agreeing to the words to the Persian pessimist. we supposed our contemporary must all that, we cannot be pleased with any be ignorant of the history of the proposal to revive the "tax on know. Press, and particularly of its develop ledge." As Sir Charles Metcalfe did ment after the abolition of what was in 1830, we believe the benefits of a generally called the "tax on know-free Press to outweigh its mischiefs, ledge." But the admission that "at the more so as we do our bit towards first sight the suggestion seems a discounting the latter by pointing retrograde one" shows that the them out with an unholy joy on all Shanghai paper makes this displeasing occasions. proposal with some knowledge of what it is doing. Here are arguments.
its
A tax of a farthing per.copy on every newspaper, magazine, or periodi- cal would bring in an enormous sum of money without imposing any additional burden on the people. It would be easily and inexpensively collected. It would prevent any "enterprising "owner again reducing the price of the London newspaper to the ridiculous figure of one halfpenny,
GEOGRAPHY.
the China Mail staff has been safely A letter addressed to a member of
who sent it addressed it delivered, although the American
1
THE WORD "ONLY."
samee
should be exterminated.
Mauldiwarp found himself hungry,
H.M.S. "FAME" COMPLIMENTED.
and men of H.M.S. "Fame" will It is anticipated that the officers receive a present from the Standard Oil who are never slow to recognise good service on their behalf. The went gladly on the job of rescue, officers and men of the notwithstanding it occurred during Fame"
the time the "Fame" was harbour for a spell off duty.
NO EXCITEMENT.
Pag
in
arrived from Bombay via Singapore The P. and O. as. "Dunera"
number of European passengers on therefore, and although he went into the city, flags were hoisted by the at 7p.m.. yesterday. There were a
As news of peace spread through board, 4,200 tons of general cargo his nest the simple process of charg business houses and offices. There for Northern and Japan ports anding in and pulling the ends in after was no demonstration. The shops 160 tons for Hongkong is her cargo.him, he found he could not stay do not appear to be closing for this
there but came out again, and di- afternoon.
The college. "notes" (evidently written by a master) say that the boys tell lies. Examples are given. if these Chinese boys are liars, what If the boy be father of the man, and is to become of the reputation of the Chinese, merchant, that his word is as good as his bond? The false excuses of school boys are a different sort of lie. The teacher is the The C. S., P. and Fire Brigade ved-dyed, mark you into the natural enemy of boyhood, and must Superintendent paid a visit last even solid earth, like a porpoise" sound- Erics in some schools, but we shall the Naval Yard: This morning a ed by his mobile, pig like suaut be circumvented. There may be ing to the new fire engines landed in ing." Here, in the dark, help require proof..
party from the Fire Station are busy (which in turn, was helped by a in the Dock Yard assembling the special hinged bone), he nosed about engines for removal to the Fire till he got on the track of a worm, Station.
This luckless wriggler he hunted almost to the surface through the
2 SIR JOHN ANDERSONS.
ני
PORTUGUESE, V. FRENCH- MAN.
A SPAT ABOUT SPIT.
די זי
unseen,
THE PATH OF LOVE. Being a mole and headstrong almost to insanity,, to discover was to act. Mauidiwarp rushed to the
surface, yet he dared not travel
IMPROVING JERUSALEM.
JET FY TO COST £2,000,000.
A telegram from Alexandría, dated
publishes plans of improvements with a view to providing the town which will be introduced in Jerusalem with modera conveniences.
"THE BOMBAY
CHRONICLE."
FURTHER SECURITY DIPOSITED, '
The Admiralty transport "Pro- mould, overtook, snapped by the April 20, states that the British sper
(Captain H. P. Longland) middle, felt his way along to the authorities in Palestine arrived yesterday, afternoon from end, and then chewed up thoughtfully serious consideration to the question are giving Andersons, and the China Mail, not sper" brought four officers and 356
It seems there were two Sir John Basra (Mesopotamia). The "Pro-from head to tail
of the Improvement of the. being omniscient and infallible, was Chinese Labour Corps Cookies. Her several worms.
This process, he repeated with Halfa.
Port of always guilty yesterday of what for want of cargo is 900 tons of cotton twist. always tunnelling through the black, jetty alone will cost more than If the present plan is followed the better word may be called a Three coolies died en route.
blind depths of the earth-himself £2,000,000. howler." It seeras that the Sir
nearly blind. But the last two John Anderson we thought we were
The Palestine News the official We are sorry to hear that Sergt.worms he bit from end to end. and journal of the British occupation, quoting, and who was Governor of Caygill of the Hongkong Police is to buried, by scraping earth over them Malaya, died in Ceylon when the go to Saigon for the Pasteur treat with his big forepawa. Pench had a revised version of an on
erring. China Mail writer. was ment. He leaves by the "Derwent " It was then, I think, that he dis- old joke when it printed this story was Permanent Under Secretary concerned with the sporting dogs that he had still an hunger-in fact, the a long "sea voyage. He this afternoon. Sergt. Caygil was covered that he was not satisfied, that of reconstruction work in France: of State for the Colonies after leaving were the cause of Sergt. Kerr proceed. hunger of love.
British visitor (using pidgin Malaya, and it was this which made ing to Saigon for the same treatment.
English to supposed laborer): the terms of the speech quoted, re- John Chinaman likee muchee markable. Sir John was appointed dlessee allee
English Governor of Ceylon, died there, and soldier."
was buried in Colombo. He was Chinaman: "Well. sir, I don't humorous, loveable Scotsman, and.
above ground. There were others— cóncern myself much about uni- no one who ever met him would
kestrels, buzzards, cats, weasels, and form. Actually I'm a journalist want to speak disrespectfully of him.
stoatsp there in the light and and only came here for the ex-
The man who made the speech
Before the Chief Presidency Magis- fresh air of day with whom he was untrate at Boinbay on May 27, Mr. Syed (sec "M.P. perience."
for Hongkong")
friendly. Them hecouldnotrisk: Still, used to be head of a Singapore firm The claim to be a journalist was called Guthrie and Co. He is now Jose Maria Xavier a Portuguese row beneath the ground. Wherefore, bay Chronicle Press. Hesaid that the he was in far too furious aburry to bur- declared himself keeper of the Bom
Abdulla Brelvi, assistant "editor, one of those things that go without the London head of that firm, and was summoned before Mr. R. O. he effected a compromise driving a former security was forfeited under saying. Only a journalist would so Chairman of the Rabber Growers Hutchison, this morning with dis shallow trench so near the surface orders of Government but as the fisher, newsagent, nor public. The from Russia, the envelope of which for coming. It should have appeared when time has softened the blow.
misplace the word "only." publishers have, admitted that in- he still treasures as a proof of his between "here" and "for" 'or. after To the 2,173 readers (more or less) Friday last. Defendant is my neigh- and furiously, to find a mate. Worship ordered the deposit of Ra. This reminds him of another letter not qualify his coming but his reason existence, but hope to forgive him sion of No. 15, Morrison Hill Road. And in this fashion, and at amazing paper was now to be worked under
It did Association. We at present resent his orderly conduct, by Mons. G. Mous that the roof was lifted up in a curve. diminution of sales, as the published greatness. It was addressed simply "experience."
Complainant: This happened on speed, he drove his way, straight, of security need not be large. His the precensorship order, the amount Agures prove. The newsagents have
bour, and has a bad custom of declared they cannot handle the half-
The first thing he found was the spitting continuously. He spit in my hoof of a cow breaking suddenly into
5,000 provisionally, pending further penny paper except at a loss, and that the public have by their con-
face [meaning before my very his tranche d'amour, only just half.enquires. and reached him all right. Re. tinued support shown that they arecently an embarkation official in
eyes? He is a spitting maniac. Ian inch behind his. short tail, and he : satisfied to pay a reasonable price for England asked a passenger to
told him if you are sick, you must turned in his madness, and creamed NEW MILITARY OFFICERS, use a spittoon. their news sheets. The newspaper what nation the Federated Malay
a shrill scream of rage at the publishers will gain a farthing per States belonged. Lets of educated apologise or stand pat. Confound
Defendant (to witness) Do you gigantic hoof that had nearly abollah-` remember the Sykora and Sklaroved him.
"Major F. J. Dowen of the Army copy over pre-war price to compensate people at Home ask where "Malay" the whole human race! Is it im them for increased cost of production, is, and most of them seem to think possible to get facts to comment on?
Concert, and how you were ejected,
Pay Department, well-known among The next thing he met after golog the Catholic, canmunity, arrived by the newsagents will be spared the you can throw a stone from Yoko-
from the Theatre Royal for bad be- 70 yards, was another male mole the Duners yesterday for duty in haviour? problem of again handling the half-hama into Hongkong. The Straitsnote under this heading was ab One juror telephones that our first penny paper, and the public, who Times mentions that an officer being solutely right and timely, and that It
Mons.Moussion: You make a very big fought to the death instantly, of Bowen was serving here a few years upon the same errand, and him he the Command Pay Office. Major are already paying the tax, will be repatriated to the Philippines landed had a good effect. He saya the jury
mistake. I have always behaved myself course, grappling all up among the well in the theatre. I think this man To worse off.
The objection is that no one can a document which entitled him to that the case started promptly and in Singapore the happy possessor of were called for 10.30 yesterday and
(defendant) is trying to make some thing wrong for me... tell where it would stop. A small first class rail accommodation
Bostock's Royal Italian Circas Complainant on descending from Manila, and if the journey is made promptly released. Therefore our houses" since the opening night, defendant had alas spat in court to that the unwanted ones were as whose popularity is evinced by full the box informed the Magistrate that at night he is to have an underneath note yesterday was incorrect and is catering for the children of laughter.) sleeping berth. After which it is unjust.
Hongkong on Thursday when a Defendant: I must be mad if I
a condition desired neither by pub-
creased charges have not caused a
tax is always a standing temptation
to
c/o Shanghai Daily Mail
Hongkong
:
Federated Malay States.
Mr.
Asia
quite easy to excuse the Londen
JUROR'S GRIEVANCES.
We don't know whether
to
who have written or phoned to point cut the blunder, we tender our thanks.
THE CHILDREN'S DAY AT THE CIRCUS.
***IT'S THURSDAY, DADDY,"
grass, and all down among the tree Tents. Struthers, Nowman, Szool roots, till be bad slain, and would and Morgan of the R.G.A. joined the time so to do. agg have eaten, the latter, had he had local garrison from Home by the
yards on his way, another trench,
Duners." The third thing he found was, 100
wandered meaningless all like his own, but unlike it to this: it
Över
ma MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS,
to an embarrassed Chancellor of the Exchequer. He thinks a small in crease won't matter, and so by little and by little the thing grows. In railway potter, who, handing a trunk informant sticks to it that they were given. The programme promised is bothering me many times. He is the track of a female hole And Hongkong tomorrow June 25 at On the other hand our original special matinee performance will be had spat in his face. He had been the place, and was not straight The CM.9.9. Co's, sa China will arrive 1756 the tax of 1712 was increased labelled, Penang," cried to his mate, called for ten, not tea thirty, the "pick of the basket, and parents also a maniac, and had called me--but only the wet, brown earth, the The N.V.K. Kene Mars (Pittopoan In 1789 the three halfpence became Another burglar from China, Bill" tuppence. In 1798 another half Yet maps are the most interesting summons for us to look at, so we the opportunity to give their little Both parties were bound burled grubs, and the little fat beetles
Neither of 'em has produced a are advised to avail themselves of cochon penny went on, and in 1804 a penny reading that come off the press. don't know. Let's call it a wash-out ones a royal time.
over in saw the marriage of the moles that
› Line) "left" Loudon for this port via was celebrated then down under.
bonds of $50 for three months.
Suez Canson the 14th Jane, and is
expected here on the 10th July.