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THURSDAY. JUNE 3, 1920.
LATEEN SAILS.
seems
THE KING'S BIRTHDAY.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
MEN'S SOCIETY. ·
GERMAN COINAGE.
BOUP OCBES FOR SMALL CHANGE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE DISAPPEARING "PFENNIG. -
Germany just now is suffering from
PASSENGERS
DEPARTED.
-Per C.M.S.S. Co.'s .s.Nan- king. today for San Francisco- Dr. E. H. Bergama, Mr." H. T. Beaver. Mr. A.:C. Bergama. Miss
DUEL WITH DAGGERS.
BOTH CONTESTANTE IN HOSPITAL
TO-MORROW.'
they played a great part in thrift. and Mrs. A. M. Burch and daughter. S.S. "PROFESSOR"-LEAVES' The Annual Meeting will be helder den Pientig nicht ehrt, ist den Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bürgess, Mr. W. Taler nicht wert," was a proverb D. Bonner, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. that corresponded to our Take care Blaisdell and daughter, Mr. Israel of the pence and the pounds will
on Tuesday, 8th June 1920, in the Chinese Language Sabool, junction of Zetland Street and Ice House Street (Masonic Hall Premises) at 9 p.m.
merce.
better
The ss. "Professor," leaves to- take care of themselves." One would Beck, Mr. and Mrs B. Basto and morrow morning for London, with have a hard task to take care of the daughter. Mr. and Mrs., Juan Came-the British soldiers on board who pfennigs now; at the present value hort and child, Mr. N. G. Colley. are going home for demobilization. of copper they are worth a great deal more than their face value. The Mr.
after having served with the expedi tionary forces in Siberia trouble is that the need for them has Castro,
Through one of their representa- tives, the soldiers expressed their thanks to those who generously con-
for the voyage. tributed supplies of reading matter
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
The outstanding feature of the Since the days of the Pelasgians, certainly while Phoenicians, Greeks, King's Birthday as far as Hongkong Romans and Barbary pirates scoured was concerned was the sudden and
The Wanchal Police were called the seas, all through the Crusades welcome break in the weather, giving
out late last night to Stone Nullsh and the Middle Ages, the Latin sailmany an unexpected holiday in the
Lane to stop a duel with daggers has remained a glorious ornament [open air. The visible means of re-
between two street coolies. Arrived of the Mediterranean. From the joicing were sadly wanting around coasts of Spain to Provence, Liguria, town this morning, there being only a complaint which republics sees to A. A. Bergama, Mr. Chambers: Mrs. there, they found the men going for
few flags hung out. share with rich menthe chronic Greece, Egypt, Syria, right up the a very
they saw the Police, the Aghters were raiber different shortage of small change. It is a E. F. Chambers, Miss N, E. Cham- each other like fighting cocks. When Adriatic to the lagoons of Venice, it Things
of complaint which seems to be affecbers, Mr. F. P. Haynes. Mrs. H."buried the hatchet" for the time the harbour 器 many has fluttered like a bright battery an
abolt for on every horizon, shimmered with the ships, including the vessels of the ting the whole of Eastem Europe Riggenberg. Messrs. Ouertzeliang. being, and made
Prices have risen and red gold or royal pimple, blood Navy and the Portuguese gunboat, just now.
were arrested. It was found that orange or faint lemos, in the were dressed. The eastomary salate values have changed, so that the cld G. W. Hagan, F. Salstrom, and W. freedom. Chase was given, and they expanses was fired from HMS "Tamar" at coinage is no longer adjusted to L. Matson, Mrs. F. Macson, Messrs both men were slashed about in setting sun OVE
R. Mason, and A. A.. Scott, Mrs: several places, and they were sent to of metallic.
sal noon as well as from the gunboat modern needs. greens and
In the old Wilhelmist day one Patria." mon pinks and silver butäished like
were dressed. Neither of them is At noon HE, the Governor receiv saw little copper money; the one or MF. Scon, Mrs. G. L. Scott, Miss the hospital, where their wounds fishes scales; bowed and curtsied and danced minuets with a backed the foreign Consuls at Government twopfennig pieces circulated only W. K. Scott and Messrs., C. A considered to be in a serious condi
among the poorer classes and were] Turner. and G. W. Webster.
tion, and they will be able to leave the ground of palaces and minarets and House..
despised. On one occasion I remem-
Per C.P.0.5. &.5. "Empress of hospital in a couple of days' time. romantic memories. With its big.
ber giving a handful of them to a generous, bright triangle, it seamed to challenge the heavy, square, per-
waiter on the terrace at Rungsdorf, Asia" for Vancouver to-day-Mr. The cause of the duel is not known. and he threw them into the Rhine. Luciano Amat. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. haps more practical sails of North-
But among the working-classes they Brush, Mr. Floreadno Bella. Mr men to a contest of art and writs for
were important as currency and the dominion of the waves. When an Italian discerns those dark and Zloomy sheets through the fogs, his sense of exile is redoubled and he re fects with a sigh that the Latin sail has alone survived centuries fatal to every other Latin tradition.
The report of the president is as And HOW
that follows During the season 1919. the Lateen sail is doomed
to 1920 the society held its meetings in disappear: the splendid crifiamme the Chinese Language School through
and M
F. X. Almada is being struck On
son Southern the kindness of the Chamber of Cont
and daughter. Mr. seas. It had flaunted an increased
Many important subjects not really disappeared, and this is Gregorio Cabalce, Mr. Felipe S. until the unromantic were spoker about and discussed also true of the nickel coins of five Cortes, Mr. prosperity
Thedornio Cordohs; nineteenth century, when it became amongst them, Miracies, Girl Slaves, and ten pfennigs. festricted to small boats. Now new Venereal Diseases, Church Unity,
One sees this constantly in the Mrs. J. J.-Cunningham, Mr. Louis methods of construction, the intrusion etc. Social evenings were not trams. The conductor is seldom able Coton. Mr. E. C. Cheek. Mr. A. B.
A party of twenty five of the of auxiliary moters, the need for arranged on account of the difficulty to give change, and unfortunate folks Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Len K. soldiers enjoyed a trip, around the quicker management of sail are all of getting a suitable room. In this who have not the exact fare are Cotterman and two children. Mr. Island on a launch yesterday, having
this last banish conspiring to
respect we hope to be a
courting trouble if they insist. They remnant of ancient seacraf
Let position when the new Hall is built rely to be carried on beyond V. Crowe, Mrs. Carl Craw. Mr. G. tea at the Repulse Bay Hotel. us hasten to give it a rewell The annual dinner was largely their destination while the conductor A. Colclough, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. giance. for In another decade attended and proved a very exicrable collects the rest of the fares in the Crohma. Mr. J♫ M, Craig, Mies Soña it may have passed 50 function. The number of members hope-none too fervently entertained
Cofra M_O._ W. Derch, Mr. C. V. utterly away that none shell re- and associares is now 37 Steps have that someone may pay in small main to be observed or even recon- been taken by the society to provide currency. It has become nsual to Driscoll. Mrs. E. Day, Mr. F. Dyson.. structed. The very artists will be literature for a book stall at the waive the question of change, and the Mr. and Mrs. E. Deacon and twe driven to copying old masters if they | Cathedral door,The society has conductors reap a rich harvest as the children, Rev. J. A. Dougherty. Mr.. desire to vary the monotony of their decided to adopt the new Rule of
reward for diminished effort.
F. E. Ebbesen, Mr. and Mrs. C. seascapes with ancient joys.
Life" and "Badge of Membership
In effect, the Reichsbank is respon- Montague Ede. Mr. and Mrs. Luis TBE Management of the "CALL." Lateca is an unnecessary attempt recommended by the parent society-sible for the issue of the coinage, and Echegoyan, Mr. E. Ellingensen, Mr. desires to inform the public that to pronounce the French voile latine, The Branch contributed £10 to the
the mints of Berlin. Hamburg, and Mrs. P. S. Frieder. Mr. A. F. its tariff for advertisements received on and might as well be spelt Latin, but funds being raised for the extension Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Dresden and Frey, Mr. V. Frazee, Mr. V. 1: Fran- and after this date will be increased by that the affectation has crept into of the society at Home.
Munich are hard at work minting cisco. Mr. R. A. Gubbay. Mr. Wm. 30 per cent our literature and scag. Its charac
Ismail money. The bank returns
H. Geagan, Mr. M. Gránt. Mr. H. teristics are triangle and colour. "It
show that enormous quantities are
Griffin, Miss M. D. Gullovie, Mr. H. by the constantly growing cost of pro- belongs to a whole group of boats;
nominally in circulation. Thus there caled tartans, sloops (paranzelle RETURN OF THE
are now current copper two-pfennix Graves. Mr. Hun. M. F. D. Hunt.dection, the price of paper alone having bulls (leadi), coasters (rivani), and
past five years. pieces to the value of 9,200,000 ingdon, Miss T. B. Henley: Mr. Gadvanced by 700 per cent during the W. Harrower. Mr. W. T. Hutcheson,
In order to meet these conditions fishing snacks (aussi da real-
marks, and copper one-pfennig pieces these in the o;d☛ of their inport-
to the value of 15,900,000 marks, Mrs. Rbt. Hell and infant. M newspapers and magazines all over the besides half a million marks worth Jas. Hashim, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. world have been obliged to raise their of one pfennig pieces in aluminium. Henderson, Mr. C. H. P. Hay, subscription and advertising rates-in There are nickel 10-pfennig pieces to Mr. Frank Hickman, Mrs. E. Ford some cases by as much as 100 per cent the value of 64,500,000 marks, iron Hickman and three children, Mrs. F. and, at the same time, to curtail the 22,000,000 marks, and zinc 46,400,000 C. Hall, Mr. Cecil Humphreys, Dr. size sed number of pages. For the present, however, it has been decided, marks, and there is a proportionate and Mrs. Jose B-Talbuens, and two in the interests of the public generally
children. Mr. Marino Javier, Mr. and of advertisers in particular, to leave! issue of five pfennig pieces.
and Mrs. L. E. Kavarna, Mr. the price of the CHISA MAIL". R. Klejin, Mr. M. Kitasima, Wm. changed. L. Leisk, Mrs. F. Leyte, Mrs. M.] M. Lamb, Mr. Edw. Lamberson, Mrs. A. Long, Mr. W. Laufer, Mr. and Mrs. Levert, son and daughter, TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS Capt. M. J. Malville, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Michael, and child. Rev. J. F. Mealia,
S from to-day, all preliminary Mr. J. O. Miller, Mr. J. J. R. McFie, Miss D. Mackenzie, Mrs. A. Mack Africa rthcoming meetings, enzie, and child, Mr. A. J. McIntosh,
lectures and entertainmente, sent for Mr. L. G. McVean, Mr. E McFarland, insertion in the news columns of the Mr. Chas Noll, Miss E Nielsen, Casa Man, will be charged for at Mr. and Mrs. F. Ossorio, Mr. Juzn the rate of $1 each, providing they do Pandaracar. Mr. and Mrs. P. W not occupy more than four lines. L Parker, S. Allan Presby, Mr. M. the space is exceeded they will be Pamintuan, Mr. H. Panton, Mr. R placed in the advertising columns at the 1. Radcliffe, Miss. F: A, Reay, Dr. J. prevailing rates. W. Ross, Mr. A. A. Richardson, Mr. A. J. Remedios. Major and Mrs. Rotheram, and child, Mr. a gummy back, which must be an Hugo Racz, Mr. Antonio Ruiz, ideal medium for the carriage, of Mr. R. M. Schanch. Mr. and Mrs. C. bacilli Berlin is therefore thrown A. Skinner, and child Messrs. G. W. back on the equivalent of the draper's and J. K. Swire, Miss, H.M. Simpson, pics. Perhaps the most original is Mr. W. Smyth, Mr. W. E. Sherman, The Steamship that of the grocer's shop in the Mr. 1. P. Scott, Mr. J.R. Stern, Mrs. Leipzigerstrasse, which pays its small LS. Singer, Mrs. H.S. Stetson, and change in soup-cubes. These have child. Mr. R. Sanger, Mr. W. Now lying in the Harbour of Hongkong, become quite a popular feature in Solomon, Mr. V. Thoren. Mr. and Infant. Mrs. F.P. Vasinia, and the German carrency.
Mr. Henry G. Walters, Mr. E. A M Williams, Mr. "1. H. Wallace, Miss Williams, Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
ance
The feudo is derived from the medieval ituto (canoe) but went through various transformations until a century ago. It is 49 feet long, of very light draught, with a
graceful curve of prow and tors, the fruit of the experience of hundreds of generations.
For three of our centuries all the bigger boats have travelled long dis- tances as primitive merchantmen. Slowly, laboriously, they have con- vered coal, charcoal, sand, wine and oilalong the coasts or from the islands, .even coral from Barbary.
EMIGRANTS.
TAKING TWO TEɔUSAND MILLION DOLLARS FROM
UNITED STATES.
A New York correspondent says that emigrants leaving that country for various reasons at the present time are estimated to be taking with But one seldom sees thea. The total of approximately minting of copper, nickel, and alum them a 2,000,000,000 dols., according to inium coins of these values has been given up, as the metal value statements secured from bankers by
is has now exceeded the face value. the Interracial Council.. It estimated that the total loss in Orly the 50 pfennig pieces are now taken out of themade of aluminium and these one savings country amounts to a minimum rarely comes acrOSS. Coins have The harvest of the sand is interest. of 2,000 dols. for each departing disappeared, or almost so. They are emigrant. No offsetting elements are collected for their metal value, or ing and beautiful to watch, especially found in the immigrating tide, for hoarded by speculators who hope on one of the great stretches of sil the incoming foreign-born are not that some day the mark wil improve vern shore beside the dazzling pro only relatively poverty stricken, but and these coins will appreciate with montory of Sestri Levante. The glow in addition 60 per cent. are said to be, while at the worst they will still cf sunrise exasperates the violent
fetch their metal value. greens and blues and reds of the sails
Inquiry of authentic sources reveals So, one has to do without small as the boats swarm to shore like bees that more than 250,000 emigrants change. To a great extent stamps masquerading as butterfiles. A crowd have already departed since the have taken its place, though in cf half naked men await them, armistice, and the United States Germany there is a great prejudice feverishly filling baskets and sacks Department of Labour estimates that against them; the fastidious see with sand. They rapidly board the 1,125.000 more are ready to leave as great danger in bandling paper with beats with an elastic run over long quickly as they can secure passports planks, swing their burthens from and steamer passage. their shoulders with a deft twist, and hurry back for fresh loads. All day
long they labour until fery sunset
women,
on
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“ANIMATED ELECTRODES." Westerhouse, Mr. and Mrs, Wm.
AN EXTRAORDINARY REPORT.
Wotherspoon, Mr. N. Steasson, Miss E. Reabur, Mr. E. Del Pardo, -Per N.Y.K. ss. "Kama Maru" for Yokohama this morning-Mr. and Mrs. Walker.-
-
Per M.M. 3.5. "Cordillere" this morning
NOTICES:
COLD STORAGE
Arrived
S.S. Carmarthenshire
Cured in Scotland
Finnan Haddocks Selected Kippers Yarmouth Bloaters Selected Fillets ... Smoked Salmön Fresh Salmon
Tunis Dates
ALSO
Clarke, Nickolls & Coombs
per lb. 50.
18
40.
40.
27
70.
2.50.
1,20
per box 5).
dants Sweets $1.00 per Ib.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
HONGKONG.
COLUMBIA
NEW RECORDS RECEIVED.
(Cohen on the 'Phone
Comic
"
A 1516
Happy Tho Married
A 2251
(Simplicity
L'ardita Valse
(The Boy & the Birds
A 2494
A 2885
Whistling Solo
Descriptive Princes Band In the Valley of Sunshine Tenor Solo Henry Burr C. Harrison (Peggy
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Say it with Flowers
This increase is rendered imperative
Hongkong, May 17, 1920..
AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
Bangkong, May 17, 1820.
IP-
MESSRS LAMMERT BROS. are
4.
instracted to sell
"JEHANGIR":
under an Order of the Court
EX
PUBLIC AUCTION
MONDAY,
the 28th day of June, 1920, at
3 o'clock P.M.
IN ONE LÓT
At their Auction Booms, in Duddell Street.
and pale twilight, when the gorgeous relations and friends, who come
Then board over a rine gangway. The wings are spread anew. the ships kitchens burst into flame, boat is sprinkled and blessed, the
the few yards of the roast begins to turn and flasks descends.
and takes her place pass from hand to bard. Even the shore man at the wheel takes his turn at among the other butterflies on the But for the sheen of the flask. Erect in his hieratic pose, blue waters. be raises his elbow in what is known her virgin paint and the brightness as the Catalonian way, and fils his of her sail, none need knew that this parched throat with jets of liquid is her first day at sea. amber:",
Sometimes, wind is lacking in the The building of Latin boats is dog-days. Then two long appendices Trimitive and thorough. Sailors pro- issue forth from the low hull like a test that a sailing ship lives and beetle's feelers. And a leudo always possesses a being of its own; whereas sails in the company of her small
Medical men and scientists from steamers are mere heaps of metal boat, which drags along behind, or
For Saigon-Messrs. A. D. Bar- patched up into machines. And in els proceeds ahead with a crew of Harvard University have been sum- stead of big, smoky docks we find rowers to help to tow the ship. On moned to Dannemora Prison, Clin- the building-yards hidden away stormy days, however, when a sirocco ton, New York State, to study extra-retto and L. G. Ribeiro, Messrs, 0. among gardens or mysterious coves. flecks the sea with white horses, the ordinary symptoms, that have deve- Steffanovich and Fock Chee Suan, One or two rudimentary platforms, a salls seem to rival the seagulls in wild foped among two score of male pri- Mr. and Mr. Han Kang, Mr. and at Hongkong of 5206 tons Gross and af shed for carpenters and joiners two or dances among the hollows of the soners, two of whom have since died, Mrs. W. Tuska, Messrs. J. S. Ritter 3360.71 Begistered tonnage and was three-builders and their apprentices: waves. Taut and palpitating the others being in hospital. The band, K. Imai, M. H. Seid, J. Lhuilt by W. Denny and Brothers,
Thomson, A.-Jenkins, P. D. Youle, Dumbarton. that is all The work proceeds against the wind, they swell like bodies of the afflicted mea appear C. G. Frye, K. Matsuto, W. H. For particulars to view apply to surcharged with electricity. They remote from the bustle of the mo- balloons gilded by the sun.
And there are bad moments when are referred to by the doctors as Chung. Chong Lung. Mr. and Merera. Lammert Bros., the Auctioneers. dern world according to very ancient
For further perticalars Mrs. G. Bracken, Mr and Mrs. rules handed down from father to landing in a whirl of foam. Every "animated electrodes" Sparks By Chow Foo, Miss Ah Fook,
Apply to son. The bows arise from the keel, neighbour hurries forward to assist when their fingers come in contact Mesars Shiu Fun Sam, Chau Yu
MEER JOHNSON, STOKES and a small olive-branch is set up in in thwarting treacherous, unexpected with steel, and
& MASTER, when they handle Tong, Sui Tong Ah Cheung, Au Kam; conformity with some prehistoric waves. And now you may turn over electric Fight bulbs the filaments Ah Kai, Chow Kong, Chan Fo. Tai,
Prince's Building, Symbolism. Patiently the boat pro an interesting page of Ligurian folk quiver with energy. Scraps of paper Yong Pan Sang, Cheung Lai Nam,
or to ceeds to clothe its skeleton and lore, for the men at the capstan stick to their fingers like filings to a Lai Kai Man, Choo Shun Hung, and stands forth as the survival of another break forth into strange old world
magnet. world. The old carpenter, leaning songs, dating back perhaps to the on his are as he rests for a moment Pelasgians. A sort of howi accom- from his toil and surveying the panies every movement of the crew! horizon from force of sailors' habit, and the, rhythm changes its form
an exhortation to is an artisan, not a machine. Master during
-
The sailing date of the 6.5 pull "Professor" has been deferred until and men are like brothers in these together or spicy jests to amuse
to-morrow (Friday) at 10 am... weary. An old man workshops, and know nothing of the modern labour disputes. Theirs is leads a bacchic litany, wonderfully
how and why he works.
an easy discipline, for each knows convincing in its brevity, as he helps The following approaching wed. to discharge Elban wine. Then dings are announced: Sergeant T. In a certain sense, Latin boats are there are often words without any Matthews, of. Hongkong Police, to sense, mutilated who Miss A. M. E. Brawn, Diocesan amphibious, spending, like the curved apparent ships of Homer, several weeks of the knows how or when? Snatches of School; Mr. Jas. Cairns, engineer of year on shore: but the first entrance old sea-songs, that can no longer be Haiphong to Miss M. C. Nicholson Foule to Hongkong by the to the sea is observed with all the understood. Or, instead of words, en rigidly of tradition. A priest is there are long drawn, modulated summoned with his clerk.bearing a cries in a minor key, resounding silver bowl of holy water. The con- sadly along the shores, at nightfall, gregation includes the builders, unconscious laments for the passing Take a WALLA-WALLA” BOAT owners, and a certain, number of of the old Latin sails-Er
in your ship. "Phone No, 3516,
Tsang Yim Shun.
For Marseilles: Mrs. Bounsfous, son and two, infants, and Messrs. Mandir, Yee Ling, and Tank Et Ho.
The ship is a British ship registered
Kesans, LAMMERT-BROS,
The Auctioneers.
Daddell Street.
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