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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1920,
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HONGKONG.
TELEPIMASS
NEIZRAL OTTE
MAN BRANCH ( SHOW DO
"ROBINSON ROUD I
BRUICH
WEST POINT BRASER 1343 WORK SHOP
ANCIENT PETRA.
LONDON IN 1970.
FUTURE EXTENSIONS
FABULOUS WEALTH.
HOME TRADES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND.
MARKET IN AUGUST.
The following notes have been furnished by H.B.M. Commercial Secretary. They represent the mar ker conditions in England prevailing at the end of August in connection with the trades mentioned.
Iron & Steel Full up with home orders to capacity of raw material available.
RIGE CROP FAILURES.
DROUGHT IN THE NORTH,
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SERIOUS FOOD RIOTS FEARED.
OPIUM CHARGES.
ALLEGED KEEFER OF DIVAN.
The
ALLOWED $1,000`BAIL...
men,
Before Magistrate Hutchison this morning, Mr. E. J. Grist, on behalf Owing to floods, the crops in of a Chinese charged at the instance Kiangsu, Anhui, Kiangsland Chekiang of Revenue Officer Clark with (1) provinces are described as extremely possession of 18 teals of prepared bad this year, consequently the non-Government opium, (2) posses export of rice and other cereals ission of forged opium labels, and (3) strictly prohibited by these provinces. keeping an opium divan, applied for On the other hand, northern reports a remand until Tuesday morning. indicate beavy drought in Chihli,
Magistrate granted the Shantung, Honan and Shansi, so that application. Tin plates, galvanised sheets, hard-j serious food riots are feäired.
Counsel asked that the case ware, cutlery and pottery. Not press- Thousands of persons will be against four other men charged with ing, but in a position to deal with in-starved to death this year in Chili, baving been found smoking opium creased export business.
Shanghai and Honan, says the Asiatic in his client's house also be remanded Machine tools, automobiles (except Nars Ageney, unless the Government until Tuesday. Counsel explained had nothing high grades), electrical goods (bat give timely assistance. All crops that although he
with do;
these teries, accumulators, en drapery and have been destroyed through lack to clothing, hosiery and hats, musical of rain. The price of rice and other be thought that possibly they might Instruments. All these trades and in- cereals which are the staple food of be used as witnesses against his client, dustries are at present open to deal the northern Chinese, is still going and if so, he would like to be present with increased orders, while the indica- up in Peking and the native gentry to hear what they had to say.
The Magistrate also granted this tions point to a larger export trade of the twenty-four districts of the becoming a matter of desirability in metropolitan prefecture of Peking application. Sir Kingsley Wood, MP.. Parlia-the not far distant-Focure.
have just petitioned the Cabinet Bail was fixed in the sum of $1,000. In A. D. 106 one of Trajan's
urging that measures be adapted for The other defendants bail of $5 Glass and glassware are'in a some- generals conquered Petra, the ancient mentary Private Secretary to the city of the Nabataeas in Arabia, and finistry of Health, writes in these what similar condition but the need regulating the prices of rice and each was extended.
other cereals so that serious conse- created the Roman province of days, when we are irritated by, our for export trade is not so pressing.
quences may be averted Machinery and engineering pro- Arabia Petraea, but the city continued trainless almost as much as hy our to Rourish as a trade centre under houseless state, I wonder how many ducts, aeronautical accessories, boots shoes, fine chemicals and the strong peace of Rome. In those Londoners realise that their Under- ground reviled amongst themselves, days Petra was the focassing point on
instruments, brushware. fumiture. "the caravan route from the interior yet proudly exhibited to strangers-drugs, leather, scientific and optical
of Arabia. Persia and India to Egypt, is the key to the London of 1970?
For, in the last resort, our houseather and fancy goods, and toys and Palestine and Syria. It was a great
games. There has been a falling off sale Ceresit of fabulous wealth, for- ing problem is the problem of trains in the home demand for these goods.
When Climately the London of fifty years tressed by frowning diffs. Roman power waned the Romanized hence will be shaped and fixed by and overseas markets are being eager Nabataeans were unable to withstand the railways which will bear her sought for. the desert hordes. The caravan populatica to and from their daily trade was diverted through other work. cherness and Petra declined It *importance.
GREAT CITY OF ROCK,
THE ROLE OF THE TUBE.
If a city is to grow it must grow either upwards or outwards, and in the past thirty years London has done both. She has piled upon one another, in the form of tenements, houses for close "upon 30,000 men, women, and children.
HONGKONG TRADE.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.
EFFECT OF CHINESE INTERNAL TROUBLES.
A little more than a century ago John Lewis Burckhardt, a Swiss trav eller, who had heard rumours of a 'great city of rock lying far out on the friage of the Arabian desert, pen
But the tenement movement is etrated the gorge and found oace more this wonderful old city of slowing down. Upward growth is Petra, which had not been mentioned more and more rapidly being out- in actiterary record since A D. 536. stripped by growth outward Man, In the century or more since Burck still less woman, was not made for hardt wrote of his discovery of the cities, and the yearning of many of Cotton piece goods and fancy cot rock city in a letter from Cairo, only them for the green fields outside is ton goods would not be fair to a few explorers and archaeologists a yearning literally natural. from the west have visited Petra. In these last decades hungry he blame the internal political trouble The journey is so long and arducus man waves, have surged outwards for the present state of our market, and the danger of violence from and outwards, and to-day, looking which has been feless for so long, Bedouin nomads so great that not from the Nelson Column towards any but this disturbance, which is ap many the time or zeal to attempt point of the compass for six miles, it. The lion and the lizard kept the one would be servering London all parently a petty scrabble between court where lamshyd gloried and the way. And the are called the Cantonese and Kwongsi Generals drank deep until Thomas Lawrence Greater London lies nine miles beat Swalow and Waichow does not with optimism. Furthermore the future does not look bright, for it is rumoured, through a reliable source, that peace may not prevail for some considerable time. Manchester qua- but been slowly tations have steadily on the decline. With a revival of business however, present quotations would give little or no indication of true prices, as they must, in the present state of the market, be ficticious.
ORIENTAL HAGGLING.
WORDS LEAD TO VIOLENCE.
DISTURBANCE IN PAWNBROKER'S
SHOP.
ORGAN RECITAL
THE PROGRAMME,
MONDAY EVENING'S ENTER- TAINMENT.
The following is the programme of the Recital to be given in St. John's Cathedral on Monday next at 9.15 [p.m. :
Before Magistrate Smith this mom 2. Morning ing, a'Chinese was charged with dis-13. As pants the hart orderly conduct in a pawnshop. He. pleaded "not guilty."
1. Prelude and Fugue in D major
Bach
Greig
Spohr
Mrs. D. J. Brown.
4. Prelude in C sharp minor
Rachmaninoff
Handel
Guilmant
Liddle
Mrs. D. J., Brown.
Elgar
Evidence was given for the prosecu- tion to the effect that the defendant 5. Largo went to the pawnshop yesterday after 6. Prayer and Cradle Song noon and offered to pledge a Pongée sik suit for $5. The pawnbroker7. Abide with me offered him $3.50, but the defendant declined.
After
considerable
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
argument the pawnbroker offer. S. Lard of Hope and Glory ed $4% but the défendant still refused, and insisted on $5. In the course of further argument, the defendant lost his temper, and threatened to assault the pawn- broker who then had him forcibly
Shortly afterwards ejected defendant returned with a big piece of stone which he threw at the pawn-
given by the Rev. G. J. Williams the Spiritual Teaching of Francis damaging the counter.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of Thompson the great 20th century
the
HELENA MAY INSTITUTE,”
brought his fighting Bedouins into yond that-north, south, east and fill the air of the Piece goods market / broker, narrowly missing him and A Series of 2 or 3 Lectures will be
this city of tombs and empty palaces.
GEMS IN A SKULL.
CLIFF DWELLERS' CUSTOMS.
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MOUNTAIN FULL OF TURQUOISE. ·
west.
Obviously, I think, it is this Greater London which, within the next fifty years, will become incorporated with the London which we know, if not administratively, at least as the new residential quarter for great masses of London folk.
REMARKS,
Cotton Yarn. Owing to intertial troubles; combined with low rates ruling for Yarn manufactured in Shanghai, dealers here have been holding back and only a paltry business has to be recorded. Values have declined about $5 10 per baie all round.
But these modern migrations from A human skull encrusted with tur-suburb to suburb, these shiftings and reassortments of human beings, quaises recently was dug up near are conditioned absolutely by the time Mount Chalchihati, twenty miles frem Santa Fe, K. M. The gems had in which the worker can get to His been set in the bone after death. work. People will not live more than Why the skulls of the dead were thus half or three quarters of an hour's decorated by the ancient aboriginal journey from the daily task. tribes of the Southwest is not known, And so we arrive at the conclusion but it is believed they attributed some that the shape of our city is deter supernatural quality of good luck to mined by the number of miles when the turquoise. A number of other an electric train can cover in half Now 15 miles "in 30 skulls similarly adorned have been an hour. found in this region. They are thought minutes is to-day only a matter of a by scientific men to be the craniums slight speeding up, or missing a stop; of the ancient race of cliff dwellers. ping-place here and there.
What Londoners await, therefore, Mount Chalchihuit is honeycombed with the shafts and tunnels of pre-is an extension, courageous and ins historic tourquoise mines. Immense pired, of the tubes and district rail-bales. Shipments ail quantities of rock were removed by ways, which to-day so exasperatingly these ancient miners working with stop dead on the verge of the adven crude, instruments. These old tunnels ture.
are now called the Wonder Caves There is, the City and South Lon. The mountain into which they bore don Railway resolutely refusing to is full of turquoise. Veins of tar- sample more of Surrey than is to be quoise two inches thick may be seen had at the edge of Clapham Con zigzagging across their walls of geld- mon. There is the Central London bearing quartz.Brooklyn Eagle. Railway lingering in the City when it might be plunging eastwards into Essex. There is the Bakerloo, con tent with the Elephant and Castle, when it might be running into the green fields of Kent. There are the
CHINESE BABIES.
THE SHAYING FEAST.
GREAT CELEBRATION AT TEN.
t
A month after a child's birth in
China its parents give what is called the "shaving feast.". On this event ful occasion the barber comes and shaves off all of its hair except a small tuft on the forepart of the head.
At length, when the little one is old enough to play with toys, the fond parents place. before it on a table a sword, a book, a pen, medi eine, needles, boats, etc., and allow it to take up whatever appeals to it most. The idea is that the young ster's choice betokeas the occupation or business it will follow when it grows to maturity. If it chaoses a pen, the supposition is that it will be scholar, if a sword, it will be a so dier, and so on.
twin tentacles of the Hampstead and Highgate. Tube, which one would like to see creeping northwards into Middlesex and Hertfordshire.
All of them most stretch outwards and outwards until we have the countryside in the city, the city in the countryside.
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
SUBSCRIPTION LIST.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals Himly & Co. Harold Seti
in ...............
A. Weill van ons képévaséancesc If the child at any time becomes F. M. Wellér gravely ill, its mother hastens to the Thos. W. Simmons & Co. *** temple and solemnly promises the Tse Tam Chi.............. gods to consecrate its life to their Ho Pik Shan.. service, if they will intervene to save Li Wing Kwong, its life. Thus it often happens that Ying Tsź Ming young Chipse become monks very Wong Yiu-Tung much against their wills.
Yuen Hang Kiu- The child's first birthday is made to Cho Shan... the occasion of great festivities., Ol-Lo Chap Shani!! teal great quantities of "mien Leung Yan Fo noodles are prepared and set Li Yau Ehun about to all the relatives and To Sin Holta friends. Succeeding. Birthdays are Chan Harr scarcely noticed until the tenth Ma Wipa Chan Then a great celebration is held-Wong Kwak Shoe Detroit Nee
Chau Pek Chun
Quotations are?— No. 10s 185/225. No. 12s $198 225. No. 16s $235/270. No. 20s $245/295.
Arrivals 6,500 bales. Sales 500
Uzsold Stock 10,000bales. Bargains: 14,000 bales.
Woollens-No business dote. Raw Cottens-Market has ruled easier and values, may be quoted at $32,35 for Indian and $36:43 for Chinese descriptions.
Metals, Market remains dull and lifeless. The trouble in the neigh- bouring provinces putting a stop to movement of cargo.
Flour Market Report-Stock: About 300,000 sacks.
Quotations: American Patent
$480 per sack, American Cut off $3.95 per sack, American Straight $3.45 per sack, Shanghai Flour 2nd $4.20 per sack, Australian No. 2 $3.10. per sack, Australian, No. 1 $3.290 per sack.
Petroleum Products-No change. Sundries and Coala-Market in- clined to be weakish.
Sukar Market dull No exquiry. Saltpetre-Stock 900 Bags.
KINEMA NOTES.
CORONET THEATRE.
an
A good programme is being shown 5.00 at the Coronet, the main feature being 5.00 a six reel picture entitled "Her only 5.00 way"-in which Norma Talmadge is 5.00 the popular figure. The play
quite $10.00 bas
exciting plot 100.00 which is worked out in quite an 100.00 unusual way and is bound to sur- 100.00 prise the audience. In additiona 100.00 Pathe Gazette, and Rolin comedy are 10000 in the programme as well as Gau- -100.00 mont's new feature-Around the 100.00 town. He only way will be 50.00 shown throughout the week end and 50.00 deserves big patronage.
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PASSENGERS.
***** DEPARTURES.
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poet, "at the usual WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MEETINGS. Begin
8th- ning next WEDNESDAY, September, at 5.30: the meetings are open to both men and women. Hongkong, Sept. 4. 1920.
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG, ST. JOHN'S HALL.
who desire to reside in this Hostel should apply at once to
Per 8.8. Insbruck" this afternoon -Mr and Mrs H. Westers, Mr Ng Hok Shin, Mr.E. C. Wells, Miss D. M Hote chins, Mr and Mrs-J. E. Abbott Mr and NEW STUDENTS of the University ire P. W. Thayer. He and Mrs A. F Fishman, Mr and Mrs C. E. Parker and Misses T. and E. Parker, Mr and Mrs D. Jones, Mr Chow Yan Po, Mes Squal lantini Monaldeses and daughter Doris, irs M. I. Ahored, Me E. P. Chandler, and Bir A. E. Costes
REV. E. MARTIN, MA, St. John's Hall, The University. Hongkong, Sept. 4, 1920.
KOWLOONITES are requested to turn up in force to-night
THE OPEN AIR CINEMA SHOW
at.
THE CLUB DE RECREIO
when a first class programme will be presented, including
a splendid METEO. photoplay entitled
"SECRET STRINGS"
and two excellent comedies, the entire programme being new to Hongkong audiences.
Performance commences at 9.15 p.m., sharp. Admission 50 cents.
Children half price.
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