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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1920.
WANCHAI HOUSE COLLAPSE.
YESTERDAY'S INQUEST.
VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL "DRATH.
It is understood in writer is incompetent, anyway, for insrified of her children." EXCHANGE. Bellamy that those he says," the majority of the work never guess that to be from the their questions are not answered.
You'd clergy lie, and the people know that tradesmen who did was excellent." not lower prices when exchange is mischievous, for honest criticism
It wasn't. He London Times, but it is.
Rumours-bare been went up will not now raise them is so rare here that it should be
Roof gardens are
going round for some when it is down,
welcomed, not discouraged. This
OUR ROOF jolly things, in the
time about imminent In a desperate attempt criticism (which I didn't read:
country where they
bankruptcies, owing: BOXING in be funny.
a China must have been honest, because
originated. You go to big losses. Some people seem Mail interviewer te he paints out that it was made show, whatever it is, and enjoy the sure, and to exaggerate in the tell- up. take refreshments, watch the to repeat snch scandal with plea- presented me as hiding under a without consulting the decisions of gaiety. printing newhine from the wrath the judges.
So far the Hongkong ing. They forget that the banks of Mr. Wilden. It was, of course,
At the Magistracy yesterday after.. Hotel scheme. a lie. I'm not afraid of anybody.
Yam, yad broon they say across the Pacific. But ble before, and that it is all in city Coroner, with a Jury composed listens good," as have helped people in worse tren-aoon, Magistrate Orme, in his capa PASSWORD. breed byakt in now listen to Hongkong's Inevit- the day's work. I'm ready to take on the whole of brick subbem maks
I am told that of Messrs J. M. de J. Lopes, E. M. da the Boxing Association, if the gyversouse.
fairable Jeremiah."The pictures will none of these gleefully foretold Rocha and A. Stalker, held an enquiry purse is big enough to make it
he no good, because Ray's company A reader signing him has the monopoly for South China.
smashes" are to be expected. worth my while. But that isn't;
foto the circumstances attending the deaths of five Chinese, who lost their what I really started out to say in
seli "Eather" sends It won't pay the hotel, because
Ives in the collapse of house No. 114, in a suggestion from there aren't enough lifts to carry this paragram. I want to point an Australian paper, for concrete up sufficient people. It won't pag
Queen's Road East, on December 6. not that the Naval Officers who hathing pools like the one at Scar the people, because they renst buy
Mr. M. H Turner watched the have objected to these small parses rough, which is tidally filled and refreshments and they'll
proceedings in the interests of the are overlooking what should be a flushed. The suggestion does not charged roof prices. Moreover, District Officer, northern district of Wanchai Police.
while Inspector Kent represented the owner of the house, who is in Canton, bigger thing to themselves. Train-help us at all, for such concrete some sort of cover will be needed. the New Territories. ing for these events keeps not only baths are constructed on beaches. The P.D. will not allow a sub~ the competitors away from booze and we are not allowed the beaches stantial one, and the typhoons will arrive in Hougtong by the ss. Paul crushed by the weight of falling Medical testimony as to the fature and worse, but, by fans of exam-on which to construet 'em. If we not allow a flimsy one."
Sir Paul Chatter is expected to
of the injuries sustained showed that ple, the ring of admirers that each had the beaches, we wouldn': Hongkong Jeremiah is always
some of the bodies were terribly competitor las. It is in the in-need the concrete bathing pools.
Lecat" on December 23.
beams and masonry. terests of the Xary, and of the
taking the f out of life. officers, that the Boxing Associa
The V.R.C is holding sailing Lovat Fraser in. the and rowing races á: Yau Tong to Daily Mail foresees a morrow. Launches leave Murray coming financial catas Pier at 10 30 am and 1.15 p.m. Trople to overwhelm Dar native land. We
If people going home persist lathe vicinity.
tion should be encouraged to entice
It is the little THE KIDDIES, things that tell-}
My colleague
the men into the clean and whole-Peter Pan has shown me a some lifes 11
letter from one of the children in
AN EXTRA BRAIN.
I do not happen to which the dear mite says. "I know
whence Mr.enjoy reading your column as much
OFR
UNHAPPT
LAND.
he
Thus the
⚫LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. D. W. Tratman is appointed
+
Department, gave evidence that the "Mr. Wright, of the Public Works Department had been in negotiation with the owner for the purchase of the property in connection with the street-widening now in progress in An examination of
selecting to get French visas on the premises thee led the Depart her passports, the French have ment to the conclusion that pack decided not to let them land at were Marseilles.
not
safe for habitation, and a notice to, that effect was served upon the owner. He had the
are aching bankruptcy, from B. L. Taylor of as inaddy seems to enjoy reading which individuals may recover, but U.S.A. got his news Adversația."
nations never The Coalition has not one single act of retrenchmen: In the sutra of the to its credit. "They are rationing THIRST FOR forty-two chapters coal. They are talking of rationis due to arrive to-day by the M. Mwalls shored up, pending the con The Bandman Comedy Company house cleared of its tenants, and the TRUTH. it - is written ing food. They know that if the steamer "Chill," and will commence a clusion of the negotiations for the There is nothing coal strike lasts very long it will return season in Hongkong on Mon sale of the property to the Public like Inst. Lust may be said to be bring down the revenue with a run day with The Rotters," a clever Works Department. It was now clear.
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Car's
Behold the mighty wahr." Famers in pnhistoric For
strength.
mains
due primarily, not to the insecurity of the walls, but to the fact that the
Not only for his weight and the most puwerful passion. Fort-and necessitate heary additional dialect and character comedy, which that the collapse of the house was nately, we have one thing which taxation. Why don't they do what was well received when played in But for his intelectual length. more powerick. If the thirst for every private business man is doing Hongkong last September by the You will observe hy these how many of us would be able to Why don't they stop all new and
truth were weaker than passion, and cut down their expenditure? Company.
joists had rotted so that the floors follow the way of righteousness?"costly undertakings and ration the
fell in. Correspondence money now being poured out to the last eight months has beep coolies
The Rev. G.J: Williams, who for Evidence was also given by- CHINA - appears in
the their squandering Departments?"officiating as pastor of the Union the victims of the catastrophe.
cho ASSOCIATION, British Chambers;
amongst of Commerce
The death of William the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie will the proceedings have had to be Church, in the absence on leave of These men, pending whose recovery
to give
The creature had two sets of;
brain
One in his head the usual place. The other at his spinal base. Thus he could reason a priori As well as a posteriori.
columin.
If one brain found the "pressure
strong.
It jasset a few ideas along:"
mind.
Twas rescued by the one .hind;
And if in error he was caught He had a ving afterthought. As he thought twice before te
spoke.
He had no judgments to revoke: For he could think, without con-
gestion.
Upon both sides of every ques-
tion. Oh.gaze upon this model beast. Defunct ten million years at
feast!
Curiosity took AT CHATHAN'S me. for people like myself do
SALE.
was that the house of the Director One.
Its
a
AUTHORITY.
that
BUILDING RULES.
OBIJESK HOUSE-OWNERS.
IMPORTANT MEETING.
that
were
an under-
and
Journal showing, as was only to 1. P. Serior of The Field depart from Hongkong with Mrs. suspended. were able No rabiein hothered him a bit; He a bath head and tail of itxiation does not want to die now He was well-known to all anglers leaves for England there to spend the the reasons why, in spite of all
be expected, that the China A taken place at Croydon recently. North and Central China, whence he standing of the accident
is announced to have Williams, on Tuesday on a trip to evidence essential to So wise he was, wise and that its occupation's gone.
solemn.
apolist suggests that there are as **Redspinner."*" but he Each thesht filled inst a spinal political questions the Charobers known to me personally as a bro- to Australia where he is Secretary of Some of these witnesses had had was rest of his furlough before returning provision, human lives were involved. shouldn't or couldn's handle, which the journalist. We visited the the London Missionary Society. Mr. marvellous escapes; one was only is fudge: bot his main point is the Paris exhibition together twenty Williams will deliver his farewell rescued after two hours work in y close connection" between the years ago. That would be about messages to the congregation of the removal of rubble; another was 012 China Association and the Foreign nine years before he retired from Union Church to-morrow. Mr. Wil the third storey and fell to the ground If something slipt his forwani Office. That is easily discounted the editorship of The Field. He lams has sacrificed the charge of the level without receiving out grind by the much closer connection of was not much over sixty then, and Pastorate, of which, it will be re-injuries. This man was able to throw be-the associated Charabers, which active. An amiable man, of membered, he
was, the popular a good deal of light on the whole has been officially recognized and the old school...
Fastor some eighteen years ago. The affair. specially encouraged by a circular
Rev. and Mr. Maconachie are due! letter to Consuls from the Foreign
The Water Author-back in the Colony about the third floor, helping to prepare the morning He said he was on the topmost THE WATER ity of Hongkong is week of January. Secretary. There is hardly any
meal, when he felt a sensation as conceivable political question which
not an Inspersonal Department does not affect, trade, and on which works by Law. It seems to be
though a slight earthquake, shock. had occurred. the Chambers opinion is not Dow singularly like a human being, and
Also immediately afterwards he felt himself falling sought, and anything the China a mean, cantankerous human being
and the floor giving way beneath his must now be mere duplication. Conduit Road tells me this story. Association continues to try to do at that. Mr. H. C. Best of No. 14
fest. It seems clear from this and other evidence that the joists of Our advice to the China Associa-He lives in a house owned by Mr.
the top floor gave way first, the floor tion was to die gracefully. It may Nemazee. The water meter, which
fell, and its weight was sufficient to not take it, but it will die anyhow. serves two tenants, took a fit one:
carry along with it the floor Chinese houseowners met yesterday below; the combined weight of the These men must day and pretended to be a geyser. afternoon at the Tung Wah Hospital two floors, as might be expected. DOMINEERING get away with Mr. Best, as was a good citizen's to consider the probable effects of brought down the first floor. The WILLS. with some people, duty, informed the Water Author-the proposed amendments to the men who were killed were those on not often get the opportunity to would'nt keep on trying it with ing water.
or
surely they ity of its antics, which were wast-published recently. Mr Li Wing of one man who had a miraculous building regulations, which were the lower floors with the exception enter the houses of the great.,
The Water Authority Almost the first thing. I noticed me. "Enter a handicap says sent a repairing squad, which, be- WODE, Chairman of the Hospital, escape; a beam lodging at an angle
"Xa" says L. "Yes, you fore it left, persuaded Mrs. Best to presided.
prevented his being crushed to death. af Public Works was well fitted will. I'll put your game down, sign a paper. This paper turned said
Mr. M. K. Lo solicitor, The victims were thus sandwiched with no less than three water anyway." Later on eomes out to be a requisition to repair the houseowners most was the proposed disintegrated masonry.
what would affect dreadfully between different strata of closets. I seemed to remember phone message: "Can you play meter, which does not belong to amendment of the building regula that the P.W.D. had been frown-your the to-night?" My yea means Mrs. Best, but to the Water tions, which provided for the con- there at all, seeing that the building How came human beings to be. ing on all applications for such and my nay nay, and I'll prove Authority. Mrs. Best does not struction, of a scavenging lane to all had been cleared and condemned? it to these people whatever hap-even pay rent for it: Mr. Nerazee new houses and houses to be recon- On this, the question that everyone Egot an invitation lushes in the Peak District. If
I'm not mistaken, the Peak Clubs Sometimes it is the fami- does. Mr. Best pointed this got structed. He thought the best thing has been asking. the coolies were this week to help was refused one. Yet here, in his thanks." "Oh, come on. LUSITANO yesterday in the own house, the D.P.W. had three. more won't hurt you"
Jiar "Have a drink," No, to the Water Authority, and asked to be done was to appoint a sub-com-able also to throw some light. They One them to send, the bill to the land-mittee to consult an architect as to were being shipped to Borneo, to a Pedra fundamentai" do novo:
"acto do lançamental How fashion?
That's kord. Mr. Logan, for Water the possible effect of the ascendments work as labourers there and tem true; but the impudence of one will Authority, replied that as Mrs and how they should be modified. Alter my big defeat trying to override mine does hurt. Best had ordered the work,
porery accommodation was required WJR and disappointment Confound their fasolence. This is no can do.
The Chairman said that matter for them in Hongkong. An agent at Liverpoot, Robert Henderson, minded me of the days of my late Secretary of the Green youth. The last time I launch-
Then Mr. Best, to be decided was who should bear managed to gain access to these the bathing really the moral of Mr. Walpole's sure he was right as to principle, the expenses. This question should deserted premises, other quarters INSTITUTE. beaches which wonderful new novel. The Cap-made the mistake of supposing a expedited, as out of the period being very difficult to obtain, and the Island Cement Co., Lid.
ed a fundamental stone" was at a victory) I'm rather backed by the tics missed it. I would sooner not Authority would make ibat mysment to the Chinese to consider the their ships safled-
told was a moral tives, although most of the cri-little plain talk to the Water one month) granted by the Governmen were put there to wait until nuisance of a dog, and I missed the new advertisements calling for have a friend in the world than terious corporation dog and broke a window. I did subscriptions to the War Mem-retain one, that would persistently Perhaps infected by my awful
matter, over ten days had already not accept the kind invitation oforial Institute. Evidently now the try to impose his will on mine.. example, he ended his chit by say decided by the meeting were: (1) the deceased was accidentally caused The China Mail. Secretario A. E. S. Alves for fear finest site scheme is complete. It is worse than stealing one's ing that if the W.. could not on Whether the Tung Wah Hospital by the collapse of a foor at No. 114,
THE VERDICT, elapsed.
The jury returned the following Mr Lo said the points to be verdict: "We find that the death of of breaking something else. SEPATICE.
ly dropped, and this valuable piece purse. It robs one of character, of reflection see the rights of his case, Committee should continue to interest Queen's Read East, and that the I see no skates in of public property is still available moral fibre. BONGKONG, SATURDAY, DEC. 10, 1920.
the Christmas win for the benefit of the public. We never try to do it to others.
It is an insult. Iit would be time for someone to themselves in the matter on behalf condition of the floor could not rea dow displays, and will find a sensible use for it one make requests, but I never have no reply, no formal acknowledg latter's general indifference and gerous. The jury are of the opinion I take charge who could. He got of the houseowners in view of the sonably have been known to be dan yet, if this wea-of these days.
to be refused twice. ther keeps up, the
ment; but they cut his water off apathy; and (2) the appointment that: the agent ought to be more harbour should soon be frozen over-
An impudent letter ap
This must be They went to the trouble and ex-of a sub-committee to secure the careful in the custody of his key." for skating. Herr Fahrenheit "fell
ART. peared in the Daily Press TESTERDAY'S about the tenth pense of seeing that the other ten- opinion of an architect, With regard to last like the dollar this week, getting some busybody objecting to art
yesterday morning, from EARTHQUAKE. Hongkong earth- ant gets water while he does not. would be submitted to the Chinese which OCD LADS. week's talk ..of
down very close to sixty in the criticisms in that paper. The let experienced without knowing it. danger they thus subject him to He was prepared to give his own
quake
have I do not know what the hygienic members of the Legislative Council. "booting me out Happy. The most hateful people the Art Club as a private affair, an old and very shaky building, was his capital offence? Telling
Valley we so humorously call ter began with a lie, speaking of Although I was seated high up in may be, but if it be death, what professional services if required. the colony," I have received an in Hongkong just now are those whereas it advertises its shows and in the heart of the city. I felt the Water Authority, a home truth donate the necessary financial aid. lanation and apology. I am beefy persons who boast of not charges for admission. But it is nothing. I cannot admit that I or two? I have no hesitation in After further discussion, it was Mr. Fung Fingehan said he would red the dire threat was made feeling cold. ply one small group, and that
to the alleged principle, this new amearthquake-blind," for I have saying that this is, a disgraceful unanimously decided to appoint Mr. The accounts of the censor of journalism sets up that felt them in other countries. I business, and that none of the dis M. K. Lo to consult an architect. DUNSANY Ámateur Dramatic I chject. I resent it. Good work, think Hongkong earthquakes must grace falls on Mr. Best.
PLAYS. Club show 3 much he says, proclaims itself; some ra- be like a certain sort of matches, Holyoak, assure me that a Famine Fund-than I expected, and excels help the public to appre-not always then.
better balance for the marks on the points in which that strike only on the box, and
One of my most re-
THEATRE ROYAL. would he got up to keep needless to say I am pleased to be ciate it. Bad work condemns it-
cent purchases was here if I threatened to go away, wrong in my forecast: The ac-self is it necessary to drag ite
Gilbert
WARWICK COMEDY cb, Gannan's *There is one fool FOB GOD: by my Hongkong without countants worked out the percent faults to light publicly, except in
"Release of the TONIGHT'S FAREWELL ATTRACTION, WISE POOLS." who is commend: i would be awín)" and ages of expenditure for me, and so far
Boul," a queer essay they tell me something I did the 22.64 per cent. on costumes artist? For good work" read a fool for his Master's sake. The imagination. Towards the end he highly
it may be of help to the He is God's fool. He has become of the World War on a sensitive Company bring to
ed for his wisdom.illustrating the catastrophic effect ow. They say that Mr. and scenery will seem low to those
made the same objection who do not know how much cas readvice, and you have an a senseless idealist: But true is the written word can carry but presentation of
virtue, and for --** bad work.worldly wise man condemus him as says: "Speech is so debased that Hongkong to the isolated table of civil-tume was taken over from the analogy which would silence the dom is found with him, for he sees half its meaning the poets mutter a delightful comedy which made a went outside the shop people chased the armistice dinner. He University A.D.C., unless am clergy. This letter was written, the world, himself, and his fellows, of new things but they cannot sing more than favourable impression on Him, wanting to recover the damage against it the moment wrongly informed. About half the not in the interests of art, but of and the tangled puzzle of life with them; the scientists are inartien-Its initial performance here. Indeed, that had been done in the fall-A ***, but was – assured that printing and advertising cost was human vanity. That is quite evi- the eyes of truth. He values every late; the engineers without guid-for a farewell attraction a happier fine of $50 was imposed, with the farings had so arranged it spent on posters and programmes, dent. Where an amateur is a true object, which claims his attention ance use the fearful powers at their piece could not have been chosen alternative of a month's imprison- idea that the men should and as will be seen the pro amateur (in the derivative sense of in the scales of truth and justice. disposal to lay waste both the earth Last night the Company's second ment Well? That also is to grammes (for which patrons were the word) a ruthless pointing out Faith is to him the touchstone of and buman life, while the mass of presentation of Eliza Comes - To it does not bring held up") almost recouped that of faults and failures must be help-reality. He knows how to forfeit the people labour and stumble be- Stay," a charming comedy from the
HENDERSON.On the 10d fast,
BRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC
ADVERSARIA.
are "asses who should not be
fed These lads, who count
ms to do the square thing by
edificio do Club Lusitano. It re-
UXENTER- PRISING TRADESMEX.
to
MEMORIAL over
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see
reason.
THEFT OF WATCH.
CHASE AT YAUMATI
Magistrate Orme had before him at the Magistracy this morning_a Chinese charged with the theft of a wristlet watch, from a shop in Shanghai Street Yaumati. Defen dant went into the shop
and took up the watch. In order to and then boited. He was arrested examine it he stepped into the street after a chase by the shopkeepers. Tonight the Warwick Comedy He told the Magistrate that he was a. close their examining the watch and on successful season in hearing a commotion outside
by the second put it back on the counter. Uncle Ned," It dropped to the floor and when he
that in fall be bread effect is that fur. Where self-love is the only the prizes of this world for the neath the weight of the questions witty pen of H. V. Emond, lacked A Chinese, aged 5 years, has Sre as of $3,907.20 contributed by the love concerned, such criticism is enduring rewards of spiritual pro- accumulating in their unillamin- none of that artistry and finish which been sent to the Government: Civil public, the Famine Fund gets the only way to kill it, Where gress.. The world counts him proated, hearts and minds. The jour has distinguished all the excellent Hospital, with injuries to the head 1.81.645.34, or about $600-less than improvement is impossible, the digel, senseless, thoughtless, or nalists to them, the novelists productions submitted by these caused by being knocked down by a balf.
debbler should quit. This leger fantastic. But wisdom is ever lie to them, the politicians lie, the talented player.
tram car in Des Voeux Read.