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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921.
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
to keep its plain promises to (say) its own ex-soldiers, without con cern for its honour. My idea fit really is my idea, evolved from.my wwn" meditation) is that in this matter à Government should be bound by the same definition në honour that applies to the indivis The General Managers and Con dual. My idea is that the bonour salting Committee will at the forts-THE DRAW for the KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB DERBY of an individual cannot be fatally coming annual meeting of share SWEEP, will take place in the Cab wounded by anything extraneous to holders to be held on Thursday, March himself, What I mean is, that 3, 1921, recommend the allocation! House an TUESDAY evening, at 6, r.x. honour may commit suicide; it can af profits as follows:---
Hongkong. February 19, 1921.
50,000.00
3,921.58
never be murdered. You may To place to Reserve Fund...$19,000.00 bang, draw, and quart, you may To place to Equalization of burn or crucily your marfyr, but you cannot leili kia honour. Foo cannot even smirch it, for it is safely enwrapped between his con. kience and his God. What a pity, " what a thousand pities it is that
▲ University stud.I should encounter a sentence of wat sends me 's lat onsense ke the one I have dis
Tees entitled cussed, in a speech which con-:
cluded with there sensible words: (Continued from Page 4.)
*Married Love." 1 may print them after he has If you tell me the League of what he bad already written been married a year or two. if heations is Utopia the answer I langer letter than he usually did then desire it. The only other ve is: I prefer the chance of That was several weeks ago, and cannibution this week is a poem topis to the certainty of destruc be assures me that he now does all entitled Sunday Morning,” hear-
In this morning a Home letters in that way, and ty, but got quite, atrocious enough
Post a contribu- finds it a pleasure instead of a bore.ro print. It begins!
tion.
MOTOR
** ACCIDENTS." tor wonders "at the comparative-
Dividend At........................... To pay a bonus to staff.............. To pay a fusi dividend of
$1 per share.... To carry forward to the credit of next year's
***** 9,940.SE
KINEMA NOTES.
00,000.00
CORONET THEATRE.
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"A DAUGHTER OF TWO WORLDS."
Thinking why the word seems ty small number of accidents "madge picture which means all of
quiet
dirt.
།།
I ventured the opinion that those When I life op my pen to write he favoured with this new form of letter Home would also be bene fited. Our weekly is only 25 cents scopy, and bare spaces are pro- vided, for writing on. I mention shis in case others may be relieved by my suggestion.
I am tro, o ME WIDESPREAD course, quite as CONGREGATION, disinterested a
the wording of
1 hear the morning bells recite Tis Sunday. No more book What's he mean by that? That he reads The Referer in bed Viewing the harbour. he "notes that
Not a steamer is kept busy." He has a notion of rhyme, this one. 1ks foregoing peragrato might be but none of rhythmn. He must get reed to mean. The Overland Meila primer on prosody. Meanwhile. reprints the whole of my Adver-ke might compare his description saria each week, and I like getting of Sunday morning's the letters that have begun to reach] me from all over the world. Onr family in Scotland, after passing) the copy from hand to hand, wraps
with
busy ships
perti nor motion Aside as a rieved ships Ipon a painter ocean.
What place is he comparing Hong kong with? It must be Paris or London. Considering the small number of motors we have, our casualties are remarkably namer
We knock down pedestrians at the rate of 436 per annum. and kill 'em at the rate of one a geek. Our statisties are appalling.
orts.
PUBLIO AUOTION,
DARTICULARS and Conditions of the loting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 21st day Petrus
1931, at 5 pm, at the Office of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Kolleccy the Governor, of One Los of CROWN LAND at. Shamahaipo. in the Colony
Hongkong.
for taros af 7å Fosen, com menging from 1st July, 1896, with the option (of renewal at a Crowe Rent to be firad † by the Surreyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 54 years, loss 3
Those who enjoy a Norma Tal-daya
Kongkong-and especially all who like particularly to observe herremarkable facility in unfelding character and portraying the various stages in the development of a type, have a treat in store for them at the Coronet Theatre, where she is appearing in A Daughter of Two Worlds.” It stands out as of the
finished
of performances this talented actress. Miss Talmadge is one of the very finest actresses on the screen, and this picture-her-pre- sentation of Jenny Malone-is noth- ing less than a work of art. The story Lady Stubbs is to present the is gripping, intense, dramatic, hold- prizes at the St Paul's Institutioning the attention from beginning to (Anglo-French School) Causeway Bay end, being crowded with interest.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
it up and pests it to Vancouver!! Once he grasps the nature the on Friday, March 4, at 430 p.m.
And this is the part of the story I like it is Adversaria they all read and look for I now have letters, some critical. but all compliment- ary from Peking. Tientsin. Tokyo.. Singapore. Shanghai Manila.
Kuala Lumpur, Java, Ceylon, Siam
difference between his lines and Coleridge's, he will never again want to send me lines like:
Enough of silence bave I see12. Solema thoughts my tuind now
shall hold.
A fatal case of smallpox was reported from Kowloon City Road yesterday. The victim was a Chinese. Of two cases of cerebro spinal fever reported yesterday, one was fatal. Both cases were Chinese, as also was a non-fatal case of paratyphoid fever.
In order to provide homeward passages from Egypt this spring, the
The fact that seen and hold thyined fa regular subscriber her. London, with between and cold did not take Con-antinople. Kilmarnock, Glas- that stanza prosodic. As a natur- gost Manchester. New Yorkalist might say, it belongs rather Chicago. San Francisco. Winnipeg. to the analoge or worny progres. P. and O. liner China has been Hosulte, Brisbane. Kalgoorlie, sin thun to the isopodie and Sydney-and these, as you!
may notice, put a girdle rond the f arth. Une (the Ceylon one, per- fectly stranger to me personally)|
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STATIONS;
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There is a very laughable Snob Pollard comedy, "Call for Mr. Caveman," and an interesting review of the news, the whole making a noteworthy programme.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.
STEAMERS FOR SALE.
Anghin Chow Fa. 1046 1790 Manila,
1613 1001 1055 1100
" 1898 1904
Wong Koi. 1777 1115 1896
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Locality.
Boundary Measurements.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
SE Undersigned bave received in- stractions to mall by Public Auction.
MONDAY, February 21, 1921. commencing at II a.m at Yuen Sing Fat Godown, West Point
Y T
P509 Bags No. 2 Saigon Long
White Rice.
PP 198 Bags Saigon Broken
White Rice
(all more or less damaged by sea-water). Terus:-Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers Hongkong, February 19, 1921.
CITY HALLA
THURSDAY,
Terms of sale and fall particolare ST. ANDREW'S HALL, may be ascertained on application to, and permits for inspection will be ista- ed by Messrs. Boustead & fa. Jings, pore; Messrs. Balloch Bros & Co., Ltd. Raccoon: Messre. Mackinnon kenzie & Co, Hoogkng; and the undersigned.
specially assigned to the service With regard to Mr. between Alexandria and Marseilles Holyoak's question and the United Kingdom by arrange instructions received from
THE MINISTRY OF SHIP- whether the recomment with the Egyptian Government PING, LONDON. inendations of the
Offers are invited for the purchase of has pleasevi me most of all. Heuer's jury on the Tai-o murde: Colonel C. W.Davy, C.M.G., Royal
the following Ex-Enemy Seamers:— writes that he looks forward t
Gross Net each batch of Adversaria, and feel case have been carrial out. I can Engineers, has been selected to suc when reading it as if a ja were sure him so far as Tai-o itself is ceed Colonel J. R. Young, as Chief Name of
Tonnage Tonnage Built. concerned that the stable door of Engineer, China Command, and is Steatter
1903 taiking. Isn't that sweet? am the adage has been day locked. expected to arrive about April 24. terribly tempted to be rain about There are now all this: but as my friend Kharasolicemen there. If he has someo
two Eropean Colonel Davy is not
He Hongkong. says, I struggle, struggle, struther out-station in mind, the Royal Engineers in 1887 and was stationed in Hongkong in 1912-14. During the European War, he was of friendship reaching out toward
If the Governmentioned in despatches twice and one from such distant places, from
ment does agree given the CM.G. decoration. Since REGULATIONS. to appoint a con- the war he has commanded the RE people one has never seen. I will!
inittee to revise at Rouen. try to deserve the kind things they : say. I am not nearly as wise as street traffic regulations. I hope it one but a 1 pretend to be, nor half as decent will not be swall
Compared with pre-war times, I hope it will include the cost of ocean travel has risen Sealed tenders should be lodged with a tean as I ought to be: but I love large one. life sufficiently to want to live a couple of pedestrians as well as enormously, the passenger rates in Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co. Calcutta. well, and I love all people and notorists. We who go on shoe-some cases having been trebled. The Offers must be in sterling and a deposit books that help to make it so. leather have as much right to be question has been raised whether equal to Fire per cent of the amount
the luxurious accommodation on tendered must be made with the Cou That produces the fellow feel heard as they who go on rubber. ing of the adage, maybe Ang
What is this honoursome of the first-class liners is reach-pazy'e Agents at the Port of offer.
Tenders will be opened at Calcutta way, cheerio! Let's carry on. HONOUR. they talk about? Ifing such a prohibitive standard that'
Wildon on Rone,
know what an honour. a reversion to a more simple moden TUESDAY. the 29th, March, 1921,
data HELPING OR Finlay on Greece, able man is, but I am thinking of of travel, at less cost, would not be and must be valid for 14 days after that BINIBINI, take opposite views Lord Gray's address at Glasgow, welcomed by a large proportion of
of an influnce that in which, talking of the prevention the travelling public. As showing MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.. "was perhaps to teal intuene at of wars, he said about honour the large increase in fares to the Far 16 Strand Roid,
all.
CALCUTTA How can we, who see how there
East since pre-war days, it may be. no argument." little the same thing really means America in Roosevelt's time took mentioned that the current first-clas
Hongkong, February 19, 1921. in the march of modern political the same line, reserving questions fare to Singapore is £130 compared events, escape the suspicion that it of national honour from arbi- with £60 in 1914, and second-class. was then as much the fly on the tration. Where honour is damaged 94 compared with £40; while to wheel as it is now? To labour if a nation averlooks an insult? Shanghai the current, first-class fare is £150 compared with £65 in 1314, to prove as libbon does, that Surely not all the people of that and the second-class £108 compared Rorae's decline was dor to it, seems nation are affected? In private with £4 to me no more edifying than a life, since we abolished the duel,! superstitim men's explanation a man of honour can remain a man that Certain effects inevitable of humour. even though he no sequels of causes) are due to lack longer guards his honour with I have ung thought, basing the sword or pistol. Why not 13
This week's official Gazette opens thought on the fruits of research nation? As we know quite well, with a long and unnecessary cabled into bunian psychology, that the it wasn't always the more honour message from the new secretary for "Decline and Fali was most fable man who emerged sukcessfully the Colonies, Winston Churchill, who truly compressed in the briefest and from the duel. It seems to me that mentions happily that the King has most comprehensive history ever it is just these punctilios of national gives him the job, assures our Bond, Shenzhai written, namely, the fifteenth verse honour about which there can be Governor of his interest in the for- of the 32nd chapter of Deutero-argument, about which it is most tunes of Hongkong, and asks and nomy...
desirable that there should be argus promises cooperation. Nearly a Now what d'you ment. But Lord Grey is a great hundred words of it, cabled at the HOME- think of it? Half a man, and I only a poor fool taxpayer's expense, O, let us be BUILDING million to the Hum- Maybe I'm wrong in this as in joyiel
LOANS..
ITEMS GAZETTED.
phreys Estate Co.,other matters. All I feel sure of Mr Sverre Berg acts as Norwegian lent for less than they is that in the holy name of honour Consol while Mr A.-S. Sorensen ́is must have paid the Banks, is giving many very dishonourable things are away.
We no longer have a Coroner.
THAT HEADACHY FEELING arising from constipation, liverishness. or bile, gives place to a sense of clear bended freshness and general physical comfort when
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us a few extra fats on terms which done; and the poor people of the Police Sergt. C. Evans is gazetted have already made the people world, who live decently without sanitary inspector for Stanley, instead angry. The Procurator of the exaggerated concern for bonour, of Inspector Derrington. Spanish Missions gets $80,000, are made to suffer for it and pay while reputable private citizens, for it before they go to Heaven Any magistrate may act as such. British burn, who desired to make where virtue is more than honour. Mr J. H Coolhass of the J. C. J. their home here, could not have It seems to me that most of the steamer line has invented and patent. Dénestic OccurrENCSE five. They were men of straw. honour that talks about itself and ed a gadget for releasing life buoys Leading Articles.... was the official explanation; but vaunts itself is mere amour propre fat night lime.
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CONTENTS.
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Plausible Swinde...............15 Not A Murder..... We Ting Fang ******* 16 Debtor's Revenge ....
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6 Legislative Council.
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7-8 Government House
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Unrivalled
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8.
Slavery in Hongkong
18-21
9.
Annual Meeting
-22
Company Meeting
Company Report
Bink Report
.10
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New Solicitor........... Local and General Theatre Royal Smallpox Case. Children's Corner Kwongtung Mines Sailor's Alleged Assault Famine Relief..... Kowloon Marathon Licence Infringed' ........ Drunk and Disorderly Motorists' Meeting....
Save Life!"
we now see that the Government and touchiness. What is there The July Lists are given in this could not pursue its own scheme honourable in killing distant and number. because it had squandered all ite unseen men with high explosives. "The text of the new Vehicles and available fond on rich corporations because some upstart they never Traffic Ordinance, which we promise who could afford to pay the market saw has said or done something in ed to scrutinize, is quite harmless. price of such accommodation. The disrespect of the honour of the up- At any rate, it is nothing like what only individual home builder turne starts, you maintain and perhaps we suspected it might be, and out to be one who wanted a house never see? What, I would ask, is nothing like what some people have
been asking for, Ali's well at Taipo. It seems, then, that "Winston Churchill's honour to a Taipo, like Hongkong, had its man like me? Why, I tell you house famine! I congratulate the frankly, though perhaps only DON'T RISK PNEUMONIA. Archbishop of Canterbury, the proves what a rotter I am, that if GET rid of every cold as quicly as Spanish Procurator, and the Vicar saw it lying on a dunghill, I could possible. It is the forerunner of all Annual Prizegiving : .............. Apostolic, on getting so much pass by happily on my lawful occa develop in a few hours. Take Chamber Correspondence 12 pulmonary trouble, and pneumonis pay Fall from Verandah.12 cheap money; and I invite the bious and drink beer with gusto, lain's Cough Remed It is sime Organ Recitä ...********** bona-fide home builders to console Moreover, may I point out that the thing to do, but the effec is marvellous Kowloon Residents' Associa themselves with a Chinese fat in Government which begs applause For sale by all Chemists, and tre
tions Shaukiwan
by prating of its honour may fail keepers.
Obituary
Aeroplane Smash Disorderly Sallors
11-12 Bungalow Case ******
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