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matter.The China, Hail takes that bit of criticism and informs the critic |that our Law Courts building is
placed on a crepidoma. There!
mention
SPECIAL CABLE.
SHANGHA MOTAR SHOW.
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POSTER.
A MOST UNFORTUNATE MISAPPRÉHENSION
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
BIG VOTIS FOR PLAYA EAST 'AND NEW QUARTERS.
KON, MR. POLLOCK'S CHILD LABOUR
QUESTION.
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THUR DAY, NOVEMBER
The Committee ananimetaly agreed
to recommend that clanes T, 8, 9,
197
FINANCIAL MINUTES.
Std 10 of the bill should be omitted, HAPPY VALLEY QUARTERS $20,000. and that the three draft clauses znő- |-*
follows:-
Additional quarters at
Happy Valley (12 houses), $20,000- Miscellaneous:
mitted by the Attorney Generat The following two votes recom- should be inserted in the bill. The mended by H. B. the Governor were BUILDING SITES AND PLANS three clauses in question are as considered by the Finance Committee. $27,000 in aid of the following 7. Notwithstanding anything can votes tained in the principal Ordinance or Public Works; extraordinary. Hong- in the Ordinance, any bona fide notice Song, buildings to quit duly given by a lessor to a(7) Votes of $20,000 for twelve addi-Jesses in reliance on the provisions of tional houses to the Government paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of for Praya East reclamation work wers as amended by section 2 of this Ordin-Reconstruction of kitchen quarters at Happy Valley and $27,465 section 4 of the principal Ordinance,
afternoon's by this
ance, or in reliance on such provisions meeting of the Legislative Council, and on the provisions of zestion 8 of this which ako passed the
second Ordinance, and given in accordance and third readings of bills with the provisions of the said par amending the Widows and Orphans agraph, so amended, shall operate 30 $2,000 in aid of the following votes:— Pensions, the Legal Practitioners and as to bind all sub-lessees deriving title Governor, other charges- the Rents
Ordinances also the directly or indirectly from the lessee Furniture,. Mercantile Bank and the St. Joseph's to whom such notice shall have been Incidental expenses,. College Bills.
considered
MR. POLLOCKS. QUESTIONS.
given.
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8. If the owner of chy domestic tenement agrees to sell such ekumestic:
(26) Central Police Station :—
sad bath-room block.... 7,000
Total.
Total,
$27,000,
.$ 1,000.00 1,000.00
-$2,000,00
However, if that is not sufficiently crushing, here is another argument, GREIT SUCCESS PROMISED. furnished by this critic himself which should bury him deeply as under
[China Mail SPERIAL] serepidoms. We have occasionally listened more or less tolerantly to the
SHANGHAI, NOT. 3. zonsensical jargon that musical crities
The automobile show promises to talk. So long as they keep on picking be a great success. Exibiters meet compositions and composers to pieces, on Saturday for a dress rehearsal. saying tha: Wagner Jacks that delicate The opening takes place on November and tender furios that is essential to 26. The floor of the main building the Weltschmers, and that the cup occupies fully 65,000 square feet. secutive seventha in Chopin's 47th opus betray a touch of that bronto- saurian heaviness of rallentando which always offends the nuances of true musical apperceptions, and all that sort of thing, they retain a chance of being more or less impressive, especial- ly if their auditors know nothing about it. But if they go further, if they let out what they do enjoy, if they
The management of the China fail that the exoteric quintessence of desires to state that it is resed, and musical simpatico is evoked for them sad, and hart, and wounded in its
The Hon. Mr. Pollock gave notice by that charming bravura gem called tenderest feelings, by the discovery Tipi addy, you've got them. They that the "poster" for last evening's that he would pat the following ques-to are down and out. They have fallen issue should have been so grievously tions at the next meeting of the tenement to such an extent as from their crepidama, and you know misapprehended by certain persons. Council:
to make such domestic tenement s then for what they are, wretched It can only conclude that such per-
1. When does the Goverment new building within the meaning of Beotians posing as Athenians,
sons are so addicted to the vice of intend to publish the report of the the Public Health and Buildings (Or- ignorant beasts who should be dumb bad language themselves that they Committee appointed by his Excal-dinance, 1903, and if such owner ALLEGED SNATCHER CAUGHT. in company. Well, this this font are to ready to enspect it in others. leney the Governor for the purpose agrees with such purchaser to give sapetser of Hongkong's architecture Crying up our own wates, as is of considering what measures can best the necessary notices to quit, any Ltd. has given himselt away by telling us
the phasing modern custom in the be taken
Charged before Magistrato Lincisell potice to quit given by sich owner in what building he does approve and trade journalism,
our poster does like. Saps he:
(i) to facilitate the prompt acqui-pursuance of such agreement shall this morning with having snatched a artist desired last evening to sition by applicants of sites which enure for the benefit of such pur- Queen's Road Central on Monday, s handbag from a young lady in The building, par excellence,
distinctively good they require:-
chaser as if such purchaser had been from an arstic point of view, is leader." If you measure the size of
(ii) To facilitate the prompt pass-the owner at the time when such Chinese youth pleaded not guilty,
Miss Lena Cbos said that about the Headquarters of the French the letters, and cou.t them, you will ing of building plans.
notice to quit was given and had Mission, near St. John's Cathedral. find the such a line could not be got
2. What measures does the Govern- given such notice to quit provided on on Monday she was coming out which mark it off at once from the got over the difficulty by shortening of carrying out the recommendations relieve such owner from the obligation fendant came up from behind and It possesses a dignity and restraint on the sises. One resourceful printers ment propose to take for the purpose that nothing in this section shall of the Kwong fai Loang shop in Queen's Road Central when the de- other structures of the Colony. it to "a d
good leader," as made in the Report of the Comto atate in writing at the time of giving snatched her leather handbag with This is the building we once suming, as we think they had every mission en child labour?
such notice to quit whether such both hands, then making off. She wrote about as an edifice of red right to do, that our intelligent publie brick with brazen gadgets.
would be able to imagine correctly the missing letters, "istinctively." It
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MARDEN-On October 25, 1921, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marden, a 890. PEREIRA-On October 26, 1921,
By
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
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THE ATTENDANCE.
Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C., C.R.E. (Attorney-General).
tenement to a purchaser who bona -5ZE3165 on account of Public Works,“ down such domestic tatement or Restation Scheme. fide intends forthwith to dif tiny, Hưngkong, Praya Fast
reconstruct
rach domestic
STREET CHASE.
purchaser intends to pull down snch domestic tenement or to reconstruct Zetland Street into Onlan Street and at once gave chase. Accused ran up such domestic tenement, and in the
then up Wyndham Street. The latter case to state the exact nature
ham Street, but an Indian gentle-
Reginald Edward Stabbe, KCMG) provided also that notwithstanding man took up the chase and caught His Excellency the Governor (Sir of the reconstruction intended, and witness stumbled and fell in Wynd- II.F. the General Officer Command-anything in this section the lessee, the accused in Wellington Street. The ing the Troops Leat.-General Sir G. shall have in addition to any remedies bag, which was not fouad, must have 1. Kirkpatrick, K.C.B., E.C.S.I.) which he may have against such Hon. Dr. Claud Severn, CALG., owner, such remedies against par
been passed on to a confederate. (Colonial Secretary).
chaser as he would have had if such Mr. Chizsembboy, of Tyeb and Co.,
said he notice to quit had been given by ham Street when Miss Choa-
Was walking in Wynd- such purchaser.
called out to him to catch the accused. 9. If the lessee of any domesitie He chased and caught him in Welling- tenement is adjudged bankrupt nei- ton Streef. ther the said lessee nor his trustee in bankruptcy shall be entitled to claim any right or benefit under section 4 Monday. He said he was playing of the principal Ordinance in respectcatch" with a friend in Wellington of the said domestic tenement by Street when Mr. Curceabhoy caught virtue of the tenancy, whether cor his.
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Hon. Mr. C. Mol. Messer, O.B.F. (Colonial Treasurer).
Hon. Mr. E. A living (Director of Education).
Hon. Bir. T. L. Perkins (Director of Public Works).
| crepidonia) with wide open space seems that confidence wa misplaced. Those present were
around it, it has a better chance than Quite a disappointingly large number moet of our buildings have to look of people thought of a vulgarer word, well: Even so, conceding it that big
a word which we should hesitate to start, we laugh at the hyena's idea of use on any bat the most painful or its "dignity and restraint. Restraint exasperating occasions. We pope of what? Il a confectioner's birthday this will be a lesson to them, in future cake of pink sugar with icing, but not to jump to conclusions, especially with the candles left off, be a 16 when the conclusion seems to reflect strained" work of art, this edifice unfavourably upon the good taste and may be. In sunshine or in shade it is the dignity of respectable people, | rococo, it is garish, it is a noisy discord |·
in the quiet harmonies of our hyena- despised. but artistic architecture. Now, that we know what the hyena admires and likes and wants,
need pay no more attentioned to his criticisms. They simply do not count. They are laughed out. We are glad, we are really happy and proud and pleased that we have achieved this result in defence of our! architectural honour and reputation Among the passengers arriving without having to reproach ourselves here to-day by the C. P. S. Empress with having been uncivil or unkind. of Asia" was Lient. Comdr W. G. As we said before, this is no personal Gray, merit of ours, but just good joss. So this hyena is defeated, but we, trust his feelings have not been hurt. Hongkong's architectural reputation is saved, and we can afford to let bygones be bygones.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A clean bill of health was return- for the Colony yesterday.
the!
-Women as waitresses in Canton tea houses and restauratis have proved a popular innovation.
In hospital is a man with a cut on the left side of his face, in- ficted, it is alleged, by custody.
a man now in
The fint St. Andrew's
Icel!
practice will take place, it is announce ed, on Tuesday, November 8, at 5 previously notified. p.m., not Friday, November 11, as
Hon. Mr. S. B. C. Ross (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock K.C. Kon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak. Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen. Hon. Mr. Lan Chu-pal.
Hon. Mr. Io Fook. Hon. Mr. II. W. Bird. Mr. S. B. B. McElderry (Clark of Councils).
HAWKERS LICENCES.
NEW REGULATIONS.
tractual or statutory, under which
The accused denied snatching the bag or ever being in Queen's Road on
The Magistrate remanded the case the said lessee held immediately until to-morrow for the accused to call before the making of the adjudication his friend whom he said worked in a order.
honse ia Barker Road. The accused. said he worked on the Peak as a cook's Essistant and had come down in the same from, with his friend to hay provisions.
KINEMA NOTES.
PICTURE WITH A BRILLIANT
CAST.
KENTS ORDINANCE.
Moving the second reading of the Rents Ordinance Amendment Bil the Attorney General said it would be seen from the
of report
the standing law committee that they had recommend. New regulations relating to hawkers ed the omission of clauses 7, 8, 9 and and their licences were tabled, 10 and that three new clauses be Hawkers have now been divided into inserted. The chief reason for the two classes-stallbolders and itiner omission of these clarses was that it
A fascinating story of a young ant vendors. The former pay an was desirable in an Ordinance of this cuntry gul's adventures in westem annual licence fee of $24. The fees temporary character to avoid making logging camps and great eastern cities 'Her Kingdom of Dreams," the A Chinese who accidently
for the latter vary according to form any amendments other than those striking Funt National attraction now into the harbour from the Praya Fawkers are not permitted to use
which were absolutely necessary. showing at the Coronet Theatre. opposite the L BE. coal yard at or utter cries or make other noises for General indicated, provided cera stronger or more expensive cast. Clauses 7, 8 and 9, the Attorney Rarely has there been a picture with Kowloon, yesterday, was removed to the purpores of buying or selling their tain the Kwong Wah Hospital.
additional safeguards for The list of fameus kinema cames goods or of attracting attention to tenants, and sub-tenants which it billed alone places this picture among their trade or wares in certain roads, had now been decided were not the most noteworthy productions of call him something that will indicate could not go as Prince of Wales with-in King's Park yesterday, an unknown Kowloon districte. No person may was rather intended in the interests beloved by Coronet patrons for her Hanging by the neck from a true streets and areas in the city, hill and absolutely necessary. Clause 10 the year. First there is Anita Stewart our disapproval, we will rofer out going to Peking. But there is no Chinese woman, aged about 65 years, hawk any wares between the hours of of the landlords but as they had wonderful work in "Mind the Paint the confirmation of the rumour. says was cut down and removed to the 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. without the per- appeared to object somewhat to the Girl" and "Old Kentucky." Next pudiatly unwarranted aspersions on unlikely that there can be any truthation had failed to revive her. our local architecture. This anony in it.
ons hyena (we would refer to im
high to permit it to call even des... picable critics bad names. The China feil daims no credit forthis restraint. If it have better manners than this anonymous detractor of our architec ture, to lim be the glory; and the at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. M.horour, and the praise, not to us. R. Pereira, a son.
We will not permit ourselves to affix to this libellous critic any offensive epithet whatever, but since we must Dake of Comwall. Of course, he
DELTHS
HEWETT --On October 24, 1921, at
North Shields, England, Mr. W
Customs, aged 65.
to him hereinafter 88
Mr. Charles Neville Crosse, MA, barrister of the Inner. Temple, died at Kobe last week from a stroke of paralysis. He was GO0 years of age,
A wild rumeur was current in Shanghai last week that the Prince of Wales would go there and land as
#fell
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of licence and the district.
J. Hewett. late of the Chines artistic hyena who has published im- N. C. D. News, and it seems most public mortuary after artificial respir-mission of the Captain Superintendent three clauses referred to they could comes Kathlyn Williams, heroine of
MARDEN-On October 20, 1921, at Shanghai. the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marden.
Manuel
CASTRU.-On October 26, 1921, at
Shanghai Filomeno Castro, aged 45 years.
The China Mail.
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Borexana, Taumway, Nov. 3 1821
HONGKONG ARCHITECTURE
A boatman, aged about 41 years, without the lightest trace of Advices received in railway ad- was yesterday admitted to the Gov- acrimony) uses technical expressious ministration circles étate in a way that suggests he has been some of the troops of the First a stab wound in the head alleged to that ernment Civil Hospital suffering from inside an architect's office, or read Division, commanded by General Hao have been inflicted in the course of books on architecture; and if we did Keng, mutinied at Changsha on street fight with an unknown man, not, on principle, resolutely set our October 15, demanding an issue of The injury is not serious. face against such practices as the pay. The merchants and population unreasonable imputation of motives, of Changsha are said to have suffered and against rude personalities, we considerable losses. No confirmation of could have pointed out that he this report, however, has been received. exposes himself to the muspicion that
he is some would-be architect who is News has been received by cable. not getting all the clients he of the death of Mr. W. J. Hewett, wants. This might not be fair to the very popular member of the Chinese aesthetic byena who so uppishly Maritime Customs Service, who retire | asserts that we as a community have ed last year. Mr. Hewett joined the
of Folice,
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not very well ask for the insertion the powerful "Whispering Chorus " of clause 10. That left the here a week ago. Then Daddy Long- BILLS BECOME LAW.
Bill with clauses 2 and 3 which made lege" himself appears, in different certain minor amendments, clause
guise of course, in the person The Bill amending the Widows and which gave power to transfer plaints of Mahlon Hamilton. The other Orphans Pension Ordinances was from summary to original jurisdic ion, stars in Her Kingdom of Dresins" considered clause by clause in com clause 5 which rande it an offence are all well known to Coronet patrons mittee, and passed, with a minor to issue distraint on a rent inAnna Q. Nillson for her fine part in alteration suggested by the Attorney excess of the atandard rent River's End Thomas Jefferson for Captain Wavell has recovered General. The Bill to amend the clause 6 of which made it from his recent, illness and resumed La.al Practitioners' Ordinance was offence to do any act mala fide Barry as the mischievous small bor bis famous Rip Van Winkle; Wesley charge of the as. "Sünning." He passed through all stages as it stood. to attempt to induce a tenant to give inDon't Ever Marry" Robert took over from Captain Harris Walker
tp possession, and the three additional McKim for a dozen or more leading this morning: Captain J.S. Thomson,
clauses recommended by the Standing parts; Thomas Santschi as the cap who recently returned from leave, has
Law Committee. These were justified in in When Man Sees Red;" gone master of the as. "Haiching."
en public groands and apart from Frank Currier for leading work in conflicting interests of landlords and the Metro pictures so popular Armistice Day, as in, preceding
at the Coronet last year; and The Bill was passed as amended. Tally Mamball ^as the premier The Marcantile Bank Note Isque character in The Crimson Gardenia.!!
BENTS AMENDMENT.
LAW COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
The Hon. Colonial Secretary tabled
tenants.
ADJOURNMENT.
Nothing can be said here of the elaborate interior settings, the beauti- ful logging camp scenics, and the appealing sentiment of the story. For fullest enjoyment they must be witnessed as an artistic whole.
no taste, no time for Beauty. It may service in 1882 and so valuable was years, will be marked by a special That the style of Hongkong's be that the whole subject of Hong- the work. he accomplished at the function in the Shanghai Club. the report of proceedings of the architecture is "appalling" at the kong's architecture is one of those various ports to which he was succes. It is hoped to obtain the services of Standing Law Committee which mer Bill and the Bill for the incorporation A cast so consistently brilliant is postulate advanced in a special article questions of taste which are not really sively posted that promotion came bugiers from HMS.Hawkins" at on October 28 to consider the Rents of St. Joseph's College, which were unique in moving picture annals. an. yesterday morning's Day Press. debatable. As the hyena says him rapidly and at the time of his retire maid-day, and if so the Last Post will Amendment Bill. Those present were introduced by the Hon. Mr. Pollock And yet the cast is only one of the The writer of the criticism finds the self, perhaps the Hongkong architects ment he held the rank of Chief be sounded at 12-15. Members, and the Attorney-General, (the Hon. Mr at the last meeting of the, Council, things that make, this picture great. enserable of our buildings "ugly and admire the style which obtains here: Tidesurveyor. Mount Hewett, near their friends, it is expected, will take J. H. Kemp, KO, C.B.E.), the were passed. commonplace and says they sugif so, there is little more to be Hongkong, in lat. 22 deg. 41 min. N. part in large numbers.
Colonial Treasurer (the Hon. M. 0. gest (premijably in ear architects) said" They do; we do; he doesn't and long. 114 deg. 48 min. E, was
Mel. Mesaar, O.B.E.); the Hon. Mr. poverty of pirit and outlook." That would be a position beyond named after him in appreciation of Construction work on a modern II. E. Pollock, K., and the Hon. Many of one buildings, says he, are which the most keen controversialist services rendered during a survey highway between Waichow, Kwang- Mr. Lau Chu-pak. both ** ugly and valgar." He suggests would find it hard to go. But made by HMS."Waterwitch" in tang, and Changckow, Fakien, is be- The Committee also considered that maybe we as a propie sis so rich in the case of this offensive yahoo 19.7 sud further recognition of his ing carried out by the Canton Public certain suggestions forwarded by the His Excellency suggested adjourn and flourishing that we have so time whom for the sake of courtesy we work was shown by the award of the Roads Bureau. The section of the road Hongkong Law Society to the Attoming until next Thursday but the Hor to think of Beauty. Let us hasten have agreed to call the byens we Button of the Fifth Class in 1911 and from Chok Yun Kok to Chung Tang ey General ander cover of letter dated Mr. Pollock painted out that the un at once to state that the China Mail canno leave it there. He says our the Order of the Chin Ho, Fifth Village has been completed, After October 27, 1921, certain criticisms oficial members lad not yet had an does not agree with any one thing Law Courts "should have been placed Class, in 1917. During late years Mr. the final harvest, the Barcan is expec-put forward on behalf of the landlords, opportunity of meeting to discuss the and by this id. But on. The on's crepidoma The China Mail, Hewett's health became very poored to employ more workers on a suggestion to provide for the case of Badget Bill. Hon. Mr. Follock's sug. Ching "Mául does not believe in having been blessed by Providence and it was in the hope of recovering this work. Its reported the whole bankruptcy, and three additional draft gestion tlist an anjoudrost should se language. It leaves that with a mattering of erudition, would that he retired from the service and road will probably be finished in a clauses submitted by the Attorney be made antil Monday November 14 49 others: Its principles are too prefer to spell it with at; but no went Home.
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