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HONGKONG, MONDAY, DEC. 12, 1921.
CANTON KEEPS SILENCE.
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The Canton Government is par ently intending to let judgment go by default. It has developed an entirely new dislike for controversy. It re mains mute about the affairs of the Kwangtung Tram Company, although its critics do not. It answers none of our questions, which are being put so as to bring out the truth, and (as we hoped) to vindicate it. Very well. We shall be obliged to form our judg ment as best we can, and to tell our readera honestly on what we bare it. They, our readers, will understand how hard the position is for us, will-
WASHINGTON A SUCCESS.
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"CHINA, MAIL" REVIEWS SOME
RECENT SAMPLES,
* His Chinese Idol," by. Carroll P Lunt. John Lane, the Bodley Head Ltd. 227 p.p. 65.
LATE MR E. BOWDLER.
1907.
MEMORIAL REREDOS.
DEDICATED.
GOLF.
K.0.0. v. K.B.G.C.
INTERESTING MER-END MATCH,
ZIP | ZOOM I
ANOTHER HOTEL CRACKER.
Poor, dear. sleepy Hongkong mak At St. John's Cathedral yesterday
feel rather like an elderly bachefor morning the Bishop of Victoria
This was a keenly contested match, noises are lond and continuous, The uncle at a small boy'a party. The dedicated the new teredos which 'has {China Mail SPECIAL.]
been presented by Mrs. Bowdler, in resulting in a win for the C.C. by newspapers keep on banging their toy A tale of foreign society in Peking, hinged on the problem of mixed emory of her late husband, Mr. 4. They won both the Singles and drums, and blowing their tin SHANGHAI, Dec. 12. marriage. The author's work indicates Edward Bowdler, who died here in Foursomes. The former was a com- trumpets, but the hotel people actual Victor Gensburger, sharebroker, the inferences that he is American, has received a telegram from his young, and very conventional. His
Executed in marble and alabaster Paratively easy victory, the finally fire off crackers. Bang That's a father, Henry Gensburger, well-known sentiments towards the Chinese are the reredos is a beautiful piece of scores being 91-6. The B.G.C. gave roof-garden, with jazz and kin ma and everything. Bang! That'd a broker here for many years, that he clearly revealed in the first five work. It extends the full width of their opponents a close run in the cafeteria, with decent lunches for all. has won the first prize in the French chapters, culminating in this assertion; the chancel and is panelled in white foursomes however, and lost by the Bang: That's cold storage and national lottery for a million france" Patriotism, progress, endeavour and and brown marble to the height of narrow margin of 1 point. The cheaper, better provisions. Bang! last June. Gensburger has retired and ambition (other than mercenary) are eight feet. A large white cross with final scores were K.C.C. 44. K.R.G.C. Tuat's a big Kowloon hotel. Hang. has since been residing at Nice. unknown quantities in this land of black ground forms the central
feature above the holy table and 3 Total: K.C.C. 14, K.B.G.C. 10. bang, bang That's deap transport poverty and intrigue." The conver
to Repulo Bay. And now sations between the men in the book niches on either side of the altar
Reader! Get ready. Stick a bit of The contain statues of the Virgin are irritatingly unnatural.
cotton in your ears. It's coming... author's summing up of one character Mary and of St. John, sculptured
BANG! as "the interfering friend" is delight-in pure
marble by Mr. All firms, clubs, etc., who have fully inadequate, seeing that he whole is a delicate and beautiful piece Bertram Peguin, of London. The not yet returned particulara for înger-
impossibly meddlesome tion in the Dollar Directory are re-bounder who would have been kicked of work which harmonizes well with. Overy v. S. Gray... 1 quested to do so immediately to No. out of the house by the hero at once, the stained glass window above which A. W. Avenell v. J. Parkes .. 1 5, Wyndham Street. Particulars of One of his stunts was to cable the depicts the Crucifixion. On the side A. Q. Brawn v. J. W. Leicester 1 new firms etc., will be gladly received hero's mother to come out from home wall, near the reredos is a small in- C. W. M. Reynolda v. F. H.
Crapnell acription as follows
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
for inclusion in the Directory.
4.
One case of diphtheria, Portu- guese, was notified on Friday.
One case of diphtheria, Chinese, was notified on Saturday.
To-morrow morning Messrs. Lam mert Bros. auction 38 bales of straw
board and 388 bundles of rattan.
Eight cases are listed for hearing at the Criminal Sessions which begin at the Supreme Court next Monday,
December 19.
Aquantity of household furniture, a baby grand piano and victrola gramophone will be sold by Messrs Lammert Bros. to-morrow morning.
The partner of a Chinese eating house at No. 94, Shanghai Street, Yaumati, reports that one of his fokis absconded on Saturday with $1,000 belonging to the shop.
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On Friday, December 23, at p.m., there will be a Cinematograph Display for children at the Helena May Institute, open to members of the Institute, their children and friends.
ад
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to prevent bim marrying "hie Chinese to telling the tale (with far too many idol." The Englishman supposed to
digressions that in no way help) is Prepared to drink port, '94 port, at any hour of the day. He is a reckless lusher. He had three glasses before going for his morning ride. It was plensaut ride. "I chatted gaily," he says, "about trivial, nonsensical, yet pleasant matters, and my companion This rather surprised me, for she is was pleased to fall in with my mo d. young lady inclined to take too serious a view of things and is more prone to discussions on psychology, astronomy, human destiny, religion, and such-like matters that bore me to insensibility." It is easily possible
to take his word for that.
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"The Crystal Coffin," by Maurice London: A. M. Philpot Rostand. Ltd. 250 p.p. 6a.
This is the fourth volume of transla-
white
"The detailed scores follow:
SINGLES.
B. D. Evans v. L. Ray.
J. Hyde v. H. F. Stoneham.. 1
To the Glory of God and in loving. W. E. Davidson v. G. ́
E. J. Edwards v. N. McKay, 0
memory of Edward Bowdler, who died October 4th, 1907.
This reredos has been erected by
his widow.
O
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0
1
1
In the course of at address, the P. Heathcots v. T.F. Sherman 0 J. McMurtrie v. F. Evelyn... 0 Bishop of Victoria recalled the ser-
The Hongkong Hotel Company met to-day and decided to buy the Peak Hotel..
The price" was satisfactory to both sides." That is all we are allowed to- tell you about that.
They take possession on New Year Day--three weeks hence—and take in hand at once its reconstruction and Oreorganization, with a view to making
it up-to-date in every respect;
That will be nice.
Woodger
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V. C. Labrum v. M. Hull.... 1 H. W. Page v, C. B. Riggs... 0
1
0
1
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0
1
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y. W. J.
0
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1
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91
vices to the public of the late Mr. J.T. Kynoch v. D. J. Brown Bowdler, who came to the Colony in A. W. Muir v. F. E. Lawrence 1 1874 and held the office of Assistant C. Bond v. R. Hall
R. E. Nicholls Surveyor General. He died in 1907 Edwards'. and his mortal remains lay in Happy R. E. Nicholls v. W. J. Valley. For him architecture had a message; he knew the Continent and
the Far East, was that it might be beautified and take a worthy place amongst the Cathedrals of the East. It was, therefo e, especially fitting that a reredos should be erected to his memory by his widow who still lived in Hongkong.
his desire for the mother-Cathedral of i
After explaining the meaning and
tions of modern French works, being message of the reredos, the Bishop We think to-day of published under the general title of
continued:
lives of many made better by his kindness aid his ministry of healing. the His monument, too, is in
Anatomical School of the University. The Bishop also referred to the death of Mrs. Britton, wife of Mr. F. A. Britton, master of St. Stephen's College. Hera was a spirit the said) that rejoiced in the beautiful in music, in art in whatsoever things were lovely and of good report.
Lea Flours de France. The author another who built well for Hongkong The wedding of Miss Mary Cox to is the son of Edmond Rostand,Gregory Paul Jordan, doctor of medicine. His monument is in the Mr. A. B. Stewart, arranged to take author of "Cyrano de Bergerac" and place on 15th instant at St. Jobn's Chanticler" etc., which the editor Cathedral at 2.30 p.m., has been post-in a gushing introduction calls a
handicap. poned to Saturday, 17th instant.
But Edmond's is not really a great name in literature, merely a vogue, and if Maurice can not do better than this in the story telling line, his father's reputation likely to be more of a help than a hindrance. As position it is immensely more skilful than the tale reviewed above, but as a story it is inferior. It would "bore to insensibility" the other author, and that the reviewer retains his consciousness must be due to a hardy constitution and a certain habituation in such matters.
To-morrow morning Messrs. Hughes and Hough auction a quantity of furniture, a baby grand piano, glass ware, electric lamps, marble statuettes, fancy goods, rugs and blankets.
The second meeting of the Executive Committe for the reception
is
2 CON-
It is a sort of autobiography of a morbid egotist who commits
1.
Edwards
FOURSOMES.
B. D. Evans and J. Hyde v.
K.C.D.
When the new motor road to the Peak is ready-not a white elephant, after all, you set-they are going to run us up in motor coaches, and the archaic old Peak Trams will get no more thirtytents from some of us.
But the best bang of all, for Peal: dwellers, is this. They are going to have cold storage up there, and sell ice and provisions, and the stuff will
6 not go bad on the way up, as it does sometimes, and the long long, trail awinding to market need be trodden
K.B.G.C.
no more.
Say! Let's get up a sweepstake,
and try to guess what Mr. Taggart will do next. We said try, mind you.
HISTORIC GOLE PICTURE.
L. Ray and H. F. Stoneham 0
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H.
Overy and A. W. Avenell
v. S. Gray and J. Parken.. 1
0
A.
O. Brawn and C. W. M
Reynolds v. J. W. Leicester
and FH: Crapnell
1
0
·' HONGKONG CLUB'S GOOD
FORTUNE.
E.
J. Edwards and A. W. E.
1
Davidson v. N. McKay and G. Woodger... H. W. Fage and V. C. Labrum
C. B. Riggs and M. Hull... 0 J, McMurtrie and P. Heath- cote v. F. Evelyn and T. F. Shermen
J. H. Kynoch and A. W. Muir
v. D. J. Brown and T. E. Lawrence...
C. Bond and R. E. Nicholls v.
R. Hall and W. J. Edwards
Total..
.0
41
The volume is included in Mesara. John Long Ltd's latest batch of cheap fiction which, for people with Total: K.C.C., 14; K,B.G:C., 10.
a digestion sufficiently ostrich-like to enable them to assimilate titbits like the one quoted above will be
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A beautiful reproduction of the·· ▸ painting, "The First National Four- some-England v. Scotland" by Allan Stewart, has been presented to the Royal Hongkong Golf Club by a member. The picture has been placed in the Club bouse at Fanling. The following is a history of its subject:— While the Duke of York, afterwords 1 James II was in residence at Holyrood, a discussion arose between him and tv o English noblemen of his suite as to whether Golf had not been 33 played as long in England as in Scot- land. Jame championed the claims of Scotland and quoted Acts of the Scottish Parliament of 1457 with re-
ference to the game. Similar evidence of antiquity not being forthcoming
of the Prince of Wale under the him, as royal Charles said of his own The Painted Lily" is all about RATTAN FOR RASCALITY decide by playing a game on Leith
chairmanship Sir William Rees. Davies, takes place at the Supreme Court to-morrow afternoon.
WES
It is of Octave Mirbeau:
imitation A Chinese woman, aged 25 years,
difficult to gather what on Saturday removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from
"the other England" is from injuries received through a fall from
apostrophical references the second floor verandab of No. 200, to Keats, Swinburne, and company, Reclamation Street, a drop of some but it is apparently for a few frag
hia
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DOCKYARD THEFTS.
*
it
Links for stakes. James selected
as his partner for Scotland, the best
golfer of his day and the descendant
CHISEL BRINGS JAIL.
SEQUEL TO EARLY MORNING ARREST.
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dying, that he was a tediously long Bermudan girl who had what the time about it. About the most authoress (Amy J. Baker) euphemises intelligible passage to quote (and not into "an Ethiopion whisper in her Twe Chinese who had been drink- unflattering to the rest) will be a bit lovely face.". After her marriage with
of a long line of golfers, named John ing quarrelled. They fought in the about his visit to Oxford:
a young man who stands next street, and went back into the house, "For there are two Englands: one on
A Chinese youth was charged be- Paterson, a shoemaker in Edinburgh." the list for baronetoy fore Magistrate Lindsell this morning The game resulted in a win for James is up-to date enough to have a court where one hit the other with a chop of them is strong, powerful, imit transpires that there is leprosy with the larceny of some gun metal and the cobbler. The stakes were of appeal-but that interests the per, on the 'ead, 'ard. Mr. Wood this perialistic, careless of intellect and as well as coloured blood in from the Naval Dockyard at Kow-handed to Paterson, with which he China Mail less than the fact that morning thought a months' hard rotten with cant; that England I hate. her mother's family and, clearing loon.
built a house in the Canongate such extraordinary ideas of justice labour would help him to learn self- It is not very much superior to other away to New York, she becomes a can possibly exist. We have not yet control.
Defendant said that he was told by Edinburgh-still standing and known nations. It has invented wars and world famous film actress. She winds a man named Lam Chin to steal the as the Golfers' land. He placed learned whether the legal luminary or
inferior writers; it drove out Byron up by joining a sisterhood devoted to metal.
tablet an the front of t bearing the luminaries who imposed those pen- Major-General William Crozier and failed to understand Shelley; it sick nursing among the leper islands
Magistrate: If he told you to Paterson armas with the crest of a alties for an accident were mandarins and Mrs. Crozier who have been has been ruled by Queen Victoris and of the South Sea. It is an unwhole throw yourself into the harbour, hand holding a golf club, and the of the old school or returned law visiting the different parts of China Rudyard Kipling, and has flooded the some sort of story weakly handled. and one wonders if graduation from a to Canton, General Crozier is one of novels which appear to be a proof of Arnold, is-but not very much. The students. The latter is more likely, on a world tour are now paying a visit world with that multitude of popular
would you do it ?-He struck me and motto "Far and Sure." "The Something Better," by Lilian forced me to do it. law school means all it should mean, the best known men in the United fecundity, and are merely the proof chief characters in an insipid tale are was worth $20. There was nothing Inspector Aris said that the metal And we had begun to talk of the States Army, having held the import of terrifying ability to produce bad thres poets who trail around in the known abolition of extra-territoriality! We ant post of Chief Ordinance Depart- literature by the yard."
about the defendant; wee Loping that the saviours of the ment, during the late World War.
wake of a young Swedish singer. but ho asked that an example That is fairly cool, in what appears None of the trio marries the girl, after be made. Chinese Republic were to be found at
of him BB these Canton. If we now begin to doubt,
to the reviewer a conceited and poor all, but this is how one of them, by thefts were becoming very serious. wooing and winning the singer's A common system was for cne youth It is not that we will to suspect, but
Arrested early in the morning by because suspicion is forced upon us.
duenna, finds the "something better" working in the yard to pass the metal Detective Sergeant who found » "Even as he stumbled forward she over the wall to another. In this combination of a chisel and augur in opened her arms. They might have case defendant was the boy on the his breast pocket a Chinese asserted been wings and he a tired chick outside of the wall and a that he had just arrived from Canton creeping to its rest.. 1" caught with the "goods." The other by the "Hoisang" and was proceeding 20 feet. She was leaning out of the ments of its poetry that he feels able Yarrow, a bulldog who finds his boy was also arrested, but as there to the Taumati Ferry wharf. After the Washington Conference in the verandah to take in some clothing to love it.
way into Curtis Yorke's "The was nothing to connect him with the hearing the evidence on Saturday preliminary arrangements for it, in which had been hung out on a bamboo It should be mentioned that this is Woman Ruth", "might have done big metal found in the defendant's posses: Magistrate Lindsell agreed with Air. the methods by which it was conduct pole to dry when she overbalanced a tearful book, There are tours in things if he had been bom a St.sion be had to be discharged. We are informed, for instance, that ed, and in the outcome of it so fat as and fell. Her condition is considered every other paragraph. Maurice slops Bernard. Finding the heroine adrift when one of this Tram Company's the results have been revealed to us, serious.
over at the slightest provocation. The, in the streets at midnight be taken a bases unfortunately went astray, as The old diplomacy is not yet dead,
reader should arm himself with a firm grip of her skirt with his teeth motor buses have done all over the It dies hard, The old fetish of
spare handkerchief.. If he (or she) be and drags hier home. Of one of the world, when it crashed into a shop" balance of power" still possesses the
sensitive, sympathetic, a bathponge people who befriend her there we are window, killing one man and injuring minds of the diplomata as the devila
will be found useful. A reader vory told that "her features were rugged some others, there was anything but possessed the Gadarene swine, and
impressionable · had botter bring a and not uncomely; her eyes like a fair trial. If our information be still drives them
bucket. A to the same
angry boot buttons". Ruth has a BOY'S LEG HURT. correct, the Company, assuming the dangerous steep place. But to what
John Long's Cheap Novels From vicissitudinous career and finally the fault established against it, was liable good end? Half a loaf sometimes
A batch of John Long's, including authorleaves her most unsatisfactorily auder a municipal ordinance or by really is better than no bread, and we Hotel Garage reports to the police China Mail picks the following "according to her lights, she The manager of the Hongkong | Nat Gould and . E. Francis, the in the air sta point where law to a fine of some hundreds of are truly thankful that, asking for that about 3.30 p.m., on Saturday, he "Boing lost is bad, but being lost had kept her conscience clean, dollars. This ordinance or by law bread, we have not been offered the was driving motor car No. 444, in in a cotton kimono and a calico and in front of her loomed the out shooting in Shatan, in the New bring the chisel with him and he did was ignored. The driver of the bus usual stone. One big thing about Connaught Road Central, when near nightgown with a crochet yoke is days, the months, and the years, to Territories yesterday, one of them in not know its prosence in his suitcase and the conductor, were sent to prizon this new treaty that replaces the the Licheng wharf a 14 year old very bad." And having to read come for four years! The Company was Anglo-Japanese treaty is that it Chinese boy, belonging to one about it in a book like The Fainted A wartime story by Alice and
to bring down a bird until it was found by the detective. made to make muletuary paymento nullifies the wicked efforts of the of the junke moored alongside Lily" is very much worse. *.
perched
low however, subject to the success of hi
***** on The purchase of the dozen augurs WAS, totalling seven thousand dollars devils who were egging America and the praya wall, came out of the public
Claude Askew, called "The Tocsin a bush, kit
farmer, The passengers in the bus, at least as Japan to war. We take it that this latine in the centre of the road and
tells the tale of an old man's re-work on his paddy field on the other obtaining enough money from his responsible as the unfortunate fare prospect, which was looming up as a crossed in front of the car. When he
- A GERM DESTROYER: @ nunciation. When the crucial aide of the hedge. The man, who younger brother who was employed collector, were for some reason or cloud anuch bigger than a man's hand, noticed the ear, he attempted to run
HERE is no cangor whatever frem moment arrived the gulped down a was wounded in the leg, was at once in a preserved fruit shop in Pray
look jaw or blood poison, resulting eight years of imprisonment mention need fear no lnterruption of the the brakes could be applied, the off Palinoptie Braduation Paris which Bing Angots into Keith's cold hand. upon and the shots extracted. He is satisfied with defendant's story and second later as he 'alld Dora's trem- Uvil Hospital where he was operated The magistrate said he was not Balm is promptly applied. It le un ed and the $7000 fines and compen-wodd's big task of settling down to wheels of the car ran over his Idg cause these diseno Is also causes Youth to youth, he whispered, not in any danger of losing his limb. sentenced him to three month's hard sations, the Company was compelled devise and establish a modus viven The car stopped and removed the words to be lithout misturation youth to youth.
Let us hope the Shatau blide will about. Defendant had been pre to suspend operation or cne week! di that will make progress in the injured boy to the Government Civil and in one bird the time required It is now appealing-it serius Canton arts of peace possible.
Whereupon the OM, reviewer went | be more accommodating, and perchriously convicted for theft, and Hospital.
happily to alcap.
higher up.
banished for five yesra.
ing to help these people who need halp and refuse to be helped.
MOTOR ACCIDENT.
Ten strokes of the rattan.
LOCAL SPORTSMEN
ANNOYED
FARMER GETS BETWEEN BIRD AND SHOT.
F. X. d'Almado, solicitor for the defence, that the circumstances of defendant's arrest did not suggest unlawful intent as defendant was apprehended in the middle of the road. However, ho considered the evidence sufficient to require an explanation.
Defendant said he was accountant in a furniture shop in Canton and had come down to Hongkong to buy a dozen augurs of the same pattern as the ona he had brought down as » While a party of Portuguese were sample. It was not his intention to
other overlooked. In addition to the is thus dissipated; and that now we back. He slipped and fell, and before from a wound wheti thamberlain's Fairy Bob but his old face lit up a removed by launch to the Government East. NO NAM
the
Ohemplate and Starekespots.