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ADVERSARIA.
AKOTAKA BOOST,
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I think of the good ones I haven't hal time to read yet, I'm inclined
THE CHINA MAIL.
in
VELSES FROM
JUNK.
BATURDAY, MAY 6, 1922.
3
KOWLOON MATTERS.
HOSPITAL AND CEMETERY
SITES.
The Committee of the Kowloom- Residents Association held is uai monthly meeting on Monday last.
off my shoulders. Here is what anything I ever -bound July 1, and called Leap Year Day, suggest that Mr. Chan, Ham, of the he has Lecently said;
book. Lord
will also legal holiday. Each seventh Sincere Company, would make- "If you don't understand this not thank me for saying that his New Year Day and Leap Year Day most excellent member. God's plenty in Dickens, this heaping paper Las jumped forward a lot but is to be observed as a Sunday,- * to
It isn't jannick to junk up of meat and drink upon the tender it is rue all the same that it bad preserve ore rebeath of time as
JUNKINO, your junk in a junk. charities of bife, why them you almost gotten into ant-as we are all bọt kered." So Good Friday will always
What I mean to say is certainly have no taste for Aristo- to do. It is a should be the dominat be March 17 and Easter March 14
in a manner of speaking, phanes, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Swift, ing fear of the conscientions journalist. Quarter days would be Mondays, when a North Point sport moves or any of the robuster writers, thongs Tat some of them get there, and seem June 1, March 8, June 13, and Sept.bouss, and that over to Hunghom, he you may pretend to it. An abetaine contented. They usually call it con- 22.--quite easy to remember. All thould Lot put his lares and pianos The principal business was the pre- er faithfni citizen of a prohibitionist ei teh ye and swank sbeat it poor contracts agreements and obligations into a junk without studying the sentation of a report from a Sub- ceantry, may, for aught I know, to a devils.
maturing on or after the first day of tides. This chap pat all his furniture Committee in relation to a recent visit far better man then I, but it be
There is such the year the new reckering starts into a junk, and expected to use it to Kowloon by the Assistant Colonial pretends to understand Aristophanes
seerd advice in shall matere on the same numerical that same night in the new house, but Secretary, Mr. A. G. M. Fletter. or Rabelais, or Montaigne or Saske-
these verses fol-day of the year as they would under it turned up somewhere off Stone when the Hospital and Cemetery sites- speare or Swift, I know that he can-
lowing, that the Gregorian calender. In June 1920 | cutters. And he had to go to a hotel were inspected. It was reported that not have the necessary sensuous
Life without com.jan international Chamber of Com-after all, Peter's
Mr. Fletcher took the opportunity of equipment, and is merely a shallow
explaining the rason for the delay in bumbug. Dickens was always in the
the construction of the Hospital. The straight line of Chancer, Ben Jonzon.
site of the Hospital, which abutts Dryden, Fielding, a preacher of man'e
on the 100 foot read from Sham dignity in his lull appetite and quite com ciously has à rational genius. He preached the doctrine of Christmas to his nation. Yes, I do hold that a total abstainex, and more particularly j a life-long abstainer, is, in the nature of things, imperfectly equipped for high lite sure, because high litera- tere, both in its creation and its fel enjoyment, demanda total manhood, of which a teetotal wantoed is obviously a modification.”
steal them from punction:
merce was organized in Europe for considering similar proposi- tions, bat decided nothing. The
"Take your time! Don't ever hurry. Rony always leads to worry. Worry is cahygienic, Makes you pale and neurasthenic. What is he without vacation? Pal with Old Procrastinatica; He's the proper sort of chum. Take your time! There's more to of Commerce discussion referred to, said "It is the commercial and in-
come.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
late Pope was in favour of semething like it, and had called s
A passenger by the s.s. "Khyber," Shai Po to Kowloon City and also convention of astronomers to the which arrived this morning, was Mrs. on the proposed reconstructed 50 foot Vatican for this last month. 11 Bear, de Wolf, wife of the skipper of the road to be ca: from Ho Mun Tin to Belgian representative at the Chamber **Haichow.”
Today is the anniverary of His dustrial world that will eventually Majesty King George V's coronation Take your time! It's Life Exten reap the largest amount of benefit The ship's in harbour were dressed up
sion.
#
That, at least, is the conversion. If you're winded, weak and haggard, Cut out speed sed play the laggard; Haste is tething short of madding Also yen will note I'm adding One sarafi cautionary line: Take your time, but don't take
mize !"
from the reform of the calendar. *t
-
is, therefore, for the men of the all day and at noona salute was fired basines world to take the initiative in the movement.
Kowloon City, is, Mr. Fletcher ex- plained too high and it will become Decessary considerably to raise the 50- fout mad. Esztually, the Hospital will stand on ground some 70 feet above the road levels and a graded roadway to it will be-built, this per
The assistant accountant of amitting ambulances to be driven right Chinese shop in Gilman Street up to the door. Mr. Fletcher pointed I saw in the last absconded yesterday with $790 which out to the Sub Committee that it wie CORRECTION number of the Le had collected on behalf of the this work of leveling down the site
Queen's College firm. magazine that a master Home on
leave Lad celebrated his first week at A 13-year old Chinese boy was It Las teeb elicited Home by giving 12 to charity. This drowned yesterday while bathing in RECRUITING by carsticas in the looked like a case of charity beginnings pocl on the new reclamation at Tal
House that the Army at Home, and because I knew that koktani: His body was removed to recruiting stati uf 472 costs £139,300 the master concerned was not a tight the Kowloon merinary.
S
of
1.45 and
3
spd he raising of the 50 It road which is causing delay. All this work
is now in hand and it is expected that the first portion of the Hospital will be completed within two sud-a- half years...
mord
She may not be a THE BRUNETTE beauty, poor dear, but I cannot help biking her. She is slightly freckled, which is an injustice, becacee freckles. are for blondes. Often a girl is com- pereated for an imperfect face with a good figure, but even here their sade of luck. She lacks the seductive
Regarding the site of the ne Curves of those others. She is, to
Kowloon Cemetery, to which the speak rudely, lanky. She wears tight anum, and spende over £5,000 a wad, and not deaf to the claims of
Motor cars and ather vehicles As ocisticn had previously objected, year charity in the Colony where he earns year on publicity, etc. Last dresses, swathed about her lankynes recruits averaged 5.188 a month. bis living, I made enquiries. The re-will not be allowed on the upper Mr. Fletcher explained how, in all the On the other hand, the is virtuous. This is about & per unit of staff and ult is that I find it was more a case roads along the route to be taken by circonstances, this was the best sits- No cre can bonestly doubt that. 13 10. per recruit. It might be of aggravated patriotism than charity, the funeral procession of the late in the district for the purpose. believe in her purity, and I fondle ureful to have the pre-war statistics Distressed by the thought that Hon. Mr. Lan Che-pak between the He also added that a portion of the and kiss ber all day long. She is a fer the purpose of compatis:n. In the bile in Hongkong he pays no income hours
p.m.; valley and hillsides would be. Londres, that costa only seven crata present state of the labour market tar, he contributed the som men to morrow (Sunday).
available for building and that the Government has in view the develop. They keep sending the stream of recruits ought to fox tioned to the Government. I do not
Hiptools, the draper of No 4, ment of cther areas fa: THE "DIAL" me specimen copies freely. In the old days trade depros. mention his name, partly because he
of "The Dial," an sien ard
ere is modest about it, and largely be D'Aguilar Street, reports that some preferable for building and recreation American literary magazine, sed enivient to keep the recruiters bust cause anybody else would have done time between April 29 and May 5, purposes than this particular valley. lettere telling me that it is indispen without sach's large and expensive the same in similar circumstances. I his shop was entered by meses of a In view of these explanations, the rable to anyone desiring to know what advertising service, says Truth.
duplicate key and woollen goods Committee
that the would myself. is really what in literary art. I don't
It was only to be worth $5,000 stolen. H: did not principal grounds for the Associations" What a world-eve want it and I will not have it. It is
PARDONING expected that the discover the theft until stock was objections had been removed and ap- CALCUTTA 1. I see that Truh
proval of the Government's pro- more pretentious even, end more
announcement of the taken yesterday. SWZZP says that many of the
pardon of a Canton
posals was expressed. irritating, than the London Mercury.
Calcatta Sweep tickets
At the RIA.OC. Depot, Queen's sed any real teck lover knows that Squire's absurd fascicle of criticis said are forgeries. Nearly as bad an muxderer would evoke such comments
as it has done. At present I am Road East, and PF Yard, Welling is bad enough. Both strain to investment as roubles.
waiting to see if President Sun really ton Barracks, at 10a.m., on May 18. be clever, and. the straining
Mer often argue will parton Chan, the Trade Union Mesare Hughes and Hough are selling PEONESCIATIONs about these hurts like an angreared wheelbarrows.
The by public auction s quantity of Gov leader who killed his wife. A Dial contributer called on Thomas
things. There is
announcement may not be true, you exament Stores, particulars of which Hardy.As in meditative mood I good authority for saying that the see. But if true, and if the President appear in an advertisement in another retraced my steps back to the town, I proper prerunciation of
does pardon this maz, it will be a part of this issue. began suddenly to feel a succession of
bad advertisement, leading to a bad tiny objects strike against my face. It'
foreign Press. Personally, I am not had began to snow. Truly, I
shocked. I am supposing that the thought, Wirter has come at last."
If he had said Spring, the English Spring, the paragraph might have had point.
Then there is "Raymond Mortimer,” responsible for the London Letter. "All Lerdon became balletomane, and Lever ceased discovering zew nuacces The in this amazing art musical critics had to put up with Dersin for the sake of Rossini, ord with Picasso for the sake of Falla.
.. The music was borrible; ct ecure. And the choreography what did it mean? Being quite igrorant of the modern movement in painting and sculpture, they could not understood. For the dancing, which like so much modern art, was inspired by the primitive, was as andramatic and as benact as the work of Lipchitz or Arclipenko."
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MURDER.
considered
Complaints were received from members of the Association regarding. nnissnces caused by ricsha coolies and street noises in the European re sidential area and the Committee de- cided to make representations to the authorities on these matters with a. view to their abatement, and with re- gard to the nuisances committed by Invitations are out for the in coolies, to draw the Government's at guration of the new edifice of the tention to the paucity of public
accommodation
the-
Other matter dealt with were a
it
apparently lenient sentence passed Club Lusitano by H. E the Governor latrine (welve years imprisonment) in- of Macao, Sar. Henrique Monteiro perinsula dicates the presence of doubts or of Corres da Silva, on Saturday, May The last one is disputed. People mitigating circumstances of which we 13, at 4 p.m., when H. E. the Gover letter from the Colonial Secretary have not been informed. After all, nor of Hongkong, Siz Reginald Stubbs etating that the-Government con- who have been there say it is sounded no one down bere knows jret what will be present. The Secretary is Mr. template introducing a Tramway
José Code Barreto. like "sagra"; bet long Foglish happened. I am trying to be fair,
service in Kowloon, the Association's representation on the Education the circumstances nes ge makes the other right.
1 bala Ettle bock once as we have them represented down
Three robbers entered No. 3, Board and the preparing of a report NURSERY 1te dover Dapple Grey here, it is only fair to say that locil Capsvimun on Monday night by to the Government regarding Kew- ZETME. I fent it to a fellow To comments that appeared yesterday breaking in the side door. Two of loon's necessities in connection with
read a mile away. He (with on exception) were such as the men carried a revolver and the framing of the Colony's next- read it. Le spreed it. With ink and might reasonably have been expected. a dagger respectively, while the third Budget. coffee stairs. I will not lead him say The exception I will now deal with. more While memory remains.
The two poctural WASTE. thunderstorms this week
scd in all
CNREASON.
had a torch. After terrorising the inmates, a widow and her small children, they ransacked the house and stole a quantity of clothing, and $17.50 in cash.
STOLEN OIL.
maet hare wasted a lot of electricity. They also ordered sleep, bringing to some survivors of the late war distressing dress. By the way a bit of a hint to war heroes. Den't talk so much about Mens etc AT in the woods At Home-I disagree with him entirely. He unless your auditors were there. The formed to visit China in the near of the stage success. "The Branded again before Magistrate Frases yester--
others are fed up.
to
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The fact that primrose are yellow does not prove that white cats The comment I take
The case in which four Chinese were: are dest
Saturday finds the Coronet aception to was as follows:
charged with the theft of 40 gallons of According to a decision taken at the Theatre showing two first rate attrackerosene from the North Point depot. Washington Conference, an interna- tions, one the film record of Princess of the Asiatic Petroleum Cotopany was tional committee of jurists is to be Mary's wedding, and the film version fnture to consider her claims to have Woman, featuring Norma Tamadge of receiving the stolen kerosene was day afternoon. An alternative charge instituted such judicial arrangements The Kowloon Theatre offers Harold also preferred against the Isat two- Only in May 1922, ofas justify the abolition of extrater Lloyd in a capital new comedy defendants, who were represented by A BELATED the "Penary will ritoriality in China. When they From Hand to Mouth" and Madge Ms. A. E. Hall. M. M. M. Watson DISCOVERY case" that opened in cout to the province which Kennedy in an excellent comedy.
ANOTHER
K
Mr. F. H. Murray, & retized Manager of the A. P. C's North Point depot, said that when he was Manager he had sometimes given the third defendant permission to sp
EAU-On May 3 1922. at to ery. residezce, Babingter
There is a mist of bluebells Path, Horgkore, the Her. Me Iau Chu-pak, aged 6 years
where curhats pipe the bea overlooked the significance of the Funeral leaves Babugton Path Evelong day; Bat bera banans fting terrelations of the mode of Fetropiée, on Furday, May 7, at 2 p.m. Be on the street. To trip the traveller with the colorature of Tire Bouchon arriving about 4.30 p.m. at the on his basting way. In dairy spangled No criticism is could, or well informed, *Farewell Pavilion, Kerredy meadows, over there, the snowy that overlooks the melody of Racht
Hongkong Supreme claims to be the most enlightened drams, The Girl with the Jazz conducted the prosecation. Town, for the ceremony of paying lamtbite play. Because it's Spring, topf, or the artistic piquancy of Nase.
In the number before me is a piece Court in December 1921 has it been and the most progressive, it is to be Heart." Last respects.
but where we are, the riceks coolie chirrs his roundelay. In mossy della of monstrous impudence, purporting discovered that it ought not to have hoped that their attention will be
.be a criticism of Joseph been tried iz Hongkong.'
drawn to this case on which they may Three Japanese, the bo'eun and (at Home) sweet viclets hide Wafting. their fragrance on the balmy air. No Hergesheimer by Vivian Shaw. A
Progress is being purene a line of inquiry as to the two seanien of the s.a. "Taiko Maru," shrewd judge of tale-telling, himself a
made with re would guess it on car Prays East, writer, put me wise to the existence DISAPPOINTMENT movement for re- China"
the independence of the judiciary in were arrested yesterday afternoon For that's our Sanitary Board's affair.
as they were leaving the gates of the propriate the dregs of oil tanks which forming the calen- O'er breezy dors (at Home) the of Hergeel eimer long ago, and. I saw
I have put in italics the words I Kowloon godowns, for the unlawful were cleaned. Defendant would dump- Eore has fuDg A. mantle rich of go the ever Lestd of Vivian Sław thirteen months of 28 days each. This case" ander discussion in a case 600 rounds of ammunition. Ther then knead cut the oil with his knees, that be was good. But who the whar dar and fring Easter, by having want you to take particular note of possession of six Mauser pistols and it in a heap, pour: water on it and gecus cloth of gold. Eet Hongkong What's be done? He isn't even in was an enthusiastic supporter of the of pardon by a ruler what we would were allowed tail in the sum of So once been instrumental to witness in Defendant had been very honest and... jumpe from winter into heat That seems like summer is already old. O the American Who's Who," so far proposal, my idea being that there describe King's clemency.each. When the case was called be beatteous Spring, clothed in the royal as I can see. He writes as be bad won'd be thirteen pay days a year How does it affect
"judicial Lore Magistrate Landsell this morning, discovering a leakage in an under- Agot' er oort for the robes; Sent 1rom above to cheer the mental harelip. He says: "I do instead of twelve. I am not super-arrangements" or the "independence only two men appeared. The bosan ground pipe. Oil leaked out through a
hale, percolated through the earth- old 2 ks come in hearts of men I cribbed that from anot think that in my present mood stitious about thirterns. I am, how of the judiciary"? The judiciary who admitted ownership of the con- and oozed into a well in defendant's
How regarding Mr. Herge be mer I am ever, losing some of my interest, since appears to have done its duty intraband was fined $1,000 or six A real ends in part piece of Home made verse. inclined to over: ate his earlier work, see that the Bill to be considered by convicting and sentencing. To show months; the other man who admitted farm. Defendant at once reported to received from a fat country. (I don't pen!
of a lever he has could it come from any Hongkong and tince I rever, in print or elsewhere, { Congress provides that all agreemzata how illogical this comment is I would being the carrier was fined $100 or 6 the office szd the leakage 28 know whether England or Arrerica).
A. smart business staked my reputation on his future, I requiring monthly payments shall be refer you to a case of murder in the weeks. The absent man's bail was
The Magistrate found the first and do not feel at all that he has let me eo construed that the sum to be paid Federated Malay States in which I estreated. It may you happen to raa SMART BUT
man, noting that a
second defendants guilty of stealing down.”
each month shall equal one-thirteen h persuaded the Malay Sultan to pardon across Advegarine, please tell him INEXFECTUAL member of the China.
That should comfort the author of the total annual amount previously that I consider th» China Mail weeldy
Moul staff had bad
person who had been convicted of Two men, described as shipbu'l the oil and sentenced them to six.
weeks' hard labour each. The third criticized:
paid. They think of everything, these murder by a British Judge and jury.ders, were charged before Magistrate defendant the old-man-in view of -especially the Adversariais still a motor "accident," sent him some
But after all, I have not really moch legislative draftamen,
Did that pardon by an Asiatic Lindsell yesterday afternoon with de his long service with the Company the best trading I can get. The stuff papers with view tô însurance
# served op on this side is badly cooked business. It worked to the extent more against the Dial than the fact
It is a world wide potentate reflect on British judicial manding $7,000 by means of menaces propaganda, I think it is bigh time that our man read the propaganda that it is as unreadable as the London
THE PROPOSAL Movement, by the arrangements, or on the independence and threats. At the request of and his previous good character was The Ching Mail published in bock submitted. But no business resalted. Mercury.
way. Someone has of the British judiciary? It did, but Mr. Lo the case was formally sent to prison for four weeks for re-- form a collection of Advenaria and How could it, when No. 12 on the Peter Inglis has been dis to make a start, and the American rot is the same sense intended by remanded. It it alleged that the ctising the oil. The fourth defendant- Unless accused told a man named Choi Chan was sentenced to six weeks, also for ether gems from Lis pen."
questionaire rad, Are you of Goon covering Shanghai, and this Congress is to have the bonour. At the comment I criticize. I-n't that nice for me! But it has strictly sober and temperate habits, STOFF of it in the most amusing leset theat is the first actual Bill I President Sob forms the habit of that in view of the profit he had receiving the oil. its dangerous side. I may be tempted and have you always been " It way in Lloyd's Weekly have heard of. It makes each week pardonin all convicted persons, the made by acting as informer to the
0 of the defendants who WIN!" to try to write clever stuff, instead of scems to me that strictly sober and Ha has a delicious reverie in and about and each mon't begin on a Monday. question of China's claims to the police in a certain opium case, and, the simple, atties, heart to heart temperate pople should not went Bubbling Well Foad. You know what The new month is to be called Yarn abolition of extrality is not even also, in view of the fact that they had sentenced to six weeks for reserving
between remotely fouched,
suffered great loss in the same case the staff, although ons of the em straight talk I give you. But honest, insurance, anyway. They ought to a good conceit I have of my own or Yera, and come 1're int the temptation." As for the want to die.
efforts at humorous (ranya? Yes? February and March. The odd- day
I suppose He Excellency they now required compensation ployees of the A. P. C. had admitted Book, I waive ali personal rights, 1'1
The opinion of St Well, you'll know what I mean when I left over>(the 365th) will happen CHINIER will now be looking They demanded $7,000, and threaten that he had asked defendant, who Inge nothing to do with it. I neKETİ AS BEQARD9 A T. Osiler Couch say that this Babbling Will thing of between Decemb 28 and Jan, 1 and LC round for Chinese ed to kill him if he refused to pay was a fokt on his farm to carry the want to see my stuff again once it 14!
probably Peter's is as good as anything. I ever haveing number. It 211 be called
gehatemian xo nominate Chor's wife slipped away quietly and time of bill, was again produced, in Sarrymore weight did. The same paper has a series of New Year Day, and be a legal holiday. Las member of the begislative Council wazned the police, with the reenit court this morning and the fingistrate Besides, to Scottish sketaha, entitled My Ain Every fourth year a day like it will Bring one of those sugels who rush in that two men were arrested, others reduced the sentence to a fine of $20-
or 14 days. bim lifts the suponibilty 7.5” as end of their clam Le sandwiched between June 28 and where fools fear to read, I venture to escaping.
published; and 13 certainly r frise to
LUJA
yo't such a book Good Lord! Aint than Then enough hooks at
mine
paired.
SENTENCE REDUCED.
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