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year.
DEATHB.
HorGKONG, Tuesday, Spit. 4, 1993.
THE BOOK CLUB.
THE CHINA MAIL.
And that is what the
CORRESPONDENCE.
"VOTING CONTENT."
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928,
CORRESPONDENCE.
INCOME TAX RELIEFA
A WINNER.
PROGRAMME WORTH FIVETM
DOLLARSI
of rouling. The man who says he together in a mens and one of thoin hi to time for reading" in quite arrives home in a "want-to-knock- somebody's block aff" mood his often`s man who has no time for appeal that he is actinted by a sense thinking, to whom logic is a mere of personal prestige and honour
(To the Editor of the China Mail.) name, and scientific reasoning the won't cat much ice with the other [To the Editor of the "China Mall."? private preserve el 'professors. As three when they find his truculence
Sir, The new Finance Act con- The holder of the following the seed of ons humble iden ny and interfering with the general
beginning to get on their nerves |
Sir-After due and mature obser- tains a Bection of interest to certain theatre programme is requested to thrive and grow and flourish, so this peace and quiet of the mess. They vation of the customs and habits of residents abroad, viz. public sot forward it to the China Mail office
vants. In such cases it is now pro- perd of culturo represented by the will tell him not to be sever! kinds that somewhat multitudinous as well vided that, when liability us a rosi when a coupon to the value of $5 Book Club may very easily develop of a fool and if he doesn't shut up as prolific human species in our dent aris, omoluments pansions will be issued which may be [into something very important to umko him.
Longue ought to do to Mussolini.midst commonly known under the and annuities payable in Great Bri- changed for goods to the same Hongkong.
If the Lengue enn't do it, then the handing of coalie, I am quite con-tain or Northern Ireland shall be value with any of the advertisers "goal ils wuthors conceived" is still vinced that the male persuasion of chargeable to tax which will be
deducted by the paying authority. In very long way off and Britain and same would if truthful admit that
So far as repayment of tax is con. France will have to see what can be: We thought we had finished with done to their traublesome neigh the ten most popular forms of out- corned, it is now possible to claim 1923, and it is apparent that many this kind of thing, that aftor ther it might be, who knows, that door recreation from its point of for three years ended 6th April,
in getting together to avert the view would be:---
persons have yet to discover that nerve-rucking experiances of pre- common danger, they would find the 1 Sampan roolis, Catchee white they are entitled to claim nniler one Theatres, the Coronet, Star and vious years wo should never again,
nun off big ship. White monar more of the following classes of World are advised to retain their allow ourselves to be run by the way to solution of their awn
lifferences of opinion."
no see China before squeeze relief :-
programmes and study the number tongae into such endless repetitions,
him plenty for carry ashore. (1) Exemption in respect of divi- to be found on the front page. that supped our moral fibre to the
2 Porter coolie, Carry luggage for denda un certain British Govern core; that anade us unbalanced To-day's Poem.
Meriky man, all suine pay much ment Securities where the beneficial repetitioning idiots, a nuisance to
cum-law.
owner is ordinarily resident abroad. ourselves and our surroundings and
"Yes
FT
(Star Voices,)
striking and truthful comment on Stars have a way of friendliness that |
stenla Carlyle's dictum that so far as Eng
tul is concerned she is inhabited Around strife-tired hearts when day
withdraws: by about 40,000,000 of peopl—¡ hostly fools. War being an act of Of fellowship, soft spoken, without
words idingy, it is understandable that the
tongue should give voice, even in Of eloquent, as when a toyed voice)
stills alleged song, to the inapt and the
inet. The fret, (it can be disputed) All lonchiness and doubt without a
that it is a long way to Tippery,
word.
was chirruped on the morning, the midnight, the afternoon and the Stars need nu tes:less sound to hear
- their cleari twilight nir, to such an extent, that,
ing calm;
Bright oyed, they fold in velvet of
the night
weariness, as other heart
banda down
silently enshrouds her babe with love.
-MARTHA MADISON SMITH,
SHADOWS BEFORE.
so we are informed, these birds who: Their sweet assurther, understand- Hardy Rover wert, went at last under threat of swift and condign: punishment should they continue to give utterance to the parrot All like cry. As an Osaka boy ance sing to the writer: "It's And a wrong way to Tipperary, its a wrong way to go,although! even his Japanese heart was "right! there." Which but proves how the world can be gripped by the un-i seemly and the unintelligent. At one time we assured each other that certain things could not possibly be! done in these trousers." Then we were invited to mise our hat to be greated with there's hair" (in the case of bald-headed gentlemen the innuendo was particularly gulling),
Not Arf bas become an idiom, | whilst the derisive and detestably sounding "Beaver" has developed into a parlour game. Hundreds of uther ueless afirmations could: doubtless be added to these here! given. But the Intent is upon us, and ke Samson with his shorn
locks is likely to be our undoing Brought to its jazz birth in America it has touched London and there is verbal evidence that it has reached this perceful Colony and likely to have as much effect on our nerve as any terrible typhoon. It is thir nervo-racking, bruintess statement: "Yes, we have no bananas,"
Implacable Italy.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
September 4-Coronet Theatre; Mabel Normand in "Molly O."
September 4-Star Theatre; "Lahoma"
September 4-World Theatre; Rawlinson in Herbert
"The Scarlet Car."
September 7-8-Theatre Royal; Tina Gerald and Tom Fenwick in a repertoire of Original one-act plays.
SOCIAL. September 8-Grand Carnival Dinner Dansant at the reopening of Repulse Bay Hotel.
AUCTIONS. September 6-Lammert Bros., Railway, Kowloon Canton Locomotive
at
Yard, Hunghom, (Kowloon), a quantity of miscel laneous stores, U a.m.
MEETING.
December 12.-Meeting of Un-
Branch kong
of the Banque secured Creditors of the Hong- Industrielle de Chine, at the City Hall, 3 p.m.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The mail despatched from Foochow to Hongkong per s.s. "Gottingen" on August 18 was received via Singapore per the s.s. "Canton "on Sunday,
}
in the China Mail.
Star Theatre Programme No. 503° issued Sunday and Monday, Sept-
Patrons of the three Cinema ember 2 and 3.
SHIPPING PROFITS.
3 Chair and riesha coolies, (2) Exemption in respect of in- Catch'en when they're new to terest or dividends on Foreign or China and trim on to the Colonial Securities, stocks, etc., CANTON PAPER'S LITTLE quick. No pay, coolies big owned by a person not resident in csha, coolies yell and make the United Kingdom.→→ lots of noise.
(3) Reduction or exemption from tax on Income from sources within.
(4) Reduction of tax where In come Tax has also been paid on the same Income ja another part of the
1 Report for duty at the brick pile
at daylight accompanied by Empire, female children. Swap gossip | with other workers.
2 Harness up to 75lbs. of brick
Yours, etc.,
FLING.
The Canton Daily News devoted
Sumail shop keeper, Plenty for eign devils with plenty money the United Kingdom, is the case of is leading article yesterday to the Hongkong shipping profits. These come along rais, prices five British subject, Crown servant, it claims belong to the shipowners lundred per cent.
ex-Crown servant, widow of Crown because "we believe it hardly Grund coolie chorus, Sand us servant, servant of British Protec-possible for the Crown to assert that many ship loads of thers white torate, employes of missionary it can legally commandeer ships fools with too much money and society, resident in the Isle of Man the name of military necessity wo'll squeeze on dry, yes, or Channel Isles, or resident abroad and use them in reality for making very, very dry, before we let for sake of own health or health of profits." Therefore, claims the
em go.
member of the family.
Canton paper, the act must be Popular forms of recreation as the
considered illegal and title to the profits never passed to the Crown female of the species seen it,
and could not therefore be given to Hongkong. This attitude, of course, begs the whole question, Perhaps the Canton paper has not heard the famous war slogan business as usual," and possibly does not grasp what that means, Military necessity-rather national necessity is a very wide term The Canton paper, however, is too anxious to make capital of the outery for its own ends to pay very close heed to these facts. Fighting on the West River be- Hearit: The Hongkong papers tween Wuchow and Tang Yuen that make so much fuss about Can in Kwangsi has affected Hong- ton's sale of public lands, ought-" kong's imports again. When com But that is enough: The cat is parative peace was restored some out of the bag. time ago, normal quantities were brought down and prices fell to their old levels except for addi- tions brought about by military RAIN, levies which add to the first cost.
W. I. FAIRBROTHER,
Income Tax Specialist.
London, E.C.2.
and start for smrt of the 67/68, Cheapside, Peak.
3 Daughter of twelve loads, up
with 60lbs. of brick. Daughter. of eight 35lba, of brick,
4 Continue this form of amuse- ment for seven days each week and on alternating weeks carry, un equal weight of sand or gravel.
5 Cream of joy, Carry a twenty foot stick of lumber up a steep incline walking on a plank four inches wide spanning a forly foot drop on rocks. Why not tell the truth about these so called recreatiana and list thou something like the following:
1 Association, Fine with a pipe and a bowl, congenial company and safely sanctuaried against
medillesing females. Angling, Excuss for loafing and drinking booze in private. 3 Baseball, Only Yanks can see
any pleasure in this idea.
4 Badminton, Lese said the
batter.
:
FOOD SUPPLIES.
BEAUTIFUL
RAIN,
RAIN !
More than half of the poultry brought down by West River steamers is reared in Kwangsi fur- With the best at ninety-sovou, ther up the river than Wuchow. And the moisture ninety-two As it is dangerous to hold markets Hongkong is like d--(heaven) when fighting is going on, the With its cloud-bursts and its dew. dealers cannot secure their usual quota of supplies. Added to With the rateid perspiration levies demanded by every military When we try in desperation
On our nicely laundered clothes, or bandit leader who holds way To evade the Season's blows!
this
is
the
exorbitant
in the territory through which
5 Busket ball. Game for sumall cargo junks or motor-launches have
school girls.
to pass. Some Wuchow steamers By wetting down our "innerde"" will be arriving to-night and it Through the fear they might go dry;
6 Bowls, You have to practice will be known to-morrow if the Till we see the "blooming lizards"
this game for 25 years before poultry supplies are reduced.
the real players will admit you
to become one of their number. The oldest and best game of the lot. A good bowler is always a good citizen.
7 Cricket, Nursie bounced a rub.
her ball over a chair to the little! baby who crowed with delight
FIND IN SIDE-CAR.
TAIKOO DOCKS CHARGE.
Misappropriating a length of
And wo ask the Doctor why!
When our gloomy drooping spirits Ever long for Suna to shine, And blue devils make us fear it's For the spirits we repine.
Through the torrente mixed with
drizzle,
and made her bounce again, wire netting belonging to the When there's naught to do but drip: and that is the origin of cricket. Taikoo Docks and secreting it in
Through the ninety-seven sizzle,
8 Croquet, Chief form of recrea- the side-car of a motor-cycle be- When we never miss a sip.
tion in the Mid Victorian era longing to Mr. J. Russell, was the
blem':
for elderly unider ladies who charge brought against a Chinese We may have our "Housing Pro- loved the game because of its plumber employed in the docks, at infinite possibilities for breed-the Magistracy this morning. ing ill feeling and quarrels.
about.
And pay cash for every drink,
Mr. Russell told the Court that While the Landlord's Tenants rob.
them 9 Cycling. Should be classed defendant. occasionally cleaned
under the heading of work, his motor-cycle and sometimes | And the Legislators wink. 10 Golf. For old men with bad rode it in the yard. He had no
livers and nothing elso to think permission to take the netting nor When the air is full of romance,
was he right in hiding it in the Of "Ye olden days," they tell;
When the real-estate was no man's, 11 Hockey. School boys, ice skates side-car.
and fights..
Defendant denied all knowledge And the business boomed like
hell P 12 Polo, Legalized method for as to how the netting got into the doing that which is prohibited side-car and the case was remand- by the S.P.C.A. chiefly indulged till this morning for enquiries. ed in by asses who want to spend money where it can be of no possible benefit to others. 13 Raquets, Second childhood stuff
cribbed from the cradle crew.
September 7-Lammert Bros., Platitindinising at the fourth at their Sales Rooms, the S. L meeting of the League of Nations "Atalanta" as she now lies in Hong- acting-President Ishii, so Renter kong Bay, at Noon: indicates to-day, observed with satisfaction that the League already covered three-fourths of the world's pupulation and decored that it was On August 28, 1923, at Odis momt of the widow's mite appliesadually and surely progressing ham, Hants, England, Leo Michael French Beytagh to, to the contribution of ideas: Every towards the goal its authors con- It all sounds quite nice Lily Florence Goodfellow, one should contribute, and everyong seived." both of Shanghai.
should be permitted to contribute and comforting until you learn from another message that Italy lun We sneer al Ethel M. Dell we instructed her League representa- (superior persons who profess literary tive to abstain from further discus- culture; but we seem to recall that sions about the dispute with Greece. MITCHELL At Manila, Mrs. in one of her stories, there was an It is a matter with which, Italy
Mary Mitchell, widow of the
considers, the League is not con- late Thomas Mitchell, formerly iden. We have forgotten what it corned since it is not a question of of Shanghai, and mother of was, but that proves nothing. We right of interest but of personal T. W. Mitchell and Mrs. E. H. forget what we had for dinner on honour and prestige which are not
Chan Hung, a Chinese male Miller, of Shanghai, in her 751 the 4th of September, 1889, but that provided for in the pet with the about thirty years of age, com- League." One had been under the mitted suicide yesterday by jump- is not evidenes that the food did us impression that it was precisely to ing from the second floor of No. 7. no good. As the physical body udjudicate upon these questions of Queen Street, into the road. grows as a result of a succession of personal honour and prestige and to A tea-house and an adjoining The China Mail. Heals, so the mind grows by feeding provant them from precipitating war building near the Canton Customs that the League was formed. Surely House were gutted on Saturday on a succession of idens. Socisty that was the goal its authors con- when two firemen were seriously climbs on ideas, tasted, assimilated ceived und towards which Acting injured in the course of duty. or discarded to higher things. The President Ishii so confidently feels If it highest thing is the Truth, to which the League to be pressing.
H.M.S." Diomede" instead of was not and is not, the delegates at H.M.S."Despatch" was inadver every iden (yea, even the wrong Geneva may as well pack up their tently given as the name of the iden) is a stepping-stone. Some trunks and go home, for it was prob: British man-of-war, which has left The Book Cith hus held its second where in his "First Principles" ably over a question of personal for Japan. H.M.S. "Diomede" is
honour and prestige that the first in dry dock at the moment. annnal meeting. It has had another Herbert Spencer expresses very war started, certainly it was a ques successful year, and sous day, it lucidly our duty towards ideas. Give tion of that sort which set Europe That part of the Canton-Kow- may mean much to Hongkong. each its chance for life, nor dread aflaus nine years ago and just a loon Railway near Cheung Muk Like all circulating libraries it has the consequences should the idea cortainly will it be the precipitating Tow, a Chinese station near the The law of the cause of any war that, unless the half-way mark, which wasdamaged had to try and eater for all tastes, prova erronEOUS. and some of its rondera, reading as survival of the fit operates in this League bucks up and does its job, by the recent East River floods, has we may find ourselves dragged into been repaired by the Chinese The false must die; in the future. The plain truth of Administration, and trains are now uany do, only for pastime, may realm also. have been reading what superior the true prevail. Let no thinker the matter is, of course, that Italy running.
Greece Ins persons would call unitoproving be silenced by diffidence, because of is at for trouble.
already taken every step towards the In the Hongkong Water Polo books. It occurs to us that the nekuotledged "authoritier." All the amende honorable that who can take League, at the V.R.C. swimming
18 to-day have without losing her self-respect pool last night, the RG.A. frst superior attitudo is too easy. There accepted ideas of
Italy still, however, team drew with the KBS.P.F.A., can be no book so bad (in the literary usurped the places of others once altogether. sense of badnom) that it does not authoritative. The thing in to read, reis imphenblu, stubbornly re- the score being 3 oll. At half- the second half, however, the include ono idea of us to someone. Some of it will stick, and the pro-fusing to accept anything short of time the soldiers were 2-nit. In
an admission that the Greek Gover ability ie that the parts which slickmant connived at the Albanian Kowloon lads showed a wonderful Barnum said cynically that every deserve to stick. We retract. The masavero and an atonement suffi. recovery and actually were leading |
one time by 3-2. Then could be seriously and not dishing is not to read. The thing is ciently humiliating to fit the crime. McDade made the scores level. to think. But reading in stimulus Greece now proposal an inter- Just as the final whistle sounded, respectfully claimed that to booke
national inquiry into the business Wood for the R.GA, had the gont of thinking; and even thinking and, if the world is to keep the last at his mercy, so that the RG.A every day fresh and unfurnished minde are coming. We cannot all ugly is better than never to shreds of sanity left it, that secuns were somewhat untucky. For the be at the same stage of mental think at all. Thinking comes easier to be the only way out. Up to date soldiers, McDade scored all three with practice, and wrong thinking the League of Nations does not seem goals, though the second point development at the same time. We will lead to right thinking sooner or have taken that firm action that was really due to Wood. For the one would expect from an orgatiis-Kowloon team, Rasmussen, Jack annat-all-ba superior person later Much of the iscinef of the Ton which your trans-rape and Ducan werd the scorers. Civilisation is the product of the world is due to want of thought, seating three-fourths of the world's In the first game the U,A,C. de- accumulation of ideas. Isolated which again may be due to neglect population. If faur men are living feated the R.A.M.C. by 40.
minute a sirapleton is born.
It
at
J
10
AQUATIC
SPORTS.
When the daily occupation
In the ever luring East,
Was to watch the stock-infstion- 'Tis the tale they tell, at least
Now we feel like "piping croakers." 14 Riding. Another form of dis We are asked to remind ticket-With our business gone to pat"; playing bizarre wearing apparel holders that launches leave Blake And are all-but bloated broker- and bandy legs to public view, Pier at 3 p.m. to-morrow (Wednes- Here adying of the rot. 16 Rugby, One way of slugging day) for these sports, which will
your enemy without the danger take place at the E. A. S. M. A. Yes adying but not drying, of a comeback.
Beach, Stonecutters, kindly lent In the over rotting mould; Rowing. You pull up stream for the occasion by the E.A.S.M.A. Through the torrid summer crying
For our dirty pot of gold. with a fourteen stone mother in Club.
The fête is being organised by the stern and an eight stone daughter in the bow when you Lady Rees-Davies in conjunction Through the heat and damp repin.
with the following ladies-Mrs. ing, have finally decided that you Fletcher, Mrs. Butterworth, and Through the rainy season's ruins bad better marry for money. Mrs. Wolfe, and is in aid of the Since the Bun has stopped his shirt- 17 Shooting, Conspicuona, clothes, Ministering Children's League. It ing,
conspicuous, dog, conspicuous comprises a number of aquatic gum, conspicuous ass.
Swimming, Something that events for children between the We have mildew on our brains.
ages of 5 and 15 and 3 races for It's you talks a lot about and do non-swimmers under 7 years old.
apparent in this rhyming, precious little of because of the
The programme has been ar- And with every rotten pan, effort required to get where ranged by Lieut-Col. Butterworth, While the rain outside is chiming:
"Oh, there never was a Bun !” thero is swimming.
R.E, assisted by Captain Walker. 10 Tennis. Popular principally for Licuts, Frederick, Taylor and its possibilities along the lines Carne, and Messrs. Grundy, May of snappy photographs display and Owen-Hughes.
ing fetching wearing apparel, H.E. the Governor has kindly poses with mquet, eto.
20 Yachting. Merely material for
authora of yarns about the
consented to be present.
doings of the wealthy. People General Chan Kwing-ming
1923.
JOHN KYOTO,›
RheumatisXEL.
Have you ever tried Chamberlain's - who have been to sea in a yacht, arrived in Hongkong last Thurs Pain Balm for rheomation? If not, yo brug a lot about it but do not go day, according to the vernacular are waling time, as the longer this: a second time..
press, says the Canton Daily News. dleesse runs on the harder. Ito ours. Get
PIKESTAFF
Hongkong, September 1,
It is also stated that as he failed to bottle to day, apply it with a vigorous message to the afflicted parts and you MATKA loan through ox-Civil- Gove will be surprised and delighted at the ernor Chan, Chik-ya, his former relief obtained. For unto by all
Chemists and Storekeepers, colleague, he returned to Swatow,