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Woodrow lo assert themselves; but sufficient ence to ex-President unto the day is the increase thereof, and brought into the field one, whe Wilson in relation to the late War.
and present problemă must”be,met referred to bad taste, and asked that i as expeditiously as they arise. The the great sugponsor to Disraeli in 1870. Panificist Members of the Council | the fonts and feer business be given ↑ |will doubtless have something to his passage back. The suggestion say on matters of omission, and for Was turned days and having resid "F.E.'s" remarks, we entirely agreć the time being such cutters, if any, thoi Birkenhead's was indeed a may safely be left with them. It is Fordly utterance. Max Beerbohm as we lawn previously indicated, in recently had to suffer and bite the batter stim of His Excel the dust at the hands of the thin- skinned who could not see that his leney's speech which have given limnings of royal personages were rise in quer mind to a considerable; indeed good caricatures atul reason a passing and | degree of interest by renson of their able comment a
titneliness and obvious troth and popular subjgos at conversation, and
ile it their bushwas to su that; sincerity, and which will we think these offensive (to the thin-skinned) rapay further study. The most anwings were withdmwn, Beauty ardent meralist, eager for the fair they say is only skin deep sad
ne of all tint British Administra: People why have used this classic of The ages liave often been urged to tion stands for cannot we imagine, go out and get skinned. Thin- atute the sold facts of reason skimmed is not skin deep-it goes If it were only a advanost by flis Excellency in deal-¦unch deeper,
surface matter should
1371 ing with the Government's opium hesitate to urge the members of this |policy. What he has said scene'sorry_tribe to shed itself dh irrefutable. The hot headed would covering as sunkes are wout To do, pradable be all out for an entire al start afresh. tabandonment of the Opium Mono- .
poly on the lines of "d......u the
| consequences," so long as the thing An Equine Problem,
is discarded, hat such a policy, it
not
A cable has announced the salt
1711.
OCTOBER 5.-
The fifth of October, at night Imppened a terrible tempest af Wind and ruine both on the A and land by mesnes whereof many ships and other vessels woro drowned, about midnight the water overflowing, drowned many meddowes, pastures, townos, villages, cattell, houses and goods, to the utter undoing of grent number of subjects of this Henne: hesides the losse of hutny
women, and children, some drowned in their Beds, and some as they travelled.
Storr. Windsor, 1 dined with honest Colonel Godfrey, took a good walk of an hour on the terrace, and then cune up 1 study: but it grows bloody cold, ni have no waistcoat hore.
Swift.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
J
SPORT.
Theatre;
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 1924
FOR BUSY MEN.
POINTS FROM THE BUDGET SPEECH.
to be
JOTTINGS FROM MACAO.
(From Our Own Oprrespondent.).
Arrivala.
Mr. C. Van Dorsyon, businee* manager of the Nathorlands Hor bour Works Company, Macao, Ltd.,
'The Colony's Finances are in "a most satisfactory condition."
$19,897,302 is the sun applied to public service for the arrived here on Friday.. year 1924:
Dr. Boures, also, has returned from the Medical Congress at Siuge- poro. Departures
The Colony's Credit balance is $12,658,642, which is $5,000,000 more than expected. Less expend- ed than anticipated and under- estimates of revenue is given as reasons for the increase.
Revenue for this year is now expected to exceed original. estimate by over $4,400,000, Difference is due mainly to consi tinued high return from opium monopoly, and to largely increased! and sales which are expected to total $2,800,000.
The P.W.D., bas been unable to spend all the money alloted to it. Recurrent expenditure in this department, shows an increase
General Sir Manuel Gomes, dia Costa, K.C.M.G., embarked on the morning of the twenty-seventh, with the military honours due to hi ank
The Gienatal leaves any close friends and admirers in this city. Artinta...
Ah, ablo Chinese urlist, named Choi Chong, exhibited his ability s few days ago by removing, with admirable dexterity, a gold lavallière from the breast of a passing China lady.
Another, called Sin Seng, with gang of ten, entered a Chinoas of over three lakhs due to repairs store and were doing some excellent necessitated by typhoon weather work when the police arrived and conveyed them, troupe and leader Military contribution increased all to prison,
by $200,000
:!
Proclamation of the Republic. $300,000 goes to University, The thirteenth anniversary of the balance of endowment fuld. Proclamation of the Republic, is $250,000 for expenses in connection being celebrated in many ways by with the British Empire Exhibition. the Government and the people.
The chief event is of course the Revenue for 1924 is estimated to Government House Ball, which pro amount to $21,369,934, and expen-mises to be a brilliant function.
diture to $24,924,667.
In the morning there will be a $20,000 has been included in the Parade of all the military forces and attached units, after which they will estimates to cover cost of poss- ible visits to the Colony by Foreign be handed the colours and will march past the Municipal Building at the salute. squadrons.
Also $14,000 for a Gelogical survey of the Colony, Nodne locally being able to do this work, officers of the British Columbia October 13.-Dance at Peak University are to do the work.
SOCIAL
LAND SALE.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
$17,500 is set aside to meet the cost of the preparation of the Laws of Hongkong, Legal departments
are to have more officers,
His Excellency the Governor, Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, will also give a tea-party to the children of Macao, at his summer residence "Flora."
In addition to the foregoing and the official reception by His Excel- lency, the Centro Republicano Eleitoral will asserable in com- memoration both of the Proclama
Live we
Tekla nnd ita nwn.
so it,ven la described, is fast and arrival in the United States of Papyrus, the winner of this year's leads only to disneter. The arrival English Derby, who has been of the Arany Council's Authority to matched against America's best October 5.-Coronet Theatre; A Tailor Made Ltd go into the question of the Military three-year-old for a sum of £20,000 Charles Ray in Lands is in itself of a little signia Gold Cup to the winter and Man"
£5,000 to the loser. The distance is October 5.
Star Theatre ficance, and His Excellency's 1 miles and, according to prosent "An Accidental Honeymoon Laptimistic rate as to the probable arrangements, to m will take 5.30 p..
October 5.- World early settlement of this most im- place un Dctober 20. Mr. August
Soldiers of Fortune." portant matter will give general Betont, chairman of the American
(hektey Chab, issued the challenge October S.-Star Theatre: satisfaction. The Land Boom and on behalf of the Westchester Racing Forbes Russell Comedy Co., pre- the Ted cause of it have hoeti so Association, which appears to consents "Peg O' My Heart," 9.15 p.m. | apparent and for so long that what sider that the match will prove luis been so convincingly said but gufliciently attractive to the public
October 6-8-Hongkong Jockey to make it sound financial pro-Club's fourth Gymkhana. re-imphasises the, glwious. These position. At least it is diffenit to booms and imhedily munifesta-see what real benefit will accrue to tians, and tunstable, and "etroot horse-breeding or horse-racing in Club, 9.15 p.m. Just indefinitely,“ They are unmoral race under such conditions. We
¡lave seen it stated that the result October 9-At P.W.D. Offices, and an undermining factor in will prove which is the fustest horse one lot of Crown Land at Pokfulum thoughts and huchits of existence; in the world. Of course, that is Road, 3 p.m. | which are having their own deleteri-leer nonsense as Payprus put up
no star performance when he wo October 6-Lammert Bros., at ons effect. The "under dog" is the Derby. Up to date we have Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, 13 casks assured of a straight deal and received no definite news what horse silicate of soda, 11 a.m. becomes the tool of forces he cut will b
It is generally at "Kingsclere" Kennedy Road, Fine men will Cited States
believed that Zev will be named, a quantity of valuable household hope for that return to the normal Mrs. Payne Whitney's three furaitures, etc., at [1 and 2.30 p.m.
MEETINGS. no elementy voiced by His Excel-your-old fly. Untily has also been Mr. August Belmont, lency, when a fair measure of mentioned.
October 5.-Hongkong Cricket
Remand prisoners are to have a heppiness and contentment may the breeder of Tracery (sire of Club annual general meeting in the
van provided for their use when reasonably be expected to dwell in Papyrus) and owner of that good Pavilion at 5.30 p.m.
horse when he won the St. Læger.! October 9-Hongkong Hockey being taken to the Supreme Court. the land. These are but necessarily in 1012, naturally must feel a senti-Club, annual meeting in the Hong-
Medical and Sanitary Board passing thoughts on a speech that mental interest in the fortunes and kong Cricket Club Pavilion, 5.30
show increases in expenditure due Should be the occasion of much deeds of Tracery's first Derby win-p.m. sympathetic thought. Other matters" ner. Nevertheless many will ques- October 15.-Extraordinary gento additions to staff. The Education
The concert which was given for may in which may call for wore on his judgment in proposing a eral cetings at Hongkong Hotel, Board gets $95,000.
match with Papyrus within a few Pedder Street, of the Hongkong
The P.W.D. is to have seven the same end was highly successful, stringent criticism but here we weeks of the St. Leger and within Hotel Co., Ltd., and the Shanghai [simply conclude by congratulating 30 days of landing in America. Hotels, Ltd., at 11 a.m. and 11.80 additional engineers and eight a substantial sum being remitted to
overseers. It is estimated this the ralief fund. interested however slightly in what all concerned on piloting the Colony Tire and again it has been shown ja.. respectively.
E department will be able to spend has been done and what is being gh a difficult period and look that even the trip across the English
$7,000,000. lenged. The Budget speeching to the future with such mete loss of form, The peerless may be described as an ang bindest faith and confidence. stock-taking when the past is reviewed, and advantage taken of its
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hat work..
[Chonnel is enough to cause, com- '
WAITING.
Pretty Polly at her zenith got benten y i modernte performer | dike Preston when she was son Yes, waiting till the Wheel of Fate, Encross the Channel, A trans May bring thee back again;
atlantic voyage is a fur severer test. Across the seat of Love and Hate. Our Stang dictionary describes Even if Papyros wins it will merely And Tafe's long dreary plain. this is petulant, apt to get a prove how moderate are the three- 'raw.'
THE BUDGET SPEECH.
wany lessons to queet the future. Thia-Skinned. Coming hard on the beets, or Thus reading of the speech can Juors appropriately the ocho, of the thenfone he weommended as an act speech made by the Duke of Devon- of rivic or Colonial pride or necessity. shica to the members of the It will repay careful reading and Imperial Conference now in session give the mind to think, whilst in it in fonden, in which Hongkong' elosing passages, those dealing with thin-skinned. This is probably sporting match with the odds all in Our lives in eorue ruro plice. caune in, for some attention ul ihre Land Boom, the Housing Pro-a arrow, definition and lets in quite favour of the American horse. That
To touch a man upon the year-olds in America: if he is Yes, waiting till our stare may bend law is to irritate bin by alluding defeated, it will prove merely that Their course in stellar space; to, ar joking him on, anything on the expected has happened. The Their light enshrined with rays to which he is pestiarly susceptible or best way to view the affair is as a
blend
reference was made to the Colony's blem, Military Lande, and the nurny of people who suffer from Steve Donoghue his consented to Yes, waiting
the pointed aliafts of the many make the trip and run the risk of
Renxe
1929.
JOHN KYOTO.
till we whisper thoughts- emergence from the recent nente Covernment's Opium Policy. the whom nature has endowed with a losing his position at the head of the re born within the deep
of humour and list of winning jockeys adds further Recesses of our lonely hearte trnd depression and the fact that speech reveals the maker of it as limited
The most of love our souls may keep she has profited by the political possessed of a wide and sympathetic of the fitness of things, and who interest to the mantel.
rest in China, is H.E. the outlook, an administrative mind seize upon the blemishes of face and amazing feature of the whole affair Governor's Annual Budget Specchr, shove the ordinary, pointing out Physique of others to get them is that Mr. Irish, the owner of unnecessarily and often nncon- Papyrus, ever entertained the pro- Those who joct; now that he has done so, it is Tis was when the Budget speech what may seem obvious facts; but sciously on the Raw. in the British House of Commons facts in the rash of the daily round "caffer from red noses (due to to be boped his proverbint huck will was an occasion of no little import-likely to be lightly thought of and italigestion of course) loss of hair hold,
(known as Ildnos) waistlines of There will we Aldermanic magnitude, and other nux and interest. Doubtless that as lightly headed. interest in still maintained and the imagino be little if any cavil at the things so dear to the comic artist To-day's Poem. taxation methods of Chancellors of varios increases in expenditure are all fit subjects for the innuendo the Exchequer comes in for the which is likely to make it exceed that biteth by day and stingeth at night, antil such blemishes, if such
Our
(The Proned Seaman.)
There came a seaman up from the.
BCD.
Sailor, what is your will of ine?"
life of a place. It either progresso e nobility and aristocracy of our He rolled in his gait as seamen use, or does not. And Hongkong luas noble land do not, wherever it may His eye was stern, that I might not
choose. progressed beyond probably the apply, like to be reminded that its
tear
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
The Police Force is increased to 1,415 men,
a very big and also a KELY EXPensive increase," over the The Fire Brigade is to "burn up" quite a lot. A Fire Float is to cost
about" $180,000.
"A very large sun" is set aside. for the railway which "has great potentialities."
·
The building of quarters for officers is being steadily con- tinued. The Government is par- ticipating in the Kowloon Tong scheme..
foundation. New Fire Brigade Headquarters. The formal opening of the new Fire Brigade headquarters took place on Wednesday, at 4 p.nl, followed by a display of fire-drill and a kermess in aid of the Fire- men's Pension Fund. Procession in aid of the victimas
of the Japan Earthquake. This procession, announced for the 20th and 30th ultimo, was un- avoidably postponed. The date will be announced later. Concert.
COLONY'S FINANCES.
YESTERDAY'S COUNCIL
VOTES.
The Colonial Secretary pre sided over the meeting of the Finance Committee held following More roads are to be made, in- the Council meeting and explained cluding some for motorists.
the following votes, which were approved:
$10,000 for laying of tramways in Kowloon.
$100,000 for laying out of King's Park for recreation purposes.
$640 in aid of the vote Botanical and Forestry Department, Other Charges, Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.
1.. The Chairman: This is for re- laying the tennis court at the A new lunatic asylum to be Puisne Judge's house at the Peak. built.
$85,000 in aid of the vole Mis cellaneous Services,
The Chairman: This is in respect It is hoped to bring the first of the old Yaumati ferry. When water to Hongkong from the Shing was decided to control these^ Mun Valley Water works on the ferries that service was put up to Kowloon side in the spring of 1927 tender and the Company then at the rate of 17. million gallons running It Was dispossessed. a day throughout the driest There has been considerable There will be a subscription | period. The estimated cost of correspondence since as dance at the Peak Club at 9.15 p.m.doing this is put down at damage done, with regard to on Saturday, October 13.
:
$17,000,000.
in
thing to say more or less illumination, and have became increasing them-do not like to bo referred to T was drowned in the Skagger. for damages for wrongful dis-Ing. involved in serious financial the service
to the
the depreciation of launches in A detailed analysis and criticism revenue to the extent of three and they be, become "sore points" with
particular, and as regards the The annual general meeting of It is expected to end the year prices which we paid for the piers. that has prevailed hitherto,
|a half inllion dollars As in human the possessoru of that. Thin-skin-'
the Hongkong Cricket Club will 1924 with a deficit of 32 million The piers were their property, but: take place to-day at 5.30 p.m. Jocal Budget proposals do not as a
life, there is no standing still in the net ones permeste the muke of the
dollars. Balances are ample to on temporary permit and we had grent as well as those of lesser fry. general thing, excite much outward
meet any possibile call upon them. the right to resume them. The matter has been before the Secre comment, unless proposals include
A postcard front R. B. Satis bury announces his *Coming
Efforts to reduce consumption of tary of State and thoroughly matters which affect hardly the
Shortly" with * The
Quaints," opium "have not been attended thrashed out, and this figure of people, who any be expected tu
dreams of its early founders exld ancestry was dubious and in some But fetchi hun bacgy, and make him Polly." The Beggar's Opera" with very great success In- $85,000 is acceptable to the applic
and "The Nine O'clock Revue. have their voice heard through they be here still to indulge in recent instances has allied itself
creasing taxation various ants in full settlement. with the stage. Fortunes that may Sailor, what is your will of me?'
directions has meant the Colony's $500 in aid of the vote Miscellane anoficial channels. For the next fights of fancy. Increases in have been rands in the past from fortnight our upofficials will doubt Medical, Sanitary, Police, Educa-uel a simple thing as the slave busi-Ho puffed at a pipe that gave no The hearing of the action revenue being exceeded in its im ous Services, Bonuses for Inter
smoke.
brought by Captain J. Watson, mediate needs. The Colony is in a preters and Translators.
The Chairman: The annnal vote Ican give close gludy to the speech tioni and other matters are allness are of the hush-hush types of now under review and have some incidental upon the Colony's expan-conversation. They are matters of Thon this strange word from his lips-formerly master of the "Gorji position to face the lose of all re- Editors some of there broke: Busceptibility.
tan," against Mr. H.M.H. Nemazee venue from opium without becom- is $1,109. The younger clerks is are encouraged to qualify for these bonuses. There missal
the difficulty. WAS concluded in
has been a very good response und. this sum is required. Mr. Justice Gompertz So long as China continues to
$4,500 in aid of the vote Military reserved judgment.
grow opium in great quantities the Expenditure, B.-Volunteer De Colony is unable to abandon its fence Corps, Other Charges, Camp -
Expenses. A Chinese Engineers' Institute monopoly.
The Chairman. The camp which is being opened at Canton to-day. It is a building specially erected for
Revenue from Land Sales is was held in January last year" mere guess work." Demand for exhausted the vote of $4,000. This the purpose at a cost of $30,000 for the site and $40,000 for the erection land is due to dissensions in South is for the annual camp to be held. prominent persons in Canton and during the coming year? of the building. We read that many China. Will the land-boom-end this November
representatives of the Chinese engl-
Military lands question may be neers from Hongkong, Shanghai and other parts of the country are settled before the Governor's team expected to be present at the open- of office expires. ing ceremony.
.finds
Do
Rack,
'em back.
ing, when the time arrives for their necessary as the days have gone on newspaper men, and to call one voices to be beard. It may be that The unsettled causes which have a reporter the idea is too uwful for But we fought 'em fair, and we beat Sunary Court Besterday afecta the oxtremo kgth of a Bilget operated in Southern Chim, to words. It is the newspaper mon Speech. made so by the many which His. Excellency has referred who perhaps more than anyone else,
has to deal and put up with cases 'Now which of these laughing. lads matters with which it deals, or the in statesmanlike terms has meant of thin-skinnednesson (a torrible
shall be fact that the voice of the people increase, in population including the compound word), and leat we Seamen to learn the ways of the
sea?' active expression in undesired class of criminal and the offend, unsuspectingly, we refrain Government, makes a randing of disensed. When normalcy is again from giving examples. Lord Birken- He looked at the lads, and they left
head is the more recent example of their game, zach a speech less attractive than it reached, and wo bone maintained, the work of the thin-skinned one. And wide-eyed over the grass they otherwise would be. Fow there befand the population coeden to its He has been epeaking before the we imagine who take na interest former dimensions it may not be Bar Association (nothing to do with
Hotels let it be said) and his first And each one spoke, and thus said these whatsoever in the work of what has
to maintain дороваку
ho: spoecli pricked tho tender hide of a been described as "our benevolent increuses Fresh problems scem at thin-skinned one. "F.E." as we Bailar, what is your will of me?" Government" and who are not, this moment and in thie connection personally know him, made refer-
came;
MAUDE GOLDRINO.
The Finance Committee also approved the financial minute relating to the distribution of mex- - pended balances of Public Works Department votes for the year 1923. LAUS DEO.
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