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jes' the minute. Thet ever fits us easy while
we're in it; Long ez 'twus futur, 'twould be
perfect bliss
Soon ez it's past, thet "time's
wuth ten of this;
An' yit there ain't a mari thet
10701 | provarad elinio-the defect of man-
The Times of London hood camined and attempt made. EGGS. recently ran an editorial on the subject of. bo alleviate suffering, right & wrong
Ancient Eggs." It touched on 'choos- of nature, and put to some use, no many things, almost on mutter, how small. naturo has and ships and sealing wax-on but it decreed it shall be, to the service cabbages--and kings," of humanity. Commonsense cries missed the point which Lowell out that something should be done Caught, when he wrote in his
Biglow Papers: -not merely to hide thego sights from timid eyes and so make us apt to forget that entering docs abound, and thus probably more hard- hearted. Boon it will either be that) **something” or the lethal chamber And of beggars we would have none.. "It ought to be possible to see that every man willing to work should work, or to make the un willing worker take off his coat. Charity often is misdirected and especially in the case of those who whine and beg and trail their man- hood in the dust. Wo simply tinker at these vital problems-like the Pharisee, often passing them by on the other side, fearful lest they contaminato us, thankful that a merciful providence in which we dimly believe, has not called us to stato of axistence that probaby Lazarus' dog would bositate to associate with us.
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This then, feeble and fanciful as it may sound is, our brand of Socialism. Are any prepared to join us in the cry-We are all Socialists now ?**
China New Year Crime.
need be told That Now's the only bird lays
eggs af gold.
ALL SCOTCH
Dunib men win nae land,
Auld folk are twice bairns. Eat-weet's Drink-weel's brither
Ae bour in the morning
is twa after noon.
Better bow to my faes than
from my friends.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events 'Advertised' In Tho Mail.
.ENTERTAINMENTS.
February 2-Coronet Theatro; "Thorns and Orange Blossoms," February 2.~-Star Theatre "The Pilgrim."
February 2-World Theatre; "The Sting of the Lash."
February 18.Pianoforte Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
SOCIAL February 4. Concert in St. Andrew's Hall, Kowloon, 9 p.m.
February 4-Chinese Now Eve Dance at Repulse Bay Hotel.
February 23. Royal Air Force Re-untos Dinner.
March 1 St. David's Society Dinner.
LAND SALE.
February 4-At P.W.D. Offices, one lot of Crown land at Shauki- wan, 3pm,
COMPANY MEETING February 2.-Fifth worth
yearly meeting of shareholders of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., at the begregistered office of the Company, No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central
He has muckle prayer but little
devotion.
.3 p.m.
;
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 1994.
COLONY'S HEALTH.
∙COPING WITH SMALL-POX.
SOME AMAZING FIGURES.
!
HONGKONG AND LEPROSY,
At least 400,000 people have boen vac cinated since November 1, last year, the beginning of the campaign-a record which reflects much credit on our hardworking Medical Department,
This creditable statement was given to a Chinn Mail represent ative by Dr. W. W. Pearse, the Medical Officer of Health, during a brief chat yesterday.
During the last seven years, there well over 800,000 had been free vaccinations, remarked the Considering Medical Officer. the millions of people Dr. Pearse's assurance that he who passed through Hongkong thought the small pox period had from such places as Canton, where reached the top of its yearly curve, small-pox was rampant at prosent, will make cheerful reading. The it was a wonder, commented Dr. doctor said that the present period Fearse, that there were not 100 was always the worst for the cases a day instead of a hundred disease every year. A hundred a week,
cases a week were being notified, Dr. Pearce here unconsciously but with the advent of warmer paid à tribute to 'his own depart- weather there would be a gradualment. What the Medical Depart
ment has done in its' fight against decline.
the disease is indeed little. short Weather, Dr. Pearse sald, was ordinary
always a deciding factor in the of amazing; for the epidemic The in the most part is evidently con- spread of the small-pox. recent snap of cold, experienced veyed from Canton and during the past week or two, had insanitary spots which sends it not helped to stay progress of the population to termingle with infection, but it had acted on the Hongkong's.
Leprosy.
contrary..
1
1.
Amazing Figures.
BONG OTHER MEETING. February 4-General Meeting Every man bows tas the bush he of the Hongkong Jockey Club in
the Hongkong Club Annex, 5 p.m. On the subject of vaccination as gets beild frae.
February 11-Annual General opposed to the arguments of the Meeting, Kowloon Residents' anti-vaccinationists, Dz Pearse Association, St. Andrew's Church was Hill, 6 p.m.
Guld watch hinders harm.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. iden
loth to express
an
The
other
Discussing the news regard- ing the campaign to raise funds for the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, Dr. Pearse said there was nothing for Hong- kong's residents to be scared about regarding leprosy.
Leprosy was not a notifiable disease and the doctor said he had not. therefore, any figures regard- ing the disease. But speaking
There is a wholesome
opinion. In Hongkong, he said, and places in the Far East HOUSES. lesson to be learned!'
from the example of
generally, it was extremely diffi- the Netherlands which has spent,
cult to collect evidence and he had Netherlands according to the
long ago realized the futility of attempting it. Chamber of Commerce, more than
A Chinese villager from Nam Chinese believed in vaccination, from his own experience, he had At this time of the year it is usual $500,000,000 for small but com- to have an epidemic of robberies, modious workingmen's houses dur-Tao-was knocked down by a tram added the doctor, as shown by the hardly met more than one case a be hundreds of cases among the because it is golding towards the ending a little more than the decade in Connaught Road West yester amazing, figures of treatments dur-year in Hongkong. There may
ing the past ten weeks. of the Chinese year, but there are just past. This means that, on the day and taken to hospital.
Medical Department had the staff Chinese, but it was unrecognisable only a fow who know why local basis of a cost price of$5,000 foreach
According to Reuter, Aus- and material for a million injec and impossible to identify. criminals take it into their heads to house and figuring on an average! work overtime at present. Firstly, family of five persons (the average tralian newspapers on the assumptions-more than the estimated Nothing To Be Scared About. it is believed that it is due to a is probably larger), more than tion that the Singapore scheme population of Hongkong-but it desire common, to all Chinese to get 500,000 individuals have been pro- will be abandoned discuss the was due to the general laziness of as ranch money as they can for the vided with modern shelters at an likelihood of Australia establish the average Chinese that the vaccination figure was not bigger auspicious day. As the only extremely low rental since about ing a base at her own cost sonte of income some have is 1912. robbery, it is only to be expected that the Chinese Bill Sykos will
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"According to Renter, a telegram from Memgtsz reports that Mr Abel, the Acting Commissioner stationed at Szemao Customs, was stabbed to the heart and killed by his cook after an altercation.
The New Zealand Football Association, says a Reuter cable Suddenly a from Wellington,, is inviting
Chinese team to tour the Dominion in the forthcoming season, com- mencing at the end of May.
One of the latest e an additional risk to obtain RADIO. achievements of the funds wherewith to have a good
raido is reported from time when New Year cargos. But Bombay, where during a recent there is also another aspect which visit of the Viceroy of India to lends to give the robbers. more Patiala State a novelty was intro- inducement. Every shop and duced at his jungle camp in the household is amassing us much form of a wireless broadcast instru- demands. Valuble jewellery is military band was heard from out taken out to be in readiness. of nowhere. On inquiry "it was People are aut till late reaking pur- found that the music came from for the Occasion and several miles away and that a loud ⚫ casos
strangers who claim to be shrolls speaker had been installed in the or tradesmen are not unexpected. camp. Even the jungle and the It can be said that everybody is desert are thus being dragged on tingling with excitement so that to the highway of civilization. necessary precautions are sometimes relaxed with the result that bad chameters luve mady opportunities. From what can be seen, the policej are on the qui sive for prowlers. Special patrols are sent out and a systematic search of people in the street takes place frequently and at all hours.
Gambling lu Shares.
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The
silk shipped per 5.5 "President Grant," which sailed from this port on January 7 at te am, arrived in New York on January 29 at 6 p.m., having been 22 calendar days and 8 hours in transit.
'dissolved.
than it was
4.
If the authorities did come across
a leper in the Colony, went on Dr. Pearse, the victim was sent to a non-British subject, he would be. hospital Immediately. If he were
sent to the special hospitals at What We Have Escaped.
Canton where he would receive A lowly Chinese earning a bare modern treatment from the miss- living wage, explained Dr. Pearse. ionaries who were always working would be a little reluctant to be-hard against the scourge there. come vaccinated when he knew that its effect might prevent him from working for one or two days. meant the loss of two days' pay for him,
CAMERA NOTES.
USEFUL TIPS BY AN EXPERT.
THE CHOICE OF A PLATE.
The discase was not communic- fable, except in extraordinary cases, and, concluded the doctor," there Hongkong." is nothing to be scared about in
PIRATE ZONE.
GUARDS FOR CARGO
STEAMERS?
LESSON OF THE "SALEN.”
POLICE CHIEF AND EXISTING 'PRECAUTIONS.
a cargo
It is a novel ex:
Naturally, every photographer NOVEL pedition upon
has his own particular fancy re- which the auxillary
garding plates and this is even more
After the piracy of the coal-ship power schooner "Boxer" sailed
The Government Gazette notifies accentuated at home in Britain from Seattle, Wash., recently, for that, unless cause is shown to the where the choice, and what con- "Salon," which was returning to south-eastern Alaska, equipped as
contrary, the Eastern Cinema-cems the Hongkong Photographer Hongkong after discharging her. school and a model floating
tograph Co., Ltd. will be struck off so very much more, the possibility, cargo at Canton, a suggestion was carrying 100 tons of school sup the register at the expiration of of obtaining what is particularly made in one quarter that it might plies. When she reaches her three months and the Company fancied. At Home it is an easy be advisable to institute armed destination, her officers will un-
matter to obtain what one wants, guards and grills for cargo boats dertake to teach the native Indians
and if the local dealer happens to as well as passenger ships trading various trades, including wire-
Leung Sal-yak, an inmate of a be out of stock, fresh supplies are in the danger zone.
Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Captain Tho heavy speculation in stocks less telegraphy and navigation.
Out here in Hongkong the Superintendent of Police, courte- and shares that has been rife in this Fifteen villagos of the Tolinget, house of ill-fame at No. 32, Woo forthcoming within a few days. Colony during the last several weeks Teimpsean, and Rydah tribes are sung Street, Yaumati, attempted to
vessel's itinerary, and end her life by taking opium Photograplier, has not by any ously expressed his view to a Mail reporter when is, a veritable menee to the com- on the
the schooner's yesterday. She was removed to means so wide a choice because China munity. Within a month, market instruction--by
so important a factor, the dealer pointed out that the proposal.. values of local companies have cook-in modern cooking will the Kwong Wah hospital for while the climatic conditions are approached yesterday, Mr. Wolfe will only stock in any quantity, would be tantamount to making appreciated about $25,000,000. So constitute a feature of the work to treatment." called brokers who do not disclose be given...
In attempting to evade arrest, brands of plates that will keep, and the Piracy Prevention Ordinance the names of their principals, and
Lord Frederic Ham- a man named Wong Ching, who is what to him is more important, will apply to strictly cargo boats as hasten to say that is prepared to who in some cases are absolute
HAME,ilton tells a story of alleged to have entered the first sell readily. Ilford plates because well as steamers licensed to carry After giving the share his coal and his purse; that jobbers, have committed themselves
thought, Mr. an American mill-floor of No. 24, Cross Street, for an of both these important points are passengers.
practically naiversally stocked in suggestion some to huge transactions. Scrip nuta-
purpose yesterday, believes all are equal; that believes bars are not given and thus it has fonaire, who decided to buy some unlawful
jumped into the street below and China but this does not mean to say Wolfe said "In normal times, no," He remarked that the present that some other British makes of even that Bill Loppock of the Con-beert possible for instances to occur property in Scotland.
He was shown over the place by sustained severe injuries,
plates do not come up to the same times were abformal but even if standard.
the idea were approved there was stitutional Reformiera is better where the volume of abares denit in
has far exceeded the actual number the owner. As they returned to
Candidates who passed in the However, personally I prefer a the difficulty of finding the qualified to fill the chair of the of shares issued by the companies the house, the American noticed Colonial Secretary thau anyone concerned. Some years ago the over the door the words: East, recent teachers' examination and plate working at a quicker speed adequate, number of Indians, to as guards. In ordinary. At the moment we feel Keswick law was introduced to West, Hame's Best Turning to are qualified to teach are Miss than Ilford because working on serve
would circumstances, there would only else. that particular chair is well render illegal pure gambling of this the owner, the American remarked: Beksu Chiu, Miss Hung King Chum, the Watkins, factor it
naturo. Now, however, the law"Well, my lord, it's very kind of Miss Julia Gutierrez, Miss B appear that actually they are be very few people on CHANDLER.On January 26, filled whilst, B. should not recognises such gambling trubac you to have shown me over this George, Mias Agnes H. Ismall, slower than supposed. Whether boat and it should not be necessary 1024, at Shanghai, Ernest like ka H.. sporting the tions and those who are tempted by property, and I don't think we're Miss. iu Choi Ying, Miss Luciola this is owing to the great latitude to take the precautions necessary
or not I do not know but I find I get on passenger ships. British- Chandler, Knight
The C.S. P. said that a captain American Tobacco Co. (China), regulation Socialist red, tie or taking brokers to go in and amass fortunes likely to fall out about the price, Lopes, Miss Un Cheung Sun.
much more contrast and brilliance Ltd., aged 55 years.
lessons in hymn singing. We board may well find themselves legally but there's ang stipulation I must
Dr. Thompson telegraphs that with a Marion Brilliant plate, which would know his Crew and a linhle to pay up. not only ther make, polting, to the motto. That damned fellow Hame has MAMICHAEL On Jammuary 28 the rod flag sung in our buoyant, hard-earned capital but over and
1924, at Shanghai, Jolm Heyoutiful, idealistio days, and above that, promissory notes, which got to take down his ad-ver- he escaped yesterday and safely one can easily obtain in the Straits scrutiny befors sailing would. reached Pactowchen, says a Settlements and depend on their preclude strangers from travelling Reuter cable from Peking. Dr. being frash as well, which is most on a cargo boat. Mr. Wolfe also rick McMichael:
But what of it will take them years and yours tisement."! WEARNE. On January 19, 1924, frankly, it bored us.
Thompson was returning to useful. I was persuaded to try expressed the opinion that when a to redeem. If it is to legalise share
Peking with the late Major-them down there and was ex cargo ship was entirely staffed by General Pereira's belongings tremely pleased with the result and foreign officers and under normal, when he was captured by bandits. while they are difficult to obtain circumstances, it should be locally, I get my supplies by post immune from piratical attentions On Wednesday a money from Singapore.
This brings me to an Important changer sent his nephew and a foki
the dif with $1,000 in Hongkong notes to point for the Amateur Photo- criticism regarding accompany three coolies who had graphers consideration, which fe, ficulties of development of stated that somebody on a coal ship the dealer will stock a plate if as these plates which admittedly lylog off Wanchal, wished to sured that there would be a is best done in total, darkness. change a large quantity of copper reasonable demand for it. While In reply to that I would sug cents into, notes. Neither of the personally I have requested a gest using an Isochromatic plate two barterers have turned up since dealer to order some for me, which may be used without a leaving the shop. The master naturally he will only order a screen. The Marion Iso" plate became anxious and reported to few, which will not be here for H and D. 250 Is excellent for this about three or four months, cone purpose, and I have seen some the police yesterday, Bondag
sequently, I still obtain thera from results of flower studies on an Singapore, but if through the ordinary plate, in comparison with Yesterday, officers of the medium of the local Amateur the same subject on an "Iso" 17134 It rained all this day, and Criminal Intelligence Department Photographic Societies, dealers plate. The latter is a most marked Dilly came to me, and was brought back from Macao the two were assured that supplies of improvement. While I would not go coaching it into the city: so men who, as being on the crew of Marion plates for example would so far as to say that an Isochromatic I wont with him for a skating, the LS. Tai Laarb alleged to be purchased by members, then plate gives the true colour ratio, or because it would not cost me have absconded from the abfpaupplies of the various plates would is as satisfactory in this respect as & farthi
when the pirates left.When be forthcoming. arrested they had on them a largy PpiThis is a hint for considerat vhum of monoy, regarding, which mak
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(Priolet)
A ring of gold,
at 7, Chatsworth Avenue, our Socialism? We have had it, bad transactions (where scrip numbers Singapore, Matilda Esther and particularly since fate or pro- are not given) for the purpose of To-day's Poem. Wearne, widow, of the late John Wearne, of Fremantle, vidence, or a P. &.0. liner directed raising stamp revenue, why not na hither. We feel it pulsate every compel the stock exchanges in this Western Australia, aged 80.
Colony to revise their rules and time wa sca a beggar or a deformity insist on margine being deposited by thrust ito, unpleasantness before ouroperatora in forward deliveries, the It is then that we would do sime as in the stock exchanges of Operators will then not exceed their
&he China Mail.hire; it is thou that we look round the principel cities of the world?
HONGKONG SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1954.
SOCIALISTS.
upon our prosperous fellow-citizens; means for the moment their our bowler Brokers our granite margins disappear they will be buildinge
ourwiftly moving called up to furnish further motor care and we may things and margins, foiling which their wonder, even if our revenue from ecounte will be alosad. Their looses will thus be limited instead of innd sales taken away the breath, being unlimited as át present. This and our inaterial progress flaunts system must check gambling to "We are all Bocialists now!
itsalf on all sides, if we have really some extent and while it may not suit some brokers, it will make for Gladrone did boy in 1878, progressed. We would do away protection, of the public, defy suyone to disprove it with our beggars, and the deformed opinion all gambling in shares wit just ne we were furt in this field and those who piteously often out numbers abould be render
sto sugest that ero long Hongkong was
be repeating the phras om
ness
the supply of bananag, so attended
fe. For
metane
their
illegal as this is the best method of Bansuring legitimate business. Bhould; however, the government Teal reluctant to logialate an begin the least it can de the stock exchangoë 23 ravi rules on the lines suggested Whey 280 financial crisis
A lock of hair, And all is told,
A ring of gold,
A heart grown old.
She was so fair "Ating of gold,
A lock of hair.
M-W
WEATHER CALENDAR.
FEBRUARY 2.5
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