TURDAY.
WEATHER "VAGARIES,
HOW THEY AFFECT NEW YEAR TRADE.
LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS,
דיי.
OILED DUCK FROM THE FAR NORTH.
"ASKING QUESTIONS.
MY BOARDING HOUSE CROWDGETS, INQUISITIVE..
ment.
[BY JOHN SINCLAIR.}
CORRESPONDENCE.
HOW TO CATCH OUR
· PIRATES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(To the Editor of the China Mail.)
Sir,-Two aspects of the piracy problem seem to have escaped the attention of your readers who have recently written to you on the subject.
SHIPPING DANGERS.
"HEAVY-FOG DELAYS RIVER-
STEAMERS,
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
changed our firm bame to
THOMSON & CO,”
For bas born delaying tiver ship-NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that we have 'THIS DAY! ping again this week. On Thursday the Steamboat Co.'s "Kinshan" loft Canton.at 8'a.m. but had to cast anchor at Taishatou at 8.30 as tha fog prevented further progress. By 13.30 p.m. the fog olearod. Then it was noticed that the "Fatshan" which left Hongkong on Wednesday night, had also stopped steaming. The "Foo Choong" (Canton-Macao) was another boat anchored in the There were other boats
I have got them guessing. Since that fateful night when Nirvana [Special to the China Mail.] revealed my future, interest in Mr. Sinclair" has developed to Just as those who cater for
Highly worthy of consideration Christnias shoppers at Home an alarming degree. I am begin eagerly scan the weather reports, ning to feel like a hunted hare is an idea mooted by river steamer with the Boarding House hounds officers with years of experience, so do Chinese stores, tradesmen, barking and ready to tear me into and even
street pedlars, look shreds. Nirvana's shuffling of the which is that as the police are forward to the vagaries of our un cards has proved a costly experi- offering sums. which would be
As furtive as a rabbit and deemed fortunes by some for the vicinity. certain winter. It is not claimed
trying to be as elusive, I dare not conviction of robbers, it would which were delayed in other parte that the majority of Hongkong linger too long over my coffee be worth while to experiment in of the delta, ~ Chinese are familiar with the nowadays. Questions are being the same direction with pirates.
From Kongwoon comes the news predictions Issued by the Observa- asked which are getting rather My knowledge is that even the that the Hongkong steamere did not tory but the elements mean a embarrassing. They all want to best-natured Chinese criminal is get in on Thursday till 8 p.m. (in-| just as liable to fall out with his stead of daylight) and did not leave comrades as any other. With the Pak-kai till after dark, system of village communes in China, the knowledge that certain members of a clan have indulged in a little piracy usually spreads rapidly. If the bait were thrown out, I feel certain that valuable in- formation would be forthcoming whereby some at least of the gangs would be tracked down. To ensure success notices should-be broad- casted in every market.
New Year
}
great deal to business before the Europeans look askance at those slabs of meat hanging outside shops in Queen's Road. These are the carcases of ducks which have been flattened out and oiled and do not refer to what is some.
know (especially the asthmatical Old Lady) what I. "do" for a living. They are not asking out right, but the hints that keep drop ping make a nasty thud when they hit the car drum.
This Kowloon Boarding House is no different from any other The first four days the new boarder is an alien trespassing on preserves. If he shares the dining table and cruet stand with another, the fifth day the atmosphere, is slightly relieved by a questioning On the sixth good morning."" day at tiffin (I never attend a breakfast session), things become livelier and the weather is dis- cussed. The seventh day brings a damning
statement from the Old Boarder that the
coffee is "rotten." This burst of confidence generally melts the stranger into weak submission and
times known as varnished or shellac duck which is seen every day outside the roast-pork stalls. Every winter there is a large trade in this commodity which is export- ed from Kongmoon and Wuchow, the kind considered choicest com- ing from far off Na Hung Pass on the land route to the North. This year the weather has been particularly unkind to the trade as it has never been dry and cold for long, Crisp biting North winds are essential before the slaughter- ed birds can become prime. As he has to agree. This is a tragic it has nearly always rained when moment.
Old
TU-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.“
R.
SEALED Tenders, in duplicate,
Another point I wish to draw attention to is the co-incidence in NAVY CONTRACTS 1924–1925. that the recent piracies came one after the other after a certain Coastal Defence Commander had
for the supply the under been moved from office by Sun Yat-sen. When in office, he was mentioned Stores for H. M. Naval considered a good man and he Service at Hongkong during the may have instilled the fear of lead period 1st April 1924 to 31st March into pirates. It may be that now 1925 will be received by the he is gone, the various hordes are Commodore, H. M. Naval Yard, breathing freely and ready to until noon on MONDAY, the 3rdj embark on adventure. Again
Yours etc.,
SAVVY. Hongkong, February 2.
March 1924:-'.
Fresh Vegetables. Soft Brend. Biscuit.
Rice.. Sugar.
any tender is reserved.
H. M. NAVAL DEPOT,
Kowloon. January 1924.
ANOTICE.
At dinner the Old
it my be that some of a told snap has set in, oiled Boarder again vituperates the duck is at a discount and dealers coffee and after working up skil the armed launches which he are faced with the outlook of hav-fully to the climax pulls off the cohimanded and which I am told ing to carry over stocks imported whiskered joke about the rester have not been handed over to the aunteur who mentioned to the to meet the expected demand.
new man, have been mislaid with waiter that, the coffee was muddy, the result that they have fallen From The Frozen North.. the waiter replying that it was into undesirable hands. As this Forms of Tenderand any access Other tradesmen who relish only ground that morning! Then man is now cooling his heels, hoary information may be obtained prolonged cold weather are the 'on the eighth day, which happens can well be entrusted with the job on application to the Victualling furriers. A critical clientelle de to be a Saturday dinner or a Sun-of exterminating pirates in the Store Officer, H. M. Naval Depot mands the best that the trappers day tifan, the stranger is introduc- province and if he succeeds, there Kowloom. in frozen Mongolia and Manchuria ed all round, to the Old Lady and will be many more clamouring for. The right to reject the lowest or can give and what comes to Hong- her giddy flapper grand-daughter, his return. kong is the result of a careful to the dashing salesman who mea- organisation which necessitates sures life, with a foot rule, the Raintaining a team of experts in dark-haired young fellow whose Mukden, Kalgan, Tientsin and mizzen-niast on the top sail gallant other towns to pick the most suit nearly caused his yacht able for the South. About six Bean" to capsize last night, the weeks before China New Year, the Married Couple, the, Frenchman shops are replete with sufficient and his wife and to the Strong NO "WOMAN CAN AFFORD furs and then the dealers Silent Man whose handshake. re to let hor system become poisoned
**HE CHINA LIGHT & POWER merely sit tight and pray for minds one of Buck Benson, the through intestinal ioactivity because to
This has also been a bad real he-man of God's openhut of good looks. 10 restore daily their Consumers that owing to
d so mesna Jose not only of good health
CO. (1918), LTD,, beg to notify cold. year for them, the cold of the last spaces." And all through a regularity, and thug banish the chif few days coming too late as the simple agreement that the coffeeause of sick hondaches, biliousness, alterations in the Generating Stat tailors had stopped receiving or is "rotten."
ver igo, suplestant breath and pimply, ton the supply of electricity will ders for this year, a. week ago, and Being all friends and fellow-bitshed skin Pickettes are perfection. not be available between the hours sufferers in the Boarding House As gently as nature these dainty little of 9 am, and 5 p.m. on TUESDAY now. the daily greetings degener-chemist sells Pinketten, or post free, 60
laxativos aut matters right. Your the 5th of February. Those who live on the upper ate into an Anvil Chorus and to be cents per vial, from Dr. Wilisus levels may have seen coolies car-polite, the stranger has to enquire Medicine Co., 60 Hinges Boad, shang rying branches of trees with blos- sympathetically of the Old Lady's ha Soms on them, making their way rheumatism. The gramophone is hastily into town lest a Forestry going all the time and when I stay, guard policeman should a little longer after a meal,-not become suspicious, Оп
because I love the company, but parts of the Penk will be found because it gives me indigestion to a kind of tree which is now dash up the stairs to the top land. offered for sale in the bazaar, but ing immediately after coffee-I hear it whispered that "Mr.
it was too late for patrons to buy,
Good Joss Trees.
or
some
the majority and the best come via Sinclair is not a bad old stick Canton. It is a Chinese fashion
to buy them and await the
after all."
The
Then things happen. flowers which will bloom out on Flapper breaks through my barrier New Year's Day. Most of the pedlars had resigned themselves of reserve and lowers my inner to the fate of seeing their stock prestige by inducing me to dance. Fortune-telling follows and blooming out prematurely but this werk's low temperature is saved whiskey-sodas, all duly recorded by me in these chronicles. a good bit.
The fortune tellingi thanks Shoe-stores would give almost anything for torrents of rain till to the implacable Nirvana has the holidays. Their view is that wheuled their appetites and the people have to go out to do shop main. obsession of the Boarding House now is what does Mr. ping and it is only natural that shoes spoiled in the rain would have to Sinclair "do" for a living.
་
I suspect the Dark-Haired Young
he replaced for the auspicious Fellow of conspiracy. I caught pccasion Motor garage owners say they do not mind what him whispering to the Old Lady happens before Tuesday, but the other night and winking at the
It be fine from then Flapper.
let
Last night, the plot thickened. He induced; me into
onwards. The number of those his room on the pretence of having who go joy-riding is legion.
one. We had more than.ope and "Canton More Far.":"
withthe heat of the room, and the Although the Canton Customs potent influence of the stimulant, are closed on New Year's Day, the he started asking questions, butting Steamboat Co. runs a day-boat toʻl the queries to me quite legally and Canton as on ordinary days, and in a catechism form. But I was every year over a thousand bazaarwary, I was not having any stall-holders are taken back to though I did not want to Canton. Their wish, together be rude at all. I simply evaded with the stores which reap their his questions on the grounds that harvest in the NewYgar, objected, on principle" to the crush. is of course, for fine Boarding House having my finger weather. At the moment of prints; weight and size. In hats writing it seems that they will be posted up on the wall. Fortunate- the blessed ones. Popular opinionly, a tense situation was relieved has all along, predicted a wet by the running, out of the soda- New Year, as there was no rain water and I was not going to take during the Winter Solstice it plain, so the party broke up. festival. There is a saying that This last week whispering has one or the other" must rot."
been going on, as to what I do.
In previous years, the bazaar Indiscreetly they fumble to them- stalls kept open till the small selves in the dining room and I hours of the morning on the last catch a word or two now and three nights which this year will again I have already heard the be, to night, to-morrow and Old Lady say: "He lab barber,” Monday, No change in thear the flapper terms, this as, “Ridicu- rangements has been announced tous, he is a poet, look at his yet.
* hair" the young manusserts i
"He 15 at Jardines," and I am sure that they have started a sweep
Stops tubborn Branchis) Cons
When changeable
`But I will keepƐthejhi guessin
I had my hair cut this t
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