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OUR MILITARY LANDS.
WHAT THEY WILL COST US.
SIR JOHN OAKLEY'S AWARD:
THE INNER - MAN.
TELLING THE DAY OF THE MONTH BY THE MENU.
BY JOHN SINCLAIR.]
As briefly announced in Monday's. China Mail Sir John Oakley's. award, fixing the value of Hongkong's military lands at $15,983,512
I thought so; in fact I could have This is the sum the Colony will have to pay has now been issued. the Army Council in.return for the handing over of the lands occupied staked my life .on it. The menu by the Garrison in Hongkong and Kowloon, in addition to providing lasts a week and beyond that, the fresh sites and buildings elsewhere. The deal is to be completed
cook's imagination is "played out,( No within 10 years.
simply dies of atrophy. Not boast- ing of the aristocratic programme»- printed or written, for the first seven days it has been a toss-up as
Sito
:
per foot
been taken in the direction of re of that old father, himself a man moving tho cuncerous growth, of remarkable force of character referral to more euphoniously in and, intellect. Turning to the budget deintes as the military lands members of the Cabinet, the Fresl- peablein, which is for many years dent said, "Gentlemen, will you past hindered the Colony's cun please excuse mo for a fcw nereint development and kept site minutes 1" When I told the fine vulnes at a preposterous devel, old chap that the President would These prosents the course of suc bin it once he almost collaps which Sir John Hubert Okley, ed. Then, Uxing himself up, Knight, of 4/6, Charles Strovk, arranging his old frock coat, taking James's Square, Lomkom. Englund, his high hat in hand, striking seeds gebeng," and timounces lus statesmantiko posture, he walked anned, is a wordy document which, into the President's office. bailed down and stripped of its legal words passed between the two!
for terminology, means that the War men
2 few seconds.
The schedule giving the area of each site and its value (subject to Council's export has decided that to The old man looked silent-adjustments) is as fpilows:- get hold of the property we willy at the President, with pride
Rate Square Baye to pay the War Council and admiration plainly visible in $16,988,512 and provides fresh sites his eyes and then waiked slowly and buildings for the Carrison as toward the President and took both well. The trusaction is to take] ms hands. Releasing them he put ales within 10 yents of Sir John's] une of his arms around the Pre- Farrisul here (which occurred jet asident's shoulder and looking 1 month or two barle, and it is one straight into the President's eyes,
sargnate that the flee sasu, "Woodrow, my boy, your! essure of The goverment. The War and father was a great friend of Council is to have a right to with- mine and he was mighty proud of. des from the tunneler at any time you. He often told me that some within the ten years, and before day you would be a great man and completion of the transfer, any par that you might even become Pre- of the property that forgen sident." Removing his arm from Given stances may rende? éspediu about the President's shoulder, the and the Hongkong Government can aid man said, "Well, well, Wood- get out of fulfilling its park of the row, what shall I say to you?" bargain if it inforins the 6.0 Ten answering his own question within four months of the date of he said,1 shall say to you what your dear old father would have said were be here: 'Be a good' boy, my son, and may God bless. you and take care of you!" The President said nothing, but I could see that his lips were quivering.
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A.S.C. yard
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Quantity (Square feet)
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59.790
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185,696
287,631.
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Price or sum' awarded.
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Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
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CHINA NEW YEAR.
HOW IT WAS CELEBRATED.
With the usual barrage of crackers February 6-Coronet Theatre; which, beginning with desultory Jackie Coogan ja “My Boy,"
February 6. Star Theatre; reverberations on Monday, renched Mary McLaren in "The Wild its culminating point in the early
Goose."
February 6.-World Theatre;
Harold Lloyd in "Why Worry,"
February 18, Pianoforte Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
SOCIAL.
SPORT.
OTHER · MEETING.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.'
to what comes next, ether at tiffin or dinner. The Old Boarder-I admire his faithfulness--would not divulge; yet he knows to a potato- and could tell what we shall be presented with a fortnight hence. He is one of those chaps with a tonging lock in his eyes, a living- He has expression. in-hopus never confided his soul 'to me, but I can read his innerniost thoughts. His face betrays him at every meal. For two years the boarder in number seven! room, they tell me that at every dinner- time, he comes down stairs with a cheerful smile, his eyes eagerly. lit as if with great expectations, I can. see if for myself. As the dinner progresses, his face under- goes a gradual transformation from gladness 10 misery. He has again been disappointed and with a parting "coffee's rotten" uttered with as much feeling as the workingman who comes home on Saturday night and finds his beer flat, he stamps off to his room. The surprise he has been expecting for the last two years has not come off. The cook still runs to form.
#
Our cook is a good cook, and he ought to be, after cooking the sathe kind of stuff for this last twenty years. The Landlady is proud of him, boasts about him in fact, and points him out lovingly to the prospective boarder. John is toothless, wears a white apron. s of Tuesday morning and is and an inanc smile. Personally, reluctantly dying out to-day, the if I had my way, I would send him Coming of the Chinese New Year to some distant isle and commit. "
him to cooking corned beef and. was celebrated in customarily cabbage in a colony of Jiggses for enthusiastic fashion by Hongkong's the rest of his tottering days. native population. Yesterday was Corn beef and cabbage is John's given over more or less to the formal weakness and almost an obsession observance of the occasion by vints with him.
I hate the stuff and to the temple and so forth but nothing short of raving starvation to-day the Chinese begin properly would compel me to eat it. It to celebrate in the way which may comes up gasping every Wednes
in
Most of soup than tomatoes; and when I. various fortus of sport. them, particularly those who reside ask for tomato sauce with my fish, within earshot of Chinese business the boy says "No have got, have order." After the first week, I. districts, will go back to-morrow have never asked for it-on tomato with a feeling of thankfulness that,
soup days. ke our own Christmas, the occ
At the Hongkong Volunteersion for all this noise, comes but
on Monday, 570 once a year. Headquarters
feet of Crown land at square Shaukiwan were sold by auction to It is impossible longer to doubt a Chinese for $1,650. The upset that French juries have decided to price was $1 a foot. place editors outside the law. It does not matter whether you have!
Yes, such are the amenities of a One Not Much Crime.
boarding house existence. Fren the crime standpoint it has not to be an epicurean to live, sees to have been a fairly quiet unless one, of course, has won a New Year. True there were one or sweep. Then oysters and cham-
On Saturday last at 4 p.m. two armed robberies at Yaaunti pagne would not be expensive
pay the price asked. The agree ment apparently contemplates that the Government may make per manent use of some of the military buildings and doubtless they will nilised for much-needed office gecomanodation. They ought to bel
The following con- abic to get a good deal of ther
MURDER ment in, the London money back by disposing of the
THE Outlook is so good remaining sites to suitable pur
EDITOR. that we make boid to chasers. By suitable purchisers'
"lift it bodily. is meant that they arons vacated by Madame Caillaux set an in- the military should be mapped out teresting precedent just before with no equal regard to business the war when she walked into the and residential requirements and that office of the editor of the Figaro il fulfilling of these requirements venchy to be made a condition of the and shot him dead. The acquittal sale. The public will be interested at the time seemed based on the that her victim WAS to hear how long it is likety to bel gromin
threatening to publish before the land is handed over and ments damaging to her husband. docu- where the Garrison's new house is We now see clearly, in the light going to be. Also how much of of later journalistic executions, the released area the Government. intouts to keep for its own uses and that Madame Caillaux needed no how much will be offered to the excuse at all. It would have been public No doubt these things will quite enough if she had said that the colour of M. be told to the Legislative Council she disliked
The assassin-I when Sir John Oakley's award is Calmette's tie.
beg pardon, the executioner-of February 23.---Royal Air Force tabled to-morTOW.
M. Jaurès was in turn acquitted, Re-union Dinner. and still ine meaning of the
March St. David's Society verdict escaped most commenta Dinner. tors. If M. Jaurès had been only
February 8.-Fourth tournament politician, the guillotine would have expiated his death. But he of the Hongkong Boxing Associato cach scem best. the new
Ambassador from the was also an editor, and so the ver- tion at the Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.20. j. Though the weather has not beonday and Friday and on those days, I concentrate more on 'cheese and particularly favourable the Euro- United States, Mr. Frank Billings dict was Not Guilty. Madame Kellogg, who is succeeding Mr. Caillaux had her personal motive, February 11-Annual General peans of the Colony have been pickles. John has another pièce de resistance. On Sundays and Tues- Kowloon From Home M. Jaurès was a Socialist, and Meeting.
Residents endeavouring to soothe their shut-days we get tomato soup, more George Harvey:
were.. not popular Association, St. Andrew's Church tered nerves by indulgence super just to land we karn that Socialists
drums began to Hall, 6 p.. Mr. Kellogg is an ex-Senptor, when
when the
Red very clever lawyer, and he has beat. But many lends in Fugland, but he Virgin" was set free on Christmas cines from the Middle West, and Eve in Paris, the truth at last be. it is in Tire Midle West of America came clear. This lady killed the that the bulk of the isolationista, assistant editor of the Royalist who believe that their any organ, L'Action Francaise, in cold should hot alool rom all for blood. Her only defence was that fentanglements, ugy be found. The she wanted to kill the editor, and ◆◆ I new Ambassador is a funn of prin was sorry she had not succeeded.
♦ciple, courageous, independent; his ind once mule mp, he does not change. Had he been an oppor turist it is probable that he would
with the but then, as a police inspector enough. Yet when I think of John still be at Washington, instead of
board 1inted out this morning, what is D. Rockefeller, who once stated. having been ousted by a member of the Tauer-Labour Party which a Bolshevik or a Royalist. One sailed for Singapore. The China Yanati without an armed robbery that he would give half his fortune. swept Minnesota in 1922. As i interesting little point in this new flagship will welcome the Empire Mr. J. R. Wood held a police court to be able to eat a good steak and was, he refused to alter his views "unwritten law of France re- Cruise Squadron which arrives at, this morning but his time wes chips, I am quite satisfied with life. or in any way support those of mains to be cleared up. Since Singapore on February 10, and will chiefly taken up with fining the One cannot get 18-carat Yorkshire which he did not approve an editors
may be
elain with remain there for a week before si New Year, batch of sweet pudding outside Yorkshire, but independence which cost him the impunity, it, follows that prudent sailing for Fremantle. H. M. S. gumblers.
Hongkong Hotel Carnival. scit: he had held as, Minnesota's ones will keep automatics, if not" Hawkins" with the Admiral's
Petersfield" in company Infected by the enthusiasm with repressantive since 1916. Uatil bombs, lying to hand in their Yacht that year Mr. Kellogg had not been offices. What will happen when will then visit Batavia and Java which the native population wel- despairing of having left our tin hats identified with politics. Ever since an editor gets his blow in "first? Ports, and return to Hongkong at comed the New Year, a big gather
I think that if our Landlady. his twenty-five birthday he had Juries, it seems to me,, should hold the end of March viu Bangkok and ing of Hongkong's European on the grand piano.
residenta celebrated the event in exercised a little enterprise she been a lawyer, and though his pro that what is sauce for the goose is Saigon. Piering
the brilliant might earn the sincerest gratitude the
happy fashion at abortive story BOBURUNG WERNEMday, Jay, 8; 1921. together from the hundreds of low, it was steady and sure. First editors the sanie privileges
wasted sheets of paper lying on the he beczce City Attorney for his homicide that are enjoyed by their Hongkong and Shanghai Banking day night at the Hongkong Hotel Boarder. She should make out a
lown. Rochester, then County visitors.
perhaps I
Corporation is to be held in the There were nearly 500 guests and menu herself. Quote a French office floor, our vivid description of Attorney for his State, and in 1912 prejudiced."
City Hall at 11.30 am. on February the arrangements worked with per- dictionary and ignore the grammar. development and he was elected President of tho
An extraordinary general fect smoothness. Monster Chinese Make the menu tasty if she can't INSPIRATION.
meeting will be hold afterwards lanterns, ingeniously constructed improve its interpretation.
flavour to it. [modern trends of the absorbing American Bar Association dis-To-day's Pocu
when a resolution providing for the flower baskets and loops of coloured us something with ("In After Days,'') first-class men. Americs at large
increasing of the ordinary note lights helped to make a wonderful Don't serve up cold corned beef in. Inspiration :, extraurilinary elera-festival of Chinese New Year should finction which comes only to really
did not know anything about the In after days when grasses high Issue from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 picture of the grill room and the all its barefaced glory without a tion of the imagination or older read something like this:
Chinese New Year Bang Minnesota lawyer until he was just D'er-top the stone where I shall lie, and to modify the existing require table decorations, of which bowls of name. Without a name, it has no powers of the monk ... . (Roulitige) A
Thonghill or well the worldments as regards the deposit of goldfish were a distinctive feature, title, nothing by which you can identify it, if you would like Phow just think of it. Extr(By Jove! they've nearly found the over fifty the is now sixty-seven).
adjust
'security in respect of its note issite were equally effective. (range), comes but-baug when there came the most specta ordinary elevation of the jug (another fifty yards and they'll which earned for him the nick-name
The many well-known residents another helping. It would be a My slender claim to bonoured will be submitted. cular achievement of his career,
last,
present at the carnival, included tragic mistake, if you had to ask that cold tion-Phew! If only the reuter
Mr. Dowley and party of 32, Mr: for some more of once a year-Zip. The Trustbuster." In that year I shall not question or reply,
Bagram and party of 18, Mrs. stuff" and the Landlady heard. could have seen us in the throes of
(machine-the year of the anti-trust move-
Eustaco and party of 20, Mrs. you. But it would be her own The following, among other Stapleton and party of 10, Mr. Van fault. The pretty trimmings" on and party of 6 Mr. the park should be dropped; they- appointments of the Colonial Andeli service, have been made by the Montargis and party of 12, look all right as an advert for a Secretary of State for the Cologies Mr. d Mra. Denia II. Hazol greengrocers, but they don't fill.
Profobor Our Landlady's menu should be. Hongkong. Mr. A. G. M. Severn, and party of M.D., D.P.H., to Assistrat Medical Danenberg and paty of 6, M. something like this: Officer of Health; Miss K.-M. W. W Mackenzie and party of 12, Anderson, to Kindergarten, Mis Mr. Holte and airty of 12, Mr. tress Mr. E H. Williams, to Raymond end party of 4, Mr. T..E. Cadet; Mr. H. G. Wellington, to Pearce, and party of B, Mr. A. M. Master, Education Department; Holland and party of B, Mr. Mr. J. S. McLaren, to Cadet Moulder and party of 10, Mr. Officer; Miss A. E. Hammond, Blacking and party of 4, Liout.. Miss EC. Murray, Miss. B. M. Besant and party of 6, Mr. Astrona Gill, to Nurses; Miss M. E. Riddle, (Chilian Consul) and party of 8. Mrs. Taggart and party of 6. hr. to Nursing Sister.
C. A. Henderson saul party, of 6. Now don't you think that that Mr. F. M. Ells and party of 5. Mr, menu is inviting? Doesn't it give Engle and party of 5, Mr. Kaller tone to the boarding-house? You and paaty of 11 Mr. Mason and will agree with me. It does, But party of 0 and Mr. J. H. Hinda rose by any other name smells
just as sweet..
N. LAZARUS.
Hongkong's Only European
Optician.
he China Mail.".
the history.
a motive or have none, or whether H.M.S." Hawkins
the editor you desire to remove is Commander-in-Chief
on
one can shut one's eyes and think of a little farmhouse on the York.. shire moars when masticating the rubberine substitute.
tes in his chosen profession was sauce for the gander, and give
of The annual meeting of the Chinese carnival organised on Mon- of her "guests," especially the Old.
But
am
havo us)...... these few lines this morning, he zip-zip-zip-zip-zip-zip would have pitied the pour journalists How) and when itment-Mr. Kellogg acted as special I shall not see the morning sky:
counsel for the US. Government I shall not fear the night wind (Dyck Alfi
Bigh; the against the Standard Oil Company, shiving with loosened collar,
I atall be mute is all men must perspicing bow and dark visage erries have started the barnge) the Paper Trust, and the Union
In after days! dock come Zip-zip Southern Pacific Railway merger. to catch just that word, that happy
He came out of this tussle victori- word to start off a little story about zip-zip-zh-zip-zip-zip-zip (Koop ons, and his fame was made. His But yet, now living, fuin were I
fee was said to be one of the largest That souve une then would testily, Chinese New Year. It was tragie, down George; they'll get yerl
Saying "He held his pen in In the littered, wastes of our office it will be known-Bang Bang over paid to counsel The new lawyer-Ambassador has an attrac
trust in Wyndham Street lies the tragedy
tive personality and a strong souse To Art, not serving abame or Another attempt Chinese New[of humpur He is widely read and lust. Year Zip-Bang-zip-Bang has a gift for absorbing facts and Will none Then let my memory
Crash pronting them. Both the Ambre- a. comes but...
(well good-bye Alf.)
at a thing unfinished, u ́ broken malody-a lost chord.
throughout China,
Wyndham Street is not Arcadia where oo can sit and dream and pour out one's soul in lofty lyric
With shattered nerves, beads of to the world. At ordinary three we struggles through our labours with a cold sweat pouring from our varying degree of satisfaction. This trembling bodies we ordered n moking we gave up the ghost. general retreat, leaving the office Chinese New Year has besten us. completely at the incroy, of the Ordinary pesos we can stand but enemy. We shall rest until wo machine-gun, boube, rifles and get over it, The Chinoso can have ather piercing detonations render this Colony until to-morrow. the mulerer to the misery of shell- hock Ex-ervice men-duck instinctively. When they hear -taxo penak of b prunt ‹ We were doing this all moching, add at times woefully
Miltary Lands:
Evon at the price of $16,000,000 odd the now's in welcome that at long last a definite step forward bas
sador, and his wife aro fond of enter- taining, and Mrs. Kellogg was D most popular hostess in Washington during her six years' residence in that bity.
Another story réfut- WILSON'S ing the charge that };
GREAT the late Dr., Wood- PASSION. row Wilson was.
dia
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. “
TO-DAY'S CRICKET.
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Y.R.C. v. CRAIGENGOWER C. C. marsh and party of 6.
The following will represent the Indians in a friendly against the thetic is told by his Secretary, the dainty little gen lo-a-nature C.C.C. at Sookunpoo to-day at Mr. Tumulty During the critical tives also banish billousness, 12 p.m.-S. H. Ismall (Capt.), O headnelis, livrishness, purify the broatia
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Potage de la Caulifleur Poisson avec le sauce piquant
· Lá Sac du Mysterie, ...' Boeuf avec le gravy et la pomme de terre
Fromage Peche Melba (Perhaps 1).
Orange, Les Nuts de pi'. Cafe au Lalt. Ran God Save the King.
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Citing for wcrub down after a hard game."
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