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That is why Mr. Baldwin close en 200,000,000 human, boings during the preference debate dwell. With a length of 3,000 reported yesterday had to admit miles only 400 less then the King of Waters, the world-famed that if his resolutions were Amazon-It is navigable for more defeated there could be no talk of than half this distance and is the
(From Our Own Vorrispondent.J COMPANY MBSTINGS, “ any breach of faith, because, as he main avenue in a system of water.
June 21-Extraordinary gen- ways of highly diverse and com-
Cheloo, Jun-1. added, Parliament is supreme.plex character, many of its eral meeting of A. S. Watson Co.,
"The first story of the une How long Parliament will remain tributaries being themselves Ltd.. at Hongkong Hotel. 11.30 (From Our Special Correspondent,) { ["Ching-an"" having been "pimted supreme it is difficult to foretell, navigable for hundreds of miles.
by pirates' and' a number, of pag- July 7-Farther extraordinary though it is almost certain that
Warrants have been issued by sengers having been taken çapliva Signor Mussolin meeting of A. S. Watson & Co..the Canton police, it is reported, seems to have been rather any attempt by the Government to
voyaged from Syra Ltd., at Hongkong Hotel, Pedder for the arrest of Ow Hel-ming, exaggerated. The new story, an introduce drastic class legislation NAPOLEON. cuse to Angusta the Street, 11.30a.m. will produce a crisis that will lead
other wook in a sub-
September 16-Extraordinary also known as Harry Ow, acting as far as I can find out, the correct to another general election, which marine. He returned in a seaplane general meeting of The Ching Manager of the recently suspended one; in that the incident was a The pose of Italy's strong man Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the Chiness Merchants' Bank, in political affair. The launch, had might possibly alter the standing must be maintained. That of the Parties and as a result the erstwhile blackshirted gentleman Registered Office of the Company, Canton. Instead of attending to arrived at Yanga Due and dis- the winding up of the affairs of the embarked its passengers, whent influence of the new Parliament believes in colour in politics. Is Pedder Street, noon,
October 9.-Second meeting of institution pending liquidation pro-about a score of quen armed with it the usual thing for the chis over the next Government formed. statesmen of Europe to use sub the China Sugar Refining Co., coss, Mr. Ow is alleged. to buve Mauser pistols prevented Beyond that it is at present im-marines and seaplanes? Of course | Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, departed from the city, leaving passengers going away, and loo
not. Therefore Signor Mussolini hoon.
only his former, assistants in over command of the bout them--- possible to look.
must terrify the fishes of the sea October 20-Third meeting of charge, Mr. Ow is a returned student selves. These men, go in fa stated, and the birds of the air.
The China Sugar Refining Co., from Americu, häving graduated werd Southerners, who had come Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, from a college in one of the Middle up with the iden of securing the noon.
States. He was one of the Chinese genbout "Flai Chi'a whicNo hieutenant-colonels-in-chief of the is in port here. There is said to June 23.Annual general meet Canton Merchants Volunteer Corps be quite a large band of them Sessions yesterday said he could in argumentativeness; and he whơg of the Peak Club at the Club. in 1923. According to relatives of round about who had collected 6.80 p.m. and extraordinary ge-
from the bank some two inonths then put out from "Yang-ma-dao considered argumentative to only eral meeting immediately after.
July 14. Further extraordinary slightly less degree. Seldom,
the press inserted by himself, still on the way here they were however, has a person been found meeting of the Peak Club, 6.30. Notice of his retirement in for Chefoo, but when they wore however, only appeared the day huet by a junk with a number of following the suspersion of the their accomplices abourd, who told bank, says the Yin Chiang Può, a them that the project was useless, Canton daily paper. "
ns the "Hai Chi", was prepared and waiting for them. They had
Trust Of Servants.,
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Mr. Justice Dyer Ball in giving
judgment in a case at the Criminal
robbery than that in which the
"A man who says QUESTION OF that black is white COLOUR is usually branded as the last word
trust of a master and his aged mother was violated by one of their servants, the mother who is willing to fight even the p.m.
second proposition is a court of treated and goods stolen in the law; and in that respect Dr. absence of the son. While many Sadhindra Boss A naturalised will doubt if this is a worse type Indian, who is a lecturer at the of robbery than an armed, one in University of Iowa, is probably Ltd. which life itself is threatened quite unique, for the cables tell us
there is no doubt that the problem that he has protested against the¦ of the trust of servants is a very decision that Hindus are not white vital one and that any general people, and, consequently, are violation of this trust on the part ineligible for United States citizen- of servants left in charge of houses ship, and that he will combat in would lead to a very serious state the Federal Court the annulment of affairs. There are many houses of his citizenship. Fin" the Colony which are left in entire charge of servants for the greater part of the day and although many of them have been in the service of the families they serve for many years and need no reminders of the serious charges They lay themselves open to if they violate the trust placed in them it is just as well that any servants caight so doing should be very severely dealt with. The sentence of seven years' hard labour with twelve strokes of the birch which Mr. Justice Dyer Ball imposed in yesterday's case is by no means too severe.
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What "Foki" Meany,
Many people in Hongkong have a misconception of what the word foki actually means in Chinese, Europeans usually understand it to convey a junior employee of a Chinese shop, or one in a position devoid of executive responsibility and performing manual or semi- matiual duties. From the Chinese point of view this is entirely
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An advertisement is to-ty's hoped, the majority of the men on issur coufirms the report pul bourd would have been on shores lished in the China Mail this week leave celebrating the 5th month that Mr. John Fleming has been feast, but evidently the pinn had" appointed special manager of the leaked out and all leave had beare (From Our Own Correspondent.) Chinese Merchants' Bank. Ltd., cancelled. The men thereupon which suspended payment "st abandoned the launch, which they week. The bunk's office will be stranded, and which was towe Just before THE WAY breaking up of a
Mr. Lo Suen-wing who was removed to the office of Mesars: back to Chefoo by another of the OF IT. big school the deputed, it is reported, by the Lowe, Bingbom and Matthews, student at the School of Mines, ber of Commerce to visit British teacher, once a Hongkong Chinese General Cham: gave a short lesson on Geology North Borneo and to report with and Minerals."
reference to the suggested Chinese Some of the boys already had a smattering of subterranean, auri-immigration scherne for the Gov- ferous, argentiferous and arena-rument as well as for private He Jas estates. has arrived, ceous terms,
definitions of each.
lecture he asked questions.
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the
THROWING PEPPER.
launches belonging to the RUM Company, and not the Customs launch as I previously stated. The whole business seems to live been
a fiasco. Rumours are prevalent and it ja very difficult to find out anything defluite" but the above seems to be the generally accepted version of the affair.
HEAVY SENTENCE' FOR THIEF. Some of them knew farinaceous visited nearly all the principal
EXCITING CRICKET, That he threw pepper in the mundic. from crystallised con-places and estates where Chinese
Rev. C. McDoua has recently eyes of a woman and robbed her glomerate, and laminated granite labour is employed and his report of a pair of gold bangles was the arrived here, and will act us Port from argillaceous galena,
will, un doubt, make interesting He touched upon sulphides.reading.
This is, it is believed. charge against Wong Kau who Chaplain for the summer months. zones and oxides, giving broad the outcome of the risit paid last was found guilty at the Criminal On Saturday afternoon, June 7, At the close of the lesson-cum-year by the Hon. Mr. E. R. Halli Sessions yesterday afternoon and the Cricket Club again met the sentenced to seven years' im School on the latter's grounds. Hongkong prisonment and ten strokes of the Both teams were without some of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, cat.
their best men, Messrs. Graham, A boy put his hand. -
[An inquiry at the local Chinese Mr. J. H. B. Nihill prosecuted for Grubb, Sugden and Douglas being Please, teacher, it's the skin Chamber of C'ommer. hus, the Crown and said that on May 4 unable to play for the Club, and of a bullick 1,"
brought forth the reply that the as the woman was washing clothes Vale, Hazeland, Sternberg and visit is not muder the auspices of in her house at Shanghai Street Goold for the School. The game the Chamber. From the Hon. the man'approached, threw pepper was thus in some ways all the more A. E. Wood, Secretary in her eyes and took the bangles interesting, and proved a very Chinese Affairs, it was gathered from her arm. There was another
close fight. The Cricket Club that Sir. The went with an into-man with him and as soon as the hatted first and made a total of 44, duction to the British North Borneo woman recovered she gave chase
She Mr Lilley making 15 runs, Government. This is a sequel to but failed to catch them.
What is an oxide)"
To-day's Poem.
will arise and go now, and go to
Innisfree.
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
3.
Mr.
Mr. Halifax's trip last year when, then found that three other Harrison was caught and bowled by wrong. Actually the term means Nine bean-rows will have there, on his retin, he discussed the women who were in the house had Mr. Ford, playing for the School,
anybody working for the same concern. Thus it, is proper for the youngest apprentice to say that he has been foki with the chief executive and vice versa. The term's origin is doubtful, but it can be classed as Chinese slang (like lakong for a Chinese con- stable). It is never employed in writing, an equivalent using the same first character serving in its place. This first character refers to rooling and food: Accordingly, it is thought that the word must the have been derived from Chinese custom ofa firm providing I all meals for the establishment and it not being considered infra dig for a master to eat at the same
a hive for the honey bee,
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
And live alone in the bee-loud prospects of Chinese immigration also had pepper thrown into their with the first ball of the game. eyes. When confronted with a Burnett secured four wickets, Mr. into Borneo with many Hongkong number of men at Mongkok police Ford, three: Fiddler, twat and glade."
residents. It appears that Bornen station the woman whose bangles Moore," one. The School bowling is anxious that Chinese of the had been stolen immediately; was good, especially that of suitable class should settle there identified prisoner by means of a Burnett. When the School went and it is expected that Mr. Fo will
scar on his temple.'
in to bat they were only able to make a report on his return."
When the police, acting on make 49, thus winning by the nar information, had arrested prisoner row margin of five runs. Mr. near the Yaumati Railway Station Harrison secured four wickets for he bad resisted and the officer had
slow, Dropping from the veils of the
morning to where the cricket! sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnets
wings.
will arise and go now, for always
night and day
I hear lake-water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One 'case
to obtain assistance. On the way the Club, and Mr. Purdon, three.
To-day there has been a very of cerebo spinal to the police--station--the-man fever, Chinese, was notified yes-offered a bribe to the policeman heavy rain-storm, with tremendous terday.
who had arrested him if he would als of thunder, and for a short let him go.
while, hail, Defendant said that it was a He case of mistaken identity. had not committed any robbery
table as the most humble of his While I stand on the roadway, or 20-cent silver pieces, writes our and he was picked out by mistake. |
subordinates. Its present use is probably due to the custom of the Chinese in describing themselves us fokis of a certain shop when they mean those who are engaged in the shop's interests. By com-
use the term has been itdebased and is now a colloquialism.
Members of pirate and
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China Mail. has prudently suspended, and its faki.
A man will refer to his wife as his
on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core,
--W. B. Yeats,
WEATHER CALENDAR.
JUNE 20.
Since June 7, the Canton Government Mint has been turning out a large number of special correspondent. For a few. On being asked if he wished to days the local market hesitated to call any witnesses prisoner called circulate them, charges of low three men in, the court, two of standard being responsible for the whom said they could not speak as hesitation. Now the authorities to his character and the other said are offerieg $5,000 cash reward for he did not know him. information leading to the arrest
of persons counterfeiting.
"The cause of the world distress and the answer to the
nearest approach to class legista-robber gangs usually address one 1788. We are burnt to the bone, question "What Next" will be tion has been the Evictions Bill, another as folti.
Guruuang, Friday, Juve 39, 19424,
on an unimportant detail of which
HOME POLITICS.
it was defeated by a majority of
221 to 212-a majority which would have been much larger but
The maxim that OUT OF DATE. "Honesty is the The Homeland's Labour Govern- for the fact that Mr. Asquith, who might well be expunged from the best policy" | ment is being almost continually although he actually led the attack copybooks. The underlying idea subjected to galling fires, alterna- during the debate, refrained, with is, as false as that which rewards a Mively from enemies on its right 39 other Liberals, from purti- child for telling the truth. And, as everybody knows, honesty is Left front, and not infre- cipating in the division. The fact very often not the best policy. But quently from snipers in its rear. that it was Mr. Asquith who led the child or the man who is honest Curazionally, too, it suffers minor the attack on the Opposition's from motives of policy and not of neverres from
concentrated preference proposals in the House principle is not honest at all. attack from two or all three this week, and warmly associated
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and have not a lock of hay given in a free lecture by William
to
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Walpole.
According to
our special
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FOOTBALL SUCCESS.
INTERESTING HONGKONG
To
FUNCTION.
celebrate the feat of the senior team in winning the Hong-
Footbal kong:
League last season, the South China Athletic Association has arranged a special meeting of old and new members for 11 a.m. on Juno 22 at the Queen's Theatre.
from Representatives
Locall schools, kindred societies and
cover our nakedness: Tinney of Brooklyn, New York, cats are so dear, that I sup-on Sunday at the World Theatre at pose they will soon be eaten 230 p.m. and at the Queen's The first and second coxswain's other organisations will be present. at Brook's and fashionable Theatre at 4 pm. There will be of the s.s. "Carnarvonshire" were Messra. Lai Wah are arranging
elaborate tables as a rarity.
Chinese a special orchestra. The lecture committed for trial at the next somo
Hilk is being given under the auspices, Criminal Sessions yesterday on a decorations and a variety entertain- of the International Bible Students'
charge of being in possession of a ment will be provided by the Ching Association.
Mauser pistol and stock.
Woo Athletic Association, the Evidence given at the Kowloon Confucius Society and the Chinese Canton Correspondent, students Magistracy yesterday was to the Musical Society. The China Sun The most intolerable pain is recently dismissed from the Holy effect that while revenue officers Motion Picture Co. will screen College,, A Church were searching the ship, the first pictures taken of the football team produced by prolonging the Trinity
Missionary Society School, and defendant took something from
in action. keenest pleasure.
Sacred Heart College, Roman under his coat and threw it on the -G. B. Shaw.
Catholic, of Canton, are being bridge deck. R. O. Lanigan saw joined by Government students in the second defendant, who was their agitation against missionary standing at the top of the ladder Institutions. The students are call-leading to the bridge-deck, pick up ing on the public and the press to the article and throw it overboard. support a movement for more Instructions were then given to a rigid supervision of foreign Chinese revenue officer to engage managed schools by the Chinese a. aampan, and dredge the spot 'Mr. Sek Chung-an, beat
where the article was thrown. | master of Sui Sing English School, After an hour's dredging a Mauser-mot-with-an-accident-while-riding- and stock were discovered
That the report of of these, quarters at once. So himself with the Government's *YANGTZE the Yangtze River Commission however,
not attitudė gives the keynote to the it has
which was ap-| Bees exposed
real position. The peculiar constitu-pointed by the Chinese Gavem- tu any danger of defent. It has cacaped; tion of the present House really ment, is of great commercial disaster because it has not, up to confers upon the Commons a interest and states its case for future guidance in connection present, given battle to the greater control over the Govern-with the many problems of the Opponition parties-on-any-really-ment-than-hes-been-exercised-at-river-with-wonderful clearness-to- wifal issue of its policy, In the any time previously for well-nigh Indisputable. The Yangtze River Barry by elections have over a century. As rule, Govern
·ïeuzated. It has not lost, and, has ments excrcise domination over mably gained, ground. The Parliaments, whereas the present mezret of the favour in which Mr. Parliament dominates the Govern- Baseway MacDonald's Admmistra- ment and determines its policy, a Yellow Soak the waters of an tom is hold is that it has been state of things which is strictly in area of 750,000 square miles, Jane”: 20, -- Queen's
Gext to pursue a intional non-"Accord with the British constitu- within the boundaries of which "Maytime.
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constitutes a factor in the economic. June 20-Coronet life of the Chinese people of a Constance Talinadzo, magnitude undreamed of by the Primitive Lover." great majority of the peoples of the June 20. The Star Thes
The Toll Gate. Occident. Think of it: this mighty stream collects and pours fato the June 20, →→ World
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
In a statement, the first defen- dant stated that the pistol he had was not so big as the one produced
TRAM AND BIKE,
COLLISION IN QUEEN'S ROAD.
motor-cycle along Queen's Road
Dear Victoria-Borracha yesterday:
He was going westward when
Outgoing passengers by the in Court. The second defendant squad of soldiers marched across President Jefferson Include said that the first defendant called the tram lines. As he was alówing Mr. W. ]. Hawker Mr. P. S out to him to throw the article down atram struck his machine Lawrie, Mr. H. W Ray, and Dr. overboard and that he did not causing slight damage. According Wän Mauckal.
know anything about it.
to the vernacular papers, Mr. Sol escaped uninjured, a