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money. Also it was customary
peculiar "national spirit of the Chinese, and the impairment of the students' minds which should be first, and all, the time, for their own country. The object which foreigners have in view, in taking |
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1924. ·
BUSY AGAIN
HONGKONG'S EUROPEAN
SWINDLER.
up with Chinese education, is TOBACCO SHOP DEFRAUDED. either the propagation of religion
or the inculcating of their own The "$100 note trick" which has political ideas. In the education been successfully performed by a
HEAVY SEAS..
STEAMERS ROUGH PASSAGES.
THE MISSING "HAIPHONG."
Shipping in these parts of the
they are not in the least interested, man said to be of European China Sea is still being adversely,
and thus hold in contempt the real appearance on several occasions,
needs of the students." Consider claimed another victim yesterday, affected by the monsoon. ing the immerse benefits the shortly before "noon....
Captain W. C. Weston of the Chinese have derived from the Entering .the Tabaquerias. "Ling Nam," (Chinese flag) teachings of the foreigner and the Filipina at Queen's Road Central, who left Iquique on December 18 ministration of missionary doctors a bargain was made for a box of
-not to mention religious societies cigars at $7.25. An impression and Tarakan on December 20, rew like the Y.M.CA-the sneer is was created in the mind of the port that his ship set 21 miles indeed a cheap one,
salesman that four boxes waroWest in 45 hours near Pedra required, and this number; was
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placed on the counter. The man Point, Luzon Island. In his voy Saving The Language...
then said he required only one box, age across to Hongkong, he en- In recent years there has been and tendered a $100 note in pay-countered a strong monsoon from a distinct tendency among writers ment: The change was handed the North of Luzon. to use words in their wrong sense. back in six $10 notes, six $5 notes, Both the "Glenbeg" and the At one time, the Americans were and small change. Having count-German mictor-ship "Ermland" blamed quite unjustly it has led the money two ways and think- ran into the monsoon since been acknowledged-foring over the purchase for a few way up from Singapore.
on their They, "prostituting the English lang moments, the customer informed both arrived yesterday afternoon.. age." In a Lecture on "Errors in the salesman that he did not want The "Glenbeg" took about 7 days, the use of Words," issued by the the cigars at $7.26 as he thought and Captain F. L. Sanders re Oxford Correspondence College, it the price was only $4. is made plain that writers of Eng-request, the $100 note was return- rough sea."
At his ports: "Strong head wind and The "Ermland” lish the world over are to blameled and he handed back the change which took about 8 days, says: for the misuse of words. If we to the cashier, apparently intact. "Very strong NE. monsoon." turn over the pages of an old On the money being counted after 'Grammar, we shall find relics of the man had left the shop, it was many a long forgotten battle found to be $50 short. fought over the use of a word. The thief is described by the For example: to replace" pro-shop as well dressed in a bluck perly means to put the same thing suit and felt hat. He was of sun back in its place. By a curious burnt appearance, with a little process it has come to have the growth of beard. He is also said very different meaning of to to be not very fluent in English, substitute one thing for another" and also to "supersede." Changes although this failing may be only in language are indeed the out- to carry out his trick of ringing ia via Manila, the
assumed in order the more easily Leaving Hongkong for Austra- come, of natural laws; bût words
"Tango the changes.
Maru" had a rough time crossing are not what they are because they must of necessity be so, and incidents in which this trick was. Further details are to hand
The "China Mail" reported two over to Manila. if a new phrase, or a novel use
loss
run
direct
Taking 10 days to make the from Bangkok to Swatow, the 8.s. "Kwangehow" (Captain C. Plunkett Cole); who got in early this morning, re- ported: "Strong NE. monsoon and heavy sea."
Evidently it is not only the in- coming ships that are meeting with bad weather.
of an old word, or some modifica-successfully carried out. A piece about the .s. "Haiphong," re- tion of expression supplies a need, goods dealer in Wing Lok Street ported last Saturday to have been has force and clearness, and does was victimised to the extent of missing with some explosives not violate good sense and good $50. The other occasion was that on board.. taste, it will fight its way into use in which a stationer's shop in According to the "Straits and into literature despite all Queen's Road East suffered Times," the Governor of Indo- efforts to shut it out. As examples a
of $40. Recent China notified :— of words commonly misused the
the Commercial Press, "Steamer Haiphong" having most glaring example, we are told, Ltd. at Queen's Road Central was left Quinton on December 3. is "intriguing" in the sense of robbed of $40. On this occasion bound for Tourane, has not "amusing." It is not,English and fountain pen was bought for reached, the latter port and has is inadmissible, says our Lecturer, $6.50 and later the $100 note was expressing a sentiment which called back as the article appeared most people will endorse.
to be too dear, $40 being found short after the man had left the shop.
DROPPING A DAY,
CHINESE CALENDAR
** OMISSION.
HOW MISTAKE AROSE.
:
Reference to Anglo-Chinese
for the heads of houses to give small sums of money "to put into', the box" before mass on Christ-calendars printed locally, and 'mas Day. Somewhat
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MOTOR SMASH.
CAR'S DROP DOWN, BANK. YOUTH BADLY INJURED.
"Why did I attempt to drive
not been seen since she left Tour- ane. The steamer had on board 180 people, including. 12 of French nationality. She was carrying several tons of explo sives.. Her rudder was damaged before reaching Quinhon.
"Search made by the lighthouse steamers Paul Bert' and 'Armand Rousseau, as well as by the gun- boat 'Malicieuse,' off the coast of Annam and in the region of the Paracels and Puloe Cecir de Mer, has so far proved fruitless.
"Please inform all captains of
later known as "däte-blocks" for 1925 that car?" This must be the steamers crossing that part of will give the date for China New reflection of the 16-year old the China Sea and ask them to apprentices carried a box round Year as Saturday, January 24. Chinese youth new lying in the keep a sharp look-out upon the to their master's customers for en closer examination it will be Government Civil Hospital with routes followed by their steamers small gratuities, but since, 1836 seen that one of the days of the several injuries sustained in a and communicate any informa- the custom has been gradually last "moon" of the Chinese year drop down a bank in a motor car. tion which may throw light on the dying out.
Is missing.
The manager of the Banque De fate of the steamer." December 31, 1924, is the 5th 'Indo Chine (Mr. V. Marsot). The "Haiphong" was built in #Hence we have "Boxing Day." day of the 12th moon. January living at No. 8, Kennedy Road, 1885-1886, and is of 1,800 tons." Hence we can stay late abed to-day 1, 1925, ie the 7th day of the 12th just past St. Joseph's College, She was in service of the M. M. and generally make holiday free. moon. The 6th day of the 12th had asked his chauffeur to have Co. between Singapore and Hence, too, nobody is the least bit moon has disappeared in the his motor car ready to take him Batavia from 1910 to 1918, and interested in leading articles or
interval.
to an appointment he had for din when this service was given up, This omission is intentional.ner. The chauffeur, who thought she was for many years running the things they usually comment It is designed to make up an there was plenty of time before between Haiphong. Saigon and upon. Perhaps this is just as well error in the Almanac (or calen he would be wanted, thought of Singapore, and in 1921 was sold after all. Who, as we asked once dar), published by the Imperial having some "chow" and asked to a Chinese Company. The dis-
Board of Astronomy at Peking, the injured youth, a cleaner, to tance before on a similar occasion who an
between Quinhon and institution now absorbed look after the car in his absence. Tourane is about 860 miles. wanta, on Boxing Day, to exercise under the Republican form of The cleaner sat in the driver's
The "Manila Bulletin" says:- his mind about burning local ques- government.
seat, and meddling with the gears The British steamer Hri tions or world problems?
Officially, the Chinese Republic the car auddenly moved out of the Foong, 1,146 tons net, owned by Who has forsaken its own lunar calen- garage and went down a bank, the Douglas S.S. Co., Ltd... and wants, indeed, the smallest dar. and has adopted reminder that these troubles are Gregorian,
the further progress. being stopped operated between Hongkong and However, with the by the military wash houses at the other ports in the Far East, has lurking just below the horizon public, particularly the business foot of the bank. The front por- been missing for some days and
section, the old calendar atands. tion of the car waiting to return the moment the Accordingly, printers have still to smashed, and lies a complete disaster during recent monsoons, was badly fear is feit that it may have met holidays are over? Back, then, to make use of the Almanac, which wreck against the wash houses, according to advices received by your revels! On with the dance! since its inception two or three The cleaner, who was at the the collector of customs bere." popular saying "Christmas comesTo-day at least we can close our hundred years ago, has been a wheel in the driver's seat, was
On enquiry from the local offices but once a year" by adding ears to the rattle of every day tion. Evidently, the compilers/dition with several injuries on his/ Co.'s ship of that name had been" government monopoly publica- picked up in an unconscious con- it was gathered that the Douglas. fervent "Thank goodness!" not troubles over the stony street of were at fault. They gave 30 days face, chest and other parts of the link at Shamsule for ever the least emphatic is the unhappy life.
(a big month) to the last "moon" body. of the current Chinese year when, on checking over, it should have had only 29 (a small month.)
Hongkong, Friday, Dec. 26, 1924.
TO-DAY.
Among those who amend the
So, for to-day, anyway,
leader writer. Consider his plight WOOSTAH!
to-day. If the public is hard to
please on "ordinary, hum-drum
GOOD RECORD.
month! Possibly the "Hai Foong" has been confused with the "Hai- phong" mentioned above.
XMAS/MAIL.
"KALYAN" IN CALMER SEAS
MAKING PORT TO-MORROW.
days, how much harder is it to A Cheap Chinese Sneer. please on Boxing Day. Many are
To get out of the difficulty, The Chinese have recently been local printers of Anglo-Chinese SAVES A MAN FROM JAIL, sure to be suffering "from 'that overhauling the whole question of calendars have omitted "morning after" feeling, perhaps education, and the share foreign-where it suited them best. As a day
Before Mr. J. R. Wood at the the leader writer himself included;ers are already taking in it. The their publications are for each Central Magistracy this morning, and those who are still fresh British share of the Boxer calendar, they have left out a day Electric Company was charged idea of at least a portion of the Year according to the Gregorian an employee of the Hongkong despite the previous day's revels Indemnity being earmarked for to start 1926 correctly, Litho-with the theft of a quantity of are much too busy making holiday aiding educational establishments. graphers of artistic and non-metal, the property of hia The latest wirelessed news free to care about leading articles. in China doubtless has influenced, artistic Chinese calendars will employers.
from the s.a. Kalyan," which is Thus the leader writer's usual educationalists in their actions. With the first day of the next the man was brought to the record number of parcels to Hong- Sub-Inspector Field stated that bringing what is thought to be a to a certain extent, some of the have no difficulty as they start trials are doubly great on Boxing The British idea was that through Chinese year.
Station by an Indian sergeant who kong, is that she is encountering Day he is least fitted to hold his educating young China, the two the Manchu Dynasty always pro, (dant a possession on a "search all goes well, she will enter the It is interesting to note that had found the metal in the defen- less boisterous weather, and that if readers attention when it is countries would be brought, closer hardest to attract. Helgh ho!
into harmony. The National vided for the employment of two being made, Witness knew the harbour at ten o'clock to-morrow Educational Association does not foreigners, usually Portuguese man to be of good character as he morning. But since these doleful thoughts approve of foreigners having much Jesult Fathers, in administrative had been working for the company Delivery will be made about are scarcely likely to endear us to to do with Chinese education, positions on the Board of for a good number of years. mid-day to-morrow,
the the few readers who will have beyond supplying the sinews of Astronomy,
A representative of the company.Kalyan" arrives at the latest pleaded for leniency on behalf of indicated time, the" China Mail the man as he had borne a good learned from enquiry at the Mails morelog. Even if the boat does not arrive until a later hour every His Worship in addressing the effort will be made to get delivery
war.
Foreign influence, it is
borne with us thus far, let us alleged, results in four great evils. The coal shortage situation in character and had been an old Department of the Post Office this explore the only subject that The schools which they operate do Hankow is threatening all in-servant has any topical interest at not: observe the Government's dustrial establishments in this all. Why is Boxing Day called instructions, and they trench on centre. Several factories includ Boxing Day? According to the to educate; they make impossible temporarily shut down due to the plea made by his employers for
the Government's exclusive right ing the mint of Wachang have prisoner stated that but for the mads during the day, worthy Dr. Brewer, in the early the attainment of the Chinese exorbitant prices of coal.
The 8.6. "Kuyau” was duo 'to. days of Christianity boxes were educational Ideal they buy the Wachang Electric Light Co., may If he did steal again in, future, thousand three hundred parcels, of The leniency, he would be sent to jail arrive here to day with over two placed in churches for pro affections of the young folks find it necessary to stop also. The His Worship would have no hesite which nearly dive hundred are miscuous charities and opened on of their countries. They say: has again telegraphed Peking defendant was ordered to come up through that weather in the Coins making them in reality colonists Hankow Chamber of Commerce tion in sending him to jail. The insured. However, she wirelessed Christmas Day. The contents No plan could be more cunningly requesting the release of railways for judgment if called upon within Sea would not allow of her arrival were distributed next day by the laid for the destruction of the for the transportation of coal. six months
|until Saturday, possibly later,