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444 Mr. Gresson as the hon. member nearest the 1 in the book case? door,"
I wonder if he attached any significance would be "undemocratic, detrimental to the public health, useless, and cruel." Another to the locality?
writer who loves cata approves of the tax bocanso cats will be legally acknowledged. I refrain from adding any comment, lest the Hongkong Government, in trying to make ends meet, should take the hint.
RODERICK RANDOM.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
His verdict is that the tax
The
As an export in the art of asking awkward questions Mr. Shelton Hooper has few equals. His latest exploit was at the Sanitary Board on Tuesday last when he innocently wanted to know what had become of their secretary. acting President was dumbfounded. He fumbled with the papers in his hand, looked at the Vice- President opposite for inspiration, but the latter only smiled, and the silence that ensued was painful. Then the Artful One insinuated that he did not wish to press for an answer, and this gave relief to the youthful head of the depart- ment who looked pleased to have an opportunity of escaping from the prexlicament.
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HONGKONG.
[December 21, 1908
Mr. G. A. Woodcock's appointment to act as Deputy Registrar and Accountant, Supreme Court, during the absence on leave of Mr. J.*W. - Lee Jones or until further notice, is garetted.
The late Mr. Edmund Sharp of Hongkong left estate worth £11,406. He left the residu? of his estate to the Boys and Girls' Refuge Strangways, Manchester.
The Hongkong Jockey Club have decided to hold the annual race meeting on Tuesday, February 16th; Wednesday, February 17th and Thursday, February 18th. The list of events, Sir Alexander Hosie, C.M.G., the British comprising thirty races has now been issued Commercial Attaché is paying a visit to Hong-and entries will close on Saturday, January 16th kong.
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We regret to learn that Dr. Jen Hawk, the well-known Chinese physician, is ill with typhoid in the Civil Government Hospital.
Mr. R. Belilios and Mrs. Belilios were passen. by the P. and O. steamer Delta which arrived on Doc. 11th.
The Governinent were not slow to see the point of Mr. Hooper's query, I notice the Dailygers Press supplied the answer the following day and told where Mr. Woodcock was located, but the official announcement was not made until the publication of the Gazette on Saturday. I suppose Mr. Hooper will read the Government a lesson on their lack of courtesy and make them promise to be more circumspect in future.
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The Colony has had a surfeit of amusement during the past week. Two performances liy the A.D.C., two by the Bandmann Comedy Company. a Centipede Dance, a dance on the Fuerst Bismarck, and finally a dance at the Peak Is it Club, to say nothing of the private dances. any wonder that the ladies are "run down" al the end of the winter and feel they cannot face
But the trying summer : its" all good for trade," says my friend the Shipping Clerk.
By the I hear that the A.D.C. intend to give two more performances of The Country Girl" during the Race week, and I hear whis. pers that they are getting up for still earlier production.
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Mice and Men
Mere man has been vanquished. He has been driven from his entrenchments of superiority and compelled to grant concessions to his conquerer. Woman lovely woman at length is to have a voto at least the Government have promised to do this for her, and the "won't be happy-till-she-gets-it" expression ought to be removed from their sweet faces. No longer will the dear creatures talk of laces and furbulows and babies and things: their speech will hence. forth be garnished with political phraseology; and a woman will by-aud-bye he as well acquainted with tarif reform, the need of a strong army, and questions of foreign policy as
with what is worn in London and Paris.
women are
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kittle cattle." The observation is trite, I'll admit, but it recalls to my mind the re-writing of one of Burns poems. It was:
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When Adani slept God from him took
A bone, and as an oamen
Made it like a seraph look
And thus created woman.
He took this bune not from his pate
To show his power more ample
Nor from his foot to designate
That he on her might trample, But near his arm to clearly show
How auch he should protect her And near his heart to let him know
How much he should respect. her, He took this bone, crooked anongh,
Most crooked of the human, To show him, how much crooked stuff
You always find in woman.
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We in Hongkong have just been taught that the cat is the friend of man, and people who did not possess a domestic feline have been induced to provide a home for one or more pussies. We have come to regard the cat as a necessity, though doubtless some Chinese might regard it as a luxury, and it was with some surprise that I read the other day that the French Chancellor of the Exchequer, in looking round for new sources of revenue, had decided to impose a tax upon cats. Cat lovers thereupon set up a wail of indignation. The President of the League of the Friends of Cats, who is also a poet and works with a cat on each knee, waxes satirical and asks: Will the tax collector look for the house cat under the bed or behind the pile of M.S.S.
During last week four cases of communicable disease were reported in the Colony, three being cases of enteric fever and ons of diphtheria. The victims were Europeans. Happily none of the cases were fatal.
The excavators at the Beacon Hill railway tunnel are expected to junction at an early date. So near are they to each other that the ex- plosion of a blasting charge on one side can be heard by the men working at the other end.
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His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re-appoint, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. Mr. Wei Yak C.M.G, to be an unofficial momber of the the Legislative Council for a further period of six years, with effect from the 21st October, 1908.
The little Church at the Peak was filled to overflowing on the 12th inst. when Miss
Young, one of the nursing sisters of the Government Civil Hospital, was married to Mr. A. T. Walker, one of the assistant engineers in the Public Works Department. A reception was afterwards held at the residence of Mrs. Phelips, at Mount Kellet.
Inspector J. Kerr, of the Hongkong Police, and his wife, arrived in the Colony on Dec. 12th from Australia by the German steamer Prins Waldemar. The popular inspector, who has been on leave for the past nine months, was warmly welcomed back by his many friends, and nohy none more enthusiastically than the Police cricketors, who "pressed" him into the eleven who defeated the R.G.A. in the league match on Saturday. Inspector Kerr will probably take charge of No. 2 Police Station at Wanchai, Inspector Fenton, the present head, roverting to head quarters.
The upsetting of a gasoline lamp cansed a fire |
at 42, Cochrane Street, early on the 16th inst.. The ground floor of this building, which is used a shooting gallery, was gutted, and insurance had been affected on the premises,
His Grace Archbishop Kelly of Sydney, who is returning to Australia from the Eucharistic Congress in London, visited several Roman Catholic institutions in the colony and in the evening addressed a meeting under the auspices of the Catholic Union.
In accordance with instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Excel lency the Governor has been pleased to nominate Mr. Clementi, as representative of Hongkong, to assist the British Imperial Delegates at the forthcoming International Conference on Opium at Shanghai.
On Tuesday evening o early yesterday morning, Mr. McCorquodale of Quarry Bay was robbed of a gold watch and chain valued £22 10s. When he went to bed on Tuesday evening Mr. McCorquodale left his watch and chain on the dressing table, and when he awoke the following morning it had disappeared: The police are investigating.
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The case of suspected murder reported from Taipo last week turns out to be one of suicidy, A farmer, before hanging himself to a beam. pened the door of his residence and made his home appear as if robbers had ransacked it. His dead body was discovered by a relative, and later, whoù his wife returned home and made a search, she found that none of her belongings had been stolen.
Alfred Hall was again placed before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy ou Dec. 15th, and Captain Trowbridge, chief of the secret service in the Philippines, apparel to apply for is surrender on charges of forging and embezzle- ment at Manila. As Hall was willing to return to Manila for trial, his Worship made the necessary order sud Captain Trowbridge left with his charge in the afternoon.
On the 14th inst. Detective Sergeant Apple- ton went to Tung Wah Lane to search a house. On his arrival he found two men walking down. stairs, one of them an ex-lukong. On searching these men he found a loaded revolver in the ex-lukong's pocket, and charged him before Mr. Kempat the Magistracy on Dec. 15 with carrying arms without a permit. His Worship imposed a fine of $250, the alternative being three months' imprisonment.
The Italian Convent has sustained a great loss in the death of Sister Maria Allanson who passed peaceably away on the 14th inst. after a prolonged illness. Sister Allanson, who was born at Macao in 1844, had been in the Couvent for 38 years, and was very highly esteemed by all who knew her. The funeral will probably take place this afternoon. An Express will be issued during the day announc- ing the hour of her interment.
What was at first thought to be a fatal accid- ent, but which fortunately did not prove so serions, took place on the 12th instant near the Praya East Hotel. Gunner W. Fay, of the 88th Company, R.G.A., was a passenger on a tiam car and on reaching the hotel he got out of the car on the wrong side and as he jumped to the ground he was struck by a car travelling downwards which he did not notice approaching. He was conveyed to He was thrown to the ground and injured about the head and faco. the Military Hospital and an Army doctor who examined him declared that his injuries were not of a serious nature.
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There wore two weddings at the Union Church the 15th inst. Captain Warrack, of the China Navigation Company, was married to Miss Nellie Milne of Aberdeen. The bride was given away by Mr. A. Rodger, and Miss Eva and Miss Nan Rodgers attended her as brides. quaids, the best man being Mr. Kinnaird. A reception was afterwards held at the residence of
M.rs. Mr. and
Rodger. The second marriage was that of Mr. Arthur C. Logan of Ohio, manager of the Hongkong branch the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Miss Margaret M. Ross, of Portland, Oregon. The bride, who was accompanied by Mrs. Bagnall of Yokohama, was given away by Dr. Wilder, American Consul. The Rev. C. H. Hickling conducted the ceremony. A reception The honey- was afterwards held at Claremont. moon is being spent at Macao.
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His Excellency the Governor accompanied by. the A.D.C., and Private Secretary and by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding and Captain Heathcote, A.D.C., Sir Alexander Hosie, Colonel Darling, C.R.E., Colonel Chamier C.R.A., Colonel Bayard, Captain Murray Stewart D.A.A., and Q.M.G., and Captain Hart Synnot, D.AA.G., paid a visit on Saturday afternoon to the Hong. kong and Whampoa Dock Company's establish- ment at Kowloon, where the party was received by Mr. J. W. Graham, who most courteously showed them over every part of the Works. His Excellency expressed astonishment at the extent and variety of the work undertaken by the Com- pany, the efficiency of the supervision, the skill of the Chinese employees, and the up-to-date machinery and plant. After expressing his thanks to Mr. Mitchell for his courtesy, His Excellency and party left by launch to inspect the Eastern Defences and were received at Devil's Peak Pier by Captain Hutchinson, R.A.
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