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shortly. It seems that Mr. Rockfeller has offered to give $800,000 an condition that another $400,000 is raised, and the whole si uved for the purpose of placing the faculty of Medicine on a sound basis. Here's chance for some LL.D.
THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
In matters gastronomio the foreigner RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
is probably still regarded by the Chines They tell me that. Hongkong Univer
That is why we wity has hopes of another windfall rude barbarian.
fail to appreciate the delicity of “ paddy worms stewed for two hours mentioned is a Police Court case yesterday. It should interest the foreigner who regards
"delica
a repulsive this Chinose to know how the Chinese regarded our pwa food before long association with foreigners wore off the novelty. Here is intimate letter written by a Chinese to his brother in Canton after his arst experience of a the early days of foreign"intercourse at
foreign dinner:-,
A friend of mine was discussing this Colony recently with Mr. Asquith and in order to convey concisely to the ex- Premier our arrested state of political development, he exclaimed: "I cannot better epitomise the situation than by lling you it is impossible to get a W.C. in Hongkong without an Order-in Council" Mr. Asquith was frankly incredulous, as well he might be, but my friend assured him that if he looked the matter up he would and the state ment to be simple truth,
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who sit at table and swallow bowls of "Judge what tastes people possess atlaid, in their outlandish tongue call- ed Seo.pt, and next devour the flesh of fish; served in a manner as near as may be to resemble the living fish itself Dishes of hall raw meat are then placed at various apgles of the table: these float in gravy, while from them pieces are cut with sword-like instruments and placed before the guests. Really it was not until. I, behold, this sight that I becams convinced of what I had often beard; that the ferocious disposition of these demons arts from their indulgence in such grose food. How lamentable their condition, and yet var dishes they pre- Think how unrefined tend to despise: the taste for which sharks fins have no charm, host pitrous the state of those who disdain the virine of deer's. sinews. who hold in contempt a well-prepared pup, and even sneer at a rat ple who in the delights of an elephant's hoof served in the style of 'Lau Man Ko- hose meraury may be over green --can and no gratification, while for the melt- ing richcess of the adorable rhinoceros horn they have no taste!".
It is being asserted though with what degree of truth I cannot say that the heavy duties on alcoholic liquors and tobaccos are defeating their object. In other words, they have got to such a pitch now that instead of bringing in more revenue they are "bringing in less than formerly. Perhaps one
of our unofficial
could exert representatives himself sufficiently to nek a question on the subject so framed as to obtain from the Government the most recent returns separated from those for the whole year. I notice that in a recent case at the Magistracy, Mr. Taylor, of the Imports and Exports Department, stated that the muggling question had "only become acute recently." This seems to support the assertion to which I have referred.
It is whisperer that the unpopular idea of erecting a Club for sailors, soldiers and civilians as a War Memorial has, in its turn, been "scrapped in favour of a Nursing Home, which, I fancy, was one of the many suggestions submitted to the Committee in the early part of 1010. An institution of this nature is badly needed in the Colony and would be a very suitable memorial. We may expect to see something done now that the Prince of Wales intends to visit us next year. It would not be surprising if he were asked to lay the foundation stone, though, is that case, one hopee the simple granite obelisk or cenotaph will already be in position on the finest aite, otherwise His Royal Highness may
come to the conclusion that our's is a very apathetic community.
When
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Towards the end of the feast was introduced "a green and white sub stance, the smell of which was over powering, This, I was informed, was compound of sour buffalo milk. baked in the gun, under whose influence it is allowed to remain until it becomes filled with insects, yet the greener and more lively it is, with the more relish it is eaten. This is called Che-Sze, and is accompanied by a muddy red Buid which foams up over the tops of the drinking cups, soils one's clothes and is named Per-think of that!"
"will
hen," asked the writer in despair, versed in the precepts of our gastronomist these uncivilised men become La Man Ke, and make offerings of red candles and gilt paper or alters raised to his memory! Lau Man Ke was a famous Chinese chef who is said to have bequeathed to posterity "Hints Cookery" in 340 volumes. One of his Was that "Stewed recommendations kitten with a garland of ice should be eaten hot." What be has to say about stewed paddy worms I do not know.
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A STREET INCIDENT. THE LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY"
AGAIN.
"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
SOCKS AND " SMOKES." MR D'ALMADA SEEKS A CORPUS
DELICTI.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindell, yesterday, Mr. G. N. Orme had before him, at the tieorge Arrjaga, a Peruvian sesman, and Magistrsey, yesterday, another cigarette a rickshs coolie employed by Mr. Ismail.retailer summoned for having in his store cigarettes on which duty had not were charged with disorderly conduct, by been paid." fighting, in Des Voeux Road, opposite the King Edward Hotel, the previous after noon..
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31r. Tapior prosecuted for the Imports and Exports Department.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada represented the defendant. and, at a previous hearing, The sailor said the coolfe invited him had claimed that the case fell to the to "engap his ricksha. and, when he ground because the revenue officers failed refused, truck him on the chest. He then may, in the witness box, in the usual retaliatel
police qurt jurgen" "! I produce the cigarettes referred to." The case opra ed, with the following dialogue:-
The Sagistrate: But he is a private ricksha polir!
Inspecer Cashman remarked that pri vate ridisha coolies had been known to offer their vehicles for hire in order to make a little extra They generally accosted strangers to the Colony.
The code whose ince was plastered, said that Araga spoke to him in Spanish. He waved his hand to indicate that he did not understand him,
Arriaga dently pisunderstood his action for a insult and struck him.
The Indian constable who arrested the men said that when he stopped the fight Arriaga and told the defendants to go. went away quietly but the coolie followed and struck the other man on the back.
The Magistrate fined the coolie 43 and discharged the sailor.
SPORT.
WATER POLO.
The V.R.C. beat H.M.S. Caira, esters day evening, by 6 goals to mi. Hall (3), Garrod (2), and Watson scored for the Club.
To-day's game
3.15 pmnitesi e. Club Lusitano.
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Mr. d'Almada: must, before putting my witnesses in the Box, again urge that
there is no case for me to answer.
The Magistrate: I see.
Mr. d'Almade: The prosecution has failed to prove that any of the cigarettes which were seized came from this shop. The prosecution have not brought forth one packet or one tin of either kind, mentished in the charge, to prove that those were the cigarettes found in the shop. The orpus deficii has £ bes proved in every came
Thr. Magistrate: 1 see.
Mr, d'Almada: What proof was be fore the Court
The Magistrate: Only the gigarettes. Mr. d'Almada : Only a memoð nó cigarettes.
The Magistrate Yes, the cigarettes. were there; they were produced to me
Mr. d'Almada: The cigarettes were
not identified.'
The Magistrate: Well, that's all right,| I have heard the point once.
Mr. d'Almada; The cigarettes were not produced, although they were in Court.
The Magistrate: Did you cross-ex- amine on that point. Mr. #d'Almada.
[
Mr. d'Almada: I did on the memo not particularty "on the cigarettés, will ask your Worship to note my ob- thejection and, if you overrule me, please make a note of it in ease the matter goes further.
Owing to heavy rain, yesterday, second round of the Garrison Doubles was postponed until to-day.
INTERPORT SWIMMING
The Magistrate: mated it last time. However, 1 will make a note, "Mr. I imagine you may they were not pro- d'Almada's objection No. L'overruled.""
Mr. d'Almada . Not one cigarette was
produced to the Court.
The Manghai selection committee for the Interport Swimming contest with Hongkong last week selected the followerly identified, ing team:-E. S. Siemssen, JR. Tordy, B. Brown, R. W. MacCabe, F.. A. Bodir, F. Remedios, L. Goldman, A. P. Goldman and C. Encarnacno. The duties of captain and manager have been entrusted to R. W. MacCabe. The team will sail about the 2nd inst..
RIPLE CHAMPIONSHIP AT
SHANGHAI.
urged that our local legislators should meet oftener I did not suggest that they should legislate
The Shanghai British 30 Rife? more copiquely, as the Ching Mail would
Championship was won last week by appear to infer. Greater frequency of
Mr. P Ito with a score of 313, repeat- legislation does not necessarily mean in-
There is no silencing the maliciousing his success of last year (sarbe scure). creased output, of laws, but it may mean,
tongues of some people. Not content The scoe of 313 by Mr. to constitutes a and I hope it would mean, the more
new reard in this competition and is careful consideration of proposed laws with defining a successful journalist as
"one who has the ability to combine regardels remarkable achievement under and the more prompt answering of que tions, now that the excellent plan of items of unreliable information with conditions which permit of no sighters priating replies in The Government explanatory statements of a misleading nor practice shots. Capt. E. T. M. Barrett was second with a score of 305 Gazette has been abandoned, presumably character." they have the effrontery now, because it proved embarrassing. The die according to Mr. F. C. Jenkin, te regard and Mr. J. M. Main third with a score cussion of three important resolutions, a barrister-at-law' as a man who will of 294. the introduction and explanation of ten get up and argue anything for a fee." new ordinances, followed by the grant. Surely every schoolboy knows, as Mae- ing of financial votes amounting to some sulay would say, that a barrister never $300,000 in the space of a couple of hours allows the question of money to enter KING OF SIAM'S MARRIAGE. 13 going sore, 35 our American into his thoughts. His honorarium
A Bangkok message states: An official Triends would say. The convenience of in fixed by his olerk and he is blissfully the newspapers in reporting the Titanic unconscious of the business. As he works statement says the King of Siam has Princess Lakshmi Lavan, hall sister of taken into account, but and that was allowed to sue for payment of any fee his former betrothed Princess Vallabha my point-the convenience of the public fact which his clerk, who receives a Devi Princess Lakshmi is also raised
You cannot expect normally con percentage, never forgets From the back to the rank of Royal Highness stilated people maybe you do not want of his gown thers dangles a little bag. them to take an intelligent interest in in which in byegone days a grateful local administration when you withheld client could slip a few guineas in token all news from them for six weeks and of gratitude when counsel was not look then roll an avalanche of it on them one ing, as it were. Some critics have said morning before they are out of bed. It that nothing less than a Gladstone bag is like asking a man who has been would be of any use with eminent counsel starved for forty days to tackle
nowadays, which means, I suppose that Gargantuan meal at one sitting. Serial the gratitude of their clients could not
otherwise be adequately expressed stories are not up on those linca.
biguous, that is why I want to get the The Magistrate: Produced" is an- substance of your objection.
Mr. d'Almada: Production is necna- sary in every case, if a man is charged with straling socks they must be pro- duced in Court.
The Magistrate: If you seize cigarettes in a shop, you cannot prove then as you. can socks.
Mr. d'Almada: These cigarettes were here: they could have been produced.
The Magistrate: I see. Yes. I seem to recolleet that they were exbibited.
Me d'Almada: That was after the closing of the case for the prosecution.
The Magistrate: Oh! that's varg ser- ious!
"Mr. d'Alnada: I find that one of the witnesses. for whom a subpena was issued, has absconded, and the promises are closed down.
The Magistrate; Ob dear! that lonks bad, doesn't it?
Mr. d'Almada then called the defend- ant who said he had been in business ve years and bought from B. A T.
Mr. d'Almada? Did you know, or agenta.
The witness said he did not know,
Kort is not, one realikes, worthy of being for the pure joy of the thing he is notanoused bis intention of marrying not, that duty had or had not been paid?:
It was announced in 1919, that the King was betrothed to Princess Vallabhi Devi, but some months later the engagement was suddenly broken off, owing. it, was announod, to incompatibility of tempera- ment.
GERMAN ACTIVITIES IN
JAVA.
"The last India mail says a Timur. Rot- terdam message of July 28th has brought interesting details of the activities of the
and added that it was not usual for agents to furnish proof that, duty had been paida
The Magistrate: Evidently the wit- mess has not studied the law...
The witness admitted that he had not read the Tabacce Ordinance.
The Magistrate: You have to proval that, duty was paid. That is why you have to be sure of the man you buy. from.
Mr. Taylor put it to the witness that his! books were not in order and that he had "A Democrat" writes in the Press to
No one who has had any dealings with
to go a long way back in order to prove say that never before has he stood saide these gentlemen will question Mr. Jenkin's
that cigarettes had paid duty. In other from a movement in the direction of assertion that there could be no greater
words, if his story was true, some of the popular government, but he cannot bring fallacy than to suppose that the length Stinnes concerns in Javo It is stated stock must have been on the shelf fer himself to support the petition for of their argume it and the zeal which that the Rhine Eibe Union has established many weeks. If he was overstocked why Constitutional Reform because of the they display is to be measured by the as office at Bandoeng, the site, of the did he go on buying special représentation it offers to the fees they receive. Some of the popular Dutch East Indica Fair. A great num The witness admitted that he bought Chamber of Commerce. The promoters K.Cs., for example, take very fat fees ber of German factories are interested fram a firm which has since absconded, this enterprise, them. but said that he only bought because fe in the discussion of questions of com: then owing to pressure of other engage well-known Stinnes-Schuckert organiza- they came to him pleading need of felt that this concession was reasonable, and. in the end, do precious little for in merce and shipping it would strongtben ments made for them by their clerks, tion, which has removed its
quarters from mouer- can be Sourabaya to Bandoeng. Branches of the the Council to have in it someone who No auch criticism, however,
Defendant's feki was called and the could clam axpert knowledge of these levelled against the Bar in Hongkong. Rhine Ehe Union are established at Enst Magistrate asked him. Why did you matters. That the concession was politic as witness Mr. Jenkin's exhausting and Coast dentres and at Cheriban. A rail- go ou buying when trade was bad and was revealed later by the Secretary of successful fight for several days in the way cariage factory is being built. Herr you were not selling many The wit State's admission that H.E. the Governor Wo Ping murder case last week for a Metzler, who has been in Java for someness replied that agents were bound to
time the membera except in the case of the than he would have received if he had will be appointed technical manager, representative of the Chamber of Comb assigned for the defence by the merce." Some people, of course, are like Crown.
are not
of Council, which means that limited class, would possess six votes each as compared with five each for the rest of us.%
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the B.A.T.
The Magistrate That's a funny way of doing business. You have to go on the Sinn Feiners and cannot compromise The New Statesman would have no China dai case, apparently, is that
Shorn of its dialectical frills, the buying, even if you can't sell. they must have all or nothing, and they
An accountant of the Cheung Hing, usually have to be content with the reason to deplore that "the gentlemen the proper way for the Government to agents for the B.A.T., said defendant got second alternative. I have hopes, bow of the Press had become too gentlemanly negotint with the Sinn Feiners is to cigarettes from them. This witness first ever, of "Democrat, because he labours if it had read the recent exchange of ask then what they want and grant it uid that receipts given to the retailer the Irish Question without more adq under the mistaken impression that the compliments over
Anything short of in these transactions were, stamped, but, schine would susige two votes to a between our two evening papera. Its this is a travesty of self-deterrains after further examination by the Magia. fated class and only one to the rest reminiscen of Eatonswill at its best. tion. Presumably, the garis principle trate, he said the receipts were not
The tone of society, however, has changed would ply to Ulster, though that would stamped, of us." He flattern us; we
Only the monthly settlement Dearly so modest as that. The petition for the better since the days of which introdue awkward complications. The receipts were stamped, asks for dix olssted. non-Chinese members Dickens wrote, and the tone of journalista Telegraph contends that, whatever cop- The Magistrate Then, when the shop and of publicists generally has changed cessions are made, Ireland must remain with it. A Parliamentary candidate who an integral part of the Empire, which have had receipts for all B.A.T. pur- was raideil on August 27th, they should described his opponent as bloodless, would impossible if the full demands of chases during the month brainless, bankrupt booby "to quote Sinn Fein, were granted and the Repub- The witness replied in the afirmative. the words employed by a sprig of the I understand that the wireless instal old nobility in the middle of the last can kem of Government were recog At this stage the case was adjourned nised. The Overseas Ministers evidently until to-morrow, the Magistrate remark- lation at Cape D'Aguilar is now daily century-would do himself more harm share this view, for, although they ring that this witness must attend again. Toroiving the Prass messages sent direct than anybody else to-day by using such present communities enjoying the full He could evidently throw light on the from New York, and that these messages guage. Thanks to the spread of edu Doniini status: which Mr. de Valera matter. are being privately printed and circulat ciation, all but a small minority of the claims, they declare, in their recent ed. The wireless installation at Cape people realise that abuse is not argu- address to HM the King: "We have D'Aguilar is under the Post Offico, and ment, and that the two are usually to
been cuscious throughout our delibe in view of the fact that the transmission (be found in inverse ratio to one another. Frationt of a unanimous conviction that -the mon essential of the links that bind and receipt of wireless messages had not Yet there are some writers still who been hitherto a profitable branch of the pin their faith, to the old barrister's our widely spread peoples is the Crown, Officer Brown and a party of Chinese, activities of the Post Office, it would be advice to his son:" When you have and it is our determination that no searched the s., Hanoi on its arrival in interesting to know whether, anybody is poor case abuse the other side." It is changes in our status as people or as port, on Monday, and seized 1,000 tsels superfluous to call your opponent a fool governmenta ahall weaken our common of raw and 500 taels of prepared non- paying the Post Office for these message if you can prove him one, and unconvincallegians to the Empire and its Government opium, worth about $7,000, Perhaps a member of the Legislative Council will make, inquiry on the wabing if you cannot.
Sovereign.
The drug was concealed in the coal bunkers, engine room and stoke hold,
ject 1
(Continued at foot of next column.)
RODERICK RANDOM.
OPIUM AMONGST THE COAL.
Chief Preventive Officer Watt, Revenue
21, 1911.
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