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INTIMATIONS
THE
· PARTICULARS
of VALUABLE! LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
Bituats
No. 13, WING KING STREET, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, Tolbe Sold by Order of the Mortgages
By
PUBLIC AUCTION,{
IN ONE LOT On
THURSDAY, The 1418 Dat of June, 1983, at 8 o'clock..
By Mears. LAMMERT BROTHERS AT TUBIR OFFICK„Duobalt StauNT. THE Property consists of First ALL THAT piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land OEce na SECTION A of INLAND LOT No. 2166 together with the measuages erections or buildings thereon now known as No. 13, Wing Hing Street and ALL THAT strip of land at the rear A of laland lot yo, 2166 of
Soction being a scavenging lane. All of which pro mises are held for the residue of the term of 75 years from the 15th day of May, 1816, erested by the Crown Lease thereof together with the valuable machinery now situate in or upon the said, premises ar at No. 1 Gordon Street.
Particulars and Conditions of isle may be
She said i
obtained from
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Mesar.JHASTINGS & RASTINGS
Solicitors,
8, Des Vaux Road Central
and 1M, LAMMÉRT BROTHERS" Auctioneers.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS. - OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
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ONSIGNEES per Company's Steanser CONSION MYRMIDON are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Coraignee's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's what The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 19th May.
unless notice Optional Cargo will ba
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HONGKONG DAILY PRE88, MONDAY, MAY 21ST, 1923.
BEWARE THE PUSSYFOOT GOBLINS
THE GREAT ILLUSION ABOUT BRITISH LIBERTY.
A WORD FOR THE PIPE AND THE ***GLASS.".
[BY ROBERT BLATCHFORD, }
i was looking over an old magazine the other day when 1 strark an article I read the list, headed "Great Illusions." but found none of the great illusions with which I have come in contact during y earthly pilgrimage. What a lot of them there are and how persistently they flourish!
There is the Englishman's passion for liberty; do you believe in that? Ars all women illogical, all Irishmen witty, all working people natural democrats? Is the bulldog a true emblem of our national
character Look at the faces in our Landon streets. We take such legouls for granted and levome the victims of cranks and quacks and impudent exploiters
One wohl imagine, from a study of wspaper advertisements and hoardings that our pe are dyspeptic. That is a delusion fostered by the dealers in patent nostrums, 1 am of opinion that 60 per trut, of our dyspepties have spoiled their digestion by taking habitual doses of s ships to cure An imaginary dyspepsia.
The only fair tax is a direct tax on in- come tax une form of nunusement or one form of indulgence and not others is anjost. A 5s, tax on a cricket ball nud no tax on a billiard ball would be 38 reasonable as the exorbitaut tax on liquor and tobacco.
But the great illusion covers a multitude of fiscal sins, and the patient subinission of our people to extortion and wetarian favouritism is quite pathetic. Why the people put up with this arbitrary treatment is beyond
my powers of imagination. If they really knew what democracy, means, e If they careia lig about liberty, then would slava alteration.
if
What I said rently about intolerance in sports and pleasures applies in the case t Phibition. There is a certain type of per son who hatan itch for playing providones, fle will go out of his way and waste time
the effort to ran his and energy upon tarian lads down the theats of his fellow creatures. It is
bucful form of egotism
and conceit, and has been responsible for
Moslem fanatics have ted countless wars, massacres and persecutions,
nui
secuted Christian dogs" and " dogs"
inlidel Jews' Calcholies und Pants have denounced and waligned each other, have burnt each other alive, That was a glaring example of the Scal inavian king who converted the heathen to the tree religion by putting a horn in the heretic's mouth and driving a five aller down, his throat. He could not bear 'to know that any of his fellow creatures was not "just like him."
4.
IF WE WERE ALL PERFECT,
One of the inos: blatant and impudent For myself, I stu a son of Adam, and I illusions of the many we suffer to exist look askatze at the saviours of the people. is tho ilusion that the British people are I do not want to be stripped of all my nicu slaves of drink. So, deeply rooted is this comfortable wins. I do not want to be cob belief, so widely and confidently proclaimed of the merit of repentance. I would ed, that one hardly ever hears it challeng rather not be wise in all things and perfect ed. Do you believe it? I don't. I am to insipidity. I will not easily cansent to convinced that it is a libel, Politicians to made just like Mr. Lloyd George" I do and reformers admit the charge without not wish to be like him. examination nud peat it unetusly.
PUSSYFOOT "LIBERTY."
There was a gross anal fingrant instance in the early days of the war when Mr. Lloyd George made the amazing statement that we were fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and that drink was the dead lust enemy of the three. That was an in sult to the British pouple, and the British people took it lying down. I protested. but the legend was to well-established,
Let us ask ourselves a few plain ques tons. Who dies all the work : Consider our manufactures, mar al trade, "our
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Lord Beaconsfield said of someone that his character was unredeemed by a si gle fault." I do not enyy such a man. Were all our friends perfect what should we talk about when they were not with us! When fate has thrown me into the company of the shining ons, of the anti-everything type, I have been so depressed and humiliated by the sense of my own unworthiness int have left impelled to rush away and do some- thing vulgar.
There was much humanity in the little boy who asked the angel if he could not have a little devil to play with for a change. I never could feel happy or at home at a tem
was strict
has been given prior to Stanmer red goods are + xports, our shipping trade, Could such perance meeting, even when I
All broken, chafed and dan be left in the Godowns, where they will be
to be
examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and nooo within the free storage period.
No
claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all
BOWERN & CO., Gods remaining undelivered, after the 24th
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industry and ability come from a drunken people Ask, each one of himself, "How many drunkards do I know, or have I known I How often do I see a drunken man iu the streeta of Lowlon, or Manchester, or Leeds?"
There is, to be sure, a percentage of dip promines, as there is a percentage of thieves, trans, sharpets and rufhaus; but if the British people as a who's are not Rober, thrifty and industrious an at a loss to nocount for the success of our trade, the order of our streets and the growth of the Empire:
elaime against the steamer must be sented to the undersigned on or before the 7th June, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
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abstainer, but I always feel conducted andi. and strayed rested in the church, because when the parson
We have
fol- says, solemnly, "We have erre! from Thy ways like lost sheep. lowed too much the devices and lesives of
I realise that I our own hearts," etc., aaong human beings, that I am listening: to a fellow sinner speaking humbly the truth, and that I may, without shame or fear of patronage, join lustily in the chorus of
Amen.
1 like much that passage in an essay by
the Church: Anatole France on humiliates, in its wisdom, the virtues of the happy people who are called the just, and it reminds the best among es that, fit from being able to erect themselves into judges, they ought themselves to crave for pardon."
MIND THE GOBLINS!
This hoary old legend of the cursed drink is the great illusion of temperance Party: "Drink is a raise; the malady is widespread, and the sole remedy is Pro- ibitina, Because the temperance party do not approve of alcohol and because some Perhaps I am an obdurate and abstinate drink too much, nobody shall be per-old sinner, but I am revolted by the idea of mitted to drink at all. The Prohibitionist being lestured, preached, or legislated into has a respet for the liberty of the sub-righteousness. in the church we confuss our At or the rights of minorities, His own sins and beg for our own redemption. slogan is, "I mean to make all the people That keeps us so busy that we have not just like me."
to denounce the sins of our even Christain,
Also, i would respectfully submit that the most effectual sertion is a good example, and he who would set a good example had best walk warily and pray hard, fast he stumble in his going and fall, even as one of the wicked.
Wore the vaunted leve of liberty, a fact, we who chose to, take our contentations contentedly might smile at the Pussyfoot threat; but the belief in the Englishman's love of liberty in, alas! another popular illusion. The fact is the public have been hypnotised by a spurious theory of democracy amounting to the principle that amiuority have no rights.
A SENSELESS FORM OF TYRANNY.
but
time
What the erring and the weak among our brethren need is not admonition, but sym. pathy and gentle leading. That is the spirit of the new physician. He trusts not to drugs, to suggestion. He helps the helpless to Democracy should mean help themselves. We mast not forbid is not the point. A mau hag a right to another man's form of worship not lanish order his own life and choose his own food his gods. We must not deny to him free and beverage provided ho does not injure choice of pleasures, but teach him by kind- others. I do not claim that wine or beerness to choose them righteous faces and
I hold no brief for alcohol. It may be harmful, it may be unnecessary
But that liberty, not tyranny.
or whisky is good for the health. I do not know. But I do claim that a man shall Chons for himself. I de emphatically deny the qualifications of any impertinent moralist is regulate my prisure le
If a man, through excessive drinking, endangers the hte or limb of other persona, is irrats his wife or neglects his home or children, by all means let him be punished as other offenders are punished.
A man who neglects bis home or starves his wife through drink should be trented sa severely as he who deserts his wife or children; but to make a law that millions of steady, intelligent and responsible citizens shall not regulate their own diet and chouse their own. pleasures is a seusjess and impudent form of tyranny.
Excessive drinking ja an evil, not nearly sn prevalent ns our Prohibitionists as sume, but still too common. It in a bad halt and is due to want of thought, Young people should be taught temperance do not mean tolal abstinence and per- sonal discipline. They should be taught to avoid excessive or reckless drinking, and also, by the way, to avoid excessive enting.
We must not exalt
force
our prejudices upon other men, and when some self-antisfied dictator comes along, swelling with his own sense of recti tude and wisdom, we must put to him the question Charles Lamb put to a pompous. swaggerer in Fleet street: "Pray, sir, are you anybody in particular 7"
I do not believe that our people are in- temperate. I do not believe that the ma majority desire or
tire or need prohibition. But the nickname of Pussyfoot implies insidious ness and stealth, and it behoves the people to be vigilant Dear friends and brothers, be warned in time: There's goblins as❜li git yer, ef yer don't-watch-out.”
GENERAL
MANOURY DEAD. *
HERO OF THE BATTLE OF TEX`OUZOQ. The death occurred suddenly is a train munth at Arthenay of General last Mancury, hero of the battle of the Ourcq, which was the turning point in September, Tho 1014 of the Marne campaign, general lost his sight as the result of wounds received in action.
the rank of Posthumous promotion Marsha of France has been conferred upon him.
I am inclined to believe, from my own personal experience, that few, if any, of us IRRITATED & INFLAMED EYE would be any the worse for total abstinence
can be directly traced in many cases to frein alenhul, tobacco as meat. Yet there is a good dent. to be said for the pipe and the Sunday Motor trip and Gulang. The the glass, and there is very much more dust from sections of the focal roads t be said for the liberty of the subject.
contain a decided eye irritant. A sug- THE ONLY FAIR TAX. Undor cover of the great illusion, the Bestion for these trips would be to keep the windshield up and to use a pair of temperands party-a stresugus minority havo inflicted upon the majority of the Sunglasses. Bun glasses of any pattern public much heavy, vexatious and unjust taxation: A 124, Bd. bottle of adulterated with either Crookes, Luxfol, Fieural, whisky pays a tax of 88. 54. The tax Amber, London Smoke, or Blue lensee upon tobacco is half the selling price. This are obtainable at very moderate prices is unjust, but it is the result of the great legend that if you're good whisky a fair from The Hongkong Optical Co., succes rates all the people will get drunk,
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