SIPIAU TIN.:
A Poor Outlook
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY AUGUST 21 11917.
firm had granteed the sum of THE ENGLISH AT HOME $4,000-he hoped ho should not be called on for it. Another AND ABROAD. point was that of the thirectors—By Ella Wheeler Wilcox The 18th -onlinary-general At present he was the sole livec mopting of the Sipiau Tin Contor, and he thought the board pany, Ltd., was held at the offices, Greslum House, Mr. G.. A. Derrick prosiding. "The report mil Res counts were taken qa road."
should be put on a stronger basis.
Captain Itobinson thought it would have been fairer to the Lahareholders to love called 'n acquainted them of the position meeting some months ago and of the company.
Mr. Derrick polute out that there was overy reason for believ |ing that a sottlement would be
arrived at.
un rightly held for centuries, that it was the greatest land on earth--the most powerful and the most successful and many English people at home-in Englishhion and women have not England aro, delightful. They awakened to the fact that this is recordial, kind, hospitable and no longer true of their country. gracious.
They are ready sa bo critically
descending toward countries intollerant or husultingly con-
without reflecting that they are hot in a position to neste superior airs
vially in their own colonies, are English propte abroad, espo
delostable, cold, critical, self-cen- tored and ill-mannered toward strangers.**
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Nover in any part of the world have I been more charmed and
their own lomains than in Eng attracted by men and women in
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The Chairman said the result of the year's working had again been an adverse ono although not quite so heavy as that of the pro-
The Englisli. idea of humour, ceding year, notwithstanding that the ore proceeds had been very
away from home, seems to be Captain Robinson: I think we
ridicule of their fellow-men. much less. The reason the loss was not so heusy was on account advice in Singapore six-months
ridicule is unlimited and al- fight to have got the very host
Oronl, nico-rent humour-they Jaro-not-prolifio. But their stock of œconomies offected in the work-go and not have left it all this ing expenses, a, saving pf. $1,350) tine.
ways on tap, in every lund save
Four Days of Married Life... And never have been an offend-England; and this beverage is After only four days of married huving beon made over the pre- MP. Derrick said he could not. vious your. That in itself was say what imppened six months and disgusted with disagree freely passed out for Americans life Mrs. Doris Edith Locke run quite satisfactory and had the ore ago, he was away on leave then able qualities in a store, erudito Hindoo gentleman told away from her husband, Mr. Ivor
|particularly," A brilliant and process kept up, orîn'tó whlund only joined the board in Juno. by any other race or nation, as by me of his surprise and pleasure King Horvey Locke, described as Captain Robinson: We have the English in Jamaica, in ludia visiting America and finding a mining engineer, and sho peti- they were the previous year, there got no redress. We elect directors in Coylon, and in other parts of the people so cultured, so sym- Lioned Sir Samuel Evans, Prosi- would have been some margin of and they do nothing. That is the the world where they congregate patholic and so progressive. profit. Unfortunately they had way in Singapore.
in the winter season. fallen off; in furt the last five
Mr. Bhun observed that the
yours showed a steady falling off sum of $3,000 was on the balance sheat for directors' feos. Who in the amount of output. Woro
was to recaiye thein? it morely a question of the
The Chairman: If you ask necounts the position would bomo, nobody-will. unfortunate enough, but as was Mr. Blun: only asked be stated in the directors" repitenuse if there are no directors there was another matter of even thera is no liability. grouter importance then the loss The Chairman: The fees are on the mining account for the iu respect to 1910. your. That was the position that had arisen in connection with the then adopted.
The report and acetunts' were lawsuit that was entered into with
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review the judgment. If they were fortunate in that he did not
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Fathers of our progressive men Africa with from South 13083
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introduction Crom friend of her sister, you much more sympathetic and better able to understand our the eventually proposed murri Oricut then the English people." age to her and was refused. English ought to establish ale returned to South Afrin and special mission in all her colonies they corresponded. On Decem For teaching-the English people ber 16, 1010, she received a cable- who travel Christian kinduess and gram stating that be would be in courtesy and good manners based England on the next day. Sho n good will in other nationalities. met him at Waterloo on Decem- ber 17. He again proposed mur-" riage, and slie did not accept him at first. They were married,
HOTEL MURDER.
Tragedy of "Tips."
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known. The case wont to court and judgment, he was sorry to say, After that it was felt that it might difficulty in coming to arrange self conspicuously disagreeable to word of his surviving brother, was given against the company, think they would have much to that appellation by making her- Mr. Juokson was a man, in the band remarked that his previous *ad "Saiklo Maro!! (dash 2,877 tons) as follows :— ho possible to come to torma ment with the owners of the land. some stranger who chances to have with the present owners of the Messrs. F. W. Barker and Confinely developed tasto for colour land as it seemed to the divoc were re-elected auditors, and the schemes or tasteful dressing at all tors that there was no inten- mecting closed with a vote of times. tion on the part of the owners thanks to the Chairman. to work the fund. The negotin- tions were not successful, Some timo after this Mr. Pedlie unex- | -pectedly...-retumed-to-Singapore and when informed of the result of the trial he pool-poolel the judgment as absurd. He said ceedings of the Dominion Par- Anyone who reads the pro-
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"We have had little opportu dissolution of her marriage on dent, of the Divorco Court, for The manners of American wo-nity to know anything about out are open to criticism in many Amerien until recently he said. account of the respondent scruelty points. Oftlimos a sensitive Amer-Tour English schools we were and misconduct. The suit was can must blush for the conduct of might that America was popu undefended. his compatriots when travelling or lated with Yonkees, who talked living abroad.
Mrs. Locke stated that in the English through theirnosos. That fortune to note such repeated the United States of Ainerien acquaintance of the respondent,
But never has it been my mis- violations of common rules of antil Swami Zinabanada and who had
was all the information we hud of summer of 1009 she made tho
Christian courtesy by Americans 1s 1 seo continually done, by English women over and over again in hotels and on ships while travelling. The English woman the company at the end of 1910. re-election of Mr. G. A. Derrick as a notoriously bad dressor as a Mr E. F. H. Edlin propose I, the, as the whole world knows, They might remember the com-.
a director and added that the Lule, On occasions she ›pany erected its prosentmachinery
Tas very smart, and oven 'ole- in 1908 and started working it in titule for what he find tone con gant, and, if she has been much company owed him a debt of, gra. January, 1909. The work went on without the slightest inter-bolalf of the company in arrang in Paris or America, she can be rtistic and suit her costumes to ruption until the end of 1910, ing security for the overdraft.
Mr Derrick, said his acceptance thought to dress for any occasion her type. But she gives little when a notice was served on the company that in action had baen of the position would be conliare dinner. During the day, she entered against it for having tional on his being supported, by asnally has the appearance of erected the shinery on lunil at least two other gentlenion.
merely seeking comfort in her After further liseussion Capt.fire. Her morning and travel- not belonging to this company, and also for depositingits tailings Robinson, Mr. Chow Woon "Polling gowns rarely fit well, and her
New York, Friday. on land which was not their pro-and Mr. S. Katz consented to veils and gloves are not chosen
The murderer of William H. porty. At the time that action stand as diretor, and they were with an idon of colour harmony Jackson, the wealthy septuagena-did not accept him at first, but was outered unti came on for trial accordingly oldcied. ..
with her costuino: Mr. Tedlia, who was the only
sian Wall-street broker, whose arried him on December 212. The Chairman said the utmost
All this is a matter of sinullbody was discovered in his room
Mrs. Locke: Ho sort of bulllod porson who could have given they could do at present was to moment, however, to the mind of at the Hotel Iroquois, is a seven- into it. I'don't know exactly material evidence, was in Europe, minimise the expenditure and my sensible observer,
THRICE WEEKLY BEPRESS TRAIN SERVICE, composed of how it happened."· and his whereabouts were not await the result of the action 10
teen-year-old page-boy named But it is a matter of no- Paul Leidel, who has ninde a full On thewedding day, Mrs. Lockexcellently squipped Blooping, Dining, and 1st Class Cars, is operated botwogn ment when this indifferently confession to the police of his continued, while they were driving Weiren and Changchun in. connection will. the Trans-Siberian. Express Traine attired lady forfeits her rights crime.
in taxicab to an hotel, her hus-ad with Dalten-Shanghai Direct Steamer Service by the 8.3. "Kobe Maru
ortion that he had a luxurious who was without a single enemy; and that, in fact, he had not got 'n 1st Clas
homo in South Africa was untrue, His liberality in tipping hotel servants, however, excited the pony in the world: He suggest- cupidity of the page-boy. "Ted they should live on what she I saw a young French woman assumed from the size of the tips had got, and said that in the boat come on board a small ship on a that he gave, aid the youthful he would be able to borrow some side oxcursion in India. She wasriminal "that the old man had money.
The President: "What did you with her husband and gave every plenty of money and decided to evidence of being a cultured lady, get some of it myself.
say? It was morning, and her attire was, "I obtained a bottle of chloro- and gloves and lose harmonized, and crept up the stairs beside the simple, but exquisite. The voil form fromay landlady, Mrs. Kane, It was quite true that the con- liument as recorded in Hansard, and a single pendant at her throatlift of the Hotel Iroquois, where I pany did erect the machinery on says the "Globe," will an once be was of lapis lazuli-the exact was employed until a fow days land which was not their property, struck by the fact that the colour of her eyes. Her gargo. No one noticed me. On but he had made an arrangement Speaker does not possess the ments fitted like the skin of a the tenth floor I climbed through Locke continued) the bill was pré- with Loe Tong Fat, the owner, to authority attaching to the cor ripe fruit. One could not more the window of the bathroom ad-sented by the waiter, but Mt. be allowed to erect the machinery responding oflico in the British help looking at her than at a love joining Mr. Juokson's bedroom, Locke could not pay. A disturb for a sum of $200. Mr. Todlic] Parliament. When a ruling in ly picture hung in range of the It was only nine o'clock in the ance was caused, Mr. Looke say. was very friendly with Leo Tong asked for the Speaker formally eyes,
ovoning and the lights were lit, ing to the waiter that perhaps le Fat and proceeded with the gives reasons for his decision, Two loosely dressed English Mr. Jackson lying awake in his would like his wife's gold bag or building, and as nothing was and those reasons are not in women with their husbands, nóf boil
several of her trunks as security. ever heard of the application for frequently the subject of a little only looked, but they stared. the $200 he thought the whole debate. It has even happened that Then they whispered to their form, and rushing to the bed knocked her about, tried to get "I soaked a rag in the chloro-Later that evening the respondent thing was to be treated in the Speaker invites the support husbands, and the four looked clapped the rag to the old man's her back, threatened to strangle friendly way. As regards the of members whose Parliamentary and the two womer audibly mouth. tailings, he had a letter from experience exoeds his own. All giggled. The French lady soomed unconscious lio sprang at me, tempor. He was man of great. Instead of becoming her, and also bit her while in a the Mines Department stating this is a little surprising, inas-oblivious of their rudeness, but screaming and yelling at the top strength. On the next day, that the company had a right much as the absence of a closure another woman who saw it felt all of his voico. I litat him again and which was Christmas Day, lib to deposit its tailings on unoccupi in the Dominion Parliament the blood of Bunker Hill in her again until he fell hepless on the was vory violent, and after a visit odorused out land, and Mr. Tedlicnakos the Speaker the real con- veins growing hot. claimed that the whole of his troller of its proceedings. Thie
floor and then I jammed the rug which, they paid to Bexley wah An American woman wearing a into liis mouth and seized his ouff-again violent. On December 26 operations were conducted under lack of authority is not due to well-made and appropriate diouer links, watch and chain, and he wanted some of her jewellery thosupervision of the Minos Office any incompetence, but to the gown for a hotel table, was starod 1 10s. in money. I opened to pay the hotel bill and threaten- and no objection was over raised fact that the Speaker is not re out of countenance by English the door so that anyone in fed to shoot her. Similar conduct 1 or talags and he was still elected. The office is a party neighbours at an adjoining table: the corridor who might have be displayed on December 27, but under the impression that that gift, as in England, but it Whispering and ill-suppressed been alarmed by the noise could the next day, early in tlie morning, was used out land. What reason is bestowed afrosli at the laughter accompanied the stare.see the light shining and con- she ran away from the hotel, the Government had for giving a beginning of each Parliament. An American manattempting to clude that nothing was wrong. leaving all her luggage behind, now, lease at so late a date he did The origin of this custom is transset a little business in a hotel Then I left the hotel in the same and went to a friend's house at RAILWAY HOTEUS YAMATO Horst (Tel. Add 1 Yamato 1) at not know, After hoaring. what to be found in Anglo-French office was quietly elbowed into the way as I entered. My shirt was Richmond. Her husband follow- Dairan, Port Arthur, Mukden, Fashun and Changobon, all under the Con Mr. Todlie had to say, the rivalry, to pacify which it was background by two English wo covered in blood, so I dung it into ed and threatened to shoot her pany'a management, panjan directora saw the company's long since settled that the Ohair men, who pushed forward and be an ash barrel and went home, and anybody whom he found lar solicitors with a view to seeing should alternately be occupied gan making inquiries of the clerk Geidel gave the watch and bouring her. A doctor had to bo what could be done, and an by an English-speaking and who had been in attendance upon chain to his landlord, Mr. Kane, brought owing to her condition of affidavit had been filed asking for french-speaking member. The the American. One is obliged whia says that he pawned it for 23 health. On January 2. last she Tel Add. - Manteren." Coden; A.B.C. stb. Ed, A. araview of the judgment. The field of selection is thus severely to query what would an Eng-124, giving £3 48. to his lodger Giled a polition for judicial separa- finances of the company were limited oven within the ranks of lishman say of an American When arrested Gaidel was wear Lion, and in consequence of Mr. practically exhausted, and their one party. Moreover, the Speaker woman who was as rude as that?ing a new loud-checked suit a Locke's subsoquent misconduct prosent liability at the Cher has no time to establish him-Lasked a charming and brilliant flashy tie and patent-leather boots, with a Mrs. Graliam filed a sup‡ tored Bunk WAR $3,772, self. Everybody knows that he Englielman, knighted for his zer-which he had purchased out of plementary petition for divorceo Against that there was an asset is only a temporary President vicon to hunnily and occupying the proceeds of the inurder. April 21, of $5,000 deposited with the who will eventually return to an official position in the Orient, He was traced to the house of Chartered Bank under the water party politics. Recently there han why the English women, those Mr. Kaue, who has also boon ar- tinue to live with your husband?" Are you frightened to cons license, and in the event of the been some talk of the adoption of met away from England wore rested through the evidence of a was counsel's last question judgment being a definite amount the British system, and if we may such rude snol and such dischemist from whom Mrs. Kane "I am terrified, replied Mrs. fixed as damages they could claim venture to say so, we think that agreeable specimens of an old had purclined the chloroform. Locke, who immediately left the to be paid out of that $6,000, sosystem is good. It is now about Inud, which prides itself upon its Geidel is a boy whose physiog, court after the completion of hist that the bank would then lose ith eighty years since the last Britisli onlture He replie." I do not nomy strangely security for the company's over Speaker was refused re-election, know but I do know it to be a of young Wolter, draft. But they would not be loft and the Chair has undoubtedly fact," Then he added "Perhaps young girl typist to lik entirely without security for, his gained in prestigesince that time, it is due to the idea which Engelstrangled her
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