THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913.
The Suffrage Debate.
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Commons lina debated the women
DAY BY DAY.
Always to tell the truth is the saffrage question, and we muy cleveroot possible policy in life. take it that there was much con- fused voting in the division on Mr. Dickinson's rejected Bill.
measure
to 130
morrow.
The Malls. What is not sulliciently realised Siberian Mail-Arrived por 8.8,
Chias this morning.. is the tremendous effest of the
it became law. It proposed to give the franchise less than six million women; a figure which is startling when it is remembered that the total number of voters at presont on the register is loss than eight nillion.. So the placing of the Bill on the Statute Book would have come perilously near to giv-. ing women the supremacy so far as valing is concerned; indeed, in many parliamentary divisions, it would doubtless have had this ab- soluto effect.Mr Asquith, we think,
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Arrivals. Lady Mary Scott and the Hon. declared that there is no real Clare Hamilton arrived by the demand for the vote among wo8.8. Cha to-day, men; a small minority of the slu Teking sisterhood want it, it is true; but women as a whole do Telephone No. 419 not. That is why we are glad that 436Mr Dickinson's Bill was rej-steil K. 16
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The Young Man From-
We discussed the "Young Man from Tooting in thesocolumns the jother day.. He, or someone akin.
On Whit Monday an additional train will leave Kowloon for the Fanling golf links at 8.35 a.m.
Oplum Possession, At the Police Court, this morn ing, a Chinese was fined $70 for being in unlawful possession of opium.
OPIUM-BOILING.
How the Drug is Prepared for Chinese Smokers.
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without a lid, whereas, aven in the smallest quantities, opium of the best quality is securely pack- od and labelled with the stamp. of the opium former. Nor is that label the same from week to week and month to month. There are people who are fond of imitating
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THE CHERNIAVSKYS.
An Excellent Programme Artistically Rendered.
HONGKONG BATHING PLACES.
Scheme Proposed by the Tramway Company.
publia use. Inconnection with the scheme, the "Telegraph" hassug- gested the possibility of it being supplemented by the granting of a concession to some individual or firm for installing bathing boxes or tents, the use of which could be let out at a nominal charge.
to
At a distance there seems the
As is known, the Hongkong. possibility of something alluring the farmer's label; so fond, in Government has made provision had to Canadian and American Maile-about opium boiling. The pre-deed, that the said label has been in this year's Estimates for laying Due per se. Monteagle to-paration of the famous drug, one altered more than once or twice out bathing groundest the eastern tells oneself, is bound to be an in the course of a single month. and western ends of the city for attractive business. But a walk It is necessary to be very careful English Mail.-Closes per e.. over the opium factory in Mor-when dealing with opium-and
Chins at 11 am, to-morrow.rison Hill Road disillusions one. with Chinese." Siberian Mail-Closes per se. The sight of some fifty pans of
opium boiling at one time, is" nomentarily interesting; so is the sight of doft-fingered workers placing the prepared drag into Fame and Otter.
jars; but beyond that there is
There is no some likelihood of H.M. S.S. Fame and Otter re-nothing out of the ordinary in the
something being done in the mat- turned to Hongkong on Wednee work. It is a dull, unromantic,
prosaio bosiness, thie boiling of There was a good audience in te, for we understand that the day evening.
opium balls..
the old Chamber of Commerce Hongkong Electric Tramway.
intimated Great Care.
Hall last evening to hear the Company hos
its willing- What a deal of care is taken with Oberniavsky Trio make their the Government
to test the reality opiam, from first to last, is shown debut in Hongkong. The aum- nese hy the appearance of these balls.ber of excellent instrumentalists of the demand for bathing facili They greatly resemble a Dutch that visit this colony is not so ties by providing and maintaining checae in size and shape, and are great that a surfeit might be at the eastern and western ends urotly alike. They are made. feared, and the advent of such of the city, individual bathing we are told, by lining a brass cup playes as Lan, Jan and Mischel tents with attendants in charge, with the leaves of poppy petals Cherniavsky is a notable event These would have wooden floors until the thickness of about half the Colony's musical year. and be generally similar in de- an inch has been reached. The
The programme opened with a sign to those in use in the water. leaves are then agglutinated by trio, Haydn No. 1, one of the ing places at Home. The idea of Cruisers Arrive.
means of a pasty fluid which con- master's finest efforts, played with the Tramway Company is to
mixture The French cruiser Decidedtains a
of inferior mech brilliancy. There was a charge a small fee for the use to him, was very much in evid and the Portuguese cruiser Ada opium and other ingredients. technique in the performance that of the tents, to be collected responsiblo attendant, ence last night during the perform-astor arrived in Hongkong on Inside this a ball of opium, al was truly delightful while the by ance at the Theatre Royal. From Wednesday.
ready weighed, is placed, and the depth of feeling which marked tickets to be issued for the a neighbouring verandah came
upper hall is covered with loaves the rendering appealed to the purpose. Tents would be put up the wail of bagpipes to the vast
in the same way. The ball is audience who accorded a double in sufficient numbers to meet the demand, every effort being made discomfort and annoyance of those
then rolled in "poppy trash" and who had paid to hear the players
placed in an earthenware cup to Two selctions by Popper to provide special tente grouped and who were forcad, for the
dry. By the time it is sent to for the violoncello followed, apart for the use of Europeans. Hongkong Gun Club. Hongkong, or elsewhere, the ballz most part, to be content with
"Vito" and "Hungarian Rhap-A special service of through cars Mischel would ran from the centre of the witnessing the play in pantomime. The opening day of the long- is very dry and solid.
played by sodio" There are worse sounds than kong Gun Club takes place on
Cherniavsky. It would be diffi- city to Shaukiwan Road for the that of the bagpipe (though any Wednesday next, when members
The process of proparation cult to say which of the two eastern bathing place, the charge number of decent people will will be at home to friends.
here in Hongkong is not at selections appealed most to the to be tea cents, while for the other all intricate. The opium is hearers. "Vito" opened with a end the present through service doubt that statement) but the
On Sunday next at 11 a.m. the removed from its covering of simple melody daintily handled of cars would be available.
The Company has also repre- Some of the wires received from Home during the past few days man who chooses the heart of a are calculated to persuade us that, just now, England must be almost town in which to display his Taikoo Dockyard and Engineer-leaves and is moistened with and repeatsil later with a master- as pleasant a place of residence as longkong. Among other pleasing powers, requires a hint to the effecting Co. are launching a new a little water. It is allowed to ly breadth of treatment that was sented to the Government that the announcements, we read that any number of miners have that other people should be con-motor vessel, the Al Awang, built stand for the better part of a day delightful, while the bolder writ-provision of individual tents in refused to go back to work till every non-cuber of their Union has sidered. But the piper, (or way for the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd. before bailing begins. The boiling of the Rhapsodie was dealt this way would be far more ing is done in wide pans, two and with in an equally bold manner, suitable than the Government's there more thau one?) was not alone
A Chinese with a permit to a half balls, with the addition of calling forth prolonged applause. plan
large shed, joined the Federation; also that some women, by way of giving own eligibility for the vote, have been playing the fool with nitro- the pipes was accompanied by cut earth did not confine himself some water, going to each pan. Another encore was the result however designed, and has proof of their easy comprehension of political questions and of their creating a din. The skirt of
And, in fact, reappearances were suggested that the money set aside by the Government, for the glycerine bombs, while others have been breathing forth renewed sundry yells and what were meant the prescribed place. Mr. The water is added, as in the case
for "honths"; and the combina azeland, at the Police Court, of jam-making, in order that the the order of the evening. tbrents of hunger-striking.
Tho whole this morning, dismissed him with opiam shall toil and not burn.
What Leo and Mischel are with project might be better employed.. The first boiling takes some four the strings, Jan, is at the piano. by providing life-saving bosta The instances quoted are but one or two out of many, which go business spoke ill of the training a caution.
or five hours. The contents of The solos that he contributed at and attendants, clearing the to show that the British Constitution is so far out of gear as to have of our young men from Tooting--
A number of Chinese were con- the pan are stirred cccasionally the end of the first half of the rooks from the beach and aiding Toet all-or nearly all-of its old matter-of-fact readiness to put down or Tomintoul.
victed, under the stamps ordin during the process until
programme were remarkable for to maintain good order under illegalities and to maintain proper order within its dominions. A
acce, for failing properly to uniform mixture is obtained. brilliancy of technique and depth the scheme which the Company position of affairs like the, present one does not spring into being in An Excellent Precedent.
is then strained, of true artistic feeling. At the has advanced. an hour, or even in ten years. The thing is more noticeable just at Persons who were in the neighbliterate revenue stamps, by Mr. The fluid
a pleas- It is understood that for the this moment, partly because the llome Government chances to be bourhood of Flower Street, the Melbourne, at the Police Court, and, with the dirt thus removed, same time there was thereabouts the fabbiest which has been called upon to "rule" the other evening, had the opportunity |
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Western Union'.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
'HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913.
THE TYRANNY OF EXETER HALL.
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tion was fearsome.
Coal for the Navy. The steamer Stagpool, charter ed to the Admiralty, arrived here to-day from Barry with coal for use on the China Station.
New. Motor Boat
Cautioned.
Obliteration of Stamps.
this morning."
Obstruction.
this morning.
The Boiling.
1
encore.
of 11
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is kneaded in a pan until it ing restraint, especially in present the Government does not resembles a thick, dark paste. the delicate melodics of intend doing more than laying Empire within the memory of living man, and partly in that Eng-of enjoying a gratuitous and un A Chinese who caused on This is shaped and flattened in Chopin's "Nocturne" which was out a bathing ground at the land is beginning to gather in the harvest sown years ago by other rehearsed tragicomedy. A young obstruction through allowing a the pan, and the man responsible most excellently rendered, while eastern end, leaving the scheme at wosk ministries. And a cheerful harvest it is, when a few hundreds Chinese woman was bargaining case of drugs to remain outside for this work makes a distinctive the entent of the executant's the western and under abeyance or thousands of women can set the whole country by the ears; for a hunch of flowers, when one his shop door, in Queen's Road mark on the cooled mass before ability was shown in Liszt's for the moment. In any case, when trades unionists, who are for ever crying out that England is a of the hawkere made a facetious, West, was fined $7, by Mr. he is done with it. In the case Hungarian Rhapsodie" which the Tramway Company is willing free country, are using overy species of terrorism to force their fellow and apparently offensive, remark Hazoland, at the Police Court, of complaint, then, the worker is a severe test of any musician's to put its own scheme into opera-
tion at both ends of the city. workman into acting against their convictions; and while both about her as is the habit of these
responsible is at once known. It
capability. suffragista and strikers are virtually snapping their fingers in the flower vendors. Without wasting Tried to Defy the Police.
It will be interesting to is B curious fact that the
The second half of the pro- Government's face, daring it to punish them or to keep them in time on reflection or words, she hit When a mariner named Jacob-mark in question is monde cheek. When we read of all this, when we hear that some of tho straight at his jaw with her open son appeared before Mr. Haze with cold water, and, once set, Humoreske "
gramme opened with Dvorak's what will eventuate from this and Sarasate's new development, and it is at Australians are showing their loyalty by doing all in their power to hand, and to mich oxcellent effect land, at the Police Court, this remains for good.
A secund Zigeanor weisen" on the violin least satisfactory that sufficient dodge military service, or that the Imperial Government stood by that the joker dropped his wares morning, charged with keeping boiling, more fierce than the with a smug emile on its face while China dele'i the Opium Agree- and fled howling up the street. a dog without a licence, he came other, takes place on the follow by Loo. Both of these pieces are enterprise has been manifested to familiar to the average music lover add to Hongkong's summer st ment, we may well ack, as we have done before, "Ars Britishers More power to that young very bear to serious trouble. growing soft?" Yet, is that question fair to the thousands and tons woman's elbow; and may she Twice his Worship had to asking day; and, following this boil and to say that Leo came up to tractions in this way. We shall ing, the opium is rapidly cooled, and exceeded expectations is but be glad to open our columns to of thousands of our countrymen who, all over the world, are doing continue in the good work which him to stand properly, and on the fans being used in the process. only to give him his due. In the readers who may desire to ex- their individual best to maintain the good old traditions of strength she has begun. Persons who un-second occasion he threatened to To all intents and purposes the former, in particular, be played press their views on the matter and domination that other countries have been used to associate with derstand Cantonese tell us that put defendant in the
opium is now prepared. All with delightful skill and indeed or to advance any new sugges“, the name of Britisher? Manifestly it is unfair to blame the many for thero are many foul-mouthed After bearing the evidence of the that is then necessary is to lay it gave a most pleasing performance. tious of their own. the fault of the fow. But why is it that the few carry the sway? beasts among these flower hawkera, European constable, bie Worship seide for some time before send-The programme conoluded with "Widor, There can be but one answer to this. As with certain Colonial who are never happier than when ficed the defedunt $15, or in de-ing it out to market.
trios, (a) "Serenade
FUR AND FEATHERS. Mendelssoba. "Spring Song" Administrations, so with the British Government-the fear of Exeter they are making obscene jokes fault one month, saying that the
If there is a business in the Hall is the beginning of wisdom; of that cold, selfish wisdom which at the expense of decent womer, defendant had tried to defy the
The general impression formed of police.
world in, which, so far as one can the performance is distinctly
We are glad to be able to an is better expressed by the vulgarism "an eye to the main chance." whether native or European; and Englishmen are not soft-yet; nor are they, individually, blind to the one is glad to hear that at least
judge, there is the very minimum favourable; a nicely balanced ounce that good headway is His Lordship the Puisce Judge, of waste, it is in this preparation programme artistically rendered being made towards the founding undignified position in which their Government is placed; nor-gein no of them has met with his
One might have individually are they afraid to punish the law-breaker. It is col- deserts. If this is the stuff that Mr Justice Kemp, gave judgment of opium. lactively and officially that they are afraid; they dare not give pain or new women are made of, in the Summary Court this morn-thought that, having taken the the trio's highost commends of a Fur and Feathers Society, the
Plaintiff wins,
dock.
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The Minimum of Waste.
tion.
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TAKING TIME.
Case Arising out of Share Transactions,
objects of which were outlined in an article that appeared in the ing in the case in which the opium from these Dutch cheeses, to the Non-conformist Conscience. "What would they say at Exeter there is hope for China yet.
Sang Choy firm saed Ng Tak the covering would have been of
"Telegraph" of April 15, Quite Hall?" Dread of Exeter Hall was responsible for the half-hearted
Chi claiming the sum of $138.09 little value. But in it, too, there
a considerable number of Hong- handling of the Boer War problem; for the unwillingness to use the The Carpet Nuisance.
Are we to take it that residence of which 381,72 was alleged to is at least some little opium, and
kong residents are interesting "cat" on deserving ruffians; for a good half of the officially-condoned
themselves in the matter, and sedition in India; for the power that the aliep holde in England and in Wyndham Street confers the be money overdrawn from Feb- what there is is extracted by boil
Monday week (May 19) at 5.30 some of her Colonies at this very moment. But for that pious in- right to have one's carpets beaten ruary 18, 1012 to Februarying. Yet again, one may see
p.m. has been fired upon as the stitution or, in other words, but for the shrieke that would go up in a public throughfare at five 1913, $28 money lent, $25 37
date for a general meeting. from the forces which have captured the London platform and a big o'clock in the afternoon? Yester- money received by the defendat opium dross being boiled and
once smoked is not wholly finish This morning in the Summary There has been some little dif section of the Home Presa, and which, through anch respectable media day at that hour we found a not on behalf of the plaintiff and $3 prepared. Opium when it is
From the pipes is Court, the case was mentioned in ficulty in deciding as to a place as Mr. Lloyd George, are governing the Empire-the law would have inconsiderable portion of the money pain by the plaintiff oned with. taken its natural course instead of being thwarted and gibed at in steps that lead from Wyndham behalf of the defendant. His taken the dross, and that, again which H.M. Basto is suing Mr at which to hold the meeting, but all directione. Exeter Hall allows untold damage to be done to Street to Arbuthnot Road encum-Lardehip found for the plaintiff boiled and prepared becomes Hedly White to recover the sum that matter will be settled shortly, property by strikers, by suffragists or by natives of the bored by a large carpet, which for $82.22 add coats.
dross opium, which is very infer of $839.61 monies alleged to and the place agreed upon will be Dominions Overseas; it allows human lives to be sacrificed or en-two or three coolies were industri- The preachers at St. John's for quality but of a price which have been paid by the plaintiff announced in our columns early
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St. John's Cathedral.
We understand that, until
dangered; but it does not permit other than in the last extremity, cusly beating; moreover we are
ocolies. And one is informed Mr Leo D'Almada:e. Castro and when it begins to fear for its own skin-the proper exercise of informed that this sort of thing Cathedral on Sanday next will brings it within, the reach of on behalf of the defendant. next wook. the law against those who caused the trouble. When, two years ago, has occurred frequently of bo, in the morning the Bishop of that, except a very careful watch appeared for the plaintiff, and officers have been duly elected, are Victoris and in the evening the is kept, there is mixed with the Mr W.B: Hind of Messrs Brutton Mr A. R. Ellie, of the Kowloon Liverpool was in the grip of a strike mob, soldiers were called out, lato,
Hotel, will undertake the duties not to shoot down the rioters as their fathers would have boon told glad to know that this inhabitants Rev. W.W. Rogors. In response dress which is offered for re-boil- and Heft for the defendant.
ing, certain matters which look Mr D'Almada naked for a day of temporary Honorary Secretary, to do, but to be made targets and laughing stocks of. Like the of the class of house from which to the appeal of the Bishop and
At the masting on the 19th Hongkong Police and gaol-warders, they were given arms on the the carpet came are so assiduous representatives of different Obris-like unto dross but which are to be fixed and Mr Hind said that
there will be a general discussion, strict understanding that the said arms were not used till their own in the cause of cleanliness, 'but tian denominations in the Co-
artfulness, and very little, if any, Mr D'Almada remarked that in which experte will take part. lives were in danger; and when an officer of dragoons killed a atrik-(it is often the case in this world) lony, special prayers will be said not. But artfulness is met by the case would take all day. er. Exeter Hall wept, and a Labour M. Penggested that that their good seems to mean other in the morning on behalf of the
to pass.
only take half an hour, but Me from, the establishing of such an officer should be tried for murder. As long as this sham piety is people's evil. The spot is but a reunion of Christendom, and the of adulterated dross is permitted the case for the plaintiff would The many benefits to be derived allowed to control affaira, and to destroy the powers of the Police stone's throw from the police Bishop will preach specially on and the justices, so long will strikes-whether of the anti-work, station; but perhaps that is why that subject. Being Whit San The opism, finally prepared, is Hind pointed out that it all arose Association will be pointed out, anti-food or anti-Empire order prevail. Our forefathers revolted on the principle of "the nearer day, celebrations of the Holy somewhat after the consistency out of share transactions, and cases suggestions for Rules offered, and hoped that all who are in ony way against, and broke down, feudal tyranny; when will their sons be- tho kirk the farther frae grace Communion will take place at and colour of treacle; a little of that nature-take a considerable officers for the year elected. I
The case was allowed to stand interested (including ladi gia to fight against a species just as unreasoning, ten times more the tenants, of these houses are 815 a.m. and at mid day, as well deeper in colour, and a shade time.
make it their business to attend, cruel to the individual and a shonsand times more disastrous to the not worried with too much police as at 8 o'clock at the Peak thicker, however. Dross opium
interference.
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is put up in little jars which are over, nation 2