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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, · 1913.
Lord Methuen on Smoklug.
DAY BY DAY.
Johnson.
We wonder why it is that, when the army man "gota religion," he generally gets it rather badly. "As the mind must govern the Of course a' serious-minded com- hands, as in every scoiety the man manding officer has it in his of intelligence must direct the power to do an enormous amount man of labour." of good whore influence and example are concerned; and un- doubtedly men of the Havelock Siberian Mail-Arrived per 8.8. or Gordon stamp did much Arcadia this morning. towards dispelling the old silly Trench Mail of May 20.-Deliver-
¦ed in London on June 19.
illusion that the man who bo-
lieves in religion. and is not afraid to say so, must needs be a namby- pamby. But so often-as one from the rabid
may see
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The Malls.
Enot гow.
American Mail.-Closes por 9.8. Tenyo Maru at 11 am, to
morrow.
Linan at.5 p.m. te-moirow.
Too Many Passengers.
over the licensзd number.
In Prohibited Waters
Harbour Robbery.
This
OUR ROTTEN DOLLAR! |Indian"Council Bills" which
for
of
the
PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS.
. Changes In Civil Service
Subordinate Staff,
The sub joined list gives de
let, Public Works; A.M. de Souza; Higher; Treasury,
lat, Registrar General's; Lang Ping-fai; Higher; Registrar Ge
let, Post Office (Money Order); Treasury. 2nd, Supreme Court; LU.
London merchants purchase for gold to pay this creditors in India fa silver. If this latter is not Who are responsible for our feasible, there is still the possibility deplorable currency? The Fin- that the British coveriga could be anciers, without a doubt. Who isken into actual uss representing are the Financiers? I cant ten dollars, and the French b tell you, kuowing none; but we met aliat etan lard introduced, tails of the various promotions may be sure that they have their There are signs, in fact, that with and transfers in the subordionta private chaire and rickshawe, bor present great demand for staff of the Civil Service. This with season tickets everywhere gold, India herself may be able details show, present grades, pre- and write chits for everything to adopt the "limping standard." sant departments, names of offi- Australian Mail.-Closes por 5.8. lucro. They make money in the try remaining with a purely silver and departments to which trane. They never deign to handle filthy China is the only important coun- cera, grades to which appointed, St. Albans at D... abstract, pots of it. It seems to standard, and it Hongkong is go- ferred:-
come from nowhere and to de no ing to to exclusive in her cur- specchies made at Exeter Hall
harm to any mana mere, finan renoy, she may just na well go cial juggle with bank notes the whole hog' and show China by balf-pay colonels etc.-the serious officer is apt to carry
caught in the air. Incredible, what can be done. natters a little too far. Lord American, Canadian and Siberian isn't it? It is incredible, dear
"The whole hog?" Yes. Lat neral's. Methuen, the other day, for ex- Mails. Oloss per as, Mont-reader, and who can be the
us grapple with the whole eagle at 11 a.m. to-morrow. sufferers but you and I. (If you thoray problem end settle it. P.J.M. Rodrigues; lat; ample, told the Amy Temperance Association that "ame day there English Mail.-Closes per 8.8. are a Financier, I apologise and Instead
8 little place! will be a crusade against smok- Arcadia at 11a.m. t. morrow ask you not to read further. like Hongkong playing a dog-Mirza; 1st: Public Works
Zad, Stamp Office; J.M.P. ́da ing, na now there is against Siberian Mail.-Closes. per es. Must we suffer financiere gladly in the manger part against
We have always done so. We China drinking." We have no excessiva
bouefit of Silva; let; Supreme Court.
2nd, Post Office; R. Gutierrez; buy and barter daily with the the local Banks and to every body admiration for the drunken soldier, but we ste no reason why At the Marine Court, this mora- by-products of their machinations elea's inconvenience, let us, whilst 1st Post Office,
3rd, Post Office; Cheng Cheuk- Tommy should be deprived en-ing, a man was fined $20 for hav- and have done so ever since. retaining the decimal system, tirely of his beer, and still les ing ten passengers in his boat Banke were first invented. Our have a truly British coinage with hin: 2nd; Police..
coinage is in their hands. They the King's hoed on it. Let us fix
3rd, Post Office; A. F. Castilho; should we be willing to see his tobacco attacked: The few non-
fling it at our beads. They are the dollar at a decent figure to 2nd; Post Office.
4th, Treasury, Wong Shiu-ki; smokers that we have encountered
Four boat people were fined so baay abstracting money, living manipulats into sterling and faci- would, in most nasee, find their
$10 each at the Marine Court, by their wits, that they cannot litate exchange. Lataa take full 2nd Treasury.
3rd, Pablo Worka; Yung Yuk- ever find the time to sign those advantage of modern shapes and dispositions considerably sweeten- ed by an occasional pipe or boats in probibited waters.
this morning, for anchoring their
great conveniences of our lives, the use of nickel for the smaller tong; 2nd; Public Works. the dollar bills. This scrap of values. Let us have a pics, slim,
3rd, Mercantile Marine Office; eigar.
Plague Cases.
dirty paper representing a silver pocketable dollar, a token dollar S. Soonderam; 2nd; Meresattle Literature" in Hongkong, Two cases of plague were noti- dollar is considered expensive with the profit to the Colony. Marine Office.
It is a wire regulation that the fied during the twenty-four hours because the great map's time is Above all, lat the Legislative 3rd, Post Office; M. M, Mendes; Registrar General's department ended at noon to-day.
money and he can't afford to eiga Council get out some eminent 2nd; Post Office: should hold and exercise a right of hringa. the total to 154 for the it: be is fully occupied devising aathority vaconnected with local 3rd. Post Office; J. M. B itto; of censorship over cinematograph year."
schemes to do us down, you and banking intereats to advies them, 2nd; Post Office. Anglo-American Players: 1, gentle reader, So we rely Somebody who does not mind films that are exhibited within.
3rd, Gaol Young Man yuk; The Anglo American Players on the Portuguese for this great the dollar being fixed and who 3rd; Medical Department. the Colony; and we sometimes think that the extension of that are now staying at the Astor boon, and are content with the will not diecreetly hinder all 3rd, Supreme Court; Alim Light to the tools that are circul- Fonse Hotel, and leave by the s.8. true-blue dollar bills of the Banco plans to fix it with superior Kban; 3rd; Post Office.
3rd, Post Office; Mnhamed ated here might no bad thing. Monteagle, te morrow, for Ame National Ultramarino, and can smiles and wise shakings of the Yesterday, on one of the ferry rica.
never get enough of them, the de- bead. Can there be such a person? Akbar 3rd; Supreme Court,
4th, Police; Ho Ping pui 3rd; Lonts, a Eurasian boy was econ to 1 deaply engrossed in a Captain Jenkins, master of the mand exceeding the supply. And He, olas, would also be a finan-
now they would drive these from cier!
Gaol. volume dealing with the "white as. Tai Wan, bas had kolen from the colony becaues they represent slave " question. We know well his cabin, one fie and two re- the good name of a foreiga bank HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
nough that people of Asiaticvolvers, during the night of the
guaranteeing ns a silver dollar. blood develop, physically and 18th inst. whilst his vessel lying They probably never will be called mentally, at a far more rapid rate in the Harbour,
on to pay. When will they condes. than is the cap with Europeans; but we carnot olieve that books Mra Basil Taylor and Mrs Oscend to issao us these dollar bills
we crave for? As explained, We are glad to learn, rays the of this kind are wholesome read-good (her mother) sail to morrow it is to expensive, and when "London and China Express," that ing for school-toys. We have by the "Monteagle" for home. they get the monopoly of our cur there has been a hearty responge 4th. Observatory; Wan Suit- seen both books and pictures dis- Mrs Sutherland, wife of Mr Sutrenoy they will have none of to the appeal made to British ngam; 3rd: Observatory. played in Hongkong show-win-herland, of Messrs Jardine Ma- dows that are onlculated to work theson and Co., also sails by the them. What do we want dollar time for gifts of apparatus for 5th, Sanitary; Wong Wai-san;
bills for anyway? Are we the equipment of the engineering 4th; Post Office. far more evil where the mind of! Monteagle."
afraid the silver dollars will laboratories of the University of 5th, Pont Offies; Ha Tsau; the native or the child is con- cerned (and we are not given to A boy aged 11 at West Point wear out, our trouser pockets? flongkong.. It will be eren from 4th; Post Office,
What can we desire better than the commurication from Prof. 5th, Polics; Mok Yao-po; 4th; speaking puritanically) than cine was badly scalded by pulling a this ponderous and handeme O. A. Smith, which appears Police. matograph films that have actual pot of boiling water on himreli coin, the faunted Hongkong elsewhere in this impress, '5th, Assessor's Office; Tang ly been banned here. And by in the course of a fall. He was dollar we are so proud of? Reader, that while the authorities of Shing-choong; tho way, why was Dante's taken to the hospital but, when I will toss you for this one I hold the University are deeply grateful Works "Inferno" forbidden bere bie injoiies were attended to, he
in my hand, a rice bright one for what has already been done 5th, Medical; Tang Yau-ming; after one right's showing?refused to stay.
bearing last year's date. Hears' there is still need for more elec-4th; Medical. Magician's Tour. Robert Murray McCheyne.
5th, Police: Long Tun- Malioi, the world's celebratador Tails? What, no bead to trical apparatas ond machine How many Scotsmen in Hong- kong remember that, only a week magician, will arrive in Hong- the coin? Nor there is. We can tools. We have on several pre- sheung; 4th; Polics.
5th, Post Office; Man Kam-" Mr. Asquith does not propose to put down a Government motion or two ago, the centenary of Robert kong the s. s. Perain, on June 23. tell where the head ought to te vious occasions brought the claims
5th, Supreme Court; Wong regarding the Marconi report. Few people could have expected that Murray McCheyne fell due? We Malini is making a tour of the though, because where the date of the Hongkong University to hang: 4th Post Office
are reminded of the fact by a note world, and it time watrants will must be the tail side. On the attention of our readers but he would. The report is far from olearing certain Ministers, but in a Home paper remarking that gives public exhibition before the frout, instead of His Majesty's as the matter is one of consider-Yai-sham; 4th; Supreme Court. gives them the benefit of the doubt and a touch of whitewash for Scotland was preparing for the leaving Hongkong. He plans to image and superscription, is a able importance to the future which they are no doubt duly grateful; and the Government seems elebration of the event. Scotsmen visit Shanghai and other cities in design borrowed from a table of British trade with China, we should not readily forget the China before departing to Aus-centre, a device to save the ex-may be excused if we once more.
penge of paying an artist. A impress upon engineering firms HONGKONG VOLUNTEER content with that. Mr. George Cave's resolution, of course,-"That event, for it is safe to say that, tralia.
truly hideous table-centre. On that by assisting the University this House regrets the transactions of certain ministers in American up till about five and twenty
A cargo boatman charged at the reveres (which we know by by gifta of machinery and plant Marconi shares and the want of frankness displayed by ministers in years ago, there was hardly a the Marine Court, this morning the date) is a picture of a frigate they will at the same time be
bookshelf in Scotland wherej
Corps Orders issued by Cap- their communications on the subject to the House "should bay MoObeyne's Memoirs and Re-orthera Bairway, in a manner Only the statue of Liberty has Mr W. P. Ker, H.M. Commercial tain W. Armstrong state that the
with archoring his boat in the entering New York harbour. serving their own interests. As forced the Government to stand on its defence, but it has not proved mains did not find a place, which would cause abstraction, borrowed Britannia's shield, Attache at Shanghai, wrote in a following members have joined successful after the explanations of Sir Rufus Isaace and Mr. Lloyd to the exclusion of Burne's George. No explanations, however plausible, should now be sufficont Poems. Whatever one may think was enid to have given oзnsider cause she is ashamed to be re-recont report, it is. soarcely neces- the Corps: Pte. U: Eastly, (Centre able trouble to the police and cognized on each a rotten coin. sary to point out the advantages Section M. G. Co.), Pts. E. Craik- 15 of the "Saintly McCheyne to end a matter so grave. They have come too late; they should to-day, there is no doubting the would not tell the name of the Rander, I won't bore you. I give the manufacturer would derive shanke, (Centre Section M. G. boat owner. He had to be taken you the coin (garatively, of from having his gcode, with a Co.), Pte, A. French, (Centre grest influence this young man
be proud of it, and His Majesty is workshopopen to visitorsand stud-Centre Exotion M. G. Co.), Pte. (he died at thirty) exercised on to the station. A fine of $20 was cores). No British colony could conspicuous name plate,placed ina Section M. G. Co.), Pto. F. Calle to be congratulated that He is not ente from all parts of China, and J. S. Watson (Contre Seation M. the religious life of Scotland. His imposed. memoir was written by the Ray.
portrayed upon it.
from having the working demon-G. Co.), Pts. E. R. Dovey, (Civil Andrew Bonar, after whom, by way. Mr. Borner Law is named.
By Order,
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1913.
THE MARCONI AFFAIR.
it
have been made before, frankly and fully, in order that no stain should be left upon the purity of British political life. The motion has been defeated, so that the House of Commons has no regrets re. garding the business.
Sir Rufus Isaacs and Mr. Lloyd George have deliberately avoided explanations until these have been forced from them by the course Lacking in Humour.
#
Leaving for Home.
..
Boy Scalded.
Gave Trouble.
THE HIPPODROME.
4
A London Paper's Remarks.
4th, Pablic Works; "Chan ɑbi-"
Shang; 3rd: Public Works.
4th, Post Office; A. Delgado; 3rd; Post Office.
4tb, Treasury; Cheung Pok-- teai; 3rd; Treasury.
4th, Post Office; Ho Kan kwan; 3rd; Post Office.
4th;
ORDERS.
Publio
So much for abuse. What strated before students from whose Service Company), Pts. C. B. should we strive for? Thoes ranks many of the future civil Brawa, (Left Seation M. G. Co.). who have lived in India through engineers of China will probably The following have resigned: of events. For men who acted without any intent to do wrong, they McChoyae's pietv was undoubt The new programme at the the days when the rupea was be- be drawn. Further, indirect ad-Gunner A. W. Taylor, Corp, H. have been singularly slow to try and prove their innocence. But sd, but it inclined to morbidity Hippodrome at Causeway Bay having in the same naughty way vantage will probably be derived W. Mean, Corp. W. McCulloch. will it be sufficient for the British public that, in a way peculiar and he was utterly lacking in attracted a good house last right, there as the dollar, now does here from the fact that the railways and Pte. D. J. Donne, Pre. A. L.
On one occasion he and, judging by the prolonged under market par of exchange, industries of Chins will largely Dawson and Pte. H. R. Makin. to men of the genius of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, they have humour.
At the annual inspsation of the managed to wriggle some how out of an awkward.corner ? We have formed one of a party which applause, was duly appreciated. and have seen the Indian coinage be developed by Obinese en- no doubt that they will, for the time being, escape the penalty of re- conducted a mission of enquiry Miss Morie did a particularly come through times of aggrava-gineers, anditis natural to suppose Corps the rifles got somewhat tirement which should attach to Ministers who utilise information, in Palestine, and one of the party graceful equestrian tura. Signor ting turmoil to its pret ont com- that they will apply to a great mixed through members taking secured because they are Ministers, in order to gamble on what ie fell off bis camel in the desert. Esra's performancis on the linge parative calm, would wish for extent the materials and methods the wrong numbers. Any mem nearly a certainty but will the public forget? We shall be McCheyne gravely observes, in and traj ze were more wonderful nothing better when that we rendered familiar to them by ber in possession of a rifle, relating the incident, that not than over, while the double vault should follow India's example to their training. In a word, British bayonet or equipment is request singularly surprised if it does.
of the n could conjecting act of the Sisters Mariani, and scotch the froliosome dollar. traders have everything to gained to return same to the Armoury Explanations are not sufficient. The affair has gone for be- yond the stage when a bundle of sophistries wrapped round with what 1zing on the mis- the Spanish dans given by some This would be done in some such by assisting to make the Hong-acera sam
sica this unfortarste occurrence of the other ladit of the company, way as follows: The sovereign kong University the best equipped It is proposed to commence a more or less sincere apologies can serve to placate an outraged public. bad. The fast was that the were very striking. Another could be made legal tender here institution in China.
semaphore signalling class on [The communication above ro Monday 30th inst. at 5.30 Either the Ministers concerned should be able to justify their action gentleman who came by the misnow and interesting feature was side by side with the dollar at
Piz or they should resign. Mr. Lloyd George especially has, more than hap had fallen asleep, and if any a very clever tambling turn the rate of ten dollars to the ferred to was a letter in which and following Mondays until fur Once, remarked, with smug assurance, the need for purity in Chan-
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cellors of the Exchequere; and he need not be surprised if he is one of the company bad been given by the whole company, all sovereign. But when gold Professor Smith acknowledged ther notice. Members wishing to
: 9d of of our, he would have conjectured pierrolise.
Vesuvius in Action,
could not be taken out of British firms.--Ed.]
their names to the Staff Officer $1000 in a few days through information gained because of the that the lesson of the mishap Tonight a special benefit por circulation or demanded as a right
on or before noon on Saturday, post he holds in the Government and as the result of a gamble. was that the back of a moving formance in favour of Colonel in exchange for dollars. There The Opposition has been singularly patient in this matter. Papers samel was not a good place on Bob Love takes place. A special would be free coinage of gold at The renewed activity of Veen thatCivil Service Company
The from Home discuss it quietly and without using wild words. Con- which to go to sleep. Hemorr, programme will be followed, and the mint as in India, but the vias became accentuated duting ill parade at Headquarter at sider what would have happened had Conservative Ministers been however, was not a quality which will include items by artists not Hongkong dollar would be kept May 9 and 10. Another or 5.30 pm on Monday 30th found guilty of such an offence. The land would have been clamor-most Scots clergymen cultivated, connected with the Uirous; not at a scarcity' velue by olcaing mous mage of the crater come by inst., and subsequent Mondays, ous from end to end. No shrieke would have been too loud, no even when they did possess it ably Miss Norah Mere, from the the mint the coinage of silver Messrs. Cook's upper station for semaphore signalling and pithet too meenly insulting in the circumstances. Liberal parity fifty to a hundred years ago. And Victoria Theatre, who will give and always keeping its value as a crashed into the abys on the maxim gan instruction. Both In-
which we know of only because it is much insisted un-would the few who professed to have some of her charming songs ac- coin below its value as a pie of night of May 3, rising or den fantry instructors will attend. have been outraged. The attitude of the Opposition has been the one humeur were ponderous and not companied by Mr. P. Madariaga. silver. But to make this "Gold cloud of sabe,
Subterranean The King's Park Rifle Range is redeeming feature of the whole miserable business; but Unionists altogether pleasant persons to The gallant colonel hinted last exobange branderd" workable, it shocks and ramblings are more should really was for the retirement if the offending Ministers if meet when the humorous fit was night to the audience that he too would also be nenewsary to have intenso than any sings the memor: closed from the 1st July until they have not, of themselves, grace enough to retire,
upon them,
might eing.
something corresponding to thelable eruption seven years ago.
further notice,