THE HONGKONG "TELERKAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1913..
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BIRTHS.
EZRA-On August 15, 1913, a Adeodata Hall, Avenue Puu Brunat, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward I. Ezra, a son.
POLLOCK-On August 15, 1913, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.
T. W. Pollock, a daughter.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1913.
THE NEW TUTUH'S TASK.
Now that matters in Canton city itself bave quietened down, one has time to speculate as to the means that will te employed for preserving peace and order there and even more important still
the Delta and, indeed, in moat parts of the Kwangtung Province.
Preserving our Roads.
Some attle time ago, we om-} mented in this column on the?
DAY BY DAY.
excellence of the now tar much famCompetent people are thuse roads in Kowloon, and expressed who can cope are with other the hope that this system of heat-people." ing thoroughfares would be more widely adopted in the future.
The Mails.
German Mail.- Despatched per 8.8. Prinzess Alice at 10 am. to-day.
No Plague Cases. plague return is blank, For the second day in succession
We are glad, therefore, to see American and Candian Mails:- that portions of the road leading Arrived per a.. Empress of up from the ferry wharf at Kow- Japan lost evening. loon are now being macadamised. Siberian Mail:-Despatched per From every standpoint, roads B: Luetzow at 11.30 p.m. treated in this way are superior yesterday. to those dealt within the ordinary fashion. They last longer, are much cleaner and, what is aa important point in the summer, do not refl ot that blinding glie the discomforts of which we all the know from experience. If the Prays had been treated in this manger when last repaired, the typhoon would have made prao. tically no effect upon it, and there would not have been, as there now will he, a big bill to foot for again putting it in a satisfactory condition. How vory discourag- ing it must be to those in charge of our roads to see them washed away and torn up so quickly and frequently...
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An Oratorical Record.
The feat of the late Duke of Devonshire in yawning in the middle of his own roaiden apo chi
(fficiating Clergyman.
The Rovd. C. Bone assumes the duties of officiating Wesleyan the troops in the Garrison from 1- lay.
Electric Worker Injured.' A Chinese working on some electric writes: Hung Hom, had his hand injured and he bad to be taken to the hospital.
Votunteer Lecture.
Capt. A. E. Churchill will give the last of his lectures on Ionary Training at 5 30. p.m. to-day at the Volunteer Headquarters.
Restrictions Removed.
in the House of Commons (to the The Colonial Secretary's De-
HONGKONG'S HOUSING PROBLEM.
A few Reflections on the Situasjon.
HIS EXCELLENCY.
Left Last Night for Home.
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THE FATE OF RUBBER SHARES.
Merits of Plantation as Comp. r d with Par.
His Excellency the Governor, Sir F. H. May, loft last night on the B.B. Luetzow. Amongst those
'The "Pall Mall Gazette "haa The housing probi m-like the who were present to see him off had an interesting discussion for. pon.-we always have with us wore, Sir U. P. Chater, the Hon. some days past on the subject of ̧ Mr Claud Severn, the Hon. Mr 'A." from the " 1883" column of the M. Thomson, the Hon. Mr. E. R. the rubber position, a matter of Telegraph" it seems that it was Hallifat, and Captains-Conolly great importance to many of the acute 25 years ago, it certainly is and Taylor. Mr. G. Friesland met public who hold Rubber shares, now. Since those early days the His Excellency on board the and who are seriously puzzled by Colony has shown wonderful Luetzow.
The Governor is expected back the uncertain position of the in- growth, but the provision of some time, in December.
dustry. "What's wrong with dwelling houses has soarraly kept| Executive Council Meeting. rubbar?" has bɛen, the question pace with the increase of the A mesting of the Executive on many lips. People had bean [opulation; and to-day the cry Council was held this morning, told of superiority of plantation among Europeans is for more at the Council Charater when the rubber, of Brazil being driven houses. That, in the long run, Hon. Mr. Claud Severn on taking out of the markets, and so forth. will mean cheaper houses. And up the officer of the Officer The plantation industry was to that is what everybody olamours administering the Government." displace wild rabber.
Unfor for. The prevailing run of rents The oath was administered by tunately, the fact remains that for small dwelling houses in the Phe Chief Justics, Sir W. Rees
Davibe, KO, with whom was the manufacturers are willing to pay Colony is abominably high, and Paisue Judge, Mr. J. H. Kemp. a considerable extra amount lo unless the problem te taken There were also present, Sir C.P. coure hard fine Para, and are hard matter for people of the A. Herett, C.M.G. H. E. Major rabber go practically begging. seriously in hand, it will prove a Chater, U.M.G., the Hon. Mr. E content to let the plantation. middle class, who deserve very General Kelly, the Hon. Mr. A. G. And people have asked why? much more consideration from the M. Fletcher, Hon. Mr. E. Hallifax. Mr Lampard Mr Arbuthnot, hands of the authorities than they Capt. Conolly, and Mr. C. Cleand the
meni, Clerk to the Councils.
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THE WISE MAN."...
Dr. Sun and his Financial
Deatings.
other enthusiastic leaders of the rubber industry have baten the big drum vigorously. "Our rubber is the bast. This or that manufacturer baa told us it is the finest rubber in the world," has been the burden of some of the leading Chairmen. One well-known film of chemists was dragged into the field the other day to pay a tribute to the Kowloon has hesa better off in Japan for sanctuary, says the pared with "Pera."
Sun Yat-sen, when he fled to merits of "plantation" as com
It was quite this regard then Hongkong, for China Press," seems to have unnecessary. The people who across the harbour there have gone to some trouble to prevent want convincing are the man been for many years numerous his financial dealings in connec-ufacturers, not the public, or even blooks of four-roomed housestion with Chinese Railway Cor- the Admiralty. And the public - not of a very princely style, it is poration becoming known to have noted the developments in true, bat, on a small rent, quite those not of a like way of thinking the face of the optimism with useful dwellings. The rents of with himself. When it was found amazement and bewilderment, these, in the past, have been
What is Wrong P
vast delight of Disraeli) is gea-partment informs us that the What Has Happened. erally regarded as a record. But qastantine instructions imposed It in an acknowledged fact that! it is put well in the abade by an against Hoihow have been re-the serious advance in house-rent incident which was described moved.
here is very largely due to the recently at Siml by Sir Gay
Pagal Gymkhana Cancelled- scarcity of decent, habit Fiestwood Wilson, who has retir- We are informed that the Pa-able houses of the smaller type ed from the office of Finance gal Gymkhana Announced
10 where "a married couple, aud Member of Council. Sir Guy take place at the U.SR.C. ground perhaps recalled the day on which, he on Saturday next bas beon can-dren, could ad accommodation. answered the criticisms on his celled. first budget. That was in March, 1909. The day was abnormally Gun Practice will be carried hot, even for Calcutta at that out as under:-26th instast time of year. One by one every From Stonecuttore W., in a N.W. member went to sleep, partly to S.W. direction, from 9.30 s.m. owing to the hent, but largely, no to poor. doubt, owing to the west isome
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Oun Practice
No Licence.
effect of my first attempt 01: A fine of $25 was imposed on oratory; and it is the simple truth two Obinete charged at the Police that after a while I rtually fell Court, this morning, with selling asleep myself in the course of the wine to boat pople at Yaumati, delivery of my stuement." without a licence. Hongkong witness+4 Home, euri- ous happenings during the dog days, but it cannot int to record like this.'
Bad Writing.
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We do not know that we are very sympathetic towards the Assistant Scoretary of the London
pende, of course, on what the
No Permit.
A.Chineas who cut earth from Crown Land, ja Bonham Road, without a permit, was fined $10, by Mr Hazeland at the Police Court, this morning.
Left for Home.
Disorderly Conduct.
come
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Office Not Taken Over.
reasonably low. But what has that the wise man of the been the result? Coloured people a Presidential Order directed the
Fountry was not to be trusted, What is wrong with plantation of many nationalities have crowd- Ministry of Communications to tubber? Probably the answer is ed into many of the hithert take over the control of the Cor-that nothing really is wrong with European honses, and whit people bave one by one with
it. We do not care whether the poration. drawn from the uncongenial Chung Mun-yew, Managing that it is better for rake of ergo- They sent an instruction to Mr lat x is better or worse than that of Brazil. Let it be conceded surroundings. That is typi-Director of the Shanghai-Nanking ment. What, then, is wrong? cal of what has been going on Railway, as a first step, to secure Some say the methods of sales are all over the Colony. The erection sesalon of all the account of blocks of flats in Kowloon books. Mr. Chung Mun-yow in wrong. Others that there is for stamping out the annreby that at present prevails throughout Chamber of Commerce in his Barne?, who is well known in adopted the flat habit. But then on receipt of this note he wrote
Mr. W. G. Darby, of B. Noring the recent past temporarily formed a representative of the manipulation to depress the prive solved the problem. Everybody "China Press" that, immediately that there is manipulation to forcal of plantation rabber. Othera So far, General Lung Chai-kwong must Lo said to have got through young generation. Seventy-five Mr. Darby will be out again by the some old story over again. authority and asking for the tooka.
moan over the bad writing of the Hongkong, has left for home. the rents advanced--and it was to Sun Yat-sen, telling him of his up the price of hard fine Para. a considerable amount of quiet but effective work in a very short per cent of the boys who come to the end of the year, bringing Now, too, the colour element is
Some say one thing, and some ray time, He reached Canton at the beginning of last weeks and, by me from the public schools fail Mrs. Darby with him.
another. And most of them talking" in hand-writing, and forty-five
invading even the flats; the end of that week, losting and fighting (if fighting it may be per cent from the elementary
quite unnecessarily, who ther They reply was merely receipt rightly or wrongly, when they A Swede named Karl Jensen,
The Public First. called) had ceased, the artillery had been disarted and the local schools," be complains. It de-
for the letter. and further in-would be much better employed Br anemployed seaman, WER forces weeded of at least their most objectionable and dangerous
The whole point is what can qairies showed that the ex in deads rather than words. The characters. The rapidity and resoluteness with which all this has gentleman's rase-standard is. We charged at the Police Court, this be done? Twenty-five years ago controller of the Corporation had truth is probably simple. Taare been done has at least served to disabuse the minds of most of his from an artistic point of view, was ing in a disorderly manner. On and do something. The query and still is. orcupied orly by a part The trouble begins when have met people whose writing, ricksba hire and ales with behav- Government could not step in the country. The office was then,rabber itself. Nature doss her morning, with refusing to pay the question was whether the only a short while before fed is nothing wrong with plantation: critice, both European and Chinees, of the notion that General Lung beautiful, and yet only half legi- the first charge he was ordered to may be repeated to-day. It is a care-taker and no trace can be Nature is finishing. was weak-knee'd, and given to shilly-shallying and the over-ble; and we have met others who cautiousness that is but another name for cowardice; a notion that wrote nothing but a formless pay fifty cant compensation, and delicata question, we all know; found of the broke.
schoolboy hand that was neverthe on the sond charge he was fined and if the anthorities did move Mr Chang informed Peking of The Question of Quality, his delay in coming down from Wuchow bad indisputably spread less perfectly clear in every letter. $5 or in default reven days. we should expect to hear vested this development and bas heard
Manufacturers are not fools or abroad.
The old idea that hand-writing is
Delta's Cargo,
interests squeal, and squeal pretty nothing farther. No official haa inexperienced children. They a branch of education has gone,
Among the cargo shipped from loudly, too. But the public weal yet been eent-down to take want the rubber. They took the Everyone interested will now be watching his next steps closely. and good riddance to it. If a boy Hongkong by the Delts on the is jeopardised by the continuance over the office and Mr. Chung plantation rublar for some time. The duties that fall to his lot are surely as heavy as any ruler, even is born a bad writer nothing cat silk for New York; 95 bales of and the benefit of the many iske over the office books, but we arestar request. It is cheap, 16th inst. were:-65 bales of raw of the present conditions, was instructed to do no more than For came us it is even to-day in in poor, troubled China itself, has ever been called upon to perform.cannot conceive that a well-mana waste silk for Manchester; 826 must
make a good one of him.” We Inside the city, political corruption of every kind has been the rule; ged school has much time to packages of tea and 125 bales of vantage of the few.
before the ad-understand that a vigorous in- We say nothing about over- the treasury has been robbed by man after man, and well-nigh devote to the teaching of penman- raw silk for London; 276 bales of Government were to suggest a authorities will
If the vestigation by the proper production. That is a subject every public office has been used, by its various holders as a means ship, and, indeed, now that the raw silk for Lyons; 50 bales of scheme of model dwellings at a at the earliest opportunity as ray about later. To-day the only take place we may have something to of private gain; municipal matters are at a standstill and, as far as typewriter has become an institu. waste silk and 225 bales of raw doubtless cry out that private siderable. No account
moderate rent, 62me would the amount involved is con- question is quality. Now, take has the position of a manufacturer. business would be injured. But ever
een taken of the money, Rubber comes into his works. It A complete account of Sunday's that does not stop Municipalities but it was just paid out by Sun is treated. He knows his hard In view of the change in style typhoon, together with a photo at Home from erecting such Yet-sen through C.J. Boong. fine Pais. Twenty years ago he of dress which has become ap graph showing Blake Pier sub dwellings when the need for them parent in China sincs the in-merged, will appear in the "Week-is shown. It might be that were departmental chiefs of the Cor treats it in the same way, and it This person was one of the knew how to treat it. To-day be augeration of the Republic, it is ly Telegraph which will be on the Government to show a will-poration, acting as treasurer, and behaves in the same fashion. interesting to read in the Customs sale on Saturday. The price for ingness to move in the matter, his daughter, Erling Esong, was Twenty years bence it will be English, without their co-operation and the terror associated with report for Wuhu, for 1012, that, single copies of the Weekly what. The writer heard it sug-secretary, Soong must know handles it in the forests works rents. would come down some- Son Yat-sen's private English etil the enme. The native who their name, he would not, at the present moment, be in Canton-at during the year, foreign clothing, Telegraph " in twenty-five conte gested the other day that the where the money went and it is by tale of thumb and traditional all. The very backbone of his force is made up entirely of pirates, times the value for 1911. Among ing a copy of the payr, intending authorities could do worse than believed the books are actually method, even to the fuel of the
hata, caps. etc, arrived to 20 In order to make certain of secur and one can hardly look to see Satan in a hurry to cast out Satan, the features there was, we read, a purchasers should send in their bay up the old "Tamar," fit her in his posession. He, however, fire he uses in the processes. The Even the strongest ruler must have at least the nucleus of a bold new line of seoks, gay with the orders at once.
out se a floating hotel, and let out has also fled to Japan, together resalt is that the manufacturer and loyal army at his buck, and this the Tutuh cannot hope to find national colours-surely a most
-.Revolver and Ammunition.
apartments at a cheap rate. The with his wife, daughter and two knows where he is." among the ordinary Cantonese land foress. For physical support horrible combination for
At the Police Court, this morn it has the merit of novelty, any to be in Kobe,
idea is rather a fanciful one, but younger sons and is now reported Took at the enles records of Books: It is be can look to the little army, of pirates or ex-pirates with which he
worth noting, ing, a Chinese was charged by how.
rubber. There is his hard fine has surrounded himself; but the mere fact that he has recalled, or the report was written-Merch unlawful possession of a revolvered if the middle-class section of however, that at the timo Sergeant Pincott with being in done, something must be attempte
Whatever requires to be Dr. Sus and The Kuomintang. to worry. Look at the plantation Para reliable quality, No need permitted the return of, various of the officials appointed by Wa Hon this year-there was a certain and 200 rounds of ammunition. Hongkong residents is to have its
A Koba telegram states:-~ Man shows that it is not to his brigand friends that he can turn for revival, especially among the mer. It was stated that the revolver biggest problem solved. It is the Kuomintang who have return doubt, are the Lost, but the, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has refused to and as varied as the British varieties. They are as variable help in administrative matters. How far he personally is prepared cantile classes, in the wearing of was concealed in the top of the a serious question to the peopled there. Sung, his former secre manufacturer. wants to know meet the Tokyo representatives of climate. Excellent qualities, no to trust these returned officials in only known to himself, and not silk clothes and caps of the old top of the defendant's, trousore, affected, high-salaried officiale even he can say how much ability and honesty the few new men whom instance of silk interests to en-in bis box sewn up in the pockets not recognise the fi and it is connection, at present with the menting. He buys bis rubber. stylo. While a decision at the whist the ammunition was found with big house allowances may tay, denies that Dr. Sun has any them. He has no time for experi appointed are prepared to display. Proper legislation can courage the wearing of Chinese of an overcoat. A fine of $250, surely not too much to ask that hold together and straighten the affairs of the city itself, but all the material in place of freign was or in default three months, was though investigation be made
Kaomintang *N. Q.. Daily After treating it for daye, hra legislation in the world will not alter matters in the districts where no doubt an important factor in imposed.
Nows."
foreman comes to him with a long st piracy bolde absolute sway. Nothing but the patient and unfinch- this matter, there can be no escap
face and says, for instance, that ing application of force can affect matters there. General Lung ising the point of the emark of the
isshowing signsof baing" porous." the man to apply that force, but can be do so when the only men Commisioner that Chine attire is who dare go out against the baemy ore practically sworn brothers to better suited for native-style
Delay, difficulties, expones and br that enemy? With all this in view we feel that we have plenty of houses, and is found by the Chin grounds for clinging to our former contention: that, whatever may see themselves to be for more be the case in Canton City itself, the trouble in Kwanglung Pro- comfortable than European cloth vinos has not more than started,
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we can see, are likely to remain so for a "while, if only from the mers want of dollars and cents. Meanwhile, outside, every man is practically a law to himself, and the only power that is recognised in that of the pirates. How will the new Tatub deal with these?
It is idle to pretend that Lung Chai-kwong has, a perfectly free hand in keeping these freebooters within bounds, for, in plain
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tion, why should the importanosilk for Maraзilles. of hand-writing be exalted ? Chinese and Their Dress.
A Typhoon Record.
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into the master by the Govern-
ment. It is a question for a Com- mission. Most of all, the problem
Sir John Jordan.
There is not enough coal in Government can lay out money Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- infuriated manufacturer. The Coal Shortage In Calcutta.
is an argent one., Surely it the Sir John Jordan, His Majesty's wasted time! And the result, ann Calcutta at present to meet the to help golfers, it on do someter, Plenipotentiary at Peking, plain truth is that one cannot demand, and it is feared there thing for residents who want was received in audience by the rely upon the stuffIt is good i will be a considerable rise in the comfortable homes at a moderate King at Buckingham Palace on But it is not lentios quality 14-1 price of coal shortly,
rental,
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