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NOTES ON THE CRISIS LAST NIGHTS RECITAL.
MOSQUITO NET FUND.
A. FLOWER, “ WEEK OFFERED IN THE BUD
IS NO VAIN SACRIFICE-DE Watts.
The manner in which the Star Ferry Boats sin crowded by mimo- nacions Asiatics immediately following the arrival of the Can- ton train has been mentioned in this colon before. But time records na, improvement; the annoyance and inconvenienos
At the Past 8am. Temp. 51; caused to regular patrons of the dall. (1915, 62 dell.) ferry are sa marked as ever. The
Lower level 8 am. Temp. 60; matier, we admit, is not an easy dull 1915, 69 dall)
The Weather.
The Malls.'
Nellore to-morrow.
aze with which to deal These Chinese pay their railway Ea ea and, by the contracti implied by the ime of the tickets, they are entitled to be Siberian Mail- Due per ss. conveyed across the harbour or Canadian and U.S. Mails-Close the first-class section of the ferry-
per as. Shidzucka Maru at boats. Already, we believe, the
10 sm. to-morrow. Ferry Company rows an exis boat at the time of the arrival of the train, but quite often a large number of Chinese succeed in
missing this one and then crowd. ca to the next regular bost. In any case, if they all caught the special ferry the matter would not be solved, inasmuch as the train also brings down a good sprinkling
of Europeans
GERMAN MANAGEMENT.
· Evenleg of Delightful Music.
Second Subscription List. Russia and Peace.
.0 M.Saamnoff, in a statement made
Mrs Carmichael informs ́UN [to] some newspaper man, agwo
that nearly $1500 has been collect- alludes to the enemy's interesting & programme rich in merit and ed for the above fund for providing attempts at seeking after a amply satisfying in variety was mosquito nets for the troops in tro- separate peace with Bumis. That presented to a large sæsembly at
further attempts have been made the City Hall last night on the pical and fly-infested countries. will rurprise nobody. The most occasion of the piano recital On January 27th, 1423 nets were. characteristic feature of the rogue arranged by Hr. Denman Faller sent away, half for the troops is that he behaves everyone also The whole of the seating accom-at Alexandria and the other half to be a rogue, and it will promodation in St. George's Hall, wan bably take good many more taken up, and this fact was 23
to Salonica. Any further contribu
abs to knock out of the Austro-mach a tributs to the organisation ticns to the Fund will be gratefully German bead the idea that one or of the function as it was received by Mrs. Carmichael, care another of the Allies is to be source of gratificatin to the of Carmichael and Clarke, S. bought over." Indeed. it may be local workers connected with Queen's Buildings the British turn next. Garmany the charities benefited, and 1st List siready acknow
ledged
Canadian and Siberian Maila- would hare given (or promised!) compliment to the contributors
$699.00
Close per se. Empress of the half of what she possessed to to the programme. Amongst Mrs M. J. D. Stephens... 100 00 Japan at 10.30 am to-mar-keep car people out of the war; those who lent the recital their Holt's Wharf Staff
then what would she not give to patronage wers His Excellency Anonymous
TOW.
The Dollar, The rate of the dollar
on
to
•
Canadian and U.S. Haila-Close see us cow basely lay down the the Governor, Lady May and the Mr Montague Ede....
per as. Peraia Mare at 5 sword and rifls, leaving our Misses May, who were sccompani Mr Pentreath. pr. to-morTOW.
French, Russian and Italianed by Captain Hutchison, AD.C. Mr and Mrs N. J. Stabb... b-others-in-song themselves as beat they might? ketsare to be devoted to buying Mr T. E. Pearce.or
extricate The proceeds from the sale of tic Mr G. T. Edins
Mr J. Scott Hatstop... ont material to be made into band Mrs A. S. Sorensen .......... Bat Germany's luck is there is no more likelihood of ages for the wounded by Ma. Mr Chan Yu Ting. one Ally's giving way than of Phelipe clase, and from the pro-Mr F. Hazeland.............. another's. She has brought the grammes (the price of which was Miss Annie Miller part To-morrow's Anniversary.
treable on berself and, willy nilly, optional), to the Fund for Blind Tomorrow is the 115th anni-she must see it through. The Soldiers and Sailors..
proceeds of Children's Sale of Work and versary of the meeting of the first Entente assuredly did not sek for
Concert. United Kingdom Parliament,
Che object of this paper is to publish correct information, serve to especially on golf days and demand to-day is 1/11. 33.
the truth and print the newý without fear or favour.
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Cable "Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Tele abons: No. 1 A.B.C 5th edition. Western Union
Office address: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
BONGKONG. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1916.
A JUDGE AND A MODERN NOVEL.
these latter bare to suffer an er. perience which they would far rather avoid.
A Suggestion.
Motor Patrols.
The type of Chinese to which we refer is well-known to those who have occasion to ass the
P. C. Clarke, transferred by ferries. They come on
to the courtesy of 0. C. the HEVC boats in swarms, bringing almost is attached to Police Reserve all their family belongings with Motor Patrols. them; they loll about the seats, keep up a continuous chatter. snd, not content with that, add
to the catalogus of their objections able proclivities by freely expect orating, bere, there and every where. For a European cross- ing the harbour in their company,
î travel in comfort.
"Forthcoming Wedding.
The wedding is shortly to take place of Mr. Evan Ralph Thomas, of Hankow, to Mise Dora Gordon, of Sydney, Australis.
Small Fire.
The
Party
73.00
50.00
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$5.00
25.00
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Captain and Mrs W.L Mr A. Ritchie.
Carter
20.00
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Arcadian
Bathing
10.00
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200
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1.80
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$1,471,80
Mr. B. E. Fielder
Mr E. J. Nairn
the war; would, in fact have The whole of the evening's avoided it as any cost-abort of entertainment was sustained by national honour; but, having three contributors-Mr. Denman embarked on it having denuded Faller as solo pianist, Mr. H. E. Germany of her Colonies, smash- Mariel sa vocalist, and Mr. Norman Mr Edwards. ed her ses power and gone two Patackin sa accompaniet. The Mr J. Greaves. thirds of the way towards crush-major part of the work fell on the Mrs Hornby ing her on land, it is hardly confirst-named, who gave the utmost Mr A. W. Macdonald ceivable that her opponents delight to his hearers by bis Me J. A. Martin should feel like shaking hande masterly interpretations of the MP T. L Perkins
Mr and Mrs G. L. Platt with her and calling off their several pieces played. He opezed Miss Wilkinson force.
with Chopin's famous Sanats in Mrs. A. M. Williams The Western and Italiaa Fronts B flat minor, the whole four more Mr. A. M. Wilkie
Whether Germany attemptaments of which were played with Mz W. Armstrong. krock-out blow in the West or fine feeling and deep understand- Mrs. Batterfield. it is ten minutes' andiluted A fire broke out this afternoon whether Austria throws the reming, the third-the well-known Mr. C. H. Blason, agony. How the problem is to
in the top floor of a house inants of her strength into a de- Funeral March-being given with Mr. C. H. Davis be solved, it is difficult to **y, Jubilee Street. The Fire Brigade sperate attempt to shake off the soul-stirring breadth of treatment Mr. J. D. Danby but if the Company's bye-laware-
remorseless grip which the The pianist's next number Mr. C. Edgcumbe quire passengers to comp It promptly to attendance and
Italians have on her to the South, Dreamer's Tales" (No. 1)-was the flames were subdued within a One of the most recent papers ont from Home informe as that themselves in a reasonable and
few minutes.
the result seems to be pretty much doubly interesting inaamnch sa it Mr L. S. Greenhill Mr. Justice Toanger, during the heating of an action for infringe might be met by putting a ser
decent manner, then the matter
the same. Not a week passes but was the composition of a local Mr Gow.
Mes Adam Gibson ment of copyright, has been improving the occasion to give public-vant on board these particular
our enemy is doomed to suffer musician, Mr. Norman Peterkin. MPR Innes Police Reserve Inspection. ity to his views on the morality of a novel which occasioned some
some disappointment, big or It was described in the program-Mrs Kemp All ranks of the Police Reserve, little. On Sanday he tried anime as "a claver little Oriental Mrs T. A. Loughlin. amount of discussion eight or nine years ago: Mra. Elinor Glyn's boat to see that the transgressors "Taree Weeks." The judge said that this work had been "fortunsie are made to conform to regul- except medical exempte, are re-attack in the Somme region, caly picture"-a designation which it Mrs Moxon enough, from the point of view of notoriety, to be condemned by should most assuredly be done to ernor's Inspection on Thursday, French artillery. Yesterday, in Peterkin is to be congratulated Mrs J.M. McHutcheon
stions. At any rate, something quired to attend the GOT to be thrown back twice by the thoroughly well merited. Mr. Major Macdonald most reviewers and banned by nearly all the libraries. In conse- quence of this, it had enjoyed a popularity far in exceas of that of make it possible for Europeans to February 10. Instructions will be almost the same region, bodies of on this little piece, which bears Dr Noble
issued. lees daring novela." Speaking of the main episode of the story, the
German infantry were caught by the stamp of distinct originality W.X judge continued: "Stripped of its trappings, it was nothing more.
the French gunners, while, stand is weirdly attractive in theme. Mrs Pollock Alice Memorial Hospital. nor less than a senegal, adulterous intrigue," adding that the writer:
another point, & German garrison It was most effectively played by Mrs Ralphs (2nd Donation) "was not even satisfied with justifying it but had atooped to glorify Apparently the Food Committee
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice was annihilated. And from the Mr. Faller. Of the other numbers Mr RJ. Bawlinson it No protection would be extended by that Court to a book of still exists, for the latest issue of Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals Italian official New Year report it for which Mr. Faller was respon- Mr Grin such desuartive tendency, and it rested with others to determine the Government Gazette speaks of bege to acknowledge with thanks is clear that the same kind of wark sible, Schutt's Serenade da Village Captain Sheare whether or not such a work ought not to be altogether suppressed the Chairman and Secretary of the following donation to the has been going on against the was very daintily presented; Liszt's Mr.J. C. Saunders.
that Committee having amended funds of the Hospitals-Board-Austrians in the South. How much beautiful Dream of Love. (No. 3) Messrs Donnelly & Whyte a certain list as recently as ing House Keepers Guild, $130. longer can the enemy stand it?was rendered with trae artistic Mr C. Woodhead Those who have read the monumental work in question may December 21 last. Apparently, justly feel that the judge's remarks are a little suggestive of break- however, the Committee has not.
inate; while Sibelius Valse Triste,. It is really almost time that number from the incidental The Colony's Health. ing a butterfly on the wheel. Was the book worth so mach had the heart to take in hand Laat week there were three cases some of our friends at Home music to the drama, "Death," was Mrs David Wood expenditure of energy? It struck as as merely idiotic, snobbish | the revision of the whole of diphtheria (two fatal), three of ceased to _prate of German
M. C. and pointless; the sort of drivel, in fact, that one quite would expect list of market prices, since the enteric fever (all fatal) and one efficiency. From our childhood in some respects the finest bit of Mr T. R. Chassels.
work which the pianat achieved. R. M. to see spring from an ill-regulated and morbid femmine imagination latest announcement (in which fatal occurrence of smallpox up, we have been taught to re- daring the evening; a remarkably-M. P. Mrs. Glyn, in the early days of her writing career, produced a name the officials referred to above are notified in the Colony. All were gard the Germans as the very coscrived piece of writing, it was AW. ber of light sketches which displayed good deal of humour and mentioned) deals only with milk Chinese, save one imported case embodiment of thoroughness and given with deep thoughtful- cleverness and showed promise of their author's becoming deserved- and frozen meat. Moreover, the of diphtheria, in which the practicality in all military and 1868 Bad clear compre- ly popular. Why she should have abandoned a good "line" and only alteration apparent is a sufferer was a Britisher.
Daval directions; but have wohension of the theme it illustrat made a bid for popularity of a cheaper and nastier sort we do not slight increase in the price of
seen so very much of either in lod. know, or particularly want to know-though we are bound to regret sweetened condensed milk. What
this war? Germany's naval ex- Laschetiizky's interners
For technical brilliance, that a writer of not inconsiderable natural ability should have the public wants, and what we The s... Pheumpenh, which ploits from the day the war octaves was the star piece of the thrown away her chances of proper recognition for the sake of have been long pleading for, is a arrived from Saigon to-day, ze broke
out down to Last "writing down" to a class of readers who might have been infinitely wholesale revision of the official parts fine weather, with light and Sunday when she contrived to named namber, Mr. Faller gave recital. As an encore to this lagi- better off had they never been taught to read at all.
prices, covering all the moderate breeze along the coast ground a couple of her own crafts his own captivating arrangement of life batcher up to Cape Padaran; thence strong-have been the subject of world of the Fire and Water Dance from As to the judge's views on the merality or the harmfulness of meat, poultry, fish, fruits, wind from north-east, backing wide ridicule and contempt. The The Bingbird. the affair, one feels that he has said enough to warn one class of vegetables, etc., for the guidance northerly. From Gap Rock in, one bright spot in her naval story people against the book and to set another class all agog to read it. of housewives. We had an idea fine weather, moderate northerly consists in the activities of the individual opinion, and of the period at which they are written. It benefit of the public and that perienced. was not till years after the great Elizabethan dramatists were des compradores or tradesmen guilty that some of the public began to suspect their works çf displaying
The Food Question.
Weather Report.
The Handy German.
Mrs Aucott wan
AN ASSAULT CASE.
An Englishman, named A. Ho.. Mr. Marisi's contributions were well, who keeps a store at 35, San
Morality or immurality in books must necessarily be a question of that the prices were fixed for the wind and slight seas were. ex Emden; and even she was s drawn from Somervell's set Wah Fong, was summand before..
a
the end of the third quarter of the 19th, the British reader and
of over-charging laid themselves
+
Larceny of an Opium Pipe.
nöt trained
Ho
pered by a man who was half British by blood and three-partating to Tennyson's "Mead. by tradition and training. And sang shree bracketed songa in Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Cours this morning, with being drank open to prosecution. Everybody A Chineas, was charged before what of her military greatnese ? each half of the programme, and
After evidence had been given in Restoration drama made people who were by no means paritanical feed, yet we hear of no prosecu- this morning, with stealing an glass houses should be mindful liab, discriminating taste and cap against him, defendant said he harmful tendency-not; perhaps, till the greater licence appearing Laows that over-charging is prac-Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Couft. It is true that folk who live in was certainly at his very best. Po and disorderly in Tai Wong Lane. ask themselves some very pointed questions about popular plays he is as fault the food opians pipe sad s razor. Ser how they throw stones, and that piles of expression were the char The "crality" of one century--or even of one decade is not the Committee in failing to bring the geant Wills said that when the scms of our own muddles In£rs" acteristics which marked, his had been on, second relict at of another. From the revolt, in the early days of the 18th century price-list up to date, or the police charge was read over to him, cs but little room for picking efforts. Ha showed most adm”. Belchers, and was walking down against the accepted drama of the 16th and 17th centuries, down to t for not prosecuting? At any defendant said that he did steal holes in our enemy's management able restraint in the more subda-the street when he saw three Portuguese men.” One of them
"Grorge Eliot", Trollope and Charles Reade were looked upon s the ma ter in hand, seeing that Defendant was sent to prison for people. We had no conscription, vigour into his singing when there's the let's mark him.” theatre-goer was hemmed in with a cast-iron prudery, and even had time enough in which to take that he had made the statement up to be essentially a military never failed to impart fire and said, "There goes the son of a-:
rate, the Committee has surely the articles, and now he denied of affairs, But then we never seed and lighter numbers, while he
more or less tinged with disreputability. Add were not our mothers the last occasion on which the a month, and was ordered to be our boys were
these qualities were called for Defendant then felt a blow on the rigidly forbidden to read "Ouids" and Rhoda Broughton? Begin-ist was corrected was on March placed in the stocks for four hours. to arms, our officers never appest fresh and zectial rendering of of them bit his thumb and ther Under this latter heading his and the men set on him. One ning from the early 'eighties, however, the public taste bas grown a
The Bo'sun's Jewellery. ed in uniform save when they were
renerally knocked him about. little less squeamish with every succeeding rear, and books which 12, 1915. If the officials and our parents were taught to regard as "dangerous” are now voted no too busy with other probleme, Mr. Hazeland, at the Police Court shop-keepera, ses-farers, zolfers great satisfaction. As an encore lief and was carrying some Chin-
members of the Committee are A Chinese was charged before on duty; we were just a nation of "My life has crept so long" gave He had just come off secin only innocent but boresomely so. What the future will have in store for us remains to be seen, but we hardly expect the time taen they had better let the fact this morning, with stealing a boxers, cricketers and jockeys; we be presented a most finished inter to come when anyone really qualified to judge will be able to say.
be known and proceed to make watcb, a gold ring, and coat, from bad no von Treitschke and no von pretation of the entrancing Omar debnitely whether a book is or is not positively immoral, as the room for others who have both the bo'san of the a.s Chang Shing. Bernhardi, and our universities Khayam sumber, "Myself when What he did was only in self- Defendant was discharged with public education improves it is possible that bioks of the "Three the time and the inclination to Sergeant Caygill stated that did not exercise themselves on young." A word should be added Weeks" order will demand no sale. Either way, it is difficult to see do the work.
defendant was a member of the the subject of militarism or seek concerning the accompanying of * caution. what the law can do in the matter, or how it can ban one given book
|crew, and the boʼsun, missing the to convert themselves into army Mr Peterkin, which was most and bless another. There is however, one little suggestion which
articles from his box, went into schools. Therefore it was zetarci sympathetic throughout and we should like to make; one which the law or the Authors' Society
the cookbouss and found the that we should err. Bat Germany which must have been as deeply defendant wearing the coat, with made a god of military efficiency. Ppreciated by the vocalist as it Washington, January 24-B the watch and ring also in his And where are the fruits ? Has was by the audience, Of late years certain new publishing firms have cultivated a habit of order of General Carranza two possession. He (Sergeant Cay any belligerent nation--even Issuing in something like uniform binding and, all at one prices Mexicans who were found guilty gill) thought defendent did not Tarkay made the hopeless cheap one!-books of the stamp of "Three Weeks" and, at the same of having murdered an American know the watch and ring were in blanders which she has been mak-was struck by a dark groom, a notes, we cannot help feeling time, a few recognised classica. Thas we have had the felicity of have been executed.
General seeing, even in Hongkong, one of the greatest novels that the world Carranza has started a ruthless to prison for a month and was singid missed formation attacks the platform and only
the pocketa. Defendant was sent ing every week, from her purely tain being hung at the has ever produced: "Madame Bovary cheek by jowl with a shil-campaign against all murderers ordered to be placed in the stocks down to her latest/achievements Izka ter
or the Publishers' Association might possibly be able to attend fo
Mexicans Executed.
bing & worth by Mrs. Glyn: Could not this be avoided? One would of foreigners on Mexican BOL. 'for four hours.
» d ́stinction drawn between the classical and the ally,
ese calendars for big
defeace.
"boy"
"A" somewhat unorthodox note
impossible to follow the program me or to digest its explanator
the convenienos of patrons we ascended to an endesyouz