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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918.
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A Former Housing Scheme.
In view of the revived interest | which is being shown in the | bousing question, sad the aug- gestions which are being made for new residential areas, it is worth recalling that some four Fears ago there was a great deal
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To-morrow's Antiversary. To-morrow in the fourth agni-
The Dollar.
The opening rate of the dollar OB demand to-day war 38. 6.7/16d.
of talk about the creation of a vereery of the destruction of modern settlement on the south-Louvain by the Germans. ern side of the island.. Indeed, a draft schemas was drawn up "between the Government and Mesure. Depuys and Bowley in cousection with the proposals, sud one of the ideas contemplated weathe construction of a tramway at light railway from s point in Wong Nei-Cheong Valley, through Wong Nei-Cheong Gap
The Architects' List. White le added to the List of The name of Mr. James William
Authorised Architects.
"Stopplag of Meat."
189 3
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
|(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for the week
ending August 31, 1893
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DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES. TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Warm Thanks for Hongkong Oifts.
The following communication bas been received by Mrs. Follock from Dr. Barnardo's Homes -
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The making of new words (om which the Dolly Chronids keepsTM watch) is less curious then the inversian of old ones. When for instance, Mr. John Dillon said at Bailieborough that the eyse of the whole Irish race were literally 18 to 26 Bepory Causeway,
fixed upon the contest of East Caron he meant that those London, 25.b June, 1918. Dear Madam-We have receiv- numerons eyes were figuratively August 23. The rate of the ed year kind letter of the 16th turned thereon.
There is no dollar on demand to-day is 2/6. April, containing 137 133. 6d., word more grotesquely misused being result of donations and a than "literally." It is not only Poor "Sport"
sale of work during Lat, in aid employed in the manner of August 26.-There is a certain of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, and on exaggeration or of inscoursey; it "behalf of our Honourary Director is taken for its contrary. And to Deep Water Bay. Rights ware Today, according to the
numerous class of " sportsmen also to be vested in the promoters Chinese calendar, is the festival in this Colony and the neighbour-and Council I send herewith our this is now done often in speech of the scheme to run s pablic of Chu shu, or " Stopping of 10g porte, who make a regular official receipt with very grate and in print. Mr. Dillon may say motor-car service from the Heat." We sincerely hope that practice of breaking loose over fal thenke. Such a gift from that a hundred writers in this the paddy-felde in Chinese Overseas is most cheering in respect literally keep step with territory where of
these times of high food-prices, him. COUTEB A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. proposed light railway to any the title will be justified by an
point in the new residential ares early drop in the temperature.
foreigners has a right to go at all for our family numbers over in which the promotera had an
Attached to Saaltary
without a passport-and shoot-7,000 children and their neede Another coincidence of the war. option. The scheme was a mort
Department. elaborate and well-thought-out | His Excellency the Governor ing wildly right and left are neither few nor small. We A soldier, serving in Flanders, everything. are most grateful to our friends wrote to his sister saying he had one and, bsd it mstared, there is besspproved of Mr. Eric William at anything and
trample down the in Hongkong for remembering a lonely cham who asked him if no doubt the general housing Hamilton being attached to the They eitostion would not be nearly 20 Sanitary Department for special crope with absolute indifference the needs of the children in the he knew of any nice girl who eerious as it is today. Unhappily, duty, with fee: from the 26th to the protests of the poor people Homeland in this time of stress culd write to him and send him het photograph. The girl sent the war
broke out and (we August, 1918, and until further whose livelihood is thus ruined, and etrain.
It will be interesting to you to her own to her brother, and told and who, in fact, are not infre presame that is the cause) notice.
Commission la H.K.D.C.
quently mauled or at least abused know that of all the outposts of him to pass it on to his obum, prevented the development of the
His Excellency the Governor roundly for objecting to auch Empire, Hongkong, by com-Bat this the brother refused to do. proceedings. Not a single little parison with its rise, stands out Later on the girl became engaged however, whether it is not even now possible for something to be Comming to be a Lieutensat in BDarro escaper being peppered as the most generous to our to a soldier who was convalescent done towards realising the plans the Hoogkong Defence Corps, for it is deemed great fun to hit Homes daring the War, and we at the local military hospital. He then decided upon. We hear with effect from this date, vies & fidgling tom-lit or some such thank you very heartily for your bad met the girl's brother over in that there is to be a modern kotel Lieutenant Charles William Mo thing sad watch its struggle. share in stimulating these gifts. Flanders, and when the latter was erected at Repulse Bay; then Kenny transferred to the Super- It has been for a long time a We know the hard word work on leave the girl arranged for the wonder that the Chinese on the which it must have entailed, two to meet again. Then the why cannot the promotere of this numerary List.
mainland so tamaly submit to notice that Jour collec-brother confessed that this was other scheme endeavour to revive their most admirable proposaie
His Excellency the Governor this wanton destruction of their tion has gone up by leaps and sham to whom he had refused his without farther delay ? Some ha nominated Mr. Charles Henry growing crops without even bounds. Your annual collection sister's photograph! statement on the subject would Gale to be a member of a Board occasionally murdering some in our books stands as follows:
sports #35 18 10 in 1912, £35 la in of Arbitrators, appointed to deter- ecalliwag Portuguese ·
Hit, which car mine the amount of compensation man" of this kind; but we hear 1914, #33 81 93 in 1915. €50 in aocapy, is built upon a strata of to be paid in respect of the on apparently reliable authority 1918. $100 in 1917, e137 13 6d Hits dating back to the Ave of the Bible, Mr. Candler tells us, resumption of Lot No. 2432 and that the Kwanglang Government in 1918. the buildings on Lot No. 2493 in Survey District IV.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918.
FUTURE VISIONS.
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Reform Indeed!
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Board of Arbitration,
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troops now
is determined to enforce the The Hongkong War Oberities and be finds the results un- prohibition which was tentative Committee hare generovily sent pleasant. Bet that is the natural Executive Council. ly issued last year, and atop the us three gifts amounting to way, with men and snimals. I His Excellency the Governor excenes of these ruffians, since 42,300, and the Hongkong St. India, where a tiger has once has appointed, provisionally and they seem to have no sense of George's Society have sent as established a beat, another tiger subject to His Majesty'e pleasure, decency enough to stop them- $1,000. These are in addition to will come when the first has been the Hon. Mr. David Lindale to selves. They will not, we believe, in lividual gifts and collections killed; and rats always sucosed be an Unofficial Hember of the be allowed to go on the mainland such as your own. There must be to the runs of rete destroyed. Executive Council during the in fatare daring the time of a very Eind feeling besting in the Where man has once built, there Catchick Paul absence on leave of the Hon. Sir growing orope, so that the young hearts of the Bongkong residente bis successors will go on building. Chater, K., birds will have a little more for the children in the Homeland, How many Romes are there, chance of living long enough to and we are exceedingly grateful. rested one upon another; how CM.G., or until farther notice.
get their feathers-which is im- Our work continues apace. msay Londone, in the 15 feet of possible under the present regims. Since War broke out we have debris on which the present Oity
admitted 6,077 obildren—a large | standa ?.. proportion being the children of our soldiers and sailors. Among
Gamblers.
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There are evidently some very ardent rafarmers in the so-called Canton Military Government, if we are to judge by the anti- smoking edict which has just been irened by the Interior Dapartment. The regulatione which this illustrious body suggeste as being With all the scientific research and application that the war necessary ars that boys below 18 has fostered there is a wonderful scope for speculation as to how years of age should not be per- the coming days of peace will be affected when the forces of war that navel and military men be mitted to smoke in the streets, are turned to peaceful pursuits, and it can confidently be predicted that the processes of production will, in a few years, be so revola- denied the enjoyment of the
A Building Appointment. tionised as to change the whole face of the industrial world. Lead fragrant weed, and no teachers or ing men of all nations are rightly looking ahead to periods of
scholars be allowed either to buy
It is notified that Mr. James or emoke cigarettes. That is s
William White, Assistant En- prosperity brought about by changed conditions, but there is some-
Aa Amusing Incident. thing not a little fantastic in a recent vision of the All Highest would bring joy to the hearts Excellency the Governor in programme of reform which gineer, has been deputed by Hie
Acgust 28. The new bathing
Before the war, in many of the German Keiser which has been publiebed in the Lokal-Anzeiger. of the The favourite war correspondent of the Ksiser, Karl Rosner, telle
advanced anti-Council to act on behalf of the jetty and club-house at Kowloon the admissions last year were well-populated and poorer dis smoking crank, but that it Building Authority in all cases Point formed the scene of a pretty two from Singapore, so that you triots of London mary of the of how one evening, after a busy day, the Emperor spoke can ever be carried into effect referred to in Sections 205, 206, little comedietta one night last will see our net reaches far and email greengrocers made it a looss on destruction would again be placed in the service of peace- do not doubt that excessive and with glowing enthusiasm of the times when the forces now let is, of course, unthinkable. We 207 and 207 of the Public Health week rather savouring of low wide.
practice of selling to their one- Baildings Ordiotace, comedy. Two members of the Oar Charter is "No Destituta tomers-chiefly school-children fal pareoite: Ep sketched far-reaching advances in the technical cigarette smoking is doing s deal 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, swimming clab went down for a Child Ever Refused Admission." ➡s half pennyworth or a penny- domain, in physics, chemistry, and scientific farming, and forecasted of harm among the Texy young in connection with dangerous wet (internal or external, deponent We have no voting system, no worth of mixed nute. One day & that all of Germany's needs in nitrates would be covered by extracting Chinese, and it would certainly buildinge. nitrate from the air.
sayeth not) rather Inte in the waiting list, and no red tape. If very small boy, who evidently He proceeded to describe the marvellous be well if it could be checked possibilities" of the new gas motore and how purified waste waters
evening, and on approaching a child needa our aid we give it was on his way to school; paid a thoas of tender yesra, for
Seren Chinese were charged the place were surprised to it willingly. Child-life is the visit to one of these shops, and from metal works would serve to fertilize the fields so that deaerts it is quite a common sight to see before Mr. J. R. Wood, with ladies, veritable angelio musmees, privilege to be able to hold following order :-" Penn'ortho would blossom like roses and make arid regions self-supporting a mere toddlers-girla as well sa
at the Magiatraty this morning, Fee & couple of Japanese nation's greatest asset, and it is ssstonished the proprietor with the regsräs food. With daring Bighte of fazcy, the Emperor predicted boys-puffing away at cigarettee. playing "Po Chi" Inspector J. playfully disporting in the cut the head of help to these mixed nuts, please, an' please the harnessing of the raya of the sun and the recovery of the ocean's Bat that soldiers and esilors J. Watt prosecuted and Mr. E. J. water at the end of the jetty. At destitate and forlorn little ones. don't put more'n a couple o "innermost treaires. Jadged from the standpoint of scientific should be deprived of their Grist appeared for all the defend. the intrusion of two male mons. 86,000 children in all have enter- coker-nuts in ein, gov'ner, slee I schievement, no one will possibly have a quarrel with the day smokes is too funny for words. In ants. Mr. Grist pleaded guilty ters, the timid crestares rushed od our Homes; 10,356 Barnardo ahon't be able to get 'em in me dreaming of this ever-romancing monarch, for with the march of England there is a law against on behalf of his clients and saked for their kimonos and wanted to boys are fighting for us on land peckit, 'cause I don't want teacher discovery the whole of the dream might easily be translated into mere boys smaking; in Canton his Worship to impose the usual fly away home; but the "horrid and ees. Over 6000 of these are to see 'em." fact. Bat this same Emperor damned the whole alterance when he it is suggested that no-one under small fine. His Worship fined men" locked the gate at the shore in the Overseas Contingents added "This will all come to paas once Germany secures the strong 18 years be allowed to publicly each defendant $2, and ordered end of the jetty, and prepared to boys migrated in previous years. One of the most discouraging peace for which I am working," for in that tag is not only a coa indulge hia liking for tobacco the 80 cents found in the house accord the charming visitors a dition that falsely implies that by Germans alone is it possible to and, of course, a Chiness of 18 to be confiscated.
I think the enclosed booklet signs of the times is that no perfect scientific research, but also a menace to the reet of the years is a man, not a boy. The
fitting welcome. The two ladies, The Hope of Britain's Fatare in exposure of official incompetence Mr. Potter's Appointment. however, seeing the way of escape in the coming Generation" which brings with" it any punishment, civilised world.
basis idea of the Osaton Bie Excellency the Governor barred, despairingly flung them we are just publishing, will but, on the contrary, reward or ities as regarde the alleviation of human toil and drudgery, that the havesadly over-stepped the mark. Me, Frederick Peel È doa Leonard they managed to get ashore; and the other friends very heartily.
It is when one views the future; so fall of tremendous possibil- reformers are all right, but they has appointed, vice Mr. Eric selves into the briny deep with all interest you
prómation, says the Saturday William Hamilton, transferred, their pretty clothes on! Happily absolate necessity of destroying German despotic might is brought
Once again thanking you and Review. The negligence and im fally home. To sit in reflection and conjure up the state of other
potence of the Indian Government Mixed Marriages.,
Potter to act as Assistant District apeedily disappeared up country, peoples were a German "strong peace" to be secured, is to suffer from
se revealed in the Mesopotamia Another bit of Canton news Officer in the Southern District leaving the disappointed invaders all the feare of aightmare, for one can see nations timidly striving which our correspondent recently of the New Territories. Mr. to console themselves with what
Report brought no consequences to the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge; after improvement, fearing, and perhaps suffering from, a state of sent us is far more satisfactory Potter hea alan been appointed a comfort they could find. Hasten- Tagaslage and generally yielding to the greedy dictates of a con reading. We refer to the an Magistrate and been authorised ing home, the Japanese ladies
and Surgeon General Sir William Babtis, the officer directly rea- scienceless Power. In contrast one can picture, with little fear of nourcement that the Educational to hold a Small Debts Court in found their male protectors, who
ponsible for the deficiencies of being thought Utopian, civilised natione, freed from the weight of Bard has definitely set itself the New Territories at the follow- also happen to be members of the
the medical provision in Meso- armamente, living in amity and good-will, concentrating on human againat mixed marriages by places:-The charge rooms of the Kowloon Bathing Olub. When aplift, recars in just and retributive peace enforced by superior Chinese students in foreign coap- Police Stations at Tsan Was, Tai the story of these awful adven
"Kobe claims to have discovered polamis, was at once given an Allied will. If Germany before the war and before her trial of tries, The Board, eo we are told, O, Tang Chang, Cheang Chan, turers had been told, there new posts record for the Far West of England. We now learn important appointment in the strength dared to become the juggernaut car of Earope it coes not has decided that those in charge and Yeung Sha Wan.
East. ensaed a mighty gathering of
A postcard mailed at that Sir William Babtie has been take much imagination to picture what her attitude towards others of such students abroad are mot Revenue Officer Deserts. armed
Hongkong on November 28, 1913, men to go down
appointed Medical Adviser to the would be did she come out of this war a victor, free to act how and to be allowed to grant marriage when she chose. The Kaiser's dream iskes on a new significance certificates to foholare who are Magistracy this morning, before and spears, and twangling bowe, originally reached Japan is Dec Army Medical Service. The con-
A Chinese was charged at the to the bath-house with sworde; dressed, on July 1, 1918.
was delivered at Kobe, as ad- Adjutant General, who is respon
Σε sible for the direction of the whole when looked at in this light, and to save the world from the power supported by the "Government Mr. J. R. Wood, with deserting and dogs, and blunderbusere, of a Jucker nation armed not only with physical might bat with sad that the letters financial from the Revenue Office. In- and other instruments of music, ember, 1913, but in some manner dition of many of the Military scientific weapons, actual and potential, the Allies are now pouring grants are to be cancelled and spector J. O. Wildia, in prosont to wipe out the two interlopers about until, the postmarks show, should be, and requires immediate
alipped away again, and wandered oat blood and treasure in s profusion that must carry triumph in the students themselvae dismissed ing, said that defendant was On arrival, however, a large it was despatobed from Shanghai supervision. The Secretary of Hospital is very far from what it its train.
if they do contract each ander an agreement to serve in smoant of As on each succeeding day one reviews the course of the war, marriages. That is a very sens the Revenue Office for three appears to have evaporated for on June 23, this year.
military erdour weighs in the balance of justice the merits and demerits of the ible course of scion. It has been yesra. A little over a year ego nothing ensued bat explanatione contending forces, and contrasts the moral tone and purpose of the proved over and over again that he deserted and was struck off. and drinks all round. But there nations engaged, there is borne in apon one the conviction that such marris gee.ntually have the He was in charge at Yaumati and was yet another surprise to come, apologise most abjectly, and there there was never a more holy war fonghi than that which is raging most unhappy resalts to both e held a responsible position. for after all was apparently the matter rests for the present. now. It is a real straggle between the forces of darkness and of parties when the husband returns He was arrested yesterday morn-settled satisfactorily, next morn There may be more anon. light, and will determine by ita result whether humanity goes on to to his native cesatry, and from ing by a Chinese constable. ing a lawyer's letter cime Home Rule for Hongkong! advance towards its own eventual emancipation from ignoranos and no standpoint should they be Defendant pleaded guilty, and round to the two mém- August 29. Referring to the in a road sf Hampstead yester error or whether there is to be a disastrous check in the course of encouraged. The Hongkong said that he had received small bare whose innocent surprise pall taken the other day in this day I saw a dog leaning cat of a natural evolution. The Kaiser and others might dream of wonder. Bensvolent Scciety has many wages here, but up in the country visit had alarmed the ladies and Colony on the Irish Question, the window and buking loudly at a ful things ahead in the physical world, but until there has been times had occssion to express he received more. established morality of conduct, mutual toleration, and inviolate itself against these mixed mar Wildin remarked that when he instance; they were threatened ly remarks that
Inspector led to all the trouble in the first Shanghai Mercury very pertinent, preing postman, to whom I Hongkong remarked, "That dog is no friend Danone of honour, all the scientific progress in the world will add riages. If the Ubinese Board of (defendant) deserted, two other with all sorts of pains and penal certainly wants Home Bule itself, of yours. He replied: "Oh, he's but nothing to the sum total of human heppiness. There is a prior Education now carries out the revenue officers alro deserted, ties if they did not do certain to get free of the Official Barnacles, all right. When I don't deliver daty than that of research just now, and that is, for the armies of the scheme suggested, the results His Worship faed defendant things within 24 calendar weeks, who alog its head-way and retards letter at his house he always Entente to lay the aure foundations of all future progress-hamen should be of the utmeat beneft to $200, or three months hard or something of that sort. ita progrese at the expense of the watches for my return to remind equality:
all concerned.
In bouri
Accordingly, we believe, they did, taxpayers.
me of the fact
I'sm, dear Madam, Faithfully yours,
CLAUDE WRIGHT,
General Secretary.
"Some Record."
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State for War satraste this task to one who has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. This is the career open" to failures.
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