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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
HOME TRADE OUTLOOK.
DAY BY DAY.
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TRUST IN NOTHING BUT IN PROVIDENCE AND TOUR We have been left to form our opinions as to the bad conditions: EFFORTS. - .
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of the war, from the Reuter The rainfall registered at the cables dealing with the subject, Botanical Gardens during received from time to time, but February totalled 2.03 inches, it would appear that the situation is far more serious than could have been gathered from that source of information judging from
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The Houghong Stock Ex- change has removed from the ald
a printed circular which has been offices in Beaconsfield Arcade, to rent to former customers, in new promises at No. 10, lee House the East, by a well known | Street.
Home woollen export firm. The
circular first points out the The usual monthly whist drive difficulties experienced in execut of the Royal Naval Quadrille ing orders during the war, owing Club is to be held to-night at to Government requirements, but 3.15 pm. at the Royal Naval
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this tells us nothing we do not already know. But the next paragraph of the document con- tains statements that are anything
The Peace Celebration Com- but cheering. The circular says mittee is to hold its first meeting that the end of the war finds manu- at the City Hall on Monday next facturers without the necessary at noon. Ë, E. Mr. Chad Severn raw material for the execution of will be present. their modest undertakings and an jimmediate improvement of the
Orders issued by Mr. J. W. situation cannot be hoped for. Large quantities of cloths will be Franks, D. S. P. (R.) state that required in the near future, which band practises for March are as are in process of manufacture, follows:-Tuesdays, 11th and and will still be required for a 18th; Fridays, 21s, and 28th; at long time. Further large quanti-6 p.m. ties of cloth will be required for the use of inhabitants of the countries devastated by the Ger- mans and also for the troops when
Further receipts of the Red Cross Flower Stall, Hongkong Hotel, up to the 3rd inst. amount to $619.12, making the total to late orders received from overseas. date $1,937.96. The stall will The document concludes "The be closed after Saturday, March delays of manufacture are very 8th.
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DEATH.
DYER BALL-At his residence at North Finchley, London, on the 22nd February, James Dyer Ball, I.S.O., Hongkong Civil Service, retired, aged 71." (Chios papers please copy).
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1919.
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A MINISTRY OF HEALTH.
no less than ten central
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MODERN MODES. -
SMART MODEL WITH TUCKED SIDE PANELS.
Designs of the Moment by "Sacha.”«
CORRE
A PUBLIC DANGER,
[To the Editos of the “Rongan
Tak graph."] Sir,-Pedestrians are caused great inconvenience during the dark hours by using the way to the town from Arbuthnot Road to Wyndham Street owing to the long flight of steps and insufficient light there. Com plaints have been made several times in the local рареги but the authorities have never responded. Do you think, Mr. Editor, the authorities will pay earnest attention with reference to the propar lighting when the Police have reported that come- body has broken a limb?
Yours etc. PEDESTRIAN. Hongkong, March 5, 1919.
OBITUARY.
MR. JAMES DYER BALL.
News has been received from Home of the death, at his resid- ence in London, of Mr. James' Dyer Ball, IS.O., at the age of 71. The late Mr. Dyer Ball was for 35 years in the Civil Service in Hongkong and occupied positions of Chief In- terpreter, Sheriff, Registrar General and other posts in the Service. He was a member of Committee of the Anti-Opium Society and took a great interest lia religious wors amongst Chinese. But it is in connection with his great knowledge of Chinese customs and the Chinese language that the docessed will
NEW DESIGNS SEEN IN PARIS. Jare of black satin gorgeously em-best be remembered, and his First, a little lailleur of bine braidered with tinsels, black silks books on Cantonese and Hakka
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His most
BILLIARDS.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
home export trade must be rather submitted justifies the expectailk pique, with a very narrow sad seed pearls. The skirt is of sre Dow standard works and cheerless for some time to come:ations of large audiences to wind skirt draped and split in the back, blue satin. A great deal of line are used in all the Chinese far more so than we have been up the season.
and a wristlong jacket with a is given by two narrow embroi-Language schools. led to believe from the cables, in
square neck and two embroidered dered panels of black satin popular works were "Things fact.
This morning, the Peak Tram-panels at the front and at the attarbed at the hip-line in the Chinese" and The "Chinese at way recommenced service from back. The sleeve was three middle of the back and front Home," which books showed that Garden Road to the Peak, the re-quarters long and had a small In another dress of royal blue the author had a deep insight It is interesting to note that the completed such enables the stitched-work
grading work, having been cuff embroidered in the same chiffon velvet, the straight piece into the Chinese character and
point House of Commons has passed elimination of the depressors panels. A smart morning dress instead of being allowed
as the of material across the shoulder, Chinese customs. A great the second reading of the Ministry The station at Barker Road has was a knitted one-piece straight fall
to student and a deep thinker, the of Health Bill. There can be no been rebuilt and 3 concrete model
straight towards the late Mr. Dyer Ball earned a deep doubt as to the necessity for such
of light maize elbows, is held in at the shoulders respect from those who knew him a measure, for, up to now, the structure erected which greatly colour. It was greatly trimmed thus giving a very grace-which it is the privilege of few to task of safeguarding the nation's adds to the convenience of pass with embroidery and tassels of fal fulness to the upper part secure, and the greatest sympathy health has been divided up among engers.
white wool. A little hat of white of the body. This dress is nar-will be felt for his son, Mr. A. angora was designed to accompany row and is caught in at the bot-Dyer Ball, who now holds the authorities, namely the Local The big moon which rises. A delicious dress was of pink tom. It is almost entirely cover-position of Clerk of Councils in Government Board, the Board across the hills to brighten up chiffon covered with black Chan-ed with a wonderful embroidery Hongkong, in his bereavement. of Education, the
Home Pinkie's Party is being made by tilly and having at the waist-line of gold threads, reddish-brown Office, the Board of kindness of the Hongkong and Trade, the Board of Agriculture, Whampoa Dock Co. It is at the side with a great big broidery simulates a panel in the girdle of pink faille ending silks and seed pearls. This e- the Registrar-General's Depart- ment, the National Insurance wonderful Fairy Moon through bow. Among the beautiful even- front, a wide band at the bottom Commissioners, the Ministry of which appear the numerous "Old
ing dresses was a remarkable and sleeves. At the back is a Pensions, the Treasury and the Guard of Faerie" who attend the model of black and silver brocade real panel and it has the same Privy Council. It is unnecessary party of "Once upon a Time" on by Worth. The short skirt was embroidery that appears in the to point out the danger and clumsithe nights of March 21st, 22nd,
F. W. Black beat K. Higashid We are soon to have another election in Hongkong at least, ness of such a system, and the 24th, 25th and (Matinee) 20th clever drapery starting from front of the dress.
the right shoulder winding| A pretty evening frock recent by 400 to 344 last night in t the Justices of the Peace are, for one of their number has to be new Bill is an attempt to transfer inst.
around, the body in a gracefully launched at a Paris theatre chosen to serve on the Legislative Council in place of the Hun. Mr. all the various powers, which are
line and pulling upward to the was made of turquoise blue crepe hell nuder the auspices of the open Championship of the Colony Pollock whilst the latter is acting as Attorney General. "There are at present exercised by the above The Chinese woman, who right side. The bodice at the satin with a plain, rather short V.R.C. Higashide led up to 100- two candidates in the field, aspiring to the honour, and we ought to departments, to one central
promised to bring to the Magia left side of pink tulle was em-skirt, which was finely gathered when Black took and retained see quite an interesting little contest. The general public, however, authority. When the official can only look on, for the time has not yet come when it has the statistics regarding the health of tracy her pup for Mr. Wood's broidered with rhinestones. At at the waist, and a simple cross-his lead throughout the right to send its own directly-elected representatives to the legisla- the nation were published re-spection, was
her the back a loag, detachable train over bodice which left the arms
rest of the game, The tive body of the Colony. When that day comes, and if with it there cently, it came as a shock to promise, and brought it along There are very few of the new quite bare. There was a softly highest break was 27, contribut is also an abolition of the Official Majority, we may expect to see know that only thirty per cent. Jay. an Indian constable said evening dresses that do not have folded sash of black tulle, theed by Black. This turned out to reflected here something of the interest taken at Home in municipal of the manhood of the country that he paid a visit to the woman la train of some sort. If the train latter tied at one side in a but-be the slowest game in the tour- elections. After all, or purely domestic questions, there is nothing were absolutely fit men. on the 28th ultime and saw a is not the termination of alterfly bow, which gave s curious-nament; neither player could get unreasonable in, looking to such a time, for on Municipal Councils There is no doubt; of dog, Mr. Wood was curious drapery it is, in most cases, aly Japanese effect. the officials of the town or borough are in a minority and, more than course, that the efforts of "What kind of dog was it? what detachable panel starting from
going. in the last hundred, that, are rightly regarded as the servants of the public, whose the ten departments mentioned breed? and how old? Not this the shoulders or the waist-line bassadors Theatre, Miss Leesistently and won by 56 points. In the play "Us" at the Am- however, Black played very con- wishes they carry out so long as their services are considered fabove realised. a considerable
dog?" The constable said it was and ending in a point, square White wears a very beautiful satisfactory. It may be a long cry before we reach that state of measure of success, but we
To-night at the V.R.C., P. A. affairs, but that, no doubt, is the ideal aimed at by those who rightly consider that much better results a black and white dog of English or demi-circle. Sometimes white evening frock showing the Yvanovich will meet Capt. E. B. regard our present system as unsuited to the times and the con- would have come if health admin-breed, over a year old, and the the train is first arranged on new length. The dress is draped Green.
istration had been systematised pup produce was certainly the corange in a scarf-like man-closely round her figure, and a and put upon a rational basis. not the Animat lie 5GW.
дег Thus, on a short dreas of long silk fringe, which comes st He asked, the woman about the pink Georgette crepe Lanvin has the edge of the skirt just touches MALINI, THE MAGICIAN. dog and whether she had a licence. draped the upper part of the the floor. The woman with a big smile: bodice with a scarf of crepe end- Long silk fringes are extremely
ditions in which we live.
the
A NATIONAL NECESSITY.
true to
If only all election promises could be fulfilled, we should soon be living in a happier and more congenial atmosphere, both literally and figuratively. Each of the candidates now coming forward pledges himself, if elected, to pay special heed to the housing and public health problem, which are closely interlocked one with the The new Ministry of Health"The big one is not mine. This ing in the back with two trained popular, and another dress of To borrow a pound note and other, Both realise that new areas have to be opened up, and easy must be a real Ministry and not pup was given to me by some one panels. One sees even as many hers, in a lovely shads of brick-transfer it from the hand to soum means of communication provided, while the resumption of old and a series of boards for investig- My child liked it; so I kept it." as three trains to a dress. Cherait red, has both tunic and skirt portion of the auditorium is s insanitary houses in the densely populated part of the city is ad- ation and suggestion, and is must Mr. Wood: "In my opinion this in a very original dress of green edged with a silk fringe to match. common trick of sleight-of-hand vocated by Mr. Bird. In these two questions alone, any member of be presided over by a Minister is the wrong, dog. You are fined tame, embroidered in tinsels, and
But to transfer it to the Legislatve Council would have enough to occupy his energies of Cabinet rank, who would be
For little everyday frocks themen.
the interior if he really set himself to
of B $5.
eggor task, but Mr. Alabaster advised by a council of scientific
ornamented with girandoles of jumper style still holds good and
B lemon is 8 matter which has a vision of even more things than new houses and better san- and medical experts. The demand
coloured beads hung from space to for jerseys it is preferred above tests one's credulity. This, how- itary conditions, for he covers so many points in his address that, if for such a department by the
"The Stunts" are visiting Can-space, had as many as three all the more easy-to-get-into ever, is one of the hundreds of all were carried into effect, Hongkong would indeed becoming a whole nation is backed by the ton on Saturday, an I are giving pointed traibs of brown chiffon. kinds. The fashionable jersey feats done by Malini, the paradise. He would like to see local health and holiday resorts entire medical profession, and in performance at the Canton developed, playgrounds for children laid out, schemes put into fact the present Bill, which has Club Theatre in aid of local the reverse of what other coutewester, and fairly dark shades; his season here at the City Hall, Callot, who usually does just really modelled on the man's Napoleon of Magic, who opens operation to help young married couples to own the houses in which been read for the second time, is charities. It will be the first uriers do, has most of her gowns with very bright coloured ban's St. Andrew's Hall, on Saturday they have to reside, bandstands erected in Hongkong and Kowloon the result of the efforts of a joint ocasion on which the Canton rainless; they are, besides, short, of knitting, for free weekly concerts during the summer, better education, better committee, which represents the folk will have the opportunity cf quite short. The cat of these angora,
crochet, or night next, 8th March. Malini is hospitals and a better lunatic asylum, the doubling of the Police British Medical Association, and hearing this bright Company, and dresses is ingeniously simple, but
are chiefly chosen.not only an adept at this kind of Force, a bigger sanitary staff, and what not else. He would like to the Royal Colleges of Physicians they may be assured of a they are embroidered so sumpta- beads is to
The newest way of using trick, but his command of cards
borders on the see, also, the transferring of the naval and military establishments and Surgeons. Even before the war thoroughly enjoyable two hours.usly that they can be worn on patchwork pattern in a variety of he had been acclaimed to be with supernatural. from a sort of
Wherever Malini has appeared the safeguarding of the nation's If only a tithe of these good things were to be realised, we health was of the most vital im Special pains have been taken occasions of real gals. And for colours. A very delightful navy out peer in handling cards. His should be a far happier and more contented community than we portance, but now that we have over the programme for Canton these dresses she uses -chiffons, blue gabardine jumper frock of dexterity is weird. The late now are. But there is really no reason why each and every one of seen what war demands of a and it is certain that those who tina or velvets. The cat French origin hada King Edward was so taken with these items should not in course of time be granted us. What are country's manhood, too much attend on Saturday will see an is as simple as the classi-patchwork border of beads going one of Malini's tricks with the they, after all, but what we have all been used to in any modern stress cannot be laid on the amateur show that comes as pear cal dress of Ancient Greece round the hem of the tanie, cards that he had the wonder- town ar city at Home? Our would-be Legislative Councillors may necessity of taking immediate to the professional standard as The fulness of the material outlining the deep V-shaped neck worker repeat it three times. be aiming higher than they themselves expect to reach, but steps to ensure that the nation possible. As bright as that if the way progress is attained. Public opinion, we know, will in the future be brought to Stunts were when they appeared allowed to fall in natural sisight design contained no less than world and so great has been his The is held at the shoulders and is and edging the onfis. The Malini has travelled the whole ever hand of legislative enactment, and so these candidates for the highest pitch of health and at the Theatre Royal, and having lines. Bat with these principles twenty-five different shades of to the cities have alway public service do right when they make their programme a big one efficiency. The xiew Minis- In the hope that at least some of its items may be conceded. The try will be faced with a formido secured the help of a gente come many variations treated by beads, but nearly all were in out all the former community dous want more and cheaper houses, better education able task but there is every man who has been connected Call with a master band. In a subdued tones. Patchwork silk endeavour to me for the rising generation, more Police protection, and aven weekly reason to hope that it will achieve with the London stage in a dress of blue and black satin the for cont linings, and patchwork magie band concerts as well. These things ought not to be withheld, and as one big body, what the other professional capacity, it is no long-waisted bodice, the band sill and velvet, mixed, Unofficial members who work that they may be secured for the various authorities failed to exaggeration to say that they are across the hips, and the wide trimming frocks, are among the public are serving the public well and will, by só-doing, earn the accompli
fifty per cent beffer now.
'band at the bottom of the skirt novel ideas of the moment. public's deepest gratitude.
east of Garden Road to more suitable localities.
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