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TELEGRAPU, FRIDAY, APRIL 11. 1919.
THE HONGKONG
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
[QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
the
DAY BY DAY.
ROBBIE'S LETTER.
PERHAPS ALL" THINGS COME TO TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME. ever look like that after, the HIM TO WAITS, BUT-THERE ARE MANY THINGS'NOT WORTH WAITING
FOR ST. DUNSTAN'S HOME.
WEDNESDAY'S BAZAAR.
but your cross-section being more on the lines of a hog's head, how can ye possibly imagine that yell
The replies given
tailors are through wi' ye?" And, by Government to the questions put a
then the row would start, Believe by the Hon. Mr. C, G. Alabaster
Hongkong, 9th April 1919.
me, at this dressmaking game and the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak,
Dear Alick,
there's no' a woman living, let
A very successful sale of wor in the Legislative Council yester
Man, when ye her be ever so good-natured, batin aid of St. Dunstan's Hoste day, were of such a nature as to
A fine of $350, ar, iu default, come back, if you're spared and doesna take umbrage at light
was held on Wednesday after create feelings of satisfaction on three months' hand labour, was well, you'll not know this place. remarks about her figure. The 5000, on the tennis courts o the one hand and disappointment today imposed on a Chinese for Just what shape the Peace man's interest lies chiefly in his Montpellier," Queen's Gardens on the other. Taken in the having 30 sels of raw non-Memorial is to take hasna' been passbook gure the month follow and the ladies who conducted order in which the questions government opium.
decided yet, but they've got plenty ing.
the sal and the were put by Mr. Alabaster, the
of suggestions, you believe me.
ments first reply was eminently satis-
wish to rende I needna' go into any more de-their Properly set ont under their tails about that Sunday-dress-to their friends (too numerous to factory. The provision of a play. The Adwairal Line will open headings and sub-headings and be, for by the time the tailor gets specially mention) who so kindly best. thanks .14 ground for the children on their permauent offices on the numbered off and each paragraph the material and then spends the co-operated with 'em in con Mount Kellet Road is most 5th floor, Hotel Mansions Build-set to one side, up to now they re desirable it view of the added ing, to-morrow. There will be present quite a respectable lot next three weeks in Canton chin-ribating money and articles for danger to life and limb. owing to "apen hon-e" from 11 am. to 3 of foolscap, I'll be far cheated chin jossing before he starts the sale in aid of the cause.
it there's no dog fight, and when he does get a more The winning numbers of the
the increased ricksha traffic on'
the Peak. In passing. we Pm.
wonder why similar steps have not been taken in connection with the motortraffic on Kennedy
Yesterday's health return Road. However we will deal shows three cases of plague with this matter at some future (two fatal), three of cerebro-spinal date. The reply to the second meningitis (two fatal) and one question included a refusal by fatal occurrence of enteric fever. the Government to erect a band- All were Chinese. stand on unused lot on the
refresh
over the business before it's, puts the sleaves wrong side raffles were:
in four times in saccession, well, finished. Too many cooks spoil
Large raffle-1st prize. No voile maketh the wife's heady to see the pictures in, prize, No. 73; 4th prize No. 58; the broth and many patterns of the time the frock's finished it's 121; 2nd prize, No. 00rd dizzy. Many a good dress has the fact that it must be worn in 31.
sad. that by reason of th prize, No. 96; 6th prize, No. patterns to choose from. When the womenfolks are any better 2nd prize, No. 50; 3rd prize, No. bean spoilt wi a multitude o the dark. But do ye think that 4 Doll raffle-l prize, 58; Janet used to make up her mind off for the experience? Deil the 28; 4th prize, No. 32. to get a real nice No. 1 Sunday
fear, for by that time, Mr. P. W. Goldring has secur-dress it was worse than a church to why this most desirable step ed $2,000 hail for a Chinese who planning to build a Hall. She they've already started to plan
the next one. should not be taken. Surely this is was charged with being in usually formed a committee of one, not one of the points upon which
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MARRIAGE
BURN-MACLEAN-On April 10th, at Hongkong, George Andrew Burn, of Edinburgh. Scotland, to Ethel Anna Maclean, daughter of the late John Maclean, of Bangkok. Siam.
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HONGKONG. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1919.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS.
In
but na reason was vouchsafed as
the Government is "debarred" possession of 3,000 lottery tickets. from publishing information? The case was remanded until However, of this also, more anon. to-morrow. The reply to question three appears. to be satisfactory, likewise replies
to questions four, five and six. Pressing business too far, in Coming to the response to the rolved a Chinese shop-keeper serenth question, as to whether in a $50 fine this morning. He the Government bad done was caught by the Police selling anything to assist visitors liquor to some European soldiers passing through the Colony to after 13 mid-night, the cleeing obtain shelter, the reply was boar rather in the
of # camouflage. It was left an open question whether anything would
nature
•
Government is prepared to give Public School (Special or three weeks ago, if the Hospitals-Pupils at assistance a public announcement ion), $35. should be made to that effect,
and the hotels who have to turn temporary visitors away should
we
seemed to have been met in an
to in a
little
Yakumo.
for a
power to add to its number
to
As I was saying though, the
Teddy Bear-No. 93. Lady's Sweater.—No. 47. Gramophone.-No 2
Netted Bag-No. 85 (madeby the one of the Blind Soldiers of the Home).
Night Dress-No. 45. Picture, "Last of the Gar- Goose.-No. 41.
Dressed Doll in Chair.-No. 59. Special thanks are due to the-
"OUR BOYS.
the
scenes
that was me) and the first Peace Memorialists are going to step was to have a series of con-hares tough job" on their hands sultations wi' her friends, sifting them suggestions. May- Mrs. Macpherson usually elected be the best way out of the herself adviser-chief and wi' her difficulty will be to put them allrison"-No. 46. help D'Aguilar Street and into a hat and then have a draw. vicinity was carefully mapped It's a great pity ander the! out and a day set aside for the circumstances that the St. collection of patterns, half of Andrew's Society let you Lottery Hongkong Hotel, Dairy Farm which were generally lost in the machine go back to Macao, for it Co., Ltd, Mesars. Wiseman, depths of bags and parses would have come in handy for the Alexandra Cafe, Sir Paul Chater, before they got home. At this job, I wouldna' be on the com- and others who contributed to stage I would be casually shown mittee for worlds, for they can't refreshments; also to the follow- The "Bangkang Telegraph" Mäelivered free when the addresseebe done by the Government if Alice Memorial and Affiliated mained after the formy and in a have
The Hon. Treasurer of the the wisps of material that re-please everybody and them that ing firms who donated articles is accessible to messenger. Peak gubscribers can have their copies of the great lack of bosel-accomo-with
assistance was applied for. In view Hospitals begs to acknowledge careless
fathered Some pet for sale: Anderson Music Co., Ak delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies dation and the almost certain re-donation to the funds of the thinks would look wi' its rejection as a personal affront: Colonial Dispensary, Chan Yuen, off-handed manner scheme, no matter how imprae- Tourg, Ah Men and Hing Cheung, thanks the sant by post an additional $1,80 per quarter is charged for postage.
following would be asked "How do yon ticable it is, are going to look on British American Tobacco Co,. Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
currence of what took place two
contribut-experience is worth all that it's Hospital myself and naturally Co., Graeco-Egyptiss Coffee
Belilios fillet lace and net?”
If As you know I'm strong for an Madame Flint, Mesars Fairall and
cracked up to be and has any canna see any sense in anything Store, Hongkong Furnishing Co. meaning whatever to the average else, but whatever the Memorial Mesars.Komor and. Komor, Local residents may have man that's been through the is to be, let's have one thing and Mesars. Lane Crawford and Co. be instructed to advise application wondered as to the reason of mill, he's a wise man that creases be finished wi' it and let it be seara Mourie and Co., Mesara, to the Government. The reply to the firing of guns at about his forehead wi' camouflaged Memorial. I mind at the Dis-Powell and Co., the Pharmacy, clear and comprehensive state It question eight was one of the most 3 a'clock this afternoon. thought and wi' apparent hearti-mond Jubilee it looks yesterday Queens Dispensary,
Kwong menta
WAS the resumption essays that it looks "fine" to me at the hinder end if I Sang, Robinson Piano Co., Sun have ever heard at of the pre-war solute to a foreign The nathinking in his griffin mind right we got wee cards to Co, Wing On Co., Sincers Co., question time. Bis Excellency warship entering the
Har days at the game will finger the indicate whether we were in Wang Hing, Sang Mow. later on explained the matter bour, the ship in the present case staff and let off some mental isvour of a Jubilee Road or an
The sum total of the proceeds. further. To bring busy business being the Japanese cruiser, exhaust about it (the aforesaid Hospital. Well, in the end we will be furnished later on, the mea to the Council Chamber merely for the purpose of reading
stuff) being on the thin side got both, at least a bit of a road result to date being $1,300. out a series of answers to ques
bathing suit. But the that the Government should Many articles were left over, and tions which could just as easily
Commodore Garner will aaveil average, wife is also at the salad have made anyway and the private sale will be held early he circulated by letter and the tablet erected in the St. wither him wi a look that makes Hospital-Ed. Hongkong Tele-
stage o' things if she doesna Barker Road Hospital (Victoria in May, at Montpellier. through the Press is absurd, Andrew's Church, Kowloon, to and for once in a way both the memory of the late Sergt. him feel like a trousered worm graph that was meant for women Official and Unofficial members Linfield. R.. Police who recently A man's no long married before wife may lie in childbirth but and a puerile niony to boot. had children. Nowadays your were unanimous. Question one lost his life in the execution of his he's made
There was a full rehearsal by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak duty. The ceremony will take for his wife to have clothes Hospital and if she goes wi' any a very striking performance was realise that she'll no dia in Barker Road of "Our Boys" last evening and It was pleasing to observe in connection with yesterday's adequate manner and the same place during the morning service doesaa necessarily mean that thing else the matter wi her is given by the local amateurs taking meeting of the Legislative Council some evidence of an official may apply to question two, since 11 o'clock) at which the Bishop he desire to make a break with past precedents in regard to Council Mr. Holyoak appeared to
clothed. A woman means 8 a, dsy for the privilege part. One was able to see and be of Victoria will be the preacher. may have a couple of wardrobes of being a semi-Peakite. matters, if, by so doing, the general convenience could be served.
satisfied, at least for the time
How bear the play with the greatest the first place, is Excellency showed himself anxious to come being. Thus we find that out of
festooned wi' frocks and yet have many folks in Hongkong to-day satisfaction, despite the into line with the Home Parliamentary practice of answering en questions eight were replied
It is proposed to celebrate St. nothing to wear, That's more know that these things were fact that certain questions in writing, thereby avoiding the necessity either of manner that could give George's Day, 23rd April, in than mild philosophy, mind ye meant in commemorate the Dia-were not set and the players were holding meetings solely for the purpose of giving replies to unofficial cause for complaint and Hongkong this year, by giving it's honest fact, all bachelor pond Jubilee of what Wells has not "dressed." Each member queries or of causing needless delay in the securing of inforniation, two were somewhat unsatisfacan entertainment to the Warrant scoffing to the contrary. All of described as "an alien-spirited of the cast has made herself and That is a very sensible innovation, and one which ought to work. We may yet hope to see Officers, N. C. Os, and men of the psychologists admit that old lady" otherwise "Victoria the himself as near perfection as well on occasions when there is no 'urgent business to engage the
"OK." placed against attention of Councillors. We were glad also to note the earlier replies to all questions asked.
the the Services. A dianer, confined women like men to be masterful Good"? Aye. I mind that time possible and they take their parts hour at which the Council sat-eleven o'clock is a far more reason- WANTED: STATE ENTERPRISE.
to Members of the St. George's in courtship but not afterwards. fine. Let me see it was in in real professional style. The able time than two-thirty, and we hope that yesterday's experiment
Society and a few official guests. That's another story anyway, but June, 1897, and Sir William final production ill undoubtedly -if it were one will be generally followed in the future.
will also be held in the evening, the fact remains nevertheless Robinson Was Governor. Mr. be an unqualifiad success. One During the course of the meeting. His Excellency took occasion else, has at least brought home)
The war, if it has done nothing at the Hongkong Hotel.
shat it is invariably on the quest Chater (he was then) was Chair-cannot comment on the results to make a few observations with regard to granting facilities to the tous the necessity of develop-
ion of clothes that the young man of the Jubilee Celebrations obtained without referring to Press to secure information from the Government on subjects of ing
andi wife wine her first Waterloo. Committee the Empire's resources. public concern. His remarks obviously, wer not inade in any The prospects
was Mr. the untiring work of Mr. R. The members of the Second Well, as I was saying, after the Chatham as Acting Director of Ashby. Besides, taking a part complaining spirit we regard them as being sincerely meant and revenue by productive enterprise building a new edifice at Yan the look-see at the fashion books. glass bottles, wi' the different players and has gone to the of increasing Presbyterian Church, who are collection of fabric comes in tara Public Works who placed the himself he has coached the other as evidence of His Excellency's wish to bring the Government and throughout the Empire are im- Chai Street, Canton, are becom- That seems a simple process but, kinds of money and newspapers, utmost trouble to make every the Press into closer touch. From that standpoint we can and do mense. The undeveloped appreciate the motives inspiring Mr. Severn's little dissertation. sources of the British Empire their plau from a brick to a things in this world, it isn't fine speechifying and the found-amateurs concerned have every ing ambitious. They will change like lots of other seemingly easy in the hidey hole. We had some minate detail perfect, and the The burden of his remarks was that many statements and are enormous. Mr. Churchill'e comments are from time to time made in the columns of the news bold investment on behalf of the cement concrete building. At I've seen Janet surrounded roundation stone was well and truly reason to be grateful to him for papers which would possibly not appear in print if occasion British Government in the Anglo-first a budget of $23,300 was and round in the middle of our laid of an Hospital, that was his disinterested work which has were first taken to seek information..on the points involved, Persian Oil Company, which is from official quarters. His Excellency says it does not follow yielding eight per cent., is
fired for the construction. parlour floor wi' open fashion intended for women and children indeed been very hard. that all the information so imparted could be made public, but that instructive lesson.
an Now they have increased the books and brown paper patterns of all ranks, classes, creeds and house is expecter on Saturday the mere possession of confidential knowledge would on occasion great field for a State in avenues subscribe $9,000 more before able to settle in her mind the sufferings of the destitate sick, no see the play should book at once.. cost to $29,000. They have to marking the place and then no races.. It was to alleviate the night and those who desire to prevent the circulation of mistaken ideas. That is the gist of his where individual enterprise may their ambition is realised bur way she wanted her frock made, matter of what nationality, so long observations, coupled with an intimation that is Excellency not be is always accessible to
tempted to those responsible for the production We have reached a
vanture: several strong meribers of the It usually ended up in a skirt ona they were resident in the have had to consult the Encyclo of newspapers, to whom, he is sure, information would rarely be the development of the Empire raise the
stage in Church have already pledged to one picture being stuck on the Colony. And does it? I ask paedia any real knowledge of the withheld. That is so much to the good, and if His Excellency's when we must consider possible promise is freely and frankly observed, there should be far less opportunities
Canton blouse of another and in the end you. Incidentally it may interest subject. If I were you, Mac" for working in the dark than there has been in the past.
the State Times.
the collar of something else you to know, despite your says I, "I would keep your breath His Excellency is right in assuming that most newspapers are There are boundless resources of creating wealth quickly.
being thrown in as make-weight. antipathy to our late Governor, to cool your porridge onyway, anxious to present accurate information to their readers; it would in the be a foolish, and, incidentally, from a business point of view, an only a question of bringing the
Empire and
I suppose that the folks that that it was he, when he was for I'm a rotten bad judge if the design them sort of pictures, plin Mr. F. H. May, that Jesuits ever come here after all. unsound policy for a journal wilfully to ignore the truth of facts. people of Great Britain into It pays no newspaper to be always working on assumptions and fruitful contact with these bound was perpetrated recently in the idea as to what should be, and ye tradistinction to
imbecile and all as they look, suggested the erection of this This place is too poor for them. A during assault and robbery bave some kind of preconceived self-same hospital in imagininga. But, whilst fully appreciating His Excellency's less potentialities of wealth. In YMCA. hostel, Bothwell-street, would think that womenfolks silly suggestions which ranged principle. What they do is done con- The Jesuita dinna go in for col- intimation, we cannot agree that in cases where erroneous state-a debate in the House of Com- Glasgow. Four men, two ciri- would have the sense (if there is from an oil painting of the old in style, Besides, what earthly many other leges on the bread and batter mente gain currency on public issues the fault is always to be laid mons recently on the Address, lians, a soldier and a sailor,such a commodity on tap during Queen to coffee-bars for sailors. at the door of the Prass. The public knows how extremely reticent Mr. H Wilson Fox advocated an the Goverment often is when replying in Council to seekers after enquiry into the prospects of in-
chance has the petition to the knowledge; Unofficial members have openly declared how difficult creasing revenue by productive a.m., and asked for shel alone and give themselves a chance re off the rails entirely. You've when before it has even left
at the hostel about these operations) to leave well
"No Mac", saya I. "You' Pope got of being granted, it is to get definite replies to unambiguous questions And, we say enterprise throughout the Em-till the train left for the North at to look like something other than evidently got in mind some of Hongkong, it has been printed it with all due defarence, that experience has been repeated over pire. He instanced the whole 5 o'clock. They were admitted fashionable crossbreeds. -and-over-again when the Press has sought information from official fisheries
Heaty's books you've read when in the papers and fought over by sources. We can recall many occasions when our representatives and
in the Antarctic and when leaving about 4 o'clock
aboy. The Jesuits never went every budding theologian that's have found Government officials decidedly uncommunicative, to put the Empire
pointed ont that they attacked the night. attend Jaust would say "How do you in for that port of thing at all. afflicted with the finger-itch? it very mildly. Of late-whatever the reason may be matters main portion of the world's food rendering him unconscious. They look on me?" pointing to a figure screw at a means of conversion topics in the newspapers; a possessed the ant, knocking him down and think a dress like that would The red hot pokar and the thumb Myself I never like to see religious have improved in this regard, and on various topics we have been in fish which if developed by a then gagged him and rifled his that looked at me wi' a frozen are no longer considered fashion column of that sort of stuff able to secure valuable information from more then one Govern-national fishing fleet would pro- ment Department. His Excellency apparently believes in taking duce ten million tons of Esh pockets. They abstracted about smile and was about as thick as able. As for the other terrible generally produces on an average the Press more into his confidence than have some other holders annually and provide millions of £50 from the safe. One of the three yards of pamp water. powers they're supposed to have, about four columns of recrimina of the office which he now fills. We appreciate the change, and sterling profit for the Exchequer, civilians was captared, and was "Fine," I would say, "if the good I think it exists chiefly in tion. can only hope that the policy he has now indicated will be followed There is plenty of matter for remanded at the police court later Lord had made ye the shape of the imagination of those
thought in this suggestion.
Yours truly,
by those who come after him.
There is &
it is
amount..
OUTRAGE AT Y.M.C.A. ROSTEL.
arrived
in the day.
it
A fall
an overgrown Alhambra cigar who during the past week ROBT, MacWHIRTER,