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HONGKONG'S POPULATION.
We should like to have some- thing like a reasonable idea as to' what the population of Hongkong really is. There is a reference in
SATURDAY
BY DAY
TOO MANY MEN MISTANK GALL FOR ABILITY.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taggart
king.
$1919
1894.
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.
A BOTANICAL EXPERT.
PROFESSOR LLOYD ARRIVES IN HONGKONG,
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANE
The next time Mr. Edmund Russell lectures on Tommy's French he might perhaps ex- plain why bad-French is not
A most interesting parsonage "funny,” says a writer in a Home
the Report on the Blue Book for returned to-dày by the 8.8. Nati-} {Compiled from the "Hongkong arrived in the Colony so-day by paper. Everyone laughe—or tries
At
the past year to the subject, and this is to the effect that at the Census . taken in 1911 the civili Besides a full list of first and population totalled 456,739, whilst second class passengers, the sa»
the
of the past Nanking brought 295 steersge middle year it Was ́estimated | passengers. ** to be 561,500, of whom 13,500 were non-Chinese. It is a The rainfall registered a the notorious fact that since the last Botanic Gardens during May census was taken, and particular-totalled 7.43 inches. There were ly during the past two or three sixteen days when years, there has been a tremend-recorded.
none was Ous influx of Chinese and Japanese also into the Colony, 80. much so that housing accommod ation has been taxed to its utmost limits. We should therefore be very much sar- prised if during the past seven
tion has not been, more than the
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.. years the increase in the popula-
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From a Chinese reader we have received a latter on the arrest of students in Hongkong. As the matter is sub judice, we are unable to publish same.
Inland Lat No. 3969, Kennedy suggested hundred thousand odd. Road, is to be sold by auction at At & Sanitary Board meeting the P.W.D. offices on June 23. It some little time back, a member has an area of 20,480 square feet, suggested that the population | the annual rent is $142, and the numbered nearer a million than upset pricë is $4,096. half a million, Now what are the facts? Can't we get a better estimate than the figure men- tioned in the Report?
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1919.
THE NEAR EAST PROBLEMS.
source of great anxiety to the Indian Government.
was
የኔ
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government bas appointed Commander C.W.M. Beckwith, RN, to act as Superintendent of the Imports and Exports Department with efect from the 1st June, 1919, and until further notice.
present
Telegraph" files for week ending June 18, 1894)
THE DOLLAR June 11: The rate of the Dollar, on demand to-day, is 2s. 18.1/8.
the
any
at
5.5. Nanking namely, not to laugh at bad English Professor FELloyd, spoken by a foreigner, but I have Macdonald Professor of Bot-never seen a Frenchman even
the
McGil
Un-smile at the liberties so frequently iversity, Montreal, since 191. taken with his language, When Professor Lloyd, who was born in France I have indeed often in Manchester, England, of Welsh wished that they would smile- A MISDIRECTED COMPLAINT.
parents, is A. Ma of Princeton one would know then where one, University and has studied in was-but the Frenchman never June 11: A correspondent Munich and Bonn. Among the helps you in that way," "Apparent" writes that Old Bailey Street is positions he has held are they his language is, for him, too in a very unsatisfactory condition following Professor of Biology sacred a thing to be trifled with: as regards sanitation owing to a at Pacific University, Oregon, and He may get impatient, and even sewer in the middle of the road-Teachers College, Columbia; angry, with you, but he will never way having been left open. This investigator, Desert Botanical consent to find anything amusing complaint ought to have been Laboratory, Carnegie In in your blunders sent to the Sanitary Board: the stituts, Washington; instructor. Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph Harvard Summer School; Direct runs (to the best of his ability) &or of Department of Investiga- Colony. daily newspaper--not a British tion, Continental-Mexican Rubber ambitious linguists achieved was correspondents kindly note?
Will numerous other Company; and Professor of cafe talk such as: Ici ici, ma Botany at the Alabama Polytech-cherie? Vous promenade avec nic Institute. From 1908, Pro-moi ce soir What? You no pro- fessor Lloyd was editor of the menade Pas bon !" The French Plant World and he has been a that the graet bulk of the British most prolific writer on botanical Army will bring back may be. subjects
THE PLAGUE.
waste and filth from the infected houses in the neighbourhood and, as usual, someone is blundering.
À THREAT TO RETIRE.
The beat that even the more
expected, I fear, to consist of ho more than: "Bonsoir," "Deus oufs s'il plait,” and—above all
Encore biere!"
Quite a number of people,includ- ing Mr. Harold Cox, have been- writing lately that the occupa- tion of coal-mining is not so un- pleasant, and certainly notso un-
a stand-
June 11 The Governor hav ing signified his willingness to the scheme being carried out most of the patients in the Tong Wah hospital will shortly be removed to Canton in junks towed by Chinese gunboats. To-day, on A CINEMA MASTERPIECE. the Praya and in several | places. huge fires have been kept going to consume the AT THE THEATRE ROYAL
--TO-NIGHT.
League, the following will re-before it is removed and then of the finest propagands films has even been suggested that In the Hongkong Junior Tennis Instead of disinfecting the stuff an opportunity of witnessing one healthy, as is popularly supposed.
To-night Hongkong will have
against the Taikoo Recreation ensure its prompt combustion, America. Four Years in quite desirable, the miner not St. Joseph's College drenching it with kerosene to that has ever been released from the work is in some, respects. Club to-day on the Craigengower they carry it from the houses to Germany." Cricket Club Ground at 4 p.m. the leading thoroughfares and packed house the Theatre Royale vicissitudes of our variable In anticipation of a being exposed, for instance, to C. A Goldenburg and S. A then pile it loosely so that the has been specially requisitioned climate. It occurred to me that Hamid, S. Sepher and J. Silva, wind can blow through it and in order that more people win the matter of healthiness of M. H. Abbas and O. Ismail,
extract every disease germ for have an opportunity of witnessing occupation the business, world the benefit of passers-by. it than they could if and of measurement in the shape
must have provided the During yesterday there were
was projected in a small cinema twenty odd miles of the British notified seven eases of plagué
theatre. It is an expers re proof insurance premiums. So I section of the Kowloon-Canton (five fatal), three fatal June 13-On dit that. Dr. Pduction and created a great furors have obtained from one of the line. However, nothing is to be occurrences of cerebro-spinal B. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon and in America, Yesterday our re- great insuance companies & list gained by fretting over the past. fever, one fatal case each of Dr. J. A. Lowson, Acting Super-presentative was invited to a
of rates charged by them for in- We can only hope that the rail-diphtheria and small por and one intendent of the Government private exhibition and in etery
surace under the Workmen's way's earnings will continue to non-fatal case of enteric. The Civil Hospital, threaten to retire respect it may be stated that the Compensation Act, and find that, grow, as they assuredly will when sufferer in the last-named was a from active service if they are to picture upholds the reputation whereas the employer has to pay that very much overdue link Japanese and one of the plague be any further interfered with, in which has preceded its appear every £100 of risk, he has to pay for his clerks three shillings for their. exertions to grapple with ance in a reality. So far as passengers go,
plague by Chinese intolerance elaborately acted, some very vivid last year's Sgures are about on a
and Government imbecility. Mit scenes in the Reichstag, the miners in South Wales and level with those of the two It is notified that the Govern-will doubtless be transferred to many, Ambassador Gerard's England and Scotland. These chell-Innes and Johnny Lockhart power of adfocracy in Ger- Monmouthshire, and £4. 10s. in previous twelve months, thoughment proposes-to erect a public the vacant appointments. there is a reduction in the num-latrine and Urinals under the
experiences of
seem rather heavy charges for a bow thehealthy occupation. But per- ber booked from Chinese stations steps in Duddell Street. If any
Kaiser released the doge to Kowloon. When that Hankow owner or occupier in the im-June 14-A coolie named other incidents too numerous to of war, and a hundred and one
haps Mr. Harold Cox can explain them away. link is really provided, e new mediate vicinity of such site Cheng. Shiu was caught this enumerate, flash before one in and big source of income should objects to the be tapped in carriage of goods objection must be sent in writing a hundred cartridges in a bag. sequênce the events precedinging. Thus, bill-posters cost £ erection. such morning with two revolvers and quick succession. It presents in Some other Egures are interest- for industrial and other purposes. to the. Colonial Secretary not He was duly brought before the and anteceding the war until the 10s. per £100, boilermakers £1 AEROPLANES FOR HONGKONG?
later than Friday," the 27th magistrate and calmly said, he fell of Germany. To describe it 158, ironstone miners £3, jockeys There is a particular interest
bought the weapons for his own fully would rob the picture of and stable hands £3, pottery ... for Hongkong in the statements
protection. His Worship forfeited that balo of interest which can workers £710s, whilst window- just made in the House of Com Commander Kenneth Mac-the arms and imposed a fine of only be secured by witnessing it cleaners, well-sinkers, and house- mons regarding the Air Ministry kenzie-Grieve, the navigater who $2 which was readily paid. In offering. some its surplus aero accompanied Mr. Hawker in his view of the disquieting rumours planes to the Dominions and attempted flight of the Atlantic, and anti-foreign disturbances in Colonies for postal and similar has spent most of his time on the air just now, this absurd purposes. Colonel Seely was able foreign stations Australia, leniency amounts to putting, a to announce that such aeroplanes China, and the Mediterranean. premium on outrage. The lessons as are to be disposed of in this way He served during the war in an of last March ought to have been will be presented as a-free gift to armed trawler on the east coast, enough. the Dominions, Crown Colonies and latterly as commander of and India. So Hongkong, as one H.M.S. Campania, a sedplane of, if not the, most important of ship, for navigating duties. the Crown Colonies, will probably
be included in the number. Now,
if this Colony
territory,
in
treated
a
ag
new
2
ie
were Chinese.
instant.
A`LIGHT. SENTENCE.
NEW SPANISH CONSUL June 15-Mr. Enrique Ortiz arrived in Hongkong by the French mail yesterday and takes over the duties of Spanish Consul to-morrow.
A GENERAL EXODUS.
BANK RETURNS.
1
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breakers (of the honest variety) cost £10 per £100 insured. My insurance friend added that the premium for a similar insurance on a young wife, or to be more amount of bank notes in circulriage, is £5.5. In other words, the The reborns of the average precise, for the first year of mar-
ation and of specie in reserve in occupation of wife for the first, Hongkong, during the month year, at any rate ranks actuari- ended 31st May, 1919, as certifedy as dangerous a calling as by the Managers of the respective that of coal-mining, a circum- Banks are as followe
stance which may interest the Speice
women's societies.
Reserv
Banka
Chartered Bant rf India Anstrai
AVŠTINE Bisount/
$12
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Perhaps the most remarkable and Cins, 6,763,200 $5,000,000* during the war was that it barely thing about. Tammy's French
Hong konard Merca- tile Bank Shanehal Bank-
existed at all. Although hun ing Corporation $20,871,643, 17,500,000dreds of thousands of men spent three or four years in France, I of India Limited.s 1,18511. 550,00 doubt if more than 1 per cent.
ever got, beyond the Total $8583 358. 22.550.000
no bon.** stage. Both officers and men *Sterling Securities deposited seemed equally content to remain
Securities with the Crown although many had excellent
opportunites for learning it, thoroughly. There" were men billeted for years with Franch families who never took the trouble to learn the most elementary grammar, and relied to the end on appalling pigeon- Franch or an equally distressing mixture of French and English.
Although nothing definite is as yet known of the fate that is to that is very satisfactory, for June 1, Shanghai, at No. 170 attend Turkey's lost possessions, Reuter has been indulging in
The marriage took place on speculations. For instance, last week we were told that the Council of Four had decided that Great Britain should be made mandatory to keep in line with other pro- Shanghai Times, (formerly of the June 15.-Every day the Steam-
to Bubbling Well Road, of Mr, Rich- hold its own it will bave ard Hope, assistant editor of the for Mesopotamia and that America will act as mandatory of the League of Nations for Armenia. We have already had a rejoinder gressive centres in aerial matters Hongkong Telegraph) and Miss boat Company sends a boat to from President Wilson that under the Monroe Doctrine the United as in other respecta aleo. But States is precluded from meddling in European politics. Again, aeroplanes will be of no use with of Mrs V. Godkin, of Shanghai and another at 6p.m., each taking Sonia Godkin, younger daughter Canton from Hongkong at 8 am. although we have all along been given to understand that out aerodromes. Is it not time,The ceremony was performed by on an average 1,500 Chinese, and Mesopotamia will be treated as a conquered
therefore; that somebody got busy Mr. 3. G. Solomon. The bride, every night there is at least one Reuter's telegram that Mesopotamia will be
matter providing such who was attended by her sister, Chinese owned steamer averaging mandatory" of the League of Nations throws.
essential adjuncts to modern life? Miss RachelGodkin, and was given 500 besides which there are some light on the whole affair. It is not very clear for whom The idea in this instance seems away by her brother, Mr. Joseph hundreds of junks busily engaged with the Crown Agents valued at entirely ignorant of the language, Great Britain is to act mandatory in the matter. Is it for Turkey, is to be that the Governments of the Godkin, wore a drass of white in the passenger traffic probably £340,000. it for the King of the Hedjaz? Neither seems within the realm of these aeroplanes for use in connec embroidered net and caught up as are conveyed by the steamers. Agents £125,000.
Colonies will be presented with charmeuse, draped with hand taking quite as any people away practical politics. Mesopotamia has suffered under the despotic rule of the Turks. Life and property have never been secure and tion with postal services and the with orange blosoms. The court On the other hand, only a hundred the depredations of the Turks in the Persian Gulf have been a ahead to the time when there will white chiffon and trimmed with ection each day. Allowing the like. That takes our thoughts train was of charmouse lined with or two come in the opposite dir In the matter of Palestine, the Allies are determined to fulfil be aerial mails despatched say silver leaves and orange blossoms.net daily exodus to be discounted the pledge that they gave to make Palestine National from Hongkong to Shanghai She carried a bouquet of white as low as 1,000 a day, which is Home for the Jews. Great Britain's Near Easter United Kingdom. That is the Elias acted as groomsman. After present, it means that after three Singapore, India and even the roses and carnations. Mr. Fred undoubtedly below the mark at policy is 10 affair of hand-to-mouth but a deliberate attempt at political reconstruction, which, sort of thing to which we shall the wedding reception was held, months, more of such a scare as The Hon.
expedients though it has still to undergo practical trial, is conceived on broad have to adjust ourselves in the later Mr. and Mrs. Hope left this created by bubonic plague Alice Memorial and Affiliated and liberal lines. Armenia. Arabia and Palestine will, if and when future. And then there, will no for Peking, where the honeymoon there would be hardly a single Hospitals begs to acknowledge The Arctic region is constantly from the Mediterranean and the Caspian and will perform the same the like. It all seems so very these States are constituted, cover the whole width of the country doubt be private enterprises, pro will be spent.
viding for passenger services and functions as buffer states to India as Turkay was to have performed before she betrayed her alliance with us. The only real attraction strange to
LIGHTED BUOYS. us in Hongkong. for settlement which Palestine holds is for the Jew, and that where there has been no serial |
June 16-The repeated efforts because of the fine sentiment of
“MADE IN GERMANY Jewish nationality
to obtain the advantage of having Eastern Extension Telegraph activity whatever, but those who clings to it and its historic significance.
Mr.Churchill says he has called the fairway baays lighted every have seen with their own eyes for inquiries to be made into Mr. night seem to have succeed-BritishAmerican The milk and honey with which it flows for the Jew are in terres what can be done nowadays in Bottomley's allegation that every ed for the channely was thus Cawapjee Pilanjeg and Co of robust, nationalism. The present situation in Palestine the way of flying have come to soldier demobilised in France on marked during April and May, Carrinhoy justifies the hope that it will be possible to begin colonising Jews in learn that this new aspect of life April Lat was presented with a but now the Harbourmaster bas 8. T. Pati Palestine on a large scale immediately after the conclusion of peace bound to be further developed as side cover of which were printed improvement is not availed of
is with us to stay and that it is folding pocket case, on the out announced his opinion that the Deacon The main task of any national colonisation is the creation of persantry with a sound economic foundation, but to create a work time goes on.
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that
ing Jew peasantry it is absolutely necessary, that the Jawish massen with little or no capital be settled there. These massig
domiciled with the aid of a national land frid The CHOLERA IN SWAT W. Can on).
by means of hereditary lease, relieve, settlers on their Intional Fild land of the necessity of machasing grund, yet
the fruit of their labour for
their descendanta Palestine common- (poti beneft the
oce
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Treasurer of the
Chinaman left in the Colony with thanks the following attracting attention. In a recent donation to the funds of the address, Donald B. MacMillan Hospitals
explorer, said that there are more Shewan Tomse and Co. 50 than 700 Linds of floors in Green- fand, and that when the sun comes 30back in the spring the air fairly 25 vibrates with the whirring of the 25 wings of birds. Aeroplanes, it is. 25 hinted, may soon be speeding
prayers and hymns, together with and has therefore stopped it. Denny a small metal taken bearing the
Ganda
Britannia, apparently weeping design of a cross and the figure of ELECTION TO SANITARY BOARD GAL Inna 16,--in the Cây Hall this Hai of which afternoon, in the presence of Hol from the about thirty rat were the Francis; C-C
and on the ba
An outbreak of cholers, has was
text radmongst Chinese at Psalms, under
are from twelve words"
25 over wide polar areas and revealede ing facts now unknown. The si mẽn vill hörden siyanis
ordinary er!