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Government à mess-
The 2.8. Antilochus to-day from Singapore.
ad bere
ures in dealing the the scuta zica situation. Some of these were disposed of yesterday in the In tarviaw which we had with the head of one of the biggest Japan- ese firms here. This gentleman'A TO- marks threw a deal of light on the actual position, and will remove
The ss. Hyson departed to day the impression that the Gov-for Japan with a general cargo." ernment is discriminating in the refusal of permits, in fav our of the Japanese. There is
For having 39 taals of raw discrimination, true, but the opium in his possession, a Chin- discrimination is based purely one was to-day fined $300, or, in the destination of the cereal.
default. three mouths hard Japan is badly in need of rice
labour. Of that, there is official evidence And it is no part of the Hongkong Government a policy to interferowatson and vo. Ltd. and Mr. Mr. W. T. Elson, of Messrs with the all-important tranship-
ping trade of the Colony That Company, are due to arrive by H Summers, of the Godown cannot be too strongly emphasis ed. In the criticisms of the the Atsuta Maru on the 19th inst Government perhaps all of us have been guilty of some haste. Some of us have failed to grasp the point that the Government scheme is not by any means in full swing at present, and that, in the circumstances, it could not] very well be.
A BETTER OUTLOOK.
From what we can hear, such measures as have been taken have already alleviated the situ
who has been for many years in Garnison Sergeant Major Hurle,
Hongkong, is retiring on pension and leaving for Home to-morrow. He has been extremely popular during his term here and his many friends wish him long life and happiness in his retirement.
Three Chinese, who are bro-
ation, and in this regard a tribute thers, arrived from Vancouver, must be paid to the influential were stopped here by the Police Chinese for the way in which on their way to the country and they have rallied round the to-day Brought before Mr R. E
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power to help. It is said that, of three, Winchester rifles and through the efforts of these 1,000 rounds of ammunition. The a quantity of cheap rice from himself, pleaded ignorance of the gentlemen, we shall be able to get eldest brother took the blame on of more from Wohu. Then there K. Lo his lawyer, asked his Canton, and there are hopes also regulations and through Mr. M. have been splendid crops in the Warship for leniency. He was is expected to come into Hong-acquitted. New Territories, much of which fined $500, his brothers being kong. whilst
"the Government plans for procuring and mixing the grain into varions.
meantime
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The free distribution of congee, prepared farewell bill at the grades are rapidly maturing-senting a grand, new and well- The Prize Packets are pre-
the granting of allowances Victoria to-night and, this after- to Chinese employees, and the securing of low-price rice through noon, they are giting, by special the efforts of influential Chinese On Monday night over
request, a matines performance. residents have all had a good hundred person's could not secure effect on the situation, which is admission, and in all likelihood brighter to-day than it
has the seating capacity been for a very considerable Theatre is likely to be taxed of the time. The next few months to-night.To-morrow at the matinee represent the most anxious the Victoria are screening period.
but the Government Vicar of Wakefield." feels that it has the position well in hand and hopes to come out of it better than was at first expected. No good is done a the moment by destructive criticism. Let us
give Government a chance. Helpful the suggestions are always welcome, and these, we are. sure, will al ways be listened to by those who have a very difficult problem in
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF AIRY FASHION: PAINTED SKIRTS.
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The decision of the Government to prese present condition along the Western prohibit any welcomed by man thatthe disfiguring hands of the cafe
and the hotel keepers obliterate historic spots in efforts to provide attractions for the coming throngs of tourists. Among the places already decided upon are the forts of Verdun, the trenches of Soissons, the underground mases / st Monquet Farm, the ruins of Bapaume, and the mangled re- mains of Fozieres.
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Mz. Kellsway's tribute to the chemists who risked their lives in the laboratory for the perfection of war inventions reminds one if the little known, but largely used." anti-gas fan invented by the widow of the late Professor Apr- ton. Mrs. Ayrton is giving a demonstration before the Royal Society of the scientific principles underlying this inven- tion.
Her assistant, a, science master in Cork, incurred a severe gassing, the effects of which he felt for many mouths, in teaching the troops the use of this weapon of defence, which, when first in- troduced to the War Office," was turned down as not a military proposition."
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The destruction by fire of the Bowling Green Farm, near Haddon Hall, has once more excited much discussion of the legend of Dorothy Vernon and of ber elopement with John Man- BRIEF AND LIGHT.
ask. It was precisely the trim-ners. It is pointed out that the This year the material which ming which we so novel and existence of a receipted invoice seems more popular than ever is original Half way up the shirt proving that the renowned steps. cotton voile. Never has it been was a painted design in tones at least were not constructed at made into shorter, Fighter, more of blue in a deeper shade, the time disposes of so manch of transparent gowns. Ая The following cases were season's favourite trimming is process discovered by Suzanne reply that this is merely an the painted according to the new the old story. It is stated in notified
last weekFive of fringe, cotton veiling made in the Bertillon, a young, pupil of the evasion of the main issue, and cerebro-spinal fever (Chinese). most exquisite tints is trimmed National Beaux-Arts College, with bitterness at the obnoxious Portuguese and the rest Chinese), to match or of a contrasting The design was a pure antique invoices five of enteric (one British, one with short or long cotton fringe who of course holds her secret. association two of plague fone British and shade.
of Haddon and the old question one Chinese), one
of conventionalised lilies. It is hazarded (Chinese) and one of diphtheria recently was of lemon yellow height of the knees in a band having been respectably celebrat
One very delightful gown I saw encircled the skirt at about the there no record of the marriage. anew: Why is – (Portuguese). All were fatal voile, trimmed rows of about twelve inches wide. The fed at Haddon, as in the case of except the last-named" and four narrow white cotton fringe of two side. THE PASS OFFICE.
cases of enteric.
seams from the the elder sister and the Earl of There is a good deal of clamour return shows two cases
Yesterday's the simple kind used so largely shoulders to the lower hem of Stanley Vainly is it contended ing just now for the abolition of cholera, and one each of plague, gown was composed of a tunic, design of conventionalised point- the marriage anywhere. There to edge casement blinds. The the skirt were printed over in again, that there is no record of There has been one legacy left us by the war, not unexpectedly, the Pass Office, which was in puerperal fever and cerebro with a straight narrow underdressed lily leaves, and around the does not exist que threadbare but one which, none the less, we could have well done without. stituted during the war for the spinal fever. All these were of the same material, male with decollete was another narrower shred of evidence to support either We refer to the social and industrial upheaval which is upsetting purpose of keeping undesirable Chinese and all fatal. the United Kingdom and, for that matter, the whole world. The characters out of the Colony. It is
the shortest of skirts, cut low or band of lilies and leaves. The side. All contention is fatuous casual observer of the present trend" of affairs is inclined to the generally agreed that the passport
the bust, threaded through with dress could confront the tub the truth is buried in the past. view that the whole trouble is caused by unfair and unreasonable and police permit system causes Several fishmongers and other narrow white satin ribbons, and fearlessly, for the painted design Bat Haddon remains and around demands by the workers, but we shall need to go deeper than that very considerable inconvenience dealers from the Central Market supported by narrow transparent is guaranteed to be indelible. if we wish to get at first causes. The fact of the matter is that to residents of the Colony, and, were to-day charged by Inspector
the superb, time-worn old pile, so shoulder-straps.
The same gown had been ex-beautiful and silent a witness of everybody is discontented at present-capitalists, employers, wage as at prosent operated, it Earner with using scales which
The tunic which went over this ecated for another lady in tones an England that is no more, we earners and everybody else. Besides the wages question, which imposes harsh and unnecessary operated against their customers. slip was of the same yellow voile, of buttercup yellow, with printed many happily weave whatdreams "affects both sides, we have such issues as nationalisation of industry, hardships on British subjects. On fishmonger bolted with his with three or four rows of fringe, gold.
and had its bottom hem edged design in a the incidence of taxation, the conditions and hours of labour, all The question, however, is whether scales when he saw the Inspector The short sleeves of the tunic,
warm shade of we will. clamouring for attention, with the result that there is no sphere of it would be advisable to totally making for him, while another, in which reached mid-way between adornments are executed after asked Bishop Stubbs (father of
These printed and painted. human activity which is not involved in one respect or the other. do away with the machinery at deadly terror of incurring the the elbow and the shoulder, were the dress has been cut out and the Governor-designate of Hong "Why am I has like Homer?" The transition from war to peace, accompanied as it is by the present. With Russia still in an Magisterial displeasure put up a edged in the same way, and tried on, but before it is sewn to-kong) when he was moved from unbalancing of the labour market by the demobilisation of bundreds unsettled condition, there are foki to face his Worship. How- of thousands of men, is the prime reason for all the trouble, and the numbers of Bolsheviks and other ever, such a strateger as this down, almost on the hips, for style of the dress the better the grave Archdeacon to whom the around the waist-very low gether. And the simpler the Chester to Oxford: and when the situation is'aggravated because of the anxiety of everybody to get andesirables knocking back to normal conditions without the least delay. There is besides which we have heard Earner promptly spotted the dodge the moment was a narrow fold-gowns are seen this summer, for inability to answer, Stubbs ex- about, was of no avail Inspector such is the fashion in sashes for classical effect. Many such question was put professed his terrific strain on the nation's industrial and, social machinery, and of instances in which Ger- and informed the Magistrate ed sash of the voile. Could there they sa the question is whether or not it can stand the shock.
mans are already endeavouring The monger was at length oblige i
as practical as they plained: "Because I lose so In looking at the troubled state of the Old Country at the to get back to the East. Now, to come out from his funk-hole be a simpler model? Yet it was are charming.
much by being translated: "Ou moment, we are rather apt to lose sight of the fact that at present Hongkong has no room for in the Court, and, despite various to be neglected was the white extremely smart. A detail not
FOULARD AND CO. anarchical economic conditions exist almost everywhere throughout mischief-makers of these types, specious excuses, was fined $75
this analogy Mr. Lloyd George's For rather more ceremonious method of filling empty seas by the civilised world. In this connection, a writer in one of the Home but, without some such organisson two offences. The fines for picot-edging of the shoulder-occasions voile is replaced by translation may not be alto papers does well to point out that these conditions are as disturbing tion as the Pass Office, it would the other profiteers ranged from traps and sash, thus avoiding foulard, which is a great favourite gether popular in the Church, but to Capital as to Labour, have as devastating effects upon the patience be extremely difficult, if not $15 to $25.
the thickness of a non-transparent at all the big couturieres. But Chester gains certainly by the of the employer as upon that of the employed, and make ruin as impossible, either to shut them
hem!
although there are many models acquisition of the Bufferin possible in one case as starvation in the other. It is not this out or keep track of them. For
ACHIEVING THE SLIM PROFILE. of gowns entirely made of foul-Bishop of Stepney, for he is not or that class, but the country itself which is in a critical the time being, therefore, the
Another cotton volle was offard, the smartest are those that the least remarkable member of a position, and the case is thus one not for a sectional, but a national situation might best be met by
brilliant turquoise blue. It was are composed of foulant and remarkable family, It may not settlement. There must be no hurried, patched-up settlement, we modifying the present arrange
LAX MARRIAGE VIEWS...
cut exactly like a kimono blouse, another material Thus the be certain whence came the have to work patiently through facts. In Canada, strike leaders mente in such a manner that
but went right down to aby model offered this season by impetus which have been arrested and deported, whilst America has begun restrict-reputable
"People have come to take a the
bas carried Britishers could be very lax view of the marriage There were
ankles of the wear Martial and Armand, of the descendants of the worthy ing the further immigration of Europeans. But measures such as granted permanent passes. This relationship," said Mr. Justice the arms appearing half with a large sign in dark bins the
sleeves, white foutent patterned over citizen these will not bring down the cost of living or restore the old value would save all the trouble and Darling at Maidstone Assizes veiled through the side drapery made up combination with
Yarmouth-mayor- of money, which are at the bottom of much of the unrest.
ient The question arises whether the whole basis of industrialism present have to be complied within the world to get divorce in up and fulled over the waist line favourite, this one is seeing it Ge
pettifogging formalities which at recently. "It is the easiest thing of the corsages which was drawn dark blue g will not need to be changed before we can get any lasting settlement by all and sundry and at the these days, added, the judge, at the sides. This was accom
rdine, is a great of the discontent which is being felt all over the world today. same time. enable dangerous "Some hundreds of people were plished by a mere length of elastic Lord Robert Cecil, we see, has come out in favour of profit sharing characters to be kept under sur divorced in London on the about half an inch wider which
pated everywhere in other Bir and other similar methods designed to give the worker a fairer veillance.
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day before I came to was drawn through a Maidstone Assizes. There is a around the movement, which no doubt will skirt to fall filly an appeal is issued by the get divorces in the county 30,000 TEACHERS WANTED, be successful, to allow peo Board of Education for 30,000 on very cheap and eas
who will at present, vis 7Pagland and Wales, take the Dentirmation Bel
are of his labour. A wide extension of such systems would no materially help matters, but profit-sharing is not of much use the profits are small or even non-existent Who is to bear the then 7 The whole problem bristles with difficulties, and the the greater do they appear to become.
hat is that the issues need to be me Dos. We cannot have particular be an in the case of the ou
to the pecterns, agres
The whole problem
constitutional:
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