THE HONGKONG TELKGRAUI, THURSDAY, AUGUST
1919:
THERE IS “NOTHING MORE
REFRESHING
IN YOUR BATH THAN
WATSON'S
NOTES & COMMENTS.
ONLY A WHISTLE.'"
DAY BY DAY
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
BAD ·RESOLUTONS: ARE GOOD
(BY "ENHARMONICTM)
It w`uld appear, from a stat»- ONES THAT HAVE BEIN BROKEN. ment m de by Inspector Brazil in the PIce Court pesterday
Yesterday's return shows ati hashrooms a farly eclean bill of health. awn practice, for u-scrupulous Chines tr preseut -b-ms Ives
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The ss. Anys Maru arrived Yokohama on August 12th and sails August 17th, being due this Port August 31st.
HONGKONG FOOD
WHY GOVERNMENT CANNOT CONTROL PRICES.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY
What has become of theit on which the last Treaty of sailles was signed. This wa
to Madame Jesse, in whose houDRE Bismarck resided during the dog, of Paris He took it back to Ba
a abities for music lovers to satiate
There have been many opport Athair desires during the ps: WHERE IS THE COMMITTEE? small mahogany- table belonging,
week. Frs the e was the Mr- at morial Service at the Cathedral,
with a special musical setting then("Hongkong Telegraph Special) at the Moscow Trio gave a concert at Kingsclere Hotel; Podolsky, the famous Russian planist, has last, there was the Organ Recital been giving private recitals, and at the Cathedral.
plan cothee premen ad to dem ud squo-zerom th hawk ng ranty. One such flow whha jus bo"caught at the game has been
ned. The Magises e pus with assaniting another with an A Chinese was to-day charged séry, peřinant qu stan whon be asked if the really garvin-iron bar. Mr. N. L. Smith bound 1+in-l the potom n have them over in personal bonds of anything with which to prov $30 to be of good behaviour for
The concert given by the Moscow Trio, on Sunday evening, by hy were Kwon
at Kingsclere, fully justified the police whils, but that the Owing to Japaness quarantine
i bit ce, kim ng regulations, the Monteagle leav-high opinion expressed of their that fact, had provided himself ing on August 16, the Empress of sical abilities in the Shanghai Fross. The rendering of the with one of these tokens of Japan on Augus 20 and the Arensky Trio was superb and I authority. He would have no Empress of Russia on September am sure, that given more time difficulty sbout that, for every 4 will not call at Shanghai. for adequate advertising, a pack Chinese we know of carries one
ed house would have resulted.
HOUSEHOLD AMMONIA, their id tie. The answer wa
In Bottles 75 cts. Each
ONLY FROM
A. S. WATSON & CO, LTD.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Telephone No. 616.
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of these whistles'about with him.. At the Police Court to-day a The musicians left for Java by He would regard his daily toilette Chinese was charged with steal- the s.s. Neleus on Monday. incomplete did he go out withouting four dozen handkerchiefs
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"Lost, stolen or strayed: Alin with him, and for many years Food Committee. Last seen in silver plate inscribed “The Pre body of men known as the stood in his study, bearing
Hongkong on or about the 7th liminary Treaty of Peace between August, 1914. Anyone giving Germany and France was signe information as to their whereupon this table on February 26- abouts will be suitably reward- 1871, at No. 14, Rue de Provence, ed."
Versailles." Before leaving saillea Biamarok commissiQİLMƏ Before deciding to publish this local cabinet-maker topp small advertisement, in the Madame Jesse with an columns of the Hongkong Tele- facsimile of the historic tables graph, in a fit of desperation and There was a clock in the house of our representatives to call upon upon, being attracted by... as a last resort we requested one which Bismarck also set his heart the Chairman of the Sanitary bronze of damen biting his Board, Mr. A. Gibson, who thumb which surmounted it. But by virtue of the official dispensa-Madame Jesse asked £200 for tion, fills also the post of Secre- this, and as Bismarck thought the After waiting for a considerable Versailles.
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it That being the case, would and a razor from Holt's Wharf it not be wise to supply the The man admitted his guilt. I left my office. shortly before far to the Food Committes price exorbitant it remained at plain-clothes policeman with Sergeant Aris said defendant was five o'clock last Friday, feeling time, our representative was us some better evidence of authority arrested at the gate of the wharf. somewhat in the dumps. than a mere whistle such as can in possession of the articles. He strolled along Des Voeux Road,ered by a Chinese boy to his be bought anywhere? The C.S.P. was sentenced to three weeks wondering what to do to bring ing. Mr. Gibson was informed justices and ultimately of women
chambers in the Post Office build- The -appearnce of Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requier, would do well to give this little hard labour, by Mr. R. E myself to a batter frame of mind of the object of our representa-judges on the beach will render
matter his attention, forunder the Lindsell.
when I met Podolsky. "Ah! my tire's mission, but absolutely inoperative some of the time present arrangements the poor
good friend," said he, "why so bawkers bare very little to go on All communications intended for publication should be address-in endeavouring to decide whether ed to the Editor.
these folk who pester them are really genuine policemen or not. Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
OUR BEGGARS.
them to forward their names and addresses with communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by as an evidence of their bona fides.
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DEATH.
2nd Battalion of which is said to will play for you, since I have whether the prices current you dressing of a
The Bedfordshire Regiment, the disconsolate? I see what it is refused to vouchsafe any informe-honoured devices of solicitors..
A little music - Yes! Come, Ition. Will you kindly tell me barristers, and clients. The be cording to Hongkong, has as
sent the Press are official prices ?" its regimental badge the united free time just now. Whore shall is the Food Control Committeebeen a matter of grave considera- While we have a considerablà red and white rose. Its service we go where we can be quiet, you in existence?" "Are these pricestion, and so great and ruthless, an
woman litigant.
witness or defendant, has often
enforceable?” amount of sympathy for the record includes Namur (1695), and I?" I did not hesitate for
"Can a house advocate as Russell of Killowen poorer class of Chinese in the Malplaquet, Surinam,
Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, instant but led. Podolsky
bolder get any redress if Chitral straight to my home. When we Colony today, who, we appre- South Africa (1900-02), and the arrived
sometimes paid great attention “~ the compradore charges. above my guest went ciate, find it difficult to secure Great War.
the prices mentioned in the list to this detail, and gave instruc- to my piano and improvised. "Are you still the Secretary of gas how a client should be their daily rice, we think that
placed a small table at his elbow, the Food Committee These and black may be postulated as dressed for the trial. Simplicity some measures might be adopted
with a cold drink and some Two Chinese were charged to sigarettes, ready at hand, and which our representative led off, but what appears simple to the were some of the questions with the chief points in most cases, number of beggars might" be
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delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies whereby the large and increasing day with fighting in Cheung then sat in my most comfortable but Mr. Gibson was adamant, and male eye is far otherwise ac-- Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for ab expected, it is the old pro.that last year defendant stole an have?" asked my friend. "A little discouraged, our representative woman, and what is intended
driven off the streets. As might Hing Street. Complainant stated wicker chair. "What will you would answer nothing. Not
counted sometimes by the fallow- The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be who have never done an honest from him. Defendant denied the is moment. I felt I wanted some from saying anything about all the Court may have just the
fessionals, the afflicted and those opium pipe and some clothing Chopin first?" I considered for
then asked:"Are you prevented to *have a good effect on day's work in their lives and the statement.
Mr. N. L. Smiththing with v'm in it. "Please," this?" "Can I mention in the opposite result where women are never will while they can receive bound them over in personal sked, “will you play the Ballade, cumshaw so readily at the banda bonds of $50 to be of good behavi- A mino." Podolsky immed- and that you absolutely declined judge goes to the trouble, taken
paper that you were interviewed
concerned. It is not often that of Europeans, who have secured our for six months.
tely commenced to play the to speak a word?" To which Mr by Sir Charles Darling in a case These are SHAW-At the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on 13th August, the best pitches.
Mr. N. L. Smith to-day fined a composition and followed with the follows: "I know nothing. Are you at witress appear in clothes. beautiful <pening bars of the Gibson replied, in effect, as his court, of making an import- 1919, D. R. Shaw, of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd, making a good thing out of their
14 days for majestic opposed aged 41 years: Funeral will pass the Monument this evening ate orher hand, the really needy, bribery. Defendant was arrested Those who know Chopin will
begging at the present time. On Chinese $10 or
arpeggeios.
who cannot
sumcient yesterday at 1.45 p.m. at Staunton understand. In five minutes to pay for their food, and who Street A constable saw
de had forgotten have taken to begging to supple fondant selling two buckets of were such persons as compra ment their slender incomes, have
congee without a licence, and dores and landlords. The delight- to be content with the few cents when he went up to the defend-ful lilt of the second movement, which their more fortunate com-
ant, the later tried to bribe him played in the manner of Podolsky, patriots bestow upon them,
with some money.
reduced me to a stage of such A FAVOURITE HAUNT.
utter indifference as to the world's affairs and my microscopic part therein. that on reflection
5,30 o'clock.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919.
LOCAL FOOD PR CES.
that the list would be revised once a week. There was go intims
earn
We should imagine there is no More than thirty members of spot in the Colony so frequented the National Assembly are due by beggars as Ice House Street into arrive at Canton to-day-from frightened me, all times of the day one is accost-order to resume sessions to pass the vicinity of the Star Ferry. At Shanghai per the 8.5. Nanking in
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speaking for yourself or for any other than those selected for her. individual in particular? If you Even staid old judges have been are speaking for yourself let me susceptible at times, and have anything. Go to the U.S.O. know. I am not going to tell you constituted themselves protectors. of attractive women under CROSS- After the discourteous manner examination, though skliful adve in which our representative was cates have contrived on occasion received, he repaired to another to dispel the illusion. The male Government official to elicit a few magistrate has become the friend facts about the lost Food Com- and confidant of hundreds of wo mittee. The official interviewed men; is it likely that the same said
the Government footing will be established between A few days ago. we were supplied by the Secretary of the
could not control all food prices, woman and woman? Some who Sanitary Board with a schedule of Current Retail Market Prices in Yesterday we counted no the draft constitutions which was
adding:-" Nor can we control think they know feminine human And so Podolsky went on from the sources of supply. If we had nature reserve their opinion. Hongkong, were requested to give publicity to it and were inform less than nine of these gentry scheduled to be held on August Chopin to modern Russia. He millions of dollars we could buy tion accompanying it that the prices given w uld be enforced, and from Messrs. Shewan Tomes, but because of the lack of flooded my modest room with the food and force prices down. We for that reason we withheld publication until we cru'd ascert i The meridicants are of all ages. August 15. It is said that the of's Elegy, then a pharaphrase we have controlled the rice of the Christie's a corner-post of the office to the King Edward Hotel. quorum, it was postponed till glorious melodies of Rachmin- can control local productions, as There is shortly to be sold at whether the rates quoted were the fficial prices fized by th Gemmeri, ünder Proclamation issus in the early days of tho does not even wear the a quorum and that the date would Amani, then Schegmanavaky and ance, lard. Say, for argument's and ornately carved. The post from the small boy of five or so, Constitutional Session will lack by Scriabine, then Medther, then New Territories. Take, for inst fourteenth century, elaborately wer, or whimber they were merely the prices at presit prevaili u proverbial fig leaf, to the able-have to be again postponed It then Rogeur, and for two and a sake, we fixed it at 40 cents per formerly stood near the Abbey at in the Colony, and, us such, in no way controlled. We have no
bodied womar of the amab. class is also said that there will be half hours I was entranced, tin and Shanghai was willing to Burton-on-Trent, and formed the made enquiries »nt have discov`red that they fall wiz in be lat e category. They are therefore useless, for, as we have already pointed who looks perfectly fit to do a further arrival of M. P.'s during None of the disconcerting ele pay 50 cents. If we interfered corner of the old building, spoken out, the public does not need a printed list to show what market would engage in this useful and
day's washing, and who, no doubt, this month.
pects of the concert room, and with it, it would mean that the of by Shaw as "the tall building Podolsky was at ease. I wager lard coming into Hongkong would in the Market Place called the goods are being sold at a visit to the market or a consultation of
An interesting personage at such sweet sounds never before be deflected to other consuming Garaffes." It was examined by the compradore's book will give all the information that is necessat
necessary occupation if she did. ary on that point. For this reason, therefore, we are not publishing
and present in Hongkong is Mr. K. C. pervaded that room of mine. My ports. There are a number of the distinguished architect Sir the list; to do so would be merely to waste our space.
remunerative to.. beg. Li, the President of the Famous neighbours came out to listen. economic factors involved in this Gilbert Scott, who pronounced if old offender Wah Chang Trading Corporation The gift of this mere boy is surely problem, which is far too big for to be of not later date than 1340, But this Market Prices business is worth looking into: We who should be deported. This is of New York, who is now on a
God-given, and I warrant my small place like Hongkong and probably will commence at the beginning. Shortly after the declaration of a man who poses as blind bat business tour through Chins. The neighbours can, vouchsafe as to to undertake. The only things coner-post war, the Hongkong Government issued a Proclamation prohibiting who ran see perfectly well. This Wah Chang Company is ibat.
in the kingdom. the export of foodstuffs from the Colony. This was, however, humbug, a regular old-timer. at American Corporation composed
we can control effectively are Finney's Post," its common regarded as a false step, and, consequently, within a very feweeks, the game, has been sent to Canton largely of New York Chinese. It
our own productions. If the title, derives its name from the Proclamation was cancelled and in its place another was issued, on several occasions, but he has been in the general import great loss in the death of Ruggiero the consuming centres do so? called Finney, who had the
country of The musical world sustains a keep the prices down, how can merchant in Burton-on-Trent origin cannot the fact that the wife of a under an Order-in-Council, fixing the prices of various commodities, always blithely returns, and is so and export business with Central Leoncavallo, who died at Florence You cannot tell a merchant that reputation of being a terrible including, besides ordinary market produce, such things as flour well up in the law that he refrains and South America and is now and condensed milk. It was stated in this later Proclamation from actually requesting alms, opening offices in various places was one of the most successful of Blackwells jams, for instance, at bier upon which her body was on the 10th inst. Leoncavello he should not sell Crosse and scold, fell into a trance, and the that any person who, after the issuing of the same and until relying on a particularly pathetic in China. it should have been revoked, sold any urticles of food at a higher look which he has cultivated to branched off into antimony and was born at Naples in 1858 and before the war it was 15 cents. was bumped against the post by The Company has modern opera composers. He more than 25 cents a tin because borne to the churchyard close by price than that prescribed, should be guilty of an offence and should, evoke sympathy from passers-by controls most of the antimony received his musical education at when he is actually buying from the bearers. Mrs. Finney recover- on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or All this begging takes place under mines of South China and those the Naples Conservatoire. Of his the factory at 22 cents. The ed consciousness and lived for imprisonment not exceeding three months. It should be mentioned the very nose of the Indian con-round Changsha. A local firm is works the romantic story of Government's point of view is that several years afterwards, to the that prior to the issuing of this Proclamation His Excellency stable on duty not a dozen yards puting big deal through with French bohemian life, ar rather because we cannot control the bitter disappointment of her hus the Governor had appointed a Committee to fix from time to time the maximum prices for which any article of food may be sold way, yet he never takes any this Corporation.
lova story of the quart sources by retail in the Colony." The Committee was composed of the so very difficult to catch these steps to put a stop to it. If it, is
latine
of supply, we cannot band, who was reported to have, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe (then Colonial Treasurer), the Hon. Mr. people in the act, why is not a Consul General for the Nether-La Boheme, is full of wond- is, as you know, a world shortages good supper at the Royal Onc We have received from the most successful and the opera, tion of supply and demand. There really did die, some years later, is perhaps the dictate prices. It is all a ques-promised the bearers when she E. A. Hewett, the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak, Mr. S. H. Dodwell, Mr. charge of loitering brought against lands a copy of lengthy erful melody. Pagliacci was also a of rice and other foodstuffs. The inn if they would miss the post, A. H. Skelton and Mr. A. C. Coppin. The issuing of the Proclame-them? tion and the appoints ant of this Food Committee meant one thing, have the effect of preventing them lands Third Industrial
That, at least, should report concerning the Nether-great success and most of the best only thing, as I have said, that Early in last century the relic and one thing only--that the Government were to exercise control from standing at one spot for From it we take the following various times, taken parts in this buy rice and sell it cheap. If we Anglesey, and when, in the let
Fair. known operatic singers have, at we can control is rice. We can was removed to the Isle of of the prices of foodstuffs. And that fact was the more emphasized hours together and begging from paragraph: A characteristic of work, including Melta and Car- fix the price of rice too low forties, It was purchased when, in its first list issued under the Proclamation, it was declared
everyone who goes by. that the prices of provisions imported from countries other than
the third Industrial Fair was the uso." Lean," as he was familiarly Saigon and other grades will not brought back to Burton-on China (excepting those then enumerated) could note raised more,
high quality of the products known amongst his intimate come in. The Food Committee at by the Thornehill family. than Afteen per cent, above the retail prices prevailing in the APPEAL FOR NAVAL Industries which did such good the greatest of modern composers ed a blunder. When prices began engraved with the words brought to market. The
War frende, was undoubtedly one of the begining of its labours committ-attached to it a small brass Colony on July 25, 1914 Then, to prove that the control as
MEN exercised, we can recall several cases in which profiteering com-
business last year in their ad he bada fair to ontriral the to go up they prohibited exports. pradores wem fined at the Police Court...
"substitutes," had withdrawn at Yesterday we published an the approach of peace and the great German master, had he That frightened sway imports, it This post, as Finney's Le This was as the matter stood during the war. What is the appeal for reading matter, games, expected restoration of inter
lived. position now? The Govemment has frankly stated that it does not etc., for the troops who are going national trafic, and few of them
saith control the prices of foodstuffs and that it has no intention of doing Home next week by the a. appeared at the Fair. It was 30. As will be seen by our news columns to-day, one official says Atreus. The Rev. 7. G. B. Hast therefore noticeable, that only that the Government's point of view is that because we cannot ings informs us that the majority those industries were represented
PRECEDINGE FOR WOUNDED control the sources of supply, we cannot dictate the prices. He of the men going Home by the which had been so successful in Paris June 25, also asserts that the Food Committee is moribund. So we wish to steamer named are naval men perfecting their wares, that they Police has given
few questions. Has the Proclamation instituting Go
and that they also need gifts of could well stand the comuna the kind mentioned. These with foreign compe should be sent to the Chaplain of ally the metal, ma *There areoru
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nearly spelt ruin for the Colony. Consequently, that regulation had to be revoked The Food Prices Current issued recently are only an indication of the prices ruling Prefect of in the market. Wohy
to enforce these
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