SIR ROBERT BURNETT & CO'S.
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OLD TOM
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TELEGRAPIK FRIDAY AUGUST
19198
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY.
A SPORTING PLEA
THE MAN WITH. TOO KEEN AN TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME dresses of my young days that
Quite a deal of dissatisfactionDGE ON HIS TONGUE CUTS HIM- is felt among sportsman who ELF OFF FROM HIS FRIENDS. favour a week-end in the fields with a trusty dog and a good gun The sailing of the as “ "Na
their number is not as incon- king" has been postponed until siderable, as some people would to-morrow, Saturday, Angust
bellave-that the last train for 33rd, at noon.
Hongkong leaves Sheung Shui as
At
it does. This is especially a: A fatal case, Chinese,
of hardship at the beginning of the cerebro-spinal fever is recorded season when the evenings are in the Medical Officer of Health's long. As every true sportamon return for Thursday, knows, the best time for game is at dawn and dusk; therefore it is more than a little heart-breaking A Chinese who was leaving the for a man to have to leave his Colony was found on the Han Tak own pet little hunting ground Wharf in possession of 27 taals of the best times of prepared opiam. This morning of the day (especial so when Mr Lindsell imposed of fine of perhaps he has been ompletely $2000 or 6 months. out of luck, and, under happier circumstances, might look for ward to getting a bit of sport when the birds come home to roast) so as to catch a train which steams ont of the station in almost broad daylight. His annoyance is bet ter understood when it is explain- ed that places where game is plentiful are far removed from
ROBBIE'S LETTERS. against the short skirts. For my part, think they're very sensible a great improvement on the
swept past yo, gathering up the dust and the rast, in their magni- fcent swirl. It was just af that: time that the public began to
next
AWOMAN CAUSES SCENE IN
THE HOUSE**
INTERRUPTORS CARRED “BODILY ÖET:
in the House of Commons? a remarkable scene occurre the Strangers Gallery. A dressed woman rose and against sending soldiers The war is ovezu abə there is no need to send men to: Russia.
While Sir A. Warren was spe
She continued to repeat her
to Russia amid a scene of con protest against sending soldiers
siderable excitement The tendants rushed to where he was standing, and vainly endea voured to get her to desist.
She continued to shout and an attendant put one of his hands over her mouth to prevent the sounds being heard in the Cham- ber. the attendants. (Mar- endea“, voured to induce her to leave, hat- she refused, and they were at last compelled to carry her out strugg ting violently.
Hongkong, àng:20,1919. Dear Alick,
as I've said before, I don't receive its first lesson in hold wi' the modern tendency of germalogy. Women's long dresses Hongkong papers going bald in wet weather must have caused headed for individual Governmony a heartbreak when it ment servants. It's like fencing came to blacking the footgear wi a tan after his aword bas the
morning. Now of been taken away from him. A the refuse
OUT streets Government servant ranna reply is left. to the Sanitary în print. All he can do is to Board and what's more forbye, deny the thing to his immediate the lassies have more freedom superior and there's no much their limbs. The present satisfaction in that. I think the fashion also makes for tidiness modern reporter should be made Long skirts were conductive to to take up a course in psychology slovenliness as regards the un- A hale in the stocking or before he's let loose in the street seen and unsuspecting public. A maha pair o superanusted shoes may become a well-known were neither here nor there in journalist after a six months those days. For a lassie has probationary period at the police to be more careful of her ap- courts and still no' have enough pearance. Untidiness in stock- sense left to understand humanings or footgear would stick out nature. Adam Gibson's the kind') worse than a wart on her nose. o man that put the saying his Twenty five years bark is worse than his bite ladies were pale pets of the par- among the proverb. The rason lour vegetating in unhealthy why we dread the mosquito more atmospheres, like 80 many A Chinese was before Mr. than the roaring lon and the potatoes in a dark celler Look. The spectators in the Gallery in the meantime rose en masse to the station, which means that a Lindsell charged with the unlaw.coraet player next door is because at them now, out in the open witness the scene. early start has to be made to fal possession of 15 catties of it punctures your lisssed hide wi" the bloom on their cheeks, catch the train. Anyhow, the large number of sportsmen who salt fah in Connaught Road seven fimes in seven new places elasticity in their step and vigour teated loudly against the treat- go out on Sundays to the New West. Defendant said he obtained without as much as a warning in their frames. The shortnessent of the woman, whereupon Territories feel very keenly about the fish from a Blue Funnel boat. The roaring carnivora are gen-of their skirts is now in ratio to another man sitting just below
They think it would be but when he was asked to go an inestimable boon if the train with the Police he refused
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919.
Two men were charged before Mr Lindsell with the unlawful possession of two daggers in a restaurant at 369 Queen's Road West The case was remanded for a week, bail of $2,000 being allowed.
erally bluffers, certainly dis courteous, to say the least of it. Once we understand the breed though, we can afford to take no notice of their growling. That's only their way and they can't
asked the Telegraph to broach the The coolie who was given an matter for them in the hope that opportunity of finding the house-help it. something can be done to meet | boy who had given him a pair of their wishes. They argue, more roller skates, which were found over, that quite a large proportion in his possession in Upper Lascar of the golfing fraternity would Row, was unsuccessful and this welcome a change of this descrip- morning Mr. Lindsell imposed tion, as they, too, would be able fine of $50 or four weeks. to stick to their game longer, and, if they felt like it, pould even have dinner at the Club House. Undoubtedly there is something
in the idea, as our explanation goes to show, and we feel that our obliging Railway officials might give their consideration to
it.
AUSTRIA AND CHINA,
One of yesterday's telegrams mentioned that Austria has appli
ed for permission on the grounds of poverty to collect from China her share of the Bozer indemnity. We shall be very much surprised if the plea meets with success Austria may be poverty-stricken, but this is a direct consequence of the war into which she entered deliberately and with eyes open. What is more. China has been an of Austria and she is enemy about to sign the Treaty which recoguises her as one of the victom and Austria as the defeated nation. For the conquered to be able to demand money from the conqueror would, therefore, be pretty absurd. The war has wiped out China's and all the other Allied obligations to the To this column yesterday, we expressed a doubt as to whether enemy Powers. In any case, Mr. Lloyd George would be able to retain the confidence of the China is pretty well poverty people much longer, now that Parliament has come back to a stricken too. She has already consideration of old political issues. When we wrote what we did, had one indignity to bear. There we had no idea as to how his latest utterance would be received by must be a limit. to this kind of the Home Press. Cables which have come to band since, show thing. that, almost without exception, the newspapers are most dissatisfied. with his speech. The only journal to praise him is the Daily
NOBODY SATISFIED.
&
PRESENTATION TO
CAPTAIN MILROY.
the speaker hoped to welcome them both to Hongkong again.
ago
the broadness of their views..
the
A man prò
shout, and ber voice could be heard as she was being dragged down the steps..
For a few minutes no one
flatly told him to "Shut up‡"*RE
The former immediately struck But Macpherson, he says, wi’
the man below him-a-violent- his lower lip hanging like a motherless foal, they're a had, blow, and there was a struggle în the Gallery. The attendante brazen-faced set o Jezebels." The num.er of things that the Mac- rushed to separate the combatants phersons of this world know about amid cries of "Turn them out.
"Clear the Gallery," shouted Another thing, the reporter of women is about one per cent, of to-day has a perverted ides of what they think they know. Now the Speaker, but for a time the what constitutes an interview. that sort of talk implies looseness attention of the attendants was man doesna, like to be crass of morals and for my part I can-directed to the woman, who was examined. A heckled man is na, see it. I've aye noticed that shouting and violently gestion- always on the defensiva. Mind the man that talks in that loose lating about the alleged wicked- ye, I don't know all the ins and kind of way is aye the first to ness of members of Parliament. "Clear the Gallery," thee outs of this business well enough screw his bead nearly out of its to take sides but fair play's a socket to look after a trig less Speaker sterly demanded again. jewel Never hit a man when be showing about nine inches of The woman by this time was canns hit beck is a very good silk stocking, naked and un-being carried bodily out of the rule to carry wi ye through life, ashamed. I don't see the con- Chamber; but she continued to Of late there's been quite a lot of nection myself. Morality canna Captain A.A.F. Milroy was the this sort of thing in the papers. be judged by clothes. I mind recipient last evening of a band- Myself, I don't think it pays. fine of the time when the first some suit case from the members When ye stiffen your opponent's first bloomera appeared and the of the Kowloon Bowling Green back he's got a mule beaten four terrible outery there was then seemed to know what to do. The Club in token of their regard."
different ways for sheer obstinacy. During the war I didna' notice debate was temporarily suspend- No' mind ye, that I think Mr. much fuss, being made about the ed. and members continued to Mr. D. Gow, in making the Gibson is built that way. I would women folks wearing overalls and watch the unusual proceedings in attendants Presen ation, said Captain Milroy be inclined, to say aff-hand that riding-breeks at munition works the Gallery. The
as one of the Kowloon Bowling it was his gruff manner and the and on the farm. There have been eventually went quickly round to Club's most popular members. his reporter's inability to see that well-defined periods in cur history the various spectators and told connection going back to the early it was, that was at the bottom when public morals were what them to leave, which they pro- days of the Club. He was one of of the whole business. A know would nowadays be considered ceeded to do in an orderly manner. the original members of the Club, ledge of human nature is of more disgraceful and intolerable. The and bad been President once. valus to the budding newspaper intimate memoirs of bygone ages Captain Milroy Wag known man than the cultivation of the often reveal that our great-grand-
TRADE UNION JOURNALISTS. throughout the China Coast, shorthand gramalogues. If the mothers could, in private life, and his sterling qualities real truth were only known, give points in "relaxation" to
The National Union of Journ- endeared him to., оде and Gibson, ye would find, has been their modern descendants.
alist has affiliated with the ali. Mrs. Milroy also had slaving at this food business for a This prating about the immoral Printing and Kindred Trades done good work for the club, and terrible long time past and if aspect of women's dress fair Federation. A recent ballot in nothing much would appear to makes me weary. Without a the Union showed 1,132 in favour have been done ye'll find that it's doubt Adam and Eve had many of that course and 192 against. Captain Milmy replied in a few the folk higher up that's to blame. painful reflections on the same well-chosen words. He expressed As it was, he was getting on wi subject and expressed their mis- his appreciation of the members' his job (though not according to givings in similar words, No, my kindness and said he would the reporter) and protecting his lad, morality canna be judged by that he liked to think he was. treasure the suitcase they had employer (the Government) at the clothes. What's more forbye, Money isna everything in this presented to him all his life. He same time. Two stools like that contemporaries are no' the best world. The atmosphere around had spent many happy hours with are hard to balance between. judges of our character and moral money generally has in its com- them and hoped to meet them. One of the privileges of being a tendencies. I 's hard for the old position a very bigh percentage again.
Government servant is the fact generation to adjust itself to the of sycophaney. Money likes to lay down the law and is gen- The health of Captain and that ye can aye get it in the outlook of the new. Mrs. Milroy was enthusiastically
neck without the slightest I see that the Laird of Skiboerally allowed to, just 25 2. toasted.
provocation and without the has been gathered to his fathers. subordinate is very apt to let his least hope of retaliation...Aye, he left a lot of money, no taipan win afgolf. When money Chronicle, which has always been a keen supporter of the Premier. FLOATING BRITISH EXHIBITIONS.
.......aye, Macpherson was just to speak of "what he has given wi' closed eyes and wagging Not much heed need be paid to the vituperation of the Daily News.
The efficiency ofrepresentations
saying the very same thing to me away in his lifetime for libraries, forefinger holds forth on the despite its Liberalism, for we know that that newspaper is nowadays of British firms in foreign coun-
the other night. For a long time organe, museums and the like. problems of civilisation it is decidedly pre-Asquith and just as emphatically anti-Lloyd George. tries has too often been question-
now the Home papers have been A fine chap, aye, but there's lots difficult to find the silence of It is signif-ant, however, that there should be such a chorus of ad. The jack of commercial |
harping on this subject and saying of us would be fine fellows if only acquiescence a hard trial criticism. We observed yesterday that the Premier had been throw-travellers of British nationality.
that women's dress is less becom-we stood in somebody else's shoes. Better than all his gifts to ing plums alternately to one side and the other, and that he had knowing the languages and cus-
ing than it used to be. From the It only needs an overgrown in- mankind was the "volume be followed the same line in his denunciations. We need not wonder, toms of the countries they visitand therefore, at the statement that his speech has pleased neither the able to present their wares in a the Imports and Exports Depart that it's becoming less. A scrawny advice and guidance. On the proves, after all is said pad done. In consequence of the notice by pictures I've seen, for my part, come for to set the whole neigh-wrote on James Watt in the I'd be inclined to say off-hand bourhood suddenly asking our "Famous Scots" series which Free Traders nor the Tariff Reformers. Te chief criticism, has convincing manner is common ment referring to an unknown ever, is that Mr. Lloyd George, as the head of the Government, has knowledge. Fortugual has been junk found floating of Salt neck might be a drawback when other hand, a steady bank balance that what a man does wit his hown no inclination to practice what be preaches that he has raising these identical complaints, Fish Lane, a
wearing an evening frock but, often means grandmotherly ideas. hand counts most in the long ras men appeared urged on the people the necessity for economy, but that he has and the Chamber of Commerce as the claimant and was brought mind ye, a pair o' bandy legs seen Any fool can earn money but it I aye think the most unfortunate shown no prospects of a reduction in Government expenditure, there offers a panacea to the before Mr. Lindsell charged with Bouth of an abbreviated skirt isna" takes a wise man to spend it thing about a millionaire is his whilst he has indicated new spheres of Goyeroment activity which British nation for these trade unlawfully allowing 216 taals much in the way of an improve-judiciously. The Carnegie from money. It's what at bottom
As to the ills. proposal to introduce a system of import duties for the alleged that specially-arranged ships Mr. E. Davidson appeared for the doesna' have their owner arrested from those who had either no very bad shape at Door mouth if The Chamber suggests of opium to be deposited on it. ment Again some legs are so of munificence came in for many causes all our labour troubles. thin that I wonder the police a hard, critical knock, particularly An employer of labour makes a purpose of shielding key industries, this is warmly criticised, and should bo fitted up the London Morning Pust goes so far as to describe it as foating, Trade Exhibitions for belonged to his client's ancestor, visible means of support. On the rub along wi' and who kept what figures on a picture or a yacht and as defence, and said the junk on the ground that she has no money at all or only enough to be takes to spending into six & new system of Protection which will paralyse industry and the purpose of visiting foreign and it was chartered to a man, commerce. That it would be objectionable to Free Traders we can ports, in which they would stay who had disappeared,
other hand the present fashion they had for their own use. You the like. Naturally the thought well understand, but apparently it does not even satisfy the Tariff for periods varying from a couple a month.
at $50 has its good points for beautiful know philanthropy can be made will arise in the mind of the Reformers. In this connection it is interesting to recall a debate of days to as many months, ac- his
He would Bak limbs are often nature's consola a debauch as well as most other hottom dog as to the feasibility Worship to which took place in
A impose or six weeks cording to the size of the country light penalty.
tion prize to the plainwordan. Mind things in this world. On the of a more equal distribution of the ago, when the continuance of the import duties put on during being worked, and the acces simplya
24 it WES ye, I'm no prejudiced in the other hand a man wi' a few money. But I suppose, wealth.: the war was under discussion. Objection was taken to the per-sibility of the port from the where the man was unfortunate matter: I dinna' care a curse millions a year can afford to act, like a dead body, is a very bard petuation of these duties, on the ground that they were specially interior. Arrangements could be ly suffering for the acts of other either way, having long reached as "special providence" in the thing to hide. It's the same here. created for war purposes and were no longer necessary. One of the made for taking orders on board, people. A fine of $200 speakers took the opportunity of reminding the House of the fact and a great deal of business imposed. that Mr. Lloyd George had once said that Protection was a quick- should undoubtedly result from sand and that once one got his foot into it, the more one struggled such a visit, the mere novelty of the deeper he got Yet to-day we find the Premier urring the which would bring British manu
will assuredly mean an increase in disbursements.
Parliament some
five
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technical offence,
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the years that would cause the advancement of many excellent When a working man in this, contemplation of the present schemes. A lot of Carnegie's Colony starts owning a motor. fashion among wonen make me money did a lot of good, mind ye, cycle or his wife takes to drys lose my sleep o nights. As illu- but all the same, quite a few of cleaning her hands instead of strated by the way women his generous, doles were accepted washing them because of the necessity of a system of protection for certain idustries which are facturers' goods under the notice HONGKONG SHIPPING they're hard to best. Can yo do without them, the gift thus in off then you can bet your hind
dress nowdays, for sheer nerve by many that could well afford to trouble it is to take all her rings, not even specified. Another speaker made the point that import of the foreign public. duties were keeping out supplies and thus enabling those who bad
fancy a man walking down thea measure, nullifying that spirit most dollar that her husband is a goods to sell to keep the prices high. Mr. Chamberlain, who de-
street in a plum-coloured cost wit of self-reliance and self-help so squeeze assimilator and a fool into fended the continuance of the duties, blandly argued that acquie-
knee breeches to match? Mc-nénemary in the case of the man, the bargain for no? stence in that course would not commit anyone either in theory
The s... Kairin Maru, whose Giusky once said "Take away woman or child anxious to make money quietly in Wer Booge or practice, to any fiscal or trade policy in the future. His state. TYPHOON WARNING.
the present rate of ment, however, has been-belied by later events, for now we have
agents are Messrs. Fakukawa our rousers, which are mostly their mark in the world.
Carnegie also backed the wrong. | Aye, but money [no] the Government coming forward with a mare or less cut-and-dried The telegram quoted below was tons of coal from. Keelung yester
and Co., brought a cargo of 1,010mg of our sovereignty, and
Ruda |horwer what he gave money to in this world inind checks for protecting what are termed, unstable industries. The received by the American Con- day for the Colony.
people
Build the Palace of Pence at the It the meteor is that the Government, and Mr. Lloyd George sulate General from the Manila
thi
Haguesne ban he founded awit his loklare, has not, finelf into a soggy, tangle over this fiscal Cheermatory at 7 pm yester. The Le Tajima Man, an reol
Erma Fund for Germany under the no tinkeresd with the mubject and hes pleased nobody, day:
NYE boat, arrived yesterday
pati siactory. *ttitude from Cyclone or typhoon W.N.W from Kobe with 7,740 tons of
conflcting elementa, of Luzon moving WN.W.Cyclone general merch
We may soon have for typhoon of Ladrone or The
departed this and the other -Metre lands mori
of th
of the