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The troubles of the average resident of, this Colony are con tinually increasing. To the in- creased cost of foodstuffs, eta,
Just a month ago, in comment ing on the Pass Office question, we referred to the fact that, in consequanse of war conditions, many people were in possession of valid passports, and remarked Mr. Chan Kai-ming is still in-has now to be added the high that "these passports, renewed disposed.
premium on small coins, Satur every two years, ought to be quite sufficient to enable anyone
day's notification in the Gazette to leave the Colony when occasions. Changsha, which recently away from here more than one Consignees of cargo by the prohibiting passengers carrying needs. We only want the Pass went aground at Cairns, are dollar is not going to make the Office operating to shut out or required to sign an average bond situation much better. The pro- keep an eya on undesirable characters.
blem of subsidiary silver coins is In other people it should have no interest "what-
The total output of the Kailantion in the Colony. For the at present attracting much atten- That having been our for the week ending 23rd August. satisfactory. We are not issuing
Mining Administration's mines attitude, we hail with satisfaction amounted to, 48,756 tons and the small coins and a good deal of the moment the position-is very un- ̈ the announcement that the Pass Office requirements have been sales during the period, to 64,259 already minted coins have gone modified in line with the sug gestions we offered. Henceforth
back into the melting pot, while the British and foreign residents
rest is The many friends of Mr. Un-in Canton. It is certainly an being secreted who have valid passports in How Fan, Hon. Secretary of the anomalous their possession will not need Chinese Recreation Club will
position-to have uny Police
silver Pass
standard leave learn with regret of the death of at the same time having subsidi- while the Colony, whilst persons who his father. which occurred onary silver tokea coins. arrive in and leave the Colony by Saturday.
The the same steamer are merely re-
Chinese are accustomed to look quired to produce their passports
for weight, for value in silver when demanded. This is a very ed before Mr. N. L. Smith, one of the high price of silver the week-end telegram, declares that any union with the Austrians
Two Chinese were to-day charge coins; consequently, on account sensible change, and one that will with stealing two silver-plated present subsidiary coins have and Magyars is an utter impossibility.
to
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"DR. MASARYK,
President of the Czecho-Slovakia Republic. who, according to a
BALAAM'S ASS.
not hold that
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
be greatly welcomed. In the past, bowls, and the other with receiving appreciated. The withdrawal of no matter how well-known a man them. Mr. Smith sentenced both small coins has also helped may have been, he has had to arm of them to three weeks hard to make the situation so difficult. himself with a Police Permit as labour. well as a passport on leaving the Colony, whilst temporary visitors, even if arriving and departing by the premises of the Astor House of the value being established for "In view of the present high A Chinese who was found on price of silver and the likelihood the same boat, have had to Hotel was charged to-day before some years, there are many who answering enquiries which had
Prefacing his through the irritating procedure Mr. N. L. Smith. of visiting the Pass Office, even sentenced to three weeks hard advantageous to have nickel coins the Rev. E. Martin said yesterday making by the seaside, the Howl
discourse by be arisen from a previous sermon fiction appertaining to boliday though they have had in their labour. The man's excuse was of five, ten and, twenty cents, at St. Peter's Church that scholars Review fears that thousands of In respect to the exaggerated possession passports showing that that he was looking for a friend. they were fit and proper persous The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $50 foolish business will be done away Smith to-day on two counts--one new currency would depend re-construction of the organs of
of a size and weight which cannow-a-days do to enter the Colony. Now all this
be easily decided upon. (Payable in Advance.)
A Chinese was before Mr. N. L. success of the introduction of the utterance. It would involve intent on anticipated robbery The Balsam's ass gave voice to human people will go for their holidays
tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a Office would be a mistake at.pre-/ 28 & returned banishee from Sing-almost entirely on the success an ass's throat. And although It must be remembered, continues
The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional Subscrip with. The abolition of the Pass
with jaundiced feelings, and minds sent, we think. The machinery Smith sentenced him to our the existing subsidiary coins. thought it well to do so He could 104 per cent. above pre-war level comments the Erening Standard. The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee is still preserved for keeping a
apore, and the other, larceny. Mr. attending the
withdrawal of no one would deny that if God the review. that food prices are delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies and that is all that is necessary, charge, and three months on the be inevitable that the new sub-remember sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. after all.
second.
that in this case water, boot polish, and every Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
sidiary coins would circulate Balaam was not a Jew, but a side by side with the old, in some sooth-sayer from the Euphrates. house show anything from 50 to The Chinese Recreation Club places, but such a state of affairs Such an augur or south-sager 300 per cent. increase. White single item used in a catering annual "At Home" will be held should only be allowed on suffer would give a meaning, according china crockery, for example, has tion to the fact that returned cricket prizes will be presented. the process of currency reform. of the ass. In view of the no-..
on Saturday when the tennis andance, and not serve as a step in to his art, to the natural sounds risen 140 per cent. soldiers organisations at Home It is also likely that the Tennis The danger of allowing the old easiness of Balsam's conscience. greater users of crockery and are a present keeping a keen League will make it their closing
the appointment of day and that the shields will be circulate side by side for any viewing the ass's obstinacy as a
and new subsidiary coins to we can scarcely wonder at his glassware then seaside and other candidates for public positions in
caterers, and who lose more by Municipalities, etc., and are leav-presented and Winners - Rest length of time would lie in the warning. Continuing his sermon, breakages? ing no stone unturned to see that matches played on the O. R. C possibility of the new currency the
preacher reviewed the becoming ultimately powerless to gradual development of Hebrew displace the old. There are a Religion from the primitive joss connected with coinage. As the to the pure monotheism main object or purpose of currency Messiahie hope great number of items of expenses and polytheism of Abram's day is to have fluid currency, the Prophets. object would be defeated if the
of the last
expenses were not brought down to a minimum.
is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies check on dangerous characters. year's hard labour on the first For a time, of course, it would make an ass speak, we hare to and that furnishings, wages,,
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A reader has drawn our atten-
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1919.
THE BOOM IN SPORT.
Home papers now coming to hand show that, there has been a great boom in sport in the Old Country, and that outdoor games especially have gained increasing popularity. There are peculiar circumstances which explain this great desire to take part in
ете on
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ex-Service
are given preference when other cond!- tions are equal He cites one A man was charged to-day be instance in which a billet was fore Mr. R. E. Liodsell, with given to a man who had not seen unlawful possession of 17 taels of service when there were equallyn-Government opium which well-qualified ex-Service men was found amongst his luggage amongst the candidates, where on the Canton Wharf. The man upon the Comrades of the Great said he came down because his War sent a deputation to the father was ill, and he was accom- Council and succeeded in getting panied by four men, who bad the the appointment held over for opium. reconsideration. This shows the $1,000, or eight months hard Mr. Lindsell fined him influences which are
labour. now ut work at Home, and it provides a striking illustration of the need of all have been rejected for war service having something to show to prove the fact. Now, this is not
Some Chinese merchants have
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Giving in the Outlook his experience of barristers, Mr. A.A. Milne says that once a fishmion- ger's shop had been run into by a motor bus, and a barrister spent what seemed like several hours in cross-examining the fishmon- TYPHOON WARNING. Her as to the contents of his shop, observes the Erening Standard. "Had he got any salmon at the The telegram quoted below was time of the accident? He hadn't. of Commerce with a view to sulate General, Hongkong, from were evidently supposed to feel approached the Chinese Chamber received by the American Con- Salmon was out of season, but we getting the Government issue the Manila Observatory at 10.45 that if one hadn't, any salmon 50-cent and 20-cent notes, but a
a.m. yesterday:-:
OR the Cyclone or Two Chinese coolies employed majority of the members were
typhoon S. of
it didn't charged to-day with stealing They argued that the small Chin- men who in the Kowloon Docks
really matter whether one's
pig-iron. A
not in favour of this change. Guam, direction unknown. were
premises were run into by a bus or evidence that he saw the two innovation as the notes would be tons, all of which have gone to
not. On another occasion a doctor watchman gave
ese tradesmen would suffer by this amounted to about 2,111 short who had spent about thirty years of a depreciative value. The China. So long as
at his profession was cross-ex- silver examined by a barrister who had
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athletics. As one writer says, the long period over which the war a passing phase of feeling. For defendants carrying the iron, coolies and hawkers would be the change is anything like as high sat up with it for there hours one extended, during which sport was more or less at a standstill, rather many years, the question of and when they saw him, they most hit. The matter is still being as now, Yuansa, tin, as I have night, with a wet towel round bis tended to aggravate the wish of all those athletically inclined to whether candidates for positions dropped the iron and ran away. resume as soon as possible. With others, the great reaction follow- have seen service will be raised, He gave chase and one of the c nsidered but it is expected that previously pointed out in these head. Now then, sir, Do you ing a long period of stress and anxiety showed itself in the desire and, that being the case, any man defendants jumped to take part in outdoor life, while in the case of those who spent from Hongkong who happens to water. With the assistance of on the matter- some years in the Services the open-air existence encouraged the go Home and has nothing to show another Chinese both defendants
the the Chamber will take no action columns, cannot compete with or do you not agree with Dr. belief in the value of athletics as a health-promoting :factor.
tin from the Straits Settlements.
Emsbach Herrenpoffer that may truthfully be said that whilst the war claimed many sports- himself in a very awkward pre-ant was sentenced to three weeks' India are airing their grievance of
It that he has been rejected will find were arrested. The first defend-
It is
of the
contused lesion in the neighbour- men, it bred many others. Sport as an aid to training the military dicament. It will be useless for hard labour. The second defend-regarding the anomaly arising cannot be mored underpresent ex puration of the er" a hurried
The Chambers of Commerce in items
many hood of the digamma might be a in the long list man in mind and body was placed at its proper value, and many him to say that he was turned ant, who had a previous convic-out of the existing system of change rates in competition with glance at the second-hand medic- 'Chinese products that contributing canse of-er-sup- men who before the war were indifferent to the benefite to be derived down, when the proof of the fact tion, was sentenced to six weeks' determining from outdoor exercise are now among its most ardent devotees."
During the past few months there has been a phenomenal ment archives ten thousand miles
is lying in the military or Govern- hard labour.
the tariff rates similar products from other coun-
al book on his desk-" interest shown in all branches of sport. Football, lawn tennis and away.
of sugar.
suppura- They argue that tries produced on a gold basis. tion of the oxymoron ? ** cricket have been played with increasing zest by large numbers of Australia all men who were reject- We are informed that in
the valuation of China and As Mr. George E. Anderson, the enthusiasts, golf, never exactly a spectacular game, has come into ed for service were supplied both
'Mauritius sugars is unfairly high Consul-General for the United its own again; whilst boxing appears to have increased in popular with a certificate and a badge. It ITALIAN CONVENT SCHOOL
1 have just heard Sir Martin ity. These facts clearly indicate that outdoor exercise appeals to should be quite a simple matter the nation to a greater extent than ever before. That is a good to issue to Hongkong's "rejecteds" sign, providing it is not overdone, and the most gratifying feature similar proof. We trust that the
matter without delay.
health.
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cognised that the Indian valuation the basis of the tin industry of as compared with that of Java States, has pointed out, the pro- Conway, the Director-General of and Japan sugars Although it is reduction of tin in Yunnan Province, the Imperial War Museum, give has been fixed in accordance with Hongkong, has all but completely about the scheme to members of some very interesting information has been the obvious desire on the part of so many to take a really authorities will look into this the candidates who received late suited to the abnormal trade con- that it has fallen off from 50 to 80 the Pall Mall Gazette. It wAS
recognised procedure, it is clear collapsed. Estimates of product- active part in whatever branch of sport they may be interested. "In
The following are the names of that this procedure is quite union at the present time indicate Parliament, states "Clubman "in the past, so far as some of car games are concerned, there have been too few players and a disproportionate number of onlookers,
ly their certificate in Pitman's ditions prevailing. The present per cent so that the production Proposed, he explained, to include It is reassuring to learn that the war has had its influence on this!
system should be altered. Pend-of the Yunnan fields this year every weapon used during the aspect of sport, and that a far bigger proportion of young men is
Full Florentina Nunes. Feli-ing the introduction of a revised will run only from 2,500 to 6,000 War, and a new State Faper Office showing an inclination to enter the playing felds. The consequence
MURDER CHARGE. cidad Neves, Rose White, Dolores Procedure, a special arrangement tons, instead of 12,000 tons last would be erected to house the must be better physical development of the youth of the nation,
Jusen, Mary Walter, Gladys should be made to eliminate the year. Hongkong exporters "of mass of original documents. The which will have its benefits in uplifting the general standard of in police custody to find witnesses
The three prisoners remanded Sophie Weill.
Woolley, Evelyn Woolley and anomaly under which
British tin are particularly discouraged bered more than two millions. It war photographs collected nam- sugar is penalised as against at the prospect which has its most is intended that the museum shall Here in Hongkong, the war has adversoly affected sport, though
First Class-Constance Ston-foreign sugars. in connection with the murder of ham..
serious feature in exchange. not, of course, to the same extent as at Home. Some of the pre-war August, in Shanghai Street, ap-jahn, Winnie Souza, Lilly Ston-is very little chance of any revival Chinese hare taken to wearing taken for four years from next include models of the 350 types Chan Hing
оп the sporting features have had to be dropped, whilst the reduced Service peared again before Mr. Lindsell ham, Lena McKenzie, Annie of the trade in South China fin. the leather shoe, and there has April, and it is hoped that the
18th Second Class.-Wazira Ram- Under present exchange there
of aerplanes used. A lease of units have meant that the Colony has had fewer really capable this morning.
In recent years many of the the Crystal Palace has been exponents of varions games. However, there are already signs of a coming boom in sport here, in which connection we anticipate with for trial at the Criminal Sessions. Reta Hazeland, Lily Haynes, the decline until at the present tanned leather. This, however, to make the future museum z
Dillon, Daisy Gittins, Mabel Hol-Prices of the metal in Hongkong, consequently been The prisoners were committed loway, Annie Tollan, Josie Hung. however, have been constantly on demand in China for foreign early summer. The intention is lively interest the resuscitation of the Interport Cricket Festival,
a growing collection will be on view in the wherein triangular contests are to take place in Hongkong in the latter part of this year between teams representing this Colony, the
Lucy Haynes, Marjorie Garrod, time "99 per Straits and Singapore. Then also there are prospects of an inter-
May Hyde, Beatrice Bliss. May quoted at about $85 per picul ofsiderable proportions, and the Imperial Institute, and he thought cent metal is has not as yet reached any con-living museum. not dead like the port lawn bowls fixture, whilst in the other branches of sport we
Fincher, Elvira Alvares. Eileen 133 1/3 pounds; and 98 per cent. Chinese have now begun to erect it should house a living studying look for a big revival of interest when the new military and naval Horne, tried to rescue his twin | Rodrigues, Gulhermina Assump- prices of from $95 to $105. The of the race wear the character of of modern war, with collections O'Sullivan, Margaret Gerrard, at $82. These prices compare tanneries of their own in some body, the United Service Institu~ unita arrive. Lawn tennis, too, is becoming even more popular sister from drowning. The children tion and Aurea Carvalho,
A five-year-old boy, named Cecile Johanssen, Bertha very unfavourably with nominal places in China. The great mass tion. It would be the University than ever here, and in the coming open tournaments we shall no doubt witness some surprising developments. Outdoor recreation has ventured near the water!
cost is computed in the local cloth shoe that they have worn dating back from the time of is a great means of maintaining good health in a Colony like this, cooler at Weybridge electric light Reta Hazoland, Eileen O'Sullivan, grown so serious in the mining of a thick cloth pad. To make cyclopaedia of war. It should be Third Class Lucy Haynes, currency. The situation has for centuries, the sole being made Marlborough, an illustrated en with its trying and variable climate, and we are very fortunately works, where their father is Margaret Gerrard, Marjorie fields that a great proportion of this, old rags are put together in placed on placed in that some form of sport is available here all the year employed. One of the workmen, Garrod, May Fincher, Mabel the miners have left work and layers, sewed with a strong thread Thames just below the County round.
We believe that the growing popularity of sport is named Collier, attracted
the banks of the essentially good for the Colony. It means that more people go out screams, found the girl had dis- Silvie de Cotte, Marie Rosario, thus not only
by Wright, Bertha Rodrigues, have sought other employment, and cut in sizes, to fit the shoe. Hall. into the open-air and fewer hang about Club bars than in the old appeared beneath the surface of Violet Van Langenberg, Mollie possibility of production at the porting and distributing point for Vindictive. On the river edge In front of it could be reducing the Shanghai, which is the great.im be moored some vessel like the.. days. It is having a most beneficial effect also on the rising who had unsuccessfully tried to Violet Tsan, Olive Xavier, Amy organisation on which future ed about 650,000 pounds of sale great memorial sculpture behind generation of Chinese. For which reason we hope to see increasing pull her out, was hanging on the Garth.
the water, while her little brother, McBean, Florence Simmons, present time, but destroying the North and Central China, import would be a great facade, with a ly large facilifies provided for participation in outdoor pastimes and
edge crying bitterly. Collier Ehorthand classes will be re-must rest. Exports of tin from 000 lbs. was re-exported to other that the museum, with its library production in a large measure leather in 1917, and of this 260,- it, for all men to see, and behind rescued both children.
opened on the 15th inst.
Hongkong up till May this year ports of China.
and research department.
very encouragement given to lade attending school to evince an
ve interest in the various forms of athletics.
THE LITTLE HERO.