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MURDER CHARGE.
ROBBIE'S LETTERS coming of some one whose
ledge of things, so far as they believe they wern santra in this ques effect this, Colong in? worth a worthy folks for all the THE COWARDICE THAT YIELDS TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME tinker's curse. It's the worse case worst faults, however was the We have been asked whether TO THREATS INVITES THEM.
o"wait and see Jever saw. In they couldna speak understand or not there is any law in Hong
the case of this Hall business if able English. On points, Mr. kong which prohibits householders
Dear Alick,
the decision is such a momentous Harston wins that round. from making the night hideous before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with A Chinese was charged to-day
Hongkong. Sept. 10, 1919, one it is very unfair to saddle the with pianos, gramophones and unlawful possession of 198 taals ful you'll let this high exchange No matter what his decision will recent speech guoted by Mr. Mas, says I, if you're no care- new parson wi' the responsibility. Churchill and that portion of his With regard to: Mr. Winston the like. There is. It is incor of opium. Mr. A. E. Hall appeared come between you and what be, the result will mean a congro Harston, it would seem, though a porated in the Summary Offences, for the defendant. The case was little wits ye ever had. Ordinance, which was brought adjourned and bail was fixed at Andrew Carnegie be a waming right bang off. Does experience Churchill is not ready yet to Let gation wi' a fifty per cent. bias professed Free Trader, he (Mr. into being "to make provision for $1,500. the preservation of good order
to you. Man, at the hinder end count for anything at all! That make up his mind as to what is. and cleanliness and the prevan-
he left less than fifty million vestry must be crazy. After their the proper treatment required for tion of nuisances." The clause Yesterday the YMCA beat dollars
experience wit the last parson I his new phenomenon, (the varied affecting the matter reads. No CRC. in the Junior Tennis Macpherson's like a lot more would have thought they'd have problems of modern Economics). person shall between sunset and League, and, baving concluded in the Colony these days. I had more sense. My goodness, As Mr. Harston submits that in 6 a.m. make or cause to be made their fixtures, are level with Club wouldna' like to be Stabb and wouldna' have that man's job for an earlier letter he is at one with any noise whatever calculated to de Recreio. They will play off, if have this fixing of exchange on anythingne if they provided me Mr. Churchill in this regard, 1, disturb, annoy or interfere with both area, at the CRC. "At my conscience for long. Mac's wi' a couple o' brand new sermons in turn, respectfully submit that the public tranquillity or the quiet Home" to-morrow.
nearly way to skin and bone week. A lamb led to the the mere recognition of new pro- of the occupier or inhabitant of
and wi' him nowadays a night slaughter is on velvet compared blems does not get us anywhere. any dwelling house." Now, these
sweat is nearly as common as a to him. Man, by the time he feels The diagnosis of disease to be words are quite unambiguous with unlawful possession of 10 up to the car the other night, ionera the once over and visits a prescription if a cure is desired. A Chinese was to-day charged bath. Man, says he to me going his feet and gives all his parish of any value must be followed by as our readers will agree. Yet taels of opium. When the charge this exchange business is very the K. C. C., in between worrying Mr. Harston suspects that there is we are informed that in Kowl on was read out, defendant said at any rateitis therule rather than"It is not Staels but 10."
disturbing. I'm mortgaged up to how he's going to live on his something wrong fiscally (many All the exception for residents to be right" said Mr. Lindsell; "it
the hilt as it is, a month ago, and salary, he'll have precious little a man has thought he's been by noisy neighbours who imagine gets the opium ".
only waited. I wondercons as to who is entitled to use to find that it was flatulence after that they have ausical talents. was imposed or six months.
A fine of $800 how much further it'll go and the Public Hall, mind I'm telling all) but both he and Mr. Chur- The nuisance is more emphasised
what's the cause of it? Search ye. in Kowloon than elsewhere by
me, says I maybe its the new It'll be the same wi' the new minds as to the proper treatment chill haven't yet made up their reason of the close proximity of Mr. R. E. Lindsell to-day with
A Chinese was charged before sun spots that's affected the Bank. Governor.
He doesna know of the present economic distress. blocks of flats one to another. In anlawful possession of 82 taels ering out
Lad, the old fear of Hell's flick-what he's in for. By the time he If this is so, then I live in hope Flatland" across the harbour of opium. The drug was found taking its place the fear of contained in the Address of adhere to his Free Trade princi- A deadlier fear is digests the "Fourteen Points" that Mr. Harston may even yet there are nightly howlings and tied around his waist. When a poverty. Men wit $20,000 a year Welcome and has tackled the ples in their entirety. Mine is skriekings by would-be vocalists, fine of $600 or five months was live in a sick dread o financial Civil Servants and Policemen's only a tiny voice, I know, but I whilst the din and confusion are Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires added to by pianos competing plased, defendant said: A man loss. This rising dollar of ours wages, etc, etc, his term of office am in the chorus at any rate. It them to forward their names and addresses with communications with gramophones for premier promised me $3 to carry the is breeding the canker of discon-will be up or in the meantime is long since I have recognised addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but as an honours. This kind of thing is op. He only gave me one, so I tant. It's working like a poison he'll be a lunatic charge on the the new facts, studied thousa
worse just now than it will be in will have to look for him and get in the system.
It's tainting all community until such time as a up my mind, and my remedy for All communications intended for publication should be address-winter, when verandah windows the other $ to help pay the fine." classes the rich
етед mere couple of
bluejackets can be the present situation, in short, is will happily be shut.
than the poor. To pile up spared to take him Home again. efficiency in business methods FOX-TROTS AND SLEEP.
moces for money's sake isna No, it's no' fair to saddle. new-and the total exclusion of all a sign of brain power nowadays. comers to this Colony w the protective tariffs, artificial or .....aye lad, there are always that principle is carried out, the literally or figuratively is a very The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-it often lasts well on to, and some-
more yelpers than helpers. As I crack o' doom will be on us before painful business at the best o tions for say period less than one month will be charged as for a times considerably after, mid-have been received by the Amer-business is likely to be swamped and burning. In the matter of
The telegrams quoted below was saying, this full month.
Kowloon we get ourpolitical lamps trimmed times, you believe me. The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee preference for sleeping rather kung, from the Manila Observa that are aye ready to take trouble right sorry for Chater. Just you of which is Comradeship. He night, when most people have a ican Consulate General, Hong- or water-logged through the folks this address o' welcome, man, I'm by Sir David Beatty the keynote Mr.Harston also quotes speech is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies than listening to the musical tory,-- delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies efforts
to make trouble. Criticism is the imagine the irony of the thing sees a solution in the word. Its sent by post an additional $180 per quarter is charged for postage.
dwellers in 2p.m. September 10.-Cyclone only job in life that the inefficients As an old Uneficial Member of no a fiscal one onyway. I cannot "Flatland." Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
A couple of nights or typhoon. W. of the Ladrone are keen on. They can't learn, the Legislative Council and a ing lively airs until early morn-northward. ago, a string band kept up play-or Mariana Islands, inclining but by jingo, they're aye ready to member of the Executive Council Protection is the antithesis of quite see the point myself.
was good and quite cheery, but it Typhoon W of the Ladrone or are most conducive to eye strain. fourteen lugubrious points as classes are concerned. Protect- ing. The music in this instance
lecture. The most stinging art to boot, he will have to stand up comradeship, at least so far as '5.20 p.m. September 11-critics are the folks whose daubs and petition and pray that the the working man and the middle scarcely helps one to get to sleep Mariana Islands, inclining west-Any fool can sneer. Sneers are contained in the Address, includ-ion has always caused bitterness when fox-trots and one-steps are ward. being rattled off a few doors away.
cheap in every sense of the word. ing among other things housing and jealousy between nations and The trouble is that there are some Cyclone or typhoon E. of Luzon, given away in this world, mind bandstands,
September 12.There isn't much of real value reform, constitutional reform trade rivals. The Tariff has people who never will think of more than 300 miles distant. I'm telling ye. Poor old Frosting
and a fester- always been used as a method of the comfort of others, So we moving W. or W.N.W.
welter -of neglect and must have spent a suggest that one of these nights
poisonous decas generally, may receive Trade has been the means of aggression and retaliation. Free the police take a stroll round to
week-end, but he wants to keep a His new Excellency's "Flatland" and hear the racket
stiff upper lip and set "a stoot consideration. I think if I were removing the world's poverty careful increasing the world's abundance, which goes on. Then, after taking
hert tae a stey brae." It's better him I'd stert in right now and in the long run to be spurred petition and pray for some indis friendship and understanding.
and increasing due note as to where the evil
the world's originates, they might drop a mild
on by sneers than marred and position to keep me abed that with regard to Mr. Harston's hint that these noisy "concerts"
spoilt by honeyed pra se. The morning. The artful dodgers of sentiments anent "Labour" and should, as far as possible, stop at
critic who can't see beyond the the C. R. A. will make him look the Middle Classes we are at one. eleven o'clock
individual in at any rate:
any proposed foolish if he doesus' look out. "Public tranquillity," to use the
scheme of reform is
For weeks past I've been harping Man, this has been an awful: away on the same strings. But legal term, ought not to be inter- Mr. R. E. Lindsell to-day, charge then as his own ideas another, sometimes both together, does he stagger me when he tells minded fool for individual wants summer for wet week-ends. If I'm no complaining. It's a poor rupted after that hour in any
are the true basis of all reform. it hasna been one thing, it's been orchard that's never robbed. Nor respectable locality.
ed with murdering another DEMOBILISATION.
trooper.
concerning his i dividual needs that's upset our Sabbath rest,me in figures the purchasing value Inspector Gordon stated that irrespective of those the world recreation or lubrication accord-of £100 to-day. I went into the There is still some discontent at defendant and deceased slept may consider necessary for himing to our individual needs or causes of that last week. If he's Home over the War Office plans next to each other. On the 8th man, for instance, have may his inclination. Last week-end was fond o' that sort o' thing I'll pass for demoblisation. All sorts of September, at suggestions have been made as the morning, a trooper sleeping No matter what be accomplishes, the making at the Peak Fort- makes Niagara look like perspira. a little home sur no exception to the rule for on him on some of Janet's letters. one o'clock in heart set on
rounded, with flowers-a garden. Sunday a literary typhoon was in The figures in her last epistle to the order in which men should further. be released from the Army. The noise.
away, heard a He got
his life will be a failure to himnately there was no evidence of tion. ap. and It is so much to the good that the Trade Union Congress, which all 1914 men, except those inside the bed of the deseased, with The unfortunate part of our lives Tuesday when it was found, after subject but just how interesting is
latest orders issued provided that saw the defendant standing be- unless he gets that "little home." its presence till the following is meeting in Glasgow, has so far shown little signs of supporting the India and any there may be in
I could go on and on wi' this utterly unconstitutional policy of "direct action." The President Russia, should begin their jour- defendant was seen to go to a tracked from the things we want had left Hongkong practically un- street onyway? Still it's encourag- an iron bar in his hand. The is, that so many of us are side- it had expended it's force, that it it to the ordinary man in the spoke out very clearly on, the subject when he asserted that aney home within one month of window and throw the bar out. national strike for political ends would mean revolution. In saying the signature of Peace. namely It was found the next morning.
most, for what other folks want touched. A new kind of typhoon? ing to see correspondente tackling that, he showed that he was one of the Constitutionalists in the by 28th July, and that all 1915 Labour Party-the men upon whose level-headedness and good men and men over 37 years of 23rd, at 10 am.
Not at all. That's only my economic questions. Unanimity The case was adjourned till the Kowloon affair. I was vexed to know that Mr. Scott Harston has the same, serious discussion was
But to sense we rely to keep the Labour. movement in healthy channels. age, except those in India and
come back to this ambiguous way of letting you is hardly likely to appear but, all. Mr. J. R. Clynes is also of this group. Only the other dar, at the Egypt and
think that, the vestry of the St. again contributed to the general never more necessary than to-day- Labour Party Conference, he argued strongly against direct start for
Russia, should
Andrew's Church
so gloom by letting loose another Now for another solemn "warn“ action,"
bome submitting that organised labour, in the use of the Trade months
within two Union weapon, should confine itself to industrial action for of Peace, namely by 28th August.
purblind about the granting of the contribution on of the
the Future ing. signature
Hall for the proposed public weet-Economic Policy in Relation to we're no careful we will be
You mark my words, if 7 industrial ends, meaning thereby such matters as the wage question, Other men who are now desirous
ing. Sir Faul Chater would be Germany and in doing so again outmanoeuvred by other nations the hours of labour or workshop conditions. He was decidedly of and eligible for demobilisation
right annoyed when he heard of carefully refrained from touching in their attempt to retain our old against the use of the weapon for obviously political purposes, and under existing regulations will Wan Tao. brought in this morn-myopic vestrymen had just taken points I used in support of my Either the new situation is to be
The ss. Chusan, froir Ching their decision. in taking that stand he has with him the sane element of the Party. start for bome within
If you bunch of Hongkong relative to the several markets and to capture, new. These are the men who, like the President of the Trade Union months of the signature
three ing 2,150 tons of coal for Hong- the trouble to step outside their advocacy of Free Trade. Congress, believe that they can gain the power they are seeking by Peace, namely by 28th of this
of kong. She is a B. and S. vessel. Hall and read what was engrav purely constitutional methods.
Now I like M. Harston. As work and the free exchange of met by a revival of the will to A thousand four hundred tons ed on After all, once the policy of "direct action" were put into applies equally to men who, al-port by the Norwegian steamship would have saved them a lot of He's unlike myself, in the sense terrible suffering in our social month. This programme of release of suger were consigned to this stone, attached to the building, it and never takes unfair advantage. position of Spain after the most a two by three foot an opponent he's dead square, goods, or Britain declines to the operation, there would be no end to its application, and there would though demobilisable, have hith-Providence, from Sourabaya. be no such thing as stable government. Mr. Clynes emphasised erto been retained for essential
face. This stone has cut out on that he's never dogmatic (that's annals. that point very aptly the other day, when he pictured the future purposes usually described as
From Pakhoi, the as. Tai Sze, its face, for posterity to read, one disadvantage of being a Scot) possibility of a Labour Government being in power. He asked the
a Chinese vessel, brought in something like this:
I've said that same thing again extrémists of his Party whether, in such an event, any class which tion" but will, of course, apply cargo for the Colony, 285 pigs the machinery of demobilisa- yesterday 350 tons of general
and, above all, has the saving and again but for the esme could exercise power were to be given the right to terrorise a Labour to men who although eligible for and 71 bullocks.
THIS HALL IS ERRECTED AND hope for the man that can take a never obtained the freedom of grace o' humour, There's are reason that Jeremiah probably Government by the use of any
PRESENTED TO THE COLONY After all,
means it seeks to employ. demobilisation have volunteered
joke. As a debater you've got the Eastern city wherein he if the "direct actionists" claim
Five hundred tons of cargo
BY to-day, they cannot consistently object to
that right to stay for a period with the were consigned to Hongkong by
SIR C. P. CHATER, CM.G.
to be up bright and early to dwelt, so maybe I'd better keep the same policy when Labour comes to rule the country. men, who joined the Colours for Coal of a quantity of 1,624 tons
others adopting Armies of Occupation. All Derby the Yuet Shang yesterday.
catch him. If I was only half my breath to cool my porridge. 1ST APRIL, 1913. The admission of such a principle, says Mr. Clynes, would be a service before 1st July, 1916, was delivered by the Daitoku that date looks to me more than I'm glad of Mr.
as smart, I'd have been a lawyer. If, however, Mr. Haiston still From what occurred last week, But to get back to our broth. thinks he's got a shred of a case. blow, not at the Government; but at Democracy. And he is quite excepting those in India and Maru, belonging to the Osaka appropriate. In any case, 'from assurance that he is by no means from his high chair of Imperialism right. It would mean an end of majority rule, for a minority Russia will begin their journey Zosen Sho
Harston's left I again invite him to descend might easily bring about chaos by the adoption of unconstitutional-home by 1st November. It is Keelung
She came from the inscription I should any it was a rabid anti-Free Trader nor and vague generalities and rest a methods. No; that is not the way for the Labourites to attain their expected that all the remaining
a Public Halball right. Onyhow, Protectionist in the ordinarily bit on the lowlier footstoot of ends. There are other and better methods available, and until all men of all classes who fought in 1,240 tons of coal for the Colony ter over until such time as the bis apparent reluctance to dismane to the present issue.
The Toyo Maru had on board they've decided to leave the mat accepted usage of the term. From Hongkong and the things ger constitutional expedients fail, there is no justification whatever for the war, that is to say, embarked from Keelung as well. The local new incumbent comes. Now it's prove several of my statements, going to extreme measures which must end in sheer revolution.
What kind of policy the Trade Unionists hope to evolve we abroad before the Armistice was
for any theatre of war or garrison agents are the M.B.K.
a very bad thing to get into a bad do not know. Their Parliamentary
The Nippon Maru from San habit. The habit of leaving things along. I agree with him, how- have suspected as much all instructed to draft a practical and effective scheme for the control early spring of next year.
Committee has been signed, will be released in the Francisco arrived here last even- to other folks, is becoming very ever, when he says that Great of industry, on the basis, apparently that co-partnership, and
ing with 851 tons of groceries, prevalent nowadays in dividend-sharing are not to be included, since these are regarded as
this Britain's past and future pros matches and merchandise for Colony. Everything we bave perity was due to her Mercantile capitalistic schemes. How that decision is arrived at, it would
Hongkong. She left San asked from the Government dur-Marine, but we must never forget be hard to say, for Labourites have been in the habit of arguing
Francisco on August 12th and ing the pas year has always been that it was out policy of Free
AMBITIOUS LONDON, SUBURBS. that they do not get a fair share of the profits of their labour. Yet At Taunton Pol ce-court re- agents are the Toyo Kisen Kaisha the matter must be left over till fostered it. Cause and effect, in Walthamstow, and Enfield are
Nagasaki on the 8th instant. Her countered by the statement that Trade that when they are given an opportunity of going hand-in-hand with the cently, Hilda Mapstone, 18, a land She carried 49 first-class and 12 the arrival of the new Governor short "How well our merchant taking active steps to secure maintained and Acton, Willesden Leyton: Capitalists they are not inclined to seize it. Nevertheless, the Trade girl, employed on a farm near second-class passengers, and also Now we get the same kind o ships assisted as during the late incorporation as municipal Union Congress says the workers are anxious to co-operate with Taunton, was fined 40s. for send-659 bags of mail. During the excuse in the matter of the new war, and how dependent. Great boroughs, The recent action of their employers. The issue seems to be very much confused in this, ing, and William Hall, a demo- voyage fine weather was exper- St. Andrew's Church incumbent. Britain was on the courage and the Middlesex County Council connection. It does not appear at all clear what it is that the bilized soldier, was fined a like ienced, workers want. Apart from this point, however, it is satisfactory amount for conveying, letters to
Aye, it's a right, bad habit we've tenacity of our merchant seamen, in deciding not to oppose Acton's to feel that the moderate section of the Labour group is continuing Carl Muller, a German prisoner. Maru from Kobe arrived here its no fair. It would seem on An abbreviated School Board
The Japanese steamer Kosaka got into, and what's more forbye, we all know, to exert a restraining Infinence on the extremists. So long as this Hall's defence was he thought yesterday afternoon with 3313 general principles nowadays that education necessarily denies me
application has also aftrred the
ibitions of o in the case, we need have no feary of any revolutionary upheaval in the letters were harmless, being tons of through and 293 tons of the folks who know most about the assistance of old Laccoon or The Old Count
love letters
direct cargo
what they want have to wait for the the moral backing of such as Cas- and Elmonton
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"HONGKONG, "FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1919.
LABOUR MORE TACTFUL.
GIRL'S LETTERS TO GERMAN PRISONER.
INDIAN TROOPER IN THE DOCK.
An Indian trooper was before
SHIPPING ITEMS.
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Yours truly ROBT. MacWHIRTER.
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