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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
SHIPPING SCANDALS.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
1894.
“VANITY FAIR”.
IT IS INVARIABLY TRUE THAT HONGKONG TWENTY-[NEXT WEEK'S ATTRACTION,
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In another column of to-day's |THE LIFE ALWAYS FOLLOWS THE issue will be found a reprint of a THOUGHT. letter which has been addressed by a British Shipmaster to the Shipping and Engineering (Shang-shows one fatal case of bubonic
Yesterday's health hai dealing with the conditions plague, prevailing at Hongkong with re- gard to the life-saving appliances of ships arriving at and leaving
The Gazette contains a list of the Port. We ourselves have Plants on sale at the Botanic often referred to this Gardens matter. bat 25 YEARS IN WOOD made in the letter quoted are
BROWN BRANDY
the statements
FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the “Hongkong Telegraph files for week ending October 11, 1894)
THE DOLLAR
October 5.The rate of the Dollar, on demand ro-day, is 8. 1d. 7/5d.
SELF GOVERNMENT.
The total output of the Kailan sufficiently grave to warrant Mining Administration's mines their perusal by every resident for the week ending 4th October, and instant action on the part of amounted to 74,895 tons and the is this self-government the October 5-New Arrival-What the officials concerned. To sales during the period to 71,402 people talk about so much here. say that vessels, licensed by the tons. Hongkong Government.
Citizen-Oh it's simple enough. allowed to sail with insufficient
Every man attends to his own boats, rafts, etc., and not com- yesterday we referred to one of run everything. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Pelled to carry one single lifebelt, the golf competitions arranged
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Mrs. Flack, of Buckhurst Hill, The return season of "Vanity Essex, told the Epping magistrates Fair" which will commence on daughter Hilda to school as she that she is unable to send ber Saturday next, October 25th, is cannot get boots for her to wear. expected to establish new records Hilda weighs over 15 stane here."Vanity Fair" is without although she is only aged 13, and tion that has come this way. doubt the most attractive visita-bootmakers, her mother says,
refuse to make boots for her.
A well-meaning versifier a little while back sat down in cold blood
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We regret. in Kowl on Notes, business and lets the Government never believe he's lots more up explained to a large extent by the
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919.
MORE ABOUT HOUSING,
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There are damage to property of almost of distinct contradiction to
which open at the Supreme Court The October Criminal Sessions, on Monday, is one of the beaviest no fewer than 2 prisoners for for some time past. trial, and the calender includes four murder charges, one charge of wounding with intent to kill. and several of robbery with
violence.
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comedian, he said "a fellow of ruined businesses, as one might Of Leslie Holmes, the well-known ealthy through the and perpetrated the following. Belgians who have become extraordinary, and instead of infinite jest, who twinkles and have, expected, one finds macks with such zest that you'd amount of commercial prosperity which is almost incredible. It is his sleeve, and the lot up his fact that Brussels was the local not even for the crews. is to be the Golf Section of the K.CC. make
sleeve's still the very serious
accus- as the "Owners' Cup." It should
Over Sydney Mannering he General Staff, and in addition to
best.headquarters of the ation-all the more
German serious have been the "Owens Cup."
October 5-According to one became almost maudling, thus the officers and men, a host of because we know it
of the oldest residents of the ly"The little stars at brink functionaries with their clerical true. We even know of British
Colony, the storm that has been of night Mr. A. H. Hollingsworth is to raging here since six o'clock by candlelight. vessels running down to Hai be a member of of the Board of yesterday evening. and at the course, to seem unkind, but blush belief that they were in per- peer in at bim staffs, and in many cases their. phong in the life-boats of which Arbitrators in connection with time of the publication of this es and pulls down the blind for manent occupation, and that they He hates, of wives, lived there. In the firm there is never placed anything the resumption of Section. I ofisue, showed no signs of abating, most expensive, sure, says he, the would eventually receive a large but one single keg of water. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 107 and but rather the reverse, is the little peeping stars can be." There indemnity as part of the spoils of Travelling as they do up and of Section D. of. Kowloon Inland worst, by a long way, that ever are two Georges in the Company war, they spent money lavishly. down such a dangerous coast as Lot No. 103. this, it amounts to nothing more
howled over these festive shores-George Titchener, the comed-Almost all this money went into and we have yet to learn whatian. and George Graystone, the the pockets of Belgian traders, At the Police Churt to-day, a
its effects have been.
basse. They are created en who, owing to the scarcity of masse, as it were, by the genial foodstuffs and materials, made an emergency. It would seem dummy shell. Defendant said that our Ordinances in respect be picked it up outside an iron-
October 6-Had the condition from your hilltops your dales of these matters are badly in monger's shop. He had a previous been similar to those of 1874 the and your gorges" and be entertain- The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 want of an overhaul, for it needs conviction against him. Mr. Lind-effects of the cyclone in this is-ed by these wild woolly Georges. per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
no arguing that there should be sell imposed a fine of $25, or six probability, have been more dis- mat with the mobile face Church, Maiden Lane London, land, yesterday, would, in all
In the course of the annual The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-operative provisions to remedy wooks' hard labour.
There is George Titchener, thermon recently at the Actors' tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a the defects so justly complained
Mass in full month.
astrous than was the case of its general broad-comedian with en.
Corpus Christi very life blood and the safety
so, but we have, nevertheless, to sprightly and inoffensive and with children of the stage, of your of. Hongkong's shipping is its
years ago. Fortunately, it is not The humour of these two is sald-Whatever they may say, unwelcome predecessor of twenty excellent sense of the grotesque. the Rev. Prior Norbert Wyllie and welfare of those who man
record a very serious amount of that, pellucid, but they are in profession, whatever Puritans of travel in them, should be one of
every description and in every other as regards style. the vessels, and of those who the Colony's chief concerns.
district in the Colony, which may
each every age may say against you, roughly be estimated at between himself who performs on the 1ves, that you ever cared for one thing they cannot say that PROPHETIC CIVIL SERVANTS.
There is Sydney Mannering stupendously generous in your you have not been supremely, $250,000 and $300,000. Budget has provided and will yet The introduction of Hongkung's
stage as well as being responsible wealth or the material things of further provide plenty of scope
A SUCCESSFUL SMOKING
for the productions. He is a life. for comment. but on glancing
CONCERT.
soulful singer but can pass a dangers connected with it. But, "They say there are great through the draft estimates of before Mr. S. L. Smith with Cert given at the City Hall last knows the world to its remotest profession. the profession of &
A Chinese was to-day charged
October 3.-The smoking con- another.
quip in joyous comedy as well as after all, is it more dangerous revenue and expenditure for 1920 cruelty to a cow, by tieing up Allison, turned out to be a grand practised bachelor.
He can dance and than any other-the medical which were submitted to Thurs-ber
night for the benefit of Mrs. day's meeting of the Legislative a
four legs. and putting
patches. He is an inveterate politician; or more soul-destroy- Council, we are tempted to say aand
bamboo thorough them success. All the word or two in commiseration to the s.s. Kin Shan from Ta Signorita, distinguished them boots, is a jovial fellow and a and atink in the depths of our Fe has fifing then that of a commercial performers, teen steady fiances and is true to man? carrying the
including Messrs. Grace, Brady, all of them! There is George outwardly, and the world con- animal with those officials in the various Hang village. The
Lammert, James and the graceful Graystone who sings from his demns them.
You wear your sins Departments whose duty it is to after being taken on the ship. selves immensely. We hold over good chap withal. There is Jean souls, and the world does not provide the Department with Mr. Smith fined defendant $50.
Qur sins rankle estimates of revenue.
a full report of this capital Desormes, a conductor who com condemn us. In certain departments, where things never
"show" till to-morrow, change, the matter must be as
poses music so habitually that he It is notified that the street, easy as falling off a log, but not which commences between Nos.
is said to do it while he sleeps. He takes a turn on the stage occas- so in others. Under Licences 466 and 472, Queen's Road West, Director of the Public Works, but he draws the line at
October 10. Mr. F. A. Cooper, ionally and is
It is not often that in England and Internal Revenue " one and traverses a portion of Inland Water Authority &c. returned to things he will
very versatile, jan ex-Cabinet Minister of such has to Lave 2
two prominence prophetic Lot No. 834 connecting Queen's the Colony by the Empress of French or juggle with axes. -
35 Mr. McKenna. vision to be able to show what Foad West with Clarence Street, China to-day, from six months'
not sing in withdraws from it may be that the public is weary of reading comments about is bere required. With the grow and having a cul-de-sac terminat- leave of absence.
politics devotes himself to a financial and the housing question. One thing is certain, namely, that residents ing population it was pretty cer-ing at the
But what an array of feminine
carer. are weary of searching for residences and of paying extremely high tain that the revenue from mato: Inland Lot No. 834, is
eastern boundary of
"In America, however, rentals when they happen to find them. It is because of this that we car and ricksha licences would be known as "Chun Sing Street."
talent is here! There is Eileen such a decision is by no means to be wish to pen a few more words on the subject. With every day that increased, but one has to have:
Boyd who sings delightfully and usual. In fact, it is quite a passes the problem increases in seriousness, and it is only by his fingers well on the centre of
October 11.-The usual week-addition to all this, is probably the the Treasury the nearest acts brainily in comedy but, incastomary thing for a Secretary ly meeting incessantly pegging away at it that we can hope for the application things to announce that
It is notified that the Govern-Board, held this afternoon will now touring There is Thelmar Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Sanitary finest exponent of step-dancing paralled in the United States to of adequate remedies. The Press here is the principal medium for duties
ment proposes to the voicing of public opinion. We should fail in our duty did we will be less next
European liquors urinal at the chair coolies shelter aries with a good deal of deeply heard to advantage both in solo public life as soon as his term.
convert the doubtless furnish our contempor- Lawn, her high soprano voice i not keep this burning question well to the fore. It is one that they were last.
disappear altogether from affects every section of the community and every individual living to ask whether Hongkong is owner or occupier in the im the earnest attention of the Board, and a dainty touch of whimsy.
One is tempted trough closet and urinal. If any house drains and urinals received Mabelle Laurie with a roguish eye filled that office under
at the Peak into a water-flushed interesting "padding" Latrines, and concerted work. here. Now, this problem is not one that has sprung up in a day. getting more teetotal, for the mediate vicinity of such site as usue!
of office has expired. It has been with us for years, though its acuteness has become more money expected next year is put objects to such erection, such
Lyman J. Gage, who marked in quite recent times. We had hoped, long ere this, for down at $6,000 less than was objection must be sent in writing
Pre- some sign of Government action; we are still waiting. Not that we received this. On the other hand. to the Colonial Secretary so as to
When she lands in a new place.
sidents McKinley and Roosevelt,. overlook the point that the opening up of new areas is bound to there is anticipated a greater reach his office not later than of the improvement in the ster-accomplished
the mercury skips up
went straight from Washington until have a beneficial effect. But, after all, the benefits to accrue from sale of Chinese liquor, less money Friday, the 7th November, 1919.
the stars begin to
to the presidency of the United melt. consequence There is Vera Pain a remarkably
States Trust Company. such developments will not be felt for a very long time yet. It is from Money Changers' licences,
His precisely this point of urgency upon which we would lay special less money from the consumption
ling value of the dollar, a few amazingly dexterous toes and nice made a similar passage to the dancer, with successor, Mr. Leslie M. Shaw, emphasis.
of opiam, more money Just over three months
reducing the prices of the goods that make the beart grow fonder. followed at the Treasury by Mr. are legs that end in a froth of frills Presidency of Carnegie Trust from Owing to strikes ago, the Officer Administering Pawnbrokers' the Government made a statement in the Legislative Council money from Prospecting Licences sailed from that port on Septem- despite the con5dent predictions herself, but what she
licences, lese Francisco, the ss.
San which were raised some months Shirley Cocte looks far too young G. B. Cortelyou, who had been Company. Mr. Shaw was "Colombia" ago, owing to the exchange.to be running about Asia by one of the most active leaders concerning a part of this housing problem, which, to use his in the New Territories, more ber 27th, instead of September of our Colonial Treasurer, Mr. she own words, appears now to have reached
stage where money from Stamp Duties, more 20th. It is also likely that the s.s. Don't Remember Mitchell-Innes, delightfully amusing little lady House Mr. Cortelyou became definite action can take the place of mere proposals." then explained that a big sum
"Venezuela" will be delayed for falling to twenty three pence. Launch
of the Republican party. When of money had been secured licences and less from junk the same reason. The s.s. "West
a Mr. Roosevelt left the White from the shipping. control scheme, and stated that the licences, an explanatory note Inskip" will probably leave San Secretary of State had authorised the expenditure of some to the last-named estimate read. Francisco on October 25th, 8.5,
and can do all kinds of funny president of the Consolidated. of it in the erection of housing accommodation for persons ing" most of the trade done by West Caddoa" October 30th, 8.3. has been fairly active during the wherever she goes. Steve Laurie things. Miss Madge Griffith is of the British
a beautiful and clever girl who Ges Company of New York, and October 11.-The freight market smiles her way to all hearts dropped out of politics. naturo of this accommodation junks is now taken was mentioned as being flats, to be put up in Kowloon, available steamers."
over by West Conob" November 1st, 8.5. past fortnight and rates, with ais admittedly one of the finest both for those who wished to run an establishment with their
"West Vaca" November 10th. own servants and for
very few exceptione, remain firm, dancers ever seen out East. To contemporary, the Scots were those provided as well. That the scheme had been decided upon was
who wanted dining facilities PRAISE WHERE DUE.
As pointed out in a London obvious from references made to the preparing of plans, and Mr. to be forecasted on is only a tithe obtaining money under false members of the A.D.C. had arrang novelties.
And the above list of matters before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with A Chinese was to-day charged
gether with Vera Päin, he will long ago promised the restoration THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Severn further added that the success of the scheme would have an of what officials have had to do pratences from a women.
October 12.--The Hongkong dancing and other new dance from them by Edward I, yet it give special exhibitions of Jazz of the Coronation Chair taken important bearing on the policy of the Government in the future, we have only selected items from complainant Strange to say, however, this approved scheme was not even one department. There is no doubt on
The ed to delight playgoers with a
Bill remains at Westminster mentioned in the Budget speech on Thursday last. It may be that that of all people in the world the came to
stated that performance of that brilliant but Moutrie's and the opening night polson III. said he would hand The plans are now open at Abbey. In the same way Na- it is being abandoned by reason of the opposition to the flat system. Civil Servant is about the most ber husband was out. He had has come to grief. We learn that Further new
the 13th defendant somewhat naughty comedy "The is Saturday next when an entirely over the Plantagenet relics housed We should be very pleased to think that this is the cas, provided maligned-he is the hutt of every two letters which he eald were the charming young lady who follow next week and a complete in 1866, became Premier for the
ber: house, when Arabian Nights". The enterprise. the money ear-marked for the purpose is to be utilised in the con- man's grouse. In common with for her husband, and he said that was cast for the "Gutta Percha change of programme will be third time he reminded
new "edition" will be staged.
at Fontevrauit, but they hava not struction, at an early dete, of other types of accommodation. The all other people we have cot it she gave him 20 cents he would Girl" has been compelled through given each night.
"editions". will yet arrived. When Lord Derby. Becretary of State has authorised the spending of this shipping hesitated to "pitch in" at him give them to her. She gave unforseen circumstances to sur money on housing accommodation, and immaterial to him whether flats bungalows or semi-detached houses shall he just as keen to do so again away. Yesterday defendant re-
we presume, it will be when we felt justified and we the 20 cents
the Emperor of his are erected. A statement on this aspect of the question, which should things, in our opinion, turned
pledge. he went render her part.
but to
effect. particularly affects the British community, would be very welcome, warrant it. But to always blame letters. This time her husband
"If you insist on the fulfilment of my and we trust that Unofficial members will, at the next meeting of and never praise is a manifestly was
again with two
promise," he was toid, "the relies the Council, endeavour to get at the bottom of this mater...
will be transferred to England, Hia Excellency the Governor admitted, in his Budget speech, bulky estimates before us has the man arrested.
unfair game, and a perusal of the took
at home and be
but I hope you will release me, that many important questions had not been dealt with, but he demonstrated that they have only was remanded in Police custody the letters, and had pleaded for some measure of indulgence because of the fact that he been produced after a great deal till Monday to find the man who
The people of Fontevrault raised Defendant
such a storm of protest when I had only recently arrived here, adding that some time must elapse of hard work and careful search gave him the lettera.
talked of removing them that I before he could place definite proposals before the Council on ing.. It says something for the
thought better of it." The fam- these issues. Possibly the bouse-building question is included in ability of these men who estimate,
oas Abbey now serves as a convict these. If an, it would appear to be a safe inference that is that Hongkong's Budget has
prison, but visitors are admitted ExorBenty pensers to look personally into it before endorsing the generally come out on the right
M. C. L. Baziar-Government the recumbent effigies--dressed to the vaults Here are stored proposals drawn up before his arrival. That may be all to the good, side. When good work has been
House-2 to 7 p.m. for it opens the door to the possibility of even better arrangements done it should not always be been
în rogal when-of Henry II. and being made. We would respectfully impress on His Excellency, allowed to pass unnoticed, and so Supreme Court arising out of the
Coronet Theatre-3.15 and 9.15 | his wife Klesnor; their sonK however, the extremely urgent need there is for action. Things it is that we very pleasingly refer affairs of the Opium Combine.
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Richard Codr-de-Lion. and cannot go on much longer without a crisis being reached unless to the Colony's prepared estimates, The amount claimed is quite sub-
Isabel, widow of King John. definite action takes the place of mere proposals." So we trust for they contain in themselves a stantial-nearly $400,000-and it
When the Plantagenet tombs that the Government will soon state its policy on this our biggest compliment to the men
were desecrated during the ReignTM problem and, without further ado, proceed to get to work on it.
who is stated that an even larger sum
Coronet Theatre.15 and 9.5 to Terror the monks managed to comp.led them.
~ might ultimately be at stake.
conceal the statues adorning them. They are fine specimens of medieval workmanship,
race. The
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INTERESTING LITIGATION, Bome interesting litigation has commenced in. H. M.
FORGETFULNESS. October 11-In
of the local storekeepers
THE FREIGHT MARKET.
HONGKONG FINANCES.
The financial statement for the month of June, 1919, is issued by the Hongkong Treasury:- Balance of Assets "and Liabilities on -31st May, 1919, ...$6,734,034.82 Revenue from lat to
Expenditure
30th June, 1919,... 1,395,766.94 8,129,801,76 from 1st to 30th June, 1919,
Balance
knows. She
There is
knows
is
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
TO-MORROW.
1,444,764.19
.$6,685,037.57
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