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NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE SHIPPING CONTROVERSY.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
The s.s. Dunera arrived to-day from Bombas etc. with 90 saloou! passengers and 2,300 tons of general cargo.
THE FOOL DOTH THINK HE IS The question of ships leaving WISE, DUT THE WISE MAN KNOWS Hongkong ill-conditioned in the HIMSELF TO BE A FOOL-Shakes matter of life-saving appliances peare. has, we are glad to note, brought forth protests by two masters of vessels engaged in the river trade that amount to an assertion that any complaint is fatuous. In ano her column of to-day's edition will be found a letter on the sub- A dinner dance is to take place ject by "Yet Another British Ship at Wiseman's Cafe this evening. master". We say we are glad, the inclusive charge for dinner to вее this dissent from and dance being $2 what we said before because, it gives
15 opportunity to Yesterday's health return state, and we hope in a manner shows two fatal cases of gastro that will not be mistakem exactly enteritis and one fatal occurrence what it is that we, in company of enteric. all being Chinese. with not a few shipmasters, de- finitely assert. First of all let us The catering contract for St. correct our correspondents, for Andrew's Ball on Friday, 28th they are badly in need of it. The November, has been awarded to writer of the original letter did the Hongkong Hotel Company. not make a wholesale condemna- tion of Government Surveyors The total output of the Kailan and shipmasters. He merely Mining Administration's mines pointed out a lack of provision, for the week ending 11th October. and that is a vastly different amounted to 69,703 tons and the thing. Our to-day's correspond- sales during the period to 69,982
авте of tons.
the
enr mentions three particular steamers, and
we take opportunity to tell The Hongkong
1894.
LOCAL CHARITY.
Q
HONGKONG TWENTY- SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT
FIVE YEARS AGO.
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for week ending October 22, 1894)
THE DOLLAR. October 15: The rate of the Dollar, on demand today, is 2s. 18. M.
DE PAUL.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. ·
The so-called Norwegian sardine is really a sprat (Clupea
The Report of the Committee of sprattus), which is known as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul brisling in Norway. Consul H. C. A. Damm reports that a
says —
The Central Council have much pleasure in submitting their Annual Report for the year. cading 31st, August, 1919.
The Balance on hand on the 31st. August, 1918, was:
In the Bank (Current Ale) $ 79. In the Bank (Fixed Deposit) 1,000.00 In Cash
11.49
for the year under review were as The Receipts and Expenditure
THE HONG KONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. of members tamed up at the October 15-A gool number Butts, last Saturday afternoon to compete for the hort Range Cup follows:-.. and Spoons and the weather being very favourabl, the shoot- ing was, generally speaking, well Balance 31/8/18 above the average. Colonel Donations Jerrard carried off the Cup.
SANITARY BOARD MEETINGS. October 17-At a meeting of the Sanitary Board to be held to-morrow the Colonial Surgeon will move That from this date the Board will revert to the Government practice of holding its meetings that it never has Gazette contains the Peruvian once a fortnight." been asserted that any of these Passport Regulations and con-
A MILITARY MEASURE three boats do leave Hongkong ditions of General Licence to overcrowded.
CRITICISED. His reference to trade with Arabia. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which required
October 18-It is announced them to forward their names and addresses with communications admits that the number of boats/forms us that the Government / Brigade has received instructions
that the 2nd. The Colonial Secretariat in-
Battalion Rifle
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. HONGKONG.
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him
decreased river trade is equally shy of the point.
has decreased
He himself
traffic. In our comments on this given, owing to the rise in the matter we have no: called down price of rice, to subordinates, will Government Surveyors; we have cease from November 1. only pointed out that there exists
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RECEIPTS.
Conference Collections Church Collections Bazaar 1918-Gross
...$ 1,734.78
1.213.
RA
all herring or mussa (Clupea inferior grade of sardine, and an harengus) is also packed as an intermediate grade is a mixture being washed and salted in brine. of brisling and mussa. The fish are carefully smoked in ovens about 30 minules, instead of being cooked by the French
moved, the fish are packed by hand process of treating the sardine proper. The heads are then re-
in olive oil, and the caps first hermetically sealed, are sterilised by heating.
The Orloff diamond which has disappeared from the Russian 106.10 imperial sceptre has, like the 137.20-Koh-i-noor, a strange history, of
ceipts
9,310.02 (less donations included above) Lusitano Recreation Club Annual Sports: Sale of Programmes
Interest
EXPENDITURE.
which there are several versions. It once formed the eye, of an idol in a temple near Trichinopoly, wbence & French deserter from: the garrison stole it, carried it to Malabar, and said it to a ship's 7380 captain for 2,000 guineas. A Jew 125.86 next bought it for 12,000 guineas and sent it for sale to Catherine the Great. That sagacious lady would not buy, but left it to a courtier, from whom she received it as a gift. He was ennobled Orloff, to the jewel.
$12.927.75.
(including Provisions. Clothing.
Shoes, Bent Education, Medical as- sistance and Passage money, etc.) Christmas
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men to proceed to Hongkong Relief to the Poor 4.03. for his pains, and gave his name, early this month to join the 1st Battalion. A London evening contemporary remarks that no His Excellency the Governor army can be efficient while has appointed Dr. George Ernest measures of this kind are resort- Aubrey to be a Member of theed to, they demoralise the Home Midwives Board during the battalions and destroy the object absence of Dr. Robert Maclean for which everyone has been Gibson or until farther notice. working,
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919.
action.
J.
A CARPENTERS' STRIKE October 18:-The whole of the
Poor
Gifts to the
War Reliei (Fes. 1,000). Bazuar 1915-Expense Special Treats to the Poor
in honour of Victory
A lone male passenger sud- denly found himself in the way of rapid cross-fire of light but loud feminine chat (remarks a Daily Chronide writer.) For nearly half an hour the four cor- ner ladies kept up so lively a con.. 2.091.82 versation that the mere man sum- med them up as rattlepates. As 464.00 the train slowed down at the tar- 5.254.04
149.00
→33,65
OUR POSITION RESTATED.
What was alleged in the very first letter and what is alleged now is
Among the passengers arriving that boats do leave in the Colony by the Empress of Hongkong (not necessarily for Japan yesterday were Lieut. Col. members of the "Chips Frater Balance in hand 31 19g
minus, the talk veered unaccoun- the West River but even some Crisp, Col. J. R. Young, Mr. Mrs.nity have been out du strike,
tably to tragedy, and in a few times there) overcrowded, and and the Misses de Journel, Mr. for higher wages, during the past that the life-saving apparatus on Gorge Grimble, Mr. S.
A12 27.75 moments the man found himself board is
trenty-four hours, Last night they
in the midst of a brave company or in good enough condition to
not adequate enough Chinches and Mr. Sin Tak-fan.
held a mass-meeting at Kennedy
of women The total receipts have greatly
whom the war Town and passed a resolution exceeded those of previous year ones.
had robbed of meet an emergency with any
their loved hope of
The fortnightly whist drive was condemning the avarice of the The large increase, which was due times." one confessed,
I feel it horribly some- It would held at the Kowloon Naval Depot master carpenters and finished up principally to the unprecedented suc-no use being miserable, and he 2 vers bold shipmaster st evening and
but it's who would give that
by swearing by all the big and resulted as
ress of the Bazaar held in Decem died a hero's death," state follows:-1st, Mr. Old; 2nd, Mr.ittle gods in the Man Mo tem- ment a denial in foto.
When Barrett; 3rd. Mr. Dilks: 4th, Mr.ple that will hold out until they our correspondent says he would Rowe 5th, Mr. Wright; hidden get a tea per cent. rise all round. like to see a reduction of life-number, Mr. Smith; booby, Mr. saving gear just for the sake of Chapple. The next drive takes deck room we are not tempted to place on November 7th. treat the statement seriously. Can he deny that a great many
be
Success.
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ber last, has enabled the Society
to extend its sphere of activity in every way and greatly to increase the INJECTING MORPHINE.
amounts spent in relief to the poor, October 18-For illegally in-as the following figures will shew. jecting morphine into the person Amount spent in Eelief: Playing in the Golf Champion of Li Lok in a divas in First February quarter of the appliances which he ship at Fanling yesterday after-Street, Wong Hing was fined $25 May quarter. alleges encumbers the decks of noon, Lieut.-Col. Coles defeated
at the Police Court this morning. these steamers are antiquated. Mr. S. H. Dodwell, after a very and can he positively assert that close game by 1 up. The result
with the alternative of six weeks on of river steamers things are in was rather the reverse of what
imprisonment. 3 perfect condition? Also can was expected. and Lieut. Col. he deny that ships holding no Coles now qualities to play Mr. passenger licence sail cut of
B. Stewart, who defeated Hongkong with not the slightest Major Leslie Smith on Wednes inspection of life appliances? We hardly think so. due to
saving day. The fraal over 36 holes is take place to-morrow
August quarter ......... While in the currect quar-
ter the sum of
UNNECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. has been spent in the one October 19. The wholly 30- month of Sept. alone. necessary precautions taken by During the period under review the Chinese authorities to prevent the Society has contributed to the a Japanese Armada capturing maintenance of $7 families Canton are, we learn, causing prising 10 persons, and has also considerable inconvenience to the
com-
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•
A little grey cat chased by boys tumbled headlong into the front garden, and the maid who saw it shut the gate. A doctor who joined the group of sympathisers 665.30 said the cat had fainted. "Lots
of daimals faint," he said.
*Cats 191.90 and dogs, and even more stolid 1,350.50 animals, keel over in moments of
fear or exhaustion. Fowls faint, 703. tco, and birds. In fact, it is hard to find any living creature that doesn't, in particularly crual circumstances." The occurrence, says & writer in Tea-Time Gos
have almost all seen a stray bird sip," in the Stur, is more frequent Further, can he deny that boats (Sunday), when a close fight is steamers plying on the Pear assisted these poor people to the ex-in a bedroom, after frantic efforts than most of us suspect. We river. The Canton night boats tent of $641.59 in their house rent to break through a window. tam- The life-boats they carry there is
difficulties. At a general meeting of the vessels going to Centon are com- generally
As for the education of the chil-It recovers quickly in your hand, [ble down in a heap "on the floor. nothing more than Hongkong University Medicalpelled to stop at Chun Pee till dren of the poor the Society is now but no doubt it has had More than once since the Armistice was concluded have com- with
one keg of fresh ments appeared in our columns advocating the reversion of the Eiscuit added?
water, Society, held yesterday, Messrs. daylight where a Chinese torpedo looking after 66 children providing authentic faint. not SO much Defence Corps to a voluntary basis. In his Budget speech. His true. What we are asking for the two best papers read last through the channel as far as spent in Aug. and $277.56 in Sept. chambers who failed to make
These things are Cheang were awarded prizes for anchored
Cheah Toon-sie and Chean Kim- pilot, supplied by the gunboat same with school fees, books, shoes, Excellency the Governor made mention of the services rendered is that there shall be a revision Session, which were kindly pre-
there, takes them etc. Under this head $249.26 was by the Corps during the war, but he was silent as to the intentions of local legislation so that those sented by Mr. Ho Kwong. Mr. of the Government regarding the future status of this auxiliary officials whose duty it is to pass force. We trust, therefore, that at the Budget debate on Thursday next, one of car Unofficial members will seek some definite informa- matters being put on a satisfactory a vessel out can insist on all these tion on the point. There is a general feeling that there is absolutely basis. no justification for continuing the Corps on its present basis, and with that opinion we are in complete agreement. Compulsion is irksome at any time; it is doubly so when the need for it no longer exists. The young manhood of the Colony has no desire to shirk necessary obligations or responsibilities, but it resents forced service in times like the present.
THE DEFENCE CORPS,,
leave the Port for destinations up anticipated. and down the coast and that in
HUMOUR AND TRAGEDY,
Then
that
are the greatest sufferers.
San Pan Chao.
SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS.
2.9
*
*
an
Some years ago a student in
Yeooh Houe-soo received the Ho
In view of the large increase in proper progress was advised to.
the subsequent discussions. Mr. prize for distinguishing himself in
the regular monthly expenditure, take green tea to stimulate his October 20.-The first consign. the extensive schemes now under tired brain and keep him awake. Ng Cheong-yew read a very in-
ment of subscription griffins for consideration-for providing a busi. at night while studying (remarka our next race meeting-15 inness education for the more advanc-advice given he made considerable the Morning Post.) Acting on the teresting paper at that meeting number--will probably entitled "Some anatomical Facts to-morrow.
arrive ed children of the poor, and the Rumour says that ever increasing appeal for more and ball he saw a big, peculiar-look- progress. On evening in the. concerning Man's Assumption of there are the Erect Position.
two regular flyers still more assistance towards "the ing man about to go upstairs.. amongst them. We shall see! payment of house rent, the balance politely stood aside, and saw him now on hand will probably be only go up. Following up he wes sufficient for a few months. The amazed to find that the very Committee therefore hope that the solid-looking individual had dis- Public will assist them at their forth- appeared, for there was nowhere coming Bazaar, to take place on 7th.up there where he could have gone without being seen. He mention- years, so as to enable them to con- who advised the green tea and tinue and if possible extend, the was informed that the curious, various undertakings enuinerated in looking man was imaginary and this report
of the Society, the following special black.
the result of taking foo much to the Poor, which is the first care always be
Besides the relief given regularly green tea. Green tea should ta'en doon" with
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THE SUN CO.
$749.00 of Kowloon for the support of the "
tainly do make one smile some- The doings of the Chinese cer- It was the Military Service Ordinance which turned our former there is sometimes tragedy as well notifications respecting the per-
times, only the pity of it is that Volunteers into conscripte-for that is what they now are--and that mixed up with what one smiles at. centage of total value due to With reference to previous Ordinance is effective until the expiration of six months from the Take a glance at the cables we Colonial labour and materials conclusion of the war. Legal niceties are involved in that phrase, published yesterday. and it is within the power of the Governor-in-Council to determine treats us to a descriptive screed rezer ed as the produce or manu CREDITORS AGREE ON PAY- December, as liberally as in other ed the circumstance to the friend the date on which, for the purposes of this Ordinance, the war ended. from the Times relating to some facture of some part of the Reuter which will entitle goods to be But why quibble over little technicalities like this? The war has, aeroplanes for all practical purposes, been over for far more than six months: Vimy people are sending out imported into the United King-
MENT BY INSTALMENTS. yet the conscriptive character of the Corps is still retained. Why, and
the Vickers-Empire and consequently to be we should like to know, is the Defence Corps being treated different-quises China will assume
Over two hundred creditors of ly from the Police Reserve in this matter? The latter Force has been entirely different aspect as
the writer solili-don under general licence, it is the Sun Company. Limited, disbanded, although it was obviously called into being for the same world factor"; our Shanghai cor reduce the percentage from 75 to to decide whether they should an notified that His Majesty's attended the meeting that was reason which induced the Government to alter the status of the respondent telle us of a projected: 63 per cent. This reduced per- agree to a system of payment by a Government have decided to called at the registered offices former Volunteers. If one can be disbanded, wh not the other? wireless telephone service be- centage is to be based on the instalments. The occasion which made desirable the formation of the Police tween the larger cities: from value of the goods at the factory Reserve and the conversion of the Volunteers into conscripts has the same source we learn that and not on the fo.b. value.
grants were made:- passed. Then why is the objectionable Military Service Ordinance Wong Yi-tang, one of chosen
The meeting lasted for over two For Christmas. Gifts to the not repealed without further ado?
hours, and finally it was.
Poor un- peace-makers, has flown from There are ample grounds on which this question might be Shanghai; that Wong Ya-tong, before Mr. R. O. Hutchison, with accept payment of their deposits To the Central Council of raised at next Thursday's Council meeting, for the Estimates the Chief Delegate. is permitted unlawful possession of 82 taels of and accounts by eighteen equal
animously agreed to inform the For Special treats to the A Chinese was to-day charged, Directors that the creditors would
aged Poor, men and women, irrep- Poor in honour of Victory 404.00pective of race, nationalty or creed. include a sum of $71,481 ear-marked as expenditure on the Defence to seek refuge in Nanking: that raw Corps for the coming year. This is a slightly decreased sum when a "People's Peace Society has Quinebaug.
An excellent plot of ground and sub- compared with the approved Estimates for the current twelve confessed to recreative bomb- stable
the Society in Paris for opium, op board the a.. monthly instalments.
stantial buildings have been secured months, which totalled $82,848. But many of the items are the same, throwing; and that some school at 11 am. yesterday he
the relief of the devastat- A Chinese con-
The Secretary of the Company,
on advantageous terms through the including the following-Camp expenses, $24,000 (an unnecessary pupils are still proud possessors er
ed areas in France ...Fes. 1,000.00 generosity, of the Government, while evidenca that said he would refer the matter. waste of money, we consider); ammunition, $6,667; grant to Mounted of truant-playing freedom. Who Quinnebaug when he saw de Tuesday next to
to the Board of Directors and
(Thanks are expressed to donora, a sum of $5,000.00 has been collected Section, 83,000; equipment and upkeep of arms, $1,700. This would dares to say that China is not, fendant sitting by a box. He told views of the creditors to the ot
search duty on board the another meeting will be held onymous and otherwise, for con specially to meet the initial ex- imply that the Government either intends keeping the Corps on its progressing? She is going to have the defendant to open the box, as Directorate.
convey the tributions to the funds of the perses of the undertaking. The present basis or expects that there will be no sul stantial reduction roplanes before national roads, he wanted to search it. Defendant The largest creditor is a firm that the Society is able to adnounce premated; it is therefore a source in ife size if the voluntary basis should be reverted to, though we and completed railways, and produced
world-wide work of the Little Sisters" Finally, it is with great pleasure is well-known and universally sp notice that the amount set aside for uniform, including boots, is cut wireless telephones before the person, and opened down from $10,000 to half that strm. However that may be, we say establishment of accredited au- Defendant said that he came 000 and the liabilities $2,500,000, closely associated with that of the here also, where they will find much A key from his which has to get $40,000. The that the Little Sisters of the Poor, of satisfaction to know that they unhesitatingly that it is high time, the present Military Service thority. She cannot get peace so from
the box. assets of the Company are $5,000, whose work is in all countries. so will soon begin their work of charity Ordinance were repealed and the men given the option of serving peace-seekers throw a few bombs and was on his way to Swatow. agreed to the instala.ent system at the invitation of the President or not, just as it pleasee them. Even if conscription were ever around. Really, one ought to The box belonged to another man, for the refund of their money General and with the approval i
Canton to "Hongkong, As the creditors have now Society of St. Vincent de Paul, are, scope for their activities. Justified, it has outlived its necessity. And we cannot but think preserve a sense of humour when who had asked him, to carry it. there is no likelihood of the com that to spend close on twenty thousand pounds per annum on the looking at China, but there's Mr. Hutchison fined him $500, or pany ceasing to operate in Hong- his Lordship Bishop Pozzoni, about Farce is, to put it very mildly, an unreasonable use of public funds. tragedy in it too..
gave
three months,
was
kong.
to establish a house on the outskirts
J. M. Alves, President F..J. Bower,
J. M. S. ROSARIO, Secretary.