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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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NOTES & COMMENTS.
A PERNICIOUS-SUGGESTION.
In an otherwise thoughtful speech, the Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Farr gave expression yesterday to one idea that strikes as as being as pernicious as anything possibly could be. It was in reference to the Defence Corps. Having agreed that the dis-
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
THE METEORITE.
TACT IS GOLDEN-YOT SILENCE. BY "ROBT. MACWHIRTER." the expeness should have been
return
Yesterday's heath shows one fatal case of diphtheria the victim being a Chinese.
Aye, there's something about a Sunday that's funny-no' funny in an English sense, but carious, aye, that's the word: I baliere if I woke up beside the Grand Llama of Tibet, I should know it was Sunday by-well, I just don't
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending 18th October, amounted to 82,145 tous and the sales during the period to 83,047 exactly know how-but I would know all the same. I believe it's smell. There's a something about the smell of a Sunday that I never make a mistake about, no matter how muddled head felt the night before.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Harman left on Home leave yesterday. is in the Mr. Harman, who Chinese Maritime Customs, has
bandment and re-organisation of the Corps were desirable, he went on to say:-"It would also be a move in the right direction if employers would insect a clausstons. in agreements that young men coming, out from Home to their service are expected to join the local Defence Corps." If that is a serious contention of Mr. Parr's most amazing and deleterious we have yet heard in connection with local defence. For anyone, when engaging a man for civil employ- ment, to express an expectancy that the employee should join the Defence Corps would be
mr As a
eh?"
"But, my goodness, Robbie, as ye say yourself, we never even got a drink for our money,"
pay for, the honour of wearing my part I think they fall your frock coat and a tile hat on clear of the earth altogether but a week day. Maybe ye thought Mac opined different naturally. That last one, says he, just landed collected by public subscription this side of D'Aguilar. Of course, mînd 'ye, he hadna' his specs_on at the time so it wadna be just exactly fair to misjudge the man, but all same I couldna' help but remark to myself that the failure wi bis Volunteer distance judg ing practices wasna' altogether a He must matter for surprise. have used instinct instead of his eyes and being short- sighted, in more ways than one, what could ye expect? Meteorites, said he, were quite Oh," says I, as like as no common. No, he had never saw but his uncle once Chater just signed a cheque for one the whole shooting match and knew a man whose wife's brother wrote it off as a bad debt but thie had once heard a man say that
That may be, Mac, but don't forget that ye were introduced to the Governor and shook hands w & E.GM.G. "That's surely worth $7.30 is't no?"
"But I never heard the like," teetered be;" what happened in former years?"
wa frankly say that it is the not been Home for well over boy I always coupled Sunday w/time I dinna' blame him for only he'd lived beside a man whose
twenty years.
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a
one in a museum on the Con-
the smell of black-striped pepper-paying his whack. Folks that cousin's husband had once seen mint balls, sheep's head broth, will have public meetings maun musty Bibles and decayed air.be prepared to put their hands in tinent. Say that again Mac, says I, that description sounds more. their pocket you know." A Sunday smell is a smell all its own and even after all the years
like the genealogy of David than anything I ever heard, and by the same token ye'd believe the Bible on Thomas Paine being put in the Chamber of Horrors just because he made a shot at straightening out a tangle by substituting reason for blind faith.
But Mac only glowered" and kept sucking the sweet end of long grass. "It was that damned
tion that was at the bottom of it." he remarked.
of rank impertinence, would be port yesterday at noon, and that Sabbatarian days of my boyhood. Constitutional Reform Associa.from cover to cover and yet insist
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I've been in Hongkong that same odour takes me back to the strict Another thing I aye associate Sunday wi' is sitting. Man, the weary hours I've sat on the first of the week. There was never The Japanese flag is much in two guesses about what bit of my evidence, to-day, which is the Sunday suit
first. birthday of the Emperor.
The If it wasua sitting in yet?" Japanese Consulate-General will the Kirk, it was sitting in
wore
"Aye, true for you Mac and here's hoping they'll stay at the bottom. That reminds me, have you paid your yearly subscription
Mac, says 1, if that's the kind of evidence re would accept as
perpetuating the very militarism that the past war was supposed to ference with men's liberties that would very soon cause trouble. We hardly think that Mr. Parr seriously thought out the import of what he said. In opposition we will place what we know to be be closed throughout the day, and the parlour wit a "good" book so soft. Ye know as well as I do wouldna' like to be in the the popular demandThat the in honour of the Emperor Mr. E. in your hand, rebellion in your that I'm going home in the prisoner's dock and have you Ordinance constituting the De Suzuki, the Consul-General, will heart and an itch in your feet. fence Corps be at once repealed to at home at the Hongkong And no a cheep out o' your Spring." and that there be provision made for 8 Volunteer Corps on lines similar to those before
MeNICOLL.-On October 29th, at the Peak Hospital, to Mr. the war, with every man free and Mrs, L. D. McNicoll, a daughter.
DEATH.
STEWART October 25th, Samuel Herbert, infant son of the Rev, A. D. and Mrs. Stewart.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1919.
ANTIQUATED BUDGET METHODS.
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to join or not, just as he wishes.
NOTHING COERCIVE.
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Hotel from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
ac-
know what good the war products, etc; raw cotton; reed bas done. The promise of and rattan; electrical toys and H. E. Major-General Ventris to appliances.
consider the
be
we all want.
matter of the
Under the auspices
head or it was "ile" and packed
the
"No." says he. "Dinna' talk
her!
was
to the existence of meteorites then all I can say is that I
formenst me wearing a wig and a judicial frown. Mind ye, I don't for a moment doubt their exist- едсе. All that I say is that I
About
came
a respectable distance. "Aye," says I. "a white heat as like as no."" Take care how re handle it. Robbie." save he I'm no going to touch it," says
has a claim on things like this.
I never was a good hand at off to bed, chop chop. Man, they descriptive stuff but man, the were terrible, yon days. And Peak's fine at this time of year.... A Trade Inquiry List issued by the American Consulate General Fet when I think of it, habit's There's some folks can rave and never was in the vicinity when hard to kill. I suppose it's write reams about the Spring, but one fell, nor did I ever hear of Hongkong, shows that American heredity, for even now I canna for my part I've got to like the anyone being struck wi' one.
"Man," says he, “dinna haver. concerne are seeking Hongkong bear to hear the Macpherson back-end of the year best. Kind We want nothing coercive connections as listed below weans clattering about the house of sad, aye, but just in keeping We're all liable to get what's
automobile conscriptive all that sort Duplicators;
on a Sabbath, like's they were at w oor time of life, I think. Ony-coming to us and we never know of thing should have been put cessories; import and export, behind with the war. If it has automobile and cycle accessories, fairing and off the leash till bow, as I was saying, the stats the minute......." Wit that Mac midnight. And yet there's were shining fine, which brought let one yell out of his head and I not been, then we should like to steel, metals, chemicals, food
about the me in mind o' one o' my sisters heard something bounce off the something restful. Macpherson's house
when we were young, looking small of his back, hit a tree and Sunday; that is, if it wasna' for into the pantry, and then running then run down the gutter. For to Mother ab at three shakes of a lamb's the sitting. Aye, no doubt about into the kitchen
fine tail Mac hadna' a word to say, telling her whet a it, we live in & sitting age. Some and
night it
and and then wi' his eyes nearly ly Defence Corps when the new At the Police-Court to-day, a thousands of years ago, we went starry regiment arrives is reassuring. Chinese was charged, before Mr. calling on all fours. Gradually maybe it would mean skating ing out on his cheeks, be gasped, but nothing less than the complete R. E. Lindsell, with stealing a as time went on, through family on the morn. I can mind Mother "Lord, Robbie, what was that?"
me," 'says I. reversal of the compulsory status Japanese, dog, belonging to Mr. squabbles mostly, we had to stand was at a icss for a minute or two."Search will satisfy. The idea of local Kenoch of Kowloon.
Defendant up on our hind legs so as to have for it was raining heavens hard at meteorite, as like as like as no defence. especially seeing how said he bought the dog from a greater scope to swing our arms the time, so she tell't the wee rin "It's a judgment," says he. "Well isolated Hongkong is, is coolie for $350. Sergeant Moore about. Once we got the knack no to blather but say her verse you should be the best judge. Yesterday was a regular field-day for local craters, as theviously good, but it is essential stated that the dog was found in of steering around in an upright and get to bed. But faith she says 1. you felt it. But let's delivered in the Legislative Council, strikingly indicated to the has to be voluntary. If to retain pointed the defendant out as the paws appearance of the Telegraph, with over two pages of speeches that any citizen defence service a bird shop, and the shop-keeper position, it was easy, for then both wasna to be done and persisted look for it Layway." Wi' that were free to poke,, feed in her story, so Father, patient we set on down the road, Mac's public. There was uninterrupted speechifying for almost exactly and guard Hongkong is going to man who sold it to him. Mr. and pay bills wi.' But nowadays old soul that he was, took her ben teeth chittering the while to beat two hours. Nine speeches were delivered in all, five of which were Official utterances. So even in the realm of oratory, the Official Cost the sacrifice of civilian Lindsell sentenced the defendant we've got back to the sitting the kitchen to get at the bottom of the band and all the Hieland
freedom within it, then better to six weeks' hard labour. Majority asserted itself again! Almost every conceivable subject would it be for us all to pack up
position again and only use the mystery. Wi' that the wea yin superstition in him coming to ten yards our feet for the cultivation of perked up, opened the pantry door the boil. was talked about from hawkes licences to the League of Nations,and go-Home, for the value-of
on the and the end of it all was that the Government's Budget proposals liberty is something that cannot
of the corns and the castigation of and proudly pointed to a string ofurther on" we were agreed to without an adverse vote, whereafter the members, be reckoned in intrinsic wealth. Ministering Children's League, recalcitrant chair coolies. A man herring, the phosphorous of which object. "It's white," says Mac realising that the tiffin hour was past, left over the rest of the We have chosen to speak as "Chin Chin, Hongkong" is to be sent out here on a five years' shining in the dark, had deluded from. business for consideration to-day. For the benefit of those who plainly as this because we want staged at the Theatre Royal to engagement can always count on
Mac's a great hand wi' the have not had the time or inclination to wade through the lengthy to let people who think like Mr.morrow night. This specially spending three of them in a sitting speeches, let it be explained that concurrence in the Government Parr know that not only has written attraction is being put on posture; in a ricksba, chair.or a stars, as the well-thumbed pages club. Aye, we mostly sit all day. on Astronomy in his Encycl proposals did not mean an absence of criticism. Far from it. Soine there to be no conscription for by the Prize Packets and leading Sir in the evening at the pictures Brit can testify. What troubles firmly. **this is a case for the.. of the Unofficial utterances were decidedly biting in character, and local defence, but no coercive amateurs, and is under the the Government were taken to task both for sins of omission and suggestions either. Men have to patronage of H. E. the Governor, or when exercising the eyes at 50-him most, be declares, is that police. Eve heard that the Crown of commission. The official replies were not too convincing, neither
absolutely free to choose. Major General Ventris, Sir Wrocent poker. Sunday is a solid they keep moving about. To try Besides, a coolie was pinched for
day of sit. By the process of and tell him that it's this old is not to be marvelled at, for the Unofficials (with the exception of did they cover in an adequate manner all the points raised. That That's Liberty, and that's what Rees Davies, Commodore Garnevolution well soon be able to planet that does the moving has lifting Government ammunition. up here here the other day." and Hon. Mr. Claud Sever, navigate on the seat of our been fruitful for many an argu-
**This'll But Mac never let on. Mr. Shewan) had had the advantage of preparing their speeches,
C.M.G. Booking is at Moutrie's.
Aye, what was that you said ment. I mind once o' trying to whereas the Government spokesmen had to face the music and
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Mac?"What about a daunder clinch a long talk on the subject be something for the Museum,” ** Dis- answer their critics there and then."
We referred editorially a little This brings us to the question upon which we wish to pen a few while ago to the fact that the
to stretch our legs a bit?" says by quoting a bit out of Thomas says he. "Ave," says I.
Paine's "Age of Reason" but covered by Malcolm Macpherson,” words-the procedure followed by our Legislative Council in deal-establishment of the League of PORTUGUESE FINED."
the name Esq. The Peak, Hongkong,' will ing with the Budget. concerning which His Excellency the Governor Nations was not nearly so easy a
"Right Ob, old bean," says I. I when he beard has confessed his surprise. We shall have other opportunities of
don't know what it means, but I of the book, mat, he jumped look fine printed in old English
out clean
of his chair type on nice wee white card thing as some people are prone commenting on the various subjects discussed.
heard an officer, and a grown The plea has to think, and Some recent before been made from Unofficial quarters that the estimates for
man at that, come out wi that as if he's sat on the business end stuck on the outside of the case. Public Works, upon which such a large proportion of the Colony's telegrams contain very striking
in the car one day so I thought of a tack and declared it his firm Be careful o' your fingers Mac,” I'd try it out on Mac. I suppose intention to sever his connection says I when I saw he was making now spent, should be first of all considered by proof of this in one very importeat
the respect. It is
question the Public Works Committee, enlarged for the purpose by of whether the
the allotments at Home wi' the MacWhirters for ever for to lift it. I'll chance it, great self- At the Police Court to-day, a appointing all the Unofficial Councillors to it. The request was reiterated yesterday and, we are glad to note, was sympathically British
governing
of the Portuguese named H. Pereira was gave rise to a lot of them agrical-more if I persisted in realing that says he. Wi' that Mac tickled it a hedgehog. It's dead cold Empire shall be charged, before Mr. R. E. Lindselltural expressions. But Mac he damnable stuff. Mac, like a lot wi his index finger like's it was received by the Government. That is all right so far as Public Works go, but what we should like to see is a reform in the method separately entitled to representa with assaulting a Chinese "boy" never let on, so off we went as, he more, thinks that Paine was an
tion and vote in the Council Defendant stated that, while he said, to stretch our legs. Mine atheist, set such is the irony of it but most awful round," says of giving consideration to the whole Budget. We will explain, for of the League
says he when we got opposite the the benefit of our readers, the line now followed. The estimates of
or whether was away at work, his fiancee could stand a bit of drawing out, that according to his own declar. he wrapping it up in his hankie.
belief in a God. the British Empire awas sewing some clothing. She though I've my doubts abouration, he wrote it to testify bisMan, I believe it's still warm." Arst lamp. "Let's see itonyway," revenue and expenditure are drawn up in official quarters and on whole is to be restricted to one had sore eyes that day, and she nature stretching a point at To be happy in old age says I making a grab at it. No, being submitted to the Legislative Council for the first time they vote. The question is one of the told the "boy" to boil some eggs, in Mac's case, it was only ait
my time o' life, but of course
is necessary that we fair hornie," says he."I found are explained by HE the Governor in the annual Budget speech greatest importance but will be to rub
ор her eyes. Com- Then the Council adjourns for a couple of weeks so that the proposals by no means easy of decision. plainant
and got the Egure of speech, for, as you know, accustom ourselves to objects it first" and wi' that Mac un- **Well, may be digested by the Unofficial members, who a fortnight later Seeing the part the Colonies played eggs, but when be brought them he's just like three yards o' pump that, can accompany the mind covered the meteorite, and found "Nothing deliver themselves of their views, to which the Government Heads in the war they very naturally to her they were cold, so his water as it is. Onyhow, as I was all the way through life, and that it was a golf ball. reply more or less thoroughly and, without further ado, the Council; votes on the Bill. The flaw in the method is that whilst the Co take unto themselves the right of fiancee started to scold him. The saying, off we went and left Mrs. that we taka the rest as good in I'll says he.
pleasure is miserable in old age, to make a song and dance about officials are given a fortnight in which to make up their minds being considered separate and complainant turned to his fiancee, Mac to see to the supper, and take their day. The mere man of surer," says I, but ye don't want
independent countries, although and told her not to scold him, as what they think about the Budget, the officials have to answer the still part of a great British Com- no one in the house did so except: "-Robbie," says he, after we'd and the mere drudge in business it all the same. Throw it away pointe raised, however important, on the spur of the moment; there monwealth. It is quite as her. He also used some language got down the road a bit, "I didna is but little better; whereas
per."No fear," says he, “IF is no opportunity given for studied consideration of the Unofficial natural on the other hand, that which he ought not to have done. want to mention it before her, but natural philosophy, mathematical and let's get back for our sup viewpoint; and, without any consultation between the Governor
continual source of tranquil Qur heus are a bit shy at the and Heads of Departments, the Council has to vote on the Bill right other countries should seek to On returning home, his uncle what do you think o' yon Address and mechanical sciences, are a come in handy for a nest egg. away. Supposing the position were reversed, and the Unofficials make the whole British Empire told defendant all about the fof Welcome Committee charging pleasure, and in spite of the laying the now anyway? were required to reply to the Budget speech immediately it were of their own proposals.
gloomy dogma of priests and of him all over t as one vote, fearing a swaraping affair. Defendant went up to me $7,30 ?"
The complainant and asked him what "What for," I asked. "I didna superstition, the study of these Now what's troubling me is the delivered; it would not be quite fair, would it? The present proce- position constitutes a very case reason he had for using bad notice any bar a: the City Hall. things is the study of the true dure is just as indefensible. We say that it is utterly impossible in of what we previously language to his fiancee. He Where did the money all go to? theology it teaches man to know thought of just where that golfball for the Officials thoroughly to absorb all that the critics say and 10 point out, and demonstrates was pointing his finger at him, "The Lord only knows, but every and to admire the Creator, for the came from at that time of lighte adequately to answer them at the one sitting. We might just as that to this League well expect the Imperial Parliament to pass the second and third Nations idea there has to be away. So be lost his temper says be
of when complainant hit his hand jing bang of us has to stump up. principles of science are in the If it came from Happy Valley it creation, are unchangeable and of would mean a terrible swipe and aa Mac said a devil of a slice readings of the Budget at one sitting of the House of Commons.
The point raised is one of the utmost public importance, since spirit more of give than of lake,
brought a complete frankness, a and struck the complainant.
Does that include every divine origin. Mr. Lindsell Apparently comthing?"
along,wi It, which was the truest I the practice now observed must mean that the opinions of the and a totally new atmosphere of plainant had the worst of it, as
Now that I've got ye to scan that thing he'd said all day." Unofficials are not given anything like the consideration which is trust and toleration. Otherwise, he has had some of his teeth
Aye, even to the shroff's com last paragraph let me tell ye that watched the papers on the Mon- their due. This may or may not suit the Government, but it does as can be very clearly seen, a knocked out.
mission for collecting the money. ye bavna been reading, Maceday and apart from the Golf suit the public. One thing we were particularly glad to note. League of Nations will prove to be Defendant-Yes, your Wor-
Well, says I "what did Whirter but Thomas Faine, and it Final at Fanling the only golfing was that His Excellency thinks the Hongkong system ajust so much talk and nothing else. ship.
is his concluding remarks on the I could see was soms match the ye-expect onyhow? Maybe ye He has been accustomed in Ceylon to the Budget being
Mr. Lindsell:- want you to thought the Government should character of that witty, amorous, Machine Gunners had gotten up examined by a Committee before coming to the Council
pay him $10 as compensation. ha payed it? Ye see Mao," says dissolute, and in turn, melancholy the day before. Now that I think decision, the investigation involving six or seven hours'
Defendant Your worship, if 136 caups be a prominent debauchee Solomon-the son of of it there was no mention of ork every day for five days by Unofficial members. That is The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice I had not struck him as I did, I citizen on the cheap. And serves Dazid. Even if what Paine says where that match took place. away a better masthod than is followed here, and, incident Memorial and Affiliated Hos would have deen in hospital to ye right too. To were among, is untrue, it doesna sound athei-Surely no, it's bevond me al ought to cut out much of the laboured speeches which mark pitale begs to acknowledge with day. The complainant picked up the first to you
it the stical, to me onyhow.
together, though mind ye, deration of the Budget in Hongkong. It fits in with His thanks the following donations to an iron weight to throw at me original committee being a hole Well, let that be as it may. As wouling put it past them. Ony Allency's ideas, which rather implies that our new Governor is the funds of the Hospitale Mr. and I only struck him in self- and corfer“ affair,
Ewas saying, we were daunder how Mac's had lumbago for i believer in thoroughness and in close co-operation between Li Sai Kum, $100, Mr. Lo Cheuk defence was we must have a public meet ing tlor fice and dandy when the last three de
This and Unofficials. Our present system is antiquated and win, $100, Mr. Wong In Cung - Mr. Lindsell - All right then- ing
star Macpherson is quite upset for story., -li makes a mockery of the Braget deba
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