THE GOOD. CITIZEN.
HOW TO DEVELOP CIVIC INSTINCT.
A. M. Drysdale writes in the Daily Chronicles
THE HONGKONG
SCOTTISH HOME RULE.
OLASGOW URGES SELF-DETERMINATION,
a mesting under the auspices of the Scottish Home Rule As- Is there any remedy for calloussociation was held recently at the or indifferent citizenship? What Athenæum, Glasgow, to urge is to be done with the man who self-determination for Scotland.
Mr. William Gallacher, of the complains of the rates and scaffa at the councillors, and yet will Scottish Co-operative Wholesale not accept any share in con-Soeists.presided over a moderate- trolling the rates, or even vote in sized gathering, which was of a his local elections? One would nonparty character. Mr. William chairman of the be glad to be able to suggest some Adamson,
Party. con- Parliamentary Labour form of direct action or scription which might hopefully was to have been present, but he be applied to such cases.
TELEGRAPH.
PÚBLIC AUCTION.
By order of the Mortgagees Mesars, Lammert Bris, have received instructions to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
an FRIDAY
The 21st day of May, 1930.
at 3 p.m.
THURSDAY, MAY 20,
NOTICE.
The
The Management of Hangkong Teləgraph" desires to inform the public that its tariff for advertisements received on and after this date will be increased by 20 per cent.
This increase is rendered im- perative by the constantly grow ing cost of production, the price of paper alone having advanced by 700 per cent daring the past five years.
1920.
NEW ADVERTISEMEMENTS.
NOTICE.
BANK HOLIDAY.
In accordance with Ordinance No. 5 of 1912, the Exchange Banks will be closed for the transaction of Public Business on Monday, the 24th May,
Hongkong. 19th May, 1920.
NOTICE.
EMPIRE
DAY. This Office will be opened for
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell
In order to meet these con- Street, Victoria, Hongkong.
ditions newspapers and magazines| The following valuable Lease-all over the world have been telegraphed, regretting being hold property situate at Victoria obliged to raise their subscription IMPORTS & EXPORTS OFFICE
an in the Colony of Hongkong, vizTM and advertising rates-in some Lord Muir Mackenzie's drastic unable to attend owing to
cases by as much as 100 percent--| plan for replenishing the exche-attack of influenza.
The chairman said Seattish ALL THAT piece or parcel of and, at the same time, to curtail quers of the hospitals would hardly be effectual here. It will Home Role was not an academic ground situate at Victoria afore the size and number of pages. For be remembered that Lord Mair discussion today. If there was said and known and registered the present, however, it has been all purposes from 9 a.m. to 12 Mackenzie, righteously enraged no generous measure of devolution in the Land Office as SUB decided, in the interests of the
1920. by the bad citizenship which given in a short time there migh: SECTION I of SECTION COF public generally and of advertisers noon on Monday the 24th May.
a repetition of what ** INLAND LOT No. 1417 Together in particular, to leave the price of leaves the hospitals to starve, be
Licensed Warehouses cannot be time, finds going
If with the messuage erected there"The Hongkong Telegraph" un-
opened on that day. and, at the same
that would on known as No. 20 Aberdeen changed. abundance of cash for expensive it rame
Term shopping, suggested-that-the-ex-funt be the fault of the various Street Victoris aforesaid. pert medical students, armed with nations of the United Kingdom 999 years created by a Crown Hongkong, Fah-May, 1920. collecting boxes and books, should hit the criminal neglect of those Lease dated the 15th day of June] rag" the opulent shoppers of who had been at the head of the 1898. Proportion of Annual Crown Oxford-street and Regen-street present Government, and whodid reat $6.50. Area about 952 Square TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS into indulging in their duty as not see the tendency of affairs feet. well as their pleasure. But the To-day people were sick of en- method, even if it could be applied deavouring to govern other people) at all, is purely punitive, not re-and of being governed by them. medial, and its effects would be (Cheers.) sporadic and transient.
THE ABSENTEES.
or
in
16
Ireland. it
to
Mr. Joseph Johnstone, M. P. for-West Renfrewshire, moved a resolution asking that a measure
self-determination Why do the right men" fail¦giving to offer themselves for election to Scotland in all Scottish affairs the ratespending boards and should be brought in during the) councils By "the right men
present session.
we generally mean men with
He said he understood some to
large business interests, and ex-interpret self-determination toj
•perience in their localities, men mean thr: a nation, if it chose.!
For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to |JOHNSON STOKES & MASTER Prince's Building, Ice House Street. Hongkong
Solicitors for the Mortgagees.
HT 10
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LAMMERT BROS.
The Aursioneers.
above suspicion of crude corrup-might cut the painter. He was Hongkong. 7th May, 1920. tion, men who furnish the money not in favour of self-determina- | which the local councils all too tion in that aspect, (A voice: "It freely disburse. Seiñshness is not will come "but he Was jo always, or only the reason, for favour of a Home Role Parlia- THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public their abstention. A mure potent meat set up in Scotland as a one is that they are reluctant 10 subordinate Lerislatore to the Jeet their own workpeople on the Imperial Parliament to deal with Wednesday, the 30th May, 1920, coinmon level of a representative Scottish affairs within thne council, not at all because njenni bery, but because they are afraid. 100 frequently with good grounds,
limits:
of being seen to be less fitted for who recently
Acction on
CONDENSINg at 2.30 p.m.
at No. 45 Lyndhurst Terrace The Rev. Malerin MacCallum,
unsuccessfully A Quantity of Valuable Household
Furniture comprising: fought Sir William Sutherland
drawing room suites, fine engray-
public business, less imbued with in Argylshire. sended the Teak Gatstand, plush covered
its high spirit and mare'ignoran"
of its hard and rainful details iban the weekly recipients of their
resolution.
He declared that Seutland wings, water colours occasional
AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
As from to-day, all preliminary notices of forthcoming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns
C. W. BECKWITH,
Superintendent,
Imports and Exports. Hongkong. 19th May, 1920.
NOTICE.
ADVERTISE YOUR WANTS.
WHAT YOU WANT SOMEONE HAS-WHAT YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE ELSE DÒES,
ONE CENT PER WORD PER INSERTION
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Hongkong. May 17, 1920.
NOTICE.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL.
THE MISSES DE VINE AND
TERRY
SOCIETY ENTERTAINERS
will introduce
HARMONY AND SONG At the usual
tu arrange own match. Entrance
Start Fee $1 each pair. 1.32 p.m.
atl
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| PEAK=TRAMWAYS COMPANY
LIMITED.
TO BE LET.
TO LET.-Four-comed top flat No. 1 Mosque Street, with out- houses, electric light and water Open for inspection. Immediate escupation. Apply within.
NOTICE.
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NOTICE.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE. LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given thaij the Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the abore Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong, un Saturday the 29th May 1920 1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN The thirty-ninth Ordinary 11.30 am, for the purpose of re-bathe 51st ORDINARY YEAR-Yearly Meeting of shareholders
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
wages. Their educating has bornelived under external restraint tables, bronze ñgures, brass flower!TEA DANSANT AND DINNER coiving the Report of ine Directors MEETING of the Company will be held at the Offices of the
them to a different sphere.
and was subjek ted to mon-tan: pots, brass and beas- mounted tpressure be pardirms to Anglican fenders, white lace curtains, car The diferenre 1 am thinki
etc. waps, laws, breeds and customs.pet-drugs, etc. of was pointedly expressed in at recent House of Congbiration led to less self- Teak extension dining chairs, að skarasler, teak sideboard with, bereffed ma respect, lowering
elock, leather covered armchairs.
by two University members. "Pzj and arrest of national dev-up-fror, teak dinner waggon, marble
what have we been educating |
The Cheers.)
Glass, Crockery and Electric-;
DANCE
to be held
"SATURDAY HAY and--
And
SUNDAY, MAY 2380.--
Lopeens during
you these fiv seats," patient-i
Mr. Neil Marloan, M.P. sup-teak overmantel with bevelled WHIT MONDAY, MAY 24th, ly asked noe of them, of the stop; assistants, who had appested wand the resolution, urging that surter, brass electric standard the State help them in the What was quid enough for people lamp. electric fittings, etc. eit. like the Poles, who had been matter of their hunts, it was mut to enable you to help geur-cattered is the rods of the earth, plated ware. Household linen ex-Orchestra!
good enough for Double brass bedsteade, teas Tin and Afternoon. was surely “Oh, no,” reported the
Sendand. (Cheers. They wanted double wardrobes with fevelled
marble ta Scotland a nation once again, and glass doors, teak the people of Scotland would only boreaux, marble and tiled wash. become independert when her stands, ladies desks, upholstered people once again demanded her couches and easy chairs, toilet independence.
crockery. Japanese silk embroid- Mr. MacCallum Sport. M.Plered screen, etc. etc. have said he believed gatti-h Home! not sufficiently milated the Eule or second aspect of education
-erond member: “true education hits men and women to help themselves so much as others."
ADÍTATIONAL SERIS,
The two views are reconcilable, but it is just because s mang "I the right
Batbroom. Pantry And Kitchen
self determination-be Requisites accepted that word with ut ang just herause, indeed. tier are qualification was one of rita'.
the righ:
ror urgent, and immediate import- It was necessary in the slar appearance that sa few dj;ance.
ROA
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21:
Also
A Fine Selection of Canion Blackwood wate
-comprising:
Marble top and fund tables,
the submit then selve- to shej interests of Scotland, and was rough and tumble of a popular needed if the machinery of con- election, or, when chosen, find stitutional Government was to be armchairs, flower stands, strela their new sphere congenial. W. preserved. The present position etc. are all alike in need of an educ-in Ireland was a warning of the alion berbad education aspecial danger of sitting tow long upon ademnating in qualities, and ritizan, the safety valve. ship.
had. for a brief period an Educ- ation Minister who was interest-
in
une dissentient
GOVERSING TRADITIONS,
And
2 Kastner Autopianos (Piano by Rachals
Cottage Plance by Catellar
electric ceiling fans 4 electric table fans
I enamelled bath
"Baldwin" Refrigerator
1 Chubb's Combination safe On view from Monday, the 124th inst.
COMPLETE ERATED WATER,
-PLANT FOR SALE.
KWONG SANG HONG LTD.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
By order of the Mortgagees Messrs. Lamme Brothers have
arrived insumption
Friday the 18th day of May, 1920
at 3 p.m.
at their Sales Rooms Duddell Street, Victoria, Hongkong
together with a Statement of Ace will be held at its Head Ofce, undersi ed on Tuesday the 75th counts for the year ending 30th Nos. 3 and 4 Queen's Buildings on May 1920, #1 11.30 a.m. April 1920,
FRIDAY 21st MAY, 19 at The Transfer Books and Ra The Transier Books of the 1230 p.m., for the purpose of register of Members of the Company Company will be closed from ceiving the Report of the Direc-will be closed from the 11th Ma Tuesday the 25th day of May to fors together with the Statements Monday the 31st day of May 1920 of Account to 31st December 19190 the 25th May, both days in both days inclusive.
and of declaring Dividends etc. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SUN
General Managers. « Hongkong. 19th May. 1920.
NOTICE.
THE MACAO. HARBOUR BOARD.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Sth Mar to 21st May, both day inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. H. P. HAY, Deputy General Manager. Hongkong. 4th May, 1920.
NOTICE.
clusive.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Agents. Hongkong. 3rd May, 1920.
NOTICE.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIET
OF CANTON LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE that the 471b ORDINAR YEARLY MEETING of 11 Notice is hereby given that the Society will be held at its Ha days from this date for the supply Thirty-First Ordinary General Office, No. 3 and 4 Queer
Supply of stones fured at the sides for the pavement of the Patent Slip by the jetty * Patane. Masan.
Tenders will be received for Sel
of 84.500 lineal meters of stones
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC
COMPANY LIMITED. ·
fared at sides of the pavement Meeting will be hyd at the Com-Buildings, Hongkang, on FR of the Patent Slip by the jetty at Pany's Offices, St. George's Bund- / DAY 21st May 1920, kr No565, 1 ings. on Saturday, 22nd May the purpose of receiving t Patane. Macao.
The specifications and form of 1920, at 11.33 a.m. for the purpose Report of the Directors togeth tender may be seen at the face of presenting the Report of the with the Statements of Accou
Directors together with a State to 31st December 1919, and of the Harbour Works, every working day from 10a.m.
ment of Accounts to 99th Febru- declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOKS ary 1920, and electing Directors and from 230 pm 2017 The Transfer the Society will be CLOSED fr
10
The fenders will be opened g: Beaks of the Comany will be 8th May to 1st May, both da the Flors Palace" in Macan, on closed from the 15th to the end inclusive.
May 1920, both days inclusive. the 8th June 1920 at 3 p.m.
In orde to be admitted to tender, a provisional deposit of $200.00 must be made with the the Banco Ultramarino" to under of the Harbour Board, up to the eve day for the opening qi the tenders.
Office of the Macau Harbour.
Catalogue will be issued.
The following valuable lease- Terms: Cash on delivery.
hold property situate at Victoria LAMMERT BROS.. in the Colony of Hongkong Vir--|
All that piece or parcel of Board Auctioneersound situate grat Victoria afore- said registered in the Land Office
- instructions sell by Public
*Friday, the 11st. May, 1920.
eri - nf all subjects!-in education. city or an Eiipite at a moment's which he succeeded in surround-notice, without barikk made ang ing with a hopeful popular excite-1 study of policy or the theory of ment. His name was Mr. A. H. human government. It was not D. Acland. One subject which sit in England. he got taken up not only
schools, but universally the
โท the eighteenth century. was citizenship. In those days when there Was an authentic everybody "went about with an governing class, both Eton and open text-book, entitled The Harrow seriously instructed our Duties of Citizenship" which tatore legislators and rulers in contained an introduction by Mr. high policies and politics. If Acland his Adult classes anything of the kind is being. were formed for the stud; of the done deliberately among us now, Sitizede duty, and all who were it is confined to the Labour carts.THE Ludersigned have received nos students were lecturers the which—the Labour party being) whole nation, youth and age. mainly a class party is a pity. Auction on echoed and re-echoed with citizen-for our best-educated always, in ship
the long rua, govern us in great! This healthy ferment had affairs, as in small. definite influence upon the public Lawyers, it is true. have to fife of the time. It Invoked as if acquire, but only incidentally,{ democracy were resolved to on their way to the Bar, a can- educate itself in a grase and uoble siderable knowledge of politics fashion for its sublime responsi- and the Constitution, and they bilities. Such revisas either goare accordingly our best average! on or go out, and this one went politicians and the most worthy But opt. There has been nothing like of place in Parliament. it since.
there is no universal and syste- Men do not volunteer to per-matic instruction in citizenship, form a violin solo without having and the nation sufers in conss- had some lessons in, music and quince. We of the older geners- violin playing. If they pro osetions must go on improvising, from undersigned to take to a life with horses they But might not some such body study the management of the as the Boy Scouts make a be-: borae. It is remarkable that ginning of efficient enthusiasm in they should be ready to govern a citizenship for their genezajipu ?
commencing at 11. am.
at their Sales Rooms, Dudell Street
(For account of the concerned) 1717 bags ANTIMONY ORE
ored at Kowloon Godowns) 1730 bags ANTIMONY ORE (Stored at West Point Godowol (total weight 3712 picals) Inspection orders can be bad.
Terms: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT, BIOS
Auctioneer....
Macau, 8: May, 1920.
as faland Lot So 346 regether Secretary In the Harbour Board with the message erected there.
town No-la-Moaque Strect.Victoria aforesaid. Term 1999 years created by a Crown Lease thereof dated 11th April 1553. Annual Crown Rent $1.34. Area 1,440 square feet.
For further particulars and conditions of sale apply to JOHNSON, STOKES
NOTICE: ན ན ན ན ན ན ན ན ན ན
By Order of the Board of Directors.
By Order of the Board.
C. H. P. Hay. Deputy General Manal GIBE, LIVINGTON & CO. | Hongkong, 4th May, 1920.
Agents... Hongkong. 4th May, 1920.
NOTICE:
THE HONGKONG TUTORIAL & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
43. Bonham Road. Opposite the University Tel. No. 732. P.O. Box, 393. Principal
It is hereby notified that on the 21st May, at the Treasury of
JOHN P. JONES, B.Sc., M.E. Mio. Macau, a p.m. tenders are invited by verbal competition for
The Institute abfurds Special Pra the Monopoly of Opium, for the paration (Class sul Private. Day and period of three years.commencing Evening. Chal and Correspondence &from 1st August 1920 to 31s: for University Matricista esik
July 1923.
Degree Examinations! All the terms and conditions for! the tender can be obtained on application at the Portuguese Consulate in Hongkong, or at the Treasurer's Department in Macao.
MASTER Prince's Buildings, Ice House Street. Hongkong Solicitors for the Mortgagees,
or to
Messrs. LAMMERT BROS. The Auctioneers. Hongkong, 14th May, 1920,
"PLINIO TINOCO,
Treasurer, Treasurer's Office of Macso 22nd April, 1929,
New Semin has to contented Taterial Classes are being conducted in. English. Mathematics, Trigonome try, Mechanica, Physics, Chemistry, fistory, Geography." Latin and French for Hongkong University Jaly Examinations.
Private Inition can also be bad in these subjects.
Prospecies on.application.
NOTICE.
BRITISH TRADERS' INSU ANCE CO., LTD.
sories * SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV tin! The LORDINA YEARLY MEETING - of Company will be held at its F Office. Nos. 3 and 4. Que Buildings, Hongkong, on Fri 21st MAY 1920, at 12.45 p.m the ƒ "rpose of receiving the port of the Directors toge with the Statements of Acc 10 31st December 1919 un | declaring Dividends, etc.
The TRANSFER BOOK the Company will be CLO from 8th May to 21st May, days inclusive.
By Order of the Board
C. H. P. HAYS: Deputy General K Hongkong, 4th Mar 1