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A posingo stamp is a little contemporary The Canton Times
thing, but taken in bulk 1, is jour sympathy with it in ita en- To-marrow belag a' public holi-steer away from this Island the
quite costly. From the Post forced non-publication. It was day The Hongkong Telegraphyphoon reported yesterday, we not only a well prodused and will be published at mid-day,
In concluding an article on Office Estimates for the current are promised naval joy-rides essentially readable little paper
through the air to-morrow and the Hongkong trade at the close of year it is sean that the water- (the only ons printed in English
1919 Mr. George E Anderson, marked paper alone will coal two following days in the ma-179. Conani-Gameal at Hong- £30,500, while printing and gun Two Chinese Women in Canton) but it was frankly before the Magistrate this morning over today from their base in
ware chines which Mr. Ricon is to bring kong, says —
ming will cost £53,800. The cost outspoken regarding the mis on the charge of harbouring an Macao. It is to be just a plain management of public affairs by unmarried girl, 13 years of age after-timin
Man of British nationality, who of paper money is going up. The the so-called Military Govern- The case was remanded.
series of jor-rides are closing up their affairs with cost of manufacture of the cur where the passengers ars notla
of retiring and ment. For that very reason theļ
inrency notes is to be £350,000, an. Military Governor Bas ordered
made to lose their heads in the an immensely large proportion increase of £30,000. The Inland Revenue Department is respon- A Chinese was to-day charged dizzy sensations of looping the of Cases praparing to go foreign-ednosted Chinese who before Mr. R. O. Hutchison with loop aide-alipping nose-diving to the United States and Canada,sible for this. There is a rather
responsible far the the theft of 3,000 guilders from a or any other of those favourite They base their plans upon the disturbing item in the Postal E
£60,000 for publication have been forced Chinese passenger on board a diversions indulged in by harden-fact that the United States at the timates, namely, into inactivity. Surely this is Dutch boas. Case remanded. ed airman. Still with this assur-present time is a more pleasant losses by default, accidant, etc." yet another reason, if one ware
ance I hear that the bookings place to live in than any countryThis is an increase of £20,000, needed, why China should hasten There will be à reception at
(23 for a ride of ten minutes in Europe: that taxes promise to but there is no indication as to to throw of the military yoke goon to-morrow at Government duration) for the proposed flights be less than in any country in how the increase is allocated "Default" and In addition to constituting a House to the foreign Consuls, have not been so extensive as they Europe; that returns from in-between
{"Accident." Either is dis- financial burden that has brought They will be introduced to His ought to have been, largely be-estments in the long run promise the country to a state of ruia and Excellency by Mr. Hamel. Consul-cause. I suppose, of the disin- to be safer and better and that agreeable. bankruptcy, the military are in General for Holland.
clination of the public to risk life in the United States, on the breaking their necks in a fancied whole, offers more attractions to Welsh Churchmen may 'nut such a powerful position that
accident and secondly bemen of their class than life in welcome the approach of dis- A number of Police Officers are cause of the mixed feelings Europe. and, as matters amply testify; to-day, it is a governance that proceeding Homs on leave by the with which they read this par- P. and O. Delta on Saturday, agraph in the notice advertising has had disastrous effects. Of more particular interest to us is They are Inspectors Watt and the event-Fersonal Accident the suppression of free speech Sub Inspector Macdonald.
Cashman, Sergeant Swan and Insurance can be effected at the in the air. 39 he is in Charlemont when the Irish Oo time of booking covering all risks motor. The only dangers that Church was disestablished. which this latest act of the military accomplishes, and that
whilst dying." Rates including might be m21 with in civil re-building Roxborough Castle, is a matter to which the young
From the cash tray in a benefits from $5.--Covering $2,500 aviation are the employment of Lord Charlemont, who at that reformers of China ought to give hawker's stall in Jubilee Street-To $50-Covering $25,000,” inexper onced pilots and the time was a staunch Liberal, had
they come into power.
possibility of immature aviation masks of Gladstone and John espacial attention, if and when yesterday, a Chinese thief grab- It has bed a fistful of cents and at-
firms being over zealous and per- Bright carved on the facade. Which brings me to the point been rightly said that an index tempted to escape with his haul. on which these week's Notes mitting Bring to be carried on inThen came the Irish Church Act, of a country's progress is the The alarm having been raised. principally
too adverse weather. especially and Charlemont changed bis deal Is Fios fog. Fortunately the first-men- allegiance. As he coukl not The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 there is very little constitutional Gilman Bazaar and eventually but a side-line in the usual existent, for there is a surplus of ordered bis mask to be tarred in measure of liberty allowed, and he was pursued by a lukong into dangerous? While insurance is ioned danger a at present non-punish Gladstone in the flesh he per annum. (Payable in Advance,)
liberty enjoyed by China's mil-arrested. A sentence of six business of an Aviation concern. The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-lions just now, when unconstitu- weeks hard labour was to-day who are interested as much in the supply over the demand for imitation of the spiteful media val tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for ational forces bold practically all passed by the Magistrate.
Each year while he experienced pilots, and aviation costom. full month.
the additional profits it *11 the reins of power. There can The "Boogkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee be no question that China's great-
bring, as the assurance which companies are able to pick and lived a fresh coat of tar was choose their men; and a reputable added, and when be died-23 is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies est need just now is a homogen considerable
Just after midnight yesterday, the public, wank, this con aviation firm would less readily years after-disestablishment bad delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies ous government having constitu- caused in an altercation between to-morrow's fight is not unaator-skilled pilot than a reputable was left in his will to ensure thas was cluding part in the notice of send out a machine with an un- been carried sum of money seat by post an additional $1.80 por quarter is charged for postage.
Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
|tional power and having also the party of European joy-riders ally construed to indicate that Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for legislate and administrate on Wyndham Street. It appears that regard to the safety of the car in charge of a novice who did } Roxborough Castle now lies un singleness of purpose to fearlessly and the chauffeur of their car in there is some apprehension in Garage would send out its finest the process should be continued.
for that seems very much forlorn lieu of payment was favoured by be understood that, barring any progressive lines. But to. hope the question of signing chits in passengers.
not know a steering wheel from a tenanted, but the tarred mask "of It must, however, spark plug.
Gladstone still stands out pr>- minently on its white from1. the passengers who were seen to of the accidents that cannot be THE VALUE OF AN EYE.
strike the chauffeur. What hap-foreseen or provided for, thes" The question of weather ist
Fagan re-
"Swank is not a word to use The other day we had occasion pened after that was not known have nothing to fear, either from different. Captain to remind Mr. Hutchison, who as the party, still botly engaged the quality of the seaplanes or commands valour as the better in this court," a London magistrat
of discretion in this told a solicitor Yet in course of dispenses justice at our Magis in the dispute, moved away from the experience of the pilots. Part tracy, that his appraising of the the spot.
These planes have been carefullymatter, but he points out that time even the fastidions may value of a boy's eye at $1 was a
it 13 certain that constructed and their stability
before come to use it without wincing. lile absurd, and, although we have no particular wish to say for Jubilee Street was played in Macao.
The Draughts Championship Vindicated in several test fights long the development of the Less than a century ago many aeroplane will make it as practic-purists objected to the ward again, what we then said, we Br
ally independent of bad weather "Constituency." Macaulay relates as the monster persanded to refer to the matter yesterday on the parement be-
trans-oceanic { that in speaking to Lady Of course, with the dangers liners. He concludes by saying Holland he expressed a wish again, because of an interesting tween two Chinese. 1 aftracted item we have come across in a large crowd afectators, for magnified by fancy to an absurd that "Given good weather, a good that "it had been possible to form Hone paper. The news we find which reason the Police to-day extent, there naturally follows pilot and a reliable engine, there a few commercial constituencies, is to this effect. A boy named charged one of the players. with the icclination to make of these is no more risk in flying 200 miles if the word 'constituanty' were William Chantler lost his right causing a poblic obstruction. It fights
of perilous than there is in travelling the admissibiz." "I am glad you put was stated that the prisoner. adventure
which exe in an accident at his work;
those same distance by motor or train, that in," said her Ladyship. "I being an old man, could not slip who take action for damages and
cannot part
be and on the other hand, there is was just going to give it you. It was brought in the County Court McKelvie when they suddenly the experience of several of those route, for the great enemy, Time, talented and influential and away from the minions Sergt. less than heroes. Such was everything to be gained by the air is an odions word. Then there is a: Shoreditch. His employers made their debut on the scane, who have recently made flights is conquered. As bearing on this gentlemanly. I never could were willing to pay £100 and the A Bae of 2 was inflicted by the by aeroplane in Peking when question of weather, it may be break Sheridan of 'gentlemanly. toys" parents were willing to
Magistrate. accept that sum. But to the
their friends regard them almost noted that on the 31st. December though he allowed it to be wrong." in the light of daring adventurers: last, mail was carried by sero-Lady Holland's objection to In-glancing over a New York per on attention was directed rescue of the toy came the Judge:
of the Court-Judge Cluer. He On returning to
and were their reputations not plans between London and Paris "gentlemanly" instead of "gentle- by a heading which ran: "China is to Have One Government." Asked:-"And have either of the from a recent tour in the Orientabove reproach, doubtless they at the time that a.gale of 70 milesmanlike" was shared by many of first we wondered what new development this might presage
her contemporaries. Coming to whether something had occurred which had at length settled the defendants ever lost eyes, or are Capt. Robert Dollar, asked his would be regarded as the sort of an hour was blowing.
more recent times, we find Canon disturbed condition of the country and brought the rival factions to they willing to take £100 for an views on Manila's scheme to lure people who on occasion might
become Robin Hoods or Dick The British Air
protesting Ministry Ainger
strongly a complete understanding. We were soon disillusioned, howover, eye? Why an insurance com the world's trade to her part,
[announces that in order to against the me of the words for the news which carried this heading was merely a declaration pay puts the value of an eye at said: "It is impossible for Manila Turpins or something of that sort.
cultured" and "talented" on the to £500 The settlement is refused. to compete with Hongkong. The This of course arises from the assis; airmen by Dr. Wa Ting-fang to the effect that the Canton and the Peking We take of our hats to Jadge red tape attached to the docking popular belief that ring is their
determine
round that "both are sham position. 13029 Governments would merge, organize a united Parliament probably in Shanghai and draft a Constitution and a peace programme, the Cluer, because of his bumsue and clearing of ships, by both the dangerous. It is nothing of the been painted in large white participles derivad,
sort, and Captain R. T. Fagan letterson a latter definitely terminating the Canton Government. It all look so reasoning, but Magistrate Hut- Uoiled, States and Filipino
black background verbs, but from substantives." delightfully simple, and we are wondering whether the story has been chison thinks that a man's eye is authorities, creates much more FC writing la receat on the roofs of the Hitchin,
In selecting the camel as their swallowed by the American people. If so, we fear they will even only worth $1. We quite realise delay and inconvenience than a number of Aeronautics deals with Redhill. Tonbridge, Ashford, and
that the defendants were employ- Hongkong. Besides coal and the popular delusion very pointed some other railway stations and emblem, ally find that they hold the wrong end of the stick so far as the ers in the Home case and the other ships requisites and ex-- If the question of danger be the name Edenbridge has also hibitionists display a sense of American anti-pro-
According to interpret the developments, Dr. Wu, Sun Yat-sen and Tang Shao-y, defendant here was only a fellow penses are proportionately higher investigated and discussed, he been marked in white chalk fituess who are the principal characters in the present fittle plat, have worker, but the moral effect of Mr. To establish a free port at Manila is well be seen that the letters on a plot of land adjacent authorities, though the camel Eeither the intention nor the power to bring about a unification of
Hutchison's decision
remains would necessitate the creation of element of risk in flying, 33
to Edenbridge station. This generally fills his tanks with the same. government in China. They have, one by one, been "frozen out
If our magistrates a new harbour at a very large compared with say motoring, is method has been followed in water, when he has the chance
very much the same. of Canton, and their aim. so far as we understand it, is to reconstruct indulged sometimes in making a expense."
China Those who made the trip he substitutes date-juice, which, the so-called Southern Military Government and to attempt to of the facts of which they have to personal application to themselves
from Peking to Tientsin in a fermenting in due course, gives establish it elsewhere.
The three Portuguese youths,| After nine months of civil Handley-Page recently noted him a portable store of alcohol to In point of fact, of course, as we base on many previous occas-judge they would gain a great Brecio Silva, Francisco Mendes Briation it is possible to make how convenient it was that draw on as opportunity allows.
deal in ideas of justice.
Even with 'soft' ions pointed out, this Southern Government has been an illegal
Sr. and William Seins, who were comparisons, and it will be found Peiyang University had its name
camel's powers of creation from the very beginning. That remark applies to the Hutchison's eye is worth more arrested in connection with the that only one passenger bas been so clearly marked out in flower the
Are phenomenal. organisation which is at present carrying on administrative work than $1 and so was the ere that sheft of a quantity of money and killed. This fact alone should beds is its grounds. Soon Lang-absorption
the Chinese work man to Exwellery from Mr. Daniel Joseph convince the public as to the fang. Pangtoi, Yangtsup, Lofsh Watering a camel-train on the in Canton, and it will also apply to any new Government which Dactly how much it was worth Santos, were to-day charged be-practical non-existence of the so- and the rest of them will have to march is a prolonged business. Wa and his followers may manage to bring into being. There is hold have been decided by the fore Mr. RO. Hutchison with called dangers of aviation. only one legally-recognised Government in China. at the moment.
Dur- be marked. The physical features seeing that some camels require and that is the Government which operates in Peking. Dr.
defendants' ability to payan feloniously Wo
and burglariously in the War, many accidents of Hongkong and the mainland as much as twenty gallons to breaking into No. 5, Blue Build-occurred at training depote, and are so well defined AJ to satisfy their thirst. On æsthetic and bis satellites may not like that Government, and it may be ability not limited to one Mex. ineficient and uosble to exercise full authority throughout the THE DEMOCRÀTIC PLATFORM.
however." objections ings and affecting a haul which the public, without taking the hardly make, this precaution grounds, country. But it is the Government of China,.all the same. And
re8300 the matter necessary.
| might be raised to selecting for has been estimated to comprise trouble to The Democrats of the Laited $191 when these Southern constitutionalists" seek to create scrce States have now come out of their jewellery. The prisoners were the aeroplane and looked upon
in moner
so emblem an animal whose face and $56 in out, immediately condemned
The twin engine Handles Page red sneer."
has been described as "a.scalp. new-fangled administrative body, whether in Shanghai, Yunnan or Canton, they
The camel itself is are only increasing the confusion which
regards the forth-remanded on the application of aviation as a sport for reckless aeroplane supplied to China existe. Dr. Wa is credited with saying that
coming Presidential election, for the Police who are stated to have young people who attached no recently made its official test said to be so little in love with internal peace first, and then foreign supervision of expenditure. are told by Reuter that further charges in respect of the importance to their lives. Learn Dight with representatives of the it appearance that it never Bet he is not going the right way to
secure internal Senator Glass has drafted larceny of bicycles in Canton toing to fly is undoubtedly attended Chinese Government on board. drinks from a pool without first harmony by endeavouring to reassemble the Southern malcontents platform favouring the prompt prefer against them.
by an element of risk, because at The machine left Nanyuan serod-fouling the water so as to be and start a new Government in opposition to the Canton mock Versailles without reservations ratification of the Treaty of
present it is impossible for the roms at 2.15 p.m. with 14 passen-spared the sight of its own re- administration. If he really is sincere in wishing foreign supervis
instructor always to be at band gers and 1,200 lbs. sand which fection. Nor does its character of expenditure the only guarantee that such expenditure will be impairing its essential integrity.
when the pupil does his first solo acted as test load. The machine bear inspection. The camel,” honestly managed-be would aim at a complete rapprochement And President Wilson has sent political. We shall soon have fight. A large percentage of the so loaded bad a total weight of 5 says so Oriental proverb, curses with the North and then get his followers to come into line and the platform. Matters have now that belief is justified or not. It/are due to lack of confidence and feet three circuits of Peking and hill and its Maker when it goes a letter to the Senator endorsing opportunity of seeing whether mishaps that attend the novice tons. After, climbing to 6,200 its parents when it has to go up
down". Camels are We wish we could believe that "China is to have one Govern-come to something like a clean is confidently expected by the of general air-experience, and in the surrounding country were
The signs at the moment do not point in that direction. Cut issue it would but for the majority of Hongkong Americans Very few cases is it the fault of made, the machine diving the known to play), and their Bfe is [(even young camels are neveT Why, of three Chinese telegrams which we published yesterday tas Irish question which is, unfor- that the Republican nominee for the engine or of the machine. times in salute over the Pre had to do with the internal intriguing that is going on. Une spoke tunately, being mixed up with the the presidency will have very of Tosa Chi-jui "taking an Army to the South (what for, heaven practically be a matter of either inclined to think that he will different mattor from the ques throughout the flight in spite of
sident's Palsce. The engines and one long protest against being campaign. The Voting will
much of a walk-over. We are This, however, is * very the machine behaved splendidly made to work. slone knows) and the other showed that conflicts between Northern for the Treaty or against it, and succeed, but the extent of the tion of the dangerousness of the intense cold which prevailed and Southern troops continue. Does this look like a peaceful, united the result China? The plain fact is that China at the moment is in a hope-interesting as well as internation- the extent to which the Treaty established by responsible firms General Taing, who represented will adapted to commercial uses...
will be intensely Democratic voting will reflect fiying ia regular services at 6,000 ft Mr. K.Y. Wei and A plane which should be very less muddle, politically and financially as well. And we can see no ally important. We have often of Versailles and the League of who employ only experienced the Chinese Government on the is the Vickers-Vimy 15-passenger, - promise of anyone strong enough coming forward to straighten said that is is not our belief Nations Covenant are approved pilots. The public need have no test, occupied the front seats whicin is faxuriously sited up. things out. There was never a time when Caina more needed that the bulk of the American and we confidently believe that besitation in entrusting their the machine, and after landing | Among its obief claims to quality: bonestministration and a sense of her responsibilities than the present. But her so-called statesmen appear to be absolutely people are anti-treaty and that large figures will be forthcoming. lives to a pilot who has had say were enthusiastic over its stead is a compactness of design, which berumbed and confused. Where it will all end we should not care
the opposition in Senate and We are content to wall and two years' experience, for by that iness and the feeling of security brings every little space into vas, predict.
Congress bas been mainly ace."
time the pilot is us much at home | it inspired. -
thus increasing its load capacity,
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1929.
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