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PATIENCE.
BEAR
JUND
1990
DAY BY DAY.
THER DURDENS
nor do we intend to allow our- selves to be pressed down by a weight of morbid facts, The THEMSELVES,
world is still young and vigorous in its growth towards perfection,
Yesterday's health
AVIATION NOTES. CROWN PRINCE
RUMANIA.
and it is only the “downs" that inspire the "upa". cursory glanca at the batch of fatal), all of which ware Chinese, which cables that Reuter gave us yester- day there is not a lot to inspire. We see that there is a world
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THE BEST HELA IS NOT TO BEAR Things do not seem to be going THE TROUBLES OF OTHERS FOR vary well with the work shoe8 THEM, BUT TO INSPIRE, THEM by the exbibition.
With the opportunities offered ARRANGEMENTS FOR MILI- “You say.” - writes days. We are not pessimistic, WITH COURADE AND ENERGY TO Repulse Bay the past week has The following is the programme known to play cricket all day flights at **TARY RECEPTION. respondent to the Daily News, that E M. Grace has been FOR been an enjoyable and for of the military arrangements foe without stopping, but that is residents, or, at any rate, for the visit of the Crown Prince nothing to the feat of 'W. G. those who coukl afford the fare Roumania: demanded, with the additional] The Crown Prince ed Roumania when he was an elderly maIN AS who, in his 'revival “year of 1906, return expanses of trip to the Bay is expected to arrive at Hongkong cricketers go, was once in the Taking shows three cases of plague (one and back. The pheom gpport on the Madras on Thursday or held for every minute of a three- was forthcoming for Friday-On landing at Blake Pier days' match. I have no statistics the exhibitions WAS beyond he will be received Ly, a Guard of by me, but the description of the the anticipations of the Honour and the route between match (in round figures) wES AS leaving Manile the promoters who had expected Blake Pier and flovernment House follows: Kent 1st innings). 450. shortage of wheat, which will second carpenter of the T.K.K. that it would take a year before will be lined by the Naval and during which W. G. bowled and cause famine prices if this easel. Shinyo Maru, foll down ideas of safety on the part of the Military Forces, year's
halded all day. Gloucester,,400, harvest is in
into the No. 4 batch of the boat, pablie would be reconciled to a
The route is allotted us follows:- W. G. carrying his bat through ADF way materially damaged: wo
and died shortly after from can trip by aeroplane.
Apprehen- Blake Fier. Guard of Honour of the innings for a score of some- sions for safety of their persons 100 of the 2nd Wilts Regiment: thing like 200. Kent (2nd in- see that in Ireland things are cussion of the brain.
apparently had no place in the Connaught 1. 1500 of the nings), going from bad to worse, murdars
datermination of the jos-riders Royal Navy: Wardley Street, 180 Gloucester 125 to win, which was still being the commonplace; we
75 all out, leaving see that Turkey is by no meansion Street, has made a report to we found quite a good number Rd. (ourth side City Hall, Queen's veteran again carrying his bat. (ban Si,living at No. Proces and on the third day of the flights of the 7th Punjabis: Des Voeux accomplished just on time, the in a happy position whilst she the Police that at 6.45 yesterday of ladies and is suing for better peace terms morning, faur robbers entered her amongst the passengers a fact Peak Tramway H. tu norih zad. G..certainly had their children, 240 of the 2nd Punjabis: Spectators who came to see one of her parties draw up house. They overpowered her, that is in itself an indication of Detention Bls. 2 of the 2nd them a bombardment by Allied
but her shouts having made their the increasing confidance reposed Ra. Wilts Begt: Garden Rd. (to warships; there is threatened
'money's worth.' another disastrous railway strike, stay unhealthy, they fled.
on the ability of the aviators in Upper Albert "Rh.. 0 of the at Home; and there was plenty of
the operation of their machines.
Royal Garr. Artillery: Upper Albert The "down-town" section of other news of a not too cheering Two tokis of a fish stall in the
Rd., so of the Royal Engineers: New York is losing one of its character. But, as we said above. Central Market had a fight yester- are tights have been a success, Honour of the 2nd Punjabis the Eastern Hotel to make roup As a money-making proposition Government House, url of landmarks by the demolition of there is no need or room for day. The fish knife being a very and another serias of joy-rides is Review order will be worn, khaki, for an office building. For news pessimism. One has the comfor- appropriate weapon, one of them being arranged to take place this medal ribbens and on medals, a hundred years it has been the ting knowledge that things in hacked the other with it in the Sunday. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires a stata of Bux ате them to forward their names and addresses with communications a
also in leg, causing a serious wound.
Sticks will be carried in place of favourite hostelry of American state of addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but a and sterile inactivity that is far victim was removed to the Gover all educated to a knowledge of Breeches, leggings or fieldbouts and his practice of shipping arms to
change; it is After this deed, he fled, and his
swords. The parade will be de-seafaring folk. "Dynamite Our Chinese friends are very mouciel; officers Bill wear Johnny" O'Brien, well known for, ⚫vidence of their bona fides.
more dangerous than activity, no ment Civil Hospital. All communications intended for publication should be address-matter bow upsetting the latter
the pleasures tha: can be derived spurs, ed to the Editor.
may be. Most of the happenings
in an aerial trip. With thera also, that we see around us come of a This morning before Mr. Journey by aircraft is the desire to improve; to build up and Justice J. R. Wood there came luxury par excellence, The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is 836 not to break down. It is like the up for hearing the suit of the that being so.
and, what greater per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
working of the yeast that leavens Kam Hing Lung fra against the tribute could be offerad to The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- and improves the bread. Ireland Shing Lee firm for the recovery deceased relatives than by tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a is a distressed nation that will of $487.50, being damages. for offerings of paper imitations full month.
emerge all the better for her breach of contract to deliver of the seroplane? Thus the
IS IT A DREAM The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee present experiences: Turkey is 230 cases of tin plates. The other day in the Eastern district. is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can bave their copies in the throes of a change the particulars of the claim were as came upon a certain native in the fonila Bulletin, says mahogany was brought back,
Manuel Quizon, in an article delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies throwing off of the old intriguing followsTo market value for dwelling whose appearance in-"It is beyond dispute that the serving the purpose of both cargo sent by post an additional $1.50 per quarter is charged for postage. autocracy and the acceptance of 250 cases of tin plates at $12.45 dicated the last stages in the application
Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
of the Coastwise and ballast. These cargoes were a new school of democrats: the per case Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a railwaymen are
on April 17th, 1920, religious rites held in honour Shipping Law to the Philippines sold cheaply, and were often fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
out for better $3,113.50; by selling price for 250 of a deceased native gentle will mean higher freight rates. used in the construction of conditions, although we The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be that
think cases of tin pistes at $10.50 per man. A group of relatives were And who will pay the bill? Not the New York buildings of the belivered to subscribers belia Dairy Form Company, Liders a little too far, aut Case proceeding.
they are pushing mat case $2,625, difference, $187.50. deroutly burning paper offerings the shipper. either of American Period. Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
representative of josspaper, motor goods coming to the islands or of are thereby robbing themselves:
ears, houses, ete and amongst this Philippine products going to the of a lot of sympathy. Still.
goodly accumulation of spiritual United States, but the consumer the recent difference of opinion The San Remo Conference and they are pushing in the right The light cruiser Curlew order-wealth, I noticed a certain huge of the former and the producer between England and France may direction. To take a look at Ger-ed to the China Station, as bamboo frame and paper affair of the Intrer. In other words, the serve to recall a great speech many is to see the people support-already reported. was to be com-bose shape was certainty that importer and exporter will no made by Gambetta bis last ing the Majority Socialists and missioned at Rosyth on the 27th of
unusually bloated have to dig out of their own which was delivered in the Cham the Independent Socialists: in May by Captain W., M. James, Zeppelin. bat without the pocket the dollar that will pas ber of Depoties and referred to other, words, supporting the C. B. Surgeon Commander A. proper equipment to give it for the costly freight rates, but the co-operation of France, and parties that have the least to do Davidson bas been ordered to flight. What did it matter if the the consumer and the farmer. with the old imperialists who join the Curlew before she leaves Zeppelin had no engines Our How easy it is to be 100 per cert.tlemen." said the tribune, when Great Britain in Egypt. "Gen- brought such ruin and disaster Rosyth for Hongkong. Amongst departed friends was safely be de- patriotic when the other fellow I consider the situation of Europe upon their country. Look where other appointments to the Curlew pended upon to accommodate has to defray the expense! one will, one can find that the are those of Commissioned themselves by giving supernatura)}
I observe that during the last ten The Philippines is handicapped fermentis allforthe good. The only Gunner N, N. Deacon and Mate locomotion to the airship. by several causes in competing Western policy, represented by years there has always been a thing to hope for is that people as J. Booth.. Additional ratings for
for the market of the world. One France and England, and allow a whole will keep their vision distribution amongst various rue and not allow the contem-ships of the China Squadron will porary facts to swamp their belief be seat out to the Station by the in the eventual improvement Curlew. is all a question of patience.
Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager,
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the Latin-American countries, concocted many of his filibuster- ing schemes in this hotel, which he made his beadquartes. One of the features of this building was ita beams of solid mahogany. In 1823, when it was constructed. cargoes of supplies were frequent- ly shipped from New York lo South American ports, and when
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Like a lusty infant, our embry-jof these is the high cost of our] onic Aero Club is growing well, labour as compared with that of me to say that I know of no other It has developed regular limbs in any other Oriental country, and policy capable of proving of assis-
We wish we could regard with some measure of hopefulness the
the persons of four vice-presidents if to these causes we have to add ance to us in the most terrible and a well-endowed head in the higher freight rates I do not see this with profound conviction, emergencies we have to fear. I say fact that the chief Northern peace delegate has had a conference PASSING TRIBUTE.
Prendent. Mr.Hon. P. H. Holyoak, how we shall be able to stand the with Wu Ting-fang. Tang Shao-yi and San Yat-sen, and the report
When charged before Mr. N.A canvass of residents likely to competition.
looking clearly into the future.... that they are stated to have arrived a: a definite agreement as to report to demise of young local breaking into the Diocesan Cirls brought the best results in men making Manila the distributing the friendship and alliages of When it is our sad duty to L. Smith with burglariously te interested in aviation bas
Ah! remember my words! Ang. But what about the plan of sacrifice rather than forgo peace terms. We are told in the telegram announcing this news that the peace delegates of both sides have been in Shanghai for K. Moss, Mr. Le Breton and shoes, a Chinese boy dispated the Bay have further boosted the the far east? The Coastwise appropriate to recall these words,
men like Mr. G. W. Gegg. Mr. D. School, and stealing 12 pairs of bership. The fights at Repulse centre of American commerce is
England." nine months, and that this was the first formal conference which bad others we feel there is a specist first charge. He
It may not be in- been held since their arrival. But it must not be forgotten that
stated that movement, and now the Club is Shipping Law will not exclude dow, especially as the President did poignancy underlying the strange be previous to this a conference was actually opened and that it broke workings of fate. None could the premises, but attained his insectial and afpential sup American goods to Japan, China published his life of Gambetta, actually enter assured of a strong backing of foreign ships from carrying of the French Republic bas just up before anything like a compromise was reached. It seems now, have known the late Mr. Gegg object by inserting a stick into porters. They include the two and every other foreign country He thus describes the scent, of that the Conference is to be reopened, though the necessity for this without realising that here was a the room where the shoes were. European unofficial members of in step is not apparent seeing that "a definite agreement is alreasly
the east. If they carry which he was an eye-witness: said to have been reached. It is, of course, possible that the con-pleasures of others, a man who Inspector Grant, of the Police Club will thus, gain a footing in tries, as they will. much more slowly in a low, solemn tone:
keen worker on behalf of the and fishing them out with it. the Legislative Council, and the these goods to these Coun ference is to meet to consider art give final decision to this agice- had made good in his business, a Department, stated that a grating the Council for the advancement cheaply than American goods can such was Mirabeau's way.. mens which the chief Northern delegate and the representatives cheery friend from the South are said to have concluded.. That would involve the
worth knowing. which opened into this room had of its interests.
he brought to the Philippines by At times his words swept over the question of the status of the Southern delegates, a polar with which he could; one whose heart was shoes
almax reads to give what help been saxed through, and the
American ships, it is evident that shuddering assembly like a gale. stolen we will now deal.
By a rather striking coincidence, the very day on which these 1 well and can speak of a certainty. prisoner was arrested by a coas Smallwood that the reports about other Hongkong will become the blast, like ears of corn. It I have been informed by Col the dream of making Manila and their heads bowed beneath white. The writer knew him the prisoner described. Southern representatives had their informal conference with the To members of the Press, whose table in Lower Lascar How while the establishment of services chief Northern delegate in Shanghai, the Administrative Council of duty it is to report training endeavouring to dispose of the between various parts of China
It is said that the application; the so-called Military Government assembled in Canton, and at that times and notes, he was ever shoes to a hawker. A sentence are somewhat premature: the the Philippines is necessary in
cyclone." of the Coastwise Shipping Law to gathering it was decided tha: Tang Shao-yi be removed from the post of chief delegate of the South to the Peace Conference, and. a courteous helper. To know of six weeks' hard labour was two Goreroment Departments in
terested in aviation are certainly order to establish a direct line be If Mr. Speaker's plan for the amongst other things, that the Peking Government be informed that about racing it was only neces-inficted by the Magistrate. all meetings, declarations and actions at Shanghai by Tang. Woof Hongkong must have the reali
considering the linking of import-ween the United States and Ma-subordinate legislatores is accept- sary to ask him. And the public Ting-fang and Sun Yat-sen are null and void. From this fact it is sation that bebind the angusl
ant places by means of aerial oils. The establishment of this ed by Government and Parlia pretty clear that the people in authority in Canton do not recognise race meeting lies a tremendous
routes, but the only route which service is more likely to take ment, it seems probable that the the claims of these three to represent the South, and, that being amount of hard work, and it can
bas actually been surveyed to date place when there is competition Home Secretary will acquire It would seem fute to place any great value on whatever kind of be said with truth that in the Royal Botanic Society in Regent's training of
is that between Peking and Urga bottoms that when there is pons.additional considera'iou. For it between American and foreign additional responsibilities and Some of the members of the the Capital of Mongolia. agreement they may have reached. The whole question, of course, is centre of that work could be found Park have been
The A direct service would be a is intended that be shall be the Chinese aviators Who is entitled to represent the Southern Provinces? In the early Mr. Gegg. His cheery disposition methods of popularising
considering is now being undertaken, but it strong card to be played by connecting link between the days of the Military Government at Canton, Tang Shao-yi, Wand obliging courtesy made him gardens. One scheme which has scheme of aerial communications Passenger and freight between Parliaments," and shall be gun-
the is likely that any extensive American shipping to secure Imperiament and the hil Ting-fang and Sun Yat-sen were generally accepted as the Southern all the more respected. Hong been discussed proposes to trans for the country will be delayed leaders. For a time they held the reins in Canton and the question of tong is not blessed with an over- form the entrance into an old until the completion of two years be used, perhaps, as a last resort; meetings of the Jatter. The- Manila sod America in erally responsible for the arrange- arranging peace with the North was 008 in which they
case of competition, and would ments in connection with the could exercise marked influence. Then, one by one, they disappeared abundance of auch mer, and so it English garden, while round the training enables the pilots safely but if the monopoly of our trade oretically the Secretariat of State from the scene and their places in the Military Government were our ordinary work to pay our handsome buildings, it is thought,
is that we respectfully pause in large conservatory a series of to take charge of machines, taken by others. None the less, they still claimed the right to passing tribute to one who will be might be erected as a fashionable represent the South in Shangbai and they have been working on much missed and long remember-rendezvous. Courte for tennis, that basis ever since. Their claims are now disputed by the men. holding administrative office in Canton, who may be counted upon ed.
to resist any settlement to which they have not been parties. THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS: Ting-fang and his associates may arrange this and plan that; but
It must be a very unusual thing
POPULARISING BOTANIC
GARDENS.
croquet, racquets, and archery are suggested, also that part of the gardens might be terraced off where the merabers of a high-class
MACAO CIVIL
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Was
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with America is given to Ameri-jis one office and every Secretary can ships, how could there be any can perform the duties of soy inducement to institute this other Secretary, but it was service? On the contrary, under certainly the truth over a long these circumstances their main period that the Home Secretary attention will be directed towards ranked first, and he is still gen- the service between the United erally given the first place in the list. When the Secretariat was A direct line between the Phil-divided his was the greater office H.E the Governor of Macaolippines and the United States of the two, for he was responsible has received telegraphic advice would be a great impetus to the for all matters pertaining to the
how are they going to mange to get Canton to subscribe to the unfor a President of the United club might dine out-of-doors in AN INCREASE IN SALARIES /States and Japan and China. derstanding? That is the query which causes us to doubt the real States to go roundly criticise the summer evenings. value of the reported conclusion of a definite agreement between North and South.
Congress as President Wilson
In this matter, as in so many others in China, the trouble is that bas. The failure of Congress no one section trusts the other. The South is divided into factions. effectively to deal with the bigh make himself any more popular from the Lisbon Government growth of our trade with Americs States of Southern Europe, all each claiming supremacy and the right to recognition. Political other vital matters were touched election is drawing nearer and by civil officials for an increase ways the prosperity of the Philiy- and Irish business, and barstain- cost of living. its inactivity in by doing so. The Presidential concurring in the petition made and would increase in manifold colonial business, home businers. cohesion and co-operation are naknown in Chins, sad so long as that is the case the hope of a compromise being reached will be very on, but the bardest truth in nearer and such sharp shafts as in salary.
pines only if it is brought about ed Ireland and the colonies when
elight. We fear that personal aggrandisement and personal prots the mensage is that "Con-these will not enhance the chances As a result, a sum of $50,000 without greatly increasing freight|foreign business WAS taken are more to Chinese politicians than the general well-being of their Cress is not only preventing of the obstractionists, who have has been allotted to Macao, the rates, which will not be the case from him in 1782,
He was country. Perhaps that is why there has been no adjustment of this the conclusion of peace with engineered a protest against what increased pay to commence on if the coastwise law is put into also responsible for that interminable domestic squabble are this: the more Governments Europe, but bas failed to they have styled 'undemocratic July 1st.
effect.
curious official the Secretary there are, the more posts will there be for those who want to indulge Present & constractive plan for acts of the President purely in The Governor has bad great Rather than consent to this at War. War business, colonial in "equeeze" and nepotism. But the present state of affairs cannot dealing with the deplorable con- order to satisfy their own difficulty in apportioning the sum bill, and if this was the only business, and finally Irish go on for ever, if China does not compose her own differences, the ditions there. Our own opinion political aspirations. It will into the various. Departments but means of securing direct service, business passed into other hands time may well come when others will have to help her to do so. To bold enough to speak the trath, the verdict of the American will work out at about, 50 per-much as I am against the retained responsibility for the Isle is that the President has been deed be interesting, to see what is it is believed that the increase I would prefer to vote a subsidy in successive changes, though he maintain the present deadlock is to court disaster. When will the though he can scarcely hope to people.
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