WATSON'S
NOTES & COMMEN.
THE MEIRIC SYSTEM.
DAY BY DA
„OESTERACE IN USUALLY THE HART STRONGHOLS OF COU
It would be strange if Hong- AND THE BLUSEN
PRICKLY HEAT LOTION adopted the metric system DEFENCE OF FOOLS.
and
PRICKLY HEAT
POWDER
an infallible remedy-immediately rellevas the irritation & effects a speedy oure.
because China is doing so. wouldn't it? But that is what
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CURRENT COIN.
HARBOUR INCIDENT
"DARING JUNK ROBBERY."
(BY MERCATOR 7
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The art of putting trees to r
called
There is little to record this Under cover of darknoka a Læsek. The situation in the daring robbery was on Saturday semble different artiiçiar designs financial world, of Hongkong in night carried out on a marins such sa dinis and animals, one still the same, with persistent hawker's junk. The boat, which which fall into disuse during the may happen on our railway, 30° To-day is the longest day of rumours of the weakness of many was then lying anchored off war, is being revived of lates cording to Mr. Winslow's annual | the year.
firms in the Colony, Money is the central part of the Praya
Topiary," which is the nam rapari. He says...” Communica-
tight, and is likely to continue sa was boarded by a gang of Eva given to this elaborate branch of tiona have been reosived
for some months to come." The man from another junk, and by gardening -- some times There was one fatal case of position of many of the small the showing of daggers the from the Chinese Government, plague notified on Saturday, the arms is precarious, Shanghai hawker was forced to surrender old ari, and one full of interest. barber's gardening”—is a very through the management of the victim being = Chinese. slan is beginning to fool the winch, his savings, which amonated to The two kinds of trees generally Chinese section; respecting the
and the serious drop in Exchange sum of $91. At the completion used are English yew and box. introduction of the metric systam A Chinese woman who was
has brought about consternation of their enterprise, the robbers Wood, preference being given to on all railways in China in 1921, knocked down by a motor car on in the ranks of the merchants brought the boat to the Chios thess on mccount of the fact that and preparations are being made Saturday was sent to the Govern has always bean wild gambling their own boat. That the master hundreds of years, and land the m 2.00 dealers there. Thera Marchants Wharf, followed by they are very hardy, live for for the British section to fall into meat Civil Hospital. line with the scheme if necessary."|
in Shangbai not only in Br-of this latter vessel was inselves admirably to training and Now, the metric system, like the
change bui in every olass of com-collusion with the robbers clipping. Single-stemmed trees To-morrow is the anniversarymodity. For that reason Hong-indicated by the fact that on the TOWD from cuttings give the best decimal system, has numerous of the coronation of His Majesty kong is more solid than Shanghai hawker attempting to follow the results. They are coated into manifest advantages, the chief of King George, who was crowned and a financial crisis is cartain to robbers when they landed on the the requisite design by clipping which is its simplicity. We all at Westminster on June and, hit the Northern Settlement wharf, he was prevented by him, year after year until the desired know how much easier it is to 1921.
harder than it would Hongkong. but, in spite of his vigilance, shape is obtained-a proceeding I am told that some big firms the hawker later jumped over which calls for great patience currency than in sterling, and we
in Shanghai are already For being in possession of two difficulties, and this nows fore-rescued by soms junk people, secure a good clear outline, and ja board, and escaped after being and skill. The great thing is to should all like to think that the automatic pistols. A day would come when there, will be smuggler caught on the Sni An be no amelioration in the position subsequently sent
Chinese sodes evil. If there is going to The report of the robbery was to make the trees thick and solid. a uniform British currency based was this morning sentenced to a during the next month or so we Police, but has secured no re-to what object the tree is intended ury to the so that there will be no doubt as on the decimal system. But this
fine of $250.
are likely to witness unpreced-sults so far in the capture of any to represent The time taken to idea of the railway follwing
entedly bad times in Chină. of the robbers.
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD make calculations in Hongkong
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
'Phone 16.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Mr. B. M. C. da Cunha of No. 1. Gordon Terrace. Kowloon, begs to acknowledge with grateful thanks the invaluable assistance and services rendered by Capt. H. E Murray. I. M.S., and Mr. John Mukerji, assistant to Government Medical Officer, Kowloon, on the occasion of the sad incident to the late Mrs. das Deres, on the 16th
inat.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1930.
THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND.
Chios's lead is merely a matter of To-morrow being the annivers convenience dictated by the ary of his Majesty the King's circumstance that our own line Coronation, a Royal Salute will links up with the Chinese railway, be fired at noon from the Saluting It would be extremely confusing Battery at Signal Hill
We have
and awkward for the two sections to operate on different systems regarding mileage, tonnage, etc. Bat maybe China won't adopt the metric idea at all heard of many intended day. Chinese reforms that have never eventuated that we shall only believe China is really serious in the matter when the system is actually in operation."
THE SHIPPING "AWARD.
quantity of rice in their hands at
enjoyed.
produce a design varies from five to ninety years, although an ex- cellent specimen may be furnish- ed by from twenty to `fifty years' training.
Do you know that St. Paul's
truction,
A
cost
Why does not the Hongkong| MARIE TEMPEST- Government vouchsafe the public some information regarding the ONE MORE PERFORMANCE. present, the condition of such The Marie Tempest Company stock, and other information were to have ended their seasoa M. Ericsson and Co. of Stock-it is high time that His Excellency as staged on Saturday night, object in the city of London, was Mr. S. E. Lindstrom, of Messrs. bearing on the subject? I think here with "Outcast," which Cathedral, the most prominent holm, telephone suppliers, left issued a communique from the but owing to the fact that the paid for by a tax on coal? Such for Stockholm via USA. by the Secretariat giving all the latest steamer which will take them to as the case, and one writer has Swedish steamer Sumatra yester news about the rice holdings of Manila does not sail before said that it consequently deserves
the Government. I am told that Friday, another performance, by to WOAT. 39 it does. whatever stocks the Government special request, will be given onmoky coat! The total
St. Paul's Wednesday, namely," Mrs. Dot."of
Cathedral The light cruiser Flora, which have in band is rice that has more
Miss Tempest scored another was £747,954 Va. 9. which or less rotted through long storage. served several commissions on The Government sometime ago big hit on Saturday night by her amount was discharged by coal- the China Station, is to be sold out of the service, at an early sent a gentleman from here with terpretation of Miriam, and the axes. So it can truly be said date. She also served on the old consignment of rice to be sold with a reality that left nothing part in building up as well as
dramatic parts were
invested that coal has played an important Pacific Station, now divided VP man's passage, it is said, was paid.to-be desired. Mr. Grahame destroying.
in the United States. That gentle-
Speaking of des According to a letter which we South America, China and New but up till now nothing has been Browne bad a part that he played dedicated to St. Paul and built
between the North America,
First church published on Saturday, some of Zealand Stations.
heard of him. Gossip is busy in with wriut, and as a man dis- the Chinese shipowners are still
the city regarding the gentleman appointed in love his rendering on the same site as the present iguoring the terms of the recent
referred to. Surely the public was perfect. His Excellency and one, was destroyed by fire in 1087. shipping award, whilst others are
The end of a party to which are entitled to know from the Lady Stubbs and a party from It was founded by King Etheltert As each summer cotues round. bringing the discomforts of rates us from Dezember 15th les+ of being invited, and of which he all this.
flatly refusing to pay the new Mr. A. J. Ablong had the honour Government something regarding Government House witnessed the about 610. After the fire. Bishop performance, which was deeply, Maurice commanced rebuilding. hamid hest, we hear people say that the weather is the most] Now, this kind of action can only was a most. jovial guest, found
but in the great fire of 1666 unbearable they have experienced. This year it is being said on lead to tresh trouble, and it is him lying in an unconscious state
the Church of Old St. Paul's was all bands "It wasn't so bad as this last year the same as is said about time somebody informed the in the gutter at Haiphong Road (Shanghai
The scarcity of rice supplies in]
destroyed. It was larger than every year. True, the conditions of the past week have been trying objecting owaris that they have An Indian Sergeant in the course rice
is buoying up. our favourable rates. Hence their the present cathedral, which Sir in the extreme, and it is but natural that we should have eavions to act up to the terms of the arbit-of his beat found hire there heavy stocks, with the hope that rates down so as to buy cheap the first stone was laid by this
merchants, who have attempt to sell heavily and press Christopher Wren built. In 1575- thoughts of those who have gnae Home on leave, and who are now rators' decision. enjoying a young English summer. Our own thoughts have been some of these owners, apparently, tentions endeavoured to pick him be drawing upon this Colony for down here considerabls. What five gears it was completed. One The excuse of on Saturday, and with kindly in- before long Shanghai will eventually. Prices have gone celebrated architect, and in thirty- very much on England lately, so much so that we are tempted to is that they have not been official PP let our fancy roam for a while amidst all the summer beautiestly notified of the award. That is enter into a desperate struggle enquiry from the Northern Set- yarn
Mr. Ablong awoke to life to her needs. There has been some the actual, stocks of Shanghai peony per day was said to have our wonderful garden isle. It may be but an expression of what a quibble. We know that the two with the policeman, who blew on tlement for rice during the week,knowD, 85
are in Hongkong is not been the wage paid to carpenters has been very inadequately termed "home-sickness" term that Guilds and the Shipowners' Pro his whistle to summon aid. The and I am told that some basiness stoff percolates to Canton, where The minute-band of the clock is a good deal of this employed in building St. Paul's. we never liked and one which fails to convey or express the full section Association were informed whistle was snatched from his had been put through. There is it goes direct in order to avoid 8 feet long, and weighs 75lb. meaning of home-love. It is indeed pleasant to turn in thought of the terms, and we presume band, and so was the truncheon some demand from Europe as Custom duty. If it comes into from conditions here at this season to the cool greenery of rural that these bodies bave passed on when he fell back England and to pay mental visits to the scenes that will always the information to their several to belp him in
оп it well.
Hongkong direct from Shanghai). have a powerful appeal to Englishmen, no matter to what corner of members. If there are owners
the struggle.
and is re-exported to Canton, the earth they might roam.
Mr. Ablong
One of the things that is differ- The four market is beginning would be
the Custom duty at Cantonrently who do not belong to the As-brought to the Police Station
regarded in The writer was impelled in a reverie by the cable received sociation, but whe
Japan is the same 2.5 agreed to under the combined pressure of to look up, and prices base foreign goods. Since April last, assassination, even for the best
on assassination. Ia the other day speaking of the Ascot Race meeting, and he roamed arbitration, surely the arbitrators the Sergeant and another police-advanced
the West again through the wooded country surrounding the famous beath themselves could notify them of man who had most promptly toro-class quality being quoted favourite counts has been thus.-it only succeeds in creating slightly American the drop in some of the of motives, is deprecated in that There was Sunningdale and the stretches of open land by Windsor the decision.
$3.60 Anyhow, it is the led up to assist bis superior. Mr. P Great Park, and going westward and southward there were the height of folly for these, pwners. Ablong told the Magistrate to-day $3.30, the rate ruling a law dass fall of $50 per bale. Japanese patient. Henri IV. is one of the against 12, a fall of $60 per bale; and 103, sympathy for the assassin's shady cool pinelands of Bracknell and Wellington College. He to quibble over the matter. They that bis mind was one complete a For American No. 2 the yarn is coming in freely as well, standing examples of men who lived again though the romances of many days spent in the sylvan, bad better make up their minds to blank from the time he left the dealers are asking from $2.90 to the present stocks being about would not be nearly such popular valley of the Thames; re-visited the backwaters of Marlow. Cook- pay the new scale without further congenial parts, and be came to ham. Maidenhead, Wargrave and even up to Pangbourne and ado.
$3.25 per sack Shangbai bas 3,000 bales. himself only when be found him-ot been able to fill the contracts Goring, and was made mindful of the power of attraction that these
having been. quiet and restful spots posses.
self in the police cell. And there came back also many WE ARE TROUBLED."
that she made with countries Mr. remembrances of the West Country: of the valley of the Tone, of
recentis: A lot of flour has gone Silver is beginning to improve popular failure to regard assassin- Ablong had eventually to pay from Shanghai to Egypt The again. A summary of a recent ation in the right spirit, in Japan 810 Ota the As examples of the wierd and of being incapably drunk and price of Shanghai four has gone report of Messrs. Samuel Montagu assassination is regarded spiri- the execution of the American Bour. Stocks of the week to Eongkong explains ed. In the classical instance of
stralian Bour locally have nearly the reason for the drop. China, the Forty-seven Ronin, the in
the rugged coast of West Devon, of Minehead and Ilfracombe. With
WALA eventually
two charges
per sack.
►
heroes
but for
murdered
The fault lies, in a
the swiftness 'common to thought he was in the land of hills and cranky communications which assaulting an Indian policemanup, but it is still cheaper than & Co., which Renter wired daring tually, and the assassin is exall- streams south and west of Shrewsbury; was impatiently transferred from time to time find their way dutr, and a further $150 as co-finished, all the contracts made we are told, has been a hearyjured lord is regarded as of little
to the delicate beauties of south Sussex, and was longing for a into smell of the deep bracken of
the wide common lands much feature of the Home Counties. In fact,
A
in
the latter
newspaper offices, some journals
to pensation occasionally publish! wherever selected gems coder the beading: damaging his whistle.
his thoughts took him to the haunts of quie: hours spent "Pity the Poor Editor." There is
to ponder од and
mach evidently some gentleman in
in England he found much
to long for Rural England has been praised and sung as it Japan who is burning to tell as
for
deserves to be: Kipling bas given us some fine poetry on the garden something or to seek some favour! LONGSHORE JUNKS imposs.ble to secure Australian £26,116,132 ounces of silver, or risk in a cause in which he bas
a missive
of England; bat there still seems need to entbose some Englishmen from us, for our mail-bag on with the glories of the land which gave them birth. It is the men Saturday contained who stay at Home who disparage most and it is the men who have which we will give in full but gone out to the hot, dusty places of the world who learn to which leaves us somewhat in the appreciate to the fall what a wonderful little island it is in which dark. Here it is:-"Yokohama.
up.
MANY OWNERS FINED. The owners of 20 junks and 19
J
with the flour milla in Australia seller, and all eyes are now turn-account and no sympathy is before the embergo came into ed to India to support the mar-wasted on him. All is reserved force having been completed. By kat. During the years 1916 to for the NARSIUS, Apparently the end of this week it would be 1919. India imported actually the idea is that the assassin rune
flour from the local market in three-quarters of the silver mined nothing to gain. Any ides that it commercial quantities. The throughout the world during the is cowardly to attack an unarmed Snancial crisis here has not three years onder review. The and unprepared man has never affected the flour market. The yearly average works oo! occurred to the propagators of the
до less tben they were privileged to be born. Love of country is the truest Japan, June 3, 1920.-Dear Sir,-95mpans were prosecuted this in the commodity. hence the times the average Indian im-history of Japan it would be
dealers have not been profiteering at
fifty-six murder cult. In the bloodstained patriotism, love nut only of pleasing scenes and rural quiet, but of Will you kindly let me trouble morning, before Commander C. Wstringency business has had no porta during the a people, their institutions, their welfare. The English race bas been you for
praceding difficult to find a morder more through many trying vicissitudes but none more so than that which When
од Beckwith. RN. Marine Magis affect the flour market years. The necessity for these cowardly in its conception and 2 few moments.** has just passed out of its most acule stage. Slowly, the people at we we read those words, rate, for lying alongside the Flour has been the cheapest enormous imports was brought more contemptible in its motiva Home are trying to settle down to the peaceful habits of pre-war assumed a
braced ourselves
food in Hongkong-in fact ches-about by the Indian Govern-than Ti Kamon-no-Kami's at. Prays. days though at times it would seen that the social ferment is mood and prepared ourselves for
most sympathetic They pleaded guilty.
per here than in any other partment stopping the import of Sakurada, but it has been found of the world. Supplies have been silver on private account. So impossible to produce a drama f quickening to a dangerous pace. But at the back of all the struganything. But, lo and behold, that the defendant's cargo boats been sufficient at all times for the benovelent sims of a paternal 80 are extolled owing to the Junk Inspector R. Rocha said plentiful, and there has always the Indian people checkmated which the virtues of that great. gling, the indoatrial anrest, the political activity. is the here the communication ended!were alongside between Murray our wants. The' local stocks of Government and at the same popularity of the idea desire to improve, the craving for social harmony
that beauty, the eradication of all the ugly blotches in the national bore all the appearance of a letter between 9 and 10 p.m. on the 18th,300,000: bags to-day. The fall in needs for silver by melting down) poble in itself and that praise of and It was not even signed and it Pier and Pottinger Street wharf American four are computed at time supplied their industrial assassination is an act that is life. There is such a close affinity between environment and began and then left unfinished without a permit.
but natural that thoughtful wen through some interruption or
Exchange should make the price millions of rupees, which the the murdered man is equivalent at Home should be inspired to work for the common elevation other to which the writer must had become, a common practice/ not be felt immediately, as the honour of replacing at high cost. And this is in Japan in 1920, pot His Worship remarked that it of flour dearer, but all this will Indian Government bad the to detraction of the murderers. of their fellows, should seek to make & people as lovely have been subjected. There C&D for cargo boats to be without a dealers are parting with their And to obtain their supplies of in the feudal ages. The actors as the land they inhabit. The desire is not always recognised as be no mistake about the letter for a longside the Praye. It stocks at the usual margin of ad such even by the people engaging in the task but one can legitmate- being intended for us, because it
that ly sscribe it to the propensity in man
Government in the drams were threatened to make everything was most plainly addressed, and Harbour Regulations, and it had| approximate to his highest experiences.
a contravention of the profit, based on their cost.
the with the fate of their hero, and fansact And what Britons owe to their country's native loveliness is not which he really wanted to com-
that the writer bad something to be stopped at once.
whale world, and, when the police practically refused to often realised. It is not a thing that is only seen and admired, that municate to us is a fair inference
possible, pick up a few ounces in interferere. As Mr. Hughes, the Shanghai cotton yarn continues such unusual silver markets as Australian Premier, would say, affects our outward senses. It is something that has woven itself to make, especially since he spent were discharged, but were warned Southern Coast ports in large China, Japan and New Zealand.. one idea sa better or worse than The owners of the sampass to flow into Hongkong and the Arabia, Persia, Muscat, Turkey, it is not necessary to describa into the very make-up of the people, that has reflective expressions ten sen in postage. Now, we in a hundred and one ways, that has given us the inspirations we wonder what it is all about? Does had to ply for hire, and they had the market for Indian yarn, the succeeded. France, by the way, point out the difference. Bow to get permits in future. They quantities. This is demoralising but the Indian Government another, but it is permissible to have and has caused to grow within os that intense longing to be wish us to give him a job, is the same rights as motor boats. make life itself beautiful and pleasant. Beauty is not for the artist be wanting to sell as same paper,
present stocks of which in the has not been so successful, and over, it is encouraging to find alone but is a great constant power that is helping men to shape all or does he desire to plead with us licence fee of $30 per annum and The reason for these heavy im-nickel coinage, is issuing card-influence on the thought of the The owners of junks with a Colony are about 20,000 balexspending the introduction of her dramatists who have a great things like unto it; it is a force that elevates and directe. And so to see that the Anglo-Japanese over were fined $15, or a month's ports of Shanghai cotton yarn board tokens and postage stampe day, making some attempt to it is that the writer can see in the beauties of England something Alliance is renewed? He might hard labour. more than plessing landscapes, something that warrants more than have been a trifle more explicit,
Into Hongkong is not known by way of small - change, and cultivate an admiration for the mere admiration, something that has to be preserved and loved if mightn't he? No, sit, we don't $20 and over were fined $10, or a attempt on the part of the course. In the meantime, the lesson is temporarily eclipsed by Those paying a licence fee of Bome attribute it to a sinister these will be redeemed in due good and great even though their England is ever to be made the home of social beauty, of human mind your troubling as a fille month's hard labour and these Chinese dealers in cotton yarn value of the franc, lire, mark and the violence of those to bout loveliness. Mer ste still victims of base desires and strong passions bit; the pleasure's pure. But what under $20 licence fee were fined in Shanghai who had sold bear kronen hava depreciated terribly, cowardly murder, In the highest but the beauties of nature are slowly worklog their will. And in is it you want? those beauties England is fabulously rich.
and are anxious to buy back at How are the mighty fallon ! political idealE
outlook that it
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$5 each.
to