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IT IS THE CUSTOMARY FATE OF The extremely interesting and NEW TRUTHS TO, BEGIN AS
HERESTES informative contributed article which we published in our issue SUPERSTITIONS-Husley. of Friday with regard to the Local and Chins Coast Storm
There was again a clean Signals bas brought forth a very of health in the Colony sensible suggestion from a cor- Saturday. respondent. As matters stand at present, the latest detailed information regarding any iy- phoons that may be reported is given in the China Coast Code, [displayed on Blackhead's Hill.
but, as "Propellor" says, thesa signals are not vary distinctly
Bishop Robinson and Bishop seen in Hongkong even in the Warne, of the U.S. Episcopal beat of weather, whilst in the rain Methodist Mission, arrived here squalls that frequently precede by the Empress of Asia. bad weather they cannot be read
at all from the island side of the harbour. The idea he puts
The cost, as our correspondent suggests, would be inünitesimal, whilst the value of the extended
ed by the Empress of Asia.
CURRENT COIN.
(BY “MERQATOR.") -
BURIED ALIVE.
A CANTON STORY:
DO rice to
the
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
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The matala market is looking The following is taken from The family had just lost their up. During the week prices of the Canton Times.-Patriarchal | Hittle Ung. It had been run over practically all kinds of iron and government still bas. its place by a motor-car, and the remaine steel products advanced by about in Canton. In H Tong,
a were awaiting state burial in the bill three per cent. The general little village just north of Canton garden. The -two
on opinion is that we shall see higher City, ons Tsao Ab Sum was very brothers
younger ware discussing the prices for all kinds of steel and wicked. He had stolen many an ox, tragedy: "Do
you think," iron goods in about one or two fifteen in all, bis fellow villagers inquired the elder, that God months' time, despite the heavy say. The last crime was committed would perform a miracle on Toby We have to thank Mr. E F.drop in exchange that bad occur more than a month ago. Like other and bring him back to life if we Aucott for a batch of magazines red. In quicksilver the market persons who have done wrong, he aaked Him?" "Oh, no!" wisely for the troops.
bas firmed up, and there are now escaped from his village; but he replied, the younger, aged four. buyers at $175 par Bask was caught just the same, as over” “You see, God wanted a little for spot stocks. The London villager is a detective and police dog in Heaven, so He looked 19 109. to £1010, per flask. The concerned. Of course, Tsao A Sum nicest dog He know; so He took market bas
advanced from man, so far as village affairs are round and found Toby was the latest cahla from Home states had to face trial before the elders of bim." A pause: then be added that the tendency is upward for three villages, as he had committed under his breath: "Bat it was quicksilver. Lead had been arm crimes against victims not only in a very skinny thing to do!” Mr. J. H. Ellis, who has been with buyers at $1450 per picul his own village but also in other forward is that when these appointed Assistant Agent of the x-warehouse Hongkong for the places. To steal an at is a capital | symbols are displayed they should Admiral Line in Hongong, arriv./khp, brand, L. b lead is being etisie, as far as village law goPunch" can be detected in an It is so seldom that "Mr sold locally at $12.50 per picul since the people exist be repeated on the shipping news
(ex-warehouse. Stocks of both and the area help farmers
insecuracy (writes A Carrey- board at the Post Office and at
brands of lead are scarce. Mild till the iso3. Therefore, an expondant) that an example in a the entrance to the Harbour Amongst the passengers arriv-steel iron bars have been firm, the is a useful and sacred aniam, recent issue of his journal may be Office by means of dat wooden ing here by the Empress of Asia quotation for sizes from 24 inch consequently old folks would not worth noting, especially as the shapes, painted white, which was Miss Elsie Ferguson, the upwards being $2.50 per picul ex- taste beef. T20 Ab Sum was tried point involves a very prevalent could easily be done on telephonic famous star of the Paramount godown, and for 1 inch upwards and found guilty. He was given the is apprehension. On p. 129 the instructions from the Observatory Aircraft Picture Company. the price is $10.50 per picul ex-maximum penalty ramely, to be following paragraph is quoted
godown.
A good lot of wire buried alive. On the day of the All is not plane sailing yet for
from an evening paper"> nails passed hands Isst week execution of the sentence, Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires service to the public would be removed to the Government Civil very firm. and higher prices and all the young men of the this makes it evident that plane A Chinesa boy has been at $14.50 per keg. The market is village watchmen beat the markets. Panch's comment on the German in search of foreign them to forward their names and addresses with communications great. True, the Observatory Hospital suffering from injuries are forecasted. addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, but a and officials are kep: busy when there sustained in a motor car accidens has been done at G. $10.50 per right feet deep. Before Tao b sailing" is taken to be a misspell-
Some business village gathered around a rectangle
■vidence of their bona fides.
about: All communications intended for publication should be address-public seldom realises the con--
are typhoons are
the in Queen's Road West yesterday. keg for immediate shipment from Sum was invited to make his reat Bas any sailor knows that the ing or misprint for "plain sailing." ad to the Editor.
New York. Owing to the scarcity ing place in the hole. he was latter common form is simply tinuous hours of duty they have
of stocks of sheets, prices of wild feasted with wise and meat, while to put in, or the heavy respons-: The body of Warrant Officer steel ship plates and sheets have the elders performed sacrifices for iblity which is theirs at these Holmes has been recovered from been very urm. Mild steel ship the benent of his soul, although calculation of short distances is the misunderstanding of the times.
landsman. In That accounts for the the naval camber. There was a plates are being sold at $9.50 per duty compelled them to sever their
pavigation the
Observatory on from the public on Saturday. deceased being given fourth quality, is quoted locally at rite being ended. two watchmen error to assume that so much of vers proper practice of cutting the large attendance at the funeral pical ex-godown. Belgian glass relations with an ex thief. The it is possible without appreciabe called "plane sailing" because telephone service when signals full naval honours.
$12.50 per ease of 120 square feet lowered Tsac Ah Sun into the the ocean is a plane surface. weather experts would be spend.) are up; were it otherwise, the
against the quotation from Europe hole, head downward and while all Long voyages are always worked, ing most of their time answering to learn that 31r. O. A. Smith, the kong. The
His many friends will be glad of £2 13s. per case c. i.f. Hong- the young sed and telephone calls. But this isolation
market here for shouted, the watchman of another circles, segments of which are spectators As far as possible on "great of the Observatory provides a Whiteaway. Laidlaw and C., Lid.
General Manager of Messrs Belgian glass is doll.
sillage shut at the convict with the shortest curvas joining an Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for our correspondent's suggestion over a month, has returned to as well in the
| additional argument in favour of
native gun loaded with shots which. who has been ill at hospital for There has bean some activity pierced the body of the victim in two points on a sphere, and such fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
Blour market. numerous places, The last chap the use of spherical trigonometry which, so far as we are able to basiness.
calculations, of course, involva The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be judge. has everything to recom-
American flour has advanced ter of the life of Tsao Ah Sum was instead of the simpler plane belivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company. Lad..mend it. Perhaps Mr. Jeffries
from $3.65 per sack of 50 lbs. to written when all present rushed to Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
who is one of the most sensible Twelve months hard labour is no quotation for Australian his body and set up a monument
$4.10 for the first quality. There the tomb to help throw dirt overigonometry. So the evening | paper quoted should really have and obliging Observatory oficials was the physic inflicted to-day flour as there is little or no stock with the inscription, T. Ab Congratulated on its unusual we have ever had, will consider on a Chinese robber-banishee here. The sale of a large quantity Sum. the Ux Thief, is Buried recommending to the Governmeal who returned to this Colons of Australian and Shanghai flour Here." the adoption of this idea.
when he was supposed to keep is reported to Egypt. Stocks have
"An Old Guardsman." discuss- away from it for a period of increased from 300,060 sacks to, twenty years.
ing in one of the Lordon papers 400,000 sacks owing to heary business. There is a lot of money the rumoured abolition of the arrivals from the United States. to be made in rice brokerage, and Irish and Welsh Guards, says that The .. Chat Sang, an Indo-Shanghal flour is quoted at $3.20 naturally enough the exporters of the Coldstream look down on the The latest debate on the Irish China Navigation Company's for the second quality. It is stated this cereal to the United States Scots Guards and both regiments question in the House of Com-boat, came in sesterday momingos led with stocks of four and presence of brokers icon
that the Straits Settlements are fara rather perturbed st the look down on the Irish Guarda. mons boils down to a matter of She had a collision with a Datch will therefore not need Cour States in Hoogkong, for it is came from Ireland, the regiment the Yet the Scots Guards originally the rival factions blaming each steamer at Singapore. She re- other for the present distressful
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IRISH WRANGLING.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 3.-1920.
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Beyond the enquiry from Egypt | business. There is therefore, alter Colonel Scor, who founded it nor lays at the door of Sir Edward'
there is none from any other a mild Butter in the dovecotes before the Restoration, and ander Carson responsibility for the
centre. South Africa has been of the exporting firms. for whom it distinguished itself as creation of the extremis: move-i Whilst putting out some clothes buying third grade four in Au- the brokers who intend to est part of the Parliamentary amy. ment, winding up his indictment to day on the verandah, a Chin-stralia. This quality of Australian tablish themselves in the Colony For many years past, however, with the statement What a glorious week-end: Clear skies, light breezes, a pure was the Ulster movement that Voeux
that it ese girl living at a house in Des four is no better than bran, for bave very good connections in the the regiment has been composed Road. yesterday over-even the Chinese will not bus United States, and we are likely principally of Scotsmen, and after atmosphere-in fact everything as it should be. No disturbing swayed the vacillating German balanced herself and fell into the second quality Australian four.to see a good deal of business the Crimean War Queen Victoria thought of typhoons, a rising barumeter, and just enough time to have wind in favour of waw. the weekly open-air relaxation 90 essential in these supposedly Irish Unionist leader retorted by the building. She was removed flour are going up, for in the
The street from the second floor of It looks as if prices of American passing through their hands. sanctioned the appointment of a "dog days." And after the recent rains, how refreshingly verdant saying
band of pipers in Highland garb that this WES our hillsides are. Well might we sing of the beauties and charm of unmitigated lie-a more or less
"anto Hospital.
United States the mills are trying
Stocks of tin in the Colony are to each of the two battalions. Da Hongkong's unrivalled scenery. We sometimes talk of it among polite way of telling "T.P." tha:
to buy wheat in the fields at steadily growing less. There has the other hand, the Coldstream ourselves but are inclined to take it very much for granted. We he was a shameless liar. In the
A fire broke out on Saturday knows what turn the market will and this has enabled a portion of Coldstream,
bushel. But nobody been a rise of some five points. Guards derive their name from need a little freshness in our view-we need to see it all over again course of further debate. Sino in Lam Lo Mi Lane, Kowloon eventually take.
in Berwickshire, for the first time and to let ourselves enthuse a little. Instead Feiners were, by
the stocks to be sold recently. whence they marched to London- one set of City, amongst a quantity of dried of grousing and grumbling at this and at that. of complaining here speakers, Hamed for the Belfast Brass stored in the cockloft.
There are about five thousand in 1660, under the command of and declaiming there, we have scope and cause for evonder and joy upheaval, whils: t another the shower of sparks from the
The prospect of trade being tons of tin in Hongkong, which George Monk (aferwards Duke of if we could but manage to keep alive the pleasures of first ex happenings were laid at the door cookhouse is supposed to bave opened between Great Britain at the present market rate of $80 Albemarle), for the express pur- periences. the enthusiasms of a stranger.
of the Unionists. But when will caused the outbreak, which and Russia is immediate and as a pical, means still heavy stocks pose of restoring the monarchy. The writer has seto Hongkong anew this week-end: a visiting our talkative M.P.'s begin to resulted in the complete destruc- Russia is supposed to bave wheat in band. There have been ship Monk was a general in the Far- friend has removed the scales that were dimming the vision, has realise that the most urgent tion of the house. The Police, in the Black Sea it is a factor ments to America and England. liamentary forces and an admiral broken into the familiarity that breeds contempt. During the short matter at the moment is not sided by the villagers, prevented which cannot be ignored. News By the Empress of Asia there of the fleet. The regiment still motor ride to Repulse Bay there was the glow of appreciative who has caused the trouble, the fire from spreading, and about Russia is so unreliable leases for San Francisco Mr. J.M. bears upon its colour & swall admiration as each new beautiful scene came into view-momentary but how it is to be composed eventually managed to put it out. that we shall have to wait until Brady, of the Pacific Rice Mills. Union Jack in honour of its first glimpses of splendour. Not the garrulous prattle of a man who felt Regarding Ireland as
trade relations are established to The Pacific Rice Mills control colonel's navel rank-a privilege he was bound to say something, but the spontaneous and unbidden ablaze. it is as though the fire-
know how much flour Russia has. two rice mills in America, and are possessed by not other regiment expression of an artist's soul. Never had that ride been so full of men, the occupants and the crowd is completing a quarter of a wheat sitnation.
This year, Professor Danenberg Australia is another factor in the considered the 'argest rice millers in the army. experience: such a procession of pure enjoyments. The hillsides of onlookers engaged in a heated century's musical activities in has a good crop of wheat, we had six years experience in rice. If Australia in the States. Mr. Brady bas beautiful in themselves-sweeping down to a pensive sea dotted wrangle to decide who set fire to Hongkong, and to mark the sball see a break in these present He will be relieved by Mr. Joba time occupies anything like the with islands near and distant. The curves of tiny form-edged it, whilst, as they talk, the build- occasion he has produced a most high prices. It is still early in Rawlins.
No literary personage of our bays, the jagged rock promontories, and the spreading brown sails of ing becomes increasingly involved interesting little illustrated book- the day to forecast the future bigh-sterned junks combined to give pictures that would make of in the flames. Let's put the firslet. It opens with a brief account of the four market. If Australia In one of their recent weekly We have plenty of excellent place that Dickens held for s generation in popular esteem. paintings mere daubs on common canvas. The beautiful horse-shoe out first; then, if we feel like it, of the Professor's career, from is of Deep Water Bay, and then the bay of bays with its comely we can have a quiet little dis-which it is learned that for three whezz
blessed with 2 good market reports, Messrs. Samuel, writers who are in the public eye shaped building and its sloping lawns. Could one find better? The cussion on who caused it.
crop, then she can Montague and Co. state that the to-day, whose names and whose Shanghai friend, who had previously spoken of Nanking Road, of
years be, made Leipzic bis head-supply South Africa, Egypt and outlook for silver at present is not faces, thanks to the illustrated Shanghai's growing importance and of Hongkong's slowness, bumbly
quarters, taking private lessons other places that have been draw good, for melted coin for realisa- papers, are perfectly familiar. But conceded "But we've nothing like this." How many of us go on
or the piano from the world-ing upon her for their supplies of tion, is
arriving and likely these worthy people make their famous pedagogue Professor flour. so that prices in the Far to arrive from the Continent, appeal to a special class, or at and are yet unmoved? Big thunderous breakers were combing on
Teichmuller, whilst Professor East would become easier. We which was a continual buyer of the most to particular classes, the beach, and making a roar of pleasant sound. Useful as they The whole trouble with Ireland. Schrek, Cantor of St. Thomas can always rely upon Shanghai considerable amounts before the Dickens appealed to all grades of are, one wanted to pick up all those ugly, squat matsheds and hurt of course, is that we are dealing Church, Leipzie (successor of for supplies of flour. On the war, so that the Continent is now society. The announcement of bis them out of a scene they were disfiguring. There's room for valu with impatient men or both sides. John Sebastian Bach) gave him other hand, North China flour is a seller og balance to s
very intention to be present st s able Government action there so soon as something better can be The Sinn Feiners won't be satish lessons in Sarious theoretical not popular with foreigners out considerable extent. The drastic meeting was enough to cram it to provided. The tea on the balcony, the ride home in the indescribed with constitutional methods of subjects. It is also recorded that in the Far East, Shanghai requirements of the United States the doors. His "readings," which ably glorious sunset and the train of satisfying mental reflections attaining their ends. They prefer during the past decade no fower flour makes black bread, and this Mint for certificates as to the U. were actually a series of dramatic need hardly be spoken of they have been experienced by us all. violent measures. And the Un-than 300 pupils have passed is not it's only bad point. It does 8. origin and refining of the silver impersonatians of the characters And the visit to the Peak later, with its wonderful views! What a violence with violence. The one every grade of proficiency rang- and wory soon. There is there-metal, though actually suitable, that has never been aqualled. ionists are prepared to answer through his hands, students of not stand the climate, gets lumpy bars may cause a good deal of in his works, created a sensation time they had bad, this visitor sad the resident grown inured.
And that is one of the greatest dangers of living in Hongkong. group is just as much in the ing from seven years of age. The fore no comparison between the to be excluded from purchase Even frigid Edinburgh, which We are apt to grow so very tired. Keen senses become dulled, wrong as the other. Both are ex-booklet also contains a little American and Shanghai grades because the ownere cannot de- chilled "glorious Siddegs," till an freshness is lost in an ocean of Brong complacency and we make a tremists; and it is the extremists dissertation on "The Home Proof flour, American flour can finitely verify the contents. As occupant of "the gods" drawled habit of being bored. "Can do" is our task-master and "Maskos
who #re causing all the blems of Music." some advice to stand the climate, is white and it stands at present the U.S. Mint out a reluctant tribute, lost its our watchword. We need a little of that freshness we once had, we trouble. Sir Edward Carson talks young musicians by Robert remains good for at least six want the power to be enthusiastic. And if we are to get back to of treason and assassins, conveni-Schumann, a few general rules of months. Of course, it is dearer requires strict proof se to the head over Dickens. When Dickens that native and bealthy state of mind we have to get back also to ently forgetting that by encourag-practising,
origin of all silver tendered. A gave of than Shanghai floursome fifty Mint certificate has to be worn the murder scans in
a private "reading” of native and healthy nature; absorb more of her invigorating freshing armed resistance to an Act various concerts and recitals in cents more but it is worth the to by the vendor, mine owner and Twist," Mrs. Kemble said lo ness; learn to love snew her handiworks in which Hongkong is so of Parliament he has been just as which Professor Dapenberg has higher figure.
reducer, indicating the situation pressively, richly blessed. Whether we travel to office by tram or by ferry the the Sina Feiners have. If both who was born and received his treasonable in his activities as figured. To Professor Danenberg,
The people of Love opportunity is there. We can all catch something of the generosity
A number of San Francisco duction works, and stating that sensation for the last fifty years, of our great common mother. When all our motor roads can be the one party and the other would early musical education in the firms of brokers are about to open no part of the relative parcel was and now they've got it opened with safety, when we have another highway threading its but show a little patience and Colony we extend our hearty branches in Hongkong. One of mined or at any time treated by eminent medical man begged him way through the bills by Devil's Peak and on to Sha Tau-kok, and give constitutional methods a congratulations on the excellent then-Messrs. Wellish and Co-Buy reduction works or refineries to modify his treatment of when the glorious beauty spots of our island and Peninsula bave chance, the Irish situation would record which he has established I hear, has already established an outside the United States. These rendering, else he would have an been brought to easy accessibility, then Hongkong might well be right itself in course of time. But in the musical life of Hongkong, office in the Colony. This was regulations are not satisfactory to andience come the Meccs of Eastern travellers, the envy of all other peoples neither the one or the other will to which we hope he will for predicted some time ago. These the United States emelters, who What are the pictures of the Orient. There is nothing fanciful in that prospect it in all give the Home Rule Bill a trial. many more years land his mark-American rice brokers are going consider them to be stringent and ed with a but a reality now,'
There's the rub.
to make s bid for the brokerage cumbersome. -
living here day after day, seeing all this wealth of natural beauty. EXTREMISTS ALL.
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