SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1920.
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A GREAT FRBOR OF OUR HONGKONG TWENTY- H.C.L" must be getting quite NATURE IS NOT TO KNOW WHERE WITH ANY REASONABLE AC-
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a burden at Home these days TO STOP, NOT TO BE SATISFIED FIVE YEAR'S AGO. Not only is there increased cost
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
in the
Eccentric golf balls, which duck Much disappointment WAS caused by the non-arrival of the human bare long been a puzzle or twist or aldie sa if they were mails by the Empress of Asia, to their makers and users. It has owing to a Ittle difference just been decided that a ball of between the Canadian Facilio specified weight shall be the Ocean Services. Limited, and the standard, but weight is not Canadian Government. It tran-character, and idiosyncrasy spires that the contract between abounds in the best of balls. August 1st-The rate of the these two parties expired recently. Tests by means of the X-ray There were two cases of plague Dollar, on demand, to-day is and a better arrangement for the disclose slight errors fetter would have cost 2d,, or that notifed yesterday (one fatal). 29. 1-5,8d.
C.P.O.S. was asked-that
isphericity of the centre core, railway fates would have been both being Chinese.
instead of the old terms, the so that now, in lieu of a "post- doubled? In the cable to hand
C.P.0.9. asked to be paid for the mortem "examination, degañera, yesterday we were glad to note
August 1st. Many months carriage of the Canadian mails It is notified that during the! that the Government has decided absence on leave of Mr. Arne have now elapsed since the very on the basis of space. I now learn in the ball's lifetime. Diagnosis tion of the heart may be diagnosed togive further consideration to the Schou Sorensen, Consul for strongest representations were that an arrangement has bee will not curs the complaint, but question of raising workmen's Norway in Hongkong, Mr. Sverre sent to the Colonial Office and arrived at between the Canadian it will lease the attached sphere fares, because a decision in that Barg will be Acting Cousal in War Ofice from this Colony Government and the C.P.O.S. sound and whole as a C3 practice direction would maan a very charge of the Norwegiso Consul-pointing out the absolutenecessity and the mails will again be carried ball while only Al
of obtaining for the Colony an from Vancouver by the Empress be selected for match play. heavy item for the millions of ate.
enlargement of its boundaries.vessels. It is difficult to glean all workers in London and other large
When this territory Was towns who are forced to travel to
the facts. That the mails should have been taken off at Vancouver Romance is what every beart
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920.
CEYLON'S ** REFORMS. '
A HONGKONG ROBINSON CRUSOE.
LOCAL DEFENCE.
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much so as any heroine of Maurice Hewlett's earlier tales of love. And what more could
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It is notified that, at the ex- first ceded and from their work by trainpiration of three months, the infantry was armed with the was not the fault of the Company, longs for, writes Jessie E. Donbar And the point to be remembered Tung Hing Navigation Company, int-lock muskets, and the biggest and the Canadian Government in the Pall Mall Gazette. There about these workers is that they Limited, will, onless cause is are, for the large part, just the shown to the contrary, be struck arsenals would have barely pro-they would be doing to traders in noble things in the world in our
to be found in cannon
our could not have realised the injury have beens and still are, many ADF off the Register and the Company palled shot from scross London's sub-will be dissolved. further burden.
the the Far East by their action. The time, but of glamour—the especial urban millions bave a weekly
narrowest part of the barbour.
annoyance has been increased by glamour that belongs to romanca We were perfectly safe from an the fact that the Great Northern,there is little or none. If the struggle to "make both ends meet" that needs no intensifying. To His Excellency the Governor enemy at Kowloon, or on Lamswhich is carrying the mails that whole world were in as desperate Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which requires/casual travellers, forced to make/bas appointed His Honour Mr.In 1860 our men carried Speider|were taken off the Empress of a case as we—in this particular them to forward their games and addresses with communications Journeys, the burden will not be/Skinner Turner, a Judge of His rifles, and the first Armstro¤S Asia, will not be here before the way there would be nothing
Majesty's Supreme guns
were to be found in fourth of next month, and not to left but to resign ourselves. addressed to the Editor, no: necessarily for publication, but a and 50 bard, but for these workers (and Britannic
we have seen thousands teeming Court for China, to be Member our field batteries only. The day, as previously advertised. 1 But it is not. There are avidence of their bona fides.
of the opposite bear that she was delayed by the countries where lovers live in All communications intended for publication should be address-out of Liverpool Street) we have of the Full Cours of Hongkong acquisition
for the Session commencing on peninsula became necessary for typhoon and has not arrived in an atmosphere of romance, as a real sympathy.
or about the 3rd August.
the protection and defence of the Manila as yet. INDIA AND THE LEAGUE
Island. We first teased and then The forthcoming meeting of the Tenders are being invited for obtained the cession of it. To-day
of the We pay the Canadian Pacific one want? Why, then, are we in Council of the League of Nations the construction of a wood refase the acquisition by promises to be an important ane lighter for the Sanitary Depart-opposite range of hills from the Ocean Services, Limited, for the England cheated out of our Capacity of hold and Cap-sui-Moon Pass to Tamtoo carriage of the mails from here birthright? I believe the enemy judging by the subjects that are ment
is essential the the same rate as we pay other of women and love to be sport. to be discussed. President batchway not less than 3,500 Head Wilson, who has called a general cubic feet. Accommodation for 14 effective defence of this city with companies, the rates being laid Sport makes me too civilised.
under docks, arsenal, barracks down for men to be provided. The tenderit
Hongkong You shake hands sometimes meeting of the League November, will have to be an to include full equipment at and and magazines as was Kowloon Urdinance, namely, five cents per literally, sometimes metaphoric- interested spectator of the July ready for use, and to state & time in 1860, far more essential in fact, parcel, and one cest for a letter, ally-with your едешу, UT air, but the world knows that in which the vessel will be com-for modern artillery has a range or newspaper or sample. Since opponent, before you begin to try that would enable shell to be the contract made between the to annihilate him. And, whether his sympathies will be with thepleted.
thrown into the Harbour from C.F.OS. and the Canadian deliberators. From the British
he wins or you win, again be of view, one of the Tenders are being invited for Mirs Bay at the back of these Government expired, the subsidy receives the handshake. point most important matters being the lease of Crown land known hills. Lyeemoon Pass is only ball at these rates had to be paid raised is the claim from as portion of Kowloon Marine to a quarter of a mile wide. The to the C.P.OS., but now that the Ginvernment of India Lot No. 83, containing about bills on the Chinese side com-the Canadian Government has
which any steamer owes to an- for membership of the Council. 96,673 square feet, for a period of mand those on our side. The come There will be many points raised six months from the 1st Septem-posession of Lama to the Seath the Hongkong Government will other in distress. It was a matter the West have to pay again to the Canadian of duty acd no: of money. One in opposition, but we think they ber, 1920, renewable for further and Cowerbow to
is inclined to`take off one's hat to Under the new are all genuinely overridden by periods of six months but subject is equally essential from the Government. the fact that India is a country to certain conditions which can military point of view. Are we rangement between the C.P.OS. the O.SK. over this matter. of itself, that has to be counted be ascertained at the Office of the going to have this rectification of and the Government of Canada,
frontier or not? From a business we shall have to pay to the Decisions in collision and on in any world crisis, just as it Director of Public Works.
point of view, too, we would be | Dominion Government eight stranding cases seldom give com- was in the recent war. All the
Church Notes says good pro- glad to have the opposite shores. francs a kilo for letters and plete satisfaction to everybody. big British Dominions are claim-
would be much mare postcards and one franc for print-Shipping aut Engineering has ing similar entry upon the Council gress has been made with the There and we think that the principle building of the Cathedral Hall in freedom of trade than 1. unfert-fed matter. There are contract weighed in with a note of protest at present poesible.and non-contract lines. The con against the finding of the Marine has already been suficiently well spite of the beavy min. which upately.
at last tract lines are those that have an Court of Enquiry that was bald agreed to to need no further has certainly been well cakulat. We would be free
with the British here into the stranding of the ss. argument.
ed to test the strength of the from the incubus of the Imperial agreement
these Fausang off Hainan Head. That retaining wall. Since last month's Maritime Custons and from the Government. Church Notes went to print the army of Customs spies and mer- contract
Post paper seems to think that the mas- In the matter of crime by following sums have been receis-cenaries with which our mer- Ofice pays the Postal Union ter of the vessel was too harshly BTC four treated. There is no profession Europeans Hongkong can be ed for the Building Fund-Mrchants and traders are now con-rates. These rates
francs for letters and newspapers so
little understood by the counted as being wonderfully free, W. L. Pattenden, $100, M. J.jstantly surrounded.
for distances under 1,500 miles layman navigation. The but it was not ever thus. One Witchell, $10.
and 15 centimes for printed average shipmaster is by nature cannot glance through those en-
matter.
The whole thing is aaasssuming and reluctant to tertaining volumes written by Mr. A whist drive was held last even- August 2nd.—It is reported that complicated system. There is plunge into prominence. Fot Norton Kyshe without discovering at the R.G.A.Sergeants Mess, the Military Contribution of so much for land transit and so there are few professions, if any. We are wondering whether the HongkongConstitutional Reforming cases of great frequency in Victoria Barracks.The attendance Hongkong has been fixed at 172 much for sea transit, so that that to materially affect the ers are elated by the news of the proposed changes in the legislative which Europeans were concern was not so good as usual, owing of the revenue, i.e. the same as machinery of Cerion, or whether the imiormation has depressed themed, but perhaps one of the most to the westher and the typhoon will now be levied on the Straits As things are at present, Hongkong and Cerlonara in pratis much interesting cases ever put on signal being up. The prize-win- Settlements. the same position, at any rate so far as the Official Vote in the record was that concerning nets were as follows:-Ladies- Legislative Councils is concerned. Here in this Colony we have soldier, named Thomas Banbury 1st, Mrs. Westlake: ad. Mrs. saven Ufficials and six Unofficials occupying seats, whereas in of the 20th. Regiment. who Marsb; 3rd. Mrs. Hunt Gents Ceylon the respective numbers are eleven and ten. But there is this was stationed in the Colony 1st. Sgt. Prior Wilts Rg: difference in favour of the latter Colony-four of its Unofficials are:
Banbury 2nd, Sg. Holdmat : CATHEDRAL ORGAN. Hallifax to Liverpool, and for Northern contemporary in the year 1967.
this the Canadian Government that all collisions that beve elected by the public, whereas not a solitary one is so chosen in deserted from the Military 3rd, Staff Sgt. Hant, M. P. S. C. Hongkong Both Colonies have been asking for Constitutional Hospital in January of that Master Gunner May was M. C.
get the full rate. If the mails occurred on the Yangtze River Reform, with considerable emphasis on the demand for an Unofficial
are sent to Vancouver and are primarily due to the fact that and owing to his long Sear Majority. Now we know what Ceylon has succeeded in obtaining absence was given up as lust.
then transferred to New York the there are no regulations to prevent On landing here, a Japanese We still have to wait to leam what concessions will be granted to Whilst the Police were searching engineer, formerly employed on the $500 needed for the proposed Land and sea transit charges are it is generally accepted by ship- The following promises towards American Government comes in collisions on this River; although the Hongkong Reformers.
the hills above Aberdeen over two a Japanese ship recently sold to Diaphonic Tube have been re-worked out on the uniform rate masters that the International So far as the changes in the constitution of the Ceylon Legis-months later they came across a British owners in England. was ceived and are hereby gratefully Of course, the great complication Rules of the Road should be lative Council are concerned, the reforms now decided upon meza rocky cave or stone but, which to arrested by Revenue Officers on acknowledged by Mr. Desman is the exchange. Before the war followed, so far as it is practio- that three more Officials and thirteen more Unofficials have been their great surprise they found in-a charge of being in possession of Foller-Mr. A. H. Compton $50 there was not so much fluctuation, able to follow them. The writer added, with the result that the latter secure a substantial majority habited by this missing European 294 taels of raw opium which Mr. C. Blason $50. Mr. A. H. and it is possible that the rate says many collisions are second- of the seats-twenty-three to fourteen, to be precise. That is a cou soldier. The man had been living were discovered in a leather bag Douglas $25, Mr. A. Denison which the Dominion Government arily due to the fact that some. cession to the demands of the reformers, but, in view of the provisos sort of Robinson Crusoe life in he was carrying. When charged $50, Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak paid previous to the new arrange shiprossters, either from necessity which are made, experience alone can show whether any real the solitude of the rocky hill before Mr. R.O. Hutchison at the $100, HDR. Mr. A. R. Lowe ment just concluded may have or that tired feeling, leaves the improvement will be effected. There is a point here of special The cave Wa about six feet Police Court this morning, the $50, Hon. M. N. J. Stabb $50. been a pre-war rate, and, if that control of the vessel on the whole interest to Hongkong. Our Constitutional Reform Association has square, and formed of three sides Japanese stated that he came by amongst its demands a request that the nominative principle be of rock, two of which formed the the Kaga Maru from Marseilles. advantage of the circumstances C.P.O.S. bave asked for a revison the hands of the pilots who As it was necessary to take is so, it is not surprising that the of the lower Yangtze entirely in abandoned in favour of the elective. We are with the Association sides and the third forming At this port a friend gave him the which make possible the acquisi- of the old system. in that aspiration, bat would go farther and urge the desirability of the
thoroughly know the river. They roof. It W35 lined drug to bring into Hongkong Ation of such a stop at about one all the Unofficials being chosen by the electorate and not by specific inside with
know, the course from A to B, B Chinese thatch, fine of $1,000, or three months third the normal price. without bodies like the Chamber of Commerce or the Justices of the Peace. consisting of dried leaves and was hard labour, was inflicted. delay, the balance of $125 bas It will interest many to learn to C, and so on, and after a short In view of the decision in regard to Ceylon, however, it appears to provided with a fire-place made us rather doubtful whether the nominative principle will be entirely of four bricks Beef, fowl, pota-|
been guaranteed by Mr. Denman that the Empress of Ruseis ar-time on the ship they even know abolished here. It is not being thrown over in Ceylon, where for toes and other provisions were him, this morning a Chinese who forthcoming. It might be added instant that is
Mr. N.L. Smith had before Fuller until the fall amount is rived at Vancouver on the 19th just how many minutes and on due date, seconds they should run a given the present only sixteen, and subsequently nineteen, of the twenty-found inside the cave, which was in espousing the cause of a friend- in reply to several enquiries although she left three days later coins, but not one in a hundred
far removed from any pathway. was arrested by the Police on that the Diaphone is athan her schedule time. She did ditions, a But to our way of thinking, the Ceylon reforms, thorough-going Banbury was a bad character in charge of demanding money by recent invention of the late not touch at Kobe owing to bay paled no was cut co as they appear at first sight, are rather discounted by the powers all conscience, for it was found menaces from an old boatwoman. Mr. Hope-Jones, the famous cholera raging there. which are still to be vested in the Governor. Although the that in addition to robbery he Because this woman had not
organ builder and is 80 Unofficials are to bave a decided majority of seats, the Governor is bad committed other serious paid "his friend. who to be empowered to declare the passing of any measure paramountly crimes.
35 entirely new method of tone! Last month there were entered Owing to the man's her
grand-nephew. several production whereby tones of important, whereupon such measure may be carried by the votes of ill-bealth and other causes the months
co-opération with the into by the Japanese two ship. the Official Members. Then, also; His Excellency is given the case was a long time in coming $60,
to great power and smoothness are
with contracts
the
Bures of Lighthouses, experi- German the prisoner visited obtained. A Tube is power to prevent proceedings in Council in regard to any measure before the Sessions and when the boatwoman and asked this equivalent of the "Brass" of the
the Government. The two vessels ments are being conducted by Bureau of Standards in affecting the safety and tranquillity of Colony. In both the one it did come on there were no money from ber on the ground orchestra and no modern orgs and the Nanki Mard, of under America to establish ndio fog
concerned are the Ume Maruthe case and the other, it is apparently within the competency of the witnesses present for the pro-that he was entitled to do so as of any size can be considered 10,000 tons. They will soon sail signalling system. Such a system, these headings, so that the promised Unofficial Majority does not discharged by proclamation. But free board and lodging for several not represented, the proposed from a parts, their charter rate navigator reliable signal under Governor to decide whether given measures come under either of secution, and so the prisoner was be had given her grandnephew complete if this class of tone is from Japan for round trips to when perfected, will give the really amount to very mach after all. Indeed, as we see it, the it was not long before Banbury meaths when he could get no Diaphonic Tuba will supply this being fifteen yea per month. Unofficial Majority movement has, for all practical purposes, been resumed his former pranks, and work. A sentence of one month's deficiency in knocked on the head-what is given with one band is taken away was at large eluding the Tolice bard labour was passed by the Organ-Church Notes. with the other. We are not sorry that that is so, if the Ceylon from May till November. Known Magistrate. changes are to be taken as a precedent in deciding Hongkong's as "The Hermit of the Hills" he reforma. There are Imperial reasons why power over important defied arrest and it was not until measures should remain in the hands of a Governor of a Colonyan organised search party had
three Unofficials are to be elected.
wages amounting
AN IMPROVEMENT.
the Cathedral
JEWISH WAR MEMORIAL.
when the C. P. O. S. carries mails public welfare. I see, too, that from here to London rio Canads the judgment in the Yangtze col- there are many items of calcuta- lison case that was given in Shang- tion. From here the mails are hai does not seem to have pleased carried to Vancouver, from
many of the shipping men. One Vancouver to Hallifax and from certificated master writing to s 27 &
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safely depart from that course to avoid a collision.
In
spy conditions of fog, sud make him independent of the light house flash. The principal object
The T.K.K.'s Africa Maru re- to be sought is the sending out of cently had her voyage delayed a radio signal automatically from because she stood by And a lighthouse, and the rendered assistance to the Kiyo ception of this signal upon a A measure of municipalisation would be wise and sufficient, with tracked him for over a week that will end this little story of the admission of the true elective principal in the case of all Unofficials. he was caught by some Chinese past by saying that Banbury was
Sir Herbert Samuel, High Maru when she was on fire off ship by a simple radio direction But an Unofficial Majority with no safeguards, might well be abused. on the hills above Wanchai. But eventually sentenced to two Commissioner for Palestine, bas Honmoku, and for that delay the finder. If a number of important Unofficial Rule could easily become Vested Interest Rule. We a Chinese Constable lost bis life years hard labour and was beard contributed £100 to the Jewish T.K.K. offered to pay to the 0.8.Klighthouses on the Atlantic const don't want axe-grinders on our Councils. We might easily get as the result of a shooting of in Hongkong no more?
He war memorial fund, which has for the delay, but the offer was are equipped with this system, them if our Unofficials took charge, and especially it certain chosen accident. Mr. Kyshe tells the certainly had an adventurous reached £138,000. It is proposed refused. The O.S.K. said that the the safety of navigation will be
Africa Maru merely did a duty, greatly advanced. bodies did the electing.
to raise £1,000,000.. story quite graphically, but we career here.