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TUESDAY. - AUGUNN 9. 1BNO.
DAY BY DAY.
AN ISLANDE R'S
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in being taken
THE FRAWLEY SEASON.
"FAIR AND WARMER."
1 SHALL PASS THROUGH THIS The begging nuisanca is again WORLD BUT ONCE, ANY GOOD being emphasised in Kowloon, THING THEREFORE THAT I CAN
A great deal of interest is now One can sum up the present where mendicants have been DC, OR ANY KINDNESS THAT I
motoriagation of "Fairand Warmer" by the mach in evidence during the past CAN SHOW TO ANY HUMAN BEADY motorists complain of the Frawley Company last night at few days. A reader tells us that ING, LET ME DO IT NOW. LET heavy patrol consumption of the Theatre Royal in the epithet on Sunday, in the course of a ME NOT DEFER IT OR NEGLECT their cars, and think longingly of "ñne." The acting was moat brief walk around the peninsula, he encountered several groups of T, FOR I SHALL NOT PASS THIS their 20 to these folk. In one party there
WÁY 20AIS.-Carlyle. WAS & WAD, a woman and a child, who were making themselves a nuisance to everybody, particular-|
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Signor Giovanni Giolitti, Italy's in and out of the Premiership foar latest palities! hope, has popped times already, and is now seren years beyond the "allotted span.” self-made man of Piedmontese birth, tall in stature and short in 25 miles per finished, and it was a most enjoy speech, the now leader has a great gallon in the Old Country. able time that the audience spank grasp of figures, extremely imple They seam to think that The Frawley playera gave a tastes, and a love of home life. running down hill compensates really splendid representation The only amusement which has Io a squall
# for yesterday.
of petrol of the piece. Quita in contrast ly by parading in front of Euro-sampan capsized whilst off the consumed in hill-climbing, but a to their predecessors, the Com- aver appealed to him greally is a pean residences and wailing and Central Market. The crew were little consideration will show the pany attracted a big house last same of billiards.
fallacy of this argument. When night, and with the indication groaning in orthodox beggar saved.
descending, the motorist does not afforded by the bookings for the Dr. Hensley Henson, whose fashion. Then there was an old
close the throttle but simply cuts other plays the success of the impending change of bishoprica man, filthy beyond description.
The health return for the past out the spark and uses the engine Frawley season in Hongkong in will take him back to Durham, banging about the main thorough-
has played intermediary between fares keeping one aye on possible three days shows three cases of as a break on compression. Thus assured. benefactors and the other well plague (two Japanese and one the engine is using its quots of Mr. Daniel Frawley this time, the sects so zealously as at times If the according to the plays that he to draw the fire of both sides. open for the approach of the Chinese), of which one ended gasolene all the time. Police. His speciality was a fatally, and one fatal occurrence throttle is closed the consequent bas announce already, has made But one of his critics once had a
of enteric (s Chinese
vacuum in the cylinders will draw no addition to his repertoire, ali more amusing reason for denying very admirable imitation of a
up the oil past the piston rings, the plays having been staged preferment to the then canon. | military salute, plus the thrusting forward of a dirty topee big
and fouled cylinders and spark here before by the same Company. When it was announced that he For being in possession of 37 plugs will rasnit For this But Hongkong theatre-goars love was to succeed Dean Farrar as cumshawa Amongst the other taels of prepared opium, Chinese reason it is to be deplored that good comedies and dramas, and Rector of St Margaret's, West- beggars seen was & young fellow Passenger by the Amakuss Maru that useful fitment used on they do not object to seeing a play minster, a lady exclaimed, "My who was supposed to be blind, from Amoy was this morning ninety-nine per cent of English twice if the company has a reputa- dear, it's too bad; his father was 'extrs air "; tion like that of the Frawley's. Lord Salisbury's coachman!” but who was wonderfully good at sentenced to a fine of $2,000 or cars, known as an
is not aniversally used in this The Frawley Company bas The dear old soul went too far. picking up odd cents thrown at six months" hard labour. him. Now, this kind of thing is
Colour. In no place would it come here word perfect and with by a syllable: the office to which show more useful results, an intimate familiarity of an ex-she referred was that of "coach." rontinually going on in Kowloon.
The man reported yesterday as After 3
climb tensive repertoire. It has been The Lee Brothers and Sisters wish to acknowledge with grate-and it's about time these mendic-
could be used to cool on tour for nearly two years with Mr. Jesse Lasky, who is now ful thanks the many kind expressions of sympathy from their ants were cleared out. They find being stabbed by an unknown it
cylinders. It provides many farces, comedies and dram-in London on a visit, and who is friends in their recent sad bereavement, and the floral tributes. the residential part of Kowloon assailant &: Spring Garden Lane the
very happy hunting ground, for turns out to be a rattan worker, a racst useful and officient brake as, and the opening last night by way of being the "Cinema the simple reason that the sight member of the Guild which has—and that too, without using provided us with a bright comedy. King of the States, gave of a policeman. and especially a of late figured in many stabbing an ounce of gasolene. It could It was received most enthusiast-view, as an expert, of what the
affrays.
be used to dilute the mixture atically by a large hense, and the cinema publio really wanta. He European officer, is a rarity.
all times and show a greatly patrons were not long in deciding says that there was There's nobody to round them up.
DO great increased mileage in petrol con- that the members of the cast enthusiasm for the costore and so they carry on" quite un- molested. It isn't the fault of the
For exporting silver coins sumption, and it costs only a few fitted their respective characters drama, because the average man' delightfully. Miss Claribel Fon- and woman who attend a picture Police. For they've got quite amounting to $283, two Chinese cents.
taine has natural gifts of outplay want to be able to visualise enough work to do on the harbour men and a Chinese women were. without having to bother about each ordered to pay a fine of $15
Out bere in Hongkong we have standing takingness. Her speech, themselves as the hero or heroine. land duties. But the time is coming
at the Magistracy this morning, not got rid of the maskee feel-gesticulations and characteris-They want to be in a position to The defend mats when Kowloon Point will need to
were arrested ing even in motoring. So long as ations won all bears. She was say or rather think, si some be much better policed than it now yesterday on the Leung Wing we can get to Repulse Bay and to very ably supported by Mr. Daniel thrilling instance of skill or is. and to do that we shall need Wharf as they took a boat to go Fanling and back, what does it Frawley.
heroism: “Ab, I might have done "Fair and Warmer" is not that! If the leading characters to have more policemen on the on board the San Sam Hoimatter, even if the gasolene bill
bound for Kongmoon.
in powdered wigs has jumped up very high? True, one-character entertainment, but are
and In the matter of its educational facilities Hongkong has often job.
A's repair bills and running ex- certainly Miss Fontaice had the patches, this feeling is not very been criticised-looking at it apart from its University. There is
penses are heavy, but so are B's most to do. The other artista, real, and that is why the demand no free or compulsory education: the Government's attitude is
A septence of six months hard and everybody else's. Then why one and all, crested the best of will be more and more for cinewa prescribed and somewhat parsimonious, and the schools for European children are acknowledged apologies for what schools for the type Charles Fitzmaurice is coming to labour was passed by Mr. R. O. worry What we most get out impressions. All worked well plays of everyday life. of children should be. But it is rather useless to grumble until Hongkong to advise on the devel- Hutchison at the Police Court of our mind is that motoring is together and everything dovetail- ways and means can be found for bringing about an improvement.opment and improvement of our this morning on a Chinese who not a luxury, but more and more ed very nicely, providing an and so it is that, for the most part the press and pablic of the Colony harbour, it is with special interest pleaded guilty to the charge a necessity, and as such it should evening's enjoyment that will leave the question of local education alone, realising the principle that we read of his firm, Messrs. of being in possession of a rot that you cannot make bricks without straw. The vital necessity. Coods. Fitzmaurice and Wilson, dagger. The prisoner was arrest amount compared with other of course, is more money, and with its expenditure growing and its having recently laid before thePored by a party of detectives necessities of life... income decreasing (as was revealed in the recently published state. Itsmouth Town Council a report on Bonham Strand on Sunday when. ment of revenue and expenditure for 1919) the Government can A scheme for the development of it will be remembered an exciting
With due respect to the hardly be expected to embark upon any costly scheme such as Langstone Harbour, on the eas: pursuit took place after a gang of revision of our local educational system would entail. We want side of the town, for commercial desperadoes of which the prison W.D. which is served by
conscientious body of Was A member. Two better schools, better and larger staffs; better directive ability; and purposes. The firm suggests the er
the roads of Hongkong towards the many provision of a bank for maintain watchmen employed by Mr. Lau
a Teritable a Department sympathetically generous
nightmare expressed needs of the various headmasters and mistresses. It is ing the required depth of water Chu-pak who took a commendare
to the man who loves bis no secret that for any school to be assisted beyond what precedent in a dredged channel four miles able part in the affair appeared car. The island abounds with morning, before the acting Chief seven weeks in succession. "I has fired, is a rare occurrence and no matter how ambitious "head" long and for the protection, as a in the Cones this morning for the very sharp turnings, some of them Justice. Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz.formed my first conception of the may be for the educational welfare of their pupils they are generally breakwater, of vessels emering purpose of giving evidence. very dangerous. When the drill there came up for hearing the case size," he told Lord Broughton, instracion used to advise us to of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd during a moonligh: walk in met with stony indifference when they dare to make representations. or leaving the harbour from the Hongkong is really in need of a re-valuation of its educational easterly seas which they would Because he and his comrades treat our rifles as we would our against the Kin Cheong C Portland-place. I then made up
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1920.
BETTER EDUCATION WANTED.
to
HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT.
Now that we know that Sie
inmates
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disproportionate not soon be forgotten.
To-night's attraction will be **Scandal".
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According to Sir Charles Fax. who was entrusted with the task of carrying out Paxton's concep- of the Crystal Palace, that build- ing is the same length as Portland- place. The founder of the great firm of civil engineers (which in more recent times built the Cape FAILURE TO CARRY OUT to Cairo Railway) made all the drawings for the Crystal Palace CONTRACT.
with his own band, working In the Supreme Court this on them 18 bours a day for
EXCHANGE DEALS
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string to Like his in the
for the recovery of $16,361,49. work: it is not the cost that should be counted, so much as the otherwise encounter. As to in-
The plaint recited that on April cover the whole length and thrae my mind that the glass should P Bluebeard or benefits gained by the children. What has been done in the past terual works of wharfage, two could not steal anything, as there wives we did not conjure up a should not always be allowed to govern what must be done now, alternative schemes are suggest was nothing to lay their greedy Picture of Progress in education is as vital as progress in material things. ed-one, & deck scheme which hands on, one of a gang of Jack the Ripper of renown, but 10th and on behang-pan times the breadth of that thoroug We want to get sway from the bonds of precedent and forge: would give an effective length of robbers before leaving a shop a: knew that gentle and loving care acting for and on behalf of and as fare." Sir Charles Fox's firm this was what was meant. A motorcar manager of the defendants agreed also moved the Crystal Palace. wharfage of 1,150 feet; the No. 1. New Street
The to sell to the plaintiffs the sum from Hyde Park to Sydenham, everything but the absolute present needs.
At Home there are genuine attempts being made other, which is considered prefer-morning: stabbed & foki in the is like a rife, and more so.
of yen 50,000 at exchange 195- their charge for taking it down # I in gradient which eliminate the bad points in the educational system, and the able by the firm, providing for back, inflicting a serious wound hair-pin bends on
throws By an agreement dated April 27th and re-erecting it being £120,000.
of last, Chan Hung-pan sold to the of tens # pressure Board of Education, under the enlightened guidance of Mr. three tidal jetties with wharf which necessitated his removal
Bank 100,000 yen at exchange square Fisher, is giving more practical assistance to-day than it ever did. space totalling 21,400 feet. The to Hospital. The robbers, five in
inch on of either scheme is Dumber, it is stated, waited in tons to the
Cyril Tolley is the first under- Mr. Fisher himself has declared that "we want to be done with cost the welter of examinations." Not one of us cannot look back to estimated at about five millions the street for the door to be steering nuts, back axles, differ. 193. By the defendants' breach our schooling days without a remembrance of the fear and sterling on a basis of pre-war opened, whereupon they rushedentials, bearings and parts which to carry out the contracts the graduate in residence either the shop. bound need no enumeration for the lay Bank suffered damage to the Oxford or Cambridge to win the amateur golf championship. A irksomeness that we ased to suffer al examination time. We were costs, or about 12 millions at the into
gagged the
mind cause the mechanical man extent of $16,361.46.
Mr. W. H. Drummond, for the heavily built man, standing near- just a number of grant-earners, looked at officially as so many present cost. This is a huge surm. and youngsters capable of attaining a dead level of mediocre intelligence, and it is felt that the only hope of and turned their attention to the to squirm and grind his teeth in
the action were not present. The school. The prodigious length of There was little or no flexibility in the system; no cultivation of bringing the project to fruition safe as the most likely receptacle hopeless despair. Sharp corners plaintiffs, said the defendants inly 6ft, he is one of the big hitting case had been before his Lordship his drives was being talked about individual gifts; no specialised instruction. The three "R.s." alies in getting it backed by the for valuables. Without the key must be eliminated.
on July 17th when counsel among the higher circles of the little tinkering with other subjects, all inadequately explained, and great railway and shipping com they were unable to open it, and
their disappointment they Most sympathy is felt for the applied for the amendment of the Royal and Ancient game a long then we were passed out into the world with the smiling approval of panies, and perhaps one or more in the grant-earning machinery. It was all hopelessly muddled and of our colonial possessions. These stabbed the fuki. The alarm was Chinese lads who are daily brought plaint and for substituted service time before the recent inter- which he all very unpractical. True educationists have come to realise that schemes and ideas will be noted given, but by the time the Police up before the Magistrates and The action was on two contracts Varsity match, in 15 recond the day for that sort of thing has gone. We notice that Miss Reta with particular interest locally arrived, the robbers had made charged with selling articles and which the plaintiffs purchased played
vegetables without # Police from the defendants. The latter R H. Wethered. Oldbam, speaking at the annual conference of the Association of in view of the coming visit of Sir their escape.
licence. During the war, the delivered 20,000 yen on 27th May American victim Head Mistresses, has declaimed against the present system. She Charles Fitzmaurice to this port.
Police, by reason of the fact that last. The second contract expired final, Robert Gardner, Tolley has maintained that boys and girls should be able to pass examinations the more so when we bear in mind
The domestic tranquility of the the Force was not in full strength, on May 31st. Not receiving the other athletic interests. On the by the subjects that they love and subjects that are humanising. the point that in the opinion of
business Bhe admitted that the educational rulers of to-day were not slow to many
and shipping home of Mr. W. J. Cooper, at No. mada
these licences payable balance the Bank went into the Sussex coast, where he lives, he recognize the sciences, but they ought to recognise the arts also.houses the Colony is not nearly. Lochiel Terrace Kowloon, was annually in advance. Now that market and purchased them at is well known as a lawn tennis disturbed yesterday lack of numbers is no longer 153. Every possible step had been player. Gardner, who is a pro- If there were a reasonable degree of specializing the schools would so well off in wharf space as it rudely,
through the pugnacity of Mr. pleaded by the Police, could it not taken to get the defendants to duct of Yale, represented America send better informed students to the university. The present should be.
Cooper who, it is alleged, gave be possible to issue these licences carrying out their contracte. as a pole jumper in one of the grouping of subjects does 007 encourage individuality THE EAST IN PARLIAMENT.
Sergeant Stimson en uppercut quarterly? Poor people cannot Mr. Drummond asked for judg-pre-war Olympiads, and both he and it prevents to the study of the fine arts. She arged Our friend, Mr. Gershom Stew-this resulting in the issue of afford to invest straight ment for the amount, which was and Tolley took part with dia- that the individual should be acknowledged ia theart, is still watching the inter-summons for assault, which away four dollars for the given.
tinction in the great game on the schools, and maintained that the present system of examination ests of the Far East in Parlia-was to bave been beard privilege of bawking in the streets,
battle-fields of Europe. prevented this. The aim of the present system was excellent ment, witnese his questions with before Mr. R. O. Hutchison this and if these licences could be but its methods hampered the mistresses in their efforts to find out regard to Shantung and the morning. It is alleged that Mrs.issued for three months, RAINY MONTH. St. John's School, Leatherhead, the tastes and ability of pupils. Another of the speakers at the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. In Cooper called up the Water Police BACO Bure. mady would
whose war memorial was unveil- same conference compared the present examination system to the regard to the former, it is not Station on the telephone and prefer to take out OD OVER 28 INCHES IN JULY.jed by Viscount Jellicoe on June. bed of Procrutes. The pupil bad to be mentally stretched or shorten-very informative to be told that asked the Inspector on duty at than run the risk of Police ed until he or she fitted the bed. Resolutions were passed arging Japan has expressed her willing-the time to send over to arrest. The suggestion is a hum Botanic Gardens, Joly was an ly Anglican of all the 'English
According to records at the 19, is perhaps the most exclusive that in order to secure greater liberty for girls at the end of their Less to return the territory to the house
European nanitarian one, and I do hope! school life there should be more freedom in the choice of subjects Chins with certain limited re-officer, for what purpose we that something will be done for extremely wet month in Hong-public schools. It is more rigor- the restrictions imposed by the conditions on which the advanced much about Japan's "willing- Sergeant Stimson was allotted suggested. I am told that some and the total fall for the whole the school of Nonconformity. The for examinations, and that during the last two years of school life strictions. We've heard far too have been unable to gather, these street urchins on the lines kong. There were only eleven ously Church of England than days when no rain was registered, ever was Mill Hill exclusively course grants are made should be removed
дева." and far too little to the job. On arrival at the years ago it was the practica to The whole of these points do not need much argumentative about the actual conditions of house in Lochiel Terrace he was issue these licences every quarter, month comes to no fewer than reason is that St. John's Was support; they are obvious from the very beginning. In Hongkong the retrocession.
founded especially for the educa- When may met by Mr. Cooper, who is stated and there is no reason why they 28.18 inches. the truth of such remarks must come with almost painful reality to hope to bear something to have asked the Sergeant what I should not again. It should not
The heaviest fall on one day tion of the sons of the clergy, and all engaged in the work of teaching the young ides. A certain definite on this latter point? As business he had to be in the entail much labour on the Folice as 10,33 inches, on the 20th, to this day all foundationers
be 1003 whilst for the three days from mast
of Hiring routing has to be conformed to, a set syllabus and time table bas to to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance bouse. When Mrs. Cooper con- Force.
and be alavishly followed. There is little or no opportunity for teachers it is a little reassuring to hear tinued to speak to Sergeant
the 19th to the 21st inclusive the clergyman "in England fall was 16.05 inches. There was Wales, while non-foundationers to give individual instruction, for they are far too hardly worked. that any renewal will take Stimson, Mr. Cooper, it is alleged, Pupils achieve a common level, except where natural abilities refuse account of the
again a fairly beavy fall on the may be sons of the lafty, but open door" struck the Sergeant on to be kept in check. Look at Hongkong's educational facilities as doctrine. But are we to infer from jaw, which led to the summons TYPHOON WARNING, 31st, the register showing 3.05 must be sons of Anglicans. The
inches for that day.
(school, of which the Archbishop sympathetically as one will one is forced to the confession that there that statement that Britain has for assault. Mr. Cooper was is very ample room for improvement. For our harbour improve sometimes found the door shut, brought to the Police Station and
When it is pointed out that the of Canterbury is officially Visitor, menta we are going to have the advice of a specialist, and for our although the Alliance definitely kept in a cell for several hours The telegram quoted below was Colony's rainfall for the six was founded early in the 50's, and badly needed educational Improvements we ought to have a special- pledges both nations to the antil be was balled out by his received by the American Con- months ended June 30th was removed to the fine buildings at ist too; not a man who is tied and handicapped because he has doctrine? It looks like it, doesn't wife. This bail, which amounted sulate General Hongkong, from about 46 inches (which is bigber Leatherhead in 1872. It bur a been part of our system, but a man who can come fresh to the scene. In the new agreement, if to $5, was estresied by the the Manila Observatory at 1 p.m. than the average for the period) proud war record, for many Old Who can bring a constructive criticisto, and who will be free to re- there is to be ane, 1ste hope that Magistrate this morning, as yesterday.
It will be realised that a fall of Johnians” went on satire servios commend what his expert knowledge dictates to bim as badug beats that point will be idomuktaly Cooper did not turn up to suSWET
"Cyclone or typhoon N. E. of over 28 inches in ons month in and won distinctions - vid festation we want nothing but the best and no-one ought to be covered.
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