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NOTES & COMMENTS.
RAFFLES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990,
DAY BY DAY.
KNOWLEDGE IS THAT WHICH,
NEXT TO VIRTUE, TRULY AND ESSENTIALLY RAISES ONE MAN ABOVE ANOTHER—Addison.
We are not going to take ex- ception to the ordinary kind of rale held in Hongkong for, al- though strictly speaking. It is illegal it is generally an easy and The Persia Maru is not calling convenient way of disposing at aat Shanghai this trip. good price of something one doea. not want Of course, there are radles for charitable objects and Ro-one could object to thesa
But one minded old" fogie." unless it be some puritanically
The V. R. C. is holding another mathod of organising raffles has
that attractive aquatic fate to-morrow notice our come
to approximates something night, commencing at 9 pum. far more criminal
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The prizes are given. as antouneed, and none but the
Mr. and Mrs. R. Floquat left by the Empress of Japan to-day.
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MORE USEFUL HINTS,
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The car owner
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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(BY: "AJAX.")
Voluble talk on the all-absorbing Do not avoid changing the oil tople of Bank Holiday kept the Each 'There is at present some atten- in the prankcase because it is a breakfast tabla marry.
The manufacturer member of the family had the tion being given to the servant dirty job problem in the Colony. Is there knows when the oil should be option of choosing his or her The two boys had special trest. any valid reason why servants changed and his advice should be sbould not be registered? The followed. This would save you made up their minds long before; the ekler deciding on a day at the suggestion to introdues compul- many a trip to the garage,
TEST VALVE SPRINGS, Oval-weather permitting-and sory registration in Hongkong
Valve springs should be tested the younger selecting Olympia. has been made time and again but nothing tangible has been occasionally to see if they are of In his haste to communicate his A barrowed suit and full strength. If they are weak, decision the latter said, "I'm going done. shoes make a "boy" out of asthey permit the pistons to draw along with our scoop of boy
of marauder, or
labouring burnt gases into the cylinders, trouts." coolie. If he says that he is thus creating an improper mix- boy" he has to be accepted ture. The average strength of a
Manchester Corporation has till he is found valve spring is 30 pounds.
bought tha Famous Free Trade mere breach of the Gaming Another of H.M.'s ships is to as such
or disappears with
COVER SPARE TYRES.
Hall, the scene of many a memor- Ordinance. The method adopted is be sold, the auctioning of H.M.S. out,
Sunlight and air are detrimen-able meeting. There Gladstone, this Someone with more ac- Sandpiper at Kowloon being half the family plate. With re
gistration, the householder would tal to rubber. Therefore, keep Bright, Balfour, Lloyd George, quisitive desires than honesty notified for 18th October.
know whom he is engaging your spare tyres covered. And and many other politicians have lets it be known that he has
Track would be kept of every ser-park in the shade as much as poe delivered great speeches. The several valuable possessions he
Mr. Wikstrand, Charge vant and in time the bad onessible. Statistica bave shown that ball is not one of the best for wishes to dispose of and he offers
Swedish would revert to the employment a tyre good for 6000 miles when acoustics unless it is quite fall. for sale tickets ranging in the D'Affaires usual way from a few cents to a Legation at Tokyo, is passing to which they are best suited, and new, will lose as much as 2000 Then, even Lord Morley's waice, goes through here by the .s. "Andre only the good ones remain. The miles by being unprotected for a which was never very strong, few dollars. The salo
need for the protection of the en-year, against the sunlight and could be heard with satisfaction. merrily on-with the help of a Lebon" for Sweden.
ployer is real, for under existing air. It pays to get a 15re cover. Singers bave found the Free Trade fow kind friends-and when the amount of money received is
The total output of the Kailan circumstances one may engaga a WHEN CARBURETTOR COUGHS.· Hall a very good auditorium..
Coughing in the carburettor Sufficient the promoter proceeds
without knowing" it. The re-followed by sharp explosions in to purchase articles answering the Mining Administration's mines criminal, who has just left prison,
Haw strange it seems to read description he has given, but for the week ending 28th August, leaving for himself a bandsame amounted to 94,153 tone and the gistration of servants under very the muffler, indicates wrong ad- profit out of the sale of tickets, sales during the period, to 60118/strict conditions is, is interest-justment of the auxiliary air valve, that Earl Kitchener of Khartoum ing to note, being urged in many Coughing, followed by choking | bas arrived in England. It is the parts of the Far East.
down and stopping of the motor, eldest brother of the famous shows there's water in the Field-Marshal, who succeeded to gasoline.
the earldom after the Hampshire man who started the game is any There was sent to the Gover The trouble in many places is
disaster. Lord Kitchener is over the wiser. One case has come 10meat Civil Hospital yesterday a
The intense mechanical strain 70 years old. He has had a long" our notice of where the promoter Chinese foki of a tea shop at not so much the exorbitant wages, cleared 50 per cent of the total Queen's Road East who, was as the boycotting of persons for
1 undergone by the rear axle calls military career, and was busily reason, conceivable every mones received. That's not a bad wounded by two men who have once in the eyes of for the most scrupulous watching engaged in the East African speculation, but it's a mean one since been arrested.
the the law. Another point is the to keep it in condition. This is campaign during the war. 17's really a case of false pre-
dificulty of obtaining good the centre of intense mechanical Kitchener travelled from ences, because the man pretends
Ten activity, carrying all the pushes Cape on the same boat as Sir
Harry Lauder. he has something when he hasn't. In a fall from the first floor of servants in Hongkong.
Chinese the Colony were more honest the whole cat. AINSLIE-At 56A. Nathan Road, Kowloon, on September 14th. And such a practice would very one of the Kowloat Godewas years ago domestic servants in and polls and jolts and jars of
rightly call for strong action on building yesterday
per-abould therefore guard against
Mr. Car! Salter, who the part of the Government, coolis fractured his thighs and and usually much more
They were faithful, any rear axle trouble. The safest succeeded Dr. Hugh Mill as head attached to their masters and way is to have the axle examined of the British Rainfall Organisa. the Government Civil making all rafles not only illegal arms. and was removed to the manent. *!
as slight tion, discloses the real grievance as now but actually proceeding | Kwong wah Hospital.
કરdara left
service by an expert as 3003 their against the promoters of any
without regret. Registration trouble develops.
everyone feels against the past for what ramle
Home matter
paper. POWER ALCOHOL
July, says The many friends of Mr. G. should remedy a state of affairs
there England is seeking a substitute It
WAL object. We publish these facts in the hope that some of our Franklin Nightingale will regret which is growing decidedly readers will support such "blind to bear that he is lying ill in worse. There is nothing in the for gasoline in earnest. The new-so much rain in July. Three out raffles, for they can rest assured Japan. Mr. A. O. Brawn is tem- principle of registration to which ly formed Empire Motor Fuels of the previous five Julys have that the promoter is getting a porarily acting as Headmaster of the Chinese domestic could take Committee is releasing severa had more. But the rain
objection. The servants' socie-thousand gallons of power alco-generally dilatory and half-bearth- pretty good picking out of the Kowloon British School.
ties in Hongkong, usually on the hol weekly as A preliminary ed. It was falling in measure business through their support.
most unreasonable demands of experiment toward an increased able quantities for 74 hours, Ng Pek Chi and five other re-
boys." can institute very use of this fuel.
or an average of nearly 246 hours WEEK-ENDS.
volutionists were arrested and
a day. The pas: 40 years supply What a week-end we bad, to be shot outside the City at Canton effective boycott against any
householder.
Athens has found a way to stop only one instance of a July with sure! There was scarcely an in-on September 12. These prisoners
It's a plank as much as 60 hours rain, and only speed maniacs. terladeinthe almostincessant rain. were found in possession of and the majority of Hongkong's revolutionary documents.
What has happened to the studded with nails! When a car four with even as much as 50 Government's scheme rus appears to be speeding, an officer hours. residents, to whom a dae week-end spells healthy outdoor relaxation.
their own tramways in Kow-throws the plank in the road. If the machine is not going fast and Mrs. Harry Woods arrived here
Tha were forced to stay at Home and
monopoly.
21 correspondent momble hard things about those by the s.s. Andre Lebon to-day.
before reaching the trap: other-
which conundrum B to ask Tramway Company, alleged ancient gods who govern The Misses Woods will follow believe. was refused the Hong- the brakes work, it ought to stop Barry leads
wise. the motorist goes to the we cannot answer, **Why is the Government expressing a In common with Britishers the world over, we in Hongkong are the elements. We ought to be later by the Paul Lecat about the watching the trend of events in the Old Country with much interes: proud of the fact that as a com-25th instant and will shortly re-desire to lay down their own judge while the tyres go to the there so large a proportion of tenor voices in the Principality ?" and some concern. That affairs are in a very unsettled and restless manity (taking us in the large) we commence dancing tuition bere.
tram. tracks on the Peninsula. repair shop.
NEW FORD CAR. We were promised that the fares
His own suggestion is that condition there can be no doubt. Boi, eleven thousand miles from not shut ourselves up in
A new type of Ford car is mountain air, being clear and the centre of activities, it is a matter of no little difficulty to get to churches all day on Sundays. By
The body of a Chinese was would be very low and we had pro!
So says a report from pore, keeps the bead cavities in know what is really happening. That is so mainly because Reuter all means let us make our rever-
picked up from the Harbour greased so far as to bave a plan promised. actual news. True, we are aware that there is danger of a wide serve the Sabbath as a day of rest pier. It is believed to be that of Government sppears rather more fond of supplying us with opinions than with ent acts to God and help to pre-esterday morning Lear Blake showing the roads that such a Detroit. where it is said Henry good condition and assists in the tramway would Ford has completed plans for production of head notes and spread strike of miners though Reuter has not even get made it from irksome toil, but let us not
was traverse. It almost looka now as new model which would make overtones. Italian air, with its very clear what the exact issues are), that there is antes: amongs: be narrow
peculiar quality, appears to bave to stiff-neckedness: Chinese whose sampan
Paradise, for I am told that the Cadillac. The details of the new a similar effect, and tenor voices Government and that we have not yet got out of the Russo-Polish starched shirts and frills, in ao'
scheme has been practically car are not available, except that abound in the Scottish #leh and Mesopotamiso ronddles. But what we chiefly want to know i atmosphere of steek and preten
abandoned. Possibly the Secret-the motor has been designed to lands. But there is a marked between of the and that the body of the car will the tenors of Italy and to read or laugh too loudly; when other merchants have petitioned vetoed this intention
“high-grown" voices of thesa One of the latest messages to hand speaks of the threatened children were unnaturally hushed the Civil Governor for a charter local Government. It is left to be entirely of metal.
more northern isles. miners' strike as a direct challenge of a revolution on Bolshevist and frightened, have gone for to establish an electric light plant be seen whether the Hongkong
hope. Religion lines," and then goes on to remark that if the miners defeat the good we
is in Whampao. The magistrate Tramway Company will pursue Government. "Soviet tyranny would be established, the franchise nothing if not human and so soon of Fungu has been instructed to its request for a monopoly in would become a supreme force, the vote would be waste-paper as clean human desires for investigate and report on the Kowloos. and majority rule would be abolished." That coming from outdoor relaxation are thwarted matter. England, reads very strangely, but what we should all like then religion sets up for itself a to know is whether there
of these things stumbling block. For the reason
to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ainslie, a son.
NASH-On the 14th instance, Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Nash, a son.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920,
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT HOME?
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A DRASTIC METHOD.
the electricians, that the Irish situation is still embarrassing the The old days of Sandays spent in wrecked in the squall during the if we have been living in a Fool's the rider believe he was in
week-end.
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whether there is any real fear of anything approaching a revolutiontious piety: when it was wicked Mr. Wong Sik Pui and several ary of State for the Colonies has eliminate every bit of vibration difference in timbre the
occurring in England.
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BRITISH BATTLESHIP BECOMES
It is just as well that the statue CHILIAN.
of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, to be Built in England for the Chilian erected in the Coutral Hall of the At any rate, it appears that ajnavy and commandeared during Houses of Parliament, should ba happening, or whether these words may all be written down as that the men and women By the M.M. Andre Lebon.number of experts are, at present the war, the battleship Canada submitted to the members of the Chilian flag a family before it is placed in posit- so much Goverment-subsidised propaganda, designed to discredit Hongkong do. for the most part. which came in this morning, there busy drawing up a tender and the boisted the the miners while; in reality there is little danger of such a dis- spend a considerable proportion arrived M. and Mme. Reynaud. terms for the running of motor Plymouth recently and was ion. That has been done, and we Kowloon along, the formally banded over to Admiral are told that Mr. Tweed's work astrous series of developments.
gives At any rate, it
us of their week-ends in outdoor M. Reynaud, who was French
received the unqualified little shock after Beuter's recent continued assurances that the exercise, we feel disappointed Vice-Consul at Shanghai, will be principal roads. The fares. Sir Louis Gomez, of the Republic's has situation was not really so black and hopeless as appeared on the when a wet Saturday and Sunday Acting Consul General for Hong- hea; will be on the stage basis, Davy. The battleship will now approbation of Mr. Austen Char- The be known as the Almirante borlain and bis relatives. There surface. Then are further told that there is a grave danger of come along to spoil all the koag vice M. Hauchecorne, who and will be reasonable.
was an occasion, nearly a quarter" buses will have to leave and Latorre. the miners leaders playing a game of bluff and that they may
Still. the hot is going on two months' leave.
Star Ferry the
of a century ago, when this for- arrive at altimately find. like the Kaiser in 1914, that the forces which they weather is passing and we shall
certain times to
mality was omitted. In February have incited will carry them over the brink. When Renter sends soon be in the clean, crisp days of
Monsieur C. E W. Ricou re- wharf at
anveiled at Westminster & statue Andre Leton this morning. It launches. It is left to be seen
arrangements.
us along comment of this kind, does be mean as to take it seriously. Hongkong winter. For which turned to the Colony by the M.M. coincide with the arrivals of the will be below what is charged by 1896 the late Duke of Devonshire-
or are we to make allowances for a desire to draw pictoresque we render thanks in advance. though slightly exaggerated parallels In other words, is it stage thunder of the real thing? Let us hope the former a possibility WONDERFULLY SIMPLE.
having our feelings needlessly harrowed in this way, whatever the inner circles could, we don't think Since work on the moderu would have to guarantee the separating the Hotel building
end in view may be.
between the North
and the that all the houses within the area ning must be problematical, and
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that a point of interest to edus- yachting and Queen Victoria
ationists and the scholastic
will be remembered that he made whether the Kowloon people will the different garages in theColony-of John Bright by a famous the flight to Shanghai and was, take to the motor bus. There hear that it is the intention to colptor who has since fallen on
indicate that import some sixty motor care for which Reuter seems to encourage by pointing out that the soberer If anyone outside the inger until his return to the south. is nothing to
The ricksha is the use of tourists and patrons of evil days. The family strongly elements in the recent Trade Union Congress, which Mr. Thomas, circles of the Canton officials can engaged in the establishment of they will no managed admirably, were stronger than the debates suggested. I tell as what the administrators of
between not a very convenient means of the Hongkong Hotel, and that objected to what they regarded as Вп aviation service the situation is in reality not at all so black as one might be led to the two Kwangs are trying to do, Hankow and Shangbai.
conveyance, and is often unkempt there will be two garages-one at caricature, and the status was, believe from this talk of possible "Soviet tyranny" and "a revolut then we shall be extremely
and dirty. Probably, to attract Repulse Bay and the other in the owing their protesta, removed. ion on Bolshevist lines," then we all have a right strongly to resent grateful. As nobody inside those
tenders, the local Government Hongkong Hotel, in the lane we shall receive any serious road from Tak Shoon Street to operating company some sort of & from that housing the Alexandra
on its capital. Cafe. * The newspapers, and through them the public, look to cable enlightenment. As is well known, Kau Cheung Street and Tin Ping decent return agencies to supply them with us rather than cars. It is there is an effort being made to Street is to begin shortly, the After all, the success of any The success of the Repulse Buy world is generally forgotten. It admittedly, helpful in moments of crises, to have an occasional review of popular feeling and of general tendencies, so long as Patch up the differences existing Canlon Municipality has ordered motor bas service at the beginHotel has certainly established was at the regatta centre that impartiality is assured. But our general experience has been that South, and although we don't of the proposed road should be if the Government is surious the reputation of Mr. Taggart, the great headmaster of Rugby." Reuter is rather inclined to supply us with coloured opinions- mostly of one tint, too. Thus, is the message to which we have think they will be successful demolised within 15 days from that the residents of the Fenin-the Hotel's Manager, to whose Dr. Arnold, was born 125 years
we sincerely hope that they the issuing of the order. referred, we are impressively told-of the succession of "cyclonic will be. But there is somebody probleme" which Mr. Lloyd George's Government has to face named Tong Chi-yao who has to greater than any in history, we are assured. That the Ministry is
'cancel their independence and agree to the peace before it can in hot water all round we do not doubt, and if it is really finding be signed, Now when he has things so terribly onerous and uncomfortable, then we think it had agreed to it being eigned, he is co-operate with the North to better practice a little constitutionalism and appeal to the country for not going to be allowed to sign attack Yunnan." The situation There seems to be no limit to Hotel in the Far East. The Medica House, it was erected in its verdict. The worst of it is that, what with the strike, the Irish himself, but someone named Liis about as clear as mud in s problem, the Mespotamisa mix-up and the Russo Polish tangle, it Shun "and the representative, of wineglass and the position of the enterprise of the Hongkong bogey that Repulse Bay is the 1752, and for a long time was would be difficult to submit to the electorate a straight, single issue. the Military Government" will Tong looks as though it is respon Hotel. Not so long ago the man- breeding ground for mosqui- known as Birmingham Hall If we bad the Referendum, that could be overcome. Still, despite sign. Our Chinese telegrams told sible. Not until he has agreed to agement were trying to discover toes and a hotbed of malaria in The famous bead's father WAS the confusion. & General Election would probably help to clear the us yesterday that it has been the agreement being sigued can for us a health resort, and as a summer has been finally exploded. collector of Customs at Cowes, atmosphere, and, we hope, in its results teach Labourites in general decided (by whom is not stated) it be signed, but he is not going result succeeded in establishing Repulse Bay Hotel will be even and as he moved a few years that the country resents being dictated to by auy one section of the that if Tong agrees to the signing to be allowed any say as to who the popularity of Repulse Bay, more attractive in winter than in after the birth of his son, to the populace. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that Britain wants but does not agree as to the shall sign. Do you see? If Tong Now, I hear, the Hotel may go to summer, for I learn that there will other side of the ster
much of Birminghẩm H 14 anything to do with Bolshevism in suy form. And for the present persons who are going to sign the wante his way he has only to keep for garaging and big motor car be dancer three or four times a doubtful whether Arnold Ene
service, at rates which I'am told week in the cool, season, dise to be scared beester's Imaginary meture of what might Treaty, then the two wings will silent. Bimple, isn't it? : ......
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sula should have a cheaper mezus pertinacious striving is due the ago, and the house is still stand- of transport and is anxious to see creation to-day of a popularing, although it was built more a motor bus service inaugurated, seaside resort. As a Manager, than a century and a half ago. it must be prepared to subsidise Mr. Taggart has no peer in the Arnold's birthplace, now called East, for it is principally to him Westbourne: House, stands be the concern that takes the risk.
that the Hongkong Hotel owes tween the station and fosting its present position as the best bridge. With the adjoining