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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920.
THE WAGE QUESTION.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DEAD, OR ASLEEP §.
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DAY BY DAY.
LUCKY IS THE MAN WHO LOSES HIS REPUTATION—IV IT IS BAD
Perhaps it was most foolish thing to do, doomed to set up within us a feeling of disappointment. But we did it and this is the result. College to be headmaster of Mr. de Martin has left Queen's Whilst looking through one of Tamat School.
| Jocally published directorias for a
| needed referenca wa wara struck
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
(BY "AJAX").
CORROSIVE ACID.
CHINESE COMMENTEN - FOR
TRIAL
TO-DAY'S MISOFLLANT
of bands
ministry.
Mr G. N. Orme. yesterday after. Hans: the Lambeth – Goslarsson
· Much have been heard of Ints regarding the charges made by noon heard a case in which a Chin. recommend shall be revived in garages in Hongkong for the hire so was charged with throwing cor. the Anglican Church, were of motor cars, but it is, in my cave acid on a hawker and his recognised in the primitive opinion,
mother on the 15th, Inst. . debatable
Church as a kind of fourth degree point
Mr Leo d'Almada appeared for in Holy Orders. Pliny mantions by the fact that Hongkong is a There was one fatal case of whether these are really sz-
the defence.
that among the Christians whom little overburdened with non-enteric reported yesterday, the orbitant, taking all circumstances sotiva societies or organisations. victim being a Chinese,
The boy was burned in the eye, he examined ware two "women into account. Some hall that,
they We oven went to the trouble of
having regard to the steep hills but socording to Dr. To's evidence, whom
call ministers." counting the number of societies,
that a car has to `negotiate and he would not lose his syesight. His According to an ancient decise, a etc, that the particular directory.
deaconess was only to be chosen Letters received lately from the numerous bends, the high mother was burned on the neck,
The boy deposed that after a "from among the virging ar Wh wore consulting gave. Mr. Kay from Scotland, tell that gasolens consumption and the Not counting religious organisa- he is having a very good holid-wear and tear of tyres this present meal as his fruit stall at Wing Fung widowa who have been once tions, or masonics any-day, says the Fellow Dragon charges are moderate. There Street, he went out for a stroll. He married." A later deorse anjoined thing of that nature,
we (Queen's College magazine). He may be room for so se reduc- bad not walked many paces when that no woman should receive discovered no fewer than 71 bad a slight accident while driv-tion on the present tariff, bat he felt a blow on his baad. Turn imposition institutions, established for one ing a motor cycle, but fortunate the principle kick is from those ing round he saw defendant run- deaconess before she reached 50
And ly only his mount required who take care social purpose or another.
to Repulseping away. He gave chase and years of age, the list was by no means com- "medical" attention.
Bay and have to pay $2 per hour dafandant, sicoping down near a plete, because the particular
for the wait. I do not see why blacksmith's shop, picked up a tin In the Church of England the such a charge should not be corrosive acid and threw the Order of Deaconesses was revived organisation we were looking up
The Bandman Comedy Com- reduced so a small figure. People contents at him and his mother, nearly 60 years ago, when an was not included. Let us think
was following him. for a moment of what the exis-Nothing But the Trath" at tionate charges of the Colony's raw defendant by aight. Except founded in London, followed by
pany gave a repeat performance who complain about the sitor-who
Heiantitation for their training was tence of all these institutions means. It means that once upon Those present immensely enjoyed and the Dutch East Indies and defendant over the pooling of Farnham, Ely, and Manchester. the Theatre Royal last night, garages should go to Singapore for a quarrel which he had with similar houses at Maidstone. is time there WKS sufficiant
enthusiasm to bring about their the play, of which the principals see for themselves the fabulous some fruit which the latter had The Mildmay Deaconessen inception. Of course, a
again gave a very clever and sums that are demanded nod bought, witness could not suggest came good
the beat known many are still very active and forceful interpretation. To-night's paid for motor rilee into the any reason why defendant should the Order, but the deaconors are doing good and helpful Attraction is "Sacred and Profane country. Hongtang is a long way bar thrown the said on him and idea as a sphere of religioas
better off than other places in the his mother. | East, in many respects. There is Jaspector Kent informed his Wos place to the sisterhoods now so
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Professor Beebe, a well-known zoologist of New York, is said to have discovered a bird which resembles a small lizard in British Guiana. If this be so, it takes us back to the earliest period of flight in the world's history. A few million years ago the bat lizard, which geologists have named Pterodactyl, was fluttering about the swamps The fixture list of the above much in the same way, as the
BILLIARDS.
social work-such as the sports. Clube, etc. But the fact "that] we hear nothing about the A number of very
no fortune to be made in the ship that the boy tall him in the
Numerous. · The new deaconasa doings of some of the other bodies wounds in his abdomen, head, Sites cost big sums in rant and him to join a society and had tried gally fall to the junior curate who serer Colony in the motor business charge room that defendant wanted will performs auch duties as us- is an indication, we think, that and limbs were sustained by the
to borrow money from him, the present generation of Hong-victim of a motor car accident on
expenses generally
has not yet been ordained Long residents is a little less the new Lai-chl-kok Road yester
high.
The boy's mother also gate priest. mindful of its own social weal day. The car the number of
evidence. Evidence of the arrest The difficulty of than its predecessors. We are which is 167 was going along the suitable shop and office accom- Ship Street, on the evening of the of defendant at his house, No.-23 sacuring
Captain H. H. C. Bairds living in a slack age, it seems. road near the Pak Shun Leungmodation in the Colony is daily, was given by a constable. There's the Constitutions! Re-Village when it knocked down becoming acute, and at the end
brilliant innings at Canterbury, form Association. It's still the Chinese. He was removed to
Answering Mr d'Almads the followed by a couple of hou a alive: it has
good many Hospital immediately afterwards of next month many firms will cutable stated that he searched folding, with an artificial leg. members; bat, except to bold al
be hard put to get decent offices, the dustbin, and the place where recalls many scenes in which {formal annual meeting at which
Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and defendant had been sleeping, for Cripple cricket has played a pro- THOMPSON. On September 27th, at the French Hospital, to there was no formal report pre Cyclists who aspire to retain Co. are extending their scope and sulphuric acid, but found nominant part, writes a correspond- Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Thompson, a daughter.
Among Loadon cripples sented, it bas done nothing for ing a safe seat on their machines have been compelled to give trace of it. Defendant had no over a year. The thing is practic- whilst out practising should notice to their tenants occupying race of sulphuric acid on his the game is extremely popular," "I knew a one legged ally moriband. Take the Hong. take doe warning from the the top floors of the building clothing and there were no burns on he says.
boy who had not the advantage kong Automobile Association, fate which befell an eighteen-which now bouses thair his body and we find that its members can year-old Chinese youth at Caine machinery department. Then
At the conclusion of the evidence himself on his one foot to bat, and of an artificial limb. Bebalanced be summoned and be allowed to Road yesterday.
He was
an the building at present occupied Mr d'Almada applied for bail, appear in Court without a logal inexperienced rider, and appar- by Messrs. Gande, Price and Co. saying that the evidence was weak picked up his crutch for the run. adviser, that the roads on the ently
"In fielding, the cripples make few is about to be very razed, and in and his client had been a resident in clever use of wooden arms and Peninsula can be in a dangerous unsuccessful attempts the its place a six-storey structure the Colony for 40 years. state for motorists and yet the macbine took charge of him and will go Up to be occupied Mr Orme pointed out the serion legs." Association does nothing. One ran into a wall. Suffering from by Shanghai Commercial ness of the case and rejected the might well ask "What does it do concussion. the youth is now and Savings Bank, which will application. in addition to collecting subscrip- lying in Hospital.
open out in Hongkong in about a Defendant was committed to the tions and issuing badges"? There's
year's time. The Bank has Sessions for frial. Mr d'Almada the Hongkong branch of the Navy
secured a lease on the property reserved his delence. A Chinese shop-keeper was to for twenty years, and will pay a League. Have you ever heard of day charged, at the instance of rent of $2,800 per month for the paper. There's the Philharmonic Inspector Earner, with using false first ten years, and $4,300 for the Though there is as yet an assurance that the Old Country will Society, of which (the Directory scales. He had a pair of scales, next ten. There will be a lift to not be plunged into a strike involving sofiering and mise, to the tells us) His Excellencs the Gor-which, being too nicely balanced, carry eight passengers, and the greater bulk of the populace, it is so much to the good that the list of offcials given, but base we had been set by other profiteers, Ming estate. On the Queen's ernor is patron. There's a whole were not to his liking. Therefore new premises will be the built by
he followed the procedure which the administrator of the Chan Kail miners leaders have at any rate been induced to cause a suspension had a concert this year? Are we of tying a bunch of cash under Road Central side, so great has/League for October is as follows-brothers Wright made long hops of the strike notices for a week. But the battle has still to be going to have one? Then there's the pan of the scales. In a casual been the rush to get shop sites-RGA. Victoria Bks. v. Gar-early days of the century. The fought, and, judging from the obstinacy of the Union officials and that ultra-inactive organisation visit which Inspector Earner paid that some fabulous rent has been rison Hess; Warders Mes v. real bird with feathers appeare! the amount of, cajoling that had to be used to secure what calling itself the Society for the to the shop yesterday.he delected paid. A shop that fetched & rent RG.A. Kowloon: R.A.M.C. v. thousands of years afer the bat is nothing more than a promise to discuss matters from new Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the falsity, and summoned the of $200 two years ago can to-day 2nd Bo. Wiltshire Regt; RE. v. lizard, and possessed teath in standpoint, he would be a bold man who would prophesy that The directory says it bas a Secre- dishonest shop-keeper. Mr. Dyer command $450, and brokers bare a settlement of the dispute without a strike will eventually be arrivary, and it gives the name and Ball, before whom the case was been paid anything from $2,000 to Police v. Naval Dockyard. ed st. We are going to express an opinion which many in common address. Have any of our read-heard this morning, imposed $3,000.
R.G.A. Lyemun; Hongkong jaw like a reptile. To this day with ourselves must have formed when they read the telegram tell- ing of the conference between the miners leaders and the Primes known the Society to do any fine of $10 on the delinquent.
some of the most primitiva binds To be played off by 16th of the Polar seas, in which zoolo-- Minister. It is this-that things have come to a pretty pass whepbeen dozens of cases in which thing recently? Have not there
When the congestion is going R.G.A. Victoris Barracks; Garri-both.
October.-R.G. Kowloon the head of the Government has literally to plead with a Trade the Society could bare taken a
Ygists discover lingering traces of Union official to secu some consideration of a
Sentence of one year's hard to ease it is not easy to say. Even son Hess r. R.E: 2nd Bn. Wilt- tion of wages being made partially dependent on outpat instead of could go on through the list, Chinese for the larceny of $10 ready for occupation within the
5088 prosecuting interest? And so we labour was to-day passed on were the new buildings to be shire Regt. v. Warders" lese:- bringing about a national upheaval in consequence of insistence on proving that we are more than a from a country man at West Point next year, they are not likely to Police: "Naval R.G.A. Lyemua
The latest official ruling on the V. Bongkong bigher pay irrespective of the amount of work done.
Dockyard -v.
subject of exofficers does not If it is a fair wage that the miners want, surely there is no ganisations, with the mere dried charged with
little overloaded with dead or yesterday. The man was also satisfy the demand. The trade of R.A.M.C.
seem to be very happily timed. more equitable method of deciding what that wage shall be than to skeletons of movements that were custody after being sentenced. And with this expansion wil be October.-R. G.A. Victoria Bks. eligible for re-enlisting in the
escaping from the Colony is certain to expand,
To be played off by 23rd has been decided that they are take account of the services rendered for it. That ought to be thef basis of all remuneration-a man should be paid for what he is started to help make this The incident took place on the witnessed an increased number v. 2od Ba.
ranks of the regular army provid- Wiltshire Regt: worth: and what he is worth surely depends on the amount of work
Colony P better place te 27th June last year, when the of new firms desirous of opening Warders Less T, Garrison Mess, they are fit and are willing to he does. Maybe the prent wage scale so far as the miners are hasn't expired: it's
live in. The need for them praoder after being taken from out branches or offices in the Hongkong Police v, R. G.A.Kow-lay aside their honorary rank concerned is inadequate (though recently-published figures scarcely social interest that has become sentenced to
own the Police Court where he was Colony. Landlords are recognisioon: Naval Dockyard v. R. G. Awhile serving on the new engage-
six weeks foring the desirability of palling down
ment. And if vacancies happen But the point we want to stress is that if there is to be any revision the Colony, we blame the climate, grasp of the constable, and escap the business quarter, and are old. October.-R. G. A. Lyemun . promised immediate promot of that scale, then justice demands that it should bear a close we blame the East.
To be played off by 30th to exist in their new wait they relation to and be dependent upon effort. Up till now, however, the rather a case of blaming our-grounds.
Isn't itted from the Central Police and in their place
erecting R. G. A
Victoria Barracks: ion to the rank of corporal. miners' leaders have declined to consider anything else but the selves?
When charged before Palatial premises that can accom Garrison Mess. Folice; R.G.A.Probably the offer is as handsome demands of the men for an immediate întresse in wage. That, we
Mr. O.N. Orme this morning. hemodate twice as many shape and Kowloon v. Naval Dockyard; presant circumstances will affected ignorance of this fact, office, and at the same time fetch 2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regt. v. B.E. allow, but it looks rather small declaring that he was not the much higher rents than before. R.A.1.C. v. Warders Mess..
beside Lord Haig's existing appeal for civilian opportunities for the same class of citizen. - "Eolist sa a private and" wall
our
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To be played uTby 9th October. in their first aeroplane in the
lend weight to that contention). If so, let them be revised by all means-blanted and withered. We blame larceny, freed bimself from the their buildings, where such are inLyemuo; RE
Bay unhesitatingly, is unjust and unreasonable. Mr. Smillie. we HONGKONG AND POWER FUEL see, told the Prime Minister that the fall in output was due to the
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exhaustion of coal, with no new collieries being opened up. But Оде of Reuter's week-end man. He was then taken out of The great drawback with the that is hardly likely to be accepted as the sole or even most cables told of arrangements being the Court whilst his finger prints business locality of Hongkong is important factor, even if there is soything at all in what he says. made for the experimental were taken, the results establish that it is circumscribed within It has been shown that se wages have risen, so have the workers production of power alcobol on a ing beyond a doubt the charge certain area, but the time is not pieces of Lord Dunsany lend make you a corporal if there's. In many industries taken more days off and thus affected output. considerable scale in India, preferred against him. His Wor-distant when the new firms must themselves to picturesque pro-room" is not exactly an ever- But there is another cause, and that is the manner in which condi-sad the belief was expressed that ship then passed sentence as consider going further west, and duction, and in this respect Mr. whelming. reward for " tions of employment have been ignored at some collieries and work it will be found that alcobol for recorded above.
oasting the Chinese from their Sinclair will have scope for his captain with four yeum": suddenly suspended. We recently read of a case in point at the fuel
strongholds. Probably, before| abilities. The A.D.C. will not service. Bowllt Colliery in Fife, where nearly 2,000 tons of coal a commercial basis
that time, the War Office will essay anything like a production day were withdrawn from the market in March because a young quantities in various parts of TYPHOON WARNING.ableness of the demand to get the and the Fairies" was produced. ation statistics for the Jane
have recognised the reason on the scale on which "Pinkie
The Registrer-General's popul eraneman refused to work an occasional spell of overtime to provide the Empire. At first rice straw be necessary props to keep the pits safe, and at the same colliery will be used, although other cheap
recently labour was again suddenly suspended despite the fact is something that might interest received by the American Con- and transfer their present lands lack of initiative in the Colony in covering from the effects of the
quarter, issued recently, shów - The telegram quoted below was New Territories or in Kowloon, raw materials are available. Here
People who complain about the that the Old Country is rapidly ut the contract puder which the miners worked bound employers oogops, for with the large sulate General, Hongkong, from to the civil authorities. I am AD.C. productions overlook the war. At the last census the and employed alike to 14 days' notice before any suspension of labour
place. This later dispute arose through a dozen miners a tracla of land available in the the Manila Observatory at 4.45 sanguine
plan fact that there is not enough average annual increase of popul arting to a colliery meeting that they had not earned the standard New Territories and on the larger P.. yesterday:
will be decided upon before talent in Hongkong for big stion in England and Wales ages and that the manager had refused to make up the difference, islands around there is ample
Typhoon or cyclone 115 deg many moons are over. And when amstear theatricals. And then stood at approximately $50,000. The result being that a lightning strike, in contravention of the con scope for experiments in the Lang, 16 deg. Lat, moving W. Itions of employment, was declared. And here it should be stated production of quickly growing Northern Luzon, less than 300 beginning of a great boom in the of them demand a big part, and first two quarian, there was
these Military sites are put up to it is a very difficult matter to Last year, in spite of an actual Typhoon or cyclebe E of auction, it should mark the please all the womenfolk. Many decrease of nearly 7,000 in the that the dozen men affected bad, three weeks previous to the strike, for the manufacture of synthetic miles distant, filing up.
vegetation which could be used demanded 14 days before they would change from shift wages to
trade of the Colony. Many anter-where email parts are allocated increase on the 12 months Typhoon or cyclone E. 8. E. prising houses in foreign countries attendances at rebearsals are of over 188,000 nece-rates, and the demand was granted. Employment contracts alcohol. The Committee that was with men of this type appear to be regarded as entirely one-sided, appointed to enquire into the Naha, moving N. N. W. or N. have been deterred from opening not regular, and often at in the three m to be broken when it pays them to do so. In this particular case, has been in existence for a long economic resources of the Colony despite the breach of contract, the Miners' Executive recommended the branches of the Association to accept responsibility for the time, but we have so far beard over the world and there is a féer strike and to pay the men strike benefit. When the last mail left nothing of its findings. A question among experts that the present There is perceptible a silent many an amateur production has clapsed on Home, the matter had not been settled, but one resalt of the strike like that raised above is one that large sources of supply will activity in the A.D. camp. It had to be dropped by reason of This is orse that about 2,000 tons of coal a day were being lost at a time such a Committee, could very gradually become exhausted. is believed that our amateur this fact. The lack of suitable tion of When the world was crying out for more fuel
properly conrider and if that Consumption is rapidly increas-artisten are at present busy re persons to fill big easts has
of
out in the Colony simply for lack the eleventh hour many bars to June, the popu ¡of suitable accommodation.
been known to withdraw land- and - There is too much jealousy, and 129,382, and in
Instances like these tend to confirm the opinion that the Committee has not been disband- ing and there is very urgent need hearsing some of Lord Dunsany's doubt led Mr. Sinclair to fus workers have very loose ideas of what they owe to their employers or has not concluded all its for greater production. The pieces. The scheme I hear, is to Loni Dunsany's plays fnd to their country. They appear animated with shear selfishness, sittings, we suggest that it should tropics, where vegetation is quick produce four playettes of hard in the winter, mosak and they are encouraged in their attitude by those who lead them. tell the public of what could be growing, must be the next great Dunsany, three of which will be folks wh
them have a fair wage, by all means, even a generous wage, fuel for internal combustion to consider whether it can the fourth by University stude
done in that direction. Liquid source. Hongkong should begin produced by the A.D.C. and souride, resorado But let it bear some relation to work done and not be for ever
abject to revision merely because there is a cry for more money.engines is becoming scarce all befp,