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THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL
TUESDAY OCTOBER
DAY BY DAY. -
AN ISLANDER'S ¿ DIARY.
THE RECKIT THOU WOULDST ANOTHER ENSP, FIRST
That the Committee of the HAVE Wah Hospital should have KEEP THYS ELF,— Goethe.
decided to mark the 30th.
anniversary of the institution by There was a
clean bill of providing facilities for even health in the Colony yesterday. greater service, is in itself a
tribute to the publis-spiritedness
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Settlemente and in Daich Baat Indon says that the charges. 10 the Straite Settlements and Tin are 44 and 5 guilders respectivaly. Then, Hte the smart man he is,
iba
MISORELANT.
converts theen charges * Sir Philip Lloyd-Gresma in the Into Hongkong `aurrency, and first recruit from, the "forward *** The approaching departure of proves to you that we pay more group of the Cualition Unionists Mr. F. C. Jankin for the Straits here than the people of Singapore to be added to the Ministry. His Settlements to take up his new and Java. The local charges selection as Parliamentary Secret- official, appointment as Public are $5 form four seater car and $7 ary to the Board of Trade in the Prosecutor will raiso many re- per hour for a seven-seater, reward rather of restraint than of- of those who are responsible for The wedding of Mr. F. F.. J.grets, for we have all admired his They pay & and $c în Singapore, stranousness, for he has not rush the management of this institu- Wodehouse and Mrs. Macfarlane legal attainments and public but H.CL says Hongkong is ed into every controversy raised tion-one of the finest that the is to take place at St. John's spiritedness. His arguments in very expensive for motor rides from the bank bench whereon.sit Colony has His Excellency the Cathedral to-morrow afternoon. the Supreme Court have been in because $4 and five guildars mean these active critics of the Govern- the Governor, when laying the
variably weighty and conceived sons two dollars Hongkong-our-ment. He had been marked for Foundation stane of the
"H.C.L" may be ajearly preferment, for which his wing yesterday, paid a high com- The Post Office notifies that in a spirit of sober moderation rancy. pliment to the institution and the mail service to Wuchow is He has wielded a weapon which mathematician, but he is certainly work at the National Service the Committee, rightly pointing suspended and that all mails has won the respect of all those not a business man. It is not fair Department was a suficient in- out that all too few Europeans in forwarded since 30th September who crossed swords with him, and to compare the charges for motor trodaction, and for which be I Am sure that arorg one car hire in Hongkong with those received his K.BE this year. this Colony realise what a trem-have been returned to Hongkong will join in affaring him of Singapore or the Dutch East] He did his bit in the Army, and t endously valuable work
congratulations, and in expressing Indies, assuming, for argument's got the M.C., but was invalided hospital is doing. Not only in
that the The approaching wedding, is confidence
samesake, that they AIR cheaper out in 2917. At 36, he has the the matter of attending to its announced of Surg. LL Com. diligence and industry which he in Singapore compared with political world before him, and be patients but in many other direc-Herbert Wyndham Fitzror has shown in everything that he Hongkong, for several obrions may go far.
the hospital which is Williams, of H. M. S. Tarantula, put his hand to will be displayed resons. The roads, twisting| supported entirely by the Chinese to Miss Doris Blanche Grimble, in his new position. Mr. Jenkin and bending as the contours oỀ is performing a service to the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo is giving up a practice which the Island necessitate, shorten the Royal Family are strictly Parsonal gifts to members of community that it would hard Grimble,
Fields him mach more than he the life of a car her by fifty per governed by a precedent establish estimate *I all
will get as Public Prosecutor of cent I have known motor cared by Quran Victoria, A rule wIS the Straits Settlements, the not three months in service refound NOCOSSA.PY" A Sale of Work is to be opened reason being that the strain basquire now steering gear. the Edward as Prince of Wales visited report for 1919 states that the
when King number of in-patients during the by Lady Stubbe at 30 p.m. ou been too great for him. Work of thrus: pressure on these essential Indis. He would have returned year was no fewer than 7002, Saturday next in St. Stephen's the nature he has been doing units being snarmons, while the lader with precious stones if a whilst of out-patients there was Girls' College
playground. calls for a strong constitution side strain on tyres and chassis diplomatic warning bad not been
tions
the
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1920.
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the vary large number of 140,271. Lyttleton Road, in aid of the and probably the prospect of renders repairs and renewals a issued to native princes that a great many of whom received Building Fund and of the work more *cushy time bas constantly recurring item. western treatment. In the among the Lepers at fakhai. It induced him to accept the job that Bnkes, too, which cost from $10 presents of great intrinsic valu” details of the report we are re-is hoped that there will be a large the Colonial Office had offered to $20 for re-lining, are constant always suitable gifts, and the must not be offered. Animals are ferring to there is much that attendance.
him. Mr. Jenkin is going to ay requiring attention, while the borse that won the Australian throws light on the careful treat-
climate that is enervating, and petrol consumption in hill climb- Steeplechase has accordingly nae wonders whether one day he ing is enough to
make the been accepted by the Prince of
provision of
DEW wing
givea out yesterday that in re-
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ment that is given, and by the We are informed by the Hong and of a maternity hospital, Kong Football Association that will come back to Hongkong and owner's eyes open with surprise. Wales. He will no doubt ride it the Committee is performing grounds is gazetted, no League recalls to mind what, Mr. Pollock there is no recuperation in das be added to the macing stud the new allotment of set up in practice again. This Added to these is the fact that in England, and it will perhaps a really valuable public service.
fixtures will be played. It is did once. Some twelve years ago, cerding hills, the engine is which he is expected to start next The Chinese themselves are po! slow to realise that, for it was hoped that the now grounds will I think it was, and after a successa- using gas all the time. A little year. The King brought back
be put
in order by their newful practice during which time calculation will show that the with him from India & beautiful sponsą to an appeal and a house owners as soon as alloted. Six the beld the office of Puise JudgeĮvital parts of a motor car-the¦ Arab barse, Delhi, which was for
at least will be set and acting Attorney-General on steering, the wheel bearings and years his favourite charger. to-bouse collection the sum of
grounds aside for League use.
various occasions Mr. Pollock (the differentials-or; in fact, the $190,000 was raised--sufficient to
was recommended and took up the whole mechanism of the car has provide for the new work now in
sppointment of Attorney-General | to endure strain and stresses con- The proposal to remove the band. The avenge European This week's attraction at the for the Fiji islands. He could stantly, such as are met with in statue of the Duke of York from resident in Hongkong is apt to Coronet is "The Savage Woman," not bowever stick to the position, few other places. The reason its pedestal, 124 feet above the think too little on the self-improv-in which Clara Kimball Young and after six months returned to why the local garages charge ground in Carlton Gardens, and ing efforts of the large native has the title role. This is a well- the colony and continued practice fares, which, from the point of substitute for it one of Lord It is one of the declared objects of the Kowloon Residents population, sad the laying of this staged picture and deals with the again with marked ability and view of HCL" are heavy, is Kitchener, is scarcely one about
foundation stone which
has taming of a wild woman from success. I wonder whether Mr.because they have to pay oxorbit- which the man in the street will Association to consider annually the Colony's financial estimates brought the Tung Wah hospital in Abyssinia in the fashionable Jenkin will repeat this feat. It ant rents for premises, and have enthuse. There may be some- so far as they affect Kowloon and to make representations thereon to prominence sheald do much to saloons of Paris. The process of may not be known that Mr. Jen-to make big provision for depre-thing to be said for thus elevating to the Government in the general interests of the community across improve the foreigners impression taming is interesting. if it only kin was offered three positivas ciation on their cars. Again, the our famous men above the earth. the barbour. In accordance with the policy, the Association bas of bis native fellow resident reveals one of the baser aspects by the Colonial Office, and after drivers locally are paid more but the average person would been for some time deliberating on thepressing needs of the peninsula, Certain it is thar so long as the fof human nature. This production he had rejected two of them was than in many another place in prefer them to be more accessible and, in order that all its members might have an opportunity of Tung Wah Hospital remains the is being again screened at to- offered the pos; of Public Pro- the East, and all these items to ordinary naked eye vision. knowing the nature of the recommendations arrived at a special well-conducted and sympathetic night's shows.
secutor. This may be a stopping serve to swell the garage bill. meeting of the Association was comened for last evening. The institution that it is to-day, so lang
stone to the post of Attorney- attendance at that gathering and the interest manifested in the will the Colony be blessed with
General. proceedings, as well as the comprehensive speech outlining the an organisation on which it can Association's attitude in regard to malters requiring urgent attenfall back in times of distress.. tion, all poin; to the fact that a very healthy public spirit exists in
We think that the action of
(all Chinese).
of
Perched on the top of a 1240. column, it hardly matters what the sculptor's conception may Last week's health return
What is really wrong with the be, or how be carries it out, for show five cases of estatic (one
English mails? What is wrong only those who examine is Indian and for Chinese), During the immigration of the with the London Post Office with a lescope can apprecisio Kowloon to-day, and, what is more, that the Association has come TOWARDS PEACE. -
three of cerebro-spinal fever Chinese from Canton the Canton Things are quitstopsy-turvy, for or criticise It Leo the to be regarded as the recognised mouthpiece of the community
WO of and Macao Steamboat Company the mails arrive from Home in all Duke, who has no important there. The past actfiles of this body, plus its intelligent and
scarle: fever (both British).must have made a goodly som. kinds of boats. We would expect place in history, stay among the practical interest in current and fute needs. fully justify its Britain in ledging with the League one imported case of paratyphoid In ordinary times the second the authorities to send the clouds. And let have a creation and continued existence, and at the same time provides of Nations copies of sixteen inter- striking object lesson of what can be done in civic matters by the national agreements which she has (Chin (British) and one of plague class passage on the Company's mails by regular ships, instead of representation of Lord Sitton
be seen without enteric cases and all during the last two weeks has. I to be available. Take the Hong optical assistance or a crick in co-operation of residents who are willing to serve the public for the concluded since the ratification of (Chinese). The last-named, one boats is $1 to $1.50. The Company in any old vessel which happens prese betterment of all. The very "live" slate in which the Association Peace is one that must have been the cerebro-spinal occurrences hear, been charging more, with no Wan I. This vessel. I believe, bas the neck.
bailed with considerable pleasure is tó đay gives the lie direct to those who argue that there is no public spirit in this Colony and that the people who reside in it by all who are desirous of seeing terminated fatally. There were accommodation for the second-for many years been engaged in
of secret diplomacy-inzenz
also eight Chinese deaths from class passengers but a seat to sit carrying coolies from Amoy to The Athenæum in Pall Mall— are mere birds of passage interested solely in amassing as much the end
upon. These Steamboat vessels Singapore and Penang, and, lo, money as they can and then clearingout for good and all. What Action such as this, which has
have been carrying during the now it has the proud distinction ne must not call it the Athenæum is especially to be emphasised also is the point that the also been joined in by other
trouble at Canton as many as of bringing us our English mails: Clab-is just now, undergoing a restoration witbook nations, will make doubly safe the ¿Association is not a body of confirmed grousers and grum blen men with a perpetual grievance but with no remedies to peace that now seems to be ap TYPHOON WARNING. three to five thousand passengers The HoogWand wasoverdusthree thorough
per trip from Canton, and the days. There is also the instance The painters have caused the offer. Quite the reverse-it is an organisation which seeks to proaching. When all nations are
excess fare abould swell the earn-of the Blue Funnel liner Leemun. famous figure of Minerva to assist the Government with first-band powledge of the subjects acquainted with the terms and
ings for the year. On the second. She brough: only one bag of stand out as she never did before. with which it deals, and in this regard it is most gratifying force between the other nations of The telegram quoted below was class passengers the Company letter mail from Liverpool, The elaborate frieze is being
d of the cordiality of the relations between the two. Elis! Excellency the Governor sets greal store on "advice from those the world a good deal of the mis received by the American Con- must have earned between $15,000 baring left-tha: port on August picked out with white, and is 15th, and 53 bags of parcel mailst being given a chance of display. qualified to offer it, and in this regard we do not doubt that he and trust and doubt that has existed sulate General, Hongkong, from to $20,000 per trip.
Why is this so? No satisfactorying its delicate definition that it Government heads in general appreciate the value of a body of this in the past will vanish. It all the Manila Observatory at 2
Answer has yet been vouchsafed bsa not enjoyed for year. It makes for better understanding P.m. to-day :---
Typhoon in about 114 deg. thoroughly Chinese quarter. The and the local Post Office seam to may not be generally known the It is impossible within the space at our disposal to touch in and it is only understanding that
will pave the way lor peace. detail upon all the questions raised at last night's meeting. but s
If Long E. 19 deg. Lat K, moving Chinese have been buying up all be just as much in the dark as/whan the club was built in the
the properties they can secure on liners somehow do not
the man-in-the-street. The big very early years of the nipteenth few running comments may well be made on a few of the more in we look at the histories of the W.
bring century it was only the zeal of s this road, pulling down the the mails now-a-days.
certain Mr. Croker that obtained portant issues. Kowloon residents will learn with deep satisfactionations of the world we see that in times, now bappily past. they
structores that once were the
for the building this elaborate that there is at last definite propect of the provision of a
homes of the aristocrats of Hong-
ornament. He insisted that the hospital, and for this they have very largely to thank the Associatore divided among themselves It was only with ion, which, incidentally, caused an abandonment of the inaccessible in civil war
kong, and potting up in their The snipe season is about money ear-marked to be spent on site first recommended by the Goverment and secured & far a nation have a common interest the realisation that the peoples of
place Chinese-styled habitations.closed, no bags of any conse-jan expensive ice-bous should be The French Mission's property Iquence having been made. The diverted and used for the frieze. conveniently-located one. What is seeded now is that the actual erection of the institution shall be pressed on during the coming understanding. Let the cations that pesce Came: it was by
on this Road, namely No. 34, ason has been disappointing to The occasion-in days when the year. On the housing problem, the Association offers very many of the earth make public the
which is the only undeveloped¦ a great number of the Nimrods, pun was more popular than it is property in Caine Road, has at last though some sre reported now—was needless to say made
type.
conditions of the treaties in
CANTON AFFAIRS-
TUCHUN GIVEN THREE DAYS' NOTICE.
Caine Road bas become &
most valuable suggestions, which speak for themselves and, if) whole of their international The Canton Citizens Committee. bean sold for over $300,000. The to bave done quite well. Many full use of by more than ons. adopted, should go a long way towards solving what is the biggest commitments; declare to all at a meeting yesterday afternoon. area is about 45,000 square feet, old sportsmen were disappoint literary wag of the period,
between
the
Association in relation
rentals
his seal before
Apuzzle with which residents have ever been faced. There was no
specific mention made in the President's speech of rent control international policies, and table ing. resolved tha: no military will put up in its place twenty-not to be wondered at, since
pooples the
honesty of their at the Kwang-tsai Hospital Build-and I am told that the purchasers ed on many occasions. This is though that question Wax involved in the correspondence their agreements, and the cause funds exceeding $500,000 shall be ope
Government
European-styled and the
houses, shooting parties have been in the to. .certain specific instance of increased
of most of the wars of the past contributed, the amount to be of four stories each, the fiste faids every day of the week, the rice crop in the New Ter- which came to an abrupt conclusion owing to the Government ide peace is coming slowly, but son loan: Techno su to be certainly help to relieve the given an opportunity to settle these birds always appear in se
will have been removed. World advanced by different organiss-being three-roomed. This will Naturally the new birds were not ritaries quails will be plentiful, as not replying to the Association's last letter on the matter. it is, nevertheless, cominz surely requested to first surrender housing congestion for In that correspondence, everything hang upon the calculation of
the down and thus form decoys for numbers when the rice crop is in the capital expenditure on new buildings erected with the aid of THE COAL CRISIS.
receiving any Chinese, who are pouring into later flights. It is a great pity abundance. The early change of Government loans, and as such capital outlay dictates the amount
funds, leaving the recepstruction the Colony, and paying ridiculous that owing to the limited territory the monsoon will naturally bring. of rental which can be charged, the point was obviously one of the From the cables which Heater work to the new Tuchan, Rear rents for flats. In this connec- some understanding could not be in earlier flights than in previous very first importance. And the figures cited by the Association Save a yesterday it is hardly Admiral Tang Ting-kwang; and tion. it would be interesting to arrived at between the shooters years. It remains to-be seep-- were intended to secure protection for the teaset from unduly high possible to gauze the position of that Tuchun Mu be requested to know what the Sanitary Board to go out only on certain days what benefits will accrue from.
ante. In reality, the Government has admitted the principle of whether everything has fallen Tang Ting-kwang, within three Chinese tenements. The epi-opportunity of obtaining sport.
Home deliver the seal to Tuskun-elect. are doing to prevent herding in and thus give everybody an equal the reservation of that area round zent control by laying down the retun which certain companies are through or whether negotiations days.
demic season sychronises with to receive, but yet it still hesitates to apply the principle all round are still in progress. Mr. Lloyd
Tucban Ma Yung-bsien bas the immigration of the Chinese despite the fact that H.E. the Govenor once threatened to do so. George has certainly striven for demanded more than $8,000,000 from the interior, and duty And since that time rents have increased rather than otherwise.
The hospital and housing are the really two vitally important peace and our own opinion is that for the payment of his Kwangsi devolves on the Sanitary Board to
a mutually satisfactory figure will points raised at last night's meeting though all the other matters eventually be agreed upon be troops, according to a vernacular see that congestion is not pro- mentioned are deserving of early attention. Into these we cannot tween the owners and the men as only has arrears of about $3,000,-
press report; but the Government) nounced in Chinese houses. at the moment go, esve to say that we are glad to see the matter of constituting the desired datum 000 due them, it is understood. sgricultural development raised. Itis true that the farming class line. If the men can be assured
the cost crisis at
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about the Golf Links, which I. understand is made prohibitive for the purpose of allowing partridgé The quail season follows in the to breed, and disseminate from wake of the snips, but the number this area to the more distant parts of sportsmen will be diminished, of the New territories. It is too as faw own sporting dogs. With early yes to say how far the ex- regard to the transportation periment will suceed. & great. of dogs to and from the New many of the sportimen have Sydney Smith once related the Territories, this class of shooting utilised the train service for con story of a certain person who requiring canine aid, the author-veyance to the shooting gronad was so fond of contradiction that ties should publish a notice to whilst others have made use of
Is gradually being ousted in some parts of the mainland owing to that the datum lite will give them residental expansion, and the Government could tackle no more the increase they are asking for important question, both in the intents of the Chinese farmer and then they will accept, and if the The Premier's reminder of the he would throw up the window inform the sporting fraternity the Castle Peak motor road. My of the general community, than thescientific expansion of this in- OWN878 Bre salisfied that by serious effect that a strike, would in the middle of the night, and whether they can transport their attention has been drawn to s dustry, thus rendering the Colony self-supporting in the matter of fixing datum line they have on the industries and fin contradict the watchmen who dogs across. I wonder whether leaderetie in the Hongkong éssential food supplies. In this regard, the anthorities could no will encourage the miners to anses of the country should do was calling the hour. "H. C. L.. any one bas obtained any Telegraph on the bad state or the doubt learn much by getting into tooth with the Philippines Govern increase the output, then they, mach to soften the demands of who has deemed fit to write to information in this respect. The this road. And the worst of it is ment as to the means by which agriculture is encouraged in those too. will be satisfied. The both sides. At any rate we are the Telegraph and contradict my matter is urgent as the partridge that one cannot travel by the Afslands. Other matters discussed last night can remain over for problem does not seem nearly so confidently awaiting the news statement that the garage charges and quail season usually begins Taipo road, which appazintly in
future comment. In closing we only desire to add that the Assoc-insuperable as Renter would at that the whole matter has been in Hongkong are not as heavy as on the 15th of this month, and to be re-opened at home, very. Aation is doing a splendid work for the benefit of the community in ong time bave had us believe.settled.
those prevailing in the Straits from the present appearance of indefinite date. Whose interests it labours,