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NOTES & COMMENTS.
PASSPORTS,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
quarters for the Royal Obser Tanders are being invited for [vatory Staff,
TOO MUCH LIBERTY IS FRO- There has been quite a deal said] DECTIVE OF GREATER EVILS lately at Home about the passport THAN TOO LITTLE question and very urgent re- presentations have been madə in some quarters with the object of securing the abolition of all re- strictions on traval. Wa bava just had told us the experiances of a Britisher travelling out East
The annual Licensing Sessions from Home, and
rather are to be held on November 5th, ha surprised us by saying that here in the Council Chamber. in Hongkong the passport, re gulations are more strictly insisted
The agenda upon than at any other port he meeting of the Sanitary Board is
for Tuesday
tauched on the way out. That of a rountins character. may be a good thing in a way it certainly prevents the illegal landing of ex-enamy submitted a partner in the firm
Mr. Heary Birkett has been jacts) but we rather incline to Messrs Maxon and Taylor. the view that the sooner ali restrictions on travel are removed
the better it will be. The rigidi insistence on
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to the breaking out of hostilities. Depot. Kowloon, on December 7. expenses, which are abnormally deadweight) for the coal trade at secured to pay the 3. Halvdar (2,000 tons
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The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale s, and will be drawn together to discuss inter-anc, 1919:-Tid Po Lee and Tinyranny, and I hope that the amely, the ss. Halsdar at 40 By means of education and by
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par ton Japanese Jonnage is CONFUCIUS ́DAY, being freely affered for time charters for short periods at five-and-a-half Jan per ton deadweighs all told. Chartsting The dispute between the China chwang continues steadily. Quite for new season beans from Now- Coast Officers' Guild, the China
a number of shartars have been Company came into the lime- October loading. As gave beans resterday by the local Chinese Indo-China Steam Navigation Dalay-Canton Marine Engineers' Guild and the pot through for Newchwang and the anniversary of the birthday of The customary celebrations of run far Garly Confucius were participated in light during the weak, whan atj the meeting of the shareholders! are still unobtainable at the community with more than usual of the Indo-China Steam Naviga Newchwang may have to wait for
moment, steamers now ready at enthusiasm. tion Company, the Hon. Mr. cargoes. A small cargo of 1,300 large gathering of from three to Johnstone took the opportunity of bags of Bangkok rice was shipped four thousand Chinese in the putting the case of the employers to this part at 60 cents per bag. Taiping Theatre, which had been shareholders and, incidentally to Canton has died away, and it sion, when speeches ware deliv very illuminatingly before the The demand for tonnages for Wuhu specially decorated for the occa before the public. Maoh has since then been said
is stated that owners are even fered in support of the doctrines there being always two sides to a 40 cents per picul.
prepared to consider offers below of the great: Chinese patriarch. of man said at the annual general medal, but I think what the Chair-
Among those attending were largo numbers of refugees from Canton meating on Wednesday is about A review of the fixtures reparted and the number of women and as crushing as the Guilds could during the past month shows that children present was hrger Tenders are being invited for have expected. It is going to be business has been on a smaller than usual. It hasbeen customary {legacy of the war when restriction Bowen Road to Deep Water Bar. to pilot their business through the Among the time-charters for the Hongkong Confucius Sopiaty, a passport is constructing a W-foot road from a difficult matter for shipowners scale than in previous months-Lau Chu Pak, the Chairman of in past years for the Hon. Mr. was essential, but the aim should
bad times that are facing the year were the s. a Dewawong to deliver an address, but a num be to get back to the days of freedom that were enjoyed prior sold be aucdon at the Saval that can be
H. M. Tug S.Sampson is to be time there is barily a freight Saigon trade st£12,000 per month, shipping world. At the present (2,300 ton deadweight) for the
bar of volunteer speakers de- patised and eloquently expounded Nat until a person is at liberty to
the tenets of Confucius' teach- go where his inclinatian takes
high. Moreover, the cost in $10.000 per month, the s. a. Fukstings. him,unquestioned and unmolested, The Rev. Falber Robert re-gone up tremendously, and now an the
regard to running of ships has (2.000 tons) at $10,000 per month, shall we reach the long-looked-turned to the Colony yesterday, freights are falling fast.
In addition to the gathering in Hwabchie (3,200 tons in the Taiping Theatre, many is the preliminary requisite to some months in Europe. for international intercourse that by the ss. Forthos, after a stay of
deadweight) fited at Shanghai at special performances were given ia worldwide and permanent peace.
$14.000 per month. On the other native theatres, both in Artificial barriers have to
Mr. Johastone said that he was were fixed the s. &. Pheumpenh. the day generally was set apart
Saigon-Hongkong route
there Hongkong and at Yaumati, and
have to be restored. removed: trust and confidence The name of Mr. Williamnose, but we should have expected at 20 cents per pical, and the emporiums such as the Sincere. sorry to strike such a pessimistic the Skuld and the Yatshing as a holiday. The large natiss Passports Paterson, of Messrs. A. S. Watson the Guilds to know the position. Changin for a lumpsum of $7,000 Company, etc. were closed and may be all very well in their way, and Co.. has been added to the There is no doubt that in recent anl the Linsn for $6,600 lumpsum. mans shop fronts were decorated. but they Are fast becoming Register of Chemists ald The rate of subscription to "The Hougkong Telegraph" is $36 certainly contrary to the spitit of
ab-olete to the times. They are Druggists.
years, as the balance sheets will The ss. Skuld was again re- per annum. (Payals in Advance.)
disclose, the Indo-China Steam chartered for the carriage of salt special expenses of the day have We understand that after the The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscripwe should all strive to engender.at the Repulse Bay Hotel to-night. no: mean that the Company Toolsk being engaged on the thousand dollars in hand, and
the age—or rather, the spirit that A Cabara: Dance is to be held through good times, but that does Hgkong at 84.50 per ton, the have
Navigation Company has passed between Honokohe Bay tions for sar period less than one month will be charged as for a
and been
met the Socisty will full month.
balance of several when Mme. Belikovitch A PORTENTOUS MEETING.
will should lose its head. appear in classic Dances, assisted days of prosperity it should the Nowebwang-Daloy-Canton educational purposes, more es In the run for a lumpsum of $10,000. On these funds will be dev ted to Assembly
The forthcoming session of the by Mr. Paul Gres, the Russian prepare for the days of adversity route the sxiures were the specially in support of vernacular Nations at Geneva will certainly
of the League of baritone.
for the day will surely come wangee, Husan. Pakhoi and schools in which the Hon. Mr. Las be one of the most portentous
when the Company
thinks that the representatives of trade trade
The following additional firms need a little spare money. The the Ningpo and Kueichow at 52 always displayed a keen interest will Kausa for 50 cents per picul, and Chu Pak and the Society have meetings ever held. When one bave been granted licences to Guilds have been trying to cents per picul. For Wabu-Can It is mainly to further vernacular under the Non-Jassert their authority, and to be on there was a single fixture, education that the Society exists. delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd.national affairs and that twelve Fook Tai.
no fewer than 41 States will be Ferrous Metal Industry Ordin-top dog. Their actions smack of Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
cents per picul. policy of pressing for higher pay trade between Pheumpenh and the of
For the cattle expounding the moral precepts States 25 seeking
the will soon be recognised by the Philippines the Paoting admission
great Jage, the and Society The total output of the Kailan Guilds
seeks to League and will
suicidal
in Public Hangchow accepted $11,000 for the probably Mining Administration's mines sympathy is absolutely against one port and $13,000 for two the
work of bringing about send their representatives 100. some idea of the enormous value the week ending 3th Sept if they press the matter they will $12,000 for one and $14.000 f.r
them, and I have no doubt that ports, and the Prometheus a: China.
modern regeneration of of the meeting can be obtained. the sales during the period. their lot in the recent arbitration coal between loogay and on Wedneseay with Mr. J. Oram
ber amounted to 73.217 fons and It has been argued that the 68.377 tons.
suffer a defeat worse than was two ports. For the carriage of League has been woefully in-
award on the pay of "outside" Colong the Shisen Maru, the Ulo Sheppard, the Manager of the efective up to date. but it is hardly fair to judge of a young
The tion. Bertrand Russell was that the scale of pay allowed by tion Company's vessel accepted for San Francisco, will not return men. It is admitted generally Maru, and alsos Chinese Naviga Pacific Mail Steamship Company. movement before it has bad time a passenger by the sa. Forshes, the Indo-China and the China $2.50 per ton, the Haimun secar-to Hongkong again, as she and to get its various organisations which came into port resterday. Navigation Companies is very ing $3.25 pez ton. into full swing. A writer in an He is on his way to Peking, where attractive. An increase of 27 per American newspaper stated the he joins the University other day that a pretty good ex
fessor of Philosophy. ample of a working League of Whether or not a Cantonese has actually taken over the seals of America itself. Here are 45 self- Hope, having been promoted to
Nations is the United States of office in Canton and become Tuchun in place of the Kwangsi man
It is notified that Mr. Leighton whose retention of the post has been so strongly objected to, we do not overning commonwealth, each the rank of Consul, is know at the time of writing though the probability is that the moss concerning its own Consul in charge of the Consul- the objection raised against meted out by the Magistrates the expiration of each voyage, But perhaps the rust astound-with wonderful regularity from from the bome ports of the Pacific Going aspect of the Guilds attitude steamers. The heavy punishment Cos: will expend in our ports at transference has been Tested. We notice from Canton papers tol
affairs, but submitting to the geoste General of the United States hand that at any rate up to yesterday the terms had bat been interest in inter-state afairs of America in Hongkong.
Johnstone arranged, the parties apparently squabbling as to whether Mokexisted for nearly a century
talking This league
$50,000,000 for over appears to have not the least approximately of states
matters with bis own employees. effect bas should have a million and a half or two million dollars. What is and a half and has survived one
ja praventing fbis the Guilds regard as
this supplies, for ship repairs, wages more. there appeared to be a division of opinion on this point civil conflict, fought to determine Powering
& monotonous class of crime from
for crews, etc," says Senator The King's Exequatur e-breach of the agreement provid-which everybody interested in Jones in the August issue of the amongst the Cantonese themselves, not only in regard to the whether it were necessary for it Cerveira de Albuquerque e Castro Indo-China Company. Surely, ajable loss. Thousands of dollars Always understood that Ameritsa
for their recognition by the shipbuilding is suffering consider
Pucife Marine Review. We amount but as to how the funds were to be secured for paring to coatinue. True, the whole of to act as Consul General for more exaggerated standpoint was are paid annually as compensation Phips ware rather expensive to this Langsi leader. Anyhow, putting that issue on one side (and the states are under one flas, tu: Portugal in Hongkonghas receiv never taken up. The fact that in respect of thefts from the docks prate, but is not Eenator Jones it is most likely disposed of by now!, the main question to be faced) is as to who will govern Canton and the Province generally when age do not make principles or
ed His Majesty's signature.
Mr. Johnstone has a heart-to-and from ships. No class of jost bit exaggerating the the Cantonese have in reality come into occupation of the principal era:sents. They merely re-i
heart talk with his own men does goods is immanefrom the pilferer. pense? May be he is a bit afficial positions. Even on that point there appears to be much of the United States are also the September 30th thera were ex-ly, if at the same time he carried away, and the percentage going to be costly.
present them. The broad interest] divergence of opinion in Canton, despite the familiar and insistent interests of the individual states. amined, under the Sale of Food declined to enter into corres of captures is very small in com-
not imply non-recognition of the Cloth, tioned goods, sugar, spirits, pessimistic on the repairs bill, or During the quarter ended pilds. It would do so, admitted-tobacco and even iron articles are perhaps it is the "etc. which is demands from the Southerners that the Constitution should be obeyed but each state has interests of its and Drugs Ordinance, 1 samples pondence to the letter. One would naturally have thought that the Provincial Assembly would have appeared prominently on the scene ere this, varging from those of its of milk, four of port wine and two Bot that he and his Company thieves at work. It is doubtful is part of an educational scheme
with the Guilds.parison with the number of but from all that we can learn it is quite unable to form a quorumite own añairs, but over the whole each of sherry and gin. All were still recognise the Guilds was if five per cent of the thieves of the World Association for
neighbour. Each state governs
The provision of crews' libraries for the transaction of business, many of the members, who! fear fighting in Canton, still remaining in their
is one presiding body to which the were genuine sare one of milk. clearly shown by the letters read regard the thells in a criminal Adult Education, which is work- districts. The manner in which the so-called legislative and the United States together above native states are loyal. What has kept
at Wednesday's meeting. If the light, but rather they see the goods ing in cooperation with other upheaval in Cantoa, leaving
& mere handful of anti-Kwang change between all the feeling P. W. D. Offices on October 25. would be able to talk business of goods and they are not strong vessels have been fitted up for the officers to carry on the "Canton for the Cantonese provides an interesting commentary on the cather'irregular manner that though the states
are The first, Kowloon Inland Lot with any employee, for there can enough to resist the temptation ship's company specially planned in which the movement for ousting the Kwangel rulers has been separate they are in unity
1902, situate in Nathan Road, has hardly be a business matter into pocket some article. But the to meet their educational needs. brought about. We observe one of the Canton papers talking of TOWARDS BROTHERHOOD.
an area of about 14.551 square which the Guild bas not some mere fact that there may not be The first vessel to be thus fitted the possibility of a coalition govemment, composed of the leaders of
feet, and the upses price is $18.-interest. The Guild reserves the soy criminal intent does not is the Blue Funnel liger Aeness influential cliques and parties, and in this connection a list of
The same simile could be 351. The other lot is So. 2312, right to pat its side of the story relieve the shipowner. of liability and another has also inet been names is given this being headed by Dr. Wu Ting-fang. Bat made out of the British Empire. on the new road abore Bowen before its members: then how in the matter. The imposition fitted. The other lines are taking there is, strangely enough. no mention made either of the Sun Yat-The great self-governing domin. Road, being 28.215 square feet in can it logically object to employ of
fines is Ben or Tang Shao-yi. The paper even goes into great detail in setting ions have autonomy but they area.
по remedy up the example of the Blue The upset price is $3,842. ers doing :he game with for this growing evil: bence Fannel Line, and they have out the duties of the various departments, evolving a scheme which tender willing allegiance to their is rather more original than practical, we fear. In any case, w number of nations in league for a month show
employees? Mr. Johnstone was the Magistrates are endeavour started to have their feels fitted parent country. They are thought these Southerners were sticklers for the provisions of the
a Observatory recorde for the pass render his sight as an employer, sentences of imprisonment with-
quite right in refusing to suring to stop this pilfering by with these libraries. Constitution. If they are, then there should be no difficulty in
that the average Do the Guilds think that they out the option of a fine. It is quite And so it mean temperature was 81.2, the are to rule the whole roost and evident that this is the only building nation in the world arranging the form of government, because that is all set out for could be for all the nations of the highest point being 50.
The .third them. When it comes to the point of rebuilding the Canton Govern-world if there were one central Srd, and the lowest 73% on the ing-place?
greatest on the not give anybody else a perch-method by which the practice can is Canada, & position which she ship ment so far as personnel goes, we admit that the problem is not an body towards which all could 12th. There were 20%.1 hours of easy one, and it will be interesting to see just who are invited to converge. The League of Nations sunshine and 11.75 inches of rain
for will be checked to say attained last year by producing in help Kwangtang out of the latest muddle into which she has got object of providing that central humidity was 81.
appreciable extent. Very few has been established with the on 15 days, whilst the average record in the freight market, every pilferer brought to justice been of 10,000 tons. The placing There is nothing exception at to people pause to think that for 148 vessels, some of which have herself.
fewer than As we have before had occasion to remark, the new developljost as autonomous, just as inde-Garden was 17.22 inches oa 16/last week. It is reported that discovered. It is only by the 250,000 ton order for steel ship iments in Canton indicate a big split amongst the Southerners, and
body. States and nations will be for the month at the Botanical rates being stroost the same as there are hundreds who are never by the Dominion Government o the difficulty is not going to be overcome raerely by kicking out the Pendent in the conducting of their days, at the Matilda Hospital. steamers of the Russian Volunteer imposition of sharp sentences plates produced in Canada Kwangsi officials. A few days ago an aeroplane of the Cantonese n affairs, but in international Mount Kellett, it was 1240 inches Fleet will only accept employment that this class of theft will be doubtedly led to the building of Army sailed over the city dropping leaflets calling upon the citizens controlled and regulated for the Stations, Taipo, it was 7.90 inches can and Japanese ports, and not to co-operats in ousting" the Kwangsi militarists" and furthering
matters their actions will be on 13 days, and at the Police between British, French, Ameri- checked at all,
a five million dollar plate mill at the morement for the governing of Canton by the Cantonese. That benefit of the world at large. In on 10 days.
Chinese.. If this is correct it will
Sydney, Nova Scotia. It is a represents the frame of mind of the originators of the new move fewer than 41 States will be in something less than a month no
It is rumoured that the noteworthy indication of the anent, and it is, after all, indicative of a very prescribed and parto conference. It is a very inspir-
aggravate the present acute situ-Canadian Government Merchant energy and ation, for it means that additional Marine are. about to purchase of the Candians, that now, after resourcefninsES. outlook. What is not without its point also is the fact that the log thought. Since the days of nations of the world see the probably be put on the market operate on the service to Hong- Canada should find herself in 1919 Kwangsi officials are dubbed "Militarists"-a term which Kwang-
tonnage from the North will four passenger steamers to about." four year* fung and Kwangsi were both wont to apply to the Northerners. August 1914 we base progressed wisdom of joining, then the locally for Southern freights with Long and China. In regard to the third greatest shipbuilding of effort, Indeed, it seems that all else are Militarists excepting the uch in that respect at least and League of Nations will have destinations other than Chinese their proposed service to Chins country in the world. Although Cantonese, though it may be recalled that the very name of the ought to be sincerely thankful that will be the most potential for rice cargo obtainable on
it is a progress for which we developed into an organisation parts. present Administration in Canton somewhat discredits the idea the
There has been no and
the East the Canadian shipbuilding is an old Canadian Military Government of South Chins. More than that, Cantonese
the Government Merchant Marine industry, her" prominence & In ara good that the word has ever the Haiphong berth. The British have allocated four large freight wooden ships having been ilitary leaders have engineered this latest movement. Taking a look admitted iato membership, known. The gospel of the steamer Haiman, owned by Hai steamers, but nothlagis yet known acknowledged, all round, we can't see that this fresh upheaval has accomplished
when the United States brotherhood of man has been long phong millers, not being able to as to
she lost ber much good, and inasmuch as these Cantonese object to Southern of America bas sufficiently preached but we want to see the secure any rice from Haiphong, call at
which ports they will position when the fron and steel Fale and are therefore likely to oppose Northern overlordship much settled its domestic politics to precept interpreted into practice. was ordered to Hongay to load
ship entered the list, but during bore strongly, we fear that the promised union of the country is consider entry in a serious mood, The League of Nations provides
the war still a long way off..
a part cargo of five hundred coal
many abipyards and when the small outside the chance.
It is understood that the a.a. sprang into existence is the briquettes for Hongkong at $3.25 Colombia which jeft here country,
CANTON IN A MUDDLE.
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wild pensions, passage home and other concessiona, is not so bad now-a-days.
Mr. Antonio Luiz
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Two lots of Crown and Guilds' attitude were upheld. it lying about-probably someone societies
movement.
common interest.
When our
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