HIGH-CLASS
CONFECTIONERY
Cailler's
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Chocolates
of the finest quality, neatly packed in ELEGANT BOXES
of 1 lb, 2 lbs., & The.
The first shipment of really high-class chocolates that are EQUAL TO PRE-WAR QUALITY.
At very reasonable prices.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Shipping Fares.
Perhaps the best way to das- cribe the feelings of those likely to be affected by the most recent increase in the P. and D. Com- pany's fares is to say that their worst ears have been realised.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
IF YOU WOULD TRULY KNOW A PEOPLE YOU MUST STUDY THEIR TRAMCAR BEHAVIOUR.-C. 0. Cooper.
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A paintscriper met his death Some little time ago, Lord Inch- on Saturday by falling into the cape, the Chairman of the Com-hold of a steamer whilst at work. pany, rusda public some figures regarding the heavily increased
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Two cases of enteric were cost of operating the Company's reported on Saturday, the sufferers vessels, showing that, despite full being a Britisher and a Chinese. bookings, on recent run of ons i One was fatal. of the P. and D. Boats a big losa!
wa sustained on the passenger
trattic. Shipping 'Companies are
and thus there need
to think that a first-class passage:
The $.5.
CURRENT.COIN.
(By "Mercator.")
is too farcical. I wish the San Francisco firms would begin to see themselves in the light that wé in Hongkong see them.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The information is given by the The same old complaint of bad'
Fairplay, the leading shipping Board of Trade that Japanese trade. There is little to write About this week. A merchant journal in England, in its recent bear is being imported into Eug- who has traded in the Colony for issue to hand bad some interest and in such quantities that it over thirty years assures me that ing information about the chaos bids fair to rival British brands. the popular beer in he had never experienced such in the port of Havana which should a writer in a journal observes merchants. It appears that in Japan somewhat resembles lager. bad times. The consensus of prove interesting to the Hongkong that opinion is that trade will go worse before it becomes better. Firms view of the delays to shipping at and, in the opinion of some, is to continue to reduce their establish- Havana, the United States Ship, be preferred to British brands. ments, and every one has resigned ping Board, had sent some of One thing is certain, adds the himself to a trade depression for their officals there to ascertain ironic scribe it could not be
for. the conges-worse than many of them. another eight months at least the reasons
The officals found that The outlook in the financial world tion.
vessels
Few it ang. cities can offer
for the
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An Indian constable, No, 143, is gloomy, and there is marked there were over 100 no,, of course, run for charity, committed suicide at the Governmerity on the part of merchants in the barbour waiting to be dissach settings for film pictures as
to operate. With the trouble incharged, and that many had bean bament Civil Hospital on Saturday Canton still unsettled and stocks there for over two months and me. There are the ruins of little surprise at this' re-raising of evening by jumping from the verin Hongkong accumulating and were still unable to obtain dock-Imperial Rome always at hand
to the ing space. The lighters wore fares, unwelcome though it is. But andah of the first storey.
awaiting exportation
is piled high with goods covered historical pieces. Anyone who interior,
situation the
As Home from Hongkong now costa
to when with tarpaulin, while the piezs gels up early in the 'morning and were crowded with has a little luck will not infre elese on £150 is enough to give
Tjiliwong, which really chaotic.
Canton will resume its normal and docks from intending Home-goers the cold arrived here yesterday
full of gladiators or shivers. But it is a fact, none the Batavia, had aboard ten soldiers state is a poser that I cannot both perishable and non-perish-quently encounter a
Romans, or even some less, and if the present coal strike and one sergeant-major for the answer. There is no real market able cargo. The railroads are
for many commodities, owing to said, to be in the same cond!-bimself, driving off to be filmed
and it is impossible
for the screen. proves to be at all protracted we Dutch Legation at Peking.
the absence of enquiry. Prices on, in most cases are inclined to sag, get transportation to
10 the interior. stepped. It's all a case of the
Among the passengers who as there is nothing to sustain shipments increased cost of living. Most of us are earning more money than returned to the Colony by the ss. them. There is a universal com-The traffic going into Havana is
dare, Naning were Mesars. S. Komor, plaint about bad trade, and the 100 par cent. greater than before who were acting their parts in e admittedly, but with rising costs. Shenton, Allan Mackenzie, bank failures in America do not the War, but the number of new picture play of ancient Rome
W.S. Mallory and JH. Scott
\.S. WATSON & CO., LTD, proves to be at all protease over
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY
Acknowledgment.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 45. 1920.
wa were 1D pre-war
in every direction very few
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The other day two “gladiators”
Customs officials has not been had an adventgre which was not conduce to optimism.
increased, and they are only contemplated by the author of the capable of handling the pre-war piece. The scene was to be a The rice stocks of the Colony volums of importa. Since last Coliseum spectacle with gladiators Mrs. M. Alarakia and Family desire to thank their friends for of
One thing is The total output of the Kailan
Naturally the pressions of sympathy and for the numerous wreaths which they the circumstance.
certain that if faces go very mining Administration's mines are becoming less every month. November the position has been fighting lions. nt on the occasion of their deep bereavement.
much higher many people will be for the Week ending 9th October. With the Cuban market closed complicated by numerous strikes, ticklish part of the business had to inclined to put off going on teave 1920, amounted to 76.489, tons and to us, the local rice exporters are and at the time the officials be done in a specially-prepared dock place. This was arranged to be until there is some prospect of a the Sales during the period, to content to go after the smalt reported. the organised
parcels of business, and during workers of the United Fruit/carried out in a field with pre- drop in rates. It's really a serious 3,269 tons.
the last week some business has Company were on strike, with the pared ditches for the wild beasts. business. What is a tride puzzł-
been done with Callao, in South result that the docks were being The lions, morphinised and ing is that there is such wide divergence in the fares charged Two Kwongsi soldiers, one of America, and with Australia. worked by convicts from the accompanied by their trainer. by the various Companies. On them an officer, were on Saturday Some three to four thousand tons Cuban prisons under military were turned into a pit. Somehar one line it is, we believe, possible sent to the Government Civil of rice are awaiting exportation guards. It is pointed out that or other, one of the gladiators to make the trip Home for less Hospital following an attack to Callao in the early part of next more than a million and a half accidently fell into the pit. The now awaiting drugged beasts did not do him than 40, on another £102 is made on them by a crowd in month. A T.K.K.vessel is taking bags of rice are
various some three thousand tons for Cal-delivery, most of which is report-much harm, though they managed charged, whilst the rate which which they received
lao. There is no enquiry from Santed to hare been purchased by to tear his arm a little and give. Francisco, and the market there speculators, who, following the him a good fright before the is practically dead. The Saigon recent drop in prices have re-trainer could reduce them to sub-
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The brevity of the title stands in contrast to the magnitude of inspires these few comments is wounds. he subject which it is designed to cover. Universal unfeat. £145. But maybe the time will hether in the body politic, the general social world, or in the many soon come when even these first- epartments of industry, has met the eye during recent times with mentioned lower ratea will be but A Chinese girl who was bitten prices. I am told, are higher than fased to accept delivery. One mission. Ronotonous recurrence. Just now the industrial situation in the remembrances of the past. Then by a dog was on Saturday sent to those ruling in the Colony by reason assigned for the grest in the imports of
Scottish golfing enthusiasts Old Country presents a problem of such dimensions as to stagger the some of us will have to stay out the Government Civil Hospital about twenty cents per 100 lbs. increase
from Kokawan. Another Chinese. To-day's market rate for No. Havasa is that the inhabitants have been hugely "tickled" by a acat sober-minded-or, rather, the shock is likely to be the greater East for evermore!
a coolie, knocked down by a Saigon cleaned is $7.20 and No,jate "druck with money" obtain little incident which occurred in proportion to mental sobriety as opposed to reckless hot-
Then and Now.
truck, was removed to the same 2 $7 per picul.
ed from sugar profits, and that an Aberdeen newsagent's shop. beadedness.
they have ordered goods regard lately. A sportsman who spends Only a very few years ago hundreds of thousands of Britishers, There has been quite a deal Hospital.
less of the ability of the ports to a good deal of bis leisure time na spirit of patriotic philosophy, were enduring almost in-written in the local press of late
The following from the Pucifie deal with them. The recomchasiaa wae gutty ba" on the Jescribable hardships and privations, to say nothing of a severe and on the subject of education, and
We are asked to announce that Rice Courier of August is inter-mendations of the officials are to links had just dropped into the ften vexatious discipline, while facing daily perils-"all for a fault has, very justifiably we
newsagent's for some papers. hilling a day, as Tommy, with jocose self-compassion, was wont think, been found with the pre-any members of the Helens May esting.The boarding of heavy be announced later.
Institute who wish to engage tonnage of rice in the houses
WAS shop to sing on those many marches to les franchies. Today a million sent inadequate staffing of the tables for the Tea Dance to be of Hongkong has proven
3 work. inets (many of them the same men. though by no means all, for a European schools. But there is
A little business was done during man, deeply engrossed in arge proportion were rightly exempt are jeopardising the whole one poin: in connection with held at the Institute on Thursday astrous to many speculators in
been future of the Empire. Un these occasions sweeping assertions are local education that has scarcely next, the 28th October, should the British metropolis. It has ing the week in human hair with golfing periodical.
No the Continent, especially with play golf?" inquired the sports. be firm should blamed for Marseilles and Hamburg. The man, with the camaraderis born apt to be advanced, when the need for weighing words is of the been emphasised as it deserves. apply at the Institute and pay on also first importance: get the observation just made is surely but a In the whole of our educational application.
biding time, but there is a long lengths are scarce, and there of the links. "Na," was the statement of simple fact. Besides the mines themselves, the facilities there is little or no
timit to this type of business sad are no good parcels of waste. The quiet response of the workman, great bulk of industry is in consequence threatened with provision for instruction that will A successful whist drive was it happens to be less than the United States made a few pur diana play mysel', but my location, including shipping, upon which, with coal, the nation's at boys for an industrial career. held on Saturday evening in the sky. The proof of the pudding chases during the forthright, and laddie plays a bittie," and put- prosperity has been founded. As if this were not sufficient a strike There is a distant danger in this. Garrison Sgts' Mess. The prize lies rotting on the floors in Hong-although the demand for human ting down the sixpɔoc) for the of the railwaymen is impending.-unless it has already occurred as can best be pointed out by winners were as follows-Ladies
failures. unsavoury
Business falalled as there is scarcity of bookseller then explained that and there is danger that the transport workers generally will follow quoting a very interesting opinions. Mr. E. White (144); 2nd, g, and there have been some hair is big, the orders cannot be periodical he left the shop. The suit. Irrespective of a railwaymen's strike the train services have expressed by Dr. Eisel, who was Mrs. Longstaff (143): 3rd, Mrs-should not be a matter for the stocks locally. The market is the workman was George Dun- bad to be curtailed, and report speaks of the reimposition-doubtless Inspector of Schools here in Clarke (140), Special, Mr. Span survival of the Bitest; that is an strong at the following ratescan's father. judicious, and even imperative of rationing Worse still, the 1957. in the course of his aanual fon (17). Gents-Ist, Mr Hoad exploded fetish. Every enter-10 at 863 per picul f.o.b. miners, having started this widespread catastrophe by ceasing report he stated that the educa-(154); 2nd, Mr. Wilson (148) 3rd, prising fem, whether large or Hongkong, 1015 at 892, 10" 20" Although an experiment is to
a suicidal sequel in the form of allow- tional movement of the Colony Spanton (146) Special. Mr. Wil small, should predicate work, loudly threaten
its at $110, 16:26′′ at $200, and be made in London with the New ing the mines to become flooded. Compared with this received a considerable stimulus kinson (79). Sg Major Stroud activity along lines that justify 26";35" at $500.
York system of regulating street Wholesale work of devastation the acts of subtuge that base in the year 1886 by the introduc-capably fulfilled the duties of its claim to an equal or a pro-
traffic by flash signals, the characterize Continental strikes and have crept into British tion of the system of the Cam-M.C.
portionate chance. On this There is a very small demand authorities, states a writer in & industrial conflicts during the last year or so are insignificant. The bridge Local Examinations and
occasion the strong firms held for ginger. Small parcels have home journal, are Premier indicated the gravity of this menace when he stated that by the arrangements made for flooding the mines "meant that they would be destroyed for ever establishing a Medical School in On Saturday last Mr. B. Tanner, out, and the weak ones went
will be achieved. The opinion Europe. The United States are co.pection with the Alice Mem-headmaster of Queen's College, down. All were jolted by the been done in stem mostly for sanguine that satisfactory results
It a farewell sudden cessation of markets.
not in the market owing to the seems to prevail that no agency, What is the cause of the whole calamity? The miners, after a orial Hospital, admission to which was entertained to
become auccession of increases in pay that must come close to a record, may
strikes. Very large stocks are mechanical or otherwise, can a keenly dinner by the Chinese staff of the was a lesson."
still held in London of cargo compete with the London police.. demand a further 2 per day, despite reduced production. This is at contested prize, like the Scholar Education Department on the
The San Francisco rice firms ginger. The London selling man in the performance of this time when the consumer is already paying over £3 per ton for the ships of the Colony, if the students occasion of his departure for Eng-)
vacation cheapest variety (more than treble the pre-war figure), and a time receive regular and progressive land for a
In the continue to heap vituperation on prices are lower than what we duty. One recalls that before the sell here. Therefore, no war a party of German "bobbies" when coal is of primary importance in the re-establishment of indus-teaching. With the increase of course of the evening Mr. Tanner the Havana merchants. The can try. It would be a lengthy task to present complete figures in relation stimulants tending to promote was asked to accept a present on proprietor of a New Orleans firm, hope of doing business with Lon- was sent to London on purpose to remuneration, the more so as rates vary in different parts of the mental exertion, it behoves educa- behalf of his mother. Speeches writing to & rice journal regard- don in ginger is entertained. Stem to take lessons from Robert and country, in which connection it may be noted that the most bights- tionists also to keep an eye on were given and a very hapoying the wholesale rejections by ginger is quoted at $40 per pical that was in days when "organ paid area, South Wales, has generally been the storm-centre. Is the encroaches which stimulated evening was spent in the To Cuban merchants, states thus: packed up in cases and $7.80 per tion" was alike the pride and the this to be taken as a token of inadequate recompense? One or two meatal exertion is, especially in Yuen Hotel.
"I have been in Havana for the case in cases of six jars. Dry fetish of Fritz. At the same past thirty days, and have been cargo ginger in half picul caso traffic is so scate that no sugges time the problem of London figures suffice to demonstrate the ludicrousness of such a suggestion, this climate. Before the Sankey Report, South Wales miners, when the Board of upon health.
in close touch with the situation, is quoted at $42 per picul. ....Two Chinese women who hadi
tion which appears to offer some early Trade returns showed that the increased cost of living was about at
kind of solution is definitely 120 per cent, were receiving approximately 50 per cent. more than children are and what children between them 100 lbs. of stolen and what I think of the average
A small business has also been turned down; and the proposal conceptions of what constitute this increased cost, which thus showed them to be handsome are not fitted for the severe and coal bad the fright of their lives Havane rice jobber and as to his gainers, while the other day the Home Secretary stated on the floor protracted exertion of the mind when they were met by a can even ordinary business obliga-done during the week in Star that an American method should aniseed oil, mostly for Marseilles be given a fair trial comes from tions and common honesty. of the House that since the Sankey, Heport increased wages bad called forth by a multiplication stable at 5.30 on the Prags East continued to exceed increased cost of living. We do not in of competitive examinations. In this morning. They dropped the general attach much importance to individual cases, but it is this Colony, where there is hardly baskets of coal and took to their must be omitted from this and Holland. To-day's rate is no less so authority than Dr. York, who has recently worth mentioning that only a few weeks ago an account was any sphere for the industrial heels but one of them was not letter as being unprintable. The about $108. Star aniseed has beec Harriss, the special Deputy
ed to contracts seem to have rate is nominal at $10.
been .. in. London published of a Welsh mining youth who was found stranded after edutation of the children of agile enough to escape the iu obligations supposed to be attach-eglected for a long time. The Police Commissioner of New spending over £10 on a month's holiday. As a matter of fact, European
Portuguese kong, who overtook her and
seen the actual conditions. many similar instances have been recorded..
residents, the tendency which brought her before Mr. G. N. absolutely no meaning, provided Even so the Government is ready to grant this further increase Mr. Gladstone has described as Orme at the Police Court this the market goes the wrong way. upen the indispensable condition of augmented output. The miners, the fault of modern education, is morning. by whom she was sent not at all disposed at the start to give such a promise, are apparently specially strong, viz., to over- to prison for two weeks.
the professions that coming round through force of circumstances, and, in place of their crowd
more.
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Under the New York system the traffic would be controlled
by semi-automatic red, green, and yellow lights, and the policeman's hand would accordingly dis- appear; but the officials of
first flat refusal, are even seeking to, justify themselves by a depend upon the mind as distin Two refugees from Canton break in the market. There is complaint that the mineowners control the conditions of production. guished from those dependent of were before Mr. N. L. Smith at just one way of doing business In wood oil some business bast This is a curious plea to be advanced in 1920; so powerful an the band. There is serious risk the Magistracy this morning, one with this class of trade, and it is organisation as the Miners Federation has been quite capable of in trying might and main to fit of them, the wife of the other, on irrevocable letter of credit." been done with the United States Scotland Yard do not appear to seeing to it that the men secure ressonable conditions in this respect. young people for the learned and defendant, being charged with This is just as applicable to the San for shipment in balk and not in contemplate this contingency The fact is that the miner has been getting larger pay for less work, clerical professions that they possession of a revolver and 300 Francisco rice arms as to Cubao casks or cases. The oil is to be with any more enthusiam then and this success has stimulated him to continus in the role of Little may be spoiled for handicraft rounds of ammunition. It dealers.
the public will be likely to It is highly amusing pumped into the ship by means of to to read such criticism of the pipe line. The rate at which entertain. There are places, for Oliver. If the contest is to go on he cannot look to the general only in order to discover too late appears that, unwilling body of workers for sympathy even if he secure the co-operation that they have not the natural incur the responsibility of honesty of Cuban rice dealers, business has been closed was instance, like Trafalgar Square and. Piccadilly Circus and of his Triple Alliance partners. All sight has been lost of gifts indispensable to success in carrying the arms, the male but of course, you cannot expect $23.50 per picul.
athe more intellectual order." And Chinese gave them to his the San Francisco firms to honour
where the Bank a reduction to the consumer.
the perfunctory place in the miners programme. The ordinary those very words might have wife, who proceeded to conceal their bills when the Cubas "re-
adoption of the system must the automatic beneath her cloth-jectitis" do not carry out their worker, while wishing to see his brethren of the mincs fairly been written to-day.
present insuperable difficulties, and even in the control of four- paid, does not see why this should be done at his expense,
ing. She was seen doing this by part of their contract! Pity the for that is what the demand mainly resolves itself into, Murasur,
a constable during the search poor San Francisco bouses! They At Singapore, & raid was in-ways traffic the London police....... ings of this sort may be heard in the Old Country, and they will
much more than s which followed the arrival last try to be honest, but if anything stituted on the premises of Seab man naturally increase as coal becomes scanty and still dearer and
night of the steamer Kwongsai goes wrong, you must only blame Eng Koon, the millionaire, and signalling machine. By bis r16- unemployment grows. There has been for some time past much
Mr. Compton-Mackenzie, the on which they were passengers. the Cuban buyers, who made many arrests were effected. In the moval from point duty, not only one of London's most soreness among ex-Service men over Trade Union tyranny in author has legged the small Remarking that this was an their purchases at from twenty gambling charge which followed would excluding them from helping to solve the urgent housing problem. Channel island of Herm for 60 ordinary case of smuggling. Mr. fire to fifty cents per hundred the accused were all discharged, human touches disappear, but the It is assuredly time for the miners to take to heart the old lesson of the goose which lays the eggs, ofen if they be not invariably golden years als rental of £900 a year, Smith imposed fine of $25 pounds higher than the Hongkong there being no evidence other stranger would lose his streat and the island of Jethou for 20 fand" made ran order for rate from the San Francisco than that private play was in- guide and the driver one of his Canes, though in the case of the miners one way reasonably say they ears at rental of £100 year the confiscation of the arma houses, Verily, verily, the thing dulged in. qkäys been during recept year.
AUTHOR LEASES CHANNEL ISLANDS.
RAID ON MILLIONAIRE
GAMBLER.
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fbest friends.