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It is true that by prompt drastic measures Amoy could Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hicks pass- successfully compete with For-ed through on the Sicilis, bound masa for the Dolong tea business. for Shanghai after Home leave. The Amoy a districts, which Mr. Hicks is the Manager of Arts to pay interest at the rate of nine kin and excessive export duty and Crafts, Ltd., and a brother of per cent. per annum on the heavy stocks and the expenses for have thrown out of cultivation the editor of the Hongkong warehousing these goods, these and have most depopulated, Telegraph.
expenses and interest to be are amongst the finest in the
irrecoverable from the Chinese world, and with the enlightened
dealers. methods of cultivation adopted in
India, Ceylon, and Japan, and such limited taxation as existe
in these countries, could be re-
At the last meeting of the Council of the Royal Colonial
Institute, 54 resident Fellows, 79
The Hongkong Telegrapher liber again. Hongkong.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1920.
OLD RIVALS.
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A meeting of the Piece-Goods show how clever
* role that Committee of the Hongkong she General Chamber of Commerce
this astounding proposition of the dealers. The outcome of these deliberations will decide whether
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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While it was notorious that swore to property
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earliest opportunity of requesting
As year suceeds year it is being
The bequest by the Rev. Canon` The place-goods trouble that Season Opens -To-night. made abundantly clear that China
Rawnslay of a portrait of Robert have boon experiencing is slowly but surely losing har tea,
There was a
The Warwick Comedy Com Southey and Robert Southey's of recently has now developed into clean trade, though there is plants of health in the Colony on Satura crisis, for many of the dealers pas opens its season at the useripts and relics to the room for hope that sho will
Fitzpark Museum, Keswick, re- Theatre Royal to-night, with a day.
and merchants in the Colony ara We have received frash stocks of the latest FRENCH remain a great tes producing
reported to be almost on the play that should make a big hit calls that Southey made his mark rocks. It is said that one old-here. This is "Uncle Ned," one history. A property qualification in political and. Parliamentary PERFUMES from Coty, Dubarry, Chiris, and other high class country for many years to come. perfumers which include their choicest examples. Single bottles The praise that has been meted
Mr. S. G. Jordain arrived from standing and reputable arm will of the closerest playa ever out to the high qualities of Home by the Sicilia to join the shortly be going the way, of all brought out East Much of the in- for election to the House of Com Chinese tas are in every way staff of Messrs. Lane. Crawford [floab, and couple more may tereat of the play centres round mons was created in 1710 by deserved, but the passing of high
do likewise. I have no desire to two brothers, one of whom, having land which in the case of a knight
statute, consisting of an estate in. encomiums will not suffice to
exaggerate the presantdificulties, made a pot of money, lives a lifa encourage prosperity in tea pro-
which are unprecedented in the of sheer selfishness and rules his of the shire must be worth £500 & duction unless the Chinese them-
Lieut-Colonel A. Reiss, O.B.E, history of the Colony. But the household with a rod of iron. Fear and in the case of a burgess selves wake up to the fact that of Messrs. Reiss & Co., arrived world trade
£300 a year. From the possession The younger brother, Uncle Ned, of this qualification members depression has the old methods must give place by the Sicilis yesterday, sccom-seriously affected Hangkong, and is a cheery optimist, who enjoys a to modern ideas. In the returas panied by Mrs. Roiss
this is hardly surprising. What life to the full, and he comes to aldest sans of peers and of mon the universities, the of the Chinese Maritime Customs
the future has in store for see his brother after an absence qualified to act as knights of the for Amoy covering the year 1919
ane can declare. The of fifteen years, the latter, having shire were exempted. The Act | we discover that the export of ten
The remains of the late Mr. market is glutted with place- no son, wishing to ascertain from that Port during the year was Alexander George Grant Gordon goods bought
modified by subsequent whether his younger high A
brother statutes, particularly a statute of only 5,166 picula as against 8.437 will be buried this evening. The rate of exchange. The internacine would be a it and proper person 1838, by which personal estare picula in 1915. That is a serious funeral will pass the Monument strife in Canton had prevented to whom to leave his wealth was to rank with real estate as drop in five years and in his test 4.45 p.m..
Uncle Ned, who does not care al seasonable goods from being marks for the year, the Commis.
marketed, with the result that the cuss for money, descends into Property qualification, but all the sioner, Mr. A. H. Harris, so well-
this home Chinese piece-goods dealers have
of
provisions relating to qualification hide-bound Acting-Lieutenant D. M. Lees approached the sellers with a conventionality, and the play exertions of Mr. Locke King, who were repealed in 1853 by the Commissioner for Kowloon, sees has been posted to the Widgeon proposition to get them to store shows how completely ho hit to reproduce a comment that and Acting Lieutenant P. H. the goods that were contested changes the place. The title of Commons secured the repeal of during his service in the House was contained in the British Baker to Teal, river gunboats for, for a period of at least six part is in the hands of Trade Report of 1395 for China Station.
months, free of interes: and Mr. Warwick himself. and Amoy. The comment states:
warehousing expenses. In other it is one that suits him down to words, the sellers have been asked the ground. Miss Joan Mayne to "carry the baby" for six will play the lead, with Mr.members months, until the next summer, Thorpe 23 the cantankerous qualifications which they did not brother and Miss Marjorie Clarke possess, only ten instances are a most amusing and precocious record between 1710 and 1855 apper. It is a play full of fun in which candidates who had and witticisms.
bean returned ware excluded under the Property Qualification To-morrow's attraction will Acts, and only one instance, that "The Law Divine," another, tue of Glover in 1857, a prosecution comedy, in which Miss Joan for making a false declaration of Mayno 2.3 Edie La Bas
a properts qualifiction, and this, will have
will terminated in a conviction and non-resident Fellows and 35 As
an actress sentence of three months' im- sociates wore elected, amoo
Mr. Thorpe Mayne will to prosperity, and with
prisonment - 05
a first-class labour, excellen:
them being Mr. J. H. Wallace, of is, I hear, to be held to consider in this play appear as Jack La misdemeanant. water
"The only in- and a magniñ-
stance, "writes Mr. Porritt, "I cent barbour, need fear no rival.
have traced in which Kind inquiries are constantly
134 who had been Captain C. B. Ballard has been made regarding the welfare of appointed to the command of the the crisis is to be accentuated. Cuba in rice have to be abandoned elected to Parliament voluntarily our tea trade, the one answer to light cruiser Colombo. The new must not be forgotten that for the present. A few exporters
declined his seat on the ground which is that it has been killed skipper of the Celambo was ap-sery fex firms are in the happy will babadiy hit by this intimation, that be bad no: the requisite pro- by excessive taxation. Now that pointed to the Royal Navy as a position of giving the dealers the as they had shipped large-cargoes ease of Southey. He was return
Įperty qualification is the historic at our very doors almost, Japan radet in January, 1990, specialised facilities that they
are asking of rice to New Orleans to arriveed for Downton, in Wiltshire, on is about to conduct tea cultiva.
to-day. Money is very tight. there at about the end of the June 11, 156. The new Parlia in navigation, tion
lines.ieutenant in 1505, promoted com./and accommodation is not readily month and from where they will ment met on July 25, and from ол enlightened surely the time is ripe for China mander in 1910, sad captain in situation bristles with difficulties, the embargo is lifted.
given by the Banks. The be transported to Havana, when to follow suit, abolish likin and December, 1917.
Keswick on November 15 Southey They did export duty, and admit machinery.
but # is the bounden not calculateon the embargo being communicated to the Spesker his Thusraam of prosperity could be.
fduty of the Banks to come to the extended, and now they are faced reason for no: having taken bis It is a pleasant relief to turn at times from the usual daily topics assured to the tes trade of Fukien.
Amongst the passengers who rescue of the firma, and help in with the prospect of selling their the Continent. he wrote, "been seat. Heving, while I was on such as politics and commerce to the cultural side of life, and this It cannot be argued that there arrived by the Sicilia were Mr relieving the trouble. No one stuff at a sacrifice in the States, train of thought was awakened in us the other day when reading would be any loss to the Imperial T. F. Claxton, director of the expected that these
troubles Some business has been done without my knowledge elect.
Callao. notice of the annual Harreian Oration, which this year was deliver Exchequer by adopting the lines Royal Observatory, and wife: Mr. would develop into such an ugly with
AC. Mcl. Messer, Mrs. Kemp (wife situation and the Banks must) America, in rice, For December for the borough of Downton, it ed by Sir Frederick Andrewes, who occupies the chair of Pathology suggested, for assuredly at London University. The lecturer set himself to develop Prof.atters stand at present. 30 far as of the Attorney-Generall and realise that if the frms "go under shipment, about two thousand Flinders Petric's proposition that there is a fairly well-marked Amoy is concerned, there will in child. Mr. A. G. Stephen, of they stand to lose immense sums tons being transacted, but from has become my duty to take the sequence in the development of the various branches of human the near future be no tea to collect the Hongkong and Shanghai In this connection, I may mention San Francisco there is no en-you to inform the honourable activity. Art was the first to reach the highest point; literature/either likin or duty upon. 25 Bank, Mr. and Mrs. Diss and that one frm, that has immense quiry. The market here is very House that I am not qualified to followed; while science was last of all in its development. The last years ago $3,000,000 was the family, Mr. and Mrs. Raven and stocks of shirtings, etc. some weak, the present quotation being named is still advancing rapidly with us, but as a race we are now annual income of the Amoy tea family, Mr. D. Harvey of the valued at three million dollars, is about $5.70 for No. 1 Saigua on take a seat therein, as I am not
of such estate quite incapable of Salisbury Cathedral. Magdalen Tower, or Henry districts; to-day is not $350,000. United Asbestos. Mr. J. Tully of to hand over these stocks to a and $5.60 for No. 2 qualis. required by the can escala asis VII's Chapel, declared the lecturer, who concluded. Lei students Likin has done it What was the Asiatic Petroleam Company Bank, which will sell them. There have been heavs arrivalinta Fear of Queen Anne." consider the recent wors a: Canudge on the structure of the atom true then is true to das, and for with wife and family, Mr. Russell.
of rice from Saigon. There is and then go back and look at the statue of Sir Wilfrid Hawson on this decreaset trade China has Mr. Wallace, Mr. Ramsey and
nothing doing in
Southey's letter is the only com- the Embankment." This was by way of clinching & comparison
The quarteris trade returos: hut to thank herself. How others of Taikoo Dock.
munication in the journal ex- of the Colony, which I had occa-business in China rice, but so far House of Commons by reason of Everybody expected to do the object of which was to demonstrate that fcoateniporary) art has different it might all have been !.
pressing inability to serve in the been outdistanced by sciente.
sion to analyse a few weeks ago, The task was not a difficult one.:
nothing has transpired. since the position, whien is largely in the nature of the case, was
Church Mes saysThe fin-
showed the tremendous strides that the trade in piece-goods has United States cannot pay the with Carlyle the distinction of the non-possession of the statu- parently the buyers In the recognised anterior to Professor Flinders Petric.
tory qualification. Southey shares ances of the Cathedral are in a To begin with, Greece gave us such a phenomenal start-off in
made. These increases have not very bad state. None of the
prices asked. art and letters, while remaining relatively barren in science, that peace as an irridescent dream mea: Fund will be received till dealers have been speculating on People who look upon world income from the Chater Endow.been been healthy. Firms and
having declined the honour of a the scales were weighted in advance. Irrespective of this, there is are fond of using one stock phrase April, 1921.
baronetcy." the long-standing hypothesis that art flourishes best in an earlier to the effect that foreigners will
the exchange remaining steady A small trade has been done in stage of civilisation, where the elemental emotions obtain freer always hate each other and thus authorised considerable expendi
On the strength of and prices in Lancashire going stem ginger at $31 per picul, but this fund the Gaurch Bedy
The first woman summoned for play. Three centuries back Milton feared that he "bad been born there will always be European ture including $100 a month to case. Prices in Lancashire bave qualities. Cargo boger is flat at way compartment escaped more The reverse has been the there is nothing to report in other smoking in a non-smoking rail- an age too late. The critic mich: interject an obiection that we wars. They would point out, to the Bishop to make good some of one down and exchange bas $19.50 per picul and dry at $31 lights have lately seen the elemental passions let loose on a scale that support of their argument, that: the loss on exchange, and $50 a dreamt of. To-day there are lying price for galangal is $1 per picui, in the early days of railways. than male offenders beggars Marathon or the battle of the Metaurus without any great
slumped in a manner that no one per picul.-The present market against the same regulations art issuing. We will not attempt now to answer a query of such
month for the case and repair of in the golowns magnitude. Whether the advance of civilisation is or is not inimical
the organ. The Hoa. Treasurer million dollars worth of piece-for the 80-35 per cent., 8165 for September, 1812. relates that "a some twenty white cassia oil is quated a: 173 The Mechanics Magazine for to art, it is certainly advantageous to science of which, indeed, it
says that unless a special effort is in large measure the manifestation. Science is by its nature
is made we shall have a deficit at of by the dealers or lying on the 70-75 per cent.-Star aniseed travelling in the coupe of s goods either not taken delivery the 75-80 per cent. and $15 for short time since a foreigner, cumulative, hence progres-ive: the latest worker in the field of
the end of the year of nearly research is heir to all his predecessors. To take as an example the
$3,000. To avert this we hope
that had oil is called at $38. Some second-class carrige department in which Sir Frederick is directly interested; the most
donations will be sent to the Hon. imported them in the hope of business
done during Brighton Railway, smoked B remate country practitioner of to-day, benefitting by the labours of infitum, od
Treasurer and increased offerings Manager of a big firm of a piece at this price and also with that the practice was not allowed. making handsome profits. The the week with New York cigar. The guard warned him innumerable investigators, is a living encyclopaedia of medical first glance this seems almost given at the collections. science that was a sealed book to lippocrates or Galen. The troism. But is it? Or are these
goods dealers assured me during the Continent. There is nothing Nevertheless the gentleman, artist, conversely, stands upon his own basis.
the week that the outlook was doing in aniseed, the present rate whea the More technique he bates the result of economic con-
guard retired, may acquire from others: the diving essence out of which a work ditions and of the political to Mr. J. Fletcher was held stort of a miracle would save the thing bas to be said about ground-next station
The high esteem in which the very gloomy, and that nothing being about $23.50-The same continued to smoke. At the of art is created mus; emanate from his own being. Schopenhauer ambitions of the ruling classes in the Colony was shown by the situation. The prosperity that nuts. There is an entire absence by a demand for his ticket, expressen the contrast in some such terms as these: "A science For light on the subject, let us large attendance at the funeral we bave experienced during the of business, the rate to-day being ordered out of the coupe, and anybody can learn-one with more, another with less facility: in Art. look to the United States of on Saturday. In addition to the past six years has engendered the about $9.20 for the shelled and subjected to the following treat- which has to do not merely with the reasoning powers but with the America. The prerage Amer- bereaved husband there were pre-highest form of optimism, and $12.50 for the unshelled. In tea mont inmost nature of man, each one counts only for what he is in ican city of the first-class has sent at the graveside the Hon. very few firms or individuals oil, peanut
The guard, addressing himself."
foreign-bom population of as Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, the Hon. have been cautions. There is co oil
oil and wned one of the officers on the platform, Such in broad outline appears to be the position, one-third, and a second third Mr. E. A. Irving, Mr. R. E. 0. doubt that when conditions in doing.
there is also nott warned him that "that person was yot there is surely 仓门 arbitrary element in these is made up of the immediate de- Bird, Mr. E. Ralphs, Mr. D. K. Europe and the United States at $21, tea oil at $21.50 London by any train that night
Peanut oil is quote not to be allowed to proceed to generalisations. Looking at the Renaissance constellation of scendants of foreiga parents. In Blair, Mr. C. B. Brown, Mr. E. F. improve they will also improve wood oil at $22 per pical. There and there the gentleman was left. painters of the galaxy of eighteenth-century composers, one might other words, the average Ameri- Aucott, Mr. J. R. Sutherland, Mr. in the Colony, but, as I have is some enquiry for Boy, but no On being remonstrated with, the say that Art flowers when she so wills; while the wonders of Can city is largely foreign and A. H. Crook, Mr. J. Ralston, Mr. aiready stated, the Banks should business has so far resulted as guard very civilly replied he science, especially of applied science, are so essentially a modera therefore must be, in a consider. W. L. Handyside, Mr. W. J. do all in their power to help the Europe cannot pay the price asked could not help it such were his achievement as to stand, it might be contended, outside of able degree, the expression of Carrie, Mr. S. B..B. McElderry, merchants, for their interests are the rate being 824 per cask of order he would be discharged
On a general survey, taking in "wireless," aviation, foreign feelings. Furthermore, Mr. F. J. de Rome, Mr. A. Morris, closely allied to those of the 5.10 picula. and surgery, to name a few of the marvels that instantly crowd in most cities, these foreign the Rev. G. E. Upsdell, Mr. A. T. intter,
or fined if he did not execute upon the mind, it may well be said that progress in science has groups naturally drift together Hamilton, Mr. W. M. Fleming.
them.... Surely to have taken outstripped that in art, without including in the account the into "colonies," and have a more Mr.
the man's ticket away and forced activities in "pure science whereby research has sought to or less definite group conscious Cameron, Mr. A. Maxwell, and W. Pryde, Mr. D. H.
Some business, was done with him, before he could proceed to penetrate the very secret of existence. Even so the art of our time ness, which retains, sometimes several students
Rice exporters who had been the United States in human hair London, to buy another would may well claim a word or two. Much notable work is being for
of Queen's speculating on the ides of doing in the 16/26 kind at $192.50, have been punishment enough." generations, the
The College. accomplished in these days, often with meagre and besitant country
a big business with Cuba in rice but there is no demand for the G. J. spirit. Here appreciation in itself a discouraging circumstance for the artist: British, Celts, Teutons, Latins, officiated and there were very shock of their liver when it was for the other qualities are
are Williams, Union Church pastor, at the end of this year got the other qualities. The quotations FIRE ABOARD SHIP, and there is the elementary fact that, however frugally, a man must Slavs, Semites and what not, livmany Boral tributes sont, includ- announced that the Cuban Goy follows-5/10 at 560 per picul. live. Only the other day the Home journals published some ing side by side. Do the Magyarsing a wreath from Lady Stubbs.
erament bad deemed it desirable 10/16 at $90,10/20 at $110 and 26/36 particulars of the remarkable case of Mr. Crosland M'Clure, whoever start out to make war upon
to extend the period of the am- $500, the prices being fo.b. not long before the war executed a statue of his Majesty which the Bohemians? Do the Italians
bargo on the imports of rice into Hongkong. now adorns Madras and was also responsible for the South and the Slavs come into conflict?
that country until March next, African War Memorial opposite Leicester Town Hall. To-day Mr. Do the Serbs make a sally to of peace as they are in terms of year. The reason for this action M'Clure finds that, while people have no money to spend upon art
"beat up
the ss. Tungebing. It appears "the Bulgars? Ap-war, if you give thera, a chance. is that the Cuban Govern- The tin market is absolutely that some cargo in the hold of they have an abundance to spend upon eating and drinking: so, toparently not. Apparently, under The task of the League of Na- ment recognises that the stocks stagnant. There is no enquiry the vessel ignited. When the gain a livelihood, he now ministers to the stomach instead of to the conditions of comparative tions will be to help people think of grain in Cobe are from
the United States for fire Boat arrived it was found soul, having turned waiter. Substantial rewards attach to the in- economic freedom, the old bitter in terms of peace by demilitariz-large enough to satisfy the Yunnan tin, and the price is that the conflagration had been vestigator in those days; the lot of the painter or the post is still animosities and antipathies are ing the nations, but its ultimate needs of the inhabitants for nominal at $74 for the 99 per cent.. pat out. prone to be that of Butler, who asked for bread and received a
forgotten. Apparently, people are task most be to establish economic another three months. So that $70 for the 98 per cent, and $67, stone,"
just as content to think in terms freedom between nations.
The Tangshing is lying at a all hopes of doing business with for the 96 per cent,
mooring in the harboúr,
sequence,
Foreign "Hates.*
French hate Germans. Irish hate English. Poles hate Russians. Czechs hate Hungarians. Italians hate Austrians. Greeks hate Turks.
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