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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1921.
THE CRACKER FIRING NUISANCE.
TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY,
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE GREATEST TRUTHS ARE THE SIMPLEST; AND 30 ARE THE GREATEST MEN.
of the latter every day to some mile of the motor road from friend, so that the chain, which Tytam Gap to Shek O and Cape was begun on the Flanders D'Aguilar.. battlefields, should not be broken.
FEBRUARY 12, 192.
ROSEMARY AND RUE.
(By
"Tony.")
MUCH NICER.
AVIATION.
To-morrow's Stunts.
1896
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO,
Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for week ending Feb, 19th, 1896.)
THE DOLLAR. Feb. 14th. The rate of the Dollar, on demand, to-day is 88. 1-7/8d.
RUSBIAN BPIES.
| The "Chain Prayer".
Residents are looking forward The "Chain Prayer" has again
I do like to be fair minded:tions which Aviator Lim On and with great Interest to the exhibi- bobbod up locally. A gentleman, woaring a distressed look and a
Lady Stubbs has consented to and when I hear people speak Lieutenant Rowe are giving at large white hat, came into our: office yesterday with a copy of distribute the prites at the French hotly of some Hongkong young the Happy Valley to-morrow smelt afternoon. Some daring stunta one theso epistles which he had Convent School, Causeway Bay, men who have never
powder" I resolutely decline to in the form of looping the loop, just received from some unknown on March 4th at 4.30 p.m.
agres. They have smelt lots of tail-sliding, spinuing, etc., are: person in Hongkong, It requested
it-talcum powder.
promised and these will assure the recipient to pray for our; soldiers and sailors every day the construction of the second Tenders are being invited for
"ANY TIME'S KISSING TIME." any amount of thrills for for a weak and to send one copy
The habitues of the Moobs spectators. Cafe in London have been Several flights of a plain char- accustomed to having their acter tako place to-day at 2 p.m.
Feb. 17th.-Three Russian meals flavoured with kisses. Starting from a point near Holt's Recently the proprietress of the Wharf the machine will fly evor Offisers were convicted at the The latter intimated that if these There was sent to the Kwong cafe and four of the waitresses the harbour, thus affording & fine Police Court this morning of Jinstructions were
faithfully Wah Hospital yesterday a Cht-were fined for kissing and view for spectators. Amongst trespassing on Crown land and carried out, on the seventh day nese coolie who was injured in cuddling customers. A policeman the passengers taken up to-day of making sketches of certain the sender would receive the head by a fall into the hold in plain clothes was one of the will be Captain Lamplugh of the fortifications. They were found to be in possession of plans blessing, but that if they of a junk,
kissed, but he seems to have Hongkong Aero Club were ignored, then something
gone all the way on the kissing In connection with to-morrow's of Hongkong and of akotobes of untoward might -occur. The
The Bishop of Victoria will be business before he arrested the flight, the Police have made the Lyeonun forts and of the gentleman who brought this absent from the Colony between girl. It is possibly the first time elaborate arrangemente for traffic batteries at Huogham, near the acreed into our office treated the the 12th and 17th February, dur- on record when "bread and cheese control. Motor-pars proceeding Docks. The plane and drawings
been kisses" bave matter very lightly-he said he ing which time he is visiting and
80 to the Valley will go via Praya were confiscated and the offenders wondered whether the "blessing"Canton and Shin-Hing.
East and return by way of were fined $50 each, Why were those Russian spies let off so would be a cumshaw from the
Queen's Road.
easily ? They could not plead compradore, or, if he did not carry
ignorance of the laws of war, and The total output of the Kallan out the injunction, whether his
of the penalties inflicted on spies "boy" would give notice, the dollar Mining Administration's mines drop a couple of points or a boil for the week ending 29th January, genius and a patriot. But his house. She must begin packing. wherever found; neither could begin to develop on his neck! amounted to 91,379 tons and the latest Daily Mail scheme is For the end of a delightful boliday they reasonably set up the excuse over the fence." The scheme, is near. On Thursday they will that their only object was plea- What he did not like about the sales during the period, to 57,026 briefly, is to forse, through the leave for Brisbane to return to sure. They are professionally in- missivo was the implied threat tons.
medium of his powerful press the East.
terested in such matters. They that if he broke the chain misfor-
agency, all newspapers in thei
DOGS,
should have been sent to prison tune would overtake him. No The Victoria Ladies' Hockey United Kingdom to publish
I have counted the dog as one without the option of a fine and doubt that is the circumstance Club meet the Hongkong Ladies' their not sales. Morally there of my most faithful friends. Bull-the vessel they belong to, the which accounts for the chain Hockey Club again, to-day, and is nothing wrong with the dogs, spaniels, abeop dogs (blueye), Vladimir Monomach, should be having remained unbroken for so after the match Mrs. John Johor-publication_of newspaper's collies. I have possessed them ordered out of port and never long a period. Anyhow, we, per-tone will present the cup to the circulation. But should it become all in turn. In every case they allowed to re-enter. suaded him to leave to chit with former.
recognised as a general custom have belonged to me. They lived is, and no sooner had he gone
it would have the effect of their useful lives according to than it fell into the wastepapor basket of its own accord!
practically realised,
-NET SALES. Northcliffe may be a very A diplomat of excollent man,
B
THE PLAGUE DANGER. His Excellency the Governor turning advertisers to the papers their breed. They were not Feb. 18th.We note a steady hag appointed Mr. Donald with the largest circulation. The street dogs coming home only for increase in the number of plague. Burlingham, Assistant Superint-smaller concerns would then be their food or without a home at cases occurring daily, and in the endont of Police, to act as, his driven out of business, no doubt all. But there are people in this number of families and individuals Aids To Navigation. Aide-de-Camp, in addition to his to be absorbed by their more Colony who attach a sentimental segregated in the marriage-boats
powerful rivale.
interest to every mongrel that at the back of Stonecutters Having regard to the Colony's other duties.
In every branch of trade we have ruas the streets. And when the Island. It is time that some very maritime character, a certain degree of interest attaches to a
In the Open Billiard Cham-seen the gradual elimination of the police once wisely decided to definite steps were taken to deal remarkable device for guiding pionship, Mr. W. Pitt failed to mail businesses and the growth destroy these outcasts of dogdom with this disease and to protect We know they oried aloud with indigna- the Colony and its trade from the vessels into port which has been turn up in his match with Mr. of combines; and
Already our disclosed by the Admiralty for Ho Shai-cheung at the V.R.C. last what offect trusts and the like tion. To my mind the police fatal effects of it. the benefit of the Mercantile night, and the latter therefore have upon any country. That is wore perfectly right. There are ships and steamers have been bad enough. But with the pos- far too many dogs in Hongkong, quarantined in the ports of one Marine. Sound signals are obtain-had a walk-over.
sibility of one huge newspaper unregistered and without homes. nation, and it is useless to expect ed from a cable laid on the bed
combine there would be no limit And in this country, where rabies that we can keep from the know. of the sea. The system, a British
to its power. It would virtually is so provalent they are a con- ledge of other nations the actual naval invention of the war period,
control the country, politically and tinual menace to the public. state of affairs. The Consula re- was installed from the entrance to is advertised to take place at the economically, and even Parlia-They are compelled to live upon sident are here too vigilant and Fortsmouth Harbour out to the Kowloon British School at 6 p.m. ment would have to defer to its the filthy morsela they find, too intelligent. Warner Light on the Channel on Monday. It is hoped there will opinions. This new journalistic and with the seeds of dis- side of the Isle of Wight, a be a large attendance of members power promises to destroy the case in thair bared fangs, distance of 17 miles. Ships are and of all Kowloon residents healthy rivalry of Journalism they charge at motor cycles or at thus enabled to find their way interested. into harbour, or to an anchorage
By
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The annual meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association
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IN SUNNY QUEENSLAND,
FESTIVAL.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
when possible, compelled adults
which has done so much to pre-running children at play. vent despotism. And if the con- Ask any cyclist what he thinks at night in foggy weather, or when
Suffering from the effects of an summation of this new scheme is of dogs allowed to run the streets, The firing of crackers during the Chinese New Yoar holiday in all navigation marks are invisible.
means of dynamo involuntary immersion in the realised it is impossible to say and his reply would probably be a subject that has already been fairly generally touched upon and
The Sanitary D. partmeat|
French officials under Louis gavere condemnation has been meted out to the practice of throw installation on shore, the cable is harbour, a Chinese woman, 67 what new form of oligarchy may more forcible than polite.
years have would do well to introduce the XVIII. went even farther than Road West,
The past few ing detonating sand-bombs. But it seems to us that something charged with a high-frequency years old, living at No. 97, Queen's arise through its influence.
was yesterday To a current, and ships fitted with a very much more decided might be said of the whole matter. good many prople the position is by no means clear. Let us try to receiving apparatus on the bridge removed to tho Government Civil brought many startling changes, dog cart method which is so suc- the registrar of births at Zurich atate it, in brief, Ordinarily, all cracker firing in the City and are able to find their way by Hospital, after first aid rostora but, none more subtle or more cessful in America. That and a who declines to register "unusual cleverly conceived than than the stern enforcement of the registra Christian names." They not change which the coerolon of tion order would speedily reduce only censored the names chosen Kowloon is prohibited except where special permits have been picking up the sounds which the tives had been applied.
small newspapers promises to the present superfluity of useless by parents for their children; but, obtained from the Police. To fire crackers other than under permit the cable gives out in Morse
A collision between a truck and
bring.
dogs. is an offence for which fairly heavy fines can be inflicted. In view code. At present the Portsmouth of the celebrations indulged in by our native friends. during their cable and one laid experimentally a motor car, resulting in damage in 1 channel of New York for the former, took place at the New Year holidays the Hongkong Government usually issues a notification in the Government Guzette giving general permission for Harbour are the only installa-junction of Wood and Wanchai tions in use. Presumably the Roads yesterday. The truck- cracker firing within certain specified districts and at certain specified times. That practice was followed this year and we will Government has made 4 prosent coolie was knocked down and quote the concluding lines of the notification which appeared in the of the invention to our American sustained injuries which required
Tests carried out at his removal to Hospital. Irionds. Gazette of January 21.-"Cracker-firing is to be strictly confined to the times stated above, both within and without the prescribed Portsmouth last month indicate areas; and both sides of all streets, or parts of streets named as the that the cable could be effective. The accounts No burning cracker or other fire is to be thrown above the head or suggest
represents a notable contri- near any person or inflammable material, and alt reasonable probation to navigation aids, caution must be taken against accident, as every one is liable for damago arising from his carelessness. This firing of crackers-is-not- to be carried on in the vicinity of places of Christian Worship during
boundaries above, are to be considered as within the prescribed area. up to 40 knots.
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Bathed in sun, the pretty Where in any other part of the to shel names of a revolutionary flavour. A Paris newspaper of hidden by world in there a eight equal to August 31, 1815, reports that bungalow, partly
Seathing before
'an applicant who appeared the Royal Court wattle trees, faces the Pacific. A Queen's Road on the
of people wander on rocky boulders and retires masses
Bworn la few yards away the surf breaks Chinese New Year. hissing and sucking at the sand. aimlessly from place to place, advocate was severely rebuff-
mothers Broad fruit trees bury their arms Chinese
carry od. On learning that his name Observatory returns show that in sandy soil and tiny crabs their babies wearing new bat was Brutus Marnet, the magis- the average mean temperature burrow quickly out of sight. biliquely-coloured head covering trate said that he was surprised during January was 58.8, the Nearby the Burnett Heads mark and are proudly conscious of to find that, man who had highest being 75.7, on the 25th, the flow of the lovely Burnett their new purchases. Sauntering studied the law with the view of and the lowest 44.7, on the 34th River into the sea. The white men hold bunches of flowers or adopting the legal profession There were 183.8 hours of house of a sugar grower sits miniature trees in blossom above should not have complied with sunshine and 0.195-inch of rain, gracefully in the groen of sugar the heade of the crowds. Oc- the regulation which insists that whilst the average humidity was plantations.
casionally a group of young the register of the Order of Divine Service. The Police will have strict orders to summon or Scotland Still "Wet."
So Scotland is not going "dry";"
Sunburnt children ran down Europeans push arrest persana tiring crackers in contravention of the foregoing:
way Advocates shall biyurged of all the crush the verandah steps and skipping through
firing revolutionary names, The ap restrictions. The firing of Bombs is Strictly Prohibited." We have read through the list of "prescribed areas" and find it extremely on the contrary, the country has,
the recipient of an some other Christian before pre- difficult to follow it, even with the aid of a map. But it is a much in the language of Mr. Mantalini, His Excellency the Governor along to the beach splash noisily crackers as they go. A European, pliant was instructed to adopt
"demned has appointed Lieut-Commander in the eurf. A hammock bange possibly
the verandab ceiling, undesired, cracker, remarked more simple matter to understand the prescribed times and it is clear proclaimed
moist." A raging-and-tearing Walter Conway Hake, R.N.R.. from
occupant, with that during the celebrations just closed very little hoed was paid campaign on both sides ended in Assistant Harbour Master, to act its
feet angrily, "You never know what'senting himself again to take the
oath," to the time restrictions, Crackers were fired practically all day and
as going to happen in this crimson; the Pussyfoots being snowed 48
swings Harbour Master, Marine crossed,
gontly all night and one cannot help wondering whether the Government's
under. Nearly five hundred out Magistrate, ang Emigration she reads. A pair of jackasses place!" Hundreds of stalls with
The miniature Principality of notification was taken the slightest notice of. It would be interest-of 572 areas favoured the reten- Officer during the absence on laugh discordantly on the bunga-vendors shouting their wares, ing to learn, too, whether notices in Chinese were posted in the tion of the existing system, the leave of Commander C. W. M. low roof and a leatherneck gives display everything imaginable, Lichtenstein whose postal system gum from Chiness curios to cooked is from this year he oporated by streets for the instruction of the natives. If the Government Gazette no license" party being suc- Beckwith, R.N.
its throaty call from a was the only publicity medium of the Government's ruling, then it cessful in only 41 areas, white
cockroaches. At a curio stall I the Swiss instead of the Austrian A buxom Australian girl, laden was wedged between a burly Government, was until 1866- a is not a bit surprising that no notice was taken of it. ·
tho other alternative, limitation, At the P.W.D. Offices on the We remember that last year the Police brought a great number scored in but 35 cases, In re- 21st inst, New Kowicon Lot No with eggs and boney, milk and sailor and a well-known musician. member of the German Confeder of prosecutions against people who fired crackers at unauthorised gard to the individual voting, the 323, comprising about 866 square batter from a neighbouring How
muches ? ** asked thation, but after the war between her burden on sailor, holding up a small brass Prussia and Austria it escaped hours and we also remember that they were, to a very large extent, figures are not nearly so over-feet, is to be sold by auction, the farm, drops dismissed by the Magistrates. Whether, in view of that experience, whelmingly
verandab floor and image. Two dollar," said the inclusion in the reconstructed adverse to the upset price being $650 On the on
a, while vendor "No can," said the German Empire. It is said any prosecutions are being brought this year, will be interesting to temporance advocates, as they 28th inst., Kowloon Inland Lot stays chatting for
"Or that Lichtenstein was over- At least we do know that two men summoned for throwing secured 442,530 votes
out No. 1408, containing about 39,172 with the lady of the house. sailor, "Eighty cents." "sand-bombs" were lot off scot free. We also know that, owing to 1,153,978 cast. On this latter square feet, will be sold, the upset Occasionally ber laugh rings Or Ji. Can do." There was no looked when the Peace Treaty complaints received from Eur pean business offices in the tost the supportere of limitation price being $23,503.
loudly on the clear air which is attempt at bartering and the was signed at Prague, so the tiny City, permits will not now be ordinarily issued in European were astonishingly out of court,
immediately mocked, by a lyre article changed hands at eighty Principality is still technically at cents. I took my cue from the war with Prussia. However, it districts during business hours and that" farowall" crackers have!
securing Д mere handful
"......Lucky woman, you are," episode and resolved that the is not a dangerous enemy, for practically been seen the last of, except on the harbour. The matter
The Band of the Sociedado bird in the bush. of votes comparatively Philarmonica of Hongkong has she smiles. "Trips to Brisbane top price to pay should Laftor Badowa ite army of eighty became a nuisance (even business in the Supreme Court had to be about 106 per cent. Nearly every accepted the telegraphic invit- and Sydney whenever you like to be 120 per cent, bolow the summen was disbanded, and the suspended on one recent occasion) and had to be stopped. And the ward in the largo industrial ation of the Confraternity of N.S.go. And your old man having asked. question is now seriously arising as
Principality long enjoyed the to whether the firing of centres went "wet", a circum-dos Passos to attend the Process the time of his life; out for days crackers at Chinese New Year on the indiscriminate scale exper-tance calculated to occasion at ion of the Cross this afternoon at at a time in that motor boat of voices, the tapping of drume, ental nations of having no dom- And then the innumerable unique distinction among contin- ienced during the past week is not also a nuisance that will have least some little surprise after 6 o'clock and to-morrow at 4.30 his fishin' for snapper. My word, the screech of instruments and pulsory military service. To.com- to be abated. One recognises that Joss-pidgin" is dear to the the Scottish Labour Party's ad-
p.m. The Mombers of the bandi how
afford the thousand and people can
ono pensato for absence of expandi native heart, that cracker-firing has a deeper significance for him
don't know.
other sounds merge into one ture on armamente the Lichten then the mere making of noise, but it must also be recognised that option of Prohibition. In this will depart by the s.s, Suitai this t
eenge the Referendum suggests afternoon at 2 o'clock, anything that interferes with public peace, public safety and well- that Labour's official pronounce
Well, I must be going. I've got vast and continuous bum likej steinera suffered another fiscal being must be strictly controlled. If our Chinese friends must firements may be no very dependable
aome more butter to make yet, the sound of swarms of gigantic burden. Every winter the Rhine,
which
wastéra forms their I'll bring you another lot of bees. crackers, then let there be very strict rules and regulations. Let it index to what the rank and fille all be got over in an hour or two, not drawn out over days and are thinking. For the present, at advocates and the Blue-ribbonites pineapples over in the morning. No Nowhere in the rest of boundary, overflows its banks
the world is there anything like belowVaduz and floods the neigh nights to the distraction of many sleep-seekers. Dwellers on the any rate, "spell-binding" oratory indulged in an orgy of oratory Ta, ta." Peak are immune from the nightmare of it all, but Europeans ou bae failed to convert the lovers of and pamphleteering, the cost in The other woman smiled at the It. It leaves you with the bouring lands. The cost of maing
and taining a dam (without which thay the lower levels and' in Kowloon feel that they have endured it long a "weedrappie." There will be a Dundeo hions being estimated at rough friendliness and waved to impression that, gaudy enough. This is the year 1921, not the are wherein the musty better opportunity of judging how nearly £50,000. A lot of money the girl as she turned at the gate. innelly as the whole affaire ravars caused would be still.
reclam and of course She was now beginning to under appears to European eyes, there grater) superstitions of one class should be allowed to disturb and distract Prohibition works on a national was provided in the
the is something fine about the faithing
flooded territory the rat and quiet of others. It is also the age wherein government scale when the Volkstead Act of the campaign by temperance stand the Australian way. regulations should be enforced, not made a ludicrous farce. We are has been in force another year or supporters, but still more by the With a sigh she rose from the of the Chinese in their New Year falls heavily on the little com-
munity. not asking for the total suppression of all crackor-firing; only for
hammock and passed into the Postival. no change no change" interests. its reasonable control. Suroly, our Government can give us that,
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