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(INCLUDING
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Too Good to be True.
It seems to be getting rather a habit with people visiting the Oldi Country from Hongkong, no matter what their qualifications
DAY BY DAY.
HE THAT LIVES UPON HOPES WILL DIE FASTING.-Baujamin Franklin.
"An Islander's Diary," for the job, to pose as authorities! "Ajax," is held over.
LINES FROM LINKCUMDODDIE.
extremely difficult to checkmate. of it. I went up to her and passed Why should the. middle her the high sign, but she merely and upper olasses be free looked through me. It was then to stook their cellars and I noticed the Christain En- (By Robt. MacWhirter.) be unable to administer unto gavo her up, and, thinking it time
the horny-handed son of toil be deavour badge in her blouse, so
As I was saying, ya might live himself, when he chose the "wee to ease my feet, looked around w a woman for forty years and haufs" so essential to his health for the bar. But alas! the good by yet, on occasion, never know and pleasure?
old brass foot rail was amissing when she's due to bite. A quist, Yet upon my word and soul Iand so was the bar wi' Its homely- douce creature when you're going believe that most folks desire a looking boer engine and bottles of about full of golf and strength as change. A cleaner social life is cold tea.
D.
+
this
on Far Eastern questions. Some of them got a deal of publicity through the medium of the nowspapers, which appear to jump Pozzoni returned to the Colony savage if unfortunately ye should folks support healthy ontertain-evidently, a la carte in
The Right Rev. Bishop often as no' becomes a rampaging required. The way in, which I could see that drinks werd at anyone willing to tell them about the mystic East. Friend on Sunday evening.
catch cold in several places at monte eurely proves that the establishment, so I sat me down Partington has been received
one and the same time. Then masses have other aspirations on a sottoe and allowed my index with soon arme, and he is
it's bed for ye, and lio still there than to crowd shoop-like into a finger to settle on a bell push, telling the folk at Home some Vladivostock. She will transport fles
The Gujerat left to-day for and no' fidget about like a hole in tho wall, & description The answer came along in really wonderful things about
blanket. Aye, which certainly fits the majority the shape of a nice- Germans
from this part of the world. To a
that port to nice, woo, gonial wife serving of public-houses in our Scottish featured old gentleman who Trieste, Lancashire paper ho openly stated that labour troubles are unknown in the Far East, and
ATO
quite
4
Last week's
health
on
at
I
out tea and cakes of cities to-day, The extinction of looked as if he had taken to re- an afternoon can be the devil dingy taverns in our mean streets ligion late in life and who wore incarnate when it comes to ladling should have pride of place in our at his extremities & amoking cap ho painted a picture of the native received by the Bureau of Com-mustard poultice between your you that the crowded, cheerloss me warmly by the hand, asked According to cable messages out hot gruel or inserting a future social programme. I grant and carpet slippers. He shook working from sunrise to sunset) savon days week at a pay
merce and Industry at Manila socond-best singlot and the small and comfortless homes of lots of after my health and introduced from which is equivalent to 7d a day.)
Washington. Philippine of your back. It's a queer world city folk is the chief assot of the himself as the proprietor of the Well, that's hardly the East that gar will not be affected in the my lad, right enough, and it's a many boozing howfs in our most establishment. He was in the event of the re-enactment of the true saying that if ye want to populous districts. Maybe I'm midst of enquiries regarding my we know: his statoments are
Payne-Aldrich tarif law. certainly not true of the Treaty
know folks ye must first live wiputting the cart before the horse wife's health as well when I told them for a bit.. Mind yo, I'm no' in directing attention to the pub him to put on a soft needle and Ports, where strikes and
mentioning names, but when the first and foremost, but, as things bring along some of the bard demands for more wages
becoming
return wife that promised to love, bonour are at present, we can reform the stuff. He looked a bit mystified feature of industrial life, shows five case of diphtheria and obey ye forty years ago starts latter more quickly than we can and opined I meant hot milk. Then wo have the familiar (two British, two Portuguese and in to whittle away your character over hope to do in the case of They'd had some lovely butter old story of written contracts one Chinese), four of plague fall behind your back, and you maybe the former.
milk last week, he said, but of in business being "absolutely un- Chinese), three of small-pox (all at doath's door for all she seems
could guoss how Having this in viow, I would course necessary." That is cited to slow Chinese) and one each of enteric to care, it's time at least that
I couldn't, that the word of a Chinese is as (British) and
corobro-spinal something was put on record, say that the "Trade" have gain- quickly it had gone.
but guessed instead, that ed a respite rather than a victory. make good as his bond.
apt to We believe it fever (Chinese). The last named We're all
It now remains to be seen as to what this old buffer evidently masker. limes-but is in the majority of cases, and case, all the occurrences
of slip
a keeper or what they are going to do with missed most was that is why we like the Chinese plaque and two nach of small-pox Now the foregoing has no con-it. The public
two-and that I'd be wise to keep memory is so much. But to say that written and diphtheria were fatal. There nection wi' what I originally set short, but the "Trado" the table between us for the contracts arb unnecessary is were also four Chinese deaths out to tell ye, so if ye don't careers long in
present. promises wheer nonsense, Business isn't from influenza.
for moralisation of that kind, made when it was somewhat un- "No, Sir," says I sternly. "what done nowadays by word of mouth.
well, the best way is just to skip certain what the public verdict I want is a drink-hard stuff- however nich faith parties may
it. I always do so myself, only would be. This organised busi- whisky. What d'yo think I am? have one in the other. However The Edgar Warwick Comedy in the case of Pink Pill and ads. ness which has 80 recently A cat? Who wants to go eniall his business experience Company hope to return to Hong of that ilk, for instance, you've demonstrated its power in Scot around lapping milk outside a may have been, Partington must kong about the end of next month, got to read in order to discover land is surely powerful enough sick bed, onyhow ?" know that. This rosy-picture when they will produce some what you don't like. Now when to devise painting makes us tired. We are new plays, including Bernard you come to think of it, that's premises where the Club element the time he'd absorbed this into an arrangement of He looked extremely pained by wondering how long it will be Shaw's "Arms and the Man."just our experience of life all will at least be faintly recognis his system, but would he allow before the Elonse folk soo through Miss Eileen Dawn has tem over. Ye seo-but there, I was able. The public house must be me to lubricate my tonsile? No, these transparencies..
porarily severed bor connection nearly off again.
reformed. The "Trado "must be siree. Alcohol, he said, was only with the Company and is passing A Popular Misapprehension. through the Colony to proceed to
What I really meant to tell mado to understand that no administered at 8.50 p. m. I Sir Thomas Dovil's rosignation Bombay, to take charge of the you about was the awful washout social reformer will compromise didn't like the sound of that I tho ** Drys have got in wi' drunkenness. The publican word “ admenistered." What of the Chairmanship of Lloyd's tour of Poter Dawson, the well- Scotland. Now, in sober must enlist on the side out time, I enquired, did the shop. Register of Shipping has led a
truth, this result is ono against over-indulgence which is close, onyhow? Ho, in turn, Dody Express writer into a rather i
which should bo received to-day among the things that evidently didn't care for the word common error. We have the oft-
wi' mixed feelings by every right-handicaps Beolland in From to-morrow, at the Hougthinking person. After the social world's industrial race,
theshop." The establishment, he told tale, which nevertheless
informed me gravely, closed at bears re-telling, of how Edward kang Thontre, a well-selected
facts placed before us and dinned Lloyd, an enterprising, coffee-picture has been announced to into our ears for the past six writing, instead of a gangling
Now if this were a play i was 9 p.m. sharp. house keeper of the early eight-which Jack Pickford takes the months, the verdict is bad, very letter, it would be simpla to in ten minutes," says I.
"Not much time to shift many be screened, "The Varmint," in eenth century, made his unost-] calations but snug establishment leading part. It is a film worth bad. Mind ye, looking at the switch to the next part. The
votes recorded for one side and
He looked graver than ever at into the recognised resort of sea seeing. It consists of five parts the other, it is certain that in the same scene, twelve hours lator" that. Alcohol, he intoned, was and underwriters. One of his when the Louisian & trio and days to come the "Drys" will get and, what's more forbye, saves evening and then only after one's captains, shipowners, merchants, and will run until Friday night,
covers a lot of bad technique. only allowed once during the a firm lodgment in the country. activities was to issue a sheet of Quartette will reappear for the The "Trade" have the advantage quite a lot of scenery. On the temperature had been taken. shipping and mercantile nows of new comic songs, etc.
last time with an entire change for the moment, but undoubtedly lotter it requires imagination saw a vision of yours truly being stage it's doad easy, but in a I would have groaned only I which is now published as a daily
on the part of the reader for no whisked off to bed, somewhere paper. Out ibess popular "Fatty" will appear on work for social reform. Now, beginnings grow the, powerful the screen in new funny feats.
how is it, think ye, that lots of one can be in two places at the Corporation of Lloyd's, the head-
same time unless they be dream- folks signed a cross against
a doctor in attendance. So I The Board of Directors, with the various managers and sub quarters of marine intelligence
and insurance,
boen doing since I wrote the last dissembled and remarked on the Mrs. Harry Woods and her temperance? Well, to begin witing, and that's exactly what I've water bottle, a night nurse and a which for a managers, of that extensive concern the British Empire (which Dreentury and a half has been daughters
when Mr. Pussyfoot tried to
Maybe it was the rush there would be every night paragraph. in Scotland it was easily soon, can yé expect for 12/6 2 bottle
stages
HAGEN-ROLFE.-On the 12th February, before H. B. M. Consul-General at Shanghai, and aftorwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedrat by the Very Reverend Dean Symons, Eustace Charlee Hagen, eldest son of the late 3.8. Hagen af Hongkong and Mrs. Edney Page of Shanghai, to Phyllis Hamilton, only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. II. Roffe.
Death.
ROCHA At the Italian Convent Hospital (Caine Road) on February 14th, Mrs. Anoa Ernestina da Cruz Rocha, widow of the late Mr. J. O. da Rocha, Accountant, General Past Office. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day at 5.15 p.m. Deeply regretted. Macao, Shanghai, Manila and Japan papers please copy.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1921.
MINISTERS TO GET A RISE."
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known baritane.
aro arranging
The
time is on the side of those who
a
in this wonderful pub wi a hot
Inge has lately heen telling us has ceased to be a going concern) located at the Royal Exchange,Cabaret Dance for Thursday. Popularise the idea of Prohibition Scotch Bun or the well, what at 8.45 p.m. But friend proprietor
this
The link
semi-official
It is not, renowned
particulare of
of
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are to get an increase of "serew." This is what we have all been so complete has it shipping news March 17 (St. Patrick's Night) at in the early
ready. It furthermore after, so it is not astonishing that Ministers have followed suit, servico been through the inthe City Hall (31. (Feorge's room) the game, that the
nowadays, and tasting average medicine at that? except that some people may say that they are overpaid already.strumentality of agents in all the The proceeds are to be devoted to Scotsman could not countenance
like would appear that before any drinker was considered bona fide That, while there is a good deal to be said for it, is to some extent a ports of the world that during the Earl Haig's Fund for Ex-Service
compulsory temperance. Nor Whatever it wae put me in he had to be in the place for at matter of opinion, but there is no doubt that certain inequalities in Napoleonic wars it was able to men a very deserving cause, did he. The Temperance Act has Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, in least two hours previous, and in the emoluments called for readjustment, and H.C.. affects furnish the State with information and one which all should help. of a Select Committee to inquire into the whole subject. In this Government couriers. Ministers as well as others, perhaps more, hence the appointment from abroad in advance of the Mr. Woods is to be commended not a word in it regarding Pro- about two shakes of a lamb's tail, that time had to have absorbed so hibition. "No Licence," yes; but I was out in search of entertain-much hot milk and music, white instance there is less cause for objection, because, the total of the with the authorities has give advertised to be a
for undertaking this dance, full there's a mighty difference be- ment. No, not the kind you coffee and dominoes or tea and bill will be fittle affected; the change being from £159,000 per annum the institution a
which will between the two when ye get down think I mean. By and by I drew tiddlewinks. to £162,000. At first sight this is rather surprising having regard to character. All the same, Lloyd's mentioned that tickets will be in saveeing this, and, by the picture house. The entrance of It only needed a creche, a dark Aye, it was a wonderful place. the various "increases." The explanation is that the pay of some world-wide prestige rests in the limited to 300 people, and that Hokey Fly, they kept this issue stately proportions, was richly room and a straight jacket to All offices is reduced, while others are abolished.
main upon its own enterprise and the Misses Woods will con- before the electors right up to carpeted and curtained. Ithe bill for civilisation. It sure It is proposed to increase the Premier's salary to £8,000. efficient organisation, of which tribute some of their bright and the end. Mind ye, Scotland is approached an attendant. was some pub. Probably many people are unaware that the head of the Cabinet an oxample was given to the popular songs. receives only the samo salary us the Secretaries of State, viz. £5.000.public when it apprised the Pross
still a place where individual "Pictureal" says he; "this is
By and by I got so interested To be precise, the British Primo Minister as such does not receive of the rescue of Hawker and
liberty is respected, but the no flaming cinema. There's no in an argument between a drain any pay whatever, his salary being derived from the office of First Commander Grieve.
Mrs. H. E. Pollock writes: It rails when they went in spirit bottle, and that's in the safe. tive values of coltefoot and red Temperance Party went off the stars here except on the brandy digger and a waiter on the rela- Lord of the Treasury, which is attached to the Premiership. It however, ak
has been the custom for many farther than the letter of the You must have been abroad, sir." flannel for the cure of a cold that may surprise many stilt moro that, until the war, the Prime association, the rpw years past to make a collection Local Veto Bill warranted, by in Turning from me he shouted almost forgot the passage of Minister had no constitutional existence; neither, for the matter of writer
for Dr. Barnado's Homes during troducing to the notice of douce" This way for the grand lounge: time. But the management saw that, liud the Cabinet (in its collective capacity as distinct from the coguste society. Lloyd's Ro-ent, and this year, in view citizens the organised activities seats now vacant in the tea room to it. A bell rang three times individual Ministern composing it). Mr. Lloyd George's salary will gister of Shipping, that Sir of the high cast of living and remain at £5,000, as he does not wish to benefit by a recommenda- Thomas Devitt has relinquished the increased number of child- Mr. Johnson and that dreaded Hot milk to your left, air, this and i was just begiming to tion that he will be called upon to endorse. Apart from the the Chairmanship. The latter is ren who were admitted to the most folks refused to be forced who looked as if he had spent for dispensing too much caf word Prohibition. In other words, to a woozy-looking individual wonder if it was a police raid Premier, there are lo bo five classes of Ministers at a much younger body, though it Homes during the war, it willy-nilly into the idea that they the summer rabbit catching when feine in the tea when it was £5,000, £3,000, £2,000, £1,500, and £1,000 per annum respectively has now attained a fairly good hoped to enlarge the number of couldna' take a drink and leave he wasn't asleep in a hay rick, The first category will compose the Cabinet. There are to be just a age.
that there it alone. dozen members of it-unless others are promoted to that rank. between the two, which, however, may be a generous response. In
It was bad tactics that There is some co-operation those interested so
lost the day.
"Ahí A restaurant. A bit flash, eh ?" I queried. The Secretaries for Scotland and for Education are to be of the possess entirely distinct constitu- addition to the collection of select number, which gives them a big lift, from £2,000. These are tions.
There were other reasons of a money, it is suggested work offices of first-rate importance, though, and there is a precedent in
parties should be formed with a secondary nature. The organisa- "Wrong again, sir. This is a the largo advance of pay given to Mr. John Burns when at the Echo of the "Cutty Sark."view to a sale of work being held tion of the dope dispensers was licenced victuallers."
"You mean head of the now-defunct Local Government Board, which gave
in Easter week. Donations and far in front of that of the teeta- rise to a piquant discussion in the House over "Honest John's " Just now when the Colony is the names of those willing to talers. The pub and the grocer's "What I say, sir. A public alleged assertion some years before that no man was worth more Keswick, who has voyaged from
favoured with a visit from Major help should be sent to Mrs. back shop begame committee house, but maybe they've been than £500 a year. The Ministry of Transport comes down to Class the Old Country in his yacht the Pollock, 128 The Peak.
Cutty Sark,
II. What does Sir Eric, to whom the Government paid a tall sum
? There have
ax
but- supposes,
of
timely interest
**You bet➖➖➖➖➖➖”.
"S'truth"!
"And you'd better be careful working of your language; aiz.”
announced that a drink would now be served all round and a silver collection taken as we filed out,
So I got my drink at last. It tasted something between aniseed and Benbow's Dog Mixture. I thereupon became violently sick and no wonder, for I'd dropped asleep wit the end of a cigar in my mouth, and home cigars UTA no things to be trifled wi,' mind
GENERAL NEWS.
rooms and their trade was their reformed since you were. home politics. They were fighting for last." as an inducement to exchange a commercial for a political career attaches to a paragraph in the
their existence and bread and Bay to this? Is it a case of coming evente
butter; diamonds and holidays in anniversary" section of the 1865 she made the best time, 102 Switzerland, been rumours of resignation. Reduction ie recommended in the
motor - cars and "No betting allowed on these I'm telling yo. case of the Law officers," says the Report somewhat naively. It Liverpool Journal of Commerce days from Foochow to the Downs, salmon fishing were not things premises, sir." is proposed to reduce "Mr. Attorney's" salary from £7,000 to from the most celebrated of which but her late start prevented her principle.
in reference to the tes clippers, against two second beste with 106. lightly to be discarded for a more £4,000, while the Solicitor-General's "screw is to come down from Major Keswick's craft derives getting the prize money. In 1866 £6,000 to £4,000. Both can well stand it, as the extra fees they draw its name. One of the finest of slie sailed the ever famous race
When they told for contentious business" come to a lot more than the salaries. the clippers was launched from with Ariel, a later ship by the mean area
that Prohibition I said nothing aloud but in-A £250 DINNER AND ITS OBJECT. Why not a fixed salary without Attorney-General, with his swollen income, le out of pocket by mas eve, 1863, and christened them and Serica left the China employment, they got their lead beat cockfighting. Apparently cost £250, was given in New extras," as formerly? The Messrs. Stecla's yard on Christ- same builders, when the two of meant a great deal of extra un formed myself privately that this A dinner, the tickets for which accepting the Lord Chancellorship, and will be rather more so now Taeplog. She was one of the coast on the same tide and of sympathy. When they told of no being a thought-reador he wi York, the menu consisting of beef that £1,000 is to be chipped off the Woolsack. The salaries at Arat of the composite clippers entered the Thames on the same/the millions in revenue the Ex-the buttons let it pass without stow, bread, and present attached to the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord
cocoa, chequer would lose, every fuddle-further comment, whereupon I difference between the cost of the later to be made even more tido. There never was, such a President of the Council, the Lord Privy Sesi, and the Duchy of famous by "Cutty Sark" and race. Her 102-day passage in brained economist realised the became attached to a rapidly meal, 11d and the cost of the Lancaster are to be abolished.
There are some who contend that we do not pay enough to and raced with the best. In 1864 Lancelot managing to do it in avoid the crash by inserting his found myself in a very large feed
was built a racer 1867 was beaten only by Sir country's peril and did his best to forming queue and in due course ticket, £250, is to be utilized to secure the best brains. It is not edifying to think of men placing she was out of it, for she was 99, though here again, she tied rose on the voting paper that room which was greener than starving children of Europe. The. degree of gain against the high honour of serving in the Adminis tration, and in general it may be said that holders du appreciate the Shanghai, and spont months in passago in the same time, but three
crippled aloft soon after leaving with Ariel. Next year she did the Scotland might escape the odium. nature and suffered from a rash dinner was organized by various Then the idea took root in many of Chinese lanterns. At a piano relief societies directed by Mr. high honour of office whether the remuneration be more or less. The rearrangement of salaries brings them into closer consonance was fit again she did the run days. She was still a flyer when class legislation. With the pro-finishing off the romains of Pershing and Mr. Franklin K Amoy repairing. When she ships were under the hundred places that the Act resembled a mature-looking lady was just Hoover, who, with Goneral with equity, and the scales appear to be fairly liberal without home in 88 days, which awaken-she was wrecked on the Paracels letariat in its present temper, the Rachmininoff's having regard to the large proportion consumed by expenses, being ed folk to her possibilities. In in the early seventies.
Prelude" und Lane, former Secretary of the move had its merits and proved didn't appear to be any the better Interior, acted as hosts. excessive.
others. She
"invisible
The
guests"-the