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HONUKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921.
THE WAGES REDUCTION CAMPAIGN.
GRAPH TUESDAY,
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY.
Nobody Grieving ?
OBSERVATION MORE THAN RATHER | BOOKS, ' EXPERIENCE Last week's intimation, via Mr.THAN PERSONS, ARE THE PRIME Winston Churchill, that Hong- EDUCATORS. B. Alcott, koug isn't, after all, to get one) little bit of Constitutional Reform.
doesn't appear to have caused Amongst the passengers who very much annoyance or sur-departed by the Teiresian to-day priso, if we are to judge from the were Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hewlitt, silence with which the verdict Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart and Mrs, has been received. The C.R.A. F. A. Wells. programme aimed at the creation
of an unofficial majority, the. The 1st and 2nd class brothels adoption of the elective principle at Macao were reopened on the in place of nomination, and the 28th alt on the understanding appointment of some of the un- that the new law for weekly officials by public vote, the others inspections is only to be applied (apart from the Chinose, who
to the 3rd class houses. to deviso their Own machinery) to be selected by the Chamber of Commerce and the
were
conceive.
H. E. Senhor Batalha
W68 3
de
1921
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY and characteristics are unknown. Now that. Constitutional Reform has been turned down by the (By "Ajax.") Colonial Office it will be interest- The dollar still is a grief to heaping to see what the Constitutional Reform Die-Hards will have to
keapa At paltry value: And to
drown
ST MARY'S SCHOOL
Distribution of Prizes: St. Mary's School Bowrald
Of men like me, whose pay it say at their mosting this month. Its informal distribution
yesterday morning. Mr. E. RADI, " The argument of the Constitu- Inspector of English Schools pre My tears, I stift my lady's tional Reformera is that the sided and among those present present Unofficials on the Legie-wore His Lordship Bishop Pozzont And then, as you may guess,ative of the community, and they, pendent
lative Council are not represent and Rev. Fr. De Maria, Corres- of Roman Catholic
gown;
ale weeps
But comrades mine, the therefore, ask for an Unofficial Schools.
dollar sleeps!
Majority of only one! That is
The prizes were distributed ne
Let's ganiblo with it as it very modest, from the point of under:
view of the Constitutional Reform
leaps
tumbles down.
To dizzy height-and Association, who are also very keen on seeing the non-official Justices of the Peace send a Oh move it-move it! representative to the Council.
Juggins 1 Clown!
動
THE COLONY IN EARLIER DAYS.
XX.-Lease of the New Territories.
the
Prize for Biblical Knowledge from His Lordship Bishop D. Pozzoni): Paulina Lopes.
Lugard Scholarship (1921-1922): Maria. E. Alves.
Dr. A. Gomes Kt. S, G. Scholar, A murrain on the man who The only reforming that the
composition needs is to deny the ship for Regular Attendance: keeps
The dollar still! Justices of the Peace a soat on Irene Ahwee Laura Carvalho, Justices of the Peace. Like the Freitas, the Portuguese Minister. The speech of the Chairman that seat to the British public by gelina Silve, Celeste GII, Peter the Council and to throw open Ritta Xavier, Avelina Souza, An- curato's egg, it was good in parte. in Peking, arrived at Macao on at the annual meeting of the The unofficial majority could the s.8. Sui Tai on Saturday and, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking general election. Thank good- Xavier, Angelina Baptista, Jacob hardly be expected; even if it with Madame de Freitas, ie Corporation on Saturaday last nese, there is still sense left at Yumankhan.
the Colonial Office, which sees were granted, it would no doubt staying at Government House.
seems to have given an improshow ludicrous the programme of Passes and Prize: Raulina Lopes,
Class 1: Senior Local Certificate have been on a merely "look-
aionto the man-in the-street that
the Constitutional seu" basis, for in other Colonies February
very dry it is the opinion of the Hongkong Association is. It's about time
Reform (Distinction in Biblical Know- where it has been conceded, the month, according to the rainfall and Shanhai Bank that the dollar that the Association went into
ledge). Governor has retained his power registered at the Botanic Gar-is not going up. It is difficult to
Class 2 Junior Local Certifl- of voto. The elective prin- dens. There were slight falls on hazard
voluntary liquidation. There is an opinion on the cipal, as applied to the two days-the 2nd and 3rd-silver question or the possible enough sense loft in the man-in-cate and Prizes: 1st Prize, Laura
trend of the silver market, for the motives, actuating
the-street to aon-Chinese unofficials, could, only, the total being 1.20-inch.
understand the Carvalho (Distinction in Biblical the Knowledge); 2nd Prize, Bestrice however, reasonably be askedį
it is always the unexpected that
Bliss (Distinction in Reformers.
Steno- for and ought to have been Those who have not yet had happens. In the height of
geaphy); Agnes Vichy (Dieting- granted. Only we would go the pleasure of hearing Tado's optimism comes the depression,
tion in Biblical Knowledge); further than the C.R.A. and ask Jazz Band should attend the tea and I shall not be surprised to
Idalina Remedios (Distinction in that all the non-Chinose unoffic-dance at Wiseman's Cafe this find our pessimistic prophets : ials be chosen by public vote. It evening. This clever combination confounded on
Biblical Knowledge); Elsa Alveg the Exchange
(Distinction in Biblical Cnow- would be bad in principle that will appear in a bright and problem. All that the Chairman
ledge); Queenie Chester. one man, meroly because he hap-[anappy programme of dance at the meeting said was that the
Clase 3: 1st, Prize, Maria E. pened to be a J.P., a member of music,
stocks of silver held by China
Alvos; 2nd Prize, Ritta Xavier; the Chamber of Commerce and
were very large and that China's also oligible for jury service, Crown land to the extent of consumption this year will not with the
This series of articles began 3rd Prize, Annie Urquhart; Hor-
cession to Great tonsia Jorge, Helena Jorge. should have three times the vot-39,172 square feet, situated at be on the same level as last year. Britain of Kowloon peninsula in Class 4 1st Prize, Helena- ing power of the man who merely Coronation Road, Kowloon, was of course, he was speaking from 1861, and may fittingly be con Noronha and Maria Rosario; 2nd holds the last-named qualification. yesterday sold at the P. W. D. present indications, but anything cluded with the grant of a lease Prize, Avelina Souza; 3rd Prize, That is what the C.R.A. proposals Officon. Mr. So Chung-shun was may accur to-morrow to extending the British tenure on Marjorie White; Cecilia Noronha, would have meant. We believe the purchaser, after keen bidding, upeat all these calculations. the mainland by the area known Consuelo Garcia, Lycia Oliveira, that, if public opinion were tosted at $35,420, which was $11,917 Nobody can forecast the future as the Now Territories, which Molly D'Almada. on the straight issue, our idea above the upset price.
with any degree of accuracy. If occurred at the close of last Class 5: let. Prize, Lycia would receive more backing than
we could know what was going to contury.
Osmund; Angelina Silva, Gertrude the C.R.A. schore. Who would
Last week's health return happen within the next month we Questions had been asked in Chan, Maud Chan, Laura Gomes, ho the JP.'s constituents, any shows four cases of cerebro- should not be slaving in China. Parliament from time to time as Stella Silva. how? Gaol-birds and lunatics, spinal fever (one French and three In a broad way the silver market to steps being taken for extend- Chase 6: 1st. Prize, Albertina presumably, since the only fanc Chinese), two of plague (both at present lacks the protechnics ing the Colony, largely for Garcia; 2nd. Prize, Eliza Alvares, tions which Justices of the Peace Chinese), one each of small-pox of the past six years, and the defensive reasons, Russia having Cel ste Gil, Maria Basto, Alda discharge here are poriodical and diphtheria (both Chinese) and special causes which brought acquired Port Arthur, while Alves, Louisa Wellinson, Maria visite of inspection to the prison one of paratyphoid fever about its extravagant levels Germany had occuiped Kiao Eca da Silva. A cable announces an impending struggle at Home between and the asylum. Why thoy (Portuguese). All were fatal during the war have disappeared. Chat. The matter had Class 7: 1st Prize, Henrique Capital and Labour on the issue of a general reduction in wages should have special representa except the last-namod and two It is difficult to believe that any engaged
attention of Noronha; 2nd Prize, Peter Xavier; Employers, with the support of an influential section of the Press,
tion, therefore, it is beyond cases of cerebro-spinal fever. thing may occur to force the price Sir Nicholas O Conor, British 3rd Prize, Maria Atienza; Dulce have rapidly developed a pro-reduction campaign, while leaders our powers of perception to There were five Chinese deaths to past heights.
Minister to Poking, who found d'Aquino, Angelina Baptista, Olga of the big Trado. Unions are strenuously exhorting to resistance.
from influenza.
the Chinese authorities amenable, Ribeiro, Zelinda Gomes and Ida During the war and the boom period following it the pay of the
Uncertainty about the future and a convention is stated to Eca da Silva. workers mounted to unheard-of lovels for more reasons than one.
course of silver is worrying all have been prepared and agreed Class 8: 1st. Prize, Jaa Gon- The increased price of everything called for augmentation of pay to
traders. The manufacture of to, by which the Colony was to salves; 2nd Prize, Jacob Yuman- muct II. C. L., labour was urgently needed, and there, was a compara- Let's Begin Again.
prodigious amounts of paper extend across the hills which khan; 3nd Prize. Julia Xavier; tive scarcity of it. It became a commonplace to read of manual
Mr. Pollock, in the briof inter-
money against debt and not dominate Hongkong to a Teresa Sanches, Kathleen Hynd- workers making £10, £15, and even £20 a week where their pre-war
against wealth has completely transverse line from Doop Bay to mao, Alda Britto, wages had been about forty-five shillings. Presumably overtime view he gave us, intimated that
Scotland Yard is circulating in disordered the monetary systeme Mirs Bay. At the solicitation of Class 91ste Cynthia helped. Everything, however, was upon an inflated scale. During the C.R.A. would not. lake the
Prize, Mercedes- the war demands, economically sound or unsound, were genorally decision of the Hone Govern- appropriate quarters a photograph of Europe and of other countries the Chinese Legation in England, Alves; 2nd. conceded promptly, on the part of the Government because it was ment as final. We hope it won't, of part of a very dirty collar, with as well. That is the most im however, the matter was post. Xavier, Olga Gil, Margherite factor in the interponed ponding the completion of Xavier, Elvira Rosario, Balla a matter of urgency, on the part of industrial concerns because, because, in all sincerity, we a note to the effect that the police
Japan.
Pestonji, Augusta Noronha, Flor. with the large profits they were making, stoppages of work would think there is a genuine need of are anxious to trace the owner. national trade situation. The the treaty with Je
of our Legislature. have been costly, and tho large profits enabled them to pay high reform
Sir Claude MacDonald took up rio Wong, Gracina Fueries, A full description of the collar world is suffering very severely
fluctuations in the the question where it has been Vicente Xavier and Carlo Gomes. wages. During the year or so following the Armistice employers Only, if we're going to press for itself is also given, and of three from the
elective principle,
Class let's different laundry marks on its internal value of money in differ left by his predecessor, and with
10: 1st. Prize, Ida were still able to pay such wages because of the trade "boom caused the
Now, the have it all round. Mr. Pollock surface. The idea, of course, ie ent countries, caused by constant Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-Noronha; 2nd. Prize, Kathleen by the arrears in production resulting from the war. industrial world literally the world, not Britain only finds itself also stated that the Association that publicity may be given to outpourings of more paper by General of Chinese Customs, Maxwell; 3rd Prize, Paul Botelho; face to face with a slump. So far as causos can be traced in an/has other objects than constitu- the matter, and that some laundry incessant changes in external Chinese Government which had Rosa, Luiz Da Rosa, Elsa Britto, needy Governments and from the renewed discussions with the Eduardo Gutterras, Carmen da Nobody would oxceedingly complex problem, the high cost of production, due tional reform.
owner may be able to afford a largely to wages, is one of the chief among the variety of causes of have guessed it had the assertion clue. Very likely this will prove value, as expressed in rates of accepted in principle the proposal John Lawrence, Agnes Chan,
not been made. During the war, to be the case, for the police are
exchange. At the moment, that China code a strip of territory Arthur Chester, Cynthia Garcia, How widely-spread the depression is may be judged from the the reform issue was, very wisely, well aware of the value of the speculatve elements rule the on the mainland and all the Sophie Normanbboy.
silver market, and so long as this surrounding islands commanding the reports that have been coming to hand from the United States not pressed. But both then and laundry mark, and thess notices continues and the genuine China the waters of the Colony; and a Hongkong. On May 2 the
are not We read that wages since there have been innumerable have been reduced in the textile industries by 22 per cent., in the other public questions which the A good many criminals are, no it would be idle to forecast the terms was signed. commonly regarded as the workers' paradise,
and Indian trade demand is small, convention embodying thess Toung H Yamen formally acceded to the friendly repre- copper-mining industry by 20 por cent, and in the steel industry, Association could have taken up doubt, BS
trend of the silver market. The
sentations EX-GOVERNOR CRITICISED IN
of the or certain sections of it, by 15 per cent., while the Standard Of The Kowloon Association has danger as the police themselves determining factor in the silver
British PARLIAMENT,
Minister with regard to an ex- industry is, has knocked 10 per cent. off the war bonus. The kind of work that might have co, but many others are forgetful whether the export trade from discussions which ensued prior to protection of the Colony and Corporation, engaged in an industry that is still flourishing, if any provided plenty of evidence of the and obliterate the tell-tale eviden-market's ultimato course will bel
It may be mentioned that the tension of territory for the better Aengaged the C.R.A.'s attention. railroads are appealing to Congress to act on similar lines,
or ignorant, and are trapped
At the "Tard" this part of the world and India the grant of the lease accordingly.
were agreed to a lease of the territory little while ago the American Federation of Labour gave out But it has done nothing whatever. that it would fight reductions tooth and nail. Perhaps it has it's now about time it got to work there is a bulky volume which shows any sign of vitality. The participated in by Sir William on the mainland behind Kau- The relation of China to silver is vital Robinson his arrival in lung [Kowloon] up to a line been able to do something towards checking the tendency, but the in real earnest. Let it still press is officially known as
to the future of the metal. Falling London after relinquishing the joining Mirs Bay and Deep Bay, examples just quoted show that in important industries the workers for reasonable reform (on an
Register of Laundries and
and Governorship. This action of as well as of the neighbouring have had to how to economic forces. From England comes the amended programme, if needs be) Laundry Marks, but which is world commodity prices news that jute workers wages have been reduced by 25 per cent., and at the same time concentrate commonly termed the "washing financial difficulties in the very the ex-Governor came up in the island of Lan-tao. The Conven- Cornish tin miners' wages by 10 per cent, and this is followed by other matters of public concern. book" among the members of the countries that have largely pro- House of Commons, and as the tion signed to-day embodies that an intimation that the mineowners argue that the industry cannot The coming annual meeting could
confidence in silver, which is also Sir William's procedure drow China retains, the north shore continue without a considerable diminution in wages. The textile be made the occasion of a fresh force, and where this fails theretted by the War do not encourage pourparlers were then sub judice, agreement, with some addition is a direct appeal by a photograph
Bay and Deep industry aleo contemplates a reduction proportionate to the de-start. Let's begin all over again and a note to the editors of the commodity, the value of which from the Colonial Secretary, Mr. of Mira
and see what can be done with trade papers and others who are was unduly enhanced by the late Joseph Chamberlain, an admoni- Bay, but leases to Great
world crisis.
tory circular, addressed to Britain all the likely to be able to help. The whole problem badly needs disentangling. On the one
waters of the Officer Administering the both baya, reserving only the side Capital complains that ligh wages and restricted, production
Government Sing a song of ten cents,
of Only a year or two ago the are cramping commerce; on the other, Labour points to the high
Hongkong, right to use them for her own fuller" life, enphasising Rifle Shooting.
pocket full of rice, cost of living, and, further, stipulates for a
his Excellency Major-General ships, whether belligerent or Bloomsbury murderer was caught
Four and twenty Reformers Wilsone Black having bean neutral. The total area leased, the latter claim by reference to its services and sacrifices for the
and hanged through his laundry
shut up in a trice;
sworn in in this Empire with the Army. The increased cost of living needs no The Rifle League season inmark; Bennett, the Yarmouth
capacity amounting to about two hundred When their meeting takes place pending the arrival of the now square miles, will be under British demonstration, and some prominent financiers have etated that Hongkong, which is drawing to a murderer, was captured in the increased wages have generally" followed, not preceded, the close, has been a wonderfully same way, and early in the pre-
the Reformere they will stare; Governor. This circular intimated jurisdiction, except within the increased cost of living. There is a fruitful field for inquiry here. successful one. In fact, never sent century Mrs, Sach, the child-
Won't it be a dainty sight if that Colonial officiala, arriving in native city of Kau-lung, The
you and I are there?
England on leave or retirement lease is for ninety-nine years, and In the early stages of the war, wages and war-time bonuses to before in the history of the murderer, and her accomplice cover increased costs wore kept distinct. Later Labour sought, in Colony has more enthusiasm been were hanged on the evidence of Pollock, in the course of their consequences," allow themselves
Most people, including Mr. should not, "under pain of serious | becomes operative on July 1.”
into substantive wages. So far as H.C.L. concessions are concern-It now seems a certainty that the ment. "Jim" Macdonald, the
this slump.
creased cost of living.
clean page.
a
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
.
at all
well aware of the
uncommon.
portant
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•
on
pursuance of its "fullor life" policy, to have the latter converted shown or better results achieved. laundery mark on a baby gives experience the discomfort of to be interviewed upon debatable DEVELOPMENT OF THE
NEW AREA.
The reservation of the old city
ed, the matter ought not to be difficult of adjustment, as there are Defence Corps will come out on burglar, Mrs. Gordon Baillie, the sitting on a metaphorical barbed questions.
On June 11, 1898, telegraphic of Kowloon within the native the official statistics as to cost of living, which were used largely top. Its team has shown great adventuress, were also victims of wire fence. That is to say, they as a bonus basis. Lip to a month or two ago little could be done, consistency throughout, and to the launderer's symbolism, and are driven to support themselves intelligence reached the Colony jurisdiction caused some dis- as costs were practically as high as aver; but now there has been a head a League of no fewer than a the more systematic marking on something which pricks the that "China had leased to Great quietude. In the following year distinct fall. The Ministry of Labour reports that the cost of living dozen teams is something of adopted in all the modern laun-ahore heavily they lean upon it. Britain two hundred square miles the Chinese authorities agreed to in Great Britain for January was 14 nor coats below that of Decem- which it may well be proud. The dries naturally tends to enhance But, as a general rule, when of territory around Hongkong, the transfer of this, ber, it is also stated (what is somewhat difficult of belief, but standard of scoring has been the value of the ink, the red cot- they are driven to auch an ex- including the mainland behind While the main purpose in there is the official report in black and white) that "the average wonderfully high all round, past ton, or the neat little linen label tremity they follow the course of Kowloon to a line jolning Mira acquiring the territory was de- level of retail prices of certain commodities, including food, rent, averages being eclipsed all along with its red or blue letter and the philosophien! eel which, we Bay and Deep Bay, besides the fensive, clothing, fuel and light was only one-half (sic) per cent. above that the line. And all these contests number in the detection of crime, are led to believe, gets so ac-waters of these Bays and the were not lost sight of. It was
customed to boing skinned that island of Lantao.” of July 1914." Ono is inclined to surmise an error in the cable. It have been carried through under
in course of time he enjoys it. THE TERMS OF THE CON- Would the sal be wise ?. Poo
CALIFORNIA LAND LAW.
VENTION.
commercial. Interests
however, some dozen years or more before the railway to Canton was opened, and development has
s clear from the tonour of the report, however, that a really strict Bisley conditions, too. That substantial reduction has taken place. In regard to the claim for was a wonderful score which
A San Francisco message old Hamlet, who has been mur The Convention, which is dated not been rapid. The exploitation roal an increase of
wages a natural enough ambition-self- Corpl. Grimes made on Friday- interest as well as patriotism should tell the workers that a period 143 out of a possible 150. It says:--The Japanese Exclusion dered by numerous actors, put the June 9, 1898, is a concise doou of the mineral resources of the Territories is now of post-war staghation is not an opportune time to press such a recalls another fine feat-the 100 League has launched its campaign question in another form. If I re-ment, and is well summarised in Now demand. The immediate question appears to rost upon a out of a possible 105 which Mr. to raise a large fund for the member aright, he speculated the the following despatch of the projected, as also the utilisation modification of highly-increased scales in the light of returning Goodman made last year. With carrying on of proparanda in probable relative advantages of Timea correspondent at Peking of the nearer portion for
"Bir Claude Mao Donald signed residential purposen, BR normal costs, coupled with trade dopression, without prejudice to shots like these, Hongkong ought other States, in order to develop putting the best face on things as the workers olcim to participate in increased profits when they are to do well in the interport contest, a sentiment against any treaty they are or heading an exploration to-day with the Tsung-li-Yame the next few years may be available; and the economics of this part of the problem lend them- We could, indeed, niake a good that will affect the operations of party consisting of oneself to Convention leasing to Great fruitful in the industrial and
showing oven at Bisley.
the California Land Law. track out others whose address Britalu certain territories around general expansion of the Colony, selves to expression by a fairly plain formula.
that