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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1921.
THE WISDOM SHOP.
On the whole the present collection merits a few words
NOTES & COMMENTS.
The Opium Revenue.
night's
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 1921,
DAY BY DAY.
MONEY OUGHT NEVER TO BE the CONSIDERATION IN MARRI-- AGE, BUT IT ALWAYS OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERATION.-G. H Lorimer.
THE BOOKSHELF.
(By "Librarian ").
the great explorer, and his & pageant of colourful and name had been dinned into ramatio contrasts, though my sare for Home weeks Mary's, life was all these. It prior to the meeting.
concentrates on her as girl and Judge Rentoul was fond of te woman, on her heart and soul, ing stories against himself, as to which, after three centuries, still the narrative of how he was remain baffling sedrete. Mr. mistaken for a butler:
Maurice Hewlett dug for them I had been speaking for Mr. in his "Queen's Quair," and W. Whitelaw, M.P., for Perth, others will continue to dig for and in a railway carriage on them. The time of Mr. Drink- my return journey I happened water's play is Mary's early to mention in conversation with years in Bootland, when she was a fellow traveller the name of a tall, fair inse, ally from Mr. Whitelaw's residence. France wintering in the dour "Huntingtower," whereupon a down of John Knox.
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It is understood that
Ms.
man opposite looked at me with great interest and asked, "How long were you there?" "Four days." I replied. Oh, Rudyard Kipling is writing a you had bad luck," he said. book in which the Great War I stayed two years." This and his great grief come together. man had bean butler there and This is a history of the Irish thought I had succeeded to the Guards, the regiment in which onerous position, and, proving his only son, John, was serving unfit for my duties, had been when he was killed. Many war the victim of summary dis-books there have been, but here is one particular and distinguish- missal.
Inasmuch as there has been a great deal said lately about the
JUDGES AS HUMORISTS; decreasing income the Colony is
Judges are supposed to be receiving from its opium monopoly there is added interest attaching
Folema sort of folk, or, if not to the figures regarding the opium There were five more cases of that, then dry-as-dust characters. traffic contained in the annual small-pex reported yesterday Often they are one or the other, Not always, report of the Superintendent of resulting in the death of all the perhaps both. Imports and Exports, extracts sufferers, who were Chinese.
though. By contrast we have from which were given in last
the phrase "judicial bumour", albeit this is sometimes used to Within two years the revenue The Associacao Portuguesa de denote the lack thereof. Flashee from this source has dwindled by Socorros Mutuos (says Religion e of humour do ray down from the half and this year it will be even. Patria) intends to acquire land for Bench at times, and within lower than that. His Excellency the erection of houses for the bounds these are welcome. Courts the Officer Administering the benefit of its members, under a should be serious, but a human Government recently questioned system of payment by monthly element is no drawback to the whether this abnormal reduction instalmonts, by which a tenant of administration of justice. The atmosphere usually was due to less opium smoking a house will eventually become gloomy
encountered within the walls of or to the smuggling of cheap the owner. opium into the Colony, his
the court needs some enlivening view inclining to the latter
touch. Jeffreys, of iniquitous Our Camera News page to-
2 jester, but a memory, wAS cause. After
perusal of
The book ie not intended as a led and it is nearly finished. the Superintendent's figures our morrow will contain pictures of most brutal one. In later his- view is in that direction also, for the following:--Mr.
tory an amusing characteristic full autobiography; it is a volume we find that although the number D. McMurray and also a group of some occupants of the Bench of racy and pleasing memories of of opium seizures in 1920 were picture of their wedding: con has been their foible for affecting a varied life. 444 compared with 379 in 1919 the tostants at the cricket match be innocence-or ignorance (.g.Who amount of opium and dross in-tween the staff and pupils fis Charlie Chaplin ?) This latter
Lord Howard de Waldon is well College and the
type of exhibition is destructive known for his interest in drama against 50,089 fuels the your pre-Q.C.O.B.A.: group taken at the of the reputation for omniscience and his association with the Whilst these greater Q.C.O.B.A dinner: Ng Sze-kwong with which judges, like journa Haymarket Theatre. He is also,
Mr. Paget Toynbee, a famous ав Thomas Evelyn Eilis," the Dante scholar, has a new volume captures are a compliment to our Tennis Singles Champion and the Revenue Oflicers they also prove
beautiful Winter Garden of the iste, have been credited by
popular tradition. Rather author of a trilogy of plays in of" Dante Studies" pearly ready that smuggling is taking place ons. Taiyo Maru (formerly different was the jocosity of the blank verse. "The Cauldron of with the Oxforn Press.
judge in a lawsuit concerning Annwn." afar larger scale than before. Cap Finisterre)..
They have already who attained publicity and success, as left the
Mr. stage set to music by
Josef
volved
viously.
our
126,453 was
tuels AS
The amount of prepared opium soized in 1920 was nearly three
much the samo ratio.
Queen's
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and Mrs.
1 young
actress
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Mr. W. B. Yeate introduces an anthology, Irish Poste of To-day," edited by Mr. L. D'O. Walters, which Fisher Unwin announces.
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PRINCE'S GIFT TO THE PUBLIC.
A boy arrested by C ptain temporarily times the quanlity eoized in 1919. Lawrence yesterday in con- for a stay on the Continent Holbrooke, and produced in opera Prince Fumimaro Konove is and it is fairly safe to assume sequence of his loss of a fountain in order to complete her educa- form. Mr. Werner Laurie has preparing to make public all the that the opium successfully pen in Queen's Road Central tion.
When a young lady has now arranged to publish a fine, smuggled increased in pretty last Saturday, was this morning been on the stage," observed his limited edition of the plays, with books and documents in his So long as charged before Magistrate Lind-lordship, "I should have thought each copy signed by the author, family for the interest of the public. The house of Prince the Hongkong Government keeps sell. Mr. H. K. Woo, defending, she hadn't much left to learn." It has been set in an eighteenth Koneys is one of the old five its price of the drug up to the said it was a genuine case of
Perhape the best-known jeater century fount of type, which will houses qualified for regency to the extremely high figars it is at pre-mistaken identity and that he among modern occupants of the it is thought, be likeable to book Imperial House of Japan and in sent, so long will smuggling be could produce a dozen witnesses Bonch was the late Metropolitan collectors and lovers of Welsh the archives of the family there made attractive and lucrative.to prove an alibi. The case was Magistrate whose sallies were folk-lore. But, we are told, it is all in adjourned until Monday, bail famous under the name accordance with the Govern- being fixed at $250,
did if they ment's policy to keep opium con- sumption down to the legitimate
"Plowdeniems,"
of
Between
is much material for historians and archeologists and if these are made public, the experts oxpect that there will be found many useful records of the history of
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
Now, children, tomorrow is Saturday. Look at this picture and
IS THIS A HARD POSITION
TO GET TO?
NO, BUT IT IS A MOST DIF. FICULT PLACE TO GET OUT OF, ESPECIALLY AFTER EIGHT O'CLOCK. DOES THE BOWLER HAVE TO USE MUCH BIAS WHEN HE IS THERE?
sometimes include a frivolous Mr. John Drinkwater's new note. A vein of humour runs historical play on Mary Queen requirements of our populaton, Four works bard labour and through Judge Parry, who for a of Scots is not a play of intrigue and so there is little else to be four hours' stocks was the penal number of years presided over nor a romantic melodrama, nor civilisation in Japan. done than hope that our revenue fy meted out to a fitter employed Manchester County Court before and proventive officers will be as at the Kowloon Docks for attempt-his transfer to a London Court. successful as is ever possible by ing to obtain money by false His Honour bas written plays and Casting the editorial eye over a bulky home journal the system under which they pretences from his employers. It books in the intervals of his the other day it lit with some relief, after heavy columns work in tracking illicit parcels of was stated that defendant was judicial duties. Judge Parry is not the drug. If we keep the price seen leaving the dock gate by the an Adonis, and a few weeks ago up and try to enforce a strict gatokeeper and hanging a boiler-it transpired in court that a anent Ireland, reparations, and battleships, upon a little
Instruction is some-monopoly it is only reasonable to maker's ticket on a board. He certain litigant romambored his collection of "sayings of the week.", times met with in these collections, entertainment too. Not expect that many chances will be was arrested on suspicion and en- Honour by his "ugly face." Even repest slowly after me.
quiries disclosed that defendant then Judge Parry seemed to see infrequently, it must be said, the entertainment is that taken.
was a fitter and as such had no something funny in the situation right to carry a boilermaker's Once iti a way 悲 gem derived from pretentious fatuity masquerading as wisdom.
ticket. If defendant had succeed-of Bparkling wit emanates ed in eluding the gatekeeper he from the Bench, but it of attention. no other theme pressing. The collections An Appreciation.
Whilst we are on the subject of would have been able to obtain a means a search through many have the attraction of variety-variety of subject, variety in the station and outlook of the speaker the opium it would be fitting to full day's pay for half a day's prosy columns to rescue these specimens from their hiding- or writer. The list leads off with a remark from Mr. record the appreciation that all work. The holder of the boiler-
must feet for the work accomplish-maker's ticket in question would places. Somewhere I think there J.W. Davis no doubt the popular gentleman who hased by our Imports and Exports have suffered. Inspector Aris in- must be, as there ought to be, a lately been U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Department. It is very cogently formed his Worship that defen-collection of them--just where "Militarism is a danger and not a safeguard," says Mr. remarked in the report of the dant was detained at the docks I cannot remember. Davis. Thus si ris pírem, para hyllum is deleted from the Superintendent that during the for five hours before he was hand- diplomatist's text-book at a stroke, and on his return to/year no fewer than 422,829 ed over to the police. Mr. Lind-Thoughts and Memoirs," by America we may expect to find Mr. Davis advocating the Permits, etc,, were issued under sell advised a representative fromthe late Judge Rentoul, now
The Importation and Exportation the Kowloon Docks to send for abolition of the US Navy. Perhaps, though. Mr. Davis Ordinance of 1915-early half a the police as soon as possible does not mean quite this. Presumably by militarism" he willion permits under this head- future criminal cases.
ing alone. If we think then of means deliberately basing policy upon force.
Policy and militarisin have often been associated with the next speaker on the list. Mr. Churchill, but the former and checking involved by the FEARS OF BOLSHEVISM. refers to previous stages of his car- First Lord of the Admiralty, who is notoriously versatile. is collection of duty on tobacco and here discussing not the sword but the pen.There is no intoxicating liquors and
carefully doubt that the first effect of knowledge is to cramp the preparation of the style" says Winston, whose observation possesses plenty of compiled analyses periodically presented to, the public we can truth, if little originality. Evidently, though, he was soon get some idea of the vast driving the point home rather than professing to enunciate amount something new. The man of a few plain ideas has a Department is straight road to definite expression: the man of wide to perform. knowledge is beset by his embarrasse de riches at least is the case by reason of shevism will be started on the the absence of Customs House occasion of Labour Day on May that 1st and the Commissioner of until he has thoroughly assimilated his accumulated stock machinery machinery
Then we have Lady would have to be provided if Defence acting in accordance which may be a lengthy task,
abandoned with instructions from the Peking Bonham-Carter, the clarining and gifted lady who was this Colony ever
B "free"
Government has issued a pro-
all the extra work entailed under
the opium monopoly, the clerking
the
Shanghai Chinese Take Precautions.
A volume entitled "Stray
in edited by his sister, has led
It is reported from Shanghai of detail work the (says the Canton Times) that
called
upon Chinese authorities in Shanghai More expecially fear that a propaganda on Bol-
Miss Violet Asquith until she married her father's private further its claim to
[status. It is noteworthy to clamation to the following effect : Į
secretary.
"Hatred does not live in the hearts of youth; it observe also that the Department
1. Ali superior military officers
is only the hobby of old age," is her ladyship's contribution was carried on at much less cost must censor all printed matters as to which we will only say that we hope the first than it was in 1919. We heartily of violont character and prevent from being distributed part is true and the second not. Dr. Lyttelton, formerly commend these facts to merchants them
Headmaster of Eton, lifts us into the realms of immortality and shippers in the hope that among the troops.
when some trifling delay or in- 2. All Bolsheviki priated with the affirmation, "My conception of life after death is convenience is prone to try their matters found should be burned. that it is one of endless growth in knowledge, activity, and patience, the memory of the big 3. Troops are not allowed to love." So vast a theme the theme of themes-cannot be work accomplished will inspire a
thoughtful toleration. discussed in a line, so for the time we pass on.
Next comes reference to one who has just retired from! the glare that beats about a throne for so we may regard the White House (and a very big "throne," too.) "It was
The Trade Slump.
mingis with pedestrians and no
are
except soldiers' persone allowed to pass overnight in barracks.
4. All superior military officers Our Singapore correspondent's should lecture to their respective
me into these observations. The book does not contain--not chiefly, alony rate-the author's dicta from the Bench, for much of it
eer; but there are many entertain- OH; SEE THE MAN, ing pages, as might be expected WHAT HAS HE GOT IN HIS from a genial Irishman.
HAND IS IT A BOMB? Some of the most amusing NO. THE MAN IS NOT A BOL- stories in the book are those in which Judge Rentoul recalls bie
lectioneering experiences:-
When speaking once in Wales at a very large meeting in the constituency of the present Prime Minister, I acted on an opinion I have always held, that those on the platform should join in the applause accorded by the audience to any speaker, and should not maintain an attitude of indiffer ent and statuesque repose.
The speeches, with the exception of my own, were in Welsh, but, true to my principle, I tried to outdo the audience in applause, and only learned afterwards, to my chagrin, that all the speeches expressed the warmest approbation of myself and the great influence my visit to the constituency was sure to have!
SHE-VIK ALTHOUGH HIS LANGUAGE IS AT TIMES VERY UP-SETTING. WHAT DOES THE MAN DO WITH THE BLACK OB- JECT THEN?
THE MAN IS A BOWL-ER AND THE BALL IN HIS HAND IS MADE OF WOOD, HIS WIFE SOMETIMES SAYS THAT HIS HEAD IS MADE OF THE SAME MATERIAL BUT THEN SHE IS LIKE THE BOWL ITSELF, VERY MUCH BIASED.
HAS HE NOT A GRACE-FUL
AT-TI-TUDE!
NO, THE BIAS COMES NAT- UR-ALLY AFTER THE THIRD OR FOURTH ONE. AHI THEN THE MAN DOES NOT ALWAYS GO IN A STRAIGHT LINE.
NO, HE MUST COME UP SOME-TIMES ON THE
BACK HAND.
IS THIS A VERY DIFFICULT.
THING TO DO?
YES, BUT SO LONG AS YOU HAVE A SILVER SPOON IN YOUR POCKET YOUR WIFE WILL NOT COM- PLAIN ABOUT YOUR BAD LIE.
IS THE SILVERSPOON HARD.
TO WIN?
NO, YOUR OPPONENT DOES NOT MIND THE DOLLAR TWENTY IF YOU WERE NOT SUCH A ROT-TEN PLAYER,
IS THE SKIP FULL OF A-GIL-
ITY?
NO, ALL THE_SKIP_18 FULL OF IS STRANGE TALK, NUT-BROWN ALE AND ROT-TEN ADVICE WHICH NO ONE PAYS ANY HEED TO.
YES. BUT IT IMPROVES IS NOT BOWLS A POPULAR
AFTER HE THROWS THE GAME?
BOWL. THEN HE VERY YES, THE BAR CHITS HAVE
OFTEN LOOKS LIKE A. CRAB WALKING SIDE- WAYS.
Here is another electioneering 18 HE NOT A POW-ER-FUL
MAN?
BEEN KNOWN TO BE HEAVY BUT NOT NEARLY SO LARGE AS THE PLAY- ER'S HEAD NEXT MORN. ING.
FOR-TUN-ATE. BY THE TIME WE HAVE TAKEN THE WIFE TO THE COR ON-ETON BATUR-DAY AND TWICE TO CHURCH ON SUN-DAY THERE IS ONLY LIGHT ENOUG 1 LEFT TO WRITE OUT THE COM PRA-DORES BOOK,
Once when speaking in NO, BOWLING IS A GENTLE MAY WE NOT ALL PLAY
GAME EXCEPT WHEN BOWLS? Barrow-in-Furnese for the late
THE BOWL IS STEAMY NO, WE CANNOT ALL BE 80 Sir Charles Cayzer, I felt
AND THEN IT OVER- bewildered by the amusement
SHOOTS THE JACK BY that was evoked every time I al-
TEN YARDS OR MORE, luded to the opposing candidate (Sir Christopher Furness). Each WHAT DOES THE BOWL-ER
of his name mention
WAS DO THEN? greeted with loud laughter, HE, AS OFTEN AS NOT, SAYS. THAT THE BOWL SLIP- which surprised me greatly, 68
'PED OUT OF HIS HAND he was a foeman fully worthy of our steel and in no respect a BUT HIS SKIP ALWAYS subject for derinion.
COM-FORTS HIM BY SAY- ING THAT IT IS LY-ING, IN A GOOD PLACE, WHICH IS THE BEST PLACE-
AT THE GREEN 1. OPINIONS DIFFER, BUT MANY BOWLERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO PRE- FER THE BAR
not Wilson who failed in Paris, but humanity itself," say telegram yesterday giving figures troops on the subject of "Faithful episode:- General Smuts in a-notable, even noble, tribute to the man to prove the slump in trade condi. Service to the Country": who was lately first citizen of the Great Republic. Already tians of the F.M.S. could scarcely there are signs that American opinion. not actuated by have made cheerful reading for compassion only, is again re-aligning itself in relation to those in this Colony who are concern values, for 1919 was a interested in the year of inflated prices and 1920 a Mr. Wilson. We fancy somehow that that caustic judge, financially Carlyle, would have said a good word for the author of the doings of the Southern colonists. Fear of more or less slumped In 1919 Malaya exported 190 prices. The actual quantity of League of Nations. Sir Frederick Banbury strikes a note million dollars worth of goods goods handled has certainly been of another kind when he tells us; There is no greater more than she bought (a really far less, but not to quite the same calamity than to be left a modest competence." Shall we wonderful trade balance in her extent as figures showing values: hail Solomon, or confess that we would not unwillingly favour) but in 1920 she bought would seem to indicate. We are 150 million dollars worth of goods all waiting for those better times. accept the risk? Lord Leverhulme also touches a monetary more
than she sold. The that are so often spoken of and key" I hate debentures as the devil hates holy water," difference is really remarkable there is
more than a mere says his lordship. Lacking the context, we can only offer and if Malaya's figures can be platitude contained in what Mr. a provisional opinion. If the debentures were charged taken as an index of what has Gibbons, of Singapore aald when upon our assets, we might share Lord Leverhulme's boon happening in the East all he remarked, that "good would attitude; if charged upon soinebody else's, we might think round, one can readily understand possibly come out of evil, teach- the growl so persistently heard ing men to run their businesses them rather a good security, seeing that debenturos usually from merchants. But ous must more economically and on a
be beware of figures when they soundor basių.“ carry priority.
It was only after the meeting was over that I learned, to roy consternation, that all through the evening I had called him Sir Christopher Columbual A
The explanation is, that my boy was preparing, as part of his school work, an essay on