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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921.
THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
TELEGRAPH
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
LOCAL WEDDING.
Baxter-Farmer.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
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House Rates.
A pretty wedding was solemn-
A GUILD AFFRAY.
Chinese Printers at Variance.
VAQUE DISCONTENT, HOWEVER,
The case of Sir Eric Geddes, ised on Saturday at the St. There has doubtless been a dea? NATURAL AND EXCUSABLE IT
MAY BE, IS ONLY FORMIDABLE IN who has announced his firm John's Cathedral by the Rev. J. the scene of two fights, in ons Kau U Fong was last night of satisfaction felt by the majority
Holman, the contracting of which a printer of the Tai of residents that the suggestion POLITICS WHEN IT HELPS TO determination to retire not only
tion and the Kowloon Residents Association has been acted upon,!
At a joint meeting of the Com- The Empress of Russia is now
May 16th.
held on Friday night it was decided to hold such a meeting of protost and to ask for the passing The only cases of notifiable of a resolution that could be disease la the Colony reported on forwarded to the Government. Saturday were two fatal The growing burden of house small-pox. rents in this Colony has been commented on time and again
and we have seen fit to lax our
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n youth, arrested in connection with the second assault, described
himself at the Police Station and a member of King Yuen. It as an unemployed bookbjuder
others waited for the Tui Kuong was stated that he and several
Po printer and his friends,, who were returning to work after
for a public meeting of protest/8WELL THE STRENGTH AND THE from office but trom public life parties being Mr. H. Gordon Kwong Po, a vernacular paper, against the increased house rates NUMBERS OF A CROWD WHICH altogether in order to be able to Baxter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Constitutional Reform AssociaCAN BE MADE AND IS WITHHELD. way," belongs to a very select Dorothea, the daughter of Mr. first affray, which took place under the joint auspices of the CALLS FOR SOME REFORM THAT do my own work in my own Robert Baxter, of Edinburgh, and was sightly stabbed in the right temple. The victim in tho Justin M'Carthy.........
category, for it happens very and Mrs. William Farmer, of the rarely that a man who has risen Shameen, Canton.
a little earlier, was. also an The brido looked charming in a but fortunately be sustained only employee of the same journal, so high and has filled offices so mittees of these two Associations due to arrive at Vancouver on important finds it impossible gown of white satin charmeuse, one or two blows. The King to accommodate himself to the with a square train of Batin, Yuen (Printers' Guild) are said to House of Commons. The recent lined with chiffon. Her tulle veile have organised the attacks, and case of Lord Ashfield might be fell from a wreath of orange buds, cited, but that is not a true and was caught on the train with parallel, for though, as Sir Aja knot of white heather and Stanley, he had filled high office, orange, blossom. She carried & deciding reason for his bouquet of white wadonna lilies, retirement was that of ill-health, tied with white tulle and silver Owing to the preceding wet while Sir Eric is the robustest of ribbon. She was attended by Mise Unofficial members of the Council weather there were no matches men. Sir Eric may be regarded Jessie Rodger, Miss Jack and why it was they agreed to the played in the Tennis League on as one of those exceptions which is recent inoraase in the house Saturday. In fact, apart from prove rules, since it is generally They were attired in dresses of taking refreshments at tax without uttering a word of the Gymkhana, there was an al-true that the House of Commons, blue net over soft pink satin, Kwongtung teahouse, and Bot protest against the procedure. lost entire absence of week-end whatever members of it may say with blue net Dutch hate with shout its intolerable boredom, its wreaths of pink and blue roses. Public opinion has sincs made spòrt.
insatiate demande, Its polsono? They carried bouquets of pinkand itself heard and it is gratifying to know that opportunity is being
We are informed by the Toyo atmosphere, and so forth, faile blue larkspur tied with pink tulle. The bride's mother wore a given to residents to express their Kisen Kaisha that the B.S. Korea very rarely to assert itself aven justifiable sense of hardship. The Maru after arriving at Kobo and over the imagination of members becoming dress of cream lace and Associations mentioned above Nagasaki will be replaced by the whose natural interests lie else carried a bouquet of violets.
This is generally true
The bride was given away by have done their part by calling 8.8. Taiyo Maro (ex 8.8. Cap where.
her father, while Mr. R. A. Cam- the meeting and it now rests with Finisterre). The Taiyo Maru is even of the private member.
idge discharged the functions, of the mambers of the public them-due at Hongkong May 25. selves to support tho. moring
Parliamentary records contain bost man.
curious сале of the spirits. Public meetings are not
secure the votes of
Mr. Miles Wedderburn Lamp. some
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The service was choral, the or-
Afterwards a recaption was
the
upon thom, inflicting the wound almost on the spot by Sergeant with a knife. He was arrested Nail.
Mr. C. F. Lyson prosecuted the man on behalf of the Tai this morning and applied for a Kwong Po at the Magistracy
remand.
trouble arose over the complain- Mr. Lyson said the ant and another man, who was also injured in the affray, work- Yuen would permit. Defendant
was one
heid very often and it is well-son, who has been attached to the efforts made in critical divi-ganist being Mr. Denman Fuller.ing longer hours than the King known that we get out of the way Crown Prince of Japan during sione to of turning up at them, even H. I. H's. stay in England, was members of both Houses who held at the Helena May Institute, was a member of the King Yuen.
At which was decorated with palms though our whole sympathies at one time First Secretary in were physically disabled. might be behind the particular Peking and High Commissioner one time or another, taunts have and pink flowers.
The present were numerous, movement. At the meeting to be in Siberia. He was with Prince been interchanged between par hold on Wednesday there ought Arthur of Connaught in Japan ties concerning the projection that from the bridegroom to the to be a really big attendance when his Royal Highness went through the lobbies of the lame, bride was a peach necklace, the there will be if those who have to invest the Emperor of Japan the halt, and even the imbecile, of bride to the bridegroom gold cuff grumbled in private will show with the Order of the Garter.
men conveyed through one lobby links, and the bridegroom to the or another unconscious of what bridesmaids gold filligree broich up. The Hon. Mr. Laŭ. Chu Pak referred to this ques-
es set with turquoises. was happening and so forth. tion
The bride's going-away dress houso rates at
was of jade green net with a silver grey hat and veil to match. The honeymoon is being spent at Taipo.
of
On
Under the title of Lord Darnley
ORGAN RECITAL.
Guilmant. Schumann.
... Mendelssalın.
B. Johnson;
E. Coates, ... Handel.
Mr. Lindsell asked if defendant of the professional agitators employed by the Guild. Mr. Lyson aaid he was not pre- pared at present to assume that. He attached a good deal of t portance to the case, however, and would require some time to get to the bottom of the affair. It was a serious case. Mr. Lyson sug- gested that the defendant's bail of $25 be increased.
Mr. Lindsell asked Sub-Inspec- tor Pain if it was alleged that the wound as caused by anything. other than bare fiste,
Sub-Inspector Pain said the wound was said to have been inflicted with a knife, although no such instrument was found.
The case was adjourned until Saturday, defendent's bail being increased to $50.
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Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
A successful whist drive was the other hand, it is creditable to the meeting of the Chinese held on Friday evening in the the sense of party loyalty in Chamber of Commerce on Thurs-Wilte Sergeanta' Moss, Murgay members that there are many day and he sought to justify his Barracks. The following were cases of men coming down to own attitude of acquiosconce in the prize-winners:Ladies: ist. vote at the risk of their lives, the increase. It is just as well to Mrs Prickett (174); 2nd. Mrs rising from sick beds for the point out that when the access-Harrison (170): 3rd. Mrs Foster purpose at all hours of the night ment tax was raised to 20 per (170); 4th. Mrs Allison (169) rather than fail their leaders.
Mrs Anderson (134). cent during the late war the Boaly money derived therefrom was Gents: 1st. Mr. Miller (189); 2nd.
The following is the programme transmitted Home for the benefit Mr. Vosper (186); 3rd. Mr. of the Imporial Government. It Dorking (186); 4th. Mr. Chesley (who has let his Kentish home of the Recital to be given in St. was a case of patriotism then (177); Booby, Mr. Blunedon (130) with the iden of taking an ox. John's Cathedral this (Monday) and no kicks were forthcoming. R.Q.M.S. Miller carried out the tended tour in Scotland) hides the evening at 9.15 p.m. It is a vastly different matter duties of M.C. in an efficient personality of the Hon. Ivo Bligh, 1. Introduction
the first Englishman to bring back & Allegro. now, especially seeing that the manner.
the "ashes" of British cricket from 2. Canon. Australia.. In the summer of 1882 3. Jerusalem. The week-end cable intimating that Mr. Massey, the general cost of living has increas-
One of the principal artists in the victorious Australians were
Mrs. Bowes-Smith. New Zealand Premier, is en runde to London comes as a ed so greatly in the interim. One reminder that the Imperial Conference will soon becoming the principle of the Royal Opera Company, which credited with capture of those 4. Pavane
equity behind a house tax (every. is due to open in Hongkong on mythical ashes," to recover 5. On the edge of the lake. assembling. While the war was still in progress the need body contributes their share) but September 10th is Miss Lawson which the Hon. Ivo Bligh took a of regular discussion between the component parts of the residents are appealing for a Taylor, of whom the Calcutta team "down under." After they 6. Rojnice greatly. British Empire, or the British Commonwealth of Nations. lightening of the growing burden Englishman writes as follows: had beaten Murdoch's eleven Mre. Bowes-Smith, as some prefer to style it, was recognised; in 1917 it was of the cost of living. And the "Were Maritana not so shock-twice some Australian ladies pre-7. A n decided to hold annual conferences. A year later it was Government ought to help them. full of good things in the way of sented the English captain with solos, duete, concerted numbers, an urn containing some ashes. and all the famous overtures that This, the only concrete form in arranged that the Dominions should have the right to Safety in Typhoons.
The announcement made by the is one of the best remembered and which the myth has appeared, appoint resident or visiting représentatives in order to discuss any essential matters during the interim. This Harbour Master in the last most appreciated of Wallace's has since been treasured by Lord among his private latter was a war measure, at any rate in its origin. Some Government Guzelle relative to composition, Maritana would be Darnies thoughtful students of Imperial politics, among them, Mr. the help to be rendered by Naval worth going to for the sake of trophies at Cobham. But the tugs to distressed craft in the Miss Lawson Taylor. Here is a chief trophy brought over from H. D. Hall, the Australian author of The British harbour during typhoon weather voice that one but rarely hears in Australia with those ashes is Commonwealth of Nations." which we reviewed recently, is one that must have given Calcutta. It is true, sympathetic Lady Darnley, the heroine of a
Yesterday morning, being Sun- automaticall became an "also advocate this as a permanent development, and there is pleasure to the thousands of boat- and of astonishingly wide range. great cricket romance.
people in the Colony. It will be Maritana is one of the best things
day, we had the usual skirmish ran" in the race for knowledge. surely a good deal to be said in favour of the step.
A book could be filled with the about going to church. Now Man, were I a doctor I could For some years before the war the great self-governing remembered that a report was the Royal Opera Company do."
recently issued by a Committee
I'm no one that goes about make easy money out of man quaint notions of the public on Colonies had been evolving froin daughters into "sister appointed to enquire into what States, and the war has advanced the process.
The unusually long procession little legal matters. It would in- boasting about my good moral like yon. He was gotting on The could be done to assist boatpeople that passed through the town clude the case of a woman who points and the amount of cumsha fine and dandy till he began as I Dominions have obtained representation on the League of and the provision that has now yesterday must have given cause told a London magistrate that she public service I impose on an understood it, to mix up the Nations as entities in themselves. It may be that there are been main is the carrying into for general speculation as to its had been informed she was entitl-ungrateful Colony. Nor for that functions of his kidneys wi effect of the recommendations of! import. The mystery is sooned to throw dirty water, but not matter am I in the habit of something else, when I cried & old-fashioned folk who dislike this procedure as having a that repor. The most interesting cloud. It is that the fishmongers clean water, ever children who letting off texts, said verses being barles. separatist flavour.
Events in the recent pass should part of it all is the scale of towage of Hongkong had for once left the annoyed her. Only a few weeks supposed to sustain me in the
Years ago I picked up a fine reassure them. Cobden is credited, or debited, with the charges to be made by the tugs smells of their trade, and dressed ago an idea was spread abroad, weary trauchle 'twixt the cradle book for 2d at a bookstall telling prediction that if the Mother Country found herself in The past experience of sampan up for participation in a celebra by a misreading of a remark by and the grave. No, I'm just an ye, wi' diagrams, all about hygiene danger the Colonies would soon "eat the painter." The official and junk folk is that when strong tion in connection with the form another London magistrate, that ordinary plain sinner but while and the working parts of the statistics published on Saturday showing how the British water to brewing and there is a al inauguration of their Guild a man might beat his wife provid-realising all this to the full, let sternal combustion engine we danger that their craft cannot The ceremony. commencing at ed that the stick he used was no me dressed up in my Sunday Mac from taking ony further me tell ye, it takes a lot to get call our body, and so, to prevent forces were composed and how the different contributors bo make the shelters unaided, extor- the Ko Shing Theatre earlier in thicker than his thumb. And their parts in the common sacrifice tell a different tale. The tionato sums are asked by the the day, was followed by a pro- many people believe that the clothes tad started on the holy liberties wi' his organe, I produc-
crews-aume cession in which several hundred penalties attaching to libel or
trail ohurchward. Home Government has welcomed the development of ordinary launch
ed the volume and showed him Going to Church is like eating exactly where he was off the autonomy in the great Dominions, and the direct represent-that can scarcely be refused fishmongers and other gentry in slander can be evaded by making and lots of other things in life- rails. I'll say this for Mac, when under the urgent circumstances. kind red trades got themselves up the language extra strong. Their just a habit. I solemnly believe he sees a thing in print there's ation of their particular interests on the League is a with naval tugs on the job a great grandly for show. There were argument is that to call a man a natural sequel to the sense of nationhood which they have deal of that extortion will be also native bands with a capacity liar is libel, but to call him adthat religion, like the chicken- never no more argument. The is caught-more than printed word's good enough for acquired without losing their devotion to the parent State stopped. The regulations under for raising an appropriate amount liar is merely vulgar abuse and Paugh
taught.
him and what Mac reads in Canada, going a step farther, led the way in signifying a which these tugs will work seem of noise, and two dragons heads, candot by punished.
So Janet once more threw up the papers he accepte as gospel wish for, direct diplomatic representation, at least at to have been very carefully drawn each wobbling on the shoulders of up and we congratulate Lieut. two men to the accompaniment of
the sponge and left me to wrestle truth. So it was plain sailing Washington, which her geographical situation rendere Hake on the completion of a task the beating of tom-toms. In the sident Harding's Cabinet is Mr.
The youngest member of Pre-my lee lane wi' the old Adam. after that. readily explicable, but agreed to defer the question that was eo well begun by his evening there was a dinner at the Hays, the Postmaster-General, settled on the sofa wi' the pipe you was this. We both were so I had just got comfortably But what I was going to tell pending the forthcoming Imperial Conference.
predecessor-Capt. Basil Taylour. Ko Shing Theatre at which gen- who is 41: the oldest is Mr. going fine and the French busy on that book reading about While an attitude of independence respecting their own Japan's Christian Students,eral satisfaction was expressed at Mellon. the Secretary of Treasury, Revolution once more on the go the vertebrate column, the con- affairs is the natural outcome of the progress of the Colonies,
the auspicious inauguration of who is 69. Six of the Cabinet are (twenty years ago I couldna' tents of the abdomen, the blood It appears that there is trouble, the fishmongers' guild. the same growth emphasises the need of closer and definite- not for the Bret time, at Japan's
lawyers, and two have been thole old Cariyle but now I can circulation, the food and digea. ly-organised communication between the various members Christian institution, Doshisha
editors. Two of the Cabinet-the manage him fine), when the front tion, the mystery of our birth and President of the Commonwealth on matters affecting them as a whole. University.
and Mr. Hughes, door buzzer went and in came the wonders of this marvellous There is the further Secretary of State-are Baptists; MacPherson looking like a cat body of ours that Janet was in Something in the nature of the "continuous Cabinet con- subsidy has been cut off, though Tokyo. sultation desiderated while the war raged would have its it is still given to the other private circumstance that, judging by Mr. Denby, Secretary of Navy, is seeking her drowned kittens. on the top of us before we knew WB were. We were advantages in normal times. The impending Conference universities. The trustees were report, the amount of Christianity an Episcopalian; and Mr. Wallace. From all accounts he was as bad where
naturally disturbed at this, and now propagated at Doshisha is Secretary of Agriculture, is as he looked and kept patting promptly
called a pair of will have two questions of capital importance to engage it visited Mr. Minami, the Vice- not likely to attract funds from Presbyterian. The Secretary of the bottom of his stomach and heathens, sitting smoking and in the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and the Imperial Navy. Minister for Education, who re- abroad. Because foreign Wales. Although he can be a like cooper going round a cask Oburch like wine-like folk.
Labour, Mr. Davis was born in then syne the small of his back spitting instead of going to the very unsym-has built and established the Cabinet Minister he would never and as serious-looking the while huge partnership there must be frequent occasions for pathetically, telling them that college, it may go on doing 80 be eligible for the Presidenoy as a laying hen wi' a ready-made doubt if our time was wasted These are subjects of special importance, but in such a selved them
Between ourselves, though, I they could get money from appears to be the Vice-Minister's consultation. The Colonies already have their High Com foreigners, so that there was no attitude. It would have been owing to his not having been born family of ducks wished on her. when all was said and done. I missioners in London, whose functions, however, are of a need for a subsidy. Mr. Ebars, better if the Vice-Minister bad in the United States. The average Mrs. Mac it appeared, was also wouldna' like to bet on such a somewhat different character. No doubt this side of inter-the chief spokesman for Japanese simply said that the Government age of the 12 members of the treading the narrow path of virtue sacred subject but there's no the did not consider a subsidy neces-Cabinet is 55, which strangely en- and paying her weekly contrihu doubt in my find but that wo Imperial relations will receive consideration at the Con- Christian institutions in ference In regard to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and the House of Poors, declares that the eary. The mistake perhaps lay ough is President Harding's age. sion to conventional piety. In two were much nearer God ys
other words she, too, was at the terday than lots of the kirkgoers." organisation of the Navy on lines most suited to British discrimination is simply the re-in giving a subsidy in the fret
sult of religious prejudice. This place. It is that which makes UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA moment qualifying for a mansion I'll no go so far as to say that territories all over the world, these subjects have been is not an edifying s quel to the its cutting-off invidious. Still, if HONOURS GENERAL WOOD, in the skies.
we were ony nearer personal expression of the institution has any vitality, it engaging much attention in both Australasia and Canada, broad-minded
It is reported that the Univer- When Mae got started to talk salvation, mind ye, but one good and doubtless the Dominion Premiers will be able to assist principles at the World's funday ought to be practicable to devise sity of Pansylvania has elected about his Internal mechanism, thing come of our talk onyway...
Bolool Convention lately held in means for carrying on,
Major-General Wood as Frovost, Carlyle, you can take it from me, May clean forgot his pains, the Home Government with carefully-considered views.
The Government
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