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Compiled from the "Hongkong Telequpà " Ales for week- “ending July 2nd., 1896)
THE DOLLAR. June 26th. The rate of the Dollar, on demand, to-day is 23. 2-1/24.
A SPECIMEN LOST. June 29th-in excellent op
Between
morning declared as Tages Captain Hastings, on the ment to the House of Correction, plaint of Inspector
affairs in connection with the Praya reclamation, and what is Sanitary Officer of the gentleman his opinion of the value as a
insanitary nuisance the Colons who has created the greatest
-has ever known?.
PARCELS POST.
New Local Scale.
It is notified that on and after
payable on parcels for the United Kingdom will be as follows, lbs. $0.90, not exceeding 7 lbs. For a parcel not exceedine 3 $1.60, and not exceeding 11 Tbs. $2.25.
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
But the other neighbour on my left, he's the pick of the banch... He's the singing and whistling
Thursday's Council meeting THINK HE MAKES THE RULES Popular City restaurant ` was
| ENVY THEIR BONS BECAUSE THEY
It was one o'clock, and a
AN UNBAVOURY DISCUSSIOR. was Interesting in more ways than one. The length of the AND CAN DO AS HE PLEASES AS A crowded to its fullest capacity,
July 1st-If anyone not al- ganda proved that meetings MAN IN THE FIRM WHO CAN'T. tan or elevan, wearing a jersey. MATTER OF FACT, HE'S THE ONLY says a London scribe. A boy of
wishes to make himself acquaint randy Informed on the subjeat should be hoki fairly frequently,
G. H. Lorimer.
shorts, and little white socks, Was
ed with the state of the foreshore and the financial minutes reveal- ed that the Government is
sitting in a corner with a well-i
along the line of the reclamation. The Government is asking for dressed woman, apparently his
and verify the charges brought "on" with s "getting a ΠΟΡΟ
against those in charge of the number of improvements. Money tenders for the forming of a site mother. They had finished lunch was provided to pay for the now and the erection of quarters for and were having a cup of coffee.
works, of the grossest indifer motor meat and poultry vans, the gardeners at the Happy Valley Drawing from his pocket a case
ance to the public weal, Ist him he handed it across to his mother,
MUNICIPAL REFORM.. take a turn along the Praya from now motor coaches and trailer cemetery. for the Canton-Kowloon Railway,
who took a cigarette from IL Ho
June 7th.-Kongkang, we ob- Pottinger Street to the Bank be- for the proper treament of the In a fight yesterday a Chinese struck a match, stretched across serve with pleasure, is agitating,tween 6 and 7 any evening this road between Whitly Street and was severely injured in the head the table and lit his mother's for municipal goreromant. Dur-week. It will be dead low water, Kennedy Town fa disgraceful and had to be removed to the cigarette, and, lighting his own, ing the earlier stages of its exist and the smells will be imply street for years past), an exten-Government Civil Hospital. His leans hack in his chair and puffed unce as a British Colony, the horrible. May we entrout. Élis sion ladder for the Fire Brigada | assailant made his escape. · away with obvious enjoyment. policy of lumping all receipts to Excellency the Governos to visit. and a searchlight for the Fire
gether, whether collected for that portion of the city about the Float is very much needed im-
Mr. Yeoh Hone Soo, Bachelor In July we are to expect a bi-was probably the best, as cortain-haps His Excellency goes bathing municipal or imperial purposes, time above mentioned. But per- provement) for A wireless of Medicine and Bachelor of monthly magazine with the title ly it was most convenient. It has in the evening and has had that of the Kowloon clock, and for Hongkong, has been declared as as it is, the contents promise to be period, however and is entitled to be think of the judgment and outgrown its swaddling clothes experience. If he has, what does improvements to Balilios Girls entitled to practise medicine in even more thrilling, for they will take on the duties and obligations discretion of the officer, respon School. So it will be seen that the Colony.
"deal chiefly with the evidence of a much more mature period of sible for the present state of the Government is not doing so
for criminal and other identifica existence. badly in some things after all.
It is notified in the Govern-[tions by mean of fingerprinta." The manner in which the fire ment Gazette that the names of The detective aspects of foot- float has had to work in darkness the Kwong Hang Insurance Co,priate-including bot-prints- or just the mere glimmering light the Victoria Cafe Ltd, and the tattoo marks, deformities and the portunity for adding a fine from hand torches will become a Wing Loong Co., Ltd have been like will also be subj-cts of study specimen to the Museum appears matter of the past, but why can struck off the register. not the fire engines for land work:
by this new journal. And such to bare been lost. The full-grown evidence as is usually called for shark, whose capture near Stone- be similarly fitted. The fire at All communications intended for publication should be address-Bailey's shipyard was a demon of capstan cigarettes a Chinese, quicute texture of paper and other card if it had been skinned and For not paying duty on 23 tins from police experts as to the cutters was recently chronicled, would have been à "drawing" stration as to the necessity of Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager,
fabrics microscopical, chemical. modern lighting for our fighters coming out from the Kowloon and biological, qualities of blood been cut up and sold at 2 cents a
who was arrested yesterday on
stuffed. But it appears to have The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 water. The Kowloon clock Canton Railway Station, was to smears, poisons, evidence from
pound, in spite of the knowlege) per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
will bare cost a fair amount of day fined $25 with the option of wounds, attitudes and condition that a man's head was in its the July lat, the rates of postage of the dead, etc., as to the nature The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-money when the bill is totailed one month's hard labour.
stomach when captured. tions for any period loss than one month will be charged as for a up, but the improvement is one
of weapons used, and so on.”
A THIRSTY TEUTON, full month.
generally appreciated. The rail-
June 30th.-A German who has The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee way motor coaches have esten up at Temple Street in Yaumon took
English admirers of Shake been losing about the City for is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies quite a goodly sum (nearly $300-poison yesterday, whilst suffering spearean plays are wondering some months, doing nothing ex- delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies 000) whilst the Government is from a sense of neglect on the part whether the Louis Boowmeester cept hanging round chaap "pubs," sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. spending something like $200,000 of her husband She was remor-(or Bouwmeester) who has been
Bingle Copies, Daily, ten cents.
on the improvement of Arsenal ed to the Kwong Wah Hospital invited to play Shylock at the Street and the resumption and where death took place shortly coming festival is he who in 1901 celebrated his 40 years upon the The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be same corner in connection with
alteration of buildings on the afterwards.
stage. If so writes a correspond- delivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd. the Prava East Reclamation It is announced in the Govern-ent in a London journal), he is 79 Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
scheme. The taking of the census mint Gazeite that it is proposed rears of age. His parents were incomplete as the returns must to lease a portion of the foreshore travelling players, and it was
Aye, a neighbour can be a pose that's her joss onyway. As ba-cost the Colony $10,000, and sea-bed at Quarry Bay, the while they were at a fair in Zee- blamed nuisance when he likes, the law is, I suppose we can Thursday's list of minutes prove extent of the plot being 155,320 land (in 1842) that Louis was born. Fra had quite a few varieties in legislate in our tin-pot way as very eloquently that rate and tax square feet and the annual rental At the age of 5 he made his firs; my day and I can speak from regards the protection of animais payers must be prepared to 8566, the sum to be subject to appearance in drams, but he did experience.
bat we mustna' attempt to rescue "shell out" fairly liberally if they re-adjustment when the reclam-not take seriously to the stage I've had them that kept chick-, another man's wife from the desire the
until 1861. He is said by many lens that would persist in rising failing st powers-that-ba to ation is completed.
and the vicious to be the "double" of the late Sir early of a morning on purpose pinch. I continue the policy of progressive
suppose a ferocious H. Beerbohm Tree, and 20 years to scart holes in the garden. development. We all have our A successful whist drive was
husband can have as many bites grumbles and grouses bot
I once had one that kept a bull- as he likes without the law we held last evening in the R. Ago a theatrical paper published cannot expect to get better things. Sergeants Mess, Victoria Portraits of the two men side by dog. He used to bounce about interfering. for nothing they have to be paid Barracks. The following the likeness
side, toshow how remarkable was it's blooming pedigree but it had for. There is just one way prizewinnersLadies: 1,
a face that would have started au Without in any way wishing to harp on a subject that which the Government could Mrs. Landford (128); 2. Mrs.
hospital and enough loose skin has been put into the hands of a Committee for examination please the Colony's residents Anderson (172); 3. Mrs. Spanton Sir C.Hercules Read, hanging about it mata a bird I mentioned some time back. and report. there are one or two thoughts on the house better. and that is to (170); Saaled No. Mr. Floyd from the British Museum after winter waistcoat. Mr. Lindsell If I had the feeding of him I'd rents question of the Colony that might well be given show
studied (141) Gent: Mr. Dovaaton 47 years service, created some said yesterday that every dog is mix some nice fresh arsenic in publicity. It was not so very long ago when a resident economy in the running of its (180): 2. Mr. Stroud (178); 3, Mr. sensation among the learned by allowed one bite before ye can his bird seed of a morning. Of several departments. Administra-Frampton (176): Sealed No. Mr. defeating Sir Henry Howorth to term it ferocious. Well that great all the unmitigated nuisances I could find all the room he wanted at a figure well within tion costs have been mounting up Chandler (156). Master Gunner a contest for the presidency of depends on the dog. One bite ever lived beside, he beats all. his means; flats in Kowloon at $50, S60 or $70 a month to a high figure lately-apart May was M.C.
the Society of Antiquaries, from you one and ye lost all Fore solid hour every morning were to be had for the asking. It is those very self-same altogether from what is spent on
Rather comically, as president of interest in dogs for good. Yon 'twixt bath and breakfast he flats for which a much higher figure is being demanded improvements and there is a A successful whist drive was this society, he became a trustas dog once put wae Jeanie loto performs, trilling like a wound- now and all over the Colony it is possible to note property the Home Government's policy offer.
pretty widespread feeling that held in the Catholic Mea's Club of the British Museum, and thus convulsions and her grandma' up canary trying & race wi’
Thursday on which very little money has been spent of late but which
evening The the official superior of his own early into the mai-house. itself. I don't know his name economise" might be copied following were the prize-winners: colleagues, and
I've had neighbours wi hired as yet but when I do I'm going is earning for the owners a considerably increased income. with very great benefit to all. -Ladies: 1, Mias N. Pile (161), 2.director. Sir Hercules was not pianos that worked over-time to try and get the Police to cancel The needs of the public have created that state of affairs The L. o. N. Budget.
Mra. Holdean (161), 3, Mrs. File educated at any public school or getting their money's worth out his license. It's useles trying and yet it is the public that is called upon to pay the piper.
(161), Booby Prize, Mrs. Vinali university, bat he is a savant of of them and I've had them that to get another ten minutes snooze We all know the well-worn-argument about earned of Nations 1922 Badge: offers s (178). 2. Mr. Camell 176h 3, Mr. bean associated with almost every and Harry Lauder craze late on the time his gong goes at eight Reuters account of the League 130 Mea: 1. Mr. Greenwood phenomenal erudition, who has were infected withe Alma Gluck after seven and from then to incrementan argument that could be applied in this little exercise to the reader of & Sowerby (173), 4. Mr. Fitz-patrick know ar unknown society of in life and who in the course o'clock, it's one infernal din, a Colony with a wonderful amount of justice.
mathematical torn of mind. One (171); Booby Prize: Mr. Gould archeologists, anthropologists, of a summer mastered the tech mixture of grand opers sod Social economists and publicists have often laid it of the Central American re-(129). Mr. Pinches performed the and numismatists. Happily his nique of gramophone playing fair cubist jazz. Yon man needs his down as a fair rule that a man should be called upon to with its subscription, recently were presented by Mr. R.W, abilities will not be last by h's.needle and wind up the machine
publics, apparently in arrear duties of M. C., and the prizes wide erudition and brilliant enough to be able to change a head seen it. pay not more than one-seventh or one-eighth of his earnings notified its intention of with Brown.
This super-musical neighbour. for rent. It has become fairly generally accepted that drawing on the score of expense.
retirement, for he proposes to at one and the same time. At of ours eye makes me have a devote his well-earned leisure to the end of that season Janet suspicion of soms hidden ex- half-a-crown in the pound would work satisfactorily for and even Britain's great! The funeral of the late Mr. rasearch in Eastern archæology threatened to leave me for my perience bebind the prophets all classes. How many people in this Colony are able to Dominions have commented upon J. G. T. Pooley took place yester
language, so I took to learning declaration "I will show them ay that their's is such a happy lot? The more a man League projects a revision on the being conducted by the Revd, Mr. Lowther has had few equals notice in swift succession much the hands of his neighbour."
Chinese swear this point. It is reported that the day evening at 5 p.m. the Service
words instead no mercy, said the Lord, bot 1 It is generally admitted that whereupon three amahe gave will deliver them every man into earns the better his chance of keeping to that ratio. of the
basis and there might be some of
revenue and T. Holman, Chaplain of St. as a Speaker. Recognition of the to the mystification our Taipans who population of the respective John's Cathedral. Among those fact, however, should be combined wife..
of my When ye think of it that's a very Edo not pay more than one eighth of their income countries in relation to the rest,
terrible threat indeed. Some day the for shelter, but
Colonial with a certain measure of tact. we doubt it.
Certain it is, that the nations being classified into Secretary, the Honourable Mr. On one occasion a member re- that wouldns' take their torn o' veranda and I'll stab him to the I've had folks stay beside us I'll wila yon dicky bird into our the poorer a man the greater is his proportionate indicates that the expenditure known the deceased in Selangor Lowther is the best Speaker that that would never be out of your big up as bait to catch parrot seven groups. A set of figures Claud Severn, who had formerly, marked: "Do you koow, I think the stair: some there have been vitals wi' an ice pick and use pending for rent. If we take the great body of wage will be divided into 220 parts, of and Dr. W. B. Moore, W. M. of we have ever had." Then he sa, house if ye encouraged it; others fish. earning residents how few of us there are who pay on a which the first group to consist University Lodge, Mr. G. A. too late, that he was talking to again got plain drunk of a Satur- ratio of $50 for every $400 earned? The ratio, in the for the present, it appears, of only Watt (of Selangor) Mr. L. E. Lord Selby, son of Mr. Gully, the day night but they could be put that ye canna' ignore him. He The worst of neighbour is majority of instances, would, we think, be more likely to Britain (the United Kingdom, not Haynes. Major Humphreys, former Speaker. Filled with work out at nearly one quarter instead of one eighth. The the British Empire) and France R. A. M. C., Mr. E. E. de W. horror, he rushed into the street, weaknessing as we did, the is too damo pear onyhow. If the hard-working, but somewhat lowly paid, body of Portuguese being graded down to 5 points were sent by the firm of Pooley he knew, but whose name bad can take it from me that the it is he's always on hand lika a
will provide 90 parts, the scale Abney
of homan nature. and others. Wreaths and, accosting a gentleman whom
world was bigger we might have But by the Hokey Fly, you a chance of forgetting him. As residents and the great mass of the Chinese workers feel for the smallest countries (the 7th & Co. Advocates, Solicitors and momentarily escaped him, be worst neighbours we ever had sore thumb. the pinch of this to a greater extent than can be appreciat- class). The same report intimates Notaries, Kuala Lumpur, and by related the story of his four pas are the staying on either side of
by any save those who are fairly Familiar with the that the shares of Britain and the members of Makepeace Then be found he was talking to us the now.
Chesterton has a characteristic hand-to-mouth conditions of life that have to be followed. France will be about 12 per cent Lodge, No. 3674 E.C. and Lord Peel, whose father was
bit on neighbours:- One of them has me on edge "We make our friends; wel And high rents are--direct-incentive to, and frequently each is not easy to recon- Selangor No. 2337 E.C.
Mr. Speaker before cile with the graded figures, ac- the cause of, overcrowding, which in its turn leads to an cording to which the shares of
Gully every now and then, for he beats make our enemies; but God "Hadn't you better go and tell his wife. Aye. It's the gospel makes our next-door neighbour. nhealthy community, both morally and physically. Un-Britain and France work cut at
Hampden?" said Lord Feel, with truth and I don't care who knows He is Man, the terrible among a smile. "I see he is just coming it. Every odd night or two we the beasts. That is why the old rtunately, with so large an influx of natives just now, nearly 20 per cent. each, assum
up the street." Lord Hampden's hear a scream and a lot of highly religious and the old Scriptural is the normal growth of the population and the fact fog that Powers in the same 102,576 scholars have entered father was Speaker before Mr. excited chatter at the back, the language showed so sharp a hat building has not propressed in proportion thereto, Italy is to be included in the first the London
If for the essay competition of Speaker Peel-
while Janet hangs on to me in wisdom when they spoke, not of ercrowding is a condition that can scarcely be avoided, group, the figure of 12 per cent Council this year.
"Satety First "
Case I should get mixed up wi one's duty towards humanity, it it should not be lost sight of that it is an act of good would be approximately correct; overnment on the part of any authority to see that its but the cable proceeds to ag- Hizens are well and cheaply housed.
gravate the puzzle with the state- The Government of Hongkong, by its decision to inter-earlier part of the messge, that the United Kingdom's presented batsman who has jumped into handful of hair. It would give result of choice or a kind of tasty, ment, in contradiction of the fourth. On the lowest estimate years Cecil Tyson-the left-hand-ble favourite grip being a double repulsive experience, may be the te in the scheme of profiteering that landlords have been Britain will be the only con- contribution of £58,000 will be fame in a day by scoring for me the greatest pleasure to the We may be so made as to be Hulging in, has not ouly acted because of an acute tributor in the fires clars. The more than doubled, as the Budget Yorkshire not out innings of 100 would to land him a good one on particularly fond of lunatics or ergency but has established a principle that might well Colonies, having the privilege amounts to £1,182,000. John and 80 in his first mich in first- the ear. To see the pair of them particularly interested in leprosy.
followed for all time. Rents must be restricted to also
af separate representation, Bull's broad back is accustomed class cricket has been known as out in the street, ye'd think We may love Negroes because sonable limits if this Colony is going to be the home of sharing in the bill: but the all the sum represents a
the privilege of to shouldering burdens, and, after fine batsman in the Bradford butter warns melt in his mouth, they are black, or German mere League. He plays for the Whitever did have ony faith in socialists because they are atented and healthy citizens. We are not all birds of revision reduces their contribu-bagatelle, especially as figures go wood Colliery Club. How was it you public displays of affection pedantic. But we have to love seage, bare to-day and gone Home in affluence to- tions, possibly at 8 little in these days. At any rate, the that Sydney Barns, now probably Ongway. - The “ducksy dear” in our neighbour because, he is rrow, and it is those whose home is here and whose lives expense of dignity, for while folk in the Old Country will not the greatest living bowler, was company is very apt to becomɔ there": To to spent here of whom the Government should think Canada falls in the third and the League accomplishes half of ance in league cricket, until takan privacy of the bedroom. I'm my neighbour fine if he is 18
damm your eyes" in the Between ourselves I conltlovs | India ranks in the second class, grudge the higher contribution if left for years to show his brilli-
Australia and South Africa in the what we have been led to hope. straight into an All-England team? sorry for her but then-1 sup there at all.
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Is our county method the best other folk's domestic affairs. This but one's duty toward one's fordiscovering cricket talent, asks manly individual it seems hat, neighbour. The most & writer in a Home paper. For developed a special formef attack, monstrous martyrdom, the most