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NOTES & COMMENTS,
The Banque Industrielle.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1991,
DAY BY DAY,
ROUND THE TOWN.
By “Gadabout.”
A brother scribe referred recent- ly to ourrieksha-pullers and com.
his
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
Crystal Palace trustees are pro
Miss Ellen Terry, who in her seventy-fourth your calabrated THE MERIT OF ORIGINALITY IS
Ther stage jubilee as far back an 1906. Few professions supply The news which was received MOT NOVELTY; IT IS SINCERITY. in the Colony into yesterday
more examples of healthy long THE BELIEVING MAN, IS THE
svity than the stage. Sir Squire afternoon with regard to the ORIGINAL MAN; WHATSOEVER d them, not very favourably, riding from the part of the Bancroft is sight,ons, and may be Banque Industrielle de Chine and HE BELIEVER, HE BELIEVES FOR
with their contemporaries in grounds near the Psage entrance seen any fine daya alim and the atops which are being taken HIMSELF, NOT FOR ANOTHERngapore. And he was quite new public pleassunce of about upright figure--traversing his be in order that the Bank may be
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right The Straits pallar, with 20 MOTER which put in a position to meet its
two-soatar ricksha, could called Crystal Palace Park is seventy-night, and last year will be loved Piccadilly, Sir John Bare liabilities was interesting in more
mate rings round any of the This will really be an act of Miss Kato Terry emerged from a A Filipino died from cholers Hongkong variety. It yon are postio justice, involving restora-retirement which had lasted half ways than ona. By the large yesterday. Apart from this the making a journey in a Hongkong tion of robbed amenities, for the century. Mrs. Kendal is com number of local depositors it will Colony enjoyed a clean bill of rickaha and you are in a hurry, edifice which 70 years ago aroused paratively youthful, for she was be learned with pleasure that health there is now a definite prospect of
by the time you arrive at your the mathetic wrath of John barn in 1849, Miss Generiavo the repayment of their deposits
destination you expect to find that Ruskin was erected on the wild Ward has celebrated her eighty- in full; at least there is a definite
your hair has turned grey. It and romantic glades of Penge fourth birthday. The result of the Captain's Cup matters little whether you plead Wood. In those days Penge, now alm being made in that direction. competition played on the Old or fame, your puller will continua a populous suburb, was a tiny So far as we have been able to Course at Fanling last week-end to shamble along in bis placid, village, with only one grasp the purport of the radia was a win for Mr. A. Leach, easy-going way. I don't know the curiously named "Crooked ino, message, the method to be adopted whose acore was 95-11.85. is thisUader the Consortium
that the Straits man is possessed Billet, which exists under of mare brawn than his Hongkong much modernised exterior.
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Last week saw the Chinese
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Between Ourselves
A Word from Joe.
the villagers of Baarsted, near A pretty controversy is dividing Maidstone. Smouldering for gen- or Bant Group a new loan is to:
erations, the question of how the be raised on behalf of China part the Siam Steam Navigation Calibelling our pullers to call them Captain A. Svarrer, formerly of brother, and I think it would to
name should be pronounced and Jof which loan will
spelt has burst out afresh since applied for
One of Mr. Kellaway's pre-its adoption by Lord Bearsted Lid, has been married at home, lazy. Then what is it? A great the purpose of and is now chief officer on the mistake was made when the decessors in the office of Post-(Sir Marcus Samuel). The railway liquidating the Bank's debts. Malays, one of the 13,000 ton ricksh-pullers' fares were fixed master-General
bad the dis company's spelling agrees with according to third of the Bank's capital was for the East Asiatic Co. Ltd, and distance. In Singapore you pay servant on record to become a lagers pronounce i Berstad, and time instead of tinction of being the only domestic Burke and Debrett, but the vil- anbscribed by the Chinese Govern-dua at Hongkong on Saturday.
so much a mile and the time minister of the Crown. This was some claim that in the Abingdons ment and the idea of losning
saken doesn't count, but here the Henry Craggs, who started his time the name was Beretede. money from that Government whereby the Bank will be able to
more energetic a puller is the less career as a foo:man in the bouse-Some weird beasts on the old At the Hongkong Theatre the money is he legally entitled to hold of Sarah, Duchess of Marl-phurch tower pay off all its banking liabilities programme includes a une come-get. I don't think there are borough, and,
are supposed to strikes us as being rather neat dy entitled "The fly Cop" in many who pay strictly according successfully with his savings, got also been declared symbolical of by speculating represent bears; but as they have Still, if the Consortium doesn't which Billy West takes the role. to time and the majority are like into Parliament and eventually Apostles. the likeness to bears (object and if the Chinese Govern- centdrama "Stranded in Arcady" puller who takes them to their race over his connection with Barty House, still standing is object, if the Baok Group doesn't This is followed with a magnify to be most generous to the into office. Craggs fell into dis- cannot be a "speaking" ane. ment doesn't object we hardly with Vernon Castle in the leading destication quickest. Certainly, the South Ses Company, and evidently reminiscent of the Ber think local depositors will object. role. This drams is in five parts I don't think the person exists when he died, in 1721, his fortune tie family which succeeded to the should have things a little more By the middle of nart month we and will run notil Friday, who would give a man twenty-totalling a million and a half-earldom of Abingdon. The name cents for hauling him around for was confiscated for the benefit of has probably had many forms definite than they are now al- though they are shaping for a Kingdom of Love" by William you have to pay for laziness, and the bubble.
The magnificent drama "The an hour. Legally, in this Colony sufferers through the bursting of since this family held the place thought possible. Billa, drafts Jewel Carmen, now screening at by distance instead of time it is better end than was st first Fox, featuring the famous star until ricksha fares are regulated
under the second Henry.
banking liabilities, will have high aisticetion. Last Tuesday ever be speeded up. deposits, etc. in fact all purely the World Theatre, is a picture of not likely that our pullers will
on whatever funds night the theatre was packed Bank will eventually re-open for ation of this wonderful film. Moon festival, or, as Are made available. That the full, showing the popular appreci ordinary business we have no The management has engaged a call i doubt; it is merely a matter for the services of Miss Mosolowa festival. The average English-
Dear Robert MacWhirter.-It pride not to be brooked. I ask and Mr. Gordon in their latest man at home is usually interested would have been all right if you you, Robt, as man to man, is The Shantung Problem.
Parisian Dances.
to hear or read of the habits and hadn't passed on the privilege such a game one of skill or of day told
One of Reuter's cables yester
customs of the lands beyond the of filling your corner to that detailed exposition of the Japan. charged
"josa." "One eighth of an incb.. seas, but as soon as he gets to one garrulons old reprobate Mac I us that a long and
When a Chinese woran was of those interesting countries he Pherson.
repeat. It was bad enough delusion have these trundlers
What depths - of“ this morning with seems to cease to trouble any-having to put up with him and his plumbed? I am familar with ese proposals regarding Shantung pawning & quantity of clothing thing about it. It is very, very unending chatter at the bowls some of the commaa deceptions has been published in London, without the consent of the owner. seldom thata European (unless he match. though I haven't quite of sport. When a man at cricket concluding with a declaration her husband, who had not seen is a tourist) is seen in the native forgiven you for the manner of shots his eyes and swipes and that Japan's policy towards China ber since she ran away from quarter and it seems to be con- our introduction. has entirely changed with the home several months
When I con- the ball hits his bat the onlookers removal of certain other menaces appeared before the magistrate interest in the customs of the afternoon in the company of man to stick on his horse until the age, sidered infra dig to take apysanted to the infliction of an applaud; when a jockey manages and that she now desires caly to and said that she was capable of Asiatic races. Why do we change whose very breath, I discovered, brute dashes past the post in s encourage Sino-Japanese trade anything. His Worship apparent when we pass Suez, I wonder. I savoured of "good wood," I did frenzy of impatience to be free and ensure to peaceful develop-ly agreed, for be imposed suppose it is a case of familiarity expect a httle consideration at of him the crowd draws the ment of an entirely free and the rather sefere independent China. The admis-of two months hard labour.we are right in the thick of it me to keep him company. And rugby speeds for his life from sentence breeding contempt and that when the bands of the man who asked "divi"; when a man playing William sometime of Orange and later of Britain was changed is
that her policy has
those things which we at Home when that man allows what pursuing demons and fails over a man of some very admirable virtues. One was that of sion that Japan's policy previ-seizure
admis. The arms case stising from the thought would be so interesting might
bave been а fairly the line his side's supportera call “ being a pioneer of new diplomacy in an age when the "old"ously left room for change twelve antomatic pistols, together the mid-autama festival was oo I into an utterly impossible trio know how many there are. of two revolvers and begin to lose their charm. When possible" doo to be converted it & "try"; when but you brand was at its worst. At the close of the campaign China will scarcely take the and optat, at No. 46 Battery Chinese festival of some kind, privilege kindly accorded, I feel after Saturday I wished I could which he waged so resolutely against the Grand Monarque. trouble to costradict. Japan could Street in Yaumati, on Monday, or nothing at all about it. On it is time I spoke gently but take all bowlers and dump them statement which our friends in with a quantity of ammunition discovered several people who, and adds the insult of allowing Swimming is the only sport free
beyond the fact that it was the batter-in" to "usurp he showed himself as unconventional in negotiation as he do
a from some such deception and had been in war. The reader will probably reniember make her beatung proposals Orme at the Police Court this the 15th day of the 8th Chinese firmly. The manner in which over the end of a launch to see
to was again heard by Mr. G. N. Macaulay's description of the diplomatic ceremonial of the as widely public as possible. It morning, when a statement was moon, or Sept. 15th, the moon is you introduced MacPherson to who time: how first the representatives of une side would question over which may made by Inspector Brown to the supposed to be brighter than at me on the tramcar and the way eighths-of-an-inch. It was that would start measuring advance half a dozen paces towards the other side's hard words have been said and in effect that the defendant acted as any other period of the year and in which he loudly chortled over last that settled me.
regard to which Japan has been receiver and dealer for a smuggler) representatives aud come to a full-stop, and then the other accused of being a little
on this night festivities are in-what he had just been reading in. I am more convinced than over aide would do the like. everybody remaining mum greedy. if the present proposals discovered though he was suspect- following day the moon is sup Manager forbids it), gave me will go on) is for fat old men wish 10 whose identity had not been dulged in all over China. On the paper I shall not name my that bowls (I suppose the game while these and a hundred other inanities were repeated and favour with the other Powered to be a seaman employed on posed to be loosing its brilliance more than a suspicion that my equally fat and aged cronies a antil the respective envoys got together. William, having of the world. China would be one of the coastal vessels. On and as the Chinese are very fond afternoon, from the enjoyment spectators and got into preliminary communication with a tolerably broad-tinua an obstinate refusal to sold in the Colons, his Worship leave them other celebrations are strictly limited. I did no: bargain told MacPherson I like that one, very ill-advised, we think, to con-learning that the arms era to be of the moon and don't want it to point of view, was going to be The monotony with which you minded representative of the opposing side, dismayed the negotiate with Japan direct. One indicted the heaviest penalty diplomatic formalists by taking a stroll along a country of the cables we received from possible in a Police Court-riz y silly," a Chinese to whom I debacle into which it was con- reply "Ay, thats a guit yin" carried out. "Of course, it's all for the utter ruin and mental Mac," and the equally monotonous path, where,
perhaps it is all side's man, and forthwith talked the matter out, or at least Chinese Minister of Foreignja further four months in the when you come to analyse it, but bear you cot the slightest ill- and, I may add for your further went for information told me. Terted. I should like to tell you, caused me, if you remember prepared the way for the settlement that followed. this previous attitude of aloofness to pay the $1,000 fine imposed for it is rather quaint and these little will for the free use of my christ- Affairs had sufficiently relaxed event of the defendant's failure Another illustration relevant to our present purpose is that to confer with the Japanese possession of the opium.
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little better
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of a well-known publicist who, when the belligerent nativas Minister regarding the publics-
that publication does take will endeavour to give them an place oar Chinese friends impartial reading and, if the terms arit, be prepared to conclude a definite agreement with Japan in regard to the territory under dis-
report that
CHINESE NEWS.
Cantonese Troops Held Back.
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With a
commentators.
information, nearly to burst
customs are very interesting. lian name in your corner, I do blood vessel. For Mr. Gerrard i in the Great War were contemplating, in a more or less tion of the full text of the
object to its being bandied around have the kindliest of feelings, but We come across grousers every-among your frost-bitten, hard- I never did agree with the setting vague way, the possibility of a settlement. threw out a Proposals. We hope that when
where and the East is as fali of taced, bowls-consumed associs up of idols and I was literally suggestion that bad an incongruous appearance. ile
them as anywhere else. I was tes wanted "a man to take a walk to some wayside inn and
"Joe" is as good a name talking to one in Hongkong thejas yours, and you don't need to
nauseated by your indiscriminate there to happen upon auother man" (as nearly as we can
other day and his trouble was poke fun at it-at leas>not when effects of the greeting he gave eulogies. It may have been the recall the words, confident that
that he was bored to death be- I'm in your company. this queer-sounding adventure contained a fair prospect of bringing peace.
cause he had nothing on earth to
you. I abstained that time. And If I were writing to a third the way in which the Hongkong do. "It's too slow," he said. party as to what were my "in- skip told every man in his team! Now here are Britain and Ireland at deadlock again. cassion. It would be a fine thing states that a report from Nanning Singapore move a little faster the rules of etiquette in my
Our Cantonese correspondent (our neighbours in Shanghai and should very probably infringe ditcher," was just right or gave There certainly are livelier places pressions" of the bowls game, I that his bowt, even when it was s Sinn Fein says it can only send representatives to a con- if representatives of both coun- is to the effect that the Cantonese than we do), but it is difficult to choice of language. ference if they go as delegates of the Irish Republic. The tries could go to the Pacific troops fighting near Luugehow understand how a man can honest mattering old Highlander on game where they spoke the truth some equally biased encourage- British Cabinet answers that it cannot meet represent- Conference and
ment, drove me, at length, to s atives sent in that capacity. The result threatens to be this old-standing matter had been opposition, all their attacks for do. We have every kind of sport obscuring the view every other disregard for its effect. When have been encountering seriously imagine that there is nothing to either side, with a woman's hat loudly and with a commendable that the opportunity for further discussion will be lost.. amicably settled.
the past four days having been (even the ball game these days) second, with a neck getting more This would be a greater calamity than words can well Wang and Chang.
repulsed. Requests for reinforce and considering the size of the and more strained, with the sun needed a basket 1 bad a great somsons, told Lasher that he depict, and the more so as both sides show a desire to come Just what is happening in Cen-ments have been made. together again. The fact that Sinn Fein should have tral China is hard to guage from
Li Kom-loo, the. Intercourse for in the way
place we are fairly well provided pouring down on my back and longing to shake the speaker's continued in communication with the British Cabinet after hand. It is clear that there bas plaint to the British consulate and other places where one can epithets as "Ach! mon" sad such assumed the guise of a "Gob."-
the rather sparse news coming to Commissioner, has made a com-shows, concerts, pictures, clubs constantly
of theatrical with my sense of bearing being hand, for here indeed sat Truth the latter had felt cancellation of the conference to be un-been big fighting around Ichang and demanded beary compensa-adjourn for entertainment in the like, it can scarcely be wondered
offended by such enthroned, "though #he had avoidable is a token of some wish to discuss matters further. in fact some reports state that ion in the case of the collision evenings. If you are fond of at that my soul longed for the just once more and I hope you'll It may be that were the parties to meet, the chance of that city has felen intothe hands Kang-Ning, on the Hongkong is as good or better than many across the field where one could the seconds and sponge, though
I want to meet MacPherson between the British steamer motoring or walking, the scenery decent clean air of the ball game arrange the interview and bring a settlement would be very small-or it might be not quite of the Szechuen forces. The so slender; but the subject for profound regret is that the situation in Honam, where the Wachow run, and the Chinese places and I don't think anyone at least shout, I'd like to shoot suppose I ought to respect his slightest chance should be lost where such momentous issues settled down owing to the strong ina, which took place on 28th the roads. Then we have the that "cigs found that there is instead of pulverised. He's
trouble first begau, seems to have Military transport launch Bung can honestly grumble much about the man who gave MacPherson antiquity and let it be preserved are involved. Sinn Fein repeats that it cannot give way on band of Wu Pui-foo but this war- Aug. The latter was sunk and advantage of living by the ses and distinct element of torture in the point mentioned, and we certainly do not see how the lord is still up against a stiff four officers drowned whilst a can indulge in yachting, rowing Lawn Bowls, and that is where science
rare specimen in British Government could relinquish its stand. This, it seems proposition when it comes
large quantity of military equip-or swimming. A person who can the author introduced the refined to
and ît might to us, is just where, with possibilities of tremendous benefit and Fakten. The most significant
facing the armies of Szachuen ment was lost.«
grouse about having nothing to agony of,
a pity to spoil him. Bai, to Britain and Ireland, a man wight take a walk to some news of yesterday
making spectators Kobt, I ask you to be more occupy his spare time in Hong-watch an official measure in fine careful in future. I don't mind wayside ion and there happen upon another man." The men regard to the meeting of Wang Peking officials. If these two big anyway, with the exception of in distances. It was subtle bat MacPherson said the only sane
Was with
kong will grouse anywhere, and, fractions of an inch a difference knowing might be Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. de Valera (as ordinary Jim-yuen sad Chang Jok-lin at leaders were to join hands against the large cities he would not find fiendish, especially when he led thing he did say I tried to look you (though a individuals, not as British Premier and Irish President), or Wang is by no means pleased (and that is what yesterday's any town at Rome. And these oue bowl, trandied over many must plead for a more discrimin
the latter's place in Fengtien Feking on the side of the south himself catered for any better in men to delude themselves that otherwise on Saturday), but I' they might be little-known men, but men trusted by the re-with the northern party over the new bioted at) it could go people who grouse about the little yards of grass and lying neszer spective sides. No question of status occurs they are simply manner in which he got all the extremely hard with the northern disadvantages that we have to to the Jack by an eighth of an alterostivewell, you know your two men (or whatever be the suitable number) meeting at a blame for the recent Wuohang and regime. It all depends whether put up with seem to forget some inch, was trundled with more weak point. You confessed it. ste use of our friendship. The wayside inn. A sequel to this informal "talkee might prove lebang affair Chang has Canton would accept the services of the advantages we enjoy. You merit than its immediate neigh. test week. to be a regular conference fertile in beneficent potentialities previously given intimation that of men it has previously written can't have your bread buttered on bour, One eighth of an inch
he has no further use for the down as militarists.
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