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NOTES & COMMENTS.
Motor Cases:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1922
DAY BY DAY.
TO. MOST MER, EXPERIENCE B Yesterday's big batch of motor LIKE THE STERN LIGHTS OF A summonses leads one to think SHIP WHICH ILLUMINE ONLY that there are more prosecutions Coleridge.
than one sees cause for. There can be no question that since the introduced there has been The American Consulate will be latest Police regulations were-To-morrow is Thanksgiving Day, decided improvement in the closed, but it is undarainot that manner in which motorists treat there will be no public celebra
tions.
ROUND THE TOWN.
de in the Colony these dayan und all the men, of course, wore queues. It was a fine picture and I really enjoyed it, but what a conception of things Eastern,
INCOME TAX APPEAL.
Rubber Company's Success. (From Our Own Correspondent
SMALL POX IN SHANGHAL
A Serious Epidemic. (From Our Own Corresponded.)
Shanghai, November 25. A serious epidemic of small pax has broken out. There have | been ten deaths and forty for
tignare are in the Isolation Hospital. The disease is of a partionlarly virulant form. Sigus have been
postad
all
the Hotels and _wamings from the Health Office arge vacalnation. The French School
By "Gadabout.” On Sunday, giving up my extra) have the people at Home, THE TRACK IT HAS PASSED-hour in bed. I got up early, managed by the skin of the toath, so to speak, to clamber on board past eight saw me en route for the early morning train, and ball Fanling Golf Course. While on
Singapore, November 22. the subject of trains, why don't the powers-that-bo give a Htt
The Merliman appeal income other users of the road and we
consideration to the golfers (who tax assessment esse has been suo would almost go so far as to say
probably help to swall the receipts cessful. The decision materially that Hongkong. is among one of The Health Report for the past quite a deal), and put on an extra affects many sterling rubber com- the most favoured places so far 24 hours shows one fatal case coach for them? Two persons panies. as traffic accidents are concerned. {(Chinese) of enteric fever and two sitting in a seat obviously built There is a remarkably faw base of paratyphoid fever, the for only one is by no means the number of serious cases consider sufferers being Japanese and most pleasant form of travel, and ing the number of motor cars and Chinese.
(on the return journey. I noticed the peculiar aimlessness of the
A number of golfers sitting majority of Hongkong pedas.
A P.W.D. coolla was yesterday in a second class triana. Several of the drivers taken to the Government Civil ment. Europeana have to take summoned yesterday wore de Hospital suffering from scalp art class tickets almost (From Our Own Correspondent) Planning to Raise Money. servedly brought before the injuries caused by a fall from a socially bound to do so at any
Singapore, November 22.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Bench bat there Was
In the Legislative Council it one tramoar, whilst it was in motion, rate-then why shouldn't they
Shangbai, November 23. case which seemed a little in Queen's Road East
be able to travel in the comfort was stated that the report of the trivial.
It is reported that Semenov The driver of
for which they have paid? For Committee on Preferential Tariffs has secured a list for America. the Canton
those who can't afford a car and and Protective Duties is about to He plans to raise money while Wharf, left his car for only seven-
Last evening a anstching
whose little bit of relaxation over be published. The Committee is there. minutes possibly on business incident was witnessed in Well the week-end is a round or two opposed to both, but favoured
A Chinese lady and was then summoned for causington Street.
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H.C.L. ON THE DOWNGRADE.
compari-
F.M.S. TARIFFS.
Bounties for new
Industries
ing an obstruction. He was fined, was walking down the street of golf at Fanling the railway is bounties in special cases to en- too. There must be a little reason when a man came up from behind a matter of "Hobson's Choice," courage the establishment of new shown in all things and we cannot and tore off one of her earrings, but it's a bit off for the railway industries in Malaya. help thinking that it was arbitrary set with a diamond and a pendant people to take advantage of that. to summon a man for leaving his of pearls, estimated to be worth it isn't often that I travel by rail
The culprit made his car for seven minutes. Whether $300. it was drawn up on the wrong acape side of the road or not was not!
OBITUARY.
troduction of each subject and Captain J. R. Owen.
MALAYA'S COST OF LIVING.
Between
is closed, Vaccination "Partise" are tha vogue, several gathering for tea and inviting a doctor.
SEMENOV FOR AMERICA.
FRENCH MINISTER AT
SHANGHAI.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Shanghai, November 23. The new French Minister has arrived.
DELEGATION ENTER- TAINED.
Ourselves
|(for which the saints be praised),] but every time I do venture into a railway carriage I have to put
Government Scheme. up with being packed like the stated in the report which reach- Believed to have been the result proverbial barrings in a box, and (From Our Dun Correspondent.) ed as, but it would have been of a fight, a Chinese was yester some days it is difficult even to Singapore, November 23. sufficient for the Indian constable day evening taken to the Kwong find a sest. A colleague straight The Colonial Secretary has na duty to have informed the Wah Hospital with a number of from Home remarked the other announced that the Government driver just where he was wrong stab wounds in the abdomen. He day how surprised he was that we has decided to erect abattoirs
Froze Our Own Correspondent. and have left it at that. We have was found lying in a semi-con- should have such fine railway. and cold storage, enabling the Singapore, November 23. been among the keenest sup-scious state under the verandah But then be was apparently one continuous importations of The Chamber of Commerce porters of the Police in their of No. 110 Nathan Road, and was of those people who expect to find cattle, sheep and produce in entertained at tifin the West endeavour to make our roads safe identifed as being a tenant of No. the City Hall with a Corrugated order to reduce the cost of living Australisu Delegation prior to for all and at times we might have 51 Temple Street, Yapmati. Two iron roof or something of the in Malaya.
sailing- incurred the displeasure of motor hours after his admission to kind.
Car railway puts up a ists for some of the things we Hospital, be succumbed to his pretty poor show compared with [have said about them, but let injuries.
that owned by our neighbour the there be a fair balance struck
F.M.S. between the privilege of motorists
A surprise visit was paid by and the authority of the police. [C.P.O. Watt and officers of the The discomforts of the journey
By Robt. MacWhirter. When we learned there were no Revenue Department, to Neover, it was not long before I was
Stone Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fewer than twelve cases in Courti
Nullsh. Lane, with the few enthusiasts follow-right enough. I heard a chap as possible. That
Ay, publicity's a great thing best to keep our facts as sacred fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
Jesterday we couldn't help think yesterday afternoon In the ing the rivals for the golf chau- lamming off about this very same escaped the writer isns to be this point The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will being that from our own observation cook home ¿ 1+ 3.7 delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd, sash & fact falsely represented airring up something in a po: and it all out at first. All they had have heard him talking ye'd have a week ago since the matter was was busily pionship. I couldn't quite make thing just the other nigh; and to wondered at though, for it's fully the character of the average before long found himself into do was to bit a ball in the thought that the sun rose and set mentioned in public. Still there's Sikmeen, Canton, who are our agents there.
Hongkong driver.
custody. The substance in the fewest possible strokes in a num in a newspaper office. po: proved to be raw opium, and ber of holes in the ground, which our daily paper is the brightest those things. You've heard about Maybe no harm in being reminded about Secrecy Again.
a charze of preparing the drug all seems very straightforward gift of civilization but it's a gift poor Queen Anne, of course. The Washington Conference is was accordingly preferred against and simple. But they would keep horse that needs it's teeth No? Ah! we'll need to see into getting on ice, according to him when he was brought before hitting the ball into bita
of examined every once in a while that as well. And when I'm on the telegraabic reports coming the Magistrate this morning miniature jungle (which through. The question of naval Sentence of three months' bard sporting colleague called the together.
My if we're not to be taken in the subject I sincerely hope that disarmament has been passed on labour, without the option of a scrub) dotted all over the place. I couldos' help thinking this has no doubt in his mind about yon journalistic Rip Van Winkle to a Committee, the questions of tine, was inflicted.
And then we would all plange same thing when I was going the length of you underground the Pacific have ben passed on
into the long grass and help look through a morning paper yester range. It's only to be a miniature to a Committee and the question
for it, and a regular business it day. Truly there was a lot of affair you know-about 100 of land disarmament has been
was. Why a couple of coolies mental pap yonder that wouldas feet or so. I just mentioned it passed on to a Committee. Except
couldn't have tidied the place up be hard to digest. Wit so many in case he thought that this for B fanfare of op Imistic
a bit, I couldn't understand, and subjects fairly bursting to be new speeches delivered on the in-
I said so, but my pal pointed out discussed it's terrible to see such take the place of King's Park shooting gallery was to that this was all in the fun of the flow o wards evidently written Range. just a rough outline of proposals | The British Consul a Salma thing. After having had this
An abeard thought, 1 By this time last year, when prices were about at beat and a brief epitome of the facts Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico, has written little matter explained I almost for the express purpose, no' of know. But you never know what'
concerning these matters we to advise of the death of Captain gat excited myself about it all, camouflaging the
concealing thought, bat of some folk are trying to think. point, the good people in the Old Country had become so don't know very much. All the John Robert Owen, master of the bat I thought it a bit too bad ideas.
poverty of Of the remaining two bits of accustomed to putting down three pennies, or pounds, interesting and useful discussion Chinese steamer New China. Be-that the volunteers should have
alleged thought that makes up The leading article, evidently the column under review I make where forinerly one had done service that a three-to-one takes place bebind closed doors yond the fact that he died aboardbeen slowed the use of the written mid a host of blue no comment but again bless an standard, or something very near it. was looked upon as and the plenty blicos, to which the ship on 20th September, there course for their manoeuvres and write m
the press and public are admitted. are no particulare.
possibly 2 torded to my companion sad cold on a Sunday, is about the so liberally supplied wi' Home bad all-wise Providence that keeps us the normal state of affairs. Sometimes a passing fluctua- have been mainly confined to Captain Owen was of Penarth, asked him what he thongh: about most depressingly. dull tion in markets gave sign of a slight return towards a exchanging introductory com Wales. He was well-known on it. But the trenches were not dismal thing it is possible to
and newspapers. lower scale, and we remember one optimistic prophet pliments, the representatives of the Chios coast. But, as far as we trenches at alle tail imagine. Divided between the you'll mind how I told you some Wi' regard to Lord Northcliff, declaring that in a few years, as the result of keener com- each matioprit of the Con- can gather, had no relatives here. explained; they in the relaxations of the Sabbath Day time ago what a fine jumper he petition than ever, we should be back to pre-war prices canoe to the spirit of thing this ship was much in the public and they were all in the game and the shortcomings of our
ference and congratulating all eye some six months ago, when too. And in between my quer parsons a more pointless effusion practise ever since he left us. The indications leat little encouragement, for a slight fall the other representatives on abe was detained by the Canton tions he would tell me what would be difficult to imagine. That in Japan he would deny was followed by a larger increase. The present year, having done the same thing. But authorities siler going there to good lay they had and talked of Some folk have an idea that he ever seat his now famous cable however, has witnessed an unmistakable drop by fairly we daresay that a lot of good take coolies to South America. halving it (whatever that might when they speak or write of the to the Times was what might be steady gradations. despite a brief tendency the other way work will be done by these Com-She is an ex- German versel mean) and a lot more jargon that church that the minister should expected. That he would deny I couldn't understand. Still, it bear the whole burden, that he the denial in some other place in the middle of the year on account of the coal strike; andittees. though it is a pity that
was all very nice and I suppose should be a kind o'spiritual amab, was not outside the range of the latest Board of Trade figures show that living costs abolition of the old idea of discos.
everybody enjoyed themselves, have now been brought down to about double the figure for sing details in ramera. It is on
as it were. He isna" the Church possibility. But that be would that is the main thing anyway. The Church is the word both denials so clumsily is July 1914. At other times it would sound strange to be matters of detail that the confer-
Smiths, the Jones, the Robinsons a matter for regret He must be congratulating ourselves upon increased costs of about 100 fence will either succeed or fail
and all the rest of them. The getting old or careless or stupid per cent. The position can be readily appreciated when it and the peoples of the world have right to know what their
The other evening I dropped parson cannot be expected to or all three put together. You'll is remembered that this means a drop to 2-1 from nearly particular representatives
in at the Kowloon Cinema and make folks use their faculties in notice yesterday that we printed doing and whether they are 3-1.
saw the film " Mr. Wa." It was regard to religious questions any his Peking explanation of the A year ago the index figure was about 280 as com helping to find a common solu- On Sunday, 8th January, the very interesting picture and as more than & teacher can be ex- denial. Ye see everybody was pared with I for July 1914. For last month the tion or putting minor bindrances Bishop of Victoria hopes to dedicate the story centres in Kowloon pected to make a chap play the all wrong. Yoo stuff wasna' bis Yon were the views of figure was 8. so that the fall has really been in the way. Apparently, we have the Protestant Church at Macao, was very surprised to see so faw piano, or to play golf or to write a views.
a long road to travel yet before the rebuilding of which bas now people there. Personally, leader. No, no, play fair. Stick the Canton Government to which rapid. In respect of some important articles the fall we get hosest public international been completed. The FT. Dr. thought it very enterprising of ing up puppets to knock them he desired to give world wide. has been in larger ratio, British wheat is selling at discussions, notwithstanding the Pearce, as representing the London the Cinema to screen film of down has passed currency too long publicity. He was merely oblig- about as per quarter against over 90.s in 1920, and there fact that we fought a five years' Misionary Society, will also take this description in Kowloon and as representing the art of arguing them ya see.
A good man part in the service. Representative I can't understand anyone not meat. When our leading thought aye likes to be detected doing are expectations that by Christmas the Englishman will be war partly for that purpose.
residents in Hongkong and Canton wanting to see it. Old Ws. of the day degenerates into a some good deed. Now let's get enjoying an eightpenny loaf, as he ought to do on the French Fears.
are being invited to visit Macao on apparently, was a bit of a taipan moan more in keeping wi' the this thing right. First of all he relative prices with 1914, fustead of the shilling in which, And while on the matter off that day.
and everybody in Kowloon kow-efforts of adolescence at its first had the cable sent off. In Japan as in the "bungry forties." he has been mulcted for a long Washington it is interesting to
him. Of course, it literary debate it has indeed be he denies aver doing so and as The Church was first built by the foured to
wasn't the Kowloon that we come increasingly difficult for proof says that such will never while. The price of meat has also come down by jumps, note the French attitude regard-Hop. East India Company, in
ing and disarmament. There has about 1817.
All the coolies were most folks to keep from won be found in the columns of the and vegetables, despite the drought consequent upon a been a very frank confession of
about six feet high and wore dering to what our newspapers Times. In other words be changed exceptional summer, are cheaper. The fall in wheat, the fear. Germany is still openly
spotless white clothes, fokies and will next descend..
bis mind and "killed" the story most important of all articles of diet, has been helped by distrusted, Rossia is still some-
boys and such like were most The publicity bird 1. referred over the wires. Comes. Peking, an abundant world-barvest, which makes good reading for thing of a black shadow and the reflection that in this matter of elaborately attired. and it goes to in my opening para where `be merely denies that the harassed humanity.
whole European situation has a army reduction we have a very without saying that all the graph said that comments were sum and substance of the cable were sacred. were his views. Now be sitber It may be that the fall which has taken place within sve outlook in the eyes of fine index of the differing mental Europeans carried six-shooters. free but facts
Cautious French military experts. cutlook of the two nations. It is I was just a bit disappointed that That apparently is how it goes in "killed" the cable in which case & twelvemonth represents as speedy a process of deflation France bas felt that she is being not a matter of one outlook being the Chinese did not all carry theory. After turning to the next he acted the monkey-wi' his as is altogether healthy. A continuation at that pace left in moral isolation, but she is superior or inferior to the other, knives in their belts, but still they column of the same. morning Canton friends or be let it go and would mean realising the forecast of a return to pre-war determined to leave nothing to it is just the matter of differ- looked it for any devilry paper though, I have my doubts told a He in Japan. I leave is to
Afoot. The all the same. The chap that you partner. prices in the course of another year or two. It is unlikely jehance. Britain and America have ence. Britain is content to take which might be
there could not have bean an
Are
MACAO PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Opening Of Rebuilt Edifice.
and
anyway.
know.
.
•
He's been keeping in
that such a result will come about. There is still plenty that France will not be, so left determined to leave nothing to were portrayed
bath giren exprese assurances things more on trust, France is offices of a shipping firm wrote you short bit about the And as for Jon interview wi′′
and they Rille Range must either have Chang Teo-lin I don't believe it,
of margin for reduction, but it may be expected that the should any emergency arise, bat chance and France can quote a quite came up to expectations, had been in jail for the last week if you "amall, gentle-speaking" economic barometer will move downward by somewhat France is pleading justification very great deal to support her But for the!! compradore or been on the booze. To begin bandit was the strong man of slower degrees. So long as it does so steadily, the world for the maintenance of an army view. France has lived through wearing a mandarin cost the wit it was Mr. Bird and no Mr. Chios, I'll eat my hat. As like may fairly feel confident that it is moving on the right very much larger than she used the bitter experiences of having inside of the office was not too Pollock that did the pressing on a no it was soms secretary. scross & frontier; bad, but she outside resembled the subject at the last meeting of But Lord Northcliffe's no sto lines. Wages in many trades are regulated by the "index" to have before the days of the an enemy
war. Britain has reduced bers Britain has always had its North store in fim of the wild the Council. That's a mere detail, bisme. He's no the first to be figure, and thus the vexed question of costs of production a much lower point than Sea. A lesson in the effect of and woolley west. Everybody of course, and I'm sure Mr. fooled like that, spuit antall is to some extent solving itself.
France and we cannot resist the environment, surely,
walked differently to how they Pollock'il no' mind but still it's he thinks he is,