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THE HONGKONG
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10 1921
TELEGRAPH.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
"Old Ho's” Humour.
IT IS NOT JOY NOR REPOSE) WHICH IS THE AIM OF LIFE. IT IS According to a Chinese DoveWORK, OR THERE IS NO AIM AT paper, President Han Shib-obang ALL - Auerbach.
* is very unhappy over the pro- |
sent political situation, and is sending out a telegram urging
The King's Exequatur
PASSIM PAPERS.
Rambling Thoughts on
Current Matters.
and teas and
onial Secretary
that off half of your logonvenient sub-latting is not permitted and caller. And if ever (when, and that there is no ` r9sson to be- | if, I grow up). I become a boat- Neve" that any cases have but that's only a dream. I havn |occurred." "Reason to believe known grown-up people who were be hanged! He ought to know. In not bossss and bosses who had the public interest a question is never grown up and wats nevar The San Francisco business put to discover whether certain likely to Who wants to grow up delegation has come and gone; charges are true and a hedging | szybow? Why, the average em-and it is to be hoped that the answer is given; that affords grown-up who knows that he is the people to repent and reform/powering Mr. Taiji Tenbokami toļ members of it will carry back 10"reason to suspect that cases really grown-up keeps on shont- and to call a regular Parliament not as Conset for Japan at Hong- California more accurate infor- have occurred. Then:
kong has received His Majesty's mation concerning trade fact that the writer of the letter and making as much noise as a
The ing the fact from the ›hoɑrstops · Surely "Old "Han ", 1.8
sibilities in the Far East then to which the honourable member town-criar though to much less Chinese irrevently dub the bad signature.
seems to be available there at rators has made his secusations useful purpose. I prefer to be of the Paking Administration, is | In the Government Gazette is present. Somehow I doubt against the probity of Govern-like Mary Mantean; and Mary developing unconscious humour with advancing years. All this published an Order in Council of Luncheons time, he virtually states, it has His Majesty in Council making of course) speeches do not ment offers under the shelter of was just like other people.. been the wickedness of the nation, the maintenance Orders (Facilities afford visitors very clear ideas acymity instead of signing his an antipaiby to having their lot for Enforcement) Act 1920 apply regarding the reds possibilities to afford sufficient evidence that bettered, and their neglect of Par in Hongkong and other Crown of a country. I was talking to he knows them to be untrue,"
■ business man only this wook It does not afford any evidence liamentary institutions that have Colonies.
and he rather opened my eye of the kind, let alons been the cause of China's internal
"The Americans, he said, "are evidence," and, no one knows suficient discord. It has generally been sup Two Chinese, charged with still new to the axport trade and that better than does the Colonial posed that it was the authorities beleg in possession of opium bave a lot more to learn thaSecretary. Why this dust throw- who were guilty of these errors.following their arrest at the they think. They are all for When ons looks around upon the Great Eastern Hotel, were this
ing? It raises a strong suspicion system and system makes them that "Brown Sugar's charges enterprise of China's merchants morning fined $1,000 and $2,000 send circular letters here which and the diligence and frugality respectively. The alternative might have some interest for petty charges; they were not and Supreme
were true and they were "not of her workers, it is difficult to sentences were four months and Chicago merchant but which to believe that the dictum con-feight months,
nation getting the Government it deserves is applic- able to the republic.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1921.
KOWLOON AND WASHINGTON.
The War Lords.
Further news concerning the Psotingfa conference is to the effect that, on the motion of General (or Marshal, wo fancy he is now) Wn Pui-foo, it was
Peking Patchwork.
Meanwhile the Peking ministration appears to have patched itself together after being in danger of dissolution from within through so many of its members shreatening resignation. The beads of the departments of Education, Justice, War, and of
3i, the Minister of Education,
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BANK RETURNS.
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name like an honest man, seems
NEW CINEMA.
A Palatial Building Projected.
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wer We understand that Mr. So Chung-shun, who in conjunction with two associates bought two of the plots, plans to a modern cinema and
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
Tenants of the Old Post Office Canet buildings have been given notice to quit on have none for merchants here, charges to be refuted by an
answer that is no answer at all.the 13th instant by the In the past they have sent 11 shall be surprised if this matter H.E. the Governor has appoined presentatives who did
is allowed to drop. under section 19 of the Public compare, either in presence or in Health and Buildings Ordinance, energy, with British representa" He Very Angry.” 1903, Ordinanca No. 1 of 1903, tives They took a room in some
erect I had a call to make on a Police Inspector Edwin John| hotel, advertised that they were Cotton to be a Sanitary Inspector displaying samples, and expected parson of some consequence the theatre on the site facing Queen's
Bongkong The rate of subscription in "The Hongkong TelegraphTM is $35
for Stanley, with effect from the local importars to rush after other morning and, on arrival, Road at present occupied by the
handed my card to the office-boy.
Theatre. 23th November, 1921.
them. British representatives hustle around for orders. How. A bright youth he proved to be. The plans for the new theatre The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip.
He shook his head and said "no." have been prepared already by In to-day's Government Gazette ever, American manufacturers One explained to him that he was the architect. The land taken up tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for resolved that the leaders in the it is proclaimed by order of His are sending better-class full mouth.
provinces should render financial Excellency the Governor in Coun- nowadays. Butthes will persist required to present the card and will be that at present occupied he smiled in a friendly way. by Ah Fong's Studio and the place at in quoting free on board, even No." he said again, and then Hongkong Cinoms. The frontage Central Government" in ward. which an infectious or contagious free on wharf. That's no use at assistance to the embarrassedcil that Shanghai is ing off invasion from the South. disease prevails. This proclams-all; we want to know the cost of confidentially." be very angry." will be on Queen's Road, and wa Both Chang Tso-lin, or histion has been necessary on goods delivered here.
As it turned out, one emerged were informed that no expensa representatives, and Tso Kan account of the small-pox epidemic send us letters that are quite later without having his nose will be spared in making the new Aro stated to have agreed. and all boasts arriving here from comic. I know one local firm that bitten off, but the office-boy's building a palatial ons, is keeping Thos far the Position is that port must go intoquarantine. holds an agency for motor cars and intention was a kindly one just with the fine buildings of the it was advised that big business the same. There are possibilities basiness quarter." The capacity tolerably intelligible. What ron-
There are also of the new cineros will be ex- [ders it perplexing is that thej The feature attraction at the was expected because it had the in that lad.
combination formed at Protingfu Kowloon Theatre to-morrow sole agency for the large terri- possibilities in the idea of giving ceptionally large, the plans pro- is reported to design the over-evening is "The Woman and the tory' of Kwangtung and Ewang-out that you are aarry and so riding for the accommodation of throw not only of Dr. Sua but off Law." an impressive
He said a deal more but that having an alert office-boy choke an audience of 2,000. the Northern Government Appart picture based On the seems a good pote to let hin end
the War Lords are successful play so popular in on parently suficiently alive to the im-Britain and America "The Australians Also Offenders. portance of the Washington Con-Woman and the Law" will ference to bolster up the Peking be shown for two nights only It will be good if these delegates, Administration for a little while with the usual matinee on Sunday then, can carry back the inform longer. And what then?
afternoon. The kinema dances, ation that motor cars cannot be Chine and ao established feature a driven all over
No, as I said to Joe on the road tout ensemble is naturally com- that
only this popular place of amusement,
(to mention will take place as usual with the thing more) the pessant class down to the Ferry, I'm for no plete.
this week Well, as I was saying, I badna' exception. of course, of the in China does not largely live on more solid stuff Ad-Sunday performance.
expensive tinned meste. It will Dante. Ireland and Christian brought myself to an anchor on be good. again. if they arge Science, and now you want some- yon ferry when MacPherson be American manufacturers that thing on the Washington Con- materialised from somewhere and ference. Nothing doing. I've leeched on. He thought it was a good packing is appreciated out In connection with the question of returning to China
here. The same applies got to have a chance to enjoy yellow ball I was taking bome to Some time. There's the wee yin and didna' seem quite the territories which she has at various times leased
Australia. I know one man who myself spent part of bis leave and some othing in my agreement about pleased to know it was something to foreigners the position of Kowloon and the New Territories has been raised at the Washington Conference, the Navy had tendered or pre- Average Amount of Bank Notes manufacturers in touch
No. S. 435-Returns of the of his money putting Australian getting paid according to the for eating after all. I think he with density of the matter supplied. was rexed he ever came near me. and there are doubtless many wondering what is to be the pared their notices, but all except in Circulation and of Specie in importers in British Malaya, You'd think I was coming out as Come to think of it, there's no- outcome of it all. Judging by the speech made by Dr. the first have been prevailed Reserve in Hongkong, during the One firm of meat-canners had a leader writer to hear some folk thing very dignified in knowing a man who is so far lelt to himself Wellington Koo this statesman is of opinion that Kowloon upon to continue their duties on month ended 30th. November a couple of surprisingly big speak. should be restored to China, for he stated that there were the assurance that funds will be 1921, as certified by the Managers orders and were hugely delighted. Wiseman's for the best part of an asked one at that I aren And all this after sitting in as to carry a pumelo around and They bad по more. Pork other ways of safeguarding Hongkong's harbour than by a provided in future. Mr. Ms Lin of the respective Banks:-
Average Specie is saugages were labelled
hour and hearing a friend of Joe's, offered him a bit but he didos' retention of the territory. Mr. Balfour had previously holds out for "proper financial Baoks.
Amount Heserts matton" and "corned tongue" discourse learnedly and at con- seem in anyway been but kept pointed out the enormous value of Hongkong from the arrangements. The experience Chartered Bank of
was labelled "dripping." and Biderable length on Egypt And yammering away about toys" India, Aostra'ia, standpoint of international trade and had contended that of a year ago and the difficulties
Chinese shopkeepers were no: Do about the tombe, either mind instead Ay, Mac, when he has the spring bave evidently and China, ... $8,777,415 $5,000,000 having much of that kind of No, it wasna' as interesting ideas at all, aye manages to pick to make Hongkong safe it was essential that those controllin
Bongiog and made him chary of anything short! ing the Port should also control that part of the mainland of some tangible provision for the
But that would have on some quear ones. Childhood thing. Shanghai Bank-
One Singapore firm as that. ing Corporation, $10,313,366 27,050.COM | wanted 2 huge
quantity been nothing. if it hadna" been would become a dull time of tife now under their governance. That is an argument of future as well as the present. Mercantile Bank
of cement with
if some folks bad their way. But
· second my turn to sign the chit, undoubted strength and appeal, but we bere in Hongkong
350,000 order to follow, but it had to be So I'm going to have a holiday you'll have noticed that its aye execated in casks. Our friend, to-night, I'm going to write about them that never had bairns of Let us suppose for a moment that Kowloon and the The Chinese Banks.
who bad returned from leave, nothing if need be, so long as I their own that sye think they New Territories (we mean the portions leased to us) are to An agreeable variant from the
wired to an Australian firm sodhavens to do my own thinking. know most about what's good for Sterling Securities deposited had a reply stating that the Joe, he's all right but inclined to them. Truly "auld maids bairns be given back to China. What must follow? In the first general tale of disintegration is with the Crown Agenis valued at order would be executed in bags, be a bit headachy at times, him are aye the best." place there would have to be a fairly heavy, sum for com-supplied by the Chinese banks. £570,000.
Last night Mac lammed off He wired:"Bags useless, must having a kind of weak stomach pensation. Our local Government has spent millions of from the stream of reports, the Agents and Straits Government reply Will execute bags: trust spasibai
+Securities with the Crown be casks." And this was the and a terrible sense ore good and proper on the subject Maskee, says I, of kid's toys. The kind they dollars in making roads, in building a railway (the most Bank of China and the Bank of £1,500,000.
your selling ability." The order going back to the office to-night: ought to get should be those that expensive railway in the world for its length) and in Communications bave weathered (Securities with the Crown was lost. And if that man lives You'll get your beaus at the would do them the most good in
storm And the amount the
quita opening up and governing the country.
creditably. Agents £130,000.
to be hundred he will never year's end just the same. But I after years. spent by private individuals would indeed be hard to Apparently Singapore branch
again try to do a friendly turn of may as well have spoken to the for I was tired and he had to be suspended payment. perhaps assess, for there is no comparison between the value chiefly due to a local insufficiency
Indian policeman for all the saying something that kind.
notice he took. So I left him. Coloured balls, trumpets nursery of the territory now to its value when taken over by the of fonds at the moment, but the
What the "Heid Yin” Says.
Going on the Ferry I minded rhymes, drums and the like were British in 180s. Who is to pay that compensation?news from mast quarter, if de-
Now we know! The Colonial about & pamelo I'd left in the just a fair waste of money and Would Peking pay it seeing that at present it has no pendable, is reassuring.
ticket office three days before so I didns' last a bang. Isn't it funny Secretary has made it as clear se collected it on my way. It was how some folks get the idea into active juisdiction over this part of China? Canton does accounts of the Tientsin office of
the Bank of China have been A concert which has been daylight. A man sits down to not recognise the Washington Conference or any of its audited by
s British firm of specially arranged by Madame write a letter to the editor and a fine big pamelo, one of the their beads that our toys and must be something decisions. And what would China gain by taking over the accountants, and, so far as can be Lottie Gordon for the Xmas GiftBigna it with a pen-name. That bright yellow kind and perfectly presents
round. I got it from one of serviceable. That sort of thing, territory? She has no big town near it and it is judged from a brief examination. Fund for the Blind Home, Pokful. Provas that he is a line. But our Taipo pioneers. Cut specially aye brings me in mind of the obviously an overgrowth of Hongkong. We on this island make an excellent showing. I am Home, and Home for the Aged, minute ister be decides that for me. I say cut, but to tell the man who when furnishing house
after all. he will sign his own од .place
honest truth I don't know bought a nice big piano and gate need it for many purposes for our housing, our veget-seems, too, that the Chinese Kowloon,
banks in general have dis- Thursday afternoon next, at 5.30. sms and he becomes immediate whether pumeloes grow on trees it to his wife for her Christmas. ables, our recreation, and the list could be made almost played auch solidarity that the The concert is to be attended by ly an honest and a truthful person or lie on the ground. It tasted Lot's of folks, kid themselves indefinite. China's sovereign integrity is not in the least Bank of China has been able to Lady Stubbe, and splendid and his allegations automatically fine onyway, but that wasns they get gifts that way. It's on affected by the fact that those who govern Hongkong also pull through without accepting programme has been arranged. become acceptable.
It is not what I was going to tell ya.
par wi' Santa Claus putting a govern a strip of land across the harbour Strictly speak-Chang Tso-lin's $3,000,000 with Among the artistee is Miss what he says in his letter, it is Traipsing on to the boat wi' pair of boots in a boy's stocking. ing, it might be argued that we have no right to Hongkong of the note-issus said to have is the possessor of a beautiful that is not what the Colonial curious how some folk seem to the instructive kind of toys and the ominous condition of control Dorothy Stobart, of London, who the signature to it that proves it under my oxter I got more But to come back to Mac. Ho him truthful or untruthful. If except the right of conquest which is something of a been attached to the proffered dramatic soprano, voice and has Secretary says, then I do not think it's no the thing to see a books inflicted on them.
looks than bawbees. Isn't it would have the little oner getting back number in these days of self-determination and d. Fancy the "uncrowned king studied under tbe greatest plebiscites-but Hongkong's maintenance as a first-class of Manchuria" being turned down masters in Italy, Loudon and know what the Colonial Secretary
man carrying a parcel and like them to be sitting for their port is essential to the trade and commerce of the Far like this, and after he had sent Paris. She will give selections says and as many as five people, especially if it's something to eat? Board of Trade Certificate the hard cash to the capital from grand opera. Mrs. Duncan, this morning, confess to being don't use our markets as they And be's no lone type is Mac, out of five to whom I have spoken I fancy that's the way Europeans instead of enjoying themselves. East as it affects every nationality. To remove its present If this account of things is whose great success in "Pinkie administration would be a tremendous loss, and the same correct, the consortium of the sad the Fairies will be re-sal Secretary's reply. One should. Even our womenfolks mind I'm telling ye
similarly puzzled by the remark applies with almost equal force to the New Chinese banks is to be con-membered here, Mr. Wnd calls it"s horrible get-out," and dignity to carry chow home, or to think of it. Childhood's 100 seam to think it's beneath their Isn't it terrible when ye come gratulated upon its progress. Pearce, mezzo soprano a
singer
the phrase 'seems a good one. to Hongkong, Madame Lottie Gordon, solo Still, I remember a pawky old anything else for that matter. short and joyous sesson
Scot who once told me that when you'll sometimes hear a lady make-believe would sometimes pianist and accompanist, Mrs ANTHEM TO BE SUNO YEARLY AD. Brawn, operatic contralto, held yin says thing that ask to have a small bit of a parcel fain be invaded by those solamu
Mrs. Cameron, contralto, Miss doesna seem right, keep in mindent over by coolie express but and unvariable folks who w
the same woman isn' a bit admit no place in the scheme of Mr. Thomas Davies, of Quarry Nellie Williams, mezzo contralto, that what a heid vin says goes ashamed or ower fatigued to log things for a little innocent son- ydey, Pembroke, who left £100 Mr. Beaucaire, the French sad, wink to yourself."
around a big bag of golf clube, sense, who would point out how. But that's doggie, especially if impossible it is for a cow to jump. she's got an outside pockat in her over the moon and who would
have other arguments of an equally cogent nature.
Territories.
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We shall all be awaiting with interest the outcome of the Conference, though our own opinion is that the British representatives will plead strongly for the reten- tion of the territory held here no matter whether we give up Wei-hi-wei or not. British endeavour and enterprise has been associated too long with Kowloon for that place to be lightly given up-not because we wish to retain any Church as Fantgarreg Cenarth, Musilano, baritono. Mr. J.Gibbins,
Calvinistic Methodist violinist, Mr. Crow, tenor, Mr. All the Same-!· thing which belongs to others but because this Colony and directed that the choir of the baritone, and Mr. Wilcox, Sull "beid fio" or no skirt where she can stick her hand condemn ever wonderful Alics its little bit of mainland are well-nigh inseparable and chapel shall on each Whit Sunday bumorist, will also take part. The where does the reply to the in and stride along like a man. herself to eternal silence because the whole of it has a greater value than applies to sing an anthems at the graves of booking will open at Moutrie's on question regarding alleged Of course, if she can walk, talk
Man, if I'd a'disposition tits Wednesday morning at 9,00. letting Irave us? The Col and smoke. at the same time the that, I'd sooner be dead, gurselves alone.
to the
himself and wife.