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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922.
THE UNCONVERTED.
For the Troops.
THERE IS REALLY NOTHING | LEET TO & GENUINE IDLE MAN, The season for troop movements WHO POSSESSES ANY CANSIDER- is pending, and on the SlatinatABLE DEGREE OF VITAL POWER, or thereabout a number of me BUT SIN.-J. G. Holland, who have brea stationed in the Colony will be taking their de parture on the troopship Himalaya. Some of the outgoing drafts are proceeding Home and others to India. Daring the war gifts of literature and suitable games were a boon to the Empire's defenders, and now that, happily,
mau
Can
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday except ag and non-fatal case of cerebro spinal faver."
Danca enthusiasts will scarcely
遁 reminder
that the
COMPANY MEETING.
The Hongkong Electric Company.
THE QUAINTS.
no question I shall now put the following resolution to the meet- ing"That the Directors be and they are hereby authorised to
The Return Visist. enter into an Agreement with the
After
absence of many Government of Hongkong for the grant to the Company of months, that clever musical com
"The Quaints”, An interesting extraordinary Licence (undar is new Electri- bination, meeting of the Hongkong Electricity Ordinance in contemplation) paying a welcome retura visit to Company took place this morn to supply electric light and power Hongkong for 7 performances ing. The Hon. Mr. A. O). Lang|in the Talands of Hongkong and only, commencing Saturday, presided and there were also pres
Bra
Of the original company, when at the Hon. Sir C. Paul Chater. Aplichau for a period of 25 years January 14th.
upon the terms of a latter ad- C.M.G, the Hon. Mr. Lau Cho dressed by the Hon. Director of it first came to the East, only two Pak, Mr. G. M. Dodwell and Mr. Public Works to the Agents of members remain. Mr. R. B. D. G. M. Barnard (Directors), Mr. the Company dated the 10th. day Salisbury, the director, and Miss F. R. Marsh (Manager) and of December 1921 with such Dorothy James, of whom theatre- Messrs D. J. Lewis, C. Osorand, modifications as the Directors goara in this part of the world conditions permit of more leisure, need
have many pleasant memories. the troops bave proportionstals usual popular dance takes place E Osorio, 0. Baptista, L.
The Hon. Sir Paul Chater The new comers, however, will greater opportunities for enjoying at the Kowloon Theatre this Lopes, Leung Yan-pa Leungy deem expedient.
Fattim, Ip Foot, Leang Wing- recreation. In thesa circum-evening.
sang, To Tso-hing, W. Fraser, seconded and the resolution was speedily get on good terms with the audience, and the show up- stancas any articles of the kind
Wong Kwal-loong, Chau Taim-carried.
The Chairman-Before you go,propriately entitled "Pierrots' indicated will doubtless be duly
A Chinasa passenger aboard Jain and Shi Shun-ting (shazə-
Gentleman, I have to inform you Progress", provides an excellent appreciated. Tommy is primarily
of the sumati Ferries holders). man of action, but many
The notice convening the mest. that we have decided to call up night's entertainment.
The company in not a large the balance of unissued Capital yesterday endeavoured to commit in the Forces
amounting to some 60,000 shares, one, it numbers but nine, and it relish a book as well as civilian suicide by jumping into the ing having been read,
The Chairman said-Gentle-and that these will be issued on says much for the versatility of habitues of the library. A refer-harbour. He was rescued by the endum taken during the war on crew and takes to the Gsvern-man-At the General Meeting July lat. 1923 at par to Sharehol-its members that each of the in 1920 I mentioned that ders on the register at that date in exceptionally varied items are what the soldier reads showed ment Civil Hospital.
permission to extend or opars the proportion of one share to wonderfully well rendered. Nat Gould and Phillips Oppen- heim at the beed of the poll, and There was sent to the Govern.tion would only be granted every four shares held by them. meat Civil Hospital yesterday abject to certain control by the These new shares will rank for prefer exciting carrative 9. It tramway coolie who suffered Government in the matter of dividend as from July 1st. 1922 world ba a mistake, however, to injuries in an attempt to alight prices charged to consumers, after equally with the aid shares.
the maoner of Public Supply Your imagina that Tommy and Jack from a car whilst it was in motion
E: Home. care for nothing else. A recent at the junction of Des Voeux Companies
QUEST LEAVES BRAZIL. Directors have been in negotiation list of the volumes in request in Road with Ice House Street.
with the Government siace that Rio De Janeiro. Dec. 19-The connection with a crew's library
date, and this Meeting has been Quest left here to day with Sir The annual congregational called to lay before you for Ernest Shackleton's expedition disclosed an omnivorous taste in literature. We feel confident that the matter has only to be meeting of St. Andrew's Church paroval the terms of a Licence bound for the Antarctic regions, mentioned to elicit a willing retakes place in the Church Hall, offered us by the Government in The British Ambassador went on sponse, both in regard to books Kowloon, to-morrow evening at their letter of 10th. December fast. board the Quest to wish the other forms of pastime. six o'clock. Prior to the meeting You have all had an opportunity famous explorer and his party and Gifts, which should be sent in the Rer and Mrs. R. C. Lindsey of seeing this letter setting forth Godspeed. not later than Wednesday, the will be given a reception in the the Government terms, which are 18th inst, may be directed to the Church Hall at which there will as follow- HanyArg Telegraph office, jbe vocal and instrumectal music. whence they will be forwarded to the proper quarter.
naturally the majority of the man
"The Sage of Waseda."
leg. He had undertaken the task Lady
If true, the circamstance denotes
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Macdonald, of Royal
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It is in the concerted items,
that the success of The Quaints a most marked. The Golf Medley, The Journey to Epsom provide ample opportunity for the display
of the varied talents of the artistes.
It is sometime since Hoogkong theatrical company bas had a
reason to and there is every believe that The Quaints will have a very successful season here.
The plans for the whole Seaso are now on view at Moutrie's..
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
keeping your ala cart grease for your ain cart wheels.
There's one thing though that
I'm terribly sorry about, and that
Clause (1)-Subject to charges for current being main- tained as at present until such Charlie Chaplia's wonderful
time as they shall be revised in comedy "The Kid ingeniously accordance with the arranga-
irresistibly humorous, One of the fast-diminishing clever,
I see from yesterday's Daily links with the Japan that decided romes to the Coronet Theatre meats suggested hereafter, the
after dedacting Press that Mr. Tse Toad Tai haa The Shareholders. to embrace the customs of the again his evening. Not a few standard nett profit payable to
Management been burning the midnight oil Working Costs, Occident has been severed by the who have already seen passing of Marquis Okuma, twice Kid" once or even twice will Expenses, Reserve or Sinking again. Of course ony peg is good
is that Mr. Tse Tran Tai happen- Fremier of the island Empire.we.come this opportunity to see Fand sad Depreciation, shall enough for some folk to hang &
it again
not exceed 15% on the paid up pet theory onto. Ay. Mr. Tse ed to fix on Noah of the Hebrew When Bible and his blamed old ark as a Next month the deceased states)
Capital of the Company; any never misses a chance. man, who was called Japan's delightful is it.
loans issued from time to time Mr. Orme the other day said that kick off for his now well-known "G.O.M." in imitation of the
A marriage has been arranged-being counted as part of such the Chinese lost their original theory about the human race sobriquet applied to Gladstone, would have completed 84 years, and will shortly take place, be paid up Capital, the interest on black colour and went north, I making a fresh start again some- His experience of political office tween Mr. H. Stanley, son of the Buch loans being deducted from rather thought our friend would where in Chios (Shinar), Mr. be on his track. And so he was. Tse is a reader and surely he must went back to the late sixties, late Mr. C. L. H. Stanley, of the amount of the sett profit.
Clause (2) Half of any increase) That's the worst of having a know by this time that the date of .the Bible Flood cannot be carried when he was appointed Vica Oakwood Hale, Rotherbam, and Minister of Finance, subsequent Ivy Louise MacDonald, eldest of nett profit beyond the amount single track mind.
Mind ye, I dinoa' want to give farther back than to 3000 B. C; We have just witnessed a big effort in the direction of ly becoming Minister. Later he daughter of the late Right Hop. stipulated in paragraph (1) shall
M. MacDonald, be devoted to the reduction of ye the impression that I'm seeking that we have perfectly authentic international peace. Washington has housed the leading held once as Foreign Minister, Sir Claude diplomats of the world during the past two months aud and it was during this period that G. C. M. G. G.C.V.O, K.C.B. charges to consumers, the other in any way to belittle Mr. Tse historical records, confirmed by they have discussed all manner of subjects from a reduction assassin threw & bomb at him, British Ambassador to Peking balf to whatever purpose the Tsan Tal. I think he's a great monuments extending in Egypt Clause (3)--The amount of the in Chinese half so well as he can older than that resigned to Noah's in English, I'd be a lot fonder of Deluge and similar records in of armaments to the Shantung problem. And the outcome necessitating the amputation of a and subsequently Tokyo, and Company may consider desirable. lad. If I could write and think to a date certainly 3000 years
deductions referred to in par- in concrete decisions is small. Mr. H. G. Wells says we of revising the foreign treaties,Cottage, Kew.
sgraph (1) not to exceed 8% for myself. Even if his ideas are no Chaldea also going back as far. should find canse for hope in the fact that there have been and a cisuse in the draft of the
new treaty providing for foreiga Many old residents of Hosg-Depreciation and 6 for Sinking my ideas I've got to hand it to If the Flood, as described in valuable indirect consequences to the world's peace.'"
julges in the Supreme Court was "That is rather small-consolution-when the world hoped for extremely unpopular, among the kong will remember Major-Gener-Fuad or Reserve, both sums being him for being a student. The only Genesis, actually did take place, EO much more. At the present time we have sitting at ronin (anti-foreigner-), who at that al Sir Walter Bedford, K.C.M G., calculated on the written down thing that annoys me is his how is it that no mention of it Cannes the members of the Allied Supreme Council who time were as hostile to the West whose decease has been notified Capital value as shewn in the positivity, I've never, written at appears in the records of Egypt 1 are discussing the troubles of Europe in the hope of finding the as Chinese during the Boxer by cable. As Colonel Bedford, be Balance Sheet at the end thereof. bim before but I've argued wi Great empires, populous cities a settlement, and who are planning to restore the shattered outbreak. On the occasion of the was Principal Medical Officer of Such sums to be set aside each him often and you can take it and a high degree of civilisation recent murder of his successor, the Garrison in Hongkong in 1908-year solely for the purpose for from me that on the subject existed along the Mediterranean be'd talk the face off a brass the period at which Noah set out finances of that stricken continent. Although this meeting. Hare, it was stated, as 11. He will be remembered not which they are primarily intend- of the Shinar Garden of Eden both immediately before and after books fact the Deluge Legend was bigger conference at Genoa, illustrating the regard in which only for the active interest heed and not to be used for kasping Buddbs. If I'd the time and wi' his cattle bosi. Matter of
half the 'necessary No deduction under is but a preliminary to a
But no beingsstudent I may differences of opinion have already arisen. and Reuter the assasination cult is held by took in the sanitary administra-buildings, machinery or plant in
Section of Japanese, that the tion of the Colony, as a member order.
made in say year in excess of the hobby of this kind you must speaks of bitches and rocks.
amount stipulated for such year quote other folk even at the risk be mistaken. Rash generalisa- of their opinions being taken for tions are easy to get away wi’, One cannot help wondering how long the peoples of Marquis annually sent a money of the Sanitary Board, but also as either of these headings may be for naturally to indulge in common to many countries.
under this arrangement.
you own-I'd like to have a full more especially if nobody takes
trouble ta check the world are going to suffer the continuation of an interna-present to his would-be destroyer. an enthusiastic cricketer.
Miss Eileen Power, who wES
Clause (4)-The maximum tional spirit totally at variance with their wishes and that in one particular this pioner
other reason but to give him up. desires. The Washington Couference was hailed as a of Western thought retained the awarded the Kahn Travelling charge for light and power shall dress debate wi' Mr. Tee if for no the
was
material for another supplement. As for Shem, Ham and Japhet = great opportunity-it was mainly frittered away through native tradition. Count Okura Fellowship of which she
...18 cants Not that it would do ony good they get the blame o's terrible the actual participants being steeped in the old-fashioned as he then was. headed the pro- the first woman recipient-for gresiva party (now the Kokusio- economics, has returned home
mind ye, for naturally when a lot. According to Mr. Tse they man has written books, supple seem to have been a somewhat diplomatic atmosphere of distrust, more and counter-move to), but in 1895 be joined hands from her travels in the East. She Those present could with the Matsukata Ministr declares Peking is the most
ments and pamphlets (Messra mixed, lot, in colour onyway," to secrecy, caution and even comity.
Kelly & Walsh Ld.) on a subject all have had the same father. It not get away from the stilted traditions on which they holding the portfolio of Agricul fascinating place I ever saw, and
be's no going to allow himself to seems suspicious but we mustns' had been nourished; it was the old game being played ure and Commerce as well as I shall never be really happy
And the presiding over the Foreign Office until I go back again. I spent a and 9.30 p.m.)... ...5 cents. be easily converted and render assume too much for Nosh was on a new and slightly camouflaged stage.
Provided always that the above them just so much waste paper. just man and perfect in his Coalition Cabinet. Resigning abore the city, and everybody result must, necessarily, bave been disappointing. We Eventually he became Premier in night in a Bhuddist monastery
Britain for a while, Count Okuma headed there was as kind as they are maximum charges per unit for No, wi' compositors' wages what generations and Noah walked That high authority, Francois are witdessing the saine thing at Cannes to-day.
of lift motors, crane motors or doesna" pay. It's one thing to is mixing herself up with a Spanish question concerning another Ministry shortly before everywhere in China. L. and C. Power shall not apply in the case they are to-day that sort of thing with God."
out, broke great war
Express.
roton having a very low load] be convinced in an argument and Lenormant says (Ancient Hist Tangier and Morocco; France doesn't like it and the feeling the
retaining power until October
factor.
another to throw the work of of the East] "The descendants of Shem, Ham. and Japhet, so is getting strained: Italy and Belgium are playing pawns 1916, a few months after which
The tale of a stupid foki was Clause (3)-In the event of the years in the WP.B.
I often wish that like me, in bis admirably catalogued by Moses, to these two big leaders: the old game all over again. Is he was raised to a Marquisate. it going to be the same at Genoa? Who can doubt but (Reater described the deceased related to the police this morning nett profit falling below the limit
"Prince," which appears by the master of a piece-goods set forth in Clause (1) above, the young days Mr. Tes had read include one only of the races of that it will. We all speak of great efforts to secure inter-as
bis shop at No.144 Temple Street, Company shall have power to Frazer's "Golden Bough" or been humanity, the white race, whose the "G.O.M." con-Yaumati. It was stated that apply for an increase in the maxi-subjected to a course of Ration- chief divisions he gives us as now Ay. I think recognised by anthropologists. national peace, we point to this conference. and to that o be inaccurate). Despite
tike being mum rates of charge; and therealist literature. conference au delude ourselves that we are settling big inned to take an active in can, who looked
bis upon new rates shall be fixed by everybody should be put through The three other races yellow, that mill. I often think it help black and red-have no place in problems and helping to berald in a day of "peace on terest in public affairs, and was a good customer, made
Is that really so? President of the Japan Peace appearance in the shop yesterday arbitration.
The arbitrators shall be, onsed wonderfully in letting us the Bible list of nations sprung earth and goodwill among all men,
Some critics said that and asked to be shown some rolls
Mr. Tse Tean Tai on the other We ought to be honest enough to confess that it isn't; that Society we are only altering the pieces in an eternal game of chess; his pacificism was strongly tinged of satin and crepe silk. He was person appointed by Government, know just how much we didn't from Noah."
of age belped of course to give us hand says that the Black TROSS BIG 1 brain undoubtedly Hamitic in descent that we are changing the colour of some of the patches with bellicose sentiments. It is given two rolls of the former and one by the Company, and one by know, The natural conservation
statesman that, with the military which be accepted on approval." Clause (6)-A satisfactory con-poise again but as on a bewilderingly patched quilt. In other words, the the credit of the deceased three rolls of the latter materish, mutual agreement.
so powerful, he dis- He took these away saying be tract for the supply of light and broadener this class of literature while on the other hand Japhet nations of the world, or the men that run them, are still faction
Shemites. were apparently the acquisitive, jealous, scheroing and petty. Diplomats have played much independence. The would return to the shop later power to the Government shall be took a lot of beating. But that's and his progeny were White. The
wrote more than hut it need hardly to be added concluded prior to the introduc. by the way.
Mr. Tae Tean Tai thinks Chinese ranging from White to .and bad anthat he did not do so, and notion of the Ordinance.
the Dark Brown. gained no largeness of vision, they aim for no triumphal ex-Premier
well-known the shop has to enter a sum of:
Clause (7)-The period of the mixing and blending of the Slightly different, but this isun' family of happy nations.
Yet the masses of the world cry for some such way of journal, the Hochi. He also $353, in its account books, as monopoly shall be for term of different races as it is the only the only instance that could be 25 years and the area of supply way, in his opinion, to solve the quoted to show how savants at escape from the turmoil of wars, from the grind and sweat founded Waseda Semmon Gakku," a loss by fraud."
being the Islands of Hongkong difficult and distressing see and times disagree wit each other.
What do we of competitive industrialism and commerce. We are doom-out of which grew the celebrated
and Aplichad.
colour problems which confront
care- onyWBY ed to Treaties, Alliances, Ententes, Agreements, and all Waseda University, and the de-
Your Directors have giren vary as to-day. If we believe in God, whether we originally came from to as the "Sage of Waseds." His towards 50 per cent. Judging by
the the Creator, he goes on to say, this the mountains of Tien Shan, the the other unstable tricks of present day international ceased statesman was afterreferred schemers: we load ourselves, with a new incubus in the career as a whole assures Marquis the figures, cargoes were nearly careful consideration
recommending At the risk of being thought an Atlantis? Believe me, at the deception that we are ridding ourselves of the old. When Okuma of a leading place among balved. The case was not so bad Government's terms and have no is the proper course to pursue. plains of Chaldes or the Isle of values has to be taken into ac acceptance of same, as in our atheist I must disagree wi' him, moment the exact locality of the are we going to interpret the spirit of which we are con- the founders of modern Japan.as that, as the lowered scale o hesitation to
count. After making thle allow-opicion the proposal is ons which and for reasons very obvious to Eden we favour most isna dearly scions, the spirit which will insist on the wiping away of The Trade Returns.
himself if he would bur recon- so engrossing as to whether and In the Board of Trade returas oce, the fall remains very heavy will place the Company on
sider the matter. I'm a firm when the Dairy Farm is going to all the mass of hindrances to understanding which man
another one over the Before putting the resolation to believer in Free Trade but when slip has piled up high about him. It has been well said that it for 1921 can readily be seen an Reports are fairly unanimous in sound footing, is rather too much to expect the nations of the world to explanation of idle shipping speaking of a gradual improve- act in accordance with the Christian spirit, but there is tonnage. Both imports and ex-ment. None the less it is evident the meeting I shall be glad to it comes to living wi folks for Hongkong Hotel and set the price pertinence in asking "Why is it too much 1" A query ports show tremendous drops, the that the Economic Conference answer any questions or give sux the best part of lifetime ye of next week's butter at 90 gente
fail in each case being well on was not decided upon too soon. information desired. There being asane better the principle of a pound, hell worth thinking about,
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