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A Glance at our Files.
(July #-July 9, 1897..
A DESERVED HONOUR. The following comment appears regarding the conferring of the C.M.G. decoration on Mr. (now Sir) Paul Chater—
¿Continned- from Page 6.1.
I was startled the other day to] voted 2 great spccess and helped fine to swell the credit read that a man had sued another balance at the Bank. Some day think that there were any loft in for libel. Upon my word I didna' whan the funds allow they're going to put up a new dogs' home Hongkong wi' enthusiasm enough In the meantime well, it would to take soch an interest in per- ream to be another case of "live socal affairs outside o' making boree and you'll get grass." But money and removing cold drinks what I was going to say was this. Compression of the Jugular. When thin particular anti-
For the past two years the cruelty bunch started in to collect Telephone Company has been
We have not always agreed members and subscriptions one of the things it promised by trying its level best to get rid with Mr. Chater nor approved of advertisement to do, was to put of itself at as near replacement all his proceedings in all things, up a few drinking troughs in the cost as possible. And a very but we have always believed bim streets for our doggie friends. The fine bargain they've very near to be an honest man, a capable man, an enterprising man of the ly made-batter than ever Telegraph offers a free subscrip-
more need class and kind that has made tion for the next five years to the said on the subject now England what she is the only
they expected. No man or woman in Hongkong that for despite the punctilio at pres-first-class baval power in the can find one. Here we are, right in the midst of another brailing sument being observed whereby the world and the mistress of a rast mer, and all that the members public, through the two Cham. colonial empire, every corner of bers of Commerce, are supposed which is seething with life and of the committee are apparently to be at long last going into the endowed with anexampled powers thinking of. is long drinks for themselves
matter, the whole business has of growth and improvement. We and what their costume will be for the nexs been to all intents and purposes class Mr. Chater with sob men fancy dress ball, I'm glad now signed. sealed, and delivered. The Cecil Rhodes, men, who are didna' waste my money on Jon
Daily Press says that it's a chose not seeking wealth and influence la onyway. I'm
inger which, freely interpreted, solely for themselves, but who are '' the kind though
means that the Telephons Com-possessed by the imparial spirit, pany has the Government by the the patriotic spirit, the altruistio believe that money not spent throat-compression of the spirit to get on a level with the is money saved and to back up my contention I'm willing to put jugular. I think it's even worse philosophy of the day-scd who up the dollars for the erection of than that-it's a case of cheer quare capable of looking and who do the first dog-drinking trongh init ext a demi vendu). So now look, beyond the pages of their the Colony, my only stipulations you will have some idea of how lodgers and the columns of their being that the work of coastrac-serious the position really is. The sion must be commenced by 31st tail has again wagged the dog the servant dictated to the master. December 1930 and that my name Government of the people, by the isas' engraved onywhere near it.
people, for the Maybe that'll ginger them up.
m'yes.
A Lot o' Ninnys.
Do
000
who
Bankars books. Mr. Chater commenced his career in this Colony and has raised himself in this Colony to a very decided people. Ho, position. We believe he loves the Colony and is proud, of it, and is proud of his share in So why should I bother my the making of it, and in Did I way that Hongkong was head? With the exception of these later years he has helped dead! No quite, but elmost. many as may be counted on the largely to make it what it is. He Ever since Mr. Bird tried the last fingers of one hand, no one put has been the life and soul of all time to liven up the P.W.D. about of nearly 7,000 subscribers his enterprise in Hongkong, and from some of yon lost building plans, protested. Apparently the idea of bis besins have emanated many I've got it into my head some paying
for copper-wire sound practical ideas of which we how or other that it must be the loquacity, appeals to most people all are reaping the beneft at this drawings of our War Memorial Experts see nothing wrong wi' the moment. The whole scheme of that's causing the congestion up idea either. That's the beauty of Prays Reclamation and Exten- the hill I sow they must be hiring your own experts. Itis potion alike-in Causeway Bay here for it's a year ago past last too late Fet for the and Kennedy Town, as well as month since Sir Paul told me Government to .set in in the centre of the city and they were on the way and they motion a pukka enquiry into
at Kowloon is his, sad it would send the like of that by this telephone business. Surely is to his energy and power registered post. In the mean- there are more experts than pae of impulsion that we owe it time most every other place in in the world? The people had that these schemes have been the world has got iks Memorial.better pay something in
pro-carried
into operation. The
mote
Hongkong. though, like the fessional fees now then pay extra whole work of Praya Reclama- cuddy's tail, is aye abint. Let's in subscriptions until wall into tion is his. He was the first hops that we dings' have another the middle of the century. For to appreciate the importance of WAY on our hands befora our what? A Central Battery the extension of the boundaries Memorial decorates the Finest System.
Site, for two different sets o' plans Gear Vergus Swear.
for the same kind of thing would
be a terrible mix-up wit the There's nothing wrong
of tbe Colony, both from
a commercial and from 想 coilitary point of view, and the wirst openly to advocate it and
Building Authority. And then our present Telephone System.orge it on the authorities as some- there's Sir Henry May's Statue What's wrong is our Service. thing within the range of practica! to.come yet and something else! Wi a new fancy centralised politics.
DEATH OF MR. J. M. ARMSTRONG.
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1992.
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sort of thing merely makes the last time in 18th, ultimo, when telepbone plug a handle for be sold at auction be Sheep and their Shearers.
old he was engaged with his segal bigher things. No, no, I've said Pottinger Street Wharf, finishing studies in England. The other day the Honour.it before and I'll say it again: If the day's work by putting ap for able Claudius threatened our the Telephone Company would sale some properly in the
EXPRESS" RECORD."
• The returns of the average leisure by a hint of conscription. think less about their gear and Western district for which there The C. F. R. Company's steam-amount of bank nates ip Did the populace throw a fit see about jacking up the wages was however no bid. This was ship Empress of Japan which left circulation and of specie in or try to imagine what that of their operators they'd get Mr. Armstrong's last auction. Vancouver B. C. on Saturday reserve in Hongkong, during the would mean? Apparently not batter type of human machine He got into chair and was carried p.m. June 26th, arrived at Yoko for outside the few who have to and that's what they most need at up the hill to his residance, hama at 130 p.m. on Wednesday, 1922, as certified by the Managers montb ended 30th. June, write for a living, I think three present and no' a Central Battery.never again to return to the the 7th instant, having made the individuals registered their pro-or 12 per cent. dividend-flourishing business which his voyage from port to port in the of the respective Banks are: test in public print. Can ye earning local company. Cheap energy, ability and strict in-remarkable time of 10 days and 3 wonder at the Government labour is always worth tegrity had built up never again hours' actual steaming, thus break- assuming that all it has to do is what it costs. Pay for good to figure in "The madding ing her previous record voyage of Chartered Bank of to whistle, crock it's finger, to service and educated savvy folk throng in the heart of the 10 days 17 hours and 40 minutes, and China, ... (9,91),037 (5,100,000* | and us pulling our forelock and will be attracted to it. A girl thriving city which had grown homeward bound, by 14 hours, in saying "Certainly, Sir."? It just left school canna be expected up rapidly around hira in August, 1891, when her Yokobsms must be a grand job governing to be fall o' winding ways and the last quarter of 4 cen- malls were delivered in the Lon-
Ing Corporation, $38,583,533 16,200,000+ such a gullible lot o' galoots. We worldly wisdom. That only tary. After taking to bis don Post Office inside of 21 days.|Mercantile Bank may as well be a colony al prize comes after marriage.
bed Mr. Armstrong, like many
of India, Limited, 83,261,510 550,000 $ rabbits for all the evidence of
other man of fice physique,
PORTUGUESE CLUB. indomitable will and exhaustless) The Portuguese Club de Recreio]
Tom $13,853,880 31,550,000!
#pirit there is to the contrary.
lators, and following them the
TARIFF.
who
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BANK RETURNS.
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Hongkong
ad
Shanghai Bank-
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And then our worthy legis FaRMERS OBJECT TO CANADIAN energy, seems never to have last evening enthusiastically cela-
rallied much, and yesterday he brated the fourth centenary of Sterling Securities deposited public, are latiuto a secret of how Considerable modification of was so ill that Dr. Stedman and the departure of their adventurous with the Crown Agents, valued at wasy it is to spend money during the tariff proposals made by the Dr. Hartigan were in constant countryman, Vasco da Gama, on £631,000. astrike. Nearly a lakh of dollars Canadian Minister of Finance, attendance, it being evident that the voyage in which he discovered †Securities with the Crown ge west, half of which is lost on a when Introducing the Budget, the end was, despite all efforts, India. The Club'e premises at Agents and Bizaite Government badly-managed foodship adven have been announced lo, the fast drawing nigh, the patient the corner of Peel and Staunton 1,800,000. tore. A half-fledged cadet, newly Canadian House of Commons in expiring, ar atated above, at Streets were gaily decorated in $Becurities with the Crown ant of the nest, is given all the anticipation of a hostile vote by 12.45.
honour of the occasion. Among Agents £130,000, responsibility. Of course, cadets the agrarian members,
other doings of the evening was, mast get good and proper threatened to defeat the Govern
the changing of the Club's name chanow to spend money ben ment over the Bill. Several Mr. Seen Wan-tao was on to that of" Club Vasco da Gama they're young or how can they of the new taxes proposed Saturday at the Supreme Court, The institution when first started MILLIONAIRE'S MUNIFICENCE. be expected to do the thing will be reduced. In order admitted by Sir John Carrington, was called the Economical & Tokyo massage says: An thoroughly, unblashingly and on to prevent the inundation of Chief Justice, as a solicitor to Club" and under its third and offer has been made to the anything like proper acala in Canada with goods from practise in the Supreme Court of latest name it promises to be a Home Department by a celebrat after years? Did our unofficials Germany and other countries Hongkong Hoo Mr. W. Mstrong and deckledly usefulled million in North Japan, go off in a dead faint when first with depreciated currencies: the Goodman, Attorney - General, organization. The Portuguese Mr. Yenykibao Saito, to coD they beard the news of yon Minister of Fionnos proposes to made the application. Mr. Seen Benevolent, Society was also tribute three million yen for egs and beef distributing expedi-base import duty on such goods Wan-lso began his eduastion to ontelally insugurated last evening scientific research, industrial Hout Not that you'd notice it on the value of similar goods pro-England at Cheltenham College and already, is han roll of 50 encouragement and the ; Im- Nor did any of the sheep below dooed in the United Kingdom. at 16 years of age and for 11 years members,
provement of national thought.
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