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last year, and, as the advance in calculated upon the -axisting rates of pay, we have a recurrence
DAY BY DAY.
THE ONLY RELIABLE BURSTI- of the anomaly that the best TUTE FOR BRAINS IS SILENCE. payers (particularly the foreign linas) are penalised for their The Hongkong General Cham- ganarosity. Perhaps these matar of Commerce Swatow Relief
Fund now totals $72,153. |ters will right themselves withi time; the modern-styla Chinese marcantile marine is a young
eoncern.
Captain Neville, A.D.C. to H. E the Officer Administering the Government, has returned from leave in North China and has resumed his duties.
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Between Ourselves:
By Robt. MacWhirter.
I see, according to the Hoo, that I'd buy it, when I saw ha Director of Public Works, that was really in carnaat, prod the new road running over Wong “A. * fixer," my dear sir, " said E.
Noi Choong Cap to Repulse Bay "is a man who free things”
tima
is likely to be finished next year... "Quite so”, sais be,” but in the The Landing Library of the The sooner it's done the batter Helens May Institute, will be re-it'll suit me for then I'll not be case of poor Mr. Parker Ness, opened for Members, on Monday expected to pay the price o don't you think it was a bit morning, August 21st, at 10 am.running right round the Island warranted *** It is well to see that the Auri,
Jevery
"There's something in' that takes Janet Fik into her companies refused to accept the
head that now you mention it,” says 1, "for" to think of it, be hason Union's dictation regarding the
the tes yonderaway is better than come she can make, at home. It's all fixed.us yet, but, wind ye, that's right of dismissal. The fourth of
very well for half-cocted taipans through no fault of his the Union's five demands' read:
and others wi" other folk'a petrol Isn't it quaer the ideas some That no member of the Union be
to burn but the sooner yon 15 folk-get into their head ? I hars minute journey can be made, the a kind o' suspicion that my discharged from a ship owned by
Charged yesterday at the batter I'll be pleased. The Hotel friend thinks the term "fixer” is the signatory company without Marine Court, before Comdr. should then be able to take us something derogatory and un- the permission of the Union, Beckwith, with failing to exhibit over for 50 cents a time and no dignified. Come to think of it we're all fixers of something, which would examine the case on the regulation lights, a fine of $10 extra charge for the scenery.
was inflicted on the master of the
of another. The its merits. This was compro-steam isunch Hoi Tao.
I'm not exactly sickled to death someway. though, at the idea of starting a Hon'ble Mr. A. R. Lowe so far mised by giving the company
motor read on Mount Cameros as our telephones are concerned full power to discharge, subject Tenders are being invited for and leaving it at a blind end. 1 is equally entited to the term. to wo obligation to review the the lavelling of site, forming think the folk topside have had at least, hope so, bu
roads and filling in of low-lying more than a fair share of these theo wo havena' saan case if examination showed
areas at and around Caroline expensive affairs and if you ask hide nor hair of his committee's ținjustice. In regard to back-pay Hill, in view of the erection of me, a footpath might vary well report Fet I'm perfectly sure
also, there appears to have been Queen's College there.
link up the proposed houses in that Mr. Parker Ness would be that quarter for the next ten the last man in the work to & compromise, the men demand-
His Excellency the Officer ad-years. But that's the worst o' object to the label. I think I can ing that the enhanced rate bemi istering the Government has our Government: they diana', bear him chuckling. He's back retrospective as from the start appointed Mr. Walter Schofield care
curse how they spend in the Colony I notice and the
fact that he's in our midst again. of the year, but apparently to be District Officer in the South-money-our money.
Fand Do'a word in the Singapore agreeing to July 1 as the date. ern District of the New Territor
ies in addition to his other daties. Victoria Road.
papers about the telephone In relation to recognising the
And by the same token you squeeze there, only proves - his S. N. Co. has evidently now done, įpiration of three months, the amount they propose spending on fixed us good and proper for the Hastings, Hodge and Company the Jubilee Road, uncommonly next twenty-five years is maybe it is a little halo to take up & nou- (Shanghai). Limited will, unless known, after the old Queen, as more through shear good HONGKONG, 19th August, 1922, recognition stand. The essential cause is shown to the contrary, Victoris Road. I only saw her luck than good guidance.
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then for condition is that the Union shall be struck off the Register and the once and I think she must bare There's
had an extra big tiffin that day us to get all puffed up about THE SHANGHAI STRIKE, conduct negotiations in an order-Company will be dissolved.
forwell, that's neither bereit. He might slip one over us ly manner, and this it appears to
Major C. P. F. Warton, O.B.Enor there at the moment onyway.yet He that langbs last, laughs base done. The strike did not has been appointed as officiating As I was saying, though, when laughs. But in the Government's With the capitulation of the last long enough to test this last 2nd. in Command of the 10 2nd you read that a road is due for present state of mind, for some Grenadier vice Major S. Bimprovement you want to keep a time at least, the way of the China Merchants' S. N. Co., the question thoroughly, and one of Coates, M.C., and Major S. B. sharp watch on the Estimates, for fixer is likely to lie in unpleasant Chinese Seamen's Union as the Daion's letters contained a Coates, M.C., resumes commsad that's the sort of work that eats places In view outgrowth of the Hongkong Sea-reiled threat, which may to some of a Company vice Captain G. & up the dollars. For all the folk fate of the Registration Bill, as &
that ever go on Crawford.
the Victoria caony Scotsman, Mr. Parker men's Union-may be said to extent be explained by the action
Road nowadays I think if we keep Nass will surely realise that in have carried the day in the of the recipients in ignoring We are informed that the sail-it in hstf-decent repair we'll do this Colony the man who pays Shangbai shipping strike. Some previous communications. Aparting of the President Lincola" very well. When we get the new the piper, occasionally exercises
14, Connaught Road, Central.
Tel. No. 1186.
The Telegraph. Union, as the China Merchants' It is notified that, at the ex-want to keep your eye on the right to the title. That he hasna'
of the
call the tone.
[dozea companies, all Chinese, from this incident, the Union, by from Manila was postponed until Wong Nei Cheong Road it will his right to
we beva to giva way
wers involved. One
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a.m. this morning, which will provide all the relief we need If two the reports that have reached bring her into Hongkong at p.m. to the south of the island and in onyway at all let's put it quickly made terms, possibly here, acted up to its declared on Sunday evening, the 20th. just. as for you talk about opening UP to him to give us the thinking to recoup themselves at purpose wher the Shanghai Her sailing date from Hongkong.up the district for residential automatic telephone, the same es the expanse of idle rivals: and branch was started of facilitating Wednesday, the 23rd. instant at purposes, that's all poppy-cock. he had to give before he finally
Dooo, remains unchanged. some others followed suit. Com-the settlement of disputes. petition for freights is keen, bazi
with much of the Chinese-owned
were others besides the Gonero-
Theo
there is a realisation in some
The district is as much opened fired Bombay. If we've got to
up as it needs be. Come to think pay, let's pay for something
when we want to reduce the go
to use
For failing to observe the rule of it, it's very late in the day to modern and no ays have our of the rosd, the master of the discover that many of its corners telephones twenty years babind tonnage laid up, the companies The Truth At Last.
steam launch Shing On was fined are dangerous and that the tor-the times. The Central Battery $10, at the Marine Court, before tuous nature of the road makes system he prates so much about which agreed to their crew's Whilst we shall always exercise Comdr. Beckwith. yesterday. its use by motor cars restricted. is now being scrapped by nearly terms secured an abundance of the right to criticise oficialdam The master of the steam launch Man, it's no so very many years evers go-ahead community in the cargoes. As it turns out, when circumstances warrast, we Foo Sbun, who was charged with go since it was the only decent world. Let's make him for us up this believe in being fair even to the similar offence and who has been road we bad for motoring. We the automatic. But we don't stort monopoly is likely to be short-Government. That is why we twice previously convicted, was thought we were hell on wheels paying for anything before we get it, lived. The largest of the com- were at pains yesterday to ordered to pay $20.
at one time when we took our Mind that. Sanday joy ride out to Aberdeen Nothing Doing. panies, the Chios Merchants' S. emphasise the point that there N. Co., was opposed to any sort ment who had a hand in drawing before Condr. Beckwith, at the the Happy Valley.
Thirty-one boat people came and back again to Shaukiwan cia
The chap that shakes the tree of communication with the Union, op the Registration of Persons Marine Court, yesterday, charged There's A Reason.
[doesna" always get the most fruit."- and the Government evidently though the company expressed Bill. We now know definitely with laying in Canseway Bay willingness to treat with their who was responsible for the mea without written permission. They ther. It's & well-known fact that to drop the Registration Bill. Come and let us reason toge had this in mind when it decided sare, and the facts disclosed rather pleaded that it was the only way employees. Torice the Union take the wind out of the sails of the could get water. The case Pokfulam Road is always used in Now this is more & matter for con- addressed the Company, but the those who have been insistently dismissed and defendants preference to Victoris Road. For gratulation than something to DTAK. Because it bedoa communications were ignored. hammering away at the point were given from 6. a.m. to 9 am one thing the approach to town by crow
You sense enough never to have draft- Through other channels the
that this was the very type of to get water, but warned that on the lower road is very bad. measure to be expected from our Company declared that it was no-called
no account were they to be in the have to go very slow, for a man ed the Bill, the Hokey Ply be autocratic officials. Bay at night without permission. carrying a bag of rice up against praised, it had sense enough in ready to tie-up its vessels, as low *Officialdom gone mad" W63
his ear canes be expected either the hinderend to see that it would freights and increased running referred to the Bill.
how one of the commentators
to bear or see you. What's more never work. I hope it realises For stealing an umbrella, s costs rendered it difficult
to there was the chief champion sepoy named Kurba Singh, who forbye, it's bad for your engine, once and for all that no real or од. It muskes. tbe worst force. After reading what the Avoid & Ices. On Wednesday, of our Constitutional Reform has been in local service for three your temper and your Klax-lasting benefit. can be go by powever, this company also er. Roderick Random," point-years with the H.K.S.B., R.G.A.. agreed to the new scale of pss-rbis was a piece of legislation/dent by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this/know of. Except once in a while the subject. I felt inclined, to ing out for our special benef: that was given two weeks' imprison-end of a high-priced day that I Hon'ble Mr. Bird had to say on off at the deep end
the morning, after evidence had been
least ́said. Another company to show strong such an bureacratic experts deard that the Indian visited the stranger within our gates to a tut
the Yon cheap opposition was the San Peh Co,lighted in. Already, however, Yaumati. branch of the Sincere ate bordering on admiration we soonest mended.
the road sneer about newspaper agitation which, it will be rememberat,|quarters that the wrong party bafore last night, and, after asking prefer no was recently involved in legal bean blamed. That much is to be shown an umbrella, booked dedicated to Victoria of Blessed deserves a colume all to itself but proceedings respecting the rates evident from the Ching Hairs it on his arm and attempted to Memory. Do you realise the I've had quite enough of this amount of money it will take to subject for one week. Besides walk out of the shop with it
of throwing of officers' pay awarded under statement that "it was not, as we whilst the salesman's attention straighten up that thorougfare a there's no
aurmised, purely official pro
Director of water on a drowned mouse, the Chics Coast Guild arbitra
was occupied by other customers. Boulevards says that the work I content myself wi' saying that posals," and the admission tion. Presumably the San Peb (which we shall take pains to
will be carried out gradually. Sa Government and reactionary Un- Co. will bave no option now but keep in mind) that it is im
it will, all Government work officials are apparently none the possible to RCC019 them (the officials do. We still hold that very gradually. No big work is worse of having at their elbows a to fall into line, if it has act officials) of bureaucratic obstinacy under the official majority system being carried out at present mentor, which if it does no more, already done so.
or indifference to popular feeling." we are likely to get better although a start has been made, helps to prevent folk from making " The main point of the strike We applaud the admission be and more disinterested legislation he says. Now you leader writers, asses of themselves and to restrain cause we believe it to be true. than undar orofficial dominance. keep your eyes skinned for the those impulses that make for was the adoption of the scale of and we congratulate our con- And our contention is strengthen-nert Budget Estimates. If they'd "resolute" gaverament TO: advances agreed to оп the temporary on at last being ooned by the now established fact fill in some of the holes in the coercive administration.
settlement of the strike in this verted to the view that the that our Government does heed Pokfulam Road and keep good When the Hon'ble Mr. Lowe Colony. No index Egures as to what the public thinks.
Government does pay regard to public opinion. We would especi-what they have, it would be said that the voluntary method ally direct Roderick's" atten- a lot more to the point. It's a case of gaining information should be costs of living are available for
tion to the point that amongst o pot boles,pot holes all the way tried first be struck the nail right |Hongkong,so an exact comparison | Save Us from Unofficials! those who were party to this Hill from the University to Aberdeen, slap bang on the bead. Invite |with Shanghai is impracticable, We think we bave succeeded were two of our leading business If our existing main motor roads and no "require" is the proper in-establishing the point that the men men of the very stamp the are to be made as convenient as word and spirit. All talk and but, from what we hear, costs have much-discussed Bill was not the Constitutional Reformers would they were intended to be, we shall legislation to the contrary is s increased at the Yangtze port is sole bandiwork of the Govern like to see in control at the need a goodly proportion of the fatile as it is asinine, well as to Hongkong, especially ment. That rather knocks the Legislative Council, and, what is money which is apparently going Gambling. in rice and other matters that bottom out of "Roderick's" sug-more, that these men strongly to be spent on new, sad, to my
gestion that we have been in-subscribed to the compulsory mind, unnecessary work. weigh heavily upon the Chinese consistent, because, on the one provisions of the Ordinance. If worker. As the advance was hand, we have expressed pressems that we now asys to pray Fixers All. deemed to be justified here, the ference for an Official as opposed to be exved from Unofficialdom. The other day a friend of mine Filipino Club members whom our to an Unofficial majority and, on So far from the fate of this Bill stopped me in the street and Vigilant police had roped in for inference is that it is also the other, bave had occasion to helping the Constitutionalists, we after-some bumming, lots of playing pinceble, penn justified at Shanghai, where it find fault with some of the points should think it would have shawing, and looking over his bad already been conceded by in this particular Bill Bat directly opposite effect, With specs, he asked me if I could tall the British lines. The Chins, let us tall this scribe that Government recognising public him what a "tizer" was look approval of official control of sentiment, the argument, for and at him hard for a minute and Marchants 5. N. Co. made a mistration does not necessarily Unofficial majority satomatically I was just on the point of daying point that it gave a $5 incresse involve - approval of all that disap
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