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More human lives are in the keeping of one lock when it is placed on a rail- road switch than in any other position.
Great railroads like the Pennsylvania and Union Pa cife that take every possible precaution to safeguard their patrons, use Yale & Towne Bronze Padlocks.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1923.
gross. We have had reports of men who, leaving the Mother- country with a little capital and
DAY BY DAY.
SAVE, YOUNG MAN, AND RE-
• great deal of optimism, COME RESPECTABLE AND RE- have returned disappointed, after SPECTED. several years of vain labour, to
good colonists. Perhaps they
the 15th. instant
Bulls and
and Inners
From the Office Butts.
We desire to contradict the
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An advertiser in the Times states that he "will do anything And when we're at it, we also except robbing and office work." take pleasure in denying the rum There is no doubt be abhors con- our that the "Pirates of Penzance" finement. has been banned until such timas as the local Piracy Regulations have been amended.
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Eventually Canton will be. rumour that with the advice of saved in spite of every effort to the Executive Council, His Ex-Savs IL start life all over again in the The Hongkong C. C. lawn ten-cellency the Governor has deolar- | land of their birth. They were nis tournament is to commenced the Board of Education to be fine men, and might have made on March 1st, entries closing on an unlawful body on the ground Sif still alive, please come that it is being used, and is likely municate with M-S" If dead, to be used, for purposes incom- I don's trouble. - merely struck a bad patch. After Lieut. J. A. Chester, RG,patible with the peace of mind of considering such cases, we turn has been appointed Superinten- the Hon. Director of Elucation. to the opinions expressed by dent, Detration Barracks, vice Captain P. R. Davies, M.C.. Australians themselves Ther R.G.A. all agras that their land is one with a great future before it) The remains of a male Chinese bat some seem to think that the who had committed suicide by
Those Chinese circular izle- grams don's prova anything ex- only hope will be through a banging himself in his home were
cept that different sections of the yesterday removed to the Public! final suppression of the rampant Mortuary.
A member of our Chinese people are agreeable to Labour element in the Govern
staff has invented & conundrum: come to terms about different meat. Such opinions way ba The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera What is the difference between a things.
© influenced by political feeling. Company arrived this morning Hongkong landlord and an Irish by the s.. Kashmir, and will rebel? Answer, ond raises rents bat if the unprejudiced observer commence their season at the and the other razes bouses. Haw derricks on the site of the future Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon analyses the causes of most of Theatre Koyal to-night.
recalls the fact that south of the the troubles in the Common-
From a short story entitled Tweed this contrivance goes by A young Chinese girl was wealth he has good grounds for accepting that conclusion him.yesterday rescued from the bar-Burned Boata."-"In a furtive the cams of a "Scolebman," the bour into which she had jumped glance Elizabeth saw that be popular explanation being that if salf.
from the Praya wall in an at- seemed to be swallowing some in so because it does five good
thing that would not swallow. Englishmen out of a job. The question of whether or not tempt to commit suicide.
"We hope it wasn't his false teeth.
Seeking for the missing link is Australia ia being properly
As will be seen from our adver
Even doctors make mistakes easy money compared to finding administered is of special interestisement columes, the Doual
❤ DOW that definite Labour Children's Festival Services The other day one of our popular Chinese solidarity. majority is in the Government. St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, medicos advised & patient to
The St. George's Society's more walking exercise. 1 When discussing a subject of take place to-morrow morning Walk if you want to keep out of official organ, The English Bace, is
and evening.
Happy Valley" said be. This the angry at something which it Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes distressed one promised to do but considers dishonest, illegal and
· ENCARNACAO.-On February bear in mind that certain States 3, 1923, at St. Mary's Hospital, are freer than others from this Smith and children left to-day by reaching the Pust: ffice corner beneath contempt. It happened the Empress of Canada: Mr. Was nearly run over by a motat this wise. On the anniversary of shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. J.alleged blight on progress. In Bowes-Smith, who will be greatly car whose sole passenger happen- St. George's Day the following telegram WAX sent to tba Australian Branches:-"England BREWER OG February 4.0 case, one finds that, where missed in local musical circles, ed to be his adviser's partner!
When the good folks in Canton rutas the sea; and England must 1993, as the Victoria NursingLabour.practically, rules, thera is has been transferred to Shanghai.
In the unrest greater losses Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. more
Lady Stubbs is returning to the aren't sure of what they want rula the Air-Ruff" H. E. Brewer, twins (boy and through strikes, and a bigger Colony by the 3.2. City of Simla they are caly too willing to buy Sydney papers it read-Britain State debt-facts which practical-due about the 13th. instant. H.. something different from what rales the sea, and Britain past CLARK-On February 4, 1923,
Tuff lot, those Aussies! at the Victoria Nursing Home, ly speak for themselves. In the the Governor and Lady Stabbs they have. That's a sign of demo rule the air.-Du£" Shangbai, to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. cities are large numbers of us are giving a dance as Govern.cracy.
Shanghai Chinese Laze peti- A British etatesman says work Clark, a son.
employed, who would be out of meat House on the 20th. inst. work anywhere, as they are up-
Passsangers lessing by the tioned the Arsenal authorities to alone will cure the world's ills, employable. They simply do no Empress of Canada to-day in postpone sentence of death on Some Hongkong folk are hoping Wact work. They are the drift clud Mr. and Mrs. W. Denter, mah because of the state of the situation isn't as serious sa
Dr. H. E. Earle, Dr. G. M. Hare: from the rural areas that accum-ton, Capt. P. M. B. Lake, Mr. T. alates in the urban districts. In W. Hill and Commander Edward SCHROTH-On February 3, the countryside, over thousands Collins. 1923, at Shanghai, William and thousands of acrea, and Schroth.
YALE
BIRTHS.
Encarnacao, B BOD.
girl).
DEXTOS-On February 4 1923, at the Victoris Nursing Home. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. E. Denton, a sor.
DEATHS.
this kind, however, oce bas to
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A local paper the other day! Sun Yat-sen is so sick of war advertised the annual meeting of that to avoid it he is willing to do the Wharf and Godown Company suything except leave it alone. under the beading of "Dancing." Doubtless in expectation of a Jazz music won't stop until
| boiler-makers get bøkter pay-
KIRKLAND.-On January 29/2mong the business communities reaches the end of a notably suc- lively meeting. 1943, at Shanghai, from double of the cities, one finds a type of cessful run with to-night's per-
Heary, people equal to the finest in any formance. pneumonis, Lawrence Kirkland.
HOPWCOD.-On February 2 1923, at Ningpo, Louiss Mary Hopwood,
Cristians of the
| Mission, aged 79 years.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 10th Feb., 1923.
AUSTRALIA'S OUTLOOK.
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A business letter which we If some of the animal trainers just received from an we see about the streets of Hong- part of Britain or the Empire. Po to a great many requests, have
Trumpet Island" is being shown They are thrifty, industrious, and once more. During the first four American firm ends thus:"Let's kang want to be really useful,
We Bay,est holes lits lace. progresive, and get on despite days of next week the affraction make 1923 s'bom-dinger what they should try training moths to 07 handicaps of occasional mis-will be "The Prodigal Judge," say?" What could
anybow? Vitagraph picture based o3
The house orgau of an English government. With them, as with {well-known Americao ncvel.
A contributor to a local paper firm publishes the following the steady workers in the great| industries that have sprung up
The police have received a ra-describes a snake seen in Hong-The story is going around that port of a robbery yesterday which kong recently, swimming round Dorothy Stuyvesant Latterbury, in different parts of the country,tated that the victim, well know pool with eighteen inches of charmingly delicate New York head above water." Some head girl, blushing and smiling in a the future of Australia lies. Theying that the men who knocked at
filmy wedding gowo, CamS are the true backbone of the his door were robbers, fled to "Views on Mans laughter, daintily up the aisle, her gossamer land, the harvester of its wealth, save possible injury. He had and the
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veil floating like mist about her According to an eye- bead witness, abe was any man's boat bet for an angel At the altar she stabbed her toe on a potted lily resting on the floor. She said to Our Piracy Regulations: the minister: That's ball of Evidence taken during the sitting place for & Illy." of the Sui An" Piracy Com-
Мару a Hongkong man look mission:-
Hon. Mr. Messer: Are the run down because of the bills bi deprecated, of course. All tho
Regulations any good? Can they wife runs up. same, we often wonder whether bere in Hongkong we are not too stop piracy and are they carried
The X-rays Lave revealed the soit-hearted in dealing with mis-ou
Hon. Mr. Wolfe: I consider fact that a woman in America
two chief-makers whose main busi-
complete stomachs. ness is
to atir up industrial that they are absolutely affective bas
.... I think, taking them on the Bhe's greatly envied by school. trouble.
whole, the Regulations have boys in the district. shows that piracies can and have been prevented.
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heard a terrific banging at the was the heading of a special guardians of its door, and go; out of a back on article in a recent Home paper. treasures; and to contemplation trance, leaving the gang to come But the disappointed reader found of them even the pessimist feels in at their own sweet will and it had nothing to do with Harry land of great hopeful of this great British to overhaul bis property at their Lauder.
leisure. This discretion on bis promises, of paradoxes, and to overseas possession becoming, in part resulted in his being the some extent of lost opportunities the course of time, one of the poorer by $50. So say most observers after a most prosperous regions of the sojourn of varying length in the lobe, with its people a nation principal cities of the Commor.
able to claim a place.among the wealth, with a trip or two into leaders in world affairs. the interior, or "bush country. It may be that the conclusions arrived at by such more or less superficial observation of the
મ We wonder what local Labour A Sound Suggestion. country are inaccurate to some leaders would think and
Those of our readers who are One of the recommendations exteat, and not entirely free from were strikers in this Colony to be
interested in the radium market will be pleased to learn that being coloured by preconceived subjected to the treatment they contained in the Sui An Commis get in China proper? At Hankow sion's report which we hope to
2000 price bas
down Excerpt from the report of the the prejudices. Be that as it may the railway, employees have bean see put into effect is the proposal Commissioners on the "Sui An" i aix months from $120,000 there are not wanting those who, on strike, and a message recently that in future officers on the river piracy:-
(gold) to $70,000 (gold) per gran. after going to the country with a stated that on their refusing to trade should not sign articles for "The existing Piracy Regul It is gratifying to note this perfectly open mind, and after resume, the military fred at them, less than three months. We tions when originally passed were tendency for most commodities
shooting dead no fewer than absolutely agree with the Com.
experimental in character ...to come within the purchasing residence of several years, have thirty-seven and wounding missioners that the present been disappointed and even dis-several others. But that is not all system, under which such officers We think that it may be found power of the general public. illusioned. We were conversing The strike leader has been put-are liable to dismissal on 24 more convenient to repeal the present Regulations and sub- licly decapitated on the station bours' notice, is unsatisfactory.stitute others than to use them as with a well-known American platform, whilst another prom. It is, in our opinion, unreasonable civil engineer some seven years inent agitator has been arrested to expect a man working under basis for amendment."
Bo effective indeed, that they or so ago, after he had travelled and it is understood that be also such conditions to give of his over a great part of the route will be executed. That is the best, besides which such a system are to be scrapped entirely !
Chinese method of stopping must militate against discipline.
A local contemporary states then proposed for an Australis strikes; it is pretty drastic, but, this matter also has a bearing trans-continental railway system, aside attogether from any ques on the dual control of gaszde, for that Admiral Sir Edmund Fre
A local paper tells us in eccente and his views on the land and its tion of ile wisdom or justice, we we have heard of cases in which mantle, in his book of reminis
describes a Christmas grave that Chan King-ming was We shot at while asleep in his people were interesting. He said should imagine it would be quite captains employed under sach cences,
ja effectual in the long run. We do conditions Chinese-owned Day at Hongkong in 1945."
village." We have heard" meny he thought the country had a not, of course, suggest that Hong-vessels have roop learned that wish we could do the same.
disparaging things of Hongkong, great future before it if only the kong should follow any such lead they would lose their job ware
We heard of a man who recently but this is the unkindest cut of mass of the people would bestir as this. We cite the oiroum-they to insist on guards searching
or stance merely to show that al-passengers their luggage. slipped on a sidewalk in Kowloon all. themselves. There was a lack of though Labour agitators and The master who makes too much and broke his New Year resolu- "bustle" which to him appeared strikers here may think they are "bobbery" in
or other tion. soon finds himself up deplorable. We then accepted harshly treated, they would get matters
very little mercy shown them in against the compradore, and this
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London paper has the following: *----* A.D.C. and Private Becretary Required for Colonial Service. Salary £300 a year with mEWKİ advantages." Those well known advantages
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Mr. Tse Ying-pak, disciple of Marx and Protector of the According to a doctor, dancing Labourers, is said to have return- his views with due reserve, for their own country. If strikers he cannot risk when subject to develops everything except theed to Canton with, instructions - there was always the possibility had been shot down in Hongkong, mere 24 hours aotice. The brain. What'll Shanghai say to from Bun. We don't doubt i of natural prejudice to be con-or their leader put to death, there working conditions of officers on that?
-The Telegraph says Th➜ sidered. Bince then, we have would be no ead of & tumult Chinese river boats
Anyhow, there's one good thing streets of a busy city are no place Yet these very things happen in need improving, and if that is
Ha for sheep." Quite so, but what had the opportunity of a further China, and little or nothing is one result of the report on the to be said for the Turk examination of certain aspects of made of the fact Rough-and- Bai An piracy, the Commissioners doesn't claim that he's doing it all about the goats in Ice House
'for the sake of the weaker peoples, Street? the question of Australian pro-ready justice of this kind is to be will not have sat in vain.
certainly