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The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 18th Sept., 1923,
SUCCESS.
CORRESPONDENCE.
(75`the Editor of the Hongkong **Telegraph,'')
The "Loongeanga" Cable.
SANDAKAN LIGHT AND POWER CO.
Chairman Explains Loss on
Year's Working
The first ordinary general. When failure becomes chronic,
Sin--With regard to the condi-meeting of shareholders of the A Chinese was admitted into tion of the Loongsang's" cables, Sandakan Light and Power Co. it is often because we attacking
the Kwong Wah Hospital gestor there seems to have been a great (1999) Ltd., was held in the re- the wrong part of the wall-day suffering from injuries re- diversity of opinion, among the gistered offices. St. George's trying to succeed at the wrong ceived in a fall at the Cement experts (one of them had two dia- Building, this forenoon. Mr. W vocation. For every person in Works Hunghom..
metrically opposite ones inside Adamson presided, and there five minutes). the world there is probably some
Were also present Messrs. W. J... line of work at which he is cor« The Legislative Council meets-
You now report that, "divers Hawker, A. A. Botelho, A. L. on Thursday afternoon. The are going down to day to examine Shields, J. Toppin, F. J. Tavares, lain to be successful. The job isenda includes four first road- the vessel and their inyestigations/H, H. Taylor, Tse Tsan Tai and to find it. Instinct may guide ings of new Ordinances, as well will be continued to-morrow." S. F. Chubb (secretary).
us more accurately than reason. as the second readings of four
fother Bills.
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Old-Fashioned Remedies. " The Shanghai vernacular In these days of mineral salts press reports that the exponses and compounds and highly speci- of General Li Yuan-hung on his alised medicine, it is interesting trip to Shanghai, including the to dwell for a space on the old-Japanese steamer charter and fashioned remedies of our grand-protection, amounted to over paronis-the brows and balms $300,000. that came from no dispensary but
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Would it not be a good idea for In moving the adoption of the arrangements to be made to pall roport and accounts, the chairman: up that starboard cable and let sald Those accounts show a some of the other experts have loss of $17,733.36 and for the same reason as was given you, on a a look at it ?
previous occasion, viz., the heavy There are plenty surveyors interest on borrowed funds. "I here, Lloyds, British Corporation, am glad, however, to be able to Bureau Veritas, etc., besides our report that the loss on working naval men. The disaster is too account is half what it was for recent to forget that some sixteen the previous your, that is... or, more lives were lost.
$4,245.50. For the current year We can't have loo much light The cast of coal has proved a this account will show a profit.. on the subject.
Yours, etc
from the garden, and were com The Colonial Secretary asks us pounded from prescriptions hand- to make it known that persons ed down through generations of wishing to land in arms is the family. It is pleasing to find their possession may, if they so such an authority un matters wish, send them to a Justice of medical as Sir James Canthic the Peace for transmission to the Hongkong, Sept. 17th., 1923. (formerly of Hongkong) discuss Police Department.
ing the subject of plants and their old-time use in Q scientific
THOMAS
The Piracy Regulations.
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Our
handicap, for whereas when we decided to inaugurate the Com-. pany, coal was quoted at $8.50," it has in the interval risen to $14.50, To roduce cost in this directlon wo have installed sawdust furnace, publication. He says: "Flowers Two armed Chinese robbers'
which has effected a considerable were not cultivated in our gardens, were shot dead by Pub-Ipsp.
saving, but as it has periodically in early times for show for the Hermitage during a night be-|
to be shut down for cleaning we most part, but for their uses in tween & gang of desperadoes Sir-Your correspondent" Five have so far been unable to dis the prevention of disease... and the Police at 1216 Avenue eighths" in his letter of yesterday panse with coal to the extent we He points out that in the cities of Edward VII, Shanghai, on Tues-on the above question is too full should like. However, this more ancient date drainage, such day evening last week. as we have it to-day: was uni known; and open sewage chan- .." nels,
cesspits, middens, The local office of the Nippon removal of offat and so forth in Fusen Kaisha has received cable buckets of faulty type "polluted advice from the Kobe office that the atmosphere with unsavoury the Company is allowing free odours. To some extent he might transportation to Chinese refugees he writing of modern Hongkong from Yokohama and Kobe to The only device of old which Shanghai and Hongkong. seemed possible was overcoming
and
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of axioms and proverbs and big should be accomplishod when the words. The "Regulations to second furnace, now nearing which he refers are not as yet completion, is in working order, regulations but merely draft and thereafter it will only be proposals sent to various bodies necessary to have coal on hand and firms for their consideration in case of emergency, such as and advice. In his keen desire when very heavy rains make it to point out an apparent incon-almost impossible to get sawdust. sistency, ie, as regards "discre-We have now all the plant we tion" on the part of masters andjal present require, and other certificated officers, "Five-(do not anticipate any further the "foul air and its effects A message received by the Com-eighths," it would seem, doesn't expenditure in this direction for by incense burning" in churches,modore from H. M.S, Tarantula care 3. row of pigs for the years to come. The units sold by scattering arontatic flowers at states that the s.s. Song Giang is proposed regulations. As he is for power show, an increase of public meetings and by strewing reported aground at the south- obviously fond of proverbs, allow 250% over the preceding year, herbs sprinkled with vinegar in east end of Chang Island. Vessels me to quote the following:--* due largely to the ice factory the law courts and in gaol to navigating the channel are "re- serve as prophylactics to overcome quested to take the necessary "gaot distemper." The custom of placing bouquets on the chair man's table at meetings, and be fore judges in court prose from the same reason.
Survivals of To-day.
precautions.
"It takes a wise man to build having adopted electric drive.
a house but a fool can We "cannot expect any such increase during the current easily pull it down."-
twelve months unless the timber
I do not pretend that all the companies make further demands The usual Weekly Meeting wisdom in the world is represent for electrical power. The con- of the Hongkong. Lodge-Theed in the draft regulations but sumption for light purposes has
Theosophical Society will be until I road of something in the gone up only ten per cent, held at their Lodge 16, Queen's nature of constructive criticism owing
te
bad times having
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Sir James shows how present-Rd. C. on Wednesday the 19th 45 regards there so-called regula-induced consumers to economise day customs have survived from inst. at 5.45 pm. Subject: Sikhs ticus, I am prepared to believe in this direction, and also to the those olden days, yet few can now their Religion. The Lecture is thal their usefulness is merely low growth of the town."
secondary consideration on the say offhand how each practice open to all comers. -
part of such mon
your No questions being asked, the. STOKE. Mignonette, thyme, the geranium, and other aromatic}
correspondent. The Government) report and accounts were passed, obviously requires a lead in the Mr. Shielda seconding. matter; get down to plain English and tell it what should be done.
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Success easier to attain than failure, in the opinion of a modern philosopher. Fo a sense that may be true. for the road to failure is harder on us than the plants wore placed in windows! It is reported that the officers road to success. The philosophy hundreds of years ago during the and crew of the U. S. S. B. str. Great Plagne to provent fies, Independence, operated round of the commentator mentioned is fleas, and other insects finding Line, having heard of the Japan
the world under the Admiral "Cut out the cackle and come that success, after all is not so their way into houses. The cus disaster while at Colombo, very difficult. Flie trouble is, he tom remains to-day in rural says that most of us waste too England from times when malaris subscribed Tis. 267.80 for relief much time soeking impossible the geranium was the chief de-
reigned supreme. In the villages funds. This was cabled to the office in Shanghai and hus shortcuts instead of following coration of the cottagers window chapter of the American Red been transforred to the local the old reliable roadway-hard sills and curtains likewise came inte vogue especially where glass work. patience. purseverance
was not yet in universal use; so and common hònesty. There can today we have the combination. Five lots of Crown land, situate he little doubt that there is at of the geranium and muslin in at Pokfulum, were sold yester-
Cross.
in the hosses."
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Yours, etc.,
TRIDENT. Hongkong. Supt. 18th, 1923.
That Taikoo Match.
It was moved by Mr. Toppin that Messrs. W. J. Hawker and Tong Hok Ting be re-olected members of the consulting com. mittee! This was seconded by Mr. Taylor, and passed.
On the motion of Mr. Botelho, seconded by Mr. Tavares, Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews and Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming W8 . re-elected auditors for the current year.
Sir, feel it my duty to write the present time, mula for the cottagers' windows. The day. In each case, the buyers fow lines in reply to someone
writer of this comment once, fell were Chinese. Rural Building calling himself "Honesty," who CABLE SHIP “PATROL.” agical formulas. We appear when on holiday in the Lot 230 fupset price $46,139) is apparently piqued, because
Docked for Overhaul.
to have reached & stage when we country, and received all the care fetched $57,400; Lot 231 (upset Taikoo were not sufficiently shall never be satisfied until we and attention possible from the price $42,514) was sold for boosted over their match with are able to cure any disease with good woman of the cottage in $44.600; Lut. 232 (upset price Shanghai. Consequently, und in which he was staying. He awoke 38,143) went for $11,110; Lot 233 revenge for certain remarks I one pill, have a pocket-size radio one day to a penetrating odour of (upset price $3,502) was bought made on the match, not entirely! A newcomer to the Kowloor. set "without batteries, and make indefinable nature, and on enquiry for $7,500; and Lot 234 (upset to his liking, he has apparently dockyard is the cable ship Patrol tifo an endless eru of prosperity was informed that it was due to price $8,283) fotched $13,000. spent some time in composing a which arrived at Hongkong on
vinegar sprinkled on a red-hot without the traditional spells of shovel, in order to purify the
letter full of invective in an Friday last. With her especially attempt to belittle my entirely designed bow for cable laying.. depression. In one sense that is atmosphere. Maybe it had this
unbiassed criticism.
white hull and yellow funnel, the a useful attitude, for the striving effect; certainly it killed all other
Patrol has a distinctive appear. Passing over súme adjectives of ance alongside the Kowloon Dock to improve must in the long rundours, So now in Hongkong, on one of the occasions when
his, such as “jealous ", "biassed", seawall. lead nearer to perfection.
primitivo procedura begets -4
"ignorant", etc., I come to where Too often, however, people do decidedly unpleasant state of the the devicos of mediaeval England. possible" excepting where it Ifit results in better patronage applies personally to the in-of the Wyndham Street flowor
TEMPLE TROUBLE
SETTLED.
not admit that anything is "in-atmosphere, óna might recollect Yunnanese Commander totradictory to one another" on the overhaul and may remain in port
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CRICKET.
We understand the Patrol har he accuses me of making state- ments "entirely opposed and con- come to Hongkong for a general
the Rescue.
grounds that in one sentence I for the best part of a month. stated Shanghai "with a modicum. All the graving docks are filled The dispute between the Mayor of luck would have won" and, in Besides," the 'U.S. transport
dividual. If we had half the sellers, why, so much the botter! of Canton and the commercial another, that "no doubt the better Warren, was, at the busine community, which resulted in the team (Taikoo) won." I suppose morning, whilst alongside lay the Commercial Volunteer Corps all that "Honesty" would have been Patrol, the Chinese-owned Pro over the city joining together in equally annoyed if I had said methian, and the new Indo-China a willingness to fight in order to that the better team lost, a by no S. N. Co's 8.s. Suisang. On the preserve the Double Temple for means rare happening in bowl slips the Kwongsai and the Reims the public, was settled on the ing matches. What I really are undergoing repairs. The evening of the 16th instant.
ought to
confidence in our individual selves that we have in the social group, there would be less necessity to talk about how to succeed. To the ambitious, it
H.K.C.C. 1st Trial Match. The following teams will play at p.m. on Saturday, on the B.K.C.C. ground:・・
2.
have Baid
waswork on the hull of the latter It appears that Liu Hang-chiu, that the better team won, but that vessel is fairly extensive.. Yunnanese commander whose the better skipped team, with a scope of operations lays within the modicum of Taikoo's joss, would western suburbs, voluntarily have beaten them. On at least clean draws, had the very weak
to pay two thousand four occasions Wotherspoon of luck.
often seems that life is an un- ending series of fallures." But may not success be the sum
L. T. McNicoll (Capt.), A. G: 1. total of these failures?. That, at Bowker, E. G. England, W any rate, is the view of Professor Galloway, A. K. Mackenzie, M. Mgreed
Maas, D. B. Prat, T. R. Riddle, dollars for the redemption of the cannoned in for shot or second Lowell of Harvard, who, refer H. Spicer, It. F. Walker, J. temple. He obtained the official counter from woods lying a yard If Honesty thinks my roport ring to the assertion by military Way and R. H. Wild-
title doads from the Public Peace and more wide and when there on the match an apology for critice that A nation is not H. E. Bolland (Capt.). T. G Bureau on payment of the sum was a clear draw to the jack Shanghai losing, let me hasten to finally beaten in war until it be-Bennett, J. P. Bridger, A. V. Tamod and then personally con- On one of these occasions his assure him that he is entirely. Deap, L. R. 8. Dods, W. Hat veyed the deeds to the Commer-wood cannoned not less than three wrong. Rather was it an apology lieves itself beaten, remarks
tersley Smith, T. King, W. Wcial Volunteer Corps. Thanks times and then rested as shot, for the better. team (on paper) With not less accuracy, it may Mackenzie G. 1. More, G. H. were expressed by the latter on robbing Shanghai of two. There winning not on actual play, but he said that so long as a man Piercy, A, R. F. Haven, M. M. behalf of the community, and the was a general laugh at this because of that modicum of jose.
Watson:
members of the Corps, have now shot and someone said: "That's a lives he has not failed unless he
Yours, etc., Umpires and Scorer:B. J. R.boon relieved from street duty proper Wotherspoon shot-
JACK HIGH. believes that he has failed. The Mitchell, R. E. A. Wester, and and the temple gates have been always lucky." On the other hand, mad who rushes ahead repeated-H. Owen Hughes.
rooperied.
Shaw, with a number of beautiful Hongkong, Sept. 18th., 1923.