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THE LATEST SHOOTINGS. ·
troops.
DAY BY DAY.
IN REAL LIFE...THE SERIOUS AND THE COMIC, THE SUBLIME This shows up the hol-
AND THE GROTESQUE, THE lowness of the whole bagls of the PATHETIC AND THE LUDICROUS, anti-foreign trouble. But it has ARE MINGLED TOGETHER.-Long not quenched the fires set alight fellow.
by the agitators: rather is it likely
to be made a means of adding fuel mand to-day is 28. 4.1/168.
The rate of the dollar on de-
to the flames. Already we find
There was a olsan bill of health
the Chinese irresponsibles "biam- ing" foreigners" for the Tientsin in the Colony on Thursday.
Tenders are being called for the erection of a water tank and tower at Kowloon.
MIXED
ASHLEY STERNE ·
GRILL
AYTHOR OF
TWISTED TALES-
I spent last week end on a visit I have to thank numerous ros”. to a friend in the country. His ders for their kind and apprecia very cordial invitation concluded tive remarks anent my axperi- with the words "P. S. The nighments in the style of yarious events, and hence, for the results.
tingales are now in full song"~ posts, I would, however, request Recently, the lle factories of China
a statement which I at first took my admirers to refrain from to be an inducement, but which I sending me any more tins of set on foot a dastardly canard that
now fool was meant to be a weedkiller and chocolates con- the Nanking shooting was dono
friendly warning.
taining old safety-razor blades or by British marines.
Never having heard the nigh-powdered glass. I have already It merely
An examination for appoint-alty to make the acquaintance of local hospital. That is all I have tingale I welcomed this opportu- had to send a large surplus to the goes to show what the tenseness of he anti-foreign feeling is like the Government Service will be and I went down to Sussex with presenting you with my impres
ments as Probationer Clerks in this celebrated nocturnal fowl, to bay by way of preface before?'
sion of how Robert Browning would have written "Little Jack Horner."
hold at Queen's College on Fri day, August 21st.
pleasurable anticipation of hear ing those golden notes which in spired Keats to such ecstasy. The quotation from my diary. sequel, ona bast be explained by a
and it again emphasises the urgent necessity of bringing matters to a head. While the diplomats watch, and presumably wait, events are Royal Observatory records that Last month's report of the almost daily, shaping themselves (20.66 inches of rain fell, the high- towards enhanced difficulty. We est" for one day being 10.38 ins. do not pretend to know all that temperature recorded was 92.3, on the 17th inst. The highest might be going on behind the the moan for the month being scenes, but judging from outward
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appearanced the Powers are run- ning risks in their aceming hesitant
Mr. Cyril Champkin, former attitude, the elements of disorder Hongkong, of the P. & C. Bank- Friday. Sat up from 10 pm. Commissioner of Boy Scouts, taking courage theraby Such a ing Corporation, Shanghai, bas till 9 am. waiting for nightin- state of affairs cannot be continued undertaken duties of Commis- galos. Think it must, have boar sioner, Shanghai Branch, during their night off. Heard nothing Lindefinitely
the absence on short leave of Mr. except four motor bicycles and a F. O. Millington.
+
pig.
"
Saturday. Sat up from 10.30
Greedy, say you? Nay mas ters, cease your blather!
Horner's worth ten of you, working or shirking!
Site ho soigned, pie in hand held in close tother;
Plies thumb; impales plum; see! In high feather
Jack sits, balbullent; wipes thumb on jerkin.
Miscreant ha?
you dub him?
Plum-filcher
Horners are made of
Ha! little know you the stuff
quirass, donned helmet,-
Ne'er such a hero locked
Wielded blads welded at forgo of Toledo!
Would you young Horner with
ed away in Hongkong a few days all day. Went to bed early, but
Sunday. Very tired and sleepy follow Well met! go, at the age of eighty-five. was kept awake from 9. 30 p.m. When General Chan bad heard till sunrise by flock of non-stop collapsed," says a trade paper. of the nows in Shanghai, be sant
"The bacon boom has suddenly
tsun to help in the arrangements two impariant officers, Mr. Chung hau-naam and Mr. Cheung Lok- of the funeral and sent one thou sand dollars as a contribution to warde the exponses.
nightingales shrieking....
Little beasts..... If ever I meet Koats..
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41
If there ever was a boom. Per- sonally I always thought that the shall be spent on an ostrich farm.
My next country week-end report of heavy buying was most
ly gammon,
RHYMES WITHOUT RFASON. I see it stated that a certain School of Modern Languages A Wardour Street waiter numbers several grandfathers
named Vaux,
amongst its pupils. There is, At waiting's so terribly alaux, however, no truth in the rumour That there's time during dinner that the School now proposes to To walk down to Pinner, extend its scope by starting an And all the way back to egg-sucking claen for grand-
Sauhaux
mothers.
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Kowloon Ricksha Coolies. The two cases which occupied Mr. Chan Waan-faan, father of Pim. till 4 a.m. waiting for rope's end drub him? the attention of the Kowloon the well-known Chinese politican nightingale weather. Heard cow Nay, Jack's a stout lad; no
Mr. Chan Kok-man, and uncle of slight quinsy.
moo at 2.15, Think caught oallow cub, him Magistrate yesterday in
which General Chan King-ming, pass.
Horner virumque canot Hail ricksha coolies were charged with cffences arising from their insulent attitude towards Europeans are A remarkable feature of the of the general spirit abroad these we are sorry to say, symptomatic trouble in China is the way in days. It is perhaps an inevitable which it has spread from certain teome of the general situation, defined points in almost spasmodic but it is very sincerely to be re- fashion. Commending at Shang-gretted. So far as the Kowloon hai with a strike of mill hands, ricksha "pullers are which culminated in rioting and lots of them are often in danger over railway tracks which include concerned, daily traverse thousands of miles the shooting of May 30th., the next
of incurring the wrath of their serious incident was at Hankow, passengers because of
a maze of intricate points, it is and then came the attack on the cheeky and almost truculent be serious railway'accidents are so few their little short of marvellous that Shameen and its consequences. haviour. Knowing the various But singularly enough, while Peking destinations of the regular resi
and far between, The news which read, claims to have already British Empire I spent last A Nottingham bricklayer, Only too willing to boost our might be taken to be the fountain- dents there is an annoying dis-terrible train smash at Amiers, sesson. I can only conclude that (at Wembley) and gather that? came through yesterday of the killed over 20,000 wasps this Tuesday morning in Hongkong head of affairs, and certainly bas crimination shown at the ferry been actively engaged in the con-wharf and a man who lives
France, by which
bricklaying must be merely his a Boulogne
The native population of Heng- troversies, it tasted little of the little way up Nathan Road often
spare time hobby,
is 50, including 3 Irish com- express was partially wrecked and
missionaires. They talk the tonic "strike" trouble for several weeks. has to grab a ricksha and make in which so many people were killed Mr. Chauncey Depew, Ameri-golfs dialect. The principal And the same with Tientsin. Re- the puller accept him.
ca's nonagenarian orator, has industries are preserving ginger The and injured, must' have made:
been saying that the curse of his and looking at the Harbour from cently, however, the British Lega-coolie then thinks he will get depressing reading for all, especial-native land is not drinking but the Peak Road. The water in Won servants stopped work, and level with the fare by going much when it was learned that the eating. I am inclined to agree. the Harbour is only half-an-inch When I was in New York last deep and is very prottily planted now we have very grave occur-slower than usual and when the accident was due to the mis-fall I couldn't enter a restaurant round the margin with geraniums rences at Tientsin which recall fare dares to ask the man to go judgment of the engine driver. without finding people oating, and Christmas trees, From Tai- the most serious features of the faster there is much mumbled Perhaps there is no class of worker Quick Lunch you would never view of Ben Nevis. In the High and the hours they spent over too dockyard. there's a splendid Shanghai affair. The main in-grumbling. At the end of the in the wide world on whom is credit. One day I saw two men Street, just opposite the chop susy dication to be read into these out- journey when the legal fare is imposed a greater strain and
at the table next mine masticate restaurant, there's alifosizo breaks is that the trouble in China, paid there is often the use
their way through the following junk, which I mistook for an of responsibility than on express table d'hote :--
edible bird's far from being at a standstill, is bad language which goes uncheck-engine drivers employed on the
Dest, As there. wore two sparrows sitting in it. yet an urgent problem, for which ed because of the ignorance by great railway systems of Europe
Seeing "Special Chinese Cook- tail" on the menu of the restau rant I went laside and bad ope- a glorous mixture of about 47 ingredients which at once made
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farther complications are to beag. Matters. of late have become a proud boast among them that the avoided. We in Hongkong-quite bad, and Col. Matthews hus ratio of accidents to the number of rather do we refer to those who performed a useful public service trains is surprisingly negligible. see beyond the mere surface of by prosecuting an offender. Per Few folle realise the immense things-know that the future holds haps, when the general relation-physical and nervous strain imposed out far from bright prospects, and ships between foreigners and nu-upon the man in charge of a fast the conclusion of the worst part tives become more normal, locomotive which is drawing a of the local strike but leaves as shall witness an improvement in ferowded train at high speed over more time to contemplate the the demeanour of the Kowloon miles of track on which, at every graver issues. Even then, our ricksha pullers. "At least it is to few miles occur head-on points part in the general controversy is be hoped so, because a.continu-and.swerving junctions. A mistake
me feel like four aoes in one a small one in comparison with the ance of the present spirit, willin judgment, an overlooked signal
hand. If that's the usual drink At a recent. Erese dinner & of the country I'm not going to questions that are engaging the only hasten the day when rickshas dozens of possibilities and there predicted that ere long nows buy an umbrella and a couple of well-known newspaper proprietor waste any time: I'm going to attention of the Powers: Events will appear no more in our public is a catastrophe. The driver of the papers will be published every chopsticks and start by the next such as the Tientsin riots serve streets. That day is coming wits-Boulogne trains entered a station at bour. Good! I dislike the habit boat Look out for me from the but to remind us of this fact, And out fail, for mechanical propul-56 miles per hour instead of at papers have contracted of being Nam Hung cigar and wearing a so many of our London evening Peak Road. I shall be smoking the query arises whether the na-sion will assuredly oust human 26 miles and applied his brakes too published every few minutes, tions concerned are really making labour, even out here in the Far suddenly. That, according to
kum get in my buttonhole. the best of the situation, or whether East where the supply of such Reuter, was how the accident International suspicions and domes labour is so plentiful and cheap. happened, and that is the charge of tle difficulties are forcing them to Meanwhile, it should be, every-negligence against which the un- adopt a somewhat dangerous policy body's business to keep relations fortunate man will have to defend of drift, in the hope that matters as cordial as is possible in the himself at the inevitable enquirs. will possibly right themselves or circumstances and, although we There will be general and wide.
Now York, Aug, 147. at least become less menacing.
The death has occured of Mrs: laud the two prosecutions yester-spread sympathy for the relatives financier. She has succumbed to J. P. Morgan, wife of the noted Meanwhile, the latest news of
OBITUARY
MRS. J. P. MORGAN,
rioting raises fresh considerations day as being just and deserved, of those who lost their lives and for sleeping sickness. Reuter's Ac
via-a-vis the origin of the present
we would exhort foreigners gen-those who have been injured, and rican Service. Agitation. At Shanghai, a police
orally to exercise restraint upon while there will be censure and station was attacked which was
Impatience
blame for the man at fault. there will be much sympathy too-the defended by forces ander a British
French Train Smash. officer, so that the order to fire on
sympathy that is born of the realles Taking into account the vast tion that we humans are all prone the mob was exally turned into an number of express trains which to err.
MISS MCKANE'S VICTORY:
Forest Hills, (U.8.), Aug. 14. Playing in the Wightman Cup contest, Miss McKane best Mrs. Mallory 6/4, 5/7, 6/0.~Reuter TN Lator, Miss Helen Wills defeated Mirs Tosa Fry 0/0, 7/5.-Reuter.
A seaplane of H.M.S. Harmée the harbour and Kowloon, shortly nouacos that H. E the Governor carried out a flight over part of The Government Gazette an bafors 8 o'clock this morning, has been pleased, provisionally, After circling it made for the to recognise. Mr. K. O. Tradwell north-west and was soon lost to as Consul-Guneral for the Unitech sight
States in Hongkong.