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HAMILTON-At No. 161 The Peak, on November 27th, 1926, to Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Hamil ton, a daughter.
The Telegraph
SATURDAY, NOV. 27, 1926.
NOT FINISHED YET.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
WE TALK TOG MUGH AND SING TOO LITTLE-Sir Hugh Allen.
A CANTON SILHOUETTE.
Houseboats on the Pearl River.
subject to the superior claims of the public interest and so ought to i be the "right" of the workers. The mining industry of Britain is, at the moment, composed of two rival elements each of which is
Shimeon is becoming swept and ling green, slopes from the bank. angrily assorting its own view
garnished, the prison gates are to the foot of hills, which guard point to the detriment of then-
opening a little; there is Shakeo ovory valley. A kingfisher shoots jselves and the country ne a whole,
sen the river side of the island lio, mudbank) lonping fish hanga on which to stretch one's logs, but acress our bows to a hole, in the That is obviously bad. The pre- Carniarthenshire to-day the houseboats; and and forlorn, for a moment in the air the
been appointed to H. M. S. Titania Schoolmaster W. F. White has (Nov. 2)
turned to the Colony by the 3
Mr and Mrs. AE. Wright ra-
zoologist of Holland, arrived here Dr. R. W: Dammerman, a noted by the s.s. President Jackson, bound for Manila.
The name of Mr. Eric McDonald Bryden, C.A., has been added to the list of authorised auditors un- der the Company's Ordinances.
that a third dividend of $11 per bankruptcy notification states cent, has been declared In the case of Lucas Leonardo da Silva, clerk,
of Hongkong.
bringing back memories of old coolles shout "Haf-yah," and their water fills the cabin; and later pan. Iced cocktails, timin served times, old friends. At high tide, laughter wakes the sleeping tai on the rats play "touch-inst" up in luxury by a white-coated "boy" the stanchions, over the roof, Coffee hot, and strong, quickly fol through the galley, and in and lowed by an argument of equal out the paddle wheel.
ferocity, as to the necessity for
"
sont regime must either be radi- cally changed or steps must be taken to secure the atmosphero of a new regime. It is becoming a matter of real importance that constructive minds of all political shades should consider afresh,
because the peace of Sunday lies We set out. We always argues
Slack tide in the Pearl River and exercise in the east, with a new seriousness and free
sweetly within us, we imagine the and we always walk,. since "Mr- dom from the distortions of
yellow water is less troubled by its Heinz" has the casting vote. Up dogma, the nature of the new re-
obvious for this is China, and all a horseshoe. of white stone, a constant traffic. The fallacy is the hill bespattered with ancestors, gime. It is a matter of serious
days are alike to her.
paved centre; perhaps the occu- politics and ought to be kept free
Six of us, and in long-tailed either side with smaller horse- pant's wives are accommodated ou of political parrot-cries. The
mongrel, board the houseboat, shoes, of course. In the paddy greatest need is for a more ener
She is square at bow and stern, feld, land crabs, scamper before Yesterday's health return shows straight sided, with a narrow foot the dog, distance lende enchant- getic business spirit on both sides, three more cases of typhoid fever, ledge above the water. A light ment to the white houseboat lying and for a better spirit of manage-two being Chinese and the other three-foot rail around the fore below us. Five buffaloes slowly ment. It might be that the unita an imported English caso, There ward deck, and white wicker submerge in the water, wallow a of the coal mining industry are theris.
was also one Chinese case of diph chairs. A canvas, overhedd, is moment, and swim across. A too small and that 'big corpora-
carried 'above the cabin roof of small boy awaits them with a bam- high stanchions. Room here to boo, and affectionate cursings tions, inspired by the intest and Mr. W. L. Marshall, who is res sleep away the cares of the wook's they follow him to a village, tuck- most efficient ideas of industrial turning to take up his duties with business. The duckfeather mer ed behind the only group of trees the Standard Oil Co.in Manila, ar-ehant dreams, the multi-coloured visible. Roofs of shining blue control, vill have to be formed.rived by the 3.5. President Jackson cushionáre flapping angry wings and green tiles, ends upturned, a Certain it is that something will to-day. He is accompanied by his to smother him; the banker nettles highly coloured china grifin or two have to be done, and Britain's wife and children.
the problem of exchange for weeks above the doorway. Walls of capacity to evolve and concentrate
to come; and the wives of bath, baked mud. A neatly cemented
on a workable scheme which shall Deaths at sen, have been report-but who knows what. 3 woman floor, in an open space, is the eliminate the friction and antag-captains of the Kiangsu from
ed at the Harbour Office by the dreams?!
onisms of the past might very well Swatów; the Anking, from Amoy, prove to be one of the greatest and the Bintang, from Swatow, rests of the nation. In this age of The Talra reports one death and
one birth. so-called democratic politics the task should not be beyond the wit of our statesmen and political
leaders..
The Communists.
The Admiralty announce that fate of H. M. S. Hermes, H. S. Paymaster Lieutenants C. R. Allen, Oawin (Hawkins), and A. T. Phillips (Tamar) have passed the examination for the rank of Pay
Lieutenant Commander held in July last.-
master
A
threshing ground; bundles of rice Through the cabin twelve feet stalks are lifted and flung down wide, and there is a small pantry, on the hard surface, discharging through a door, and you are faced the ripe grain to be dried and abruptly by the huge poddio garnered. wheel. Surely and swiftly, it com- The usual crow follow us, the pletes, its circle, You catch'sight children, the women, the halt, the of blurred faces through the lume, the blind, the insane of the bar, step up, and ever return to with him to a pond, its surface blades, Six coolles hold a cross- village. Onoybeckons, and we go the same level. Only then you weedy, and through the weeds ap- realise that the silence, and your pear faces, the large, stupid, gog- own peace, are due to absence of gling faces of overfed carp. A mechanical power, with a noise man tipa a basket of dead silk (and smell.
worms into the water at our feet, The Russian Communists are, to
On the starboard, for a mile, and the fish come nearer. Не Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the British judge from the statements made . . Senhor Arthur Tamagnini stretched the floating population. takes a pole, and with the strong Premier, is having his way. When at the. Conference of the Com. de Barbosa, the new Governor of pie and little sampans crowd to- net on the end scoops up,a seven- munist International at Moscow, Macao, is hie In Hongkong from gether. Here a timber raft comes pound fish, and then another, and the conlowners and the miners reto become Redder than "ever, if Lisbon on December 8th. A down to end her journey of one then another, putting them into a jected on different occasions the that is possible. One of the aims tive of Macao, he was once before hundred miles. Bamboo poles of tub of water. Fine fish these for Government's terms for the settle-now decided upon is the "further Governor of the Colony, this being unlimited strength, fifty feet long, the Hongkong market, and down ment of the coal dispute, he said Party which would appear to be
Bolshevisation of the Communist in 1918.
and forming a foundation thirty they go, thirty of them, by junk that the dispute could only be set an attempt similar to that of the
feat wide, carry the neatly piled to the steamer at Canton, apd Mr. Miles Lampson, the new load of logs; it may be ten feet heigh hol all for no cost but the led by the parties themselves and old lady who, when out shopping, British Minister fo China who ar-high, or even more. The captain freight. The silkworm spins his ginee that time he has stolidly sought everywhere to get some rived here by the P. and O. liner of this strange craft atands in his thread in the dark barn, and dies, material a shade darker than Macedonia; has been staying at doorway. well-proportioned his body, feeds the carp in the refused to suggest anything. The black! What is particularly to be Government House, where he has cavity, leading,, by a passage, to a pond, and the carp in turn bring miners and owners in the different noted in the announcement of the conferred with H. E. the Governo: warm dry room, in the centre of pieces of silver in the market districts are now engaged in fix-Party's future activities is that on the Chinese situation. He his kingdom. A handsome black square. Even that la not enough, ing up district agreements, and al- they are to be centred chiefly on leaves for the North by H.M.S. chow dog looks disdainfully at our give the young fish a new pond
Britain, China, Central Europe and Despatch at 5,p.m. to-day,
Mongrol, by name: "Mr-Heinz-57- yearly, drain off your water and though the miners in South Wales the Dutch East Indies. In other
Varieties." As we draw level with the rich slimy residue grow.. and Scotland and also in the words, the mischievous prépagan-
Crown Sergeant T. J. Wilson, with the stern, two young pigs, food for all the villagers.. northern coalfields of England dists are bent on spreading their the Hongkong Police Force, leaves some fowls in a basket, and a cat We rest on a grassy mound. At pernicious doctrines to every part far ITome on superannuation to tied to a pole. by arawhide thong last the burning sun is dropping, have been averse. to coming to of the world where they think that day, after 20 years' service here. come to view. The cat is gem and we see the evening miracle. district agreements, Reuter tells political trouble is brewing. This Lance Sergeant Cunningham, who sacred to times of plenty, but not Broad, and placid, lies the Pear! us that arrangements are being is a phase of Communistic policy recently recovered from a severe so the other unfortunates; death River, every shade of red, and made and that there is the pro-familiaz, but it is no less serious leave to-day, being invalided out
with which we have long been attack of pneumonia, s. also to and the pot will be their portion, gold, purple, green, turning these Past the harbour limits, the air miles of sandy-bedded waters to speet of more or less general re-op that account. If the same of the Force. Detective Inspector is sweeter; lychee trees laden something resembling the streets sumption. The terms vary ac amount of energy and money, were Pincott la to leave on retirement on with crimson fruit stand forty feet of heaven. For this one hour the cording to the circumstances of put by the Russians into the im- December 11th.
high, and yet dip their branches river justifies its name. provement of conditions in their
in the water. The paddy, in dazz- each district, but there is the Gov-own land as they spend on outside ernment's promised safeguard of propaganda, their country would Ports issued by the League of The Health Bulletin of Eastern national principles provided the be a far better place than it now Nations for the week ended 13. "The Soviet leaders say that November 20, shows the following agreements are reached within a their aim is to make mankind cases of infectious disease during reasonable time. The great strike freer and happier, the answer to that period: Plague, Mauritius of 1926 is undoubtedly drawing to which is that they have plenty of 15 cases, Rangoon 2. Cholera, a closé but it would be a mistake, opportunity in Russia without Calcutta 34 casos, Negapatam one, bothering about the outside world. Singapore two, Haiphong, 27,
Rugby, Nov. 26. we think, to imagine that the prob-Let them go ahead and produce Tourane six and Bangkok three.
A pretty wedding was solemnised The suggestion that the re- yesterday at St. John's Cathedral Jems of the industry have been the ideal State in Russia; and if Small-pox, Durban four
sources of all London's truffle the parties being Mr. F.J. Baddeley, solved.
have far greater hopes of convine kak seven and Kobe one,
placed under joint control is under-and Misa Evelyn Holmes, of Bever gravated and temporised with bo-ing other countries, that their
stood to be receiving the favourley, Yorkshire. The bride arrived. cause the present trouble has not idends are possible of being put
A pretty but quiet wedding took able consideration of the London in the Colony in the 9.8. Macedonia. The bridegroom is a son of the come to a clean end. It has into practice. In the meantime, place at St. John's Cathedral yes- Trallic Advisory Committee..
The Underground Railways and late Mr. F.J. Baddeley, who was at the growing menace of Bolshevism, terday afternoon, the Rev. H. Con- beça a war of attrition against the which seeks to create uprisings Inley Moyle officiating. The parties omnibus companies, London Coun-one time Captain Superintendent ty Council tramways and suburban of Police in Hongkong, retiring in miners and will most assuredly other lands, is, one which demands were Mr. Albert Martin; an tend to keep the coalfielda in the serious consideration of all officer in the mercantile scivice, in railway services, would be affected. 1512.
The object would be to co-ordinate those nations who believe in con- the employ of the Indo-China Steam traffic facilities, thus effecting by His Honour Mr. Justice J. R. The bride, who was given away condition of unceasing trouble stitutionalism as opposed to this Navigation Company, and the bride economics and removing duplicat Wood, was dressed in melon pink and confusion. The future of the new-found autocracy.
was Miss M. E. £. Holloway, daugh- ion and traffic congestion.
georgette with brown velvet bat coal industry--so vital to manufac-
ter of Mr. Holloway, of the The Transport Ministry has and carried a bouquet of red Royal Army Ordinance Corps, The agreed to further investi- dahlias and roses, turing Britain-presents a prob-
bride was given away by her father, gation of the proposal.-British | lem which will have to be courage-
and Mr. D. Lyon, of Messrs. Jar- Wireless. ously faced by whatever Govern-
Paris ment might happen to succeed the
Geneva Berlin present one..
Dalo One of the things fundamentally Helsingfors wrong with the British coal in
Shanghai dustry is, in the opinion of a very New York
Amsterdam widespread school of thought, that sta
Stockholm the mine owners have claimed in Vienna
Madrid, effect to treat the affairs of the Buonos Aires mining industry as their private Hongkong
Brusdols concern in which the community Milan has no right to interfore. They
cases,
LONDON'S TRAFFIC.
SUGGESTION FOR POOLING ALL SYSTEMS.
TISTHENES.
LOCAL WEDDING.
SHANGHAI BARRISTER
MARRIED.
They have only been ag. they can accomplish that, they will Calcutta 10, Singapore one, Bang-undertakings should he poolad and the well-known'Shanghai barrister,
EXCHANGE RATES.
Rugby, Nov. 26.
.133.11/16
25.15
20.43
13.90%
192
penhagen.
did as much by refusing to enter Lisbon tain the Government's request for Yokoham
Bombay
national negotiations. The rights Silver (Spot)
Silver (forward)" of private property must always be
dine, Matheson and Co., carried out the duties of "best man.".
An order for the cancellation of
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
HERR STRESEMANN'S SPEECH DISPLEASES M. BRIAND,
Mr. D. H. Blake carried out the duties of best man, and the Rev. H. Copley Moyle officiated.
The honeymoon is being spent at Fanling.
PROHIBITION.
LIQUOR LICENSES FOR WORTHY DRINKERS.
Oslo, Nov. 26:-... The official committee Investigat÷/
the warrant for the arrest of a .8.1/8 woman partner, in a local firm was .2/54 made at the Central Magistracy 4.84.63/64 yesterday, when Mr. J. T. Prior, .13.18.8/10 appearing for the woman, said the
..18.17%
8,17 money which she was charged with
31.41
embezzling was in his office and 31.90%
Paris. Nov, 26. 45.25/32 the prosecution had agreed to
According to Lo Journal M. 1/11 accept it in full settlement: The 34.88 woman had taken the money away Briand has informed the German
115 and had not accounted for it, but Ambassador that he admitted none ing the recent prohibition plebiscite 18.21% in order to convict her of any of the views expressed by Herr is reported to be opposing the over- 168 offence the prosecution would the Reichstag on the subject of dis-mending that liquor be only pro- Stresemann in his recent speech in severe restrictions, and recome 2.17/82 have to satisfy the Magistrato
armament. .2/0.0/10 that there was very strong evidence Echo de Paria says that M. curable "by licenses which are."
4.25%
of criminal intent.. His Worship Poincare intends to resume nero-fasued, to adults who have not 25.1/18 concurred with the application for tiations as soon as possible, proved themselves to be unworthy Britisk Wireless, the cancellation of the warrant
of possessing them.-Reuter,
1/5:25/82
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