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FRIDAY, JULY 1 1927.
THE C. N.C STRIK
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1927.
bitration. In other words, tha Company wishes to retain the power of dealing directly with its employees.
1 DAY BY DAY.
A WOMAN'S WITS 18 OFTEN BETTEL THAN A MAN'S ARM.-A. G. Hales,
The B. I. a. Talma is duo hero
In such a dispute it is difficult not to sympathise with men who have suffered so severe a cut in from Amoy to-morrow afternoon, salaries as ten per cent., though
IIE, the Governor has appointed one is fully aware of the lack of Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood to be an profitable carnings by the Com- [official Justice of the Peace for pany. During the war the Com-the Colony. priny mado rge profits, but it has
It will be of interest to motorists spent an enormous sum slice on
and others to learn that Lieut. xow tonnage, having built some-Maitland on his historie light to thing like 27 ships since 1919. Hawait used Cargoyle Mobiliail. The price of that new tonnage wan high, and the present scale of carvings is decidedly unremunera-
THROUGH A PAIR OF
SPECTACLES.
The Very Idea!
A VISTA OF THE FUTURE,
A careless compositor on setting up the words "Woman; without A pair of bewitching khoes lure her, man would be a savage, put some men like a Hongkong gen- the punctuation in the wrong eral holiday does foul weather, plare, which made it read:Wo but it is when you are able to look man, without her man, would be a above and beyond that you really savage." begin to notice things. Shall ̈ Í explain?
Not having delved deeply into Humour and Eulogy.". by W. H Some epitaphs from "Graveyard the subject, the ladies will excuse Beable:
little laxity in technical terms.
Beneath this silent stone is laid A noley, antiquated maid,
Lieutenant. Commander Cross, óf 11. M. S. Murazion, Jins reported to the police to low of a gold watch tive, The C.. N. Company" roly and chain vahed at $900." It is behave its own particular appeal to lieved that a thief broke into his cabin.
largely on the Yangtsze trade, and that has gone all to pinces of inte. And it must be remembered that
A Chingo lotertive, in the course of executing an arias warrant at the Bay of the officers and en- Queen's Rod Contraly was bitten gineers was, until the 10 por cont. by a mongr dog belonging to an reduction, on a relatively high ludian. The dog has since been scale and that their other condition, and the detective to the sent to Kenledy Town for obserya- tions. of employment are superior Government Civil Hospital. to thoac of men engaged on many lines with which the C. N. Com pany has to compete. The Com- pany can, without doubt, make out a good claim in support of the reduction it has ordered, and it says when it offers to deal directly with its employees and to revise salaries in three months, if con-
I mean I am able to call a dross a dress when it's a creation, or, similarly, speak of tucks and pleats when I mean pleats and tucks.
However, to cut a short story shorter which will naturally the femining rind since they shorten their hair, shorten their skirts, and shorten our lives-In two days I have seen six ifresses, creation or outer garments (one must assume) which have enused my centre of curiosity to titillate.
scription, but it seemed to my Now I hesitate to go into de: unpracticed eye that they had böen made originally for a child Canton Railway, Mr. G. A. Walker, been tucked underneath when the The manger of the Kowloon of three, that a second piece had has reportal to the police a small child became a girl of nine and accident which occurred on Mon-wise, and that yet a third circle his car at the Kowloon Hospital, when mother wanted to go out.. day last. While he was reversing was put in as an afterthought one of the rear wheels ran, over
Two of them had forgotten to the toes of a coolie. The injureddo any after-thinking, but that is coolie was admitted to the hospital. by the way.
. Who, from her cradle talked till
death, And never before was out of
breath.
No puffer was ho
Tho' a capital plower;
He could fill double G,
And now lies a note lower.
Here lies my gude and gracious
nuntle,
Whom death has packed in his
portmanty.
Erected to the memory of John friends. of Leith by a few affectionate Macfarlane, drowned in the Water
Mary had a little waist,
She laced it smaller still; A stone o'er Mary has been
placed
Out on the silent hill.
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A doctor in the King's Bench Division: The whole chain of evidence consists of missing linke created a good epigram. Mr. Justice MeCardie: You have
happens to people who tell an
Kent magistrate to a boy What dering: They get off, sir. truths in courta ?--Boy, after pon-
ditions warrant, it has gone as far as it can, in all the circumstances. That strikes one as being rather reasonable, but at the back of one's mind there is the knowledge that arbitration in wages disputes be- tween employers and employees is deepmposition, identifiention of the believed. But for all that, frank- make herself very disagreeable,
From two angles I studied those The rains of eight Human dressed. From the male point bodies has been picked up on the of view, and as far as manly pos- shores of Choung Chau Island by sible, from the shemale stand- the Police and so to the Public Paint. Then I crept reverentially lortuary. It is believed that these the editress of Woman's World, are bodies of sume of those who lost the Telegraph ladies' page husband and I were good friends Wife at Bow County Court: My their live with the sinking of the told me they were called tiers, until ve married." Lan Kwong. As they are in which I understood, and that they an excellingly advanced stage of
were the height of fashion, which
y I am puzzled,
recently of the death in a flying News was received in Singapore accident of Leiut. Rawdon F. G. of Mt. H. B. Salmont, of the Salmond, R.N., aged 23, only son Eastern Extension Telegraph Co.,
and Mrs. Salmond. Lieut. Sal- mond was attached to the Fleet The deepest sympathy
will be felt with Mr. and Mrs. Salmond and the Misses Salmond in their sad bereavement.
the basis upon which peace in in-bodies' is impossible. dustry is going to rest. The re- fusal to submit to arbitration is always liable to give rise to the Beginning yesterday, the pat-thought that the party refusing is in staff of the China Navion afraid of arbitration, and that is Cmpany, operated by Mrs. not productive of contentment on Btterfield and Swire, won the other side. The Guilds are stike, as a consequence of sticking out for the principle, atig fleet of China coastal which is admittedly a very impor. er and river steamera istant one to them. And the Gem- idied and about 500 men afft pany says that it repudiated ar Whatever might be the meifbitration, ten years ago and must the dispute and the indit be free from dictation. It claims, opinion about them. there we further, to have dealt justly by thei very general regret felt that oeers and engineers concerned. time like the present there si On such a dispute we find it dim- be an open brench between cult to be emphatic ir support or tish shipping company ope in condemnation of either side, but
Picket Abuses..
One almost becomes prepared to find anomalies everywhere in China, so it is not very surprising
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended June 30th 1906.
demand was 23. 1 9/16d."
The rate of the dollar on
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Post launch were summoned for The owners of the Morning obstruction at Murray Pier.
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What does it mean this latest
fashion?
Much more dress than the usual
Fation
But so fixed up that you still can
БСО
Just as much of a charming knee
'Neath dress of tiers. What does it mean to the man who
pays?
What does it call forth, grief or
praise?
To me, it seems, though I may be
wrong
While praps too soon for a lilting
Bong
No need for tears.
Tis passing strange when fashion's
decreo Can find association with economy But watch! Next year you'll find
instead
Of dresses new, she'll simply shed
One of those tiers...
The New Repartec.
Walthamstow woman of her lod- ger; Like all women, she can West Ham woman: She is dyed-haired doll, with a useless. husband.
Peter Stinkovich, an having his name and address on grinder, ned at Willesden for not organ-
the organ van: The law of Eng- land he is too much for me. My name is Stinkovich, and I will not change him for no mun.
to a youth who complained that he' Mr. Rooth, Lambeth magistrate,
been assaulted: Learn to box.. It is a healthy exercise..
In London it is becoming a crazo for two sisters, more or loss of an are, to dress exactly alike, whether they are twins or not. In Paris this is the fashion for whole fami lies of children.
You may see two or three or even four little girls in the Bois all dressed exactly alike. even to their shoes and socks, And small boys will have amocks
"Beenuse---it was duly warned or saildr tops made of the same anyhow-rever the first time-material as their sister's dresses, five and a bit." This, or words to this effect, with suitable pauses invited to write essays on "My" Yorkshire children were recently
in answer to an age-honoured
I understand they draw the dot- xed line somewhere, sometimes.
Another is more modest:--For breakfast I would have well-fed,.. bed oaken table; for tea, delicious stuffed pig served on a well-scrub- fancy enke and a bottle of marma- lade,
In China and its personne do deplore the apparent state cause, in view of the many of deadlock, and trust that negotia factors which have produced tions will soon be opened and some and financial losses to most
compromise effected. houses, a strike of British &
The Public Works Committee question, "How about a rubber of Meals if I were King," and the is about the list thing di
recommend the purchase at a bridge?" Not having been duly compositions reveal
Home quaint cost of $431,000° of a Refuse warned, when restoratives had idene So obvious is the need for
(says the Westminster Destructor capable of dealing been applied, I found I had dis-Gazette.) and co-operation among a
with 100 tons of refuse cach day low far this exit of futurist wit dinner she would
covered the new intellectualism. A 12-years-old girl says that at bigaers out here in face
sit in an oak hus extended, it is difficult to say,chair inlaid with gold and eat Messrs. Hughes and Hough but really it should be kept within turkey and spinach from pearl complexities of the present.
to note contrasts that elsewhere auctioned situation, that we cannot he would call for amazed comment. making plant landed in Hongkong for this sort of thing exists near silver plates.
complete cement bounds-I believe an institution dishes and custard pudding from view the strike which bed We refer particularly to the way in 1901 and intended for installa-the G. C. H. Tharaday as a very regr
in which Chinese passengers are tion in the North.. Owing to the,
Another girl of the same age being ill-treated at Canton merely Russo-Japanese war the plant lay to it in the Y.M.C.A., but this in roll, custard, jelly, cream, salmon, My sensitive ear first reached writes:-Por tea I should have jam happening and one which w because they attempt to board Bri-in the Godowns for over two Itself should not be accepted us and pork pies, all served, of course, will not be prolonged owing tish steamers or have travelled on years. Mr. E. Kadoorie secured an explanation of the whole thing. in golden dishes. disinclination to negotiate.sach from Hongkong. We pub the plant for $212,000.
As regards the merits of which call for strong condemna
lished yesterday a report of events pute, it is very difficult to tu tion. Travellers by the Lungahan,
nawed through in my efforts to A bone of contention has been particular side throughou Chinese, were attacked by their
ascertain how it started and why, fellow nationals when they landed cause there is something that the wharf, and were subjected
and where it is likely to end and peals to one on both sided to various indignities, including
how, but I have only had one clue Mr. Dyer Ball was appointed Re-up to the present.
An 11-years-old boy writes as I had never from actual experience:-In came fight is on a matter of praearing of their faces with dyes
the spoiling of their clothing and gistrar of Marriages.
set oyes on the man before, but a servant, and he set meals before ! and when it is on that plan and Inks. These outrages were
his "can't" pronounced him to be me. There was a pork chop, with Messrs. E. Osborne and Aun American The Terry seemed relish to make it tasty. There was is liable to be much st perpetrated by bullies of the (so Denison. were appointed members big enough for both
fars we are concerned in this of the Authorised Architects us, but he said: "It can't be done, that I had a stroll round the palace of whisky to put in my tea, and after ness. The Company conter Colony) defunct Seamen's Union. Consulting Committee vice Messrs. It's useless to talk." This form garden. owing to losses on runni if that is the way the stamen at R. G. Shewan and W. Danby. of introduction struck me 48 a Rect, they cannot afford to tempt to demonstrate their quali-| --
Another boy, a year younger trifle unique, but I rose to the oc- than the previous casayist," is leas same rates of pay as having the right way about the matter master Queen's College, was made
fication for sympathy, they are go- | Mr. Alfred J. May, late second casion, "Guy, you've spilt a bib- of an epicure: My dinner would. paid for some years past, a of proving how well rid Hongkong a member of the, Imperial Servico But he was persistent: "It's cause if it were not the servants have to be very nourishing, be-. have made a ten per cent is of them. But apart from that, Order:
useless to talk. An I right or am would know that I should give we wonder how Canton can justify tion in salaries.
I wrong?" "Yes," said I meekly.them the sack. That
the apparent acquiescenes in these
"Yea, item, but the Company outrages by the police. We had in
what?" "Yes, please, deal with the men direct,
the same issue, yesterday, a report nounced a dividend of five per cent. He seemed to ponder over that. white and coloured, for their aid, We thank the many friends, both. of a second clean-up" of Com The Company had contracted with He went to sleep. I'm not sure Also the firemen for their prompt- ther to revise the pay evo munits. The police co-operated the Kowloon Dock to build a steam-that I gave the right replies innoas in the burning of our home.— months if the earnings of with the troops, as they have dons er to take the placo. of the this new repartee, but it soems Ad. in American paper. make such a course poss before in this matter. If they Yuen Wo, previously destroyed by possible to my mind that I had Guilds, on behalf of the
cannot act in a case, like the as- Bre.
truck the inventor., He, had been sault on Langahan passengers,
long enough away from that an arbitration which calls for their immediate Mr. J. A. Tarrant presented a country, anyway. made in May, 1916, is sth intervention, as a most element-cup for a billiard competition at Querulous, dry duty of guardians of the pence St. George's Club, and that the Company of and of inoffensive persons, then submit the dispute to h ment board or restore te
they must merit nothing less than
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Indo-China S.N.
The 24th. annual report of the
Company an
ful."
teacher."
J.H.B. (Kowloon). won't be unduly alarmed. this threatens to become a regular feature.
A.J. (Penk): Yes, it's the best I never saw. If Only.
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SOTHO
We all know the saying-if we a dry had some him, we'd have some. ham and eggs, if we had egga-but carrying this. principle a little further leads to interest, Hope young speculations, If we dive deep A Hongkong salvage party, the strongest censure. There is under the direction of Mr. J. Watt
P.W.D. we might turn it into an Yes, enough into the archives, of the to their previous et distinc movement towards a het Jameson, successfully flonted the ter understanding between Hong-s.s. Dumbarton, which had strand-
if some retaining wall docen't give. asset even yot-making two assets, Company wrote certainlet kong and Canton. We have al-ed in De Castries' Bay, Siberia.
way somewhoro. Then again, take the Guilds in 1917 wich ready Indicated one or two ways elaimed constitute apt desire to promote amicable re-by Miss Daisy Morris, took place at
inwich our neighbour can show
the Legislative Council,-take it for A successful concert organised
what it is worth, unlegs we take Half a sofa is botter than no it back to become an asset under of the arbitration agem lations. But if the authorities the Seantena. Instituto, Kowloon bed. That may not be original, the same system of accountancy, that the Companyno there continue to wink at outrages Members of the orchestra were as is possible Oscar Wilde anid Of course, this is a different pro- bound by it. The rotted on innocent people, follows: Messrs. Barlow, Schmitz, it first, but it seems apt in con- position.
merely through political feeling, Brooks, Sibbit, Duncan, Lapaley nexion with the announcement In Officials, (liko
"Aye," echo the striking to uphold the valid directed mainly
a Policemen's the 1916 agreement, the Tokong, than seant value must***
against and Dr. Swin
the Hongkong Radio Society's re-Chorus), but if the leader lost port that their aerial equipment his baton. pany are resisting the bee placed on any professions of
The announcement was made of would be an asset if transmlasfons anys it is under oblship. An ounce of proof the marriage of Mr. A. II. Skelton were being made; that is to any
bo worth a ton of promises to Miss Wilhelmina Van Oppen. morally or legally, toubmit
If the Society had transmitter.
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might become an asset-if some- There's no telling. Even this
one would read it.-W. J. K,