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DAY BY DAY.
A WOMAN WITH A MASCULINE MIND IS NOT A BEING OF SUPERIOR
ds to the precise nature of thaj~- plans contemplated, but there is evidently to be a thorough-going overhauling of the whole, aratem of local rating. In recent EFFICIENCY; SHE IS SIMPLY A PHEN- years and the Baldwin Gov- OMENON OF IMPERFECT DIFFERENTIA TION-INTERESTINGLY BARREN AND WITHOUT IMPORTANCE Joseph Conrad,
ornment is not free from blame in this regard-there has been far too great a tendency to transfor burdens from the National Budget on to the rates, until the load has at length become unbearable. All manner of anomalies exist, too.
Yesterday's return of notifiable discnses, shows two Chinese case of small-pox and one British case of typhoid fever.
Sister Willaims, of the Victoria Hospital, has reported to the police the theft from her quarters of a travelling clock, valued at $25.
There are even instances in which a business" situate on one alde of a street has been far more heavily rated than another on the opposito
Messrs. Ellis and Edgar, share side, merely, because by arbitrary
and general brokers, have issued demarcation bounds they have an interesting booklet showing the rappened to be situate in dif-fluctuations of local and other stocks on the Hongkong Stock Ex ferent Boroughs.
change during March.
One issue which arises in con nexion with this matter is that of
notes.
LIFE IN HONGKONG.
PEN-PICTURE BY FORMER 41A, RESIDENT. ETUS
The Very Idea!
A few weeks ago an American
The following article, writton girl gaya her wooer a list of com by a former Hongkong lady real-she would consent to marry him. mandmonta to subscribe to before dent now at Home, appeared in The wooer redd the list and forth- the Daily Express of March 20th with coased to woo.
Life for the Briton in Hongkong Recently an American bridge- tony is calm and peaceful con- groom presented to his bride a pared with year ago.
set of rules of conduct when they We have now no refugees pour-mot at the altar for the ceremony, ing in, from administrative officers, The bride read the rules, which and contained such items as: You will mercantile, representatives
missionaries, to the coolie class, do the washing up; you must have who all fled to the comparative my meals ready punctually; you safety of Hongkong from the dis-must avoid looking at men. By turbed and turbulent Interior way of answer she threw thé bou- The Fleet is depleted, the ships quat at the bridegroom, tore off are aniling for home, Malta or her wedding veil and then tore off Gibraltar, leaving behind them home iq high dudgodh and a taxi- more memories than those occa- cab, sioned by digir flying flags and merry music
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Young lovers, in spite of evidence all around them, like to believe that their married life will be the eternal höneymoon. '' It 'is' The Army too: we had grown better that a couple should start A Chinese was remanded by Major C. Willson, at the Police quite accustomed to the thrills of thus and then adapt themselves the relief of the able-bodied poor. Court this morning, on charges of large numbers of British soldiers gently to unforeseen little reall- Many political writers have urged being in possession of forged Cen-at drill, marching or at play. ties. For either to visualise their that the whole function of re-tral Bank notes of a face value of The helmeted. khaki-clad fellow marriage beforehand as all reall- lieving these people should be $100 and of fraudulently obtaining countrynien gave us a comfortable ties and no romance is not the very taken over by the Government and a watch and $45 by virture of these feeling of security, bat, like the best augury for future bijes.
Navy, the greater part has left us,
Aren't you ashamed not left in the hands of local au-
and long may they remember the Fathor: On Chatham Road, Kowloon an gratitude with which we met and to be at the bottom in a class of
28 boys. thorities. This would prove a
alarin of fire was raised on Wednes
Wally: It might be worse. Gradually we have settled down great boon to the necessitous areas, day night at about seven o'clock.ped them.
Father: How could it be? At the present time, the abolition The fire brigade from the Kowloon de normal life, our refugees have
Willy: Suppose there were 40 Station responded to find that. a of Boards of Guardians is confire had broken out in a chimney, gone, and now that horseracing is | KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd. templated, and inasmuch as
the but had been put out almost im in full swing and we are enjoying boys in the class?
that all-too-short span of cool won- ther which the elements vouchsafe Government is now embarking on mediately by the Inmates.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1928.
RATING REFORM.
voice party.
Not but that, we did not, enjoy having the refugees from the war- ridden provinces of China. They brought considerable interest and
itement to us. and except for leaving home and belongings they, the natural worry consequent on too, enjoyed their change.
Life in what is "home" for some
On the occasion of the birthday of the Emperor of Japan on Sun-Britons in the corners of our far day, the Japanese Consul General fung. Empire can be, and frequent will receive the congratulations ofly is, dull and boring.
At Happy Valley. the Government officials, members of the Consular Body and foreign members, of the Hongkong cun- munity at the Hongkong Hotel
from 10. a.m. to 10.40 a.m.
The vernacular papers report that a rich Chinese merchant has offer-
a scheme for relleving rates, it In aid of the Piano Fund of the would seem an appropriate time at Union Church at Kowloon a con which to transfer the relief of the cert will be held in the Church to The Artists include Mrs. Minney, able-bodied, not to the County night, commencing at 9 o'clock. Councils, but to the State. It is Surg-Lieut. Bradfield, R.N., Mr. L. pessible that some such proposal Braga, Miss Aileheson, Mr. and will eventually be put forward Mrs. Frank White and a male when the details of the Govern- ment acheine are made known. In any event, there is ample scope for reform in dealing with this rating question, and we shall await with deep interont the legislation which We made some mention yester-is to give effect to the Govern- day, in our comments on Mr. Chur-ment's résolye to take the matter chill's Budget, of the vitally imin hand. ( portant question of rating rellef, which has deservedly been given n prominent place in the Govern The Window-Smashing Epidemic. ment's future programme.. It is Decidedly it was a surprise to interesting do recall that this mat- find the escapades of a few soldiers for has of late been the subject of in Hongkong treated by the House much speculation at Home, as It of Commons as a serious matter. has long since been known that The Labourites were evidently of
A vernacular report states that the Government intended making the opinion that this Colony-bad an attempt to deal with this vory been annoying the Tommica con- the two Chinese representatives in complicated problem. In the re-siderably to cause them to commit the Legislative Council, Sir Shou- Kotewall together with a number cent King's Speech, it was stated assault and battery upon our win-son Chow and the Hon. Dr. R. II. that Ministers were engaged 'upon dows, but Mr. Kirkwood appears to of prominent Chinese merchants enquiries into the possibility of have been the only one to gain any will give a dinner at the Kam Ling affording some relief from the rat-satisfaction from the brief dis- Restaurant, West, Point, on the ing burdens born by the produc-cussion on the subject. It so hap evening of May 11, at which the pened that he was enabled by Sir Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., ing community, and into the Luming Worthington-Evans' treat Captain Superintendent of Police, changes in local government which ment of the matter to allow his way- and Mrs, Wolfe will be the guests
ward tongue a loose rein to the ex-of honour, would thereby bo" involved. We tent of protesting against the War are now told that the Government Minister's has completed its plans,, and that Valuation Ascertainment Bill ie shortly to be introduced to give effect thereto. This is obviously a big project, for Mr. Churchill says that about a year will be required
to achieve the de-rating process,
Lald-
Like other places out East, we
here that the different sports, 80 have our Happy Valley, and it is vital to us as a nation, hold their away.
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Middle-aged men in increasing numbers, are discovering that modern, golf is. a most fatiguing game, and that their health is no better for playing it. Dr. Dear- den frankly anys that the pastime is a nerve-irritant of a pernicious order, and that no hard worker fine player. Obviously the foozler who sets off with card and should engage in it unless he be a
averages ton strokes a holo and
day. wanders over miles of rough, is a miserable man for the rest of the
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While grandpa may expect to live 60 years, his grandchild has a chance to stretch it into 70. A Dr. Charles Mayo, of Chicago, Buys noted medical authority, that science is conquering hazards
average of 60,
Father: Suppose we call the baby Zopheir?.
Mother: Oh, poor kid! What does it stand for?
Father: Nothing, only it'll work out his cross-word puzzle.
The brilliant colours of the of middle age to such an extent that within two generations tho ed to give the local Confucian jockeys' riling kit, the colourful expectancy of life should be ten Association a piece of ground ad- brocades of the kimonos worn by jacent to the site of the new Branch the Chinese women racing de years longer than the present Tung Wah Hospital in Sookumpoo votees, and our own gay European Confucian Association. The ground like air and brilliant sun, make a for the erection of a big hall for the dress, with the clear champagne- Happy Valley, satellites are enjoy: is said to have an area of 80,000 picture never to be forgotten when ing, a winter day's racing. com- feel.
mensurate with its name.
It is reported from Vermont that Forgotten for the moment'""
was almost an
a syndicate of prominent residents the muggy, steamy days and effort to light a cigarette, and of Boston and Montreal associated nights when it when the tyno wonders what a with Francis Oaimet, the former stitch of dry clothing feels like. United States open golf cham- Are we not revelling in the twelve pion is establishing a "wet" golf weeks" "coolth," which is Hong-club on the Vermont boundary. Kong's winter, when heaith is ro with a club house situated on the couped and life renewed?
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THE WEEK'S PICTURES.
Canadian side of the boundary line The interport cricket weck, where a legal "nineteenth hole". when teams from Shanghai and can be obtained. It is not expect Malaya come to challenge ours, ised that there will be any difficulty In golfers crossing and recrossing! "arrogant attitude." There was a large audience at also a gay and cheery event.
Day after day we turn out in our the boundary, as there is no duty This, of course, did not assist in the Club Lusitano last evening, solving the question of whether when a concert was given by finery, and nowhere is there a more on golf clubs and used golf balls, nor are the Immigration regula- Gugliemo Cattaneo appreciative audience., there exists any serious discontent Professor
4ions expected to hinder the cross- Tea at a Famous Club.
ing and recrossing during play. among the troops in Hongkong, but (pianist) and Signora Grannina undoubtedly reassurance to the Carvico (soprano). These two ar- House will be forthcoming within tistes sustained the whole pro Then, for one of the loveliest An aviation field will be laid down
Our representative a few days.
Aged 85 years, a Lucas (Kansas). interviewed the local military au- ramme, and they were loudly up-sighta'imaginable, commend me to in connexion with the course. thorities yesterday and Headquar-plauded for many of their num-the one of Hongkong Harbour bers. Classical items predominat- when the yachts-red and white ters, as was to be expected, made ed in the programme. For the oc. wings of occun-are racing, when man is giving away cigars In cele So long ago as July last, in light of the matter. Indeed, Messrs.casion, a special piano was secured members, are "tening" at the bration of the birth of a 10-pound
Whiteaway Ullmann's, a speech at Honiton, and later and the other firms concerned from the Anderson Music Com- famous club, and when ships of baby boy. Three years ago his when speaking In Scotland, may remark upon a certain levity, pany.
and suggest that if it la true that
Announcement is made by the Mr. Churchill touched upa soldiers get "fed-up" and must re- this problem. The points then lieve their feelings, they might Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels,
'Behind all this is the veritable. made were that, pound for pound, choose a medium a trifle less pain- Ltd., of the appointment of Mr. ful from the business point of view. Whitey Smith to the post of muste local rates were a worse burden It was also suggested that it is in- and entertainment manager of the fairyland which comprises Hong-
MANY IN TO:MORROW'S than Imperial taxes. They vary correct to suppose the military of entire system of hotels. Mr. kong, the land-locked harbour, and
TELEGRAPIL capriciously between one part of fenders Indulge in window-smash- Smith returned to Shanghai on the the Peak with its tiers of lordly ing in the hope of gaining imprison- Empress of Canada after a visit to mansions and such verdure as the
To-morrow's Telegraph will con- the country and another, and, ment and ultimately release from Hongkong, where he conferred world can surely show nowhere
Clubs are essential for exiles, tain an admirably varied selection unlike the Income Tax, they are the Service, Command Orders hav- with officials of the hotel company. elso.
ing made it clear that the offence Plans are now under way, for levied whether there are any pro-world not be dealt with by this several new and novel forms of and Hongkong is not lucking in of topical pictures dealing with fits or not. Another circumstance means. With this we cannot en entertainment for patrons of the these. They are at once a bless local activities during the past
It has travelled hotels operated by the companying and a joy. Here is to be seen week.
In the realm of sport, there will is that they penalise invidiously tirely agree."
and her best, and here is extended be excellent snapshots taken at the the producer in town or country through the ranks that civil sen both in Shanghai and other cities the Briton, of both genders, at his
the hand of fellowship.
South China Command and the who has to use extensive premises tence means discharge, and in addi- of the Orient.
tion, every barrack-room no doubt
The "Hongkong stare" is pro- Royal-Artillery meetings, as well as or bulky tools to carry on his busl-has its lay-lawyer, who will ex-
verbial out East, and although the a group of the Army and 'Civilian heavily pound to his brothers-in-arms his ness. They fall most
passing traveller may hire excuse football teams, which mot in the for belloving In its truth, it is final of the Lai Wah Cup, together be upon the basic industries which views on the Command Order.
It must not, however,
refuted when the ice is broken. employ the largest number of supposed, because one or two workmen, and they also fall with soldiers are tired of life in Hong-
New York We all get a aggravating effect upon the strug-kong, that there is a general feel- Paris
ing of discontent.
Brussels gling business whose plant, al-trifle aerieved with our jobs at. Genove
Amsterdam ready rated to the full, is running, some time or other, and Tommy is
only human after ail. Perhaps it is an perhaps, at only half or quarter ver, and a ration of "Fruit Sults" Berlin
Stockholm capacity. It must not be forgot would prove efficacious!
Copenhagen ten, either, as Mr. Churchill point-
Osio ed-out some time back, that where-
Vienna Among the passengers arriving prague, as the system of national taxation in revised every year by Parlia on the P. and O. Malwa yesterday Helsingfors
were a number of people well Madrid ment, the local rates are still levied known locally, Those on board in- Athens.. on principles dating from the 16th cluded Miss B. G. George, Mr. and Bucharest Century. It is with such points as Mrs, P. Jacks, Miss L. Bull, Mrs. Ris
G. R: Smith, Lieut A. E. Buck, CS/M. Johnson, Mra Watts, Eng. Comdr. H. Hall, Mr. H. R. Simp Hongkong son, Mr. G. M. Field, Mr. D. H. Yokohama Williams, Capt. H. Atkinson, Mr. Bliver (spot) 3. A. Bloomfield, Mr. N. M. Smith, Silver (forward) and Mr. J. D. Lloyd.
these in mind that the Government has now decided to direct its at tention to this extremely import ant aspect of the country's affairs. So far, nothing has been disclosed
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Human Life Stories.
with snapshots of some of the London, Apr. 20:
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.84.03 In our courts of justies is to be with sporting trophies, .25,82 found the most interesting of
Groups taken at the recent din- .1211 material; Human life stories arener of the Chinese and British, .92.08 always that, but what with the Medicine Associations and at the .20.40
Chinese Returned necessity of interpreters, the inaugural function of the Euro- 18.18
numerous domestic questions aris- American 18.20
ing from polygamy, the ever pre- Students' Union will also appear. 18.24
Bent pirate clans, reminding one of Other pictures will relate to the .84.67%
104 Conrad's characters; the ubiquit Toundation stone laying ceremoney 198%ous opium smugglers versed alike of the new wing of Morrison Hall 29.12% in craft and Ingenuity, here is at the University, and to the ro 374% interest and guile in abundance, cent wedding of Mr. W. Lumadon -7824
Dancing is such a feature all and Miss McKelvie at Union 5.59/64 over the world that it seems super- Church. 47.13/15
fluous to mention it.
1/5.1/But, noár Hongkong, at Re-inds and moonlit waters tempt us 20 pulse Bay Hotel, on a carnival from the strains of jazz, then, in- .1/11.25/84 night, when myralds of phos-deed, in dancing presented to be 26phorescent lights on the sea via in the very realms of Queen Mab ..28% with Chinese lanterna in ballroom herself.
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