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which has distressed the country for many years," adding "certain- ly this is the hope of the people
DAY BY DAY.
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Shanghai at 10 a.m. to-day and in The Empress of Canada loft due here on Monday afternoon.
EVIL IS MERELY PRIVATIVE,. 'NOT of America." The existing com- ABSOLUTE; IT IS LIKE COLD, WHICH mircinl treaties between tho | IS THE PRIVATION OF HEAT.—Emer- United States and Chiga cover n son. wide diversity of subjects, Inclyd- ing many which do not come under the heading of tariffs, and the position now is that, within the limits laid down by Mr. Kellogg's Note, America is willing to enter into conversations with a Chinese Government which had no hand in the conclusion of those carllor
The Water Authority has open agreements. In other words, shoed ten more streets fountains in concedes the Nationalist Govern- the water restricted mont's claim to be the rightful Hongkong. party with whom to negotiate on a subject which affects the whole HAS NO EQUAL country. That, RY WO
amounts to virtual if not actual re- cognition.
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LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.
15.-A Griffin Dines by Himself.
engaging thought! If he came out definito feeling) at the efforts of Even the most illustrious man-malice (or indeed any other very
here, was a "griffin" once. Nor is other newly arrived particles, it, as I In my grifin-like way for The question naturally occurs some time imagined it to be, a local to one: Is there any chance of a The Government Gazette devotes term. Sir W. R. Lawrence, in his distant collection of particles like 26 pages to the Air Navigation Orbook of reminiscences, describes Hongkong ever becoming itself der and the International Air Con-how he, as a grin in India, went radio-active, of producing zorgy- vention.
for a drive round Bombay with the idang of its own? There is no Indian friend of an Indian friend need to be unduly pessimistic about from University days, whom he place, but it seems that it will was glad to meet on arrival in the take something more than the ar strango land. Having covered a rival of a fresh batch of chargy good deal of dusty distance and particules to stimulate the mass visited the sights; they happened into radioactivity of its own." on returning to pass a club whore Europeans were playing tennis..
It may be that my friend has in- Lawrence suggested very, naturally dulged his scientific fancy a little that they should enter for rest and too freely at the expense of long- refreshment. But his friend smiled kong. After all, wo have to live. and shook his head.
Moat people come to Hongkong
nreas 10
The silk forwarded from here by the Empress of Russia on July 4th say. arrived in New York (St. John's Park) on July 25th having been 21 | daya in transit.
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"You may go in there," he said, purely with the idea of making enough money to exist comfortably, "but I may not."
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"But why is that?" "Beenuse I am an Indian."
This was one of his first shocks, confined to a consideration of the
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all the Powers having Treaty re- lations with China have again KELLER KERN & Co., Ltd and again made it abundantly clear that they are willing to pro- geed with the question of revi sion. Indeed, so far as Britain is concerned she has been positive than any other nation on the tariff issue, being the only Power openly to agree to the fm- position of the Washington sur- taxes. We also, regret the latest development because it tends to separate the Powers, all of whom THE AMERICAN NOTE. We represented at the special
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928
About Hong Kong.
Do you know that-----
The first Chinese barrister in he called to the English Bar was admitted at the Hong- kong Supreme Court?
Inter that he grew to understand acquisition of wealth by the the intensive distinctions between majority as comfortable and smooth races and castes. Here in Hong-ja process as possible. Naturally.. kong, though the distinction bes un-one likes to see a man starve, tween races is not quite so obvious, and if we can avoid having people and there are no chates, there are starve in Hongkong without unduly still plenty of pitfalls in readiness dislocating trade, the necessary for the unwary grin. Poor un-steps will almost certainly be taken, couth creatural One is moved to in due course. But as for bother. attempt a definition of this kind, aing our heads about the abstract, This was Mr. Ng Choy, is
for instance-One who goes about subjects, our newest griffin was with his mouth open and a child-discussing before he left London, he was then known, but he Inter became a notability aslike wonder in his soul, murmuring or even in the Union debates at his thing is Dr. Wu Ting-fang, father of
in gentle amazement from time to University, why the time:"No, really! Is that so?" Jobviously absurd, a waste of time, Dr. C. C. Wa, until recently
-to the amusement and exaltation and of no practical importance. Foreign Minister of the Nan-
of these more fortunate people who, Here we are face to face with Life, king Government. He was
knowing all the ropes, are well pre-and the sooner the griffin realises admitted on May 18th, 1877,,
pared to take the place of Pro-fit, the better. having previously been an in-
vidence or any other power in this terpreter in the Hongkong Police Court.
In 1880, he was acting Police Magistrate and in the same ' year became a member of the Legislative Council. He sub- Sequently joined the Chinese Government, and in 1897 the Chinese community of Hong- kong gave him, a Hig banquet ' on his appointment as Chin- Minister to the United
ese
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ERES CORRECT MAR
enlightened Colony-in fact, a Nevertheless the inclinationis ot gooper. How long he stays aman, however abstract, have always gooper depends on circumstancos, had a peculiar knacks of running but if hunian beings have the same away with him. There may Fot atatus as the ponies that are Im-come a time when our selentille ported periodically into the stables friend's vision of a radio-active of the Jockey Club, I understand he Colony in full blast may prove an stays grifin forly year. Perhaps accomplished fact. But in the the best way of placing him is to hreantime, though the picture of the give a table of synonymous terms. grifin entertained by the spent.
School
New Boy particles of his community may Fresher have something of a jaded look, there is no reason at all why the grillin himself should not be allow- led to enjoy his own adversitics..
There came a day when i dined......
University
R.M.A. Woolwich
Navy
Army
Civil Life
Snooker
Snolly Wart
Griflin
Tariff Conference called some time back to deal with this question ou A clone reading of the United identical lines. A reconvening of,, States Nute to the 'Nationalist Gov- that Conference would, we believe, mbent of China in regard toba a more satisfactory method of America's willingness to enter into handling the subject than would
It is perhaps a pleasing thought, by myself at the Club. It was not pointed Mr. T. W. Ainsworth to be that although we have come to the first time that I had dined at negotiations for the conclusion of the process of separate negotia District Officer in the Southern Dis-man's catate, we have not, all of the Club, but it was the first time a new Commercial Treaty reveals tion with the various Powers. At triel of the New Territories, · us, given up childish ways. On the that I had encountered Green
Putting 011 it to be a must carefully-worded |least, IL could pave the way to a
ather hand, is it?.... Even manQorn.
A bold is not immune from the laws of front, I entered the vast building, document. It is true that, In the complete overhaul of this all-im- course of the Note, Mr. Kellogg portant problem.
evolution. Many of us, in various handed over my hat to the marvel parts of the world, have a some-lous man in the cloakroom who what different outlook to 'what they takes no tickets but seems to re- maken reféreglee to "the readjust-
had in, any, 1841. Is it possible member grifin as well as taipane, ment of Treaty, 'obligations" and
that in Hongkong, mental evolution and ascended the long series of refers to Mr. C. C. Wu's request
has passed 'ya by?
complicated stairways to the book that the United States should ap
It is difficult to withhold a meed
lined gallery and the pleasant din- Passengers for Hongkong on the
Let us put it in the words of one ing room, where I humbly accepted point delegates "for the purpose of of sympathy from the culprit in Treaty negotiations," but the vital Major Willson's Court yesterday, P. and O. 8.s. Kalyan, due to of our local men of selence, to whom a table which did not look out over
the harbour. paragraph of the Note leaves no who, invited to plead in swer R. W. Tiggins, M.B., R.N., Mr. Rin minute but definite amounts,ing ante off my person, I studied.
arrive next week, include Surg-Lt.1 was talking the other day.
"Energy, he said, is given out! Then, having flicked all the fly- Fout for doubt that the Ameri-to the charge, cautiously enquired J. Sourbuuls, Mr. S. R. Tickner, called quantume. There is a beauti-the menu, and there it was, "Green
Safety First,
F Kowloon Inland, Lot 2130, situate at Monir Kok Tsui, is to be sold by public auction at the P.W.D. Offices on August 13th. The area is about 6,200 square feet and the upset price $10,850.
whether there would be any dif- Lt-Comdr. G..A, Worth.
very
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3,
jean intention is to negotiateference in penalty according to his
ful physical experiment in which Corn|=|= (ILK.G.)." It was chiefly Polely ON the tariff issue. Inter. Not only was, hè
a radio-active substance is placed the initials at the end that I fell that paragraph, Mr. Kellogg as human, and withal something of a Consulate in Hongkong. Mr. S. rtals Illuminated
The Chancellor of the Peruvian fan that it can emit energy into a for; of course I must try any spare com- speciality. I orderod it as a serts that " ani happy now to philosopher, but he appears to Barrios, together with his family,manded by a microscope. The vegetable, with my meat, and indue to state that the American Gov. have thoroughly embraced the will axil this afternoon
rarefaction of for transient.
course it came, a long thing with in this knobs on and white sauce in a ernment ja ready to begin at principies of "safety first" andarcelona, where he has been humid, atmosphere
transferred by his Government. #pace allows one to
see, vegetable dish. I took a spoon to se through the American therefore, to be possessed of wis-
through the microscope, the paths eat or a seemly portion, and suffer- | Minister to China, negotiationsdom in advance of many of his
of the so-called A. und B. particles ed my firal defent. The spoon. Madam Chal-sum, with the properly accredited re-presumed peers. Also apparently panied by General Chan Chai-tong radio-active substance, like tiny Carefully concealing my disappoint- accom-as they are discharged by the made no impression whatever. i presentives whom the Nationalist, he is possessed of a conscience, and other Canton oflicials, arrived projectiles from a very vigorous ment, I waved it away. But my though the Magistrate's attitude by the . Lung Shan, last night battery. On reaching the end of Chinese waiter was not to be put Government may appoint in re-illustrated that the law is no more and, it is understood, will proceed their trajectory these particles fall, off. Calling for a knife, he retired jeybuce to the tariff provisions of respecter of consciences, which to Nanking to join her husband.
cold and spent, and they do not seem Into a dark corner, and presently the treaties between the United sire so liable to become frayed in
capable of emitting fresh energy returned with the thing cut in States and China, with a view of persons. However, the incident Tuesday, July 31. The supply of
this enervating climate, than it is It is notified that on and after of their own.
half. I could now help myself; but "I um inclined to compare all was no balter off. concluding a new Treaty." The did not attract our attention be water to all wharves in Victoria radio-active centre with n great Having got it onto my plate italles, which are our ours, testify cause of the existence, of a con-will be turned off, and will remain metropolis, the centre of a common-amongst the meat, gravy, and to the limited scope of aclence, but because we believe the cut off while the present restric-London discharges from time to and fork were no more efficacious | wealth,—London, for instance. potatoes, I found that my knife and time is coming rapidly when tions on the Colony's water sup-time fresh quantums of energy in than the spoon had been. Through negotiations. The Note may, "Safety First" must be part of of course, imply that America is every man's creed, or even, as in Ply continue in force.
the shape of young men, new ideas,out the course I made furious digs quaint intangible hopes, the, frulls at it, feeling that the last thing I this case, that of endeavouring to on the
choose the lesser of two evils. It is hereby notified that, of keen discussion. These, parsu- could do was to accuse the H.K.C. Our Traffic Department has been at the expiration of three Ing their appointed path, fall hore of not having cooked it properly, very busy of late adding to the months, the Man Wing and there on mother earth, and lie, In the end, I had to resign, just too. number of white lines across our Steamship Company, Limited, and how cold? how spent? Some early. For at the opposite table a streels, and we wonder whether the Chinese Almanac Advertising of those with the longest trajectory gentleman, not a grimin, proceeded the Police are, doing their Company, Limited, will, unless of all eventually reach Hongkong, all unconsciously to show me the The significance of the Note, in beat to anticipate the trend of cause in shown to the contrary, be to be received with a stil, rather proper method. He took the whole our opinion, is that it amounts to events. We certainly envisage truck off the Reglater and the Com-tired friendship mixed with a kind of the proffered vegetable on to a ly derision, by a number of one-plate by itself, and then lifted it in a tacit recognition of the Nation-with a, feeling of awe, the life of pany will be dissolved.
time energy-particles even
more is hands and proceeded to nibble cold and spent than, themselves. it all down one side. A slight turn They find they are no longer of the fingers, and the process was Lanergy-particles, but merely grif- repeated "down another line of Ons, destined in due course to be grains. After about four runa, absorbed into the mass, to become the thing was demolished: So sim- a mere unit in the collection, tople, and yet so hard, for the un-- 124.05 smile kind-heartedly and without guided griffin!
the
sympathetically Inclined question of general Treaty revision, but it is certain that she desirea
to confine the initial negotiations
to the tariff'insue.
the
pedestrian when
new
of motor.
or more 34-
EXCHANGE RATES.
London, July 27.
allat Government as the Cavern-public utility services obtain their ment of China. But even hero Mr. full complement Kellogg a careful not to commit vehicles. Recent announcements himself too deeply, In January of speak of fifty last year, the. 3. Secretary of taxi-caba and a rival taxi-cab com- Parts
passenger omnibuses, forty Clyno State declared that his Govern-pany with fifty Morris saloon cars Brussels ment was willing to enter into ne-at their lisposal. It need not to Amsterdam gotiation "with any Government be pointed out that the trafic pro- Berlin
blem thus presented will require a Copenhagen of China or delegates who can little ingenuity at Police head. Vienna speak for China"" on this tariff quarters. We sincerely trust the Helsingfors
Lisbon question, and the fact that America white lines will not be depended Bucharest
upon for 'solution. It will be Buenos Aires is now ready to begin immediate little satisfaction if riding in an New York negotiations on the subject must ambulance 018 passenger, to Genova be read as implying the ballef exclaim that one was within the Milan
straight and narrow limits. of the United States that the Ewart was talking recently of life-Oslo
Mr, Stockholm Nationalists are in a position as to aaving classes as applying to awin- Prague speak. It is, however, pertinent to ming, and we suggest some other Madrid observe that in his latest, Note public-spirited gentleman shuld 4thons
forward Come
with
Rio all the Mr. Kellogg does not go further enthusiasm required for the com- Bombay than to affirm his belief that "a mencement of a "Safety First Hong Clab." It could concentrate at Yokohama new and unified China fa fa pro frat on teaching the principles of Blivor (spot and forward). cess of emerging from the chaos the hop, skip and jump.
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