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over thhty Conservatives were absent unpaired, some of them because they do not favour Pro- tection in any formi.. Whether the Party will eventually swing de finitely in favour of what used to be called the "whole hog" policy, time will tell. Much may depend
DAY BY DAY.
1929.
ONLY CHARACTERS IN FICTION HAVE NO SAVING QUALITIES. YOU NEVER HEARD OF ANYBODY IN REAL LFE BEING ENTIRELY BAD-R, W.- Chambers.
:
I on the attitude of Mr. Winston been appointed to H.M.S. Tamar Engr. Captain H. D. Sears has
Churchill. The real Protectionist Die-Hards may be counted upon to do their utmost, even to the ex- tent of ousting Mr. Baldwin from the lendership of the Párty, al though the ex-Premier recently
Chaplain Rev. H. W. G. Arscott has been appointed to H.M.S. Cornwall.
declared that if the insurgent
·movement against him prevails, he will finish with politics for good. Tariff wars, which are practical- ly inseparable from the Protec tioniel system, have evil results, "and do much to engender bad feel- That is ings between nations..
It is notified that the Chief Justice now being illustrated in the re- has appointed Mr. M. J. Breen to percussions of the United Statesbe a commissioner to administer outlis, take declarations, clc., vo Tariff Bil, one feature of which long as he holds the post of Colonial is a movement by leading trade Treasurer. associations in France to elabor ate a scheme of preferential tariffa and other measures to enable
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CORRECT SPELLING.
An Unconventional View.
•
The topic of orthography may their renders to arrange those Jet- be discussed with learning, as by ters as they saw fit. People spel- the etymologists;, with humour, as led in those days by the car rather by optimistic persons determined than by the eye, with results that to make the best of a bad matter; were constantly navel and fre Contrary to with exasperation, na by those quently artistic. who have never learned to spell; one's expectation, they never leave or with diedain, ne by the scholarus in doubt as to their meaning. and the gentleman. In all these One may read the Paston Letters, ways It has already been discuss in which the spelling is almost. Tenders are being invited for, not to mention the special riotous, as ensily as the morning" the construction or a moter road angles of approach of the spelling newspaper. We have not gained reformer, the pedagogue, and the much, then, in legibility by our from Garden Road to May Road.
fexicographer. ·
docile acceptance of orthographic My own altitude is slightly law, Certainly we have not gained different from any of these. in case, nor have we saved time Mr. J. Fawcett is appointed am not orudite or angry or dis- for our children or for ourselves. acting Inspector of Storehouse--dainful about correct spelling; The only advantage that we have am merely plaintive, and my obwon by correct spelling is in & men, Hongkong Naval Dockyard.
Jections to it are almost entirely tasteless uniformity, and of this altruistic. Although I have never there is perhaps more than enough learned the so-called "rules" of already in the world, English spelling, my orthography
Down to the time of John Dry is not positively disgraceful, and If I could only be quite sure at don educated people had spelleg all times and at a moment's notice their English, both in privat about the spelling of "leisure" and letters and in manuscripts intent "desicente" and "gipsics" (or ed for the press, pretty much as shquld it be "gypsies"), I might they liked, but all through the even call my orthography fairly seventeenth century English prin- tera were working out a standard good.
This I owe to no effort of study spelling to which they reduced all of any sort, but chiefly, I think, to into their hands. And this was a power of visual memory which a perfectly sensible arrangement. enables me to revive the image of John Milten, for example, spelled almost any word that I have once to suit himself; his printers seen in print. Spelling comes changed his spelling to sul tacir easily to me, so that in my pre different notions. sent complaint I am not thinking of myself but about the struggles people began to think that prin of numberless children throughout fer's spelling was in some way the English-speaking world with superior and began to imitate the the meaningless vagaries of "ie" orthography which they found in and "ei" and also about the books. One may think very highly efforts of foreigners to master the indeed of printers, as I do, and various phonetic values of "ough." yet see that this was an absurd When once the general
It is notified that the names of James Der A Wing Co., Ltd., the Leong Hing Co., Ltd, the Kwok, Shun Wo Co., Ltd., 'have been struck off the register,
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. European nations to wage a trade Tai Tabneco Co., Ltd, and the Hung that I can remember; to ro merit the individual vagarios that came
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and tariff war against America. Many of the measures proposed, such as the lowering of tariff
His Excellency the Governar walls in Europe, the" improvement of transit facilities, and the simhas appointed Mr. E. P. 11. Lang to act as Official Receiver in plification of Customs formalities, Bankruptcy in addition to his are such that they will readilynther duties, during the absence Mr. E. 1. Agassiz and THOMSON-AL Victoria lespi-command the support of all of
fal, on August 15th, to Mr. genuine Free Traders, although Registrar of Trade Marks.
# Mrs. A. Thomson,
the end for which they are de
His Excellency the Governor daughter.
vised in to be regretted. As one writer has expressed it, countless has received information front the Secretary of State for the Colon- Al- tariff wars show the futility of ins that Senor Don Antonio relying on Satan to cast out Sat to exandrino Rosello Botelho has in this as in other fields, and it is been appointed Honorary Consul of the Republie of El Salvador doubtful whether the growing op-In Hongkong. position to the new tariff in Am- erica will be assisted by threats from outside.
and
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 1929.
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In
been
Mr. Lesile Ross, of Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood, who has in the Penk Hospital for some weeks past suffering from typhoid fever, is now practically convalescent, and will probably be out and about in the course of a week or ten days.
foot..
IN
The mistake was made when
error.
are there
One cannot help thinking of publie had made this initial blan- these things when he considers the der, the makers of dictionaries ell- great emphasis that is laid upon forced it; schoul-mustera establish- correct spelling in the United ed it, the "spelling bee" made it States, I am not quite sure of popular, and now the nation-wide the facts, but as I imagine the contests in America are lending situation almost every public even a kind of glamour to our school in the Union selects by com- servility.
We should observe that what la petition a champion speller, these school champions compete for the
of their cities, called the correct spelling of u championship
one word that is to say the spelling the city champions spell another down In contests agreed upon by printers and lexi- for the representation of the cographers-is almost always the state least interesting thing about it; state, and, finally, the champions meet at Washington for and the least valuable thing to
know. By concentrating the at Despite the experience of the
the last great tournament. While the suggestion
All this is very exciting, no tention of school children upon General Election, when the voters
actual war has been started registered their decided preference Manchuria could not bear Two lots of Crown Innd are to be doubt, and nothing can be said this alone we tend to shut out all for Free Trade, a determined at- analysis, the general situation as
sold at the P.W.D. offices on Sep-gainst it so long as every one curiosity about the word's history, tember 2nd. These are R.B.L, 324, thinks of spelling contests un ants derivation, its vartove shayles tempt is evidently being made to between Soviet Russian and China Pokfulum Road, with an area of indoor sport, but as soon as the of meaning, and we tend to en. commit the Conservative Party gives rise to grave disquiet, about 66,900 square feet and upset notion gets current that correct courage the ludicrous notion that Im-when once the child can spell a once again to a policy of full- Tension is greater to-day than price $20,070; and Inland Lot 2914, spellings somehow very
in-Wonencichong, area about 5,000 portant and that ability to space given word he has ga ud some blooded Protection. A few weeks during the critical period
Ideas of this sort when they are and even of intelligence, then it ago, Mr. Neville Chamberlain de-mediately following the seizure square feet, and upset price $2 per correctly is a mark of education power over it.
is time to call a halt-then I say encountered in popular magic are livered a speech to the Empire In- of the Chinese Eastern Hallway,
that I greatly prefer the schoolboy properly called superstitions, but when we find them in our schools A dustries Association, in which he and the casual and insincere
disguised gestures
we call them educational. pence The Principal of the Naval and contests in marble-playing. advocated that his Party should negotiations, have not helped Military Y.M.C.A. branch of the
It is certain that we do already sound theory of education would Health and Strength League, of adopt "a new industrial policy" of matters. The last few days have whose members we give a photo overestimate the importance of not suggest that words are to be Imperial Preference, although it been marked - by series of graph in our Pictorial Supplement correct spelling, not only in the attacked by the memory alone, but is worth noting that the next day clashes between the rival forces to-day, is Mr. A. D. Spoors, a well-schools but in business offices and rather that they must be studied Conventional ortho- with active curiosity, with delight? on a much known amateur strong man who in Hocfety,
has become almost in their individualities, with th he added that he was not prepared along, the frontier,"
necessary to
social and historic sense, and above all with>] to advocate a tax on foreign wheat more serious scale than formerly.holds several records for weight-graphy
lifting. Mr. Spoors is prepared to
business success s conven- imagination, • at this time. Lord Beaverbrook The important feature of these accept challenges for weight-lifting
tional attire, and has followed this up by a vigor-still very minor incidents is that contests locally,
many men who would no more A great writer may of course in every case they have been
thinking of writing "quatte" as be able to spell in the conven ous campaign in his newspapers for the abolition of every trade brought about by Russian aggres-
In order that a complete list the name of a certain domestic tional way, but not the slightest sion and appear to be part and
record animal than they would of wear- fraction of his literary power is. may be maintained for barrier between the Mother Coua
purposes, Indies and gentlmen ing a black cravat with evening attributable to this faculty and le try, the Dominions, the Colonies intimidation or annoyance. China resident in Hongkong, other than dress, yet they write "quay" as if can do well without It. and Dependencies, and a tariff not only replies that she is not those new serving in His Ma- it were spelled key." And what Shakespeare spelled his English It is we shall probably never know, atid barrier against the foreigner, to be scared into submission,jesty's Forces, who have had any is wrong with "quatte?"
but does it not look somewhat bo certain that he spelled very “until such time as he shall plead but she retaliates by despatching decoration conferred upon them longer than "cat," to be sure it does not much matter. We may by His Majesty the King, are more feline? Would it not add a badly according to the printeria for economic admittance into the 60,000 fresh troops to the vital asked to inform the Chief Clerk,
touch of individuality to one's standard, and yet there are not Colonial Secretariat if this has not
five words in all his writing that greatest Free Trade unit the world strategic points, Manchuli
puge?
are uncertain because of his The first bye-Sulfenho, a move which we can already been done..
Ah, but how triumphant a has ever seen."
Small Latin, less view anly with misgiving from
business house would be to find urthography, election fought largely on this is-
such a spelling in a letter written Greek, and no formal spelling every point of view. The Nan-
The health bulletin of Eastern by one of its rivals! How the whatever, went to his equipment. king leaders have assumed a ports for the week ended Balur- fine ladies would arch their brows These deficiences in his education great responsibility in issuing day last, issued by the Director over, it, consigning the writer to do not, of course, explain his a poet, but at least such an order, and we suspect of Medical and Sanitary Services, the ranks of the unvisited and the greatness as
We can no longer they left him free to think of that General Chang Hauch-liang contained the following cases, uninvited! has complied with the greatest the figures in parenthesis indicat-afford. "quatte," or anything of words on the fluid, elusive, and reluctance. It has been obviousing deaths: Plague, Port Said its genial and iclsurely and liber-everchanging things that they are. Bassein (3), Rangoon (2), Bang tarian kind; although we cannot In saying this I realize that it for some time that there called, only just got in with a
iskok 3 (3), Pnom Penh 6 (5), all of us be printers or makers is too iste to do anything actually majority of 505, compared with his distinct cleavage of opinion be-Saigon 1 (1); Cholera, Bassein 3, of dictionaries, we take our epel- sensible about spelling.
tween Mukden and Nanking as Calcutta (28), Karachi (1), ling from these worthies without teachers and printers and diction- predecessor's majority of nearly to the treatment of a
delicate Nigapatam (4), Bangkok 2. question, and insist that others ary makers are firmly united in the strange bellef that words must 6,000 at the General Election. We situation. Mukden is naturally Shanghai (24), Chaton 2, Dairen shall do the same.
be spelled in their way, only and read, in this connexion, that thou-guided by the economic factors. 1. Aden 17 (G), Bombay 18 (9), 1, Swutow (2); Small-pox, Berbera
There was a time, and that not the rest of us have no choice. We sands of Conservatives abstained The suspension of the Chinese Calcutta 3 (2), Karachi 1 (1), long ago, when ladies and gentle-are taught conventional spelling from voting, nat being prepared Eastern Railway has already re- Madras 16 (6), Moulmein 8 (3), man speiled their English freely, before we are old enough to see its to adopt Empire Free Trade as sulted in a tremendous, loss of Pondicherry 3 (1), Batavia 2 (2), as though it belonged to them. futility. Ifere and there, to be the policy of the Party. This revenue, and Chang Hauch-liung Macasser 1 (1), Belawan Deli 1. The lotters of George Washington sure, we find a rebel, like the Sourabain 1, Pnom Penh 2 (1). show some marks of this old brave youth I remember who once scheme of Lord Beaverbrook's is not particular as to the man Dairen 1, Swatow (2),
liberty, and the manuseriple of said to me: "Why should I learn I shall always have John Milton show still more. Forto spell?.
For It was not the ignorant and the un-n private stenographer." lottered only who, spolled as they those who cannot afford private pleased, but the greatest scholar atenographers the spelling re- Francis Bacon often spells a word formers hold out some slender in two or even three different hopes, but no such timid measures as they propose will help us. ways on a single page."
The Senators of Venice seem to Spelling cannot be reformed. It have been content to get about, should be abolished altogether. the right number and selection of 0. S. In the Christian Science, letters into a given word, leaving Monitor.
sue, that for Sir William Jonson
'Hicks' former seat at Twickenham, proved a distinct set-back for the movement, as Sir John Ferguson, an ardent supporter of the "Em- pire Crusade Campaign," as it is
pareel of a studied policy bf
ner
and
of the settlement of the
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WATER LEVELS.
bears a close resemblance to the dispute, so long as it is settled. late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's Nanking, on the other hand, is movement, although it is explained anxious to create an impression, that the former Tariff Reformer's believing there is kudos to be project was for a tax on foodstuffs, gained in deflunce of big FOR WEST, NORTH AND with a rebate to the Dominions, Power. The decision to despatch
EAST RIVERS. whorens the new plan provides for large forces to the border, grave-
The following table, compiled no tax, whatever on foodstuffsly increases the dangers of n from the Empire.
It has to be serious outbreak of hostilities, by the Board of Conservancy Works of Kwangtung, shows the which may casily lead to a water levels in English feet on remembered, however, that there
general conflagration. Rusalu is the West, North and East Rivern are still a good many Free Traders even more at fault, but this very on the dates named: in the Conservative ranks, and in fact should
Aug. 15. Aug, 16 engender greater
1
How
School
Observatory returns show that] The forthcoming wedding is the average mean temperature for announced: of Mr. Wynyard Hal- July was 81.6, the highest being len Cottam Bouchier, bailit, No... 922 and the lowest 74.4. There 317, Nathan Road, to Miss Emma were 22.70 Inches of rain, and 175.7 Dolores d'Encarnacao dos Re hours of sunshine, whilst the aver- medios No.
Humphrey's
the first division in the new Par-caution at Nanking. China will lament recently, which resulted in not secure sympathy by answer- an anti-Protection majority of 120, ing Jingolam by jingoism.
Shiuhing
Taingyuen
Shamahu!
30.6.30.1.
8.8 .19.2
8.9 19.0
Sheklung
+4.5
-118.
age humidity was 84.
Avenue.