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DAY BY DAY.
MANY PEOPLE TAKE NO" CARE 'OF'
do not apply to the votes brought forward in Committee. Yet how often does it happen that these suma, frequently representing THEIR MONEY TILL THEY HAVE COME' many thousands of dollars, are NEARLY TO THE END OF IT, AND The OTHERS DO JUST THE SAME WITH automatically endorsed?
TIME- Gotthelf. point we wish to stress is that, although not directly elected by
The T. and 0. "s.s, Kidderpore, the community, our Unomcial from Shanghai, is due hore at noon members are, in reality the guar- to-morrow. dians' of the public purse, and it
The R.M.S. Empress of Russin arrived at Nagasaki yesterday, in due at Kobe to-morrow morning, leaving in the afternoon.
The P. &. O., 8.8. Khiva, from is to them that the public looks Hongkong arrived at Marsailles on to keep a check on ill-considered the 15th February at 7.30 a.m. projects or needless expenditure. It is not enough that many of these items are covered by savings under other heads! extravagance is extravagance, no matter whence the money, is obtained." Our ap peal to the Unofficial members of Council, therefore, is that they cultivate and intensify an ut- titude of strict scrutiny when they meat in Committee to consider financial votes. In this v ty they will be serving the public.
In his final address to the Legislative Council before he left the Colony, Sir Cecil Clementi found cause for satisfaction in
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The
matters are threshed out in the privacy of committee meetings, very little opposition is shown in Council to Government proposals. Wo very much doubt whether this is in the public interest The ten-
Hongkong Telegraph.dency, we fear, is to 'drug" our
MONDAY FEB. 17, 1930.
A brown pointer dog, which was found wandering about near the Kowloon Star Ferry Wharf on Saturday, is now in the hands of the police awaiting a claimant. The owner should apply to the Wa- for Police Station.
POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.
Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. Inspector-General of Police, states
⠀
Chinese Company.
Squad Drill,--All recruits of the Chinese Company who have not yet passed part 1 of Training Course will attend at Central Police Station on Thursday, February 20th at 5.30 p.m. sharp for squad drill under P/Sergt. R. J. Hunt. Dress - “Mufti.
Training Couro -Part 2-All recruits of the Chinese Company who have not yet passed part 2 of Training Course will attend the instruction classes at the Police Training School, Kowloon, under Chief Inspector H. J. Paterson every Tuesday at 6.30 p.m. sharp, commencing February 25th,
Inspection Parade.—All' ranks of the Chinese Company will parade at Central Police Station Among the passengers leaving on Thursday, February 27th for on the Karmala. on Saturday" were the monthly inspection of Equip- Mr and Mrs. F. A. Britton, Capt. ment etc. by the Company Com- 9. H. Bates, Mr. and Mrs, F. niander. Fall in at 6.30. p.m. T. James, Mr. J. Jones, Bir. and sharp. Dress-Blue Uniform, Cap Mrs. C. E. Millard, Mr. and Mrs. with White Cover, Belt (without G. S. Moss and Mr. A. Stephen-Frog); Truncheon, Whistle, Arm- let and Badge, "Pocket-Policeman" and Noto-Book to be carried. Those not ín
or possession uniform will attend in 'mufti. Na member may be absent from this parade without leave from the
Commander. Company.. Equipment Officers will make it a point of being present.
800.
Mr. John Matty of New York is passing through Hongkong on his way to Indo-China where he will hunt big game. Mr. Matty and his father made a similar expedi- tion together a few years ago. He is a passenger on the President Cleveland.
Unofficials. In former days, when men of the type of Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Shewan, Mr. Murray Stewart and, as he then was, Mr. Pollock differed with the Government, they made no bones UNOFFICIALS & PUBLIC|nhout the matter, They were the
MONEY.
champions of the public. The leg. |Counell mettings in those days may have been a little stormier
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Local Honsurs. : .
to
The
Revolver Practice. — Revolver practice for members of the Chinese Company has been fixed for Sunday, March 9th and, they are requested to keep the date open.
Flying Squad,
di
On a charge of being in posses- sion of seven taels of prepared opium at the Mongkok Ferry Wharf, a Chinese, who had stated that he had just arrived from Canton, was fined $840 by Mr. Whyte Smith at
The weekly instructional patrol the Kowloon Magistracy this of the Kowloon Section will take morning. The opium was found place on Tuesday, February 18th. tied round the defendant's right Fall in at the Tsim-tsa-taul Fire Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter Uniform and Cap Mr. L. P. Quincey, Mr. C. En with White Cover. carnacio and Mr. F. Noodt, Shanghai jockeys, arrived on the of the Hongkong Section will take down at the racecourse Saturday tend this patrol. Fall in at the Prosident Clavoland and were all members are requested to at- place on Friday, February 21st, and
morning. Mr. Quincy is riding Contral Police Station at 5.15 p.m. for Mr. Chan Tin-alon,
sharp. Dress-Winter Uniform Encarnacao for Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Cap with White Cover. and Mr. Noodt for Measta. Hynes and Mackie) ....
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that la small comfort to the publié I think, might have indiced recon- English money.
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The weekly Instructional patrol
Sharpshooters Company. Strength.Constable R414 R. P. Dunlop has been taken on the strength of the Sharpshooters' Com- pany, as from February 13th,
Rifle Instruction-The Rife In- struction Class - will be held on Thursday, February 20th. at the
General.
He Very Sidoa!
Some recent howlera's"
from a debate which two Irishmen
The meaning of Irish Dull" las once had about a certain bull. They landed in court and spent a lot of money and the case was dismissed. So if a cabo is dismiss- after a lot of expense then it is termed an Irish Bull
A witch in a woman who has to earn her own living, and has no husband or anything.
A damsel is a little plum. Syncopation is emphasis on a note which is not in the plece.
A prospectus is n bill which a man sends to you when he wants your money. If he is found out he is sent to prison.
A compliment is when you any something to another which he and we know is not true.
Foreigners are neutralised when they settle in England.
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A man wanted by the police, had escaped from the country theatre where he was known to have hidden, and the Inspector had come over to set the policeman in. charge.
"Suppose you guarded all the entrancea?" he asked.
>!
"Oh, yes, I did that," came the reply. "I'm afraid he must have escaped by one of the exits."
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Willesden child witness-Daddy promised that when he received his insurance money we should all go to the dogs.
Man at Acton-I have never known my son tell a lie. He is too honest, I am afraid, to make any. money. In the motor trado.
A man accused at the Old Bailey with bigamy declared that his legal wife rarely washed her face, The Recorder-It is no excuse for committing bigamy.
Tem and Jack were quarrelling. nofelly when father came into the room;
"Now, boys," he said, "you'really must try to agree."
I."
But we do agree," said Jack. Tom wants this apple, and so do
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(The experimental use of paper
mulch on gardens and allotments has proved a considerable sucosas.) When I'va whitewashed the
scullery colling And painted the
anew,
greenhouse
Re-washered the taps, laid some
lino, perhaps,
And beaten a carpet or two: Put a couple of shelves in the
lärder
And several tiles in the roof. I shall paper the patch where
I've plantad a "batch
1/
Of chrysanthemums--holding
aloof..
Sonny "Must I sleep in the. dark!"
Mother-"Yes,"
"Oh, then, let me say my prayers over again more carefully."
WHO
WAS." LADY
CLONBRONY?
The way of tho social climber is proverbially hard, bolig beset with innumerable stumbling-blocks, as Lady Clonbrony found to her morti- fication. Musketry In-
It was quite refreshing to find than they are to-day, but the Unofficial members of the Legia-Government was never left in any intive Council, at the meeting of the doubt regarding Unofficial feeling Finance Committee last week, in a
To-day, unfortunately, it all too somewhat Inquisitive frame of
often la. mind. The general experience, when that body meets, is for meinbers to accept without question the
The discovery that he had been votes brought before them, evèn
Had the community been afford-robbed was made by Private Huce ton, of the King's Own Scottish though they often represent quite ed an opportunity of expressing Borderers, late last night, when large sums of money. In respect their views on the proposed in-it was found that somebody had of some of these items it may be stitution of a local Certificate of entered the Chaplain's Hut, that our Unofficials have secured Honour, to be awarded as special Scandal Point, by breaking open office of the O; 1/6. Company at 5.16 Information prior to the actual recognition for puble, services, one of the windowe and had de-
camped with clothing to the valuem. Members will bring their rifles, Revolver Practice. The regular meeting of the Committee, but the result, we are. Inclined
of $05, together with 23.10.0 in Revolver Practice will be carried out on Kennedy Road Range on Sunday, sideration of the hatter. The which, in the long run, provides Government,
March 2nd, at 10.00 a.m. Rißies will Admitting a charge of returning also be inspected, at this parade. the money, and which has a per-another way, the pubication of a from banishment after he had been Members will therefore bring their fect right to know the why and minute, in the financ votes last deported for life in 1925, a Chin- revolvers, holsters, belts and rifice. An informal revolver practico will the wherefore of these outgoings.week being the first intimation ese, who had disobeyed the order We will concede that Sir Cecil of such a proposal p the vast on two previous occasions, was sen- be held on Sunday, February 23rd. tenced to año yeur's hard labour by at the above range at 10.00 am. Clementi introduced a useful de majority, Including secral mem- Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Revolvers only need be brought."
hern of the Legislatie Council. Magistracy this morning. His parture from previous custom by it is far from our desire to Worship remarked that the defen- presenting these supplementary disparage an honour the purposes dant did not look as if he could On and after Wednesday, Febru- votes in a new form, with brief of which we are impejfectly ne- stand a birching.
ary 19th, a revolver shoot will take. place weekly on Wednesdays from printed explanations attached,quainted with; but we think that Convicted of a charge of resist- 21hra, to 23hrs., at the Bowen Road but, that fact notwithstanding, some further enlightenment is ing arrest by refusing to be search Revolver Range. there are many occasions when due. Even the lengthy debate ed and running away, a Chinese structor will be present. Atten- Initiated by the only tive critic was fined 326 by Mr. Whyte Smith, dance is entirely voluntary. These these somewhat terse official state-
in the Legislative Cuncil, the at the Kowloon Magistracy this practice shoots are open to all ranks ments might with advantage be Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga failed to morning. The defendant alleged of the H. K. P. H. K P. (R) and that the Indian constable had made also to Special Constables, and all draw the Government to a state.
unnecessary approaches and that persons holding permits to carry At the the moment, we are not ment regarding the type of he had objected, but, after hearing arms.
(Sd.) D. L. KING, D. §. F. (R.) particularly concerned with any person or the type ofservice to the evidence, his Worship register- of the items which
whom or for which theaward willed a conviction. formed the subject. of Unofficial querica
be made, and this polt was Mr.
concern when he A large number of Chinese of the Braga'a moin last Thursday, in fact, it might be spoke of the possibilites of in-coolie class appeared before Mr. contended that the votes which vidious distinctions. Ir Braga gistracy this, morning on charges Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- were questioned did not deserve was afraid, and we ap inclined of cruelty to pige by failing to pro nearly so much attention as they to agree with him at the moment, vide crates with sufficient matting. received. That point notwith-that some of the proposed re- Fines of $10 were imposed in. some standing, we welcome any sign cipients might look up the re- cases, while in others the defen- dants wore fined $5 according to the which shows that the members of commendation of their fames for number of pigs. Six others, who a Certificate of Honour "damn were alleged to have been sitting the Finance Committee are noting them with faint phise." It on the crates of the pigs on a always in a somnolent state of would be batter to makeļo award lorry, were each fined $5, mind. In our opinion, thers, is no at all than to run such a risk. better opportunity for scrutiny The Government, up to the pre- of expenditure than that provided sant, had produced no covincing by these periodical meetings of the argument as to the need for this
new honour. "The Chilman of Paris Finance Committee of the Council.the Finance Committee dew. Mr. Brussels The Budget debates necessarily Braga's attention to the fet that Amsterdam deal with points of policy and the Secretary of State ha algni Jopenhagen
Berlin
elaborated.
STORAGE CUPBOARDS, AND ALL really substantial financial com-fied his approval; just an hougl
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mitments, with the result that it that was the last word the need Helsingfors
Lisbon. Je not easy to secure modification be said on the subject. After-.
Bucharest.. of the general Government plans. peared to be that what good Shanghal
wards, the official argumen ap: Blenos Aires Opposition in such circumstances enough for the Straits Settlements Yokohams cannot be of great avail, although should be good enough for long Ganava
New York
we recall more than one occasion kong. The Hon. Mr. Ta'o ws ap- - Hilan when a strong Unofficial attitude parently of the opinion that Stockholm
Oslo has been effective. There is the the award will be an encofrage- Prague further fact to be remembered forward to assist in public work. 210
ment for the Chinese to come Madrid that with the plethora of subjects He is evidently better infrmed Bombay covered by the Budget, many pro- regarding the Certificate the the Hongkong posals are able to be overlooked, general public, which, we sprit, ver Cepat
Bliver foru The same considerations, however, is entitled to share the knowledge,
Athens
NEW GUNBOATS FOR CANTON
LATEST ORDERS GO TO
SHANGHAL:
Canton, Feb. 15. The Provincial Naval Department has made a now departure in order ing two gunboats to be built by tho Klangnan Dockyard in Shang- hal,
Nearly all the recently-construct- ed gunboats built for the Kwang- tung Provincial Fleet, now the 4th Naval Squadron, have been bulit by London, Feb. 16.the Talkoo Dockyard and Engineer
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ing Company, in Hongkong or by 34.00%
Messrs. W. 8. Bailey & Co., Ltd., 12.12版 20.361 or other well-known shipbuilders in 18.182 Hongkong.
8463 Though the Chinese shipbuilders 103 In Shanghai havá built a number .108% of gunboats and even light cruisers 1.818 for the Central authorities, this is 42.7/16
the first order placed in Shanghal by the Kwangtung Provincial author- 72012/0
Itles: for some considerable time. 44.88 5/32
1:25.20 The price of construction of the .02.01 two gunboats how ordered from the 18.12 Kiangnan Dockyard is said to be 18.18 $150,000 each-Our Own Corres- 201643|pondent,
88,844
16/322
/32 The annual meeting of the 18 Kowloon Residents Association is 20 to be held at St. Andrew's Church 10% HU, Kowloon, on the 28th instant, Mah Wirelesur-Jat's m
The Clonbronys were of that particular type of economic'. parasite known and detested In Ireland under the name of "abentee landlords.” They spont most of the year in London, squandering the rents of their neglected and tumble- down estates. Not that London society was their natural environment, for Lady Clonbrony was in inessentials Irish of the Irish, warm- hearted and good-natured, speech, spontaneous, of vivaciousland free of manner, but unfortunately afflicted with a yearning for social advanéé- ment,
In pursuit of this foolish: ambition she was ready to ruin her home, and her husband, and sacrifice her own person- ality. The estate could go to.. rack and ruin to provide money for the upkeep of her pretentious London establish mont her husband could": drink and gamble unreproved, he consented to so long as remain in England; ..... sho swallowed endless snubs, sup ported countless, humillations, in trying to force her way up the social ladder, and covered herself with ridicule by aping.. a genteel English accent, through which her. Irish: brogue would persist in peep- Ing with wholly ludicrous effect.
Maria, Edgworth, authoress of The Absentee" in which Lady Clonbrony appears, had 4 the cause of the down-trodden Irish peasantry greatly at heart, and employs Ber scorn for absentee: landlords with withering effect in drawing this character