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A MAN WHO CANNOT MIND.II19 ΝΟΤ ΤΟ ΒΕ OWN BUSINESS · IS
KING'S ENTRUSTED WITH THE Saville.
The R.M.S. “Empress of Russia" left Honolulu on the March and is due at Hongkong on the 30th
March.
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produce balance sheets or to pay, dividender it can, in the face of a probable deficit, always get mora income by the simple process of putting on more taxes. At Home, of course, auch a policy, carried to extremes, would prove disastrous to the Government, which would have to make way for some other Administration. Here, where poll- tica do not enter into the matter and where there are no voters to whom the Government has to give an account of its stewardship, the position is totally different. This
The forthcoming wedding is an- fact may explain in part. why nounced of Mr. Harold Fether stonhaugh Collier, missionary, economy is not practised to any Young Kong, Kwangtung, to Misa considerable extent in official clr-Frances Dorothes Willis, mission
ary, of the same address.
cles here.
Failing off a rock, from which he was fishing yesterday, Chung Kin, aged 65 years, a vegetable gardener living at. Hop Wo Shek Village, was drowned in a pool.
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MACAO NOTES.
"VENEZIA" MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION.
Macao, Mar. 15. When one week ago it was ro ported that the Venezia would
"great interest WAS make a trip over to Macao on aroused in Macao, and many per Saturday sons took advantage of the op- portunity to visit the vessel when she berthed at a wharf specially rented for the ship.
more
The Very Idea!
An amusing account of a vul. ture "red-eyed, mangy, and fero.. cious"-purchased by Alexandre Dumas in Africa for 12 francs, is told In The Incredible Marquis," which is a Gollancz book. Incredible offort was needed to put Jugurtha (as Dumas named France. As' the cage was too this undesirable pet) aboard for heavy to be carried, a long rope was attached to the, bird's neck, and Dumas attempted to drive it before him like a turkey." But the air. When jerked down to the vulture scornfully soared into
Old Golfer: "How many holes
New Golfer: "Not more than four or five. It has taken me all
have you played?"
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It was found, however, that the wharf was not suitable for the vessel, and it was decided to berth the Venezia on the following day the new port. This was done on earth again it attacked Dumas's legs, leading to reprisals with a at the new Government wharf in
Eventually Jugurtha sur last Sunday, in the morning.
Owing to the difficulty of trans-stick. porting luggage from the new port, rendered to its fate, though with till better arrangements are con- sullen reservations," and stalked cluded to facilitate this business, gloomily to the ship. Under the Crown Agents sys-
Wo Fat-yam, a stone-mason em-the Venezla did not make tem, there is, as was pointed outployed by the Sang Lee firm of than one trip during the week THERE ARE DOMESTIC at last Thursday's meeting, some contractors, has been admitted to past; but this morning the fast discretion allowed the Colonial the Kowloon Hospital, suffering vessel again made the trip over from injuries to his left eye and from Hongkong, bringing almost Government in the purchasing of arms, caused by blasting opera-350 passengers.
The Venezia left Hongkong at the time to put the turf back." materials and stores. Looking the tions.
nine o'clock and "ame alongside
shortly after In reply to a letter asking a big matter.up, we find it laid down
Convicted on a charge of steal the pier at Maca that local purchases are to be con- ing an iron rod from a building 11.30 a.m. The trip from Hong multiple-shop provision firm in fined to articles produced in the contractor in Hunkow Road, an kong was, therefore, made in but. London to collect an empty jar. Colony or to articles which, owing elderly Chinese was sentenced to little more than two and a half "D.G.F" informs me that he re- three months' hard labour by Mr.hours, which must be almost a received the following reply: "We order to hand this morning, and to special circumstances, can be Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma-cord for the trip from Hongkong thank you for your esteemed
gistracy this morning. The de- to Macao.
The owners of the ship took have given our carman instruc fendant had three previous con- the Colony as they can be ordered victions, of which two were for advantage of the opportunity to tions to uplift the empty jar when
invite many of the residents of delivering your goods to-day." Macao to attend à reception on The use of the word "uplift" in from abroad. That is the general stealing.
same this connexion is new to my cor. board the Venezia on rule, although there are other re-
A further batch
day at 2 p.m. Many of the resid- respondent as it is to me. Is it in business quirements also laid down. Mr.
appeared cyclists
If so, says à writer, I selves of the opportunity to visit jargon? Owen Hughes has now shown that Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma-ents of the Colony availed them- the latest thing special circumstances do prevail [gistracy this morning on charges the vessel, and many expressions feel that the goods ought to have Still, it is merely "delivered." at present in Hongkong which of failing to observe the traffic of appreciation of the vessel's been "cast down" instead of being
regulations. Several of the de- appointments have been made, make it possible for merchants to fendants
Work is proceeding to complete doubtless an excellent thing to were alleged to have supply certain Government ma-been caught describing circles on the new wharf for this ship in the have uplift in business. It helps terials cheaper than the Crown the roadway. Each offender was inner harbour, and it is belleved to counteract the notion that there
fined $10.
that with the complation of this is anything sordid about it. wharf, the Venezia's projected When the time for spring cleaning Agents can, and we shall look to
A Chinese who was charged be-weekly excursion trips to Macao comes I think I must ask the firm the authorities to keep that fact well in mind during the prevailing fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow-every Sunday will make the Macao which I patronise to uplift my loon Magistracy this morning with trip an even more popular one.
Adamastor Arrives. trade depression. The Crown causing cruelty to two fowls by Agents system may have its ad-carrying them in a crate which
THE WORLD.
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. purchased as advantageously in
Sole Distributors BONG KONG & S. OHINA.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY MARCH 18, 19'0.
THE CROWN AGENTS SYSTEM.
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of young Mr. before
Business men of the Colony are vantages from some standpoints, was too small. for the purpose-was
but, as we have remarked, there appear grounds for thinking that, in the ordinary course of events, far too few orders are given by the Government to local concerns.
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Chaos in China.
Fu-chu and Shib Yu-shan,
WAR
with
fined $5 by his Worship. It was stated that the chickens had in- were protruding through the crate. sufficient room
and their
the
a
carpets.
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The road was up, and the The Portuguese gunboat Adam-
navvies were eating their midday after arrived to-day astor lengthy voyage from Portugal, meal. A jovial clergyman passing This gunboat has come to Macao by remarked: "Good afternoon. to replace the gunboat Patria Al fresco, to-day?"
"Who's ridin' 'im, guvnor?" which has served in Maceo for a good many years. The Adamastar asked one of the navvies. is not new to the port, having been in China during the troubles a few years ago, and spent some months at Shanghai.
It is not known when the Patria will be withdrawn from service, and this vessel continues to occupy In addition to the Patria and the her anchorage in the new port
also berthed in the same anchorage Adamastor, the gunboat Macas is in the new port.
Other Items.
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Two golfers, strangers to each tournament. other, were drawn as partners in a seaside foursome One was clearly a novice at the game. He had a positive genius for sending the joint ball into the rough, d
At last his exasperated colleague "you've paid your entry money, approached him and whispered- haven't you?"
"Certainly," replied the other, indignantly.
"Very well," said the first man, confidentially, "I just wanted to tell you that if you've paid you are quite entitled to use the fairway."
BETTER WEATHER.
east coast of China and over the North China Sea. The local fore- cast is:-NE. winds, fresh; over- cast, with rain; possibly improving later.
no doubt duly grateful to the Hon. Mr. Owen Hughes for bringing for- ward, at the recent meeting of of the
A female living at 3, Cedar the Finance Committee Legislative Council, the desirabi
Street admitted, before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy lity of the Government placing as
this morning, charges of being in many orders as possible with local:
possession of 1.8 taels of prepared oplum and keeping the floor as an firme. Convenient and economi-
While Chinese militarists refusé opium divan. On the first charge cal as the arrangement with the
prisonment was imposed with a Crown Agents may be in some in- to recognise any kind of proper-a fine of $140 or one month's im- stances, we cannot help feeling tion, political and economic chaos further fine of $100 of another
inevitable. There may be month on the second count. that in the past many requisitions are
in the North in the
Coming Concert. have been placed with them which civil war
post of Manager of the Hongkong
Macao patrons of music will might easily have gone to local course of a week or two. There To mark his resignation of the business houses. There is moreover, may not. It would be highly ven-Electric Co., Ltd., Mr. F. R. Marsh have the pleasure of listening to turesome to prophesy one way or was yesterday the recipient of Mias Margarida Gomes on the 22nd the further argument that if any
the other, for the simple reason gift from the members of the instant, at a concert given by this preference is to be shown, It!
that the factors which would Local Staff Association of the young lady at the Macao Club. Company. This took the form of The concert will be the first given should decidedly be in favour of
govern a similar situation in any
a travelling clock and an address, by Miss Gomes at Macao since her local firms, who pay huge sums to other faction-torn country do not the ceremony being performed by return from the United States. the Government in rates and taxes, apply. The intimate glimpse that Mr. C. G. Silva. Mr. Mareh. is to Miss Gomes took part in a
at Hongkong some whereas the Crown Agents' in-has been afforded of the relations be the Company's consulting en-formance
The Royal Observatory reports terest in the Colony is confined to of the Kuominchun leaders, Han gineer and London representative. weeks ago when she was given a part in a show produced by the
at the that the anticyclone has dispersed Appearing before Mr. Whyte Italian Opera Company securing the commission which
over the Yangtze the Nanking Government, is so Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy Star Theatre. Those who heard and another of little intensity hus it obtains on every order.
typical as to be worth recapitula- this morning on a charge of re-Misa Gomes on that occasion have developed At the present time, especially, tion. A few short weeks ago, turning from banishment, a Chin- expressed themselves as being Valley. A depression is situated fresh mon- when, by reason of the low dollar. Shih Yu-shan fighting a ese was sentenced to eight months' very pleased with her singing, in the northern part of the Sea of
with a Nationalist hard labour and fifteen strokes of which has improved remarkably Japan. Moderate to the cost of Government is steadily fierce battle
was deported for five years in some years ago. going up and business, men are army within forty miles of the the birch. The defendant, who since Miss Gomes went to America soon will prevail along the south- finding outlets for trade few and capital, and Han Fu-chu was an September last, was also charged
His Excellency Dr. Joao Bianchi, far between, the plea for more active adherent of his Kuomin- with being in possession of dup-
chun colleague. The emergencelicate keys, but this latter charge Minister for Portugal to China, who is on leave in Portugal, paid consideration being shown to local
of Yen Hai-shan us a challenger was dropped.
a visit to the Department for firms comes with added force. As to Chiang Kai-shek was partially
On pleading guilty to charges Foreign Affairs in Lisbon on Mr. Owen Hughes took pains to influenced by the natural belief of being in possession of 1.5 taels February, 4th last.
Recent news from the Portu- point out last Thursday, there are that he could depend on these well- of prepared opium and 1.8 taels
to support his of raw opium, a Chinese of 345, guese Colony of Timor reports the considerable stocks of material served chiefs But "enuse."
Nanking put a Reclamation Street was at Kow-punishment of several army men, used by the Government at present in the Colony, stocks which have somewhat reluctant hand into the loon to-day fined $140 on the first officers and sergeants, for
count and a further $54 on the variety of offences, including a been bought at an exchange rate war chest, the Han-Shib alliance second. It was stated that the breach of the law relating to the with which the Crown Agents to declared its allegiance to Nanking, premises were entered on a war-liberty of the press.
It seems likely that a number and Yer Hsi-shan became less rant taken out against an unlawful day could not possibly competenthusiastic about his anti-Chiang society but the wanted persons had of the Macao Government em- will be transferred to Timor to To judge from the replies given to campaign. The war threat had left two days before, while the deployees at the Wireless Station assist in the installation of a questions by the Colonial Trea-been forestalled, or so it was fendant was the new tenant.
wireless service in Timor-Our aurer, the Government does not fix thought. But Han Fu-chu and
Own Correspondent, its exchange when making an or-Shih Yu-shan have fallen out over der, preferring, for some inexplic-he division of the spoils, and the able reason, to await the actual latter has sent an envoy to Tai- yuanfu to announce his support of arrival of the materials. It may the Reorganisationist cause. Yen be the case, as the Colonial Trea-Hai-shan will welcome him with
It is stated that damage to the Paris surer observed, that the Govern- open arms. That is the astonish amount of $3,000 was caused to a
New York of money ating part about it. He is already junk by a Japanese coal-steamer, Brussels ment has "a lot Home," but that does not dispose encouraged to resume his attack when the two came into collision Geneva
Amsterdam of the fact that in regard to cer-on Chiang Kai-shek, and present off Wanchai yesterday,
The Incident, as reported by Milan tain votes passed last Thursday it indications are that a campaign
will soon begin. It is, of course, Cheung Chung-kol, accountant of Berli had to pay more than it would foredoomed to failure. Presum-the junk was Heing towed by the Oslo
the trading junk, T5424H, was that Stockholm
Copenhagen have done if the exchange rate had ing for a moment that he is strong steam launch, Kwang Yick, owned Vienna been fixed when the goods were enough to oust Chiang Kai-shek by the Hing Kee Steam Launch Prague ordered. The vital point is that which is to be doubted-his Company, and when off Wanchai, Helsingfors
Lisbon more money has to be paid, and troubles would merely begin when a Japanese coal steamer, name Madrid. The result, it is estimated, is Athens .. Bucharest he entered Nanking as the "con-unknown, collided with the junk.. queror.". We believe Yen to be that damage to the extent of Rio firms conducted their affairs on
more honest in his politics than $3,000 has been caused to the junk Buenos Aires the same lines as the Government, most of his kind, but while be. It was carrying a cargo of rice Bombay
Shanghai they would stand a very good surrounds himself with money at the time, but this remained chance of becoming bankrupt in grubbers, he becomes as bad as intact.
Silver (spot) the process. The trouble is that the worst of them from the view. Subsequent to the collision, the Yokohagia
junk was towed to safety by the Silver (forward) steam launch; the Government does not have to point of Ching's well-being,
it seems to us that if business
HARBOUR COLLISION.
JAPANESE SHIP RUNS INTO JUNK.
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