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THE K.C.C DINNER.
The spirit of conviviality and good- fellowship for which tha Kowloo Cricket Club is, moted prevailed at Canton is to have, its west Bund their annual dinner which was held lengthened.
st the Hoaglong. Hotel on Saturday.
A Canton ricsha coolie found $100 in a bag. It is recorded that he cried for joy.
Today's return of communicable disease shows two cases of plague and six of cerebrospinal fever.
slavishly followed precedent which, in such a context, lapot a happy phrase. If the Execu tive 23 were the best men on the | 11/166. occasion of the precedent, they are likely to be the best men yet.. Ta do the right thing" twice, or even oftener, is not a slavish proceeding, However, our contemporary was voicing an important section of public opinion in expressing the objection to the frequency of the "cat and dried element. There to much of it. At a recent Club meeting, "not reported by the Press, a committee practically re-elected itself, dealing with a portion of the voting papers only, and without; in scrutinizing sub-committee chosen by the members, as would have been proper. It is an excellent committee, as it happens, and there isn't a single member prepared to find a fault in its excellent, record: but there it a principle is involved that
entitled to respect. A slackness which leads to no harmful result among good men will be taken advantage of by bad ones, when the time comes. The China Mail, having long aga pointed out that the Peace Celebration tune should have been chosen by the peo- ple who are to pay the piper, is morally bound to lend support to the Daily Press criticism, and hereby does so. There is a real body of public opinion behind it, audible only in holes and corners (as usual) but the authorities who jockey us may find that it will yet express itself-in the amount of contributions forthcoming.
OUR INADEQUATE FERRIES.
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No proud citizen of Hongkong. boasting of our progress bere, cares to dwell long upon our Ferries. He cannot honestly say that the Star Ferries match the rest, or that they are all they should be. Without stopping to introduce by way of comparison such comparatively small
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1919
GYMKHANA MEETING.
HANDICAPS,
ONCE ROUND-HANDICAPS. 'A" CLÄSS.
The following are the Handicape
GERMAN LIQUIDATION
CASE,
“JŪDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT,
In the Supreme Court this mor
night Mr. R. E. Lindsell whs in for First Gymkhana on 5th Apring, the Chief Justice (Sir Wilbe
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Bees Davies, K.C.) ga za judgment in the "cute in which Mr. John Owen Hughes, liquidator of the trade and personal affairs of Albert Wilhelm Arthur Becker, an alien enemy and.
the firm of Sander, a parimer in Weller & Co., an alert enemy Kim in Hongkong: and Messrs. Hany Winking & Co., liquidators of the trade of the said Sander, Weiler Co., sued Chui Wah olaining the $1 of $65,000 and costs for n alleged breach of a comptadors con-
HMS. Whiting left the harbour the chair, and Mr. J. P. Robinson 1919 this morning.
wus the vice-chairman. There were Pink Eye about fifty members and guests pre- Malcolm
13.0 157 Tourists visiting Canton this sent, and from the first to the last | Alexander
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it was a truly cheery evening, a little Swallow
....13 2 154 X move cheery towards the end per Regularity Dažlia (Grif- MAN
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12 3 154 bups, but tint was only natura!,
After a very excellent dinner," and Vivat aina 13 0 152 after the toast of The King" End Tytam Chief 13 1 152. been drunk, the Rev. Mr. A. T.-W. Grouse...osanaann13. 1 152 Dowding proposed the toast of the Greymouse13,0 152 K.C.C. In a very sporting speech he Viola 13 0 151 referred to the great kindnesses he
(late Burst Length) had received from the club. For the Bend Or
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tract The N. Y. K. Nikko Mars now moment he thought he was still a Smokebox 13 1 150 makes Kobe her terminus, and will member but was corrested by 5 let Burning Daylight 13 1 150 not go on to Yokohama.
ter he had received from the secre. Starlight................190 150 tary giving him the push. How Mountain Ford 12 3.149.
Cate Vestivius Dahlia.) aver, he was asked to make full use of the club whist, he was in Kov. Dusky 13 2 148 loon. To put the members' fears at Judex (late Moonlight) 12-3 146
"B" CLASS, te... reeb he was going to push off on Wednesday. He trusted that they Rochester13 1-158 would treat his successor as well as Maybe 13 0 155 Flyford (late Firefly)...13 2 155 they had treated him, give him a sport ng chance," he said, you all Lovejoy (late American
Chief)
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Aidlog 11 (late Tam- and prosperity.
Mr. F. A. Niron takes charge of the Canton Post Office during Com missioner Shields' absence on leave.
The Webexpected at Canton on April 4 with rice. She left Wuhu 9 March 27- The Kwangler, also with rice, was expected to day.
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Mr. R. E. Lindsell then respond- ed on behalf of the Club, and kept everyone amused by reading a poem There is a change in the which Mr. Dowding had composed, Chartered Bank's advertisement but bad refused to read himself. to-day. Mr. J L Crockatt now with great difficulty he, Mr. Lind. appears as manager instead of Mr sell, had got the manuscript from T. C. Downing.
him. It was a very amlasing one, and bad many witty references to The total output of the Kailan different members. The speaker re Mining Admistration's mines for thegretted the absence of their presi week ending March 15, amounted to dent, Dr. Forsyth, and trusted that 74,425 tons and the sales during the he would soon be back amongst them period, to 60,089 tons.
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This case which occupied his Lord”. ship's attention for over smcmtka" was argued by the Hon. Mr. E. E. Sharp, K., O.B.E.. and the Hos Mr. H. E. Palkook, 5.C. (instructed by Meters. Johnstone, Stokes and Master) for the plaintiffs; and libër ...... Hon. Sir. €. G. Alabaster, O.BE
and Mr. Elon Potter (instructed by,” Mesars. Wilkinson and Grist) for the defendant.
His Lordship read a very lengthy judgment from which we give following extracte:
"This is a case of some conse plexity, as it involves applying the law rektting,to Alien enemies as laid down in recent cises, to a state of samastanges riebly unique in character. The phintis are sung as liquidators, of an Alien enemy firm to recover danges under a co pradore agreement made between an Allen exemy firm, and their am pradora and the defendant who guar- anteed the comprido agreement.
The claim is in respect of (1) goods delivered to Chinese dealers and not paid for; and (3) goods for whieb delivery had not been taken and wrich had been re-sold.
"We are witnessing a veritable fry as Liverpool and Birkenhead, exodus just now," begins a Shanghai
The pliin alkge that on the outbreak of war, the firm were per à fine, scholarly speech he paid a Rochester........ who have ferries that are ferries, we editorial. Likewise an actual Hegira; may point out that the Straits of a certain sortle, and a decided depar great tribute to the Navy, and point. Butzing Daylight
mitted by His Excellency the Gores Dover are a bigger proposition than ture, we suppose. What the writer ed out how they had lived up to the Mountain Ford
nor, as the representative of HM. our narrow and sheltered harbour. intended was that many Shanghai-triations of Nelsen. He drew a
(late Vesuvius Dahlia).
the King to continue carrying . Yet it was announced inlanders are going Home,
vivid picture of the humiliating sur-Bend Or.. ..13 1 149
business in Hongkong, and at a later August Last that
a terry
render of the German Fleet at Seapa Dusky 13 2 149 date, were permitted to do s by across the Channel, hitherto convey-] In Mr.Lindsell's Court this morn-
Before passing from the Maybe
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expas l'ence, and in pursuance of snet lience ater, the outbreak of ing trucks across for use on the ing, three hawkers were fined $3 for railways of England and France, had not having a licence. A ricsha, coolieavy to the Army he paid a Etting
Bate American Chief)
war tue business which included. beer developed into a proper train was ordered to pay $3 for not having tribute to the members of the mar
***.13 0.145 the coutmete in question in dis ferry for both passengers and goods his licence renewed. "Another coolie cantile marine. The new Army, the Eaton Boy....
defon was cured on by the enemy traffic, and the Channel was thus was fined $5 or seven days for de speaker said, had lived up to the Weihai Chief. 13.0 145
The Handicaps have been arranged fiim until the plaintiffs were ap practically bridged. The first jour positing rubbish in Queen's Road reputation of those heroes who had
fought in the Crimes and other Earby Mr. D. M. Ross with exception of pented as liquidators under sho ney was made on February 22. The Central.
penn wars. Before sitting down he weights for "Pink Eye" & "Grmee" Ali Enonies Winding-up Ordi British Chamber of Commerce in
The plaintiffs, by virtua Paris had something to do with it The Annual dinner of the called upon Leu. Evenden, M.C., which were fixed by Mr. G. W. pance 1924.
Gegg.
of that Orfinance were appointed to What has the local Chamber of Com University Engineering Society will to reply.
Lieut. Evenden, M.C., who had a
Ind-up the affairs of the firm, and, merce to do with our small ferries, be held in the Great Hall of the
He stated that he only they claim to recover against the incapable of carrying a fliyver? Some University, on Friday next. It is rousing reception, said that the do- plane. The "China Mail" is now on is proof of a Malay ancestry for, the day we'll have the Kowloon Canton hoped that all the past and present ings of the Army and Navy were too knew three of the visitors. One wu sirety or the default of the.com- såld at, and will be delivered Hawaians, or vice versa. Otherwise trains ferried over. Meanwhile, a Engineering students of the Univer. well known for him to say anything Capt. Spencer, who hail escorted m pudore under the compridore agree by, Messrs. W. G. Humphreys you will be under the awkward new feet of much bigger boats is aneity will be present Communications more about them. He belonged to scrces Canada, and who had intro went. and Co. Shameen, Canton, connection between the Scottish and the growing automobile traffic.
necessity of establishing a family obvious requirement to cope with should be addressed to Mr. Khoo who have been appointed our the Northern Chinese. Both speak of a pool as a linn. Moreover agents.
(with a different ideograph) the Chinese An means the same thing as our lintel does. A Scot will chant, a Chinese will chang-and in both The homely adage that says there cases they make vocal noises. The is nothing like leather will have to Chinese cut our chicken in two have a word altered before it can be and call it chi. We chew it, and apt locally. To read of "leases" in they make chow of -it. Carn the report of the Hongkong Fire to them is to and if a little Insurance Company's meeting, of thing is wee in Scotland it is Wei in exchange militating against the North China. The Scots ken this Company, and of increasing com- weel; the Chinese kan it. And so petition, etc., would be to carry on, to a surprising extent, which was away a wrong impression. The bad remarkably well brought out in a old days when China New Year fires publication of the Royal Asiatic were a regular feature. and fire Society not long ago.
insurance more of a gamble than it is now, are gone. A Company that can increase its directors' fees, pay a dividend of $27 per share, and give its staff a bonus of fifteen per cent, on their salaries, and that in a year that wasn't one of its best, is on velvet," as sportsmen say, There's nothing like insurance.
The China Mail: TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC BERVICE."
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1919.
A FEW WORDS
In the letters of Leibnitz to Newton a curious old legend is mentioned
The Welsh combination ""'cwm ** Dealing with the languages spoken in the Garden of Eden, it states that has an awkward look to Englishmen
Adam called upon to pronounce it. the Deity spoke Danish, Swedish, and the Serpent French. It means and is pronounced the same is probably the starting point for the as our "combe," the Welsh study of philology, though it wasn't being the long "a" of Greek, and until well into or after the middle of not a double-u at all. In the same the Eighteenth Century that philology Chinese language quoted above, the word for combe" happens to be assumed a scientific complexion.
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FIRE INSURANCE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
It is not strictly scientific, even now, for its conclusions depend more [By the way, talking of our "W" on hypothesis than on fact, Even as we name it "double-u," we write it philosophy it is a four-flusher. Max "doublev" and we pronounce it "double-o". The Germans call it Muller has proved quite a few things that aren't so, and his followers have double" and so pronounce it, their To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.”]] gone to extremes in their deductions. single-v "having the sound of "E". It is, however, a fascinating study Sam Weller's method of pronouncing
Sir, On the 17th March 1919,
A Shanghal paper publishes with apparent satisfaction an indict ment of Japanese rule in Korea drawn up by a committee of mis sionaries. It overlooks that this is not what the missionaries are paid for Everywhere they will meddle with politics. Subscribers to Foreign Missions please
note:
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[China Mail SPECIAL]
Shanghai, March 30.. Although telegraphic communica tion has been restored, there is no news from Shensi
Hsu Shu-tsang plans to increase the National Defence Army to eight brigades, and says there will be no demobilization until the League of Nations orders it. There have been quarrels in the War Ministry.
Japanese trained troops are said to be employed by the Mongolians now The Chinese are reckless inventors of this sort of "news" Ed. C. M.]
The Northern delegates are all going to resign if the Southern delegates persist in their refusal to President has sent pleading telegramis to both parties.
Severe fighting la Korea is again reported here.
Chinese Bolsheviks are said to be
propaganda.
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the Unis, which had taken the name duced him to a game called dani- The defendant denies all liability of Hongkong into the war. He gave poen, which he called daylight robal alleges that the firm was che a short history of the Battery's bery Another was Captain Kolved by the compridoid agree movements and some interesting nedy, who was a bit of a wild Irishent, and shall contrasts entered" figures of the honours, which mem man who really came from Tipper to by the firm that are covered by hers of the battery had you. They try, and the third was Mr Mann, the compudore agreement. He puts brought back 1 D.5.0., 4 M.C.'s, 7 whom he remembered many years iise the alleged licence and raises. D.CM's, MAL'S, 1 Russian ago when he in company with a Me, ober efences, .. Order, 1 Serbian Orcer, and 11 mem. Pack had entertained the club at Ham of open that the partner- bens of the unit had been mentioned similar dinner sare eight years ago, hit in this firm was dissolved as
Lieut. F. H. Marin, in replying for pathreak of wor... in despatches. (Loud applause.) H then read an extract from Mr. W. T. the visitors, mid he was uparenser being of opinion that the Minsacy's book in which the authostomed to public speaking, for veme patnership becume dissolved at the pays a very high, tribute to the bat-time at least, except to ask gentle Larreak of war what is the construe, tery. and quotesthe praise given nien to "Form fours. Laughter.) to to placed on the Alien them by General Cos. Mr. Even He wished to tell thern of the only Emes. Waling-up didinunear den stated that it would not be right cricket match mentioned in the 14 Can it be constricted sus for hun to omit mentioning the splen. Bible, taking oss textPeter to evive a partnership or a contes did bravery of the Indian troops, and stood at the wicket and Thurd was divived by an operation of law? stated "I say this very, very utk bowled Laughter.) As far as he, At a very careful cons denstica v visedly, that any honours we may gathered, Paul was the Christian thatter, I have come to the con-
of their parson, Mr.elios that it cannot. have won, it was entirely due to the name
have dealt with the construalere splendid courage of the Indian, who Dowding. Whatever doubt they had worked hard and willingly." He might have es to the ability with I place upon the Ordinance. concluded by saying how grateful the of Mr. Dowding to hit hard, anam of opinion that the partner- battery was for the fund started in and straight on the cricket pitch, shi was dissolved at the outbreak in Hongkong and Singapore, by there was no doubt whatever as to of far, and as is consequence thes means of which the relatives of every his abilities, in that direction in tas compradore agreement and man who was killed, as well as those pulpit. And it had done Kowloon a sold. If correct in law, the ques who were wounded, received a "con- darned lot of good." If they could tickof ficence from the Crown cana tribution, above that which was transfer the spirit of the Kowloon notevive a partnership dissolved by given by the Imperial Government.0.0. to the Parish Hall, it would be opation of la..
for the amateur or the dilettanti, woman "ooman" was quits logical. Reuter's Agency, amongst other resume the Peace Conference. The instay of the Club during the last had news from Home, he was bound fder of the question of licence; and
being full of the most charming Our mix-up seems traceable to the items of news, published the follow coincidences, with which there is no Latin method of writing u (oo sound) harm in playing.
This, however, is more The Hawaian word for anger', phonetics than philology:1
for instance, happens to be huhu,
as v.
The Golf section of the E.C.C. a different church. He had said my opinion the action muste was the next toast. This was pro-something strong to the parson when failu two material grounds, (c) this posed by Mr. L. J. Blackburn He Mr. Dowd ng had anounced that he discution of the partnership by stated that this section had been the was going away, but, having received opation of law which is indepen
(b)the, fiation of the contmete few years. He trusted that both to go. sections would week together in order The golf prizes were then given who discharged the surety. It be that the splendid spirit of con le away by Mr. Lindsell, the winners, come therefore unnecessary for s to dal further, with the other ismtess ship to which Mr. Dowding had re- being as follow:
CAPTAINS-CPP.-J. Hyde, runner-raid in argument give judge ferred could be maintained. Hot
up, A. Morrison.
me for defendant with coste.** ECLECTIC CUP.-J. Jack; runner-
up, D. J. Mackenzie. BOGEY CCFA. Morrison; runners
up, J. Hyde.
"WASHINGTON, Mar, 7. The United States has warned The Japanese word for bread, pan, Italy that unless that latter ends the pronounced who-who. With even offers no problem. They got the delays being caused to the trans- coming to Shanghai to spread their claimed that most of the members
Latin name from the Portuguese, mission of supplies to the newly probably at the same time that they established Jugo-Slav and Czecho got the thing itself. But the Chinese Sláv States, steps will be taken to
more force than the famous cricketer's query about the name yorker' we may ask how you could possibly
call it anything else. In the opposite examples given above cannot be cut off the supply of American
accounted for in that way. Marco foodstuffs to Italy, Polo was no Scot
Since the Armistice we
PINKIE" ABOUT TO
QUIT.
of the Club who had gone to the front were members of the golf section
PAGE CUPJ Hyde, runner-up,
H. Overy.
MAPPROPRIATE GIFT.
Oswald Cur.-H. Overy; runner-parade of the St. John's Ambul-
upi D. J. Mackenzie.
and Brigade has been ordered for MORRISON CUP.-J. Jack; runner 6 pi: to-morrow, Tuesday, at Gov-
up, D. G. Nicoll
ernent House, when His Excellency
This boast was responded to by Mr. J. Hyde, who reported that the mood we have 'ha-ha," "ho-be, and
Golf section had had a very satisfac Sometimes. "hehee," but never
I am now authorised by my
tory year despite the fact that there These are" smatterings and glean-Government to contradict the false huhu. Think of a man spluttering,
was a shortage of members. He who-who are you?" or "who ings" of an inquisitive world wan news disseminated by Reuter, which,
There was a good house at the was sorry that some of the higher) who has done this?" and the sugges derer; and not to be taken as proof of course could not have been Theatre Royal on Saturday night handicapped men did not take such tion of the Hawaian word hu-hi can of the erudition they suggest. They believed by those who know the when the Hongkong Amateur a keen interest but he trusted that MJ H. Mand then caled the ficer Administering the GoveaTI never be lost... A modern philologist were prompted by finding a copy of Italian character. We have the Dramatic Club presented for the last their handicaps would be reduced and upon everyone to drank the mawill present the motor ambul (a New Zealand professor in his
"Romany Kye" on a gentleman's custom of being generous to a fallen night, that popular fairy play "Pinkie then they was se more of them health of the Clairman, Mr. arc which has been given by the dotage) who credits that inland race table yesterday. Because, you know, foe.. with European ancestry, would pro on materials just as flimsy, George have been feeding Austria, and and the Fairies. All the seats in ging in the competitions. Indell, and spoke in very high Hokong Automobile Association. the lower part of the hall were The health of the visitors was then terms of what he had done for Mebers of the Association and bably accept our suggestion in all Borrow puts up a tremendous blaf during the war we treated the occupied whilst three quarters of the proposed by Mr. A. O: Brawn in sn the club, and the keen interest, bathids are invited to attend. Beriousness.
at linguistry.
Austrian prisoners so kindly that seats in the Dress Circle had been extremely witty speech. He thought had always taken in everything less the Government presents But the Hawaian language is
they erected in one of their camps a booked an unmistakable evidence of he had surae vague recollection of Mr. Tandeell is a sportaman dad us to that "speed limit!! we asked practically identical with the Maori, the only difference being the trans- THAT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Tough monument to Dante, as the success of the show, Miss being a member of the Club, but is always ready to give us all the for als ambulance will soon be at posing of two or three consonantsude it further proof were required, Marjorie Stewart acquitted her during the last few years the desti help he can," re aid. This toast wor As things are, it is a very such as Hawaian h' for Maori fand Our contemporary the Daily Press it is sufficient to point out the fact self admirably well in the roll of lies of the world had wobbled was immediately followed by the apppriate gift. What? even that disappears in pronunciation is not pleased with the personnel of that while the greater part of Europe as the Queen of the Fairies was a bees so strange and varied that that with the usual vocal noises.
Pinkie" while her little baby sister much and ins own experiences had singing of he's a jolly good fellow Maori in turn has many parallels the Executive Committee chosen to is a seething calüron of unrest with Malay. The Maori for "two" is boss the Peace Celebrations. The Austria, up to the present, has been great favourite with the audience, toe seemed to be in a mist. He Mr. G. Blair Capt. Kennedy, ud, Malay dun, Hawaian kad. The names which appeared in the China in a state of relative calm, thanks close of the most successful season of how he tried to remember if he others helped to keep people amused Wednesday's matinee will mark the then gave a very asing description Capt. Murray, Mr. W. B. Hind and Malays and Hawalang both say Mail about a week ago, suggest to to the intelligent and humanitarian local amateur combination ever had ever played the game called crie- between the speecher, and the storya
ve theitings, opens the secretions Ams for five, and this is easy to our contemporary that the Hongkong assistance of neighbouring Italy had and it is advisable to book seals hat be going to the Happy Valley telling competition between Capl remember by the mnemonic formula Government is still adhering to its
I have the honour to be,
early. It will be positively the last and playing against corne Loya. His Murray and Captain Kennedy was spectoration and assists Natale t
reitag the system to a healthy, condi How many (Lima) beans make habit of keeping things in the
performance as one or two members option of b's walk to the icone of the bits of the evening. At tion Beatda eft contains no opiates Sre? In Maori they make rima hands of a select few the careful
Your obedient servant
of the cast are leaving the Colony yet and back again brought forth the present moment they are tall and perfectly safe to fake For sale But do not fall into the error that selection being kept to those who
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by sechemists and Storekeepers., about the end of this weekz.
large amount of laughter and ap- square and three to go. philologists do, and assume that here, count." The Government is accused
Consul General for Italy,
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