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THE CHINA MAIL.

"BOLSHEVISM IN HONGKONG.

so uncouth as it looks. It sounds really sweet in some of the folk-songs. The trouble with the German lang The hymn "Man Wants But Little age is its awful grammar. Ordinary Here Below" is not true of Hong people think the Germans vicious and brutal and depraved, g. Our people, spurred on by wilfully wicked. It wasn't so. They ur suggestion that they should

make, suggestions to the

were"

verbs,, he erred, as do now those

War

right and something ought to be

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, -1919.

COMPANY MEETING."

LOCAL AND GENERIC

Today's dollar is worth 35. 3 11:16d.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON.

Mr. R. E. O. Bird, MA, of the

for home.

TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

Some yety fine tennis was see on the Cricket Ground yesterday evening when the Japanese players An extraordinary general meeting fresh fent his victories over A. H.

were merely suffering from gram Memorial Committee, also by, in some Education Department of the local of this society was held at Queen's Rinnjahn and G. Manley entered the matical constipation. The German script, about which the Hollanders cases, that feeling that things aren't Government Service is shortly leaving Buildings at noon today. The Hon. Baal of the Open Championship and Swiss have been arguing, is a

Mr. P. H. Holyoak was in the chair Singles by beating F. A. Redmond criminal breach of aesthetics, not dene about It, are rapidly

and there were also present the Hon. Mishima deserved his win and it is amounting to murder, but the Ger in the final analysis, is merely disease shows two cases of plague, Patterden, A. O. Lang, J. A. Plum will fall to him of being the tennis becoming Bolsheviks. Bolshevism, To-day's return of communicable Mr. S. H. Dedwell and Messrs. W. Lnot at all worksly that the honour. man grammar is a deadly sin. When a desire for Utopia. One way one of diphtheria, one of enteric, mer. Ross Thompson, A Forbes champion of Hongkong. He will Mark Twain quarrelled with German and another they have compiled a one of puerperal fever, and one of (directors), Mr. C. Montague Ede now sheet . E. Kent in the final critics who find fault with the noisy long list of things for the new Go smallpox.

(general manager) and Messrs. C. P. and the winner will meet Ng S way the Germans have of eating. Avernor to see to when he comes.

Hay, H. M. H. Nemazee, A. Nemazee, Kwong who is the present olmmpion. German might eat with both feet in

Inter alia, as the lawyers say, they The Far Eastern--Traveller's R. A. Dastur, H... White. G. W. In the first set Belmond started weil the trough if he would only agree to five in, and new Hospitals at Kew.journal full of useful information Silva, Ho Leung, R. A. Kotewall, Ehen Milium got 'a'gaqne aud Beti-.

want More and Cheaper Houses to Gazete is a beautifully printed Barton M. Hodgson, J. M. F. daunt the genes were four to p man and less like a loon and Victoria, and Protec and interesting pictures. cornered rat. Well, they admit them tion against Profiteers, and a new published quarterly, by selves that they were under the Lunatic Asylum (urgently) and More Cook & Son, No. 2 of yol. 5 is out W. R. Mansfield, the Hon. Mr. Ho from this point onwards the Japanese It is Ormiston, H. W. L. Dowbiggin, J. Bad followed up by making it 33 Thomas Thomson, J. Cochrane, D. B. Moray by wimming the next game.

Fook and Major D. Macdonald.

The meeting was called for the Kave sterly exhibition of the A debate on Is Newspaper Read purpose of passing the resolutions strong. Four guntes ware won by ganes and his drives were good auk

the games, beng 7-3.

Redmond again wade a promising

6ght like a

has

and Better Roads, and a Speed Limit, now. and a Playground for Peak Children

and an Aerodrome and & Powerful

Ltd rather than to blame them. Government and a new Constitution

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MARRIAGE.

(In passing, let us say we are not unacquainted with that

smirk. FIELDER ROCKS.—At St. John's like beer, is always good. We must ing pedant who says that grammar, Cathedral on the 10 inst. by the not speak of "bad grammar," he says, Right Rev. Bishop Lander assisted by the Rev. Copley because if it be bad it cannot be Moyle, Bert Ernest son of Rear

The analysis on which Admiral (E) and Mrs. J. Fielder to be quite wrong there).

We ате engaged showe -him of Southsea to Mary Maude only daughter of Major and Mrs. T. Rooks of Tidworth Wiltshire..

Camp,

grammar.

as

If grammar

is usage, bad usage - (such first innovators after Lindley Murray) that of the must be bad grammar, until it has prevailed long enough (an undefined period) to be established as good authority as good grammar.

[Lector: You are getting dry again.

Auctor: Sorry. The fun is. HONAKONG, THURSDAY, APPL 10, 1910. Coming soon now.

We're nearly

The

some.

PROFITEERING LANDLORDS.

ROMAN NUMERALS.

?

".

The result was ".

Birt

influence of Kukur, and we are going to let But what Kultur is. If never before been properly explained. It is a branch of Ger man grammar. It is a sequel Wireless Installation and a Bridge/ing a Necessity was recently held which have been printed several times him in sugvession and be got the set, of German srammar. It is a sign Police Telephone System and More China Mail, Hongkong is learning to

over the Harbour and a Complete at Singapore. In the case of the inthe China Mail.

many... lies in the line of Altering Police to use it and a Bandstand in consider it a luxury. Excuse us for Hon. Mr. Holyoak. said: Gentlemen:) start in the second set and did some and a proof that the genius of Ger

In proposing their adoption the Usage. It has become a habic Welfare Scheme and Kinemas, and

Statue Square and ma

Child mentioning ir..

Over a month has elapsed since the They spread it from gramma: "Kisenia Posters to be Censored (but

circular announcing Your Directors Yery good work at the net and there- business. The moment a German please not the newspapers) and the theft of three pounds of rubber capital be converted from Silver to hire mes to one. But.aguin the diplomacy, to warfare, to religion, to

A Chinese who was charged with recommendation. that the Society's by ruining some of Mishiina's hest shots. Bermond was leading by sees a usage he yearns to alter it several Public Clocks and the from the Taikoo Docks, was conGold, and, before asking you to vote Just as we saw that grammar was a'

Harbour to be dredged and victed by Mr. Orme and sentenced upon the Resolutions which are, Japanese recovered and by the very fruit of usage alteration, so we now deepened and mere Wharves and to one months hard labour and four to-day before you, I would like, with uracy of his placing and time see-that German conduct hangs from

Better Railway Connections and an hours' stocks outside the deck gates reasons for asking you to take so gane till he had won the set by your permission, to explain our stendiness of his play won game after the same tree.

This teaches us that ther Statze-or-two and some orna- in lieu of the last day. it is our duty to pity the Germans, mental Iron railings and a Better |

important a step involving as it. The play all the way thangkat You.

Mr. A. McKiddy, secretary of does so drastic a change in the had been very fast and in the third will drop a tear for an unlucky race and-and-"mother will pay you on the V.R.C., has gone Home on leave.constitution of your Society.

set it was noticeable that both players- that went from bad to worse, from Saturday," so to speak, which here He left by the Persia Maru, and As you are aware the society was were feeling the stain. Might" grammar to garotting, from a super-means that father will sign a chit for expects to pay visits in Canada and established in 1835 to operate solely powerful drives from the hi-line silly-syntax to cynicism and sin, You. Poor Governort Who would not in Pennsylvania on his way."Uncle" in these waters. As time went on

were fewer and these were neung all will be charitable enough to say, pity in It beats our old Juvena. Mitchell acts as secretary to the Branch Offices were opened in China, stomped by Heimand at the

There, but for English grammarians lian friend Parem et circenses into a VRC, pending the expected return Japan and London, and the natural Five games were Pedinond' before go " To know all is to forgive cocked hat, and, as we have said, is of former secretary Witchell. development which followed led to the apanese had one. Redmond

You will remember that the practically Bolshevism.

the establishment of Branches in the finally won the sot, the games being damnation of Germany was born of

Mr: Herbert Welham, editor of Straits Settlements, Australia and -1. its damnable grammar."

the Straits Echo, who passed through India. In recent years we have In the fourth set both players here recently, wrote to Penang to increased our branch representation skewed more caution. Redmond led say the vorage to Hongkong bene in these countries, and have by three games to one till the Japan' fitted his health, but as he found the opened up further offices of our own ese again begun to hit hard and sent Has anyone ever before pointed out, Isle of Fragrant Streams very chilly, atdhe or more ces in Canada, iu some of his most powerful drives. The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock thinks the error in the huge inscription over muggy and foggy he was leaving for New Zealand, the Argentine and the The feature of these long drives was chat Hongkong house tenants require the Supreme Court? A China Mail Japshsooner than originally intended. Dutch East Indies. protection against greedy landlords. man happened to notice it last night,

that they were just as accuraty n So does the China Mfail, which is ac- while Zeering to see if Justice really? A small fire broke out at 5.45 Society's business is transacted to a uxo mutia for Redmond who

As a result of this expansion the they were powerful. They proved cumulating a dossier on the subject. is blind. The inscription is: The China Mail, however, does not

this morning in the ground floor of very large extent in Gold, the earn set and match. think, as Mr. Pollock dres, that the

ERECTED MDCCCCX:

No. 28 Pokfulam Road. The cause ing of our Silver proats being con- mischief is confined to lower class i

This is intended for 1910. The of the outbreak is attributed to jossfined solely to this Colony and to Chinese and middle-class Europeans."; correct Roman way of representing staircase. The conflagration was put

sticks, which were burning on the China..

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP SIÑOLAS. At least, not if we take him correct-

1910 would have been

Our constituents in the various

T.Mishima beut F. A. Rednionci„ ly. If, as we suppose, we are all

out by the inmates of the house and parts of the world, when satisfying 6-3; 1—8, 6. . middle-class Europeans bere (for we

the police, and the damage is esti- themselves as to the security offered In the Club Handicap Dublex have no aristocracy and no prole it about forty years ago is very

The principle as we were taught mated at $20.

by the Society's policies, naturally Kent and Jeanings beut Hickling and tariat) then the statement is not so simple. Any symbol of less value

turn to our Annual Balance Sheet, Humphreys. It Was a stren.us far amiss.

A Tablet to the memory of the and by presenting it in Gold alone, ge" and a creditable win for the What happened in some cases is subtracted. Succeeding ones are RN. Police who was shot while on more properly represents our world. ponents two strokes in every game. preceding a symbol of greater value late Lance Sergeant Linfield of the We are using a currency which now winners were giving to their p was that the landlords came from added. The familiar clock £gures duty last November, has been erected wide operations. somewhere outside the Colony-illustrate it. One from ten equals at St. Andrew's Church Kowloon. In order to bring about the con- ed ere a decision was reached. The In the first set 20 games, were play. were not men born in the Colony IX. One added to ten equals XI. So it will be unveiled on Sunday next version it has been necessary to apply second set was won by Hickling and

and bought a house let at a cer- in the inscription now criticised, one at the 11 am. Service by Commodore to the Hongkong Government for a Humphreys, 8---1-- tain rent. and, after screwing. Phundred (C) subtracted from one Gurner. The preacher on the occasion special enactment. Ordinance No. the rent to a higher figure, got rid thousand (M) would have left CM or will be the Bishop of the Diocese. of the house, when the time was 900.

4. of 1919 cited as The Union Insur- ripe, at a great profit If it could suppose, hat MCMX looks neater Evidently the Manchester Regt. has been passed and assented to by (owe 30) beat A. D. Humphreys ande.

will deny. one

ance Society of Canton Limited be shown that that or of thing than MDCCCCX. In any case. at Singapore, possess

(Capital Conversion) Ordinance 1919 existed to a considerable extent the Romans would have regarded the cricketers as some measures should be taken to seven-letter version, as wrong. It is Playing recently against the Mine-tering the Government, and the con-

the regiment here. His Excellency the Officer Adminis stop it. It was not only an injustice as if in the Arabic system we to the unfortunate tenants who had were

sweepers, Prime and Done bowled all version become effective upon the to pay rents out of proportion to 100's & 1

το write for 1910 "19 the Narymen out for 31. Prime took confirmation of the Resolutions which their means, but it was bad for the 1000 +500 +100+ 100+100+ 1006. The Manchesters finings realised

10% or more exactly, 6 wickets for 7 rams and Doce 4 for you are today being asked to pass. I will now deal with that part of Government when they found it 10. It is a pity that we weren't 63, of which Goodman, Carmen and the Resolution necessary to acquire land för public consulted, isn't it, before it was Holden each scored 11..

increasing our

OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES. Authorised Capital to £2,000,000. In G. Manley and A. H. Remjuhn V recent years the Society's Capital has F. A. Redmond and N E. Kent. The Dockyard Recreation, Club twice been increased, firstly upon cur held a whist drive in the Dockyard amalgamation with the China Traders' | last night. Regardless of the "close" Insurance Co., Ltd., since renamed atmosphere a large number attended. the British Traders Insurance Co., After an enjoyable set of games, for Ltd, and secondly upon our amalga. which Mr. H. Budden acted as MC,mation with the China Fire Insurance These were: Ladies; 1st, Mrs. prizes were handed to the winners.

Co., Ltd.! Collins; 2nd, Mrs Fooks; 3rd, Mrs. Sears. Gentlemen; 1st, Mr. Thompson; 2nd, Mr. Bower; 3rd, Mr. Matthews.

purposes. China Mail.ge, and crystalized in the latest

TROTA, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

THOUGHTS ON GRAMMAR.

there.].

It would be very interesting if one could get reliable returns showing to what extent rents' had been raised in the more sought- after districts of Victoria and) Kowloon since, say, January 1st, 1916. Of course, it would be

No

MCMX.

we

such a scale and so prominently.

'carved in imperishable stone" on

PASTICHE:

difficult for anybody to get com that the Hongkong Government, in Some little time ago we intimated plete information on the subject, dealing wish a certain question, intend but even comparatively complete ed taking steps which, it was consider. information would be very ilumined, would tend to ameliorate to a very ating in more ways than one,

The newest authority, the author of the latest accepted grammar, has automatically legitimized these sports," as Darwin might call The proprietors of the China them, and converted them (with Mail have no objection to the free out changing them) from heretics to send in this information, we will see alleviated.

If readers of the China Mail will which it was desirable should be considerable extent the conditions se of the following article for the status of those educated men that it is usefully employed without Government, in Legislative Council, strictly educational purposes at the whose usage, we recognize as good betraying them in any way. Address had intimated quite frankly that the Long before this, the grammar. Survivors of the Lindley Brought up, as the phrase is, to Murray or some intermediate school of property, name of landlord, employ the plural form of the verb will sneer at them (as we were doing previous and present rent, and the "to be" in any subjunctive sentence, at the journalistic misusers of the date when the increase took place we disliked very much to find modern Subjunctive) and call them that is all that need be sent. grammarians saying that "were" or literates" or something equally rude. "was" is optional in that mood,

But they needn't mind. They are within the law.

University.]

(This article isn't really going to be as dry as it threatens. Let the 'reader persevere,)

They have no right, we cried, to tinker with the Law. Then, simmer ing down, as we often do, we re minded ourselves that grammatical law, like some lawyers' law, is "a of Usage. The newest

matter grammar does not set up a new law

so much as it records a change of

usage.

"

semi-

Having thus discovered that gram-

A HOUSING PROBLEM.

mar is a fraud, since its orthodoxy, is of late about the housing question, So much has been said and written got by a periodical, absorption of that it might be reasonably surmised heterodoxy, we determined to respect that wherever possible efforts are it less in future, and to say "it's me" being made to remedy the present as other people do. (Very few say "It scarcity of housing accommodation.

23.

good

HONGRONG POLICE RESERVE.

The result was:.

CLUB HANDICAP NOUBLES.

N. E. Kent and J. S. Jennings

C. C. Hickling: (scr.), 11-9. H

"

C HANDICÃE SINGLES, CLASA “ARE

I Forster (reos. 1/6) beat Major Arapiuo" (recs. 2/8); 6-4, 6-3.

Today's matches are:

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

·Jealousy was the cause of Creasing Capital is by no means in her life by jumping into the larbour The expense and labour in in Chinese woman's attempt to end considerable and your, Directors feel, from a ferry launch yesterday. She therefore, that advantage should be was the second wife of a man, and taken of the Meetings called to bring thought that he was neglecting her about the conversion to also arrange and paying far too much attention to the increase. By so doing the Capital the No. 1 wife. This had so much of the Society will compare favour preyed on her mind that she resolved ably with its competitors in various she could not go on living without parts of the world, and we shall be being loved. While crossing the

conditions were such that something ORDER ISSUED BY MR. J. W. FRANKS in a better position to arrange harbour Jasterday, she s would have to be done. Subsequent references in Council indicated that

D.S.P.R. UNIFORM.

the Government had the matter under consideration, that it had White uniform will be taken into already paid it some attention, and wear between the hours of 6 a.m. and that still further contemplation was 6 p.m. as from the 10th instant. considered probable.

STOWAWAYS.

FIRE ON S.S. "SUI YANG"

without your sanction.

with a caution.

It is unnecessary at this juncture

to deal with the Resolution bringing

further amalgamations should opportunities. present themselves chance to carry out her resolution! and they are deemed desirable.

und suddenly jumped from thes Resolutions, each share of a nominal arrived for her to make an exit front Upon the confirmation of the lunch. But the time had not yet value of $250--will be automatically's stage, and the sailors ou sbe transferred into 5 shares of a nominal launch managed to fish her out value of £10 each. The total num of the cold, cold water by pens of ber of these Gold shares will be brital bout-hooks. When bough is " at a bedroom door, and it is Nothing of the kind. As a matter of

A fire broke out at 9.30 am on the 25th April you will be asked to His Worship that she repeated 80,000 and at the Meeting to be held before Mr. Omme this morning, she better not to admit those who do)." fact there appears considerable dila morning charged before Mr. Lindseil Kowloon. The fire brigade was called i set forth in the Circular. The now, and was sorry for what she did, yesterday, in the port bunker of the to agree to the issuing of 16,000 her raslr act the moment she touch- Five Foochow Chinese were this 3.5. Sai Yang lying at No. 1 wharf additional shares on the terms ed the water. named James Baker, mentioned by opportunity to speed up building Singapore on board the ss. Haiyang been extinguished by the godown authorised to state that the unissued was in Court, undertook to lock after

There's a grammatical authority toriness in some cases where there is with attempting to stowaway to that the conflagration had already sist of 96,000 shares, and I am

She wants to live out but on their arrival it was found issued Mark Twain, who said:

Capital will then Whereupon, if you please, our

"There's no bird, or cow or any itself. In the first week in August pore authorities had requested the although some coal had been con will not be issued in part or whole the lady a lesture, discharged ber operations. One case readily presents Sergt. Themson said that the Singa staff. There was no damage done Capital represented by 104,000 shares her, and his Worship, after reading con. She promised not to do it again."

The woman's father-in-law, wEO mental machinery slipped a cog and thing that uses as good grammar as last year, began to buzz like this.

a distressing accident, Language is an organic thing. It good grammar. Well, a cat does in Morrison Hill Road. A couple of Straits Settlements. In accordance

a blue jay. You may say a cat uses attended with loss of life, occurred local police to take steps to prevent sumed by the fire. grows. It has its processes of accre- but you let a cat get excited, once; big rocks fell from Morrison Hill and with instructions received, he search- stowaways from getting into the tion and excretion. What we call you let a cat get to pulling, fur with partly demolished a number of houses.ed the ships in the harbour and in ARRIVAL HOME OF H.M.S.the paid up value of the new shares mend declaring dividends in Ster- grammar is, as the dictionary says, another, cat on a shed, nights, and Some were not much damaged and the coal bunker of the s.s. Haiyang, en account of the language spoken you will hear grammar that will were soon made fit for habitation he found the five mea-now charged. and written by educated men." Now give you the lockjaw.. Ignorant again. comes a question like that one about people think it's the noise which months have elapsed, the ethiding meant to buy passages, but on the Euryals arrived home safely on proposed until the Resolutions now desirable. Those who look upon

EURTALUS. the hen and the egg, Which came fighting cats make that is

On the other hand six The prisoners pleaded that they had The China Mail learns that HMS. is necessary, and, these cannot be legalise the payment at a fixed rate first, the educated men or the gram aggravating, but it aint so; it's the has not commenced. For months arrival here they had the misfortune March 31. The Euryains, an old before you are confirmed as Special their dividends as a Silver income.:

so have been cleared, the rebuilding marians who educate them? Suppose sickening grammar they use. Now past the pathway has been filled with to gamble away all their money..

of exchange should it be deemed that Lindley Murray's grammar was. I've never heard ajay use bad bricks, barricaded, and covered with the first authority, and that it grammar but very seldom; and when attractive postess of a popular pic

$50 fine or in, defanit, 4 weeks minelayer at the Naval Dockyard The ancillary Resolutions will be will realise that as rate of exchange correctly (as per definition) set they do, they are ashamed as a ture theatre. Admitted that it takes forth the usage of the educated men human of its period. Do the educated This recalls the fact that George mighty rocks, but six months. And some time to remove a couple of men of this period abide by Borrow in an appendix to "Romany there isn't any active work apparent Lindley Murray? No. Why? When Rye refers to students of the even now. There they stand, half a and by what right did the first de German language as mumbling the dozen skeleton houses, with just the partures take place? Educated men most uncouth speech, and crunching front walls standing, the resta would not originate them, because the most crabbed literature they demonstrate their education by Europe, Well, George Borrow been rebuilt and occupied long since! wreck. Those houses should have loyalty to the educational laws, by never was the authority on languages because they are the very type of Cup to be played for over the Relief being always' Correct. To alter the that he pretended to be. He was a house which is most in demand Course at Fanling during the Easter usage as laid down by Lindley mere smatterer. There is no harm within the means, that is to say of holidays April 18, 19, 20 and 21 Murray, some bad grammar must in smattering if it be done scienti-those most in need of homes. Some have been used. To beconde good fically, with some grasp of the elemen body ought to get these houses put match play, the of handicap-Any grammar it had to become the usage. tale of all language. German is not in order without any further delay.

Eclectic Competition; 9 holes, number of cards may be taken out

hard labour.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB

VLADIES, SECTION.

Mr. Ritchie has kindly presented a

to £4 cach, as we are advised by ourling currency and the addition Solicitors that the passing of Ex of Articles No. HOS (b) is to traordinary Resolutions is all that

cruiser, was being converted into a Resolutions.

here when the signing of the Aris dealt with, therefore, at the Confalls the raore dollars will they tice was announced. Work on her firmatory Meeting to be held on the whilst it is obviously impossible to receive for their Gold dividends. was suspended and after a time a 25th April

crew arrived from England to take I do not think I can her to Devonport. It will be remem more in explanation of bered that the first batch of military Nos 1 and 2 Resolution

foretell what dividerds are likely to be in the years that lie before us, shall be able to maintain the high there is every reason to hope we

for demobilization went home on this 3 deals with alterations in our standard which has obtained for so vessel which left here ba February 8. Articles of Association which are many years past,

de todas las necessary to enable us to declare a It is necessary to vote upon the B

Bonus Dividend out of our Reinsur three Resolutions separately THE FRUIT, BEASON. OWEL complaint is sure to be pro the call which is to be made in order aliareholders present is necessary to ance Fund and to set it off against majority of three-quarters of the

may save life.

valent during the fruit season. Be to bring the paid up value of these then, but your Directors feel Calio and Diarheen Reniely at hand. It new shares to £4 each. sure to kras a bottin of Uhamberlain's

For sale By Al Alfer the next Annual General confident of your unanimous support Chemists and Storekeepers:

Meeting your Directors, will recom resolutions were carried nam con.

Mr. H. P. White seconded and the