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THE CHINA MA

on foot." The Hawkers Act 1688 defines the hawker as one with a horse or other beast of burden etc?" The peddler's licence costs five shil ings, and is often a camouflage for mendicancy. The hawker's licence costs forty shillings, and on the old- fashioned terms of issue (references erc) is a guarantee that the possessor wears, the white flower of a blame- less life, except, perhaps, for the matter of a little poaching. which is a gentlemanly peccadillo anyway. In both cases the high- ways are implicated, and romance, and the spirit of Merrie England.

sters,

LOGIL AND QEVERIES'

Today's dollar is worth Sa. 6 15/16d

LOCAL AND QENERAL,

Rhesus, Kiskun Maru, Tungshing, Riechow, Borneo Maru Kaija Maru and Hawaii Maru, are late shipping

of plague.

Today's report shows nine cases arrivals.

The N. Y. K. s. Kamakura-mark left Nagasaki recently for Brazil with 650 Japanese emigrants..

The ss. Lake Placid from Baltf more was mined off Gothenburg on The crew of thirty-seven were saved May 20 and sank in five minutes

4.

To have hobnobbed with prancing pro-consuls and parliament men furnishes a few interesting recollect ions, but the real treasures of

In Kobe harbour on May 25 light memory appertain to days with ning struck and damaged the NYK. those gentry of the road, the 9.5. Fatahama-maru, the TKK. s.. hawkers, packmen, chapmen, huck Chuyomaru, and a steam launch the

peddlers, bieglers, Cheap Hiro-maru. Jacks, regraters, colporteurs, gypsies, tinkers. merchants of trove, and other venturers of the winding ways of the country side. The mingled scents of hawthorn and tobacco are revived for us by this prima facie dry debate in our Legislative Council. For though the writer never was a bawker he was a hiker, which is an American idiom that very probably shares with cur hawker the same derivation.

REGISTERING A LETTER.

The Hongkong Post Office cannot be likened to the thatched cottage in

Ltd the poem, whose outside was "old

We Specialise in Ladies Unique

FOOTWEAR

NOTE:

WE ARE COSATANTLY RECEIVING FREAR SHIPMENTS or raz LATEST- [DE-EX SMART FOOTWEAR- FOR LADIES

JUST RECEIVED:

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chert

MARRIAGE.

NEW STYLES

FOR EVENING

AND AFTERNOON

WEAR

NOTE OUR WINDOWS!

and mean." Externally it is a busi- ness-like building. Parts of it inside

get near

it..

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The total output of the Kailan Administration's ntines for the week ending May 31 amounted to 69,193 tons and the sales during the period, to 67,376 tons..

Word has been received that the Thomas Aerial Express Company in England i planning to send mails from England to Japan by airplane via India and Shanghai.

Japanese ships were released from During May 44,500 tons of

that their charter parties will not be charter, and it is generally supposed

market situation. renewed in view of the present

plans to expand its shipping facilities The China Mail as. Company by the increase of American capital. Negotiations are proceeding for the purchase of 27 new ships of a total tonnage of 433,000.

The Kaikyu Maric, 12,500 tons, built at the Asano. Dock Yard for the Katsuda K.K. is the largest 8,000 tons, struck an iceberg off Cape-speed trials she averaged 15.77 knots The Donaldson Liner Cassandra, Japanese cargo-boat afloat. On her Race on May 25 and was badly per hour, damaged. The vessel proceeded to St. Johns, N. F.

The boycott of Japanese goods and shipping is very active in Hupeb, and leaflets have been freely scattered among the people calling on them to carry it out thoroughly.

During May 900 Orientals were smuggled into Queensland. The men were brought on pearling vessels and landed in collapsible boats, which were burned on the beaches.

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Mr. D. Forbes, the manager of the Hongkong and Shangbal Bank, Shameen, bas gone on leave. He eft for England via Hongkong on the morning of June 11. Mr. N. R. Armitage has been appointed to suc- ceed Mr. Forbes.

Mr. J. Witchell, manager of the King Edward Hotel has just been discharged from the Government Civil Hospital where he had been an inmate for a fortnight suffering from blood poisoning in the leg due to the bite of a centipede.

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The latest name we have heard mentioned as the new Straits FS.is that of Major Sir J. R. Governor and High Commis ioner Chancellor, R. EK.C.M. G. D. S.O.. Governor of Trinidad, M. M.

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919,

CROWDED HOTELS.

NOTICE TO LONG-RESIDEN?

VISITORS.

THE EE MONTHS' LIMIT.

QUITE SIMPLE.

Those who have come to-under- stand that thought as a process is unconscious, (except in certain oc casional culminations within us) wil have no difficulty in understanding that life and thought are fundament. ally the same. What we become The difficulty of getting hotel aware of are the relatively crescendo accommodation in London is becor- passages of thought in the harp of ing more acute. Some of the biggest thought, viz., the brain, where the are increasing their charges.

branching filaments of the brain cells the Government release the con- ware-into-whirl elements or psychons. "The problem will continue until act as ushers and collectors of the on April 21. "We turn away daily baid statement, which takes no mandeered hotels" a manager said that come from without. This is a about 100 applicants. Many arrive account of our faculty of composing by late trains and beg for shelter. synthetising the elements of experi Recently a Russian with some friends ence.. Putting it in one sentence, the his knees to get shelter for the night. experience, which dates back to the from the Continent almost went on latter is the resultant of ancestral We made up beds for his party in gaseous nebula whence a solar system the lounge and offices. booked up for two months and have nature of the atom, particularly on We are takes its origin. Recent work on the bookings even for November. Ithe atomic model, has shows that away from London because of the which atoms are built inevitably form know several business men who stay the ultimate particien of electrons of difficulties of accommodation.""

definite and constant geometrica

to their

During the war many people escaparrangements according their houses and flats and becoming concomitant at the root of being. ed household worries by giving up number. Thus form and rhythm are "permanent residents at non-residen- Here we must look for the intuitive tial hotels. The proprietors of the truth which rings true to all ex- Regent Palace and Strand Palace perience. Hotels have sent the following letter residence to about 100 clients of long.

ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice acknowledges with thanks the follow- ing donations to the funds of the Hospitals: The Pharmacy ...... Special contributions per Mrs.

Coxien To

Asbestos

For some time past we have been re- ceiving many letters from patrons..who at frequent intervals formerly visited. The German vessels in Chilian our hotels, complaining that they are ed States. There are 84 vessals in is most strongly contended, that ports have been allotted to the Unit-now repeatedly refused<rnoms. It all, of 318,000 gross tons, being 32 we are thereby not offering the public steamers, of 185.220 gross tons, and in reneral the facilities for which the 57 saling vessels, of 132,971 tons. hotels were established.

In order to reduce such com The O.S.K. s. America Maru, plaints to a minimum we have been on May 20, collided with the s. adopt a regulation that accommo- Mrs. E. Coppin. while en route from Keelung to Moji compelled-most reluctantly-to Mikado Maru of the Tanaka Mining dation may not be retained for more United Company, in a thick fog. vessels were damaged, but this did

Oriental Both than three month." not prevent them from continuing it becomes nece

Agency "Is the cire stances, therefore, Messrs, C. E. Warren & Co.

y for us to request | N. Yamagita Esq....... their voyages.

that you will be id enough to let M S. Sasson Esq.--... us have posse

of your room Messrs. Bismarck & Co. .**. the decision of the National Seamen's much regret having to pursue this J. Bentley Esq...........

A deadlock has been caused by four weeks from today. We very and Firemen's Union not to allow course, but feel that it is only fair S. P. A........................

D. H. Cooper & Co.... Chinese crews in future to work on in the interests of our clients as a A. Morris Esq. .......................... British merchant ships trading to

whole."

Messrs. Komor & Komor Chinese ports. Union officials de

Mr. Julius Salmon, director of

Ullmann & Co. ................ clare that their moto is firs" and point out that there are those of our visitors who

"British the company, said:

"We feel that J. F. Miller E4, about 6,000 registered out-of-work staying in London for a considerable British seamen in Liverpool, and that time should take a fat or house.

are E. D. Katewal Esq.

other porta. Nearly 1,000 Chinese were filled with permanent resi a similar state of affairs exists at If all the hotels are now unemployed in Liverpool

in London

.$ 50.00

40.00 20.00

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WONG YAN'S COMINGS AND GOINGS.

dents there would be no room for visitors to London at all. Recently

among the crews of their steamers over 100 are embarrassed by the tendency he got a bedroom. We have had Japanese shipping companies traveller went to 28 hotels before

Wong Yan has the same regard from intend for Hongkong that the wild tribes.

Four men ex-

letters

the men join ocean-going vessels away about 200 people a day. All or that the Huns had for French with the sole object of deserting in single beds are booked up to July 11 chateaus. To him Hongkong is a city to desert at foreign ports, Some of ing visitors, and we have to turn men have for the Afghan villages, foreign countries

and double beds to July 19, and then full of loot. For helping himself he ployed, on board the N. Y.K. . there will be vacancies only on cer- was banished in 1912: He came men of the s. Kyoko-Maru did the to financial gain; there will be to The police were busy enough and Tokushima Maru, deserted at New tain days. The notice to the per- back, and again the outspread wealth.. York on December 11. while three manent residents is not with a view of the place overcame his struples. same at Seattle on April 14,

increase in pris

didn't want such regular custom. They got him banished again. He couldn't stay away. This time they have put him in the strong room for fifteen months. Adept at "picking and stealing", he will now specialize in picking. They call it oakum.

are quite well arranged. A China Mail reader who went to register letter called our attention to the zoom in which that branch of postal busi ness was done. We did not see it as the saw it, but could well imagine what it was like. The space for the journey from Weibalwei, sighted The C. N. s. Tungcho, on the public is a narrow cul de sac, about what appeared to be a capsized junk five fee: wide, and when our abou 150 miles north of Shaweishan. informant went it was packed with On closer investigation it proved to Chinese and "looked mere like be a dead whale about 70-t long. a football scrimmage than a place for men doing business in orderly manner. There are two grilles, and he suggests that one should be reserved for Earopeans He asks what it would be like for European lady to have to struggle out of such a melee. He says the danger is a treble ore, and talks of thieves, microbes, and asphyxia. His alarm is justified but we cannot agree that his remedy would be adequate. Perpend. Call the two grilles a and b. Let b be at the inner end of the cul de sac. If a were reserved for Europeans, they would still be dis- commoded by the mob wrestling and struggling to or from b. It b market place, according to the never

were reserved for them, they would Ce. have changed their programme. The Barvard Musical Comedy report of the Legislative Council. A obviously required, if there are to be they leave by the Acher for Vladi BELL-MAGEFAN --Or Jhawker is a peripatetic salesman.such crowds on mail days, is a larger vostock to perform for the American What is Instead of opening here in a few days Shanghai, Peter Bell. Marine Any true definition of the term must room. Something like the hall in troops. They will come to Hong Engineer, Shanghai, e. Eliza comprise the function of carrying which the stamps are sold would do, kong again later. both And Maclean, "Invern ssf goods to the customer as well as of but in any case a change should be Scotland.

selling. A shpkeeper, sells but does made. Why cannot the registration not hawk his customers come to department be on the same faur, him. It is many years since we anyway? saw Stone's Justices Manual (a book almost as interesting as the Bible) but we believe that Stone makes this distinction be- tween hawking and peddling that a hawker uses a vehicle and or an animal, while the peddler is his own reporter reminds us that in one thing purchased the quays, warehouses The Mitsubishi Company has beast of burden and trapes afoot. the Hongkong newpapers deserve and other properties formerly owned it well of the public. The war cost us by a German firm at Shanghai and is so in Police practice, and we believe more than it gave us. Paper was

TELEPHONE. (0)-President Wil- that at Home there are two separate dearer, wages were higher, adver- has conveyed them to a new company son's first term was from March 4, licences, one for hawking, the other tisements were fewer. Many people specially floated for the purpose of 1913 to March 4, 1917. His present for.peddling.

have the idea that wars help the managing them. The new concern term does not expire until March 4, Needless to say we protest earn- papers, by giving them news which is called the Kwaryo Warehouse Com 1921, so you will see that your eatly at such disrespectful definitions the public eagerly buys. Big or little, pany and has its office on Canton anxiety as to whether he proposes

Mr. C. H. P. Hay, Chairman of the as were quoted, in so far as they important or obscure, the experience Road.

"stand again' impute deceit and cheatery to these of all journals is exactly otherwise.

is a little prema

Hongkong Club, presided over a large ture. We guess he won't anyway. useful and interesting tradesmen. InHere in Hongkong our expenses rose

The O.S.K. $3. Sawa Mau ran

CANTON. (C. Y.).-Educational re-

goodbye and bon voyage to M. Paul gathering of members on Wednesday the days of good King Hal (25 Henry enormously, our income dwindled Kochi on her way from Sakawa to

night. The occasion was to bid VIII c. 9 sec. 6) they might be "evill considerably, and we never raised Kaminokaye, and was damaged. The care to take notice of that sort of

on a sunken rock on May 25 off port duly received. Thanks. disposed persons which commonly our rates. Next time you hear one

Quiz. (Kowloon)-We do not

here, and who left by the Empress of Kremer who has been French Consul bcene called haukers.... buying of those cheap cyrics that abound passengers, cargo and mail matter thing. They've got to live, you said D. Macnamara to Mr. Macbers of the French communery morn In the opinion of the Admiralty, Asia yesterday. Among other mem and selling of Brasse and Pewter." here, opening wide his foolish face to despatched to the scene the following 'em, we don't worry.

were landed, and the Koyo Maru was know and if they think that helps master, it was not proper to designate sent were: MM. de Journel, Hauche- Actors, stage players, to whom jeer at Hongkong journalism, just try day to render assistance in the work modern kings give knighthoods, were the effect of these simple facts upon

RJ.P.It did look rather a sudden Grand Fleet" This was used to Floquet and Gony.

the whole Navy by the title of the corne, Colin, Sire, Tourtet, Lapicque, then legally rogues and vagabonds. him-especially it he happen to be a

of refloating.

pull-up, but it was necessary. The designate our main naval force, So were many other quite decent retailer.

statement was libellous.

After the toasts of H.M. the King people.

The NYK. intended to despatch

JD.--We thank you for the hint theatre of war. The proper designa-thonoured, Mr. C. H. P. Hay, the under a single command and in one and the President of France had been the extra ss. Toyohashi Maru tone of our men was put on that job tion for the Navy as a whole was Chairman, proposed the toast of their may or may not have had the same i

Shanghai-on-May-20, with 2,000 at once, but found the facts explain his Majesty's Navy" or "the British guest in a happy speech. He em The serious side to it, of course, is derivation. The Encyclopedia Britan

We do not know who the gentle-tons from Kobe, but, on account of charges by a local firm accounted for had associations that could not be one of the most popular figures in the that the use of the wrong word innica suggests the German kocken (to

tons of cargo, from Osaka and 400 ed in quite another way. Overhead Navy" both of which designations phasised the fact that M. Kremer was an Ordinance of the kind would have squat or sit on the "hucklebone" is who writes the Hongkong the boycott of Japanese goods at the failure to make a profit, meant needless trouble later, expensive or Dutch hoek (a hole or corner) but notes for the N. C. Daily News, but Shanghai and other parts of China, the joke. How often must we tell CONSCIENCE.-That's the cream of legal arguments, and the possible we are not inclined to accept that, he reads the Ching Mail. That is evic the extent of 200 tons each, at Kobe you that the Ching Mail has no

like almost everybody else nowadays these shipments were cancelled to

Colony. During the eleven years he had been in the local French Consulate." frustration of justice. The Attorney

It is too farfetched. An old

all who had come into contact with him General wasn't ready with the right English word howk (to get by eat internally. His references to the and Osaka.

opinions? It only airs 'em.. The

had learnt his real worth. Mr. Hay Mr. Chamberlain informed Mr. also referred to the keen interest M. substitute, nor were the others pre-

picking or plucking) is fast recent Police Reserves row exhibit

readers pick and choose. In this case Bottomley that he did not propose Kremer took in racing, asking those pared, apparently, so the job stands as probable an origin. The predatory a fair example of special pleading, of There died at the International one of two things must fall, either to apply any portion of the sum in present to "Bend Or" and "Swallow"

DEATHS.

HELSBY Jun 3 Turthy Muad, daughter of F. G. Helsby, nged three years, UAN-On dum at Hangha, Robert John Sun, M.D., gel HI Sears.

The China Mail.

TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

HONGZOND, FRIDAY, JESE 18, 1919.

HAWKER,

This is not an article about the intrepid airman of that name. It is a contribution to the discussion about the word hawker as applied to trade, inaugurated at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council by the Hon. M. Alabaster. It is regrettable that His Excellency the Governor was not. able to take part. He could and pro- Lab'y would have brightened the discussion.

but not sell, under clause IX of the

If it isn't in Stone

A similar word is huckster, which

COOLIN'S YOUR FRIEND.

A remark made by the cable office official in the interview with our

POLICE RESERVES.

the Kyoda Gyogo Kaisha is estab- The Tamura Kisen Kaisha and lishing a new company under the name of the Japan Trawling Com- pany with a capital of Y.10,000,000 and have ordered trawlers from the Osaka Ironworks.

to

ANSWERS TO

CORRESPONDENTS

Many of the guests referred to have stayed in the hotels for con- siderable periods, some have been at the Regent Palace since it was open- ed in May 1915.-Daily Mail.

IN PARLIAMENT.

NG NAVAL VISIT TO USA,

reply

to

Dr. Macnamara in Viscount Curzon, said it was not Fleet should pay an official visit to proposed that any portion of the

the United States at present! GREATER THAN GRAND FLEET

equalled.

TREASURY'S INSURANCE

PROFITS.

FRENCH CONSUL ENTERTAINED.

over for a committee. The marine ranging of the bird of prey has also lozing facts, and so on. He must I Hospital, Hankow, Captain H. St. J. Your belief in conscience, or your ap- the hands of the Treasury in respect the contents of their glasses. They store dealers have assistants (is that to be noted as a possible chie; fire.be a Journalist. We think he must Murphy of the C. I. & E. Lumber i proval of its persecution. It is a of premiums on aircraft insurance all hoped he would return to Hong- the missing word? who may buy wise hook," on which the hawker's about" all sorts of charges regarding Murphy was for some time in the of things. We didn't invent it. If special hardship among sufferers

be, if only because of his comment Company's 3. Tsangtal. Captain dilemma that belongs to the nature policies to the relief of cases of korg. goods might hang. new Ordinance. Call him the agent, people remote from shops really Loosely bandied about" "Loosely Shewan, Tomes and Company, and mutually exclusive, go ahead. Prove

The country Prussianism and slavery, etc. being Hongkong-Manila line of Messrs. you think you can reconcile things from enemy air raids: and let clause IX stipulate that found these men useful, and there bandied" is a familiar bit of journa left to take up the business of diving it. The China Mail airs all argu- the marine store dealer's agent may still welcome, though these are few

are parts of England where they are lese that has brightened life for us, in Hongkong. He went to Shanghai ments just as counsel do. The verdicts be a buying agent but not a selling agent. That would be clear now. While on the subject of deriva-like the grin of an old, old friend. about two years ago and joined the are your affair. enough. Failing that the committee tions we may as well note the En- We thank our unknown colleague Tseangtah as chief officer, obtaining have their choice of commissary, cyclopedia Britannica's positive state. Precepto monitus, saepe te considera.

command of her on the completion factor, handler, representative, ment that the origin of peddler plenipotentiary, delegate, buyer (the is to be found in the still older word pedder one who carries

actual word used in some trades for about goods for sale in a bed, a

a word that fikes us...

for the same derivation that gives us

WHAT BOOTS THE SELL?

روانی

of the new vessel.

ام

Of the crew of 35 of the Ellerman-Wilson s. Hidalgo, which A. Japanese shoemaker near the foundered in the Arctic Sea while on

STABBED SECOND MATE.

cellor proposed to keep the whole hoped that he would be sent back to

M. Kremer, who met with a great-

£10,000,000..

Mr. Bottomley asked if the Chan the honour they had done him, and reception thanked his friends for

Hongkong where he had so many Mr. Chamberlain: I propose to genuine friends, keep whatever balance there is.

-Messrs. E. G. Anderson, G. F. Mr. Bottomley: Heartless Chan-Dumbarton, and many others CON cellor. (Laughter.)

tributed a musical programme which THE CASEMENT BRIGADE. helped to exterid the function, which that class of assistant) or ronger-basket or hamper. Our preference 19 China Mail office (so close to culture a voyage to Archangel, who spent the French liner Tatonse was

Viscount Peel told Lord Willoughby! was one of the most enjoyable that A Chinese quarter-master on board de Broke,, in the House of Lords, has taken place at the Club. Here an end of our assistance to pedestrian, which is borne out by the yet what leagues away!) announces five days and nights in an open manded this morning on a charge of action should be taken against the return to Hongkong. By many kind

that the question of whether any Te

It is not likely that, M. Kremer will the committee responsible. They are quite welcome.

Police practice at Home before in big letters in his window a "cheap boat, 15 perished, There was in stabbing the second mate with a repatriated men who joined the so deeds and quiet generosity, be has Mr. Alabaster was right in saying referred to. A pedder, in one rural Is this what Punch calls com the boat a scanty supply of water, knife. Inspector Gordon conducting called Casement Brigade in Germany that hawker was not the right word dialect we know, is not a peddler but mercial candour? That is an example which was exhausted in two days the prosecution stated that the ship was being considered. The men A hawker must sell or starve, a basket-maker, a weaver of hampers. of English as it is Japped. How is Finally several of them, unable to left this port yesterday and com.were not in custody, but their where- and to pass an ordinance ex- Perhaps some Scottish reader can this for a Portuguese effort? it is resist the temptation, drank salt plainant was the only witness avallabouts were known. pressly forbidding a seller to sell tell us. Don't they call the Egyptians asserted that the woman was coerced water, with the result that they able at present, would be cruel, as cruel as our pedders in some parts of Caledonia?, to drink a cup of tea mixed with became demented, and the others Complainant in the box, said that ancestors wicked old Toties: who Turning up the Encyclopedia for narcotic, producing a somnolent had a terrible time trying to restrain he assigned the accused to do a were responsible for the interesting one thing has confirmed our notion effect on her, and that the robbery them. The bodies of five dead men certain inb. The latter refused, and definition Mr. Alabaster cited. To of another. It is the Pediars Act was perpetrated whilst she was in were still lying in the boat when an altercation ensued. The Captain's them a hawker was a deceitful 1871 (qubted by Stone) which defines this state of inertia. Sure, it some sighted, and eventually the survivors appearance temporarily stopped the person who sells goods in the high a peddler as one without any horse times seems as if the funniest things reached a remote island on the quarrel, but he (complainant) was ways and byways instead of in the or beast" who. "travels and trades/in the China Mail are those that Norwegian coast, all badly frost stabbed by the accused later on, For salo By All Chemistä Anil Store 15 years; having served" at Pakhol,

sell.'

don't go in.

bitzen.

his cabin.

made himself one of the best liked. residents In the Colony. He goes to Nagpo to meet his brother, who is Commissioner of Customs there, and will pass through Hongkong on his. way to France on the s. Nera. SOMETHING DEFENDABLE. :

M. Hauchecorne, who arrived in the Colony recently from Foochow DIARREA is always more or less where he had been attached to the prepared for it., Chamberlain's Colic and M. Hauchecore has been in the prevalent during this weather. Be Consulate, will succeed M. Kremer, Dishes Remedy is prompt and affec tnal It can always be depended upon. French Consular Service for the past keepers.

Swatow and Chefoo,