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SEPT. 2ND THOUGHTS ARE.

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Naturally, you are not obliged to suppose anything so unpleasant, but just suppose you had to compose a column or so of thoughts for daws: to peck at it being understood that

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kwongtung Tramway Co. stald to have already issued shares to the value of $2,700,000.

** Childar “*

Capt.

The 9.5. in the ordinary way a worker has Matthiasen) cleared for Moji ar one boss to satisfy but a' poor devil 6 am. to-day with 2,000 tons of rice. of a newspaper writer has a thousand fault-finders, and you hadn't the least bit in all the world of an idea in

..

The s.s "Chili" (Capt. Me your head at all, and time going on Garity) which arrived from Wchu all the while at that, and you may be yesterday brought 2,000 tons of feeling just a taste Mondayish, after rice. the sort of week end that makes life worth living, now wouldn't you be after considering that things might be different without being we.se? Sure, how much nicer to be adding up columns of figures, for they provide you the figures, or drawing. up a brief, for it's all in the books, or indenting for another milion gross of corkscrews. for

社

JIMMY WILDE'S VICTORY.

EXCITING CONTEST AT OLYMPIA.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2` 1919.

RIGHTS AND WHONGS..

14.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

MURDER IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

The August Criminal Sessica

Fateur

Natural rights, said Bentham, were anarchical fallacies. When men began arguing on the basis of rights, he explained, there was no comman ground. There are so many rights Jimmy Wilde, the British champion, that appear self-evident when looked were closed bolore the Chief Justice defeated Pal Moore, the American on at by themselves, but are found toe William Bees-Davies, K.6) points, in 3 20-round boxing contest afled at together Property for example, ing was omdluded of the case in conflict with one another when look-yesterday afternoon when the heart Olympia on July 17, Great interest was has its rights. May a landlord, then, which a Chinese named Chung Kan centred in the contest, and the huge not only let his land to whomsoever was indicted for the number of he building was crowded. "Among the he pleases, but evict his tenants if brother, Chung Kan Yang, at Chec spectators were the Prince of Wales they do not please him: The unre Po vifuge, Now Territories, co Jall. and Prince Albert. Wilde quickly trained exercise of this right has been generally held wrong, and has assumed the offensive, and after in consequence beer limited in

The Acting Attorney-Generala (aka The .. "Childar" (Capt. Mat- thiasent arrived from Saigon at twelve rounds. had gone the Welsh-various State enactments. This is Mr. H. E. Pock, KC pas D. yesterday with 2200 tons of riceman held a good lead on points. Hot to say that property has noted, and Mr. R. E-Bo for Hongkong.

rights. It is to say that the rights.peared for the prisoner. Up to that period the fight was a

of property must be limited by other!

The allowing toned the Jury:--- good one, and both men were going rights no less important. Personales. Hat, A. IV. da Roma. strong. After the sifteenth, however, liberty is claimed as a right more Str. Castro, C. W. Obe the effects. of Wilde's severe attacks energetically perhaps thar any other. . . Castro and F. H. Y.. but, no one can contend that personal told on the American, and he was liberty is liberty to do anything After several witnesses for the the catalogues.. Pleasanter to be

obviously in distress.. drafting a sermon, for that's all in

At the six within one's physical capacity. On section have been heard, 3r. teenth he made a surprising recovery, the contrary, the more it is insisted Belos opeud the defence zd my eye, and comes only once a week anyway. As for governing a colony The Quinnebaue" (Capt. This round was by far the most the more closely it has to be placed the prisoner in the box. -but we know nothing about that,Medina) left for Foochow via Swa-thrilling of the whole contest, and it remarkable, its very limitations seem that on the day in question he was limited and defined, and. what is riving evidence the prisoner d nor how 'tis done. After all, then and Amoy at 1 pm. to-day with proved to be the American's best often to develop and expand its shopping wood when he met his main thing is that in moods like this: 800 tons of general cargo.. it would be pleasanter not to work

In the seventeenth Moore essential meaning. For example, isther, who was on his way to draw at all, but to get a tim of tobacco.

was again the superior force, but his it not a consequence of natural water. They had currolled scene effort was too late. So strong was liberty that "one man should be a previously over certain prox Wilde's lead on points at this stage allowed to conclude with another party, and when ursoner met his that it would have required the any agreement which seems mutually brother that day he toned h American to administer the "knock advantageous? Yes, replies the rut it.

A fight ended. The de- out" if success was to come his way. lawyer, as long as it is a lawful persei struck line. with a big ha The eighteenth found Wilde recover agreement, and with that reservationex, and prisoner defended himself Chovsang" (Capt.ing, and the meeting was an even one. her the statute law for him, will with he's chopre.

Serem! Movs Brewer cleared for Shanghai at In the nineteenth round, however, at once begin restricting the right off w exchange red fell 8 a.m. to-day with 1.000 tons of Wilde was once more in the ascen- contract until, for example, a whole down and primer seeing he general cargo and 2 European dency, and he eventually won a great body of industrial legislation is built sanity, ran way.

up which very closely defines the ea that his brother victory on points.

conditions on which employers and Realising that i had done wrong. employed may make agreements for the washed the chopper and left the the execution of work. Yet this

there the dasa is all

The s.. "Haimun" (Capt. Page) arrived from Haiphong at 8 am today with 300 tons of general cargo and 1 bag of mails.

and go fishing, somewhere where it's The s.s. "Patriot "Capt. Le Brun quiet and bauty reigns and the arived from Chingwantan at 420 buzzing in one's thinkbox gets apm. yesterday with 2.600 tons of chance to run down and step. For coat and 100 tons of coke.. two pins we'd

But Sept. 2nd thoughts are best. We carry on

BAD HABIT.

The 3.5.

passencers,

The ss."Liangchow" (Captai Hooker) cleared for Bangkok ́cia Swatow at 11 am today with 300 tons of general cargo and 4 European cabin passengers.

round.

PONIES ARRIVE.

HONGKONG NOW IMPORTS DIRECT

He had no

dinst

T

Mr. Bees subuted that is whos

restrictive legislation has on things that evening whole made for freedom, because it has brought the right of contract use of justifiable bomicide and Pinto touch with the right to equality that the facts showed that if the of conditions. The old free contract prisoner had not defended himself be too often meant the practical sub-would have been killed.

This pri jection of the weaker party to unfairsoner had no intention of corramite terms. When he was no longer frreting murder.

There arrived by the s.s. Chip to enter into such a bargain hei Mr. Pollock replied that a mut geral cargo andi 32 bags and 11shing" yesterday, thirty "Larser.became a freer man. There is, in most stand by the natural ce baskets of mails.

griffins for the Hongkong Jockey fact, no such thing as an absolute sequences of his uet. The doctor's Club. Subscription griffins were right, and that is what Bentham evidence showed the savagery of the hitherto imported in conjunction with meant. There numerous rights, attack which the prisoner made upen the Shanghai Racing Club and a rights of different people in different his brother. though we have had some good relations, and both morals and After His Lordship had summed ponies for the previous meetings it statesmanship consist in so adjust-up bratly, the Jury retired and after was found that the method of im

ing them to one another as to secure

men objected.

The ss.

at 1.30

short absence returned with an unanimous verdict of “' guilty."'

His Lordship donned the black cap and in passing the death sentence

on, the prisoner said the Jury could.

Once the world was not a nitel place, and man had a rough time in it. He was cold, and hungry, and threatened on

every hand with sudden death. He had to be on the jump every waking moment, ready to snarl fighi, or run, Then the sum smoothed life for him, drove the ice away, brought out the green grass

Thess. "Chenan" (Capt. Laver) and the bonny trees and made the which arrived here from Shanghai rich scil fruitful. There is moren Sunday brought 609 tons of than enough good land in the jolly, jolly world to let every one of his have a wide estate all to himself. Indeed, Richard Whiteing has com puted that there's 'easy standing

A Canton paper published room, without crowding, on the

rumour about Provincial Assembly- little Isle of Wight for

men opposing the Tramway conces every

sion and bribes. One Assemblyman individual of the world's entire population. But in those long ago

was so shocked that he wanted the portation of pories was unsatisfac-the common good. days he acquired the habit of hud- paper suppressed. Other Assembly-tory and Hongkong was getting For want of understanding on this dling and of snarling, and apparently

what we could have after Shanghai point the word "right" has been he cannot break himself of it. Look

had had its choice and taken one of the hardest worked, and often at him, the fool-all over the bonny

the pick of the

It one of the most mischievous, in the not hicly have brought in any other bunch. "Chipshing" (Cap was due world, where he might be having Matthews) which arrived from Wei- taken in local facing by. Messrs. is that, as the term is generally under. to the keen interest political dictionary. The mischief verdict.

It was most bratul such a good time, glaring, snarling hei and carrying on like one possessed.ught 6 European passengers. kong Jockey Club have decided this to assert or deny it is equally false. p.m. yesterday. Jahristone and Burkill that the Hong-derstood, it often happens that either He must be. The divvle's in him.

2.300 tons of general cargo and mails. seasor to try the scheme of Import Take the right of national self-deter- We have quite recently expressed

She also brought 30 griffins for the ing ponies direct from Mongolia and mination. This bas been used as our very real admiration for this

Jockey Club.

yesterday's arrivals are the first a justification for the breakup of young man, so that should allow us

being urged bunch to be landed safely under the Austria and is now to have our little bit of fun out of the

new scheme. It is thought that by an argament for the separa- telegram from Ottawawithout having 15 16d.

To-day's dollar is worth 39. 11 2nd Battalion of which is said to be kong will witness better racing. A not Ireland a nation? Yes. Has not September 1, Cyclone or typhoon The Bedfordshire Regiment, the this method of importation Hong. tion of Ireland. It is so simple. Is the Manila Observatory at 5.35 p.m. halfbricks and Bolshevistic words

coming to Hongkong, has as its regi though it is impossible to exclude poor a nation the right of self-determina. near or over the northern part of mental badge the united red and

who mean so well but have no sense has resumed "the directorship of cluds. Namur (1695), Blenheim, the new scheme that the percentage politics" and justifies the Ger-

The Rev. Father A. Frox, S.J, white rose. Its service record in ponies from these shipments, it is con- tion? Yes. Then Ireland has that Formosa Channel moving N.W. or

N.N.W. fidently thought by those who sponsor right, and if England interferes Ramillies. Oudenarde, Malplaquet.of good ponies coming to Hongkong

1.30 pm. September 2. of humour and indeed are rather Zicawei Observatory, Shanghai. HOLLAND -AVIS. On August 23, weak in the skyward end of them.

Surinam, Chitral. South Africa (1900-will be considerably above those man attack on Belgium. That Eng-N. at Shanghai, Albo FT. Sir Robert Border probably didn't naval officer is on the way to receive

02) and the Great War. It is reported that a German

obtained hitherto. We learn that land may have any rights in the mat- lam, Shanghai, to Any Fletalk claptrap on that occasion of the German war prisoners still held

some of the old class griffins are ter is not a proposition to be enter en Avis. Pyment

also being imported but it has not tained for a moment, and that any presenting a loyal address, but in lapan, the number of whom is said

they will be allowed to race with the to Home Rule and deny its right to yet been decided whether or not one should recognise Ireland's right DEATH..

Reuter's summary makes it sound to be 4,406.

A Chinese when charged with that way. It met with "a tornado of

separation appears to this sort of obstruction, pleaded that a flood cheering." Then our Prince spoke,

Let us look at it a little more closely.remove his furniture on to the road logic the most sheer inconsistency.dirtied his house and he had to

I will not occupy space with the questo clean up the place. He was fined tion whether Ireland is a nation (one | $5.

AÚTTON.

BIRTHS.

August 21. 14 Shanghai. I 3 Lajendr (nee Priec), wire og (Dtyd) A. Stewart Hutson, Royal Navy, Naval General Staff aloe, a dangghter. PRACH. ON ARWIN 23 at Shang.

lari, to M. and Ms. N. W Peuch, a dungafer,

MARRIAGE.

MEAD A Peitaihoon August 22, Parnet Isconi, agysh 112 mm maths;

Abiter of Ale, mal Ms. E. W. Mend, of the British Tagation.

The China Mail. „

TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE,**

BONGKONG, Tuesday, Suer. 2, 1917,

THE "EPIDEMIC."

There was a little bit of a iman called Dan Leno, and be no doctor at

all. could have told us as much as

OUR PRINCE.

thrown at us by those good patriots

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the Taraken oil field, Batavia, a new well has been discovered with

a clear voice," as if a good a production of 600 tons daily, by living clean youth like him would which the total production of the have a husky one, and a storm of field becomes 2,100 tons. applause" rewarded him. If our

patriotism were of the thin-skinned

and touchy sort, which praise be it At the University of Edinburgh, is not, we'd quarrel with Reuter for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine

Adertiser that the direct cable service It is reported. says the Japar

which was operated between Germany and Japan, riz Shanghai. by the Deutsche-Japan Post of Yokohama, declared against Germany, is to be and which ceased when war was resumed. Operations will commence assoon as the Peace Treaty is ratified..

7.075 tons of coal were brought

new lot.

drawn for at the Jockey Club Stables. The newly arrived ponies will be

at 6 p.m. to-day.

SHIPS IN HARBOUR.

List of

that bit of anti-climax. Why should and Bachelor of Surgery were recent into Hongkong on Sunday. They Sir Robert get

a tornado of cheer-ly conferred upon Henry Morris An-were brought in by the following morning. ing" and our Prince only a storm derson, Hongkong. and Robert Khoships: of applause?" He was entitled to Seng Lim, Straits Settlements.

at least a typhoon of ovation or a cyclone of encomia or a willwilly of

Daitoku Maru No.5" (Capt. British Hiraco) 1,596 tons from Keelung: "Rokkosan Maru" (Capt. Hawamura) Loengsang

enthusiasm or approbation.

a hurricane of happy kong, has just been appointed Chi-Maru" (Capt. Shioshita) 1.130 tons

nese Consul to Samoa. He is a Camfrom Keelung and Fushiki Maru

Mr. Ah Lo, well known in Hong2389 ons from Mike; "Missin Chipshing"

Patriot

Haimun

Kansu

Kumsang

Harold Dollar

As we have said, there didn't bridge nian and has many foreign (Capt. Hono) 1,960 tons from Mlike. seem anything in the words as friends throughout China, who will reported to evoke tornadoes or storms of applause.. Probably there rejoice to learn of this promotion,

Our

Japanese

Shisen Maru Daitoku Maru

Rokkosan Maru

4 Nissin Mard

Fushiki Maru Riojun Maru Anyo Maru the papers of the place are now

wasn't for such are not necessary on

The North Chine Sunday Times, Empress of Russia Tango Maru informing us about this .new

these occasions. It was for

we learn from a contemporary, is Titan

Chelan Maru epidemic."

If it is the rice broth Prince, and the psychologist. will pany's traffic receipts for the week ties of cargo for shipment to Ham-Choysang The Hongkong Tramway Com very indignant because large quanti-Hamelin

Nankai Maru that is doing it, sure it is no attach special significance to the were $14.584, or/$595 more than burg.

Ujo Maru epidemic at all, any more than you possessive pronoun. As a matter of last year.

are collecting at Tientsin.Lating

Kaijo Maru would be calling the typhoon an cold-blooded analysis the idea that for 35 weeks were. $513,990, or The Aggregate Receipts

This is not a very nice sort of Honghwah Taiwan Maru epidemic of drowning. Gastro-curtie of common allegiance" is $36,219 more than in the correspond ball." The more important thing at Kueich.c

thing to hear and it makes the Blood Telemachus Alasayoshu Maru enteritis, they call it, and we admire an "effective expression of ouring period of 1918. the wisdom of them altogether, for devotion to something else was rather

present is to make the pot, boil and Tascalusa how should we be knowing that by way of watering down the loyalty

this is not done by sitting at home) Wasun pestris is only a nickname for the to the person that the tornado Majer Cassidy writes in the and nursing your hate. Some of our Dervent offended stomach, and enteron the implied. It was somewhat on

Siraits Times about the contemp.

bellicose contemporaries seem to Melville Dollar Greek guts of it in a manner of all fours with Spinoza's trick tibles": With only one suit of wish to continue the war for ever. Eastern speaking? There would be in of robbing us of our Heavenly Father khaki, soaked to the skin, frozen Luckily practical commonsense is Wuhu flammation altogether in that neigh and giving us an Impersonal Deity with cold, they never once lost their proving too much for the hate-Kalonz bourhood with the pour people nor in exchange. It is a common need sangfroid." We can quite believe it. mangers. getting enough, and then getting too of our nature to love something..We Wasn't that just the trouble? much all at once for nothing, and cannot in any sane interpretation of

At the Shanghai Recreation

with it,

that is

power

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received at the U. S. Consulate from

Tyhoop N. of Formosa moving N.

W. or N...

WAS THIS FAIR?

or two). beyond remarking that I Was this fair? We notice that' never yet saw a definition of a nation. when the Sanitary Board gangs are. nor was able; inspite of many efforts, at work they set an example of this to invent one, on which any rigid form of "obstruction." argument worth a rush could be founded. I shall assume for the vessels in port this purposes of the argument that

Ireland is

and a nation,

that They were either means to the nations have a right of self-deter- greatest happiness of the greatest mination. What I wish to consider number or they were of no account. is the limit of this right. For ex- But rights, like "duties, are something ample, Polandis a nation. Have the more than means. They are rather Poles, then, a right to massacre Jews? constituent parts of a good order The pogroms are among the first and a durable public life. They visible signs of Polish national self excite a passion of devotion which determination. Does that give them men do not feel for a mere instru any standing ground in morals?ment, and to deny any one of them Does it even give them any standing utterly is to produce a reaction ground in law if the Powers which wherein it overshadows everything.. have established the Polish nation The right of suffrage, for example, is choose to insist on protecting the not merely a means. It is also the Jews? Russia is or was a nation, acknowledgment, of the full civic and before the war it oppressed both personality of the voter, and in the Finland and Poland It was doubt case of women it has of itself, and less politically impossible to interfere, apart from any legislative enact but had it been otherwise would it ments which it may bring about, have been morally indefensible? conferred a new status and inspired. Pass from oppression of a subject a new attitude. Yet the right people to internal government. to vote is no more absolute than any Here iz has been very other. Prove that it is anywhere or i generally recognised that there in any class systematically abused is a degree of disorder which justi- and made an instrument of mis fies intervention from outside. The government, and you make out a plea has perhaps been dishonestly good case for its withdrawal. It is used at times, but that it is sound inquite possible that democracy, once" principle can hardly be gainsaid...fully sure of itself, will as a matter of When we make these admissions principle make the vote dependent on and reservations do we strip the specified services or qualifications for right of self determination of all civic life. What was wrong was the meaning? No more than we strip total denial of the common citizen- the right of property of all meaning ship which the vote expressed. When when we limit it by the State's right such a right is thus ignored it means of "taxation or even by its broader that the working system of society and lese defined right of securing goes short of one of its organs. access to the means. of livelihood for When a right is made absolute. 'it all its members. None of these rights means that'a ramrod is thrust into are absolute, none can be pressed the living tissue, What thinkers without regard to their effect on life have to do is to define rights and as a whole. Each of them is in duties as clearly as they can, so that general a condition of the common they form a consistent whole. What well-being, one among many which statesmen have to do is, with such a must be equally regarded.

whole before them as an ideal, to This is not quite the same as effect the adjustment to the zetual Bentham's colution. He puts righ's stuation, to the passions of men and altogether Into a secondary place. the legacies of history.

Chinese

Taishuo Tsinglee Tungshing

Taikon Wan Yi Liabgehow Phranang

Chongya Kwanglee Taiszema Winghang Chefoo

It is a mistake to suppose that Talang

a warrant officer who came up for British Isles. well known Admiral. Ionce asked Shantung his discharge what he proposed Pheumpenh

choose some sort of occupation that Devawongse doing on his return to civil life, Volute adding that supposed he would Huntball had to do with seafaring, directly.or Indirectly. Not me sir! he ex-American claimed emphatically. 'Not-mel I'm

the greed of the poor things healthier the verb) love an Impersonal Deity Club's pavilion, on August 23. A all sailors love the sea, remarked.. a Cyclops than their digestions. That's the We cannot "love" the British consti- way of it, believe you us, and whether tution, or Liberal principles, the way W. Jamieson, CMG, acting the doctors call it gastro-enterija, we can love the King who stands for British Consul General, unveiled enteric enteritis, duodenitis, jejunitis, them. We don't love him because brass memorial tablet in honour of comes to the same thing and that's we despise and hate. We love him given their lives for our cause in typálitis of typhoid or colitis it all he is a King, tecause there are Kings those members of the club who have

poison in the parts we live by. It isn't because he is our King, the way a the war. the "congee" or the quality fit that mother loves her snivelling urchin, the kind-hearted people were giving the girl child her rag doll, or the bay

The Annual Bazaar under the

away. It is the not getting enough, his mongrel dog. That's the real auspices of the Ministering Children's going to buy an anchor, sling it Quinebaug and then getting too much, and the secret of the tornado of emotion at League will be held by kind per- over my shoulder, and start walking Edmore psides of them not accustomed in Ottawa. All those people felt drawn mission in the grounds of Govern straight inland: I'll walk and walk, Western Knight such ficice treatment. What they together in a spirit of proprietorship.ment House on Saturday October 18. and finally, when I come to a place Brooklyn... want is food, and that regularly, and in the joy of owning. That's the The proceeds as formerly will be where the natives say to me, "What Tanterville

epidermic with the fancy psychology of it, and it explains why devoted to local charitles for children, on earth is that queer-looking thing name that tells us nothing will be collocations of words that mean the Ottershaw Cots, (Surrey) and the you are carrying?--I'll just settle Frash gone from us in the shake of a lamb's hardly anything when analysed serve Naval and Military Funds for down and stay there for the rest of

to inspire and move crowds.

Orphans.

my life,

Jade

the new

Bil

Norwegian

Hero Providence

Portuguese

Hoiping

-Dutch:

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Tjimanoék

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