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A FRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.''

GOLFERS.

INVITED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Chino Mail believes that Kowloon has every chance of being gratified in this matter, for its desire is per- fectly reasonable, and ne constitu- tional precedents are effected. It is an ambition the reasonableness: of which is so apparent as to be in- stantly admitted.

MELONS AND CONGEE.

LOCAL AND GENERAL:

To-day's dollar is worth 4

7/16d.

י

SUB ROSA

MCOSTRIVETED.]

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1919.

BOXING.

CARPENTIER KNOCKS, OFT DICK SMITEL

PARIS, July 19% Carpentier, the champion heavy. weight of Europe, won his contest with Dick Smith this evening. The Englishman was knocked out in the eighth round with a right uppercat and two left hooks.

"So Kowloon wants a member on the Legislative Council to air their The ss. "Hanchow" (Capt.. Tonken) arrived from Wuhu this pet grievances about the roads and the drains and the man in Nathan morning with 1,639 tons of rice.

Road who insists on playing "Smiles** on a piano with one finger from S Revised Advice-If you want a p.m. to midnight every day. The thing well done don't do it yourself point is that if the reforms formu At the meeting of the Sanitary unless you know how. "Bostonated at the recent meeting of the

Transcript."

Legislative Council are approved by the new Gove nor, Kowloon will have not one, but two or three members. The Portuguese member will most certainly come from Kowloon, and enormous enthusiasm. Before enter the elite of "sassiety in the Penin-ing the ring the men were weighed. sula will be sufficiently strong in to our local Mutual Admiration Smith 12st. 61b. numbers to elect one of their number Carpentier "scaled" 12st. 341b. and

Society.

In the first round neither obtained

Board last night the China. lfails theory about congee and gastro- enteritis was authoritatively upheld. There was nothing the matter with the congee. The master was the

of refreshment. We have noticed

The 3.3. "Chekiang" arrived from Swatow a 5.30 pm yesterday with 150 tons of general cargo and 4 bags of maib.

natural grtel of starving people. Captain Monteith, the acting M.OH.. said they took too much. A good Picknel) arrived from Haiphong at The 5.3. "Taksang" (Capt point was made about melons. We had overlooked those melons. A7am. today with 660 tons of melen cut and exposed on a stall as general cargo and live stock. is. the custom here is a lethal chunk "The Globe Trotters!" are giving such slices being bought and eaten a special matinee this afternoon at as made us whistle the Marche 5.15 at the Victoria Theatre, at $2 Funebre. Naturally, the poor people and $1. Children will be admitted at cannot afford whole melons, so it half price. · would be.. perhaps, a helpful thing to stick up notices to the effect that Mori) arrived from Bombay via The s.s, "Shinryu Mare (Capt a particularly spiteful demon has taken up his abode in the melons Singapore at 6.30 p.m. yesterday this season, and that Chinese who with 384 tons of general cargo and wish to die of the new disease, in a a bag of mails, lingering and painful manner, are recommended to eat street-stall

| melon.

A slice of a melon lay on a fruit

stand

'Twas mellow, quite mellow And the bacilli buzzed in Our

microbic land

O hello, hello,

The marriage will take place shortly, in Hongkong, of Mr. R. O. Hutchison, Rice Controller, and Miss Rrse Blenheim Jupp, who is now on her way out from Home.

The wedding of Mr. H.. C. Pomroy, of the Hongkong Electric Co., and Miss Eileen Patricia O'Sullivan will And a coolie came up with a cent take place at St. Joseph's Church,

in his hand,

Gaid. Road, on Sunday next.

Had a smello !!

So he bought that chunk cut right

from the heart

And he ate it all up to the hard

outside part Then they took him away in the

mortuary cart

The Chinese charged with way laying and robbing Mr. Ho Wing, a

Chinese merchant, in Des Vœux Read a fortnight ago has been com- mitted for trial at the next Criminal Sessions,

these

The victory was greeted with

MARINE COURT.

ENGINEERS STRIKE AT

SLA.

As a result of the refusal of the whole crew of the ss. work during the typhoon while the Chefco" to ship was at sea on the 22nd ultime, Capt. Foyn charged Tam Kwai and Li Chin, the Chinese first and third engineer, respectively, before Captain Easil Taylour at the Marine Court thereby impeding the navigation of this morning with neglect of duty the ship on the high sea on Aug. 22 and 23 fast.

The deferidants pleaded not guilty."

Giving evidence, Capt. Foyn said the ship, was on its way up from

loon is that the elevated Peakites pentier landed heavily on his opin a typhoon... Witness sent for the It seems that the feeling in Kow. advantage. In the second Car Fremantle. When about 170 miles south of Hongkong, she was caught have three elected members to voice ponent, and in the third Smith was first engineer to his cabin and told their feelings and nary a thing goes sent to the boards for a count of nine. him he must Feep a good bead of wrong on the upper levels but one of

The fourth session found the steam. The engineer replied that be voluble" gentlemen sends a Englishman getting in several good could not do it. This was on Aug. chit round to someone in the punches, straight from the shoulder, 22. On the following day at 1 D. right next day. But Kowloon is just a couple of hooks, and neither man Secretariat, and the matter is put bettowards the end Carpentier landed gasping to be improved. The people could claim the round. there want more policemen and legs ricshas more bouses and less foad- side skaters, a tunnel to Hongkong and a newspaper all their own. And seme day soon all these things will have to come.

Did you hear that, encouraged by their success over the Cheung Chau reservation business, the Government is going to divide Kowloon up into European, Portuguese and Chinese reservations, where each section may not poach, on the other's preserves and poison each other's dogs? If you did hear it, don't believe it. It's not true,

•

The next meeting found Smith on the floor as the result of a straight right, followed by an upper-cut, but he got on his feet after a count of nine and finished in good form.

His pluck was recognised by a long spell of cheering. The sixth round saw Smith showing remarkable powers of defence against a rain of swinging blows and straight rights and lefts.

SMITH'S FIGHT."

The Frenchman got in a hard straight punch with his right in the seventh round, which landed on Smith's left eye, but the Englishman, showing excellent form, landed some fine blows on the body, and finished

later, it started vary slowly but stop the engine stopped. Half an hour ped again at 2.30 a.m. for good. Witness again sent for the first engi neer and remonstrated with him but he only laughed in witness's face- He told witness that everyone on board refused duty and suggested that witness put in somewhere for sheher. Witness pointed out to the engineer that he could go nowhere without steam and was told that he must wait for better weather.

Henry Enders, mate of the $5. "Chefoo," said that on the 22nd- ultimo there was not enough steam to keep the ship to the wind. There was, in fact, hardly enough steam to turn over the engine. The captain sent witness down at 7 pm. to tell the defendants to keep the steam up. Mr. A Gibson, Chairman of the

Witness went down and saw the first, Sanitary Board said yesterday up by dividing the points.

second and third engineers and "It has not been proved that the In the eighth round Carpentier got pointed out to them the danger free congee issued by the Tung Wah in two successive upper-cuts. Smiththe want of steam was causing. 'Shīdzuoka Maru" authorities had anything to do with replied with right and left hooks, and They made no efforts to do any (Capt. Ozaki) arrived from London the spread of the disease further then a couple of swings to the face, thing. There was nothing being done via Singapore at 6.30 am. to day than the obvious risk wher, an which left their mark on Carpentier, by any of them and the firemen were with 502 tons of general cargo and epidemic is prevalent of bringing who began to look tired. He quickly not doing their best. Witness's de- 37 bags of mails. She had on together in very intimate contact recovered and assuming the aggresmonstrations only produced laughter Board 4 European cabin passengers. large numbers of hungry sive, fought with great energy, land from the first engineer:

people." Perhaps Mr. Adam Gibson ing a very heavy upper cut with his The first engineer, giving evidence Hanwell Council offers £130 a did not mean to be funny. An epidemic right.. Except for offences that by their year for a whole time librarian able to of inflammation of the bowels could

from the dock, said the ship was Smith staggered, and, following rolling too much and the firemen frequence create an emergency, as

attend the meeting of the Library not have spread to the extent record" up his advantage, the Frenchman could not the possession of

stand in the water armed Committee, prepare minutes and re-ed last week just by bringing to clinched the matter with a couple of coming from above. He put on robberies, and such, gur Hongkong ports, and generally to advise in gether numbers of hungry people left hooks. Smith dropped and was magistrates should be instructed to matters connected with, the conduct and placing them in intimate contact counted out.

a pump to pump out the water. His observe the sense of proportion in of its business."

men did all they could as they were The majority of the French rews-just as anxious for their own safety imposing fines. The relation to

papers think that the French cham-as the captain and the mate. It was income should be kept in mind. To

pion did not show himself the same not their fault if they could not keep fine a man whose income is thirty

marvellous Carpentier of pre-war the steam up.. dollars a month or less, on the same

days. or more, is really to punish poverty scale as a man whose incume is 300

Poor fellow, poor fellow. Another thing that these coolies should avoid is the late champagne

supper.

LOCAL FINES.

arms,

Liber parvo

The 9.5.

with each other. If the Sanitary Board wants to look to the cause of the epidemic of inflammation of the bowels let them look at last evening's China Mail-steaming hot congee in excessive quantities on empty stoma-

The price of rice is going down "God send | steadily and the export trade is more

flourishing than ever, but the Gov-ly ernment price remains the same. "Oh, for a business Government." It is the cry at Home that must find an echo in every British Colony.

A business establishment in a western suburb received during the day's takings a £1 Treasury note ing misleads is in the suggestion that

ing passed through many hands, was chs. which, besides bearing traces of hav it is a middle aspirate instead of an as if it were a crime. Fines are too inscribed or the back in a bold, initial. Strictly speaking all aspirates often unreasonable, and in flagrant legible handwriting with the words are initial, even in words like

any breach of that stipulation in Magna of the well known song, how," which are two words coupled Carta (c 111) which says: HONDRONG, WEDSEYDAY, SUPT. 3, 1919. In writing. The "w" is the long home

you back to me." non amercietur pro "o" of Wales, the Greek omega, and delicto nisi secundum modum ipsius the sound of "where" is hoo-air," delicti, et pro magne delicto secundum of "when" "hoc-en," of "what' "hoofot," and so on. The comical

magnitudinem delicti." test of stopping the ears and listering to the vibrations of the vocal chords" did us good. We laughed so heartily that we dislodged a fish- bone that has been worrying us for 14 years more or less. The young gentleman, when he

PHONETICS.

"Mr. Marshall is a distinguished novelist," says the Japan Chronicle, "and therefore perfectly qualified to write on phonetics." The Japan Chronicle, no fooling, is a distinguish ed newspaper, and therefore perfectly qualified to write on baby linen, on the inorganic chemistry. phenomenon of ecdysis in the case of the terrestrial isopoda. What

10

on

veteran editor? Poor Mr. Marshall,

we are

in when and wtere"

or

KOWLOON'S MEMBER."

GAPING

CROWDS

MISBEHAVE.

ASSAULT POLICE.

A Chinese youth, out for

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The second defendant corroborated the first engineer's statement.

It was also obvious that he felt the handicap of five years' absence

Capt. Foyn informed his Honour from the atmosphere of the ring, his that the crew" was composed of 14 drawn and even haggard look when men. He could not get the otter 12 entered the ropes being particular-as they have left the ship without remarked on.

being paid off and are now ashore.. In an interview Carpentier said In sentencing the defendants to 12. that it had been the severest fight be weeks' hard labour each, his Honour had ever had against an Englishman, said this was the most disgraceful and testified to Smith's hard hitting.case he had heard of in his life, Smith said: "I thought at one mo- ment that, Carpentier was finished, but I was mistaken, and that mis- take probably cost me the fight."

Ing.

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THE JOCKEY CLUB.

DRAW FOR GRIFFINE.

1-Brown... Mr. Dash.

Mr. Adams, Major Cassel; Sir Paul Chater. Messrs. Thomson &

Ross.

The Americans are conducting a thorough investigation into the sending of stolen Army supplies into the interior of Germany. It is now revealed that 70 wagonloads of The lack of attention, accompanied bacon sold by the Americans to the sometimes. by lack of manners, on French Government for the French the part of some clerks at the people have passed into German | General Post Office, is a matter that hands. The seiling of stolen supplies has been unfavourably commented IS JIMMY WILDE SO GOOD AS HE WAS? has been going on since April.. upon. Yesterday afternoon, I wanted did

Is Jimmy Wilde so good as he that

was? certain test." heard reverbera

a stamp from one of the clerks at a

I found myself pondering the tions, (echoes

A meeting of Kowloon residents counter and had to wait till he had question after seeing the bout with in a hollow place) not vibrations; and if he had

will take place shortly probably on finished a paragraph or a chapter of Moore at very close quarters. Mak- istened a little more attentively he

ing all allowances for the formidable A large gathering of racing men cheap Thursday, September 11-at St. a novel Le was reading

Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, to

opposition he met in Joe Lynch and was present at the Jockey Club has happened to it? Where's its would have noted that while the amusement, visited Spring Garden discuss the desirability of formula- | "vibration" is, postponed by the lane last night with a crowd of

Workmen are busy trying to get Pal Moore, I admitted to myself that stables last evening when the 30 "Larsen " griffins which arrived bere distinguished novelist, asked whether aspirate it is not absent. It comes intimates. They loafed about outside ting a request to the Government some of the rust off the iron on the he is not.

that a member be appointed to the Blake Pier against the arrival of the

And this is why. Wilde bit Moore by the s.5. "Chipshing." were drawn to pronounce the "h" in due course. The concluding three the various houses. In one house a Legislative Council to represent the new Governor, I wonder what Sir cleanly all through the big bout, and under the supervision of Mr. G. W.

fifths of what he stupidly calls the number of sailors were enjoying whether we are to leave it alone. "breathed sound" (as in

Reginald Stubbs will think when he never knocked him off his feet. And Gegg. Acting Clerk of the Course where") themselves. The youths watched, interests of that growing "suburb.

The result was as follows:- "What he means" (this obliging is identical with what he idiotically An Indian Sergeant old them to

sets foot on that glorified arrange the American was, if anything, "the

Drawn by us)is calls the "voiced sound" of "were." move on. Kobe journalist tells

ment of rotten limber and scrap iron, stronger man at the finish. Three or No. Colour. Ope of the youths tore off Fortune had dawned for him at It is not too much to say that the four years ago any boy hit by Wilde whether we are to distinguish In other words, the only difference is his whistle, another seized the Ser- last; he was rich. With tears of joy pier is a disgrace to this prosperous as "Pal" was, would have been 2.-Black... Mr. T. E. Pearce. between the breathed and voiced an antecedent aspirate. The material geants' wrists, while a third smashed in his eyes he rushed to the wife of Colony. Will the Hon. Mr. C. G. beaten in far less than twenty 3.-Black... Mr. G. C. Moxon. sounds of w!" Indeed? There is phenomena of production must there his baton. The constable freed him- his bosom, and told her the news.

4-Gray no vocal sound that is not "breathed" fore be the same. The stress which self, and the youths took to their We will move to a better bouse, Alabaster suggest to the Council that rounds.

the Blake Pier be blown up one of There is apparently all the power and what he means by a "voiced" makes "d" different to "t" is pro-heels. One of them slipped his shoe he finished; "and you, my dear, will these fine days, before the new in his blows, but I fancy the reason is 6-White

5.-Dun sound has us completely beaten to duced in the glottic region, and has and bent to pick it up. The Sergeant be able to have some decent clothes Governor arrives. He can be told that his timing is not so perfect. 7-Dun guess. Listen to the hletherer. He no relation to the preliminary exhala- arrested that one. At the Magistracy, at last." "I do nothing of the that the catastrophe was caused by Just that deadly bit of snap at the

tion which we call an aspirate. this morning, the youth said that sort!" retorted the lady, goes on:

"I'll get a typhoon, or, better still, by the crucial fragment of a second is lack-8.-Chestnut. Mr. P. C. Pott. The idea that an "h" is sounded

the Sergeant assaulted him and the same kind the other women are Bolsheviks,

9-Dun Mr. A. M. L.. Soares. in "wh" is, it is true, borne out

treated him badly. This the Sergeant wearing!

It is the same with the cricketer.10.-Gray...... Messrs. Hall & Shaw.. by the Oxford Dictionary, which

denied: speaks of the "h" in" wh" being

Sergeant Cockle stated that every

The arrival of Sir Reginald Stubbs the tennis and racquet player. Tim 11.-Bay...... Mr. G. C. Moxon. The National Zeitung says the will give a much needed fillip to ing, the perfect harmony of the 12.-White Mr. J. Johnstone. silent in ordinary modern usage

night crowds of Chinese gathered ex Kaiser'á "fourth soo, Prince and the correct sound"}" Our instructions are that Kow. round these houses and fooled the August Wilhelm, who is 32 years enthusiast about the "noble art", attribute to deteriorate. The crisp

bexing in Hongkong. He is a real brain, eye and muscles is the first 13-Gray...... Messrs. Grimble &

Galluzzi. being retained in Scotland. But icon's movement to ask the new girls. When the Police interfered oid, is devoting himself to banking, and used to be a fairly good pe: work of a Ranji, a Palairet, or a 14-Dun Messrs. Dowbiggin & the Oxford Dictionary is not Governor for a Kowloon representa- the men only laughed. Sentence: and has entered a well known Berlin former in his College days. I believe Perrin, to take three distinctive types

Sandes, authoritative on questions of tive on the Legislative Council is $5 or ten days; $50 personal bond, firm. The Prince, who is the only that about four years ago he offered of batsmen all perfect in their timing. 15.-Chestnut. Mr. A. R. Lowe phonetics: it is, in fact, its weak quite separate from and has no con- $50 security for good behaviour; no one of the six brothers who has a Shicid for competition among the leaves them a trifle; auch players 16-Gray. Mr. H. P. White point.

nection with the movement for Cen. security fourteen days' hard labour. embrad not a military but an various schools in Ceylon. There are still great cricketers, but there is 17-Chestnut. Mr. B. Basto. The weak point of this brand new stitutional Reform. Whether Con-

official carcer, is a Doctor of Laws was a big schools boxing tournament just that subtle something missing 18.-Chestnut Mr. R. M. Dyer. authority on phonetics, who certainly stitutional Reform goes through or

and Gerichts Referendar. At the annually and the school that won the in their art.

19.-Chestnut. Mr. F. Mailand. deserves to be distinguished, is a not-and people seem generally to

beginning of the war he was attached largest number of contests kept th

CONTRAST OF STYLES. few inches higher than his neck. be as sceptical about it as they are.

20.-Gray Mr. T. E. Pearce. to the Nauen Landrats Amt. When Stubbs Shield for a year. Perhaps,

Mt. J. Jonhstone. There is no excuse for omitting these about the League of Natione Kow

he had passed his examination as in time, the Hongkong schools will at his best, has gone off in that one 22.-Roan

And Wilde, great as any of these 21.-Bay

... Mr.H.M. H. Nemazee.. aspirates, and the Scots are right foon for purely municipal reasons

Referendar a family dinner was be persuaded to take. up boxing as slight respect. Still the greatest 23. Gray. Sir Paul Chater. and the Uxford Dictionary is right finds it necessary to have a repre and the slovenly, slipshod English sentative on the Legislative Council.

by the ex Kaiser, who delivered a some of the British Colonies have not the uncanny Jimmy Wilde, who 25-Chestnut, Dr. Jordan. given to celebrate this unusual event seriously as the boys at Home and in boxer of the age at his weight, he is 24-Gray...... Mr. Leo d'Almada. who pronounce whether wether and As we understand it, Kowloon does

speech in honour of his son, and done. Provided the boys are well seemed to mesmerise his opponents, 28.-Brown... Sir Paul Chater. which witch are no better than their humbler neighbours who talk of 'am popularly or nominated by the Govings was noticed on the Taipo Road stands open to him to the highest temper, there is every reason to re he did land, got on to his mark with 28.-Chestnut. Mr. L. ES. Hodge

A Chinese sub-contractor of build- uttered the words "The way now trained, and taught to keep their, who hardly ever missed, and, when 27.-Gray Mr. J. Macdonald. emor. What Kowloon wants a aby an Indian constable. The man offices in the State.”

commend the adoption of boxing as spokesman who will specialize in was carrying a parcel and the const Kowloon needs, who will study able stopped him and searched it.

a part of the physical culture in sur The modest Councillors of Barry

echools, Kowloon and have knowledge of it. He found some blasting powder and blushed to the roots of their hair

"DIOMEDES" Kowloon is now a big place, and it a fuse. When questioned us to how when the beach inspector reported finds itself too often overlocked he came by the powder the man said that on a recent, Sunday morning he

Two women have been arrested when they're passing the stuff round. a friend gave it to him. He failed to found two Harry Dock women enjoy. There are, of course, on the Kowloon point out the man and then fold the ing a dip in the briny in the bathing side many supporters of the Con- constable that the contractor gave pool at Whitmore Bay la an A Chinaman bought some rice, often with the butt of the hand or of ammunition, of opium labels and percussion caps. The women were stitutional Reform Association, who him the powder. The contractor absolutely nude condition. He ad. He engaged a coolie to carry it. On Cord frequently spoke to allowed out on ball of $2,000 and wish it well, and who certainly denied this and then the man took monished them, whereupor one of the way he met three men. They

$1,500 respectively. would not willingly do anything to the constable to a boatman who the women, he said, told him that asked him $3 for tea. The man Moore on the question of using the crab it. But, they say, this matter also denied it. At last be said that if she had her clothes on she would refused. The men threatened to cut open glove. I thought he was rather of Kowloon representation is more he used the powder for blasting smack him, a treat which she open the bag of rice. He dared thera lenient on the subject, but I cannot immediately practical, and they can operations in Chin Wan but when carried into effect a few minutes in do it. They cut open the bag. agree with the writer who argues not consent to have it depend upon asked to produce a permit was un-later. In order to put a stop to bathing The rice fell into the street. A that, because he was not disqualified or wait for the passing of Conable to do it.

under primljiva conditions, the district watchman arrested one man, for using the inside of the glove, stitutional Reform. At the public

Mr. Lindsell fixed defendant $20, Council gave instructions for fair Mr. Smith sentenced the man this that, the blows must have been and the only way in which the spell- intended to make this quite cleaz hard labour.

and beggs, Really, this Kobe joker is the limit. He goes on:

"Wh" and "w" stand in exactly

the same relation as the pairs td, pb, kg, a t, etc., and it is only hrough the association with the spelling that people have been led to believe that" contains an The certain test for these

breathed and voiced sounds is to

close the ears with the fingers. In

the voiced sounds the vibration of

the vocal chords will be felt and

hard, while in the breathed sounds the vocal chords being relaxed there is no vibration.

not much care whether he be elected

BLASTING POWDER.

"

A CHAIN OF MEN:

-"TEA MONEY.”

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the maximum force.

On Thursday night we had a Buperb contest from the point of view of foot work and defence, and, while Wilde punched cleanly and effective-

29.-Chestnut. Major Cassel, 30-Chestnut. Mr.H.M.H. Nemazer.

ly, Moore slapped and hit with the on a charge of anlawful possession inside of the glove and, incidentally,

the wrist.

A GOOD SUGGESTION.

Ibilious or constipated. Jou: are”

BT Chamberlain's To Wher certain to be much plassen wir. Gem 'an aspirate, meeting shortly to be held it is with the alterative of three weeks' | nymphs to be mapped if they are morning to three months' imprison- / allowed: ́to^cunt "for "point.-P. J/Theara esay "to take ani pisanim

There is no such relation whatever. Not the Blightest. There is 30 h.

discovered in similar circumstances,ment..

Mots.

affect For sale By All Chinists sand

torekeepers.