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"Tony" has really
"LOCAL AND GENERAL.
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920,"
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
sermons? The London Timce, is reputed to have between fifteen and -** TONY."', enhanced our-eu- twenty editorial writers, each con-
mairiety by his latest
Owing to the increase. In the [CONDUCTED BY PETER PAN."] tributing a weekly quota. Com-effort; and it is on the cards that pare their output with that of the he and Adversarius must abortlynumber of paupers in the suburbs of China Mail-and then start your engage in synchronous ingurgitis contemplating the establishment
the Capital, the Peking Government My dear Children, subscription towards Hongkong'stion, Tony paring for the of a number of vocational training school to teach them how to earn an honest living.
biggest statue. Even Tony. laboriously producing a twelve line poem once in a blue moon, might be tempted to subscribe. As Huck says, it's a blooming_niiracle."
When the subject is ENGLAND, England, it not only eliminates drudgery" but given better results, to take real poetry ready-made than to attempt indiferent amateur lyrics. How do you like this one by Beryl Carter, from the Poetry Retir
England meadow loud with
bees,
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first, third, fifth and so on.
0. O, An-tony-o Thanks for your pasticcio Your topics torrid
Smoothed our forehead And made us grin like Billy-o.
You always have a holiday, on i Saturday and then you have more time for playing and reading.
And so, every Saturday, I am going The British Consplate at Nan-to put some stories and verses in this king is being raised to the grade of paper for you to read and sometimes Consultate General and the Consular we will have competitions and puzzles staff will be materially increased. It and riddles and I daresay there will is also understood that a new Cone prizes too occasionally! ** sular building and residence for the Don't you think that will be rather Consul General will be constructed.. fun?
And because grown-ups are not Keangtung will soon form a federa-CC Fest that the much dreaded pear I am going to sign myself
Hunao, Hupeh, Kiangsi and A correspondent informs the always quite as grown-up as they "Kuling Tiger" has again put in an appearance at the summer resort. It is further reported that a Chinese bat again fallen victim to the monster, having been found in a badly mauled condition.
tion.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
*
Mr. M. C. Lasher is exempted from the Dental Register require
Shut in with tall uniwindy trees, And coloured like an angel's lairments Bécause of all the kingcups there., Englandthe last of an old
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Still standing dauntless on a hill,
Itself as old as shadows are. Or the fixt shining of a star. England-a woodway palely lit With primers where childan
sit.
Big blany bunches on their laps. And in their hair, and on their
caps.
England-a meadow
bees,
with
Shadowed by honeyed liten.
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The colour of a sunset sky For this men live-for this--there!
die.
Dr. W. W. Pearse, our M.O.H., is gazetted to act as Colonial Vet, during Mr. Gibson's absence.
Messrs. Ho Win Um, Sie Poy, Lun, Leang Se Kan, Leung Pui, Chin Sik Yang, and Sung Tsui Lun are registered partners In the Chinese Mercantile Co.
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The Superintendent of the Board of Conservancy Works of Kwang tung has reported that the funds required for the improvement of the three rivers in this province will be for the West River, $19,500,000: for the North River. $10,900,000; and for the East River, $4,600,000. Total expenditure will
The National Assembly has com$35.400,000. municated with the Ministry of Finance to the effect that for protec
tion of public interests, all the Chinese banks in the South-western provinces should be ordered to register without
d:lay.
Since the North River districts are thickly infested with bandits, Lin Fu, the Commander-in-chief of the
amount to
hear whether the scheme inaugurated The Shanghai Gazette does not by a local skipper to promote a
The
Nautical School in Shanghai for the benefit of the juniors on the coast his yet been accomplished. Sboel would be a welcome innova tion and deserves, when it does get
the nautical fraternity.
To which we simply must ap-ond Division of the Defence Corme established, to be well supported by pend another pom with bees in it. has recently sent an officer to Canton by ihat great Englishnan. Herbert to apply for arms and ammunitions Asquith. Toruserly "premier. Huck in order to send special expedition says he is better as poet dan aaga'ast them. politician; but that's monkey talk.j The lines areared in the Specta
tor:
If we could save our
storo thoni deep In cellers of the mind
at will
tents, to close
Not as the dream that drowns!
into a sleep,
But as the taste of wine, igid}
rool and still:
Vomb ant the beach of Time,
and from the shore" Not all the tangled treasure
floating down z
oor hand
The following approaching wed dings are announced. Mr. Jose Company's staff, to Miss Maria Maria Victor, of the Standard Oil Angelina dos Remedios; Mr. George Herbert Elliott to Miss Ada Marie Pegden, en route to Hongkong by the
Empress of Russia."
If it be wrong to work cargo on a Sunday, payment of a fee cannot
There was a bank holiday in the Straits the other day and the Govern ment offices remained open! A great many people fainted when they heard of this awful desecration, of tradition arce before been equalled, when and the sensation caused has only Black Michael announced that the Tanjong Pagar Arbitration would continue its sittings on the afternoon of Race Days.
Your loving,
PETER PAN.
THE GARDENER'S BROOM.
And laughed slood with glee.
I could have played with him all day But not a word then could I say, He came so suddenly.
A great big fish came swimming by, I wondered if he'd laugh or cry, But, as the fish went on apace, He didn't seem to mind,
I saw him spring with ease and grace And jump on from behind....... Now down the pool so fast he flew To where the water lilles grew, His laugh like music rang. And as he neared a lily gold He suddenly looked very bold And on a leaf he sprang. Alas, the leal was a. and snapped, He rolled out of it's glossy lap
Into the water cool,
I waited for an hour or more, But all was quiet as before, No ripple on the pool.
I locked and looked with all my might But saw no more that water sprite, Held vanished quite away.
It was autumn and the leaves were coming off the trees and blowing about So home I went, and as I ran all over the place.
I thought. Just wait my little man, I come another day."
-E. D. S.
sery window watching them and listen- ing to them rustling along the ground.
Molly was looking out of her mur-
1 do wonder why they are in
YARN MARKET
Such a hurry." she said to herself. and where they are all going to.**
Just at that moment five browni shrivelled up. leaves bjer on to the "Messrs. · Polishwalla & Kotwall, window sill and one of them, as it cotton and yarn brokers, report on
by nut brown man who took off his touched the window, tumed into a July 16 as follows:- pointed hat and bowed low before
Maky.
Since our last report on the 16th
ult, by mr. Nellore," the weakness
Norwithstanding this improvemens,
in our yarn marke; had become rather I, who am the King's Messenger, intence in consequence of pressure dan answer your questions. Madet. to sell by some importers.' thereby he said, and Molly, who was only rendering the position of market as seven and had never before been ad- one of serious consideration. How- dressed as Madam Felt very import-ever, towards the latter, period there ant and answered in what she thought me encouraging reports from Bo-, was the correct manner. “Pray con- bay market, where considerable buy- tinue, my noble lord."
ing rook place for local consumption "We none of us dare stay still for and rates advanced about Rs. 50 a more than a few minutes. the lule bale. man went on.
This had the most desirable Because we are al-efect on the general tone of market ways trying to get away from a mon- here and buyers snapped up desir broom which sweeps us into all sorts of $10 to $15 per bale. The bulk strous thing known as the gardener's able chops of No. 10s at an increase of unpleasant places. want to get to the woods where we and it is reported that a good portion And we all of the sales to place in 10s count
can spend a quiet and comfortable of these sales was made of Shanghai winter, each one with his family round consignments which some of the im- him. It is my duty to ward the leaves porters thought of converting here. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has from which direction the gardener's Although the market remains steady, Could groping fingers lol the make it right. The Governor is pre-refused to accept the offer of the broom is coming and to hasten them there have to further sales come 10
in of ore
pared, however, to sell indulgences Toyo Kisen Kalsba to pay for the on to the woods.”
book for the last few days, and it And set the scattered jewel-applied for up to 1 pm, on Satur, celay in sailing of the "Africa Maru” * Do you hurry, along the ground seems as though buyers are surfeited
in a crown.
days. In special cases, by enclosing caused by standing by and giving like the rest of the leaves, Mr. King's in the meanwhile. cheque, applicants at the Harbor assistance to the "Kiyo Maru" when Messenger?" asked Molly. Or can Office residential quarters may be she was on fire off Houmoku. It you go any faster?"
4 No. 20s counts are still neglected obliged up to 5 pm. on Saturdays. was stated that any assistance ren go much faster, Madam," he because of competition from Japanese
dered by the "Africa Maru" is
Then living so with heaven at Minister, has recently-telegraphed to/Owes to another in distress and not a
Admiral Lin Pao-yi, the Naval merely a duty which any steamer replied, and if you would like it and Shanghai Mills, and the value of
will take you with me.”
this particular count in Bombay is so Thank you so much," Molly cried," tempting that some importers have We'd fly at death, like laden the two "gunboats "Yung Cheung
the Canton authorities stating that matter of money.
**I should just love to go with you." re-shipped their holdings there. This 'les, to bear
Whereupon the King's Messenger | constitutes a most peculiar incident in The sore pain among the mas
and Fu An" have, already arrived PEARSON EDELMAN-On July of Italians is that they did nex get
That heaven caprīva to the lea-in Chao-Chow and Swatow respec- Colombo Police Court on June 22 in spiders carne bustling along.
The case was mentioned at the gave a shrill whistle and four fa: the annals of Indian yarn trade.
They Sales 8,000 bales. 10. 1920. at U.S. Consulate and are not getting their fair share
ven there-
tively. The gunboat, "Chaobo" is which Mrs. Violet, Elaine Walbeoff wear up to the leaves which were still General, Shanghai, by. Rev. Jout of the war. They lost and
Longer than any bronze these now on her way back to Canton, but was charged with having bigamously lying on the window sill and in a few
Unsold Stock 5,500 bales. R. "Hykes. Edwin Dalton Pear-suffered as much as any other
wordd abide,
the Haihsia" will not return to married Mr. G. E. Nalpon at Singa minutes had fastened them together
Bargains 17,000 bales. son, only son of Mr. and Mrs. nation, and more than sue. They
These. that are now as writing | Canton yet.-C.T.
pore. Inspector Hay de Saram, of with strong threads and had made a Pearson of Richmond. Virginia, had to face an Austrian army that
on the sand
the CID, who fled the plaint, moved neat little carriage with a web at each. U.S.A.. to Katherine Edelman, was hardly less than one third of
Beneath the wave of each o3-|
The Military Government of to withdraw the charge as the alleged corner for a wheel.
Shanghai-Although there is some daughter of Mr. S. Edelman of the entire Austro-tierican forces.
conding tide.
Canton, according to the Canton offence had been committed outside
movement în yarn, the sales regis- Times, has agreed to General We the jurisdiction of the Court: The Madam," said the King's Messenger of any magnitude and in face of pre- dear tered there during the period are not Yet, while England had got prac-|
Mr. Lowe Pei-fu's proposal by which the four application tically all the German colonies, í TVIL SERVICE M.L.C.. lease provinces, Kwangtung,
was allowed---Ceylon Kiangsi, Independent.
to Molly, and as soon, as he had placed sent politicst-ferment in the North, if France Alsace and Loraine, with SUBORDINATES. note. A gentle-Hunan and Hupeh. should join in
her little finger on the carriage she is doubtful any charge for the better the Saar Basin to explain, and the,
man, writing on common action to oppose the Peking
dwindled away until she was small would occur there in the near future. United States had practically both sides of the paper, clains to Government for having given the Shanghai Gazette:"Messrs. Jardine
A correspondent writes to the enough to get in. doubled lier national wealth. Italy have interviewed many members of Peking-Hankew-Seiyan Railway as a Matheson and Co., Ltd. in a circular of travelling, allow me to strap you nothing of importance has passed dur-
·Japanese Yern --The prices of this "As you are not used to this way yarn have still remained very low and "TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."emerged from war with very atle the subordinate clerical staffs of the security for "a foreign loan of
more than Austria in sfered her Civil Service, and says they are all 6,000,000.
issued to the masters, officers and in," he said then and at once the ing the intervalThe following and HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920. to keep out of it.
complaining that while heads of
engineers employed in the vessels of spiders tied Molly firmly in with the latest quotations:-Nagasaki, In short, as in all the other departments have been well attend, The authorities of the several the Indo-China S. N. Co., state that threads.
* No. 20s, at $280: 3 Horses. No. 165, countries that have discovered wared to, they are still awaiting their districts in Kwangtung have been the demands of the China Coast Then the King's Messenger clapped at $275; 3 Horses, No. 20s, at $265; does not pay, but more so, Italy long expected increase. He, and ordered by the Civil Governor of Officer's and Engineer's Guilds for a his hands and off they went, as though Yellow Joss. No. 205, at $255-260: is sufering a reaction against mill- they want to know if our Mr. Canton, says the local paper, to re- 50 per cent increase in salaries can drawn, by invisible horses, down the Sersu, No. 10s. at $230; Seisu, No. tarism. This bas caused a natural Lowe, as a member of the Legis port fall particulars of the number of not be met owing to a variety of side of the house, along the garden 205, at $280; Blue Fish, No. 20s, leaning towards the Socialists, less lative Council, will kindly as a reserve granaries each has ready for reasons but they will consider grant pains and, bung. bump over stones $275. to adopt their views than to assert question about this at the next sorage purposes in case of famine. married men. No mention is made and over flower and vegetable beds,
ing 10 per cent, increase to the
Raw Cotton --No stock. Quotz- 3. protest.
meeting." They will get the right The Civil Governor is afraid that the Even so. the agitations have answer by waiting and seeing.
people will be in need of aid soon of retrospective increase or increase so fast that it nearly took Molly's tions: Bengal at $40/46 per pical; been exaggerated by the news
It is the custom in the districts to to the salaries of the junior officers breath away.
Chinese-at $42/50 per picul agencies, and the figures prove that
There's no rea- store
And all the time the King's Mes- up grain against possible and engineers or "single men." business is going ahead and pro-
NATIONALISM. soping to it; it la vines. auction increasing.
is pure feeling, but
Odessa, Russia.
The China Mail.
ITALY:
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We were recently advised not to believe rumours of trouble in Italy, Such is the usual effect of official disclaimers, that we immediately became curious to know just what is going on in that country. It is a land of hol-blooded politicians, great lovers of liberty, and the times and circumstances are such that almost anything might hap-. pen.
There are three main parties in the Italian parliament, the Con- stitutionalists, the Socialists, and
the Catholics, respectively sized in
the proportions of five, three, and
ADVERSARIA.
I
Give
'me Your hand,
#
senger, who was looking through a
pair of glasses, called out "Broom in
Arrivals From Bombay 8,000 bales
Dr. August Gramatzky, a German the garden to the right" or "Broom WEEKLY SHARE REPORT. very real and very strong. Ches- Chinatown San Francisco is get- and formerly professor in several coming down the gutter behind you!"* terton puts it quite well in the ting dryer, and dryer every day. Japanese Colleges, was obliged to give and away all the brown leaves around following paragraph of his Irish And Chinese doctors, who are paid up a "business trip" from Yokohama them went scuttling and rustling.
Messrs. V. Logan & Co. report Impressions.
on July 16: If an Englishman for keeping their patients well, are of the 0.5.K. liner "Alaska-maru" to confesses that he feels that way, making money while doing no work Havana, via the Panama Canal. It At last they came to a wood where
Since our last report of the 9th What an extraordi- why should, he object to an Irish says the San Francisco Chronicle. Its is stated that he bought a ticket all was quiet and in the hollows brown inst. our market, owing to tight- PARADOXES, nary
thing, ob man feeling the same way?
not worth while for a Chinaman to through the good offices" of Dr. leaves lay piled up having a rest money has been very dull with only served Hack, swip:
Then a small amount of business passing. A brilliant writer... once get sick when the patient can get no Sata, President of the Osaka Medical after their hurried journey. two. Signor Nitti seems to be in ing au intrusive fly that so many propounded to me his highly perreling made in pre-prohibition days vised by the American Consul-General. King's Messenger giving his orders worse than Hongkong and quotations spirits. A Treasury Department University, but his passport was not home again by another way, with the The Shanghai market appears even a position very like that of Lloyd of the people who didn't lose the sonal and even perverse type of allowed the importation of Chinese The German professor has, it is stated, all the time, until they reached Molly's coming through are uominal ones. George, almost a dictator; but he War should apparently be looking internationalism, by saying, as a
Banks-Hongkong, and Shanghai le apparently wore of a statesman for it again. And the Wichita sort of unanswerable challenge, wines on the ground that they were been in Japan over forty years, and nursery, window sill once more. and less of a demagugue. Here is Benton (U.S.A.) seems also to have Wouldn't you rather be ruled by 10, the importations have increased returned to Japan two months ago on ger, as Molly stepped back into the $660/670 and more shares are want-
used for medicine. But since January during the war was in Mexico. He "Now," said the King's Messen- Banks, sales have taken place at - a shrewd monkey on its staff; be-Goethe than by Walter Long?" I greatly, so the. Treasury Department the T.K.K." Seiyo-maru," Imperialism is not a social cause it says that France cannot replied that words could not express told the probibition folks about it
your questions have been answered Marine Insurances-Unions have tendency; it is rather a disease, a decently pretend that she fought the wild love and loyalty should and dry squad has held up shipments morbid exaggeration of patriotism for human freedom how that she feel for Mr. Walter Long if the only for the last seven weeks pending a sional honour was recently expe
An ordeal involving his profes- and I will wish you, good-bye." buyers at $195. North Chinas Tis.
"Good-bye and thank you very 160. Cantons $39. and a form of concentrated blind has put a tax cf bachelors. alternative were Goethe: I could ruling from Washington, which the rienced by a French doctor, named much," Molly replied, but almost Refineries.-Chine Supers were ambition. This shows that he is
not have put my own national case Chinese importers fear will never Tissort, who lives at Bonneville, rear before the last words were out of her done, a $227, but have now buyers In an article on also a thinker.
preaching, a recent in a clearer or inore cimpact form. arrive.
Geneva. He was on his way to a mouth the King's Messenger was at $230. Malabons are wanted at writer remarks that I might occasionally feel inclined to
neighbouring village where a patient speck in the distance, whirling along $55.3 EDITORIALS. the average preach-kill Mr. Long but under the ap
On account of the strained with influenza was in a serious" con- in his leaf chariot. is practically proaching shadow of Goethe, under contract to deliver a new should feel more inclined to kill
myself." message every Sunday for ten or eleven months every year. He
one of his recent observations:
Of nationalism, he said it would dwindle a political plank as scon as the common people saw that Italy had secured her natural geo- graphical limits.
Of socialisia he spoke slighting:
It was too impracticable for
the mass of Italians. The prac
SERMONS
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circumstances in shipping circles, dition, when his carriage was over- many small Japanese dockyards have taken by a messenger who said that been obliged to close and quite a the doctor's 17-year old son had
Of course a reasoning English. number of them have gone bankrupt fallen into a ravine while collecting thinks that not even the ablest man would prefer the rule of or in turn been absorbed by the Alpine flowers and fractured his
room and regained her original size, ed at the latter rate.
---E. D. S.
THE WATER BABE
I heard a splash and then a cry, A water babe went twinkling by, He was a tiny one.
men in the country could success-Goethe to that of Walter Long, if larger shipbuilding firms. Cancelia skull. The physician, after hesitating As I was sitting by the pool ical-minded sympathisers would fully perforin such a task." because he should permit himself to reason tion of orders has been steadily flow a few minutes, drove on to bis Thinking it looked so nice and cool, abandon it, and the extremists be given an intelligent congregation, in such a matter; but he doesn't ingin and the price of ships is steadily patient. On returning home he found All shining in the sun, discredited.
there is no earthly reason for supHe can't. To him such a propos downward tendency is the recent
falling. The best example of this his son dead. **** Of political catholicism (the new posing that any man can possibly tion is beyond all reason; will not contract between the Kawasaki Ship- or revived party) he spoke rather have anything of importance to say bear discussion. That is exactly yard and the Uchida Steamship com- CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK? favourably, remarking that the to it, week after week, year in and the Shin Fane answer, when we pany,, for a steamship of 8,000 tons Issue of temporal power was dead, year out."If that argument ask them why they object to us 60 Y280 per ton to be delivered in ERE you ever seized with a severe No bigger than my Teddy bear · and that the catholics were co-stands, what allowances are you much. What have, we done, etc.? November. Vessels can be bought without's bottle of Chamberlain's Colic
Wattack of cramp colic or diarrhæ operating very well with the con-prepared to make for the miserable They say they object to us because, at the present time in Japan for as and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house stitutionalists
drudge of a newspaper writer who, good as we may be, we are aliens little as Y80 per ton, this for wooden Don't take such risks. A dose to The much-talked of strikes, year after year, every week of every So with Indians, South Africans, steamers of uncertain age, but for possibly be called, and it never fails
will cure you before a doctor coul especially at Milan, were not really year, and six deve of every week, all the rebels: The feeling of such the average stezmer of about 2,000 even in the most savors wad, dangerous revolutionary, although labon must produce thought material people is that not even a good tons the price runs at about 1150 cases For sale by all Chemists and
equivalent to the bulk of three government is good if it be foreign.per ton
Storekeepers.
And eyes of brightest blue But with the longest golden hair
+
Docks and Wharves. — Kowloon Wharves, after sales at $84, Have
that buyers as
rute. Kowloon - Docks, no business, in this stock is reported and shares are on offer: at- $150. Shanghai 'Docks are enquired for at Tis. 131 and New Engineerings Tis. 29.
Miscellaneous.-The following aïc all buying quotations: Cements $7.20: China Providents $74 Dairy Farms $25; Electrics $19h; Hongkong Ropes $23; Peak Trams; (old); 66; Steam, Laundries $5: Waterboots $14 Powells $111, and Wisemans -
So fat and plump, with skin like snow $35, He went a-splashing, to and ho And looked me through and trough.
think he must have thought me nice,
He smiled at me just once or twice,
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