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Per Dozen.

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*DEATH.

MESSER.-At Milatlarpe. England, on the 16th inst,, Mary, the wife of C. Mcl. Messer, O.B.E.. Colonial Treasurer.

MARRIAGES.

Good ale doth bring men to. Archdeacon Mapes of Oxford ́and other reverends have spoken up for it. besides many laymen of great literary repute, as may be seen in Maynard's Anthology. That the Hongkong Hotel Company should increase the price of beef is a griev ous thing, only to be countenanced WEBER-SULLBERY.-On Septem-in view of the chit system and its ber 15, 1920, at Shanghai, losses-which iniquitous way of Charles Albert Weber of Zurich, paying the shot, by the way, can- Switzerland, to Helen Christine not have been meant by Thomas Sullbery of Oakland, California. Ravenscroft (1592-1035) when he GRAY-TRUELOVE.-On Septem-wrote :..

ber 15, 1920, at Shanghai, An- drew Thomas, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gray of Car- diff, Wales, to Doris Marian, daughter of the late Mr. Alfred and Mrs. Truelove of "Ayesbury, Bucks, England.

The China Mail.

TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 19%).

Charge it againe, boy, charge it

"againe.

(Pardona moy je vous an pree)

As long as there's any incke in

my pen,

If I were what I never can be, The master or the squire: If you gave me the Hundred

from here to the sea, Which is more than I desire: Then all my crops should he

barley and hops,..

And did my harvest fail I'd sell every rood of mine aeres

I would

BEER IS DEARER.

When a luxury like milk went ap a couple of cents in price, the For a belly full of good ale. people raged. When the cost of a He even mixes his theology with necessity like beer goes up, there his devotion to beer, as when in is for would be, but for a watchful the "Song of the Pelagian Heresy" China Mail) no murmuring, no he tells us riot. Perhaps it may be that the public has been shocked and dumb- foundered, and will presently re oyer and be articulately protestant. At half a dollar the bottle we have Sprovocation to rebellions. We who Sometimes wonder what the brew. ers buy one half so precious as the

Now the Faith is old and the

Devil is bold-

Exceeding bold, indeed;

THE CHINA MAIL.

How, with this horrid attack upon, sotnaily booked, before, the arder it, this latest, mexpected mas, are came out, and he reminded the me to

official that at the time he booked

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sing our own treasures, the exchange was more favourable old England's good cheer,to the Government.

The profits and pleasures of good! No matter. It is an order. Yo Drev

British beer?

It may be true that:

Your wine-tippling, dram-sipping

fellows retreat,

must book through the. Harbou Officer

We do not know how tub, less or plus we tell you just as But your beer-drinking Briton it was told to as

can never be heats,

They say that the cancelling of But even a Briton in Hongkong the first booking, and the re-book- is not made of money, and half aling through the Harbour Office, of dollar a swill comes too near pro-this man's passage, cost the Gor hibition to be pleasant. No doubt ernment about $200 extra. Lloyd George was right when he Had it been $50 more or only said the beer drinkers were helping $5 more was brd, 'twas foolish, to pay for the war; but what are twas indefensible. But Red Tape we now helping to pay for? To at $200 a yard, and we so poor, is the cansae sunt quinque bibendi something for which you are at this looks like an impertinent liberty to find your own adjectives amendment, an interpolated rea- son for not, imbibing. To Samuel | Johnson's ~(1709-1784) Hongkong has to add a sort of envoi verse. He wrote:

Hermit hoar, in solemn, cell,

"

Wearing out life's evening Era: Smite thy bosom, sage and fell What is bliss, and which the

way?

Thus I spoke and speaking

sighed,

tear;

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MOTOR HIRE-

Now that the Hongkong Hotel Co. is opening its own garages, we hope it will provide cheaper means of transportation between its own hotels. Frescat rates of hire are far too high. There is no more natural

LOOKY

red on the 9th

oldest

of Mrs. A.

Service for the late Mr. Hutchison There will be a abort Memorial St. John's Cathedral on Thursday next at 5.15 p.m.

Boatswain F. L. Light has been posted to the Tamar, depot whip. Hongkong, fur additional duties. Mr. Light got his warrant last year.

According to the Cheng: Fas, there are more than a thousand people who hold sinecures in the Ministry of War. It appears doubt ful whether they all can be dismiss ed."

The allowance for tropical outfit to regular officers posted to batta- ons serving in the tropics is to be discontinued. The cases of non- regular officers will be specially son sidered.

The Hankow press reports that, or pleasant a sequel to a good din- on the occasion of the wedding of Scarce repressed the starting Repulse Bay and back, and they daughter, the President presented ner in the grill than a spin put to Chang Tso-lin's son to Tsao Kun's When the willing sage replied little cam might be discreetly drop $2,000,000.

should have their own cars. A neat the happy couple with a gift of Come, my lad, and drink some ped on the dinner table at the right

beer." |Hongkong beer drinkers also may now sing of the solemn sell" and

the scares repress

starting swear.

Hermit hour, where'er you are, Listen what has happened here. We found when we approached

the bar

They had raised the price of beer. How can we drown the memory

moment, saying:

It's a ne night. Coffee and liqueurs will be served at Repulse Bay.

Tell the table boy, With an inclusive or flat rate, the We'll do the rest.

hotel cars, would be very popular.

for that insulene? How banishGOLF AT HAPPY VALLEY,

despair in a mng." when the mig now casts two-and-ruppence?

Idifferent in 1625–1650,-when Law-

rence Price sang :

Why should I deal with starking

Ronkes

That secke jour gulls to cozen, To give twelve perico for a quart

of win?

The N. Y. K. 55. "Shin-i Maru” went into quarantine upon her arrival on Saturday because two Japanese had died on board on the voyage from Bombay. She was released at noor Yesterday and moored at the Kowloon Godowns.

Brigadier-General C. G. Frender. gast, CB, who has just retired from the Ladian Army, took part in the China campaign of 1900 (mentioned in despatches, medal with clasp); the Burmese, Miranzai," Waziristan cam- paigns, and the late war.

The contributor of golf notes to the Daily Press says that he counted as many as eight men

evening! The Shanghai Police has receiv-

STURADAY AFFTEMBER 2

SPECIAL CABLES,

TER RUBBER SLUMP",

SERIOUS POSITION.

HEAVY FAILURES ANTICIPATED,

[China Mail SPECIAL.]

SINGAPORE, Sept.-27.

~ The rubber stump has created a serious position locally. Heavy failures among European, American, and Chinese firms are anticipated.

FAMINE KELIEF.

GENEROUS DONATION.

~B. A. T. CO. GIVES $100,000.-

STOWAWAYS:

UVERY NUMEROUS LATELY A

EMPRESS CAPTAIN'S REMEDY.

Two Chinese were this morning charred before Magistrate Orme with stowing away on board the ss. *Empress of Asia" from Hongkong to Vancouver, where they were dis covered and brought back.

The defendants pleaded guilty," and said that a man surnamed Wong, a relative of theirs, took them on board the ship.

Inspector Spears, who prosecuted, said that from what he could gather from the defendaits yesterday, the first defendant's father took them on board the ship, and placed them in the care of a Filipino bandsman, who had undertaken to see them through to Vancouver. The defendants had apparently hidden in this bandsman's cabin throughout the trip, for they were not discovered until the ship

[China Mail SPECIAL]

SHANGHAI, Sept. 21. The British American Tobacco Caberthed at Vancouver.

has donated $100,000 to the famine relief fund.

ALLEGED OPIUM SALES.

ITALIAN ACQUITTED.

SHANGHAI PROSECUTION FAILS.

[China Mail SPECIAL.]

SHANGHU, Sept. 21. Parlani who was charged in the Italian Court with keeping shops in the settlement for the sale of opium was acquitted. Parlani is a well known resident and editor of the China Observer, which is owned by Signor Musso, a prominent Italian lawyer.

LOCAL IND GENERIL.

at one time on Thurs

We have to acknowledge receipt practising, on the ce 2 of the ed notification that Third Engineer from the British. American Tobacco ground at Happy

The W. Kerr of the steamer Woosung." Co. of two dainty combined paper bombardment of baits. on Thursday moored off Kiangnan Dock, has been weights and blotters. Of ale will buy a dozen. evening.coming from all directions, missing from his ship since Septem- Perhaps with John Clare (1793-was enough to frighten any lady of ber 10. He is 23 years of age and

five feet, nine inches tall. 1864) "we would "sooner suck ale, the course!” Through a blanket than thimbles of |·" That settles it. As soon as we wine from a glass, bat at two can catch our Adversarius "half Canton Military Administration for a dollar we are undone. We sober again (just now he has found has informed the Press Association may agree with Johur Gay (1685-a place where the pleasant poisin that all publications should be sent 17321 to

of M. Pernod may be had) we shall the Press Censor for approval bet, and lay the odds, send him down to Happy Valley before going to press. The Censor That nectar, "drink of heathen with a box of bails and a few clubs, quarters of the Press Association.

Ees opened offices at the head gods,

Was poor compared to ale; bat at nectar prices? Hab! It is then we would repeat the protest

of 1855:

Beer, boys, beer the present

scale of prices

Leads to a style of tipple not the

best,

Vile Spanish root, and quassia,

which not nice is, Bad for the hile, and oppressive

for the chest!

tion,

The Magistrate: Have you got the bandsman in court?-No. We could not connect the defendants with any of the bandsmen.

The Inspector said that there were six bandsmen on board the ship at present Two others had left the ship at Manila. If they charged the bandsmen now, they were sure to place all the blame on the two absent bandsmen. Another difficulty was that the defendants world not point out the bandsman who had charge of them.

The Captain of the ship said that stowaways were very numerous lately. They were found on board almost every trip For a long time the CPO.S. did not proced against the men, but this time the Superin- tendent decided to make an example of the defendants. The Captain added that it was almost impossible to check stowaways, and he thought that the only thing to do was to impose a heavy penalty. Perhaps this would act as a deterrent to other would be

stowaways.

The Magistrate said that while he

appreciated the Captain's dificulty, he did not think a heavy penalty would have any effect. He thought the best thing to do was to get the people who smuggled these men on

Capt. A. A. Ellison, lately dying his broad pennant as commodore in the “Kiasha,” as senior naval officer, board. River Yangtse, has assumed ccm. The Captain said that they need mand at Sheerness of the battleship not be sungaled on board. Ther "Commonwealth," gunnery training could easily come on board with the ship at Invergordon, in succession to rush of steerage passengers and then Capt. G. R.-B. Blount

hke on board.

The Magistrate expressed the to practise. This will amount to

The marriage of Mr. P. E. Dailey, opinion that there must be a Chinese kangaroo shooting trip, for he is

assistant. manager of the Standard middle man on board, as otherwise sure to hit a bounder or two. We Indian Army, who has just been pro- Florence Winston, daughter of Dr. communicate with the defendants.

Lieut-Colonel G. A. H. Beatly, Oil Co. in-Tientsin, to Miss Elizabeth the Filipina would not be able to will publish due warning to Happs moted colonel by brevet for services and Mrs. Warwick Winston, was is a middle man, but the difficulty is The Captain: "Undoubtedly, there Valley parents, what evening to in the Afghan War, served in the solemnized quietly in the presence chain up their anubs and children. China War, 1900, with an Indian only of intimate friends of the parties, to get him.

In order to make Happy Valley battalion; commanded a brigade in at the residence of Mr. W. M. Howell,The Magistrate passed sentence of safe, we must first make it more France, and had previous war ser in the German Concession, on Septem- one month's hard labour each. dangerous. A Government official vice on the Indian frontier. tells us that even the main road is not safe, the road that runs between

The Asia Banking Corporation the race course and the cemeteries. has received judgment in Shanghai He saw a ball hit the cemetery wall, against the American Sales Corpora But let's unite with liearty agita-bounce across the road to the stable tion for G. $5,500, being a draft at wall, rebound once more to the 90 days for a consignment of dye, cemetery wall, and thence up in the with $600, interest, at 6 per cent. air to drop into the race club pre-Messrs. Fleming. Davies and Bryan mises. If Adversarius" can fer- got judgment against the same de suade a hall to bounce from head fendants for Tis. 60, for professional to head of the eight men who were services rendered. practising on Thursday, so much

Push for our rights, and battle

might and main;

And ours shall be a large and

brimming tankard

Of real wholesome stuf, brewed

out of roasted grain.

It is 4 quandary we are in, no less,

kered

Hath one unfailing remedy--the

Tankard.

But now, on top of Hongkong's racking rents, they make our tan- kard cost us fifty cents.

Perhaps 3 humble petition to them will be best, praying their mercy, and getting the ladies to endorse our prayer, for assuredly they pile on the price of it, we shall be saying after Alexander Brome (1020-1006):

:heart,

From ladies I'll withdraw any

And fix it only on the quart.

And the masses of doubt that are £nd that, as even a hotel proprietor

floating about

might know, yould be dreadful

THROUGH THE POST,

MORPHINE IN-MAILS.

SEIZURE AT MANILA.

-Before Magistrate Orme yester

ber 9.

BOY SCOUTS.

· THE KOWLOON RALLY.

PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE.

It is announced that Captain Goto, who returned from Europe with Admiral Kato, has succeeded in perfecting his invention of a disap pearing gun. The Captain, who is the Chief of the Ordnance Depart ment of the Kure Naval Arsenal, was greatly interested in the disap- pearing gun used by Germany during boy scouts rally held at St. Andrew's There was a good response at the the late war. His discovery will be Church Hall, Kowloon; yesterday fitted up in a certain monster war evening, and the number of boys

the better. The other day a sailor There seems to be a great tenship now under construction at the who attended between the hours of for we cannotbattle might and who was hit while walking along dency for documents of strategical Arsenal.

6 and 7pm, to give in their names main" for our rights without first the cross road, athwart the valley,value to disappear mysteriously in

reached double figures. With never a penny of money, heartening ourselves with that vaulted the fence and ran up to the Japan. The latest is the loss of a Owing to the fact that their Capt. Bourdillon who was present Hilaire Belloc, who takes his which, by common consent all golfer who did it. But I shouted trunk said to have contained several demand for the dismissal of the dean to receive applications was enthu pleasure in a pint of beer, is as all the poets who have tackled it, is Fore*.*

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said that gentleman, naval documents of great value while and the proctor was not complied siastic about the result of the rally, then know a religious minded man, the proper stimulant. As C.S."you should have looked out." the trunk was being taken from Kure with, the students of the. China and expressed the opinion that when and he sings much of it.

Calverley (1831-1684) said: "Ho! Should I?" retorted the to Yokosuka. As soon as the loss National Institute at Woosing went the organisation had got into proper

Such power bath Beer. The lad from the ocean. Well, you!

was discovered, the police got busy on strike a few days ago. The strike working order, there would be no heart which Grief hath can look out. Four, Eve, six, and he and succeeded in recovering the has now taken a more serious turn doubt that the Kowloon troops would

missing trunk near Hiroshima.“ gave him one, two, three.

and ten students have been expelled be one that the mainland might well! །

by the authorities. The students feel proud of.; He is confident that, The American steamer: "City of demanded the dismissal of these two the Kewison troop could easily be Omaha" was saved on September 8 officers on the ground that they brought to: 40 strong, with which by the quick action of its captain in refused to refund the fees of a number a good start could be made. running it on a shoal near the Yoko certain student who left the school. Capt. Bourdillon holds the rank of hama breakwater. When it was on account of ill-health;

Assistant Scoutmaster in the newly stranded near Honmoku several days

| formed troop, while the boys "will ago it was damaged badly and con

Commenting on Hongkong's de have for their Scoutmaster Capt sequently, when it moored at No. 9 buoy on September 8 water began to pendence in Shangbai for treatment Fogg, whose extensive experience. pour into a hole in its side. The of rabies, the N.C.D. News says will be very useful to the boys. It Once again an sitempt to bring Captain of the ship directed it toward We do not know whether there is is intended to have the troop properly contraband to. Manila through the the shorl and thus saved it from sink any differentiation between the formed and equipped in time to start mails was frustrated when customs ing.

charges made to ratepayers and non-training in the winter season... detectives assigned to the bureau of

ratepayers here for the treatment, Raffles in other parts of the Colony posts to inspect coming correspon-

but if the facilties here municipally will be held soon. It is intended. dence discovered one kilo of morphine, day, C. S. Martin was charged with provided are to be made use of by that every school should have its valued at about P3,000 wrapped up in the unlawful pussession of a revolver people, in and down the coast, the own troop. With H. E. the Governor, a bundle of Chinese newspapers.

and 49 rounds of ammunition. De ratepayers ofShanghai should receive as Chief Scout, the movement Customs sleuths stated that the fendant said that he was ignorant of gracious suggestion, It is true, but

preferential treatment. It seems an sure to flourish. mails which brought the drug to the regulations. A friend on a ship Manila arrived on the steamer Ta-owed him some money. He went on ming." The newspapers were held in board to ask for a settlement of the The China Mail in its capacity of the bureau of posts in order that the debt, and the friend-gave him the For, indeed, this beverage is no Government Analyst (highly quali-addressee, a supposed Chinese, would contraband. He brought it ashore, fit erbject for mere music hall, fed) has detected traces of Red Call for it. Believing that nobody and was attempting to dispose of it humour, it is rather an inspiration Tape, and bag issued previous certi would call at the bureau of posts after in a Chinese shop when the police to higher thought. Professor A. ficates to that effect, without, how-addresses was a Ectitious person, the charged the defendant with caution, of several days and that the arrested him. The Magistrate dis ever, instituting a prosecution for To rob a poor man of his beer. Malt does more than Milton can adulteration Doubtless this was officials opened the bundle, and found and ordered the confiscation of the

hst is a polite adaptation of a To reconcile God's ways to man. misguided mercy, for the Bed Tape the drug less polite song written to celebrate Yet these local purveyors must worm is growing space, and de the Act of William IV. which ze needs go and shove up the cost of vouring the substance of the body aced the duties on ale. And lest it. How shall we sing the songs politic. An instance of Super Red should fall into the characteris of Zion by the thin waters of Tape has been whispered into our error of deeming beer a vulgar Babylon, with the costly lager and ever open ear, and this, if you bject for a China Mail discourse, the chemical imitations? How please, is how the tale runs.

us remind you that the litera bibe the goodwill: that is brewed. An order we issued, that all

of beef is extensive and re in beer, and yet forget. the porcine government employees going away young children pesim able. Bishops and archbishops profiteer? How with a whole on leave should book their passages Chamberlain's Couchs ted to it. Bishop heart obey the injunction of Belloc through the Harbour Once in always be dependić, upon

and Wells, fo

Just before the order was issued to fake. Thank the Lord for the tema government man had already presents, their" rasa

It not only cares zaj Fill the zodporal sword free

booked his passage

· Chamberlain's? MARA KOAnd for bowbing heretice

He was told to book through the no opam or other; good

Would smother a mortal creed, But we who sit in a sturdy youth And still can drink strong ale

tall they sell, might well copy. Let us pat it away to infallible

Carson and his covenant, and arm

ourselves in defence, of our beer.

Let publicans shape their profit

on Cape

And ordam that whisky, be dear; But swat their eyes it ever they

hem

truth

That always shall prevail.

E. Housman bas told us:

i fellows should do, k... An

bare the

SUPER RED TAPË.

that Harbour Office,

But especially barley brew

CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH

REMEDY

1115 remedy has yo superior as a enre for colds,, Group, and whooping kiss been a faytać

cough

He intimated that he had not store expert objection but that he had-slready

it is purely a business question, for

the ratepayer already-contributes something towards the cost of the treatment, whereas the non ratepayer does not.

POLICE RÉGISTRATION 2

CIROUS ÄGEET CHARGED.

POSSIBLE

allowed to retire de April Last Officers serving abroad who are cheme promulgated on April 1 last arms and ammunition. Ones 46 will be relieved from duty on the

foreign stations as early as prão descrit

that

Colon

as the advance. rcus, was yesterday, In spite of the protest of Dr. ticable and granted free passages to gent Marvin A. Rader of the Methodist England and fall pay for the period charged before Magistrate Dyer Ball Episcopal church, the Manila hotel of passage, provided there is no undue with unlawfully failing

Himmelf on, art will remain," wet, Mayor Fernandez delay in travelling. As far as prac having signed the permit allowing ticable, use is to be made of warship Defendant pleaded ignorance of local the hotel to continus its bar service, returning to Ragland for the con- Prohibition not being yet in force in weyance of these officers, where a The Philippplies, Mayor Fernández BïTing-of expense to the stated that he had no other altema thereby effect five than grant the licence appila for. He made it clear that while was in office to enforce the chy ordinances, It was not a wise policy. „ów his part to go ahead of the legisla

fure, and attempt, to executeza i

hich was not in the

the com

saving on