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RANDOM REFLECTIONS. Nothing seems to be known in Hong- Kong regarding the model that Mr. Pomeroy, R.A., has made of a War Memoriit for Hongkong which u London paper devoted to Eastern affairs reports exhibition in

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THE

CENSUS OF HONGKONG,

PRELIMINARY

The following preliminary report has been made by Mr. J. D. Lloyd, the Census Officer, on the recent census -

The Census "of the Colony was taken

JAPANESE SHOT AND STABBED. The caretaker of -- the ---- Japanese crematoriam, a Mr. Tskitzka was found: by his wife, on Sunday night, dying on the Royal the road, about 70 yards from his house, Academy at Burlington Arcade. No with a bullet wound in the left breast, geder for a design has gone home to the and two stab wounds in the body. Royal Academician from Hongkong, and According to a statement made by the the announcement which was repro-wife, she left the house about 8 pm, to in the City of Victoria, Shaukiwan and aced in the Daily Prese last Saturday go to the corner of the street to buy the Kowloon Peninsula (except Kowloon has left people wondering whether (1) a mistake has been made by the reporter, some cigarettes, leaving her little son in City) on April 24th; in the New Terri care of her husband. On the tories and Hongkong Villages between in the name of the place for which the the memorial is intended: of (2) whether

against March 24th and April 24th; in the Har- some private benefactor is contemplating back, she stumbled

He a gift to the Colony. We may dismiss her husband's" prostrate form. from our thoughts the idea that any such was then still alive, and died in her bour from April 3rd to April 26th.

arms about a minute afterwards. He memorial is intended for "Hongkow," and I have seen no mention of any such was unable to speak, but made some a proposat for "Hank. There is gestures which she was unable to under one other possible explanation. When stand. On examining the house, some "a simple and dignified monument" on hairs and a table were overturned, as the finest site was first decided upon by if a struggle had taken place, and there th local Committer, designers were was blood on the floor which could be to traced all the way dawn the stairs to the invited by public advertisinment Bahnit designs, and it is possible spot. where the deceased was found. that this inspired the model now on This makes it appear that the attack axhibition. But I hardly think a Royal was committed in the house and the Academician of Mr. Pomeroy's rank and deceased must have chased his assailant reputation would devote his time to until he collapsed from loss of blood, making a model for a memorial in Hong- The child was in the house unhurt. No kong without having a definite commis thing had been stolen from the house, a sion. So the whole thing at present is fact which convinces the police that the

object of the murder was not robbery. wropt in mystory."

Enquiries were mundo mongst the neighbours,

The local Committee, 1 am told, have sent home for sanction to reproduce the famous Cenotaph on the "Finest Site," Bat on the and for specifications. "major part of the memorial"-the Union Club-there is preserved a silence that a significant, perhaps of failure. A big half of it sum is needed and not one 1 appears to be yet in sight

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2-The figures given in the annexed tables were gathered from the tatals given in the enumerators' books, the casting of which has been carefully checked.

3-The taking of the Census gave rise to an abundant crop of puerile rumours which guined wide currency and cansed wo little alarm especially among the families of lower and middle class Chi- uso; a discussion of overcrowding by the Sanitary Board shortly before the date one heard any of the Census" without doubt gravely scuffle in the house. The deceased's affected the accuracy of the returns made wife is unable to give the police any clue as to the cause of the murder. As by householders in the congested areas. far as she knew, her husband bad had

-The date fixed for the Census prov no quarrel with anyone.

to be very unfortunate:--

but no

The deceased, who was 41 years of ́ed age, had lived many years in Hongkong, and is described as being well liked among his fellow nationals in Colony.

A WIFE'S BLACK EYE. A DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL INCIDENT.

the

What has happened to "that two million odd dollars which the Govern ient pocketed as profit on the control of local shipping, during the war? It will be "remembered that the Colonial Secretary some two years ago contem- plated expending the money extension of the University, and on the

A Chinese woman summoned her hus- building of Bats and a magnifcent hote band at the Magistracy, yesterday, for nt Kowloon, hut some time later assaut. She had an ugly black eye and nounced that the shipowners had raised told the Magistrate that her husband the question of the Government's title and some friends celebrated the dragon to do this, and claimed the return of boat festival with plenty of samahu. He this profit. We are likely, I understand, got drunk and became quarrelsome. She to hear something about the matter at

her a black eye and kicked her down the an early date. To these times of severe remonstrated with him, and he gave depression in the shipping basiness stairs. The husband said that it was the owners feel the need of the money wife who got drunk. She abused him in to which they lay claim, but to which the presence of his friends, and when he the Government has tenaciously stuck.

made at

the

He told a

told her to shut up, she struck him and then ran to the staircase and blew a police whistle. She could hot stand straight, and fell down the receiving the black eye in the fall." He did not touch her.

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stairs,

(a.)In the New Territories the majority of the inhabitants were found to be absent from their houses the whole day long, being busily engaged in preparations for planting the first crop of the enumerators paddy, and experienced considerable dif cuity in obtaining the requisits information.

(b.)-In the Island of Hongkong and the Majuland, large numbers of the Chinese adult male popula tion were absent in their nativa" villages the date being the middle of the Ching Ming Festi val; thus in several middle class residential sections the females were found to equal or exceed th males. The enumerators also reported difficulty in many cases, where all the adult males in a family were absent, in obtaining the necessary informa tion from the females left hehind,

The Ching Ming Festival also causi

1921-

REPORT.

L-ISLAND OF HONGKONG.

(®)-Oity of Victoria by Health Dis- tricte.

to

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North Point................

District, No. 1,

Hales. Females. Total.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

ENGLISH BOOTS AND SHOES

ALI OR

SHASONS.

ENHANCES

THE PLEASURE OF

2,358

739 ~ 3,112

SHOE THAT

Jakmore

7,647 17,886

16,080 10,473 28,533

16,405 · 10,90€ 97,211

Causon ay Bay, Bowrington and Wougns.ebong... 9,730 Distrit No. in & 20.

Van chai

District No. 2

. . Weachai

District No. 2

Upper Lovala... 8,401 8,623 15,025 District No. 1.

Central 27,937 15,600 49.638 District No. 5.

Central........... 19,814 ̈ 10,137 0,472 District No. 6.

Sheungwan and

Taipingahan 19,811 8,218 28,029 District No. 7.

Shoungwon and

Taipingshan 18,983 9,113 29,100

District No. 8.

Sairingpus-North

0,908 26,647

26,92 15,891 2,820

of Government Civil Hospital.. 19,799 District No. 9...

Saisingpur... District No. 30.....

West. Point

KIN

and

...... 15,978 11,705 27,883 1,954 871 2,625 1,174 615 1,780 b.)-Pokfulam (c)--Aberdeen

2,895 Aplichat 1,901 .995 (d))-Uther Villages.,

478 1,408 (haukiwin and

Quarry Bay 11,733 - 5,325 · 17,05% (7.)-Stonecutters

Island

.31

Tora!

51

219,456 -121,904 347,360 |

IL KOWLOON PENINSULA."

(By Health Districts).

Males.. Females, Total. Districż- No, 11, Kow-

loon Point ......... 7,081 4,360 11,944 District No.11o, Hung-

0,569 5,240 14,808

18.528 13.115 31,6411

hom

District No. 12, Yau-

mati

District No. 18, Mong-

kok

District No. 4, Tai-

koktsui and Sham shuiposucti District No. 16, Hung-

hom Villages and Kowloon City

Tutel

17,363 11,851 `·29,014

10.143 5,633 15,776

11,001 7,442 18,913

74,885 47,441 122,128

11-NEW TERRITORIES.

Pingshan

Autan

(Fy Police Districts).

Males Females. Total.

5,990 5,449 11,439. 6,081 5,738 11,819) Lokinachow (Santin) 1,880 1,717 8,600

hataukok Shengshui

Many readers will be to recall the Amusing speech -Just St. Andrew's Ball by Chief Johnstone, who facetiously referred to himself as a Borderer product of a

After examining the woman's eye, the hard riding, hard drinking, hard swear Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell) decided that great difficulties in holding together a ing, gudless race, whose chief occupation it must have been caused with a fist, and in life round about the days of Robert fined the defendant $5. He was also sufficient number of enumerators, many | (4.)-North. Bruce appears to have been the lifting ordered to pay his wife compensa enumerators who had been appointed and of other people's cattle." little story about a footsore, and weary The Wife: What shall I do now? I carefully trained resigned, or left the traveller who had been turned empty away when he knocked at the door of a house, excluiming in desperation "Are То there no Christians in this place!"

No, we're which the old lady replied a Johnstones and Jardines hereabout," and slammed the door in the man's face. A line or two in S. R. Crockett's "The Dew of their Youth," which I have just been reading, called this speech to mind. Writing, of the Yuls Fair in the Eden SENT TO PRISON FOR THEFT FROM reported in the case of the land popula Valley, the author says:-$

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The rooks were cawing belatedly

dare not return home. He might kill nie for bringing hira to Court

The Magistrate referred her to the charge-room Inspector.

AN OFFICIAL'S .** SECOND WIFE."

WIFE NO.

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When

Colony without notice just as the schedules were ready for distribution, and others had to be found and receive hasty instruc- tions at the last moment.

6.-The factors mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 4 undoubtedly reduced the numbers

tion, but it is an yet impossible. to form any estimate of what percentage should be added to the figures reported to arrive at the true total of the normal population of the Calong.

I consider, however, that the figures

3.529 4,714 8,213

3,858 7,505

Boots for Men

WALKING.

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BROGUE SHOES

THE IDEAL SHOE

FOR GOLFERS

AND ALL SPORTSMEN.

From $25.00 to $40.00 palr.

HALK OVER

$15.00 to $25.00 pair.

ALL WHITE

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN· BOOTS AND SHOES

DURING THE SEASON WE CAN SHOW YOU A LARGE SELECTION OF STYLES

IN CANVAS, AND NOBUCK, WITË „LEATHER AND NEOLIN SOLES.

THE TYPHOON SEASON

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APPROACHING.

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and be forearmed.

LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.

NEW

3.707

·Taipo Shatin Bulitaig

4,459

4,564

9,015

1,926 2,235 4,181

Total

(South.

4,031,

5,315 9,346

32,112, 33,580 05,892

Males, Feniales. Total.

2.447 2,193 4,640

2905

(SWANEE 'MYSTERY

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2812

TELL ME

Kowloon City (also included in H.D.

Tatawan

15)

5,565 4,581 10,152 Lantao faland 3,048 2,786 6,941 Choungchor Island 2,076 2,050 5,036, 1,258

14,708. 12,219. 26,027

Lamun taland.......

Total

IV-FLOATING POPULATION.

Victoria Harbatir

Afales. Females, Total. 23,942 14,628 38,570

Stauley Barhour 159 116 275 Shaukivan Harbour.. 3,783 2,048 8,711 Aberdeen 4,493 3,373 7,800 Cheungehow Harbour 2,061 1,480 8,520 1.801 3,804 Tai 0 Hathour 2,000

Now Territories, North 2,600 1,307 3,907

6,888

6,888 Isunwan Mercantile Marine

-44,880 23,816 ́70,790

in the fall asbes round the big square, The second wife of a Kwangsi official into which in the old times of the was charged at the Magistracy by the Annandale shieves, the country folkman's kit fat, or legal wife, with the used to drive the cattle to be out of theft of a quantity of clothing, jewellery the way of the Johnstones and and money valued together at 81,307 Jardines."

When the charge was read out to her, What a family reputation to live down the defendant refused to plead, and in spite of all the interpreter's attempte A local resident has a little daughter and the Magistrate's threat to send her found for the floating population are in England, aged 12, with a precocions straight to jail, she was silent. The very near the truth, and give an accurate penchant for literature, who delights in Magistrate eventually gave up the effort introducing into her letters the most unas hopeless, and called for evidence idea of the normal average floating familiar words with which she gets The complainant said that she lived with population, which at times is abnormally acquainted. This is father's retalia the defendant in Yuewah Street. She

went to Canton for the week-end and increased for short periods by the pre- Seialist that was through hebetade placed the defendant in charge. or nescience I had been adiaphorous to she came back, she found her box hadice of the deep sea fishing flect, for my friend's hebdomadal visits to Cheung been broken open and the property, which the Colony cannot be said to be the

and hyrnagogie mentioned in the charge was missing. Chow, salutiferous though they seemed to be. Although I The defendant was not in the house, home port:"this ficet was absent at the". may be sesquipedalian I am not scriba Complainant informed the police and time the Census was taken. tious and am naturally silentious. I later identified the defendant and her

COMPARATIVE TABLE feel that the following catachristical property at the station.

1921. Bergt Fallon said that he found the description, the result of much lucub

Males Females, Total ration with the aid of my nomasticon, defendant on board the Macao boat will, in spite of your philomathy. give Chuenchow. The clothing he found in asiand of Hongkong... 219,456 121,904 841,360 you cephalalgy Let me now make an parcel. In a box which the defendant Kowloon Peninsula. 74,635 47,441 122,125 encomiastical adumbration which I trust held in her hand he found the money

and a part of the jewellery. The rest of New Territories, North 32,1129,680 65,502 28.997 will not be acataleptic..

New Territor, South 14708 12,219 On Cheung Chow you may discern two the jewellery was found by the female scrabous mamelons, with rufescrut or searcher on the defendant's person. The Floating Population. 44,080 25,816 70,798 385,941 240,960 826,901. fuscesocut cyathiformical shades; no defendant refused to say a word.

Mr. Lindsell menord defendant: to

4,684 10,102 5,668 boschge "but a rugose gleby surface, with tophaceous patches. The agrestical three months' bard labour, segregation is on one of these mamelons,

-880,373 236,378 18,749 and after opsonation we reached it in

Add Unelnus spite of orthopny

This little incident reminds me.bflang, My companion, the toftman, may have other of local origin. A wife was want been thrasonical but the cause was now ing to communicate to her husband at sematic. The graminaceous slopes, the biffin, table an item of news which touched each morning with rosmarine, she did not want the Little Pitcher to tempted me to become an eremite, even understand, so she employed words and to the extent of hiemation in Cheung phrases which were double Dutch Chow." There one might herborize, or to her young offspring. Puzzled and become a herpetologist, or if orcytolo annoyed, be exclaimed: "Why do you gically inclined find crustaceological speak such hard words, mother **---

might be more interesting; one might

The

Lris Kowloon Uity

Tetal Increase

DIVING FOR OPIUM. LARGE HAUL BY REVENUE OFFICERS

The ways of the opian smuggler are

12.

1911. Müten, Hemales Total, Increuse. 169,208 75,115 244,323 97,037 13,840 23,848 07,497 54,620

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(Decrease) 32,747 33,389 66,140, -448 11,916 9,872 - 21,783 5,180, 40,056 20,802 60,948 8,848

27,776 182,970-480,696, 166,205. 4,051 8,255 7,306 2,846

203,727–169,065 - 1459,390,183,850.

(Decrease) 2,426

3,349 €3,949

200, 51 160,088 456,780 160,010

160,010

result, and just as the search was about to be given up after an hour's strenuous work, one of the Chinese revenue officers alighted "on the chest. It took many remains. Or the bodiernal consuetudes Flanner is now wanting to know

"more dives to sever the chest from the watch the hegenomic methods of geopo who gave her this name, and why Who

stone and ensure it with ropes, to be nical labourers, the much sarenistion christened her I know not, but the most dark and peculiar. On Sunday, a chest eventually hauled out of the water. The and throwding, and see the uberous reprobable origin of the word " flapper," containing 202 incl of the drug w opium is described as of excellent quali- sulta of each aryza seel.

ashikar writes, is a sporting one, re found anchored to a large store. OD-the ty and valuable, Detectives were put on Now this operose effusion must, beferring to the shooting of wild duck in bed of the harbour, about 60 yards from duty on the pier all night to wait for the curtate.

August, when the young ducks flap along Tiniek stone pier. Wanchai. Informa smagglers to turn up, but apparently sometimes the water unable to fly properly. The tion had been received by Chief Pre-they had had scouts on the lock-out who Friend Adversarius, who revels in the use of words which are not inference is that both sorts of flappers ventive Officer Watt, who set out in a must have given warning about the enrrent coin of the realm, will have to have just arrived at an age when they are motor hout a dask with some Chinese seizure, with the result that no arrest look to his laureis when such rivals as fair game for purmit by men, but with revenue officers to search for the opium was made. There is no clue as to whero the author of this letter are about! out the experience to safeguard them. The searchers dived repeatedly without the opium came from de who were the

RODERICK RANDOM: (Continued at foot of nest column.) smugglert. (Continued at foot of neat column.)

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