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WEATHER REPORT, together in a big vessel, some re- Igularity in coming to meals and Yesterday's weather report, fore clearing ont of cabins in the morn [eart and remarks, issued by the king is not too much to ask on behalf Royal Observatory at 0.16 p.m., of the chief steward's staff. It is, | stated :—

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Major Henry Keswick, of Cow hill, Dumfrieshire, a former M.P. for Epsom, and a director of Jar dine, Matheson and Co.; East India merchants, left £848,435 on which estate duty will be approximately £180,950.

A Chinese equivalent of "Long fortable as they wish. In these John" Silver has met an untimely funeral and condolence in their democratic days the notice "Brst-finish at Huchow under an execu-| class passengers only" which bars tioner's sword because of his habit off the best part of the ship, is of carrying a pistol in his hollow

ed-out wooden leg. Authorities more of an irritant than the lack of gold and pale blue decora- linked him and the gun with vari- tions in the saloon. The mono-class vessels on the Atlantic have been a

Lieutenant-Commander E. E.

Rear Admiral Monget Comman- Brightman, recently studying at Eastern Squadron, is making an der-in-Chief of the French For the Secretaries Course, will be Se- official landing at Queen's Pier at cretary to the new Rear-Admiral in | 9,30 a.m. A guard and band will command at Rosyth. He became be drawn up when the Admiral assistant paymaster in Jan., 1915, landa and a call will be made at while serving in the battleship Government House, which H.E. the Ajax, Graad Fleet, and in the Governor will return later in the August following was appointed to day. The French flagship, the the staff of Admital Sir W. L. Waldeck Roussean, is 14,000 ton Grant, Commander-in-Chief in vessel built in 1929. Her main China..

armament consists of, fourteen 7.8° inch guus and her ship's company consists of 13 officers and 890 rat-

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The marriage arranged betwçon the Rev. J. Horace Johnston, of From the personal point of view, Kowloon, and Miss Kathleen Din- "Loeni Forecast:---S.W. winds, the only criticisms of much weight ca, daughter of the late Mr. T A grandson of Lord Tennyson, the lato Poet Laureate, is now come from second-class passengers. Duscan and of Mrs. Duncan,

secretary of the Dunlop organisa- The number of European people of

of Littlecroft, Osterley, was, to take sion at its headquarters in London. Chinese Shipping. moderate

He is Mr. C. B. L Tennyson, means now living out place in England last month.

A new passenger and freight C.M.G, who, until taking up his service operating Chinese-owned East is increasing, and they do not

present appointment, was deputy vessels is being planned between find the close quarters aft as com-

director of the Federation of Bri- China, Korea and Japan. Officials the

tish Industries, Mr. Tennyson is of the Ministry of Cornmusics- the second son of the poet's younger tions are investigating prospects. son, and a cousin of the famous for such service, apparently with English sportaman, the present the idea of cutting-in on the trade Lord Tennyson. He himself has of Japanese shipa Wang Pota played for Cambridge University Chun, Minister of Communications, against Oxford University at golf is reported by the Kuo Min News Ageney to have amt a circular to Colonel John Ward, the Nar-all available data en Chinese trade Chinese shipping firms, asking for vies M.P." for over 20 years, who was defeated at the General Elec with Japan and Korea in connec cipation in the work of the General navigation rights which will be. affected by the new Sino-Japanese Colonel Ward has been a member treaty now in process of negotiation... Federation of Trade Unions. of the Federation from the be- Mrs. Eddy and Mrs. Bill. ginning, and treasurer for the last 18 years. Colonel Ward formed the famous Navvies Battalion dar- ing the war, and with one of the bastalions was stationed in Hong Kong, and afterwards participated in the Siberian Expedition.

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ous banditries.

success, and similar ships would Henan Province by the Ministry tion, is retiring from active parti-on with the question of Chinese

prove a boon to many people out East who put confort before luxury, and find little of either when travel ling second-class...

In regard to the question of faster service to and from the East. it must be remembered that the official or commercial man in China who, is genuinely in a hurry can travel to Europe by the trans- Siberian route. "There are available in Moscow airplanes by which it is possible to reach Berlin, Paris, and London, cutting still shorter the time taken on the journey from China. A shipping company bas to look ahead, and long before any Far Eastern greyhound would earn Tax recent remarkable achievements à return on her outlay she is likely of the Mauretania and her much to be outstripped in speed by an younger German rival in speeding improved combination of air and across the Atlantic evidently inspir-rail routes Dercas Siberia and

HUSTLING ON THE CHINA

SEAS..

Four new districts created in

of Interior are to be known in Chinese as the District of Universal Peace, the District of Equality, the District of Liberty, and the District of Democracy. The Kuo Min News Agency suggests that this improves on John Bunyan, as be created my a Valley of Sorrow.

Of the Bloops until recently serving in China, the Bluebeli and Foxglove have been paid off into the charge of care and maintenance parties at Chatham and Portsmouth respectively, and the Hollyhock into dockyard control at Portsmouth to be prepared for sale. The cruisers have left England for China on a Carysfort, Cleopatra, and Concord

trooping trip.

whose retirement at his own request Commander Stephen King-Hall, as announced, comes of a very well- known naval family, which has been about 130 years. At the end of the represented in the Navy List for Great War he served as torpedo for two years. He has written

gutenant of the Durban in China. several books, and it is understood that he is retiring to take up an appointment with the Royal In-

stitute of International Affaire.

Dear Bristles,

A Queer Strike,

We have received a copy of the Christian Science Watchman, which periodical secuns just to have dis covered what many people have known for years-that Mrs. Eddy was guilty of plagiarism. The Watchman is deeply distressed by this "shocking discovery," the more. o because plagiarism is an offence protest-

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who are

regarded as the discoverer of mental healing in modern times. The "Parent Church" regards the

Mother Church" as facing '&' result of Mrs. Bill's exposure of fateful crisis in its career aa

declares Christian Science is a name Mra. Eddy's many plagiarisms. I held in contempt by a large part of human society because of the abnormalities and tragedies which have become identified with

legitimate practice."

The close connection between con- against which Mrs Eddy ditions in far distant countries anded in her writing with a vehemence Prices in Great Britain is eloquent unsurpassed." This journal of the shown by the following statement Parent Church" is auxiously issued by the British Brush Mann-waiting to see how far members of facturers Association, who, sa- the "Mother Church bounce that, "owing to a general able to recognise the moral issue brushes are made, it appears inevi- situation." We have no doubt the advance in the prices of the prin-will support the efforts of their cipal raw materals from which officials to justify or to ignore the able that the cost to the public of spokesmen of the Mother Church The Suffragan Bishop of South- both trade and domestic purposes make to their critics of the "Parent the majority of brushes used for will have some sort of reply to taken ill during a special evenscnged conditions, in China," the an- neither faction amption (Dr. Boutflower) was. will have to advance.""Unsettl- Church," and those who belong to will be greatly at the Dorking Parish Church of ed our Singapore contemporary the Russia. Nor are the technical dif- Boutfower, who was Bishop of with a corresponding increase in the complicated argumenta. Mrs. nouncement proceeds, which have mystified as to what all the pother St. Martin last month. Bishop brought about a scarcity of bristles, is about. So far as we can follow Straits Times to suggest that the fenities inconsiderable. Even the South Tokyo till 1921, fainted dur

of the "Parent Far Eastern shipping lines should Mauretania loses speed in dirtying the singing of the hymn before price, still continue. The prices of Bill-leader reduce the time of transport be weather, and, indeed, one of the

the majority of Russian bristles Church"-believes that Mrs. Eddy the sermon he was to preach. He have also been raised, and in ad--the late leader of the Mother tween these waters and Europe. The

was attended to in the vestry, but dition to this, fibres, especially bass, Church was guilty of deliberate reasons for the unwieldy size of later recovered, and although obvi have a tendency to harden in price, fraud in posing ss the originator hard case was cited of our old friend Atlantic ships is to produce a vessel ously unwell," addressed the con- the business-man who has scarcely which can

whilst the price of Italian whiske | of" truths' which were actually time to breathe, preoccupied, as he is thing." Vessels of the P. & 0. and

plough through any gregation.

has increased very considerably. gained from others. Mrs. Bill re- Up to the present the public has cognises Mrs. Eddy as the founder with big deals in hand and in mind. N.T.E type on their voyages have

enjoyed the benefit of the lower cost of the first organised application of We all know the person to whom, to face the Atlantic, the Gulf of

of raw materials, but this cannot | mental practice in the healing of continue after the present stocks disease, but Mrs. Bill does not. like a taximeter, time means money. Lyons, the uncertainties of the

held by manufacturers have been agree that Mrs. Eddy should be Everyone is familiar with the Indian Ocean and the south-west

exhausted." colossus who, bestrides the modern monsoon. If such ships had, at world-the sultan of commerce upon great expense and loss of cabin and whose lightest word depends the fate cargo space, three or four extra of toiling millions in Wigan and knots speed it probably could not those vast American industrial be used regularly, and with a mail centres whose very names may be schedule to keep, a steady seventeen unknown to insular Britons. We knots is more use than a prob- As a result of the Sino-Russian have had pictures of him, large as lematical twenty two. Nor is a run rupture, the Shanghai branch offices life, in the popular newspapers of four to five days to and from of the Dalbank and Centrosojus which he controls, depicting him New York comparable to a three bank is the Soviet Bank, which has have suspended business. The Dal- aboard the Atlantic "greyhounds" months voyage during which no received instructions from Harbin receiving London, Wall Street, engine repairs can be undertaken CHRONICLE Paris, and Berlin-prices by wire-without loss on schedule: Is fact, less every quarter of an hour. His there is very little use for an ex- secretaries stand constantly by him, press passenger service out East, and not for a single moment and people so bursting with energy during the four-day voyage does his that they cannot contain themselves it is for this sort of potentste our fine vessels available had far better Far Eastern shipping companies stay at home in the lands where fail to cater!

their peculiar mentality is perhaps To return to the realm of fact,appreciated at its true worth. CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. the writer of the article mentioned CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS above suggests that after experienc MALAYing it once or twice the voyage home SETTLEMENTS, STATES, NETHERLANDS [becomes a "stale, fat, and unpro- INDIA, BORNEO, THEfitable" concern; that the average PHILIPPINES, Et

traveller is," weary unto death" of The following civilian appoint- Mount Lavinia and the changingnounced:-Mr. J. Fawcett, acting ment, under the Admiralty is an- This Large Volume of approximate panorama of the Suez Canal, inspector of storehousemien, Hong

ly 2,000 Pages gires, in addition through which the ship crawls at Kong Naval Yard. to the Usual Lists of Firms, an a speed calculated to set any liye Alphabetical List of Residents person's nerves in a jangle. A in the Far East containing the member of the firm whq, net in local Names of Hearty

agents of the F&O. Company (which our contemporary castigated with great severity) declares that

DIRECTORY

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The 67th Annual Issue

OF THE

taking

the

Efforts to regulate the oldest base caused grave complications in trade in the world" by taxation Nanchang. The authorities stated they intended to levy s tax on all brothels, inmates were to be regis tered and each visitor was to be taxed 89 First of all came diff culty due to the fact that the tax collectors attempt to collect from clared they were in no way liable. certain persons who vehemently de to pay such a levy. This introduc-Looking Back 25 Years. not to enter upon any new business ed a delicate factor which had not There is going the rounds" just. cliente. The latter has been done. and to return all large deposits to been anticipated. Licensed houses

at first made no outery against pay ther true or not; namely, that a now as story" which is curious whe- A skeleton staff is being maintain ment of money,

man who deserted from the Service ed, however. The Centrosojus is philosophical Chinese attitude that recently made himself up so 23 to which is responsible for tea ship- ahorn from the sheep's body," and the local police! Certainly there the Russian trading organization,

the sheep's wool is necessarily be unrecognizable and then joined ments. Chinese tea merchants are

that extortion of one sort or au- increasingly distressed

other was over the

inevitable. But real would not be much point in the with Bassia be the diplomatic mand that each house keep a list thing about it was that the very break off. No order has been re-

first charge he got from his Dalbank, and most of the staff has possible to continue with such a ceived for definite closure of the and business. Declaring it was im- superiors when he went on patrol. wah to arrest himself, the deserter, been allowed leave. The Harbin condition of publicity, the Nan- with a description of whom he was. Dalbank was seized by Chinese chang Brothel Keepers Association supplied Whether he took himself Authorities, and for a time it was declared a strike effective, August 1. into custody or not has not trans- feared that this world result in de- Any house which remains open pired-Hong Kong Daily Frets, finite closing down of the Shanghai must pay a $30 fine to the Associa Aug. 15, 1904. office. The Centrosojus handed over tion, and meanwhile no money goes | Looking Back 50 Years, uncompleted contracts to a British to anybody pending a settlement firm for fulfillment.

of the dispute.

| Directory and Chronicle tense grip on business relax. And with one or other of the many very damage being done the ten trade trouble came with the official de story if it ended here, but the funny

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In consequence of the increased importance of the work of the Mr. J. F. Macgregor, Director of British gunboate stationed in the Messrs Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., West River, China, it is decided Ltd, has arrived by the Empress that a Captain, B.N. is to be Russia for a lex days stay in senior officer of the flotilla, instead Hong Kong on his way to Malaya. of a Commander. On the expira tion of his two years, therefore, 00

on the Commander M. L. Clarke, D.S.O. completing two years és Burnames in strict alphabesa a matter of fact Government College at Greenwich, Captain. B.

stad of the Royal Naval War will be succeeded by Captain EE. Boddam-Whetham, D.S.Ö. The West tical order so that any name servants, business and professional H. Ramsay, M.V.O has been ap River gunboats are the Tarantuln can be found instantaneously.'|

and their womenfolk, who pointed Flag-Captain and Chief of (Senior Officer's ship), Cicala,

Staff form the bulk of their passengers,

on the China Station Moorten, Moth and Seamer. Capt. Boddam-Whetham has spent CLASSIFIED LIST.

regard the voyage home as by "no The engagement is announced be-a large part of his 28 years' servico means the least pleasant part of The Hazara Pioneers,

tween Captain A. D. P. Campbell, in China. Before the war he was

Indian IMPORT AND EXPORT their leave. So far from any great Army, and Nadia (Jim), only child in command of the destroyers a lieutenant of the Monmouth and

wish being expressed to hurry on, of Mr. and Mrs W. H. Murray- MERCHANTS

Jamus, Virago, and Kennett. people complained that the ships Campbell, formerly of Tientsin and During hostilities be commanded in

Petrograd.

the North Sea, was mentioned in called at too few places, and stay home des

dispatches, and afterwards appoint too short a time at each,

A marriage has been arranged ed D.B.O. for good service in action between Charles (Peter), only son against enemy destroyers off the of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Grity of Belgian coast. He was promoted St. Chads, Ealing, and Hong to commander at the end of 1020 Kong, and Evelyn, only child of after distinguished work in the the late Dr. E. E. Palgrave and Black Bea. He was the first com Mrs. Palgrave, of 70, Rodney-court, mander to qualify as an observer W9.

for duty with the Fleet Air Arm/ A course at the RAF Staff College, Andover, was followed by his ap- pointment to the Air Ministry Directorate of Organisations, and in January, 1993, be took command of the Witherington and a division of the Third Flotilla, with which he served in the Mediterranean and in", China,

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The "semi-naval discipline" of the P. & O. steamers was also comment ed upon in the same article. In the Royal Navy there is a very true saying that the smart ship is the happy ship." Those of us who have $8 bad the misfortune to make a After the investiture at St. James's Palace on July 6 the voyage in a slackly-run liner caa Prince of Wales conferred the de heartily endorse the Navy's view.coration of the Distinguished Ber- The informal atmosphere of a small vice Cross on Lieut. Commr

Frederick Holahan, R.N., for his ship is a different matter, but when

mccess against pirates in Bias Bay, a large number of people are herded Hong Kong,

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If Country Life."

A correspondent who signs him- self. Thirsty Last Night thinke the Surveyor-General ought to set

up a stall the Botanical Gardens "Country Life has long beeá. on, band nights to accommodate thei recognised as the paper with a public with drinks, the profit from special appeal the Englishman which would pay for the candles. living abroad, bringing before him, consumed in the illumination.. week by week, all that is best and There is nothing, to far as we can most enduring in the home life of see, to prevent the correspondent.

In the issue of July 6 himself from setting up the stall, England. will be found a most interesting outside the west gats in the Albany account of the International Horse Road (the most convenient place), Show at Olympia, with photo and taking all the profits and as graphs of many of the prize win- many drinks as he pleases, but wo ners and champions; the Lambourn do not expect to see the Surveyor- Stad in Berkshire, the future home General starting in the ice-cream of Felstead, who won the Derby and the ginger beer line. We notic in 1928, forms the subject of aned on the last band night in the other article, which will interest Gardens that the Inniskillings bad. all lovers of the horse. In an ac two buckets of water wherewith to. Count of The Bearded Tit, Mr. Ian wet their whistles The public who Thomson describes him as quite are so fond of these musical treats - the most attentive and hard-work-ought not to allow this. Standing ing bird I have ever studied and, in one place for two hours or more indeed, domestic felicity and the and blowing an instrument is hard care of the cock for his mate and work anywhere, very much so in family could hardly be better illus- Hong Kong, and water is not very trated than in the accompanying cold or very palataila- What was photographs. The Gardens of done for the 74th, and much appre- the Sea with its wonderful pic- ciated by the men, might be done, tures of plants on the ocean bed for the 27th a list was permitted will find many admirers. The histo lie at Mesars Lane, Crawford. tory of Alnwick Castle, the seat of and Co.'s to which the public were the Dukes of Northumberland, is invited to subscribe their names, continued and tells of the restora- the subscription being limited to tions by Salvin and Adam and the one dollar. By this means a sum improvement of the park by Cap was raised which supplied the band' ability Brown in the reign of the on Garden nights with aerated first Duke Mr. Godfrey Winn drinks all through the hot weather, contributes, an account of the first and well they deserved it if their week's play at Wimbledon and Ee deserts are to be measured by the grets for Buried Time" is the title pleasure they afforded the public st of Mr. Bernard Darwin's golfari Hong Kong Daily Preat, Aug. 14, ela.

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