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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAYJUMARCH 24|| 19137.

A Bad Sign.

We are afraid that more than passing significance is to be at-

DAY BY DAY.

We need knowledge more

tached to the attempted assassina-than wisdom. tion at Nanking of the former Minister of Education, announced

The Malls.

erclusively in Saturday's "Tele Siberian Mail.-Despatched per

TENNIS COURT. PROBLEMS.

Some Observations on Orazs Lawns y, Hard Courts.

A POSITIVE REV

HEATION

Australian Expert's Praise

the Dairy Farm,

position to outside opinion, ten- nis is one of the finest cold was ther games one can take up. "On the chillient day a few brisk rollies at lawn-tennis-will warmn up suyone, Hongkong will sure- ly wish good luck its this all-the- Mr. J. B. Donkin, a member of To the lawn tennis enthusiast year-round tennis movement. For the Australian Advisory Board on it is one of the advantages of liv-where is the player who, having the Meat and Abattoir question,

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band the difficult question of

moreover, on the eve of an event

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8. Chenan at midnight on Saturday.'

French Mail-Arrived per

Ernest Simon this afternoon. Siberian Mail-Closca per s.8. Ernest Simon at 4 pm. to

morrow.

A Nippy Morning. The thermometer at the Peak registered 45 this morning.

ing of October is looked upon in of four months out of the twelve? of food a the tennis world as something in the nature of a tragedy. Courts

and the racquet in ENGINEERING NOTES. пр are closed reluctantly put away in its press not to be taken out again until

May or June. Even in Shanghai Englhe and Turbine Bearings. and other Northern settlements winter is, the close season

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at the disposal of the Colony. To "** Telograph " representative Mr. Donkin aid he was greatly interested in the development of the supply of foodstuffs to Australia and the | East:500

evolving enew Constitutionandis, French MilCloses per se.ing in Hongkong that he can in- once tasted the delights of tennie who is touring the Bist du buri. Nera at 11 a.m. to-morrow. dolge in the game from January throughout the whole cycle of the remand pleasure, has spent to December practically without calendar, would on going Home about fortnight in Hongkong of outstanding importance the American Mail.-Closes per 8.8. intenission, At Home the com- be content with mere season inspecting certain of the sources election of a President, and it

Mongolia at noon to-morrow. will be observed from a special

(The aa. Nile, to depart on cable appearing to-day, that the

the 31st., arrives in San plot under nole had its basis in

"Francisco prior to the Mon- resentment at the attitude of the

golín.) ex-Minister in connection with these matters. When the Manchu dynasty was tottering to its 'fall, bora bing incidents were not ancommon, witness the fate of two successive Tartar Generals in Canton in 1911. But the then unsettled state of the country, and the bitter anti-Manchu feeling which prevailed, were sufficient explanation of incidente like these, terribly repagnant though they were. No such oir camstances can be quoted in ex- tenuation of this latest attempt on a prominent statesman of the new Republic. It will be a sorry development if party feeling un- length of the willal taking of life. If the Chinese Republio is be what its well-wishers desire it should be, then anarchism ་་ a must be nipped in the bad,

Detailing the amount of Austra« for In a paper before the Rugbylian meat that was being seat to the

the tennis-man. But there is Engineering Soolety Mr. J. C, K. Orient, Mr. Donkin remar sed that ma

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Flower Stealers. Two flower stealers were fined $7. each or in default fourteen days, by Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Court, this morning.

never an advantage without its Baliry dealt with the subject of the Queensland Meat Expor corresponding disadvantage, and high-speed bearings, particularly supplied the United States in Hongkong there is the problem turbine bearings. The steam Government in Mahile, with over of the proper upkeep of courts turbine presented a new bearing six million puude of beef last The German Mail of the 19th always to be faced by Club problem to engineers. The con- year. This was deposite in cold February was delivered in Lon-officiala, It is in the long dry stancy of its loading and the storage in Manila and he was season that the care of the lawns usually high anrface and rots informed that that method of don on March 20.

becomes most acute; then is the tional speeds of the journal were storage was so exosilent that time when it goes hard with the quite unconsidered in the logic not a single quarter was condemn Club which has not a ready and and experience by which the sd. Turning to Hongkong's cold ample supply of water to keep ordinary steam engine bearing storage, Mr Donkin said ibat he the turf in good green condition had been designed. The con was very much strack with it. 1 There is, of course, always the stancy of the loading, both as to was of a very larga capacity and ho alternative of laying down hard amount and direction, made it of was informed that the 5.5: Cleve courts, and here we come into vital importance to select the cor- land was supplied, while last in contact with the much-debated rect place, or one of the reason- port, with five tons of poultry, dad

In Hongkong itself he looke the oil. It does not do, for

awith astonishment on what abe instance, to feed oil to Is the Lawn Doomed? question of the relative merits of able places, for the admission of three tons of game deta

Hard courts in Hongkong are turbine bearing within the civil population had done, in con- of considerable pres nection with securing a whyte private residences, but there sure. In a reciprocating engine some food supply for the city. "The sale is to take place at mostly to be found attached to area the PW. D. offices on 7th Aprilre not a few Clubs in the Colony bearing, on the other hand, the The Dairy Farm was a positivo

Water-logged Sampan.

The Danish steamer Tranque bar, which arrived in port on Saturday, reports having sighted Channel, a water-logged sampan, on Thursday, in the Formosa

having no oconpants.

Land Sale.

the two kinds of courts,

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1918.

WORKHOUSE

REFORM.

"Westward Hot"

Оде

leavé via America, to-morrow for croquet and afternoon tes.Ially laid out along lines of size of the builcetc.

New Ordinances.'

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The Easter holidays have not their residences without any extra charge. On ecpies sent by been graced by the best of post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.

a week ago has, happily, been lots, on the ridge east of Happy

mentation of the grass lawns. It stroke it probably will on the establishment was a synonym for be recognised that the in the air this morning the $1,802 and the upset price is a sign of the times, too, that in other, although the action may cleanliness, and when it came absent. There was a distinct bite Valley. The total annual rent is cement, not wholly, but in eapple cannot find admission on the one were milled there daily, and he

the care of a newly-organised club not be perfectly efficient. This to Tramway Station registered 45-

A Largo Passenger: List.

here it is contemplated laying raises the question of oil grooves. food given to the animals li thermometer at the Upper Peak $27,000, bat better a brisk, if cold holiday

The 6.s. Mongolis leaves port down three hard courts and Most engine and turbine builders to be sterilised first, it wou'l than one humid and oppressive. to-morrow with an expectionally

of grass. And the sole still out oil grooves in their fear- be understood, he maintained, Like most holidays in Hongkong, large passenger list, over 250 reason is to avoid the continuousingsand occasionally in their shaft what a large task the Dairy Farm Easter has passed very quietly name being a the list. These worry and expense of keeping journals. Oil grooves require to be bad before it. Besides the cattle, La the nature of nature of things, include the Dutch Miuister to turf in fit condition. If we turn carefully designed, or they may three thousand chickens and 7irj "It is one of the best put up. that is inevitable. Except, for a Siam, and the Right Reverend to tennis at Home, the movement do more harm than good, for an pigs were also fed. trip to Canton and Macao there Fallows.

in favour of hard courts will be oil groove is not only a way in for is little to do during a holiday, Dr. Marriot Leaving. found to be making surprising the oil, it is also a way out. They fights against nature that 1 laye and the man who has made these

Dr. Marriott, who has been headway. Some players even are of most service where the come across," said Mr. Donkine trips several times is no longer staying in Manila, and who re- declare that the English tennis pressure alternates or where, Although Mr. Donkin foun.l attracted by them. Quite a number turned by the Rubi leaves by lawn is doomed. Grass is now being constant, the positions of things in Hongkong which grest of Canton residents spent the the sa. Mongolia, for Home on held to bequitable practically only the grooves have been very care ly surprised him, including the week-end in the Colony, and, il things seemed a bit slow to He had intended to journey to Players want aand, or concrete, comparative absence of pressure he did not care

so that they may and with such slope and direction, women working in theatre (6 Hongkong residents, no doubt. Yokoliams by the Nile and join or asphalt they wore an air of liveliness for the Mongolia there, but, as the play in wet weather and in aided by wall bevelled edges, as He pointed out that women were dwellers on the Shamisse. Con- Nile does not call at Manils this winter as well as summer. Lawn to facilitate the drag of the oil to be seen daily carrying loads of roads, to the Peak If the trast is everything, in a matter of trip, his plans had to be altered. tennis is said to be dying. Sand into the pressure portions: by the 40 bricks at a time up the strep this kind, but all the same Hong-

One of the fixed canons of bricks were up to standard, enth kong is, mightily slow pinos Alleged Unlawful Possession, tennis is hailed as the coming rotation-of the shaft.

At the Police Court, this morn-game. It will surprise many to during a holiday season.

ing, before, Mr. F. A. Hezeland know, in this connection, that ordinary steam engine bearing load was one of 300 lbs, and M The workhouse system in England has in its day been subject-

four men were charged with hundreds of hard courts are now design in that there is a certain Dunkin could not but be úr. ed to most searching criticism, but thore can be no denying the

being in unlawful possession of a being put down in England every intensity of pressure, varying prised that they were allowed 10 Another trite observation was statoment that, with all its faults, it has accomplished much good According to the Home papers, large quantity of pearl orna year. One Company stone, so it with the nature of the bearing, do such work in innumerable cases where help to the deserving pauper bs been the Catholics of Glossop are re-ments, valued at about $1,500, is reported, is building 100 courts which should not be exceeded.

on a similar seldom recognised. There is, on are going to get it from, bu, L.

the other hand, a canon that the think you ought to get a lin concerned. Prior to the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act fusing to pay their education rates at West Point. As the owner of a year, and there are several other In turbine design that canon is 'I don't know where you pressure multiplied by the velo pensation from observing the close on 70 years agɔ, the greater number of workhouses-and there until Knigsley's Westward Ho the property has not been found, Companies

Pros and Cons, books used in the local schools was granted. Mr. J H. Gardiner We in Hongkong is scarcely city should not exceed a certain fourth commandment as regar was then one in every parish-were little other than nurseries of is withdrawn from the list of a remand until Thursday Dext scales

marvel that there should be this constant, but during recent years the stranger within thy gat idleness, ignorance and vice. Since those days, however, the pror Westward Ho!" is one of the defended. law authorities have instituted wholesale and very far-reaching adest adventure stories ever

His Majesty the King has not new development at Home. the value of the constant has He was referring to the amulni

The flaky English sam- steadily risen so that the rule of Sunday labour, that was ju reforms, and it is generally conceded that the workbouse of to-day written; a book in which any is a better managed and better disciplined institution than ever it British boy would naturally revel; been advised to exercise his power

but we should have thought that of disallowance with respect to:mer, and the dull, drab, wat ceases to have any logical basis, formed in this portion.

HIS EXCELLENCY'3. was, while much good has been accomplished by a discriminating it ought scarcely to find place as An Ordinance to provide panish-days of winter constitute a sufi- although providing a useful em- Christian Empire,.2

VIGILANCE. classification of the various types of inmates-the vagrant, the idle, a school book. The historical ment for certain persons found oient explanation. Moreover, no piric way of checking bearing novel, if it is to be of use from an guilty of adultery or of harbour-matter how much labour is spent proportions when the value of educative point of view must, ing Ohinese Married Women; and in endeavouring to get turf in its the so-called constant is knowa At the present time, however, there is a new ficter at work before all things, be accurate an Ordinance for effecting the best condition, the result is a for the particular conditions. which must surely have a not inconsiderable influence on the work-on all vital points. Unfortunate final revision of the Ordinances of surface which is spoilt, The full discussion of these houses of the future. Largely in consequence of the legislation of ly, despite its many merits, we the Colony from 1844 to 1012 far as play is concerned, problems is too big a matter for being in anlawful poseersion ecent years, there bas manifested itasli a tendency for the better know of no historical story, by inclusive before incorporating by a shower of rain, and a short note, but the follow-Howers, was fined $7

shine. When we come to weigh their parts. Steam engine bear-land at the Police Court, We have been informer clase paupers to leave these institutions. The granting of Old Age any recognised writer, that so them in the New Revised Edition nearly killed by a month of sun-ing considerations have played fourteen days, by Me

up the relative merits of hardings were first designed and rules morning,

His Excellency drea "Westward Ho!" Kingaley's "

and soft courte, there is much of design established before the Pensions very naturally drew away large numbers of workhouse deliberately trifles with facts as of the Laws of the Colony, nimates who would rather live in the humblest of homes than religious prejudices amounted to Mr. J. C. Gough, acting su that might be said for days of forced or other continuous oke out an existence as." poor-house paupers", with all the stigma manis, and we think that parents

A he that attaches to the name. Now we read that the better class of can scarcely be blamed for refus perintendent of the Great North both. Some players and there lubrication supply Frequently was walking along Hous slok people are also leaving the workhouses, and the view has been ing to allow their children to be on Telegraph Co., informs us are plenty of them in Hongkong the oil in the beating became verterday along with Cay

cables are temporarily interrupt asphalt. There is also the oppo such conditions the rate of heat- expressed by a Local Government Board Official that in a few years taught auch narrow-minded bal-that both Shanghai and Nagasaki would not look at cement or deficient in quantity and under then to noti

derdash as he chose to palm of ed. Ttacable sipimerie, however, a school who would scorn ing ng was increased and the risk had evidently been stole time we shall only find in these institutions an aggregation of on the world as "history."

on the place of inter-ruption grass. At its pampered best of serious metal contact between Excellency had the man afres e

LOCAL SPORT undesirable characters. This brings us to the point that there is,

and restoration may be expected nothing can beat the restful carpet the shaft and the bearing con- side by side with this tendency, a movement rapidly spreading for

anytime. Trallic to id from of well-kept green turf. But the eilerable. Such contact WAS Japan ciroulstes via Formosa ard court is far and away tupe-clearly largely influenced by the Football ShieldsBenti-Final,

In the semi-final: the removal of pauper children from the uncongenial surroundings

subject to considerable delay, or ior to the poor-conditioned, worn squeezing out of bearing pressure, of the workhouse and their transference to cottage homes specially

Yesterday the Easter Servicce may be forwarded via Kischts-out lawn. Above everything, it is and this latter had, therefore, to be provided for them by the Guardians of the Poor. It is a wice step in St. John's Cathedral were well wladivostock st $1.85 per word. Goudly true, and for las man who kept within certain limits. With onion, which was

Saturday nfternoon,M one which will commend itself to everybody who has a spark of attended, from the celebration

New Appointments, likes the hard, fast game, nothing continuous lubrication, such as ob petition, which was playo

the thy for these little ones who, through no fault of their own, of Holy Communion in the morn-

His Excellency the Governor is better. On the whole, hawtainein almost all turbine bearings,

lost to the have become a charge on the rates, Pablic opinion is, indeed, ing, up to evensong. The interior

DOLE of the church was choicely de- has made the following acting ever, so for as local conditions are this danger of squeezing out and Happy Valle of the new arrangement,

arated with ferns, palms and Appointments during the abscace concerned, the grass lawn, best resultant overheating dus to s 6f the future are to be what is predicte white flowers. In the morning on leave of Mr. Justice Crompertz meets the circumstances and onghi deficiency in the oil supp shy and the vicious-it obviously Smart's "Te deum" in F was or until further notice: Mr. never to be absolutely ousted practically cesses, and the pres the unfortunate children who at present find sung, also the anthem Author Joseph Horaford Kemp, Crown from popularity. It is more sure or squeezing-out limitation of Life Divine" by F. Adlam Solicitor, to be Paisne Judge; troublesome to keep in order, vanishes with it for all reasonable becomes a problem has recently been pointed out The music in the evening inclad Air, Paul Mary Hodgson, Assistant true; but is far less tiresome to pressure. The lubrication of the Poor Law Unions at Home, even supposing ed Stainer's Maguihost and Crown Solicitor, to be Crown the player in the hot, scorching bearing in a workddage are kept apart from the rest of the Nuno Dimittis" in E flat Solicitor; Mr. George Albart days of summer than any of the in hydraulics and heat The ional: atmosphere is the exact opposite to that Handels I know that my RA Woodcock, First Clerk, Magie-hard carfaces. And most of our heat generated is now a fun

Solicitor: Mr. Robert Hormus weather. and the ordinary life which the juveniles will have to deemer liveth and Elgar' trasy, to be Assistant Crown tennis here is played in warm of the viscos

To deum which was sung at

Kotewall tole Firat Clerk,

Winter Tennis. R. H. Kotowall

We may

the sick and the indigent.

strong

EASTER SERVIES.

Cable Interruption."

the world afterwards. For theee and the end of the service Be an act

dation must be given to the scheme of special thanksgiving porter is also to

quarters for the pauper In the morning the Bishop of ible to preserve something of Victoria was the preacher, and in Peace for so long as he shall hold should be started the evening the Rev. V.H.C. the office of Brat plerk in the

| Koyle, chaplain to the cathedral Magistracy,

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