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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913.

The Altrincham Election.

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DAY BY DAY.

The idle msn does not know a licking in good part, or to own what it is to enjoy rest, for he that his opponent could possibly had not earned it. gain a victory on the merits of

The Mall.

his case. The Opposition has just American Mail.-Despatched per increased its poll at Altrincham

upon,

er in the North West, than in any other part of England. An- other opinion is that the increase

a. Nile at noon to-day.

French Mail.-Despatched per ..so Magellan at 1 p.m. to-day.

morrow.

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No Courts.

BLAKE PIER.

The Récord of a Day's Visits to the Loafer's Haunt,

{SPECIAL ARTSOL}

on eschi

STANDING

they were disinfected for a week, A SLIGHT MISUNDER- then soaked in ammonia for an- other week, then burned, and new ones provided, one might| sit down then. You are a quaint

people."

It is not good to be laughed at in this fashion; yet we, are being

onv

one.

..

Another Sample of Hongkong

English.

A few weeks ago we printed a

The

Much has been written concern- ing Blake Pier in the press laughed at by visitors to the Colletter received by an advertiser in want of English lessons, from a by a very substantial number of

far as the writar bae seen, no during the past six months, but, Meantime the gentleman gentleman who was an alumnus. Per Case. Per Bottle voles; consequently the Radicala

with the up-to-date

auit of Queen's College and held sa are ready with any number of Siterion Mail-Cloros per the Pier more than once on spy bad the temerity to enter into the English thereof was a little startl

one has taken the trouble to visit had been listening, and he Oxford Lcoale certificate. explanations, each of which they Arcadia at 5 p.m. to-morrow. particular day, to take careful are riding to death, One section Australian Mail-Oleace par 8.8. note of the number of Chinese conversation.

|ing, but, through the assistance' "We have as good a right here of one of our readers, we are now has it that the Protestantismof the Nikko Marát 11 .D. to haunting the seats North was offended by the Home

visit, and to indicate what you" he said, in good Eng- able to cap even that.

lieb. Perbups he had, but when Our correspondent advertised, Rule Bill; an explanation wilder Eagliab Mail.Dae fer es, manner or mannera of people the other man wheeled round on last week, for bachelor quarters

Arcadia to-morrow. than any it could have hit

these aro who by day pad him he decided that he had not, in Kowloon; and the following is Siberian Mail.

Dac per s.8. night and in all seasons, mon- seeing that Catholicism is strong-

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opolise the seats on the Pier. Then he promptly cleared off an exact copy of one of the letters Hongkong Chinese for Borneo.

other day the writer paid three which shows that it is possible to which he received in reply.

"Respectal Sir-Hearing that 224 Chinees, wont down from visits to the Pier and counted secure, a seat if you really want

there is a vacancy of an furnished- Hongkong to Borac on the s.s. the number of Chinese who were At 5 30 the numbers were:- room boy in your family. Now I of three thousand in the electorate, Mouring, arriving at Sandakan sitting or standing about on such Top seats 26, lower seate 29; fortunely take the Chance, to visit. More, he chatted with in responsible; another that the on May 13th

about standing

38 : to 40, offer myself for a post as formely strangers who were about, secur- Unionist candidate declined to Owing to-day being a general ing got stated interviews with Some of thors then present were said. I am a young man; aged fight on the question of Tarif holiday, neither of the magistra people whose names count, but amongst the number one saw in Nineteen unmary. Formely I Reform; and so on. Why cannot tas sat at the Police Court this talking freely with strangers the forenoon. Had they eat there had been studded English for four all the time? There was alyears in the Yaumati Govern- these people who are so ready to morning.

ter but whose opinions, since falling off in the evening; only ment College, and had past the let explain away an enemy's triumph

my School- We have been informed that a they were strangers, are worth 22 on the top coats and 10 on the class.. I say out-right what they must farewell dinner is to be given to attention. It is good for us at others. Thees 19 included an leesone end of last year, for know to be the fact: that England Mr. P. Thomas, of the Messageries time, to see corsells as ithers Englishman and Englishwoman I found out that my parents who, greatly daring, had come are difficult to supply me in Hongkong Telegraph" will is by no means pleased with maritimes, by many of his friends, see us."

there to rest ani chat. Leaning Moasra. Asquith, George and to-night.

against the raile at the top end "Hoping that you will pay me Y.M.C.A. Camp. It has been decided to start

thirtesna little attention of begging you the pier were At eleven o'clock in the fore-

"Should this application would the Y.M.C.A. camp on Saturday noon there were sitting on the Chinese and two Europeans. this favour. July the 5th. If all goes well it two. ate at the far end of the Ontbree visits, therefore, one saw will be kept open till the end of Pier, twenty-nine. Chinese,

two Europeans able to find room meet your favourable considera September.

fourteen on

on the goats. Is it any wonder tion. I shall be much pleased to One Bide and fifteen on the other. Langkat Output.

the that strangers laugh at us and hear from you in reply shortly; On the

scoff at us? But that hurts less and assuring that if appointed, Wright andHornby that they have Chiness, fourteen on each. Taree white children tired to death and spared to give you utmost satis other two seats were twenty-eight than the thought that one saw no effect on my part will be

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BIRTH.

Churchill and their methods?

a

Cubism.

The Times" aske. "Is Cubiem discovery or a disease?" and we are surprised that it should waste its space by asking e silly a ques tion. Hongkong readers who have taken the trouble to look for "the point" in some of the Cubist reproductions that have found their way out here in magazines, the new "art" is even worse than will probably agree with us that

Farewell Dinner.

We are informed by Mesers

whose names do not mal-

received a telegram from Shang- of hai advising then that the Lang. kat output for May was 10,558 tons while that for April was 12,201 toos.

.: The Sitters.

of

school.

because loafers had first to be were unable to find a place to rest faction.

I

left

these twenty eight young women. Moving about on

"Trusting that I may have the the pier were over thirty Obinese,

honour to bs Sir Your most probably waiting their tuin on the

served.

Why not double the number obediently Servant, seats, and a big number of chil-

In fairness to those in charge of dren. What struck one about the of seats and roserve one half for sented Obinese was that most of Europeans and the other half for the school at which he claims to We hear from Sandakan. Bri- them here young. With resting Chinese; and then enfores the have been taught English wa Doctors nowadays have learned tiah North Borneo, that the Obina age one has a little sympathy, regulations and make all happy?. will, upon request, give the how to beal most of the ille that Porneo Company, in which so provided that sympathy is not trouble our poor bodies and minds, many Hongkong people are in- unduly taxed. With indolent

a disease; for it is perversion- and for that there is no cure.

Another China Borneo Có. Lighter.

ILBERT. On May 28, 1913, at Shanghai, to the wife of O. L. but we never heard of one who ferested, launched another boat youth one has no sympathy what- CORRESPONDENCE

Ilbert, a daughter,

DEATH.

WHEELOCK. On May 25, 1913, Edith H. Wheelock, wife Thos. R. Wheelock, late of Shanghai, at Boston, Mass., T.S.A.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour,

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913.

THE

KING.

The Wells-Carpentier Fight.

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(The opinions expressed by our

correspondents are not necess- arily those of the “Hongkong Telegraph"]

A POSTAL BRAIN-WAVE.

name of the scholarly applicant. If he proves to be an er pupil of that school, we can only hope that the "first class means the lowest; if he be not, the school authorities may bove the free use of our columns in which to deny his statement.. In either case it is time that the youth learned the difference be tween a house-boy and a furnished

room.

DALLAS COMEDY COMPANY.

would undertake to eradicate at that port on May 8. The new ever. It wants to be coffed into thorough-going perversion, once craft, a timber lighter, is 198 feet activity. Some of the rested ones. it had a clutch of the mental or long and has a holding capacity seamed qui's respectable, others of physical constitution. To psych- of 380 tona, The christening were indifferent tidy, and at least ologists and brain-specialists ceremony was performed by Miss half of them were sorely in need of the new patent should, however, Ears French who named the a rousing wash. One stood out not be without interest, for is it vessel the "Cupnan."

by himself as quite a dude. He not the expression of that new

The Holiday.

wore the latest in suits, double spirit which is the outcome of The city was very quiet this collar, etiff cuffs showing, bull- religious, moral and political morning after the spectators of noced beats with rubber heals. anarchy; a mad, foul spirit that the parade had returned for break- He wore his clothes awkwardly, To the Editor of the "Hongkong

Telegraph." gripped France after the First fast, and remained en until about but he made the most of the rub- Revolution, and has since spread noon, when many launch parties ber heale, and displayed them al- Sir,--The feat of the Post Office over half of Europe and of the left Blake and Murray Piers. The ta nately, with pride. Of this people dispatching our usual United States? But that anyone ships in harbour had flage bois ad gentleman more in a minute, French mail by the German boat eles of healthy mind will ever and many of the hotels and

(if one may so express it!) is most In spite of a poor house, the A Lady's Views. have time to waste on enquiring business housea displayed the

commendable and our thanks Dallas Company played well and into it, we will never believe. Union Jack. The ɔldiers' Club There stood near the writer a should not go unrecorded. I spiritedly last night in three short Cubism is nasty; like ita in- was decorated in honour of the lady with two children, one of gather they are dce to the protobes. In a very funny duc. ventors and supporters.

occasion, and the day is being which she held in her atms. She home 158tal authorities and what logue," A Sister to Assist Er" spent in quist festivity. In the was clearly tired, and so were the one cannot understand is why in Mr Robert Ashby, an East End great crowd of children, but there was no room the name of common esnes it has monthly nurse, offered a decided The great fight between Car- people made for Happy Valley to for them on the easts. She may not been done before in all thess improvement on Sairey Gamp, by To-day is the birthday of our King-Emperor, and the suo in its

Are not our own Post impersonating a lady as to whose witness the BO.C. sports, whilst have guessed what was 26:ng years. pentier and Wells is now over, the tennis curts and the golf through the writer's mind, for Office magnates much to blame existence profane doubts had been course during this third of June will shire on many peoples in many and the Inter has received a tennis cit sides of the Har she formed to Fim and esid, in not looking after our interests expressed. Geoffrey Guise as Mrs climes who fervently breathe a prayer for the well-being of King nasty set-back by being knocked bout were well patronised. George V. There is no more popular monarch living than Britain's out in the fourth round, despite

"Is there no place where a woman King, and this is the more notable when we remember that, three the fact that bis opponent was

can sit down while she is waiting years ago, when he came to the throne he was hardly known to his giving him fully a store. The

for a launch? What are these people. By disposition both he and Queen Mary preferred the contrast in the styles of the two

SERIOUS ACCIDENT

seats for? Dirty loafers?" simple life of country landowners to the pomp and stats of a court. men could scarcely be greater, and

"It has been hinted," said I, Children Injured near Murray The present King had not, like bis father, had a long training in the no doubt the speed of the French-

Barracks.

"that they were provided by a social duties attaching to the thione before he mounted it, and, save:

man with bis well-timed and A serious accident which does paternal government for tired to a comparatively small number of intimates, he was an unknown direct punches, told their tale not speak any too well of the con- Chinese, Co many of them love figure when he was crowned King. His subjects recognised, more-

against our Knight of the dition of the fencing to the nullah to sit and watch the water that it ever, that the new monarch bad to face a dificult taak in following Ring. The heavy punches of which runs by Murray Baracks was felt necessary to provide a in the footsteps of one of the wisest and certainly the most tactful King who ever reigned in Britsin; and it is no secret that, in many unfolded a serious tale. had as the result of

Wells would doubtless have took place yesterday evening, comfortable resting place."

"Well, I wish that pateraal

Manila papers to hand give no

The best item was George Par quarters, half-formed fears were felt.

to Captain ston's "Fead the Bruto," & sordid, they landed,.. but the Will Young girl is in the Victoria government bad so drag at out two further details as These fears have long sincs and for ever been dissipated, the Wisp Frenchmen ap double fracture of an

Hospital Buffering from

children on a hot day and se3 Outerbridge's illness than those almost ghastly scene, in which these people croupying the seats published in yesterday's "Tele- the thres play players, Mr and graph." The "Cablanows Ameri-Mrs Dallas and Misa May Hallatt, The sufferer is little Miss Ste- that its children want badly."

What could one say beyond ad- can" of May 28 merely states the contrived to give a brilliantly

following

tine pioture of East End life, "Captain Outerbridge, master Mrs Dallas was less perfect in of the steamehip Tean, who has her dialect than the other bean sailing the China Sea on the two artists, but her manner "Why doesn't your go-

think of white Hongkong-Manila run for years, throughout was very sweet and of wasaken sick at Iloilo on his womanlyand lifelike, MissHallatt

which

B

arm

The Tired Child.

properly?

Your ete., B. B. Hongkong, June 3rd, 1913.

ILLNESS OF CAPTAIN

OUTERBRIDGE.

Ponsonby Ogg played up to his partner generously and worthily, and the result was a succession of good, hearty laughs. In "The Peacemaker" Mrs Dallas, Miss Hallett and Mesers Bonfield, Ashby and Guics all had parts that suited them admirably, and both the playlet and the playing were bright and natural through- out.

Whatever his private inclinations, the King sot himself from the parently not only took great outset to continue -more, to expand the good work of the late King care of that, but, in leaving sham ward, daughter of Sergt. Steward Edward. His recent visit to Berlin-the first ever paid by a British openings, baited the Englishman monarch-is a notable instance of bie unerring instinct for doing in the knock-out trap. Inasmuch of the Royal Garrison Artillery.mitting that it was true? the right thing at the right moment. We read that he moved about as Carpentier had expressed the It appears that she and her sister the German capital freely and openly, and was immensely popular. hope in that case of defeat the wese cut walk og up the road No doubt the Germans liked him because they found him a frank and Englishman would fix up another alongside the nullah which is to unassuming man as well as great monarch. Just how much good will fight in the falcess of time, we the east of Murray Barracks, when ernment result from this visit it is impossible to ray. Abroad, a tremendous hope the courtesy looked for in both of them stopped to look at people and keep half respect has always been felt for the British monarchy; that respect the one case will now be extend the water running down the these seats clear for them?" last trip and had to lay over at had but a short part, but into it

is ingrained and ineradicable; and it has been immensely deepened ed in the other.

by the shrewd sense of our present monarch and his father. The

in succession.

..

not

that port. Captain Wake arrived she contrived to convey all the from Hongkong to-day on the horrors to be expected of the steamship Longsang to take the typlosl London alattern “and Tean to Hongkong,

termagant; while Mr Dallas him self, as a cookney labourer who is a better hand at eating, talking and wife-bullying than at hard kong already knows him to be work, showed himself what Hong-

thorough artist.

Many Parts.

a

nullah. Both of them leaned

That is what people have against the fence and without any asked for a long time, and bad British Empire has been most fortunate in having two such Kings Future Hopes.

warning a whole section of the no answer."

"Then. they bava top rail gave way and both of Particulars of the fight are not them were precipitated into the asked loudly enough or often But, when all is said and done, the feature of the King's life yet to hand, but it would be a stream. The elder sustained a enough." Mayta there is come which is most worthy of notice is the simplicity which runs through great pity if victory should prev- double fractore of the arm and thing in that. When one sees a it. It manifests itself particularly in his home life, wherein he sets ont two great men meeting again. while the younger one at first did white child shifting its weight The Marquess of Hertford, a magnificent example to his people. In his view the strength of No doubt the recent experiences not appear to be so seriously in- from foot to foot as a tired child whose engagement to Mrs. Moss- the empire rests upon a pure and stable family life, consolidated by of Wolle have not been bone-jured, she became unconscious on always deer, one wants to ask cockle is recorded, only succeeded religious influences. In this respect he sets a pattern to his people ficial to him, as the effects of reaching her home. The elder very loudly indeed.

his father last year, and is better which is a matter of pride to them. He had not been long on the a stiff fight take time sister was conveyed to the Vie One spoke also to an American known to the public as the Earl tirone before the "Court Circular" was expanded to include all his to eradicato, depending greatly tolia Hospital.

gentleman who was humorously of Yarmouth. He is a remarkably Bast No Longer East- doings daily and ceased to be the baldent of chronicles. That was upon the physical condition of Mra. Smith, wife of master-tailor sarcastic alout the crowd on the versatile man, having been in The Chinese Parliament is a wise move. It leaves no room for valgar prying or malicious the man at the time. It is to be Smith of the D. O. L. I.'s, was, eo sento.

tura a solider, journalist, author, already slipping easily into Wes- gossip. The King is fortunate in having a Concart who is never hoped, however, that Wells will we are informed, walking along Kindly, people, you English," notor, caricaturist, sheep farmer, tera methods. We read there happier than when she is with her family; essentially a domesticated again return to his form of the the road with her children and he esid, If you must provide poultry farmer, dogbreeder, mine was serious uproar in the Peking woman whose life forms a striking example to the women of the past, and that once more repre- three or four others, when the two seats for these people why not agent, and skirt dancer. His first House of Representatives. The Empire. This matter was worth dwelling upon for a moment, for sentatives of England and France children lagged behind. They provide free lunches as well? Do wife was Miss Alice Thaw, sister on Empire which has a Court-life so pure and simple to take for an will be seen in the friendly com- were standing on some rails at the white people ever got a look at of Harry Thaw, whose case is still The five restent phily meet- exemplar is singularly fortunate, if only it have wisdom enough to bat which sportsmen on both time, and when she turned round theas sate. He did not wait before the Amerions courte. Mrs copy the example set, Aud en, heartily and in all sincerity, as sides of the Channel so heartily to call them to hurry, they had for a reply Who wants to sit Moseccokle in the widow of a late inga, mid Me A. W. Brackett at British subjects always say it- God save the King,

[ oppreciate,⠀⠀

fallen into the nullah, Bu down on them now anyway? It Commissioner for Queensland, alates Agonia Lusillute,

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