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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1913.

NATIONAL SPEECH.

Not by any means for the first time, a movement is in progress at Home for establishing a universal method of English pronuncia- tion; but, up to the present, there scoms but little agreement as to what the standard adhered to shall be. To decide this appears to us so hopeless a task that it might well be left alone. With a dead. language, as well as with a few modern ques, it is possible to draw up arbitrary xulos which can quite easily be adhered to. The Italic pronunciation of Latin is a good instance; the learner has but to commit to memory a few facts (eg. that is always ah, or thatg is hard before «, and « and soft bstore and i) and the thing is done. With English this is at present an impossibility and thoes who love the languago of Shakespeare fervently hope that the im- possibility will continue. Our language, in its many emi-dialects as it stands to-day, is itself a history of a people; and the day that it is successfully standardited, half that history will be smothered. It is not uncommon to hear thoughtless people bewail- ing the fact that the Englishman, the Irishman and the Scot speak

accent and, to some little extent, its own vocabulary. But these grumblers forget that much the same thing existe in other countries, We at least have not the patois difficulty as it is seen in France or Germany, where the variations between certain local tongues sro distinct as English' and Daich.

as

Railway Matters,

DAY BY DAY.

1913

WEDNESDAY

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

"THE WONDER-WORKER"

Malini's Mystifying Performance at the Peak.`

We have before in this column roforted to the objectionable practice on the part of the milway "All calm inquiry conducted administration of shunting evil-among those who have their main smelling fish-tracks on to the principles of judgment in comi terminus at Kowloon in cloro mon, leads, if not to an approx proximity to the Ferry wharf, imation of views, yet, at least, to On one occasion we suggested an increase of sympathy."-Dr. the possibility of the trucks be- Arnold, ing ran off at one of the sidings further-up the line, and as a

This

done for quite

The Malls.

s.e.

se.

The New Premises Declared Open.

THE "CONTRACT "

"Plenty of Talking but No Action."

We stated on June 14 that, owing to their old premises being ance in Hongkong, given at the morning, before Mr Justice Malini's first public perform- In the Summary Court, this too small and inconvenient to Peak Hotel last night, was a Kemp, Puise Judge, the Kwong meet the demands of constantly weirdly fascinating experience to Cheong Leong Firm sued the increasing basiness, the members all who patronised it. Every Chan Man Po to recover the sum result of this suggestion the rail- English Mail.Arrived per it necessary to make arrangements for an hour the famous magician to have been paid by them on of the Stock Exchange had fonud javailable seat was occupied, and $525,02 being the amount alleged way authorities subsequently

China at 1 pm, 10-day. informed us that the point would Siberian Mail.-Due per dious building. The stook brokas flad as he brought of trick after Yik Co. ae guarantors for that for moving into a more commo- had his audios absolutely baf February 27, 1913, to the Chuen bomet by shunting the

Linan to-day:

entred upon their new offices triok, each more mysterious than amount, for and on behalf of the tracks at Blackhead's Poiut. Australian Mail.-Despatched per this morning when, at an informs! its predecessor, with a felicity and defendant.

6.8. Kumsno Mara at noon gathering of leading business definose which clearly justified Canadian, American and Sibarian

today

men, these were declared open. his title of "wonder-worker." for the plaintiff and Mr J. H. Mr R. C. Faithfull appeared The new Exchange is situsted The performance, too, was made Gardiner for the defendant. Mails-Despatched per s.s

in Des Voeux Road Central, be all the more enjoyable by Malioi's tween Messrs Komor's and the unconventional

Mr Gardiner having at his Empresa of Japan at noon King Edward Hotel, and will be close quartora at which he worked

methods, the case forward asked for permission to-day.

found to be conveniently central with the audience, his jolly bauter

to put in a certain receipt. Passengers.

for business men whore and bis fund of well-told stories Mr Faithful objected, and His Praya, which he sandwiched in between Lordship held that if Mr Gardiner or in his clever fests.

wanted to put the document in, The bigger proportion of Mali-he would have to have an ad- ni's wonderful tricks were done journment.

a time, but for some reason or other the old practice has again been reverted to cf late, mual to the disconfort of those acostom. ed to use the ferry.

A Dangerous Practice.

While

be

of

on

ו'

on railway matters, might wo suggest that thero Mr. S. Komor, of the firm of offices Gra on the a little more supervision Koinor and Komor, and Mr. E. in Des Voux Road Chinese who assemble Kato, the Japanese artist, left Queen's Road." The place is the station. to see yesterday by the s.. Sado Maru. neatly fitted and decorated, au friends off? This morning we Charge of Wounding. beare a generally up-to-date ap with cards, and to say that they Mr Faithfall;-If there is an noticed a woman standing on the A Obiness boy charged at the pearance.

were setoundingly olover ie no adjournment I think that it permanent way, between the Police Court this morning with

In a briefspeech Mr N.J. Stabb, overstatement of the truth. He ought to be on terms. coaches and the railings enclosing wounding another on the hand Chief Manager of the Hongkong would force a member of the au- it, as the 7.15 train was stesaing with a knife, at West Point, was sad Shanghai Bank, proposed the dience to take whatever card he knows all the circumstances as Mr. Gardinery friend out. She was only some ivo or remanded. ·

toast of "Success to the Institu- willed from a well-shuflied pack, wall as I do, three foot away from the moving

tuon; this was fittingly responded name in rotation ten cards peeped carriages. Such a thing would

His Lordship-With the ex not be permitted at Home for a moment, and it certainly should

not be hore.

A Question of Procedure.

Promoted.

RUBI'S STEWARDESS.

Lieutenant N. E. Archdale R. o by Mr Frank Smyth, of Mes.rs at by as many people, trans- ception of putting these docu- N., Commander of H.M S. Rosario Vernon and Smyth, who remarked form" a single card until four meste in, your oase is closed? and the submarine fl tilla, Hong has done ite test to promote the one from the pack would em-to calling sa official from the that the Brokers' Association people who had ench withdrawn kong, has been promoted to Com

Mr Gardiner Yes, subject mander to date June 30, 1913.

weltare of the Colony's business phatically declare that it was An interesting point was mised Air Gun Firing.

in the past, and that it would con- their's; and so on ad infinitum. treasury, doring the hearing of the bank- Before Mr. Hazeland, at the

tinue to do so.

His masterpiece with the carde, His Lordship aaked if he had, note impression case last week, Police Court, this morning, a

however, was to allow been subpoeaned and on Mr when the Attorney General sub-Chinese was charged with firing

ten mambers of the Gardiner replying that he had, mitted that it should be mide an air-gun to the common danger

audience, while he was doubly asked if the solicitor konw why known how far the practica-an of the public at Causeway Bay. Fined 1000 Pesos for Smuggling oard, look at it, return it to the replied that he did not.

blindfolded, to each withdraw a he had not attended. Mr. Gardiner unusual one, be termed of

Bitten by a Dog. moving in arrest of judgment was, to be carried. According to the Hotel, was ordered to pay $5, was a tearful visitor in the coart table, faces upward, he would, on we can get on with the other side. Mr Nicoll, of the Imperial ardess of the steamship Rubi, spread out haphazard on a small be merely formal evidence and Cecilia Horloy, the pretty stew-pack, whereupon, the cards being His Lordship:-Well, that will

quite a common ono in the llong-Hizeland, at the Police Court, toer, and beard the decision read in rotation with the point of a oase" stand now? Chief Justice, the practice is compensation to a Chineso, by presided over by Judge Lobingi, their being named, pick up each kong Courts; none the less, we day on account of his dog biting by that official which sentenced penknife.

Mr Faithful:- How does the

consider whether think it would be advisable to the complainant.

Some of his other it is one

her to pay a fine of P.1,000 trioke were no lese marvellons, esse is finished, with the excep His Lordship-Mr. Gardiner's which bost facilitates the ad-

Savage Assault, for the illegal importation of a especially that in which he makes tion of his calling a clerk from the ministration of justice. At Home assaulted another at Hok Un, valued at more than P4,500, says and then produce one from the to prove the receipt.

Four Chinese who savagely package of Macao lottery sickets two borrowed notes disappear stamp office and another wilness the customary procedure, where were brought before Mr. Haze the "Manila Times" of Friday inside of a lemon and the other the evidence, is for the defending morning. there is a point of law raised on land, at the Pulico Court, this last.

Mr Faitofall: What abunt from the inside of an egg. councel to address the Judge be- was sent to guol without the Mr Charles A. Tenney, the woman appreciated, and an opportunity

The first defendant Accompanied by her attorney,

costs? Malini must be seen to be fully fore the jury retires to consider option of a fine for one month and visited the court room shortly is presented to morrow night, its verdict; and, if the point is a the remainder were fined $10 or after nine o'clock. cordingly diseat the jury to re- the defendants were bound over. while he did not consider it pro- good ono His Lordship would ac-in default fourteen days.

The judge what he gives another perform- All explained in the decision, Jance, at the City Hall. turn a verdict of "Not guilty." flere in Hongkong we seen to

Very Drunk.

bable that the accused had been

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does not arise.

His Lordship: The question

Lordship, said that the cast arose Mr Faithfoll addressing bia

over a proposal to start a new business.. That, however, had simply been talked about. It was very simple to take up a casa like the defendant's but it seemed to This morning in the Summary him that the essentials of the con- tract were altogether wanting and

put the cart before the horse, and Craigieburn Hotel behaved in a was a fact that she was evidently

A Chinese employed at the alone in the enterprise, that it THE ROULETTE

CASE

jury to spend two or three hours on first class compartment of the herself, and that according to the Court, before the Puisae Judge, it would be quit possible for a most disgraceful manner in the shielding others more guilty than

NIPPON CURIOS,

"

His Lordship found for the plaintiff on the facts, uut on the new point of law raised by Mr. Mason he reserved judgment,

BAD MONEY.

The park keeper said he caught the defendant red-handed and produced leaves bearing indecent charactere.

an important case, rotura, a Peak tramway. He was so drunk law it was bis duty to impose a Mr Justice Kemp, the case was in order to be binding the con- verdict of "Guilty," and then that the condustor refused him considerable fine. three distinct tongues, or that each separate county has its own effect because of the successful to the car as it was going. He many Manilans, having been stewyde of the Exile Garage, brought should certainly have been sign-

have all their labours made of no admission, but he scrambled on subsequent raising of a point of commenced to sing in the dar and ardess of the same ship for more master of the se. Derwent, parties had sufficient gumption to Mrs. Horley is well known to resumed in which Frank Harry tract between the two parties

law by the defence.

an action against J. Jenkins, ed by both sides. None of the As we see vomited all over the compartment, than four years, and is very pop it, the Home practice works far A Chinese detective was behind alar. Ou the last trip of the recover $1,000, alleged to be suggest that a receipt should be better than Hongkong's and its him and eventually kept him Rabi, customs officials were noti- defendant. Mr R.FO. Master, supposed to be paid and he sug adoption here might very well be quiet for a time. He again befied by one of the Hongkong of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and gested that the whole thing was money lent by the plaintiff to the given for the money which was considered.

came disorderly and was taken to secret agents that the stewardesa Master, appeared for the plaintiff, a farce from beginning to end. Ever since the Education Bill of 1870 tenchere in the elemen-

Rod-sparing and Child-Spoiling the station. tary schools at Hours have been striving to kill dialect by offering with police and magistracy affairs was charged before Mr Melbourne, As she left the steamer she was defendant.

A reader, who is conversant embrace the officer on duty. He ber of the forbidden tickets. Wilkinson and Grist, for the

There he tried to had in her possession a num and Mr F. O. Mason, of Messrs The case was adjourned. in its stead an attempt at uniform speech, which is painfully allied informs us that the rattanning of at the Police Court, this morning, taken in obarge by detectives, to Cockney. We own that we prefer the more musical provincial-small thieves, quatchers and by acting Inspector Garrod, and and escorted to the custom house. point to his Lordship, that isms which the School Board is besa striving to destroy. loafers, a administered at the and was fined $8

Mr Mason submitted a further INDECENT CHARACTERS Sa do the children themselves, by all accounts, for one deter these youths from farther

Mrs Mobley, chief statistician, was roulette by the Gambling Aot of Dismissed with merely a Caution. police court, seems insufficient to

called in to search the suspected 1741 was declared to be an constantly sees complaints in the Press from elementary offences.It is no uncommon thing, school teachers that, the moment their boys and girls got into the he says, for the "executioner" to

stewardess, and her corset was illegal game. He therefore con- found to have R liging of playground, the painfully "correct" pronunciation of the class- find on a boy, whom he is about Question of Valuation Prevents and fifty more were found in her with illegality and plaintiff could Police Court this morning, with

tended that 100 P10 tickets. Thres hundrad

any transactiona A Chinese youth was charged Foom disappeare, and the speakers fall back on the language which to deal with, the marks of a

connected therewith were tainted before Mr Melbourne, at the they hear in the home circle. Our objection to there melancholy previous-i.e. a quite recent

Immediate Delivery,

room on the ship, and she was not succeed on his claim. attempts at uniformity of speech is not by any means entirely a flogging. Is it that the artist

making, indecent characters in- sentimental one.

Those of our readers who have made even the does

What will be done with the placed under P.2000 bonds.

Chinese on the Lower Terrace of not know his smallest serious attempt to study their own language are perfectly (Twenty or

work? eight cases of curios consigned to

the Botanic Gardens...... well aware that often, the purest English exists in provincialisms could have given him the ad-solved by Messrs Erlanger 80 years ago we the Swedish Crown Prince and

DOGS HOME, and sometimes even in what is apparently slang. Every county in dresses of one or two form-mes and Galinger from the stranded England-and well-nigh every one in Scotland--has certain words, ters who e uld have supplied him steamer Nippion? asks the few or many, either peculiar to it or else obsolete save to the fow with finishing lensons.) It seems

Court Order to be Applied for. Manila Times. The new spirit would banish these, albeit they are to be found, by that one boy recently did all the bo released or will they be Will they those who search diligently, in Churer, in the early Tudor writers, howling that could be expected of sold

We learn that the new com- at public in Spenser, in Shakespeare, in the Cranmer version of the Palms, him while the punishment was in satisfy the claims of the salvors ? as our readers are aware is now man to the station who had tried

auction to mittee of the Dogs Home-which and in the 1611 translation of the Bible. One would have thought progress, but, as soon as it was These are the questions which being carried on by the Govern- to pass a bad twenty cent piece that what was good enough for theas could be tolerated even by our finished, turned with tearless sad those concerned are asking them montare applying for an order at a shop in Haiphong Road, and disgusting characters drawn own advanced and superior generation.

When we look a little more closely into the matter, we realise and asked coolly, "Where's my satisfactory anawer,

smiling face to the niministrator selves without arriving at any from the Court to empower them Kowloon, he found the man had that this desire to make arbitrary laws as to pronunciation and cap ?" In such instances we would

to take over the balance left in another bad coin. Pursuant to cabled instructions the hands of the old committee. accentuation is not so much for our own good ns for the convenience recommend the birch. Untor from Sweden a number of formal Ae this balance is truet money ing, an expert said the coins were At the Police Court, this morn of the foreigner, the Colonial, and the indigenous peoplef of countries pately, however, we are told that requests have been made by the the trustees are, of course, unable very good imitations. ruled by Britain. And here we are bound to admit the necessity the biroh is only awarded in Swedish consol, Count Birger Mor- to hand it over to the present for some approach to definite rule-a necessity that is nowhere cases where detention accompan-ner, and Captain Eggert for the committee unless such order is gaol for one month and ordered Mr. Hazeland sent the man to botter exemplified than in Hongkong itself. In this Colony, at the Tes the sentence; so the only way release of the qurios but without made, present moment, three or four dialects of Chinese are being common:

him four hours stooker ly apoken, together with Portuguess and sundry Indian tongue, wielder to hit harder.

of the difficulty would avail.

It was stated that there had Beem to be for the apart from languages or dialects like Filipine, Malay eto, which are

It appears that the salvors aro

been several attempts of late to the every-day speech of small minorities. The children of persons

not willing to accept the invoiced Those people who are fearful pass bad money, who use these tongues are rapidly being taught English of sorts, The Charges against a Solicitor order to facilitate the release of a theory just put forward by Dr. value as cabled by the Swedish of the possibility of being buried either at school or by casual acquaintances; and year by year the

consul in Shanghai. However, in alive will hardly be reagenred by

Old Church Flagons. number of English-speaking Asiatics within the Colony mast cos- John Newton, solicitor, and Berkinger have agreed to submit the him, it is possible to mistake regard to the opening of Pakow, tion, to apply for a faculty for The charges against Edward the property Erlanger and Gal- Stenson Hooker. According to "Central China Critic) that, with has decided, not without opposi tinue to increase enormously. For these, sooner or later, it would ley Bernard. Bennet, that they question of value to the castoms the effects

We are informed (says the Fast Horsley (Surrey) Vestry. seem that the local education authority will be obliged to fix on set conspired to defraud one Hais aathorities, by whom the curios for death and a best wave mitted an estimate of about 810-monwealth flagons which have rules, if the word "English"

of heat stroke the Director, Mr. Chian, has sub- the sale of the two silver Com hitherto, one has been learning from teachers who speak what, by tences and misappropriated £300 afternoon last, examination was danger of being buried while does not include the expense for parish church since 1649. The is to mean anything at all; for, Thoresh of £25,000 by false pre will be assessed. On Thursday would therefore increase the 000,000, which amount, however, been in the possession of thie unwritten law, has come to be regarded as the tongue of the edu of a fide of £500 paid by Hey made of the curios by the ap-still living. Such a stroke, it the purchase of lands. The vessels, which are the only speci- cated classes at Home; another hae ad Irishman, another a Scot, Mackoy in connection with a gan praisers division in the presence appears, not only causes intenei-Ministry of Finance cannot raise mens in the country, have been another an American or in the care of boys educated at the bling raid, were heard in London of all concerned, and the finding bility, but also stops the heart such a large amount and propose valued at £750, and are kept in Catholic mission sol cols-every variety of Continental, for a teacher on May 27. The case against of the custime zaminers will be action for a time, and this latter that a public loan of $20,000,000 of English the ultimate outcome of all of which hardly seems to Newton in respect to the £300, announced upon the return of the condition can of course, waily be should be raised for the opening, owing to the risk of their being call for explanation or comment.

charge was dismissed.

of safely in London, a place collegtor of customs from Masbate, mistaken for death.

of this new treaty pork,

out

catc-

A Heat Wave Danger.

When Sergeant Wille took, a

Purchase of Land,

...His Worship discharged the defendant with'a caution. partment asked for a rehearing. Mr Green, of the Forestry De He mentioned sumerous indecent on the seats and even on plante. The matter had been commented His Excellency the Govehor and upon in the "Morning Fost." the Hon. Captain Buperintendent matter and this action arose out of Police had complained about the of the complaints, ques

The previous conclusion of hik Worship was maintained and defendant was discharged.