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THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913.

The Coolle's Bargain. !

DAY BY DAY.

A TALE OF TWO

" TRAVELLERS.

The wide gulf between East and West was finaly exemplified

"Honour and shame from no | by a little incident in Des Voeux

Aot well your A Trip to Annam, and Cambodia Road the other day. The wheels condition rise.

as Told by Themselves.. of a track in charge of two coolies part; there all the honour lies.' tacame wedged in the tram lines,-Pope. Merchants.and their united efforts were in-

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the truck was clear of the line English Mail-Closes per s.s, and come money had been paid China at 11 s.m. to-morrow. to the helper who passed on his Australian Mail-Oloses per s.s. way. There is never say harm in a man knowing his own value (the harm comes when he gets a awollen head and seriously over- estimates it); but that one worker will not help another except for

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Sibe an Mail-Oloses por 8.8.

Linan at 5 p.m. tc morrow, A Common Occurrence.

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[The opinions expressed by our correspondents are not necessY. arily those of the “Hongkong :

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E BRANDY. consideration : 16me strange to fined $5, at the Polics Coart, this tored in thodern times a statue of thought that a big crypt, the and seeing that it showed a profit,

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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Westerner Trade unionism at Home has to take a 'back seat after this.

Remembering the Dead.

Five truck cooties were each morning, for causing an obstruc- tion on the tram lines.

Pagal Gymkhana. The second Pagal Gymhkanu takes place on the U.S.R.C. ground at Kowloon to-morrow afternoon.

Moonlight Picnic.

found here:

Chapter VIII.

Our guide took us into a small CORRESPONDENCE. tomple built over the impression of a gigantic foot sunk in the rock. This he told us, was the spot where Buddha's foot had rested and the impression had been miraculously preserved many (Continued from Yesterday, hundred years. On remarking sufficient to move it. They Siberian Mail.Despatched per

These towers are of a peculiar that the impression was different VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. therofore appealed to a pussing:

8.8. Assays at 5 p.m. yeater-shape having the appearance in size to others we had seen, he

To The Editor," Hongkong which said that Buddha could be any day.

acorns, cf gigantio coolie, and some talk ensued. Clearly he was not of a mind to American Mail.Despatched per shape na

Telegraph." was de-size he wished. This spot is

Dear Sir,➡The V. R. C, will be lend his services for nothing, anda. Siberia at 1.15 p.m. tc-signed to represent a lotus bud, named Phnom Bak Eng and con-

The outside of the towers are tains the Temple rains consisting holding another night fete next was bargaining for terms. In the day. end one of the cooliea in charge Siberian Mail-Arrived per se. formed of a series of open veran of staircases of 5 stages of very Saturday, the 19th instant, and a of the track nodded agreement, China this morning.

dahs, one above the other, get steep steps having on either side short time since a resolution was and the other lent a hand at the Siberian Mail, Dae per à.s, ting smaller as they rise in statues of lions in excellent pres passed by the General Committee height, the carved stone work of ervation. Boyond are turrets some to the effect that the entrance fees Chiyuen to-morrow. wheel. In a couple of seconds

these representing the unexpand-2x metres square 2 to each stairs to such fetes should be raised for ed petals of the lotus bad. Going and one at each corner, 12 to a non-members to $1 each and that up a few well worn steps under landing or 60 altogether. Nothing members should be charged 50 the central tower one arrives in a is left of the temple itself as it has cents, giving as their reason that room with four windows filled all fallen into a deep hole leaving the last night fate fetched too with double balustrade bare but a heap of rains with a small a profit, and that the income which no doubt was the Holy of hollow at the centre. What this of the Olab is insufficient to meet Holies where the statue of the immense hollow was has not its expenditure. The last night divinity was kept. When first on- so far been ascertained. It is fete was the first one this sesson great and not a loss, the Club should Siva in a broken condition was burial place of some

man, must have been constructed

be satisfied. The annual state- under the sanctuary. From the ment of accounts of the Club top of the debris there was shows yearly a very large profit magnificent view all round from in all branches and although the Remarks on the Construction. the mountains down to the great The stone used in the construc- lake, and here we watched the expenditure in large, yet there is always a fairly good balance. If tion of Angkor Vat is limestone, suneet over the rolling forest to

in'a poor pecuniary position and and laterite, the former being the west and thought what a dif- it is reported that the Club ig

mest cannot

their expense8, brought from the mountains of ferent sight it must have been in Koulen about 30 kilometres away, the days of Angkor's glory, when then all I 082 Attribut taken having been located, and was all in cultivation and teeming big leakage somewhere, and a was transported, probably on with a dense population.

financial committteo" should at (To be Continued To-morrow) rollers, to the river a distance of

once-be appointed to investigate its position. To charge members. of the Clus to witness sporting of 12 kilometres the route being

events seems entirely inconsis still traceable through the forest. floated down the river and much

tent with the rights of the mem- From thence to Angkor it was skill was displayed, in order to

here, and unreasonable. In the continus transportation during

V.R.O. the privilèges afforded to the dry season as evinced by the

two montba remains of dams to retain the This morning, in the Original member are very little more water. The river rans within about Court, tafore the Chief Justice, than those a non-member, Asa 300 metres of the ruins of Angkor. Sir W. Rese Davies, K.C., the rule one or

case was to have been continued before the Interport swim- The whole of the moulding,

contests commence Club's bath is gorowded hetter acquainted with the Eng- The Pacific Mail Company carving and facing, is constructed in which William Henry Gas-ming

non-members soldiers, tish language. In quite a num-announces with regret the resig-with this stone. The laterite kell, living at the Royal George the of Mr. F.J. Halton, obtainable locally was used for Hotel; aued J. F. Wright and with

T. W. Horaby, trading as Mesere sailors, and civilians all of whom ber of instances off to have ten nation made to restore the int riptions who was agent for the Company filling in and is nowhere seen on Wright and and Hornby of 6, are granted permission by the the surface. The builders were by re painting the letters; but here until quite recsutly." some of the results are positively to other Christian's Departuse.pparently unacquainted with the Des Voeux Road Central brokers, committee, and their request painful. The letters are jumbled! brother Obristian, formerly of arch as none are found in any of to recover the sum of $2,352.43 being granted solely because they Together anyhow, and though the S Joseph's College, lait for the Ankor monuments. The sys. and interest at the rate of 8 per are desirous of training for the inscriptions do not lack in bold-America by the Sibaria to-day, tema for roofing employed was to cent. per annum, being the Interport; and when the rowing neas, they are absolutely meaning- He was given a hearty read-off by step out the stone from each side balance said to be due to him season commences the Club's until it not in the middle, then from the defendany in respect of gymnasium is also crowded with Jess. Evidently Chinese have students of the College.

when the edges of the stepping 100 deposited with the defen- professional boxers who obtain been entrusted with the work.

We are informed that the total wore removed, the effect was dants, and of shares bought and permission to go there to train for output of the Kailan Mining Ad- similar to a pointed or Gothic sold by the defendants as plain their boata, Why the Olab should

tiff's brokers.

go out of their way to oblige out- ' The defendants, counter-claim- Riders it is difficult to conceive, The rejection by the House of Lords for a second time, of the A Contrast. Home Rule Bill is only what was to be expected, though the At the meeting of the Legis-ministration's mines for the weak arch. The towers were also con- majority does appear a little staggering. It is a battle royal be-lative Council yesterday His Ex. ending 5th July, amounted 36,-stracted on a similar plan, which ed for the sum of $408.79, alleged and if such a state of things. tween the two Houses on the question now; bat" the chief point of cellency the Governor took/031.88 tons and the sales during necessitated the mae of large stone to be due to them as shown on is allowed to go on and mem-

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It is most gratifying to know that the memory of the soldiers country in the early days of the Colony's history is to ba. kept green by a mural tablet which is

Members of the Olympic Lawn Tennis Club had a moonlight launch picnic on Wednesday,

happy time spent.

em, proportional. "Subscriptions to ky unveiled in the Cathedral Bathing was indulged in, and the quarries from which it was the whole country now a forest to is that there is a very

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More Plague. for any period less than one month will be charged as for on Sunday morning. For many

year the graves of these gallant

The plague epidemio has not The daily issue is delivered free when the address is accessible to men at Stanley were she kingly

"messenger. Peak subscribera can, have their copies delivered at neglected, but now they have all yet subsided, for yesterday five their residences without any extra charge. On copies sont by been renovated and, as far as more cases were notified (two post an additional $1.80 por quarter is charged for postage. possible, the original inscriptions fatal), bringing the year's total to

Oil to Manila. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of the world is $1.00 have beau preserved. We are 215.

glad to note, too, that many of

Anderson, Consul General per quarter. Single Copies, Daily, ten conts. Weekly, twenty-five conte (for the tombstones of military and

naval men in Happy Valley come U.S.A., is leaving Hoogkong to tery are also being given much-morrow, for Manila, in order to needed attention, though we attend the barquet of the Manila could wish that the work was en- Merchinte' Association. trusted to some-one who was

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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913:

PARLIAMENT ACT IN OPERATION.

the vote in the nature ofa grant,

Mr Halton Resigns.

Kailan Mines,

the period, to 48,555.77 tons.

A Coolie's Injuries.

drawn.

months.

on account of

Heavy Fine.

Mail Muddle.

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THE SHARE CASE.-

Settlement Reached on Counter-claim.

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Yours truly,

"what seems

to give a good effect, thus giving their accounts of the transactions bera are to be charged a fee the bold massive appearance interest in connection with the trial of strength lies in the fact that cossion to remove it provides the first example of a serious application of the Parlia to be some misapprehension out-

Mr F. O. Jenkin, instructed by such short-sighted policy in the A coolie at West Point, fell and which is everywhere noticeable, filed in their statement of defence. for witnessing fetes, I predict that mont Act. As we see the ustier, though, it is a one-sided contest, side of this honourable Council severely hurt his head whilst No cement or mortar of any kind Mr P. W. Goldring, of Messrs. management of the Club will

stocking four yesterday. He was was used. inasmuch as Home Rule, or any other measure piloted through with as to the nature of this vote" in

Goldring, Barlow and Morrell, have the effect of causing the the assistance of the Parliament Act, must automatically become regard to the resumption of lands taken to the Tung Wah Hospital The roofs of the corridors are appeared for the plaintiff, and retirement of a large number of law, provided, of course, the Government can hold on to office for a at Fanling for the accomodation and afterwards to the Government out into vertical rolls giving them Mr M. W. Slade, K.C., instructed members, as they would as non- the appearance of Chinese tiled by Mr Jackson, of Mesars John-members be able to use the Ulub, sufficiently long period of time. And this is precisely what the of the Golf Club. We ourselves Civil Hospital.

did not for a moment look upon Quarantine Restrictions. roofs. The buildings are infested present Government seems bent on doing.

The Colonial Secretary is in re-with innumerable, bats and inestone, Stokes and Maurer, app iar-with very little more expense than

ed for the defence.

if they were members, and haye? Prior to 1911, the House of Lords had the power to alter or but apparently some people did: ceipt of a message from Singapore odour from them is overpowering It will be remembered that practically the same advantages, reject any Bill sent up by the House of Commons, but that power His Excellency made out a good declaring Hongkong an infected and sickening. A great deal of yesterday it was intimated by at much less expense. was very materially restricted when the Parliament Act came into case for the Government and port on account of plague. The work has been done to this monu- plaintiff's counsel that he had foro. By its provisions the Upper Chamber has absolutely no showed that a progressive policy Quarantine restrictions estamont in the last year or two in advised his client not to proceed "AN AGGRIEVED MEMBER" power over a distinctly Money Bill, and in the case of other Bills its is being followed in railway lished voto is substantially modified. To ensure the passage into law of a matters. The Government has

supporting weak portions and ment was given for the defendants replacing fallen masonry, but if with coste, and the counter-claim AN EXPRESSION OF THANKS, Bill, all that the House of Commons now has to do is to pass it in been willing ouough to launch pox have, however, been with clearing away the forest, growths, with the claim, and on that, judg three successive sessions and saad it up to the Lords; if the latter out on this Fanling expenditure,

fands were forthcoming a great by the defendants was gone into. A Chinese revenue officer deal more might be done to pre- either rejects it, or anacceptably amends it, the Bill receives in the faith that revenue will be

After the adjournment last the Royal assent, provided that two years have elapsed be-esoured thereby; but, as regards caught a man leaving a Macao serve this relic of ancient civilis evening an attempt was made to To the Editor of the "Hongkong

with a considerable tween the second reading in the first of the three sessions and the the bathing places, it prefers to steamer

Telegraph." ation. It is understood that there settle the case, and we are im-

Sir,--I have been" approached/ final reading of the Bill. It will thus be seen that the Home Rule wait and see whether privato amount of opium in his possession is a colonial grant of £800 per formed that it has been esttled Bill is on a fair way to becoming the law of the land, despite the enterprise is successful before and he arrested him. At the Police

annum which is enough to sup by the defendants' withdrawing by a number of the most influen Distance affered by the Eouse of Lords. It was first read a second abiding by its own pledged Court, this morning, the man was port the Directeur and 25 coolies the counter-claim and giving antial and representative Chinese fined $500, or in dafault three only. It seems strange in view undertaking not to arrest Mr. in the Colony, and I shall be glad time by the House of Commons in May of last year; it has twice word. been passed by the Commons and twice rejected by the Lords. All

of the £5000 they spend per month Gaskell for costs unless some if you will allow me through the that is now required, if the Government really intende forcing the The Street Noises,

Complaints which we hear on The P. and 0.8.8 China arrived on the opera house at Saigon that material change takes place in medium of your columus, and at their request, to publicly express measure through, is that it be once more endorsed by the representa tive Chamber and be given final passage some time after May of every hand obligous, set once in port this morning and brought so little is provided to preserve the circumstant: 38.

the thanks of the Chiness Com the rains of Cambodia to posterity.

munity to the members of the next year. Thus will it be seen what a dangerous power is placed again, to return to the noisy con- along a Siberian mail. No noti in the hands of any Government with a big majority which is able lition of our streets at night and fication that she was carrying such long side of nearly all the

Police and Military forces, aut monuments Buddhist priests have to retain office for a couple of years. The most revolutionary in the early morning. The latest a mail was made by the postal erected matshed monasteries, and

of the Public Works Department, measures could be introduced, brought under the provisions of the of these complaints come from authorities. Is not the Post

especially to the Seamen of the sort for pilgrims. There, is one

U.S.S. Wilmington, for the Parliament Act and absolutely forced on to the Statue Book. It is persons staying at the Grand Office advised when a mail is the place has become a great re well to note, however, that the Parliament Act is, by the terms of its Hotel, who say that they cannot despatched from Shanghai ?

carious point which is worth

Bervices rendered by them in A Chinese who was disturbing rescuing the poor demente 1 being Another Oplum Divan. Preamble, only a temporary enactment; one which conveniently holds sleep after quite early morning

noticing,in several places rough the fields for the Radicals until the House of Lords is reformed. For because of the racket made by the

Eighteen Chinese were brought the Preamble reade; Whereas it is intended to substitute for the obair coolies in: Ice Honse Street. bfore Mir Hazeland, at the Police repairs to the building of the Vat the peace by running a printing from his living tomb at Shauki- have taken place, they have not machinenfter midnight was order-wan Road, Whitfield. We high- House of Lords as it at presont exists a Second Chamber constituted One might think that Hongkong Court, this morning, by Inspeo been done by skilled workmen as ed to abate the nniesnce, by Mrly appreciate, their aseelfish and on a popular instead of a hereditary basis, but such subalitution was rather proud of its re-tor McHardy, charged with being

this morning. His Worship aid this helpless person and wish to cannot be immediately brought into operation" be it enacted, etc. putation as the noisiest city concerned in an opium divan, the repairs are crude and the Hazeland, at the Police Court determined efforts on behalf of

80 The first defendant, who was also stones used have been picked up the machines should stop ranning | etc. Thus when the reform of the Upper Chamber takes place, there in the Far East,

in the vicinity are not the original WILS will be no use for the provisions of the Parliament Act as they little being done to promote any charged with "keeping,"

this case the complainants (who cord as to who the former pre- stand, though it is possible it will be amended so as to define the thing like reasonable quiet during fined $250, or in default thres ones displaced. There is no re- from sup-set to sun-ries, but in place our appreciation thereof on

the hours that elsewhere would 13 months, and the remainder wero

servers of the temple were! were represented by Mr. Shen- respective powers of the two Houses under the new conditions.

devoted to sleep. Those who fined $2 each.

ton, of Mesers. Deacon, Looker, Descon and Harston), were agres- The Government, it is interesting to note, has decided to launch. have it in their power to check Ellis Kadoorie Shanghai School. Speech day at Shanghai Filis its plans for House of Lords reform during the next session of this nuisance live, for the more Parliament. To save its own face it is high time it did so, for the, in the hallowed seclusion of Kadri Public Sphtal for Chapter IX. The Phnom Bak Eng. able for him to work the machine promise has been awaiting fulfilment for two years now. All of the Peak, and so, perbapa, 8 Ohiocce, which was held on July On leaving the Vat we returned until ten at night from six o'clock which would appear to go to show that the Ministry has purposely not aware of the amount of in- 11, was a huge success. The along the causeway in the dire in the morning. held back its reform proposals in order to allow of the Home Itale convenience which falls to the raport of the headmaster and the tion of the Bungalow, but turning

"The British steamer Santhis Bill being first, forced through under the Parhumont Act. For it is lot of thors who are obliged to speches, including one delivered to the right instead of the left TYPHOON WARNING a certainty that the Peers are not going to submit to Mr. Asquith's have their babitation on the lower by Dean, Walker, went to prove walked about at of a mile up

The following telegram was went ashore off Hooghly Point on reforming" operation without having something to say on the levole. Perhaps if some of them that since the sched was opened the road leading to the entrance matter. And it might well be the case that the upshot will even could be arenaded for a few last year it had done goid work to Angkor Tom. Here we entered received by the American Con- June 25 while proceeding to Cal. tually be a General Election on this question, As all parties in the nights by beggars, squalling wo-lunder Mr. R. G. Dowie and his forest path leading to a moand slate General, Hongkong from units. The vessel,

*** *** bound from Java with state are agreed that some kind of reform is necessary, the people menandohildren, coolies, Chineseable staff. The programme which thickly overgrown. On arriving the Mila Observatory at 10.30 5,192 tons gross register, will thus have the opportunity of expressing their preferences. The instrumentalists and bell ringing was submitted to the large audi- at the top we found we were in a am. to-day- Liberals have cunningly played their cards, but we trust the electors dustmen, they might be perenadedence, both foreigners and Ohinese, clearing where the Buddhist Cyclone or typhoon, 'over or sugar and a few

Bouson had a settlement near Mejaposima, moving alter things somewhat, was a lengthy one. I see through their pretty sohemings.

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PRINTING AT NIGHT.

Chinese Ordered to Abate a "Nuisance.

record.

Yours faithfully.

UN KAM 180; Chairman of Tang Wah Hos

67, Connaught Road Central Hongkong, 17th July, 1913. pital Committee.

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