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THE HONGKONG . TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 12. 1919.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A GREAT LOSS.
DAY BY DAY.
NECESSITY KNOWS NO LAWS, AND ITS THE SAME WITH EXTRAVAGANCE,
Yesterday's health return shows three cases of plague (two fatal) and three of cerebrospinal fever (one fatal. All were Chinese.
1894.
HONGKONG TWENTY-
FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong Telegraph" files for week ending April 21, 1894)
THE DOLLAR,"
The world is much the poorer by reason of the death of Sir William Crooks, which Was reported in a cable to hand yesterday. Ia A life which artended far beyond three score rears and ten-he was close an ainety-he made very valuable
The RM.S. "Monteagle" left contributions to science through his discoveries and inventions, Shanghai on Friday, 11th April,
April 16. The rate of the He was also a great authority and is due at Moji on Sunday. Dollar, on demand, w-day is on sanitary questions and an April 13th. expert on electricity. Among his many original discoveries in The Eastern Extension Tele- the realm of chemistry and graph Company announces that physics was that of the metal the route to America via the thallium, whilst it is known that Commercial Pacific Cable is in- be was the inventor of the
terrapte.l radiometer and of Crooks* Tubes. But apart from material matters he was deeply intereated in
have evolved froin
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., following year was made Pre-
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
28. 1-1/Sd.
CABLE INTERRUPTIONS.
Talegraph April 16. The Companies notify the temporary interruption of the Hongkong Haiphong cabla. Messages, how- ever, may be forwarded via Jose Maira "d'Almada [He]Saigoo.
HONGKONG MEMORIALS: TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
SUGGESTIONS OF TWENTY- TWO YEARS AGO,
with interest:--
The Paris correspondent of the Referee at the time tha Seine foods swirled about the Farisian countryside, made
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lu view of the numerous sug- tour to see the effect of the in- gestions, now being made with undations. Close to Paisay, it regard to Hongkong's War seams, there was a big encamp- Memorial, the following list of went for, Hun prisoners then proposals made at the time or one huge lake and it gave him Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee much gratification to see how in 1897 will no doubt be rest carefully the local afficiala removed them to a drier area 1. A. Coxon-Oil Painting before the poor sufferers got. of H. M. the Qusan to be hang their dear little feet wet. in the City Hall.
poilu who stood by him (and 2. Board of Management of very good support, too) grunted Sailors' Home--Addition of aand made his asual contribution storey to the Sailors' Home to be to the swiftly flowing river, "Ah! called the Queen's Storer, at a ces salas Boches," he said. "Lis cost of about $15,000,
ten me," commented the corres. psychic phenomena, which he medios was this morning charged REVENUE FROM WATER.
rmly believed to be correlated to before Mr. Lindsell with sesant-
April 17-Question for the
3. J. McKie and Others:-pondent, being in a reckless physical phenomena. He held the ing an Indian constable in Pedder next Council meeting-Will the That proprietors of the City Hall mood, "Permit me of you to make theory, too, that all the elements Street, whiles in the execution of Government lay on the table a should be asked to present it to remark that a Boche is always
a Boche. But, surely," with all one his duty. The case was remand-statement showing the amount of the community and the com- this water around them there is primodial stuff, "protyle." heed until Tuesday next.
Tytam water sold annually to munity undertake to put a new was knighted in 1897 and in the
refineries, steamship companies,
and enlarge City Hall on the no longer any reason why they should remain dirty!" "Allez, Shewan
Tomes and Co., water boats and private launch,
site. sident of the British Association,
foolish one," he replied, "they Insurance owners, and also produce returns
1. Revd. G. R. Vallings:--
have been washing, in our river, An honour which he thoroughly gents, Tangise deserved. His researches have Association Ltd., bave received a setting forth the amount received Erection of an institute for the use and that's why the water's so opened up many new avenues of cable from their Head Office, from each of these sources of of soldiers and naval seaman.
thick and muddy!" thought and energy; he leaves Shanghai, intimating the declar-revenue?
5. J. P. Cottam Erection of behind him a name that willation of a dividend of $21.00
a massive Stone Fier or landing always stand out prominently in per share and the addition of
April 17-Yesterday after stage, with pavilions, seats, $250,000 to the Reserve Fund, the world of science.
noon, Mr. H. E Wodehonse, gardens, etc. ST. GEORGE'S DAY.
the Fire 6. FH. MayErection of a It is satisfactory to notice that We understand that out of the Superintendent of the local St. George's Society sum obtained as damages in his command at considerable in connection with the Civil however is the extraordinary
Brigade, addressed the men under Women's and Children's Hospital intends observing the Day of recent slander action, Mr. E. All communications intended for publication should be address-England's Patron Saint in
length on the important subject | Hospital. James has given 100 towards a
English in common use. Eng- ed to the Editor.
appropriate manner, though the
new hospital at Marseilles for as to how they should set in the
7. F. A. Cooper: Complelish it may be but it is not King's programme originally arranged has now been modified. The sailor. This is one of the fands event of fire breaking out on the tion of the Statue of H. M. the English. In India a postage stamp for official correspondence resolve to abandon the idea of
pper levels of the city and in Queen. the suburbs, during the prevailing 3. R. K. Leigh:-Comple- becomes a service label"; The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is street collection is a wise one.
scarcity of water. From what wetion of the statue of H. M. the sn
appendix' becomes an $36 per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
for. now that the war is over.
A Chinese who had been sent can gather, the Superintendent's Queen and a new Clock Tower. annexure";
sccordance The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscript is doubtful whether such an
suggestions were of a very prac- 9. Rev. A. Ili and Others: with "" becomes "agrees bly to." tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a enterprise would be very fruitfall to prison last year for larcenytical and common-sense nature-Purchase of enlarged premises The
of results." It is not that was this morning released and
"recruitment of men the public would not respond to then re-arrested by te Police on and, in view of a probably ancual The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee | any reasonable call made on its a charge of returning from a 10 recurrence of the abnormally dre to replace the present Seamen's and the "encashment" of postal
purses, but the fact remains that years banishment term, dir. R. times and the utter inadequacy there is now little justification Lindsell sentenced him to of our water supply, might well for the raising of funds in this
be printed for distribution among the Brigade. particular way, and the response nine months' hard labour. secured would most likely be in
time and trouble
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRİL 12, 1919.
BRITISH TEXTILE MISSION TO FAR EAST.
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officers and men of the Services on England's "Day." The Society is to be commeaded for what it is doing in this regard. TELEPHONE. TROUBLES.
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THE WATER SUPPLY.
AN EAST JOB.
this important post seem to be light enough to be chucked over from hand to hand in five minutes.
FIRE APPLIANCES.
CATTLE EPIDEMIC.
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A correspondent of an up- country Indian paper writes that "an Englishman's arrival in In- dia is attended by a series of shocks. Not the smallest shock
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must
Coffee House.
orders make the newcomer 10. J. C. Thomsen :-Endow- shudder, but the last straw to his meat of a College of Medicine for cup of bitterne (rou
swallow that, Sir, it is quite Chinese.
Indian) comes in the cse of 11. Tam Ho—1. Industrial
Creation of aed from Simla to "entertain
entertainment.” One is instruct- Indina clerk. Why they never ne the correct word
cannot understand. But there
engage
are many things I cannot under- stand in India."
the
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The story of what was perhaps, famous Belgian airman, 13. M. J. D. Stephens-Free Coppens,' most daring exploit is 1 new one. Starting out from Library and Hall, on the lines of
Free Libraries recentlying early in last year, he flew Dixmude at daybreak one morn- established in England.
direct to Brussels, and there 14. A Woman-Hospital for planed down until he was almost Women and Nurses. Training touching the roof of his own home. The noise of his
and
the north of Kowloon frontier,
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April 18-Hr A. J. Leach, Museum. 2. involved charged with having 6 taels of
event non-Government opium was this Q. C.. arrived to-day, from Foo-Cosmopolitan Club and erection no morning fined $900, or, in de-chow by the Haitan and takes over of a Club House to be called Tue Jubilee Club," open to all. would fault, four months' hard labour. the Attorney Generalship from
12. Henry be extremely popular all round,She stated that the opium, which Mr. W. M. Goodman, who left by
Humphreys-1. but, unhappily, St. George's Dayss secreted in the false bottom the Oxus at noon. The duties of Public School at the Peak for comes within a season when it is of a box, came from Anna.
European Boys and Girls 2. A rather too warm to really enjoy a
new Clock Tower on the Reclam function of that order. We feel sure, however, that there is a Following as armed robbery
ation. 3. Improvement to the statue of H. 3. the Queen. wide feeling amongst members which took place at 1.45 am, où of the Society in favour of a Thursday 31 Tytam Tuk, ball being held later in the Chinese was arrested as he was April 20-We understand year. which, President going from Stanley on the road that the Government floating fire the
the intimates, is very likely to take to Shaukiwan. A chopper was engine will be fitted with a new place. It is a thoughtful act, and found concealed on his person. boiler as soon as the approaching! one which will be deeply appre- Suspicions were entertained that rainy season sets in. It is said ciated, to decide on entertaining this man Was one of the that the authorities have made no Institute.
ho committed the arrangements for the purchase of 15. Chesney Duncan-That engine as he had expected,
they could another floating engine to replace in view of the fact that we are brought his mother robbery "but as not be established, an alternative this indispensable adjunct to our solely dependent on
Chinese father out on the balcony to see charge of being in possession of fire extinguishing apparatus, not-market gardeners for supplies of what was happening, and their As telephone operators are, offensive weapons was brought withstanding the undoubted use, vegetables, and as it is reasonable feelings may be imagined when after all, only human, it is not to by Sergt. Tullock against the in certain emergencies, two float-to assume that many cases of they clearly recognised their son, be wondered at that occasionally Chinese at the Magistracy to-day. ing engines would be in a colony enteric fever in the Colony are whom they had not previously little causes for complaint on the A previous conviction for the divided into two parts by a wide attributable to the patients eating seen since the outbreak of war. part of the public should arise. same offence was proved against roadstead and extending along vegetables which have been infect The young airman waved his We fear. however, that there is the prisoner. The (+267 the shores of the Harbour for a ed by typhus excreta, owing to the greetings and he then turned often a tendency to blame the
proceeding.
distance of fully three miles. Chinese mode of irrigation and westward again, and, completing operators for faults which are not
forcing, and in view, too, of the
A fight of 150 miles theirs. The article which we pub A novel announcement is that made by Sir Arthur Steel Mait-lished yesterday gave some idea of
The children of the Naval April 21-With reference to fact that there is plenty of land country in enemy cccupation, land to trade journalists as Home that a mission is or the eve of the difficulties under which the establishments are at present hard an article on the recent cattle available for the purpose near reached his aerodrome unharmed. coming to the Far East in connection with the textile trads. The system in Hongkong is worked at work preparing for a perforto epidemicappearing in yesterday's the Colony in Chinese territory to composition of the Textile Mission is not known, but the fact that No fewer than 40,000 calls a day auce of the: favourite of children's Telegraph, Mr. it will include two or three representatives of Labour is another sign are dealt with, and this on ap pantomime, Alladin and His writes to assure us that the cows if we are to have a permanent General Townshend knows the of the times that Labour is being recognised as an important factor. paratus which, by reason of war Wonderful Lamp.'
that memorial People are not wanting who forecast that the ext Parliament will conditions, is fully loaded and pro iuction is under the charge of and Farming Company, of which
The work of belonging to the East Point Dairy beneficial be a Labour one. Labour is more and masserting itself and which is therefore susceptible to Mrs. Neighbour. There will be he is manager, has been absolutely residents,
2 large market and the one where no doubt the many are the schemes that are being propounded for its ameliora- even such a thing as a change in six scenes and all the latest treas from disease, all having beer garden, "under European super meeting of the representatives of tion Better wages, lesser hours of work, a system of co-partnership climatic conditions and good- with Capital by means of profit-sharing. and better housing are ness knows. we have had
topical innoculated before being brought vision might prove au acceptable the Allies and of Russia is intend- Also suggesteded to be held, that he spent most things that are being freely ventilated in the English Press.
The enough changes of this order No expense is being spared in our statement relative to the 3 extension of Pedder's Wharf of the time while he was in the
to the Colony. He also confitins and useful one. Mission that is coining out to the Far East is apparently a mission of late. In the circumstances of British piece-goods people who are coming out to study the prevailing, we think the Tele- the way of scenery, dresses and transfer to the mainlsad of cons to the north and east, made suffi- hauds of the Turks. His captors serious question of Japanese competition in cheaper grades. know that during the war Japanese piece-goods manufacturers a very necessary public service a very fine one.
We phone Company's staff performs such like to make the production belongingtto Chinese dairies, but ciently wide and strong to serve treated him with signal honour, The first paradda that milk from these animals the purpose of a promenade and and placed a very pleasant villa on the island at his disposal. have been cutting into the Lancashire trade, so much so that in wonderfully well. It is an easy farmance will take place in the is being brought over and rega for landing troops, etc. cheap counts many of Lancashire's markets in the Far East are thing to get angry and irritable Naval Canteen Theatre, on April larly sold in Hongkong. Should 16. G. Stewart and Others: The one drawback to the faland being lost. The American competition is not as serious as the with a telephone operator-we25, and there will be a matinee this be so it behoves householders Road round the Island along the appears to be the absence of Japanese. If Manchester wants to keep her place in the textile are all inclined to that, especial-on April 26. The proceeds will:
drinking water, which has to be markets of the Far East. she has to realise that newer plans are ly if we happen to have a be donated to the Ministering source of their supplies. The
to carefully inquire into the South side it.
17. A. Denison: Letter regard- brought from the mainland. realise
liver or if the thinks in Childrens' League. The inclusion of Labourites on this Mission may be a deliberate not running too smoothly in
responsible authorities should ng road round the Island, point- Otherwise its charms are great attempt to educate the cotton operators that the latter cannot have the office. But a lot of the
ing out that at an expenditure of and its warm, gentle airs so high wages with cheap goods, now that the wave of higher wages trouble is, caused by our failure
about $75,000 22 miles of good salubrious that the Turks believe surging British industries. Indeed. by getting Labour to give the numbers slowly and the Government for 42 weeks in
road might be completed 'existing that the span of man's years is representatives to see. with their eyes the conditions that distinctly. If we all make a point Victoria Gaol. It is no детт Manchester manufacturers are up against in the Far East, the of avoiding gabbling. we shall experience to him, as last year
POLICE RESERVE ORDERS. roads included from Shankiwan longer there than anywhere else
to Taitamtuk.
in the world. more readily will its seriousness be brought home to the find things working much better he had already served a term in
18. General Black :-Road! operators, and dispel the erroneous notions that all employers are for all concerned. Let us give the same institution. He is an
Que of the crew of HALS. Con- opposed to increased wages because they do not wish to surrender the, hard-worked
from Wanchai Gap to Wong- neichung Gap along south side cord, which conveyed Paderewski of hills to be called the "Queen's and his wife to the Baltic on their Link.
way to Poland, was heard to say 19. Un Hok Cho-Erection of that the great pianist and new two Clock Towers, east Dear President said he had not played Naval Yard and west near Chinese for two years. "In the wardroom Recreation Ground.
of the ship," the informant con- 20 Wong Tak Cho-Continued, "there in a small piano ion of Queen's College into which has lost a pedal, and before University.
we got to Copenhagen it took 21. Chan Shui-Abolition of most of a sea, which came in
required.
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& portion of their huge profits. But we imagine the Mission's raison chance anyhow. d'etre would be to investigate the conditions of labour and production with regard to Japanese and Chinese competition. Textile mills operating in China are cutting into Manchaster trade
operator
FEMALE LABOUR IN EUROPE.
The representatives of the
Songs, iter
dances and will he
introduced.
Lei Fu is now down to serve
also take note.
COMMENDATION.
Orders issued by Mr. J. W. aagile Chinese, whose work was Franks D.S.P. (R.), stale:~~~
mostly done in the early hours of the morning, when, all
P. S. 4 George Lee is.com- doors
closed, being
he especially in the lower grades. The Mission will have an opportunity principal women's associations had recourse to waterpipes and ended by the Hon. Captain of studying the difficulties that exist. The competition, both have expressed their views at a and other novel means of ingress Superintendent of Police for Japanese and Chinese, will become more and more serious as time meeting of the International into houses. After he had en-Prompt action when off duty in progresses. Until recently, China did not have any weaving sheds Labour Committee. The invit-tered No. 40, Bulkeley Strest, and arresting a, snatcher on the 24th and used to do the spinning by hand, now in Shanghai weaving ation extended
March, 1918. to women to came out again by the convenient mills are going up rapidly Japan has gone ahead tremendously attend the meeting marks a new method already described, the
The offender was subsequently in both weaving and spinning. The Manchester mills are up era in the annals of women's Police arrested him, and when convicted and sentenced to 1 against Oriental competition. The wages question, at Home, which work. The representatives de- he was brought to the station, it months hard labour and 12
WRB found that his legs were
has troubled the cotton mills has been settled. Some of the textile manded absolute unification of articles produced in China and Japan are as good as Lancashire's and labour laws relating to male and what is more, are cheaper. Manchester may lose,her trade in the female employment, e 44-hour adorned with three pairs of Far East if she is not up and awake. There are many factors that week, the abolition of night work women's trousers which he had have to be considered, and we hope that the Manchester trade in and the establishment of women's lifted from No. 55, Cooks Street lower grades in the Far East will not be allowed to disappear. labour unions in various countries, soms hours previously.
atrokes with the birch.
TRAMWAYS.
to
shall be Princes Islands well, for it was all classe. of on Priukipo, the largest of them,
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the Light and Pass Ordinance through the skylight, and was
and erection of a Light Tower. not improved thereby. Never [The two proposals adopted theless Paderewski played to us Attention is directed to D. O. were the Jubilee Road and on that little piano with one pedal Care must be taken that Victoria Hospital schemes.-Ed.-Polish things, pieces of his own this order is strictly adhered to. [HKT)
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