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GOSSIP IS THE CARTRIDGE A resident has drawn qur FIRED FROM THE GUN OF IDLE attention to the difficulty of CURIOSITY, securing medical prescriptions in
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Kowloon, and cites a case in Hyder Bros, dairymen, wers which a doctor visiting a patient discharged from bankruptcy at made out a prescription and the Court yesterday. ordered that it should be procured - without delay. This was on a
the Criminal Sessions Saturday afternoon, and as the yesterday, Chan She was found medicine could not be procured not guilty. on charge of in Kowloon, a messenger was, kidnapping and was discharged. sent, with the prescription to Hongkong and as a consequence did'n arrive back with the drug
health return until about 7.30 at night. This shows six cases of plague (four is one of many instances of fatall and one fatal occurrence & like kind that could of puerperal fever. All were be' quoted, and HOW it Chinese. appears that the existing facili-} ties, both in Kowloon and in Hongkong, are to be yet further reduced. In a place such as this, especially at a time of the year when sickness is by no means uncommon, it is essential that ready means be provided for the supply of drugs. At Home, chemists are not relied upon to The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice the same extent as they are here, Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals as most doctors have their own | begs to acknowledge with thanks dispensers who make up the the following donations to the mixtures without delay. In cases funds of the HospitalsMr. of urgency the present disabilities. Rutnjahn, $25, Messrs J. M. Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which are greatly felt and apparently Alves & Co.. $25. requires them to forward their names and addresses with communi-things will be worse rather than cations addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by better in the future, Now what can be done about ity we as an evidence of their bona fides.
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HONGKONG," FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919
KOWLOON'S NEEDS.
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STRAYING ANIMALS.
An aged Chineses committed suicide he hanging himself with rope from a tree in Coronation Road. His body was later discovered by the Police who removed it to the Mortuary.
The Cunton Times saysThe merchants of Hongkong have recently petitioned Dr. Wu Ting fang asking him to accept the appointment of Civil Governor of Kwangtung. We believe that Dr. Wa has not yet replied to this
We cannot remember having heard of a prosecution of anyonepetition. in Hongkong for allowing cattle
The Legislative Council is to meet to-morrow at 12.30 p.m. when the Bill fatituled An Ordinance to amend further the Trading with the Enemy Ordi- nances, 1914 to 1916 will be carried through all its stages at this meeting.
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20 1919
ROBBIE'S LETTER.
TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME,
TYPHOON WARNING.
TUESDAY'S GALE
TWO LIVES LOST.
The telegram quoted below wES received by the American Cons sulates General, Hongkong, from "The heavy squall experienced Hongkong, June, 18, 1919. the Manila Observatory at 8 p.m. at 7-o'clock on Tusaday night yesterday: Typhoon. E. of Luzon | resulted in the sinking of a junk. more than 300 miles distant direct- and the "death" of two female Dear Alick...
members of the crow, The junk. .........Aye as I was saying, this ion unknown.
which was of 250 piculs capacity, old world is full of cures. The
whilst sailing to Kworchow in the moment anything happens, no
direction of Sai Kung, in Chinese matter what it is soms busybody every other business. From wear waters, was capsized by the starts up in our path, like a jumping out perfectly good boot leather squall which overtook her, and ing jack, wi' a cure. That applies ona lonely beat, our Police go from the crew of nine persons were to lots of other things as well as glory to glory, so to speak, taking thrown into the water. Resona doctors, new thoughters, bone in on the way. criminal work work in such weather was diff man, muscle men, skin men and detection, finger prints and the cult, and a junk which, witness- like. In addition to this, some ing the disaster, had with breathing experts. You can't folks would like them to take commendable promptitude come escape him the bungling busy thought reading at a distance as up, was at length able to rescue body. Heis everlastingly medda side line. If the Police could all but the two persons aforemen- ling wi' other folks' affairs. Like advertise they would get more tioned, who are believed to have
the sinking of the boat One of among the hindmost measles, he's a trial you simply credit and our CS.P. wouldna be been drowned immediately after have to endure. Imagination
the victims was an old woman Take the London Police for in-and the other a girl, five-years lengthens his ears. He should get stance. Their Head st the a gold medal for his thesis on "The moment is a
of agent dans used to man Fourteen Ways of Discovering a moving soldiers about and a C.R.C: CLUB ENTERED.
they Mare's Nest". Macpherson is a whale at organisation.
man before him kind of second cousin to the say. The
The haunts of happy days have held the job for fifteen years and for a certain Chinese sfond place breed.
he started life as an Indian Civil in his memory. His happy days I daundered round to his place Servant on much the same lines were when he was a
bay," at one night thinking the absence as our Cadets here. Macsays ye the clubhouse of the Civil of mental pressure there would canna" compare
Service Recreation Club. Yester be by way of relaxation, so to Hongkong. That's quite true day he paid a visit to this speak. But I struck a bad patch Comparisons are relative after all old haunts through a window that night for there was Mac on is said and done, “A two storied in the Committee Room. the verandah wi' the Telegraph on brick godown looks like the Mr. J. R. Wood had occasion to his knee expounding to Mrs. Mac. Peking Temple of Heaven to the visit the room. He tried the how nearly alike some folks can poor ignorant coolie from the door and found it locked. Just think. Macpherson nearly al-country.
when he was shouting to a “boy' ways thinks the same as other
The present C.SP. will be the to bring the key, he heard a folks afterwards. He's one of first to admit that he is no commotion inside, and when that kind. And as his wife is his criminologist, but the work he he entered, he saw a man making mental counterpart, there's never does is good. I don't think that a flying
leap through the any argument about it.
we ever had a better one. He window. Mr. Wood, followed the ~I've got a conviction that —". has been here for twenty years to intruder and found the Chinese **** AyeTM ways
I. rude fike, my knowledge, speaks and reads in a latrine, where he had taken that's all right, but don't forget | Chinese like a native and, what's refuge. Produced before Mr. R. that the ultimate, place for most more, understands them. Imagine O. Hutchison to-day, and charged convictions is the gaol," says I.a sleuth from home dumped with trespassing, the Chinese was
down in Queens Road on a case, | fined $3.
• "That's just talking about" says he, but the powerless to converse with those trouble is that our C.S. P. is no whom he came in contact with, a criminologist or they would ignorant of the ways of the be in gaol. The chap that wrote people and you have the degree that just put his finger on the of how much we are indebted to our Police and how far off. the right spot," continued be.
mark our loose talk can be at "Well, that may be," says I, times. Mind ye. I'll no' go 60 comfort from life than genius be improved but that canna be
but commonsense extracts more far as to say that things couldna to keep watch. This morning, at o'clock, the poultry thief was caught. He was ever did. Besides, " says I looked for until we get more
what does it matter if your aim policemen from home, a shrink-holding open the trap door of the.. is true, if ye're got nothing in ling of Chinese who won't hold fowl house in an inviting way to your gun onyway.”
When charged before Mr.
Fm what
London wi'
A POULTRY THIEF.
Mr. Leo Longinotto had lately missed some fowls from his chicken farm at the Victoria British School. So be set a "boy"
about '5
the roosters.
10 stray on the public, highway. We are glad to be able to state though such cases are quite com-that His Excellency the Officer mon at Home. Now, it cannot Administering the Government. be said that cattle do not stray on the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, the roads of this Colony, for it is C.M.O. is now convalescent and quite the usual thing, in the New is able to attend to the "more Territories especially, to see pigs, important matters connected with buffaloes and other animals his office. jogging along unattended in their own sweet way, to the obvious of vehicular danger
traffic using the thoroughfares. It is more by luck Then anything else that serious accidents have not resulted from this of unrestricted large measure liberty allowed to cattle, for the ways of pigs and buffaloes are past all understanding: one never knowns when they are likely to
"For to-night and to-morrow
their hands behind their back change their minds regard-night, the Ming Yuen Garden
Look here Mac, that chap's too often and an efficient system ing the direction in which Management have secured the barking up the wrong tree. He's of checking the arrivals and de- O. Hutchison to-day, the thief, who was a boy, said they are going. The public services of a troupe of Chinese using lone word when he means partures of Chinese in and out of
be Was merely stendíng highway
certainly
ID Bot Artistes and Boxers. One item another.. A criminologist is a this Colony. the mean-
at the place and had no intention the place for
unattended of the programme is that of a
scientist, a man who swots at time let's give a man a good
to steal. He heard the "cluck quadrupeds, and with the growing boxer lying on the ground and Lombroso stuff and can name and he il try and live up to cluck" of the chicken and was.
of motor-cars it is about permitting a five-passenger motor tell by the size of a chap's it, besides giving him some en- time steps were taken to follow a car to run over his body.
jaw bone whether incouragement to do better things. only looking into the fowl house
to see what they were doing, rather stricter policy is this mat-
after years he can be trusted
It appears that from his own ter than has hitherto prevailed.
hund The Americas gunboat Helena to
round the collec
but says Mac, haughty admission to the Police the thief The inhabitants of the came in here yesterday from tion plate in Kirk of a Sunday or like, and in his best English, had fattened himself on Mr. New Territories should have Canton and is awaiting the will merely beat his wife's head why are relative
chickens pronouns Longinotto's
many it plainly "explained to arrival of the Ajax, an American in and spend the rest of his worth-regarded as connective and the times before. Inspector Kent them that the sort of Naval transport and supply ship. less life in goal. What that writer interrogative ones not so re- remarked to the Magistrate that thing now going on is a breach of The Helena will take the usual chap means, no doubt, is agarded?" Search me," says the birch would come in handy. of the laws and must be stopped. supplies from the Ajax and also detective, and you believe me, ye must have got that mouthful It would do the thief no harmi, Or are we to wait until a really send back on the Ajax those you don't need to be a C.S.P. to out of a book. It sounds like but a great deal of good. serious accident occurs before whose time of enlistment has detect crime after it's committed some of the cheerful questions we Mr. Hutchison decided to send
expired. The Ajax will-touch at Even you could do that. Some used to get at the night school." the thief to gaol for two weeks. Manila.
folks have an idea that our C.S.P. Nowadays it seems to me we should be hot foot on the job after don't lose so much sleep as we 11 must be extremely gratifying and a magnifying glass in one for instance the new words every burglary, with an inch tape used to on points like that. Take
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Much has been written and said of late regarding the advisabil- ity of connecting Hongkong and Kowloon either by means of a bridge or tunnel, but a reader suggests to us that this would be totally necessary were the business centre of the Colony to be anything is done 2 shifted from the island to the peninsula. That, of course, is not a new idea. There are many people in the Colony who believe that
it is only a matter of time before such a change is brought about. AN APPRECIATION. They point to the fact that the majority of the wharves are on the Kowloon side, that the godown accommodation is growing there,
should be the business centre.
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DAY BY DAY.
The two Japanese seamen of
on remand before Mr. R. O.
not
Like the Gilbertian policeman, to Miss Phylis Faye, the Austra-hand, leaving the other free to we have recently impressed into the Tosan Maru who were charged that the railway is also situated across the water and that shortly the Hongkong Magistrate's lot is lian artist, to find herself strikehis forehead while he says to our everyday talk and the new with being in possession of 165 lbs.. we may expect to ses trams running in Kowloon. With these not a happy one. Cases come popular in Hongkong. Yesterday
"Ah! application we give to some of conveniences, and with plenty of scope for expansion (which is before him where evidence counts at the Victoria she gave for the subordinate at his heels impossible in Hongkong), they say it is only natural that Kowloon for little and the keenest per- first time an exhibition of an ec Watson, let me see now. Yes. The the old ones. Lord Milner flies of opium were to-day brought up ceptive powers are required to robatic dance. It was an absolute fellow that did this job is a small to Paris" was the heading of Hutchison at the Police Court. One of the accused, pleading. There is. admittedly, a deal of commonsense at the back of enable a just decision. Petty novelty, and revelation of the thin man wi' a brown wart on the telegram the other day. I'll bet
left side of his nose, right ankle these arguments. As the trade and shipping of the port increase, offences committed by one mis versatility of the danseuse. Miss slightly. bulged on the inside, no these words. But to the pedant Officer Wildin, who prosecuted,
no one even paused as he read
guilty, Chief Revenus. Faye has vindicated the good whiskers, wears a brown coat and this air business threatens to said he was prepared to withdraw room will have to be found somewhere for expansion. At the creant sometimes require the
даше that preceded her present time, office accommodation is almost impossible to find on maximum sentence, whereas, on
his right trouser leg turned up, become troublesome. It's going the charge in his case. The man she singer,
possesses 母 the Hongkong side, and unless something is done, either in the way the other hand, a nominal fine or
scar of an ancient carbuncle, on sweet voice and
to lead him into a lot of ambigui the of reclamation or removal of the naval establishment, or both, the dismissal meets the case. The
was accordingly acquitted, while situation in this regard must soon become acute. But one fact that suave Celestial will go into the vivacious way she sings charms the back of his neck, smokes I ties and equivocations and there the other accused, who pleaded has to be faced is that huge sums of money have been spent in the witness box and qualify for the audience. We understand that native tobacco and eats garlic by cause him to lose a power o
Worship to three months' hard''. erection of magnificen: blocks of business premises, and it is abeurd the position of the 20th Century one of the best items in Miss every second day and is addicted sleep before he again settles guilty, was sentenced by his Both accused bad to think that these will simply be vacated and new quarters taken Annanias without turning a hair, Faye's repertoire is the Eastern to expectoration. If you take a down to a world made safe for t
For instance, if Dance. In Australia and else-ricksha to the Cheng Wah shop grammar. in Kowloon, just to keep in line with a possible future tendency, and, to the lay mind, after te where this won her unstinted in Yaamati, you'll find hím sitting certain Bill Hohenzollern flew already been sentenced by the Supreme Court on the 18th third from the door. Faites la." from justice, how we are going to instant to three months' bard While this sort of thing is going tell whether he went in an labour for attempting to bribe on, the Police Compound is slowly aeroplane or only in an autome the Revenue Officers.
bila? All that we can safely filling up wi' folks waiting to see
is that it W&5 not the C.S.P., some about one thing assume and others about nothing. There'il in a ricksha. Aviation after be a bunch of Inspectors wait-all is only one of the side ing, all on one leg, to hand lines of the war from which we
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Some say that Hongkong island should be made a purely residential minutes' cross-examination, will
praise. There are many in locality when the commercial flitting" to Kowloon takes place. turn what at first would appear to "But what about those big, business buildings? Are they all to be be a very simple case into the Hongkong who are anxious to turned into hotels or boarding houses? Even then, the old question most complicated mystery that see this Eastern Dance, and it is of communication between the island and the mainland would crop was ever evolved from the mind hoped that the management of
Who would look for illicit- up again. In this regard, we should be no better off of a Conan Doyle. In this regard the Victoria Theatre will prevail with the business houses in Kowloon then we are at we cannot but express admiration upon Miss Faye to give us
goods in a lawyer's office, much less associate them with his ser- present: employees would have to get to and from just the for the
manner in which Mr. exhibition.
vants who are not unreasonably same. But, apart from whether Kowloon is or is not destined | BE. Lindsell has carried
in their daily reports, no to have enriched and anlarged our expected to derive same know to be the future business centre, there is no doubt that it will greatly out the duties of Second Two.coolies the other day were speak of the Chinese constables vocabulary. And these words develop in the days ahead. With the means of communication Magistrate since he has been employed in carrying two iron playing fantan in corner. A because of their very aptners with their learned masters."A
ledge of the law from association": improved and the provision of new roads, it is natural to except that appointed to the 'Bench. The plates from a junk to the godown the mainland will help us to solve a great part of our housing business-like celerity, with which of Messrs. Gerin, Drevard and Co. few weeks of this sort of thing have come to stop, mind I'm wily coolie employed in a local
and folks would begin to write to tellin' ye.
lawyer's office made a business of problem. With quick and regular tram and railway services, resid- he disposes of cases is refreshing, at the Praya East. Their com- the papers and wonder how the ences will spring up on the peninsula, and in course of time more and another important point is bined strength was not sufficient CS.P. filled in his time, as he more split an infinitive than they He
Some men they say, would no dealing in Sampui lottery tickets. and more of the residents of the Colony will lives across the harbour. that he is always in bis magis to enable them to carry the plates was never in his office when would split their father's head bunch of 260 tickets, and
had just received "The population of Kowloon has rapidly grown in recent years, terial chair to time, a virtue that the whole "way without 2 needed.
with an "aze" That may be, so, hid them behind the door of his but the provision of even ordinary essentials of life has by no means is sometimes conspicuous by its stop. Coming on the tram-
No, sir, our C.S. P. as the head but the man who splits his in- master's office with the intention kept pace therewith. There is no Bank in Kowloon, no hospital, absence in the Courts of Hong- lines, they let down their no cemetery not even a decent barber's shop! Surely it is time kong. In his judgments, too, load, and took a rest to summon of our Police Force, is there for finitives may be less obnoxious of disposing of them later. Bome- some of these requisites were provided. In regard to the lack of a Mr. Lindsell rarely, if ever, up fresh energy. The tram came administrative purposes and for than he who spends his spare how, the Police found him out bospital, especially, loud complaints are heard from the not inconsider-fails to make the punishment along, and they were not quick the exercise of discipline. All time splitting grammatical hairs, and the result was that be had to able European population of the peninsula. In urgent cases, süffer- fit the crime. Lindsell enough to again, take up their departmental work is done by his just as a man with a black eye face, Mr. Lindsell at the ers have to be wheeled down to the waterfront in an ambulance, should go far in the Government, load. As a matter of fact, they subordinates whom he holds re- may be better company than the Magistracy to day. The Mar taken across the the harbour and then conveyed by chair on the Service in Hongkong. We have delayed the car for four minutes, sponsible for the efficiency of the many responsible for the dark gistrate-You work other side to the hospital At night-time, a situation like this is all too few officials who realise and this was the reason for the work done. These men are train shading thereof. After all it is ingin r greatly, aggravated, and it might well lead to fatal consequences. that administrative positions can summons which the Tramway Co. ed men. They didn't get their the mean it the street, not the you know the law To At any rate, we have heard of cases in which the enforced trip of a and should be short of the weatie brought against the keeper of jobs through holding a Correspón-purist, who decides whether that the adouce you com suffering patient to Hongkong has decidedly had an ill effect on the some unravelling of innumerable the Godown to-day. Mr. B. D. dence School Certificate for Bee word shall have sanction or not legal? Coolie No person concerned. A bospital, it would seem, is Kowloon's first skeins of red tape, and we look Hatchison, before, whom the Keeping or Electrical Engineer- If it takes his fancy and rolls ing of it. That did not necessity, but these other things must also follow, for without them upon it as as a good sign when summons was heard, was of the ing. You can't do Police work by neatly off his tongue, the tatel fact that the tickets the residents are being deprived of those conveniences which are we see a Magistrate conduct his opinion that the transportation of instinct. The Police Reserve lectuals fulminate in vain. the right all communal centres. Private enterprise is resulting Court with such businesslike the plates required more than two School settled that point in the par
opment of Kowloon; the Government should also do its sensibility as is exhibited by Mr. cool war. He ined the minds of a few. Of course, it has ite grades, its finer points, like
forward the movement.
Mr.
#godown keeper $25"//
Yours truly
BOBT, Has
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