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JURYMEN

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The Bar. J. Kirk Maconachie's; sarmon will appear to-morrow."

With regard to the alleged un- nessary waste of time of business men who are called upon to serve as jurors at the monthly sittings of the Criminal Sessions, we think it is only fair to the authorities that the public should be made acquainted with the true facts, since the impression has been Dunera fostered that juryman are wilfully detained when their services

code. There are other technical

the Chief

There is a good

plaint regarding the shabby con- dition of some of the rickshas

in Kowloon Why do not the Police Thursday even The many friends of Major insist upon the provision of bettar: Vaudeville Ba Bowen, Army Pay Corpe, will be waterproofs and aprons for these each member glad to hear that he has now vehicles? Many of them are in seen in a particulaź returned to the Colony, having a filthy and greasy state. Very speciality arrived last evening by the soften during rain a passenger's The Empire Company come

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the chick peeps, the hound bays and the owl hoots. Perhaps the best word for the sound a cricket makes is used by Tennyson "Not a cricket chirp d. he writes. in In Memoriam," although the word would fit the grass= hopper better perhaps. Tennyson prided himself on his exact word for the noises made by bird and beast: Thus he speaks of the moan of doves," the robin's "pipe," the woodpecker's “laugh, the curlew's "whistle," the jay's the peacock's squall," the fowl's

and Boues the han the goose hissen white suit is badly sailed by the to Hongkong direct from an ex- waterproofs. The alternative is tensive tour of the North, where gusaks, the cat mewa, The total output of the faither to walk the distance they met with considerable barks, the wolf howls, are not required for any particular Kailan Administration's mines and avoid being shabby and success. George Ross, leading roars, the bull bellows, the spar case. In is case it was sug for the week ending 7th June, dirty, or take rickaha comedian, and chief producer for row chirps, the pigeon coo gested that only sufficient jury 1919, amounted to 32,125 tons and and get into a new suit of the the Company, is bound to frog croaks, the rook men should be called each the sales during the period to clothes on arrival at ane's become a keen-favourite with monkey chatters, the day as to suffice for the two 87,301 tons.

destination. Surely, the author local theatre-gons. Besides being trumpets, the juries. The reply to that is that

ities can insist upon the rickshasan exeptional comedian, Mr the tag calls, the it is necessary for 'mare men to Amongst these arriving by the being kept in a clean and sanitary Ross is also a talented in screams only when wounde be called than will actually be. Danera, yesterday ware ibe state. In every large city the strumentalist, and in the opening the donkey brays, the bee hums, required to serve, for two reasons following officers-Lient. Col. Municipality frames stringent performance he will be seen in the fly buzzes,, the grasshopper which are first, to ensure sub Bennett, Major Lyall and Lieutlaws for public vehicles, and there his extraordinary trick topsy-chirrups, the swallow twitters, stitutes being on hand to take the enants Struthers, Norman, Moris a very strict control over them. turvy pianist number. place of absentees, as frequently gan and Snook.

Why should there not be a similar Miss Edyth Hyland, a mezzo OCCUTS, and, second. .to

supervision in Hongkong? Pass-soprano whose voice appears to replace any jurors who might be

The China Mail S. g. Cot is in engers using a ricksha, during the have created quite a sensation in challenged, which is the preroga receipt of a wireless message

rains are boxed up with no North China, will be heard in a sive of any person charged with from the 5.3-China" advising possibility of seeing where they selection from her repertoire. an offence under the criminal shat she will arrive at the port are going. Some way must be Numerous other artistes will to-morrow, June 25th, at 5 am. devised of improving these contribute items to the "Banquet reasons but is unnecessary instead of this afternoon as prd vehicles. There should be mare on Thursday and Friday nights, to mention them hereviously advised..

pneumatic tyred rickshas and all of whom are said to be er The procedure is chat the

some sort of an attempt atcellent in their particular stylas

of entertainment. J.- jurymen wait in

The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice respectability.

On Saturday afternoon, S Recentlythere was a recurrence special matinee will be given, at When the seven

men the following donations to the All communications intended for publication should be address have been called and sworn fands of the Hospitals Messrs visitors to the Colony having to will be presented. Children will

the waiting jurors are told

W. R. Loxley and Co. $75; Dairy be accommodated under condi- be admitted at half-price on this to proceed to the Pusine Judge's

I am reminded by another cor- Saturday night will see the Court where a ballot again takes Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co. tions which are no credit to this occasion.

Colony. A gentleman from Taihiti came to Hongkong infirst change of programme, when rospondent that bad spelling is place for jurymen needed in that Court Immediately this is comé

March to recoup his health, the great American Revusical by no means confined to ele pleted, the waiting men are told

During last week there were After a four days' fruitless search Musical Comedy, entitled "Verymentary school boys. He gives The rate per quarter and per menser, proportional. Subscrip- they may depart and instructed notified 27 cases of plague (20 for a room here he was com- Good, Eddie!" will be staged by the following, as typical, in more tons for any period less than one month will be charged as for when they will be required to deaths), one fatal case each of pelled to go back to Taihiti. the Company. This production ways than one, of the public The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee attend again. This method, of cerebrospinal fever and puerperal Such things do not help to has had a record run in New York, boy? The young CO. of an

fever and one non-fatal

R.A.F. second squadron in Bat make Hongkong popular" in the Australia, London and Africa is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies in the empanelling of he jury for occurrence of enteric. The

estimation of tourists. It is high The brilliant Revue "Let's Go gium found himself, when writing delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies the Second Court, but it is sufferer in the last-named was as we had more accommodation is billed for Monday night, whilst a letter in his loy-office near sent by post an additional $180 per quarter is charged for postage.

necessary, since

other English, the rest Chinese.

not only for residents but for on Tuesday another Revusical Poperinghe, unable to spell Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

procedure would not be 3D

those who come here temporarily. production entitled "Oh Baby harass." He put his head out accordance with the regulations,

Lieutenant, Commander E. L. which demand the strictest i Haslewood has been appointed to Every visitor to these shores is a will be staged. On Wednesday of the door and call out to a flying partiality,

the Tamar at Hongkong, with potential advertiser and the ex-and Thursday nights, the Com-officer, another Harrow boy. effect from the 25th ult. Amongst periences of those who have fail-pany will present the grand Smith, how d'you spell barrass! ed to get accommodation here combined Vaudeville and Revue Smith hesitated for a moment. other appointments, Sub-Lieut. are not likely to induce tourist entertainment, The Follies," and then said, "Sorry, sir, but I H. J. A. S. Jerome has been traffic to Hongkong. We are written and produced by George shouldn't like to risk it," After six posted to the river steamer told that there are schemes under Ross.

other officers had admitted their inability to spell the word the telephone bell in the lorry rang... Ahi is that you, old thing?" said the C.O. What about this bomb- ing stunt of yours? I hear we're got to look after you. Righto, we'll meet you at 10,000 over Ypres at 11.30.

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requires them to forward their names and addresses with communi- Justice's Court. first and names Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals "cations addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for publication, by are drawn from a ballot box begs to acknowledge with thanks of all the hotels being crowded and which the Vandeville Banquet scritch." the parrot's "scream,"

as an evidence of their bona fides.

ed to the Editor.

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager. The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 per annum. (Payable in Advance,)

full month.

Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for & Sixed period will be continued until countermanded.

The Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd, Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1919.

A SUSPICIOUS MOVEMENT.

course, necessitates some delay

any

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION.

It has been suggested that time might be saved here by retaining. in the first instance, only half of the jurymen called in the First

arrived

$100.

Kinsha, and Sub-Lieutenant G. D. Noble to the Britomart.

way for providing extensive The public are advised to accommodation, but, for some secure their seats at Mountrie's mysterious reason or other, the without delay, as, owing to ship The Hongkong Tramway Com- Government and others respon-ping arrangements, it is im pany's receipts for the week sible for them have sat on them possible for the Company to ended June 21 totalled $15,351,

appear here for a longer season which is $2,657 better than for very closely.

than seven nights.,

current

Year

GARRISON TENNIS,

LEAGUE...

"shriek, and the eagle's "yelp.

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I say, just a minute: How the d'yon spell harass? You don't know! Nobody in the whole

Good-by-ee.""

the corresponding week of last year. For the 25 weeks of the interesting to show how Australia In this connection it may be the aggregates tackling her housing problem. receipts are $357,604. which is The shortage of houses there has $25,491 above the same period brought housing schemes within

The above League table now Army seems to know. Righto. twelve months ago.

the scope of practical politics, and stands as follows:

P. W. L. Pts. various expedients have been

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Court, the other half proceeding immediately to the Second Court so that the empanellings may take place simultaneously, but this would require a sorting out of names from the ballot box by a Court official, whereby the rule of strict impartiality would be violated. To emphasise the leniency and consideration which

Mr. Austin Harrison' proposes, Chinese compounder of devised to get round the two lions 88 Co. P.GA-“A” 85 3 10 is shown to jurymen in the

chemicals employed by Messrs. in the road--the market price of R.A.0.C "... 8.5 3 10 in an article which has been re- Hongkong Courts we would

75 2 10 it may not be/A. S. Watson and Company was money and the high cost of labour RAM.C. 'A' point out as

printed from the English Review of March, to limit individual in- generally known, that at Homs to-day sentenced by Mr. R. E and materials. A Sydney corres 83 Co. R.G.A. "A" 6 5 1 10

5 5 0 10 comes. The auswer is that indi- the whole of the Jurymen are Lindsell at the Magistracy to six pondent writes to tell me that R.E....

vidual incomes are already seTOTG- kept waiting through the cases weeks hard labour for stealing Captain Carmichael has put for- Manchester Regt... 6 4.3.8

makes R.A.M.C. “B” 7 2 5 4ly limited by taxation. There to be beard and also, in the some opinm pills. The defend-ward a scheme which

only a few hundred, individuals лет departure in 88 Co. R.G.A. *B* 6 1 5 We observe from Northern newspapers that quite a little flatter capital charge, the serving jurors

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with incomes of over £40,000 a. has been caused in the diplomatic dovecote at Peking by the are confined to special quarters brought in consequence of a economics.

year, and the half of those in- discovery of the circulation of anti-British leaflets there. These until such time as a verdict grudge which the manager of the features of Captain Carmichael's 83 Co. R.G.A. B 3 0 3 pamphlets are of a particularly, inflammatory character, and has been

comes is now taken by income branch, Mr. D. Wilson, bore plan is this: There are twenty at The

A towards him. nothing filthier has come Chief Justice has the concerning them a message states that

watchman millions pounds sterling deposit are provided there are too often and super taz. Individuals with same to light in recent times." The discovery was made in this way: A power bere and the present

witnessed the theft, and he in-ed by the people in the Govern- occupied by the Chinese. Al-over £3,000 a year have a third of Legation constable saw a ricksha passing through the Legation working is

formed Mr. Wilson, who had the ment Saving Banks, locked up in though the Chinese have their their incomes taken by taxation. arranged 7030

defendant searched. with the Government securities-a quite own garden in West Point How much farther does "Mr. quarters and, noticing that the Chinese in the vehicle bad a big solely for the convenience of bundle of leaflets with him, he stopped the ricksha, whereupon the jurymen. It has been our inyari- result that the pills were dis-safe but unprofitable investment, known as the Blake Gardens, Harrison propose to go He occupant jumped out and managed to escape. The leaflets, on being able experience that both the covered on the man's person.

from one point of view. These not satisfied with what has been might indeed take 15s in the £ examined, were found to be of a political character, and amongst Chief Justice and the Puiene

securities must be redeemed as exclusively set aside for them from the individuals with over, other things they contained a statement that Sir John Jordan had Judge have shown the utmost The magazine run in connect they fall due and part must be they have practically monopolis £40,000 a year; but their number sent a note to the Chinese Government demanding the incorpora consideration for waiting fury ion with the Kadoorie used to build homes for the people.ed the Botanical Gardens. There is so small that the addition to tion in Tibet of Kansu, Chinghai, half of Szechuer and part of men and immediately it is de- College, Houam, Canton, has Captain Carmichael set out to is talk of forming a syndicate to the national revenue would be Yannan. This statement is compared with the possible loss of finitely known they are not now passed the first year of its show that a man can buy for $254 buy the garden near the Roman infinitesimal, while the harm done Tringtau, and the point is made that whilst it is right to struggle required, they are told. they existence, and the first issue of a house that costs £400. The Catholic Cathedral facing Glen-would be very great. for the latter territory, Mongolia and Tibet are vastly more import may depart. There has never Volume 2 has now appeared. purchaser pays down £20, and ealy and to let it out to Europeans ↑

The Bishop of Coventry has ant. Then there is a statement dealing with the proposed unifica been a case within our recollec- This is a most readable, number, thereafter 10 shillings a week for for house sites. tion of China's railways, in the course of which it is asserted that tion where jurors have been un-and includes an article by 20 years, when the house becomes

written to the local committee Great Britain and America are taking this opportunity to rob the necessarily detained.

Frederic Coleman on "How the bis own. But the Government is It is gratifying to note that the stating that no peace celebration. Germans On these and other matters, the leaflets country of its life blood."

broke their agree to subsidise the purchaser to the Hongkong Government is taking procession in Coventry would be make a strong appeal for China's 400,000,000 to arise and act.”

ments," the College Prize List extent of £8 a year for five years, steps to get rid of the German complete without a representa- for 1918-19, some hints on how to equal to £40.

missions whose work during the tion of Lady Godiva, who, if The same kind of propaganda has also shown itself in Tientsin, and

revise lessons, interesting College

has been detrimental to legend was correct, made a great in the circulars issued there, are many injunctions to "our Chinese PROMOTING EMPIRE TRADE.

Notes and a contribution on brethren" to defend themselves against the "most poisonous and

The desirability of holding a Chinese roads by C. H. Ho, of the kong

It is rumoured that the Hong-the interests of the Colony sacrifice to her subjects, and was covetous England. Every country, of course, has its detractors, British Empire Exhibition is being Customs College, Peking All scheme involves an expenditure ficial work of

Government's housing Having regard to the bene-a woman far in advance of her these in-times. In the Bishop's opinion and therefore we ought not to be so very much surprised urged at Home as an expression concerned in the production of of four milion dollars. The stitutions it is encumbent on the Lady Godiva should be represent that Britain and America should now and again be called down." But there are circumstances in connection with the of Imperial unity and a means of this little magazine are to be Government is said to be taking British people here, as well as the ed as an historical character in

the promotion of commerce and Issuing of these leaflets which leave a nastly impression that industry throughout the Empire. Congratulated on its continued Lient, Olitsky's recommends other sections of the community historio pageant, in such a way those who have professed to be our friends are mixed up in the Its necessity is happily recognis

tions regarding space of streets who owe their prosperity to the thai sh derself would have been business. It is said, for example, that it is easy for an educated ed, and every effort must be made

and height of buildinga... On dit protection given them under proud to appear. The local sub- Chinese to detect that the native characters are not written by to retain and increase our Oremes

as well it is going to enlarge the British flag, support committee has passed a resolu- Chinese. But more suspicious still is the statement made by the trade, for, unless this is done, we

a good portion of the business these institutions under their tion to the effect that the lady Hicksha coolie that he was hired by the Chinese occupant to go to a way be faced with grave econ-

LATEST ADDITION TO THE quarters and that Battery Path new control, which is British and who represents Lady Godiva in firm of Japanese printers, that from there he went to a Japanese omic difficulties, as we have to

BRITISH NAVY.

will be broadened. If Battery not German. The work undertaken the pageant should be fully cloth hospital, and thence back back to the Japanese printers, where he meet the competition of Japan Mesers, J. Samuel White & Co., Path is enlarged, it would enable by the Church Missionary Bociety ed, in the most magnificent ap received the leaflets. The leaflets are signed by the Mongolian and the United States. The Ltd., East Cowes, Isle of Wight, the terminus of the Peak Tram in this connection has resulted in parel in which & Sazon Countess and Tibetan Society, which is said to be an entirely unknown Dominions look to the Mother- delivered the ocean-going to ways to be brought down to a heavy drain upon their funds would have been array organisation. The Shanghai Gazette, in commenting on these dis- land to give them the lead in the pedo-boat destroyer #Trusty" to

Queen's Boad.

already depleted conside coveries, says: "On those who have seen the document the attempt after-war fight for supremacy. the Admiralty on Friday, May 9.

through the high dollar exch to mask its source of origin would have but little effect. All are The fact has to be faced that This war vessel, which is of 1,000 only too well acquainted with the methods of certain people to Japan and the United States have tons displacensent and 23,000 complaining of the want of like the Blu vilify Britain and America and who hope to draw away attention secured much of Germany's pre- 8. H. P. was laid down, on April shelter in the Botanical Gardens very much local of the Chinese from the Shantung question. There has been a war trade and a good deal of the 11th, 1918, and launched on for childrer during the rainy up to consistent poller of attacks on Britain and America by the Japanese British trade. The war has shown; November 6th last. She has sexsor Parents are chary of supp

We know nothing of the origin of these pamphlets exceptus the importance of keeping our been constructed, engined and sending their children to he

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A few friends of mine have been These ex-German nations

ing what we have read in the Northern papers, but we must resources in our own hands, and fally equipped by the firm, her Gardens for fear of their com

whole of the circumstances suggest that such an exhibition would help to propelling machinery constation home drenched to the

the

are at the bottom of this mou and underland create a better trade understand of Brown Curtis geared turbines,

Chinese need warning against these attempts to ing between the Mother County whils

the Gaited States, and we are glad to see that and the Dominions and Colonies the

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