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Hiding things up and keeping them well in the dark seems to be almost a religion with some people, just as though they were criminals bating to be found out The Hongkong Telegraph has been making some enquiries lately among various commercial con- cerns in the Colony as to certain
25 YEARS, IN WOOD. was not that our information was
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER
1919.
DAY BY DAY.
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
YOU CAN'T EXPECT LARGË VIEWS IN LITTLE MINDS."
rises us that the notification declaring Weihaiwei an infected port has been rescinded.
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LATEST PROGRESS.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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When the islands were given as security for the princess's That enterprising and up-to-
dowry, there is reason to believe musical To-day, according to the Chin-date
store. Messrs ese calendar, is the Festival of Moutrie and Company, have those living on the Kowloon side the pledge, because it was then |- Local motorists in general, and that it was intended to redeem Han-lu, or "Cold Dew."
cently received a consignment of in particular, will be disappointed stipulated that the Norse system pianola records of a decided- 15 novel and interesting char learn that there is still no of government and the law of St. Yesterday's health return acter. The rolls comprise records definite information available as Olaf should continue to be ob proposed developments which shows two fatal cases of gastro of accompaniments to popular to the opening of the Tsin served in Orkney and Shetland. Wan Bridge. The Director of Thus the "udal" succession and we had heard of, but in every enteritis, both victims being songs.
covering a wide range Public Works, approached this mode of land tenure that is. case it was "no thing doing". It Chinese.
and on the margin of each record is printed the words of morning, said the actual date had absolute-still obtains to some wrong it was not denied in any
remaining the song, in large black lettering, not yet been decided on. There extent,
were still further reports to come adallers" hold their lands and instance--it was just that those The Colonial Secretariat ad-so that they may be read at a in of work to be done, and until pass them on without written concerned wanted nobody else to
glance. The verses, of course, these are received, dare no could title, know anything at all about it
read upwards, so that as the re
be fixed. One individual thought himself
cord revolves the lines come into
With regard to the road It is a little remarkable that particularly wise in saying to our
view in correct order. The idea circulating the island, there are while so much has been heard inquirer: Yes, that is true, but
although being very simple, is still some portions which require about nations going it is too premature to say any- The Hongkong Lawn Bowls most effectual and meets all re- thing about it yet." His tone Association is giving a dinner to quirements. These records should considerable amount of attentdry." little attention has been on. but it is anticipated that drawn to creeds who have tried Why is it that the Press generally Hongkong Hotel on Saturdaying it difficult to secure accom-general traffic before the end of always been "wet," the Mohamed- everything will be ready for the experiment. The Jews have in this thriving Colony are night.
the year.
ans always "dry" yet it cannot constantly being told to say
be said that judged either by a nothing on matters that often
material or spiritual standarts the would be greatly benefitted by
latter have excelled the farmer. being talked about? We refer to
The most notable instance of commercial and business matters
teetotalism in Jewish history was -the little evidences that crop up
AWAY FROM DRUDGERY.
more remarkable for muscular from time to time of our industrial
Has the war brought about arafer, of course, to Samson.
than moral development. We Correspondents are requested to observe the rule which required expansion, and of schemes that
class of wife that does not want them to forward their names and addresses with communications reveal commercial development. addressed to the Editor, got necessarily for publication, but as an Lstany of our readers pick up an
a home? #vidence of their bons fides.
Anglo-Japanese paper, say those All communications intended for publication should be address-published a: Kobe and Yokohama, ed to the Editor.
and in almost every copy he will find news of how one firm or another is increasing its scope,
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. positively had a trace of alarm. the Shanghai bowlers at the be welcomed by vocalists find
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1919.
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panists for practice and are un- able to play for themselves. Of course, a pianola, or other make of piano-player, is a necessary adjunct to the record.
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Stallholders and those assisting at the M.C.L. Bazaar on Satur- day, October 18th, will be admitt- ed to the dress rehearsal of the
Writing of the mechanical Variety Entertainment which piano player. kreat strides will take place (by kind permisore
being made
in this sion of HE the Governor) at branch of the music trade Government House on Friday, Home before the war.
It was an
A visitor to a southern golf October 17th, at
o'clock. industry in which British manu- told a Home newspaper corres- links asked the courteous secret-
The manageress of aprivate hotel Admission will be 50 cents.
facturers excelled. During the pondent that there is a growing ry if he could find him an war, a large cumber of skilled number of women who find their opponent. I am sure," said the There was launched yesterday, in manufacturing aeroplanes, as boarding-houses so comfortable there will be glad to have a workers in the trade were engaged sojourn in private and residential official, "Mr. So-and-so aver asking for more capital, enlarg: W. Bailey and Co, Ltd., of also were organ builders' operat that they do not want to go back round. The visitor approached ing its plant to meet increased Bailey and Ltd., atives, and it is sad to note. from a to the drudgery of housework. demands, or some other items Kowloon, the steel single screw Home Journal, that like the giang
Mr. So-and-So, a gentleman of a concerning trade.
Home papers
tag "Geoffrey Chaucer." being forte industry, whilst the British too, especially those dealing with the second of the salvage tugs piano-player worker has been ship-building, and the
built by this firm, to the" order of wasting time squabling
British trade, etc, contain much the the.
Admiralty. The strikes, etc. the German has same material, but in Hongkong christening ceremony was grace taken advantage to get footing Oh, please say nothing about fally performed by Mrs. Samson. in foreign countries which were formerly supplied from Great Britain..
it yet." BUSH!
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"I have had many cases of ruddy countenance, and, after married people who came to us for the customary courtesies, asked a month. That was four years ago, the usual question: "What is and they are still with us They your handicap? The reply was regard their husbands search for short and to the point; "Drink. a house with apprehension." sir!" But they do say that there Iwo contributory causes have are in Scotland golfers who would created this class of woman-the not be "plus" players if it were wartime conditions and the hous- not for & judicious devation to- that we have to confess is totally with the Ministering Children's
ing farine. When the air raids well, it is very hard to get more beyond our understanding, Hong-League Sale of Work which is to German is no fool in musica seaside houses on the West coast.
It must be admitted that the began there was a rush to the than enough nowadays! kong has to be content with dry-take place in the grounds of instrument manufacture, especi-and the inland watering-places as-dust officia! Egures, generally Government House on the 18th ally pianos, and British manu- became filled with boarders, who place recently at the Lahore.rail- The following incident took given annually in a Government instant. Besides the various facturers cannot afford to waste intended fixing up a temporary way station: A civilian and his publication at a time when, by stalls, there will be side shows, a week if they are to regain and residence till peace arrived. their age. they have lost nearly fortune-telling a tea garder and retain their pre-war footing in the
wife had managed to secure a all value or interest. Of local an admirable variety entertain-business.
Here women find themselves snug little coupe for themselves. industrial news we hear scarcely
suddenly in a Tired Wives' when three younger officers came a word. There's nothing like
Paradise. Instead of household to the door and one of them publicity as ап aid to
Hongkong is again passing drudgery the day could be filled ordered the civilian to get out. cess. Japan Owes not.
through a period of musical fast-in socially, and such amusements This is war time," he said "and Under the auspices of the Vicing: nothing in the way of a
as tennis, badminton, billiards soldiers have the first call. Our toria Recreation Club the Har-public performance of any kind and winter evening games were you go." The civilian pointed bour Race open to all residents having occurred for some weeks, all handy to pass away the time. out that was not quite war time of the Colony has been fixed for Thursday afternoon, 16th October,
The lounge became a habit rather and that in any case there was at five o'clock sharp: All wishing
than a luxury.
lots of room on the train, “No,”` to compete must send in their
home." Husbands who came back for wanting this coupe. I order So they do not want to go said the officer, "we have a reason aames to the Hon. Secretary,
from the war have since failed to you, to Victoria Recreation Club, on or
find a house or even rooms in civilian's wife looked up.
get out," Then the before Monday 13th inst, with
hundreds of cases, and the opinion a hope," she said waving her hand the entrance fee of $1.00.
expressed by the wife has more to and fro. Not a single solitary Why seek hope. Stay where you are,
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little of her development to the fact that she has shouted about it She has let the world know by every means possible that she bas laid down huge plants of every kind, ready to deal with any orders that might come along. And America has acted similarly. These people have appreciated the -value of "boosting," and they have "boosted" sufficiently long and loud enough to get a pretty good A Cinese was to-day before
a house with house-work when it Charles. And Charles stayed. When & Home newspaper, a few days ago, described the rail- hearing among the traders of the Mr. Lindsell, charged with un-
is little more expense to remain way strike as a conflict between Bolshevism and Constitutional world. Hongkong, a everyone lawful possession of a Chinese week's notes, I referred to the
en pension**** Government, it expressed what to many mey have seemed an knows, is not so much a making smoking pipe. Inspector Mac-soprano, joining Messrs Sykora told a Daily Chronicle repre- Orkney Islands, which include A manager of a hotel syndicate many people to learn that the It will come as a surprise to exaggeration having its basis in & vitiated party outlock. But centre as a distributing centre, donald said that defendant was and unhappily, as we showed yesterday, modern strikes tend more and but there are enough commercial arrested whilst attempting to Zaleska; the lady who visited hotels were filled with married Flow, do not really belong to Podolsky, as Madame sentative that half their town the great naval station of Scapa more to become a blow against the State and, by reason of their enterprises here, engaged in pawn it. widespread ramifications, often threaten to undermine the "very making, to warrant a little "boost-owed some money to a man, and gave pianoforte recitals.
Defendant said that he Hongkong some time back and folks. They are the small foundations of good government. We will give many of the strikers ing" sometimes. And even a dis- he was trying to pawn the pipe reader has very kindly pointed professional classes.
A familied men, generally of the they were never ceded by treaty. Great Britain in the sense that the credit of saying that they do not necessarily mean to be revolu-tributor can benefit by talking to pay him back. Mr. Lindsell out tionary when they resolve to cease from work: too many of them, we about increased facilities for dis-fined the man $10 or 14 days.
the frror.
or acquired by contest. They were The lady is It does not necessarily mean simply transferred by Denmark fear, think very superficially about such matters. To the "sympathe-tributing.
Madame Zaluska and has no that women have become lazy," to Scotland in 1468 in pledge for We happen to know: tic striker" these words particularly apply. That is the danger. that there is quite a deal ofdevelop!
connection whatever with declared the hotel manager the payment of the dowry of the These men are too easily led by others- men of the glib-tongued type,ment going on just now, both whose stock-in-trade is a capacity to dangle before the workers in producing and distributing con- Chinese was charged, before MrI think I may be pardoned for dren to look after; but they are of Scotland.
At the Police Court to-day, a lady is the wife of Mr. Sykora to do, especially if there are chil-
Medame Zaleska. The former They still have many odd things Princess of Denmark, who was married to James III, King eyes attractive schemes for taking control of the country and giving cerns, but as soon as we breathe R. E. Lindsell, with unlawfu- the error, in view of the very relieved of the harder tasks of
In the deed the producers their so-called rightful share of the nation's wealth. our knowledge in the hope that possession of 15 rounds of amt great similarity of the
of transfer. which is still Lest we be accused of over-drawing the picture in saying that we might publish augmented con- munition. Defendant said tha
names, housework, can look nicer, keep in existence. and also of the fact that Madame healthier, and find opportunities ally mentioned that Denmark
it is there are men amongst the British Labour leaders who preach firmation ite "Hush never a he had picked up the ammunition Zaleska, in addition to showing for social intercourse, which is the shalt bave the right to redeem speci- Bolshevism, we will cite-one or two recent utterances made by these word ". The Press in Hongkong near the rifle range. A European agitators. At the Labour Conference at Southport. Mr. Smillie occupies something of the same Sergeant stated that defendant exhibited, when in Hongkong, her
great talent 85 3 pianist, great demand of woman.to-day. them at any future time by pay- argued that the present Government had secured its return to power position as the Bogey-man in
was arrested by a detective whilst possession of a
Many work, others, take up,ing the original amount of the by false pretences, and he therefore concluded that the Labour the song we learned as children, attempting to sell the ammun- voice.
fine soprano local affairs, but everywhere one dowry with interest
to date. movement is entitled to take any action to get rid of the Government at whose approach there is the ition. Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine
discovers that the young wife of There is no likebood that Den- But here is something more definite still. Mr. Robert-Williams, of silence of fear. Really, it's nearly of $5, or 10 days' hard labour.
to-day is not going back to the mark will ever attempt to exer- the Transport Workers' Federation, recently declared:-"1 want time we assumed another charac-
The attitude of the National life of a recluse that many lived ciss her right to redemption. revolution, peaceable if possible, though the cause is worthy of the ter, and it's more than time that
Sunday League towards the before the war.”
because 60,000 florins, the original sacrifice of lives...... Never mind about Constitutionalism. We will local enterprise came out of its To-night at the Coronet, the Manchester Iscal authority in
amount of the dowry, would make a Constitution of our own Soviet Government." Then, what dark hole and began to be talk. five screen version of the famous regard to the proposal of the In London a large body of a mount, with interest to date, to is the import of the following words epoken by Mr. John Maclean, ative.
Drury Lane melodrama "Sporting Manchester the Clyde deportee 2" With a determined revolutionary minority, WASTEFUL DELAY.
give voluntary stewards took de several thousands of millions of Life" is to be shown and when Sunday concerts in the ensuing light in we shall be able to take control of the country and the means
helping others to pounds sterling, and that is a bit The other day we referred to
we say this is good we mean it. winter has been a little misunder-spend a pleasant Sanday. Amore than the islands are worth. of production at once, and hold them tight through disciplined the activities of the Department This splendid filch has had a stood, saye 2. Home paper strong local committee was being. production under the Workshop Committees and the District and of Overseas Trade which has phenomenal run in London and recently, A Manchester Guardian formed in Manchester,representa- National Councils.... All revolutions have started from trifling recently been established and New York, and there is no representative bad an
In a London club a lively causes. Ours is to direct the workers to the goal by pushing for which, if mataged on sound lines, doubt whatever
inter- tive of every class and creed, political argument had sprang ward the miners, programme and backing up our black brigade" might be productive of a great deal make
that it will view with Mr. Henry Mills, who were to carry on the move-up between a well-known Irish 20 instant The foregoing are a few extracts taken at random from recent of good. But in one direction it to patrons of
appeal the secretary of the League, and ment in a perfectly constitutional Nationalist and an English the Coronet, Mr. J.
W. Pearce, the hon, and reasonable way. It would Unionist who holds a chair at Labour utterances. Their meaning and import are obvious; they has not made a very auspicious who are well able to judge. Mr. secretary of the branch. One certainly appear strange to him one of the universities. So long are delivered with the express object of getting the men's "back up start. Some time ago the Govern Ray anticipates full houses every difficulty with Mr. Mills was to if Manchester, which had provid-as the argument remained purely against lawfully-constituted authority. The constant references to ment decided, through this new night and if we know anything of understand whether the needed ed Sunday minsic in the parks at political the third member of the
revolution" imply that these leaders are more concerned about Department, to send 2 wresting the power of government from others than they are about mission to the Far East, but disappointed.
the Hongkong public he wo 't he permission for the concerts was certain times of the year, and party, a clergyman of the Church the adjustment of purely industrial conditions. Such talk, wilfully although the decision has been
come from the Licensing was the first city to open its free of Ireland and an ex-chaplain in Justices or indulged in, is one of the things with which Britain has to put up made some months now, nothing
the Watch Com- libraries on Sundays 40 years the Ulster Division, remained because it is a free country. In many other countries, the authors yet has been definitely done.
mittee, and he confessed he was ago, should now raise any op- silent. But the argument drifted of sentiments of this order would be given very short shrift. These It appears that
awaiting information
this position.
as such arguments will; and by the scheme men are abusing their privileges, and in doing so are contaminating hangs fire on the question as to
point. In the meantime he made
and by it was the Nationalist it the minds of decent, honest workers.
the clear that
League This appears to be "another in-who was silent while his fellow- In saying so much, we are far from inferring that Labour as a On
who is to bear the expense. commenced at Tientsin between was by no means challenging stance of grandmotherly legisla- countryman fiercely contested whole is seditious or revolutionary. We have a sufficient faith in argued that the traders themselves ents in their concession for the either to the Watch Committee or kong. Many will remember, as I he said: Look at all we've done is the Japanese officials and resid- the authority or desirous of tion from which complaint we what he considered the profes the innate level-headedness and common-sense of our own country should pay, whilst, oppositely, it construction of
being in any way antagonistic have suffered severely in Hong- sor's belittling of Ireland. Finally men to believe that progaganda of this order is unlikely to lead our is said that a private mission across workers as a whole to embrace the pernicious doctrines of Bal-would carry no weight and would would also allow of steamers London County. Causal and an to Sunday finances by pause enabled the professor to
the Haiho, that
the justices. As himself a justice do, the great opposition that was for ye. Why, we Christianised of the peace, a member of the raised, about 20an 25 years ago, te "His dromentary dramatic shevi At one time it almost looked as though the railway have much less chance of achiev-being able to reach their bund; strike worldis laity such convictions. But the outcome, as one of ing its object than one which had and a strong Committee has been borough, he was the last man to parks, and more recently, to Sun- did nothing of the kind The the cabfèmynd: it offers un encouragement. for those who imagined the Government
ex-mayor of a large metropolitan military bands in the London interject: "What nonsenset You that England is a fertile field for revolution. The bulk of our Barely.
behind it.appointed to go into the matter workers are too sane to be led astray by cheap clap-trap of a dividing the cost would find vancy thereon."
proposition of and approach the Haiho Conser question their authority.
day concerts in the music balla ex-chaplain put his hand out as treasonable character. All the same, there are in the Labour ranks acceptance by bothsides. Delay that a subway would be too;
It is thought
I suppose, if Hongkong 'gets its if to acknowledge defeat, and men who give voice to the wildest and most dangerous ideas. They and indecision can only result in expensive, and so the scheme concerned, Mr. Müll said, there ances will be barred. It makes That's true! You are quite
So far as the organisation was public band, Sunday perform- went on in a quieter tone are the real "wasters.” And though they may not now have any our losing great following, it is about time they were put, and kept, in their recognise to be a very valuable cost to be met by debentures-days week upon workers at any democratic place (at least in this The Saxons standing round
what all parties proposed is a high bridge, the was no idea of imposing a seven- one long for residence in a right--but we did our best.
opportunity.
China Crilic.
hajl where concerts were given. direction) like Shanghai.
laughed heartily.
proper places.
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