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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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NOTES & COMMENTS.

A SUGGESTION ABOUT RICKSHAS

A little while back there was quite a deal being written and said in regard to the condition of Hongkong's public rickshas, and there was a very strong desire expressed that these public con- veyances should at least be fitted with pneumatić tyres to bring them into line with what pre-

“SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1919.

DAY BY DAY.

1894.

WEARE NO LONGER HAPPY AS HONGKONG TWENTY-

SOON AS WE WISH TO BE

HAPPIER. Lamotte.

To-day, according to the Chin- ese calendar. is the beginning of winter.

Captain D'Oliveyra, Secretary of the China Coast Officers Guild, is again on a visit to the Colony. -

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rails in most of the other ports The desire was not simply that we should be like other people but that those riding in rickshas would have a little more comfort The prohibition against export- than is now possible. It has ing Hongkong silver subsidiary been officially stated

that coins from the Colony is now pneumatic tyres for rickshas are withdrawal. impracticable here because the tyres would wear out so quickly

as to become prohibitively ex- pensive." At that we will leave it, although we do not share the view. A reader, who is very often in Macao, has told us that

FIVE YEARS AGO.

(Compiled from the " Hongkong -Telegraph” files jar week ending November 3, 1894)

THE DOLLAR.

Dollar on Demand to-day is Oct. 29th. The rate of

11ed.

CARPENTERS WIN.

the

25.

ARMISTICE DAY.

İST. VINCENT DE

PAUL SOCIETY.

MESSAGE FROM H. M. THE KING.

FORTHCOMING BAZAAR,

In another column we publish an A TWO-MINUTES SILENCE

ON TUESDAY.

In a Government Gazette Ex-

anniversary of the Armistice

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., rick has are fitted with box spring firms who have been granted Four of the strikers, though, who relief for the suffering poor, relief I believe that my people in

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1919.

CAN CHINA SAVE HERSELF?

raised

The Hongkong Gymkhane Club has decided to hold a special Gymkhana on the 29th inst. in aid of the Devastated Villages of France Fund.

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THE ARATOON APCAR.

be necessary. At a given signal which can be easily arranged to suit the circumstances of each locality I believe that we shall all gladly interrupt our business and pleasure whatever it may be and unite in this simple service of silence and remembrance.

GEORGE R1." This will be published in the Press here to-morrow moming and arrangements are being made for the observance of the two minutes silence at 11 o'clock next Tuesday.

appeal from the Bazaar Committee of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to the ladies of Hongkong for gifts of souvenirs and prizes for on the 7th December. The Society which has been received from the the 86th annual bazaar to be held traordinary, issued late this morning, the following telegram, depends almost entirely on the pro-Secretary of State for the Colonies, WHAT'S WRONG ? ceeds of this annual bazaar for the is published for general informa- Oct. 30. It would be interest-maintenance of the large number tion -- British ship Barcore has been for the education of the children ing to know why the historical | of poor families under its care and

London, 6th Nev., 1919. dying the doctor's flax every of those families.

1 ani commanded by His morning for the past two weeks.

There are in these days many you for immediate publication Majesty the King to send out to The U. S. S. Helena' is still in Is the "God-fearing" Captain the Naval dry dock in the processors de combat or can it be that well-meaning people who entertain the following message which is A sincere distrust of charity, which addressed to all the peoples of of having a new propeller and the ship's cook is "off-colour **

ther declare to be merely the par-the Empire shaft fitted.

October 31st. The rarpenters veror of aims and the support of

"To all my people. Tuesday His Excellenes the Governor-strike, which has been paralysing pauperism. If the visitation of ricksha riding there is very much in-Council has appointed Satur. building operations for about a the poor in their homes (which is next, November 11th, is the first more comfortable than here.day, 27th December, 1919, to be fortnight, has at last been brought the first duty imposed on its mem which stayed the world-wide despite the fact that most of the observed as a General Holiday- to a conclusion to the advantage bers by the rules of the Society of carnage of the four preceding streets are but badly cobbled. The

of the men who will in future St. Vincent de Paul) had no other years and marked the victory of reason is just this: that all the The Cette gives a list of local receive a slight increase of wages. purpose than to provide temporary Right and Freedom. seats. Whilst the ricksha itself licences to trade under the Nor were arrested a week ago by which is very often insuficient, the every part of the Empire fervently may be badly joking about the Ferrous Metal Industry Ordin inspector Quincey and charged connection between this humble wish to perpetuate the memory passenger gets very little of the inco, 1919.

before Mr. Hastings with intimi-activity and its chief object would of that great deliverance and of shaking and is in comparative

dation, were to-day sentenced to never be realised. The founder of those who laid down their lives comfort. Although there are no

three months' imprisonment with the Society foresaw the objection, to achieve it. pneumatic tyres the whole of the

hard labour.

and in refuting it outlined so

To afford an opportunity for the jarring is taken off in the seat and

clearly the object of the Society universal expression of this feel- riding is made extremely bearable,

Nov. Ist. The Calcutta liner that his words, written in 1848. ing it is my desire and hope that Our officials here have ss allowed

Aratoon Apcar, Captain J. E. will be of particular interest to at the hour when the Armistice the sufry that tyres are impractic

Hansen, which arrived here from those who are not well acquainted came into force, the 11th hour of able, but so far as we see there

The total output of the Kailan Calcutta, via Singapore, late with the work of this great Asso- the 11th month, there may be for could not be a similar objection Mining Adminstration's mines yesterday afternoon, encountered ciation. "It will often be said to the brief space of two minutes a to the suggestion that for the week ending 25th October, an unusually strong north-east the latest arrivals among you, and complete suspension of all our | Hongkong should follow Macao's 1919, amounted to $3,036 tons

monsoon after taking her de-already you Head and have spring

hear it every day, | normal activities. seats. and the sales during the period parture from the fatter port. How long will you continue to

During that time, except in the The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip. There would be an objection raise to 78.350 tons.

heavy northerly gales and sharp practise the charity of a cup of rare cases where it may be im- tions for any period less that one month will be charged as for a jed, naturally: because it would

squalls being the order of the day cold water? What can mean spending little money, full month.

you do practicable, all work all sound Among the passengers arriving from port to port. Notwithstand amongst a Brotherhood who only and all locomotion should reass But a ricksha fariner gets enough by the Empress of Asia is Lieut. ing this, however, this well-known relieve distress without drying up so that in perfect stillness the out of the public or rather W. R. Farmer, R. G. A.. who is and deservedly popular steamer enough out of the poor devils who being demobilised and returning completed the run up in a trifle the springs of it? Why not rather thoughts of everyone may be pull the rickshas to be able to to his position with Messrs. under cight days.

come and take your place in those concentrated on reverent remem- afford a te more confortable Butterfield and Swire.

more progressive bodies where the brance of the glorious dead. No "SOME MEETING. converance. We wonder if any.

Sovember 3rd. At last night's members labour to eradicate the elaborate organisation appears to thing will eventuate?

The fortnightly whist drive meeting of the Old Volumes evil at one blow. to regenerate the AT IT AGAIN.

held last night at the Kowloon held at the Mount Austin Hotel, world, and to rehabilitate the cis- There has been enough written Naval Depot resulted as follows: Dr. James Canilie, who was an inherited Such language is not about the demobilisation or dis-1. Mr. Fincher, 2. Mr. Irvine: 3; nounced to lecture on the Great new to us; it is the language used bandment of the Defence Corps to Mr. Wheeler, 4. Mr. Gerrard: 5. Wali of China, from a Geogra- towards us fifteen years ago by fill a book, and there will probably Mr. Holmes; hidden number. Mr. phical and Political Paint the schools of St. Simon, when, be a great deal more written yet Yer booby prize, Mr. Hoyle. The of View" gave a very in-with only a handful of men, we before the public gets what it next. drive

takes place onteresting. if somewhat long were founding the Society of St. wants. The fatility of carrying Friday, November 21st.

drawn-out, account ofhis personal Vincent de Paul. To be sure we on us at present was very striking-

experiences during a recent visitare. not self-complacent, and ly emphasised to us the other The following name is added to Tientsin, Peking and the Great Heaven preserve us from priding evening as we were leaving office. to the list of Medical Practition Wall. The Geographical and ourselves on our works! But A very prominent resident-in ers Erie Stuart Taylor. Hotel Political part of the show was, when we compare what we would fect the head of one of the Mansions, Doctor of Medicine doubtless owing to the lateness of have accomplished in the ranks of Colony's largest firms was very and Bachelor of Surgery of the the hour. left out, and the lime-those who were pursuing us with wearily coming up Ice House Caiversity of Cambridge. Mem-light illustrations, although under their reproaches, and the wants we Trains will be stopped on the Street carrying his equipment and ber of the Royal College of the experienced guidance of such have succoured, the tears we have railways, taffic on the streets.

le. He was in civilian clothes Surgeons (England), and and had just left office after a centiate of the Royal College of experts as Messrs. St. John children brought up, the crimes, every efort will be made to get Li-renowned scientists and talented dried, the unions legitimised, the ships at sea as far as possible and hard day's work. but before be Physicians (London).

Hancock and Sydney Etc.

work suspended everywhere. at could take his well-deserved rest

perhaps prevented, Skertchley. proved a complete minds soothed, ah! we do not re- and to ensure complete silence..

schools, shops, mines and factories There is something appropriate about the Shanghai Conference | he had to feg up to Headquarters, The Canton Intelligence Bureau frost Brother Skertchley ex- of British Chambers of Commerce expressing its opinions on the attend a parade and, for him at forwards the following:- Recent hibited an admirable sketch of the get the choice which

His Majesty hopes that you will " affairs of South Ching in general and the Canton Delta is particular.least, waste a valuable hour in reports that the Constitutionalist far-famed Tytam Tiger, as that spired us to make. Make the same

niteen arrange as far as possible for a 1t will have been noticed from the telegram sent yesterday by our playing at game that he could Government or that the South-animal appeared from paleon-choice, Gentlemen, and Shanghai correspondent that the Conference has urgently directed aster become efficient at simply Western Provinces have contract-tological data, thousands of years years herce you will not be sorry similar observance. It is of course the attention of the Chinese Government to the suppression of because military efficiency caned loans with Japan or purchased before Adam and Eve came to for it. Yes, undoubtedly, it is act impracticable owing to distance that the ceremony should syn- piracy and the state of lawlessness existing in Kwantung Province, never be gained by sporadic arms and munitions from Japan grief in the Garden of Eden, and, enough to relieve the indigent poor chronise throughout the Empire. more especially in the Canton Delta, which results in a condition of effort. As he passed he are entirely without foundation needless to say, the great artist's from day to day; we must get at affairs most detrimental to trade generally and the prosperity of very unjorously smiled, saying An official denial has been issued. short description of this wonder the root of the evil, and by means

It is therefore suggested that South China. The appositeness of the representations is apparent Keep pegging away at this It may be added that the officials ful specimen of this aniraal king of wise reforms lessen the causes 11 am local time should be when we recall that it was in Canton that British merchants first Defence Question. He passed of the Constitutionalis: Govern-dom was received with shouts of of public misery. But we profess adopted everywhere. began their commercial intercourse with China, under conditions on "de his bit." but the waste ment are at a loss to account for laughter. There was no debate, to believe that the knowledge of A similar message is being sent. of extreme difficulty, and that ever since those early days British of it all was very strikingly the origin of the canai. Thereas the last tram at 11.15 waits useful reform is to be obtained to India and to every Dominion traders have been vitally interested in business with South China. emphasised or the incident. As

is a suspicion, however, that as for nobody, and perhaps it was less through hooks and from pub-Land Colony in the Empire. There has scarcely heen a time, however, when foreign trade has the Hon. Mr. Alabaster has said it emanated criginally from the just as well. All's well that ends lic meetings, than by going up the not been seriously obstructed by one cause or another. When itt savours of profiteering to ask North, those who bare actually well. General Digby Barker was stairs of the poor man's garret has not been a case of official interference, lawlessness, unchecked these nennen to whom the committed those same acts have in the chair, and judging from his sitting by his bedside, feeling the The Hon. Colonial Secretary by the Provincial authorities. has operated to put an effective check Colony owe B great deal to accused cthers in order to cover Excellency's exhausted appear same cold as he, and by inducing announces on trade. And these things rerur again and again, not only to the continue to waste time and energy up their own sins." Quite so!

ance at the Snish of the him to confide to us the secret of a} disadvantage of the foreigner but also to the manifest injury of that could be devoted to a much

business, he must have started sad and lonely heart in the in-be given by a gun fired on Murray The signal in this Colony will

the native business man as well.

better purpose.

early in the morning watching timacy of a friendly talk. When Parade Ground at eleven o'clock. When the Republic was inaugurated, the most glowing visions LICENSING MATTERS.

for the Japanese fleet that is

we have acquitted corselves of were conjured up of a new era in which all these untoward happen- The Licensing Sessions held

coming to take Hongkong. But this duty, not merely for a few trusts that the community will His Excellency the Governor ss would he swept away and a great forward stride taken in the yesterday revealed what undoubt GEORGE M. ICARD TO Hongkong can res:intranquility: montas, but for long years, and comply with His Majesty's development of trade and commerce. These hopes, however, heveedly constitutes a very satisfac- been completely falsified, so that to-day, instead of matters having tory state of affairs, for it was improved, we find a state of affairs which is even worse than condi-stated during the meeting that tions ander the Manchu regime. The changes of Government there bad not been a single com- George M. Icard, one of the which have taken place in Canton since the Revolution are more plaint against any one of the pioneer locators of mining claims numerous than we would care to reckon up, and with each licencees during the past year. in the Philippine islands, is soon successive shuffle the authority of the Government has It is not many communities with returning to China on the Shinyo visibly weakened. At present Kwangtung is supposed to be a population so large as that of Maru where he and his associates ruled by a so-called Military Government, a body illegal in Hongkong of which the same can are opening silver and lead mines conception and refusing to recognise the central authority.be said, and it speaks well for the in South China which offer great With the Peking Government in full diplomatic intercourse with men whom the Licensing Board promise. Three other mining men oreign Powers, this Canton creation is nothing more nor less than have permitted to hold licences. of the Philippine islands are also a rebel organisation. If it stopped at refusal to recognise Peking. In a way we were rather sorry to in this association. Percy Kin A new local enterprise is the matters would not be so bad as they are. But we know for a fact see that two new applications by caid, P. J. Oniell and J. H. Davis. Union Engineering Co., Ltd. It that it improperly diverts the Customs and Salt revenues, from Japanese at Wanchai were! Mr. Icard was born in one of will be housed in the offices unit which China is under an international obligation to pay the interest turned down. Judging by the the greatest mining districts of lately occupied by Messrs. Soow- en her foreign loans, as well as making imposts which have no number of licences alreads held, the world, Nevada County, Cali-man and Co., freight and shipping justification whatever. We are rather surprised that the Shanghai it would at first sight seem that lfornia, where a knowledge of soft brokers, next to Moutrie's. It whose conditions can otherwise the shipwrecked mariner's friend Conference did not take up this specific question, for matters there is ample provision, but the and hard mining methods are re-will carry. everything in the have indeed come to a pretty pass when an illegally constituted fact must not be lost sight of that quired to be a successful miner. machinery line, contract for all body can lay hands or revenues, a proportion of which should by the Japanese community living The buried gravel channels there kinds of steel work and industrial right of Treaty go into foreign hands.

east of Arsenal Street is growing are often surrounded by quick-plants. It has facilities in Am- Worst of all from the commercial standpoint, the Canton extremely rapidly. It would be sands requiring skill and patience erica to handle everything, and Government betrays an utter helplessness in stamping out piracy, interesting, and something in the on the miners' part. Mr. Icard direct factory representatives in robberies and general lawlessness. What is true of the South is, nature of revelation

we kas in "the past 20 years Europe and America.. unhappily, true also of most of the Provincial authorities in other think. if the actual population prospected and mined

It is a private-limited company, parts of China. Sir John Jordan, we see, spoke at the Gonference figures could be obtained. most all the island of the and the Union Trading Company of the great hindrance to trede development which all this uncon- Cases of Japanese insobriety Philippines and has at are the general managers. The trolled unrest implies. He said that China heretofore had not are sufficiently rare to cause no sent mining claims in the Company will occupy its pre- needed a Government in the modern sense, local government fear that an extra licence would great copper deposits of Manca-mises on the 15th instant. The sufficing for the needs of the people, but the spread of communications be of any detriment to the com-yan Suyoc and in Baguio mining management has been taken over created that need. He added that the vagaries of taxation would munity. If one of the new ap district, where he has been mine by an engineer with consideralle never be remedied until transportation became more efficient and plications had been granted, foreman for the Boa Mining com- experience in Hongkong and the

would the Central Government could exercise direct control in the outlying it

have given pany, Headwaters Mining com- Far East, who has just come back districts. We believe the British Minister, and we are also with the Japanese community an pany, Benguet Consolidated Min-from the States. him in his expressed fear that the process towards that end will evidence that their needs are ing company and others in that The Union Engineering Co., be very slow. It may, indeed, never come to fruition in our time, sympathetically thought of by that region. He was mine fore-Lid, mill carry some of the best But the need of these things is indeed argent. A strong Central those in authority. But in any man for the Benguet Consolidated electrical fittings seen in the Government, capable of keeping rebellion in check and crime case we are not very much con- Mining company from 1914 until Colony There is ample scop within reasonable limits is the one thing that can Bare cerned about it, and the members 1918 when he resigned to go to | for e display in their premises, Chins from national disaster. If she cannot provide such a Govern of the Board have a right to think Chins in connection wiban and there is every indication that ment, the time may well come when others will have to do it for her as they like.

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pre-

that terror of the Eastern Seas,

the invincible Montiara. will at once be placed in commission and until further notice the Colony is safe. So mote it be!

NEW ENGINEERING ENTERPRISE.

A LOCALLY FORMED COMPANY.

will make goods

the

angry

God in-

when we have thus studied the wishes. poor man in his home, at school, in hospital, not in one town onis, but in several, in the country, in every condition where God has placed him, then we begin to know

MILNER.

TALKING WATER.

A WONDERFUL INVENTION,

the elements of this formidable problem of misery, then we have the right to propose serious mea. sures."

An engineer, demobilised from The reply is decisive. The Government service, has made members of the Society of St. Vin-water talk. A visit to the cent de Paul gain through this in-inventors' paradise at Olympia→→→ timate association with the poor the shipping engineering exhibi- and their. children a wonderful tion, which Lord Weir opened knowledge of the needs of a class debut in the world of science, as reveals "Katie," who makes her

never be thoroughly appreciated.

end the water engineer's

"Katie" is an automatic float, tion that the Society has in all with a sensitive depth finding lands been always so successful mechanism.

connected tele- in the "social" works, properly sophonically, and is placed on the called, which it has undertaken. surface of the water. Another delicate instrument rests on the CRICKET.

bottom, with a wire connection. When en engineer wants to .0.5.0.0.-2ND XI V. H.K.C.C. know the depth of water at a

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Darticular spot he ring up. Katie on the phone and she To be played on the Civil tells him the exact depth. She Service ground November 10th, commencing at manner of the Morse code, and on Monday, speaks in soft, jerky buzzes in the 10 am. The following will re when she gets out of her depth present the C.S.C.C.-W. Hill. E. the statters. If the current is Fincher, F. Bacon, GH too strong she becomes speech- B. W. Bradbury, H.-W. Sandford, how much water has got into the Haskett A. E. Wood, N. Piercy, lese. "Kalle" will warn a captain S. Adderman, H. E. Strange hold of the engine room after and RCWitchell

collisions

intimate knowledge and apprecia It is undoubtedly because of this oracle.