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NOTES & COMMENTS.
A CHAT ABOUT ROADS,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
YOUR
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THOUGHTS If anyone were asked off-hand OTHERS FOR OR AGAINST YOU. how many roads there are in Hongkong they would certainly
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INTERESTING LEGAL POINT.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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obituary notice in the Berliner There was quite an interesting Tageblatt the other day (says a "Robbie's" observations on St.ing along by Murray Barracks
Tuesday night after case at the Supreme Court this London Evening News correspon be caught guessing. Yet the Andrew's Ball will appear to dinner and had an opportunity of morning befors Mr. Justice dent)-Better be dead than be a question could hardly be called
hearing the band of the Wiltshire Gompertz. The parties to the slave! From unbearable pain frivolous. The names of roads,
Regiment, which was playing action were the Wing Hing and grief at the annihilation of anyway. tell a very great deal
Yesterday's health return outside for the benefit of the Company, coal merchants, of the beloved Fatherland and the about a place if anyone is inter.
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Road, and infamous and humiliating peace ested enough to make enquiries shows one fatal case each of Officers' Mess. I was not able to A few days ago we announced diphtheris and gastro-enteritis stay very long, but the little that the Fukukawa Company, Ltd. terms, among them the loss of I did hear impressed me with the of Connaught Road, also coal German East Africa, for whose that Mr. Arthur Chapman, F.S.I. Both victims were Chinese.
fact that when we do bear the merchants. The plaintiffs claim-acquirement and development he the Government Assessor, had
Mr. J.W. Pranks, co the Ma- band in public it will be with dis-ed the sum of $585, being damages worked for twenty-five years, my just published his fourteenth issue of the Street Iudex of gistracy, has taken over the tinst pleasure. The crowd of for loss of proat on the non- brave and faithful brother, Kerr Hongkong, and a closer perusal Honorary Secretaryship of the Chinese assembled outside the delivery of 390 tons of "Baryo" Wilhelm Janke, has now, at the of the book has tempted us to Royal Hongkong Golf Club cice railings showed that even they unscreened coal, which were age of sixty years, passed away
too appreciated good music. purchased under a contract dated by his own hand.” write a little about Hongkong Mr. C.L. Sandes.
October 17. There was a counter- roads, their number and names. Just for the sake of curiosity, we The light cruiser Carysfort
Although it does not actually claim for $600, which the de-
Although to-day we all shake have counted the number of which was originally allotted to
come within my scope as a writer fendants said was the balance named roads that Mr. Chapman the China Squadron, has been on things musical, I was very
due on coal seld and delivered. hands on meeting as a matter of bas enumerated and detailed in permanently alloted to the Second pleased to see in yesterday's Mr.Lyson appeared fortheplain- course, there was a time when bis very valuable book, and, to our Light Cruiser Squadron. Telegraph the announcement that tiffs and Mr. Davidson defended. purists held that friends af op- astonishment, we discover that
The facts of the case, as outposite sexes should not salute Hongkong is going to be visited there are no fewer than 476 named
The Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell's this winter by so many theatrical lined by Mr. Lyson were these: one another by shaking hands Daily Chronicle roads in the city of Victoria lecture on "Golf" at the Helena companies. But what I can The plaintiff firm, whose head (remarks
writer.) In 1628, Sir John Taking into consideration the May Institute on Monday, Dec-legitimately refer to is the forth- office is at Canton, entered into a square mileage of the City it is ember 8th, will commence at 5.30 coming visit of the Russian contract with the defendants for Nicholl, giving judgment in a most extraordinary figure. of
p.m. and not at 6 p.m. as an Opera Company. To that all the purchase of 500 tons of coal divorce case, remarked that "con- course, it only goes to bring home nounced previously.
music lovers in the Colony besides at the price of $10 per ton. On duct highly blameable and dis- of coal tressing to the feelings of a more forcibly what most people
myself will be looking forward October 19,110 tons with very keen anticipation. It were taken delivery of and husband had been proved; but, already know; that Hongkong ist
all although 30 witnesses had been maze of twisting, narrow and
is a long day since we have beard $600 overcrowded streets at least in
grand opera in Hongkong and the paid in part payment. No proper examined, no indecent familiar- ities beyond kissing had been the native quarter. As a guide
thought of living again receipt was given for that, only a
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of form saying "Received partial proved. The shaking of hands to overcrowding at Home the
through "Faust" or I Travatore", makes payment, etc." with no amount when they met was
Later in practice so frequent between per- authorities always take
one almost excited. And there is specified being given. average number of persons to the square acre in a town, and we
no shadow of doubt that the the same day the remaining $500 sons of different sexes, however An additional gift from Manila Rassian company coming is one
was paid, making the full total opinions might differ as to its venture to think that if that could be worked out here there would of three cases pipe tobacco, pre- of the very highest class.
of $1,100 for the 110 tens de delicacy, that no unfavourable could be deduced livered. be produced a figure that would sented by Messrs. Meerkamp &
Two days afterwards inference
thence." shock any respectable Borough Co., has been received by the
the plaintiffs sought delivery of the remaining 390 tons, because Surveyor. But this is East not war Charities Commitee for West, and so one must get too forwarding to London for dis-
they had signed a contract with
more figures. In the Hill district there are 21 named roads, Broad- wood Road and Wongneichong contribute four more, Shauki wan Road Kas running off it 43 roads, over in Kowloon there are 66 roads, at Yaumati 41, Mongkokstui 29, Teikoktsul 19, Fuktsunheung 9, Hunghom 21.
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The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportionsl. Subscrip- comparative. Let us take a few tribution among the wounded 13 north are enjoying concerts by quantity at 11.50 per ton. The next two months, and for the
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1919.
LOCAL POLITICS.
Shamshuipo 12 and then there is the Kowloon City Road, bringits up the total number of roads that Mr. Chapman has dealt with to 736. It's a figurs that makes one wonder where all these roads are, but Mr. Chapman has them all down, named and numbered. MEMORIES OF THE PAST.
Hospitals.
We hear that the local ship- owners concerned in the recent demands by the China Coast Officers Guild and the Marine Engineers Guild are not inclined the demands. A to concede combined meeting of the two
Guilds is considering the situa- tion this afternoon.
The gunboats Moth (Lieutenant in Command H. A. Simpson D.S.O.) and Mantis (Lieutenant in Command H. T. C. Walker) associated with the Archangel River Expeditionary Force as tenders to the Fox..are ordered to be paid off at Sheerness, and to be refitted for service on the China Station.
If one bad time to go through all the names appearing in the book and carefully sort them out. one would End a great deal to talk about at least reminiscient- ly. But the writer hasn't-honest! Only a very casual glance, apart from the counting, has been possible. There are names of past Hongkong Governors, well- known business men, pest Chief they
Shanghai generally much better off musically thas Hong kong and just now residents up that well-known pianist M, Alfred Mirovitch, wbo has visited Hongkong in company with M. Fastro. He is being assisted by his sister, Mme. Mirovitch-Broos, a vocalist of such excellence that she has appeared in prominent parts at the Drame Musicle Opers House, Petrograd. The comment
a Canton firm to deliver such a in Ontario within the
defendants were unable to give first time several women candi-
passed during their godowns, and so the order of legislation
last session women delivery, as they had no coal in dates are in the field. As a result from Canton was cancelled. The the
now eligible for seats firm bad, therfore, suffered a loss are
the Provincial Legisla of the amount claimed in the in writ. They denied all liability true. Women voters in Ontario for the counter-claim, as they had are demanding a high standard of fully paid paid for the coal they qualifications in those who desire had received.
to act as their first legislators. A Mr. Davidson's case was that record of practical public service one of the best women singers his firm had never received the and the power of presenting their among those who have visited the $600 referred to, but it had reviews to the public in a convincing He admitted manner are points upon which East for many a year". With such ceived the 8500. high praise as this, and, knowing breach of contract, but said that what a superb pianist M. Miro- the damages were vitch is, I do sincerely hope that Plaintiffs were this couple will see fit to include of proft Hongkong in their itinerary.
of the Japan Advertiser was, Mme. Mirovitch-Broos is easily
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A very great many people enjoy pianoforte music without being themselves able to play, but there has been such perfection attained within recent years in the manufacture of mechanical pianos that, if one can afford great such luxuries, they should never
Canton students who demand the dismissal or punishment of the Police Commissioner have made public their intention that if their petitions are still ignored,
will organize &
women are very keen. Thrifty excessive.national housekeeping in the fall"" claiming loss sense of the word and legislation and they could that will protect the home and the not do so. He would contend chlid, conserving all human re- that they could have bought sources, giving to every child
in the coal
open market proper food and housing and the opportunity of developing the highest powers, are the principal objects women have before them.
and supplied the Canton people at a much lower rate than the figure on which the damages was based. As a matter of law they could not claim & profit above the market price. If coal had been purchased in the market and then
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Justices and Attorney Generats demonstration and camp out on be without good class music. the difference between the market demonstrators of rainbow gar
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HELPING FRANCE. GIFT TO HONGKONG FUND.
Introduction of spots-neither of
streets surrounding the These instruments have been price and the contract price, Colonial Secretaries, Public the
average member of the com the matter of it would have been a different unity with alarm if there were The steps that are being taken for the formation of a Residents' Works Directors, public bene various ramens until a satis-brought to such a fine pitch of charged against the defendants, ments for men, might well fill the time and expression that there thing, but to claim 15 per cent. the slightest risk of its being Association in Kowloon represent a movement of no mean import-factors-a real host of those who factory reply is received from the excellence in
is removed all that obvious-on this one transaction was mon- taken or perhaps even meant- ance and one that will have to be reckoned with in the future if have been anything at all. In
The Mother Superior of thely mechanical rendition that strous. As regards the $600 that seriously (says a writer in the -present ambitions fully fructify. We have already given the objects the names of roads one can find
Italian Convent desires to characterised the early pro formed the counter-claim, he
Evening Standard.) There is upon which the new Association will concentrate its encrgies, and Hongkong's history and a great There doesn't ap-
Messrs. denied that it had ever been obviously nothing which would thank Mrs. E. A Eles, of the ducts. I was we do not doubt that these will be considered by all reasonable deal more. people as an admirable basis upon which to perform good work on pear to be the name of any peas Italian Consulate, for declaring Moutrie's the other day and had received.
the recent Bazaar open, and a chance of hearing one of the
Witnesses were then called, and more greatly rejoice the heart of the tailoring world than some behalf of a community whose needs have been so much neglected paper Editor perpetuated in this
drastic innovation which would in the past. It is this very neglect which has inspired the move-way! Perhaps it is that Editors
immediately Lieutenant Bianchedi's patronage: Company of New York and Lon- ment, and it is a most hopeful augury that so many residents of the have a nasty habit of making for her, Chev. E. Eles and new instruments by the Eolian the points in the case gone into.
put all existing themselves uncomfortable
wardrobes out of date, such as peninsula have come forward and expressed their anxiety to join in
a great deal with the Chinese produced the Pianola pisnos and
the substitution of horizontal for concerted action for the common weal. It is a good sign in any those who name streets; they also Mr. P. K. Kwok who helped dor. This firm is the esme that
vertical stripes,, or the discreet community when the people resolve to unite in the furtherance of certainly have trodden on the toes civic life. Such a healthy development is taking place in Kowloon of a few Directors of Public Works community, and the rumerous is now fitting all the best makes It only remains for those who are displaying an interest in for allowing roads to be in an al patrons and friends who helped of pianos with its mechanism. towards its success, notwith-One can therefore have a Steck,
which is an outright impossibility. the movement to work together in harmony and to do all in their most unusable state. The curious standing the inclements of the Weber, or any other piano just as
The offer of a most valuable The trick has been successfully power to bring others into membership. Then we shall have a very names of Hongkong's streets, too,
one fancies. The instrument that gift has been made to the Hong-practised without a break by might provide a fund of anecdote, weather.
I heard in Moutrie's convinced kong Fund for War Derastated dressmakers since before the daye real force.making its influence felt in the affairs of the Colony,
The intertion at present is that when the Association is formal- but the temptesion will have to
As the tit-bit to an interesting me that things have reached a France. Mrs French, of Kow-of benains and farthingales, and ly established there shall be periodical meetings at which matters be resisted. Holy Infant Lane is
offering the Coronet is of special concern to Kowloon will be discussed and representations a pretty good appellation and one programme the management of state of par excellence so far as loon, has compiled, with the help the ordinary man's terror of being
The piano players go,
of Mr. Taggart of the Hongkong conspicuous would make him an Hotel, a cookery book in the easy victim if a revolution were made thereon, if necessary, both to the Government and the could multiply the example. At Unofficial members of the Councils. Then, apart from these periodic least one German name has been College Widow," a comedy drama,
I have been asked why it is English and French languages, attempted in suficiently high- .is shortly to be handed style. The change from al discussions, special consideration is to be given to the annual wiped off the street plate, for the which teems with life and action
that I do not sometimes give in which athletic "bloods" of a certain
this
real published by the S. C. M. Pust. knee-breeches to trousers (first column some Estimates as they affect Kowloon, and here also we can see that old Rieneecker Street is now Mai and portrays the pranks of the
musical
my The proceeds of the sale of the worn et Carlton House in 1815 by the activities of the Association may be of the greatest possible Fong Street. In putting down
notes. realistic scene of a burning build-
questioner meant was that I book were to have been given Captain Gronow) is a case in Well done, Mr. Chapman." value. But perhaps one of the most important of the new body's duties the book one is forced to exclaim College. The last reel has a will be to see that Kowloon opinion is given a chance of making
ing with thrills immeasurable should go in for some technical to Mrs. Taggart and the ladies point. itself beard in the Council Chamber. The clause in the Association's IMPORTANT DAYS,
occasioned by a rescue incident. criticisms of new productions, of the "Little Bit Society for Cross, but The famous Yellowstone Nation- In the telegrams published to- objects which has to do with this point is framed in wide terms, the
A men whose nose was cut off give a list of the latest works the American Red idea being to approach the Government, as may be necessary from day there is certainly a very al Park of America is shown in which are worth the buying, and they have kindly allowed Mrs in an accident told at Windsor's time to time, with a view to obtaining "adequate representation" great deal of important news. another picture,
to generously which, being
do a little in the way of guiding French
remarkable story of how it was on the Legislature. Under such a clause, the way is opened up for There is the United States and beautifully coloured, brings out people who aim to be musical. the whole of the proceeds to Mrs. found and put on again (says the action along many lines. It would be quite possible, for instance, Mexico trouble which now seems the best scenic effects of this
Whether 1 am fitted to Basil Taylour for the fund for
Daily Mail) The man, William for the Association to press for separate elective representation for to have come to a head with the beautiful region. "The Tip," also
I Devastated France. The book is Robertson (37), The Broadway, such 2 thing Kowloon, and it would be well within its rights in so doing if the killing of one American; there is hown, is a Harold Lloyd comedy,
but a most useful one as it contains Lambourn, Berkabire, who was seriously question, majority of its members agreed that such a course would be to the the partition of the German war which is excruciatingly funny. even if I felt confidently.com- the recipes of most of the good employed as a stable lad by Mr. interests of the community. "In any case, such au Association fleet that the Supreme Council
petent I don't think I would. dishes for which the Hongkong J. Rhodes, of Lambourn, was could not possibly view with unconcern any movement for local has decided on; there is the
There is already enough of that Hotel is popular, including all with memorandum constitutional reform, inasmuch as its members would want to German
written. One cannot pick up a the sweets in the Grill Room getting a horse ready for Windsor know where Kowloon stood in the matter.
regard to the Scapa Flow sink-
walked through the doorway," he In some quarters there has, until now, been a tendency to pourings a memorandum character- The first fatal mosquito bite Sunday Observer without finding and the special cocktails, which racecourse on August 15.
ever reported in England caused plenty of that sort of thing writ are so justly famed. The book said, "the skylight fell on me and ridicule on the Kowloon movement, but, with the formation of thisistic of German bombast; and new Association in sight, it is coming to be recognised that this is there is the D'Annunzio crisis the death of Mrs. Annie May ten by Ernest Newman, who is will be on sale at the "Every cut my nose cleap off. I was & sincere and serious effort by people who are determined that and a good many more history- Taylor. 19 years old. She was perhaps the greatest living Eng-thing Else" stall at the Cabaret taken to King Edward VII. Hoep- brought bitten on the face while is a park.lish musical critic. If readers to be held at the Volunteer ital, Windsor, without my nose. Kowloon's wante shall be kept well to the fore. For any other making events, now
the surgeon asked. Where is body or any other newspapers to belittle it would be the utmost before the public. It all goes to Swelling and general infection went advice they can find it in Parade ground on December 20th. The arteries were tied up, and foolishness and would betray
The doctor's son Home journals and, in addition, want to avoid reproducing the your nose?* lamentable shortsightedness. show what really important days ensued, and Mrs. Taylor succum practically any of the first-class
the many musical papers Aesuming that some measure of constitutional reform were conceded, we are privileged to live in, for bed after ten days of suffering.
opinions of Home critics, because cycled to the stables, and my nose even if it did not satisfy the demands of the Constitutional Reform we are witnessing happenings
satisfy all their wants.
they can be read in the many pa- was found in the horse-box among Association or meet the desires of the new Kowloon organisation, that are shaping the destiny
pers coming from Home. If there the straw. It was brought back than half the It is obvious that, by reason of the number of Kowloon voters on of
the the resgister, any candidate coming forward for election would have countries in
All that. I hope to do in this is anything that I can do to help to the hospital, and the nose was to take account of Kowloon's infitience. It might ever be that is a thought that might, with are inclined to dismiss all these column is to keep local musical on the production of music in this put on again. My nose was off Kowloon would hold the balance of power: At any rate, the advantage, be pointed out more things from their thoughts and interest alive, to give notice of Colony that is all I am aiming at: for about three quarters of an Kowloon-Residents Association would certainly be a factor in the frequently, for there is still a very judgments, but there is a greater any forthcoming events in a I would exclaim with Orsino hour to an hour" Eointing to his need than ever before for an in-word; to trest. in a short weekly "If music be the food of love, play pose; he added smilingly." It is situation, slice it could easily take a given candidate under its great deal of loose and irrespon- wing. It is clear from what we have remarked that when the new sible thinking evident. If people tellectual popular outlook. Only chat of things musical as they on; give me excess of it." We on now, as you see, and every- Kowloon Association comes into being there will be such a thing as would only realise the very great when peoples as a whole take Up affect Hongkong I am not pre- shall never have an excess in thing is going on satisfactorily. local political activity in which residents generally will have a significance of these days when the tasks of policy instead of pared to concern. myself with the Hongkong but we might aim a I am to be discharged to-day. I leaving them to governing merits or demerits of a new work little bit more towards sufficiency, cannot speak too highly of the very real abara, And that is bound to quicken interest in civic life. the affairs of the world were Kowloon intends in the future to guard its interests with a jealous never more in a state of flux, cliques will there be anything that happens to come under my And this column is open to any surgeon, the nurses
hospital notice in a private way, and I who care to assist. eye, Let there be no mistake on that point.
there would be cause for brighter approaching real democracy,
more
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