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A SERVICE ANOMALY.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
AN ISLANDERS DIARY.
WE ARE NOT SENT INTO THIS
(BY AJAX.") One bears some very peculiar WORLD TO DO ANYTHING INTO Lord Erskine, in cross examina- things sometimes when talking to WHICH WE CAN NOT PCT ORtion, could be most searching and men of the services in Hongkong. HEARTS.-Ruskin.
If anyone is in search of interest. ing anomalies. let him have a Amongst the passengers who chat to the naval men of the left by the Kores Maru yesterday
and China Station
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be
of all deducted
That
from
hospital there.
close on 2.
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EXPORT
OF GOLD.
A PROFITABLE HONGKONG For the last six months or 30
BUSINESS.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
The Burgomaster of Ypres has savere but he never resorted to there has been a steady and hears is ued a notice to tourists remind- brow-beating, nor was he gratuit: shipment of gold from Hongkongng them that the salient is ground ously rude. Often he carried his to the Straits Settlements. No hallowed by British valour. A point by coaxing, and when the sooner do American evidence could not be contradict eagles arrive here than they buried in the semi-circle of mud double quarter of a million dead are ted he would try by pleasantry to disappear to the Straits. Chinese surrounding that City of Ghosts. lessen the effect of it, which I gold leaf dealers in Hongkonghan blades of grass. It seems a There are almost more crosses intend to adhere to in this week's sell these twenty-dollar gold
SEM
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"The man in the wilderness
asked me
How many strawberries grew
in the sea.
The Hongkong
banks buy
Q
AS
services contrast with the ordin- ary conceptions of ordinary
A Chinese girl who was injured diary On the trial of an action coins of the United States to pity that such a place should he civilian people. We will take by being knocked down by a motor to recover the just one little matter on the ques-car belonging to
value of the Straits and the merchants made a resort for boliday makers; Connaught quantity of whalebone, the de- there sell them to the Indians, but there is every indication that tion of pay. As most people are Garage, near Pottenger Street, fence turning to the quality of who in turn dispose of them to unprecedented rush will be aware, the military get all their has been sent to the Government the article, a witness was called. smugglers to India, principally, made this spring for the battle- pay at the local concession rate Civil Hospital
of impenetrable stupidity, who Bombay. Calcuttaand Madras and fields of France and Flanders. (2) but the naval men oply
could not be made to distinguish Colombo. These gold coins are pre- get eighty
cent. per
of Basket ball players are remind between the two theirs
well sumably hoarded in India. That the remaining twenty per cent. being ed that entries for the first Openknown descriptions of this com- "double eagles" which are export- cipate in the general rise of wages.
at such a figure, the
Barristers, we hear, are parti-** League in Hongkong close to modity-the long and the thick ed from Hongkong are eventual and price of commodities by paid at the official rate. is only by way of introduction tomorrow. Entries should be seat/Still confounding thick whalebonely smuggled into India there is receiving bigger fees. Very soon, what follows. When a militars to Mr. J. I.. McPherson, at the with long, Erskine exclaimed, in not an iota of doubt.
geering despair. "Why. man, you mitted by the gold deslers here, be a thing of the past, while It is ad-even the guinea "dock" brief will: Chinese T.M.C.A. man makes an allotment to his
do not seem to know the difference and they should know. wife in England, the whole of the A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. ita follars at the concession in Calef of the thin but in ense. You are thick-headed, but The gold leaf dealers make a lot of barrister, but his clerk, will benefit eminent "specials" will demand money that is due to him is first in-Chief of China Squadron long! Now, I tell you the differ profitable to all who indulge in it. cinema stars.
This morning the Commander between what is thick and what is
This new business is extremely and obtain nearly as much
Not only the rate and then the amount in
spected the ships' companies of you are not long-headed." The mones, and his branch or agent by a rise, for the latter is paid at sterling thar he has H. M. warships at present in annual meeting of the Hum in the Straits Settlement reaps the rate of about 5 per cent. on lotted is deducted according
phrey Estate Company which an equal beneft, and so does the his master's earnings. This comes, to the official rate. For instance, port. There were
thousand men on parade.
held last week say a man earning £1 a week
gaye Indian smuggler. At first, only however, not from his master's Mr. Humphreys an opportu- the Chinese geld leaf dealer used pocket, but from the client's; thus makes a 10- allotment, he first of all is entitled to $10. Assuming
We learn that Mr. Remedios,nity for a display of seeming to export American twenty-dollar a guinea fee is charged £1 3s. 68. that the official rate ia 5 to the
an old employe of
Messrs. stupidity. After remarking that gold coins to Singapore, but now and so on-Daily Chronicle. dollar. it means that his allot collapsed on board the ss. Sui full throughout the year, he said people others who have also
Jardine. Matheson
the Company's houses had been there are in the ranks of these 32, he receiving the balance. Saturday last and later died in 54 per cent. on the capital. Straits, namely money changers ment of 10 costs him only Tai on his way to Macan on the net profits worked out at about started exporting gold to the
Colonel Amery, who becomes brevet Colonial Secretary, bas had He gets the benefit of the
which he considered disappoint-and Chinese and foreign com-
an interesting and diversified high dollar on that Amount
ing!! Continuing, he said. "At
career. Born in India, son of a of his moner that he has to send away. But it is not so in the pany's receipts for the week end- conclusive evidence that not only Straits bills against gold shipments to Balliol, where he did great
The Hongkong Tramway Com. the same time, this result affords mis on agents.
Civil Servant, he went from Har they came out allotted quite awhich is an increase of $4,602 ing so far as this Company is 17 points over the official rate, Navy. A good many men. when ed February 21st, totalled $18.205 has there been no rent profiteer-at stiff rates. Sometimes they get
things, becoming erectually a goodly portion of their pay to
of All Souls-one concerned, but that, on the
Oxford's prizes. Next but it is usually at least 15 points
he wives they were leaving behind. over the same week last year.
For the eight weeks of the year, contrary, our rentals are too low. over the rate in a firm market. In served discovered
Es private secretary arrival the total takings are $111.679 as indeed they are in some cases spite of this, the exporters can liberal education, travelled in the to Lord Courtney, in itself a their allotinents Were which is a decrease of $2,815 The italics are mine.
afford to sell these gold coins to the Near East, and took up journa Straits at a proft, which is ism. Incidentally he found time- their sterling pay and then the over the same period last year.
sufficient indication that there is per cent at the concession rate] balance handed to them (eighty
The acting Danish Consul in
bir money in this business. official rate). and twenty percent. at the current Hongkong notifies us that the
The highest prices fetched so far following telegram has to-day Ltd..the Army procedure this meant from the Danish Minister at
for the double eagle has beer As compared with
been received at the Consulate
Straits. $65, which is the big difference. Say a man earning
present rite there. The As many as red berrings in the Straits merchant sell to £1 3 week has allotted 10-Peking: Following telegram
the .wood." received from Foreign Office:
Thus runs a famíliar jingle. If Rs. 83, which, at the present rate Indian smugglers at Rs. 70 to 'Plebiscite in first zone Slesvig
Two interesting sinecures are balance is paid to him in dollars 75.000 Danes and 23,000 Germans, the Company's rentals are too low. of exchange amount to over Hk.. held by one of the Eton College That means that Northera Slesvig how could they be otherwise in $46. In Hongkong these American prize-winners, the Marquis f $4.40. As compared to the
some cases. If they are too low in all military man, he is worse off by is now a Danish Province."
cases, they must be too low in at $22 to $23.
double eagles" can be obtained Donegali, who has just carried off €3.60 on every pound earned. Of
the Headmaster's French prize. Now that Mr. Denman Fuller every case. There is hardly any course, the men have found a has returned to the Colony belogic in the Chairman's remarks. br the continual shipments of with his titles the post of Gover- The people who have suffered Tois 16-year-old peer inherited remedy. They have eut down
resume his would suggest to Mr. Henry gold to the Straits Settlements nor of Carrickfergus Castle, an the amounts of their allotments hopes to shortly
recitals. regular organ
The Humphreys that he carry a copy are the Chinese exporters of historic to what is barely the minimum Cathedral organ has, however, of Locke "On the Human Under foodstuffs and of general merch-chiedy as
structure. TOW used and, cut of the larger BUTT
an armoury, near in dollars
suffered very severely during the standing" under his arm the next andise handed to them
past few weeks, owing to the time he presides at a company and the neighbouring
to Singapore, Pedang which William III. landed before personally, they have gone to the
parts, the Battle of the Boyne. Then Post Office and bought money
extreme climatic changes, so that meeting. A study of this work because the goods are sent to he is also Lord High Admiral of a great part of the action has had may expand his sense at logic. their customers there on credit. Lough Neagh, which is the- MORE CANTON MUDDLES.
orders in favour of their wives or
to be taken out. As soon as Mr. If Mr. Humphreys wants me to Heavy shipments of gold coins largest sheet of water in the- relatives and have thereby been Denman Fuller has progressed believe that the Company is only from Hongkong to the Settle- British Isles, with an area of 153- the gainers. So in the end the sufficiently with the work, he earning seven per cent. Foreign observers may by pardoned if they begin wondering, sethe men have tumble hopes to be able to announce the the
Navy has saved but very little,
onments serve to strenghten and square miles. The lough has capital in the when the so-called Canton Military Government intends to complete case the men have on date of the first recital: unless the
case of raise the T.T. rate on Singapore. been held, also, to be the oldest Humphreys the task which it assigned to itself when it first began its existence anomalous point is just this: any unforeseen difficulties, are will only do so on the production when payment falls due, less back beyond the glacial epoch. Buildings, Consequently, the exporter gets, Lake in our islands, extending be fresh in the minds of most people that the Canton Government al
It will If the
encountered, this will probably be of the books. A calculation of Hongkong dollars than he would The noble Etonian should be a military сад put was formed because some members of the old Peking Parliament, concession rate before touching
early in March.
that kind cannot be made on have received on the day when "wet-bob" with such associa- 器 man's pay into considering that they were the only persons legally invested with it for purposes of allotment, why
present-day valuation of the land the sales were made. Gold ship-tions. the duty of carrying on the administration of the Republic, came cannot the Navy If the local
and building. It is all moonshine. mente to the Straits have a bad I wish the Company would credit effect on down South and acted upon the contention that to them, and them Naval Paymaster has executive
the sterling rate, alone, could the task of revising the Constitution be deputed powers in a matter such as this
the man-in-the street with a little because when the Banks here sell received from Cambridge Univers- The Eari of Plymouth has just Incidentally, this Canton Administration has never been recognised it would be a good thing if he
"double eagles" to the Chinese y a quaint document informing by the Powers, and some of its acts have been palpably illegal, such, followed the military lead, instead
they have timport them from him that as "Sun mus Senes- SOME NEW DEPARTURES. for instance, as the diversion of Customs and salt ravennes. But of making it necessary for the Hongkong Flower Show close tending their lines. The construc- San Francisco have to sell T. 1. pounds of good English money. It is stated that the Tramway America. That means that the challus," or High Steward. he notwithstanding this, the so-called Parliament has periodically met. men to give their wives a small tongkong, we are several tion of the proposed new lines as on London in order to
The entries for the forthcoming Company are on the eve of ex- Bank's branches in New York and will be paid annually "four though of late, in consequence of dissension between the varinus official allotment in order to alterations in the classes this a simple extension of the present the money to buy "double eagles cliques, its gatherings have been less frequent, and it seems that make the most of their pay.
get ic two equal portions balf- most of the members have forgotten what they originally came to
yearly." Lord Plymouth will Canton to do.
year, the principal being as systera will be a boun to the poor for shipment to Hongkong. This probably not follow the present THAT PEACE WITH RUSSIA.
cisuses. With the increas serves to make the American fashion of starting a strike for Class 130-Six Cactus and/or ing importance of cheap means cross-rate on London weaker
a downward tendency, office is now virtually a sinecure. "a living wage" because his favourable to But formerly the High Steward
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some years back, namely the drafting of the Constitution.
The latest development is that a group of these M.P.'s has held
to
his wife. that 10/. is deducted first ånd then the
the
the
FLOWER SHOW,
under :-
years.)
I answered him as I thought
good..
more common-sense.
อ
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a
M.P.'s can be induced to meet so as to complete the task whichling the suggested peace negotia-125, except that it is a Peak The cost of labour has gone up for the commercial resources of
to become a barrister, and made several valiant bids for Parlia mentary honours-once against. Mr. Lansbury-before he was elected for South Birmingham in 1911.
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a meeting for the purpose of organising a society to discuss the best very recent date there has been stands supplied by the Society. ing road maintenance costs is which is not
For the second time within Peony Dahlias, to be shown in of transport the policy of impos-and method of forming a quorum for the drafting of the Constitution. news received in London that (There is one class for dahlias being called into question in/Great Britain, as she depends on had to arrest, try, and punish This fact of itself shows into what a hopeless muddle these Military Mr. O'Grady, who is conferring instead of two, as in previous England. If the extension of the America at present for the supply undergraduate felons, and those Government folk have got themselves. They came to Canton with with the Bolshevik representative. a great blowing of trumpets, talked much about the "rights" of the regarding the exchange of British Southern Parliament, started on the task of drafting the precious and Russian prisoners, is con- Antirrhinum, not more than five bring with it cheap communica. dollar is not advantageous to President of Magdalen, who died tramway system is to be of foodstuffs and materials. It duties were by no means nominal. Constitution, then got at loggerheads one with the other, next ducting peace negotiations with heads in each vase.
Class 125-Six bunches of practical possibility and is to will be seen that a high American Dr. Routh the centenarian discovered that many of the members were rather mora concerned the Bolsheviks. with pleasure-seeking and the raking in of squeeze than with second time also there has quick-which the flowers must be staged, structed in the cheapest method. Chinese they have to sell TT for highway robbery on the Vases will tions, it is absolutely necessary Britain. When the Banks in within living memory, saw two- serious work for their country, found it impossible to carry only followed a denial of such (This is
And for the be supplied by the Society, in that the new lines should be con- Hongkong buy bills from the Oxford under graduates hanged the Parliamentary gatherings, and now trying to evolve & scheme by which a sufficient number of fact that the report regard
some of them are report. In view of
£ new departure:compatible with efficiency and on London to pay for them. That allows which then stood by the. open section).
that the cost of maintaining them raises the Hongkong dollar higher Long Wall. was originally the chief duty taken in hand by these selfsame tions also contained some details
Class 138 is the same as Class should be reduced to a minimum. in exchange value. It is also bad men. If a detailed history could be written of the doings that would have been difficult of of these Southern malcontents it would make an ideal theme pure manufacture, one can only indigenous to Hongkong.
section.
and it is unlikely that the cost of India, as these gold coins, when
Sir Alan Bagot, Bart, whose for Gilbertian wit. We recall some of the rowdy Parliamen- conclude that, in spite of the
Class 164-One pot of plants materials and the cost of labour they get to India, are hoarded death at the early age of 24 is tary gatheringe, ending in free fights and the consequent necessity denials, a move has been initiated baceous plant.
will ever fall again to pre-war This has a benign affect on the recorded, leaves behind some of chaining to the desks the inkpots and cuspidores, so that they in the direction of a settlement,
Class 165.-One pots of her-level. It is not likely they will trade of the country.
worldly possessions that many might not be used as missiles by the excited M.P.'s. Then there but that until there is something annuals and three of flowering hardly necessary to insist upon into the Colony and their event/beautiful old mansions in all
fall to any considerable extent
Summing up, we see that these might envy. Levens Hall, the was the dramatic appearance of Sun Yat-sen, clothed in
Class 166.-Siz pots of three for some years to come. It is heary imports of gold dollars family seat, is one of the most uniform denoting that he was Generalissimo, albiet he knew more nature to announce, the authorities Resident Coast and West their objects tramways must be Settlements and to India are turreted, giving it the appearance about the use of his tongue than of military weapons. And so we are anxious to keep the matter out River Ports.
costly of a more tangible and complete plants, of any kind open the fact that in order to attain ual exportations to the Straits Westmorland, ita gray 085- could go on, showing how this comic opera Parliament has carried of the realm of public discussion.
grown walls, embattled and out its self-imposed duties.
cheap. The tramway farescharged beneficial to America, and in The three classes above (164, in Hongkong are exorbitant, and it jurious to the people in Singapore of mediaeval times. It contains 165 and 166) are new departures. is high time that the Directors re- as they have to pay more for im- relics, linking the family with a fine collection of personal at his back is impotent in Chinese political life. That has been so is not displayed a franker con- kind or variety of exhibit. in Canton all along, and still is. Just at the moment there is a fidence in public opinion, because
It seems ratbera pity that there there must be a big card stating recognised that the development kong, while London bas to pay among the rest. But perhaps In each case, attached to the pots duced them. It is generally ports of foodstuffs, etc.,from Hong-
many a great name-Nelson's struggle going on there for the control of the Younan Army. The it is as certain as anything cat
of Hongkong should be secured more for American. importe on Yunnaneso forces made their first appearance in Kwangtung in be that this question of peace
by pushing out the tramways. account of the low value of the the best treasure of all at Levens 1915, when the then Military Governor, Lung Chai-kwong, attempted with the Bolsheviks is viewed in respecting the Bolsheviks and cannot improve much.
Without cheap and rapid means sterling.
is the old English garden; and to support Yuen Shib-kai's monarchical ambitions. But though the widely divergent light by the their intended propaganda of the
of communication, the Colony at crossing places. The new type seen it will agree, is a dream of that, to be sure, as all who have notorious Lung has gone, the Yunnan troops remain, and there. is.
of tramway would be laid in the beauty and a paradise of wonder now a squabble as to who should have the backing of these soldiers-more advanced section of the called a different name by them) way extension, I may mention being provided at frequent inter-in Mrs. Humphry Wards rovel
people at Home. Apart from the gospel of anarchy (although it is.
middle of the roadway but would and charm. There is talk of an open conflict on the subject and the suggestion Labour Party there is very little that a very understandable fear that a bold innovation in tram-vals for vehicular traffic. The
While on the subject of tram-be on a higher level, crossings description of this garden appears An edmirable has been made that three of the Southern leaders should mediate on: the question. And so the merry game goes on. Here are men who
sympathy KOOWD, at went the world to believe that they have a single eye towards publicly, towards the Bolsheviks, access to the outside world there attempted by the Birmingham ed, will ensure less noise and
least has grown up that with their freer way design is about to be sleeper truck system, it is claim she wrote when being here.
Helberk of Banartsdale,” which Chinn's well-being. They cannot agree amongst themselves on a itselt might be a very desirable violence. But whatever would re-principal novelty is the proposal rapid and comfortable travelling,
Although peace with them in will be a recrudescence of political Tramways solitary issue, even of provincial government, much less on the thing the subsequent effects of that sult, it certainly would be a wel-to build the lines as sleeper track There is no reason why the Committee. The vibration and conduce to more larger issues which cry aloud for attention. It is the old cry of peace might be a great deal worse come change to be taken into the on a formation raised above the Hongkong Tramway Company iya, the dencer, died to-day. She "Mediate, Mediate." But they never get near to really big questions, than the present state of war. So fuller confidence of the diplomats carriage way on which other should not follow Birmingham recently underwent an operation The outlook appears gloomy in all conscience at the beginning of Another year.
many stories have gained ground at Home.
vehicles will not run, excepting in this matter.
All of us know that the power of individuals or cliques in China FRANKNESS NEEDED. rests on the control of soldiery. The man or the party with no troops
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