Watson's
very Old liqueur
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
E.
SCOTCH WHISKY
is a blend of the finest Whiskies distilled in SCOTLAND.
The same high standard of quality still maintained. Per case of 1 dozen
including duty.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
CASTLE PEAK.
TUESDAY:
MAY 4 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
+
CURRENT COIN.
AN ISLANDER'S
· DIARY.
(BY "AJAX.”).
to the Land to-day! To awakan Europaana in Hongkong to a sense for their civio shortcomings | requires the zeal, persistence and (BY *MERCATOR."? 80 FAR AS A MAN IS HATED
persuasion of Piter the Hermit, AND MISTRUSTED, HIS POWERS:
but the avangni does not appať With the warm weather nowARE DESTROYER.
The Japanese financial origia
Mr. A.R. Lowe, and that in what coming upon us, the public is
is exercising a banctul effect
The toples of the day are wear-makes me hope that he will win.. enquiring what is to be done
upon our metal and yarn markets, with a view to popularising
Two Chinese smugglers of un-Stocks of metals in Hongkong in thin, the brain which was it is rarely that one sa placed is eslled upon for devices and arti- finspired by an altruism so laîty. Caatle Peak. There are fòw
today are very large, and the persistent | beaches in the Colony batter suited for bathing, but there is sentenced at the Falice Court to offerings from Japan have made to gloss over the grop That there is need for much the merchants very panicky patches is beginning, at the devotion and self-abnegation in approach of summer, to show signs the cause he is making admits of at present an absanca bath of a fine of $25 sach.
of wearying, and I realise ance no doubt. accommodation for changing and
more the distress of the pathetic
incudi reddere versus. But enough' and under the now conditions plaint of Horace, male formats
stamped letters were
A refreshment facilities contributor to our paper the Mr. Scilingo has been appointed other day stated that & Kowloon Consul for the Argentine Re
Big shipments of iron steel products in the Colony
Ara
very
expected soon.
resident who wished to erect a public, and his afices will be in created by the Japanese crisis of this prelude. We are again Hough are soñichting the suffrages
mashed there, to be usedAlexandra Buildings- sa a bathing booth, was refused
authorities. proper
permission when he applied
to
the
Pride'a A
Messy A. R. Lowe andÏT. F. their sales at even a loss is not an
sadly need
of our worthy J. P.'s to ɓll a easy matter, as the Japanese time when we
of purge
the houses are offering goods at prices
the Legislative Council. It may below those rating in the English sanctimonious humbugs and loud-acant seat for four months on In the Supreme Court yester and American markets. Prices no doubt several of the backhiling either of these gentlemen has vaiced carpet-baggers. There are be remarked in passing that If that is the case, it would be day, Mr. Lea Longinotto was of all kinds of steel and iron pro type who do not require any the experience of Mr. Pollock. interesting to know on what admitted to practice as a solicitor. ducts have consequently been ground the refusal was made. He is joining Mr. J. H. Gardiner.going down during the weak evidence to condamn the ad-r. Pollock also possesses the and are almost certain to slide ministration, for they, like the fortunate qualities of indepen- This new situation poor, are always with us, but adence and courage of conviction, The total output of the Kailan is causing bankers uneasiness as/One who has concentrated biswhich are very valuable assets observation upon the circum- and which were not appreciated attractive as is Repulse Bay to Mining Administration's mines well, for large sums have been stances of an active life must! those who live on this side of for the week ending 17th April, advanced on the metal stocks at admit that when it comes to what Sir Henry May, who could not brook advice or opposition. the harbour, and why facilities
$28
To Kowloon people, and especial-
ly to those who own motor-cars
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1929.
ar cycles, Castle Peak is just as
Long.
see. Of course, what is really needed to popularise this little resort is a refreshment house,) where picnic parties could, have Players and Spectators at the their needs attended to, where Caloocan links, Manila, recently shelter could be had from the sun were treated to a genuine goling and where, if possible. dressing sensation when Mr. Payton G. rooms for bathers would be Eliott made the difficult tenth available. We have an idea that hole in one. this enterprise, run during the summer months, would eventually be a good thing for any individos).
further.
granted in one case should be mounted to 91,028 tons and the present Ising in the godowns here is called consideration between Messrs. Holyoak and Pollock, by merchants in Hongkong have had the Government and the public way of vengeance against the it is extremely diffcult to judge attitude of Sir Henry May, during the last year had prompted
formed the Constitutional Reform them to stock largely of the vari-I shall come to that later on.
Association. Than the Con- stitutional Reform Association ous classes of iron and steelgoods.
In the eyes of the public no posed as the incorruptible friend and to place further large orders ia America and England for future execution. There was a more egregious error had ever of the people when it formulated aimilar tendency in Japan.been perpetrated in the Hongkong a series of reforms which it asked where the
and Constitution than the appoint- the Government to put on the merchants speculators overstocked them-ment of J.P.'s to a most corated Statoe Book. It did not take selves in the belief that post which is regarded as a the public long to recognise the We blud that was being played on with mills at home and monopoly of their caste. Bishop and Mrs. Landerask us to America being book ed for are all wondering what H. E them. The C.R.A. then wailed. ay that they will be very pleased at least a year ahead a rich the Governor has recommended like Prometheus in one of his it up. A buge sum of money has to see any who wish to say good-harvest awaited anyone who had in the way of constitutional re most despondent moods, when been spent on making the road to bye to them at the Helena May the plock to buy up all visible form, bot 1 feel confident that the the vulture gave him an Castle Peak, and there is every Institute to-morrow (Wednesday) stocks. It was not very long ago elimination of a J.P. Member on ceptionally vicious dig in the reason, if no obstacles are put in from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m.
that Japanese boying in the local our Legislative Council will be hepatic region. This was, of the way of enterprise, to expect
metal markets was a prominent suggested to the right author-course. in the days of the great
the result of which ities at Home as one of the convenion. a growing popularity for this pretty little seaside spat.
or company which felt like taking
SHIPPING RATES.
and
most
Even with the recent
feature.
а values.
serve
The
e-
A Chinese, said to be an officer was
rapid appreciation most urgent reforms that this in the Chinese Army, was to-day in
To-day the very British Colony needs. The rank
The nomination of Mr. Hough fined $25 for bringing a revolver stocks that were sold to Japanese and file of the public have a keen and several rounds of ammunition merchants are being unloaded in sense of propriety, and with the by the Hon. Mr. Percy Holyoak into the Colony. The arms were Hongkong at about 33 per cent improvement of the Colony we do has caused the quidnones to en- The other day we were told ordered to be confiscated.
below their original price. And not see why we should submit to quire whether Mr. Holyoak has that we might expect to see a
thereby bangs a tale.
such an effete tradition. We now become a renegade from the have had enough of glorified ranks of the Constitutional Re reduction in shipping rates, and
J.P.'s, amateur politicians and formera. the news was hailed with joy,
In the ordinary way. because it was felt that this would A Chinese bunchback was at
It is time that the one would have expected Mr. A. reformers. in the long run reduce the prices the Police Court to das punished "Last week 1 received a letter public sent a man to the Council R. Lowe to be cominated by him. of imported commodities. It now by a fine for letting his temper get from a person in Shanghai, he to represent them. The matters r. Lowe is a memberofths C.R. CHINA'S LABOUR QUESTION.
appears, from a statement in the the better of him and leading him said that a big firm in Shanghais worth agitating for by the A. Committee. The C.R.A. is a lost Time, that the British to coramita violent assault on a bad received a letter from their Governor, and, in caso H. does cause, and perbags Mr. Holyoak It was said that representative in Hongkong stat-nos press it. I hope that some has embraced the advice tender- Japanese lines have agreed to Chinese woman.
that the Colony
Member of Parliament will take ed him in these columns and and metal With Labour in practically every civilised country applying increase by 25 per cent. the rates the woman borrowed his bamboo ing
between Britain, the Contineat pole without his permission, and starving for iron
it up. The present system of seceded from the Association. itself diligently to the task of organisation it can cocte as nothing and the Far East. There may be on his return he became so in-products.
This was so glaringly permitting Jes to elect a For is it hot written thái
it would in the nature of a surprise to learn that in China-the home of
their representative of
OD" likewise joy should be in labour organisations seps are being taken in the principal good and sufficient grounds for dignant that he gave the woman untrue that
to a seat on the Legislative heaven over one sinnet that with western ideas. Contemporaneous with so much agitationing, none the less. We all know it. She appeared at the Police Kowloon godowns are replete with Council is bringing discredit to reponteth more than ever hinges cities to make such organisation more perfect and in conformity this resolve, but it is disappoint-an awful crack on the head with no purpose to refute it
dine which used no throughout the world among the lower classes of society it is but that rates, once put up. are Cours this morning with a heavily every kind of heavy iron and the Government. Every Member
metal goods, while the stocks in of Council is a J. P. Oafors King repentance ?”, natural that the workmen of China should take a leaf out of the fearfully slow in coming down. bandaged head.
idealers' own godowns are also. book of their western brethern. Here in Hongkong we have busThat is the case with
very large. There is sufficient in recently seen how organisation secured for the men what individual things. efforts would never have brought about. The present strike of lift prophecy of lower cargo rates, The following is from the the local stocks to satisfy the
So far as Hongkong is con- we were told that passenger Cantos Times-The Society for demands of Shanghai and Hong- boys appears to be a very foolish one. but it forms part of the same fares would not come down but the Protection of ex-convicts bas kong for another three months at markets is that there are large cerned, to be content with our scheme. Io Shanghai there is also labour trouble and there is a
and congamed are been
that weither we nor the Gorero- very interesting news paragraph in the latest copy of the Lent would, on the contrary, most now in its ebarge two young least. The only class of goods in stocks which have not present developments is a crime Times to band.
ment are likely to be guilty of likely go higher still. What will women ready to be married to which there is a famine
Persons Salvanised sheets and small sizes these stocks diminish
10 expect DF His Excellency could bardly This states that many labouters at Canton assembled in the happen now we almost fear to suitable yaung men.
from that marke:. have arrived at a more propitious Eastern Garden on Saturday last to celebrate the first Labour Day. contemplate. We remember many being desirous of getting married of rods, bars, and other steel not possible More than five thousand persons were in attendance. Senator Shun years ago, when passenger rates may call on the girls, one 16 and products. Such scarcity is not enquiry Chee Foo was the chairmab. Many speeches were delivered by between England and the Far another 17 years old, at the office the result of a day. The fact of Stocks of rice in Cabs and other time. The epforced delay's IE- East were low, that they were of the society. Before permission the matter is that manufacturers parts are slowly being consumed. garding some of our projects has prominent citizens, and before the end of the meeting every reased by the addition of what is given for the wedding, the is America and England are not and it is quite likely that only served to make our desire to fabourer present was given a copy of the Labour Magazin just pablished by the Headquarters of the movement to advocate was termed a coal surtax, in view acceptable young men must be turning out to-day fine size sheets, next month we shall see America push on with them the more the rights of the working classes. On the previous evening of the enhanced price of that able to furnish evidence of good Hence the scarcity in the local baging largely from Hongkong urgent. It is a pleasure to and laotera parade was held, more than two thousand participating commodity. But the surtax never faith and recommendation from market. Merchants are not buy. The stocks of Saigon rice in J.P.'s looking after the interests ing for the future on account Hongkong are daily increasing of their clinetele, for in Mr. Eighteen labour Guilds were represented. This is extremely inter-came off. so far as we recollect, reliable business firms.
of the high prices prevailing, at a rapid rate, and this is caus- Lowe's election address there esting. May Day has long been recognised as Labour Day in mes: even though cral prices fell. Is it
and the uncertainty as to when ing a lot of money to be locked appears the following excerpt - countries, but it is something novel to find that Chinese Guilds to be the same story now? The
the Japanese selling will cease. up. Rice merchants are paying The provision of a new and The first season of the Hong- the equivalent of our own Trades Unions-bave taken to a similar war has been the excuse and
cheerful Lunatic Asylum, modation, and many, in the method of advertising their cause.
as advocated years ago in Corn- There has been a very grea: quise a legitimate one) for the song Open Basket League has The position is causing great very high interest for accom
absence of any demand from cit by the Hon. Mr. P. H. deal beard lately regarding the alleged preaching of Bolshevism bigh rates of the past few years. just been concluded, with the
America or other consuming ceo Holyoak. The motto Abandon among the Chinese and although we heartily detest using such a what will it be when the effects American Athletic Club winners.
tres, are disposing of their hold hope all ye who enter here' word in the sense i: is so used, we do feel that there has been of the world upheaval are less fell, the South China Athletic second.
we wonder?
On China Sugar shares continue to ings and the U.S.S. Helena third. quite a deal of propaganda of late. The present public expressions
Hence the might well be inscribed over the 2nd demonstrations are bot a reflection of that propaganda and one.
Thursday, at 6 p.m. an exhibition keep their end up. During the weakness in the local rates. portals of the present institution."
The Rest, week they advanced a further There is no possibility, as far as may count upon it as a certainty that the time has come when the
match, Winners v. labouring classes of China-skilled and unskilled-are going to THE OLD GAME.
will be played in the Chinese seven points, and appear to be can be judged to-day, of a scar- demand a more reasonable share of the world's goods and comforts.
Y.M.CA. gymnasium. 71 Brid- quite firm. I hear that the Chins city of local supplies in the next There was once an idea, preach-ges Street. His Excellency the Sogar Refinery Company sold few months. It is probably a
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The mischievous practice of
How often has it been asserted that one of the greatest curses of long ago. that, with the war over. to be present at the match and to raw sugar to Java at a very big pro-leased rates, and stemmed the bere by the Judges of the Supreme Looking squarely at the facts, one cannot blame them for thated very fervently not so very Governor has kindly consented recently a very large quantity of recognition of this fact that bas having big casza heard in cham-
been allowed to remain peopled with millions of ignorant, moval of many of the real causes The trophy, which is in the form the new balance sheet and report. ago, when there was China is ber neglect of the coolie class, whereby the country has the future would witness the represent the trophy at the 6nish. fit. All this should be reflected in heavy buying of a few months Court should be sternly repressed fear by His Excellency. During recent superstitious and ill-nurtured, men and women? If relief in such a of warfare. So far as matter is not forthcoming from those who are supposed to be recollect, withou: reference to American community of Hong- the present high prices of raw repetition of last year's situation.gular thing. It is puerils: to we can of a shield. is the gift of the My own personal opinion is that that we might witness this year a years it has become all too re- responsible for governance and conduct of public affairs, then there details, one of President Wilson's kong. The public are-invited to sugar will not continue for long. As I have said, there are ample labour an argument so obvious, cab be no opposition to the more enlightened workers
famous Fourteen Points had the match. themselves making a start by means of the power of organ something to say about the re- But in the case of China the workers are more ap moval of all artificial barriers to isation. against bad government that against bad employers at least they should be. The millions of revenue that are yearly squandered by trade and commerce. But all extortionate officials, and the burdens that are illegally imposed on No sooner was the war over than that must have been a dream.
the populace in general are far more serious defects in China's social condition than any underpaid labour could be. With the British Government decided the so-called politicians divided amongst themselves and with the to impose duties on imported
And so, looking at all the facts, there little or nothing to wonder
goods and now we see the
cases in
To all appearances, the American stocks locally and with the sad I may proceed at once to say demand baa in a large measure reduction of the silver in the that though there may be some been satisfied. There is not by piastre, which will make imports excuse for bearing any means a plentiful supply of of Saigon rice into Hongkong chambers, there is, in my opinion, no absolutely none for a case of the sogar in the local market, and much cheaper, there is ENGLISH MONEY?"
I am told that supplies are not likelihood of high prices this character that has been brought expected for some time. The season. There is enough rice to by the Canton Govenment against Dr. Wa Ting-fang. Probably in In a case this morning before price of Java sugar in Hongkong satisfy a normal demand,
the course of time the fashion for our Jadges will be to have all civil suits beard in their own homes.
were you
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absence of law and order in the interior it is rather hopeless for the United States contemplating, In Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, a Chinese is 823 per picul, and I am told by struggling labourers to expect much redress from official quarters.its now shipping law, discrim-sought to recover certain monies. 18 leading firm in the Colony that
The market in Indian cotton at in the prosent movement of labour organisation, for it seems to be whilst the President is to betion by the Poisne Judge of the exported last week from Hoog- ination against foreign vessels. The following from the examina-over 60,000 bags of sugar were
seems to be paralysed. the only way of bringing anything at all to pass.
kong to America, by various local yarn One's only hope is that such a movement will not be extremist powered to abrogate Commer-plaintiff is worth recording
The Pulsne Judge: Underbouses. The price in Java is 55 Rumours of Japan lifting the
I bave to close with a note of enough to cause any farther sorrows for a country that is already cial Treaties standing in the way this contract with the Electric/guilders, which shows a rise of embargo on exports of cotton overburdened with chaos. The pity of it all is that there are general tory Customs duties. So it is the Company what
of the imposition of discrimina-
25 per cent. during last month. yarn in the immediate futurebave ly to be found amongst so-called reformers" den who are only
to The local stocks of Java sugar in caused a panicky feeling in yara sorrow. The Grim Reaper has at circles, and consequently prices of been in our mide, and a well- concerned with personal gain and exploitation. The paid agitator old game of commercial warfare, receive for removing the ashes Hongkong are put down
100,000 piculs.
Indian yarn are rapidly declining.beloved citizen has be n taken has not made himself very evident in China's labour affaire so far be fought with sharpened and rubbish?
The plaintiff :-I was to receive
Many merchants are now trying from us. Mr. D. K..Moss was 0.13 and it is to be hoped that he will be a minus quantity a together. If weapons, all over again. And we
to cancel their contracts in the of the Colony's most promising those who are "down under" can work out their own salvation in develop into another kind of war- The Puisne Judge:-$75 ia & sate and reasonable way then the movement will prove to be one fare. The ideal thing, of course, English money?
The stringency in the local hope that they will be able to get young business managers, imbori of the blessings of modern Chius, for it will inevitably have in its would be Free Trade all round --& The plaintiff-Yes
market has caused the price of Japanese yarn at a cheaper rate. with modern idea, and it was progress a direct bearing on internal political factions and disputes.
Mr. 10
Tsuda's statement, efforts that the Bro of Alex Whether there can be associated with it a reviving effect on general natural exchange of commodities
We have been wondering what rice to go down steadily. Am-In Osaka and Kobe, according principally due to his untiring administration will be extremely interesting to watch, but even if it as between the nations of the $75 in English money" is. We erica and Cubs are absolutely out there are large stocks of cotton Ross and Co. has reached a bigir
world. But we seem to be getting take it to mean
awaiting shipment, im- pinnacle in recent years. The $75 in of the market, and until they is confined solely to the raising of the life and status of China's farther away from that de-Hongkong money, not. Canton come in again there is no likeli-Jarn many millions of workere it will still be a wonderful power for good sideratum, rather than nearer to currency. Perbeps it could hood of prices regaining their mediately the restrictions on the Colony's deepest symathy will be provided that moderate counsels prevail. Our only fear is that it. And who pays the piper? have been more correctly express abe quietude in American are removed.
reason export of Japanese cotton yarn extended to his widow and two upward tendency, The it will partake something after the nature of what has been very in- The consumer all it e time. ed. by the Puisae Judge, adequately described as "Bolshevism."
all know how that can easily $75 a month.
children.
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