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|been and are doing extremely Many readers will hear with well. Their salariss are regret of the death at Oxford of Come to our fete, and bring not a propar criterion of their Grabam Hope," the writer of
with thee
income. Anyhow, there, WAI "A Cardinal and His Conscience,” to necessity for these men to and other charming stories. Sha The newest beat embroidery go on strike. The bigast boomer died suddenly, not long after she Come to our fate, and show mado was that the Guilds pressed | had planned a new book. Among
again,
their claime" for higher salaries the stories from her pen which at a time when freights were in found favour with the public wers That pea green coat, thou the doldroma and many of the "My Lord Winchanden.” “ The
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Anything that will tend to make 43 life mare secure in car harbour during typhoon weather should [be heartily greeted by all, and for that reason we hope that the Government will see its way to adopt and execute the recom- mandations made by the Com- While lowering the sall, one af mities that was recently appoint-the crew of a junk yesterday ed by His Excellency to consider accidentally fell ovarboard off this matter. The report of the Wanchai and was drowned- Committee which was issued to the Press yesterday shows that There was admitied into the The invitations to the reception or no profit. The situation has liz," "The Lady of Lyte." One the matter was very fully con Government Civil Hospital yos- and ball at Government Home grown much was lace the often met with her graceful work sidered. We rather inclina to Capt. terday a Chinese who was seriously on His Majesty the King's Birth-Arbitrators were appointed to in "Macmillan's Magazine," in ovidence and givana | former year, and in other maga- Basil Taylor 's view that there injured in the head by two assail- day were not courbed is plenty of scops for the provision ants who used knives in the attack. language so poetical, but though finding. In this case, the two sines. She was the daughter of William Hope, of lifeboats. which should be He said that the affray was the more prosaic they were none Guilds have been standing on Lieut-Colonel
their heads. distributed at various poinsa result of a quarrel. The assailants the less hearty, and every one along the Praya. bar the have not been arrested.
privileged to receive a card made remainder of the Committee felt
the mightiest effort to get up to Now that serial dying in) Though women are to demand that if an extra shelter is provided Last week's health
the House, for all were promised Hongkong and Shanghai has admittance to the Privy Counait,
Ball for Balcher's Bay the necessity shows 12 cases of plague (six fatal), that the
would be the become practicable we should, in it may be recalled that there is would not exist because sampans four of enteric (none fatall, three facsimile of the best farmer fete the course of a year or so, so a no sex bar to this Council, and and junks down west would of cerebro-spinal feror (one fatal), ever held in Government Flonse. few compantes established in that it is merely the exclusion of have a nearby place of safety to and one non-fatal occurrence of The large number of people who China to cater to the needs of the woman in the past from the All warn Chinese repaired thither on Thursday en-sing public. The necassity would ordinary Jadder by which that two big launches should be and one of the plague casesment of the Ball, which, as every-police force, more especially for has closed it to her. Generally
hanced the grandeur and enjoy- then be emphasised for an aerial the Council is provided by the Government for imported. There were eight
Privy Councillors towing purposes is a good one deaths from
(all body who was there will declare, praventive work. The question geaking influenza and the fixing of their charges Chinese.
was quite the event of the season. is of prime importance, and are recruited from Ministers of shoo'd do much to keep down the
should not be shelved. Should State, eminent members of the exorbitant prices asked for by At the instance of Chief Pre-
such services be established and two Houses, some great lawyers, at sucb ventive Officer Wildin, a Chinese
there is no doubt that a lot of Colonial Governors, and so forth, other launch owners
companies will enter the field-Jand, as each of these positions is times. It is notorious that launch who was arrested on the steamer
the sex. 50, It takes to chalk a ball room the possibility of some of these thrown open to owners reap a fat harvest out of Haiching was to-day charged
Loor
aerial companies being called as
matter of course, All communications intended for publication should be address.junk and sampan owners' dire with being in possession of 25 taels necessity and although we agree of prepared opiom. He was fined:
into commission for the con- they will be able to enter the Thou knowest the time. 100 sumation of an illegal purpose, Council. that complete control of all$1,000, or three months hard
well-a-day launches is impossible we recog-labour. Another Chinese, a young
such as, for instance, opium It takes to dance that chalk trafficking, is quite within the The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 nise that if there were Govern girl, who had 33 taels of prepared
Mr. Vincent Evans, the young realm of conjecture, as the trade Swansea collier who has had a meat launches operating at a opium and 30 taels of dross, per annum. (Payable in Advance.)
in such a commodity is very The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-reasonable charge other launch was arrested on the Rechow, and
Well, in this case the chalking lucrative, and many ■ Chinese picture accepted for the Royal tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a owners might have to reduce also 6ned $1,000, or three months. was done to perfection, so ranch Wallingford would be intrepid, if Academy, is not the first artisan
their demands. That the
artist to achieve that honour. Yaumati sbelter is to ex-
so that the last dance left the no means were taken to search The transport Hantsend, which dancers with an unexpended store and watch aeroplanes in their
Within recent years London has been proved by the few blows board No. 4 Company Hongkong they raefully reflected that pansive 10
safe bas sailed on Sunday last, bas on of energy and enthusiasm and rople.
seen and admired at Burlington we have had since it was com- Singapore,
House pictures by a policeman, a Royal Garrison
caretaker, a tramcar repairer. pleted and if it is divided into Artillery, in command of Captain
It may be asked: Why should a quartermastar of the Royal three sections as is now proposed O. S. Cummings. This Company
Hongkong lead in such a matter Engineers, and quite a number it would certainly be faris disembarking at Singapore for Ashelter at duty and we understand that No.
Time's not chalk, get time's when the West has not as yet from the brushes of postmen. more effective.
done so in Chins the conditions) One postman-artist, Mr. Samuel cecessity, that is urgently re eventually be sent to Hongkong Belcher's Bay is also 5 Company from that station will
are quite different. We are con- Hanrock, has not only exhibited quired. and the better display off in relief. 2nd Lieut Y: R. Jillings
cerned in stamping out opium at the Academy, but onea”
show of his own at typhoon signals would greatly and 2nd Lieut: EI.O. N. Heghen
We are accustomed to reading smoking among the inhabitants. had a conduce to safely. There are also proceeded with this unit.
reasons why China is If there is going to be no control the Doze Gallers, and found. making small recommendations
in over companies catering for Dy-ja purchaser for his work is progress minor
trade. The principal ones are ing, the possibility is very strong Queen Mary. need not be touched upon here. Complaints made by the lack of railways, the squeeze that all our efforts to put down this Our only hope is that the Gor residents of Belilios Terrace practised all over the Republic, vice will prove nugators. It is. esnment will act upon the advice concerning the frequency of thefts a despatic Government etc. The one of the easiest things to anniversary of Salisbury Cathe Committee has which took place in the servants Scientific American. I sar, has transport opium from one centre dral will not be celerated officially
quarters fed the Police to maintain discovered a new one. In the to another; by transport" I
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ment is to be fixed on the west wall of the south aisle of Henry VIL's Chapel. This part is some- The burglary at the Post Office times called the Stuart aisle or last week is another indicator chapel, as no fewer than 39 of that the gang of criminals who the Stuart race are buried here. have been operating so success-Among others are Mary Queen of fully on the shops of our trades- Scots, Charles II. Queen Anne, people during the past two years "And yet you incessantly are still with as. It is remarkable Mary II. William III, and over two dozen Stuart babies. And stand on your bead;
that they have not been run there is Queen Anne's husband, earth. 4ས yat. When such "Do you think, at your age, barglaries were first reported. sible?" became famous, and gave whose cant phrase. "Est pos- it is right?"
a special watch in that locality. opinion of this journal, the non-really mean smuggle. How is until the middle of Jone, it was Yesterday morning, two Chinese expansion of the piece-goods trade the Government going to see that on April 23, 1220, that the found- To those people who can readily were arrested by the watchmen in the Fat East is because Chinese such a thing does not happen?ation stones were actually laid. understand barographs, anemo
while they were negotiating the clothes are largely made at There is much food for thought The building was completed 58 drainpipe at the graphs, thermographs and can
back of home. being merely basted toge-bere for the Government of Hong years later, and is generally re tell what their published readings No. 16. It was then revealed ther, and they are ripped apart kong and for the Chinese Re-Gared as signify there must be a lot that is
who every time they are asbed." Some public. What is there to prevent specimens of Gothic architecture interesting in the report of the were charged with housebreak-discovery! Perhaps is will be any individual or corporation in the Kingdom. Bishop Ridge- way, who has occupied the see embarking Director of the Royal Observatorying, knew the lay-out of the house taken notice of by Branford and rom
nefarious traffic? Sooner or later London Churchmen, for he was since 1911. is well known to The very cordial messages which passed between President for the year 1919. The report as they were old servants who Manchester!
the question of cresting an aerial Prebendary at St. Paul's from Wilson, as the head of the American people, and King George, the has just been issued and in had been oare employed by the inmates. The house in question ruler of the British Empire, on the occasion of the latter's birthday to the conclusion that unless occupied by Mr.G.V.Osmond,
glancing it through we bave come
police for preventive work must) Some of the flags that float from be tackled, and the sooner the 1901 to 1903, and prior to that struck a note which we are sure will be re-echoed wherever sensible
une knows all about these who appeared at the Police Court the tops of office buildings in the better, as many companies are had been, for ten years, vicar of Americans or Britisbers happen to come in contact. We use the
St. Peter's. Kensington, subse adjective advisedly, because we do not shut our eyes to the fact that things there is not a great deal this morning to give evidence Colony offend by theirdisreputable likely to apply and receive perquently becoming Bishop of there are Britishers and Americans as well who lack the common struck us and that is the extensaid that they had a great hanker-four firms be satisfied with relics and the neighbouring countries Kensington, an office be filled
One very curious fact against the prisoners. These men tawdriness. Why should some of mission for dying over Hongkong sense to see that a sincere Anglo-American friendship is the to which rainfall varies in Honging to renew their acquaintance of old decency? I would advise I commend this suggestion principal necessity of the age: that, as Sir Auckland. Geddes pot it in bix message on arrival in the States, "the main hope of world kong. Kowloon and Taipo. We with their old surroundings, and them to go in for a new dag outfit to His Excellency the Gpremor-
in Council. We shall have to adapt The memorial to Lord Cromer, peace rests on the existence of mutual respect and understanding can easily understand the last were as a result. each rewarded while they have the money.
ourselves to new conditions, and recently announced to be ready between the peoples of the United States of Americs and the British named place being different (there with a sentence of six weeks community of nations." There are, as we say, such people, but we recorded there than at Kowloosh
were nearly twenty inches more hard labour.
In the light of the Arbitrators" 23 aerial transport and travel are for unveiling at the Abbey is not acę happy to think that they represent but a small section of the
award in the dispute of the "out-coming to stay and are going to guite completed. It will, however, twqaces. The worst of it is that they make up what they lack in the Botanical Gardens was over/Conspiracy to teiraud two female employers, the Shipowners the problem cannot be left to take long. A mural tablet, the moau-
bo it is striking that the fall at A case in which a charge of side shipping men with their revolutionise our modes of living, arrive numbers by the noise they create. If they but gave a moment's
of $1,550 worth thirteen inches more than at brokers thought to the possible harm they are doing, they might be induced Kowloon and that on the Peak jewellery was remanded by Mr. of Alice's version of Father
sociation, the following two verses care of itself. The President of the United States expresses confidence that Matilda Hospital) they had over L. Smith at the Magistracy William" are worth quoting: His Majesty's birthday comes auspiciously at the dawn of a new the Observatory. Such a large of Mr. A. E. Hall, who pro
nine inches more rain than did this morning, on the application "You are old, Father Wil- era of friendship and goodwill, which it will be the privilege of the difference is a little curious be secutes kindred American and. British peoples to advance towards full cause the distance between two of complainants.
-lism", the young man said, of the achievement, His Majesty's reply could not have been more happily the points is not much more than a that the
It was alleged "And your hair hisa become 'prisoner phrased. He speaks of the struggle to create a better world for mile. Perhaps Kowloon readings the jewellery by saying that she obtained
very.white, mankind, which he describes as the first duty bequeathed to both are a little more accurate: we had a buyer for it. The Police) nations by their glorious comradeship in war, and hopes that Britain and America may be found indissolubly linked in effort and achieve hope it is not a sign of Kowloon were sceptical when, the next
In dealing with day, she reported to them that she | nt in that mighty task. What finer co-operation could be wishesdoing "dry." ?If we believe, as werdo, that both Britain and America went weather telegrams our Observ. had been swindled out of these ar in defence of great principles in a spirit of determination observations from Central and cok her to a les-house and atory Director remarks: The valuables by another woman who ake the world a better and safer place in which to live. Soath China are received by post, drugged her with a doped cup of to be said that their co-operation ended when the military over the Chinese telegraphic servicestill tea Following the complaints: throw of Germany happened to be completed? The war, after all, was but a means to an end which has yet to be attained. And weing in a state of chaos." So we lodged by the owners of the Bay deliberately that Anglo-American unity is a necessity if our talk about the weather now with-arrested, in spite of her very see that it is not even possible to jewellery, the prisoner पूर कि है dreams of a better world are to come true. It had better be admitted out simply having to make some plausible story.
because it is a fact that many Americans have been in the habit, reference to China's sorry plight at a sum of $2,000 by the Magis Bail was Bred since the war, of under-rating the British effort in the great struggle. Of course, there is a lot of other trate, who was informed that the and that Britishers bave often sought to belittle America's part in information given in the report on
who had influential the victory. There are far more important questions than that of but we must confess that we do friends was in a position to scrape Engineers' Guilds bad taken my have been made and have gone in various places - Paris, East If the men of the Officers and narrow opening Demonstations dispense with the chain of stations Who won the war? It ought to suffice for us all that the war is won. No one section of the Allies won it; it was their joint effort not find it very interesting. It together that amount.
advice and not pressed their la show that any person of and West Africa, and North and which carried them to victory. And it is in a spirit of continued may be very necessary.
claims for more pay, they would ordinary build can slip is through South America-which have been co-operation that Britain and America can best serve humanity.
not have saffered the humiliating such an opening by throwing his peforming that sarvice since be America's entry into the war was bailed with unfeigned joy by CHINESE EMIGRATION.
emigrants returned during the defeat that is now theirs. Every hands out in front of his body, It fore the war. These signals are Britishers, who were proud to think that their blood relations were Although we usually hear veryeat. showing that although word that I had written in con- is a serious thing that such a mainly meant for ships at sem. joining in the struggle for freedom. Those days appear rather far little about it, there is still a large some folk still prefer to go away nection with this dispute is fully gang should continue to carry on They travel practically instan away now, and we bare both got rather too much into the habit of business done in the handling of to work, those who have been substantiated by the award of the their depredations without taneously, and afford a perfect criticising each other. Nobody who is worth a moment's thought emigrants from Hongkong. We sway are still anxious to return arbitrators. I had been accused check. In this connection a check on the Greenwich mean ought to object to reasonable and well-informed criticism. It is leam from the Harbour Master's home and settle down
who bas made time shown by a vessel's chrono- joto of acting proten for the Ship-tradesman, scorn and jeering that hart and that do all the mischief. Now, report for last year that no fewar the old ways, and to the old owners' Protection Association, a careful study of all the mater. Any small ressiving we have both had about enough of this, surely. It is high time we than 59,969 emigrants left the conditions. Gradually we shall and some of the men, in a char- facts, tells us that be would not instrument will pick up these regated that old feeling of comrades and friends. The moment is Colony for ports other than in be fading that China can give acteristic fashion, indulged in a be surprised to find that the gang time signals, and- many.. ripe for a direct reaction from the polies of pin-pricks. That China as compared with 43,830 for work to all her sons; that there lot of vituperation against me in operating here is not Chinese but a modest asrial in suburban back policy is one that can result in no good. It may de infinite barm. the previous year. The majority of will be no necessity for them to these colonins, but the finding foreign. He seems to think that gardens, now that permission is Constant bickering can only lead to enmity, and that is a state that these people carried in zo south for plantation work.bear out my contentions. The it is Russian, for maDy again granted for their erection, we never want to see existing between the two grest English-speaking British
ships, at least "Johnny" has been a god-send Guilds
Over
bad arked
an master criminals who have broken daily receive correct Greenwich nations. We do not believe it will ever be witnessed. As Comman-34,000 were. Of course, the when there has been big cheap increase of thirty per cent., gaol in Siberia are now in Shang-time from the Eiffel Tower. der Bellairs put it in the House of Commons recently: "Commercial figures are still a long way down team work to be done, but the and a study of what has been hai, and it is quite likely that Curiously enough, no English rivalry, yes: but & fratricidal strife between this country and on what they used to be a few years day is surely coming when he awarded to them will show that some of this fraternity have station sends out these signals, America is absolutely impossible; you could never get the Navy to sgp, because in 1913 there were will want to stay at Home be the increase given is only some succeeded lacoming to Hongkong. and even Greenwich Oʻservatory carry out orders." Let us each in our part, therefore, do all that we 142,159 emigrants. It is interest-cause of the improved chances three per cent, and on's tonnage I simply give the suggestion as it itself gets the Paris signal of the can to foster and develop that closer and better understanding ing also to look at the figures of there. It is coming but we don't basis that is not at all good for was put to me. The idea is worth time decided fat the Royal which will mean yo piuch to both nations sad to the world at large. those who returned. Over 136,029, say when.
every member of the Guilds. [purening by the Police.
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many in the Colony discredited
| James II. to jest, in the hour of "In my youth, Father then pulling the dowa torum, that averyone had deserted
"Little William replied to his son. machinations of the watchmen. In him, including
Eat almost every instance, it has been "I feared it might injure the found that entrance into the store
the brain.
had been obtained by means “i a
If the International Science "But now that I'm perfectly piece of wood of Darrow dimen-
sure I Lave none.
sions having been cut. To the lay Borean at Brussels succeeds in mind it seems a puzzle ihal ang the attempt to send time twice a Why, 1 do it again and one an effect "a passage into (day all roood the world by means
again."
stores with such a very small and of wireless, it will be possible to
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