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NOTES & COMMENTS DAY BY DAY
LESS LOFTY.STORIES. **SEVERY MAN, WHEN HENTERS
Thursday's' meeting of the FUBLIC SERVICE, GIVEN UP PAR Legislative Connell was pro-OF HIS NATURAL LIBERTY, AS THER VALUABLE A
PRICKLY HEAT LOTION ductive of quite a few things that PRICE
and
PRICKLY HEAT
POWDER
an infallible remedy-immediately rellevas
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30ạm to have baan overlooked by (PURCHASE those whose business iɛ ia to com- ment on local happenings in the hope that the public may be in duced to take a little more interest. therein. The writer fancies that when the average reader sees a
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the erection of platform awnings Tenders are being invited for for the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
the irritation & effects a speedy cure.
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was
result of what fo be observed as urged
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ings. Readers must not confuse
permit of more stories to build-!
General
18.95
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEAR'S AGO.
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Mr. Kirby, the
Eat quietly" figuras · among aw. loon! Secretary for the China Coast the injunctions givan in a new Officers' Guild, is expected to work on etiquette noticed by a arrive on the 25th instant and London paper. The same in- will stay in Hongkong about a junction is given with greater month. Here he will make the emphasis and detail in" Mrs. acquaintance of the Southern Hannah Woolley's "Gentlowo- June 20th-The rate of the members, after which he recurus man's Companion,” which had a- Dollar, on demand, to-day is to Shanghai to retiers Captain great vogue to the seveut enth 11-3'44.
D'Oliveyra, who goes home on century. "Gentlewomen," writes "alab" of aix solid columns Yesterday's health return shows STRAYED TORPİDOES,
"discover not well-earned toave. Mr. Kirby, Mrs. Woolley. Legislativa Council ons fatal case of plague and one
June 20th-The following (during Captain D'Olivorya's
gestures report facing him, he feels a little non-fatal occurrence of cerebro-notification has been issued by absence on leave, will visit Hong-your
angry appetite, discouraged and so, perhaps, may spinal fever. Both sufferers were the Harbour Department; Two kong periodically, and later on your eyes too greedily on read very Iltile. But one of the Chinese.
Whitehead torpedoes have been take up permanent residence
the maat before you, as if you Bills introduced for its first read-
last from H. M. S. Rainbow | here.
would devour more that way than ing should have been noticed by
your throat would swallow. and Green Island all interested in the building of 11 is notified that His Ex-between
La carving avoid clapping your houses, either residential or celleney the Governor in Council Boulder Point. A reward of 320
The Chinese Coast Officers fingers in your month and hek- commercial. It seems to have has appointed Thursday, 1st July, for each will be paid for their guild have now a motor launching them after you have burnt
recovery. They are quite barn of their own
in Hongkong: them. C'ase your lips when you less."-Torpedoes usually BEN stationed at Blake pier, which feat, and do not smack like a pig. very harmless.
can be hired by members or Fill not your mouth so full that THE LIBRARY.
others at the following rates your cheeks shall swoll like a pair Friends of Mr. W. J. Morrison,
June 2nd-The Hongkong Per hour. 2, single trips (any of Scotch bagpipes. It is very who the Public Library is to on number up to 12 passengers) to uncomely to drink so a learn that he is on the road 10 columes have been procured by harbour; $1.
most goue and you are forced to Dr. Canilie and his cadjutors It is a Bill that permits each complete recovery.
blɔw strongly to recover yourself.” and the scheme seems to justify storey in a structure to be less
The question of employing lofty than was necessary before. His Excellency the Governor the confident predictions of the
British pilats för British ships in An interesting reversion to an so that in a building of the same has appointed Mr. A. I. Holling-promotors.
Hongkong is still being discussed okl custom is the "dining" of Director of] CROWN COLONY GOVERNMENT. height more flours may be put. sworth to act as
in the papers at Home. I see politicians by their admirers, is A direct sitempt to Public Works during the absence June 3rd-We congratulate that Captain Philip Going. M. M. which has been almost as po cheapen the cost of building. Of an leave of the Hon. Mr. W. Mr. Whitehead on his victory of the as. Kong-Ning, employed pular recently as in the good old course, the Bill will only apply to Chatham, C.M.G., or until further for victory it was, over the official on the West River, has been airing days when almost any occasion
notice.
phalanx headed by the Colonial his views recently in a journal at suggested a dinner. A bundred All communications intended for publication should be address-buildings of a suitable nature
such as semi-detached or detach-
Secretary. Mr. Whitebead for Home. He admits that the to the Editor.
years ago and for some time after ed houses, and to any other
his ability, energy, and per-Chinese pilots are an absolutely the Cabinet dinner was a regular Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
houses to which the Building His Excellency the Governor
severence, has forced from a steady and attentive lot of med institution, especially as it was The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph", is 336 Authority considers that the re-bas appointed the Hon unwilling Secretary of State. the and quite reliable and are always supposed to give opportunities for dured minima should apply. IE. D. V. Parr to be a Member of promise of immediate reform in on the spot when required, yet a more forcible statement of views The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-is often remarked upon by now-the Authorized Architects', Com the Government of this Colony.they are not trained seamen por) than was considered proper to tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for ajcomers how lofty the stories mittes during the absence on as prayed for by the Community British BO.T. certificated man, tha Cabinet room, where, in in most Hongkong buildings are leave of Sir Paul Chater, CM.Gin their petition to the House of so that the objection is not to theory, the Sovereign presided in Commons, in spite of the de-their capabilities to direct vessels person. Disraeli achieved a good The "Hongkong Telegraph "is delivered free when the addressee and whilst we agree that it is or until further notice.
the interests of health!
opposition of is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies
His Majesty the King has been Governor of this Colony and his entering and leaving the deal of his early fame by speeches part of Hongkong, going to at political dinners, and muchf o at by post an additional 81.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
pleased to approve the re-appoint- officials and of the simng and from buoys and anchorage, the reform opposition was cole Single Copies. Daily, ten cents. Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for anybody and with considerabla ment of the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-presentations he and they made as they have an excellent local ductal over the dinner table at pak to be an Unofficial Member to the Colonial office, against the knowledge of the port, Accord Apsley House. No session of benefit to tenants and landlords.
of the Legislative Council for a petition, and against every prayer ing to him, Hongkong is a large Parliament was complete without
it During the interval further period of two years, with in The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be In its framing the Bill is a helivered to obscribers by the Dairy Farm Company, Ltd. technical one but behind it lies effect from the 2nd March. 1920. that elapsed between the first ing almost solely on its trade by wich as a wind-up. There were and important British pors, rely-the famous fish dinner at Green- very good piece of sound admin-)
publication of the text of the merchant shipping, the bulk of certain taverns in London with istration. We hope to see it pass
petition. and the actual, trans-that shipping being under the rooms constantly bespoken for through all its remaining stages) It is notified that the last day mission of the document to Lon Red. Ensign, and therefore the these dinners, and there was at next Thursday,
for receiving applications for don, every effort was made to principle should be that mer- least оре famous occasion on examination for the Indian and discredit it. The official members chant shipping should be piloted which a Cabinet, with stats_and FINANCIAL VOTES.
Colonial Police Services bas been of the Council and other member The proceedings of :be Finance provisionally fixed for the 5:b of the community were influenced by British white pilots, who base orders, dined in the Boston Brew
sarved their tima at sea in British House. Committee, which followed the May, 1921. and the date of the against it and persuaded to refuse
gained vast experience and sitting of the Council, were not examinatioés: 21st June, 1991. their signatores to it. The list of Sessels, been through the mill
signatures were analyzed and
From the unpaid eminence of very satisfactory from the public)
obtained
B.O.T. the
certif- point of view. Let us see just
reported on in detail and every cases, instead of "Asiatics who the red benches a member of the A brilliant emotions! artiste effort made to
House of Lords has just been what happened. There were no
disparage bave had no sea training or fewer than 34 änancial votes for gives a powerful portrayal in a them as for the must
firing a shot at the Lower Cham- park experience whatsoever and al and clerka ". consideration and approval. in dual role of the latest Arteo only
people though declaring themselves Bri-ber, whose members, he thinks, volving the voting of $370,764.10. Production, which is showing at who had no stake of anything in tish subjects in order to obtain the are demoralised by what Bobb Dodington would have called the Chairman of this Committee and The Capitol is a play of social at the movement, and some of
members and political Washington, with them jeered at the promoters and ways, and would think nothing who regard a general election the unoficial
an occasion which have a seat upon it, where many of its scenes enacted in the fortold for it the usual fate of of taking a six-bour trip to Canton chiefly as
of the nation's capital Arthur F. Back petitions of all kinds to the British and there declaring themselves to may mean to them the loss of a- the majority
Baird in this Government. The Secretary of be Chinese subjects."
their salaries. Without inquir- From the report of the past year's working of the Kowloon official members have no sea: presents Leab
frat reply
the
ing how many members Canton Railway it appears that this undertaking is resulting is owing to a change introduced by beautiful production from the State's
coold not
whose permanent homes aro monthly prof: of, roughly, abant $5000. During 1919, the total
in This is very interesting, but it not
London
show prayer of the receipts came to over 90000 of which the expenditure swallowed sitting on this Committee that un- Thomas and
to be ignores some of the facta_It is any balance on their stipend at 500д up more than 17,000, the net receipts amounting to $13,060. In officials have a chance of con- George Irving. The accomplished petition.
the Cha-the end of a Parliamentary year, the report there is given a tabulated statement showing the results trolling to some extent the spend-riste acquits herself magai modified, when Mr. Whitehead well-know
of Commerce favoured) seems quite likely that Nemesis got members of the Liberal party ber The Capitol, the of the past five years, and if we compare the figures therein containings of the Government at least picently in the picture version of
famous to interest themselves in his case, giving
pilotage of will one day descend on the head ed, we gather that the gross receipts were never so bigh as they they have a chance to publicis American dramatist's tremendous and at the London Press to British ships to British pilots of the peer in question. Fer were in 1919. It is, however, also a fact that the working expenses criticise any expenditure which for the past year exceeded thous of any of the preceding four, but they think is being needlessly in-stage success in which such noted champion bis cause. We shall but their charges bave been so there are at least strong pro- Amelia Bingham.have as the result of the petition exorbitant for work that was so babilities that when the House of that was due to considerable unforeseen and unexpected patlays, curred. Throughout the whole of players
British Lord, is reformed it will cease to The net profit of $73,000 old is rather less than for 1918 and con- the meeting there was no one Mary Shand and Frank Keenan two unofficial members in the extremely easy that
A flow said by
one unofficial made theatre history.
Executive Council and two more shipowners were obliged to accept be an unpaid body. siderably below that of 1917, when the year ended with net receipts word
Unofficials in the Legislative the services of Chinese pilots, House of Lords will certainly totalling more than $90,000. The actual expenditure was $4.397 member, though it struck u3---
Council, and the family party of who are quite reliable and have no thought of money wealth, more than estimated, whilst the receipts showed a most satisfactory and must base struck some of the
a service where economy and although quite a number of cadets will no longer have it all in increase of well over $35,000, when compared with 1915.
reading public too-that several
members will probably It is very satisfactory to feel that this Government undertaking items might havebeen commented COLONY'S FINANCES their own way either in the one is not to be ignored no one is the
surprised that British shipowners be pensioned ex-servants of assembly or the other.
in Hongkong "bave never had the Crown there will be others occasion to accept the proposal who will need à salary quite as of employing British white pilots mach as members of the Com- mons, especially if there is a
fited period will be continued until countermanded.
Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19. 1920.
OUR RAILWAY.
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be made without serious bars so do feel that a relaxation might
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The Colonial Secretary is always the Hoogkong Theatre to-night the Colony: The officials laughed Hongkong harbour pilot licence.**)}-for-quarter-day” spirit, and
all
the present Governor. It is while table stage success by August Petition, that he
directed by entertain the
Chairman's
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Expenditure from 1st to 29th February. 1920.
Balance,
$4,972,971.58
1.128.736.65
bad
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the "Hongkozy Jelegraph")
THE SHIPPING DISPUTE.
yet are undoubtedly Chinamen
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A very interesting case to mar-strong leaven of statesmen from iners has just been decided at the Dominions whose idea of a Howe. A clause in a charter Senate is that of a dignified but party, exempting the shipowners also well-paid assembly. It has from losses or damage caused by laid down, In spite of Mr. negligence, default, or error of Gladstone's odd scheme, that if jadgment of the pilot. master or any members are paid 'all roust Sir, With reference tu the crew in the management be paid; and so, whether the 6.101,708.23 shipping award. which I under navigation of the steamer" would taxpayer likes it or not, the stand several are patiently waiting appear to give a wide protection, chances are that we shall bare for. I cannot understand why some but in the sa. Lord case at Home, to pay fairly heavily for the.
are dilly such shipowners 944,579.81 Cheese
clause has received privilege of a reformed Upper dallsing over the matter. Their subtle limiting construction. House. paltry excuse is they are waiting The captain, while in har- to be notified officially. Why? 1 hour, chose erroneously, as after- Jail to see.
$5,157,128,42
is doing so well and that it is justifying the optimism of those who,on. The Chairman, as each vote for many years before its actual construction, urged the provision of came up. gare just a few words
The Hongkong Treasury issued a railway running through the New Territories and connecting up of explanation and the voting with Canton Apart from the growing receipts from through traffic, went merrily on, being taken the following financial statement we are glad to notice that local traffic improred under all bead more for granted than actually for the month of February, 1920:- when compared with the previous twelve months. It can be said, given. Unofficial members are Balance of Assets
the Finance however, that the railway is as yet but in its infancy. One of the inclined to take
and Liabilities on 31st January. factors which induced railway communication with Canton was the Committee as a cut and dried
1920 knowledge that eventually the latter city would be linked up with affair, but they ought to look Hankow and the great industrial regions of Central Cbins upon it as equal in importance to Revenue from 1st to Unhappily, tha: dream still remains to be fulfilled, but when the the Council itself. One cannot 29th February
1920. line is finally completed we may rest assured that our own railway read through the will immensely sin. Kowloon, will then become the terminas of explanations without being struck China's southern trunk-line, and we may expect to see industrial by the fact that there was some and other development in the New Territories. When that happy very bad estimating. In one case time comes, and when, if ever. China settles down to peace and the Chairman admitted that the quietude and puts all ber energies into production," this little British original vote "was very badly line of railway will be a roost valuable asset to the Colon, under-estimated" and in a great financially sad in other ways as well. To read through the early number of other cases the sums reports is to gain the conviction that the railway is being well and involved were extra to what was be thought would economically managed, whilst there is a manifest desire to make criginally
It was clearly under-wards transpired, a certain ronte, ing the actual management of the most of the facilities which the line can give. The whole staff necessary. We recently pointed
stood at the time of the dispute His owners were beld liable for the ship while in motion or about December last, that after the breach of charter party, as choice to be set in motion. The word is to be complimented on the records which are being achieved by out that the Government's income such
BS housing-demanding arbitration was settled the pay of route was not covered by the management could well apply in 1919 was considerably less What we cannot overlook, however, is that there is very heavy than its expenditure and we also attention and the spending of
In arriving at the finding apply to a ship when in harbour capital expenditure to be wiped off. Looking through the report, pointed out that there we money. Sixteen and a balf miles would commence from 15th Decem words management or navigs to the ship and no doubt did
of road will cost about $139,000 ber; then again when the arbitration." we find that the main line Construction Account up to the end of for very rigid economy. Thurs for metalling and terring alone. tion was settled it was published in the case Mr. Justice Bailhache as well as a motion. The swo 1916 stood at $14,700,000 odd, whilst special expenditure since in-day's proceedings did not help well might the Colonial Secre- both in the morning and evening said "Some light was thrown words together meant something curred brings the total up to more than $14,880,000. Bearing in to convince us that that economy tary have added “
what further on the meaning of the word in the nature of commanding of by the fact that directing the ship. They did not mind the very short mileage of the British railway line, such figures is being practised
sive business. The making of notification is required I fail to navigation
Wab joined mean the deliberate choice while are tremendously high. It is common knowledge that the initial also gave the impression the bridge over the road just see. Several have already pre- the
in in barbour of one of two routes expenditure on the railway was absurdly beavy, with the result that that unofficials do not past Shatin will result in a wonder-sented their claims to their owners with the pilot and crew
possible negligence or which was to be pursued. That this little strip of railway is about the most expensive per mile in seriously exercise their functions fai improvement, but could not which have been ignored: in fact the the whole world. We have always thought that the money spent and privileges as members of the such an expensive matter be left some have gone as far as to fally ra error of judgment. What was de did not seem to be an error of ou the railway when it was actually under construction should have Committee.
for a while? The Lai Chi-kek use to pay, and seems to look upon sired to avoid was damage to the judgment in the navigation or the bean the subject of most searching investigation, for we have all
prison was also
it se an imposition. Surely they are cargo or some mishap to the ship wanazement. There was a real heard stories of men who made small fortunes in connection with COSTLY ROADS.
relieve Victoria Gaol but its re-not quite so dense na to think they which would delay ber on the difficulty in actually drawing the vayage. Although the word line at what was navigation and the placing of contracts, etc. Happily, those days are gone, and we
To look for a moment to the conditioning and staffing seems CAD get out of paying? are quite certain that past irregularities have gone with them. But
However, my advice to them is navigation was different from what was not, but it could not be in addition to this main line, there is the construction account for spendings on the roads of the New to be costing a far larger Pay up and look pleasant for management, yet the words de said to be navigation of the the Fanling branch, which, we see, totalled over $89,000 up to the Territories, we see that enormous than is actually justified. end of 1918. These figures will require a good many sums of $13,000 sums of money are being spent in could go on quoting from the pay you must, and the soon the fault or error, etc. referred to a steamer when the master was in per annum profit to wipe them ont. What we should like to know that direction. Those roads are votes to prove that a strict watch better. You are breaking your ship in motion and a ship which port and was deliberating out how (and we cannot find it in the report) is exactly the difference be necessary and valuable and are thould be kept on the spending of agreements, which will cause was being navigated. A pilot to proceed, or how the stormas
until the ship was in motion. kind, but by which of two rous tween the total construction accounts and the actual profits since also in bad condition, but we the Government. But our unnecessary unpleasantness on both would not be employed as a rule was to be run or anything of Đồn. the railway was built. One of our Unofficial members misht doubt the wisdom of spending so officials said never a word. We sides.Yours etc., enquire at an early Council meeting just how matters stand in this laviebly on them at a time when hope they will when another host
there are more argent matters-of such votes comes forward. Hongkong, 18th June, 1920, regard,
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