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A-NECESSARY REMINDER.

A LAUGH IS WORTH Dr. Pearse gave a very negee-HUNDRED GROANS IN ANY STATE sary reminder at the last Sanitary OF THE MARKET-Charles Lamb, Board meeting of the obligation which rests upon householders to

see that their servants' quarters in the Colony sesterday.

There was a clşan bill afhos are kept in a proper state of cleanliness. He spoke as he did because someone had expressed

some

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They were at Edinburgh for the they say elsewhere.

days. this description. But rerb sap sa

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title page of the publication MES EDES EXTORTS FOR fresh light broke on me. Thərs) - CHARITIES: REWARDED. 14th July, 1920,

I read that the paper in question Was "Entered at New York Post “Aye, we've had the King and Office as second class matter." siderablo

It will be learned with con Queen and Princess Mary in be it from me to quarrel wi Hongkong ladies that the Ordar Mr. E. A. Johnson, keeper of Scotland this last tan

pleasure- by - many to him a measure of surprise that Waglan Island Lighthouse, pro-

of Queen Elizabetli of Belgium. the Government did not under-ceeded Hame by the Kalgan to- first weak but as the visit was take to do this work. There are day.

accompanied by medal and ribbon, has been conferred people who want, tha

supposed to be of a private nature lots o folk were disappointed at putting in a good word for the of the Belgians in recognition of I ses C. E. Chasterton bea beo Edo, of Hongkong, by the King authorities to

Ede, wife of Mr. C. Montague Mrs. do everything for

The total output of the Kailan no seeing them, further than them everything but Mining Administration's mines through the glass of a closed-la-him. I never did see much w dared to Belgian charities during

penny dreadful." Good luck to delivery of their for the week ending 31st July motor. Wi some folk, royalty them onyway.—no' that I monthly salary. The attitude of amounted to 92,319 tons and the basna' the life o' a dog and they would like to infer that Chester-

great personal assistance ren- these folk, whenever the slightest sales during the period, to 62,681 wouldna' stop short at being ton and I aye think alike, mind

the war. thing goes amis, is summed up loos in the query; Where is the

satisfied wi's sight of them un-ye-but there's certainly one in Hongkong, Mrs. Ede was a Apart from the work performed Government?" But there · ára) **

less they saw them in their bath thing to be said for the dreadful strenuous worker in the cause of obligations resting upon residents labour was inflicted on the Chin-me tell ye. That reminds me so having, it tends more than

A sentence of six weeks' hardling's no' allowed in Scotland. let powerful human interest and from in the war period.

of a morning. And mixed bath and that isbataye has charity dating her stay at Homs as well as upon the authorities, ese, who acting on the instigation and one of these is to see that of a rival barber, made on attack, but that story can keep 'till anything else to wake readers of in temporary the servants quarters attached on another barber with a hammer down the Clyde this week. I had that the "

Mr. and Mrs. Ede are at present to European residences are kept in Wo Fat Street.

after. Onyway, Royally's far our boys. It aye used to be said Yokohams

residepoo ia sanitary condition. This, applies to the residential part of

a line from MacPherson about a power for evil; in fact 'till the penny dreadful ” was a the quarters 23

fortnight ago and he was in fine cinema relieved it of much of its

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A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. kitchens and the tatrines. There Caygill, Chinese was to-day as no he'll be strutting about excuse for youthful misdoing. But known fact that if a position of well as the At the instance of Inspector feather over the affair. As like responsibility it was aye the stock on London. It's a well-

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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1920.

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are some Europeans here who charged before Mr. R. O. Hut-Gourock a' this week, him wear to my mind this was aye anany worth is temporarily vacant ipore dream of chison with disobeying an ordering his snouted cap and bis over-rated contention and if only in England a horny Celtic hand visiting their servants' premises of banishment which was passed second-best than they would of asking their on bim in February of this year. them that he had made three we might have forced the battle the Chief Secretary is abeant yo suit ยี bluese youngsters had had the wit is ready to grasp the chair. If smahs in to afternoon tea. The He was sentenced to one year's winters lischen can be left to take care

hard labour. of itself, whilst as for the latrines

letting on a the time that he's a the literature of a lot of authors has merely gone to Scotland to Ah Men's into the adult camp. What is can bet your last dollar that he -well, how could one? But

yachtsman. Him a yachtsman but "Deadwood Dick" as repre-fetch bis brother. very important issues of health destroyer, arrived in harbour this thing if he had a bit of oily waste what. are the stories of Edgar business a scheme to cut Scot- The Upshur. an American He'd look a lot more like the seated by expert craftsmen; depend upon these places being morning from Shanghai on her in bis hand and

I see in this latest railway kept clean, and if householders way to Manila. She leaves to spanner in the other, only be before he became

a three-inch Allan Poe and even Conan Doyla land off from civilisation and only stopped to think of the harm morrow. She will be Stationed might that might well come to them-at the regular Naval station atpersonating a railwayman at work tion for addled adults of the be pinched for im-hunter, that is but the adapta....

■ spook progress. It'll need to be seen to selves through neglect of an Cavite, which is the beadquarters and railway folts are very touchy adventures of Sexton Blake? It obvious duty, they would take of the American Asiatic squadron.about that sort of thing powadays, was aye said that it was the when be is telling the truth. rather more interest in these) WALKER-At 30 Nathan Rd, Kowloon, on 13th August, the matters than most of them do.

A liar canna' be believed, even wife of Ellis Walker, Douglas Steamship Co., a son.

let me tell ye. Aye, his chit was coloured cover that did the trick That dictum may be applied to Ifyon want a clear insight into despatched to the China Station wi the red lion ramping on it form the grown-up choice now-week trying to get proof positive A big naval draft is about to be Royalty and the fine yellow flag at our railway stations reflect true bad a sore time of it at Spa last just fair chock-a-block Wiwi' the kids but if the bookstalls the Germans now. Lloyd George Foor friend's conceptions of for distribution bygiene, contrive to visit his or ships there, says

amoogst the that he'd bought one day inadays is no more loftily dictated. that Germany has some inten- her servants' quarters.

the L&C. Sauchiehall Street. As Janet re-Yo mind how Wells described Anntion of acting in good faith. The learn all you need for the pur-tenant - Commander E You'll

Express of July15. Lien-marked, him and his flag, and us Veronica's father as a gentleman German Chancellor, Herr Whats- pose there.

Tufnel! has been appointed to at the house end and no less fiction with chromatic titles."

Ewi' one the size of a bed sheet wit a taste for "bealthy light hisname, made a greeting apposi DISTRICT WATCHMEN.

take the draft out to Hongkong, than three red lions on There are others beyond the

assisted by Lieutenant W. Har-s' ramping forbye. Of course the has its use in assisting to deve-ance before the Great Judge

it,

to the Conference; be spoke of age Police who help in maintaining

As I said before the "dreadful"" and the imminence of his appear- law and order in this Colony.

King conldna have seen our flag and amongst these the District

from where he passed on the lope a taste for reading and for-I'm not so

sure that he'll To-moitow's Pictorial Supple- railway unless he had wireless that it may be excused a Watchmen play a by no means went will consist entirely of local eyesight but as Janet said what's What's more forebye, it might be ed that his word might be lot. ever be there anyway and plead- unimportant part. There are

pictures. There will be photo-the use of a flag if ye don't let the tolerated, too, in the general accepted. over a buodred of these men, and raphs taken at the weddings of neighbours see ye have one? And observation that there are no bad logic in that sort of talk onyway. last year they secured no fener Mr. Rodenfuser and Miss Yvonne there's something in that, wind books, only that some are much The lives of millions of smart than 164 convictions. The Com-Lecable, and of Mr. Jonsson and re. if ye think it out for yourself. better by far than others. mittee of this body is composed Cs" in their "Babbles" scena; of peas untoward on the West Coast Miss Tregillus of "The Black Onyway let's hope nothing bap-

young folks have been ruthlessly of well-known Chinese residents. Co. of the Wiltshires, who this week. It would be an awful Ministries is the belief that this Treaty.

destroyed by aged Germans and the lives of as many more might and of its activities the Secretary are winners of the Hongkong job if MacPherson got himself wisdom began wit them.

One of the faults of the new very well bang on the result of for Chinese Affairs A few weeks ago Reuter cabled out a condensation of the advice and assistance of this of the late Mr. A. E. L. de Sousa, in his annual report"The logal Leagues, as well as a photograph

saya Garrison and Regimental Hockey into the picture papers. Report of Sir Henry Norman's Committee on the Imperial Wireless important

supervision of railways, it seems, and despite all the criticism that's But Lloyd George had the plack problem-s report which we have since been able to publish almost deals with every kind of question Committee (whicb

has come to stay. The railwaysaying about just now, he's the only fully. We bave already expressed an opinion on the value of the affecting the Chinese community)

with One of bis winning ponies.

Talking about Royalty reminds are no: to be nationalised Report and in the light of the fuller information now obtained. continues to be of the greatest.

me that a No. 1 sized rumour got or far that matter are they to He's pinned them down once more man we've got that's got the pluck. we are more than ever convinced that it will be generally agreed value to the Government."

about the other day tha! Queen resume For trespassing at the Govern-Alexandra bad died. I dared Janet Syste

old competitive to a definite promise. Let's hope that the recommendations made are of an extremely practical it is interesting to record that the was to-day fined $1, with a cau- well, for only the next day there flesh nor fowl nor even good red will be up against a situation in Herement Civil Hospitals Chinese to repeat it and it was just as words it's a case of being neither is for if they don't the world of working In other they'll keep it-both sides, that character, and if adopted are calculated to give an Imperial chain District Watchmen's Force bastion. It appears that he was mos: was of wireless stations which would admirably serve everyday com-been in existence for well over anxious to get a footing into the baving & mercial and Press needs as well as Empire requirements. In view ally years. On looking up old bosptial for the purpose of promo- London and about going to the the same way as bis brother

a description about ber herring.Si Eric Geddes has fixed which all hopes of future peace of the matter's undoubted importance, everybody will hope that this records to discover

nice drive through up the railway zones almost in may as well be ruled out. report will not suffer the fate which has so often been meted out to learn that on la: February, newspapers and magazines of a Sunday. Now, as often as no

its origining the work of Government Committees, that of being pigeon-boled for 1866, the

sale of Home Church the day following, it being arranged the recruiting regions. reference, but that steps will be taken without delay to realise a

Chinese community with the patients, and in spite dead folks sometimes

The Government scheme of rail scheme the broad ontlines of which have been indicated by the and decided to petition the by the Storekeeper, Mr. J. Pegan, in the matter, so to speak, and or six maiz, groups for England retirement. It wasua so long ago of Hongkong held meeting the fact that he bad been warned Church but then they've no choice tion of the existing lines into fire have benefited by his recent brief toway reorganisation is consolide and between you and me seems to "Bob" Smillie has "come back" Committee.

It must have come as something in the nature of a surprise to organise a force

Government for pertaission to on one occasion, he persisted in it's true forbge that the old and Wales and one for Scotland. that Mr. Smillie wia Lord High many people to find that even to-day, when prices of material and watchmen in aid of the ordinas a result, handed over to the but what licks one is how they bunch of experts have been ined that the country, willing or of Chinese coming to the Hospital and was. Queen's no getting or younger. For six months or so a select Executioner sort of voice declar Isbour have advanced to what in many cases are proving probibitive ary police of the town, to levels, the capital cost of the scheme recommended is less than attached to the Police Force and

be Police. £1,250,000, of which the share to be paid by the Imperial Government to be under the orders of the

kind of rumours get about. Ye'll labour producing a railway policy no willing, would accept the would be £853,000, and that the annual charges are estimated at

mind it was the same sort o That is the Eddes version. Mr.Inationalisation of its mines. Now £425,000, of which £258,000 would fall upon the public exchequer that petition was that rumours James Hedge to-day left for in the early days of the

authorities. The substance of the Police Force, Sub-Inspector Russians came through Scotland

After sixteen years' service in thing when you train loads oAsquith on the

other band like the Merchant of Venice he's This, of course, takes no account of the revence which would be earn-had reached the petitoners to the Home

had & ments! vision of ed, and which, although not likely to be large enough in earlier years effect that the roughs" of Canton Recently in the motor bandits fair cows the cudds. To give ye average booking clerk could have should be permitted to settle the Olympians lying on their backs suggests wi' an air of sweet "marvellously changed." He now to balance expenditure it is estimated that at the outset there would intended to celebrate the approach case and other potrages of a another instance. This while back arrived at much the same result

by the 59. Kalgan. Aye, this tittle-tattle business and gazing at the sky. The reasonableness that the country be a deficit of £100,000 a year--would doubtless reach that point all of the Chinese New Year by similar nature he displayed great there's been quite a decent lot o' in six minutes instead of six question for itself. no distant date. This is an instance, however, when erega per-with the object committing exten-arrest of one of the bandits and to get excited about you know scheme is the elimination of bave got it into his noddle at

making a descent upon Hongkong plack which resulted in the smallpox at Glasgow. Natbing months. The justification of the

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manent annual deficit should not prove a deterrent to the carrying out of the scheme, as the gains to the Empire should far outweigh sive robberies under cover of a another robber in a later Case, though mind yo, that didna pre competition. That may be a good last that public opinion eauna Britain and the Dominions. On most matters to which reference is native watchmen be appointed and leaves this Colony on vaccinated. But that's by the but it will be a bad thing for the i any such small annual charge as might have to be borne by Great conflagration. The suggestion that He is now retiring on pension vent MacPherson from getting thing for the railway companies made in the Report, namely, the desirability of providing for wire was, after consideration, adopted panied by the good wishes of big way anyway and doesna prove travelling public. After all the his back, otherwise there is no less inter-communications within the Empire, the distances of the by the Government and embodied comrades of the force and other onything either way, for it might railwaye are meant fer folks and apparent reason why he didn't varions links, and even the system to be adopted, there will be in an Ordinance passed in August acquaintances. something like unanimity. There is certain to be disagreement, of the year mentioned. It was however, in connection with the proposal to set up & Wireless not, however, until 1897 that

have been the thought of free goods to get about on.

With throw his hat into the ring right Commission to carry out the scheme and to entrus; the construc- these watchmen were placed on

Vaccination that was the deter. intelligent private management away. tion of the necessary stations to the engineering department of the Police beats and subjected to the General Hospital, Hankow, on smallpox at Glasgow and natural to go and

The death occurred at the that be

mining factor in his case. Let the railwaye before the war did

This was at the Miners' Federa- Post Office. The view is held by many the: to band this important supervision of Police officers, at August 8, of Brights disease, ly enough in these enlightened Agricultural Show without saving expense of Oxford and Cambridge as it may, there was very well and it was possible then tion Conference, where be, how. development over to a Government department would be & mistake. the bead of whom at that time aggravated by the heat, of Mr.F. days the authorities saw to it up a year beforehand. But there's by extolling

see the Highland | ever, raised a cheap laugh at the Those who are familiar with the policy taken by the Post Office in was our former Governor Sir Bignel, chief officer of the China that there was vaccination for all one factor that I think the Gov-college than either of these so far compection with wireless telegraphy in past years can feel little Heary confidence that in entrusting the realisation of the Imperial Since those days, the District Biguel, who had been feeling the as I was saying, inst yester-sideration and that is competition cerned the

(then Mr.)

& more important May Navigation 5.5. Wachang. Mr. that was inclined that way. Well ernment havens taken into con-as the Labour movement is con Wireless Scheme to this department the Empire would be well served. Watchmen have done much the recent intense heat very day I got hold of a We bold no brief for Marconi interests, whose relations with Govern- ment officials have for various reasons been somewhat unfortunate Committee members have shown to hospital on August 6 and onion Inquiry and it was sayings monopoly but nowadays motor risen from the gutter, We aye

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collage wee from other sources. For the last gutter."

of the badly, was removed from the ship paper calling itself the Vaccine-six years the railways have been but it would be idle to deny that for the progress made in the field how the leading Chinese residents the 8th a cable was received some very severe things about traction is challenging railway take off our hat to them. But of wireless communication we are under the deepest debt to Mr. of the Colony are prepared to aid sisting he had expired. He the small pox in Scotland and supremacy

Now many a good man hea Marconi and those who worked with him. It does, therefore, appear the authorities in the mainten- foined the ungenerous to turn down the proposals of the Marconi Company for ance of law and order hers. Imperial wireless with the criticism that they are too vague to admit ABSURD RESTRICTIONS.

China Navigation doctors in general for insisting locality I've been in since I landed happiest possible example of the in almost every "Bob" 8millia is by no means the of detailed examination, and that if carried out the scheme would be

Company 12-years ago and on folk being vaccinated. It tells home. It's no' to be despised mind efficiency of the "college in prejudicial to free wireless research and independent development.

recently returned from home some awful stories of the evil I'm telling ye. There's a terrible which he had his early training. These are strong words, the justice of which is certain to be im-to an aspect of the housing ques- This is to be a brief reference

effects of vaccination in this lot of motors of every description If the education of the guitar mediately challenged, and it seems a pity that it should have beention which directly bears on the exceptional conditions;

country and mentions in on the roads of Great Britain merely produces class prejudice found necessary to incorporate them in this report, and supply the matter of expensive building. We still remains operativa and has a whose arm had to be cut off, cut off from the other groupe of see how the nation os beneft.

mysterious way-without giving to-day. material for a new controversy on this subject.

get it names, mind ye-shout a lady As things are to be, Scotland is Mr. Smillie's phrase-1 fo —or class consciousness, to adopt Hongkong has a prominent place in this scheme and it may that the point involved will not Many of its provisions are totally"starfling rudderness" and again so."

pen these few words in the hope vital effect on building costs. and about another who died wi' railways. Now this shouldns" be Aye, from the guiter one can get just be that if the obain of stations is established this Colony would be overlooked when the Colony's necessary, irksome and absurd. of a whole family who came as Home Bule in railways. It still onyrate, distortion aye has been have to bear some proportion of the annual charge to cover the Budget is under consideration. And besides what this means in near to death's door working deficit. But, even if it has, we trust that unanimous sup- One of the reasons why house expense, additions! work

Scotland doesn' want quite a distorted view of life. At port will be given to it, for the question of rapid communication is erection

as xayone remains trus as Dr. Johnson the chief defect of Mr. Smille becoming a serious one for the Colony, not only from the com-costly, we are informed, is that ments servante. mercial man's standpoint but from the standpoint of the Colony's there are almost innumerable Ordinance wants simplifying and scare was started at the mare have been past-masters in the art wunity. On the who

atrociously needlessly thrown on Govern-dying." This rumour-mongering which: Scotsman ever seen is ness has been more than once is could have been without actually observed "The noblest prospect outlook, and his “class conscious- general well-being. It will possibly be a long time before we hear requirements

The whole raz also tells me of how a mad the high road to England. We decided menace to the co of any practical steps being taken to put into effect the Committee's authorities under

msde by fecommendations, but when the time does come for a consideration Health and Buildings Ordinance in the public, will they exert the mere mention of the word They're to

the much of it sorapping. If our mention of compulsory vaccine of peaceful penetration. The do wi' ss few as possible offi the Public Unofficials still have suy interest tion by the authorities and that Jews are recéd of ways and means we trust that this Colony will not be behind-That Ordinance, we believe, was their united efforts to bring about smallpox sent the majority own in Paler

college hand in supporting a scheme that would benefit it so greatly.

brought into being to deal with this much-needed reforms? of people into a wild panic": vitality of the E

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