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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

CHINA'S POSTAL SERVICE:

MONDAY, AUGUST, 23, 1920

`DAY BY DAY.

· EVERY EVIL 19 EASILY CRESH- The report on the working of ED AT BIRTH. WHEN IT GROWS the Chinese postal service for the | OLD, IT BECOMES TOO OBSTINATE past year, the general section af TO KILL-Cicero. which we published on Saturday, makes most interesting reading, showing, as it does, that this

is a blend of the finest Whiskies nch of China's administrative in the Colony on Saturday.

distilled in SCOTLAND.

The same high standard of

still maintained.

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Mr. Justice Skingar Turner and his wife left by the Nanking to-day.

CURRENT COIN.

[BY MERCATORTM)

UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION.

P. L. DELEGATE IN

HONGKONG,

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY

The kotivity that was beginning

Noas too soon, the Canadian: to be shown in the metala market

Government” have decided to has tuuled out, and the market

preserve some of the remaining during the week has bean weak.

Among the passengers who herds of caribou, the barren There was a clean bill of health There has been no

further arrived here on Saturday morn ground reindeer of the ratio. enquiries from India, Java anding on board the C.P.0.8. Empress Bafinland has been chosen for sotivities is being consistently

Burma for iron and steel goods, of Russia was Judge Norberto the reservation, where the cari- improved. In all, the articles of

but a small trade has been done Romualder, who will be one of bou will be able to Nam pare mail matter posted totalled 340

with Saigon in round bars. A local the two representatives of the stricted and to multiply. Leas millions, which is an increase of

firm is reported to have purchased Philippine Inlands in Univarsal than 30 years ago there were 374 millions as compared with

150 tons of steal round bars at the Postal Convention to be held in vast numbers of caribou in Nor quality the previous year. These figures

price of $3.90 per picul for sises Madrid, Spain, on October 1 next. thern Alaska, but by the cupidity are almost beyond comprehen- Sir Claude de Crespigny, who balf inch and upwards, and $12 Judge Romualdes is on his way of the trader and the ignorance sion: their immensity should is 73 years of age, has challanged per picul for sites 15 and to the Convention. With him of the Eskimo they were destroy- make us realise in part the wide- Sir James Cantlie (formerly of sinch. These will apparently are five abundant pensinados of the ed, as the buffalo was destroyed spread ramifications of China's Hongkong) whose years are 69, be - shipped to Java

Philippine Government who are in the Western States of America. postal service, which is now to an all-round athletic contest. Saigon. It is stated that being sent to specialise in various There is scarcely anything there hava been recantly courses in different universities manufactured which can equal heavy arrivals of iron and steel in the United States and three caribou skin as an article of The total output of the Kailan goods into Java, the Straits other Filipino students also on clothing, and the meat is still Mining Administration's mines Settlements, and Todia, and it is their way to the United States. more valuable, being very rich in

Per case of 1 dozen $28 including duty.

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WISE AND SPIRT MERCHANTS.

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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street.

MARRIAGE

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becoming more and more ap- preciated by the people and catering to their wants with regularity and certainty that, in the circumstances, is really remarkable. When we read of the progress which has been made in the development of tons. this branch of the administration we cannot bot feel that the suc-

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for the week ending 7th August, not likely that these markets: The Director of Posts, Mr. Joss fat in the fall of the year. amounted to 92,974 com and the will buy for sometime from Hong Topacio, is the other representa- sales during the period, to 63,922 kong, unless certain classes of tive of the Philippine Islands in The specialist in the history of goods which they may happen to the Universal Postal Convention, words should be interested in run shart of at the moment. If and he will

Judge the reports of the American Amateur photographers will be anything, the rising Hongkong Rumusldes in Madrid before the political conventions. They itt cess is a tribute to the foreign interested to learn that Messrs. doliar makes our prices dearer to Convention opens. The pen-variably speak of the votes given control exercised. Here, as in A. Tack and Co. bays just un-Saigon and the other centres that sinnades on board the Empress to different candiates as auch and the case of the Customs and the packed a large consigament of bave of late been drawing on this are Mr. Faustino Manago, who such a "ballot." This use of the Salt Gabelle, we have foreigners Eastman Kodaks and films, which market for their supplies.

Tin-will specialize in corporations in term is really a misnomer. for as the head, directing the work-arrived by the Empress of Russia. plates have declined to $11.50 per the University of Michigan: Mr. the various State delegations ing of the department and giving

case, at which price it is likely Vicente G. Manalo, who goes to announce their choice openly. of their experience to the mani-

that some business may result. New York to take up courses in This appears to be one of those fest advantage of the whole At the Happy Valles on Friday Steel plates are steady, although naval engineering: Mr. Mariano instances in which the precise Chinese people. What is more, afternoon, the R. A. O. C. beat there is no demand for them at Concepcion, who will take up sense of a word has been obecnt- we get honest administration, and the R. A. M. C. by 46, games to present. In B. H. P. lead stocks the study of commercial red through looseness in popular what that means could best 35 in a Garrison Tennis League are scarce, and the price is called statistics in Chicago University; usage. It is, of course, of the be told by the big revenues match. Capt Spinks and Con-at $13 per picul, Australian mills Mr. Cornelio Balmaceda, who essence of a ballot that the rots BIRTH.

which flow into

take the nation's ductor Haynes played well for refusing to make any offers in will HOY:-AUMA. Nathan Road, Kowloon, on August, 21st 1920. treasury from these services.

the study of should be given secretly, but as the winners.

the meantime. The London foreign commerce at Harrard the process of most political to Mr. and Mrs. A. W. J. Hoy, a son.

quotation foz quicksilver is University; and Mr. Norberto elections nowadays is described, FOREIGN AID.

£20 per flask, while it is Marchadesch, who will specialize quite correctly, as balloting, the ELLIOTT-PEGDEN.-On the 21st August, at the Peak There WAS

time when Since many, modern roads bave selling in Hongkong at in actuarial science in Columbia term has come to be applied to Church. Hongkong, by Rev. Copley Morle, George Herbert, the question of the partition been completed in Canton, the $164 per picul, which is $92.25 per University. The other Filipino political voting in general. youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Elliott, of Wandsworth of Chins

more frealy pumber of rickahas, and ricksha flask, each flask containing 75lbs, students are Mr. Manuel Tinio, Commen, London, S. W., to Ada Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. spoken about than it now coolies is increasing day by day. The local price is still below that Jr, son of General Tinio of the is To-day most foreign nations Soma 1,850 rickshas and 3,700 prevailing at Home, and should Philippines, who goes to Cornell

Those who are familiar with agree that

Chins should be ricksha coalies are now in Canton. it come down in London to £18.10 University to study mechanical, the valuable critical work of Mr. given A chance; that her A ricksha coolie is able to earn there will be a good trade, for the engineering: Mr. Arsenio Hizon, George Saintsbury will rub thair sovereignty and integrity should about 50 cents a day after paying dealers here could sell quicksilver who goes to Columbia University to find his name associated be safeguarded at all costs. But, the rent of his ricksha. With the to arriva. Some of the vermillion to take for foreign trade; Mr. With Notes on a Cellar Book," whilst that is as it should be, 50 cents he has to pay for his manufacturers are offering $161| Pablo Tecson and Mr. Y. Banzon. which Messrs. Macmillan there are many who think that board and lodging.

per picul for quicksilver to arrive Dr. Guazon, of the Philippine wine one of the three things that publish But, after all, is not it would be to her own interests

within two or three months. In Ceneral Hospital at Manila is were there a larger measure of foreign direction exercised in the Dutch boat Groningen were on

Two Chinese employees of the Belgian window glass the market also on his way to the United one should love or remain a fool his whole life loog? There is an is wesker owing to the beary States. government of the country. In Saturday night near the United

old rhyme to that effect, anyway. arrivals last week by the In speaking of their represent And certainly Mr. Saintsbury other words, it would pay China Services Recreation Club se: Tokohama Maru and a couple of atives to the postal Convention, proves a fascinating and scholar- to get others to manage her business until she is really fit fɔ upon by a gang of robbers who other Japanese vessels. Some tenthe Filipinos on the Empress of appraiser of good wine. And thousand bores arrived. and Russia declared that no better he has some good stories to tell threw pepper into their eyes, and the job herself, on the under-stole from their persons a sum of dealers are offering their stocks at selection could have been made On standing, of course,

the subject of "sherry that the $20. One of the assailants was

case without finding than Judge Romualdez and the cobblet," he says "I was taught integrity, of the country is not arrested by a watchman, and to buyers. The market is certainly Director of Fosts. This proves to make it when I was an under- infringed. There is something day charged before the Court Belgian window glass, and this stated, "the earnest desire, the than the late Father Stanton, overstocked B present with to the world once more. they graduate by no less a person After evidence was taken, his Worship remanded the case to the cold feet.

fact is giving the Chinese dealers national sentiment and capability who was as good a fellow as he

la round bars of the Philippine Islands for self-was a godly man." give his decision to-morrow.

arrivals during the past few days government. It is another strong have been five to six hundred evidence of their fitness to assume!

W.G. Pegden, of Peckham, London.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. and Mrs. E. V. M. R. de Souss and family desire to express sincere thanks for the many kind expressions of sympathy received in their recent bereavement; also for the beautiful wreaths and the attendance of so many friends at the funeral.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1920,

LABOUR AND SHIPBUILDING.

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THE PURSUIT OF MONEY. Quite recently we have received cable information that the spread of unemployment at Home, especially in connection with the millionaires. that we are aware Hongkong doesn't boast many shipbuilding trade, is developing to a very serious extent. The news of. But that isn't the fault of hardly came as a surprise, for indications have not beeh wanting to the people in it. The pursuit of received from the Lisbon Govern- and the United States. This bas nations."

In accordance with instructions tons from the United Kingdom their place in the concert of}

And here is a portrait of a show that the great shipbuilding boom, which the Old Country ex-the almighty dollar is quite a ment, the Chinese gunboat Kong-comewhat

gentleman who drank port as it perienced in consequence of the submarine activities of the enemy well-recognised pastime here: tai and the torpedo boat Laichua, market.

demoralised the

should be drunk: "a trial of the during the war, was running its length. The world has no: enough

bouquet; a slow sip; a raiber ships yet, but the point is that owners. for the most part, are content 5 more, it's an obsession with which bave been interned at

larger and slightly less slow ODE, to let their fleets stay at present dimensions rather than spend many of us. But perhaps Marao since the recent incident. The rice market continues to best patent roller flour will be and so on; but nevar a gulp; and thousands on new tonnage, costing more and more owing to the hs isn't to be wondered at in a were handed over to Commander glide down, the price to-day available.

during the drinking his isce ex- rising labour and material costs. The position is interesting, ba commercial centre like this.] Lui Yin-shan of the Canton (being $8.50 per picul, with no

changed its usual bluff and almost cause it shows that high wages, demanded by workers. bave had values are double those remem After signing an official document

especially since our currency Government on Wednesday last. movement of the cereal to any-

brusque aspect for the peculiar the effect, at least in part. of curtailing the amount of work for them bered by most of us as existing & acknowledging the receipt of the be any demand on account of the Hongkong shows a big increase, which good wine gives to worthy

Each year

the exports of blandness blandness as of to perform. In other words, high wages have briped to rob them of few years ago. These thoughts vessels, the two boats were next general collapse of the rice and during the past five years it countenances."

There is not likely to peanuts and peanut oil from Beulah, if not of Heaven itself- This viewpoint is held by many interested in shipbuilding at occurred to us the other day day despatched back to Canton.

"It is amusing to markets in Europe and America has advanced from a compara- come across the "wine slang" of Home, for the opinion has been treely expressed that if it were not

when we happened across a book for the penny-wise policy of the workers Britain would be in a very

on efficiency in office manage-

The position of the market in tively insignificant industry into the good old anti-pussyfoot days. fortunate position. Unfortunately the labour element appear hints which it contains:-

Sir Matthew Nathan. the new Saigon is very much in sympathy a very lucrative one. Here are a few of the ment.

The dis- To read of wine having the true Governor of Queens land, has with ours, for, contrary to excovery of the utilisation of the gun-flint taste, of good liquor determine in their mad craze for bigher wages and lees word to put

difficult task before him. judging pectations, the rice market there peanut oil in manufacturing soap kept too long that is "dumb" or the British shipbuilding and engineering industries down and out. Do all your thinking of bus from the cabled reports of the remains in the same lethargic as a substitute for olive oil and "withered." And how many who There are those who believe that unless the British worker can be ness matters by looking down reception of the news of his ap condition, with prices still on the for various culinary purposes scan the modern wine-list righ brought to see, wo will not say reison, but where his own interests at your desk. Don't look out pointment, says Truth. The acting decline. The quotation for white such as mixing with oil of olive we lie, our great industries are in real danger of being killed. Quite of the window or around the leader of the Labour Ministry Saigon rice. No. 2 sifted. Japan to increase its flavour, has given fect 'partridge-eys' champagne?" wonder, for · "per- "apart from what may be the decision of the Industrial Court on the office. There are many things characterises it as an outrage on quality, is Hk. $7.60 per picul the trade a tremendous impetus, Tales of a day that is dead! last wages demand, the shipbuilding industry has bed its wages bill out there that will get your constitutional government and fo.b. Saigon for shipment this while the recent discovery that forced up to a false level which threatens to topple over the whole mind wandering from the work an insult to Australia. This is month. From January 1st to the nut, after baking, makes a structure of shipbuilding finance and leave it on the ground. Ship

because the Colonial Secretary July 20th of this year Saigon good substitute for coffee and which has just been refused to "Lambeth degrees," one of owners are themselves faced with such high costs of operation that Learn to use the left hand as has refused to confirm the tem exported 1,845,883 tons as com- for mixing with chocolate and Mr. Barker, the well-known they have to watch the capital price of new ships with very keen well as the right! eyes. Shipowners are not only indisposed to place" new contracts

porary appointment Mr. pared with 1,738,080 tons for the cocos and an ingredient in biscuit Outside the office, avoid the Lennon, Bo on any but a definite price basis, but are actually paying forfeit on

adherent of the same period last year. I see making has provided another surgeon, are said, pot quita cor- the "newspaper habit!"

Labour Ministry. contracts already signed. This is a sinister portent. If shipowners

that the Rice Association of reason for incressed exportation. rectly, to be a survival from the Read only what is essential:

Californis has received will not contract for new tonnage under the old customs because

1 will undoubtedly take some Canterbury

time when the Archbishop of Literature? A waste of time!

telegram for the State Depart-time to educate the Chinese to

Wäs "perpetual of the uncertainty as to the ultimate price, and shipbuilders are Never jest with a caller in Mr. J. M. Jack. a prominent ment at Washington intimating the advantage of extracting the legate of the Pope. They really unwilling to accept 5xed price contracts for the reason that they business hours!

member of the golfing section of that the State Department had oil from the peanuts by modern arose from the fact that Oxford cannot rely on building costs remaining constant, then a situation Walk fast! No idle con- the K. C. C., who is going Homeinstructed the Legation at methods.

and Cambridge Universities wITS. has been reached which threatens the industry at its very heart. templation!

on leave by the ss. Plassy on Havana to lay before the Cuban

at first voluntary associations o We have said before, and it is well to repeat it, that labour has in its Efficiency!!!

Thursday, was on Saturday night | Government the seriousness of

clergy, for the purpose of promot- bands to-day not merely the making or marring of its own fortunes. Now we all know what and entertained to dinner by a num- the situation regarding rice ship-| During the second quarter of ing whatever arts and sciences but those of British industry as well. It ought to be obvious that what not to do! But what do ber of friends at the Palace Hotel.ments owing to the failure of the this year Hongkong exported vera then known in Western only from a prosperous industrial situation can high wages bewe think of the advice? Well, Kowloon, when he was presented Havana merchants to take de 64,868 pituls of peanuts valued at Europe. The Primate has the derived; but to hear some of the labour leaders talk one would be overwork may be justified by what by Mr. L. J. Blackburn with a livery of cargoes contracted by £141,216, against 68,307 picuis power of conferring medical, as led to believe that the springs of our national wealth Cow from alis accomplished. A man who gold wrist watch. Many speeches them, and to urge the Cuban valued at £102,805 in the second well as other, degrees, but for the source which is maintained by supernatural agencies. Perhaps the makes some discovery of benefit were delivered expressing esteem Government to use their influence quarter of last year. Of this most part exercises this privilege, bard lesson that there is no source of real wealth but work may only to mankind might well cut his Hife for the recipient, whilst much to obtain fair treatment for South Chine took £28,054 only by bestowing D.D. or B.D. be brought home" to the malcontents by a period of hardship and short in doing it. Buttowhat end is amusement was caused by the American interests.

worth, and the United States on eminent divines, and Mus the concentrated effort advocated reading of a number of faked

6,588 picals of the value Doc on distinguished musicians. Things are drifting that way already, and yet the men who are in this book to be devoted? To cable messages.

of £19,892 against 595 piculs Recipients of "Lambeth, degreen” going to feel the pinch first and bardest are still discussing the the pursuit of money!

programme was much enjoyed, The flour market is fairly valued £1,359 during the cor-wear the hood of the University nationalisation of industry, end whether another rise in time rates

including, se it did, selections by steady. The only Australian responding period last year. In to which the Archbishop belongs. can be squeezed out of employers, some of whom are already at

the band of the Nanking

flour available for

Export peanut oil we exported in all this Mr. Barker, for instance, would their wits and how to carry on. There are signs that the coming

has been that made from quarter 29,799 plculs of the value have worn the D,M. of Oxford." winter is going to be a period of unemployment on a large scale, not

"B" grade wheat Some of of £164,219, against 27,528 picals because there could not be work in abundance, but because con- The Judicial Committee of the

this has been offering here and valued at £102,023 last year. The sumers cannot pay the price demanded, and which arises in the Prussian Diet recently rejected

elsewhere, but the quality of the share of the United States of doubtedly develop a considerabis main from the insistence by the trade unions of high and yet higher the motion of the Independents in

Victorian "B" grade wheat is Americs in this trade was 7029 demand for such presses. wages for low and yet lower rates of output. With these two factors favour of the State confiscating ing influenza" has broken out in wishes to handle flour made from picula (41,808), South Chins A disease described as "sleep-considered so poor that no one piculs (£44,406) against 9,946 moving in, inverse ratio, orders for British shipyards and engineeing the entire fortune of the former establishments are bound to show a falling off. The pity of it all is reigning princes. Herr Schulz, the Netherton mining district of this grain. No wheat is yet 7,572 pieuls (£34,368) against that if the workers would only put away the false doctrines they the Financial Councillor, estimat Northumberland, and cases are available for export from the 3,941 piculs (£12,645), the Straits industry has caused a brisk Ja cherish as to output and wages and their relation to the employed the fortune of the Hohenzol becoming prevalent. Reporting Commonwealth, the Government Settlements 8.133 piculs (£34,715) crease in the development of ment problem, Britain bas an industrial opportunity the like of lerns in Germany at between upon it Dr. Hudson, the Medical there intending to bold on to the against 5,184 picals (£19,429), peanut by-products,mong the which will never be presented to her again. Unfortunately the men 250,000,000 and 300,000,000 marks Officer, stated it differed from the surplus from this year's crop and the United Kingdom only most important should be men- in the yards and the shope has been taught to jib at soything like a £1,665,000,000 to £2,000,000 at familiar type of influence in that until prospects of the 1920-1921 £8,801 against £5. There tioned peanut oil, peanut meal, rates). The Social its principal symptoms are somit crop are assured. I am tok that are a few factories in the Colony peanut bulls and peanut four. ventures to tell them a few plain truths. Yet it is necessary to Democratic speakers insisted that ing, diarrhoea, abdominal pains, some decision will be arrived at that extract the oil from peanuts Few crops have experienced rush continue to preach the gospel of work, the truth of which will un-the huge sums in the possession and general aching and drow probably by the end of this mouth by means of power presses, and a rapid growth in screws wit fortunately be brought home to doubters in the near future by what of the Hohenzollerns was a per-siness. 1t closely resembles acute or early in September, and from if this method is adopted by the production as bus that of the may prove to be a series of very unpleasant fecls.

manent danger to the Republic.

food poisoning.

then ou parcels of wheat and Chinese generally there will un pesuut during recent years.

unemployment.

HOHENZOLLERN MILLIONS.

commonsense view of the situation, and to "guy” tha man who present

The musical

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The rapid growth of the peanut