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NOTES & COMMENTS,

PRESS CENSORSHIP,

DAY BY DAY.

KOWLOON NOTES.

DON'T WAIT (FOR SOMETHING (BY "THE FERRYMAN*). We fool really sorry for our 10 TURN (UP, BUT TURN UP

Since it was mantioned at tha friends of the Gaston Times, The YOURSELF: Surgeon,

annual meeting of the Star Ferry latest form of censorship to which this journal is to be subjected, in '

There was again a olsan bill of Company that larger ferry-boats common with all other Canton besith in the Colony yesterday. papers we presume, is revealed

in a paragraph which reads— A photograph of the late

The Press Censors, backed by R. O. Hutchison will appear the Tuchun, will now have to our Pictorial Supplement look over the Canton Times, from morrow.

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· That feminina brains are made [of the same material as MAB- coline, and are equally adaptable "E. D. S.." baa writtan seven-to modern aradition, is being would be needed in the near future, very little has been heard teen little sels of rhyming verses tardily admitted by the alleged Mr. of the subject. Probably the about Hongkong, and these have brainy sex. Among the latest in matter is being studied in all its now been published under the and most convincing proofs ranks to- aspects by the Company, for it title "Rhymes of Hongkong." We the London University's now will be a big undertaking and don't know who "ED.S." is Honours List, just published. Iv ane involving considerable as-whether lady or gentleman, aki or the B.A. examination for internal a wanted advertisement to the leading article, before it may go Dr. Fung Kwan Shui, a secret-penditure. Everyone knows what young but we do know that our students six ladies and

desire to to press. The information is ary of the Canton Y.M.C.A was need thare is for large boats, for task of reviewing is not made gentleman passed with honours, be while a King's College lady further given that a request by killed on the evening of September at certain hours of the day the easy by

There are two really atodeat took the only honours in the editor that the censors should 23 on the East Bund when a present launches are crowded to kind.

good little things in the book, the botany. For the M.A. degree, the call at his othee, instead of his mstahed fell during a sadden overflowing.

Arst antitled Hongkong and ladies carried off four of the five one towards the end-"Ode to a places in English and the only submitting the pages to the form-squall. er, has been refused, and then

One important point in con- Cockmach." The last-named is two in Philosophy and in History. there is added this pathetic On secount of the present nection with these suggested big-easily the best in the book, whilst plaint:-"God only knows what political situation, the Canton ger boats is that if they exceed some of the others leave us not It is in accord with the fitnesS will be the next thing to happen. zuthorities have asked

cartain tonnage, European only unmoved but = Bittle credu of things that Sir Archibald The Canton Times will never be Ministry of the Navy to sand the Officers would be required, which, lous as to why some people will Bodkin should succeed the late able to get all their copies ready gunboats Wing Foog and Wing of course, would greatly increase rush into prict with everything Sir Charles Mathews as Director and publish them within the three Cheung to guard the Shameen.

running expensës. I presume they write for their own amuse of Public Prosecutions, for he has hours allowed." Having been once threatened in Hongkong The Misses Ailean and Dori. this is fully realised by the Comment. The book, which has been followed in Sir Obarles's footsteps pany. If it should so happen neatly printed by the China Mail, ever since 1892. Then a rising with a similar form of censorship Woods are due to-morrow by the that the new boats come within is on sale at the local booksellers young barrister, Mr. Bodkin was WATSON & CO., LTD.though, happily, it never got so ss. Paul Lecat, Alterations be- this category, could not the for 75 cents.

appointed junior counsel to the far as to amount to an experience ting effected at the City Hall have Ordinance be amended so as to

Treasury at the Central Crimin- can sympathise with our caused a postponement of their exclude ferry services from the The weather is always an in-al Court, a position which Mr. contemporary. There are already dancing classes, but they will operation of this particular teresting topic, and in Hongkong Mathews vacated To become difficulties enough in the way of resume at the earliest possible requirement? The present it is often a serious one as well. senior counsel They wore producing a paper in the East date.

most if one wants to know anything at colleagues until 1908, when Sir without having them added to by

they all about the weather that has Charles went to the Treasury as

still maintains its high standard of quality. The same blend, same good old age-mellow- character and fine flavour-Forty years' news!

reputation.

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"outsiders" butting in and dictat- The Captain Soperintendent of perform. and really thare been experienced here from the Director. Sir Archibald, 'who ing to the editor what shall and Police requests us to state that can be no necessity for the years 1884-1918 all they now was knighted during the war, what shall not appear in print from the 24th inst., in the Eastern employment of Europeans on have to do is to procure the book has since been senior counsel. Fancy having a page all nicely District of Victoris,motor vehicles this service.

of tables that has just bean com- With Do claim to brilliant made up in type and then for Mr-going east, should proceed via

piled by Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Chief advocacy. Sir Archibald is Censor to stroll in and calmly Arsenal Street and the Praya

As-istant of the Royal Obser- sound criminal lawyer of vast order this to be removed or that to whilst going west they should

To-morrow looks like being al

the aury, and which is on sale at experience. He is one of the be toned down! Surely the lot proceed via Queen's Road East.

very full day, provided of the newspaper man is an up-

weather is on its best behaviour.Mr. Kelly and Walsh and most unassuming of men, and Lappy one. But' we are vers

A telegram received from Mr.In Kowloon, there are the 74th Noronha and Co., at may often be met on the top of a thankful for one thing-that Can- Ricon two or three days ago Punjabi sports, when much inter- the price of 60 cents. No fewer bus smoking his favourite brist. ton is not our home.

sates that he was compelled to regimental rivalry will be dis-ban fifteen tables tell us

Major R. J. McNair, the BACK AGAIN.

delay his return flight to the played: the Wigwam Tennis barometric Colony on

lub are bolding their annual atures, vapour tension, the dura- af account We see it reported that German

the

of Cup team, makes an appeal to percentage merchants are beginning to do broken propellor sustained whilst meeting and at bome:" and ion of bright sunshine, the captain of the British Isles Davis business in Canton, where there making the landing a: Haiphong. at night there is the K.C.C clouded sky, wind direction sad Britain's leading lawn tengis are at present fifteen of these The damage would require a concert. Then, on the Hongkong wind velocity. There need be no players which will not be made side. there aro the Tennis

matches 'at the arguments between old residents in vain. An interested spectator people, apparently employed by week's repairs.

League lifferent firms, amongst which

Queen's Club Eliza Ann Crispin.

at the R. C together with the Bow, for here are the published of the Schools Lawn Tennis we cotice the well-known names

of prizes.

in records, against which none dare Tournament at are argue. We find that the wettest Major McNair was gratified to of Jebsen and Co. Carlowitz and Police Court, before Mr. G. K. Presentation

which Kowloon sportsmen Co. Carl Boediker and Co., and Orme this morning.

year on record was 1899 (when and that the standard of play applied

interested. So it'll be a

119.71 inches were registered) and had shown great improvement. Reuter, Broeskelmann and Co., for a separation order against

busy" day.

the dries: 1895 (45.53 inches).although it was not so bigh as They

husband, Charles Robert Bie said to beber

The wettest month was May, the standard of juvenile play in Britishers out East have always been proud of the fact that the engaged in import and export Crispin, shipwright, ---largest and 5pcst ships plying on the Pacife are those belonging tolliness, and it is recorded that ground of persistent cruelty on Before I leave sporting matters, 1889, when over 48 inches of rain other countries, particularly the British company, the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Ltd. they are doing well because many the Is: September and failure let me congratulie the Kowloon felt the Colony has experienced United States His appest, there" and it would seem that this Company is going to retain that prond Cainese are in need of German to provide reasonable mainten Bowling Club on winning the several totally dry months; the fore, is to all lawn tennis players distinction for some time to come. By the launching of the goods, especialis their dres ance The applicant applied League championship. It's many heaviest rainfall for one day was of ability to devote a little of Empress of Canada which took place at Home the middle of last and steel articles. If they are also for $20 per week for her main-years since the honour came over 20 inches on May 30.1889: their time during these summer holidays to coaching juvenile The hearing was ad- to Kowloon, I believe. month there is added to the Company's Pacific fleet a vessel that in really making such good head-tenance.

and and the maximum rainfall in one

who show any patil size and luxuriousness outbide even in the two large Empress boats way as is reported, then they journed

this afternoon, everyone

the hour was 3.48 at 3 p.m. on July platers that are so well-known in this Fort Built by the Fairfield Company must be very wonderful people, and at the time of going K. B. G. C. has well merited 15, 1886. Such are only a few of stural aptitude for the game. There are a hundred "tips" an this new vessel is the last word in 1oodem shipbuilding.

In sport as the interesting facts that are to In for the present is not a particular to press the solicitors engaged the distinction.

conferring with the in connection with the launching there were several outstandingly good time for business between were

other realms. Kowloon be found by anyone interested old player can give a young player that, when followed, will festures, to which we desire to draw attention.

Europe acd China, and we Magistrate on the matter.

has to be seriously reckoned with enough to search for them.

send his game up enormously. these days.

So let the beginners tackle the game in earnest, and remember that the best players have had to learn their game point by point.

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Not only is the Empress of Canada the largest vessel built by imagine that the Germans have the Fairfeld Company. but she will be the largest passenger not nearly the same facilities. MARINE COURT. steamer plying on the Pacific, having a capacity for carrying 50 open to them that traders of other first-class, 100 second-class, and 240 third-class passengers, and 550 nations have. But what we are DUMPING COAL IN HAR- of a crew. She will be another link in the great bond of union particularly interested to know is

BOUR. which the Canadian Pacific Railway and its associated services whether a keen eye is being kept forms between British possessions from the Old Country to the Far on German competition, sctual

The theory of Relativity, with The mistress of a

cargo boa: State of affairs will be reported. THE LATE MR. AU TACK, J. P.

Indeed, the past year has been

which Einstein has seriously East. Furthermore, added interest attaches to the launching and incipient, by Britishers and was this morning fined $5 b about the most successful ever function because of the osture and the character of the speeches others in South

We Commander C. W. Beckwith.

Many of his friends in Hongkong pertorbed the scientific world, which many eminent delivered after the launch and at the dinner on board the company presume the latter are alive to R.N., Marine Magistrate, for experienced, and that the Club's

affairs have been admirably will deeply regret to learn of the ad

An old scientific bave confessed they are steamer Empress of Britain, which conveyed the guests back to future possibilities and are not failing to stop when called upon managed will be amply shown by death of Mr. Au Tack.

He bad unable to grasp, badly needs a Liverpool. One of three speeches was by Sir Thomas Fisher, one making the mistake of discounting to do so by a Police Officer in the report and accounts. Not merchant of this colony, of the newest personalities in the realms of shipping, and who may Gerraan penetration into this Victoria Harbour Festerday

Paris, be said, in a sense. to have here made bis debut into the larger market. We don't need to fearmorsing, and for depositing about only is there no overdraft. but not been well for some time sed popular exposition. And a Mr. there 13 a substantial sum in went to Shanghai two months ago Eugene Higgins, an American world of shipping. Equally significant remarks were made by Mr.German competition here in five ext. of coal into the waters hand. I suppose we shall bear for a change, where he died in the who is resident i Alex. 31. Kennedy, who has made much history of late in consolida Hongkong for a year or two of the Colony without the per-something definite about the Au Chak Man Sanatorium, of which, has made is worth the while of ting, strengthening. and building up the great and famous any rate, because emissaries mission of the Harbour Master. shipbuilding yards ou the Clyde and the East Coast. Sir from the Fatherland

In the last fifty years Mr. Austand what it is all about to make L. S. Elson said that at 10 am.projected new pavilion at Wednes-we understand, he was the founder. some of the few who really under- Tuonias Fisher was able to tell a fascinating story of the likely to be allowed here. Still, yesterday. Whilst he was on duty day's meeting.

and built up the well known business it plain to the man in the street. entry of the C. P. R. Company into shipowning and its subsequent German goods are coming into in the harbour, he saw defend-

known as A. Tack and Co. but on To that end he has put up a prize remarkable progress during the short period of 34 years since the Colony, as we all know. We at sampan making to the shore Officials of the A. C. C. and account of indifferent health be of £1,000 for the best explanation the chartering of their first vessel, the sailing ship W. B. Flint. can only hope that the people who by the Canton wharf. He called members alike will give & most retired from business a few years of Relativity, written so that a Five years later the Empress boats made their firs: appearance, and during the war professed their on her to stop, but she took no hearty welcome back

to Dr.

830. He was man of public person with no pratensions to these and the subsequent additions to the fleet revolutionised the intention of having nothing more potice. He saw three people Forsyth, who, I am glad to hear, spirit and supported many of the mathematical ability can get a He proper grip of it. The trouble is passenger trade of the North Pacific, one of their later steamers to do with the Germans are not dump five baskets, and arrested is in very much better health than local charitable institutions. holding the record for the North Pacific passage. Sir Thomas numbered amongst the importers. the sampan and found a quantity when he went away. He has been was one of the first donors of that only a super-mathematician" pointed with some pride to the fact that the journey from home to

of small coal in the boat.

one of the pillars of the K.C.C. for $10,000 to the Hongkong Uniis qualified to enter the com the Far East can be performed in 38 days via the C.P.R. steamship A PESSIMIST.

The defendant said she did not many years a thorough gentle-versity and was also one of the petition, and even the claverest and rail services, compared with 55 days via Suez. But he had a One Oswald Spengler has written hear the Police.

man and a good sport-and we're promoters of the gigantic scheme manipulator of mathematical serious note in his speech regarding the very heavy costa of a book, the "Death of Western)

tall glad he is with us once the Kowloon Bay Reclamation. symbols may find it impossible to steamers under present day conditions. The new Empress liner Civilisation," which reviewers

His genial disposition had won him tell us what Einstein means in will cost no less than £1,700,000. and he gave details showing that regard as noteworthy.

He com-

many friends in this Colony and un-mathematical language. How- the extra cost of a voyage in a typical steamer over pre-war cost pares the future with the past and was in the neighbourhood of £60,090, which more than justified the declares that the civilisation of

Residents of the peninsula will his widow and family have the over, we hope the prize will be won, "higher rates which were demanded from passengers. These rates, western Europe has reached its, MEMORIAL SERVICE AT

be glad to know that there is to sincere sympathy of all in their and that Mr. Higgins will tu We understand his derstand what he pays £1,000 for. be a meeting of the Kowloon Rebereavement. though absolutely necessary, were, he said, particularly in the case limit and is about to come to an THE CATHEDRAL.

sidents Association at the Kow- remains will be conveyed to the of emigrants, disastrous, and it meant that communication between end. When a civilisation is broken

Brasenose College, which bar the various parts of Greater Britain would be so handicapped as to up it means disaster for individ-memorial service for the late Mr. will be open to all Kowloon people.

There was a most impressive loon School on October 4th, which Colony for burial in about 10 days

time.

just elected a new Erincipal in be a distinct menace to the growth and the solidarity of the Empire, uals. Even a railway strike may O. Hutchison, M.B.E, held at hear that the fatore policy of

succession to the "best-loved head" in Oxford, Dr. Haberden, They would militate against providing our overseas dominions with starve a city. But if disaster! that labour which was so very necessary to keep up the supply of overwhelcis the civilised peoples St. John's Cathedral last evening, the Association, especially in

by foodstuffs which we found it necessary to import.

of to-day it their own fault being attended

nameros regard to the coming year's pop down to the ferry by motor is perhaps chiefly famous for its success in athletics, though it has friends of the deceased gentle Budget, will be publicly outlined bus, won't it? The high costs of ship construction, together with the heavy With scientific agriculture and a

Tately fallen from its high estate charges incurred in running the steamers, must necessarily modify world to draw on for supplies, noman, including leading, mem-at this meeting, and am sure that

on the river. In both 1872 and bers of the official and anyone who has suggestions to the policy of Home shipowners in renewing their fleets. Sir Thomas country need be starved by local

But the motor bus is only a 1873 Brasenose supplied eight social life of the Colony; offer in this connection will be Fisher thought the result would be a greater demand for slower and famines. The wider civilisation Mrs. R. O. Hutchison (widow heartily welcomed. The idea of means to an end-the opening up men to the University even smaller vessels, fitted with internal combustion engines, as such a spreads, the less it has to fear combination would get us back nearer than anything he knew to from barbarian invasion. The was present, as also were H. Eletting members and the public of localities in the outlying di But early in the nineteenth the Governor and Lady Stubbs, know what the Association tricts for the building of houses. century it bad a great reputation. the pre-war position. He bad every faith in the internal-combust-invention of local self-govern.

the Bervice ion engine, and believed that within five years we should havement with a nation diminishes attended by Lieut. McConnell, thinks on current questions is Let's hope, therefore, that when In 1809 it supplied the whole of is provided the the First Class in the Karter large Atlantic passenger liners so fitted. His views regarding the the chance of despotism. In all 4.D.C. various heads of Govern-an excellent one.

ment departments,

Government will great every Classical Examination, three in represent- high costs of construction were strongly emphasised by Mr. A. M.these respects modern civilisation atives of the Folice and the

facility to those willing to build number. Its famous tulor, Kennedy, who, however, suggested that at least a very large pro- has an advantage over all those clerical staff at the Magistracy, And whilst mentioning the both in the way of financial Hodson, used to ride" "post" inta portion of the difficulties in the way of reducing coets might be met that preceded it. What threat members of the Legislative KA, let me say how gratified assistance and cheap land. It's Oxford, because it was not seem- by mutual co-operation between employers and workers. The ens it most is mutual misunder Council and several prominent Kowloonites are at the prospect about time "the small man" got ly that "the first tutor in the first employers had every sympathy with the men's desires for a higher standing between its own dif- Chinese residents, as well as well- of having a motor bus service in a look-in, anyhow. The big in-college in the first University in standard of living, and there was no need for depriving the workers ferent nations or classes.

known basiness men.

the near future. This is & matter terests have had all the plums so the first country in the world” of this, if the latter on their part would only give a corresponding

the which The Cathedral Chaplain the in.

should be seen on a cosch Association far. return in the way of a proper amount of production. Only by such

long been

Later, Mark, Pattison, hesit interesting Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle) con-bas GOLDEN AGE FOR BOYS.

I hear that the means could reasonable economy in construction costs be secured.

I'm glad to see that good pro- between Oriel and Bra A boy of 16 asked the advice of ducted the service, the choir. also itself. If the men would give of their best the shipbuilding industry would

service will be grass is being made with the decided against the Intler

to conveniently formation of a Kowloo provide more work for the workers, and bold its own with its com the Thames magistrate with re- being present. The hymns sung proposed petitors. These are sentiments which should surely appeal with ference to a dispute with his em-were Peace, Perfect Peace" and run

player over wages. He explained On the Ressurection Morning," link up with the ferries and that the Boy Scouts great force to the men engaged not only in the shipbuilding that his work was casting ladies whilst at the close of the service the fares are likely to be most soother, recruitin dustry, but in all walks of life, and it does not need deep thinking) to show that it is the one and only remedy for the threatened short-hats, and he received: £ week, the congregation stood whilst reasonable. Wonder if the buses day, nenit 65ha

Mr.Wilberforce: Good wages Mr. Tenman Faller played the will damage the ricksha trader men wurk at Home which is even now adding to the ranks of the What do you want-£2 day 7: Dead Hargh

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