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CHINESE WILL CASE.
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANT.
Before the acting Chief Justico, M: Justice H. H. J. Gompertz,
Sit Harry Lauder has, we are If Smollett's old shallbacks,
The steady drop in Exchange this morning. Mr. F. C. Jankin, told announced his intention of to come near our own time, thoa
that we have been treated to instructed by Messrs. Lo and Lo, taking up "gown "seriously. of Captain Marryat could sal
during the week is causing con- | made ап application in the Before he went to Ameries the eyes upon the menu drafted by
estate of Lo the British Federated Saamen's There was a clean bill of health tarnation in the ranks of mer-matter of the
chants, for it seems as if the Kwong-yu, dies Lo Lo Mane reat little comedian was one of bottom is coming out of the shan, deceased. The plaintiffs, Neil Kenyon's greatest rival at the best golfers on the stage, and Union, they would do one of two in the Colohy on Saturday. things-surpass themselves in
market. Where all this is going wera Lo An-shi and La Wing the game. Unfortunately, ha picturesque dow of language, or
"The Pharies" are coming, on to end nobody seems to know, hao, and the defendant La
was too busy to give the sttan- stand pattied into the mutenes February 15 and 16. Keep your and if Exchange continues to go Lishi.
tion the sport requires if one of statues. The traditional salted
The plaintiffs asked for the ad- desires to become really good at dawn any lower a good many pork and biscuits of equal rough eyes and the dates open.
firms will be bit. The matter is ministration of the estate of Losmacking the sma ba, but, ness save where hordes of weevils
The February issue of The serious beyond question. Trade Kwong-yu, for the appointment now that Sir Harry has more had modified the texture, with a
and leisure hours, he intends to make- modicum af "slush" to do duty | Boek is out. It is full of interesting is as rotten as over, and dealers for a Receiver, accounts,
and well illustrated-are afraid to place orders with further or other relief. The de-
up for lost time. Har pudding on galadays, would matter
such fluctuations in exchange. fendant is the executrix of the make ал add spectacle splendideents' worth.
The rise and fall of the pulse of will of Lo Lan-shang, deceased, by the side of the Lucul lian fare contemplated by After tomorrow's issue, the trade is one of those mysterious dated May 1, 1916, and, 14 such, themodern mariner. Sa tempting local Chinese newspapers will things about which men argue the executrix of the will of Lo A culinary programe deserves nat reappear until February 13th, brilliantly in retrospection, but Kwong-yu,
The application was granted, to be reproduced: tinned fruits; on account of the New Year about which everyone seems tomato sauce: rolls and scones: holidays. Something like a holi- ham and eggs; steak and anions:|day, that! roast beel, mutton, and veal:
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periods of prosperity and slacks BREACH OF CONTRACT. one of the few peers who ness which seem to fallow one salads (assorted); plum pudding For the theft of several military another with some kind of sequ. (braniv) SWCS: Cake bags from the Barracks, & street ence that mankind has scarcely
A Deal in Gunny Bags. This, in jcustards and jellies.
Reasons for these sweeper was this morning sent athomed. conjunction with as right-hour by the Court to one month's hand movement are always endered In the Supreme Court this which
tolerably. A. M. C., gave evidence of the fol whether they are often the resi Justice. Mi. Justice H. H. J. and s;
ing worlds. theft and the arrest of the reasons or, at any rate, the funda-Gompertz, the suit of Messrs. literary style is as tention of deck defendant.
mental reasons. About trade, as | WG. Humphreys and Cocaustic as his oratory the book about all other human institutions, against the Fook Chan firm, of should be the best-written as well settees for the afternoon siesta,
Capt. E. B. G. R. Evans re-thefe is probably some deep illo-16, Kwai Heang Street, for as the most amusing of the period. helped by liques and Coronas, but as the latter-day worker hai developed a decina Litle Oliver-sumed full pay saa service ongical basis, founded upon the $18 as damages for breach of
More than one generation of th Far East to and though we may seek to explain 'Mr. 5. C. Jenkiu appeared for cricketers will regtel Lord All commandations intended for publication should be address-like tendency the amisston will 15th December and will take inherent freakishness of mankind, contract came up for bearing.
perhaps stan be repaired Similar Passage
Hawke's decision to sell bis demand we notice, have been succeed Capt. John W. Carring-juts variations there is a good deal the plaintis.
The plaintiffs case was that Yerkshire estate next month. put forward by the Australian ten, in the command of the light that cannot be explained at all.
this esoteric aspect, one may bales, each 400 pieces, albing his long captaincy of the The rate ascription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $361-eanen. It is sometimes though: Cruiser Carliste, serving on the But, putting aside for the instant they sold to the defendants it was his pleasant custom dor.
China Station.
trace the present slump in exch-green stripe heavy gunny bags at Yorkshire team to invite the At a meeting of representives ange to some well-defined causes. 631.50 per 100 bags, shipment in players to Wighill at the end Colanies are ahead of those in
scarcity of July, clearance in three months of every season, there to be feted the Old Country. In this instance the homeland people evidently of important public organizations There is
the world over and The goods were available for and to receive the rewards of One in Canton held at the Overseas money
trade
demacd thoughout delivery on July, 9th last and merit, so that it became one of mean to be left behind. the latest issues to hand of the Chinese Labour Association op delivered at their resi lences without any extra charge. On copies Liverpool fcend of Commupper the evening of January 5, it was the world is restricted by poor were forthwith inspected and the landmarks of cricket, even more so than Sheeli Park. Lord contains a letter from an "011 resolved to support the Military business. The coining of new weighed by the defendants. The
Hawke was the pioneer in treating Sali" complaining
the Government in its stand to take money in Europe is suspended. latter failed to take delivery and that Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a genuine seaman is being crowdelf over the supervision of the Chin-except in the case of the United on November 5th after due notize professionals as "gentlemen," and Kingdom, which is now engazed these gunay bags were sold by Wighill played no small part in out by a miscellane ve swangere Maritime Customs Service.
in a radical change of her cur-public auction for $4.915. The the education of other captains and ...
claim the sum of who have sullenly acquired al
county committees in this respect Lieutenan: W. S. L. Gilchris:ency. The new silver currency plaintifs
of the United Kingdom will have 1,385 being the difference taste for the wafater's hide. Sol wondert
[has been posted to the Tamar 500 instead of 925 parts fine in between the amount of $6,300 dae
Hongkong. Lieutenant Gilchris: the 1,000, which has, been the under the contract and the sum During the period of the sub- Commerce and Piety.
entered the Royal Nary ten per authorised quality since the of $4.915.
marine menace, one of the pro- Aming a number 21 ourlazo, saw a good deal of service align of Queen Elizabeth; in! Judgment was given for the blems that engaged the attentica
American Government plaintiffs, to which the defendants of the
War Trade countrymen the impression is the war, and was promoted to his
does not consiler the intrinsic agreed in Chambers.
Board was to decide whether the 39th January, to Mr. and deeply grounded that the deity of present tank in the August of her words, the
the Gem Rep die in the West last year. Before being appoint value of subsidiary coinage
onion was a luxury or a necessity. Thee to the Tamar he was doinstal importance so long as the|
In order to conserve cargo space the Almighty Dollar.
the Royal Naval material used is suitable. Ther. history of that remarkable lad,dury with
an embargo was being laid upon another Cause is that China,
the importation of luxuries, and HASKETT-BONE. At the Weslegan Church, Hongkong, on however, is fertile in instances of Barracks, Chatham,
which was expected to give sup-
it was not until after long dis- 29th January, 1921, Luisa Heber, elfest daughter of the Her.a better impulse, En leed, the!
United States at the bome of It is with auch regret that welport to the silver marker, has
cussion that the friends of the Charles and Mrs. Bonn, 5) George Henry Haskett
A Splendid Result. beyond chronicle the death of Mr. Wbeen tig seller, serving to
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onion secured its inclusion in the Universaliste, Robinson, of the Hongkong and demoralise the quotation.) wasy count
The result of Madame Lottie other category. They now main- fectionists and reclams Tentiste Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., In addition to this, the Continent Gordon's recent charity concert tain that resent statistical returns are a low among the examples of who passed away, at the age of has been selling freely and India was as follows:-
of published by the Bureau American arevsstility to idealie-47 years, at the French Hospital considerably, so it is hardly sur-Gross Receipts (includ
Marke confirm this decision. For jale impressions; even a Dowie last night.
The deceased. who prising that the silver marketing donations from
it i stown that this year's could toont his disciples by the was formerly with the Pacd should be coming down like a H.E. the Governor and
bumber crop of onions, with lons of thosezak, and mostly Company, w15 admitted 10 pack of cards.
other leading citizens
prizes about half what they were singers ones, whatever the "pro-hospital some little time ago!
to the amount of $133)81,645.00|a year age, has not been followed phet "may have been. Of course, suffering from jaundice, and com
Expenses (Theatre, light-
by an increase in consumption. a country comprising a hundred plications ses in, resulting in his Almost every batch of letters
ing. etc. $115.35; Ad-
All efforts to boost the saleeg, millions of all sorts and ordi-death. He was well-known and received by the commercial houses vertising, Printing, etc.,
by advertising "More scents for tions could exhift such man-greasy liked and much sympathyhere brings news of the tra le $237.30) ..
$372.63 ss cents"-have failed, and tha festations with being nation-witt be felt for his wife and child depression in England.
demaid for this vegetable there- ally pious; and those Americans who are at Home in Manchester post-war excitement and extra-
$1,272.35 fore proves to be what economies
And ** inelastic." game of bluff, to who have manifested ardour in the The Funeral takes place this even-razance are faling out of the Unless die Panton lead to are phying a
To be divided equally between cal world, and people are no longer morrow they will attempt to en urs control of the Maritime Customs cause of faith: have not alwassing at Happy Valley.
the the Blind Home, Kowloon, and modities subject to inelastic on spending. All service in the South, declining to permit the revenues to Pekingbut been distinguished by wisdom
demand are commonly presumed |Pokfulam Home, Hongkong. It migh
to be necessities. so they say, meeting a just late of the foreign obligations secured in the choice of crel.
Commander Charles S. Benning. booms that bave been raging in
Madame Gordon wishes to very asserted very fea-ibly that on the Customs proceeds. lon-muth, however, as the Diplomatic be
where in the East-the land sincerely thank Mrs. R. Han- Body in Peking is said to have instructed the Consule in Canton to Americans, proverbially so hard. D.S.O., has been appointed to the Hongkong, Shanghai and else
command of the Titania, depor
the cock for undertaking the disposal
In a dispute which arose business. are the
she share boom. see that the service is duly protected, we may take it for granted beaded int
are now things of tickets at the Peak, also the between the two "Opposition that Dr. Sun Yatsen and company will not be permitted to have readiest of dups when unter ship for submarines at Hongkong. boom.
Commander Benning, who was business boom Flad the Customs revenue bot the inquance of spiritual
the of the past, but they have left Misses Grace Ezra, Constance leaders" recently Mr. Speaker matters entirely their own way.
recently in command of
successfully his been mortgaged to meet fotelan Ihana, that threat would bare had emotion. Still, these cirrum Vulcan, depot torpedo ship, in problemas behind them that will toneham and A Roselia for vindicated
to show that our
spacialised in not be liquidated in a hurry. very special efforts re the sale of privilege of choice of prators. no concern for foreign interests; it would then have been a mere tances co
home water",
tickets in the City and Kowloop. The right which he has of matter for adjustment between the North and the Spath. But with cousins are not so absorbed in the
acd the many other ladies and nominating the member who the farts othersise, this proposed more takes on an altogether acquisition of mene:ars gain as submarine work long before the Needless to
war, and was in command of the Hongkong different complexion.
is commonly supposed. Mang In a recent statement on the subject, one of the so-called will recollect passage in tha E. T. when the war of 1914-18b the fickle excbsoge. Now gentlemen who kindly assisted shall address the Honse is really Constitutional leaders in Canton (possibly Dr. Sun himas!!) was at will of the late Mr. Pierpon: opened. He saw much under at present rates of exchange in the same direction, and also a relic of an older dispensation. why the President of our Cham- great pains to show that there was nothing in the least degree] Morgan, a man usually Assumed water service, and won the D.S.0.lis certainly the time for Europe/Messrs. Mcutris and Co. for the Foreigners wonder sometimes
for repeated acts of good service and the United States to buy from kind loan of piano.
ber should be called "Speaker," irregular about this intention of the Southern Government, but the to be immersed in mong making in Heligoland Bight when bis Hongkong and Chins, but the
since his opportunities of speech case he made out was far from convincing. We have an idea that to the exclusion of all other con submarine formed part of Com-truth of the matter is that neither one of the main reasons why the Canton Government wants to siderations. which revealed madore Roger Keyes famous Europe nor the United States must be taken to ensure a stability are confined to points of order and so on; but the Speaker handle the Customs service is that it is badly in need of funds. But striking susceptibility
originally was the actual spokes- this Constitutive leader labours to show that the real reason is religious belief. This somewhat patrol force, which held the have the wherewitha!
man of the House, whose duty it the securing of recognition. He argues that the recognition of the lengthy exordium brings us to narrow seas (mentioned in des. either in sufficient cheap goods
Many commercial travellers who The following is taken from was to interpret the general sense Mercantily Guardian of the assembly and whose Southern fremment depends upon the success of its internal the particular subject on hand. Patches, D.S.O., 1918 Star, British or in cash for China produce.
have came to Hongkong from he administration, and that the projected control of the Customs is a namely, the Christmas issue of
Europe are doing nothing at all" Control of trade has unexpected responsibility it was to convey step to demonstrate its ability in this regard. That is a very poor| San Framisro Business, which by
Some are waiting, others bare results. The rice control er at accurately to the King the views excuse for the taking of what is a most unconstitutional step, which its contents might have bren
for the Chinei approbation for the we should say is more likely to delay than hasten the much-sought mistaken
pre-returned home, bile others have Rangoon, with the best of inten-of the knights and burgesses. recognition by foreign powers. Then we are told by this selfsame Herald or the Sunday Com Raphaelites as pioneers in the gone to the Straits Settlements tions, allocated a few tons to From this arose the custom by the member who is leader that the fact that the Customs revenues are mortgaged has panion.
are filled modera revolt against convention, and India. Merchants are out of Cuba in distributing his surplus. which no bearing on the s.uation. Since the Canton Government has given with impressive addresses from but then pre-Raphaelitism was a pocket, and trade is impossible Cuba, dreading scarcity on the speaking is supposed to address.
We declration of Siam to probibit nos the House bot the - its word that foreign interests will be safeguarded. One might six of America's representative looking back, while Futurism, with the fluctuating dollar.
just as well argue that the Hongkong Government would bare leaders of religion. They do not!
la Hongkong bare not reached exports had obtained supplies. Speaker; and, even to & right to the control of the service, provided it promised to say anything novel, contenting looking forward. We observe the stage for the wholesale rejec- Offered rice from Rangoon the day, the Speaker sometimes calls
rather with the from meet foreign obligations in full. No, that type of argument themselves
Chronicletion of drafts, as the merchants merchants declined, only to have to order members who ignore the Jupan
the ia Iadis are said at
present offers (for the same rice) repeated Chair and address the House as will not do. The plain fact is that there is only one Govern eternally true. This introduces that the manifesto bears
from Hongkong and American they would a public meeting. ment to which
Customs service tbe
is answerable and feature into the journalism of signatures of C. R. W. Nevinson, to be doing. The report
erroc. There were no reporters in those that Government is the recognised administration in Peking. commerce that was bardly looked" son of a well-known London growing in that country that ports. They concluded
un-days-members address ad the Acquiescence in this Canton demand would open the door for any for, and prompts interest as to author and journalist, and of F. T. no drafts should be paid until the eously that supplies were province or group of provinces to seize the Customs dues collected how far it will inspire emulation.azinetti (sic), the latter of exchange of the rupee has been limited, prices breaking, and so Speaker, and the Speaker, when in its particular areas. The Constitutionalist whom we are 80-
whom is unknown to our Kobe fixed at two shillings, as it was unloaded their stocks expecting necessary, passed on their views swering has the temerity to assert that the Canton Administration Futurism Redivivus.
contemporary. F. T. Narinetti" believed from the Finance Com to be able to buy cheaper and to the Crown. Since, therefore, exercises absolute jurisdiction over the South-Western Provinces. The Fatorists have issued is likewise a stranger to us, but mittee's report that the two abill-thus the bottom weat clean out members addressed the Speaker, We should doubt if is controle even-the-one-Province of fresh manifesto la England. Notif, as seems probable. he is ing basis would be adopted. If of the rice market from Kobe to it was obviously important that
the Speaker -should-select-the- Kwangtong, let alone any others..
actual orator from among those There is one other point in this Constitutional leader's defence that they have anything fresh to identical with Signor Marinetti, the Hongkong dollar comes down Singapore.
tell us nothing that is either this signatory is none other further one would not blame the
The following from a recent wishing to speak, in order that of the Canton attitude. He criticises at length the previous ad-fresh in itself or that the cult has than the protagonist, if not the local dealers if they decide that ministrators in Kwangtung, saying they never troubled about the North and were absolutely ignorant and devoid of knowledge of not told us before; but presumably founder, of Futurism. He visited no foreign bills should be retired issue of the fetal Bulletin may there might be no confusion and political sci-nce, whereas the present officials in Canton are real the exemplars, of this phantasy London a decade ago to launch except at a minimum rate to be be of interest locally"Toronto that he might give full attention
think it necessary to let the the movement in the British fixed. If the trade of the port is cables advise that N, Brenner to what was said. statesmen. We should rather say that the boot was on the other world know they are still carry-capital, and showed bimself to to be kept up the stability of the and Co., Ltd., of that city, have on all this was changed. Orators foot. Previous officials have rendered due account to Peking and
no half-hearted crusader. dollar is essential. The question, gone into liquidation with liebillbegan to speak to the nation, and ing on, lest the world, having be they have been far too good students of politics to attempt to place something more serious to attend The recipe he offered for the I admit, is a very complicated ties of $24 million and assets of the interpretation passed to the foreign interests in jeopardy. If this Canton threat is the best
The authors encouragement of originality one, but as long as no effort is $167,000. Losses of $5 million reporters. But it was recognised to, forget them. that real statesmen" can do, then it is about time they made way castigate English art wholesale was that the accumulated art made to stabilise the dollar trade were incurred in steel and of $19 that the old plan made for the in foreigh exchange orderliness of debates, and for for others Anyhow, they will in all probability soon find that they for its decadence. Das might treasures of the ages should be in the Far East will be attendant million
with great risk. Some measures purchased on speculation." that resson it is still retained, cannot do as they please with the pledged revenues of the Customs have expected & measure of given to the flames.
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