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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1: 1921
- DAY BY DAY.
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY.
LOCAL WEDDING.
Marcal-da Roza.
THE NOBLEST SACRIFICE, BE- CAUSE THE HARDEST, IS THAT OF THE MAN WHO ONES UP PART of H IDEAL TO SECURE LITTLE OF IT.-H. D. Miller,
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Count Wille, the farmer Russian
(By "Ajax.")
Kawloon residents will have
Everyone knows what the A very pretty wedding took read with much interest the es
A Census is and by most it is pro-place at the Roman Catholic Premier, whose biography in about to be published in England and ja trast we gave yesterday from 7
hably considered a nuisance, Cathedral on Saturday, when Mr. Hack ruentioning the possible
seeing that it means filling in of 5. A. Mateal, of the Eastern Ex. the U. S. A., has four good titles development of the vaceni
a form with answers to a long list tension Telegraph Company, was remembrance. He was a self Hand which extends ft m
Benjamin John Cron was this of questions which are as often married to Misa Maris Adelaide made man who rosto the highest the Post Office right up to Holt's] What for recreative purposes, morning fined $10 for being drunk at nisunderstood. The anda Raza, daughter of the late Mr. office under Tsaris. He was the swers culled from some Census and Mrs. C. da Rom. There author of the Duma (and, ineid. On this big area there should be and disorderly in the King Ed-farms have formed the subject was a large attendance in the entally, gave the news of it to a British journalist, who thereby. Jample scope for the provision of wand Hotel yesterday.
matter of humorous columns in Cathedral to witness the 2270-
scored a memorably. "scoop "), tennis courts, a cricket pitch and
newspapers, but it is doubtful if many which was performed de tha won for Russia a successful a small pleasure ganden, with,
anyone, outside those actually Rev. Father Banchi. The bride, possibly, a bandsta din prepara- The total output of the Kailanjengaged in the work, and then not who was attired in a becoming peace with daran after an unsuc ressful wat. Eu" in the B.S.A.. mi tion for the day when promenade Mining Administration's mines at all, realise what the taking dress of white French satin em francerts will as they should be for the week ending 15th January, of the Census means and the broidered with net silk, was given east, he is remembered most of all for the masterly way in which hevose a prominent feature of life amounted to parts tons and the enormous amount of work invole away by her great-grand-aunt he won public opinion over from during sales during the period, to 67,591 ed. In a Colony like Hongkong Mrs. Adelaide M Baptista. She Japan to Russia's side. The it is very hard to know the exact was attended by Linada Raza.het Peace Conference was held in number of the inhabitants. I is cousin, and by Mias L.M. Marga the United States in Roosevelt's a matter of the greatest difficulty the groom's sister, as bridesmaids Presidence. The American press.
white because of what is known as the They were dressed in
jexhaustible energy and numbers,
Jon
the
mainland
At
summer any rate, it is gut time this and were utilised fot same Įpurpose or other. Owned by the Government. it has lain le all
tons.
Returns feci the
sold in the interests com almost a rainless month. Daly
einment
The Ametien reporters had no
Botanicoating population, that is to say, georgette with pink bead trim men docked to the scene with in- too long, and if it is not to be Gardens show that January was that section of the people in the ming and carried bouquets The Japanese delegates were
town which consists only ofwhite chrysanthemums and red mercial or other development, on the days was any rainfall people passing through the place. roses. Mr. Frederico E. Carvalhoite, but secret as the grave. then it could not be better use recorded, and the rotal for the For instance, there are in Hong-was present in the capacity of use for theni, and neither, in a than as suggested For the Cav-month was only. 2-inch.
kong not only globe-trotters who best man."
short time, had the editors. Wine talk of Laxing!
visit the Colony for a few days. The reception was held at the
was the opposite. He was a un developed lar whilst keeping
but a large number of people. Catholic Union Club, where the accessible atras 12le, is a trule
Be error, the date of Lammert principally Chinese, who do not couple were the recipients of access as Mr. Lloyd George or an actormanager. He talked inconvegnitous, anyhow. We have Bens' auction sale of furniture make it their perraanent resid-congratulations
thre of this "Bicton," the Feak, was wrongly ence. They come from Canton, laudatory speeches were made affably and skilfully that be had soon gelapal the whole. scheme fe making use of the stated yesterday. The sale takes MacaÃO and other outlying The honeymoon being spent and in front of Victoria View place on the 4th instant, and the areas and stay here for a few in Canton and Macao. The couple Conferener in an atmosphere of Don't it come worn ehudly got busy | zoods will be on view from the days. A census officer who beg to thank most heartily all warm approval for the Russian on the progret? We don't see lafternoon of the Bal.
included all these in his totals who attended the wedding and point of view, especially with res gard to Russia's refusal to pay àn Any signs of preparatory activity
would Sad his 5gures very much for the many lovely presents seat.
indemnity. This accomplishment at the moment.
out later on. Then, again, there
was wholly Witte's, for at the [beginning American opinion, like Prohibition.
British, was in favour of Japan.
beami to SOTTAM
A telegram has been received are mills, factories, etc. that from the Colonial Secretary of employ extra coolies at certain the effect that Mr. A. G. M. times of the year, and as all Fletcher has undergone an oper.these coolies live together there of course. considerable! ation for appendicitis but hopes
and many
PROF. SKLAREVSKI.
·
In discussing trolibition with many Amsticans, especially thosej who have been in the States since
Owing to confusion with the Fine Farewell Recital. the evantry went "dry" we have
Earl of Bessborough, Lord Des been intrat note than once proceed on his voyage to difficulty attached to separating them in order to get the correct)
The crowded attendance at the borough now shares with two of that, despite the law, it is relative England on the 10th February.
fizures, and in dealing with ignors. Andrew's Hall last evening three other living celebrities the ly an easy matter to get a "bar"
ant Chinese the task is rendered drink
when Professor Sklaterski gavetace privilege of baving read We have always under-
nored:Scult. Then again the pee his final recital, was an appto-
their obituary notices. One is tood that a coarn and four van Last week's health return ple have tobe divided up into com; | e driven though most legis) shows two case> each of munities, a task difficult enough rate tribute to a planist who Sir Horace Plunkett, whose death lative enactments but, all the diphtheria, (fatal), vezelco-spinal in itself. Hence it will be seen -one, we should have thought it fever (fatal) and paratyphoid that the taking of the Census is hardly pass Me for a law of this fever (non-fatal).
in the fatal by no means an easy master, character to be made practically je uses, the victims were Chinese. While the cost of the Census- bold by all and sundry who wish the other sufferers being Indian taking must come to
a large to make it The other day, and British respectively. There figure. Talking about the Census, we read that Prohibition enforce- were six Chinese deaths from reminds me of a queer sign that ment ofrers hati been instrated intuenza.
I saw in the Supreme Court the to prosecute petsons selling bupsi
other day. I ran like this. Custodian of Enemy":"Census Property."
critici
But
Rise
with!
the term of kutty-iwu geats byet which repayment is spread looks of the cunts. M. Brand, whose personality was muen in evidence throughout the displeasing to a majority of the proceedings, calculates that on the present value of German exportį rit.zens, there is but one thing to this tax with gweldwer a millard marks (2900,000), and that be done about the matter: Repeal will eventualy produce tree ani a half miliards (£175,000.0000.) the Volsteak Act. The law shouts The French Press estimates the amount at £100,000,000 in a fabe enforce! if nonenforcement is desired, but one way is open: years."
It may be said at ones that, colossal as the amount of the Repeal of the Law Increased against the por indemmy is, it is not excessivt in re-anon to the Alles' beses, the majorities
To set down in train, registered in recent elec-! aggregate of which it does not nearly reath.
Very
crew threw the task overboard.
FUNERAL.
Sorry.
the
case
stood Wheel
out
$
news
erroneously reported from WAS will always be assured of a warm
America in 1919. another is the welcome should he ever retura to tangkong axin. His popularity Rev. S. Baring Gould the well. known writer and traveller, and hasincreasedat every appearance.
a third is Lord Montage of and deservedly so, for it is seldom
Beaulieu, of whom A long that we get a visit: from an arbiography was published when of his calibre. Last evening'el
he was reported drowned in the Prostatame was largely of a
Mediterranean. A venerable and "popular" character, including,
am the classics. as it did, several old favourite famous actress, states a writer in The long-awaind decision of the Allits fixing the sum to fel and malt in connection
It was a most London journal, confesses to It requires other intr liest for the home
Polotsky and Mirovs returned paid by Getinang lot reparations is now known.
satisfying bill of fare that was have read the biography of distinct effort of the magication to visualve the figures involved. manufacture of beer, and this to the Colony yesterday from
presented, and we do not know herself written by a friend, and
in pigeon-boled
the Macao, where three performances Aller a certain point the addition of noughts to, an aggregate apparently,
The amount of the reparaļa nav
sus were given, the classic dances of
For the last two years the local that we have ever heard such
of office
great produces a certam menia, indigestion.
while the late Lond mend the latter being immensely enjoy hotels and boarding houses have ringing outbursts of applause as nots indemnity nerds a ducen gates to express it in marks-the this
The Fulwat Art d. They are giving a recital a been doing a roaring business. those which punctuated the var papers Premise total is ZOONERA kas is at the nominal value of the of the law. mate, sigursing Launty to the *: just what it would work out at prohibes the sale of ingre Hients Canton 10-3:10%, after which! Every big liner that arrives inous contributions. A graceful Rhondda, who it was at first upon the basis of the mark's present value of about seven-eighths intended for the nude bety of they will return to Hongkong to post causes acute congestion attribute was also paid Professor thought had been drowned on the wery Sklaterski when he was handed Lusitania. lived to see in cold print what some people thought of a penny we will not attempt to calculate, Perhaps the dimension xicating lloguers, it protibts | prejure 65 their appearance at there plates, and it is
at a beautiful garland of flowers. of him The writer might have mantauture. The Cates the Theatre Bayal on the Tchicammon to hear the clerks of the bill to be presented to Germany wni be better understood in the th
The programme opened h sterling equivalent of £11.9999999999. In additions Germany has to struction metely alterates what instant, when an entirely new the hotels remark to tourists,
to Dance added the case of Talsto, whoss full Weber's Invitation are quite We pay and down tax of 19%% per cent upon exports throughout! Treadgis written, upate statute i It gamme will be submitted.
|up. We have already had to which was rendered with much deesse was prematurely reported, though it is doubtful whether the refuse tony or fifty applications delicacy of Reling, folowing Russian novelist cauld have read for rooms" This is a rotten state which were a group of Mendels
(the obituary notices,seeing that he of affairs, and serves to give the sohn numbers of which he did not recover complete con ACID EXPLODES.
Colony an unenviable name Spinnin The Colony has been growing prominently by reason of the cousness. Commotion on a Ship.
rapidly, but it cannot be said wonderfully graceful manner in
it was interpreted. The statement that the visit to that Hol accommodation has which kept pace with that growth Then came threw Chapin items, the Consitutional Chub of the There was commotion on board Numerous people who are on all marked by sincerity and depth Prime Minister the firs: instaca debate bgures the total of the losses of every kind sastated by thee, weld in hope that the the Halbthis morning, a holiday tour and call at this port of understanding, followed by the of a Minister appearing as a club littlebefore eleven o'clock, when when they cannot get accom- Military March (Schubert-Tausig) belonging to an opposition Party alties would be anropesibility, but at will help to same under makers of Ancians are not a risk of aid, which was being modation have to go to Canton which demonstrated the rearkis nos strictly accurate, for though manding of the portion it is is remembered that, to take a single favour of repeating the proti taken on board to be stored on aca and wait there till able executive ability and genius he is a Tory. Sir Robers Home country, the National Det of Britain has been swollen by some enforcement og slati in £7.000.000.000, which approximates to two-thirds of the sun which well, then let the law be strictly deck, exploded. The Fire Brigade rooms become available for them. of the pianist. This was voci has hat a very warm reception
was summoned, but its services f The Prohibition Acti
an at the National Liberal Club st of the last ferously applauded," and Germany is called upon to pay by way of the indemnity proper, enforced. In puits of fans, the sum to be demandeli from Cermany only allows has been declared constitutional were not required. The ship's Empress boat I am told that some encore was given. Sext came least one. It is true that he was thirty persons applied for and to Rubinstein numbers, beauti-idealing with a non-Party ques- of Britain receiving £7,455,990jera iplus per share from the export Then why any quibbling about it? are surely made to bel
go: permission from the Captain fully played; then charming tion in his address, and he was ac tax. It is clear, then, that Gemany is nulover-bebited on the ments Laws
of the vessel to sleep on board Frelude by Rachmanino; whilst companied by Liberal Minister. of the case. 1 ne question remasts: Is the sum more than she can respected.
till the sailing day. Of course, the final programme number was but on the whole a Tory lawyer pay? The Germish Press is unanimous in declaring that it is. Pro-
Dissatisfied?
these passengers had booked to Liszt's Campanella, rendered mast have been leg at home in bably it would be an error to affaun great significance to this: such
The opposite of contentment is
travel by her, but it serves to as few pianists are able to do. the surroundings of a demo an attitude was to be looked for whatever had been the amount
And it hardly
show how bad the situation is.
So great was the applause that cratic Liberal Cleb than Mr. another encore had to be given, Llord George among the mem fixed. The setudale of prospective payments, however, gives one satisfaction.
For the brat two years Germany is to pay two milliart needs stating that a lot of people The Late Mr. W. Robinson,
and as a crowning triumph to a bera of the Constitutional when to pause.
for the next three Sears are frequently dissatisfied with marks (£109.000791 per annum
they lot, often-
Still, there is another side to evening of deep enjoyment Probe toast of his health was pro- three milliards. for the following
years four millions, what they cal
No syndicate fessor Sklarevski gave a mas posed by Mr. Bonar Law. "The Then six milliards tinues without any real reason to flobinson were laid to their last this question. for the three years after he millions, and (2300190,009) per annum for the remaining thirty-one years; and be so. When it isn't one thing, rest in the Protestant Cemetery would dream of putting up a nificent interpretation of "The eagerness of the Tories to acclaim
Locally it's often yesterday in the presence of a palatial hotel in the Colony with Death of Isolde."
We understand that Professor writer in Aland fetching such prohibitive 10 addition she is to pay the before-mentioned expert tax. necessary and just to obtain, the leastole maximum, and Britain, the exchange rate of the dollar-large number of friends.
of Boral tributes prices as it does to-day. Even if Sklarevaki is to leave for Europe recalled the pungent passage in as the most beavily-taxed nation, has a specific reason for seeking a very sore point with many just profusion
the great esteem run on the most cheeseparing by the sa. Delta, haring secured Colonel Repington's Book, in to recover her losies on these lines; but it does look as if the pay now. On the other hand, there indicated
to be found people who in which the deceased was policy such a hotel could never a big contract for a lengthy Euro which he declares that the Tories ments may be straining possibilities, especially when it is remem-are bered that Daz former antagonist has also to meet the heavy think they have the best of it held by all those who know yield a decent retum to the in- pean tour. This has necessitated having come to the conclusion Now, if we could him. Amongst those who sent vestors. This is a very important a cancellation of his proposed that Mr. Lloyd George was too cast of the army ot occupation. German prosperity before in many ways.
we are wreaths were the following question to bear in mind for visit to Java, but the opportunity dangerous in Opposition, decided talk so glibly of presented was so good that it on the alternative of making him ibe wat was a household word, yet her Budget for the last complete only view ourselves as
also the viewed by others, the probabilities Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Browe, Mr. people who pre-war year only produced $159,00,000. There is question, which seems to have been disposed if in a somewhat are that most of us would be and Mrs. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. the lack of enterprise in Hong could not be declined. The Pro- their leader."
We pen McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. P. Buckle, kong. The local Government, we fessor's skill bas so Impressed a casual manner, of whether the export tax is not contrary to the fairly well satisfied. Treaty of Versailles-It has often been said by supporters of Get these few lines betause of little Mr and idra Stewart Me, and are told, is alive to the necessity big syndicate that they have,
Mr. Kipling (writes a corres WO happened across Mr. Dixon. Mr. and Mrs. W. of another big hotel in the made him a most tempting-car many that once the internuity has been tixed, so that the county incident knows how she stands, her industries will go ahead rapidly, and it recently. It was the case of a man Higby, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Nicol, Colony, and it is within the and his many admirers in Hong pondent) was quite entitled to his residents that kong hope to hear of an uninter-verdict in the action for infringe- has been made sufficiently apparent that considerable recovery has who had decided to sell certain Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wilson, recollection of
and Mrs. D. K. the Hon. Mr. Claud Sever,rupted series of successes for him ment of copyright which he taken place. Probably Germany will not answer that the amount bouse property which he owned. Mr.
L. A. when he was Officer Administer in the very front rank of musicians brought against the patent medi- of the indemnity will paralyse her industry. One hopes that the He didn't care for it; he was Blair, Mr. and Mrs.
So he put it in Langley, Mr. and Mrs. R. D.ing the Government, outlined an during his coming European tour. cine proprietors who quoted one of his poems in an Advertise- Reparations Committee have been able sutficiently to arra them- discontented. selves with data to refute this. Un the face of things, the experts the hands of an agent, who wrote Wilks, Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibbison ambitious scheme for a hotel in That scheme was advertisement about it and and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kowloon, earlier suggestion of a sliding scale, with a small rebate for prompt 20
At the same time I think the payment, looks a more appropriate method; if the Committee brought it to the client for his Lovelace Burton, Messrs. Hong eventually pigeon-holed, it being
accept counsel for the defence missed a possess such information as justifies the conclusion actually approval. The agent read it over. kong and Kowloon Wharf and held that the erection of a hotel further prepared
Read that once more," suggested Godown Company, the staff and was the duty not of the Govern-payment by easy instalments." very good point when he forget to other, plead that his clients bad only -arrived at, so much the better.
In regard to the sum to be expected from the export tax, we the owner of the place, and he clerks of the Hongkong and meat but of the public. Few will Some syndicate or
After Kowloon Wharf and Godown disagree with this point, but am sure, would soap up the followed the teaching of Mr. There ia plenty of Kipling himself when he wrote in have sought to analyse the French Premier's figures as cabled leaned back in big chair. without being able altogether to reconcile them. M. Briand experts the advertisement was read the Company, sorrowing wife and surely if the Government recog-idea. £30,000,000 from the present German exports, which implies that second time he said I don't daughter, Messrs. A. B. Allan, nises the need for more Hotel at money in the Colony for legitiThe Seron Sens
Spiers, H. Davis, commodation it mustrender every wate investment, and if the
Whon 'Omer spote 'is bloom- they have been far larger than the published statements indicate; think I'll sell after all I've been J. B.
Stalker, possible help to those who are Government did ils duty the
in' lyre. and, more astonishing still, he expects £175,000,000 per annum looking for that kind of a place P. W. Ramay, A.
He'd 'eard men sing by eventually. Does M. Briand realise that, the tax being fixed at it all my life. It sounds good. P. W. Ramsay, W. Brown, D. F. desirous of building. If the public would do theirs. I admit per cent., this means the German exporte would have to reach Until you read the description of Mackenzie, W. Greig, A. G. 8. Government is really sincere in its that the old Post Office site can E. 8. Ford, J. C. desire it could turn round and fetch to-day over fifty dollars a
sing by land an' sea;
· £1,400,000,000 per annum-nearly treble the amount of her record it, I didn't know I had it." There Morton,
is-seeing your situation Ferguson, Peninsular and Orien- say to any substantial syndicate: square foot, if split Fear? Presumably the French Premier is looking a long way ahead, it The next step rests wish ourers while adversary, and profound is through another's eyes sometimes tal Steam Navigation Company," Here is the old Post Office site. sections, but the importance that will attach to the appointed meeting with Ger- makes all the difference between E. H. Neave, Leung Kam Pan, We are prepared to let you have cannot have the apple and ext being very much contented and Mrs. A. W. Heron and Mr. and it at 830 per square foot, provided it. It is time that some Member
Mrs. Henry Hunter. many's representatives at the end of this mouth.
you build a good hotel. We are of Council took the matter up.
matter grouchily dissatisfied.
Lutet
It is it's another.
The remains of the late Mr. W.
to
up into the Government
their hero in this fashion." BA
* London
T
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daily,
An' what "e though 'e might
require,
'E went an' took—the same
I me.
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