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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

MANY MEN AND WOMEN SPEND THEIR LIVES IN UNSUCCESSFUL

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Government and the Secretary of

The Counter-Proposals.

(Continued from Page 1 So far from the much-discussed ATTEMPTS TO SPIN THE FLAX other missiles from verandahs of German counter-proposals ap- GOD SENDS THEM UPON A WHEEL houses and buildings into the proximating to the Paris con THEY CAN NEVER USE-J. & roadway? clusions, they prove to represent Holland, but a fraction of the 74 milliards which rumour had credited Berlin with an intention of offer-

Yesterday's health return ing. This circumstance emerges shows three fatal cases of small. pretty clearly from a later mes-pox (Chinese), two non-fatal sage among a series which are not case of diphtheria (Chinese). altogether explicit. The Allies

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

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subject of 'Constitutional Reform since the public meeting in January, 1919, at which resolu- tions were passed in favour of (i)

The news that a Clapham An Unofficial majority on the schoolboy of eleven is receiving & Legislativo Council; (ii) The salary of twenty pounds & week abolition of Government nomina- as a film-actor has stirred the 3. The Government Intends to tion in regard to all the non-souls of hundreds of ambitious prohibit the sale or use in the Chinese members of that Council; youngsters all over the country, Colony of all crackers bombs or and (ii) Enlarging the body of says a London paper. In real drama child actors have often depend for their offect on the other explosive objects that electors?

received very big salaries. There was "Little Spark famous a few shattering of a strong сав ing or that explode by detons- $. The Government is not years ago in provincial pantomi. fixed the amount of the reparations

and Uniontion, at £11,300,000,000, payable in!

the prepared to lay the correspond-me. She made her first appear. ance in "Little Red Riding Hood," forty-two years, the annual pay- Church on February 20th for the provisions of the Dangerous ence upon the table.

at the Theatre Royal, Notting- ments rising from £100,000,000 to North China Famine Relief Fund Goods Ordinance where an article

The Hou. Mr. Pollock said that ham, and began at a salary of £7 $859.11, which is used specifically included in with regard to the answer to 10s, a week. £300,000,000 in the twelfth year. amounted to

Very soon she was The German proposal appears to amount has been transmitted to the list of Dangerous Goods. question No. 2, he would like to getting double that amount. offer a payment of £50,000,000 per the central fund per Rev. C. E. Such prohibition will not affect point out that he asked for a cen- What is probably a record in the annum for thirty-two years--total Claxton, Treasury Offe of the the crackers generally used. The sus of those bought for purposes way of juvenile theatrical sto

Missionary £1,500,000,000.

Society, reply to

latter part of of adoption and for purposes of ceas was the engagement of little After making London liberal allowance for the ro- Shanghai.

the question is that there domestic service. He did not Miss Elise Craven, at His Ma- is considerable

difficulty in know whether the answer to the jesty's Theatre, at a salary of one parations already made, no gort

enforcing existing legislation question of meating-ground is to be

Was intended We learn that Mr. C. H. owing

ahundred pounds a week. to the impossibility in negative in the case of those who found in this suggestion. Robertson, the The Allies also formulated a 12.5V.M.C.A. lecturer, who

well known most cases of identifying the had been bought for domestic

has actual offender, while there are purposes. per cent. tax on German exporte, delighted so many audiences in objections to legislating for the

A comparison between Germany proposes to co-operate Hongkong in the past, has kindly purpose of making the occupier of answer was intended to imply catered for in this country and in

His Excellency said that the way in which sightseers in the reconstruction of the devastated areas in lieu of the consented to give a lecture at the the premises from which objects that the question was under Japan is made by Count Futara,

Helena May Instituto on are thrown criminally liable for consideration. tex. Leaving this point over, we "Relativity: or

the

Einstein the acts of others.

a Japanese traveller, in.some im- see that the Berlin offer does not Theory" at 5.30 p.m. on Monday,

With reference to the answer to pressions of England, which he amount to one-seventh of the March the 7th. This subject is

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question No. 4, the Hon. Mr. Pol-has published in a Tokyo paper. aum fixed by the Allies. It is not being widely discussed at home,

4. In view of the general and lock wished to know how long the What struck him most forcibly surprising that Herr von Simons and the lecture promises to be considerable increase in motor Government bad had the altera- about "show places" such as looked" troubled ", as the report

traffic in this Colony, and the tion of the Peak Tramways under Stratford on-Avon was the cor says, when submitting this pro-

probability that it will still consideration and how soon the diality with which pilgrims to position. The French And

further increase ore long, will the views of the Government would Shakespeare's birth-place were Italians in particular, we

The soloist at the organ recital) Government appoint a small likely be given.

received, and the honest treat- told, were considerably surprised at St. John's Cathedral on Mon-Committee to enquire into aud

His Excellency:-I must ask ment meted out to them. "In at the counter-proposals, but day evening is Miss Bortha revise traffic conditions

and for notice.

Japanese pleasure resorts and British citizens, who are being Meischke, Diplomeo of the Hague | regulations?

The Hon. Mr. Pollock said that places of historic interest," he taxed to provide some £300,000,000 Conservatoire, who will sing

with regard to the answer to says, "it very often happens that MURDOCH-At the Peak Hospital, on March 2nd, to Mr. and per annum for interest on the "Panis Angeliono" by Cesar

question No. 5, he would ask visitors get a bad impression from Mrs. Arthur Murdoch, a son.

National Debt alone, must equally

why despatch of a confidential the tricks of dishonest tradesmen deem the counter-proposals

nature had been sent on a matter Our policy seems to be to "ludiorously inadequate."

of this sort.

fish for custom with fireworks His Excellency I am afraid and lotteries and cheap railway that question cannot be properly fares," whereas "English people answered.

certainly carry into practice the TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. Isentiment of their proverb, The Hon. Attorney General' Honesty is the best policy."" moved the sasond reading of the to Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the Vebicles and Traffic

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Franck and Gounod's "Repenter," 4. The traffic regulations better known in English as the were carefully revised last year, well-known sacred solo "O Divine and it is not considered that any Redeemer." The organ numbers further revision is now required. will include A Mendelssohn The Hon. Mr. Holyoak gave An ex-officer's experience on Sonata, Mascagni's Intermezzo notice of further questions revisiting the scenes of his service from Cavaleria Rusticana," one asking the Government Flanders induces one to Handel's famous Largo and the to stata when it is likoly cogitate upon the mutability of wonderful Finale from Tschai- that the European Police things. Day after day, and more kowsky's Pathetic Symphony. Force

will be brought particularly night after night, one of the most tragic pieces over their normal strength; An- millions of men were employed | written, the full history of which other that a committee

into or the parallel lines of trenches, is not yet known. The collection appointed to go first of all in constructing them, will be in aid of the Cathedral question of traffic regulations; and after that in continuous Organ Fand.

and another 86 to matter how much work had been repairing or strengthening. No

the Government would state

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be Regulation Ordinance, 1912. The Bill was passed.

WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS.

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

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Mr. Asquith's revelation before the Cabinet Salaries Committee that he left office a much poorer man than he was when be enter- ed it is really nothing new, states a writer in a Home Journal. The

years of office, a Duke of Newcastle, through whose hande passed, during many

stream of patronage compared with which modern opportunities are the merest trickle, loft office a poorer man by. £300,000. Mr. Gladstone was another who suffered finan- cially by long holding of high office, and Sir George Trevelyan has borne melancholy testimony to the contrast between the nine-

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The fire on board the Korea Maru yesterday leads us

The Hon. Attorney General to advert to the subject of the fire-fighting service of the put into the task, there was Taiping passenger juk yester maternity ward of the Barker, amend the Widows' and Orpheus why they expected so long moved the second reading of the Caught by the Police on the a delay in the completion of the Bill intituled An Ordinance to Colony. We wish to make it quite clear, in the beginning, always more to do, bence that any complaint, we make is not directed against the ine brought the usual summons for before Mr. G. N. Orme at the been under consideration for the

Tommy's grouse when dusk day, a Chinese was brought Road Hospital as the matter had Ponsion Ordinanco, 1908..

The Bill was passed. employed in that service but against the organisation of it, working parties from the troops Police Court this morning to give best part of two years. against its being behind the actual requirements of the enjoying a turn in the "rest" an explanation of how he came times. Let us see what happened yesterday morning when camps. There is material for an into the possession of 66 tools of the fire on board was first discovered. A message had to illuminating calculation as to raw opium and 124 table of Questions put by the Hon. Mr. be got through to the Fire Station and to the Central how many large cities could have prepared opium. Sergeant Dick, Pollock, with Police Station. An alarm had to be sounded and police been built with the labour so who made the arrest, told the Secretary's replies, are given men (at least those liable for fire duty) had to be collected expended. And what is the end Magistrato that when bis offence below:

of this mighty output of energy, was discovered the prisoner)

Question. and dispatched to the Central Fire Station where they often accompanied by peril, simply smiled, as much as to L. Will the Government include Downing Street the Minister is teenth and eighteenth centuries boarded an engine and were transported to the Fire Float, say nothing of impediments and indicate that it could not in the Hongkong Hansard all confronted with a most compli- in this respect. What may be lying on the Fraya by Statue Wharf. It was then an easy many places those internunable joss." However that

discomforts indescribable ? In be helped, being due to "bad Legislative Council Questions cated position between that part new to some people, perhaps, is may be, which have been answered in of the house which is residential the revelation of No. 10, Downing matter to get the Float under way and proceed to the scene lines, as they seomed to be, there was not the vestige of a the Government Gazette, together Next door, at No. 11, the domestic begin with, most statesmen who and that part which is official Street as a white elephant. To of the outbreak. We will leave it to the judgment of any reaching from the Channel cosstamile on his countenance when with the Answers to reader to estimate the length of time that elapsed between to

side produced a historie quarrel proceed from some other high the Swiss. frontier, are he heard the sentence of the Questions?

between Gladstone and Distraeli. office to the Premiership already the receipt of the news at Central and the actual arrival nothing but a mass of weeds! Magistrate, which means that

Apparently even the few com-have an establishment in London. of the Hoat alongside The distressed vessel.

While the war was in progress in- he will go to gaol for six months

I. The answer is in the affirma-pensations of the past are now Lord Salisbury and Sir H. Camp- if a fine of $1,200 is not forth- tive. Hongkong is quite well equipped regarding fire floats. sets of tronches after well-known coming.

genious Army topographers named

lacking. Mr. George Russell used bell-Bannerman preferred their We have two, one of which is always off Statue Wharf thoroughfares,

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to tell a tale of the kindly atten-own houses, and regarded Down- 80 that new

2. Will the Government include tions of the workmen of the Office ng Street as an office. Mr. with a small head of steam on, ready for a call. The arrivals, finding themselves in the A musical entertainment in aid in the Census which is being com- of Works, who could be relied on Gladstone, for part of his Pre- other, we believe, is always kept in the Yaumati Typhoon Strand, could gauge the direction of the London Hospital will be piled this year, a Census of for repairs, for odd jobs, formiership at least, kept up a big Shelter without steam, the two floats having alternate of Charing Cross, while a quarter given on Wednesday, 16th March Chinese who have been bought (a) picture-hanging, and the like, house in Carlton House Terrace. spells of on and off duty. But the point about it all is that was pretty sure to boast

tenanted by Lowland "Jocks" next, in the Canton Club Theatre, for purposes of adoption; (b) for operations which might extend there is no regular fire staff to man these floats. It is a Sauchiehall Street.

from the official to the non-official- What with and instrumental music, and the

on Shameen. There will be vocal domestic service?

Answer. case of collecting men together; possibly men who have the huge overgrowth of vegetation. Committee is promised the sup

part of the building. But the An invention which makes it 2. It is proposed to add a eager watchfulness of modern possible to carry on a conversation just come off police duty. Recently we made a plea for the the peasants, and the Chinese port of local talent for tableaux column to the Chinese Schedule days might result in loud "jazz-direct from the throat instead of establishment of a distinctly seperate Fire Brigade Force Labour Corps, the ex-officer re-and other attractions; in fact, a requesting information regarding band" alarm if such pleasant the mouth promises to and that plea is made all the more reasonable and strong identify even well-known spots. mittee tender their beat thanks wording is now under considera-

ferred to found it difficult to raro treat is in store. The Com- adopted persons. The exact artifices were employed still. revolutionize telephonio con- when one considers the matter from the shipping point Sie transit gloria mundi! These to those foreign firms and in- tion,

versation, saye a writer in Landon paper. Known as the of view. Hongkong is a sufficiently important shipping deeply-trenched fields were the dividuals that have already given

The most effective part of th" mouth laryngopone, the invention centre to justify the provision of a very efficient body of scene of Liberty's triumph-but their support, and have every 3. When will work bo com- Bill to stop duelling which his enables a person to talk in noisy harbour firemen, just as it is a sufficiently overcrowed city one trusts that their passing is not hope that the appeal of the Chair-menced on the Kowloon hospital been submitted to the French surroundings or under abnormal to warrant the establishment of a fire brigade for fire work! symbolic.

man of the London Hospital, will site? What steps are being taken Chamber is the clause penalising conditions, and at the same time only. We have heard the suggestion made that the ideal A Famous “ Sport," in this way, attain the help from to expedite the building of such the publication of reports of leave the mouth free for breathing duele. But for the publicity purposes. The transmitter je way of catering for the harbour would be the Govern-

all desiring to give aid to this hospital? A paragraph in our yesterday's worthy cause. . Hospitals in

given to these encounters in about the size of a wrist watch. ment's purchase of a bulk on which the men (native and issue outlined the career of Mr. England receive no Stato aid, 3. It is not possible at present habit would now be as obsolete from the vocal chords when it is certain newspapers the duelling It gathers up the vibrations direct European) could live, on which all necessary stores could Robert Edgren, the well-known but are entirely dependent upon to give a date. Sketch plans in France as it is in England. placed in contact with the throat, be kept, and, which would be located in some fairly central career one-time athlete, who is first support.

American spotting journalist and outside contributions for their have been prepared and are con- On grounds of economy, too, it and the sounds are plainly beard spot, handy to any outbreak that might occur. It would choice as referee for the Dempsey-

sidered satisfactory. It is possible is time that duels were pronounc-in the receiver. A special appa- act as a parent ship to the two floats which at present have Carpentier clash. "Bob" Edgren

that work on the site will be ed illegal, for whereas under the ratus has been designed for fire no settled home and which are always out of commission was some" hammer-thrower in

Attending as the guests of the commenced within two months Second Empire an ordinary brigades, enabling a superinten

and when the detailed plans are affaire d'honneur cost for a few hours after a spell of duty. The last-named his Varsity days and after, and Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak and Mr. finished tenders will be invited.

eschident to be in constant touch with happening is almost unavoidable at the present time because has been associated with all kinds the Colony's leading business as stated in the paragraph, he James Ormiston, A number of

principal about hundred his masked men, and converse Question.

francs, detailed estimate with them readily. Hose men there is the necessary re-conditioning and re-victualling of sport for umpteen years. One men, architects. and civil 4. Is it the fact that, without pubished in 1909 set the working on ladders and roof tops to be done. A parent ship would obviate many of the memorable incident in his career engineers yesterday had tiff at alteration to the passing points, cost at three times that amount can keep in telephonic touch with present difficulties. Alternatively, it has been suggested was not alluded to, however, the Hongkong Hotel, when they cars can be put on the Peak This covers "cabfares for your those working in other parts of a that a Fire Station should be located on the Prayaa Americansportemen will probably made the acquaintance of Mr. Tramway to hold 60 passengers seconds to attend meetings with burning building. The invention recollect the occasion. At the Leonard Redmayne, a London each instead of 40 ? If so, will the the other seconds and their outlay can also be such between station sufficiently commodious to house both land and time of the wrestling boon Mr. director of the Anglo-Chinese Government, in view of many at the cafes where the meetings chauffeur and motor-car passen water brigades, The Colony already knows that provision Edgren was "third man in the Engineers' Association, Ltd. The people being frequently crowded are arranged. If pistols are the gor, between air pilot and passer- has been made for a large new Central Fire Station near ring" or on the mat when Hon. Mr. Holyoak presided and out of the cars, urge the Peak weapons selected they must be ger, in noisy workshops, in the Central Market. Just how near to the Central Market Hackenschmidt encountered the amongst those present were the Tramway Company to put on hired from Gaston Henette at railway tunnels, and in marina the site is we have not learned, but the Government would late Frank Gotch at Dexter's Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins (Director such larger cars at an early date? anything up to a hundred france, engine-rooms. The submarine do well to consider the advisability of placing the building

Amphitheatre, Chicago.

of Public Works), Mr. A. O.

Angider. Lang, Mr. G. T. Edkins and on the Praya.

4. The whole question off ANFU ACTIVITY.

many others interested in British what, if any, alterations His Excellency the Governor has promised us that The Chinese press reports that engineering, The Chairman pro-desirable in the Peak Tramway needed on the way out, and if jaw to the full extent, this move, with the return of the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, the intelligence agents in Shanghai posed the bealth of Mr. Red- is under consideration, and the the coachman is to look solemn ment working a switch. whole question of the Fire Brigade will be gone into, and vernment that the old Anfu Club come out East to study conditions make any representation to the well primed. On returning to have informed the Peking Go-mayne, who, be explained, had Government is not prepared to instead of sarcastic he must be we trust that due attention will be paid to the improve-members are recruiting troops in in view of foreign competition. Company with regard to the size Paris the seconds and the doctor ment of the present arrangements for dealing with ont- Nantungchow, Teungming, Hai- Mr. Redmayne replied in a moat of the cars at the present time.

ARGENTINE SQUIALISTS BAN breaks on board vessels in Port. This is so important a.

INTERNATIONALS." chow, Chinkiang, and other interesting speech, in which he matter to the mercantile and commerical interests of the another up-rising. Upon receipt Home and assured his listeners places for the purpose of starting reviewed trade conditions at

Question,

Argentine Eocialiste have de Colony, that our Unofficial Members might well interest of this

3. Will the Government lay of fifty france, So if three oided, first, not to join the Third report, the Peking that British manufacturers were upon the table the correspondence hundred france cover the whole International at Moscow, and themselves in it. We hope to see the matter raised often Government has ordered all local not indifferent to the demands of between (6) His Excellency the business you may think your secondly, to leave the Becond enough to ensure something being done.

the export markets.

Governor; and (li) the Hongkong self lucky."

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