"The Wine of Kings The King of Wines "
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De St. Marceaux, Vin Brut
or Very Dry Vintage 1911.
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AGENTS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Postal Rates.
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
THE BOOKSHELF.
BE SLOW TO HIRE AND QUICK Even though there is a dofisit TO FIRE. WHEN YOU FIND THAT on the working of the British yoU CAN'T GET RID OF HIM TOO YOU'VE HIRED THE WRONG MAN, Post Office to be made up, one cannot help questioning the QUICK. R. Lorimer. wisdom of the increase in postali
There were two fatal cases rates announced by the Post- master-General in the House of small pox reported yesterday and Cominons two days ago. We are also one fatal case of plague. getting quite a long way from Rowland Hill's proved wisdom.
of
a
(By "Librarian.")
LITERARY "FINDS" Certain worke acquire peculiar interest from Botto
&
SUMMARY COURT.
Interesting Legal Point.
frontier town of Tiflis. Ho mede peace with the Japanese. Readers may remember the exultant exclamation with which Count Witto emerged from the con- ference-room when peace was An interesting case came be- signed between Japan and Russia fore Mr. Justice Wood in the Not a kopeck!" (signifying Summary Court, yesterday after- that the vanquished were not to noon, when Tam Hin-fong claim- pay any indemnity). Count Witte ed from Au Yeong-woo the sum circumstance apart from their also wrote the first Constitution of $628.65, being $460 principal We open A of Russia with his own hands. Ho and $168.65 interest due in respect literary merit. posthumons work with different feeling from that which met most of the kings and states-of a promissory note made and men of his day, and he gives given by the defendant,_Au we feel from reading the same intimate accounts of them, as Yeong-woo, in favour of Loo Hon- writer's current productions. well as of himself. Again, a work may have a particular fascination from the fact of its being left unfinished;
•
In the body of the note the date
was
Mr. E. Buzuki, Japanese Consul It was certainly good policy to General to Hongkong, returned to
wah, dated Jan. 19th, 1918, the leave untouched the postal rates the Colony on Wednesday from
note being endorsed and transferr on newspapers but other postal conference with the Government
Mr. Horace Annesley Vachelled to plaintiff, Tam Hin-fong, on matter for foreign destinations
of Formosa.
conjecture as to how Dickons is familiar both as a novelist and May 2nd, 1918. Mr. Vaux appear- will be hard hit. During tlio recent
intended to solve the mystery of as a dramatist, and is welcomed for plaintiff and Mr. W. B. months of slumped trade at Home
Hind represented defendant. Mr. R. V. Meyer, of Mesara. N. Edwin Drood still continues. either way. He has a new story there has been en increase in the
These remarks refer to works appearing with Cassell, under the volume of circulars and catalogues Lazarus, has left the Colony to sent abroad by manufacturers and take charge of the new branch which authors are known to have title of " Blinkers," used, no doubt, when the document was executed merchants a proceeding loudly which these well-known opticians left. Another class of work is because there is a "romance of was given as Jan. 19th, 1918, but Adam at the top of tho note it was the unsuspected M.S. that comes the preconceived idea." praised by those who are keen to are opening at Singapore.
to light years after the author's Issell, a wall paper designer by stamped by the Stamp Office, May sco Britain secure a larger volume
trade. unpractical by nature, 28th, 1918, and the defence con- of overseas trade. One cannot Nowe has been received by a decease,
Recently an R. L. Stevenson and a philosopher by instinct, tended that as the note
holds the theory that all human stamped after execution it was have an advantage in the matter Mr. John Storey, Prenuer of New peom was rerorted
bave
values are founded on illusion, invalid. of this propaganda work and the South Wales, and Mrs. Storey turned up, of all places, in South We only see what we have been.
Mr. Vaux argued that printed latest increase in postal rates will shortly arrive in the Colony Africa. The Presbyterian Mes-
taught to see," and he calls that forms issued by Revenue officers amounts to a tax on the enterprise with a party on a visit.
senger there printed it as never the
preconceived idea. His were stamped by them, and under of British manufacturere. It will
before published, and said that it daughter, to improve the family the Stamp Duty Ordinance it was even cost 3d. to send a letter to
To" X.Y.Z." (Canton)-e you obtained it under circumstances fortunes, boldly goes out to not legal for an officer to stamp a France while the cost of sending catalogues and samples will be have not complied with our rule, which seemed to establish a con-service, so pulting the theory to document after execution.
During the the test. almost prohibitive. It would be which requires all correspondents vincing pedigree. almost better to run the Post to disclose their name and ad- war the Rov. M. Paterson, of Office at a slight loss than to do dress (not necessarily for publica- King William's Town, was serv anything that would handicaption), we cannot insert your letter. ing as captain in a Highland
-Ed. II.KT.
In
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. forget that our trade rivals will local businessman, that the Hon.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921.
THE ELECTIONS IN IRELAND.
British - merchants
their in struggle for trade expansion. We believe that an increase in inland
**
to
is
He,
therefore, submitted that, there was a stamp on the note when it was made. The money was loaned in January and, as it was not repaid, the document was signed after it was stamped. It was dated
"Pastiche and Prejudice regiment, and was shown the just such a title as Mr. A. verses in manuscript by Walkley would select for the health returns for comrade, who said he had obtain volume of his own writings. Its back becauso the money was postal rates would have been a Wednesday it was disclosed thated then fram an uncle, a solicitor contents are light, critical essays loaned in January. He was not Bounder policy than this increase there were three fatal cases of in the North of Scotland. The selected om special articles calling any witnesses because as
latter, it seems, had been a college which, as tho emall pox, four cases of plague companion of Stevenson's, and critic, he has contributed to stamped the note after execution, Times dramatic no Govenment official could have (une fatal), three non-fatal case when a common friend of theirs that paper, but the subjects the document must have been of spotted-fever and one fatal
the passed away the novelist sent are not exclusively theatrical stamped before.
him these lines, which the True, they include tlie msthotic of case of enteric fover. sufferers were Chinese.
recipient had never seen in print. drama, theories of criticism, the Lordship, but gave no evidence
The discovery" gave rise humour of the entertainmont
on foreign correspondence. Economy at Home.
been able to achieve.
of
at national
true,
you,
Your whole long gusty lifetime
through
Be gone a while before; Yet, doubt not, soon season shall restore
Your friend to you.
*
Plaintiff was examined by his
Mr. Joseph Conrad has in mind a Napoleonic novel, if he has not ease, unless the Court would already written a good part of it.grant an adjournment so that he The book has taken him on a could call Loo Hon-wah, at visit to Corsica, with which he
prosent in Canton, made a slender acquaintance when he was a sailor man in the Mediterranean. Naturally, the give judgment for defendant, centenary of Napoleon's death the will bring along now literature about him. He will, however, in Mr. Conrad's story, be the Napoleonic Period, rather than the man.
He has but turned a corner: still He pushes on with right good
will,
Thro' mire and marsh, by heugh
and bill,
The self-same arduous way That you and he through
many a doubtful day
Attempted still. He is not dead, this friend; not:
dead.
But on some road, by mortale*
tread,
Got some few trifling steps
ahead,
And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past)
the bend.
Shall meet again, as face to
face this friend
You fancy dead. Push gaily on, brave heart, the
Mr. Somerset Maugham, whose play, The Circle," goes on at the Hayinarket Theatre, has written a novel of the South Seas, "The Trembling of a Loaf,"
❤
*
The Love of Long Ago" is the title of a new work of fiction by Miss Marie Corelli, which an American publishing house an-
Bounces,
His Lordship said he would
with costs, plaintiff to be at within the statutory liborty period to apply for rehearing, if he attended with Loo-Hon-wali
and with Loo Hon-wah's affidavit
of the facts substantiated in the
case.
Mr. Vaux asked if His Lord- ship ruled that the stamp was fixed by the Revenue Office after execution.
His Lordship replied that if the promissory note was the only evidence before him he would give that finding.
Mr. Vaux said he wished to
subpeona Government officials to give evidence that they were not allowed to stamp documents after execution.
Ever since the conclusion of hostilities
necessity tho economy in administration basi
To-morrow's Camera News will been consistently urged in the Old
to considerable correspondence, world, and Aristotlein principles on the point at issue. Country and it was with satis- contain pictures of the new when it was detected that, with for the "movies."
Mr. Vaux said if the Court But they also variations. the faction that one read in Reutor's Shanghai Office of the Hongkong slight
piece range over a wider field, from Jane held against him, did His Lord- cables yesterday that the Govern- and Shanghai Bank viz:--per- ment has ordered the reduction of spective of the new building; & appears in the Stevenson Osborne Austen to Marcel Provet, from ship realise that ho was accusing ex-Creek architecture to schools of the Revonuo official of acting the Stamp Duty expenditure on the supply services view of the rich decorative effect collection. No wonder the
Ordinance? to be genuine Stevenson Pagello to the business man in
12 a photo of the
His Lordship replied that he Rarely can a Parliamentary Elertion have been held for the next financial year from of the interior: the work of con-perts" who pronounced the verses journalism, from George Sand and against
over £600,000,000 to £490,000,000, struction and
Mr. did not care about that. judges! Although it transpires under stranger conditions than those prevailing in Ireland. On many occasions thrift in Old Hong. There will also ap- product proved to be good advertisement.
Vaux had to prove his case. where polling is proceeding in pursuance of the Government private life has been preached hy pear three snaps showing rescue that the verses have been publish
the work by the Monteagle when she
Mr Vaux said that was his of Ireland Home Rule) Act. For generations Irishmen government officers, but
Though he that, ever kind and have been agitating for self-government, and now that it almost reckless extravagance of went to the assistance of the s.s. ed. they will bear reproduction:-- has been accorded them in a measure more liberal than that some of the Departments has been Hein Tion on her last voyage
the subject of justifiably severe from Hongkong.
Kept atoutly step by step with I is encouraging to by whith Gladstone secured the Nationalist vote. they criticism.
They are
The appearanee of Miss Daisy decline the proffered gift
participating in the read that an official circular
the Hongkong) Election, but participating, apparently, for the express admits that reduction of taxation Harcourt, at purpose of rendering Irish self-government a nullity. The and the State's indebtedness as Theatre has proved a thorough rapidly as possible is required fo success, for, notwithstanding the intention of Mr. De Valera's followers is to imitate the order to maintain and stimulate inclemency of the weather, all the course of action they have adopted in relation to the industry and commerce and secure seats were fully taken both during Imperial Parliament--that is to say, to hold the constitu- full and regular emplas ment. the matines and at the evening encies while refusing to perform the legislative function. Britain's load of war debt has performances. A new para nount reduced to almost picture of five reels will be given thereby bringing the Act, with the Parliaments which it been
Burprising extent and Mr. to-morrow in which George Ber- creates, to the ground. In such an antagonistic mood is Chamberlain had good cause to be ban will lead in "Lost in Transil." Sinn Fein that it has induced Mr. Devlin, on behalf of the proud when he recently intro- It is a story written by Kathlyn | Nationalist Party or the remnant of it, to combine in this duced his budget. But, there is Williams and arranged by Gar-j
even greater effort neadeddener Hunting; full of humour procedure. Non-Co-operation does not here proceed upon an the principle of abstention simple, but of abstention plus before Britain.can improve her thrills, pathos and mystery.
financial statas sufficiently to free exclusion. Thus do Mr. De Valera and his companious out her industries from the present
Hongkong ladies will be inter- Gandhi the Indian irreconcilable.
burden of taxation. Only by a ested to hear of an opportunity to Such is a simple outline of the position, but it would genuine attempt not help to write the Sinn Fein procedure down as a mere economy, by a continuous redue-assist in a movement which has dog-in the manger device, especially as the Unionists in the tion of expenditure within the for its object the improving of the next few years, will the desired conditions under which semp- South of Ireland, viewing matters from an opposite angle. relief be found. Whilst there is stresses in France earn their live. have refrained in many cases from running candidates. no cause for pessimism there is lihood. M. Pierre Bietry, who was To judge whether Sinn Fein's attitude is actuated by a cause to hope for a great deal Deputy for Brest, started a move- well-grounded motive or by irrational dissatisfaction, the more than we have up to datement in 1905 which almed at tak- reader may be reminded of the heads of the measure upon which the pending Elections are based. The Act sets up a A Libel Removed. bicameral Parliament for 26 counties referred to as The public of Hongkong has to Southern Ireland and another for six Ulster counties thank Dr. Koch for the service denominated Northern Ireland, each with complete local he has rendered in eliciting the autonomy in its own territory, and with power at any time fact that Mrs. Neville Rolf, who to merge themselves into a single Irish legislature. A recently stated at Home that are disposed of by French ladies Hongkong's birth rate was lower interested in the welfare of the Council, constituted from the two Henates, is to act as a than its death rate and that she workers. Madame Bielry is at link during the interim, and the Irish membership in the was ashamed of being a Britisher present in Hongkong, staying at Imperial House of Commons is fixed at 46 members. The in consequence, gave figures the Carlton Hotel, and through- matters reserved to the Imperial Parliament are armed which had no official origin. No out to-morrow and following days A propos of literary detection, the one seemed to know where that will hold an exhibition of summer allusion last week to the origin forces, fiscal policy, and foreign relations.
good lady secured her informa- dresses. She invites the ladies of of the lines with which Scott With these exceptions Ireland is given complete tion but the fact remains that Hongkong to call and inspect heads one of the chapters in autonomy, and if it be said that these exceptions mark an she was hopelessly astray on her them.
|"Old Mortality" did not carry the
By Robt. MacWhirter. We have previously important distinction from what has come to be called figures.
atory far enough. As stated, When are those blamed motors for Kowloon coming along? I In the fine production "In the verse had Dominion Government, it has to be remembered that, to a published an official disclaimer
appeared in want to give the Government due and ample warning that unless large extent they belong to the nature of the case, apart of the statement together with Search of a Sinner" now con- "The Bee," being there credited it gets a move on, private interests will step in and leave its fancy from the temper of Sinn Fein. Australia, Canada, and that the registered deaths might at the Coronet, that popular star ful research has failed to trace moment that when it comes to the question of getting around on explanation of how it is stituting the principal attraction to Major Mordaunt, but as care-scheme hanging in mid air. Our Government mustna' think for a South Africa, situated thousand of miles from the Mother easily exceed the registered comedienne Constance Tal-any such individual commenta the Peninsula that their's is the last word in locomotion. No, sir. Country, have armed forces of their own from necessity. births. After what was said at madge is seen in another appro- tors are inclined to infer that the Just glance over what was shoved into my hand only this morning. In regard to foreign relations they have no separate the Sanitary Board meeting the priate role. As the wife of a cold-signature is a picturesque nom-de- "We read that." Lit Tez” rode on the wings and this diplomatic representative. Canada's contemplated Em-people of this Colony can breathe blooded scientist, whose heart is plume employed by Scott, amply
manner of travelling has been described as being excellent. we also read that Un Fa practised flying and dancing bassy at Washington may be justified by geographical can rid their minds of a fear that as fossilised as the subjects of his justifying him in reproducing the
geological research, and whose verse without acknowledgment! with the good intention of prolonging his life. From this conditions; were Canada situated in the Irish Sea it is Hongkong should cause them
we know that travelling as a means of recreation and unlikely we should hear of such a project. The question shame. When Dr. Koch forwards vision of the beauty of things is This impression is rather streng
the cultivation of mind and body) ab Ꭵ . mode of fiscal status may allow some room for debate. Were his statement Home, as he pro-always seen through the chilly thened by the circumstance that
of living in retirement were not overlooked by the ancients and Talmadge gives the audience is so named. The lines certainly) that in order to protect and regulate our health it is most these obstacles surniounted, the trouble would be far from mised to do, we trust that there glasses of science, Constance a leading character in the novel will be as much publicity given to
the
vivid picture
necessary to exercise our muscles and respiratory organs. ring. Singularly, the
"Teim-sha-taui bas many miles of wide roads and affords less, which means severance. How this can be granted the assertion. Hongkong has
ample facilities for fast travelling, and one could there mora consistently with the safety of the Empire, we do not see. figured a little too prominently deavours to warm her husband composition is otherwise undis-
successfully slow down Or go fast than in Hongkong: where Supporters of the Irish Republic say that absolute in- of late as the home of all that is out of his chilly atmosphere of tinguished. But, then,
"goody-goodiness" by placing writers have their flat perioda. wheeled trafo is so congested. In view of the above the bad and wo desire to emphasise a temptations in his way. Out of
proprietor has established the dependence would produce a tranquil Ireland, which is a
point we formerly made that it is this uncongenial state of ma
Bicyc's Company- at Kowloon. Two routes are available, one is through Yaumati very large assumption indeed. The potential menacea pity that those who are trimonial life, there was left a Count Witte was a remarkable
to Hunghom and Kowloon, and one through Sha-tin to Tai-po would be there. Meanwhile, as to-day's lurid messages so zealous in finding fault should wild widow, who in search of man, and his "Momoirs," which and Fan-ling. Turn where you will, your wishes will never ehow, the tragedy proceeds und, with the attitude that has not be a little more just and tell the next conjugal partner was Heinemann announces, will be
fail to be gratifled. If your object is to free your mind and been adopted towards the Elections, confusion grows worse of some of the good that we do determined that the next man a remarkable book. It is based
please your sight there is nothing better than this. Moreover should be a sinner, a more interest-upon 西门 uncommonly trank confounded. A little while ago hope was held out that the
our bioyles are new in style and strongly built. Our Charges all uncommonly full ing subject than the lat-ly lamant-and meeting between Sir James Craig and Mr. De Valera might CHINESE CONSUL FOR BORNEO, ed professor.
are very moderate and we are ready to make, allowances in our The concluding diary which he kept all his
calculations of time. We wish good luck to all who travel. open an avenue to a settlement, possibly on the basis of
Li Fang-ah-lo has been ap-chapters of this story are very adventurone life; for, though he
by our bicycles. Those who are not yet convinced of what some approximation to Dominion Government. The pro-pointed" Consul-General for amusing, and will be found to be became a rulor of Russia, he was
we say are requested to give us a trial.”). blem calls more than ever for the forces of reason.
Borneo.
very acceptable by the audience, born in relative obscurity at the
a little more freely and Britishers
ing needle-women away from the bail conditions of the workshops and providing them with work in their own homes. This move- ment--" Le Travail au Foyer "---- has been carried on ever since and the dresses made, all of ex- collent design and workmanship,
while
You travel forward mile by mile, He loiters, with a backward
smile,
Till you can overtake; And strains his eyes to search
his wake
Or, whistling as he sees you
through the brake, Waits on a stile.
settled, for Sinn Fein demands & Republic and nothing the disclaimer as there was to temperamental woman who en- robust
of suggest something of Scott's;
many
His Lordship said if the note DRITISH-BUILT AIRSHIP
was put in by itself he would have to find that it was stamped FOR JAPAN,
after execution. Thero was the The first airship built in Great Britain for the Japanese Govern the Revenue officials had broken paper before him, and whether ment has been successfully laun- the law or not did not matter. ched at Barrow-in-Furness. The He could not assume that they airship, which belongs to the had kept the law. They had Sea Scout class, behaved splen-probably followed the law per didly on the trial light, which fectly, but the document by was made with several Japanese itself did show that it was officers ou board.
stamped after execution.
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