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"The Wine

of Kings

The King of Wines

CHAMPAGNE

De St. Marceaux, Vin Brut

or Veory Dry Vintage 1911.

SOLE AGENTS

THE HONGKONG

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Departmental Spendings.

FLEGRAPH.

MONDAY: "MAY 30, 1921.

DẠY UY ĐẦY.

ANOTHER BIG BUILDING.

THE GYMKHANA.

THOUGHT GROWS · MOULDY. WHAT WAS GOOD AND NOURISH-

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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,

tors.

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.partments could have been part of the motorman, a serious Virginis, where be committed central garage

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

HONGKONG.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telepoane: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union. Office address: 11, Ice House Street.

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Messrs.

INTIMIDATION AND ASSAULT.

Handicap Details.

The following handicaps have been fixed for Saturday's Gymk- bana

Organ Recital.

When Goldwin Smith held the Former Cinema Site to be On Saturday we published a

Used. brief statement regarding the NG FOOD FOR THE SPIRITS OF Chair of Constitutional History at Colony's finances, called from the ONE GENERATION, AFFORDS NO Cornell one of his colleagues creat.

SUSTENANCE FOR THE NEXTed a sensation even more thrilling Work has just been put in hand details given in the latest issna of į Hactkorne,

than that reported from Syracuse, for the construction of the big ford 162 the, Hongkong Chief 158

14 Mile Handicap,-Jawisy the Go xnment Gazelle, from

USA, where one University building which is to occupy the be, Miserrimus Doleful 156 Ba which it appeared that at the sad

professor abos another and site of the former Vistoria Cinema, of February the Government's

Three deaths öccurred amongst then committed suicide,

"Wo

Flywheel 154 lbs., Balaharia 154 balance of assets was larger than Chinesa passangers of the Blue had the counterpart of Eugene

(near the Central Market. at the beginning of that month Funnel liner Talthybius during Aram at Cornell" says Gold wis plans reveals that the structure Neston 150 lbs., Leighton 150 lbs. A glance at the architect's be. St. Anthony 153 lbs., Tiddley- winks 153 lbs., Harlequin 153 I, That was satisfactory news, the trip from Vancouver.

Smith in his Reminisences," in was to have been s skyscraper. Forest Child 150 lbs. Siamese Cat one way, but a study of the de-

the person of Ruloff, who combin-but the Public Warka Dapartment tailed statement of revenue and expenditure shows that the The health report for Saturday ed in a remarkable way criminal has limited the ballding to that of 150 lbs. Beggar King 150 lbe.

This five-storey

Carpenter 148 lbs., Lighting 147 Government is still spending con- shows that there were two cases propensities with literary rastas, five storeys.

One was fatal being a great philologist and building will be divided into five lbs., The Ameer 147 be. Kandy siderably more than it did last of small-pox." year. Curiously enough, the Otherwise, there was a clean bill engaged in the invention of a sections, and built of reinforced Chief 147 lbs. Spoilt Child 145 lbs., Savernake 145 lbs. Tuckshop universal language. Ruld com-concrete, for Government's revenue is showing of health.

mitted a series of robberies and Brossard and Mopin, reinforced 145 lbs., Quo Vadis 145 lbs. an increase this year under every

murders, the latter beginning with concrete experts, are the contrac-dale 164 lbs, Jawleyford 164 lbs. A Class Handicap-Scamper- heading (with the solitary Whilst negotiating a curve at his own wife and daughter. On

When completed the exception of Internal Taxation, Kennedy Town on Saturday that occasion he escaped justice structure will have the distinc Charing Cross 1571b, St.Anthony which includes the opium afternoon a tram akidded out of through the absence of a corpus tion of being the first big rein 157 lba. Flywheel 156 lbs., Sep monopoly and оде

would its tracks. Had it not been for delicti, Lake Cayuga, into which forced concralia building to be tember roon 155 lbs, Bolshevic- have thought that the administra- the prompt and skilful manipula he had thrown the bodies, being erected

135 lbs. Tiddleywinks 154 lbs., in Hongkong. The tion of the Government's various tion of the driving gear on the undredgable. He wandared into ground door is designed for a

Marrysand 159 lbs., Ardalan 150 Iba, Forest Child 150 lbs., Light- and European kept down to the cost entailed accident would bara ensued. The other crimes, all the time working shops, and the upper floors for ing 148 lbs., Neston 148 lbs., Beg- last year. But we find that tramcar was soon put back on the at philologs. Returning to his business requirements.

gar King 146 lbs. taking the first two months of this rails.

B. Class Handicap-Harlequin old baunts, he again robbed and The work, which is expected to year and comparing them with

murdered, and again fell into the take over a year to complete, is 160 lbs. Miserrimus Doleful 160 the first two months of last year' that increased expenditure has To-day being Decorations Day, hands of justice. The opponents now being carried on under the lbs. Leighton 157 lbs., Frome 135 been needed by the following long a representative group of members of capital punishment pleaded supervision of Mr. A. J. Cotton, ba.. Stanley Chief 154 lbs., Re- list of Departments Audit Deof the local American community, against his execution on the stock reinforced concrete export, for pulse Bay Chief-153 lbs., Dandy partment, Treasury, Harbour beaded by a representative of the plea of insanity and on the some merly of Eagles Cement Yard, Child 152 lbs., Red Bird 150 lbs, Master's Department, Imports American Consul-General, visited what inconsistant ground that he England, and at present engaged Dunspot 150 Ibe.. Tweedledum and Exports, Royal Observatory, the cemetortes at Happy Valley had invented a universal lang by Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, the 150 lbs., Mystic Dahlia 150 lbs. Birdshop 148 tbs, Quo Vadis 148 Miscellaneous Services, Judicial this morning and laid wreathes age and that by hanging him a owner of the site.

lbs, Coal King 143 lbs., Spoilt and Legal Departments, Police on the graves of some forty light of science would be put out.

Child 148 lbs., Shooting Star 148 and Fire Brigade, Prison Depart-American sailors and civilisus The Governor of the State issued

lbs. Savernake 147 lbs., King ment. Education Department. who are buried there. Many of two Commissions of Inquiry, one

Harry 147 lbs., By Jingo 146 lbs., Public Works Department, Public the floral tributes were of beauti-to report on each plea. Both re-

Siamese Cat (Scr.). Works Recurrent, Post Office, fal design, one being in the form ported in the negative and Ruloff

was banged." PENTREATH.-At Pasadena, Cal. on the 24th May 1921, to Kowloon-Canton Railway. Pan- of the Star and Stripes.

sions, and Charitable Ser- Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pentreatb, a daughter.

As present-day politicians shift Members of Labour Guild vices. Practically the whole of

The corswain of the sleam the Government Departments

na future Chancellor of Police that while on the 27th he Exchequer is likely to top the HARDWICK-At the Government Civil Hospital, on Mar are spending more money. And launch Yau Lee reparts to the so frequently from post to post

is noteworthy thatunder the head.

Wu Shia-bung. Yeung See and 30, Walter J. Hardwirk, aged 17 years. - Funeral will pass the ing of Public Works Extraordin- was returning from Canton to record af Nicholas Vansittart

arg, on which we were going to Hongkong he met with bad afterwards Lord Bexley), who fill Lo Chiu-ting, members of the weather. So he anchored sted that office from 1812-1822 and Guild of Saltfish Dealers and their Friday spend so much, one of the Shakok, in the Taiping district, during that time fathered eleven Employees, were charge on Satur-

few leconomies is shown. We first two spent during the

Chinese waters. On the 28th, Budgets. Mr. Lloyd George mand at the Magistracy on Satur. 3.-Jerusalem, thon that killest

day with threatening the foki of a introduced seren consecutive months of this year $1,933,502 as against $1,669,939 for the first her substitute engineer Budgets. Lord S: Aldwyn could saltfish shop with a view to iaduc two months of last year; and accidentally fall overboard. His claim an equal number, and ing him to join the Guild, with as- Goschen six; whilst Lord Ranaulting him sad with disorderly that without any of the big works body has not been recovered,

the behaviour. enjoys dolph Churchill of improvement foreshadowed

Mr M. K. Lo appeared for the when the Budget was introduced.

A Chinese, who was charged distinction of being the only Economy Needed.

before Mr. R. E. Lindsell for Chancellor of the Exchequer who prosecution and Me F. C. Jenkin

introduced & Budget for the defence. being in possession of 1,016) never

It was alleged that defendants When the Hon. Mr. Claud datiable cigarettes: failed to pro-During his longest spall of office Severa (who was then Officer duce a witness that he said he Gladstone was responsible for went to the Tak Chrong saltfish Administering the Government) wished to call. This morning he only five consecutive Budgets, but shop, where complainant was em. spoke in the Council Chamber was fined $100 or six weeks' hard his aggregate (13) exceeds that of plosed, on May 21ak, dragged him recently in answer to accusa labour. The Magistrate remark any other Chancellor. During out of the shop and after giving

extravagance made ed: "You are guilty."No Disraell's three terms as Chan-him severe beating, were taking to prove that the hatchet was the agains: the Governmeal, be doubt," said the defendant, Icellor of the Exchequer he in-him to their Guild when they were property of the Tak Cheong shop, seam guilty, but your worship will troduced only three Eadgets, the intercepted by a District Watch and that the first two defendants

Police Station. Stuck in com- on the way to the Station. A series of conferences regarding China's railway economise apart from relinquish see your way to deal with me first of which was thrown out by man, he too cold parties to the were merels holding complainant

leniently."

a majority of 19, whereupon

At the conclusion of the evidence services was held at Peking during the earlier part of this ing some of its schemes of

Ruskin wrote a characteristic plainant's girdle when in the

was found a rusty Mr Lo asked his Worship to take letter: "Disraeli's works give me charge room month, and while no jump in development could be development under the heading

announce the the idea of his being a coxcomb, hatchet alleged by defendante to a serious view of the case because recorded the tendency was in the direction of progress of Public Works Extraordinary. We regret to The assembly, held under the auspices of the Ministry of We think that it can reasonably death of Mr. Walter Marginson, but clever; only the last person fit have been taken by complainant his client was up against a power. Mr Orme said he believed the could be effected in a great many Jardine, Matheso0 & Communications, consisted of the Third General Traffic, the be suggested now the economies & member of the staff of Messrs, to make a Chancellor of the Ex-from his shop with the intention of fal organisation.

Co.'s chequer. Perhaps

was using it on them.

Mr Jenkin called several wit-third accused was in charge of the Ninth Domestic Conference, and the Second Train Opera of our Government Departments machinery department; at Shang-worse. I think it is very likely

Deises to prove tbet third other defendants in the Tak Cheong ting Conference, and was attended by the engineers-in-chief. The cost of routine administra-hai, who passed away on the 24th there may go as much brains to defendant did

accompany shop, but his part in the disturb. Of concrete results tion is steadily growing to a point inst. at the General Hospital. write a bad covel as to make a

delerdanta to

the ance

was small, he discharged traffic managers, and other officials.

Tak Cheong, shop but went to him. He sentenced the other de from the existing railways probably the most noteworthy where a little departmental pran-The cause of death was typhoid very good politician, in the modern the other

ing would we think, be produc- Fever. Mr. Marginson, who was sense of the word."

the Station after the trouble. fandants to one month's hard la- has been the growth of traffic consequent upon through tive of economy without the loss only 34 years of age, had been in

Mr Jenkin also adduced evidence our escb. services. In 1915 there were 144,837 passengers using the of efficiency. Within the past Shangbai but a few

The Oxford University Press Government lines, producing a revenue of $1,085.000. In few days we have bad news from arriving in September last. He

Government tearess wife and son, now in Eng-word-zyl-has been typed announces that the very last 1920 the passengers had increased to 194,759 and revenue Home that all to $2,30-2000. In regard to goods traffic, the increase was Departments, there have been land, for whom much sympathy for the New English Dictionary. larger, advancing to $4.847,000, being four and a half times ged to cut down expenditure to will be felt. the revenue of the earlier period.

Deaths.

monament at 5 p.m. to-morrow.

REIS-Died at the Government Civil Hospital an evening, P. A. Reis. Funeral took place on Saturday.

The Hongkong Telegraph

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1921.

CHINA'S RAILWAYS.

standardisation easier.

and

tions of

it

stazed he feiled to where the Government could

the lowest possible minimum,

and, whilst we recognise there is

while the launch was anchored

months,

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Wood

the

so it is hoped to publish the con- cluding volume about two years On Saturday evening at the heace. The complete work will not the same urgent need to be Theatre Royal in the presence of a comprise ten volumes, with a concluded -his yes Sir James Murray's original

the routing work of our GoveraMischa

for the Government to examine

THE TWO VIEWS.

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The following is the programMMS of the Organ Recital to be given John's Cathedral this (Monday) evening at 9.15 p.m.

1. Introduction and Allegro

Guilmant 2.-Vision ... Rheinberger

Mendelssohn

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Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith 4-The Garden of Iram

R. S. Stoughton 5.-Isla of

Waters the

Eric Costes 6-Ye who now sorrow, Brahma

Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith Irish 7.-An

Phantasy W. Wolstenholme.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

Last night I came home tired. drooned and then where'll-yo be,

more. The ever

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These figures, showing advances of 120 per cent. per cent, respectively, are certainly encouraging as far so careful here, we do feel that large and appreciative gathering, supplementary volume to follow; I wanted my dinner, a peg and think ye? What's more fotbre as they go. yet they can represent but a fraction of the ment departments should be rug season here. The recital was estimate of three volomes was then to bed. Trüs I had nothing if there's a rust mark on your margin for potential expansion. Still, considering the as economically as possible. 1fmarked by the brilliance of the considered excessive at the time written for this corner bat last trousers of a week day ya gang night I didn't want to write to your work wi' a face that the unsettled conditions that have prevailed during the we are going to have develop famous violinist's work and the he made it. This was when he I didna' care a curse if I wrote wad spaen a foal but on the period, the progress is a feather in the cap of the Ministry ment we must expect to pay for enthusiasm of the audience. En was an assistant master at Mill

ewall of Sabbath day ye come through of Communication and of Yel Kung-cho. the Minister it but for the Government to cores were vigorously demanded Hill School and Alexander Mac-

a raidden and bits o' bait hing- who had the foresight to perceive the need of copying the end more on matters that can and the concert was a fitting con-millan approached him on behalf my back was one dull ache, my the streets wi' you're clathes like West in the adoption of through traffic. The address these times of the high cost of music lovers of Hongkong one of as a likely person to edit a diction red mass and considering the ing frae your elbows and nothing

give us no development is inclusion to a stay that has given of Harper, the American publisher. /arms from the elbows down were delivered by Mr. Yel to the Train-Operating netion of the my I Deil the bast. Still Conference emphasised the need of further co-ordination, proceeding breathing very little Mischs Elman, Arthur Loesser consulted Dr. Furnival, who had feared to think of the Gillette more of Janet,

in the morning. Did I get ony And ye should have been at without which, as he pertinently indicated, the scope of encouragement, indeed. We have (his talented accompr.cist) and a mass of material gathered for a

the kirk the day, anyway. You had new taxes imposed to make Mr. A. Strok (under whose, man-dictionary projected

by the sympathy? I did not. assistance which the railways can give in the prosperity of up the deficit on the

opium agement the tour is being con- Philological Society, but which day in a boat and rick my back it into you graceless loons ram- I could go and sit the live long preacher in the forencon rubbed the country will be very limited. Even in such elementary revenue and we want no more ducted) left for Singapore to-day. had languisbed for want of a bat if it were to sit still, even for an paging about the place on the precautions as signals, there is a large diversity of systems. iast now. One of the best ways to

publisher, and between them they hour, in the kirk for my own good Sabbath instead of taking som. In this relation the comparatively small mileage that avoid any further burden would be

Yesterday was the faust of planned an exhaustive dictionary

that would be awer much word and that he did. And lots Chinese railways have attained is an advantage, renderin its own departmental spendings. Corpus Christi. At the Cathedral three volumes. Harper said and as an example to my family munion once in a while. My

By great this was too much. of the Immaculate Conception efforts Murray

more to some o' you newspaper reduced his to ask. Thus Janet. The Ministry of Communications is one of the few de-

No' she hadaa ony vaseline. folk that think they ken the Pontifical Mass was officiated by partments of the Chinese Administration to have achieved Mr. John Hays Hammond, in a the Rt. Rev. Bishop Fozzoni with estimate to two volumes, and even I could get tast, where I got my fack of athing. I'll warrant he an appreciable measure of success. Considering the paper read before the American the assistance of full clergy. The so, after mature consideration, fish. And what kind of fish were made their ears dirl You that

pages of bis specimen obstacles, financial and political, the Ministry's policy may Academy of Political and Social main altar, where the Blessed Harper cried off. Murray then they onyway? She had seen prides yourself on your common- bigger catafish, Aye, I could sense! I've seen a cuddy wi be justly described as progressive, and the results obtained Science at Philadelphia, stated Sacrament was exposed for public dictionary to the Philologicgrunt and groan but she'd bet mair. Ye ought to think black-

Society. with the result that

there wasna a squeal out of my burning shame on yourselves, On the present restricted scale ought to give China's that disarmament would be the adoration during the day, was

height of folly in the present magnificently decorated

interest in the project revived, and head sitting there a day like a "the whole pack of ye. I dinas'. governors and China's people a lively conception of what a status of international relations, drapery and flowers. In the even in 1878 the Oxford delegates agreed Budha wi' the belly-ache and no ken what the world's coming to. beneficent institution an adequate railway system would unless all the principal powers ing a grand procession toured the

I was sleeping before the end provide. China's railway mileage amounts to only about a agreed to disarm simultaneously Church compound accompanied to publish it under his editorship. decent bite nor sup atween my

lips from morn till night. If the of the recital Janet was as Royally, both British and for-boy cooked a potato on the hars short as a biscuit this morning seventh of Britain's, while, if we take a country whose He said that disarmament could by the Philarmonica Band: there

be affected by a straighforward was a large attendance. area is comparable to that of China, we find that the and unequivocal message from the marrow being the last day consign, have a personal interest in side through the week there wad and left me to look out my own United States have over forty miles of line to every single U. 9. government to England and secrated to the Blessed Virgin the closing down of Osborne nothing but black looks the next clothes and see to the waistcost line possessed by the Republic of eastern Asia. This Japan. An internationel agree Mary during the whole of this as a naval cadat school. It was day but I can eat like a navvy buttons myself. That I didns" worth it. But I wish yon par800 Colony's line Canton-wards is handicapped by the relative ment to reduce armaments would month, a Solemn High Mass will opened by King Edward nearly on the Sunday and let on I liked mind. Yesterday's ploy WAS

Derve of bellicose be celebrated by the Rector of the 18 years ago, and Queen Alex-it. More of Janet.

Ye promised to take wee hadna been so far left to himself. stagnation of China's railways. As we pointed out the cut the

militarism," said Prof. Schur-Cathedral, and in the evening the andra has continued the interest other day when commenting upon the result of the year's mac, former president of Cornell beautiful statue of the Immaculate which the late King took in the Jeanie to the Botanical Gardens Getting folks together in a kirk working, a substantial rise in receipts is dependent upon University and Minister-dee- Conception will be carried ia pro- establishment. Both King George on Sunday to see the gold fish and then telling them off and the extension of the Chinese end of the service. Announce-ignate to China, declared. He cession, at 5.45 p.m. The Rev and Queen Mary have also been and before she's got her eyes using the pulpit as a safety valve urents have appeared lately that certain lines have been said one of the most baneful Father Jayne Martins, the Vice closely identified with Osborne open on the morning ye were out to ease bis injured feelings ins decided upon, but a marked forward movement appears to results of big armaments was to Rector of St. Joseph's College of College, for three of their sons, of the house like a buzzer in a playing the game. If I were the the Blessed York, and Prince George received lane. Some o' they day's ye'll now Pastoral Staff. A poke in hinge upon a rational understanding between the Chinese keep people thinking about war Macao, will preach prior to the the Prince of Wales, the Duke of fit, leaving her to cry her lee Bishop I think I'd han'sal yon

as the only means of settling Benediction of

their early naval training there. In oot o' you boat and get the slats wouldns' come amiss, authorities and the New Consortium.

international disputes,.

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