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THE HONGKONG

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, "JUNE 10, 1921.

THE STATE AS MILCH-COW.

TELEGRAPH:

NOTES & COMMENTS.

New Lighthouses.

FRIDAY: JUNE 10. 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

THE WORLD -YUST HAVE CHANGED INDEED, WHEN MEN WILL CHASE TO ASSOCIATE A GOVERNMENT WITH THE UNTO-

be made public. But that the Fifteen Chief Petty Officers and Government has this important 126 naval ratings arrived in the matter well in mind is proved by Colony to-day by the P. and D. the announcement we were en-Delta. abled to make yesterday that

to be added

THE BOOKSHELF.

(By “Librarian.”)

The

in

The Master of Peterhouse,

FOUND HIM IN HONGKONG."

Does to Anybody Know the Lady?.

A Philadelphia business mÀR

of Montreal, while on a Trans- pacific liner bound for the Far East. He says she pressed har attentions upon him so ardently table, and also his state-room.

gave

The Iste John Patrick, third Marquis of Bute, was supposed to be the original of Disqamii's hars "Lothair. How much was there in the belief? Sir David Hunter Blair has written, a The question of the improve- ment and development of HonE

THE PRICE OF BOOKS, memoir of the marquia, and in it tong's harbour has been on the

"Books are dear, like other be considers that point. Haro boards for a long time now and wARD EVENTS THAT OCCUR DUR-things, states a literary aritic in and original had the same singular has been chased half round the many people have been wonder ING ITS TIE-Judia Cartry. Home journal, implying that and solitary childhood, but that world, by ship, train and aaro ing when the report of Sir

prices have ascended on a similar is about all the resemblance he plane, by a love-sick girl. Her Maurice Fitzmaurice is going to

scala to that prevailing in can find between them. Lord Attentions annoyed him so that he had to appeal to the courts the case of the majority of articles. Bute's character underwent a for protection, kft. William Zinger This, I think, does not present notable evolution with the year first mot Miss Beatrice Herbert the position correctly. In the He was a man whose originality case of a new copyright, the cost of character and unusual intel- of a book in pre-war times was lectual gifts marked him out as a threa new lighthouses are going! Inspector Cashman, of the high to the man of a small purse, remarkable, if not conspicuous

the lighting ser-Horgkong Police, returned from cheap as it was when all that has igure of the later Victorian erabat he had to change his seat at vicas of the port The need of Home this morning by the 8.3 gone to the production of the For one thing, he was perhaps Improving the navigation lights Dalta:

work is remembered. Just con- the best amateur architect of his

On arriving in Japan he in and around Hongkong bas

sider the activities of author, day.

her the slip," but she found him been felt for some considerable

printar, bookbinder, and publisher,

in Hongkong, and followed him tims past, and there will be

and add the cost of paper. general satisfaction expressed

ratio of increase in price has been Cambridge, Sir Adolphus William to Honolulu, and eventually to Philadelphia. He appealed to the Novels moderate.

formerly Ward is occupied in collecting police, who arrested her, and she among the shipping community that modern equipment is to be

published at &s. have latterly been his papers and essays into a set

[was departed, with ordara, DOYAK at prices ranging of volumes. He has been writing to return to the United States. published installed at Tongku, Lan-tong Island and

the Channel Among the roany passengers up to but selcom, I think, beyond when he could, for sixty years, Dr. John Egan, a polies surgeon, Rocks. These are all points arriving in the Colony to-day by 93, so that the maximum rise and so he does not mean to print testified that he had examined of importance when it comes the ss. Dalta were Mr. and Mrs. may be put at 50 per cent. This everything, only selections. Two

her as to har annity, and found to barbouring a ship at night, Hay, Major G.J. Chapman, and is small when compared with the volumes of historical papers are that she was perfectly san both from the south and the Mr. H.B.L. Dowbiggin

advances in other directions. out, and two more now being that is, if anybody deeply in In regard to reprints the pro- printed contain essays on literary love can be called sana,” he added. corth, and that the work is to be put in baad almost immediately

portion of increase has been much subjects. Those subjects are of will give causo for added pleasure.

larger, but then there can have a wide range, for they begin been few things that offered such with Sir Philip Sidgey and of Erasmus, Anyhow, we shall a margin for increase of price. Shakespeare and come down to be told about it in a short history A bookcase in Loudon (which I Mrs. Gaskell and Dickens. of Cambridge University Press, felt reluctantly compelled to leave Millon, Dryden, Swit. Pope, and which is being prepared. behind me contains this little Goethe, are other great writers series:

од "Reflections

the on whom the Master of Petar- The Spanish Foreign Minister, French Revolution," "Life of house has had something to say. the Marques de Lems, has

lectura on "Spain Since 1915**

with A propos the Master of Peter-appearing

Cambridge house, Cambridge will this year University Press. celebrate the four hundredth

about.

We are in receipt of several ingenious desk blotters from the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condens- ed Milk Company.

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the

500 -now,

think

mark

Past and Present," And Lilies," and

There you

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Yesterday's Health Return In view of the fact that the shows three cases of plague (two Government has not increased its fatal): one imported case of shipping dues fin response to an cholera; one small-pox (fatal); sural from the mercantile com- one paratyphoid and one import unity) this work of improvement All the sufferers were Chinese.

ed case of cerebro-spinat fever. will at least give the assurance that its policy towards the ship- ping that enters and leaves the

Our Shanghai correspondent Nelson," Port is not ose of niggardliness. wires us that the mutiny is "Sesame In the more important matter of spreading to Wucheng and that "Eathen." improving the harbour's facilities Hackow is endangered according bistory, it would be encouraging if the to telegrams from foreign firms. philosophy, ethics, and travel anniversary of Cambridge print- "With the Battle Cruisers,” official silence that has been Thirteen American destroyers For this collection of the united ing. It was," wrote Thomas Filson Young's book of the sea- Two reports wafted across the wires from Home maintained since Sir Maurice's have arrived at Shanghai, and genuis of Burke, Southes. Carlyle Fuller, great while before war, is just coming out with

Wilmington has left for Ruskin, and Kinglake what do Cambridge could find out the Cassell. We use the word in no alarmist visit could be broken and a de-the apprise us of a crisis.

Brand I paid?

right toact of priating." wharves, dredging, etc, are mat- sense, grave as the situation is: what we refer to is the finite plan outlined. More public Hankow.

you, tastefully and perhaps this was why this Dr. Estlin Car-enter's Hibbert fact that the authorities find themselves compelled to ters that should have come within

nay beautifully, bound in stroas, sister University of Oxford got Lectures of 119 are being Four Chinese were charged neat cloth, with artistic latter nearly a century ahead of her published by Williams and acknowledge publicly that the time has arrived when a such a report of that kind, but limit must be placed upon the commitments of the State, we have as yet heard nothing of before Mr. Orme this morning and clearis printed on very fair Bet," adds Fuller.one Sibert, Norgate, ander the title Theism

being in possession of what in these days would be University Printer, improved the in Medieval Indis." even though it means the abrogation of existing statutes. them. How much better would with The Unemployment Insurance Act is to be amended so as it be if we had some definite prepared opium. false opium consid-zed very good) pspet: mystery to perfection" By Sibert

The They have stood a dozen years he meant Lair John of Siegburgh. | "A Painter in Palestine," by house where this was found was year, and look almost as on the commonly known as John Siberch. Mr. Donald Maxwell; who is to reduce allowances and increase contributions, and the hopes of seeing those things come labels and opium dress.

5, Wellington Street The first day I purchased them. The Agriculture (Price of Wheat) Act passed last year is to be

who began to print at Cambridge artist and author, is to appear defendant was fined $250 and the total cost was half-a-crowo!| repealed after this season's harvest. It is no uncommon Gymkhana Improvement.

others $5 each.

(Nelson's Standard Series). That in 1521, probably at the invitation with John Lane. thing for a measure to be rejected on the score of the cost

So popular are the gymkhana

means barely one dollar at the being excessive; but we cannot readily call to mind an meetings proving this year that The official water return issued exchange of the moment, and instance in which the British Government has abrogated athe Hongkong Jockey Club has on June 1st shows that, with only less than half a dollar at the measure actually on the Statute-Book on the ground that already announced an extra meet-one exception, the reservoirs level of fifteen months ago; 80 it entails expenditure in excess of the State's resources.ing, which will be held at Happy in the Colony were full to over-that I obtained this series of

By Robt. MacWhirter. The conditions are, of course, exceptional, and, though it is Valley on Saturday, June 25th.flowing. On the Hongkong side masterpieces for the cost of 987, practically inevitable that there will be an outburst of Following last Saturday's event a there were 2,117 670.000 gallons the briefest visit to the buffet.

reader forwarded us an open of water stored and on the Kow- These volumes, are, I think, to My friend the Librarian who If you dinna' get flashes of your criticism, especially from Labour, the course adopted latter complaining of some of the loon side 352.500.000 gallons. day priced at 1s. 6d, or 1s. Id. so are officiates at the top of this self in Peter you must have been follows the dictates of prudence.

arrangements, and it was pleas- Not much fear of going.thirsty! that they show an advance of page on Friday, turned me over a queer boy indeed. Of course 200 or 250 per cent. With the a book about a month ago. His the Dominie gets a bit pedagogic Only a few days ago it was reported that the tag to receive, subsequently, a

shilling reprints, retailed now at plea was a simple one. He aye at times, and the scholastic bee Mr. Orme this morning unemployed totalled the appalling figure of 2250,000, in letter from the Secretary of the

29. perhaps 2s. 6d. the ratio of in-found it irksome reading wi' a buzzes in his bonnet, but ya've addition to which many workers are on short-time. Now Gymkhanas promising that the

matters would be given all the fined a Chinese $30 for being

crease has been smaller.

glossary and as he'd only once just got to thole that. Money possession of Four

pota either case, are not the volumes been in Scotland, at a football sometimes buys a lot more than at 21s. per week for men and 15s for women. with an attention possible. That is the in

still cheap. absurdly cheap? If match, would I mind? I did not ye want bat ye've just got to take allowance for children, it is easy to form an estimate of spirit that makes for success of illicit opium bearing

that the labels of the Hongkong Govern it were certain that the works the more especially since the the thick along wi' the lean. One of the cables and

feel sure We what the disbursements must amount to. to hand yesterday morning gives more precise information, as general public will appreciate rent.

be delighted to see them latest from the pen of A. S. Neil that ye aye prize a book ye buy

at sale Committee in trying to cater pro-seized the opium,

sixpence, Or at (Dominie, we call him) and was yourself much before the cumsha also charged in ment benefit to the tube of £2,000,000 weekly. This is at perly for their wishes. The pari- Chinese were

penny. As it is there is alluringly (to a Scotsman) named kind. That's one of the reasons. risk that. with sach books Carrots Broon." I forget the why I aye had a dead set against the rate of £104,000,000 per annum. which is over 5 per matusl arrangements are certain- connection, with this and were

abtainable for the cost of a small publishers name now far unfor- free libraries. cent. more than the entire Budget for the last pre-warly capable of much improvement.

packet of cigarettes, indifferent giveable thing a reviewer, I year. When the Act was launched in 1911, the cost to the To buy a ticket is have to go

brough the mill of a pushing, A shopkeeper at 533. Shanghai purchasers would be found using suppose) but MacPherson got country was, by comparison, the merest bagatelle The jostling crowd and to cash a Street, reports that at 10.15 p.m. the masterpieces of literature to the loan of it and that means payments were originally 3d. weekly from employers, 4d. ticket is to endure something of last nigh: while he and his foki stu up holes, as Torms was I've a dull chance of ever clap from male workers and 3d. from female workers, and 2d. the same thing, with a longer were having their meal in the wont to use surplus tins of bully-ping eyes on it again.

But this is shop four men entered, three of beef for plastering cracks in his I don't wonder at our English from the State-in short, Mr. Lloyd George's famous wait in the bargain. "ninepence for fourpence. And the scheme worked a matter that does not apply to them being armed with revolvers dug-out. With bread at a higher critic belonging topside jibing gymkanas only. It applies with and one with a knife. Two of the price than was charged during at the business, for the Dominie swimmingly until a year or two ago. The surplus very much greater force to Race robbers covered the inmates of the Hungry Forties, I can under calls a spade & spade, dung is built up by the Approved Societies was augmented Meetings, and those who went the shop while the other two stand the era of dear food: the dung and breeks are breeks. As during the war few needed to draw employment through the "scrums" of last ransacked the place and succeeded complaint of dear books" does pay then; and, despite the rapid pace of demobilisa- February will well remember the in stealing $57. tion, the insurance fund was adequate to the strain fight it was to have a flutter. The truth of the matter is that of the earlier stages of the post-war period. for the the general accommodation is

A well-attended whist drive trade boom, which

Coutoo small, but when that inade- was held at the Catholic Men's pent-up demand produced a

left Club last evening. There were tinued into the opening months of last year. Then the quate accommodation is slump appeared. aggravated by the coal strike in the without any kind of organisation 145 players present and the foll- autumn, and. with the renewal of the latter on April the position is made a very great swing were the prize-winners: about to publish "The Autobio- for reading such worthies as words that you have maybe deal worse. Couldn't we have a Ladies. 1 Mrs. Pile (168); 2 Mrs. gaphy of an Indian Princess," the Shakespeare, Addison, Swift and never seen in print before, and 1. came the deluge, transforming the situation. We do not little better system by the time Sandford (166): 3 Mrs. Palmer Dowager Maharani of Cooch the like (Janet says that kind maybe havena heard since you now attempt the complicated task of apportioning blame: the next meeting comes round? (165); Booby Prize, Miss Lamar- Behar. Probably no other Indian go better wit the day if I wunua were a laddie-words that have tremendously ton (135). Mea, 1 Mr. Blansden lady of high degree has had her read the Good Book) but last a flavour of their own and a we are simply stating the facts. With the enormous It

(177); 2 Mr. Deer (176); 3 Mr. varied life and her experience of Sabbath day I got started on hundred associations.

Carroty Broon" and the others But my space is wearin' awÀY numbers coming on the fund. and the increased allowances. appreciated.

Farrell (174); 4 Mr. Townsend the world. Her father was a also the cancellation of the two years' qualifying period:

(174): Booby Prize, Mr. Smith famous leader of Indian thought, were non-starters for it managed so I most content myself wi for the maximum benefit, the Government finds the charge Winston Again.

(133). Mr. Pinches performed the and her husband one of the best to take up all my spare time till just one quotation. Winston is on the stomp again, duties of M.C., and the prizes known and most popular Indian bedtime. Janet's idea and toine prohibitive, while the societies, though having a smaller

late." 'a Sunday. share of the burden to shoulder, are declared to be and the speech he gave at were presented by Mr. R.W. Princes. Those credentials enable about bedtime

her to speak for India, and then differs. She says it's hardly insolvent. The workers' contributions have remained Manchester found him in the role

sbe has much to say of the kind-worth my while rising for meals of an ardent peace-maker. His

ness of Queen Victoria and the-but my wife's sometimes in. stationary and the employers' almost so

slogan was co-operate." He first To-morrow's Camera News will Royal Family to her when she clined to exaggeration, so we'll With respect to the Agriculture Act. which excited of all declared that to secure a contain the following photo, visited England. Her life links let it pass. considerable opposition during its passage through lasting peace we must have an graphs: A recent photograph of East and West, and, Kipling's As I was saying about "Car- Parliament on account of its alleged Protective tendency, Anglo-France-German co-opera- H. E. The Governor together line notwithstanding, she makes roty," the Dominie's success as it may be doubted whether this would have entailed any tion: we could only have peace with his Aides; the Baxter them meet.

The Revenue Officers

Two other

we are told that the Government has been paying unemplo«.the efforts of the Gymkhanaraided 166. Hollywood Road, and ware always treasured, one would volume under discussion was the Talking about that reminds me.

would

be

fined $3.

Brown.

the

large liability at present, seeing that the market, although with Ireland provided there was Farmer wedding group;

unity and co-operation; the dancers at the recent Fancy

The Dominiae is at his best

telling the tale of Peter's loves.

Love came upon Peter wi devastating saddenness. To fall

in love wit a lassie when you're bathing her for calling you "Carroty Broon" is evidence, if such were needed, that Cupid, lika influenza, is a malady some times very quick in the onset consequence I'm greatly The beloved (and belaboured) one not stand in the same category, tempted to act up to his example was called Lizzie Mackenzie, and All the same. it is gretifying to and describe this new book as when Liz began to love in returu, bear that the situation

isdawmt fine" only I know such Peter behaved with appropriate gradually easing.

an expression is entirely out of gawkishness. order in a place like this.

Quite the best of the book is I generally set aside Sundays the vocabulary. You encounter

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a writer is mostly due to his knowledge of children. This will be best appreciated by those it has fallen from peak prices, seems likely to continue for League of Nations would be fatile Dress Ball at the Seamen's In- Colonel John Hay, when he was who were once bairus themselves. some time to realise the guarantee figure. The repeal of without real co-operation between stitute; portrait of the late Mr. American Ambassador in was Lots of folk unfortunately never Chang Kai, ("Mae food of quoting Johnson's remark, had a childhood, if I'm a judge the measure is, one surmises, a provision against contin- the great Powers of the world; in Wan gencies. While the price continues to reach the guarantee fact bis utterance was one great Cheong"); wreath laid at the London. "He who is tired of of their grown-up carry-ons. mark, the question of the agricultural labourer's standard and glorious appeal for co opera- London Centotaph in the name London is tired of life." London- That kind should leave Mr. tion as the panacea of the world's of Hongkong and other Easterners who read books do not tire of Neill alone; he would be sure to wage, to secure which was one of the purposes of the Act, ulls. So it might be, but getting and Pacific Colonies and several reading about London, as witness hurt them. For us that were will not, apparently, arise. If the price does fall below up in Manchester and making snaps taken at the King's Birth- the success of Mr. Walter G. kids once, and, despite bald heads Parade on the Cricket Bell's recent history of the and stiffening joints, try to delade the standard. it is to be feared that there may be more fine phrases on the theme and day"

with a beautiful Ground.

Great Fire. Eucouraged by ourselves that we are bairos yet. Labour difficulties, though, remembering, wheat prices in winding up

the welcome given to that book, Carroty Broon" is a book to be is engaged on two more, which read, revel in and recommend. to act with some liberality. In regard to the amended friend Mr. Churchill is hardly one

will appear from the Bodley Head. There are Fater Broons. In insurance conditions, it is inevitable that these will entail which gives him the fitness to Nevertheless, we find much on One may be described as essays every toun and village in broad Bone hardship. One can only hope that the change will be make a speech in that strain and which all of us can agree with on little-known treasures of the Scotland. Peter isus an in- To place there will possibly be little atten- Mr. Churchill and we hope that capital. The other is a volume on dividual but a type and as you a factor in the avoidance of precipitate strikes. some limitation upon the State's responsibilities as milch-tion paid to is by the people the influence of his remarks will the Tower, describing the growth follow him in his adventures you outside of Britain whom it was be greater than his personality and purpose of the old fortress cannot help feeling that you are obviously, hopêd to impress. entitles them to..

and its asociations generally, living your own boyhood again. cow was imperative.

late years, one would judge that farmers are in a position peroration won't help matters very much. The record of our

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Hurry up mother; I'll be

Mrs. Broom was sewing button on Peter's trousers, and she looked at bim quickly,

Lo'd laddie," she said, "what's come ow'er ye? It's no often that you're in a hurry to get to the kirk."*

The bells bas starfed," said Peter, reddening.

"Hot" said Beta (bis sister), and looked at him keenly.

Peter looked the other way“ and frowned.

"I ken!" said Bats teasingly. "Na, ye dians," said Peter.

"It's Liz Mackenzie.ye want. to see. Abs!" Anger leapt to' Peter's eyes. "L'z Mackenzi he cried in scorn. "Líz Mac- kenzia; 1 wulna hae her if she was to give me a million pounds.. Besides, Liz Mackenzie is com

"Laddies that has to a'and In their sark while their wither blends, their breeks has little pued to speak about bein com mon," said his mother shortfys

bastily.

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