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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

The Kowloon Buses.

MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1921.

DAY BY DAY..

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

In it generally known, asku a⠀ correspondent in a Home Journal, | that the house in which Napoleon lived at St. Halann was built in

A BULLYING. SCOUNDRELA

⠀ Smart Sentence For

Assaulting A Girl.

BROKEN CONTRACTS.

Judgment Against Chinese

Arising bit of branches of contract with regard, to the salo fore His Honour Mr. Justice of gunny bags, two cases oste

Gomperts in the Supreme Court, this morning, with the Took Chan firm as defendants. The plaintiff in the first case was H.M.H. Nomaree and the amount alsimed way $3,929.55.

and

THE ARTIST IS HE WHOSTRIVES The news which was published TO PERFECT HIS WORK; THE STRIVES TO GET on Saturday that the Govenman) | ARTISAN has turned down the schame of THROUGH IT—W, Gannett, motor buses for Kowloon--the

Branded by the Magistrata as E.RA. scheme-must hav8 - 00- The health return for Saturday sections at the Woolwich work- a bullying scoundrel, a young casioned a good deal of surprise.shows that there were two cases shops, and then shipped out to the carpenter was charged, before Everybody thought it was all a of anterio fever (one fatal) and island, where, it was erected? Mr. B. E. Lindsell on Saturday, cut and dried affair now. It was coe non-fatal caso each of plague | Writers of the period who saw with disorderly behaviour in at the Government's request that and diphtheria.

the house being made at Woolwich Cook Street, Hungbom, and with a subcommittee of the K.R.A. was

describe it as being “an elegant assaulting a girl. appointed and it has to be stated.

cotings," with a front in the Defendant alleged that com that that sub-committes put in A Chinese prostitute was "Grecian style." The furniture, plainant hit him and he only. quite a deal of hard work in yesterday removed to the Govern- too, was made at Woolwich, and retaliated.

Mr. F. D. Jankin, for plaintiff, planning routes and

fixing ment Civil Hospital suffering with the house and furniture went Mr. Lindsell: Do you suggest said the contract was in respect oharges. And the Government from the effects of opium poison-china and other household neces that a young girl like complain of sight hundred gunny, bage. accepted the recommendations ing believed to have been sell-sitics, the whole consignment ant assaulted you first? You are The goods arrived and notles of with apparent enthusiasm administered.

weighing about 500 tana. a perfect gentleman!

aarival was sent to defendants, and asked for tenders. It even

Woolwich artisans also went in The girl a mui-tsai, deposed but the question then arose as went so far as to publish amand- A drowning fatality took place order to fit up the sections they that on Friday afternoon she want to the weight of.... theto mants to the traffic regulations near Fu Ti Hau Village on had made. The newspapers of with two wooden buckets to a goods

under & clause And now the whole thing has Saturday, the remains of a Chin- October 1815 speak of the house street fountain in Cook Street in the Contract the waiter was

water. been dropped. One must suppose ese boy being taken to the Police being "nearly ready for shipment." to obtain

Quite referred to surveyors appointed that the Government has its own Station from the river where he

queun was at the fountain and by the Chamber of Commerce. very good reasons for taking such had been bathing.

bar turn came next to defend. The sorveyors examined the a step, but the inconsistency off

Apropos a disosusion that has ant's. The accused filled his goods and reported that they were the procedure is a little hard to

been going on in London, a notable buckets and wont away. While not short weight and defendants understand. Negotiations are now On Saturday a Chinese boy, pioneer of booking in advance she was filling her buckets he would not be jusified in refusing being carried on between the who attempted to cross the road for the cheaper theatre seats was returned and, ticking her bucket them on those grounds. The Government and a company that way in front of an approaching Sir Henry Irving, and many to one side, again deposited his defendant firm took delivery of has a few light buses idle and it car, was knocked down at Queen's middle-aged playgoers will re-buckets under the tap. Her 23) ont of the 800 bags, but is possible that permission will be Road West and subsequently member the brief period during bucket was broken. She demand instead of paying $23,799.60 they given for these to run. But there taken by the driver to the Govern which the famous Lyceum pited compensation, and caught hold paid only $22,756.80, leaving a will be no Government assistancement Civil Hospital.

queue disappeared. The result of one of defendant's backets with balance of $1,043.88 unpaid. The or subsidy it will be purely

was remarkable. Many who had a view to inducing him to pay. remainder of the goods were sold private,concern free, one supposes.

habitually used the more ex-Thereupon he gave her two hefty by private treaty for $50,503, to charge fares that will bring in The remains of a Chinese male, pensive parts of the house now blows on the arm and abdomen, showing a loss on the contract of an economic proft on the capital who was reported missing from booked for the pit, and the com- and was about to hit her with $5,857. There were also charges outlay. Just how complete or bis Some at Bulkaly Street, Hung-plaint of the regular" pittitas "

bucket when an Indian constable for storage, interest at 10 per incomplete that service will be hom. were on Saturday taken were so loud that Sir Henry was arrested him.

cent, brokerage at 1 per cent, and bas not been told us; we don't from the water near the Hunghom reluctantly compelled to restore

The constable testified to seeing surveyors' fees, etc. making a even know whether we are going Ferry wharf. Apparently death the queue.

the defendant giving the girl total claim of $8,929.56. to have it or not. And so the had been due to drowning.

blow. whole Kowloon bus scbemÐ

Miss Eileen Soper has not

Mr. Lindsell fined defendant seems to be about as complete &

wash-out" as possible. We are Mortuary on

There were removed to the rested a record by exhibiting at $5 for disorderly behaviour and Saturday the the Royal Academy at the age of sententenced him to fourteen not particularly sorry to see the remains of a Chinese male child 15, that stands to the credit of days' hard babour for assault, the buses idea dropped, for although aged one month, whose death is no less a person than Truered by four hours' stocks near the latter sentence to be supplement- it would have done all right as said to have been sccidentally The great landscape artist was makeshift it would, in time, have caused by his nine year old barely 15, when his water-colour fountain. had to give way to the better brother either kicking him or drawing of Lambeth Palace was system of electric tramcars. The rolling on him whilst the two shown at the Academy. Other roads of Kowloon are not of awere asleep in the same bed at boys who were "bung" were particularly well-built nature and their home at Bowrington Street. Millais and Landseer. The form- there bad been considerable

fer's famous picture Pizarro apprehension as to whether they

Seizing the Men of Peru,"

WB5 would have stood the wear and

exhibited when its creator was tear of motor bus traffic. Tramcars, the Remedy.

sing

GOVERNOR AT KOWLOON.

Prior to the commsacement of

salisfaction

service at B).

There was

Between

Mr. T. Bunje gave evidence with regard to the contract. Defendants did not appear and judgment WES given for plaintiff.

were Dodwell and Co., Ltd, and In the second case the plaintiffs

the amount claimed WAL $76,000,

Mr. Jenkin said the claim was for damages under two contracts for the sale of gunny bags. In this case, also, defendants raised the question of short aight, but no claim was being made for surveyor's fees. The the market and the contract claim was for the difference in

prices. In one contract there was a difference of $10,500 and in $3,500, making a total claim of the other the difference was $16,000.

Evidence with regard to the contracts in this case was given by Mr. Grant Smith and judgment was given for plaintiff.

»PUBLIC SCHOOL APPOINTMENT.

Mr. A. C. Bascoby, senior mas- ter of Uppingham School; has been appointed head-master of Chesterfield Grammar School.

Ourselves

Britain and China, much as they differ in many things, have this in common just now, that the national exchequer is in a pretty strained condition. Those of a mathematical turn of mind might find it an. instructive as well as an

Mr. Denman Fuller will give interesing occupation to compare the statistics of the two

the last of his Organ Recital for 16, while the great animal painter the service at St. Andrew's Church, countries. One of the first things to strike the student is

the present in St. John's Cathe was the same age when his first Kowloon, co Sunday morning, His dral on Thursday next at 9.15 work appeared on the walls. Excellency the Governor of Hong the difference in population. The inhabitants of Cathay

There is only one thing remain-p.m. The programme will insir William Richmond, who died,kong inspected a parade of St. outnumber those of England. or rather of the United ing and that is for the Government clude several pieces which have recently, and Holman Hant also Andrew Boy Scout Troop and the Kingdom, by something like ten to oue. Instead of China's to give the Hongkong Tramway not been played here before or started their R.A. careers while Girl Guide Troops of the Diocesan national revenue being ten times that of the United Company an agreement which only infrequently and in response in their teens.

Girls and the Kowloos British Kingdom. the case is the reverse. The receipts at the will guarantee them an undisturb to a number of requests, Widor's

Schools. His Excellency expressed lot more than ten timesed possession for so many years famous Toccata in F which has British Treasury are probably

the with Prof Patrick Geddes, who has appearance of the members of the and let them start to lay down a frequently figured in these pro-

general those of Peking, but China's finances are a curious business tramway service, as they are grammes. The novelties will be just returned from India, is one Troops who turned out in full force. altogether. As it is difficult to procure anything like quite willing to do. The Colonial Pedal Study entitled "The of the most interesting personal- The parade over, His Excellency exact figures at the moment, let us say that China's revenues Secretary himself bas admitted Magic Harp" by the well-known ities of the day. Beginning as a altended the amount to one-tenth.

that it will have to come to Recitalist, J.A. Mesle, & Romance man of science and a botanist of Andrew's Chock.

tramway service and Mr. by the distinguished American high repute, he has developed large congregation, all the seating This prompts some conflicting inferences. The cir-4

Roberts, the General Manager Composer Horatio Parker and latterly into a sociologist and an accommodation being occupied. cumstance might be held up as an illustration of China's of the Company. has stated two numbers from an Organ Suite ardent student of and lecturer on His Lordship the Bishop of Victoris economical administration, as. allowing for the difference that they are quite willing to by the recitalist.

The vocalist civics. These last few years he (the Rt. Rev. Dr Doppuy) was the in population, it significs that the taxation to which the begin so soon as the Government will be Miss Jean Lowson who has been busy townplanning in preacher sad his discourse was

extract from India, and he spends his winters appropriate to the occasios. individual Chinese is subject is only a hundredth part of will give them an agreement will that to which the individual Britisher is subject. In Then, why in the name of all that Sullivan's The Prodigal Son" ip Bombay, where he is now is reasonable, cannot we get busy and Alicia Meedham's "My harp Professor of Sociology. Prof reality, these figures, even from the standpoint just on the matter. Is Kowloon to be is on the willow tree".

Geddes recently drew out plan mentioned, do not represent the case in its true perspective. made Hongkong's Ireland-play-

for the DOW Jerusalem that Zionists are building as 存 because relative values vary enormously! A pound, or afed with until it is spoiled? A

annaxa to the old one in Pales- dollar, means, of course, a vastly larger sum to the average tramway service would not only

tine, and it is highly thought of. Chinese than to the average Britisher. The mathematician be better than a bus service but is would be far more popular. If it

He attaches great importance to might employ himself in working out the ratio of taxation can pay our Tramway Company

the meaning and history of towns, | to income in the two countries, which would doubtless to run a service right out to military commanders was held at developed in accordance with A general meeting of the and believes that they should be exhibit a very different case. It is in relation to results. Shaukiwan. it would surely pay the headquarters recently sad their history in the past.

to run one to Yaumati and Sham-declaration was made that it was however, that the contrast stands out.

Imperfections can readily be found in the British ipo, and to Hungbem as well- useless to waste further time and

The whole thing would be in- body politic, but on the whole the system has pro-finitely better; the ratepayer money occupying merely defer-

The inevitable word in college itself from the knacker's van. daced a highly-organised community.

Chinese would

sive positions. General Chan girl conversation in these days is Aye, it was very sad but I wish be saved the Cost

King-ming has, therefore, decided evidently terrific." I travelled the Editor of our morning eye- the roads administration, saving individual efforts here and there, of reinforcing all presents a picture of chaos. What at the first glance Tramway Company is responsib'e Tuesday, the 14th.

that a general attack on all fronts in a carriage to Bedford, writes a opener would tuck yon sort of bear heavy traffic to

(the

will take place at any time after correspondent in a London daily, sob-stuff away among the ship- appears to be an astonishingly inexpensive type of for its track); and the thousands

that was crammed with students | ping where women-folks couldna' Government when its finances are compared with the of natives living in the outlying position at Limehow and Kim- holiday. Everything wES

It is stated that owing to the and teachers returning from their see it except by accident. Janet And thus did the song proceed Budgets of other Powers in reality the

ter-was fair touched at the idea of forever citing the fact itself as most districts would feel that they had chow having become serious, the rific, the last novel, the wes- poor Molly dying by tons the explanation of the fact. costly of Governments. The smallness of China's revenues a thought given to them. And, Government has commandeered ther, the appointment of a new in you fashion. She could hardly Consider the thing the elephant. is not a sign of tenderness to the taxpayer, but of a what is more important, the in the steam boat Sing Cheong to headmistress, and the hue of the read the suctions for thinking H is the Thesis. Tangible,

Istallation of a service chronic want of development. Her railways are but a sound materially aint in tow 30 junkloads of soldiers and latest jumper. Rigorous relters about it. I tried to comfort her ponderous, be is undeniable fraction of those of Britain, although Britain's area is but the development and growth of

tion imprinted the syllable so wi' saying that elephants are Reality, for he walks around The Maritime Customs a fraction of China's. Peking professes to recognise the the already popular peninsula,

at firmly on the brain of the listener peculiar animals and as like sano. when he's no' filling his face wi Shamshui have seized a complete that when a friend asked set of cartridge making machine do you like these cigars the in her sleep onyway through so keys in their cage. That sug- How she'd have slipped away quietly bananan. He is preceded by the importance of education, yet the very University at her

band and followed by the mon doors has had to suspend its activities because the long Regarding Water.

parts which were among cargo reply came mechanically, ter-overdose of monkey nuts. Bo suffering teachers cannot carry on any longer without pay other day showed that the whole material has been sent down to

The Water Returns issued the destined for Wachow. The rific."

IS

The

10

CANTON NEWS.

ammunition.

•

•

By Robt. MacWhirter,

Aye, Janet was awfu' put about it has stuck. Among other Morning Po the other morning halin was a song which went: when she read the account in the things that I learned when s

The elephant now walks

round,

about you pet elephant that got to lying on it's wrong side and couldaa' get up in time to save

JJ

The band begins to play; The boy's before the mon-

key's cage Had better keep away,

For the elephant now walks

TOULd.

sides" says I let it be a warn- gesta Einstein's Relativity. Then Moreover, the apparent moderation of the Government in of the reservoirs in the Colony, Canton.

ing to ye and go easy wi' you there's the boys. If it werena the total of its taxes is fallacious in another sense, for the with the single exception of Further demands are being much attention to the breeding of fights or else

American apiarists are giving ham sandwiches at your tea for the boys and the monkey some of these nuts the elephant wouldna be Cabinet bas to resort to that worst of all expedients the comparatively small Wong-made by the Labour Guild. They that licensed idler, the drone. It nights it'i mean sending to the there. He'd be in Ethiopis or continual borrowing. Only the other day it was extensive-neicheong reservoir, were fall have written to President. Bun is believed that he has were in Docks for a three-legged derrick wherever elephants come from.

that overflowing and ly reported-though since contradicted in a manner not

In which event would he be the in Yat-sen pointing out that they fluence than his mate upon their and then where'll ye be." Hongkong there altogether convincing-that the new Minister of Finance two thousand million gallons auguration because of his promise while he spends his life in lezi huf. Janet, she says

were over supported him at the recent in offspring, and, curiously enough,

That was the start of the same elephant. I suppose before that we can get to the bottom of that had mortgaged the Kirin Railway to Japanese lenders to stored. and in Kowloon over to support them in getting betterness and the queen in productivity, nothing's sacred wi' me. As if a well need to get back to Flato meet the interest on previous mortgages! Further, again, three hundred million gallons, conditions.

To this President the credit for the ceaseless energy man could be expected to waken and discover the ideal elephant the revenues reaching Peking are not the measure of tax-In trying to grasp the significance Sus has replied that the granting of the brood acerbated to him up of a morning and let the tear before we start discussing par-

of these tremendous figures one of better conditions is in the rather than to her, ation in China, for large sums "stick" in the provinces, cannot help reflecting that as hands of the capitalists and all careful drone resting is held to onyway. It was the wee yin wi

At any rate,

doon fa ower a blamed elephant ticular elephants.

I'd got about thus far when particularly in the hands of the Tuchuns. The fact regards Hongkong we stand in that he can do is to use his be no matter of the first iuber question about elephants and Janet gave in. She didna' want is that China's small revenue is a token of ineptitude, much better position than we did influence. This reply has caused portance. American beekeepers the rest True, what followed dead or alive, wild or circus 1 not of moderation. In such a huge land, with its only a few years ago and that the little dissatisfaction.

heaven that was responsible for to hear ony more about elephants, are accordingly being urged to enormous potentialities, a far larger Budget would, or construction of the Tytam Tuk

rear drones in colonies from which WAS mostly monologue and got the smile back on her countenance but faith 'twas & should, be a healthy indication. Why stagnation is still reservoir was the expression of a

foolish notion but even mere far-sighted policy. We certainly

the best and largest store of boney elephants bave their uses in the job. I bad visions of having to so prevalent is only too manifest. Peking cannot find did away with the necessity of have finished drawing it. The bave been obtained.

matter of trying to understand dive into Hegel before I was money for an adequate railway system, for education, or restricting the Chinese during big mains are all right but it's

life. When I was at Sunday through. for anything essential; but it can part with something like certain months of the year to the the wretched little feeder pipes

FOLKESTONE'S SHAKESPEARE School between the mid-summer

I'm seriously thinking of ten million dollars to the three super-Tuchuns who are use of street standards. But the that run into the houses. And

WEEK.

trip and the winter saire. I was having the Morning Po delivered to my office of a morning. battening upon the nation. While Chang Tso-lin and his Kowloon folk cannot fiad much to while you keep your tap open and

Dramatic representations to be once taught the inspiring lines. give them comfort in the fact only air comes out, your water -comrades, or rivals, were having their recent confab in the that the Shatin reservoir is over-meter is merrily going round given during Folkestone's Shake- The's world is all a fleeting economy before breakfast doesna Ethios, casuistry and policitat Week (commencing capital, with the Cabinet as spectators, Chang junior and flowing, for the majority of them until you have to pay excess speare's

show, For man's illusion given.

agree wi me and here's hoping some boou companious were enjoying themselves at the cannot get the needed supply of water rate for water you have Sept. 27) will be staged in the

that the next elephant that: leading hotel surrounded by card-tables and dancing girls. neighbours are filling their baths we hear, got its nose on to this costumes

water in the mornings. If your never had. But the K. R. A. bag / Elizabethan fashion, and with No' what you would call a Janet reads about crawls into its... the period. No sprightly kind o hymen, I'll hole out of sight before it makes And while the revellers dance, China languishes

you can get no water until they matter.

admit, but throughout the yours upite mind to die,

of

scenery will be used.