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THE. HONGKONG

FELEGRAPH

NOTES & COMMENTS.

The Crown Colonies.

SATURDAY, JUNE 18. 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

WHICH

not, attained responsibla govarn- Senor O. D. Canseco has been ment though some are moving formally recognised as Consul for

that direction. While Bolivia in Hongkong.

Mr. RA.C. North has been

Colony to-day by the Empress of Among those returning to the Russis were Mr. and Mrs. P. H.

Holyoak.

a

BATHING AND

SWEARING. Our Friend the Jelly Fish,

fresh water. Were their ancestare fresh water animals? The Inst TORBON almost anggesta the possibility. They may ren you enjoy a little freedom" from salt. Except for the star-fishes and sea-urchins there is no group of the sea. (animals so habitually confined to

DISCOVERY OF FRESH WATER JELLY-FISH. Some

1896.

HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO

Compiled from the "Hongkong

Telegraph" fles for week-

ending June 28tĂ...," 189.)`

THE DOLLAR. June 19th-The rate of the twenty years or Doller, on damaod, to-day is ago, great axcitement 2-1/28.

A HAZARDOUS ENTERPRISE.

To

Ulysses, built at Hongkong for by the discovery June 19th.-The steamlaunch the Russian Government, bas arrived at Shanghai from Swatow. known and popular Commander, She is now in charge of that well- Captain JE. McArthur, (becretary of the B.M.M.O.A) who, it is said was specially selected here recently to take up his small vessel to Vladivostok, and got bis own price for undertaking such a very unpleasant

A COASTAL RUN RECORD.

June 23rd. The Douglas liner Hailoong, Captain Davis, on ber

broke all previous records. She at trip to Swatow and back

left Hongkong last Sunday morn- which was concluded to-day,

ing, and did the trip to Swatow in

ABOVE THE CLOUD The Crown Colonies are com- CANTS ITS SHADOW UPON US IS ing into their own. Mr. Church- THE STAR THAT SENDS TOWARDS

(BY A SPECIAL CON-- TRIBUTOR). ill, who, after numerous US ITS LIGHT.

WE CAN NO MORE fluctuations has obtained at least ESCAPE FROM THE LIGHT THAN in full swing everybody thinks of Now that the bathing season is temporary anchorage at the FROM THE SHADOW-Victor of the sen. Whare shall I go on Colonial Office, says that they Huga

Saturday? Is it to be Junk Bay cannot be governed from Down-

or Deep Water Bay? The decid- ing Street. In the early stage An accident in our machine fing factor may be the probable o of Crown Colony government room destroyed two of the ten presence or absence of jelly fish was caused in the soological Downing Street naturally had a pictures promised for our Camera or jolly bugs. They can inflict world big say. More lately the feeling News to-day, Half our issue was stings on the more delicate parts of a free-swimming fresh-water has been that the Crown Colonies ran off when this occured. So of the skin which are very pain-form. Such a thing had not been have been overlooked by the will those readers whose picture ful for several hours, although the heard of before. It was found, of authorities at Home. The page contains only sight pictures pain has been undoubtedly greatly all places, in Regent's Park. colonles bare outgrown their please accept this explanation exaggerated". So says one of our make the mystery deeper, the |awaddling-clothes, but they have

graat authorities on this group of animals were all males It is animals I don't wish Prof. Hnow generally thought that these any ill will, but I do wish he had were brought over with some been in my place in Junk Bay alaquatic plants from the Amazon they remain in ад inter-

few days ago. mediate condition it is de-

Still, not long afterwards & small sirable that Downing Street still

The great group of animale to fresh-water jelly-fish was found keep an alert eye on such posses-appointed Private Secretary to the jelly fish belongs has in Lake Tanganyika! You may sions by way of counterbalancing H.E. the Governor in addition to almost aniversal character make your own theories from this.

istic-the thread call or stinging THE AGE OF JELLY-FISH. any local autocratic tendencies, his other duties.

hair. The thread cell consists of for which the reported reconstruc-|

Very little seems to be known tion of the Colonial. Ofce might

long whip-like hair coiled up in about the age to which jally fah allow of provision. As to the pro-

Suid. The thread has generally have many enemies, and if you a pocket filled with a poisonous usually live. They don't seem to posed credit conso: um for secur-

some recurved hooks near its open the stomachs of other salt ing loans on "a wider basis,"

base which catch in, and poison water animals you seldom find there might be some, if not |great. advantage in this to those Friday, July 1st, has been of spirally arranged but tiny Perhaps the slings are too good a the flesh. In some species a band pieces of jellyfish inside them, colonies which contemplate rais-declared by the Governor-in-thorns runs along the middle of defensive weapon and injure the

A BARBOUR MYSTERY. ing external loans. Leading Council to be observed a3. a the thread. On the outside there lining of the gullet of most the human skull found in the June 16th.-It is believed that municipalities at Home have general holiday. combined in raising funds, theroby

is a small trigger-like projection animals. Many die by being cast effecting economy in the cost of

which on impact, reverses and up on shore. The conditions of stomach of the shark, caught in

All communications intended for publication should be address-securing funds at a lower rate of

nervous of floating the loan, and possibly

sible that in some species the into an aquarium may consider the seond engineer of the Hong- discharges the whip. It is pos- the life of the animal when put the barbour yesterday is that of

ed to the Editor.

interest. Further particulars of

system may be able ably alter its span of years. So his ship wa chronicled on the kong, whose disappearance from to control these cells and that far as the present writer knows no this "New Consortium" are, how-

the animal may be able to experiments on the age of the 17th instant. This gentleman, over necessary before judgment can be passed upon its merits.

release them at will. If a small free-swimming forms have been has not since been seen, and it animal of this class is put in a made. Put a large sea-anemone appears almost certain that ba "Squeeze."

ile water under a microscope (a sedentary animal belonging to was drowned. A couple of days and a little acetic acid added to the same great group) was put ago the body of a foreigner was the water tb icid will cause the into

an aquarium in 1828 seen stinging cell to discharge of It was thought at that time to be Island and Stonecutters, but the themselves and one may see the about seven years old. It diedia Folice launch that went in search Process without being stung.

natural death on Aug. 4th. 1887. for it was unable to find it. THE CURE FOR THE STINGS. It thus had lived to be sixty The irritan: Baid has an acid years of age and, perhaps, sixty- stinging hairs could injure the reaction. It would seem, there-five.

scaly surface of 2 Ash. fore, best that this should be

Once I caught a large jelly-fish which would not injure the skin-about the larger jelly-fish is the fifteen fish, all seemingly more neutralised by a mild alkali! One of the most peculiar things in Mir's Bay from which I took weak solution of ammonia,way in which they attract or less alive and in good condition. permanganate of potasb, or colonies of little fish round them They seemed to be attracted to - Condy's Bluid might have the and into them. These apparently the animal. Possibly they fled desired effect. One

gen-are not killed or eaten. In fact into the sub-umbrella of the East and many tleman, long acquainted with the it would be hard to see how the anims! when danger threatened

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Not long since reports were rife of piratical attacks along the Yangtze. These appear to have subsided somewhat, but obstacles

by the Governor-in-Council under contains further regulations made The latest Government Gazelle

the Stamp Ordinance.

There were three Casas of plages reported yesterday, two being fatal. There was also one non-fatal case of spotted fever.

For trespassing yesterday into the quarters at Lysmus Terrace, to trade remain plentiful, as may four Chinese, who were charged at be judged by the following com-the Police Court this morning, munication from the master of a were fined 55 each. well-known steamer: "I am afraid we are in for more trouble-

The Tuchun of Hupeh has

have never tried iz I presume it is to be applied as a lotion, though!

IS IT HYPNOTISM?

12 hours 37 minutes.

floating between' Green

Between Ourselves

By Robi. MacWhirter.

were selling their properties at high prices to those who catch-though at present is in aid of missionary work in apparently this informs the animal to see

The appeal at Home for funds permost part of the cavity and it was left there stiffening for me

some times up bete. Last voyage donated out of his own pocke: a they refused to give me coal or som amounting to nearly two allow any passengers to land or lakhs for the relief of the sufferers embark at Wandsien, because in Ichang and Wuebang. refused to pay some confounded squeeze or other. Having enough coal I pushed on, which annoyed robbery at Chaiwan Gap, reported In connection with the armed them, and they wired to Chang-a few days ago, a Chinese was

times stung, king saying they would fire into arrested and charged at the Police only panacea This I cannot re- asspres me that whisky is the HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1921.

me if I came back. At this time, Court this morning. A remand commend from experience, as I the only gunboats ready for a was ordered. drop of work. up here, were the AN HOUSING MATTER.

two British others in Shanghai

It is notified that, at the ex-some may think this rather a being repaired) and at the time piration of three months. The wasteful method. The recom- Just what action the Government will take in regard the Widgeon was standing by to Hongkong Parcel Express Store-mendation of whisky was appar- this time my wife's very fond of is always the case out here, it As you've maybe gathered by and when something happens, as to the petition that has been presented to it on behalf of go to Suifu to release the little go and Trading Company, Limited ently purely empirical. the tenants of thirteen houses in Broadwood Road and Anghow I went down to Wan-contrary, be struck of the Regis have been 'sprung' cannot be used other.

Shutung from a similar squeeze. will, unless cause is shown to the

animals. This has been a awfu' just vexes ye. The stings when once they week wi' them one way or an Broadwood Terrace, who have been given notice to quit by hsion (with Hsiong Kah-wu on ter and the Company will be again. They simply decay. New

You pup had got to the forag- ing age and it foraged. I don't their new landlords, is hard to hazard, seeing that it has board. so did not mind much if dissolved.

First it was. you big stiff of know what it ate in the other given itself few if any powers to deal with such a case. they did shoot) but there was no

stinging cells gradually develop an elephant that hadna the houses it frequented but our to take the place of those that are sense of a cock sparrow and must family donated a pair of black One is forced to realise that if the Hongkong Land show of fight, neither would thes

At the Corones yesterday the lost. One species, however, bas get to lying down on it's wrong silk stockings, a rag doll and a Investment Company cares to sell some of its property to what willhappen this time. Hsiong featuring Geraldine Farrat was te draw back the threats and use gates.

come on board to talk. Don't know first screening of a file production acquired the power of being able sides as a near cut to the pearly pair of bedroom slippers that Chinese landlords and that if those landlords wish occupa-said he would fix it for me." given. Laid in the wide reaches them again. Most of the stinging

couldna have been more than tion for other people they have a right to serve notices to General Halong is popular up in of the prairie, the

Then the next-door cat had her five years old. Of course, it was quit on the present tenants. That is a proceeding within that quarter, so probably he was suggested by its title of "The arms and streamers.

story as cells are situated on the oral usual lot of kittens the other day not all loas. The pup had a the rights of the owners but the public ought, in these days able to carry out his promise to Hell Cat" was of an unusually

and what does one of them do sense of reciprocity. He salvaged "fix" things. But other vessels, free character, dealing with the

"ORGANS OF BALANCE. but take some kind o inward a seven and a half dollar three- of house shortage. to have some protection.

Most of us are cognisant of the law that was passed so fortunate as to have a popular cattlemen whose rivalry with the organ of balance.

and there are many, may not be primitive passions of certain found in many of the jelly fish is and throw a fit, in our backyard Crawford) that had been lost for Another very curious organ trouble (so Janet diagnosed it) quarter grown Teddy Bear (Lane. in England during the days of house shortage-a law that tuchun aboard. is still in operation-whereby a landlord was restrained Penalties for Pilferers.

their neighbours. the sheepmen, sometimes eight or ten of these in finally passing away.

There are of all places in the world, before nearly three weeks and another Janer's time he brought in from soine- is expressed in acts of revenge. the animal. from evicting his tenants until such time as he had found

They are little story of the mother's devotion where else a superanuated towel another suitable habitation for them. Such a law became Courts at Home to inflict some and also an up-to-date gazette.

Together with this picture there hollows, each having a small hard and distraction on account of you that he must bave thought would Prevalence of pilfering tras led

is à Harry Pollard attraction, and calciom stone inside. If the kitten would read almost like a match the tiles on our bathroom necessary in order to protect poor tenants who could not fairly stiff sentences on such

animal is turned upside down this book, it was so natural. I door. Taking him all round he afford to buy the houses in which they lived. Landlords pilferars as fall within the law's

stone will bump against the up- wouldos' have minded that but wasna" just what ye would call a lovable dog. He was ower oc- were willing to pay almost anything for a house to live in be feared the proportion China has not mer

when I came home at casional for one thing and there of these delinquents to come

with the of its precarious position, and it night and Jimmy Lamb here got was aye and the unfortunate first tenant found himself without a within the long arm of the law response hoped for. it

a row in the making was immediately rights itself by work- the job, of course, to see to its wherever he got to. roof. Something of the same kind is happening in Hougis not large. The sams that are

learned yesterday. and, saling its oral arms. These organs disposal. No, the cookboy wasna' But yesterday a motor car kong to-day, although the position is by no means so acute stated to have been lost in this result, the scheme for the build probably make the animal feel allowed to touch it for fear he caught that pup bebind the left But it is at all events sufficiently serious to warrant thought-way by certain firms would be ing of a boarding school for kind of sea-sick when it is up would ill-use it. It never struck

ear and threw him quite a bit her to have it taken round to it's and run on. The wee yin was ful study by our Government as to whether a local Ordinance, almost incredible but for a volume Chinese girls in the Colony has side down.

of evidence, and underwriters been held 3p. although the

SEA-SICKNESS, somewhat on the lines of the Home Act. should not be have in some cases refused this found in the compound of the of sea-sickness may be due to the thing like that.

owners next door. No, my wife out playing and screaming- necessary site for it has been Perhaps indeed our own feeling has ower soft a heart to do a ly conveyed the dire news to passed. The property market of this Colony has been enjoying class of business. is therefore Missionary headquarters near presence of an ancestral organ of got to wait till night-time so as the middle of her

Instead she's her grandma' who WAS in a boom for the best part of three years and no-one can gratifying to observe that

afternoon complain of property holders realising on their possessions perpetrators in the Far Eas: are Caine Road. The expansion of a similar kind the semi-circular my feelings may be properly sleep at the time. Janet had

being dealt with more severely the school conducted under the canals whilst the price of land and buildings holds high. But then hitherto. At Shanghai the auspices of the Church Mission Eustachian tubes. If these latter before dinner time. Aye, true half an hour but before he passed ear Or the harrowed and my stomach upset him seen to but he only lived those who purchase property-in the majority of cases it is other day the Mixed Court passed ry Society has reached a stage were properly stopped up you enough Janet has a warm side on to the happy-hunting grounds mere speculation--should be restrained from turning out sentences of two months and six when the missionary authorities might never be sea sick! Or for stimals but they're generally his wails had all the eyes in our the old tenants at least until they have made sure that the weeks, while three other prisoners consider it desirable that a large possibly the aqueous humor of the fourfooted kind that she's house helping to increase the disturbed parties had other quarters into which they could were a varded a month's imprison school should be built to accom- the eye is the cause. Authorities most thoughtful of

June rainfall. The kids around two hundred odd have thought that if you were move. Anyone who has tried to hunt for a house or a flat best paties but they may Chinese girls who are being properly blindfolded you would ploy and though I'm no' a believer heard of Doodles' demise and our Well this wh Wendesday's were all very sober when they barsh educated under its auspices. at a reasonable rental will know the difficulties of such a serve to show pilferers that other

escape the scourge. My owa in things happening in threes, wee yin there and then on the proceeding the hopelessness of it. If something like people's goods are not to be taken

belief is (based, of course, on bang me if than no later, than spot had her first sight of death twenty families are to be disturbed at one fell swoop it is a with impunity,

A particularly impadent st complete ignorance) that the yestrean, tempt was made to steal a hand- trouble lies in the tonsils. Doctors mortality registered among the the stroking and clapping in there's no another and the poignant feeling that all matter which demands the very serious attention of those

TO THEATRE GOERS.

bag carried by Mrs. Robert Clark, don't seem to know what use mongrels in our district. whose duty it is to protect the rights of all classes.

by a young snatcher at the Praya these orgaon are, in fact they seem

the world couldna' make that East last night. Mrs. Clark, who mere

But maybe ye never heard of wee black dog ever wag his tail. survivals. An Explanation. lives at Homerille, in Wanchaif operation might remove all sea was Doodles. He was as black

A universal Doodles before. Ah! a nice dog again. over prone to assist the greater number of residents, ie, the performance of the Russian panied by her husband, when at where about the gills' we gener- chock full of affection and fleas. just to be buried and forgotten Our readers are reminded that Road, was going home accam-sickness! At any rate it is some-as Auld Nick's waisocat and to this little tale. Doodles had No friends, there's no climax those who must of necessity be dependent on rented accom-Grand Opera Company which the junction of the Prays East ally feel the trouble begin. modation. There have been one or two instances, especially was advertised some days ago as with Anton Street, the Chinese

I don't know yet who he belonged the same as will hap to all RAI AND THE JELLY-FISH. to but the first time I saw him of us cue of these days. The in Kowloon, where the Government has bestirred itself on taking place this evening is not boy came up and snatched the To return to our friend the was when the wee vin dragged lesson was for the kiddies and representations being made and we sincerely, bope that in now taking place. the case of the Broadwood tenants whatever action can be the Colony for a short season, but into Landale Street and Intercept is their appearance in swarms at from the school. Ever since then the scheme things in order The ompany intended to visit thief was chased by Mr. Clark noticeable things about jelly-fish one day when she came home Doodles played his little part in most him in by the scruff o' the neck if for nothing else I suppose taken will be taken. The new landlords might be induced owing to sickness among the ed by two Eurasians at the the surface of the water after he's had the run of the place off that the young mind might grasp to forego occupation at least for some time to come, failing members of the Company, the moment when he was about to rain. They which the Government could with great justice give itself whole vinit has had to be cancell-turn into an adjoining street. In crowd in the bays ser

to and on though I shook my head the blank that. aye is when the legal power to restrain them. If some such powers d

the stress of the pursuit the thief shore, especially where fresh that no' dog was going to take left behind.

the more than twice and declared there's nought but the cold clay were obtained we think that many cases which now fail to confused with the Russian Light subsequently recovered, and pro- This may be due to one of three our house. I may as well have would go so far as to say that E

This Company should not be dropped the handbag which was water is pouring into the sea.up residence as a permanency in I'll miss him myself and come to light would need the protection of the measure. Opers and Operette Company, duced in the Police Court this causes: (1) The food material saved my breath for all the another brand new pair 6 bid- As so many of the community are affected we respectfully which is opening its season at morning as evidence. The culprit carried down by the fresh water notice that was taken. Mind ye, room slippers could being him urge the powers-that-be to adopt a policy a little more the Theatre Royal on Thursday was sentenced to six months (2) The change of density of the I'll no against animals but the back he'd have them to migr active than has been evidenced bitherto,

surface water; (3) The love of trouble, is that ye got fond of them morning first thing.

All through the housing crisis here one could hardly call it anything less-our Government has not shown itself

next,

modate the

of

the

handbag which she carried. The jelly-fish. One of the.

bard labour.

seem then