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NOTES & COMMENTS.
Apres la Guerre.
So we are still at war! After tl y passage of the D. S. Congress resolution the other day and the
SATURDAY, JULY 30: 1981.
DAY BY DAY.
NECESSITY TYEVER. MADE GOOD BARGAIN,—FYRAMİR.
There was only one case of
1896.
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.
A CITY.
But not of Lambs.
[ratification of the Sino-German | plague (Chiness) on the health) (Compiled from the "Hongkong the past twelve months, in ratici miles o' pipes that convey clean,
agreement, it seemed that the return for yesterday,
Dusting Powders had been just about completed.
Soaps
TelegraphTM files for the week anding August 6th 1895)
THE DOLLAR
sitting in the Olty Hall, Hong- |kong," bat - only, much" nonler.
They've got a fra-brigade-In the'; |City of Rams now but aison'k no" encouraged az is evidenced (BY ROBT. MACWHIRTER), the wee insurance office platse |fixed outside, tha" shops and Canton as it'stuoda to-day is houses. Ye would need to look a miracle. Its progress during up the statistics to find out the to its advancement during the clear wasar to t'a inhabitants but last fifty years, or a thousand for opium pipes are no' considered that matter makes it so.. And fashionable nowadays. Some o it's a cheap miracle at that, and the police there wouldna, disgrace when I say oheap I'm not trying Garred in the mailer o traullo to say something amart. I hat regulations even though they mean what I say.
I always did Hke going to Can-to do it.
sometimes have to lean on a gun Aug. 1st-The following com-ton. What's more farby when I do The Commissioner o' Qustome the Colonial Secretary, Hon. Mr. top bout at that. The view out modern city--it's something more J.H. Stewart Lockhart, by the of yon big square cabin window forby it's, as I said before, a Hongkong General Chamber of in the pinky grey of the morning, miracle. And we'll let it go at a Commerce. The attention of this when you're get between sleep that If ye don't believe it Chamber has been called to the g and waking, has the cinema nothing more that I could say great inconvenience frequently beaten easily. To tie up. Yo would make yo
July 31st-The rate of the Dollar, an demand, to-day is 2-1/3d.
POSTAL MATTERS.
We have just received a shin. "official termination" of the war, a Member of the Authorized munication has been addressed to go I aye go by boat and, in says that Canton is becoming m
Paris.
basinème of winding-up the “stato of war taft by this world conflict
The Government is calling for tenders for the arsotion of, an Now we are informed by the engine shed at Lown, New Premier that, except in regard 10 Territories. Turkey (with whom the Treaty has never been ratified, owing to
H.E. the Governor has appoint- the dispute with Greece), Septem- ber 1st is likely to be the date of the ed the Hon Mr. H. W. Bird to be What steps remain to be taken? Architects Committee. While the hostilities ware pro-
H.E. the Governor has appoint ment of the above from Mornying of the war to mean the ed Captain Robert Arthur Ross
people day on which fighting stopped. Neville, RMLI. to be his Aide Freres Ltd. of London and The Cease fire was, of course, and July, 1991. effect from the
wounded on November 11, 1918,2nd
entailed on the mercantile com-joanna' see much that is now or but an armistice is not a final
munity by the delays experienced progressive on the water itself the war the Germans made the As you maybe know, during arrangement. When the Treaty
Major C.H.M. Sturges, D.SO. in the delivery of the mails: and accepting of course the high place their own. of Versailles was signed on Jane of the Royal Garrison Artillery, the need for mere rapid sorting powered motor boats which rush there's not a few German sign- Evan DOW 25, 1919, the ordinary man might has booked as a passenger from and despatch (especially of the here and there among the same boards. They're no' allowed on A S. WATSON & CO., LTD. have been pardoned for assuming the F.& 8. steamer Syria, which alsch mails) i felt very gener- pans just as if they were trying the Shamoen so they've, lakan to
that the Powers were at peace in P. G. ally by the public at large. My to show off. If I were
of the word—at | Sails at 5 o'clock this afternoon. committee respectfully request Municipal Council of Canton I'd it's broad maloos is no' what it yon the City. But Canton City wi every sanse any rate, with Germany, the
for the consideration of His Ex-have a speed limit fixed for yon used to be. It dosana' take three chief opponent, the other enemy
There was sent to the Public cellency the Governor, that the petrol-driven gentry, at least quarters of an hour in a chair to countries not signing till a few Mortuary yesterday the remains most efficient remedy for the pre- within the harbour. The wash get anywhere now. D'ye 100
Statesmen and of Chinese girl who committed sent inefficieny of the Postal Ser- and swirl maken it very danger-where friend Hains has the pull diplomatists proceed by leisurely suicide by hanging barself from vice would be the provision of alous in such a swift current for He in the midst of them doth | stages, however, and the Peace the bannister of a stair case, Dow Post Office specially built to the smaller sampans, and because dwall. The Cantonese inerebant
Treaty had still to be ratified..
faldll its requirements and con- a man knows how to manipulate will very soon have no need structed with a view to still the internal combustion engine Book
that doesna' mean that he should w
the Shameau, larger needs in the future.
its think less o' his neighbours.
regulations, it'a band I wish I had time and space its locked and sentry kept bridges.
Ікстра at night and Aug. 6th-Hongkong has to all even to describe the life on the Now it babaves every business appearances, escaped the ravages river reaches of Canton. By the house in Hongkong to have its of the typhoon which was report-way, what has become of the branch office when it canna ed from Manila on Saturday, old fashioned reporter who said afford a head office-in Canton- From the Observatory report is B scene beggared description":
no' on the Shameen-but on one
are bad but all the more reason to That morning I'm talking of make the change when they've
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The rate per quarter and per mansem, proportional, Subscrip-formalities had been disposed of. Hans for any period less than one month will be charged as for A number of war contracts of all The following persons have sued yesterday this storm appears and then went ahead and des-of it's main streets. I know times
kinds ware concerned in the legal been authorised to sign medical to have completely vanished. It aribed it? definition of "the end of the certificates of the cause of death is fortunate for all residents in war," and a best action was for the purposes of the Births Hongkong as in the present con- before I got my chota haari ont got plenty of time on their hands. brought, the Court holding that and Deaths Registration Ordin-dition of many of the houses, of the way and into my kimono Economy is often a necessity that the ratification of the Treaty fixed ance, 1896:-3rd Class Sab partly wreaked by the typhoon there was a bit of a fum just out is elevated to the rank of a virtue, the date, and now the head of Assistant Surgeon, Brinda Ban of the 20th ult. another blow side my cabin door. I'm still German cargo is fast beginning the Government tells us that Sharms; 3rd Class Sub-Assistant would probably have
created old fashioned enough no to like to come through. Get going be peace has yet to be concluded. Surgeon, Mohamad Yakcob very great havoc with house pro- the idea of going bathward in the fore it's too late, ya taipans of Apparently a few more weeks Khan. Having left the Colony party and possibly even & am presence of females but really Hongkong. Never mind the idle are needed to give validity to 3rd Class Sub-Assistant Surgeon, be of serious casualties. With the chatter kept up so, that in blithers to the Club. Take a trip aprés la guerre.
Mit Singh Bhaauris is removed the immense amount of repairs the end I had to chance it. From to Canton and see the ground for
necessitated by the last blow the noise I thought there were yourselves. Empire Communication.
every carpenter in the Colony has at least half-a-dozen females A whist drive was held last all he can do, and it is now almost around but judge of my surprise Within the past month or so I've Bat space is wearing on. A special committee to report apon inter-Erppire aerial com-evening in the R. A. Sergeants impossible to get urgent repairs to find only a couple of our trans been in touch wi: lots of the folk munication was appointed by the Mesa, Victoria Barracks, at which
Pacifis cousins wi' their fingers that are managing Canton. A Imperial Conference the other the following were the prize-
on the framed list enquiring of the nice quiet, sensible lot of fellows HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921, day, and it appears to have got winners Puties: 1st Mrs.
cabin boy as to the "snesty of they are too. But ye mustna' take [down to basiness with more Allison (176), 2nd Mr. Phillips
certain guides. From the look o from that that Canton is now a celerity than is sometimes shown (175), 3rd Mrm: Smith (172), Sealed
them they'd have been employed City of Lamb Far from it. But "THOSE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES.”
by such bodies. At the moment No. Mra. Vinali (156), · Qănte:
in Hicksville, Fa, knitting socks it's no' a city o' crooks, that I'll the news of its activities does not ist Mr. Sparks (175), 2nd Mr.
Presentation of Prizes.
for their grandsons. But that's gambla. Folks that graft don't by the way. My point is that spent money on roads and drains. We would much rather no occasion had arisen to call carry us much beyond the scheme Greenwood (174),3rd Mr. Andrews
The annual distribution of before very long, ays and even Folks that make public galens for the comments which follow, but inasmuch as that already outlined before the main (173), Sealed No. Mr. Russ (161).
Conference. That is sufficient to The duties of M.C. were ably prizes at the Garrison Schools now, this guide business in Can- don't belong to the breed that occasion has arisen we feel justified in giving the public of give us an idea of the service carried by Master Gunner May. loak place yesterday morning.
ton City is on it's las: legs. squeeze the poor. Around every this Colony a little inside information. On Thursday we contemplated. Naturally. the
That's part of the miracle. Lady Kirkpatrick presented the
pot o' easy money there's nye a.... printed an article which we saw in Shipping out Engineering earliest efforts are to be directed,
It's when ye've tied up, get lot the prizes in the elder children's the old pipe geing and out on grafters but when there's only the o' perfectly responsible (Shanghai) dealing with an interesting phase of a to developing a service to Egypt, Colony
Senior school whils: Mrs, Sandere, wife the Bund that the man that scrapings a budget in the Can- We acknowledged the source from which we took it. Africa, and Australia, with a view retirement. At the Imports and Garrison Schools, presented the building and the like brings ye Hongkong and rusticate on the o R.G.A.. Officer in charge of the gets his first surprise. You Sua need to catch a swift boat to believing that it was an original article to that journal. to inaugurating permanent ser- Exports Office yesterday he was prizes in the infants school In yesterday morning's Daily Prese appeared the following vices to those points sonder or made the recipient of a presenta-
in mind o places at home and Caine Road level. These chaps later. The airship will probably tion from his fellow officers, and made in the infants school so as no, clinched by getting nearly even been sure where the next Before the presentations were that impression is, as often as have stuck to their job and no paragraph
but with the rapid advance of which he has been prominently Amoy, which the Hongkong Telegraph reproduced last serial science, one may anticipate connected for many
recitations was given by the the middle o' the road ye happen what's more forby, ye can see night from a Shanghai paper is certainly interest as feasible the day when the farewell presentation was made children, the following being the to be standing on at the time. But where the money's been spect
I'm no going ing." but rather state as the Shanghai paper lifted giant aeroplane will make a much last evening in the presence of a programme
to describe Ex-bandits in the guise of civil it from the columns of the Houglong Daily Press, bigger one. with this Colony large company. Mr. Mackenzie
The Christmas Stocking" by Canton for ye. Ye want to go governers have hilberto ruled [zharing in the advantages. takes with bim the best wishes the children.
and see it for yourself and if Canton. The lot in office now srB apparently without the customary acknowledgment.
of a wide circle of friends.
you have been there for the making Canton. past ten years
That's the or so, you'll differance. And they're no sur feel like the man who when rounded wi'braves. Ye can get examining the big stuffed fish is leave to build factories, ye cau the glass case, said it was damned lie onyway."
get trading facilities, ye can even get a concession oʻkind but if yo Everett."
Canton bad long outgrown its think ye can call there and bribe use for a wall-and it has gone. them into letting ye away a' the In its place are roads, no' perfect, best part of the Province in the "The Robin," by the children. billiard table kind of roads after shape of a coal concession, you're Good-night," by the children the Hongkong P.W.D. pattern, barking up the wrong tree. No, A word of praise should be mind ye, but good broad roads it's no a city o' larbs.
Amorg
those leaving to-day WIL
Butterfield and Swire scheme to build a pier at Amor whence experimental fights are Revenue Officer D. J. Mackenzie, of Lient-Col Sanders, D.3.0-hasna' been to Canton for a while ton Treasury there's never much
to be made towards India. South who is proceeding Home
The story of a Taikoo scheme being held up at/make a big cat in present times, at Kowloon Cricket Club with excellent programme of songs and run down wi' a motor car if it's mouth's salary's to come from, and
We didn't mind being told that the news was stale we Dutch Shipping. didn't see it in the Daily Press for a very obvious reason)| but we were a little surprised at the Daily Pre using the word "customary" when it complained that the Shanghai journal did not acknowledge the source of its article.
The young Dutch adventurers who projected a line to South Africa are making some stir in the shipping world.
Bank-ra in-
years. 2
KOWLOON THEATRE.
ton.
"Cload pictures,"-Lily Span-
"Old Mother Hubbard." Eileen Buckle and Harold Massey.
"Raindrops," by the children. "What became of them,"-Vern
received.
as
#
experienced in maritime affairs Fine Programme To-night. It is interesting to point out that in the very same were induced to nauce the con- column in which the above paragraph appeared in yester-cern, the Datch South African Kowloon residents are promised day's 'res was a paragraph about three new Aga flash Shipping Co.. but the resulta a fine entertainment at the Kow- lights for the approaches to Hongkong barbour-a clear case have been indifferent, and no loon Theatre to-night when "Tolly application for a sabsidy was of the Storm Country" will be of plagiarism from the Telegraph of the preceding evening, made to the Dutch Parliament as screened for the first time, In-given the schoolmistress, Mre. for all that They've got busses I believe that the officials of Was there any customary acknowledgment of its source? the only means of saving the cluding almost every type of Dovaston, and her staff for the there and'll have tramwaye by Canton City will make good if When the s. s. Telemachus came into Port after a thrilling undertaking. The proposal met character and depicting a corres careful training the children bad and by. They've got Electricity they get hall a chance at all. We Works full of up-to-date machin-in Hongkong here must, in our experience in the recent typhoon a Telegraph reporter got with considerable opposition in ponding variety of buman emo
of The infants prize-list was
ery but no more dirty stinking own interest, see that no sand, Is an exclusive story from one of the officers. The Daily Press Holland, and naturally other tions, shifting from scenes
canals. They've got public parks thrown among the machinery. re-wrote that story for its next morning's edition. Was countries with South African material splendour to those of follows:-
now and no lines did not regard it with a kind-humble privation, and preaching
Special prizes awarded for pro-They've got bureaux now and wi' indifference or even approba- more gambling. What the world once regarded. there any "customary" acknowledgment of its source? ly are. In May, however, the throughout a lesson of universal greas and good conduct, Daphne thank goodness no more yamens tion is now barred from the con- During the consideration of the Rents Bill a meeting of Dutch lower Chamber approved love, "Polly of the Storm Coun. Leach. Vera Everet and William where in days goue by ye had to duet of normal men. the Chinese Chamber of Commerce was held at noon on a Bill authorising a subsidy try has that "something
that Stroud.
pay your way in to the very July 8th. and there was only a Telegraph reporter present. 1.000.000 per annum for fiva delights averyone.
Class prizes.-Standard 1-presence of him ye sought, aye conduct of those who rule the The true and final test of the The photography is superb. and his report of the proceedings was exclusive. The rears, and as this has now been
approved by the other branch of Spectacular light and shade Eileen Backle, Alaander Turtle, and citon pay the
presence. neighbouring city is not after all following morning the Daily Press came out with a slightly the Legislature the line will have effects, shimmering fade-outs and George Tidey. Ruth Cousins and into the bargain before yo got what is attained but what is based condensed account just as though it was their own. Was an opportunity of testing whether finely expressive close-ups are
Joba Longstaff,
what ye wanted. That's all. When we look round and seG., there any "customary acknowledgment? The news of it can justify the expedient of to be seen. Magnificence and
Class II.-Ellen Cousins, Marie changed now. The price of a after what they are striving, or Needless to say, squalor are set forth, there is a Strood, Brunetis Williams and visiting card is all that's necess- wish in their hearts to achieve, Capt. D'Oliveyra's resignation from the Secretaryship of State aid. the China Coast Officers Guild was given to a Telegraph are substantial, and time was flashes of fire in the war zone,
Dutch interests in South Africa vivid storm scene, there are Raymond White.
sry to see even the Mayor him-we bere in Hongkong, can self. Ye don't get fancy cups of scarcely avoid the conclusion Class III-Gedge Woodier man, who added some of his own private knowledge to his when Holland disputed with us and frequent vistas of natural | Kathleen MacDonell, John Bed-about everything under the sun mo ad on to at least a slightly. tea nowadays and ye don't chat that after all the Cantonese have report. That report was re-written in the Daily Press. the supremacy of the sess. British beauty spots all of which bespeak path and Robert Click. before ye get down to brass tacka. { higher plane. Was there any" customary" acknowledgment of its source? shipping interests in that quarter, infinite care and goo? taste.
Class 17.-Olive White, JesbYou state your business and then And so we could go on, readers, giving other instances however,
Andrews. Thoras Parsons, close the door quietly as you go. which make the word "customary" more than a little entrenched.
Graca Winfield and Francis out. The last time i was in a
HUNAN TUCHUN'S DILEMMA ⠀ Bacon
General Chao Heng-t, Tochin humorous when used by our contemporary.
yamen I got the cold shivers of Hunan, is reported to have got” In the afternoch the annual down my back at the sight of so himself into an unpleasant post- school picnic, provided by the many firearms. I didns feel tion through having promised kind subscription of civilians, right for a week afterwards agents of Canton to support friends and members of the Gar-Now the only explosive thing tu Kwangtung la ita action against More than £90, mainly in rison Institutes, took place to Big a public office in Canton is a Kwaorsi. Later on he appears to sale piracy from us? As we said at the introduction, we to France with the intention of coppers, was showered on the Wave Bay, the W. vessel Omp-match and sometimes even that have beld slocf until pressed by would rather no occasion had arisen for this kind of co-findinz work. Upon theft arrival, South London Pospital for hales being requistioned. Bath won't light. The last guide 1 Canton agents, when be issued ment, but when the Daily Press sarcastically complains of a however, they find themselves Women, at Clapham, by race- ing and games on the beach oc- had in Canton was a detective proclamation giving ordans for vis breach of "customary" courtesy we, who so often see our stranded instead, therefore the goers on the way to and from cupied an hour and the party sat) who went afore me wi' a pair of troops to assist Kwangtung" "The Government is requested to sea Epsom, in response to appeals by down to tes at 5.1 & happy day drawn revolver and his brows troops, however, have not moved own men & work plagiarised without the slightest recogni-that no new men are allowed to nurses who promenaded with ended with the party returning hanging down over his nose sad, it is reported, show no dir tion, feel bound to have our little say,
go to France.
to the RAS.C.ple about 7 o'clock. Now you're as safe as if ya were position to do so,
Even the Daily Press will have to confess that, we did acknowledge the source of the Amy story-the only source we were aware of. Why then should it rake up the matter with an air of injury, when it indulges in whole
ате pretty
firmly
NO DEMAND IN FRANCE FOR CHINESE LABOUR. A telegram from the Chinese
many Chinese labourers have gone
Minister to France reports that
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