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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921.
AN OVERCROWDING PROBLEM.
of that kind. When Parlia mont sanctioned national suffrage:
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Harrow, the 350th anniversary of which Old Harrovians cele-
Bledisloe, who was dring the bollars took boki of a pibe nearly red hot and severely damus both his bands. The most distingisbed AA Necessary Explanation.
There are tiny creatures called guest the stokáhold of a FORDC) At a conference of the National PUDDING WI' THINKING O' THE'
·Regarding the figures bears that live in the barks of ever had was King George him- Union of Railwaymen BATTER, IT UD BE EASY GETTING published yesterday relating to tress. In time they dry up in dead self, when he was the Duke of Newcastle, Me: Cramp, the Pre-DINNER-George Blict.
the signatures on the petition for masses. If this dead matter is York. He, was returning across sident, complained that "so long
Constitutional Reform it has bean soaked in water it will years after the Atlantio during his trip round as the present system of election. There ware two non-fatal cases pointed out to us that in our wards gradually swell-and the the world, when he expressed a provalled, so long would the of small-pox and one non-fatal explanation of those figures water bears will soon become wish to visit the stokers. Don- House of Commons be filled by case of enteric fever reported we made an error, likely to be plump as before and move about ning a suitofoveralls, be inspected | mare plase-hunters, who by mak-yesterday.
very misleading. This we are actively in search of food. A anail Tery part of the gloomy region ing promises to the people,
happy to correct.
which was glued to a card in where the stokers work; and in however wild, would be able to The loss of a brooch of the
We pointed out that the Jury museum for four years came to order that he might get soms idea keep hold of the reins of power. valus of over three pounds start List contained about 1,500 or life when it was immarsed in of the severity of their task, he Members were elected oning, is reported by Miss Raid of 1,600 namus whereas the petition water. Same insect specimens in saised a shovel and did quite a emotional grounds and by sweep-the Matilda Hospital as occurring had only been signed by just over the collection of a naturalist came long spell of work. ing appeals to the passions of the whilst she was out shopping 600 parsons, and we went on fur to life after they had been dead people for revange. No scope yesterday.
ther to state that the whole of two yeats. And manuscripts was allowed for the thinker, the
those on the Jury List were eligi-thousands of years old simply employed for many years in the Pierre Schamel-Roy, who was planner, and the organiser, and For being in possession of 40 ble to a vole, That is not abound with "dead" life. too much to the chin-wagger.els of opiuma Chinese 'from so, as it is only British subjects
wardrobe department of the Paris The N.U.R President is de Vaumati was this morning fined who are entitled to a
Opera House and died in 1914 at cidedly uncomplimentary to the 3750, with the alternative of four Our informant-prominently Pictures instead of politics at the age of 106, was probably, intelligence of democraes, though months" bard labour #t the connooted
with the reform the House of Commons, with the last survivor of those who that could not have been his Magistracy.
movement said that the actual special seat reserred at each per- had conversed with Napoleon
во ni intent. Probably there is a lot
number of British subjects on the formance for the Prime Minister! The
of Napo- of ground for the criticism Ashraff employed by the China List has not been ascertained, but That would cause a sensation, leon's personal attendants, Pierre contained in the concluding part Mail Steamship Company has it is estimated that the number of wouldn't it? Yet the national Schamel-Roy
born in of his remarks, but many would lost a sum of $95. He is not sure non-British subjects who would exchequer of the West African the Palace of Versailles, and as a the inference to be drawn from this. from his pocket whilst walking in calculation
King would about letting out the House of Represent- Here is no question of propor-Des Voeux Road Central yester-equalled by the number of atives as a twice-weekly cinema. Dembered seeing the Emperor tional representation or anything day afternoon.
British subjects who would The admission price is thirty three times, all of them at St. they cants (1s 3d.), and the President Helena, where he was taken to visit bis father, who followed A Chinese who was found by anot exempted from Jury Service of the Repablic has his own re- it did about all that was possible Chinese constable yesterday in by Ordinance. In other words, served chair. Mr. Cherry Kearton, Napoleon into exile. On one of to give candidates a clear field: Blake Gardens in a condition of the Dumber Of exempted the well-known explorer, has de- these three occasions Sir Hudson the decision was then "up to' unsound mind. was promptly Britishers entitled to vote scribed an even more remarkable Lowe suspected him of being the the electors. It may be that seat to the Government Civil approximates to the number of cinema be came across in the bearer of a secret letter for the these was an element of unwis Hospital yesterday for examina- non-Britishers who figure on the wilds of Uganda. It was a private Emperor. "I was taken before dom in conferring the vote upon, tion by s doctor.
Jury List and it can, therefore, be show owned and operated by the Sir Hadson," he relates," and be for instance every dustman or
taken as fairly accurate that the Kabaka or ruling chief. Here, asked whether I had got a letter hawker provided only that he had
There are only two cases down total number of persons entitled thousands of miles from civiliza for Napoleon. I said 'No,' but reached the age of twenty-ons, for trial at this month's Criminal to vote is, roughly, 1,500 or 1,600. tion. fr. Kearton was rendered he was not satisfied. Strip that seeing that such raters could Sessions, which will be held next Questioned regarding the pos- homesick by seeing a film of youngster, said Sir Hudson, I was hardly be expected to distinguish Thursday. Lai So alias Li Fong-sibility of the petition being signed Piccadilly Circus!
stripped and searched, but they found nothing, so I was allowed "the thinker, the planner, and chi is charged with highway by some persons not entitled to a the organise from the "chin-robbery and Tong Siu-cho is vote, our informant admitted that
to see the Emperor. I knelt bew Why hot days and nights fore him and kissed his hand. He wagger"; but such an objection charged with arson, or, altern- there could be no guarantee should produce colds is at first patted me on the head and called. comes somewhat strangely atively, attempted.arson.
against such a happening, as the sight a mystery. Yet the reasons me a loyal little fellow. I was from & trade union leader.
Committee could hardly ask for are quite simple. All colds are about twelve years old at that Mr. Cramp's argument, though
A gambling dispute led to a the certificates of origin of caused by microbes. The cold time." apparently he does not realise it, free fight amongst 150 Haklo every signators, but if there microbe is always waiting to amounts to a plea for the curtail fishermen at Cheung-chau yester-were
any such cases they waylay us, but he cannot do so ment of the franchise. Surely day. Two of the men, who were constituted further argu-unless we are rundown in health. it would have been more to the somewhat seriously injured, ment in favour of reform because If you sit in a draught, probably brated last month by a dinner at purpose if the N. U. President, were examined by Dr. McBurney it showed that the necessity of you begin to sneeze. It was not instead of blaming the electoral and by his orders removed to the reform was evident even to men the draught which caused the the Savoy Hotel with the Marquis system, had inculcated upon his Goyernment Civil Hospital.
who had no interest in the matter cold; it was one of the most of Crowe, in the chair, has asso- followers the advantage of cul-
beyond their own secse of what sensitive of the nerves of the body ciations with Thackeray, though tivating the qualities which hel
the author of Vanity Fair" WES -the nerve which serves the ear, desiderates.
The new nickel coins that are was right.. being put out by the Canton It is possible that a canvass nose, and throst. If you remain
himself educated at Charterhouse. Frenchmen at the Wicket. Government Mint each valued of will be made before the petition for long in a current of cold air. His great-grandfather, Archdaa-
finally withdrawn It requires an effort of the a ten cent, silver coin, are now in is
from this nerve will be affected; it will con Thackeray, who was head- The comments we were enabled to make yesterday imagination to picture the French- circulation and a proclamation circulation.
ay to the nose, ear, and throat: master from 1746 to 1760, has concerning the attitude of landlords and local architects man as a cricketer.
the second So it did a bas been issued by the Municip-
You do not like this draught," been aptly styled and they become so weakened founder of the school." The ad- towards the Government's Bill seeking to ninend the Public dozen years ago to figure bim asality arging the people to accept
that the microbes are able to find option by the Thackerays of the Health and Buildings Ordinance of 1003 point to the fact boxer, except possibly as one of these new nickel coins at their
Harrow BITO #5 the pantomime type. Within face value. The proclamation
a home. End of Long Dispute.
among their that the Colony is now reaping the fruits of its past three or four years of that period declares that these coins can be
armorial bearings led the great A very long, standing dispute
William Makepeace ip 1859 carelessness in the matter of building overcrowding the French champion gave weight exchanged at the Provincial Back between the Fishmongers' Guild During the stoppage of the-whao Dr. Vaughan W85 There must have been a prodigious lack of foresight in the and a beating to the British heavy for a ten cent. piece or 20 for and the Chinese Hotel keepers of pumps at the coal mines recently, restoring the school earlier days when the maze of back-to-back and tortuous weight champion. After all the dollar.
the Colony has just been settled. Lord Bledisloe and his two sons position lost under lax of French pogilists
Until about six months ago it helped to keep them working at decessors to celebrate bis de- streets were permitted to be designed and when houses success were allowed to be erammed and jammed into veryment: from the days of the Gauls Whitbread with the thefs of a to deduct two per cent. off their Forest of Dean. Whilst assisting reciting to delighted schoolboys is not matter for great astonish- Charged by Sergeant A. P. was the habit of the hotel keepers their Norebard Colliery, Lydney,scent from the archdeacon by conceivable bit of space. The Government is now seeking their land has had martial tradi-diamond ring of the value of $60 bills for fish supplied on the his father, the Hon. Hiley, his lectures on the "Four to remedy some of that folly by insisting that when a tions. Whether cricket is suited a Chinese, who was yesterday ground tha: the money was spent Bathurst, the younger son of Lord Georges. building is being rebuilt or altered or when an entirely to the French temperament is a caught in the "A" Block of the daring the Chinese New Year new building is going up there shall be provided not only least matter of doubt. Before Military Quarters at Kennedy festival to boy crackers. The roon for an adequate scavenging lane but room for a yard the youth of Paris took up the Road, was this morning sentenced fishmongers failed to see why Queensberry code, Esticuffs in- by Magistrate R. E. Lindsell to they should pay for the crackers also. Property owners, therefore, are finding that their terested Frenchmen sufficiently six weeks hard labour notwith- of the hotel keepers and accord- sites are diminishing in size and that the Government is for some of their authors to take standing the explanation he gaveingly agreed to stop all fish sup- making scavenging lanes at their expense and on land that notice the noble art"-Victor to the Court that he had no work plies to the hotels, hoping thersby they have paid for. The natural sequel is that not until Hugo gives a realistic description and had to find means one way or to get full settlement of their bills.
By Robt, MacWhirter. the present premises are condemned by the Public Works of an old-time encounter in "Par another to support a large family. The hotel keepers, however, were
Joe, the other day opined (with controversial has been Department or the health authorities will landlords do comes to mind of a French writer Believed by the Police to be a terms. For six long months the apologies to the man that writes boards before. Turn back the anything in the way of structural work. The Bill-the tackling King Willow, except the consignment intended for the hotels have not been supplying our cables) that you joke about newspaper files twenty years and intention of which is to remedy the glaring evils of single case of the droll'impression Kwangsi militarists a haul of fish to their customers. Now, being tickled to death wasna' a you will see the same old subjects overcrowding-must be supported from the hygenic point te M. Paul Blodet Max Inspector Wills at Connaught the menus. for the fish dealers Pherson doesna at times aye and which griffin reporters think contributed to a periodical by the arms was yesterday made by however, fish will again figure on new one. He fancies that Mac as we're arguing about today of view but from the economic point of view it is unfair. O'Bell"). The aim of the bowler, Road West when he exposed the have intimated their willingness stick to the truth. Of course, of in terms of "scoop." By the At least so the landlords claim.
wrote the French bumorist. contents of a truck that was being to supply fish on the old terms. that was another way of saying way, what's become of that good We think that the Government's latest proposal is "appears to be so to deliver the drawn along. He discovered no We understand that it was that I was guilty of throwing ad azbject * Our just so much tinkering and taimpering with a matter that projectile as to catch the defender less then 12 cases of nicke! bullet through the good offices of the the bammer myself at times. Contribution." It's long and
The two coolies in Chinese Chamber of Commerce But I never let on. As I said, if many a day since
I've seen ought boldly to be faced in its entirety. During the the batsman on the ankle, or casings.
| failing that, on the shin, but the charge of the truck, one of whom that the rapprochement was he could find a
better joke, it. It used to be a good old stand- disastrous epidemic of "spotted fever here a few years former is considered the more was a Kwangsi man, were arrest-effected.
let him print it. Bat As by when subjects were scarce, ago the Government spent money on getting the advice of effective!"" However, the Stedeed and duly charged at the Police
a matter of fact it was a true and the editor had amid-afternoon an expert advice it has not yet acted on in the spirit in Francais, the pioneer athletic Court this morning. On the mo
story. I'll admit though, that headache or wanted away on a maybe it didna' come from the bathing picine. Let a sonorous which it was given. We were told by this visitor that the organisation across the Channel, tion of Mr. McNamara, who is
MacPherson he thinks I meant. and well doped-out editorial be only remedy for Hongkong was a comprehensive scheme of which has made great headway appearing for the defence, the
The Position Reviewed.
Joe doesna" seem to realise published to-morrow on this time- Our Canton correspondent yet that remodelling. It meant nothing short of the rebuilding of in sport generally, now fields a case has been remanded.
MacPherson is. 2 worn subject and hundreds, who the City of Victoria on sanitary and sensible lines. If we been arranged with the members
writes saying that General Chan generic name that New census forms are being King-ming has left Whamtein for lot that's improbable at times it's all about, will chew it up in Covere & havn't the faintest idea of what wished to safeguard our public health we must do away of the British Legion resident in supplied the different sub-police
Nanning. All the Kwangsi and mainly foolish. What's club and home and it's a sure bet with these narrow, twisting, senseless roads and lanes that the Frenchcapital. Meetings in the stations by the Canton Police forces, both in Nanning and more forbye, me
that that somebody other'll make up the maze of Victoria and plan the place out pro-genial atmosphere of the creat Department with instructions to Mabing have now fled to Loong you trout tickling business was cadging round lawn by Chrisimas perly, allowing room for good roads and scavenging areas of union-provided that French respective localities. On account
sheer leg-pull I offered to make getting signatures petitioning the between the houses. The Government is trying to get the bowlers do not take their late
Owing to the strategic position a bet on it but he wasna' for Government to keep the money of the significant lacrease of the Kwangsi troops in Kweilin having ony, which goes to prove and use the local volunteers to improvement by insisting on the carrying out of its ideas humorous compatriot literally. in population of the
city the superior forces of the Yunus that Scot's folk are no' their lee- protect the Colony instead. Mui in all cases where the property comes into the builders The Imperial Conference since the evacuation of the and Cantonese troope cannot lane when it comes to steadying tsai, overcrowding; ob! the whole hands. It makes no provision for the compensation of the Reviewing the deliberations of Kwangsi militarists from the succeed in capturing the city.the money-market. Joe says the bunch o' them have all been in owners-it seeks to take the necessary land wherever it the Imperial Conference, Mr. province last year, the Police General Ngai Bong-ping has been proper way to tickle trout is wi the cud of public opinion years offers. Owning land and houses is a commercial matter Massey, the New Zealand authorities believe that a more instructed to render assistance. anet. Why no' a pole or a five ago.
The M.P's belonging to the barred gate when he's at it? and a man would be foolish, to say the least, if he started Premier, opined that the Anglo- detailed census should be taken
in order to assist the police to Kwok Min Tung Party have No, it was a joke and no' a fresh were being built the Egyptian In the days when the pyramids
if it meant the sacrifice of a considerable portion of his renewed, noless, as is the general keep a strict watch against the decided to hold an extraordinary one forbye, says he And so we. Kings were nearly tickled to palling down his properties and putting up better buildings Japanese alliance would
hope, it is expanded into a wide iux of undesirables into "the meeting on August 12 to consider took it, at that, to avizandum. death at the seven original jokes land. He will much prefer to wait until they either fall international agreement. In that city whom the police believe will the proposal of the Government But to get down to brass tacks, the mother-in-law or relative down or the P.W.D. spot the building in question and respect the world now awaits endanger the public peace and to attack the north in conjunction is a joke ever old onyway? At joke, twins or mistaken identity force his hands."
the Washington Conference, order especially at present when with the armies of Szechuen, and the pictures for instance we often joke, the pan or play on words, see the ancient one tricked up the ancient egg or boarding house The matter raises the oft-discussed problem of whether Although this question over-secret agents are being sent to Hunam.
shadowed averything else, it is Canton by the defeated Kwangsi Telegrams have been received The circus clown comes away wi joke, the joke that musta't be Hongkong has not out-grown the accommodation it can well to note that other matters militarists to carry on intrigues from Paking and Shanghai stating the same old gage all the time, told in public, the joke of the find on the north side of the island-on the harbour front. were not lost sight of New Zea against the Government-Can-that the former followers of Li the same old antica. We know unexpected or of pomposity sub
Yaen-bung (the ex-president) are what's coming next. We sport. Jested to ridienle and the gag The advocates of Kowloon have been contending that land's Fremier emphasises such on Times.
taking advantage of the uarest in We look at the tent top and fix about the ridiculous. Jokes are development operations should be encouraged to the points as the need of cheaper
Hupeh to have Li again elected up our facial muscles ready for eternal Plots survive and persist Peninsula where there is plenty of room, whereas others cables, the improvement of wire
NOVEL SWIMMING RACES. President of China. Li has superior smile. But lo the in new disguises. contend that the Government should hasten on its Pray less, faster mail vessels, and the
development of aviation. Consid- ▲ 30-yard swimming race shown his willingness to so sot. ba-whiskered gag starts a roar of East Reclamation scheme, carry out a reclamation scheme erable attention, If not quite so between
There's aye the elusive hope totally blind St The Hapek troops have given laughter all around us. That's that some genius will conceiro in at West Point and deal with the over-crowding matter by much as could have been wished, Dunstan's boys, and a 60-yard up their second line of defence from the younger generation to original joke, & new dramatic streets and not by houses. Certain it is that there is room was bestowed upon these subjects race in which partially blind boys and have retreated. The Hanam whom the stuff is new. When situation or, in Hongkong, for a little more vision than has been displayed so far, ay the Conference, and we must took part, were features of the troops are at present in touch ye come to think of, it even to subject for editorial comment,
hope that the discussions will Forest Hill Swimming Club gala, with the Chibli troops but no this Colony, onything in any way I'll leave that for Jos, little more cohesion in the official idea.
bear fruit at no distant date, at Forest Hill, London.
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