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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1921...
THE CHINA FAMINE FUNDS.
Chewing the Cud.
WARD
Mare knowledge, more Beauty 1 'ment of the municipal boring Both are in the English reading | aqbama, - -
atmosphars of this truly advanced. The Corporation
year of ours. If there was a kick mittes of Shodeid recommende in the Problemy navel" when that, mabject to the approval of Armageddon began, that fro the Ministry of Health, tenders THE "PROBLEM". NOVEL burned it up. Amki its fury and be sccepted for the erection of heat nothing could live that was 397 concrete houses on the Manor A previous generation was not worthy, Eternally the pro- estate at a total cost of £297,610. wont to speak of the novel with blems of life, love, and death are One fatal case of plague was■ purpose." Of course, every worthy and of good report. And
It is stated that the Ministry
aimed more of less
NO MAN IS SUCH A CONQUEROR "There's nothing new under 39 THE MAN WHO HAS DEFEAT"} [the sun” as the old Arabian sage:
KDO HIMSELF.-HENRY remarked. So what's the use of BEECHER. hoping for it! Our contributas.† Robert McWhirter, Esq., seemed to bemoan this fact yesterday [when he spoke of old jokes, old reported yesterday. This was the novel may be said to have a readers have come to know that of Transport will confirm a pro- subjects for comment and the the twenty-four hours.
only case of notifiable disease for purpose of
10035 Wort; the they can be written about thus visional order granted by the fack that editorial writars în
reference was to some specific reverently, and they will have Light Railway Commissioners in" Hongkong chewed the aft "end"
purpose. Charles Reade wrote them written about in no other 1915 for a sorios of tramways fof years ago. He wrote-"There's' Two sick and destitute Chinese Hard Cash" to expose the abuse way. Sifilarly the art of the connecting the scattered town- are the elusive hope that some found wandering in the streets of private lunatic asylums: English novel has risen to that ships in the Dearne Valley and genius will conceive an original were yesterday admitted into the same genus. Zola, I suppose, of the novelists, to the lifting borough The length of the "Valentine Vor" WAS of the treatment, thanks to the initiative linking up Barnaley and Mex- joke, a new dramatic situation. Tung Wah Hospital. or. in Hongkong, a new subjectĮ
remedying, the absinthe evil when once more, to both forces working will be from Thurnscoe, High- influence of public opinion, or various routes is about 19 miles in all, and the main trunk line The death occurred of Mr. he wrote "L'Assomiar."
unconsciously together. paper will not be surprised to Thomas L. Blair, of the Canton- Later we have had the "pro-
gate, Bolton, Wath. West Malton, know that "Joe" as well as "Mac Hankow Railway, at the Inter-blem" novel, rather too much of own capable consors; they will well and Ardsley to Barneley. The mass of the people are their Brampton, Cortonwood, Womb Pherson" is a generic name, but national Hospital. Hankow, OD it, with its preoccupation with sex bare what is best only, and they while swo branch routes the particular "Joa" on duty in July 31. Mr. Blair had been in questions. The subject is discus are getting it, slowly quality and this comment feela
inspired the hospital for about 10 days, sed by a writer in a London tone of the English novel was proposed. dafend himself and his co suffering from dysentery. weekly, who says that the expresnover higher than now. For that The Light Railway Commis- editorial friends by telling the
sion problem novel originat we owe something to the other sioners recently granted an ap verbose Robert that the value of
Another burglary on a Euro- ed quarter of century ago or hill-toppers of the nineties who plication to construct the Totton, comment is not to be found in
pean house, that in the occupa-' so back, perhaps in the early blazed the rade trail, which,ythe and Fawley light railway. the originality of the subject on tion of Mr. Allford, at No. 1 Mfor-Dinetics, when. Votes for Wo- since then, has become an Appian The estimated cost of canatese- which it is based. The originality ton Terrace, took placa in temen" and other things of the sort Way, where old master English tion is £25,000 of the comment (not the subject)
ware less familiar than they are novelists like Fielding and Rich- small bours of yesterday morn might give it claim to public:
for editorial comment. I'll leave that for Joe." The readers of this
The Urban District Council bas
I notice, but the intrinsic value ofg. when the loss of $100 was/now. There had been the Yellowardson might meet fit modern resolved to apply to the Ministry
To-morrow's Picture Page will contain the following-View of Maryknoll Procure, Homantia, Kowloon: H. M. Kai Dinb. ruler!
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
OT
contributed, a short series of articles analysing the a happier bumanity. Even revealed that in addition to the novel. Res., nothing desperately farmline bas accepted estimates approximate receipts of the Chinese Government for the diplomats and
who have the power
Between
of Health for sanction to borrow £103,000 for sewerage works in Bromborough.
The Dundee Town Council bas applied to the Scottish Office for authority to widen, Broughty Ferry Road, and to construct a sea wall or bulwark in connection with the project. Estimates for these improvements amount to £205,000.
projected at a cast of £13,000,000 on a pre-war basis. An agree- ment has been entered into with the Midland Railway, by which a passenger landing-stage and im- proved railway facilities are to be constracted at an estimated cost of about £1,300,000.
Ourselves
Book, a magazine of much ema company. sustained through the theft of a any comment lies in its attributes quantity of clothing and a pair of cipation, and there had been
whether it is just, reasonable.)
shoes,
'hill-top” novals, and generally practicable or of benent. There.
there was a breaking through of the are some subjects on which we
́prunes and prisms” fencing all need reminders, pointed and This is how they do it in that belonged to Victorianism. often. Our religious preachers Shanghai-"A party of police on There had been Meredith's novels, have, according to the viewpoint trate duty in the Bubbling Well and there were Hardy's novels, of Robert MacWhirter, been district, in the early hours yester-especially "Tess," and new lights chewing the cad for centuries day, in a hour and a half noted were coming along for old lamp; Big Schemes at Home. bat that robe their Sermons 22 minor offences against traffic posta. neither of value nor merit. We regulations. These were exces-
As indicating the large amount A: the end the revolt came of public work now being con- need to be reminded of the home sive speed, one; trade licences pretty quickly, or so it seemed to templated
It is stated that the Port of truths they tell us.
And the used for hire purposes, two: aum- some people, and it brought Home, the following paragraphsments and extensions in hand and undertaken at London Authority has improve- public and our officials need to ber plates insufficiently illuminat- whole crop of what was called speak for themseves: have the same old points about ed. 15; defaced permits, three, sad "advanced fiction." Sarah Grand old subjects rubbed into them time pae foreigner without a permit." wrote "The Heavenly Twins," to Tha Corporation of Newport, and again until the desired changa –X. C. Ď. C.
which, at all events, we owe the Monmouthshire, proposes to raise is brought about. In the matter)
delightful story of the lady who £600,000 in 6 per cent. redeemable of its own progress the human race is slothful; the majority of
wanted & copy and only got from stocks, the bulk of which is to be reforms come long after they
her bookseller the regret, Sorry, spent on public works, including have been recognised as neces-
adam, haven't got it, but we 1982 for electricity supply have The Eloping Angels.extensions, £48,628 for tramways, sary. We have to goad ourselves
The Newark Town Council has into action. We have become so of Annam and French Officials; The story actually happened the and other sums for bridges and
Įsimilar workÿ.
decided to apply to the Electri- used to taking the line of least group photograph of the "Harry other way about, but the import-
The Housing Committee of city Commissioners for the grant resistance that the line of greatest Brettall" Lodge. R.A.O. B.:,mem.ance is tha: "The Heavenly advantage is more often than not bers of the Chinese Boxing (Chin Twins was a problem novel Birkenhead recommends that the of a special order for the genera neglected At least neglected Wool Association: troop of H.K. Mrs. Mannington Caffyn's Corporation accept a contract for tion and distribution of electri
"Yellow Aster"
and Grant building 184 houses at a cost of city, and for the provision and until it has been "chewed" over Boy Scouts with the local com Allen's famous hill-topper." in £183.447.
maintenance of the necessary ap- so often that it has automatically missioner, LL-Col Bowen, and a
The Whitehaven Rural District paratus. The initial capital ou The huge. probably record, famine that devastated the become the line of least resistance striking picture of the King and which he proclaimed himself a north of China owing to the failure of the harvest has by reason of its
Council has asked the Ministry lay will be £200,000. general acQueen at the opening of the Uls-leader of the movement.
ter Parliament.
What movement? That it was of Health to recommend that the ended-ended some two months ago. Accounts, giving ceptance.
not merely saose, but might also Public Works Loan Board lend details of expenditure with scrupulous care. have been It's Necessary.
be art, to deal, in serious novels the Council' £206,028 for the The dual checking of the goods with sex-relationship of men and erection of houses at Bransty, and Ostend, Belgium, which is world- The Royal Palaca Hotel at rendered by the private organisations; the Chinese Govern-
Let as illustrate this point stored at the godown of the women, Mre romance, of impos-additional sums for the construc-renowned, and one of the most nient alone bas failed to furnish information as to the There are few of us who think Japanese commercial agent Ssible doings and endings bound to tion of roads and sewers in con- disposal of the extensive funds placed at its disposal. other than that the abolition Nagano, at No. 19 Praya East, be happy," might be all right; nection with this enterprise.
beautiful in Europe, was reopened would make for which Was special correspondent of the North China Daily News has of warfare
during the last month and the burgled recently but that we not the full English! The Town Council of Dua- local office of the American Ex- press Co., Inc., has been moved statesmen theft of lamp bulbs and insulat- revolutionary had happened, for, amounting to £132,623, represent there for the season. Although to ed wire, previously reported, $125 long ago, Richardson and Field-ing an average cost per house of the cffice in question is equipped famine purposes, and. considering that Britain. America,
make or avoid wars tell us that worth of S. W. G. flexible wire is ing wrote. There was was that £839 79. 94. for the erection of 158 to handle all classes of Company and other countries contributed largely in money and they would like to see armaments missing from the same godown.great novel Tom Jones, a novel dwelling houses at Bracefield, business, it is especially designed personal services to the relief of the sufferers, they have an decreased, an international police The burglary wascertainly a suce so great in its sweep and sample comprising the second develop to care for the needs of tourists, interest. and indeed a right. in asking what has become of formed, and all chance of future cessful one, the loss of the goods ing of hom in nature that nobody Avoided. Humanity is not being discovered by the own-ever thought of limiting it with the money. The funds contributed by foreigners directly wars.
practically agreed about the jer until he came to check them. the name "problem novel.” Much were administered by private organisations, and these, as
It would represent the matter.
later, even Puritan, America bad already stated, have rendered complete accounts of their line of greatest advantage. Yet
The bith engineer of the s.5.Letter." ead there was always given our literature "The Scarlet stewardship; but this was not the full extent of the aid it isn't followed. There is a much contributed by the peoples of other countries.
easier line. the line of leaving Tjikini, Mr. Huckstra, has report-
George Eliot. It may be recollected that in March the Diplomatic things just as they are the line of ed to the Police that 230 guilders
Beyond doubt, however, there least resistance. The aim of and $230 in Chinese currency Corps signified assent to a Customs surtax of per cent public writers and speakers is to set from a locker in this cabin. in "sex-shockers," which often ware yesterday extracted by a was. in the nineties, rather a riot (bringing the tax up to about 3 per cent.) for the relief ee that the line of greatest of the famine sufferers. Incidentally it may be observed advantage is not entirely for Alleged to be the thief of a sure were far from being great novels, of $95 from & Chinese shroff, in They were apt to be raw 1 that as the largest exporter to China-a position still held,gotten, is not allowed to be per the employ of the China Mail ss, thought, rawer still in their athyis took it into her head and bairn is caused by the lack of though greatly narrowed, in the face of American and manently baulked by interested
parties. And for that reason these Company, in respect of which at and so were very raw reading. Japanese competition--Britain was the country must
editorial very
barpings are report was reade the other day. Authors rushed in where angels right reason or none she would something to love outside the have a dog-all for her self-and family circle. They've very extensively. concerned in this concession. Approximate essential. he wonder of it alla Chiness was brought before the wight fear to tread.
grandma it'll be no trouble to no seldom something animate that calculations indicate that by the end of Juce this surtax is that a fresh clothing remanded, on the application of talent to discuss, in stories. I'd have Je know
Magistrate this morning and It needs genius- at all events one. Before I go ony further is their own, that protects and in had yielded between two and three million taels. An often found for the old themes.
Mr. D. J. Lewis who is retained the eterns! emotions, spiritualwee yin is by way of being a
that our turn to gives loyalty for the care Robert MacWhirter may grow a equally, perhaps still more, lucrative surtax has been
lavished on them. The country mental and physical, of human high flyer when she hands out kid now, aye has his dog or pet little weary of reading about the by the prosection. failway fares, estimated Οι
at а moderate same thing to-day that he read
life. Genius was rarely available, the English, her being brought lamb. Nowadays the dog is of computation to have produced $1000,000 per month. last year, but it is necessary that
not often enough talent, and so and this surtax has been in force since October. The be should until he and a majority SNATCHING EPIDEMIC. of not-over-nice novels.
what fell out was a sort of market the Diocesan School. She's tin and runs on wheels. A child getting the patois fine and even brought up wi' a dog is lucky. the coolie knows what she's Estly in life the surtaxes were to be in force for a period not exceed of others bave succeeded in per
When the public got over its saying now when she asks for a obedience,
lesson of ing a year. Although the distribution of relief has ceased suading or forcing those endowed
faithfulness, half-shocked
com- |with executive power to actio
surprise at this bawth. But that's by the way. for some time, the main famine having ended, the surtaxes the way desired. The newspapers
panionship and unselfishness is deluge, it began to discriminate, As I was going to tell ye a dog learnt. A man minds about his are still being levied, and presumably if there is no inter- in this Colony had a long fight to
and the libraries did the same. it had to be. Where she got the first dog, aye, even when he has vention Peking will continue to draw the famine surtax get the Rente Bill, but they suc
Is the problem novel dead? notion, I don't know. Maybe she forgotten his first love... until next March. These sources of revenue do not by any of the Hongkong public is that yesterday, to substantiate the not dead, and never will be dard matter I don't wonder at her. It ceeded in the end. And the hope Two snatching cases occurred Yes and no: it is dead and it is was tired of her doll and for that means exhaust the famine funds received by the Chinese they will go on fighting for those views of the police that there is as long as, in the familiar line, it must be a severe strain on even Government, for a single province. Kiangsu, compounded things that are desirable until an epidemic of this class of crime is love that makes the world go incipient motherly instinct to the likin surtax by a payment of nearly a million dollars, they get them. The public don't among the In ore desperate round. The manufactured "pro- take kindly to a doll like you. did more for its nurses than they and there have been substantial receipts from the postal deserve that fight on their behalf characters of the city. As in the blam novel" of the nineties and But that's neither here nor did for it. The old forse that
sometimes, it's trae. But in that previous instances, the victims later, the novel that was a treatise there.
took us to kirk was almost as All the traceable contribution from the Chinese tion in the words of those who the grandmother of Mr. Chang or was expected to sell, for its kind of animal for that matter as the minister. The boy or girl connection we can find consola-were women. A Chinese lady, in nastiness, the novel that sold, | Now I like dogs myself, ony much aid to Christain character Government is $5,000,000. There was some talk of the address the Imperial, House of Ki-pun, of No. 1 U On Terrace, subject, is the deadset literary but a Kowloon flat's no' the place brought up in the country made surplus being used for public works, such as railways and Commoos. and we will was going along in a ricksha mutton you could fancy. It really for the lower creation. I mean an early start on the fundamental roads, thus fulfilling a double purpose by providing ever pray."
in Bonham Road, when
at died on the morn of the day animals, Janet tried to compro virtuss of life. employment for the sufferers. As far as can be ascertained,
a little frequented part of the road, that it was born." because it ise wi'a wee kitton but I had to Now we have a car that stinka a Chinese came up and snatched never deserved to live, and was put my foot on that too. Kittens and norts. à contrivance that practically the only work that has been undertaken is the laying of a mud track for the so-called Chefoo-Whihsien
EDINBURGH'S LORD PROVOST from her left ear a diamond ear-no more than a rude battering bave an awkward knack of getting get's there and back without kind ring of the value of $250. Before ram, useful for breaking down into cate and are by way of being words or a caressing pat, I defy railway. It is reckoned that if the surtaxes are continued Lord Provost J. W. Chesser, of the alarm could be given the Victorian convention. Now it is a bit noisily noticeable in their onybody to acquire character by for the full period a further $12,000,000 will fall into the Edinburgh, died suddenly as the thief had made a quick retreat not merely dead, but damned! love affairs and what's more for consorting i six-cylinder hands of Peking. Seemingly the Chinese Government is result of hemorrhage of the brain. down Hing Hon Road.
Novel readers of 1921 are differ bye. I never did like the smell of internal combustion engine. For
by means of the Famine Prevention Bureau; and admitted. Provost of Edinburgh died.during to the foregoing occurred at of 1890 or a little earlier. They thought of. The only things in the of the cook in the morning. seeking to camouflage the disposal of the surplus millions Not for 100 years has a Lord At 7.45 last night a case similar ent people from the novel readers ammonia onyway. "So no" even a, a watchdog there are burglar nice, wee, fluffy kitten could be alarms and clock alarms instead ly there is still work to be done, witness the new outbreak of famine in Hunan and the Han inundation. Here, at DELEGATES IDENTITY DISCS, Heung Hing Lane. From the women or man-know what is animal line that can get by in a We've got gramaphones and Many of the delegates to the ears of the Chinese wazan a meant by a problem noval." Kowloon flat without bringing on mechanical pienos to play wi any rate, the Diplomatic Corps has an opportunity-which Congress of the Universities of pair of diamond and pearl ear-They take it for granted that your head the disapproval of the nowadays. We study the marvels. report says it is intended to utilise by a threat of cutting the Empire, received by the Vice- rings of the value of $350 was navelists who can write and have neighbours
cocksozobes, of fight from aeroplanes instead
vision. Other countries have shown their willingness to London, advertised their subject/come up suidenly from behind. cate problems to them. But the from Canton hittee more far, and thingamabobs instead off the Customs surtax-of stipulating for foreign super- Chaucellor of the University of Batched by a thief who had ideas may submit the most deliquitoes and the cookboy's of the homely pigeon.
No.1, fleod just down on a visit Wires, and devices and engines. help the sufferers in China, but not to put noney into the tagged to the button of their Lane and escaped in the dark-retically, not as a laundry at to sleep, the while Janet and I admiration. No wonder we need
a postcard be so ran into Heung Hing must do it sweetly, sincerely,
So the wee fin sobbed herself flesh and blood, devotion and pockets of officials or war lords.
|looked side ways at each other, a League of Nations,
that
surtaxes.
DEAD.
his term of ofica.
and their пате ср
gowns,
Two Serious Cases Yesterday,
Queen's Road, at its japntion with don't-not the youngest of them,
bets.
the wash.
By Robt. MacWhirter. Last night there was a kind of and mentally labbed one another a mild hard-hearted mortals. Smoking scene in our bouse. Before the over it afterwards I couldns
what ye might call and real tears were present and help but think that one of the Yo see it was this way. The wor i was sorry for the lassie, bare spots that is rubbed into the weave of childhood of the town
are
the girl that's reared them get's her first savves of motherhood. The lamb brought upon the bottle
Chickens are silly things but
of
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