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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DAY BY DAY.

SPARKLING MINERAL NOTES & COMMENTS.

WATER.

Pyeris

Delicious either alone or blended with

wines and spirits.

Our Housing Problems,

A.S.WATSON & CO., LTD. marter and his criticism was

MODESTY, NOT PAINT," 13 WG- | MAN'S BEST ORNAMENT.—Father

Degen, London privat.

- The engagement is announced of Miss Rose Edkins to Lieut. A. D. Nicholl, of H.M.9. Bluebell.

THE BOOKSHELF.

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Librarian.")

1921.

psychological element—“1” Is euniinually indulging in self- questioning in his efforts, to. penetrate the asqrot of things; Jeť| there is no advance. This in

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SHANGHAI CARLES.

Ardillere.

Shanghai, Sept. 2

Three freighters and five ten- ders hope to pull off the st. Cordillera into deep water to-day, with the strong tide,

A Demurrer Filed.

bas filed a damurier, asking for the striking from the records of Attorney Fleming's answer and counterclsim.

Railway Stoppage. resumption of the service in a few Railway officials anticipate the days. The route to Mo Kan Shan is still interrupted.

Our Legislators had a field day |

what surprises me when Mr. (From Our Own Correspondent) yesterday, and our readem have

Bjorkmaa - viriamily bracketa possibly", read scough of the

A SCANDINAVIAN NOVELIST,

Hamsun in creativaness with Connall meeting not to need 'a

Scandinavian "Since the death of Ibsen and the Ereat deal mare. But we must be

Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubt-We maust Bot forget, forgiven a fow observations

edly the foremost creative writer bowaver, that the Nobel prize because we think that in maltera

of the Scandinavian countries winner strikes a new note in affecting housing too much usaful We learn that the European so writes Mr. Edwin Barkman in his maturar work, The Growth opinion cannot be given. We staff of the Kowloon Dock will an introduction to Kout Ham of the Soll" the production rather expected that the question be holding a gala on the beach at sun's novel. "Hunger," a transla- which probably most influenced put by the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird Tal Wan-in front of new quart- tion of which by Mir. George the award. As far “HongerTM The National Philippine Bank seeking to do away with the rule ers-on the afternoon of Sunday Egerton has been published by is concerned, the work has the of public auation governing sales 11th Sept. at 3.15 p.m. No fewer Alfred A. Knopi, New York. The marit that, in ipite or because of of Crown Land would be turned than 16 avents have been arrang-narrative, it may be promised, its peculiarities, no one is lik-ly down by the Government After ed and a good afternoon's sport belongs to that class of works to leave it half-read. all is said and done public auctions is promised.

which are called novels because are the best, for sales by private

they cannot very well be put into treaty might give rise to very

It is not aften, relatively, that) An eighteen year old Chinese any other category. In character. a lady butarist comes to light in much more criticism than the female endeavoured to commis the volumé is something between the world of letters. Mr. Jerome, present delays. The system is all right, it is the stro-into the

present suicide yesterday by jumping an essay and an autobiography who has himself undergone

barbour. She

was or, since it refers merely to different phase, appears to have ciously long time taken by the rescued by some boat people and period in the central character'sno literary sisters at least not F.W.D. to put the site up and removed to the Government career, it might be regarded as many. A claim may be entered.

Heavy Rains. pass the subsequent building Civil Hospital.

The rainfall for the past forty- This morning diary. The work begins at however, on plans. Mr. Follock had a good she was sent to the Secretary for no particular point and leads up Florence

behalf of Miss Leight hours has been three-and- dig Government on this

Fitpatreck. to po particular situation: theEducating Ernestine (London,

whose a-half inches. Chinese Affairs....

formal words the, end" might Thornton Butterworth) comes as every bit justified. He, with air.

QENSES CAUSES A TRAGEDY. Lieutenant Hugh Dixon, D. S. have been appended to an earlier a boon. "Educating Ernestine" is Bird and the Director of Public

Worry caused by his responsi- Works, have now been constituted C., has been posted to the special Page or held over for many more an example of how

2 very kility for the census returns in Foong Taunton led to Famuel Robert a Committee to see what they service ship alacrity on the China Page Similarly, the work con- well worn can do to facilitate the prompt/Station. He won the DS.C, in the sists of four “ Parts” (there is no Australian haireas who comes to Chapman,

late war by exceptional good other division), but the arrange London to be launched by im taking poison. At the inquest his roliering offer, passing of plans, and so the public leading in action. Commander ment appears to be quite arbi-pecunious but exalted relatives accounts were reported to be in may safely leave the matter in the D. C. Fillans has been lent to the trary. Another peculiarity is that can be handled by the right person perect order. hands of these expert enthusiasts, Australian Fleet for two years the central character has no so as to make it appear as fresh

does not gir one, as paint. The story is nothing life. In "Mary Stuart" be fol- Mr. Pollock's idea of stimulat-Ho is well known on the China Dame, of

except an improvised one to the it is the characters that give the lows his own fashion, and has he The wife and family of the late Mr. A. B. Edwards, desire to ing building by the exemption of Station.

poor-law authorities, when his book its deliciousness, the skilful not taken Cromwell as the pro- thank all friends, for the many expressions of sympathy and all new buildings from the

impecuniosity, which is of the combination liability to best rates would bave To-morrow's Pictorial Page chronic kind, drives him

of reality beautiful foral tributes in their recent sad bereavement.

been a good one if he had brought will contain a group taken at the seek a night's sheltor.

caricature that they reveal and tagonist of another episodical farth convincing arguments and launching of the 6.9. Kwangtung

The stair ridiculous sayings and do drama? In the meantime, two facts to show that the rate of at Taikoo Dock; portrait of Mr. throughout. coupled with the but especially Lady Alethea similar play in episodes entitled

use of the first pertonings. They are all

young writers, H. F. Rabinstein good. and Clifford Bax, have made & building has been seriously inter- K. H. Kamei, Manager of the absence of any separate identity Miss. Kilpatrick has produced a Shakespeare “ fered with by reason either local office of the Nippon Yusen in the narrative, tends to give thoroughly delightful and re-poet is represented at five stages of the existing rates or the recent Kaisha; group of members of the the volume & directly autobio Rents Ordinance. He did not. Hongkong Clerk's Association graphical nature, and as the And the opposition of the Govern-and several groups taken in cop. ment was to be expected seeing nection with the activities of the experiences of "1" correspond pretty closely with those of that it wants all the money it can Chinese T.M.C.A.

Hamsun himself, it is evident get to belp its financial

that, as Mr. Bjorkman intimates sear. Our present assessment. Major-General Sir H. C. Hol- in his informative preface, such rate standing at 13. perman, who is appointed D.Q.M.G. | was the intent. cent. is, as the Hon. Colonial in India, was for three years in Secretary pointed out, extremely the Devonshire Regiment prior

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1921.

WAGES REAL AND UNREAL.

| acquisition of sites and the prompt

"Hunger", it must be said, is

theme--the

juvenating book.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

and

Mr. John Tweed, who is to exacute the Kitchener Memorial,

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in which the

of his camer. It is an interesting experiment, and. 43 Professor Pollard says in his preface, 'raises a hope that the English drama may

escape from the monotony of artificial plots into the rich variety of human life by becoming diographical”

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average glass-house ja

low, and we only opposed the to transfer to his present service & remarkable work in its recently contemplated increase ofțin 1892. He has had considerable/ariousness and intimacy. The had the great good fortune to be Guernsey in about 1,000ft in

WAS more than usually pro- ductive.

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WAS made

first look

inspiring genius in others was 23

year the growar nets a profit of

the artist and ble selectors, and

Press, until it was disclosed that

with one accord and vast success.

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Yet even now Guernsey grower, unfailing sunshine and fertile soil prosperous with their glasshouses,

wonderful crops which followed the frosty winter of 25 years ago, It is almost the only frost in living islanders' memory, and they recall it for its miraculous effect in producing an unprecedented bumper harvest.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

Yesterday saw the enforcement of wage reductioni ir because it would fall on the service on the staff, and had field incidents themselves are often the case of two and three quarter million workers represent already overburdened tensak. As service in Burmsh. China, Russo Cornetplace, even trifting, but a pupil of Radin, whose power of length, and from his two ropa

Yet down with a ing 55 trades. The sum involved is 500,000, weekly, giving at present worked our assessment Japanese War (Military Attache), they are an average of about 3/9d per head. The cut is of moderate rate is very largely, not an and in the late war (promoted to mingleness and a frankness that remarkable as his own achieve. £1 a foot! Such golden cultivation.

godessinent rate at all; it is a colonel) and

major general.ive the work a character of ita ments. The great and enduring of which our allotmenteers can public work done by Mr. Tweed only dream, was introduced into dimensions in relation to present-day wage standards, but. rental rate. When the Govern-K.C.B. and C.M.G.

owo. "I"-Andreas Tangen, 85 the protagonist describes, or misreaders the more ridiculous the the Channel Isles by a Guernsey coming on the top of extensive reductions a mouth ago, meat independently assesses all

describes himself, on his aforesaid story of his commission 18 years

clergyman some forty years ago. bad spell The reductions which became operative with will be much better pleased. London this summer have in Boattached journalist with the of Wellington in St Paul's. islanders saw the wonderful crops gives an impression that workers' pay is undergoing a property the tenants of the Colony Many Japanese visitors to visit to the casualty-ward is an 280, to finish the incomplete He suffered the usual ridicule of Stevens monument to the Duke the pioneer, bat when the August affected over three and a half million workers, thel Apropos of housing is the quessolemn street in Earl's Court, free-lance's vague dream of great | Fierce denunciations rained upon raised they adopted his methods tion of military lands, but Mr. stepped through an ordinaryness. The scene is pitched st sum involved being something over a million sterling Pollock's resolution did not go English front door into a Japan-Cristianis, and we weekly. How far the two sets of reductions alect the same beyo da pious expression of ese house, with paper-coveredwio- upon the aspirant in his little great controversy raged in the workers the available information does not reveal, but opinion to which the Government dows and dwarf trees and lacquer garret-time out of mind the Mr. Tweed's share of the work together the reductions work out at the rate of about eight could easily give its support. The ornaments and cushions upon the abode of unacknowledged gawes limited to one hoof and patt speak with awed whispers of the millions sterling per annum. The looks a hefty dig into speech of the C... is a little floor for seas. The house be- in Norway as elsewhere. The encouraging, but when the public the wages bill. Divided out the sum is not so formidable. bears of some really concrete angs to Mr. Gonnuske Komai, details of the room, down to of the tail of the Duke's borse.

the Japanese poet. A real Japan the mural papering of old Although the trade slump cannot have been without its step being taken it will be more ese room has been fitted up by a Worgentariet numbers, are Mr. John Drinkwater has set a influence, the principle of the wage decreases rests chiefly convinced than it is at present Japanese carpenter-L- und C. pictured with the exactitude fashion with hisplay. "Abraham upon the cost-of-living scale. by which remuneration had Taking yesterday, all in all, it Express.

that is a leading characteristic of Lincoln," by taking a great his been increased out of all proportion to pre-war standards.

Hansuns style. Soon

we torical character and depicting in During July the fall in living costs was slightly checked

The President of the Chinese get an insight into Tangen's ■ series of scenes episodes in his Republic bas conferred the curious mental make-up, He by the effect of the abnormal drought upon agricultural Sewage Disposal. produce, but to-day there is a perceptible drop in H. C. L.)

The long-awaited report of the decoration of the Order of the has had little food, but, raising as compared with high-water mark. Last year the increase Committee appointed to consider Striped Tiger on the following eighteenpence on his waistcoat the feasibility of extending the British Naval officers in recogni- immedistely bestows a shilling over the July 1914 figure reached to around 180; it is now system of water carriage in the tion of their services during the upon smendican! and spends war: Admiral Sir A. L. Duff, the remainder upon refreshment, about 120.

Colony by pumping up salt water While this means that people at Home are still paying from the harbour and the proviK.C.B. First Class; Captain R. G. exhibiting even more than usual a good deal more than double what they were doing before sion of suitable piers for that. Henderson. C. P. Third Class; of the litterateur's improvidence.

Commander N. A. Wodehouse

Aye, I'll admit that I'm feeling It's a costly process into the public

We follow the hero through all the war, the statistics indicate that the downward trend purpose

and Paymaster Commander H. substance of has set in unmistakably,

Class: his meanderings (during which he pope too chirpy this morning. bargain, but still, that can be got A detailed calculation would yesterday. The

Miller. D.S.O.. Fourth the recommendations is

Lieutenants C. J. M. Lang and indulges in mach introspection), I'll no go the length of saying over provided its other folks probably show that, if anything, wages have come down tremely interesting. There can R. R. Stewart, Fifth Class-

one day seeking a post as spare- that I'm unwell, but man I wish whisky. less thançosts of living. In other words, there has been no be ao question regarding the

time accountant, another day try folks would get married on a I was quite pleased wi' the reduction of "real" wages, but only a readjustment. With superior advantages of a water-

The usual care displayed by ing for a vacancy in the fire-Saturday. I met MacPherson process at the time but Janet, brigade, where his good physique just opposite the post office this she didns' seam what se might regard to many, probably the majority of, cases the reduc-flushed sewage disposal system. as smuggler in concealing a

compared to the present

is counter-balanced advarsely by morning and he was sa full of say just exactly tickled to death. tions have been regulated by the index-figure. The workers methods, but the Committee quantity of cigarettes between will probably reply that the negative satisfaction of no loss straightaway cut out from their the linings of his jacket, so that his bad eyesight, what time be is sympathy as our neighbour's dog I mind fine explaining to her as scribbling articles and essays is o' fleas. He had to know all we went home just exactly how in wages is not good enough: that what they want is a rise deliberations all the Chinese had the appearance of being generally too high-falutin for the about the affair, the kirk, the I felt and what a fine mixture it in real wages, to which they had put forward a claim quarters of Hongkong and Kow. quilted with the cotton, called local editors, and a drams, which reception, what she was dressed was. Shasaid that however much before the war overturned everything. This aspiration is loon and went on to consider the forth from the Magistrate (he tears up in his pique or in and the times the piper played. I felt like a martyr to science she other areas. That it might be. E. Lindsell) a heavy pensity aberration. "Tangen" confesses Who called him a piper ony way wished I wouldna talk so loud. situation is that a period of reconstructive effort. particu-are not prepared to challenge. this device revealed the man to his sanity, so the reader may be eat?" said he telling me some said a mixture like that might larly such a one as the world is passing through, is but we cannot agree with the be a singular smuggler. The man pardoned for sharing them. How thing and asking me another be all right for & motor not an opportune time to press such a demand; and. first reason the Committee gave

Mac, he would thing for the breath. She must the slings and arrows ofa Bootsmao cao. although the problem has often been a thorny one, the for their action, namely, that the explained, was double the usual fat thay are to be attributed to thing at the same time, as only car but it wasna' the

outrageous fortune and how far apeir the guts oot of an empty have said a lot more still for I fall asleep in the middle of it all. workers are showing a practical realisation of this areas in question are mainly penalty in such cases.

taken up hy Chinese tenement

to the bero's singular mentality kerosine tin. Doubtles they have been partly actuated by a perception houses whose occupants would

is one of the puzzles of the DRITA-

"Aya" says !" and there was Looking back on it sit was that it does not profit & worker to receive twice or tea not be likely to appreciate it would be less "any scheme should tive.

plenty to drink an' a'.”

a highly successful wedding. "So I notice “ says he, and right from the moment I had to times his ordinary pay under conditions which meau that Such occupants must be made wait until there is more water all sorts of characters, some that's how the fight started.

to appreciais il, sooner or later, stored in the Taitam district.

button Janet up the back till the he pays correspondingly more for his commodities.

prosaic, somewhimsical, flit across As I said to him later, after best man made the lower tier of Following an extremely troubled period, due most of all Most of us don't like medicine Kowloon has enough water now the scene, among them a fair he'd got his breath and his ears you bridercake look like a stone

but when we are sick we have to but might not have in view of the to the coal strike, the trouble in the engineering and cotton swallowit. It's just as well to point rapid growth of the district, there-Lady, but only strut their hour, or back to their natural colour, yon quarry and the happy couple industries was averted, and the peaceful acceptance that out because in matters vital fore any scheme should waitement, while the itinerant scribe wasna' drinking: it was an ex- were on their rice and confetti

continues his chequered career periment.

laden way, of reductions by the much larger number of trades that do to health one can't afford to until there is an extension of the in the midst of exigeant land-

non-present Water Works

Yo see many's the time I've had It brought back old times. We not loom so largely in the public eye may by taken as an consider appreciations or

Only the ladies. In the end he gets sick of champagne on the top of whisky. had no champagne at our wed- appreciations. To pass on. The Peak therefore qualifies. There the peo-only for a time, one augury of greater barmony. This month an industry in Committee found that in the was a lot more in the report surmises. for, as Kipling sang Ball ourway if ye dinna get taken home in a cab quite early What's the use of St. Andrew's ding, though one man. had to be which Hongkong has a special interest has to negotiate a districts it did consider, namely, of interest bat the main

years ago now, once a journalist your money's worth. I've often on in the evening. Of course, wage question. The general body of shipyard workers the Peak, the Middle Levels and recommendation is that any accepted two 3s.-per-week reductions, leaving over the 12 Kowloon Point, it would be very district that gets a water-flushed always a journalist, and the wondered what would happen that was to be wonder

instinct is strong in the quasi- though when the order was re soda water no being invented per cent bonus top of then. We went to Peebles for encouragement for believing that the parties will be able/gravitating from reservoirs than special rate, pay for it. Are Peak is when he ships for Leith us ab champagne. I know now.

to pump sea water to sufficient residents prepared to pay? If they odd Esad.

"our honeymoon, ays Peebles for Wi' regard to effect there's pleasure. A fine place Peebles, the outstanding question, especially now that heights. For the Peak the Com-are they should have the system to compose

Where the work bears spino's hair's breadth to draw but mau, awfu' lonely. the joiners have at last corce to terms over the special mitte thought that it might straightaway. The public would

means But to come back to yesterday, state-of-trade allowance. It is not only those commonly have a water-carriage system like an expression of opinion from unsatisfactory aspect is in rela-between them. As called the "wage-earners

"that have to bow to economic soon as the necessary addi-the Government whether it will tion to the chief character's making ye cantankerous, it certainly was a grand affair the Peak pumping consider extending the water development or non-development. bresking into other folk's houses nothing to pay except your riek factors; Civil servants and municipal officials are called plant (now on order) are installed. storage so se to give the Middle No progress is revealed; we and helping yourself to their sha, there and back. And man, upon to submit to similar revision. This process of So that's all right. For the Mid-Levels and Kowloon & chance, leave him as we found him, not stimulant, giving ye & bobby the bride looked bornie in you deflation is a logical step towards an improvement in die levels a very much greater The report is a valuable one and only with respect to pooket, but dazzler os sacoting pain above brown dream. I wish them every

fogard quantity of water would be requirits advice should, in the win, bein

obaracter. the left eye, you mixture's just luck. ed and se" the sanitary advantage acted upon..

The narrative has a large perfect. Champagne takes a lot. But who called yon blighter

odrooning mind I'm telling ye a piper anyway 7

easy enough to understand and to sympathise with The wise to start in a small way we this morning on the ground that at times that he has doubts about "There would be planty to She said more than that. She

"real" remuneration.

tions to

was fined $50, which his worship

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