1921-09-17 — Page 6

IN LAS

After illness

and when convalescent take

WATSON'S

INVALID PORT.

A good light

invalid wine.

-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 199.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DAY BY DAY.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

IT ISN'T SO HUGH KNOWING A WHOLE LOT, LITTLE AND HOW TO USE IT, THAT COUNTS-6, H. Lorimer,

AS KNOWING A

£ s. d. of the Conference.

China has not yet finally sattle ed who bar representatives at the Pacific Conference are to be, but one point seems to have bean pretty well devided, viz. that a

We are informed that the sum of no lose than $2,000,000 coastal road from Kowloon to must be appropriated for the Castle Peak is again epan to delegates' expenses. The report traffic. conveying this item of news speaks as if it were a drop out of

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

A Glance at our File.

aspirants in the skin game were Thara have just been reparted. expected to provide their own raw two instances of “S, Q.S." maa- material. We wonder if any of sages in bottles, one in the our present day brokers were ever Thames and one by Deal. In members of the class. If so, neither case bas the sender some of them seem to have got yet been identified. Possibly full value for thair money.

they never will bė. There is a great templation to carry out hoaxes in this wise. But-people- have often experimented with drifting bottles containing mes sages. The results have been

(September 19–25, 1396.)

Frank Smyth, Bon. Secretary of the Hongkong Rifle Associa This was the year that the first tion, intimated that a spoon com- rolling steamboat was launched. petition would take place on such for it complete seaworthiness and then the Clark of the Course and interesting enough to record. It's inventor, a M. Bazin, claimed .data, "Tommy" Bough was contended that seasickness on the annual Meeting of the Jockey During a period covering many board would boreduced considerab-Club was announced in the issue years one Captain Simpson com-

an illimitable exchequer. Yet Yesterday's Health Retorn dis-ly by reason of the vessel's com before us. Edward A Ram permitted at least 10,000 bottles to only a few months age the closes only one case of notifiable parative stability. New York was formed like service on behalf the ses. Of these about 10 per educational institutions at Pek disease, rizione fatal case of to have been brought within of the Hongkong Cricket Cluk cent. have been found, and the ing's door, to give a single cholera, the sufferer being four days' voyage from Have A Grand Ballad Concert in aid particulars asked for in the letter instance, put the shutters up for Chinese.

The object apparently of the in- of the funds of the Benevolent enclosed with each have been novation was to increase speed by Society was to take place at the supplied to him. Many of these suppressing the friction of the Mount Austin Hotel and someone bottles had drifted about 10,000 water against the vessel as it was wanted an Australian groom who miles before reaching shore, but. forced forward, (whatever that understood horses, & very neces- the average rate of travel has may mean). After an interval of sary qualification we should been less than half a mile an hour. twenty-five years and, taking into imagine.

(consideration

the number of rollers" in existence to-day, one must assume that the experiment, through some cause or ciher, was name of Thea failure.

It is notified in the Government

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1921.

BANKRUPT STATESMANSHIP.

same weeks because the teachers could get no funds for necessaries. It is eminently commendable that Ten building lots at Repulas the eastern republic should wish to Bay and one lot on Coronation cut a good figure before the world. Road, Kowloon, are to be sold by Whether a rostly entourage is public auction at the P. W. D. the best way of accomplishing this offices on Monday, October 3rd. is exceedingly doubtful. The ap propriation which President Harding has asked of Congress

amounts to $200,000—just a tithe Hongkong Parcel Express Storage (saving the difference in the two and Trading Company, Limited kinds of dollars), of the Chinese has been struck off the Register

gure. There will probably be supplementary U.S. votes; and, as far as the American delegates per- sonally are concerned, they are, of course, on the spot or largely so. But then the U.S. Government as conveners will be subject to special

of

The game of Dr. Joba Morrison Hotel Mansions, Bachelor Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery University of Edinburgh, has been added to the Register of medical

in this Colony.

During the week under review the Hongkong General Chamber

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

One of Captain Simpson's bottles took four years and a half on its trip, during which time it travelled from somewhere near Cape Town to the Shetland Islands.

Says London writer: Full

of Commerce held a sperial Here is a Londoner's descrip-justice has not been done to His general meeting at which the rise tion of Japan's beverage Majesty's linguistic attainments. in cable rates was vigorously Among our experiences of the hos The accounts of the visit to the protested against Mr. T. Heather has been an introduction Channel Islands brings out the Whitehead who was then the to the national drink of Japan. fact that the King must "bejone Chamber's member in the Legis Have you ever tasted saki? It of the most expert authorities on lative Council had quite a lot to is very like whisky, except that the pronunciation of NormaD-

expenditure. The big Chinese practitioners entitled to practice say in the matter and at the same it is slightly paler in colour, sad French in the country. It must

appropriation calls to mind the extravagance at Paris over the Treaty of Versailles, when the invoices for cigars alone ran into thousands sterling. In this, as in other respects, the world can dispense with a duplication of the proceedings on that occasion. Herr Chamberlain.

So Herr Houston Stewart Chamberlain has been divested by the Court of Chancery of a life

of the negotiations will rest on Sinn Fein or whether it will glorified

also

and par-

never

Saxon.

meeting was re-elected to repre- not so potent Although a spirit, be a reassuring, reflection that sent the Chamber for another being distilled from rice, it re-there is no fragment of detached term of six years. From the reminds one far more of a good dominion around the coast which The weather observations made port of the proceedings it would wine; its taste very much re-it is obligatory for Royalty to at the Royal Observatory during appear that it was a case of the sombling that of a fine, dry address in ceremonial Anglo- august show that the highest right man being in the right sherry. temperatura recorded. was 87.4 place. and the lowest 786. There were 15.44 inches of rain recorded. 15.95 at the Botanic Gardens, 12.95 st the Matilda Hospital and 15.27 at Taipo Police Station.

Bucket-Carriers Buck.

The Sanitary Board seems to have had some trouble with the night soil coolies for we read of the latter sending a letter stating that they feared that they would

servancy contractor.

Between

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

As I've aya szid, what's the use of being ignorant if you don't

Man, this word "Scotchman

interest in the trust fund created The Offices of the Supreme be squeezed in some way, hence by the will of his late uncle, Gen-Court will be open daily from 10 the intimation to strike. But the show it, and by the Hokes Fls I know of no better way of showing eral Sir Crawford Chamberlain. a.m. to 1 pm. during the Long Board soon fixed them. Each ignorance than having the product of a non-stop intellect pablished Herr Chamberlain's career is Vacation, except en public and nightman had to send in bis in the newspapers. If some o' yon lads had to pay for the space happily exceptional, if not unique general bolidays, when the offices name and address for registration their effusions take up, at casual advertisement rates, they wouldas The son of a British Admiral and will be entirely closed, and on otherwise he would not be in be so fond of letting the typewriter run away wi' them.

Te would see yon bit screed in the Morning Fo the other day? a nephew of a British General, Saturdays, when they will be receipt of a pair of official buckets

The and these would be presented to AF, and what did ye think of it? Man. ye would hardly thick it he was one of MOSI inde-open from 10 am to noon. fatigable poblicists on The Long Vacation commences on the bird at the same time as the moon possible in this year of our Lord that a man would be so profoundly side of our adversaries during the 20th instant and terminate ones were given by the con- ignorant and have so little feeling as to write you. way about

Only those Scotchmen" and "Bobby" Buras. war. what time he became natur- the 17th October. 1921.

registered could follow the calling. Mind ye, I never did believe in the "Wha's like us" kind of alised in Germany-for which he

Fortunately registration was free. stuff though I have on occasion bad to plead guilty to the soft im- would be liable to be indicted

It is notified in the Government But the night soil coolies were peachment ingenium perfervidum Scotorum. But I've had my No matter of what shade of political opinion a man were be to revisit Britain. That may be whether he is pro-Lloyd George. pro-Ulster or Herr Chamberlain, who was born Gazete that copies of sa Agree- having none of it for the worst did provocations let me tell ye. On principle and by nature though. pro-Sinn Fein there will be universal regret that the door at southsea in 1555, should feel ment betweeniha nited Kingdom come to the worst and the whole I'm dead set as a Scotsman against blawing my own horu. for, I to Irish peace with Great Britain has been banged. That an interest in Germany is no mercial Convention of February would they carry. The Chinesejoutpost affair and a bit Hunnish at that. Come to think of it too and Persia modifying the Com-los struck and vary a bucke: aye was one that thoroughly realised that Bannockburn was an surprising. for he married was the central fact of the sensational news cabled through Wagner's daughter and his frs: 9th, 1903. have been received from were always suspicions of the we got our licks properly at Flodder. It's long been understood also that Scots folks subsist solely on haggis and porridge and that German. He the Secretary of State for the official giver of gifts. by Reuter yesterday. Whether the blame for the collapse wife was Germany.

Colonies. The complete text of The Board seemed generally to they've got to wear kilts because their feet are ower big to get into trousers. We knew that years ago and we try to bear up as best, rest on the Lloyd George Cabinet will depend for all of us. I ticularly Prussianism, as in his/ the Agreement may be seen at be in hot water these days for we we can in the circumstances but you'll agree wi' me that it's no'' rǝlume The Foundations of the Colonial Secretary's Office, or read of someone who proposed to on our political leanings. It is as easy for one as for the the Nineteenth Century, which at the Office of the Superincedeat go to a Fancy Dress Ball at the nice to be reminded of our limitations in public print. other to apportion the blame and there will, doubtless. be the Kaiser was tired ofImports and Exports.

City Hall disguised as the Tow almos: inclined to congratulate the writer on his resuscitation of the just fair sticks in my gills. I'm There will be those who will of exhibiting. This sometime great readiness to do so.

Idiot, representing the Sanitary tarm which I honestly thought had been dead and buried for the declare that Mr. Lloyd George had no alternative but to Britisher was, in fact, a pinchbeck There are four cases down for Board.

last five and twenty years. But man, though we've lived wi' them Heads Or Tails.

so long they appear to be as far from understanding us as ever and cancel the proposed conference seeing that Mr. de Valera Ireitschke the Chauvinistic bearing at this moath's Criminal German historian whom the war Sessions, which commence 00

हुई ह read that the Club de simply I believe because they do not try. In spite of all the insisted on assuming a status which could not be granted brought into notice. Not content Monday. Chan Sang and WaRecreio and the Club Lusitano missionaries of light and leading we've sent south since the Union him, while there will be those who think that the conference with this, however, the renegade Sang are charged with robbers had a difference of opinion with in a generous effort to complete their knowledge of be, and therefore might have been held, at least in the hope that it would assailed his native counter with and receiving stolen property regard to the proposed celebration of things that really matter, the education of the English people is have provided a molus riceuli. For the moment we are unmeasured invective. Great Ko On aliss Chan Yau will appear of the discovery of the sea route still apparently far from complete.

Britain, he wrote, was a nation to the dock for an alleged breach to India by Vasco da Gama The But there's a limit to most things. If yon chiel's no careful going to leave the pros and cons of that matter alone.

But one cannot overlook the fact that statesinanshi, of dissemblers, liars, forgers, and of an order of deportation. Chan Club Lusitano apparently wanted wi' his "Bobby" Burns and bis "Scotchmen," one o' these days cheats," for which De was Sis charged with giving a bribe, the whole say in the matter but he'll have some wild-eyed Caledonian paying him a visit has failed. That is an awful truth. It has failed so decorated with the Iron Cross-and a charge of robbery and being the Recreio lads thought other and chewing his ears off. It would seem that each generation of many times in recent history to avert that which should Everything

Herr in possession of arms will be wise. Just what were the rights Englishmen inherit certain traditional ideas of the Scot which they have been its special function to avert that one may be Chambertain may be numbered preferred against Tung Shiv. or the wrongs of the affair we are accept as they accept the sun, moon and stars. It apparently saves forgiven the thought that modern statesmanship is well among those true, patrole who sit Wan Ching. Jung Wing and unable even to guess, for meet them the trouble of thinking and probing for themselves. Mind ye,

their country for their country's Cheung Wing.

ings were not reported to say I believe they mean well enough in their glaikes way but this sort nigh bankrupt. International statesmen failed to avert

extent then, but we notice that of thing I canna' iet pass, no, not even for once. Let me tell ye, if the crash in Europe in 1914. though they all knew well

mid-autumn festival, someone got something out of his se never knew if before, that a Scotsman intensely dislikes being enough the catastrophe into which they were driving: Cricket Honours. statesmanship has largely failed to interpret the spirit of The match between the Cham. popularly known as the Chinese System when he remarked that termed a Scotchman and that dislike is intensified tenfold when As for "Bobby" Barns. no Scotsman knows him or ever will "wants to carry out its own ideas the peoples of Europe in the matter of the peace pion County and the Rest of Harvest Festival, was celebrated one of the other of the Clubs we are referred to as the "Scotch." settlement; and we are confident that statesmanship England winds up & memorable population in the usual

But then the Scot shows respect for bas failed to give expression to the new spirit of cricket season in the Old Country, population in the usual manner, and relegata is natural leaders know him as such ony more than he knows Peem Shakespeare, Ally

the cracker-firing and feasting being to the tail instead of the head of Tennyson or Jock Milted. the British and Irish peoples. The truce which special attraction of "Captain the general order. The sight at the procession." It all seemed great names because they recognise, for one thing, that there is za Gama had inward as well as an outward form of gentility. And what's more Lots of Hielandman are, has existed in Ireland for the past two months and more armstrong's famous combination Causeway Bay was exceedingly such a pity, as

been dead for such a long time forbye, every Scotsman's no's "Mac". charming hundreds of sampans

bat they claim to be as superior to mere Lowlanders se a Scots has given us all time to look back on the reign of armed Boother

Lowlander claims to be superior to a mere Sassenach. Lai Mit, who murdered a lauterns stretched across their strife and to realise that it was wrong and futile wrong waged for the county champion and junks having little strings of previous to the discussion.

Now you'll have noticed that up to now I've no lat bug about have had time to die down: Irish men and women have Lord's which concluded the pro barbour the sight was scarcely was decapitated at Kowloon City\orum on his midden head makes the statement that "In no part and futile on both sides. Passions, enflamed by conflict. depended upon the meeting at Craft. At the westora end of the Chinese detective in Hongkong the respective merits of Shakespeare and Burns. When my cockel-

less pleasing. The clear moon-in the presence of a large number knelt and prayed in the open street that the nightmare of grammes of the two metropolitan ligh: night made a perfect setting of spectators including about of the British Isles-or for that matter the world—has such a great terror might be taken from them; and the peoples of Great counties, and, as on that occasion, Britain have not been less pions in their hope that the old, Middlesex defeated Surrey, so retaining premier honours. On ugly sore between them and their Irish brethren might be the whole the distinction was healed And those unto whom the task has been entrusted well merited. Surrey, who scored have made a disaster of it. No-one who has studied the a narrow win against them in a events of the past three months can still claim that the sensational match at the Oval,

good.

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considered.

where in addition to

clove contest was

ship. As last year, the result

- The

native

hundred Europeans. The "execu-post arisen as the Englishman Shakespeare" it leaves me cold tioner" it is reported, "did his and I'm no' prepared to argue. But when he says that "Bobby work very smartly, much to the Burns was "a mere rushlight in comparison" I'm some what inclined disgust of some of the spectators to ask him what Shakespeare rad to in candlepower. If you say I'm only half as clavar as you are, I naturally want to know how who looked forward to witnessing The Poison Antidotes Bill, pro-all sorts of brutality practised or clever you are, or the height of your ability, in order to establish

SOME SWEET OBLIVIOUS

ANTIDOTE."

Quite &

outcome of the negotiations corresponds in the slightest headed them for a brief while by viding that the receptacle of each the doomed ruffian."

a minute margin, and consider-poison sold by retail shall bear pleasant little diversion in its

SHIP.

MY OWN.

As Fsay then, wi' regard to Burns being a rushlight compared to Shakespeare, that's, of course, a matter of opinion. But one degree with the wishes and desires of the great mass of ing that they were without Hobbs & printed description of an anti-way.

thing I'm definitely certain about, the rushlight of Burns, poor as British people. Someone has bungled.

for most of the season, have done dote for that poison has been read. "The Skin Game.”

it is, was no borrowed light, if you jalouse what I mean. There's The And what now? The door, which we all hoped would very well in coming out seconda first time in the House of Com-

advertisemente in the never been any doubt in our mind but that Burns wrote Burds. mere fraction mons.

|issues under notice are not with- remain open and through which we all looked with sach Yorkabire are a

But that's by the way. Shakespeare is national onyway. So behind, and their experience NAVAL SURGEON DISMISSED out interest. The Drill Season of is Burns and would be more so if Englishman could read and genuine anticipation, is closed. Seemingly, we are back at underlines the defect in the pre-

the Hongkong Volunteer Corps understand him. If I'd money I'd give a silver cup or a year's free the old spot where force, and pain and death will come in seat championship system. Twice For being drunk aboard H.M.S. was due to commence and coal and light as a prize to both Englishmen and Scotsmen who as the arbiters-false arbiters that leave behind them a in one week the White Bose ob Vanity, Surgeon Lieutenant gentlemen" (these were the dess pent in the best essay, wi' quotations, on the subject, Burus. By trail of evil consequences. Peoples, wishing to be at peace, tained an overwhelming lead on Commander G.M. Graham was before mild Prussianism) were that means, through time, the English-speaking race would have will be goaded to war; Right will be made the concom- the first innings, but time was not at a naval Courtmartial at Porta-invited to join the Field Battery some slight ides of what they've been missing. Young man, do mitant of Might. Not a very encouraging position to re- quite sufficient to finish the month deprived of one year's or Machine Gun Coy. The Camp you know it was Burns who first invented the idea of a League of

matches. The proportion of view in the light of recent history out of which might have points being below their own seniority, diaraissed his ship and of Instruction, it was notified, was Nations? Ay, be it was who said

to be held at Stonecutters.

severely reprimanded.

As it not

been drawn a much higher lesson.. Blame for the sqander-percentage, they are actually

An optimist under the delusion ing of this golden opportunity through the use of stilted penalised for outplaying their

that he was a practical taxider. formalities will have to be apportioned at some time and opponents! In the existing cir-

mist offered to give a course of six lessons in skinning birds and by somebody, and those on whom that blame falls should be cumstances an ideal system may the result shows again,

be impracticable, but there should infrequently did in Yorkshire's animals provided sufficient made to pay. If statesmanship has proved itself so bauk-be means of improvement upon palmiest days, that the handicap number joined to make up a class. rupt, it is time peoples made their voices a little more such a state of affairs as this. Reis too big even for the premier The fee for the course was $5.00 effective.

garding the match with the Rest, county

but we are not told whether the

Then let us pray that come what may,

As come it will for a' that; That sense and worth, o'er o' the sartb,. May bear the gree and a' that. For a* that and a' that,

It's coming yet for a' that, That matt man the warld ofør Shall brothere be faz a' that