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CLIMPSES OF

CHINA.

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Chinese life and surroundings.

THE HONGKONG

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Oil in Ship Propulsion.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1921)

DAY

BY DAY.

A WOMAN - WITHOUT A LAUGH

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, owner agrees with auch purchaser Ecoles Caretiennee, and known to give the necessary notloss to in Hongkong as * Bi, Joseph's quit, say notice to quit given by College." such owner in parsuance of such

All the abors Bills passed' agreement shall ensure for the through anal stages with some

To-Day's Meeting.

A meeting of the Legislative benefit of such purchaser as if slight amsadments in Committes.

Council was held this afternoon, such purchaser had been the

Word

In view of the progress of ail as IN HER IN THE GREATEST BORE a source of power in ship propul- IN EXISTENCE—Thackeray. sion, we noticed with interest that on a recent round trip between Southampton and New York the Olympio consumed 8,000 tons of ail costing about G. §18 par top, a Among those who, returned to total of some $144,000. It is the Colony to-day by the Empresa estimated that if she were of Asia were Mr. and Mrs. C.H.P. equipped with Diesel engines, her Hay and Mr. and Mrs. G. P. fuel consumption on the round Lammert voyage would be less than 5,000 tons. A higher grade of oil is: needed, however, and the cost fell into the barbour whilst load: A Chinese who accidentally

is put at $24 per ton.

In aling coal at the M,B.K. coalyard paragraph before Us is isjat Yaumati, was yestantay atated that the resultant saving removed to the Kwong WaQBE, Colonial Treasurer. has been calculated atirom $35,000| Hospital.

A suitable present to send Home to $100,000. Obviously there is

for Christmas.

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Hongkong Dispensary.

Correspon "Auts are request-I tu observe the rule which requires them to foreft their names and addresses with communications sddressed the Eltor, not necessarily for publication, but as an "gridence of their tona ties.

Acommunications intended for publication should be address to the Editor.

Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1921.

TRADE FIGURES.

THE BUDGET.

There was a clean bil of health over which H.E. the Governor owner at the time when such (Sir Edward Stubbe E.C.M.G) notice to quit was given and bad in the Colony yesterday,

presided. Thero

The Hon. Mr. Pollock said also given such notice to quit, provid• that the unofficial members had present:-

ed that nothing in this section not had an opportunity of meeting Lieut-General Sir G. M Kirk-shall relieve such owner from the to consider the Budget Bil patrick, K. C., ECS I

obligation to atato in writing at and he thought they would The Hon. Mr. Claud Save D. the time of giving such notics to like a further adjournment if the CM.G., Colonial Secretary. quit whether

The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, intenda

Buch purebaser Government would great it until to pull down such Monday week, the 14th. He Director of Public Works, CBE, Attorney General.

domestic tenement or to recon- said that would be The Hon. Mr. T. L Perkins, struct such domestic togement, convenience. He bad asted for A great The Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer, exact nature of the reconstruction Mr. A. G. Stephen would not be and in the latter case to state the Monday week because the Hon. intended, and provided abo that here this day fortnight. notwithstanding anything in this saction the lessee shall have, in;

This was agreed to. he may have against such owner, addition to any remedies which

such remedies against such pur chaser as he would have had if auch notice to quit had been given by such purchaser.

The Hon. Mr. E A. Irving, Director of Education. a'mistake. The cost of 5,000 tons |

With a wound on the left cheek {O.B.E., Secretary for Chinese The Hon. Mr. S. B. C. Ross, at $24 perton represents $120,000 caused in a fight with a com- Affairs on which showing there would patriot, a Chinese was yesterday be a saving of $24,000, bot as it is admitted into the Government asserted that less than 5,000 tons Civil Hospital. His assailant is would suffice, the economy would in the custody of the palice. amount to somewhat more. A

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, I.C. The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak. The Hoo, Mr. H. W. Bird. The Hoa. Mr. Lau Chư Pah The Hon. Mr. Ho Foot. The Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen. Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, Clerk of Councils.

STOCK EXCHANGES.

that another two with

2. What measures does the; must leave for the Investigation Department Government propose to take for intituled An Ordinance to amend prominent backers who were the problem to the experts with to enquire into. No other marks the purpose of carrying out the the Rents Ordinace, 1921. the observation that, in one form of violence were apparent, and it recommendations made in the or the other, the advance of oil inis aarraised that after being report of the Commission marine propulsion is unmistak-rendered helpless she was left Child Labour? able, seeing that Lloyd's Register there to die. returns for the year ending June

and secured

Police Station:-Reconstruction of kitchen and bath room block, $7,000.00,

$2,000 in aid of the following votes:-Governor, Other Charges: -Furniture, $1,000.00. Incidental Expenses. $1,000.00.

$27,465 an account of Public Works, Extraordinary. Hong-.

Scheme.

STANDING LAW

COMMITTEE.

Between

than

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

We've heard quite a lot lately except that shirts cost

about controlled areas" wi money nowadays, bat

real

000

9. If the lessee of any domestic sum of $24,000 signifies a saving. The dead body of an hoidentifi

A Local Craze. tenement is adjudged bankrupt of about 17 per cent. There are.jet Chinese, which was discovered

trustee in bankruptcy shall be called neither the said lessee or his of

The attempted formation of so- course, various technical suspended by a rope from the factors to be taken into account, branch of a tree in King's Park

stock exchanges entitled to claim any right or become something like ■ orzage bas but, so far as a layman may ven-yesterday, was cut down by the

QUESTIONS BY MR.

berafit under section 4 of the with certain sections of Chinese ture an opinion on such matters, police and taken to the Kowloon

POLLOCK.

principal Ordinance in respect of merchants here for in addition to these considerations are not, Mortuary.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock virtue of the tenancy, whether previously reported in the Tele- the said domestic tenement by the two stock and share exchanges on balance, unfavourable to the

gave notice that he would put the contractual or statutory, under graph, information has come to versy has been directed chiefly to driven with three others to its meeting of the Legislative Coun-mediately before the making of big capitals are in course af Diesel engine. Hitherto, contro A bullock which was being following questions at the next which the said lesson held im-hand the question of oil versus coal. quarters after being landed on cil, namely Now the mode of consuming the oil the Ping On Wharf was yesterday is engaging discussion Lord Pirris knocked down by a tramcat cear intend to publish the Report of

1. When does the Government the adjudication order..

formation. Although no great and other eminent authorities Wing-lok Street and killed. The the Committee appointed by His

The other business taken were: doubts are entertained as to the have registered their verdicts in animal took fright at the approach Excellency The Governor for the tituled An Ordinance to amend the necessary

Second reading of the Bill in-ability of the promoters to secure favour of the internal-combustion of the car and ran blindly on to purpose

funds (Chinese At present however, the lines.

of considering what the Widows and Orphans' Pen-money being very eagine.

much

in measures can best be taken, there appears to be some diversity

sion Ordinances, 1908 and 1921. abundance at the present period (i) To facilitate the prompt

in the of opinion. One point in favour of}

Second reading of the Bill in businessmen are looking askance

Colony). The discovery of the dead body acquisition by applicants of sites titled An Ordinance to amend at these latest ventures, as in legitimate the internal-combustion engine is of a woman with her hands and which they require. that it entails less storage space. feet tied and lying on the south

further the Legal Practitioners their and also less drain upon the bank of the Samcban River near passing of building plans.

(ii) To facilitate the prompt Ordinance 1871.

view, they represent world's oil supplies. Having pro-Lowu has given an unusual case

an unhealthy development in ceeded thus far we

Second reading of the the Bill financial speculation. Several foterviawed by a representative Second reading of the Bill of the Telegraph, characterised on intituled An Ordinance to extend the new ventures u being for a further period the powers more in the nature of gambling granted by the Mercantile Bank enterprises FINANCIAL MINUTES.

legitimate Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, to business, and they instanced the 30 show that more oil-users than We understand on good auth-

The following financial votes the Mercantile Bank of India, numerous (said to be more than a coal-burners were constructed crity that the firm of Messrs.were referred to the Finance Limited, to make. issue, re-issue bundred) exchanges that have "A Message from Mars" Wisemans Ltd. will shortly be

Committee and subsequently and circulate notes in the Colony. cropped up in Shanghai and Can- associated with that of Messrs. Approved :— Some whisper of Mr. Marconi's Lane, Crawford and Co. The

Second reading of the Bill ton Whether the Government $27,000 in and of the following intituled An Ordinance for the will sanction the registration of wireless experiments on his idea is that when Messrs Wise. Totes:Pablic Works, Extraor-incorporation of the Christian the many ventures now being yacht, the Electra, reached bera man's lease expires the present dinary, Hongkong Buildings Brothers School known in French organised is open to serious ques- In connection with the interesting trade figures which month or two back, and fuller building is to be pulled down and ) Additions? Quarters at Happy as "L'Institut des Freres des tion. we were enabled to publish yesterday giving a comparison particulars are to the effect that new and up-to-date premises Valley (12 houseal $20,000.00. between the trade of Hongkong for the third quarter of the famous scientist believes be erected. in which both will be Miscellaneous:-(26) Central

has been in communication with accommodated. this year as compared with the corresponding period of Man, or at least that Marg last year we would like to voice what must be a generally has been trying to communicate Full details concerning yester held opinion regarding the manner in which these bulk with us. In the Mediterranean day's armed robbers in Pattinger returns are presented to the public. We wish to preface recently be picked up a message Street are given in an official our remarks with a word of appreciation in favour of the of 150,000 metres

which indicated a wave-length report made this morning at

against Imports and Exports Department to whom the Colony is maximum of 1400 metres

Police Headquarters. It appears so that a little after noon yesterday indebted for the preparation of the returns. In the little far produced in this world by radio ma called on the first floor blue books published quarterly is contained a wealth of stations of the highest power." above & suitcase shop at No. 15 kong. Frays East Reclamation regard to motor cars but from of these fine mornings some detailed information of the greatest value to local merchants the message, there being nothing admittance on the pretext that he

The trouble was to interpret Pottinger Street

what I can gather we need P.W.D. official, bigber in rank another controlled area, Yaumati than a drainage overzear, will get for they are enabled to trace the origin and destination of in the waves resembling any had come from the husband of

way, and that from balleta. a nickelled piece of lead in the all the goods passing through the port and can also glean knowacode, except the "V used the lady who was the only inmate

Now koop your seats. head or some other soft spot and accurate information of either increases or decreases. in the international system. Our of the house. He carried a jar table from the Standing Law thoreabouts but it

A Report was laid upon the The Reds havers risen then there'll be the devil to pay Ever since the work of compiling these returns was started firs: impression on reading the re-whice had the appearance of being Committee, stating

see ma to after the funeral No'vary long a few years ago the public has been enabled to follow the part was that it implied a re-used for the storags of vegetables. Committee had considered the done all the same. I'm referring best to earn pay as a road maker,

me that something'll have to be ago the

露 Chinamas, trying his progress of the Colooys trade and it would be churlish to episode of a decade or two back picions the woman might have An Ordinance to amend the Rents that get over the hill from the ing over his load and though only the diverting and this allayed whatever sus- Rents Amendment Bill intituled now to some of the stray shote "caught a packet" while bend- criticise without acknowledging the great amount of work when the newspapers involved and the careful and painstaking way in which it public curiosity as to the rings as he had got into the floor. two sidered certain suggestions for

stirred had in regard to the visit, As soon Ordinance, 1921. They also con- ride range at King's Park. *a*** blighty' one, his feelings e spots on Mars, which imagina. other men followed close on his warded by the Hongkong Law Fears ago the same complaint him from taking a seat for fully Curiously enough twenty fire were sufficiently hurt to dissuade Whoever conceived the idea of showing bulk figures in ewriters told us meant that the heels, and by means of a dagger Society to the Attorney General existed but no' the same range and a week aftor. A wee bird has pounds sterling we do not know and we are likewise/Martians were endeavouring to the woman was forced to submit under cover of letter dated theve ho doubt when the present also whispered to me that a

hold & confab with old Earth, but quietly while the robbers made a 27th ignorant of the reason for so

October, 1921, doing, but we are very firmly which scientists pronounced to be thorough search of the place, criticisms put forward on behalf falls grown hill, the powers that Kwong Wah Hospital and nearly conviuced that the returns would be of far greater value canals. The name of Marconi.eventually escaping with forty of the landlords, a suggestion to solved the difficulty for all time. mon knowledge that the Steam range was laid down opposite a ballet surreptitiously entered the

to the class for whom they are intended if the local value however, cannot be lightly treated pieces of jewellery and & sum of provide for the case of bankruptcy. Bat they had two factore to Laundry folks keep a special were then thought that they had bits doctor, and of course, it's com- in The information we gave yesterday very the

the electrical sphere, and money of the total value of $585. and three additional draft clauses

ether wizard is stated to clearly demonstrated this fact. The exports for the quarter be convinced not pals that the STONING MOTOR CARS. General

submitted by the Attorney

consider. The first is that a staff for patching the leaks on under review were said to be of £16,000,000 value as com-signal was unconnected with

modern rifle in the hands of a their roofs. What between whiter 'pared with expects to the value of $22,000,000 during the electrical disturbances, but that

A West Point Nuisance. agreed to recommend that clauses dangerous to somebody a mile have enough to contend wi' with- The Committee unanimously careless soldier can be very ants and typhoons, bouseowners same three months of last year. Naturally, one would assume ultimately radio communication that there had been a drop of six million pounds indicating will be set up among the planets, motor cars appears to be the omitted, and that the three draft hill between bins and the object he dangers incidental to

Throwing stones at passing 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the bill should be and a half away even if there is a out having to reckon on the a really tremendous slump. But those two sterling figures wireless" the proponent of

shares the opinion favourite diversion of a number of clauses submitted by the Attorneys aiming at Accidents do zone. have been arrived at on widely differing calculations. Last formerly mooted that the Mar-oung Chinese at West Point. General should be inserted in the happen wi' the beat of trained

Mr. Robert Yip, the compradore bill.

I hate like ooything to suggest year at this time the rate of the dollar was round about 4stians have attained

a higher of Messrs. Reiss and Company,

men and ye might be the sorriest that our hard-working soldiery whereas this year it averaged something like 28. d. for the pitch than ourselves in scientific who has been constantly plagued are as follow:

The three clauses in question is fired ye canna' whistle back the bow handy a place the King's man on earth but after the shot should go elsewhere, for I know We went to the trouble of working out the with taking the initiativa in inter-fore the Magistrate this morning contained in the principal Ordin-The other thing we've got to take when the question of closing no

development, as he credits them in this manner, brought a boy be- same seriod. dollar values of the two big sumus given above and we find planetary communication.

buliet or direct its flight, Science Park Range is, but really and 7. Notwithstanding anything] baans advanced that far yet. truly the time has now come that the Colony actually did more business counting in social Changes in Sport.

and announced with evident patisance or in this Ordinance, any into consideration is that right at this range will have to be taken dollars than it did at the same time last year. One cannot

faction that at last he had caught bona fide notice to quit duly given the back of our present Kowloon into consideration. Hard-work- one of the gang. The culprit, by a lessor to a lessee in reliance help thinking that if we send away goods it is the dollar One or two items regarding when he found himself caught on the provisions of paragraph Range the roadwaker and the ing Adjutants will curse me 1 value of them which counts here and therefore our export have hately filtered through from begged him for another chance. (

social changes in the cricket field merchants must have had a more prosperous time during Home. For many years the

(1)

contractor bave been doing quite know, but of

we've got a nice the quarter just ended than they had during the equivalent score-cards at Lord's bare distin- Mr. Yips statement with the section 2 of this Ordinance, or in dozen pedestrians might be now, should the target be missed. It'll a lot of peaceful penetration of roomy rifle range at the back principsi AX amended by

late years, wi' the result that of Kowloon Old City wi' nothing qua.ter last year. Of course, in the matter of imports guished amateurs or "remonious remark that only yesterday a reliance on such provisions and Kowloon is spreading worse than be an awful fag for some of the where one pig roated before a but birds and butterflies to bit This argument does not apply because for goods coming in Esq." while professionals have aried to shalwarict and what on the provisions of section 8 of an epidemic and this should be pip merchants but the sooner it's

ceremonious Indian constable pelted with we have to pay in other currencies, the majority of which figured simply as "Smith." At are of fixed value. There has been a very big decrease in the Oval "Mr." has been employ-Bang had become quite accordance with the provisions of kept in mind by all who would done the safer the back of Kow that business, no matter which way it is looked at.

ed for the "great unpaid," while We suggest that, in order to make the Colony's trade Leyton and some other grounds $5, and handed him back to his ball operate so as to bind a ful men the Standard Test might wi' that Rifle Range, for some 7. G. N. Orme fined the boy the said paragraph, so amended, projectiles. In the hands of care our washing. Besides we can do disturb the ether wi'high velocity loon will be for democracy and returns of greater value, both the sterling and the dollar bave been content to indicate

ine be shown against each item and in the totals. It initials only. This latter plan has stantial. Puishment in the form whom such notice shall have bot, as I say, accidents will Unofficials please note the point

status by prefixing Parents to receive more sub sub-lessses deriving title directly be carried out in Nathan Road more houses,

or indirectly from the lessee to for all the danger there might be, Will some of our thoughtful ertainly is false to announce that our export trade has now been adopted at Lord's. Whe

of a severe spanking. decreased by six million sterling because expoft merchants ther the professionals sle will thesame category),is credited with 8-If the owner of any domes happen wit the best of regulated or must it be left to a jurgia

this Colony have shared in an increase of $10,000,000, bave their initials prefixed is not having brought the change about, tic tenement agree to sell such soldiers. I aye mind a copybook rider to set the wheels of com has been said that figures can be made to prove anything distinction was the more invid der, the Surrey captain, caused whe bona fide intends forthwith to its billet" and that saying still red tabs on their neck they want

stated The extreme form of the and simultaneously P.E.G. Fen-domestic tenement to a purchaser school,

line I had when I was at monsense in motion? As far

Every But we have no wish to imitate those mathematical jugglers tous

bullet finds some of you gentlemen wi' the considering hose efforts used to appear, inside the back page of amateurs were known to make able ground by insisting upon the or to reconstruct such domestic be the target, the hill-side or thing for there's no medals or that some another innovation at the fashion-pull down such domestic tenement remains true whether the billet to get a good flying start at this ancers. We only want to ensure an accurate interpret-quite as much out of the game, centre pavilion gate for all These tenement to such an extent us to mixed up wi car shirts in the glory coming their way but only sion being put on the work of our local statisticians. in one form or another, as the arrangements are in accord with mes palding within the canta Steam Laundry mile away, reports to write and damages This port's export trade is sufficiently dull just now with-ipper of the Australian team (in said to-and should characterise of the Public Health and Build selves are perfectly harmless through indirect fire.

pro." Warwick Armstrong, the that democratic spirit which is new within the meaning Now these ballets in them to pay for hitting innocent folke being made To look apy worse than it really is.

which all the players come under he sporting field.

ings Ordinance, 1903, and if sugh

is done.

were shown.

crudescence of

Apparently

by

smateur

of sub-section to behave himself.

Inspector Appleton supported Ordinance,

pest.

[section ¿ of the

that

certain

this Ordinance, and given in

been given.

RWAY