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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

** Beer and Baccy.”

WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1921,

DAY BY DAY.

RICHTS ARE OF LITTLE AVAILI {IN MANY OF THE CALAMITUS, TO We can see a positive storm of WHICH MANKIND ARE LIA HAK.—-~ contrevarxy brewing over what | Cervantes. the Hon. Mr. A. Q. Lang said at

BOUND THE TOWN.

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~~~~ A Prospector's- Luck.

(From Dur Chen Correspondent)

Court news; there is often quite RICH TIN DISCOVERY. a lot of unconscious humour in it. A man was up the other day for some offence or other and the By Gadabout."

Magistrate fined him $25. The Why is it, I wonder, that convictions and the twenty-five Inspector mentioned previons Hongkong sata itself a difarent books" was increased to thirty. standard from almost every other Then the man complained that the meeting of the LagialAliTO Injuries to his head and chest place on the face of the Earth he was out of employment and Council on Monday. Did your sustained by a Chinese lad East is East and West is West the Magistrate washed out the read it? He said that smoking who was yesterday knocked down we know, but this Colony is not five and found him a job for three was something much mare than

creature comfort and alcoholic motor car No. 243 at Fraya even like other places in the East, weeks.

Why should it be customary-hara Esst ¡drink more or less a necessity.

to give the boy a tip every tima He was appealing for a reduction in the amount of duty on tobacco

Arrested on the as. Honan in he brings you a drink; it is noti

dona in other places? It is not ALMOST A HUSBAND. and alcoholic liquors and to make possassion of 100 his plea all the more forceful ammunition, a Chinese was this done in Siam, the F.MS, the expressed bimself above morning sentenced to a fios of Straits Settlements, Australia or

A suitable present to send Home &

for Christmas.

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

full mouth.

Hongkong Dispensary.

The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be

Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.

delivered to subscribers by the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1921.

RENT PROFTTEERING AT SHANGHAI.

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Singapore, November 16th. A prospector at Partis Cavus has discovered a riah tia deposit at a depth of one thousand feet, A coolie is able to win nearly a pical of ore dally...

TRADE DELEGATE'S DEATH.

WIL

A Sad Incident.

CHINESE STUDENTS. According to the Shanghai Journal of Commerce, the local authorities have received instruc- of Education that no now students tions from the Chinese Ministry

are to be permitted to go abroad for the time being. This evident- ly refers to government support- |ed, not private students and is another sign of Paking's bank- ruptcy.—N_C_DN.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

Chinese life and surroundings aren't the mood $100 or six weeks imprisonment. England, I know, and I don't

suppose it is done anywhere Highly Original Picture old Band of Hope out here, for

else. When I asked * Scot

at the Coronet. we should have a birthday kind There was one fatal case of if it Wors customary to of row if we had. But there will plague and also one fatal case of give a cumshaw to the man Next to common sense the most [(From Our Own Correspondent.)

many who will agre e diphtheria reported yesterday, who brings a drink in the land of uncommon thing in the world is

Singapore, November 16th. with Mr. Lang, nor because both victims being Chinese, the heather, he was so surprised originality, aspecially the kind

Mr. Alex. Morrison, a n embar ther arg themselves either There was also one non-fatal case at the idea that he forgot himself that finds expression in

af the San Francisco trade delega drinkers or smakers to ex-of paratyphoid fever the sufferer so far as to tender a five-cent Husband, Smiling Win

tion, has died on board the Empire cess but because they have being British.

pieca to the boy who had just Rogers delightful new comedy State. Pasumonia was contraerad found that in AD enervating]

brought his whisky. And if you now showing at the

Boop af er lesving Hongkong. The climate an occasional stimulant A meeting of the St. Andrew's don't dish out the cumshaw Theatre. This picture is perhaps body is being embalmed and is not only helpful but healthful. Men's Association, Kowloon, will pretty freely in some of the local the most original that bas ever taken to America ou the Creole There are perhaps, many who ad-be held to-night (Wednesday) hotels it's a long time you have beso shown on the sarees, a broad State. Mrs. Morrison is a member saare such a plea to excuse a in St Andrew's Hall at 8.45, p.m. to wait the next time you go in statement that you can readily of the party. rather too liberal indulgence and when Mr. B. Wylie will read for a refresher. A friend of mine prove for yourself. in Almost

[The late Mr. A F. Morrison, it is a dangerous kind of doctrine paper on The Romance of was in a certain hotel the other a Husband" the inimitable come-

member of Messrs. for Atr. Lang to preach Publicity which will be followed day. The first time the boy came dian has a pictare after his own Morrison, Dance and Brobeck, But the majority of people by a discussion.

along he tipped him and the heart, that is to say be has a Attorneys-at-law. Но WALA in this world are of the normal type

second time, as he picked up his picture affording him full opport Director of the following Com- and therefore those who drink and At the Hongkong Theatre is change, the boy calmly handed unity to create a humorous effect panies, whom he was represent- The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph", is $35 smoke in moderation are in the big screened one of the mast out the tray to him with a mute in the simpless maner possible. ing on the trip-Matson Naviga per annum.. (Payable in Advance.)

greater number than those who thrilling and romantic pictures invitation to give another tan Lovable and unaffected, Will tion Co. San Francisco Hotels The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-do

Don't the boys in the Rogers is human above every Co. Crocker Estate Co. Crocker tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for requested reduction of the seen in Hongkong for a long time. centa

As the Ver- National Bank, Paraffine Com- It is entitled The Sign of the Colony's hotelsget a living waga thing else.

school teacher who present duties imposed we canno: Spade" and features that most There should be enouzh prof mont

panies, Inc.. Hutchinson Sugar The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee | agree with Mr. Lang, because we La accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies feel that if revenus must be talented artist Helene Rosson. made on the refreshments sold, settles down in a sleepy Ark Plantation Co., Pazchau Sugar

towo. marries its

Plantation Co., and others.] delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies raised then let it be paid by those very humorous comedy follows, and if there is not, then stick on ansas sant by post an additions! $1.80 por quarter is charged for postage.

consuming non-essentials. Whert the 7.15 pm performance another few cents and pay the ricbest daughter in a game of Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

"bras we. get right down to

farther episodes are being shown boys more, but, anyway, cut out "forfeits," and gallantly goes his way alone that she may not be Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for attacks,"

of The Lion Man.”

this tipping business. bath smoking and

burdened with such a homely fired period will be continued until countermaanded.

drinking are not absolutely

busband, he makes the character necessary and they come under Charged on two counts for To tell the truth, I had become direct and true, his qualat sense the beading of xuries" oicente, a money-changer was this cumshaw game that I had failed every situation. The story is not

breaches of the conditions of his

used to the everlasting of humour fading fresh outlet in matter how helpful we night individually and one or the morning fined 850 for each offence.to see anything unusual in it dramatic but it is remarkably other. This Colony still needs He failed to keep his account until a frited pointed it out to m rich in comedy and atmosphere. all the revenue it can get to pay books up-to-date to enable Living in the East for some time An excellent cast supports the for the big developments in hand balance to be struck by the ex-you are apt to forget the ways of star. "A great picture full of rich and projected and we think it amining Police Officer and also to the West very quickly. It is humanity and teaching a happy would be a mistake to withdraw furnish the C. 8. P. on the 1st so easy to fall into line out philosophy, taxation from "beer and baccy" September a return showing the here and it is always interest- and then have to place it on some number of silver dollars bought.ing to watch new-come75 more essential article. The pries sold or exchanged by bim in the and notice the change that of drinks and smokes is high, preceding half month.

comes over them day by day. The we admit, but to the man of

griffin arrives, clear eyes and moderate consumption there is At 3 a.m. this morning a raid rosy cheeks, with healthy not left a great deal of canse for was jointly carried out by complexion such as only the complaint. Let us be really Revenue and Polica officers variable climate of our Isles can bonest with ourselves in this under the direction of C.P.O. Watt produce. He is out for three matter of drinking and we will on two houses at Qusan's Road years, at the end of which time We had a kind o' mild excite houses. Janet she began to get Only the other day our Legislative Council was and that this Colony is a very West on execution of an opium he is going home to get married ment in Kowloon last night. It's on to me for no insuring our handling a measure in respect of rent restriction by way much more reasonable place than warrant. After having ascer or do some other rash and foolish aye my jose anyway. The night furniture. Ay, she'd been telling of checking profiteering on premises. Considering that it was when whisky was dirt tained looking through thing. He really only comes out I get home early hoping to get a me about it for years and there ye this problem is of practically world-wide dimensions, it is cheap and when there was a keyhole that the moment way to save up enough to buy the nice lie back is sure to be the see onything's liable to happen at not surprising to find that the inhabitants of Shanghai are whore, string of pubs down appropriate for the launching of furniture, but he doesn't save time when there's most doing. onytime. Ye'd have thought by experiencing tribulations of this kind. Naturally there's Road. We are not sorry & surprise on the inmates. Officer a cent and, of course, he never The fir. it started at the back the way she went on that I'd that those days are gone because Watt suddenly burst the door settles down at Home again. Bu of Humphrey's block on Nathan started the fire myself. So I had poorer Chinese are the class most largely affected, but we think Hongkong is a batter open and almost stumbled over that doesn't matter. He thinks Road and certainly at first it was to be firm and tell her to content they are not by any means the only ones. The European place for their going, and we have two men who were basily engaged he is going Home and he makes good healthy start. Speaking herself and let other folks enjoy population is feeling the stress of continually increasing no objection to our Government in preparing a quantity of opium up his mind that he is not going later on in the evening to a themselves what they got a rents and pressure on space in respect of both residential making a fair revenue out of the These men together with another to fall too much into Eastern policeman, he said it was just a chance.

importation of both drink and man in the adjoining house were ways. The first day he won't let faw sticks and nothing worth and business premises. Normal growth alone, considering tobacco. If we could be convinc- taken to the Police Station, and anyone carry his bag and he talking about. Quite so. Come wandered-looking firemen and z the scale of the northern port, would have produced this ed that any hardship existed we were this morning brought before gently but firmly tells everybody to think of it, every fire starts the barrow came round our street problem; and it has been markedly accentuated by refugees would join Mr. Lang's side the Magistrate:

that he is not going to be waited same way. It's the way it looking like they'd lost a shilling on hand, foot and finger by any finishes

most and fonod a sixpence. Finally from Europe. especially Russia, and from the disturbed to-morrow. districts of China.

boy. Then every day brings anyway.

they disappeared" and in about change. He got We had a good view of it from another minute I could hear the To a certain extent property owners have the justifica- A Matter of Policy.

the ricksha habit and if he our verandah. The opening motor fire engine on the job and tion of higher values all round in raising rents. This is

тая mostly Very many people are sharing

has to walk a few hundred yards chorus

police before long the water was turned not the grievance. What is causing widespread dissatis the opinion that the Hon. Mr. A.

up the bill be begins to think whistles but one musical sonava on. faction in Shanghai is the profiteer. The prevailing state G. Stephen made the best speech

that after all the chairs havej gun came in every now and then

Mind ye, I'm no blaming the their uses. Then he hasn't the wi' a motor horn. Man, there's engines for being so log in being of things demonstrates that many property-owners are so at the Budget meeting. He cer

energy to fold bis serviette and some shop in this Colony must on the spot. On the street after- possessed by cupidity that that they are utilising the tainly was very statesmanlike on the broad question of Hongkong's

in the end he can't push in his do a very big trade in them wards I heard opa man tell demand to force reats up to the extreme maximum. tenants financial policy. In the matter

chait at the conclusion of a whistles. Our boy he seemed to another that he was among the of years' standing who have never failed to pay their rent of developing our possessions we

meal. Yes, with all the East's bave a kind o' sixth sense for first to make for the telephone disadvantages, most of us will you kind o' disturbance for he and couldos' get exchange! Bat regularly being served with notice to quit in order that the Britishers are often accused of

miss many little things when we bolted on to the verandab right mind ye that's only hearsay. The owner may re-let the premises at perhaps double the rent being haphazard and not endow

ed with length of vision and

Sir-Quite recently the cult of

go Home and a few months' in the middle o' dishing out the same man said that exactly the от mоrе. Increases show a wide range, but an addition whilst that might be true in part anonymity has been fairly ex-leave every so many years are coffee. At first I thought he'd same thing happened the Satur-

appears to be not per cent.

uncommon, it is nevertheless true that we do

haustively discussed" In the all the Home most of us want finally made up his mind to do day the Mula Stables went on fire. All I've got to say is that if some and instances are recorded of the rent actually being actually develop. We don't start pondence columns of your when we eventually get there away wi' himself and as I wasna'

keen on Northern contemporary. In par- and see things as they really are. very

the motor of you Whistling Rufuses bad ran increased to 300 per cent. Sometimes the landlord out with

ambulance purring round our down to the Fire Station instead ochial Hongkong it may perhaps In other proceeds by a series of advances.

door, I followed him, in the faint of trying to dislodge their front he is in such a hurry to get more that, as a steep increase modestly

People were flabbergasted when hope though, that I'd be ower late teeth you way, the engines would. more pros than cons or at any would make the extortion too obvious to the tenant, be bits here and little bits there, rata perhaps in little more a man got up in a theatre full of to keep him from throwing him have been there sooner than they It's all very easy to gives notice, usually ou the plea that he requires the alter that and improve this. That reason for a pseudonym than in people, shot one of the actors on self into the street: But as I were. premises himself, whereas it is found directly afterwards may be bad policy, but the aven-our enlightened sister port. How the stage and, making his way asid before it was my unlucky criticise but we canne expect our ever this Tay be. It seems out through one of the exits, was night. Like a fish, back be Kowloon fremen to be thought- that be bas let to somebody else at a greatly-increased al result is proudworth 7.

Whether it is better for this Colony a pity to mo Sir, that all never seen again, or, perhaps goggled into the dining room wi' readers and ready to jump rental. The mania for gain is so prevalent that where the to go on paying for improvements our protestant legionices should should say, was never brought to his eyeballs hanging out on his whenever some fire-raising cooli bead landlord is content to let things go on, the tenants it goes or whether it would be ret remain unknown to Justice. But the lavast criminal cheeks and before ye could say takes it into his head to perform, avails himself of the opportunity to sub-let at a profit. better to launch out on really big 00 another, Ypres," whom I exploit is ever more startling. At knife, he produced a pukka bob- All the same though, I've seen am with wholeheartedly and who a time when the streets were bie's whistle and without as much you was red fire pillar-boxes wi' In short, the abuses are of the kind that have occurred and well conceived schemes and captivates me as a scribe, wisely crowded with pedestrians and as seeing if it was in kay, be a glass nice and handy to break

raise loans for the purpose is a here and in lots of other places.

very debatesble matter and one

Puggests that the approaching others a number of men boarded lashed himself into a tune that which they tell me is one of the Many European tenants bold under lease, but many which can best ba argued by ex general meeting should be the tram-car, stopped it, robbed bad only one note and a sustained quickest ways of rustling out a others do not, and the extent of the problem may be in-pert fanciers, but we have occasion of a rally. Would be one of the passengers and they note at that. I think I hear it fire fighting force, But than ferred from the fact that not long ago some young very strong fancy for the good tion that we who are with him. sounds incredible and if such an instrument down his throat I saw and we

consent, I wonder, to the sugges too, made good their escape. It yet, Just as I was pushing the `sgain such would mean money couldas' expect the Britishers at the northern port discussed the erection of old policy of "pay as you go.” Nissen hats, apparently considering this reminder of other That works best in business if should send him our names? We episode were embodied in a film the fire over his shoulder. Jacek Government to spend any more you can afford it and a mortgage might do this, care of you Sir, if most people would immediately she gave s klod o' skir and the on Kowloon just now. Of course, days preferable to the existing conditions. Unfortunately or overdraft should be a last you will help in this way. I feel proclaim it as ridiculous. Bat wee yin promptly asked if she'd we pay the same rate o' taxes from this point of view, it is not quite such a simple resort. Has this Colony reached sure that he has the cordial here we have it just outside have a holiday from the school in in Kowloon but that's a mere matter to dump a hut down in civilised quarters as in a the stage of a last resort? Mr. Support of all ex-service men in our doors, so to speak, and from the morning, which is what I bagatelle, We canna look for war area. The poorer Chinese, with their teeming num- Stephens thinks it hae reachedo, Taikoo and everywhere the reports it appears that the call presence of mind, if nothing everything at once. What be tween the promise o■ Hospital bers and meagre earnings, are in worse case. They have stage where it should consider and most sertainly, I think, of misoresats have a good chance of else.

This was at twenty minutes to and very near getting enough adopting the borrowing habit, all my cheery-co-dipers (service) getting sway with it.. The police shown by their newly-formed Tenants' Association that but the Government at present and ex-service) on Armistine can't be blamed. These things are pine. As I looked over the water in the mornings to bath Chinese have the faculty of organisation in a greater thinks the Colony can afford tonight at "the Boogkong." dot always as they appear to an verandab I could see the cookboy wi', we barns' much left to

Yours,-ete. degree than is often supposed. A memorial they have pay its way. There is quite s

outsider, and even in such cases turning the corner, heading grumble at Still and on, when FOOTSLOGGER.. as these it is not always an easy Tsumati way. At the mate he ye come to think of it there's no”. prepared for presentation to the Municipal Council makes lot of public work in band and we

Hongkong, 16th Nov. 1921. matter for the defenders of was travelling, if he kept it up, I much use of fancy fire engines cogent reading. One plan that has been mooted, for ball possibly not spend vary

}law

order, who are reckoned he'd be due in Peking on the Peninsula if there's no much more than we raise during [To "Ubique"-We cannot see snd Europeans as well as Chinese, is that the suburbs should the year to come. We can easily our way to publish your letter. fine body of men, to ten hours later. I never saw sure way o' giving the station. be extended, and in view of the expansion of the Model afford to pay on our present scale, As we think the matter of get hold of the right man. That him go so fast before-except wi" lads the tip when they're needed. It might so happens that the nezt Settlement something of this kind appears inevitable, and while we can do that we membership of the British Legion the police do do- great deal of the butter

Ata quarter to nine yon mat fee will be out of essy rickalite But if the Chinese desire the co-operation of the Inter-ought to be content. Intelligent in Hongkong has been sufficiently good work is shown by the large national authorities, a corollary would be the withdrawal foresight can be applied just as well ventilated we have decided number of cases dealt with at the shed was pist being any more ridin't distance. T

certain of Kowloos. It's a suburban, well in a small way as it can to close the correspondence in our local Courts day by day, use and, there was a of hostility to enlargement of boundaries.

in a large way:

[columns.—ZA. HKT)

{nearly always read the Police liveliness in the sbatting cook» you know.

of 100

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph.**

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