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NOTES & COMMENTS.

St. Andrew's Day.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1941.

DAY BY DAY.

WORK IS 'THE GRAND QURE To-day is St. Andrew's Day and FOR ALL THE MALADIES AND MISERIES THAT EVER BESTT MAN- Sootamen the world over Are

L

The

ROUND THE TOWN.

“By Gadabout."

da

are

of shipping in general in the Philippines. Governor General Wood declares that a competent

Mr. Akbar, who combines the ON THE WATERFRONT. Personnel will be appointed by

crew worked

it my

which

composed of

and soldiers still havo a largo`zala honds built in, as well as having and the quaint "kawpis" della bean newly-coppered and fitted have not yet lost their out with new sails and oanras popularity. Most of the toy complete. soldiers this year were made by A number of forged notes which disabled men under the national

Returning To Japan, The Tokyo Salvage Company's celebrating the festival of their/AND--HONEST WORK, WHICH figured prominently at the lastsscheme for training those in Axuma Mara which recently

YOU INTEND GETTING DONE Criminal Sonions have now been capacitated in

the war, and made an attempt to reach the patron saint. Local Scots are

Carlyle,

placed in the Supreme Court exceedingly well-made toys thay New York Maru left for Moji once again marking the day by

museum. Perhaps it is not gen-aro, too. I was shown some today. the holding of a Ball in the City Hall and that usually drab build-)

Yesterday's return of notifiable rally known that there is such a heavy howitzers made by ex-

Quick Work. ing will present a merry scene disease shows one fatal case of thing as a museum at the Supreme Service men and they were ex

"Governor General Wood bas this evening. As in former years paratyphoid fever and one fatal Court (it isn't open to the general ceptionally wall constructed toys

public), but thare. is, and though and ware selling like hot cakes, followed the Maria Luisa number of congratulatory case of corebro-spinal fever.

not occupying very much space it Prices are much lower this year; disaster, which took place last messages have been received from kindrad associations throughout.

The defendant in the kidnap contains quite a number of in about twenty-five per cont, I was wook off the Batan Coast, by still ordering a thorough investigation the Far East and our Scots friends ping case reported elsewhere interesting exhibits. Is was started told, though dolls bave again demonstrated their this isane was yesterday com-some years ago. I was having

by Mr. J. M. P.

Silva expensive. love of country, so often mistaken mitted to the Sessions.

a look round it tha other day and for mers clannishness. As we are back again in the "piping

Fire Brigade was this

datisa of curator with his workin

him to made the investigation, times of peace" our thoughts can morning called out to a firs which

connection with the Court, was

the condition of the Maria Luisa more appropriately targ

broke out at a house at Queen's

good enough to show me some of Angkor Due on Saturday.

before she sank to be looked into pleasure than was possible a few Road East. The fire which was the curios, in which, it may be years ago, and if local Scots are confined to the chicanes and was mentioned, he takes a great in mentioned the other day, is due repark to him and make such The H. M. Angkor which we mittee will be asked to reader a also. The investigating com- providing entertainment for them-jquickly es tinguished.

terest. There are peus and quills hare on December 3. It will be selves and friends to-night let us

with which Governors and others recalled that she was formerly think appropriate. "I am go Norms Talmadge plays the hars signed the oath of office the Amazone. Torpedoed bying

recommendations ** not forget that donng the war there was no association in this leading role in The Way of galore, and forged notes are well Geraian submarine on May 9 array of shipping in general

to bave Colony which worked harder in Woman." a select picture adapted represented. There are knives 1918, in the proximity of Biserte. In

& rigid the cause of charity than did the from the famous play "Nancy with which some of the more prom-Tenis, sha was towed to Sidi The people are entitled to know St. Andrew's Society. Most of as Lee, showing at the Kowloon inent local murders have been abdallah, temporarily repaired in whether the ships on

the islands," he *sy* will recall those Heather Days Theatre this evening. Talented committed, poisoned food, bomb that port and sent to the esther, their families and relatives and the big parade ground Fairs, and popular, the star dominates cases, and other interesting relics ageries Maritimes works in Marail are safe or not. The commit the street sales and collections the picture with her delightful of Hongkong'sunderworld, though suilles for reconstruction. We tee I will appoint to look into the and the altogether generous "auc-personality.

many of the exhibits would appear have already given the particular matter will be tions. Some there are who have.

is bars no connection with the Her staff and thought in the past that a little Mrs. F. E. Cameron, the pro- Court at all. One of these (and) heroically to save her after being

experts. Whether or not tha The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph is $3600 much money is spent annually prictress of the Carlton Hotel, perhaps it's the most interesting torpedoed and received su pola crew of each vessel plying in the in connection with City Hall Balls, was this morning summoned by eurio of all) is a small bottle contestimony from the French Gov-trained for emergencies like that The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrio. that decorations are too lavish Miss Marjorie. Marion Ward,taining a number of coarse hairs. [ernment expressing satisfaction of the Maria Luisa, is another coastwise trade are sufficiently tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a/ and the number of invites too rosiding at the Wyndham Hotel, which are said to have been with "the fine behaviour of her question which must be inves-

many, but with the note of warn- for the recovery of wages alleged found in great numbers all over staff and crew when torpedoed. tigated also. The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee ing sounded last year there is not to be dus her for the period | Hongkong after an earthquake{she was only saved thanks to reports I have received, it appears is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies the same heavy expenditure being between she 4th and delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies two big local Societies St. An-wages in lieu of notice. Mr. the disturbance in the earth's of

involved. On this occasion our November. and оде month's Our Chinese friends have it that the energy. She loat in that some of the crew are not sent by post an additional $1.50 per quarter is charged for postage.

event nin. members well instructed in their duties Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.

drew's and St. George's—no) Vaux represented tha

caused by a dragon The vessel, as we have already The purpose in making this in- staff when maritime accidents occur. doubt bare found difficulties plainant, and the case was living beneath the surface who stated, can now be compared vestigation is to make any boats in connection with any cutting adjourned antil Friday.

became restless about something with the most up-to-date liners, licensed to navigata in Philippine down and for our own part

or other. These hairs are those with her three decks and com-waters sale for every person to that if the expense is heavy it is in the Colony are liable to im- Chinese say, anyway. Of course, burn either oil or fuel.

Persons caught boiling opium of the dragon, or that is what the fortable accomodation. She can travel on. I want to encourge purely a matter for those who are prisonment without the option of I know, the sceptical reader will

intar-island shipping and travel called upon to pay. There cer- fine. This is the latest measure smile, but nevertheless, it was

Cargo

by bost, and it is therefore tainly, can be no charge of stipt-instituted by the Government rather remarkable. I wonder if The Blue Funnel vassel, necessary that it should be mada ing made against local Scots and in its endeavours to combat any of you can supply an ex-Yangtze, brought 1651 tons of safe for everybody." all residents will join with us in the prevalence of illicit trafficking planation.

In Wireless Communication. wishing them very many more in the drug. Two Chinese, who hearty celebrations of their great were brought up before Mr. J. R.

The following vessels were in national day. The Scot is nothing Wood this morning, were refused is now in full swing. The new

wireless communication with the The Kowloon motor-bus service if not thorough and the thorough-the application for a fine made on vehicles aren't much to look at

port at 2.30 p.m. to-day-SusaDE, ness and adequacy of the arrange their behalf by Mr. R. E. Hall.and I'm afraid I can't

Golden State, Euryalus, Empress ments made for to-night's big and were sentenced

A former Hongkong vassel, the of Russia, Jara, Hawii Mam, function is in itself a compliment months' hard labour each.

to three them becoming popular with Ah Roy, now named the Cathwai

Sarg, Toren Manu. to both hosts and guests. Until

Europeans, but the Chinese seem erine T. has been added to the Niapon, Macassar, Matsumoto the wee sua oors" it will still

be taking to them right away. Philippine inter-island Best of Maru, Rakuyo Mary, Natica, They are now to be seen all over motor schooners. The boilers Empire Arrow. Kowloon, most of them with and engines have been replaced Reports upon the current trend of the world's com-

quite a fair number of passengers by 120 H. P. Scandia engine merce are to the effect that the lowest point of the depression Cargo Broaching.

up, and

going along s that will give a speed of eight steady and quite safe is probably past, and that a slow but perceptible quickening The details which

pace. Enota: The Catherine T. is a The story of a man who goes Europeans and the more well-to-trim-looking, vessel of 199 tous of activity has begun. This revival is expected to gather enabled to publish sesterday of by a man who be believes to be the old and familiar ricksha, but beam and eight fee: moulded were to prison for a crine committed do Asiatics will probably stick to grose, 110 feet overall, 20 feet momentum gradually and to develop into a period of the scheme adopted by Messrs. the brother of the woman with I don't suppose the pullers will depth. She has been reconstruct business prosperity, unless checked by some powerful Alfred Holt and Company. to whom he is in love is depicted welcome the new form of locomo-ed with teak and other hard counteracting influence. Some elaborate investigations diminish the evil of cargo in the star film, "Desperate tion, as it's bound to hit them woods, the hold increased to 64 into economic factors have been undertaken by a New brosching will doubtless have Trails." at the World Theatre. pretty hard. Personally, I've feet, and two water tight bulk- York journal, and as conditions in a country of the magni- been read with interest by all But the man who pays the always thought that there ware shippers and others engaged in penalty of another's misdoings too many riakshas, both on the tude of the United States must react perceptibly upon the the transport trade. In recent discovers that the man for whom Island and on the Peninsula. At world at large the prospects there are obviously of import-years-roreparticularly since the he is suffering is not the brother times the coolies make themselves ance outside America. Expectations of trade improvement wst-cargo pilfering has assumed at all but the lover. How Ne regular nuisance in their en- in the States are based largely upon the assumption that serious character the wide escapes from jail in a packing deavour to persuade you to hire somewhat the same way as there was recovery after previous suggestions have been made for how everything comes right inleven worse in this respect it's to-night will be short and sweet I'm reminded o' the curious fact there will be a recovery from the depression of 1920-1 in world over and although many case, how he gets his revenge and them, bat now matters will be

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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1921.

TRADE FLUCTUATION.

We ara inclined to think

be the day of St. Andrew to whom we owe more than onel happy memory.

we

17th which occurred a few years ago. their

com-crust

DESPERATE TRAILS

Exciting Film at The World.

dealing with this Duisance the end forms the story of the rather

[content to leave

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engine-room

cotton goods and machinery from Liverpool for Hongkong and 5,004 tops of the same class of goods for Shanghai and Japan.

Ah Hoy Reconstructed.

To judge from

DUKE BUYING ACORNS. The Duke of Bedford is paying 38. 6d. a bushel for ACOTOS

feeding deer, some hundreds of athered in the wood. They are which are kept in Woburn Park. ased during the winter for

Quite a good income is being made Jin this way by unemployed cottagers.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

Well all that I've got to say way and another but there again,

our adoration

That only

danger of getting hit We've set an

periods of depression-in short, that prosperity moves in nothing seems to have been quite film. There is no lack of excite. Although there appear to be more like the donkey's gallop. And that in leaving home we mostly

difficult problem. cycles.

so effective as a stricter vigilance ment; it is filled with thrills all rickshas and chairs licensed than for at least two reasons. To forget our Burns the sinner, only That this is the case in any mathematical sense may over the goods themselves. The the way through. It is a good are actually needed. I suppose all begin wi, all that I really know to find Andrew the paint. well be doubted, or rather, it is not asserted; but experience majority of Companies have been picture in every respect with the coolies manage to earn a about St. Andrew could go in Of course there's more class to has taught business men to expect recurrent periods of ebb measures in the bands of the the principal roles. The Screen If they had their licences taken made ye and another thing, you'll especially when

preventive Harry Carey and Irene Rich in living or they wouldn't stick at it your eye and it wouldns' discom- worshipping assist than a sinner. and flow. A chart showing their course in the United police who must, necessarily, be Magazine is shown, also a good away they would probably find it mostly all be ower busy in the takes more the form o' sinning States has been prepared covering a series of some forty.bandicapped by reason of the comedy. At the rustinees at 2.30 difficult matter to get something for part of the night to trouble than saintliness. five years.

It pictures the revival of prosperty that folosing nature of the goods. So and 7.15 p.m. two further episodes to do, and it's the idlers that old your heade very much about a "shows ye the twisted lot we are. lowed the resumption of specie payments and the bumper elsims

heavy have been the insurance of "King of the Circus"

of late

Bro Satan's after or so they say. The blethering old Scotsman. You'll Well, onyway I hope you all years that screened. crops of 157 the prosperity of the early eighties. premiums have not only risen to

new motor-cycle taxis will probab-But plenty of that anyway before have a good time to-night. Joe the crisis of 1954, the revival of 5-6, the boom great height, but many of the

ly hit the ricksha-pullers in the you get to bed.

and I had look at the of 1889-90, the slight

Ay, this is St. Andrew's Day decorations fast night and they're share of the United States curance Companies have called FALSE TRADE MARKS. these vehicles aren't to be pat right enough. As I said before fine.

same way, but I hear now that

Nothing gaudy mind ye, in the general crisis of 1890. the revival that upon the owners of the goods to

on streets at the beginning of the Andrew, he must have been aye but enough to fill the eye for all followed the extraordinary harvest in 1891, the panic of bitherto. Stronger packings have lake greater precaution than

Japanese Firm Takes

new year, as was at first arpocted, kind of backward chap, no that, For one thing. I'm glad 1893, the prolonged hard times that followed before been very largely adopted but

Action.

owing to labour difficulties at given to self-advertisement in his though at a terrible risk, we've Mi moderate relief in 1993 and the return of prosperity that even this device, entailing more Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Magis-

Mr. H. K. Woo appeared before Home,

time, for man, it's a dickens of the measure for a little more seem- a job looking up anything liness in the way of display at began in 1897, the rich man's" panic in 1903, the boom expense to the eventuall

about him. You turn up Eo- tracy this morning to prosecutej The shopping area of Hongkong cyclopaediss and you're instant as I say, but the first man that's our annual balls It's been risky, of 1906 followed by the crisis of 1907, the rapid revival consumer, has not resulted in a

very marked dimination. Meguro. summons taken out by al is now beginning to put on quite ly among a thicket o "if" and so far left to himself as to hint in the following years, succeeded in turn by a deepening Alfred Holt, as the operators of Japanese firm against the pro- Yuletide appearance. Every-bats reaction until "war industries brought a rush of activity an enormous amount of tonnage, prietor of the Kwang Cheong body is busy dressing their shop poseds". Mr. Maconachie was grave

and generally sup st meanness is in very (partially checked by the difficulty of coping with have naturally been very much which closely resembled those season, which will soon be in fall Ay, as good as I've ever heard. example ony way, and it's to be

shop for applying trademarks, windows for the Christmas very good on him Sunday last. ear bitten off. demands when America entered the conflict). a short affected by this increase la dia of the complainants, on sixty swing. The big stores are busy The worst o' they saints is that hoped that wi it the recent period of depression after the armistice, followed by the honesty and are very wisely

taking their own steps to combat cases of matches discharged here making their toy departments as they lived such a long time ago competitive craze to spend good big boom, and then depression again-here we have ait. We remember that a few by the e.s. Wing On. He said attractive as possible for the and hadas time on their bande money on gold and cloth and the graphic outline of economic history for nearly half a months ago the Hongkong Genera! that after the production of these young shoppers who will soon be for writing biographies. His bones like'll have been put a stop to. Chamber of Commerce made re- cases on a search warrant, the looking around to see what they at one time were supposed to lie It has taken courage and all Such experiences are common to countries with a presentations to the Government defendant came forward with an would like old Santa Claus to at St. Andrews but even that's a must give our Chief the credit highly developed business organisation. These cycles barel on this matter, asking for better enter into an agreement with the no lack of toys of all kinds this except that it's a very dear place towards normsley; to prove onco admission and an undertaking to bring them. There seems to be place I know very little about for baving taken the first step a long history in the Old Country, where economists are pointed out at the time that complainants that the matches year; they are now shown is in the summer and lodgings very more that we can enjoy ourselves accustomed to the term "periodicity of trade revivals. merchants and shippers would be delivered to them and great variety in many windows hard

соп They are known, too, in France, Germany, the Netherlands, tribute very largely to the spread be disposed of by them as they in the town. Crackere and greet Andrew ever got the length of wading through

to get. How poor St. and entertain our guests without Italy, and the Scandinavian countries, and may be of the evil by reason of the thought fit. Of the sixty cases, ings cards and christmassie-look- Scotland is a mystery but he redderalls.

and perceived in newer commercial communities like India and general slackaese displayed in any sight were now in police ing boxes of chocolates are ex must have been in bad way Japan. Depressions pave the way for revivals, revivals guarding the goods both during custody at the Kowloon Goddwas, posed to view in plenty.

transit and after landing. The And the remaining two were may-develop into "

booms," which in turn are prone to police force of this Colony can with the police. If his Worship There doesn't seem to be suy breed crises, leading back to depression. Government hardly be made custodians of all approved of the settlement he novelties in toys this year, but it is though, ians' nearly so wonderful could afford to be a haid yin in studied these fluctuations with a view to obviating orderful amount of work as it is, but delivery of the matches to the which, owing to the war it hasn't found St. Andrew. To thoroughly Society, I hope to see the day departments, economists, and industrial leaders have through cargo; they do a won-vegek for an order for the now possible to get many things as the way most Scotsmen have the Hongkong St. Andrew's there must be supplementary complainants. The charge would been easy to buy during the last discover the patron saint o come when ony self-respecting modifying them. Investigation has sufficed to show that action on the part of those who in that case be withdrawn. these movements follow fairly well-defined lines. So far handle the goods themselves. make the order unless be heard the market again, and construc- most of us

few years. Steam engines and Scotland ye need to 'go abroad Scotsman can be our chief and Mr. Lindsell said he could not toy cinematographs are now on and it's on a foreign shore that no only because he's able to put it has not been found practicable to control these beyond a Because we recognise that from the defendant an admission tional toys are finding great how patriotic we are. There's on St. Andrew's Night.

discovered first his hand deep down in his pocket very limited extent, and the depression through which congratulate Mossra. Alfred

popularity. I was chatting to the more we have been passing is the result of dislocation upon an Holt on the wisdom of its latest of the offence.

The defendant, on being pro-manager of Whiteaway's the the

stir in Scotland

A little more commonsense move—a mova that might very Apparently a rising tide is in well be emulated by other local ced, admitted the offence, and other day, and he told me that is ever likely to be on the list that might well be possible before unprecedented scale.

August than on the lines of this year and prospect, but without a "boom," which in view of the fate shipping companies either in- His Worship imposed & nominal the kiddies still like the old day of November. Now January long. of past booms can be dispensed with.

Bine of 85 and made the order favourites. Taddie bearu, dollaj 25th. is generally a busy time one asked for by Mr. Woo,

century.

police protection but it WAS

dividually or in concert.

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waste

There's been far too much of onyway for it's no" the kindliest of that in the past wf the result places even for a rickle of bones. that it was only those wi', a fat That he discovered Scotland credit account at the bank that

twelfth

on'

Well, till

hightl