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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 1921.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
DAY BY DAY.
|Banque Industrielle.
THERE IS NOTHING IN WHICH
health.
By "Gadabout.”
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Chinese, who was yesterday annoyed that instead of hand-impetus it wants. Parliament, no announcement Arrested on board the Shinyong the pullar the fare in the could be made. It was left to the Maru in possession of 75 taels of usual way she threw it at him, so that is rolled some twenty Singapore officials of the Bank to prepared opiuni, was this mor yards away and the unfortunate make the first public statement, given nine months hard this possibly being in view of the labour by Mr. J.R. Wood. intimation given by the Judge atį the last bearing of the winding-up
coolis had to chase after it. Of
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ROUND THE TOWN. It would be such an innover they are perfectly justified – P {sible spot to those who cản | trying to keep out those wh
afford to run a car, or perhapa deliberately dodged active service, there might be a systam of as many in war service certainly motor-bases. But I'm getting on did. However, I should like to The newa which we were enabled MEN MORE DECEIVE THEMSELVES to give yesterday regarding the KHAN IN WHAT THEY CALL ZEAL.Why do some people as soon as too fast. A colleag surgasted suggest that membership be co
they come to the East considarja model city on the other side of fined to those who were not com- - Addison. Banque Industrielle de Chine still |
themselves 30 confoundedly the Island many years ago, he pallad to go against their winhom` [awaits official confirmation. It There was only one non-fatal superior? A member of the fair tells me, but apparently the ides to serve in the trenches,
has been known locally for some
It would seem much more days past that negotiations were case of enteric fever reported, so a colleague tells me, drove was not locked upon favourably. proceeding between the French Festerday. Apart from this the up to the Farry in a ricksha the But, who knows, perhaps, the logical to form an association of she International Sports Ground men who volunteered to serve and Chinese Governments, but, in Colony enjoyed # alean bill of other day, and because
arrived just in time to see the Sobears will give that almost their country by risking their view of the fact that any pro
mooring ropes cast ad, she was forgotten, suggestion just the lives in its defence, than to. visional agreement signed must receive the approval of the French;
place volunteers and pressed man on a footing of equality, because the conscript was sent under compulsion to perform the same duties as the volunteer, but avery man should be asked to course, it was horribly superior. To the Editor of the "Hoogkung produce his discharge papers and and all that, but hardly lady like. The damage resulting from the And my colleague told me that
Telegraph."
only those who can be proved to petition that no further adjourn fire at the cracker dealer's shop he saw a man do a similar thing.
be volunteers should be accepted, Reply to R.A.M.C” ment would be granted unless in Queen's Road Central yoster without the excuse of missing the
Then the members of the some definite news was forthcom day morning amounted to $28,000-Ferry (if that is an excusel. My
Association will surely be Sir. Since the perfectly re-regarded with aa great a respect ing. It is significant that in his which was covered by insurance brother scribe described him and sonable
of practice message to Singapore the Man-with the Sun Man Oo, and ended up by saying that be one's
airing by "R. A. M. C." as those who views ia ager of the Bank at Peking saw Commercial Union Companies.
the Prosa suffered severely for the sake of looked the sort who at seems to have deteriorated into their skin-conscientious objec Et to express the opinion that the
Home would spend his timea stanging match betweea intors ceased to exist when their agreement which was signed on David Tao, who is under arrest singing ink for a sam of twenty-terested parties, 1 should like, country Бесаща endangered. means the saving of the Bank, and Europan firmat
As for the need for protection Singapore, he's in the East now and has to point out to your correspondent, against the other comrades the French Consul at Singapore appeared on remand before Mr. be gentleman, don't you know." R.A.M.C," that the also gave his assurance that an J.R. Wood this morning in the Yes, but decant people don't like Service Men's Association perer
Activequired by the activa service men instrument had been definitely application arade by the Crown to see it. He had better have suggested that the only service spent a few days and oights up of Hongkong, if " R.A.M.C.” bad signed. In the matter of details for his extradition to Singapore another look at his etiquette book which could entitle one we shall have to await develop for trial. The extradition order Of course, when you put the fare membership in their Associationeration not necessary—on active to to the neck in filth, etc.—eaum- ments, but it has been clearly was made.
straight into a coolie's hand he was the killing of Germans, but service, and found The rate of subscription in "The Hongkong Telegraph” is £35 established that the officials on
the long- can see at a glance how much that only those who bad actively expected both per annum. (Payable in Advance)
sides bare reached
parcel from Home There was just a nice, comfort you have given him, while by the served their country during the arriving with the rations-with The rate per qaszter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip-common ground and that the able crowd at the special evening scattering method he is not so late way could claim to be either which his other comrades bad tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a settlement they have planned is dreas dance held at the Kowloon easily able to tell. It saves all Comrades of the Great War or had a
but awaiting the approval of the Theatre last night. Encaaced in quibbling, because the poor puiler anything else.
successful argument- The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addresses legislatures. Until such approval their
and upon opening the parcel" artistically decorated is so anxious to get hold of the If "RAM.C." spent any time and is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies is given it is not possible for the retreat on the stage, the orchestra bird in the hand, which is the in France on war service be must which
found only the tin delivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies local Consurate
contained or the Bank men, who have torced out in cash in the road, that he hasn't certainly know the difference when posted by his friends st cigarettes seat by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. management to make any public smart Parrot costumes, were in time to argue. I'm told that between active service and war Home, then would "RAM.C.”
Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
announcemeat, but depositors in capital form Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for Hongkong can gain considerable standard of the music and the advantage of the helplessness of R.A.M.C. I cust say that I bave other comrades was necessary.
and the high ricksha-pullers sometimes do take service, and in justice to the realise that protection from the› fixed period will be continued until countermanded.
satisfaction from what has excellence of the floor were both the fair sex, and so perhaps from seen members of that Corps per- The Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be already been made public. All the subject of admiting comment woman's point of view there forming very active service, and address I shall be pleased to give If he cares to ask you for my delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company. Ltd. will join with us in hoping that Encouraged by last Shameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
night's are two sides to the question. I without killing any Germans.
him the numerous instances of the provisional agreement will be success the management have don't know. Personally, I never Not being a member of any war these things having occured, and supported by those whose support decided to put on a similar fixture have any trouble.
Association-except a member of the blame can only be laid at the is necessary and that before very next week. Another of the dollar
the Regimental Club of the corps feet of those other comrades on- long the doors of the Bank will dances that have proved so be opened once more for general popular with Kowloon folk is to
Service Men's Association, but
which I received training-war service. hold no brief for the Active
Yours, etc. be held to-morrow evening.
JUSTICE.
A.S. WATSON &
full month.
CO., LTD. December 17th-Saturday 1st- for the theft of $10 000 from five bob or so a week. Of course in the interests of justice, to
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cannot help feeling that Hongkong, Dec. 21st, 1921.
re-
sort of a place to live in, but it's Hongkong is not such a bad
not the only pebble on the beach, so to speak. There are We are getting need to new Day) there will be special celebra- worse. yet to many this Colony On Sunday next (Christmas other places, some better and some things very quickly in these dayssions in St. Joseph's Church. Low seems to have a great attraction. of scientific achievement. It is ass will be celebrated at 1.00, There were four banishees at the not so many years since the first 7.40, 8.45 and 9.15 s.. while Criminal Sassions charged with fying machine was hailed as a marvel and whan a few years 10 s.m. The music at this Mass to an order of banishment Three High Mass will be celebrated at returning to the Colony contrary later we heard of a speed of 100ill be Ravanello's Misss of them had been banished twice miles an hour being attained we Festiva." Novello's "Adeste and the other had been deported
Talking about Land Sales re- and near Portland Street, Yau- drew our breath and wondered Fideles" and Tazer's Benediction. Do less than four times. Their minds me that the Government mati and together wi Rural what next? It has now been left
be
Between Ourselves
o' these
By Robt. MacWhirter.
refers to the withdrawal of foreign post-offices from Chinz, the date/to a Britisher to give us all a little midnight there will be a fur-liking for Hongkong cost each of is doing pretty well these days, Building Lot No, 193 were to come being provisionally Bred at January 1, 1923. This gives special room for thought. Mr. J. H. James/ther celebration of High Mass, the them five years" "hard" Why do in the way o' selling real estate. nader the hammer on December
special music being Stehle's Missa they do it? Why does a man cotice that in the statement of the 19th, importance to the R-port on the Working of the Chinese Ponhas just broken the world's recordSalve Regina," and Norello's risk & long term of gaol just for revenue and expenditure pablish-
fer speed flight, attaining the Adaste Fideles."
Something funny about this, Office for 1920, lately is ued by the Ministry of Communications remarkable speed of 212 miles feature is being made of the music kong? The Colony is such a Sne while the original estimate for the Gazette can throw on the mas- A special the privilege of living in Honged in last week's Gazelle, thinks I, but wo'll see what light From so abstract which we have already published it will have
per hour with an average of 196.6 been seen that the record is distinctly favourable. The complete miles per hour. Man has indeed which is some of the most besati- place apparently that when revenue ander this head was ter. But last Saturday's Gazette text, as far as can be judged from a general examination of a some beaten the denizens of the air ful ever composed by Italian and Chinese has once lived here he $300,000, that up to the end of was as full of information about what extensive document with numerous appendices, goes to con-in their own sphere. Two
German composers. A special can't live anywhere else. You September of this year nearly a Rural Building Lot No. 198 as Her and there certain circumstances qualify hundred-and-twelve miles per
car will rus to the Peak after the can't get rid of 'em. Banish a million dollars had found their our cook was las: Sunday regard- the figures, but the report as a whole is a narrative of all-round hour: It is almost incredible: it Midnight Mass, leaving the lower man for life and within a year or way into the Treasury as Premia ing the remaider of the shoulder
station at 1.15.m. progress. The growth is not restricted to the ports and large.
is certainly hard to visualise.
so, back he is again; send him to on New Leases. If Crown Land of mutton that was left from the cities. but is distributed throughout the republic. extending Perhaps is would be best to
gaol and deport him again if you keeps on being sold like this, night before. In other words it provinces like outlying
for Kansu.
is This
surely translate such a speed across
will, but it's no use; he will live some
days there'll wasas' there, but the other three STRENUOUS BOXING when the state of
in Hongkong. Whether it's *** & reduction in very remarkable result, especially
known distances. It is generally
taxation advertisements were there and CONTEST. perpetual commotion is taken into account.
The opening counted that the journey Home,
bad as that I don't know, but and then we'll not know what to what's more forbye, were in the paraguph may be accepted as an index to the nature of the via Suez, is 10,000 miles, sir.
from the number of returning do wi' ourselves.
Gazette of the, Saturday befora Report: While the past year has not been free from elements James would have accomplish-
from banishment' Cases Wa Ay, scarcely a week passes but that again. Another Victory for Lewis.
What is the there's an auction at the P.W.D. tending to embarrass operations, the natural expansion of the ed it in something less
get, if appears 80.
So I made it my business to Service, due to the demands of the people in an ever-widening field
than 50 hours if he could
At the Albert Hall, London, on great attraction that draws these Offices and the newspapers must find out where Rural Building for safe, regular, and quick means of communication, augmented by bave maintained his speed- Nov. 18 before a crowded audi- men like a magnet? Is this have done pretty well this year Lot No. 198 was supposed to be. sustained development and extension, hea resulted in record ad-slightly different to the five weeks ence, "Kid" Lewis was awarded Colony a good place for crimin the way of advertisements. Apparently it was somewhere on Vances being achieved in practicilly, every branch of postal
generally
Of the decision over M'Cormick. accepted.
inals? A colleague to whom I You notices
never over the steppes of Mount Gough. enterprise."
M'Cormick was the stronger was course, the comparison is ridico-
chatting on the subject burdened by way o' information Last Monday being the 19th, We have just stated that this paragraph provides an index to us, but it has some value in help fighter in the first three rounds, though: that perhaps a
at the best of times but that's the sale took place and this parti the Report generally, as it does on the relative fizures; but it would ing us to realise the wonderful and easily beat off Lewis, despite could earn more here then up really never much of a handicap, cular site was sold, That's all be erroneous to infer that these figures indicate sensational jumps. possibilities of air travel in the the latter's superior ringeraft. country. He probably can, but for if You're looking for right I've no complaint to make
They tell a tale of steady future. The barriers of time and Lewis, however, sustained the he's got the Straits and the sad They do what is probably better.
time on that score. I wasps' after advance in a progressive ratio. The letters posted during the year distance which have so long kept offensive with tigerish energy. F. M. S. and Saigon and Shang-to apare and can fcd land myself, пот do I exceeded 400 millions, representing an increase of more than 50 the world a collection of ignorant ticularly drove home hard blows any of the other large Chinese question of time before ye know disappointed at no getting the and in the fifth round par-bai, or even Peking or Canton or where the Land Office is, it's just know of ODY that werd millions over the previous year. The total weight of the 44 and prejudiced races are fast million parcels postes during the year was 2044 million kilos, being broken down, a d it is not to the ribs.
towns. I should have thought all there is to know about it. chance to bid. The man that in advance of 6 million kilos over the previous year, and a hard task to look forward to the He repeated the dose in the they would provide plenty of Some advertisements are no' so bought it is to be congratulated 100 per cent. increase as compared with 1917. As observa- day when by means of the flying sixth, and in the seventh opened employment. But it's Hongkong bad for there's generally some on his enterprise. I wish him tion by M. Picard-Pesiclan. the Co-Director-General of machine we shall all be drawn his opponent's eye. The bleeding they seem to want. What's the name mentioned that give a bit every success in the building of the Service, is full of significance. He says:So great are the nearer together in the knowledge greatly handicapped M'Cormick, secret?
as to the locality of the ground his new house and only hope that prospects of further expansion in the parcel traffic that, given and sympathy bred of familiarity who yielded more and more to
for sale. It's very awkward be'll have health and strength to favourable conditions throughout the country for a full twelve Altogether from its wonders as a the rushes. Nevertheless, he That International
though, if ye want to build a live long in it Sports
Long way his months, it would be difficult to forecas: what" proportions the "stant" Mr. James burst of knocked Lewis to the boards in Ground seams & good scheme if tombatone factory at Laï-chi-kok, lum reek.. volume of parcel business would assume." This gives an idea of speeding has a value for those! the twelfth. The other was "Pit comes to anything. Of course: Lot wi' only a number to guide against sales of Crown Land by for instance, to find a Kowloon Now, I never was one that war immediately, however, and in the it's not quite definite yet. Sirve and no hint whether it's at private treaty. Indeed for many fourteenth round dealt out heavy Ellis Kadooria is still negotiating Hanghom or Shamshuipo. But obvious reasons I think it is often punishment.
with the Government, I believe, things will age be someway the better plan. But I work just At the end of this round, the and maybe it's a bit early to say
now
bat may be when internal order has been secured. The Savings prepared to read it. Bank system has been largely extended and the Money Order Department is doing largely increased business, though the volume The Consortium.
ters.
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of these transactions with this Colony, the service with which was Mr. Lamont's defence of the referee examined M'Cormick's very much about it, but at first/or somewhere provided you've like to ask if this is no a tale by loaugurated at the beginning of last year, was insignificant. And this international Consortium W33 was still more the case in relation to the United Kingdom, to which certainly justified and those who eye and declared Lewis the glance it certainly looks a good got the time and patience to look private treaty under the guise of the service was extended a few months later, its newness probably read yesterday's cable on this win. M'Cormick was greatly thing for the Colony. There are for them.
a public auction? · If the Govern→ accounting for this.
matter and who have followed the p:et, and anxious to contious, some who look upon the scheme What set me thinking on this ment say that all land must be The financial results are certainly gratifying, the revenue doings of the Consortium group but was over-ruled by his sup-with disfavour, I'm told, but then in was a Land Sale advertise put up for auction so let it be, but having mounted to $12,579,121, an increase of nearly 50 per cent here in China will realise that Mr.
some people would put the wey. It was Rural Building Lot it. Rural Building Lot No. 198 was ment which appeared last Satur let's have no jiggery pokery about The winner challenged Car blanket in three gaare, which shows a surplus of $1,312,068, an increase of Lamont was but discharging his
on anything. Happy No. 198 and its locality was des- only advertised once on Satur over 50 per cent, thus reflecting the economs in handling a larger duty as the head of the organise pentier,
Valley hasn't done such a dent of volume of matter. These are decidedly noteworthy figures, and tion in making the statement he
barm, anyway, and I gather that cribed as being above Rural Buil- day, practically, on the day before prompt us to one or two comparisione, which, bowever, must be of did. As a matter of fact the
this is only a sort of super-Happy ding Lot No. 124. There was the Balz, because of the Sunday the rough-and-ready order, as we have only the main figures, not Consortium could easily bave
Valley. What harm good cleany much information in that intervening Other Crown Lots details, for the United Kingdom, whose revenue for the correspon gained the finsacial control of ding period amounted to nearly £50,000,000. From this some ides China at more than one time, but sixteenth century door of Coven-
During the renovation of the sport is going to do, I don't describing the location of Hong advertised for three days and was there? It was something like sold on the same day were
can be gained of the margin für eventual expansion in China. The the bankers concerned steadfastly try Cathedral, bullets, supposed to fact it should open up the other distance from Haiphong. There never in the Gazelle at all. Again, And if the proposed kong as adjoining the mainland twice in the Gazette as well; republic's service, however, has this important advantage, and it refused to loan money to the be of the time of Cromwell, wer side of the Island bit, which was another thing about you from the description of the three real live of China and within easy sailing Rural Building Lot No. 198 was is an astonishing one, everything considered that whereas the Peking government until such found embedded in the oak, postal Vote at Home showed a deficit of several millions, the times as a guarantee could be.
would be a rattling good thing, advertisement that made me take other lots I've mentioned, a.pro- Chinese service, as has been remarked, shows * good profit given that it would be spent in
It will mean the constructing of Without any disperagement of the large native staff, it may fairly proper directions. The pity is censure. If the times no longer new roads and where are high-second look at it. I'm referring spective buyer was afforded some be claimed that the Chinese service has largely to thank those that all foreign bankers did not call for its existence it can easily ways are bound to come house, FOR to the date of the Sale. indication of their locality but it foreign members who occupy many of the responsible positions for set the same way, for the secret be dissolved but wach step and that's just what this Colony Thinks I, that's funny, for I was was not so wi' the Bural lot in the satisfactory results achieved. In assenting to the abolition of loaning of money to Peking should not be taken until there needs. If that part out there sure I'd seen some other Land question. international post officer, Japan stipulated for the retention of the officials has been one of the screst is a fairly este ga vaste that the could be opent congestion and And sure enough they were, three thing nor another. If id some
Salou advertised for the 19th. This sort of thing is neither one : foreign staff, and it cannot well be doubted that the stipulation was points of enlightened Chinere for financiers of all fujon cuuntries relieve the pr sent congestion of them and they bad all been in cases, our Government has to sell wise que for China as well as for others. Such matters as the long time. Even in its pre- will agree not to loan money in hare to suffer now and the many the papers for two days before. land this way, they'd better soil is selegraphs stand in peet of greater attention, but, viewing the ventive way, the Consortium has secret on their own account. couples who are looking for Ay, Lots of Crown Land were by private treaty and be done wi position generally, we bare here a service upon which Chins is to undoubtedly done a lot of good Such a practice has done more little place in which to set up going at Pokfulam, Bowen Haid H be congratulated.
and is in no sense deserving of harm to China than good, home might realise their desires.
scheme becomes s
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