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THE. HONGKONG TELEGRAPHA

NOTES & COMMENTS.

The Irish Duel.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 1921,

DAY BY DAY.

THE HAPFISH WOMEN, LAKE From out of the sequence of THE HAPPIEST HATIONS, HAYE cables respecting Dall, Kireann's NO HISTORY.-George Eliol. (protriated debate upon the treaty [the faat emerges that there is a party in that assembly which is making a strong star d for a settle- ment.

so prolonged that there was no prospect of reaching a decision this week, the proceedings are

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.

Glance at our Files.

DIOCESAN BOYS" SCHOOL.

Hoss, Wai Yok and Dr. Ho Kai Eir. Thogason, Inspectors Stanton, Hennessey and Kamp, Morris, J. ||Lamm, RR__"Lammert, W. |Arthur, JP, J.J. Spooner, R

Melbourne and Wong Sing. The Progress of the Building dinner was served in trus Chinese

Fund jatyla, and the company were

entertained with that lavish The collations to-morrow si 8).

There will be no issue of the LDK, 28—8, 1996) Hangtong Telegraph on Monday.

The members of the Hongkong hospitality' which chara tarises John's Cathedral will be on beamit our Chinese · friends when of the Fund for the New DocoRA Mr. de Valera and Mr. After Decembar 31st, the Smoking Concert Club gave their Griffith, respectively President Kowloon Tong Cemetary and the first concert of the season in the they make merry, A Chinese Boys School. The Appeal Dom- and Vice-President, appear to Hau Pul Lung (Kowloon)

Theatre Royal last Saturday, theatrical performance took place mittes have already received or had head the opposing camps, with Cemetery will be closed.

The Hon. F. H. Hay, CH.G. during the sracing, and songs, promised a sum of $39,000 00 for

the latter

the B.S

irenty's

presided and there was a very fair games and social chat helped buildings and $11,000.00 for

In addition curtain- champion. A veritable tug-of-war |

A shop-keeper of No. 788 Attendance of members and their pass the time very pleasantly, endowment.

At Mr. Ho Wyson's invitation, business houses are giving annusi friends, the naval alement pre- has set in, and at the moment it Winglok Street reports that his donticating in all parts of the the guests afterwards visited his donations towards the new school is Impossible to judge how the accountant absconded yesterday house. Our concert special" was house and there the health of the instead of large capital soms. Thus result will go. We may even see with the safe-key and a sum of in the theatre in good time and happy couple was drunk with all the Hongkong and Shangbai Bank |bave promised $1,000 for threa what would certainly be ironio

$19,080,

intended to give the concert the honou a -A split in Sino Fein

| years in the first inaianes, and the gool write up, but reports that he' NEVER SATISFIED. self when the long-standing In the

Union Insurance Society of Canton Intent Government was rather disappointed acd problem of Ireland is on the ove!

Kowloon visitors are no longer|bave promised $500 per annum. published several prefers to wait for the second Gazette are of adjustment. It is hardly worth

to be driven to despair owing to the A Cammittee of Iwelre Chinese gen- notifications under thes while to anticipate, ha wave-Treaties with Austria, Hungary Club all the credit that is due to houses, as our worthy authorities from

Peace edition before giving this popular difficulty of foding their friends the menu collecting subscriptions Although the debates have been and Bolgaris.

the Chinese commmily. it for providing a very pleasant have provided names for all the The estimated cost of essential pastime for its members. It seems roads, and are placing them at the buildings including the site forma Suffering from a cver-dose of that the programme was not prevarious corners of the thorough- tion is $990,000. The estimated only adjourned until after the opium a salesman of the Sunpared with as much regard for fares on conspicuous boards. The cost of equipment is $70,000 which bolidays. It is encouraging to Company was y civil in Bridg jight could be boards are certainly a good idea is being met by the use of old bos that Mr. Dugger, ons of the the Government Civil Hospital in Bosing Night as could be desired, but the posts on which they are equipment and by an additional some of the songs, though fault-placed are hardly things of beauty charge which sach boarder and day delegates to the recent conference & serious condition. Government, with the Home

lessly rendered, being more awited and would bear a fille planing boy now has to pay annually. The In to-day's Government Gazette for a concert in aid of some and a few splashes of paint Endowment Fund will be met by derided the suggestion that the Irish representatives had been is published a Proclamation by charity than for the Theatre without being any the worse for annual donations of the nature bluded. Apparently even the HE the Governor regarding the Royal on a Saturday night. Like it. We should also like to know mentioned above. $380,000 is need. bostile party do not want a raising of the capital of the many others our representative The rate of cabeription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is 836 breakdown, as mention is made Hongkong and Shaoghal Bank went to the concert prepared where the name "Granvilleled for buildings of this sum

of Mr. de Valera's alternativa ing Corporation from $15,000,000 to enjoy any amount of fun and comes from as we don't recognize came away rather disappointed. It it. It would be a good idem, too,

promises for the old The rate por pastor and por maquem, proportional. Subscrip. treaty. The people of the Soath to $20,000,000.

must be said of Mr. May that heif the posts were set up firmly,

site as when one sees a board, bearing tions for any perial less than one month will be charged as for ajof Ireland have been showing

C. P. O. Wait and a party of lost no opportunity to crack the name of a well-known local An Educational Build- fall month.

symptoms of dissatisfaction with

Police searched B junk in good joke and keep the spirit of The "Hon; cong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addresses (the extremists, and it is reason. is accessible to mumənçar. Park subacribers can have their copies able to suppose that this will not Yaumati barbour yesterday and the thing going, but he was magnate, apparently trying to

state of inebriation, one one revolver and 400 rounds of who were responsible for the inclined to wonder it the contrac delivered at their resilences without any extre charge. On copies be without some effect upon the seized $1,800 worth of raw opium, beavily handicapped by those take round a corner in a hopeless sent by post an aflitional $1.80 por quarter is charged for postage.

ammunition. The mistress of the selection of vocalists and the tor is trying on a little joke at Single Copies, Daily, ten cants.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1021.

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.

latter.

The Grand Trunk Appeal

>

two

be to

SMALL-POX.

of affairs

Between

Govemment

ing Grant will

amount to at leash

is

,$204,865,00

(1.6. Half the es- timated cost of Clans- - rooms) estimated... 80,000,00 Donations already given or promised for building......... 10,000.00

$1,163.

$824,665.00

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

It must have come as a shock to the shareholders in the Grand

A collision occurred between Van Nierop all rendered their PLATE GLASS WINDOW. Trunk Railway when the court of arbitration decided in September motor en No 534 and a ricksba cumbers in a manner that delight- that there was little, if anything, on the Kowloon-Yatankoked the audience and they were

"Looking through my Toric to come to them in respect of the Road yesterday, causing consider-į deservedly recalled, but it is a transfer of the undertaking to the able damage to the latter. The pity they didn't select their songs lenses is like looking through a' Thus a sum of at least $55,185,00 tate. The charters of Canada's coolie, who was thrown Leavily with more regard for the highly fine plate glass window," said an is still needed for buildings. Is two great trans-continental to the roadway, was injured and probable hilarity of a Boxing American lady in the course order to help the fund for the new. of her remarks while in a school it was decided at a meeting *stems, the Canadian Pacific and had to be taken to the Kwong Nigh: audience. the Grand Trunk, which have‡ Wah Hospital in the car.

tram-car. She said just the of class representativas to start a right thing. It cost a bit more Scholars' Brick Food, $2 will buy been championed by the Con- servativo Party and the Liberal It is notified that H. E. the There seems to be some found to build a plate glass window sad (50 brieks, $10 will buy 500 bricks Party respectively, contain a pro- Governor, under the powera con-ation for the alarming rumours it cost a bit more to make a pair and $100 will buy 5,000 bricks, vision for eventual expropriation. ferred on him by the Trading with of a epidemic of small-pox¦ of Toric lenses than the ordinary (The promise has been made thai in this Colony. Yesterday fat kind. Torics are more thenjavery boy collecting $100 will bara In the case of the Grand Trunk the Edemy Second Amendment this process was accelerated by the Ordinance, 1915, has appointed East Point Refinery and we hear to you in the added comfort you sow school. Patrick White's effort cases were reported from worth the small difference in cost his name on a record board in the Company's declaration of in- Mr. M. J. Breen

Toric is a good instance of what may be solvency. This created a senss-Custodian of Enemy, Property that there were several cases derive from their use. In a few hours from the publication of this issue we tion, but surprise was similarly vice Mr. J. D. Lloyd, with effect discovered to-day, in Jardine's lenses of any prescription are doce by many small items, shall all have set out on our little plans for the enjoyment widespread when the court of from the 21st December, 1931, and Bazaar at Wanchai and Samsui-manfactored by the Hongkong $105 was made up of no fewer than po. One rumour has it (and the Optical Co., Saccessors to Clark thirty separate donations, The of the annual festive season of Christmas-the season of arbitration for fixing the price at until further notice.

report is spreading rapidly & Co. Manufacturing and Re-total si tertu sad slood at $1,518. . plenty and good cheer, of peace and goodwill. Here in which the Government was to

take over decided that the ibare- H.E the Governor, under the among the Chinese) that no fracting Opticians, 53, Queen's Clam & headed the class lita with

were Road Central Hongkong there is very little to disturb the enjoyment of holders' dae was practically nil, powers conferred on him on him less than thirty cases all, we are happy in the possession of a thriving and because the concern was being by section 3 of the Treaty of removed to the Hygeia to-day. peaceful Colony and free to celebrate the event. The run at a loss. Doe of the srbi Peace (Hungary) Order 1921, With a view to placing true editorials of the world's press are usually devoted at this trators was Mr. Taft, the former Ordinance, 1921. bas established sport of the state time to a review of world conditions in the light of the President of the United States, local clearing office in and for the before our readers, a representa tive of the Hongkong Telegraph who dissected from the decision. Colony of Hongkong, and bas season's spirit, and if one attempts such a task in this The Grand Trunk was never so appointed Mr. M. J. Breen to be called on Mr. McCallum, Secre- year of grace. 1921. there is to be found much which gives successful as its rival, but it Administrator of the local clearing tary of the Sanitary Board, this rise to hope and much also which one would wish to be was long regarded as a velu- office for the purposes of the afternoon, and asked him to kind-

I'm kinda' at a loss how to is almost established as a holiday. able enterprise. otherwise than it is.

Apparently Treaty of Peace (Hungary) Order, ly supply information for publica-

tion. Mr. McCallum admitted that begin to-day. Just on the eve of When I was a boy it was only the falling-off WAS brought 1921. Perhaps the most outstanding event of the time under

there had been two cases yester Christmas i wouldna" like to say banks that closed on that day but about by the war. Although the

would in the' of late years lots of the shops review is the holding of the great conference at Washing issues are somewhat involved, it It is notified in the Government day, but when asked to furnish onything that

u with information relative to slightest degree be offensive. On keep 00 their shutters And ton, at which the leading statesmen of the world have would look to the general observer Gazette that the office of the actual state of affairs at 3.30 to the other hand I never was good even bg works close down.

the basis of valastion Custodian of Enemy Property, gathered together in an attempt to bring nearer the days that of international peace. How far that conference will be selected by the arbitrators was and the local clearing offices day he said "I've no time. I'm wi' the soft pedal stuff. This Christmas Day service in the encouraging that short o' thing, observed by a generation that successful has become very problematical during the past aequitable. Even though for the appointed by His Excellency the too busy", and went on with his world's weepy enough without pariah kirks of Scotland is now

time being the undertaking was Governor for the purposes of the

otherwise I'd tell ye the tale o' never knew what a fast day few days: France has raised serious objection to the pro-co: showing any profit, suct & Gezmaz, Austrien and Bungaris THE WEST RIVER.

Santa Claus, the wee boy and the was. posed naval ratio; the American Senate is said to be well-eatablished property surely Treaty of Peace Orders, and the Since the publication on Christ-drum. Ay, I like that story fine Ay, but as Christmas gains the autagonistic to the Four-Power agreement; and China and represents an asset. The P1 office of Administrator for temas Day of the welcome news but I dinna want to break ony. New year loses. And who can Japan have still left the Shantung question to be decided Council base company will purposes of the Bulgarian Treaty that an agreement has been body's heart to-day. Some other regret it? Many of the older But the great thing about appeal, and the company will of Peace Order, will in future be signed in Peking providing for time maybe when you're no' so generation, who knew not outside the conference circles

dopbiless make a vigorous fight at the Treasury, on the first floor the opening of Wuchow and much heading. this conference has been the broad attitude of conciliation before the next tribunal.

Christmas, will still yet awhile of the Post Office Building.

Hokso (Sainam) on the West You know, and mind ye I don't cast a yearning are back apon shown by all the delegates a hopeful augury for the

The Dutch Constitution.

River and for the rollection of expect ye to believe this but it's the years and lament the future of international relations. Turning to Europe we

likin in the two Kwang provinces tras neverthless, I never really disappearance of old Scottish see Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand in conference on

by the Imperial Maritime Cas-celebrated Christmas until 1 came, customs. They have an ima the question of Germany's Roancial condition. linked Chamber of the States-General ON THE WATERFRONT, toms, we have made careful in to Hongkong. In Scotland I went aginary golden age in mind but with which is the wider question of the financial situation has passed the Bill for the

quiries in quarters where further to my work just the same as ony i 18 * golden period that really information was likely to be other day. It was New Year's can be specified. Was it in Europe as a whole. We would much rather have seen revision of the Dutch Constitu-

procurable and have ascertained Day we used to go nap on there. when Edinburgh had two thou a round-table conference take place at Cannes, at which tion, by which the range of succession is extended. "This

A Busy Week. that the agreement was signed When 1 was a young man it was sand dram-shops for a population Germany and Russia would be represented. than the steps!

has

22nd. the

instant probably been which M. Briand outlined in the telegram which came to desirable on

It the custom to greet the first day of 75,000 inhabitanta within itm The Pine Tree State which is between Great Britain and of the New Year bottle in hand. Bates or was it in the latter part arrived at Yokohama on Decen-Chins, and was solely due for the In Edinburgh hand yesterday. It is only when all the European Powers Sversign having only one has be 23rd is dus here this day week. negotiations skilfully conducted tradition of the passing of the old one of the exercises of the first the particular of the nineteenth century when are taken into close confidence and in a spirit of helpful Princess Julians, born in 1909 The Empress of Asis is due on by Lord Salisbury through Sir year and the beginning of the day of the year was to tabulate Dess that we shall see the sorrows of Europe-and they coupled with the fact that the the 30th, the Ducers on the Claude McDonald. The agree new was to heave à bottle (empty, and moralise over the statistics are manifold-dissipated. Just how the Irish peace the

26th, the Egypt on the 27th, the proceedings will end is also a doubtful matter, but there is an heir, it devolves upon Falls Monteagle and the Persis Maruent will take effect as the rati- of course) into the air withe of drunks who passed the police on the 29th.- useful lift in more than a glimmer of hope here that Sinn Fein will accept ment to designate a successor toonsze for the port returns io the terms of the Treaty signed by her delegates in London. It may be that what specially the 1st week of the year. Birth on Board. If we could but see the end of the Irish struggle then the stimulat d the States-General to

A message from The Hague that the Second

announces

deemed account of the

Constitution provides for descent direct line, Failing

anticipate. this contingency was

work.

on

fications have been exchanged.

general, if not particular, desire to court ber? And to think of all A BIT THICK.

hit the face of the of the face those who were merely fortunate of the of the Tron kirk clock. enough to reach beme or as When will a Banitary Iospector But that sort of thing's passing. Stevenson puts it of all the take the trouble to stroll past the Old castoms are dying. Let them senseless. snorers, *ll the Christmas season of 1921 would indeed be one of peace the activity of the Socialists in Fooksang which left. Singapore Kowloon Godowns.

The Indo- Ubina steamer latrine on the north side of the die. When they begin to decay broken beads and empty and goodwill. Greece and Turkey are still fighting in advocating a republic. Two or

We can nothing can save them anyway, pockets. Truly a tim of Asia Minor and there are regrettable doings both in India three years ago their plans were with 397 Chinese passengers-238 promise that he shall not be dis for then the change comes about social expansion and deep and Egypt. The world is far from free of the problems so advanced that the supersession men, 23 women, 32 boys, and 34 appointed should be undertake by change in the folk themselves. saroasal."

Time was, and that's no* sO No, upon the whole there's generated by past mistakes, but the future is bright be- of Queen Wilhelmina appeared girls-increased the number on such a long and arduous journey,

Kowloonites declare the long ago, when the observance of like to lament over change cause of the knowledge that the will to justice, right and thrones were falling. The Crow In Wireless Communication, rickshas require an extra coolie only ignored but resented by the to be in sight; it was a ti ne when way op. One Chinese passenger

igava birth to a male child.

eflaris to be so thick that their Christmas in Scotland was not which has become so pronounced. generosity is growing every day.

wastherad the storm, and seems,

Of course, it" maybe equally The following vessels were in to pull them through it We have the consoling consciousness that all this in fact, to have acquired fresh

We trus-bine Scot as one that was reprehensible to put one's stomach wireless communication with the cannot vouch for the above state-more than doubtful. It savoured on the blink just because it's effort to improve, to set aright the scheme of things, to strength. At any rate, tn poort this morning Yokohama ment, which may be a trifle ex-of the Englisher" and the Christmas, but as I said before

posal for a referendum upon con- balance and adjust matters in a world of seemingly verting the State into a republic Marv, Atlas Meru, Saparola, Vanaggerated, but for the abominable Fapist and he was counted a bold I'm no for any arguing to-day. different interests, is part and parcel of one great trend if the Sovereign should, die with Cloon, Caddo Pesk, Melville stench we can and do.

and dangerous man who first I hope instead that you'll all have of development by which man will escape from his pre-out issue was rejected, by the Dollar, Myrmidon, Glenlace, A CELEBRATION.

proposed that Christian men and fine week-end both indoors and judices and ignorances and in which he will become a Legislature in the course of the gamemnon, Lieut. de la Tour.

The eldest son of Mr. Ho Wy and worship on the natal day of the best of good times and a right women should gather together out-of-doors. I wish all of you innefal unit of the universe he inhabits. We often fail to extensive debates.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S LETTER son and the third daughter of the the Founder of their faith.

merry Christmas when it comes. look deep enough; we so often see only the surface work-

OF THANKS.

Hon. Mr. Wai Yuk were married But time and necessity over

Boy, but up this desk. Maekom ings. Let us not forget that for each of us individually

An autograph letter of thanks at the bridegroom's residence, come even national prejudice. In that proof, by and by can do. Only 300 out of 4,000 electors has been sent by Queen Alex- Elgin Street, yesterday. After the old country and now I'm What do you say inds to fast one there is a part to play, a duly to perform, hates to be for- gotten, knowledge to be acquired, "Peace and goodwill went to the poll at a Kingston andic or fashion who served at guests and extertained a sinner talking of North of the Tweed- before tiffin ? Night On, 37° election; the cost the medical profession at war at dinner Christmas has come to be more needna be feared, this is on me. to all men" will only come by the individual efforts of

ratepayers working out at about the V.A.D. Hospital at High at the Hang Fa Lan Restaurant and more observed until now it. But just one, mind ye, mankind as a whole.

Wycombe during the war. - Among those present were the

EXPENSIVE ELECTION.

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to

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