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HONGKONG, 15th July, 1922.

"DISTRACTED CHINA.”

DAY BY DAY.

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

Ay, maybe I was a bit grouchy Talking about that reminds me. laat week. Wall, a chap gets thai | I think it was Harry Landar-it way now and then and he's very was a Scotsman onyway—who ally if he knows there's no meet an Australian not only what a to exaggerate at times, especi- visiting down under, was telling |danger o" being pulled up wi' a grand country Scotland was, but ronad tura. But it's bad, for ye, bow, in his travala, wherever ba It's ipclined to cause to be went in America, Canada, India, kinda splurgy, forbye making ya Afrios, he found Bootsmen. terrible careless of the libel law and all that it portends. Trying to be clever wi' the pen is wɔras

The rains of the past few-days] have made a wonderfut differencų in the appearance of the Colony's THE WEALTH OF A MAN IS THE rusarvoin. they are now begin-NUMBER OF THINGS WHICH HE ning to fill up nicely. That point LOVES AND BLISSES, WHICH HE will be appreciated when we atate 19 LOVED AND BLESSED BT.- that, comparing yuanınday's con- [Carlyle, tants with the quantities stored on the Ist of the month, there is so increase in the case of Hong Emmet Lynott have been added The name of Mr. Charles kong of wall over 26 million to the Danial Register. gallons, and, in Kowloon, of 4514 million gallons.

But even so, the time has not yet come for

The name of Mr. Charles Peaks removal of the restrictions on Anderson has been added to the the use of water.

The GoversList of Authorized Architects. ment is 23 anxious 45 fanybody that norcast conditions The Gerrit contains revised than thinking too loud. In the should be restored so far as the parcel postage rates to various latter case it's often only one supply of water is concerned, but places, including the Malay man's word against another's, but it has to look more to the future States. than the immediate present. And to resture a full supply too soon

might very easily involve usin water famine later in the year. It

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is annoying and inconvenient to bayo water rationed, but there are circumstances in which this cao- not be avoided. The public may Publications reaching us to-day rest assured, however, that the include the Hongkong University full supply will be turned on at Calendar for 1922, and the July the earliest possible moment. We issue of the Yellor Diagen, trust that the experiences of the past few weeks will have their Negotiations for effect in preventing future waste. for we are doubtless now reaping the results of past thoughtless

SAW

"And I'm thinking" said be, "there must be a good faw Scots- men in Australia ?”

"There are" was the reply. but rabbila are our chief past!" Laziness.

when it comes to putting wicked thoughts into 10 pi. type, it's a dog

Ay, that was a nasty cas. But Now that I've got this length I'm nature man is mentally lazy, and and well worth the watching. of a different colour altogether to get on. Taking it by and large we may freely admit then that by sorry I'va misted ye for the above that this mental inertia is some is merely eyewash and a token thing which must be overcome if that I've tried to take to heart all ever we hope to be any use to aur- the solemn pretentious stuff that selves or those dependant on us. Joe thought fit to exude after The line of resistance leads to the reading my screed last week, club, the pictures, to social stairs. Joe, be's terrible scared q' get. | to this, that and the other, until ting himself into trouble. He's we fairly deceive ourselves that

o the day purchase frightened

be we have no time for serious work. having failed, the Government is never

Some day Some young men 1 know in this resuming possession of a number and that'll be the end, for he'll bowling, tennising, golfng and writ will be put in his hand Colony Bre so busy bathing, of lots in Survey District IV.

take to his bed and never rise dancing that they havens Oven again. I'd sconer dig drains for ten minutes to spare in which to The Yellow Dragon states that a living and eat my dinner write a letter to the old folk. Mr. A. H. Crook was in Brittany the roadside than have the men. Time's whirligig brings many Ralston bad an enjoyable walk-out.

during June and that he and Mr.tal suffering ron-man ferrets changes. Not so long ago—in

He's the kindlad that years, that is: but, then, they have in tour there.

if he was in guol wouldos been crowded years-mention of)

even as much as cough for fear Irish affain called up apicture of His Excellency the Officer Ad-the warder didan get a good "Galloper" Smith. right-hand ministering the Government bas night's sleep. Some folk carry | man of the grim Canon, Un re-appointed Mr. N. Teesdale other folk's responsibilities too crowned King of Ulster and Mackintosh, MA, to be a Mem-far. sworn foe of Nationstat Ireland. [ber of the Board of Education. Perhaps the war sobered the

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"F.E's" Optimism.

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If we will be honest wi' onmelves we will admit that we have all the time in the world to overcome por mental laziness, but instead we prefer the "good time" and our plea of "po time" is a mers waste of breath by which we hope to deceive ourselves and others.

Ar. we're mentally lazy at heart, if we could only get away wi' it. Most of us are content to volatile "F. E." If not that, The Blue Foonet steamer Pro

But while it may be a truism lead a life of partial success. W then the Woolsack bas. Not but tesilaus, which arrived in part that the dead do not bite, Fl measure ourselves wi' our neigh- that Lord Birkenhead is as to-day, reports the deaths of two exaggeration to say that Hong doing more, and gradually but admit perhaps that it was an boure, excuse ourselves for no animated and optimistic as Chic ever, only now,

during boog folk were ever in ong real surely, as the years slip by, get in place of the voyage from Vancouver. It is a gloomy picture which the utterances marked by the sense flamboyant declamation, we have

danger of wearing muzzles. It into a rot of semi-inactivity. It's London Times paints of China-of constitutionalist proper to the day. Mr. J. Gibson passed as first lazy. That's no such a sweeping time and then we'll maybe wish At the Harbour Office yester 1 said that we're lazy-mentally for, mind ye, aternity's a long might be more accurately put if a great pity when ya think of it growing factional strife, Little Lord Chancellor. It must surely engineer, Mr. CE Fisher as generalisation as ye thick. But we'd made more use of our ap- support for the interim President piquant apisodes in latter-day mate, and Mr. P. R. Cheetham as just now or

most monster, Mr. C. B. Wilson as second for goodness sake don't do that portunities. and financial stringency in Pe-political history when Lord first mate.

you'll spoil y Language. king. But unhappily, it reflects Birkenhead delivered a caustic the actual situation. As the

admonition to his quondam

Mental work is certainly dis-raison d'etre for the foregoing. Which now brings me to the showing incandescent tasteful to most folk. The nature Ulster chief. London journal observes, the Lord Birkenhead, as a supporter confuse navigation, a number of the grind stane but most of our linguist, don't you think? (That's

Ic these days lights in such a position as to of our job might keep the nose to Ay. I'm getting to be quite problems of unification, disband-of the Irish Treaty, is necessarily fishermen were at the Marine real work is only done by means. Press) But ye. cands be ower ment and foance have still to be supporter of Michael Collins Court this morning fined $5, with of rigorous self-discipline when

the worst of watching the Daily salved; and there is little prospect as just heen paying a high

and his colleagues, to whom he the option of 14 days.' that they will be until a stable tribute.

it doeans depend on how watch-careful wit that sort o' thing... "The Irish signatories

ful the talpan is. The work I mind once in Marseilles o' a Government gets into power. It to the Treaty said the Lord ministering the Government bes, is to find him. The man who whether monsieur would have d His Excellency the Officer Ad- miser is never robbed: the trouble garcon la aking MacPherson may be true, that the Chinese do Chancellor, bad giran

the under instructions from clearest-possible proof of their Secretary not care for foreign loans, though preparedness to run avery risk to Colonies, appointed Mr. H. K. is a lot more scarce than ye think.IFY on them."

the takes upon bimself onything in of State for the the nature of real responsibility said he," and see and put plenty but for past assistance of this carry it out." Mr. Collins and Holmes to be Crown Solicitor. kind the country would now be his confreres bare merited the

(There I am again: that's the I once heard a worse one than in an even more hopeless muddie eulogy, judging by the cables

His Excellency the Officer Ad-granted.) Take our

taking a thing for that, though, right here in Hong. respecting their oberous and ministering the Government has directors for instance.

kong. It started wi' a young lady company uoenviable task, and we may now accepted the resignation by supposed to draw fees for that liked Omar Khayyam

They're

asking ber feeding artnet if be The trouble is that some form hope with Lord Birkenhead that Lieutenant John Henry Gondan sort of thing but for the most part of relief is essential but, with unity.

Ibe Irish nation is about to attain of his Commission in the Hong-their service

Not very much" he replied," is confined

I prefer creme de menthe,” to kong Volunteer Defence Corps. conditions as they are, there is

corrugating the skin on their fore- On the way back to the car a little inducement for sympathis- Reparations.

beads, looking wise and throwing friend began to chaff him about Mr. A. H. Hollingsworth has out their chests when the dividend this. "That was raiber a ers to come to Chios's sid

bad financially. The Times thinks Manufacturers, who seat a de- the amount of compensation to be defects of the mind. Some o' them not a drink, you know,” said he, Like the National Union of Board of Arbitration to determine that gravity invented to cover the AD, about Omar Khayyam. It's been appointed member of the is declared. They early acquire break you made at dinner old the foreign Powere should watch pulation to impress upon the paid in respect of the resumption SAFFY the situation carefully and Premier the importance of hold of the remaining portion of particular company whose Board Feeling.

L3 much about the

"it's a cheese." sympathetically with

ing Germany to her reparations Section "A" of Marine Lot No. Room they grace at perfodic a view toad, we shall be much interested 31. ! to intervening at the right in reading that report of the Ra

intervals, as my wes dog Ham be too cautions when it comes to Ay, right enough, ye cannA moment, and in this connec parations Commission, which Mr.

knows about the differential We bave received from the calculus. The best thing some oʻsaying something ye think yo tion suggests the judicions re-coming to a decision respecting Historical and Statistical Ab attention from themselves. It's ye, this last week I discovered Lloyd George is awaiting before Colonist Secretary a copy of them can direct is somebody else's understand. Well, as I was toll- leasing of the Salt and Customs the chief debtor nation's applica-stract of the Colony of Hong- good job that most companies in that I was as mentally lazy 25 surpluses in advance, 50 tien for a moratorium. From the koag. for 1841 to 1920," jost Hougtong have general managers to relieve the desperateness of Premier's remarks both in Perlis published. Copies of this public-or lots of our directors would have

the next. You'll remember that a few weeks ago I related a the situation. The molire at the evident that he is impressed by Colonial Secretary's' Office

mant and to the deputation, it is ation can be obtained at the to stay out here inach longer than few of my experiences of a life back of this suggestion is a good Germany's fosocial difficulties, $2 per copy.

at they do. But if there is ever ons

before in the hope that some sad praiseworthy one, bat there and it cannot any longer be sup

fear of their voluntary retirement one might, throw some kind o are prerequisites which should manufactured in order to defeat Gordon are

posed that these

being retarded in any way, they get understandable light on, the sub- are merely

The students of Madame Lottie over the difficulty easy enough. far as I was concerned, wi' small ject One friend did try but, so be observed before any such legitimate claims. This is not to lessons will be suspended until is to pass a resolution raising the success. The same friend sent

notified that all The simplest way to manage that action cau be taken. There say, however, that the position is farther notice. Madame Gordon directors fees. About the only me book on very nearly the would have to be better and more The Reparations Commission has, since the 4th. instant. She has can direct really well is the le perusal, though most in. as bad as Germany represents. has been suffering from sunstroke thing some Hongkang directors same subject but in no sense did satisfactory guarantees than can in fact, just prepared a raply to sustained a relapse and chill sud quickest way to the Bank. At teresting, mean progress or dis at present be given as to the pro-Germany which contains acme and is under the care of Dr. Home they're called guinea-pigs covery. It was like a road up for per use of any sums so released, pointed queries. Evidently the Stuart Taylor-Adet,

but bereabouts most o' them run repairs. I got roʻfar but had to member of the Commission are

to hogs. If I was running. «. turn back. I've come to

than it is.

2

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lying off Samsbuipo, teri profitable than trying to sell the depend on the evidence of what

HIGER

To hand over big sums of money not satisfied that Germany is do The restar of a trading junk, directory here I'd charge them a to any one faction in the presenting her best. But, as we have be with a crew of thirteen, reports dollar everywhere their name tence I must rely on personal the.. conclusion that in crisis would only aggravate the fore remarked, what is required is that at 2.30 yesterday, whilst appears.

the matter of s previous exis basis for an impartial judgment; boarded some authoritative data to provide

That would be more "feeling" as a guide rather than and we trust the Commission will

the bost, carry book What's a directory for ing choppere provide such data.

and batchets jonyway, if no' to put directors in They sucked the

junk Pests. and carried away, belonging to the master coutain-

LAND-SALES.

Several lots of Crown land are to be sold at the P.W.D. offices

-box

But, where was. I? Oh, ay,

Topst

ing 614 Chinese silver dollare Montal laziness: work: motive. and also removed the bout's rifles, there

be *some and muskets.

motive. Usually there is some compelling force outside

U.S. TROOPS TO STAY OF THE

some one else bilplessly surmises regarding how such survivals flic from brain to brain.

"To feel mysterious Nature

ever new,

To touch, if not to grasp, bez

evdless clue,"

To have to wide througle pages"

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situation and prolong the tension between conflicting groups.

It has often best said, but it is truer to-day than ever before, that China's, salvation really.lies with herself. Until she can create a situation in which there is an obvious unity of effort to achieve national solidarity, ont

the mere acquisition of know: of reading to find out, how, my side help will be futile. And as follow:-

on the 31st instant, these being

ledge that goads a chap on to his instinct developed [hrough work. Sometimes it's a wife and countless enger as a wiggley unification can only be achieved

A Paris report says General healthy family and a fine, worm, a fish, & reptile or Rural building Lot 213, situste Allen, commanding the American collection of unpaid bills at monkey is too long a way to flab by compromise. Unfortunately, on Lugard Road, containing occupation force, realerday other times strong competitive the tidings of birth across the there seems little prospect of about 10,000 square feet upset received a telegram from the rivalry occasionally, it's the horizon of decay. I prafer-now give-and-take methode prevailing Garden Lot No. 59, Findlay to relin 1,200 men at the Coblenz means and Wen toss-covered dream and let it go at that,

|price, $1,430.

War Department instructing him mental picture of retirement wito bellave the whole businessE In the near future. Hence the Road; containing about 8,060 bridgehead as far an indefinite insanitary cottage in the country, which as I said before only delay in unification,, which is square feet; upset price, $1,553 period. This reverses the prepious where there's a hen house but proves that I'm is mentally Isy the prime padessi

Eural Building Lot 214, Fok decision of the United States to no sign o, a bathroom, now and the rest and maybe not worth of the falam; containing about $25,220 complete the American evacus then 25 get the chap, who just bothering about. munenf.

square feets upset price, #2878,"tion of the Rhineland by July 1 work for the sake working (Continued on Page h.)

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