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BIRTH.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1922,
A Macnamara Story.
As is well-known, "Dr. Mas- namara, whose name has reasntly
DAY BY DAY.
been mentioned in connection INNOCENCE FINDS NOS NEAR with the Governorship of Hong-80 MUCH PROTECTION AS GUILT. kong, was in his early life ■-Rockefoucault, schoolmaster. Later he took up
scholastio journalism, and doring
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhitter.
11 would sppose to be the fashion in ano quarter freely iù interlued alla po thought wi'poetry. The quotations contained 'in the following notas sea inkon from Cassell's Pocket Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, price 1/3d, set. I treat "then that I have made a serviosahle selection of postna wherewith to poìut a moral and adorn the malu. I would baston to add, however, thaà là' is not my intention
cultureck-- R.MAW.
Amongst a long list of Governî'"- the course of his career as master ment requirements, tenders aro and editor he has collected quite being invited for photographing to continue this feature, albeit its use may be welcomed by the sealita and a big budget of stories relating to scenes of serious crimes during| schools and scholars. Many of 1923. these are, naturally, of a most humorous kind, but perhaps one
Mr. W. B. Walker and Mr. of the best he tells is the follow. ingAn inspector was patting. D. Sutherland were amongst questions to the scholars can the passengers who arrived by cerning punctuation when a local the as President Lincoln this that werena" enough, Mr. Goodall of getting things done will stand Mayor, a pompous individual, morning. who was visiting the school in- terrupted with the remark: "It A
Ay.It's asairfecht, right enough, between you and me, and the for if it's noʻons thing, it's another, bedpost, I think. be need not Last week it was telephones and worry about the verdins of the the budget. Sonday brought along British people. This is the time Lloyd George's Speech and as if when his magnificent war record tells me that they've added a him in good stead. Our electorals saxophone player to the Cafe in the Old Country are no' all Bandman's English band. Av, we live in anxious political Diehards. The Prime times what between being Minister will put up a great fight is foolish to bother about commas Farcical Comedy Company is to
an ex-school Crities may live to discover that and such-like" The inspector open a season at the Theatre threatened wi fushed. Turning to one of the Royal on Friday 38x Some of master for Governor and Mrs. they have overlooked the personal baya he hade him write on the the latest London saccesses are MacPherson's cook-boy wanting factor. What's more forbye, our
a rise of wagas. blackboard: The Mayor of to be presented. Blanktown says the inspector is
The Knockers.
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a fool." "Now," he continued.
A Hakks living at Yik Sau It's funny world and no mis- put & comms after Blanktown and another after inspector." Ling reports that last night his take. Knock somebody and the
Sayi The Mayor, needless to say, kept house was entered by a thief, who world knocks wi you.
forced open the back door and ja kind word and 50 need! stols jewellery and clothing to your band seen to. This is rae value of $131.
the age of koocking. If it's no' | MacWhirter for the sake of copy.
quiet after that.
Industrializm in China.
Dr. Fong San, of Shanghai, a present in London, has just added bis voice to the chorus facouring an English education for his countrymen, with a view to their benefiting by Western thought
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people respect a bard worker, a man who is doing his dumbest and above all, they have an inherent fave of fairplay.
Henová na fear their foul reproach,
Nar tradition Yoɔ mistie maalie qumr bosch potch. The Coalition.
Bathing Facilities.
And so the whole of our fore- There is added to the list of it's Asquith for the sake of auld shore between Shaukiwao and medical practitioners the name of lang syre. (The blithering old Dr. Pheon Seck Foo, Government woman. A man that canus keep for commercial purposes. There Kennedy Town is to be allocated ivil Hospital, Bachelor of Medi-his wife in order should never ba the University of Hongkong. cine and Bachelor of Surgery of heard in the counsels of the is a great and growing demand nation). When it isna our Gov.! for land on the waterfront. Heng- It sounds little incongruous
ernment bere getting it in the kong is & progressive trading port. As Mr. Fletcher put it after this that Dr. Fong should)
neck, it's some poor woman who Tenders are "being invited for basna been quite what she ought
the other day: "Are we going to adjure Chios to "avoid the terrible industrial conditions now levelling the site to required to, and the details-
my, the put bathing or commerce first?" FERGUSON At Seattle, disgracing the West." When the levels, building retaining walls. feck o' them criminal. Which Now, that sounds terribly U.S.A., on September 14. 1922, to lot of the Chinese worker is com and laying all foundations for brings me by assy stages to my seem quite in keeping wi' lots o' logical and all that, but it doeans" Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ferguson.pared with that of the average school to be built on the site ad friend, Mr. Lloyd George. (Chartered Bank) a daughter.
Occidental the point is not very joining
other things the Government have Strange that a harp of themandaid wi' regard to recreation. clear: At the rs: assembly of Western Street.
Take King's Park, for instance. the International Labour Conven- tion, at Washington, special pro- It is notified that His Ex- Joe and
You try and get permission to vision had to be made in regard cellency the Officer Administer reached the stage of dryness erect a ginger beer factory of those countries, including ing the Government in Council which usually precedes a row. something of the kind there, and Chias, which are backward in has appointed the hours from It was all over the head of you see what you'll have coming to CRIMINALS AND OTHERS.labour matters, and even at sach 1 a.m. until 6 a.m. during which speech. Joe, he's got some very you. Man, no eren a kirk can be tolerated yonderaway. No, she progressive place as Shang-blasting may take place in con-queer motions for his age and as
factory Hongkong is to have its "Black bai
conditions have nection with the work now being I've often said bim, it people must have recreation-sed been severely criticised, the carried out on the road between was A terrible pity his folks quite right too, say I. You dare
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 21st Oct., 1922.
to
Bonham
Road And
strings Should keep in tune so long.
me have
to
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Maria, or, at least, we assume western proprietors finding it Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay didn les bim joia the breathe & suggestion about hous-
so much from the announcement difficult to improve the state of on and after the Zöth. instant. made in the Budget speech that things because the Chinese:
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THE CANTON LOAN.
cogiest.
best.
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ministry when be wanted toing some commercial undertaking He's got just the right kind o on the Cricket Ground and ste it is proposed to parchases van employers, (with honourable
An interesting rifle match is thrawnness that usually goes to what a nice soft cell you'll find exceptions) indulge freely in for the conveyance of prisoners exception the bus. But if pr taking place at Taikoo Range to make the successful preacher, yourself in before night. Ye may and aye counted valuable as well play wi' the idea of turn- morrow afternoon, at 2.30, be- from outiging districts sad to Fong means, as presumably he And from the Courts. And it is dpes, that reformers must do all tween a team of fire men from asset in the matter of saving ing Fanling into farm lots or the U.S.S. Rainbow (under Lieut. souls. Yon man would save you making Happy Valley a reservoir. not before its time that the deci. they can to check stese coa-Thomas) and five men represent politically, in spite of yourself. A. so smile, but at the same
ditions before they become sion has been arrived at.
"Honest politics is Joe's catch-time dillidanti wi' the idea that ing the Volunteer Defence Corps stereotyped in China's growing (under Mr. Shaw). Eith man word. That me Lay that once our whole foreshore can have day or 90 $20. B batch of industries, he will have the will fire seven stors at 20. 500 eurolled in a political party, the wharfs, godowns and factories op it and naboby be bit the all right-minded of prisoners was seen on the road. Support
and 700 yards range. Mr. W.E. Ldge most be worn for life.
Are we going to pat presumably from No. 2 Police People. 1.again. Dr. Fong refers to Sherion has kindly donated For forms of verament let fool worse off.
bathing or commerce first? Why conditions in the West when they Station, handcuffed in couples were in the stage of development Boavenirs to the winning team. Whats'er is best”, administered this air of everything or nothing? Why no' a wee bit of the one sod and in charge of police. One of corresponding to those in China
no's much o' the other? them was a small boy, who was today, the same remark applies;
Zeal is the pins madness of the mind. and, moreover, Chics has the coupled with an adult. Tost advantage of the experience in,
I fair bate though, to see
Surely our Government isna" man lose his sense of proportion so grabby as to want to turn is the kind of thing which the Occident to guide her.
and that's what lots and lots every bit of sex-front into dollars is rather calculated to make
The Political Drama.
have been doing this week. If and cents? Surely it is bearing criminals than otherwise. Some
Lloyd George is kicked out who in mind the thousands of its Followingupon sundry rumours, days previously we saw a similar
are they going to put in his
taxpayers to whom the sea is a political events at Home have
The members of the Provincial place? I ask you. For monthsesi boon and who cannot go to occurrence, when a batch of followed each other in breathless Asserably in Canton are still past what real support bas Repulse Bay and the fine beach- handcuffed Chinese serrants was succession. For a long while &
haggling over The proposed he been getting? He has more to be at Sheko? Surely before brought down from the Peak by break of the Coalition on the part foreign loan, according to news than once had to bear almost it is too late it will see to it ibat of Conservatives has been in the from our correspondent there. the whole burden of the Ministry. the tramway and marched along air, and now it has materialised.
a few spots on our long water- At a meeting of the Assembly and has had to lend a hand here, front will be retained and held to the Police Station in full The success of the independent convened on the 19th, instant for there and everywhere. For all in perpetuity for the use of those Ipublic gaze. These men,
we Conservative candidate in the the purpose of receiving a report that, some wonderfully wise old who cannot afford to go beld
shree-cornered by-election at believe, had merely bien indulgewport would not be an epoch-investigated the nature of the his successort Mind ye, I never ber
from the Committee which has women are already nominating for their bathing. Their num
278 legion so can be ing in a little fatter;" and yet making event in itself, but, coming loso, several members refused to had very much time politically for well proved by reference to the they appear in the pablic eye as just when it did, the result may take their Beats,
the son hotch-potch called the Coali agares compiled by the P.W.D. full-blowa criminals. That kind
have determined the Conservatives Government bad giTen notion but if he'd got the backing A7, some o' 300 altulatic town-" to stampede. Any way, stampeded
should have had, the
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Fruitless Assembly Meetinga.
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planners can talk as they like but
notice that a whisper on the higher levels is much more penstrating and carries farther than the deep-throated growl on the plain below.
It's hardly in a body's power.
To keep st times frie being sour.
To so bow thing'e are shared.
to other than barden any little Mr. Bonat Law to become. hair/salary would be paid. The Pres-Coalition Ministry, instead of in they must forever keep befors of treatment is scarcely fikely they have, and the invitation to guarantee that their arrears of he
ident and Vice-President alsojturn apologising and reviling them the idea of the greatest good Griminal propensities they might leader rolesout their participation declared that
bava been the for the greatest number. For possess. As we say, it is high in a fresh combination under Mr. asking for twenty days leave. strongest political force in the myself, I'm begining to be just a Liosd George-in fact, revolt The meeting then broke up. world. Its late leader, at any wee bit suspicious. I'm begining time this parading of prisoners against his leadership appears to
still the greatest de- A farther meeting was held rste, is through the streets ceased, and have been the chief cause of the
next day, but this also was mocratic force in Europe. Mr. breach. The conference
It is stated we hope that "Black Maria
adjourned.
George that Lloyd wh ch this decision Was
afraid some of the members, fearing been will soon bin operation.
of experiments reached gaTe a biz majority that the Assembly will dissolve, He knows that we have all There is another thought #uz-it firour of going to the are trying to arrange matters be been transported into
23 tbe Conservative Rested by the handcuffing of country
Parts. the voting being 186ween the various parties and world, a world even at this time Dumerous mare boys to adults, namely, against 87. The Conservative or ident to cancel his leave.
thatthey will request the Pres. of day, bristling wi'
and difficult problems. He has
Is it & road, garage or a new the advisability of instituting Umonist Party is the largest in
always been guided by only one tramway that's wanted? Right. Children's Courts here. As in the House, but, even if thes
issue-how the people can best were unanimous, they would be things now are, youngsters of
much short of a majority over the tives, including Mr. Chamberlain, be served. A General Elections it a hospital on the peninsuls reach of bome? Ab, well now, tender years are packed into the rest in a Legislature of over seven Lord Balfour, Lofd Birkenhead, his political opponents cry, which or a bathing beach within easy
translated means, Crucify him,
that's different, and at ony rate, dock with, maybe, the most con hurdred members. Apparently Lord Lee, Sir Robert Horne, and
of no' immediate importance. 1. Blow, blew, thon winter wind the Party in reckoning either that Sir L. Worthington Evane. Will Crucify him." frmed criminals, even though, as the country will show a big return these Conservative leaders, join
wonder if our hospital in Kow. Thou art not so bakind
loon As man's ingratitude,
would have
been ouy often happens. they have com- to the historic side, or that there with Mr. Lloyd George's "Co.- new organisation. +
bad completion mitted no greater offence than to will be continued, though in- Libs." in
Well, the quicker the better, for asier hawk without a licence. This, formal, co-operation on the part such as the projected National only then can real progress be few of the heid yins lived at Ho of the Co-Libs." It is conceivable or Centre Party? After their made in solving the multifold! Mun Tin. If they'd ran the risk o' again. is bad, involving, as it that the first contingency may excommunication of Mr. Lloyd problems which political unrest, some o' their intergals coming does, association with adult eventuate the result at New George the other day, it isdifficult offenders, many of whom are port, an industrial constituency, to sea how the Wes Frees" intrigue and back-biting is doing, adrift in the middle of the night so mach to stoltify. A strong, and if they'd had to be caried astonishing could be brought in, but there are Government and a strong Parlia across the water, I'll bet they'd bartened offenders. Matlers revealed
gwing of the pendulum. On various fragmentary units or ment are very necessary to the have raised a moan to bigb heaven have improved some what by the other
unattached members who might well-being of British people tower the head o't, hand, this may convicted juveniles being in prove to be but a dash in the be attracted. There romaine the day. There can be no strong carcerated in a building apart PA. In regard to continued co-Labour Party, who are prepars Government where the Prime
operation on the part of the Co-to place a much larger number of Minister is lectured, hectared or Libe from adult criminals; but it Libs." this would be a matter for candidates in the field than ever patronised. I do oot know would appear to be equally surprise in view of the way those before; yet there will be occasion what will be the issue of the Hielan' Laddie,
present crisis but onybody can!
Janet, she never missės necessary to separate them in members have just been flouted. for great surprise if they are able
Moreover, the Coalition Liberals to return enough members to formuess that the last few weeks'
chance of rabbing it in Every the Police Courts. We trust, appear disposed to continue their an Administration. Their chance has been the most unpleasant sight for nearly a week now when therefore, that it will not be long adhesion to the Wizard." An-rests in the present disagion of
time the Premier. has ever I got home I've been greeted before Hongkong follows the other important factor is the body parties, but some sort of now lived through. One thing he has
Where have you been at the day.. Beems probable, made plain; he does not intend Home example by making pro- of dissident Conservative opinion, combination
Bogata haddie, Hisfan" Laddis which is not only appreciable in From general appearances the next to renew the experience. He vision for the establishment of numbers but contains the bulk of Election promises to be the most will grasp the nettle armly, and (Colinked on Juvenils Courts in the Colony. the most influential Conserva speculative in Britishhistory.
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