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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1923.

DAY BY DAY.

There was an interesting dis- cussion on rent control, but we regret that no-one raised the desir- ability of the creation of a Fair]

NO EMPLOYEE EVER Rents Board to deal with new HIS PAY UNLESS HE EARNS MORE. property. Mr. M. K. Lo, when he

EARNS

DREAMS.

And the Sub-Conscious Mind.

BY FIRMSPEAK."}

CRICKET.

Club v. Indian K. C. The towing team has been selected to play for Hongkong C. C. first XI v. the Indian Re- referred to the manner in which! The Chief Justice. at the

creation Club on the Club ground the existing law is taken Griminat Sessions, yesterday,

Jon Saturday, commencing at 2.15 For centuries, the portents of p.m.-T. E. Pearce, I. J. Davies, advantage of by profitears, and sentenced four men to five years

Imprisonment each for taking dreams bare arbraised the minds F. H. Farthing, A. L. Gace, H.. when he cited cases where the part in a robbery by two or more. of great thinkers of the time, yet Owen Hughes, L. D. McNicoll, centals of new-houses are twice.

in this more materialistic ag E. J. R. Mitchell, B. D. C. Mor- as bigh as those of similar pro-

there are those who, refusing to gan, G. E. Pieroy, R. E. A. Four men came before the examine the relationship between Webster and R. H. Wild. perty adjoining, really provided Paiste Judge, at the Criminal dreaming and sub-conscious pro- You can forget that good argument for the taking of Sessions, yesterday afternoon, cesses of the mind, make a point selected to represent the Hongkong The following team has been burglars exist when a step. Mr. Pollook, also, charged with unlawful possession of scoffing at everything connect C. C. secund XI v. the Indian of arroa. Three were found "nosjed with the possible meanings of Recreation Club rd. X1 at Soo guilty" and were discharged and dreams. They fail to realise this kuopou on Saturday, commencing you put a Yale plan when he spoke of old re-the other was sentenced to dive basic principle that dreaming is at 2.15 p..-H. E. Hollands,

sidents of the Colony deserving years."

itself the functioning of the sub J. D. Crawford, P. Jacks, A. K. Night-latch on your protection. It is an undoubted

conscious mind so far as it leaves Mackenzie, F. G. Miller, N. J. door.

an impression, or memory, recall Perrin, E. Phillipson, H: Spicer, [fact that many such residents There will be a Cinematographed when waking moments restore M. M. Watson, J. R. Way and The Yale Cylinder Night-latch are to-day occupying new houses, Entertainment at the Helens the mind to its fully conscious F. N. Young.

on Thursds.state. The vast majority No. 44 is a combination night-latch for the simple reason that much May Institute and deadlock, offering all the con- of the old property has been bors and their friends, either less, inasmuch as they are 00- March 22ad. at p.m. for Mem-dreams are admittedly meaning- venience of the spring lock, together bought up by outsiders. The ladies or gentlemen. Admission cssioned by our sub-conscious was involved in a disaster at

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the con-Tickets, fifty cents each, are ob-brain continuing to wander over sea, but, each time managed tinuation of the present restric-tainable at the door.

thoughts or impressions that may to come through unscathed. She have engaged a great deal of opt hesitated to tell me of thie. There tive law until such time as the

attention previously, or else have was no idea of my travelling far supply of bouses meets the

Last week's health return rande a mark overlooked at the then, but shortly afterwards I demand. But who, we should shows four cases of enteric fever time but nevertheless registered had to take a fairly long sea like to ask, is to decide when (one fatal), three of small-pox by the sub-conscious faculties. In voyage. When I was leaving (one fatal), six of cerebro-spinkl our waking moments we can use home, my mother begged me to be that point is reached? With Mr. forer (four fatal) and two fatal what we term our intelligence to careful, and on my questioning Lo, we rather think it will be cases of diphtheria. All were discriminate, and reject what to her as to the reasons for her many years before normal con- Chinese excepting two Indian as appears an absurd thought; anxiety she told me of her dreams. state of our mind A small vessel I travelled on ran ditions are restored. What, then, cases of enteric and one Filipino but the

cerebro-spinal during sleep is not tbus. bridled; on a reef and was very nearly 1923, at St. Maris Hospital. is to happen in the meantime to fever. There was also one Chin-hence the nongease of so capsized, some of the passengers Shanghai, Jane Elizabeth, dearly the tenants of the new houses ese death from influenza.

many of our dreams. When loss getting ready to face death. An

afterwards - beloved wife of J. A. Berthet. that will spring up? Are ther

of what we term sanity removes other trip "shortly this check, this reasoning power, nearly ended. disastrously, the Children are not to be admitted we observe in a waking subject ship having to put back owing to

almost engulfed in Our chief regret is that occasion to the screenings of "Dr. Jekyll the form of mind that accepts as being

are sudden storm, and many of us was not taken to sound the meet and Mr. Hyde" (a film version of facts what others realise

aboard kicking off our boats in R. L. Stevenson's famous novel) hallucinations. ing on this question of a Fair which are to take place at the

readiness for a struggle in the Rente Board and also the provi- Star Theatre, Kowloon, to-aight

raging seas. In, 1920, on board the We know those of us who P. and O. s.s. China, I experienc sion of more. European Reserva aud to-morrow night, but, for the

special benefit of the youngsters, have taken the trouble to studyed the full force of a monsoon in " tions. If the conveners really an all-comedy programme, ic- the subject sincerely-ibat there the Indian Ocean. Something wished to test public feeling on cluding Charlie Chaplin's

MACDOUGALL-On March to have no protection whatever! 13, 1923, at the Isolation Hospital. | Sbangbai, John Cyril Macdougall,

aged 42 years.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 20th March, 1923.

Thought Messages.

a young lady I know sitting next

young man, whose features I

to me, and on her other side a

wrong with the steer Car-is such a thing as telepathy, or want

gear, apparently, and these issues, it could have had no men." is being put on at the mind impressing mind, whether ing ship

mortal mind or that of an intellect the

nearly. turned better opportunity; and had those matines performances at 5.30.

The passengers were operating from the Doseen world. turtle. present been asked their views!

In our waking hours, we are too flung about the decks, and a full of sand used THE HOUSING MEETING. thereon, we have not the slightest A sequel to the fatal accident "sane" to receive impressions from big box,

doubt that both ideas would have during the Races when a car be- outside sources, as a rule, whereas for scrubbing the planking, broke longing to Mr. Birkett knocked our sub-conscious minds during loose and injured several persons, There was deal of talk and met with approval. But it ap-down and killed an old Chinese sleep are in a fit atata to be besides killing an old lady

by these thought passanger. Quite a number of quite a little confused thinking pears to us that the people re-woman in Queen's Road East was impressed at last night's public meeting on sponsible for the meeting were reached when a summons was messages. So is it not reasonable persons on board at the time the housing question. The series rather more anxious to secure preferred this morning against the to assume that, every now and were travelling out to Hoogkook chauffeur for reckless driving again, there comes a "dream" that and Shanghai, and will recali of resolutions submitted met with approval of their own views than Mr. R. E. Lindsell decided to give is really a message from some- that experience were this to catchi to encourage the bringing forward Saturday morning for the hearing one with the will to communicate their eye. I myself had a very almost unanimous approbation, which was cot surprising seeing of any proposals outside the scope of the charge. A remand was to us an item of information or narrow escape from death. I left

of the resolutions contained on fixed at $500.

accordingly ordered, bail being warning of some kind or other? my place to assist a lady who that there was nothing really

Do those who accept the Bible had fallen, and a moment later as their guide, and refuse the sand-box splintered the deck- new in the suggestions which the agenda.

to tolerate the speculations of chair in which I had been seated they embodied. Most, if not all,

Two boys brought before the others about Unseed forces, almost to matchwood. of the remedies advocated for

Magistrate this morning are always remember the many

Soms years ago, long before Chinese House Servants. dealing with the problem have

alleged to have been concerned instances with which the Holy the War, I dreamt that I was at been urged time and again in the dealt with the Chinese labourer of property from the clothing left and their interpretation?

Our leading article yesterday with two others in various thefts Book is filled of dreams, visions, the booze of some friends, with Press of the Colony. The meet-the more or less ignorant by footballers in dressing rooms ing was thus little other than type of workmen, with, as a rale, at Sookunpoo and Happy Valle Dreams that Have Come True.

It is not my purpose, however, clearly noted, wearing a gre & reaffirmation of previously. no pretensions to higher education The complainants were Bombar-

or the life of a "knut." The dier Wiltshire, L. C. Broadwell, to write an essay on dreams, or to suit, and who was a stranger to expressed demands. All the labourer, as we stated, saves his and C. F. O. Leslie Allan. The attempt to prove the significance me. A few days later, & cousin same, it was a distinct public money, and his great arabition is defendants were remanded to en of some of them. All I ask for is whom I had not seen since early endorsement of the necessity for to make more of it if he can. We able the police to effect the arrest an open mind on the subject-an childhood called unexpectedly, bonest attempt to realise that from abroad, and almost exactly steps being taken to bring much are moved now to a consideration of the other alleged culprits.

of another class of Chinese-the

man's knowledge of what might resembled the man of my dream. needed relief to the community house servant. We refer particular-

be outside his ordinary existence He was wearing a grey suit. I by the encouragement and crea-ly to the domestics employed out

is remarkably limited, and it is took him to the house of some tion of conditions

only overweening.concait that friends that evening, the young- likely to side China, especially in Malays. We published a message yester-

leads to scoffing by those who lady of my dream happened to provide more and cheaper houses. day from our Singapore corres

would attempt to appear smarter be there, and she sat between us. It there was any criticism vaiced, pondent relating to trouble experi- Accused Man's Excuse. than their fellows, whilst all the In 1915, I wakened in the night it was in favour of extending enced with the "boys" of one of

time exhibiting a wonderful ignor- anddenly and, in a balf-conscious When charged on remand, ance. I myself have an entirely state, imagined I saw before me the scope of the resolutions the leading hotels there. This

state of affairs is not at all before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this open mind on the subject, but a group photograph taken at my rather than otherwise. Mr. Mc uncommon in the big catering morning, with maliciously wound-have looked up notes made during school. The faces of several Guigan, in particular, was keen establishments in Malays, and is ing a compatriot with a chopper, several years past on the matter former schoolfellows stood dus reflected in the private houses as a Chinese, who had already been of dreams, and intend to present, very clearly. They were, with on the incorporation in cue or

well. The domestic servants there in custody for a month awaiting if for nothing else, then merely others of the school, serving in the other of the resolutions of a Hailams, from the island of Hai- the recovery of the complainant, for the idle curiosity of the reader, Army. They were the only ones proposal for the abolition of taxes nan-are a class to themselves.ploaded that the chopper dropped three striking instances of dreams who survived. At the time I was on houses. This led to a deal of They have formed a kongsi power-from his hands and cut the latter that have come, or are in the much concerned, thinking that process of coming, true. It may those I had seen most clearly argument touching quite elemen-ful enough to institute boycotts, on the knee.

intimidate law-abiding domestics His Worship:-It fell with such be mere coincidence to use the were the ones who would be tary points of political economy of their own and other national- extreme violence as to break his term which is such

raady killed, especially as one, most But we fear that the champion ities, and exercise sufficient in- knee, at any rate, and it was refuge for aceptics but even prominent in the picture was a of this suggestion failed to take fluence to make the Government serious enough to keep him in as

hesitate to enforce a Registration hospital for a month. account of the peculiar conditions of Servants Ordinance that hes

Defendant explained that bel existing locally. Houses are not been on the statute books for was fighting against odds, there taxed just because they are bouses, years, despite the urging of Press being two men against him. but because such a tax provides

and public.

His Worship:-Well, you have a convenient method of distribut- A Modern Product.

already been in gaolfor one month. ing taxation où all sections of the Whether or not these Hailame You have to stay there for an- community, just as tea and sugar are being taught Bolshevism at other week. Bail as before.

at Home are subject to imposts night schools, as is suggested in

our correspondent's message, they

WOUNDING CHARGE.

coincidences they might class-mate with whom I had been be worth recording. I do not particularly intimate. He went ; claim to be extraordinarily gifted through the campaign unscathed, with this faculty for dreaming rapidly obtained & captaincy, and dreams that come true, but is now a barrister practising la certainly suggest that, with a per- the East. fectly open mind on the question, I had a very vivid dream three I might have been more influenced years ago about the after-world. I then those whose pre-formed shall omit the details, an they disbelief bas erected a barrier will keep for a different occasion. to outside forces. Incidentally, When I got "there" eventually,

have repeatedly received I feit lost amidst the large num

I

for a like reason. Here in Hong- have long presenced * Surry Cars, and spending lavishly in impressions-call them what one ber of strangers, but a young lady kong the Government does not spectacle of what ultra-modern gambling balls and other resorts will in the course of dreams friend stepped forth out of the lavy specific education, water or ideas can bring about in a section that the night-life of a city in the that have foretold events with throng, came up to me and of labour. Cheeky, vain, ex East can provide.. This picture peculiar accuracy. In order to be greeted me, and immediately I poor rates; it proceeds by the travagant, dishonest, and often must seem overdrawn to anybody brief, however, and just to make felt at peace. She said: "D more convenient way of imposing extremely lazy, the Hailam ser-who has not sojourned in the my point, I have selected only is bere," mentioning the name of a single tax to cover all our vant in Malaya-with & few land where the Hailam flourishes, some personal instances-possis close friend of mine, and sure obligations. According to Mr exceptions, that merely go to but the writer is stating facts bly the most striking of all the enough came forward and prove the rule is a very bad that can be rouched for by all "dream coincidences" that I wrung me by the hand, I never McGuigan's scheme, we should advertisement for the place of his who have had to reside in have experienced

told the young lady of that dream, but told Dof if, jokingly saying all live tax-free with the excap-origin, and threatens to become the Malayan territories for any

that it showed he would pass OVOZ tion of those who own land. one of the biggest problems the length of time. Here we STO

As shortly as possible, I shall before I did. He was somewhat country will have to face in the somewhat more fortunate in our That might appear quite satisfac- future. Demanding exorbitant type of domestic servant, though summarise the three selected upset. The young lady in ques- [tory from the average ratepayers' wages, helping himself to his we fear there has been marked dreams referred to above. tion has since gone over, unex-- standpoint, but nobody can seri- employer's belongings, especially degeneration in recent years. First of all, there is one that pectedly succumbing to a fatal ously consider the probability of clothing, the Hailam domestic All the same, the best Hongkong concerned me, though dreamt by illness no-one foresaw. D

thinks only of cutting a dash,"boy" shines as a model of another my mother, Three times and I remain. Who knows how such an idea being put into dressing up to kill in European virtuo when compared with his in week, on different that dream is to be interpreted,

that practice.

clothes, driving about in hired prototype in Bingapore.

nights, she dreamt

and whether it is to be fulfilled

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Three Examples.