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HONGKONG, 22nd Sept., 1923.
H.C.L.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1923.
DAY BY DAY..
The name of Mr. A. G. Pile
rant restrictions next year. We commend to the Government this aspect of the situation, In
THERE IS NO BETTER WAY OF the hope that no definite decision
BOY AWAY FROM TURNING A to repeal the Rents. Ordinance LITERATURE THAN TELLING HIM (will be reached until the situation IT WILL DO HIM^`GOOD-M
has been examined from the Frank Jones." point of view of the disparity in rentals between protected and unprotected houses. To rescind the law on the more eliance of conditions improving „would be most impolitic and dangerous. Careful investigation is necessary before such a stop is seriously contemplated.
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Bulls and Inners
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There is no truth in the story The next thing to Shanghai's that the mare of Choung Chau dofocs is the disappointing num- will run at the forthcoming bor of adjectives describing what. Gymkhana Meeting.
fine fellows were the Hongkong team...
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As Tuesday noxt, according to
news the scare-mongers, is the day on which the world will come to an papers for anyway if you can't The Ming Yuan Studio has end, it's a nice kindly thought on send them home with blue ponolls Some excellent photographs of the part of the Chinese Chistoms decorations? the Japaneso curthquake disaster.authorities to grant their em- -
: ployee a holiday on that date.
It is rumoured that at an early date a survey will be made of the K. C. C. Bowling Green. A plan
Tonders are being invited for
0 eight filling in approximately
Which reminds us of what the acres of the tidal flats north of Scote executioner said to the will afterwards be prepared giving the Lai Chi Kok Road and acces-near-deceased Aweel, I hope together with all channels marked "the general contour of the ground:
sory works.
you'll have a fine day for it".
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Bowls has boon often described ask for elevated roadways for
pedestrians, Jas an old man's gume. To judge from some of the letters written
bar to the age of the other sex be an Interporter to be able to de this week there is apparently At bowls, bettor to be through than short. But then you needn't
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́ ́On Saturday next, at 11 am, The Opium Traffic Committee the 8. Yuen Sang, built to the of the Lague of Nations cortainly order of the Indo-China Steani does not intend to let the gTANK - -
Navigation Co., Ltd.. is to bo or the poppy seedling-grow under its feat. Having succeeded launched at Kowloon Dooks, in obtaining the adoption by the principal nations of a system of yesterday by the P. and O. liner Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Maltby left import cortificates
guard
Dongola Mr. Maltby has been: aguinst illicit traffic in the drug.
transferred to the Rangoon (which has given rise to special branch of the Chartered Bank, regulations now before the local legislature) the Committee is bent,
Rural Building Lot 235, situate qualification in which to base an magistrate in disallowing a claim on finally suppressing the produc- tion of opium except for the barest at Pakfolum Road, is to be sold opinion. It is not necessarily a for maintenance by a wife because medicinal and scientific require-by auction on the 9th. October on that in order to know she refused to join. her husband ments. It is recognised, however, It has an area of about 35,000 a bad cg we should be able to in the country, has set more than one Hongkong grass, widower that there are certain countries square foot and the upset price is lay one.
thinking. where it will be necessary to $11,500.
And when we are at it, long experience is not the only
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withdraw the drug very gradually
to deprive the addict suddenly
But then again many a man is
have pento and a good time.
a good With others it's a case of mak
The Government is to give An Ordinance to provide for Peak houses new numbers. New of his dope would be to drive him the closing, narrowing and divert-roofs would be more appreciated prepared to stump up in order to mad Even with a gradual with-ing of streets, and for the altera- by some residents, drawal, the opium-taker will turn tion of the levels of streets is to to some other source of solace.be introduced at the next council It is already notorious, that meeting.
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cently the Bachelors and Grass ing a virtue out of a necessity. Widowers beat the "Married-Men drug succeeded opium-smoking, and The N.Y.K. has received a tele-by nine matches and three four- that alcohol is supplanting gram from Kobe stating that the somes. Which is another proof is to be held on Sunday week. the drug in China to a fair extent. Tamba Maru sailed yesterday that marriage is always a This is deplorable, for everyone with 185 refugees aboard, whilst handicap." knows that cheap spirits act far the Tango Maru sailed with 54 more quickly in breaking a man Chinese refugees. " up, and the effects are so opposite
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The Spirit Consumption Test
We thought it had taken place during the Interport Bowls Week
These are days of relief. Hong. they didn't have the right spirit. kong is sending help to Japan and Kwangtung, and Ganton is So close is their finger on the sending also to Japau. | of living. „A“ variety of causes the League, having achieved a gola for Home was Mrs. Stanley pulse of local markets that" our" The only relief wo dosire ut.
During the war, Hongkong was one of the few places in the Empire which did not experience any appreciable rise in the cost to the
peaceful somyolence Amongst the passengers who derived from opium. Perhaps left by the P. and O."liner. Don-
down a point of two.
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contributed to that circumstance, triumph in this one direction, Smith, widow of one of the offers friends in Ice House Street only notably the high exchange value will later aspire to further great of the ill-fated Longsang. She require a coolie to stumble in the moment is impunity from of the local dollar. To-day, how-things, and in the intervals of try was accompained by her little Hung Hom to bring Cements the smuts which float into our
'save face" when openly daughter. ing to
office from the hotel kitchen, Lover, conditions are far different, flouted by Italy and others, might
- opposite. Our turn has come at last, and turn its attention to world-widej A man was admitted into the The anxiety amongst local we are all conscious of the fact prohibition of the consumption of Government Civil Hospital yes-bowlers to discover the identity" "Hongkong's taxis are certainly from shot of Jack High is only equalled smart-smart-looking vehicles. We that it costs far more to tive spirituous liquors. In this it terday suffering
could probably, count on the wounds in the forearm and thigh. by the curiosity still prevalent in hear of a taipan who got into nowdays "than it did a decide wholehearted co-operation of the He told the Police that he re-certain quarters to know who one under the mistaken Impres ugo. "The good old days." when United States of America. And ceived these in an encounter with Foreigner" is. à, man could live for what, in later we might even have League pirates at Ping Hoi in Chinese
committees solemnly placing a water. relation to his salary, was ban on decollete dresses and jazz meretance appear to have music. At least it would be The problem justifying its aim, which is to gone for ..ever.
maintain the peace (and, we nowadays is for the average suppose, the peace of mind) resident to make both ends meet. the world.
For the great majority, the dream
of retirement in the Old Country,
even under modest conditions of Is It True?
of
comfort, must continue to be a We find something almost
Statement in the dream. Apart from the difficulty amusing
nay, the declaration by the
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What with revolutions, earth- If this becomes a habit, we' quakes and lost matches, those shall soon be having fresh... The Gazed hotifies that the days, we never know whose demands for reservations. following names have been return it will be to shake next.
"Come to us to get a fit," says moved from the register of me- dical and surgical practitioners With regard to the overcrowded a tailoring establishment in the qualified to practice medicine tramears in Shanghai, it has North. Which reminds us of the and surgery in the Colony: Dr. apparently struck few as yet that firm that guaranteed "quick Kart Hoch, Dr. Carol Justi, Dr. if the number of passengers is execution for clients." Oskar Muller-Meernach (formerly kept within limits, the more fares known as Dr. Oskor Muller), Dr. will be collected. Kurt Otto Hermann Waltherand Dr. Theodor Van. Wasel.
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a local contemporary. It is per-
Pity the Kings! Ours go away. in December and Alphonso near- ly lost his job last week. 回
In newspaper reports the only haps not so difficult as owning of saving money in Hongkong, Chinese delegate, which is to
way to please everyone but the somebody else's. Pic John Roberts came before reader, is to place all on the dead the fact ennant be overlooked the effect that. China is out a District Court Martial, at dull level of excellence.
It doesn't follow that a bowling that there are heavy burdens of rigidly to suppress the cul- Murray Barracks. yesterday
report must of necessity be taxation to be borne by any who tivation of opium and be avers afternoon, charged with being A well-known cinema
man biassed. that his Government has never absent without leave and with visiting China was reported the
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0. go Home to settle down British-sanctioned opium-poppy growing being deficient in his kit. Roberts other day to have taken some The Government is introducing ere are now paying heavily for We sympathise with him. His voluntarily gave himself up at pictures at Eden. It appears to an Ordinance to regulate the Government does not govern more Murray Barracks guard room on us Evedent that he must have got Fire Brigade." Better have one territory than it could encompass Sept. 10th., after being absent)
to regulate fires, especially about The facts and figures which we in a day's ride, so while it is from the 7th. He was dressed Adam fine film.
Chinese New Year. give to-day in relation to the against the cultivation of the partly in military and partly in rise in the cast of living locally poppy just as it is against the civilian attire.
cullivation of a Southern Pre- tell their own story. They give sidency. a-systenr of organised The following is from the la concrete form to the general banditry, and many other things | Centon Duity Ners of yesterday:
impression that costs have risent has not the power to enforce T. T. Ching the former Manag drivers we wouldn't trust behind its distasto. So we can take it ing Director of the Provincial tremendously in recent years.
a dead box. that those hundreds of acres of Bank of Kwangtung, and Com- In regard to the charges made opium poppy that We all missioner of Finance, who was by retail stores for clothing know exist have not come to the found guilty of embezzlement of
Indian witness at the Sossions: When I got up I thought I was and other necessities, it is, of knowledge of the Chinese Govern the Provincial Bunk to the extent
Next year we hope to get ment of Peking. North China) of more than $3,800,000, and dead!"-Visitors praise Hongkong, course, absurd to talk of pro-They certainly could not have sentenced to death on September but we never knew it was like through most of our Interporis
by radio.. fitcoring. The retailers are as sprouted on their own. We only 6 was pardoned by the General-Paradise. . O
0 much the victims of circum-wonder whether the anti-opium issimo, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. He was
Some people think a Philatelic members of the League are released yesterday afternoon by stances as we are, Wages, rent" wise to this state of affairs, or the commissioner of Public Safe-bucking up. Ringing up a man Society merely a medium through and other overhead charges have whether they are prepared to sitty, fieneral Techen Wu.
the other day about a second-hand "which they can obtain cheap set of bowls in aid of the Japan stamps. steadily advanced, to say nothing at Geneva contentedly imagining"
Disaster, before we gave the number we were promptly inform ed that our friend. was engaged, How's that for speed?
of the wholesale cost of imported they have all the facts at their disposal and that, they are duly goods, and these factors, together justifying their existence, as s with a dollar much below war-power for the good of mankind. time. exchange value, have "all had a part in sending up prices to the purchaser. The vicious circle is apparent everywhero; we are all affected by it, whether we are buyers or sellers, Wegor
and other costs of production
rise, and that, in turn, sends up
CANTON STRIKE.
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Our Telephone Conipany are
Canton is taxing all meals supplied in public places. The more they eat the sooner the war will be over.
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Last week we found one, of AN ANCIENT OFFICE.
those mournful young men who' The King, by Eetters Patent
are continually complaining that under the Great Seal of the
there is never anything doing in United Kingdom, has granted to! The usual launch service to Hongkong. Captain Aubrey John Toppin, Easma Beach will couse after late 3rd. Battalion the Royal Irish Sunday, September, 16th." rends He was just finishing his second Rifles (now the Royal Ulster an announcement in the S.C.MP, lot faarsaparilla before toddling Rifles), the office of Bluemantle Maybe the committee are having oft to the lecture in Queen's the death of Mr. Edmund Claronce energetic President. Pursuivant of Arms, vacant by "smoko" in the absence of the Road.
Situation More Ferious The strike of hotel and .re-Richard Armstrong. The office
ation to fight to the end.
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The ouly occasion, on which
If it so happens that we requiro more gaol accommodation, what about using our publle telephone
staurant proprietors in Canton of Bluemantle Parsuivant is ono Surely an afternoon Carnival some of our Unofficials will mako the price. To meet those prices, has become more serious, as the of the four Pursuivants ordinarily would be possible. The beach is their mark in the Legislative Government Is shown no in- on the establishment of the Col-ideal for such a function and Council is when they upset an other wages must be advanced.clination to negotiate, whilst the lege of Arms. On special occa-climatic conditions for the next ink pot. And so the process good on. proprietors and employees have ions or under special conditions few weeks should be good.
We direct special attention to banded together in a determin-additional Parsuivants have been
appointed as Extraordinary, but Perhaps some of the committee the figures relating to house It is stated that certain arrange-as a rule they have, as vacancies don't know where the beach is! rentals. These are most striking ments have been made by the normal in the
Scums, to us that after the and they certainly suggest that, strikers whereby in case of a normal establishment. Mr. Arm- unless the supply rapidly over-conflict $300 will be paid to the song, to whom Captain. Toppin takes the demand, it will be the family of anyone killed and $4 has now succeeded, held the affice recent bowls display, it is up to. We can imagine no greater each daily to those wounded, of Bluemantle for a few months the Pressmen of the Colony 19 punishment than having to stay
challenge the next best four, in one against our will, height of fly to remove the together with medical expenses.
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