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DAY BY DAY.

course of construction. Through out the whole enquiry there was a general denial of responsibility, and] an almost unanimous attitude on

THE CHIEF PANG OF MOST the part of witnesses corresponding ACTUAL SUFFERING ITSELF AB TRIALS IS NOT SO MUCH THE

to the Chinese excuse: "No blong OUR OWN SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE my pidgin." It was Inevitable that TO IT.-Jean Nicholas Grou the Coronor; in his summing up, The rate of the dollar on do- should have something very serious mand to-day is 2s. 3.15/16d.

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ASMLEY STERNE ·

GRILL

AVTHOR OF

TWISTED TALES -

My romarks last wook on my kill a slug in the garden I have. unique collection trophies has prompted an ardent him.

of flahing to go and buy some back from fellow-angler to writo asking mo

to say about the want of co-

The a.a. Tanda is duo horo with ordination between the various tho Australian mail on Monday. departments of the P.WV.D. and of the architect's view of his respon-

H. E. the General Officer Com- what bait I am in the habit of sibility in the matter."

I sop there was a decline in the manding the Troops (Major using one daruser you wa number of exttle exported from General C. C. Luard) paid on all think me a mug for parting the Argentine last year. question of the use of inferior official visit yesterday to HM.S. with my secrot, but I rather pride cannot honestly blame the cattle mortar the Coroner also expressed

myself on being one of the most for this. They have probably zot unselfish sportsmon that over to learn in the course of years his views, and the Jury proceeded

to bring in riders to their verdict

Cairo.

One

H.E. the Governor has appoint-threw a cast and I am only too that their exodus all too frequent- ad Major C. Willson, O.B.E, V.D., happy to yield my correspondently means. Oxo-dus,

Conservative

to the effect that the Ordinance to act as Superintendent of Pri the information he desired.

sons in addition to his other duties, For minnows I usually bait relating to the construction of re-during the absence on leave of oither with a March brown or a A prominent taining walls needs amending, that Captain H. F. Bloxham,

three cornered Cape of Good politician states that before mak there should be more co-ordination i

Hope blue. For tadpoles Iing an important speech he al- between the various officers of the Philharmonic Society hope to ly varying with stalo wedding circumstances Liberal politicians, It is stated that the Hongkong employ live mackerel, occasional ways studies Cicero. In similar P.W.D., that expert drainage produce Gilbert and Sullivan's cake crumbs made up into a I suggest, should study the engineers should pass all large opera "Iolanthe" in November, paste with tar or Giant cement. (Lloyd Georgios. development: plans,

The music has arrived and ro. For dead cats I strongly rooom- that

thehearsals will begin shortly. mond baiting with dead mice or architect in the case should be

doad milk, while for kettles and eensured, that a P.W.D. overseer

Mesars. Carroll Bros, are in saucepans I have found nothing should be censured for failing to informing them that the price of electro-magnet.

receipt of a cable from Singapore, better than a two horse-power report inferior workmanship and rubber is now $1.2814 por lb. that, work on the wall, should cease They also advise that the Bassett Rubber Co., Ltd. have declared a 16-17, Connaught Road Central-until the Director of Public Works 5% Interim Divided.

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DESERVED CENSURE

The only quarrel we have with | the jury's riders to their verdict in the enquiry which was concludad

We should have liked to have policy of the Kuomintang is out seen some comment on the action and out anti-foreign, or, more cor- of the contractor in using inferior rectly, antl anything which repre. materials and we should have also sents organised authority. The liked some stronger recommenda-faring red dye has thoroughly tion with regard to

the re-organisa. permeated this absorbent portion [lion of our Public Works Depart of Cantonese material.

ment. In the "immediate past we have had occasion to comment in!

Chinese Labour Conditions. The correspondent who, yester

strong terms On the lack of PW.D. day forwarded us a clipping from

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co-ordination because there have

a Home paper setting forth the been serious happenings arising main features of on Thursday at the Magistracy from that lack, and we do seriously issued by the Stationery Office pamphlet

suggest that the whole of the

into the death of a Chinese who was killed by the disastrous land-

is that those riders were 'not strongly enough worded. At the same time we do congratulate the Coroner (Mr. S. B. B. McElderry)

in regard to labour conditions in slide at Happy Valley on June 16th Department needs reorganising.China must have been under the We don't want any more Happy impression that the statements Valley or other similar disasters. contained therein had referenco We want the Colony's architects to factories and establishments and contracters very thoroughly

in foreign settlements, whereas and the Jury (Messrs. D. Temple-pervised in the interests of in actual fact they applied to ton, C. J. Joseph and Mr. D. O public safety, and we want some purely Chinese concerns in Chine Russell) for bringing out, during greater assurance than now exists itself. What is more, the facts the course of the enquiry and the that the work of developing this put forward were vouched for by summing up, the very serious state Colony is not necessarily to be British officials, and hence there of slackness and "maskee" which attended by such serious fatalities is good reason for believing that existed during the work on the hill-aa that which has just been side preparatory to the fatal fall.enquired into.

We see no

J regiot to road that a fellow townsman of mine has just been finad £2 for biting another man's nose in a seuflle. I understand," however, that the nose has been merely bound over.

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A sober young fellow zamod

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Taitien

But they're awfully prim, Both the maiden and him,. So they never converse tonight-

a-teaight.

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According to a tailoring expert a deep shade of brown is the summer. I shall hope to attain fashionable colour for men this it-weather permitting.

For this weak'e experiment in

poetry I have chosen Tennyson's Sweet and Low", and with my austomary pleasure and apologies now give my impression of how Sir Henry Newbolt would have written it...

گیریم تال

Sweet an'low the west wind. sweeps the western 583

("Baby, art tha, sleepin' there below ?),

A' the way from Trinidad in the Carribos,

Past the Lizard up to Plymouth Hoo.

Come ye from the dyin' moon an' come along to me!

O'er the rollin' waters will ye

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Rollin', blowin', breathin'- ye'll make the port this evenin',

Whilo the blessed baby's" snorin, snorin", snorin', sweet and low,

Willie's in his cradle while his father's out at Bo

(Baby, art the sleepin' there below?),

Listenin' for the whistle that'll bring him home to tes,

And shakin' out the silver sailn to go.

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Call him from your orib, kid, call from mother's "koao,

Thon cuddle down and qulok to by-bys go

And the shinin' silver moon will bring your Dadds soon;

But if he finds you wakin'-- well, look out my son, what-ch*

out and have as sweep in to attend the scientists of several ocunt- polishing the stoves is left to the tap-tse ay from Africa. Plans to the flues, while the job of ries to exterminate the dreaded weakly charwoman, who carries are necessarily Bebulous at the out her duties in a listless and ement, but if I may make a perfunctory

suggestion, why should not Africa manner without Stave Polishing But chiefly it Africa were papered with fly. knowing anything of the Higher held a Fly Week? I have i strong feeling that if the whole of which appeals to me. When 1 paper and saucers of arsenic put is the laundry side of the maiter

down at intervals of a few yards, it would be a very strong-minded tsa-tee that could resist the lure. Further, if the African Govern ment offered a sbilling for the proboscis of every fly handed over the counter, I predict that in a very short time the tseitse would only survive in cross-word puz- zles.

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I bave just been reading about

A doctor asserts' that night- க Household College whers maro is the explanation of the the. daughters of wealthy family ghost. And may I add they represent a true reflection of men-dukes, company promoters, on my own responsibility 1-- actualities. Here in Hongkong-bricklayers, and the like are trouser-stretchers are very pro The facts are well-known; how a More Canton Ravings.

and the same applies to the In-laundry work and the cleaning, skeleton in the cupboard. -

taught, amongst other things bably the explanation of the retaining wall, erected to prevent Almost every day are the read-ternational Settlement in Shang-of stoves and fluos. This, I think "spoil" earth from sliding down the ing public in Canton, regaled by hai-we have no opportunity of is an excellent idea. So many

men who marry dules' daughters concerted attempt is to be made I learn that a determined and hillside, was, converted into an the agitators with fresh examples seeing how the Chinese worker is are content to put the washing impounding dam when the heavy of the dead set which is made treated in his native land, where rain fell and how it burst, releasing against all things foreigd, and it is, however, common knowledge tons of water, earth and rocks all the deeds, or absence of deeds, that he is mercilessly exploited by which devastated that end of by foreign nations-except, of the Chinese owners of industrial Happy Valley. What the public is course, the dear Bolshevists, or concerns, most concerned with is the question those unfortunate people who therefore, for doubting, the state- reason, of responsibility and it was to that have lost extrality rights. There menta that blacksmith apprentices point that the Coroner, mostly was a tendency up to recently for are compelled to work, nineteen addressed the enquiry. It was told the officials at the Kwangtung hours a day for seven days a in evidence that the drainage office Communist, camp to angle for week, nor that tin-workers put in at the P.W.D. is responsible for American sympathy, with the from sixteen to eighteen hours, Brainage works when new roads are bait of flattery, and perhaps the It is precisely because such con- made but that another office (the wish was father to the thought ditions exist in China itself that Building Authority) is responsible that of all the Powers concerned the Labour leaders of the Treaty for drainage when building sites the United States would be mos: Ports, and foreign possessions in are being prepared, and it was likely to give separate treatment the East are guilty of the utmost confessed that the drainage office to present Chinese problems. But hypocrisy when they seek had nothing to do with the fact that hope has evidently passe imply that the present upheaval that a huge building site in course It has been shown that, whatev has its origin in oppression of of preparation WRS

improperly isolated utterances might be made, Chinese workers by foreign in- drained. One of the Colony's pro-the American Government is st dustrialists, Unhappily, these minent architects confessed that one with the other Powers in its allegations are accepted and when he visited the site and saw viewpoint on, conditions in China, wholeheartedly believed by

how button-holed aro stretched Major Bloodstone-Core, the big- from a quarter of an inch to a foot game hunter, leaves bezt, week that the contractor was not using and is unlikely to give away coa- labour leaders in England and a half; and how the insides for India, where he will under- proper materials for the making cassions without every assurance America, as well as by other that a follow can't knot his expedition.

of double collars are dressed so take a Bombay duck-shooting of mortar, all that he did was to of their being merited: This has publicists who ought to know necktie without garrotting him- The Earl and Countess of Knur call the contractor's attention to it. at length caused the Canton better. It cannot be too strongly solf. That, he considered, ended his spokesmen to come out into the emphasised that the labour con-when Lady Bormaline bas brush Yorkshire, for the annual County and Spell are entertaining a large One other noteworthy point: bouse-party at Gruesome Grange, responsibility. An Engineer of the open with a declaration of the ditions in foreign establishments ad out the fluss we shall be able Show of pudding and relish P.W.D., who said it was his duty "iniquities" which they consider employing Chinese workers in the to keep our own scot. Hitherto On the occasion of her wed to scrutinise the plans of the wall pertain to America's present at East are a thousandfold better soot away in a bag, with the presented his cousin, Lady Olaza the sweep has always taken my ding, Lord Ronald-Ronald has which collapsed, added that it was titude. It serves merely as a than in purely native factories consequence that when I want to Claro, with a lily-white doo. not within the scope of his depart-proof of the hypocrisy which and works, which suggests the ment to consider the question of animates the "Reds" of South point that the Chinese agitators whether water would not enter the China, and thoir chagrin at seeing would be far better employed in wall from above, whilst the Build-one of their pet schemes gone working for much-needed reforte ing Authority stated that he con- astray the dividing of the ranks in these latter establishments than sidered that the architects should of the foreign Governments con-in pretending that the real blame remain responsible for proper drain cerned. Anybody who thought for the exploitation of the workers age arrangements on a site in otherwise can now see that the lies with foreigners.

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SOULETY GOSSIP.

reveal laundry mysteries to me; loft town to take the salts at Halemele, I shall get her to The Hon. Mrs. Overeston has wrench off firmly-sewn buttons Lord and Lady Bilgewater ara how weak women manage to Epsom. from new vests; how the fringe yachting on the Basingstoke is put on the cuffs of dress-shirts Canal. They hope to nail straight which have only been worn once through to Genova.

normality was the resumption S. Cairo, now in part, is a mouse- One of the signs of returning One of the pets on board H, M. two days ago of the early morn deer, which has learned to pace Co., the first boat leaving at 5:30 taking a constitutional wheeling ing service by the Star Ferry the deck like any of the crow a.m. This has been much ap. by itself 'et each endroite res preciated by people sending tricted recreation space, without dairy and market produce across attempting to trespass in forbid. the barbour

Iden areas.