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DEATH?

MACASKILL-At the "French Hospital, on the 2nd inst., at 1 p.m., Christina Spence, the dearly beloved wife of K. R. Macaskill, Hongkong Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., Funeral will pass the monu- ment at 6 p.m. to-day.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

SATURDAY.

very contrary viewpoint is the right one, namely, that it is only by development and improvement of public works, buildings, roads, bur- bour, etc., that we shall get back to the full swing of progress and growth that has unfortunately been arrested during the past two years. Our Government proposes to raise n paltry $6,000,000 by loan to pay, in part, for certain works and then expresses the hope (surely, with tongue in check) that "the burden of Interest and sinking fund will not weigh heavily on the coin-

SEPTEMBER

DAY BY DAY.

TEACHING IS EVERY BIT AS HARD AS LEARNING ---F.. G. Mason,

"It is notified in the Government Gazette that the name of The Radio Communication Company (Orient), Limited, has been struck off the Register.

been sent to the Kwong Wah Hos- A Chinese aged 66 years, has pital suffering from injuries to his hend having been knocked down by

rickshaw in Temple Street

3, 1927.

TOY BALLOONS.

The Other Side of Paris.

and sizes.

There are balloons of all colours against them a bunch of balloons They add a note of struggles to escape into the gun- gaiety to the green background of blue sky. town trees. They are like the rich The little boy, or the little girl, Gorgeous and gigantic, they blow Perhaps there is a minute's op- fruit and flowers of those trees. pleads with the mother or the nurse. and blew, and give conscious de- position, for the purchase of a bal- light to the children, and perhaps loon must not become a matter of less conscious delight to the adult course, must not become a com- population, strolling by the park monplace everyday event. It must. rates.

be a rare treat, or it will lose its

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H. M. the King has approved munity." We share the opinion of the appointment of the Hon. Mr. Usually they are at the park charm. The glamour will go as many that the loan is far too small, J. O. Hughes to be an Unofficial gates, or in the parks themselves, quickly as a balioon explodes, if pos that the term of repayment is too Member of the Legislative Coun-but they are also to be seen on session is not something to be ab- short and that this Colony can casi cil, vice Mr. H. W. Bird, resigned.ch frucuented promenades as the tained in face of resistance

Champs-Elysees. They come, like But the mother means to buy a ly afford and would greatly benefit

the tulips, in the springtime, and balloon, and her face brightens. H.E. the Governor has appointed like the tulips of the Tuileries, She approaches the vendor, and from a very substantial "mortgage Mr. George Harold Thomas, M.D. swaying and nodding in the wind, the child receives the gift with on its future revenues by under-B.Sc., to be Assistant Superinten- are. the emblems of fancy, of hap. cestasy.

dent of Police (Reserve) and be in piness, and of hope. taking needed development now command of the Motor Cyclist |

Now the balloon trails behind the Or they are to be observed as one child on a long string. We suggest that as the Government Section, Hongkong Police Reservo, wanders along the boulevards, held softly at its moorings, and the child It tugs. acknowledges its first duty to bo

in the hands of tiny tots, who have elenches its little fist with unneces "to foster the recovery of trade by every means in its power" it can best do that by assisting private development schemes (not starving them), by improving the port's facilities and by quickening the spending of "private money by spending its own. It is asserted, and correctly we think, that there Is lots of money in this Colony awaiting remunerative employ- ment,efther in trade pr in building or in some other way which promises & return, and we are con- vinced that the Government is not

It is notified by the Harbour accompanied their nurse or theirsary energy. Somehow the ballcon, Master that the following system mother an 'a shopping expedition. though but a toy, conveys the Idea of marking wreeks will be adopted The large emporiums, one of Aspiration... It would soar into in future:-By day, by a green may suppose are not purely the alty. It wants to be free, to

on business. flag: By night, by a green light intent

They cunt above the leaves, to ascend light in a vertical line over a white sell their wares, but they take to some giddy height nearer the

every opportunity of giving away, sun. without financial consideration,

By removing a pane of glass from a window, thieves managed to steal a Decca Gramophone from the military quarters at Scandal Point. A report has been made to the police by Private Evans yesterday.

helping the flow of that money by closing up, almost as tight as an oyster, on its own programmes of

Less than $2,500,000 Ias and expansion.

has been set aside for public works extraordinary next year, a sum, which compared with the total ex- penditure of over $22,000,000, and with the huge sums spent in recent past years on development, is un- necessarily small. We shall hope to see some Unofficial criticisms of this policy of wholesale stoppage. It is wise to "economise" we agree, but is it wise to cease growth?

Mrs. G. R. Haywobd begs to return. thanks for kind condolences, flowers and attendance at the

funeral of her late husband.

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

FALSE "ECONOMY.”

The Bias Bay Raid.

momentary pleasure..

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these airy symbols which provide There is fun in watching its flight, but there is fun too in feel.. bubbies they are, blown into the loors are made to mount, but before Smooth, shining, multicoloured ing its straining on the leash. Bal- bright sunshine. It is the spectacle they fulfil their function they must of the balloons which persuades one provide that Paris, often regarded as so- milder amusement of anticipation." tethered pleasure, a phisticated, really retains some- In spite of the effort to keep the thing of its old naivo childlike en- balloon down, it sometimes eman- The Royal Garden Party at joyment of simple things. The cipates itself. There it flies gud- Buckingham Palace, a special childlike quality of the French denly, a gay blob against the blue. Times photograph of which ap- capital has, indeed, frequently been The child hardly knows whether yesterday, is one of the recented by nothing better than its thou- It is fine to see the balloon fly so peared in the Hongkong Telegraph commented upon, but it is express-it experiences dismay or rapture. events. depicted in the topicul sands of ballons.

softly, so gracefully, but it is sad to lose this symbol of delight. gazette being shown at the World

The vendour of balloons is usual- Theatre to-day along with Doug-

It was so good to possess it, and Maclean's' clever comedy, "Seven Key to Baldpate."a man.

mystery by a woman, though it is sometimes it is so hard to lose it. Yet balloons She-or he-carries a which are kept to the ground too. long pole at the end of which are long will shrivel and come to an We are glad to be able to an- clustered scores of swollen pink and inglorious end. It is better, per- nounce that Major E. J. Barkham blue and green balloons. The whole haps, that it should take its upward has very kindly consented to give Jenks like a huge stalk topped by course, and that the child, craning an organ recital in the Cathedral sigantic blossoms. While she, or its neck, should gaze at it as it on Friday, September 9th, at 5.30he, remains, Paris will preserve amounts beyond the tree-tops, becom p.m., in aid of the Organ Fund. modicum of that fantasy which ing smaller and smaller, to the eye Those who have heard the short marks the French. There are dole of the boy or girl, who watches, recitals before the evening service ful people who pretend that this with a curious emotion, its ascen- doubt be glad to hear Major Bark- They say it is menaced by the on a few Sundays lately will no love of fantasy is disappearing.sional career.

Up and 'up and ever up! It may ham give a longer recital.

Mrs. modern rush and rattle. Menaced vanish from sight, leaving the ima- Balcan is very kindly playing the it may be, but that it persists is gination mystified. Or it may sud- violin at the same time.-Cathedral proved by the street processions of denly burst in mid-air, disappear- Notes.

Mi-careme, by the elaborate dressing swiftly somewhere in the em ing-up of the popular festivals, and pyrean. But there are other bal- Jackie Coogan's latest picture,

by the balloons.

loons bunched together in multi- Johnny Get Your Hair Cut," will open-mouthed children. They look gigantic flowers on the huge stalk. Around the balloon vendor stand coloured beauty, swaying like be Theatre for the last time to-day, The hurry and scurry of daily exist-

„Queen's

longingly on the nodding spheres. of the vendor.

It is all very childish, you say, when the Broadway Follies wil again appear at all performances, in a thick slow stream. The tramways be childish enough to rejoice ence flows on. The traffic proceeds (but for my part I hope I shall al To-morrow the big picture at the cars clatter, the taxicabs try to dart in the vendor of balloons by the Queen's Theatre will be an amusing in and out, the impassible. police- gates of the Luxembourg Gardens farce called "Money Talks," and man, steel-helmeted, on an impas-or in the Champs-Elysees, and in the Broadway Follies will submit sible horse, calmly directs the vor-the conflicting emotions of the child an entirely new programme, in- cluding the "Arctic Ballet,"

tex of vehicles. But there, a few who possesses and then loses one pleasing interpretation of polar ing foliage and fountains, and..

1 paces from the road, are embower-jot these smooth coloured bubbles.

S. H. ice skating by the entire company.

screened at the

The hope generally expressed that the authorities at Hongkong would take immediate action in the case SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927. of the latest piracy of a British ship, the .s. Yutshing, has been realised; the raid carried out in the Bias Bay region on Thursday, and fully reported by us yesterday, proving the intention to back up the threat previously made, that Yesterday, in the course of our such outrages would meet with remarks upon the Budget, we re- early punitive measures. The pros and cons of this form of action, gretted the Government's announce without any co-operation by the ment that it could no longer assist Chinese authorities, have been dis- enterprising bodies with schemes cussed before, but it may be re- of development "no matter how peated that British naval expedi-blown out in the storm on August tions against pirates in the Chinese 20th. The Committee of the desirable they might be" because coastal regions are perfectly justi- Church is ordering a Memorial such a decision amounts to the shut-fied when the Canton Government, Window for the East end in memory

THE NEXT SAILINGS. ting out of all private development nominally the body in authority in of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bowdler,

unable or unwilling to take any Westminster and depicts the Ascen-Dollar Steamship Line will arrive by the Governor in Council under the district under discussion, are The window has been designed by

Messrs. William Morris, & Co., of The 3.3. President Lincoln of the It is notified in the Government stops themselves. On the previous son of Our Lord. The window is

Guzette that the regulations made occasion of naval action against

schemes which might reasonably

expect help from the administration. That, we think, is a very negative kind of policy. And on reading through the speeches of His Excel- lency the Governor and the Hon. Colonial Secretary a little more closely than we had time to do yes- terday, we find what we consider is

The Peak Church had a window

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pirate haunts, there was a foolish to cost £200; Mrs. Stedman has sent from Seattle and Victoria via section 23 of the Waterworks Chinese protest, engendered by a donation of £50, and Mrs. P. L. Yokohama, Kobe and Shanghai on Ordinance,

1903, pre further agitators, which was so absurd Knight £10, towards the cost, and Sunday, afternoon, Sept. 4th, 1927. amended by the rescission of that it met with early repudiation, the Committee will be glad to re- She will sail for Manila on Mon-Regulation and the substitution It is well known that the majority ceive further donations, either from day, Sept. 5th, 1927, at 6 p.m.. of the following regulation there- of Chinese approve the steps which those who know Mr. and Mrs.

The .s. President Jefferson, of the British have taken, and many Bowdler or from those who desire

The following rent shall be paid of the merchants who are victimnis the beautification of the Church the American Mail Line will arrive into the Treasury for the use of

from Manila on Monday, Septerameters ed daily by freebooters on various Cathedral Notes. an altogether regrettable over in-waterways in Kwangtung, would

ber 6th, 1927, at daylight. Bistence on "economy." Perhaps no doubt be glad if Britain's navy there are few words in the English could do for then what their own adininistrators have signally failed language so often mis-applied as

to accomplish--the stamping out of the one above quoted and to scrap piracy and brigandage. In the improvement and development case of the raid on Thursday, it is Paris

indeed gratifying to know that the Genova schemes of public importance is not Hongkong authorities had definite Berlin to economise but to jettison. It is information that the men concern Oslo significant that His Excellency, ined in the pirating of the Yatshing Helsingfors

were inhabitants of Fan Lo Kong Athens stating that the Government has no village, and that a number of houses Buenos Aires intention of calling a halt in the owned by pirates were destroyed. Hongkong development of Hongkong (regard-It may be emphasised that the whole New York ing which he so proudly dwelt on men who were known to be pirates,

iden of the expedition was to punish Amsterdama

the past) could only cite the cons- all law-abiding villagers being un- Madrid truction of the aerodrome at Kow molested. No doubt this form of

.786 loon City and the dredging of the villagers to "give away" the bad Yokohama action will encourage the peaceful Bombay...

1/5.15/16 ton, of the Kowloon Hospital. pose of repair, alteration or teat- harbour as proof of it. Of course, characters in their midst in future, Brussels

1/11.11/33

.94.92 A black and tan imongrel dog ing) the Treasurer will, on pro- many more small items of expendi- rather than run the risk of guffer- Milan

to .89.45 belonging

Sergeant duction of the receipt for meter ture could have been cited, but the even transpire that these immediate Prague

ing for others' misdeeds. It may Copenhagen

.18.18 Munn, of the 25th Heavy Battery, rent and a certificate by the Water 104% Stonecutters, has also been sent Authority as to the date of removal Government confesses, in the words punitive measures will have the Lisbon

2.11/32 to Ma Tau Kok for. observation of the meter, refund a sum equiva- of Mr. Southorn, that in cutting effect of urging the other inhabit Rie

627/32 after the animal had bitten Private lent to the rent for the unexpired ants to give information so soon as Shanghai

2/6.13/16 Neves of the same regiment. portion of the current year, ex- the cont according to the cloth there they learn of something being afoot, Silver (spot and forward).25.8/16 Private Neves is being attended to clusive of any portion of a month.

-British Wireless.

has "resulted a somewhat tight fit." If we might continue with the simile, we suggest that clbows are not even covered and that the man within the coat is left very cold and starved.

"We must not jeopardize our fin- ancial stability" says the Govern- ment spokesman, just as though by maintaining a consistent policy of development there were any real fear of that. We suggest that the

and thus enable, future piracies

to be nipped in the bud. It may

Stockholm Vienna

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The said rent shall be payable

yearly in advance.

Rent for any portion of a year. shall be calculated on the basis

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TWO CASES YESTERDAY.. 1/11.11/16 EKAN

A dog belonging to Mrs. Wood-of a monthly rate, equal to ono .4.80 1/32

12.18% ward has been sent to Ma Tau- twelfth of the annual rent, and 18.10 kok for observation, having bitten any portion of a month shall be 34.48 the small daughter of Mrs. Wood counted as a full month.

wand, aged. 4. The little girl fa

In the event of the.removal of a now being attended by Dr. New-meter (otherwise than for the pur-

.28.73

Lance

by the military doctor at Stonecut-

tors.

The Water Authority shall be entitled to prescribe the size of meter which shall be fixed for measuring the supply to any premises.

This regulation shall come into January, 1928.

be, also, that the authoritles here the last of them, and would welcome will be able to make more complete their entire elimination. To some preparations in the future, and it may appear that yery little has carry out more extended operations, been accomplished when viewed in thus ensuring that every house terms of the effort expended, and WEEK-END WEATHER, operation on the 1st day of owned or inhabited by pirates is the number of ships and men em- razed to the ground, and possibly ployed; yet it is evident, from the drawing members of the notorious way in which the Chinese of Blas organisation into the net. There Ray district have come to fear re- is an indication, in the manner in prisals, that a very good moral which the elders came forward and effect has been obtained, and that

The Royal Observatory forecast pointed out the dwellings of the valuable, cumulative results may be up till noon to-morrow states: pirates, that the fellow villagers of expected from Thursday's expedi- "South-west or variable winds, mo- these law-breakers are ready to see tion.

derate to light; fair."

PREDICTED TO BE FAIR.

Captain Bingham, of the 1st, Batt. Queen's Regiment, reports the loss of a gold watch valued at $50 from his mens at Bishop's Place, Lower Albert Kaod. The theft is believed to have occurred. late last night.