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THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH-

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ANE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET

STORAGE CAPACITY. I

OVER

WEDNESDAY.

many of the higher-paid officials who, even before the exchange compensation allowance came into force, wore certainly suffering no undue hardship. As we look over the whole situation, it becomes self-evident that the Colony cannot go on indefinitely adding to its cost of government unless new sources of revenue are found. Any increased taxation to offset the upward trend of expenditure would certainly be resented. When all fa said and done, the whole pro hlem is to cut our garment accord lng to the amount of cloth avail able. In the past, "economy" in this Colony has been largely a matter of auaponding 08- sential public works. But that is not real economy; it may be quite the reverse, indeed. Value for money is what the Colony wants, and at present it has an Impression that that is precisely what it does not get

There is further feeling

SEPTEMBER

DAY BY DAY.

A YOUNG FELLOW, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE NO WILL OF HIS OWN," AND DOES EVERYTHING THAT 19 ASKED OF HIM, IS CALLED VERY GOOD NATURED, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IS THOUGHT A VERY SILLY YOUNG FELLOW,~~~Ches-, terfield

The P. and O. 8.8. Moren from Shanghai, is due here at 6 a.m. on Friday.

The Ben Line A.4. Benaven, from Singapore, is due here on the 16th Instit.

Paymr. Lleut. Commr. H. Twomey has been appointed H.M.S. Tamar.

B.

to

The F. and O. 8.3. Khyber, from Hongkong, arrived at London on the 9th September at 2 am.

The P. and O. 89. Mirzapore, from Singapore, is due here, at 6 a.m. on the 17th instant..

1929.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Colony's Problems.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir. The letter appearing in your issue of last night dealing with the Colony's problems makes interesting reading, and your car respondent is to be congratulated on piring the views of a large section of the public.

There are many matters on which; Information is sought, and one or two queries would not be out of place at this time,

.

An extensive road is to be con- structed somewhere behind Kow- loon Bay apparently only remedying a theoretical need for building sites in that area. Surely this is not go immediately essential

1. A vehicular ferry between Hongkong and the mainland,

2.Improvements to the exist ing roads in the New Territories. One can only infer that the pos sibility of increased competition. with the Railway, which would result, is the principal reason for Chi-the purely negative policy of the

Government..

All projects involving expendi

1,000,000 abroad, namely, that our Unofficial diseases shows two cases of

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WELD..

Sole Distributora HONG KONG & S. CHINA

Yesterday's return of notifiable Members of Council do not keep 4 typhoid (one imported) and one of keen enough watch on the Colony's puerperal fever. All were

when expenditure. True,

the

nese

The Very Idea!

A contributor to a Home paper saya —"I belluva the originator of Spoonerisms was the Rev. Issac Spooner, a noted man in Birming- hand in the. Forties and Fifties of last century. I was educated at King Edward's School there, and well remember him and the amuse- ment he caused us boys by his putting the cart before the horse, as we then called it. That would be over 70 years ago, as I was nominated and entered the school in 1853, I know I looked upon him. as an elderly man in those days."

"My father was at Oxford (Christ Church) In the early Fifties," writes "F. P. S."; "and when we were children he would often talk of 'chuttan mops, which he told us was the correct way, at Oxford in his day of pronouncing mutton chope. So this particular? Spoonerism must have been cur- rent eighty years ago, when Dr. Spooner was in his cradle,"

the

Another reader recalls "Spoonerisms of Mr. Prodgers in Albert Smith's Adventures of Mr Ledbury." Probably this form of metathesis is as old as human original Spooner of the "lama”?

"If you haven't a ticket for that boy madam, you'll have to pay," said the ticket collector.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. annual Budget comes round they The hearing of the manslaughter ture of public funds should be speech. The question le, who was the

air their views on various aspects case in which a foki of the Monkok made known to the general public of the Government programme at Market is charged with killing a fel some considerable time before low-worker, was fixed by Mr. T. S. being definitely adopted by the considerable length, but what we Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magi- Government, so as to give our Un miss is evidence of a year-in and atracy this morning for next Tues-official Members an opportunity of obtaining the views of the com- year-out determination to keep day afternoon...

munity in these matters.Yours, unnecessary expenditure in check.

etc., Arrested in connexion with the

TEMPORE PARENDUM. Scarcely a meeting of the Council

armed robbery committed at No. takes place without huge sums 681, Nathan Road, last week, two being agreed to, and no questions Chinese, who wore again before Mr. whatever asked. It is high time. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon

BIRTH...

MUIR-At the Victoria Hospital. on September 10th, 1929, to Cathie, wife of James Muir, Chinese Maritime Customs, Hongkong, a daughter..

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 11; 1929,

"THE HIGH COST OF·· GOVERNMENT.

concern

ment.

the

musti

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Sir-It was encouraging to read this tradition was broken down. Magistracy this morning, were re- "Zeltgist's" letter in your last manded for another week, for hear-evening's edition, and to know that, If on rare occasion only, intelligant The times call for some seriousing on Thursday the 19th.

interest is sometimes taken in pub effort in the, direction of sensible

lie affairs in this Colony, retrenchment.. A. halt

Mrs, W. T. Southorn, wife of the

The taxpayer is peculiarly placed somehow be called to the rising Colonial Secretary of Hongkong in Hongkong in that his only me passed through Colombo on Weddium of expressing opinion on Gov- cost of Government.

nesday, August 21, on her way to ernment matters is through the cor- Europe, and was entertained by respondence columns of the local the members of the Women's In Press, and then also, under a nom ternational Club, of which she was de plume, but it was with some A founder. A group photograph satisfaction that one read that the Colonial Secretary, in answer to a appears in the Times of Ceylon.

question by an Honourable Member Pleading guilty to a charge of be- at a recent meeting of the Legis lative Council, Intimated that the ing in possession of eight po piu Government had noticed some criti lottery tickets, a Chinese woman cism by correspondents, I think on was fined $40 by Mr. T. 8. Whyte the question of the parking of motor this morning. The defendant cycles at the Star Ferry Kowloon. claimed that she was taking the tickets to the Yaumati Ferry Wharf for a man whom she had not known before..

Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy

ASTRAEA.

4

STABBED WOMAN IN CHEST.

of th

"I shall do nothing of the kind.** replied the woman,

"But you must obey the rules," said the man, "How old is the boy?""

"I don't know," said the woman "I never saw him before!"

"(The number of seeds in a melon is, it is stated, excessive and some- thing of a nuisance.)

Inventors of the garden freak,

Deciding when a phase is

needless, Who think of something every

week

What might be eyeless,"

stoneless, seedless,

Behold, as autumn draweth nigh, A finer fruit to cast your spell

ΟΣ

By nineteen-thirty, can't you try To cultivate a seedless melon?'

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United States of Europe. There is nothing new in M. Briand's proposal for an economic United States of Europe, though he is entitled to credit for instilling life into the idea and The correspondent who wrote fostering the active interest of the in our columns yesterday suggest countries which would be concern ting that an inquiry into publiced. In the past, if the subject was

It may be concluded, therefore, expenditure would probably dis- mentioned in speech; or in print, close room for considerable re- the inclination, as a rule, was to

that more correspondence on The An amateur, doctor in an out-of- as to whether the

Colony's Problema" may not alto-the-way settlement was called to a gether be in vain

case he could not diagnose. He gave trenchment, touched on a question an enquiry

No apparent effort has been made the man a strong drug, and said which is becoming of increasing author was Mr. H. G. Wells, or some other fictionist of vigorous to ratepayers of

A telegram received by the by the Government during the last cheerfully, "That'll give him a fit,

high and I'm a whale on fits!" imagination. It is clear now,

Nom Chung Po states that Sir decade to reduce the Colony. We fear, however, that however, that an entirely different Robert Ho Tung is likely to pay a cost of living in this his idea of a Commission of busi-spirit prevails, and for a scheme fortnight's visit to Hankow and Colony, and, if they now adopt

Judge Thompson, K.C., at Bow the Report of the Salaries Commis ness men to look into the whole which presents such enormous dif- then return to Hongkong via sign, it will be clearly a question How much do you offer? Debtor 1 matter. with a view to ascertain-fculties, considerable headway Shanghai. It is added that Sir

your order. Paul (Civil Servant). ing whether the Government is has been made. M. Briand enter- Robert has had a lengthy interview of robbing Peter (Taxpayer) to pay offer nothing. I will put up with with Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang in

Solicitor at Bow County Court representatives - "of

The obvious channel in which the economically and efficiently run, tained the

regard to Industrial prospects In

Government should direct their ef- The defendant may have the money is not likely to be realised. Com-twenty-seven European countries China.

fort is to endeavour to reduce the in fourteen days. Another Solicitor missions are appointed by the to luncheon at Geneva on Monday

cost of living to the level of existPigs might fly.. A Chinese, who was arrested on ting salaries, not the inverse method Barrister' at Clerkenwell County: Government, and we can hardly and explained to them his ideas

for what he pleases to call, an a charge of larceny of a quantity of imagine the Administration asking

about this? Man-Of course I do. Economic European Federation clothing from a house in Shamshul suggested in the Report of the Court Do you know anything

Salaries Commission. business men to sit in judgment on A sympathetic hearing was grant po, was sentenced to one month's

hard labour-by Mr.T. S. Whyte An Economy Commission com-It was only eleven o'clock in the

morning. Its activities. All the same, there ed, after which the French Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy posed of local business men, as pro-

Marylebone does exist a very strong and grow-Premier agreed to address a this morning. The defendant was posed by "Zeitgist" would appear Mr. Cancellor, ing feeling that the Colony is, Memorandum fully explaining the stated to have gained admission to to be remedial, if we are to profit Magistrate, diamissing a summons effected by the Geddes and other ear to cause an obstruction-It ha paying far too much for its govern-project to each Government eligible the premises by breaking open the by the example of the retrenchments against a motorist for allowing hia

rear door..... for membership of or participation

Commissions appointed years ago at had threequarters of an hour at a Home-Youre, etc..

dentist's, as he says, he has been It is difficult to ascertain how in the Federation. It will be re-.

punished enough. called that M. Briand's original Hongkong compares with other

proposal synchronised with the pro- Colonies, similarly situated, in the posed erection of a considerably matter of administrative expendi higher tariff wall by the House of ture. A contemporary, however. Representatives at Washington, has calculated that our Civil and quite frankly, those who are Service in money disbursements keenest on the scheme regard it as alone is costing us more than the only logical answer to the con- third of our total yearly expendi- tinued endeavour by the United States of America to shut every ture. What we should like to see other country out. In a brief

A. quarrel between a young is a detailed statement of the reference to M. Briand's project,

Chinese couple who had been whole position, and we suggest Mr. W. Graham, the President of

living together as man and wife that our Unofficiala might do for the Board of Trade, confined him Lam Fat, alias Lam Tak-chuen, was mentioned before Mr. T. 3. worse than endeavour to ascertain self entirely to the tariff question, who died Intestate, ut, Tai Chak Whyte Smith at the Kowloon how personal emoluments compare

declaring that a free exchange of Suf Yuf Village, Sun Wu District, Magistracy this morning, when the Kwongtung, left Hongkong estate man was charged with assaulting products and mutual frankness to the value of $10,300. Letters the woman with a knife. total revenue and ex: was essential to success. Like of administration have been penditure over a period of years. Mr. Snowden, Mr. Grahaza is a granted to the widow, Lam Ho-shi. It might not be casy to keen Free Trader and since he Letters of administration to the charge. séqure comparative figures in sees the prospect of tearing away estate of Ching Chi-hing alias regard to other Crown Colonics, tariff barriers in all directions, M. Ching Woon-man, who died in said the two had been living but at any rate there should be no Briand will find in him an en- testato at No. 7a, Tai Wong Street together, but recently the woman East on July 11, last year, have went elsewhere to live. Yester difficulty in discovering exactly thualastic supporter. The ideal been granted to the widow, Wong day she met the defendant, who what proportion of our outgoings aimed at, we believe, is absolute Wal-chiu. Hongkong estate assaulted and struck her in the chest with a knife. The knife had, are absorbed in administrative freedom of import and export amounts to $14,000.

penetrated five layers of clothing among the countries of charges. There can be no question Federation, and the erection of a

and caused awound which had to be attended to at the hospital. fog the fact that the costa go on competitively high tariff wall

The defendant, In reply to his piling up · year after year. The against outsidera. Ultimately, it

Worship, accused the woman of latest burden to be borne, provid- is hoped, the pressure exerted will

having taken some of his clothing ed the Salary Commission's report bring down with a rush the tariff - FOR WEST, NORTH AND

away with her. He said that * EAST RIVERS. ·

when he met her she attacked him 1a adopted, will be a big addition schedules of great protectionist

and he took out a knife with under the heading of personal countries like the United States of

The following table (compiled which he stabbed here America, by agreement. Until emoluments. This is a matter on the movement towards freer trade by the Board of Conservancy. His Worship asked if it was which we have already commented bas such universal sanction, we water levels in English feet on the reply from the defendant that Worke of Kwangtung, shows the an open knife, and, on receiving at considerable length, and we shall doubt the wladom of the the West North and East Rivers he had opened it with his teeth need only. now say that whilst we Snowdenites in advocating the on the dates named while the woman was holding him, welcome the increases in the lower complete abolition in Britain of grades as being long overdue, we protectionist duties. Existing still doubt whether any real case realities must dominate until Ideals have passed to that stage, "

with

has been made out in regard to

the

"The weekly return of the Medical Officer of Health contained seven cases of enteric fever, and one each of plague, small-pox, diph theria and cerebro-spinal fever... All were Chinese with the excab tion of two British cases,and one Danish case of enterle fever. There were three deaths from en- teric and one each from plague and small-pox. A plague infected rat was also found The Colony had a clean bill of health on Monday,

WATER LEVELS.

Shiühing „Tsingyuen Shamshlu Sheklung

YOUNG CHINESE GETS Two

MONTHS SENTENCE.

The defendant admitted the

Detective Sergeant Meadows

Sept 9 Sept. 10 his Worship remarked that it was 124 - 12.9 - too much of a conjuring trick......

8.86.9

The defendant was sentenced to

8.0

8.3

8:3

| two months' hard labour

"Yes," said she, "my mald left me without any warning."

"Some people have all the luck," rejoined her frend, "mine left ma without any jewellery."

WHO WAS--?

Robin Goodfellow,

Robin Goodfellow, otherwise known as Puck, was a mischiev ous sprite haunting, the fairy- Inden forests of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream."

It is Robin Goodfellow who

at the bidding of his royal mas Fairies, places an ass's head ter Oberon, the King of the

upon Bottom, the Weaver-an enterprise very much after his

to play tricks upon the race of of men.

own heart, since he refolces

"Lord, what fools these s mortals be!" is one of Robin Goodfellow's sayings, but for all his amused contempt, he has no ill will towards mortals, 'al- waye making amends before the day be done for the vexation. which he causes.

Whenever you hear anybody described as a Robin Goodfet- low, or Puck, you will know that mischievous, though good-natured, sprite is in diented; an Impish little fellow who dearly loves a joke, though not for the life of him would be work anybody real harman

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