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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1990.

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR

realised that for a “distributing centre, such as Hongkong is, the maintenance of the free-port idea,

FRIGIDAIRE

DAY BY DAY.

Harold

WHEN WH BÀY WE ENJOY OUR- mperstite. Indeed, the growth SELVES IT MEANS THAT WE FORGET and prosperity of the Colony have OURSELVES ALTOGETHI

Murray.r baen Bull up on, täst baals Happily ther is no Immediate

Yesterday's health return shows fear of any variation therefrom, one case of typhold and one of nor, as far as we can sol, is the small-por, both being Chinese. questium likely to come within

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Mr. E. Ralphts has kindly con- Insented to distribute the prizen, on the occasion of the annum dis- tribution at the Cheung Chau School at 230 pm. to-morrow.

GARDENING NOTES.

THE COMING FLOWER SHOW.

The Very Idea!

correspondent write to a Home paper-The quotation The date of the annual Flower from The Merchant of Venice, Show has been fixed for Thursday, All debts are cleared betwean you March 6th, and intending exhibi- and I, is not the only grammatical tors would do wall to give a little error in Shakespeare, for Masbath is made to exclaim:10, full of time to studying the schedulos. It scorpions is my mind, dear wifel 16 difficult to decide in which Thou know at that Banque, and his

to enter. The

cold Fleance, liver. 1 quote from the Globe edition. And I remember classes weather has not been encouraging that Sir Henry Irying, whome say but every one has suffered equally!

the range of practical politics in Three Shanghai jockeys, Mesara, the future Lord Beaverbrook WH W C. Bowling and T. A Callaco arrived on the and his Crusaders possess noHector yesterday": political weight, to which may be added the further fact that they. are preaching an old and acceptable doctrine to which they have merely attached & now label That doctring is out-and-out Pro-

On Sunday afternoon, at the tection, as an analysis of his schome will show. If there is Headquarters of the 16th Hong kong (Catholic Cathedral) Group one fact which the political of Boy Scouts, & Thanks Badge is THERE ARE DOMESTIC history of Britain for the past to be presented to the Rev. Flower Show and it is usual to street.

MODELS OF FROM FOUR

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a little sun and warmth now will several times in this parlaith- make a tremendous difference. fully followed the text

An old student of Shakespeare Soo that your potplants are pro-writes to suggest that the ap

This parent error in Antonie's letter in perly ataked and tied now, is most important If one wishes just another of Shakespeare's pune, to have a well shaped plant with Thus "1.0.0" equals There a tidy appearance. There are 33 nought between you, and L.” classes in this section to enter most ingemous readler! Should all fall, don't forget the last one, Class 33 Open, and Clase

"Do you want to marry a bhei 66 Penk.

eyed man??" asked the young man Chinese gardeners enjoy the | as he cacorbed his fiancee along the

TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET quarter of a century, has demon. Parisotti, O.B.E., President of the give them the small money prizes strated it is that the electorate/ Group, who is leaving the Colony (If any) if they have worked well.!

STORAGE CAPACITY,

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THE WORLD.

shortly."

"No. Why?

Thor let me - CAITY brella."

I know from personal experience will have nothing

that I would never have had a "to do" with Protection in any form, whether It is reported that the Hon. Mr. respectable plant in my garden

(Dr. Doris Qdium asserts that it ba dubbed Tariff Reform, A. C. Hynes has resigned his post had I not shown in the Annual Imperial Preference or Empire as Chief Manager of the Hong-Show, and I shall never forget the the up-to-date schoolmistress must

kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-miserable specimens I sent there dress amartly); sta Froe Trade. These are, in reality,poration, and that he is leaving for many years ago. The gardener

DODWELL &Co., Ltd. three different names for the one Home on March 15th. His sue- was very ashamed of them and so

Bole Distributors HONG KONG & 8, CHINA

MARRIAGE.

COX-MERECKI, on February 1st at H. B. M's Consulate General, Kobe, and afterwards at the Church of the Sacred, Heart, William Mitchell Cox of Chartered Bank of I, A. and China, Shanghai, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Cox of Bushey, Hertfordshire, Eng- land. to Lucy Antoinette,

doctrina.

A consideration of these points leaves us with the fact that in launching what he terms the Lord United Empire Party, Beaverbrook has not, as he claims, [created & new political unit. A Conservative, himself, all that he has accomplished is to effect. further split in that Party. He already asserts that there are 200,000 founder members of the group which he leads. It is safe

cessor will be announced at the annual meeting of the Bank on Saturday.

"

was 1. I did not reveal my owner- ship, but he had to take them there and carry them home later. I had a very different exhibit in the fol lowing year.

The Cut Flower Section is more

No more the frumps of rester-.

year.

Shall force the disapproving tear From Youth's msthetle yet.. For now Dama Fashion reigns

at school,

"More classy classes" is the

rule-

"Chic to the chickel" the ery.

The two children were quarrel-

"A Chinese who was seen "fish- Ing" clothes from the verandah of a house in Bulkeley Street, Hung- interesting, I think; so much hom, at 2 o'clock this morning, depends on oneself on the day. was sentenced to four months hard The schedule must be read care labour by Mr. Whyte Smith at the fully. To show beautiful flowers Kowloon Magistracy this morning. and to be disqualified for non-ling over their game of cards, and

painful thing.

who was sitting near, to ramon.. The defendant had a previous adherence to the rules is a most little Ethel called on her mother,

strate with Eric. conviction for Iurteny.

Stocks, sweet peas and nastur- As stated yesterday, four mentiums should be cut at least 24 have been arrested in connexion hours before showing. Count your with the murder of an elderly bloome carefully and tie them up to assume that the greater pro-Chinese at 4, Shapo Road, on in bunches. Take extra blooms in Merecki, eldest daughter of } portion of these are Conserva- Saturday last, and on their ap-case somo have been damaged in "but Eric does it regularly-and

pearance before Mr. Whyte Smith transit. I always take a pair of at the Kowloon Magistracy this scissors, a jug for water to fill the I only do it when it's necessary !! vases (the latter are supplied by morning the capital charge was the Society) and a towel. Don't The young folk of @bo-day are exhibition card aufforing from a fund of unsatis preferred against each of the forget your men. On the application of De-jand remember your number,fled, seriousness.-Mr. C. E. M tective Sergeant Fowlie the case HORTICULTURIST.

Joad, was adjourned for one week.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Mr. and Mrs. Henri Merecki, tives. That, of itself, means a 21, Boulevard

Beausjourn.woaning away from the oficial Paris.

Party of many of its former supporters, whilst the fact that candidates are to be run in op- position to all who do not favour Empire Free Trade, muat in- evitably ́reaet unfavourably on the Conservative cause. at future elections. Well may Mr. Baldwin and his supporters pray to be saved Trom their erstwhile

WEDNESDAY FEB. 19, 1910.

Charges of armed robbery were brought against four men who ap peared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning following their arrests after, it is alleged, victimising the occupants of a passenger armpan off the Harbour Office on Monday night. The men were formally re- One other point deserves men-manded for one week, the hearing being fixed for the afternoons of tion. It is that Dominion senti- Thursday and Friday. ment is against the, Beaverbrook scheme, for reasons which we The have recently explained. sponsor of the movement, how-

LORD, BEAVERBROOK |friends,

AND HONGKONG.

Whatever the political leanings of the majority of Hongkong's business men may be, we do not imagine that very many of them are, likely to enthuse over Lord Beaverbrook's idea of bringing the Mother Country and the Crown Colonies together as one unit under a fiscal system which he prefers to describe as Empire Free Trade. I will have been seen from the outline of the scheme which we published yes terday that Hongkong is included

Kowloon's Affairs.

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European Unemployed.

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telograph.]

Sir-It was Interesting to read that our Governor-Designate was a Committee regarding the Unemployment of Whites in Malaya.

"But, dear," mother said, “” it fo no use you accusing Eric of cheat ing, because I saw you doing the enme thing a few minutes ago!"

"Yea, mother, Ethel replied,

We are spending more money on education than any other people, but I question whether we are pro- ;, ducing a relatively more efficient, nation-Lord Herbert Scott."

I yield to none in misanthropy and pessimism-Mr Evelyn Waugh..

Every man has a few mentale hair-shirts, and Presidents differ ⠀ only by their larger wardrobe. Mr. Hoover.

It is a horrible fact that there is no great nation in the world that has attained its freedom ax- cept by war.-Mies Busan Law

rence,

As scarcity of employment in in the meantime very rampant

Young Barber's Assistant (re- among the European community ferring to exceedingly bald cus of Hongkong, perhaps it might tomer): "He wants a face mas-

London, Feb. 18.

.....124.21 .4.85 15/10 be possible for such a Committee to .34.00 be appointed here to find ways 25.195 and means to materially lessen which 12.11% | the distress and anxiety

12.00 lack of employment brings in its 20.37 train.

18.125

יו

.18.16 In former years the Colony was 18.18 able to absorb the greater number 34.515

of boys and girls of school-leay 164% 100% ng age, but now even that out

39.00 let seems to have ceased, and 108.26 parents consequently are faced ..375 with a difficulty in finding suitable ..818 openings for their children.

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.42 5/16.

Might it be possible for this 1/5% important subject to be discussed 1/11 at the forthcoming annual masting .1/0/%

of the Kowloon Residents As .2/0%

sociation, and their considerations put before the Government to be dealt with at an early date. Yours etc,

20 1/16 & Forward, 20 -British Wireless.

"ONE OF THEM."

AMERICAN STOCKS.

ever, hopes to gain his enda by fastening on the Crown Colonies and dependencies. Maybe he has in mind the point that any future Government which supported his Milan viewpoint would be able to insist Berlin

Stockholm on the compliance of the non- Copenhagen self-governing possessions with Oslo the project, whereas this could Prague not be done in the cast of the Helsingfors Dominions. Be that as it may, Lisbon in this somewhat fanciful project, we see little prospect of the Athens

Bucharest which, if brought into operation, Beaverbrook scheme being realis Rio .. would at, once deprive this Colony ed. The encouragement of Empire Buenos Aires

Bombay of its free-port status. What trade is eminently desirable. All Shanghai that would mean, oven a moment's three Parties are pledged to it, Hongkong, reflection will show. To take but, as Lord Beaverbrook himself Silver Spot only one point, all goods import has to admit, none of them will ed Into Hongkong from Chinese have anything to do with the territory would

be subject to methods which he and his sup-authoritics all matters affecting taxation, as also would commodi-

porters favour.

the general welfare of Kowloon. ties from all other, foreign

The Association, In fact, endes- countries which are consumed in

vours to keep in close touch with the Colony. And what would be

realities, and, we think, has pro- the "advantages "to" offset the in- The annual report of the Kow-perly apprehended them. The creased cost of living which would loon Residents Association, mark result is to be found set out automatically follow? They are, ing the end of another year of very clearly in the report and we

steady progress and containing so commend it, as an example of boon received from their correspon- according to Lord Beaverbrook, en any evidences of a real civic what energy and initiative can dents Mesars. Hayden, Stone and Co., assured imarket for the raw spirit, rather puts to the blush do, to the former officials of of New York, by Messrs. Swan, materials and the tropical and those residents in other parts of the PR.A. and the MLRA. Two Culbertson and Fritz, Sassoon House, Shanghal, (cable address: "Swan aemi-tropical agricultural pro- the Colony who have allowed of the most important items deal stock Shanghai who are not ducts which the Crown Colóntes similar organisations to become with Children's Playgrounds and responsible for cable mutilations.

New York, Feb. 19. Tono of Markets-Strong. and dependencles produce. He moribund. No doubt Kowloon has the Star Ferry Approach, both of makes the mistake, however, of a very distinct advantage. Large which have figured prominently No. of Bhares done million.

· Call, Money,---444%. parts of the area, over which the in the reports for some years assuming that in this matter the KIA...keeps a watchful eye are past. We need not urge the new American Smelting

Anaconda Copper various units of the Colonial still in the course of development Committee to keep pegging away Baltimore & Ohio Empire can be grouped together and it is possible, with the until complete satisfaction is Chrysler Motors on the same economic basis. In co-operation of the Government, obtained. The Government le City Service Common

Eastman Kodak actual fact, some are producers whose town-planning acheme for still tinkering with the Star Ferry Curtis Wright Common Kowloon well rewards an examina approach, Instead of deciding Electric Bond & Share and others are not Hongkong tion, to avoid the blunders com definitely upon a scheme which General Motors happens to belong to the latter mitted in the name of develop will embrace all requirements, General Ry. Bignal

Gold Burt category, and: there can thereforement on the island. And this is and getting on with the job. As Goodyear Tire & Rubber be no question of our finding new one of the main purposes of the regards the Middle Road play Grandy Consolidated and bigger markets for our pro- KRA. Committee, though a mere ground, the completion of which International Coment ducts.

glance through the report is is urgently..norded, the Govern. Montgomery Ward

Nevada Consolidated- sumidest to show that the As-ment appear to have surveyed the Keener brains than those of station has by no means con-ground, effected all the levelling Lord Beaverbrook have had to and its activities to any beaten necessary and left the scheme in do with the fixing of this Colony's track but has endeavoured to bring the air. A few more pricks from fiscal status, and these have to the notice of the proper the ER.A are still necessary,

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sage."

"Well, give it to him, then." "But how can I tell where his face stopa?"

Husband at Highgate-My wife is going out with another man. Magistrate-Go and cut him out, Husband-But he is a bigger man. than I am,

Passengers arriving on the Blue Funnel as. Hector yesterday, included Judge Sir Peter Grain, Mr. W., S. Bungay, Mr. S. G.. Fenton, Capt. and Mrs. In Griffiths, Mr. J. S. Gubbay and Lieut. H. H. Christensen.

RESTAU WHO WAS.....

HODGE?

"Hodge" serves as a general term for a countryman, just as does "Tommy Atkins" for a private soldier. Not the slightest hint of a compliment lurks in the name of Hodge however. It connotes all the slowness, stupidity and. clumsiness of body and mind,... which are commonly, if not. always accurately, ascribed to- the rustic labourer,

The origin of the name feij not very clear. It seems to bo a shortened form of Rodge the Norfolk dialect version of ») Rodger, by which term shep- herds and ploughmen were once, denoted, but which is how often used to mean a -' rogue or a swindler, at least,

in West Yorkshire,"

There is an old song of a swain and a ploughman which contains the first mention of the name "Rodgers in this connexion, and is entitled "Rodger's Love.", References to "Hodge are more recent, and may be met with in Tennyson, who wrote "Barrin' the wet, Hodge ud ha been- a-harrawin' of white pensen i the outfeld