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OF

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ALL SIZES TO CLEAR

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LADIES'

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THE HONGKONG

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THE ONLY PART OF THE CONDUCT after all. In the second place, it

OF ANY ONE, FOR WHICH HE 16 is declared that the idea of Empire AMENABLE TO SOCIETY, IS THAT in WHICH CONCERNS OTHERS. IN THE rationalisation has no roots

PART WHICH MERELY CONCERNS HIM-| Canada at all. "The dreams of

SELF HIS INDEPENDENCE 19 OF RIGHT those enthusiasts who think they ABSOLUTE-John Stuart Mill. can make a bargain by which

be His Excellency the Governor has manufacturers will

appointed Mr. E. W. Hamilton to be guaranteed a permanent share of Postmaster General. the Canadian market in certain commodities," says this Canadian writer, "might as well be dismissed at once as purely fantastic." The only manufacturers in whom Mr. Bennett la interested, it is added, are those who set up factories incident and the Orient." Canada. If there are still some Brilish manufacturers whose pro ducts have a comparatively free market in Canada, that is only be. Cause Mr.

yet

Bennett has not

found some ambitious Canadian who will promise to make the goods in Cannda il given suelent pro- teetion.

serte

the

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. J. A. Fraser to be Poller Magistrate, Kowloon.

At Tuesday's Retory Club timu the speaker will be Senator Kay Pittman, whose subject will be the "The De-

The name of Dr. Jap Boon Koey, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery of the Hongkong University, is added to the list of medical practitioners.

Among those returning from the north yesterday by the x.a. Itawalpind were H. E. Major-General I, W. Sandilands, and his A.D.C.. Capt.

The Women's Guild, Union Church, Kowloon, propune holding a Sale of Work on Saturday, November 7th., in aid of the general funds of the Guild.

Observatory returns for Jane show that the avenge mean temperature. was 81.4, the Highest being 89.8 Bod 72.8. There wwe 1833 the lowest hours of achite and 14.60 inches of rain, while the average humility was

There have recently been British trade envoys in Canada suggesting

arrangement whereby

His Majesty the King has approved iron and steel interests of Britain

the appointment of the Hon. Dr. W. and Canada might share the market. A. More to be an Official Member out American of the Legislative Council during his equitably and shut

tenure of olflee as Acting Director of But the point over- Medical and Sanitary Services, THE HONGKONG HOTEL | competition.

Jucked is that the American ix arendy on the spot. United States Steel has been developing a plant in Canada which is already receiv. ing some tariff favours and may get more. It is therefore anggest-82. ed that of British concerns want a

Yuen Kasjau, a clerk employed at permanent place in the Canadian the Royal Naval Dockyard in a report to thy palier yestenlag, states that he market, they will have to set up gave a messenger-boy a chit to draw their own factories in Canada. Mr. 1365 from 1 Dockyard compradore. Bennett knows that as much as anyone, witness his election remind der that a factory in Canada is as

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, Jay 18, 1991.

EMPIRE

ECONOMICS.

useful to the Empire as one in

Lancashire.

i

The messenger, he alleges, collected the money and bus siner disappeared.

It is notified that the Hon. Coman-

der G. F. How, N., (Retired), re

samed dory as Harbour Master and Director of Air Services on the 14th inst. and Commander 6. B. Newill, D.S.O., R. N., (Retired), resumed duty as Deputy Harbour Master on the Hanic date.

It is clear from comment which

The Thorburn Scandal. we have encountered that there are

Amongs! passengers who arrived The Foreign Offer attitude to

here by the President Taft were Dr. other reasons, beyond the inability

P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Chief Health of the Australian and New Zealand wargs the Thorburn scandal,

J. Hicks, Arts delegates to attend, accounting for disclosed by authoritative qaar- Oficer of the F.MLS.; Mr.

ters in London, merely emphasises Managing Director o

Crafts, Ltd; and Mr. II. Royce Grent- the recently-announced postpone the need for the application ofwood, China manager of the Union ment of the Empire Economie Can constant pressure, not only on Oil Company of California. ference which was to have been Nanking, but on those who claim

Amongst the passengers who left held in Ottawa this summer. The to represent the interests of Bri-

on the Empress of citizens in

The for Yokohama China. Mother Country's disinclination to tish

Japan were Mr. and Mrs. . A. Red- arrange an Empire tariff is un-strong protest of the St. Andrew's mond, Mr. and Mrs, Allan Cameron, doubtedly our factor: Canada's dif-Society of Shanghai is countered Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Hill, tion, Mr. W. i. Bell, Mr. P. S. Cassidy, and Mrs. different

Hyde Lay. Mrs. Bell is a passenger fienlty in offering anything by a recitation of the

developments of the stereotyped by the same steamer for Vancouver. stantial he the way of a quid pre policy which has been contemper que is another. In the circumfor very obvious reasons, as [stances, it may be taken for granted

Qua It is not within effective,

whether The that the Conference will not now be power to estimunte held at all. The idea, it will be Foreign Office is being deliberate- recalled, was to endeavour to com-ly obluse, whether this condition plete the ennomic wurk of the Jen-of mind is purely unconscious, or

The following table, issued by porial Conference of last year, but whether, on the other hand, the

reply is typical of the Kwangtung River Conservancy at that gathering it was obvious that so-called

Foreign Ofire mentality. In any Commission, shows in English feet. great difficulties would be encoun-

the water levels on the West River, tered in framing any plan which event, it is hopelessly inadequate North River and East River on the

and unsatisfactory. The comt dates named: plaint of the Shanghai St.

In-

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH

AND EAST RIVERS.

16 17

18.8

7.5 7.9 The level at Tsingyuen on the

The highest levels recorded are: Shishing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 20.2 feet; Samshui, 27.3 feet: Sheklung, 11.5 feet. minus 5 feet at Samshui and The lowest levels on record are minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung,

would meet with general approval. i

July July Indeed, une Caundian commentator, | Andrew's Society is not that IL.M.

West River at Shiubing 27.7 writing before the announcerment of Minister and various British Con-North River at Sanshui 10.0 the postponement, went so far as suls have done nothing to secure North River at Tsingyuen to declare that if the Economie Con- the relense of John Thorburn.East River at Sheklung

Ottawa, it if he is still alive, but that, the 4th inst, was 20 feet. ference were held at would be nothing short of a finaco.particular methods employed hav- ing failed, no other steps have Let us look at the matter from been taken to persuade Nanking of Canada's standpoint. According to her responsibility in the matter. the authority mentioned, since Mr. In the recent comment we refer Bennett, the Premier.

returned red to the probability that, ten from London little has been heard years ago, Dr. C. T. Wang would from the Ottawa Government con-have been hurried by gunboats. cerning its plans for increasing Im-Seven weeks of outrage, the illegal detention without trial of a Bri- perial trade. To anyone who has

tish citizen, blank refusal to watched the activities of Mr.grant facilities to discover his Bennett during the past few whereabouts, obstruction of every months, nothing could be more possible kind, seem to suggest that pathetic than the simple faith of abandonment of the gunboat policy men like Mr. Baldwin who believe may have been premature. It is use- that in return for some quota ar less now to attempt and exploit rangement on whient, Canada would extraterritoriality ambitions as

lever to-day. Nanking has the open bor markets to British manu- Korean riots to distract public facturerers. In the first place, attention from domestic chaos. when twenty per cent. of the British The abolition of extrality is not market is to be reserved for home,quite so urgently important ng it.

wheat, no proportion wns”k, few months ago.

grown

of

pur

htt

cent.

remaining cighty

which could be

allotted to Canada would absorb The Health Bulletin for Eastern onough of her exportable surplus in Ports for the week ending July 11 abows the following cases DI a normal year to solve Canada's infectious diseases and deaths there- marketing problem. There would from Plague, Alexandria 1 caso, still be a big surplus which Canada 82 cases 34 deaths, Madras 2 cases, Port Said 1 case. Cholers, Calcutta would have to sell in European mar- Rangoon I case, Chittagong 4 cas

2 deaths, Prom-Penh 1 caso 1 death, keta in competition with the Ar-Saigons caren 2 deaths. Small-pox gentinian, American and Russian Bombay 31a 1 death, Calcutta-d wheat, shut out by Britain. More cases 4 deaths, Pondicherry 1 caso 1 death, Tientsin 2 cases, Shanghai over, the price received for the 1 death, Madras 2 cases.

SAS

INCREDIBILITIES.

Sir Harry Lauder, I have rend, The other day was strangely led Some golden sove, to give away In Glasgow. Still, I have to say [Ils largesse

when he'd shed two. The

Scotland thro' and thro': the ped The news Strong men's

hands shook and whlaky spilt. The

e nation's pride, right to the hilt, Was stabbed; and Scotsmen stood aghast (That's something a Scotsman's stood' at lart) And nervous folk began to fret

And wonder if the tide had sut For famous people to Forswear Their ancient habits then and there. Should it be so, will papers seize On paragraphs of 'news' like these?

•

Winston now wears a hat that fits, And J. Thomas, at the Ritz 1 garbed in lounge suit navy-blue At dinger;

Snowden, too,

Reduces the income tax:

The Die-hards yield, as soft as Wax As Baldwin smoken a big cigar. And says

that polities are far More free from scheming and intrigue Then when he led the House. The League

Of Nations takes up business ways And settica disputes in two days. Ramsay Mac, his moustache has shaved, And Lady Astor a

a cooktail braved: Dean Inge is feeling very guy, And H. G. Wells is heard to say That metaphysica is all wrong. Lloyd George's hair no more is long, Then Mr. Clyne we nearly weep—• Takes tickets in an Irish Sweep. Out of the mouth of Bernard Shaw That sanguinary word no more Shall

Issue: Hannen Swaffer says Americans en write good plays. From Gracie Fields, of Lanenshire, An Oxford accent we shall hear.

2*is Al Capone.

The are eating Dutch, polony: The French are giving Germäng eñsh, And at the senside mutton-hush

No longer's seen upon the board. Sir Malcolm Campbell drives Ford. And gin-alings a la Singapore

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At the Y. M. C. A. one day we saw. The Channel this year's not being swum, And Senior Wranglers all are dumb. Lansbury's going to control Hyde Park. And make a speedway after dark. While Walter Hagen, in jumper dun, Will

turn up to time, if the game's for fun. Aimee MacPherson's new night clubh Makes Texas Guinnn's seem a pub. And wrestling boats no more are seen. Nor rucing dogs, upon the screen, Een Michael Arlen's latest taste Is now for maidens fair and chaste. Kaye Don is happy on a bike, And Noel Coward goes on hike," Barrie (Sir James) some thrillers writes; And Phi Scott won his last two fights. Tipsters ne'er fail to give 'n cert;

And dentists Ray "Now, this will hurt."

To Hongkong, ton, the craze may spread. At boxing matches, it is said, We've referees outside the ring. The dollar to two-hob will spring, And civil servants will commence To ask for more at eighteenpence. "Anti-Canine" a pup will

choose The nudists dress in scarves-and shoes:- Rotarians lunch will frame

Where talky-talky's net-the-sim:

The Jockey Club Run mental "stitch" And says it's getting far too rich, So bookies odds may freely call Even within the luncheon Ball. Our

Humidia, too, will all be fine,

will drop to nine;

Typhoons will come no more, nor gales, The trams will ran on rubber rails; Mahjongg sets will be ahod the same. To quieten down that noisy game, No quieten The latest talkie that has come. Re advertised as being bum. Three-piecee rickshas, trim and seat, Will disappear from lee House Street; Brokers be ruined twice a day, And shipping can't be made to pay. From this long list I'm not exempted, 1 nearly forgot to sign

B. M. TID.

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An advertisement appearing in ikin to appeal to those who desire issue announces the arrival of a type super-machine, both in comfort, per- of luxury car which has alreadyformance and appearance. A special the Reu-Royale, it embodies sumer of this week's Motor Supplement, but created considerable interest. Known report was unfortunately crowded out ous improvements, and is calculated will appear next Saturday.

A cartoanist' suggests methods by which the

launch-ban, at Island Bay may be

overcomó.