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THE CITY OF PARIS, Jogs continues, the pavement will al-from a window) of a street full of open 2, PEDDER STREET,ways need wary walking. Our streets umbrellas. The ebarges, the dodgings, are better lighted at night-with collisions, the forcible. or insidious illuminants that are practically useless attempts to get the wall and sc. in fog; but no so well that the hooli escape the mud from the passing wheels, gans- mixed strain, descending from the shattered nerves
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Mr John Burns has been staying at During 1907 the 65 sugar beat factorios Sandringham for the week end as the in the United States produced 433,000 tons
Herpes, at No. 131, Range Rond, Shang- and ruffled hai, was completely destroyed by fire on the Mohocks and the Lincoln's Inn tumpers all is rich food for the cynicetober 15. A Chinese girls school next thiores of Gar's orare prevented from La ten minutes every one is wester.
door was considerably damaged. doing justice totheir ancestry. "Nickers thanks to his own and other people'e no longer break windows with half-unbrellas, than he would has been had peace, the nightly outflow of the public- such things never been invented. off everything house shatters them with song. And,
"Certain excuses, of course, are to be made. There are more people in the streets today than in the days of Queen ANNE, more horses and vehicles there are--and especially in the crowded to splash Jand orer thezo At Swatow, on October 7th, to Mr and spots outside the milliners' shops-ore noises in deafen them; while Yacht Club's own miles.
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On 19th October, 1908, at No. 2 Lyitle- ton Road, Hongkong, Manam E. Rievo, ayed 42 years. (Shanghai and French paperu please copy.)
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General Memoranda,
THURSDAY, October 22:-
FRIDAY, October 23-
Where portes' hogsheads roll from
carts uslope.
Oh brewers, down steep colas stretch
the ropa,
Where tinted billots are by caimen
tost,
and
PYC have to make
of this was paid to the farmer for his beets. Grayson, the suspondled Secialist M.P., of sugar, valued as 43,300.000 dollars. Half guest of King Edward. Mr Victor
Ten years ago six factories produced 37,500 denounces Mr Burns as being a flunkey
to a genteel, useless, idle parasite.
tops.
A roport is current to the effect that
NEWS OF THE DAY. Sir Thomas Lipton is gain preparest to challenge for the America Cup, this time It is claimed that the market at Ipok with a 90-foot vessel, under the New York-which cost $55,000-is the best in the
F. M. S.
·
Two hundred Bulgarians who have Colonel W. E. Payton, who has been bean working on the Ontario Government gazetted Brigalier-General of the Meerut
whasing, though formedy destitute, to nilway are to be deported from Canada for Cavalry Brigade, rose from the ranks.
Britain, Canada, Australia, and New work for pay of 6s. 8d. per day.
|Zealand had to pay a deficiency of £62,352 on last year'a working of the Pacific cable.
Mr Parson, of 1, Beaconsfield Arode,
pembulators, whose custodians dis-in many cases regard the convenience of the public as shift with streets and pavements haughtily as any chairman.
na wider than these walked by GAY. It is strange, luwever, that, in spite of our claim to live in the busiest age ever known. the pavements and street corners are blocker with loftorers, and the Chinese Customs service, the popula According to a return just issued by
those who have anywhere to go aretion of Ohjuw is *£38,214,000. The was at the Magistracy to-day, fined $4.far, The warning might have been written
estimated number of foreign residents in aemulting a Chinese shoemaker by striking resterday. It a still neccesary to hold
Americans, and 9,205 are British. China is 69,862, of whom 2,862 nce him over the free with a show the breathing nostril' who 'fishy prey
About 30,000 troops will arrive, from hides the wet stall, long absent from theeverely and capably calorced, ply of the Hongkong and Whampoa of the celebration of His Majesty the Mr J. J. Sibbitt win has been in the the provinces, in Bangkok on the cocasion Dock Company for the last ten years, and King of Siam's jubiles is November. who was su dosely associated with the
Shay tay rash stop:
inpaded by the simlcas wanderings of those who seem to be going nowhere. And while the rule of the road is
sta, and yet more necessary where it is have not yet learned to enforce or to being fried in something that strongly obey the rule of the pavement. The
ggests the chandlers' cauldrore lura streets dew no such pictures. Musical and dramatic clubs at the decks, is
now acting as barbour representative for the Hongkong Gymkhana Club will be The Hougtong Volunteer Troop sad
Messrs Berasan and Berblinges.
Goods per Aware not cleaned at 4 p.m. Nothing bas ye been invented to enable
on this date subject to rent.
the pedestrian to pass. it comfort er Noon- Meeting of Gamson Insurance sou safety, the spot where building Office, L., Mesars Jardine, Mathe-operations are going on and we build sun & Co.'s Offers, Goods per Senegambia undeliverm? after and rebuild far more than they did in
thu dara ambjent to rent, Goods per China Butelivered after this the dage of Trivia'; while still
date subject to rent. SATURDAY, Onther 24-
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HONG KONG, Tushat, October 20, 1908.
THE STREETS OF LONDON.
fvorn on high,
Where inson mount the ladder, frag-
ments y
Mortar ant crumbler lime in showers
descend,
Al 'er thy he dust raggive tiles
impend
que figure as the bully, who.
with assuming face, Cneks his bel bat, odgd round with
tunish' lace
Yield not the way, dely his strutting
pride.
And throat him to the muddy kennel's
slide.
The confusion arises from perfectly well-intentioned people who do not know, or do not had, what rule of the
At Home," on the Polo Ground at
At the Government's suggestion, King when au interesting gymkhans programme Causeway Bay, on Saturday afternoon Manuel has decided that in the last week of
has been arranged. October, a fortnight before-the November- municipal elections take place over the
Arrested Est week for stealing a pair whole of Portugal, he will officially visit of boots belonging to an Indian watch man, the chief towns in the northern part of the and who was found to have a filo and a country, where the Republican element is knife in his possession which looked as if they had been used for the purposes of
strong.
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burglary, a unive was discharged by Mr There is a good deal of useful inform. Wool at the Magistracy. On Sunday be pavement there may be. It is no unalion picked between the severa of A. Com fell into the hands of the police again for common sight to sea two pedestrians moroial Industrial Handbook of Newcastle, brusking and entering a house.
He mas gravely or angry curcing to and fro be Flynn, Secretary of tire Newcastle Chan and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
N.S.W. The book is compiled by Mr. brought before Mr J, H, Kemp on Tuesday-
fore each other, or a woman edged out be of Commerce, and reflects great credit into the gutterby a group of workmen, his industry in marshalling facts in a
must attractive style. who de wrong not so much from had
Tentices no longer hawl their wares in respectable neighbourhoods, but there are newspaper boys and bawkers to take their place (the kind that sells straw berries is particularly noisy, and sweet lavender is the only old musicd ery manners, or even from democratic
In councation with the appointaneni
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Are Tickemann, wife of the Buesina
His new Governor of South Australia, the Consut at Hongkong, arrived in the
left. Meanwhite, the number of boys pride, as from sheer stupidity and Premier is forwarding to the Earl of Crewe, Colony to lay by the Kwoichow, from who whistle four malice serely, for it want of control.
cannot the for pleasure--bus certainly incrcused, and the pedestrian is sull thrown out of his stride by those irritat
cheapest. Layer" or, if not the fate of the seventh-ben ductor, the greater fame of the mes popular pill.
Secretary of State for the Colories, a des-
increase of population, stupidity, patch in which he says "There is a the weather: those, no doubt, are the position of bour in South Australis which should be regarded is beyond the nature of things. But it is the pro-reach of our most distinguished citizens
ing people who beast under his nose vines of civilization to overcome the handbolls hearing the name of the nature of things, and to control the Fess believes in the doctrine of drastic ills The Tapicist of the Singapore Free nature of men. Increase of material cenforts is the boat of our ore; but increase of appliances for comfort in doors has brought new discomfort out of doors, and no effort has been made
What though the gathering mire thy
feet besmear,
The suite of Industry is always near.
wigi
pride ourselves on our
*re-
Chefoo.
Major Pilcher, D.S.O., R.A.M.G.. of Singapore, has been granted leave of absence from October 20 to November 11 to come to Bongkong.
H. E. the Governor has kindly con needing modies. He says "What the scuted to opet the Annual "Sale of Klogdour-is five years of a dictator, a Mission Schoo's st the City Hall in empire neals-or at least the United Work" in all of the C. M. S. Baxter
man of iron will and nerves without bowels, Weluesy, November 4tb, at 3.30 p.m. williʊut a suspicion of kamaráturin for the good of buncity." Why not give the Topicist the job.
Admiral de Michelieu [Phys Cholayui),
the former band of the Siamese Navy, s ravelling out East by the N. D. L. Prinz
Herr Kochlor, the ecletreated pianist Ludwig. He will be in Bangkok during who is at present in Hongkong, is amount the celotnation of His Majesty's rocad ed to give a pianoforte recital as St. roigu.. Andrew's Hall on Saturday evening com-"
will be concluded in tino for tão lato trams to the Peak.
Invitations are being issued for a recep--
Alterations and additime to Advertismenta on Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7, should be sent to our Ofice at 5 Wyndham Street not later than 11 am, New Ldvertisements shemid be sent te
There are, undoubtedly eves more- to cope with the difficulties produced our Office at 8, Queen's Road Central beforeover, where the modern pedestrian ie
by the growth of population. Telief 8p.m.
Advertisements and Subscriptions which are worse off than was Gar; and for song may come from a Traffic Board and not ordered for a f.zeet perind will be continued of these the improvements of modern Town-planning it may not come until GENUINE AGE Telegraphic Address: Hail, Hongkong,
civilisation, are definitely to funk. Wo London is roofed over, as it is in Mymensing at 9.15. All lovers of music tonto be given by the Japanese Vice-Consal H. G. WRELS' novel, When the should embrace the opportunity of hearing and Mrs Funati, on Tuesday, November this talented musician and plane of the 3rd, from 4 p...to 8 p.nt, in honour of fuges, were not that the motor, a Sluper wakes,' and provided with a kall and tickets may be obtained the the Mikado's Birthday. The reception stil later inreation, is a malignant huge irottair roulant, thue jdex of which | Robinson Piano Co., Ltd. The concert is to take place it 18, MacDonnell Road, monaler, quite capable of selecting its the promoters of the Just Paris Exli- victim and "pinning him against the bition possibly borrowed from- that
THES. S. HAIYANG.
lamp post, or involving both in a work of fiction. Moanwhile, the
The troops left by the Powers in North Expected Here on Sunday. common fair. The Tondoner of 1716, pedestrian may exercise the national China after the Hoxer enride and now dia- again, knew that Wis exbbled load would function of grumbling-though not mumbers are said to be as follow:British have informed us that they have received Messes Douglas, Laprsik & Company tributed at eight places and their respective. PER DOZEN -$16.50, 1718 Jons Gs, the poet made beugh; the matern Londoser takes every one can grumble so wittily as 1,6; American 123; Russian 114; Ger- a legram from Singapore to the effées.
famous by "The Beggar's Opera," sang it for granted that his fagged or JOIN GAX.”
man 700; French 1,400; Italy 230; Austria
that thoir new steamer, the Baiyang, lef in a poem which he entitled "Trivia," asploited parement will be smooth, and
228 and Japan 1,000. Japan now proposes that port last night and is expected to an Notwithstanding all these dangers, to withdraw one half of her infantry and rise bere on Sunky, (of the many dangers which won to be every few yards he is liable to strike discomforts and dmwbecks there are from which we take these details, suys that TBARNS' HEADACHE COLL BREVET in
all her cavalry. The Malichi Dempo. encountered by a pedestrian wing his lightly shod-hot against a project many exiles in Hongkong today who the monetary saving offected in Japan's family beadaches and allied pains. No London's busy screets. According to a ing flag, or against one or other of those would be glad to put up with them as will amount to 1,500,000 yea annually. Opiates or poisons, no bad after effects. present-day correspondent of 7he Times, modern applines-cool-traps, man-again, who would “give their cars” ta whu quales liberally from the poem, holes, and what not--which are seldom be untoring down the street shady matters lase not much improved since flush with the pavement. Many of side of Tell Mall.". Gar's time. He acknowledges that a these are ingoiotaty devised in srap-off few of the dangers of cha hundred and the point of an unbrella or Viking vinety-two years ago have lisappeared, stick. Modern chilization, again, is secuted at the Magistracy the eastor of os was only natural, but they have boon responsible for a great increase in the being in possession of some garden chairs replaced, hu saya, by others infinitely number of occasions un which the twine which had boon stolen from the Volunteer Headquarters. Ms Flighy reported the worse. True, he acknowledges, the cross the close strect 'shows that the road loss of the chairs 10 the Central grosser forms of dirt described by CAT is 'op'; and the pavement in op' as
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-Inspector Richie on Tassly pro
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Pelix Station and a detective found or pictured by Hoam are not to be often as the road. And a shower of rio,
the chairs in the shop and was informed by found in the modern streeta; but still though productive of nothing
the waster that he had bought them from. a coolio whom he did not know, for 45 cents "the dusiman's cart offends the clothes grotesque as the scene pictured in Hydo each. The value of the elinizs vas 81 75 and ayes" and still, when
Park in the well-known old colon-print, tinn on section 36 of Ordines 1 of 1845, each. Inspector Ritchie based his prosecn
Sunumer's sultry rage.............. Parch the dry ground and spread with..
dust, the ways,
With whirling gusts the rapid atoms
rjo, Smoke o'er the pavetzens; and-involve-
the skies
isa withering comment on the advance in material comfort achieved by an age of progress. In Cara time only women,
which states that it is an offence to be found in possession of stolom property, Mr J. 1 Wood, the Magistrate, took the view that this was only intended to apply.
in practice, took refuge underneath the to-persons actually caught with the sto en
property in theirTM possession and asked
· BLOOD PO SON PREV:NTED.
umbrella's oily ebel. The men, wrapt Inepostor Kitebio to withdraw the case. “We have added the danger of having in thembrace of a kernsey coat, or Inspector Ritchic declined to do so as Mic our clothes sprinkled with pink fluid double-bottom'd frieze,' tramped in com- Weed discharged the defendant. from a water-cart without materially fart through the stom. To-day every 00, decroning the offence of the dust. And one carries an umbrella, and there is no THIRE is no dengör ferm blood poison it must be added that, as long as the more amusing study of human tleness beril's Pain Palm is applied. de an by-laws against expectoration are not to be met with than the spectacle. (beat aniseptic liciment, and antess the injury. enforced and the practice of keeping enjoyed, as the legendary clubman knowle by all chemiste and storekeepers.
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