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GENERAL ITEMS,
After taking his applause on his hind legs with his customary box, a dog performing at a Paris eirets collapsed and died of heart failure.
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Fearing that he might be recalled for Army service wing to the strike, Alfred Moffatt, cabinet maker, of Kings-road, Wood Green, committed suede by cutting his throat.
Beating an express train by over four hours actorist accomplished the journey from Paris to Nice in: 11h amin. the other day. This utakes an average of over 7 miles bear. He did no damage on his way which was unguarded and unwarned but loud protests have been faised in Paris at the foolhardiness of the feat and the risk räused by it to those A general amnesty is being declared using the ranks, Astonishment is in Mesopotamia for all concerned in abo expel that the polier trate the recent disturbances except those "regulators "missed the motorist alwho committed such crimes as the
murder of Colonel Leachman. together.
A Cox's Sale.
A pathetic sale has just taken place It was that of a portion of the un- claimed kits of 3.000 officers, left in charge of Cox's shipping agents. There was keen competition, and Bost stainly there was no "knock-, ent." Zebo's best Jena prismatic fiel-glass in spite of the threatened Anti-Dumping Bill only made Is as top price. But a leather cricket lag containing two bat and six stumps made five guiness, 48 golf clubs, in five carriers, fetelel. E! 10: bat 80 various pole sticks went for . A set of bagpipes in a wader case made five mizeas. 12 copres only made and there was no bi at all for 100 steel helmets, Seven hundred various gloves were soklat (2) per "
A Meteorologinal Freak.
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From a room only a few yarda away from where about 500 people were engaged in a whist drive at Shepherd's Bush Baths £100, the the night's takings, was stolen.
Trying to make a record motor-ear
Cannes Paris
to na from (about 300 miles). Lord Rocksavage had to abandon the attempt when 100 miles from Paris, where his tries gave out.
At the age of 71 Mr. Samuel Gom pers. president of the American Federation of Labour, has married Mrs. Gertrude Nenacheler, a teacher
38
years ago.
Oporto "Portugal. was en fete for On a Saturday Loming in mail the visit of General Smith-Derrien week a violent hailstorm broke over and Marshal Jeffre, who have been Shefield and district, accompanied given the degree of Doctor of Law by ore vivid flash of lightning, which by the university and a set of silver Tit up the whole city, and one deafen- are" from the city.
ing peal of thunder. The church
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cases of Malaria which accompany such contract works is that the break, ing up of the soil takes the form of trenches (for foundations etc.), pits "from" "which" stone is collected,
other excavations in which rai wato: lodges, while water is also neces- something like bleeding piles, and not say for such building operations what we mean by plague. And the as the mixing of cement and of word is mice, not rats. The dying in these collections of water mos marta, the laying of bricks etc, and
Philistinės, to remove the curse, were
As I read it, the ENERODS, emeröds "mentioned in Firit Samuel were
quitoes are allowed to breed freely.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB, HAPPY VALLEY COURSE
following Competitions hare been arranged for Fans. Bogey Fool for Ladies 9 Holes 50 cents.p Card. Boger Fool for Gentlemen.
9-Holes. 20 cents p Carl.
advised to give as a trespass offering
We thus get numerous mosquitoes five gold models of these emerods
on the site of any building works, and shown on scoring card for first & holes. of Handicap. Strokes are received as -ther must have been curious orna-
at the same time there will be any number of cards may be taken out. ments-and "ye golden mice,
number of infected persons among images of your nice that mar the the workmen for many natives of Further competitions will be arranged
If Dr. Cantle is interpreting that as a statement that rats carry the tropies carry the germs of Malaria for during the summer months ca
J. B. ROSS, - plague, I wonder how he does it. It in their blood without being inca-course would be as fair to say that Job 41.14 Pacitated from work-Thus the
Hon. Secretary. mosquitoes are able by their bites to announces dentistry impossible.
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I call particularaver the infection from the infected Hongkong, June 11, 1921. to uninfected natives and attention to the others and to produce a small case reported yes-epidentic of Malaria in the immediate terday, in which locality of the works."
CXELPPY EPITHETS.
In a publication called The Naty, dated April, the leading article is
TOTO KUSEN KAISHA,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEE
Steamship.
THE
its
one of our magistrates announced that you people have got to learn that the street is for pedestrian and
*TENYO MARU,” vehicular traffic. There are no private streets. He was warning
on St.From SAN FRANCISCO, vừa HONO- Chinese who pick goods on the street: George. It says of the old time LULU, JAPAN PORTS & MANILA. but I. remembering the attempt made mary: "So they in their sail-drawn drove forward to do some time ago to set up a motorists' ships.
arrived on Sunday, the 19th inst. monopoly of our thoroughfares, point battle," What excuse have suck The shore named Steamer having oat that the magistrate put pedestrian people for presuming to write at consignees of cargo are hereby notified all? No sentimental enthusiasm for to present their Bill of Lading for traffic first. Don't forget it...
England can be quite honest that countersignatures, and take, immediate According to sec-i tion of the permits such careless use of English, feliray from slongside steamer or the No ship was ever saildrawn, and if Company's Godown, where all cargo "Ordinance of 1918, to amend it were somehow drawn, it could impeding immediate discharge will be Further the Summary Offenses Ording not be said to drive. This sixpenny landed at consignees risk.
avoid that sort of thing if it wants, cargo remaining indelivered after ance of 1885.public places in organ of the Navy League must Storage
al . laces, allers. cludes courts, squares, archwars, etc. to me to read it. But there, it probably Monday, the 20th inst
All broken, chafed and damiged pack- which the public have access either; doesn't..
ages, will be landed into the Company's continuously or periodically."
Godown, where samo will be examined on Wednesday, the sind · inst., st 1Ï-AME when they are private property. It
No claize will be recognised after may be too late now to ask
goods have laf, the steamer or Codowo, and usefully, but how does that affect the
none will be entertained, it presented later than three weeks after arrival of BIBLIOR.
even
nership of the land over which bailders are now compelled to make rear lanes for sanitary purposes? How does it affect the custom of the owner of Sampan Street, of blocking that thoroughfare once a year, to ownership? Mr. Brunton retain
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Hongkong, June 11, 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN AND MANCHURIAN MINE.
From NEW YORK.
THE Steamship
CITY OF MADRAS*
Kowloon street_transport is hung). up again. As usual, the Government of music, who was born in Stafford pointed out at once that it has the kept mum till the gossips got busy, effect of establishing rights of way and then owned up to an interviewer. Incidentally, it is The Government will pot let the interesting to men- Tram Company do it at least, not tion "that the presumably on the terms the Com- Chinese name for pany has offered. The Government the P. &. O. office building, namely, has turned down the schedule etc. of
there is nothing doing.. Tit Fong, has reference to the old the K. R. A. and told the tenderers days when the P. &. O. staff was content
It is, however, în correspondence to work - under roof of corrugated iron. It does not with a company that has a few small refer to the iron barricades at the motor buses lying idle, and Kowloor having arrived, Consignees of cargo are ends of the upper verandahs, which is asked to wait and see. These must informed that all goods are being and/or extra baxirdoor Godowns of marooned at Wongreicheong. are contrary to law. No doubt the be the ships of the desert row landed at their risk into the Hazardous Couldn't the Government also Holt's Wharf, Kowloor, whence delivery Company got special permission from the Governor in Council, or something negotiate with the man who is ad- may be chained like that. But ordinary folk are notvertising for sale a donkey that is permitted to shut in their verandahs quiet to ride, so that the Kowloon thought I'd just mention it. There's suburban could travel like Balaam? Eren that would represent progress: very little to talk about this week.
Was tackled by a friend
At present Kowloon grows and CNETES on the street the other grows, and is handicapped. The city QUALITY day, complaining that of the future, with Victoria as a quiet though sometimes I suburb, it is held back for want of a write quite decently, at other times live policy. The KRA. has been there is a distinct failing off. His revising its rules, but not enough. body will be found where I hid it, As things are now, it should
The King of Denmark has commat of St. Anne. Netherthorp. was struck, and the weather vane was rippeded to life imprisonment the sentence thebaby- from the church tower and hurled of death passed on some hundreds of yards." Two char- farmer" Dagmar Overby, who cor- women were discovered lying on the fessed to having murdered 8 babies floor of the church in a dazed condition entrusted to her charge. but they had escaped injury other than shock. One of the women "stated
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The German Legation at Brussels that she saw a great ball of fire fall has now a social attaché" whose Just the church window. A local function is to study labour conditions meteorologist describes the storm and laws in the country to which he as a freak, and attributes it to the is accredited and to keep his Govern-
un-ment informed on such matters. aati-cyclone, for some" cause explained, giving way slightly over the city.
Ants are Engineers.
The foreign trade of the United States was nearly £187.000.000 less
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No claim will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after June 18th, will be subject to fant.
All claims against the Steamer muit be presented to the Undersigned on or before 25th June, 1921, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined o my Tuesdays or Fridays between the hours of 10.40 m. and Noon within the
It has been found that the popula-/in March this year than in March last behind the hoarding of the new build-affliate with Moscow, and hoist the free storage period of one week.
year. Exports fell to £96,000,000,-
dechiae of about 53 per cent.ing that is going up, and I shall plead Red Flag on the Typhoon pole. Whe
justifiable criticide. Was reading could blame it? Imports diminished by 48 per
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a bit about the wonderful output of a novelist called Oppenheim. who in
30 years had produced 60 novels.
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An agreement has been signed
tion of an ant hill has solved many B complicated mining problems. Thon- kands of ants working instinctively perfcrm miraculous engineering feats with amazing eficiency and without "The theft of 500 yards of cloth profiteering. Each ant finds its own consigned to the Polish Mission at reckon there is enough material (on by Mr. Horace Wilmer, CE, with work and the teamwork when big Danzig came to light by a Polish
a mere count of words) in a year's the Chinese Government to act as problems must be solved is surprising commissioner. to whom a sample of adversaria for more than twp adviser on bridge engineering to the ly efficient. When one abift of work- the stolen cloth was shown, noticing long novels. As a matter of fact, Minister of Communications at ers tires or must stop for food or that the pattern matched his trousers. my annual output must have the Peking. It is the intention of the rest its place is taken by other
bulk of half a dozen novels, and with Ministry to have Laur bridge experts workers equally skilful so that not
Reporting upon the Quinquennial the exception of a short holiday from one each of British, French, and a moment is lost. When an ant valuation of Loudon, the London 1913 to 1918 (during which I American nationality, who will act becomes tovered with dirt others County Council says the increase has wrote only about 50 columes and as advisers to the Ministry. Mr. Wilmer was formerly chief engineer immediately clean it by washing and been the greatest since 1871, the one small book) I've been doing it to the Great Eastern Railway in at brushing. During their mining op total gross value of over sixty millions for thirty years. I don't want to, Great Britain, a post from which he erations in digging holes and removing being nearly five millions above the you understand. No man has the retired some time since. One of the stones an ant is often injured, where- value five years ago.
right to talk so much. But it's my first duties of these experts will, pre- bread and butter. Yet in view of the sumably, be to adjudicate on the upon others rush to its assistance add carry it to a quieter gallery where The note of fashion this spring indemnition, grind," as Maztalini tenders to be sent in for the new first aid may be administered. The Vienna is slimness, partly because would call it, I claim the right and the Yellow River bridge, which are due resourcefulness of these little engineers it is not good form to look too well privilege of dropping often below my to be lodged in Peking by June 15
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has been found to anticipate many of fed. Hitherto it has been the custom own best level. People who write next our recent efficiency methods,
here to admire plump women, the perhaps, a column a month, taking Woman's Hertiem in 1870.
by
No, Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned
THE DANE LINE LIMITED.
General Agents. Hongkong, June 11, 1921
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Undersigned bare received in structions to sell by Public Auction
TUESDAY June 14, 1921. - sommencing - all a m.. the Pacific Mail S. S. Co's godown,
Kennedy Town.
45 Bales Guonies. (all more or less damaged by sea-water), Terme-Cath on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS "Auctioneers. Hongkong, June 11, 1912
proverbial sarcasm about a thin 3 month to think it over, and another OVERLAND CHINA MAIL"
woman being. She's like a board in to revise it, can easily criticise, the output of a poor devil who has te front and a shutter behind.”
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do it day by day, week in week out;
The heroism of a woman during the Franco-German war of 18670 is the theme of a glowing eulogium in
-No fewer than 3,000 umbrellas, in and they do. Well, one of them now the Journal Officiel. She is Made- fapiselle Marie Weick, and she has addition to walking sticks, golf clube knows that the literary: worm can received the decoration of the Legion cricket bats, tennis racquets, jewellery, turn. The ants must already be of Honour for the conspicuous services bicycles, musical instruments, mail at his bones. I clove him to the she rendered to her country, Blade carts, and perambulators are included chine with a white-handled pocket auoiselle Welck is a retired telegraphist among the claimed property leff by koule, and put the corpse behind, a
Contains all the News of the Week. PRICE
A local superstition is Leading Articles
with twenty years' service. During passengers on the South-Eastern and Coronet picture of Mary Pickford. Domestic Occurrences .... the war of 1870 she was in charge Chatham Railway, which were of the telegraph office of Schlestadt, sold by public saction at Black- and succeeded in keeping the French friars Station, London.
army informed of what was going on
A LOCAL dealt with by a pamph-Local and General
MYTH. let sent out this week Correspondence...............
by the Sanitary Board. Motor Cycle Runs Amok
Dispute Over Piano by means of a wire which she was Sir James Cantle, a lecture in It was written ten of eleven year The Killede was able to keep concealed from the West Hampstead Town Hall said ago by Dr. Clark, but, the myth has
Saturday's Gymkhang Cermans. She worked alone, and that in the First Book of Samuel lived on, and is still repeated. Here Chidren's Corners though her office was violently shelled we learned that rate carried, the is the bit about it
King's Birthday by German artillery she was able to plague. Yet antit quite recent times "It has often been noticed that A New Kinema communicate with the, French army scientista did not know that fact, the disturbance of the soil in tropical Birthday Honours
A Great Joke,” until the end of hostilities. Made Why did a woman scream when she regions is followed by an outbreak moiselle Welck's conrage was recognis saw at 7 Because she knew it of Malaria and this was seen recently Folice Concert a ed in an army order, and a military carried disease. Women had that in this Colony during the building of The Cenotap medal. dated Dec: 8, 1670 was con- instinct of abhorrence from God the railway in Kowloon and the ferred upon her. verti
Men, the silly asses, would pick up a New Territories, and in fact wherever, rat; the fleas flying from it would bite building operations are in progrese A bird's nest, built between a him. The man would then go home. It has been a popular theory in the ntary Board Pac The Mosquito Pest starvepipe and a wooden partition, is taking the plague into his own house past that this breaking up o
which Typhoon Warning +020 believed to ham been set alight by hold. Therefore, Sir James added, set free certain
would advise the women to go were the
fever, but the true explanation of the Whose Opica? on screaming
e heat, and to have caused a fire at the Dudley, Woms, Golf Club house.
so
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