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HONGKONG TRADE.
- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
REPORT.
The fortnightly report issued by the- Chamber of Commeros states --
Cotton piece goods and fancy cotton.
|parison with those ruling in the pro-
ducing centros. Quotations are:-
No. 10s. $154/180. No. 12«.169/189. No. 10. $194/220, No. 20.$196/220. Arrival nil Shipments 800. + Salee 3,700 bals.
9,000 balca.
sold stock 3,000 bales, Bargains
Woollens-The market remains unchanged. Raw Cottons
After I had sent in my state of innocent happiness. But, Buspect that our corpondant (who though the principis, is important wart "copy" last weak, a letter dear lady, when you talk of eating a mere Government servant) was enough. No. I know what I'U do. aṛpeared in the Ching like an animal, you arouse in me out-of-date when he said he dare I'll take the debris back myself, tell Mini which vaked half a dozen of the chivalrous desire to speak, up for all not est mustard with mutton. For the grocer I can't eat it, and throw it sort of questions I like to answer. No, the dear dead logicians who have this reason. The glatton rhyme I at him. It will be a dirty thing to do, one else has offered replies, so if it tarried with us awhile, and left us. quoted bas long been familiar among but he deserves it. It will make a is not too late I'm having a shot. Why should an eating animal not the Lowah Ordaba; and because of splash, anyway. The first question was: Why not look like an animal eating 7 Were that I would not be at all surprised I hurried home, and saked where mustard with, 'mutton t 1 gr you perchance, thinking of the to find, when I go, bock Home and the lapsap eggs, were. I had need of with the writer that it is "folly squirrel sitting up with a nut in its mix with people of my own them. They looked astonished; they gooda. Unchanged. Nothing doing. aloe,"
especially with old malto front pawe? Not a very disgusting rank, that most of the marchionesses said they had thrown them away. Cotton Yarn:There has been no- We Al know, I suppose sight that, I think. You were not daub their mutton with the hot and Failed again. But I know what improvement in the political situation the ostensible reason, which says: thinking of that at all. You were not yellow stuff, and that all the really I'll do... Any time I get any bad in Canton, and business thero ́is still
Mastard with mutton
thinking of anything. You didn't, superior viscounts now use knife and money (as I often do) I'll spend it at suspended. Other ontlets have taken Sign of a glutton.
think. That is my pet grievance fork to asparagus. I should certainly that grocer's. If he protests I'll tell their normal quantities, but prices But to anyone who will take the against most champions of conven- be much astonished to find may uncle him I didn't put the date on it, and realized have been poor, in com
tion. I suppose (though I'm only the Earl smoking a sigar with a band am not responsible for its-badness. trouble to look up the word
I know ther's is "glatteny" in a dictionary that is an sing now) that it is uncon- or it, but that really cannot tell aboard suggestion. Mutton might entional to think. I am in agree against my argument, because he
Town Planning Com- appeal to a glutton, but not mustard. think all eating in public is disgusting. year of the Diamond Jubiles. He ment with you to this extent, that I gave up smoking, popr dear, in the
mitted here, but I do I believe it to be open to argument No matter how conventionally yon died in 1897..
not know, for sure just what
mustard purpose
just what they are up to. I hear talk do it, I eervee. Some people pretend it is
think you (that is
I must not forget to give of housing schemes on the Kowloon everybody) should - 20 Kit in an aid to digestion; but in that cass
you a story about mus side, and it occurs to me to offer a matton needs digesting as well as private. Esting, should be
fard with mutton that I word of caption. Let us not hasten beef, so that the sense would be si private, nota public,farction.
had from another Glove any stops to increase our population against the conventional suggestion.
It is a disgorting "sight,
erument servant. (You until we can give it an adequate I regard mustard as an extra fillip to
whatever its conventional sec, I move in high suckles). A Hong-water happly. tempt the non-gluttonous sppetita,.
DISGUST refinement hay be. The koog man and an Anzac on leave were
There is no business to report and One day you are told and if that is right, away again goes
sight of a human being lanching at Simpson's The Anzac
CANTON there is good news the recent arrival of a couple of your nonsensical rhyme. Our computing matter into a hole in his face took a big helping of mustard with his
irresistibly compel the mutton:
WAR NEWS for Sun," and another hundred bales, is still areolā. respondent will never be told why het
Quotations: Indian descriptions si day you are told of a should not have mustard with his thoughtful to imagine the subsequent
reverse for Sun, At Shinkwan, for $30/38. Chinese Staple £34/41 per mutteuil he wants it, because there fate of But, naturally, I
instance, Buz's general Hau was re
pien). why. There is no reasonable
ported to have had both a victory and la defeat. Another report said there reason why he shouldn't. That "it lady.. I understand I have some isn't done" isa't a reason why it isn't lady studenta in my class, I will drop
had been no fighting at all there The done. I know that reason, I think: this o atter nigus here, and get "Well," said the Anzao, "you go most caful correspondent I have but I will tell it when I have traversed other questions.
back to your bee-haw pals in Hong- noticed said he was "inclined to give the other questions. Two of them I
Dear, dear, but we live kong and tell 'em you've jolly well credit to one of two conflicting re- can most conveniently boil into one. THE CIGAR and learn, don't we? seen it done and in Simpson's."
porta. This simply means that he did Why does convention : BMOKER Socrate, taught by
I don't think an Anzac would say not know. Nobody known. What allow the eating of as-
questioning (a mighty" jolly well, but that's how I heard it with censorship and propaganda paragus with the fingers good way to teach) and this questioner
You know how I hate and nobody can know. I wonder how
$3.70 per sack, American Straight кате while it bars the chicken teaches me what I never
habitually. avoid
any people have patience to read about it.
$2.65 per sack, American Out ibat it (or any other) bone before,
ja not
appearance of boasting, I, unfortunately, have to. -
off $2.75 per sack, Shanghai Flour That was the effect of two of his ques. comme il faut to leave the pretty band
don't you? Yet it is
Glaciers move de$2.50 per sack, Australian No, I necessary, for the purpose tions. Asparagus is less greasy than on one's cigar while smoking it. That
ON WATCHING liber-ate-ly, So do $2.70 per sack. the chicken bone, especially if ignorance proves that I am an out of some proposals for law reform that you eat it without that beastly eider. It so happens that my Londres I desire to make, to mention that dressing they call Mayonnaise, have no bands, so I might never have since I got back to full diet I invari- whith no really virtuous person been found out bat for this question. ably have eggs to breakfast. If any. cares for. Trus. But does that I suspect, however, that this isn't one is sceptical, I can prove it, Every tedious trails. Slotha beyond our matter when finger bowls are pro-enobbery but commonsense based on morning my cook serves eggs, chicken sluggish ocean All rapid movements vided?. What are finger bowls for experience. The odour and taste of eggs. There is a lady whom I know shirk; But the record easy motion is There is only one sensible, pleasur-burning paper would be unpleasant if only as the egg lady," who calls on the Hongkong clerk's at work. able, and non-wasteful way of eating you left the band en till the fire us regularly, and supplies us with
I scouse the authorities a chicken jeg, and that is to hold the reached it. However, as I have eggs of comparatively recent date,
I of not doing their damn-cognized as Consul here for Peru. shank between the finger and thumb, confessed, this was a new one on One day last week she disappointed
ACCUSE, dest to stop the in!«
Lieut. H. J. Mortimer, B.G.A; and so bring it to the testh. There me, and it may bence of the laws of the us, and so my servant went to a
iquitous traffic in arme. is no real reason why this shouldn't pots sa he say it is,
grocer in Bowingten Road and I accuse them of being blinded to from July 15 to September 15.
has been granted leave of absence be done, though there is a reason for the convention which pretends it shouldn't,
FINGERS BEFORE
FORKS..
AND CORN COBE.
In a sort of parenthesis I see he mentioned corn on
would never have talked like that to a
ww
“You shouldn't take mustard with mutton" said the Hongkong chap.
#Why?" demanded in "Because it isn't done" said the man from this Colony.
EGGS
EGGS,
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CLERKS IN PUBLIC OFFICES.
tortoises and snails; And the funeral cortege stately Follows very
I feel much more bought ten to be doing with. It was broad iseres by Red Tape and pre- THE TEASPOON Confident in describ-explained to the grocer at No. 19 cedent. What is it that we want?
Metala,Market continges lifeless- with no enquiry.
Yellow Metal-Nominal Nil. Sundries.--Market quiet.
Java Molaszes-Market steady. Saltpetre.-Business entirely at a standstill.
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Flour Market.-Stock: About $850,000 sacks.
Patant
Quotations-American
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
2nd Lieut. T.P.M. Bevan is gazette ed lieutenant, H. V.D.C.
Senor Don Eleodor Rouillono is re-
The epidemio of plague having
ing his last question Bowrington Road that the eggs were To prevent arms reaching wrong row subsided, the Wanchai district is PROBLEM. amare's-arst. for a European, and must be fresh. hands, or merely a cagrful of catspaws?
"Why", he demanded, "should They were for a very illustrious The police and the revenue officers! Now within bounds for the men of the the cob. A That's one be regarded as beyond the European indoid, and must be here depend a good deal, as is well
ma.. that
a thousand
Garrison.
where I live when I'm at pale because one keeps one's teas absolutely like Caesar's wife. He known, on informers. If an informer's Two month leave of absence Ess homs. I sometimes think poon in one's cap while drinking swore by all his gods that the eggs evidenes can secure a conviction, the been granted to Lieut. H. R that if Mother Eve had been tempted That also is frear to me, as an item of were perfectly fresh, and good enough authorities are willing to reward him. Donovan, R.G.A, from July 14 to dumb. What (the question ran) is with a corncob instead of an apple society Behaviour; but as a practical for the biggest si tao in Hongkong. If an informer goes and says "I September 14. the word for the man who cannot she would have been less to blame. problem I solved it long ago. I kept So the eggs came to my domicilo. know where there are LILLEY. On July 12, at Tuxedo, small. There isn't such a word. There wouldn't take a very big enake my spoon in my cup because I was That morning my breakfast was illicit revolvers stored, and you can Capt. J. A. V. Noel, R.G.A.; N.Y.. to Mr. and Mrs. F. Woffliction, it it be one, was not com- to persuade me to eat corn on the busy talking to my hostess, ar be- compromise. I will not disgust my size them. What do I get for it!" sailed for England by thesis, "Kitano Lilley, Standard Oil Co., Wuhu mon enough to call for a name, How cob. From this I have reason to cause I was reading. The boy or readers by saying what happened the suthorities reply: "Nothing. Maru" yesterday, and has been would "offsetless" do ? It isn't hope that you have gathered the im- the maid bad put it there, and it was when the shells were cracked. Suffice unless we can convict somebody struck off the strength of the China pretty. "Nonoletable" is not much pression that I like this food. Now, literally beneath my notice, until it it that nine out of the ten were To
The Command. is silly. it seems almost as unreasonable as forced itself upon my attention, putrid. For some reason they didn't more seizures there are, the more Myths, legends, fairy the conventions I am attacking, but Without conscious contrivance I was open the tooth. I think I could guess must the traffic be d'acouraged. We Lieut. E. A. Less 3/22nd 'Pun- DISCOVERY tales, and RD on, the fact is I fancy corn cooked on the holding the thing back with it if I tried. I sald, in my lordly do not want those thousand revolversjabis (attached 102nd, K.. E. 0... WITHOUT should always be cob tastes better than corn taken of my thumb projected aver the way, that the grocer must give good to reach their destination, even if we Grenadiers) has been granted exten- BESEARCH. regarded as having a I sometimes eat corn that has been rim of tho cup, but it eggs in place of them, or return the cannot convict the muggler. It in ion of leave for one month from
substratom of truth (so to speak) "shelled", but never dipped off as I titted the cup in money. We had paid full market because of this discovery that I se-July 14 to August 13. and commonsenso, Jingles that may with the gusto that I guaw it off the drinking, made a rattling noise, and price for edible eggs, and these were cuse the authorities of not doing now stem idle and silly may have cob. At the Hongkong Hotel (Grill hit me on, the noes. After this had election eggs. Servant came back their utmost to suppress the ana In connection with the armed: been simple statements of fact once. Room) they give you handy silver happened beveral times, I became and reported that he was very angry, traffic. The China Mail made robbery at the Wing Lee Ynen firm, Suppose that in the year 1973 the skewers, that look like the musician's conscious of it as a distraction, and so very insolent, and laughed at the Ideas valuable suggestion not long No. 17, Des Voruz Road West, yester children should sing
tooing fork. These you poke in each formed the habit of taking the spoon of doing anything in the matter. Ho- ago in connection with the issue of day morning, the police have arrested. end of the cob, and so holding out, wiping it on my trousers, and ho, said I It is necessary to permite for arms, Absolutely no dix men on suspicion,
MULVEY-On July 15, at Chang War.Pang, to Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Mulvey, a son. BERTHET-On July 16, at Shang-
hai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Berthet, a daughter.
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DEATH.
BASTO-At London, on July 11,
Augusta Maria Yvanovich, the teloved wife of B. Basto, aged 39 years.
The China Mail.
"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIO EFRVICE."
ADVERSARIA.
I told him with a piece of wire
He was an unconvincing liar.
Then with a short embarrassed
rough
✔
it, with clean fingers, you do to patting it in my pocket. I did not show the fallow that he is carrying on notice was taken of it. Naturally,
SHOULD SHE TELL?
PROBLEM-PIUTURE AT THE CORONET.
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"Fookeang" yesterday on transfer to Singapore, and has been struck off the strength of the China Command.
it what you intended all along. put it in the cancer, because I fre-business under British law, and must officials scorn newspapers. That was Lieut. E. J. Grahim; H.K.8~-~~- Bat ms, I scom such thingamybabe, quantly drink out of the sanoor, if I be honest. I would personally bad, but this stupidity in rejecting R.G.A., left the Colony by the as He there and then did cat me off. Seizing the cob firmly in my fingers, Am very thirty and the tea is very interview the soul. I'did. He was obancos to saïse consignments of arms Some philosopher would be sure to I smear two rows with fresh butter. hot. It cools more quickly when not impressed. He said that as he is worse, Lappen along and point out its Then with my incisors I bite off those poured into a shallow vessel, because didn't put any date on his eggs, it obricus lack of meaning and truth, two rows, working from one end to (if you think it over for yourselves didn't matter what age they were. T To be cut off, he would say, is to to the other. Then I smear the next you will see that this is so) more of promised that I would show him
Command. Orders No. 1276- killed, and how could a killed person two rows, and begin again. At the ten is expound to the different. Artived in town I told the
records the appointment made in the HongKong, Saturday, Julk 22, 1912, tell about it? In 1972 it will all tiffin party in Hongong once I saw atmosphere. It is only fair to me to Boss what I was going to do. He
| London Gazelle of May-90, of Major- be wireless, or even telepathy, so corn served on the cob, and what d'you mention that I learned this from laughed. "Don't summons' the
L. Cheneviz-Trench, O.M.G., D.§.O., that the first line would perhaps think the folks did? They shared observation. Not from books, Chinese," he said, "Sammons the
R.E, as G.8.0. (2nd Gmde) with. be 05 unintelligible to the the corn off onto their plate with a
There is always a
ben." He is sometimes irritatingly philosopher as many nursery rhymes knife. If they wanted to cat it that THE WHY reason why a conven- frivolous. I went to the Sanitary answer that most people would make
"It all depends" is probably the effect from May 20. O. Henry could ez. and jingles are to us. For instance, way, this might as well have been
tion pretends that Authorities. Would they prosent if they were asked for their considered Bay Hotel is Mr. H. R. McCullough, pand this anecdote util I had my whitlow, I never un-done in the kitchen. Why should
something should or man for selling food unfit for human BONGKONG into literature. It de derstood the origin and meaning of the guest be expected to do the should not be done, and it is a very consumption, if I provided prooff opinion as to whether a woman who vice-president of the Chicago-Mil- has been Indiscreet in her youth waukes and Bt. Paul Railway, who serves it for its double. the lines **
Cook's work There are thirty simple one. Among all the thousands Certainly they would. But as soon as barrelled interest. A By the pricking of my thumbs nine good reasons for gnawing the of word, we had about snobbery I saw I mentioned eggs they began to ham bit of Chinere artfulness in the thier-
Something evit this way comes. corn my way; but I need not one which pointed out that aroha and ba. ing line was detected in a local store,
Then there is that poem which raya: bother to
mettion them here are analogous in one respect to the It had long been the custom for an
Fee, fie, fo, fum
Sufficient to say that there isn't ong Freemasons.. It is the essence of both employee: to take upstairs. a largà kettle to make tes for the steff. One
THE
WAY
,
.
OF IT.
IBK'T
•*. At present staying at the Espulse.
should make a clean breast of it to arived are by the Empress, of
Canada" yesterday. **
her future husband. And indeed It dom largely depend on ofroumstances. "Isn't this rotten, liks ibe
Take the case of the · bamine în eggs They said they should a Woman: - Tell !'" which Among the passengers by the sis... would be obliged to begins at the Coronet on Monday, day are the Rev. WT. Featherstone, “Tanya", Maru", which sailed yeater- arren!' divide the bad egg into She was a care-free little fisher-girl, Mr. F. A. Briton, Mr. G. D. Harry- thres-portions, sending as open as the sea, until a Society man, Mr. W. Nicholson, Mr. H. T
I smell the blood of an Englishman valid reason why corn should not be to have secret aigua, to distinguish You will observe at once that the eaten that way. "Obri bat (says a initiates from outsiders. If the
..THE
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day last week the Indian watchman ends do not rhyme. If the first words dear lady to whom I presented these masonic deprets ever became public was inquisitive enough to look inside are meaningless, as the learned pre- sentiments vocally) it looks dis- property, they would substitute others one to the analyst retaining omaan lay, with the kindest intentions in Payne, Mr. J. R. MacDonald. the kettle. He found two pairs of tard, there is no reason why they gusting, like a man playing a month for them, I suppose. This happens to oxhibit, and handing the other third the world, took her up" and shoes-small onca, I presume. That should not have been made to rhyme, organ, or like some animal feeding." the conventions of mobs especially to to the secured. It wouldn't do to introduced her to a new world whers isa good story by itali; but markFee de fo fan" would bare done There are many good reasons whe one such esot ris and mysterious con- take three eggs, as their condition she soon met a man who readily took be concluded at the Coronet to-mor
A successful repertory week will! the continuation. The Central Police just as well, if they had been should not argue with a lady but if Iventions se we have just been study might vary. Bo they would. Mine advantage of her ingannoumeds. row with a further screening by: Station was rong up, and asked to meaningless. But now I ask you bad done it, I would have said soms-ing. When the hoi pollos (Greek for varied from high xplosives to Afterwards came true love and with special request of Black Beauty
end a European detective. They to ponder, when is an English thing like this.
all the people that you don't ssociate quimscent poison gas: and I knew that it the tremendous problem whether to wonderfully fine film version of hadn't one available at the moment, man's blood smelledt: Apart from
As for the mouth with) twigs, catch on, assim latos, it wasn't right to ask any Christian tell or not to tell but said they would and a Chinese, battlefields! Is it not after a surgical
Anna Sewall's famous "! Autobio-- EATING A organ simile, I sup- and begins to observe these iscret sanitary inspector to run the risk of To tell might, she argued, mean that amoring the applicant that operation! Now if you remember how
graphy of a Horse." poss it is a matter of sigos correctly, the mobs ha-ten dividing into three portions any egg she would loss bis love," to keep se he would be in plain clothes young child usually pronounces the FUNCTION taste, whether such a to invent others, by which coming from the grocery at 18 Bow! silence would be to endure a
one would know what he word "thumb," you may see the
Among the passenger spectacle is disgust to know Bach other. This Ington Road. It comes to this then, hapongas made ansy by the arrived here by the Empress of was, so that there would be no scandal. point. If you don't, it really doesn't ing or not. I can conceive of circum has been especially noticeable in said. This man can go haunting fear that he might find out Canada yesterday is Mix, 0.0. Boett In së the main entrance of the store matter.
stances in which the sight of a man society slang which (with our modern selling rotten eggs with impunity, from someone else. How she is American multi-millionairose, anch presently walked a Chinees. He was
It was very porsling, at playing the mouth organ might please press) soon becomes the property of because your legal routine cannot eventually solved her dilemma goes to widow of a partner in the firm of first to read in a Bhang the angels. I remember seeing the vulgar. As soon as the vulgar adapt itself to commonsense 1. Who the making of a compelling story that Freepout Morgan, and Co. Mrs. Bootb hal paper that "The young Indian sitting on the kerbatons began to say " varsity” for Univer wants to analyse s putrid egg to know is deftly handled in a remarkably well anocompanied by her son. Fook Hotel, Houghong, in Wantasi and, playing that, instru:sity," the university men dropped it. it is bad 1.
Tio
in plain clothes all right, but in his
hand he awang, with a dreadfui
IAPAUS
CALAMI.
Cognspicuonanens.—a pair of handcuffs
"I have, as one that ought is in danger of closing down. It was ment." He was oblivious to the traffic. As soon as the vulgar, learned" (from You might try a civil action, for A wont bo know, been naked a decided some time ago by t the componding by. His eyes gazed imidly Beesely, Sarp) that it was ou fait (Mo breach of contuses, they said. Wat WANTED, question. For the man any operating the concern to give it into that mysterious bourne beyond Wharter musta't think he is the only I wonder what the C.J. would say if who cannot see, then is up, and the Government was then ap- time and apacs from which perhaps wa polyglottic writer Hongkong can I asked him to wxata his time on a descriptive English word, blind proaobed with regard to taking it all come. He was what they call beast) to say "brekkers for break anlt for delivery of ten freal eggs, or For the man who cannot bear we over." Then, of course, one realized rapt. I bebek! him with pleasure, fast, Bociety dropped that baby in the alternative for the return of have the word desf. - For the mar th tit was a slip of the pen. The I always do behold with very mal talle. And so with all other such twenty cents, do not suppose who cannot speak we have the wood writer meant the Peak Houp
pleasure any human being who is in 's marks of good breeding." Talready the Court, would grant a Leating,
produced photoplay.
· · BASEBALL GAME, TODAY,
HAPPY VALLEY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
HONG ONGE
who
-- A-diatziot Court Martial under the presidency of Major T. 0. Lavons, |B,G,A;, will÷useumble- 11. Murrays
Barracks at 10 am, on Thunday next-
to try case in which a dotporal of the
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88 Coy, B.G.Ay, and a privater of ther King's Ragt, are the accused.