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PUBLIC SAFETY.
"SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1925.
does not allow the elaboration of what seems a simple idea or of a number of difficulties that readily occur to the mind in spite of the general simplicity. The 1922 strike taught a lesson which
Wa want the whole of has not been taken greatly to BLAVER! our people to be fino old english gentlemen, saya heart by those from whom we Mr. J. Baker, Labour M. P. for
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
ma
"Excellent bourdings “ Unconscious house "business for HUMOUR. sale; first-class con- etion; thirteen bad
have a right to expect a lead. It Bilston. We don't! We want to
rooms." is the duty of the community to see me fine young English gentle
-Adv. in Birmingham Post." protect itself and the general gentlemen among then "We're all bo tempted to profer their rooms to and some fine young Irish Tot's hope the guests won't still Interests it represents in no growing older, older every day their company!" uncertain manner. It is not likely wuebles the gentle poet; but that
We
We
to do so unless there is some get is because we can't help it. none of us want to be old. scheme, which can be placed in feel hurt to think that Mr. Baker operation at a moment's notice, wants to inflict old age upon all
and which has included in its of us! general effect the important ques-
Kind Hagen, of Lincoln was The late Bishop
once the subject
Je an amusing misunderstanding with a little girl, relates Mr. D. D.
An egotist is a Knox in "Children's Nursery Say-
tion of food supplies. In the hope THIS HEARD. man who tells youngs that the public meeting will
campaign and create an effective organisation, do we wish it well.'
things about him- The Bishop, who had been sitting formulate some definite plan of half that you intended telling him in a park, experienced some diffi.
about yourself.
feulty in rising from his low chair, What is it that has eight ears when a very small child came to his Land xings?-A quartette,
Shall I help you, sir?" she asked.
A Notable Achievement.
There are no doors in the new Foril mars, They give you a tin |opener, and you can get into them
anywhere.
assistance.
It is very kind of you, my dear," said the Bishop, much touched and
"But do you think you are strong enough?
The engineer knows it is very Know him? Of course, I do. Hea little amused. ensy to make a mechanical con-was my fog at Boratal. trivance to perform a given duty He's а great talker. if he does not pay heed to reduc-must have been vaccinated with a tion in the number of work-parts, granoplione needle.
He
but the hall mark of any worth Some people are horm stupid, but while mechanical device is sim-you've abused the privilege. plicity. It is the absence of com-
plex details which distinguishes
"Oh, yes," she replied readily. I have often helped my daddy when he was much drunker tari you are."
A well-known -
house one morning
forgot a letter tist
During
Tha letter was nowhere to be
real genius in design. It is com-THE ONLY WAY. tsh North BOTTING AN ANONYMOUS for on leaving his
Thus the Bri paratively easy for instance, to
Herald on July 1 build a motor engine with over-Possibly most cooks in Tawan
LETTER. head valves having a multiplicity deserve to have their thrests cut, he had intended to mail. of push rods and rocking arms but all the same it was not sporting the afternoon something recalled it to operate the valves, but it is of the water carrier to curve the to his mine, and as it was of con- an entirely different matter to man up while he was asleep, espe-siderable importance he hurried produce an engine on this prin eally as the weapon was the cook's hene. eiple which eliminates all such and was that generally used in the wearing parts. The achievement preparation of the "delicacy known found. which the Ailsa Craig Motor Co..us deying chinchang, which, being Hu Ltd.. of Chiswick, London, have interpreted, is attained in producing a series of forms no small part of the dies oftr of mine lying about?” -
the mince which overhead valve marine motors those Europeans whose lot is cast i11 with camshafts acting direct on Porter. The cook, with a wind- the valves is, therefore, the more pips almost severed, was lucky in notable. The simplicity of these being able to get attention at once. engines may be gauged by the fand is almost well enough to co fact that the Ailsa Craig "Kid" inus his destructive work, 10-14 h.p. 4-cylinder engine, which |
MIXTURE.
Mr.
summoned the
servient.
"Have you seen anything of u let-
"Yes, sir.
Where is it." "Pasted, sir."
the name or address on the Post! Why. I had not writ-
1 know that, sir." was the reply.
Gilbert "but I thought it must be in answer Exque of them anonymous, lettera treme Oriental you've been getting fately." Mixture" is
A story
for the complete outfit only costs $100, has over 100 less working EXTREME ORIENTAL Collins' parts than engines built on the push rod and rocking arm. prin- ciple. One effect of this simpli-aving a good reception in London. city of design, and perhaps the His foreword contains na amus
Cros-word anthus. most important. is that it has beening defence against these critica CROSS-WORD iasts can be roughly possible to reduce the manufac-who took him to task for his PezzLks. divided into two REH turing costs so that wers, whilst aunty treatment of the subjects
gripa, obtaining all the advantages of his lust bouk.
There are ls who, in their march through superior efficiency of the overhead
The fact that some of the pruise this mechanized world, set an almost valve engino, can do so at-a-cost for Far-Ruston-launts came Tern symbolic vatne upon activity, na n which, power for power, is con- Settuni confirmed him. he says,Best of ingenuity perse; and there siderably less than engines of the "in suspection I had long harure those who, instinctively fright older and less efficient side valve board that Seofsmenn, are if any Jenal of loneliness, seek alliance of design.
thing, more readily appreciative of any kind, and name that alliance the flow of words which the
the bust form of humour chans stabilised by wholesale participa Englishmen." Scotsmen, in the tien. compliment to themselves, forgive Further examination compels us pointing out that there has been LOCAL & GENERAL. this bumorous egotism.
u transfer, temporarily at least. for years in the Government's
may from the first group to the russeroid, and makes the boundary im- pussession il possible scheme One Indian case of para-Tow ar tui frem a golfing centre permanent. For it will be perhaps which has never had the honour typhoid fever (imported) was NINETEENTH where they are feel-admitted that the pleasure of solving either of being discussed, or put reported on Thursday.
ing the beat. Firstjany puzzle, as distinct from the playerIt's getting pleasure involved in pronouncing into operation. Why?..... The
The mume of Dr. Annie Syden- en hot for words." Second ditta upen its "goodness," is limited e Seamen's strike and the general tim, M.R.C.S. (Bag.), L.R.C.P.(using in bunker after breaking firely by the ability of the in- strike in sympathy on the part (on) of the Leiden Mission, is uibliek)-"'Oh, is it? "Tisten!** | telligence; while its "goodnew" of servants produced-a-Govern Lobinson: Read has been udded to Tes Kirkwood has a fund of good varies is the process of solving has
The Hongkong Medical Register.
golfing stories. He told one itensciously or unconsciously, flat- ment registration of male
Gleneagles of a young lady golfertered the vanity of the solver. residents, and the Peak Residents
Silk forwarded from here by who, when he asked her, What A riddle is "propounded to the Association. The one, a Govern- the "Empress of Asia" on June 30 did you go round in 7 give him intelligence travelling priceds venture, has been a decided waste arrived in New York (St. John's answer the unexpected informuapace to solution; and two electa of time because it has been adays in transit.
Park) on July 21, having been 21. “Oh, in blouse and skirt, of use, shared by the thousands of
course,**
minds which accepted the riddle, failure. The other has been à
Another was of a plever who hodThe first is the common bond of decided Success. It is evident
become grievously addicted to tap triumph, the second a presumed H.H. the Governor has accepted ping the ball, and called on the local asendamy over the intelligence of then that it is the civic population the resignation by 2nd Lieut. . B. Frofessional for advice. "Just tum the anthof. The second brings & Reed of his commission in the the ball muside down and hit 't in 'curious addition to personal and in- Hongkong Volunteer Corps, with effect from July 17.
Defence the sumo plure," was the unexpect fellectual scarity.-E. H, D. in
ed reply.
Alte Adelpali."
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REASONS FOR TRAVEL,
of Hongkong that must set its house" in order and make some endeavour to meet situations that may arise any moment from the Budden caprice of an admittedly temperamental people, badly guided. We need to remember that we are almost a "buffer
H. M. Tomlinson... whose voyage, He feels lost. St. Paul's state," in close proximity to two
work, Tidemarks, was hailed as one Cathedral does not peem as influen We are disinclined to throw centres of divided Chinese opinion
of the greatest travel books of recent tial as it once did, nor man as im cold water on the suggestion and dialect, which can turn and Owing to a quantity of silt having the excellent Nation Travel number thy surmise, either, that man Yaumati Typhoon Shelter--years, has an interesting article in petant. And perhaps it is not ap which has been adopted to hold rend each other, and show its entered the shelter by the Waterloo "Reasons for Travel." He may be only a slightly disturbing a public meeting. There are spleen at the foreigner with dis-Roud nullah, the East Channel of Writes:
episode on earth after all, and had immense possibilities for good in agreeable frequency. The the shelter is not invigaule, about "It is better to obey the mysteri- better look cut; a hindering and holding such a meeting if it is Government has fulfilled
displaying u red flag by day and a ons index, without any fuss, when humbling notion of that sort would it red light by night is anchored in it points a new road. There is have done him no harm, if of late designed to plan methods for the obligations when it provides this Channel.
probably as much reason for it, if yours it had given him pause. future that, shall rouse the civic the means to uphold law
the truth were known, as for any- "Besides.. there were the men spirit that lies dormant in most and order; but it is clear that Notifications No. 867 of June 23,
With reference to Government thing else.
one met. It would be pretty bard people; and that shall tell us it is unable to do so adequately No. 387 of July 9 and No. 308 of not easily seen at the time, that one travelling an impulse strong I can see now, though it was to explain the impulse which sent something new to provoke without the full support of the July 5, it is hereby notified thas on there was little to doubt about that enough, if vague, to overcome one's thought or action on the political community which has been at its and after Monday July 27 applica-voyage. It is worth the break, and natural desire to be let alone. What questions which now seem part disposal at the present moment hibited goode, with the exception of and the drive. out in the face of But you are aware, at rare
tions, for permission to export pro- the discomfort of a winter dook, did one want, or expect to learn? and parcel of the thing from There should be in existence a gold and silver coins, gold and silver hard westerly westher, to come up moments that you have got some which we are suffering dia Civic League devoted first of all bullion and bank notes which will ship's companion one morning, thing almost se valuable as a tip tinctly anti-British feeling. We to the cause of Public Safety: continue to be dealt with by the and to see for the first time the about a new oil-field, in some shall deplore a meeting in which A League whose motto may be reused to the Superintendentoflow of sunrise above the palisade chance converse with a stranger. .Colonial Becretary, should be sd- language of a pocvish character summed up in one word: Defence: Import and Exports You never forget the warm onld not be easy to put it down
of the jungle.
about nothing in particular. It is likely to find expression, or Maintain the Volunteer Defence Janguage "even of hostility Corpe by all means; but let there At the Central Magistracy this smell of it, and its light; though in plain figures, hostility even against Unofficial be in addition a Police Reserve, morning, Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at simple wonder might not be For it might have been night mbers of the Legislative Coun and sections in which thoas conducted an inquiry into the thought worth a hard fight with in the Malaces Strait, with nothing circumstances attending the galos in the western ocean. Yet to give reasonable conviction of the cil who have failed to make prepossessing technical and other death of a Chinese woman at Tal later, when the forest by all the realities except the stars, the minent such questions as the qualifications are enrolled. In Hang village on July 3. The in- reasonable estimates of visitor tremor of the ship's rail, and the registration of servants and the this way, when there is a stop-quiry was proceeding at time of costumed to the sesumption of glow of a shipmate's cigar; and the man's control of nature about other man might not have add question of our general prepared page of trams, it will not be her death by rolling down the hill-zero etorna, Bagage, flamboyant; that he was no that kind+ but his going to press. The woman met have ended, yet continues se though much you had previously noticed fortnight before they side in her attempt to escape et klear and desolate, the voyager dsqual relation of an obscure adver ness to meet the possible con- tingency of a general ison tare resumed, but the service will from falling into the hands of the begin to feel unces
heather as if the droning of the the greatfon of the registrati
nue function as though police, who were Founding up
meet that lofty and waters had become a significant servanta we add nothing
happened Space illicit firewood cutters
with the cheerful utterance gave an abiding content
part of the to the Bhadows.
week