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Wireless Wonders.
MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
OUR POST OFFICE.
When according a
recep
Alone of all Govern- ment Departments, REX ET IMP. gracious the Post Office has Australian cadets at Buckingham,
tion to the young. failed to "All the bill." Palace recently, his Majesty re- Complaint is made of conditions called his visit to Sydney as a Clearly we have not yet plumbed at the central office. When the midshipman in H.M.S. Bac- the possibilities of wireless. The main doors are opened, they are as some of his guests. He did. chante, when about the same age wireless wizard has himself gone only partly opened, suggesting anot, so far as the cables disclose, from conquering to conquer. The sense of some village shop fear- tell them this story. beam system of transmission overing an attack from burglars. With his older and much more long distances has already From 1 to 2 p.m. the building is docile and correct brother he was wrought a revolution. It promises entirely closed.
entertained at the branch shed of Often crowds the Sydney Rowing Club on to make wireless both cheaper and more effective. Recent expert congregate to await the opening Parramatta River. The princes, ments suggest that costly high of the doors, suggesting again the with some of their mates, wear- power stations may be dispensed old-time admittance to a theatre. deadly dirk, found a sequestered ing the neat middies' uniform and with; they are, in fact, being Then the doors are only partly-nook on the shore, where our superseded by far less costly opened--worse than during the future Sovereign proceeded to Installations, which have the further recommendation of con-
morning, and the mind falters in solace himself with the secret joy
of a cigarette. fining the messages sent within dread at the thought of 8.0.8.
The Duke of Clarence remon- much narrower limits. But for all ladies, and aldermanic-sized strated with the little rebel, and the advances made we had scomed men, called upon to negotiate the pictured the anger of Canon a very long way off from the day narrow Hellespont. One other Dalton, who was their governor when wireless would take the
on the cruise, busy for the place of the ordinary telephone. fact atands revealed: that these moment with the club officials in- While a receiving set can be set main doors are sadly in need of a doors. The round, chubby face up for three or four pounds, a double coat of paint, whilst the of the culprit regsitered emotion transmitting equipment involves interior needs the attention that only the vernacular of the the expenditure of more than as the knight of the colour-wash. turned on his anxious relative: gun-room could express as he many hundreds, and it may be as Strange for a department which many thousands.
But wireless makes a profit in all that it does! seems to have a peculiarly stimu- lating effect on the inventive mind and on the faculties of the experi- mentalist,
of
"Oh!
yourself I expect; you blanky You'll go and tell him
spoil sport. A nice blanky kind of a King you'll make anyhow!" Hongkong people 30 that any day AN INNOVA would appreciate robbed Clarence of the chance of As it happened, of course, death the adoption of proving himself any sort of a the Innovation King at
all.
'Marconi may be out-Marconied..
TION.
It would seem, at any rate, that the disparity in the cost of send-carried out at the Colombo Post ing and receiving apparatus la not Office. This is the installation of long to continue. The Home Salter's Counter
Platform
A visit to the village of
papers contain interesting parti- Machine at the Inland and EPITAPHS. Stanley is worth while
culars of a new German invention Foreign counters. These machines,
if only to read the sed duplex sending and receiving which were recently got out from and sometimes quaint inscriptions set by means of which two England, are placed in such poal those inconvenient times might on the tomb-stones. A visit during sistera voyaging RCross the tions, on the respective counters,
Atlantic, when 150 miles apart, that the general public making help some of us to bear the worries" carried on a sustained conversa. postings at these counters need that have been thrust upon us in tion for eight minutes. The not be told by the officer-in-charge
a more reasonable fame of mind. device used is, it is stated, still in what the charges are for a parcel.always interesting. Here is one But tomb-stone epitapha are the experimental stage, but if the All one has to do, in the future, that is at least lyrical and con- results are as stated, it may fairly is to place the parcel he wants vinging be conceded that we are on the eve of another
signal. wireless triumph,
THEY SAY THAT
The great air age is commencing. -Air-Marshal Sir S. Brancker.
Each week sees 2,000 more cars on the road-Sir Henry Maybury..
The British public detesta poetry in any shape or form.-Mr. Stobard. To the artist there is nothing ugly but stupidity.-Miss Gertrude
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posted on the platform machine, which at once registers the weight. of the parcel in ounces. The old system was to ascertain from the clerk behind the counter before- hand the charge which he pro- posed levying on a parcel. The clerk did the weighing himself inside the counter, and whatever he determined had to be paid. at Hongkong. This applies to present conditions
Three sisters rest beneath
This cypress shinde, Sprightly Rebecca, Anuel,
And Adelaide,
Gentle their hearts to all
On earth, save Man;
In Him, they said; all Grief,
All Wo began.
"
Spinsters they lived, and spinstera
Here are laid:
Sprightly Rebecca, Anne,
And Adelaide,
"A MASTER OF HARD FACTS.”-
Witty things were said as was has come over the face of his statue Democracy has to censo being to be expected--when the Earl of in Leicester Square, (Laughter). If other two share dealing associa-ignorant or it will cease to be a Balfour (Lord President of the the lady who gives us the real tions. This may not mean much. democracy.-Professor Hall. On the other hand it may mean
Council), Sir James Barrie, and Mr. Katharine has the courage to climb Canada is the Scotland of America. Rudyard Kipling were enrolled the railings when London is asleep, that Government does not view-Mr. Allen, Walker.
honorary freemen and honorary she may find Shakespeare waiting at the fact of three distinct bodies
liverymen of the Stationers Com- the foot of his pedestal to lead her The conquest of disease by right pany, which, incorported in 1556, round the square, talking to working in the share market, as living in a story far more wonderful once had the sole right of printing her conducive to sound business; and than the greatest fiction-Miss in England.
in the language of Coward,
Romeo. I do not know it may be that the now historie
who fr the hall of the company, in she is to be, but I hope Dame "June Settlement"-tacitly re-
Paternoster-now, E.C., the recipi- Ellen Terry will come back in one -cognised as no settlement at all
their seats as brothers of the got her reward, ents. having signed the roll, took of her swallow-flights, and perhape bears this out. It seems possible
"Mistery or Art of a Stationer of the My last fact. There must be few for any number of men to form
City of London."
here who have not heard of the their own Association. No Gov ernment permission is required and, presumably, no fee is paid to the Government. Probably a re commendation of the Commission will be to limit share associations C. Amery, to one body. If so we may expect Street.
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Hongkong, Monday, August 17, 1925,
SHARE DEALS.
To shoot a kingfisher is as waste- with a five-pound note. Mr. ful of wealth as to light a cigarette Robert Lynd..
In weather like this infinitely the most beautiful silk stocking Gay girl can wear is her own fair skin.
Sir Ian Hamilton.
At a luncheon which followed, ghost of Stationers Hall. The Lord Balfour, acknowledging the ghost, I understand, is a scrap of toast of his health, said that in the paper which proves", conclusively that Bacon did not write Shake- At some future date the Antarctic the instrument for suppressing free this from the Ladies Shakespeare early 17th Staioners' Company were
sperre. (Laughter). But I get resort may be very popular.Mr. If the Dean of St. Paul's and Bacon was not the only author in as a permanent open winter sports thought. He wondered whether
that household. This document, I himself bad lived in those days their
MP.
CYCLONE RELIEF.
M.
I feel that in bringing me among you and granting me this great hom our, you have added, another to the company's mysteries. (Laughter)
and is in these words: 'Received
to see the Hongkong Stock Ex-proportion to the probability that directed, misdirected--laughter) from Lady Bacon for fathering her Drama interests the public in activities might not have been am told, is signed by Shakespeare change confirmed in its premier it may itself be involved in such towards dealing with speculations play of Hamlet, £6." (Laughter). position. If the claims of the happenings.com Birkenhead.... which in those days might have second body are recognised, it
been regarded as perilous in their Proposing the health of Mr. Education from the nursery school character. (Laughter),
Rudyard Kipling, the Master said may be that an enlargement of to the University is so highly gye
The next toast was that of Sir endeared him to every paper-maker, that the number of his works had tematised that it is a great machine James Barrie, who in this reply printer, and bookbinder in this the premier body will be made to without oogl. Mr. J. allow a number of those from the Mactavish..
Buid
country (Laughter); - second one to join it. But it seems obvious that if legal sanc- "I told you so" seems an apt if tion is now to be given to the Ineffective observation in relation business of buying and selling in to the news that HE. the Gov-shares, a a limitation
on must be ernor has appointed a Commission placed on the number of brokers to enquire into the existing allowed to engage in the business. arrangements for dealing in Competition may be good for any stocks and shares of public comtrade, or calling, but the obvious panies. It is not so long ago that could be proved in regard to local we suggested that if local brokers dealing in shares. As to methods did not put their house in order, employed, wa hesitate an opinion, the Government would be com- The evil seems to have been prin- pelled to interfere. The Governcipally that of forward ment, following its seeming con the immoral attempts to bol
selling corn in what is known as the up values, or to deprec
BANG PANG CANCER) June Settlement has now apland, in some
G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LID pointed this Commissio
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في
QUEEN AND RED CROSS SEND FUNDS.
(Router's Service)
Amsterdam, August 15, buted 10,000.Barins for the relief of Queen Wilhelming has conta cyclone sufferers.
Mr. Kipling said that it must have been a brother of their mystary who first discovered that if the leaves of the papyrus plant were I like to think I am among the soaked in the Nile and besten with chosen because I am a master of mallet the beastly stuff stook to hard facts. In Lord Balfour and gather and mads what looked like Mr. Kipling you get eloquence paper. He continued philosophy and poetry, but from me to-day you naturally look for facts Daughter)jes
The most valiant name, of course, your records that of Shake speare, and I propose that you ahould enterý
one more, edition other sex, 1-90
The American Red Cross has re- mitted to the
Red Cross $10,000 for the
Shakespeare, did of sufferers things were doing to from the cyclone
knew but he had to writ
TERRIFIC IMPACT
so we called it paper and we sup plied ibaa stationery and men began to wate upon it with reed peas
Some desperate soul, impatient
of the slow, beautiful handicraft the past, had invested the prin
They instantly charged it with be stationery and created the business.
of publishing and distribution and among them lauzobed the Elevanth - He Plaque on suffering hurt
Bines that dreadfal
ting to
ich ther bilifated, and
fured life
G.P.O.)