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Building continues to go in Macao with considerable activity
The annual general meeting of the Kowloon Football Club will be held at the Club's Pavilion at 6.80 p.m. to-day.""
The return of notifiable dis eases for the 24 hours ended Wed- nesday, show three cases of en- toric fever one English, (Import- ed) one Czecho-Slovakian (im ported) ene Australian.
The official trials of the 8.3. "Changte" will be run to-morrow (Saturday), leaving Kowloon Dock Buoy at 11.30 am. ~Erunches will leave Murray Pier for the "Changte" at 11 o'clock.
Prince Kung, one of the uncles of the former Boy Emperor, Hsuan, Tung. is now a visitor in Hongkong. He is simply on pleasure trip and no political significance is attached to his visit.
The police state that on the day following the warning issued concerning the non-compliance of arms holders in renewing their licences on January 1, the licence office was visited by a large num- ber of persons,
The sequel
durar-cent local postage cannot pay my debts stamps would be better if there while my wife keeps having was a little mor's gum on the back twins, lamented a Bow debtor, of them, says the "Malay Mall.”
Barrister to East End wit- neas: You have just sworn you were alone. But your wife was there! Witness (ornfully) : Well. I don't count her,
According to the "Shunpao" there are some 20,000 bandits In Kirin under the command of a lender, who has under his control. some 48 Houtenants.
Amongst the exhibits at the Although Haugehow is one of Show in Ipoh were a live crocodile the best known places in Ching! In a bath-tub and a Malay kitten or umbrellas; General Sun Chuan- in the Poultry Section, where also fang. Tupan of Chikfang, has pur- a large froy, perched on one of chased 15,000 umbrellas from a the poultry pens aroused the local rm for the use of the
soldiers. keen interest of crowds of Chinese
Firewood in Hongkong is being sold at $1 for about forty catties. Two shipments of fire wood consigned to the Hongkong Government from Singapore and Sandakan are expected to reach Hongkong shortly, which should help to reduce the present price.
"Children," said a young mother. "really are dreadful creatures. I hope I don't really look as if I'd got one foot in the grave, though I have been spring cleaning. but yesterday my eldest, aged 4, remarked to me solemnly. 'Mother, will you take me to Wembley to-morrow ---- or some day before you die?" "
WAS bvious. (HÆÐ 31 4E63 53 26K LOÐORÐRA JA NU Colonel Perkins in the House of Commons asked the Minister of
A correspondent, well ac- Agriculture if he were going to quainted with the East, informs. protect the South of England Home paper that latex has growers of the fruit from straw been utilised of late as fruit pre- berries grown abroad. And Mr.servative. He states that con- Harris (who is not a lengendary signments of mangosteens and person) asked if the Minister was plantains arrived in Paris re- prepared to consider branding cently, packed in barreis covered. each strawberry that came from with latex, ip splendid condition abroad..
for eating. If the report is cor- rect, says the paper, this use of latex will open up a new era in the fruit trade and we may soon be in a position to have Eastern fruits on our breakfast tables.
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An announcement by the Roral Hongkong Golf Club states that the Men's Club House at Fanling is now open for residence and meals. The Ladies' Club House except for the dressing room is closed and ladies' meals and refreshments are served in the Men's Club House. Owing to the difficulties in telephonic com- munication, members if they re-
A commercial treaty has been signed at Lisbon by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Siamese Envoy, who afterwards offered a banquet to the Portuguese Minister. The first commercial treaty between Portugal and Siam was signed in
1859.
George Buchanan tells A story of the Scotsman who, stag- gering under the weight of an enormous bag, went up to a tax would be if he took a taxi to the driver and asked how much it station? Upon being informed that it would cost 2s., he gasped out: "Aye, I was just wondering how much I was saving"-and tottered off.
The charge
Belgian newspaper proprie tors have been informed that) the postal administration will no longer continue to carry news- papers at the present price, as it represents a loss. will be raised from one centime to two centimes January 1 next. It is expected that this increase will be borne by subscribers to the newspapers,
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Fair were reculled at the sale by Memories of "Widdycome"
auction at Exeter for 24,500 of Butsford Farm: the traditional The P. & O. Co.'s new ateam-home of Uncle Tom Cableigh, the ship "Ranchi," of 16,600 tons, figurehead of the ballad bearing left London on August 15 with his name. Everybody has helped 500 passengers on a cruise to at some time or other to swell the. Norway and the northern capitals.
roaring chorus of the ballad, In pre-war days the which opens with the invoca- quirements are asked to inform company ran every year an ex- tion the secretary, Lieut. Col. E. D. tensive programme of pleasure Matthews, twenty-four hours in cruises, and this voyage marks advance. It is hoped to open the their regular resumption of the. Ladies' Club House and the new practice.. A programme embody- course on October 8.
ing six cruises for the middle months of next year is to be an- nounced at an early date. The "Ranchi" will leave London for Bombay on October 2,
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A change took place on August 15 in the command of the Patrol, Minesweeping, and Fishery, Protection Flotilla, the captain of which has the short
An Anglo-Indian who has title of "Captain (A/P)." Since recently returned from Italy, re- July, 1923, this force of two ports that there is a certain town sloops, seven minesweepers, one in the North of Italy which now drifter, and eleven fishery protec- consists almost entirely of retired tion gunboats has been command- Anglo-Indian families. ed by Captain E. R. G. R. Evans, make their homes there because They C.B., D.S.O., the Antartic ex- they find they can live for about a plorer. He is now being succeed-third of what the same sort of life ed by Captain G. C. Dickens, would cost them in England. C.M.G., who has just completed They have also the advantages of the senior officers' technical romantic surroundings and sun course, and whose last command shine. Many years ago the same was the cruiser "Carlisle," in sort of people took houses in China. It will be recalled that Talbot Road, Notting Hill, and Capt. Evans was formerly in the streets near by. Then, these command of the "Carlisle" on the streets were called "Little India;" China Station.
now, they are more or less slums.
SOCIAL AND
Miss Ivy Nicholls left the Colony on Wednesday for Singa- pore,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. da Roza returned to the Colony yesterday by the "President Pierce."
"Professor W. J. Hinton, of Hongkong University, arrived in Hongkong from Home on the Blue Funnel 4.5. "Calchas.”
Mr. T. Gibbson. Mr. M. K. Lo and Messrs. A. & D. Ross were amongst those who left the Colony by the "Empress of Russia.
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Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me
thy grey mare,
All along, down, along, out
along, lee;
For
I want to go to Widecombe Fair Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Feter Gurney, Peter Davy,. Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk,
Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and
all,
Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and
all.
What happened to this wonder-
related, except that Tom Pearce, ful company is never precisely going out as a rescue party of one, "seed his old mare down. a-making her will while ever since, "when the wind whistles cold on the Mow of a night, Tom Pearce's old mare doth appear gashly white, to the accompani ment of skirling, groans, rattling bones from Uncle Tom Cobleigh and the rest of the company.
and
PERSONAL.
A successful dance in. connec- tion with the weekly series organised by the ship's company of H.M.S."Carlisle" was held at the Seamen's Institute last night.
Reuter cables that the Soviet's Foreign Commissar M. Tchit- cherin's health is getting worse.
The death is announced at the ago of eighty of the actress Bosa
Sir Francis Aglon, Inspector Edouin, who toured India and the General of Customs, has sailed Far East with the firet English from England for China and theatrical company sent out from will be in time for the opening London.
of the Special Customs Conference
Mr. Chao Hain-chu, Acting Chin
In an oratorical contest for: Arabic ose Minister in London, has been speaking studenta held recently at reappointed one of the chief dele the University of Beirut, first hon- gates to represent China at the ours were won by Mrs. Ahmad Bixth Assembly of the League of Shakir, of Egypt, who was the first Nations Moslem woman to enroll at the university. She spoke in favour of the higher education of women:
Mr. Ong Kuan Seong, of the Mr. L. J. Blackburn, manager
Asiatic Petroleum Company Ipoh, of the Hongkong and China Gas
has passed the Intermedinte exa Co. returned to the Colony from Brig. Gen. J. Rally, who com-uation of the Corporation of Ac Manila yesterday by the "Premanded the famous Rainbow Divi countants, Glasgow He probably sident Grant.”
sion of the United States amylan the distinction of being the first during the World War, will arrive Chinese in Perle to pass this The "Malwa" yesterday brought in Tokyo shortly on a tour" "of the examination. back Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Fraser Far East He will write a serios and Mr. H. J. Pearce. Mr. Fraser Orient for the New York Amers elateddied, national festival for of articles on conditions in the The bard's crown of the Welsh to the Cadet service; Mr. Pearce joan and other newspapers ang to the P.W.D.
the encouragement of music and"; after a stay ni Japan will proceed tera and been won for the i forthcom China customs.co to Peking where he will report the
the ference for thess pap
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With the commencement of another University
those missionaries who, since the out break, resided in the Hostels, havo! had to find other accommodation:
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Jan 1915, and agai
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