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H.M.S. "Hermes is at Mirs Bay for exercise; and daily exer. cises flights to Hongkong are being carried out by aeroplanes from the ship.
The return of notifiably disgases in the Colony for the week ended on October 10, shows 1. Chinese case of diphthers, and 3 cases (one of which was fatal) of enteric fever (Portuguese and 2 Chinese. The return for the 24-hours ended on October 13, shows 1 British (im- ported) case of enteric lever...
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The foundations have been laid of another traffic points man'a sheiter. This is being con- structed outside the Star Ferry Whart on the Hongkong side.
A message from Cherbourg states that the authorities there have installed a powerful loud speaker at the barbour entrance. It has a very long range and will be used to warn vessels approach ing the port during fog.
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The importance of Singa pore and Penang as commercial centres is emphasised by the fact that 67 per cent of the imports into the Federated Malay States and 71 per cent of the exports therefrom pass through these ports.
From the "Putman Book News Author: "I have here a gripping tragedy wherein a young man. Is cast on a desert Island with two women and Editor: "But that plot has been used a thousand times." Author: "Not when the two women are his wife and his wife's mother."
It will conie" as a shock to many people to learn that the con: tinuance, of the Kuala Lumpur Y.M.C.A. is uncertain-that the Association is unable to make ends meet, and must close its doors unless public generosity furnishes a means of escape from
An ap sore financial difficulties.
made some time ago, peal was and resulted in disappointment.. Now a new appeal is being made. and we trust that it will meet with a generous response, says the "Malay Mail."
A London writer says: Spectacular effects do not very The composition of the Court easily mave me, but I must con- of Enquiry to be held at the Har fess that I have rarely seen any- bour Office to-morrow concerning thing more striking than the new the missing a.s. "Yue, Ying Wa"
Wembley Tattoo. The recruits' will be as follows: Lieut.-Comdr. drill is superb as a piece of
but the the Hole, RN, Harbour mechanical efficiency. G. F. Master (President), Lieut. march and counter-march in com- Comdr. HMO Furden, O.B.E.. plete darkness, with each man R.N. (H.M.S.Ambrose), Mr. carrying his own lamp, is as love W. J. Donohue (master of the s.s. ly a thing as can be seen, To "Bowes Castle'). Mr: C. Shearer some at least it must have seemed (master of the s.s. "Harvard") like fairyland come to life. and Mr. A. M. Frame (master of the "Changsha").
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Mr. Evelyn Wrench, of the Over Seas League, who has been visiting Holland, writes: The chief thing which strikes me is amazing cleanliness and orderliness of the Dutch. ever do they manage to be so tidy and keep their farms and houses so spick and span?. Nothing is
the of place:
spotlesa out lace curtains in the windows, the brightly painted shutters on the 'outside of the houses, the straight roads bordered with tress, the rectangular canals, the sleek-look- ing cattle just in the right spot in the landscape, the healthy-7 looking and well-dressed and well-
Underwriters at Lloyd's and the London marine insurance The authorities in Macao companies have mutually agreed have given the necessary instruc-
not to insure dangerous drugs tions to the Treasury Department imported into Britain unless the at Macao to pay the sum of importation is duly authorised in $150.000 as the Government sub-accordance with the terms of the fed peasants in the fields or the sidy for the construction of a Dangerous Drugs Act. This contented-looking families on the girls' college at Macao, says the agreement, it is believed, will pre-barges.
Diario de Macau." The build vent' the importation of illicit ing will cost considerably, more drugs except in small quantities. Many people have been sur- than this sum but the balance of Future policies will make it use- prised to learn that gramophone the cost of construction will be less for the drug trafficker to records of the voice of Tennyson met by the Mission in Macao to make a false declaration, for when are in existence and have been whose administration the institu- a claim arises the certificate of placed in the British Museum. But tion will be intrusted. The col- authorisation will be required Tennyson's is not the only voice lege will be placed under the before settlement is-made.
out of the past that may be heard direct control of an Administra-
by future generations.
There are others in the Museum, and it tive Council and will be conducted by Roman Catholic nuns. Plans new kind of soap in Italy. In- will be a great day when those for the construction of the build-stend of using scap and records are reproduced. Unfor- most civilised people | tunately, the gramophone was in and the last obstacle being remov-do, the new commodity, the inven- its infancy when Tennyson con- ed we may expect to see construction of a young. Czecho-Slovakian sented to record, and he gave his tion commencing at an early date. chemist, is rubbed straight an to There should be an opportunity the face, the heat of the skin for Hongkong merchants to dis- causing some of it to cling to the pose of stocks of materials that face. Then the user simply pro- are lying idle. It might he just ceeds to rub away as if he were possible, however, that all ar- using soap and water. They say rangements in this direction may that this process has something have been completed already. We of the effect of a Turkish bath believe that Messrs. P. J. Lobo upon the face, and that it leaves & Co. are to undertake the one feeling much fresher and construction. the plans being cleaner than any other process
does. drawn up by this tirin also.
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extracts from "The Light Brigade," "The Northern Farm- er," "Blow, Bugle, Blow," etc., with reluctance. So the voice may not sound very thrilling when XXXXXXXXXXXX0000000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It is heard, however thrilling it may be to realise that a dead man speaks. But it appears that che voice of Tennyson is not to he heard in our time, for a proposal to broadcast these records has Jbeen turned down.
PERSONAL.
That fine singer, William At a meeting at Government | Shakespeare Memorial. The Heughan, is at present in Singa- House. Singapore. a few ladies qualification for a life governor- pore and is coming to Hongkong and gentlemen, under the pre-ship of the memorial iš a dona- Mr. Heughan is assisted by Miss sidency of Miss Rose, discussed tion of £100 for the equivalent Gladys Sayer at the piano, and by the arrangements to be made for value in books, pictures, etc.) Mr. Hyman Lenzer, the violinist. the forthcoming Poppy Day, Miss Corelli wrote out a cheque, which will be celebrated on Tues-but it was not accepted. Her day. November 19.
criticism of certain methods em- ployed there and at other local in- The condition or Nurse Edith stitutions had, perhaps, some- Cavell's grave at-Norwich basthing to do with this. aroused much indignant criticism by the thousands of visitors who, pay pilgrimages to it. A quan lity of loose shingle on the top of the grave gives it a dirty and Mir. Eric Rice, formerly Private | neglected appearance, and the Secretary to H.E. the Governor flowers on the cross look faded. and now Special Commissioner A common observation of visitors. for the Over-Sys League left is that the grave is in need of England on September 28 on a someone to care for it properly. tour of the world in the interests Recently a box was placed on the of the Over-Seas League. Mr. railings round the grave, and con- Rice is anxious to get in touch|tributions are devoted to the with as many of the Members of Cathedral War Memorial Fund the League as possible in the coun-and the Cavell Home for Nurses. tries he is visiting. He will be in Hongkong in January next.
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During the last week of August. a tablet to Milton's memory was unveiled in the heart of the an The "Encyclopædia Britannica"
cient forest of Vallembrosa amid is to be congratulated on securing every sign of public interest. Mr. J. L. Garvin as-editor. The editor of the "Observer," as its which Milton wrote in the imo faintness and headache upon head- This is the very Vallombrosa of The acking back, tired limb, attacka readers well know, is almost anmortal line about the "autumnal ache from which so many women suffer encyclopædia in himself, and leaves that strew the brooks."at periodul intervals indicate plainly although his literary style hardly Catholic Italy welcomed the Eng- that the blood is at faul., the nervous follows the caste objectivitylish Puritan warmly, and the tente treatment is needed. To innumer system is net functioning properly and which is accepted as the ideal for Italian visit was one of the moat able such women sufferers Dr, Williams such writing, he will no doubt pleasant chapters in the poet's Finks Pills, the blood and nerve tonit generously 10, theife. He made good friends in only speedy relief but, permanent of world-wide"runown, have brought nut supplementary volumes in process Florence and Naples, and Italian emancipation. of compilation or revision,
One of these ladies, has, at any rate, plenty of elbowmemories were always with him. Miss Johanna van Recy, of Molteno, Milton, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Cape Colony, has recorded her case in
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"When my illness began me of the first signs that something was wrong It is reported that Admiral the peninsult.
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Then severe headaches attacked me, Manuel Ferreira da Rocha have!
The authoritative Life of Miss and at times I thought my head would been appointed representatives for Marie Corelli is now being written ful or two of food satisfying me for burst. Soon I had no appetite, a mouth- Portugul in the forthcoming Tarif by her lifetime friend and literary any meal. I could not sleep at night, Conference in China. Admiral de executor. Misa Bertha Vyver, and was always restless.
My hande Lacerda is well known as the who is the present mistress of and feet were cold, and I was extremely Administrator of the Port Works Mason Croft, the novelist's beauti-noire, like the slamming of a door, made pale. I was so nervous that the least of Macno, while Mr. Rocha is the ful home in Stratford-on-Avon, ma worse. A friend advised me to try. very popular Deputy for Macno had better opportunity than any Dr. Williams Pink Pills. She had who was expected in Hongkong on one else to gather the necessary cured her. I started taking them, and suffered as 1 was suffering and they the 13th instant, en passant to material; hence it is certain that Macao Mr. Rocha is accompanied the book will contain an array of soon after was cured.
short time I noticed a change, and by Mrs. Rocha, and we understand surprising facts. One bitherto Your own druggist can supply Dr. that Mr. and Mrs, Antonio Maria unrecorded point will doubtless be. Willians Pink Pills, or direct from de Silva, of Macao are also ex- made clear, Miss. Corelli had a Road, Shanghai, $1.50 for one bottle, Dr. Williams Medicine. Co., 60, langse pected by the same vessel.
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The
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Club Ambrose" haven ed to each other
Dans this season. the first and third team the second
On last Saturd Club were worthy ng the Navy in mant. The hand? of the threequa marked Improver with the previous. Lammert's retu eatly strengthen strong runninge map an opportu sented helped to w the Club
Both packs plaz mame, the hookti forwardy being an One thing requ and that is"the which, in the last been, to say the bad. It is a soun to allocate one or practise this parti sary art from all all is said and dož has been won or
oal kicking.
In passing, it that last Saturday Lacked the service Et Mortimer. Mortimer played the triangular year.
(To the Editor of
Sir With the est in Rugby to a little criticism would not be out seems to be comi in the Colony an will only take th marks in the ri are the team. I benefit.
The Hongkong amount of indivi they lick combin too much "playin Threes should re wings are the pe it is ap to the Ha
to make the nec It is perhaps
the scrum first.
of the serum?
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