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ANNUAL MOTOR CAR DRAW
In aid of the funds of the Society for the support of the POOR OF HONGKONG.
A 1926 AUSTIN 7--Family Model Car equipped with
BALLOON TYRES and Four Wheel Brakes, etc.
To be drawn for ou the night of the Society's 42nd
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In Hongkong at Hongkong Cigar Store; Café Wiseman; Alexandra Café; Blue Bird: Brunswick Studio: Mee Cheong's Photo Stalla; Hoogkong Hotel; Graca & Co. and other Stores.
in Kowloon at the Bookshop, Star Ferry: Penfusula Store and also at Alex Ross & Co. (China) Ltd., Show Room, la Chater Road, where the car is on view.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Many people have j A PUZZLE OF been puzzled by CABANDAR the hot that the twelfth month of
"Dreams"; "and How to RAYMED Interpret Them, by a Raviw. Physicinni: "(Cecil Pal ̧
mer. 38. 6d. net.). You, who with gusto hive, bean
want to tell
Your striking dreams over the
moining bacon, Pause, with your fack up-lifted, and
Dink well:
fends impatient at having to wait for another car to cross arst, which is hardly in accordance with fact, considering the sudden curves and twists which bring one. to a bridge almost before one la aware of it. Uncertainty, too, as to the intentions of another driver this year is called December," na |might again lead to a terrible ac-though it were the tenth.
eident such as occurred on the The anomaly, of unr, is due to (our retention in part of the calendar Castle Peak Road some years of Romulus, which decrood year ago and which was largely instru-of 304 daye divided into ten months. mental in the widening of the Had we retained the old, Homan bridges on that sector. The treman, jonlendar in ite shtirety, the sovanth dous increase in motor traffic month of our modern year--the fifth
bo near," which has taken place in recent ccording to Romulus-would he
known as Quiptilis." It was Ţuline | Ele will armigu and leave you alt years makes the need for wider Casar who changed the name to aghast bridges on this popular thorough-July, because Quintilis was his nata! Your nightmares and your favourite fare an imperative one, and it month. This change was made in visions dear, should be the first work to receive B.C. 44. and July it has been ever attention. when events justify since. greater expenditure on local de- velopment.
WISE WORDS.
"The name of FLASHES FROM, the hotel? Oh THE FOOTLIGHTS the Cow and
Litter,"
"But cows don't have littera!” "It's only a name. For that matter, pigs don't have whistles."
-From "The Cuckoo in the
Nest,"
"Quotations are the only things! authors are able to borrow."
*
"I wonder what would happen
you and I ever agreed?" "I'd be wrong!"
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going to Romeo and Juliet.'"
"Sorry, but I can't come. I'm
"Bring them along with you."
Six months ago the Shanghai riots began a phase. of anti- foreignism, or feeling against Britons, equalled only by the Boxer rising. Its effect swiftly travelled to Hongkong with what result we know. Sorely tried Britons in China have been moved variously. but never in the direc-if tion of copying the example set) before them. If the Chinese have been "rioted" against. it has been with the tongue. And many, even in Hongkong, must feel foolish at the sentiments to which they have given expression, or which they have applauded. Direct action, or veiled suggestions in that direc- tion, have been given publicity and received with the belief that such was all that was needed. Not wholly. The voice of discretion has not been silent, and there has been much said in favour of a policy of patience. We are seeing that such a policy is likely to be
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"He was killed in a feud;" "That's what comes of people riding in cheap cars."
-From "The Gorilla.""
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Your entertainment may be quito
"mistaken..
Should an interpreter by entice
past.
Are symbols of your buried purple
"No uso to tuy and blame your poor
digestion,
Nor yet lie bioscope's nerving.
Acone
He'll scorn auch poce and trivial
„suggestion Thanks to Physician," No'll know
what they mean,
That "working" brandy of P.W.D: our "silent service”'~-~-tile
P.W.D. should be glad it |dere" not "oporate" on the Gold the authorities ap in the Kumasi dis- Const for a weekly paper is waking.
trict. This is the sort of pioneering on the fringes of Empire that we like to see. The excerpt is given in full, syntax and spelling and ali ;--- A Dilapidated Street, Kufunsi. ·
We wish to inpress up the public works Department or the "public Heath Board or whoever the im- prover is to take upon himself the (necessity of improving the street and gutters leading from Mosers, Wood "I can't get away from. L. S. D.J& Selick, Sentiaw Odcam Street I was born a billionaire, just as right up to the Skoltiah, Mission other men are born bilious,t«
Church. Wo see no reason why thin Street has been left no attended for a very king time e since the improva- qent of Kumsi stroots began. This [street, must be regarded as a thor
ughfare, A greal danger may ho very easily enused to the public by a end and the mathurifies sõhuld not
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"Never you mind my wife,
justified. But it has to be ad-She's in Heaven, puir body--we mitted that in certain quarters the shallna meet again." advice for sympathy has not been
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made with that dispatch which you should have sent some of us feel ought to have been
away."
him
wheef.
--From "Too Much Money." - A stitch in bimo saves ning.
CASH DOWN.
..
WORLD TOURISTS.
OFFER FOR EX-KAISER'S PROPERTY.
STATE'S BIG PURCHASE.
"CARINTHIA" DUE HERE TO-MORROW.
shown at the beginning. Why, "My instructions are to send wait qubik na accident happens be- for instance, should "The Times" nobody away except the im-ws they put their shoulders to the at this late stage, with all the in- pecunious." Auence attached to its name, give rein to such wisdom: as has been cabled to us? "It is futile," says this great paper, "to dream of diverting or controlling the com- plicated process of change in the life of the biggest people in Asia by means of a few gunboats and regiments." British policy, in China, it adds, does not imply and jshould not imply the armed inter-. vention which so many sorely tried Britons in China would greatly welcome. This policy should certainly not apply in |Hongkong. It has not applied in the past. The policy of Justice and equity, educational facilities, not be entirely unavailing and that freedom and the like, has so far now there are signs of things re-proved the best. These benefits some Berfin house: property, all under the direction of Mesara. turning to normal, one of the first may seem not to be appreciated in furnished, is the price the Prus-Raymond and Whitcomb, items to engage the attention of there has been their impregn. agreed to pay the ex-Kaiser 320,000-ton finer sailing under the certain quarters, but deep down sian Ministry of Finance has The "Carinthia" is the newest the roads department of the ability. Our University even was "compensation."
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Rigid economy and a cessation
Tel. C. 4702.
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(Reuter's Bervice.)
Berlin, Dec. 1. Thirty million marka cash for 180,000 acres of agricultural land and forests, three palaces in Ber- in and one in Babelsberg, and
2,000
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS.
The first batch of over world tourists to pass through Hongkong this season will arrive on the Cunard liner "Carinthia” shortly after eight o'clock to- morrow morning, the cruise being
P.W.D. will be the widening of the an attitude of sympathy with the The Prussian State retains the Cunard Company's flag, and a sis |bridges on that sector of the Newgreat people of Southern China. so-called, Crown Castles and allter ship of the "Franconia." which To throw in a few regiments and works of art in Berlin, the already undertaken two world Territories road in the neighbour-gunboats, would have undone the Museum Shuck Gallery in Munich, cruises. The vessel is sumptuous- hood of Taipo and Shatin To ad-good of the past years and given the Crown jewels in the Hohenly fitted for the tourist trade, and Museum Library and possesses many new and distine- vocate expenditure on the furthers a legacy of trouble difficult, or zollern ance of pleasure alone might well public utterances give us hope that their endowments and 70,000 struction, which for the first time impossible to dissolve. Recent archives from the Royal Theatres.tive features in Cunard ship con- be deemed foolish at this time but the policy of sympathy is gaining acres of lands, and forests and has resorted to Spanish architec the benefits to be derived from the ground. How else to understand some house property in Berlin complete change of environment the appeal for fresh understand and Potsdam also the revenue such as the New Territory sceneryvoiced by the "China Mail".
ing between British and Chinese from the former Crown Estates.
The Ministry declares that the -provides is a factor making for time after time, by
means thirty millions above-mentioned is greater health and therefore which it should not be difficult to equivalent to the value of the greater individual efficiency. Thera arrange. It may have been hard property, which now falls to the to stretch optimism over six
State. is also to be considered the point months. Now that it has been
of view of public safety to which done, a little more stretching the present bridges undoubtedly should not weaken the cause of a constitute a very grave menace, policy of sympathy,
not only by reason of their nar- Frowness but by the very sharp turns which have to be negotiated after crossing them, To take an instance. A motor cyclist nego tiating this week-end the narrow
PIRACY ECHO.
DEATH OF MISS G.
PEARSON
:
IRISH DISPUTE,
(Reuter's Service.).``
ture and art in its scheme of de- coration.
,'.
Local arrangements for the 400 visitors on board are in the hands of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Tourist Bureau. . During the three days' stay here, the visitors will be taken in groups (every morning for sight seeing on
the Peak, with the Peak Hotél as," a resting place: The afternoong. will be spent in motor trips round the island, with tea at Repulse Bay. Tiffin will be served every day at the roof garden of the Hongkong Hotel,
the
London, Nov. 30. Dead silence is maintained with regard to the negotiations on the With the arrangements being Irish boundary question, which in such capable hands and indica- continued over the week-end at tions of good weather, an enjoy Chequers between Mr. Baldwin, able time is in store for of works of development until such bridge in the Shatin valley from The name of Miss Gwendoline Sir John Craig and three Free visitora,
Pearson, news of whose death in State Ministers.
The vessel will leave for Manila time as conditions in South China which proceeding from Fanling, Shanghai has reached the Colony, It is now widely agreed that the on Friday night, the remainder of generally justify their continuance sharp upward curve leads to the is associated in local memory with Commission's report will have the her itinerary being Zamboanga, was the keynote of the budget top found it impossible to avoid the "Sui An" piracy when to force of law immediately it is Port Moresby, Auckland, Welling- estimates for next year introduced a bad akid although he was pro- Sether with her parents she was issued; hence, it is presumed the ton. Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, by Sir R. E. Stabbers When such ceeding cautiously. The road, hours,
confined to her cabin for many Commission will tactfully with Fremantle, Batavia, Singapore, hold the document pending efforts Colombo Bombay, Suez, Alex- pressingly important schemes as although dry, was certainly inches Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Pearson, at to get North and South to agrea andria, Naples, Villefranche, the replacement of prison quarters, deep in dust and sand at the spot, the time of the death of their to adjust the boundaries amicably Gibraltar and Cherbourg. The which have grown spelessly in and this undoubtedly contributed daughter, had left Hongkong and the possibilities of which are con- total distance covered will be were resident in Shanghal. Death tained in Ulster's original refusal 35,000 miles and the vessel followa adequate and undewicakl
from a to s fall which might have been took place at the Victoria Nursing to sppoint a Commissioner, she a path of sunshine with an ever hygienic point of view have to be attended by more serious couse-Home on November 25 Deceased inferentially preferring the status changing interest for over four temporarily shelved, it would quencse than the cut hand and was 18 years of age.
and a half months. The Free State will probably bei hardly be fair to criticise any sprained ankle which the motor
content with a similar solution, jeg department for failure to meet cyclist sustained the main dan- what, before the beginning of reger in these brittat, however, les cent events, were irded as cry
that ther on them
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since it is known that the Come Page Ne
sisaloner's findings favour Paris, November: 30; Ulster; but both sides are sensi-
the respectiva publie
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that he did no?”
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