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the Arms® Ordinance Aa this view is also held by the Astorney- General His Worship had no option but to dismiss a summens against a Okiness wholesale dealer for selling foy platola But It Hesi with the Legislative Council to: amend the Arms Ordinance as speedily as possible so as to make
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
One of the most pic-|
A lawyer
who
OLD CLO turesque features of COURTESIES occupied an editor's тоот one night Paria life is the
it illegal to trade in toy pistols even Marché des Puces--which trans. thought to make a joke at the ex- though these do not discharge fated means the "flea market" pense of his host, and sent him
the following lines
I slept in an editor's bed last
night,
When no other chanced to be
nigh,
So I thought, as I slept in the
editor's bed,
How easily editors lie But the editor was equal to the occasion, for he sent the following lines to the lawyer
If the lawyer slept in the
editor's bed,
When no other chanced to be
nigh
And though he has written, and
naively said,
missiles. 1 is the experience of the Police that robbers have resort. It is now moved to new quarters ed to toy pistols as a means of tar-outside the city, about a hundred rifying people. In view of the yards from the Porte de la Cha- number of armed robberies in the pelle. The market was orginal Colony, it is obviously essential toly founded by the ragpickers who curb the activities of the depredathus disposed of the miscellane tors as far as possible. Oneous objects they picked up. method is to prohibit the trade in Marine-store deafers joined in, toy pistols, thus tending to lessen and in the end the market was a the number of robbers who rely on recognized place in which were this mode of terroriar, of their in-
Bold" "old clothing, uniforms. nocent victims-usually of a class second-hand furniture, bicycle too panic-stricken to be able to tires, picture frames, iron. discern the difference between amongery, and a thousand and one toy pistol and one that is far from articles that could be patched up a toy. No doubt the Police and be made useful in some way. authorities will be able to influence The market used to be held on the Legislative Council In the
the Boulevard Ney, but afterward direction mentioned.
was transferred to a piece of waste ground behind the Clignan- court barracks. This site, which it has occupied for many years, is now required by the military authorities. It is therefore to be located in future in the Avenue du President. Wilson. It will extend over two and a half miles of road-
There is now a book way. Each dealer has to pay EPITAPHS on this "grave" subject SANITARY BOARD'S LETTER. the small sum of fifty centimes
and it has served to for the right of spreading out his remind many of the inscriptions 'The powers
of the Sanitarywares. on the pavement. The which have come to their notice. Board to inspect servants quar-
opening is to be celebrated by a Here is an American sample:- the inaugural meeting in Shang-ters in European houses was one cavalcade, a balloon ascent, and a
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Hongkong, Thursday, Feb. 5, 3.926,
·TO COMBAT COMMUNISM.
On the face of the cablegram from Shanghai, published yester- day, the new organisation, the Constitutional Defence League,
hai comes to hand.
KOWLOON MATTERS.
INSPECTION OF SERVANTS*
"QUARTERS?
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aeroplane.
of the matters discussed at the showering of leaflets from an monthly meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association,
י
Meanwhile, it is worthy of note that it already is being welcomed amongst the Chinese themselves, who have had ample time by now to weigh up Communism for them-secretary was to call on the Asso- selves and to find it wanting in those very virtues of which its leaders in Soviet Russia prate so much.
48 HOURS.
How easily editors lle, He must then admit, as he lay
"on that bed,
And slept to his heart's
desire,
Whate'er he may say of the
editor's bed
"Twas the lawyer himself was
the Her.
The tomb of an infant pre- maturely cut off has the follow- ing:-
Now I am so early done for,
I wonder what I was begun
for
Concerning queer hob HIMSELF bies, the story is told HIS OWN at a London nursing HOBBY. home of an unfortun- ate man who came so
The question arose out of B letter to the Association from the
The statement in a "MAP Colonial Office report Sanitary Board stating that the MUDDLES, that "stemingly educat
ed persons could not ciation with regard to the possibi-place Cyprus on the map within 1,000 miles" recalls some official lity of thus extending the super- vision exercised by the Sanitary ors of more consequence. An Board, at present only in the case later handed Chandernagore over eighteenth-century Foreign Min- of native quarters.
The reason for the contempla-to France in the belief that it was frequently under the surgeon's tion of such a step was given in of which error the French Colony hobby of collecting himself, in a West Indian Island, as a result manipulations that he made a the letter as a more reliable assur- of Chandernagore still exists in glass jars and bottles. Starting ance to owners of houses. as to India, only twenty miles from with an ingrowing toenail, he possible sanitary defects...
Calcutta. And a few years ago went on with tonsils, mclars, and The Committee of the K.RA..the President of the Royal Geor such components, until he had There is very little in the King's speech to Parliament which while fully approving the general graphical Society prevented
A filled a shelf with "spare parts". has a direct bearing on the post-principle of the system of house territorial arrangement in Africa, carefully dated and described. tion and condition of affairs in cleansing, considered fuller in-under, which France benefited at the Far East and in Hongkong. formation desirable as to applien- the expense of this country, by Hongkong already has the know-tion of the by-law to European ledge that Parliament, through houses. the Colonial Office is not unmind-
Children's Playground. ful of her as witness the prompti-
The Chairman reported that, as tude which characterised the sr-instructed by the Committee, he ranging of the Trade Loan Ahadi called on the then Colonial King's speech must necessarily Secretary, Mr. Fletcher, who, with
him and the Sub-Committee, had
pointing out to the Foreign Office
Among the relics that it was based on measure-PORT WITH stored in the Friends" ments from the meridian of Paris, A CHUST. headquarters, Lon- instead of that of Greenwich, as
don, is a bottle of the British delegates assumed.
port given to three Friends im- prisoned in the old Fleet- Prison for non-payment of tithes, and preserved at the request of one of them with the proviso that it must not be opened until the Church of England is severed from the State by the Legislature when it will certainly be very
The recent discus THE FIRST sign on submarines inspected the grounds and pro-SUBMARINE, makes the following mised his best endeavours to secure for the children the, addi-
tional area of 20,000 square feet back from the road traffic and for which the Association had asked the Government. The Chairman had also that day, December 18,
note interesting. Fulton, the American. con-
structed the first submarine in 1801 and made successful trials with it in Brest Harbour. He was disliked by Napoleon, ho refused to allow. "the
French
crusty,
From the examina-
his steamships and other inven called on the present Colonial Academy of Science to investigate.] ANSWERED. tion papers of Civil
KOWLOON.
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Service candidates in
RAISING THE DEAD.
survey the Empire, and touch. upon the most pressing Home and foreign problems, the solving of which set, in a beneficent sense, far and wide. And this is obviously the case in the speech from the throne. A trade improvement ie long overdue, but signs are not wanting of its near approach. The should be welcomed even if it is debate on the speech revealed the Secretary, Mr. Hallifax, who had eventually found possible to de-Government's. concern on the vote itself only to a fraction of question of the hours of labourassured the Chairman that the tions. Mr. Bridges states that if Los Angeles
matter would receive the most the great Napoleon had made the Question: If you found a man with a view to a maximum week the laudable and extensive planks of 48 hours.
sympathetic consideration of the most of Robert Fulton's inven- with a severe cut on the head that A contented labour-
tions, Waterloo might never have was bleeding freely, what would Government. in its platform. It was stated in ing class is the desire of all
Arrangements were made for been fought and the whole history you do? the cablegram that branches will nations. Most industrial troubles, the annual meeting of the Asse-of the modern world might have Answer: I would put à tourni- be formed in Hongkong and other in the past at any rate, have been ciation to be held in St. Andrew's beor changed."
quet on his neck. due, not only to alleged under Church Hall at 6 o'clock on Mon- centres, but as regards Hongkong payment and undesirable con-day, February 22. the assertion is made that theditions, but to unreasonable hours formation of such a body here of labour. Matters have been.
adjusted until would not be permitted. Why? steadily
the MERRY TROTTERS.” Even more than Shang-working-man has come to realise
that not only has he a souf but a DICK NORTON'S COMPANY IN bai has this Colony suffer body. Opinion will be with Mr.
In a world made safe for da- a finer taste that the playwrights, ed, and is stül suffering, Baldwin that uniformity of action:
mocracy the voice of the people players, and producers of the busy Restoration stage. It did not, we from the effects of the growth in this matter is most desirable, For their second performance is to decide questions of art.
see, destroy the pleasure of their of Communism. Any organisa- and that where people of differ at the Star Theatre last night Whether we shall be the better audiences that something should ing tongues are endeavouring to Dick Norton'e New Globe Trotters for that time must declare, says happen on the stage after the play tion created with the serious reach a unanimous decision, there were rewarded with a bumper a London paper. They are mak was over incompatible with the objective of combating Com-should be no possible shadow of house and a most appreciative ing a pleasant experiment in illusion of its reality. To his múnism deserves the utmost sup-doubt as to what they do mean audience.
Vienna A hundred and fiftyImperial Majesty's pleasure it was port, meral and practical, of the All these evidences of attention to Two features of the programme years ago the philanthropic despot necessary that he should not for
the cause of those engaged in deserve special mention
the Joseph II. gave orders that in the some time be allowed to see the entire community here,
both manly toil' point to the great part played by Dick Imperial Burgtheater of Vienna Players again. But that he or Chinese and non-Chinese. Com-fact that Mr. Lloyd George's Norton himself, which spelt suc- there should be no "galla." · Let | those who think like hím cân, thus
determination munism is a noxious weed. It war
illusion makecess from the moment the cur- the audience applaud never so preserve England. .a' fit place for tain was raised; and the Ane loudly they should see no one but strange. The appearance of a must not only be sprayed with heroes to live in, is slowly being musicianly talent of Mr. Herbert the manager. The stern ordin- | Bowing manager is surely a auff- righteous condemnation but root-realised. Much remains to be Morris on the piano, which evok-ance the players have faithfully ciently strong hint that the thing ed up entirely to prevent any done, but as Rome was not builted well deserved applause. More with whatever Inward panga, was only play acting. The neces chance of its further propagation, in a day, so old problems cannot individual items would likewise obeyed until the downfall of the sary business of geting out of the be solved in a minute. The have been welcomed from the Imperial authority in dramatic art. theatre and going home, however Its doctrines are utterly opposed King's speech bristles with refer-baby" of the Trotters-Miss The director of the theatre in softened for his Imperial Mafesty, to all the tenets of law and order onces to what is being attempted Betty Norton,
these days of liberty finds that must be as disturbing as Hamlet and good government. There can to make the conditions of work in the whole entertainment, the tion of applause are bad for an that there may be acting and there There was not a dull moment restriction of "calls" and depriva- taking a call. We readily allow be no abiding place for it in any people harmonies with the sug topical allusions by Dick Norton actor's sensitive nature. Yet he may be plays in which the tempor scheme for the prosperity and gestad leisure of a 48-hour week. being particularly relished. feels that the actors are not the ary illusion is of little account and
There is a promise of legislation The Globe Trotters will be at only people concerned. When the power and the beauty are in. contentment of the peoples of the affecting housing, and agriculture, the Star Theatre up to and in Cesar has "bled in sport" will it the interpretation of mind to Orient. It cannot, and never and a report on the coal industry cluding Sunday night.
damp the spirits of the Burgtheater mind. But even then we see no shall, make for good citizenship. We may hope that with all this
audience to see him come before Just or lawful. impediment to the Instead, its principles (although evidence of a real concern for his
the curtain? This great question actor making his bow when the there is no such thing as prin do his share so that in course of welfare, the British worker will
The launch of the battleship can only be settled in a democratic. play is over. It should not be age by a referendum. It seems to forgotten that acting is an art to ciple in Communism) are all cal-time such things as unemploy Rodney constitutes the fifth in be the dead who are the crux of which the public as well as the culated to breed decontent and ment doles and figures may sequence of that name which goes the matter in Vienna. What dis- artist contribute something. * No back to 1781, when the name ap turbed Joseph I was the re-player ever did his best without rancour and hate It is utterly descend to the minimum.
peared in the Navy List as that of urrection, smirking and bowing the stimulue of the excitement of unsuitable for the soil of China.
la 16-gun frigate, afterwards cap-f what were dramatically and those whom he is striving to ex tured by the French at the capitu artistically corpses. His Imperial cits. The easiest way to Ragura Istion of Demerara. A 92-gun ship, built at Pembroke in 1883 Majesty would not we fear, have him, of this is the regular in- smiled to heat Nall Cazzon rebuke dulgence in applause-- The state. fought on the 29367
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who were removing her pro- of mind of the purlate who would and in the Crim
trata form
rather leave the theatre in silence, Atted with
Anything, therefore, that can
stem its activities in China and Toy Pistols. Hongkong
Es fa other the dut parts of the world deserves „not carry out
Ito hard tion but
to
Are you mad, you dama
dad dog!
rise and speak the
who feel their emotic by the vul appleaded, des But one of tions of dras prepared to take must work acor
oof that Joseph L. had
must seer