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BY AMER Women's
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1831 trumpet blowing purposes--but also, and year there wonht be no sign of steam engines more particularly, for the discussion of on land or of ten. The gas engino had mutual difficulties.
We are often reading It is with that purpose in view that fashians. Why should not the men be just arrived" when be used, "those Words: The scientific world then realise the St. George's Society exists in Hong dragged occasionally into the spot light! that the new type of engine was much kong. To act as the rallying point for There is great 'discussion at Home now more compact and efficient than a steam all Englishmen, to assist other English-regarding men's clothes. It is argued plant. As often happens, however, there men who, temporarily, and perlinpa out that men have never been as badly were many unexpected difficulties. With of sheer bad luck, are in need; those are dressed as they are today and that they? all due respect to the scientiße euthu- the chief objects of the Society. To keep almost invariably wear clothes entirely sinats it may be stated that the final alive the flame of nationalism, while at unsuited to their occupations. If that decision about the general adoption of the same time denying to no other nations is the case at Home what should be said any now invention lies with the general the same right, is ad object worthy of of the creatures horel public. The steam turbine unexpectedly commendation. Therefore, every English- made its appearance as a commercial man should make a point of getting into rival to the old form of steam engine and touch with the local Secretary as soon as to the oil engine. It had obvious dispossible so that on England's Day the A LARGE AND VERY advantages for marine work; bat in a Society will stand out as one which has
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Cathedral at 3 pm on Tuesday, April 30th, of Ms. 8. B. TAX, 8on of the late Singapore, to Miss ELIZABETH WONG, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. KE Wong, Hongkong,
Mr. and Mrs. Tan Cheng Tuan, of
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DEATH.
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the whole-hearted support of all English- men in the Colony.
Let us consider the question first from the point of view of the "ahabbiness? of men. Some men, we know, have little to spend on what they would call "vanities," most of their extra pennies going on their wives' backs. But at the few years all the warships of His
same time there is no reason why they Majesty's Royal Navy were being pro
should not make the best of themselves. pelled by steam turbines. Huge liners HE the Governor has honoured the An old suit, carefully pressed and brush such as the Lusitania and Mauretania Society by "consenting to become itsed and put on well often looks smarter had denionstrated that the mercantile Patron. The newly elected and popular than an expensive one, put on carslessly. marine had been watching closely the President intends to work hard for the Men may jeer at women's Mannequin development of this invention. In one good of the cause. Under these auspices Parades and precision over every detail, of his poems, KIPLING says of the Hiner. it is expected that the Society is about but it would be a very different looking that "she's lady and what a lady to enter on ong of the most prosperous world if the men took half the trouble to be well-groomed, that the average gan afford, the drudge may not obtain.years in ita records. The many ocean tramps continued to use Englishmen will have the opportunity woman takes to be stylish in a man's the old type of machinery and practically on St. George's Day of meeting all other eyes.
Then there is the other type of man all the China coast boats "chug" around Englishmen and their friends at the con- the Far Eastern seas in the same was cert being arranged by the Society. The who has ample means with which to dress as other vessels did forty, fifty and per- East Surrey's band will play selections wall, but merely does not care. The suite
he had five years ago, so long as it is haps sixty years ago. Now at last the of English Music, and it is hoped to rot quite threadbare, is good enough old steam reciprocating engine seems to arrange a very varied programme consist- to-day. He likes the woman he takes out be passing away. The official trials of ing entirely of English Music of different to be smart and neatly dressed, but he the latest addition to the facet of the periods. The plans for this concert will forgets that she dislikes him to be shabby
be opened at Moutrie's on Saturday.
and slovenly looking. A woman with Royal Mail Steain Packet Company seem
such an appearance would soon be left cloquent enough to app to shipbuild-
at the post," but many such men are This vessel, the
tolerated merely because they are men, ers the world over. Asturias is 2,500 gross tons. She is
and are not expected to know bow to dress. Why should such excuses be made for them? propelled by two sets of vil engines, each with eight cylinders, and she develops about 20,000 horse-power. She is the largest and most powerful motor vessel
The Rev. T. B. Powell, of St. John's Cathedral, is due to leave the Colony at the end of this month
The rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10 a.m. yesterday brought the total since January 1st to 16.51 inches, against an
at present in service,.. During a twenty-average of 824 inches. four hours trial she used 70 tons of fuel
Mr. J. R. Sindlinger, of the Standard and that is the figure upon which the
Oil Company, Manila, feft
Teft Hongkong, enthusiasts bar their faith. The ship after a business trip to this Colony, by burns less than a third the weight of fuel the 88. President McKinley yesterday to than is burnt when coal and steam is return to Manila. used. The space occupied by the ranchin- ery is much less and, at last, the in- ventors working on oil cugines appear to have secured reliability. It was the insight and courage of Lord PIRRIZ that put forward the scheme and the official results have justified his enterprise. We have had a remarkable mctor-driven ship
Rice, our Chinese correspondent says, is now sold in Wachow at $90 a picul and chicken at not less than $1.50 a catty This is partly due to the heavy depro- ciation of the local currency.
Mr. Eric Rice, fravelling secretary of the Overseas League, arrived in Kuala Lumpur on his way Home, after a tour of the East which has resulted in the securing of 1,100 new members for the League.
The annual inspection of the Hongkong Police Force by H.E. the Governor was to have taken place yesterday afternoon, but owing to the wet weather the cers mony was postponed until next Wednes day afternoon.
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But there is a type one degree worse, the man who has money and spends it on dress, with little or no taste. Ho causes women more pain with pink shirts and shrieking socks and ties than any man who might be mistaken for a tratap."
The suggestions for improvement in men's fashions are numerous, utility being considered as well as appearance. Shorts, it is arged, provide a com monsense costume for all and every occasion. Knee breeches and a species of plus fours have their supporters Trousers collect dirt, lack dignity when creased or crumpled, and are thoroughly uncomfortable for games. Yes, trousers must be abolished.
It is absurd that men should" wear, in- the East, evening dress similar to that worn at Home. White coats are cer tainly slightly cooler but an improvement should be made on the stiff collar and- shirt. It would not take us Inng to ge accustomed to a soft cricket-shirt collar, and its adoption would save many in- jured tempers.
Although conditions bere are totally
different from those at home, there is one word of advice being given at Home which Hongkong men could equally well take to heart. Without being "lops" or wearing coloured suits they could see ta it that they carried themselves well. Let them remember that it is they who make their clothes look smart," "not vice serait
in these waters, a representative of the Blue Funnel feet, and we know that Messrs. ALPRED HOT have, with their usual enterprise, devoted a great deal of attention to the oil engine at sea.
Although it is unfortunate that the demand for new ships is not greater, it is satisfactory to record, progresa 'with
From & Shanghai paper we gather
The Shanghai Rowing Club at its success of the that Mr. G. H. Stitt, Manager of the The new inventions. R.M.S. Aaturia wakes us believe that hai, is leaving for England later on
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Shang. annual general meeting last week passed a resolution affirming the Club's rendi. there will be a considerable demand in in the summer" and that he is contemiess to welcome back to the Club fermer
plating retiringe
members of the German nationality, and declaring that membership should bence. This 3rd Heavy Battery of the Royal forward be open to all German appli Regiment of Artillery is relieving the cants on the same basis as subjecta cr 25th Battery in Hongkong during the citizens of other nationalities. trooping season 1928-27, The 23rd are coming here from Malta, and the 26th are destined for Singapore.
PIESS. the near future for ships that depord ou
HONGKONG, APRIL 15TH, 1926.
THE SHIPBUILDING OUTLOOK.
THE figures recently issued under the title of "Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns "-
oil engines. Are we ready to build them in Hongkong!
Hongkong passengers on the P, & O
a. Kashgar, due to arrive on Saturday, include Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Cressey, Mr.
ENGLAND AND HER DAY..
Among passengers on the as. President Allan Chapman, "Comdr. F. C. Darley, The Englishman unlike his more pushing McKinley who passed through Hongkong R.N., Mr. S. Eccleshall and child, Miss cousins and his more aggressive neigh-yesterday was Mr. A. E. Clegg, President A. M. Gubbins, Mr. I. N. Murray, Mr. of the Kerr Steamship Company, New J 8. Macdonald, Mr. J. B. Newton, Mr. bours is a non-gregarious and a different York. Mr. Clegg is on his way to R. D. Read, Lieut. R. H. Byon, Mr.
America...
are of more than passing interest to many being. There are times, however, when Manila, after which he is to return to N. H. Ross, Lieut. R. Todhunter.
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Yesterday, was the Chinese festival of the patron saint of fishermen, Puk Tai. At Cheung Chan the celebrations are kept up for several days, the featurs, being a theatrical show in a huge mat. shed, with the image of Pub Tai (taken from a templs close at hand) being placed
the seat of honour
rendence for the Philippine Islands. Mr. Osmena was formerly speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philip pines. His wife and son are stopping in Hongkong for a short while before re- turning to Manila
A Siamese Princess, whose name is Phon Disaul, from Bangkok, passed through Hongkong yesterday on the ss. Prendent McKinley for Manila, where she will attend school to receive her education. She is accompanied on her trip by Dr.- Consul-General at Canton, arrived in Foundation, and who for the last two Bir James Jamieson, the British and Mrs, P. H. Lowell, of the Rockfeller Hongkong from Canton yesterday after years have been working in conjunction
people in this Colony. Hongkong very
Interesting arrivals by the e.s. Fre.. much depende upon shipping and the although he may openly profess scorn
Heavy rains and swollen streams insident Mckinley yesterday, were Mrs. local shipbuilding yards are also affected of what he considers the unwarranted the fey Territories are believed to have Sergio Osmena and Mr. J.-V. Osment, by the demand for new vessels. It may claims and assumptions of the junior caused the death of two persons, wife and son of the Hon. Sergio Omena be consoling to shareholders in the Hong-branches of the family, in his heart he Chinese woman with a child strapped to who is in Washington pleading for inde
ber back, whose bodies were found on the kong Docks to see from the figures inst secretly envies their power to get to foreshore at Shataukok, washed down pablished that the shipbuilding industry gether on the slightest pretext to chant into the sea by a stream. in Great Britain has been having a very their own high virtues and qualifies and bad time recently.
still more does he envy them their power Another feature of the Returns is that of "hanping together" at all times, they show that the tonnage of motor
Yes, undoubtedly England's neighbours ships building all over the world exceeds have a great advantage over the English that of the steam tonnage under con- in that particular gift of hanging to straction. We may be sure that this is gether, and no notice need be taken of due to the general superiority of the the fact that in moments of irritation TIET SANITARY BOARD wishes to Draw the Attention of the Pablic, and
motor ship over its steam-driven all the Englishman may be heard to mutter noon, and leaves by the RMB. Empress with the Siamese Government in connec especially of Those who have recently come to
The struggle for survival takes place with that if they didn't hang together they short leave of absence, as announced in gambling school in full swing, in
of Australia to-morrow for England on tion with health conditions in Siam The Colony, to the poedbility of nequiring. Disease, Dymontory and Typhoid Fever
machinery as keenly as in the animal would certainly hang separately, Clan- Tuesday's Daily Frear Sir James is by Eating Uncooked Vegetables,
staying at Government House Chinese Market-garde astiron is to pour the
world. Mariners are said to be connighness is in a great number of ways, & } and their
sure that trait greatly to be envied. The English- manure or agasy it from watering-pota in 1 ONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS servative; we may
many" " an old salt."' curses the introdor man should be more "clannish" tion of oil engines for marine propulsion To blow one's own trumpet occasion as heartily as his predecessors cursed at ally, does not mean a continual fanfare the introduction of sleam, More than It is good to have a common, meeting property in 9,158 square feet, and the yesterday, but as there was not sufficient forty years ago a very eminent scientist: ground for every national-not only for annual Crown rent - $22.
NOTICE.
use manure fromm
human liquid form over the Growing P
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Dleesse producing Farantor are therefors LEGISLATIVE possibly present on the surfaces of Plants, 8.g., Bession 1925, 19 Lettuces, over which the gardener's spray feliz.
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B. A. DERMOD FORREST,
Secretary, SANITARY BOARDTM
Honkong, Trt April, 1926.
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which a variety of games, including poker, fantan, and dice were being play- At the China Auction Rooms yesterdayed, was discovered by police officers ou afternoon, Mr. E. V. M.R. de Sousa Tuesday night, when they raided a large by order of the mortgagee, offered for matshed at Happy Valley, occupied by nale a leasehold property at No. 23, coolies engaged in the demolition of Bends Street, but there being no advance Morrison Hill Eleven mon, were caught on the upset price of $15,000, the pro in the raid and were charged before Mr. perty, was withdrawn. The area of this B. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy
evidence they were discharged..