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BACARDI RICKEY
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One lump of ice
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Que quart of Bacardi
One pound of Sugar
One quart of Formosa Oolong Tea
Use the grog, adding equal
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The yolk of an egg
A glass of Bacardi
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Two interesting building enter prises have been started recently in New York with a view to providing comfortable and convenient homes for the working classes
POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF
LORD OXFORD'S DEATH.
FUTURE OF THE LIBERALS.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S RIVALS FOR PUBLIC FAVOUR.
WOMEN IN THE NEXT ELECTION:
By A, A. B.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
MARCH EST,-1998.
B.K. Bank......$1,195 bur., 1,300 sa
Dive Chartered
Loades 133 núm. Bank..........ll buy.
Marcantile Bank, A. &B...£34) nom.
Do
P. & 0. Bank
East Asia Bank ......................
0.214.buy.
Canton Insurance$675
Union InsuraBIUSE
76 bay.
buy ....... #531 Euy,
33. Tla. 143
tot bay.
North China Ins Yangtase insurance ...... M. 6183 China Underwriter......$2.45 bay. Chins Fire Insurance215-20 Hong Kong Fire Ins.......3726 bay.
„Už sola Douglases............... H.K. Steamboata
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A Genial Leader. The most important as regards Writing now with the free
Mr. Lloyd George is unpopular of history. Lord Ox- size and scope is the block of fats dom
death
relieve will erected by the Amalgamated Cloth-ford's
the with the upper and upper-middle. ing Workers of America and known position in the, Liberal Party.classes, in the House of Commons, 33 the Amalgamated Co-operative The happenings of 1916 could not and at the Reform and Carlton. Apartments. They are situated in be forgotten, still less forgiven. Clubs. The denizens of the poli... Tog .......................19 0. tre Brons, on land which is bound Various attempts at reconciliation tical heights have been too near ed on one side by a large reservoir, were made by both men, but the him: some of them have smarted Shell Transporta and on the other by Van Cortlandt differences of temperament and under his tricks;; they cannot for- Park, so that the maxiinum amount/eduention between Asquith and Mr. get those regal processions over Kailan Mining Ad.......................06/. nom
Europe, which ended in nothing. But with the shopkeepers, the ar-
and
tisans. and the
Indo-China (Pre£.).......$37 buy. Do. (Def)......$100 val.
93/. nom.
Waterbosta... ......101 bay.
Benguela *****
Dom.
Langkata (combined) 16 aha, Explorasiona
(single).....
Dio.
Bhanghai Loans Raube Tranch Mines
ΜΠΟΥ
Tix. 7 nom.
The 2 nom. »
1.6.10 nom.
"wow fre"
H. & K. What.....$159
17/8 nom. 1239 buy., 1401 102, 129/140. H., & W. Dock...... sol. Uns Providente......$4.05 buy, 6.10 es.
Tha 160 buy. New Engineerings. Shanghai Docks
1, Uotton (old)...... wa Cottoza ............... Tik. 8.60 buy., 8) sai.. Oriental Cotton
bay. ..Fla. 58 buy. (now)....... 31 now. H... Hetais 1935 mi
D
2.5
of fresh air and sunlight is obtain Lloyd George were unbridgeable, and for eleven years the Liberals ed. The dwellings are six storeyə
were split into the followers of one
agricultural high and are pleasing to the eye,
labourers I should say Mr. Lloyd being of light-brown brick, sugges-or the other lender. tive of Tudor influence. They are A dual control is the most dead-George is popular. He certainly Luilt around a large open garden, ly misfortune that can befall any is the pleasantcat-mannered de- attractively laid out, and all the party. It ruined the Unionist magogue that ever stood upon a rooms are outside ones.
Party at the beginning of the platform, Cobbett, Cobden Bright, century, and led directly to the Bradlaugh were all austere and dis- Hongkan over******, 4.80 nom.' politieaf landslide of 1900. In 1909 agreeable men. But Mr. Lloyd the late Lord Salisbury retired, George radiates fun and geniality Prime Minister: But there was a gibes, even the coarsest, are just and Mr. Arthur Balfour became from his head to his toes. His
large
influential Liberal the kind that appeal to the masses, Unionist sect in the bosom of the because they are witty. Torg Church. orders from Mr. Chamberlain, the are like old cheeses, the older they Bhanghai Lands ..............?
who took their When he said that "old families H.K. Lands ************** 193 Bay. Colonial Secretary. The loyalty of are the stronger they smell, you Humphreya Estates......$15 nom the two protagonists was proved by may be sure he went straight to Hong Kong Realties, boy, Bel the fact that Chamberlain, a Dis the heart of his artisan. audience. H Territorials
Balfour When he compared Sir Austen H.K, Tramways........ enter swallowed the Education Act, which
threw Chamberlain to a stork standing Romans and Anglicans on the on one leg on the shore of Lake tended to rates, and that Mr. Balfour pre Lugano, it may have been flippant,
swallow Reform of
the, Tarif but it was funny. His vast poli- Every sxtion of the Unionist paid contributions to the American Chamberlain. tical fund and his enormously over Party was in turn offended or dis- Press, why these are the very titles gusted, and in 1906 the Radicals to the admiration of the modern got a majority of 338, while the crowd. Conservatives were out of power Aladdin's lamp." and there can be "Yes, ready money is for sixteen years.
no doubt about the caxh.
range,
Complete Arrangements. The flats vary in size, frota two rooms and a bath to five rooms and a bath. The living rooms (which can be used for sleeping purposes) ale 14ft. by 16ft,, the bed-rooms are also of good size, and all are wall lighted. The kitchens are especial ly noteworthy, as, besides the gas there is a refrigerator, ample cupboard space for china, glass, stores, etc., a white-topped sable on which pastry can be made, u most ingenious sink, which can be used for washing-up or, by tak Eng out the dividing partition, can, when required, be altered into a wash-tub, the tap being so arranged that it can be turned either to the right or left, as occasion demands; and, of course, there is a constant supply of hot water. There is also n light framework on which clothes can be dried; it lets down by pul- leys from the ceiling when requir ed. Garunge incinerators are pro- vided. The hath-room is white-bled and contains a full-sized tub, with shower and all the other usual fit. tings, while the amount of built-in cupboard space for clothes, etc. must be a blessing to every house keeper.
Mr.
In the Hang-the-Kaiser Election of 1015 the Coalition coupon, which peturned so many Conservatives to the House of Commons for the first time was not offered, and would have been refused if it had been offered, to those Liberals who fol- lowed Mr. Asquith into exile in
1916.
$1 com
Sid bay.
bay.
buy
Peak Trams (old)
Do (10)$73 b Star Ferries 3041 nom. Ubius Lights (comb.)......$174 bar. 18- sel, 17.50 s. Da... HK. Electrica 570 bug. (old) ..............$ing bay, Do. (new)....$10 bay. Macao Electrics 23. Buy. Telophonesammuun$4
$470 buy. Obins Buies
61 bay. now.
5 pom. பும. 11.03 nom
Singapore Tractions......11/9 nor China Sugars Malabon Bugars Canton Icos Cements (combined)......
Do (old) $10 nom E. Bopes (old). S buy.
Do. (new) 34.10 nom. 15.30 Buc. United Anbertos
$10 sol.
21.80 bay.
Do.
As for his programme, it is a compound of impossibilities, some stale, and others stolen. But whe cares a button about a programme 1 It is merely election fodder for candidates with no ideas of their own. It did very well in 1919, though from the execution of the Kaiser down to the homes for The ladies who kindly conducted Mr. Lloyd George's Opportunity. heroes not an item was realized. y around (they were members of What could be the result but bit-] What wing & General Election la Dairy Farma the Housing Committee) shoyed as terness all the more intense because the personality of the leader that Watsons with pride what had been done, suppressed? The poison worked. and the mistakes of the Govern-Lane Crawfords The buildings are centrally heated When in 1923 Mr. Baldwin, with-ment. If Mr. Lloyd George is in Mackintosh...... (with oil), and electric light is in nut consulting anybody, dissolved health in 1929 we may witness an Власогов stalled throughout; hardwood floors Parliament, in the certainty of other pilgrimage of passion, with Was $10 buy- are laid down, and washable paint bettering Bonar Law's legacy of 70 astounding results. has been used everywhere. La majority, the Liberals found them- order to assure as much privacy as selves the smallest of the three possible, there are but three to four parties, and decided to combine apartments to each staircase, and with the Socialists to punish Mr. twenty-nine entrances to the six Baldwin, I have always thought
-Competitors For Power.
32 bay. Der $ Wings). 201
22 881.
H.K. Amusements 29 buy. H.K. Constructional com. B'que. Indas. G.Bonds...64% boy.
MacDonald as a serious rival. He barayas sellise I cannot regard Mr. Ramsay, Gort, Loans.........71% prem, buy. is devoid of humour, he shouts, he
overstates his COBC. When the
buildings, which constitute the that the appearance of Messrs. Socialist leader talks about "stary-
block of 1,185 rooms.
Financial gide,
George and Asquith on the same platform at the National Liberal ing slaves" he insults the intel As to the financial side, the money tacles of modern times. The fact know quite well that they were Club was one of the sorriest spec-ligence of the working classes, who has been advanced by the forward that in future the two leaders had never so well off, though they are Association and by five or six to endure the discomfort of spent quite willing to be better off. banks, who have been sufficiently ing from back benches in the House far-sighted and sympathetic to of Commons did not improve the realize the importance of the under tempers of either. taking. In addition each tenant is
Mr. Snowden, the only clever man the Labour Party have got, is not physically equipped for the hurly-burly of a General Election, and is, besides, always in danger of being unhorsed by the extreme Left..
4.
barrow from the Amalgamated forth into open war. Then there The only competitor for public
now.
The
obliged to invest £100 for each room After 18, when there were only he needs, of which at least one-half 39 Liberals elected, the rift rapid- must be paid down at once. If he ly widened, and at the time of the hasn't that much money he can
General Strike in 1998 it blared
Bank or Credit Union. The rent was the squabbling over money favour whom Mr. Lloyd George, has and" organisation. The case be to fear is the Prime Minister. Mr. he pays, which is 44s, per room per tween Lold Oxford and Mr. Lloyd Baldwin is everything which Mr. month, inclusive of heating, goes Creorge was summed up in the let Lloyd George
not-steady, towards interest and payments orter of the octogenarian, Lord Ash serious, decorous and he appeals the mortgage, upkeep, and taxes; and, in seturn for the £100 he intonand was submitted to the elec- as strongly to different sections of
Lancaster Division. community. adored vests, he receives poration Facies stock of the cor- Thelt verdict was in favour of Mr. the religious and the higher by
Lloyd George.
the class that in the last century Apart from these being model dwellings in every respect, the chief All that is over
formed what Dilke used to call "the 'Spectator mind." A clever interest pertaining to the under-Liberal Party is free to give ita taking is the fact that here we have allegiance to Mr. Lloyd George, or and cultivated lady told me that a scheme started and carried out to join, some of them, the Conser- the Prime Minister was the by the Labouring fan for the vative Party, and some of them the of statesman that we fall for Luluring Man. Although the Socialist Party. Will Mr. Lloyd because he is so honest and reliable. originators are members of the George be able to bold the party "he is the kind of man we should Amalgamated Clothing Workers of together? I have an idea that Mr. all like to have for a husband. We care for your brilliant America, the tenants may belong to Lloyd George's hour has sounded, don't
y Trades Union, and many of I cannot imagine that Lord Grey dashers, like Winston and Birken- them are employed as carpenters, Mr. Lloyd George; but, as Mr.
or Mr. Runciman will serve under head."
If that is true," and I have no tailors, painters, street-cleaners, of in other trades, and earn from £90 Bernard Shaw says, "You never doubt it is, it only shows how clever to fas per month. Most of them can tell, especially in politics. Mr. Baldwin is to extend the fran have emigrated to America within Who would have thought that the chise to all fernales. Feminine is going to Samuel would have left the Asquith float the Prime standard? Who, for that matter, Downing-street in 1929. I am not would have thought that Lord Cur-a great believer in feminine in- zon and Lord Balfour would have tuition myself, preferring male ex- served under Mr. Lloyd George?perience; but I should be glad of
recent years, chiefly drom Russia, late Mr. Montagu or Sir Herbert intuition, if anytinister into
Poland, and other Central Euro pean countries, and, apart from the advantages they are deriving from the airy and comfortable homes they have built for themselves, they, as well as their children, are being given all sorts of benefits in the way of educational facilities and co- operative purchasing.
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· MADMAN INVADES ́ ́A MANSION.
SEARCHES THE HOUSE AND GOES TO BED
ANDOVER, March 4th. The escapade of a patient who escaped from a mental home near Salisbury caused consternation in
men of the highest character, for we shall need it. The seals of office are bribe to any help at the next election, for the early hours of this morning
ambition is the only thing which say I see signs of a fall in Governanor, Waltop, near Andover, the I am sorry to among the household at Townsend
never grows old. n
ment stock
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residence of air 7. C. Evans, and Lady Henrietta Evana.
Lady Heuretta is a sister of the
present Lord Portsmouth
Tood And Recreation. Mrs. B., one of our guides, ex plained how arrangements were be ing made by their Committee to supply the tenante with all the food they would require at prices con siderably lower than at the reigh bouring shops. They have already is too web to go out, and I was The tennants appear to be a well-coms and then went upstairs. He made start with ice, eggs, and told that already the improvement | behaved set of people who are tak milk, which is delivered in sealed in the health of some of the chilling a pride in their homes; and, bottles by the chauffeur, who, when dren who had come from the con- as these homes belong to them, this not employed in driving the bus gested districts of the lower East must affect their whole outlook makes himself generally useful de la astonishing.
The scheme is a paying investment, He receiver: £0 per week and lives. For their elders the social life is and the shareholders expect to re- in the building. This bus takes also being gradually developed. seive from 3 per cent, to 8 per cent the children to school every morn Literary Chibs are being formed, a interest, but should there be any ing and brings them home in the Library Committee has been or thing above that amount, it will be afternoon. For this parents pay ganised, and lectures will be held used to improve the buildings, or is per week, and on fine Saturdays from time to time. A tea room has for the benefit of the renunts to and Sundays trips to the country been opened in the basement, wherewhony, at the end of 20 or 30 years or the seashore are organised for tenants may entertain privately if the apartment will belong. -London "*"" (Continued on next Column);- they wish, and for this a small fee Morning Festures
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the little ones, each child providing | will be charged. There is a large The intruder, it is presumed, its own hunch. There are also out- room for chidren's prama, as weli gained admittance to the house door pis grounds for the smalleras washing and drying rooms. So rough neitting room window. He children safely railed in, and that no requirement seems to have apparently first helped himself to playrooms for the basement, when it been overlooked, whisky m one of the downstairs
entered various bedrooms, includ mgtthose of Lady Henrietta, her daughter, and the maids, and even- tusly found a spare room, in which he locked himseit. Om
The disturbanre
the intruder caused in going from one room to another roused the whole house. hold, and Mr. Evans called the "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE gardener and the chauffeur. He also telephoned for a policeman, who forced the door of the spare
POLICY. room, and the uninvited visitor was found in bed. He went guretly...