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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1929.
UNDER THE
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By J. PENN.
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A most ingenious device for kill.
As Bottlethwaite says, once, that ing micsquitoes and typhoid germs light waltz, the coloured fairy sort of thing becomes common, has been installed in the Colony, lamps gleaming but dimly amid the where are you? To which I re- and may be seen in operation daily surrounding darkness. Mingling plied, "Where indeed? If chair- -without charge--at the corner of with the dreamy musia of the ormen at public meetings are to be Icehouse Street and Queen's Road. chestra, the eoft sighing of wave- bombarded with questions, well, Dease fumes of poison-gas are first lets breaking on the beach intoxi-do eglf-respecting man will act as sprayed over the whole neighbour-cated their senses. A bray curt of chairman, that's all about it. Be hood, rendering the mosquitoes and her perfumed bar carossed his sides, it is a reflection upon the most of the population half uncon- check. He thrilled with the exotic board to ask questions-it looks as scious. The insects are then quick scent of her, and his strong, manly told you about the past year's if you don't believe what they have ly picked up and their helpiese arms crushed her quivering form to working and the next year's pro forms deposited on the spot select him as he murmured sweet nothings spects. Moreover, what must the
auditors think of such behaviour ed for a steam-hammer weighing into her dainty little ear. about a thotsand tons to fall on knew she possessed shell-like ears, the cash and chits in hand, check They go through the books, count
them. It is a most interesting pro-because his questing fingers had receipts and vouchers, and certify cess, and seemingly effective, but toyed with them as he drew her that the above figures give a true the people working in the neigh to him in the darkness at the tion, and then somebody rises on statement of the company's posi bourhood compiain of being half beginning of the waltz. He thought hie hind legs and wants to know suffocated with the smoke and then he was the happiest man at Repulse why this item is where it is and how it comes about that another being jolted off their chairs by the Bay at the moment.
item is not where it ought to be. concussion. The brokers along the
As Bettlethwaite says, it is thie Rialto also complain that the noise
sort of thing that leads to Bol- shevism. and fumes interfere with their busi ness talks on the kerb, and one man is already nine hundred dollars out, It seems he was writing a cheque for $100, when the steam hammer suddenly started, causing his arm to jerk and making one more 0 than he intended. Before he realised what had occurred the payee grabbed the cheque and cashed it!..
When I saw in my paper the other day, in very large type, the words. Cook-boys as carriers "I could not repress smile. My usually stern and austere features relaxed at the idea of a cook.boy carrying anything bigger than à bunch of radishes-and that dang- ling on a bit of string. Later on, of course, I discovered that the suggestion was that, cook-boy car ried germs about with them, and that I am quite prepared to be lieve, though to be quite honest I must confess I have never seen one-a germ, I mean.
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And she Never before, she thought, had ehe beca able to respond so freely and readily to a man's touch. Who was hel She did not know. and did not care. One of those strong silent men, no doubt. She folt she could dance to the ends of the earth with him.
"I love you," he breathed. "You are the girl I have been waiting ages for
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Then there was a reference to certain filme being shown in Hong Kong alleged to be an insult to the intelligence of the public, Well. now, this is a very delicate subject to deal with, calling for the skilled hand of the Editor rather than my clumey pen. Personally I will con- fess that the daring deede of She sighed happily in the dark-ll-but how many people would
Dougie" appeal to me not
and Special-Care eas and whispered an assent to his eager request for a "date" onay a Fairbanks film is an insult
Taken of TOURISTS to the intelligence! I would not go Cable Address: "VICTORIA." to see The Black Pirate" if any one gave me a ticket and let me ay right here nobody ever does give me tickets for shows. To my mind 90 per cent, of the films shown are an insult to the intelligenec of normally intelligent people, but what are you going to do about it
the morrow.
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The dance ended and the lights went up. Breathless, they gazed at each other. Then she swayed as if she was fainting.
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Just by way of showing how care- holders the other day somebody actually got up and asked a ques. ful one has to be in offering enter- tion-nay, several questions. This tainment to the public which is not an insult to the intelligence, let me departure from old-established pre- cedent should be nipped in the quote a recent incident at home. bud, otherwise the Bolshevisation On the evening of June 9 the
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item," an imaginary News-Broad- complete. I notice that at a meet ing of shareholders, held in Hong cast from Rome on June 20, 8.0. 4. But what does puzale me in why Kong fifty years ago the chairman Listeners heard Pompeii as "Pom- Chinese boys and girls," fornsked if there were any questions, pei," twice, and "seretices," pre-
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A new anything persist in dangling frag-century it has been the unwritten not less than four times, ments of fish and chunks of chicken rule that no shareholder should dis- historical personage was introduced and alices of steak at the end of turb the tranquil peace and har. 25 Crassius, no doubt filling the a string Never do you see them meny of a company meeting by parts of Cassius and Crassus. They carrying a bundle, a bag, or a has asking a question. Of course, out heard, too, the report appearing in of the ket in which half a dozen pur- of courtesy the airman invites. "The (Roman) Oracle" chases made on a shopping expedi- interrogations, just as you say to a violent death of General" Julius tion could be decently stowed and parting guest whose hack you are Cæsar, an event that has hitherto safely carried. "Always is there a most anxious to see:~!! Ju yon Seen supposed to have occurred on miserable bit of stuff dangling on go? It's quite early yet!" But it March 15 and not June 28. It was a string, absorbing all the germs in would be exceedingly rude of a also news to many that the opening the neighbourhood as the "boy" quest thus addressed to turn on his sentence of Casar's "De Bello hurries back home from market. beel an may he intended to delay Gallico" was also already in 44 8.0. Ja there. I wonder,' a rule of the his departure and sit down Cook-boys' Guild forbidding any have another," and so is it shock. member going to market and bringing bad form for & shareholder so ing away his purchases in a bag get up and put questions to the and the reader desired to remain or basket 1 Must he make a separ chairman of a meeting who has anonymous; in the circumstances ate journey for each and every item heen kind enough to pase the com.this seems a commendably wire on the list I
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The "Item" ended with the au- nouncement that both the author
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day.
(July 27.)
Sunday. (July, 28.)
Ninth Sunday After Trinity. Queen's Theatre: "Baby Cyclone." World Theatre: "The Farmer Daughter."
Lawn Bowls:-Div. I.: Police . Taikoo, Kowloon C.C. v. Craigen- gower, Kowloon Dock. Kowloon Bowling Green, Civil Service Recreio. Div, "II.: Taikoo v. Civil Service, Recreio . Yacht Club, Kowloon Bowling Green . Eow-stark." loon 0.0., Craigengower . HK Electric
Lawn Tennis:-"B" Div.: South China v. B.K.C.O... M.B.K. Chinese B.C. "O" Div. : Craigen- gower v. Santh China.
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Queen's Theatre: "Casanova, Prince of Adventurers."
World Theatre:"Square Crooks." Star Theatre: Bride,"
Kowloon C.C. Concert, 9.15 p.m. Craigengower C.C. Radio Night, 1.15 p.m.
Star Theatre: "Beverly of Grau
Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Tides:-High: 2.06 um. and 1.20 p.m.; Low: 6.34 8.m. and 8.19 p.. European Mail:-Inward. Europe via Negapalam, papers only (Agra),
Monday.
(July 28.)
"Dinner Dances:
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Tides-High: 246 a.m. and 2.36 p.m.; Low: 8.28 a.m., and 8 p.m.
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Tuesday. (July 30.) Accession of HM. Victor Em- manuel III. of Italy 1900.
Hong Kong Stock Exchange Settlement Day.
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