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...BY J. PENN.. number - plates. Talking about ladies being ad-rear
Motorista pathetic appeal? He did not. All mitted into men's clubs, Bottle-would appreciate the addition of he said was that the prisoner must thwaite tells me be bad quite an rear-lights, but the police would stand his trial-aged mother or not. argument upon the subject with a certainly be in for busy time Picture for yourself, sympathetic. fellow clubman the other evening. particularly it the usual list of reader. the touching scene-the
There's nothing better for any offences applicule now to the rear gathering of men than the restrais number-plates of motor-cars were ing influence of the ladies. quoth made, applicable to the number George or, at any rate, he and plates of the Colony's waysite
scratchers i
be did.
Women are of no use to man at al snapped the bachelor?
"I don't agree,"
"sato n new comer to the party. My wife looks after me, I can assure you, Why, ale takes off my boots for me almost every evening,
Ah! When you get home from the club feeling F little tight suggested George.
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penitent prodigal in the dock, and hundreds of miles away the dear old lady sitting at the door of her hum- ble cottage, with roses round the door, happily engaged in peeling onions for the simple evening meal, and with her pigs and chickens and dogs ali gambolling merrily at her feet.
Enter the village postman, who delivers the usual copy of the Daily Press. The deer old soul, after looking at the share quota. tions and working but the cross- word puzzle, turas to scan the newa. Her aged eyes read with difficulty. at the best of times, but now they are suddenly dimmed almost to
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And then there is the question' of the Star ferries. Every newcomer to the Colony admires the manner in which the Stars go ahead, astern, or sideways when going alongside the jetties. Well, suggests George, to brighten up the journey across the harbour, why don't the ferries carry out these maneuvres on the voyage across! If the bored passen ger, for instance, found himself facing the Peak one minute and blindness. Her, son-her won!-her looking at the clock at Kowloon son charged with burglary GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONÉ,
She ways, railway station the next, his jour. It cannot be!!!! ney across the harbour would cer- swoons, and fails prostrate on the tainly be free from monotony. Be ground. (Eed of Part I.] sides, look at the thrill one would The Editor thinks it is not toonset from these evolutions; it would venient at all. Here is the news: be great fun, and the work at the
Marine Court would be greatly in creased.
"No,' was the reply," when want to go to the club'
Silence
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If it is no any inconvenient," writes a well-meaning reader to the Editor:
you publish this
news
This morning, Mr. Khasnigi walatan of Nathan Road went to his bath room to take his bath. Ho did not notice there was
a baby mice in the tub. He opened a cold water tap and a little after he saw a baby mice "drowned be then quickly empty the tub and was sorry that he killed a life when it
was young.
"He called his friend to tell and how to pick up from the tab. They were then noticed that the baby mice was still alive like a dead Mr. H. Khasnigiwalatan put be: on a paper and took her near elee tric cooker to dry her if she get sense come back. Shortly after he was astonished when he found that within half an hour she run away from his sight. After all Mn Khasaigivalatan of Nathan Road feel very happy."
There is a white flower blooming on the hills in the Colony now. It is called woodruff, and has a very delicate perfume. Long ago, ladies in the East used it, like lavender, to perfume their wardrobes. To day, not one in forty thousand knows the flower and, ns for per fuming wardrobes, is not a bucket ful of 3. Chosoli's "file Desire d'Hopagne d'Oeufe (at $100 per quarter-pint) good enough for any one?
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Reverting to that letter in the Daily Prem last week from a gentle- man who thinks that something ehould be done to bring about a Brighter Hong Kong Movement." George P. Battlethwaite says that
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Then there was the case the other. day of a chaffeur who alleged in Court that the police officer who charged him with some trafic offence bad "jeered at him, and Rhadamanthine severity" - 1 cxpressed unholy glee at having confess I had to consult authorities, caught his victim in the act. This as the lawyers any, when I read I canno believe. Policemen are, these words in the paper the other notoriously kind and gentle fellows, day. I also had the curiosity to try and invariably wipe away a tear as and find out where Negapatam is, they jot down the numbers of your and after much trouble succeeded. car and driving-license in their How many of you, my readers, know packer-books. If it so happens that where the place is--or care You you can't produce your licence, they read in the paper that letters from drop two tears, because that means home are due on such and such a still another charge has to be laid date via Negapatam, but do you against you. I know one policeman really know where it is. Probably who always carries an extra hand if you consult your atlas you won't kerchief in readiness to wipe away locate it, and I had to use a magni- the flood of tears which he knows fying-glass to find it on the most will fall when he is compelled to up-to-date atlas, to be had in the enter in his little book names, ad- Colony. It is on the but why dresses and numbers in connection should I give away information so with unofficial motorcycle speed- laboriously procured Find it for trials on the Castle Peak Rord. A yourselves if you can-which I friend of mine had a strange ex doubt. What still puzzles me is perience the other day. On getting police officer, with bow, and why, steamers call there, into his car Perhaps somebody in the know will tears glistening in his eyes, came up on the commercial and called, attention to the fact that enlightenme activities of Negapatam, and what the off-side rear wheel was one, inch the Negapatamians import and ex-ever the white line. My friend, who port. As for Bhadamanthus, as every is very conscientious in such mat schoolboy knows who is able to con- ters, could not believe he had com- sult a dictionary, he is (or was) amitted such an offence, and went very stern judge in 4Gk. Hades." Your need not trouble to consult your atias again, my friends, for you will assuredly not find that place marked.
Speaking of judges, how stern and inflexible one has to be to sit in judgment upon one's fellows. The other day a gentleman alleged to be a. burglar appealed to the magis-
he could give the proposed Comtrate, with tears in his (the gentle mittee a few tips. Pigs in Singa man's) eyes, to be set free. He pore. for instance, have to e explained that he had an aged licensed. George suggests that mother in a distant place, who Hong Kong goes one better, and would probably die of shock if the compels all pige and chickens heard that her son was in prison. abroad on the highways to carry Did the magistrate respond to this
round to verify the allegation. As they stooped to examine the relative positions of the parting-line and the wheel, my friend happened to retpark that it was most unfortu nate bo should be in trouble that day, as it was his mother's birth day. "You have a mother?" said I have, said my the officer.
The policeman tried to friend. hold back a sob, but a flood of tears rolled down his rugged, weather- beaten cheeks and splashed down upon the white line. "You have a mother-so have I," he said, in a voice broken with emotion;
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Queen's Theatre: "Wild Orchida”. World Theatre : "The Boxer Bride."
Star Theatre: "Red Lips." H.K. Football Association Din ner to Mr. F. W. Black, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 8 p.m.
Tea Dances: HK. Hotel nad Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m...".
Dinner Dancea: H.K. Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m..
Tides:-High: 1.18.a. and 1.20 p.m.; Lov: 6.27 a.m.; and 7.21 pm European Mails:-Inward: Europe vid Negapatam, papers (Piave). Outward Europe vid Marseilles
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Queen's Theatre: Cohen's and Kelly's in Atlantic City."
"Bin Stock- World Theatre: inga."
Star Theatre: "Skirts." Ten Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Tides:-High: 1.58 am and 22% p.m.; Low: 7.39 .. and 7.57 p...
Monday,
Queen's Theatre: "The Dancer uf Barcelona,"
World Theatre: The Auction Block."
Star Theatre: "The Cardboard Lover."
Dinner Dances: E.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.
(August 12.)
Tidea-High: 3.39 a.m. and 3.31 German Constitution Day, Con- p.m.; Low: 11.91 am and 8.17 p..
European Maila: Outward: sular reception, Hong Kong Hotel,
Europe vid Marsailles (Chenon- 11.30 am to 12.30 p.m.
Sale of Crown Land: Kowloonceaux), 1.30 p.m. Inland Lots No. 2207,2208, P.W.D. Offices, 3 p.m.
Somersets Water Polo: K.O.S.B. "B" Kowloon "A" " KOS.B. AVR.O. 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: Cohen's and Kelly's in Atlantic City," ings,"
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World Theatre: "Silk Stock-
Star Theatre: *Skirta." Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels,
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Tides:-High: 2.44 a.m. and 3.48 P.m.; Low: 9.10 am, and 2.35 p.m. European Mails: Outward: Europe vid San Francisco (Pres Lincoln).
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Tuesday, (August 13.) Water Polo: Chinese "B" # Royal Navy, Chinese "A" v. Kow. loon"B," V.R.C., 5.30 p.m.
Billiards-Garrison Mess บ K.0.8.B., Craigengower v. Police, Somersets St. Patricks, Royal Artillery, C. & P.O.'s Club, Royal Engineers v. Police Reserves.
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Wednesday. (August 140)
Water Polo: V.B.C. "A" V.R.C. “B. V.R.C., 5.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Dancer of Barcelona."
World Theatre: "The Auction Block"
Star Theatre: The Cardboard Lover."
Dinner Dances: H.K: Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m..
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