Yesterday being Anzac Day the- members of the Anzac Society turned out in full force when thel president Dr. H. D. Matthews placed a wreath at the foot of the Page 7.
suit, and your friends will go away. Cenotaph. laughing heartily.
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IL PENSEROSO But enough. My fund of galety. tive Council yesterday the question At the meeting of the Legisla- of joie de vivre, and marron glace of postal rates by air-mail was dis- has run dry. Snapping and anar-cussed and a reduction for malls by ling at the door is that old wolf the British Imperial Airways, was of mine, the dollar, who threatens at any moment to engulf my star- ved 'carcass in his gradually widen- ing mouth.
The annual general meeting of I have spoken plainly before, Hotels, Ltd. was held yesterday the Hong Kong and Shanghai and I will speak plainly again, when the Chairman of the Board The only hope for peace of mindor Directors, Mr. J. H. Taggart, and body in this comic opera of a
that in view of the trade depres→ world is for the few righteous men to rise up with their billhooks and
sion the Directors had volunteered stite the wicked man hip and
a reduction of 25 per cent. In their fees.. thigh. For the world to-day is
Page 7. governed and controlled by as pretty a set of greedy, seedy, graft-Jubilee Review at Happy Valley on ers as ever saw the Inside of May 7 the seating arrangements Gomorrah.
have been decided upon and de- Mr. Finklater, iftalls will be found on
One day, you'll call at my house. 111 ten you exactly what Td like to do to Mr. Roosevelt. You shall bring your knitting, and we'll have a grand gossip about the good old
timea,
TAILPIECE
MORE SILLY LITTLE RHYMES. 1. Ailce In Brokerland
"If all the local business men made bankruptcy a fact, And joined themselves to form
an anti-speculating pact, Do you suppose," the Wytrus said," "The Government would - ACT?"
2. Trans-Atlantic Comment.
In Wall Street Mr. Schultz,
(whose nose is bright ver milion;) ....
Relieved a lot of paupers of'
over half a million. And while he carried out this
very skilful operation, My neighbour, Mr. Robinson,
has perished of starvation.
3 White House, or Madhouse,
I know a lot of houses with ra
ther funny residents. Some people call them luna- ties: some people call them presidents.
CAR TOPPLES INTO HARBOUR
In connection with the Silver
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students, parents and friends were large gathering of
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sent at the S.C.AA stadium yesterday afternoon, when Ching Hua. College held their first annual athletichsports under Ideat weather conditions.
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Another chapter from the Trade Commission's Report on the Pre- sent Trade Depression in Hong Kong appears on
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The monthly trade returns issu- ed by the Statistical Office for the month of March have just been published.