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GENERAL NEWS.
JOTTINGS BY THE WAY,
R. G. A. Pay,
A Long-Needed Change.
As our wire stated recently, a A local orator is reported to special Amy Order has been have said in the course of an issued promulgating a Royal after-dinner speech, the other Warrant grantingsprofil facilities night: "And we hope that, like for retirement and special rates of the Sphinx he will rise from his retired pay to a limited number dead ashes." The ides has the of officers of the Boyal Garrison merit of variety. We have it on Artillery, who were commissioned good authority that Hongkong,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1913.
Prepaid Advertisements
ONE CENT PER WORD
TO LET.
between Jan. 1, 1900, and Dec. was getting pretty wall fed from 1st July.
31, 1900. The rates of retired with the eternal phoenix. pay of such office13 of the Royal
Blake Pier. Garrison Artillery who apply to We are authorised to contradict
before
December 31 the statement that the regulation next, will be as follows:-rofusing admittance to Blako Pier
retire
FOR EACH INSERTION,
TO LET,
Mount Kelet Road, GODOWN in Ice House Road, at prosent in occupation of Mesare. E. D. Sasson & Co.
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & "AGENCY
Co., Ltd. Hongkong 7th June, 1913.
FROM 1st February, MEI-A HACIENDA EAST, 74,
RION, No. 10, Peak, furni- shed or unfurnished. 6 Rooms. No. 21, SHELLY STREET. No. 2 Mountain View, Peak,
To let or for sale, "GLEN. SHIEL, Barker Road, No. 124, Peak, 5 rooms from 1st March, 1913.
'CRAIG RYRIE,' No. 4, the rooms; tennis and croquet lawns. To lot, furnished. KIRKEN DOA" No. 113 The Peak, till 30th September. Immediate pos- session.
ED FLATS with Two Bathrooms NEW MODERN 3 ROOM. Pantry, Kitchen and Servants Quarters. Bathrooms fitted with English Bathe. Kitchen has En-
Age 41 years, 170 year; to anyone not properly olad and Peak to let; fine situation; 8 LET-AT KOWLOON, 40 years, £160; 39
shod is to be enforced. It is *years, £150; 38 years, 8140; 37 years generally understood that coulies £180 36 years, #125; and 35 years, £120 a year. An officer who was under the age of 35 on December 31, 1912, will be subject to B deduction of 55
# year from £120
will be allowed as heretofore to remove their shoes and place their unwashen foot on the state until further notice.
An Innovation.
To
glish Cooking Range and Hot let, No. 111 Poak, Water Boiler. Electrio Light "ARDSHEAL" Furnished or Un-
throughout. Immediate PosseS- St John's Cathedral is keeping furnished with immedi..te possession, Also NEW FIVE ROOMED for each year below the age of 35, well abreast of the times: Accordion; 5 roomed Bungalow just TERRACE HOUSES WITH Officeza wao pre rmitted to re-ing to a local contemporary, the repaired and painted throughout. TENNIS COURTS. Now ready tire will be allowed to commute sermon at the German thanksgivROGATE, on part of Kowloon In-
FOR SALE-HARTING and for occupation. Apply .top their retired pay to the extent of ing service last week was preach-land Lot No. 1154. not more than one-balf, a sum of ed by a lady at least £80 a year to be left un- commuted.
Another Engineering and Architectural Tilumph, The local presa announces that
The Durian.
FOR SALE. "LADBROKE." No. 9 Conduit Road. Fino. View of barbour; 8 Rooms, 3 Bathrooms, Garden and Tennis Court. Ac-
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Building Hongkong, 25th Feb., 1913 [211
TO LET on 2nd Floor No. 2.
Pedder Street.
One roomed Office. Apply
Property Office, Jardine, Mathe- Bon & Co., Ltd.
..
Mr. Roosevelt's. Libel Sult. Murray Pier has been re-con-comodations for 30 Servants. Washington, May 27:-MrRoosatructed. A correspondent writes evelt's libel auit against the man to ask if well conducted aud pro- who called him a drunkard open-perly-clad Europeans will be ed at Marquette, Mich, to-day, followed to walk on it, In his lawyer's speech it was ex- plained that though. Mr Roosevelt was not a, teototaller, he only in dalged very sparingly. He dis- liked the taste of whisky and beer, and practically never drank whisky except ander doctor's orders after a bund reil-mile ride for instance or occasionally in the form of mint julep. Upon hard campaign trips he sometimes drank a little brandy in milk, and on his African expedition he managed to consume Tez. of brandy. At banquets be drank a glass, sometimes two, of cham- pagne or Madeira. Normally he drank nothing and never smoked. The Press to day devotes columns to the cars, which is being taken very seriously. Even bis bitter- est journalistic foes express the conviction that Mr Roosevelt will win, and applaud him for bis de- termination to try to dedit once for all the stories whic't have in- spired the offensive article.
A Bangkok paper says that the smell of the "durian" is objection" able. Lord; how fastidious some people are! Still there must be some truth in the statement, for it is whispered that, should this succulent Southera fruit bo imported into Hongkong, the TO LET:-Furnished or Sanitary Board has decided that furnished, 3 rooms with use its decomposed remains shall not of Kitchen; highest level; good be included in the list of high- kong Telegraph."
view: Reasonable," savoured articles that may legit mately be piled in the gutters throughout the night.
. Japanese Fronomics, Router's Tokyo errapondent telegraphs that it is estimated that the econ ates this year will amount to Y.68,000,00 of which Bum Y.35,000,000 will beordinary expenditure and Y.31,000,000 ex- traordinary.
Unfounded.
We are informed that there is no truth in the rumour that Hong kong University has decided to confer its Doctorate in Divinity on Mr John Olifford, of political unconformity fame. The Senate
sesses.
7.1
con-
Hong:
HUMPHREYS
ESTATE
FINANCE Co. Ltd. Loogkra, 22nd May 1918
Alexandra Buildings.
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742 & 743.
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the Gramophone Company, [885 Limited, complete with 100 re- cords, of which 70 are practically Un-new. This gramophone works by an electric motor. It was bought in May 1911, and is in good condition. Originally cost £100-Apply to Adjutant 126th Baluchistan Infantry, Kowloon, FOR SALE-Kenlis, 76s The No, 2 Mountain View, The Peak, 7 rooma, box room, Peak Apply LINSTEAD & lawn and garden, Central heating, DAVIS.
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TOLET (from 1st July 1913)
thanka; we knew before, that it and that is why Edinburgh is no A tolerably warm place) longer the capital and not worthy
be decided that it will not enter and it ill deserves such a back-a capital initial letter. The man into competition with the sub-hander as this. Edinburgh, now, who chooses to slight Glasgow in soription university' whose is a cold dour, overly-proud plaze, thia'way is lacking in disorimina "D. D. Mr Clifford already pos- The man who would write Edin in the matter of sober judgment which sorely wants a take-down,tion. But what can you expeat
Complimentary to Oxford.
burgh with a small e might be from a man born fürth of Scot- Specking of universities, we hailed as a publio benefactor. land anyhow?"
a day all the wise (We sympathise, though we are are glad to see that a certain ad- Onco on
esme from the East, tickled at a Glaswegian's pretend- vertisement, under the head of men "Scholastic", has disappeared Nowadays, in Scotland, the wiser ing to know anything about from the columns of a they are the quicker they come," sober" judgment). temporary. The advertisor was offering toconch pupils for "Hong kong, Oxford, etc," and we hear that some local Oxford, men were Reuter's Yunnanfa correspon- beginning to get swelled head states that the Chamber of Com-over this asscoiation of names. merce and the public generally A mere Question of Recognition. are opposed to the mission of the We know now why specimens local legislature to Japan. A mass of mosquito larvae have been serv meeting has been holi to de-ed out to the schools of the nounce the project.
Colony. Some while back all the
Yunnanfu and Japan.
WM. POWELL,
LTD.
DES VIEUX ROAD, HONGKONG.
DEPARTMENT.
A Strange Story. schools had a sort of team-race in TAILORING New York, May 14. -Miss hygiene, and one on the other Susie Glenn has sparaed the pleaside of the Harbour scored most for mercy of Francesco d'Tibalvi, marks. Malicious tonguessay that, said to be the son of a wealthy not long after, the pupils of this merchant in the Argentine Re-sohool (who had won largely public, and deolart she will through their familiarity with press to the bister and her charge mosquito-lore,) on being shown that he attempted to call her for specimens of the larvae had not a $2,050 to a Japanese restaurant ghost of an idea what they were, keeper, after she had eloped with Now they have to being all over him on bis promise to marry again. The Japanese, Yioshio Katagari,
Another Insult to Scotland.
is a witness for the prosecution A contemporary's compositors
and corrobrates the story of Miss Glenn.
Pipes from Harvard's Elm.
1
set up." Glasgow" with a small the other day. Apropos, an irato Scot writes us as follows:
Cambridge, May. 12. The" Glasgow with a small g is an historio Hard Clay Elm, outrage. For, of all places in around which Hravard men have Scotland, Glasgow is the most and friendly," (Many
gathered for numberless years, is warm
to be perpetuated in smoke. The tree recently fell victim to the deadly elm beetle and had to be cut down. A local tobacco mer- chant offered for sale to-day 200 pipes fashioned from the remains of the old blm. Within an hour they had been sold.
Japanese Peers Received at Mukden.
Notice
ASTHMA
CAN Be Cured. THEN why be half suffocated, and sit up all night cough: Reuter's Mukden correspondent telegraphed on Juve 14:Covers ing and gasping for breath when
a SINGLE dose of were laid for fifty at the Tatah's
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