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Band Competition.
The Prince of Wales presented
ALPINE DANGERS.:
Terrors of Falling Stones and Loose Holds.
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a miss is BF
"A handsome cup for competition The old saying,
200ft. Wheat Stack.
THE: HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16,
PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM.
A Reminder of Imparial Duties
And Obligations,
A correspondent in British North Borneo sends to the Finan
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at the West of England hands- good as a mile," is vividly apoial News the following com- SHOP TO LET Opposite men's festival held at Bugle, plicable to " near things" on the Cornwall. Six hands competed, and the trophy was won by the
mountains. Few experienced
KING EDWARD Hotel, Ice WANTED IMMEDIATELY. Camborne Band. The test piece climbers are without thrilling to the practical patriotism that Hongkong, 15th Oct., 1913.
"How is it that when it comes House St.-Apply to Medical and " Competent Book-keeper.
Correspondence Olerk. was from Donizetti's "Emilia," memories of moments when a believes in supporting one's own
European preferred. Apply Box The judge was Mr. G. H. Mercer. mere fractional difference of time flag and country, and all that
1956 555 c/o Hongkong Telegraph." Hongkong, 15th Oct., -913. 1957 or movement would have meant pertains to some, we Britishers TO LET-Finely appointed A stack of wheat believed to be disaster.
are so far behind nearly every Kowloon; suitable for middle- flate each of two rooms in According to Fry's of record size has been erected in Magazine, the man accustomed other nationality? The more one class Europeans, Airy; in good one day in a field at Steeple to leading roped parties "ap fact is to he noted. In the matter Bath Rooms; Kitchen: Moderate sees of the world the more this locality; Electric Light; Water; Morden. Containing the produce. of one field of 400 hores, the difficult and dangerous peaks is of travel itself a German will re- rent. Apply:- H. RUTTON stack is 200ft. long. Over 200 especially prone to remember in-rolutely stick to a German line, a JEE," Royal George Hotel. men and boys, four elevators, and terventions of the fickle goddess Frenchman to a French steamer, a great number of horses and Fortune. Fingers clench nervous steamer, even though this entails MEIRION, Nos. 9 & 10, Peak,
aud a Japanese to a Japanese carta were employed in the con-ly, muselos grow tense in recol waiting, transhipping, or even
Colfers Experience.
lention, perchance, of enio loose more expense; but the Britisher Cheap Rental, from 1st December Mr Edward Bohane, secretary
handbold which had perforce to rarely troubles to give such a newly painted and colourwashed.) of the Lancashire Agricultural to be used in the conquest of an thing a moment's thought, but loon; unfurnished.
RUGATE, Austin Road, Kow- Society, who skilled a reagull almost impregnable precipice just takes the line that he hap- while driving on Cleveleys Golf Providentially it held for the pens to think about, or that first Links. Blackpool, inter holed moment, but collapsed with the strikes his eye in. the newspaper. out the 18th hole in Doa dist-second climber, to leave Trim If the question be raised, he will aace of 183 yards. This is the dangling on the firmly held rope fall back on a long rigmarole first time in the twelve years over a thousand feet of nothing-about the rottenness of this line, existence of the, course that any hole has been done in one,
struction,
Alleged Insurance Frauds. At Bolton James Vose, an in- Hurance superintendent, formerly
Women Mount Guard
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Or, again, the party may have been assailed by falling stones- that grim artillery of the moun taine. Nought may be seen of the kissing, whirring missiles
the lack of attention of that, and so on, as though every British line were back number, and only foreign lines were fit for a Bri- tisher to travel by.
"One actually hears Britishers
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a member of the town conneil, discharged by natural weathering running down their own lines in was remanded on the charge of fraudulently obtaining money precipice, excepting an ominous based, in the great majority of agencies from some impending the saloons, of foreign vessels, from the Britannia Assurance Company, by whom he was em-hole in the glacier at one's feet. cases, on nothing more solid than ployed, by means of false death On occasion the nearness of cat-heareny" British lines are not certificates second accused man, ated by a lit cut in the brim of not hold the enviable position astrophe may have been accenta decadent, or they surely would Dr. Ryan, is also under remond.
wide Alpine, hat. Falling they do. When it comes to one's The parish church of Brest-tonee, varying in size from a peown Army, Navy, merchant ser wood (Essex) has been placedure the arch enemies of the ever bear men of other nationali- to an elephant, and loose rocks vice, or manufactures, does one under the most adequate, of all Alpinist. As a mountain was es publicly depreciating their guarde against Suffragettelerer since boyhood, it has fallen own country as do we British? Every hour of the day several lady watchers are on duty Ay thrilling experiences.
to my lot to meet with many such
"The same condition of things watcher observing Suffragettes or
obtains in regard to shopping. other persons attempting to dam."
Apply to loon. Almost within touch of the long Take Shanghai or Singapore or age the building will immediately purple shadow cast at sunrise by will find a Frenchman will pur- any big Eastern port, and you toil the church bell. The police the great obelisk of the Matter-chaeo every article be possibly can will understand its meaning and horn scross the lofty, everlasting from a French shop-even though not promptly.
snow fields rises the spiry ninnucle of the Aiguille de "In Zs. It doing so involves, as it frequent- Burglars' Test. Silver worth several hundred Westerly face springs from the does, much extra trouble.
lovely pine clad valley of Arolla German unhesitatingly purchasea
A
pounds was stolen in daylight in one stupendous wall of rock from his countrymen, a Swiss will
sacks in the early morning, but were thought to be workmen em.
over
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know if a fellow-countryman has Hall and Co.. silversmiths and
two thousand feet high.
The sanction of the Imperial cutlers, at Birmingham. The The ascent is more difficult than chop, and go there for what he Government has been given thieves cleared the workshop of that of the Matterhorn; thus it wants, and all will induce others to the details of the im silver ingots and sold silver goods appeals irresistibly to the sport just plop into the first place, further development of Nigeria, to do the same; but we Britishers partant railway schema for the and had apparently tested the og instinct of all experts. The quality of the metal with a route runs up a series of but-French, Dutch, or Japanese, and The terminal point of the line, got what we want without a which will be some 400 miles in solution, traces of which were tresses and chimneys, which are found. Two men wearing aprons
remarkable and, famous for their second thought.
length and will probably take "It is not that other nationali-three years to construct, has been were seen loading a trap with smooth perpendicularity,
ties think about the matter-it iaf fixed at Ignocha, at the head of second nature. It follows natural- the Bonny estuary. This being ly to them to support their own an awkward name, the Secretary countrymen, just as naturally as it for the Colonies has been asked does to the average Britishers not to allow the new port and to think of any such thing Tackle terminus to be called after him, a suggestion he has been good alterations to the interior of the
Captivity.
mumble something about being onough to approve. Royal Pavilion, transforming the "Red Drawing-room" into B
cosmopolitan, or broadminded, or From Port Harcourt the line, From Oran comes the news of something equally feeble. It which is called the New Eastern lounge and improving the cloak- the death of Captain Vales, a hero should be a matter of national Railway, will run through the room accommodation. The work, of the war of 1870. Vales who pride to stick to one's own people Central Province, traversing, a which is to be completed in time had distinguished himself at the in every shape and from possible. rich and populous district, to the for the ball season, will bo carried battle of Froeschwiller, was later out in harmony with ho style of taken prisoner at Strasburg. On
ployed by the firm.
The Royal Pavilion. The Brighton Town Council
A FRENCH HERO,
"propose to spend £1,500 upon Carried the Regimental Flag Into him on the subject, and he will
will remain untouclied,
Hobble-skirt Sille.
Hobble skirts appear to inter-
what he meant to do with it.
Bad Churchgoers-Poor Paths.
&
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pushed forward se rapidly an possible under Mr. John Eagle- some, C.M.G., Director-General of the Nigerian Railway.
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"Let any reader consider the conl fields near Udi, a distance of the structure, and, contrary to the the night before the town sur question for a moment, and of about 120 miles. Thence it Optician in D'Agullar St. feere of many residents, the ex-rendered his superior officer hand. conviction fellows. It is not done will run to the Benne river, cros terior of the Georgian building ed to him, as standard-bearer, the solely for want of thought. Wake important bridge, a little below THE IDEAL LAUNDRY
intentionally, but simply and sing that stream by means of an fing of his regiment, asking him up! England!' our King hse Abinel. It will next run to the "Save it," said Vales, with tical form of Waking up par tin fields. (to which a branch line!
said: and this is one very prar-neighbourhood of Jemaa, on the fera with the graceful climbing military brevity and he kept his ticularly necessary in the Far may bosubsequently constructed), of atilea. It was stated at a word he staff he broke and East-and perhaps at home."
and thesce to the point at which meeting of the Hockley (Essex) burned, and the flag itself he
the existing line crosses the Parish Council that the stiles in wrapped round his body, and on
Kadama River. There a junotion that district are largely used and the morrow he passed before the
with the Kano-Lagos-Baro system† that women who wear the narrow Prussian lices with the precious
will effeoted. The bar at Bonny skirta so fnaliunable now have relie on his breast. For six
is said to be the best in British | great trouble in getting over months he wore it thus in capti-
When a complain was made to West Africa, affording a depth of them. The council debated the vity in Germany and when his Winslow rural district council by 23 feet at high water, and any matter with becoming serious-r lease came he brought it the vicar as to the condition of vessel that can enter the Bonny ness and ultimately decided to back to France.
the foot paths in the churchyard a estuary can reach Port Harcourt. come to the aid of the fashionablo
member remarked, "If the people Construction on the new line will Again and again the fag was of Winslow went dwellers of their district by in-in danger, and was only saved church they would tread the
oftener to be started without delay and serting another step in the stiles by the lieutenant's strategy and loose stones down." and so making the climb less presence of mind. One day it steep.
was announced that the prisoners Festival Balance-Sheet. were to be stripped and searched
Escape of Pitman. Mr. P. Barrett Cooke, the on the morrow. Valen unrolled John Lucas, a colliery timber- secretary of the "Three Choirs" the fing nad. concealed it in the man, had a remarkable escape in festival held recshtly, in present bolster of his bed. But a German a fall of roof at the Tynybedwpit, ing his report. said that the non-commissioned officer found Ton Pentre, Rhondda. When the tickets sold numbered 14,205, 8 the bolster too comfortable roof, fell some timbers formed an against 13,276 in 1910. The for prisoner, and trana preh over him, and except for number of stowards, 211, was a ferred it to his own an injured foot be was rescued record. Attendances showed that rooms. Next day Vales procured little the worse after four fours' "The Messiah" and "Elijah" a second and more luxurious bols clearing away of tons of debris were still sheet-anchors. of the ter, which he took care to display His companions believed him festival.. It might not be naces to advantage. The trick succeed to be dead until he was heard to sary to draw upon stewards' con-ed. The German soldier er-shout... tributions, and then about £1,750 changed bolsters again, and "the could be handed over to the he was once more in Vale's charity fund. The balance-shest keoping. He received in reward
shows that the sale of ticketa and for his conduct not only the TF you have lost your appetitet books of words produced £3:530, Legion of Honour, but, what he one of the big Variety of na compared with £3,230 in 1910, valuad still more, the right to dainty dishes at the ALEXAN the estimated expenditure being retain a tassel from the ghe DRA CAFE is Sure to tempt. 43,850, as against 23,528. had saved,
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