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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH... FRIDAY, JANUARY
the ubiquitous akull-cracking bamboo has, wi' the maroh of progress, given way to the mare easily carried but no less deadly revolver. The result ✯ that armed robberies are to-day s slamp on ac otherwise` dull market. Unless the shopkeepers nowadays are willing to ran ups bill for extra electric light, or get loopholes out into perfectly good shutters, wi' a steel gate entangle- ment on the outside, no' to speak o' giving the watchman a rise in his wagea sa compensation for the loss of well-earned rest, the Chin- ese Get-rich-quick Wab Ling Fobs are very apt to penetrate into their inner defences and
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their credit balance at the Bank.
One of the big folks the other day compared the University to a lighthouse. "Let there ba Light" no doubt looks fine over the doorway of a Carnegie Public
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34, Queen's Road Central
ROBBIE'S LETTERS.
TO HIS NEPHEW IN AN ENGLISH HOSPITAL
believe me what's most needed in our "No-man's-land" in Hong- kong Central of a night, is Very lights otherwise we're very apt to waken up some of these frosty bored out in the centre of our mornings wi a neat wee hole
forehead.
the Deity though, calud ye, if Frenchman asked me for a match, for instance, I could certainly
That's what I said to Mac- joblige him-that is, provided he
took it out of my hand. No Pherson last Sunday night when Hongkong, 22nd Jan. 1919. Alick, the French people have we were coming home from the had enough of the horrors of war kirk at least be T215 Mac's without having their beautiful idea was to always have a big, language murdered in the way
stick at hand and-"yes" says I it so often is; I know of nothing whistle them over and after liable to upset the Entente they've got their tails well tucked' than a continuance of that sort in between their legs, then shift of thing..................
Dear Alick,
......no lad, I'm getting a bit tired of that excuse. No doub: you will get lazy at times letter writing or for that matter, might have other fish to fry and
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It is official y given out to-day do to you super-pedigreed dog o
us the left, same as you aye IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS no spare time on your hands that the Governor has hauded in to write long screeds to an obi his rifle. No doubt, within the yours. Man," says "before doited uncle but whatever the next few days we'll all discover ye could get the Han look into cause is, for goodness sake don't what a fine chap he's been and your eyes you'd be lying wi' a write and tell me that the ship done very proper thing to
what a grand lot of things he's hole in ye, and your diaphram
twisted must have gone down. What when
made 8 bad landing. some of our friends will do for disappears. Lady May was one clocked, would be inside your Dian dies Or The revolver artist, if he was an excuse now that the sub- of the finest women ye could ever marines have been stopped wish to shake hands wi'. This bip pocket inside three jiffes
some dark night after business lets our pet rumourists and the 40 cents along wit the and have your purse removed
be hold
would beats
they - UP, cut for another airing for there's King Charles three-penny bit kind to them that knows most more apt to leave work of this have been a lot of talk of late about that was keeping them company-about it. a lot to answer for, but they who is next in
On a job like this the HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. havena' been so frightful in the Governor. Sir Julian Byng has
line for More than likely he would then olds are, that within a week, if way o' sinking ships as some, been mentioned among others, 50 away a disappointed man, that we, used to count sa our best though I am sure the chap did trying to figure out how much they werena' careful, their widows decently well during the war he was in on the deal after wast would be choosing between the ing a perfectly good bullet virtues of granite and marble as
Entries for the forthcom me, Alick, the Police here haveing Races close to the under-
W3r
over,
and the
me.
Germans The
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
friends, would make us believe.Jat least I never heard anything retailed at $3.50 s hundred. a permanent memorial. Believel M EMBERS are reminded that
No, socay, yo may tell me that to the contrary. But there must Besides, mind ye, ye would ran ye have sprained your wrist-or
surely
your intellect for that matter amiss or they would never have Infantry Band at your funeral a halothan anybody else I know, 25th January. but no more of von "boat must thought of sending him to govern for I hear that they're working but that would be nothing if they t is requested that they may have been something the risk o' no getting the 18th more opportunities of cultivating signed to-morrow Saturday the have got munk" stuff for me. a place like this. Some one overtime the now practising the sot their due when it was he sent to the Jockey Club Office
Aye, I know fins that you're in should write and warn him, ony-Righisome Reel for the En-Pake Hospital but a damaged knee-cap how........ never kept a man freza holding a pen in his hand; even the folk;
o' writing at times.
......aad as things stand at pre-
sent
Clerk of the Cearse
Chatar Road. (ground floor of the Take, for instance, the In-Hongkong Uluh Annexe) before gineers' Institute Ball."
"No, Mac" says I "aye bear investiture at Government House Pr
T. E. HOUGH in jail are allowed the privilege Arizona or Texas for his native abhors a vacuum' and remember/understand, none of the Regular) any globe-trotter owning mind the saying that Nature the other day. From what I can State needs trouble about bring that the bull in the ring always Police Inspectors were invited to Hongkong, 24th January, 19:9. and another thingling along his Victrola and thecomes off second best because be present, though in the old when I'm at it. I'll have less ofHome Sweet Home" record, for heredity makes him think wi' his days it used to be a common thing so much of yon Freuch if you with armed robberies becoming horns instead of his brains, No. to see them, on occasions such as PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP' please. Man, yo've got some of an almost everyday affair, there's ve gowk, if ever one of yon ether these wi' their white gloves and your letters that much dotted wino straining required to catch displacing rascals pokes a gun atswords aa befitted Officers of the it at times that they have the the Wild and Woolly West effecte, though I don't know why in Colony. I don't know why this
perfectly harmless but courteous the was relegated to
decent to look at somehow. in the morning. Along wi' our grip of the atmosphere and don't limbo of the past, though I could from
COMPANY.
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BAN
FRANCISCO,
appearance of a secret code, and No, it hits you just about as the world he should, you stick up for your Aunt to read, barely often as you open the paper your arms quick and take a firm boo 1 know, of you must have picked up a lot of Congregations at the University, Boat clearing the Harbour.".
total hats and our Graduation leave go till you hear the tonal guess and run no risk of a head- HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS French where you have been the the piratical folks of the hinter-
ache from so doing. That thei But MacPherson just kept
Police Reserve Inspectors were
course,
past few years but I'm thinking)land have kept pace wi' Western woushing on about the Poli in full bloom at the last affair is, that you should now put the soft ideas and it would seem that and what were they thinking however, a good augury for the
pedal on the "tray bong" staff
and no' try and confese an old
man wi' only a School Board
education to his credit; besides 1 THE
had always supposed from your
letters that you had picked up
more lice and mud than anything
"TELEGRAPH
IS
AND SHANGHAI.
" EQUADOR,” The above mentioned vessel, about? etc. In this respect Mac's future and who knows we may like a lot more in this Colony. yet live to see the Regular Police having arrived from the above "Some folks think that all the Inspectors reinstated among the mentioned Ports, consignees of Police do, is to drink canteen elite, for on occasion they cantazgo are aby informed that their carro will be landed at look as portentiously solemn as their risk into the hazardous beer in their spare time or s90 that ricksha coolies don't over-the best of them......
and/or extra hazardous Godowns, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd. Kowloon, and stored at Con sigueen' risk.
else in that country. I know, THE FEATURE PAPER charge and note that the hawkers ......aye, it's a great life if you
course, that the only difference
between French and English
much alike. It wouldna' be On MONDAYS for
LOOK OUT
"CURRENT
COIN"
lassie I wouldna have thought On TUESDAYS for
is that they
Bre
pretty
60 noticeable though, if the
French pronounced their wards
right. If I had been a young
so much about it but as I've no
money to leave you onyhow, it
fair beats me toknow your reason
for using a language that needs On WEDNESDAYS for
so much of the free use of one's
arms to speak it properly. I've
"MODERN MODES'
#1
AN ISLANDER'S DIARY
aye heard, on the other hand, On THURSDAYS for that folk can express themselves
in French better than in onything “MUSICAL JOTTINGS"
else. That must be because
nobody can understand them On FRIDAYS for
and they can say anything they
want. I understand French, of
course, in a way, but not as it is
"ROBBIE'S LETTER"
spoken. I'm not so far advanced On SATURDAYS for the
as to think that
la" has some connection with
Yours truly, ROBT MacWHIRTER.
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are duly licensed and finally after don't need Sanatogen.... pulling in a few long distance medals, draw their pensions and live a blameless life thereafter, I've got no time for that sort of talk. The Police bere are
REST FOR MOTHERS. a real decent hard-working lot, and what's wore forbye, them that's on the Detective Staff
How many babies wake up just
All broken, chafed and dam- THOMAS W. SIMMONS & CO. about the mother's bed-time and have to excercise the functions of keep her busy for a good part of aged goods are to be left in the both ends of their bodies if they the night. The mother may not Godowns, where they will be ex- mean to keep their job. They're see
the 29th January anything apparently, the amined on not overpaid in these bolabing matter with the child, but she 1919 at 2.06 p.m.
"All claims must be presented days and it has been proved may depend upon it that when within the past year that the baby is cross and sleepless there within a month of the steamer's casualty average among the is something wrong, and the little arrival here, after which they kong as on the Western Front has of telling it.
Police has been as high in Hong-one is taking the only means he cannot be recognised:
No claims will be admitted
...
Under such circumstances after the goods have left the If the folks that get finger itch Baby's Own Tablets are just the Godowns and all goode remo ining and waste perfectly good paper friend needed. They contain no undelivered after the Sim writing to the Editor they fancy opiates, but send baby to sleep January 1919, will be subject to best, (one of them actually en-simply because they remove the rent couraged that sort of thing the cause of his sleeplessness and other day), had to get a move on make him feel well and comfort- towards the Ferries and the abs. They are recommended for Canton, and
hour teething kronbles, constipationi
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