BETWEEN OURSELVES.
(Continued from Page 60 course it doesn't," gleefully asranted Zoey; "didn't I tell you that the concoction arrives at a fine inconsistency ?”.
1 heard no inore. I left him.
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1923. THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ansmies have always bean TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
certain that the structure; would collapse at the ärst breath of trouble, but when the strain Was applied the silken cont of sentiment: proved as strong as atsel, or whether would ye have me tell ye a few stories of the far places of the world illustrating
AGO.
A Glance at our Files.
June 5-11, 1897.1
past with
all that gup, even if I have to VOLUNTEERS' PIPE BAND. The Hongkong Volunteers" Pipe Now what would you think if clip some of my words in the ye bad gotten a thing like that process. If I can get the lesson Band had a rehearsal last night put in your band? Ay, as the batter in under the skin in my and the way in which they shaped writer says, its dead easy to fill a own way, even if I have to sugar was Al. It is probable that they column o' that sort of thing but cost it wi' an account o' how we will play our own as the manuscript that came my set Jimmie Robertson's lum auThe Campbells are coming." way was nicely typewritten and fire (at Linkeumdoddie) on the Bielan laddie" would have without auld Queen's birthday, which made a prettier piece, but-there, nearly being very blemish it's just a trife dificult the two ways d'ye think pleases the Volunteers are not all Scottish to be able to tell exactly home best and interests the average to it dea't matter. Inspector Me And then again a lot reader And that after all, my Ewan (Pipe-Major) is seconded depends on how long a chap's dear friend, is what counts on his efforts very ably been writing that sort o staff. far as I'm concerned. If ya can After the first five years you and a better 'ole
BABY.
don't feel so fresh. It's like using
bs!"
C. · Angus McSwayed as Pipe-Sergeant. We are glad to learn that the important item of the drums has been very well pro- vided for. The laddies take part in the Volunteer concert to-night SPORTING VOLUNTEERS
A meeting of the Volunteer American visitors are saying will take place at their Head- blisters. 'yes. Think it over that they find London restful quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday
cross-cat Jaw. At first it's the simplest thing in the world especially as the fellow at the other and is helping. But the' first 15 minutes usually finds you wondering what your mother used to say was the best thing for
my fanciful frisad.
As for the misture of the in-
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
after the roar of New York and Daxt for the purpose of electing a the rattle of Paris. This should Recreation Committee and mak-
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gredients of the Gates Entre prove consoling to those who ing, arrangements for tennis, THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORACE CO., LTD. Nose 'twas 5ne idea but no find our City so nerve racking, bowls, etc., at a meeting of the For subscribers to the Volunteer Ball quite accurate. What about the ways the Daily Chronicle. MacPherson, Janet and the oc-the Leech and Carlyle families held last week it was decided to casional pinch of the Hokey Fly still outnumber the Bismarcks. devote the balance (about $193) is Even Lord Northcliff, when I Bismarck found London soothing, getting tennis requisites and for Interviewed him last, said he con- but Carlyle likened it to Bedlam any other games which may be sidered the mixture imperfect the railway whistles, for in- decided upon The Volunteers without the latter. He didna stance, were as a thousand cate. possess an excellent ground, in know what it was but Leech craved for the blood of the front of the Headquarters, for recreation, and also a large and then again bis Lordship never wandering musician. The organ-spacious room which is well suit- was one to allow himself to be grinders were his pet abomined for indoor games. hampered by facts. I take ittions. He declared that
the
though from my parod ers' com-only way to gesleep was to get THE DIAMOND JUBILEE. putation that he dislikes the idea in a train and give the gourd)
Preparations for the celebration of the bulk of the mixture being half-a-crown to keep the door
On
Chinese residences in the Wast-
Lickcamdoddie and from the fact locked." He would get up out of the Diamond Jubilee are being that he jibes at what little there of bed to drive the musicians rigorously pushed forward by the is of the vernacular, that he would away.
one occasion he prefer "Between Ourselves to thought he heard the Volunteers be micus Our Deric. That's playing, and rushed out to stop quite a moot point and after all. them. We're Foresters, 8:5, for some one else to say. Of two explained one of the band shines be may rest assured; Then, aby the deuce don't you firstly, that my contributions are go and play in a forest," supped no in the Doric at all and second Leech. 15, if they were, in all probability he would be unable to read them. I'm sorry though that he doesna'!
The fiftieth anniversary of the like the Linkeamdoddie bits. I unveiling of the Albert Memorial thought they were fine myself.is at band. Nowadays, perhaps
em portion of the city. A very large arch, or rather is frame work, has been erected & little Eas: of the markets on Queen's Road, and several similar strac- tures have been raised in Bonham Strand, Wing Lok Street, and other localities. In the vicinity of the Harbour Offies a number of music stands have been built at the corners of by-streets and out towards Wast Point a great mat-
COD-
And what a grand name for the best abused mbaument in shed, probably to be used as a
Kensington theatre, bas lately been book cover, which thought maybe the country, the accounts is the first place for the structure was deemed a wonderful structed. A number of European pearls being ever at sil in the feed work of art by the average Vic residents in various parts have trough. Being some more, myterian, and po country cousin arranged for illuminations in gas, to sight-seeing in London in the and the front of the Club Ger- dear journalistic juggins, mentally chew and digest a: 20's would dream of omitting manis has already been fitted the Albert Memorial from his with gas jets in the shape of a leisure.
tinerary. Designed by Sir large crown and the Imperial star Ay, it's a great thing this Gilbert Scott, the memorial rep and also the figures "1837" and writing busines. I mind fine resents in its details the work 1897". It is reported that there' the first time I tried my prentice of most of the leading sculptors is a regular boom in fancy lan- hand at it. Twas on a ship lying of half a century go-Foley, terns, sad, given fice weather, the off Aden wi' the Yellow Jack at Thornycroft. Theed, Macdowell display should be a remarkably the truck. No one being allowed
the rest. IB
was fine one, ashore.
Ineaue galoot Foley. some
the great Irishman, started the idea o' getting up who executed the bronze-gift AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY, ship's magazine. I'll coccede agure of the Prince Consort in la 1894 a very interesting ex-
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• billy goat I wouldna' have was not completed till 1876. The held by the Photographic Section ixposed myself for life to so whole Memorial cost £120,000 of the Odd Volumes Society, of much trial and tribulation. I'd and now there are cynics who which pleasing recollections no better have gotten pilgrim's plague on time than ran the say that its jubilee would be most doub remain in the minds of fittingly commemorated by its many of our readers, and pro- risk of catching a disease that
consignment to the scrapheap! mise was rusde that we wild be never lets up 00
you cotil
favoured with such exhibitions some undertaker collects-the disease o authorship.
Arguing against the prevalent annually at the least. Yet from the theory that meat is an energy that day to this we have heard ronder, was beetling, snow-clad crags, wi' the producing food, Yr. Bernard no more of the Photographic Sec- out the tion of the society, which appears jeutna bours leaping from rock to Shaw once pointed rock carrolling their joyous song ferocity of vegetarians in general to have suddenly burnt upon. The gardens were at their best, and that of Shelley in particular. Hongkong like a meteor, and hoth trees being in full foliage. On the other hand. Herbert Span-after a brief and glorious exis- There, within hearing distance of cer maintained that "abstinencetence as rapidly disappeared to be! the fitful call of the ostrich for its from meat entails diminished no more seen or heard of. Surely mate. I first committed to paper energy to both body and mind."amateur photograph cannot have A turfed back in Kimberley boilers, with patent surface con- in the Colony! It Road, which only lately adjdeosing engines, and her dimen- collapsed insions are:-Length, 90 feet:: what pundits have since been After a spell of vegetarianism he died kind enough to deem an author-found his health suffer, and re- should rather have made rapid been completed, itative work, my famous thesis on turned to a neat diet. He then strides, sad such we believe to be several places, blocking the gut-breadth at 6 feet, water line, 18 What then bas become ters, and causing the road to be feet, breadth at deck moulding. the ChoaringanTRE,
rewrote a good amount of what the case. he had written when a vegeta- of the photographers who con. much cut up by the overflow. Jo 20 feet: depth moulded, 8 feet 6 rian, because it was so wanting stituted this particular branch of Elgin Road large quantities of in. She appears to be a very earth were washed away from useful class of vessel and should the site of the new barracks, and prove a decided acquisition to gutters and drains in the neigh our barbour fleet. It is expected several places the road caved in about the beginning of September bourhood were blocked and in that she will be ready for work
aext. entirely.
ed mutton,
HARBOUR TRIPS.
were damaged in all directioas. the stetner.
She has double
From that day I've never had
• moment's peace. If it's no' in vigour." Edmund Kean, a big the Odd Volumes? Could they Janet of a bigbt telling me to pat feeder, varied bis diet according not be prevailed upon to resus out the light and come to bed, by to the character he was to imper- citate themselves and once more the Hokey Fly, it's some smart Alerk that canna see the wood socate. Thus, if he were repres give the public an opportunity of for the trees and wi gail-tipped enting a murderer be fed on beef. admiring their work? pen is out after blood. As, it's Pork was bis choice for a tyrant.
NEW FERRY BOAT. On Saturday next Mr. Sam very easy to write a parody but and to reproduce the requisite
At the Hongkong and Whampoв) HONDUR FOR SHANGHAI HIS- making faces bebind a chap's tenderness for a lover he devour-
Marks inaugurates his harbour'
BIONARY'S SON. back gets ye nowhere. It's maybe
excursions and be notifies that Dock Co's works there is at pres-
Gilbert McIntosh, son of Mr. funny. I admit, but terribly
passengers can embark from 8 to eatincoarseofconstruction & very
fine passenger steamer intended Gilbert McIntosh, superintendent inadequate.
The project for establishing a
8.30 p.m. Refreshments will be Ay. Empire Day. Dead ess Welsh Zoo near Cardiff reminds obtainable on the launches and in for the Hongkong and Kowloon of the Presbyterian Mission Fresa The now at Shanghai, was amongst the Whether would go have it in pale one of the antiquity of the zoologi- the event of bad weather the Ferry Co's services.
available for vessel is to have a rudder and recipients of the degree of Bache meaningless phrases something cal garden as a means of instruc- tion and entertainment China bad like this:
Her the University of Gissgow, on: one (the first of which there is other trips. The idea is a good srew at either end so as to avoid lor of Science in Engineering at first class passengers have April 18. Mr. McIntosh, who As one reads history, one has any record) as early as 1100 B.C.one and should not fail to prove the loss of time in turning. a vision of a procession of Em-and emphasised its educational Popular in this unpleasantly
splendid accommodation on the was born at Shangbai, was in the upper deck, which runs almost middle of his studies when the pires crossing the world's stage.value by giving it the title of in-warm weather. Borne slowly and some more telligence Park. In England
the entire length of the vessel. Great War broke out. Though quickly. Egyptians, Persiave, Heary I, seems to have establish-
Two handsomely fitted cabins under age he immediately volun-
tickets will be
HEAVY RAIN. The heavy fall of rain which
at the front in contributionstecivilisations and whence eventually the collection
seats with movable bucks. On France when peace was do passed on their way to oblivion. was transferred to form the nu- of Wednesday morning smounted and the decks are provided with He was It is unlikely in this world of cleus of the famous menagerie at to no less than five and a quarter the deck below, the second and clared, having just returned inches or aver five hundred tons change that the British Empire the Tower of Londos.
of water to the scre. In addition third class passenger accom- from hospital, having been bax come to stay, but whatever
to the washing away of the modation will be both ample and the victim of gas poisoning. permanenty- degree of vouchsafed to it, historians will Wa Pei-fu has appointed Mr. Parede ground, we find that comfortable. There are two co- He was demobilized after, four recognise in it elements at Chow Tze-chi as Director-General several mishaps occurred in Kow. panion ways from the upper years of hard fighting, and im together unique. The world has of the Bank of Communications, loon. The gardens in the vicin- deck to the lower, and a useful mediately resumed his studies never seen such a curious with Mr. Chang Chin to act as ity of the Hongkong Regiment innovation is the boarding plank which had been so rudely inter-
Mess were Hooded and the roads lowered from the upper part of rupted. ly constituted Empire. Our Assistant Director.
Greeks and Romans made theired the first Zoo at Woodstock. Rescended during the small bears are provided for bad weather teered and joined the Engineers.[
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