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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
A Glance at our Files.
July 12-18, 1897.)
an honour, the acceptanOD. Of which requires serious considera. Hon. Incidently, apart from its moral aspect, it doesus" sound Matés
quite the thing for our Univarsity Last week saw some letters to be handing out beer pumpe come my way. I wish though and at the same time accepting. bat folk would let me print pecuniary assistance from the what they send in. I'm sure Rockefeller Foundation. I only quite a lot of what reached me hope the trustees never get to would have made quite decent bear of it. Pots of bear might be reading. Bat no. private and conducive enough to the singing of apt for publication" was mostly Widdicombe Fair" table high of Commerce, letter from the the password,
which to mast two o'clock_ack emmɩ but it Government forwarding copy of siems a great pity. There's lots makes very damp priming for a despatch from Commodore in Hongkong like that though. the social upheaval long since Holland on the proposed extan- They do mos: of their talking in promised.
NAVAL YARD EXTENSION.
At a meeting of the Chamber
sion seaward of the Naval Yard W2B read. The Commodore having taken the opinion of
the
of
SATURDAY, JULY 15,- 1922.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.J.T. SHAW
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the wrong place and at the wrong Treating. time. Take some o" our committee metings, for instance, It's quite a
In Scotland wa sternly dis-experts is satisfied. that the common sight to see a chap sit courage this particular form of reclamation will not affect the through a six-inch agenda with promiscuous philanthropy, but fairway or cause sitting up out opening his mouth more than it's a queer thing how a man will the foreshore to any extent, one except to breathe. You'd ask you to come and have a drink but in
event think he was a sitting ben on con-in preference to ony other kind silting he stated, under reserve. tract for all the stir be makes-info" sustenance. Now, I diana' his belief that the Admiralty session. Pearls of wisdom fallas want to start something on the would take any remedial mes olen from his lips as diamonds avils of treating in public. That sures that might be necessary. are to be got from among our cat's sort of thing is all right so long Resolved to reply to the effect back teeth. As I say, that's it goes no further than the first that the Chamber were glad to when be's in session.
round. Bat to show how really false at bottom are most of these Invitations, just you suggest the next time that you prefer Wise man's, a bottle of milk and a bun, and see what happens. Our
Yippers.
But hear him when he gets oobide. Ag, wait till hy's in the strat and takes a good firm grip
of the lappel of your coat. Then friends diana' mind giving ye thol he got Demosthenes beaten | best that ever came out of barrei
arose,
receive the Commodore's assur- ances and trusted that the Ad- miralty would. if need give full effect to same.
PROMINENT GERMAN'S
DEATH.
We greatly regret to announce
at the post. A & talking or bottle but as a rule they bave the death of Mr. Lorenz Poes- record he's a perfect wonder es
most decided objections to treat- necker, for many years Manager pecially wi a load needle on. ing ye to something replete wiin Hongkong of the firm of He can tell to a hairs-breadth vitamines. About all ye get out Arnhold. Karberg & Co. This where everybody went wrong of this pernicious system is food news reached the Colony yester from the time the secretary read for thought and even that very day, a telegram from London to the minutes of the last meeting, largely depends on the state of the firm here conveying the sad right up to when the chairman your head next morning. The intelligence. pulled out bis watch and called it point I desire to make is that if death of Mr. Poesnecker became As 2000 as the
• day. He's got
everybody my friend bad only asked me to known in business circles the weighed up bar himself. Hajcome up to the Eastes Club and colours at the German Club were Dever makes a sus pas (there I borrow one of the fifty books lowered to half-mast and house- amigain) and nobody snickers at recently prosented it, I might flags were also promptly lowered the way he mis-pronounces a bave given the invitation as a token of respect for nas four-syllable word because be second thought, for I cansa' mind whose death is much regretted cantys prove & vocal alibi. But the time that I havena' been by all who had the pleasure of hear him on the way home. See troubled wi' bookworm. And his equaintance. or who bad. bow he keeps ham-ham-bammer-that's a disease that bear from daring his long and successful ing his points home-a fit object the barrel doesna' help the least career in the Far East, come in for mental observation and for wee bit. suspicion on the part of the policeman on point duty. That sort of man is no good to him. Coming back to our Telephone self or any body else for he's Company and to what I had to timed wrong-be sparks at the say last week regarding its
wrong time.
Telephonics.
contact with him either in the: counting-house, at his private Poesnecker was & far-sighted, residence, or in society. Mr. sagacious and hard-working gen- tleman whose advice on commer service, as distinct from its system, cisl affairs was much sought and The man that writes to new-n American writes endorsing readily and cheerfully conceded. paper and tells the Editor to what I said. He instanced the We share with his many friends keepthe good news under his present day telephone service in in this part of the world, the sor hatipat him in the same cate. San Francisco as compared to Rory. It's a lot better to be use-omo years ago. In the old days fat a merely clever especially the plug board was not thought in the way of ideas or news. much of job by the City's
female labour. Critics.
Pounding keyboard in the business district down town was much better, the wages being higher and the opportunities for gum chewing
this
row caused by the removal from our midst of an old and greatly esteemed friend, and we beg to assure the firm, whose interests be sympathy in respect of the great so ably fastered, of our deepest loss it has sustained.
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Then there's the chap that reads sommelhing in the paper about potting water-pipe or a cause way across the harbour or some- and face fassing more frequent May we again call attention to thing equally technical. The Complaints became so chronic the bathing nuisance which is mere fact that it costs a lot of that the Company decided daily in evidence on the uncom other folk'a money, isus' neces-to hire more intelligent plated portion of the Prays sarily a drawback. So be gets help And with
end Reclamation bosy right away and withe best in view they instituted a school Pedder's to the Canton Wharf? stretching from part's box of matches, the back of instruction, rest and tea rooms Here, at all times of the day, not anold envelope sad an entire and secured the services of only children but grown up men Jack of technical knowledge he'lltrained nurse. Eventually the are to be seen splashing about in show ye bow the thing's easily boneheads were eliminated and the water with no more clothing possible, even if the Forth Bridge because of the better salaries upon them than the black braid on a picture postcard is the only offered, & more educated type of plaited into their queues. Things the kind he ever saw in girl was attracted. The result to police stand idly by and look op, The his life before. But let the wee day is that telephone complaints making not the slightest attempt| in ak him to mend the broken in San Francisco have been to stop the nuisance, though, wheel of his barrow or his wife reduced to a minimun and the were a European to bathe from merely mention that the kitchen only folk who kick are the nerve the same place, spigget needs a new washer and specialists. Now the San Fran-ing a bathing costume, we fear he even if wear- it's cockroach-bitten laichee to cisco Telephone Company did not would immediately be marched an unripe pomelo that the same inaugurate this change simply off to the Police Court and fined man is lots too busy even to because certain members of its heavily for the first offence, with- think about it
Board of Directors had an excess out even being allowed to plead,ployed. and It's the same wi folk that of kindness in their system. No. as an extenuating circumstance, services dispensed with; hence criticise what's written in the they formulated this newspaper. To hear them some-because they believed that it and recognized custom.
scheme that he was following a regular the slipshod method of procedure times ye'd think that university would pay. And it did.
If the adopted. Ferb Government will not supply the degree grew on trees. Lots o" folk Sap.
GOVERNMENT SERVANTS AND BUSINESS. Following upon the
here in ides that an Editor here- abouts walks in after ten, writes his dally solemn warning, ambles out to luneb, comes back after three to put his o.k. on the proof
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and then rickshas round to the
The following is the programme
in wilting and you'll wait and wait and wait and wait. Easmatica.
some
their
Valuable UNLICENSED BOARDING
HOUSE.
Japanese Proprietor Fined. Chinese with a proper bath house
The unlicensed boarding house they might at least confice bath-
case, which ing within certain limits or commotion by the Captain Superin-moned was apparently not the WEL adjourned recent yesterday because the man m pel them to wear a garment of tealent of Police relative to the proprietor, came before Comdr.
kind when bathing, in public.
Sanitary Board's stad engaging Beckwith at the Marine Court clab to get some more local of the Organ Recital to be giren
in business concerns, the Seore, again to-day, P.W.D. CRITICISED. tary laid his report on the table. ontour. But you ask some" Proin St. John's Cathedral on Mon-structed along the sea front of of clerks, 16 inspectors, 10 in was the proprietor of the second Another man took the defen- Boso Poblico" clamouring on day next at 9.15 p.m. As will be
The new road now being con-The report contains the answers dant's stand. He admitted that be the telephone to put his thoughts
Kowloon seen, the programme
terpreters, I overseer, & foremen,floor, No. 18, Fraya East. He had from the Pumping is 30 House at Yaumati to the Cos-watchmen, 2 shroffe and 3 had the place about five years. exceptionally varied and interest- jog one-
mopolitan Dock is progressing tallymen la every case the
Sub-Inspt. Shaftain spoke to 1.-Choral Song and
place shows rer. "I have no interest in my visiting the premises on the 12th. Frapidly but lo Fugue
-Wesley, plainly the penny-wise-pound concerns whatever. The and finding sleeping accommod 2.-Meditation
foolish policy of the P.W.D. A Medical Officer of Health moved tion for same fourteen persons.
That the Sanitary Board beg to He an (1) Preghiera
Pamping House, towards the Dock, the road recommend to HE the Governor and four playing cards. Witness European sleep Kreisler.. has been built on the beach and that he be pleased to direct that saw a Japanese woman, who told [(b) Minuet... Beethoven large cavity left on the landward say evidence that may exist to him that her husband was the
aide quite undrained, so that, show that any of the subordinate tenant MRS. GUY KENNETT. 4-Night..."
after a fall of rain a miniature officers of the Board are CONCORD- ...8. Carg-Elert. Lake is formed, the water of which a business relations in the ing said the man summoned was The woman in Court this morn-
5.-Shepherd and
HYMN 193.
can only escape by percolating
Colony, be furnished confiden- not her husband. through the dam formed by the tially to the Board. The Acting
In fining defendant $100, with Mocking-bird...W. Berwald road into the sea. That this will Director of Public
Werks the alternative of two months, ((s) Air on the
undermine the road is obvious to seconded the motion, saying that the Marine Magistrate said there G. string... Mattheson, all, with the exception apparently information should be before the table here. He wanted the it wir very desirable that such was apparently a great deal of of the P.W.D. who will probably Band. The motion was carried DSE to deal with the Licence
One of the letters I got this week was from a chap who signed himself "Bait and See." I'd have liked very much to publish it if 3.- for nocther TRBO but to show ye how easy it is for a man to write much and say so little ...at the same time. He's an Easmate this Ind, and he assures me that at the Club circular bar I'd find some pretty hefty
argumentative opponents. This
I can quite believe. My longest) 6.-
and hippiest discussions have
hitherto been at bars. Booza
and Wither
凹 nearly
... Batiste. ...Marlini
few yards past the
(b) Meditation. Glazoonew.
MRS. GUY KENNETT."
be content to be continuously
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synonymous as makes no odds.-Imperial March...E. Elgar.
Ithank my correspondent for his
patching this portion of the road ansumously.
at frequent intervals for the next! ; fifty years or so rather than "put)
THE "BALTAN.” kind vitation to partake of
The Douglas Liner, Hain RICE STOCKS IN SHANGHAL in a culvert or a few earthenware which arrived from Foochow debates and several pots of The Chinese prose states that drain-pipes to carry off the sur-Arty and Swatow celebrated to Baamalic beer but I feel that I there were 322 rice shops regis face water. Possibly, however, day her 300th, trip in the counting must decline. You place is lots tered in the International Settle the P.W.D. anthorities see the trade From stem to atéri the too exclusive for the likes of me ment at Shanghai, as the end of necessity of supplying work for trim little steamer was gally and the very idea of drinking June, and the total quantity of the department, the staff of which decasted with fags in honom af beer dawn from the barrel by the rice in stock was 64,321 plculs, might otherwise be left unem:]the | jasion, and we hode that
and Wintsd the place broken up, The Magistrate warned defendant' that if Europeans were found on his pretium again he would, be
exit With very severaly
the course of time she will: to make many similar- btain J. 8. Roach is
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