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shifted and the military lands mads available for building. Indeed, we shall be hacks if the
ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS WERK whala- process "does not take
DESTROYED BY IMPORTED BAR- much longer. For ourselves, wo BARIANS; WE BREED OUR OWN.➡ fail to see why this City Hall | Dean Jage." question need be mixed up with.
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter,
At the moment of writing there | Walking. are many more red noses than). Walking wi' moal of na has there are fannel breaks going I nearly become a lost art anyway, the military lands issue in any The Regulation made by the about. In the air is the smell of: Of course, there still are a few thak way. The present site is ideal, Governor-in-Council in January, moth balls and the proud and take to the road of Bunday bat
prohibiting the removet of dogs happy possessors of fur coats are they're never long enough as it is. as Mr. Severa himself admits from districts of the Colony to now reaping their mead of envious be arrested for vagrancy. All the That being the case, and the other districts, is repealed. glances, a well-merited barvest samo, walking's no" encouraged after the months of preparedness as it should be. Landladies dinna' need for a bigger and better building so apparent, why delay Lengthy regulations under the gainst mould and the bandred like it for one thing, for the ap any longer in tackling the pro-Dangerous Goods Ordinance, io and one different wee beasties petite it engenders is all out of near to breaking proportion to the rest the piano regard to compressed outboain that come ject? There is ample space on acid, compressed ammonia gas, the heart of the feminine care and the parlour sofa get. After a the existing site, if the unoccupi-carbide of calcium, bulk oil and taker.
Clothes.
long walk mine lodgers bayə a nasty habit also of teaching the ed portion is also utilised, for a joase oil appear in the Gazette.
[old man local geography and that's Janet, she tells me that Arnoʻbecomingin a youngster, others very fine sat of buildings. Tha
It is ordered that a valuation | MacPherson's black dog-akin again have been known to lose fountain which never "faunts,"
of the tanements in the Colony cost is a waster and now looks a their way and on the magrow and which is an eyesore and so for the year commencing 1st. cross between moulting hen and write to the Government through obstruction to boot, can very well July, 1923, shall be made balores retriever dog in its third year of the papers, demanding signposts,
the 30:h. das of April, 1923, or as the mange. Man, that'll fair improved mileposts and the like . be done without
break her heart for she was 15% at Stanley and other distant parts. But if the Government. bas soon thereafter as may be.
terrible proud of yon coat. But What I particularly datest some other site in view, what is
The first of the calendars for I said to Janet, I hoped though in these youthful 6% there to prevent the carrying out 1923 is to hand from The it would be a lesson to har. Iplorers is the tendency to treat the of a partial reconstruction of the Pharmacy (Messrs. Fletcher and aye said no good would ever come exercise as a virtue instead of present City Hall, pending the Co. It bears a charmingly col of it. A coat cheese-pared out of something in itself. I've known & oured pictors entitled "Where the housekeeping money could rosy-cheeked lad nearly walk the time, years ahead, when military Earth and Heaven Miest.”
never bring luck Some folk ("oles off a pair of Walkovere on would keep it out of their belly to Sunday afternoon and then need a land will be available ?. The on
put it on their back. But let old ricksha on The Monday to take. rance could easily be rebuilt in A report from Wuchow states ac ask for a fancy blue and red him to the Harbour Office. If we such a manner that the large, that Luk Wing-ting's force from wool waistcoat to play bowls in had none ofthese vehicles handy. Lauchow, commanded by Han and see what he gets. Yon matters would be worse still for wasted ares taken up by the exist Choy-fung. bas been defeated by woman has an idea that ony auld they would then proceed to make ing stairway_could be utilised in 8um Hong-ying's troops and beap thing's good enough for Mao to virtue out of a necessity. Good extending the present balls, and compelled to retire from the city to the Green in. The only look to them all the same, Walk- the ground floor rooms enlarged
thing in that line I ever saw him ing is good for us provided 'the ANDRES DA ROCHA-Oso as to make much better use of His Excellency the Governor, try to wear was a wee red chest old instep doesns' fall too far, December 2od. at the Cathedral the space Dow available. Won instructions from the Secre- protector of a vest that Mrs. MacIprovided we know the way home of Immaculate Conception, Hong-
tary of State for the Colories, bas once wheedled oat o'a bit lassie and where we can get a drink half kong. Marceliano, son of Mr.throw this out as an alternative been pleased to recognise Mr. at a bazaar. Mind ye, the thingway. It's a lot better for us then and Mrs. Dionisio Andres, to suggestion to complete rebuild-Seiiobi Takahashi as Consul-was all right, kinda' on the wee reading in bed of a Sunday or Mura Maris, daughter of Mr. ing. In any case, the provision General for Japau in Hongkong. side and a Eft tight at the orters sitting w our feet up on the A. G. da Rocha.
and I believe Mac world have verandah raft at the Club. This of a better and more commodious
Mr. Harry Ore's second piano been wearing it to this day if be continual riding is weakening us. City Hall is long overdue, and forte recital will be held in thadna best chaffed about being a Walking has become such i lost- there is not the slightest excuss Cathedral Hall on Monday, Dec. Robin Redbreast. The last I saw art that the man who makes a for further inaction.
18th, at 5.30 p.m. with the you waistcoat was when it was habit of it is very liable to be collaboration of Messrs. Ericade down as a tea cosy. For thought weak in the head, Rice and A. M. Bowes-Smith job like you it was the very ticket;
the colouro' the thing itself could Anecdotal. Adrt.
very near have made toat bad the bread been Bear
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DEATHS.
GUBBAY.-Gabbay. Raphael Aarou. late Exchange Broker, Hongkong, died at sen on board the s.a. ** Nagasaki Maru on the
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ROCHA.At her residence Macau, on December, 1st., Mrs Maria Barbara Fonseca da Rocha, widow of Francisco P. Mendes da Rocha.
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HONGKONG, Zad Dec. 1922.
OUR CITY HALL
The Rubber "Boom.”
Bat man, when we get
It is interesting to observe the
Mr. M. S Northcote's term of enough. fairly rapid rise in the price of
* member of the raw rubber during the past fort-office as night or sq. Probably some of our Licensing Board expires this Cold. readers are financially interested month, and an election by the in the rubber market, and any-Justices of the Peace to fill the snap like you. I'm always vexed body in possession of rubber shares vacancy is to take place on the will be soxiously watching the 19th. instant. trend of prices. Little more than
wa
cold
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Once on the way up from Australia we bad a passenger that only stopped walking tound the deck when he was in the saloon at his meals. Coming off my watch in the early morning he was the first thing I saw and for the poor ricksba coolias. he was still padding the boof long Yon's terrible, running about once after Hights were out. This sOTS in a while and having to hang of thing went on for days on and 3 month ago, rubber was less We are advised by the Post about for hours wi" nothing but until MacPherson, who than.8d. popod, and the position Office that, in accordance with an cotton clothes on. How the fack Sailing second wi me at the time,
them didoa die off wi'declared that the man had walking. of the industry canid hardly bave agreement reached at the Wash-o been worse. For two year, the ington Conference, all the British pneumonia beats me. Surely the diabetes. He even went the length The inadequacy of the existing Press for a large section of it) and Posts! Ageniees in China were day will come when this place is a measuring out the distance the many prominent business men, in closed on November 30th. On civilised enough to want to do pedestrian travelled each day and City Hall to cater successfully Malays, had been urizing some December 1st. all the Obinees Away wi' that sort o' thing. Mac made out that between
Are in thin for large public functions was form of Government intervention staffs in the British Post Offices Here
year Thursday Island and Hongkong, o' grace wit a world fall the man walked something like a again pointedly illustrated at the in ofder to save the industry from in China were taken ove: by the
atter collapse. Malnya; sa the Chinese Postal Service.
o' all
o' sort mechanical hundred miles. Well, as I was St. Andrew's Bill. Guests were chief producer in the Empire, and
gadgets and still we're dependent going to say, one day the old man, herded together most uncomfort the main sufferer through the At the World Theatre, begin transportation.
on rice power for most of our the seat for me and says “Chief,
There's some- you'd ably and, despite the nature of rubber stamp, became a land with ning to-morrow (Sunday) "The
better
the thing wrong somewhere. Second got *gresser On the gathering, it was obvious to Fractically one topic that took Challenge of the Law," William wouldns. mind
precedence over all others what Fox production, will be shown word
ye, breathe cleaning
the up
iross for everyone, avea before the event, was going to hapen to the rubber The popular William Rassell is
against our Cruel I'm afraid they'll be needed ere. that dancing would be almost an planting industry.
Animals Society for long. The old man, name o the star, and E. Lloyd Sheldon now that it has got the Hon'ble Meiklejohn, be was an Aberdonian medies put forward by different wrote the story. "The Challenge Pollock and Mr. Frost back, it and terrible fond o' postry and We impossibility.
ratified, therefore, that, in the Fersons were numerous, bus, or of the Law" is described as a bas apparently gotten into its taking photos. Many the time
seemed really practicable. Of
smashing dramatic production, stride again, but, by the Hokey I've been invited to perspire wi presence of so many of the these latter, it was difficult to filled to the brim with suspense Fly, this business of our chair him in his darkroom of a night. Colony's governmental chiefs, select the one offering the true and heart interest which holds and ricksba coolies wants badly when he was developing his plates.
solution. Eventually, the scheme Mr. Stephen, during bis speech, involving compulsory restriction the spectator until the very end. looking into. They say that One voyage MacPherson, be stole drew attention to the fact that of ouput by estates gained the
community that sets Its hand in bis Shakespeare but that only Dating ber brilliant career as a the direction of protecting the made things worse for all the this building, erected some 60 largest number of adherents, and, years ago, is entirely inadequate following the Stevenson Commit-Rim actress, Pauline Frederick dumb creatures in its midat, is on way up to Japan he recited nearly tee's report, the rubber producing has never been seen in anything the high road to pukka civilisa-alf the Psalms, metrical version, for the present needs of the Crown Colonies adopted this quite like the role of Iris Bellamy tion. I tremble to think of the Bat that's neither bere nor there. Colony, His appeal that the schema of compulsory restriction, in "A Slave of Vanity," the indictment of the world towards What I was going to tell ye was super-special"a community which la this that we found out afterwards that authorities should take steps to which came into force at the Robertson-Cole
production which is to be shown mechanical age still uses buman the prowling body used to be a beginning of last month. remedy what is an inconvenience
at the Coronat to-day. Adapted beings for the purposes of trans- traveller for different colours o' to the public correctly reflects
to the screen from Sir A. W. portation, as beasts of barden black thread and had been popular opinion on the subject. The chief objection by critics Pingrg's well-known play "Iris," and which pays so little real in jail five years before he
of this method of stabilising the picture is an intensely in-attention to their needs. When Mr. Bird, during the rubber prices was that producers teresting drams whose leading recent Budget debate, entered a in the countries (like the Nether-figure is a pampered and pretty In my young days the poor, time. That just shows ye how
Conscience.
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On their return to the Colonyabject of much commiseration is to faimp at, wrong the site now occupied by the continue to flood the market "The Powder Puffs" and the but it was a callous driver that did Theatre and City Hall he found with raw rubber, bat volun- Grand Italian Opera Companies not cover him up w the rug at the Evolution.
Now, as I was saying, when the Government none too symtary restriction by many im- are expected to perform for a few end of each run. John has to sit
portant estates in Dutch territory nights at the Star Theatre, says the terms) or at the road side it to our bodies. Thus she grew in a bleak exposed osment shelter we need something, nature adde pathetic. The acting Governor has been promised. We now Kowloon. The former is 67- strongly objected to working in observe the first result of this pected here at the beginning of until such time as the next fare a long neck on the giraffe offices with a theatre on one side restrictive law rise in the the New Year and the latter on rolls up, his thin cotton iscket so that it could reach the nice price of the commodity. The the 13th. instant. Kowloon res drying hard against his shivering wee tender leaves and bada on and public rooms on the other, latest Bgure for few rabber on idents will be glad to learn of body the while. Isn't it within the the treetops. And when we no a hint that the London market (as wired thees engagements and will doubt Power of someone to legislate in longer need a thing it becomes when the military lands came yesterday by our Singapore cor-less give that enthusiastic sup. some way for the amelioration of dormant. That's the way wit the respondent) is 1s. 21%. & pound, port received by the mausgement existence? We bays bere a fine long since ceased to be of use his unhappy condition and vermiform appendix which bas into Government possession nowhich is about double what it of the Star Theatre in the doubt public institutions would was a few weeks ago. "Mant: case
Colony. Strangers within our except for the purpose of sasisting of many of their be properly provided for. Un facturers are buying heavily in previous enterprises. Interesting gates tell us what fine clean roads doctors to buy Hmousines. Af happily, the "when" appears to London," says the message and particulars which will have an we have; what fue buildings we one time we used to be able, liks that puts the whole thing in a important bearing on the charac possese; they even credit us wie borse, to shake flies from off be rather remote. It was so long nutabell. We believe this rise inter of the entertainments to be the scenery in which it in our our bodies. Now the skin cover- ago as 1886 that a Commission price is due to an artificial provided for the Colony in the fortune to be placed. We like to ing our forehead is the only piece advised the removal of the militimulus of the market Restrice future are expected to emanate pear such praise. We stick out Teft ns. As man became civilis
tion will bring reduced stocks and from an announcement to be 9ur chests and mentally compare and took to wearing clothing, the tary establishments from the higher prices in time, perhaps in made by the Star Theatre inter-
town wi' fy-blown, moth necessity vanished and we lost esten Singapore, hat, sticky, the kasek of involuntarily moving Colombo or villainous-looking our hide. The absence of danger Port Said. But until the time has made our ears the stationary comes when we shall have dis and unsightly things they are. pensed wit the services of thoas Fish who make dark caves their decrepit, ill-clad and ill-nourished habitat are said to be blind. Our creatures who pull as to office flagers are shorter than those of and our place is but an amply one, long fingers for tree climbing and sport, our pride in ourselves primitive man, who had to have
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city, and even pow the negotia- a very long time, but manufac-ests in the near forture, tions have not been settled, much turers are now probably-falling less the establishments moved. over one another in their hurry
to buy while the commolity is £60 FOR RABE STAMP. At the most conservativa estimate, cheap. And up goes the price in
At & le held in Harmer, judging by the pest rate of pro- consequence. We do not expect Booke and Co.'s Fleet Streat gress, it must take at least seven the rise to be much greater than auction rooms on October 24th or eight years before the issue it now is, and should not be at all £60 was obtained for a rare
surprised if there came a fairly Bagdad occupation stamp. has been settled, new quarters big drop in quotations to the pot. Qaly 59 of these are in ex-but Dead Sea fruit for the troops provided, the men distent future,
faterice.