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Every wineglassful of Wincar- nis brings increased strength and vitality to those who are Weat, Anæmis, Nervous, or Run-down.
SATURDAY: 'MARCH 24, 1923,
when wage-earners were able Practically to extort what they wanted. It is difficult to return to the simple life" after tasting
DAY BY DAY.
COURTESY IS BEST TAUGHT BY
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
Getting Stronger Day by Day. of better things. In considering EXAMPLE OF THE MAN AT THE
HEAD. this aspect of the matter one has
We are authorised to contradict If we had no Theatre Royal, also to bear in mind the working- Mr. Walter Sobofelt has been the rumour that the Easma Club where would peape go to talk? man's point of view that he is appointed District Officer in the purpose to purchase St. George's that A Dow deserving of a better standard of Southern District of the New Building and
A donkey may be a feature Beeroetatio System ja con- of the new Easma bathing bench. living than has hitherto been his
templated in connection there- Only one? lot. Certainly, it is not right| Mr. Albert Denison has been
with. because a man has struggled on appointed a Member of the Licens
An outstanding feature of Wincarnis is its extraordinary power in rebuilding exhausted vitality, and in promoting nee strength-new vigour, enu', rich, red blood-and new nerve tone.
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And the reason Wincarnis does this, is because it is a Topic, and a Restorative, and a Blood-maker, and a Nerve Food-all combined in rich, delicious, healthgiving preparation. That is why over 10,000 Doe- turs have recommended Wi- carnis.
And is also the reason why countless thousands of Weak. Annic, Nervous and Run- down Men and Weinen have obtineri renewed health- enriched blood-invigorated nerves, and a fund of new vitality from Wincarnis. And what Wineorois has die for others it will surely do for you.
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The Telegraph.
Territories.
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for years with indifferent pro-jing Board for a further period of Notes:-"Jowelledshoulderstraps should be reduced 100 per cent.
three years.
specta for himself and his family that he should be held to the We have received from Mr. E same drudgery all his life. It is F. Aucott a parcel of magazines all & question of tinding a proper and other periodicals for the use balance, and ab-age seems to
| have evolved a satisfying solution
yet.
Without unduly digressing, we desire to comment on another
of the troopa.
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Boiled down, Mr." McGuigan's From the Telegraph Fashion argument is that house rents for evening frocks are a recent are effectively used this way." will never be content until he gets novelty in Paris.
Ревга He's like the man we know who We prefer apricote ourselves. 19-months' holiday every year.
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Next to tax-free houses we can Mr. Thomas William Ainsworth cumsbaw gramaphones with free think of nothing better than has been appointed Assistant beer thrown in. Colonial Treasurer and Assistant Assessor of Rates.
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Tip for local orators: Once Everything has its placa, except aspect that the poorer classes- A regulation has been made memoiisa a speech, be sure yon Theatre Royal.
baring taken the trouble 10 your overcoat and hat at the term which also embraces the reducing from 10 to 5 cents get a seat coar the reporters. auffering "buffer-class" between the stamp duty on compradore
orders passed through a bank. capital and labour-have always before them. We refer to the
Every Hongkong men longs "A man who plays golf is for a nice home to stay away worth at least $500 a year more from.
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Major P. Rashleigh, D.S.O., to his employer," says a Chicago R.G.A. has taken over the duties merchant. We pass on the tip Talking about dwellings, was of Major 1.G., China Command, to Bom. of our Goperament would hate to live in a cheap. vice Captain C. O. Olliver, R.GA. servants.
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twenty-room house and have to hunt our pipe in every one of them.
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To paraphrase Mr. Gorge, if Dr. Suu wants milk Lloyd from the cow he must forego the
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gross extravagance of those who have more money to spend than their ordinary needs call for. Whether they be "newrich" or not, Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones has been The latest bad news always there are thousands of thought-appointed an Assistant to the seems to be the worst. Shanghai less persons who fritter the hours Secretary for Chinese Affairs and has challenged Hoogkong for the Deputy Registrar of Marriages. Mah Jongg Championship of the | away in a mad round of pleasure, flinging to the winds in a single
Charge of the Hongkong Mule day enough money to keep Corps. Detachment is shortly to "Tuft of beard as evidence," 1923 Easter Eggs are to hand hundred starving families com-be handed over from Lieut. As a Telegraph headline. That's at Cafe Wiseman," says the fortable for a week. The unem-Whitely.
WE Davidson to Conductor nothing; we've known one solitary Telegraph. Pity they couldn't
hair evidence enough,
make up the round figure. ployed workingman who stands, shivering in an icy drizzle watoh- The Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher,
Here's another newspaper head- "Cymdeithasdewisant.” All an-" ing the richly-attired idle classes C.M.G, C.B.E, is to be Chairman 08 Expert Proposes New Plan swers to be in by Monday. Pleasa HONGKONG. 24th March, 1923. going to their warm, ausic-filled of the Licensing Board during the to Finance Bridge" Many a
Jumbled Word. Com- absence on leave of the Hon. Mr.hubby has bad to do that, and is ballrooms, or to their extravagant, Claud Severn.
petition." thankful to have his name kept plentiful meals and wines, looks
out of the newspapers.
"Fast Sleeping Trains," 0 upon,
Bays & them
representing
sub-head in the Daily Bulletin. This from the society columns of That's good. Our kick, up to the Capitalisa-with a sanguinary So used have we become to adjective-and as embodying the
the wedding was Mme. Walska's it takes one so long to do it. an American paper" Although present, against sleeping is that Industrial peace in Britain rulers of his country and of him- comparatively speaking-that itself. He dreams, maybe, of the is a rude reminder of the bappen-day when bis own class will rule. ings prior to 1932 to learn that and mistaken notions of com- further serious labour trouble is munism, capital levies, and the likely. One can only trust that like enter his head. But is he the disputes now in being will be blame?- successfully negotiated, for ite would mean a very bad time for
INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
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The Gazette notifies the pro- posed leasing of foreshore at Ma 407,985 square feet, the upset Tau Chung, Kowloon, comprising price being $81,497.
fifth and Mr. McCormick's third,"
chance.
it was marked by all the usual Time may be on Dr. Sua's side, The officia: rate of the dollar flourishes." Marriage is a lottery, which is perhaps, another way of which have to be made in Hong- for all payments fixed in sterling, but you can always have another saying that he believes in a future kong and on the China Station
existence.
during the month of April, is Zal [34d.
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Some day a scribe will arise and describe what is said at some of our public meetings as a cross large tepid poultice of platitudi- between a beautiful dream and
nous pleonasm.
It is notified that the rate for registration on local letters, that is, on letters posted in the Colony be five cents as from April 1st.The very nature of the sleeves for delivery in the Colony, shall
From a women's fashion paper
next.
the country were its industries Wanchal Gap Scheme. to ba plunged into a state of chaos. It would almost seem as though at present. Times are critical in the Government attitude in regard many respects, and British trade to the Wanchai Gap tramway is facing as big a crisis as it has scheme has undergone a decided ever been confronted with. Much speaking on the Budget in 1920, change. H. E. the Governor,
depende of whether our manu-said the project might be facturers during the next few taken up in 1929. In last year's Budget speech, Mr. Severn dec- months will be able to carry outlared that he considered this years. promptly and at a fairly reason means of access to the Mount able charge, the "orders that are Cameron district to be essential.
වි It took three years to bore the Beaconsfield Tunnel biggest local bore is the man who The next almost remembers when eggs were saven cents a dozen.
Empress of France, which just millionaires
They say there were 80 board the we wear, makes it imperative that goes to show that wearing old Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet- our gloves should have a pro- clothes is all right if you don't C.M.G. RA.M.C., has been ap sleeves." It is, of course, difficult Colonel
tective quality and be able to keep have to. Lawrence Humphry, the wind from getting up our Board for a further term of three when you get the wind up. pointed a Member of the Sanitary to have something up your sleeve column":"Jean.-Demots and From the Times agony
pel revd, may thnks: old not wri odr cremstnes tho lwys thnkng ft. It is reported that the col- Mim St. P 21st 5:30. Vry Ivng Command orders state: As the lection, taken on the occasion of wab.-Sandy." We thot so. Frui
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now coming to them. Many of stated that the Government would Hongkong and Kowloon shows to Canton, was a poor one.
A few days ago, bir. Fletcher analysis of the drinking water in the visit of the American tourists
are
need to be convinced of a demand some degrees of contamination, for building sites before they could all water for drinking purposes in undertake the scheme. His latest Hongkong or Kowloon must be utterance, in an interview with a boiled before use. contemporary, is that there is no
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sport.
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Familiarity breeds contempt Regter tells us of a remarkable rush for a ferry service betwasɑ know of a ferry nearer home. Harwich and Zeebrugge. We
the present-day customers old friende who, when the big labour disputes of a few years ago drove them to seek fulfilment Lof their requirements elsewhere, immediate Decessity for the It is notified that, at the expira port Dinner, which no doubt Pola Negri is said to be insured
retained a memory of the worth scheme, which would only servetion of three months the Spain accounts for the rumour about against marriage,
With an ad. the taipans and other com-and China Navigation Company, town of our manufactures, and reparatively wealthy people. The Limited will, unless
that the St. Andrew's 'ditional premium againat hazar now returning to the fold. To burden of his remarks was that shown
cause is Society is seriously considering dous aud/or hazardous goods, we to the contrary, be the possibility of reciting the presume. disappoint them again would be the proposed route would not be struck off the register and the a seribus calamity for the coun-convenient, as it would neces company will be dissolved.
Princess Mary's baby son is isitate people who use the tramway try, with its grave problems of passing through Chinatown before
Four Chinese eggs bought for said to have had his school trade depression, unemployment, they could reach the city. Intention of His Excellency the hatched
It is notified that it is the in- sitting by an old lady in England already picked for him. What if lizards. Which he wants to be an engine driver? and crippled revenue.
Then, this connection, he spoke of the Governor to make an order on perhaps only goes to show that bound up with the matter of Peak tramway being shifted on directing the
lower terminus of the present the expiration of six months some hens are not so particular Seems to us one of the lessone
removal of all strikes is that of the cost of living. to military land.
to be got from "Abraham Lincoln" But we need graves in Ma Tau Wai Cemetery.
as they might be.
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is that it is not the appearance of There has been a steady and hardly point out that that would Such order will be made for the
Which reminds us of the re a man, what he wears, bow be encouraging fall in the index not assist people living in the purpose of the laying out of roads mark made by a hen after being wears it, that matters. It is what
eastern part of the bill district, and building sites. figures ever since the highest neither would it in any way help
run over by Ford car. Getting he thinks that counts. pinnacle of living costs was those who may think of building
up and abaking her few remain- Notice is given that the ing feathers, she exclaimed:~~ reached in 1920, and labour in the Mount Cameron region. Governor-in-Council purposes to "Gee; that was a swift rooster1" The trouble is, as we have already make an order for the closing to trouble at this juncture will send pointed out, that the upper public traffic of the Public Path the gares up again, with con- terminus of the present tramway lying between the northern end of citizens that he was able to where the rush is constant.
Dr. Sau told a recent meeting sequent suffering for many who service is too far removed from of Victory Avenue and the temple meet them again because of the
these parts. jare now barely able to keep their
ton. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 111 good work of the friendly Yan- heads above water.
A Suggestion.
at its junction with Waterloo nanese and Kwangsi troops, who There's always something. Road. Any person objecting to had come in a righteous cause to You can rent houses cheap ia What we should like to see the proposed order must forward suppress the troubles in Kwang Russia, but none of the neigh connection that the unrest among
done is the laying down of another bis objection in writing to the tung." He will be all the more bours are very vícá. Britain's working clansee is tricts, which would certainly aid 13th. April.
system to serve the eastern dis- Colonial Secretary not later than pleased now that Peking has 10- mainly due to the reductions of building development there; and wages now taking place. The in this connection it might even be possible to have a joint lower; employers contend that this terminus for that service and should not be reserved for wealthy policy is justified by the fall in the existing tramway, situste, motor-owning taipans; induce Some of our public meg are fine the cost of living, but most af perhaps, on land now owned mente should be offered others of taikers except for finding it hard
We notice from an American the workers (and not always by the military. We very much the European community to live to get their speeches in the
journal that our old friend Luden doubt Mr. Fletcher's statement there. No-one can have noted papers. unreasonably) maintain the view that most of the people living on the development of the eastern
dorf is suing someone for Ubel that the alleged big fall in the Peak are the possessors of part of the Peak without realising We are informed that in order Must have said he won the warl prices is much less than motor-cars. There are very many that there is a distinct need for a to hear Chinese "as she is spoke"
who are not so fortunate, and; hill tramway there. For these it is necessary to move in certain The other day a Kowico1 man the fall in wages. Often, it is what is more, we believe the reasons, we hope the Unofficial Peak circles. As an example, caught a bus and was uninjured, (merely a question of adjusting time is coming when
members of Council will press for Ne-ha-bin Chui-way not pro- but it is a dangerous habit. many the mode of living to the new Europeans" of the average type" the pushing forward of some such pounced as we had always will take their homes on the project as the Wanchai Gap thought, but "How binged you
The latest re
report is that Lenia standards; or more correctly to
island hillsides, where conditions scheme, either as a separate under are 1" with an additional explana is not as bad as he might be. the pre-war standarde that are are in every way healthier than taking or in conjunction with the tory phrase Maan ah ha tan ha. displacing the luxury of the years on the low levels. These localities existing Peak service.
The characters are usually en-
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squeeze" in still at large,
It is interesting to note in this
cognised the leaders of these troops by appointing them to responsible positions.
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