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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. 1923,
MARVIN SAFES with Hongkong. Obviously,
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LOOK OR COMBINATION.
DAY BY DAY.
THE WORLD WILL NOT CHARGE YOU WITH YOUR FAILURES UNTIL YOU QUIT TRYING.-Colentan Cox.
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We are authorised to contradiot Some of our good-looking girls Mr. G. A. Buyers, C.A., is the rumour that the Committee can claim to have been taught gazetted as a qualified auditor for of Easma have decided to ask swimming more than a dozen
to accept times this season. the purposes of the Companies" Pussyfoot Johnson Ordinances.
the Presidency of the Association for 1924.
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menta" and his fear that the] British Home Government, as represented by the Legation inf Peking, "does not see eye to eye)
the Home Goverment is just as keen' as the Hongkong Governmont on seeing commercial "co-operation made more effectiva. The refor enos must therefore be to political
If you want to sao all tho matters, regarding which our own Government cannot, of course, familiar sights of far off "Smoke" These typhoon blows may koop again, pay a visit to the Coronet the air cool, but they are bad for commit itself. This is bow we and see The Road to London," the prickly heat lotion trade. read the situation, at any rate. The Cantoa writer would appar-
It is notified in the Gazette that! Knock-kneed girls can swim ently like both the British and the putting into operation of the best, for they stay in the water..
provisions of the Merchant Ship- most. the Chinese Central Governping (Convention) Act, 1914, has ments" to be ignored.. Possibly been postponed until January THE SAFE WITH A he wanta Hongkong to disown 1st., 1024.
Home Government! But
It is notified for get aral in- here we are on dangerous ground. formation that His Honour the Our own Government, let it be Chief Justice has ordered that again emphaised, cannot concern the next Criminal Sessions shall be held on Monday, 10th. August, itself with Chines politics.
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
ATTACHMENT.
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Immediate Slocks
Offering.
MUSTARD AND CO.
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Tel. No. 1188
DEATH.
QUICKE-At Hongkong, on August 9ib., Vernon, age 11 monthe, the baby son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Quicke, of Togo Tør- race, Kennedy Road,
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Command Orders notify that Major A. E. B. Jones, R. A.M.C., took over the duties of O. C. Military Hospital, Kowloon, on the 9th August, vice Mejor J. R.j Lloyd, RA.M.C., proceeded to United Kingdom on leave.
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Warning: The doctor put four stitches in the head of a local bather who thought the waterwas deep.
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According to Home, opinion, a man without an address doesn't really exist. If it hadn't been for Always remember that if you the Roots Ordinance, Hongkong are bent on making money in lea then would have been dosert House Street you may be broke island.
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By all means, let Hongkong and Canton get together com: mercially. Let us have organised intercourse. Let the Chambers of Commerce hold joint confer ences, if they are likely to be af value. Lat our social and educational organisations come la conformity with the Electric into closer contact. In short, let Company's scheme for changing un get to know each other better. the voltage from 100 to 200 volts, be permanent boarders at the
Peak residents are being cir- House of Detention. It will pay us both, and it will cularised regarding the cbange, lead to what should be an evor-which is to come into force on A good way to cool a car is to everyday, lasting understanding between the 22nd instant. The conver-strip the gears.
sion will be at the Company's the two places.
axpense.
This is about as stupid as the One of our stoutish Fanling. law which makes a man a vagrant enthusirs's made a hola in cone who hasn't a dollar in his pocket. the other day. The doctors think Carried out literally, this would he'll be out next week.
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Hongkong spends more on drink than on education." This ja probably because drink is used
We used to think.fishermen the The Charitable Institutions in best liars, We now give the palm Canton are in future to be super, to some of our local wireless mon, Trial lights of four newlyvised by the Municipality, "It ja
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bought seroplanes of the Canton rumoured that the kids are hiding If it's not statics, it's someone Whilst on the subject of the Aviation Bureau took place on their money boxes.
butting in, when it's not the possible development of Kwang-Thursday afternoon at the avia-
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battery that's given out. The tung, we might consider the tion ground. One of the planes; As in most things, so with its only thing that never gives out is benefits that would accrue to piloted by Mr. Yang Hsin-yat, care-to-be, Kowloon prefers the their belief that the other fellow Chin a wore her roadways Director General of the Bureau,straight and narrow way.
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"Sun Boate Mackintosh," ran a Daily Chronicle handing. Not a They are organising an airship boxing bout merely a roforozco passenger Company at Canton, to the Ascot weather, Coat of gaa won't be inuch, anyway':
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The latest fashionable dires so
standard of modern highwaya. machines will be despatched to streets are flooded. Her politi. The way some of our ilder. Much of the trade of the country the Eastern front in a few days. cians are, of course, much higher bachelors get after the school girl passes along the numerous
lippers only proves that it's the waterways and the numerous A travelling trader was charged
early worm who apologies for roads that exist in before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at
gots the peach. The Hongkong Government the interior.
Weekly - Scotsman, dis With properly the Police Court this morning, sertating the value of Nice thing about these typhoon wants to see Kwangtung Pro- construoted roadways, we should with being in possession of coun- sunshine is merely another case days, fat men don't run so much. vince peaceful and prosperous, expect, in time, more transport; terfeit Kwangtung subsidiary of an editor writing with his
and quicker journeys. and it is willing to co-operate in larries would replace the jolting $71.50. He said that the money
Motor coins of the total amount of tongue in his cheek.
Seems as if a neighbour of ours every way possible to secure a carts
with agramaphone has discovered and barrowe, and was given him by a Canton, mer- commercial rapprochement be- automobiles could take travellers chant in payment for a consign- to hurry up with its relief work
Looks as if Swatow will have perpetual motion, tween this Colony and Hongkong in a few days.
in comfort for hundreds of milement of poultry. He was given abofore the next typhoon comes,
Those who have week's remand in order to enable That was the statement which journeyed in Chins over flooded him to find the merchant in ques Mr. Fletcher, our Colonial Secre- flats,, through boge, and across tary, made yesterday to a represstony ridges, whose carta have entative of this paper. We be either stuck fast or else jolted su
Much sympathy is felt for Mr. "thatone's internal anatomy seems
An agency up North will collect lieve the declaration to be a permanently disarranged: will and Mrs. C. S: Quicke, of Togo
your money for you. 1t olätes 1....... Torrace, Kennedy Road, at the sincere reflection of the Govern- realise what good highways can death of their infant son, age 11 ary, thieves entered & house and and watch results. Or let them According to a local contempor- "Give us one half your collections ment's attitude towards our near mean. It will be very many months, which occurred at the took $300 worth of silver ware keep the lot and you needn't neighbour, and, at the same time, to see railways running through- Matilda Hospital from pneumonic we feel sure that it will meet without China, and even in the most on the 9.b. instant. The funeral from the "sitting down." Even trouble. unanimoue endorsement here, up-to-date countries roads have took place the same evening at Happy Valley and was attended to play an important part as It is an obvious fact that, com- supplementary feeders to the bip by a large number of friende of A Chinese oficial issues
the bereaved parents, many be- mercially, Hongkong and Canton towns, and entirely replace the autiful floral tributes being placed statement in which he states that are inseparable. Both are necess-steel track in many provinces.
Lon the grave.
is just learning to stand on ita own feet.". Hitherto, it ary to each other. Prosperity Boxer Fund Suggestion
seems, she has trodden on other for one inevitably means pros- This idea of improving China's
nations' toes. perity for the other.
roadways is embodied in a As the
pamphlet recently issued by Chow Canton Daily News rightly says, Kuo-bung, secretary of the Good Anglo-Chinese co-operation along Rosde Movement of China, and Meteorological returns in the leading local paper and yet got industrial lines could accomplish briefly referred to by us a few Guzette for the month of July days ago. The suggestion made show that the rainfall in various wonders for Kwangtung, and the is that forty per cent, of the Boxer parts of the Colony varied con report, some of these caddies are their lives-but seldom take it.
Judging from a Police Court results would be reflected in Indemnity still das from China siderably. At the Observatory, increased business activity in ebould be remitted by the Powers the total was 18 52 inches, at the better at watching other peoples' concerned for use in the work of Botanic Gardens 20.43 inches, st watches than their employers' Hongkong, It is to our common road construction in the country, the Matilda Hospital 11.58 inches balls. interests to get together,
It is pointed out that: "The work and at the Police Station, Taipo,
There was another gun an Unhappily, the greatest ob. of construction of national roads 28.57 inches.
should be carried forward with as: eticle to industrial development much speed as possible, starting the average mean temperature Queen's Road.
Observatory records show that ning case the other day-long in the neighbouring province is with a survey of the lines of high- was 82 degrees, the highest being the very unstablo political situa-Ways from the Capital to the 90.5, on the 14th, and the lowest Looks as if our police will have. tion. That is a matter in which different provinces. In the north 748 on the 29th. There were 202 to be issued with spiked shoes
west of China the great in-hours of sunshine. Hongkong cannot interfere. As convenience to communication. Mr. Fletcher says, the Hongkong is due to the extensiveness of the Government is keenly interested region with a scarcity of in- habitants which has hindered the in industrial co-operation, but it development of industry, com- cannot enter into political ques morce, mining, and civilization. The Governor's Thanks. tions. It can, of course, gives its What a shame for Ching to His Excellency the Governor have already started to claim the blessing to such a scheme as Sir possess euch a rich land. and
romain in poverty through ave an interview to a deputation League championship for next Robert Ho Tang's and possibly ignorance of how to wrest the of Chinese merchants represent year. facilitate the holding of a con- riches from the soil!" The whole ing this and last year's Direc
and torates of the Tung Wah Iospital
You can't mix business and ference here, if matters reach idea is an excellent one, that point, but beyond that it those immediately.
deserving of consideration by at Government House yesterday. pleasure. You're able to run
A Singapore newspaper, has concerned. There were also present the Secre-out of business.
been sent sample botila of whis cannet go. It is naturally an. But we must have peace in try for Chinese Affairs" and the rious that any scheme should China first. That is the "fly in Ilon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher Title of an address delivered at kay. Phew! These are hot daje! succeed which would
the ointment". Nothing in the (Colonial Secretary). His Excel Manila recently: Why is a bring
The kids in Hongkonz run al- way of national development can lency expressed his cordial thanks a We'll bet the lecturer most everything around the house peace to Chine, because peace be assured while faction ware are to the merchants for what they
wasn't a lady, is the first requisite, but it cannot likely to break out at any time. had done in connection with the
except errande, of its own accord enter the realm We do not want to see the fios, Tung Wan Hospital, and also the
The screen drawing the biggest.
A Bangkok paper repoils that | new roads of the country used for
crowds just now is the mosquito of foreign politics by "recognie armoured cars, tanks, and field hope that they would continue to curtain."
an old Siamese woman Was almost overcome when ske ing" anybody. These matters gung or heavy artillery to move display the assiduity and thorough-
learned she had won about four aro outside ite sphore. We more easily, or troops to be transnese, which had always marked
Talking about competitors, it thousand ticals in a lottery, rather think that, the writer of Ported with greater facility, the activities of the Hospital..takes a lot of bluffing to get away Almost ticalled to death, in fact. unless it be for national defence, Mention was made by the Gov-with it without knowing anything, the Canton artiofe wanted more As matters are at present, we festerner of the removal of the water
It would be nice to have a than & commmercial rapproche that any facilities offered, would restrictions and also of the drastic
MacWhirter, he says the worst Wensley if we could be sure that ment, judging by his reference to merely serve as an inducement le measures contemplated by the of this warm weather is that somebeey would use, if we could the various war lords in China Government to suppress the Bre- you're kept wondering whether find some place to put it and slee complications of third partler, literally to steal a march on their namely the Contrai Govern- nearest rival,
arms truffle.
discoser some one to pay for it,
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st V. B. C.
We hear of a fluid that will kill mosquitoes and not harm baby." Apparently the old mothad of using a hammer has fallen into disuse.
"Man Lape into Lake for Woman's Powder Puff" saya an American contemporary. To save her face, we suppose.
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