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powers and responsibilities. The acting Governor then said that: ho thought this would ba A very
WRITE EVERY BUSINESS LET- proper thing to do." We do not know that the reforms have yet TELEGRAM AND YOU WERE TO TER AS THOUGH IT WERE A
boon carried out. They certainly PAY FOR SENDING M.--Coleman should be.
Cox.
Those are a few-and only a fow-- of the problems with which the Bow Director is faced. He comes to us with the very best of reputa tions as a technical man and also
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Wo desire to deny the rumour By the last mail we heard of w that the Poak Tramway Company Hongkong man who had his is arranging a series of lootures pocket picked in London. He The Portuguese and Chinese on Pelmaniem at the Peak Club must have felt quite at home. baseball teams meat in a match for the benefit of taipans who at 4.30 p.m. to-morrow afternoon forget their tickets so frequently
A definition of a dirty dÉT at Happy Valley.
on Monday morninge.
unclean bow-wow. The individual who, too lazy to order a ricksha ∙World's News states that the bottom side, hurries away in ope
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We certainly like the "shorts" fashion for wat weather, but we fail to see why some should have the bottoms turned up
as a very buman" official. He bell team ia to meet the Japanese saxophone wae lavouted in 1846. somebody elsa has ordered to be has good and capable mon under in a League match at 5 p.m. to. A case of "The sins of the father", at a certain Peak Tram Station bim, but they want treating
"Drink Buttermilk and Live to Talking of holidays; the offico properly. Above all, they want His Excellency the Governor be & Hundred," save a health boy has just taken his vaccin relief from overwork. That can has appointed Dr. John Anderson, orank. If we had to drink it all ation, only pp given by the strengthen Honorary Visiting Physician to
M.A., B.SC., M.D., D.T.M., to be that time we shouldn't want to."
O ing of the staff. We look to Mr. the government Civil Hospital,
We can understand the Market Creasy to do something. He has
Gardeners' Union, because onion a splendid opportunity. We trust
in strength : he will study the situation closely, given an ear to the ideas of his with the construction of the Pussyfoot Johnson it should be in subordinates and eventually come market, and the approach path the form of a "bust. to conclusions which will make and bridge over the nullah.. the Department all that it should!
A one-armed baggar once told There has been added to the us that when he took beer it went List of Medical Practitoners the to his head. name of Dr. Lím Eng Hao., Gov.) « erament Civil Hospital, Bachelor |
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After the Typhoon,
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Tenders are being invited for the prepartion of site for an open market at Quarry Bay, together
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Some of the "firat families".
of Medicine and Bachelor of Sur-bave their homes decorated with gery of the University of Hong-second mortgagés.
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in a week on which diving into Friday is one of the seven days 'shallow water is unlucky.
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Household Hint: To keep the pup from chewing up your slip- pera, put a foot in one and use. your leg power.
A little bird whispered to us
We didn't see that little bird, but we think he must have been
There are lots of people on the a lyre. Peak with loose tiles now.
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circumstances, they are exclaim. To adapt an old gag to the
"Dae person in every 14 o*ng It must be remembered, however, a car in the US.A." we are told. that they count Fords in the States.
Ipia back to normal, and "busi-kong.
that the digging operations now ness as usual" with Hongkong.
in progress in the garden of the Referring to the worldwide Helena May Institute are con- To-day being exactly one week Lave reports of the typhoon pubiicity given to the typhoon, an neated with a sort of roofing in after the tragic August 18th, one brought in by survivors etate that American was heard to ex scheme, under which to keep the can take a retrospective glance at two fishing junks' were sunk, at claim:-"Wall, I guess that's put laun-dry! the days that have followed, and Tongkawan and Ah Chau Island. Hongkong on the map." Almost the efforts that bave been male In the former case, two women wiped it off, we should say. to remove the evidence of our big were drowned, whilst in typhoon. But for a few poignant latter thirteen lost the'r lives. reminders, like the maste and funnel of the s.s. Loongsang, a new, HONGKONG, 25th August, 1923. arrival would hardly believe we bered as from 1st. January next. Peak houses are to be re-num been through such a bad The Gazette gives a full list of the time. Indeed, we were exceed old and new numberings. The ing ingly fortunate in the parativly slight damage we blocks according to roads, whi'st newe numbers are: arranged in suffered, and the small loss of life each separate flat is to be given a under the circumstances. Yat there are ecars that it will take many years to heal. Nature her self will be busy for a long time) making up, partly, for the loss of "LOONGSANG foliage. Besides the thousands of trees that suffered a very there are hundreds that were up- drastic pruning of their branches, rooted, and hundreds more which are dying. This last phenomenon
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A French writer has described radio as "The devil in a halo." A sample we heard recently sounded like a devil in an epileptic fit,"
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That reminds us. What did the magneto say when the car- burettor ?-Oh Boech!
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If our new Director of Publio Works does not already know that he has come to take charge of a Department which is notori- ously understaffed, he soon will, During the past few years, there bave boon phenomenal develop ment and expansion taking place
exercising the minds of scal The body, "of a European, barber who recently shaved us, People still have funerals, for one in this Colony. We all know
botanists. Wbole areas on the believed to be that of the Second after he (the barber) had had a thing. about the building boom, for hillsides are gradually turning Officer, Mr. Wilson, has been tooth extracted by the aforesaid instance, to say nothing of the brown, with well-grown and ap-recovered from the sunken dentist.
It is rather hard lines on the extensive schemes for the pro-parently undamaged trees simply steamer Loongsang. On Thurs-
big New York brokerage house, vision of numerous motor roads that the terrific swaying and apa was
withering away. It would seem day, a police sergeant,in a Although you may think your which failed recently that the carrying out neighbours awful, it is really a Kobe Herald should head the and the heavy programmes which twisting to which they were sub-investigations on the scene of terrible waste of time.
newa: "Big Now Pork Farm are being carried out under thejected by the bigh wind has wreck when he saw a body flost
Falls." heading of "Public Works E-structures of their stems and surface. It was then impossible season tickets have to be shown materially damaged some vital ing some three feet beneath the traordinary." All this has meant roots. In a few weeks time our to rocover it, but yesterday on the Peak Trams now, is be an absolutely unprecedented pres, forestry staff will have a good Inspector Bond and a party of cause a certain lady is collecting sure of work for the P.W.D., the idea of what the typhoon haa water police went to the scene autographs.
and succeeded in bringing it lo staff of which, although it has meant for Hongkong's trees.
the surface. There been increased, is still quite
lifebelt attached to the body, pure, but to the simple all things To the pure all thinge may be unable to keep pace with the "Cleaning Up.'
which was hold beneath
The D. P informs its readers the are not so simple. What may be that "police raids were carried out surface, by the fact that one of awfully simple to one may be by the police." We are glad to huge volume of work which is) The large numbers of local the feet was entangled in the simply awful to another bence krow they were not civilians in still accumulating and to which residents who had the roofs of awning spreaders, the deceased the term recently used by a cor disguise. there some no and. In the their houses damaged are still being probably 80 caught respondent of ours: Hell's Bells Building Office and Architects' praying for continued dry wes when he attempted to jump and Panther Tracks."
ther. They have our doop sym-from the sinking vessel. P Department, the shortage of men pathies. With the great deal of The body, was removed to the is painfully apparent-limited work to be done, the serious Mortuary, but it was impossible staffs are being worked almost to shortage of material, and the yesterday positively to identify death in a vain endeavour to will be some months before
scant labour supply available, it it, owing to decomposition.
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Lucky our new Director of Public Works didn't arrive ever satisfied. The other day might have thrown up his job These Kowloon people are week earlier. If he bad, he they grumbled about the lack of before be started in to work. water, Now they grouss because, some of their homes have had
keep pace with the Colony 'n these necessary repairs on definitely identified as that of Mr. free shower baths installed 1. development. This, we assent, is be effected. In other respects, David Rankin Wilson, second neither fair to the officers nor to progressed rapidly. The "clean. 26 years of age, had been in the work of rostoration has officer. Deceased, who was only the Colony. More men must be ing up" process has bean service of the Company about two got, whatever the expense may officient, aided by the thousands years. The funeral will pass the of Chinese who every where have Monument this afternoon at half proved the adage "It is an ill past five... wind, ofe" by collecting valuable. salvage. The stacks of wood fuel
be.
There is another matter with which we hope our new Director
will deal. This is the question
industry on the part of our poorer. all over the place testify to this MASONIC LODGE CASE
of the general policy of the De-class population. Then the Tram-
partment. In the past, especially way Co. deserve a special word of
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We've had a bit of a shake-uri, but haven't got the wind up. We can still keep our peckers up and-- exclaim "Thumbs Up!"
"Now that summer i bere local
Speaking of Kowloon reminds who can't see that he is being us of a Pensularian piscatorialian cheated of perfectly good prawas sportsmen will probably be glad in return for what he brings to learn that hunting rights on the island of Jan. Mayen are to let. The island lies north of Iceland.
home.
We almost suggested to, the lady with the large ear-rings at Repulse Bay the other day, that
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Clareical dancers say they exhibit their souls, which prob ably accounts for the rush for the front seatu;
the immediate past, that policy praise for the way in which their Bangalore. Mr. T. Austin, 1.abe might "kill two birds with of them.
service was in full resumption (C. S., Justice of the Peace, has
one stone." has appeared to be to start as within twenty-four hours of the given judgment in a masonic lodge many jobs as possible, no matter catastrophe.
Put up your hands aft thos in The Electric Co. case in which Lieutenant J.
Girls in Hongkong should not favour of attending the summer what the prospects may be of and the Telephone Co. have also Poulter, late of the Supply and mp at the first proposal that closing ceremony in Hongkong.
done wonders already in repairing Transport Corps, was charged by they get this seasca, but wait Carried unanimously. compioting them. The result is the extensive damage suffered by Lodge "Star of the South with until next Spring which will ba that the Department is clogged overhead wires. With an almost misappropriation by falsification bound to be a success, as it is up through countiese schemes philosophic calm, the Colony is of the accounts of the Lodge. Leap Year. (Help 1). being in an unfinished state, tions. The typhoon has not been between September 19, 1922, and back again at its ordinary avaca-The specific allegation was that whilst this fact also accounts for even half a nice day's wonder. Wo February last he
The lastest craze in Japan is dishonestly"No" dancing. There are thoso the frequent explanatione given may go down befor the force of misappropriated over Rs. 650. in Hongkong who think we should in the annual appropriations that he blow, but We come, 'up
follow 'sult. His Worship found the accusej circumstances
smiling again. prevented the
guilty and sentenced him to three making of as much progress. LY
months simple imprisonment.
We do love those would bo was hoped. What is needed, WILD ANIMALS CANNOT CHANGE, Builty, applied for a copy of the ly when you ask them to have a That is probably why they keep
Poulter, who had pleaded not taipans who greet you so cordial- therefore, is concentration rather That important additions to our judgment with a view to moving drink in a club, but ignore you in them so close together on these than diffusion of offort. Some-list of domesticated animals will the High Court. This was granted. the atrast.
moonlight drives to Repulse Bay, what related to this aspect of the be made seems unlikaly to R. T. Pocock, of the London Zoological question is the very necessary Gardens.
CRABS IN DISFAVOUR.
The same epacios usually refer In many years of Tokyo: Canned crab meat pro-to their taipan as "George "or reform of the whole Department observation, he has found that ducers and dealers in Japan aro"Dick" excepting in his presence. In the last Budget debate, it was caged wild beasts which to day- frightened and are facing a severe time visions seem so mild and slump in their trade as the result. was urged that the Director's harmless, have a very different of the illness of the late President duties should be advisory, only appearance
Some of them orag about st night, when Harding. This scare has followed their longeincodefunct ancestors, that he should be relieved of apparently unwatched, and the report that the Presidents because they can't speak about much of the detailed work and exhibit such savagenose that one illness was due to eating crab their living relations, that the senior assistants should ever be tamed-either for sorvice Henderson while returning from A bea or not a bee, that's the day, August 17th, giving details
may well doubt that they can post on the American transport | havo considerably incroasod or as pole.
his trip to Alaska.
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They are more than up-to-date in Manile, The papers there published a telegram dated Fri-
of last Baturday's typhoon.
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