HONGKONG MEMORIES.
THE CICADA AND THE
EUCALYPTUS.
DO YOU KNOW?
PERTINENT POINTS FOR
PICNIC PARTIES.
You can go down to Blake Pier and hire a motor-boat to take you AND A BEAUTY SPOT AT HOME te Stonecutters, but if you feel
| Telegraph Special]
like a run to Repulse Bay, or perhaps Castle Peak. the coxswain may refuse to take you because if he does and he has not a permit he is likely to get into trouble.
THE- HONGKONG. TEELGRA
MODERN SURGERY.
POPULAR NOTIONS EX- PLODED.
Some popular notions in regard to the achievements of modern surgery were exploded in an a Telegraph interview which representative had with a well- known authority who has arrived in the Colony on a visit. This is the eminent Professor Cadonot, of the Faculty of Medicine of I have been in Hongkong just
Paris, an
modern expert in long enough to discover that the
surgery. So much has been tall, gracious, willow-like trees
And if you own a motor-boat it beyond my verandah are eucalypis all the same. You can take a modern surgery, that it will come written regarding the progress of rus: I have also ascertained to run out to Stonecutters or as my great satisfaction that the far as Lyeemoon but if you want more remarkable of the successes as a surprise to learn that the mighty atom which on occasion to go beyond these limits a Har-claimed have hitherto turned out shrills so strenuously that the ear bour Office permit is necessary to be failures and that there is is overburdened, is a cicada, as I These probably little-known still room for improvement and had hoped and suspected. More-regulations were explained by a research work in many directions. over I have a breeding cage Harbour Office official this morn- One of the many successes wherein various voracious catering, to a Telegraph representative.elaimed which the Professor has pillars have genially and whose curiosity was aroused by a no hesitation is describing as gloriously consented to undergo novel summons against the masterbluff" is the transplanting of their mystic change. Certainly of the motor-boat Tas Wah. I may justly claim to have a
the organs of a goat to human nodding acquaintance with the fanns and flora of the island.
This man came before Comdr. beings to increase their vitality Beckwith, at the Marine Court, and add to their allotted span of charged with unlawfully breach-life. Professor Cadent, in To return to the eucalyptus. 1ing the conditions of his licence common with other confrees, have been in the house long by being found outside the har-has
experimented in this enough to have recovered from bour limits -Castle Peak at a direction, and the results my mid-day climb do not ask quarter to four on Friday after obtained were disappointing. ne how many steps there are: Inoon. His excuse was that he instead of performing the ex have never remembered to count. was taking his passengers to pected function of differentiated | If 1 did. I should not. I have Castle Peak to worship there.
organs these transplanted organs | forgotten quite how hot the sun The Marine Magistrate imposed. was and anyway there is this a fine of $10. with the option of rew into the person as conjune- tive issues, and did not bear out talk of sun baths ---
some of the pe: notiens formed) sky purely.
The 14 day
beyond 0222
is blue. This is the first case taken out on the subject. Genuine successes deeply blue: ftunder the Ordinance, the Triereached which could be claimed white clouds pass serenely by,gruph representative WAS in- thus far were the grafting of first (Ah! India, with your pitiless, formed; although the regulationskin, which by this time has be cloudless day, and colourless came into force in November, come common and is too-well- glaring heavens! The young
1922. The regulations are neces-known to need reference here, and "green shoots on the ends of the sary, it appears, as a matter of the grafting of the big toe to func- branches are lightly tossing: public safety. There is usually tion as a thumb. This is a delicate great wonder of a butterfly lazilyno difficulty in obtaining a per-piece of surgery, as the toe has to and curiously Eoats in, and our,mit to go outside the harbour be so pieced into the hand that its and in again a bird sings, in the limits if the weather is safe for tendons will join up perfectly multitudinous under current of small craft, but no moter-boat. with those of the band: otherwise silence.
whether privately-owned or one motion could not be imparted into The road to Andover from plying for hire, is allowed to go Salisbury slip down under an ourside the harbour without that avenue of beeches just by the permit. Yachts, the pressman spot they call Kent's Burrow, was informed, are not affected where the gypsies camp. The by these regulations. beeches are very tall, and they are very beautiful in the spring their young green buds stand out, against the dark pines.
If
A PUZZLE A DAY.
1. O * OR
3.
the transplanted toe and the main object of the work to make the toe function in the same way as the missing thunk would not be
achieved.
Reference were made by the Professor other methods of grafting which were successful for
nly
few years. after which the organs either become dead substance or are converted into conjunctive tissues. Coming to a dissertation un the latest achievement of surgical work, he stated that the; denudation of sympathetic nerves) from an amputated limb in a case of gangrene had been re
These
you look under them now you will find solomon's seal, and wood sorrel that the children eat, and great white helleborine that only grows in a few favoured spots. If you slip through a hole in the fence that they have round the poi-un KRIN you will find it growing.! where later the wild, sweet straw- In step one is shown the fetter sorted to with success. berries carpet the ground; and "0" By adding one letter (R).] were the nerves that could not be later still, and fitter for its new, in step two, "OR" is formed. Ald] controlled by the will and in case tenant. the deadly nightshade, one letter for step three, one for of amputation would either re- cups its polished elon fruit. four, and so on. forming a word tain the pain of the amputated
pat
are
5.
HEROINE
Yesterday's answer: The dealer who increased his sale of automobiles by three, each day, and who sold one hundred cars in eight days, made sales as follows: First day. 2: second, 5: third, 8: fourth, 11: fifth. 14: sixth,
with
But the Andover Brad and the at each step, until, at the seventh part for the patient, or in due bird's HODK
The mad pestep. the word "heroine" will be course would bring on a recur down here, and there is a wide, formed.
rence of the gangrene. Krassy stretch on either side, a-
complications for the surgeon. Some of the English country roads
During his stay in the Colony still have. Just through the
Professor Cadetot is staying with thin cover is a cart track that
Dr. Vadon. Our representative. unce the Britons used. If you
learned that the eminent surgeon follow it you come out on the hill
had considerable experience in that guards this fertile stretch and
the Balkan Wars and later in the watches across the fcids to where (17: seventh 2: eighth, 23.
Great War on the Western front. another hill stand- brooding with
Arriving in Japan he'spent fifteen days in sight-seeing and extremely fortunate in leaving
its age-long memories There i
a great barrow here, a long sle.
and one of the earliest: brit they
Was
The cicada has actually alight-the country one day before the
are ploughing it in, for the landed the verandah above my occurrence of the earthquake. A
cities was made previous to his arrival in Hongkong.
DAIRY FARM CO.
REPORT FOR PAST YEAR.
The report of the Directors of
is too valuable to leave; and it is head, and is there. -ilent mox, visit to the northern port and d pity. On summer's day, watch it, drowsily awake. There through the slim forms of the was a Chinese lad in a shopa day beeches, you can see an infinite er two ago who had one for a pet and lovely expanse of crimson apparently I wonder why. 1 poppies more poppies than corn wonder what is the significance there seem to be. The mind is of the little creature to the lad. I troubled with the beauty of thera. wonder why the Chinese go hunt- The air is hazy with gentle heating round for them with long the sky is pure heavenly blue poles. As I wake I realise that the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Gind's in His Heaven. All's right the great glory of coming East is Storage Co., Ltd. for the year with the world. Somewhere the Birth of this very Wonder: ending 31st July, 1923, states: in the distance a motorcar is It is a mighty thing to want to coming up the turnpike, nearer know, to be curious, unsatisfied, and nearer, humming--bum-lenging it is to Live. ming.
BY
TASTES.
BERTON BRALEY.
I am a peaceful kind of chep Who jumps a bit at a thunder-clap: I've never mixed in a bar-room brawl, I've never been in a scrap at all; And yet I weary of tales and books Describing life in the country nooks: Or business stories of lads who rise By sheer good conduct and enterprise.
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The sort of yarn that is sweet and quiet
Is well though as a steady diet,
But now and then I prefer to read
A yarn of terror and craft and greed
With lots of murders and sudden death
To make me shudder and hold my breath; And scoundrels steeped to the eyes in crime Who sure do give me a bully time!
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B.C.W.
Bring on the story where teeth are gnashed, Where pistols crackle and knives are flashed, Where villains chortle with evil räge, And bloodshed trickles down every page, Where virtue triumphs, but not until I've drunk much slaughter and had my fill of plot and counterplot, brawl and fight With gun and poison end dynamite!
The profit for the year. to gether with the amount brought forward from last year's account, after writing off $61271.42 for Depreciation and Bad and Doubt- ful Debts, and providing for: Directors and Auditors fees. Jamounts to $359,983.43 which it is proposed shall be dealt with as follows:--
To pay a dividend of $1.50 per share on 200,000 shares
To add to Cattle Re-
serve
To add to Fire and Typhoon Insurance Fund
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To carry forward
$300,000.00
30.000.00
10,000.00 19,083.43
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1943..
DAIRY FARM NEWS
--and the best you've heard for a long time.
We have just received a shipment of
Canadian Fish,
including :-
Red Spring Salmon, Chicken Halibut
and
Silverside Salmon.
Order early and ensure a real treat
NESTLE'S
THICK
CREAM
Puts the
FINISHING TOUCH
to
Puddings & Stewed Fruit.
It makes Delicious Ice cream
and
Sauces.
Three sizes of tins are sold:
1 oz. 5 oz. 4 oz.
NESTLÉS
Ask the Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.
11, Queen's Road Central,
to send you a copy of the "Cream Confections"
a recipe book giving directions for taking177 tempting - dishes.
The Greatest
Enemy to
Depression.
IS A GOOD SMOKT
The Best Quality
CIGARS, PIPES, CIGARETTES, TOBACCOS AND ALL SMOKERS' REQUISITES
The Hongkong Cigar Store, Ltd.
FOOTBALL.
Alexandrs Building.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was
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6
Telephone 3146
NEW STOCKS
OF
JAEGER
SOCKS
SWEATERS
DRESSING GOWNS
TRAVELLING RUGS
SCARVES
WAISTCOATS
SLIPPERS GLOVES
GOLF HOSE
BODY BELTS
There is a fine selection, of each, to select
from in the
LATEST DESIGNS AND COLOURINGS.
Wm. POWELL Ltd.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS & OUTFITTERS HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS
J.
T.
SHAW
Ladies' & Gent's Tailor
Tel. Central 692.
By s.s." NELLORE ”
Just unpacked new shipment of woollen Suitings for the Autumn and Winter.
Inspection Cordially invited.
No. 11 Beaconsfield Arcade (Opposite City Hall)
CAPE
CLARET
WINES
DRAKENSTEIN
JAGGERCUP
TO MAKE A LONG COOL REFRESHING DRINK IN HOT WEATHER
AND
Aquarius Water or Soda.
CALDBECK, MACGRECOR & CO.,
LET
US
$359,083.43 The following have been received by the American Con-DO
selected to represent the Kowloonsulate-General. Hongkong from Diractors. During the year Football Club in their League the Manila Observatory at 9 a.m. Mr. J. H. Taggart resigned his matches of Saturday seat on the Directorate and Mr.
Wheeler,
to-day-
1. Cyclone pr typhoon E of 1st Division, y Kings at Kow Balintang Channel, moving NE
kick-off 5 p.m.-Hill;;
or EN.E Knight; Morrison,
2. Typhoon in about 115 deg. McKelvie, Pasco; Clamo, Spary, Long. E., 16 deg. Lat. N., direc Retiring Directors.-Dr. J. W. Cooke, Duncan, Mason. Re-tion unknown. serve: Leonard.
T. G. Weall was invited to join; the Board during Mr. G. Moon Dodwell's absence from the Colony.
Noble and Mr. A. S. D. Cousland
A FISHER OF MEN ?
retire by rotation but are eligible 2nd Division v. Tamer Res, on for re-election.
Navy "A" ground at 4 pm:- So onamoured was a woman Audit.The annexed accounts Beach, Guest, Morton, Brown visitor to Dolgelley with the have been audited by Messrs. (A.W.), Leonard. Randle; Hest, beauty of a salmon fy displayed Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming Ollier, Brown (W.H), Pancheon, in a shop window that she paid who offer themselves. for re-
Young. Reserves-Taylor and half-a-crown for it and placed the election.
Goodman.
Icovsted trophy in her hat.
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ATERIA
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LANE, CRAWFORD LIMITED.