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Amongst the passengers who left for Shanghai by the ss. Frasident Taft were Mr. and Mrs, Harry O'Dall, and Mr. L. A.
Tobias.
Amongst the passengers who arrived by the St. Albans.from Australia ware Major and Mrs- . E. Woarno, Mrs. W. J. Stokes and Mrs. H. E. Scriver.
LOCAL WEDDING.
CHUBB-BUNESE,
A wedding of considerable in- BY THE ARMCHAIR CRITIC." terast took place at St. John's
It was to a county team. The Cathedral this afternoon, the team and the order of batting contracting parties being Miss were seldom varied Inside the Margaret Ella Dorothea Bunase, pavilion the professional-next only daughter of Mrs. AMA man in-was sitting disconsolate-Travers, of Yunnan-fu, and Hr. Ty on a chair, casting malevolent Stanford Frank Chubb, of Messrs Shawan, Tomes and Co., younger glances at the game in progress!
groan.
The
Biblical Prophecies.
and occasionally emitting a low son of Mrs. LM, Chubb, of A friend came up and Olveston, Gloucestershire enquired what was the matter. Rev. V.H. Copley Moyle official- Are we about to experience
Look at him." said the pro, d, and Mr. Temple Beyan was grest crises in this already dis turbed world of ours? Among the i
waving a large hand in the at the organ.
The bride, who | Christian population of the earth
direction of the pitch. The friend
was given 1wa To-day is the 12th. anniversary looked and saw nothing unusual.
by Mr. AL. Shields. the predictions of disaster have!
attired in " gown of been numerous throughout the of the foundation of the Chinese The star batsman, whose weight, as
mbroidered net over cream centuries, mostly based on the Republic, It is being observed was only equillad by his huze
veil. She toko onions and ring and flags have been much in with a handkerchief, and he and carried a shower bouquet of Book of Revelations at the end of ass holiday amongst the Chinese, scores, was mopping bis braw atin. with lace
pale be Pink carnations, Attending her the war the Press was inundated evidence in the city. with prophecies sent in by people)
▲ considerable as bridesmaid was little. Miss who saw some of the revelations Large crowds gathered outside number of runs. Well, I don't Jaqueline Scott, daughter of Mr. taking place. A reader sends as the Hongkong Hotel this morn-see anything disturbing," said the and Mrs. L. G. Scott, who wore a wouldn't ress of pink and white flowered an interesting summary, issued ing. when the Fire Brigade friend. "No.
ainon in the Kate Greenaway.
this :
partner accumulating
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by the Rev. J. C. Dalrymple, of carried out practices with its big retorted the pav., bitterly. "Look and carried a basket of pink and
contained in the late Dr. Guin-E D. C. Wolfe was in charge. "sweating like a pig. It's always i WES best man.
opens
the same; I always have to bat!
white roses. Mr. Allan. Keith
ness book "Light for the Last)
After the ceremony, a reception Days." published some thirty-six | We have received a copy of the on & we! wicket"!
was held at 16, Peak Road, the years ago. According to the prospectus of the Hongkong,
residence of Mr. Shields, where learned investigator, the years Technical Institute, the лат To which you retort sweetly' Mr. and Mrs. Chubb received the 606-605 BC. marked the conquest session of which
this Grandfather was the first to tell congratulations of many friends. of Jehoiakim, and the loss of month. The Director is Mr. Eme that one.
Yes, I know, bu: Later, the happy couple left for Jewish independence. in 699 Ralphs, and the subjects of in-wine and cheese mellow with aze; Fanling, where the honeymoon is B.C. came the overthrow of struction are most comprehensive. likewise a good yarn. Besides being spent, the bride's going- READ-On October 2, at the Jeholachin, and the fall of the
someone may not have heard it, y dress being of dark blue, In 687 B.C. Victoria Nursing Home, Shang-Throne of Judah.
The Hongkong Post Office in which case all the credit is velvet with embroidered georgette, hai, to Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Read, came the burning of the Temple notises that registered letters mine, and you, brother. remain a and blue and yellow hat.
and the complete desecration specially addressed by the trans-mere scoffer. of Jerusalem in the days mission via Siberia to Chins and of Jedekiah It
appears the Far East generally, except Having broken the ice, so to: that: "From these three dates Japan, are now accepted by the speak, we can get down to the seren times that is 2.520 solar London Post Office at senders' matter in hand, namely, the years) run out on the Calendar"; risk.
(Colony's cricket, which this year and: "Those who are living
promises to flourish, besides : when these dates are reached,
being extremely will witness terminal crisis years
interesting.
L 30.
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HONGKONG, 10th Oct., 1923.
A RENT QUESTION.
One of the recommendations
in
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A report from Canton, states
CORRESPONDENCE
(To the Editor of the Hongkong
.."* Delegraph.")
Local Boxing.
Sir, It is with great pleasuTE
the Gentile dispensation." that the hotels and restaurants Something has given it an enorm ous fillip, and at the moment the The prediction declares that: will resume business to-morrow,
The year 1923 is far the most the Government having accepted game is on the crest of a wave of important year in all the crisis the proposal that $220,000 be paid enthusiasm which I devoutly years. After the year 1934 no annually towards educational ex-hope will last. What that some that I read in your paper of date is given in Holy Scripture." penses, the privileges granted to Maybe it is the natural love of suggesting a
thing" is I cannot definitely say. Saturday about a correspondent Working from the B.C. dates the monopolist to be cancelled.
the game inherent in every Eng Iron Bux and Seaman Duncan.
This given above, and adding the 2,520
lishman; a love which in some
match." if it could be solar years, the result is: "Solar
arranged, would absolutely be a cases amounts almost to a re-
worse.
woman
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contest between
Yours etc..
A
of the Housing Commission, re- asserting a suggestion which we
The health return for the past made many months ago, is that
year 1914-15 A.D., 1923 A.D., and week shows 13 cases of small-pox the Government should forbid 1934 A.D. So we are evidently (six fatal), five non-fatal cases of ligion, and an admirable one too. dandy and I am sure the fans the demolition or reconstruction in this generation right in the enteric fever, three deaths from Or land which I gently suspect) it would got their money's worth of houses which are stated by the middle of the critical period of cerebro-spinal fever, two from may be the result of that forlorn over and over again..
hope-that second eleven"- I am managing Bux at this the prophets.
plague and one non-fatal case of which flched the ashes out of the end and soybody desirous of Building Authority to be in good.
diphtheria The last-named was jaws of the Hongkong cricket arranging things could clinch condition. The proposal is pne)
British all the rest Chinese. "What Is Coming."
ogre: the mighty Shanghai eleven., matters by communicating with deserving of serious considera-]
me through your valuable paper. According to tion, because it has been abund-j
the prediction
The second floor "of No. 29:
I should also like to know Chaung Street was Anyway, the nets have been whether the Boxing Association antly established that much sent us, conditions in this world Yee
by armed robbers crowded since the very beginning is willing to are likely to go from bad to entered
arrange skilled labour has been diverted!
between A con-of the season. Plenty of new bout The statement declares: yesterday afternoon.
Matty... Smith to the rebuilding of many re-We know what happened in tractor and his family were held talent has come forward, orand Bax. Your correspondent We know up with revolvers and daggers, rather plenty of recruits have enggests a bout between Seaman latively new houses, from which 1914..
The Chadwick and the former, but I that there is an unspoken world and a sum of $35 was stolen by made their appearance. the owners hope to obtain a consciousness that a time is com- the gang before they made their talent has yet to disclose itself am sure Bar and Smith would bigger return on their outlay-jing that (sic) neither the life of escape.
At the moment, it appears to be be a better draw card and fight · rather shy, or it may be a question in every way. Whether the clemolition process 2 man nor the honour of
will be safe, and It is reported from Canton that of nerver-ves. The trial match'
We know Smith "is only a is going on at anything like the
that all believe this excepting Sun Fo, the Mayor, has expressed produced nothing, with the lightweight, but there wouldn't same rate it was some months Satan's Modernist Ministers of bis intention of resigning. but possible exception of the batting be a
very great difference in back. we do not know. The Righteousness who are preaching that he was persuaded not to do of G. R. More. He was badly weights should Bux and Smith absence of serious complaints good times ahead." Of the truth so by Ku Ying-fun and Hsu missed twice in the earlier part meet. Let me inform you that of that, we, as laymen. cannot Sung-chi, on the grounds that the of his innings, which seemed to Bax is only a welter weight and would suggest, that it is not judge. But the declaration con-accounts of the Municipality encourage him in the realisation in masting middles he is going There is, however, an aspect of tinues: "We know that to-day, must be audited before be can of the fact that the attackers out of his class to obtain, bouts.
were humans and inspire him Fortber, we challenge anybody the question which should be 1923, we are standing on the brink leave office.
with the necessary confidence to in the Colony. The weight cuts noted, namely, that people who of the biggest financial, commer-
cial and moral breakdown that¦ A plot of land situated on the produce some quite attractive no ice with us. have been turned out of bouses the world has ever known." After Pokfulum Road, Rural Building batting, including some olean, Thanking you. which are being reconstructed pointing to Chica, Russia, and Lot No. 235, having an area of hard drives past mid-off.
and all Southern 35,000 square feet, was put up for
*FIGHT FAN." are meeting fresh, troubles in Germany, consequence of demands being has already occurred.
Europe," where a "breakdown" auction," at the P.W.D. oßces, I have no use for your bound- Hongkong. Oct. 9th, 1923.
Rev. yesterday afternoon, at the upset dary which just manages to turn Inade for higher rents. Some of Dalrymple declares that in the price of $11,500. The price re-itself into a four after a lifeless A Fallen Tree. these people counted themselves opinion of the greatest experts in jalised was $27,200, the purchasers journey over the turf, and a slug- fortunate in heing able to find the world, nothing can be done to being Mesers, Chan Yin-yee, Lee gish race with a fielder who Sir-Allow me a little spaté to
avert the coming world crash. Hoi-tung and Tsang Foo.
almost wins. For me, the hearty say that since the big typhoon of other accommodation; ever which from every present appear-
fellow, which crashes into the August, a fallen tree is still though the rents charged were ance, quite outside prophecy and The Bankers Associations of rails with a resounding thwackoverhanging the pathway in higher than they had been ac- Holy Scripture will come in Hangchow, Tsinsufu and Shao-I warm to him, and the man who Glenssly little way above the 1923-1924. We should like ashing have written to Sir Robert hit him. To attract, cricket landslide and it is in the last customed to. Complaints are clearer statement of where the Ho Tung saying that they wel must be attractive and nothing stage of decomposition. It will now to hand that the screw is year 1934 comes in; and in any come his initiative in calling is more depressing, or mourafui surely come down within a short already being put on.
case if nothing can be done, to for a Round-table Conference, than the spectacle of a batsman time, and may causa the death of avert the calamity, we need pledging him their unqualified who returns the ball about had some unfortunate pedestrians for hardly worry about it. Where we support and wishing him success way down the pitch when hair coolies. agree with the reverend gentle-n his schome. The Bankers' plays forward, and cautiously;
Yours etc., of his home a few months ago. man is that the condition of the Guild of Ningpo and the Nanh- pushes a fall toss to leg past
A RESIDENT. world is sorry indeed, and the wei Chamber of Commerce also square leg for two. He may Hongkong. Oct. 10th, 1923, jowing to the premises being re-likelihood is that matters, are approve the idea.
built, and was forced to settle on going from bad to worse; but the Kowloon side. He secured rather than say that nothing can accommodation, but he is now would advocate that everyone be done to avert disaster.., we
in the plight of having again to strive to make this world better seek a new home, having just re- than it is. ceived notice from his landlord that he must quit unless he agrees to pay an increase of practically a third of his present rental. He says :--" It was die-
DELAYS CAUSED BY tressing ecough to be driven out
EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE. of an old house which was be-
The defendant was seen yester-/ England, by the way, has since no consideration whatever. The Hongkong Post Office ing rebuilt it is even worse
issues the following:-
day afternoon in the second contributed. 65 not out against Kowicon. I am keeping my eye after going into new premises to
The Director General of Posts, engineer's cabin in the act of
Baskett disappointed-me: by on him. have one's rent increased to such Tokyo, reports that the recent stealing some money. He man
inconsiderately getting out. When I saw his first faw strokes I třited an extent within the space of a great earthquake in Japan oom aged to escape from the cabin
The match against few months. The last state of pletely destroyed many Post and jumped over the side of the
my topee over my eyes, ordered 8.3 Offices and other means of com-ship. Some of the officers suc- Bhameen Sports Club,
another beer and proceeded to this tenant is certainly far worse munication in Tokyo, Kanagawa, ceeded in catching him, however, contest, was scarcely a success, settle down and enjoy myself. than the first; and the mischief Saitama, China and several other and he was handed over to Sub.- although the few bright, spots in Then More luckily bowled him off of the Water it amply repaid the wait during his wrist. All my "settling down" is that he cannot get any res prefectures, and that consequent Inept. Bond.
ly mails to and from those places | Police."
the duller moments. The Houg arrangements were framediately dress, for the simple reason that are likely to suffer a certain
The Marine Magistrate passed kong innings was not very excit-cancelled. the Rents Ordinance does not amount of delay for some time to sentence of two months hard ing, and at the risk of offending
labour,
the gentleman who contributes Except apply to new property. The in-coma.
A correspondent writes us
stating that he was turned out
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imagine that he is playing a "restrained" game. But he isn't He's not even playing cricket.
the reports of matches to a con. temporary. I should like to point Which may explain why out that Mitchell's knock w thoroughly enjoyed the Taikoo not a clever one. Mitchell doesn't Wayfoong match. Not a lot of do that sort of thing, but (and a ADMITTED HIS INTENTION, science, but plenty of cheerful very big BUT) he has an amazing. That he went aboard to steal bitting-231 in just two hours capacity for accumulating runs, pleases me, even on such The innings of the day was was the candid confession of an
small ground. England's undoubtedly Gordon's. The fact unemployed Chinese, to Comdr.
after a patchy start, that his side wore in rather a bad Beckwith at the Marine Court
especially exhilarating way obviously cramped his style. this morning, when charged with being on board the J.C.J.L. 6. perhaps to the possibly I should like to see him bat when biaseed vlaw of Pentycross. time was a factor and wickets of Tjikarang without permission.
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