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IN MEMORIAM.
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DEATH.
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The Telegraph.
Hosacosó, th Dec., 1923,
WHICH SCHEME?
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1923.
in getting alongside at Hung- hom and would run gravo risks in docking on account of the strong tides running at right| angles and also because of the prevailing winds. These are points of considerable import- ance, worthy of careful con- sideration.
We have on previous occasions expressed regret at the prob Jability of the waterfront at Kowloon being given over wholly
DAY BY DAY.
NO BOY EVER BECAME GREAT MAN WHO DID NOT IN HIS || YOUTH LEARN TO SAVE MONEY.— John Wanamaker,
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Batts.
We are authorised to con Hongkong's quota to Ear tradict the rumour that the Hong Haig's fund amounted to over a The next Criminal Sessions kong Civil Servants Protection thousand pounds starting which will be held on January 7th. Association is to hold its first, isn't bad considering the
second, third, fourth and fifth against the cultivation of the ory.
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Lady Chater returned to the annual meetings at an ourly date poppy. Colony by the French mail stea-in the New Year. mer Paul Lecat.
Hongkong teachers should MacWhirter, he says he's no' keep away from Canton. The to commerce, and we still ean-Wright, of the P.W.D., will be at the bottom of the list. What a
The many friends of Mr. A. surprised that a local plebiscite pay there is mostly arrears
on boys names places "Benjamin” not help thinking that such a glad to bear that he is now out of
We wish folk would leave a development should be prevented hospital
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Commissioner Pan will take
unless it is unavoidable. Captain! Davison says that his scheme the Shell Transport Company has they ought to hare treated reprisals
A Renter's telegram states that At the same time. he thinks We hope there will be would involve far less interier declared a dividend of two shill" Claude with less contumely, to-night. ence with the seafront than anyings, free of tax.
He didn't even get a place. other proposal get put forward. He mentions the fact that the
On December 24, Inland Lot Advt. in local paper:A semi- Peninsula Hotel the YMCA 60 is to be sold. It comprises European. house, three stories, 19
about 6,700 square feet and the X 72",
Very demi-semi, we building and the new Seamen's upset price is $2,510.
should say. Institute will eventually be ar- commodated on Kowloon Point, and think that this circumstance
should be taken into account in
Tenders are being invited for
Can you guess? Who is the
the purchase of the materials ob most carnivorous looking lady in and 6 Morrison Hill. tained from pulling down Nos, 5 Hongkong?
It is a curious fact that the
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A charity bazaar oftan causes a great deal of talk and conduct most of which is uncharitable.
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any development of the KowiDon seafront for shipping purposes. | It is notitied teas the To Tsai author of "How to be Happy The decupants of such buildings, Road, is deleted from the list of time in Hongkong.
Church. situate ät Hollywood Though Married" lived for some be says, would not relish being places of worship licensed for smothered in smoke from vessels the solemnization of marriages. lying near at hand. We put forward these views of Captain
A wag from Canton writes in- forming Davison because we think they guards we have in the Customs us that "the only should be given prominence. and House are Customs officers armed in Yaumati won't need one for we trust that they will be taken with fountain pens and applica-three months. fully into authorities. doubt, are perfectly willing to heociation is giving a dinner at the City Hall library are entitled: servatives."
The South China Athletic Aslar new books to be added to the guided in this matter by men of Yee Wo Hotel, West Point, on
Reats Reduced "Willie Dooit), Tuesday to the members of the
Paying the Demand" Stoneigh- experience
Chinese soccer team returning Broke), and Putting on the
Screw (Eme Gettes A'Chance).
"General Fracas"
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According to the China Mail "the Labourites at Sutton Dukes It is rumoured that three popu- gained Clayton and Warrington -
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The lady who sold roses at Repulse Bay Hotel on Sunday ought have been given a calendar.
Repulse Bay was a trifle too rosy As it was, the outlook at for some people.
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In connection with the M.C.L. Fete. we are asked to state that Shanghai newspaper heading in Now that the General Election motor traffic between the junction regard to the recent is practically all over har the of Lower and Upper Albert Parliament. He appears to be shouting-though the complete Roads and the eastern entrance quite busy in Chins just now. results are not yet known here to Government House will be: we can briefly survey the erente. prohibited from 2 to 7 p.m. to day.
A local paragraph states that from the date of the Imperial
November was 3 Conference,
very dry when became We are informed by Messrs. mouth." We suppose the last evident that Mr. Baldwin was Jardine. Matheson and Co., Ltd., day didn't count. committing his party to a policy that from the 1st January. 1924,
Q of protection, down to the count-the passage faze on vessels of the
Nexs from Paris: Old nee ing of the votes. The Conserva Glea" and "Shire" Joint Service, horse is given new glands. Gland nounces the closing of a mail to tives, singularly enough, have from Hongkong to London and of Hope and Glory?, been the introducers of tariff vice versa. will be reduced to £82. reform, whilst the old A 25 reduction will be given on Radirals have fough: for the return ticket if re-embarka-girl knocked
For trying to flirt with her, a
A head of cabbage raised in a To-day we give considerable conservative policy of adhering tion is within three years.
man down in Cornish village weighs 35 pounds. Bristol. He certainly fell for her. Just about big enough to put up to free trade. We built up our prominence to Captain W. Davi-great commercial position in the son's scheme for the provision of world on free trade, and we shall season
The balance of the Italian Co.'s. Router reports that tippers in
for Parliament a wet-dock in which large ocean-stick to that line of conduct." has more or less to "request" operas. That's nothing. They often do it Bulgaria has been destroyed.
at the Star is devoted South Wales аге
strikes. The entire Air Force going vessels would be able to Labour has also been against afternoon, when the offering will
been the Liberal outlook: whilst Toe first will be presented this in Hongkong secure shelter during typhoon protection. though principally be "Rigolletto." To-night will
Suppose the pilot let it crash.
0 weather. The author of this fronti motives of preventing see "Carmen", whilst to-morrow squared. Judging by the noise, we noticed the name of a "Mr.
Experts say a circle cannot, be
Among the candidates at Home scheme contends that it has possible monopolies, One cannot Signor Artini makes his only upwe should say some of the Hong Limburg." many advantages over the protances do not alter cases, and biggest part. the title role in this statement.
help wondering whether circumspearance of the season in his kong trams just about contradict cheese, they say he was quite While Fot A big posed development of Hunghom whether the progress of the times "Othello." Other operas promised
strong. Bay on the lines reconn.ended does not call for reform are Tosca" and "Faust". by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice. Inbound traditions: and it must or even reversal of old. hide-
Henry Ford plans to build a model
"Flats and Sharps"is the head- town. Hope he won't a matter of this rt, the mere be
The M. C. Charity Bazaar forget parking space for a few Northern paper.
ing given to 3 column in & admitted that foreign and Fete takes place to-der in million Birvers. layman naturally looks to experts nations have built up tariff walls the grounds
But it has nothing to do with landlords or for guidance, but, all the same. 2gainst Britain which cry aloud
for retaliation on our part. Again. provision has been made by a which are making their appear- we feel that such proposals a inter-Empire tride
Many of the sealskin are made by Captain Davision, will
concessions farge, band of workers to as-ance were once worn by rabbits. go towards holding the semble a great variety of attrac- himself a practical man. deserve scattered Colonies in the bonds. the utmost consideration at the whole question has been based by
The bazaar affords an ex- hands of those who will finally the Unionist party on one issue-ents for Christmas or to lay in a mistaken for a landlord. decide 28 between the
stock of useful articles at reason- abolition wolthe schemes. The suggested works, ment; and even astute business have the satisfaction of knowing never a liar. He is mistaken.
unemployable prices, and purchasers will A man bigger than you is whichever project is eventually tection
men fail τα see how pr that their expenditure will benefit
The police say there are too сап do more than
many rickshas. A man we know adopted, will be of such magni- reduce
a number of deserving charities! unemployment by tude, and the expense will reach mere fraction, and certainly not The grounds
both in Hongkong and at Home. temporary. the maximum and one. We wish the police wouldn't According to a Shanghai con- often sees two where there is only of Government minimum temperatures there on so considerable a sum. that the before much time has gone by.
aftend House are open for the bazaar November 28th, were 00.0.
маду Masonic pros and cons of each need to be
from 2.30 to 6 pm, and the seems the absolute zero.
This banquets. carefully weighed before definite Some Aspects.
entrance is by the motor drive conclusions are reached.
opposite the gate of the Botanical
Hongkong sailmakers are out Garden.
Aay China póny which on strike. So far none of the local messures over 13 hands 3 inches newspapers have referred to them "dead" is ineligible to compete as attempting to raise the wind." in any race, says one of the new the Hunghom project, that it will traditional policy of free Railway companies at Home did believe in "flogging a dead Jockey Club ralas. We never
Dr. Sun has abolished three provide more
The appears accommodation trade.
to before continuing the polity of i-horse."
publicity organs. and, above all, that it will provide remarkable Liberal gains, even to third-class passengers. It is
Making too explanation of the proving the accommodation given
much noise or out of tume we the means whereby large vessels in the constituencies
presume. which claimed for the vestibule or centre right when we decided we
For all that, we must have been can secure sheiter during ty-were considered Conservative corridor third-class
had carriages phoons, for which Sir Maurice return to power with a very small the London Midland and Scottish strongholds. The Baldwinites which have been introduced on,
backed something more dead Fitzmaurice's proposals make no safety
than alive. margia, and when itRailway that they provide a provision. The question of pre- comes to introducing protection greater degree of convenience
From the pony's standpoint we serving the amenities of Kowloon they will bave an overwhelming and comfort than ever for the think the above rule might also described it as "pretty, clean and Point is also wrapped up in this condition can only be precarious,
majority against them. Such a third-class passenger.
apply to some of the jockeys. issue, in which regard Captain and a Government elected under Davison asserts that if wharves circumstances like these is sure itself, we doubt whether-protec-discovered when one
to be unstable. Obviously there tion issues apart-it matters a jot objected to a half-Nelson. built at Hunghom, the
are interesting developments.
Captain Davison claims for his scheme that it is less costly than
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Thanks to the tactics of obstructionists. President Cool- idge's address to Congress was
interval no doubt he saved his breath to coolidge porridge.
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The results known to date of the polling all over the country, show in no uncertain fashion how public opinion clings to the
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smoke and dirt from steamers ahead. One cannot leave the those in power be Conservatives lying alongside will be blown subject of the
or Liberals. Had the latter been. returned in the majority, "it is noting the peninsula by the out
Guests were injured whet "Scientist claims to prolong prevailing winds, whereas under against the Conservative (to them
by "roughs" whose ill-feeling come any nearer reducing the in Seattle. Headline should have life 300 years," says
doubtful whether they would case of "home brew" exploded his scheme no such inconven-aristocratic) candidates has army of unemployed. The con-
been "Liquor Case Heard." ience would be experienced. bean vented principally
ditions againat which the country Furthermore, he says that big Women. Оде
has to struggle lie outside the can only trust
According to a Paris paper, high that this does not mark a new Empire, and involve graver issues boots are the fashion for men. Plasterers in Sydney receive ships would, excepting at slack element in the degeneracy of the than the pros and cons of free We should hate to be in their 35/- a day. That's laying it on water, experience great difficulty' race. As for the Government! trade.
shoes.
bit thick