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Sir William and Lady Brunyala {left by the Empress of Australia
yesterday.
The French cruiser Jules Ferry If ever a Race Meeting has been came into port just before ten held under trying conditions, this o'clock this morning, the custom- year's meeting surely is that one.ary salutes being fired. Not only has there been a heavy
Bulls and Inners
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We are pleased to record that on the morning following the Oxford and Cambridge dinner, none suffered from the blues.
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When will I know?" It sounds rather intriguing. anyhow.
The most interesting race at this week's meeting was up-
rainfall on each day of the Our advertisement columas For the past four days Ice doubtedly the human, and the Mmeeting so far, but the rains of contain an announcement regrad-House Street has been open to closest was the "run in" for the
days previous had made aing the first public recital by traffic. very sodden course and had dis-young Emil Danenberg. spirited quite a large proportion
Pof Hongkong's race-goers. It is in His Excellency the Governor connection with the state of the has appointed Mr. Thomas Julian track that we would write to-day, Edward Gaisford St Lawrence Afor it is safe to say that never to be his Private Secretary.
IT, Connaught Road, Central,
Tel.Central 1186
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 23 Feb., 1924.
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Some of the people who saw The Nine o'Clock Revue "last night were behind time.
Bachelors attending the Leap Year Ball should be careful what they say. Women are liable to
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In a recent divorce case at Home, the petitioner, stated that his wife was an acknowledged beauty, but a terror to talk. Evidently a case of “a thing of beauty is a jaw for ever." R
We suppose if Senator Fall The latest craze threatens to comes to grief over this oil lease become known as "Condensed business. the papers will head Art. Must refer to the pictures Possibly they'll explain that he the story "Why Fall Fell," on the milk tins. slipped on oil.
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The "Rialto Plate" should be an obstacle race on broncho- Pluck is said to be the secrat busters, confined to broker-
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of success on the local Rialto. jockeys. They get "over the The reckless one on our staff is fence". sasily, don't object to prepared to pay a small premium "bucks," excel at "corners," and be initiated into the best are quite expert at "saddling."
✪ The change of mon brought neither better weather nor luck.
ค To every man his choice. Some prefer arsenic, some jumping into the harbour, others again, challenging Knute Hansen.
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There has the course been in worse His Excellency the Governor
condition. It had never fully has appointed Mr. John Suthor-leap at conclusions. Nrecovered from the disastrous and McLaren to act as an as- effects of the October floods, andsistant to the Secretary for Chin with the churning up it basi
ese Affairs. Y received these past three days
mora closely. Isembles a mud bath than any Government proposes to erect a The Gazette intimates that the thing else. Time was when the grass track at Happy Valley was public urinal in Kowloon at the something of which the Jockey junction of Austin Avenue and
Kimberley Road. Was proud, when it was a green and well-tended
The silk which left hore by the carpet. To-day it is but a quagmire. And the suggestion and O. 5.s. Macedonia on the has been made to us that the 26th January was delivered in to course will never regain its form Marseilles on the 22nd February method of plucking. er condition unless it is allowed, & transit of 27 days. to have a least a year's rest and
A honeymoon couple in a way- constant care and attention. In Resisting an attempt to snatchback town in the States started view of the fact that many his overcoat from him, a coolie out on horseback. A bridla tour.
0. Gymkhanas are held during the employed at the Kung On poultry summer months it is impossible yard at Smithfield was yesterday A contemporary refers to local to rest the grass course, unless a stabbed in a neck, receiving a damsels as "delightful pictures." decision is come to to hold all rather serious word. The thief. Hand painted? this year's Gymkhanas on the after sand track-a decision which it escape. The Labour Administration is is suggested the Stewards of the already finding the task of Jockey Club should seriously Two big lots of Crown land äre governing not an altogether easy consider. There would possibly to be sold at the P.W.D. offices be many objections raised by on March 10th. Both are situated matter. Being a minority party-pony owners, and also possibly at Ho Mua Tin. and they are do- it was inevitable that sooner or by riders, but unless racing is scribed as Inland Lots 1736 and cut than waved.. Ister it should encounter difficul-suspended on the grass track for 1737. the respective areas being ties in carrying through mea-many months it will never have about 107,160 and 90.750 square
a chance to regain its beauty. feet. The aggregate upset price John. sures of any importance. Its In many places the turf needs is $197,910, or one dollar per foot. position in the political triangle to be entirely relaid. We put is not an enviable one. If the suggestion forward that The Gazette notifies that pass-
Two ways of getting rich: Win Gymkhanas might be confined engers to Indo-China, whether has just been unveiled. We expect ning a sweep at the Races and comes forward with proposals to the sand track this year a visiting the country or in transit, the contractor got tired waiting getting wrong change at the which amount to a continuation suggestion which might be worth will not be allowed to disembark on his money and took a chance. Bank. of the policy of the late Con- much or little.
LABOUR'S PLIGHT.
servatice Government, it stands
A Kowloon Necessity.
in danger of opposition from its own extreme left, to say nothing of the Liberals.
this assault, made his
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In the same paper the town of Bathurst announces the slogan of Bathurst for Beauty." Why not "Bar-thirst for Booze ?
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At last we have discovered the reason for that banana song in the States. Just a boost for the national game-makos any man slide to bis base!
At the next Hongkong dog show we purpose exhibiting a canine which is half hunter and half A lot of the Bull we read isn't setter. Half it's time it's hunting for bones and it sets when satisfied.
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"Owing to an alleged dis- courtesy on the part of the P.W.D.. Mr. Carter closed the tomb of Tutankhamen and abandoned
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Home Hint: Do not treat a cockroach (thank goodness they've spelt it right this time) with indifference or he'll get mad and go back home and bring all his friends.
at any port unless their passports bave received the visa of the If a sweep takes steak after What about a race for Ford French authorities at the port of staking a stake, how many tractors at the Valley next year? embarkation. It is notified that steaks could a sweepstake tako As will be seen in another the Government of Indo-China if a sweep's stake could stake column of this issue, the Kowloon has given notice that in future. steak????? Residents' Association has again no exception to this rule will in This point is well illustrated written the Government on the any circumstances be made. in connection with the Govern- question of the display of some special distinguishing signal dür- ment's scheme for building newing typhoon weather whereby and beaten by the inmates whilst Alleged to have been surprised warships in order to relieve un-residents need not have to journey thieving outside the house, a employment. This idea has, as all the way to the ferry before Chinese was taken to the Govern
being able to discover whether ment Civil Hospital yesterday 'atty Arbuckle is now a movie might have been expected, arous the ferry services have had to be from No. 25 Heard Street, suffex director under the name of Will work." Very childish! Even his ed the ire of the pacifists in suspended or not. It is suggesteding injuries now believed by the B. Good. Which remains to be sie would probably ejacu
late Tut tut!" Parliament, whilst, on the other that the signal should be hoisted surgeon at the Government Civil seen.
→ hand, gaining the support of the at the Royal Observatory mast Hospital to be a serious nature.
The mark is worth something," from which point of vantage it An iron bar is stated to have been Imperialists. Brought forward would be visible to the majority used to inflict the injuries and the Beckwith Bowl.
After the Beckwith Bell came whereas thousands of bits of not on grounds of necessity, but of residents on the Peninsula. It two Chinese are
paper for which Hongkong folk have paid $10 apiece are now only as one means of finding work for would appear that when the Gov-custody of the police as a result of
erament was approached on the report sent in by the doctor
The Dock is a good place for useful for pipe-cleaning purposes. men now" out or likely to be
some of them to be struck. matter, last year it promised to in the future, the proposal noce give it consideration so soon as
Q the less comes somewhat strange-[certain valterations had been out to the mast at ly after the recent statement by carried the Under Secretary of State for the Observatory, and the AS-ANN TO BE PRODUCED, sociation has now seen fit to the Air Ministry that the only remind the Goverment of its The Quarry Bay A.D.C. will adequate defence for the country promise. So obviously convenient present "ANN comedy in. is a change in the international would such a signal be that its three acta, by Lechmere Worrall Line boasts of its independence. provision will have the very in the Taikoo Club on Wednes- Probably because the ships are atmosphere. This doctrine, as hearty support of all Kowloon re-day, 27th. inst., in aid of the given so much latitude. Colonel Seely has pointed out, gidents. It is trying, to say the Minstering Children's League.
The story of "Ann" deals with A Kowloonite recently com- least, to journey to the ferry in would, if carried to its logical really bad weather only to dis. the trials of a rising young nove-plained to us about the nocturnal conclusion, lead to the disband-cover that there is no possible list whose first novel has become meetings of cats on his garden ment of the Army and Navy. means of crossing the harbour one of the most widely discussed wall. It's not the cats he objects Yet within a few days of its until the weather abates, and it books of the year. An American to, but the waal:
Ann, attacks would be a great boon to be able woman critic, presentation by a Labour Minis to discover from a glance at the him in a newspaper and roundly ter we have the Government Observatory mast whether
Home Note: Ladies with per- slates him on his "Appailing urging the "construction of more venture out of doors would be ignorance" of women. The nove-manent curls are warned against
fruitless or not. It should not be list-an extremely shy, self-reading murder stories, warships.
very difficult to devise a signal conscious Englishman-then dec The issue has not yet been which could not possibly be con-ides to learn more about the All these kids learning the
Fishing is better than golf be- is another decided, and will not be until fused with any of the existing opposite sex in order that he piano nowadays, the Navy Estimates come up
signals, and it is to be hoped that may write better. His proposal cogent reason why there should cause you don't have a handicap. by the time the summer arrives to Canon's daughter, by an ex-be reservations all round.
A doctor states that "bad-tem- for consideration. It will be and typhoons are more likely to traordinary method, his accept-
pered persons are the most suscep extremely interesting to see occur arrangements will have ance, the endeavours of Aun to
An American prohibitionist tible to disease." In other words, what happens then. If the re-been completed whereby some breaking of his engagement states that some people will sell the surly bird catches, the germ. signal will be ready to be hoisted. breaking off engagement their souls for "bootleg" whisky. lief of unemployment is the
and the final awakening are Seems a fair exchange souls for real motive, then we can very well see some of the Govern- ment members joining issue
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in June, 1912, at the Criterion A strike is reported of a church anyway? with the party and demanding! Five thousand lottery coupons Theatre, London, by Sir Charles choir in the North of England. that other and more productive were found by the police in a Wyndhamn and Miss Mary Moore Suppose the vicar will have Dynamite smuggling is a busi- which requires careful means of attaining the end be house at North Shields occupied and afterwards transferred to the to take his chants for Sunday's nees
singing. by Henrietta MacGregor. When Court Theatre, London.
handling. chosen. Already a hint to that she was charged at the police
The novel Ann" by Edgar effect has been thrown out. The court, the chief constable alleged Frere-author of Rebels "-is The ponies are all right once Poincare will not discu#3 Government is certainly in a fix that she was promoting a lottery an adaptation to the play and is a year, but it's the human race domestic affairs. The possible.
with prizes amounting to over dedicated to the original pro- the newspapers depend on the effect of petticoat government. on this unexpected issue-if it £11,000, but with no
rest of the time. money ducers. favours mote naval construction bebind. It was entirely her own The Quarry Lay A.D.C's pro
Note to the newly wedded it is threatened with opposition concern, the officer added, and duction will be in the bands of
if it does the her husband had no knowledge Mr. W. Robertson and the shot scandals won't mean more than to keep her feet warm, the We hope the cost of these oil When she fills a hot water bottle from within:
of it. When told, he remarked, among did favourites will include 40 cents on the gallon. opposite, then the other two It's a swindle."
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