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The Telegraph.
It would appear is if at long
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924.
Post Omon. Wo cannot soo that there would be much utility in this stop unless, tho Observatory man were in constant and close touch with his headquarters, but this might possibly be arranged, in which ovent we car quito understand that'a porsonal con- voreation with master mariners might be, of considerable value. The Director of the Observatory
DAY BY DAY.
THE
SILENCE 18 ONE OF HARDEST KINDS OF ARGUMENT TO REFUTE—II. W. Shaw,
The name of Mr. Siu "Ho-ming has been added to the list of au thorized architects...
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts. - •
There is no truth in the story It isn't always casy to tell the ' that the skoloton found this week oxset time the sun sata, as those in the compound at the Contral confloting reports from Canţoa Police Station was that of a clearly show. former newspaper_reporter.
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In a local auotion announce And, whilst we are about it, lot mont we notfoed "One full-sized is soomingly opposed to this sug- Tonders are being invited for us also dony the report that the billiard table by Burroughs, Wel- gestion, but, all the same, we the preparation of site and arec-officers of the Traffic Department rome & Co." Sport in tabloid trust that its feasibility will botion of a motor garago adjoining ro so busy taking salutos that form?
the Government Offices, Albert they are at prosent unable to attond to any further applicants given 'duo weight by the author Road,
While we do not fool disposed. for learners' licencos.
to encourago tabloid sport. we ities. In matters such as those,
think a great boon would be con- it is impossible to possess too
Let's hope that Dr. Sun won't forred If some of the stories we Playing in the billiards hanbe tiekled to death by the reports hear could be put up in this agrou much information. If wo ́aro
difficult to swallow in their rough state.
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going to orr at all, then lot to or dicap at the Palace Hotel last appoaring in some of the Hong- ablo form. They are decidedly
on the side of safety.
Britain and the Soviet.
night, Mr. F. E. Silva (-190) beat kong papers. Mr. R. F. Gardonor (-100) by 250. 113.
Bocause it is ready is surely the inst ronson for publishing an ohituary notico.-
There is no truth in the story that one of our local proschors has gone over to the Rationalists.
A performer at the Star Thoatro has been showing us thirty-six ways of playing a violin. Our noxi- Now that those Yuumati door neighbour is still struggling robbors ara oporating through the with ono,
The name of Dr. T. Aragaki, The news from London con-151, Wanchal Road (Bachelor of
Judging from the milk advert- corning the Anglo-Soviet confor- Medicine of the University of isomonts, Hongkong babios should onco is not at all encouraging. As Nagasaki) has been added to the do woll at Wembley. most observers have predicted, list of médical practitioners.-'. thore has been a marked tendoney
on the part of the Russian
delegates to obtain concossianu at
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Amongst the passengers who day, it may be said that they're every turn, some of them of a returned to the Colony by the working over-time. nature which it is impossible the President MoKinley were Mr. British Governinont could agree. M. Ellis, Mr. Frod Ellis, and Japanese cabinots are going ing and not know whether ho's to. Possibly these requests are Mr. and Mrs. F. P. de V. Soares,cheap those daye.. nothing more than a form of mild
bluff, but all the same they croatoi
an atmosphere of dissatisfaction.
and one is constantly aware of A Chinese cripple, who, despite instances whion Soviet delegates his crutches, attempted to board have thrown up thoir work at a the already moving forry at 9.5 conference directly some conces-this morning, fell into the water, sion was not forthcoming. Wa Coolios mangod to pull him on think the authorities at Moscow board. roolise by now that this is practically their last chance of
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Wo
wish the
Government
It must be a trifle awkward for Dr. Sun to wake up in tho morn- really dead or alive.
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would publish an official list of method of inviting May Road re- parking places for coolies.
ច ឆ · As every mother considers hor own bost, those Wombloy prizes won't nearly go round.
The Government in giving notice to radio fans that in futuro,
It's easy
doad.
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to
The Peak Tramway Company's
sidents to travel homo per non- stop our vin the top-side-station at a slightly additional, but novertheless compulsory cost, does not seem to have raised a chorus of approval
The danger of reducing there'
coming to an agreement with The Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle Britain, and are not likely to do and the Rov. C. B. Shann have in the case of privato individuals, Peak Tram faros is that there's anything rash, but there is an boon appointed trustees under the duo precautions are to be taken such a terrible risk of "those
Missions unhealthy sonso of iùsincerity Corman HONGKONG, 17th May, 1924.
Ordinance to prevent the emission of self- common Kowloon folk." trokking porvading the whole discussion. during the absence from the generatod oscillations. Tough to the heights.
public Two of the Soviet leaders have Colony of the Bishop of Victoria luck on some of our
speakers..
We're wondering what they'll WEATHER WARNINGS.stated publicly during the past few and Archdeacon Barnett.
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do In Washington when they've days sentiments which are not in accord with the policy of a con-
And perhaps the reason why we run out of officials to be in- stitutional Government like that
During the absence of Major Board of Education recently
haven't had a meeting of the vestigated,
1 One has regretted General of Britain.
☐ ☐ last there are good reasons for the "lost epportunity"
Sir John Fowlor, of pro-K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., on duty
It's hard lines on the talpan of hoping that there will be a full moting a Communist revolt in in North China, the Command of instead of a cap; it'll protect your bad his fare raised by sovon Motor Hint: Wear a topeo 'the Peak Tramway Co. to have interchange of wouthor reports Germany, and the other now the Troops in South China,
quarter during his during the typhoon season. he- refers to what he considers the devolves on Lieut.-Colonel F. 9. Dars as you go through the dollars a
absence from the Colony. twoun the various Observatories private enterprise in Russian D.S.O.
disproportionate influences of Montague-Bates, C.B.,. C.M.G., windscroon. in the Far East: According to trade. It is extremely doubtful
talk yourself The missionary who asks in the hoarse. All you have to do is to Daily Press "Would anybody the correspondence just released whether any arrangement bo
tween the Soviet and the British by the Hongkong Chamber of Governmont will do much to:
His Excellency the Governor explain why you know Dr. Sun is on the Peak, Hongkong, freel
sparo for some weeks one or two Commerce, the Director of the promote the trade of Britain with has appointed, provisionally and
furnished rooms with cooking Siccawei Observatory has ex-Russia; and it is becoming in-subject to His Majesty's pleasure,
We saw 3 man yesterday possibility" forget to state that stroots consideration would be given to walking through the pressed his willingness to co-creasingly unlikely that the two the Hon. Mr. Montague Ede to countries can maintain amicable be an Unofficial Mombor of the oporate in the exchange of storm relations with one another in the Executive Council during the minus his jacket. Yoe; he was a applicante possessing a Rolls-
Chowingumes
Royce. warnings, and, inasmuch as future, owing to the impos-absence from the Colony of the Hongkong already exchanges Hibility of trusting the Bolshevik Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen.
Govornment to keep its word 'on with Manila and the various the vital matter of intrigue and shipping companies with wireless-propaganda.. On the whole, Local boxing onthusiasts will
The Inspector who fooled a equipped vessels are to join in the therefore, we hardly think the be interested to learn that Able ricksha coolie into nearly stealing movement, there should during recognition of Russia and sub- Soaman Chadwick, who was the his watch must have been a good sequent-pourparlors.ara-going. to. fauthor weight champion of the tho coming typhoon season be no have even half the good results Colony, has since roturning to grounds for complaint on the that forvent advocates of this England, won the fenthor-weight
recognition expected. It is pos- championship of the Royal Navy Cotton on to the game,
It's a pity the coolie didn't sible, in fact, that the oferturòs and Marines at Portsmouth. This mutter of speedy circula- to the Soviet at thisy stage of tion of storm warnings from their unrepentance will prove to various contres is of extreme have been a serious mistake, importance to all shipping inter-Wages and Costs. ents in the Far East. Unhappily,
It is very disappointing to read
score of information.
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According to tolophono message received by the load- quarters of Allied. Armies from Shoklung, the North Gate of Wai-
in the past there has been all too of the continuous efforts by chow city was partly destroyed
little co-oporation, and shipping increased wages. One
workers at Home to obtain with bombs and field gaus. A
Chamber's
cannot largo number of soldiers in the
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A murdered missionary isn't even sure of a
memorial.
Bctor
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Whon bankrupts take to living in hotels, they must feel at homew
If some of these opium smug. lers would only pay their fines, Kowloon might live tax-free.
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Iwali Jah know about this
French elections, like their fashions, are very upsetting.
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Applicants not able to provide the "cooking possibility "should submit specimen mehus.
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To aspire to a great height is one thing, but to perspire to a -cumshaw height-is-just-about-the-
dizzy limit.
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Who says Home Rule for May Road?
A most important discovery has boon made this wook. In a
search for one of the lost tribes of Israel a local investigator has
found the Peakitos.
Now, won't Kowloon bú giad?
May Road folk now Interpret PT. C. as "Passengers Temper Choleric."
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Carrying matchos must be bad form, for no-one seems to do it.
A good way to train the memory is to learn the now namnes for soft drinks.
poople have had very just cause believe that they are finding the city were killed.-Canton Gazette, training ship? ᄆ for complaint. Our own Govern- coat of living a big burden at this ment does not appear to have late stage, for there-has been no
Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, who is boen particularly sympathetic indien in the index figure for many
months, apart from the slight in Tientsin, is sonding another considering and acting upon the fluctuations
Now that Peak ladies have to The best way to discourage induced by the representative to Canton to dis- Chamber's many representations change of suason. The general cuss with the authorities hore re-pay the same train fares as men, mosquitoes is not to put greaso on the subject and we note with tendency during the past year garding the latest developments we prosume they'll turn the on your face at night.
has been for the cost of living to in the Yangtze Valley provincos, tablos оп the Ill-maunored somo surprise that a period of fall appreciably, and there have says the Canton Gazette. Some jostlers of the other sex. exactly six months elapsed before been no great cuts in wages, time ago, Mr. Chok Tung-fong the authorities replied to the whilst in some casos labour has wassont by the Marshal to Canton It's a sure sign of summer retained the higher scale that to work but plans with Dr. Sun re- when you wonder whether you've communication of followed the war. Only one Oxgarding the sending of Expedi. heard a saw-mill or a mosquito, September Just. However, in planation suggests itself for the tionary forces against the North the meantime the promised co- prosent agitation in the ranks of
Judging from the amount of operation of Siccawol has boon the workors-they hadpe to obtain
promiscuous motor-riding just secured, and we are hoping that Socialist cloment is administering special consideration while a
A now regulation under the that it pays to pick friends who now, the thing that stands out is material benefits, will accrue the Government of the country. Hongkong Police Force: Oz- therefrom.
But in the end, if the Government dinance reads at follows: No are morally solvent. gives way too much to the demands pousion shall be granted to any
Ritual dances are respectable, Masters of vessels are natural-of labour, in the mattor of housing, officer who has not completel 15
the unrighteous. '. ly anxious to secure the latest wages, and so forth, it will run yours service and attained the the other kind being reserved for and most detailed information the risk of defeating its avowed ago of forty five years, without a object of reducing the general cost certificate from the Captain on weather conditions before of living of the whole nation. Superintendent of Police and
The price of oil varles. Given leaving port during the typhoon Obviously, greater wages bills from the Principal Civil Medioni no accidents, it is comparatively season. Hence the suggestions mean higher prices, whether for Officer that such officer is incap cheap. put forward by the Chamber for products like coal or for manu- able by reason of some infirmity factures of any description. of mind or body of discharging
It now only romains for China Improving the existing arrange-Whore osal is used in manufao-his duties."-
to turn aside from the tranquil By starting now, and studying, monta in this regard. Apparent-tures, a double increase in ex-
paths of rebellion and plungo into three hours every night, you may the vortex of a national election. be able to decide what to buy ly in Shanghai the Observatory periape becomes involved. Even--
tually, unless the middle classes
your friends for Christmas. officials sond a man to some are to be made the chief sacrifice, are told that there will be sub- Whether Germany has it or not, central position during typhoon or employers are to be forced sequent reductions "for every the trouble is to get it..
Tho worst of the troo wonthes, whore he can, bo con- to restrict their profits to á drop of éleven points in the cost
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knowledge is, that there are misorablo minimum, foreign of living index igure"--a contin
What about further extending
many branches. sulted by marinors. The progoods especially in the absence gends that is being made more posal - is made that here in of protoctiva tarifle will serious remote every time some union the seamanlike appearance of Hongkong we should adopt a ly menace all British Industries. dealdes to go en strike. Truly those Peak Tram coolies by Isn't it about time we heard like procedure, the official to be in the case of the building-trade the cynic has much to interest fitting them out with jumpers and of a monument to the unknown
bell-bottomed trousozu ?
Chingup Voldier? either at the Harbour Office or demands for higher wages, wo him those days.
Gormany sooms almost as well off as China for political parties.
Homo hint: Egg stains may be removed by scraping the back. of the hand across the chip.
Even a May Road worm will tura.
ច ឆ. Boalth note: Stopping to tio your shoë lacola the middle of· the street is considered Injurious.