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maritimo nation, with a position so far ahead of everyone eles that one can hardly think of 's
Bevorel hundred THING RARE ANDA years honee, when the bulk of Plutarch.. the world's carrying trade will not be conducted under the British flag.
Our Beggars,
In vlow of recent complaints
His Excolloper Governor has appoints MUSE. B. McElderry to act aboum Police Magistrato and Cordery
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I hear that there is under con- Grovon, losturer in sociology at sideration a new bye-law to Mr. A. Morloy, who has just the University of Boston, Mass-prohibit rollor-skating in the af the mondicant nuisance in been discharged from hospital achusetts, the man of the future London straata. If it over; comes' Hongkong it is most gratifying to after a prolonged illness, left on will not only be flat-footed, into force it might be suitably fee that the police are fully alve a holiday to Japan by the a. baldheaded and spineless, but will tormed a log-bye law.
be completely under the domina- tion of woman.
to this matter. Unknown to the general public, certain members of the Force are constantly keeping
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GARDENING FOR THE WEEK-END. Damage to the extent of $60 first sight, as if men for the next Transfer Beadlings from the I know that this appears, at Inspection a keen eye open for professional was caused to a junk in a on the generation or two will be perf greenhouse to the beda; or, if the Sandpaper the early rhubarb. beggars, and the big number ropod with a stoany launch in the petually living under a sword of beds are all occupied, arrange Invited in during the past few days is suffi-harbour yesterday. No-one was D-acles; but without in the least for them to sloop out. Turn the
elent to show what can be done injured.
wishing to seem cynical, I cannot soil, and thoroughly dig in a help thinking that a large major liberal dressing of granulated
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HONGKONG, 25th April, 1925.
WHERE BRITAIN
LEADS.
The figures of the Suez Canal
traffic for last year, givou in
a
in this direction, In the course
of two daya last week, no fewor
than 92 mondicants were coaught:
A collie was fatally injured in ity of married men of my acquain- cork and baking powder to since then a furthor batch of 82 a fall down Morrison Hill, yes-tance have already anticipated
tighten it Carefully examine has been rounded up, this numbor terday, He died shortly after Mr. Groves prediction; have, in including about half those provi-admission into the Government fact, been busy developing those the daffodils, and, if too yellow, treat as for jaundice. Inspect ously sent away to Cantón. Thus, Civil Hospital.
melancholy charactóriation over all croous bulbs to make sure within the period of about a week,
since their wedding day. fally 120 mendicants have boon
Sometimes I gaze out of my study window and watch the long, baldheaded, spineless creatures
secured in polico raids, In the
The police arrested a man at
they have not been planted upside down. Bisect with the lamp-scissors all vagrant slugs, ourly kale, and paint the knoba on the potatoes with jodine to relieve the swelling.
case of children, we quite see Mr. Pah. Ngau Shek, in the Taipo long trail of poor, flat-footed, Massage the wrinkles out of the Wodehouse's point that it is diffi-district, yesterday, on a charge cult to get at the parents, under of being in possession of a revol
whose instructions these kiddies ver and 70 rounds of ammunition.
pester the public. But an oven greater difficulty than that is tho manner in which beggars sont to has called at this office and stated S. Caro, of St. Joseph's College, Canton constantly reappear that ho is dissatisfied with the our streets. This means that much of the police work is of no of the Diocesan School, and is decision in his fight with Randall,| avail, for no sooner are these folk quite prepared to meet him again. seat away than back they come again. If there wore some law; preventing the ingross of Chinese Monday's Telegraph will con- being driven off to the emoes to who have no work to come to, it tain a number of local picturos, provide the dibe to enable the would be possible to make including a group taken at the nand which no longer general clear-out of these posts wedding of Lieut.-Comdr. Ronald the cradle to dominate the world. and ship them away once and for Leeds and Miss Betty Dawson, And I am filled with anguish. all. But that cannot be done as well as a number of snaphehots wnon 1 ponder that the only under existing conditions. The taken at the V.R.C. athletic masculino privileges left to those only alternatives, therefore, are sports.
dumb driven cattle are those of relentless vigilance by the police]
growing whiskers and singing bags:
(in arresting those beggars when
Whilst motor cycling near the found soliciting, and a determin- Pumping Station at Pokfulam tion on the part of the public not Road, on Thursday, Mr. A. D.
rocke
The present market value of to encourage the nuisance by Cox, of No, 3, Felix Villas, was radiam, I note, is somewhere heeding the plens of mendicants.
news cable yesterday, are re markable, and it was predicted a there were no givere, there thrown from his machine and about £450,000 per ounce. This month ago that they would con- would be no professional beggars: received injuries, which neces- certainly seems a bit stoop, but i removal to the imagine that this price includes stitute something of a record. It so the public really has the sitated his
postage and packing. is only natural that with the matter largely in its own hands. Government Civil Hospital.
Lat the begging fraternity once, constant increase of building, realise that Hongkong is no there should also be a bigger longer a happy hunting-ground, amount of traffic through the and the majority of them will
soon disappear. Canal as the years go by; but thors is another factor in the increasing number of ships and Hongkong is fairly well ac-for $24,250, subject to mortgage.
Revolting.
At the China Auction Rooms yesterday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. R. da Sousa, by order of the second mortgageo, sold the lease- hold property known as Joland Lot No. 346, together with No. 15, Mosque Street, erected thereon,
A correspondent writes to say
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON; A chilly young fellow named
Maugham
Went out for a swim in ̈à
staugham;
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As he plunged in the sea, "Well, must," muttered,ho, Do something to keep mysait
wauham.
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After months and months of a
A writer on the drama aasorts that men of an audionoo-aro far: mere emotional than women, and that when the sob-stuff is handed over it is the former and not the latter who do the'. woeping. But listen to the Ballad of Buskin Binks
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When Buskin Binks portray- ed the Dane
On Drury's olascio stage, "His aoting powera constrain. dd him
A little bot to wage, "Not mon alone, but women,
too,
And babes shall weep at 119,"
Quoth he, "what time I speak those lines-
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"To be, or not to be," "And I'll pay theo a silver
erown
Hereaftor, if I fail". "Then twenty brother-actors took
His wager on the nail.
Alas alack he lost his bet
They grooted him with jears; Although, to be progino, ho
had
His audience all in tiers.
The latest suggestion offorod
tonnage, and that is the keen quainted with the kidnapping competition which is ever becom- evil, but the story from Shanghai, printed yesterday, disclosed ing more evident. In recent
an affair far more ravelting and that the .s. Wong Shek Kungstience deeper than that over to Mr. Winston Churchill for years there have been freeh ad astounding than any we have batter known as the "Wont' She achieved by the taciturn Lean consideration when compiling his ditions to the lines using the encountered locally. No fower Come?" has again changed her Maitland, the singing frog at the Budget is a tax on footballers. Canal route, and the trade to the than 31 kidnapped children were ag, adding that in two years she Zoo has at last broken into ful This will be a nice change from
found in a blacksmith's premises, has sailed under the Norwegian, Far East has now to be divided of whom had been kept in close Chinese, British, Chilean and song for the first time since attacks on referees.
be fert tno nome swamp among a greater number of ships, confinement for years, whilst Portuguese flags. She is on the in South America, Tha Professor Kurt Wiosinger, of many of larger tonnage than it seems fairly evident that run between Saigon, Canton and
result, however, was ar Zurich Technological University, they had been bought by the Hongkong,
disappointing used to be thought nocessary. people in charge of the establish.
to the has not only invented a steam patient and expectant group 01 locomotive which, by a condens This is evident to anyone famillar ment. Not only had they been Notice is given that the zoologists who, for the better part ing device, will effect a saving of with the vessels seen in Hong been made to work all hours of order under the Streets (Altera in the Reptile House, anxiously has also coined a new word to oruelly ill-traated, but they had Governor proposes to make an of a year, had been camping out about 50 par cant. of coal, but kong harbour. But perhaps the the day and night In other tion) Ordinanco, 1923, for the waiting for the trog to live up to describe his invention which will most marked change has been words, these poor little. mites closing of Middle Road, Kowloon, its reputation. The noise it even affect a waste of about 50 per the return of German shipping to had been exploited for personal from the south-east corner of tually emitted was not so much a
gain, with no thought of the Kowloon Inland Lot No. 414 to song as a compromise between an ly as long as his engine, to wit, cont. of type. The naine is near- the old routes traversed before suffering and misory inflicted its junction with Salisbury and exhausted sodawater syphon and Hochdruckkondensation damp the war; and also the bid for upon them or the unhappiness Chatham Roads. Any person a snore, and poor old Prof. Bar- Aokomotive, Already, I hear
bigger carrying trade by caused their parents, Incidental objecting to the proposed order mien Crumpest and his no less ly a case like this sorves to show must send his objection in writing celebrated confrere, Bir Battes American vossels. The statis- the lengths to which unscrupulous to the Colonial Secretary so as to Innes-Belfry, who had been con- tics of last year indicate, how-people are prepared to go in roach the office of the Colonial fidently reckoning on a Daira ever, that the United States is China to secure child labour. Secretary not later than the 11th chian rendering of the Prologue
Whilst, of course, the child May. still behind all the other big labour problem has a very
to1 Pagliacci, broke down and wopt liko lisilo children deprived nations in respect of tonnage much wider aspect, there can be
To-day is. Anzac Day, an using the Suez Canal, though little doubt that much of the
kidnapping which takes place anniversary which is fully ex- very close to Japan. The figures is due to the knowledge that plained by its name, and which, also show how Boon Germany stolen children can be sold to in the words of the official histor- to make ian, is the dato when in no has returned to a strong position people who hope
financial gains because of the unreal senso, in the world's shipping, being work they can get out of these sciousness of Australian nation- hood was born.". It is devoted to ahead of all but the Dutch, who unfortunate youngsters.
the memory of those who fell in only hold the position they do
the Great War. In Hongkong because of the big truffle with
the day is being celebrated very their East Indian colonies.
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Holland comes second in the list, but between her and Britala,
the leading maritime nation,
the con-
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several eminent composers have written to Prof. Wiesinger to ask his permission. to set his new word to music, while I also leara from a reliable source that the Zurich police have forthwith adopted it as the official test for sobriety and that an enterprising editor is shortly going to publish
"PRESIDENT". BOATS. quietly but the community will of their toffee. They wore both it as a serial storyandott appreciate the presence in our observed to leave the Gardens. On the other, hand, the Swiss midst of a number of Austra shortly afterwards accompanied postal authorities have forbidden asians on H. M. A S. Brisbane. by two keepers, and a strong ordona for the engine to be sent
smell of alcoholic stimulant, by telogram
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of ten per cont. compared with Dollar interests have, succeeded DERBY FAVOURITE. sixty per cent. Thus Britain, boats at present being operated in securing the fivo "President"
with nearly two-thirds of the by the Pacific Mall Steamship REFORTED TO HAVE GONE traffic, retains the great pre- Company, for yesterday afternoon,
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ponderance which makes of the Dollar Line, received her position almost unique, a telegram from the Shanghai The trainor, MT and practically unchallengeable, office stating that the final do that the Derby favour Most of us are aware offhand of Dollar Company,
cision had gone in favour of the aroon, has fallen Jam
most unlikely that i tho load British tonnage can It will be recalled that the the Two give to the combined mercantilo Pacific Mail Steamship Company marines of the rest of the world, the Shipping Board's award of of
secured an injunction against but it takes plain figuros like the vessels to Mr. Stanioy Delinge those to bring home the actual) and associates. The injurption eq
ended In favour of the NCA first and foremost, we are a origine) aird.
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POLAND AND CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.
Warsaw, April 24 The three agreements between Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, mely Commercial, Arbitration and Liquidation have been signed
who bas departed for Prague-Reuter,
THE RHESUS CANTON-COLLISION,
-Port Said, April 24- Rhesus, which collided with the M. v. Canton on April ded to reload her cargo, discharged at Port Said, and is to Alexandria where she will discharge sufficient to enable hor to be dry docked. Afterwards the cargo will be. oped the damaged portion to be re-conditioned at Alexandria.