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13, 1926.
DAY BY DAY,
NOTHING IS REALLY BEAUTI ALONE IS LOVELY.--Boileau.. FUL BUT TRUTE, AND TRUTH
Malaya, opposed to further re- strictiva
measures, had much justification for its contentions, As a matter of pure economics, Government interferonce with a big industrial activity, with the ultimate object of foreing up Lieut. P. H. Drake-Brockman, the price of a commodity, is of the East Surreys, has been
promoted Captain. basically unsound. The "only
Ο ΣΟΥΒΕ the British Govora. Tondors for the strengthening
MIXED
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GRILL
AYTHOR OF E TWISTED TALES
ment had for its restriction of the main roads of Kowloon are feature of the Royal Academy, has just turned down the sugges I am told that the once familiar One of our Borough Councile scheine was that there ap being oalled for by a notification the Problem Picture, will be tion that the oleotric lights should peared no other means of saving in the Government Gazette.
absent from this year's Exhibi bo made to flicker for a few mo tion. You know the type of thing? monts every evening at 9 pm, not only one of the principal
Lieut. Col, W. O. 8. Bandors, On the left of the picture you see And I think they acted very wise- industries of the tropical, Empire D.S.O. on completion of four an anaomio female with averted y. Had the suggestion been from utter ruin, but also the years as Regimental Lieut-Col. hoad, holding in one hand a half-adopted, there is little doubt but Malayan treasury, which was has been placed on the half pay box of cominoes. On the right with electrio light would have cooled banana and in the other & that householders not equipped threatened with a huge loss of list.
is depleted a stern, strong, silent insisted, as a matter of equity, ravenue, and the whole com
man with an expression on bis that their gas-jeta should be made It is notified in the Government face reminiscent of a Carthusian to jump about; while those pos. moroo of the rubber regions, Gazelle that the provisions of the monk with the mumps. On the sessing nolthor facility would as- where the adverse effect of the Rents Ordinance, shall not apply table between them reposes a suredly have required that their rubber slump on trade in general in the case of the domestic tone bowl of goldfish, a pair of spate, a water pipes should be made to
ment known as No. 3, Wing Kut jury summons, and a plate of to sing, had, brought thousands of people
Street.
matoes. The floor is strewn to the verge of ruin and many.
But what I don't understand is with a litter of tram tickets and why anybody should want to smaller industries to a most A fall from the top storey of sigarette ends. In the foreground know when It's nine p.m. So far parlous state. On the ptinciple the new Bank Building resulted is a well-oyed child playing with as I know there is no Borough in serious injuries for a small a decapitated rocking horse. The regulation wheroby its foonsod that serious ills need special Chinese boy at 11.30 last night. mixture is labelled "Nemesis or premises close at 9.152 romedios, restriction was justi-Ho was taken to Hospital with a
On the other hand, there will probably be lots of "problem" pictures of a different kind. 1 wont the other day to an Exhibi tion of the New. Whatsitsname Society, and after gazing at a nothing so much as a mixture of series of canvases all resembling lobster salad and Euclid I came straight out, and, to cheer myself up, bought a picture postcard of Suneet on the Bay of Naples."
Hydrophobis", or something equally cryptic, the "problem" be- MUSTARD & CO. fied. But when the price of the fractured skull.
ing to decide whether the title crude product of the rubber
Two Chinese men and two applies to the woman, the man, estates rose some months ago to women were injured by a car tram tickets.
the goldfish, the spats, or the a paying level, the question of which ran into them in Des whether, the original aim having Voux Road Central last night The driver absconded immediate been achieved, the policy should ly after the accident. The injured be continued, arose, and was the were taken to hospital. cause of considerable сод troversy. The official attitude of the Police Accounts Depart The young child of Mr. Atone, however, remained
adamant. ment, was attacked by a dog Now that the price has soared to yesterday and was taken to Blavol which must have its hospital for treatment. The dog, which is the property of Mr. reflection in the charges made to Parsons, of the Hongkong Hotel the consumers of manufactured Garage, has been sent to Kennedy goods, it seems a most opportune Town.. time for decontrol to be intro-
The Royal Observatory returns duced gradually. The percentage for May show that the maximum of output allowed could be made temperature during the month progressively greater, and the was 88.7 and the lowest 65.5. The rainfall for the month was 3.20 rubber industry once again be-ins. at the Botanical Gardens, come a freely competitive one and 4.80 ins, at the Matilda Hospital, the price of the crude product find 2.33 ins. at Taipo and 2,58 ins: at
Kowloon, ita proper economic laval. The
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 13th June, 1925.
THE RUBBER WRANGLE.
www.
An Indian
constablo WAS
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON, A versatile athlete named Knollys Was a shampion at tennis and
bollya;
While, an expert at cricket, He'd take many a wicket, And at footer. score hundreds of
gollys.
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At one of our suburban polico courts the other day, I read that a man without lege has been With charged with begging. commendable self-restraint. the
*
A. MATERIALISTIC SONNET. How often hath the post, sung
* your praise, jede Sweet month of May Yet
doth he over sing The same old, trite, relentless
type of thing;
No novel thought of you invests
his lays.
He hymns the glory of
felds oblaze
With springtime flowers, while.
larks upon the wing Fill all Heav'n's vault with
their blithe carolling, And welcome suns and lustre
to your days. And so forth. Herrick,
Wordsworth, Tennyson, VID countless verse, in-
numerable refrain, Have testified all this ad
nauseum,
Thus, by my pen, shall you
bavo justice done, And honco I greet you in-
another strain, Sweet month of choice as
paragus and lambi
I much regret to learn that the tutara lizard which last year ornamanted the New Zealand building at Wembley will be an absentee when the Exhibition
opens, Apparently it failed to survive our hibernal tempera-
turoa, and being entirely without means, was unable to proceed to Nice, Cairo, Algiers, or elsewhere, where it might possibly have been able to withstand the winter.
We feel sure that when the possibility of another slump.at British Government took the some future date exista, but the charged at the Central Magistracy magistrate seems to have refrain- Brazil, I hear, is going to adopt decision, in the latter part of romedy only remains in the from hawkers. When a report dox of a legless man soliciting como this somewhat tardy this morning for extorting bribes ad from commenting on the para-British Summer Time: I wol-
•Tiles para rubber on ostates in British while they retain about two-marked money was given to a
1922, to restrict the output of hands of the British authorities was made to the authorities, alms,
recognition of our having go long adopted her nuts, territory, nobody anticipated that thirds of the rubber production hawkar and the constable was
A famous French surgeon as- one of the eventual affects would of the world. There is always a trap set by Sergeant Nolloth. liable to attack total abstainers author in a recent monograph) is alleged to have easily fallen into sorts that appendicitis is more Thomas Carlyle (says on be" severely strained relations the greater danger, in the present The case is proceeding,
than others. The northerly gale a much misinterpreted man in his with the big "American interests.policy, that the big interests
that passed over England last domestic life. He exercised an | After a period of fluctuations, the affected will commence wholesale
Amongst the passengers who week was only Scotland heaving elevating influence on his wife," price of crude plantation rubbor dovolopments outside the British were rand prose of Australia a sigh of relief at the news.
wore Mr. and Mrs. H. Humphreys,
Or, as Longfellow very nearly said, wives of great men all ro has become nearly stabilised sphere, and thus bring about a Mr. and Mrs. T. Neave, Miss F.
The Rottenbleitor Expedition mind us we can make our wiven round about two shillings and state of affaire in the future far Neave, Mr. and Mrs. J. A sixpence a pound, which is easily worse for British estates than Plummer, Mr. and Mrs. L. Shae sailed from Gonon, and a sublime.
Rowntree, Mr. J. R. Johnstone, wireless message from mid-Medi. beyond the expectations of the has yet been known. And the Mr. T. R. Peroy, Mr. F. R. Vide, members are as well as can be terranean states that the various restrictionists, who aimed at a threat of that happening has Mr. W, H. Perry, Mrs. LA boon intensified by the action of}
Tobias, and Mr. and Mrs, C. 8. expected on a diet of rusks and fair" price of a shilling to a
Fleming. shilling and sixpence. It is well the Rubber Association .of known that the economically.Amorica, which the latest news
His Majesty the King has not managed rubber estates in British cables indicate as organising" to been advised to exercise his power territory are producing at a very break the British monopoly on handsome profit as soon as the crude rubbor." It is time the price goes above a shilling, and British authorities sat up and they must now be reaping a took notice. harvest sufficient to reimburse them for all the gravo losses of
Water Shortage. threo years ago. How long the present high rates will last there is no saying offhand, though it is part of the Colony on a restricted short of a crime. We therefore fortunately the captain got to pale green colour, with purple obvious that the output cannot water supply once again domon appeal to householders personally hear of it; and severely censured insertions and vermilion knobs. meet the recent demand, and strates the inadequacy of the to look into this matter, with a the Professor for casting a grave The only difficulty about the pre- that while the restrictive policy present-day demands
waterworks system to cope with view to assisting the authorities aspersion upon his ship, and it sentation is that, while the Fro laste, and no big areas of Datch-resources. At the moment, as of the Colony.
on its in conserving the water supply was only when the Professor, owned rubber come into frosh we pointed out yesterday, the production, the price will romain supplies, is largely in the nature
Provost cutting down of the Wider Outlooks. wall above two shillings a pound. of an insurance against next A little fact which demonstrates was taking with him, that the That might be for a year or more year; but it is none the less that the world is too small for captain abandoned his threat to unnecessary. on that account. the old, isolated nationalism is to put the whole Expedition in irons. rot. From the wrangle that ap-The fact, however, remains that be found in the circumstance that pears to be developing, though, it at a moment when the rainfall the European nations at Goneve
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provide for the incorporation of was caused before the ship sailed My esteemed friend, Prof, the Bishop of Victoria in the by Professor Rottonbleiter buying Barmion Crumpett, F.Z.8., is ap- Colony of Hongkong.
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home, and whisky,
seems possible that some form for the year is very little below have been cooking to arrange that a well-known film-actress fossor is paying his monthly visit of gradual de-restriction will be to conserve supplies. From this on an international basis. The is proposing to set the fashion of to his friend, Dr. Kaoloy, the found feasible. Otherwise, if the fact it in obvious that bigger range of radio in so much wider ladies wearing a thin gold ring lizard unaccountably vanishos, American interests carry out storage facilities aro essential, than the reach of frontiers that attached to the nose. The result and only reappears when the and that is ono very potent separate national regulations of the first sneeze will be a walted Professor returns to London, their threats to develop non-reason which the big Shing Mun would cause the air to be filled with some anxiety, British areas, the time might Valley scheme should be pushed with unintelligible Babol. The come in a few years when the on with at all possible speed. same thing is true of other aspects Whatever was the case in days of modern life. The railways and biggest consumers will boycott gone by. It is satisfactory to feel telegraph systems have seemingly British rubber, to the detriment that the authorities are at present internationalised everything out of an industry which has been fully alive to the urgoney of the Governments. So, too, with the question, and the very best aeroplane and radio, and the salved at great trouble to all possible is being done to increase spread of other inventions, the concerned.
the Colony's storage arose. In world in becoming too small for The policy of restriction has that all residents, whether in narrow nationalism is slowly be Sir May I suggest that you result.
the meantime, it is to be hoped any sort of isolation. The old nover met with our complete ap the restriction areas or not, Ing displaced by a closer contact draw attention in your valuable Enclosing my card and thank- proval, and when commenting on will make a point of batween different peoples, and paper to the alarming increase of ing you to take up such an the subject a few months ago wo possible. At no
preventing wasto BA far as eventually there will doubtless files recently in various parts of pointed out that the faction, waste of water justifiable, at the in which old hatreds and dislikes of the top tram station alone, I
time is emerge & now and a better spirit the Peak district? In the vicinity important question,
NOLIKEETYPHOID, which has grown up in British present moment it would be little will, we trust, finally disappear, have never known such a verit-Hongkong, June 18th, 1925,
(To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.") Fly Nuisance.
able plague, and several friends of mino living in that vicinity, as well in the Stewart Terrace dis- trict, have spoken to me of the samo trouble. Such a dangerous state of affairs should be ims. mediatoly enquired into, others wise Borious slokness is sure to