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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1925.
DAY BY DAY,
The health return for Thursday shows two casos of typhold fover, one British and one Chinoso.
MIXED
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GRILL
AYTHOR OF ~
TWISTED TALE-
as arrangements" were made for }· mcasing the men on these occasions, { Conversely, It seems to us, when the Volunteers were not on such
TRUE VAĻOUR LIES IN THE MIND, THE NEVER YIELDING PUR- duty, there was no call for the POSE, NOR OWNS THE BLIND granting of this daily sum.. It has AWARD OF GIDDY » FORTUNE-
Thomson.. to be remembered in this connection that, when not on special duty, the The
Volunteers were able to attend to Portable
their ordinary business just as in Typewriter normal times, and that they were
Within a wook or two the sum-Prof. Bormion Crumpett has in- Among those arriving by the mor holiday season will have bo-vented, I have received a letter with the then-us, Indeed, during the whole e.s. Narkunda from Shanghai to gun in real earnest, and already from his distinguished colleague, Standard period of mobilisation-in receipt day wore Lt.-Col. A S. Controll;
(I suspect) anxious eyes are gaz-Sir Battos Innes-Belfry, who in- keyboard.of their usual, salaries from the P. W. Massey.
Lt. Col. C. M. Campbell, and Mr. ping, on the barometer in the hall menting he has at last succeeded ing, and anxious knuckles tap-forms me that after much oxpori- firms by whom they were employed.
"Will it be wet or fine? is natur in breeding'wasps in two separate "Nothing In view of these facts, and others
ally the all-intriguing question of Mr. A.L.W. Van Dobbon, agont the momont, and hence I feel. It to learn.which could be cited, it does appear of the Netherlands India Com-incumbent upon me to tell all I to us that undue and unnecessary has boon in charge of the Nether-my strong suit I am unable to mercial "Bank in Swatow, who know. But meteorology not boing Nothing
generosity was displayed in paying land Consulate there since the explain what the various signe unlearn."
out these ration allowances, the beginning of last year, has been und tokens portend, and must. non-payment of which would have Consul by Royal Decree of the of them to my readers. From appointed honorary Netherland therefore leave, the interpretation saved the Colony quite a consider-21st of July of this year.
various sources I have ascertain-6. able sum of money. As we say,
ed that:- the Volunteers themselves did not expect this daily grant, and, we know that they would have been quite willing to forego it
They
!A School necessity.
Ask for
Demonstra
tion,
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D. R. Black, V. D., for the best off the Orkneys moving in a circle, old species of insect is that though The Cup presented by Major G. An isorbar has boon observed halves. The advantage over the shot of the season 1924-25 in the. Hongkong Volunteer Defence in mid-Atlantic; especially ben- Sbolish the sting, it remains in There is pronounced humidity air Batten has not attempted to Corps has boon won by Corpor!eath the surface. F. C. Goodman:. The cup present-
the half which hasn't got any, did not join the Corps for what ed Mr. W. J. Korr for the second over Nova Scotia, and is spread- does not know how to use it. On . An anti-cyclone has developed head, and consequently the wasp
MUSTARD & CO. they could get out of it; to suggest bost shot of the season 1924-25 has ing in the direction of Malton the other hand, the head half,
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SATURDAY, SEPT-5,1925.
VOLUNTEER PAY.
much would be grossly to distort the fine spirit animating its members. We raise the issue on purely financial grounds, in the hope that in future states of emergency steps will be taken to see that there is no needless wasting of the Colony's money.
been won by Pte. W. J. Carrie.
Mowbray,
which knows all about the sting A secondary depression is pas. and how to uso it, is happily defi- The Duirio de Muçan says:siong rapidly avor the Caspian cient of that weapon. By noxt Friends of Commander Justion Sea bound for an unknown summer Sir Battes confidently the Government of Portugal bas Herz will be pleased to learn that destination.
anticipates that his harmless conferred upon him the Order of have been sighted off the Lizard ousted the dangerous and spiteful An isotherm and two imoseclas semi-wasps will have entirely St. Tiago de Espada for services moving backwards.
older species from the wasp- his capacity as Hydrographic west coast of Ireland. rendered to the Government in: A chrysoprase is forming off the market. Engineer in the Harbour Works. And that's the best I can do for
you.
RHYMES WITHOUT REASON.
"
A young jerry-builder of Streatham.
Built somo houses, intending to leatham;
Sport Talk.
A Board of Officers, of which Here we are well into the first, R. A., will by the President, Lidut-Colonel G. F. S. Tuke, D.S. week of September and yet a meet-will assemble at the 25th Heavy ing is to be held next week Tuesday Battery's Office, Stonocutters Is at which drawings will take place land, on Monday to inspect and report upon the proposed site for in connection with the Water now buildings required for the ac- Pole, League. Surely that speaks commodation of the 38th Heavy volumes for the manner in which Battery, R.A. the Colony's normal summer life
Mr.J. J. Cameron, an engineer has this year with on account of the strike.
been interfered in the Green Island Cement Not Works, was exonerated by the In match yet played in the water who held an inquest into the Coroner, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, pole competition, not a match yet death of an old Chinese woman played or likely to be played in whom Mr. Cameron knocked the Lawn Tennis League, and not Wuhu Street on August 15th. down with his motor-cycle. in) (as yet) a night fete at the V. R. C. Evidence given before the Coro-Went and leant on the walls So far as lawn bowls is concerned, nor yesterday was to the effect that the deceased moved away
Had an Order to View, But a caroless chap, who
and upseatham,
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It affords me considerabla gratification this week, my friends, to give you my impression of how Rudyard Kipling would have written Robert Burns's A man's a man for a that."
If you can dare be poor when birkies shun you,
And coward slaves hang heads as pass by;
If you can laugh when Poverty shall, dun you
And make you dine on home- "ly shepherd's Pie;
If you can keep your mind. quite independent,
And dress yourself in humble homespun grey
When ribbon'd coofs, com- plete with stars rosplendent,
Stare at you as they strut their haughty way;
If you can bear in mind that, dukes and princes
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Are but the stamps that mark the guinea's rank,
"MacWhirter is a firm advocate. of mobilisation; he bas just received his July pay." This re- ference, in our "Balls and Inners" column to-day, is, of course, to the pay and allowances which members of the Volunteer Defence Corps received during the peried in which. they were mobilised in connection with the strike. Written in facetious form, it none the less touches a question of considerable importance, concerning which few observations may be usefully the League fixtures have been got from the approaching cyclist, and made. Precisely what the mubili-through after long, delays, and the then suddenly stepped back, a
I regret to road" that an ex- sation of the Volunteers cost the baseball enthusiasts have gone collision being unavoidable.
clergyman, undergoing a sentence Colony we do not know. We have nearly all the way through their
of imprisonment for fraud in a however, heard it suggested that League obligations.
Officials of the Hongkong fully managed to escape.
United States prison, has success- But the sum-Tenants Protective Association the bill may come to at least amer of 1925 will have to be writ-have forwarded a tenants' potition clergyman should always live up ikh of dollars. That is a big sum, ten down as one in which there was out the hardships they are suffer to H, E. the Governor, pointing especially at a time when the so much else to occupy our minds ing, and praying that the right of Reviewing the recent Italian révenues of the Colony have that sport largely had to go to the landlords to increase rents by 15 Opera performances at Covent become depleted owing to the un- walk The football and cricket mal conditions return to the ing the puerile quality of the lib per cent. be suspended until nor-Gardon & critic has been deplor usual conditions now prevailing, season will soon be with us and Colony. It is pointed out that rettos of some of the older operas, and the question naturally suggests the large number of devotees and June, 146 in July, 333 in August, rewritten. Personally I am not distraints for rent were 61 in and suggests that they should be itself whether there was any real supporters of these two most popu- and 28 in the first two days of a very profound Italian scholar, lady, I read, entered the house A hen belonging to a Taunton necessity for the expenditure of 30 lur pastimes will doubtless see that September. much money,
and consequently hesitate either one morning and laid an egg on they get their fair share of games.
to endorse or refute the critic's the breakfast-table. I understand, feel that Italian Opera would bo was laid by the parlourmaid as observations. Nevertheless, I do however, that the breakfast-table
to his convictions.
A
And honest poverty elone ovinces
A rarer gold than what comes from the Bank;
¿
If you can realise, whate'er befall, that
Sense and the Pride of Worth, sinoc Time began..
Are higher rank than birkies, eoofs, and all that,
You'll be in very truth a MAN, my man,
everybody is familiar with. The much more popular if only Italian usual phrases were employed that
The Soprano: Andante ma non troppo?
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The Tonor: Absignoral ma
• con expressiono.
The Bass: Allegro con fuocol | "The Soprano: Paco poco cre-
sendo od aecolorande.
NOTABLE SAYINGS OF THE WYK.
All is not sold that's butter.-
Sir Lonus Tipton,
The groatness of the British Empire is largely due to its siza-The Earl of Turbot and Hake,
The proof of the pudding is in
the digesting-Dr. Bulkley.. Stulger.
The members of the Defence Canton has done us a lot of harm is generally accepted that uero during the state of emergency, in ball is, after all said and done, foot-short distances, and that the air- Corps performed essential services in one way and another but foot-planes are best over comparatively a manner which did every credit ball and indispensable to ardent ship must always be preferred for satisfaction one derives from be- to this fine body of men. As on youth. Trade may be bad and all long journeys. The main drawing able to understand every word other occasions, when, they were that kind of thing, but "let the game back to airships in the past has guage is enormous. That is tho of an opera sung in a foreign lan- called upon, they proved their value go on" will be the motto at Happy has been the inflammability of the sort of thing I mean:~~ in the defence scheme of the Valley soon. Seriously, though hydrogen used as a lifting medium, Colony But we believe we are it will indeed be interesting to see right in saying that they would what the effect of the present removed that serious objection: but the introduction of helium have been quite prepared to serve situation will be upon the games There yet remained the question the Colony in its time of stress and attendances at Happy Valley of ability to withstand the strain without expecting the least mane during the coming winter months.
of severe storms. Of late years tary reward, despite the fact that
the construction of airships has so extra calls were made on their time and, in some instances, on their with the American Government and unlikely.
Thore will be much sympathy improved that serious mishaps are The voyage of the Los pockets as well. it may, however, people in the loss of one of their Angeles from Germany to Amaricu have been necessary and equitable big airships, which has been in sue- and the successful flight of our that, being placed under mobilisa-cessful use for nearly two years, own R-33 after it had broken away ago about the new bee which tion orders, they should be paid. It was only the other day that it from ita moorings, laat April, There may have been, and probably was suggested this dirigible should demonstrated the strength of struc- was, some Imperial or local regula-be employed to enable the Mac-ture which the modern dirigible LAST NIGHT'S CONCERT.mo: and they were all hearty ap tion which required the authorities Millan expedition to carry out Its has attained. Yet accidents aro
* Loss of the Shenandoah.
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to place the men on the pay-list original project of a flight to the bound to happon, and wo view the
The Tenor Lago maggiore spaghetti Michelangelo?
The Bass Leonardo da Vinci cavalleria rusticana i pagliacci.
All: Dolco-fer niente!
Since telling you a fortnight
IMPERIALISTS" SCORE A SUCCESS.
It is alcohol, not love, that makes the world go round. Lauty A. Storr
O wad some power of mice and men gang aft agley as Ithors' soo us The Laird of Cock- peny
Wivos of great men all remind us we can make our wives sublime.-The Earl of Oxide und Eggwhish.
plauded. The artists, who sang most pleasingly, comprised Men damies F. Lawence and W. R. so long as they were on actual North Pole, as heavier-than-air disaster to the Shenandoah in this The Ministering Children's Le May Gaubert, and Mesers B. Fleming, Misses Eva Finley and military service" to use the words machines had proved impractic-light.
Possibly because of the gue funds will benefit considerably Burrows, V. Blundell, H. Vincor from the entertainment given on and W. G. Anderson, with Doroon
up.
of the Proclamation calling them able. Whenever a flying machine comparative newness of aeronau- the Commodore's lawn in the Smith, Audrey Steele and Troue We can, however, sec no is lost, there follows a discussion tics, there is a large section of Naval Yard yesterday evening. Deason assisting in the chorus... good reason why ration allowances of the possibilities of the particu- the publle inclined to exclaim "The talented band of entertainers, should have been given, and we lar type being used on a large said they were not safe" each time "Imperialists, wore no doubt the Governor, Gir Edward Stubbs, who had adopted the topical name Among the audience wore H.E. know that there was general sur-scale in passenger and commercial flight ends disastrously; but gratified at the support accorded H.E, the Naval Commander-in- prise felt amongst the Volunteers traffic, A study of airships in when we recall the many accidents them; the audience numbering Chief, Vico-Admiral Sir Alex themselves when it became known this connection is especially inter- that occur in the case of seagoing estimate. Bright illuminations Major-General C. C. Luard, and nearly eight hundred, at a rough ander Sinclair, HE. the G.0.0, that they were to receive $1.50 per esting at present, in view of the vessels and railway. tralne, it is and decorations, and ideal openair Lieutenant Prince George. day under this heading. We project for a London to South realised that the practicability of weather, contributed to the auc- The band of H.M.S. Hawking contributed several excellent, understand that when
on guard Africa and, London to Indin service, air voyaging has not been dis- There were no fower then piecca da o curtain raiser end duty, this allowance was deducted, with an extension to Australia. It counted.
thirty-two items in the program during the interval,