AERATED WATERS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
All Water used in the manufacture of our Acrated Waters is scientifically treated and tested.
Our Machinery and plant embody all the very latest scientific Improvements and the most hygienic methods and safeguards are employed in every detall of manufacture,
At no point during the entire process of manufacture is contamination possible.
We guarantee that all Aerated Waters as they leave our Factory are absolutely vure."
A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED,
Aerated Water Manufacturers.
Phone 4,3,6
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1925.
advanced "on approved security."
To our mind, In order to deal
with such a huge sum as is likely to be available, the Government will need to establish a special bureau for the purpose of receiving applica-
DAY BY DAY,
IN EXCESSIVE ALTERCATION, TRUTII 16 LOST.-Syrus.
MIXED
ASHLEY STERNE-V
GRILL
AVTHOR OF TWISTED TALLS-
Paymastor Lieut. Comdr. T. H tions, investigating each case on Trust, H. M. S. Tamar, has takon its merits and applying the money over the duties of Naval Hockey
Secretary. only to concerns which, by its use,
His Excelloney the Governor can materially aid the freer flow
For the convenience of those of The latest thing in gont's under- has appointed Mr. Arthur Dyer you, my readers, who are shortly wear, I read, is a patent shirt- of commerce. Naturally, such an Ball, to be Official Receiver in due to start on your holidays, I button which by some means le organisation should be free of out Bankruptcy.
have drawn up, entirely at my woven into the fabric, and honce side influence. Let us say, in con-
own expense, the following cannot come off, And whon somo.. clusion, that we have never been "His Excellency the Governor weather reports from some of our one has invented, a process by has appointed Mr. J. A. Fraser to most popular seaside resorts, so which collar-studs can be grafted in doubt as to the value of act as an Assistant Superinton that should you still be hesitating on to the back of the neck, I shall
(as I am) where to go, you may be a happy man logitimate Chinese trade to this dent of Imports and Exports.
have some sort of a guide as to Passengers --A arriving from the meteorological conditions in our confidence in the future of Manila by the s.s. President maintaining at the moment Hongkong as a great commercial Pierce included Mr. Leonard Wigan-Thlok or clear.. (It's prietors of Glaxo, Dr. Barnardo, centre. But we want to feal that Yates, Mr. H. S. Graybill and a little hard to say definitely, as and the K.S.P.O.C., I am enabled
Mr. E. W. Latia.
the man they sent up in a balloon to present you this week with my such help as is rendered to busi-
to see whether the sun was shin-impression of how John Masefield It is ordered that a valuation ing has not yet come down.). Sea would have written. What are ness at this juncture shall be pro-
little boys made of fitably employed, with the one of the tenements in the Colony smooth,
for the year commencing 1st July, central aim of easing the way 1926, shall be made before 30th towards a resumption of more April, 1926, or as soon thereafter normal and healthier trade con-as may be.
Colony; nor have we ever wavored
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1925:
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The Outlook.
Harrogate. Temperature 68 in the open, and 187 in the Turkish baths. Sunny, but inclined to moony. Sea high, dashing over the parade.-
It is notified that, at the oxpira- Colney Hatqh.-Cloudy and tion of three months, the Rathsam muzzy, with occasional lucid in- & Watt, Limited, and the Enter-tervals.
perspiration..
Raynham-Raining.. Hayling. Hailing. Snowdon.--Snowed on. Ashby de la Zouch.-Heavy showers. The Zouch is in flood, and rising rapidly.
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را به پیر
By arrangement with the pro-
Boggar-maids and match-girls,
little proud princesses, Girl Guides and goose-girls and
nymphs of Paradiso, All are inade of sugar, Glucose and saccharine, Nutmeg, and cinnamon, and
everything that's nice.
Boy Scouts, princelings, Har-
row lads and Eton lads, Urchins of the gutter in their
threadbare toge
All are made of slimsy slugs, Creepy-crawly snails,
And the caudal appendages of
puppy-dogs.
In spite of the fact that the prise Navigation Company, Lim- Honolulu.-Bathod in sun- rumours of yesterday and the previ-ited, will, unless cause is shown shins. Inhabitants, bathed in to the contrary, be struck off the ous day regarding the posalble register and the companies will sudden collapse of the "strike" and be dissolved. boycott have proved to be false.
A Soviet agency message from there is undoubtedly a much bet-Moscow, dated September 15th, ter tone in the local situation. The states that foreign delegates to easing up of the Intense situation the bi-contenary jubilee of the
Russian Academy of Sciences A gentleman who had booked al. which existed at Switow when the made several visits to places of private cabin on a cross-Channel. "Reds" were in power, the expecta-interest, and examined the steamer was surprised, on ontor- tion of the commencement of an famous diamond collections of ing it to find it already occupied to be very busy in the South Coast Something like a record for
East River offensive against the the Government containing Im-by a somnolent passenger. So he holiday rosorts. Well, one can't prompt action by Officialdom must
woke him up and tersoly request-blame them. The poor devils are surely have been achieved in
od the intruder to withdraw.
This the latter stubbornly refus- the only possible way.
meeting their landladies' bills in regard to the question of fixing up of business in Shanghai, the deci- that there were to be no furthered to do. "It's' against my prin- a joan on behalf of local business ston of the Hongkong Government reductions of rates, of any kind. ciples," be argued, "I've always concerus which have been hit by to advance money to commercial pending the conclusion of the ait. been an opponent of Berth Con- MOULDY MARTHA, THE MACCLES-
THE TRADE LOAN.
Bolsheviks in power in Canton, the return to practical normality
perial jewels.": -
up
trol."
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POEMS FOR THE PETS.
A series of moral verses for juvenile readers. Little Lottie mocked her nurse. Nurse on Lottie laid a curso.
Gangs of coinors are reported.
FIELD MURDERESS:
or, SHOULD THE GREENGROCEN TELL?
Chapter, I
The night was a bitter one, and as Connie Corncrake passed out. of the gates of the rocking-horse factory: where she worked she drew her thick furs more closely about her. The street was absolutoly deserted, savo for the passers-by and, the vehicular traffic, and Connie could not re- pross a shudder of apprehension ag sho thought of the long lonely walk to the hotel where she occupied a single suite on the first Lottle caught with dreadful floor, which to her meant "home."
quickness,
For there had lately been kn Every kind of infant eickness: epidemic of open-air crime, and
And because at Nurse she arms. should not be allowed out "Measles, mumps, and botulism, the police had issued a notice Chicken pox and rheumatism: warning parente that chilron-in-
reason of the abnormal situation men badly hit by the financial tings and issue of the report of through which the Colony is at stringenty-all these things and the commission of enquiry to be present passing. It was only on many others are having an appre-appointed, and which was expect- Wednesday that the petitioners for ciable cumulative effect upon the ed to complete its task next spring: assistance appeared before the situation and it can definitely On the other hand, the mine owners Government; and yeb yesterday bo recorded that there is al
contend that the truce implied that morning it was officially announced healthier atmosphere abroad. The the 1924 agreement, whereby there that application had been made to large numbers of workers getting was to be a progressive reduction the Imperial Government for through from Canton during the of wages, would continue toon of three millions sterling, that past few days and the admitted re- to the time of the commis a sympathetic reply had been ports that the strikers leaders in sion issuing its report. This received, and that there is a pro-Canton have been discussing the Prime Minister in his reply to the view appears to be upheld by the. bability of funds to the full amountį advisability of calling off the boy- mentioned being placed at the cott go to show that there is a
miners delegation, that "the set- disposal of the local Government better spirit coming "into effective.
tlement in July does nothing beyond
within a few days"
being. It is true that some of the
continuing the agreement between the owners and miners in 1924," Now that there appears every passengers trying to get on board prospect of the means for relief the ss. Honam when she was thereunder do not concern the Go- and that variations in district rates
being rendered available, chiei Canton on Wednesday night and interest will naturally centre on the Thursday morning were fired upon one is inclined to place a great vernment further. At first glance THAT MACHINE-MADE BREAD.
methad to be adopted by the by pickets, and that the Canton deal of the blame for the present Government in allocating the pro-Gazette is still full of scurrilous
threatening position on the miners,
However, Connie was a brave MUST BE MORE WHOLESOME reeds of the loan. In our com-anti-British and unti-Hongkong
who have shown that they are un-
girl, and set resolutely forth, |ment on the subject two days ago, vapourings, but there is much
keeping one watchful eye on the we had not the least intention, as practical evidence to support the willing to leave the decision to the
dark shadows in the street and a correspondent who wrote us hopeful theory that we are on the enquiry commission; and further- I read that for a wager of £500 the other on her jewel-case. yesterday seemed to imagine, of eve of a return to normality.
more there is always the suspicion a professional "strong man" has which, for safety's sake, the suggesting that no
that the men are merely waiting, left a motor car be driven over carried to and from the factory assistance Trade resumption is the urgent
him. I should have thought that every day. Yet in spite of her should be granted to business con- need of the hour, and a requisite their irresponsible leaders are, the loser would have found it far pluck she uttered a little cry of cerns which obviously stand in need of such resumption is a return of for an excuse to renew the agita- cheaper just to run over an or. alarm when a man suddenly emerged from behind a lamppost of help. The main burden of our goodwill between the Chinese of
Yet there is an impression dinary pedestrian.
and confronted her. observations was that public money Canton and we who live in Hong- that they are not without a legiti-
Is your name Connie Corn- I am sorry to see that the crake? ho demanded, brusquely. should not be frittered away on kong. There is much going on mate basis for their claim that scents are divided over this
the girl, those who have over-traded or below the surface of which we can-
they were the victims of si misun- Toungs skull business, and omi - What do you want with mo speculated, but that if assistance not here.apeak, but we can assure
The general public, not agree whether it is the skull of man-like ape or of an ape- Professor Barinion were to be given, the loan should readers that there is a practical we imagine, were labouring under like man.
REDUCED PRICES
From October, Ist
-14
-20
33
WHITE BREAD
-13 cts. per lb.
BROWN
-13
1)
FRENCH
CURRANT
"
SULTANA
HOVIS
-20
"
"
1 cts, Small Lon)
"
az cls. Large
Get your Supplies from :-
On Lee or Empress Store Grand Store
Dairy Farm Depot.
Dairy Farm Depot.
H.M. Hajee Esmail
OR
Kowloon
Yaumati
tion.
derstanding.
scoff'd,
Little Lottie's gone aloft. "
Children, never mock your
nurses. Very strong BIO
CUTHOR.
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nurses'
be employed for the purpose of and hopeful attempt being made to the belief that all Wages reductions Crumpett has been to Wembley aiding legitimate tråde, The bis persuade the better elements in
were to cease in July, pending the specially to examine the cast of it, and writes mo that in his opinion torical example which our corres Canton to do all they can to heal
finding of the commission of en-that skull belongs to neither cate- quiry, and colour was lent to this gory, but is either the skull of pendent quoted, concerning a crisis the unfortunate breach. There le interpretation by the decision of a young whale or else it the other
rified bird's nest. On the grant hand, Sir Battes Innes-Belfry;
The Coal Crisis.
Government to
to enable to meet states quite positively in the Au-
unaccompanied, and urging every
| young woman whose duties com-. polled her to go out alone after dark to walk arm-in-arm..
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have boon » instructed
In England many years ago, was distinct cause for hopefulness that the distinctly interesting, and it is we shall soon begin to emerge subsidy to the industry, re-who has also examined the cast, pertinent to note that help was then from the alough of stagnation into sumably asked from the Government on which, we were so unjustifiably the difference between the en-Casfitter that the object in quos and handed her a pork pie, a roll-
gust number of the Plumber and give you these," said the man, behalf of "business houses of real plunged over three months ago.
forced cost of working, and the tion is nothing more than a pre-of linoleura, a Catherine wheel, substantial standing," From the
historic paperweight, an assertion pair of batting-pads, and a bottle lower cost which would have re- which he backs by voluminous of red ink. nature of the Hongkong Govern- ment's communique, which wa
The mutterings of the miners and sulted from progressive reductions. quotations from Huxley, Confu- But before the startled girl, gloomy forecasts of Home papers
It is hardly surprising, then, if the cius, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, could ask him what he meant, published yesterday, we
and Nat Gould. My own opinion, he had stopped once more behind encouraged to believe that when it to hand by the last mail have miners were given the impression which 1.state for what it is worth the lamp-post and was lost to Kowloon Dock
materialised in another coal crisis, that July wages were to stand (though I am prepared to accept sight. to allocating the money
Another long inataiment next which the Imperial authorities plan and the prospects are far from throughout the period of the a reduction for prompt cash), is
that the thing's a plant..
week.) to place at the disposal of this hopeful. So far as can be gather- enquiry, Colony, the strictest scrutiny will be exercised, in order that it may fail inte the hands of people who will
bl
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comes
Bre
utilise it for the general botterment of trade
nditions. The loans, we
That a misunderstand- ed at this distance from the scene ing of such a vital nature should of trouble, the whole controversy, have arisen is extremely unfortu- and its threat to industrial peace, nate, and we can only hope that is due to an unfortunate misunder some eleventh-hour means of avert standing of the precise terms of fog a serious industrial dispute
Lieut. Osborne Wood, son of Two of the new London omnib.. the Governor-Gonoral of the Philippines, won on Aug. 10th, painted claret and red, have sentenced to one year's imprison- adopted Shanghai“ as their ment and a fine of G, 8750 in name, Another at Skegness la Paris following conviction on a known as the Nippon." Burely
are told, will be used with a view the provisional agreement, or truce, will be found, and that any future charge of passing a worthless there cannot be such a paucity of to "rolioving the present financial of last July. The miners appear agreement will be clear to all cheque for G. $1,750 at the Casino English names that we need to Biarritz Young Wood is now in borrow from the Far East, com to have been under the impression parties and incontrovertible, stringency, but they will only be
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