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SATURDAY, OCTOBER
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ASHLEY STERNE *:
Next week marks the opening. of the grouse-shooting season, and a reader has written asking
The master of the Philoctotes me what sort of a gun I am in the reports the death of two Chinese habit of using for this enthralling deck passengers from tuberculosis, sport. This is rather a curious coincidence, as I have just had a new type of gun built for me ex-
Town (and not a nice beach at any Melancthon. time) and a system of steam launch bathing ferries to Stonecuttera leland (too expensive for working class Chinese) is all the provision we have had this year, unless one wishes to include the little bit of foreshore allotted to the Chinese Recreation Club and which lies between the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club and the Electric Company's generating station at North Point: Beyond that, there has been nothing. The whole of the coast line of Hongkong's vast harbour can be searched in vain to discover any beach definitely set aside for bathing, and when one goes out- side, to such a place as Repulse
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contained in apples varios inverse- ly as the square of the calory of the proteid. At the conclusion
It is notified that the name of prossly for the coming season. the Kung Yick Company, Lim-In former years I have suffered ited, has been struck off the much from my inability to dis- co-efficient of vitaming energy charge my weapon effectively at Register.
high angles, the recoil invariably knocking me over backwards. : 1 It is notified in the Gazette that havo, therefore, designed & gun of his remarks many of the de-
the barrels of whick turn up at right angles at the ends, a device tectives were in tears three were which will enable me to fire hopelessly intoxicated, one was vertically whilst holding the gun convinced that the Doctor had raving mad. All were firmly horizontally. By pressing stud
the resolution fixing the rating on the New Kowloon Bay Reclama- tian lot at 13 per cent. came into effect on October 1st.
cussed.
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THE MERMAID A LA MODE.: Every day at eleven a.m. Phyllide Phelps went down to
the sea,
Arrayed in a marvellous bath-
ing gown
Specially ordered from gay
Paroë,
She was a maidon of beauty:
Tare:
Hers was a figure of wondrous
I can also deflect the ends of the proved his case, and refused to Sir Claud Severn is to preside barrels either to the right or the proceed with it. Meanwhile the State Prosecutor has wired to Bay, it is only to find that the Go- at the annual meeting of the left, thus making it possible to New York for a further supply Hongkong Philharmonic Society shoot round corners and so attack of detectives guaranteed "proof. MUSTARD & CO.vernment has permitted the jost at the Cathedral Hall on Monday the grouse unawares.
against argument and blind to ling and crowding together of pri-night. It is expected that several My gunmaker warns me that I the truth. vate matsheds which exclude all important questions will be dis-may have a little difficulty with my cartridges at first, ns, of room for public bathing and from
course, the shot does not know which the Government draws an
The Consul General for Portu- that it has to make a right angled annual rent. It has been said; gal will proside at a reception at turn in the barrels. But patience and one fears with a fair amount the Club Lusitano on Monday, to and perseverance should enable SUCKLING-On September 22, of truthfulness, that the Hongkong the Portuguese Community, from mo to train my cartridges in the
11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. the day boing 1925, at Dr. Fearn's Sanatorium Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Government is extremely chary the 15th Anniversary of the Porcy H. Suckling," twin of spending any public' money with- Portuguese Republic. daughters.
out being able to see a return in RORARIO-At St. Joseph's
The Chief Justice has appoint- Mansion, 1, Robinson Road, on some form or another. By build- 2nd October 1925, to Mr. and ing roads and opening up new dis-ed Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Official Ro- ceiver, to be a Commissioner to Mrs.D.A. Rozario, a son. Mother tricts the Government sells more administer oaths and take decla- and child both well. (Manila and Shanghai papers please land, but it stands to get nothing rations, affirmation, and attesta- tangible in return if it undertook tions of honour in the Court, so long as he holds the office of the the creation and equipment of Official Receiver. several public bathing beaches and provided free facilities for the enjoyment of those beaches by Chinese who cannot afford to pay for a swim but who would, never- theless, greatly enjoy one. There are plenty of beaches to be found, oven though a short journey might be necessary to reach them.
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DEATH
STUART-On September 25, 1925, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, Eulalia Maria Stuart (Lalitu), aged 43 years, beloved
wife of John L. Stuart.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
And
way I want them to go; and, any- how, I cannot possibly kill fower grouse with my now gun than I have hitherto, done with my old.
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It is notified that, at the ex- piration of three months, the I see that a close season for Mutual Bank of China, Limited, whitebait has been proclaimed and the Wo Hing Navigation and will be enforced until the Company, Limited, will, unless middle of October. Meanwhile, the cause is shown to the contrary: London restaurateurs, I suppose, be struck off the register and the will have to rely on the synthetic companies will be dissolved. whitebait out of the Serpentino,
Mr. and Mrs. D. Harvey on ho half of Mrs. W. Mason and family thank all friends for their kind
At a Lincolnshire, wedding Among the passengers depart expressions of sympathy in their many a Government or Municipal ing by the P. & O, s.s, Karmala celebrated last week, I read that recent bereavement, also for floral Council, would have conceived it for Home to-day are Lieut.- all the nien prosent wore white tributes sent and to those who
to be its duty not only to have Commdr. Warren H. Jotham, fannels. The bridegroom, how attended the funeral.
H.M.S. Ambrose; Mr. H. Glan-ever, was no doubt easily identi developed Hongkong's harbour for ville, of the Union Insurance fied by wearing, in addition, the commercial purposes but for health. Society, Hongkong: Mr. H. R.customary worried look. ful public purposes also. It has Butters; and Miss E. Fothergill, been said that the real wealth of
The Telegraph..
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3, 1925.
BATHING BEACHES.
a community can best be measured
of the Matilda Hospital,
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A meeting of the Licensing by the number of its healthy citi-Board is to be held in the Council zens, and there are not a few who Chamber on Friday, 6th, Novem- think, with us, that a little more bor, at noon, for the purpose of considering applications for publi- of Hongkong's public money might cans' licences, hotel keepers' ad- with profit be invested in the provi-junct licences and restaurant year 1925-1926 under the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911.
POEMS FOR THE TOTS.
(A series of moral for juvenile readers.)
vorset
A naughty boy was Eric Bayles He always bit his fluger-
nails.
Despite his parent's stern com-
månde
[grado;
in Lovely she looked hor now
costume.
Lavishly trimmed with ribbons
and lace,.
And daily assembled upon the
beach
Were all the nuts in that soa-
side town,
Ardently gazing at Phyllida
Phelps
In her ravishing Pareo bathing
gown.
But there camo a day when
she didn't appear;
The nuts were deprived of their
morning treat,
Phyll had a chill. The day
before
She'd inadventently wat her
foot |
A Health pamphlet issued by an enterprising Borough corporas tion states that to rook a baby in its, cradle is ́ injurious. As ë burglar friend of mind remarked. on reading it, it's so liable" to crack the crib. MOULDY MARTHA, THE MACOLES- FIELD MURDERESS": OR, SHOULD THE GREENGROCER TELL? CHAPTER II. Slowly Connie CorncrakeTM
bathing beaches on Monday text,sion of such a health-promoting keepers' adjunct licences for the He bit them all, on both his pursued her lonely way, pondor
genes as easily-accessible free publie bathing beaches.
hands.
'
So vicious did the habit grow That soon his nails were gone;
and so
ing the mystifying experience ahe had just undergone. Who was the stranger? Why had he given her red ink? What was the pork pie for? She was still turning these problems in her mind when,. To-day at death's door Eric in the darkness, she tripped and
He started to gnaw off hie
fingers!
lingers.
O children, never bite
nails!
With the closing of the Kennedy Town and Stonecutters public
we shall have come to the end of another bathing season-u.season which has been particularly free The Press Conference....
Samples analysed under the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance from typhoon "blows," but alge
Reference was made. the other during the quarter ended 30th one in which the social disturbance day, at the Imperial Press Confe- September were 53 of milk, nine of the strike and boycott had arence being held in Australia, to the of bread, 15 of tinned food, two of coffee, and one each of several tremendous effect on the number improvements of communications other commodities, the total num of buthers. The official returns, between the Mother-country and ber examined being 96. The only when they come to be pablished, the Colonies, brought about during and one each of vinegar and adulterations were two of milk will probably be the lowest on re- the past few years, and largely due camphorated oil. card, and it is to be hoped that the to the efforts of the, newspapers. exceptional circumstances of this One of the chief aims has been season will be borne in mind cheapness of communication, in a message published yesterday, when the question of providing whereby the Empire's Press can be to the fact that it is cheaper to following advertisement: public bathing facilities comes up enabled to publish fuller reports of cable again.
news
I caution you bo „wiso,
wary
Or yours the fate of
Bayles
your
nearly fell over a dead dromedary that was lying across the pave ment. In preserving her balance. and, she dropped the pork" pie, which broke into a hundred pieces, Or
Eric perhaps oven a few more. Stoop.
A premature a-bit-u-ary.
·
ing to retrieve the remnants. ehe noticed a piece of folded paper embedded in the meat. She took it out, and saw it was a note ad From a recent issue of a pro-dressed to her! Hastening to minent theatrical paper I cull the the light of an adjacent street lamp, she quickly opened the Wanted ..(for successful from London to Royue), a dwarf or midget. Must note and read:
Platinum is falling, Hobbs It would be unfair to take important world events, and ul- Colombo, a comparatively long dis-be small."
These last three words absolute-147 not out. Brush your teeth at this yeard figures when consider-together better news services tance, than, for example, from
ly dispose of the chance of the once you aro in deadly peril. ing the provision to be made for regarding matters of inter-Empire Colombo to Hongkong. We are world's largest dwarf getting the Remember the Pragmatic Sanc
tion. Distrust the Man with One- next year.
interest. In this way, undoubtedly, unable for the moment to obtain job,
Whisker. He is a ventriloquist, When one looks at the map of a correct understanding of political the rate for Press messagca between
Your Unknown Friend Hongkong and adjacent territory problems and a greater appreciation London and Colombo, but the What do you thing has hep
But scarcely and she finished and notes the almost limitless of the points of view of other charge per word from Hongkong to paned? Following on the pro- perusing the note before a moter secution of Professor Soopos for car drew up beside her, and a natural facilities for sea-bathing, countries can be conveyed to the Ceylon Is 25 cents, and from Hong-teaching Evolution in Dayton, man in the evening dress of a it is extraordinary that so little masses of the reading public, with kong to London 46 coats, which Tennessee, they have now arrest convict stopped out. provision has been made in the lasting results,
"Are you Connie Cornorake? Undoubtedly, the proves the lower charge over the ed my poor friend Dr. Bulkley Stodger, the famous dietetist of past by the Hongkong Government vastly, Increased telegraphic trame Ceylon Britain route. The explana Yoll University, Connectichusetts he demanded, roughly,
The girl was too dumbfound- to bring those facilities within all over the world, and to some tion is, we believe, simple enough, for toaching the doctrine that.
"ed to reply. "An apple a day. the reach of the thousands of in-extent the competitive value of Where there is more traffic, the
"Don't deny it ; I can see it in Keops the doctor away. habitants who dwell in the narrow, radio, have effected marked reduc cable companies are able to reduce confined and congested districts of tions in cost, but there is yet room the rates,
Already the American detect your eyes," said the man." Here If the volume of ivos, have subjected him to the her arme a theodolite. Hymans tako these l'" and thrusting into this Colony. There must be for cheaper rates. The aim of the messages passing between Colombe ordeal of the Third Degree, and Ancient and Modern, a small thousands of Chinese höre who
world's newspapers is to obtain and other places further east have done their utmost to make quot pudding, and a pair of pants, the learned Doctor recent by all he spring back into the car which rarely, if ever, have a chance to
evon lower charges for their nows justified:" it, no doubt the charge the dastardly methods known to immediately went off at a furious hathe, and yet the Chinese are, no sorvices, particularly over contain whether Press or ordinary cabling thorea Buat fe for the H pace, a people, not averse to bathing routes, where higher costs have rates, would be less than at present, proved a match for them. He
sont for a barrel of apples, errem But not before Connie had and swimming. The questions of rosulted in comparative meglect of On the other hand, a reduction feally analysed the contents in natioad with a shudder that the cost and convenienco are very
a fruitful field. Reference was usually leads automatically to a full view of his persecutors, and chauffeur had only one whisker
thereafter lootured them for 48 Can equally splendid instalment vital in a matter like this, and it made at the Conference, as reported larger traffic.
hours on end to show that the next week.) must always remain eomething of