SATUR
FARY 16, 1926
WATSON'S
AERATED WATERS
ARE PREPARED FROM REAL FRUIT ESSENCES.
GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE.
LEMONADE Has the real esseare obtained from Lemons
grown in Southern Italy.
RASPBERRYADE-Is prepared with the juice of raspberries
grown in England and Tasmania.
FORMAZONE THE NON-ALCOHOLIC CHAMPAGNE, It possesson the characteristic stimulating and refreshing qualities of Champagno and has delicious flavour.
STONE GINGER DEER-The only genuine Stone Ginger Beer in the East. Prepared by a special process of fermentation which gives it the distinctive flavour"
* which is so pleasing to the palato.
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HONOUR 18 BUT THE REFLEC- of world-wide trade will assertTION OF A MAN'S OWN ACTIONS itself in time. So far as the ship-|CHINING BRIGHT IN THE FACE OF owner is concerned, the policy ALL ABOUT HIM, AND FROM THENCE REBOUNDING UPON HIM- of breaking up obsolete tonnago | SELF-South, is going on apace and the way is being left open for the construc-
years.
. "
MIXED
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Land at Tai O, comprising 8:12 tion of new and up-to-date ships cres, is to be sold by auction at the District Office, Hongkong, on when the times are propitious the 26th instant. The upset price According to an expert's pro-Oh, why to mo at birth did Fato
novenient in the "Outfittor" the enough to warrant orders boing|| 3124.
bowler hat is once more coming Tha nimble wit, that bowler hat, placed. This scrapping activity His Excellency the Governor into fashion, and, henceforth, no those eyebrows! will benefit the shipbuilder in has appointed Mr. Wong Kwong-well-dressed man's wardrobo will time, although he is passing in to be a Member of the Sanitary be comploto without one. Thank
THE FESTIVE SEASON though an unprecedented period Board for a further term of three goodness my little old billycock-- my Old Contemptible of 1914–
(By to by, this term is copy of dopression which he is valiant-
will have its ronaissancel Yet, righted by me in all countries, ly trying to meet, At Home there! Mr. J. R. Horne, of the Electri-so long has it reposed on ite and must not be used by journa have boon friendly conferences al Department, Hongkong, has peg behind the office door,lists without my express per- with the Trades Union concerned been appointed to the Construc- unhonoured but not unhung, that mission.
Tho ilvo Department, Devonport it boars but little resemblance to
festive season has in the hope of reducing construc-Dockyard.
the fair thing that once it was. been upon usi A local trades-
thrust But it has its points. Mustard-man recently, lion costs, for thore must bo
The Gazette contains a list of and-cress are growing freely circular letter into my letter-box- something wrong when big British the names of musters, matos and amid the accretion of dust and wherein he informed me that it orders for ships go to forgigngineers who have passed ex-grime upon the crown. A hart's was not too late to join bie countries because of the great aminations and obtained certi-tongue fern droops gracefully Christmas Club. The usual kind disparity in the cost "quotations.ficates of competency during the over the brim. Through the of thing, you know. For a pay- ventilation-hole a lovely little fment of so much a week I should To maintain the supremacy of
toadstool coyly poops. Inside, acquire a goose, a pound of British shipping and shipbuilding
the lining has become a sort of sausages, a plum pudding, 1 böt- Owing to the greatly increased almshouse for old and decrepit port, I bot. rum, 1 box figs or in face of the present world-wide demand for motor bus transport moths and ereche for their young. oruckers. Always the Perfect" MUSTARD & CO., LTD, competition is so light task, but then it tootel The leather band, onco richly im- Gentilenian in correspondence
given goodwill between
Company has found it necessary prognatod with brilliantine of the matters, I replied as followe om- to run a more frequent service. choicent vintage, has been eaten "Dear Sirs-I regret my in-
means
If your dealer cannot supply you with the Yale Night- lutch you require-WE CAN.
16-17, Connaught Road, Cent.
The Telegraph, solf. Meanwhile, shipping is in-
SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 1926.
IN THE DOLDRUMS.
It is seventeen years ago since osmala quantity of tonnage was under construction in British
dead in the doldrums.
your.
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a
ployers and workers, the old-The revised time table will be completely; while the pad of ability to accept your kind in- timo efficiency of British service found on Page 4 of this issue.
blotting-paper, which I insorted vitation to join year Christmas and material should assert it-
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to prevent my treasure from Club. In the first placo, I am Messrs. Benjamin and Potts slipping over niy ears, has fallen sponding Christmas with Aunt Jare advised by their Shanghai to shreds, and is of no further use. Louis. In the second I don't
office that Bukits have declared except as confetti. All the same, a second interim dividend. of I intend to woar it. twenty cents, Pengkalans a third intermin of thirty cents, and Fears of an eventual world Chengs a first intorim of ton shortage of rubber are causing cents. attention to be again directed to
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The Philippines.
(N.B. Since writing the above, some careless ass has knocked it off Its peg, and the office cat has now taken vacant possession and laid three now office kittens in it O temporal Oadres!!
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the possibility of developing To the list of modical practi- Doubts have, however, been cz-namon of Dr. Yeo Kok-cheang plantations in the Philippines. tionors there have been added the propsed whether the climate of end Dr. Lam Shiu-kwong, of the shipyards, the amount being only the islands is quitable to the Government Civil Hospital. Both was performed wherein the songenting a usages with goose, or 885,000 tons decrease of 124, Palmerton, giving evidence be- Surgery of the University of growth of rubber, but Mr. are Bachelore of Medicine and 000 tons
as compared with the fore, the Rubber Enquiry Com-Hongkong. previous quarter, and 412,000 tons |mittee in Washington evidently
little while ago at which a piece Varsity man would dream of I attended an orchestral concert like your selection of food. No
on the gramophone. I observed me, who have come in for a lot of the nightingalo was reproduced vice versa. Port is no earthly to the man with the piccolo turn of gout as a residuary legateo. purple with fury at this usurpa-And why 1 bot. rum? Or, if it
orackers substitute
below the figurds for 1924. Such thinks that something could be Observatory returns show that tion of his rights, and I freely must be rum, why not in place was the disquieting news cabled on the territory. He points during December the average admit, that my heart went out to be ru
out, however, that acreage by Reuter two days ago. and it limitations and immigration re-highest being 76.3 on the 1st and the piccolo's unchallenged privi chest? Your affectionate non- mean temperature was 62.9, the him. For generations it has been fifteen men and a dead man's can with truth be said that the strictions are blocking develop-e lowest 52,6, or the 27th. There lege to make nightingale-noises fellow-clubman, A.S. depression in the shipping in-mont, in which connection he were 182.9 hours of sunshine, in the orchestra, and it composera dustry which set in after the col.uggosts action by the Philippine whilst the rainfall was 0.225-inch. are going to be so heartless in
in quantity.
legislature to pave the way for the average humidity was 58,
the future as to insist on their lapse of the post-war trade boom the necessary capital and labour.
tweedlings being performed by has been the longest and most There is no indication as to what
gramophonos,piccolo-tootling will steps Mr. Palmerton thinks The following is an extract ora long became a lost art. acute within living memory. It should be taken, but possibly he from the London Gazette dated From the employment of the his boon truthfully observed that has in mind the introduction of December 1st, and published in gramophone in the orchestra it is shipping depends for its prosperity Chinese or Tamil labour and the Command Orders East Surrey only a short stop to the introduc. financing of new companies by Regiment: Major R. C. Campbell tion of the actual animal itself. on the general, trading activity Americans. What the Filipinos tiros on retired pay, November and I foresee the day when a real of the world, and everyone knows would say to action along those 29th, 1925: Capt. T. J. Carpenter, live moke is employed to bray in that business to-day is slow and lines we do not know. There can, M.C., to be Adjutant vied Lieut.
however, be little doubt that the A. E. Cottam, M.C. Beagre
Large development of the natural re- quantities of shipping are lying sources of the islands is being The results of an examination idle, there is much unemploy-greatly hindered by the present for the rank of Paymaster Lieut.. immigration restrictions, and Commdr., held in July last, were ment among seafarers, dock und
wero Asiatic labour introduced, announced last month. Mr. E. shipyard workers, and there whether in regard to the rubber D. T. Churcher (H.M.8. Tamar) hava been agreed reductions in or other industries, the Philip-camo, out second in the list with wages for floating staffs. Not pines would have a great future, 29 marks. The name of Mr. U. until cargoes become more plenti- ful can there be any hope of im- provenient, and it is, therefore, to
| the freight market that one must
At the moment, though, we can- E Groen of H.M.S. Hawkins also the overture to "A Midsummer not see the probability of any appears in the list of successful Night's Dream," and a flock of marked developments along these candidates. lines for a long time to come.
Agitators in Singapore.
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sheep to bleat in Strauss's Quixote."
Don
In an interview following the And heaven help us if over the regular monthly meeting of the American producer turns his at- ward of directors of the Manila tention to orchestral musiel
POEMS ON PROMINENT PERSONAGES.
SONNET TO A CRUMPET.
my plate
To you, dear disc of dough upon Companion of a dreary winter
day,
I
fill my nib to pen a humble lay In gratitude. Although it is your
fate
My pangs of tea-time hunger to
allay,
Believe me, luscious crumpet,
when I say
You must have been the food the,
gods once ate!
Buttered
ambrosia"
you
might well be named- Food that high Jove himself
would not disdain
To eat within Olympias's patio. This granted, I, your bard, an
not ashamed,
To state, with pleasura nigh
akin to pain,
I once ate fourteen of you.at
one gol
HOUSEHOLD HINTS,
Rhubarb will keep for ever and ever, so long if the stalks ba painted daily with iodine.
To dry glass bottles, turn thon Inside out, then bake in a slow
Mr. George Robey. Long may your famo endure,line-kiln. Of Mirth, and First Commis
Prime Minister
sinner of Laughter Would you might still be spared
dull life to cheer
will quickly restore the colour to A spoonful or two of rod lead
faded tomato chutnjoy. & powder- ed flowerpot, will produce the some offect.
Young eggs should never be. baaten. It is far better to reason gently with them.
sprinkle dach garmont well with To kill moths in dress-clothes,
strong sulphuric acid.
look for the herometer of ship- ping. The year 1925 has shown
Our Singapore correspondent Hotel company last week, Mr. He'll work a completely furnish- In response".to, numerous' re- extremely narrow limits within yesterday announced that the Felipe Buencamino, Jr., presidented funeral into the slow move-quests from harassed housewives, which the world's trade has been tailors there have petitioned the f the company, announced that ment of the "Eroica "symphony, I have much pleasure in publish.
Governor of the Straits Settle-the Manila Hotel under the man- and a coroner's inquest into ing a further supply of carried on, and there has been misnts to banish all propagandists, gement of Mr. W. E. Antrim Isoldo's "Liebestod." · keen price-cutting bidding, for whom, they accuse of stirring up completed one of the most suc the carrying of goods. From the trouble in our sister Colony, This cessful years in the history of the standpoint of the Home shippor, the recent strike of tailors asset profit of P.118.105.41 was comes, apparently, as a sequel to letel on December 31, 1925. A the falling off in the coal trade sistants in the Straits, and other palized on the year's operation; No P110,000.00 worth of hotel bonds has been a serious factor, as many indications of labour unrest. ships otherwise engaged in the doubt the authorities in Malays, were redeemed; more than P.60. trado have been released for gon-with undesirable characters, will re-equipping the hotel mephanie who have always boon very severe 400.00 was expended in completely eral cargoes. There has also take steps to deport any men they declared in October last,
ally: and five percent. was been a grain-carrying slump for find ostensibly harmless citizens but actually mischiof-makers. It which the stringent economic
is at present specially necessary At the Coroner's inquest last A century honce, and yet a conditions prevailing in Europe that Singapore should not have month, on the victims of the dam eentury after| have been the principal cause, any serious labour troubles, for burst at Dolgurrog the jury For you have qualities which The world's trade depression can industry, following the rubber death," but found that a section Alike to minds of dullards and of
the new "life" in the country's returned a verdict of" Accidental -· make appeal mainly be set at the door of dis-boom, as well as the need for mon of the dam lacked proper highbrows, turbed and impoverished Europa shortly on the big naval-base foundations. A great deal off and we are now paying the hard scheme, are in themselves pro- evidence was given on the point,
blems that only a plentiful supply and the Coroner, in his summing GOVERNMENT POSTS. price of the war. Everything of contented workers can satis-up, said thero had undoubtedly that tends to rostoro confidence factorily solve. The southern con ВТОБА neglect, "really and to give to the various nations Crown Colony is no stranger to criminal neglect," on the part of industrial troubles-over since the somebody, but at this distance of the fooling that they are free to late war the tone of the labour time they did not know who was The following appointments aro work out their economic sulya-market in Malaya has boon loss and responsible. The jury urged the notified in the Government Ga tion will help the flow of in-less healthy-but with the advent necessity of Government inspec-zette. ternational trade and will go to China the position has grown
of recent unrest throughout; ton of dums during construction. Mr. E. R. Hallfax, C.M.G., C.B.E wards bringing lack the times worse. The Straits Settlements
to act an Colonial Secretary: 4 new! Swede-Daniah – Arbitra- of prosperity for which the ship hundreds of thousands of Chinese is only to be expected; and it is
and Malay Statou
Mr. D. W. Tratman to actu* · employ well, under these etreumatanées, Secretary for Chinese, Affairs and tion Treaty has been concluded ping industry so ardently longs,
similar, in charactor to the recent, in various Industrial capacities, a wonder that the more Registrar of Marriages. Although there are no distinct- and in the const parts, like responsible Chinese (such as the Mr. D. W. Tratman to be a Mem. Swede-Norwegian Convention. It ly bright signs as yet, it would Singapore, the bulk of the labourywkage of the tailoring ber of the Executive and Legian he wrong to take a too pessimistic distrjat the main source of supply, alront of agitatora
is Chinose with Amoy and lablishinants) should view the tive Councils.
with Mr. J. S. Mclaren to be Assis- view of the future. If political That the general unrest should apprehension, and call for drastic tant Colonia Treasurer and years and is renowable, yolens tva and industrial prace can be pro-affect the Malayan colonies as oficial action.
Assessor of Rates:
years notice je gly
LATEST APPOINTMENTS.
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SWEDO-DANISH TREATY.
SECURING SCANDINAVIAN
PEACE.
Copenhagen, Jan. 15.
prohibits the employment of arm
force in the settlement: The Treaty operates - twenty
jouter.