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DAY BY DAY:
WE ARE OUR OWN APTEST DE- CEIVER-Goelle.
Mr. G. G. N. Tinson has boon
cal Board.
loaders to arrogate to themselves a right to control Chinose affairs. It will be interesting to watch coming developments both in the North and the South so far as Russian policy is concerned. In' Canton, the position at the appointed a member of the Medi- momont is by no means, clear, Much will depend on the outcome. of the Kuomintang convention called for next Saturday, whon the fight between the right and left wings of the party will come to a definite head. The return of a number of Russians within the last few days is an incident to Charlos Hay Lai, merchant, which some significance must be native of Hongkong, has been arrested on a warrant for obtain givon, but it is a little too earlying goods by false pretences to just yet to draw, conclusions as the value of $409. to the precise effect of this development.
Motor Funds.
MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany
Ashley Sterne
To-morrow is the anniversary I don't suppose I shall over of the Proclamation of His Mameet Mr. Justico Eve in close unough proximity to shake hands josty, King George V.
with him, (the dock being usually His Excellency the Governor as far away from the bench as has kindly consented to become possible); but if I do, I should a Patron of the local branch of most certainly wish to wring the Navy League.
a
THE HOUSEWIFE'S HARBINGER. In the spring the housewife's
fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts of
soap,
Bath bricks, holystona, Freuch
polish,
Turpe, and other cleansing
dopo.
Nought to her awaking bature,.
Bursting bud, or 'fledgling's
chopp:
discovery of a new disonso, and I darcway you have mentally boon accusing the doctors of wasting" their time in taking temperatures and listening-in to their patients works. Happily, however, Dr. McAdam Ecolos, of Bart's, has his hand warmly for his recent recently discovered."dustman's pronouncement that income-tax kooo"--a complaint caused by tho dodgers ought to be hanged. Idustman leaning his knee on the myself have long advocated this top rung of his little ladder when salutary measure: was, in fact, he discharges the contents of a In the due last wook to address a mass dustbin into bia cart. meeting in the Albert Hall on account of it which I read, no the matter. Unfortunately, I re- suggestion as to proventive treat
But this, I membered on tuy way to the 'ment was made. The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernardmooting that I had not yet paid think, is merely a matter for is to be a member of the Authori-Schedule D First Instalment), commonsenso. The top rung: of zed Architects' Committee dur-which necessitated my contract-every dustman's laddder should ing the absence on leave of the ing an immediate attack of be removed. Then he can't kneet Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak.
clergyinan's sore throat and send on it. If the laddor should thus ing a tologram to the organisers prove too short for any individual. Quite a number of what were
The forthcoming wedding is to that offact. The meeting was dustman, the difficulty could be formerly regarded as important!
of Mr. William subsequently turned into a very overcome by adding an additional and urgent matters have, owing announced
dress ball, rung to the bottom of the ladder. to the larger problem of the gen-George Jarvis, of the China Muri successful fancy eral strike at Home, faded, at time Customs, to Miss Mallie so that's that. But what I really least for the moment, into the Rocho who is due to arrive from want to emphasise is that not only is the conscientious tax- background. We have only had Dublin by the s.s. Rampura..
payer puying the dodgers' a brief and passing reference to
Sometime batween midnight liabilities to the Stato, but that if the passing of many resolutions favouring the inclusion of certain and Ga.m. to-day, someone enter-every person paid up his lawful important items in this year's ed the bedroom of Mr. C. H. W dues, there wouldn't be any ances Finance Bill, and among them is Kow, at No. 8, Castle Road, bysity to levy any incoms-tar at all! one, approving of the transference by means of an open window, and
According to a trade papor, I of £7,000,000 from the credit of stole jewellery and money to the
see that already this year 35 the Road Fund to the general value of $231.50.
million foreign bricks have been funds of the national exchequer.
It is notified that, at the expira-imported into this country. By the Wo imagine that motorists havo! been too busy in assisting in overy tion of three months, the Hong end of the year I hope to be able way possible during the strike to kong Camphor Estates Company, to inform you that it has been
is decided to lay a few of them. bother very much about the Limited. will, unless causo monies of the Road Fund, but we shown to the contrary, be struck
Considerable interest has been did expect an outery on the part off the register and the company
evoked in musical circles by the of users of big commercial vehicles will be dissolved.
recent performance of a gentlo- at the suggested increase in their
His Excellency the Governor man who, at a London concert, taxation. Of course, there is time Roports have been fairly in yet, when the Finance Bill comes has appointed Mr. F. C. Goodman, played a fantasia cn fifteen sistent of late from the North to up for its later readings, to regis Assistant Supervisor in the different instruments. Not all the ter objection, though we fancy Botanical ond Forestry Depart same time, mark you. But as a the effect that Soviet leaders have that the big battalions of the ment, to be Forest Officer, with problem in musical dynamics 1 come to realise that they have Government will be obedient to effect from 1st May, 1926, ice have been intrigued to discover how many instruments one man can play simultaneously. Given rather overdone their political the call of the Whip and make Mr. J. L. King, resigned,
any possibility of a Government propaganda in China. It is now defeat on the issue an exceed- His Excellency the Governor a somewhat large month he ought
appointed Mr. Earnest to be able to accommodate being said that a new policy is to ingly remote one. But, for all has be followed, aiming more at the that, the matter is a serious one Hills Williams to act as an couple of oboes. With his nose for motorists and for motoring as Assistant to the Secretary for he could blow a Burmose nose- With one foot be could development of commercial and
development of modern trane-Chinese Affairs and as a Deputy flute
play a pedal organ and with the industrial intercourse than the port," The strike at Home just Registrar of Marriages.
Lather bang a drum. His two furtherance of Communistic ideas now is proving how extremoly
valuable to the commuity and to Sub-Inspector Edward John hands could respectively thrum Whether that is so or not, time the Government, is widely-pos- Eilis has been appointed an Ex-a harp and a banjo while he will tell. What seems more likely sessed motor traclion power, and aminer of Weights and Measures could work a concertina between Castanets could bet is that the Moscow politicians the upkeep of the roads to the under the Weights and Measures his knees. will continue their propaganda in
Ordinance, and also an Inspector fitted to his skull and manipulat- under the Gunpowder and Firo-ed by shaking the head. If he woro gifted with moveable ears a less blatant manner, seeking to
works Ordinanco.
he could toll a bell and waggle a cloak it under activities which
Leung Lui-wai, accountant, at tambourine. A hammer attached
The hot-cross bun trouble being superficially might appear to be
No. 105, Queen's Road Central, to his chin would enable him to solely concerned with commercial
entrusted a shop coolie with play the glockenspiel, while he satisfactorily disposed of, as I $4,000 to pay to the Wui Lung could execute scale passages on informed you last week, I am sure expansion. Knowing that to the
firm, Queen's Road Central. The the piano by sitting on the you will to pleased to hear that Bolsheviks, political interference
Coolie has not returned, neither keyboard and glissading up and the latest cables from Easter." has the monoy been paid to the down. Any advance on thirteen? Island are very reassuring as to in the affairs of other countries is
shop.
the quality and quantity of. the as the breath of life; we cannot
From a recent book of travel I Easter egg supply, now well on imagine that they will readily
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1926,
SOVIET AND CHINA.
give up the attempt to Soviotise
China.
It is true that, in the North
highest posible pitch ought to be the administration's aim. The large sum taken from the Road Fund ought to have been spent, not hoarded, and we fancy that when times are more normal there will be many loaders of motoring who will tell the Government so.
ATTESTING
· DOCUMENTS.
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A
Spring to her spells carpet-
boating,
Dust-sheets, and the chim-
ney-sweep.-
Blackbirds twittering in the
hedgerow
Cut but littlo ice with her; Swcoter far the dulceb
Of the vacuum-cleaner'so
Come the swallows, come the
cuckoos,
Comes each many-splend-
oured thing!"
But
the dust beneath the sofa's Her true harbinger of spring!
¿
It is notified that Major C. E. learn that the members of its way here. For a month prior .ehipment the hens: very AN OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONF. Wyncoll, M.C., Royal Eng- savage tribe in Central Africa to
The Government Gazette says incers, has been appointed to the have to pay taxes to their chief zealously put in a lot of overtime. that owing to difficulties which Committed to consider the im. According to their bodily weight. No sooner was one egg comploted particularly, the Soviet has come have arisen in connection with the provement of the fire fighting If Great Britain over adopted than they began another. A new rather badly out of recent develop attestation of signatures to docu-organisation of the Colony in ment. The defeat of the Kuomin-ments executed in the Colonies, place, of Major J. F. Drake, re-
and required for use in England signed.
chun was an obvious set-back for or elsewhere, it is notified
1. That persons who may have It is notified that satisfactory: the Russians, as it is common
occasion to send certificates, proof of the appointment of knowledge that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang is an ally of the Soviet Powers of attorney, judicial acts or Monsieur Alphonse Marie Biot- other documents for legal use in toau as Procurour General in
齋飯
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time-saving method of production has been successfully tried, the hons being fed on a diet of either marzipan or chocolate, and tin- foil. The result has, been that their eggs have been produced in the desired material, all neatly wrapped in tin-foil, and ready for packing. Under the old system the hens just laid unwrapped eggs of whatever kind they liked, with the consequence that in some
and that he freely received assis-the United Kingdom, should have this Colony of the Society of the tance in money and arms from these documents authenticated in Missions Etrangeres, has been the Colony, either by the Governor placed in the hands of His Ex- the Russians. A Shanghai jour- or by a Notary Publie duly cellency the Governor,
this method of assessment, I can years. marzipan eggs prodominat- see the "House Full" boardsed, in others chocolate. Now the nal, commenting on the present authorised and practising in the
The divorce proceedings brought permanently exhibited outside supply can be regulated as desir D warning Colony. Except in special cases issues situation,
the authentication should be by in Singapore by Mr. Cecil P. La the Turkish baths in Aberdeen. ed. There is even one clever hen, against the assumption that Fong Notary Public,
on the island which has acquired Porte, of the A. P. C., against hisl and his Soviet allios are out of the field. It suggests, that they have a vast area in Mongolia in which to continue their propara- tion for an eventual swoop down
In the latter case, the on to Peking in an effort to wrest Public.
certificate of the Notary Public
Mr. Arthur Thomas Boltelor, from
China its government, should be authenticated by, the whilst at the samo timo giving Consular Representative of the of the office staff of Holt's wharf, the world the improssion that the Country in which it is intended to residing at room No. 38, Kowloon Hotel, has been missing since
2. In cases where the docu-wife, whom he charged with It is a long, time since I last the knack of laying half-and-half meats are intended to be used in adultory, have been closed, the announced in these columns the eggs.
the parties court awarding à deores nisi and foreign countries, should have the documents authen damages amounting to $1,700 ticated in the Colony, either by against the co-respondent, a Mr. MODERN EXPLORERS, explorer now sets out to unfoid the Governor or by a Notary F. Lowe.
build.
CHANGE OF CUSTOMS IN A GENERATION.
There was a time when the Chinese themselves are conduct./use the document, or, if there is no Thursday afternoon. It appears
such Consular Representative in he had been ill, and intended to explorer of unknown countries ing the quarrel. The view is Hongkong, the notarial attestation commence work yesterday, but packed up his gun, notebooks further expressed that the Soviet should be authenticated by the did not turn up at the office. He map, compass, and a bottle of
was formerly in the Royal Navy, has shown a lack of comprehen-Governor.
and is described as being 5 feet 6 Quinine and set forth on his sion of the Oriental character, "bons
As a bus, belonging to the inches in height and of stout perilona quest of adventure, especially in attempting to
China Motor Bus Company, was
He departed quistly, and little the whole show." Whilst it is being driven along Kowloon City
The Moscow State Ballet gargar nothing was heard of him until conceded that the Chinese aro Road, a Chinese woman at- not averso to employing Wostern tempted to pass in front. She another show at the Star Theatre his return. All this has changed ways and ideas, it is contended was knocked down, and after-last night, opening with a ballot now, There
wards removed to the Kwong entitled" The Bilphydok." The that they naturally resent the Wah Hospital where she was not excond half of the programme Heaven a few explorers among
was much more diverting, and in us to-day... apreading abroad of the impron detained.
some of the individual items, in sion that they can do nothing
A brindle bitch, owned by Mrs. particular the characterisation without outside assistance, Hence A. Spradbory, 12 Peace Avonue, of the courtesan Thais, were most the rising opposition amongst have boon sent to Kennedy Town distintivo. Tonight the Russian for observation, after having bit: Ballat will give glimpses into the sober-minded Chinese against the
ten a Chinese living at 331 Re- ballot of Don Quixote, with the ill-disguised efforts by Boviet clamation Street,
excerpt A Holiday in Seville."
are still, thank
the mysteries of the dark, corners of the darth. But he does this in much better stylo than his predecessor: He is equipped with all the resources of modern science.
He is accompanied by a film camera expert, sebretary, and typist, experts from a museum, and representative of the Press,
Those who, unfortunately are unable to attend bombard him with presents, including 487 silk handkerchiefs, 512 pairs of socks various), 201 pairs kid gloves, 602 boxes. of chocolates (assorted), 13 spirit flasks,, 48 safety razors, 65 tooth-brushes, pairs bed-room alippore, 1 bath-chair, I eight day
and other useful articles, too clock, 283 photos, (lady admirors),
numerous to mention. pos
From temporery lapso into
Meanwhile, the observant offemineoy, the manhood of the shades of Livingstono Stanter, country has been aroused by the Spako, Du Chaillu; and other clation call of a now Apostle of timers must be turning groen with the Pionour Spirit, and the modern envy Or are they smiling