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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926.
YOU state of affairs bas boon brought MUST about by Sir Horbort, who was Chairman of the Coal Commis- WN IT
sion, and the country owes him a big debt of gratitude for his valuable servicos."
To realise what a wonderful hälper and time savor it is. you must own a Remington Portable,
of
It takes the drudgery out f every writing task.
It has the longest writing
line of any portable and takos the standard long envelopo,
The Remington Portable is the lightest and, smallest portable with the standard koyboard.
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DAY BY DAY.
AN IDLER 18 A WATCH THAT WANTS BOTH HANDS.-Cowper,
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM
“TELEGRAPH” FILES.
NO MUZZLES.
KOWLOON DOG OWNERS FINED.
Fines were imposed by the Kow- The weather forecast up to nood The following Items are extract-loon Magistrate this morning on Whether or not the miners to-morrow ie:-East winds, mod-ed from the Telegraph files for the dog owners, who were charged
Grate; generally cloudy, some rain week ended May 6th, 1905:--
The rate of the dollar on and was 18. 10.9/10.“
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with keeping animals without de-licences and allowing them in the
streets without muzzles.
Among those to appear were of 88, Nathan. Mrs. E. Walker, Road, and Mr. R. Francisco, of 7, Granville Road. The former was fined $3 and the latter was charged on two counts and fined $6.
At the annual meeting of the Hongkong Gun Club, those "pp-
are dissatisfied with the calling later. off of the general strike matters but little at
this stugg bo- Lord and Lady Willingdon left by the Empress of Canada for cause the settlemont of thair
Shanghai. disputo is
to loft open negotiation. It was entirely Mr. W. J. Eldridge, of the Tai-pointed to the Committee included fallacious
koo Dock Co., is toaving for home Mr. H. W. Looker and Mr. G. C. to hone for the
Moxon, to-morrow by the Kashgör on
The latter retired from the socretaryship, which discovery of settlement terms furlough,
taken by Mr. L. A. M. Johnson. while the gendral strike wäs in!
Arriving from America yaster-The accounts showed a profit on progress, and the ending of that
day, 20 insane Chinose, who the year's working of $1,272. goneral strike and the resumption were sent here by the authorities,
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of negotiations ought to be word handed ovor to the Lunatic: A fire broke out in the store welcomed rather than resontod Asylum by the Police,
room of St. Joseph's College, but
The owner of the dog which bit Willes, of Chatham Road, on April two animals belonging to Mr. 16, was fined $5 for allowing a dog
abroad without a muzzle.
Thirty-threo thousand and it was extinguished by the Bro-twenty-six pounds was paid in Yostorday's health
return thers and the older students after fines at Surrey polico courts dur shows one case of emall-pox, ty- damage of only $200 was done" ing the past year, mostly by
motorists. phoid fever and diphtheria. The last-named was a Portuguese and the others Chinese,
by the minors. But it would appear that they are excessively appreliansive regarding wages reductions, Mr. A. . Cook, their leader, saying that Sir Herbert Samuel's proposals imply Our Picture Page tomorrow reductions of wagos for many will include photographs of the Boy Scout Rally, as well as some minors. One of the main sugges-interior and exterior views of St. MUSTARD & CO., LTD. tions of Sir Herbert was that Joseph's College.
Demonstration without obligation.
Incorporated under the Companies.
Ordinances longkong.
The Telegraph.
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926.
BACK TO NEGOTIATIONS.
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and looking to the fact that the filling up of the Wanchai district, which was to be expected with the advent of tramway communiça- tion, had not taken placé, it was inexpedient to take further stops. towards the proposed reclamation.
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and rumours were in circulation that the Russian and Japanese fleets had come into contact.
The trial trip took place of the motor boat Lungehow, built at Messrs. Builey's yard to the or- der of Mr. G. C. Moxon, the sole Mr. J, Kempton has reported agent in the East for Gardner, wage rates unless there were to the police that Robert Proven, motors, with which the boat was 16-17, Connaught Road, Central assurances that the Commission's a small boy living at No. 6, Have-squipped, being associated in this Captain Jenkins, of the s.s. Derm suggestod measures of re-or-lock Terrace, was bitten by a dog connection with Mr. J. W. Kew, of went, on arrival from Saigon re- ganisation would be effectively yesterday and received treat the Steam Waterboat Company ported sighting seventeen Russian ment from Dr. MacGown. The boat had an overall length of warships-with transports. Firing adopted, and we think
that
66 feet and was fitted with & 80 was heard at night in Hongkong, unbiassod opinion will agree that
A coolic employed at the Kow-horse-power three-cylinder motor that is as far as anybody can go toon Godown, was sentenced to
Mr. Thomas Neave was appoint- at present. Together, with the sovon days' hard labour, by Mr. suggested National Wages Board, J. II. B. Nihill, at the Kowlooned surveyor of boilers of unlicensed Magistracy this morning, for steamships under 60 tons, vice that proviso constitutes a very lareony of three skeins of cotton Mr. John. Lambert resigned.
The Registrar of the Supreme Court reported that in 1904 the sound guarantee of fair and just yarn. Mr. Slipper represented
New classes were formed at
number of actions Instituted in treatment for all. And it is the Godown Co.
Queen's College for higher educa-original jurisdiction was 238, in Lont Salisbury's hope that Justice, whether it means lower
tion, to be-known as the collegiate summary jurisdiction. 1,799 and in criminal jurisdiction 61. During there would be no nots of or higher wagos, or lowor or
course,
the year 87 new companies were triumph sounded by either of the higher profits, that is the thing to
registered. parties to the late general strike and that nothing would be "sald which, would loavo a sense of
Restless Poland. defeat to rankle in the mind of
Poland, one of the storm consi anyone, reflected a sane" and tres of Europe, is again in the
The late Mr. T. S. Forrest of since the scheme was first mooted, starter. sound Vic y which ought to find a public eye as the result of the St. Andrew's Fife, formerly of big upheaval which is reported Hongkong, retired merchant, late hearty ech everywhere., Insofar from Warsaw. The history of Mesurs. Jardine, Matheson &
an illegal strike has been of this country has been little als Co., Ltd., who died on November called off, there has been a than a succession of troubles. 10th. last intestate, left personal Originally an independent king-estate in Great Britain valued triumph for constitutionalism, dom, Poland, after suffering par- for probato at £63,538 17%. 7d.
be sought after.
Eight boatwomen were BEM- monod before the Harbour Master, Commander G. F. Holo, this
Sir Paul Chater presided over a morning, for mooring near the foreshore without permission. meeting of marine lot owners in Two were let off with a caution connection with the Praya East At a Meeting of the Hongkong and the remaining six wore each reclamation. A resolution was Gymkhana Club at Happy Valley, fined $3, or three days.
passed to the effect that in view Mr. H. P. White was Judge and of the period that had elapsed Handicappet and Mr. G. H. Potts
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lant it would be a thousand pities titions of its territory at the hands if, because of boastings, the of Russia, Prussia and Austria,
was united to the first-named Amongst the passengers who future of industrial poace were country in 1815, having its own left by the Empress of Canada again jeopardised. The Trades constitution and government to-day were Mr. J. Owen Hughes,
Florida is the chin whiskers of the hair off the ears and drape it Union Congress has agreed to until 1864, when the last visible Mr. M. F. Koy, Mr. and Mrs. A.
remnant of independence was Boyd, Mr. H. Staple Smith, Mrs: the United States. It is six hun- back of them, so that long, curiy withdraw the general strike taken away. Four years later, D. G. M. Bernard, Mrs. F. R. dred miles long, two hundred miles, locks encircle the ear and hang order and the Government has the country was absolutely incor- Marsh, Mr. E. Stone, Mr. J. A. wide and three feet high. It is well forward underneath it.
bounded on the north by the The hair still has a shingle line agreed to reopen negotiations forporated in the Russian Empire. Gubby and Mr. G. H. Potts. The settlement of the coal mining The outcome of the Great War
eighteenth, amendment and on the at the back to give it a smart and gave Poland its long-wished-for The enquiry into the circum- other three sides by the three-mile modern touch, dispute, and so there has been a opportunity for liboration and stances of the death of a Shan- limit. mutual giving way from the freedom from a foreign yoke, and tung constable whose body was
Senator Blease. of South Caro- in 1918 the Polish Republic was found in King's Park recently, adamant standpoints previously proclaimed. at Warsaw, the new with a gash in his throat, was Americans, white men and feed- dicate that it's dry, but adds that Florida is inhabited by Indians, lina says that Congress tries to in- adopted. It was the Government form of government being adopted, concluded at the Kowloor. Magis bug tourists, sometimes called tin the indication isn't ringing true. which broke off the coal mining by the Constituent Assembly in tracy yesterday afternoon when canners. The reds live on the Maybe it's ringing wet.
the following year. The troubles the jury returned a verdict of Everglades, the blacks live on the hegotiations and it was the
of the nation were not yet over, murder by some person or por- whites, and the whites live on the King George, the Prince of Trados Union Congress which however, for in 1919 hostilities sons unknown,
tourists, and the tin-canners on the Wales and Henry Ford are the then declared a general strike; it broke out, between Poland and
municipal camping grounds.
greatest men in the world, accord- It seemed it is the Trados Union Congress Soviet Russia.
A small social club situated at
ing to a majority of New Zealand ono time as if Warsaw were
Florida's principal sources of in- school boys sounded by the which now calls off the general likely to fall to the Russian at No. 14, Chatham Road, has been strike and it is the.Government lacks, but by a dramatic counter-entered by some person or per- come are hotels, fruits, alligator Y.M.C.A., as a part of its world which re-opens the coal mining attack the Polish troops raversed sons, who stole a number of elec- skins, tourists and the vest-pocket inquiry into what its youth is
thinking about. But the nature of the campaign, and tric bulbs, a pair of chest ex-press agents, of California. negotiations. Both sides have in the peace terms Poland claimed pandors and dumb, bells. The the one big cutstanding feature of
ping Florida is its fruit: orange raising when women will get a man's They tell me the time will come got back 10 the only renunciation by the Soviet of intruders also destroyed
Raising point at, which something really over 100,000 square kilometres of pong outfit and an ice chest, coming first, of course.
Huh, married women do, from which they stole a dozen oranges in Florida ia a cinch; all ages. territory. Under the Treaty of
now! useful can be accomplished." For Versailles, the assentors to the bottles of aerated water.. that is required is enough money that fact and for the passing of Covenant of the League of Nations
to live on while raising them, "
When writing little sing-song The following" vessels arg ox- what was undoubtedly a black and the signatorice of the Peace
verse, Treaty guaranteed the indepen-peoted to be in wireless com-
The next Florida fruit is the political cloud we all have cause dence of the Republic, which was munication with Hongkong to grapefruit grapefruit is a to be truly thankful...
to be reconstituted out of the day-Chenan, Lungshan, Presi- cross between a lemon, a dose of Sir Herbert Samuel played a remnants of the 18th Contury dent Grant, Eurylockus, Kum- quinine and a pumpkin. It has the Polish Commonwealth." Re- sang, Chinhuu, Songbo, Empress colour and disposition of a blonde big part by conducting unofficia! cently, international differences of Canada, Vancioon, Tjibesar, ticket seller at a movie-picture. A blind ambition to eat its way negotiations, because he thus ex- have arisen regarding the position Malwa, Tikandi, ms. Tonkin, show. It is usually eaten at break through a straw stack on the farm plored a hidden situation and of Poland in regard to German's Suiyang, Tsurugisan Maru, Ma fast, thus combining the advan of John Bollinger nearly cost a discovered the path by which thedastern frontler, especially so far layan Prince, City of Glasgow. tages of a meal and a morning calf its life. The calf had been
as the Polish corridor through Stagen, Tikarang, Algol, Hin-shower-bath at the same time.. parties could got together. Alto Dantzig is concerned, but the sang, President Wilson, Haining, though he made it clear that he present upheaval appears to be Shantung, Kushigar, Taiping.
purely internal in charactor, could in no way speak for or Whatever its outcome may be, it
"Never Say Die" is the chief bind the Government, ho is evident that resurrected Poland attraction in the currant pro- formulated, in his memorandum has not yet come to the end of gramme at the Queen's Theatre,
hor troubles.
to the T.UC., a beries of suggos- Lions the value and possibilities
of which it is impossible to
It is shoor farce and abounde.in the most laughable and hair-rais- ing situations. Douglas MacLoan
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missing 32 days when Bollinger, heard its plaintive' bawling. After finding where the calf had entered, be dug from the other side and finally came upon the calf, still at work on the biggest job of eating it had ever tackled. It had no water during the 32 days and when led from the stack could hardly. stagger to the barn,
Mr. Bernard Shaw lost the rost play, the load, and he and the rest
The barbaric bob" has been ignore. In view of the miners of his little remaining confidence of the cast are responsible for
some clever acting. Constance imported from Paris by hair There's been a new association. solid opposition to the scale of in newspapers, when he remained Talmadge will be seen in "Dulcy dressers who are trying to knock formed to combat the crime wave and we suppose the first thing wages reduction suggested by the ill of influenza for wooks without on Sunday and Monday, whilst out the shingle.
This is the fuzziest effect which they'll do will be to pass a law owners it is inevitablo "that the anybody finding it out. "You're on Tuesday "The Ten Command-
ments," for which special times has yet been introduced since making it unlawful to commit. Government will have to extend too lato," he said to an later and prices are announced, will be women began to bob their hair crimes. Farm and Fireside. temporarily its help to an in viawer who had just learned of the attraction.
And it requires a skillful profes- A word to the wise is unnoces- dustry not yet fit to be left alone, his illness." "I'm all 'right now,
sional manipulator to produce it; ti A mouse got into my desk, it is far beyond the ordinary bar- Bary, and it was also inevitable that but I might have gone to join and devoured one of my sormogeber, whe has reaped a fortune out all parties to the coal mining dia. Shakespeare, any time in the last. Let us hope be profited thereby," of the boyish effects. pule would have, to ro-ontor two weeks without the newspapers Rov. Maurico Turnor, vicar of The barbaric bob" carries with sardines are healthy?
Grocer: Well, madam; 1 never negotiations entirely free from learning it. It just shows what Moulton, Northamptonshire, in its parting of the hair on the right
the newspapers are coming to."
his parish magazinė.
side. Two combs are used to raise heard one complain, binding conditions. That buppy
Customer: Do you really think