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The Telegraph
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1926.
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1926.
think, be goneral approval of the decision now renched;
Aside from the bad economies of the restrictive law, the point has to be realised that the sooner this Colony gets back to normality, the batter will it be for all con- cerned. For a time, of course, the
DAY BY DAY.
IT IS NOT BECAUSE MEN'S DESIRES "ARE STRONG THAT THEY ACT ILL; IT 18 BECAUSE THEIR CONSCIENCES ARE WEAK.-J. Stuart Mill.
Tonders are being invited for:
MIXED GRILL
By
A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne
absence of the law may prove a furniture for Fire Station Balld-rending the account of the re-Up
hardship in individual cases, and ing. may cause some rise in the
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rentals of "old property," but for the International Petroleum Com-
It is notified that the name
the general woal-landlords as pany. Limited, has been struck woll as tenants it is as well that the Register.
such emergency legislation, de-
I have been much interested in
discovery in West Africa of n tribe of bushmen thought-to be there survives a strain of chivalry off extinct; for in these little pygmies- which wo might profitably adopt! over here. When one of these bush-chappies wants to marry, he is required by his inamorata to perform a deed of derring-do as:
off
per
signed to meet, abnormal condi- A final dividend of ong
It centum has been declared in the tions, should be set aside. cannot be denied that there is
now no dearth of housing accom modation in the Colony, although It may be the case that for much of the "new" a higher rent will be asked than for the "old." On the other hand, in very many cases the accommodation offered is of a much Better type. In a respects, living costs are rising, and, regrettable though the ten- dency may be, matters have reached a stage at which it would be anomalous for house rents only" to remain "cheap." Bconomic laws must prevail, and in course of time the factors of supply and demand will determine the rents to be pail.
An Explanation.
matter of Hawthorne and Pearson Iate of St. Georgo's Building.
The Chinese Y.M.C.A. is giving reception to its 1:500 members this evening, when a programme of musical and literary toma will be submitted.
Falling from a height of sixteen feet while at work en a ship, a Chinese fitter, employed at Taiko | dockyard, has been admitted to the Government, Civil Hospital with a. fractured skull.
Sergt. Allan, Naval Yard Police, reports that yesterday, as Mra, Chater, wife of Surgeon Captain Chater, was entering the dockyard. in car No. 903, a public rieksha
No. 760 collided with the car, and the ricksha was damaged.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed, provisionally and sub In connection with the seizure feet to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. by the Macao authorities of copies D. G. M. Bernard to be an Unot of Mr. Montalto de Jesus' book,cial Member of the Legislative "Historic Macao," there has been Counell, vice Mr. P. H: Holyoak, some eriticism of the Hongkong deceased. papers for having given publicity La the author's views. As we
proof of his affection. So he sallies forth unarmed, exptures an antelope with his bare hands, and brings it home alive as a "token" for his Indy. Now in these days, when the charge of effeminacy is so often brought against our young bloods, it would be all for the best if some similar sort of test were imposed upon would-be Benedicks. They ought to be re- quired to chase and board one of those dastardly mator-buses whose
BACK TO NORMALITY: were the first paper to reproduce list of medical practitioners
There has been added to the some of Mr. de Jesus' opinions, we name of Dr. Teang Fu Cho, 61re! deem it prudent to explain our
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in the blue-gums by the their sweet notes trill
crushing mill,
And bright-hued dingos flit
through Bunny hours Collecting nectar from the
euphorbia flowers? Ah! how, my heart beats high and joy suffuses,
At thought of all the sheep
and kangarooses Lying upon the banks o
steep and ridgey Which flanks the waters of
the Murrumbidgee, Chewing their cuds, and heed
ing not the pang,
So soon to come from lethal
boomerang!
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O to bo once again in deur
old Sydney,
Eating my frugal meal, of
steak-and-kidney!
O to be back in fair Austra-
Hay!
(I think I'll have to visit it.
some day!)
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I so that a man of 98. arrest- ed for begging: pleaded in exton- uation that he couldn't get a job. I admire his spirit. The man who refuses to be too old at 98 desorves
object seemingly is. not to pick where nonagenarianism
encouragement, and therefore I will put him in the way of a job up and set down passengers but to handicap, but an absolute essen
is no cover the route as rapidly na pos- tial, I sible. I wouldn't suggest that Oldest Inhabitant.
the job of being suitors should be required to lead rural hamlets, I find, haven't got Lots of our the bus home in triumph-It would an. Oldest Inhabitant, and woull' be an awkward "token" for a girl give their heads for one, to keep if she lived in a fat-so there is so pronounced a shortage In fact, I think it would be sufficient if that the aforesaid old sports- they brought home the left ear of man. might make the copducter on a soap-dish.
good thing touring" up and down the Wife: (to bibulous husband on Inhabitant for a week at cach country being Oldest. the door-mat): Humph! So there you place where there was a vacancy. There is no fixed salary attaching After having been in operation position in the matter. First and Des Voeux Road Central, 2nd floor,
Husband: Yesh, I know I am... to the post, but his perquisites foremost, let it be stressed that we Hongkong, Bachelor of Medicine for some five and a half years. have, throughout the controversy, and Bachelor of Surgery of the An exhibit at the recent Nurs-and tobaceo, tankards of bitter. in the shape of packets of snuff the Ordinanen restricting rents is expressed no opinions" either for University of Hongkong.
ing Exhibition at Westminster was and much gratuitous advice on to be allowed automatically to
or against the author's submis-
an electrical apparatus for pro-the treatment of rheumatism pre- expire at the end of this' month. not the least intention of taking Council has ordered that
sions, and at the moment we have His Excellency the Governor inducing sunshine. By its aid you sented by admiring tourists, are
can sit in your This decision has been reached sides on the issues raised.
own home and rumoured to be worth at lenkt as How Christian Chinese Cemetery, Kow-the Riviera or Biarritz without
derive all the benefit of a trip to much as a Civil List Pension. after full consideration, by mem-
ever, as one of a newspaper's toon City, known as New Kowloon getting mixed up with Russian ex- bens of both the Executive and to current thought, we consider from and after the 1st day of July brokers. It will also tan your humorous journalists might get a functions is to give due publicity Inland Lot No. 16, shall be closed Grand Dukes and German stock-occurred to me that some, of us While writing the above it has Eegislative Councils, of the ed Mr. de Jesus' suggestions and 1926. petitions for and against its comments regarding Maçao past,
face, give you freckles, inflame renewal, and it is worthy of note present and future, as of sufficient
your nose, and skin the back of that the conclusion' arrived at reduction.
general interest to warrant repro- The charges of attempting to your neck quite as efficiently na presented the unanimous opinions been invariably followed in regard brought against
The same policy, has obtain money by false prétences old Sol himself, I was about to
Hing Ping-add that I suppose somebody will of all present at the meeting which to innumerable political questions cheung," a Sanitary Department next. be inventing an apparatus dealt with the subject. The laste-for example, only a few daya interpreter not being substantiat for producing moonshine. But I is thus disposed of once and for a lady writer regarding the desira-by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kow-ter already, possesses
ago, we printed some opinions by ed, the defendant was discharged, remember in time that Westmins- gadget
all, and, on full consideration of the subject, we are inclined to agree that the right step has been
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for this purpose which was install- ed there in the year 1258. It un- fortunately survived Mr. Guy free country holiday this summer Fawkes's laudable attempt to by similarly, offering ourselves in smash it up.
the capacity of Village Idiot.
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bility of a division of China into foon Magistracy yesterday.. two distinctive sections, with one another for the South; whilst, Government for the North and
A meeting of the Licensing times without number, the views Board is to be held in the Council It will be retalled that when of well-known writers on the idea Chamber on Saturday, 26th June, the Ordinance was first intro-whole country, until some Govern-dering an application from Joseph of international control of the at noon, for the purpose of consi-
In the course of a lecture at the "The extreme pallor of her face College of Nursing Dr. C., P. duced, in 1921, the hope was ex- ment is able to assume full Louis Durand for a publican's unnerved him, and a convulston Symonds cited some instances of pressed that conditions would not responsibility, have been repro-licence to retail intoxicating shook him as he thought that she grotesque pranks perpetrated by render it necessary for it to be under notice, we have, as we say, No. 12, Pedder Street (Pedder sleep."
duced. In the particular instance liquors at the premises situated at might have passed away in her children suffering from sleepy continued for longer than one refrained from taking sides, but, Building) under the sign "Cafe
sickness, one of which dealt with The sight of extreme pallor has a youngater who collected the year. However, as time went on in view of Mr. de Jesus' reputa- Restaurant Parisien."
never given me convulsions; but boots of his family when they' it became apparent that the de-tion as a writer who has produced
Lused to know a girl who was so were asleep, and filled them with two historical books dealing with man for accommodation was far Far Eastern settlements, we con.
pale that I once get snow-blind jum. This serves to remind me A complimentary dinner is beingness through looking at her with that, when a boy old Sir. Batts greater than the supply, and there sidered his opinions well worthy given in honour of Mr. B. L. Frost out tinted glasses.
Innes-Belfry performed some most was evidence that, unless checked, of notice, whether we agreed or Past-President of the Institution.
extraordinary antics. The doctors disagreed with them. Those who of Engineers and Shipbuilders of certain types of landlord were complain of the publicity are no fongkong, in the Institute rooms
Surprise has been expressed in had not then Invented sleepy sick- many quarters that I was not in-ness, but the lad was clearly suf quite ready to profit at the expense doubt people who hold. opposite this evening at eight o'clock.vited to write an Ode of Welcome fering from some kindred disease. of the community by raising rents opinions to those of the author of Mr. Frost, who has been for on the arrival of the Australian Once while his mother was tak-. to a figure beyond the capacity of the book, but that is no justifica- number of years whole-heartedly cricketers. It is too late now to ing her afternoon nap, he removed
tion for resenting publication. interested in the furtherance of remedy the deficiency, but the average tenant.
to her bustle, filled it with a mix-.. It was the There should be sufficient toler- the Institute, is going Home on solace my readers (and the Aus-ture of seed-pearls and liquorice, combination of these two cireumance, both here and in Macao, to holiday next Saturday.
tralians) for their" disappoint-and sold it as a haggis to the stances which led the Legislative pression; any other policy is to permit absolute freedom of ex-
ment, I have inscribed the follow- Burns Society. On another occa- Council to renew the Ordinance deplored.
team: ing lines to the skipper of the sion, he purloined his father's bed- In conclusion, let
socks, Mod one with molten zine periodically, although there was aus add that we are quite prepared widespread recognition of the to reproduce the views of those who differ from Mr. de Jesus, point that, in principle, the law provided, of course, the ordinary was bad. To use the words of Sir canona of fair comment ere Edward Stubbs, speaking on the observed. accusion of the first renewal of
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As a result of the satisfactory treatment which his son received while in the Baguio hospital, Benguet, P. I. recently, Leopold Kahn, prominent businessman of Manila, has donated an ambulance, fully equipped, to the Philippine. Health Service for the Baguio hos- pital. The hospital has long been
I wonder, Mr. Collins, if your
thoughts to-day,
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and the other with broccoli tops, and presented them to a retired Are, as mine are, back inventriloquist named Alphone
Australiay,
MoSquirt who chanced to be pas- sing.
Where flute-voiced wallabies,
The dryest season in 34 years tres instead of 94, the normal pré-
the Ordinance, "the Government BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. severely handicapped through the is the present record established cipitation for the month. And the lack of an ambulance, and was not in Shanghai weather annals. Since present month of Juno acts, so far, able to purchase one owing to lack 1892 there has not been an open-as though it also will conclude cf funds.
ing five-month period of a year with a minimum amount of mois- 80 dry as in 1926. The normal ture. Just 190 millimetres is the
was forced to take action to restrain landlords, but it (the) Ordinance is an offence against good, economic doctrine, and I shall be extremely glad when the!
with such legislation."
Since
to
BIG DEMONSTRATION.
Moscow, June 18,
Big trade union demonstrationsing and Company's salesroom 476 millimetres of rain up to the month, but 20 millimetres have At the Auctioneering and Broker rainfall as disclosed by the Sie-normal full for June and to date, cawei Observatory statistics, is through the first seven days of the time comes that we can dispense protested against the British Note yesterday afternoon, Mr. L. E, Send of May, from January 1 to fallen. The comparative table of the Soviet. Banners bore Hodge sold, by order of the mort May 31 inclusive. Instead of rainfall to date; by months, is 46 that time, the Ordinance has had trade unions," and "We won't 139, 141, and 143, Wanchai Road, 1926 has recorded only 291 mil-of a normal of 1.96 inches; Feb- slogans like "Hands off Russian gagee, a leasehold property, Nos. that amount, the spring acason of follows: January 84 Inches instead to be amended in many respects renounce solidarity with workers registered in the Land Office as and it has been the cause of much in other countries."
Section A and the remaining
limetres. These · figures were ruary 1,10 inches instead, of 2.32; litigation on difficult legal points and factories. Foot and mounted The property contain's a total area Observatory. Since 1892 there have 2.18 instead of 3.67. The coldest Meetings were held in streets portion of Inland Lot No.: 841. given out on Juno 7 by Siccawel March, 2.20 instead of 3.27; April, involved. Like all such measures, militia during the demonstrations of about 1,837 square feet, and the been several dry years, notably day of the year was on January it has been found by no means guarded Vorovaky Street, whore annual Crown rent is $32. Start 2017 But the present year over 81 with a temperature of 29.9 de- enny to operate, and, apart from the British Mission is housed, and ing at the upset price of $10.000. May set a record, for meagre rain-
tops all previous drought records. grees Fahrenheit. The warmest. several times pushed back bidding was brisk and the pro- those who may be adversely affect-crowds trying to pass the building.perty was eventually purchased/fall, registering but two-thirds of Was May 27, with temperature of
ed by its lapaing, there will, we│-Reuter.
by a Chinese lady for $80,600.
the normal fall with 64 millime- 88.9 degrees.