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SATURDAY, AUGUST
·DAY BY DAY.
1926.
content to sit idly by and watch an ceonomie war which to having tremendous affect upon the indust
FIND OUT WHAT YOUR TEMPTA rial life of the country, and it isTIONS ARE AND YOU WILL FIND OUT no'doubt doing so studiously with | LARGELY WHAT YOU ARE YOURSELF. -
the object of exhausting one or Henry Ward Bocchor,
"
othor of the disputants to the According to the old Chinose, point at which it will be impos-calendar to-morrow is the Spirits' sible to fight again for a consider-Festival (Chung-quanchich), able period. The miners, of
The P. & D. s.a. Ranpura, from course, are almost in this position Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles now, and many of them have gone on the 20th August at 4.30 p.m. back to work on terms which they
It is notified that the name of the General Commercial Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.
MIXED GRILL
by A Merry Miscellany
Ashley Sterne
Hobbles: Poker work,
I have recently been reading columns. most enthralling magazine article and peeling potatoes. Club: The and heroines of famous novels ent, on the subject of what the heroes Scavengers' and Dustmen's. the author having gone to consider An instructional film one of ablo pains to tabulate the various a series of "British Trades” Alma→→ forms of sustenance indulged in by is shortly to be released, in which feel to be unfair and yet which
tho.protagonists of some two dozen bricklayers are shown at work. To they have accepted rather than
standard works of fiction. Yet obviate any possible misunder struggle on longer. The terms
venture to think that the general standing arising, I may mention of the Notts and Derby owners-m
public would be far more intrigued that the film is not officially an- The P. and O. liner Kalyan, to learn what some of the outstand-nounced as a slow-motion one. old rates of pay for seven-and-a»
which left Shanghai yesterday ating living personalities of to-day half hours work a day-are par 11 a.m., is due here at 5 am. on feed upon. Take my world-famous The summer holidays being ticularly hopeful $5 indicat the 23rd instant.
Professor, for example." Professor shortly due to commence, I have Annesthesius Bilgewater, as befits vary kindly consented for the next ing that many miners will
Messrs. Carroll Bros, have been stern self-disciplined man of few weeks to give a few details of get quite good terms, but the
advised that the Raub Australian actence, has a very strict and ab-holiday resorts which I can recom fear of the Miners Federation is Gold Mining Co., Ltd. has declared stemious regimen. For breakfast mend to such of my readers as arg
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DEATH. '
NG NGAI SHI-On 16th August, 1926, at 37 Pokfulam Road, Hongkong, Ngal Shi, wife of Ng Yok Shu. Funeral takes the position that exists to-day and place at 12 noon on Sunday, will go on existing for some time 22nd August from above add-
unless the Government intervehes to "Yat Fit Ting:"
and forces action. Kennedy Town.
ress
The first-general meeting of creditors of Nowell Bernard White,
His Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation by Lieutenant Richard Hugh Skelton Volunteer Defence Corps.
of his 'commission in the Hongkong
operate to the permanent injury the year ending March, 1926, mak-For-lunch he eniffs a bottle of on track." I have decided to call
raspberry vinegar. For afternoon this feature: of the men' in poor pit districts, ing a total of 6/- for the year.
tea ho inhales the steam from the
STEENE'S HOLIDAY GUYED, and thus they are fighting for a
Tenders are being invited for spout of a teapot; and for dinner.. national agreement. We think forming new house sites for vil which, to save time, he always
takes the following morning ima clean off the beaten track Bunglethorpe-on-the-bog. This that the suggestion of the West- lagers, Alling in east side of Wongmediately bufore breakfast, he It is ten miles from anywhere, and minster "Gazette is a good one, rei-chorig nullah and old. Wong-nel-drinks a small ginger beer with a goodness know how you get there. I
chong village; together with any minnow in it. namely, that the Government necessary road construction. On the other hand, that old fool, The sea comes right up to the front only. got there through influence. should obtain Parliamentary
Professor Bazmion Crumpett, is a
doors of the houses, which, is very powers to enforce compulsory ar- bitration in a case like this.propriator of the Ritz Cafe, is to
convenient for the purpose, of shrimping. When it gets to know, you it will even come into your Owners plead inability to bear be held at the Official Receiver's
rooms and wash your floors. The high production costs, miners Office at 10.30 a.m. on the 26th
instant.
place is very restful, ns there are jo plead inability to live decently on
amusements of any kind no pier lower pay, while the Government
no band, no pierrots. The only pleads that the country cannot
pierrot who ever attempted to show there, was unfortunately washed out help. That is not a very promis
to sea by a tidal wave last summer, ing condition of affairs, yet it is
fand deservedly got wrecked on the positive gourmand. He begins the Goodwins. There are no shops, day with a gallon of porridge but a man calls with a fiahbarrow His Excellency the Governor which he eats out of a bucket. For every alternate Shrove Tuesday. has, under instructions from the lunch he invariably has a large The soil, consisting largely of Secretary of State for the Colonies, piece of tripe (double width, and brickbats and dead starfish, is fer- been pleased to recognise Mon- cut on the bias). For tea, he con-tile and aromatic; while the water, Meanwhile the public is being sieur Pablo Castillo as Consul for sumes a round dozen doughnute; if thoroughly disinfected, is quite
while for dinner he usually has useful in itawey. The Telegraph appealed to by the miners for sup- Mexico in Hongkong."
whole halibut with two veg. and port, and there is also an appeal,
It is notified that, at the expira-bread, followed by spotted dick. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21. 1926. being made to the International tion of three months, the following
Labour Federation.". There will companies will, unless cause is A convict employed in sewing Come, all ye blithering yokels, THE COAL DEADLOCK.
shown to the contrary, be dis-mail-bags in one of our penitenti-Pull up your worsted socks! doubtless be a goodly response,.
Bolved: The United Asiatic Co., aries has failed to earn the custom-Put on your runty beavors, because there is a very widespread Ltd., the Hing Loong Of Manuary remission of part of his sen- Your hobnalled boots and smocks! There will be very general re-
For down Five-Acro bottom smpathy for the miners in what facturing Co., Ltd., and Andrew tence "owing to persistent slovenly The hay waves in the breeze gret that the renewed negotiations is considered to be a fight for bet-Forbes and Co., Ltd.
work." He was evidently misled Awaiting your attention; between the miners, and the coal
by the old proverb "Ona, stitch in So get a
move on, plensel ter living conditions: Their pay
Captain Arrachart and his bro-nine, saves time." Lowners proved so completely aboris, admittedly, above bare--sub-ther, who are returning from Basra
With a hay, and a hoo; - tive, but perhaps one can get asistence level, and it is claimed to Parla-having made the out- Numerous readers having re. And a hay-nonny-hot
(And
other
quaint grain of comfort out of the fact that it ought to remain there. ward journey in a non-stop flight quested me to give a few particu- phrases).
were compelled to land at lara of the career of my friend, Mr. Give a rousing lusty yell, that the conference did serve the Labour is pushing its frontiers Harta, some 60 miles to the south Beasley Tosher, the young poet, And begin to mow like-well, useful purpose of clearing away farther and farther away from the of Budapest, owing to magneto whose verses I am occasionally pri- Just begin to mow the blessed hay a lot of misconceptions and laid line of bare necessities and it is trouble. Their aerplane smashed vileged (at an enormous fee) to bare the wide divergence of gaining much support in the grow
print in this column, I am only too Then rouse ye up, ye labbers! in a ditch.
proud to comply.
There's lots of work to do views. The issue is as clear cuting consciousness that workers. Don. José do Loyzaga, one of the
Born 1st April, 1896. Educated So bring the Village Idiot, again now aa it was when the are entitled to all the amenities of oldest newspapermen' in the at Borstal, Eton, Harrow, Winches. And the Village Drunkard, too. stoppage began on May 1st. and the social state.
Philippines, died on the 12th inst., ter, Rugby, Uppingham, Oxford, They mayn't be good for much, but at St. Paul's Hospital, Manila. Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aberyst He was '61 years of age, wyth, Dublin, and the Pelman In- About 1855 his father founded stitute. Absolutely ignorant at the
although it ta disheartening, to think that the intervening months have resulted in no progress to wards
a rapprochement it is satisfactory to know clearly just where matters are. The owners insist on a longer working day,
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:
Cholera Rumours.
*
It is matter for congratulation the El Comercio, which was sold end of his scholastic days, he de- that, so far, no locally-acquired only last year. He was born and cases of cholera have been noti- spent practically all his life in the fied hers, despité rumours to the Philippines contrary, and there will be a general hope that that immunity
"The murder trial at the Criminal
who have read of the terrible con- Sir Henry Gollan, in which an
the Fair.
cided to become a poet. Had 68-son- nets rejected by The Spectator in his first year. Transferred his ac- tivities to writing mottoes for Christmas crackers, with brilliant success, but was unfortunately sen-
include "Dotty Ditties from Durt-
BOUND MAGAZINE.
Are:.....
says:
» KATMAKERS' CHANTY.
liko blazes!
40
Elizabethan
The Inte Mr. Keats. What a pang comes over us in writing the word "late. At the time we wrote
district settlements and the ad-will long be maintained. Thouc Sessions, before the Chief Justicetenced in 1917 to ten years' penal They'll raise a hearty laugh justment of wages to "the econo- sequences of the scourge in Aberdeen man is charged with the servitude for neglecting to take out When they stumble in the stubble mics of the industry" while the Shanghai, at Nanning, and Wa-murder of his wife by cutting her poet's licence. Published works And now themselves in half! miners, contrarily, demand the ro-chow, to say nothing of the out-threat with a chisel, was continu moor (1922) Pentonville Pastorals With a hay, and a hoe,
And a hay-nonny-no! tention of the seven-hour day, and break so near at hand as Canton,ed this morning, when the case for (1923); Phantoms of Portland Get to work, all alcoholic liquida
need no reminding of the serious- the defence was opened. It is ex- (1924) Gumboils and Glue: a acorning. a national settlement and say they ness of the disease, which often pected that the trial will be finish-Dramatic Idyll (1925); and in ad. But what once the crop is in, will only consent to a wages de-carries off its victims in a very ed some time this afternoon.
dition, the various volumes of And buzz off to Philadelphia in the
You can drown yourselves in gin, few hours, In Shanghai, it ap-
...verse provlously mentioned in these duction provided there are guar-
morningf pears that bad water is the cause Our Macao correspondent writea antees that the reorganisation of of the outbreak, and that appears to say that the Portuguese Govern the industry will be proceeded also to have been the case in the ment has authorised the expendi- MORE KEATS' RELICS. asterisk set at the word "friend,"
Wuchow district, where matters ture of $12,000 on the Macao with immediately. The miners
have been rendered worso still by Fair, which is to take place soon. are back at the point they were the absence of qualified medical men Pavilions are being ornated at at a year ago when the Govern to cope with the disease. Happily, Sakong, and the work reflects much ment started the subsidy and the Hongkong is well off in these credit on
Eng. A Hugo de Two important additions have this article he was in the yyar of respects, although there is, "of
of his age. (the number of the year owners have changed but little. course, always the danger of in Lacerda. Outside merchants will been made to the collection One cannot help but thinking that fection from outside the Colony. be permitted to exhibit goods at rolles at the Keats House, in is left blank, Leigh Hunt not being Hampstead, through the generosure of his facts), And now, the Minera Executive made a Fortunately also, the meane of
sity of a New Zealand lady. They March 1821. very ageless invitation to the combatting the disease are well- known, but it appears that a great. owners for a conference because deal depends in cholera outbreaks the very fact that one is willing on skilled and continuous nursing, to enter a conference room pre-which is frequently a problem
when epidemics attain big dimen supposes a readiness to amend sions. We are glad to know, from
Paris Brussels and accommodate one's standpoint. vnquiries made, that Hongkong is
Amsterdam Two adamant parties, euch firmly fully alive to the dangers of the Berlin...
situation, and that for some time Copenhagen insisting on their own points of past arrangements have been in Helsing view, are not fit and proper par hand to cope with an outbreak tide to a conference. So it has should one occur here. In such Buenos Aires
not always given the credit due Yokohama New York one and a half hours to read state-them, for a deal of their work of
Genova ments and then to discover that a preventive character is unknown Milan there was no possible use to be to the general public. It is, how-Stockholm
ever, reassuring to know that alo. served by sitting together any steps have been taken well in ad Madrid. Prague
longer.
Vance to prepare for a possible Rio The attitude of the Government spread of the disease to Hong- Bombay
Hongkong does not please because it is so kong, and the Government is to
Sulver (opat) hegreatly commended for its forge
Silver (forward) negativo. The Government insight in this regard..
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New Zealand Woman& Gift,
The manuscript of an unfinish ed novel by Charles Armitage The remainder of the note is Brown, the young merchant from lost, owing to the page being cut Rugby, August 20.
St. Petersburg, who took Keats to at the edge, 1714 live with him when he and Charles The volume contains the first 177 Wentworth Dilke built the two printed copy of the sonnet: "As 12.11% tla houses in Wentworth-place Hermes once 20.414
signed 18.29 (now Keats-grove), which now "Caviare, La Belle Dame 34.48 form Kents, House; and Sand Merci, the whole of
A copy of Volume I of the the Ode to a Nightingale "Indicator," Leigh. Huute maza- and a review by Hunt of the zine, containing a note in Leigh whole of the "Tamia" poems; quot- Hunt's handwriting on page 65, the Ing part of "Isabelle," "The Evo boginning of the issue for Decem of St. Agnes, and Hyperion," the ber 8, 1810, referring to the poet's appreciation closing with a fare- 8.1534 death,
well to Keats on his departure to 2.16 ....... The issue has an essay by Leigh Italy for what proved to be his 104 Hunt, beginning with the following last jurnoy
Together with the MSof 10/82 words:
1.56
1/6 "Talang the other day with a Brown's novel, this volumas. 2/176 friend.
9/10
presented
That friend was Kents, and the daughter, Mrs. Gordon Osborn
note below, in explanation of the New Zealand Mr.
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