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THURSDAY, DECEMBER - 16, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
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Mr. E. D. G. Wolfe, Captain Su perintendent of Police and Cap Lala Bloxham, returned from brief visit to Canton by s.s. Fat- than yesterday afternoon.
YOU forming and the growing of fruit MUST and vegetables in the New Terri- OWN IT tories we do not doubt. But prac
PROSPERITY DEMANDE OF US MORE. tical experiments must first be PRUDENCE AND MODERATION. THAN carried out.
Already something ADVERSITY-Cicero. along that line has been done by
A further Chinese case of typhoid. private enterprise, but more sys-fever was reported yesterday. tomatic effort is needed. We bo- lieve that excellent results have The motor vessel Canton, of the Swedish East Asiatle Line; left been achieved by the Canton Antwerp on the 18th instant and is Christian College on its expert-dus here about January 21st. mental plots on Honam Island, and no doubt much of the experience gained there would be found of great value "were "a seri ous effort to be made locally. Uni. fortunately, the subjbet is not one which
Comes within the scope of the Sanitary Board, and therefore Mr. Braga's questions have been passed on to the Colonial Secre- tariat. It is to be hoped that the Government will now indicate its polley in regard to this all-impor- tant question, which has consider able, bearing on the general cost of living in this Colony.
It takes the drudgery out of every writing task.
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BEHAVIOUR AT OXFORD.
NO DANCING OR MIXED PARTIES.
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WHO PAID?
'AN UNSEEMLY SQUABBLE.
Vancouver. It is revealed that Mr. Honry Ford, the billionaire. imotor car manufacturor, has buon Considorable discussion hns paying the incidental expenses of been aroused among Oxford under- Queen Mario of Roumania, and her graduates by the fasue of a small entourage on their North American grey booklet entitled "Momoran tour. dum on the Conduct and Discipline Mr. J. B. Ayras, Mr. Ford's per-
of Junior Members of the Universonal representative with the sity."
| party, estimated that the tour would cost his chief something like $100,000.
Here are some extracts: It is expected that undergradu- ates will not loiter in the public Colonel Carroll, who is in charge streets, at coffee-stalls, or at the of the tour, replied. "Mr. Ayres had stage-door of a theatre.
no, authority to make any state- Tele-nny public race-meeting.
Undergraduates may not attendment, and as he has broken his agreement, he will leave the train," the chair or speak at any open-air Marie dedicated a peace portal Undergraduates may not take On the way to Seattle, Queen meeting of a political charactor erected on the United States and without special leave of the Proc-Canadian border. tors..
The Eastorn Extension graph Company notifies reduced rates for sending Christmas and New Year greeting telegrams to various parts of the world.
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Messrs. S. Moutris and Co. have issued their usual yearly calendar, which bears some very funny col- oured illustrations dealing with "Labours of Love."
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The Dunlop Rubber Company. (China), Ltd., has issued a most effective calendar for the coming year, showing a splendid imitation oil-colour study of Westminster Bridge at night.
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dances in public rooms.
Undergraduates may not give
rant or hotel approved by the Proc- Undergraduates are forbidden tors. There are 21 of these ap- (under severe penalties) to attend proved places of refreshment: public subscription dances in or
"Segregated Women." neur Oxford,
The Ista, the undergraduates' Undergraduates are funder severe penaltios) to visit ment:-
forbidden journal, makes, the following com- the bar of any hotel, restaurant, or public-house, or to use as a bar the lounge or any other room on li censed premises.
The Liberal Squabble. At this distance and with such
The master of the steam launch-motor-vehicle for a longer period An undergraduate may not hire abbreviated information at one's Hermes was at the Marine Court than one hour, or for a greater dis disposal it is rather difficult to fatins the course and trend of the this morning, fined $5, or five days, tance from Oxford than five miles, various moves affecting the inter for, failing to observe the rule of without special leave" of the Dean |
the rond by the Marine Magistrate, of the College. Lieut. Commdr. G. F. Hole.
nal organisation of the Liberal Party. Within a very short period we have had news of an expected healing of the breach between Mr. Lloyd George and the Asquithians THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1926.then yesterday there was a strong
and enthusiastically-received den unciation of Mr. Lloyd George by NEW TERRITORY
Viscount Grey at a complimentary RESOURCES.
On niore occasions than we can remember, the question of the de- velopment of the New Territories in such a manner, as, to make this Colony more self-supporting in the matter of its food supplies has been raised, but for some rea- son or other nothing really worth while along these lines has ever yet been done. One or two at tempts by private enterprise have been made, but through lack of financial support these experi- ments have had to be dropped. If the matter is to be taken in hand at all, it must obviously be on a large scale, preceded, of course,
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Mr. Tang Shao-yi has gone frêm Hongkong to his native village in Heungshan district to visit his re-
latives.
That we are children we have long suspected, that the author ities were Miss Pinkerton we did. not know till we read the "Memorandum on the Conduct" of Junior Members of the Uni- versity." If all these regula- tions are to be 'taken seriously, and literally enforced, then Oxe ford has become a Pinkerton "Academy and we are children
indeed.
A woman. undergraduate may not enter the rooms of a man in fedgings, without specint leave state of Oxford that this little grey undergraduate, either in college or Something is wrong with the previously obtained from the prin book has ever appeared. If every few days, before taking passage have a companion similarly ap-imperative to the well-being of the He will be away for acipal of her society. She must restriction in it is not absolutely here to return to Shanghai,
proved. A man undergraduate university, then we must condemh may not enter the rooms of the Olympians either for an over- woman undergraduate.
developed sense of humour or for Men and women undergraduates behaving like the principals of a may not go on the river or for Victorian girls' school.. motor' rides together unless each To descend to mere bathos: woman undergraduate has loitering.in the streets is prohibit-- préviously obtained leave from the ad, so that a minimum pace for principal of her college and there walking up the.Corn, may soon be At nine o'clock this morning, are at least two women of the instituted; women are segregated with as much care as in a Turkish The long list of "Don'ts" is tem- harem, and a man who has any alto pered by one concession. Under- female friend is viewed with graduates may dine at any restau-suspicion as an immoral character.
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dinner of the retiring Chief Organi- Every available seat. for the ser of the Party; and to-day, we two final performances of "The réceive a telegram saying that the Pirates of Panzance," on Friday Central Organising Committee of and Saturday, has been sold, the party has accepted the report Even the boxes have been taken of a sub-commilled which, recomand mang move tickels could have mended the acceptance of Mr.. been disposed of. Lloyd George's unconditional offer to make his "special" party funds available, On the face of it, and there were sixty-nine vessels in har-party." more especially because of the bour. For the 24 hours, there
nineteer. Arrivals very divided voting of the Central were Committee, it would seem that the gether, five being British, and Liberal "split has become even twenty-one departures, cleven being more pronouneed, than ever, with British. two very definite camps. Vis-.
We have received from Messrs. count Grey's condemnation of Mr.
was in yery un- Gilman and Co. a handy pocket Lloyd George equivocable terms-that it was im- diary issued by Messrs. Findlater, possible to keep step with him and Mackie, Todd and Co., Ltd. that he and not Lord Asquith had contains a number of simple recipes been responsible for the disunion for various drinks and gives valu- of the party. Mr. Lloyd George's able hints on the storing and de- recent ill-advised speech regard-canting of wine. ing China had also upset Vis-
At a matinee yesterday, the Phil- S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. by experimental work. It is in count Grey, who as a former For-
eign Minister would be specially harmonic Society gave another this connection that there is na- concerned at the unfair misrepre- splendid presentation of "The Pir turally a desire to know what helpsentation
The principals of Britain's polley. ates of Penzance." the Government would be prepar-But there appears to be a big sec- and chorus were in fine fettle, and tion of the Liberal Party prepara large attendance, which almost ed to stand by Mr. Lloyd George, filled the Theatre showed its ap- though it is surely a little un-preciation in no mistaken manner. reasonable to hope for any big
Passengers departing for the measure of success at the polls in
United Kingdom yesterday by 3.3. such a divided state. With all his latter-day faults of impetus. Kennedy, Mrs. P. H. and Miss Hector, included, Mr. and Mrs. sity. Mr. Lloyd George, still re- Joyce Holyoak, Lieut, Commer.ject. The tallest person of whom scratch your arm-no more small- mains one of the most dynamic R. A. Yonge, Mr. and Mrs. Wright, try and he will inevitably continue ther Paul, and Sir Talbot Scaris- is every reason why such sym-to attract a large following. But brick. pathy and support should be forth-what is going to happen to those coming.
older and more "Whiggish" Liber- als who find that they cannot keep step? Are we going to have yet another party?
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Old English Madder dyeing the method by which cashmere shawls and the old yard-square bandanas used to be dyed -is the method used for dyeing them.
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ed to give in such a matter. Much could be done, we feel sure, by official sympathy and support, and, after all, inasmuch as it would be to the general good of the community if the Colony were made less dependent on outside
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sources for its food supplies, there /political personalities in the coun- Mr. W. A. Shovelton, Revd. Bro- Pliny's Arabian, who stood, in into you-no more typhoid fever;
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How tall must a man be to Humour." By this time all the- qualify as a giant. The query is good examples of English and prompted by the application of Australian war stories, are prob that term in several contemn- ably
chestnuts, but Major poraries to a recently deceased Scammell has many which may gentleman who was 6ft. 4in. in be fresh to an English reader. height, and perhaps the average One rather nice
one gives a man, with his six or seven inches veteran's explanation of the re- less, might gree, to this descrip- sources of a modern medical aer- tion. But the anatomists, whose vice. It is delivered by the duty it is to deal with auch human veteran to a batch of recruits: abnormalities, deny the honour to "Things is gettin' great, Nown- ably limits the scope of the sub- the doctors round you up and anyone under 7ft., which consider days when you take en [enlist],
there is historical record was pax; then they shoot some bugs about then they shoot some more bugs Oft. bi, or 13in. taller than the into you--no more pneumonia. A Cantonese lukong was charged famous Irish giant O'Brien, to By-an-by they'll tattoo a pork abtain whose skeleton, now in the chop' and a fried egg on your arm, at the Central Magistracy this morning with the theft of a book of College of Surgeons, London, the and there you are rationed for water accounts vouchers. Mr. great John Hunter undertook the
your hitch." (Or, as an English McCallum, appearing for the de-risks involved in body-snatch soldier would have said, "rationed fendant, asked for a date for the ing There seems no reason to for the duration."). A post-war hearing, and the case was accord-
doubt, as some have done, Pliny's story supports the world-wide con- instance, for the Russian Machnow viction that the children of Israel ingly adjourned until Saturday.
stood 9ft. Sin., and a recent Dutch Failing to appear before Mr. T. visitor to England beat that by may change their skies but not their mind. To a Jewish ex- 121% 25.10. W. Ainsworth, at the Kowloon half an inch. As to the really serviceman an acquaintance re-. .20.374 Magistracy this
gigantic figures of ancient tradi
marked, "So you was in the army. .10.23%
tion,, archeology offers them no Ikoy?" "Sure, I was in the army"" 3answer a charge of unlawful poa-support, for the tallest prehistoric "Did you get a commission?"
EXCHANGE RATES.
Mr. J. P. Braga, whose know ledge of the Colony and its needs is probably greater than that of any other resident here, no doubt had these points in mind when he addressed a series of questions to the Head of the Sanitary Board Paris
Genova at its meeting on Tuesday. He Berlin referred to suggestiona advanced
Oslo Helsingfors by the Economic Resources Com-Rio mittee in this connection, and it Brussels
Shanghai is well that these should be re- Milan
Copenhagen called. That Committee met some Lisbon
Bombay years ago in pursitance, we be-
Yokohama York
Jiove, of an Empire-wide onquiry
into the resources of all the Bri- tish possessions, but it would ap Vienna Madrid pear that all the pains and trouble Buenos Aires that were taken to look into the Hongkong
Silver (opot) question from all standpoints in Silver (forward) this Colony represent so much wasted effort. It is true that a bulky volume was issued contain
Rugby, Dec. 15.
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morning,
to
modern measurements,
16 session of 745, po piu lottery man yet found, belonging to the No; straight salary." 218 tickets, a married woman of Tem-finely developed Cro-Magnon race, 34.87 ple Street, Hunghom, forfeited her stood but. Gft. 4 in.
1104 ball of $250.
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Whilst making an overhead con- 2/0.0/16 nection with the electric wires, a 4.86-5/16 Chinese workmen engaged with s
number of other "Tramway m ployees on a rail-repairing machine! .31,78% yesterday accidentally received a 46.1/16 shock and burns to his face, neck. 1/11% and right hand. He was removed to hospital in a rather serious con-
24% 21.11/10. British Wireless.
dition.
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He looked to see if riba of
.beef Were on the bill of fare. But, no, they weren't. The
reason was, They had no ribs to spare.
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An old gentleman, who dropped his stick in a Glasgow.street, had great difficulty in bending to pick
it up.
"Have you lumbago?" queried a In the Michaelmas Examination | The following ships are expect sympathetic passer-by. of students of the Inns of Court, ed to be in wireless communica- "No, sir," returned the old held at Grays Inn Hall, London, Intion with Hongkong to-day gentleman. "It's my braces.
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Every nation has its own way of doing homago.. Here is one way, the tribute of a delegation to the tomb of Chopin at Pere-Lachaiści .."M. Arciszewski; Counsellor of the Polish Embassy, extolled the work of Chopin, after which the members of the assembled com- pany were asked, each to pay their own tribute by thinking in silence Chopin's works which meant most for a minute of the phrase of
to each of them individually."
Wo should have preferred to drink to his memory. One can imagine nothing more embarrassing to the
ing details of the investigations October, by the Council of Legal Nanchang, Kum Sang, Aki Maru, bought them in Aberdeen, and they average Englishman than to have
carried out, but we cannot remem- Education, the results of which Kashima Maru, Pres. Melfinley, ber any of the suggestions having have appeared in The Times, Pres. Wilson; Talma, Hellas, Tean, been carried into effect. So to Mr Alfred Mario do Lourdes Bokuyo Maru, Tikkembang, Fushi Soares, qualified in Constitutional mi Maru, Van Cloon, Hector, day the report is probably hidden Law. He is the son of Mr. A. M. Senngbee, Myrmidon, Zumash nway, with a large number of like L. Soares, J. P., of Hongkong, who Maru, City of Taklo, Honghwa, documents, in some musty corner a few years ago was known as a Mausang, Haining, Hozan Maru, of a Government office..
vory keen race-horse own in the Anhui, Tingal, Andes Maru, Sin- Colony. Mr. Alfred Soares was kiang, West Chopaku, Koksun, That there is scope for cattle-educated at St. Joseph's College and Kotsu Maru, Changto, Kinshan, raising, big-breeding, poultry- later at Cambridge.
Arabien and Fukui Maru No. 2
won't give!"
to recall, in tributary silence, his favourite bar of Chopin."
Some people on both sides of the Atlantic will have it that there is "Now, air" said the lawyer, a fundamental difference between cross-examining a witness, "your English and American ideas of answers are not satisfactory. I humour, This vlow is not sup am afraid you are slightly ported by most of the stories cited ambiguous.",
in an article in the Army Quarterly Witness (with great indigna by Major J. M. Scammell, of the tion) I am nothing of the kind U. S. army, on "Doughboy sir. I'm a strict teetotaler."
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