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-THE WISEST MAN IS GENERALLY
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT.
The Very Idea!
The atout man was lopping his trees in the front garden. He had one leg over a bough and the other, on top of a ladder, and was aw
For the past two days, no cases The fortnightly Price Current of notifiable disease have been re-and Market Report, published by the Hongkong General Chamber of ported in the Colony.
Commerce, under date of the 19th ing awkwardly. inst., states:
The F. & O. 3.5. Malwa, from Hongkong, arrived at London on the 18th November at li a.m.
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Sourabaya, on account of plague.
The P. and O. s.s. Kashgar, which left Singapore yesterday at 4 p.m., is due here at 6 am. on Friday.
The Empress of Canada, which left Shanghai yesterday, is due here to-morrow morning and will leave for Manila at 5 pm. on Wednesday.
An errand boy stood watching him for quite ten minutes. Hot and annoyed he at last called sharply from his perch-"Don't you think it's time you went about. your business?"
Came the replyAw.richt, Tar-
Cotton Plecegoods. Since our last report more enquiry has been in evidence but the difference be tween Home-side prices and local ideas is so wide that no sales are reported. The fall in cotton zan." values expected after the Cotton Yarn Association withdrew all re-
The wearing quality of puro strictions has not yet materialized, liner damask is remarkable, A In fact cotton has since been cloth in the finen cupboard of a quoted on a higher basis. The resident of Christchurch, Hants, Intest quotations are those of the has been in uge 316 years (not con- 16th inst. Eg. Sakel. 18.95d and stant); it is beautifully white still, although worn thin by use. The Mid. Amer. Spot" 11.16d.
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many others view them as being ridiculously premature. Avust sum of money has been spent and the only benefit is going to be to the inhabitants of Kowloon and adjacent districts which could have been adequately supplied at far less cost. On the Hongkong side, nothing has been done be- yond enlarging the water catch- ment areas that feed the existing reservoirs and talking about mak- ing a new reservoir in the valley | above Aberdeen. This last-named, project has been very much dallied with, and We learn that the Government view now is to hold a Commission to enquire into the matter. Surely, we ought to have progressed beyond that stage. Of course, there is the plea made
ness has been done at a reduction ferring to Genesis 22 are as clear Cotton Yarn,--Only a small busi.old Biblical characters on it re- that the Government is committed
of $10/12 per bale from the highest today as when the cloth was taken Lo a policy of economy during Warner, Barnes & Co., Ltd., of point touched. Market generally off the old Flemish loom in East
Manila, announce with deep regret is ruling very quiet. Nominal Anglia over three centuries ago. these lean years; but, We the death of their Managing Diree-quotations are as follows:-No. argued at the time the 1928 Budget|tor, Mr. Herbert Kirkman Bibby, 10s. $170/185. No. 12s. $176/180. Solicitor: What does
No. 168. $190/195. No. 20x, $200/205, | husband do? was being submitted to and ap. in London, on Tuesday last.
Arrivals NL. Shipments NIL Witness: He drinks, proved by the Legislative Council, The Commanding Officer of the Sales 100 bales. Unsold stucks Magistrate: What ship are you the Government has a greater Royal Engineers Announces thut 3,800 bales. Bargains 10,400 bales. on?
Defendant (described as a sea- duty than being negatively econo-defence electric lights at Stone-
Woollens.-Market dull. Some cutters will be burnt from 6.30 to
man) The Kyogle line. mical-the duty- of supplying 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday.
enquiry for union coatings for Female Witness quick shipment, but poor.bookings. Court): I used to give my husband (in Summons essential public needs. We plead-
The P. and O. s.s. Khiva, with
Raw Cotton,-Nothing doing. his breakfast for tea the night be ed for the steady progression ofį
Metals.--Market continues dull; fore. mails from London, arrived this essential public works and men-morning and berthed at Kowloon small business done.
Witness: My husband called mo Wire Nails Small business nasty names, tioned the water supply problem to Wharves. The parcels mail dated point a moral, but did not think London, October 11, consisted of
50 bags and is now being distri- Flour Market Stock: American our argument, would be buted.
320,000 sucks; Canadian, 120,000 | sacks; Australian, 10,000 eacks;. vindicated quite so soon. If it is
Market:- A brown and white dog, be- total 460,000 sacks. true, as we hear, that the plans longing to Mr. Lawrance of No. 3, Small and quiet. Quotation: and survey work for the proposed Cox Path, Kowloon, was yesterday American Patent, $4.25 por sack; Aberdeen reservoir have been taken to Ma Tau Kok for obser- American Straight, 3.05 3.25
per sack; Australian No. 1, 3,60 who was later treated
por sack; Canadian Cut off, 3.10- 3.15 per sack; Canadian Straight, Passengers who arrived by the 3.04-3.08 per sacks; Canadian Mix. P. and O. Khiva this morning, in-tre, 2.95 per sack; Canadian 2nd eluded Capt. and Mrs. Plunket Clear, 2.85 per sack.
Window glass.-Market Cole, Mr. A. H. Barlow, Engineer Government has cut out the Shing Grist, Mrs. J. C. Joughin and Mr. SugarMarket dull and declining Mun scheme (so far as Hongkong H. Golfe.
Soltpetre-Market very quiet. is concerned) and has been negli-.
that
done.
per
your
Magistrate: What were they? Witness: Shall I write them down?
Magistrate: You can say them. You won't hurt my feelings or those of anybody else in court.
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MURRAY.—Letitia Julia, daugh- ter of the late P. H. Murray, died this morning at 4.45 am. at the French Hospital, Cau- seway Bay, age Funeral will pass the Manu-we cannot do else than hold the Dovey. mont at 5 pm. to-day.
Government yery blameworthy for not having made the financial HURLEY-At the Kowloon Hos-provision necessary to cause
pital. on Monday, November ley. Funeral will take place at the Jewish Cemetery, at p.m. to-day (Shanghai papers please copy).
23 years. completed for some months, thenation. The animal bit a Chinese Back; American Cut off, 3.10-3.40 errors provided many stumbling.
a
by Dr.
21st, 1927, Captain II. S. Hur-start of the actual work. The Comdr. E. H. Jefferson, Mr. C. E. quiet.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, Nov. 21
1927:
OUR WATER SUPPLY.
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DEATH OF CAPTAIN H. S. HURLEY.
Burglars in a motor ear were gently tardy in providing any alter-responsible for a daring burglary native supply. In years of plenti-at Sir Archibald Weigall's house, fut rainfall we have to suffer win. Petwood. A butler discovered two burglars on the premises, but, by ter periods of restriction, and one dint of a water pistol, with which almost dreads to think of what they squirted water in his face, PASSES AWAY AT KOWLOON would be the position if this they escaped."
HOSPITAL.
Correcting simple grammatical blocks. One sentence given wag
There was four people in the car as it left the garage.
And "corrected sentences" were: There were four people in the car as it left the garridge.
There were four people in the car, has it left the garage.
Hns it left the garage."
There were four people in the car,
One ind naked to name the principal Inventions and discoveries in the last twenty years wrote- Greyhound racing and steam.
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Statistics compiled by the tire- less Literary Digest show, among other things, that only one Ameri can housewife in ten has a full- time servant to do her work. This .sounds like a atudied attempt to complaining American husband, The numerous friends of Cap-ignore the hard-working and un-
Spokane Spokesman-Review,
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Colony had a below-average year. At the Marine Court this The lowest rainfall ever known morning. before Commdr. G. Ftain H. S. Hurley will learn with was 45 inches in one year; the Hole, Lo Kan, master of the deep regret of his demise, which K.HLI. steam launch, was charg- Average is round about 85 inches,ed with mooring his craft inside occurred at the Kowloon Hospital and this year we have so far had the Victoria Cable Reserve, and, in the early hours of this morning'
The English are the best dancers As already stated in our news over 100 inches. And het there pleading guilty, was fined $15, at the age of 39 years.
in the world.-Jay. Whidden. columns, there has been considerare" restrictions. Surely, these imprisonment.
with the alternative of two weeks'
The deceased, who was a native National savings produce mutual of London, began his training on truat between capital and labour.-. able surprise expressed at the fact simple facts speak eloquently of
the "Conway" and later joined the Major-General J. E. B. Seely. that, after what has been almost a the Government's omission.
A Chinese printer of Messrs. British India Steam Navigation "I often think a dahlia in a Noronha & Company, living on the Company. record rainfall this year, the rider
About 12 years ago, garden is very much like what a premises of the Company in Dudhe transferred to the Indo-China petrol pump is to, a landscape.— main restrictions should have had;
dell Street, reports that some time Steam Navigation Company and Sir W. Lawrence. between 2 a.m. and daylight on served as master of several of this to be so early applied in the
Short skirta are better than Sunday morning, someone entered Company's boats, his last the place, by means unknown, and mand being on the s.s. Chipshing the rain and bring on pneumonia. western portion of the city. The
stole money, jewellery, and cloth ife left for Home about two years (Salvation Army.)
com-long. which get bed raggled with only explanation is that the reser
ing valued at $90.
-Commander Evangeline Booth voirs on the island of Hongkong
ago and returned to the Colony are not of suficient capacity to
on October 22nd, having, in the This morning's Harbour: Office meantime severed his connection
Speaking at a meeting of Sutton ensure that the water in storage
reports rave nine arrivale and with the Indo-China Company. Rotary Club. Mr. Arthur R. Cotton, at the end of the mainy season
four departures, of which threest at Ilome, he was far from Lord of the Manor of Ashtead, in the parish of which the remains
The Canton Outlook.
The startling events of the past few days in Canton have yet further illustrated the instability and uncertainty of the general observers, the position at the early situation in China. To interested part of last week appeared to be most promising. It seemed that
at long last there was a prospect and one respectively were British. well, and a week after his return will suffice for the island's needs cargo of the lay was British but all others until the rains of the spring. camp forming a sufficiently strong were Japanese. At 9 a.m., there removed to Kowloon Hospital, Baid the Lord Mayor of London had
reened to vessels in harbour of which 19 were British.
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where he passed away at 3 o'clock this morning.
to send to Sir Rowland Blades.
Millions of gallons of water have combination to dominate the Party
other Diere was no truth in the and usher in an era of consolida-
story of Dick Whittington and his run to waste all during the past tion. The situation in Canton was
cat, because there were no cats in summer and even as recently as admittedly a little ahnky, but few
The late Captain Hurley was England in Dick Whittington's October 1st, the big reservoir at which immediately followed the de-tatives to-day passed a bill grant along the China Coast and he
were prepared for the upheaval The Cuban House of Represen- very well-known in Hongkong and time. He (Mr. Cotton) had there piece of Roman tile made at Tytam Tuk was full to overflowing-parture of General La Chal-sum toing a pension of 3500 a month to made a large circle of friends to Ashtead, in the second century, and We have had practically no rain Shanghai, That treachery and Mrs. Louise Wood, widow of the mourn his loss. He leaves a wife on this piece of tile a cat put lis since and the rate of consumption bribery played a prominent part in Governor-General of the Philip (formerly Miss Goldenberg) and paw, while the tile was still soft
the coup there can be little doubt, pines. General Wood was Mili-
and loft a clear Impression. This (which has been exceptionally But
a young son, both of whom are in tile was made and found within a whatever the motives tary Governor of Cuba following the Colony, as well as a brother, few yards of Sir Rowland Blado's high this year) is proving greater inspiring the movement may have American occupation of the 1s-who is an officer in the China house at Ashtead, and had been
been, the position at the moment land. than can be fully sustained. is still rather confused. There is
Navigation Company. With these lying there for hundreds of years and other relatives the utmost to convince him of his error and There has to be conservation naturally much speculation as to The report of the progress of sympathy will be felt. Deceased's to restore their faith in the ancient practised, and the Water Authority whether the occurrences of the the experiments in Germany in father, it may be mentioned, was story. He was having a cast mado has very wisely taken the safe past few days can be regarded as connection with the production of formerly Superintendent of Posts of the cat's paw which he proposed
of major importance or signi- synthetic rubber have left the at Colombo. guard of putting the first rider feanee, or whether they merely re- London market undisturbed, says a main service into
present a local trial of strength special cable dated November 15, operation.
between rival Generals jealous of to Malayan papers. The Times Doubtless, thore will be furthor each other's position. The true declares that the German Investi- districts added later. And the inner history of the coup has yet gations are still in the experimen point we would here like to make, many aspects of the situation will to be made known. Judgment on
tal stage. and it is one of which the public therefore have to be suspended
A severe squall which swept is fully aware, is that the Govern until it becomes known what over Singapore last Monday sank ment of this Colony has for ments will have on the Nationalist cargo boat) in the roads, and it is effect, if any, the Canton develop at least one twakow (Chinese
Paris years known that its reservoir Conference in Shanghai which thought that other losses occurred. Berlin Geneva provision is behind requirements Ching-wei are attending,
both Li Chal-sum and Wang
When which have not yet been reported Oslo and that it has done nothing these two men and Chiang Kai- to the Master Attendant. Kho Helsingfors which can be of immediate benefit. shek disclose their hands it will Swee Huat, a twakow owner, re- Now York be possible to form a better esti- ported that one of his craft went Amsterdam It is true that the great Shing mate of the whole situation.. For down in the outer roads with Stockholm, Bun River scheme, as first con the moment, the better plan will cargo of salt, and one of the crew Madrid ceived and outlined during the be to remain patient and to "wait is missing. regime of Sir Edward Stubbs, was
and see."
to have provided Hongkong with Le perennial supply. But thej "What Price Glory," the famous film which will begin its ran here decree has gone forth (and to our to-morrow, is unusually long, and mind backed by very unconvincing the Queen's Theatre starting times argument) that the island of have been altered to meet the spe Hongkong is not to be included in begin each day at 2.30, 5 sharp, cial conditions. The picture, will that scheme. There are some 7.15, and 9.30, and cinema-goers are allegedly high political motives advised to book early as there is behind that decision but we and sure to be a big demand for seats especially at the later performances,
The funeral takes place at the Jewish Cemetery at 5 p.m. to-day,
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In M. Supreme Court at Copenhagen Shanghai, His Honour Judge Peter Pragua Grain has granted a decree nisi Lisbon with the custody of the child of Athena the marriage to Harold Wakelam, Bucharest the petitioner in a divorco action. Rio.
Buenos Airea The respondent was Kate Evelyn Ivor. Louis Berthet. Mr. J. Hongkong Wakelam and the co-respondent; Shanghai Jones appeared for the petitioner. Yokohama Neither the respondent nor co-res- Silver (spot) pondent was present In Court or Silver (dorward) represented by counsel.
London, Nov. 20.
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Besides Norma Shearer's amu- sing feature film, "The Waning,
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ing for the last time to-day include 89.65 Bebe Daniels comedy. "Lovers in .18.18% Quarantine," at the World, and .104% Adolphe Menfou's comedy-drama,
.2%"A Social Celebrity," at the Star.; 367 "Lovers in Quarantine" will be 702 serconed at 5.16 and 9:20 only, the attraction in the World Theatre at 2.80 and 715 being the Chinese drama, A Mother's Heart." The continuous programma at the Star Theatre lasts from 5.15 to 8.80 only, the new Our Cabaret at 9.15 presenting Its farewell revue, "Pot. „Pourri.”.
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