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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1928,
GARDENING IN HONGKONG.
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR AUGUST.
No-one can have a well-kept and well cultivated garden without bo-
TRADE & SHOPPING..
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States, is one of the evils which arises from attempted prohibition, and there is much in Governor Smith's declaration that this pro- vides a sound argument in favour!
Although Oxford has decided that the recent rapier duel bo- of amendment or repeal of the
tween Mr. Graham Eyres-Monsell Volstead Act. Ho also puts for
"Leb's Trade and Shopping and Mr. Maurico Green was a less ward a very sound proposal when ing to a considerable extent, his own Guide of Hongkong," which has serious affair than at first repres
head gardener, and he must, for he suggests that each State should the most part, take the soil na he just made its appearance, can sented, the Proctors have fined fix its own standard of alcoholic finds it. However, it is of the certainly be described as one of the duellists $10 each and their content, subject to a proviso that utmost importance that any soil, the best dollar's worth over offered.
An undergraduate weekly, of good or bad, must be thoroughly to the public here.
which Mr Green is editor, is the standard does not exceed a
worked. maximum laid down by Congress. Turn it over and let the sun. Comprising nearly five hundred credited with a design to raise a amine of informa- fund for the payment of the bake and purify it, ridding it of pages, it is It is not easy, of course, for us weeds. Have this done constantly tion and should find a ready place Anes. Another university journal in this part of the world to esso as to be in readiness for the work both in the home and the office.claims to have identified the my Several of its features fill a long-sterious "Gorman doctor" who at timinto the likely attitude of the of the month, viz seed sowing.
The beat method of sowing will, feltywant. For example, not only tended the duel as an under- people of America generally on to some extent, depend upon the is, there a directory of the main graduate named Bowen. this Prohibition question, al-kind of seed to be sown. Use gar- buildings of the Colony, but there though we have no doubt that den soil which has been well dried are admirable maps of the busi- In the sun and then sloved. Take ness section of the city, in which there is a large section favourable clean pots, place a few crooked pot-streets and buildings are clearly to some reasonable amendment shords above the hole and fill three set out, and, what is more, of the inw, which would place fourths of the pot with your pre-numbers also indicated..
pared soil. Press down firmly and
Those are given both in Eng. the matter on a far better footing overly, and cover with a layer of linh and Chinese-a system which
Remember well than it la at present. The Refinely sieved soil.
that the finer the seed' the less the publicans themselves are obvious-coverering und vice versa.
ly divided on the subject, witness Should there be any, sign of ants,
the declaration just made by Pro-place your seed pots on tables or About Hong Kong.
slands, the legs of which stand in fessor Nicholas Murray Butler, bowla filled with Jeyes fluid or
added..
one of the Party's most distin-water in which kerosene has been gulshed leaders, when he says that the only alternative to re-
It is advisable to sow seeda on the Upper levels at least a month before
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Cineraria: These seeds should ment is a continuance of "lawless be the first to be sown. Sow in ness and debauchery.". The axlat-pots and shade with glass. Prick off the seedlings, as soon as they ing state of affairs is certainly no attain the fourth leaf, into small credit to the presént Administra-pots, and when they have made Ltdtion, which will, we should more growth, move again into the pota in which they are to remain, imagine, have some difficulty in using rich light soil. A mixture of persuading the people, to leavo Canton mud, leaf-soll and stable the further solution of the manure is, perhaps, the best potting
compost. problem in ils handa. Many olher issues will, naturally, affect the electorate in their final choice of a new President, and some of these may overshadow the Prohibition question. But on the "wet" and "dry" question, the Democrats would appear to be on the better wicket.
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY AUGUST 24 1928
PROHIBITION.
Disarmament Problems.
Keep them protected from the strong rays of the sun and fairly moist and they will bloom in great beauty.
pays one for it.
Į
Do you know that--~~
the
Bowen Road was built by convict labour and wak named after Sir George Forgu- son Bowen, who was Governor from 1883 till 18877
Sir George Bowen, in the first year of his office, succoed- ed in obtaining from the Home Government, a small measure of popular representation, in that the Chamber of Commerce and the Justices of the Peaco, were allowed to nominate members of the Legislative Council.
Sir Thomas Jackson (for tho Chamber) and Mr. F. D. Sna- soon (for the Justices) wore the first so elected.
the
n
Fly,
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You must dial
All the health authorities day
you must,
So I trust
You will not think I am unduly
crual
For handing out your gruol. In any case
(I saw
I don't like your facel -
an enlarged photo. graph of it in a book And my dislike of your look Was intense!);
Besides, your buzzing gives
offence;
You seem to think my head
Is a promonado, Whereas It to strictly
barred;
And when you catch sight
Of food you appear to think you've a right
To a bite!
Well, you're mistaken! Get off the bacon
So that I can swat 'you
GOT YOU!
The Archbishop used to be the censor of the Press; now it is the other way round.The Arch- bishop of Canterbury,
A woman's voto is as good as a man's, but in saying this I do not wish to be understood as ex- preasing very great admiration for it. Lord Sumner.
Alexander the Great, If he were living to-day, would weep, not because thero were no more
worlds to conquer, but because there were ло кого papers in which his photograph could ap pear-Mr. Robert Lynd.
08 a
We are in sight of a generation which might be described generation of omniscient babies.
-The Bishop of Durham.
'Heliotrope:-Most of the plants we see here are propagated from cuttings and cannot compare in any way to the ones grown from seeds. It is more troublesome is followed right through possibly, but the result amply re-book--so that it is an easy matter
to ascertain precisely where Primulas: The seeds of the certain street number is located. As the United States Presiden-
variety Sinensis and stellata Another excellent feature is n should be sown under glass and classifed list of all types of bual tial campaign gathers force, It is becoming
transplanted as soon as they canness, foreign, and Chinese, set increasingly evident
be handled easily, using the same out in Chinese, by reference to that the Prohibition issue is to
The suggestion that Britain compost as advised for Cineraria, which a houseboy or office cm- and France have reached an agree-Do play an important part in thement on disarmament wider than plants. except in n
not attempt to grow these ployee enn enstly get into touch forthcoming election. On paper, the much-discussed nuval compro- The variety Malacoides la, how-on behalf of his employer.
greenhouse. with any particular shop or firm the nititude of the Republienna mise is given colour by the general ever, very hardy and suitable to All the firm names included in
A Jew and an Aberdonian wore and Democrats, as revealed by the statements published in London grow in the open garden. This is the book are given addresses and haled before justice on a charge and Paris, It seems to be a fact a very beautiful plant with small telephone numbers, whilst there of being drunk and disorderly. "platforms" adopted by the in return for French concessions dainty pink flowers.
Is also much information in re- The chief witness was the police- National Conventions, are identi-on naval matters England is pre- Sweet Peas: The early flower-gard to motor-bus, tramway, man who arrested them, who gave cal: both favour strict enforce-pared to agree to the Frenching also called the Winter flower-ferty and railway services. At it as the opinion that they were ment of the Volstend Ael.
thesis concerning land forces.ing is the ideal Sweet Pea for the one dollar, the Guide is remark In
not only drunk, but mad drunk. This does hot, however, explain climate of Hongkong. If the seeds ably cheap.
"The Scotsman," he said, "was actual fact, however, there in a the deep distress in which that are sown at the end of this month
sitting on the ground throwing sharp conflict of viewpoint, for the sober-minded journal, the Mou-and at intervals after, there should
away half crowns, and the Jew chester Guardian, finds itself. We he a constant succession of flowers.
ing them back to him.".
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chosen candidate of the Demo-are inclined to the view that, for The preparation of the soil shoma THE WEEK'S PICTURES. WAR running after them and hand-
erats has come out 'definitely for once in a while, Manchester has be taken in hand at once if it has [repeal or amendment of the oxlat-spoken out of its turn and is tak-not already been done.
Whether land armaments or naval sow seeda of Petunia, Antirrhinum, ing the matter much too seriously. Toward the end of the month, armaments, or both, are concerned, Dahlia and Freesias.
INTERESTING LAWN BOWLS
A commercial, traveller, during Ing law on the subject. It was,
an extensive tour of the provinces, SNAPSHOTS.
took his wife with him. Being of course, known by the Democrats
exceedingly nervous about fires, in convention that Governor Smith da impossible to overlook the Plant out tubers of Dahlia and Lawn bowls will figure prominho frequently Impressed on her
before anything definite can be tings of Marguerites, Salvias, to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph. head should the danger occur. fundamental consideration, that bulbs of freeains, and insert cut-ently in the pictures to appear in the necessity of keeping a cool settled, the whole question will Marigolds. Cosmos, and Verbenas. There will be a series of Interest- At one hotel at which they were have to be thrashed out when the Vegetable Gardon :-The work of ing snapshots of the play in the staying, a fire actually broke out. proposals are submitted for the this month should be devoted to match between the Kowloon Row-The commercial traveller aroused upproval of the other Powers at preparatory work such as digging, ing Green Club and the Police his wife, assisted her to dress, the Preparatory Disarmament Con-manuring and ridding your ground Recreation Club, which resulted in and, to demonstrate the value of ference. The difference will be of weeds. If desired for early use, a narrow win for the former; presence of mind, reached for his that Britain and France on this sowing of celery, cauliflower, let-whilst groups of the Cralgengower frock-coat and silk hat and um- occasion will be in perfect har.tuce, radish and tomatoe should be and K. C. C. teams will also appear. |brella, and accompanied his wife mony from the start and will sug-made. Bear in mind, however, Craigongower, by their win last to the street.
Laken
was not a "Dry," und, the Party programme notwithstanding, he has made it clear that he adheres to the stand which he has always up. We may therefore expect a lively controversy on the issue during the next two or three months.
Viewing the matter from
1
a
on
head."
gest a detailed and practical, that the weather at this time of week, become League Champiopa. There they watched the firemen detached point of view, wo should rather than a moral step towards the year is very uncertain and Amongst other pictures will be in their work of subduing the remarked world peace. We see nothing very special care should be taken to a striking photo of H.M.S. Castor, flames. "And now," say that Governor Smith's policy terrible in the French attitude on protect the seedlings from strong at anchor in harbour, and another the husband to his wife, "You sco la one which is likely to make a land armaments. The position sunshine and heavy rains. big appeal to the people of upheld by France is that only the Manure: This is a most impor-cruisers, H.M.S. Kent and H.M.S.
showing the two new County class the advantage of having a cool
America. Certainly. The Is
number actually under Armutant matter. The soil. In Hong; Berwick, lying alongside the naval
"Yes, John," was the reply, "but should be calculated in the size of kong is poor and to obtain good camber.
you might have put on your trou- better ground than Mr. Hoover, an army. Britain wished to in- results we have to feed the plants
sers." for the simple reason that the elude reserves also. But France constantly with manure. Horse Republicans are in a position of also puts forward the sound pro-and cow manures are the best, but position that in considering dis-it is not advisable to procure them having to admit widespread un armament proposals, the potential now unless they are at least three enforcement of the law. The military strength of a country, in- to four months old. There is a Prohibition Act, it must, be re-cluding rapidity of mobilisation very good herring manure on the
and membered,
the transference of fac market as well as many other is a Republican tories from peace to war work, artificial fertilisers which have measure. It professes absolutely should be estimated. The object yielded good results.
:
LATE DR. BALFOUR.
HOUSE-COOLIE AND
-REVOLVER,
SHOOTING INCIDENT
*RECALLED.
Having been discharged from
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Tottenham policeman of an fco cream vendor summoned for ob- structing the streets. Even when under arrost and on the way with his eart to the police station ho frequently pulled up and sold Ice
Cream,
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Wood Green motorist summon- ed for excessive speod: I was trying a new spirit, a more
ex-
ing him): It is going to be:"
Man at Tottenham: To "hit" is to strike with the fist; to "alosh" is to give a person a backhander, street: My husband had spasms Complaining wifo at Old-
on the couch. Mr. Snell: I can. not grant you a separation be- cause of that.
Willesden man: A man
chal- and I refused, then, the first time lenged me to fight three times
I challenged him, he called in the police and gave me in charge,
to prohibit the sale of alcoholle of the Anglo-French discussions, If you have not already done so, liquor, but it is common know. We are told, was to find a formula you will find that a dressing of hospital earlier than expected, a pensive, kind. Magistrate (n-
Rufficiently elastic to be accepted lime is invaluable. Remember ledge that strong drink can be by all nations. The proposals never, apply lime and stable house coolie, who was shot by a detective on Saturday last, follow- obtained almost everywhere have not been published in order manure at the same time.
[This is the first of a series of ing resistance to a search, appear throughout the country. There that they may be stretched or Gardening Notos which it is hoped ed in the deck at the Kowloon fore when the Republicans now conditions imposed on some other to publish monthly, Ed. H.K.T.] with the unlawful possession of
perhaps slackened when particular
Magistracy this morning, charged como forward as the apostles of country in its solicitude for
a revolver. strict enforcement, the obvious security may be taken
into ae- retort in that they have failed to American opposition will result in count. London still fears that
oporate their own law in the past the whole plan coming to nothing, and that there is no guarantee that and it is Interesting in this con- nexion to quote a Paris, commen- they will enforce it in the future.tator on the subject, written be The Democrats, on the other hand, fore the United States had been friends and colleagues at the fan- when the Magistrate has communí. take up the much more reasonable made aware of the naval proposals.eral at Happy Valley this morn-cated with Major Willson, line when they contend that it iso says: "Some fears" are ex-ing, of the late Dr. D. H. Balfour, an undue interferenco with per- the time of President Wilson, has early yesterday morning.
pressed that America, who since who died at the Seamen's Institute sonal liberty to attempt to pro- had a tacitly recognised monopoly
The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave hibit the use of alcohol as a in the negotiation of peace pro- officiated while others present In-
FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY.
There was a large attendance of
Frosecuting officer requested that the case should be tried by iwe Magistrates, Mr. Schofield thereupon remanding the accused til to-morrow.
A date for hearing will be fixed
TYPHOON IN THE OFFING.
posals may feel piqued that a pré- cluded Mr. G. H. Sellwood, man- A feeble anticyclone la central
*
John Sheehan a soven-year-old youngster, living with his parents. near Coventry, was recently killed in pathetic circumstances, while paying, heed to An age-old superstition.
Seeing a solitary crowwhich
beverage, and that the wlaer plan fiminary arrangement should have nger of the Seamen's Institute, Mr.over Mid-Japan. A typhoon in la belleved to be unlucky--ho Is to contral and not suppress the been made without her." This Watt, assistant manager of the shown about 150 miles N.N.E. of rushed neross the road with "a traffic. That, at any rate, is the perhaps epitomises the attitude of Seamen's Institute, Messrs. Ar experience of practically every other critics, who, surprised that ghan, Allen Brown, John Wilson
the agreement has been made pos- and numerous others. country. "Bootlegging," which is
alble, feel certain there must be Several wreaths were laid on the common to all parts of the United something wrong somewhere,
grave from friends,
Manila moving W.N.W.
view to drawing his playmates' attention to the bird so that they The local forecast till noon to might avert the ovil omen. Ho. morrow Is-North-East winds, was knocked down by a passing. moderate; fine,
motor and killed."