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HUNTER-At the Victoria Hospital, on August 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. James Hunter, 196, the Peak, twin girls-Anno Louise and Jean Marie.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, AUG. 15 153).
In order to classify these, the importer looks up the index of the Classification List. He will not And rat traps under "Rats," although he will discover "Rṇb- bits" (either dead or alive, wo presume!), neither will he locate
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DAY BY DAY
PRESERVING THE HEALTH BY TOO STRICT A REGIMEN IS A WEARISOME MALADY.-La Rochfoucauld..
tion.
Women Who Let You
Pay.
them under "Traps" and "Tiger The P. and 0. 8.8. Kashgar. bones," which are listed, will not from Singapore, is due here at materially help him! Should he7 a.m. on Thursday,
this season of the year one the remnants of a dry martini and At this season of
a great deal digging blood-red nails into in- describe them ns. "Household
The health return for the week about confidence men those blue offensive olives... hardware," the chances are that end shows one case of puerperal eyed, hearty, ingenuous creatures Out of sheer boredom one in- he will receive a query slip ask-fever among the floating popula-who approach American business vites her to have a drink, because men in the Strand and pour into such women, consumed without ing for a more detailed descrip-
their cars tales as fantastic as the alcohol, are insufferable. She says tlon. The point to be stressed in The Empress of Japan, which Songs of Araby, writes Beverley "Yes" and orders a side-car, which instances of this character is that left Hongkong on the 7th August. Nichols in the Daily Mail. The is sixpence more thin the other | very little, if any, good is served arrived at Vancouver on the 22nd story always cuds with the sad sort. Various other girls with
Augnat.
spectacle of the American standing blood-red natis materialise from, odd by demanding particulars in such
disconsolately at the corner of the corners, drink and depart, after a The Ben Lines. Benavon street waiting in vain for the porfunctory introduction. And detail, and that the end in view-
from Antwerp and London vis blue-eyed one to return with the then she slowly slithers from her the keeping of trade statistics-Straits and Manila, is due here on thousand pounds which he has lent seat, clasps her bag, looks one
him. would be just as well served by September 2nd.
firmly in the eye, and says, "Good-" I have never been able to under-bye, and thank you for the divine classifying on more general lines.
"Whilst sleeping on a sicol out-stand this apparent willingness to drink." It only needs moment's con side 43, Woosung Street Yaumati, part with a thousand pounds at a
Had she been accurate she would sideration to show that as a con- this morning, an unknown Chinese moment's notice, but I imagine that have said, "Good-bye. Thank you sequence of the demands of the lost his balance and fell, being later if one has lived for some time on for two side-cars, the bronx and picked up unconscious and taken to Wall-street the practice becomes the dry martini, consumed by self the, Kwong Wah Hospital for treat-second nature.
and friends before your arrival, ment.
and also for two side-cars, three Nobody, however, has called at-white ladies and one champagne As a result of the effects of antention to the alarming phenomenon nature consumed by self and friends overdose of opium believed to have of the confidence woman. She too during your presence, at a total cost coolie employed at 09, Caine Road,
is blue-eyed and ingenuous, and. [of 'twenty-four shillings." was taken to the Government Civil though she may not be quite so If you really wish to see her, Hospital yesterday being courtois, gerous to the average man because native heath, watch her at Le Tou- is not regarded as being serious.
one meets her every sort of situa- According to a report made to friends.
tion-even in the houses of one's quet or Deauville, or at any place on the Riviera where there is the police yesterday, Dr. Au King.
She is the girl who says "Let's a casino. She may be staying at of 41, Kai Yan Road, Kowloon City, dine
a villa or at an hotel-it makes no together-fifty-fifty, you
Statistical Office, a great deal of work is thrown on retail firms whenever they receive a consign-
ment of mixed goods. Every con- signment carries with it a large number of invoices, and the task of describing each lot in detail and converting the landed costs into local currency is often stupon- dous. In one
case which has
been self-administered, a house
expensive, she is really more dan
however, in her full glory, on her
come to our notice, the importer was bitten in the left leg by his now." (A loathsome expression, difference. She will find some own chow dog, which was later but gladdening to the heart). She friends vague London acquaint- removed to Mataukok for observa-makes this proposal in the true ances who are all transformed by these exotic surroundings Into tion. Dr. Au King treated him-spirit of the new economically in- "dearest" and "darling." mcets them at the casino,
self.
She
and
says it will take him at least two- days to compile the details asked for, and when it is pointed out that
And then, when dependent woman. some of the invoices are in respect
the bill arrives, she suddenly re of trifling lots reckoned in a few futile. England was smothered so verts to the complete Victorian follows the most prosperous looking shillings or pence, it does seem
convincingly in the last Test that miss, lowers her eyes and becomes male into the salle de jeu (The it merely remains to congratulate intensely interested in the contour most prosperous looking male is absurd that all this classifying the Australians. We have no bats-of her nails.
usually myself, owing to a pair of man like Bradman and on the whole and pricing should be expected.
Or when there has been a party gandy dress-studs left me by an our bowlers have failed to come up and people are going home in taxi- eccentric relation.) The traders of this Colony are,
to the form of Grimmett and cabs she says "Couldn't we all She then stands behind the we feel sure, anxious and willing Hornibrook. England tried almost share this one?"*
wretched man, breathes heavily to do what can be reasonably every combination in the Tests to Idiotically you say "Yes, that down his back, and, just as he is meet the youth of Australia and would be perfect." You then find about to take a bank, whispers in his expected in the way of co-operat-Australian youth has conquered that she lives at St. John's Wood ear, "May I put in a hundred francs ing with the Government in the convincingly. England's bowlers and that her friend lives at Lancas- with you?" Chivalry prompts him compilation of trade statistics, but generally proved powerless against ter Gate, two localities which may to say, "Of course," and while she Bradman, yet it cannot be denied have charm in themselves, but are is fumbling in her bag he pushes they will naturally resent being that England has some fine trund-not seen to their best advantage on forward a hundred franc plaque. England's batsmen, with re-la rainy night when one's whole for her, as there is no time to called upon to spend hours or even lers. days in supplying information cords and fine performances strung body is yearning to go to bed in waste. If the bank wins she puts behind them, have on Occasions Chelsea. And, of course, at the out her hand and smiles sweetly, never pays. And the man, which can possess very little real been almost mown down by Grim-end of the drive there is fumbling She value." In these times, especially, mett and Hornibrook. The work in the bag. You cannot let giris being a "gentleman," can do noth- no firm can afford to add to its in the field too, would appear to fumble in the bag in the rain. In ing whatever about it. have been far less consistent and other words, you pay.
I have seen this shoddy little It all makes me very angry. If trick played over and over again overhead expenses by putting its far less damaging that the Austra staff on work of this character lians who without the slightest women take men's jobs they ought by women who would be horrified doubt deserve the "Ashes". So the also to pay their share of the bill. if you told them they were dis- when other and more urgent honour returns to Australia and Instead of which quantities of honest, by women with large in- it is pointed out that, as a con-matters demand attention. It there can be no regrets that it has women are putting up a false bluff comes and blameless reputations.
not remained in England
where about paying their way, at the same They seem to think it a feminine now must be found the counter-time clinging desperately to all the privilege. There are many parts of some of the Australian old privileges. I do not think that men, of course, as scrupulous and conquerors who, during the next confidence women is too hard a sporting as any man-women with Test series will meet hitherto un-name to give them. In a. cock whom it is a pleasure-(and often seen brilliance with even greater tail bar the confidence woman should a profit)—to gamble. · But they brilliance. We add our congratu-be shunned like the devil. One are outnumbered by the confidence.
lia will undoubtedly receive.
TRADE STATISTICS.
The Statistical Office of the Imports and Exports Department is apparently experiencing some difficulty in getting local firms to
ac-
declare goods strictly in cordance with the Classification List. In a circular on the subject,
sequence, the Statistical Office is compelled to
prepare and send out each month several hundred query slips requesting shippers and consignees to declare the correct weight, correct values and
would almost seem as if the Statistical Office expects business firms to do work which should, properly be discharged by itself. We are told that in most other
correct descriptions. It is added places, Government Departments that because of these facts, not responsible for compiling trade only is the work of the Office great.returns are quite content with the ly increased, but the compilation supplying of duplicate invoices, from which all the necessary in- of trade statistics is appreciably hindered. That is the Governformation can be obtained. Surely that practice could be followed ment side of the question, but, as may be 'imagined, there is another here. We realise, of course, that aspect which should be taken into such a procedure would involve account, and it is with this that greatly increasing the staff of the Statistical Office if all the details we wish to deal.
now required had to be put on record, but the really sensible course would appear to be more general classification than oblains. If that were done, it should be a relatively easy matter to enter up particulars from
Let us state, before coming to the traders' viewpoint, that we can well believe that many of the returns filed by Arms are lacking in essential details and that there may be just cause for complaint in this direction, but the question
now
does arise as to whether some of supplied invoices. This would cut the information sought is not totally unnecessary and of no real value from the standpoint of compiling a record of the trade ous
out a great deal of needless classifying and at the same time relieve business firms of an oner- burden. Whatever method
veriest
of the Colony. In the case of the Government adopts, it does wholesale firms dealing with bulk seem altogether unreasonable to cargo, the difficulty of classifica- throw upon importers so much tion is not nearly so great as it work in order that such goods us is where retail establishments novelties and sundries may be
described down to the importing cases of mixed goods
detail, are concerned. These. latter firms are, as à consequence. finding it extremely difficult, and;. in some instances, Impossible to The Test matches are over for satisfy the demands of the this year and England has little satisfaction to glean. The last Statistical Office. In spite of the match was a devastating affair, al-
hundreds of headings into which the Classification Liat is divided,
Test Reflections.
though we might regret the mis- fortune which forced England to bat on a sticky wicket. But that
it is quite a common experience the result would have been the for firms to be unable to designate same if the wicket had been in per
fect condition can scarcely be many of the sundries they receive doubted. English cricketers have excepting in a general way, but been beaten by far superior cricket- when a return of this nature isers and it is little use anyone shut- ting their eyes to the fact. We filed.. we are informed that it can get little tit-bits of satisfac- almost invariably brings forth ation out of the individual perform- query slip asking for further ances of some of the English play. ers in the series of games, but we particulars. Let us take a case in can never total these up to equal point. Assuming that amongeta the cricketing strength of the beam which has taken the “Ashes”. consignment of other goods, back to Australia. Criticisms, com number of rat traps are received. plaints and all the rest are now
lations to the many which Austra-goes in and finds her there, sipping women.
"But you know, Florence, I can't swim." "Just keep your head, Percy, and you'll float"
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