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at Albort again.
"I'm tired of monkeys. Let's She looked go to the reptile house," said the "Thank you BO much. I wan small boy, seizing the man's hand kind—”
Tears aprang in the little boy's impulsively.
cyes, "But Mums-Albort and
"Right-ch'a, littl’un.”
a
People stared curiously at the me" very long this man, with hla "Come along, dear. Don't be shabby clothes and annemic face, such nufaance.". and firmly and the sturdy fair-haired taking his hand, she turned and youngator, as they walked hand walked away. In hand round the Zoo.
But still Albert stood there. "What's your
name, plessa?"
and his gaze followed them until asked the small boy.
"Wal-supposin yer jist calla bend, and still Mrs, Stecle's blue they had vanished round the
of services, but in these respects the position must be admitted to have immensely improved aa com- pared with the times when the bun companies were largely left to their own devices and little con- trol was exercised over them. allocation of routes and the laying down of regular time-tables have brought about a distinct better ment in the service provided. whilst the type of vehicle has also been greatly Improved. However, we have to bear in mind the fact that the tendency of the times in modern centres is against com- petitive services. A noteworthy example in London. One would have Imagined that there was very little room for an Improvement of the bus services
me h'Albert, little chap." of the Metropolis, but that big
"Oh-oh, Albert, fook at that amused oyes seemed to be gazing up at him, and a faint perfume giraffe!"
clung suggestively in the air. H advantages are expected from uni.
Albert was beginning to feel could not remember ever seeing fled control is obvious from the
vaguely worried. He had made anything so lovely. His mind fact that a big scheme along these
very special appointment for this was dazed. "An' fancy her bein lines is to be put into affect in the
afternoon, to meet Millio Higgins, the ' chap's mother an' all.” the daughter of one of the keepera. near future. It is unfortunato
With a sigh, he roused himself for the Tramway Company that the first floor of No. 31, Cheung On and for eaven's snike I won't be back, under the archway. Almost Fatally injured by a fall from the "Near the h'elephnata, Albert, from his trance, and slowly paced its routes in Kowloon are not the Street, Lee Hong, a Telephone Com kept waitin'." Jimminy, that was within sight of the elephant most remunerative, and this may pany workman, died in hospital yea- some gal, had her eye on what was house, he stopped and shook his
terlay abortly after admission.
proper, and time an' things like long, longe frame impatiently. No-Millle could wait. He didn't
com- "Hey h'Alberth'Albert -- four-an' 'ere I've been waitin' wotcher doin' h'anyway, it's past all this time, and t'a n shalme " Albert swung round angrily. "What-oh it's you, Milliel"
"YUA o'course didn't-che
be a factor in the expressed de-
The King's Exequatur empowering Mr. M. J. van Schreven to act as Vice Counsul for the Netherlands at Hong- kong, has
received Majesty's signature,
A hankruptcy notiftention ntaten that a thir dividend of $10 per cent. has been declared in the case of a Pak-yan, aliun Ah Hau, of the Dragon Motor Car Company.
that, all, right.
run aroun like this?
"Hey, wot did-jer`any yer ma was wearin' 7"
sire for unified control, in which, A Chinese was sent to hospital Then the problem occurred, feel sort of sociable now,
from Wai.ching Street yesterday. Albert looked down at his presumably, the Tramway Com-where he suffered injuries through panion helplessly.
Con- being struck by a bamboo drying pole folks doin' lettin' the little chap What was his pany would be interested.
dropping from 021 upper floor ceivably, the Company could make verandah.. out a good case, on the basis of justice, for some rearrangement of the present system. But, as we say, the question was not develop. cil to any extent at yesterday'a meeting.
are not so liable to mechanical
motor
conditions.
Knocked down by a private enr (N». admitted to hospital, where she died. 894), an elderly Chinese woman was yesterday. The necident occurred in Kennedy Street, a report being made the driver.
knaow?"
I could run around for a bit, and "I don't know, Albert. She anld then I got lost and-" His round eager face was unconcerned.
"Hey, y'know' chap-maybe the monkey house." she'll be worryin' for yerl"
Albert glance at his watch.
"Wal-oh, crikey, lot's o
It was ten minutes to four. He NORMAN R. COLLINS tells had arranged to meet Millie at
of the terrace,
How to Be 100.
I'
to
N the name week, Dr. Gueniot, of Paris, has told mankind
alone and friendless, having out- lived all his contemporaries.
That sort of thing makes it extremely difficult for the rest of as to know what to do. Few men want to die. But fewer want to be alone and friendless.
One point put forward was that In proportion to the fall in sliver. any Company securing a franchise Britain, and all 'gold-using coun- for the Kowloon services should tries. Instead of taking effective the hour. have the option of utilising the measures to meet this competition
The boy smiled up at him. "I of cheap labour, are virtually sub-like chap'. I don't like Albert. types of vehicles best suited to
sidising it by boycotting the stand- | Let's-let's go for a ride on the particular needs. In this COR-ard by which it is puid. After this camel, old chap?" nexion, we were preally interested has gone on for a little while, all "Wal-" begin Albert dubloun- COLONY'S TRANSPORT. in the reference to trolley-buses, the time stimulating of China's in-
ly. which possess certain advantagesdustrial expansion-and it is going round the bend
When, just at that moment, over both trains and ordinary.on to an almost unbelievable extent appeared the most beautiful girl As was to be expected, the old motor buses. As was pointed out where is work to be found for the he had ever seen. She was small controversy of trams varaus buses by the Royal Commission on Teans.mills which were built to supply and dainty, with a large floppy how to live to be a hundred, and was revived at the annual meeting port, they are simple and easy of
the Eastern market? Japan, we hal, and very high-heeled patent un inmate of Leicester Institution As she came closer, he has died at the age of 104, com- may agree, doinitiates the position shops. of Hongkong Tramways, Ltd. control. fixed rnils disappear, they at the moment, but Chino's tarit noticed that her eyes were a clear plaining bitterly that he WAS terday. Some good points were
shining blue, which seemed to ean draw up at the kerb to get policy, and the notable increase dance out of her face, and when made in defence of trans in the down and pick up passengers with
in imports of machinery into she smiled she displayed a Rash course of the Chairman's speech, safety, they are relieved of the China recently, bespeaks the time of white even teeth. especially in regard to their un-expense of road maintenance, they when China will be cutting out
"Moms," shouted the small boy, doubted ability to handle huge
Japan, and perlings sending gouds rushing at her. "Come and look crowds expeditiously and, what is breakdowns as buses, and they are products, in other fields.
abroad to compete with British what I've found. It's Albert."
The little chap's mother hold And though it is comparative- of equal importance, to provide probably the most
The out her arma-"My precious!" ly easy to keep a friend it is silent of allatabilisation of Hongkong's dollar Then, looking up, she noticed comparatively difficult, judging by efficient service at a remarkably public
service road vehicles, would make no difference to such Albert leaning awkwardly against the disclosures of successful agree, also. Presumably also they can provide situation, neither helping or the wall, fombling at his cap, and centenarians, to keep alive. It with the enutention that to sub cheaper transport than
hindering; the adoption of a gold she smiled enchantingly up at calls for as much self-denial to stitute trams by buses in long-buses under certain
standard by China might provide him.
become a centenarian as to be- kong would involve a hardship on These points suggest that there time, it is Britain's bounden duty oftens runa off like that, and 1 dangerous and deadly than we in a temporary check. In the mean him? That was nice of you. Heng, it appears, are far more "Have you been looking after come a saint. Enting and drink- those to whom cheapneas of travel
might, well be a place for the is essential. On the question of trolley-bis on the Kowloon side. Chinese workman's
to strive ber utmost restore the was Just beginning to feel our nursery days ever suspected. congestion, Mr. John Arnott, M.P. In any event, the whole question power by forcing up, in all ways
purchasing nervous."
And to lie in bed. Dr. Guenlot Albert was transfixed. Ilis cyosasaures us, is merely to accelerate might possible, the price of silver. The assumed that loose, disjointed ex-death.
Only, in fact, by avoiding all the Government, with a view to something to start the ball rolling, mean, old chap an' me were just can man smear his portion of life "But Mums.. darling, Albert-Ithe comforts of human existence seeing what improvements, if any. based silver coins and to re-issue he knows a man who"
would be to call in British de going on the camel, and he says across a full century.
The recipes for langevity Bre are called for, especially from the them in sterling silver. The opera.
A flicker of amusement hovered diverse and mostly unpleasant. standpoint pot forward by the tion could not be carried out at a in Mrs. Steele's very blue eyes, They range from mere abstinence Tramway Compuny,
Nothing more favourable time seeing that as she shook a speck of dust off from tobacco and alcohol to 30- would he lost, and possibly much the price of aliver has depreciated dear. I've promised we'll meet And they are all of them right.
her coat. "I'm afraid not now, mile walks and a diet of nuta, gained, by an analysis of the whole 80 per cent. since the debasement Auntie Edith for tea and For in this world someone can Always be found to support any- thing. Zaro Aga, the 160-year- old Turkish porter, for instance, had never touched tobacco or alcohol in his life and a half. He was immediately pounced upon by the Prohibitionista and ex- hibited, just as Captain James Smith, of Philadelphin, who lived to be 124 and was a ferocious walker and smoker (30 miles and 25 cigars a day at 50), was herald- ed by the peripatetic school. Bloaters in Coffee,
in a recent article in the Yorkshire
of the Kowloon services
Post, put the position tersely when with advantage be investigated he first step, a mere palliative, but pression, characteristic of him.
he pointed out that with trams, motor lorries and motor omnibusus
operating in narrow streets, con- gestion is bound to result, but such congestion is due to the developi ment of traffic in roads too narrow to carry It: the substitution of
motor buses for tramears would not improve matters. There is no enll at the moment to go further into this multer of trams versus
position.
Britain's Interest in Silver, The relation between the de- buses, since we know of no inten-preciation of silver values and the tion of developing the one type of appalling Agures of British trade service in Hongkong to the exclu- losses in Hongkong and China will wion of the other. The plain fact doubtless form an important fen- would appear to be that there is]ture of the Report which the Bri- room in the Colony for both tramstish Economic Mission will present and buses; each have their parti-to the British Government on their cular sphere of service to the return to England. Judging by the public speeches of the members, community.
however, it is to be doubted whether Of more immediate interest than sufficient study has been devoted to. this web-worn controversy was this aspect of the problem. In our the suggestion put forward at yes view, the silver slump must not be terday's meeting that the time has employed merely as an explanation come for unified control of Kow-of loss of trade; it must be made loon's road transport problem the subject of very strong recom under one management. Wo reto have a reasonably clear grasp of mendations. Mr. Snowden appears alise, of course, that the submis- the nature of the silver catastrophe. sion put forward partakes of some but we fact sure that he could not thing in the nature of special, adopt his present matter-of-fact pleading from the fact that the attitude were it brought home clear- Tramway Company's batalary y how seriously the artificial de- concern across the harbour has not new, but in the future. The pression will hit British Industry, been operated at a loss. That longer the depression of silver per- fact, however, should not rule out sists, the less prospect will there ba the proposal if it can be shown of Britain ever getting back into that it would be to the boneft of the China market. The damage the public to make the change. It action is taken. If silver is to bo done might be remedied if early is to be regretted that this aspect allowed to adjust itself, the time of the matter WAS not further has come for Britain to search for developed by Mr. Stewart yester. other markets. The situation day. Refervaco was made to reck at present is that wages in China less competition and duplication will not rise for a very long time
was effected in 1920.
must go right away."
"Of course I wouldn't be telling you just like one of the family and if the
daughter-in-law."
KOMBİNİN SERVICE HIT. REG-D-1-PANDAI
this if you wasn't wasn't my GWD
we
The bit about nuts, I confess, was a little action of my own. But
1: 'am reminded of how dangerous it is for fiction to compete with fact by the Adriatic lady who survived well into bor second century on a fare of smoked horrings dipped in strong black coffee: BERA
Marringe, they': Hay, puts years on a. man; and this not in a pare ly humorous sense. Married man | actually to live longer than bachelors, It is not, as has been hold, that it merely seems longer. In support of this, one might ever call' Zaro. Aga again, since he has been married 12 tintos. But perhaps Zaro Aga should ronlly bo called on the side of another powerful school that claims that a hobby is the best medicine against death.
I am sometimes surprised by my nonchalance in the face of the Anel dissolution. A millionaire, I am told, has a greater chance of long life than other men. But quite frankly I doubt if I shall ever leave my present job and become a rallifonaire. I may do but I am ecoptical
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