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COCHRANE On 30th December, 1032, at Calcutta, Thomas Mule Cochrane, aged 47 years, Chlef Engineer, 8.S. "Hosang."
The
SUBURBIA.
Bulls and Inners
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From the Office Butts O
gratitude does not lie so much in
By J. M. N. JEFFRIES, what has been accomplished as "After an extensiva study of the in the fact that we have been outlying parts of London, i am left spared much of the unrest and with the impression that the sub- minery, experienced in other urbs neither manifest themselves parts of the world. We still as they might nor - tuke - sumaiyat | Greatings Trom Hollywood:-Å await the dispersing of the stock of their advancing im Happy Now "Yeah.", clouds which have hung over portanto, the business life of the Colony, I am not sure that the very but trust that the coming twelve word "suburb" can be used much We rend of the conquest of dia- months may bring brighter and longer. Certainly it cannot be used temper in dogs. This looks hopo- with its old significance. It is like ful, for ordinary, plain, compion more prosperous times. So wa "colony": the places which it door garden humans who are forever may close on a note of hope. algnates are ac.r.ng tar seotud catching colds. Faith without works is, however, Chartor-mayora appear on every of small avail. Each in our own hand: rural districts discopear: sphere, we all have to do our urban districts turn into boroughs. When le a fact not a fact? part if 1938 is to be better than These are the outward signs of the After a Hongkong magistrate has the year now closing. Individual change of status coming over the had a whack at it. effort may not accomplish much, suburbs. They are getting so iarge but a united determination to and are extending so far from inner make the best of our opportuni- ties must have an accumulative effect of no little value.
Testing the Atmosphere
Hongkong Telegraphvolving Soviet purchase of a
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932.
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come less and less dependent upon has yet been told of the unfortun London that they are bound to be- We wonder if our now G.O.C.
Canada is getting back to harter and exchanging cattle for all.from. Russia. "Too bad. · Now would anyone care to swap a lot of bull for, say, a timä ticket?
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The. Radio Sports Club scams to work at high tension all the time:
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"Promiora to Let," says an advertisement. This seems a good chaden for those nations which. find difficulty in Cabinet-making.
A naturalist aaya Polar bears
It They will grow more self- ato retort given on the Peak Tram have Nature's best winter coat mulBelent, and will make the lives many years ago to one of his pre- And the moths have oura. of their inhabitants revolve-more decessors? upon a local axis.
Generally this process will be gradual, no doubt, but sometimes it:
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"Greta Garbo Hos a Double,”
even may have to be accelerated. says headling. We don't blame The more distant estates of the Lon. hor if she was really thirty. don County Counell, Bocontroe and Morden in particular, have the population of large towns. Their! Inhabitants are mostly youngish couples with growing childen.
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One way to overcome the busi acas depression, would be to pay trombone, players per foot of alldage, with a limit for oach ☐ ☐
playor of 8,456 feet each perforal-- In the event of another world anco, thereby giving work to more
trombonists. war, says a military export, thoro would be trenches in practically.
O D every city. Hongkong evidently A clergyman often talks in un- believes in preparedness.
other's bicap.
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HARRY: Darling, you are the breath of my life.
HILDA: Well, why don't
you hold your breath,
..:
For a time wo thought these motor car thieves had got busy
with some of those yachts,
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So Bradman had to decide if he
A Kowloon father says his young son gean- not decide whe- ther he'd like to be a phrenologist. or a short-story writer, Heada or talest
Massaging the. face with Ico is now popular. 'In Hongkong. This may account for the cool chook of of our. young
a om d
bright
girls..
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Aa wa amoke our lat Corona
We think you wore a Jonah; Wo'll see what 1983 can do. You've given all the world
doso of bluba!
A case of heads I win and
talls you lose;
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In Hongkong our KBA,
Hae not had much-to say, If it wasn't through your hoodoo.
--whose?
You sent our stocks and shares
down with a crashi
And brokers now suggest they
want the cash... You've upset the motor market,
People with a car can't park
it:
You've made a most unholy sort.
of hash!
Trial balloons are sometimes discernible with only a minimum of political vision..... Others aro. so disguised that only the ex- perts who are specially trained for the purpose can detect them. A balloon in each category has recently been released for the
In three or four years thousands "reactions" of Americans. Both of youths and girls will emorge in are called American recogni- yearly relays from these places
D. D wanting work, but far from the tion of Soviet Russia, the old centres of work, handicapped A writer says obvious one coming from the from them by the cost of travel set that vary little headquarters of President-Elect against junior wages. Unless the space was given Roosevelt, and the assured one localities develop in importance, in the news- coming from Moscow. Profes- various great problems will arise papers to the slonal sky-watchers argue that there, how to be solved? They first accounts of the freedom with which the must develop into self-sufficing cen- the Battle of Moscow correspondents are now
tres.
Trafalgar. Still, discussing the food shortage in
ADVANCE OF LOCAL CULTURE Nolson even- Russian constitutes the Soviet towns, owing nothing to London, column.
It is a good propect. Self-secure tually got his trial balloon. A year ago if fading completo satisfaction in the such conditions had prevailed advance of local culture, getting
□□ the censorship would undoubted-..their main pleasures and their chief ly have been clamped. down. Inspirations locally, would raise the so mo
We suppose of to- Why the present willingness of standards of the country and make night's parties the Kremlin to allow the facts for much greater happiness. Ta could bo dos. to be known? Is it a shrewd lents which are, lost in the great cribed as New bait for a trade agreement in- cities would win recognition upon Year Razzle- the smaller singo. portion of the Farm Board's. talent, whatever the degree of it, The tendency at present is for all stored wheat from an Ad- to emigrate to the heart of the
☐ ☐ ministration which is committed cities. The suburbs especially have three bullets from a revolver and heavily on luck-it may give way. Says a newspaper:-"Pierced by Now Year Hint:-Don't Ican too to the revival of American for been denuded. The so-called "sub- disturbed by the reports of the cign trade by way of new com urban Intelligentain" is a by-word, shots, the victim was
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aroused mercial treatics? The hazard is but there is injustice don. to from sleep at 2 a.m." A light
1932-You're nearly through! offered as the grounds for the suburbs in dubbing na suburban
In fact, we've had about Another year has almost sped, feeling that & trial balloon is in small coterice whose whole gospel sleeper, probably.
enough of you! its course. Whether to pass a the air. Clearly, Mr. Roosevelt is at all costs never to be leen. malediction or a blessing on 1932 is taking the question of re either has emigrated and thinks shions, they certalely give our
The real suburban Intelligentela
One thing about the new fa- will largely be a matter of in- cognition of Soviet Russia under regretfully of its native place or womenfolk plenty of elbow-room. dividual outlook. But, in the very serious consideration. Hia eise lives in the suburb, organising large, it must be said that the approach is probably commer exhibitions of local interest and try- dying year has been one of hopes cial. American trade with the ing to get ratepayers associations disappointed and tears verified. Soviets has been dwindling to think as much of the history of Duc allowance must, of course rapidly. There was a time when the district as of its rates. Le matin for the natural tendency the United States occupied top In this respect it is curious to to look coldly upon the past and place as a provider of Soviet notice how it la tho-less affluent hopefully to the future. Even Russian's requirements... It has scious of the advent of a strong Mussolini, is a baffled dictator.
suburbs which appear most con- so, it will be conceded that 1982 now dropped to fifth place, being local life and are moat anxious too, oftentimes, to the talpan who Every anarchist, remarks Benito has had its full proportion of superseded even disappointments.
by Persia hasten it. They are much more It ends with With the President-Elect deter- inclined to take stock of themselves. trying out a new stenographer. many major problems still un- mined to reclaim America's! settled, and with tremendous foreign trade, his eyes must determined to have local traditions. These townships are desperately tasks awaiting those in whose have looked over these statis Institutions such as Petit Farm in would write or play. But can be hands lie the destinies of na- tics and mentally explored the Becontree have been established to tions. In spite of all the agen- possibility of effecting a change create those traditions, to build write? cles for the preservation of in them. A political as well as them up artificially perhaps, but pence, a bellicose spirit has an economic bridge has been Farm is a house with a name which failed to locate the cricket match from time to time manifested rapidly developing between the has come. down from old agricul between Craigengower and the itself. There is still a lament two countries. Manchuria is its tural days. It is manned by a few Indian Recreation Club. Perhaps ably excessive expenditure on name. No two countries are so men of good will, to whom the they were having tea with Sirdar the armaments of war and the much interested in the disposi people of the estate resort, as people Khan. Geneva deliberations have thus tion of the Manchurian problem, far had little result. The Far outside China and Japan. East still remains in a state of, tension, due to the continued failure to adjust the Sino- Japanese crisis, with ever- present possibilities of a fresh
To the adult who has failed unheaval clouding the atmos- to keep pace with the changing phere.
In Europe and the styles in toys, their visit to the United States, financial string toy departments in the last week ency is apparent on all hanits, or two must have brought an with Governments finding it amazing discovery. Toys have difficult, if not impossible, to "gone highbrow-and the re balance their budgets. Unem-sult is an entirely now kind of ployment has assumed unprece plaything in an entirely different dented dimensions, and this has manner. Where the toys which manifested itself in serious riot- delighted a paat generation ing in all parts of the world. strove to delight, and nothing The monetary systems of the more, those of this era attempt world are in a state of flux, with to teach as well as to entertain. financiers and economists wide. It is not true that all the toys ly differing in their ideas as to now offered for sale combine the best methods to be employed those two clements, but it is to secure a restoration of more true that an increasing number stable conditions. And over all of them do. If there is any these aspects of life we have trend in toys, that seems to be the world trade depression, the trend. To be more specific, which continues to defy the the adult who drops' into a toy efforts of those seeking to department these days finds that. bring buck prosperity. It is, standbys of the past are being indeed, not too much to say that relegated to the background. the whole structure on, which Now toymakers are providing world finance and economica playthings with which the child have been built up is bolng makes things; playthings which seriously strained, almost to the tax his ingenuity and give his point of collapse. There are, of busy fingers and active thought course, bright spots, such as something constructive to do. notoworthy, advances in science. This applies to toys oven for the and an Increasing harnessing of youngest children, and colour the forces of nature for the is used lavishly and ofton to de- benefit of mankind, but, placed finite educational purpose. But In the balance against the cloit is well to observe that while ments of depression, these fall the hand of the educator is to to offset the main fact that the be noted in Toyland at this sea- world is still in a sick and sorry son, it is not a heavy one, state. Locally, the year in nor is it likely to be distressing Hongkong has been quiet and to the heart of childhood. After rather uneventful, though there all, Toyland still is the carefree ara algns of progress here and realm of the artless age; and no thore. Our chief cause, for changing trends in ^^ playthinga -can change that even a little bit!
Adults in Toyland
after the natural recipe.
Pettit
in the past resorted to the house o
a good squire, for advice in their
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private affaire and difficulties and With reference to the advertiac- for a hand in all public business. ment in a contemporary for a lost Why should Pettit House in allver watch, we understand that, Becontree, with only the tradition with an eye on the reward, at least of some good crops and cows be- one Scotsman in the Colony, is hind it, be besieged by people going to devote his spare time eager to hold their committee during the approaching holiday in meetings there, to hold their active making a thorough search in Cat. local Barliament there?
Street.
CANDY
“I'd be glad to do wnything, Mr. Wells. You see, I've boan
out of work for - Ava
m
Our tickets in the sweeps all
want to pot;
Though that весшед
Impress you'net a fot; Sald an airmail you'd buck-up,
But you only sold a pup, And what you promised "would
ba" still la not!
Now, 1933 must do his stuff,
Admitted that his job is some
what tough.
We'll greet him in the morning, Pessimistic forecasta scorning. Though if he's just as bad, it
will be rough!
The advertisement addressed to former pupils of a Dundee school, arouses the auspicion that yet an- other Society in Hongkong is about to be formed, with a "Forfor Bridie" as the piece resistant.
There is no truth in the story that the Hongkong Peace Group represented at yesterday's naval parade.
Was
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In the report of the Hongkong yarn trade for 1982, it is regrotted no mention was made of Edward (Amaliar) Kolly.
that
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A local illustration of a postage.
stamp representing the Columbus
Cove Isn't it all a good likeness.
We always thought he board.
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word.a
The scales of Justice having been adjusted, the Tokis In's. Kow-- loon Store are now looking for ward to a higher standard Hving
If wives only know what most stenographers think fof their hus- bando, they'd stop worryinge
A husband, courdingto Judge, has avory legal right to look inside his wife's handbarev. All he needs is the pluck!: