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HERE YOU WILL FIND THE UNUSUAL AND PERSONAL GIFT WHICH WILL PLEASE HER.
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Est. 1841.
For the convenience of our customers
our store will remain open during the
week ending December 22nd and on
Christmas Eve until 6 p.m.
We have all the favourite
Christmas Songs and Carols.
on H.M.V. Records
them help to make your
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SATURDAY," DECEMBER 22, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS
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We've been waiting to see one of our footwear stores offering free trees for Christmas.
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Dec. 14th.Reading in the fighting. And to my mind, if a newes sheetes this morning I and player be sent off from the field, Prince Otto, charming young pre-
the Naval talks are ended for the he should be struck out from the tendor to the throne of Austria, time, and nothing done. Yot, to players lists until a now season, heir of the Hapaburgs, and son of my mind this seems no tragedy Nor is this, to my mind, beyond ne some doo sceme to think, for reason, for if so be a man wishes the scheming Empress Zeta, in ex-
continuance of negotiaconato fight let him take up the science pected to end his long term of exile the
when one party will not assent to of boxing and leave football and return with his mother to then principle reems to Austrian Tyrol, early next year.
but alone. This evening Lalking with The old, loyal Royalists, and a good
to exacerbato all feelings and so Mr. Pavy, Creed, and others over a to bring about the quarrel that flaggon of ale, we did discuss the few of the younger element of
thero tolks doo seek to avoid, poverty of Hongkong and above all Austria as well, will welcome their
Newen too of an outbreak of the street sleepers, for whom much malaria in Ceylon and more good work is being done. But, Prince, Emissaries will go abroad especially about Colombo, and though I think myself to be as at once to obtain, if they can, what they will do. Seeing that pitiful a man as moste, yet I must foreign backing for the proposed their ponacan of a Committee of agree with Mr. Povy that there restoration of the monarchy, in
the Legislative Council can hardly lies great danger in too full a spite of the fact that Yugo-Slavin cope with this chance, I know not, charity which is not discriminate. save that they will. It may be, vote For beside us lits a huge country and Czecho-Slovakia have threaten to lower the profits of the Office with myriad population and all ed to go to war the moment a king of the Chyrurgeon Director. I de, mighty poor, to whom our Colony. mounts the throne in Vienna. however, and it strange that doth seem to be the goal of their That may be no more than a threat,
malaria, which I had thought to ambitioun, for, na they suppose, be endemic, can become epidemic work and riches are to be had for but the restoration movement in
In such heavy forme. And of this the asking. And so they do flock "Give 'em socks!" Austria does not Improve the I must ask my chymurgeon. In in and increase our many workless already turbulent political condi- Amerique there is talk of a heavy folk. And the more we do relieve tions of the middla European tax upon the gettings of munition them the more do others flock in. states. What chance las Prince makers which indeed sounds very And I am surely minded that there wise for, but for the labour they should be enquiry in each case, and Otto of regaining the throne of do employ I do see no cause for
that help,
being limited in Austria? With Italian backing he these folk to exist, but rather would possibility, be also limited to may very well succeed. It Is seo cach Government make its own | those who have lived hero a cer- virtually certain that Prince von
munitions and no more. Yet I do taine poriod. And it wore best, Starhemborg can swing the whole feare that soo many influential of course, to limit entry to parties people doc hold shares In these who have means of support, but Atrength of the Christian Social factories that in the end nothing this, in my judgement, is im Party into line behind the youthful will be done. Very buay at my possible. Otto. Just before the assassina-office and after writing my mail and
Dec. 17th.In the newes sheetes tion of Dr. Dollfuss there had been in my diary. And so to bed.
It is said that there may be further Dec. 15th.-Up very betimes and building of rigid airshippes by rumours that he, too, and n
after trimming myself to my Britain, and sooing that the sympathy for the royalist cause and
office where I find many papers to country hath already expended that he had discussed the possi-sign and see I do nearly fails of over two and one-eighth million bilities of a restoration with Signor meeting my wife, who, poor pounds for less than fourteen Many guests at current festivit- Mussolini. Much depends on Italy's wretch, doth attend me in the hundred flying hours and up-les will be lit up long before the attitude, and much on the feeling reach the place in time. By motor at a stonde to guess the reason,
Snake Pit. But in the end I do counted worthy men killed, I am | pudding. of the Austrian people, but the
hackney to the Races, where we unless it be that some powerful jealous fears of other neighboura
drink a basse or two of Hollanda folk have an axe to grindo. Very must be taken into the involved
waters and thereafter lunch very busy at my office all day and late calculations of diplomatists when
pleasantly in a friend's box. After home where I do reade a life of they consider this matter of Prince
I do faile of my Otto's claim to kingship.
wager twice Mr. Justice McCardle.. But it is though I am once correct but ill writ in my view, and does not above all I am much put out when | bring the man clearly before one. Great Hall doth win the Seventh Dec. 18th-Very Ill newes thin
☐ ☐. race to chouse me of the daily day from the Saar and I like not double. Nor does my wife, poor the prospect of our English troops Tho tennis-player's idea of wretch, have any greater fortune, being embroiled, for that we Christmas festivities:-Racket! and weo do both fail to win any should again be drawn into an sweepstakes, so home somewhat European war would seem to be and at heart, for I had been con- the most disastrous thing that fident that my former success could como about. And I do most woulde have bred others,
HUNGARY'S PART
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After fruitless efforts to get certain, Chinese shipping com-
A Hapsburg restoration would panies operating from Hongkong almost inevitably mean that an at- to observe the wage scale Inid tempt would be made to reunite down in the arbitration award in Austria with Hungary. The move- 1919, the China Coast Officers ment would be bound to gain in Guild has issued what amounts The whole history of the Balkans, ambition as it gained in success. to an ultimatum to the com- since the fourteenth century, has panies concerned that if they do been one
of gradual Austrian not fall into line with the agree expansion castwards, the setting ment then reached, a strike of off of one smail state against an- officers and engineers will be put
other and the clutching of new into effect in a week's time. The territory to the House of Hapsburg. issue is a perfectly simple and the Austrian Empire into pieces. The War put an end to it and broke straightforward one, and, in the There are those who would circumstances prevailing, the assemble it; and there are those Guild, having exhausted all who gained their independence in other methods, would appear to 1918 who will fight agninat its be thoroughly justified in the reorganisation and the possibility step it is taking to deal with of a return to the position of what is nothing short of a scan-subjects of Vienna. What do they dalous state of affairs. Some of
care whether the stimulus for the companies affected
Austrian expansion comes from actually signatorics to the agree freedom. ̄
Berlin or Rome? They want their ment on which they have de faulted; their attitude is in striking contrast to that of some ECHOES OF THE JUNGLE of the other Chinese concerns which have loyally observed the scale laid down. From
Leopold Stokowski, the conductor the of the famous Philadelphia standpoint of justice to these chestra, has declared that "Jazz has
Or latter companies, apart from the its place in our civilisation"--and rights of the officers and en- that place turns out to be as remote gineers concerned, it is only fair as the British Cameroons. At one and proper that the scale agreed time and another there has been upon in 1919 should be uniformly origin of jazz, which is only a re- profound speculation about the respected. It will be conceded export from America: but after that the whole of the blame does tracing it to the negro "spiritual" not lie on the actual owners, singers of the Southern States some of whom are the victims (who may in turn have been In- of bad management and other debted to the folk songs of Senegal evils associated with the system
or the Congo), investigators have under which their vessels are
reached a dead end. Now, in the operated. An unpleasant factor
traditional muaic of a West African is that some Guild members have forest people, Mr. Ivan Sanderson. themselves encouraged the non-
a young explorer, has chanced on the authentic clue. Not merely observance of the agreed scale the musical rhythms but the dances by accepting positions at a wage of an inaccessible and unchanging well under the award rate. tribe seem to agree with what is Happily, they are few in number seen and heard on fashionable at the present time, but they are,
dance floors except, Mr. Sander- by undermining the basis on
son is bound to confess, that the which the agreement rests, per- subtle. The Rumba is played and negro performances are more forming a distinct disservice to danced better at Nko, and natives their colleagues on other ships. who recognise only three coloura The position of some officers and and can scarcely name their rivers engineers is rendered extremely and mountains, leave us standing dificult from the fact that pro- when it comes to dancing. What a tests against the wages paid azz we knew to be barbaric (they chance the highbrows have now! merely result in threats of dis missal. When this fact is borne
will say), but to copy a jungle people with only three colours, and
in mind, and when, as the Guild to do it badly that beats overy-
is able to prove, men have been thing!" Yet although Jazz has asked to sign on the articles that been incessantly pronounced dying. they are receiving the agreed Its cacophonies continue. The scale whereas in fact they are innings is surprisingly long, for not, there can be no questioning syncopation arrived with the War; the necessity of the whole situa have marched to mag-inary might
and poor blessed
if no one tion being cleaned up There had thought of "Tipperary. And cannot be the slightest doubt after the War, jazz took the whole that the conditions, of service world by the heals. It has been existing on many of these likened to "the music of fleas on a Chinese-owned craft are abomin- hot brick," and the saxophone has able. They can only be remedied been denounced as the musical by united action in the interests hypodermic syringe used by a sick of the officers affected. It is world; nevertheless, Jazz repre this circumstance which has duces Itself in whole libraries and moved the Guild, after futile grows more and more "hot." Its three colours still suffice the multi- efforts to secure an improvement, tude; there is no saying when to resort to the drastic measure "straight" music and melody will now decided upon. There will be return, and no prophesying beyond will produce the desired results. own syncopated time.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd. widespread hope that the move that juiz will pase in time-in its
The best thing to give a lawyer for Christmas would be a brief re- fresher.
Judging by the way some of our flappers behave, brokers are not the only people who engage in forward
dealings.
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Auntle Cyclone wants a definition of Christmas Spirit Here Is ours: Gin, whisky, brandy, and what the horse we backed last week, lacked.
We notice that there is a big rabbit-skins. Fur strongly doubt that the conflleting demand for parties will fall short of violence, what? though 1 do much hope that my view is amiss. Newes too that in Japan they do arrest a French
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Dec. 16th. (Lord's Day)-Up somewhat earlier than is my went upon a Sunday, and, the day being very fine, walking in my garden
An Italian sculptor has stated where 1 do And all my pot plante apy, while in Hongkong I do hear that he is trying to earn sufficient In pretty good order, save that that the Military Authorities bo money to visit Hongkong and the some insekt doth ont the leaves mest gravely exercised upon the Far East. Ho must be busting to of some of my cinerarias to my activities of an Esquimo, who, Itaco us. greatest possible discontent, they is said, hath been seen to prowl being otherwise as hardy as any | in a most sinistre fashion. that I saw, and I wouldo fain
Dec. 19th. To my office this know how I may deal with such morning but commerce being less
Several women were noticed at peste.
For I am minded that it is pressing than heretofore I do re- last Saturday's boxing. Possibly another insekt and not the one turn home for tiffin and after do
the ring was the attraction. which destroys the leaves of cab hang pictures in our drawing-
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A London fish Inspector asserts its egges thereon, and so rots the hath great hopea that the left that haddock is often sold as bake. leaf. I later pluck a dozen of thumb-nail may grow again, when That's nothing. Many a Hongkong lettuce and many raddish, which the old and damaged one hat man has bought a race pony, only though larger than is to be wished, fallen away.
to discover that he's been sold a still eat mighty crispe, and so to 'Dec. 20th. So much business visit an old friend near to Mount hath thronged upon me this week
pup. Parish. But Lord! though I did that I have praetermitted to nip know the place well these fourteen off the early buds of the sweete years gone, I do find the whole of peas, and Mr. H. Fires tells me A local angler was recently pre- the hillside soe altered that I am that I may now suffer them to sented with a baby daughter. at a loss to come at my aim, but flower so be I pluck the blossoms. Will he christen her "Roes?"" for meeting my friend's Lady. And so with a fine bloom in my There I drink a glasse or two of coat to my office where I am very the wine of Alicante and we talk busy all day. I see Col. J. Ward la of many things. Reading in the dead, but in the frat notices no
An American statesman newes sheete after my nuncheon, mention of the Tyndareas, which He must be a supporter of the fesses that he dislikes dressed eels. which I take pretty late, I am at I doubt not, hath caused the astonda to know why those who gallant Officer to turn in his grave, nude cel! have the ordering of this play at Drunk a glasse or two at the Association do not rule the matter Clubbe and after home in a
more
bringing a tale of foule play and bed.
atrictly, ench weeke-end friend's coach. Dined, and so to
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A contemporary stated that "the happy couple then left the church." Nobody expected that they were going to take up their abode there,
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A noted airman intends flying
round the world in 104 hours, with
only two stops, probably to take a
breath at each.
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A He-Man'a Association has been
formed in the United States. It is
understood to have the approval of
the head he-man's wife,
A professor anys It needs a vocabulary of 10,000 words to follow world news Intelligently. All the same, only a few choice ex- pressione are needed to comment on most of it.
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A huge pock-marked relief. model of the moon has just been constructed in London. A glapoo at this should prove to young couples what an illusion lovo in.
A key to the shorthand Ancient Athens has been dia covered. Nevertheless; the writ ings will remain Greek to most of
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