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SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1922.

ADVERSARIA.

(Continued from Page 4.)

Baldock may not BYTECKED BY be such Sleepy THE DUCHESS. Hollow as it looks.

at 7.30 a.m.

At

Only the onset of wintar, or some accident unforeseen, dan interrupt this wall-earned wanderjahr of mine, Mine, mine, mine, Ays, with a fierce jealousy, will I use and claim the remainder of my days

I would persuade myself that life, in the true sense, is only now that hour, having been afcot since beginning; that the time of sweat five, and at what must have been the and fear was not life at all, and that

THE CHINA MAIL.

Sunday rest, the Ouse was our dose companion, and we camped among its marginal reeds.

We are in a fan TEN COUNTRY country now- Hilgay Fan., The prospect on all sides is very Dutch, p with the river more like a canai and windmills dotted about, and the field. lower than waterlevel. The road abouts. A stroll to the Post Office Brendon Creek. Talking with a farm teaches us that the hamlet is called labourer about the damage done to

HONGKONG TRADE.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REPORT..

THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

HONGKONG PORTUGUESE YOUTH'S ACT.

The Hongkong General Chamber off says a latter to the Editor, *I will By the time you receive this,” Cammeres fortnightly report states: have proceeded to Macao. I have Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy volunteered my service to the Gor. ernment and will stay there until tically nothing doing during the in- Serval Apart from a sale of Dyed Pongees no trasactions are reported.

chief hotel, I saw a really good look it now only depends upon my will is an embankment just hare Cottaa Goods--There has been pracį Macao is safe from Chinese invasion.” |

ing wench washing the doorstep. I to lead a worthy existence. If I ked her if she had a sister in the find myself astonished at its brevity beer department, who would render and small significance, why, that is first aid to a compound thirst, and my own fault; the voices of those she proved to me that she did not yet need, the services of a dentist. Sheme"

Hebe.

I

gone before had suficiently warned by our storm, quite a third Mascherter is closed for the mas

being wasted, mostly oats and Whitsuntide holidays.

BING BOYS ON STRIKE.

The motor boat boys employed on four motors owned by Mt. George

barley we happened to mention Cotton Yarn-Since our last Bing, of No. 24, Canton Road, Kow-

Quotations are —

No. 10 $155 180 No. 12 $764 $195 220- 184, No. 168 $192 220. No. 206.

The steamlighter" Ardamans ** arrived in port on the 8th inst.. having put back owing to heavy weather.

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was as kind as she was pretty, and That's Gissing. But Gissing, poor our liking for broad beans. He weat for the beer. I was in some chap, had small bumour, and went away and presently another advices a fair volume of business has loan, went out on strike at 6 pm, thing very like a flirtation-one of the never went carapacing. The noon-mas brought a lady's hands was in mine when there time rest and the night repose are nothing less then's shilling: be receded further, but latterly owing to tied up and unattended at the quart. We had been transacted and prices have or previous waming, leaving the boata yesterday without giving any reason wat an interruption. There was a positive enjoyments, like theatres or tad to change: we wanted those the decline in exchange values have Tsimshatsui Fier. keen mewing, and in walked the other "pleasures.” Refreshed by beans, fresh pulled: so we banged the firmed up $2/3 per bale. Deliveries Duchess, tail erect, looking for me. them, the sense of renewed vigour hob. It was a very serious mistake have been fairly good.

"Goodness! Wherever is that cat makes the exercise of it also a positive In less than an hour, two womer from 1 Who's in it!" exclaimed happiness. A good dinner was al turned up with beans “for the artist I confessed that she was mine. It but I know now that the sort of sketching the village) Having dis ways an important event with me. gentleman." (We had been seen was like admitting that I was food matters little, provided the appointed them, visibly and audibly, married man.

almost felt appetite be lusty And as for we began to get nervous when a man benpecked..

drinking. Perhaps I talk too turned up, with peas. We told him It was there that I first bought of much or ale. I do not think so making a book of my aiventures, and much of the social gla" The cre back-with more beans. As we went we hated peas. He went aid came illustrating it with an Ale Map of that shines in my mind is the foam-away from there in the morning, after England, with post ale areas coloured ing ng that is put before one while had night due to river mist, pink places of iniddling ale green. we mep on forehead and stretch curwe saw and epots where the ale was bad legs on some iar bench after a few black. Royston ale was unquestion miles in hot sunshine. First the long. ably pink. Here are miles of heath, glottic coaling pall: then the ap on which race horse train. Beyond preciative sips more lesarely. that came a lovely village called Melbourn, where the majority of the houses were thatched. Something fuzzy happened there.

RAKER

warde the camp with basket

two people making to What was cannot say; but if allowed a guess. in the baskets, we we'll hazard beans. O, and we refused After Foulmile an offer of hos potatoes about two in (where a confiding the afternoon, a full hour after lunch- man offered to paying. It was a most hospitable hamlet. in advance for a copy of the book he | A vegetarian could be happy there.

CAMBRIDGE.

I was pestered by a ascertained I was writing!) I camped THE BOURY hoczy baker for my just four miles from Cambridge, after card. Ile said he admiring the lovely village of Harston could see I was as garden town by nature. gentleman, and the fact that I admitted I wasn't selling anything proved it. I said:

"Do you read books?" "Yes. Often."

In the early morning, at breakfast, I was joined by a tramp who proved & most entertaining fellow. Hungry too, poor chap, having slept out on an empty stomach, and it was 'a wet- "Then perhaps you've heard of night." I filled him with bread and Jack Londen?"

His face shone with

awe and admiration, as well as with alcohol.

"Gimme your hand. Why, I've read your last work. Let's see, what was it called."

Hanz it. I didn't know either I could only think of "Before Adam" and "White Fang" and "The Cruise

of the Snark."

So I said:

"It's Jack London"

She curtseyed. Said she enjoyed my short stories best.

Shake bands with her, Sir," cried the baker. "It'll be something for

her to boast of later on."

Beautiful wooded country, on a higher level, met es as we approached Dowsham, and here the marks of the storm were less visible, though some trees had suffered. I felt that I had been either a hero or a fool—I caver really settled which.

Dr.Johnson, "diverted

OF COOKING with the fertility of his own fancy" (blatant old. egotist) ponderously remarked that one could say a great desi about cabbage." We cannot all be sivacious, like the heavy German bazon who alarmed his hosts at Geneva by jumping over tables and chait, and explained th' apprens t'etre fif. Still, I feel I could say a great desi about camp cookery, and IV experiments with outlandish things, like nettles, sorel, briar

Sales 5,000 bales.

Arrivale 4,700. Shipments 350

12,000 bales.

Unsold stock 11,000 bales. Bargains,

Woollens-No change.

to

His Alleen Woods will be amongst the passengers leaving for San Francisco by the sa. "President Lincoln" on June 20. During her vacation in the States, Miss Woods will ren how people are dancing ovar that way and when the returns to Chinese Hongkong to samme teaching with her sister, Miss Dozis Woods, next October she will have all the latest) report.

steps amongst her luggage.

Raw cottoes-Market bare of descriptions at $28/36. stocks Nominal quotations Indian

Staple $344 per pical.

Metals-Nothing Business is at a standstill.

Petroleum Products-No change. Sundries-Market weak. Flour Market Report-Stock: About 1.400,000 sacks." Quotations: American Patent $3.70 per sack, American Straight $2.65 per sack, American Cut off $2.75 per sack, Australian No. 1. $2.00 per sack. Shanghai Floor $2.95 per sack,

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS

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NOTICE.

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IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on

and after MONDAY, the 12th

cheese was in a melting mood, and butter hopeless: I substituted for instant, the Supply of Water to a cheese and cocca. He was a journey

the latter lemon curd. Good bread portion of the RIDER MAIN DIS- man printer, the old-fashioned corp-

with Lincolnshire lemon curd ou is be controlled by bringing the RIDER TRICTS' West of Eastern Street will poritor whose occupation's gun"

goes well for the afternoon snack, To MAINS into operation and that since the introduction of the Lino.

read of Stefann on's relish on his Water will be Turned on to each Once," he said, "by working two

Arctic journeys for some of the RIDER MAIN daily for Two Con- dar, and then moving on. I could

blubbery stoff he had to eat, and secutive Hours. Information as to make a perpetual holiday of it. Now

glad to get it is to realize that my the Hours of Supply to any Particular there was little work, and the Father of the Chapel could not be

carapace was a travelling Savoy. Property may be obtained on applica- How little, ordinarily, "do We tion at the Office of the Water tapped as formerly. Ha experiences

realize that our joys and sorrows Authority, or Secretariat for Chinese is New York, comping for the

are magnified or diminished by Affairs, or at the Tang Wah Hospital. “Herald" were amusing, but will shoots, and the like. I stewed onions, attendant circumstances. I'm certain not bear reproduction in print. He bit of hard cheese, some young that the sight of a village pump, or a

one

T. L. PERKINS,

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**0, that last one was no good. I prefer people to admire Before Adam' That's the best thing I ever did."

was a real old-timer. Erew the history shorts of wild briar, some sorrel and Pab on a lonely road, gave me more Public Works Department, He begged me to wait a moment, of Fleet St from the year dot, and dandelion: and the resultsat mes acate pleasure than I have felt over a while he ran to fetch his miesas. She was a genuine philosopher. He parted would have tempted a gourmet to sell no trump hand at Bridge, or over an came, a youngish, black-avised winch from me in Cambridge, taking the his birthright. Indeed, it was tasty invitation to a gubernatorial Incheon.

"Guess who this," he said. And New-market road. I continued by and I was glad that an accidental tben, as one springing a big surprise: Trinity and St. Johns, over the ditch shortage of bacon bad happened they call a river, (admiring the fine to prompt the experiment. Barring exterior of the Fitzwilliam Museum) bacon and eggs, I was feeding on huddled, or cuddied, under and so on to the Ely road. I always vegetarian and fruitarian hoes he umbrella. think Cambridge looks more like an cause it was inconvenient to carry A man, in a tent, writing." ancient university town than Oxford meat in hot weather, in a "potted he do it for!" said she. More cloitral I had but just left caravan" like mine. As it was the mad," said he, They pressed me to remain two the city, entering the suburb called days for the village Fair; but I wanted Milton, when a gale sprang up. to get away to where it would be safe accompanied by heavy to be somebody else, for a change. So Rain is nothing, but the wind I got tos place with the curious are scared me. of "Foulmile," and there encamped. would carry AWAY.

I thought my tent I have nevET Between Hitchinand watched old canvas at BES THE GARDEN Baldock" I passed anxiously. If my roof went, not only through Letchworth, my bed, but my books and papers, the famous garden irreplaceable sketches, would be city, and forgot to mention it in pass-ruined. But though it flapped acu ing. Here are my notes written at bellied, the good stuff held. "I was in the time:

the lee of thickset hedge. I read

CITY

rain.

KOTA

It is a well placed and charmingly "Tristram Shandy," and smoked the designed collection of ornamental excellent sixpenny mixture I bought las, now quite numerona. Every-in Cambridge. Balzac remarks some thing at present is neat and tidy. where that, though many conqueste The Garden City Co. Ltd. posts divided their land piecemeal, the notices requesting citizens to see that solidarity of the Flemings remained trees, fences, &c. are not damaged, owing to the tankard and the tobacco Judging by the public notices, for pipe. My basis was the same, and it which special provision is made, itis a endured.

the ERA.

city of cranks. There were meetings In the morning, with promise of for socialists, theosophists, and other clear skies, I put out all my gear iems. The hotel is the old manor to air and dry ic house, done up, and run by the Com I sef the pan aboiling, and pany. They have their recreation loooked about

Over an

ground, public seate and paths, and antebreakfast pipe. Then I laughed. some sort of power house well away Some people had chosen this spot- from the houses. They have to have, during recent sunny daya. I saw a alas, police. The one I saw we ared chocolate wrapper, some cigarette eurly chap: didn't respond to my ends, and the thing that made me cheerful good morning. It isn't, laugh-an article I musta't name, "a however, a fair test for the Simple refinement of civilization that is never Life, because the two towns mentioned mentioned in newspapers. What s are so near, and all the old-fashioned pity, for both romance and humour Amusements, including slums and were in it, in this roadside hollow half kinema, may be had for an-hour's way between Cambridge and Ely, walk I noticed, moreover, as in all Tears consist of a little phosphate of other rural pisces, new cottages to let lime, chloride of sodium, mucus, and or to sell: first owners fired, I presume, water, all of which ara respectable According to a recent booming story things. The best laughter, unforta- I saw in the cocoa press, they have a nately, is often produced in ways that commmal kitchen for those who care will not permit analysis.

to use it, and other socialistic experi Proceeding was now a matter of ments; but I wasn't sufficiently following the river Ouse, a mere interested to investigate.

stream until it broadened into a My socialism is wearing very thin sluggish river beyond Ely, Ely of late. I've seen too much of Cathedral is visible plainly from socialista, I think. Also, now that I Stretham, four miles away, and realize, after spending so many years thence looks about the time of s in other people's service, that money is mailboat alongside Kowloon Whart. time, that we save money to gain time | Indeed, with its white zool broken by for our own spending and purpose, I towers, it is not unlike a ship. Thi amx thorough individualiat with city itself did not seem large; but I regard to the time that remains to believe areas lie out

of right 529. I've been just a monta on the antideport is a vinge Bast has grown roads, and that is a longer, holiday into a town nnawares; it harilly than most wage-slaves get. I expect seems to know it yet: From Little- to soutions for trö months moms. Į part oneriais, til we'ramped for the

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