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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10, 1923

CHARIVARIA.

SATURDAY - TO MONDAY FEELING.

New Names -

Hurupture.

Education Borel.

The Budget proposals show new inxes except the one on tinar and patience in reading them.

Definition: A pedestrian: One who dodges-nnd dodges-and

delges.

ONCE A BOARD THE LUGGER

LAND

THE OPIUM IS MINE.

In Mr. G. 6. Wood's cutter- "West Wind" yesterday afternoon, Chief Preventive Officer 8. J. Clarke found 950 tacks of opium. The cutter was lying at Ah King's slip way and was searched as the result

of information received.

A sequel to the mid was a case

in Mr. J. R. Wood's court this morning when the "boy" in charge An upright piano very often and another Chinese wert charged becomes & downright nuisance.

with passession of the drug which was concealed in two sails and iunder some rope in the fore-peršk,

The sweeps at the Gymkhangs seem to soot quite a lot of people,

Ric

Italy is becoming too Fascisti-

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firence melted all right. Journeying on some of our overs: crowded tramcurs is often more Trail than travel,

The favourite musical instrument of some nacious landlords is sud the loot.

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Their lives are not rent in vain.

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There is sonte masic you can't, sue you won't, some you shouldn't and one you must listen to says Sir Hugh Allon. The gramophon in the next flat to ours comes into! the math of these catagories,

Says a household hint:-- When blueing clothes they will not blue in patches if you take care that there is enough room in the tub, for the clothes to be moved freely. That is to say they should not be too chase.

A girl in Johannesburg recently Fan for 56 miles. The report does nd state if the man got away or

"One of these days the mangled, corpse of 1 rasturions late-comer will be mild to the pillars of the pit like the body of a dead crow, as a warning to others" Mr. St. John Ervine in Observer. We hope this will reset the eye of certain of our local simmers.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

A PRISON POET.

THE CHINA MAIL.

(To the Palilor of the China Mail.)

TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

COLUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPPING CO.

TO CLUB SECRETARIES:

the lines you published in "Odds matchre in Saturday's issue. Secre

Dear Sir,-I read with interest future, the "China Mail"w!!!!

publish the teams or week-end, (Operating United States Government

Ships.) and Eads" as having been scratch-taries of all sports clubs, including ed on a prison wall la London, tale November in Thomas Hood's They also appear under the poems. If they were really written by him, will you publish the necessary correction please?

Thanking you in advance and enclosing my card, I remain,

Yours truly

SIC VOS NON VOBIS.

Macau, October 5.

We are afraid we must leave

this an open question. We give below the lines which appeared

ending in the names of players got regimental teams, are requested From PORTLAND, ORE, JAPAN kindly to help in the mauer by

PORTS, ETC. later than noon each Friday, Hongkong, October 10, 1923.

R.

PUBLIO AUCTION.

THE Steamship

"MONTAGUE"

having strivell 'from' above ports, Consignees are requested to present their Bibs of Lading in exchange for Delivery Orders, and take immediate delivery from alongside steamer.

The "hay" minitted possession under "Odds and Ends" and also be held on MONDAY, the 18th day non-hazardous godowns of the Hong-

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giving the tini-honoured excuse |that he had been given the opium to keep for a friend. Second defend ant maintained that he was inerely paying a visit and the charge against hio was withdrawn,

To the first defendant His Wor ship said that the opinn was valued. at $10,000 and he was therefore The liable to a fine of $100,000, sentence would be twelve months' hand labour.

WEDDING

BELLS.

CHUBB-BUNESE.

those by Thomas Hood as they are known to us. Those under "A Prison" were said to have been scratched on a workhouse wall by an inmate.

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"A PRISON."

No sunt, no moon, No morn, no noon, No sky, no earthly blue,

No distant looking view, No road, no street,

No t'other side the way, No dawn, no dusk,

No proper time of day.

No end to any row,

No top to any steeple,

No indication where to go. No sight of familiar people,

No cheerfulness, no healthy case, No butterflies, or yet no becs,

Bow Street."

No warmth, no cheerfulness, no

healthful ease- No comfortable feel in any

member-

No shade, no shine, no butterflies,

no bees,

No fruits, no flowers no leaves,

no birds, No-vember!

At St. John's Cathedral, this afternoon, the narriage is being solemnized of Miss Margaret Ella Brother Bunese and Mr. Stanford Frank Chubb, The ceremony is. being performed by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, Senior Clmplain. MF. A. I.. Shields will give the bride away and Mr. Allen, Keith will officiate, es Best Man. The bride will wear a dress of embroidered not over while satin, trimmed with orange blossoms. The veil is of lace. She will carry a shower. bouquet of pale pink carnations.

Miss Banese will be attended by [To the Editor of the "China Mail." Miss Jaquelin Seatt as bridesmaid. Miss Srutt has chosen a Kate Green- away dress of pink and white flower edinm; she will carry a basket of pink and white carnations.

After the marriage ceremony, a reception will he held at the home Scopolinin, a new drug under of Mr. Shields, No. 16, Peak Roust. whose influence it is claimed it is! The Inneymoon will be spent at impossible to tell anything but the Fanling. truth, should be specially useful in Hongkong.

Bishop James Cannon, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, who has been anx

SHOTS EXCHANGED.

THOMAS HOOD. Editor China Mail]

APOLOGY,

Dear Sir, I shall be obliged if; in the interests of truth, you will publish this letter in your well

known paper.

The blame for the publication of the words 'Colonial Secretary, Macao" under the signature of an unofficial letter from Dr. Alfredo Rodrigues dos Santos, dated the 20th ult, rests entirely with me.

I have already apologised to Dr. Santos for my error, which was due purely to journalistic inexperience, and now tender my apologies both to you, Sir, and to the Portuguese

visit to England, says that London (From Our Own Correspondent)community in Hongkong.

night life is second only to that. Di Ригін. The reverend gentlenen appears to have been enjoying hite self.

KONGMOON, October 9. There has been an exodus of about 1,000 souls to Young Kong. Admiral Chan Chak is reported to be sending his gunboats there but it is?

A man ankes the best of his opportunity, A watuan makes "j not known if there is any connees | husband of her.

tion with the exodus.

Tu broad daylight yesterday.

I remain, Sir,

Yours faithfully GEORGE H. RAINER.

Macao, October 5.

THEATRE.

FORTHCOMING VISIT,

January next should be more or teenth of that month our old friend R. B. Salisbury is to open up, with his inimitable shows.

The first taxi accident has taken about thirty robbers fired at a coal-less historic for about the seven- place. In addition to supplying a yard here from the opposite side of long-felt wait, they are also making, the creek. Soldiers anul Merchants themselves felt.

Volunteers took up positions and! shots were exchanged, one civilian

Not only that but we are promis- When you are dead says the be'ng wounded. A refusal to conted performances of the 9 o'clock evnic, its for a long time. Yes, and ply with a demand for money Revue, and those famous operas when you are married, its for ever, througlat in the nituck.

"Polly and "The Beggars Opera." The parent telegraph service This is splendid

news. Such The Jazz Invasion as autouneed with Hongkong has been stored.enterprise is certain to meet with recently in the Chiar Mail wilf, so The wires here, been down siure due reward. we are told, mil in many a reverse. June.

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Truly, well educated „people are never bored, says Dean, Tige. Other- wise they would be wholly own through.

Too often the self-sacrificing man is willing to sacrifice his better half. Who, when she knows, gives him no quarter.

CHIVALRY.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.

Oh, show we the cradle of Chivalry.IN THE MATTER OF THE COM.

he shrine of a generous ne Where knights of disinterested

courtesy.

The woes of the gentle embraced!

A well-known pianist has toll an where men would go forth into

interviewer that lie keeps a piano in ¦ battle,

his bed rooma. He should have no To fight for the lowliest one:

PANIES ORDINANCE 1911-1931

ASD

IN THE MATTER OF THE HONG. KONO HIDE & LEATHER CO., LTD. (IN LIQUIDATION),

iticulty is composing himself uough for these men, to be gateini/PURSUANT to Section 181 of tho

sleep.

To mulern life the only weapon worth sharpening is one's wits.

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People under a doctor must. expert to lose a few pounds.

Each day for the work to be done.

where men c'er thought only of

Companies Ordinance 1911, notica is barely given that Meeting of Croitora of the alrovenamed Company will be held at the offices of Messra. Percy Smil, eth & Fleming, at Qason's Road Central Ilongkong. f, And there will I point to the foun-1 o'clock ngen, on FRIDAY, 19th

tain

honor

And service of their fellow man;

A nun gi Whyl has been fined £3 Where Civilization began.

for using bad language in his resi-This shrine is not found in old Asia, dence within the heating of passers- Where trought by Confucing et al; by.

| Oatubor, 1923.

A this Meeting the C-bitors will bo naked to determine whether an for the appointment of any person as application shall be made to the Court

| Liquidator in the place of or jointly

This seems a easy way of Virtue that's passive and vapid.with myself the Liquidator sppointed paying-off the war debt.

To elevate self was their call.

One of the latest books out in Nor in Athens, Carthage, or Sparta, The Life of Fred Archer" the 1'en love for the City was theirs:

by the Company, or for the appoint- ment of a Cominitten of Inspection.

Notice is also hereby given that the Creditora of the abovenamed Company

jockey. This should prove a moy Nor e'en by the noblest of Rouusara requited, on or before 30th Noveni book.

Paradox-The more costure shrinks, the greater becomes.

Unselfish in public affairs.

bathing To fight for the strong and for glory

E'er has been a work for the blest But noblest are they in man's story, Who will fight to serve the opprest.

1923.

JOHN KYOTO.

bor next, to send in their names and addresses and particulars of their dabte or claims, and the unmes, and addreaes of their Solicitore (if any) to Sydney Hampten Row, of Mesars. Peroy Smith, Seth & Fleming, the Liquid tor of the Company; and, if so required by notice in writing from the said Liquidator, are, by their Solicitors or personally, to come in and prove their debts or Claims at such time and place as suall be spochtled in auch votice or in default

The Committee of the St. Andrew's Society we believe are to raise a testimonial to the centleman who runs the China Mail voting. competition for describing the bats ripes as a musical instrument. The Onion Society 1

ty in ako to award ils Queen's Road is to be renamed thereof they will be excludal from the Onion in the third degree, un-Rooke Street.

pickled.

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To-day's Pulsating Thought

We can find no confinuation of Soine people could care their head- the rumoin that a certain street off jaches best with a vacuum cleaner,"

benefit of at y dittribution-maila bolore. Buch debts are provert

Dated this 9th day of October, 1923.

S. HAMPDEN ROSS, ·

Liquidster.

PARTICULARS and Conditions, of the Salo by Public Auction to

of October, 192 at 3 p.m. at this Ofices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hin Excelioncy the Governor, of ng Lot of CROWN LAND at P kfu lam in the Colony of Hanákona, for * term of 20 years, with the option of enewal at frown kent tto ad by the Burreyor of His Majesty abo King, for one further terá of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

Realty No.

Monality.

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Borders

Stew.tre

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$2.

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As por mažo plax, 550 35

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

DARTICULARS and Conditions of the Sala, by Public Auction to be held on MONDAY, the 15th day of October, 1923, af 3 p.m., at OBocs of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excelloney the Governor of ore Let of GROWN LAND at Shaukiwao in the Colony of orkun, for a term of 78 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be Brod by the turreyor of His Majesty the King, for one fortter term of 7% years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

shiválkan Iolani Lat

Shing On Street****

Registry No.

Locality

X.

£

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alinat

A per la plan. 8:40 $3

PUBLIC AUCTION.

HX Undersigned have received fa atenations to sell by Pabllo Auction

ON

SATURDAY, October 13, 1929. at 11 am

at their Salon Rooma, Dudiall Street.

250 Boxes "Londres" (igars, 100 Superior Woollen Rugs.

10 Casa Sented Toilet Sosp. 7 Cases Gelatine

4 Kegs Dyes.

5 Cara Naphtaline Balle.

3 Cases Silk Akuze.

5 Cine Wrollen Yarn.

I Cane Alarm Clocks.

8 Roach Magartas.

1 Motor Boat Engine.

And

A Quantity of Miscellangan ‹ Goods. Term:-Crab on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneela. Hongkong, 10th October, 1923.

All Cargo not taken delivery from steamer by 9th October, 1923, will be landed into the hazardous and/or

Godown koug & Kowloon Whart Co, Lid, at consignees' risk, whence deilvery may be obtained.

All broken, chafed and damaged cargo will be examined by Messrs. Anderson & Ashe (Marine Surveyors) at the gndowna on 15th October, 1923, at 10 a.m.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the steamer or godowns, and all-goods-comeining undelivered after 15th October,

1923, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Underaigned on or before 22rd October, 1923, or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

ARNHOLD & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hongkong, 9th October, 1923,

HAMBURG-AMERIKĀ LINIE. THE Metorship or Steamship

"HAVELLAND"

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby notified that all goods are being landed at their risk, into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD., whence and/or from the Wharves, delivery can be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godown, and all goods remaining undelivered after 15th October, 1923, will be subject to rent.

All Claim must reach us by 22nd October, 1923, or they will not be recognised.

All damaged packages will be examined by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas (Marine Surveyors) at 10 am. on 15th October, 1923.

No Fire Insurance will be effected, Billa of Lading will be counter- signed by

ARNHOLD & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

Hongkong, 9th October, 1923.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

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LL preliminary notices of forth. coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each. (as announced in May and June of 1922) providing that they do not Dccupy more than four lines. In future if this space is exceeded they will be placed in the advertising columna at the prevalllag ráten

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