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GETTING TOGETHER.

To, C. 4702

and interest in local happenings would have been engendered if members, avoiding the ill-natured gibe of self-advertisement which might have been raised in certain jaundiced quarters had made it a duty to give an annual account and

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the people-hew ideas, and concep. tions giving place to old.. or. is) is very often the case, the new grafting its life on to the old con-

MONDAY, JULY 27,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

ception, Anding no outlet for GULETUDE

initiative, but living a life which

An aged negro

The time will como,

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is largely indifferent to the life A BusT MAN. wns summoned froPIA, "claimed the Street corner

In

and people around them. It is

as a witness in a lawsuit tried at Baltimore. the duty of the present com-the course

ontor, when the labouring.... of His examination un will have the wealthy under his munity to set an example in con- these questions were put: "What feel, and what will hoppan then?" structive Colonial life, and to show is your name?" "Calhoun Clay.

"Why," exclaimed a voice, from sah." "Can you sign your name?" that whilst sport and pleasure are Sah?" "I ask if you can write the owd, "he'll be walking 'on his admirable in themselves, they are your name." "Well," no, sab, uppers P not everything and by ne menna Ah nebber writes ma name. the right things to get people to dictates it, sah," stick together.

British Legion.

Ah

The strike has hot མ--,

DRIBELING. introduced us to any What is the best thirst "& Tuinst quenebe for hot wear tended!-word or phrase. We striking-no pun in- QUENCHER. ther asks a "Morning

Pest writer. George have had reference to people Earl Haig could not have ren-Stevens, the famous war correspon "refuging"--suggesting a modern dered his country and the Empire dent, remenbering his experiences but not desirable form of spend- a more signal post-war service of thirst on the road to harming time. A writer on a local thun he did when he was instrus to answer unhositasnigly

mental in founding the British Alar Hamed. On the effects of morning paper has settled on the Legion and in fostering its growth this particular concoction-gin, ver. word dribbling with regrettable and enlarging its sphere of use-mouth, angostura, lime juice, and insistency; and we have numer- fulness. The British Legion is xta-he grew lyrical. It spad ous references to people who have something more than an organisa-through body and spirit--not swirl "dribbled" back to work, where tion designed to secure prefering through like the Athara, bus trickled might have been the ence for returned. British soldiers, irrigating like the Nia. Your sup more accurate if less musical to assist those of them willing tons again, your billong muscles sound. Dribble indicates "to fall migrate to do so and to fit these take on clasticity, your mummy in small drope:" "to give out in for successful settlement over-bones tenglam.

You know small portions," etc., and is a seas; it is also a soldiers move how it feels to rise from the dead, common football term, used when ment designed to render soldier-This doubtful however, how the ing in the future unnecessary. It mister would work in Tee Flouse is essentially a peace organisa- Street.

tion aiming at Imperial solidarity, international goodwill, and inter- naitonal co-operation.

The fact w's BARGAIN. ber.

to

I want a cuct- said the Jew the nursery-

the ball is dribbled taken up the field past several players, by one тал. Journalese is a fearsome and wonderful thing. Let us be thankful that it has done nothing

dribbled" and "refuging."

than introduce us to

worse

Proofreaders on a news- paper catch countless mistakes, but occasion- even they" allow errors vigilant

of its being, as its founder declar- ed at the annual conference of the man. Legion held in London, the largest Yes, sir." said the pursery non-political organisation in the m Step.blus way, plense," and country, and that during the past let his prospective enstomer to the PROOF. year 103 new branches were form- hothope where blac cucumbers ed is evidence of the vitality of were growing,

ally the movement and of its growing Then nice one for a shill- to slip past their influence which is of the whole-ing, said the nurseryman, point-

ing to nine on the vind

Fur tax dear," replied the Jew, "What alanit this one for eight |price?"

sommest.

THEY SAY THAT

Jazz is merely musical measles. Mr. Billy Murson.

"Still very dear," said the few,

He's due for sixfence." ht is too much. Vat do you sant En dat one?" said the dew,

eyes.

are

These

sometimes insignificant, sometimes seri.. ous, sometimes of a nature to point a lesson not intended by the writer of the article (as when the former capital of Russia was re- ferred to as "Retrograd"), and sometimes funny enough to find place in a comic journal.

Do you A crime is just ate appale act. pointing to a very small one.

blame the readers of a certain "Oh said the exasperated publication for smiling behind -Mr. Ralph Strmais,

nurseryman, yon en Ime that their hands, when a correction of No one is ever sifle from roce, one for a penny." --Sir Chartres Hiron.

words "the Da vill do:" said the Jew, DEFECTIVES of the police force,"

captain

pleas krep is for two weeks and I 'issue us, "the captain of the detec- offering the penny. And vill you was published in a subsequent vill eat lock for in."

tives of the police FARCE."

The real sporting woman is never la cium,--Mex, W. J. George.

We want people to be housed- not warehoused:-Mr. voj pack.

Tolnero is the tranquilliser of Tuman life-Leard Burnhamn.

tour.

the

A BURIAL AT SEA.

of

W08

People move more and more in companies and less and less alone. { Of all the popular ships that the body had to be visited by the --Miss Viola Tree.

Brossed the Pacifte between Van- partermaster every hour and the The As a pesople we are bitten with cover and Australian ports our visit reported to the bridge.

officer of the wateh had to see that sportif we are not sport mad.- was probably the most puber was well on going off duty. My Professor J, G. Adumi.

writes AT H. Bone in the orders were

to see that all „People wonki ike to feed sover-Manchester Cimordian." The Old pady for the service at 10 igns jingling in their pockets again. Man was a great favourite with Besides pasting tip notices in the

Mr. Churchill,

the passeiges, sal did his best to loon, second class, and third class There's no place life, London. I make the long trek enjoyable end everything and see that every- companion ways. I had to superin- wouldn't answer for Jerusalem the diem. He wawa mau eles on he was there at the service. He justification of their stewardship. tioden.-tieneral Sir Ian Hamilasty, a commander B.N.H., and no was very thorough was our pla Perhaps, as a result of to-night's

postcaptain of the Royal Navy Man, The chief officer's watch is The life of an archeologist con-nifty yours ago was as grand famed in that night at eleven.

always from 4 to 8 a.m. and p.m...... meeting this step will be taken.

sists of nineteen disapponiments stickler for ceremony and discipline As Lá.m. I was called out by the Early in the present Governor's ne stress.—Sir William period of office, several important Ramsay.

being carried out as he was. It M. on watch and informed that Commissions were appointed to

was the only tauts 1 bad to find Grey's body had disappeared. The The new democracy Ims a great with him. If he possibly could he weather was fiue, and no one had consider the Colony's expansions of the deep gulf that separates would always make it to Sundays thought it necessary to lash the body and problems connected there-class and class- gulf of crossing the hundred and eight down. The action our twin with The East Praya Reclaima wealth, but of knowledge.-Card | meridian from West to East, and he serows and the send-forward of the

Bandase. tion Scheme is probably the result

never dropped a Sunday on cross-lap Ind gradually worked the body We must get the land back into ng from Fast 15 West. His reason overboard. The steering gear grat of the work of one Commission; the lands of the people. I care not for making the two days was run right aft to the duffit. and so far the only outward whether this in kane by taxation, that he could hold two services. He only the flag was left. It had been evidence of the work of those confiscation, or compensation.was deeply religious man, although made fast by its lanyard at the

The never shoved religion down your Commissions. One report had to Mr. 14. Lansbury, M.P.

flarest. Carry out your duties as an officer should anil las was sutiss fied. It was this fuct and my

forward end:

What wng T to do? Everyone knew there would be a service at 10a.m. The notices

do with New Territory develop ment along the lines of seri- culture and agriculture. Robert Ho Tung has been pro- minent in both, to say nothing of the work of Mr. Soares in the have been made in the KowloonB.'s who had been sent aloft into down, and there was the Old Man The following appointments Sydney when firey, one of the to see that the body was lashed latter, Will anyone dispute the Division of the St. John Am-the top to serve the eye of the forewould I have to tell him? Martin, fact that in the latter of these bulance Brigade:-Privates A. G.

Sir LOCAL & GENERAL.owledge of his love for ceremony could be taken down, but the that made me do what I am about entices only detailed passengers and

to relate. I was his Chiel Officer.rew to their stations. Everybody We were two days out from knew. I had certainly neglected

To-night's meeting will prove there is a sufficiency of interest Greaves and J. H. Maycock to belay, fell into the starboard No. 1 110.M. who called me, who was

Lance-Corporals,

winch, and was deud before the Grey's chum, who had sewn him doctor got to him. He was one of m suggested the alternative--- my best seamen and had sailed with "Why not make a corpse up, sir?" me for quite a few years.

W. I hid to bring the third I know of cuses on the Western engineer into it. He supplied the and on the Biver Plate condenser tubes that made the emigrant trade of burials at sea corpse and the firebars.

Martin

that when occasion arises, the to enable the people of Hongkong people of Hongkong can "get--perhaps more particularly those together."

It is perhaps unfor- of Kowloon-to get together Mrs. T. N. Chau and other mem- At the funeral on Saturday of tunate that it is only in times of That those who have preached bers of the family who perished crisis that they do get together. and worked for agricultural in the Po Hing Fong disaster the It would have been to the lasting development in season and out of chief mourners were Mr. T. N. taking place at night. Usually the sewed it all up, and at 10a.m. the credit of Unofficial Members of the season, and in the face of much Messrs. Chau Hu-nin, Chau Chak-ins there is only an officer to de officer, the third engineer, and the Chan and his three brothers, captain reads the service, but some service was held. The second Legislative Council if, once a year, ignorance--and what is worse-nin and Chau Chik-nin. Amongst the watch to hear that "The M's believe that it we not Grey they had invited the Colony to indifference should be encourag. those present were the Hon. Mr. shall give up ita dead." The the service was held over, hat listen to a recital and explanationed even to the extent of subsidies?R. H. Kotewall, Dr. S. W. Tol of the ship is never reduced Martin (the other Q.M. in the of, their work as members of the it will at least be reassuring to Kwong, M. K. Lo, Ho Kom-tong, way would never muit our Old his body was 150 miles datern.

and Dr. Wong, Messrs. Ho know that anyone has died. Such buried Grey at 10 am., although pknot, and few of the passengers secret) and T know that it was. We Legislative Council. It is true reflect that in the event of the directors of the Tung Wah Man. A proper servico must be that no one member of the another outburst of foolish social Hospital, Messrs. Ma Chui-chiu, held with all the passengers (we, to ten the onsign at half-mast, the The ship was stopped sta quarter Council need trouble to give an fratricide, there is in the event Mok, Ching-kong, Kong Siu-lui, had about 1,500) and ship's com-flag-draped grating at the open gate. account of a stewardship that, of immediate development Chan Fun-din, So Sau-nam. Tsan pany in attendance. Poor Grey way. passengers and ship's com with the exception of

the source

-at-hand

Chui-ying, Chu Chik-man, Tze was sewn up properly, as a sailor-pany in attendance. The Old Man. restricted membership of the almost

to cover Yat-cho, Chun Fu, Tang Lui-kin, man should be, by one of his clums, rend the service through, and when normal

food needs Lau Yuk-wan, Ip Lan-chuen, Q.M., who went as far as to be committed our dearly beloved Justices of the Peace, and the without recourse to high prices Tang Hoi, and Chan Yik-wan and eyelet the slits in the canvas, and brother to the deep" Martin and perhaps wider membership of the and dependence on somewhat many others.

we Inid him aft on the hand steer-another Q.M. raised the inboard Hongkong General Chamber of unreliable sources. Here is cer

ing gent grating, to await burial end of the grating, and the con- Commerce, has evidently been tainly a matter to engage the

next morning with the flag he had densor tubes, firebars, and packing -thrust upon him by one individual attention of all who claim an In Botion there 19 published, Tum. Some of the passengers had The thin engineer thought we bad

served under laid reverentix aver i slid overboard from under the flag a stewardship that seems to be interest in civic affairs and who under the title of "The Tale of suggested that as we were only two buried condenser tubes, but Maren. regulated by social or business desire to see large tracts bloom Genji," the first instalment of the days out from his home we should and I knew better., Ai Martin ox- standing, in which natural ability, with healthy agricultural develop Court lady of the 11th century, was impossible, as we were running its rest. The lifeless mass we had work of Lady Murasaki, a Japanese return and land the body, but that pressed it "Grey's soul has gone to, or an intense interest, in the ment. The strength and the translated by Mr. Arthur Waley to time and had the mails on bound picked out of the winch was of BE Colony's welfare plays no real weakness of Colonial life, here is The work has been described as one. At len o'clock that night the Old much importance to the service as part. But a greater civic spirit the constant coming and going of of the greatest two or three long Man retired, and in his night order the dammy we dropped overboard

novels in existence.

book he had left instructions that I wonder if he was right,

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