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supply, he has to pay for three or four of the other he will look at it from this point of view: "II] get two-thirds of enjoyment out of smoking a piper, of inferior

the best Indian, why should I pay

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

··(An' aminout.}{ right, but on getting home or to a

oplum that I do out of smoking MOVIE FRAGMENT director and destination. another aspect enters his frat assist-into the matter. Several exam- ant discuss | ples of how to end auch acquaint- the star.) anceships have came to the notice of the Shreds man. Space per- mits only of two being given

Dear Mr. Waffler,

Has she been hurled in the

Yes,. master.

Has mud been thrown on her? Oh, Lord yes, my Lord. Has she covered her face thick- ly with white chalk paste?

Yes, indeed Your Highness! She's in rags, I hope? As you were good enough to suggest, Majesty'

Thank you for your letter, and the snup-shots, which are very clear and good and recall happly a most pleasant holiday.

It is very kind of you to offer to look me up when you are in town. I only hope I may ba in, but since my return to town life has been one long rush, and I cannot even find time for my correspondence.

Again thanking you for the snap-shot.

Yours sincerely,

W. BROOM.

This is more to the point-

the extra price? I will wait until the difference in price is more in accord with the difference in lake? quality!" From the recent annual report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports (as indeed from that for 1923) it, would! appear that for every increase the Government makes, in the price to reduce consumption there is a corresponding decrease in the

right. We'll resume. consumption of Government opiuma Al

We'll do that bit where, she re- and a greater increase of smug turns through the storm to her gling. From the point of view of old home and faints on the front revenue alone, Hongkong, as Sir step. Have the big fire hose. R. E. Stubbs remarked at Singa-ready to turn on her. Impress on her please, that this is the scene pore, could dispense with thein which she must appear wistful.. opium revenue without disaster Do you get what I mean. overtaking it, but there is yet wistful? WISTFUL! That's what Wlat- another way of looking at the We're after in this scene.

fulness! This is going to be a matter. Government Indian opium wistful year! contains the lowest percentage of morphia of all opiums.. There is

How is one äest to about one ounce of it in twelve of THE COLD terminate a holiday Indian opiuma and if the smokerSHOULDER. acquaintance or an acquaintance made. inhaled the whole of the smoke on board ship? Whilst they re- into his system only about a main in their particular surround-

to they seem

be aff thousandth part of that would beings absorbed into his system. Bear- ing this in mind, also that Hong- kong has by far and away the lowest per capita consumption of!

Just as the artists of china con- |deavour to discover, piece together, opium (with ample allowance for

sider landscapes the highest ex- and interpret the hidden things- that smuggled added on to the pression of art, en we find the poet tekstive to man's early history, and Government opium) the words of writing what might be called histo construct therefrom an ordered the Hongkong Government's re-landscapes of the soul. Many poems connected story of his loug- port on the whole matter acquire an inspired by paintings, and those forgotten past. When the purpose their true significance. Their

which have not these objective in- is to disentangle the threads in- apientions we may always be sure dicading his presence here in Bri- attitude has always been that no have found a deeper source. The tain, the quest becomes doubly in- financial consideration will stand story is told of Ww Tao-tzu, the Peresting.

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Undoubtedly on my arrival here I found things in rather a bad way. The bailiffs were and still are in possession of my house, and I should be indebted to you if you would let me have a Cheque for £20 by return of post in order to enable me to get rid of these uninvited guests. I will, of course, repay you shortly.

.etc., etc..

NATURE IN CHINESE ART.

in the way of reduction and greatest, of all Chinese masters, Such is the object of the joint ultimate total prohibition of the who, when the Emperor sent hin'ommittee of the British Associa consumption of opium but "this river, returned, to everyone's sur-Institute in undertaking systematic o paint the scenery of a certain igh and Royal Anthropological must be pari-pass with similar pris with "no sketches to show researches amid the caves and rock conditions in China."

I have it all in my heart," he said shelters of Derbyshire, and their simply.

jefforts have already been rewarded But why do the Chinese so de-by important discoveries, particular. light in landscapes? This is diffi-y in the Creswell Gorget on the lealt to understand until we realize borders of Derbyshire and Notting-

thad to these artists of the Easthamshire. ...

BRISK BIDDING.

YESTERDAY'S PROPERTY

SALES.

and

the highest office of their art was It was with a view to defining to suggest infinity. thus came their surrender to and more exactly the series and sequance of-cultures represented in this the oneness with nature and their Two property sudes were held absorbing desire to interpret life in the man in England, and, if

most northerly station of. Palo- yesterday one taking place at the terms of the universe,

pos This does ible discovering skeletu reinains China Action Rooms and the other not mean the simple delight in the which would denote the mee of the u the Brokering "Company, A bounty of nature, or even the co-ave-dwellers, that work was un- feature of both sales was the brisk templation of her miracles, but dertaken as Creswell in 1923. bidding.

soulathing far more intimate and At the China Auction Rooms, exalting the winds, the clouds, the Mr. B. V. M. R. Souza disposed mountain peaks and the torrents well was not very encouraging, but fof by order of the mortgagees, if

interpret and liberate his persistent digging of trial holes vitable leasehold property at der pest enfions, while the beautyin Kituations which, to-day. offer was undesirable, it was. the lesser houses now known as Nos. 1 to their place in his heart.

Shamahnipo, which contains ten and austerity of nature both have helter from the cold winds, and are such as one would personally select

infested by beasts of prey, finally

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it was Chow Speed, and two unnumbered charm in the spirit of their urt: a infinitely preferable to have it houses, at the rear of shose and reverence for the lives and energies sulted in the discovery of three under control. So long as Chinese ring on Hai Tan Street out-ide humanity, un exquisite con-living-aites sections of which re

respectively..

[siderateness" to, defenceless things vealed definite layers of stratifica opium is grown in such enormous

The area of the property is about inherited courtesy of mannion denoted by hands of black quantities and sold at such cheap 10.254 qure feet and $44 is pay--and a thousand little ceremonies carbonaceous earth and the pre- rates, it is impossible, to deviseable yourly as a

moportion of the

connected with the most ordinary sence of charcoal and fakes of efficient means for the prevention Crown Rent.

relations of life. Started at an upset price of [A world of exquisite thought, was, A comparison of the stone imple of smuggling into Hongkong and 370.000, this mum was advanced by thus produced and lived so sponment found, at the base of the as our Singapore contemporary bids of $1,000 to $89,000 at which rightly comments on the inter-figure it was knocked down to Mr.neously that at any time it section with implements, found in the Pinhole Cave recently shows proto-type was easily struck ppon that the earliest occupants of this the alternative to the Ng Kwong, No. 16, Gage Street, silk or paper. Especially did view; measure of control given by the At the Auctioneering and Broker. Bowers appeal to them as an ideal rock lielter were Mousterian men, monopoly system would therefore ing Company's premises another.

then sehoid property was sold by Mr. existence: their singleness of par-who mamfactured rude tools from. in practice put the remedy further I. E. S. Hodge, by order of the 6 in ever seeking light their quartzite pebbles and were com off attainment than at present mortgagees..

perpetual beauty and perpetual panions of the cave lion, mammoth, The immediate result would be a

This property, contains a dwelling sacrifice whether out or unseen, and rhinoceros, as testified by the Probably they their vigour and sensitiveness alike, bones recovered, more extensive organisation for house and shop known as No. 64. all make an append Blooms like lived her during the oncoming of the conducting of smuggling of Wellington Street and the annual

those of the plum we especially the Wurmian glaciation and the cheaper oplum of poor quality Crown rent is $10..

The upset price was $15,000, and prized: they appear on the naked rigours of this final glacial epoch enabling the smoker to get four this was advanced by rápid and boughs of winter and full before drove them out. When, after a lapse they wither rather than ding rot of thousands of years, the site waS or five times as much quantity for brisk bids of $500 to $24,000, at ting to the stalk! A poet of the gan pied; it was by Aurigu the same amount of money paid which figure Mr. Kwong, Po-kwong, ut gives us in one line the followian mun, a cunning Inter, much

became the purchaser.

more advanced in culture, a skilful for the Indian opium supplied by

ing lyric of the plum. Tree-

"Oh, that with this blossoming flint worker, and an artist who the Government. Even at the

plum-branch Feould offer the song executed drawings on bone and present time in spite of the

A tool in reindeer antler and activities of the Revenue officials SUBMARINE VICTIMS with which this morning it was ivory, and manufactured beautiful

quivering In the Interview he granted to which have come in for special

A well known poem tells how a bone a "Singapore Free Press repre- praise, there is always to be found

girl coming to the well to draw No pottery was found; most like- water in the early morning found fly they were unaware of its nee; sentative on his way home, Sir reflection in the "Hongkong

both bucket and rope entwined by is extremely raro on a Paleolithic R. E. Stubbs, referring to the Government sales, of the quantity

the tendrils of the convolvul, site, but an implement, used for opium problem here and in China, and therefore price of opium pro. A service for the officers and men

before water piercing the eye of bone beadles which must be roket b presented the view shared by all duced at Hunan and Antoy. I let in the Submarine M1. will be could be drawn. That morning no indicates that these people were

heid in the Roman Catholic Cathe who have knowledge and practical there have been bountiful crop dra, Caine Road, at 10a.m. to. Water was drawn from that well: familiar with the art of sewing. experience of the facts. In so there, larger quantities inevitably morrow m

London Offices:-The Far Eastern AdverHlaing Agency (Lonaon), Ltd. 24. Devonshire Street, Bloomsbury, W.C:1,

Hongkong, Friday, November 20, 1925.

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COLONY'S OPIUM.

TO-MORROW'S MEMORIAL

SERVICE.

it was begged from's neighbour. That they had considerable urtístic

in The New Orièmf

trany words it amounts to this and their way into Hongkong and There will be a solemn Requiem Sentimental? No! Rather, the ability and were skilful workers in Hongkong, by reason of her con- there is a consequent decrease in Mass celebrated by the Rev. Parcy most beautiful sentiment in the bone and ivory, the engraved bones tiguity with the mainland must Government, sales. "The Optum O'Connor RN An address will world. A distinction with a great and the bone tools testify.

be given by the Rev. Father Spada, difference-Evelyn Nichols Kerr, walt for China before prohibition | smoker," said a high official once followed by the absolutions after of opium here is in the least likely to a "Chiph Mall", representative, wards at the catafalque. to become effective. Last year, "will always buy from the Govern in commenting on the position in ment If the difference between its Hongkong, the Anti Opium ANNO

snuggled optim ciation of Peking, stated that is not too rent for the aimple Whilst if falt that from a moral reason thật kế know that Govern- Eof Mr. Bawia, have been exsented

point of view it was regrettable

that a British Colony, should still be participating in a traffic which

whatz zwined,

lombay - November 193-Sh Ahmed and Shamra Odfyda who were found guilty of the murder

The whole thickness of this in teresting deposit told a similar story. Fire had been lighted of the same apor through the ages. The gradual disappearance of reindeer remains HISTORIC MOTHER and the predominance of those of "

bobarundibjaz tels of a change in clamatu: pondaligns from subarche to: sperate Hen the top of the posit the bison disappears sad a ent in-

Arch This understood that Ponde the third condemned atian, will be con- ing study, but of Inned in a criminal lunatic asylum nome,

Bouter.

than that of prehistory and the

imstrong in Dis