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of 500 sheets, in the case of ordi- nary stamps. each sheet contain-t ing 240 stamps. This number is obviously more convenient where |[the currency in question is pounds:

and the value of stamps. pence, or Are we ever to see this in the Englishman would rather hal pence, but for places where Hongkong t

perish than go without it, the dollars and cents are in use it

vs. I passed a funeral Frenchman and -American' con- ̈¦ occasions considerable difficulty in THE MODERN leaving St. Mar- clude that some mystic importance

FUNERAL. accounting Sets, of 100 are ob-

tin's-in-the-Fieldy attaches to the liquid something viously more desirable where the

a few days ago, that goes down to the roots of the currencies are on a decimal sys-says & London writer. How dif-British constitution-- something tem It was these considerations ferent It was from the funerals which demans libations, and pon which led the Hongkong postal of my youth. There were no sibly an incantation or two. · So authorities when there was occa-nodding plumes; there was not the Frenchman puts on his best sion two years ago to have made one black horse; and there were clothes to drink it. and calls it. a special plate for "postage due no white flowers.

The Five O'Clock. In America. stamps, to have it cast. In the 100- It was all done by motor-car; America" proper, west of the set form. Although this has and nearly all the blossoms of Alleghanie-if your hostess, in proved a considerable help it la which the wreaths were made the kindness of heart, sets out to doubtful whether the Crown were brown; they were glorious prepare you a cup, she does so Agents wil be requested to go to chrysanthemums of golden-with the preoccupied solemnity of a chemist making up a prescrip- tion or an astrologer compounding- a love-potion; and the resulting decoction is very much what you would expect.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

the expense of changing all the browny leaves: stamp plates for Hongkong until I did not notice one sickly lily, quch change as may be considered with an odour that my youth necessary in general design or by makes me associate always with reason of change in the reigning death, sovereign, for stamps are done for And there was no crapet the whole of the Empire in. prac The words "funeral pace" tically the same operation and scarcely apply nowadaya.. The with the same plates. There is, motor-car funeral does not block however, no longer the impedi. the traffic; it passes sedately, ment that there was at one time smoothly, but not at a mail's pace. to any change. Until compara- tively recent times the paper sup

EPITAPHS.

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Ian Hay, who wrote the above, should come to Hongkong to ex tend his studies in the mystic rites of afternoon tea. Sufficient to say that if you see a married man wending his way home fairly late in the evening, it will be a good Afternoon tea is a guess to suggest his wife has plied for the use of Colonies by AFTERNOON curious meal. In either been attending an after- the Crown agents had the water- TEA. England, the land of noon tea party, or is holding one? marks so arranged as to give one

its birth, it is with- complete watermark to each out honour; people drink it stand- stamp out with the present watering up, sitting down, or walking:

"Speaking of Epit. marked paper there is no need to about at a table, at a desk, or

aphs," remarks make the plates for dollar Colonies off the corner of the mantelpiece;

genial soul, "how does and protected States exactly the sometimes it is merely imbibed this one strike you? It is on a same as for the pence places." The from a thermos flask in the back tombstone at Potterne.. Wiltshire. occasion of an appeal to Gover-office. No Englishman or Scots- England; nors of British Colonies for man really cares where or how he' stamps to be sold in aid of charity has his tes, so long as he gets it. was made the occasion of an But when Tea crosses the Ocean article in a London journal in and becomes an imported custom which the methods of stamp pro- it is invested with a strange and conflicting international forces, this it would appear that there missed the point of Tea, which duction were reviewed and from unseemly pomp. Foreigners have thanks to the almost embarrass-is no logical reason why in the is that it is above all things a ing abundance of of within her case of those Colonies where it hugger-mugger affair. boundaries. Britain and Russia would be such an obvious advan- have both been interested in the stamps should not be producedi tage for postal accountancy, country. The British sphere in in 50's and 100's. It seems 2. the South, includes access to the comparative small matter, hardly Persian Gulf the Russian is in but it is interesting in that it worth while cavilling over,

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Hongkong, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1926,

KING OF KINGS."

זי

Because

Here Hes Mary, the wife of John

Ford,

We hope her soul is gone to the

Lord.

But if for Hell she has chang'd

her life

She had better be there than be

John Ford's wife." Very warm.

MEDIAEVAL SURGERY.

In the October number of the treatment of the injured and sick.

the north, including a territory illustrates how slowly the official "Nineteenth Century" Dr. G. D. But the clock stopped just when that is approximately twice the mind changes where matters

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it had been started, and the world

towards the end of what are often century. known as the Dark Ages, writes MOTOR FATALITY. the "Manchester Guardian." He

Silhouettes.

extent of the British. The Soviets which are looked upon as those Hindley describes the history of a had to wait for Lister to rewind

of routine are concerned.

very interesting flicker of light it in the sixties of the last renounced the agreement of 1907 Which gave their country rights in the north, though they have since laid claim to the territory and have bent every effort to establish- ing their influence in an effort to drive out the British. Whether the present appointment by the Constituent Assembly will be an

DEATH INQUIRY VERDICT.

P

A PURE ACCIDENT.

The death of a Chinese youth

The taxi driver's evidence,

1.

tells how two surgeons, master and pupil in the last half of the taken a pair of scissors, with very Someone, it would seem, has thirteenth century and the begin-fine, very sharp blades, and cut ning of the fourteenth broke away out in black paper the roof of an from the teaching of Galen and old house with twisty chimneys, a weather vane with a flying fox

encouragement to the Soviets to/from injuries received when he began to heal wounds by a method on the top, and a clump of trees. was knocked down by a taxicab at! which approached quite closely to The trees must have required further their "doctrine," remains Wanchat on November 22 was the the antiseptic surgery taught by most especial artistry. for some of to be seen. The personality of subject of an inquiry before a Lister. But except for some ex-the little branches have separated Ithe present ruler seems

coroner and jury at the Central periments made by Paracelsus black mass and are but frail to sug-

themselves from the rest of the Magistracy yesterday. gest that no "Red" inroads will be tolerated, whilst he is helped somewhat by the fact that the nations of the West are bound, by "Have you seen the Shah?" was international commitments enter the theme of one of those ed into since the war. to observe ephemeral songs that grip the the country's integrity. Such senses from time to time. The movements", as the one that has Music Hall "poet" added "smok-taken place in Persia demonstrate ing his cigar" and the couplet anew the vital necessity of helped in the visualisation of the Europe setting its own house in Persian potentate who at that order: bringing peace to its trou- time was about to visit England. bled concerns, the better to face Events have moved slowly but whatever.consequences may arise qurely in Persia, until now a new from the progressive and other ruler reigns in place of the old-amovements taking place in other young man who, at the age of 16 parts of the world! The question became. Persia's ruler, the "King of opium is but another of the of Kings," and now, under thirty things associated with Persia, for is a spendthrift exile in Paris, only this month has the Council squandering his time and the of the League of Nations ap-

Medical evidence showed that two hundred years later the light threads against the moonlit eky. death was due to haemorrhage failed with the deaths of Theo-The moon is hidden behind the and shock following a rupture of doric and his follower Henri de curve of the root. It must be only the spleen.

Mondeville (who died in 1320), so intense as to absorb, here and.

just out of sight, for the light is which was corroborated by an- and on this point surgery slipped there, even the blackness of the other driver riding on the vehicle back into its own dark ages, which twisty chimneys, and the flying at the time of the accident, was lasted beyond the middle of the giddy perch on the weather vane. fox appears to be swaying on his tram car coming from the opposite cient doctors and surgeons work-aping. There is in it. nothing of that the deceased jumped from a nineteenth century. All the an- direction and got in front of his

Moonlight sets imagination

THEFT CHARGE.

SHOP MANAGER ALLEGES CONSPIRACY.

1.

wealth that has been his by right fproved the proposal to despatch-a a case in which a'Chinese rice Pus and inflammation. Theodoric going on in that thin blackness, in

the

car when only two paces away. ed on the theory that the suppura- the calm glow of sunset. The Brakes were applied, but it was tion of a wound was

silhouettes of sunset a natura!!

time are too late.

warm and peaceful, but moonlight process (as, unfortunately, it is), silhouettes are as thin, as fanciful, was returned by the jury,

A verdict of accidental death

and that it was a necessary stage as the flight of a bat or shadow of healing. From this beginning, on a windowpane.

Here, we conclude, is an old and from Galen onwards, they ad- house since it is, unmistakably, vanced to the disastrous argu- possessed of an old roof. An old ment that suppuration was a thing house then with" inmates-for to be encouraged; and encourage smoke is hanging above one

something which we take to be STORY OF A RANSOM,

it they did, by probing the wound the chimney stacks, a veiled sug- of and filling it with packings that gestion of haze against the sky. At a further hearing at the were directly designed, to produce All the activities of a home are Kowloon Magistracy yesterday of of his Kingship, in what is popu- commission of enquiry to the shop manager was charged with instead. began to cleanse the so much as a sign to help us in that paper-like picture, and never larly known as "riotous living." country on the subject of the larceny of $370 belonging to wound, carefully avoiding any en-four imaginings, never so much as One" of the most exclusive cultivation of opium. The first the firm, it was alleged by the de- largement of it, to close it as soon a sound. Can sounds, then, be monarchies on earth now comes to act of King Pahlevi, the name L. D. Turner, that there had been with warm wine in place of the

fendant through his solicitor, Mr. as possible, and to dress it freely silhouetted too?

There are days of strong sun- a private soldier in a Cossack re-assumed by Raza Khan, was to quarrel between the defendant greasy and septic dressings which shine when the most, minute atom giment garrisoned in Persia. order the liberation of all political and the complainant (a woman, had been in use for centuries. As of a thing stands up and makes of. Little sympathy seems to be forth-prisoners, grant an amnesty to the partner) when the latter was ask Dr. Hindley points out, the warm itself an important object in bold coming for the ex-Shah. He is former Shah, members of the as ransom for rescuing her two antiseptic as could be got in those scent and sensation is intensified; ed for repayment of money paid wine would be as near to a genuine relief; when every sound and blamed for the present situation. late dynastie family, and members children from the hands of early days, and the proof of the days too defined and outspoken to Two years ago he left Persia to of the royal household, who will be pirates. A conspiracy was there- value of Theodoric's treatment lend themselves to the exercise of regale himself with the delights of pensioned. The price of bread fore alleged in the present prose lay in the fact that his patients fancy, honest, kindly, open-heart- Paris, and there he has been has been reduced through a Gov- was under an obligation to the Mondeville, a body surgeon to the and abundant in blessings. And cution by the complainant, who prospered under it. Then De ed days, harbouring no secrets. spending lavishly of the money ernment subsidy. Judging from defendant. that has been wrung from the

King of France, applied the came then the sun rests, and twilight method and argued copiously in fellows, and things become thin Persian people. The "iron-willed" these acts, the King has started

its defence, even venturing upon and very close together; and the well and given.evidence of a desire soldier who has succeeded him is

the observation that "God did not ne sharp scissors come out and to advance Persia materially and

exhaust all His creative power silhouettes grow against the new fighting for the unification of his

to give this once remnant of a

when He made "Galen." But there sky, and a mighty world of country. Already reforms of

was no real body of theory behind imagination unfolds, an various kinds are to be laid to his mighty empire a stable Govern-

his arguments; it was impossible

But, like an explosion beyond that he should have any fore the old roof, the moon has risea knowledge of bacterial infection and caught at the twisty stacks: A Kokusai message from Mikden Lister could convince the world has engulfed the trees and the states Kuo Sung tin is prepared to because he worked from the basis flying fox, and the silhouette has

credit. Weights and measures have been simplified; the causes of

ment.

sanitation, public charity and Hongkong Stamps.

he has performed a signal service

in initiating a system of orders

The case was again adjourned. AN OFFER.

(Router's Service.)

Tokyo, December 15.

education have been farthered and

Arriving in the Colony in sealed allow Chang Taolin to reire in of Pasteur's discoveries on the gone. Instead a few yellow win- counts at the value of their cost party, provided he retires without Theodoric and De Mondeville shadow figure unharnesses a horse boxes and put down in the acety and retain his private pronature of microbes. In the eiddows peer out of the darkness, a of production, Hongkong's post further fighting and withdraws his could point to nothing except that from a cart in the roadway, and age stamps are then taken charge armies from Heinmingtun.

their practice worked, and when the click of the shafts is heard as of by the Treasury and assume the

— they died the medical world, lost they meet with the ground, fol-

The danger of diffuenas is të tema (BHD

accounting in the State finances.

Here then seems, indeed a "King valus of these face bearing -- They +HELPS THOSE HARD COUGHT in its centration for Gulen and owed by the trampesm

of Kings'. likely to serve to the thuc jump in value some two hun

to rule Persian

full the country over which he is dred times as they are purchased any devalop inta pleurity and ber

has loomed in through the Crowa agents on a pambien politics

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bage, sliding scale(according to quan wilst she has been the centre of a thousand. They arrive in boxes

Bion your cold, before it wor

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Chamber

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declined to remem their methods had ever. All It had been by

down the track to the stables. Sounde are free once more, one

How, much of the art of the world we wonder has more than ve bun in the boulette Har of senseless pain in the moon is hulgii?