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to Rome, that is, a play which had a long run in America before going to London.
Labels and
Libels.
So it is like that, is it? To label the Oracle of Kennedy-road is to libel him. Well, well,
A libel is something, sometimes true, which the person referred to does not like. What, I wonder, hoa
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928.
Sir David Yule,hair preparation which they terined Autobiographical who has recently "staconk." Perhaps it was a very died, has been good preparation. However, the Modesty.
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THE LASSIES.
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The wisest man the worki e'er saw
He dearly lived, the lassies p'""
BURNS.
About the lassies of to-day;
movement.
called the "silent labels and Jars resembled millionaire" chiefly because, it much those which are the pro- seems, his life and career only 'oc-prietary marks of a well-known cupled nine lines in "Who's Who." product almost similarly named Which does not follow at all, as a that the Chinese were mulcted I wonder what putr Rab would say Homeside civil action proved not in the sum of two hun, long ago. Then it was shewn that persons considered of sufficient Im- portance to grace the pages of the familiar red book with particulare concerning themselves are invited to write their own notices. An- other misconception that may pós- sibly arise in connection with the- late Sir David is that, as he was a
dred dollars and their imitative What he'd think of this short skirt bottles confiscated. Which is the
Like me, he'd say; a great stuff to give 'em!
Improvement,
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H. M. S. Sufolk, accord- Schoolboy ing to friend, Josh Boxers. Brook,, has brought a tidy collection of boxera with her to the China station, and
big shareholder of the London with the rapidly approaching cool Daily Chronicle and its associated weather we should see some more publications, he made his fortune, sterling programmas staged by the computed to be between ten and local Association. What I should twenty million sterling, out of news. ffike to witness is a number of papers. Nothing of the kind, dear schoolboy tournaments such as the render. He collected his wealth through the medium of the two famous merchant Arms; Andrew Yule of Calcutta and Yule, Catto and Co. Ltd., of London. -
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Merely the Custom.
And batter noo by far, than when
They walked' liko some auld:
cloakin' Hen.
Their dresses trailin" in the glaur
The show their legs. they widna
daur:
Their throats in stiff neckbands'
encasedi.
Their bodice yiiket at the whist. Their hair done up in twists and
knots,
Lang skirts and flannel petti-
coats;
But noo their shorn O's' their locks Their claes they hardly hide their
docks,
But smarter far in every wa
Than what they were in my
young day
Noo, men wha ylice admired their
cheeks.
Victoria Recreation Club used to run in connection with the Colony championships. There are a few worthy old-time scrappers acting as conches at the various schools, so the lads are being looked after in this direction. Why not, then, stage one or more competitions during the winter? Some of the schools have sufficient pupils to present a pro- gramme off their own bat, as Billy Tingle's Diocesan boys do in Shang-They're no owre nuld at sixty-three hai.
Tac wear their skirt abune their
knee.
A contemporary recent ly had occasion severe ly to rap the knuckles of a correspondent who took exception to a local custom. The correspondent, however, had the good grace to admit that he had written in ignorance of the custom so everything was all right. Strange to say the people who err in regard to what is and is not done are, frequently, those who have been in the Colony more than a lit- tle while. Promoters of shows of all kinds now and then forward to the newspaper offices one instead
A new regulation relating to of two complimentary tickets when fermentation in distilleries is an desiring a critique or, as the ad-nounced in the "Gazette." vertiser calls it, a write-up. Only
a couple of days ago, I am told, those responsible for the arrange ment of the promenade concerts erred in this direction. there is no obligation to supply two
Of course,
Telegraphic communication with Shanghai, and beyond has been re-established.
The name of Mr. G. H. Bond has been added to the list of authorised architects in Hong Kong.
www.
Two gold rings, valued at $15 Woosung-street, Yaumati, early yes- are reported stolen. from No. 24,1 terday.
Alterations to house numbers in Robinson-road and Queen's-road
Pay mair attention tae their
breeks.
r
The young yins; they are no' tae
blame.
For no their grannies dreas the
aame.
They're just-as frisky as can be
I often think it's great tao' ses Auld hens wha's youth is long ayne
owre Dressed up like tarts o'twenty-
fowre, Ye'd think thent young things, out
on trial. Until they hirn and show their
dial.
What sichts ye arcending
see when stairs
Or if yo chance tae catch them
bending..
There's some auid cranks who try
tae shame them
I'm
But as for me, I never blume
them.
shair l'a never think it
shocking
the reverend gentleman done to free seats; it is merely the customWest are announced in the "Go And I'd be first tae lend her
warrant such horrid labels?
ernment Gazette."
One of the few. con-
$57 of counterft coins were dis-
Tae see a lass pu' up her stocking
A hand tae fasten her suspender. I hope that naught will come to mar
The sights I.ace when on the car.
queens
A plump and strapping' in their
teens.
Wi' skirts well ahjune their knee
They'll plank theirsel's in front
o'me.
fegs
They're neither shy nor blate, my They'll twist and turn and cross
their legs.
I have been reading in Football'a
ceras in Hong Kong | covered by the police in an unnum. In bounces three or four young Prince of condensed form the ad- Popularity. which simply cannot bered matshed on Shaukiwan hill Rogues. ventures of that Prince
help making money is side.. A woman was arrested. of Rogues, Casanova, as the H. K. Football Club; and this
Between 4.15 and 5.15 am. yes- set out by Sidney: Dark in his re- is a pleasing indication of the cently published Twelve Bad Men. game's popularity. Seventeen thou-terday thiever entered No. 158 Aberdeen-street, and stole a hand And how sordid do these adventures sand dollars, I see, is to be spent on bag and $135 in Hong Kong bank appear in this new volume com a new club house on or near the notes. pared with the accounts by site of the present matshed, a good Cusanova's half-admiring biogra- way of getting rid of funds for Hong Kong. Saturday, July 21, 1928. pher, M. Joseph Le Gras. Casanova | which there is no immediate use. is the adventurer who flourished Wilfred Pennell, who used to work throughout Europe in the middle on the Daily Preas here and play H.C.-His Column. of the eighteenth century, and per- for the H. K. F. C., recently had haps his greatest claim to fame is some sensible things to say in his The next Interna- that he made the Pope laugh. As
Pleuse,
N. T. Entries, tional Congress of matter of fact I do not entirely Agriculture is to be agree with his inclusion among the held in Bucharest in other eleven bad men selected by 1929. Which does not give our Mr. Dark, seeing that some of them New Territories Association much-Thomas Cromwell, Judge Jeffries, tims to prepare and despatch ex- Cesare Borgia and Louis XI-were really scoundrels of the first water. hibits, does it?
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Even among most of usi A Woman who have been sipping
Strand Theatre.
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* However, it seems that Casanova, if not a proper bad man,was undoubted-
present paper, the Peking and Tientsin Times, upon the growth in popularity of soccer in the Colony, particularly among the Chinese. He also fairly accurately gauged the present situation and pointed a warning at the accumulation of funde by amateur bodies. His re- marka were reproduced in part in the China Mail.
A Chinese, found interfering with the fire hydrant, and drawing water from it, in Circular Pathway, was fined $15 bý Major C. Willson yesterday.
The body of a three months old Chinese, found by the police
between Aberdeen-street and Caine road, was taken to the Public Mortuary.
Names struck off the register of companies include those of Colonial Commercial Co., Ltd., The General Exchange Co., Ltd., Yue Tak Co. Ltd. and The Sedan Co., Ltd.
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Like ither things
bidden,
that are for:
There's legs that wad be better
hidden.
There's some like posta and some
like pokers They'll scarce haud up their
camibockers;
But then there's lots o' better stuff
O' them ye canna see enough Some say in jeat and some in anger That dresses should be worn
langer.
They may be so, I hae my doots,
Lang skirta and lastic sided boots Have had their stay. Ye'll дае
mair see them,
Unless it be in some museum.
A married woman, named Lau Chak, aged 28, residing at Russell- I'm sorry for the puir dressmaker street was removed to Government For very sune they'll a' forsake Civil Hospital yesterday suffering.
her;
The admirable man-from poison, believed to have been The game'll not be worth a docken. ner in which our self-administered.
What matter tho' I'm turning local Harbour off-
cials perform the
H.M. the King has given assent
gave effect to "the change in name
auld
knee
I'd rather miss my ham and eggs- Than Monday mornin's show o“
legs
Ye'll find as lang's there is a
flicker
nicker
to Ordinance No. 5 of 1028 which It's a gay auld horse that winne and office of the Principal Civil Officer to Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
I hear that in a year or twa They'll no wear ouy dress ava
If this should happen, Lord be
kind
in It. the nectars of Cathay He Died
long enough to know " Bum. better there occasionally arises a
ly a rogue and a knave. | Good Work in desire, sometimes a longing, to wit- He was never long without money, the Harbour. ness once more a really good play; and when funds were low would
A Chinese, found guilty of steal-And tho' my pate is getting bald?
I'd gang a lang wey tae see allocated to them has a ing 5,000 copper cente from a and if by the gentle tickling of any start a swindling company or ally duties of my electric lamp bulbs I could himself to card sharps. He always parallel, I see, in the Far East. In money changer's shop In Das Voeux. A weel shaped calf and rounded!
road. Central, Was sentenced to command a magic carpet I would longed for the life of a great gentle. Singapore all vessels, British and fourteen days hard labour by ask to be set down in a seat at the man, but, as M. Joseph Le Gras has foreign, are boarded by the Marine Major C. Willson yesterday.
For here is or said, "there was in him an overflow Department's officers upon arrival was very recently-being explained of low instincts, vulgar, coarse, and departure, and local rules have what Hannibal was up to on that diety, the need of immediate satis to be complied with strictly to the particular night of 216 B. C. when faction of low pleasure." At one letter before clearance certificates he decided to turn back from Rome, time in Venice he was a police spy, are issued. Down there, it seems, Medical also why he refrained from sacking but, as Mr. Dark saya, was probably actual overloading is an offence the city when at its very gates. inefficient, for after a year his re- which rarely occurs; most of the There la, of course, a woman in it.gular income came to an end. He Marine Court's cases have to do was kicked out of Venice and again with the plling of deck cargoes She was the wife of went to Paris, where he dreamt higher than the three and a half{ Fablus Maximus and, many dreama, One of his plans feet legal. Hmit. Overloading. It Ristory being of Greek descent, was to start a newspaper-all ad- is pointed out, is an offence which Recast. was not mightily inter- venturers sooner or later have such may involve the maater in troubic ested in the old war plans," comments Mr. Dark-but it with the insurance companies and known to our schooldays as the did not come true.. Though his the harbour authorities, as well as. Second Punie. She was interested trade was swindling, he was often maybe, Lloyds. It is not generally known that all vessels in harbour here are subject to observation by representatives of the insurance companies.
Ancient
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in Hannibal, however, when she swindled. He died a bum. heard what his age was, and, in endeavouring to catch a glimpse of him, was captured by the approach-, ing army a spy,
Hannibal, when Pseudo- he saw her,
was smitten so, accord- Amateurs ing to the play, they mede'a night
TEASERS.
Answer The “China Mail" Questions.
TO-DAY'S: POSERS.
From day to day a series of half a dozen questions, not tremendously difficult to answer but not always so simply solved as may be thought, appear on this page: Thest, as in the past, are compiled by the "China Mall staff and include from time to time questions of local
And aye, keep me frae turning
blind.
That I may watch each yin that
passes,
As lang's I live I'll lo's the lassies.
God bless them a", they has my
thanks, Who show a wreel made pale oʻ
shanks.
WUCHOW TRADE.
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The Hong Kong Chiness, General Chamber of Commerce has received a written complaint from a Chinese, merchant who shipped 20 bales of Indian yarn to Wuchow Ey the 8.5. "Kwong Ying" on June 1 The 2. What local firm files a red flag | goods were purchased, it is stated, on which is a white circle with the from Messrs. E, U. Sazsoon and Co. latter. "A" inscribed?
of Hong Kong.
1. Who was Ares?
I do not care two hoots whether America wins' the Davis Cup, but it is
A lot has been hoard re- refreshing to see that Stickygarding the faulty running interest. Answers are given on of it, in the course of which the that country'a Inwn tennis bigwiga
of the wheels of justice in Page Eleven. lady got in a few home-truths about intend to enforce the Amateur Rule the Provisional Court of Shanghai the folly of war. Well, cutting a in connection with players writing since it ceased to be known as the long and intensely aburbing story newspaper articles for pay or con- Mixed Court, but qulla offen, 1 ob- short, Hannibal at daybreak return sideration. Also, I do not care two serve, there are decisions handed ed the lady to her unsuspecting hus-hoots about this particular Amateur out which appear to conform with band and ordered a general retreat. Rule. What I like to see is the pre- the accepted: tenets of legal, proce So now you know what the warrior vention of pseudo-amateurs waxing dure. Take that copyright case was doing on that particular night fat on preceeds which belong, real, which came up the ather week. A in 216 B. C-According to The Roadly, to the Journalists, pocket. Chinese frm put on the market
8. What is, bakelite?
On arrival, the yarn was seized
4. How many beds are there at by pickets of the Wuchow Soclely for the Seyorance of, Economic Rei the Tung Wah Hospital?
lations with Japan. who alleged that the marchand se was of
äpanesa origin,
5. What is a calquo?
6. Who la the Commodore of the Hong Kong Naval Establishments 7
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