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SAILORS IN CAR SMASH

(To the Editor of the "Chino Mail."] pied by the Asiatic Petroleum Co.,!

Sir, In your paper tonight| now stands, there stood, in old under the heading "Sailors, in Car Hong Kong, a strange con-Smash" you have made, a number statements as

glomeration of buildings of hard- of inaccurate

follows

PRAPS-

PRAPS NOT !

A thirsty Aberdonian went with a thirsty Yorkshireman to London. The Yorkshireman had no money

ly more than a couple of storeys (1) The motor car was "well on the either, so they both went dry. in height and which, continued left side of the road."

"Have you everlooked that five

round into "Flower Street," were (2) "The accident is attributable to "decorated" in the most primi-i

the fact that the single, tram track bob you owe me ?**

tive fashion, with a three-foot railing in front of a small-very small-bit of a garden. Needless to say, with the old building, the railing and the garden also dis- appeared, as indeed has the entire east-side of "Flower Street" since that quaint period together with a considerable portion of that well-known thoroughfare's west side..

(1)

(2)

on this section of Shaukivan Road

hugs the foot of the hill with the

By no means. Didn't you nee me

wire standards standing practically try to dodge out that doorway pi

in the middle of the road."

The facts are:-

The motor car was not on the left hand side of the road, and

The tram track at the scene of the accident is double and not single track whilst the wire standards are at the side of the road well clear of all traffic.

Yours, etc..

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General Manager.

Hong Kong, July 5.

Mr. T. B. Rolland, of the P.W.D., left for Home on the s.s. "Kashgar" to-day.

Weather.permitting, the following|

to let with Cohen' painted on ?"

Cohen: "Do you know of a shop

Owen: "No, vy?".

Cohen: "Vell, I vast to set up in business.".

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A little boy was sent out with a note to the clinic doctor.

The note ran-

"

"Please, will you do something to Willie's, face.. He's had it for a long time, and it's spreading."

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She: "Let's go, dear. I can't. stand that actor. He's such a con- ceited fellow,"

He "Conceited!

should think

he is. Why, every time he hears A

Wife: "George, dear, are there. any fashions in that paper ??

George: "Yes, but they're out of date-it's the morning paper."

It is in the Our Up-to-Date rapidly chang-

Queen's Road ing

appear- ance of Queen's Road, from Pedder Street and "Flower Street" to Ice House Street-(where the imported ice bathing picnics have been arranged used to be stored)-that Hong by the European YM.C.A., Kow-clap of thunder at home, he runs to Kong is seen to be most effective- loon:-To-day to Island Bay, and the window and bows." ly transformed from the old to Saturday, July 27, to Big Wave the new. Very soon there will Bay. not be standing a building on the right-hand side, eastward, that is Passengers arriving yesterday more than a few years old. For on the "Kashgar" included Colonel evermore have gone the motley J. Me. D. Haskard, C.MG.. D.8.0., masses of more or less hideous Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Barnby, Capt.. structures that were permitted to J. Mackellar, Mr. C. S. Howe, Mr. stand there for far too long, and, Scott and Mr. G. Fasting. in their place, splendid buildings, up-to-date, handsome and worthy of the city, have been built. Soon the other side of the street, in the pily, with the expiration of long- same district, will follow suit, and tenure leases, those buildings, then new Hong Kong will be very thanks to the enterprise and visible even to the least obser-

vant. chergy of the present day, owners, have been made to give way to buildings worthy of the centre of

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DEATH!

of Mr. Mackintosh.

a great and a fine city.

Tower

At the top of

Wife (insinuatingly): "Cats have an easy time. They do nothing but watch other people work."

A Chinese of No. 109, Wellington- Hubby (asking for trouble): street, yesterday committed suicide "Why, I thought it rarely left the by jumping into the harbour from house," Queen's Pier. Although there was.

督

large crowd on the pier at the Artist: "I'd like to devote my time a rescue was not effected. latest picture to a charitable pur- The body has not yet been found. poss."

Critic: "Why not give it to an The Social Committee of the institution for the blind. ?" European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, has We have re-arranged a Social Evening for! And What of ferred to Thursday, July 25. at 9 p.m., as a Des Voeux the trans farewell to Mr. P. Sauds, Assistant ...Road formation of Secretary. Ladies are invited.

Queen's Road,

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PLEASE DON'T WASTE WATER

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danger in kissing " he remarked.

"I suppose you have read, of the

"Yes," she replied; but I come of

a family noted for courage.":

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An old man with the traditional "one foot in the grave" appearance, met an insurance agent one day.

"Can I take out a policy 7" he asked.

Not on your life!" was the short, conclusive answer.

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A New Zealand airman proposes

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"Do you know if the editor has

looked at the poems I sent him?"

"Yes, sir; he glanced through them this morning."

Ye Old Clock Pedder Street chiefly because it is the oldest -practically in part of "old" Hong Kong," but the very centre the changes in Des Voeux Road, of the city-there stood, sentinel- almost parallel with those effect- led in Queen's Road, have been, like, for many a day, an ancient-during the past few years, almost looking building, more like a as striking. To mention only the minor fortress than anything Central Building-ornately grand

Yesterday a Chinese was knocked and magnificent it in itself else. This was the city's "old would suffice to modernise any down and killed by a lorry at

Too much tennis-playing pro- clock tower”—a very remarkable road; but when the site at the Mongkok. The unfortunate ma duces a fixed, hard look on girls'

present moment gaunt and bar was crossing the road behind a faces," saya an umpire. Structure, that even sixteen years

They get. which was for so long occupied lorry when he was hit by another

sett expressions, ago, when it was demolished, had by the Hong Kong Hotel and joy approaching in the opposite long out-lived its day and genera other buildings, has upon it the direction. tion. It was as quaint as it was vast, imposing and up-to-date

building, surmounted by a modern The postponed concert in celebrato fy round the world four times.. cumbrous and was obviously a clock tower, of the Hong Kong tion of Rizal Day will be held to Before he has finished he'll know relic of Hong Kong's earliest days Land Investment Co., then indeed morrow night at the Filipino Club, the air from A to NZ. Evidently it had been, like many Hong Kong's "new will easily be King's Park. An excellent pro- seen to have eclipsed Hong Kong's gramme has been arranged, after such bulldings, constructed to last "old" and we shall have in our which the rest of the evening will for ages. But the spirit of pro- lovely Victoria one of the finest be given up to dancing. MACKINTOSH.In England, ongress that was abroad brought and most modern cities of the

Far East.

The friends of Mr. and Mrs. F.A. July 4, 1929, Ian, younger son about its disappearance and "ye

Oh-just a cursory examination, Mackintosh will learn with deep I suppose ?". and Mrs. F. A old clock tower" of Fedder Street

regret of the news of their son, Ian. "You're right; sir. I never heard is now fast becoming a mere

who has passed away, at Home from such language in my life." memory.

It is interesting diphtheria. He was only five years Defence of to note that the and a balf old. Mrs. Mackintosh At three o'clock in the morning "Kau Sing" Hong Kong Gen-and the children went Home in a city man on a visit to the country And opposite

eral Chamber of February, Mr. Mackintosh following found he could not sleep, so got up A Row Of

Commerce has adopted the re-in April.

and went for a walk. the Hong Kong ports appearing in the "China Banyan Trees Hotel, for many Mail for its defence of the rescue

"Talk about 'em being up early A reward of $500, it is under-in the country," he thought to him- a year and tug "Kau Sing" It will be re-stood, will be offered for informa-self. "This is where I score off No one who has until old Hong Kong was fast membered that following the re- tion leading to the arrest of the the early risers # Hong Kong resided in or giving way to new Hong Kong-which the "Kau Sing was ruth the double murder in the harbour, mad, he ran into a farmer.

ports of the Harbour Master in person or persons responsible for Upon turning a sharp bend in the Old and New been in touch there stood a row of banyan lessly condemned, the shipping reported yesterday, following the "Good morning," he said. "Nice

with Hong trees, whose grateful shade in the representative of the "China finding of the bodies of a boat morning Kong during the past twenty or hot weather was no doubt quite all made extensive investiga woman, and her son floating off the "Aye, it be," said the farmer, but Afteen years will doubt for a comforting, but which wereas merits of this vessel as a rescue

tions as to the merits or de Kowloon water front.

ft were cold first thing." moment that there is an old and suitable to the centre of a modern tug. The results of these investi- Arriving on the 3.5. "President new Hong Kong, even though city as would be, say, Noah's Ark Eations were published in full, Johnson" dae here on the 15th inst., the former is now rapidly pass to day in Jerusalem or wherever from the Lloyd's Shipping Regie Grace Baagh, Miss Betty Ann house lying on the path. He call-

to-day

substantiated by figures culled are Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Baash, Miss noticed a tile from the roof of his ing away. The transformation that wonderful structure was first ter. They were all to the effect Baash, Miss Maxine Whiffin, Mr.jed at the slaters, and they promptly has been gradual but it has been launched. The banyan trees that the "Kau Sing" was the right and Mrs. J. Snyder and Miss Edith sent a man to do the repair. Be< very complete. Soon, the Hong though not without a proteste of, vessel for the purpose for Gray, en route around the world, ing uncertain as to the right house, Kong of twenty years ago at from many-had to go, as did the single screw tug was more useful Robertson Travel Bureat, Los" Scuse me, Missus," he said to. which she was designed that a under the direction of the D. F.he knocked at one of the doors. least that portion of it that is old Post Office building in front than a twin screw vessel for res Angeles. Mr. L F Baash is a the lady who opened the door, are mainly the chief business quarter of which they stood.

cue work and all that was needed millionaire of operator from Los you the woman whot as a 'usband

Hong Kong, Saturday, July 6, 1929.

STILL WATERS

of the city will be so changed, compared with what it was, that if a Hong Kong Rip Van Winkle were suddenly to awaken he would hardly know the place,

Queen's Road To-day And Yesterday

Next to

was an experienced tug master tu Angeles. handle her. The defence of the the Chamber of Commerce is in the

main identically, the same.

Surpris

Therefore, it is

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Jones, on going to business;,

wet says you as a slate orf. ?"

"Impudence" she gasped, slam- ming the door in the crestfallen

DON'T WASTE WATER man's face.

HELPFUL (7) HINTS TO HOUSEHOLDERS

A man met a negro who said he could cat four loaves of bread, four surprising the 2ND HINT: WASHING CLOTHES quarts of beer at one sitting.. pounds of cheese, and drink four Harbour Master

Hong Kong's Clock Tower Old G.P.O the most con- splecious of the buildings of old Hong Kong was No portion of probably the General Post Office the city is to which stood precisely on the site should have failed to, gather all day, as yester now occupied by the massive and these facts before placing his re-

better magnificent China Building and

port before the Government. As known than Pedder Building, which are so arily be a mariner one who not Harbour Master he must neces- Queen's Road (Central) and no modern, and up-to-date in every only possesses a sound knowledge portion of Victoria has changed respect. Unlike the Tower the of navigation but is quite cav more during the past few years, Post Office was evidently

sent with the various types, of not vessels to be employed for vari A decade or so ago Queen's Road intended to last for all time, as it ous purposes. If material data (Central) like Queen's Road was largely constructed of wood could be gathered by our repre- (East) and Queen's Road (West) and had, in almost all respects, a matter of navigation it is pass- sentative a mere layman in the then and now, was a jumbled very flimsy appearance. It was ing strange that the Hon. Ear mass of more or less dilapidated indeed a striking contrast to its bour Master does not appear to buildings, mainly made up of in successor, which is, unquestion or master mariners resident have availed himself of the opin- significant shops and squalid ably, one of the handsomest build the Colony who do know, a premises of various kinda Hap ings of the city.

thing or two about rescue tuge.

In my garden on the path

Is a fiat old fashioned bath. This I hasten to explain)

And we never waste a minute Is simply there to catch the rain,

sufficient rain is in it

Ont of doors Wash-Amak rushes, Armed with soap and scrubbing

brushes

Washes all the garments thro One by one (er two by two)

Dries them in the sun and wind. When they're wasted in summer Try this plan, and you will and

rain

Soft as petals from a rose. Dried by breezes from the sea-

All your crede-de-chines will bel

ACID.

After watching the negro perform. the feal, the nun made a bet with a friend that the negro could repeat. the performance.

A time was arranged and, in the presence of the two friends and numerous witnesses, the negro- started on his meal. All went well until three-parts of the food and drink had been consumed, when Sambo heaved a deep sigh and con- fessed himself beaten.

You rascal!" cried bis backer

angrily pounds.

ly

You're made me lose five

Well, boss," replied Sambo; meek- don't know what's wrong wid me. I was all right at de rehearsal dis morning."