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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930.

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Hotel Strathcona

THE CHINA

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RATES MODERATE.

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TUAREGS' TALES.

A strange secret of the Sahara Desert lies, burled in six little flowerpota at the Royal Botanic

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a

Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry by bus.)

Suites of roams (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.

Seeds taken from the crops of birds are sprouting ordinary look. ing seedlings, but they are prob ebly unknown to science, and it is hoped that they will solve mystery of one of the must bar. ren wilderneages in the world.

Scientists are waiting, watch. |ing, and wondering what the seeds

will produce,

of Law.

COUNTY COURT JUDGES.

The customary dinner to his Majesty's Judges was given at the Mansion House recently, many Judges of home and Colonial Courts being present.

In

The Lord Mayor presided. proposing the health of "The Lord High Chancellor he said that at some previous banquets speakers. had called. attention to what they deemed a danger from which the Judges'needed protection—a dan- ger that the State should get into the habit of calling to its assist. They will not be identified Race for subordinate inquiries until they have flowered but Judges whose main duties must mieroscopic pinkish buds are always lie in the administration of ginning to appear, and classifle.-justice and the protection of the tion

against will be possible in a few community

undge

the Probably no while man croachments on the part of

State. The presence there that night of Judges from India. Canada, Australia, South Africa;, and other parts, of the King's Dominions showed that the law was being administered throughout the Empire by lawyers of eminence and ability to whom a furlough at home was a source of enjoyment. He heartily welcomed them all.

daya. has ever seen these flowers.

Two thousand miles south of Algiers, and about 400 miles north of Timbuctoo lles, a great wast of round black pubbles with dry. sand-coloured clay below them.

It is a place of perpetual mir- age, a thousand miles long by five hundred miles broad.

It is called the Tancroft, and EXCLUSIVE TABLE known to the veiled Tuaregs. the dreaded Arabs who alone ven- ture to cross it, as "the land of fear and thirst."

entirely under European management.

Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the Anest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.

Terms very moderate. Reser vations by letter or cable:

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

There is no water in this life less desert. At beat one rain- storm bursts over it every five or len years.

and then for a few hours torrential rain falls.

The Tuaregs declare that after auch a storm the whole desert is covered with dense green vegeta- tion, which springs up in a few hours, puts out leaves, flowers, and seeds, and completes its life cycle in four days.

axo

An expedition organised by Mr. MacIver penetrated a few months in this desert. Dr. Chipp. assistant director of Kew Gar- dens, was one of the party, and he was able to make the fire' botanical survey of the territory. Sand Grouse, There seemed to be life in the desert, and no seeds visible to the naked eye. There

no plant

en-

The Lord Chancellor, in respond- ing, referred to County Court Judges. He said that it seemed to be the policy of every Government to place more work and responsi bility on them. In his view their present remuneration was inade- quate, but the time was not pro- pitidus for increasing judicial salaries. When that time arrived he hoped that the County Court Judges would be among the first to receive due recognition. It was to be hoped that the practice of appointing Judges to preside over commissions and committees and so take them away from the work which the State looked to them to discharge would only be resorted to in the future in very exceptional

cases.

Position of Individual.

A

With regard to the promises he made a year ago they would have observed that committee had Donoughmore as its chairman, to been appointed, with Lord consider what was alleged to be a

FLYOSAN

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY.

Stinging, germ-laden mosquitoes pestering flies- these are two important enemies against our health during the summer months. They are annoying to the utmost extent, and carry millions of bacteria.

Follow "Mr. Pyjams'" example and exterminate them instantly by spraying FLYOSAN, which is a highly efficacious insecticide."

Obtainable at all leading Dispensaries and Stores.

Ask for 息 FLYOSAN INTRODUCTORY CARTON containing 藕 sprayer and one pint of FLYOSAN

were, however, a great number of growing tendency to transfer de- BATHING HABITS ON SIR JOHN SIMON'S

PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS which

Public

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sand grouse, brownish birds,

few

in flocks of from of the Sale by Public Auction twenty to thirty and matched the to bo heid on MONDAY, the desert 18th day of August, 1930, at vanished as soon as they settled. perfectly that they 3 p.m., at the Offices of the The grouse provided no clue to Works Department, by the desert mystery until they Order of His Excellency the Goy were killed, and then Dr. Chip ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land discovered that their crops were at Prince Edward Road, in full of tiny-brown seeds, which: the Colony of Hong Kong, must have been scattered over ti

ሲ term of 75 years, desert in millions. with the option of renewal

for

THE RHINE.

Hurt.

CULT OF THE NUDE.

FAGGING DAYS.

Forgiven for His "Inefficiency."

Little Rascals.

William: "Mether, may I go and

· play with Johnny: Jenks 7” Mother: No, Johnny has gone away with his mother. Why not pro and play with "Kttle Georgie Brown!"

William: "Oh! I played

cisions both on questions of law and of fact from the Courts to the Ministers of Public Departments. meetings and the public were Tourists' Susceptibilities The Committeg had held many eagerly looking forward to its re port. He had not been so fortunate in his endeavours to introduce a Bill dealing with the position of an Individual when in litigation with

In a Founders' Day speech at:

with Georgio yesterday and he Fettes College, Edinburgh, his

won't be well enough yet.” the Crown as a public Department.

Berlin, July 4. old school, Str. Johu Simon said

Evidently poor Georgie is unable to When he entered office he found a Dr. Chipp brought the seeds Bill drafted, but it did not com- has arisen in the Rhineland now his devotion to the place but to games, necessary to personal safety. A new and remarkable problem he had come not only to express infuse quite the energy into his at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the home and experimented with then mand universal assent. It would that deeper sorrowe Surveyor of His Majesty the King, in conditions as elose as possible have been possible to obtain that way for everyday conditions again. the benefits that accrue from the pany of the vigorous William.

have made proclaim himself a believer in At any rate, not when in the com- for one further term of 75 years.to those of the Sahara,

assent in cases of contract; The seeds have apparently ac- opinion was divided as to the ad- a large contingent of the many

but Tourists from Holland, who form public-school tradition,.

William has a constitution of from He believed that the tradition the childhood ailments which onder

because he has never been a proy to quired the faculty of germinating visability of including torta and who make the famous Rhine trip which gathered round a great in mine vitality. and running through their life the vexed question of discovery. In for a summer holiday, have com- stitution like Fettes was a thing "off colour, his mother always nip

At the arst sign of history with amazing speed the rare occasions when

those circumstances it had not plained in religious circles, both in the country could I do without ped the developing ailment in the bud with Baby's Own Tablets, which sho falla They walt

been possible to introduce an Cologne and at home in Holland, and which contributed Innensety

has never, been without since her son through untold heat and drought. Commerce had recently drawn at-little in the way of costume, which of their race.

years agreed measure. The Chamber of of the mixed bathing, with very to the efficiency and adyancement was born. Baby's Own Tablets are $5 ready to spring into

It was said that specially propared to fill the need for again tention to defects in our system of is now one of the features of Ger- some came to public schools, who the use of babies and young chidrea. when rain falls,

a reliable health regulator solely for litigation and had suggested cermany's rivers, lakes, and accessible were unhappy or who did not get tain remedies. He had great sym- pieces of water all over the coun- the best out of it. Shelley, they pathy with any desire to reform the try.

were told, was not very happy at law and was taking steps to mee

Eton, but he wrote good poetry that those suggestions ware care-

rotwithstanding. fully considered.

“NOTORIOUSLY HOT.”

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.

Co. of Bala

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Beglitry

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As per plan 13,350 100

GENERAL NOTICES

THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK, HONG KONG.

for

life

STAMP TALK.

FUND FOR TOURIST STAMPS.

rain

BANGKOK'S REPLY TO A TOURIST CRITIC.

are

These pleasant tasting little tableta quickly correct stomach troubles, and constipation, check diarrhoen, expel It seems that instead of being

worms, allay fever, colds and permitted to think of the Lorelei

Kept handy and administered prom in peace, the Dutch family party is

ly they have prevented the develop- An Institution like Fattes wat ment of serious illness, in many chil obliged to put up with the sight performing an immense national dren. For, teething they are invalu "of whole family parties of Loreleis service. Nothing was better for able, easing the pains and thus In-

with their fathers, brothers, and small hay than to come to a ducing sound, natural sleep. Obtain attendant swaina. Manila, July 80.

able from chemists everywhere. place where he learned that he The proposed tourist propaganda

Principles and Pocket Books,,.. was "not so important as he stamps and the special stamps to be

Since ethical aspects of the case thought he was. It seemed to him exclusively used for official business

intimately concerned with a very important thing that so A writer in a London paper re- financial ones--the Dutch of stern many people who wrote books mall matter will be definitely put cently suggested that the visitor principles and fat pocket-books about public schools appeared to into use this year, the appropriations to Bangkok had to pay heavily threaten to avoid the Rhine if this be those introspective dyspeptics and after 25th August. approved by the secretary of finance, city was "miles up

for the printing having been already for various privileges, and the continues-the Cardinal who is who would really be much better 01980, Interest, on Savings "trongly than head of Germany's addressed

the muddy head of Germany's western Church fellows than they were if only Accounts will be allowed at the posts this morning.

a they had been made, three days a rate of 2% per annum on mini-

reply the Bangkok Times states: pastoral address to the various week, in the snow and the sleet, The appropriation called for the mum monthly balancès not exceed printing of the stamps is P24,000 rel with the mud brought down formed to fight the bad habits of (Laughter.)

"Bangkok is not likely to quar dioceses, and a committee has been to run to the fourth milestone. ing H.$10,000.

Secretary. Unson of finance has ay- by the Menam, a source of wealth public bathing." The affair nevér proved the appropriations and it is to her beside which the profits was a matter for secular inter- Sir John said he had met his fag Speaking of the fagging system, understood that the chief executive from the tourlet traffic are inference. will also endorse the secretary's significant; while she gains her

master, the previous day and his approval. Fourteen thousand pesos notoriety for heat very cheaply dignity

There is such a lack of all in- fag master had forgiven him for

and will be spent for the cuts and print with a mean temperature of 77.5 seriousness about this open-air lection of his fag master treating

horseplay, such his inefficiency. He had no recol.. ing of the tourias propaganda deg. F. during December, January movement in Germany, that fami- him unfairly except on the occa stamps, and the remaining P10,000 and February, the tourist season lies themselves see that no abuseaalon when the study fire went out will go for the printing of the "That the tourist is welcome in accur■ second time. It is, as a because the wood was damp.

For The National City Bank of New York,

F. McD. COURTNEY,

'August 12, 1980.

FOR SALE.

Manager.

selection of the best variaties of Reliable and Tested Flower and Vegatable Seeds

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GRACA 10 WINDELÄI -RO. Bəs No. 620

head master (Mayor A. H In Introducing Sir John, the Ashcroft) said that the first re cord of Sir John's name as 1

official business stamps. Bangkok there is no question, and rule, the father and husband who Sir John added that he found The cuts to be used in the print- every effort is made to make his has insisted upon keeping the all over India while he was there, ing of the tourist propaganda stay here as pleasant and comfort family about him, the stout and not in great numbers, because stickers are now being ordered, Itable as possible. He is put under elderly and least gay of Germany's Fettes was not a large school, but was announced. The designs in-no restrictions not applicable to population, who are most keen still in surprising numbers, old clude, theMayon volcano the the ordinary Inhabitant, nor is he about sunbaths Rhinelanders, ob. Fettesians who were playing Baguio zigzag, the Pagsanjan falls asked to pay more than the or-Ject to being regarded as less moral useful and manly part in helping the Vintar dam, and other beautiful dinary inhabitantLike the rest in their views than other parts of that great country,

The necessity for official business mission fee to the National tainly been stricter on the subject, and typical scenes of the Telands. of us he has to pay the usual als Germany, Bavarian ideas have cer stamps has long been felt by the Museum. unless he happens to go but then Bavaria has no Rhine, government, it was explained by the there on a Sunday, when he is ad acting director of posts fo-day Hemitted free. All temples are free cost, so the rate for such trains Fettesian was when he scored no said that with the special stamps, open to him, as they are to the is, naturally higher than for or thing not out in a house cricket government offices will have to for their mall instead

Test of us, bat again like the dinary traind The so-called match. free service as they have hitherto dressed decently when he enters on first cinas fares represents a arest of us, he de expected to be "urtax of twenty ticale a herd enjoyed. Special stamps have been them Unlike the

us he compoun

ing of the. sten for The honsa-agent was vainly trains special trains, made at the request endeavouring to persuade his client, the tourist agents, and is a an angler, into renting a cottage cession ráter working

rate for viewing it, "there's hardly room to

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