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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1931.
along been highly dangerous, and they are monuments to a sublime now becomes more so. In view faith in the English summer. Wo have lost that faith now; we of this development, an emer-measure time mechanically because gency meeting of the League we dare not trust to the sun. But may be summoned this coming it is pleasant to be reminded that week, and the League, with its once there was sun oven in these very existence at stake, placed islands, or at least that the inhabi- tants of these islands believed that on its mettle and subjected to a there would be sun. Or was it only test, which it will require states that they did not particularly mind manship and sagacity of the about knowing the time?-Man.
chester Guardian. very highest order to survive.
News in Brief.
"AMBULANCE - BRIGADE.
Public Vaccination-Weekly Summary.
of
Number vaccinated-free charge by members of the Ambu- lance Brigade, up to and including Thursday, October 29:- King's College (Present)
Mongkok Shaukiwan
Total
**** 725 .1,258
481
.2,464
THE HINDU SAND TRICK.
This mystifying trick that was long kept secret by the Hindus con- sists of placing ordinary sand in a basin of water, stirring it, and then taking it out in handfuls, apparént-
Japan and Russia have ex- changed: notes in respect of rumoured Soviet interference. in: Manchuria. The rumours per
The Governor in Council orders sist but Japan seems to be pre- the suppression for the period of pared to accept the Soviet's as-two months of the printing and irances that strict neutrality publication of the newspaper Kung will be maintained so long as her Sheung Yat Po. own interests in the Chinese
The manager of the Yua Hingly perfectly dry. Eastern Railway are not Loong import and export firm of menaced.
152 Wing Look Street, reports that Other matters of moment were between 2 and 4 p.m. yesterday the Laval-Hoover, and Grandi-some person stole from the office
safe, $1,400. As a Bryanning conversations. result of the former, a Franco- The total output of the Kailan American Banking Agreement Mining Administration's mines for has been partially settled. It has the week ending. October 17 1931, amounted to 118,081 metric tons, for its object the co-ordination and the sales during the period to of French and American banking 136,583 metric tons. resources in the interest of
At the expiration of three months world stability. The details of from October 26 the Winson & the agreement have not yet Company, Limited, will, unleas been disclosed.
From Other Pens.
Rough Play at Croquet.
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cause is shewn to the contrary, be struck off the register and the com- pany dissolved, according to a notice Gazetted by the Registrar of Com- panies.
Mr. A. C. Braine-Hartnell, B.A,, Warden of May Hall, a University
Personal Pars.
To propare for the trick, put two pounds of fine silver sand in a fry- ing pan, and heat it well over a clear fire. Then place in it a small plece of grease or wax about the consistency of a paraffin candle. to mix it Stir it well, so s thoroughly; then let it cool. If you place this sand in a basin of water it will appear to be perfectly dry when you take it out, because the grease or wax coating on each particle of sand repels the water.
SCHOOLGIRL "HOWLERS."
Leap Year is, instead of its being the next day on the same day next' year, it's the day after.
The people of India are divided inte castes and out-castes.
An abstract noun is something you can't see when you are looking at it.
lis
The flannelette peril means petii- coat government.
The South of the U.S.A. grows oranges, figs, melone, and a great quantity of preserved fruits, as- pecially tinned meats.
THE MUSICAL PINS.
To make this jolly little model, you will want some pins of differ ont sizes, and a fairly narrow plece
of wood.
The pins are placed along the wood
A boy should eat much more than his father and a girl more than her.
mother.-Prof. Winifred Collis.
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Ten Years Ago.
From the "China, Mall” of
October 31, 1921.3
In this constantly-changing world hostel, has reported to, the Police ideas and opinions of all kinds that yesterday afternoon some per they have replaced is something must be as constantly revised If son threw a quantity of concentrat- one is.to.keep abreast of the times. ed Sulphuric acid on clothing which about which it is highly injudi-Hitherto croquet has been regarded was airing in the south compound Damage to cious to assume the mantle of a as the most blameless of all outdoor of the hostel building. | prophet. But, if any importance sports, and for this reason held in five jackets, to the extent of $270,
is to be attached to the reported special favour in the quiet back-was caused..
waters of country vicarages where reaction to the election decision,
Pirates, the common enemies of decayed ladies could "cross mal- as Lancashire spinning full leta" if that is the term) with pale the human race, formed the subject the such The week, upon which
British manufacturers young curates without the loss of of an interesting talk by Mr. Justice doors of Time close irrevocably tonight, has been momentous: hurriedly re-equipping factories dignity involved in more robust R. E. Lindsell to the Commerce and pastimes, to say nothing of the at-Law Society of the University of momentous with a capital M, in order to cope with expected tendant dangers. All that, alas, Hong Kong in the Union Hall last
est and, finishing up with the and momentous in several res-orders, foreign manufacturers looks like being changed, if the night. How pirates, from the earli-la a line, beginning with the amall-
frenziedly establishing factories ominous portent revealed by the est days, in the fourth century, largest.
-All you have to do is to tap them pects.
at Roehampton is to be taken as coups on the high sens was inter- First and foremost, the Bri.in Britain, and the continued drop fight for the Baddow Champion Cup B.C., up to modern times, organised
and you will find that they make. tish, electorate, in manner aston-in the numbers of Britain's idle, symptomatic of a change in the estingly and instructively dealt gently with a small piece of stick, The speaker also show-quite musical notes, each one vary-
hind how legislation received an
graing according to the height, of the ishing, astounding and inscrut-then, it seems, that the National-spirit of the game, for one of the with.
injured jed shoulder and broke his mallet. dually been evolved to combat pin. able, has given its decision inist caucus will be able to "deliver playera
the goods."
True, the accident was caused by piracy, and how International law the appeal which the National
Next, in the category of mo-the unfortunate man falling over a has now decreed that no pirate has caucus made for a free hand to
con- any claim to extradition, or exclu the wire guard, and not by the happenings, is restore national credit and tomentous 'put the national house in order. League Committee's resolution testants going for each other with sive jurisdiction by the Courts of
mallets, but, if steps are not taken his own country. Whether the Election, which has in the matter of the dispute beat the very outset such incidents cost Britain's ratepayers a large tween China and Japan over the may develop gradually into rough sum of money, was warranted or "Flanders of the East"-Man-play and an accidental trip
one or a sly push over a wire guard! the nature of the decision churia, Japan has been told that quite easily load to a deliberate
Dr. Douglas James Valentine is seems to indicate that it was: she must withdraw her troops in the heat of a cup final. To the Whether or not it is no more nor into the railway zone before joft-repeated charge that croquet to act as Director of Medical and
To-day's dollar is worth 2/96- less than
Conservative November 16. But this is exact-does not develop the manly quali- Sanitary Services, with effect from
ties of other sports we are glad to October 29, 1931. "ramp": Whether the elector-ly what Japan has said she is not record that in the case referred to
Mr. J. Clark ls Hong Kong's, Mr. John Livingstone McPherson
The ate has been deluded, and is be-prepared to do, without adequate above, after having his shoulder ing led into the morass of tariffs guarantees for the protection of bound up, "he continued playing has been appointed a member of the champion at lawn bowls.
Club on Whether Japanese nationals and property with a fortitude so common among Licensing Board for a period of final was played on the green of the and protectionism:
Saturday afternoon in the presence FO seldom evoked by the dignified ber 26, 1931. Britain is now going to continue in Manchuria. She is not antis-players of more robust games but three years, with effect from Octo- Cralgengower Cricket
of a large crowd. The finalleta of exciting progress in the van of human progress, or fied with the guarantees China though
Mr. Ronald Ruskin Todd, is to were J. Clark and G. R. Edwads, of fall back a century Whether has already offered, and argued croquet." That is the spirit which
An excellent game, that China is not in a position has made England what she is act as Superintendent of Imports the Police R.C. and the KB.G.C., this, that or the other, are
We must keep croquet clean-and Exports during the absence of respectively. Straits Times..
Mr. John Daniel Lloyd, or until fur- was witnessed, resulting in a win matters concerning which there to ensure those guarantees being
ther notice, with effect from Octo for the Police representative by
score of 21-11. Play was even for will be sharp differences of opin-carried out. She is anxious to
ber 81, 1931,
half a dozen heads, then Clark ran ion, and for long time to come start negotiations with China in Time And The Sun.
There has never been any time in away with the next three heads and will be heatedly disputed. But respect of the whole Manchurian A correspondent, in the course of
read 11 in his these academical discussions, question, but she will not admit drawing attention, in an article
which we publish elsewhere, to the the history of this country in which the scores always highly flavoured with that the withdrawal of her troops need for taking definite stops for the population has been better fed, tayour. Edwards fought gamely see his opponent party feelings, may be left for into the railway zone is a sine the preservation of mediaeval sun- better clothed, better housed, bet to the last, and improved his posi-
run out with such a lend. debate to those so disposed and 9, non to those negotiations, dials, mentions the fact that "until, ter amused, or better educated than tlon, but had to interested. The fact, with which whereas China insists that it is, say, the fourteenth century any vil at presont-Mr. H. A. L. Fisher.
lager who wanted to know the time we are concerned to-day, is the and then only is prepared to had only to walk up to the village actual decision, and the fact that negotiate an arbitration treaty church and look at the sundial." the country has returned to on the same lines as her treaty. After such a summer as we have with America. Conversations had it is impossible to reflect on these happy villagers without B Parliament a body of men in
How many whose assembly many promin-are apparently yet continuing in certain bitterness. ent Labour Party members will Paris, the League having ad-times this year might a villager be conspicuous by their absence, journed until November 16 pro-have told the time from a sundial, How many fruitless journeys would There seems to be no doubt that visionally. According, however, however prominently displayed? the electorate has tired of Trades to a message from Tokyo, pab-he have made to the village church; lished only yesterday, the how many weeks have passed with- Union domination, so palpably evident in the late Labour Gov. Japanese Premier and Foreign out ever knowing the time except day? The sundial, belongs to s ernment; that it has wearied of Minister are said to have inform-in the crude divisions of night and inaction and specious promises;ed the Privy Council that the more robust age than ours. A man and that it is prepared to sup-¡Japanese Goyernment will not nowadays who set up a sundiai in port a body of men, who have the withdraw its troops to the rail- his garden with the serious inten- tion of using it would only make courage of their convictions, and way zone until the Sino-Japanese himself ridiculous. On grey who appear to be determined to differences have been settled by August mornings his friends would do more than talk Idealistically direct negotiation. This indi-mockingly ask him the time, and Ja while the country's very lifecates, if any reliance is to be the middle of a summer thunder storm anxiously Inquire whether it Whether placed on the content of the mes was five or ten past four. Sundials blood drained, way. those who have been returned sage, that an impasse has been should be preserved, not so much to power will be able to make a reached. This is to be greatly because they are, of Interest to better job of things than those regretted. The situation has all archeological societies as because
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